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IPS - Inter Press Services

• POLITICS-HUNGARY: Rightward Swing Has Fascist Over ...
  BUDAPEST, Apr 18 (IPS) - In the autumn of 2006 Hungary was rocked by a series of anti-government protests triggered by the release of a tape in which then prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány confessed to his Social-Democratic Party (MSZP) having lied to win elections that year. Now it is payback ...
• Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona Desert Crossin ...
  NOGALES, Mexico, Apr 17 (IPS) - As he drops his last purification tablet into a pail of swirling, murky water, Sergio, 26, stares out toward the desert. Recently deported from Arizona, where he has a young child and where he has lived for the majority of his life, he explains, "I have to ret ...
• WATER-ZAMBIA: Lozi Make Annual Migration to Higher ...
  KANDIANA, Zambia, Apr 17 (IPS) - Josias Akataama spent March watching the moon wane above, and flood waters rise from below. Only with the sighting of the new moon, would the men, women and children of Kandiani know when they could leave the water-logged village for higher ground.
• CHILE: Rebuilding Smiles
  SANTIAGO, Apr 17 (IPS) - Alongside crucial emergency relief efforts, numerous organisations are offering free movies, concerts, plays, comedy performances and other cultural events aimed at lifting the spirits of people suffering the after-effects of the earthquake and tsunami that struck ce ...
• MEXICO: Rights Activists Face Threats, Arbitrary D ...
  MEXICO CITY, Apr 17 (IPS) - Francisco Jiménez, a member of the National Committee of Rural and Fishing Unions (CONORP) was arrested on Apr. 7 in the Mexican capital by agents from the southern state of Chiapas in what activists say is another case of arbitrary detention.

Scoop - NZ

• 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 ...

Independent ( London )

• Zimbabwe marks 30 years under Mugabe
  When will all this end? It's a common refrain in Zimbabwe. "Only when the old man goes," said Tinaye Garande, a street vendor.
• KLM pushes to resume passenger flights after tests
  KLM, the Dutch subsidiary of Air France, says it has flown a plane through the cloud of volcanic ash covering Europe without suffering any damage.
• Seven killed in suicide bomb at Pakistan police st ...
  A suicide bomber rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a police station in Pakistan today, killing seven passers-by.
• Ahmadinejad extolls Iran's military might
  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran's military is so powerful today no one would dare attack the country.
• Christie's sells 'fake' vintage wine, claims billi ...
  Allegations that Christie's auction house sold fake wine "over decades" have been made in a New York court.

Rogue Government.com

• China To Sterilize 10,000 Over 1-Child Limit
• UN Report: India Has More Mobile Phones Than Toil ...
  India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population.
• Polish Plane Crash: Pilot Not Pressured To Land
  Russian investigators said today the black box retrieved from Saturday's devastating plane crash that killed Poland 's president, Lech Kaczynski, did not provide any evidence that the pilots had been pressured to land.
• Military Vet Kills Himself In Front Of VA Medical ...
  A 27-year-old Army veteran shot and killed himself at the front steps of the Dayton Veterans Administration Medical Center just hours after he had been in the center’s emergency room.
• Feds indict former Blackwater president, 4 others ...
  The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the king of Jordan.

Innovation Canada

• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• Empathetic mirror neurons found in humans at last
  Brain cells that may underlie our ability to empathise with others have been detected directly in people for the first time. Monkey brains have been shown to contain so-called "mirror" neurons, which fire both when the animal performs an action and when it observes others performing that action. Un ...
• Stop Griping Joe Public - The Election Aint Abou ...
  It's gonna be a corker!...For us, not you. In my long career as a political correspondent I honestly can't remember more buzz and excitement than that currently being generated by this looming election campaign. What's that Marr, I hear you say, have you finally lost your mind? -Well, no, I haven' ...
• Cardinal praised bishop's silence over abuse pries ...
  The Vatican has confirmed the authenticity of a letter in which a cardinal praised a French bishop for not denouncing a paedophile priest. The letter, originally published in the French press, was written in 2001 by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then in charge of clergy around the world. A Vati ...
• Lawsuit: Drunk cop ran over woman, then supervised ...
  Albuquerque police carried out a "fraudulent" investigation into a drunk, on-duty police officer who killed a woman in a hit-and-run after leaving a bar, a lawsuit filed in a New Mexico court states. On April 6, 2008, Sgt. Andrew Gallegos left an Albuquerque bar where he had been drinking while on ...
• Ex-priest in Ireland faces more child abuse claims
  A former Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing children in Derry more than 20 years ago is at the centre of a new police investigation, the Journal can reveal. He is Gerard John McCallion (62), whose serial sex abuse of young children was exposed after he was caught in bed with a ten year-o ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Boogity Boogity . . .
  A FEW DECADES AGO, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY opened up P.E.A.R. , Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research . It was closed in 2007, after completing its experimental agenda of studying the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes, and developing complemen ...
• Abousfian Abdelrazik...
  ...is still getting screwed by the inaction of the sick sack of sociopathic sadists currently constituted as the Harper regime. Now go read Dawg , for details and, most importantly, some of the things you can do to help your fellow citizen and human being.
• Colombia : "A model for the region"
  Presser from the US Dept. of Defense today : Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates offered high praise to Colombia today as an "exporter of security" that, by sharing lessons learned in its crackdown against a leftist insurgency and drug-trafficking cartels, provides a model for the region. Gates commen ...
• Canada will still be in Afghanistan after 2011
  "After 2011, the military mission will end," said Defence Minister Peter MacKay , repeating the Conservative government's well-worn line."What we will do beyond that point in the area of training, will predominantly be in the area of policing. And that is very much a key component part of security f ...
• 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

Media Matters for America

• Conservative attacks on potential Supreme Court no ...
  Conservatives appear ready to attack anyone President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court as suggested by a New York Times article that quoted conservative activist Richard Viguerie signaling that he will affix the "radical" label to anyone Obama nominates. Furthermore, the specific attacks on pot ...
• ABC News' "birth tourism" article filled with con ...
  ABCNews.com published an article on "birth tourism" - the purported practice by foreign pregnant women "travel[ing] to the United States with the explicit purpose of obtaining citizenship for their child" -- filled with contradictions, misleading claims, racially charged rhetoric, and quotes ...
• FoxPAC -- Fox News hosts and contributors raise bi ...
  Fox News hosts and contributors continue to raise money for Republican candidates and causes using political action committees, 527 and 501(c)4 organizations. SarahPAC -- over $2.5 million raised in 2010 election cycle "SarahPAC believes the Republican Party is at the threshold of an his ...
• Right-wing media furious Obama "mock[ed]" tea part ...
  The right-wing media has attacked President Obama for "mocking average citizens"after he said "you'd think [the tea partiers] would be saying thank you," because he has lowered taxes. Indeed, absent from the right-wing media's outrage is the fact that Obama is correct; as the AP wrote, "[y]ou would ...
• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• Award Winning Movie: "SUPERPOWER":
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• CONFERENCE: World for 9/11 Truth Presents Richard ...
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• Dear Readers. We Need Your Support. Donate to Glob ...
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• Israel Evades 'Ambush' at Nuclear Summit
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Case for the Impeachment of Barack Obama
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Elie Wiesel's Jerusalem
  Friday's I nternational Herald Tribune brought us two statements, the first, a full page ad by Elie Wiesel, explaining his (and presumably every Jew's) attachment to Jerusalem, and second, a column by the Times ' Roger Cohen, explaining his (and presumably every decent person's) attachment to facts. ...
• The Same People Hated George Washington
  Any reasonable person has to be appalled by the increasingly vicious nature of the attacks (and incitement to violence) Congressional Republicans, Tea Partiers, Fox News, and radio hate-mongers hurl at President Barack Obama. A new element to the chorus of hate are right-wing "pro-Israel" types w ...
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• Annotating the Congressional Letter Affirming US-I ...
  I received a note today reacting to a set of Congressional letters reaffirming US-Israel relations from Sama Adnan , executive director of the new political action committee advocating for Palestinian interests, NewPolicy.org . He notes that 24 US Senators and 102 House Members did not sign on to ...
• The Only Way to Prevent Another Bailout of Wall St ...
  The best way for Senate Dems and the White House to respond to the Republican charge that the Dem plan for financial reform doesn't go far enough to prevent another bailout is to call their bluff -- and simultaneously do what's necessary to avoid another bailout: Cap the size of big banks, as the UK ...

TruthOut

• Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona Desert Crossin ...
  Nogales, Mexico - As he drops his last purification tablet into a pail of swirling, murky water, Sergio, 26, stares out toward the desert. Recently deported from Arizona, where he has a young child and where he has lived for the majority of his life, he explains, "I have to return, it's my home." re ...
• Zubaydah's Torture, Detention Subject of Senate In ...
  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has launched an investigation into the brutal torture of Abu Zubaydah, the "high-value" detainee captured in March 2002 that the Bush administration wrongly claimed was one of the planners of 9/11 and a top al-Qaeda operative, according to several Capitol ...
• The Firm Not Charged in Goldman Case Made Billions ...
  Washington - New York hedge fund manager John Paulson was one of the first to predict the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — and to cash in on his knowledge. By late 2005, he already had concluded that the subprime loans underlying high-yield bonds being sold worldwide would become worthles ...
• Obama Grants Hospital Visitation Rights to Gay and ...
  Gay rights activists cheered Obama's memo on hospital visitation rights, but the president faces increasing tension with constituencies who helped elect him and expected faster results. Washington - President Obama’s directive to give same-sex couples visitation rights in hospitals represents the l ...
• Journalism's Parasites
  No matter how much this week's Pulitzer Prize triumphalism hides it, the fact remains that journalism these days is "a disaster," as Ted Koppel said recently. And unfortunately, retrospection dominates the news industry's self-analysis. Like dazed tornado victims, most media experts focus on what ha ...

Planetsave

• Ecotourists Save the World is the Ideal Internatio ...
  Ecotourists Save the World by Pamela K. Brodowsky and the National Wildlife Federation is the newest guide to eco-tourism, volunteerism, or whatever your individual ism is to care more deeply for our incredible planet… Folks these days are compelled not only to look for less expensive vacations, ...
• Greenpeace Asks Nestlé to Give Orang-utans a Break
  30 Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans urged Nestlé shareholders to “give orang-utans a break” and stop profiting from rainforest destruction. Seriously – you gotta love Greenpeace. I wrote about the NGO’s creativity in an earlier post about sustainable seafood at Trader Joe’s . And now, ...
• Is There a Link between Cold UK Winter’s and Solar ...
  Could a link between a lull in solar activity and jet streams over the Atlantic Ocean be the result for why the UK is suffering colder winter’s while the rest of the world warms? According to a new report published in the Institute of Physics Publishing’s Environmental Research Letters points o ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Recent Flooding may be affecting water Quality
  With all the recent rain it’s really played a toll on our septic systems and in turn our wells. Resi
• Peru: new standards for effluents are insufficient ...
  The Peruvian environment ministry’s (Minam) new standards for wastewater effluents will have l
• The fifth meeting of the Convention on Biological ...
  The fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cart
• The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties ...
  The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-10
• Taking on water (quality): Arlington firm ready to ...
  Taking on water (quality): Arlington firm ready to launch BY O.K. CARTER April 12, 2010 A gem of an

Public Citizen in Texas

• Texas can meet all our energy needs for next decad ...
  Texas is growing.  In fact, we’re one of the fastest growing areas of the country.  Growing communities and growing business usually means building more power plants, which would add to our already significant air quality problems not to mention all of the greenhouse gases we would spew. But, rath ...
• 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Hadron Collider could form black holes
  New calculations based on equations devised by Albert Einstein support the idea that the LHC can form black holes. Some people expressed great concern...
• Where are the best places to spot UFOs ?
  People all over the world can flock to UFO 'hotspots' but where exactly are the best places to go ? These days UFO stories, reports and TV shows are e...
• Mother slims after gastric band hypnosis
  In an interesting twist a woman has lost weight after she was hypnotised in to believing she had a gastric band. Hypnotherapist Sara Ellis managed to ...
• DNA swap could eliminate inherited diseases
  A pioneering new fertility technique involving DNA being swapped between eggs could elimintate several conditions. The technique could prove to be eff...
• Bear killed by hunter may be a rare hybrid
  A bear killed by an inuit hunter could be a rare example of a cross between a polar and grizzly bear. Only one "pizzly" or "grolar" has ever been conf...

Grassroots

• Israeli-ordered Deportations Threaten Palestinians
  4420016059_8747cf54f2_b.jpg � This week in the West Bank, Palestinians brace for the consequences of one of the harshest Israeli military orders to date. �In what Israeli news source Haaretz called “a step too far ,” the military order set int ...
• Take Action: Food Sovereignty Threatened by Propos ...
  As early as next week, the US Senate could vote on legislation with tremendous consequences for farmers and small producers across the globe.� The Lugar-Casey Global Food Security Act, also known as S. 384, aims to increase US foreign assistance for agricultural research and production and represent ...
• Land Grabs Violate Resource Rights
  � read more
• 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 ...

Climate

• April 17-18, 2010
  More Volcanoes May Erupt Due to Warming, Scientists Say (Reuters) A thaw of Iceland's ice caps in coming decades caused by climate change may trigger more volcanic eruptions by removing a vast weight and freeing magma from deep below ground, scientists said. W.Va. Mine Disaster Calls Attent ...
• April 16, 2010
  Senate Climate Bill to Be Unveiled April 26 (Reuters) A long-awaited compromise climate bill being drafted by Democratic Sen. John Kerry, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be unveiled on April 26, sources said on Thursday. Manufacturing State Dems ...
• 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 ...

TomDispatch

• Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
• Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
  It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
• Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
  It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
• Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
  Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
• Tomgram: Droning On
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

• Crocodile Tears on Wall Street
  by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren’t so single-minded about just who’s responsible for all their troubles, real and imagined. They’re up in arms, so to speak, against Big Gove ...
• Goldman Sachs fraud charges anger Americans, humil ...
  I call on Tea Party activists to join liberal activists in a grand battle to impose a 50 percent surtax on Wall Street bonuses over the last five years — bonuses for those firms that caused the financial crisis. The fraud charges leveled against Goldman Sachs make Republican opposition to Wall Stree ...
• The Case Against Jamie Dimon: Oligopoly, Pain, and ...
  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon knew what he was talking about when he said that " large corporate America is in very, very, very, very good shape ." It's a crude and insensitive remark, but an accurate one. Unfortunately, the rest of us are still paying for the party. We bailed out the big banker ...
• When Barack decides to head a barrack
  "The continued presence of all options on the table"; this is the disappointing message which a Nobel Peace Prize laureate dispatches internationally. In his latest interview with CBS news, American President Barack Obama refused to rule out the possibility of a military strike against Iran by harki ...
• A Stadium Grows in Durban
  � from the Progressive I have been to many a playing field in my day, and never have I seen a sports arena as breathtaking as Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa. After taking a private tour of the $457 million marvel, I left utterly stunned, for both better and worse. Named after the late ...

Ten Percent

• Death By Medical Neglect & A Riot, But Look- Shiny ...
  At Oakington Migrant Detention Centre (named second worst and ‘unsafe’ in an official report by the Chief prison inspector Anne Owers) a man died (believed to be a Kenyan national), there was a riot and our supposedly over stretched security forces rustled up 150 riot officers to kidnap protesters ...
• Friday! Jamie Kilstein
  And part 2 & part 3. And Citizen Radio!
• Freedom’s On The March
• 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:-

Booman Tribune

• Quote of the Day
  Charles Blow went to a Texas Tea Party. His conclusion? Thursday night I saw a political minstrel show devised for the entertainment of those on the rim of obliviousness and for those engaged in the subterfuge of intolerance. I was not amused. I like that phrase. When you're on 'the rim of o ...
• Stoking Terrorism Pays
  President Clinton is concerned that Republican psycho-talk may instigate a reprise of the Oklahoma City bombing. With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaching, former President Bill Clinton on Thursday drew parallels between the antigovernment tone that preceded that devasta ...
• Talking SCOTUS Hurts Dems
  The Democrats had the worst week I can remember in the Research 2000/Daily Kos Poll, and I'm trying to figure out why. Two things dominated the news this week. The first was the nuclear summit. It's hard for to attribute a public shift against the Democrats to the summit. Even if the public does ...
• Accountability Now
  First Goldman Sachs, now Blackwater: Federal prosecutors charged the former president of Blackwater Worldwide and four other former senior company officials on Friday with weapons violations and making false statements in the first criminal inquiry to reach into the top management ranks of the pr ...
• Roethlisberger Is a Pig
  Compare the handwriting of Ben Roethlisberger's alleged rape victim from the day after the incident and the the night of the incident. It's obvious that she was completely blotto drunk. It's also obvious from both her allegations and the other witnesses that regardless of whether he actually raped ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 18 ...
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• Saturday Open Thread
  Who has been out in the sun?...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 17 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1940 – Birth of...
• Friday Open Thread
  It's Friday. Now I can work without being disturbed by clients. Yay....
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1951 – Birth of...

Futurismic

• Brain Hacks for Writers: new Futurismic column fro ...
  I very nearly didn’t bother emailing Luc Reid earlier this week. “C’mon, the guy’s probably waaaay too busy with other stuff to take on a monthly column for Futurismic, Paul,” I told myself… but I’m very glad I ignored that inner cynic, because he mailed me back just a few hours later, pretty much a ...
• Brain Hacks for Writers: new Futurismic column fro ...
  I very nearly didn’t bother emailing Luc Reid earlier this week. “C’mon, the guy’s probably waaaay too busy with other stuff to take on a monthly column for Futurismic, Paul,” I told myself… but I’m very glad I ignored that inner cynic, because he mailed me back just a few hours later, pretty much a ...
• Spimes go mainstream
  When The Guardian is cheerfully reporting about a UCL project called Tales of Things that intends to track the life of QR code-tagged objects across the web as well as geographical space, I think we can safely say the idea of the spime is moving beyond the realm of pure theory. Now, if you’ll excuse ...
• How to make two million bucks in a day legally
  It’s easy: all you do is sell a sparkly horse upgrade to your MMO client base. … this morning Blizzard announced the online sale of a new “celestial steed” for use in WoW.    These mounts cost $25 (on top of the retail price plus $15 monthly subscription).  So in a world of free games and [...] ...
• Spimes go mainstream
  When The Guardian is cheerfully reporting about a UCL project called Tales of Things that intends to track the life of QR code-tagged objects across the web as well as geographical space, I think we can safely say the idea of the spime is moving beyond the realm of pure theory. Now, if you’ll excuse ...

Therapy News

• Spanking Toddlers May Cause More Aggressive Childr ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though spanking has come under fire by many parenting groups and even government organizations, a large number of parents practice corporal punishment, though their tendency to do so may be halted by the results of a recent study performed at the Tulane University Sch ...
• Spirituality and Psychotherapy: The View from the ...
  By Lynn Schlossberger, MA, LPC Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The spiritual dimension can surface most unexpectedly. The change process seems to invite it. People come to therapy because they perceive, at some level, that something about their inner lives needs to ...
• Signs of Low Self-Esteem – Part II
  By Tina Gilbertson, MA, Self-Esteem Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Tina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Low self-esteem shows itself in many ways. Thinking others’ poor behavior is a reflection on us instead of them; disliking the human race; perfectionism; over- and underachi ...
• Mindfulness and Not-Knowing
  By Yael Schweitzer, LCSW, BC-DMT, Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yael and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile In my previous posting “Mindfulness and Knowledge,” I wrote about the gift of connecting with our inner knowledge that ...
• Caesarean Births: Are Women Told the Truth?
  By Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT, Women’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darlene and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Caesarian sections in the U.S. hit a record high for the eleventh year in a row – averaging about one-third of births nationally, up from 26 percent in 2002 and ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Time to end mountaintop removal mining - The Tenne ...
  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Time to end mountaintop removal mining The Tennessean Mountaintop removal and valley fill coal mining occurs mostly in the 12 million-acre coal-bearing region of Central Appalachia. ... RHEIN: End mountaintop removal madness Attleboro Sun Chronicle The End o ...
• Climate Denial -- or Just Plain Evil? - Huffington ...
  New York Times (blog) Climate Denial -- or Just Plain Evil? Huffington Post (blog) ... mining practices -- but the Environmental Protection Agency, for "heedlessly" seeking to stop water pollution caused by mountaintop-removal mining. ... The Massey mine disaster isn't just tragic, it's criminal Or ...
• The EPA Has Vetoed a Mountaintop Removal Mining Pe ...
  The EPA Has Vetoed a Mountaintop Removal Mining Permit for First Time CafeSentido.com ... on key environmental regulatory responsibilities, has for the first time in its history vetoed the approval of a permit for mountaintop removal mining. ... and more��
• Dump Chase to stop mountaintop removal mining - Mo ...
  Dump Chase to stop mountaintop removal mining Mother Nature Network (blog) MNN's Karl Burkart closed his Chase Bank account to protest their financial support of mountaintop removal mining. What can you do to help? ...
• Mountaintop Removal: Farewell to Forests - Natural ...
  Mountaintop Removal : Farewell to Forests Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) One of the biggest concerns about mountaintop removal coal mining has to do with its impacts on water. That's understandable, of course, because this ...

Memeorandum

• Obama Must Act To Ease Arizona's Deportation Panic ...
  Rep. Luis Gutierrez / The Huffington Post : Obama Must Act To Ease Arizona's Deportation Panic   —  It is open season on the Latino community in Arizona.  In Phoenix, Tucson, and across the state, people in Latino neighborhoods are afraid to leave their houses, afraid to be apart from their childre ...
• Source Of Vicious Right-Wing "Whisper Campaign" Ag ...
  Mere Rhetoric : Source Of Vicious Right-Wing “Whisper Campaign” Against Elena Kagan Uncovered   —  Like Domenech and Yglesias, 48 hours ago I would have sworn Kagan was out.  Now I realize that I was the gullible victim of a right-wing “whisper campaign,” launched in its latest incarnation by wingn ...
• Bill Clinton Links Talk Radio, Tea Parties to Non- ...
  RushLimbaugh.com : Bill Clinton Links Talk Radio, Tea Parties to Non-Existent Terrorism   —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: Let's go back, April 24th, 1995, Mississippi, Minnesota.  —  CLINTON 1995: We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some ...
• Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God's re ...
  Amanda Terkel / Think Progress : Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God's reaction to health care's passage.   —  Yesterday, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh talked about the volcanic eruption that's affecting air travel over much of Europe, saying it was “God speaking” in response to the passa ...
• Gates Says U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Iran's Nucl ...
  New York Times : Gates Says U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Iran's Nuclear Drive   —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran's stea ...

Energy & Environment News

• Ithaca College Dorms Deemed Energy Efficient
  Two residence halls at the college in upstate New York earned Energy Star labels as part of campus efforts to be environmentally friendly.
• Amazon Dam Project Pits Economic Benefit Against P ...
  A plan to build the third largest dam in the world is highlighting Brazil’s struggle to balance growth and protect its ecosystems and indigenous communities.
• Australian Miner to Hold Talks Over $3.8 Billion O ...
  Macarthur Coal, which has been the object of an intensifying takeover battle, has until now rejected rival offers.
• Toxic Waters: Saving U.S. Water and Sewer Systems ...
  Ruptures in aging water systems cause pollutants to seep into water supplies, but in many cities residents have protested rate increases to fix pipes.
• BAN to Certify and Audit E-Waste Recycling
  The system would effectively ban recyclers from exporting toxic, nonfunctional discarded electronic devices to developing nations.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
  Sunday, April 18, 2010 09:28:32 UTC Sunday, April 18, 2010 07:28:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 52.40 km (32.56 mi)
• M 5.1, Balleny Islands region
  Sunday, April 18, 2010 05:31:28 UTC Sunday, April 18, 2010 04:31:28 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Xizang-Qinghai border region
  Saturday, April 17, 2010 00:59:01 UTC Saturday, April 17, 2010 08:59:01 AM at epicenter Depth : 40.60 km (25.23 mi)
• 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)

China Dialogue

• Britain’s long road to clean coal
  Geoff French is the vice president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a body that has criticised the pace of CCS development in the UK. Here, he talks to Olivia Boyd about the journey so far – and what more needs to be done. Olivia Boyd: Six months ago, you  launched  a report urging the British ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Arizona Bill Forcing Officers to Determine Immigra ...
  We speak to Isabel Garcia, co-chair of the Tuscon-based Coalition for Human Rights and legal defender of Pima County, Arizona, about the situation in her state.
• In Week After Tragedy, 130 More Serious Safety Vio ...
  Cross-posted from Treehugger. In the week following the biggest mining tragedy in the last 40 years, the Mine Health and Safety Administration has found a disconcerting 130 “significant and substantial” safety violations at dozens of other Massey mines. And while the Huffington Post announces t ...
• Cochabamba Summit Offers New Approach to Combating ...
  On Monday, climate activists, nonprofit leaders, and governmental officials will gather in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to look for new ideas to address climate change. The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, organized by leading social organizations like 350.0rg, ...
• Can PepsiCo Help Alleviate World Hunger?
  Cross-posted from Food Politics. In the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Derek Yach and his colleagues at PepsiCo in Purchase, NY, say yes, it can, in answer to the question they pose in their article, “Can the food industry help tackle the growing global burden of undernutr ...
• Corrupt Practices Accelerating the Decline of Amer ...
  We have people posturing as journalists on TV who get paid as business spokespeople, financial reporters who retire to work for Goldman Sachs -- media parasites.

Threat Level

• School District Allegedly Snapped Thousands of Stu ...
  A webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district is broadening, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent. Some of the images included pictures of youths at home, i ...
• Bush’s Illegal Wiretapping Tab: $612,000
  The two American lawyers who were illegally wiretapped by the Bush administration asked a federal judge Friday to order the government to pay $612,000 in damages, plus legal fees for their attorneys. The demand (.pdf) comes two weeks after U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said the former administr ...
• FBI to Cloud: We Have a Warrant!
  FBI agents targeting alleged criminal spammers last year obtained a trove of incriminating documents from a suspect’s Google Docs account, in what appears to be the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud storage. The warrant, issued August 21 in t ...
• Yahoo Beats Feds in E-Mail Privacy Battle
  Yahoo prevailed Friday over Colorado federal prosecutors in a legal battle testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. Saying the contested e-mail “would not be helpful to the government’s investigation,” (.pdf) the authorities withdrew demands for e-mail in a ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Factbox: Airports and airspace closed by ash cloud
  (Reuters) - Large parts of Europe enforced no-fly rulings for a fourth day on Sunday because of a huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that has caused the worst air travel chaos since the September 11 attacks.
• UPDATE 1-More Dutch test flights to assess volcani ...
  * Initial test flights in Netherlands, Germany successful
• More Dutch test flights to assess volcanic ash
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands said more test flights would take place on Sunday to assess whether there was any danger in its airspace from volcanic ash after an earlier test flight was conducted safely.
• Goldman CDO case could be tip of iceberg
  BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc over a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal it set up for a hedge fund manager could be just the start of Wall Street's legal troubles stemming from the subprime meltdown.
• Europe's air travel crisis enters fourth day
  LONDON (Reuters) - Air travel across much of Europe was paralyzed for a fourth day on Sunday because of a huge cloud of volcanic ash, but Dutch and German test flights carried out without apparent damage seemed to offer hope.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• WinCo Foods Expands Recall of Fresh Ground Beef Pu ...
  Well done WinCo! Yesterday, WinCo Foods announced that it was issuing an expansion of the Class 1 recall on all fresh ground beef products sold at all WinCo Foods stores: The original recall issued on April 10, 2010 was for ground beef sold from it's Modesto store only. Originally an independent l ...
• KCTS 9 Series April 16, 2010 Lead Story - How Safe ...
  If you are not fortunate enough to live in viewing range of KCTS 9 TV for tonight's show, here is the online version (click on image)
• An Outbreak of Acute Bacterial Gastroenteritis Is ...
  Am J Gastroenterol advance online publication 23 February 2010; doi: 10.1038/ajg.2010.74 - Marroon Thabane MSc1,2, Marko Simunovic MD, MSc, FRCPC2,3, Noori Akhtar-Danesh PhD2,4, Amit X Garg MD, PhD, FRCPC2,5, William F Clark MD, FRCPC5, Stephen M Collins MD, FRCPC1, Marina Salvadori MD, FRCPC5 and J ...
• Food Safety News Refrigerator Magnet
  If you want a free Food Safety News safe cooking temperature magnet, please subscribe to Marler Blog and email me your address and I will send one to you. �
• 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.

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 04.16.10
  Quick Spin: Toyota FCHV-adv tempts us with smooth driving, reminding us that hydrogen is still years away Man it's smooth - and very far away. U.S. military warns of oil production shortage by 2015 ...
• 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. ...

Rafe's Radar

• 3D TV: A proposal on behalf of the stereo-blind
  There's an easy way to make 3D work for people who can't see it. But no one is doing it. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• Reporters' Roundtable: Can the iPad save journalis ...
  Today's show: Can the iPad save newspapers and magazines? Or, to be more general, can tablets save journalism? It's an important topic and we have two excellent and overqualifiied guests to get into it. First, in the studio, Damon Darlin, the technology editor of a small newspaper that's st ...
• Real-world iPad annoyances: A timeline
  A dozen days of use and the nits and niggles come out.
• Top sites for saving money on tech
  A little research makes a big difference in how much you spend. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• CNET Showcase on 3D: Videos and wrap-up
  At our first CNET Showcase event, local readers learn about 3D and see the latest hardware for themselves. Originally posted at CNET Showcase ...

Camera Obscura

• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
• Dangerous spaces: Safe.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

• 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

• The Alan Greenspan Strain
  First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
• King Leopold’s Pandemic
  The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
• The Expulsion
  In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
• Do Pathogens Time Travel?
  Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
• We Are All Astronauts Now
  Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]

Digg Green

• Chinese ‘Leaf’ EV Breaks Laws of Physics to Go Gre ...
  A Chinese automaker has taken every half-baked idea anyone’s ever had for eco-friendlier motoring and used them all in a wild concept car, the laws of physics be damned.
• U.S. Military Report Says Massive Oil Shortages by ...
  The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact ... the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel.
• Is Earth Shaking More?
  With the China earthquake today following several others this year, some might wonder if Earth is shaking more.
• China ship turns 1km of Great Barrier Reef to dust
  A Chinese ship which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef has "seriously damaged" over 1km of coral.
• Me First, Planet Second, Poll Finds
  April brings the latest crop of Earth Day surveys, and it's not a pretty picture. Americans are today no more environmentally friendly in their actions than they were ten years ago in 2000.

Invisible Opportunity

• Video – Invisible Empire: A New World Order ...
  Jason Bermas presents Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined. Produced by Alex Jones this film exposes the New World Order in their own words, by painstakingly  showing how the elite have not only conspired to create a dictatorial global government in private, but have publicly stated their age ...
• Talking About MagogkeNazi Nation
  By Les Visible I don’t like to make predictions because, unlike a lot of predictors, I can remember how often I’ve been wrong and… those predictors who have been the most historically enduring have also been the most cryptic as well. Is this why they endured; because no one knew precisely what t ...
• Obama: Israel Should Sign NPT
  By Jason Ditz President Barack Obama managed to avoid Israel’s nuclear program nearly entirely for the high profile nuclear summit, but was unable to successfully dodge a question at the closing press conference about Israel’s non-membership in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Though the ...
• Israel’s Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Dep ...
  By Tim King Israel’s population is facing a dire threat: a drastic depopulation, from the use of weapons that leave behind Depleted Uranium (DU). Depleted Uranium leads to the word Omnicidal, as DU kills everything in the food chain, everywhere the wind blows. Experts say the dramatic drop in Israel ...
• Fluoride Poisons Children in Jharkhand, India
  Fluoride poisoning from groundwater in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand is causing serious health problems for villagers. In Chukru village the people are suffering from acute dental and skeletal disorders, and it’s been that way for a long time. Yellowed teeth and bone deformities develop as soon ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Coca Colla Goes on Sale in Bolivia
  Made from the coca leaf and named after Bolivia's indigenous Colla people, the soda is the latest attempt by Bolivia to expand legal markets for coca products.
• How Los Angeles Became the "Wild West" o ...
  How Los Angeles became the medical marijuana capital of America thanks to a combination of entrepreneurial energy and benign political neglect.
• Don't Just Smoke a Joint on 4/20 -- Take Action Ag ...
  Stand up today with other Americans and get the word out there. This war will end; how soon depends, in part, on you.
• How Stanislav Grof Helped Launch the Dawn of a New ...
  The world of medicine may finally be ready to catch back up with psychedelic pioneers, whose work was rejected a half-century ago.
• The True Inside Story of the Catastrophic Mexican ...
  Why Ciudad Juárez has a murder rate nearly four times higher than Baghdad's.

Twilight Earth

• Photo Sunday – The Great Barrier Reef
  n honor of The Great Barrier Reef in which a Chinese Coal Ship ran aground recently, this weeks Photo Sunday is a reminder of beautiful nature too often taken for granted. Related posts: Chinese Coal Ship Smashes into Great Barrier Reef – Causing Oil Spill and Coral Damage Worlds Largest Und ...
• Being Human: A Bike Ride in the Woods – Photos and ...
  Sometimes a person just needs to return to the world, to wrap their head around who they really are and what is really important. Related posts: Get me into the woods! It’s scary in the city! What Could be Finer than to be a Tweed Rider? DC Tweed Ride Twilight Earth Visits The DC Solar Deca ...
• Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming!
  Follow Joe Mohr’s cartoonery on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon) School Lunch Reform? I Dont Think So! (Cartoon) One Million Acts of Green: The Power of People Coming Together Related posts: Tea Partiers and Sui ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• Droog Gives Liquidated Products New Life at Milan ...
  Read the rest of Droog Gives Liquidated Products New Life at Milan Design Weekhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", g ...
• Triennale Design Museum Milan: An Inspired Use of ...
  Read the rest of Triennale Design Museum Milan: An Inspired Use of Green Materialshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bright woods, de ...
• Bright Woods’ Tables and Chairs Captivate with an ...
  Unique and eye-catching, Bright Woods’ collection of illuminated chairs and coffee tables are sure to capture your attention with their engaging glow. We discovered this charming collection of furniture at Milan Design Week, and we’re enamored with the unique aesthetic that’s equal parts alien ...
• Jigsaw Puzzle Stool by VivaTerra!
  From picture frames to even sandwiches, we love all things jigsaw! And now we can add these clever wooden stools to the list! Made from sustainably produced, plantation-grown sheesham wood, each stool can go solo or be grouped together with others to complete a cluster perfect for whatever room you  ...
• Milan Designersblock: Modern Design with Tradition ...
  Read the rest of Milan Designersblock: Modern Design with Tradition in Mindhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Amos Marchant, assembly ...

Pogue's Posts

• The Making of the iPad Town Hall Video
  What looked like a live video chat with 20 people was actually a bunch of individual QuickTime movies, placed on the screen in a grid and playing back simultaneously. Still, pretty cool.
• A Paler Shade of White for Passport Photos
  Who's right when it comes to passport photos? A government Web site or a government bureaucrat? Need you ask?
• Philips Changes Policy on Fitness Monitor
  With the DirectLife fitness monitor, you lose access to your custom Web sitesite should you end your subscription. The company is making some amends.
• Four Music-Sharing Tricks on Windows 7
  There are plenty of interesting or useful features on Windows 7, but the one that surprised me most was the music-sharing feature of Windows Media Player 12. Here's how to get the most out of it.
• Apple iPad FAQ's
  I answer the most frequently asked questions I've received about the iPad.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Why It’s So Hard to Tell Which Tooth Has the Ache
  When it comes to a toothache, the brain doesn’t discriminate. A new imaging study shows that to the brain, a painful upper tooth feels a lot like a painful lower tooth. The results, which will be published in the journal Pain, help explain why patients are notoriously bad at pinpointing a toothache ...
• Obama Lays Out New Vision for Asteroid, Mars Trips
  Speaking at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center April 15, President Obama outlined a new plan for the space agency that would forgo sending astronauts back to the moon, but would send humans to an asteroid in 2025 and into orbit around Mars a decade later. The strategy would rely on private aerospace comp ...
• Photos Surface of the Day Einstein Died
  Ralph Morse, an ambitious photojournalist for Life magazine, covered a funeral in New Jersey on April 18, 1955. Now, 55 years later, Life.com is finally publishing the pictures he took that day, during the funeral and cremation of Albert Einstein. Einstein had died of heart failure at age 76 earlie ...
• 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• It Looks Like an External Explosion Sank the South ...
  Cheonan was likely sunk by a mine or torpedo . I would be betting very heavily on “torpedo” at this point; no mine from the first Korean War has been discovered since 1986, and a new mine doesn’t make a lot of sense (a single mine would have to be fantastically lucky, and no other mines appear to ...
• It Looks Like an External Explosion Sunk the South ...
  Cheonan was likely sunk by a mine or torpedo . I would be betting very heavily on “torpedo” at this point; no mine from the first Korean War has been discovered since 1986, and a new mine doesn’t make a lot of sense (a single mine would have to be fantastically lucky, and no other mines appear to ...
• Chinese Concern about Climate Change
  At first glance, the relative indifference of the government of China to climate change makes sense—environmental protection is a “superior good,” something countries worry about when they get rich and don’t need to worry about people living in horrible shacks eating low-protein diets. On the othe ...
• Catalyst of Social Change in the Arab World: Turki ...
  I've written a bit about Al Jazeera's influence in the Middle East, both in affecting political events and in shaping popular opinion. But there's another media force that is making waves in the Arab world: Turkish TV shows dubbed into Arabic. As Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, a senior U.S. correspondent ...
• Getting Terrorism Wright
  There’s been a lively debate based on Robert Wright’s NY Times blog post questioning the efficacy of targeted killings as a means of fighting terrorism. While I’m persuaded by the evidence that special ops, predator strikes, etc. alone cannot diminish an extremist group’s effectiveness, I wonder whe ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Money (That's What I Want).
  It's nice to see Goldman Sachs get some headlines for a change. It's been a long time since we've seen the Last Wall Street Firm Left Standing's name plastered on the front page. Amidst all the headlines about its alleged fraud is the reminder that John Paulson had been praised for Seeing It Coming; ...
• The Only Way to Prevent Another Bailout of Wall St ...
  The best way for Senate Dems and the White House to respond to the Republican charge that the Dem plan for financial reform doesn’t go far enough to prevent another bailout is to call their bluff — and simultaneously do what’s necessary to avoid another bailout: Cap the size of big banks, as the UK ...
• The Little Picture: Emancipation Day.
  Today, Washington, D.C, celebrates Emancipation Day. The Freedman's Memorial in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood has an insanely interesting history -- if you're interested in some weekend reading, check out Kirk Savage 's Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves .
• How Republicans Poison The Bipartisanship Well.
  I was briefly excited yesterday when it looked like Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell couldn't get enough support to filibuster Senate Democrats' financial reform legislation, but today he's succeeded in corralling his caucus to sign a letter of opposition . (I still doubt that all 41 GOPers ...
• Holder To Civil Libertarians: Don't You Know There ...
  Following a surprisingly good showing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week in which he managed to parry one baseless Republican criticism after another, Attorney General Eric Holder , delivered a speech before a civil libertarian crowd at the Constitution Project's awards dinner. Wha ...

Andy Worthington

• An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantánamo Loses His Ha ...
  Such is the prevailing disregard for the fate of the 183 prisoners remaining in Guantánamo that last week, when Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, submitted a declaration in a case brought by a former prisoner, in which he stated, unambiguously, th ...
• The Guantánamo Files: Andy Worthington Interviewed ...
  On Monday, at 1.20 in the morning in London, I was, nevertheless, happy to get on the phone to talk to Cenk Uygur for The Young Turks, a daily online news show, which attracts a significant number of viewers, and, when it launched in 2005 (after three years as a radio show), was the first [...]
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• EARTH DAY PICTURES: Quirky Ways to Mark the Day
  NoneAn undersea cleaning party and the world's largest baked alaska join the ranks of oddball events that have been held on Earth Days past to draw attention to environmental causes.
• Earth Day Facts: When It Is, How It Began, What to ...
  From not-so-humble beginnings in 1970, when 20 million participated, Earth Day has grown into a global tradition. Find out when it is, how it started, how it's evolved, and what you can do.
• Presented By:
• PHOTOS: The First Earth Day—Bell-Bottoms and Gas M ...
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• Volcanic Ash Stops Europe Flights—Why Ash Is Dange ...
  Volcanic ash from Iceland is spreading international travel chaos due to fears over airline safety. Find out why.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Boughton the populist!
  Cough!!! Cough!!! Will we find old naked photos of him in Cosmo too? "Boughton enters GOP gubernatorial race as pickup-truck populist"
• Judge Orders Breitbart Brat Home to Mommy and Dadd ...
  Co-conspirators Stan Dai and James O'Keefe seen leaving the courthouse in a photo that O'Keefe did not have a chance to tamper with before I could: After getting caught messing with the phone lines in Senator Landrieu's Louisiana office , even videoing his and his co-conspirators with their pant ...
• Rep. Anthony Weiner Teaches Lieberman To Spell
  In his own special way : Sharp-eyed Ben was reading my story when he noticed something I had missed: Lieberman managed to misspell the name of Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who, I swear, has uttered the phrase "As long as you spell my name right" in my presence. Wrote Lieberman: "I fear the people who ...
• After waiting 6 months for Franken to join the Sen ...
  Months and months of obstruction that the Democratic party had to sit through waiting for Norm Coleman to give up what he had lost in the elections, a reality of election law that the Dem party had to deal with in Minnesota and in the Senate waiting for a 60th vote. And Scotty Brown is out there mak ...
• Some things are worth crowing about:
  Via Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors : Our own Cassie is now a published author! Read Cassie’s article in Mother Jones, and be sure to leave a comment for her there . Go Cassie! And the article is worth the read... The Parent Trap — Flickr/kapungo (Creative Commons) We love seeing bad parents ...

SPL Center

• Questions on Climate Change? Stormfront Has an Ans ...
  When the staff at Hatewatch wants to know about the weird weather out there, we know just where to turn: Stormfront.org. That’s right, the leading white supremacist Web forum in the world. Only there can you find a truly unique revelation about the causes of global warming, and it has nothing to do ...
• Ally: Minutemen Leader Knew Defamatory Video Was F ...
  To hear San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk’s crony and fellow nativist extremist Ray Carney tell it, Schwilk’s alleged defamation in December – for the second time – of a civil rights activist was no case of mistaken identity. In fact, Carney says, he warned Schwilk that a video in which a woma ...
• What if They Gave a Klan Rally and Nobody Came?
  They really ought to call them the Ku Klutz Klan. This Saturday, the Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — a once-powerful organization that in 1960 coordinated more than 1,000 simultaneous cross burnings in a frightening display of Southern resistance to desegregation — held a ra ...
• Year in Hate and Extremism Webcast
  Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen and Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok discuss the recently released annual count of hate and extremist groups.
• Answering Our Critics: SPLC ‘Smear’ Dissected
  This Thursday, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) — a Washington, D.C., think tank that describes itself as “pro-immigrant” but pumps out an endless stream of papers claiming that immigration is hurting America in a myriad of ways — plans to issue a “report” attacking the Southern Poverty Law ...

change: org.

• Condoms, Please: Addressing High Rates of Teen Pre ...
  A new analysis out of the Guttmacher Institute that finds the unintended pregnancy rate among sexually active teens is more than twice that of all women has me thinking: can we get some contraception in the house? Dr. Lawrence B. Finer points out that, usually, unintended pregnancy rates include bot ...
• A Call for Education Equity
  Title I was created "to ensure all children a fair and equal opportunity to obtain a high-quality education." However, the formula for distributing Title I funds is stacked against the very children it was most intended to help. The current formula (a complex combination of four formulas) favors lar ...
• UK Deporting Asylum Seeker to Certain Death in Ira ...
  An asylum seeker in the United Kingdom, Bita Ghaedi, conducted a hunger strike for more than a month because she was terrified of being tortured and killed if she is forced to return to Iran. Guess what? She is now being forced to go back by the benevolent British government. Click here to take act ...
• The Delicate Flavors of Spring in a Classic Dish
  Spring peas are one of my favorite spring foods. They have a deliciously delicate flavor that's almost as good right out of the pod as it is cooked. Spring leeks are also a favorite, with their tender, concentrated flavor that's so much more springlike than their winter counterparts. And asparagus. ...
• Animal Sex Tourism
  Earlier this month, Amanda Kloer over on the Human Trafficking blog wrote about tourism packages that offer hunting, fishing, and sex with kids. Well, it's not just kids and it's not just in other countries. Last week, a man in northern Washington state was arrested for running a bestiality farm . D ...

Common Dreams -News

• Gang Violence Increases as Angry Haitians See Quak ...
  by Peter Beaumont Groups who once supported the president of Haiti, René Préval, are arming themselves against the government, putting the earthquake-ravaged country in danger of renewed instability and political violence. Threats from individuals closely linked to a number of leading gangs who once ...
• Afghanistan: A Conspiracy of Silence
  by Brian Brady It is one of the few genuine issues of life and death during this general election campaign. It will not dictate how much any British school improves, how many police appear on the streets of a city, or how quickly patients are allowed to leave hospitals around the country. But it wil ...
• ‘Revolving Door’ a Bar to Mine Safety?
  by Kiberly Kindy and Dan Eggen More than 200 former congressional staff members, federal regulators and lawmakers are employed by the mining industry as lobbyists, consultants or senior executives, including dozens who work for coal companies with the worst safety records in the nation, a Washington ...
• A Second Garbage Patch: Plastic Soup Seen in Atlan ...
  by Mike Melia SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Researchers are warning of a new blight at sea: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. The floating garbage — hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents — was documented by two ...
• Global Warming Monitoring Needs to Find 'Missing H ...
  by David Adam Experts need to beef up ways to measure the heat content of oceans as a way to track more reliably the course of global warming, scientists say today. read more

Lifehacker

• Top 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on The Web [Li ...
  The web is a generally free place, but some sites and services want to make it annoying to navigate and enjoy. Stream any video you'd like, see the sites you need, and get at services you thought were down with these tips. More�� ...
• Turn Paracord into Emergency Handcuffs [Knots]
  Nobody wants to be the extra in the horror movie that ties up the serial killer with a belt only to have him get away before next cut scene. Avoid saying "But he was just here!" with these DIY cuffs. More��
• Microsoft Fix It Center Beta Guides You Through Co ...
  Windows: Microsoft's Fix it Center is a beta troubleshooting program that tweaks common Windows issues—sort of like previously mentioned FixWin —but it comes straight from Microsoft. It's average-Joe friendly, and addresses everything from net ...
• Use Dropbox to Sync Your Pidgin Profile Across Mul ...
  If you're a fan of the Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger client and you use Dropbox to synchronize your files across multiple PCs, you'll be interested to know that you can sync your Pidgin profile, even from Windows to Linux. More�� ...
• How to Turn Your Creative Brainstorm into a Comple ...
  Behance and 99 Percent founder Scott Belsky spent years researching how creative leaders at Google, Disney, Zappos, and other firms turned brainstorms into completed projects. This excerpt from Making Ideas Happen suggests ways of tackling urg ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Afghan Civilian Casualties Of NATO Attacks Double
  By Steve Hynd Not to say we told you so, but... Deaths of Afghan civilians by NATO troops have more than doubled this year, NATO statistics show, jeopardizing a U.S. campaign to win over the local population by protecting them against insurgent attacks. NATO troops accidentally killed 72 civilians i ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Ethics complaint filed against the governor
  Governor Bob Riley is facing allegations that he violated the state's ethics law. A former state Republican leader filed the complaint with the Ethics Commission...
• About Us
  Last week, with headlines that could have fit right into the classic movie Chinatown , about the water wars that early Los Angeles lived through, the department of water and power , the mayor, and the city council engaged in an extremely public battle over shrinking financial resources.
• Here's a look at local and regional happenings
  Art exhibit, through April Palette Art League Gallery, Yellville. Anni Worster of Yellville, a clay sculptor, and Janet Goodyear of Eureka Springs, a painter and printmaker, have their works on exhibit at the gallery throughout April. Admission: free. Gallery's regular hours are 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. ...
• 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

• I’ll buy almost anything if it’s shiny and made by ...
  It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know w
• Live Forex Trading Room Proforexroom.com Includes ...
  Proforexroom live trading room, today announced additional currency pairs to its trading room. The m
• Brasscheck TV: Goldman Sachs charged with fraud - ...
  Brasscheck What the heck took the SEC so long? Well, I guess late is better than never. Goldman Sach
• Should the Government Assist Only the Deserving Po ...
  Those who agree that the government should help the poor usually don’t make qualitative distin
• Calvin Oaten comments
  Earlier today, the following item was uploaded to the Dunedin Tweetup thread. Since that thread isn

Electronic Intifada

• Film Review: Simone Bitton's investigative documen ...
  One of a filmmaker's primary roles in any inquiry is to illuminate the topic of the narrative through entertainment, information, posing challenges or any other kind of engagement. ...
• "In the eyes of the state, we don't exist here"
  In addition to destroying homes in three areas of the West Bank this week, Israeli forces this week invaded villages inside Israel and bulldozed and handed out further demolition o ...
• Did banned media report foretell of Gaza war crime ...
  An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in winter ...
• Adding torture to injury
  GAZA (IPS) - It was bad enough that Ahmad Asfour was severely maimed by an Israeli drone strike outside his house on 9 January 2009. But, his search for advanced treatment landed t ...
• Film review: Missed opportunities in "Checkpoint R ...
  Sometime early this decade the Israeli army issued a military order banning Palestinian musicians from using simile and metaphors. This order also prevented them from singi ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan president appoints electoral officials
  President Hamid Karzai took key steps toward reforming the country's electoral system Saturday, naming a respected former judge to head Afghanistan's election-organizing body and backing down from a b...
• Two Dutch soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  The Hague - Two Dutch troops have been killed by insurgents in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, the Netherlands Defence Ministry said late Saturday in The Hague.One soldier was severely wound...
• Karzai looks to cut out fraudsters
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a new chief for the insurgency-hit nation’s election commission after top officials stepped down over fraud allegations, a spokesman has said.Karzai h...
• Nine years after 'liberation', the Afgha ...
  Relations between Hamid Karzai and his Western sponsors have reached a new low. The war continues with the Taliban launching attacks in Kabul and US-led forces preparing to launch an offensive in Kand...
• Afghan mission chief orders probe of himself
  The commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan has ordered a special investigation — on himself. Brig.-Gen. Daniel Ménard, the head of Joint Task Force Afghanistan, announced Saturday that he has...

Futurismic

• Brain Hacks for Writers: new Futurismic column fro ...
  I very nearly didn’t bother emailing Luc Reid earlier this week. “C’mon, the guy’s probably waaaay too busy with other stuff to take on a monthly column for Futurismic, Paul,” I told myself… but I’m very glad I ignored that inner cynic, because he mailed me back just a few hours later, pretty much a ...
• Brain Hacks for Writers: new Futurismic column fro ...
  I very nearly didn’t bother emailing Luc Reid earlier this week. “C’mon, the guy’s probably waaaay too busy with other stuff to take on a monthly column for Futurismic, Paul,” I told myself… but I’m very glad I ignored that inner cynic, because he mailed me back just a few hours later, pretty much a ...
• Spimes go mainstream
  When The Guardian is cheerfully reporting about a UCL project called Tales of Things that intends to track the life of QR code-tagged objects across the web as well as geographical space, I think we can safely say the idea of the spime is moving beyond the realm of pure theory. Now, if you’ll excuse ...
• How to make two million bucks in a day legally
  It’s easy: all you do is sell a sparkly horse upgrade to your MMO client base. … this morning Blizzard announced the online sale of a new “celestial steed” for use in WoW.    These mounts cost $25 (on top of the retail price plus $15 monthly subscription).  So in a world of free games and [...] ...
• Spimes go mainstream
  When The Guardian is cheerfully reporting about a UCL project called Tales of Things that intends to track the life of QR code-tagged objects across the web as well as geographical space, I think we can safely say the idea of the spime is moving beyond the realm of pure theory. Now, if you’ll excuse ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• 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 ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Measuring Success By Fan Passion, Not Billboard Ch ...
  Kyle Bylin, over at Hypebot, has an excellent interview with Yan, the manager of the hip hop band Jedi Mind Trick, where he talks about how the band has embraced the internet to become much more successful. The interview is chock full of the type of thing we write about here. For example, on the b ...
• Irish Judge OKs Three Strikes, Calls Copyright A H ...
  A judge in Ireland has ruled that plans by ISP Eircom to use a three-strikes system to yank file-sharers' internet connections don't violate the country's privacy laws , and can move forward. Eircom instituted the plan after it was sued by a music industry trade group for not stopping file-sharing f ...
• Sports Journalist Blames Fat, Cheeto-Eating Blogge ...
  Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was recently caught on video in an apparent state of inebriation using some pretty colorful language (via Barking Carnival ) to describe former Cowboys coach Bill Parcells and NFL draft prospect Tim Tebow. The video, as you might imagine, became pretty popular, promp ...
• Judge Rules: Drunk Moron In A Hurry Wouldn't Know ...
  After seven years in the courts, a federal judge has ruled that a dripping red wax seal can only be used by Maker's Mark bourbon . While no monetary damages were awarded, the judge issued an injunction to prevent Diageo and Casa Cuervo from using a dripping wax seal on their tequilas, specifically, ...
• Steve Ballmer Tasked With Fixing The Deficit -- Wi ...
  The Obama Administration has appointed Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson to lead an 18-person, bi-partisan commission tasked with tackling the country's deficit. USAToday is running a fairly typical piece looking at the multitude of moving pieces that contribute to the nation's fairly-staggering $12. ...

VacTruth

• Vaccines: Veterinarians Are Better Than Human Doct ...
  . . . Dr. Sherri Tenpenny Huffington Post 04/16/2010 Veterinarians and pediatricians have a great deal in common. Both are highly qualified medical professionals with similar years of education. Both often struggle to determine what is wrong with their patients since pets, like little people, canno ...
• Alberta seeks refund for expired H1N1 vaccine
  . . . By Richard Cuthbertson Canwest News Service, Vancouver Sun 04/14/2010 CALGARY — The Alberta government is recalling more than 650,000 unused doses of adjuvanted H1N1 flu vaccine and is also seeking a refund from the pharmaceutical giant that manufactured the product. The moves come after Heal ...
• Corrupt WHO Attempts To Rewrite History To Confuse ...
  . . . Peter Doshi, graduate student Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 02139 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/apr06_2/c1904 To the Editor: Since the H1N1 outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) appears to be distancing itself from the idea that it ever promoted the ...
• HPV Vaccination Campaign Suspension Demanded Globa ...
  . . . Press Release Immediate Release Contact: Bobbi Cowan Public Relations Phone: (818) 980-2372 Email: bobbicowan@sbcglobal.net Web Site: http://TruthAboutGardasil.org April 15, 2010, North Hollywood, CA. The global outrage at reports of injustices inflicted on the children of India from unethica ...
• (Video) Gardasil, or “Gardahell”?

BroadSnark

• 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• `Khuda Hafez,' Hamid Karzai
  By Ramtanu Maitra Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 16, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 15
• The Evils of Monetarism: It's `Globalization,' Stu ...
  Book review by Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 16, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 15
• World Food Shortage, a British Policy Success
  By Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 16, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 15
• Science & Christianity: This Easter Sunday
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 16, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 15
• Thai Monarchy Retreats To Fight Another Day
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• SEC’s Goldman charges could be just the beginning
• War Drums on Iran Beating, Is Obama in Tune
  How Israel Can Strike Iran An Iran strike would be a catastrophe, just as the neocons wish. Will President Obama go along: The $Trillion question. Will President Obama challenge Israel’s possession of nuclear arms and its continual defiance of international law? No question at all, the answer is ...
• Financial Regulation: Big Money GOP v. Obama
  President Obama should have had this fight a year ago, but so be it. This could be the GOP’s downfall, as Tea Partiers peal off the GOP’s coalition. Obama, Republicans square off on financial-regulation bill By David Cho and Scott Wilson President Obama accused Republicans on Friday of trying to ...
• GORDON DUFF: “PRIMORDIALISM” AND THE DECLINE OF H ...
• After Getting Bailed Out By American Taxpayers, Ge ...

food and water watch

• USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
  In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
• Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
  Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
• Farm to School Needs More Support
  It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
• Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
  Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
• USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
  The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

• Building a Smart Energy Grid
  Image credit: Good A smarter energy grid would save consumers money and help the environment as well. Counting the benefits of making better use of our limited resources seems unnecessary—until you actually look at the numbers.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• New Transmission Lines Require Responsible Plannin ...
  Image credit: brewbooks /Flickr "This is less of a NIMBY issue and more of a global warming issue." Those are the words of Steve Brucker, Conservation Chair of the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club. Bruckner was speaking about the many small but mighty grassroots organizations that have sp ...
• Beer Rescue Puts Landfill Employees in Hot Water
  Image via TreeHugger.com, who will not stand idly by while beer goes to waste. Save the Beers! File this story under, "That Ain't Right!" Two employees of the Columbia, Missouri Solid Waste Division and beer rescuing heroes, Beer Heroes or Beeroes, if you will, have made headlines for resc ...
• Jackson Browne Joins Mission Blue, the NRDC Honors ...
  Photo via Transworld Business Oceanographer and author Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize with a far-reaching wish: "to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet." The result? Missi ...
• Eating Like a Bird Promotes Plant Health, Increase ...
  Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Perhaps it's because humans sit at the top of the food chain , or maybe it's that big predators so capture the imagination, but much of the attention given to the web of predators and prey focuses on this upper edge—the polar bears , the tigers, the wolves. If ...

Biosingularity

• Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Find ...
  A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely, before age 55, of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes were at almost double the risk of d ...
• Coffee Break Boosts Memory
  - A coffee break after an important meeting or class may be just the thing your brain needs to digest new information and improve memory. A new study suggests that resting while awake aids in memory consolidation and improves memory recall, much like getting a good night’s sleep has been shown to ...
• Monitoring Cell Death Could Help Cancer Treatment
  When it comes to aggressive cancers, in the brain or lung for example, oncologists know that the sooner they can determine whether a treatment is unsuccessful, the sooner they can reevaluate and, if necessary, prescribe a new course of action. But typically, it takes two months or more to do the bef ...
• The incredible beauty in the life of cells
• Brain ‘entanglement’ could explain mem ...
  Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or “spooky action at a distance”, could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory. Previous experiments have shown that th ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Lord Monckton at Bonn climate talks
  Monckton: "Nobody here in Bonn seriously imagines that this or any treaty brokered by a UN, which is still reeling from blows to its credibility from the Climategate scandal and revelations of errors in its reports, will ever make any difference to the climate that could be measured even by the most ...
• CFACT carbon credits distributed at Bonn conferenc ...
• Driessen debunks climate hype
  CFACT policy analyst speaks on global warming
• Promoting entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation ...
  CFACT travels to Uganda
• It's Always 'Earth Hour' in North Korea
  Stark contrast between Stalinist North and democratic South Korea

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian president arrives in Krakow to attend Kacz ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Sunday in Krakow to attend the burial of Polish leader Lech Kaczynski and his wife who died in a recent air crash in western Russia, the Kremlin press office said.
• Poland pays last respect to President Lech Kaczyns ...
  Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria will be buried on Sunday in the medieval Wawel castle, the final resting place of Polish royalty and many other distinguished citizens.
• Putin urges measures to help stranded Russian air ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Sunday urged measures to bring Russian passengers stranded in European airports over the spread of a volcanic ash cloud back to home.
• Foreign leaders unable to attend Kaczynski funeral ...
  Foreign leaders are canceling their flights to Poland on Sunday to attend the funeral of Polish leader Lech Kaczynski and his wife over the spread of a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland.
• Polish president Lech Kaczynski's burial

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Large Hadron Collider
• Russia launches military satellite
  Russia on Friday launched a military satellite, the Defense Ministry said.
• FACTBOX: Volcanic eruption threats
  The eruption of the volcano on the Eyjafjallajokull Glacier in Iceland, which began on Wednesday, has already paralyzed air traffic in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the majority of Nordic countries.
• India to return to Russian boosters after failed r ...
  India will temporarily go back to using Russian-produced space equipment after its indigenous GSLV rocket failed, a spokesman for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on Friday.
• Russian Geographical Society to organize polar bea ...
  The Russian Geographical Society (RGS) is to organize an Arctic expedition to investigate the effects of global warming on polar bears

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Dear Attorney General Holder, Since Washington is wired for Republican control, liberals’ proposals and goals are usually treated with disdai ...
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• Does Your Home Harbor Safety Hazards?
  Here are six of the most common home dangers: Falls This can be one of the deadliest at-home injuries. Put handrails on both sides of stairs, and install grab bars in showers and tubs. Fires The greatest risk comes from inhaling smoke and toxic gases.  Make sure your home has working smoke alar ...
• 'Immune-Boosting' Drug Actually Worsens TB
  An experimental drug called poly-ICLC, intended to boost production of the immune system protein interferon, has actually been shown to worsen tuberculosis (TB) in mice. The drug ends up drawing immune cells in which tuberculosis bacteria thrive directly into the lungs. Poly-ICLC stimulates your b ...
• How a Phys Ed Program Transformed One School
  A Naperville Central High School, west of Chicago, children who are having problems with math or reading go to gym class first.  And exercise isn't just restricted to the gym -- there are bikes and balls in the classrooms, and the children are in constant motion. The results are amazing -- reading ...
• Government Screening Program Failing to Find Toxic ...
  Federal agencies have failed to set limits or adequately test for beef containing harmful pesticides, veterinary antibiotics and heavy metals. As a result, meat tainted with these toxins are being sold to the public. According to an audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a program set up to ...
• Spanking Kids Actually Leads to More Aggressive Be ...
  Out of the 2,500 youngsters examined in a recent study, those who were spanked more when they were 3 turned out to be more likely to be aggressive by the age of 5. The researchers accounted for other factors that might cause aggressiveness, such as neglect, violence between the parents, or parenta ...

Antemedius

• Are you? Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
  April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and there are prevention seminars all over the nation. While the seminars are tremendously helpful and awareness is good, the information they convey often doesn't get passed around in an accurate way. There is a tendency for people to deny, to psychoanalyze ...
• Contractor Deaths Accelerating in Afghanistan as T ...
  from T. Christian Miller , ProPublica April 14, 2010 ( view source ) A recent Congressional Research Service analysis obtained by ProPublica looked at the number of civilian contractors killed in Afghanistan in recent months. It's not pretty. Of the 289 civilians killed since the war began more tha ...
• Southern Africa by Air, Land, and Sea on a Budget
  We loved Southern Africa, and we hope this diary is helpful for those planning a trip by air, land, and sea. Yesterday, we did a similar post for East Africa that you can visit by clicking here. Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. If you haven’t seen our 1,000 ...
• Gods and Monsters: Fighting American Wars From On ...
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com The Greeks had it right.� When you live on Mount Olympus, your view of humanity is qualitatively different.� The Greek gods, after all, lied to, stole from, lusted for, and punished humanity without mercy, while taking the planet for a spin in a manner that we ...
• Goldman Sachs Political Donations
  OpenSecrets.org: Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street’s most prestigious investment banks, was also among the many banks in 2008 and 2009 to receive billions of dollars in taxpayer money to help it stay afloat. Like others in the securities industry, Goldman Sachs advises and invests in ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

• UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
  Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
• Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
  Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
• Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
  BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
• What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
  RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
• Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
  ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Center for a Livable Future

• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Goldman’s pacts
  Understated concern from the L.A. Times. I can’t imagine anyone reading this blog on Saturday who didn’t follow the slapdown of Goldman Sachs by the SEC yesterday avidly. Criminals are being charged for their criminal behavior and they’re rich white people!!! Incroyable. More: Just the beginning? Wh ...
• Fog and phony shows
  It’s important to the right to demonize every contrary voice. If you disagree with them, you must be mocked, you must be marginalized. How else could their supporters stay on the same page as official party talking points? How could wingnuts ever read Paul Krugman without risk of their heads explodi ...
• 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.

The Seferm Post

• Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
  Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
• Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
  10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
• Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
  Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
• Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
  Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
• Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
  The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.

The World We Live In

• 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

• Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
      Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
• 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• 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 ...

Pensieve

• 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 ...

Green Times

• Massive Renewable Energy Project for Ontario Canad ...
  Ontario Canada plans to eliminate its remaining coal fired power plants by 2014, and create 20,000 new jobs through renewable energy…
• Environmental News - 15/04/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Greens float carbon levy with govt (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/greens-float-carbon-levy-with-govt-20100413-s62x.html)-The Australian Greens have started negotiations with the ...
• Pure Essential Oils
  We delve into why pure essential oils are preferable to synthetic or blended fragrant or scented oils …
• Environmental News - 13/04/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Flannery warns of climate change apathy (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/flannery-warns-of-climate-change-apathy-20100412-s3jb.html)-The half-asleep look on a koala's face is a re ...
• Environmental News - 09/04/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) One man's vision to sell monsoon water (http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/04/09/137941_nt-business.html )-AN entrepreneur wants to sell one of the Territory's most plentiful assets - clean wat ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• New rules on terror custody being drafted
  'We are inadvertently creating incentives for people to be killed rather than captured.' The Obama administration guidelines aim to help decide whether captured suspects are tried or face indefinite detention, U.S. officials say . The Obama administration is for the first time drafting classified gu ...
• Gates Says U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Iran's Nucl ...
  [Nosy Parker US: Curb *your own.* ] Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran's steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to gov ...
• 'Hezbollah arms not Israel's business'
  Israel has received a humiliating rebuff over its recent remarks about Hezbollah arms after a senior official said the movement's weaponry are not Tel Aviv's business. Hezbollah-affiliated government minister Hussein Hajj Hassan said Friday that the movement is always arming and preparing itsel ...
• US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  As Afghanistan continues to struggle with militancy, NATO says a roadside bomb has killed two more US-led soldiers in the country's volatile south. The nationalities of the soldiers have not been disclosed yet. The deaths bring the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 164 ...
• US soldier dismissed for threats in Iraq protest
  The U.S. Army has dismissed a soldier who threatened fellow troops and sent the Pentagon a violent rap song he wrote to protest his Iraq redeployment orders, officials said Saturday. The dismissal for misconduct means Spc. Marc A. Hall will avoid criminal charges but lose all military benefits e ...

Daily Loaf

• Live-blogging the Foursquare Day swarm party from ...
  Foursquare, the location-based social networking service, now has its own holiday: Foursquare Day. It’s the brainchild of Tampa resident Nate Bonilla-Warford and it started as a humble idea that in the past few weeks has exploded into an internationally-celebrated event for Foursquare’s boosters a ...
• Movie Review: Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, Starring ...
  CL Atlanta's Curt Holman reviews Kick-Ass . Can this superhero send-up possibly live up to its name?
• Movie Review: Death at a Funeral, starring Chris R ...
  CL Contributor Kevin Hopp reviews Death at a Funeral , the crazy comedy starring Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Zoe Saldana, James Marsden and many others. Find out if this remake is worth your hard earned money, or whether you're better off with Kick-Ass .
• Lechon Asado and the Perfect Cuban recipe
  The heart of a great Cuban is made of great pork.
• A dream of yearning and romance
  “Dream Momma, The dream always begins the same way. I am flying high above my home seeking my soul mate among the land of sunshine and romance. I am flying very fast, looking down on the curved coastline of the Gulf of Mexico to the wild swamps of the Everglades. It is very cold and [...]

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Remembering Bassem (Pheel) Abu Rahma
  Exactly one year ago, Bassem Abu Rahma (who everyone called Pheel, which means “elephant”), was killed by Israeli forces. Pheel, as he did every Friday, was demonstrating at the Wall which cuts off Bil’in from its own lands.  His last words were to ask the soldiers not to shoot because an Israeli h ...
• 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 ) ...

Politics in the Zeros

• New food safety bill could crush local food moveme ...
  Next week, the Senate will vote on a measure that could potentially extinguish California’s local food movement. Lobbied for by multinational agribusiness giants such as Cargill and Monsanto, as well as supported by the pharmaceutical industry, The Food Safety Modernization Act would impose financia ...
• Next-gen LEDs
  Earth2Tech profiles 5 LEDs about to hit the market. They aren’t cheap, $40-50 each, but then CFLs were expensive at first. These LEDs sip power and last six times longer than a CFL.
• Not an Onion post
  British prisons are giving drug-free prisoners highly addictive methadone before their release so they’ll have a tolerance against drugs in case they start using again.
• Catholic bishop: ’sex education’ behind church’s c ...
  Yes. Teach a Catholic priest how to use a condom and he simply must rape a child. And then, his boss, Cardinal Ratzinger, must then help to cover up the child rape. All because someone taught a fifth grader where babies come from.
• Chomsky warns of fascism risk in America
  At a recent speech, Chomsky said he remembers the sound of Hitler’s speeches and how the Nazis went from 2% of the vote to taking over two years later. He hears the rage of the Tea Partiers and others and says “the level of anger and fear is like nothing I can compare in my [...]

Coteret

• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Home-grown, solo terrorists as bad as Al-Qaeda: FB ...
  WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda still aims to strike inside the United States but home-grown or unaffiliated extremists now “pose an equally serious threat,” FBI chief Robert Mueller warned US lawmakers. “Al-Qaeda and its affiliates are still committed to striking us in the United States,” Mueller told a S ...
• Jack Blood On IRS, Fair Tax, Obamacare More At Aus ...
  Jack Blood On IRS, Fair Tax, Obamacare More At Austin Tea Party Rally Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | [...]
• Buildings On 9/11 Were Imploded! Willie Nelson
  April 16, 2010 CNN Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Texas city revives paddling as it takes a swat at ...
  TEMPLE, TEX. — In an era when students talk back to teachers, skip class and wear ever-more-risque clothing to school, one central Texas city has hit upon a deceptively simple solution: Bring back the paddle. Most school districts across the country banned paddling of students long ago. Texas sat ...
• Deadline Live – April 16 2010
  Friday – Hour One: Jack reviews April 15th Rally’s and plays speeches. Hour Two: With Antone Chaitkin, History editor for the Nationl Intelligence Review. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | [...]

The Air Vent

• 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!

Focal Point

• Live from St. John's Newfoundland: The JUNO Awards
  Today, I'm blogging from the JUNO Awards in St. John's, Newfoundland. The JUNOs are Canada's equivalent of the Grammys. The JUNOs honor Canadian musicians and ensembles. I'm here with my partner, Darcy James Argue, the bandleader of the steampunk jazz big band, Secret Society. Darcy is nominated f ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Social Gold, DST, Security, WaTu ...
  Facebook Fans Worth $3.60 Each – That’s according to social media management services company Vitrue. The figure came from Vitrue’s estimate that the average fan base of 1 million fans generates at least $3.6 million “in equivalent media” in the course of a year via the news feed. Virture†...
• Inside Social Apps 2010 Is Sold Out – See You on T ...
  April 20 | San Francisco Inside Social Apps 2010, our first conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is now officially sold out. We are very excited by the response to our inaugural event and to have so many industry leaders attending. We hope everyone coming on Tuesday ...
• As Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference Approaches, ...
  Facebook’s first f8 developer conference in two years is happening next Wednesday, and it will feature big announcements from the company. Here’s our look at the latest hints and rumors about what might be launched. Open Graph API: Facebook revealed its plans for this platform API last fall, d ...
• Facebook’s New Guidelines for Advertisers: Details ...
  Facebook updated its guidelines on what types of advertising cannot run in its performance ad network, last week. But we’ve since heard that a range of companies have been going back and forth with Facebook about what specific types of ads are acceptable or not. There has been some confusion in ...
• Time Wasters Prevail on This Week’s List of Emergi ...
  Fish Friends, a fairly new Playdom game, and Mall World, a well-made fashion game that appears to be by an indie developer called 50 Cubes, top our list of the 20 fastest-growing Facebook apps with fewer than a million users. We cover the games in depth over at Inside Social Games. Also note [... ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: The Firm Not Charged in Goldman Case Mad ...
  truthout: The Firm Not Charged in Goldman Case Made Billions on Collapse: Washington - New York hedge fund mana... http://bit.ly/ap2rmZ #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Obama Grants Hospital Visitation Rights ...
  truthout: Obama Grants Hospital Visitation Rights to Gay and Lesbian Couples: Gay rights activists cheered Obam... http://bit.ly/cBk3yX #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Blackwater Indicted for Violating Federa ...
  truthout: Blackwater Indicted for Violating Federal Firearms Laws: Raleigh, North Carolina - Five former employ... http://bit.ly/8Z4Qjx #Truthout #p2
• truthout: An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantanamo Lo ...
  truthout: An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantanamo Loses His Habeas Petition: Such is the prevailing disregard for... http://bit.ly/aqguEu #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Preventing Another Wall Street Bailout R ...
  truthout: Preventing Another Wall Street Bailout Requires Capping the Size of It's Big Banks: The best way for ... http://bit.ly/b95ptj #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Israel’s stooges battle for British votes
  Stuart Littlewood considers the British shadows of the US administration’s pro-Israel spivs and pimps – the Conservative and Labour parties – and argues that the unexpected rise in fortunes of Britain’s third main party, the Liberal Democrats, is likely to make its leader Nick Clegg, who is no rabid ...
• TV election debate another shining example of UK c ...
  Tim Coles explains why Britain’s first ever televised election debate between the leaders of the three main parties – stilted, characterized by omissions and obfuscations and pandering to prejudices – was a meaningless spectacle.
• 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Brazilian rancher guilty for murder of Dorothy Sta ...
  A Brazilian rancher accused of ordering the murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jurors in the jungle city of Belem reached the decision late Monday after 15 hours of deliberations, according to a statement on the Web site of a P ...
• Travelling down the Amazon Road
  In the opening of the Sustainability International Forum in Manaus, Brazil, Thomas Lovejoy, the scientist who invented the concept of biodiversity, criticized the construction of a highway through pristine areas in the Amazon rainforest. For Lovejoy, the highway poses a serious threat to the Amazon ...
• Top Amazonia activist shot dead!
  Pedro Alcantara de Souza, who headed a union of landless farmers in Para, was shot in the head five times by two men on motorcycles, according to a police spokesman in the town of Redencao. Souza was riding a bicycle on the outskirts of the town and his wife was with him when he was shot, [...]
• Avatar Director James Cameron returns from a visit ...
  James Cameron, director of Avatar, will hold a press conference on Wednesday, March 31 at 10 am at Hotel Tropical to report back on his experience a three-day visit to the Big Bend region of the Xingu River, site of the proposed Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam project. “I was told by my friends at ...
• Amazonia for Sale – new documentary – ...
  Amazonia for Sale is a new documentary on the Awajun People and their struggle to protect their ancestral territory. Approximately 35 minutes in length, Amazonia for Sale tells the story of the Awajun Peoples, who, like so many other Indigenous People around the world, are struggling to preserve the ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #27
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf discusses the fascist shift in the United States, how the state of our liberties has been getting worse under the Obama administration, and how President Obama has assumed the same position as Bush on States Secrets Privilege, unlawful detention an ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Jamiol Presents
• Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
  A Book on ‘Arming America’s Enemies’ Written by America’s Enemies?! David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), has a new book out (which I haven’t read) about AQ Khan and the nuclear black market called Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Tra ...
• Updates & Weekly Round Up for March 28
  Today marks Boiling Frogs Post’s fifth month of operation, and the last day of our fundraising campaign. On behalf of our team members I want to thank all of you for your support, with a special thanks to 658 of you who donated to our cause. We may not have reached our benchmark for our [...]

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
• 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 [...]

Expose the BNP

• Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
  The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...
• Journalists expose ‘murky world’ of far right
  Leading anti-fascist journalists last week gave a fascinating insight into the “murky and disturbing world of far right politics”. Nick Griffin’s biographer Dominic Carman and photojournalist Marc Vallée shed light on the violent and antidemocratic core of the BNP and the English Defence League. A s ...
• Exposing the Irish National Party
  In February, the Irish Sunday Tribune ran a piece on the emergent Irish National Party, giving undue attention to a group that was little more than one Dublin based paediatric nurse and a couple of impressionable hangers on. The group identified as a moderate party in favour of immigration reform an ...
• Collett arrested on suspicion of threatening to ki ...
  LAST week BNP youth leader Mark Collett was suspended from the party for allegedly threatening to kill Nick Griffin. Collett (29) was detained by police following claims by the BNP that he was involved in a plot to harm both Griffin and party financer James Dowson. However, sources close to the BNP ...
• On the ground in Dudley
  Entering the town of Dudley on Saturday was like entering a ghost town, an almost militarised ghost town. More than half the roads in the town centre were closed, with police manning the roadblocks. As we made our way to where the English Defence League rally was due to be held we walked past rows [ ...

Sen4Earth

• A Prayer Chain for Mother Earth
  Click Here for “Hug Spiritual Trees” on SEN You’ll find a Prayer for Mother Earth, a Prayer for All Life, and a Prayer Chain for Earth that’s just getting underway. Help it spread around the world! 
• World Wildlife Fund & Palin Alaska Boycott
  SEN is in the process of developing an article about WWF that indirectly bears upon the Palin Alaska Boycott. For just a few moments we posted the initial draft, as a step in the process of developing a major article bearing many photos and links. A reader happened to see it for the few moments the ...
• Palin Alaska Boycott Gets ANOTHER Boost from Tina ...
  Click Here for Palin Alaska BOYCOTT Central On sen4earth.org...another SEN donation to Defender's campaign, another Care2-SEN fight-fast fun-fest...
• Palin Alaska Boycott Gets Boost from Defenders Cam ...
  Click Here for Palin Alaska BOYCOTT CENTRAL and the link to the latest on the Defenders of Wildlife campaign. SEN could not be more ecstatic and yes SEN has donated to the campaign in honor of all of you making our united effort grow. We will not relent. The boycott SEN is leading has commenced and ...
• Drill Us to Hell? Say What YOU Demand!
  Drill Oil, USA & World to Hell? Tell Us, Them What YOU want!   The USA and world will soon be out of oil regardless. Tell us what YOU demand, we’ll tell THEM for you. The consequences of “too little too late”. Tools and links for more info and ACTION.   The Energy and Climate Bill being debated in ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

• Taking A Break, So Here’s Someone Else&#8217 ...
  We’ve been enjoying the sunshine (yes, wonderful sunshine) of North Wales for the past week and now we’re moving house, so The Unsuitablog has had to take a back seat for the time being. Don’t worry, we will be back soon, but to tide you over is the latest from the RANVideo YouTube channel, which [ ...
• 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 ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Documents Pouring in as DocumentCloud Goes Beta
  Eagle-eyed followers of the DocumentCloud Twitter feed have already picked up on the fact that we began adding users to our beta last month. We made a strategic decision to peg our beta to NICAR' s March 2010 computer assisted reporting conference , where we knew we'd be able to gather a sizable ...
• Clifford Stoll Was Wrong, But Internet is Far From ...
  Poor Clifford Stoll . His 1995 Newsweek essay The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana resurfaced last month and, yes, is still so curmudgeony that it makes Dennis the Menace's Mr. Wilson sound like Pangloss: What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is th ...
• Agriculture and Us
  I attended an Ashoka conference in New Delhi yesterday on rural innovation and farming. There were so many new things I realized about agriculture's deep rooted connections with culture, society and the economy that I decided to immediately write about it before the memories fade. Plus. I watched Av ...
• Printcasting Adds Partners in Philadelphia, Puerto ...
  Do niche print magazines still have a role to play in the digital age? Media outlets in five different cities around the world are using the Printcasting publishing network to try and answer this question. We've added three partners in two weeks. They are: La República , one of the leading newspaper ...
• Hacks and Hackers: A New Community for Technojourn ...
  Last June, at the annual Center for Future Civic Media Conference , I got to talking with Aron Pilhofer (an old friend, leader of the New York Times news applications team and a Knight News Challenge winner for the DocumentCloud project) about the growing number of people who are now doing computer ...

Cutting Edge News

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

High Country News

• Idaho and the new spaghetti Western
  Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's stubborn determination to sue the federal government over health care reform is cruel as well as foolish.
• Wildlife fauxtography
  If a wildlife photograph looks too perfect to be "real," it probably isn't.
• Horses running wild
  Statistics reveal the cost and complexity of wild horse management in the West.
• Only 40 years ago, the Earth got its day
  Earth Day, which was first celebrated 40 years ago, was largely created by Gaylord Nelson, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin who fought hard for environmental laws.
• Audio: High Country Views, episode 3
  Sarah Gilman and Cally Carswell talk about tough times for coal.

CounterCurrents

• Chidambarams Dominoes Are Beginning To Fall
  By Trevor Selvam The sons and daughters and the grandchildren of freedom fighters, of Gandhian activists, of Sarvodaya activists, followers of Vinoba Bhave, of the Congress Socialists, of the followers of Nehruvian socialism, of the followers of JP Narayan, of those the British chose to call terror ...
• Can Capitalism Fix The Climate?
  By Simon Butler Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It has taken capitalism about 250 years to generate enough waste and pollution to press dangerously against natures limits. With such a damning record, there should be no g ...
• Hedy Epsteins Emotional Speech In Support Of The D ...
  By Hedy Epstein Video of an emotional speech by Holocaust surviver Hedy Epstein speaking out in support of Divestment at the Universtity of California at Berkeley, California
• A Letter To Janet About Sabra-Shatilla
  By Franklin Lamb Dr. Franklin Lamb is an American who has dedicated the best years of his life and more to the service of Palestinians. This is a letter to his wife Janet, that was published in Counterpunch, on the anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila Massacre, on Sept. 14, 2007
• Mystifying Male Power As Domination: Theological R ...
  By Carol P. Christ Not only the Holy Father but all fathers and indeed all males benefit from the mystification of male power as domination. It is hard for victims and other witnesses (including wives and mothers) to believe that allegedly all-powerful males are doing something wrong. A church tha ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OUR FRIENDS IN AFGHANISTAN
  An amazing opportunity is available for communities across the country: The videos from Our Journey to Smile which I’ve been posting on here have been compiled into one long film. On 3/27 at 9pm (est), we will be showing the film along with others groups across the US. Additionally, we will be live ...
• The Ink People
  Last week, my friend from Eureka, CA, Dave Berman informed me that the community organization where Conor and I spoke on Halloween night was hit by a 6.5 earthquake. The Ink People are, as Dave said, ” limping along”: They are “only able to find temporary space for some admin work and a few of its ...
• You might just find that you get what you need
  Throughout these intense past few years, there have been times when I have nearly lost any kind of faith. Sometimes what I was seeing on a day to day basis looked far to ugly for there to be a God. Though questions still abound, I understand that sometimes it takes the worst kind of suffering to [.. ...
• Dangerous gatherings in Afghanistan!
• Another Blogging Stieber
  For all of you who have enjoyed mine and Conor’s blog, you’ll probably find my brother’s blog interesting also. With all the money it spends on advertising, most people could probably tell you a lot about the military, but what about other ways of “serving” one’s country? My brother Zack decided to ...

  Blacklisted News

• Feds Indict Ex-Blackwater President
  The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the King of Jordan.
• G. Edward Griffin talks about chemtrails in exclus ...
• VIDEO: Gunshots Fired In Immediate Aftermath Of Po ...
• Army to Court Martial ‘Birther’ Officer
  U.S. military officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Army will court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be “illegal.”
• Arizona Passes Strict Immigration Bill; Gives Poli ...

The Intelligence Daily

• U.S. Reserves Use Of Nuclear Arms, Missile Shield ...
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — This month has seen the signing of an agreement on...
• The Truth Behind The Recent Unrest in Kyrgyzstan
  By Dr. John CK Daly (The Intelligence Daily) — The following article is the first of three...
• Techniques of the Culture Creators: From Abundance ...
  By Justin O’Connell (The Intelligence Daily) — “The average citizen is the...
• The U.N. Partition Plan and Arab ‘Catastrophe’
  By Jeremy R. Hammond (The Intelligence Daily) — The following is excerpted from The Rejection...
• Ignorance of Afghan Society Led to Botched Raids
  By Gareth Porter (The Intelligence Daily) — Special Operations Forces raid on Feb. 12 on what...

My AntiWar

• Weapons of Mass Destruction are Haram: Ayatollah K ...
  Summary: Ayatollah Khamenei: “Iran regards utilizing nuclear weapons as haram and it is incumbent on everyone to safeguard humanity from such weapons.” source: Tehran Timesread more
• Iran rightfully calls for America to be suspended ...
  Summary: US nuclear weapons in EuropeThe leader of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rightfully called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to suspend America for constantly threatening to use nuclear weapons against his country and other states; and his bold stance could be a significant op ...
• Iran opens nuke conference amid new sanction threa ...
  Summary: Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No OneThe International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation comes a few days after a high-profile nuclear security summit in Washington. The conference in Tehran is seen by some as a counter effort against the U.S.-hosted summit, but ...
• Russia: Iran summit ‘good opportunity’
  Summary: Tehran Disarmament ConferenceA top Russian official describes the Tehran conference, which advocates nuclear energy for all countries and atomic weapons for none, as an “excellent opportunity.” source: Press TVread more
• Iran, at nuclear conference, hits out at “bu ...
  Summary: Tehran Disarmament ConferenceIran said China and Russia were represented at its own disarmament conference on Saturday, held in response to a summit in Washington to which it was not invited and intended to hit back at nuclear-armed “bullies.” source: Reutersread more

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Weapons of Mass Destruction are Haram: Ayatollah K ...
  Summary: Ayatollah Khamenei: "Iran regards utilizing nuclear weapons as haram and it is incumbent on everyone to safeguard humanity from such weapons." source: Tehran Times read more
• Iran rightfully calls for America to be suspended ...
  Summary: US nuclear weapons in Europe The leader of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rightfully called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to suspend America for constantly threatening to use nuclear weapons against his country and other states; and his bold stance could be a significa ...
• Iran opens nuke conference amid new sanction threa ...
  Summary: Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No One The International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation comes a few days after a high-profile nuclear security summit in Washington. The conference in Tehran is seen by some as a counter effort against the U.S.-hosted summit, ...
• Russia: Iran summit 'good opportunity'
  Summary: Tehran Disarmament Conference A top Russian official describes the Tehran conference, which advocates nuclear energy for all countries and atomic weapons for none, as an "excellent opportunity." source: Press TV read more
• Iran, at nuclear conference, hits out at "bullies"
  Summary: Tehran Disarmament Conference Iran said China and Russia were represented at its own disarmament conference on Saturday, held in response to a summit in Washington to which it was not invited and intended to hit back at nuclear-armed "bullies." source: Reuters read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
  Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
• Massive New Supernovas Observed -"Could They be th ...
  The physicist Enrico Fermi once asked referring to visits to Earth by extraterrestrial civilizations: Where are they? The accurate answer might well be: destroyed by radiation from supernova explosions. It has long been was thought that white dwarfs could not...
• Obama Launches a New NASA to Mars & Beyond: Will C ...
  US President Barack Obama said Thursday he is aiming to send US astronauts into Mars orbit in the mid-2030s as he sought to counter protests over his earlier space policies as he launched a bold new age of commerical space...
• NASA Satellite Monitoring Iceland Volcano -Worried ...
  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been keeping a watchful satellite eye on Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which awakened for the first time in 120 years on March 20 and has wrecked haoc on Europe's air lines. Within 24 hours of the...
• Billionaire Eco-Explorer David de Rothschild's Vis ...
  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast vortex of plastic trash that spans hundreds of miles northwest of Hawaii, has gotten lots of attention ever since billionaire adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild announced his plans to visit the trash...

Natural News

• Health insurance companies invest billions in fast ...
  (NaturalNews) Did you ever wonder how health insurance companies drum up future business? It's easy: Just invest in companies whose products cause chronic degenerative disease, driving people towards more health care needs and therefore more health insurance. And that's exactly what the health insur ...
• Meat industry lying about E. coli contamination
  (NaturalNews) The meat industry has been misusing data to make it appear that E. coli contamination of meat is decreasing, said Barbara Kowalcyk of the Center for Foodborne Illness, Research and Prevention. Executives from the American Meat Institute (AMI) have claimed success in the beef industry's ...
• Green tea prevents eye disease
  (NaturalNews) Recent research out of Hong Kong is indicating that certain substances found in green tea work to penetrate eye tissue and prevent eye disease. Catechins, a type of antioxidant, are one such substance that researchers say helps to prevent ocular degeneration and oxidative stress. Publi ...
• 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 ...

Threat Level

• School District Allegedly Snapped Thousands of Stu ...
  A webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district is broadening, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent. Some of the images included pictures of youths at home, i ...
• Bush’s Illegal Wiretapping Tab: $612,000
  The two American lawyers who were illegally wiretapped by the Bush administration asked a federal judge Friday to order the government to pay $612,000 in damages, plus legal fees for their attorneys. The demand (.pdf) comes two weeks after U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said the former administr ...
• FBI to Cloud: We Have a Warrant!
  FBI agents targeting alleged criminal spammers last year obtained a trove of incriminating documents from a suspect’s Google Docs account, in what appears to be the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud storage. The warrant, issued August 21 in t ...
• Yahoo Beats Feds in E-Mail Privacy Battle
  Yahoo prevailed Friday over Colorado federal prosecutors in a legal battle testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. Saying the contested e-mail “would not be helpful to the government’s investigation,” (.pdf) the authorities withdrew demands for e-mail in a ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Bush Echoed Obama's Words, Not Actions, on Nuclear ...
  "The biggest threat facing this country," President Bush declared on September 30 2004, is weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist network." But in the wake of the successful Nuclear Security Summit this week, Bush's conservative water carriers are blasting President Obama for the s ...
• 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

• McConnell Tries To Dodge Repeated Questions About ...
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been blasting the Senate’s financial regulatory reform bill in recent days, falsely arguing that it “institutionalizes” bailouts for Wall Street. read more
• Arizona Legislature Makes Being Undocumented a Cri ...
  Arizona is on track to become the first state in the nation to make it a misdemeanor for a person to be there without legal immigration documents.
• Welcome to “Abortion Recovery Awareness Month”
  We are halfway through April, which you may not have realized has been dubbed “Abortion Recovery Awareness Month” for the second year in a row by Texas Governor, Rick Perry and Minnesota Governor, Tim Pawlenty. Just for the record: Abortion Recovery Awareness Month is not designed to offer comfort t ...
• Tax Grousing Tells Half The Story
  It’s tax time again, the time of year when Americans grouse about forking over part of their hard-earned cash to the dear old government. These days, there’s a whole movement dedicated to grumbling about taxes full time — I’m talking, of course, about the Right’s latest incarnation — tea partiers, w ...
• Turkish Mayor Acquitted on Misconduct Charges ... ...
  The charges related to his decision to provide up to 10 tons of water free of charge to district residents in a stand against water privatization.

Consortium News

• Tea Partiers Protect Wall Street
  The Tea Partiers take aim at Big Government when the real culprit is corporate power, write Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. April 17, 2010
• Cyber-Warfare Chief's Deception
  Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, in line to run the new Cyber-Warfare Command, misled Congress on Bush-era spying, reports Ray McGovern. April 16, 2010
• How Greedy Deregulation Killed Miners
  Mining CEO (and Tea Party backer) Don Blankenship hated government interference with his deadly mine, notes Kevin Zeese. April 16, 2010
• PBS Shies from Single-Payer Debate
  PBS Frontline examined how President Obama's health reform passed, but not why single-payer was ignored, says Margaret Flowers. April 15, 2010
• Ghost of 'Total Information Awareness'
  Americans may be surprised that the Orwellian post-9/11 scheme called "Total Information Awareness" lives, says Coleen Rowley. April 15, 2010

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Why are fallen soldiers exempt from culpability? ...
  Who said Ehud Barak is insensitive? Who falsely accused Gabi Ashkenazi of being the silent type? And who suspects them of not being able to work together? The defense minister and chief o ...
• Young Palestinians in Israeli jails (Al Jazeera)
• How Obama must deal with Israeli avoidance methods ...
  As Barack Obama seeks leadership of the nuclear nonproliferation cause this week, the long shadow cast by the Arab-Israeli conflict is close by. And a proliferation of peace plan advice i ...
• Palestinian killed in Gaza clash (Al Jazeera)
  A Palestinian fighter has been killed by Israeli gunfire during a firefight in the eastern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and Palestinian medics have said. An Israeli army spokesman said th ...
• Fayyad sets out to fulfill vision (Ali Waked, Yne ...
  Who has turned Israel, Hamas and the veteran and conservative group in Fatah into loyal partners? Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, at least if you ask him. Despite the many diffi ...

Water - AlterNet

• Dow Chemical Is Sponsoring a Run for Water -- Acti ...
  The company says it is part of its efforts to help the 1.2 billion who lack access to clean water but Dow has contaminated water supplies for many of those people.
• Why Consumers, Community Groups and Investors Are ...
  Nestle has worked hard to convince people that the company has turned over a new leaf, but fewer folks are buying Nestle's line or their water.
• Turkish Mayor Acquitted on Misconduct Charges ... ...
  The charges related to his decision to provide up to 10 tons of water free of charge to district residents in a stand against water privatization.
• Another Water Crisis Unfurling: Tar Sands Developm ...
  A new project may be coming to Utah that could have significant effects on water quality and quantity.
• Water and Energy -- Obey the Law on Cooling System ...
  Once-through cooling systems are an outmoded environmental disaster. So why are so many power plants still relying on them?

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Possibility, Probability of Nuking Iran by Gaither ...
  by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 18 April, 2010 The odds are always good that men
• Al Qaeda’s Top Gun by Jeremy R. Hammond
  by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal 17 April, 2010 An examin
• Naomi Wolf on Fascism in the US, Interviewed by Pe ...
  tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.com/blog/2010/04/17/naomi-wolf-on-fascism-in-the-us-interviewed-by
• Chris Hedges: When America leaves reality behind
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 17, 2010 Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ 04/16/20
• Big Government, Small Government: It's All a Matte ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com April 16, 2010

Axis of Logic

• Joan Baez - Forever Young
• Venezuela Criticizes Bias in Inter-American Human ...
• Wikileaks Video - Rules of Engagement, Rules of Em ...
• Arrests, Torture and the Presidential Election
• Nuclear Power Industry Uses Blunt Force. The Peopl ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Europe still grounded; no relief in sight. "Millions of stranded travellers face further air chaos as the volcanic ash from Iceland that has closed most of Europe's airspace continues to spread. An estimated three-quarters of flights were cancelled on Saturday. About 20 countries closed their airspa ...
• Senator Claire McCaskill (D) on Rachel Maddow
  "...Well, it's, it's because we didn't have enough people when we went into Iraq. Truth be known, we didn't have the size of force necessary to do what we were trying to do in Iraq..." - Senator Claire McCaskill (D) Somebody should have told that to Donald Rumsfeld . Oh, wait... Senator Claire McCas ...
• It Ain't Over Until It's Over
  And the fat lady hasn't even started warming up yet. � Goldman case likely to unleash torrent of lawsuits Could the coming shit storm that's apparently about to descend on the insidious mass of corruption that has been so aptly termed " a vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity " possibly ...
• For Women, Federal Law Is Never Enough
  Because those terrified of women and sex just will never take "None of your fucking business so back the fuck off" for an answer, this will always be necessary. Katha Pollitt: What if you need an abortion and you don't have the money? Believe it or not, I meet plenty of people who don't understand ...
• Obama Calls Out Mitch on Wall Street Reform
  Oh, SNAP! "Now, unsurprisingly, these reforms have not exactly been welcomed by the people who profit from the status quo - as well their allies in Washington. �This is probably why the special interests have spent a lot of time and money lobbying to kill or weaken the bill. �Just the other day, in ...

Care 2

• Say STOP! to the sale of sharks of any species in ...
  Sharks are in a vulnerable state now! Please rmb that we not only share the world with humans, but with so many other animals including these predatory sharks living here for 400 million years already. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Lynx makes record trek only to die in trapline
  A relocated lynx with an unerring sense of direction made a record, years-long journey through hostile environments back home to Alberta from Colorado - only to end up dead in a trap. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Man Sentenced For Brutally Killing Dog In O.C.
  Bayron Reyes Lopez picked up the dog, clutched its throat and choked it with both hands before slamming the pet on the concrete sidewalk in front of its owner, authorities said. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Blind dog rescued in Reinholds marsh
  Two young men, a concerned neighbor and ORCA combined efforts Friday to rescue a blind dog trapped in marshy ravine and believed missing for more than two weeks . Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Goldman case likely to unleash torrent of lawsuits
  The fraud charges against Goldman Sachs & Co. that rocked financial markets Friday are no slam dunk, as hazy evidence and strategic pitfalls could easily trip up government lawyers. It couls kick off a lengthy new era of litigation for many banks. Submitted by Judy C. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

GreenBiz

• EPA to Require Lab Tests Before Granting Energy St ...
  Companies seeking Energy Star certification for their products must furnish lab test results to verify energy use before they can use the famous label. The new requirement is the latest move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy to strengthen the program.
• The Consequences of Ignoring Water Risks in the U. ...
  Failure to address water risks and other critical issues posed by aging or inadequate infrastructure could further impede the U.S. economy and America's attempts to regain global competitiveness on a number of fronts, a new study warns. �
• LG to Spend $18B Cutting Carbon, Making Greener Pr ...
  The South Korean company's plan is expected to reduce emissions 40 percent by 2020. The other half of the money will be spent on increasing production of energy efficient and clean tech products, such as fuel cells and rechargeable batteries.
• Volvo Water and Energy Intensity Grows, but Total ...
  Although water and energy use at Volvo declines last year, the gains were outpaced by production declines, driving up intensity in both areas.
• GE's New 40-Watt LED Bulb Will Last 25,000 Hours
  General Electric will start selling a 40-watt LED bulb later this year that will last 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs, which are being phased out in the U.S. �

Reuters Global

• Karzai, the West and the diplomatic marriage from ...
  Covering President Hamid Karzai’s government and the Western diplomats who are supposed to support it is like being friends with a couple while they go through a divorce. Usually, the invective is whispered “off the record” by both sides, so readers miss out on the opportunity to learn just how dysf ...
• You got to do more, Pakistan tells United States
  The shoe's on the other foot. The Pakistani army is saying that it's being let down by U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan just when it has made hard-fought gains against militants along its stretch of the border. It wants it to do more.
• Coming to terms with Poland’s disaster
  Poles feel sorrow, pain and anger over the air crash that killed their president and many of the political and military elite.
• Nobel award to Obama required lengthy U.S. Constit ...
  Always good to check to make sure the president could receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Turkey’s EU bid meets another Cyprus roadblo ...
  The Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been divided between Turkish and Greek Cypriots since the 1970s. An election on Sunday in the northern Turkish portion could have a long-term impact on Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

Paul Krugman

• Time to Reread Akerlof and Romer
  There's nothing to get our analytical juices flowing like a good Sachs scandal.
• The New Yorker Explains Resolution Authority
  Funny how this never happens.
• The Worst Of Times
  Has there ever been a time in US political history when one of the two major political parties was so addicted to doublethink?
• What Clark Hoyt Said
  Enough already.
• Days Of Tea And Wine
  The Tea Party eats French.

No Quarter

• Fannie And Freddie’s Lasting Impact
  The DOW continues to be on the rise, which is certainly some good news, particularly for investors. Unfortunately, that is not translating into new jobs. Quite the opposite, in fact. For the second week in a row, first time unemployment benefits have risen, this week close to half a million (484, ...
• WANTED: A Renewed American Spirit
  My friend in advertising always says you can tell a lot about a society by how and what is marketed to its citizens. So, how are we doing here in the good old U S of A?? The Superbowl ads this year were pretty ho hum. Even the pros agree with me on that [...]
• CIA Reaching for Mediocrity?
  I presume some of you caught the Washington Post “blow job” about the new number two guy at CIA, Michael Morrell. I was particularly struck by the following: Michael J. Morell, 51, will take over the No. 2 position at a time when the CIA is battering the al-Qaeda terrorist network with an escalatin ...
• BO(zo)’s Bright-Unique-Lovey-Loopey-Shiny-Hopey-Id ...
  BO(zo) did a flyover and crapped on NASA at the KSC today on his way to a $30K/plate fundraiser. He’s now hawking his new plan that I’ve dubbed the B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T plan. Note: the original, bulleted, items are all taken from the White House handout. Lets’ review the new B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T plan, ...
• Exclusive report: Democracy is still alive and wel ...
  Editor: This is a guest column, reproduced with special permission of the Secretary of Innovation (not an official government agency). As citizen journalists for the Secretary of Innovation (SoI), co-founder Bessie and I attended the April 14, 2010 Tea Party rally on the Boston Common, Boston, Mass ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Runaway Black Holes No, But There are Oyster Birds ...
  There are dangers that confront the Large Hadron Collider but they are not micro black holes. Meet a petulant God, and an aggressive Oyster Catcher. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Incredible Feats of the Fakirs
  clothed in little more than loin cloths and living on alms, the Fakirs are yet able to perform incredible feats of endurance and apparent magic. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Snowboarder Vs Avalanche
  Snowboarding, already an extreme sport, becomes even more adventurous when an avalanche, triggered naturally or by human activity, decides to chase a snowboarder or skier read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
• 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The New Anti-Nuclear Movement
  The Obama administration has a new nuclear policy. And we need a new anti-nuclear movement that can reach for change.
• Media, Power and Politics in Venezuela: Inside the ...
  Join us for a with Venezuelan journalist Ernesto Villegas Poljak.
• Will America Buy a New Climate Policy?
  Congress is deadlocked on the issue of climate change. But a new bill, with bipartisan support, has a good chance of breaking the deadlock and actually reducing U.S. carbon emissions.
• Review: 'Bridging Partition'
  This powerful collection of essays describes the citizen diplomacy and peace movements that have been taking root in India and Pakistan.
• Out of Okinawa: Military Bases and the U.S.-Japan ...
  Join us for a brown bag lunch with U.S.-Japan expert Gavan McCormack.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Ash cloud tightens grip over Europe
  Air traffic disrupted for fourth day as Icelandic volcano continues to spew plume of ash.
• Poles gather for president's burial
  Bodies of first couple flown to Krakow but most world leaders unable to attend.
• Turkish Cypriots in leadership vote
  Polls open with right-winger tipped to replace pro-unification incumbent as leader.
• Iran demands US troop withdrawal
  Ahmadinejad says US troops in the region and Afghanistan are stoking more insecurity.
• Deaths in Pakistan suicide attack
  At least seven killed and 21 wounded in Kohat a day after twin blasts left 41 dead.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Next Up: A Smarter Streetlight
  A smarter LED streetlight would communicate wirelessly on its condition, reducing the number of crews needed to check for failed lamps.
• For Oil Sands Project, a Step Forward
  The State Department has released a draft environmental-impact statement suggesting that a pipeline carrying crude oil extracted from tar sans fields in Canada would do "limited" harm to the environment.
• Senate Climate Bill Debut Set for April 26
  The Senate sponsors of climate and energy legislation now plan to unveil their proposal on April 26, aides say.
• Solar Growth Slows, With Homes a Glaring Exception
  The growth of the solar industry slowed in the United States last year, but residential installations surged, in part due to stimulus spending and tax credits.
• From the Sea to a Sushi Plate, a Trail of DNA
  Researchers are already tracking DNA in restaurant offerings to figure out how the market in whale meat works.

Dot Earth News

• No American Left Inside
  The president pushes to connect people and wild things, on a budget.
• Youth, 'Fossils' and Planetary Progress
  An exploration of the merits of working with young minds on Earth-scale challenges.
• East Anglia's Climate Lessons
  A second inquiry into questions raised by climatologists' files finds no wrongdoing but pushes for openness and better statistics.
• Obama Seeks Local Action for Earth Day
  Facing deep division in Washington on climate policy, Obama urges Americans to go local in improving the environment.
• The Climate Path From Copenhagen Through Cancun
  A document may hold clues to American goals in climate negotiations.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• BlackListedNews: BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes ...
    I can only apologize for not pushing the breakdown of the gold market story out more. It is finally coming loose it seems, & when this occurs it will be another giant 'discontinuity' that'll get filled up with more inflationary ripoffs. A huge basis of the system is gonna croak sometime soon... ...
• Palin Bachmann: 2010 GOP Convention Center Rally H ...
  Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...
• Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
  Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...
• War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
  Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
• Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
  Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...

Daily Censored

• The Goldman Sachs Credo – So What if We Lie?
  Somebody woke up the Securities and Exchange Commission, apparently.  They indicted Goldman Sachs and superstar trader Fabrice Touree of their London office for “for making materially misleading statements and omissions in connection” with a major offering in early 2007.   The case is clearly su ...
• Report on March and Rally to Defend Public Educati ...
  Readers- As you know I have spent a great deal of time bringing you the news regarding the efforts of ‘By any Means Necessary’, or BAMN (www.bamn.com) and their efforts to stop privatization city by city, but especially in Detroit.  I have done this for the purpose of letting readers know about the ...
• Another Big School Anti-Privatization Victory toda ...
  With the successful march on Washington, April 10, 2010 in front of Arne’s cubbyhole and the recent victories handed to BAM and Detroit Schools, Arne Duncan and his cronies must have their underwear in a knot. City by city they had been having their way but now that the forces, mostly made up of st ...
• Pedophilia and male prostitutes in the White House ...
  video and author engagement in comments at source. Pedophilia is at the core of US government. Fully documented and called “The Franklin Affair,” the CIA ordered that a child prostitution ring involved with political “leadership” of both parties not to be investigated, despite damning evidence. Most ...
• 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 ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

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

Pine River World News

• Gordon Duff: "Does The Holocaust Prove The Christi ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . "Does The Holocaust Prove The Christian God Is Dead?" � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today April 16, 2010 * �Israel's Position Isn't Without Merit * �Are They On The Same Path? ...
• Remembering Marla
  In every war zone there are those who risk their lives to bring comfort and humanitarian aid to the civilian population caught up in the conflict. Most of these workers seldom receive recognition or thanks for the difficult job they do. Each year, since 2005, I have posted a blog in memory of Marl ...
• Pravda: Nuclear Summit a Continuation of U.S. Hypo ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Nuclear Summit a Continuation of U.S. Hypocrisy � � Pravda.ru By Lisa Karpova April 15, 2010 Since its creation in 1948, Israel has been thumbing its nose at international law. In fact, Israel has become perhaps the world's ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #331
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• News you may have missed #330
  Pakistan released captured Taliban behind CIA's back. Kiwi activists accuse police of spying. CIA suspected existence of Israeli nukes in 1974.
• Australia to expel Israeli diplomat over Mabhouh a ...
  Australia has announced that it plans to expel an Israeli diplomat from the country, in connection with forged Australian passports that were used by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
• News you may have missed #329
  Iran insists US hikers had intelligence links. Gerdes case shows difficulty of CIA jobs. US still denying India access to Headley.
• Analysis: Inside the US-Israeli intelligence relat ...
  Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, authors of Friends in Deed: Inside the US-Israel Alliance, have produced a lengthy, well-researched and up-to-date essay on US-Israeli intelligence relations. The essay, which appears in the latest issue of The Tablet, carefully examines the highly complex subject of the ...

After Downing Street.org

• Is the Best Antiwar Voice on TV Glenn Beck?
  By David Swanson I mean that as a serious question. Now, I don't think Glenn Beck has much between his ears. I don't think he has a coherent principled view of anything, and I expect he would throw his own grandmother under a bus for a buck. His opposition to war is driven by the most disgusting ...
• Israel's Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Depleted ...
  Israel's Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Depleted Uranium Exposure Tim King | Salem-News.com Israel's population is facing a dire threat: a drastic depopulation, from the use of weapons that leave behind Depleted Uranium (DU). Depleted Uranium leads to the word Omnicidal, as DU kills everything i ...
• Next Supreme Court Justice to Solidify Right Wing, ...
  Next Supreme Court Justice to Solidify Right Wing, Neoliberal Control By Stephen Lendman On April 9, Justice John Paul Stevens delivered a letter to President Obama stating: "Having concluded that it would be in the best interests of the Court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well in ...
• Israel Dismisses Obama Call to Join NPT
  Israel Dismisses Obama Call to Join NPT Minister: Obama Fine With Israel's 'Nuclear Ambiguity' By Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com As with previous discussions of the possibility, Israeli officials today reacted negatively to yesterday’s comment by Preside ...
• Terror Suspects Held 'Illegally' In Afghanistan Pr ...
  Terror suspects held 'illegally' in Afghanistan prison named by charity • MoD sued for refusing to identify pair handed to Americans • Men named as Amanatullah Ali and Yunus Rahmatullah By Richard Norton-Taylor | Guardian.co.UK A legal charity has named two men who ended up in the infamous "dark ...

Grist - News

• Ash and floods threaten Icelanders
  by Agence France-Presse Photo: Wikimedia Commons. REYKJAVIK -- Around 800 people living near an Icelandic volcano spewing clouds of ash across Europe returned to their homes after fleeing to escape flash floods from a melting glacier atop the crater, authorities said Friday. For the second tim ...
• Iceland volcano cloud brings European air chaos
  by Agence France-Presse Photo courtesy of Sverrir Thor via FlickrREYKJAVIK - A huge cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano covered northern Europe on Thursday, forcing the closure of vast swaths of international airspace and the cancellation of thousands of flights. The eruption of the Eyjafja ...
• Britain’s ‘Coed Darcy’ shows the ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes Sim Darcy: An illustration of the Welsh urban villageCourtesy The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment Coed Darcy is an oddly named urban village that's going to be built from the ground up over the next 20 years in southern Wales. It'll h ...
• What the green movement needs from the next Suprem ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes Courtesy Related Links: Justice Stevens’ pro-environmental legacy embodies a simple approach:  follow the law Coal execs get slammed in House hearing Great Barrier Reef oil spill hits renowned nature sanctuary
• Great Barrier Reef oil spill hits renowned nature ...
  by Agence France-Presse A sea turtle swims along the Great Barrier ReefPhoto courtesy The Lightworks via FlickrSYDNEY -- Australian police on Wednesday vowed to "throw the book" at two crewmen from the Chinese coal carrier that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, smashing coral and spilling ...

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• LaRussa May Have Cost the Cardinals a Game
  The St. Louis Cardinals manager may have run his team out of a win Saturday night.
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• Rush Limbaugh May Not Be Serious When He Talks
  When he says Eyjafjallajokull's eruption was God's response to the health care bill being passed ... it might be a joke.

Time - Top Stories

• David Cameron: Britain's Next Prime Minister?
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• Supreme Court: Who Will Get the Stevens Seat?
  After a 35-year run, John Paul Stevens gives Obama a second chance to reshape the court

Washington Independent

• Scanning for Controversy in the Lincoln Proposal
  Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has released her language for the derivatives portion of the bill overhauling financial regulation. I’ve gone through the section-by-section report, and am now digging into the language more deeply. Bills are complicated things, and I’ll be looking more closely this aft ...
• Massa Refunds Total $112,000
  On the day Eric Massa resigned from the House, he refunded $112,000 in campaign donations, according to the Federal Election Commission. More than half of those refunds, $62,000, were returned to individual donors, and the rest went to political committees. The biggest refund recipients? Nancy Pelos ...
• Collins Signs Republican Letter Opposing FinReg
  Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo reports that Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has signed Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s letter in opposition to the Democrats’ financial reform bill. Republicans claim — inaccurately, experts say — that the bill will lead to more Wall Street bailouts. Here is the ...
• Blanche Lincoln Releases Derivatives Bill
  Find it here. And here is a section-by-section summary.
• Obama Puts Weight Behind DC Vote Bill
  For the first time, President Obama today threw his support behind the marathon push to grant the residents of the nation’s capitol a voting representative in Congress. From the White House statement: Americans from all walks of life are gathering in Washington today to remind members of Congress th ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Tax those carbon gluttons
  LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & C ...
• Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
  Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squee ...
  Massachusetts poultry farmer Jennifer Hashley has a problem. From the moment she started raising pastured chickens outside Concord, Mass. in 2002, there was, as she put it “nowhere to go to get them processed.” While she had the option of slaughtering her Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• Cow beaten to death with plank
  A farmer has condemned an attack in which a cow died after being repeatedly beaten around the head with a 4ft plank of wood. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ND food pantries reach halfway goal of 700 deer
  A North Dakota program that distributes venison to the needy is halfway to its goal of collecting 700 deer carcasses despite a hunting season that barely got off with a bang. "I was a little worried about the hunting season," said Ann Pollert, Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society ...

Suzie-Q

• Goldman Sachs Charged With FRAUD By SEC
  Goldman Sachs FRAUD Charges Filed By SEC Over Subprime Mortgage Securities Huffington Post |  Ryan McCarthy First Posted: 04-16-10 10:51 AM   |   Updated: 04-16-10 11:49 AM The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Goldman Sachs wit ...
• 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 [...]

Solari

• Chart of the Day: Goldman’s $12 Billion Bloo ...
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• The Source of the Global Drug Problem is Not Kabul ...
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• Feud Over NASA Threatens America’s Edge in S ...
  After dominating space for a half century, the U.S. is mired in a political fight that threatens its leadership role and ambitions for manned exploration. President Barack Obama travels Thursday to the Kennedy Space Center to try to salvage his plans to re-energize the National Aeronautics and Spac ...
• U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud
  Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims the bank created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail. The move marks the firs ...
• Information on Nanotechnology & Synthetic Biology
  What is Nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is the experimental process of manipulating matter at a scale of 1/100th the width of human hair, in order to create new products and materials. New consumer products with hidden nanotech ingredients hit the U.S. market in a nearly unregulated fashion each week ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• The Story of the Night Hannah Was Not "Offici ...
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• The Inspiring 'Freedom Movement' That Paved the Wa ...
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• Torture At Home: Documentary On Solitary Confineme ...
  National Geographic's well-intentioned effort to show the horrors of solitary confinement may have caused more harm than good.
• They're Trying to Call HIV-Positive People Bioterr ...
  HIV-positive Daniel Allen was charged with 'possession or use of a harmful biological device' after biting his neighbor during a neighborhood fight.
• 'I Didn't Do Anything, And I Got My Ass Kicked' -- ...
  University of Maryland police brutality case is a sobering reminder that an officer's word can carry tremendous weight against that of an average person.

Sideways News

• Scientists urge trans fats ban
  A ban on trans fats would save lives by preventing thousands of heart attacks every year, scientists say. Experts writing in the British Medical Journal said the chemically altered vegetable oils, also known as trans fatty acids and typically found in cakes, pastries, pies, chips and fast foods, wer ...
• Expert explains debate body language
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• Glastonbury Festival line-up announced
  As a thirty-something journalist more desk bound than I’d like to admit, I was heartened when a colleague in his early twenties said: “I haven’t heard of half of these acts.” It was a relief that I was not the only one out of touch with the latest bands, but also evidence of Glastonbury’s variety of ...
• 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
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Fabius Maximus

• The impact of comments on website traffic
  Many people have asked about the effect on the traffic at the FM website of turning off comments on February 25.  Here are the numbers, showing no impact.  The totals underestimate recent traffic, since much of the traffic has moved to syndications during the past 3 months.  The syndicated traffic f ...
• A powerful story from Afghanistan, an illustration ...
  This article, based on examination of one small fragment of the war, reveals much. The article About intelligence in Afghanistan About roads, the magic bullet of COIN (in Spring 2008) (1)  The article (headings added) “U.S. retreat from Afghan valley marks recognition of blunder“, Greg Jaffe, Wa ...
• FM newswire for April 17, interesting articles abo ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. An analysis of effective propaganda:  “Cherry-Picking Income Distribution Statistics“, Justin Wolfers, blog of the New York Times, 13 April 2010 Another example of effective propaganda: ”C ...
• Global warming causes earthquakes and volcanic eru ...
  This story has sparked much laughter among global warming skeptics.  The history of exaggerated claims  by warmists have made the skeptics sloppy.  This claim has a basis in real research.  “Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes“, Reuters, 16 April 2010 “Will present day glacier retreat i ...
• About that melting arctic ice cap
  Here’s one of the often shown graphics from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, showing extent (not area) of arctic sea ice: While not chart junk, its clear message is an illusion. The x-axis is not at zero, which exaggerates the change.  The ice extent range (y-axis) is only 12% over this 3 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Tumour fear over metal hip replacements
  The Times – THOUSANDS of people fitted with metal hip replacements are to have their operations reviewed and may be called in for tests over fears that their implants could cause non-cancerous tumours and tissue damage. An official review, to be announced this week by the Medicines and Healthcare pr ...
• Stop and search UK: A Briton is interrogated by po ...
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• GE: 7,000 tax returns, $0 U.S. tax bill
  CNN Money – General Electric filed more than 7,000 income tax returns in hundreds of global jurisdictions last year, but when push came to shove, the company owed the U.S. government a whopping bill of $0. How’d it pull off that trick? By losing lots of money. Read Article
• WHO flu experts reject charges of business influen ...
  The Independent – Leading experts involved in the World Health Organisation’s decision to declare a flu pandemic on Wednesday rejected accusations of undue influence from the pharmaceutical industry. The heads of panels of scientists advising the agency on vaccines and the alert said “meticulous ca ...
• Medvedev: Israeli strike on Iran could spark globa ...
  Haaretz – An Israeli strike of Iran’s nuclear facilities could spark a nuclear conflict, which could spiral into a global catastrophe, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC on Monday, adding that he supported what he called “smart” sanctions on Tehran as part of attempt to make it abandon its n ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Dear Maoist-Third Worldist.. Are you a bunch of pr ...
  Liberalism or puritanism? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, I read your last article on casual sex amongst Amerikans. What do you have against sex? Are you a bunch of prudes? Thanks” MSH responds: Thank you for writing. The point of that article was not to criticize ...
• 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 ...
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• Growth of casual sex in the United States
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• 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 ...

PakAlert

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• Mass Depopulation, Genocide, WW3? Part 2 The Satan ...
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• Israeli Raid Called Off After Soldier Discloses De ...
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• There Were 88 Media Companies… Now There Are 6
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• Globalzionation
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ecogeek

• NASA and Chrysler Team Up to 'Share Knowledge,' Se ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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Buzzflash

• A Corporate Media Owned by Wealthy Interests is Go ...
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• Crocodile Tears on Wall Street
  BILL MOYERS AND MICHAEL WINSHIP FOR BUZZFLASH With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren’t so single-minded about just who’s responsible for all their troubles, real and imagined. They’re up in arms, so to speak, a ...
• Thoughts About A New Political Movement (Vol. #17) ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Raucous Tea Party rallies as a rule Have mobs teaming & screaming in the streets Their attire suggests that Klan membership Is now dealing with a shortage of sheets .read more
• Recovering from Empathy
  ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH What I thought of, straight off, as I watched that 17-minute WikiLeaks video of Iraqis – including a Reuters photographer and his driver – being strafed on a Baghdad street in 2007 by a U.S. helicopter, was a book of postcards published a decade ago. The book, compile ...
• FOX Getting Too Vitriolic, Even for Life-Long Repu ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph With the willful partisan distortions of FOX Fraudcasting, the network has consistently endured progressive and nonpartisan criticism for the way it approaches the "news." FOX and its personalities have taken those kinds of derisions and mocked them in turn as ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The White House seeks out Kagan defenders
  (udpated below - Update II) The Huffington Post 's Sam Stein reported yesterday that the White House this week "reached out to progressive allies" and asked them "to dismiss"  the column I wrote on Tuesday arguing against the selection of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court.  I have no id ...
• What the whistleblower prosecution says about the ...
  (updated below) The more I�think and read about the Obama DOJ's prosecution of NSA�whistleblower Thomas Drake , the more I�think this might actually be one of the worst steps the Obama administration has taken yet, if not the single worst step -- and that's obviously saying a lot. �Duri ...
• 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 BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• USDA Seeks Comments on Controversy Surrounding Co ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Cornucopia Institute The new USDA organic pasture rule strengthening the requirement for grazing and pasturing livestock may not apply to beef cattle and other ruminants in meat production.  In fact, the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) is seeking comments f ...
• Sweeping Forest Service Rollbacks Threaten Sky Isl ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The U.S. Forest Service has proposed a draft land and resource management plan for the Coronado National Forest that includes sweeping rollbacks for wildlife protection. read more
• Statement of Paul Helmke on DC Voting Rights Legis ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement on the announcement that the U.S. House of Representatives would move to a vote on a bill that gives the District voting ...
• U.S. Government Should Respond to Bagram Abuse All ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Human Rights First Human Rights First today called on the U.S. government to answer new allegations that Afghan prisoners are being abused in a "secret jail" at the U.S.-run Bagram airbase. In a letter to Vice-Admiral Robert S. Harward, Joint Task Force Comman ...
• Chemical Reform Bill Creates Long Overdue Changes ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Chemical companies will have to disclose more information about the chemicals they produce, including the environmental and health effects, and will be required to prove that their chemicals are safe to remain on the ma ...

Common Dreams-Views

• A New Way on Earth Day: Creating a Movement with S ...
  by Roni Krouzman On this 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I find myself filled with a renewed desire to see humanity make a monumental shift and learn to tend and protect our fragile planet once more. To see a vibrant movement emerge that harnesses the collective power of humanity to defend and restor ...
• I’m Not Shedding Any Tears for Daryl Gates
  by Dave Lindorff The former Los Angeles police chief, Daryl Gates, who died last Friday of cancer at his home in California, is being widely credited in mostly laudatory newspaper obituaries as the man who developed the idea of Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)units--those paramilitary police ...
• Will the Climate Bill Nuke Earth Day?
  by Harvey Wasserman The Climate Bill is due on Earth Day. By all accounts it will be a nuclear bomb. It will be the ultimate challenge of the global grassroots green movement to transform it into something that can actually save the planet. For the atomic power industry, the bill will cap a decade-l ...
• Welcome to Confederate History Month
  by Frank Rich It's kind of like that legendary stunt on the prime-time soap "Dallas," where we learned that nothing bad had really happened because the previous season's episodes were all a dream. We now know that the wave of anger that crashed on the Capitol as the health care bill passed last mont ...
• Marking the Day 40 Years Ago When the Green Revolu ...
  by Rocky Barker One U.S. senator and a core of young organizers turned April 22, 1970, into the day the environmental movement was born. On that day, 20 million Americans in 2,000 communities and 10,000 schools planted trees, cleaned up parks, buried cars in mock graves, marched, listened to s ...

Karl Burkart

• Peruvian glacier breaks apart causing tsunami
  More evidence of global warming in Peru, as Huacan glacier collapses into lake.
• Real 'Avatar' begins as Cameron returns to the Ama ...
  James Cameron makes his second trip to the Amazon this time with Sigourney Weaver to try and stop the massive Bel Monte dam project from decimating the Brazilian rainforest.
• Top 7 disappearing glaciers
  Here for 10,000 years ... gone in 10. Seven glaciers that are melting before our eyes.
• Just say no to 'Dirty Gold'
  New report lauds companies like Tiffany and Sears who have banned dirty gold, but 4 out of 5 jewelry manufacturers still use it. The 'No Dirty Gold' campaign hopes to change that.
• Computer chip breakthrough mimics brain synapse
  Today HP unveils a breakthrough in powerful computer chip technology that can process data, store memory and stack 3-dimensionally.. just like a brain synapse.

Water Privatization

• Bottled water means garbage
  One of the easiest ways to celebrate Earth Day 2010 is to carry drinking water in a metal flask or other reusable container, instead of a plastic bottle, conservationists say.
• Pacific students want water bottles banned from ca ...
  When it comes to the sale of bottled water on their college campus, Terra Nielson and Sara Brells are refusing to go with the flow. Nielson, a senior from Spokane, Wash., and Brells, a junior from Tacoma, are spearheading a petition drive to get plastic water bottles banned from Pacific University . ...
• Privatization of Greek state companies may help ov ...
  Privatization of Greek state-controlled companies could help overcome the serious economic crisis in the country, Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) President Konstantinos Michalos said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference, Michalos said the mismanagement, waste of funds, lack of st ...
• Jackson, Nanavati to Run for Freeholders as Democr ...
  COURT HOUSE Bob Jackson, former West Cape May mayor, and Dr. Suketu Nanavati, a local cardiologist, are running as write-in Democrats for two open seats on the Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders in the November General Election.
• Colombia Green Party Candidate Mockus Remains Seco ...
  Colombia Green Party Candidate Mockus Remains Second In Polls

Guardian

• Volcanic ash cloud extends travel chaos
  Many school desks will be empty tomorrow, despite end of Easter break, as disruption leaves thousands stranded abroad The travel chaos caused by the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud could last until Friday, one weather forecaster warned as the UK flight lockdown was extended until at least 7pm this even ...
• Quake survivors mourn heritage loss
  As Tibetans come to terms with the loss of loved ones, its culture also lies in ruins As the wall shook around him, Sonam Dandron snatched up his grandson and fled their home. Without a thought for his son, daughter and other relatives, he ran to check on a revered Buddhist lama living nearby on the ...
• John Cleese's £3,300 taxi fare
  Volcanic ash cloud forces comedian to travel 1,000 miles by cab He's more famous for a sketch about a Norwegian blue parrot than a Norwegian taxi, but John Cleese may have to change his routine. The actor and comedian reportedly took a cab from Oslo to Brussels on Friday costing 30,000 kroner (£3,30 ...
• Clegg pushes for youth vote as Lib Dems maintain s ...
  • Leader urges young to register • Polls confirm Lib Dem boost Nick Clegg will launch a major campaign today to win the youth vote amid signs that young people are backing the Liberal Democrats in increasing numbers following last week's televised leaders' debate. The Liberal Democrat leader, hoping ...
• Chaos as families are stranded by ash
  Easter break disruption means those on school-sponsored trips and family holidays will not be back when new term starts Many school desks will remain unoccupied tomorrow, despite the end of the Easter break, as continuing disruption to flights from the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud leaves thousands o ...

McClatchey

• Congress, administration may finally crack down on ...
  WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of tough hearings on the collapse of Washington Mutual in the largest bank failure in U.S. history, Sen. Maria Cantwell says there are signs that Congress and the Obama administration may finally be getting serious about Wall Street reforms.
• Labor experts across U.S. eyeing Georgia Works pro ...
  WASHINGTON — Like many young workers, Alecia Blakely of Columbus found herself struggling to make ends meet and facing dozens of rejections from employers who found her too under-skilled after she was laid off from her job as an assistant manager at a Domino's Pizza.
• Marking the day 40 years ago when the green revolu ...
  BOISE, Idaho — One U.S. senator and a core of young organizers turned April 22, 1970, into the day the environmental movement was born.
• Portraits of the Green Generation
  BOISE, Idaho — A cadre of mostly young activists who organized the first Earth Day formed the nexus of an environmental movement that continues to influence society. Meet a few who were present at the creation.
• Message to Wall St. in Goldman case: SEC 'back on ...
  WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission's civil fraud suit against Goldman Sachs that shook Wall Street stands in sharp contrast to the agency's many blunders in failing to stop the $50 billion Ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Brown Dog Democrats Call For Green Economy Bill To ...
  As the Senate trio of Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman announced that comprehensive green economy legislation will be unveiled April 26, ten Rust Belt Democratic senators outlined their principles for manufacturing-related provisions. Led by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the senators say that “leadership i ...
• Earth Day Recommendations for President Obama
  Our guest bloggers are Daniel J. Weiss and Kari Manlove, members of the Center for American Progress Energy Opportunity team. if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('bcd3460f-f03c-4d57-b27d-ce187f947741');Get the Volunteer on Earth Day! widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seein ...
• Bill Clinton: Disorientation And ‘People Loo ...
  Today, former President Bill Clinton delivered the keynote speech at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund commemorating and reflecting on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing and what we can learn from it today. This week, the Arizona legislature passed the ...
• Pataki Calls RomneyCare ‘Unconstitutional,&# ...
  Former Gov. George Pataki (R-NY), who is heading up an effort to petition the government to “repeal and replace” the new health care law, took a shot at Mitt Romney today, telling a Connecticut newspaper that Massachusetts’ health care reform law contained an “unconstitutional” individual mandate: ...
• Thinking Creatively – Not Boneheadedly &#821 ...
  The Washington Times has a pretty nutty editorial on Iran today based upon a speech given by J. Michael Waller. Who is Waller? In addition to being a professor at the Institute for World Politics, he’s also the “Vice President for Information Operations” at the Center for Security Policy, the think ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Song Stuck In My Head
  My partner had to critique the movie "Jarhead" for an English class, and as a result of hearing it over and over, I've got this song stuck in my head, so I'll share it with you ... ... and what the hell, why not ...
• General Natynczyk Clears His Organization
  Please, please General Natynczyk ! I already said not to bother investigating yourselves! (Sigh!) Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the chief of defence staff, said Friday that the Canadian Forces have reviewed the interpreter's testimony to a parliamentary committee and are convinced that their soldiers ac ...
• John Ibbitson's Amoral Analysis
  Who thinks John Ibbitson really is an amoral freak and that's why he gravitates towards supporting the harpercon party of Canada, and who thinks that Ibbitson is just a pathetic suck-up and displays of sickening amorality are what he imagines is the price of admission to their smelly ranks? In his ...
• This Might Be My Post For the Day
  It's not a bad use of a few minutes. Check out the bopping audience! (Although today they'd probably all be ignoring him or shouting over him, not even bothering to applaud at the end of each song.)
• In Denial
  A lot to do today. But to post for today I direct you to this post from Canadian Cynic . He's pointing out the level of stupidity regarding right-wingers' responses to the Edmonton white-supremacist who shot-up the car dealership. You can read it it all for yourselves (whoever you might be), but ...

Financial Sense Editorials

• Market Observation: Fear Strikes Out
  by Martin Goldberg, CMT. "The markets are heading straight up without even taking a breather. As of Thursday after completing the January correction, there have been 34 days up and only 13 days down. Over that timeframe the S&P has gained about 16%. None of the down days were particularly scary and ...
• The Tax Window of Opportunity
  by Vedran Vuk. "The biggest danger to your wealth isn’t a bubble in China or Europe – it’s the IRS. Since 1987, top earners have been taxed between 28 percent and 39.6 percent, a relatively low range compared to the 50-percent-and-above rates for most of the century. However, with enormous annual de ...
• Raising The BAR: Bar Patterns & Trading Opportunit ...
  by Elliott Wave Int. "For Elliott Wave International's chief commodity analyst Jeffrey Kennedy, the single most important thing for a trader to have is STYLE-- and no, we're not talking business casual versus sporty chic. Trading "style," as in any of the following: top/bottom picker, strictly techn ...
• WARNING: 2010 Could Be A Bad Year For Stocks!
  by Brian Paragamian. "We have seen nearly an uninterrupted market rally over the past 12 months. At this point it’s our belief at ProfessionalStockTraderLive.com that it is time to become very cautious the market. The time has come to go on the defensive and take steps to protect your gains and port ...
• U.S. Allows China To Dominate World Supply Chain o ...
  by Ken Reser. "Over the last few months we have heard and read constantly about China controlling the world’s Rare Earth supply chain and rightly so. It’s about time that someone spoke up before it becomes a critical issue. It is also just as important that we pay close attention to the reality th ...

on Government Oversight

• SEC Takes on the Vampire Squid
  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stepped up its game in a big way this morning, filing civil charges alleging that Goldman Sachs was fraudulent in its marketing of a financial product tied to subprime mortgages. This is the first...
• Morning Smoke: Did a Thrift Regulator Protect WaMu ...
  Thrift Regulator Shielded WaMu From FDIC Oversight, Report Says by Lorraine Woellert [Bloomberg] GE’s Own Safety Team Urged Company to Restrict MRI Drug by Jeff Gerth [ProPublica] Geithner Letter Could Steer Derivatives Debate Away From Ban on Banks by Damian...
• Classification Data -- The Tale of the Tape
  Today, the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) released its 2009 Report to the President. The report details agency efforts to classify and declassify government information. The news is mixed: the number of original classification authorities — individuals designated with the...
• Air Force Investigating "Class A" Osprey Mishap fr ...
  offers an interesting theory about the Afghanistan crash .
• Morning Smoke: GAO Finds Deficiencies in Interior' ...
  GAO Report: Interior Fails to Accurately Track Oil and Gas Production on Federal Leases by Noelle Straub [The New York Times] SEC watchdog to fault Stanford probe: sources by Matthew Goldstein and Rachelle Younglai [Reuters] Behind the Financial Reform Push,...

Digital Journal

• Ontario in middle of annual seatbelt crackdown
  Car crashes are the number one cause of death for Canadian children. It is not just babies who should ride in car seats. Older children, for whom adult seatbelts are not a good fit, should use booster seats.
• 1 woman dead, 3 others stranded for 1 week despite ...
  Two women were travelling in a remote area of northern Saskatchewan with two young boys when their vehicle became mired in a slough. They called 911 for assistance.
• Would you join world's top adventurer on a row to ...
  A team of six intrepid explorers will depart from Resolute Bay, Canada in a rowboat in the summer of 2011, heading for magnetic north. A crew of five will be led by world's most renowned adventurer, Jock Wishart.
• Early wild flowers mark spring in carolinian Ontar ...
  Winter's can be relentless and spring frustrating on the northern edge of the carolinian forest in south-central Ontario. All is forgiven when the wildflowers of spring begin to bloom.
• Ontario's OFL uses Facebook to stop Shopper's Drug ...
  The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is using the social media networking site Facebook to blast Shopper's Drug Mart for obstructing the public's right to lower drug costs.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• How Not to Solve Homelessness in Four Hours
  Last weekend, I attended the  2010 Poverty and Homelessness Symposium held on the University of California, Berkeley campus. It's an annual event at a major institution and a collaboration with several key agencies, participated in and attended by students, faculty, alumni, professionals and the pub ...
• Seniors Eat Dog Food to Avoid Homelessness
  The transition from housed to homeless rarely happens in a vacuum. It's usually a confluence of causes. Rarely does joblessness or a mental health condition alone force people out of their homes. Homelessness, like life, is complicated. A Porter, Texas couple, Jennifer and Glenn Abissi , for exampl ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Loon watch: Logo madness meets nuclear summit
  Fresh from revealing the secret Islamic threat encoded within the logo of the Missile Defense Agency, the right-wing loon crowd has now decided that the logo of the Nuclear Security Summit (shown above) is also sending secret Islamic messages — although Frank Gaffney appears to have stayed out of th ...
• Doug Roche discusses Obama’s summit on CPAC (2nd i ...
• Roche and O’Hanlon on CTV Powerplay
• Doug Roche discusses Obama Summit on CTV
• John Polanyi discusses Obama’s nuclear summit on C ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Obama Amused By Tea Partiers; “They Should B ...
  April 16, 2010 thehill.com by Sam Youngman President Barack Obama struck a hyperpartisan note Thursday, telling Democrats that he was “amused” by the Tax Day Tea Party rallies. Obama, addressing a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser in Miami, did little to endear himself to the Tea Party ...
• Doctors Call For Ban on Trans-Fats in UK
  April 16, 20010 news.bbc.co.uk by Emma Wilkinson Trans-fats – solid fats found in margarines, cakes and fast food – are banned in some countries. An editorial in the British Medical Journal said 7,000 deaths a year could be prevented by a 1% reduction in consumption. But the Food Standards Agency sa ...
• Sea Shells May Hold Key to Repairing Paralysis
  April 16, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk by Rebecca Smith Researchers have found that by altering a sugar found in shells they were able to patch up damaged nerve cells in the spinal cord. Once the sugar was injected, it plugged holes the coating of the nerve cells and after 30 minutes electrical signals betw ...
• Artificial Sweeteners Alter How Body Handles Real ...
  April 16, 2010 NaturalNews.com by David Gutierrez Artificial sweeteners may cause metabolic changes in how the body reacts to real sugar, according to a study conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Conventional scientific wisdom has been t ...
• Report Finds Rise in Certain Hospital Infections
  April 16, 2010 NYTimes.com by Kevin Sack The nagging and largely solvable problem of hospital-acquired infections remains as resistant to cure as the germs that contribute to an estimated 100,000 deaths a year, according to an annual government study issued Tuesday. Despite a renewed focus on preven ...

Pambazuka News

• Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
  Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
• African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
  The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
• USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
  A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
• Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
  Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
• Global: It takes a Villager
  Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...

War in Context

• An empire decomposed: American foreign relations ...
  A must-read speech on the militarization of American diplomacy, by Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and the first casualty in the Israel lobby’s efforts to rein in what in its early days might have looked like a dangerously independent Obama administration. Americans are accustom ...
• UC Berkeley divestment vote — it isn’t over yet
  Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, reports on the coalition effort to pass a divestment bill at Berkeley. If passed, the bill would call on the University of California to withdraw its investments in companies that support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. ...
• Is the Star of David the new swastika?
  Salon’s headline (which I also used) is unusually daring for a popular publication. The article’s author, Judy Mandelbaum, draws attention to a phenomenon otherwise ignored by the American media: the use of the Star of David as an expression of Jewish hatred. Time was when Nazis used to slather swa ...
• 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

• Come Rain or Come Shine
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the claimed dangers of a few degrees warming of the Earth is increasing drought. Drought is a very difficult thing to fight, because it is hard to manufacture water. So this is a frightening possibility. I have long claimed that “a warmer world is a wetter worl ...
• GISS & METAR – dial “M” for miss ...
  Here’s a story about how one missing letter, an M, can wreck a whole month’s worth of climate data. It is one of the longest posts ever made on WUWT, I spent almost my entire Saturday on it. I think it might also be one of the most important because it demonstrates a serious weakness [...]
• Volcanoes Cause Climate Change
  Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American recently reported on the dodgy concept that climate change causes volcanoes, when in fact it is quite the opposite. Wikipedia : An early 19th-century illustration of Krakatoa In 1883, Krakatoa produced massive amounts of ash during an eruption es ...
• Which NASA climate data to believe?
  Over on Climate Audit, Jean S points out a curious anomaly in the March GISS Temperature data for Finland. Maybe that’s where all of Trenberth’s “missing heat” went. Note the deep red anomaly is in a sea of blue that surrounds it. Jean writes of the data: GISS station values are even more spectacul ...
• Reply to: “Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic ...
  Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American has reported that global warming may cause an increase in volcanic eruptions, due to increased magma formation at lower pressures as glaciers melt. This caught my attention because I used to work as a volcano researcher and igneous petrologi ...

Dandelion Salad

• Possibility, Probability of Nuking Iran by Gaither ...
  by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 18 April, 2010 The odds are always good that men in power will do evil things because there’s an established evil side to the human personality, especially when men are defending privileges. (Rome) By pure chance two encounters occurred simu ...
• No Interest In Saving by Ralph Nader
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 16, 2010 Within the burgeoning tonnage of business press—print and electronic—precious little has been written about the near zero interest paid on savings and money market accounts that total trillions of dollars. The Federa ...
• Big Government, Small Government: It’s All a ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com April 16, 2010 On April 10, 2010, the erudite columnist Bob Herbert of the New York Times had this to say about the subject of “big government”: One of the reasons so many conservative [sic] Republican absur ...
• Elizabeth Warren: Oversight of Financial Crisis
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ C-SPAN Video Library April 14, 2010 Elizabeth Warren talked about the new report from the Congressional Oversight Panel on preventing home foreclosures. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Oversight of Financial Crisis see Keiser ...
• We Are All in this Together By Timothy V. Gatto
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com April 14, 2010 I’ve heard from many people since I wrote my last two articles which were “We are all Accountable” and “The U.S. is at a Precipice”. I was astonished at the feedback that I received, not only from “libe ...

Your New Reality

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  Hard not to wonder how advanced the 'heart attack dart' technology is today, decades on from the footage and discussion detailed in this video :
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  Obama Promises "No More Taxpayer Bailouts" For Banks & Financial Institutions That Claim To Be "Too Big To Fail" "We Will Hold Wall Street Accountable" President Obama promised he would reform Wall Street, and now he's set to move in hard, and fast. His plans are upsetting both Democrats and Repub ...
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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 ...

Wired - Science

• Why It’s So Hard to Tell Which Tooth Has the Ache
  When it comes to a toothache, the brain doesn’t discriminate. A new imaging study shows that to the brain, a painful upper tooth feels a lot like a painful lower tooth. The results, which will be published in the journal Pain, help explain why patients are notoriously bad at pinpointing a toothache ...
• Obama Lays Out New Vision for Asteroid, Mars Trips
  Speaking at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center April 15, President Obama outlined a new plan for the space agency that would forgo sending astronauts back to the moon, but would send humans to an asteroid in 2025 and into orbit around Mars a decade later. The strategy would rely on private aerospace comp ...
• Photos Surface of the Day Einstein Died
  Ralph Morse, an ambitious photojournalist for Life magazine, covered a funeral in New Jersey on April 18, 1955. Now, 55 years later, Life.com is finally publishing the pictures he took that day, during the funeral and cremation of Albert Einstein. Einstein had died of heart failure at age 76 earlie ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• PCHR Strongly Condemns Execution of Two Prisoners ...
  The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the implementation of two death sentences in the Gaza Strip this morning. These death sentences were carried out without the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Noam Chomsky: A ‘Regrettable’ Event in East Jerusa ...
  Netanyahu’s 1996 government was the first in Israel to use the phrase “Palestinian state.” The government agreed that Palestinians can call whatever fragments of Palestine are left to them “a state”... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Shlomo Swirski: The Burden of Occupation
  The Cost of the Occupation to Israeli Society, Polity and Economy By Shlomo Swirski, the Adva Center - Updated Nov 2008 (full report) The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more... ...
• At Howard Zinn’s Memorial Service
  It was beautiful in Boston... as about 250 invited guests gathered at the Arlington Street Church to celebrate the life of Howard Zinn, who died on January 27. The crowd was full of scholars,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
• Rela Mazali: A Bailout For Arms Dealers – US Aid a ...
  Shlomo Swirski: It can be said that the American administration allowed Israel to conduct its military operations against the Palestinian Authority under highly favorable domestic political... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• SAM missiles intercept simulated air strikes in NW ...
  It took the Kola Peninsula air-defense unit’s surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems only a few minutes to shoot down “enemy” ballistic and cruise missiles at the Ashuluk missile test range in Russia’s Astrakhan Region during military drills.
• Russia to build port facilities for Mistral ships
  Russia will have to build port facilities if it decides to purchase a French Mistral helicopter carrier for the Russian Navy, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said
• Russian cruiser passes Suez Canal on mission in In ...
  The Moskva missile cruiser has passed through the Suez Canal and entered the Indian Ocean to join other Russian warships for large-scale naval exercises, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
• Russian warship escorts another convoy in Gulf of ...
  The Russian Udaloy class missile destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov is escorting four civilian vessels off the coast of Somalia, a Russian Navy spokesman said.
• Russian nuclear cruiser makes port call in Syria
  Russia's nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky has arrived in Syria's Mediterranean port of Tartus ahead of Russian Navy drills in the Indian Ocean.

NewsWise

• Young Patients With Chronic Wounds Can Be Helped W ...
  Chronic, non-healing wounds can be a serious problem for children as many currently available treatment modalities can be too harsh or toxic. Two clinicians presented case series illustrating the benefits of MEDIHONEY(r) dressings for this challenging patient population.
• To Beat the Stigma of Cancer Wounds, Try Adding Ho ...
  A recent award winning poster at this year's Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) and the Wound Healing Society (WHS), Debbie Segovia RN, MSN, APRN-CNS, CWOCN, examined two cases of two female patients aged 44 and 60 at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, whose cancer wounds were tr ...
• Study Suggests Treating Wounds with Patented Medic ...
  Registered nurses Diane Maggio RN, BSN, CRRN, CWON and Laverne Graves, RN, BSN, CWS, from the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Pomona, NJ identified several challenges when treating indigent patients at the outpatient wound clinic. They include poor patient compliance, multiple wound types, la ...
• President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania Speaks at Wei ...
  President Jakaya Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania spoke at Weill Cornell Medical College today. In his Global Health Grand Rounds lecture, President Kikwete discussed the most significant challenges facing Tanzania, with a particular focus on health care and the advances made during his fi ...
• Two Hopkins Scientists Awarded European Honorary D ...
  Two genetics researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been awarded prestigious honorary Doctor of Medicine degrees by European scientific institutions.

Intel Trends

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Small Farmers to Gain in Senate Food Safety Battle
  An update on the pending food safety bill, with an outline of key amendments and discussion on the proposed exemption for small farms Click here to read this article
• Fluoridation May Not Do Much for Cavities
  When it comes to fluoridating drinking water, Ontario and Quebec couldn't be further apart. Ontario has the country's highest rate of adding the tooth-enamel-strengthening chemical into municipal supplies, while Quebec has one of the lowest, with practically no one drinking fluoridated water. Click ...
• USDA Inspector General: Meat Supply Routinely Tain ...
  Next time you're at an eatery whose sourcing practices you don't trust, avoid the veal. Skip the burger, too. Those are the immediate takeaways from this stomach-turning report from the USDA's Office of the Inspector General. The long-term takeaways are more profound - and disturbing. Click here to ...
• CDC: E. coli Illnesses on Decline, but Other Foodb ...
  Efforts to reduce illnesses caused by one of the most dangerous foodborne bacteria, E. coli O157:H7, appear to be paying off, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, but sickness caused by other pathogens is rising. Click here to read this article
• USDA Seeks Comments on Controversy Surrounding Con ...
  The new USDA organic pasture rule strengthening the requirement for grazing and pasturing livestock may not apply to beef cattle and other ruminants in meat production. In fact, the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) is seeking comments from farmers and consumers on a proposal to allow some level ...

fotoFrontera

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Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Monitoring NGO Monitor — 18 Days and Counting
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It’s been 18 days since I asked NGO Monitor to provide the same detailed accounting of their funding that they demand of the human-rights groups they so regularly malign and demonize.  Readers will be shocked — shocked! — to know that the organization has ...
• Some Thoughts on Eric Posner’s WSJ Editorial
  by Kevin Jon Heller Eric Posner has an editorial today in the Wall Street Journal today that uses the recent indictment of Judge Garzon in Spain as an opportunity to dust off the traditional far-right attack on the concept of universal jurisdiction and the existence of the ICC.  It's a remarka ...
• Did Obama “Bungle” His Sudan Policy?
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I am pretty supportive of Obama Administration’s general approach to Sudan, largely because it reflects a realistic sense of the limits of the U.S. government’s ability to influence matters there as well as the (relative) unimportance of Sudan to the U.S. and to the wide ...
• The Vatican’s (and the Pope’s) Immunity from Legal ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Dapo Akande over at EJIL Talk! has a pretty persuasive argument in favor of the Vatican’s status as a state under international law, and therefore, the Pope’s right to head of state immunity.  Moreover, in the UK, the courts (like in the US) are bound to accept the dete ...
• The Right of Self-Defense Includes “Offensive” Cyb ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku That very trendy and useful legal concept - the right of self-defense — is not just for targeting U.S. citizens to be killed. The U.S. military’s new “Cyber Command” chief has asserted that the U.S. government’s right of self-defense almost certainly permits it to take o ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• 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...
• NASA fakes temp data
  See how NASA has faked global warming data over three decades. The same raw figures have been progressively NIWA'd to show a warming trend:
• Amazon fire major new shot in Kindle wars
  Faced with a battle from iPad and other wireless devices, Amazon.com have tonight announced they're making Kindle software available free for computers, iPhones and smartphones, so you can now read Kindle books on virtually any digital device. This turns the...
• Air Con doco, part one
  Although other channels have now copied and uploaded part one of our Climate doco on Youtube themselves, thus turning it viral, I noted this morning that this original upload is only a whisker away from 10,000 viewings. Who will be...
• Public meetings called on NZ ETS, starting Monday
  Want all prices to rise after July 1? Then reject the ETS now! (posted by John Boscawen) On July 1, the most pointless tax ever inflicted on New Zealanders will come into force. It’s called the Emissions Trading Scheme. And...

Public News Service

• AZ Gets an “F” in Government Spending ...
  AZ Gets an “F” in Government Spending Transparency Phoenix, AZ – A new report gives Arizona a failing grade when it comes to openness about government spending. Public Interest Research Group says there should be an on-line database where taxpayers can follow spending at a “checkbook level.” Comment ...
• Teachers’ Chief: Classroom Size Does Matter
  Teachers’ Chief: Classroom Size Does Matter Phoenix, AZ – Arizona voters will decide next month on a temporary one-cent sales tax increase, with much of the funding going to education. Teachers say failure of the tax hike will lead to much larger class sizes and lower educational achievement. Commen ...
• CDC: Arizona Cesarean Births Up 63% in 10 Years
  CDC: Arizona Cesarean Births Up 63% in 10 Years Phoenix, AZ – More than one out of every four births in Arizona is a surgical delivery, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reports that over the last 10 years, the number of C-sections nationwide has ...
• Business Leader: Immigration Bill Threatens &#8220 ...
  Business Leader: Immigration Bill Threatens “Police State” Phoenix, AZ – Opponents of a wide-ranging immigration enforcement bill say the result would be harmful government intrusion into lives and businesses, all in the name of border security. Comments from Sheridan Bailey, owner of a Phoenix stee ...
• AZ Advocates Celebrate EPA Clean Car Standards
  AZ Advocates Celebrate EPA Clean Car Standards Phoenix, AZ – New federal clean car standards will require better gas mileage and reduced car and truck emissions over the next six years. Arizona clean air advocates say the result will be lower overall transportation costs and improved public health. ...

My Care2 Picks

• As Pharmaceutical Use Soars, Drugs Taint Water and ...
  Drugging our bodies inevitably drugs our environment as many medications can pass through our bodies and waste treatment facilities virtually intact. And it is difficult to predict where unexpectedly vulnerable creatures may accrue potentially toxic doses Submitted by Michael H. to Environment �|� ...
• The Inflicted Wounds of America's War Machine: Pos ...
  Iraq and virtually all the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia have been continually dosed for almost 20 years with thousands of tons of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, also known as “depleted uranium.” Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Australia to prosecute over Barrier Reef ship cras ...
  Those responsible for a Chinese ship running around on the Great Barrier Reef and leaking oil will be prosecuted, Australian authorities say. Submitted by Katie Miller to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 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
• Newcastle University scientists creating three-par ...
  Scientists at Newcastle University in Britain have grown human embryos after merging DNA from two fertilised eggs, with a technique that could soon be used to prevent serious genetic disorders. Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Blood spilled, emotions stirred at LA Neo-Nazi ral ...
  Blood spilled, emotions stirred at LA Neo-Nazi rally-The Grio: "LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A neo-Nazi white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday as... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Memorial services held for Piestewa
  News From Indian Country - Memorial services held for Piestewa: "Seven years ago on March 23, those serving in United States Army 507th Maintenance Company, Army Forward Support Battalion 3d Infantry... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Bernie Lafferty speaks about Ray Robinson's killin ...
  News From Indian Country - Bernie Lafferty speaks about Ray Robinson's killing inside Wounded Knee 1973: "Editors Note 2007: Bernie Lafferty is one of several witnesses who saw Perry Ray Robinson... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Witness points to gunman, accomplice in AIM slayin ...
  Witness points to gunman, accomplice in AIM slaying-Rapid City Journal: "Arlo Looking Cloud told a jury Thursday that he saw Vine Richard'Dickie' Marshall take a .32-caliber revolver and shells from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Stay out of Africa this time, Nelson Mandela's wif ...
  Stay out of Africa this time, Nelson Mandela's wife tells Britain | World news | The Guardian: "One of Africa's most eminent political figures has condemned Britain for taking a patronising 'big... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• You can stop GE Alfalfa and GE Wheat in Canada!
  The Council of Canadians encourages you to respond to this alert from the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.
• Bayer admits GMO contamination out of control
  Drug and chemical giant Bayer AG has admitted that there is no way to stop the uncontrolled spread of its genetically modified crops, and farmers win lawsuits for contamination!
• I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this ...
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• What do HAARP, Chemtrails, and Global Warming all ...
  Chemtrails are bad news. They contain barium and aluminum, which have the potential to destroy ecosystems around the world. But what if this destruction is merely an inevitable and acceptable consequence of a much larger program? A program intended to be part of an all-in-one solution to global cont ...
• Organic Amicus brief filed in GM Alfalfa Appeal
  An Organic Amicus brief has been filed in support of the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto’s Supreme Court appeal of the lower court-ordered injunction against the selling of GM alfalfa.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Goldman’s stacked bet: A satisfying round-up of bl ...
  Noted by Nancy Miller on April 18, 2010 8:04 AM
• From Dung to Coffee Brew With No Aftertaste (The N ...
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• Volcanic ash cloud grounds 16,000 flights Saturday ...
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• Higher Education Reimagiined With Online Coursewar ...
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• Iceland escapes unscathed while the rest of Europe ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• New rules on terror custody being drafted
  'We are inadvertently creating incentives for people to be killed rather than captured.' The Obama administration guidelines aim to help decide whether captured suspects are tried or face indefinite detention, U.S. officials say . The Obama administration is for the first time drafting classified gu ...
• Gates Says U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Iran's Nucl ...
  [Nosy Parker US: Curb *your own.* ] Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran's steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to gov ...
• 'Hezbollah arms not Israel's business'
  Israel has received a humiliating rebuff over its recent remarks about Hezbollah arms after a senior official said the movement's weaponry are not Tel Aviv's business. Hezbollah-affiliated government minister Hussein Hajj Hassan said Friday that the movement is always arming and preparing itsel ...
• US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  As Afghanistan continues to struggle with militancy, NATO says a roadside bomb has killed two more US-led soldiers in the country's volatile south. The nationalities of the soldiers have not been disclosed yet. The deaths bring the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 164 ...
• US soldier dismissed for threats in Iraq protest
  The U.S. Army has dismissed a soldier who threatened fellow troops and sent the Pentagon a violent rap song he wrote to protest his Iraq redeployment orders, officials said Saturday. The dismissal for misconduct means Spc. Marc A. Hall will avoid criminal charges but lose all military benefits e ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• 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...
• NASA fakes temp data
  See how NASA has faked global warming data over three decades. The same raw figures have been progressively NIWA'd to show a warming trend:
• Amazon fire major new shot in Kindle wars
  Faced with a battle from iPad and other wireless devices, Amazon.com have tonight announced they're making Kindle software available free for computers, iPhones and smartphones, so you can now read Kindle books on virtually any digital device. This turns the...
• Air Con doco, part one
  Although other channels have now copied and uploaded part one of our Climate doco on Youtube themselves, thus turning it viral, I noted this morning that this original upload is only a whisker away from 10,000 viewings. Who will be the person that pushes it through that barrier this weekend?
• Public meetings called on NZ ETS, starting Monday
  Want all prices to rise after July 1? Then reject the ETS now! (posted by John Boscawen)� � On July 1, the most pointless tax ever inflicted on New Zealanders will come into force. � It’s called the Emissions Trading Scheme. And it will make not the slightest practical difference to the Eart ...

Mondoweiss

• Groundbreaking Chicago Hearing to Ask : Does US Po ...
  Tomorrow the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago will hold a mock Congressional Hearing on US foreign policy in Israel/Palestine to look at the question - "Does US Policy on Israel/Palestine uphold our values?" The event will take place 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) at t ...
• The scene from Berkeley
  Related posts:scene from an intermarriage UC Berkeley divestment vote–it isn’t over yet Showdown for Human Rights in Berkeley Related posts: scene from an intermarriage UC Berkeley divestment vote–it isn’t over yet Showdown for Human Rights in Berkeley
• On behalf of ‘the Jewish people,’ Chai ...
  One reason the South African Jewish religious authority, the board of deputies, has tried to back away from the Goldstone bar mitzvah disinvitation is surely the condemnation below from NY congressman Gary Ackerman (after the jump). Note that Ackerman identifies himself as the Chairman of the House ...
• Wiesel to Obama: Laissez les bontemps rouler en Je ...
  A week or so back Netanyahu asked Elie Wiesel to intercede with Obama. Wiesel said he would, when the two have lunch presently. Well, Obama's good friend has come to Washington: here is a grotesque ad signed by Elie Wiesel in today's Washington Post, saying that Jerusalem is Jewish history and the ...
• Former FL senator Graham regurgitates the talking ...
  I had the privilege of attending a talk by former Florida Senator Bob Graham at the American University of Beirut yesterday. The talk was entitled “From 9/11 to Obama, US Relations with the Muslim World.” When I arrived, Senator and Mrs. Graham were greeting attendees at the entrance to the audito ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Family Charts The Gradual Decline Of Daughter ...
  VACCINE CRIME: Family charts the gradual decline of daughter (b. 6-3-95) attributed to vaccine trauma: Hepatitis B/6-19-95 (rash), HBPV, OPV, DPT & Hepatitis B/7-27-95 (floppy limbs noted), DPT, HBPV & OPV/9-27-95 (floppiness persisted, outbreak of Eczema, dissociative autistic behavior), DPT & ...
• VRM: Autism – Steps To Take Toward Prevention & Re ...
  1) Vitamin D is highly recommended – According to Dr. John Cannell, “Autism is caused from a quantitative, not qualitative, variation in one of the enzymes that metabolize Vitamin D. That is, there are no structural differences in these enzymes in autism, only agenetically determined difference in ...
• VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
  “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...
• Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
• Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• Simple Living: CDs and DVDs
  If like me, you were a teen in the 90's, you probably have a huge stack of CDs like I do. I would also bet that, like me, you rarely listen to any of those CDs. Over the last few years I've also noticed the same thing with my DVDs. I had a whole shelf of CDs and DVD but never touched 99% of ...
• The Newest Excitement In My Life: Dual-Flush Toile ...
  Last week I got my quarterly municipal water bill: $ 240 ! That's about $1000 a year I'm paying for water which dries out my skin and reeks of chlorine. This was ample motivation for me to finally get around to installing a dual-flush adapter to our existing toilets. I picked this thing ...
• My Quick and Easy Square Foot Garden
  Here's my little garden that I did last week. �It's a modified square foot garden where instead of a 4 x 4 bed this is 1 x 28. I have a small 50x 50 lot so there isn't room for anything much larger. The walls of the bed are plastic fake stones. �They're $15 for 9 feet at Walmart and Cana ...
• Simple Living: Getting Rid of "Stuff"
  "The stuff you own, owns you." I know that saying sounds bizarre and maybe a little paranoid but in many ways it's true. In my the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "I have to clean up and organize; my house is too cluttered.". �It's a little thing but it's one more stress in my life an ...
• Product Review: Hydroclean Water-Saving Toilet Fil ...
  The other week my wife surprised me with a gift that only a prepper could �get excited over: a dual-flush toilet retrofit! I'm really excited to try out this gadget, however when I read the instructions I found out that it doesn't work with the "ball and lever" floater style fill valves. �I'd ...

Michael Yon

• War above McChrystal's Head
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• A Whisper
  Published: 16 April 2010 By: MAJ JF Sucher, MD A singular sentence in reply to a common, simple question. A whisper from Afghanistan has returned a loud echo from Laconia, New Hampshire, a small town of 12,000 (40,000 in the summer) nestled amongst the glacial lakes in the center of the state. D ...
• Under Cover of the Night
  Under Cover of the Night with 1-17th Infantry 11 April 2010 During a mission there is no “pause” button.  It’s on until it’s over.  Recently, Charlie Company 1-17th Infantry conducted a mission that included visiting villages in the Shah Wali Kot district of northern Kandahar Province. The m ...
• Village Boys
  Easter Sunday, 2010 Anywhere, Afghanistan Back in December, C-Co  1-17th Infantry battalion had been in about the worst place in Afghanistan.  There is stiff competition for the position of actual worst place, and I am sure there are many contenders that remain unknown, but the Arghandab was one ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Building a Smart Energy Grid
  Image credit: Good A smarter energy grid would save consumers money and help the environment as well. Counting the benefits of making better use of our limited resources seems unnecessary—until you actually look at the numbers.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• New Transmission Lines Require Responsible Plannin ...
  Image credit: brewbooks /Flickr "This is less of a NIMBY issue and more of a global warming issue." Those are the words of Steve Brucker, Conservation Chair of the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club. Bruckner was speaking about the many small but mighty grassroots organizations that have sp ...
• Beer Rescue Puts Landfill Employees in Hot Water
  Image via TreeHugger.com, who will not stand idly by while beer goes to waste. Save the Beers! File this story under, "That Ain't Right!" Two employees of the Columbia, Missouri Solid Waste Division and beer rescuing heroes, Beer Heroes or Beeroes, if you will, have made headlines for resc ...
• Jackson Browne Joins Mission Blue, the NRDC Honors ...
  Photo via Transworld Business Oceanographer and author Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize with a far-reaching wish: "to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet." The result? Missi ...
• Eating Like a Bird Promotes Plant Health, Increase ...
  Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Perhaps it's because humans sit at the top of the food chain , or maybe it's that big predators so capture the imagination, but much of the attention given to the web of predators and prey focuses on this upper edge—the polar bears , the tigers, the wolves. If ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Nine die in Rangoon bombings
  Bombings occur in area packed with people celebrating the annual water festival marking Burmese news year
• The General must not be disturbed’
  There is a quirky side to the bland and sometimes 'incapable' Burmese dictator, Than Shwe, that has kept biographer Benedict Rogers always second-guessing
• Suu Kyi triggers health concerns
  Opposition leader suffering from dizziness and low blood pressure and reportedly briefly admitted to Rangoon hospital on Sunday
• Burma ‘will remain rich, poor and controversial’
  Norwegian envoy backs continued international engagement with the Burmese junta but warns that the country's future lies with those "in the driving seat"
• Will ASEAN eventually deliver?
  There are signs that the Southeast Asia bloc is growing increasingly impatient with Burma although it remains to be seen whether this translates into action

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climategate: a scandal that won't go away
  From Macbeth to Watergate, it's not the act that leads to nemesis, but the attempts to 'trammel up the consequence', writes Christopher Booker.
• Greens shouldn't blow their top over Eyjafjallajök ...
  The volcanic disruption may distract from combating climate change, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• Spring heatwave in India: record temperatures in N ...
  Last month was the hottest March on record, and the heat shows no signs of letting up.
• Police question climategate information seekers
  Police are investigating anyone who requested information from the university department at the centre of the 'climategate' scandal.
• Coldest weather in 30 years marks the start of a s ...
  After enduring the coldest winter for 30 years, you might have been hoping for some respite from the cold weather.

National Geographic | Environment

• EARTH DAY PICTURES: Quirky Ways to Mark the Day
  NoneAn undersea cleaning party and the world's largest baked alaska join the ranks of oddball events that have been held on Earth Days past to draw attention to environmental causes.
• Earth Day Facts: When It Is, How It Began, What to ...
  From not-so-humble beginnings in 1970, when 20 million participated, Earth Day has grown into a global tradition. Find out when it is, how it started, how it's evolved, and what you can do.
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• PHOTOS: The First Earth Day—Bell-Bottoms and Gas M ...
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• Volcanic Ash Stops Europe Flights—Why Ash Is Dange ...
  Volcanic ash from Iceland is spreading international travel chaos due to fears over airline safety. Find out why.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Pakistan senate approves bill to curb presidential ...
  [JURIST] Pakistan's Senate [official website] on Thursday unanimously passed a constitutional amendment [text, PDF] that would curtail the powers of the president. The 18th Amendment Bill would reverse the expansion of presidential powers under former military leader Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile, ...
• House committee hears testimony on FBI phone recor ...
  [JURIST] US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] Inspector General Glenn Fine [official profile] and FBI [official website] General Counsel Valerie Caproni [official profile] testified [materials] Thursday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil ...
• Bagram detainees allege torture at secret US priso ...
  [JURIST] Nine Afghan witnesses have claimed that they were held and tortured in a secret US prison at the Bagram Air Base [official website; JURIST news archive] in Afghanistan, according to a BBC report Thursday. The witnesses say that they were allegedly captured by American forces and taken to a ...
• FCC going forward with broadband plan despite 'net ...
  [JURIST] Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] Chairman Julius Genachowski [official profile] testified [text, PDF] Wednesday before the Senate Commerce Committee [official website] that the agency will move ahead with its National Broadband Plan [official website; materials] de ...
• Russia lower house approves WWII amnesty law
  [JURIST] The Russian State Duma [official website, in Russian] voted 437-0 Friday to approve a bill giving amnesty to veterans as well as concentration camp and Leningrad siege survivors for most crimes committed during World War II by. If approved in the upper house, the bill would apply [UPI repor ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Essence of Obama's Diplomatic Brand
  Not since the heady summits of the Cold War has an international conclave better reflected an American president's governing style than this week's nuclear security summit in Washington , D.C. It's too early to assess the concrete deliverables -- "deliverables" being the usual measures of success ...
• The New CIA Interrogation Documents
  Lots of reading to do , and lots of hints about horrible things. Here's a particularly interesting end passage from an e-mail by a not-known person to Dusty Foggo, the CIA's number three about the destruction of interrogation videotapes (Jose is Jose Rodriquez, the deputy director for operations, an ...
• Andy Stern to Resign as SEIU President
  Andrew Stern, one of the powerful labor leaders in the country, and a close ally of President Obama, will resign when his term expires in 2012, labor and political sources said tonight. Stern, 59, the president of the nearly 2.2 million-strong Service Employees International Union, has told friends ...
• Hillary, Not to the Court
  Sorry, buddy . It's not happening. In case you're wondering whether there's a chance that Barack Obama asks Hillary Clinton to join the Supreme Court, he won't, and she doesn't want him to. So it won't happen.�
• Sexual Politics and the Supreme Court
  Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the woman who tops President Obama's short list for the Supreme Court, is the subject of a baffling whisper campaign among both gay rights activists �and social conservatives : those whispering� assume �she's gay , and they want her -- or someone -- the media! -- to ac ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Help Oppose Canada's Top Weapons Bazaar! - ...
• [COAT] Haiti Protests! 100s of photos/videos/artic ...
• [COAT] James Bond vs CIDA in Haiti: Voodoo Power & ...
• [COAT] Making a Killing on War! Cancel CANSEC, Can ...
• [COAT] Canada's Arms Exports to Israel: Aiding & A ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Goldstone Herem Easing?
  One of the things I’ve discovered in writing this blog for seven years is that there is only one way to deal with bullies.  You have to face them down and expose them.  Most will back off.  That appears to be what may be happening in South Africa regarding the herem into which the Jewish [...] ...
• Obama Getting Tough on Israel or Just More Words?
  Yesterday, the N.Y. Times published one of those tea leaf articles about presidential politics which can either be suggestive or frustrating depending on whether you believe there’s any substance to the speculations.  Pres. Obama has made two rather astonishing statements regarding Israel in the pa ...
• Spanish Supreme Court Rejects Shehadeh War Crimes ...
  The Israeli army has won a victory on behalf of impunity in its war against the Palestinian people with this week’s announcement that the Spanish High Court has rejected jurisdiction over the case of the assassination of Palestinian militant Salah Shehadeh and 18 civilians by the IDF in 2002. After ...
• Justice Goldstone Disinvited from Grandson’s Bar M ...
  Every so often events like this happen which make me ashamed to be a Jew.  Or I should say, ashamed to share a religion with biryonim (“hooligans”) like the ones I’m about to portray. Justice Richard Goldstone, author of the UN report on Operation Cast Lead, was expecting to travel back to his home ...
• Israeli MK Demands Publication of Blau Story on Ca ...
  One of the most contentious aspects of the Kamm-Blau case, which goes to the heart of why it is so dangerous for the IDF, is the article Blau wrote about the army’s battle plans for Operation Cast Lead. It passed the military censor and Haaretz planned to print it one week before the war/massacre [ ...

Ode Magazine

• Ton's Musical Musings: In the true Danubian spirit
  By: tonmaas Even though as a river, the Danube tends to divide rather than connect, the Danube Music Festival , sailing on a ship between the Serbian capital of Beograd and the German border town of Passau, goes a long way in compensating for this historic error. ...
• The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace makes a world ...
  By: PeaceCorso I first learned about this remarkable sculpture from a tweet on Twitter feed by Dr. Deb Brown . Thanks, Dr. Deb. Here is a delicious video about The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace and the process that occurred to make it happen. Dr. Deb writes: ...
• Maggots: Nature's nurses
  By: TheBlueEconomy Have you ever wondered why there are flies? The Nigerian priest Godfrey Nzamujo un-derstood that they eat rotting left-overs, when food is rich they quickly lay eggs and be-fore long maggots proliferate. Maggots are rich in protein and a favorite ...
• Budadogs gives new leash on life
  By: MarisaBeahm Answering the cries of abandoned and abused animals in Budapest, a group of committed Norwegian veterinarians launched Budadogs , a nonprofit that rehabilitates and facilitates adoption for some of the capital's neediest canines, many of which are i ...
• Ton's Musical Musings: Matthias Loibner and the hu ...
  By: Ton Maas Many heads turned in surprise on the 2nd day of the Danube Music Festival , when Mathias Loibner from Vienna in Austria started rotating the handle of his hurdy-gurdy. The sound of this ancient instrument combines the qualities of fiddle, bagpipes and ...

OpEd News

• Richard I. Fineapos;s Judicial Lynching
  California lawlessness same as in Washington
• How Israel Gagged on its own Gag Order
  Anat Kam, who revealed secrets of army crimes, will be tried for treason. The IDF will not be charged. The fruits of speaking truth to power.
• The Obama Administration: April 1-15, 2010
  This article is the thirtieth in a continuing series chronicling the unfolding history of the Obama Administration. The writerapos;s opinions are not offered, leaving the readers to arrive at their own conclusions.
• ACTION ALERT: AZ Gov. Jan Brewer to VETO SB 1070
  A petition to get Arizona to veto police state bill, SB 1070.
• U.S. Coal Industry Fights Climate Legislation at C ...
  Under the shadow of the West Virginia coal mine disaster earlier this month, a congressional hearing Wednesday on the future of coal in a "new energy age" seemed at times like a dialogue of the deaf. Four representatives of the coal industry appeared Wednesday before the House Select Committee on E ...

Switchboard

• PFMC Votes for a Token Salmon Season – A Sober Deb ...
  Yesterday, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council voted to allow an extraordinarily limited fishing season in California this year.  (The National Marine Fisheries Service will make a final decision within a month.)  In the Bay Area, for example, the entire commercial salmon season will li ...
• A Big Step for Bear Kind: Go BLM!
  Without fanfare or fuss, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), District Manager Tim Bozorth, recently took a big step to reduce the potential for bear conflicts with big game hunters.  The BLM is now requiring that outfitters operating on its lands in the Dillon District carry bear pepper spray.  ...
• Mountaintop Removal: Farewell to Forests
  One of the biggest concerns about mountaintop removal coal mining has to do with its impacts on water .  That's understandable, of course, because this extreme strip mining involves dumping tons of blasted rubble, dirt and contaminated waste over the side of the mountain, burying and polluti ...
• Key to Curing Our Oil Addiction: New Clean Energy ...
  My friend Jim Woolsey writes rightly about ending America’s oil addiction in the Wall Street Journal. His four-part solutions set is also reasonable, if incomplete – more efficient car technology, greater use of natural gas in where appropriate in the vehicle fleet ( click here for a fact s ...
• Texas state official supports stronger environment ...
  The Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, Jerry Patterson, oversees more than 20 million acres of state lands and mineral-right properties in Texas. According to a new  Bloomberg/ Business Week  article , he supports stronger protections from the environmental harm caused by oil and ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• “The Inconvenient Truth of the Oceans?&#8221 ...
  Probably not. But only because the film does not have a celebrity figurehead equivalent to Al Gore. It does, on the other hand, have all the other ingredients: a solvable global problem (overfishing), frighteningly described through statistics and anecdotes (the oceans will be empty by 2048 if som ...
• “I Cannot Tell a Lie…”
  The myth requires revision, but stolen library book is a fitting replacement for cut down cherry tree: Librarians in New York’s oldest library have uncovered a surprising book thief: George Washington. The first president of the United States of America borrowed two books from the New York Society ...
• When is a “Great Gift to the Country” ...
  Apparently, when it’s the public release of the papers of a Nixon appointee to the Supreme Court.  To wit: For example, while Judge Garland has not often dealt with social issues, at a 2005 book event, he reportedly described the release of the papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun — the auth ...
• Looks Like an External Explosion
  Cheonan was likely sunk by a mine or torpedo. I would be betting very heavily on “torpedo” at this point; no mine from the first Korean War has been discovered since 1986, and a new mine doesn’t make a lot of sense (a single mine would have to be fantastically lucky, and no [...] Related posts: ...
• The Party of Less Thinkin’ and More Whinin&# ...
  You can’t get a much better example of whining being central to one’s political identity than John Nolte’s alleged decade-long boycott of TV because of the possibility that someone might make a mild joke about an unpopular politician on his party’s side. I suppose this is also a subset of the “epi ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• City Cycle Electric Assist Bike Concept Breaks Fre ...
  A sleek urban bike concept ditches the chain in favor of a belt system housed within the frame, delivering pedelec power for those uphill climbs.
• Kinetic Pavement Modules Power French City Streetl ...
  In the French techno-capital of Toulouse, a series of modules have been installed in a sidewalk that use the energy generated by passing crowds to power a nearby streetlight.
• EasyBloom PlantSensor Plus Puts Smart Tech Into Gr ...
  A new product shaped like a plastic flower advises you which plants may be suitable for planting in a certain spot and then alerts you when water and/or fertilizer is needed.
• Green Goes Green As Electric Car Charging Station ...
  The flagship store of Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market has installed an EV charging station which acts as part of the ChargePoint Network, a service that offers charge station info and perks to members.
• Solar Green Pod Provides Bike Storage, Shower/Chan ...
  The Green Pod developed by Penny Farthings is a bike station that providers bicyclers with an all-in-one shower, changing area, lockers for storage, and lockable bike storage.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Justices take up workplace privacy with text messa ...
  The Supreme Court on Monday leaps into the high-tech world of text messaging in a challenge with potentially huge implications for the privacy rights of senders and receivers and for workplace communications.
• Institute for Justice sues for less required discl ...
  Calling it a fight for free speech, the Institute for Justice on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Seattle challenging a state law that requires certain grassroots activists to register with the government.
• Ohio's new chief justice is a lone Democrat among ...
  Ohio's new Supreme Court chief justice ? the only Democrat on the bench and the first to lead the court in more than 20 years ? isn't worried about the criticism he's received since being named top jurist only one day ago.
• The Decade's Most Influential Lawyers
  Forty attorneys who have defined the decade in a dozen key legal areas.
• Federal prosecutors seek testimony of company's la ...
  A criminal defense lawyer for a businessman under investigation for an alleged multimillion dollar wire fraud and money laundering scheme rooted in online advertising is challenging the government's effort to force three company lawyers to testify in front of a federal grand jury.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• CCaNGD Meeting – April 22nd
  The next meeting for Citizens Concerned about Natural Gas Drilling will be held April 22nd in Wellsboro at the Senior Center on Queen St. Meeting time is 7-9pm
• Health Effects of Water Contamination from Frackin ...
  World-Renowned Scientist Dr. Theo Colborn on the Health Effects of Water Contamination from Fracking The Environmental Protection Agency has begun a review of how the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” can affect drinking water quality. We speak to Dr. Theo Colborn ...
• Tax Day Fairness
  Here is a piece about the gas industry and taxes that comes from Penn Futures. Tomorrow brings the annual income tax deadline, and the media will predictably cover those who complain the loudest about having to pay taxes. But all the sound and fury misses the point – most citizens regard paying taxe ...
• Marcellus Hearing in Williamsport, PA
  Anne Harris Katz attended the four-hour hearing on Marcellus gas impacts two days ago, in Williamsport.  Here are her comments: “I was in the audience for the entirety of this hearing, the [...]
• Leasing of PA state land for natural gas drilling
  Here is a link to the transcript about the PA House Majority Policy Committee’s public hearing regarding the leasing of state and for gas drilling. http://www.pahouse.com/policycommittee/documents/31810hmpc.pdf

News Blaze

• Recent Eruption of Volcano in Iceland a Wake-Up Ca ...
  Sadly, there is very little we can do to protect aircraft from the small and destructive particles found in volcanic ash clouds, unless we can design an engine for planes that does not rely on air intake.
• Space Shuttle Discovery and Its Seven-Member Crew ...
  Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew are expected to return to Earth on Monday, April 19, after a 14-day mission. NASA managers will evaluate weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida before permitting Discovery to land.
• US Continues to Assist Kyrgyzstan in Developing Ec ...
  The United States will continue to assist Kyrgyzstan in developing its social, economic and security structures and is in discussion with the interim Kyrgyz government on how best to help the country return to a democratic path.
• Avatar Special Edition Combo Blu-ray/DVD Review
  Simultaneously fantastical and firmly rooted in the historical here and now, James Cameron's Avatar, destination DVD release 4/22 on Earth Day, is both raw and lyrical as all good science-fi epics should be.
• Paul Scholes Saves Manchester United's Title Hopes ...
  The Red Devils steal a very late win against their local rivals Manchester City in an early weekend kickoff

environment 360

• A Journalist Reflects on the Rising Heat in Climat ...
  Although he writes one of the most popular blogs on the environment, Dot Earth author Andrew Revkin recognizes both the drawbacks and potential of the Web for exploring complex issues.� In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Revkin explains why the rhetoric surrounding climate change has gotten ...
• In Low-Lying Bangladesh, The Sea Takes a Human Tol ...
  Living on shifting land formed by river deltas, the people of Bangladesh have a tenuous hold on their environment, with cyclones buffeting coastal zones and rising seas posing a looming threat. But, as this Yale Environment 360 video report by Jonathan Bjerg Møller makes clear, many Bangladeshis ...
• It’s Green Against Green In Mojave Desert Solar Ba ...
  Few places are as well suited for large-scale solar projects as California’s Mojave Desert. But as mainstream environmental organizations push plans to turn the desert into a center for renewable energy, some green groups — concerned about spoiling this iconic Western landscape — are standing up to ...
• In the Mountains of the Moon, A Trek to Africa’s L ...
  The shrinking ice cap atop Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s most famous glacier. But the continent harbors other pockets of ice, most notably in the Rwenzori Mountains of western Uganda.� And as temperatures rise, the Rwenzori’s tropical glaciers — located as high as 16,500 feet — are fast disappearing ...
• America’s Unfounded Fears of A Green-Tech Race wit ...
  There has been growing talk about a clean-tech race between China and the U.S., often cast in ominous tones. But the quest to develop and implement renewable energy can be one where both nations win. BY CHRISTINA LARSON
  
  
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  Fowler diving headfirst into renewable energy

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  (Joe Amon | The Denver Post) One source of renewable energy Fowler is planning is an anaerobic digester that will make methane from manure at the Rocky Ford ...

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  Earth Day 2010 - A World of Green Opportunity

  Fast Company

  - Apr 18, 2010

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  Renewable energy is another win-win solution. Whatever our thoughts are about climate change, we need clean, renewable energy sources as an alternative to ...

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  Saudi Inches Towards Nuclear Capabilities

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  Politics Blog: Assembly may vote on clean energy bill Tuesday

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  A bill that would bring sweeping changes to the state's renewable energy goals may be up for an Assembly vote on Tuesday. The Assembly's Special Committee ...

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  Ecotones: A Musical Ecology of Wisconsin

  Isthmus Daily Page

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  Can we hear ecology? Sixteen musicians - including four composers - from the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe we can. They aim to prove it in a free ...

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  Slide show: Ecology Center has early Earth Day

  OCRegister

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  The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano hosted Earth Day festivities Saturday featuring composting with worms, tie-dying, kitchen gardening and plenty of ...

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  City gets a head start with cleanup

  Taunton Daily Gazette

  - Apr 17, 2010

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  By Kendra Leigh Miller Tauntonians got an early jump on Earth Day at the 20th annual citywide cleanup organized by the Taunton Ecology Awareness Movement ...

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  EDITORIAL: Water needed to extinguish rhetorical fire in Kittitas Co.

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  At issue is the Department of Ecology's emergency ban on drilling of small private wells for new homes being built in the Cascade hills between Ellensburg ...

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  Warnings about Lejeune's tainted water unheeded for years

  Kansas City Star

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  By BARBARA BARRETT For 30 years, thousands of Marines and their family members at Camp Lejeune, NC, drank, cooked with and bathed in water that was laced ...

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  Authorities work to repair water, power supplies at Yushu quake zone

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  - Apr 18, 2010

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  YUSHU, Qinghai, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of technicians are repairing damaged power and water supply lines in quake-hit Yushu in northwest China's ...

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  Surrounded by ocean, soldiers can't find water to drink on HBO's WWII series ...

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  We learn that what becomes more dangerous than anything at this point is the lack of water. Nobody has water in their canteens, damnit. ...

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  Growing concern in the water

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  High levels of the herbicide can linger in tap water during the growing season, according to more frequent tests in some agricultural communities. ...

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