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IPS - Inter Press Services

• DEVELOPMENT: Farmers on Fringe of Intl Agriculture ...
  
  MONTPELLIER, France, Apr 14 (IPS) - How's this for short-sighted: A billion people go hungry every day, food prices have climbed 30 to 40 percent, climate change is reducing agricultural production - and for the past two decades, the world slashed has investments in public-funded agriculture ...
• MIDEAST: Israel Trapped in Nuclear Isolation
  
  JERUSALEM, Apr 14 (IPS) - As the world grapples with controlling the spread of nuclear weapons, it's a time of complex choices in a Middle East edging between possible confrontation with Iran and possible movement towards Israeli-Palestinian peace.
• THAILAND: Gov’t Toughens Stance on Protests ...
  
  BANGKOK, Apr 14 (IPS) - The prospect of peace returning to Bangkok’s streets following a bloody crackdown over the weekend remains elusive as the Thai government toughens its stance to go after a mass protest movement, including the arrest of its leaders.
• RIGHTS: Europe Imports Torture From US
  
  BRUSSELS, Apr 14 (IPS) - A U.S. company has admitted for the first time that it exports equipment designed to inflict pain on prisoners to Europe.
• SRI LANKA: Once Under Attack, Jaffna Media Get Rep ...
  
  JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Apr 14 (IPS) - About eight months back, delivery boys for this northern city’s main newspaper were accompanied on their rounds by government soldiers – the first time a Sri Lankan broadsheet was being delivered under armed guard.

Scoop - NZ

• US bank accounting 'masks true debt levels'
  
  The banks - which include Goldman Sachs - use complex but perfectly legitimate transactions in order to present investors and the wider market with a brighter assessment of their financial health. Data analysed by the Wall Street Journal found that 18 major banks were, on average, able to reduce de ...
• Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons
  
  According to a Department of Defense report, there have been at least 32 "accidents involving nuclear weapons." And the report only counts US accidents which occurred before 1980. Today's hot doc, entitled "Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons" briefly recounts each of t ...
• Confidence in Key govt falls off a cliff
  
  Everyone's been saying that 2010 is the year that Key has to make something of his turn in the big seat. Smile and wave is easy enough in the first year, people are willing to give you a chance. But at some point, the public expects a government to get to work tackling the big problems. Unfortunate ...
• Shore & Seabed: National's rock and hard place
  
  National's proposed reform of the foreshore and seabed legislation is no a4˜elegant solution'. Instead, it is being criticised in the business press as an undemocratic favouring of Maori business interests over Pakeha ones, while iwi are saying that it doesn't give them what they want. I'm not endo ...
• "ClimateGate" scientist cleared of all wrongdoing
  
  A review by the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee began in January in the wake of the a4˜Climategate' media frenzy. Their results are clear We believe that the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, has largely been misplaced. We consider t ...

Independent ( London )

• Hundreds evacuated amid Icelandic volcano fears
  
  Hundreds of people in Iceland have been evacuated from their homes amid fears of a second volcanic eruption, Civil Protection Agency officials said today.
• Brothers 'released poisonous snakes in local feud'
  
  Two brothers have been arrested after allegedly releasing poisonous snakes near the home of a local leader they were feuding with in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, police said today.
• Brothers 'released poisonous snakes in feud'
  
  Two brothers have been arrested after allegedly releasing poisonous snakes near the home of a local leader they were feuding with in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, police said today.
• Thirty-one killed by cyclone in India
  
  At least 31 people have died after a cyclone demolished thousands of mud huts and uprooted trees in a cluster of villages in eastern India, an official said today.
• Thirty one killed by cyclone in India
  
  At least 31 people have died after a cyclone demolished thousands of mud huts and uprooted trees in a cluster of villages in eastern India, an official said today.

Rogue Government.com

• Pakistan nuclear weapons at risk of theft by terr ...
  
  Pakistan yesterday came under increased pressure over its nuclear arsenal when a Harvard study warned of "a very real possibility" that its warheads could be stolen by terrorists.
• Ex-Goldman Trader blows whistle on gold & sil ...
  
  There is no silver lining to the activities of JPMorgan Chase and HSBC in the precious-metals market here and in London, says a 40-year veteran of the metal pits.
• WaMu Created Mortgage Time Bomb
  
• April 13, 1953: CIA OKs MK-ULTRA Mind-Control Tes ...
  
  1953: Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorizes the MK-ULTRA project. The agency launches one of its most dubious covert programs ever, turning unsuspecting humans into guinea pigs for its research into mind-altering drugs.
• Video Catches Maryland Police Beating Unarmed Stu ...
  

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

• Deep Earthquake In Spain Something of An Enigma
  
  In environmental news, something of a seismic anomaly occurred yesterday in Spain. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck deep beneath Granada. While no damage or even significant ground shake were noted, the depth at 616 kilometers is a little enigmatic even according to the USGS. Deep quakes in this ...
• BEST OF WEB: Censored BBC Special: Evidence of Isr ...
  
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• Outcrazying The Crazy: How A Prankster Plans To In ...
  
  Meet Jason Levin: possibly the scariest man in the tea party universe. An Oregon technology consultant, Levin is the leader of Crash The Tea Party, a plan to take down the tea party from the inside. Levin says he's got a growing cadre of supporters across the country, and conservatives from the mess ...
• Fried breakfast is healthiest start to day, say sc ...
  
  A breakfast of bacon, sausages, eggs, and beans could be the healthiest start to the day, according to new research. Scientists believe that breakfast programmes the metabolism for the rest of the day, and a fatty meal will help the body break down fat later on. Carbohydrate rich foods in contras ...
• Biblical plagues really happened say scientists
  
  The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament were the result of global warming and a volcanic eruption, scientists have claimed. Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israel ...

The Galloping Beaver

• The Theory...
  
  From Bouquets of Gray . Then... the report from CTV . The mysterious third party who uncovered serious allegations that led Prime Minister Stephen Harper to toss MP Helena Guergis out of caucus is a private investigator, CTV News has learned. Police sources say the licensed private eye contacte ...
• Chuck and Camel . . .
  
  Prince Charles decided to take up jogging.  Every day, he'd jog past a hooker standing on the same street corner.  He learned to brace himself as he approached her for what was almost certain to follow. "One hundred and fifty pounds!" she'd shout from the curb. "No! Five pounds!" he would fire ...
• The Secrecy of the Harper regime
  
  This shouldn't surprise anyone. F our years after the Harper government came to power pledging sweeping improvements to Canada’s access laws, a new report warns that the right of Canadians to obtain federal documents is at risk of being “totally obliterated.” The damning conclusion comes from i ...
• Here is where we juxtapose...
  
  "...one reason why we're there" , "Afghanistan is currently training, mentoring, and equipping membersof the Afghan National Police with the help of Canada. A well-led, trained, andequipped Afghan National Police force is essential to allow the Government of Afghanistan to assume responsibility fo ...
• An Ontarian, an Islander and a Newfie all die and ...
  
  An Ontarian, an Islander and a Newfie all die and go to hell. While there, they spot a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The Devil   tells them it is for calling back to Earth.     The Islander asks to call  Charlottetown and talks for 5 minutes. When he   was finished the Devil infor ...

Media Matters for America

• O'Reilly's whopper: "Nobody" on Fox said failing t ...
  
  Responding to Sen. Tom Coburn's suggestion that Fox News perpetuated the false claim that under the health care reform legislation individuals can be sent to jail for not having health insurance, Bill O'Reilly repeatedly insisted that "nobody" on Fox advanced that assertion. In fact, Fox has relent ...
• Quick Fact: Dick Morris falsely claims "average f ...
  
  Fox News contributor Dick Morris falsely claimed that "the average family is going to find their insurance premiums going up by almost $2,000 a year." In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that by 2016 the Senate's version of health care reform -- on which President Obama's plan is ...
• Laffer and Carlson make misleading claims about 2 ...
  
  Art Laffer and Gretchen Carlson falsely suggested the Obama administration would "dramatically" increase tax rates for all taxpayers, including raising dividend taxes from "15 percent to 39 percent." In fact, under President Obama's proposed budget, tax rates would increase only for couples mak ...
• The Fox Nation revives "death panel" myth by namin ...
  
  Following a report that a hospital denied treatment to a Florida mother after an increase in her income made her no longer eligible for Medicaid coverage, The Fox Nation posted the story under the headline "The First 'Death Panel' Victim?" In fact, the decision to stop her treatment, which was late ...
• Fox & Friends attacked Holdren over ...
  
  Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed White House science adviser John Holdren "predict[ed] America's downfall" by saying the United States "can't expect to be number one forever." In fact, Holdren was reportedly responding to a question about "how the United States could move ...

Global Research.ca

• Understanding Deep Politics Conference: May 14 - 1 ...
  
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, T ...
  
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• WHO Appoints H1N1 Cover-Up Committee
  
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Emergency Bailout Plan for Greece: A New Stage in ...
  
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Humanitarian Disaster In Fallujah: Unprecedented N ...
  
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Did Your Representative Sign One-Sided AIPAC Lette ...
  
  AIPAC has done it again -- although getting the 76 Senators and 333 Representatives took a lot longer than it usually takes. There is nothing exceptional in the letters. They are the usual blah blah about how Israel is really great, a democracy like you read about, and deserves every kind of su ...
• One More Word on Nuclear (and Conventional) Deterr ...
  
  There's a bit more to say about the Nuclear Posture Review released last week and the future role of nuclear weapons. Thanks go to Daniel Larison and Greg Scoblete for scrutinizing what critics have been saying about n-weapons and deterring / retaliating against adversaries. Mostly they highlight ne ...
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• AJC Poll: Israel Matters, Too
  
  Israel matters too, as the AJC poll demonstrates. It is just that American Jews understand that being pro-Israel does not require being anti-Palestinian (quite the contrary). They approve of Obama's stance on the Middle East because they understand that his approach, if he sticks with it, will ...
• 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. ...

TruthOut

• The Really Really Long War
  
  Let's imagine that the Cold War was a detour. The entire 20th century, in fact, was a detour. Since conflicts among the 20th-century ideologies (liberalism, communism, fascism) cost humanity so dearly, it's hard to conceive of World War II and the clashes that followed as sideshows. And yet many peo ...
• Tom Engelhardt | Gods and Monsters
  
  The Greeks had it right. When you live on Mount Olympus, your view of humanity is qualitatively different. The Greek gods, after all, lied to, stole from, lusted for, and punished humanity without mercy, while taking the planet for a spin in a manner that we mortals would consider amoral, if not i ...
• Tea on the Common
  
  I know, I know, it was just last week �that I vowed never to write about these Tea Party people again. I would be more than happy to do just that, but you see, they're coming to my town, hell, to my neighborhood, and tagging along with them is none other than the Queen Of Duh, Sarah Palin. Wednesda ...
• Obama's Nuclear Summit: The Search for "Loose Nuke ...
  
  The Obama nuclear summit is focusing less on nuclear weapons and more on more poorly guarded nuclear materials that could be used to build nukes. Washington - Why is President Obama's nuclear summit focused on controlling fissile materials? It's simple: Obtaining enough plutonium or highly enriched ...
• Turkey's Henchmen: Mass Media Butcher the Armenian ...
  
  Most reporters and other journalists in the mass media failed to do due diligence and misled their audiences regarding last month's US House Foreign Affairs Committee vote �in favor of Resolution 252, which would reaffirm the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923. Nearly all media, prior to and after the v ...

Planetsave

• Canadian Devon Island Ice Cap is Shrinking
  
  According to almost 50 years of data the Devon Island ice cap in the Canadian High Arctic is thinning and shrinking. A paper published in the March edition of Arctic , the journal of the University of Calgary’s Arctic Institute of North America, reports the substantial loss of mass, ice volume and ...
• 9 ‘Planetary Boundaries’ Cited as Key for Human Su ...
  
  A group of 30 leading Earth and Environmental scientists is proposing “nine planetary boundaries”, or safety zones, that must not be crossed in order to preserve the planetary and environmental balance that human civilizations (and much of the rest of the biosphere) require.  Crossing these bounda ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Riverdale Avenue Green Street Under Construction
  
  View of the Riverdale Green Street project under construction. Photo taken from the street-end mini-
• Taking on water (quality): Arlington firm ready to ...
  
  Taking on water (quality): Arlington firm ready to launch BY O.K. CARTER April 12, 2010 A gem of an
• What does filter media do for my water garden? – D ...
  
  Q. What does filter media do for my water garden? – Debbie in Illinois Keep It Clean With all
• I have a ton of algae growing on my pond. What can ...
  
  Q. I have a ton of algae growing on my pond. What can I do to get rid of it? – Jeff in New Yor
• Costa Rica: almost 600,000 people drink contaminat ...
  
  Some 557,000 people in Costa Rica drink water that is contaminated with fecal material or chemicals,

Public Citizen in Texas

• By Meeting Renewable Energy Goal 15 Years Ahead of ...
  
  Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office We are thrilled – but not surprised – that because of a growth spurt in the development of wind energy, Texas has met its renewable energy goal 15 years ahead of schedule. Each time Texas has set a renewable energy goal, the st ...
• Our thoughts are with the victims of West Virginia ...
  
  Our hearts are with the victims of the West Virginia mining disaster. Reports now indicate that the explosion claimed the lives of 25 workers, making this the worst mining disaster in 25 years. Huffington Post is pulling together a list of places where you can donate to support the victim’s families ...
• Last Chance to Save with Appliance Rebate Program
  
  Important update! The first day you can make a reservation for the Texas Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program has changed from April 5 to April 7, starting at 7 a.m. CT. We know from past experience that reservations for programs like this fill up quickly. If you don’t make a reservation Wednesday, yo ...
• Texas’ New Technology Implementation Grant Applica ...
  
  Have you really really been wanting to get a flywheel energy storage (FES) project going, but were short a million or two?  The window of opportunity to apply for your share of the $3 million available for the New Technology Implementation Grant (NTIG) Program will be opening soon. Now’s your time ...
• Old Settler’s Music Festival
  
  If you love and appreciate one or more of the following items, I’ve got a great idea for how to spend your weekend: Bluegrass Americana Camping Barbeque the Texas Hill Country Public Citizen One out of six? Four, five, six? Excellent! Join us this weekend, April 15-18, at the Old Settler’s Music F ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Titanic waited 45 minutes before sending SOS
  
  In a new book it has been revealed that the Titanic waited 45 minutes after hitting the iceberg before calling for help. Author Tim Maltin conducted i...
• Teenager wakes from coma speaking German
  
  A Croatian teenager who fell in to a coma has awoken to find that she is now fluent in another language. The 13-year-old who until then had been able ...
• UFO studies should be taught in university
  
  An anthropology professor has joined the UFO debate by claiming the topic should be taught at universities. Professor Philip Haseley has stated that t...
• Life on Titan could be smelly and explosive
  
  If there is life under the shroud of Saturn's moon Titan it might be both explosive and prone to the odd smell. Dr William Bains commented on possible...
• Mangy cryptid sightings on the rise
  
  Reports of initially unidentified creatures that turn out to be regular animals with mange are on the increase. Over the last few years the number of ...

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 14, 2010
  
  Some Republicans Say Open to Climate Bill (Reuters) Some prominent Republican senators expressed openness on Tuesday to a U.S. climate bill that might be introduced next week and that would need bipartisan support to have any chance of advancing. Salazar Unveils Arctic Drilling Research ...
• April 13, 2010
  
  Glacier Breaks in Peru, Causing Tsunami in Andes (Reuters) A glacier broke off and plunged into a lake in Peru, causing a 75-foot tsunami wave that swept away at least three people and destroyed a water processing plant serving 60,000 local residents, officials said on Monday. Reid 'Pus ...
• 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 ...

TomDispatch

 Tomgram: Engelhardt, The View from Mount Olympus 

Posted at 2:50PM on April 13, 2010.

Tomgram: Jo Comerford, Your Taxes and War

Posted at 6:10PM on April 11, 2010.

Tomgram: Kellner and Pipitone, The Plague of Mexico's Drug Wars

Posted at 10:52AM on April 08, 2010.

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Numbers to Die For

Posted at 2:20PM on April 06, 2010.

Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Welcome to Fandora

Posted at 8:30AM on April 04, 2010.

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Shopaholic China

Posted at 10:35AM on April 01, 2010.

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Afghanistan as a Drug War

Posted at 4:10PM on March 30, 2010.

 

Smirking Chimp

• The Game That Goes On and On: a Swiss Bank, a Pres ...
  
  Last August, the presidential press corps followed Barack Obama and his family to Martha's Vineyard for their brief vacation. The coverage focused on summery fare--a visit to an ice cream parlor, the books the president had brought along. Nearly everyone mentioned his few rounds of golf, including h ...
• The F Word: Solving a Problem Like Stupak
  
  Bart Stupak is retiring. The man who earned the enmity of pro-choicers across America--and earned himself a primary challenge--with his grandstanding over the rights of women in health care reform has decided not to run for reelection, stating as his reason that the bill he did his best to kill got ...
• East Africa by Land, Air, and Sea: Advice on Trave ...
  
  We are going to try to write the article we wish we had been able to read before attempting to bus our way across Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda (December 2009). Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack . First things first: this will be one of the most worthwh ...
• Political Execution, Obama-style Shock and Awe: Hi ...
  
  Aligning himself with presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and at least one Bushwhacker, President Obama joined an American pantheon that has sanctioned all sorts of overseas shenanigans in the name of national security. Now that's legacy bipartisanship with a vengeance. Literally. What sets Obama a ...
• TAXES: Freedom Day for "Rendering onto Caesar"
  
  I’ve been thinking about taxes. Actually I’ve been thinking about “rendering onto Caesar,” Tax Freedom Day, Uncle $ugar’s manipulations, the national debt, and taxes world wide. The Ides of April, April 15th that is, hits us on Thursday this year. For individuals, the annual Federal and applicable S ...

Ten Percent

• No Signal
  
  Oddly the Mexican government cutting off 24 million mobile phones has failed to fire the civil liberty neurons of those US liberty lovers who quake with outrage every time Hugo Chávez (or sometimes Morales but they aren’t that well informed so mostly they stick with a name they know- Brand Chávez ...
• 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 torture” 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’ ...

Booman Tribune

• Obama Beats All Comers
  
  Polls this far out from the 2012 presidential election mean very little, but it's instructive to look at what CNN found in the current state of play: The poll shows Obama topping Romney 53 percent to 45 percent, beating Huckabee 54 percent to 45 percent, defeating Gingrich 55 percent to 43 percen ...
• Casual Observation
  
  So, in a true shocker, the Republicans have come out against financial reforms and are using pure Frank Luntz-developed language to make their arguments. Even as they sound populist and anti-banker, they're really just trying to get political contributions from those same banks. As P.T. Barnum not ...
• Another Lieberman Betrayal
  
  Joe Lieberman thanks God that the Republicans are doing well at the polls and seem poised to make significant gains in the midterm elections. Now, I wonder why Mr. Lieberman is willing to make remarks like that. I can see how it plays well with the kind of Connecticut voters he needs to win reelec ...
• Actually, Not Such a Bad Idea
  
  My first reaction to reading that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs might replace David Axelrod as chief presidential strategist was that it was an insane idea. But then I began to examine why I felt that way. And I realized that between l'affaires Lewinsky and Plame (including the whole WM ...
• Froggy Bottom Cafe
  

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 14 ...
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1904 – Sir John...
• Tuesday Open Thread
  
  Come along and have a chat...
• One Version
  
  Here's one version, from NRC Handelsblad, of how a deal was (maybe?) reached on lower-than-market-rate...
• Ofmad
  
  Miliband pursues clean coal tech as UK growth sector “CCS presents a massive industrial growth...
• Bill Clinton & famine in Haiti
  
  BILL CLINTON: Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year...

Futurismic

• Sci-Fi London 2010: much more than just a sci-fi f ...
  
  This year’s Sci-Fi London film festival is the ninth event to bear the name. Running from Wednesday 28th April through Monday 3rd May 2010, and themed around the concept of “life in 2050″, it promises an even bigger line-up of world premieres and screenings of new, rare and obscure science fiction ...
• Policing for hearts and minds in the favelas
  
  In Rio de Janiero, the authorities are moving to liberate favelas from the control of drug-traffiking gangs, demonstrating an advanced understanding not only of what causes this sort of social fragmentation, but also the realistic limits of what they can hope to achieve [via Chairman Bruce]: The occ ...
• Contextual Turing Tests
  
  The thing with the Turing Test is that it’s such a loose experiment; it becomes (arguably) much easier to pass if the intelligence being tested is tuned for the context in which the test is being performed, and to the human respondent. Here’s a QED via web-culture cynic and curmudgeon Nick Carr, wh ...
• 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 ...
• Sci-Fi London 2010: much more than just a sci-fi f ...
  
  This year’s Sci-Fi London film festival is the ninth event to bear the name. Running from Wednesday 28th April through Monday 3rd May 2010, and themed around the concept of “life in 2050″, it promises an even bigger line-up of world premieres and screenings of new, rare and obscure science fiction ...

Therapy News

• Australian Mother Offers Insight on Post Natal Dep ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Affective a significant number of new mothers, Post Natal Depression, or PND, is a psychological issue typically address with either psychotherapy, medication, or a combination of both, but recently, a mother of eight and graduating doctoral student from Australia has ...
• Tax Day Is Coming… Why Am I Freaking Out?
  
  GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MA, LMHC Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Tax time is widely known as a time of great stress, fear, and frustration for many of us. Why do we have such strong feelings about April 15? Three of the major reason ...
• Dream Work and Hypnosis
  
  By Holly Holmes-Meredith, D. Min., MFT, CCHT, Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Holly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile You will spend one third of your life asleep and much of your time asleep will be spent dreaming. Do you yea ...
• Missouri Launches Psychological First Aid Training ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many people take the time to learn about medical first aid, whether it’s a full CPR class or a quick primer involving instructions for using all the items in a basic first aid kit. Yet first aid for psychological concerns, which can be life-threatening at times, is le ...
• How to Choose a Holistic Psychotherapist
  
  By Nicole S. Urdang, M.S., NCC, DHM, Holistic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Nicole and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. When life throws you a curve ball, whether from a death, break-up, newly empty nest, illness, major move, traumatic event, or job loss, you may wa ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Big Coal angry over EPA water standard rule change ...
  
  High Country News (blog) Big Coal angry over EPA water standard rule change Chem.Info The Sierra Club called it "a bold new policy to protect communities and waterways from the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Asheville directors find coal mining safety issues Asheville Citizen-Times ...
• Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, But Criminal - Tr ...
  
  ABC News Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, But Criminal Truthdig Another cause may be the mine's proximity to Massey mountaintop removal operations. Mountaintop removal involves the massive blasting away of mountaintops, ... Readers voice: April 14, 2010 Charleston Gazette Daughter of Coal Country S ...
• Mountaintop Removal Mining: An Environmental Horro ...
  
  Environmental Data Interactive Mountaintop Removal Mining: An Environmental Horror Firedoglake (blog) First and foremost, I am against mountaintop removal mining (as if this was not evident by the header) and I believe it to be raping the environment and ... EPA Restricts Mountaintop Removal Knoxvi ...
• Slash and Sprawl: US Eastern Forests Resume Declin ...
  
  Scientific American Slash and Sprawl: US Eastern Forests Resume Decline Scientific American ... the state of Maryland—have been transformed into subdivisions, tree plantations and lunar-esque landscapes resulting from mountaintop removal mining. ...
• Chris Fordney: In denial of coal's damages - North ...
  
  Chris Fordney: In denial of coal's damages Northern Virginia Daily That kind of accident makes you wonder if mountaintop removal is better than underground mines because it poses less danger to miners who do some of the ...

Memeorandum

• Source: State Dems scrambling to deploy tea party ...
  
  Shawn Millerick / Now! Hampshire : Source: State Dems scrambling to deploy tea party ‘crashers’   —  New Hampshire Democrats are engaged in a statewide search for liberal activists willing to attend so-called tea parties on Thursday and carry signs expressing racist or fringe sentiments, a Democra ...
• Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer. ...
  
  David Leonhardt / New York Times : Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes.  Look Closer.   —  Forty-seven percent.  —  That's the portion of American households that owe no income tax for 2009.  The number is up from 38 percent in 2007, and it has become a popular talking point on cable television and ...
• First moonwalker blasts Obama's space plan (msnbc. ...
  
  msnbc.com : First moonwalker blasts Obama's space plan   —  NBC News: Neil Armstrong says rocket cancellation is ‘devastating’  —  The first man to walk on the moon blasted President Barack Obama's decision to cancel NASA's back-to-the-moon program on Tuesday, saying that the move is “devastating” ...
• Obama secures 47-nation pact at nuclear summit (Ma ...
  
  Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post : Obama secures 47-nation pact at nuclear summit   —  President Obama persuaded 46 countries Tuesday to sign on to a plan to put the world's nuclear material beyond the reach of terrorists within four years, but the commitments are voluntary, and experts said r ...
• Lincoln Wall Street bill tacks left (The Politico)
  
  The Politico : Lincoln Wall Street bill tacks left   —  A new proposal by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln would require sweeping changes to the $450 trillion derivatives market, including forcing big banks to spin off “swaps desks” that handle the complex financial instrumen ...

Energy & Environment News

• Study Finds Benefits in Modified Crops but Warns o ...
  
  The first comprehensive assessment of genetically modified crops called for national attention to the problem of overuse.
• Europe Finds Cleaner Energy Source by Burning Tras ...
  
  New incinerators convert rubbish into heat and electricity, reducing energy costs while benefiting the environment.
• Europe Is Urged to Share Clean Power Across Border ...
  
  Among the recommendations in a new report: a gigantic power cable to link solar farms in Spain with distant countries like Poland.
• Observatory: Connectivity Could Be a Stabilizing F ...
  
  Researchers examine what would happen if wind farms were connected by a transmission line.
• Mirant and RRI Energy to Merge in All-Stock Deal
  
  The wholesale power companies Mirant and RRI Energy announced an all-stock deal to merge into GenOn Energy.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Izu Islands, Japan region
  
  Wednesday, April 14, 2010 08:16:23 UTC Wednesday, April 14, 2010 05:16:23 PM at epicenter Depth : 108.10 km (67.17 mi)
• M 5.4, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
  
  Tuesday, April 13, 2010 00:55:41 UTC Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:55:41 AM at epicenter Depth : 66.20 km (41.13 mi)
• M 6.3, Spain
  
  Sunday, April 11, 2010 22:08:11 UTC Monday, April 12, 2010 12:08:11 AM at epicenter Depth : 619.70 km (385.06 mi)
• M 5.0, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chil ...
  
  Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:28:07 UTC Sunday, April 11, 2010 06:28:07 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 6.8, Solomon Islands
  
  Sunday, April 11, 2010 09:40:30 UTC Sunday, April 11, 2010 08:40:30 PM at epicenter Depth : 60.20 km (37.41 mi)

China Dialogue

• Feeling the heat in Australia
  
  The defeat of climate-change legislation has dealt a blow to the green credentials of the world’s driest inhabited continent. Erwin Jackson examines the nation’s prospects for building a low-carbon economy. Recent news of an Australian firm’s US$60 billion (410 billion yuan) deal to supply coal to C ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Rampant Fraud and Financial Collapse
  
  There are two types of financial outrages: acts that are outrageously illegal, and acts that are, outrageously, legal. Yesterday’s Senate hearing on the rise and fall of Washington Mutual was a rare examination of the former outrage, documenting the pervasive practice of fraud at every level of the ...
• Ex-Taliban Chief: Talks With Insurgents Futile
  
  "The government and the international community do not seem honest ... they talk about negotiations on one hand and intensify war against the opposition on the other."
• Speculating Banks Still Rule -- Ten Ways Dems and ...
  
  None of this is reform. We are better off with nada than vapid promises and a false sense of security.
• Right Wing Red Meat in Cruel April
  
  CNN beefs up with the angry white man punditry, this time with RedState.com's Erick Erickson.
• Navigating Sex & Strangers on Craigslist's Cas ...
  
  Thrill seekers using free online classifieds may get just what they pay for.

Threat Level

• Cyberwar Doomsayer Lands $34 Million in Government ...
  
  Last month, the former Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell boldly took to the Senate floor and the Washington Post’s editorial page to declare “The United States is fighting a cyber-war today, and we are losing.” Thankfully for the American people, his company — the giant defense co ...
• Bank Worker Pleads Guilty to Hacking Over 100 ATMs
  
  A Bank of America worker  pleaded guilty Tuesday to installing malware on  more than 100 ATMs, and  and stealing $304,000 over a seven-month period. Authorities were able to recover at least $167,000 in cash after the worker told the U.S. Secret Service where they could find the money, according to ...
• Court Vacates Online Student-Speech Rulings
  
  When it comes to students’ speech rights in the digital world, the courts are interpreting the First Amendment through a Supreme Court precedent dating to well before the birth of the public internet. That 1969 precedent has led to conflicting legal opinions on whether public schools can punish stud ...
• Brokerage Firm Fined $375,000 for Unsecured Data
  
  Brokerage firm DA Davidson has agreed to pay a fine of $375,000 for failing to protect confidential client data from Latvian hackers who breached the company in 2007 in an online extortion scheme. The hackers used a SQL injection attack to obtain access to the company’s database on Dec. 25 and 26, 2 ...
• Malware Threatens to Sue BitTorrent Downloaders
  
  A new malware scam is trying to dupe BitTorrent users into coughing up serious cash for illegally downloading copyrighted material. The code displays a box with the message “Warning! Piracy detected!” and opens a web page purportedly run by a Swiss company “committed to promoting the cultural and ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• U.S. bank chief mobbed by angry borrowers
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The mortgage chief of the United States' second largest bank was mobbed by angry borrowers on Tuesday after he invited customers to speak to him if they feared foreclosure of their homes.
• U.S. says it is ready to help Kyrgyzstan's new rul ...
  
  BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was prepared to help Kyrgyzstan's new rulers, putting pressure on ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who hinted he may go into exile.
• UPDATE 5-Toyota halts Lexus SUV sales after safety ...
  
  * Toyota asks U.S. dealers to suspend sales of Lexus GX 460
• Iran complains to U.N. over U.S. nuclear "threat"
  
  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran complained to the United Nations on Tuesday over what it called a U.S. threat to attack it with atomic weapons, accusing Washington of nuclear blackmail in violation of the U.N. charter.
• Strong quake kills 300; destroys homes on Tibet pl ...
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Wednesday killed about 300 people in the mountainous Tibetan Plateau in southwest China and left more than 8,000 injured as houses, schools and offices collapsed.

Equality Trust

• The Equality Trust in the news
  
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• 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

• NSF announces 2010 Food Safety Leadership Award wi ...
  
  NSF International, a global leader in food safety solutions, has announced the recipients of the 2010 Food Safety Leadership Awards. The winners will receive their awards at the 2010 Food Safety Summit in Washington, D.C. (Award ceremony is 9:45 a.m. EST, Wednesday, April 14th in Washington D.C. Con ...
• FOOD SAFETY premieres on KCTS this Friday night
  
    I had the honor of talking extensively with KCTS producer Terry Murphy about food safety.  I'm looking forward to seeing the piece, which airs this Friday in the Seattle area, and will then be online. On Friday, April 16, Seattle’s public television station, KCTS 9, will premiere an original repo ...
• Peter Hurley, Father and Food Safety Advocate, App ...
  
  Peter Hurley, Oregon policeman and father of three, was introduced to how serious foodborne illness can be when his son Jacob fell ill.� Jacob was sick for 11 days, and later the family found out that during his illness, they had unknowingly been feeding him exactly what made him ill - his favorite ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 04.14.10
  
  Quick Spin: 2010 Plug-in Prius prototype is just like your mother's Prius, but better The first wave is here. Fun fact about the UC Irvine hydrogen fueling station: 15 cars a day is too many ...
• Quick Spin: 2010 Plug-in Prius prototype is just l ...
  
  Filed under: Hybrid , Hatchback , Toyota , Electric , Quick Spin 2010 Plug-in Prius Prototypes - Click above for high-res image gallery It's been two-and-a-half years since we last got behind the wheel of a plug-in Toyota Prius . The name is the same, but today's plug-in Prius is a totally differe ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.13.10
  
  At Witz' End - BMW's "One-Day University" says EfficientDynamics means having it all While a lot of folks probably buy BMWs more for image than driving dynamics, the company is ready with the green tech. ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Top sites for saving money on tech
  
  A little research makes a big difference in how much you spend. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• 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 ...

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!

• Poet and Author Alice Walker Speaking in Gaza
  
  Following the Israeli siege, Alice Walker visited Gaza in March 2009 along with a 60-member international delegation led by Code Pink. Walking among the ruins, she spoke to Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat.
• 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 ...

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

• Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags ...
  
  No new waste-to-energy plants are being planned or built in the US, even though the federal government and 24 states now classify waste that is burned this way for energy as a renewable fuel. There are only 87 trash-burning power plants in the US and almost all were built at least 15 years ago. In c ...
• California sees uptick in sizable earthquakes sinc ...
  
  California had 30 in 2009 and 29 in 2008. But 70 already this year, and it's only April. And there have been more than 1,000 aftershocks, including more than a dozen that registered more than magnitude 5.0. Time to get nervous?
• 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

Invisible Opportunity

• We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs
  
  They may admit to the “blunder,” but they are still pushing the vaccine.  Please note that the mortality figures are not genuinely attributable to the H1N1 virus.  They, pretty much, simply attribute anything that looks like flu to this specific virus… Global health chiefs have finally admitted th ...
• WHO Appoints H1N1 Cover-Up Committee
  
  James Corbett 13 April, 2010 Reports that the WHO is appointing an ‘independent’ committee to investigate its own conduct in the H1N1 panic of 2009 has been tempered by the fact that one of the committee’s members, John Mackenzie, was in fact one of the advisors who urged the WHO to declare a pandem ...
• If mainstream medicine really works, why are Ameri ...
  
  By Mike Adams Did you ever wonder why such an alarmingly high percentage of Americans are obese, diabetic, depressed and suffering from cancer, heart disease, kidney disorders and skin problems? Now consider the fact that Americans pay more per capita for health care than any other nation in the wor ...
• Monsanto Under Investigation by Seven US States
  
  By Ken Roseboro 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 biotec ...
• Club Of Rome Behind Eco-Fascist Purge To Criminali ...
  
  Paul Joseph Watson The British lawyer who last week called for introducing international laws through the United Nations which would make it a crime against humanity to question the reality of man-made global warming has close ties with the Club of Rome – the ultra elitist organization which openly ...

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 ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• How Los Angeles Became the "Wild West" o ...
  
  How Los Angeles became the medical marijuana capital of America thanks to a combination of entrepreneurial energy and benign political neglect.
• Don't Just Smoke a Joint on 4/20 -- Take Action Ag ...
  
  Stand up today with other Americans and get the word out there. This war will end; how soon depends, in part, on you.
• How Stanislav Grof Helped Launch the Dawn of a New ...
  
  The world of medicine may finally be ready to catch back up with psychedelic pioneers, whose work was rejected a half-century ago.
• The True Inside Story of the Catastrophic Mexican ...
  
  Why Ciudad Juárez has a murder rate nearly four times higher than Baghdad's.
• How Marijuana Could Save California Agriculture
  
  While a legalized marijuana crop wouldn’t solve all of California’s agricultural woes, it might still keep the state in the green.

Twilight Earth

• Investors and Politicians Call For Coal Giant Don ...
  
  Calls for the resignation Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy have started. Massey energy is the company that recently had 29 employees die in what is the worst Coal mining catastrophe since the 1970's. Related posts: Explosion at West Virginia Massey Coal Mine Kills 25 Miners – Our Mes ...
• 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 ...

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 ...
• Emeco Unveils Navy Chair Made of 111 Recycled Coke ...
  
  Emeco’s Navy Chair is a design classic known for it’s iconic curves and lightweight aluminum properties. In an eco-improvement upon this classic design, the company collaborated with Coca Cola to create an almost identical version of the Navy Chair made from 111 recycled plastic bottles! Dubbed 111 ...
• Disney Unveils Eco-Chair for Adults That Looks Lik ...
  
  Kiddie Co. Walt Disney is launching a line of upscale furniture at the Milan Design Fair in Italy this week. Disney teamed up with Italian furniture makers Cappellini to create a fancy “adult lifestyle brand” called “Walt Disney Signature”, which even includes some eco-friendly designs such as the ...
• Tokujin Yoshioka Debuts Shape-Shifting, Recycled A ...
  
  The international design community has been buzzing about Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka’s new shape-shifting chair, due to debut in Milan Design Fair this week.  Made of recycled aluminum, the amorphic chair, called “Memory,” squishes into a new shape every time someone sits in it. Yoshioka de ...

Pogue's Posts

• Philips Changes Policy on Fitness Monitor
  
  With the DirectLife fitness monitor, you lose access to your custom Web sitesite should you end your subscription. The company is making some amends.
• Four Music-Sharing Tricks on Windows 7
  
  There are plenty of interesting or useful features on Windows 7, but the one that surprised me most was the music-sharing feature of Windows Media Player 12. Here's how to get the most out of it.
• Apple iPad FAQ's
  
  I answer the most frequently asked questions I've received about the iPad.
• Why the Line2 App is Up and Down
  
  An explanation of the ups and downs of Line2, the popular iPhone calling app.
• A Bigger Sensor for a Coat-Pocket Camera
  
  Samsung's NX10 takes the necessary next step in the development of a small camera that takes SLR-quality photos.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Antarctic Ice-Core Research Requires Logistical Hi ...
  
  Two freezers full of carefully diced and labeled ice drilled from the Antarctic peninsula were hoisted aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer research vessel Sunday for a trip that will eventually end in Columbus, Ohio. Getting valuable scientific evidence from a hole in the ice near the south pole to t ...
• Rampaging Hot Jupiters May Keep Earthlike Planets ...
  
  A bevy of backward-orbiting exoplanets could challenge theories of planet formation, new research suggests. The planets’ wonky orbits might also rule out the presence of Earthlike bodies in some planetary systems. The wrong-way planets got where they are by cartwheeling over their stars’ heads, And ...
• DNA Testing Finds Endangered Whale Meat in Restaur ...
  
  Genetic tests of whale meat from Japanese restaurants in Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea have confirmed the meat is from endangered animals. The Los Angeles bust was publicized in March, prompting a restaurant there to close, but finding the meat in South Korea was even more troubling. “This pro ...
• Scrubbing IDs Out of Medical Records for Genetic S ...
  
  A new technique allows medical records to be used for research on the genetics of disease while still protecting patients from prying eyes. Databases that link thousands of people’s DNA profiles to their medical histories are a powerful tool for researchers who want to use genetics to individualize ...
• Lost Tribes Used Clever Tricks to Turn Amazon Wast ...
  
  A vast series of earth mounds on the eastern coast of South America may be living landscape fossils of a forgotten civilization’s agriculture. People raised the mounds between 1,000 and 700 years ago in order to create cropland in terrain that is flooded for half the year, and parched for the other ...

The Progressive Realist

• Conservatives Fight Each Other on Obama’s Nuclear ...
  
  In an interesting twist, the Wall Street Journal oped page today chose to highlight the split between moderates and extremists within the Republican foreign policy establishment. The WSJ published the thoughts of six former senior Nixon, Reagan, and Bush W. national security officials on Obama’s nu ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  
  - China's central bank announced that the country's foreign exchange reserves reached a record $2.44 trillion at the end of March. That's up 25 percent from a year ago. - South Korea was unanimously chosen as the host of next year's Nuclear Security Summit . I hadn't realized that today's gathering ...
• Joint UK-French Nuclear-Armed Submarine Fleet?
  
  This is an interesting notion that is unlikely to happen in anything but a very limited sense: France has offered to create a joint UK-French nuclear deterrent by sharing submarine patrols, the Guardian has learned. Officials from both countries have discussed how a deterrence-sharing scheme migh ...
• China's On-Board with Iran Sanctions! Until It Isn ...
  
  I'm in Washington, parts of which are locked down because of President Obama's nuclear security summit . A few story lines have emerged from the summit, but the one of interest to this blog's readers is China's apparent pledge to work with the rest of the P5+1 countries on an economic sanctions pac ...
• Khamenei Lashes out against Perceived Threats to I ...
  
  Iran is responding harshly to the U.S.–sponsored nuclear summit, which opened April 12 in Washington. The state-run media is filled with articles about an impending threat from the West – an attempt to alert Iranian society that, at least according to Iran’s leaders, the country is again a victi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Kill a Party/Resurrect It.
  
  Julian Sanchez disembowels The American Spectator's Daniel Oliver for his curiously terrible take on the New York Times coverage of Catholic church's sex abuse scandal. Oliver's beef? The Times is bowing to the vast homosexual conspiracy scientific consensus. It's okay, Mr. Oliver. Sometimes I forge ...
• TAPPED Leads, Politico Follows.
  
  Two weeks ago, I wrote a post here on TAPPED noting that Republican politicians had taken to attacking congressional staff in public. House Minority Leader John Boehner was the most colorful, imploring bankers not to be intimidated by the "little punk staffers" who help write legislation. "It makes ...
• The Little Picture: Haiti.
  
  Today, Michelle Obama made an unannounced trip to Port-au-Prince to reinforce the United States' commitment to provide aid. It has been three months since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti. (Norwegian Red Cross/Olav A. Saltbones)
• A "Real Liberal" Justice Is a Civil Libertarian.
  
  Yesterday, I wrote an article urging Obama to put a strong liberal voice on the Court. Matt Yglesias responds and asks what a "real liberal" would look like. He highlights my criticism of Elana Kagan' s record on civil liberties and executive power: That’s a valid concern (and see Glenn Greenwald ...
• Rise of the Female Nerds.
  
  Amanda Marcotte on the girls of Glee: In the midst of dour economic times, it shouldn't have really been a surprise that the new Fox show Glee charmed audiences. Glee has the same appeal that Susan Boyle , awkward celebrities on Dancing With The Stars , and contestants on American Idol posses -- th ...

Andy Worthington

• Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney and Rum ...
  
  Those of us who have been studying the recent career of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson were not surprised when, last week, he submitted a declaration (PDF) in a lawsuit seeking compensation from the US government that was filed by former Guantánamo prisoner Adel Hassan Hamad. A Sudanese hospital worker, Ha ...
• Shaker Aamer: Campaign Group Asks Gordon Brown to ...
  
  Regular readers of my work will be aware that I have long campaigned for the release of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay. Shaker was cleared for release from Guantánamo over three years ago, yet he remains imprisoned for no discernible reason except that it suits both the US ...
• “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.” Seized in a house raid in Faisalabad, Pakistan on March 28, 2002, he was immediately touted as “al-Qaeda’s chief of operations a ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Iceland Volcano Makes 27-Story "Mountain"
  
  After weeks of fiery fountains, an Icelandic volcano has apparently quieted down—leaving behind a new, 270-foot cone, experts say.
• Lions, Hyena Killed With Poisoned Meat
  
  A bloody bucket streaked with purple stains suggests Kenyan herders killed the animals with a controversial pesticide, experts say.
• Deepest Volcanic Sea Vents Found; "Like Another Wo ...
  
  "It was like wandering across another world," said a researcher of witnessing the hydrothermal "smokers," which may hold unknown creatures.
• Plenty of Gas, But No Simple Solution for U.S. Ene ...
  
  Innovation has sparked a boom in production of this low-carbon fuel. Taking advantage of its benefits is another matter.
• Earthquake Baptism Saves Chile Family
  
  A christening celebration saved a Chilean extended family from the devastation of the February 27 Chile earthquake. Video.

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

• Gay-Bashing Church Could Lose Tax Exemption
  
  A Florida church known for its Muslim bashing is now taking aim at a gay mayoral candidate — and possibly endangering its tax exemption. Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville has been attacking City Commissioner Craig Lowe, one of two candidates vying for mayor in an April 13 run-off election. T ...
• Nativists Work to Counter Sunday’s Pro-Immigrant M ...
  
  As thousands of people prepare to rally in Washington, D.C., this Sunday for immigration reform, nativist extremist groups are unleashing their own campaigns to counter the event. NumbersUSA today launched “S.T.O.P. Amnesty in Four Days,” a drive to derail any immigration reform package that include ...
• Pentagon Tightens Ban on Supremacist Activity Afte ...
  
  Since the SPLC warned the U.S. military about extremist activity among active-duty personnel in 2006, the Pentagon brass has steadfastly denied that a problem existed and insisted that its “zero-tolerance” policy was sufficient to keep organized racists out of its ranks. That changed this past Novem ...
• Website Blames Whites for, Well, Just About Everyt ...
  
  The white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) is well known for showcasing stories on its website that present African Americans in a bad light. Examples this year: “Gonorrhea is now almost exclusively a black disease” and “Black thugs hold white teens captive while raping and torturi ...
• Behind the Hate: Long-Time Activist Runs New Anti- ...
  
  A leading anti-abortion webmaster who is widely known for his extremist tactics is behind a new Internet site taking aim at gay and abortion rights supporters with ties to Kenya. Neal Horsley — best known for his “Nuremberg Files” website targeting physicians who provide abortions — now cont ...

change: org.

• Is Jesse James Homophobic, Too?
  
  Entertainment Weekly has dubbed Jesse James the most hated man in America. If they needed one more reason to give him that title, here it comes: Radar Online has snagged some email correspondence from James to two other coworkers, where the homophobic slurs fly faster than a Ducati Motorcycle speedi ...
• Arizona: One Step Closer to a Police State
  
  The Arizona state legislature just approved the toughest anti-immigrant bill in the country, giving police the authority to determine people's immigration status based on "reasonable suspicion" or, more bluntly put, the right to racially profile immigrants. Written by State Sen. Russell Pearce, SB10 ...
• 4-H Kids Caught in Animal Agriculture Crossfire
  
  Friends of Big Agriculture are outraged that the National 4-H organization has "climbed in bed with one of the most radical and insidious animal rights organizations in the country." Who might this evil cult of extremists be? The Humane Society of the United States. At the National 4-H Congress in W ...
• Does Your Veggie Burger Contain Neurotoxins?
  
  With so many recalls of tainted meat it's tempting to think of food safety issues as another reason to eat a vegetarian diet. But sadly, recent news from the Cornucopia Institute rains on that parade as well. Its new report , "Behind the Bean: The Heroes and Charlatans of the Natural and Organic Soy ...
• Proposed Florida School Reform Angers Education Pr ...
  
  Florida Governor Charlie Christ is in the hot seat now. On Friday, the Florida House of Representatives narrowly passed their version of Senate Bill 6 (SB 6), a bill directed at school reform. The bill now goes to the governor, who previously said he would sign it but is now wavering in his convicti ...

Common Dreams -News

• Big Banks Draw Profits From Microloans to Poor
  
  by Neil MacFarquhar In recent years, the idea of giving small loans to poor people became the darling of the development world, hailed as the long elusive formula to propel even the most destitute into better lives. Actors like Natalie Portman and Michael Douglas lent their boldface names to the c ...
• No Obama Pressure on Israel Nuclear Policy: Minist ...
  
  JERUSALEM - US President Barack Obama during this week's nuclear summit put no pressure on Israel to shift away from its policy of deliberate ambiguity on its atomic programme, a minister said Wednesday. "The policy of ambiguity is the foundation of Israel's security, it has always been and will con ...
• Watchdog Group: Obama's Mortgage Aid Plan Wastes B ...
  
  by Matthew Jaffe The Obama administration's embattled mortgage aid plan is coming under fresh criticism from a government watchdog who says the program is wasting billions of taxpayer dollars simply to delay -- rather than prevent -- foreclosures. read more
• 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

• GIGATweaker Catalogs Hundreds of Tweaks in Clean P ...
  
  Windows 7: If you've been overwhelmed by the options and cluttered interfaces of Windows 7-customization applications, check out GIGATweaker. GIGATweaker sports a clean and easy to use GUI that neatly compartmentalizes the tweaks in logical su ...
• How to Access Google Docs' Real-Time Editing and D ...
  
  There's a whole bunch of new stuff in Google Docs , including real-time editing, a drawing tool, and a new look and features for spreadsheets and presentations. Not all of it is apparent and visible to returning Docs users, though. Google Oper ...
• 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�� ...
• Google Video's TV Show Search Filter Finds Episode ...
  
  Google expands their video search engine by adding a TV show filter that allows you to sort videos by season and episode. While YouTube and Hulu remain vastly popular, Google's episode search yields surprisingly impressive results. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• The Price Not Worth Paying
  
  By Steve Hynd Today's must-read is by Robert Wright at the NYT (h/t Balkanization). He presents evidence from a statistical studt by Jenna Jordan of the University of Chicago that "decapitation" strikes on terrorist leaders - drone attacks, for example - actually increase the viability and prestige ...
• Kandahar Bursts Gen. McChrystal's Counterinsurgenc ...
  
  By Derrick Crowe In case you hadn't heard, the next stop in General McChrystal's counterinsurgency plan is Kandahar, the ideological heart of the Taliban. Using the spadework done in advance of the Marjah operation as a template, McChrystal says the plan is to: "...do the political groundwork, so th ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• BRIEFLY COMMUNITY
  
  Military officers meet for social hour, dinner The Emerald Empire chapter of the Military Officers Association of America will hold its monthly meeting today at the Eugene Veterans Club, 1626 Willamette St. Social hour begins at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:15 p.m. Cost of the meal is $21. Retired
• Sega Announces Ecco: Water Wars 2
  
  On these high seas, no one can hear you scream. Sega announced today that one of their most beloved characters is returning from the deep. A post on the official Sega America Blog revealed that a sequel to Ecco: Water Wars is currently in the works. Confident of the titles success, Sega is already b ...
• Nathan Deals platform: Priorities are safety, educ ...
  
  GOP gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal has four priorities in his bid for the states highest office: Keep the people safe, educate our children, pave or build our roads and deal with a greate...
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars an interesting documen ...
  
  http://www.davevachon.com/2010/04/world-water-wars-interesting.html [...]
• Glacier breaks in Peru, causing Andes tsunami
  
  A huge glacier breaks off and plunges into a lake in Peru, causing a 75-foot tsunami wave that sweeps away at least three people and destroys a water processing plant. Peru - Tsunami - Andes - South America - Earthquake

WordPress | Economics

• A+ Tutorial: Government Budget
  
  A+ Tutorial: Government Budget Price: $4.99 Additional Information: - 237 words Screenshot Preview:
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  A+ Tutorial: Exchange Rates Price: $4.99 Additional Information: - 263 words Screenshot Preview: Ple
• A Million Charts And Graphics To Say The Same Thin ...
  
  DiA at The Economist: SOME highlights from this week’s Economist/YouGov poll: • Little has cha
• RealClearPolitics - Tax Hikes Forever
  
  We are not going to get out of our fiscal mess (read extraordinarily massive debt) by raising taxes
• Quick, Everyone, Act Surprised
  
  Back to political economics today. Two headlines to note to show the how and why the Collapse of 201

Electronic Intifada

• Grassroots organizer targeted by PA, Israeli force ...
  
  Mousa Abu Maria, co-coordinator of the grassroots Palestine Solidarity Project in the occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar, was used to the sound of boots running on th ...
• Film review: Surreal struggle in Michel Khleifi's ...
  
  Michel Khleifi, the celebrated director of Wedding in Galilee , turns the camera inward in his 2009 feature film, Zindeeq (the meanings of which include "atheist" or "freet ...
• Journalist threatened with extradition, arrest by ...
  
  An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caug ...
• Belgian bank financing Israeli settlements
  
  BRUSSELS (IPS) - Dexia, a major Belgian-French bank, is continuing to finance Israeli authorities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories almost a year after it indicated that it w ...
• Jerusalem: heart of conflict, beginning of reconci ...
  
  The Kairos document reminds Jews, Muslims and Christians alike that Jerusalem should be the place where God reconciles with his people and where the creatures of God reconcile with ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Karzai to meet UN commission probing Benazir mur ...
  
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed to meet the UN commission probing the death of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto following a request from President Asif Ali Zardari.
• Afghan air force again tries to take off
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan | Dawran Masoomy was once in line to be Afghanistan's first man in space. Nowadays, as a lieutenant general commanding his country's air force, he is happy just to see his vintage p...
• Karzai to meet UN commission probing Benazir murde ...
  
  Lahore, Apr.14 : Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed to meet the UN commission probing the death of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto following a request from President Asif Ali Zarda...
• Turkish projects in Afghan province worth $37 mill ...
  
  Turkey has completed aid development projects worth $37 million since 2006 in the Afghan province of Vardak, its governor said Tuesday. Speaking to Turkish reporters at Istanbul's Atat�rk Intern...
• Court hears captain didn't want to waste medi ...
  
  GATINEAU, Que. — Capt. Robert Semrau refused to offer first aid to a severely wounded Taliban fighter because he didn't want to waste his limited medical supplies on a dying man, his court martial h...

Futurismic

• Sci-Fi London 2010: much more than just a sci-fi f ...
  
  This year’s Sci-Fi London film festival is the ninth event to bear the name. Running from Wednesday 28th April through Monday 3rd May 2010, and themed around the concept of “life in 2050″, it promises an even bigger line-up of world premieres and screenings of new, rare and obscure science fiction ...
• Policing for hearts and minds in the favelas
  
  In Rio de Janiero, the authorities are moving to liberate favelas from the control of drug-traffiking gangs, demonstrating an advanced understanding not only of what causes this sort of social fragmentation, but also the realistic limits of what they can hope to achieve [via Chairman Bruce]: The occ ...
• Contextual Turing Tests
  
  The thing with the Turing Test is that it’s such a loose experiment; it becomes (arguably) much easier to pass if the intelligence being tested is tuned for the context in which the test is being performed, and to the human respondent. Here’s a QED via web-culture cynic and curmudgeon Nick Carr, wh ...
• 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 ...
• Sci-Fi London 2010: much more than just a sci-fi f ...
  
  This year’s Sci-Fi London film festival is the ninth event to bear the name. Running from Wednesday 28th April through Monday 3rd May 2010, and themed around the concept of “life in 2050″, it promises an even bigger line-up of world premieres and screenings of new, rare and obscure science fiction ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• New ARB rescues SOX whistleblower on equitable est ...
  
  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 ...
• 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 ...

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

• UK Comedy Writer Takes The Digital Economy Bill Se ...
  
  Nathaniel Tapley, an award-winning comedy writer, writes "Yesterday, I wrote a blog post disagreeing with [Bernie Corbett,] the General Secretary of my union, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, who was defending the Digital Economy Bill. Surprisingly, he emailed me with a full response , which I ...
• Japanese Porn Actress Entices Chinese Net Users To ...
  
  It's no secret that porn can be a tremendous driver for the adoption of new technologies: VCRs, DVD players, cable and satellite TV, and the internet. But apparently it's also helping teach Chinese folks how to scale the country's Great Firewall. A few days ago, the Twitter name of a Japanese porn a ...
• The Number of People Giving Up TV for the Web Is S ...
  
  A new report estimates that some 800,000 American households now watch TV only via the Web , as the move to abandon cable, satellite or OTA broadcasts starts to gather pace. This represents a small percentage of the pay TV industry's 101 million subscribers, but the number is expected to double by t ...
• Copyright Worries Threaten The Best Thing To Come ...
  
  If you haven't seen Red Letter Media's excellent reviews of the Star Wars films, The Phantom Menace and The Attack of the Clones , then you might want to carve out three hours out of your day and watch them (the reviews are 70-minutes and 90-minutes long, respectively) -- they're incredible. (Warn ...
• GAO Concludes Piracy Stats Are Usually Junk, File ...
  
  For many years we've explored how entertainment and software industry piracy statistics are very reliable -- at least in terms of being consistently and notoriously wrong on an annual basis. Each year companies (especially the BSA) like to throw out marginally-coherent data "proving" the supposedly- ...

VacTruth

• (Video) What Vaccines Are Doing to Our Children
  
• World Health Organization Running Scared: WHO pand ...
  
  (Vactruth.com Editor’s note: WHO and others are mighty angry with sites such as vactruth.com. Consider they would rather parrot the party line, such as the bilge Glen Nowak from the CDC would like you to eat for supper. Read about his Pharma backed communication plan to ‘Foster High Interest for th ...
• Novartis and Roche threaten to quit UK
  
  . . . . Rob Evans and Sarah Boseley guardian.co.uk 04/11/2010 The pharmaceutical firms Novartis and Roche have threatened to pull out of Britain and relocate thousands of jobs abroad, in an ongoing row over pricing for the NHS and rules surrounding safety trials. The Swiss drug companies made t ...
• Alabama children now required to get two more vacc ...
  
  . . . By Trang Do Waff48News 04/12/2010 HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – Children in Alabama will have to roll up their sleeves a couple of extra times. They’re now being required to get two additional vaccinations. These extra shots will mean better health for our children. They have been available and re ...
• (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 ...

BroadSnark

• Does the Supreme Court Lead or Follow?
  
  Everyone is talking about Supreme Court nominations again.  I agree with those people who think that the court is going to be more conservative with the loss of Stevens.  But I’m looking at that a different way these days. I’ve always paid close attention to Supreme Court picks.  Partly that was ...
• 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• EU Opens the Floodgates for Hyperinflation
  
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 9, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 14
• On the Subject of Economy: The Issue Is Humanity
  
  Interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 9, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 14
• Obama War To Defend the Opium Traffickers
  
  By Michele Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 9, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 14
• Russians See Foreign Financing of Attacks
  
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 9, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 14
• LaRouche Demands Impeachment: Obama's Afghan Polic ...
  
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 9, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 14

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 Future Success of the USA Depends on Unity of ...
  
• Obama Is Blowing Court Appointment
  
  Justice Diane P. Wood, Contender for Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by mal contends Right now millions of American should be receiving e-mails from David Plouffe, the 2008 Obama-Biden campaign manager, asking for input, thoughts, and concerns about the pending U.S. Supreme Court appointment. ...
• KHALIL NOURI: AFGHANISTAN: MR. KARZAI, WHY DID YOU ...
  
  By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER During the last few days, President Karzai has thrown the “kitchen sink” at his allies, and his own people. Did the American”s rig the election? Is Karzai joining the Taliban or retiring to the south of France? Some say it is drug use, some say simply stress, [.. ...
• "Never Even a Whisper" at Fed’s Open Market ...
  
  Ben Bernanke, William Dudley and Donald L Kohn are on the Fed’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). They are also on the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – often called the “central banks’ central bank”. And Kohn is an alternate director for BIS. Alan Greenspan, of co ...
• Vet’s Guide to the Economic Meltdown…Watching the ...
  
  Vet”s Guide to the Economic Meltdown, Part 2…Notice the snake doesn’t gag The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—owne ...

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

• Yves Behar and Puma Roll Out The Clever Little Bag
  
  Images by B. Alter Puma invited super-star industrial designer Yves Behar to design a packaging system for its shoes that would be more sustainable. In reponse, Behar came up with "The Clever Little Bag". It's a sheet of folded cardboard inside a bright red PET bag that is going to change sho ...
• Sea Shepherd Harassment Cuts Japanese Whale Catch ...
  
  Sea Shepherd members hurl bottle of rotten butter at a Japanese whaler, as the whaler fires water cannon back. Photo: Adam Lau/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, John via flickr. Say what you like about their tactics, but the efforts of Sea Shepherd to harass Japan's whaling fleet in the waters ...
• LG Announces Investment in Green Electronics to Cu ...
  
  Photo via LGEPR LG Group in South Korea has announced a plan to invest 20 trillion won (about $17.7 billion) in developing more environmentally friendly products. It's part of the company's plan to cut their carbon footprint by 40% against 2009 levels by 2020. However, LG has not had a very goo ...
• Prefabulous and Sustainable: New Book Shows Prefab ...
  
  On cover: Tucker Bayou Show House, Looney Ricks Kiss Architects As a long-time prefab proselytizer I approached Sheri Koone's new book with some trepidation. I used to believe, as she still does, that "Prefab is intrinsically green" but don't any more; where you build is fundamentally as import ...
• Nixxi: Relaxed, Casual Wear for Spring 2010 (Photo ...
  
  Nixxi Spring 2010. Image courtesy of Nimli If you're searching for clothing staples for summer , look no further than Nixxi 's spring 2010 collection. The Canada-based brand has created cool, casual looks--sexed up in the lookbook--for the season, including leggings, stockings, dresses cinched ...

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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Carbon "sins" forgiven in Bonn
  
  CFACT's Mother Earth sells carbon indulgences to UN climate delegates
• Global warming's weak links
• A Constitutional Amendment, PETA-style
• Bright future for nanofiber light bulbs
• Rainforest story latest IPCC scandal

Ria Novosti Online News

• The Drill monkey is one of Africa's most endangere ...
  
  In Nigeria, a conservation project has been running for twenty years, establishing a viable captive population at Drill Ranches across the state. Its population has dwindled to less than 10,000 according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
• Russia to provide $50 mln in financial aid to Kyrg ...
  
  Russia will give Kyrgyzstan a $20 mln grant and a $30 mln concessional loan to help stabilize the economic situation in the ex-Soviet republic after recent riots, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Wednesday.
• Melting Arctic ice threatens a quarter of the worl ...
  
  Melting Arctic ice affects the climate of the entire planet. Global warming has already driven polar bears to cannibalism and may threaten the lives of a quarter of the world’s population by 2100.
• N.Korea blows off Russian-U.S. strategic arms redu ...
  
  North Korea shrugged off the importance to the new U.S.-Russian arms reduction treaty signed in Prague in early April, the central North Korean Rodong Sinmun newspaper said on Wednesday.
• Russian, U.S. lawmakers to discuss arms pact ratif ...
  
  A Russian-U.S. inter-parliamentary group will meet in Washington on April 18-22 to discuss the ratification of a new strategic arms reduction treaty, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Expo 2010 in Shanghai to boost Russian-Chinese sci ...
  
  The World Expo 2010 fair in Shanghai is expected to expand Russian-Chinese cooperation in scientific research
• Russia confirms plans of rocket launch from French ...
  
  Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Kourou space center in French Guiana later this year.
• Soyuz takes off for International Space Station
  
  A Soyuz-FG rocket bearing a Soyuz TMA-18 piloted spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday morning from Russia's Baikonur space centre.
• Solar-powered plane makes its first long-range fli ...
  
  The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse successfully made its first long-range flight in Switzerland on April 7.
• Russia set to launch Europe's CryoSat-2 satellite ...
  
  A Russian Dnepr carrier rocket will launch the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 Earth Explorer satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Thursday.

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

• Does Drinking Milk Cause Upper-Respiratory Congest ...
  
  Conventional wisdom states that drinking milk causes an increase in phlegm. Scientists have have generally dismissed the notion, though, since experiments do not seem to bear it out. In one study, researchers noted that even people who were inoculated with the common cold virus did not show any incr ...
• Omega-3 Improves Diabetic Kidney Health
  
  Omega-3 fats might reduce kidney damage in type-1 diabetics, condition, according to a new study. Data taken from close to 1,500 participants in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial showed that type-1 diabetics with the highest intake of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic aci ...
• Do We Really Need Traffic Lights or Are They Actua ...
  
  The notion that lack of order on city streets would lead to a near anarchic situation has led most people to accept that the governmental serves a vital purpose by instituting traffic laws and signs. But for a number of years, several cities in Europe have remov ed traffic signs.� They have no traf ...
• Good News -- More Support for Breast Feeding
  
  Women are often faced with an uncomfortable situation when trying to publicly breastfeed their children. In many cases, they have had to use careful timing to pump milk at work. Some have to use a bathroom stall for lack of any other space. But now, page 1239 of the new health care bill mandates ...
• Good Diet Helps Radically Reduce Alzheimer's
  
  A Mediterranean-style diet may be a strong weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's disease, according to new research. People who ate a variety of nutrients specifically selected for brain health were shown to have a 40 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.  Alzheimer's has no cure, ...

Antemedius

• Friday at 8PM EDT on Blog Talk Radio
  
  After calling in to Diane G's Blog Talk Radio program last Friday evening, which dealt with 9/11 conspiracy hypotheses, I decided to revive my own show for a special continuing discussion on the subject since I wasn't able to fully discuss my own interpretation of that day's events. The show will l ...
• Denialism Is A Virus And Viruses Are Contagious
  
  Michael Specter is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book, Denialism, asks why we have increasingly begun to fear scientific advances instead of embracing them. Specter recently spoke at the TEDGlobal2010 Conference, held over the course of four days in Oxford, England to explore "the shoc ...
• Obama Administration Authorizes CIA to Kill US Cit ...
  
  The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a US citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States l ...
• Is Murder the New Torture?
  
  By David Swanson I've been reading about the history of torture, including John T. Parry's new book "Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity." Parry gives a history of torture in Europe and the United States through the twentieth century, establishing its pervasiveness, and the ...
• US Troops Open Fire on Passenger Bus in Afghanista ...
  
  Four Afghan civilians were killed and 18 others wounded Monday when US troops opened fire on a passenger bus they believed was a threat to a military personnel working to remove roadside bombs from a highway near Kandahar. In a statement , the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), sai ...

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

• Papal misdirections
  
  Haters, mostly: Bill Kristol: Kagan OK, but only after GOoPers drag her through the mud (and even then she’s not OK in my book) Corn says Republicans will launch major shit fit over nomination just before election (Cornyn already engaging in one-handed speculation about gay nominee) They never ever ...
• 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 ...

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

• NRC Report on Genetically Engineered Crops Misses ...
  
  Genetically Engineered Crops Are Already Having Negative Impact on Farm Sustainability in the United States The Center for Food Safety today released a statement in response to a National Research Council (NRC) report that purports to address the impact of genetically engineered (GE) crops on “farm ...
• 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Cynthia McKinney: "They're White Just Like Us . . ...
  
  Cynthia McKinney on Facebook : The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Barcelona Session, convened for three days, considered the evidence presented to it, and delivered its decision in response to a series of questions that could be summed up as: "Is the E.U. complicit in Israel's crimes against Palesti ...
• 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 ...

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

• Environmental News - 14/04/10
  
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Power price surge fuelled by stalemate over policy (http://www.smh.com.au/national/power-price-surge-fuelled-by-stalemate-over-policy-20100413-s7pm.html)-POWER bills are set to treble by 2020 unde ...
• Small Businesses Discover Savings
  
  Soaring energy costs are set to make life very tough for businesses over the next few years – discover more ways to reduce energy use, reduce carbon pollution and save money!
• 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…  

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Virginia 'Literacy Test' Victims: We Will Write Yo ...
  
  By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org Calling all academics, journalists, bloggers, students, and concerned citizens! Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell , a deeply disturbed�� troglodyte whose candidacy should have *never* seen the light of day, yet alone affirmation, wants nonviolent felons to submit ...
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• Ahmadinejad urges Ban to probe 9/11 attacks
  
  --Several times Ahmadinejad has questioned accepted version of Al-Qaeda strikes on New York and Washington which killed nearly 3,000 people Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on th ...

Daily Loaf

• On the Radar: St. Pete Shakespeare Company at Amer ...
  
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming arts events to mark your calendars for. Here’s a quickdraw rundown of three fab theater events across Pinellas this weekend: First, the newly-formed St. Petersburg Shakespeare Company (pictured) hosts an open mic night at American Stage, where you ...
• Do It Today: Pilobolus’ amazing acro-contortion ch ...
  
  If you’ve missed the myriad acrobatic extravaganzas that’ve made appearances in Tampa Bay lately, never fear — Pilobolus is here (pictured). The internationally-acclaimed acro-choreography troupe collaborates to contort themselves into shapes seemingly impossible for endoskeletons to create. Visit ...
• Running Moms of Tampa strive to keep shoes out of ...
  
  Local running group asks for shoe donations to keep shoes out of landfills.
• Castor: House Democrats to unveil legislation on c ...
  
  Congresswoman Castor agrees, saying of corporations, " They already play an outsized, influential role and we need to fight back on that Supreme Court decision. I’m fairly confident the House will." But she expressed fears if the Senate will do anything with it.
• Correction: Tonight’s David Gray show is at Ruth E ...
  
  Apologies for our earlier mistake in writing that David Gray’s concert was moved to Capitol Theatre. It is at Ruth Eckerd Hall at 7:30 p.m. Details on what you can expect at tonight’s show below: Raspy-voiced singer-songwriter David Gray (pictured) hasn’t made any considerable changes to his for ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• How the Shabak Use the Children of Palestine
  
    Ed. Note:  The following is a report from Bi’lin resident Yasser Awad Yasin on his  interrogation by Israeli security forces.  My name is Yasser Awad Yasin.  I am 27 years old and I’m from the village of Bil’in. I’m married and I have two sons and one daughter. The Shabak (Israeli security ) ...
• Arrests and eviction orders in Sheikh Jarrah
  
  By Noam Sheizaf, reprinted from his Promised Land blog with permission. Jerusalem – about 200 people took part in the weekly protest against the Jewish colonization of Sheikh Jerrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Among them were New Israel Fund President Naomi Hazan, former Knesset speaker Avru ...
• “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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Trash. Burn it to produce electricity
  
  The best way to deal with trash is to produce less of it. The next-best way is to recycle more of it, but that still leaves loads of trash. Proponents argue that burning it to produce electricity is better than burying it in a landfill. Europe is way ahead of the US is burning trash for [...]
• Solar blimps for cargo transport
  
  Solar Airship thinks its feasible. Fly them at 30,000 feet where the sun is out more and stronger. Plus they can land almost anywhere.
• Cellulosic ethanol coming in 2012, say Poet Energy
  
  Poet Energy is the world’s largest ethanol producer. They plan to have cellulosic ethanol available on a commercial scale by 2012. Ethanol is already in most gasoline now. Poet currently makes ethanol primarily from corn while cellulosic ethanol is from non-edible sources. Via Autobloggreen
• Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at ...
  
  From Dana Milbank at WaPo, no friend of Obama, but he echoes what I was already thinking. DC has been transformed into an armed camp for the Nuclear Security Summit while Obama spoke for eight minutes then ordered the media to leave. World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear ...
• Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman engage in political th ...
  
  The kerfuffle last week over the California Chamber of Commerce attack ad on Jerry Brown was not only an opening salvo in the expected race for governor between Attorney General Brown and eBay founder Meg Whitman, it also underscores concerns over campaign funding and financing in general. The ad, ...

Coteret

• Maariv: Jerusalem municipality moving forward on c ...
  
  This report follows the news Tuesday (April 13 2010) that Mayor Nir Barkat was attempting to renew house demolitions in East Jerusalem. Note also the repetitive framing of the story as an act of defiance of the US administration (three out of five paragraphs.) Construction in Jerusalem: Business as ...
• How to Market Gaza as an Israeli success story: Th ...
  
  Cross-posted from Gaza Gateway, an analytical blog recently launched by the Israeli human rights group Gisha — The legal Center for Freedom of Movement. Gaza Gateway provides up to date data and analysis on access to the Gaza Strip and is an essential tool for for fact-checking and contextualizing ...
• Yediot: Israel says no to Barenboim Gaza concert & ...
  
  Israel refuses Barenboim access to Gaza because of Schalit Itamar Eichner, Yediot, April 13 2010 Israel has rejected a formal request by the Spanish government to allow the famous Israeli conductor, Daniel Barenboim, to hold a concert in the Gaza Strip. Barenboim asked permission to enter via the Er ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• This Day In History – April 14
  
  1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. 1831 – Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collap ...
• Some weeds, bugs grew resistant to genetically eng ...
  
  At least nine weeds have become resistant to the herbicide used with genetically engineered crops and two insect species have developed resistance to plants genetically engineered to produce their own pesticides, a report by the National Research Council said Tuesday. Genetically engineered crop ...
• Yemen Refuses to Hunt Al-Awlaki for U.S.
  
  WASHINGTON, Apr 13, 2010 (IPS) – Last weekend, authorities in Yemen said they would not participate in the extrajudicial killing of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was recently targeted by military and intelligence agencies in Washington. “Anwar al-Awlaki has always been looked at as a preache ...
• Army Colonel Refusing To Deploy To Afghanistan Bec ...
  
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• Christopher Hitchens Moves To Have The Pope Arrest ...
  
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The Air Vent

• Too tired to blog.
  
  Babies are tough and I’m getting older. I’ll try to get something up tomorrow afternoon.  In the meantime, if there is someone interested in discussing global warming.  Send your post to me in doc format for consideration.
• New Jersey Cutting Back On Fake Global Warming Bud ...
  
  A little sanity from New Jersey, not much though. ———— N.J. DEP employees to have shorter workdays in 2011 BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Gov. Chris Christie is taking $65 million, the entire allocation, from the state’s global warming fund, and $5.9 million, from the toxic waste site clean ...
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• That Dating vs. Hooking Up Study
  
  A recent study on college students' preferences for dating vs. hookup is, unaccountably, generating national media attention. The authors found that a bunch of 18-year-old college freshmen in the South embraced traditional gender norms. The study is called "To Hook Up or Date: Which Gender Benefits? ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• A Few More Tickets for Inside Social Apps 2010 Wil ...
  
  April 20 | San Francisco Inside Social Apps 2010, our first conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is coming up one week from today. We had to turn off registration over the weekend because we’re at capacity, but tomorrow at 11am US PT we’ll be making a small number of ...
• Announcing the Facebook Quarterly Business Review ...
  
  We at Inside Network have been committed to understanding Facebook’s growth from its earliest days because of its extraordinary growth and potential to change the way we socialize and interact online. To further this understanding of the Facebook ecosystem, today we are proud to announce a new repor ...
• Facebook Launches Help Center to Address Concerns ...
  
  Facebook launched a new Safety Center today as part of the company’s effort to create a more comfortable social environment, and also in response to concerns from parents, educators and law enforcement, according to its press release and a blog. The Safety Center offers tips, answers frequently aske ...
• GetJar Announces 50 Million Facebook Mobile App Do ...
  
  Each week we usually point to the growth of Facebook’s two major smartphone apps to show the platform’s mobile growth: Facebook for iPhone has about 32 million monthly active users, while Facebook for BlackBerry has 16 million. But what about all the other phones out there? GetJar, an independen ...
• Guinness Promotes New US-Specific Facebook Page By ...
  
  Guinness recently launched a new Facebook fan page to promote its US division, appropriately named Guinness US, and it’s now promoting the page with a campaign called the Emerging Artists Series. The new promotion is part of the overall Fortune Favors The Bold campaign, which the brand has been push ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: The Really Really Long War: Let's imagin ...
  
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• truthout: Obama's Nuclear Summit: The Search for " ...
  
  truthout: Obama's Nuclear Summit: The Search for "Loose Nukes": The Obama nuclear summit is focusing less on nu... http://bit.ly/dBNes4 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund H ...
  
  truthout: The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going: In late 2005, the booming U.S. h... http://bit.ly/c4Uqla #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Israeli Mossad operation threatened against whistl ...
  
  An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned they would “remove the gloves” to track him down, Jonathan Cook reports.
• 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.

Amazon Rainforest

• Brazilian rancher guilty for murder of Dorothy Sta ...
  
  A Brazilian rancher accused of ordering the murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jurors in the jungle city of Belem reached the decision late Monday after 15 hours of deliberations, according to a statement on the Web site of a P ...
• 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 ...

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 Rwandans” by Nkwazi Mhango, purpo ...
• “New scramble for Africa” by Dr Jack Z ...
  
  Thanks to Désiré Katihabwa for forwarding this piece. The postcolonial partition of Africa evolves. The partition is between newly arrived Arab Muslim extremists, Eurocentric supporters of earlier genocide/pogroms and those who want to survive at any price even though security is not for sale. Some ...

Expose the BNP

• Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
  
  The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...
• 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 [ ...

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 of Deterrence - Obama's Ballistic Missile Pro ...
  
  The Department of Defense released its Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report (BMDRR) on February 1, 2010, laying out America's long-term policy on ballistic missile defense. At the same time, the Obama Administration released its fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget request, which includes recommended fun ...
• The Edge of Wind - Proposed Electric Grid Could Ma ...
  
  The energy needs of the entire human population could potentially be met by converting wind energy to electricity. While offshore wind power resources are abundant, wind turbines are currently unable to provide steady power due to natural fluctuations in wind direction and strength. Steady is the ke ...
• Inside Africa - South Africa Faces More than Socce ...
  
  Eugene Terreblanche, the white 69 year-old South African most famously known for his racist stance, was killed on April 3 in his bed, in the town of Ventersdorp, 100 miles from the capital, Pretoria. He was the stereotypical Boer: fearless, tough, no-nonsense and convinced of his racial “superiority ...
• The Edge of Law - Universal Jurisdiction is Abused ...
  
  The Legal Task Force of the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East released its first major statement condemning the misuse of universal jurisdiction in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, while and insisting upon reform. In light of recent harassment of Israeli officials, the international panel of le ...
• Inside Iraq - The Road to Power: Iraqiyya and Iraq ...
  
  As the news broke that his cross-sectarian alliance was leading last month's parliamentary election with 91 seats, former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was seen on television, grinning and receiving well-wishers in his Baghdad headquarters. His supporters took to the streets, jubilantly dancing a ...

High Country News

• Only 40 years ago, the Earth got its day
  
  Earth Day, which was first celebrated 40 years ago, was largely created by Gaylord Nelson, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin who fought hard for environmental laws.
• Audio: High Country Views, episode 3
  
  Sarah Gilman and Cally Carswell talk about tough times for coal.
• Pioneer stock
  
  A Franciscan manzanita, long believed extinct in the wild, is discovered near San Francisco, in the path of a highway expansion.
• More grousing
  
  The federal government says sage grouse deserve protection, but delays listing the birds under the Endangered Species Act.
• Death of an era
  
  High Country News remembers Stewart Udall, the legendary Interior secretary.

CounterCurrents

• Mayawatis Mega Service To The Nation
  
  By Anand Teltumbde Every other move of Mayawati has shattered the sanitized sensibility of middle India and left it gasping for the expression. It invariably ended, Oh, it is too much! Whether it is her mega memorials or her rallies, her style evokes stunning responses of this kind. The point to po ...
• Dawn Johnsen Is A Victim Of The War On Terror
  
  By Mary Shaw On April 9, Dawn Johnsen, President Obamas nominee to lead the Office of Legal Council (OLC), withdrew her nomination. Her nomination had been in various stages of limbo for more than a year
• University Of Ottawa Activist Student Persecutions ...
  
  By Stephen Lendman On October 21, 2008, for the first time in school history, the University of Ottawa (U of O) Faculty of Science, without cause, deregistered undergraduate Marc Kelly, an exemplary student, expelling him for the semester and preventing him from completing the final three courses h ...
• NYC Doormans Strike Threatens The Upwardly Mobile
  
  By Billy Wharton Wall Street stockbrokers opening doors for themselves? Rich widowers hauling their own trash to the basement? A trust fund twenty-something hailing a cab? Is the end of the world near? No. Just the latest demonstration of the power of working people as 30,000 New York City apartmen ...
• Americas National Epidemic of Violence
  
  By David Swanson 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 Ka ...

  Blacklisted News

• Turkey's Henchmen: Mass Media Butcher the Armenian ...
  
  Most reporters and other journalists in the mass media failed to do due diligence and misled their audiences regarding last month's US House Foreign Affairs Committee vote in favor of Resolution 252, which would reaffirm the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923
• How The Black Bloc Anarchists Are Used To Provocat ...
• Victory! Supplements Are Exempted From Codex Langu ...
  
  The FDA Food Modernization Act (S. 510), also referred to as the “Food Safety” bill, has been modified to exempt dietary supplements from language that otherwise creates a slippery slope toward U.S. harmonization with Codex Alimentarius.
• Chile surrenders President Pinochet’s secret hoard ...
• Video Catches Maryland Police Beating Unarmed Stud ...
  
  Three Maryland police officers were caught beating an unarmed student following post-basketball game revelry in a videotape released Monday.

The Intelligence Daily

• Easy to Avoid Paying Income Tax: Make Less Than $5 ...
  
  By Joel Hirschhorn (The Intelligence Daily) — Would you choose being wealthy and paying...
• 33 states out of money to fund jobless benefits
  
  With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit...
• NBER Says ‘Premature’ to Declare End of Recession ...
  
  The committee responsible for determining when U.S. recessions begin and end said it’s “premature”...
• IBM helps New York go after tax deadbeats
  
  Thanks to IBM, collecting billions of dollars of delinquent tax debt has just gotten a little...
• Total charged with corruption over Iraqi oil-for-f ...
  
  French judge alleges that oil giant paid bribes to Saddam Hussein’s officials Total, the...

My AntiWar

• Egypt rejects any military action against Iran
  
  Summary: Egypt-Flag Egypt, which is among the six Arab countries taking part in the two-day Nuclear Security Summit, affirmed here its rejection to any military action against Iran. source: NAM News Network (NNN)read more
• China is not on board for serious sanctions agains ...
  
  Summary: In the midst of its Nuclear Security Summit and in the wake of President Obama?s bilateral meeting with China?s President Hu yesterday, the Obama Administration is vigorously spinning the U.S. and Western media that it has won Chinese support for new sanctions against the Islamic Republi ...
• Brazil businesses risk US sanctions for Iran deals ...
  
  Summary: The United States considers Iran one of its chief foes and is leading a push in the West for more UN sanctions against the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear program.Brazil, on the other hand, is keen to develop its ties with Iran, and has defended Tehran’s stated goal of deve ...
• Iran urges UN inquiry into wars in Iraq and Afghan ...
  
  Summary: Iran’s president has urged the UN to launch an investigation into the aims of Western military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. source: BBCread more
• Gates: Options to Kyrgyzstan Air Base Aren’t ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Egypt rejects any military action against Iran
  
  Summary: Egypt-Flag Egypt, which is among the six Arab countries taking part in the two-day Nuclear Security Summit, affirmed here its rejection to any military action against Iran. source: NAM News Network (NNN) read more
• China is not on board for serious sanctions agains ...
  
  Summary: In the midst of its Nuclear Security Summit and in the wake of President Obama’s bilateral meeting with China’s President Hu yesterday, the Obama Administration is vigorously spinning the U.S. and Western media that it has won Chinese support for new sanctions against the Islamic Repu ...
• Brazil businesses risk US sanctions for Iran deals ...
  
  Summary: The United States considers Iran one of its chief foes and is leading a push in the West for more UN sanctions against the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear program.Brazil, on the other hand, is keen to develop its ties with Iran, and has defended Tehran's stated goal of d ...
• Iran urges UN inquiry into wars in Iraq and Afghan ...
  
  Summary: Iran's president has urged the UN to launch an investigation into the aims of Western military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. source: BBC read more
• U.S. believes it has carte blanche to use nuclear ...
  
  Summary: Iran's Parliment (Majles) Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad-Reza Mirtajoddini says the U.S. president believes he has carte blanche to use nuclear weapons. source: Tehran Times read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Massive New Supernovas Observed -"Could They be th ...
  
  The physicist Enrico Fermi once asked referring to visits to Earth by extraterrestrial civilizations: Where are they? The accurate answer might well be: destroyed by radiation from supernova explosions. It has long been was thought that white dwarfs could not...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
  
  Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
• Is a Supervolcano the Size of California Beneath O ...
  
  About a dozen supervolcanoes exist on Earth – some are found on land such as the massive Yellowstone Plateau, while others lie at the bottom of the ocean. Prehistoric eruptions of "supervolcanoes" on Earth's surface have been blamed for causing...
• Was Our Universe Created By a Cyclical Collision W ...
  
  String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we see as the Big Bang was actually created by...
• Hubble Confirms Existence of Dark Matter (VIDEO)
  

Natural News

• America does not have a shortage of doctors, it ha ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Now that health reform relying on monopolized pharmaceutical medicine has become the law of the land across America, the mainstream media is reporting on a sudden shortage of doctors. The nearly one million doctors who already treat a sick, diseased population is no longer enough, it s ...
• Migratory birds are teaching humans about the bene ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Birds such as sparrows, thrushes and warblers are apparently experts on preventing disease and optimizing their bodies to deal with stress. If that sounds like an exaggeration, consider this: scientists at the University of Rhode Island (URI) have discovered these migratory birds eat c ...
• Placebo treatments much stronger than previously t ...
  
  (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the British medical journal, Lancet , has found that placebo, or fake, medical treatments exhibit a noticeable biological effect on patients. A panel of international researchers pored through a series of studies they believe illustrate concrete evidence tha ...
• Introducing Daniel Vitalis, an interview about wat ...
  
  (NaturalNews) If you don't yet know who Daniel Vitalis is, you're in for a real treat. Among all the people I've ever interviewed, Daniel is among the very best communicators in the world on cutting-edge topics like wild foods, spring water, medicinal mushrooms and the coming global changes that wil ...
• BPA hormone disruptor now contaminates Earth's oce ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Earlier this year, research linked bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics and a powerful hormone disrupter, to heart disease (http://www.naturalnews.com/027974_bisphenol_A_heart_disease.html). Now, in the March issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for ...

Threat Level

• Cyberwar Doomsayer Lands $34 Million in Government ...
  
  Last month, the former Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell boldly took to the Senate floor and the Washington Post’s editorial page to declare “The United States is fighting a cyber-war today, and we are losing.” Thankfully for the American people, his company — the giant defense co ...
• Bank Worker Pleads Guilty to Hacking Over 100 ATMs
  
  A Bank of America worker  pleaded guilty Tuesday to installing malware on  more than 100 ATMs, and  and stealing $304,000 over a seven-month period. Authorities were able to recover at least $167,000 in cash after the worker told the U.S. Secret Service where they could find the money, according to ...
• Court Vacates Online Student-Speech Rulings
  
  When it comes to students’ speech rights in the digital world, the courts are interpreting the First Amendment through a Supreme Court precedent dating to well before the birth of the public internet. That 1969 precedent has led to conflicting legal opinions on whether public schools can punish stud ...
• Brokerage Firm Fined $375,000 for Unsecured Data
  
  Brokerage firm DA Davidson has agreed to pay a fine of $375,000 for failing to protect confidential client data from Latvian hackers who breached the company in 2007 in an online extortion scheme. The hackers used a SQL injection attack to obtain access to the company’s database on Dec. 25 and 26, 2 ...
• Malware Threatens to Sue BitTorrent Downloaders
  
  A new malware scam is trying to dupe BitTorrent users into coughing up serious cash for illegally downloading copyrighted material. The code displays a box with the message “Warning! Piracy detected!” and opens a web page purportedly run by a Swiss company “committed to promoting the cultural and ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Dow 11,000 Ends the Right-Wing Obama Bear Market M ...
  
  For the millions of Americans struggling to find jobs or pay their mortgages, the Dow Jones' flirtation with 11,000 isn't particularly meaningful. But for the legions of right-wing talking heads who even before the November 2008 election declared Barack Obama's supposed "socialism" would "tank the ...
• 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 ...

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

• Alexander Cockburn : The White House Egg Roll v. G ...
• Uri Avnery : The Dubai Hit
• William P. O'Connor : The Story of Pvt. Hargrove
• Alexander Cockburn : From God to Gaia to Obama's N ...
• Joshua Frank / Jeffrey St. Clair : The Case of Br ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Divesting from injustice (Desmond Tutu, The Huffi ...
  
  It was with great joy that I learned of the recent 16-4 vote at UC Berkeley in support of divesting the university's money from companies that enable and profit from the injustice of the ...
• Palestinians condemn Israeli order (Al Jazeera)
• Israel tourism advert featured picture of Occupied ...
  
  The Israeli tourist office has been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for including images of the Palestinian-run West Bank in an advert for a holiday in Israel. Th ...
• Gazans gassed by silent killer (Mel Frykberg, Int ...
  
  You feel very sleepy and dizzy. Everything feels very peaceful, you are not even aware what is happening and if there is no immediate intervention you are dead within minutes," Enaam Abu ...
• Obama: Israel should sign NPT (Yitzhak Benhorin, ...
  
  US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the US Administration calls upon all nations to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, including Israel. Speaking at a press conference end of a nu ...

Water - AlterNet

• Water and Energy -- Obey the Law on Cooling System ...
  
  Once-through cooling systems are an outmoded environmental disaster. So why are so many power plants still relying on them?
• Use Rain Barrels to Drench Your Garden and Save Wa ...
  
  Why not get some rain barrels and collect the runoff from your gutters that would otherwise go to waste?
• What's the Single Biggest Misuse of Water in the U ...
  
  Author Robert Glennon talks about his book, "Unquenchable," and how we can solve America's water crisis.
• The Coming Crisis Over the Mekong: Unconstrained D ...
  
  While the Middle East has the longest history of water-related violence by far, my biggest worries today are elsewhere: in Asia.
• Oil and Gas Industry Opposes Expansive Study to Be ...
  
  It seems fitting that the industry would be concerned by what the EPA may find in regards to the safety of drinking water.

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

• We Are All in this Together By Timothy V. Gatto
  
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• Doctors who take human life of any kind are danger ...
  
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• Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney and Rum ...
  
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 13 April, 2010 tweetme
• The U.N. Partition Plan and Arab ‘Catastrophe’ by ...
  
  by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal 13 April, 2010 tweetmeme
• U.S. Reserves Use Of Nuclear Arms, Missile Shield ...
  
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism A

Axis of Logic

• Jimmy Cliff - "You can get it if your really want! ...
  
• Haiti camp evictions begin ahead of rainy season
  
• Do You Want to be Free or Not?
  
• The Afghan Mouse Roars
  
• JOIN THE CIVIC REVOLUTION! "I NEED YOU TO GET MAD! ...
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  Not resting on his laurels. "The leaders of almost 50 countries have pledged to secure all vulnerable nuclear material within four years. US President Barack Obama said the joint action plan agreed at a summit in Washington would make a real contribution to a safer world. The plan calls for every na ...
• Reporters' Reporters Earn Pulitzer for Real Report ...
  
  Fuck Kathleen Parker and WaPo. � This is a real Pulitzer: Yeah, the Washington Post won a bunch of Pulitzers yesterday, and so did Pro Publica, the new non-profit investigative organization. (Hank Williams won, too.) But I really have to give props to the scrappy little tabloid that could, the Phila ...
• Pick that fight
  
  I dare 'em. I double-dog-dare 'em. Senate republicans are making noises about drawing a line in the sand over the Citizens United ruling and warning that making it a litmus test for his Supreme Court nominee will surely cause the republicans to be forced, by the outrage of it all, you understand - ...
• Have you ever noticed how it's always law enforcem ...
  
  The more details we learn about the plot by Najibullah Zazi to orchestrate coordinated suicide attacks on the New York subway system during rush hour, the more frightening it becomes that they got as close as they did to carrying out their plans and killing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of innocent peop ...
• Viagra Addled Numbnuts Wonders Where The Unions We ...
  
  From think Progress Uninformed Limbaugh Wonders 'Where Was The Union' At Non-Union Mine Disaster Last Friday, Rush Limbaugh asked why a coal miner union didn't protect the 29 miners who were killed when Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, WV, exploded under unsafe conditions: � � Was ...

Care 2

• New Dolphin Deal..Villagers agree to stop harvesti ...
  
  THE belief that the more you give, the more you receive does not bother Earth Island Institute who only give to save the intellectual animals known as dolphins. Submitted by Claudia For the Oceans to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• New Poll Shows Some Decline in US Public Support f ...
  
  "A new poll out this week shows that while Israelis retain strong US public support, Americans are deeply concerned that the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict puts US interests at risk across the Middle East. . ." Submitted by Dave C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Top 100 Gardening Blogs
  
  Here are 100 blogs that cover a wide range of gardening topics to help you keep up with news, find advice, share stories, or learn more about everything botanical. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 100 Amazing Firefox Add-ons for Homeschoolers
  
  From subject-specific tools to tools to help with research and productivity to tools that give parents control over the safety of the family computer, there are sure to be plenty of great options for you. Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Top 100 Travel Photography Blogs
  
  Whether you are an art student who appreciates photography from places around the world or are an armchair travel buff, these travel photography blogs are sure to fulfill your desire for awe-inspiring photography. Submitted by Katie Miller to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• The Consequences of Ignoring Water Risks in the U. ...
  
  Failure to address water risks and other critical issues posed by aging or inadequate infrastructure could further impede the U.S. economy and America's attempts to regain global competitiveness on a number of fronts, a new study warns. �
• LG to Spend $18B Cutting Carbon, Making Greener Pr ...
  
  The South Korean company's plan is expected to reduce emissions 40 percent by 2020. The other half of the money will be spent on increasing production of energy efficient and clean tech products, such as fuel cells and rechargeable batteries.
• Volvo Water and Energy Intensity Grows, but Total ...
  
  Although water and energy use at Volvo declines last year, the gains were outpaced by production declines, driving up intensity in both areas.
• GE's New 40-Watt LED Bulb Will Last 25,000 Hours
  
  General Electric will start selling a 40-watt LED bulb later this year that will last 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs, which are being phased out in the U.S. �
• Sony Targets Zero Environmental Footprint by 2050
  
  Sony Corporation doesn't want to produce any carbon emissions, use any virgin materials or produce any waste by 2050.

Reuters Global

• Kandahar’s street without women
  
  Where women really stand in Afghan society didn’t hit home to me until I walked down a busy market street in Kandahar without seeing a single woman.
• If Greece’s debt dam breaks, who gets wet?
  
  Despite a successful small bond auction on Tuesday, Greece remains dangerously close to needing euro zone funding to bail it out of its debt problems. If Greece gets bailed out, what happens to the floodwater of debt, and will some euro zone parliaments hold up the process of releasing emergency fun ...
• Security summit honors Polish leaders who died in ...
  
  Dozens of world leaders attending a nuclear security summit stood and bowed their heads in a moment of silence honoring Polish President Lech Kaczynski and others who died in a plane crash in western Russia.
• 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.

Paul Krugman

• Bank Failure: Two Brief Notes
  
  Of Georgia banks and shadow bank runs.
• Andrew Ross Sorkin Owes Several People An Apology
  
  Caricaturing the advocates of bank nationalization is not OK.
• Paging Larry Kudlow
  
  About that stock market ...
• Growth And Greenhouse Gases
  
  Reconciling economic growth with lower emissions.
• Failure Is A Failed Strategy
  
  Just letting banks fail isn't going to happen -- nor should it.

No Quarter

• Obama’s Summitry Buffoonery
  
  If this ain’t a case of a King with no clothes I don’t know what is. After assembling the leaders of 47 nations from around the globe, Barack Obama presided over a cotton candy summit focused primarily on the threat of nuclear terrorism and, as I predicted two days ago, ended up with NOTHING!! [... ...
• Palin’s Sarcasm? What About Obama’s?
  
  Oh, wait – I forgot. Women aren’t supposed to be sarcastic. We’re supposed to be demure, laughing politely at every dumb joke some man tells, and especially, when it comes to politics, we dare not act as if we know better than a man, well anything. And to use sarcasm?? Oh, [...]
• Dog Loses an Eye for Being “Racist”
  
  I heard about this and had to look it up. A dog was slashed for being “racist.” YONKERS — A prejudiced pooch that reportedly disliked minorities was slashed last night by a black man who had grown tired of the dog’s incessant barking at him, police said. The German Shepherd lost an eye, and the ...
• A little bit of reality about Texas secession
  
    Like our friend Larry J., I was born in Missouri. I’m not really someone who thinks about who I am in terms of Missouri when I consider the “show me” slogan, then I can say I like that I was born there. However, I grew up in Texas where the majority of my family was [...]
• Reid Better Be Looking Over His Shoulder
  
  For anyone who may have been hiking in the Himalayas or something, and missed it, this is an election year. The entire House of Representatives is up for re-election, which should prove to be mighty interesting. But there are quite a few Senators up for re-election, too, including Senate Majority ...

Environmental Graffiti

• How to Live With Eastern Tent Caterpillars
  
  When Eastern Tent Caterpillars start roaming, they can get into all kinds of trouble. Here's how to solve the problem. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Most Colourful Tree on Earth
  
  Mother Nature tripping out? The bark of the Rainbow Eucalyptus is coloured in yellow, brown, green and purple! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 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 ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The Really Really Long War
  
  Intolerance and bigotry lie at the root of Islamophobia -- that and a thousand years of protracted conflict and bloodshed.
• Muslims in America
  
  For American Muslims, home is not exile. Indeed, Muslims here can serve as the great inter-civilizational fulcrum of our time.
• Europe's Islamophobia
  
  It's not just the minaret issue in Switzerland. Or the head scarf issue in France. Anti-Islamic sentiment is growing Europe-wide.
• Behind the Afghan Fraud
  
  The checker-players of Washington are up against the chess-masters of Kabul, explains columnist Conn Hallinan.
• Bad aid: Throw your arms around the world
  
  Haiti never had a chance. It had been treated as a standing threat since its revolution in 1804.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Hundreds dead in China quake
  
  At least 400 killed and thousands injured as homes destroyed in Qinghai province.
• Kyrgyz president 'must stand trial'
  
  Bakiyev asks for safety guarantees as interim leader accuses him of "spilling blood".
• 'Settlers' desecrate W Bank mosque
  
  Officials say graffiti scrawled on walls of mosque in Huwara near Nablus.
• Red shirts unite at Bangkok site
  
  Anti-government group moves all protesters to business district and refuses more talks.
• Dozens killed by storm in India
  
  Hundreds of people injured and thousands of homes destroyed in West Bengal.

Green Inc. - NYT

• McDonald's Parries on Cage-Free Eggs
  
  The board of McDonald's recommends against a requirement that it use some cage-free eggs.
• The Incinerator as Eye Candy
  
  Some cutting-edge waste-to-energy plants have artistic designs.
• South Could Benefit From a Little Efficiency
  
  A new study suggests that the South, which consumes an outsize share of the nation's energy, would benefit greatly from energy efficiency policies.
• A Banner Year for Wind Power
  
  The American housing market remained in the doldrums in 2009, but the wind industry continued to boom, according to a report released Thursday.
• Ontario Issues $8 Billion in Renewable Energy Cont ...
  
  The province announced $8 billion in new renewable energy deals under its bulked up feed-in-tariff program.

Dot Earth News

• Obama Seeks Local Action for Earth Day
  
  Facing deep division in Washington on climate policy, Obama urges Americans to go local in improving the environment.
• The Climate Path From Copenhagen Through Cancun
  
  A document may hold clues to American goals in climate negotiations.
• Artists Weigh in on What Matters Most
  
  A sampler of artwork exploring "what matters most" on the human journey in this century.
• Your Dot: Energy Gluttony, Poverty, Irrelevance
  
  Is humanity's energy problem gluttony, poverty, a distraction, or all of the above?
• Adding a Price to Blunt Energy Waste
  
  An expert in energy and transportation says raising the cost of polluting transportation is vital to changing America's energy path.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• BlackListedNews: BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes ...
  
    I can only apologize for not pushing the breakdown of the gold market story out more. It is finally coming loose it seems, & when this occurs it will be another giant 'discontinuity' that'll get filled up with more inflationary ripoffs. A huge basis of the system is gonna croak sometime soon... ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Kyrgyzstan and Capitalist Democracy
  
  It is not clear from afar exactly what forces were at work in the overthrow of Kyrgyz President Bakiyev. What is clearer is the background that created the conditions for this  overthrow and how these events in a “destitute, landlocked, mountainous nation of around five million people” (as the New Y ...
• Message from BAMN: Florida – Less than 60 hours
  
  Rep. Marco Rubio hits the campaign trail this week on a bus tour across the state. This provides an excellent opportunity to personally inform the U.S. Senate candidate, running against Governor Crist, how you feel about SB-6 and how his views will impact your vote in November.
• Help us, please! We are your kids!
  
  Arne Duncan and his billionaire boyz club have been operating in secrecy for too long. It is time to make this a national debate, demand MSNBC and CNN, the corporate press, to cover this issue with the same exhaustive and energetic coverage they give to ‘C’ Street’ or the daily news of the republic ...
• Help us, please! We are your kids
  
  God help us all: Please help us stop Florida Governor Charlie Crist from signing the onerous education plan passed by the Florida legislature; it will be a nail in the coffin for this nation! Readers:  The situation in Florida is dire.  Please read my post by Paul Moore on Florida SB 6 passed by the ...
• Understanding Supply Side Capitalism
  
  Part #2 of Understanding Capitalism and Socialism (Part 1) by Joaquin Now that Republicans are starting to talk about restoring Reaganomics, it is a good time to review Reaganomics; i.e., Supply Side Capitalism. This is number two of my technical essays about how the world works. Today we will ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

• The Really Really Long War
  
  Intolerance and bigotry lie at the root of Islamophobia -- that and a thousand years of protracted conflict and bloodshed.
• Flying and Radiation Risks
  
  Shouldn't we determine whether full-body airport scanners could increase cancer risks before deploying them everywhere?
• Seismic Inequality
  
  Why Chile fared better than Haiti after earthquakes struck both countries.
• Tax Day Talking Points
  
  There are two tax systems in America today: one for the privileged and one for everyone else.
• Lying with Statistics
  
  Bill O'Reilly falsely claims respected medical journal is on his side.

Pine River World News

• Michael Leon: Tea Party Movement Spreads to Milita ...
  
  The following article is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today. Tea Party Movement Spreads to Military � �Michael Leon Source: � Veterans Today April 13, 2010 Knowing the Tea Party's idiosyncratic views on the Armed Forces, the U.S. Constitution, God and oath to resist the liberals enslavi ...
• Eric Walberg: Kyrgyzstan: Another colour revolutio ...
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Eric Walberg. Kyrgyzstan: �Another colour revolution bites the dust � � Eric Walberg April 12, 2010 So what's the real story behind the coup in Kyrgyzstan? asks Eric Walberg The pretense that the leader of a modest country like Kyrgyzstan can ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #329
  
  Iran insists US hikers had intelligence links. Gerdes case shows difficulty of CIA jobs. US still denying India access to Headley.
• Analysis: Inside the US-Israeli intelligence relat ...
  
  Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, authors of Friends in Deed: Inside the US-Israel Alliance, have produced a lengthy, well-researched and up-to-date essay on US-Israeli intelligence relations. The essay, which appears in the latest issue of The Tablet, carefully examines the highly complex subject of the ...
• News you may have missed #328
  
  Venezuela releases 4 of 8 alleged spies. Security services will determine fate of Kyrgyz uprising.
• Malaysia to investigate alleged Israeli spy infilt ...
  
  The Malaysian government has ordered an investigation into claims by a prominent opposition leader that Israeli spies, posing as communications technicians, infiltrated the headquarters of the country’s national police.
• News you may have missed #327
  
  Cyberspies eyed Canadian visa applications. Israeli Arab jailed for spying on top general. CIA places American on assassination list.

After Downing Street.org

• Today in Norfolk, VA
  
  A high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, Ellsberg concluded in 1971 that the war was based on decades of lies, and leaked 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The NY Times—a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, Nixon's resignation, and the end of the Vietna ...
• Why Are American Jewish Groups So Intent on Defend ...
  
  Why Are American Jewish Groups So Intent on Defending Illegal Israeli Settlements and Other Human Rights Violations? by Sydney Levy and Yaman Salahi | MR Magazine | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com A coalition of nearly 20 Jewish groups, ranging from the right-wing David Project and ...
• Dr. Flowers: "Shift the Power Back into Hands of t ...
  
  Dr. Margaret Flowers is a Maryland pediatrician and Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, a single payer advocate and a musician. See: http://www.pnhp.org/ She was one of the speakers at a National Press Club event, Murrow Room, on April 13, 2010, in Washington, D.C ...
• Theater and Social Action: Producing Prophecy
  
  By Caron Atlas, http://www.foodcoop.com “How do you produce a pro-peace play in a country that is at war? How do you put positive Arab characters on stage at a time when negative stereotypes abound? How do you speak about the emotional costs, and loss of life, of the current wars to a nation that wa ...
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Grist - News

• How green are Obama’s potential Supreme Cour ...
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes President Barack Obama is reportedly considering about 10 people to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens , although popular consensus has quickly settled on just three: Elena Kagan, Diane Wood, and Merrick Garland. A National Journal poll of court-watc ...
• Chicago considers getting serious about coal pollu ...
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes The Fisk coal-fired power plant, ChicagoCourtesy swanksalot via FlickrChicago Alderman Joe Moore is taking aim at urban air pollution, introducing a Clean Power Ordinance today that would force overhauls of the city's two coal-fired power plants , ...
• Sens. Kerry and Graham to unveil climate bill next ...
  
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate's two principal authors of legislation to battle climate change said Tuesday they were putting the last touches on their bill and hoped to unveil it next week. "I feel very optimistic about the progress that we're making. I think that folks ...
• Chinese ship gouged two-mile scar in Great Barrier ...
  
  by Agence France-Presse Photo courtesy Yuriy via FlickrSYDNEY - A Chinese ship that spent nine days stranded on the Great Barrier Reef gouged a two-mile scar in the coral that could take decades to recover, a top expert said on Tuesday. David Wachenfeld, chief scientist at the body overseeing ...
• ‘Avatar’ director Cameron urges Brazil ...
  
  by Agence France-Presse James CameronBRASILIA - Director James Cameron was in Brazil on Monday to lend his Avatar success to the fight against a controversial dam project he denounced as an "ecological disaster." Cameron, who made a pro-environment message central to his blockbuster film, urge ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Jeremy Shockey Likes Them Desperate
  
  Jeremy Shockey is hoping to find himself a dinner date on Facebook. Even more surprising, lots of women are actually competing!
• Know What'll Work? Arresting The Pope
  
  That's what Richard Dawkins would like to see happen if Pope Benedict XVI follows through on his visit to the United Kingdom.
• A Moratorium On Needless Palin Stories
  
  It's time to ignore the woman who's doing nothing except generating fluff headlines.
• Rasheed Wallace Hints At His Future Employer
  
  He might wind up playing for the Bulls next season. He might as well, since he's already scoring for them.
• Sentiment Analysis Market Heating Up
  
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Time - Top Stories

• Obama's Nuclear Summit: Progress on Security, Not ...
  
  The goals of the Washington summit are uncontroversial, but efforts on the sidelines to win backing for sanctions against Iran have mixed results
• Johnsen Drops Nomination Before Battle for Stevens ...
  
  Perhaps because another big battle is shaping up, the Administration has decided to save its political capital and give up on a Justice Department pick
• Egypt: ElBaradei Talks to Muslim Brotherhood Oppos ...
  
  Mohamed ElBaradei has raised hopes for democratic change, but he may need to combine forces with the Muslim Brotherhood to make it happen
• Stocks: Investors Bullish on First-Quarter Results
  
  Companies are starting to report first quarter results and investors are expecting big gains in both earnings and revenues
• Judging American Idol: The Final Nine, Part II
  
  It was Elvis night. But the big name on stage was Adam--as in Lambert--last year's Idol phenom and runner-up.

Washington Independent

• Nuke-Summit Wrap: Jon Kyl Embarrasses Himself
  
  The 47-nation/three international-governance-body Washington Nuclear Security Summit has concluded. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) just yawns: “The summit’s purported accomplishment is a nonbinding communique that largely restates current policy and makes no meaningful progress in dealing with nuclear terro ...
• Failed Mining Reform Bill Might Have Prevented Tra ...
  
  In the wake of the West Virginia disaster, calls for additional safety measures appear to be prophetic.
• Lincoln Plans to Deliver Strong Derivatives Regula ...
  
  In the past few weeks, Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has become the unlikely point person on a debate on Wall Street arcana. Her committee is charged with producing the language regarding derivatives regulation for the broader financial regulation reform bi ...
• Clinton, Lavrov Agree to Destroy Tons of Plutonium
  
  A nice way to cap off the Washington Nuclear Security Summit from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: Under the agreement we are about to sign, the United States and Russia will each irreversibly and transparently dispose of no less than 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium. Together, th ...
• WaMu’s Killinger on ‘Too Clubby to Fai ...
  
  Kerry Killinger was the chairman and chief executive officer of Washington Mutual, the $300 billion savings-and-loan organization, from 1990 until 2008. During his tenure, he made more than $100 million in compensation, including more than $14 million in 2007 and $21 million in 2008 — granted for hi ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
  
  It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture ...
• Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting Iq ...
  
  LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
  
  Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• We're expanding, while economy shrinks
  
  Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
• Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
  
  The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...

Suzie-Q

• Domestic Enemies of the State- Fifth Column Force ...
  
  Domestic Enemies of the State Crooks and Liars- By Jason Sigger Tuesday Apr 13, 2010 12:00pm The Tea Party fever has entered the bloodstream of the US military. A new Tea Party group, Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots, has grown quickly since being launched last month by an active duty Marine Cor ...
• Lieberman digs his own grave promoting Zionist ag ...
  
  See Video on Newsmax Also, in the interview, Holy Joe mentions: “I’ve been a Democrat all my life. I got rejected by the Democratic Party in 2006 and went on as an independent, and thank God and the people of Connecticut, I got re-elected. “So I’m up again in 2012. I probably will run again. I’ve ...
• Write A Caption!
  
• Armed Forces Tea Party Organizer: ‘In No Wa ...
  
  Armed Forces Tea Party ‘In No Way Supports A Military Uprising’ TPM MUCKRAKER Zachary Roth | April 13, 2010, 9:51AM The organizer of the Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots is offering reassurance that his group doesn’t support a military uprising, views President Obama as the legitimate commande ...
• Don Blankenship: Investors & Politicians Call For ...
  
  Don Blankenship: Investors, Politicians Begin Calling For Massey Head To Resign First Posted: 04-12-10 07:18 PM   |   Updated: 04-12-10 08:28 PM The calls to oust Massey Energy Company Chairman and CEO Don Blankenship began in earnest Monday, with members of both the private and public sector ...

Solari

• Action Alert on Senate Food Safety Bill
  
  Following is an Action Alert originating from the Weston Price Foundation: The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a sweeping overhaul of the food safety laws, very soon - possibly as early as April 13. As it is currently written, the bill, S. 510, would actually make our food less safe. S. 510 would ...
• H.I.R.E. Provisions Relating to Withholding, Taxes ...
  
  Link to the full Act By Carolyn Betts The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (“HIRE Act”) was passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President into law on March 18, 2010. Although it is portrayed by the corporate media as primarily a jobs bill, this legislation also includes ...
• Quote du Jour
  
  “The Fed did not provide assistance to all on an equal basis but tilted the playing field. Why should the Fed have had a program to buy commercial paper from large corporations and no program to help small businesses starved for funds?” ~ Former Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William ...
• Using Technology To Start A Successful Business
  
  Did you know that some of the most powerful entrepreneurial ideas in the lexicon of human knowledge arose from the ashes of economic catastrophe? It’s true. And the reason is a lot simpler than you think: when times get tough, unemployment increases. So what do people do? They become entrepreneurs. ...
• Liquid Investments!
  
  For the ultimate in liquid investments, try top-quality wine, which has outperformed one benchmark U.S. stock index for 13 years and withstood two recessions. That’s the conclusion of Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, two Switzerland-based economists who compared wine prices with the Rus ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Judge Orders Man Once Labeled "Highest-Value ...
  
  After nine years in captivity, including physical and psychological torture, Mohamedou Ould Salahi has been ordered released by Federal District Judge James Robertson.
• Who's on the Shortlist to Replace Justice Stevens?
  
  Three candidates are rumored to sit atop Obama's shortlist to replace Stevens -- will any of them garner a Republican filibuster?
• Why Did Obama Let GOP Threats Torpedo OLC Nominee ...
  
  Obama's choice to allow a one-party bloc of Senators to unilaterally scuttle nominees without a vote rewards partisan obstruction with political leverage.
• How Elites Keep Their Private Planes Off the Radar ...
  
  A little-known program lets private plane owners block their flights from view in the government’s system for tracking air traffic.
• Immigration Courts Swamped by Backlogs
  
  Judicial vacancies, staff shortages, and increased detention, which started under Bush and continues to grow under Obama, are part of the reason for the huge immigration caseload.

Sideways News

• Stars help out in Haiti
  
  It’s easy to be cynical about celebrities jumping on the latest bandwagon cause, but the efforts of some stars in Haiti have amplified the rallying cry to help those affected by the earthquake which killed more than 200,000 and left more than one million homeless on 21 January. Susan Sarandon, Dem ...
• Bangaldesh factories remain death traps
  
  A campaign to put pressure on the Bangladesh government to clean up clothing manufacturing in the country has been launched this week on the anniversary of the country’s worst factory disaster in recent memory. The Clean Clothes Campaign is encouraging all companies sourcing clothing from Bangladesh ...
• Divorce fails to blunt domestic dream
  
  Children of the "divorce generation" have kept faith in marriage, a survey has claimed, with most hoping to walk down the aisle in the mid-20s. The Marriage and Wedding Survey, commissioned by More magazine , found that more than 80% of young women with separated parents still dream of getting marri ...
• Royal Mail launches mammal stamps
  
  The Royal Mail has launched a series of new stamps highlighting the decline of the British mammal population. Animals included in the range of stamps include water voles, hedgehogs, whales, dormice, bats, otters and polecats. Britain's coastline is home to more than 60 species of mammals according t ...
• Mills & Boon ebook sales soar
  
  Grabbing the USB connector with expert hands, Troy ran his fingers over the keyboard. He knew what he wanted and he could wait no longer. Sound familiar? Hundreds of thousands of readers of the romantic novels published by Mills & Boon know what I’m talking about. Last year, the company sold more th ...

Fabius Maximus

• About our intelligence agences: the struggle to fi ...
  
  Today’s reading is an excerpt from one of the best articles I’ve ever read on this subject:  ”The Buddha as an Intelligence Analyst”, David Chuter (Senior Research Associate, Center for Defense Studies, London), presented at the conference on New Frontiers of Intelligence Analysis: Shared Threats, ...
• FM newswire for April 13, interesting articles abo ...
  
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. Nice summary of an important issue, cutting thorough the lies:  “Nuclear Dreams and Nightmares“, Fred Kaplan, 6 April 2010 A great idea, educating America about our history:  “Neo-Confeder ...
• How useful are our intelligence agencies? To what ...
  
  Intelligence about foreigners — state and non-state actors — is vital, of course.  But how useful has US intelligence been in practice?  This post is the first in a series examinging several perspectives from the large literature on this important subject. At one extreme we have totalitarian stat ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Philips ups ante on LEDs with 60-watt bulb replace ...
  
  Green Beat – Just a week after General Electric unveiled its light-emitting diode bulb capable of replacing 40-watt incandescents, Philips has already one-upped it, announcing that it will start selling an LED equivalent of 60-watt incandescents by the end of the year. Philips may be the biggest lig ...
• Fears grow as study shows genetically modified cro ...
  
  Daily Mail – Fresh fears were raised over GM crops yesterday after a study showed they can cause liver and kidney damage. According to the research, animals fed on three strains of genetically modified maize created by the U.S. biotech firm Monsanto suffered signs of organ damage after just three m ...
• ‘Russia engineered air crash that killed President ...
  
  Daily Mail – The Russian government prevented the Polish president’s plane from landing four times to divert him from a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, according to an MP. Artur Gorski said the Russians ‘came up with some dubious reasons’ that the aircraft couldn’t land ...
• Computer Chips Inspire New Water Purifier
  
  Discovery – Water may kill a computer chip, but a new water purifier inspired by computer chip technology could save millions of lives. Developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the new water purifier uses magnetic fields to separate harmful contaminants and produce clean ...
• US personal income falls 3.2% during Obama’s term
  
  Washington Times – Real personal income for Americans – excluding government payouts such as Social Security – has fallen by 3.2 percent since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. Read Article

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 salute” 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

• Solar Scorecard Assesses the Manufacture of Solar ...
  
  Solar panels are one of the greenest and least controversial types of renewable power generation technology. Some neighborhoods don't like how they look on roofs of houses, but there are no concerns about harming wildlife, as with wind turbines or tidal power systems. And the technology to make ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• Breathtaking timidity in financial reform
  
  Body According to Gallup's suicide watchers, the Democratic Party's favorable rating has hit "the lowest point in the 18 year history of the measure," just as Congressional Democrats are pondering the following "tricky calculus," as Politico called it (in all seriousness, I think): "w ...
• The Poor are Victimizing the Rich. Didn't You Know ...
  
  STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH Did you know that the real victims of -- well almost everything bad about America -- are not the poor, but the rich?� Oh my how they whine. The government is taxing them too much, regulators are forever telling them what they can and can’t do, lawyers keep suing them, ...
• Thom Hartmann's March Exclusive "Independent Think ...
  
  THOM HARTMANN'S INDEPENDENT THINKER REVIEW OF THE MONTH FOR BUZZFLASH: April 2010 Each month or so, BuzzFlash is privileged to have nationally syndicated progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann review a progressive book or DVD exclusively for BuzzFlash. See other progressive premiums at The BuzzFla ...
• In West Virginia, Coal Miners' Slaughter
  
  MICHAEL WINSHIP FOR BUZZFLASH The high cost of energy in America was paid in human lives this week, with the deaths of more than two dozen miners in a massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia. It's the worst mine disaster in a quarter of a century. Upper Big Branch i ...
• Can the Tea Party Undergo a "Makeover" on Racism? ...
  
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH � The debate over racism within the Tea Party movement has taken center stage over the past several weeks, especially after several Democratic Party congressmen were assaulted by racial slurs in Washington, D.C., just prior to important votes on health care refor ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The case against Elena Kagan
  
  (updated below) It is far from clear who Obama will chose to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, but Elena Kagan, his current Solicitor General and former Dean of Harvard Law School, is on every list of the most likely replacements.  Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog has declared ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• How Many Licks?
  
  The idea of carrying out a Fermi estimate sounds like something that only nuclear physicists would be able to do with any degree of success, but a Fermi estimate, or Fermi problem, is nothing more than an approach to estimating numbers that cannot be counted. For instance, how many grains of sand on ...
• 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 ...

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

• What We Don't Know About GE Crops
  
  by Ben Lilliston After 15 years on the market, and constituting 80 percent of soybeans, corn and cotton grown in the U.S., we still know remarkably little about genetically engineered (GE) crops; and some of what we do know is cause for alarm. read more
• King Coal Says, 'Live Free or Die'
  
  by Jim Hightower By gollies, one group in our country has what it takes! One group has done more than just strut around at teabag rallies, barking loudly about nullification, secession, militias and other big-talk threats to stop federal intrusion into our lives and businesses. This group has put th ...
• Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal
  
  by Amy Goodman Massey Energy runs the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine in Montcoal, W.Va., where 29 miners were killed last week. The loss of life is tragic, but the UBB explosion is more than tragic; it is criminal. When corporations are guilty of crimes, however, they don’t go to prison, they don’t for ...
• Food Safety in the US: We're on Red Alert
  
  by Andrew Kimbrell The United States once had one of the safest food systems in the world, but now, 70 million Americans are sickened, 300,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 die from food-borne illness every year . It is a sad fact: since 9/11, far more Americans have been killed, injured or hurt b ...
• The Republicans Are Like Frat Boys in Animal House
  
  by Gary Younge In the classic teen movie Animal House there comes a moment when the ne'er-do-well students of the Delta fraternity finally realise their pranks have gone too far. Faced with expulsion from university, the most violent, antisocial drunkard of the group, Bluto Blutarsky (John Belushi), ...

Karl Burkart

• Peruvian glacier breaks apart causing tsunami
  
  More evidence of global warming in Peru, as Huacan glacier collapses into lake.
• Real 'Avatar' begins as Cameron returns to the Ama ...
  
  James Cameron makes his second trip to the Amazon this time with Sigourney Weaver to try and stop the massive Bel Monte dam project from decimating the Brazilian rainforest.
• Top 7 disappearing glaciers
  
  Here for 10,000 years ... gone in 10. Seven glaciers that are melting before our eyes.
• 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.

Water Privatization

• The Projector
  
  Demi and Duchovny pretend to be something they are not; sons who didn't really know their father; an Arab youth's discovery in a French prison; and powerless superheroes. It's a weird weekend at the movies SPECIAL SCREENINGS TAPPEDA documentary about the bottled water industry and its effects on hea ...
• Bottled water tax could aid schools
  
  If approved by voters, a $505 million measure would create up to 30,000 jobs weatherizing public schools.
• Budget deficit seen within 2010 target
  
  Finance Secretary Margarito B. Teves said that the excess tax collections of the country's two-main tax agencies will counter the unrealized revenue from the sale of three big-ticket items up for sale. Finance Undersecretary Gil S. Beltran, earlier said the national government may post a P109.9 bill ...
• BRIEFLY COMMUNITY
  
  Military officers meet for social hour, dinner The Emerald Empire chapter of the Military Officers Association of America will hold its monthly meeting today at the Eugene Veterans Club, 1626 Willamette St. Social hour begins at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:15 p.m. Cost of the meal is $21. Retired
• Bottled water tax could aid schools
  
  If approved by voters, a $505 million measure would create up to 30,000 jobs weatherizing public schools.

Guardian

• Nick Clegg launches Lib Dem manifesto – LIVE
  
  Andrew Sparrow covers all the latest general election news and events, including Nick Clegg launching the Liberal Democrat manifesto, Labour's morning press conference and a radio phone-in with David Cameron 9.58am: In his speech, Clegg tried to explain the philosophy behind the manifesto. Every man ...
• Hundreds dead in China earthquake
  
  Magnitude 7.1 quake hits Yushu county in north-west province of Qinghai, flattening buildings and sparking big rescue As many as 300 people are dead and many more trapped in rubble after a magnitude 7.1 quake hit north-west China. Chinese state television said the quake left up to 8,000 injured and ...
• Toyota hit by new safety scare
  
  Japanese carmaker has taken the 2010 Lexus GX 460 off the US market after an influential American consumer magazine warned customers that the vehicle was unsafe Toyota's safety crisis has deepened further after it was forced to suspend sales of its latest Lexus 4x4 model in America. The Japanese car ...
• Stephen Moss separates fact from fiction in Sherwo ...
  
  Ridley Scott claims his new film starring Russell Crowe will be the most historically accurate ever. But what do we actually know about the real outlaw and his merrie men? In pictures: men in tights from Errol Flynn to Russell Crowe 'Robin Hood was almost certainly a pedestrian," David Crook, the r ...
• All change at The One Show
  
  The introduction of Chris Evans as The One Show's Friday-night host threatens to disrupt the unique chemistry that has made it such an unlikely TV success. It did not start well. After a month of pilot episodes in the summer of 2006, featuring spots on seaside rescue, human sleep patterns and a regu ...

McClatchey

• Obama's nuclear summit yields results he sought
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's nuclear summit of 47 world leaders met two goals as it ended Tuesday: reaching international consensus on the need to keep weapons-grade nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists, and re-establishing U.S. leadership on nonproliferation.
• Palin to headline Dallas fundraiser for anti-abort ...
  
  Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will be in Dallas later this month, raising money for a pregnancy center that promotes alternatives to abortion.
• Civilian casualties pose growing threat to war on ...
  
  ISLAMABAD — An airstrike on suspected Islamic extremists in Pakistan's tribal zone killed at least 71 civilians, local residents said Tuesday, just as thousands more people are being forced to flee a U.S.-backed military offensive against Taliban and al Qaida fighters.
• Fiorina leads in fundraising in California's GOP S ...
  
  WASHINGTON — Carly Fiorina has a slight lead over Tom Campbell in the three-way money race to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., according to figures released Tuesday.
• For the next Supreme Court justice, check the play ...
  
  WASHINGTON — It's Supreme Court justice-picking time, and you can't tell the players or the play without a program.

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

• Reid’s Office Clarifies: No Floor Vote On Im ...
  
  This past weekend, Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV) told a rally of immigration activists that Congress would start work on immigration reform as soon as lawmakers returned from recess. In what appeared to be a turnabout this afternoon, Reid stated that immigration reform wouldn’t be on the Senate’s agenda th ...
• The Successes Of The Long-Overdue Nuclear Summit
  
  The holding of a Nuclear Security Summit on the scale of the gathering that created the United Nations, is an event that should have happened immediately after 9-11, almost a decade ago. Despite claims that such a summit would merely be a talking shop, the fact is that tangible and far-reaching resu ...
• Consumer Reports Urges Congress To Fix 10 Problem ...
  
  Consumer Reports has identified at least 10 problem areas “in the new federal law that, if not addressed, will be exploited by health insurers and drug companies looking to charge more for less health care.” From what I can tell, the list is pretty good, and makes me wonder why the organization wasn ...
• Grassley Dares Democrats To End Senseless Tax Brea ...
  
  Senate Democrats, in order to raise revenues “for a variety of must-do tax break extensions,” are reportedly looking, once again, at ending a senseless tax break for hedge fund managers. Both the Obama administration and the House of Representatives have embraced the change, but it has yet to make i ...
• Conservatives Fight Each Other On Obama’s Nu ...
  
  In an interesting twist, the Wall Street Journal oped page today chose to highlight the split between moderates and extremists within the Republican foreign policy establishment. The WSJ published the thoughts of six former senior Nixon, Reagan, and Bush W. national security officials on Obama’s nu ...

thwap's schoolyard

• David Bercuson Again
  
  I noticed a lot of people (Hey! For this fucking blog anyway!) liked my recent trashing of David Bercuson's stupid editorial . In the comments section, Alison at Creekside hepped us to the fact that Bercuson's Centre for Military and Strategic Studies is a recipient of almost $800,000 from the Depa ...
• Historians Behaving Badly
  
  The latest is David Bercuson, who wrote a howler recently. About how stephen harper can get out of his own supposedly ill-advised promise to get Canada out of the Afghanistan nightmare by 2011. It's called " This U.S. plea is a [h]arper saver ." The United States, according to The Globe and Mail, ...
• Canada & Torture & Law & Democracy: Where Do We St ...
  
  How depressing. The sub-title of this post started out as "Where We Stand," but seeing the long-term apathy (at best) about our present government regarding the possibility of complicity in the torture of innocent people, reading the detailed expressions of sympathy from conservative trolls on the ...
• Margaret Wente replies to "The Lomborg Deception"
  
  When hell freezes over. The imbecile refers to Lomborg the fraud as an "iconoclast." She (like other stupid people) jumped to conclusions about those CRU e-mails . How has she dealt with the fact that someone went through every single footnote in Lomborg's book Cool It and found out that they eithe ...
• Maybe Not ...
  
  A few days ago I typed that it was possible to defeat the harpercons in an election based on harper's blatant contempt for Canadian values and our system of government. But after the keystone kops impression the Liberals performed while trying to trash harper for his revolting exclusion of family p ...

Financial Sense Editorials

• Market Observation: Printing Money Wins Again
  
  by Bill Fleckenstein. "Sunday's big news was the Greece rescue package (and the fact that the ECB "blinked"). Though many of the final details have yet to be hammered out, the euro and Greek bank stocks all breathed a sigh of relief in the wake of the news. The devil will be in the details, but I su ...
• Going Nuclear
  
  by Marin Katusa. "Over the Easter weekend, seven nuclear reactors throughout the United States stopped operations, and natural gas prices skyrocketed by over 20%. And this was when most of the country was enjoying mild weather and businesses were shut for the long weekend.;"
• Why Economic Forecasts Often Fail
  
  by Elliott Wave Int. "Let's begin with a paradox: The one constant in our society is dramatic change. This is the main reason why projecting present conditions into the future often fails."
• Onward to 12,000
  
  by Paul Nolte. "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky. Ok, so the markets didn’t kiss the sky, but certainly got traders excited when they, for a moment, crossed the 11k mark on the Dow. In what has been a six-week march to the sky, the markets have breezed past the bailout of Greece (for yet another week! ...
• Market Observation: Is China Being Taken For a Rid ...
  
  by John Butler & Jon Boylan. "Much financial market attention has focused on China of late. Frustrated by China’s apparent unwillingness to allow their currency, the yuan (or renminbi) to appreciate, influential members of the US Senate—most notably Charles Schumer—apparently are once again seriousl ...

on Government Oversight

• Nuclear Summit Background Reading
  
  For those who want a comprehensive analysis of the issues that are being covered in the Nuclear Security Summit that President Obama is hosting (just a few blocks away from POGO’s office), you may want to take a look at...
• DOJ to Publish Attorney General's Calendar
  
  The Department of Justice has already won some early positive feedback for the flagship initiative in its Open Government Plan — the creation of a Freedom Of Information Act Dashboard. But there's another interesting aspect of plan worth highlighting: we'll...
• Morning Smoke: Work Illuminating Mismanagement of ...
  
  Congratulations to this year's Public Service Pulitzer Prize Winner for "illuminating the murky mismanagement of natural-gas royalties owed to thousands of land owners in southwest Virginia, spurring remedial action by state lawmakers: Underfoot, Out of Reach by Daniel Gilbert [ Bristol Herald Cou ...
• How to Advance U.S. Nuclear Security in Five Simpl ...
  
  As leaders from around the world meet for the next two days to discuss the many nuclear challenges facing the international community, POGO has just released a list of five actions that the United States should commit to in order...
• 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...

Digital Journal

• Artist makes 3-D pornography book for the blind
  
  A Toronto artist has created a 3-D pornography book for the visually impaired. The book was actually released almost two years ago.
• Commuter train rapist and murderer found guilty in ...
  
  In Calgary Court of Queen's Bench Justice Kristine Eidsvik convicted Christopher James Watcheston, 24, of murder after he admitted kicking mother of five Arcelie Laoagan, 41, repeatedly in the head after sexually assaulting her in January 2008.
• Yann Martel releases latest novel: Beatrice & Virg ...
  
  You've already won the Man Booker prize for literature when you published Life of Pi,a novel about a castaway, a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, a 450 lb Bengal tiger named Richard Pound sailing the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat, how do you follow that up ?
• Diplomat Colvin testifies military knew detainees ...
  
  Diplomat Richard Colvin testified at the Military Police Complaints Commission in Ottawa, this morning, Tuesday, April 13. He said that he knew within a month of his arrival that war prisoners in Afghanistan were at a “high risk” of abuse and torture.
• NDP's Bill 311 faces vote in Parliament April 14th
  
  Bill C 311, is a proposition by the New Democratic Party to effect climate change legislation in Canada. It must move to a third reading to become law. A motion in the House of Commons has called for a vote on April 14th for that third reading.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• It Should Be Obvious: Homeless Shelters Shouldn't ...
  
  Unfortunately,  that's exactly what New York City is trying to do ! This is nothing new for the Bloomberg administration. Last year the  New York Times reported that the city began charging rent to families living in a public shelter who have a member of the family who is working. The practice s ...
• Can Homeless Seniors Be Foodies?
  
  What do homeless people eat? It's a question that doesn't get much attention. While the homeless are certainly not scarfing down anything from a five-star restaurant, adequate food and nutrition is an important component of staying healthy enough to transition out of homelessness. In a recent articl ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Doug Roche discusses Obama’s summit on CPAC (2nd i ...
  
• Roche and O’Hanlon on CTV Powerplay
  
• Doug Roche discusses Obama Summit on CTV
  
• 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. ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-13-10
  
  Today,  Kevin reveals his lie detector results and explains how food lobbyists are getting away with paying off politicians. Self Help: Be Pure Now Get The Secret To Wealth & Success Apple Cider Vinegar March Madness Membership Drive Extended Natural Cures Works Healing The Brain Adding Stevia To Y ...
• Plans to Ban the Word ‘Obese’ to Avoid ...
  
  April 13, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk by Laura Roberts Officials at Liverpool City Council have suggested outlawing the word when describing children to avoid stigmatising them. Up to half of 11 year-old boys and 40 per cent of 11 year-old girls are overweight in Liverpool, which has one of the highest chi ...
• Cops & CPS Seize Child From Parents for Mistrustin ...
  
  April 13, 2010 infowars.com by Paul Joseph Watson A family in Williamson County, Austin have lost custody of their 7-year-old son as part of a Child Protective Services investigation because the parents taught their children to mistrust the government, an action that deemed them to be “unsuitable pa ...
• News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments
  
  April 13, 2010 New York Times by Richard Pérez-Peña From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed. A New Yorker cartoon from ...
• Johnson & Johnson Pushed Drugs on Seniors
  
  April 13, 2010 ConsumerAffairs.com by Jon Hood A lawsuit filed last week accuses Johnson & Johnson of conspiring with pharmaceutical consultant Omnicare in an effort to push J&J drugs on nursing home residents, and violating federal Medicaid laws in the process. As a result of the scheme, “residents ...

Pambazuka News

• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
• Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
  
  Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
• How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
  
  It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...
• Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestral A ...
  
  In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...

War in Context

• Why Netanyahu stayed away from Washington
  
  There’s been plenty of speculation about Benjamin Netanyahu’s last-minute cancellation of his plan to attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. The official explanation was that it was to avoid facing criticism from Turkey, Egypt and other Middle East states over Israel’s nuclear program. Su ...
• Fighting American wars from on high
  
  Tom Engelhardt reflects on the detachment with which the US military, operating from a position akin to that of Olympian gods, has turned people into targets: [I]n the cities, towns, and villages of the distant lands where Americans tend to make war, civilians die regularly and repeatedly at our ha ...
• The nuclear paradox
  
  Here’s how President Obama states the nuclear paradox: The risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up. Here’s how I define it: Hypothetical nuclear threats provoke more fear than real nuclear threats. Nowhere is this paradox more e ...
• Can Obama erase ‘Bush nostalgia’ in the Middle Eas ...
  
  Shadi Hamid writes: While President Obama’s domestic position has been strengthened considerably by the passage of health-care reform, there is nothing – yet – to suggest global support for American foreign policy will follow suit. Outside the US, there is a sense of “Bush nostalgia,” including in ...
• Yes we can… No you can’t
  
  Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Solarz write in the Washington Post: More than three decades ago, Israeli statesman Moshe Dayan, speaking about an Egyptian town that controlled Israel’s only outlet to the Red Sea, declared that he would rather have Sharm el-Sheikh without peace than peace without S ...

Watts Up With That?

• IPCC sea level prediction – not scary enough
  
  From the Niels Bohr Institute - Studies agree on a 1 meter rise in sea levels New research from several international research groups, including the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen provides independent consensus that IPCC predictions of less than a half a meter rise in sea le ...
• The insanity of greenery
  
  First, let me say I’m a fan of solar power when done correctly and without financial carrots hung out for electricity generation that entice abuse of the system. I put solar on my own home. Bishop Hill points out that some solar power installations in Spain were producing power at night. He writes o ...
• See Gore Run: “I’m having lunch!&#8221 ...
  
  UPDATE: Some commenters seem to think Al is begin treated unfairly. Gore press policy might be the reason we see this sort of thing happeneing. See the update below the “read more” line. Seems that former Vice President Al Gore doesn’t like the cameras when people ask tough questions about the Arcti ...
• More Wisdom via Solomon: Global Warming Has Passed ...
  
  Guest Post by Steven Goddard Steve McIntyre points out that NOAA’s Susan Solomon saw fit to exclude a statement of measurements from IPCC WG1. With such certainty then, it’s no wonder she’s certain that our current situation is “irreversible”. Well then, let’s not worry about it if one of NOAA’s ...
• CryoSat passes first operational tests
  
  From the European Space Agency, it looks like CryoSat-2 is working well. I’m sure we are all looking forward to seeing what the results are. ESA’s ice mission delivers first data 13 April 2010 ESA’s CryoSat-2 has delivered its first data just hours after ground controllers switched on the satellit ...

Dandelion Salad

• We Are All in this Together By Timothy V. Gatto
  
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com April 14, 2010 I’ve heard from many people since I wrote my last two articles which were “We are all Accountable” and “The U.S. is at a Precipice”. I was astonished at the feedback that I received, not only from “libe ...
• Nine Myths about Socialism in the US By Bill Quigl ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Bill Quigley Information Clearing House April 11, 2010 Glenn Beck and other far right multi-millionaires are claiming that the US is hot on the path towards socialism. Part of their claim is that the US is much more generous and supportive of our working and ...
• Michel Warschawski: In ‘67 army was told to ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ On the border Pt5 Warschawski: In ‘67 army was told to carve out a Jerusalem with few Palestinians Michel Warschawski: On the border Pt.5 see Michel Warschawski: The Wall is a symbol of a philosophy that seeks a state as ethnically pure as possible Pt 4 R ...
• After Peak Oil, Are We Heading Towards Social Coll ...
  
  Thanks to Emily Spence for sending this to DS. By Emily Spence Dandelion Salad April 10, 2010 from http://healthandenergy.com/ Recently, Glen Sweetnam, director of the International, Economic and Greenhouse Gas division of the Energy Information Administration at the DoE, announced that worldw ...
• Violence flares in Thai capital
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish April 10, 2010 — Clashes have turned increasingly violent between anti-government protesters and troops in Thailand The soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets on Saturday at the so-called red-shirts, who want parliament immediate ...

Your New Reality

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  US Soldiers On Vid Of Slaughtered Iraqi Civilians : "Oh Yeah, Look At All Those Dead Bastards" "Nice" At 8 mins in, it's clear for anybody to see the van has pulled up to take the injured to hospital. There are no weapons visible. One young American practically begs for permission to kill them all. ...
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  Even eight years later, this Budweiser tribute to New York City and the victims of 9/11, aired only once during the 2002 SuperBowl, carries remarkable emotional power :
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  There's Big Money In Fearing Up Americans By Darryl Mason Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the genesis of The Tea Party, but she's successfully glommed onto it and exploited it for everything she can get. And she got plenty . Just like Glenn Beck . Which is why I keep saying that Fox News is th ...
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  "The Only Way You Can Get An Elephant To Stand On Its Head Is From Fear Of Pain" Readers Of The New York Daily News watched that video, and read this story , which details how elephants, deepy intelligent and emphatic animals, can only be trained to performed circus tricks through violenc ...
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  When Words Are Weapons.... Philip K Dick, 1978 : "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. George Orwell made this clear in his novel 1984. But another way to control t ...

Wired - Science

• Antarctic Ice-Core Research Requires Logistical Hi ...
  
  Two freezers full of carefully diced and labeled ice drilled from the Antarctic peninsula were hoisted aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer research vessel Sunday for a trip that will eventually end in Columbus, Ohio. Getting valuable scientific evidence from a hole in the ice near the south pole to t ...
• Rampaging Hot Jupiters May Keep Earthlike Planets ...
  
  A bevy of backward-orbiting exoplanets could challenge theories of planet formation, new research suggests. The planets’ wonky orbits might also rule out the presence of Earthlike bodies in some planetary systems. The wrong-way planets got where they are by cartwheeling over their stars’ heads, And ...
• DNA Testing Finds Endangered Whale Meat in Restaur ...
  
  Genetic tests of whale meat from Japanese restaurants in Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea have confirmed the meat is from endangered animals. The Los Angeles bust was publicized in March, prompting a restaurant there to close, but finding the meat in South Korea was even more troubling. “This pro ...
• Scrubbing IDs Out of Medical Records for Genetic S ...
  
  A new technique allows medical records to be used for research on the genetics of disease while still protecting patients from prying eyes. Databases that link thousands of people’s DNA profiles to their medical histories are a powerful tool for researchers who want to use genetics to individualize ...
• Lost Tribes Used Clever Tricks to Turn Amazon Wast ...
  
  A vast series of earth mounds on the eastern coast of South America may be living landscape fossils of a forgotten civilization’s agriculture. People raised the mounds between 1,000 and 700 years ago in order to create cropland in terrain that is flooded for half the year, and parched for the other ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Noam Chomsky: “The evil scourge of terrorism”
  
  Noam Chomsky: “The evil scourge of terrorism”: reality, construction, remedy - Erich Fromm Lecture 2010 by Noam Chomsky The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
• Support DIVESTMENT at UC Berkeley: Please Sign Let ...
  
  Join JVP, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Judith Butler and Israeli peace groups like the Shministim, Gush Shalom, and the Coalition of Women for Peace and help make history at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Poll: Most US Jews approve of Obama’s approach to ...
  
  According to the 2010 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion, conducted by the American Jewish Committee, 73 percent of American Jews characterize relations between Israel and the U.S. today as... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Richard Falk: Hamas should be treated as a politic ...
  
  I have... criticized Israel for punishing the population of Gaza by imposing a blockade that restricts the flow of food, medicine, and fuel to subsistence levels, or worse. Such a blockade is a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• US delays Syria envoy over Hezbollah arms deal
  
  The [US] postponed "until further notice" the appointment of an ambassador to Damascus, Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Al-Aam said over the weekend... [Hezbollah] is building up its stock of advanced Syrian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• New air defense systems to take part in Moscow's V ...
  
  Russia's new short-range gun and missile air defense systems will take part in a Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
• Talks on Mistral ship purchase still underway - Ru ...
  
  Russia and France have not yet agreed on the purchase of a French helicopter carrier for the Russian Navy, a Russian deputy defense minister said on Wednesday.
• Medvedev ready to submit arms reduction pact to pa ...
  
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday he is ready to submit the new arms reduction treaty to parliament for ratification in the beginning of May should his counterpart Barack Obama do the same in the United States.
• Russian military set to upgrade bulk of weaponry b ...
  
  Russia may boost the share of advanced military equipment in its Armed Forces to 70% of the total by 2020, a Russian think tank said on Wednesday.
• Talks continue on Russian deliveries of S-300 miss ...
  
  Russia continues to hold talks on deliveries of S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, a Russian defense official said on Wednesday

NewsWise

• Secure World Foundation Announcement: Deputy Direc ...
  
  Selection of Secure World Foundation Deputy Director, James Rendleman, brings to the Foundation a wide variety of science and technology, engineering, management, and space policy skills.
• Math Goes to the Movies
  
  The use of mathematics in cinematic special effects is described in the article "Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke, and Beyond: Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing in the Visual Effects Industry", which will appear in the May 2010 issue of the NOTICES OF THE AMS.
• Health Fair Referrals Help Improve Patients' Blood ...
  
  Researchers researchers found that patients who received phone assistance in making doctors appointments had twice the improvement in systolic blood pressure of those assisted by a faith community nurse.
• STI, HIV Counseling Inadequate in Male Teens
  
  Despite national guidelines aimed at improving sexual health services for teenagers, most sexually active boys -- even those who report high-risk sexual behaviors -- still get too little counseling about HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during their visits to the doctor, accordin ...
• Weight-Loss Surgery Significantly Reduces Risk of ...
  
  Obese women who have bariatric surgery before getting pregnant are at significantly lower risk for developing dangerous hypertensive disorders during pregnancy than those who don't, according to a study of medical insurance records by Johns Hopkins experts.

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

• Food Inc. to be Shown on PBS's Point of View April ...
  
  Save the date! On the night of Wednesday, April 21, 2010, we invite you to host a potluck and screening party for the PBS broadcast of Food, Inc. Invite your family and friends over for a healthy, delicious, affordable and sustainable meal. Then watch the Oscar-nominated Food, Inc. and discuss wha ...
• Special Report: Are Regulators Dropping the Ball o ...
  
  Recent findings by agricultural scientists are raising fresh concerns about Monsanto's products and the Washington agencies that oversee them. The same seeds and chemicals spread across millions of acres of U.S. farmland could be creating unforeseen problems in the plants and soil, this body of rese ...
• 'Food Hero' says to Value Soil, Not Oil
  
  Vandana Shiva was on the fast track for a career as a nuclear physicist in the 1970s, working in an atomic research center in Bombay in her native India. But when her sister, a medical doctor, pointed out Shiva's lack of understanding of nuclear hazards, she planted a seed in Shiva's mind. That seed ...
• Growing Concern Over Marketing Tainted Beef
  
  Beef containing harmful pesticides, veterinary antibiotics and heavy metals is being sold to the public because federal agencies have failed to set limits for the contaminants or adequately test for them, a federal audit finds. Click here to read this article
• Federal Inattention to Triclosan Sparks Grassroots ...
  
  In July 2009, Food & Water Watch, Beyond Pesticides, and 35 other health, labor and environmental groups submitted an amended petition to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requiring that the agency ban the use of the controversial pesticide triclosan for non-medical applications o ...

fotoFrontera

• Celebración de Semana Santa (39 fotografías)
  
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Climategate

• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
  
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
  
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
• Global Warming can burn your fingers
  
  Here's another bit of EU-sponsored propaganda, starring Mads Mikkelsen (the guy with the bleeding eye in Casino Royale, remember?).

Opinio Juris

• Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 50-3: ...
  
  by The Editors of the Virginia Journal of International Law by The Editors of the Virginia Journal of International Law The Virginia Journal of International Law is delighted to continue its partnership with Opinio Juris this week in this online symposium featuring three Articles recently publish ...
• A Question for Koh Defenders
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A simple question for those who believe “self-defense” and/or the AUMF authorizes the CIA to kill Americans abroad outside of armed conflict.  If Obama authorizes it, can the CIA put a bullet in the back of the skull of an American citizen believed to be a ...
• Why the President’s Targeted Killings are Illegal ...
  
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Kevin has done, and is doing, a very nice job of critiquing the legality of the Obama Administration’s targeted killing policy.  On the critical side, it is also worth noting the views of Mary Ellen O’Connell, Professor at Notre Dame, who has become a leading public cri ...
• Federal Court Adopts “Purpose” Test for Alien Tort ...
  
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford A federal district court in Texas has held that the Alien Tort Statute (”ATS”) requires allegations of intent to violate international law. The mere knowledge that such violation was occurring, or would occur, is insufficient to support a claim under the ATS. The ...
• Why the Law of War Permits the U.S. to Detain and ...
  
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Christopher Jencks, Chief of the International Law Branch of the Office of the Judge Advocate General, has a pretty compelling defense here of the legality of the U.S. detention and trial of Canadian Omar Khadr for violations of the law of war, despite the fact that Khad ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• NASA fakes temp data
  
  See how NASA has faked global warming data over three decades. The same raw figures have been progressively NIWA'd to show a warming trend:
• 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...

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

• CorpWatch : Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug W ...
  
  A little history about Monsanto. Submitted by John C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Whistle Blower Comes Forward With Solid Proof The ...
  
  November 2009, Andrew Maguire, a former silver trader in Goldman Sach’s London office, contacted the CFTC’s Enforcement Division and reported the illegal manipulation of the silver market by traders at JPMorgan Chase. Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• A History of Secret Human Experimentation
  
  Santa Cruz and Monterey were spray 3 time in 3 months by aircraft, with undisclosed biochemicals. Thousands reported ill and hundreds of sea birds dead on the seashore. EXPOSING AERIAL CRIMES and AERIAL OPERATIONS, Because It's an EMERGENCY ! Submitted by Tipperrose A. to Environment �|� �Note-it! ...
• Israeli hypocrisy this Holocaust Remembrance Day
  
  Tomorrow, April 13, 2010, a new Israeli military order comes into place allowing the mass deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank Submitted by Ambrose Merly to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Just a few Faces in Frackland
  
  It is so easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless in this struggle to get the real story about drilling for natural gas into the eyes and ears of the residents in the areas where this is happening.This is the site of some of the very first hydro-fracked wel Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �| ...

Angry Indian News

• Man Who Spread H.I.V. May Be Held
  
  Cuomo Moves to Block Release of Nushawn Williams - NYTimes.com: Mr. Williams, 33, was due to be released on Tuesday after serving his maximum sentence of 12 years, but Mr. Cuomo’s office is seeking... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• NJ Teen Charged For Bias Comment In Right-Wing Own ...
  
  NJ Teen Charged For Bias Comment In Whole Foods - wcbstv.com: EDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) Police in northern New Jersey say a 14-year-old girl grabbed a supermarket microphone and announced, "All blacks... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Man Who Spread H.I.V. May Be Held
  
  Cuomo Moves to Block Release of Nushawn Williams - NYTimes.com: Mr. Williams, 33, was due to be released on Tuesday after serving his maximum sentence of 12 years, but Mr. Cuomo’s office is seeking... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Glenn Beck Gets Progressively More Paranoid
  
  Glenn Beck Gets Progressively More Paranoid-fair.org: "“The enemy to our Constitution is the progressive movement,” Beck explained (2/9/10), which aims “to evolve the United States out of a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• An 'Ignoble Attempt' to Smear the Pope?
  
  FAIR Blog � Blog Archive � An 'Ignoble Attempt' to Smear the Pope?: In fact, increased U.S. media interest in the pope's role in church scandals should be a welcome development. Following Benedict's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Organic Amicus brief filed in GM Alfalfa Appeal
  
  An Organic Amicus brief has been filed in support of the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto’s Supreme Court appeal of the lower court-ordered injunction against the selling of GM alfalfa.
• Monsanto…….when will the courts move to stop this ...
  
  The PPJ Gazette _____________________ The idea that the contamination world-wide from genetically altered crops seems never to end;  Monsanto employees, both current and former now residing in specially created offices in the Obama Administration and at least one former Monsanto attorney holding ...
• Bankster Scam Exposed on MSNBC
  
  Thanks, sam for this link! The real question is, why would MSNBC air this? Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
• The Coast Guard: A branch of the military that is ...
  
  What branch of the military, that is not really a branch of the military, or sometimes is a branch of the military, is not subject to Posse Comitatus like the military, but gets to act like the military and prosecute civilians under military law?
• I had no idea I was so damned powerful! Thank you ...
  
  The PPJ Gazette By: Marti Oakley (c)Copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   ______________________________ I have been quoted, misquoted, loved and hated in many places by many people.  Today I was sent an article from a site called “Talking points Memo”.  It would appear because of my recent ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Dodgers Promising Despite Divorce Distractions (Th ...
  
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• Twitter starts running promoted tweets (New York P ...
  
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• UPDATE: Abu Dhabi Names Sheik Hamid As New Head Of ...
  
  Noted by Devon Pendleton on April 14, 2010 7:04 AM
• Russian Billionaire Plans Country’s First Hybrid, ...
  
  Noted by Devon Pendleton on April 14, 2010 7:04 AM
• gift of the muses (nursemyra.wordpress.com)
  
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on April 14, 2010 5:04 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Virginia 'Literacy Test' Victims: We Will Write Yo ...
  
  By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org Calling all academics, journalists, bloggers, students, and concerned citizens! Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell , a deeply disturbed�� troglodyte whose candidacy should have *never* seen the light of day, yet alone affirmation, wants nonviolent felons to submit ...
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• Ahmadinejad urges Ban to probe 9/11 attacks
  
  --Several times Ahmadinejad has questioned accepted version of Al-Qaeda strikes on New York and Washington which killed nearly 3,000 people Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on th ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• NASA fakes temp data
  
  See how NASA has faked global warming data over three decades. The same raw figures have been progressively NIWA'd to show a warming trend:
• 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...

Mondoweiss

• Judith Butler joins Chomsky, Tutu, Klein and a gro ...
  
  The fight over divestment is coming to a head in Berkeley. The student Senate is expected to vote on Wednesday to possibly override the Student President's veto of the divestment bill. As can be expected both sides have been rallying their supporters. Following notable endorsements from Desmond Tut ...
• We should support Israel because — er, well, ...
  
  It must have been hell to be a leading southern editor during segregation. You would have known that it was profoundly wrong, but it was your people whose ox was being gored, your friends, your tribe. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has a piece about Budrus, a new documentary on the occupati ...
• The nuclear paradox
  
  Here’s how President Obama states the nuclear paradox: The risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up. Here’s how I define it: Hypothetical nuclear threats provoke more fear than real nuclear threats. Nowhere is this parado ...
• ‘A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews ...
  
  The Toronto Globe and Mail ran a story yesterday on a Middle East conference at York University that upset the Israel lobby because it considered binational visions of Israel/Palestine's future.The scholar and author Yakov Rabkin responded to the piece in this letter. (Not sure if Globe and Mail hav ...
• Propagandistic anti-Semitism report raises The Lin ...
  
  The Tel Aviv University/Stephen Roth Institute's newly released study on anti-Semitism in 2009 is getting loads of media attention. Among the many outlets that have reported its findings are the AP, CNN, and Haaretz. "Anti-Semitic incidents Doubled Last Year," blared the AP headline. Sponsored by ...

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

• Yves Behar and Puma Roll Out The Clever Little Bag
  
  Images by B. Alter Puma invited super-star industrial designer Yves Behar to design a packaging system for its shoes that would be more sustainable. In reponse, Behar came up with "The Clever Little Bag". It's a sheet of folded cardboard inside a bright red PET bag that is going to change sho ...
• Sea Shepherd Harassment Cuts Japanese Whale Catch ...
  
  Sea Shepherd members hurl bottle of rotten butter at a Japanese whaler, as the whaler fires water cannon back. Photo: Adam Lau/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, John via flickr. Say what you like about their tactics, but the efforts of Sea Shepherd to harass Japan's whaling fleet in the waters ...
• LG Announces Investment in Green Electronics to Cu ...
  
  Photo via LGEPR LG Group in South Korea has announced a plan to invest 20 trillion won (about $17.7 billion) in developing more environmentally friendly products. It's part of the company's plan to cut their carbon footprint by 40% against 2009 levels by 2020. However, LG has not had a very goo ...
• Prefabulous and Sustainable: New Book Shows Prefab ...
  
  On cover: Tucker Bayou Show House, Looney Ricks Kiss Architects As a long-time prefab proselytizer I approached Sheri Koone's new book with some trepidation. I used to believe, as she still does, that "Prefab is intrinsically green" but don't any more; where you build is fundamentally as import ...
• Nixxi: Relaxed, Casual Wear for Spring 2010 (Photo ...
  
  Nixxi Spring 2010. Image courtesy of Nimli If you're searching for clothing staples for summer , look no further than Nixxi 's spring 2010 collection. The Canada-based brand has created cool, casual looks--sexed up in the lookbook--for the season, including leggings, stockings, dresses cinched ...

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 ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Environmental Policy: General Election 2010
  
  Key issues, the latest news and Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative environment policy.
• Oil conglomerate 'secretly funds climate change de ...
  
  An oil conglomerate has allegedly spent nearly £16.5 million ($25 million) on campaigns to discredit climate change and clean energy policies, according to a new report.
• UN process in danger unless world agrees on climat ...
  
  The United Nation process is in danger of collapsing unless countries are able to agree on the best way to stop global warming by the end of this year, the outgoing head of climate change negotiations has warned.
• Don't let the voters know we face bankruptcy
  
  Britain's truly momentous challenges will not even appear in the election campaign, says Christopher Booker
• Climate change: Key influencers in the debate
  
  Climate change remains the most divisive issue of our age. As countries prepare to meet for the latest round of international talks to stop global warming, who are the key people influencing the debate?

National Geographic | Environment

• Iceland Volcano Makes 27-Story "Mountain"
  
  After weeks of fiery fountains, an Icelandic volcano has apparently quieted down—leaving behind a new, 270-foot cone, experts say.
• Lions, Hyena Killed With Poisoned Meat
  
  A bloody bucket streaked with purple stains suggests Kenyan herders killed the animals with a controversial pesticide, experts say.
• Deepest Volcanic Sea Vents Found; "Like Another Wo ...
  
  "It was like wandering across another world," said a researcher of witnessing the hydrothermal "smokers," which may hold unknown creatures.
• Plenty of Gas, But No Simple Solution for U.S. Ene ...
  
  Innovation has sparked a boom in production of this low-carbon fuel. Taking advantage of its benefits is another matter.
• Earthquake Baptism Saves Chile Family
  
  A christening celebration saved a Chilean extended family from the devastation of the February 27 Chile earthquake. Video.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Spain judge Garzon appeals high court indictment
  
  [JURIST] Spanish National Court judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Saturday appealed [text, PDF, in Spanish] an indictment that charges [order, PDF, in Spanish; JURIST report] him with abuse of power for launching an investigation of alleged war crimes committed during the ...
• Poland lower house speaker assumes interim preside ...
  
  [JURIST] Polish Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski [official websites, in Polish] became the interim Polish president on Saturday after elected President Lech Kaczynski [official website; BBC obituary] died in a plane crash [press release]. Komorowski must now announce [Reuters report] the dat ...
• Australia temporarily suspends processing Sri Lank ...
  
  [JURIST] Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans [official website] announced Friday that that his country will temporarily suspend [press release] processing all asylum claims from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Evans, a cabinet minister under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd [official website], said that ...
• US federal panel consolidates lawsuits against Toy ...
  
  [JURIST] The US Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (MDL) [official website] on Friday consolidated [order, PDF] more than 150 [Reuters report] pending lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corporation [corporate website; JURIST news archive] and transferred them to the US District Court for the Cen ...
• Karadzic war crimes trial resumes with first prose ...
  
  [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Tuesday resumed the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [case materials; JURIST news archive]. The proceedings commenced with the prosecution calling its first witness, Bos ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• McDonnell's Gaffe: In a Black and White World, Bla ...
  
  Virginia's Gov. Bob McDonnell is getting the lion's share of the blame for his Confederate history proclamation blunder, and rightly so. To me, though, the gaffe exposes a problem that is endemic to the Republican Party in certain parts of the country. No, I'm not talking about race, or the Southern ...
• Against the Economic Cheerleaders
  
  It can't be a coincidence that Newsweek and BusinessWeek both proclaim (with caveats buried deep within) that America is back, that the worst is over, that a bright future for the country is ahead. It's not the analysis that troubles me, it's the perspective from which that analysis is derived. It i ...
• Beating Obesity: First Principles
  
  Jumping off this article in the May issue of The Atlantic, I want to sketch out a few principles for what I think would be an enlightened, realistic approach to beating obesity. Here's where I'm coming from: I think the obesity crisis is real AND reversible; no one solution -- not banning high-fruct ...
• "Jesse Ventura" Investigates The Dark Co ...
  
  Say it ain't so! From the folks at Funny or Die... (language is not safe for some workplaces.)� Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura from The Midnight Show
• Gingrich Wants to Change the Tone
  
  "Becoming the Party of Yes." That's the title of Newt Gingrich's speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Describing the speech,�Gingrich said by way of a spokesman that "[t]o win in 2010 and 2012, it's not enough to say no to the radical agenda of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Tonight's ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Haiti Protests! 100s of photos/videos/artic ...
• [COAT] James Bond vs CIDA in Haiti: Voodoo Power & ...
• [COAT] Making a Killing on War! Cancel CANSEC, Can ...
• [COAT] Canada's Arms Exports to Israel: Aiding & A ...
• [COAT] Myths for Profit: New Cdn anti-War film: 35 ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• IDF to Barenboim: No to Gaza Concert
  
  If there’s a lyric to accompany this post it would be Elvis Costello’s What’s So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding? Except we’d have to adapt it a bit to today’s news: “what’s so dangerous about a classical music concert in Gaza?”  Famed conductor and co-founder of the East-Western Diwan Orc ...
• Former Israeli Attorney General Backs IDF: Targete ...
  
  In Operation Twin Towers, the Shin Bet directed the IDF to arrest several wanted Palestinians in Jenin.  Gen. Yair Naveh gave his men the orders that they could shoot to kill if necessary (even if civilians would be harmed) despite the fact that the Israeli Supreme Court had specifically excluded s ...
• Roger Cohen: If Russians and Poles Can Make Peace, ...
  
  They announced the Pulitzer Prize winners yesterday and someone who truly deserved one was not among the winners: Roger Cohen.  His brave reporting in June from the streets of Teheran after the allegedly fraudulent presidential election was absolutely riveting.  You felt like you were there at a c ...
• Latest Shin Bet Outrage: Threatening Eichmann-like ...
  
  Each day brings a new outrage in the Kamm-Blau case riveting Israel and much of the world.  The National reports that the Shin Bet said it would “take the gloves off” in dealing with self-exiled Haaretz reporter Uri Blau and even consider kidnapping him to forcibly return him to Israel.  Someone o ...
• Links for 2010-02-23 [Digg]
  
  'Brooklyn Bundler' Rabbi, Charged With $4 Million Extortion Brooklyn Chabad Rabbi Milton Balkany has been accused of extorting $3.25-million from a New York hedge fund in order to fend off a non-existent federal Canadian Jewish Tourism Ad Uses Oral Sex to Promote Israeli SIZE DOESN'T MATTER - ...

Ode Magazine

• The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace makes a world ...
  
  By: PeaceCorso I first learned about this remarkable sculpture from a tweet on Twitter feed by Dr. Deb Brown . Thanks, Dr. Deb. Here is a delicious video about The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace and the process that occurred to make it happen. Dr. Deb writes: ...
• 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
  
  By: MarisaBeahm Answering the cries of abandoned and abused animals in Budapest, a group of committed Norwegian veterinarians launched Budadogs , a nonprofit that rehabilitates and facilitates adoption for some of the capital's neediest canines, many of which are i ...
• Ton's Musical Musings: Matthias Loibner and the hu ...
  
  By: Ton Maas Many heads turned in surprise on the 2nd day of the Danube Music Festival , when Mathias Loibner from Vienna in Austria started rotating the handle of his hurdy-gurdy. The sound of this ancient instrument combines the qualities of fiddle, bagpipes and ...
• Ode reader plans to travel to Haiti to help homele ...
  
  By: danniedog I'm heading to Haiti this summer on a fact finding mission to learn the ins and outs of working for individual families or communities. I do not wish to be constricted by rules of particular organizations. I'm trying to gather information now pertain ...

OpEd News

• What is the role of government?
  
  Government is not a classless concept. The role of government and its ability to make a difference in peopleapos;s daily lives is not a question the progressive or democratic movement can take lightly.
• Understanding psychological barriers to Nepalapos; ...
  
  While 99 percent of the Nepalis have really welcomed the abolition of monarchy, 99 percent leaders in the Nepali Congress party and the United Marxist-Leninist (UML) party still have not internalized this change.
• The Eclectic Wayne Kohler -" Eight Diverse Artwork ...
  
  Wayne Kohler is a remarkable artist, mechanic, and landscape architect. He can be found in Rragapos;s Coffee Shop in Benicia, California, most mornings between 8:30 and 9:30. He tells me that heapos;s never sold a single artwork other than those heapos;s sold off the walls of Rragapos;s.
• Make things in America and give the Earth a break ...
  
  An environmental plan that will also shore up the economy
• Lethal Justice for Massey Energy
  
  No clearer example of a continuing course of criminal corporate conduct resulting in mass murder exists than the tragedy at Upper Big Branch mine. The time to proceed with criminal trials with death penalties for corporate persons and their human leader is now.

Switchboard

• NRDC Celebrates Food Pioneers who are Growing Gree ...
  
  Today NRDC announced the winners of our second annual Growing Green Awards . These awards honor the farmers and food pioneers across the country who are helping us rethink the food we eat and its impacts on the environment. Just last year , we rolled up our sleeves and started our first sea ...
• Clean up in Aisle 3
  
  Last week, I wrote about our work with Congressman Markey to push FDA to take action on the endocrine disrupting chemicals triclosan and triclocarban .  As a result, we got a bit of a boost with FDA's announcement that the products that use these chemicals for their “antibacterial” propertie ...
• Big Coal’s “Stealth Mode” Campaign to Kill the Cli ...
  
  The coal industry includes companies that profess to support climate legislation but are in fact operating behind the scenes in “stealth mode” to deny climate science and thwart needed action on climate change.   Consider two of the coal companies that keep their heads down and yet still do ...
• Major League Baseball’s Important Announcement
  
  Major League Baseball today announced what is arguably the most important environmental initiative in the history of professional sports, worldwide. I know that is a big statement, but it is true. As part of Major League Baseball’s ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship, MLB today ...
• More alarming air quality information from Texas n ...
  
  The Dallas Morning News recently reviewed hundreds of pages of documents�regarding air�emissions from natural gas production facilities in the Barnett Shale area of�Texas. The paper reports that these documents�" reveal a pattern of emissions of toxic compounds , often including cancer-causi ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Why I can’t take the construction “lib ...
  
  David Boaz of the CATO institute published an article last week about the relationship of the libertarian vision of freedom with the (American) past. I presume he meant it to serve as a corrective to the good deal of libertarian-flavored rhetoric embracing the American jeremiad about the lost ‘golde ...
• Joint UK-France SSBN Fleet?
  
  This is an interesting notion that is unlikely to happen in anything but a very limited sense: France has offered to create a joint UK-French nuclear deterrent by sharing submarine patrols, the Guardian has learned. Officials from both countries have discussed how a deterrence-sharing scheme might w ...
• Hackery, Thy Name Is Michael Barone
  
  Michael Barone essays some constitutional “analysis,” which is touted by various wingers who don’t also know anything about constitutional law, except that the framers intended the Constitution to enact the 2008 platform of the Texas Republican Party.     And it’s even worse than this setup sugges ...
• BUT WHAT DID HE HAVE TO SURRENDER11!/!?1/!??!!?
  
  Seems like progress, if sanctions on Iran are your thing: President Obama secured a promise from President Hu Jintao of China on Monday to join negotiations on a new package of sanctions against Iran, administration officials said, but Mr. Hu made no specific commitment to backing measures that the ...
• 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 [ ...

Desert Research Institute

• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
• The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
  
  The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.
• Mercury Depletion Events at the Dead Sea
  
  Researchers characterize atmospheric mercury depletion events at the Dead Sea in Israel and the atmospheric chemistry responsible for these events.
• Storm Peak Lab Contributes Data to Microbe Researc ...
  
  Using data collected at DRI's Storm Peak Lab, researchers have found that airborne microbial diversity is much greater than expected.
• Cloud Seeding Program Receives Support from SNWA a ...
  
  Cloud seeding will continue this year in the Tahoe/Truckee River Basin, the Ruby Mountains and with one generator near Tuscarora, Nevada.

Earth Techling

• Sunflower’s Sundolier Harvests A Whole Lot Of Sola ...
  
  Sunflower Corporation's Sundolier is a rooftop mounted device that harvests solar energy and pumps it through a solar chandelier in quantities large enough to power small buildings.
• White OLEDs Move Closer to Mass Market Reality
  
  Scientific research at the Molecular Foundry in Berkeley may have found a way to create the coveted cheap, green solid-state OLED producing white light.
• Will Someone Please Build This Ideal Green Energy ...
  
  The design that came in third in a Korean power company's international design contest features every green technology imaginable in a beautiful and functional design.
• Cheap Green Quest Manufactured Home Debuts In Cali ...
  
  A new manufactured home exceeds conventional construction standards for energy efficiency by 17%, is Energy Star compliant, and goes for $97,000 (with financing available).
• Fujitsu Develops Power Strip that Monitors Energy ...
  
  A new power strip developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. uses a sensor to track the power usage of all connected devices, which can be viewed via a web portal.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• COMPLEX LITIGATION: The Class Action Fairness Act, ...
  
  Class actions increasingly proceed in federal court, but the law has not eliminated forum-shopping.
• COMPLEX LITIGATION: Is global warming an actionabl ...
  
  Plaintiffs in some cases have been granted standing, but they may face difficulties as these cases mature.
• Comcast win may force FCC's hand
  
  Comcast's courthouse victory over the Federal Communications Commission last week might not turn out to be a win for the company after all if it speeds the path for wider regulation of broadband services.
• THE COURTS: Toyota plaintiffs find validation in f ...
  
  The government's $16.4 million penalty could bolster claims against the automaker, within certain limits.
• Wrongful death by tiger attack not covered by home ...
  
  An insurance company does not have to pay a Kansas family $100,000 for an accident in which a Siberian tiger attacked and killed their daughter during her senior photo shoot, a federal appeals court ruled this week.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• What PA residents think of Range Resources
  
  Here is some excellent video of the meeting with range Resources that took place in Washington County, PA today. Thanks txSharon! http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2010/04/7-videos-what-pa-residents-thinks-of.html
• DEP finally waking up
  
  PA Must Take Action to Protect Water Resources from Drilling Wastewater, Other Sources of TDS Pollution Proposed Rules will Help Keep Drinking Water, Streams and Rivers Clean HARRISBURG — High levels of total dissolved solids pollution from natural gas drilling and other sources pose a real t ...
• Gas and drilling not clean choices
  
  Robert Howarth Natural gas is marketed as a clean fuel with less impact on global warming than oil or coal, a transitional fuel to replace other fossil fuels until some distant future with renewable energy. Some argue that we have an obligation to develop Marcellus Shale gas, despite environment ...
• Gasland on PBS
  
  Here’s a link to the coverage PBS did on “Gasland”. This film won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/613/index.html
• Pennsylvania lawmakers say bill that halts drillin ...
  
  By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News March 28, 2010, 7:38PM Pennsylvania lawmakers should learn from history and from Dr. Seuss, said Robert F. Davey Jr., a retired forester with 38 years of experience in Penn’s Woods. The state’s forests were decimated by rampant logging in the 19th century and a ...

News Blaze

• New Generation of Women Writers Breaking Through G ...
  
  Theatre in Britain is one of the positive stories to emerge from recession - and women playwrights, in particular, have drawn audiences that are especially in need in testing times of the sense of shared humanity inspired by the best drama.
• The Joneses Movie Review: Demi Moore Gets Bossy
  
  A horror movie in its own way but more giddy than gory, The Joneses takes the creepy premise of say, The Stepford Wives and its obedient, robotic consumerism, to the commercially invasive next level of in-your-face upscale pseudo-marital marketing.
• Support for Analytical and Experimental Research a ...
  
  NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., has selected five companies to provide the agency with support for analytical and experimental research and technology development, primarily for aerospace vehicles.
• Less Water in Soil Takes The Zing Out of Ginger
  
  Unknown to Aziz, the spiced tea also connects him to the Karbi tribals of northeastern India, who grow the ginger that now spices his tea.
• Food and Drug Administration Re-Evalutes a Bacteri ...
  
  A chemical that's added to most products for human safety will be re-evaluation. 
  
  
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  FloDesign To Expand Wind Turbine Development in Massachusetts

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  Massport has already sent a formal expression of interest in deploying FloDesign's wind turbine technology, with assistance from MassCEC's Renewable Energy ...

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  - Apr 13, 2010

  - Apr 13, 2010

  And the rebound in investor and trader confidence seems to be taking renewable energy and clean technology stocks with it. A blog about energy, ...

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  Rush to renewable energy ignoring serious questions

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  And make no mistake, these renewable energy sites -some with more than 50000 solar panels -will cause great upheaval in neighbourhoods during construction ...

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  US Senators Introduce Renewable Heating Tax Credit

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  - Apr 14, 2010

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  The American Renewable Biomass Heating Act of 2010 (S. 3188), would establish a corporate tax credit equal to 30% of the installed cost of biomass-fueled ...

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  Washington state moves to ban copper in brake pads

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  - Apr 12, 2010

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  Similarly, state ecology officials in Washington estimate 70000 to 318000 pounds of copper are released into Puget Sound each year, with about one-third ...

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  Post-earnings performance review of Ecology & Environment, Inc.; EEI, VSR ...

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  - Apr 13, 2010

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  Ecology, genes and microbes, oh my!

  University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily

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  These opportunities also extend to the realms of evolutionary biology and ecology. Two satellite research centers, the Blandy Experimental Farm and the ...

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  Post-Doctoral Opportunity in Ecology - East Bethel, MN

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  - Apr 14, 2010

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  We are seeking applications for a post-doctoral associate in ecology as part of the Cedar Creek LTER program at the University of Minnesota. ...

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  Report: Rationing caused water main breaks in LA

  San Jose Mercury News

  - Apr 14, 2010

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  AP LOS ANGELES—A city law that rationed lawn watering for conservation is to blame for the water main breaks that inundated homes and businesses last summer ...

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  SoCal water supplier hiking rates 15 percent

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  - Apr 14, 2010

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  AP LOS ANGELES—The giant water wholesaler serving 26 cities and water districts in Southern California is hiking rates 15 percent—and it's ordering ...

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  Water leak prompts low level emergency at Callaway plant

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  Crews repair 20-inch water main break

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  - Apr 14, 2010

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  By Brent Jones, Baltimore Sun reporter Baltimore Public Works crews have fixed a 20-inch water main break that flooded roads Tuesday night near the Harbor ...

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