- CLIMATE CHANGE: All Eyes on Cochabamba Meet
BONN, Apr 16 (IPS) - International negotiations towards a new regime on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, responsible for global warming, are as deadlocked today as they were last December at the Copenhagen climate summit.
- INDIA: Balancing Biodiversity and Livelihood A Jug ...
BANDIPUR TIGER RESERVE, KARNATAKA, India, Apr 16 (IPS/IFEJ) - Hanumantha Nayak thought he had not gone that far into the forest in search of firewood. But while he crouched to tear off a cluster of dried bamboo, a tigress apparently leapt onto his back, bit his forearm, and then went for his t ...
- ENVIRONMENT: Whaling Profitable but Bad for Icelan ...
REYKJAVIK, Apr 16 (IPS) - Early April Greenpeace protestors in Rotterdam intercepted seven containers with 140 kg of fin whale meat from Iceland, destined for Japan. They said that the import of whale meat to the Netherlands is illegal, but Dutch authorities turn a blind eye on consignments ...
- PHILIPPINES: Women’s College Corrects Gender ...
MANILA, Apr 16 (IPS) - Flip open a typical textbook used in many Philippine schools and you will likely find images of women illustrating verbs such as ‘cook’ or ‘clean the house’, but hardly appearing anywhere much in economics and history textbooks.
- Is the U.S. Going Soft on Israeli, Indian & Pakist ...
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 15 (IPS) - When a much-ballyhooed two-day nuclear security summit ended in Washington early this week, there were several lingering questions that remained unanswered - even by the host of the high-powered 47-nation gathering, U.S President Barack Obama.
- Could California go the way of Greece?
Another year, another crisis. If we spent last year worried that big banks were going to fail, the fear of the moment is that entire governments may go under. The anxieties about "sovereign debt" have been most acute in Europe, where the infelicitously named PIIGS countries-Portugal, Ireland, Italy, ...
- George Soros issues stark economic warning
Railway porter-turned-billionaire financier George Soros has delivered a stark warning that the financial world is on the wrong track and that we may be hurtling towards an even bigger boom and bust than in the credit crisis. The man who "broke" the Bank of England (and who is still able to earn $U ...
- Sexy scientists & the Hadron Collider
Over the last few years, I have definitely noticed a shift in the public's attitude towards science: from viewing it as a useful sideline in society - a valuable pursuit for the boffinous few, that ultimately looks after itself - to a cause worth fighting for, which has the power to change society f ...
- Olympics 2012: A "mangled rollercoaster" ?
The ArcelorMittal Orbit tower is supposed to be the symbol of the 2012 Olympics and London's answer to the Eiffel Tower. But despite Mayor Boris Johnson's assurances that it represents the city's "dynamism," not everyone is impressed by the recently unveiled design. "There is simply too much," comme ...
- Chiropractic: Singh wins libel battle for science
The science writer Simon Singh has won his court of appeal battle for the right to rely on the defence of fair comment in a libel action. Singh was accused of libel by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) over an opinion piece he wrote in the Guardian in April 2008. He suggested there was a ...
- Hip-hop storytellers
- 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 ...
- Therapy only furthers sociopath's agenda
What can we say about the games sociopaths play in psychotherapy? We might start with: Sociopaths don't seek counseling, ever, from a genuine motive to make personal growth. This isn't to say sociopaths don't end up in therapists' offices. They do, either because they've been mandated to attend the ...
- Bee populations declining
NORTH LIBERTY - Bee populations have been in decline for several years, and it's not just a national trend. For Dave Laney, beekeeping is not only a hobby, but a family business. His warehouse in New Liberty is stocked with hundreds of bottles of honey. "Even in these bad economic times, our bus ...
- Dark-skinned immigrants to Canada urged to take vi ...
Canadian doctors and nutritionists are urging dark-skinned immigrants coming to Canada to supplement with vitamin D in order to stay healthy. Many Canadian immigrants have relocated from countries with warmer, sunnier climates, and are exposed to far less natural sunshine in Canada than in their nat ...
- Artificial pancreas breakthrough offers solution f ...
It's downright amazing: A biomedical engineer at Boston University has developed a so-called "artificial pancreas" that helps diabetics maintain balanced blood sugar levels by monitoring the blood and releasing either insulin or glucagon as needed. Now all those people who eat artificial food adve ...
- Fearful Aceh Islanders Tell of Massive Sea Change ...
Banda Aceh - Local residents claim the seabed near Banyak Island in Aceh Singkil district, Aceh, has risen dramatically since the 7.2-magnitude earthquake on April 7. They also say they have seen an undersea fissure spewing out mud and rocks. But experts are not so sure about the supposed geologica ...
- And now... a REAL economist
One of the best in the world. This Harvard professor could blow little Stevie right out his bathtub. Hat tip Liberal Oasis
- The burning priviledge of St. Albert
JJ and Pale highlighted a letter sent to the St. Albert Gazette earlier this week where Chris and Karleena Perry decried the notion of low or even (gasp!) middle income families being "allowed" to move into an area that is occupied by.... the conspicuously wealthy. That letter contained such gems a ...
- When the Klan won't touch you with a ten foot pole ...
You should really submit your hate-peddling, racist, homophobic position to an independent review.
- Transaction costs
Once upon a time Canadian foreign policy, especially in the realm of peace and security, was centred on the United Nations the exercise of [relative] impartiality when dealing with parties in conflict. Canadian governments typically officially sat out of the various post-war ideological and post/ne ...
- Tea Party Troubles . . .
CARL PALADINO IS THE TEA PARTY CANDIDATE FOR NY STATE GOVERNOR. According to Zachary Roth, of Talking Points Memo's TPMmuckraker , ol' Carl's got a nasty taste in e-mails. In an article " Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality ", An online news outlet in New York sta ...
- Alternate reality: Fox News disputes fact of Obam ...
Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli stated on Fox & Friends that "you wouldn't have all these people in the streets across the country, you know, criticizing President Obama because he cut taxes. He indeed has not cut taxes," adding that the Obama administration is "above and beyond what realit ...
- O'Reilly's latest bogus spin: Nobody at Fox pushed ...
Responding to criticism from Media Matters about his claim that "[n]obody" on Fox News advanced the false claim that under the health care legislation individuals could go to jail for failing to purchase insurance, Bill O'Reilly claimed that when "jail time" had been "on the table," Fox had rep ...
- Quick Fact: Hannity perpetuates false claim that ...
Sean Hannity again repeated the false claim that "50 percent of [households] aren't paying taxes."�In fact, while the Tax Policy Center has estimated that 47 percent of American households pay no federal income taxes, the "vast majority" of these households reportedly pay other federal taxes. ...
- Under fire, "furious" Fox News execs yank Hannit ...
Amidst a firestorm of criticism, reportedly "furious" Fox News executives have yanked Sean Hannity from taping his April 15 show at a Cincinnati Tea Party event which charged admission and had "all proceeds" benefiting the organization. As Media Matters for America had reported, Hannity's appe ...
- Despite historically low tax burden, Rove, Fo ...
Blaming President Obama's policies, Karl Rove and Fox & Friends �highlighted a Rasmussen poll finding that 66 percent of respondents believe America is "overtaxed." In doing so, Rove and Fox & Friends completely obscured the fact the vast majority of Americans paid lower federal taxes this year ...
- NSA Whistleblower Indicted for Leaking Classified ...
A former senior National Security Agency (NSA) official was indicted Thursday on charges he leaked classified information and served as a source for a reporter who wrote a series of critical articles about the agency. read more
- Arizona Passes Restrictive Immigration Bill
A bill approved Tuesday by Arizona lawmakers may be one of the most restrictive pieces of state-level immigration enforcement legislation in the country, making it illegal to be in the state without proper documentation and expanding the power of local police officials to enforce immigration law. r ...
- Happy Tax Day: Are Americans Getting Our Money's ...
Most Americans seem to regard April 15 - the day income tax returns are due to the Internal Revenue Service - as a recurring tragedy akin to a Biblical plague. Particularly this year, with US government deficits soaring, everyone from the teabaggers to Fox News and Senate Republicans are sounding t ...
- US Foreign Policy: Sixty Years of Disaster
On August 19, 1953, pro-Shah supporters in Iran staged a coup on the Iranian government that was planned, organized and supported by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and British Intelligence. Iranians lived under the brutal rule of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi for the next 25 years ...
- Prison-Based Gerrymandering Creates Phantom Voters
Anyone who is in prison on the first of April, 2010, will remain there for the next ten years - according to the US census . When the census counts prison populations, it counts them as residents of the towns in which they are incarcerated, not the communities they left and will most likely return ...
- Second Garbage Patch Confirmed in Atlantic Ocean
Planet Earth’s oceans now have a second confirmed garbage patch filled with plastic detritus. The discovery of the first garbage patch is credited to Charles Moore, an ocean researcher who discovered the large patch of plastic floating in the Pacific in 1997. Now the Atlantic can lay claim to a hum ...
- Sustainable Food Lab and SAI Platform Launch Globa ...
At least a dozen global food companies collaborate toward practical, cost effective solutions to reduce the climate impact of specific farming systems. I happen to be a fan of the Sustainable Food Lab , which is a group of businesses, NGOs and academic institutions working together to accelerate ...
- Looking at the Wrong Side of the Issue: World Wate ...
Due to lack of water in Peru, locals are forced to harvest fog to convert it into a usable resource. The world water shortage is a crisis and we need to look at the right side of the issue. There are many developments taking place around the world that are acts of desperation. The issues often go un ...
- Millions of Endangered Sea Turtles Killed by Fishe ...
Sea turtles are getting killed in the millions from large-scale fisheries. See how this happens, potential solutions to the problem, and what you can do below. A new report published in the journal Conservation Letters shows the results of the first global assessment of turtle “bycatch” by longlin ...
- 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 ...
- Citizen Sarah going on hiatus
Hey folks! Just letting you know that I’m going to be taking a little summer-time breather from Public Citizen. All this advocacy awesomeness is my passion and has been invigorating, but I need to unplug for a little while. Expect to see me again sometime this July! If you’re going to miss me, mis ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- April 15, 2010
Senate Leader Set to Take Command of Climate Bill (Climatewire) The way the bill is being announced, some senators warn it attempt to circumvent the committee process if the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman proposal moves directly into Reid's office. Could Obama's Supreme Court Pick Kill the Cl ...
- 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. ...
- Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
[ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
- Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
- Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
- Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
- Tomgram: Droning On
[ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...
- Tea Bag truth: A sad collection of angry, underedu ...
No, the health insurance reform isn't perfect. But it is better than what we've had. Late last week, hundreds of ignorant Tea Party morons were as ecstatic as pigs in a Dumpster full of stale doughnuts. Bart Stupak, the Michigan congressman who cast a difficult vote to make health care reform realit ...
- Sedition: Oklahoma Tea Party Leaders Ask State to ...
Coming on the heels of the arrests and indictments of the Hutaree militia group in Southern Michigan and given the fact that April 19 is the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing - the day that Tim McVeigh exploded a truckbomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killing 168 people ...
- The Circus: Fox, MSNBC and CNN all hire Sarah Pali ...
Foreclosures are at record levels and the Grapes of Wrath continues under Obama as it did under Bush. The real jobless rate is 17 percent and a whole generation of workers is being left behind while the stock market soars to record highs. American astronauts will soon be paid passengers on Russian s ...
- Free the Troops: The Case for Professionalizing th ...
The number of new U.S. Army recruits who are high-school dropouts soared during the Bush years, peaking at 29.3 percent in 2007. The economic collapse made life easier for military recruiters. "Only" 17 percent of soldiers who joined in 2008 failed to graduate from high school. But high unemployment ...
- Teabaggers Protest Government, Taxation, Other Thr ...
BOSTON (The Borowitz Report) - At a Tax Day rally held by the Tea Party movement, hundreds of Teabaggers assembled to voice their opposition to government, taxation, and other three-syllable words. Rallying the faithful, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin sought to clarify the mission of the Tea Par ...
- The Obama Torture Regime
Hilary Andersson BBC News, Bagram:- Afghan prisoners are being abused in a “secret jail” at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented. The abuses are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected, promising to end torture. The US mili ...
- Great Moments In Online Polling
An Online YouGov oracle survey today:-
- People Worth Voting For: Salma Yaqoob
If we want change, we have to engage. As the great anti-slavery campaigner Fredrick Douglas said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lig ...
- 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 ...
- Don't Miss the Progress
I've already written about the administration's announcement that they are going to treat walking and biking as equally important transportation options as driving in a car. Today, the administration also announced that gays and lesbians will be able to visit loved ones in hospitals and exert power ...
- Always Wrong
It never ends...they're always wrong: WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a weekend bicyclist, might consider keeping his head down and his helmet on. A backlash is brewing over his new bicycling policy. LaHood says the government is going to give bicycling — and walking, too — the ...
- Doh!!
And, as I predicted, McConnell doesn't have the votes to sustain a filibuster of the financial regulatory reforms and he's just punked out. The only way the Party of No strategy can work long-term is if McConnell can maintain absolute party discipline. But since Scott Brown has been seated, health ...
- Stupid Americans Screwing Things Up
My good friend Noz and his wife have been attempting to adopt a child for many years now. They've been in Kazakhstan since late last year attempting to get a hearing and satisfy the authorities there that they are suitable parents (which they certainly are, and then some). And, yet, they keep gett ...
- GOP Hubris
We can already see a tangible benefit from Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's decision to challenge Blanche Lincoln in a Democratic primary. Until Tuesday, the big worry among proponents of derivatives reform was that Blanche Lincoln, the Arkansas Democrat who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committe ...
- More on the Orbit digital short fiction offer
In the wake of yesterday’s announcement that Orbit US will be publishing short genre fiction in a digital format, The Scalzi weighs in with some pertinent questions from the authorial side of the fence: As I don’t know the answers to any of these questions, I’ll refrain from saying anything abou ...
- Content is a public good: the abundance economics ...
In the absence of Charlie Stross (who is out in Japan, the fortunate devil), guest posts are appearing on his blog… and today’s is a little something different, namely a 101 guide to the economics of digital media from one Milena Popova: So, to recap, for pure private goods, the market is both a pra ...
- Orbit to take short fiction to the digital market
From the press release: Orbit (US) has offered to publish digital editions of all original short fiction written by its authors. The digital editions will be distributed widely through major retail channels, for reading on a variety of devices. Authors will be paid a royalty for each story sold, rat ...
- I’ll trade a Puffin for my as-yet undelivered jetp ...
Personal electric aircraft? Yes please! Nice to see NASA aren’t just resting their feet on the desks at the moment, though whether the Puffin concept would ever make it out of R&D (let alone strike anyone as useful or necessary at a consumer level) is a question probably best left unasked. As charm ...
- Kingdom-jumping viruses leap from plant to human
Another pulp skiffy trope turns out to be (possibly) a little less pulpy: is the pepper mild mottle virus making people sick? Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Kingdom-jumping viruses leap from plant to human Share and Enjoy: Project Wonde ...
- Issues Unique to Fathers of Abused Children Explor ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When children are subjected to sexual abuse, many people may tend to suspect that the father is involved, but in scores of cases, the acts are carried out by others, and fathers may be left with a collection of intense and confusing emotions. Intent on studying these ...
- I Just Tested HIV Positive! Now What?
By John Sovec, LMFT, LGBT Issues (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile One of the scariest moments in any gay man’s life is going in to get an HIV test. It can be motivated by a questionable sexual encounter, ...
- Tools in Internal Family Systems Couples Therapy – ...
By Mona Barbera, Ph.D., Internal Family Systems Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mona and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Internal Family Systems couples therapy aims to help partner bring more Self energy to their conversations and conflicts. One of the main ways that is d ...
- Weekend Warriors
By Kelly Chicas, LPCC, NCC, CRS, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As a psychotherapist that specializes in couples and relationships, my phone rings incessantly on Fridays and Mondays. Frantic men and women call to m ...
- Body Image Issues Detected in Healthy Women
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Among women who experience concerns and fears over their body image, both outward and underlying signs of the negativity or preoccupation may be especially visible to professionals. But such signs may also be present in women who otherwise present a healthy body image ...
- Former Sen. Mack withdraws as Crist campaign chair ...
Brent Kallestad / MiamiHerald.com : Former Sen. Mack withdraws as Crist campaign chair — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Charlie Crist's political mentor, former U.S. Sen. Connie Mack, resigned Thursday as Crist's campaign chairman in his race for the U.S. Senate. — Mack wrote a terse, two-paragraph ...
- C.I.A. Document Details Destruction of Tapes (Mark ...
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times : C.I.A. Document Details Destruction of Tapes — WASHINGTON — Porter J. Goss, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2005 approved of the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogation of tw ...
- Steve King Blows Up, Physically Grabs TP Blogger W ...
Victor Zapanta / Think Progress : Steve King Blows Up, Physically Grabs TP Blogger When Asked About His Justification Of IRS Attack — In February, a software engineer named Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft into an IRS building in Texas, killing two people and leaving another two hospitalized.
- Did Glenn Beck just post a new ratings low for 201 ...
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America : Did Glenn Beck just post a new ratings low for 2010? — It sure looks that way, as Beck's ratings continue to sag. — Bottom line: Over the last nine months, Beck gained and then lost nearly one million viewers. Trust me, in the world of cable news, t ...
- Fox News yanks Sean Hannity from Cincinnati Tea Pa ...
Matea Gold / Show Tracker : Fox News yanks Sean Hannity from Cincinnati Tea Party rally he was set to star in — Angry Fox News executives ordered host Sean Hannity to abandon plans to broadcast his nightly show as part of a Tea Party rally in Cincinnati on Thursday after top executives learned ...
- M 5.0, Solomon Islands
Friday, April 16, 2010 08:58:06 UTC Friday, April 16, 2010 07:58:06 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
Friday, April 16, 2010 03:01:25 UTC Friday, April 16, 2010 02:01:25 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.0, Guerrero, Mexico
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 05:16:16 UTC Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:16:16 AM at epicenter Depth : 71.80 km (44.61 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 5.3, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Sunday, April 11, 2010 13:02:14 UTC Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:02:14 PM at epicenter Depth : 44.20 km (27.46 mi)
- End of the hinterland
The status of forests in climate politics changed radically in 2009, bringing opportunity and peril in equal measure, says the Rights and Resources Initiative. Forests have long been a hinterland: remote, “backward” areas largely controlled by external, often urban, actors and seen to be of little u ...
- The disillusion of youth
Political wrangling at Copenhagen forced a group of young Chinese and American delegates to ditch plans for a unified front. Meng Si explains what happened. On December 19 last year, the controversial Copenhagen Accord was agreed. On the same day, following a heated debate, a group of young Chinese ...
- 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 ...
- Final Conspirator in Credit Card Hacking Ring Gets ...
Damon Patrick Toey, the “trusted subordinate” of TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez, was sentenced in Boston on Thursday to 5 years in prison. He also received a $100,000 fine and three years’ supervised release, according to the Justice Department. Toey, 25, helped Gonzalez breach the networks of numerous ...
- Cyberwar Commander Survives Senate Hearing
President Obama’s pick to be the 4-star general at the head of the military’s new computer security and cyberwar command sailed through a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, while revealing virtually nothing about he plans for the new command. Lieutenant General Keith Alexander has run the Nationa ...
- NSA Official Faces Prison for Leaking to Newspaper
A former senior National Security Agency official was slammed with a 10-count indictment Thursday after allegedly leaking top secret information to a reporter at a national newspaper. Thomas Andrews Drake, 52, was a high-ranking NSA employee with access to signals intelligence documents when he rep ...
- Yahoo, Feds Battle Over E-Mail Privacy
Yahoo and federal prosecutors in Colorado are embroiled in a privacy battle that’s testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. The  legal dust-up, unsealed late Tuesday, concerns a 1986 law that already allows the government to obtain a suspect’s e-mail from ...
- Prosecutors Seek 6-Year Sentence for TJX Hacker’s ...
If TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez had gone to trial instead of pleading out, one man would have been the primary witness against him — accomplice Damon Patrick Toey. Toey, identified often in court documents simply as “PT,” provided information that investigators say likely helped persuade Gonzalez to p ...
- KCTS 9 Series April 16, 2010 Lead Story - How Safe ...
� � This is a great program from the epicenter of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak. �This will air tomorrow night 7:30 PM on KCTS Channel 9. �Here is the show: �The above will air Friday night at 7:30 PM on KCTS 9 - Seattle's Public Television Station. �Do not miss it.
- Is E. coli O157:H7 really down since 2004, or is i ...
Where is George Bush when you really need him? I was pleasantly surprised this morning reading the 2009 CDC FoodNet data from MMWR (Yes, Morbidity, Mortality Weekly Review – Seriously) on the plane back from Washington D.C - perhaps. Along with the FDA, FSIS, and 10 state health departments, the C ...
- CDC Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of I ...
The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) of CDC's Emerging Infections Program conducts active, population-based surveillance in 10 U.S. states for all laboratory-confirmed infections with select enteric pathogens transmitted commonly through food. This report describes preliminar ...
- Real Raw Milk Facts dot com
In 2009, two important public health sessions sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association and the International Association for Food Protection were held to discuss emerging issues surrounding the increasing popularity of raw (unpasteurized, unprocessed milk). This website was inspired ...
- 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 ...
- AutoblogGreen for 04.15.10
Aptera 2e moves forward, eyes set on X Prize Silence is broken. SAE 2010: General Motors investigating battery electric urban commuter for 2015 and beyond Megacities need love, too. ...
- 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... ...
- 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 ...
- Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal
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 forfeit their fre ...
- 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 ...
- 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, [...]
- How Volcanic Ash Can Kill An Airplane
As volcanic ash spreads from an eruption under a glacier in the Eyjafjallajokull region of Iceland, the British have taken the drastic step of locking down the country's airspace. Here's why.
- Aptera Unveils 200-MPG Pre-Production 2e
Getting a new vehicle startup off the ground is tough, and even tougher when you're trying to build all-electric, three-wheeled, futuristic bubble cars.
- 9 Worst Coal Mine Catastrophes in World History (P ...
As we were tragically reminded last week with the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that claimed 29 lives in West Virginia, coal mining is a dangerous and dirty business for both people and the planet. As we continue our reliance on coal for energy, we think it's important to highlight the human costs ...
- 15-Cent Gas Tax Could Become Part of Senate's 'Cli ...
Senators are considering a new tax on gasoline as part of an effort to win Republican and oil industry support for the energy and climate bill now idling in Congress. The tax, which would be in the range of 15 cents a gallon, was conceived with the input of several oil companies and is being champio ...
- 10 Animals That Are Bad For The Environment
Just like humans, animals can respond to imbalance with extreme behavior that can be harmful to the environment. Here are 10 animals that can be bad for the Earth when nature's balance gets disrupted.
- Beware the Schadenfreude my Son
By Les Visible I note a great deal of glee in certain circles about the pedophile scandals and the general exposure of immoral behavior in those entrusted with serving humanity in all of the faiths. I haven’t seen any Buddhists tagged yet but I’ve seen multiples from all of the rest. The atheists ar ...
- Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy
by Stephen Battersby, Glasgow Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light. Such apparent “superluminal” motion has been seen before in high-speed jets of material squirted out by some black holes. The stuff in these jets ...
- Brilliantly Exposing Climategate
By Alan Caruba Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Over the years, I have read dozens of books by eminent scientists, climatologists and meteorologists, that exposed the lies that support the greatest fraud ever perpetrated in the modern era, “global warming.” I have always wanted to read one that an ...
- GERMANY IS GUILTY
By John Demjanjuk DECLARATION of the accused to the criticism of the court and the prosecution of his behaviour during the trial: I am personally thankful to the people, who are helping me in my hopeless position as a very ill person, be it in prison or be it here in the courtroom. Therefore, I esp ...
- DESMOND TUTU: DIVESTING IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO
Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human rights lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university’s money from companies that enable and profit from the injustice of the Israeli occ ...
- 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 ...
- Earth Day 2010 is Almost Upon Us – 7 Ways to Get I ...
April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of the modern environmental movement, Earth Day. Related posts: Happy 40th- Earth Day! Earth Day 2010 – History and Events International World Water Day 2010- March 22nd First Day of Spring – 2010 (Photo Essay)
- 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 ...
- Salone Satellite 2010: Young Designers Go Green
(...)Read the rest of Salone Satellite 2010: Young Designers Go Green (571 words) (...)Read the rest of Salone Satellite 2010: Young Designers Go Green (571 words) � Rachel Grace for Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: ...
- Well Tech Awards Showcase Green Innovation at Mila ...
(...)Read the rest of Well Tech Awards Showcase Green Innovation at Milan Design Week (306 words) � Jorge Diego Etienne for Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: I Saloni, Milan Design Fair, Milan Design Week, Milan Sal ...
- Inhabitat Reports From the Fortune Brainstorm Gree ...
Some of the greatest minds in green business recently convened in sunny southern California for Fortune’s Annual Brainstorm Green Conference. Inhabitat was on the scene to catch compelling talks by an incredible list of speakers including movers and shakers in the top Fortune companies as well as s ...
- Stanford Scientists Harvest Electricity From Algae ...
Scientists at Stanford have just discovered the greenest source of energy yet — harvesting electricity directly from plants! They’ve successfully collected energy from photosynthetic processes in algae by tapping straight into currents of electrons generated at the cellular level. We know that cars ...
- Prefabricated Chicken Coop Generates its Own Power
If humans can have off-grid, prefabricated structures, who says livestock shouldn’t get the same eco-treatment. A recent competition held by the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development asked for an upgrade to inefficient and polluting family-run chicken coops in Galilee and the winning ...
- Oldest Martian Meteorite Not as Old as Thought
The Allan Hills meteorite, named for the site where it was found in Antarctica, was once thought to contain fossil traces of life. That idea has been mostly dismissed, and now the rock also appears to be not quite as old as previously thought. The oldest known Martian meteorite isn’t so old after ...
- Networked Networks Are Prone to Epic Failure
Networks that are resilient on their own become fragile and prone to catastrophic failure when connected, suggests a new study with troubling implications for tightly linked modern infrastructures. Electrical grids, water supplies, computer networks, roads, hospitals, financial systems — all are ...
- Icelandic Volcano’s Ash Plume as Seen From Space
A NASA satellite captured an image of the ash plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano’s Wednesday eruption. We can see the ash plume from the event sweeping east just north of the United Kingdom en route to Norway. The plume has disrupted air travel in western Europe, The New York Times reports, be ...
- Why NASA Is Sending a Robot to Space That Looks Li ...
A humanoid robot will visit space for the first time in September aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, NASA announced Wednesday. The Robonaut 2, which was co-developed by NASA with General Motors, will serve as an assistant to the humans on board the International Space Station, using the same tools ...
- The T. Rex of Leeches Found in Amazon Swimmers’ No ...
A toothsome leech found in the noses of Peruvian swimmers has called attention to an unrecognized and gruesome branch on the tree of life. Dubbed Tyrannobdella rex, “tyrant leech king,” the pinkie-finger-sized bloodsucker has a single jaw, with teeth five times longer than those found in any other ...
- Protecting People by Not Taking Actions That Lead ...
My latest TAP column expands on the themes from yesterday’s blog post , noting that for all the talk of “counterinsurgency”-oriented warfare putting more emphasis on avoiding civilian casualties, there are still an awful lot of civilians getting killed under COIN doctrine. Spencer Ackerman responds ...
- Africa: Partner or Problem?
Had there been more time, I would have been interested in pursuing some of the tantalizing statements about Nigeria's foreign policy that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan made in his remarks launching the Atlantic Council's Michael S. Ansari Africa Center yesterday. The chief executive — who wa ...
- Off-the-Radar News Roundup
- China raised the down payment requirement for purchases of second homes, from 40 percent to 50 percent of the property value, in an effort to rein in its boiling-hot housing market. - Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama returned home from Washington "empty-handed," with "confidence among Washing ...
- 3 in 5 Israelis Support Settlement Dismantlement f ...
I regularly watch the very good work the Steve Kull and his team do at the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland -- and just a few moments ago I got an attention-grabbing email from his team on Israeli political attitudes. Kull has done some excellent work lately pr ...
- Pondering Universal Jurisdiction: Did Spanish Judg ...
It was announced last week that Judge Bathazar Garzon will be investigated for over stepping his authority for knowingly taking on a case that was outside of his jurisdiction . Garzon is, of course, famous for indicting Chile’s General Pinochet for crimes against humanity in the 1990s which lead ...
- Lightning Round: All Tomorrow's Tea Parties.
National Review's Rich Lowry seems awfully smug about an NYT poll in which 52 percent of respondents fear that Obama is leading the country toward socialism and 10 percent don't know or didn't answer. In other words, 38 percent of those polled actually understand what socialism means. Way to go, g ...
- The Moral Behind Arizona's Draconian Immigration B ...
Most of the reaction to Arizona's passage of a draconian immigration bill -- one that is almost identical to the 2006 bill that set off mass immigration-rights protests across the country -- has focused on whether it will lead to racial profiling. SB 1070, which was approved by the state Legislature ...
- Shutting Down NYC's "Rubber Room."
New York City has reached an agreement to stop paying teachers who are sitting in a "rubber room" doing no work while they contest their firing. The city will also require principals and administrators to file charges against teachers within certain time frames, and pledges to speed up the hearing p ...
- The Little Video: Your Tax Dollars at Work.
It's Tax Day, and the Tea Partiers are out in full force . Instead of showing you crazy signs and tricornered hats, here's the tax-supported PS22 Chorus singing "This Must Be the Place" by the Talking Heads. Socialism, everybody!�
- Who's Hit Hardest by Layoffs in Newsrooms?
Via the Nation Institute, a new study shows that minority employees of newspapers have been disproportionately hit by the drastic layoffs in that industry, according to the American Society of Newspapers and Editors. About 800 lost their jobs last year, which brings their representation in newsrooms ...
- Please Sign The World Can’t Wait’s Statement Oppos ...
The following statement, prepared by campaigning group The World Can’t Wait, responds to a barrage of terrible news lately — including the endorsement of the assassination of Americans anywhere in the world and the Wikileaks revelation that US troops fired on an unarmed party of Iraqis in 2007, in ...
- Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantánamo Habeas R ...
On Tuesday I was delighted to be invited to speak once more with progressive radio host Jeff Farias. The show is available here, and the half-hour interview starts 24 minutes in. Jeff had read my recent article, “Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit” (originally p ...
- 800 blog posts – and thanks to all my supporters i ...
Please support my work! I recently passed another milestone as an independent journalist working mainly in the new media (and the very old media of writing books). My 800th blog post since I began writing about Guantánamo and related issues as a journalist nearly three years ago (following th ...
- Col. Morris Davis Defends the Rule of Law, Calls f ...
Yesterday, I was delighted to receive an email from Morris Davis, the retired Air Force colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantánamo Bay, who asked if I had a contact at the Huffington Post for an op-ed he had just written defending the importance of the rule of la ...
- 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 ...
- Support The Troops - Pay Your Taxes
Connecticut Man1 It is the tax deadline and this stuff is pretty self explanatory. You pay taxes and they get beans, bullets and valuable training that might just save their lives. When you want tax cut after tax cut? The active duty soldiers serving overseas, in training here or elsewhere and the ...
- 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. :)
- After Call to Arms, Nativist Extremist Leader Call ...
A major nativist group known for its armed border patrols is disbanding. In a Monday E-mail to supporters, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Carmen Mercer said the MCDC will no longer exist as an organization, though she encouraged supporters to continue its work independently. “I predict Am ...
- Paleocon Starts New Extreme-Right Magazine
Hard to believe there’s a need for yet another far-right magazine or conference, but now there are both. Richard Spencer, who was editor at “Taki’s Magazine,” an online paleoconservative magazine, is now executive editor of a new online magazine called “Alternative Right.” He calls this venture “an ...
- Second Hal Turner Trial Ends in Mistrial
The federal trial of hate blogger Hal Turner ended in a mistrial late this afternoon — for the second time. After deliberating for three days in Brooklyn’s U.S. District Court, jurors decided they would not be able to reach a verdict, according to The Associated Press . Judge Donald Walter declared ...
- April 19: A Schedule
April 19 is the most significant date on the antigovernment “Patriot†movement’s calendar. It marks the day that the first shots were fired against the British in 1775 at Lexington and Concord, but it’s also the anniversary of the end of the 1993 FBI siege at Waco, Texas, as well as the 1995 ...
- He’s Back: Robert Stacy McCain and the Washington ...
Robert Stacy McCain, a former key Washington Times editor who has suggested that “perfectly rational people” react with “altogether natural revulsion” to interracial marriage, apparently has returned as a free-lancer to the newspaper he left in January 2008. In a “Special to The Washington Times†...
- Five Major Shifts In Social Change Media
The centrality of social media in the Skoll Forum conversation has increased dramatically in the past year. What was, as recently as last year, a fringe panel discussion that was filled with questions of "how can I use this Facebook thing?" has become a full-blown conversation about the internet as ...
- Ending Poverty to End Conflict
As I wrote yesterday , there is a clear if subtle shift in the emphasis of the Skoll Forum this year. More and more of the content here is pushing social entrepreneurs to reexamine their roles in the context of big epochal challenges. One of the most interesting examples is the subset of organizatio ...
- Carriage Horse Industry Keeps the Reins in NYC
The New York City Council was considering three bills concerning the future of carriage horses this week: 1) ban the industry, providing for humane disposition of the horses; 2) replace the industry with hybrid classic cars; or 3) support the industry with raises for the drivers. If you guessed that ...
- The Tea Party's War on the Poor
A new poll from the New York Times takes us inside the minds of Tea Party members. Scared? The poll has lots of red meat for Tea Party opponents — 84 percent of members think the Tea Party represents the views of most Americans; 30 percent still think Barack Obama was not born in the United States; ...
- Natural Gas Suddenly En Vogue: What About Renewabl ...
It's been a pretty rough week for traditional energy titans here in the U.S. The coal debacle is well known. After the tragic West Virginia coal mine collapse earlier this month that killed dozens, coal executives were invited to speak before Congress this Wednesday to answer questions on topics ran ...
- Medvedev Fears 'Kyrgyz Civil War'
The Russian president has warned that neighbouring Kyrgyzstan is "on the brink of civil war" after the president was forced to flee the capital, Bishkek, in the aftermath of violent protests. Dmitry Medvedev's remarks in Wahington late on Tuesday came as the self-declared interim goverment threaten ...
- Indiana Connections to Drone Warfare Technology
by Fran Quigley The no-frills YouTube video looks like it could be the chronicling of an ambitious science fair project. Inside a spare Indiana warehouse, a young man launches a thin two and a half foot black cylinder into the air, where its propeller ...
- Yemen Refuses to Go Along with US Extrajudicial Ki ...
by Charles Fromm WASHINGTON - 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 preacher ...
- Only 'Global Democracy' Can Prevent 'Climate Trage ...
by John Vidal In what is becoming the hippest environment meeting of the year, presidents, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and Hollywood stars will join more than 15,000 indigenous people and thousands of grass roots groups from more than 100 countries to debate climate change in one of the w ...
- Climate Bill Would Curb EPA
by Lisa Lerer Efforts to limit the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases has emerged as a major battleground in the climate debate, as three key senators move toward releasing the first draft of their revamped climate bill. Recent drafts of the legislation wo ...
- Autodesk Homestyler Renders Your Blueprints in 3D ...
If planning some remodeling, landscaping, or any kind of home renovations is in your future, you'll want to check out Autodesk Homestyler—a free and simple to use drag-and-drop design tool. More »
- Stop App Store Links from Opening iTunes and Boggi ...
Even if you're a huge fan of iTunes and the App Store it's extremely annoying—especially on Windows—when you click an App Store link to check something out and your computer grinds halt. This simple browser-hack prevents the lag. More » ...
- Test Out VLC Media Player with (Rough) Hardware Ac ...
Windows/Linux: VLC gets a lot of praise around here, but it's Achilles' heel has long been a lack of hardware-accelerated playing, which means HD content choking up. A rough 1.1 preview offers GPU-accelerated video on Windows and Linux for cur ...
- Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Attachment Uploads, Deepe ...
Starting today, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 users can drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages without hassling through the slow, kind of annoying manual file upload. Gmail has also increased their support for Google Calendar with a new ...
- Fine Tune Volume Adjustment in OS X by Holding Alt ...
If you use a Mac, chances are you regularly adjust the volume using your keyboard's volume keys. They're handy enough, but the volume increment is pretty large. Reader cruud writes in with a new-to-us shortcut for more fine-grained control. ...
- McChrystal: We'll Have Our War No Matter What You ...
By Steve Hynd Our pal Gareth Porter with the news that General Stanley McChrystal isn't just a liar, he doesn't mind making Hamid Karzai a liar in front of over a thousand of his tribal leaders either. The U.S. military has now officially backtracked from its earlier suggestion that it would seek th ...
- Is Governor Of Helmand Province A Paranoid Crazy?
By Steve Hynd Imagine the epic fail for any population-centric counter-insurgency plan that installing a paranoid lunatic as local governor, one who hired his own thuggish and inexperienced friends as district leaders, would represent. That's exactly what the U.S. and its allies seem to have done in ...
- 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 ...
- Salmon fishing will return to West Coast
Fishery council votes for an abbreviated season for the Sacramento Delta chinook. The West Coast will have a salmon fishing season for the first time in two years, but it will be a far cry from the days when abundant chinook catches drove a multimillion-dollar industry in the region.
- The Week: April 15 21
The Red & Blacks event guide to happenings news, variety and sports in and around Athens from April 15 April 21. Pick of the Week Heads vs. Feds Debate about the Legalization of Marijuana High Times Magazine isnt a guide to first-class airfare, but it does advocate the one thing that can send yo ...
- Raising money continues to paint Selma's first mur ...
Selma's first mural is marching steadily closer from the fund-raising process to putting the paint on the wall. Around $5,000 has already been collected, with $11,500 left to go.
- 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 ...
- More on the Orbit digital short fiction offer
In the wake of yesterday’s announcement that Orbit US will be publishing short genre fiction in a digital format, The Scalzi weighs in with some pertinent questions from the authorial side of the fence: As I don’t know the answers to any of these questions, I’ll refrain from saying anything abou ...
- Content is a public good: the abundance economics ...
In the absence of Charlie Stross (who is out in Japan, the fortunate devil), guest posts are appearing on his blog… and today’s is a little something different, namely a 101 guide to the economics of digital media from one Milena Popova: So, to recap, for pure private goods, the market is both a pra ...
- Orbit to take short fiction to the digital market
From the press release: Orbit (US) has offered to publish digital editions of all original short fiction written by its authors. The digital editions will be distributed widely through major retail channels, for reading on a variety of devices. Authors will be paid a royalty for each story sold, rat ...
- I’ll trade a Puffin for my as-yet undelivered jetp ...
Personal electric aircraft? Yes please! Nice to see NASA aren’t just resting their feet on the desks at the moment, though whether the Puffin concept would ever make it out of R&D (let alone strike anyone as useful or necessary at a consumer level) is a question probably best left unasked. As charm ...
- Kingdom-jumping viruses leap from plant to human
Another pulp skiffy trope turns out to be (possibly) a little less pulpy: is the pepper mild mottle virus making people sick? Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Kingdom-jumping viruses leap from plant to human Share and Enjoy: Project Wonde ...
- UBS Whistleblower Files Clemency Petition
TAKE ACTION Today, Bradley Birkenfeld , the whistleblower who exposed the $20 billion illegal UBS tax fraud scheme, submitted a direct appeal to President Barack Obama and filed an official petition requesting clemency. Mr. Birkenfeld blew the whistle on a $20 billion program run by UBS designed to ...
- April 15 Plea for UBS Whistleblower
TAKE ACTION! Attorneys for Bradley Birkenfeld, the Swiss banker who exposed the massive ($20 billion) tax evasion scandal at UBS, Stephen M. Kohn and Dean Zerbe wrote an op-ed piece entitled “April 15 Plea: Pardon Tax Whistleblower” published on Forbes.com . Mr. Kohn and Mr. Zerbe criticize t ...
- Bunny Greenhouse inspires artist
Artist Marcia Annenberg was so inspired by the story of Army whistleblower Bunny Greenhouse that she has included a portrait of Greenhouse in a recent painting . "You are my hero," Annenberg says in a letter to Greenhouse. "Your compelling story is woven into my painting, 'Portrait of Two Women.'"� ...
- UBS Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld WIll File Off ...
TAKE ACTION! Washington, D.C. April 14, 2010. Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld , who is currently serving a 40-month sentence for one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States at Schuylkill County federal prison, will file a formal request for clemency to President Barack Obama on Ta ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Has the New York Times Run Afoul of the FTC's Endo ...
Terry Heaton and Jeff Jarvis have commented recently on the conflicts of interest implicated by the adulatory coverage of the iPad in the New York Times and other media companies. They point first to the expectation that widespread adoption of the iPad will foster consumer adoption of a platform wh ...
- Crowdsourced Project Relies On Fans For Rotoscopin ...
Digital artist Aaron Koblin has a fantastic knack for creating innovative, beautiful, fascinating works that merge the worlds of data and technology with art. Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, he created The Sheep Market by commissioning 10,000 online workers each to draw a left-facing sheep. Ten Th ...
- For Small Authors, eBooks Are Much Better Than Bei ...
Hephaestus writes " This is a different perspective on the e-books as the killer of the book publishing industry. It's a take from the small author perspective. " As the eBook experience improves, especially with the increased adoption of the Kindle and iPad, authors now have the same opportuni ...
- The Real Reason Skype's App For Verizon Phones Won ...
Back in March, Derek Kerton noted in a post here on Techdirt some peculiarities popping up around Skype's plans for mobile devices. In particular, he pointed out how Skype announced a version of its client for several smartphones on the Verizon network, but the app looked crippled because it couldn' ...
- Technology Isn't What's Holding Mobile TV Back
Nearly every single year of the past half-decade or so has been touted as "the year of Mobile TV", the year in which the long-heralded service would finally break through and get widespread adoption. It didn't happen in 2008 , it didn't happen in 2009, and while the upcoming World Cup is supposed to ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Just got back from seeing Alice Walker at Busboys and Poets. She spoke a lot about Israel, about finding your voice in the face of unspeakable horror, about starting where you are at and not always seeing change in terms of the big thing (policy…). Can’t wait to read her new book. She also answere ...
- 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 [...]
- 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 ...
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- COL. EVGENY KHRUSHCHEV: HELL-MADE DAY OF RECONING
Is that what the US military is for – to be duped into dope syringe surge? By Colonel Evgeny Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor (Moscow) Army of the Soviet Union Army of Russia The CIA Red Cell insinuation campaign, led by its agents of influence and media imbeds to spin a Black Widow angle, is no ...
- The Hypocrisy of a Killer
April 15, 2010 Danang, Vietnam Chuck Palazzo The Hypocrisy of a Killer Hypocrisy is defined as “the act of persistently professing beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that are inconsistent with one’s actions. Hypocrisy is thus a lie”. On April 18, 2010, The Dow Live Eart ...
- Yet Another Reason To Break Up The Big Banks
Many of us have pointed out that the economy will not stabilize until the too big to fails are broken up. We have also pointed out that derivatives are still very dangerous for the economy, that the derivatives “reform” legislation previously passed has probably actually weakened existing regulatio ...
- Did Nick Clegg win the televised leaders debate?
By Dark Politricks I have just watched the first UK televised debate between the three leaders of the main political parties and from the first reports in from pollsters and commentators it seems that the Lib Dem's Nick Clegg "won" the debate. This is obviously good news for the Lib Dem's and it ...
- 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 ...
- Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Super Posh (and Pricey) ...
New Spring sofa by Patricia Urquiola. Photo copyright Mairi Beautyman I've always been a fan of Moroso -- the brand is just so lux and classy....although very expensive, and not green. Until now. The Italian furniture manufacturer has not one but three eco-slanted items in its collection for 20 ...
- Pickens Still Has a Plan, Even If It Doesn't Inclu ...
photo: Florian Boyd via flickr. T. Boone Pickens hasn't been showing up as much in these pages since the wind power part of the Pickens Plan went south during the Great Recession, but, as Greentech M... Read the full story on TreeHugger
- Being Pushed Towards a Paperless Existence? Not As ...
Photo via koalazymonkey The debate on whether or not going green means going paperless is still a hot one. While digitizing much of our once-printed media saves on tree pulp, it doesn't necessarily save trees. A new article from GreenBiz calls into question just how much more environmentally fr ...
- Volcanic Haze Closes British Airports; Continent C ...
the Telegraph Another reason to take the train: Apparently planes cannot fly in volcanic ash. An eruption in Iceland is shutting down airports across the UK and spreading to the rest of Europe. The Telegraph, reports that the ash can shut down the engines and be sucked into the ventilation ...
- Ashley Watson & Lina Rennell Collaborate on Handma ...
Ashley Watson + Lina Rennell Bag. Image courtesy of Lina Rennell Two of our favorite green fashion designers Ashley Watson and Lina Rennell have collaborated on limited edition bags for the spring/summer season. Watson sources her leather from charity thrift shops and makes on-trend, functiona ...
- Where is the Debate on Obama's Assassination Progr ...
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The revelation last week that the president authorized the assassination of a US citizen created a surprisingly small splash. I try not to engage in speculative “imagine if” games, but if the president had done such a thing in 2005 ...
- 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 ...
- Do You Know Where Your Fish Comes From?
The American seafood industry is flooded with imported fish that are contaminated with banned chemicals, carcinogens, antibiotics, and other poisons.
- Diet Alone is Not Enough for Weight Loss
New research demonstrates that simply reducing caloric intake is not enough to cause significant weight loss. This could be the result of a natural compensatory mechanism that reduces physical activity following a reduction in calories. Diet and exercise must be combined to achieve weight loss goal ...
- New Proof that White Bread and Rice Increase Heart ...
Women who eat a lot of foods high in blood-sugar spiking carbohydrates, such as white bread and rice, are twice as likely to develop heart diseases. Complex carbohydrates, such as fruit and pasta, were not associated with the increased risk of heart disease. This suggests that the problem is not ca ...
- Omega-3 Boosts Male Fertility
The omega-3 fat DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) may reverse sperm abnormalities associated with infertility. Mice were genetically engineered to lack a gene that helps them produce DHA. These mice were found to produce fewer sperm, and a greater number of abnormalities in what little sperm they did hav ...
- How to Be in the Right Place at the Right Time Mor ...
Some people seem to have all the luck. Here’s how they do it: 1. Proximity Most “lucky” people put a lot of effort into being near as many opportunities as possible. Identifying areas in which you already have the necessary skills to capitalize on sudden opportunities. 2. Practice “Luck” usuall ...
- Norfolk Without the Navy
By David Swanson It's hard to imagine a desirable and sustainable world with the world's largest naval base still in it, but it's hard for a lot of people in Norfolk, Virginia, to imagine it gone. The military is not just the force of good that selflessly patrols the world, slaughtering evildoers f ...
- Our National Epidemic of Violence
By David Swanson James Gilligan published a book 13 years ago called "Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic," in which he diagnosed the root cause of violence as deep shame and humiliation, a desperate need for respect and status (and, fundamentally love and care) so intense that only killing ...
- Dutch Holocaust Victim Finally Receives An Apology
Today is Shoah day in Israel and also the 65th anniversary of the liberation by Canadian troops of Westerbork , the Nazi transit camp in the east of the Netherlands. As Radio Netherlands reports, one of the survivors of the death camps has finally been recognised by the Dutch government, As part of ...
- The Rich Progressive Legacy of FDR
April 12, 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the death of the leader who spearheaded the twentieth century progressive movement, righting the economic ship during perilous times, giving Americans hope at a time when it was desperately needed while changing the face of the Democratic Party in the pro ...
- Reducing Wastewater Contamination Starts with a Co ...
Cross posted form Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In Accra, Ghana, most homes do not have indoor plumbing or sewage systems. Instead, households dispose of waste into the same ditches and streams that urban farmers use to irrigate the crops they sell at local markets. The u ...
- 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 ...
- Meatless Monday: A Campaign Rooted in Public Healt ...
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health embraced the Meatless Monday campaign back in 2003, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has proudly served as the national campaign’s scientific advisor ever since. Today I welcome and laud The Johns Hopkins Hospital for launching its ...
- 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 ...
- DDN headline writer nails it!
Wow, a chance to see Alan Keyes! Dayton Daily News reporter Katie Wedell also got some choice quotes from Tea Party rally attendees in Fairborn, Ohio: “We want capitalism back” — Brenda Schmitt of Beavercreek “We hate being told what to do” — U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, R-Urbana I don’t kno ...
- Too many goddamned links (again)
Air travel is shut down all over Europe due to volcanic ash from Iceland. That or the Icelanders are burning all their bad paper all at once. - Econacy: The comments on Stephen Hemsley’s big payday (so far 65 out of 74 people agree he’s not worth it, and half the comments have a decidedly single pay ...
- Jesus fucking Christ
$102 million? His Wikipedia page says it all.
- All the news that was fit this morning (but which ...
Very slow starting today so it’s probably just as well I ran errands instead of blogging this morning. Met a friend for coffee and that jazzed me back into high gear but judging from the morning stats, it’s spring everywhere and everyone’s ass is dragging (or otherwise distracted, or at least that’s ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Aboriginal Press eBook: When Victims Become Victim ...
When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry Xenophobic War Against Itself and the Rest of the World Free eBook download: (PDF Format) Brief excerpt from the eBook Edition : -------------------------------------- This Ebook is a complete edition of a ten-part editorial originally published i ...
- Native American Delegation to Bolivia Climate Summ ...
Grassroots Indigenous Delegation brings voices of the people to Bolivia Climate Summit By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Top photo: Michelle Cook, Navajo A delegation of grassroots American Indian activists will attend the Bolivia Climate Summit, thanks to the gen ...
- 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 ...
- Footage of Meteor in Wisconsin
An impressive video capture of last night’s massive meteor fireball reported in Wisconsin. Related posts:Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics Related posts: Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics
- 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 ...
- 2005 destruction of interrogation tapes caused con ...
'The heat from destroying is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes ever got into public domain.' A cable ordering the destruction of the tapes, which were held at an overseas location, was first drafted by a person who remains undercover [Well, isn't *that* convenient?] The 2005 destruct ...
- E-mail: Ex-CIA chief agreed with tape destruction
Former CIA Director Porter Goss agreed with a 2005 decision to destroy interrogation videos showing waterboarding, but nobody told White House counsel Harriet Miers, who was "livid" to find out afterward, according to internal CIA e-mails released Thursday. The documents show that, despite Goss' ...
- Afghans 'abused at secret prison' at Bagram airbas ...
--The abuses are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected . Afghan prisoners are being abused in a "secret jail" at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented. The US military has denied the existence of a secret detention sit ...
- British security staff feared dead after suicide c ...
As many as seven Western contractors [] mercenaries were feared dead last night when the southern Afghan city of Kandahar -- the target of Nato's next big operation -- was hit by a huge suicide bomb. Windows were blown out two miles from the blast after a vehicle was driven into a compound housin ...
- Four German soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Four German soldiers were killed in Afghanistan Thursday and five wounded, Berlin said, in the latest bloodshed bound to fuel opposition to the unpopular mission. The government said in a statement that the troops were travelling from the northern city of Kunduz to Baghlan, a Taliban stronghold. ...
- A Bailout For Arms Dealers: US Aid and the Israeli ...
By Rela Mazali and Jesse Bacon The US Congress has shamefully abdicated its oversight role in US foreign policy and has become an apologist for the worst policies of the Israeli Government, all the while sending Israel billions of dollars in aid. Fortunately activists are not waiting for the US Cong ...
- How to Market Gaza as an Israel Success Story
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway The following guide was inspired by a report by the Government of Israel, summarizing Israel’s humanitarian activities for the Gaza Strip in 2009 and at the start of 2010, which was submitted yesterday to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee. Take things out of context. When ...
- Israel Demolishes and Silences its Bedouin Village ...
By Yeela Raanan of Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Village (RCUV). (ed’s note: This piece shows how home demolitions are not limited to Palestinians in the Occupied Territories or those who are suspected of crimes.) April 13, 2010. The Government of Israel is putting me on trial next ...
- 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 ...
- New bill would mandate energy storage for Californ ...
A new bill in the California Assembly would mandate that electricity utilities store 2.25% of peak demand load by 2014 and 5% by 2020. AB 2514 was introduced by Attorney General Jerry Brown and Assemblymember Nancy Skinner. If it passes, energy storage will become common in California and this will ...
- New energy storage technologies
Green Chip Stocks details some of the new ways to store electricity. This is an important feature for the creation of a smart grid. Currently, supply must always equal demand, as there’s no place to store it. This is inefficient and wasteful. With stored energy, power plants can create energy at nig ...
- Polizeros Icelandic Volcano investment opportuniti ...
Where some see tragedy, we see opportunity. Now, you can speculate in disaster severity in our newly created ASH (Assessing Significant Hazards) exchange. Afraid the Iceland volcano might cause a crop failure in Europe? Then short some of our ETFs, like those composed of European food futures, airli ...
- US geothermal grew 26% in 2009
Nevada continued to lead in terms of projects under development with more than 3,000 MW in the pipeline. The fastest growing geothermal power states were Utah which quadrupled its geothermal power under development, New Mexico which tripled, Idaho which doubled, and Oregon which reported a 50% incre ...
- Oregon state panel probes teacher wanting to ‘demo ...
[the teacher] has said he would seek to embarrass Tea Partiers by attending their rallies dressed as Adolf Hitler, carrying signs bearing racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets, and acting as offensively as possible — anything short of throwing punches. Why is it any business of a state school board ...
- Anat Kamm and the Peacock Incident
Since the gag order was lifted last Thursday(April 8 2010), the Israeli public debate has been largely engaged in indignant verbal stoning of whistle-blower Anat Kamm and journalist Uri Blau. The most vicious attacks have focused on the treasonous criminality of the theft (Kamm) and possession ...
- 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 ...
- This Day In History – April 16
1178 BC; The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War. 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt. 1862 – A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law. 1917 – Lenin returns to ...
- Martin Luther King, Jr: LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAI ...
April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my [...]
- Internet Host’s Supporters Trying To Raise Bail Mo ...
Supporters of an internet talk-show host, the self-proclaimed former “minute mom” or “psycho babe,” are raising money to get her out of the Taney County Jail. On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Christie Czajkowski with two counts of felony child abuse and two counts of felony child endangerment and res ...
- Media Downplay of Ron Paul’s Popularity Reflects E ...
We are not stupid. This becomes more and more evident as time goes on. Oh, sure, many of us are or were apathetic. Many of us living amongst this mass of humanity residing in this land designated The United States of America have given up hope of effecting change in the political system and have [.. ...
- Deadline Live – April 14 2010
Wednesday – Hour One: Rasmussen Poll Shows Ron Paul and Cousin Barry in a Dead Heat and Much More… Hour Two: Jack’s Special Guests John Bush of Texan’s For Accountable Government and Catherine Bleish of The Liberty Restoration Project Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Fac ...
- Kernel of Science
As I see it, the battle with global warming is not where many alleged ’skeptics’ would prefer. Radiative physics mandates, and I mean MANDATES that CO2 makes it take more time for heat to escape from the surface of the earth to space. Since that is the case there are a few types of skeptics [... ...
- AR4 – 30% non reviewed literature
Nofrakkingconsensus just finished a report on the IPCC chapters. -Take a moment to check out the link. 21 of 44 chapters in the United Nations’ Nobel-winning climate bible earned an F on a report card we are releasing today. Forty citizen auditors from 12 countries examined 18,531 sources cited i ...
- 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!
- Crack, Junk Food, and Addiction
In TIME, science writer Maia Szalavitz dissects a recent rat study that was purported to show that junk food is "as addictive" as crack . Some rats were assigned to the equivalent of an all expenses-paid cruise: nearly continuous access to a spectacular array of fatty delicacies including bacon and ...
- 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 ...
- Misinterpreted Job Posting Sparks Rumors of Chines ...
Recent media reports from China suggested that Facebook is looking to enter the country even though it is currently blocked. The reason, it turns out, is that local Chinese media misunderstood a job posting by Watercooler, a Facebook application developer active in the country. And, yet, we hear whi ...
- Facebook Tests Advertising Offers in Its Credits V ...
Facebook is partnering with two offer providers so users can earn its virtual currency, Credits, without having to pay directly. For users, this means another way to get Credits without paying — meaning they’ll possibly get more virtual currency for social games and other applications on Facebook. F ...
- Saudi Arabia Leads the Middle East With High Growt ...
Following a lull in growth in February, most of the Arabian Peninsula (plus Egypt) sped ahead in March, adding 640,280 new monthly active users. That’s an 8.2 percent increase, to a total of 9,830,480 users for the sub-region, which we’ve broken out from our latest Facebook Global Monitor data ...
- Facebook Announces First Round of PhD Fellows
Facebook announced it would start a Ph.D. fellowship program — and yesterday the company announced who these first fellows would be during the 2010-11 school year, as chosen from hundreds of applications. Finalists appear to specialize in areas that Facebook has been either addressing or planning ...
- 5 Gum Will Offer Free Streaming Of This Weekend’s ...
For those of us you that didn’t get your Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival tickets for this weekend’s uber-concert in southern California, 5 Gum is offering you a way to enjoy the festivities live through your Facebook page. Coachella and the Wrigley brand have teamed up to offer three live s ...
- Did banned Israeli media report foretell of Gaza w ...
Jonathan Cook views the possibility that a banned report by Haaretz journalist Uri Blau – suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in 2008 – contained vital information warning of Israeli intentions to commit war crimes and revealed the aims of a so far unimplemented phase of the Gaza attack invo ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Thoughtless Thinking
I wished I had recorded the name. There was a black man on CNN defending Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for his announcement designating April as Confederate History Month. The only thing the man had to say was the same tired old rhetoric about how it was good to see the other side of [...]
- A response to the article: “New Scramble for ...
Commentary from xcroc: There is a lot of misinformation here, the only thing really accurate is the names of the countries. I don’t have time available to go through and document point by point, but I will recommend some reading for those who may wish to know more. First I looked up the author Dr. J ...
- 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
- 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 [ ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Hamas Should Be Treated As A Political Actor: Rich ...
Dr Hanan Chehata, interviews Prof Richard Falk Interview With Prof. Richard Falk the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied , since 1967
- Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney, And Ru ...
By Andy Worthington Col. Lawrence Wilkerson last week submitted a declaration in a lawsuit seeking compensation from the U.S. government that was filed by former Guantanamo prisoner Adel Hassan Hamad. In the declaration, Col. Wilkerson, who served in the U.S. military for 31 years and was chief of ...
- Obamas Record On Guantanamo Just As Shoddy As Bush ...
By Lt. Col. Barry Wingard It pains me to say that nothing has changed since Obama became President. In fact, people are questioning whether we can believe that any change will ever come. On February 5, 2008, Obama said, change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. He i ...
- Endless Casualties Of Israels Buffer Zone
By Eva Bartlett Mahmoud Shawa, 19, is the latest victim of Israeli aggression against Gazans in Israels Buffer Zone
- Fighting American Wars From On High
By Tom Engelhardt In the last week, we ve seen -- literally viewed -- a modern example of what it means in our day to act from the heights, and we ve read about another striking example of the same. The website WikiLeaks released a decrypted July 2007 video of two U.S. Apache helicopters attacking ...
- U.S. Army Clarifies HTS Role: Human Terrain System ...
There has been a lot of debate over the years about HTS’ part in the US Army’s intelligence operations function. Critics and neutral observers have known for some time that HTS is an information collections program. HTS proponents have denied that fact at every turn. At long last, that debate is fin ...
- CIA PUT ROZA INTO POWER? OIL, HEROIN, AIR BASES AN ...
- VIDEO: Massive fireball reported across Midwestern ...
Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said.
- Senators consider gasoline tax as part of climate ...
Estimates put it in the range of 15 cents a gallon. Some oil companies are on board with the plan because it would cost them far less than other proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
- Call for choice on gene testing to allow designer ...
- Obama´s Dead End On Iran Sanctions
Summary: "This is, truly, a “dead end” policy. The way out, for the Obama Administration, is to get serious about nuclear diplomacy with Iran—first of all, by reaching agreement on plan for refueling the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR)." source: The Race for Iran read more
- Iran: Sanctions Will Fail -- Then What?
Summary: At some point down the road -- six months, twelve months, down the road -- the Obama administration is gonna have to basically ask the question of "what do we do now?" since the sanctions are, predictably enough, not working. source: MRZine/KBO Radio read more
- Full text of Iran's letter of complaint to the UN ...
Summary: Iran’s UN ambassador Mohammad Khazaee called for the Security Council and other UN related bodies to show serious opposition to the US President’s nuclear policies and his threat against an NPT signatory which does not hold nuclear weapon. source: ISNA read more
- Iran complains to UN over Obama 'nuclear blackmail ...
Summary: Iran's letter to the United Nations: "The United States, in an illegitimate manner, has identified a non-nuclear country as a target of its atomic weapons and is drawing its military plans on this basis." source: AFP read more
- Turkey, Brazil Come out against new Iran sanctions ...
Summary: Juan Cole On Iran, the picture for Obama was far more mixed. Turkey announced itself firmly against ratcheting up sanctions on Iran. This stance matters because Turkey is a non-permanent member of the UNSC. Likewise Brazil currently has a seat, and its goverment, as well, has just annou ...
- Artificial pancreas breakthrough offers solution f ...
(NaturalNews) It's downright amazing: A biomedical engineer at Boston University has developed a so-called "artificial pancreas" that helps diabetics maintain balanced blood sugar levels by monitoring the blood and releasing either insulin or glucagon as needed. Now all those people who eat artifici ...
- Dark-skinned immigrants to Canada urged to take vi ...
(NaturalNews) Canadian doctors and nutritionists are urging dark-skinned immigrants coming to Canada to supplement with vitamin D in order to stay healthy. Many Canadian immigrants have relocated from countries with warmer, sunnier climates, and are exposed to far less natural sunshine in Canada tha ...
- Want to save the planet? Eat less meat and dairy
(NaturalNews) The British government has released major recommendations for a diet that is good for both the planet and human health, and reducing consumption of animal products is one of its top priorities. "So far we've had fragmented and contradictory thinking on what dietary intakes should be. A ...
- The Sick Care Economy (comic)
(NaturalNews) This CounterThink cartoon was originally published in 2006, and at the time it seemed almost outlandish to suppose that virtually an entire economy could be run on junk foods, sickness, disease and health care. And yet in the years since, this scenario has become more of a reality in t ...
- What are the health consequences of the tax season ...
(NaturalNews) It's tax season in the U.S. again, and when it comes to discussions about the financial burden on the economy from the complexity of the current U.S. tax code, most of the criticisms focus on the number of dollars (or hours) spent in compliance. According to a study from the Tax Founda ...
- Final Conspirator in Credit Card Hacking Ring Gets ...
Damon Patrick Toey, the “trusted subordinate” of TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez, was sentenced in Boston on Thursday to 5 years in prison. He also received a $100,000 fine and three years’ supervised release, according to the Justice Department. Toey, 25, helped Gonzalez breach the networks of numerous ...
- Cyberwar Commander Survives Senate Hearing
President Obama’s pick to be the 4-star general at the head of the military’s new computer security and cyberwar command sailed through a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, while revealing virtually nothing about he plans for the new command. Lieutenant General Keith Alexander has run the Nationa ...
- NSA Official Faces Prison for Leaking to Newspaper
A former senior National Security Agency official was slammed with a 10-count indictment Thursday after allegedly leaking top secret information to a reporter at a national newspaper. Thomas Andrews Drake, 52, was a high-ranking NSA employee with access to signals intelligence documents when he rep ...
- Yahoo, Feds Battle Over E-Mail Privacy
Yahoo and federal prosecutors in Colorado are embroiled in a privacy battle that’s testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. The  legal dust-up, unsealed late Tuesday, concerns a 1986 law that already allows the government to obtain a suspect’s e-mail from ...
- Prosecutors Seek 6-Year Sentence for TJX Hacker’s ...
If TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez had gone to trial instead of pleading out, one man would have been the primary witness against him — accomplice Damon Patrick Toey. Toey, identified often in court documents simply as “PT,” provided information that investigators say likely helped persuade Gonzalez to p ...
- Tea Party "Contract from America" a Fiscal Suicide ...
As Tea Party favorite Karl Marx once said, historical events occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. And so it is with the Tea Party " Contract from America ." But rather than following Newt Gingrich's gimmicky 1994 path to retaking control of Congress, the Tea Partiers sound more like Ronal ...
- 10 Inconvenient Truths for Tax Day
With Tax Day again upon us, two story lines will predictably dominate the media coverage on April 15th. In their perpetual war on taxes, conservatives will claim that rates are too high even as those Americans who receive tax credits get " welfare ." Meanwhile, frothing-at-the-mouth Tea Partiers w ...
- Right-Wing "47% Pay No Taxes" Talking Point Debunk ...
welfare ." Now, media as diverse as the Daily Show and the New York Times are pushing back against the latest attack in the Republicans' perpetual class war. In a segment Tuesday titled, "That's Tariffic," Jon Stewart lamented: "The media attacks the poor and elderly for not paying federal income ...
- 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 ...
- Yes, We Have a Sense of Humor About the Derby
Oldest and most important horse race in the world, most exciting two minutes in sports, blah, blah, blah. It's not really Derby season until the Running of the Rodents. It took a little persuading, but once Burrhus Frederic decided to break from the starting gate, the gray and white rat circled the ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Andrew Bacevich continues to be our favorite true conservative. Maybe because he is a Colonel who buried his son, and knows what war is, and not a chickenhawk? "My own view is that every American war, large or small, ought to be commemorated smack dab in the middle of the nation's capital. Crowding ...
- So What Are The Big Banks Hiding Now?
From Susie Madrak @ C&L: Interesting, don't you think? They don't want us to know who took our money and how much, because they don't want us to know just what bad shape they're in. Notice their general counsel says they're concerned about "real-time disclosure of information" that could cause a ban ...
- What Would War Billions Buy in Your State?
$7.5 Billion. �That's what Kentucky taxpayers have paid for Smirky/Darth's pointless desert clusterfucks since 2001. �And it's going up $50 every second. You can watch it increase at breathtaking speed here, at Cost of War dot com. �The counter shows totals for all wars since 2001, just Iraq and jus ...
- It's a model of an ATOM, you morons!
Oh good Ford. The stuff you miss when you throw away the teevee sets and just watch the stuff you really want to see online. Since I don't surf, I didn't see the idiots on Fox get their knickers in a twist and jump off the deep end squaking about yet more proof that the president is a secret Muslim ...
- Burmese Refugees Face Starvation
Aid agencies in Bangladesh are warning that thousands of unregistered Burmese refugees are facing starvation because of government moves to drive them out of the country. The refugees, from a Burmese minority community called Rohingya, complain that Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- Social Media Reacts To West Virginia Coal Mine Tra ...
Facebook members come together to offer condolences and prayers to those affected by this tragedy... Submitted by Sally G. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- HAMP: Still No Hope for Homeowners
A common refrain among those who testified yesterday was that HAMP remains a mostly voluntary program; that Treasury has yet to force mortgage servicers, who are the boots-on-the-ground connection to homeowners, and investors to make tough but necessary c Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� ...
- Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy
There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before. Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Speak out Against Slaughter The Whales need you! P ...
April is a dangerous time for whales in Norwegian waters: it marks the start of whaling season. This year, up to 1,286 minke whales will die from exploding harpoon and rifle wounds. Norway needs to know that this is unacceptable, NOW. Submitted by Tierney G. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
- Really Lost in Space, Obama in Delusional Orbit
What a breathtaking, audacious display of mathematical ignorance by Barack “Nero” Obama! who spun an unintelligible fantasy today at the Kennedy Space Center today. President Obama told a supportive crowd at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday that NASA should aim to send astronauts to explore as ...
- Double Dip Recession?
Well Barack, how’s that stimulus package turning out? Not so good. Here are the latest “good” news about Barack’s economic leadership: Foreclosure rates surge, biggest jump in 5 years A record number of U.S. homes were lost to foreclosure in the first three months of this year, a sign banks are st ...
- How To Beat the Crap Out of a College Kid
Here’s a good “How To” if you are in the market for wanting to put a beat down on some unsuspecting college kid. Now let me tell you what the media is not. Although the media is acting like this is something new and unexpected, that is just not the case. Prince George’s County Maryland borders [.. ...
- Obama’s Increasing Disdain For The Press
Well, this is a fine how-do-you-do for a press that was completely sycophantic for Obama, did his bidding, published whatever he, Plouffe, or Axelrod claimed about Obama without EVER bothering to look it up (except for a very, very few intrepid reporters, like John Kass and Lynn Sweet, both out of C ...
- The Democrat Debacle
The Democrats control the House and the Senate with overwhelming majorities. And what do they do with this advantage? Cry like puppies scalded by hot water. Take a gander at this poor excuse for “leadership:” Congressional Democrats said Tuesday that they may be unable to approve a budget plan th ...
- Yummy! - How to Cook Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs
Chesapeake Bay's Blue Crabs are a terrific feast for summer. In fact, many Marylanders prefer a crab feast to any other sort of outdoor cook-out. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Help! Aliens In My Tree!
They look like tiny aliens in your Cedar or Juniper tree, but they aren't. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Bull Terrier Vs Porcupine
This is what happened when said canine messed with the wrong animal – a porcupine that made a pin cushion out of the dog’s muzzle... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Young Eco Designer 2010 - A Special Interview With ...
This spring sees the launch of the Young Eco Designer 2010 competition, which hopes to inspire eco-friendly behaviour in a fun and creative way by encouraging kids to ‘up read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
- Rapping Mouse Works the Mic to Promote Herbs and G ...
Recently, Mountain Rose Herbs held a contest for folks to create fun videos that promote environmental preservation. The winner, Chives the Mouse, created by Catherine Wi read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Times Have Changed So Why Haven’t We?
We know that education is suffering in many ways nationwide. An enormous increase of students with special needs is being identified. According to America’s Promise Alliance, capable students are dropping out of school. In April 2008, ABC World News segment (“Failing Grades,” April 1) featured a ...
- Crist vetoes Senate Bill 6 – victory for students, ...
We won! Governor Charlie Crist of Florida Vetoes SB 6, merit pay/testing trap After huge teacher call-ins (at least 6,700 teachers in Miami/Dade school district alone) and scores of student walkouts, along with a huge rally and other actions, including a “sit-down” (turned meeting with Governor Cr ...
- BAMN attorneys representing the elected Detroit Bo ...
Picket and Press Conference Friday, April 16, 1:00 pm City/County Building Woodward & W. Jefferson Court Hearing, 2:00 pm Room 1421, Judge Wendy Baxter Stop Rob Bobb from Dismantling Public Education in Detroit No More Charters, No School Closings, No Layoffs, No Program Cuts Our Children are N ...
- Can America Have a Quick Recovery from Economic Co ...
By Guest Blogger Liping Chen, Job creation has been a major problem since the Bush administration. 2009 was marked as a year of spending with unfulfilled economic recovery. President Obama, in his State of the Union address, pledged ‘jobs must be our number-one focus in 2010′, and proposed ‘a new ...
- US threatens to nuke Iran; blame victim’s “intenti ...
video live and author engages in comments at source. Can you handle the truth? Do you have the intellectual integrity and moral courage to employ middle school-level verification of factual claims on our nation’s most important issues? This involves no belief; only verification of the following ob ...
- Why Are Corporate Groups Funding the Tea Party?
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Why Are Corporate Groups Funding the Tea Party? � �Shamus Cooke Source: � Global Research April 15, 2010 Rank and file Tea Partiers are, politically speaking, lost at sea in the dead of night, looking for the light of comm ...
- Caucasus Emirate media: Int'l terrorists from FSB ...
The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus Emirate (mujahideen) news agency, citing other media sources. International terrorists from FSB Russia murdered Polish President with EMP � � Kavkaz Center April 14, 2010 �12:54 Emirate time The Romanian Global News wa ...
- 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 ...
- A Radical Climate Solution Goes Mainstream
Scientists have come to accept the necessity of researching this worst-case approach to addressing the climate crisis -- and so have some conservatives, creating what one scientist called "an alliance of strange bedfellows."
- Massey Takes on Obama Over Violation Backlog
Speaking at the White House this morning, President Obama took Massey Energy to task over last week’s deadly mining explosion in southern West Virginia, saying that the tragedy was “a failure first and foremost of management.” “Owners responsible for conditions in the Upper Big Branch mine should be ...
- Democrats File Cloture on Lael Brainard
This afternoon, the Senate filed cloture on the nomination of Lael Brainard to become undersecretary for international affairs, one of the highest ranking positions in the Treasury Department. Both Larry Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are former undersecretaries for international af ...
- Holder: We Must Use ‘Both Our Civilian Court ...
In a packed room of civil libertarians assembled for a Constitution Project dinner, Attorney General Eric Holder gave a passionate if unpopular defense of the use of military commissions in addition to civilian courts to prosecute terrorism detainees. Disappointing his civil-libertarian supporters, ...
- Pelosi Suggests Admin Changes Enough to Ensure Min ...
Judge for yourself, but in the following exchange with a reporter today, it sure seems that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is saying that the administration, through regulation and enforcement, has the power to ensure the safety of miners without Congress stepping in with new legislation. Fro ...
- 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 ...
- Organizer Of ‘Crash The Tea Party’ Rec ...
Organizer of ‘Crash the Tea Party’ receives threats By Anita Kissée KATU News and KATU.com Staff Story Published: Apr 14, 2010 at 12:57 AM PDT   Story Updated: Apr 14, 2010 at 8:32 PM PDT PORTLAND, Ore. – A group planning to infiltrate Tea Party protests on Tax Day is led by a local ...
- Talking Palestine To Power
By Sonja Karkar, ZNet, April 14, 2010 Today, there is no excuse for not knowing the truth about Palestine, especially what is happening in Gaza. Even taking into account the disinformation spread in mainstream media, there are enough glimpses one gets of [...]
- War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, April 13, 2010 War crimes, massacres, and, as Al Jazeera properly calls it, “collateral murder,” are all part of the US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. The release last week of the Wikileaks video, thirty-eight grisly minutes long, [...]
- Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud, Part 2
“This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character to assure you that The War of The Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theatre’s own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush [...]
- Springboro Tea Party Leader Who Suggested Shooting ...
Local Tea Party Leader Who Suggested Shooting Hispanics Now Is Wanted By Cops — Tweets: ‘Arm Yourself’ TPM MUCKRAKER Zachary Roth | April 14, 2010, 3:35PM Police are searching for a local Tea Party leader in Ohio who is wanted for violating a temporary protection order. Meanwhile, speakers at ...
- Chemtrails Movie
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- G. Edward Griffin Talks About Chemtrails
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- Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.15.10
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency cha ...
- Nanoparticles
From Wikipedia: In nanotechnology, a particle is defined as a small object that behaves as a whole unit in terms of its transport and properties. It is further classified according to size: in terms of diameter, fine particles cover a range between 100 and 2500 nanometers, while ultrafine particles ...
- The Boom That’s Left Small Business Behind
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! At least that’s what a recent flood of articles appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and BusinessWeek are asserting. The economy really is recovering, thanks mainly to the Obama administration’s policies, and those who doubt it are simply too obd ...
- 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 . ...
- Blacklist of opaque companies published
Corporate Responsibility magazine has broken it’s tradition of positive reporting of CSR issues and published a blacklist of the least transparent companies in the US. The list highlights those corporations which publish only the minimum amount of information they need to in order to comply with reg ...
- Hotel offers pedal-powered meals
A Copenhagen hotel has unveiled an unusual plan to do its bit for the environment - asking eco-conscious guests to get on their bike and pedal their way to a greener future. The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers , located 15 minutes from the centre of the capital, has installed two stationary exercise ...
- DNA swap targets genetic diseases
Inherited diseases could be prevented through the use of a technique that swaps DNA between eggs, scientists have claimed. Researchers at the University of Newcastle said the method involves transferring nuclear DNA inherited from a child's parents to a donor egg free from malfunctioning cells. They ...
- Bangladesh 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 ...
- 'History girls' new fad in Japan
A growing number of Japanese women are looking to a romaticised version of the past for escapism and role models in a trend which has gathered popularity over the past year. Labelled rekijo, or “history girls”, women from their late teens to mid twenties are styling themselves on a bygone era and t ...
- We can try to inflate away the government’s ...
Summary:  another in a series about the financial condition of the US government.  This is  follow-up post to Why the U.S. cannot inflate its way out of debt (15 March 2010).  We’re in worse shape than most of our peers, and far larger (whales cannot manuever like minnows).  Other posts ...
- FM newswire for April 15, interesting articles abo ...
Today’s links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. “French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment“, Daily Telegraph, 11 March 2010 — “A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinati ...
- A major function of our intelligence agencies is t ...
Summary: Another in a series about the effectiveness of our intelligence apparatus. Today we examine one of its greatest accomplishment, the creation of the global jihad. Just-in-time salvation for the 21st century military/intelligence apparatus, facing the prospect of post-communist obsolescenc ...
- FM newswire for April 14, interesting articles abo ...
Today’s links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. Not a good start: “Tea Party NY Gov Candidate’s E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality“, Zachary Roth, 12 April 2010 — “Caputo accused Democrats of wanting to change the subject from su ...
- The EU does Kabuki for Greece. Is it the next domi ...
The ever-evolving rescue plans are — so far — just Kabuki. It’s obvious, but seldom acknowledged — as explained in this excerpt from “Europe’s bazooka is not enough“, Models and Agents, 8 April 2010: Back in August 2008, Hank Paulson, then US Treasury Secretary, went to Congress to request the ...
- Japan rolls out elite science funds
Nature – FIRST scheme targets large grants to world-leading researchers. Physicist Akira Tonomura struggled for seven years to raise funding for his dream project: developing a microscope able to image three-dimensional arrays of atoms in unprecedented detail. Last March, with little hope of finding ...
- French City Plans To Harness Pedestrian Power for ...
Popsci – In the French city of Toulouse, the newest craze in sustainable energy is about to hit the streets. Literally. Inspired by a nightclub in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the city of Toulouse has begun investigating the installation of energy-absorbing sidewalk panels that would harvest pedestrian p ...
- DR Congo gang rape crisis ’spreading’, new study s ...
BBC – More than half of the victims of rape in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo were gang raped by armed men, a report says. For years rape has been used against women in the region but the report reveals the scale of the problem. Read article
- Fed Shouldn’t Reveal Crisis Loans, Banks Vow to Te ...
Bloomberg – The biggest U.S. commercial banks will take their fight against disclosure of Federal Reserve lending in 2008 to the Supreme Court if necessary, the top lawyer for an industry-owned group said. Continued legal appeals will delay or block the first public look at details of the central ba ...
- Evidence of First Virus That Infects Both Plants a ...
Popsci – From rabies to bird flu to HIV, diseases passing from animals to humans is a well-known phenomenon. But a virus jumping from plants to humans? Never. At least, that’s what doctors thought until Didier Raoult of the University of the Mediterranean in Marseilles, France, discovered that the m ...
- 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 ...
- Envision Launching Three Sub-$30k EVs This Summer
There's been a lot of press lately about EV launches and pricing strategies of big auto companies, like Nissan with their LEAF. But out of the shadows, practically-unknown Envision Motor Company has emerged and announced that they will be launching not one, but three EVs this summer, all with a pr ...
- IBM Requiring Suppliers to Track and Report Enviro ...
IBM has made a significant step in cleaning up its global operations. It's now requiring all of its suppliers in 90 different countries to install management systems to track environmental data like energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste and recycling levels. All suppliers must set envir ...
- Solar-Powered Airplane Has Its Maiden Flight
The Solar Impulse HB-SIA, a solar-powered aircraft under development for an emissions-free around-the-world flight , had its maiden flight on April 7. Bertrand Piccard, the adventurer who first flew a balloon non-stop around the globe, is the chairman of the Solar Impulse project. The plane was ...
- 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 ...
- Memo to Tea Party followers: That Other Party Is S ...
Body From yesterday's NY Times/CBS News poll on the Tea Party movement and its 18 percent of supportive Americans, the bad news -- in fact, I'd say worst news -- was that they reject the idea of a conservative base-dividing third party. Drats. They're smarter than we thought. The good ...
- Sen. George LeMieux Wins Our GOP Hypocrite Award f ...
George LeMieux Welcome back to GOP Hypocrite of the Week. On Tax Day 2010, President Obama outlined a plan to save the federal government money by privatizing and cutting parts of an enormously expensive federal program . One would think Republicans would be overjoyed by such news. But remember, ...
- Having Tried Blaming Victims and Jews Already, Vat ...
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White So much for diplomacy. After the Pope and the Catholic Church at large failed miserably at placating the angry and disgusted masses after the public became aware of the widespread child abuse scandal, the Vatican's top diplomat was deployed to explain what had ...
- To Organize Against Wall Street, We Need a Narrati ...
DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH In politics, it’s always all about the narrative, about how issues are framed. We ask ourselves how we can be experiencing the largest economic meltdown in decades with millions out of work and millions more losing their homes, and yet, with no real mass mobilization or ...
- Republicans Insist No One Shouted 'N-Word' at Demo ...
TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH “Obama wasn’t born here!” “His birth certificate’s a fake!” These are the kinds of positions The right wing’s likely to take. They want every Democrat’s claim To be challenged and put on trial The only weapon they seem to have When faced with the truth is denial .read more
- What happened to "look forward, not backward"?
(updated below) The�Obama Justice Department today announced that it has secured a ten-felony-count indictment against�Thomas Drake, an official with the National Security Agency during the Bush years. �Drake's indictment, of course, has nothing to do with the criminal surveillance unde ...
- The Obama DOJ's warrantless demands for emails
A very significant case involving core privacy protections is now being litigated, where the Obama Justice Department is seeking to obtain from Yahoo "all emails" sent and received by multiple Yahoo email accounts, despite the fact that DOJ�has never sought, let alone obtained, a search warrant , an ...
- Blog news
Ever since I began writing about political matters, reader support has been a vital means of enabling me to maintain independence and devote the vast bulk of my time and energy to what I do here.� As I noted during last year's blog fund-raiser, this model of readership support for journalism and com ...
- 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 ...
- Smoking cadmium, benchtop X-rays, genetic obesity
Latest science news including this week’s round up from my SpectroscopyNOW column: Smoking out cadmium problem – A statistical analysis of spectroscopic data is helping scientists home in on the problem of decreased fruit and vegetable consumption being associated with an elevated concentration of ...
- Young children see the moon illusion
Why does the full moon seem bigger when it’s near the horizon than when it’s high in the sky? The moon illusion, which also applies to the perception of the size of the sun in the sky, has intrigued artists and puzzled psychologists for many years. The moon illusion refers to the fact that the sun ...
- Eye disease, combat robots, and a battery boost
Latest round-up of science news, including my Intute physical sciences news column. ETROP Study MNR – Treatment strategy confirmed for childhood eye disease Reviewing peer review – Scientific peer review has many problems and no one seems to know how to address them Bots High – A documentary on hig ...
- 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 ...
- U.S. Judge Threatens EPA With Contempt on Everglad ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) A frustrated federal judge stopped just short of a formal contempt of court finding against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to stem mounting pollution in the Florida Everglades. ...
- Major Corporations Step Up for Certified Green Ele ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Basel Action Network The Basel Action Network (BAN), the group that first documented the dumping of toxic electronic waste in China and Africa, announced today the official launch of the world's first global e-waste recycler certification and the first such pr ...
- UBS Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld Files Officia ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 National Whistleblowers Center Today, Bradley Birkenfeld, the whistleblower who exposed the $20 billion illegal UBS tax fraud scheme, filed a direct appeal to President Barack Obama and an official petition requesting clemency. The petition, which is now avail ...
- On Tax Day, Brave New Foundation, With Congress Me ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Brave New Foundation On Tax Day, Members of Congress Alan Grayson, Raúl Grijalva, and Barbara Lee will partner with Brave New Foundation to release an online short that reminds tax payers to take stock of how the war in Afghanistan is affecting the economy an ...
- Federal Marriage Discrimination Hurts Families on ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Freedom to Marry April 15 th marks a deadline that few Americans look forward to - and same-sex couples in particular have reason to dread. read more
- The Whistleblower They Ignored
by Robert Scheer There aren’t too many genuine heroes to come out of the banking disaster, but Armando Falcon is one of them. You have probably never heard of him, but his testimony Friday before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, available on the commission’s website , is must reading for any ...
- 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 ...
- The Tea Partiers' Racial Paranoia
by Joan Walsh Salon's Numerologist, David Jarman, nails it today : He combines the widely covered CBS/New York Times poll on the Tea Partiers -- no surprise, they're white, and they think President Obama is doing too much for black people; some surprise, they're wealthier than the average voter ...
- Powell River to Privatize Wastewater Treatment
POWELL RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 15, 2010) - Residents may soon see privatized wastewater treatment if the City's plan goes ahead. CUPE 798 members are raising concerns about the agreement in principle the City signed with Catalyst on Friday, April 9.
- Bellingham meeting to focus on local and global wa ...
BELLINGHAM - The League of Women Voters of Bellingham/Whatcom County will focus its Saturday, April
- Voice Yourself Abroad: Use A British Vote!*
A GIVE YOUR VOTE/USE A UK VOTE (GYV/UAUKV) Project involving the Planet Repairs Youth Positive Action Campaign (PRYPAC) and its associated organisations, networks and other campaigns in Ghana; supported by the PANAFRIINDABA All-Afrikan People's Community Consultative Commission in Europe, London, Un ...
- Consulting firm to analyze county septage facility ...
Siskiyou County will soon be seeing an assessment of options for replacing its aging septage storage facility, which has come under fire from regulators in recent years for failing to meet state standards.
- DMCI to join bid for Angat hydroelectric plant
MANILA, Philippines - A unit of listed DMCI Holdings, Inc. will participate in the bidding for the 246-megawatt (MW) Angat hydroelectric plant, joining heavyweights Ayala Corp., Metro Pacific Investments Corp., the Lopez family, and San Miguel Corp.
- Lib Dem support surges after debate win
Boost for Lib Dems as ComRes survey shows Nick Clegg's party gaining 14 points among those who watched last night's TV debate Nick Clegg has surged into contention as a potential prime minister, according to a Guardian/ICM poll carried out following last night's TV leaders' debate. A quarter of vote ...
- Pakistan criticised over Bhutto death
Pakistan officials condemned for failing to protect Benazir Bhutto or investigate her death properly Pakistan's intelligence services have been condemned in a devastating report by a United Nations inquiry into the assassination three years ago of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The report ...
- Liverpool owners confirm sale plans
• BA chairman will run five-man board at Anfield • Hicks and Gillett agree refinancing extension with RBS Tom Hicks and George Gillett today formally announced the beginning of the end of their turbulent ownership of Liverpool with confirmation they have put the club up for sale and appointed the Br ...
- China quake death toll nears 800
Rescue teams in Qinghai province in China say nearly 300 people still missing after major earthquake in Yushu The death toll following a major earthquake in western China has risen to at least 791, with another 294 people missing, rescue teams in Qinghai province said today. As the country's prime m ...
- £225m fine for cigarette price fixing
Imperial Tobacco fined £112m and Co-op and Asda were penalised by £14m each A dozen tobacco manufacturers and retailers, from supermarkets to petrol station operators, have been fined a record £225m by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for unlawfully inflating the cost of cigarettes. The fine, the la ...
- Comeback for climate cautions and caveats
There are many ways in which climate science has moved on since the mid-1990s, the period from date which the oldest e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and featured in the so-called "ClimateGate" affair - and there are quite a few in which many both insi ...
- 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 ...
- Waxman Cancels Hearing, Report Shows Actual Loses ...
After President Obama signed the new health care bill into law, large corporations like AT&T, Catepillar and John Deer announced that a provision in the law that preserves the subsidy employers receive for providing retirees with prescription drug coverage, but prevents companies from deducting it f ...
- Draft House Ethics Committee Rules Recognizing Gay ...
Roll Call is reporting that the House ethics committee “has drafted rules that for the first time would define gay married couples as ’spouses’” in the financial disclosure forms Congressional members and their staffers file each year. While the change would not affect any openly gay members — none ...
- Pro-Immigration Reform Activists Say ‘Viva T ...
In stark contrast to the angry “tea party” activists who marched on the nation’s capital today to protest excessive taxation, crowds of peaceful immigration reform supporters gathered outside post offices in several cities yesterday and today bearing signs with slogans stating “We Love Taxes!” and “ ...
- What Does The Government Do With All That Money?
Today is tax day, when about $1 trillion is due from American taxpayers to fund their national government. Income taxes make up the largest slice of the revenue pie, though payroll taxes, whose burden fall heaviest on working families, are close behind. The combination of President Bush’s tax cuts f ...
- Reagan’s Solicitor General Promises To ̵ ...
Last night, Fox News hosted what may have very well been the first conversation about how the constitutional challenges fit into the current state of law. Greta Van Susteren invited Charles Fried, the former U.S. Solicitor General under President Regan, to explain his opposition to the lawsuits. Fri ...
- Canadian Forces Says They'll Investigate Allegatio ...
Um, that's okay boys. We'll take it from here. A parliamentary committee has heard stunning allegations from a former translator who claims the Canadian military tried to cover up the fatal shooting of an Afghan man in October 2007. Responding to the allegations late Wednesday, the chief of defen ...
- 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 ...
- Market Observation: March Madness?
by Brian Pretti. "In more ways than one? Sure could be. Time to quickly discuss the theoretical end to Fed money printing to buy back mortgage backed securities. As you know, there’s plenty of thought on the Street that mortgage rates will pop immediately when this wondrous and oh-so experimental pr ...
- Sell Now, Buy Later – the ABCs of Short Selling
by Jake Weber. "The catch phrases "Buy low, sell high" and “The market fluctuates” are probably the two most frequently used clichés of the investment world. The latter statement is hardly astute, and the former far easier said than done. What both of these simplistic ideas overlook is a third conce ...
- An interview with a long wave master (Part 2)
by Clif Droke. "David Knox Barker is one of the leading authorities on the economic long wave, otherwise known as the Kondratieff Wave (a.k.a. “K Wave”). Barker has had an impressive career both as a financial market writer and long wave analyst, as well as being an entrepreneur in the field of eme ...
- Market Observation: Irreconcilable Differences
by Chris Martenson, Ph.D. "I may have to get a divorce from the news. I just can't get things to add up anymore. For example, even as the stock market surges along, as one might expect at the tail end of trillions in stimulus and bailouts, and retail sales apparently roared ahead in March according ...
- Gold in Perspective
by David Galland. "As the price of gold rises and the inevitable quacking begins again about the “barbaric” metal being overvalued, I thought a quick check-in with the historical perspective might prove useful. The first of two charts that follow shows the long-term picture of gold from 1970 to the ...
- Street Papers Do More Than Report the News
The North American Street Newspaper Association, with the help of the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation, has launched a new website . The NASNA, of which I am the chairperson, represents 31 street newspapers that work with more than 1,500 individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty ...
- Down for the Count: The U.S. Census Bureau's Failu ...
Neil Donovan is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Neil is the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. It is unknown nearly how many homeless people live in the United States. America's inability to define the size and na ...
- Goodbye to Tent Living in Honolulu
Starting next Monday, tents are no longer allowed in Honolulu's beautiful parks. While the law applies to everyone, I think we all know why it was instituted — to get those pesky homeless people from living in the park. How else to explain why police have been handing out fliers about alternatives l ...
- 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 ...
- My Lie Detector Results
This past Sunday, Dr. Rima Laibow interviewed me on her radio show, Dr. Rima Reports: Your Health, Your Way. Some people have doubted my former ties to secret societies. So, during this interview I got hit with the tough question about my relationship to the Illuminati, Bildeberg and other secret ...
- New Study Says LESS Cardio Gives Better Results
April 15, 2010 Mercola Dr. Mercola Working out for 20 minutes a day using interval exercise may provide many of the same benefits of much longer workouts done in conventional “long-duration” style. Many experts “recommend that children and teenagers exercise one hour every day and adults get a weekl ...
- 3 out of 5 Brits Do Not Believe the NHS is Doing a ...
April 15, 2010 Telegraph By: Rebecca Smith When asked to grade the NHS only 30 per cent gave it a score of very good or excellent, The Deloitte 2010 Survey of Health Care Consumers in the United Kingdom, found. The NHS scored worse than the healthcare systems in Canada, France and Switzerland but be ...
- Home Foreclosures Hit a Five-Year High in March
April 15, 2010 Daily Finance By: Betsy Schiffman Amid growing signs of an economic recovery, one troubling fact remains: Foreclosure rates aren’t slowing down. In March, 367,056 foreclosure filings were reported, according to RealtyTrac, up 19% from February and up 8% from a year earlier. It was the ...
- New Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Soar
April 15, 2010 Yahoo! Finance The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless aid soared last week as the backlog from the Easter holiday was processed, adding to worries about the economic recovery, while U.S. industrial output rose less than expected in March. Initial claims for state une ...
- Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
- Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
- Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
- Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
- Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
- Obama’s indiscriminate killing program
In The Price of Assassination, Robert Wright reflects on the pitfalls of President Obama’s policy of so-called targeted killing. Wright comes closest to hitting the right target when he says: Terrorists are nourished ultimately by a grass-roots sense of injustice. And one good way to stoke a sens ...
- Obama ain’t no Spock
A US resolution to the Middle East conflict has become a national imperative and a logical necessity. Therefore it will happen. At least it would if we lived in a world governed by logic… I confess I don’t pay unswerving attention to everything that’s happening in Washington, so when I saw a headl ...
- Obama: Middle East peace “is a very hard thing to ...
Amid swirling rumors and grand propositions, President Obama spoke yesterday on the so-called peace process and among peace-process professionals his words will be duly noted as an effort to “manage expectations”. But for those of us who do not have an investment in the idea that the show must go o ...
- 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 ...
- Where’s the Climate Beef?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back in the US there was an ad for a hamburger chain. It featured an old lady who bought a competitor’s hamburger with a great big hamburger bun. But when she opened it up she asked … I got to thinking about this in the context of whether there is [...]
- A House bill aiming to make research and data open ...
Climategate demonstrated what can go wrong when a few misguided scientists take control of data and keep it from the public. Now there’s a movement afoot to make open access to data and research papers a law. Congress takes another stride toward public access to research Federal Research Public Ac ...
- NOAA says – Hottest (Warmest) March on Recor ...
I’m sure the press will make this into a much bigger story. This today from NOAA News. The choice of “hottest” in the title is interesting. We should ask our Canadian friends if it was “hot” during March, since Canada seems to be leading the world in “hotness” according to the NOAA image. – Anthony ...
- Ash Thursday – the day the UK was planeless
The eruption of a volcano in Iceland has the skies over the UK and Europe filled with ash. Like what happened on 9/11 in the USA, planes are landing everywhere and staying out of the skies. Volcanic ash eats scours jet turbines, making in flight failure almost a certainty. There’s a cool website ca ...
- Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud – airport ...
This image, acquired on 15 April 2010 by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland, more than 1000 km away. The ash, which can be seen as the large grey streak in the image, is drifting [... ...
- F. William Engdahl: Kyrgyzstan’s second R ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews April 15, 2010 — F. William Engdahl discusses situation in Kyrgyzstan F. William Engdahl: Kyrgyzstan Revolution see Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US-run Menas air base + US reacts to Kyrgyzstan coup Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asi ...
- Keiser Report: Special Greenspan Bubble edition
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday April 13, 2010 — This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of financial crisis show trials in America; Citigroup alleges they could not possibly have predicted the collapse of a very obvious housing bubble; and for ...
- Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney and Rum ...
by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 13 April, 2010 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 gove ...
- The U.N. Partition Plan and Arab ‘Catastrophe’ by ...
by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal 13 April, 2010 The following is excerpted from The Rejection of Arab Self-Determination: The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Arab-Israeli Crisis. In 1947, Great Britain, unable to reconcile its conflicting o ...
- U.S. Reserves Use Of Nuclear Arms, Missile Shield ...
by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 13, 2010 This month has seen the signing of an agreement on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II by U.S. and Russian heads of state Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in Prague on the ...
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"You Can't Even Have A Beard Anymore In This Country Without Being Called A Fucking Terrorist!" By Darryl Mason A stunning, downright shocking glimpse of the reality behind so many of those news stories you see where someone leaves court and "turns on the media". An Australian mainstream TV news ...
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More quality journalism from Rupert Murdoch's The Sun (UK) : And the apology, buried on Page 10, days later. Suggested? Presumably they knew the story was bullshit, but they just couldn't resist that oh so punny headline. How will you be able to resist paying to read such thorough investigat ...
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An amazing glimpse of the Future Now reality of digital books. Impressive stuff : It'll be hard to drag me away from the paper and carboard variety, but books have barely changed (besides become mass market) in centuries. A revolution in book publishing is long overdue.
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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 :
- Oldest Martian Meteorite Not as Old as Thought
The Allan Hills meteorite, named for the site where it was found in Antarctica, was once thought to contain fossil traces of life. That idea has been mostly dismissed, and now the rock also appears to be not quite as old as previously thought. The oldest known Martian meteorite isn’t so old after ...
- Networked Networks Are Prone to Epic Failure
Networks that are resilient on their own become fragile and prone to catastrophic failure when connected, suggests a new study with troubling implications for tightly linked modern infrastructures. Electrical grids, water supplies, computer networks, roads, hospitals, financial systems — all are ...
- Icelandic Volcano’s Ash Plume as Seen From Space
A NASA satellite captured an image of the ash plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano’s Wednesday eruption. We can see the ash plume from the event sweeping east just north of the United Kingdom en route to Norway. The plume has disrupted air travel in western Europe, The New York Times reports, be ...
- Why NASA Is Sending a Robot to Space That Looks Li ...
A humanoid robot will visit space for the first time in September aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, NASA announced Wednesday. The Robonaut 2, which was co-developed by NASA with General Motors, will serve as an assistant to the humans on board the International Space Station, using the same tools ...
- The T. Rex of Leeches Found in Amazon Swimmers’ No ...
A toothsome leech found in the noses of Peruvian swimmers has called attention to an unrecognized and gruesome branch on the tree of life. Dubbed Tyrannobdella rex, “tyrant leech king,” the pinkie-finger-sized bloodsucker has a single jaw, with teeth five times longer than those found in any other ...
- Dina Elmuti: Deir Yassin’s inextinguishable fire
It is a reminder to us all that injustice did take place there, and that it is our responsibility to remember that the atrocities and intolerance we see and hear about today had their inception with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- Did Banned Media Report Foretell of Gaza War Crime ...
Jonathan Cook: Haneen Zoubi, an MP who previously headed an Israeli media-monitoring organization, said it was "outrageous" that the suppressed report was still secret so long after the Gaza... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
- Nadia Hijab: Rollback America / Parsing Petraeus
The best way for America to achieve its goals would be to seek a definitive end to Israel's occupation and other human rights violations; to itself get out of the occupation business with its... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
- Israeli Public’s Support for Dismantling Most Sett ...
A survey of the Israeli general public and Israeli settlers taken in early March shows three-fifths of the Israeli public (60%) support "dismantling most of the settlements in the territories as part... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Al Mezan: Israeli Military Order enables IOF to ex ...
Gaza-born Palestinian living on WB: 'The Israeli order will destroy our lives. We will live as if we live in a huge prison even if we are not deported to Gaza. No one would dare to leave the city or... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- UC San Diego Ranked Among America's Best Graduate ...
The University of California, San Diego's School of Medicine, Jacobs School of Engineering and graduate programs in the sciences are ranked in the top 20 by America's Best Graduate Schools, 2011 Edition released today by U.S. News & World Report. The annual, closely watched nationwide ranking of co ...
- Odorant's Molecular Structure Determines Its Pleas ...
Weizmann scientists find that the perception of an odor's pleasantness is hard-wired to its molecular structure, indicating that smell may not be as subjective as once thought. These findings have implications for automated environmental toxicity and malodor monitoring, among other applications.
- For Older Adults, Flu Season Tends to Peak First i ...
An analysis of hospitalization records for adults age 65 and over found that seasonal flu tends to move in traveling waves, peaking earliest in western states and moving east. New England states tend to have the latest peak in seasonal flu. The public health research team detected patterns between p ...
- Weekend Hospital Admissions Are Higher Risk for Pa ...
Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) who are admitted to the hospital on a weekend are more likely to die than those admitted on a weekday, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). This disparity was most evident in smaller hosp ...
- Take Charge of Your Healthcare Plans on National H ...
UVA is encouraging all adults to complete an advance directive, a document that allows adults to specify what kinds of medical treatments they would want and who they would want making decisions about their care if they were unable to make decisions for themselves.
- NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
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- 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 ...
- Mainstream Scientists Finally Admit that GMOs are ...
Andrew Pollack reported yesterday at The New York Times Online that, “Genetically engineered crops have provided ‘substantial’ environmental and economic benefits to American farmers, but overuse of the technology is threatening to erode the gains, a national science advisory organization said Tuesd ...
- Ten Good Reasons Why GMOs Are Not Compatible with ...
Despite fundamental differences in what they represent, there are occasional calls to allow the use of genetic engineering (which produces genetically modified organisms, known as GMOs) within the USDA National Organic Program. GMO varieties are currently most widespread in corn, soybean, canola an ...
- Study Finds Benefits in Modified Crops but Warns o ...
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- Hot Topic gets it wrong again #86
Truffle grower Gareth Renowden thinks he can race to the defence of a flawed Royal Society analysis with this piece of fluff: TWB [Treadgold, Wishart, Brill] are wrong, and Hunter’s precise point is correct: the measured increase in carbon storage...
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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
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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 ...
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Overheard at UC Berkeley while people were waiting to get into the room for the divestment debate: Student: "So, is Alan Dershowitz going to be here?" Akiva Tor, Israeli Consul General: "I hope not." Related posts:First calls to students who spearheaded Hampshire divestment came from an anger ...
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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 ...
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- Village Boys
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- War reporter Michael Yon wants answers on Seattle ...
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- The Battle for Kandahar: Part I
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- Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Super Posh (and Pricey) ...
New Spring sofa by Patricia Urquiola. Photo copyright Mairi Beautyman I've always been a fan of Moroso -- the brand is just so lux and classy....although very expensive, and not green. Until now. The Italian furniture manufacturer has not one but three eco-slanted items in its collection for 20 ...
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photo: Florian Boyd via flickr. T. Boone Pickens hasn't been showing up as much in these pages since the wind power part of the Pickens Plan went south during the Great Recession, but, as Greentech M... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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- Volcanic Haze Closes British Airports; Continent C ...
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- Ashley Watson & Lina Rennell Collaborate on Handma ...
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- Georgia to join health care constitutionality laws ...
[JURIST] Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum [official website] announced Tuesday that Georgia will join [press release] 18 other states in a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted health care bill [HR 3590 materials]. The lawsuit was originally filed ...
- Zimbabwe government voids law restricting foreign ...
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- Kyrgyzstan interim leader urges trial of ousted pr ...
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- Federal judge orders Mississippi schools to desegr ...
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi [official website] on Tuesday ordered [DOJ press release] a southern Mississippi school district to end its practice of allowing students to transfer from their assigned schools and classroom groupings, resulting in a ...
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- Ton's Musical Musings: Matthias Loibner and the hu ...
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- Empire State Building Glows Green for Forces of Na ...
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As California continues its leadership in countering global warming, we face a critical policy decision on whether to solve some of the state’s insidious air pollution problems at the same time. While opponents of Assembly Bill 32, California’s landmark global warming legislation, vigorously ...
- Soviet Era Query
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Michael Cecire responds to my article about the sale of four Mistral class amphibious assault ships to Georgia, but unfortunately misses most of the point: Certainly, there is no question that the Russian navy has qualitatively declined since the demise of the Soviet Union. And to be sure, even the ...
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