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IPS - Inter Press Services

• POLITICS-NEPAL: Himalayan Nation Split Over Federa ...
  KATHMANDU, Apr 20 (IPS) - Agreeing to turn Nepal from a constitutional monarchy into a federal state is turning out to be much easier than agreeing on exactly what kind of federal system is best for this Himalayan country.
• CHINA: Slowly, Transparency in Public Funds Taking ...
  BEIJING, Apr 20 (IPS) - For six decades, governmental budgets and spending in China have remained classified and inaccessible to the general public. Yet this may be about to change.
• Q&A: Africa’s Mid-2000s Economic Boom Fuelle ...
  PARIS, Apr 20 (IPS) - The African continent lost between 859 billion and 1.06 trillion dollars due to illicit financial flows during the 39-year period from 1970 to 2008.
• ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND: Living With Volcanic Eruption
  REYKJAVIK, Apr 20 (IPS) - Incredible as it may seem, daily life for the vast majority of Icelanders is completely unaffected by the volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier, that has left thousands of air passengers around the world stranded due to flight cancellations.
• Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent
  TAMPA, Florida, Apr 19 (IPS) - Chanting "No more slaves! Pay a living wage!", hundreds of farmworkers, students and others marched 22 miles through central Florida for three days, calling on the Publix supermarket chain to pay an extra penny to the impoverished workers who pick their tomatoe ...

Scoop - NZ

• Finnish F-18 engine check reveals effects of volca ...
  The Finnish air force has released images showing the effects of volcanic dust ingestion from inside the engines of a Boeing F-18 Hornet fighter, ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• TradeMe founder: tax burden falls on workers
  One of New Zealand's richest men says he effectively pays no tax. Sam Morgan, who created online auction website Trade Me in 1999 and sold it in 2006 for more than $700 million, has criticised the tax system as unfair to "working people". Flush with tax-free cash from the sale of Trade Me, he said ...
• Quacks fly in all directions
  A plethora of recent news stories have highlighted a growing problem with the regulation of alternative medicine in Britain. Together they reveal an industry that is increasingly out of control in the absence of any coherent government policy. The consequences are bad for the public, and bad for alt ...
• NZ hero still prisoner of the Japanese
  Pete Bethune is one of New Zealand's heroes. He's been a successful entrepreneur and gone on to use his wealth to fight the big guys on the grounds of principle. As skipper of the New Zealand flagged hi-tech Earthrace his circumnavigation attempts showcased kiwi ingenuity to the world and demonstrat ...
• peak oil: 2015 is closer than you think
  Here's two fun facts about the American military. (1) People tend to take them pretty seriously, and (2) as an organisation they are the world's biggest consumer of petroleum products. So when the US Joint Forces Command makes claims about the state of the world's oil / petroleum supplies, it's prob ...

Independent ( London )

• Third of US teens with phones 'text 100 times a da ...
  A third of US teenagers with cell phones send more than 100 texts a day as texting has exploded to become the most popular means of communication for young people, according to new research.
• Long prison term for Mexican drugs baron
  The Mexican kingpin of one of a major drug organisations was sentenced to 30 years in a US prison.
• Communist rebels kill police in the Philippines
  Police in the Philippines said communist rebels exploded a land mine and opened fire on a patrol vehicle east of the capital Manila, killing four and wounding five officers.
• Michael Douglas urges leniency for troubled son
  Michael Douglas said his family's fame and history of substance abuse helped drive his troubled son into drug addiction and crime, and the Academy Award-winning actor asked a New York judge to show leniency towards him.
• China to commemorate victims of earthquake
  China announced a national day of mourning to be held tomorrow for victims of a devastating quake in a remote Tibetan region, as the death toll rose above 2,000.

Rogue Government.com

• Fluoride May Not Do Much For Cavities
• Biden lauds killing of Qaida in Iraq figure US mi ...
• Gun-toting marchers: US â��faces civil war& ...
  Several dozen gun-toting activists rallied Monday in a small national park near Washington DC to issue dire warnings that the United States could face civil war unless big government stops eating away at their rights.
• UK: Police Want Power To Sedate Suspects
  Police want the power to order dangerous suspects to be injected with a sedative.
• Iran calls US 'the world's only atomic criminal'
  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used an international conference in Tehran to condemn the US as the "world's only atomic criminal".

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

• Australia: Earthquake magnitude 5.2 hits Kalgoorli ...
  Hundreds of school children were evacuated from classrooms after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake hit the West Australian Goldfields city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder this morning. Geoscience Australia says the earthquake hit one to two kilometres south of the Kalgoorlie city centre in Boulder about 8:20am. Am ...
• Deadly clashes erupt in Kyrgyzstan
  At least one person has been killed and 11 others injured in clashes on the outskirts of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, an emergency service official has said. About 1,000 men armed with sticks clashed with police and landowners in a suburb of Bishkek on Monday. "Six people received gunshot wounds a ...
• Airspace over Northern Europe to open partially on ...
  Europe's ash-filled skies have cracked open slightly to allow more stranded travelers to fly home, but aviation authorities warned Monday that the reprieve could prove temporary with the Icelandic volcano still erupting. Many of the continent's biggest airports remained closed at the start of the n ...
• The Goldman Sachs indictment
  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil case Friday against giant investment bank Goldman Sachs charging "fraudulent misconduct" in relation to $1 billion of worthless sub-prime mortgage securities Goldman palmed off to its clients in 2007. The SEC's submission to New York's Sout ...
• Following death of Kaczynski, great powers vie for ...
  The volcanic ash cloud that has enveloped Europe and closed nearly all of the continent's airports forced world leaders, including US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to abandon plans to attend the funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynsk ...

The Galloping Beaver

• At the going down of the Sun...
  With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Tyler William Todd, the 1 st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Killed due to enemy action. Ric-A-Dam-Doo
• There is a fine line...
  Between earning your stripes and falling on your face so many times that your competence becomes a matter of question. But not to a Conservative. Taking a page out of the Karl Rove playbook, Harper has elevated one of the frat boys based on his loyalty to Dear Leader. Dimitri Soudas, 30, who has wo ...
• Iceland
  Stromboli online is a site out of Switzerland. Marco Fulle took some amazing pictures on April 16th. Go check them out.
• 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.

Media Matters for America

• Limbaugh responds to Clinton with torrent of inc ...
  In recent days, President Bill Clinton has warned that incendiary rhetoric and "demonizing the government" incited domestic terrorism during his presidency and threatened to do so again. On his April 19 broadcast, Rush Limbaugh responded by unleashing a torrent of incendiary rhetoric, claiming ...
• Breitbart again falsely suggests WH directed all ...
  On Fox News' Glenn Beck , Andrew Breitbart falsely claimed that a White House official told "organized labor" that "if they punch you, punch back twice as hard." In fact, the official was reportedly speaking to Senate Democrats -- not to any union groups -- and there is no evidence it was anyt ...
• QUICK FACT: Yes, Hannity, Bush did play golf durin ...
  On his radio show, Sean Hannity again falsely claimed that President Bush did not play golf after the war started. In fact, Bush did play golf during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and later took up biking instead of golf. After caller notes Bush did play golf during war, Hannity tells her she's ...
• Right-wing conspiracy theory: Obama admin. collud ...
  After the Security and Exchange Commission accused Goldman Sachs of fraud, numerous right-wing media figures have accused the Obama administration of attempting "to destroy Goldman Sachs" in order to "shift public opinion" in favor of financial reform. Simultaneously, conservative media have al ...
• Gibbs highlights false distinction between Fox's o ...
  Appearing on CNN's Reliable Sources , White House press Secretary Robert Gibbs noted that Fox News' "political slant" is apparent in both Fox's news programs and opinions shows and pointed to Fox News' airing footage of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear test and asking if the new START treaty will "l ...

Global Research.ca

• Fraud Charges on Wall Street: Goldman Sacked?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Afghanistan, America, and the “Vietnam” Syndrome
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Memories of Michel Chartrand (1916-2010)
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Award Winning Movie: "SUPERPOWER":
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• CONFERENCE: World for 9/11 Truth Presents Richard ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Do You Have to Be Clueless About the Economy to Ta ...
  This is a question that people should be asking, given the list of prominent economists and economic analysts who are headlining the debate on deficit reduction. To kick off his deficit commission, President Obama is planning a big show on April 27th that will include a number of experts talking abo ...
• Mitch McConnell Gets it Wrong
  CANDY CROWLEY (CNN, Sunday): The president says you are being deceptive in describing this bill. MCCONNELL: Well, Candy ... there is a bailout fund in the bill that was reported out of the Banking Committee, the partisan bill that came out of committee on a party-line vote. CROWLEY: But that s ...
• End occupation then start negotiations
  US President Barack Obama is about to take a political leap on the Palestine/Israel issue. Many American presidents took similar leaps and each and every one of them fell flat on their faces. The leap is the launch of a new US peace initiative that promises, yet again, to bring the stubborn Palestin ...
• No One Knows Whether They Would Rescue A Stranger
  I am always intrigued by Elie Wiesel who seems to believe that, as a victim of the Holocaust, he is, by definition, a righteous man. But he's not. Status as a victim does not confer righteousness. All Wiesel knows is that he suffered. He does not know what he would have done if he was a German ...
• IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM
  My tpm colleague and friend, Bernie Avishai has already written about this on this site, so I will be brief. The full page advertisements signed by Elie Wiesel that have now appeared in the IHT, the WSJ and today's NYT have clearly been orchestrated and paid for by someone other than Wiesel. There e ...

TruthOut

• Goldman Hires Obama's Ex-White House Counsel to De ...
  Wall Street banking behemoth Goldman Sachs, which was charged with securities fraud last Friday over its role in the subprime mortgage meltdown, has hired President Obama's former White House Counsel Greg Craig to defend the company, according to a report published late Monday by Politico. read mor ...
• Soldiers in "Wikileaks" Unit Apologize for Violenc ...
  Editor's Note : The Wikileaks " Collateral Murder " video shook an apathetic and misled public awake with images of civilian killing in the chaotic streets of Baghdad in July 2007. US forces wounded two small children and killed over a dozen people including members of the media. Two soldiers from t ...
• Iraq Election: Can Maliki Win With a Baghdad Recou ...
  An Iraqi court has ordered a manual recount of more than 20 percent of the ballots cast in the Iraq election. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hopes the results take the lead away from challenger Iyad Allawi. Baghdad - An Iraqi appeals panel ordered Monday that more than 20 percent of the votes cast ...
• US Soldier Dies in Raid that Kills Top al-Qaida in ...
  Baghdad - Iraqi and U.S. security forces said Monday that they’d killed the two top leaders of al Qaida in Iraq in what the American military said could be the most significant blow to the militant Sunni Muslim organization since it was formed. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki announced that th ...
• A Review of U Win Tin: "What's That? A Human Hell. ...
  U Win Tin (U = Mr. or Uncle, a sign of respect) a close associate and adviser of Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, also known as the chief strategist of the National League for Democracy, spent 19 years in Rangoon's notorious Insein Prison, most of it in solitary confinement. read more

Planetsave

• Navy Develops Battery that Runs on Mud
  The Office of Naval Research will highlight their microbial fuel cell that was one of TIME magazine’s “Top 50 Inventions of 2009” for an Earth Day event on April 22. According to Peter Vietti of the Office of Naval Research the microbial fuel cell is a device “that could revolutionize naval energy ...
• Productive Farmland Should Grow Food not Fuel
  “It’s 36 percent more efficient to grow grain for food than for fuel,” said the lead author of a paper that looked at 17 years worth of data to help settle the food versus fuel debate. “The ideal is to grow corn for food,” said Ilya Gelfand , a Michigan State University postdoctoral resea ...
• Should Going Green Come With Big Monetary Costs? O ...
  Wind turbines will be included as part of Ontario's $8 billion in approved green energy projects which will increase energy costs Green initiatives typically aren’t cheap, meaning that some individuals are able to afford to dive all in to the green movement and others have to pick and choose due to ...
• Volcanoes: The ‘X Factor’ in Climate C ...
  Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano eruption, showing volcanic plume and lava flow spreading northeast, spilling into Hrunagil Gully. Image was acquired on March 24, 2010, by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite Numerous volcanoes  presently ...
• Increased Ocean Salinity Shows Intensified Water C ...
  A new study to be published in an upcoming edition of the American Journal of Climate showcase evidence that the world’s water cycle has intensified. The new study, co-authored by CSIRO scientists Paul Durack and Dr Susan Wijffels, looked at over 50 years of data and found increases in ocean surfac ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• The Spatial Extent of Water Quality Benefits in Ur ...
  US EPA. National Center for Environmental Economics / by Patrick Walsh, J. Walter Milon and David Sc
• Water News Roundup – April 19, 2010
  Salt Lake Tribune: Reservoir expected to spur Kanab growth - The southern Utah town of Kanab, known
• Underwater Robot Showcase for Wessex Water in Chip ...
  Panton McLeod's VR600 robot Forward-thinking Wessex Water has been testing a pair of innovative
• ERIE COUNTY, OH - Water Quality Series Part 4 | Co ...
  For this fourth installment in her series on water, Cassandra Lagunzad contacts local government off
• Indian director of Anti-Coca Cola documentaries di ...
  Saratchandran The director of acclaimed documentaries on the Anti-Coca Cola struggle at Plachimada,

Public Citizen in Texas

• Public Citizen congratulates EDF and Tenaska on th ...
  The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has agreed to do what the state’s environmental agency should be doing by  assuring that  Tenaska’s commitment to sequester CO2 emissions can be enforced if this plant is built. While this deal may reduce some concerns about CO2, it doesn’t mean that this still i ...
• Comments to EPA on New Ozone Attainment Standard – ...
  On March 16, 2010 Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Downwinders At Risk, Texas Campaign for the Environment and other concerned environmental organizations and individuals held a public meeting to submit comments to the EPA regarding their newly proposed ozone standard. State representative ...
• Monday’s Earth Week Action: Get One Person to sign ...
  Wanna do something green to start off Earth Week? You can do this from your desk. Quick and easy: Sign up as a supporter for Clean Energy for Austin. Tell a friend or co-worker to sign on too!* Austin City Council will vote on this forward-thinking energy plan this week! Clean Energy for Austin ...
• 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Dual drill could be used on Europa
  A thermal drill is being developed to melt and drill down through the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA and ESA are planning to send a probe to...
• Giant leech with big teeth found in the Amazon
  A new species of giant leech with vicious teeth was discovered when it was removed from a girl's nose. The aptly named Tyrannobdella rex is found in t...
• UFO picks up car and drops it 180 feet away
  In a bizarre case submitted to MUFON a car was picked up and dropped 180ft away with two teenagers inside it. The incident happened in March at Laconi...
• Saturn's hexagon recreated in lab
  A peculiar hexagon shaped feature at Saturn's north pole has been recreated by scientists in the lab. The unusual geometric shape has perplexed expert...
• Man thrown into jail over mistaken identity
  A painter and decorator was thrown in to jail after he was mistaken by police for a brutal war criminal. Mile Bosnic was taken in to custody when offi...

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 20, 2010
  Bolivia Hosts 'People's' Climate Change Event (AFP) Environmental activists, indigenous leaders and Hollywood celebrities were gathering in Bolivia Tuesday ahead of the first self-styled "people's conference" on climate change. Polluting Nations Downplay Goals for Cancun Climate Confere ...
• April 19, 2010
  World Bank Says East Asia Can Stabilize CO2 by 2025 (Reuters) China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, and five other East Asian nations, need a net additional investment of $80 billion per year to get on to a sustainable energy path, the World Bank said on Monday. Scientists Call ...
• 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 ...

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

• Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Phoniness
  Holden Caulfield, the self-described if suspect expert on phoniness in The Catcher in the Rye , would have a field day. Phoniness abounds, shredding a sense of fair play, from predatory lending, Ponzi schemes, gouging credit card companies, greedy medical insurers, insider trading, egregious campai ...
• Ninety-Four Percent of Kandaharis Want Peace Talks ...
  WASHINGTON, Apr 18, 2010 (IPS) - An opinion survey of Afghanistan's Kandahar province funded by the U.S. Army has revealed that 94 percent of respondents support negotiating with the Taliban over military confrontation with the insurgent group and 85 percent regard the Taliban as "our Afghan brother ...
• Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Two-Guantanamo Solut ...
  — from TomDispatch It all began in Afghanistan (the War on Terror, of course). It was there as well that, in late 2001, the Bush administration first " took the gloves off ," a phrase its top officials then loved to use. So the first torture and abuse of prisoners, including the use of dogs to int ...
• Is Glenn Beck the Best Antiwar Voice on TV?
  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 priorities, lacks ...
• Burning Documents Create Giant Smoke Plume over Go ...
  NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Goldman Sachs officials spent the weekend burning a mountain of documents at their Manhattan headquarters, creating a giant smoke plume that snarled air traffic over much of North America. The giant plume began to appear just minutes after the Securities and Exchange ...

Ten Percent

• That ‘No Torture’ Memorandum Scam Again
  Those cover-your-ass pieces of worthless paper the UK use to pretend they are not outsourcing torture and in which we are a world leader, this time in Afghanistan- RAWA:- Britain ‘hands over prisoners in Afghanistan to face torture’. British troops are handing over Taliban suspects to the Afghan se ...
• Green Candidate Wins Colombian Debate, Clegg Is An ...
  Via Otto @ IKN- Green party candidate Antanas Mockus was also interrogated by the other parties’ representatives. Asked by Cambio Radical’s Vargas Lleras how he would tackle guerrilla activity, especially drug-trafficking, on the border with Venezuela, Mockus replied that a “pedagogical process” was ...
• UK Military Test Flying Israeli Drone Over Wales
  Before the ash of doom cleared the flight schedules the ‘Watchkeeper‘ drone was successfully test flown on Wedenesday over Welsh skies (ht2 Mike)- The UK tentacle of French arms giant Thales is delighted today to announce that its new “Watchkeeper” drone aircraft for the British Army has made its fi ...
• 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!

Booman Tribune

• A History Lesson for Sarah Palin
  Sarah Palin thinks of the founding age of the United States as an era of "Christian Roots." That's true in a way, but not in the way that Palin means it. In rejecting the principle that God should be separated in any way from the state, she disrespects the unique genius of our country. First, ...
• Froggy Bottom Cafe
• Serious Question
  Is it just me, or does there seem to be an unusual number of natural disasters happening lately? I don't know. It seems like we've had fewer hurricanes and more of everything else.
• Serious Question
  If you were Charlie Crist, what would you do?
• GOP Opposes Financial Reform on Principle?
  I just listened to the Diane Rehm show. The subject was the financial reform bill. The AEI expert kept repeating the same talking point over and over -- the bill is bad because the Democrats want to set up a $50 billion dollar fund paid for by the big financial institutions. This is bad because i ...

European Tribune

• Why US politics matters here, sadly
  From the Irish Times editorial last Saturday: Universal health insurance is an idea whose time...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 20 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1942 – Birth of...
• Monday Open Thread
  It is Monday....
• Perspectives on airspace closures.
  Chris Cook has a diary with a rather scattered discussion thread asking whether or not...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 19 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1892 – Germaine Tailleferre,...

Futurismic

• Post-postal: is the Iceland volcano the death-knel ...
  Jeff Jarvis suspects that the ongoing and aviation-distressing plume of volcanic ash currently drifting over Europe may accelerate the demise of good old-fashioned physical mail networks: Right now, it is impossible to get a document to or around Europe with speed. People can’t fly. Mail can’t fly. ...
• Citizen Sensor: crowdsourcing public works reports
  Tired of your local government authority ignoring all those little patch-up jobs that would make your town or city a nicer place to live? Maybe you should try crowdsourcing a form of polite, transparent, insistent (and very public) pressure, and applying it to the affected area? That’s what SeeClick ...
• Rodent dilemmas and simian doubts
  These just in from the Animal Psychology Department; first up, rats are surprisingly good at the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma [via BoingBoing]: It may not be entirely surprising that rats cooperated in the Prisoner’s Dilemma.  After all, animals often cooperate in nature to altruistically serve the ...
• Personal Information: episode 9
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 9 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Pioneer in Narcissism Study Dies at 84
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline James F. Masterson, an important figure in the development of modern understanding of borderline personality disorder and narcissism, has been recently honored with an obituary at The New York Times which highlights his life and career. A professor at Cornell Universi ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Thank goodness it’s Friday! We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Enjoy! • Many Abused Women View Partners as “Dependable” • Study Finds Brief, Basic ...
• Self Love… What It Isn’t
  By Teresa Trower, LMHC, Self-Love Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Teresa and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Sometimes it’s useful to define something by what it’s not. In this case, I’m going to explore the concept of self love by looking at the various ways that a lack of self lo ...
• Money, Money, Money
  By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile With all of our tax returns due last week, the subject of money, what we make and how we spend it, has been on all our minds. It’s never far away, of cours ...
• Dieting: Our National Obsession
  By Deborah Klinger, MA, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Deborah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile A few days ago, I headed into the locker room at my gym after a workout. A TV set there was tuned to a morning talk show hosted by a couple of women, who were ta ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Green Reasons to 'Move Your Money': Big Banks and ...
  Green Reasons to 'Move Your Money': Big Banks and King Coal Huffington Post (blog) JPMorgan is the lead US financier of companies that engage in mountaintop removal coal mining, including the coal producer Massey Energy that owns the Upper ...
• Interior Moving to Curb Coal Mining Pollution, Req ...
  Interior Moving to Curb Coal Mining Pollution, Require Mountaintop Restoration New York Times The Interior Department is writing new regulations for mountaintop-removal coal mining that would expand protection for ...
• EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop- ...
  EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mine New York Times US EPA proposed a veto today of the Clean Water Act permit issued for one of Central Appalachia's largest mountaintop-removal ... EPA moves to veto massive mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia Facing South ...
• EPA guidelines on mountaintop removal offer hope f ...
  Environmental Data Interactive EPA guidelines on mountaintop removal offer hope for Appalachia's environment Facing South (blog) The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its promised guidelines for mountaintop removal coal mining last week, and they're getting praise from ... Mountaintop Remova ...
• Community Challenge | Tuning in 'Deep Down,' and r ...
  Community Challenge | Tuning in 'Deep Down,' and resisting mountaintop removal Louisville Courier-Journal The film addresses the issue of mountaintop removal , which threatens the environment and community health, but offers financial solutions to landowners and ...

Memeorandum

• Everyone's Dean - Why Elena Kagan has earned the r ...
  Charles Fried / The New Republic : Everyone's Dean   —  Why Elena Kagan has earned the respect of conservatives, like me.  —  Some years ago, I told my colleague Jack Goldsmith, when his role in revoking the notorious Yoo-Bybee torture memos became public, that the only thing worse than being demo ...
• Justices Get Personal Over Privacy of Messages (Ad ...
  Adam Liptak / New York Times : Justices Get Personal Over Privacy of Messages   —  WASHINGTON — The question in a case argued Monday in the Supreme Court sounded both irresistible and important: Did a California police department violate the Constitution by reading sexually explicit text messages s ...
• Gay rights protesters interrupt Obama speech at fu ...
  Jordan Fabian / The Hill : Gay rights protesters interrupt Obama speech at fundraiser   —  Gay rights protesters interrupted President Barack Obama's speech at a fundraiser for California Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) Monday night in Los Angeles.  —  Activists from a group called GetEQUAL began shouting a ...
• Goldman Sachs taps ex-W.H. counsel (The Politico)
  The Politico : Goldman Sachs taps ex-W.H. counsel   —  Goldman Sachs is launching an aggressive response to its political and legal challenges with an unlikely ally at its side — President Barack Obama's former White House counsel, Gregory Craig.  —  The beleaguered Wall Street bank hired Craig … ...
• An alarming outbreak of 'regime' amnesia (Byron Yo ...
  Byron York / Washington Examiner : An alarming outbreak of ‘regime’ amnesia   —  Time's Joe Klein got some attention over the weekend when he said, on “The Chris Matthews Show,” that statements from Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are “right up close to being seditious.”  What received less attention wa ...

Energy & Environment News

• Appliance Rebates Come and Go, Quickly
  Consumers across the country are snapping up government rebates for energy-efficient appliances.
• Green Inc. Column: Green Diplomacy at Its Most Bas ...
  Efforts are gathering momentum, particularly in European countries and the United States, to make embassies more environmentally friendly.
• Green Inc. Column: Green Diplomacy at Its Most Bas ...
  Efforts are gathering momentum, particularly in European countries and the United States, to make embassies more environmentally friendly.
• Green Inc. Column: Green Diplomacy at Its Most Bas ...
  Efforts are gathering momentum, particularly in European countries and the United States, to make embassies more environmentally friendly.
• Green Inc. Column: Green Diplomacy at Its Most Bas ...
  Efforts are gathering momentum, particularly in European countries and the United States, to make embassies more environmentally friendly.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, South Sandwich Islands region
  Tuesday, April 20, 2010 01:00:41 UTC Monday, April 19, 2010 11:00:41 PM at epicenter Depth : 20.90 km (12.99 mi)
• M 5.0, Andaman Islands, India region
  Monday, April 19, 2010 13:54:09 UTC Monday, April 19, 2010 07:24:09 PM at epicenter Depth : 176.70 km (109.80 mi)
• M 5.0, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
  Monday, April 19, 2010 07:32:50 UTC Monday, April 19, 2010 03:32:50 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.4, central Afghanistan
  Sunday, April 18, 2010 20:28:50 UTC Monday, April 19, 2010 12:58:50 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Mona Passage, Dominican Republic
  Sunday, April 18, 2010 20:16:39 UTC Sunday, April 18, 2010 04:16:39 PM at epicenter Depth : 86.20 km (53.56 mi)

China Dialogue

• The Great Barrier Reef scandal
  A world heritage site faced disaster after a Chinese ship ran aground off Australia’s coast. Ellen Connolly and Jon Henley ask why giant coal carriers are still using the fragile area as a short cut. On 11 June 1770, six weeks or so after becoming the first European to make landfall on the east coas ...
• Safeguarding a very special place
  Home to abundant marine life, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is a source of national pride. chinadialogue takes a look at the reef’s stunning beauty – and the country’s latest plans for protecting it. The Great Barrier Reef -- the world’s largest coral reef and the only living thing on earth visible ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Run on and see where it ends: Fighting to make hea ...
  By Nisha Agarwal, Director of the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Race-Talk contributor Saturday morning, April 17th, the auditorium of Junior High School 22 in the Bronx was crowded with community residents who had gathered for a town hall meeting.  Health car ...
• Daryl Gates, the Ruthless L.A. Police Chief Who Ra ...
  Gates' controversial tenure as LAPD police chief included 35 undercover agents who spied on and intimidated Los Angeles residents.
• Four of the Most Dangerous Fraudulent Scientific T ...
  Climate-induced earthquakes, bottomless pits of oil, pet dinosaurs and a miraculous energy source: For the sake of public policy, it's important to debunk the lies.
• How Immigration Reform Could Split the Right
  If Democrats tackle the issue, they could provoke Tea Party-GOP warfare.
• How the Sleazy Used-Car Salesmen at Goldman Sachs ...
  Goldman Sachs is being sued by the government for allegedly defrauding its investors. Confused? Here's some plain talk about a mega rip-off.

Threat Level

• Cops Pull Plug on Rent-a-Fraudster Service for Ban ...
  Two Belarusian nationals suspected of operating a rent-a-fraudster service for bank and identity thieves have been arrested overseas, according to New York authorities, who unsealed an indictment for one of the suspects on Monday. Dmitry Naskovets, 25, and Sergey Semashko, 25, are suspected of crea ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• WRAPUP 4-Few flights resume in Europe, ash cloud d ...
  (Adds Hungary opens, most of Britain, Germany closed)
• Arizona passes tough illegal immigration law
  PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawmakers passed a controversial immigration bill on Monday requiring police in the state that borders Mexico to determine if people are in the United States illegally, a measure critics say is open to racial profiling.
• Iranian missile may be able to hit U.S. by 2015
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran may be able to build a missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, according to an unclassified Defense Department report on Iran's military sent to Congress and released on Monday.
• Google cyberattack hit password system: report
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A December cyberattack on Google Inc computers hit the company's password system that millions of people worldwide use to access almost all of the company's Web services, The New York Times said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.
• Few flights resume in Europe, ash cloud disrupts
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European airports made tentative steps toward resuming flights on Tuesday after five days cut off from global air traffic by a huge ash cloud, but much airspace stayed closed after reports of a new plume.

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

• Harman to Face Progressive Challenge from Winograd
  he California Democratic Party is convening this weekend in Los Angeles for its annual state convention. Only one Congressional incumbent, Jane Harman of Venice, however will go into the gathering without the pre-endorsement of her ...
• Rage Against the Machine
  People over Corporations Here’s a scenario: A big machine stands in the middle of your town. It belches out an awful smell, and it spews debris for blocks around it. You decide to do something about ...
• 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’

Marler Blog

• Marler Clark sponsored E. coli tests prompt recall ...
  The AP and New York Times reported this evening that “a ground beef recall that has expanded to WinCo Foods stores in six Western states was prompted by a law firm's investigation of contaminated beef products. “  No illnesses have been reported. Because the meat could be contaminated with E. coli ...
• Jim Orchard in Pittsburgh Hospital with Guillain-B ...
  Team 4 investigator Jim Parsons reports tonight that 67-year old Jim Orchard drank a bottle of raw milk and is now in intensive care, unable to move. "They were saying the health benefits, and it was a healthy thing to do, and we like the taste of it," said Orchard's wife, Maureen. The Orchards ...
• Awards for lawyering, blogging and just surviving
• E. coli Outbreak in Washtenaw County - Source Unkn ...
  Tina Reed of AnnArbor.com reports this afternoon that Washtenaw County officials are warning county residents about a suspected outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 cases among local residents. Ten cases have been reported to public health officials and other cases are being investigated, according to a rel ...
• Peekskill Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robbins customers ...
  The Westchester County Department of Health is offering free post-exposure treatment for hepatitis A for any customers of the Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins at 422 Washington Street in Peekskill who consumed drinks containing ice between April 1 and April 6. Those costumers may have been exposed to h ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 04.20.10
  U.S. demand for gasoline sets all-time record for March, trend expected to continue throughout summer Up we go. Beyond 2016, automakers push for even stronger CAFE regulations, maybe a gas tax too ...
• Officially Official: Nissan sending out Leaf regis ...
  Filed under: Car Buying , Hatchback , Nissan , Electric We found an email in our inbox today that should make a lot of long-term plug-in vehicle fans happy. For the first time in about forever, a major OEM is taking orders on an all-electric passenger vehicle. Yes, Nissan is about ready to take yo ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.19.10
  Greenlings: Who will be the main players in the electric vehicle space? Who's worried, who's not. Report: U.S. Postal Service says it might cut Saturday delivery to curb emissions Spend an ex ...
• 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. ...

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

• New Solutions for New Environmental Problems
  Today's environmental challenges are far different from those of 40 years ago. And so, argues William Ruckelshaus, the first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the solutions must change as well.
• 110mph Winds On Ski Lift (Video)
  A bunch of skiers get hit with a 110mph micro burst wind while up on a ski lift in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
• "Dirty Thunderstorms" Following Volcano Eruption i ...
  A natural phenomenon known as "dirty thunderstorm" has been photographed as a following effect of Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland. Here you can see some of really amazing and pretty scary photos.
• Solar Impulse Plane Flying on Sunshine
  Two videos of the Solar Impulse flying over the Swiss countryside, includes all phases of the flight, and air-to-air shots. The plane has four small electric motors powered by sunlight and climbing 1200 meters on the maiden flight
• China Takes Aim At Landfill Stench...With Giant Pe ...
  Instead of learning from the mistakes of America and other Western countries choking on the stench of their own affluenza; Beijing has decided to treat the symptom instead of the problem.

Invisible Opportunity

• Ahmadinejad calls for U.S. to destroy its nuclear ...
  Whatever you think of President Ahmadinejad, you can’t argue with his logic… By Thomas Erdbrink Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drew applause at a nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran attended by representatives of 60 countries when he called for the destruction of all atomic weapons, star ...
• Fluoride: Worse than We Thought
  Written by Andreas Schuld In 1999 the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a glowing report on the fluoridation of public water supplies, citing the procedure as one of the century’s great public health successes.1 Ironically, the same report hints that the alleged benefit from fluorides may ...
• Corrupted Infant Vaccine Contains Pig Virus
  By Dr. Mercola One million U.S. children, and about 30 million worldwide, have already received GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine. Now a research team has discovered it is contaminated with “a substantial amount” of DNA from a pig virus. What is pig virus DNA doing in a vaccine intended to prevent r ...
• Holy mistake! Congress wipes out congressional hea ...
  By Devonia Smith Legislate in haste, repent at leisure. Looks like Congress is having one of those “Holy S—!” moments; it appears they have royally mucked up their own health insurance – for all 535 members of Congress and untold congressional employees. In a hurry, they forgot to get it right and ...
• Demjanjuk’s Attorney Questions Evidence
  By Juergen Baetz John Demjanjuk’s defense lawyer on Wednesday questioned the validity of evidence presented by a top German investigator, including an identity card that allegedly shows his client was a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp. Attorney Ulrich Busch told the Munich state court he has ...

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

• Celebrate Earth Day with QVC – Or Not
  We receive a lot of press releases at Twilight Earth, but none have so full of Greenwash hype as the one we got from Mega Consumer Giant QVC. Related posts: Boycott Black Friday and Celebrate Buy Nothing Day Nov 27th, 2009 Win a Copy Of Disney Natures EARTH DVD – Twilight Earth Giveaway Gre ...
• Appalachian Group Awards ‘Military’ Pins in Attack ...
  Climate Ground Zero offers a special edition badge for individuals who cancel a CHASE bank account in protest of mountaintop removal in Appalachia. Next week the shareholders of JP Morgan Chase bank will be meeting, and Climate Ground Zero, a project of American Forest Alliance 501(c)3 wants to sen ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• Triennale Design Museum in Milan: An Inspired Use ...
  Read the rest of Triennale Design Museum in 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, ...
• Milan 2010: The Interni Think Tank lights up Milan
  Read the rest of Milan 2010: The Interni Think Tank lights up Milanhttp://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: 2010, Design, I Saloni, Install ...
• 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 ...
• Living Exoskeleton Proposed for Province of Parma ...
  StudioDosi has proposed a double-skinned, vegetation-covered headquarters for the Province of Parma in Italy. Designed by a talented group of young Italian architects and engineers, the proposal features a wide array of green building strategies, extensive gardens and most notably, a living exoskele ...
• Karim Rashid Unveils Corian Eco House at Milan Des ...
  Iconic designer Karim Rashid has teamed up with Dupont to design an eco-friendly living space for the future. Unveiled during Milan Design Week, his Smart-ologic residence is made from a range of new Corian eco materials which are composed of recycled material. To showcase the materials and their ve ...

Pogue's Posts

• Android Tries Harder
  Google is trying very hard to get developers to build apps for Android app phones.
• 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.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Rewiring Plants Could Supersize Crops
  With a bit of biomathematical wizardry, researchers have found a new way for plants to breathe. The newly discovered chemical reactions would allow plants to process carbon dioxide more efficiently. Crops could grow to enormous size. “We wondered if we could take parts designed by nature, and rewir ...
• North American Dinosaurs Were One Big Happy Family
  Dinosaurs may have roamed and mingled more freely in the western interior of North America than previously thought, according to a new study. For decades, many paleontologists believed that during the Late Cretaceous period, from about 100 million to 65 million years ago, dinosaur species occupied ...
• Betting on Climate Change: Corporations Stand to M ...
  Last year, Beluga Shipping discovered that there’s money in global warming. Beluga is a German firm that specializes in “super heavy lift” transport. Its vessels are equipped with massive cranes, allowing it to load and unload massive objects, like multi-ton propeller blades for wind turbines. It i ...
• Spectacular New View of a Cosmic Cat’s Paw
  This new image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula reveals new details laid bare by the near-infrared imaging of the VISTA telescope. The Cat’s Paw, located 5,500 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation is filled with dust that makes for a beautiful image (below) but obscures many of the stars. The Euro ...
• Ultrathin Silk-Based Electronics Make Better Brain ...
  Silk has made its way from the soft curves of the body to the spongy folds of the brain. Engineers have now designed silk-based electronics that stick to the surface of the brain, similar to the way a silk dress clings to the hips. The stretchable, ultrathin design would make for better brain-compu ...

The Progressive Realist

• Advocacy Campaigns and the International Criminal ...
  Part of what I do is track emerging issue campaigns. Apparently the Review Conference of the International Criminal Court has become a focal point for some such campaigners. The conference, occurring later this Spring, includes a reassessment of “crimes under the court’s jurisdiction.” Well turns o ...
• Iceland Volcano Cloud Darkens World Economy
  The recent eruption of a volcano beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier has, thankfully, not cost any human lives.  It has, however, caused enormous economic disruption, strained patience , and political infighting. Most non-emergency flights have been canceled, hundreds of thousands of peo ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - According to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, China has agreed to provide Venezuela with $20 billion in long-term financing for unspecified development projects. For a country preaching regional autonomy, Venezuela sure seems eager to rack up high-profile debt with notoriously demanding creditors ...
• An Iraqi View on Iraq’s Recent Elections
  As Iraq’s post-election coalition negotiations continue, some Iraqi leaders were surprised by comments Vice President Joe Biden made to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius on the election results last week (“ The vice president bears good news from Iraq .”) Of particular concern was Biden ...
• The Structural Hoplessness of US Policy Toward the ...
  Daniel Larison has made one of the strongest arguments I’ve seen for the structural hopelessness of US policy toward the Middle East. In response to my piece calling on Obama to focus more on democracy promotion, he writes Were allied Arab states to become much more democratic, their governments wou ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightnig Round: End the Washington Monument.
  The founders would've scoffed at separation of church and state. Thus speaketh Sarah Palin : "Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our Founding Fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life." Personal faith of the ...
• You Go, Mitt.
  I kid Mitt Romney a lot, because in a country full of phony politicians, his phoniness is so transparent and encompassing. But let's put that aside, and offer Romney some qualified praise. Newsweek has an interesting interview with Romney on the subject of health care, one that shows both the promi ...
• Ebert Says Video Games Can Never Be Art.
  Roger Ebert doesn't think video games can be art: One obvious difference between art and games is that you can win a game. It has rules, points, objectives, and an outcome. [ Kellee ] Santiago might cite a immersive game without points or rules, but I would say then it ceases to be a game and becom ...
• The Little Picture: Eyafallajökull.
  The Stromboli Project has collected photographs of Eyafallajökull's eruption. The ash produced by the Icelandic eruption has brought air travel in Europe to a halt. (The Stromboli Project)
• You Can't Handle the Truth!
  Steve Benen points us to the latest iteration of John McCain 's efforts, now that he's facing a primary challenge from the right, to distance himself from his past by denying he ever considered himself a "maverick." Goodness knows it's fun to laugh at McCain for flip-flopping on his position toward ...

Andy Worthington

• With Regrets, Judge Allows Indefinite Detention at ...
  Note: This article is published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here), which also features an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the judges’ unclassified opinions, and more). On March 25, as I explained in a recent article, “Guantánamo and Habeas C ...
• Guantánamo Habeas Results: Prisoners 34, Governmen ...
  As part of my series, “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here), it’s my pleasure to present a list of the 47 habeas corpus rulings made to date, with links to the articles I have written over the last 19 months analyzing the judges’ rulings. As I explained in the introduction to this series, I rem ...
• Guantánamo Habeas Week: Exposing Torture, Misconce ...
  In an attempt to raise awareness of the importance of the rulings being made in US courts on the habeas corpus petitions of the prisoners held at Guantánamo (as authorized by a significant Supreme Court ruling in June 2008), I’m devoting most of my work this week to articles covering the 47 cases de ...
• 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 [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

• Iceland Volcano Has "Quieted Down"—Ash Crisis to E ...
  With a lower plume and visible lava, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano could be entering a gentler phase, which "might help with the ash problem," experts say.
• 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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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Recruiting Young Republicans and Off to the Sex Cl ...
  There was quite a bit of talk yesterday concerning the RNC's interesting expense account... Obviously spending the money people donate to the Republican National Committee on a night out at an expensive Hollywood bondage and lesbian themed sex club was not exactly what the donors would hope for, nev ...
• Boston Tea Party Punked
  Buzzfeed has a whole bunch of signs from the Boston Common Tea Party getting punked but here are a few for your viewing pleasure:
• 1000 people show up for free healthcare clinic
  I was watching Countdown last night and Keith Olbermann had said that 1000 people got free healthcare at the clinic in Hartford. Most of them had not had access to a Doctor in years. Whether it was the unemployed, the underemployed, the working poor. The common thread among them all is that access t ...
• BAD !!!
  Yes... It is that time of the year, according to my favorite kangaroo : email skippy if you want the code to these logos! yes, once again, it's blogroll amnesty day ! loyal readers of this humble space know that b.a.d., or blogroll amnesty day for short, is a celebration of blogs of all sizes thr ...
• Not sure that Rob Simmons' Wife and Chris Healy's ...
  The bigger news is that Connecticut Republican's have mastered the science of cloning AstroTurf garbage... "SIMMONS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES WOMEN FOR SIMMONS COALITION" IOW: This ain't news at all. Same old same old. When reality tells you that only 28% of Republican women support your candidacy , neve ...

SPL Center

• Hal Turner to Face Third Trial for Online Threats
  After two juries failed to decide whether he threatened federal judges, hate blogger Hal Turner will face yet another trial in Brooklyn this summer. Turner’s third trial is scheduled for Aug. 9. When Turner’s second trial ended in a hung jury on March 10, the government left open the possibility tha ...
• Racist Radio Host Pines for All-White Golf, Segreg ...
  Count James Edwards , host of the Memphis-based white nationalist, anti-Semitic radio show called “Political Cesspool” , as among those likely celebrating Phil Mickelson’s victory at the Masters golf tournament on Sunday. Not because Mickelson is a feel-good story, winning the green jacket as his ca ...
• Counting ‘Confederates’: Once More, Kirk Lyons Til ...
  The neo-Confederate movement ’s best known legal champion is getting some media buzz for urging Southerners to declare their race as “Confederate Southern American” on the 2010 U.S. census questionnaire. In recent video messages posted on YouTube and Facebook, white supremacist attorney Kirk Lyons t ...
• Calling All Thugs: Gas Line Cut After Tea Party Le ...
  The latest news from the opponents of health care reform who like to suggest that supporters should suffer for their transgressions: A day after two Virginia Tea Party activists posted the address of the brother of a congressman who voted for the bill, authorities discovered that someone had severed ...
• Armed MCDC to ‘Forcefully Engage’ Border ‘Criminal ...
  The leader of the nativist extremist group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) publicly repudiates the use of illegal tactics to secure the border against undocumented immigrants. “If one single individual steps over the line for their personal gratification, we are all stained with that irrespon ...

change: org.

• Repeal Women's Suffrage?
  "[W]e must repeal the  19th Amendment . Yes, the one granting suffrage to women," writes Thomas Mitchell (pictured), editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "Because? Well, women are biased." This was the core argument of a piece by Mitchell apparently intended to bait those whom he dismisses as "th ...
• Warring Camps in the Fight Against Obesity
  In a recent article in the Atlantic , a former obese man, Marc Ambinder, points out that the debate about how to address the problem "remains frozen" in a battle between two opposing viewpoints. "On one side are the proponents of individual responsibility, who believe that fat people suffer from a ...
• In Sudan, the World Is Changing
  The elections in Sudan over the last week have given rise to the broadest and most public debate about the governance of the country since before the 1989 coup that brought Omar Al-Bashir and his regime to power. Opposition parties, civil society organizations, and a nascent youth movement have part ...
• Shameful Sonoma County Separates and Evicts Elderl ...
  The most hated place in the country right now might just be Sonoma County in California. And who could blame folks, given the story of gay couple Harold Scull and Clay Greene, and how the County forcibly separated these two elderly men and evicted them from their home. It's a heart-breaking story, s ...
• Gays and Women Still Causing Earthquakes
  You might have thought that gays and women were done causing natural disasters after being blamed for the 2004 tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and Haiti's earthquake. But nope, in the eyes of some of the world's more conservative religious leaders, gays and women rarely take a day off from stoking God's ...

Common Dreams -News

• A Finance Overhaul Fight Draws a Swarm of Lobbyist ...
  by Edward Wyatt and Eric Lichtblau WASHINGTON - Assessing the battle to overhaul the nation's financial regulations recently, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, left no doubt about the consequences if Congress cracked down on his bank's immense business in derivatives. "It will be n ...
• US Military to End Haiti Quake Mission in June
  The US military will end its disaster relief mission in Haiti at the beginning of June, nearly six months after the massive earthquake struck. There are currently 2,200 US troops in the country, down from a peak of 22,000 in February when large numbers were despatched to help the aid effort. Some 50 ...
• Blackwater Indictments Are Like Al Capone Going Do ...
  by Jeremy Scahill From the first days of the launch of the so-called "war on terror," Blackwater has been at the epicenter of some of the most secretive operations conducted by US forces globally. It has worked on government assassination programs and drone bombings, operated covertly in Pakistan fo ...
• Goldman Case Is Likely Tip of the Legal Iceberg
  by Daniel Wagner WASHINGTON - 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. Yet that hardly matters, experts say, because the allegations will kick off a new era of ...
• Major Economies to Delve into Climate Impasse
  WASHINGTON - Representatives from the world's leading economies were to meet here Sunday to see if they can find common ground on climate change, as wide gaps divide the United States, China and other key nations. The US-led Major Economies Forum includes 17 countries responsible for the bulk of glo ...

Lifehacker

• Vimium Is a Keyboard Lover's Dream Extension for C ...
  Chrome: There are apps with helpful keyboard shortcuts, and then there are old-school text editors like vim. Vimium basically gives every action in Google Chrome a customizable keyboard shortcut, along with remembering your preferred zoom size ...
• Psycho-Babble Offers Support and Advice on Psychia ...
  An open forum about psychiatric drugs sounds like a terrible web nightmare. With strong moderation, a supportive atmosphere, and even an over-use monitor, however, the Psycho-Babble forum stands out as an actually helpful place for learning ab ...
• ScreenCatch Captures and Shares Simple Screenshots ...
  Windows: If you're looking for a lightweight—193k!—and portable screen capture tool without tons of features you'll never use, ScreenCatch is a good match. Tiny, portable, and simple to use, ScreenCatch not only captures your screen but shares ...
• So You Need a Typeface Provides Semi-Snarky (But U ...
  Did you cry at the sheer beauty of the type in Terminator ? Do you love Garamond, but want slightly bigger "eyes"? Designer Julian Hansen offers a clever and helpful flowchart that helps both typography nerds and neophytes find their font. ...
• Firefox 3.6.4 Fixes Many Bugs in Lorentz Beta [Upd ...
  Windows/Mac/Linux: If you gave the first public Firefox Lorentz release a try, hoping for better plug-in handling but finding, like many readers , more and different kinds of bugs and crashes, you'll want to grab the 3.6.4 Beta 1 release . It ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Obama's A Criminal Liar About Torture
  By Steve Hynd Remember Obama promising torture would end on his watch? Well: 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 elect ...
• 77 Percent of Brits want an Afghan withdrawal
  By Steve Hynd From the Telegraph: While the conflict has been a running political theme for the last five years, it has barely been mentioned as an issue during the first two weeks of the general election campaign. An opinion poll yesterday showed that more than three-quarters of voters support the ...
• Italian Aid Workers Case Must Cast Doubts On Afgha ...
  By Steve Hynd After a week in detention on trumped-up charges with no legal representation, three Italian and five Afghan hospital workers have today been freed by Afghan authorities in Kabul, who now admit all are not guilty. A single Afghan continues to be held on charges of smuggling grenades and ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Local News
  Cadence Burleson and Dalton Duley (right), both of Seneca, try their luck Sunday afternoon on Spring River east of Miami.
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• Is that the real iPhone 4G (HD)?
  The news for iPhone “4G” was hot, someone says it will be released on 22 June, and claim
• the costs of volcanic ash
  Lately, the biggest story in the news is about the volcanic eruption in Iceland. The costs to Icelan
• Do You Know Who's in Command Here? Yeah.
  I’ve always found it interesting that Sun Tzu’s Art of War was recommended reading for U
• The Goldmans Sachs Charges: again, when are market ...
  This is something else I feel I ought to know more about.   For many, the revelations about how Gold
• Measuring Poverty (8): Deep Poverty
  Most systems for measuring poverty use a so-called poverty rate or poverty line (that’s the ca

Electronic Intifada

• Book Review: Norman Finkelstein's "This time we we ...
  Despite Israel's attempts to spin its 2008 Gaza invasion, global public opinion of Israel has sunk to an all-time low. In his latest book, "This Time We Went Too Far ," Nor ...
• Beit Sahour: a microcosm of Israeli colonization
  Har Homa settlement's impact on the Palestinian community has been devastating, with the town of Beit Sahour now dominated by the ever-expanding settlement. While many are aware of ...
• Palestine's first independent think tank launched
  Last week, Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, was launched ( www.al-shabaka.org ). Al-Shabaka, which means "The Network," is the first independent strategy and policy-rela ...
• Medical solidarity with Gaza: in conversation with ...
  Ahead of the English publication of his book Eyes in Gaza (co-authored with Dr. Erik Fosse), Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert recently spoke with The Electronic Intifada contributor S ...
• 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. ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Donkey booby-trapped with killer bomb
  Three children have been killed in the Afghanistan city of Kandahar after approaching a donkey which had explosives strapped to it.
• Pakistani militants threaten to kill hostages
  Asian Tigers, a formerly unknown militant outfit from Pakistan, has threatened to kill three hostages they had kidnapped last month in North Waziristan region near the Afghan border.
• Afghan, NATO soldiers, 3 children killed in blasts
  Three children were killed and four other people injured when a bomb hidden in a donkey-drawn cart exploded in southern Afghanistan Monday, officials said.
• Iran, Afghanistan to set up joint border town
  Iran and Afghanistan will set up a joint town along their shared border region, an official of northeastern Iranian province has said.
• Seven killed in Afghan quake
  At least seven people were killed and more than 30 injured Monday when a magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit a mountainous province in northern Afghanistan, officials said.

Futurismic

• Post-postal: is the Iceland volcano the death-knel ...
  Jeff Jarvis suspects that the ongoing and aviation-distressing plume of volcanic ash currently drifting over Europe may accelerate the demise of good old-fashioned physical mail networks: Right now, it is impossible to get a document to or around Europe with speed. People can’t fly. Mail can’t fly. ...
• Citizen Sensor: crowdsourcing public works reports
  Tired of your local government authority ignoring all those little patch-up jobs that would make your town or city a nicer place to live? Maybe you should try crowdsourcing a form of polite, transparent, insistent (and very public) pressure, and applying it to the affected area? That’s what SeeClick ...
• Rodent dilemmas and simian doubts
  These just in from the Animal Psychology Department; first up, rats are surprisingly good at the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma [via BoingBoing]: It may not be entirely surprising that rats cooperated in the Prisoner’s Dilemma.  After all, animals often cooperate in nature to altruistically serve the ...
• Personal Information: episode 9
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 9 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• 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 ...

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

• NWC tells UN that US falls short on whistleblower ...
  Today the National Whistleblowers Center submitted a statement of concern about whistleblower protection in the United States to the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights, Universal Periodic Review (UPR).� It alleges that the US falls short of its international obligations by jailing whistleblo ...
• 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 ...

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

• Match-Fixing Scandal Hits South Korean Video Games
  Online gaming is massively popular in South Korea, so much so that its popularity among teens -- and their propensity to stay up all night playing them -- is seen as serious social problem . But the country's professional gaming leagues have been hit by a match-fixing scandal in which players and of ...
• Should Managers Care That Employees Are On Faceboo ...
  A recent study reported that 6.8 percent of URLs accessed by businesses lead to Facebook and 10 percent of bandwidth goes to YouTube . Of course, as to be expected, along with such a study come the fears that security and worker productivity is harmed by allowing access to such "non-work" sites: ...
• Group Buying and Coupons: All Patented Up!
  A startup called Groupon recently brought back some memories of the dot-com bubble when it announced that it had raised a $135 million round of financing, reportedly at a valuation of $1.35 billion . The company offers users in different cities the ability to join a group to buy coupons or discounts ...
• Towing Company Feels The Streisand Effect After Su ...
  Many readers have submitted the the story about a Kalamazoo towing company who is suing a college student for $750,000 for defamation of character and libel . Justin Kurtz started the " Kalamazoo residents against T&J Towing " group on Facebook earlier this year after his car was allegedly towed un ...
• Yet Another Cheating Red Light Camera
  Stories about the outrage over red light cameras have started to go mainstream . And given that some suspect the cameras are rigged in favor of revenue over safety, it's to be expected that some of the caught drivers would start to fight back. Reader Josh submitted this story about a math tutor, M ...

VacTruth

• (Video) Global Parental Concerns Regarding Safety ...
  March 12, 2010 FDA Presentation on the dangers of the HPV Vaccines by Freda Birrell; Scotland, Leslie Carol Botha; Colorado, Cynthia Janak; Illinois, Karen Maynor; New Mexico, Rosemary Mathis; North Carolina and Janny Stokvis; Netherlands. Truth About Gardasil. Narrated by Leslie Carol Botha and Cyn ...
• Vaccine Near, So Fear Mongering Starts Over Anothe ...
  Heidi Stevenson Gaia Health 04/19/2010 Have you ever heard of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)? In all likelihood, you haven’t, though you’ve probably had it. You or your parents most likely called it a cold. Now though, there’s an RSV vaccine on the horizon, so the fear mongering is starting. ...
• (Video) Thousands of H1N1 vaccine doses left over
• 10 Serious Vaccine Events
  Elspeth McLean Otago Daily Times 04/17/2010 To the end of last year, 10 serious adverse events following vaccinations with the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil were reported to the national Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (Carm) in Dunedin. These include a report of ...
• FDA to Change Rules Overseeing Vaccine Safety
  Source: FederalRegister.com CFR Citation: 21 CFR Part 610 Docket ID: [Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0099] RIN ID: RIN 0910-AG15 NOTICE: PROPOSED RULES DOCID: fr30mr10-24 DOCUMENT ACTION: Proposed rule. SUBJECT CATEGORY: Revision of the Requirements for Constituent Materials DATES: Submit electronic or w ...

BroadSnark

• What I’m Up To
  Just got back from the anarchist book fair in New York.  I attended a couple sessions – one on women in prison, one on anarchism and intersectionality.  I’ll give you the lowdown on those soon.  Best part was definitely having a chance to meet people I only knew in cyberspace. Before I went up to ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Just got back from seeing Alice Walker at Busboys and Poets.  She spoke a lot about Israel, about finding your voice in the face of unspeakable horror, about starting where you are at and not always seeing change in terms of the big thing (policy…). Can’t wait to read her new book. She also answere ...
• Does the Supreme Court Lead or Follow?
  Everyone is talking about Supreme Court nominations again.  I agree with those people who think that the court is going to be more conservative with the loss of Stevens.  But I’m looking at that a different way these days. I’ve always paid close attention to Supreme Court picks.  Partly that was ...
• Of Glenn Beck, Horror Stories, and Fairy Tales
  My friend posted this article the other day.  And I just had to comment, because it is such a clear example of cherry picking facts – not only by Glenn Beck (who is clearly one slice short of a sandwich), but also the people who respond to him. So here is the map that started it [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  A little over a week ago, I sent an email to all those who asked to be put on the email list for the women-focused gathering.  I’ll be sending another one this week.  If you are supposed to be on that list and aren’t, let me know. The anti-sex crusaders can be so vicious.  HT to [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche: Obama Is Committing Treason With His Afg ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Germany's Future Potential: Rebuild After the Coll ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 2, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 13
• A New `Nawrooz' for the World? British Iran Sancti ...
  By Hussein Askary Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 2, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 13
• Defining Life's Actual Purpose: The Brutish Theolo ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 2, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 13
• The London Trainees in the Gaidar Government
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12

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

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

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

• The Good News: No Carbon Emissions From Europe an ...
  Image from twitter #getmehome There is some good news about the grounding of 63,000 flights due to the volcanic eruptions in Iceland. It has saved 1.3M tons of carbon dioxide so far. And the ban is scheduled to continue until some time today-- maybe . On a normal day, flights in the Europ ...
• Brilliance of Octopus Inspires Filmmaker Mike deGr ...
  Photo by foxtongue Some incredible talks have been coming out of TED's Mission Blue excursion , a trip to the Galapagos with some of the most brilliant ocean scientists and activists who gave talks about what's happening with our oceans. There is nothing like the energy of scientists passionate ...
• 130 UK Homes to Get 100% of Gas from Human Feces t ...
  No, it will look nothing like this. Photo via Arkine The UK relies heavily on natural gas from the soon-to-be-depleted North Sea stores, according to the BBC . With that supply running out, and with generous incentives available for renewable power projects, it appears there's been some major i ...
• Twittering Adds How Much to Your Carbon Footprint?
  Image via Mykl Roventine It seems like just yesterday that we went round and round about how much energy a typical Google search uses , and what kind of carbon footprint that equates to. The use of our computers and data centers adds up to a significant amount of electricity use , which adds up ...
• Volcanoes, Revolutions and Wars Seem To Go Togethe ...
  In 1783, another Icelandic volcano, Laki, erupted and kept spitting out ash and 120 tons of sulfur dioxide (equal to 3 times the annual industrial output of Europe) and 8 million tons of hydrogen fluoride. 25% of the population of Iceland died, either from famine or from the flouride. In North A ...

Biosingularity

• Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
  IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
• Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as ...
  Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel g ...
• RNA-Loaded Nanoparticles Fight Cancer
  specialized nanoparticle filled with an RNA-based cancer therapy can successfully target human cancer cells and silence the target gene, according to results from an early clinical trial. The research, published today in the journal Nature, is the first to demonstrate this type of tissue targeting a ...
• Gene flaw found in induced stem cells
  Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed i ...
• Study: Chocolate may reduce heart risk
  The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40%. German researchers followed nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questio ...

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

• Fifty aerographs paint Russian coat of arms
  A gigantic 49 square meter canvas was unveiled at the Moscow Tuning Show on Sunday. It may become the largest work of aerography in Russia. Forty-nine painters unveiled their collective work at the Crocus Expo exhibition hall. They worked for three days, from 10 a.m to 6 p.m. Each participant was gi ...
• U.S. poultry imports may be further reduced - Puti ...
  Russian authorities may reduce quotas on U.S. poultry imports due to failure by the United States to meet sanitary requirements, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at his annual address to the lower house of the Russian parliament.
• Top Russian military official sentenced over apart ...
  The Moscow District Military Court sentenced on Tuesday an aide to Russia's Ground Forces commander to nine years in prison for real estate fraud.
• Putin sees macroeconomic stability as key to Russi ...
  Maintaining macroeconomic stability and balancing the budget are key areas for Russia's economic development in the next two years, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
• Russia's Putin to pay visit to Austria, Italy Apri ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is due to pay working visits to Austria April 24-25 and Italy on April 25-26, the government press service said in a statement on Tuesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Icelandic volcano ejects 140 mln cu m of ash - sci ...
  Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano has thrown out about 140 million cubic meters of ash over the past three days
• 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.

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

• Why You Want to Avoid Foie Gras
  Actress Kate Winslet has joined the fight against foie gras. She has narrated a video which demonstrates the terrifying and painful way this food is created. The video was filmed in secret on foie gras facilities.  It depicts geese in cramped cages, force-fed with tubes. According to AFP: “PETA s ...
• Exciting New Technical Developments
  The latest advances in energy technology are truly mind-blowing.
• Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilizati ...
  David Eagleman explains why societies collapse -- and why internet technology may be the key to keeping ours from doing so.
• Is a Post Exercise Cool Down Really Necessary?
  A post exercise cool down is recommended by physiology textbooks and personal trainers. But there is little evidence that it has any effect. According to the New York Times, it can matter in some cases: “Exercise researchers say there is only one agreed-on fact about the possible risk of suddenly ...
• Was This Cancer Drug Ad Meant to Deceive You?
  The U.S. FDA has warned GlaxoSmithKline that a cancer drug ad it ran, plus a Web site promoting a bladder treatment, were "false or misleading." The Wall Street Journal says that: “... an advertisement that ran in a cancer medical journal involving Glaxo's drug Arzerra omitted ‘important informat ...

Antemedius

• Reducing Wastewater Contamination Starts with a Co ...
  Cross posted form Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In Accra, Ghana, most homes do not have indoor plumbing or sewage systems. Instead, households dispose of waste into the same ditches and streams that urban farmers use to irrigate the crops they sell at local markets. The u ...
• Midterm Storm Brewing: Jobs and Housing Crisis Los ...
  Thomas Ferguson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Senior Fellow of the Roosevelt Institute . He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and taught formerly at MIT and the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author or coauthor of several books ...
• Can The US Dollar Collapse? Part 2
  Yesterday in the first segment of this interview we heard Jane D'Arista , author of The Evolution of U.S. Finance: Federal Reserve Monetary Policy: 1915-1935 and research associate with the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) , University of Massachusetts at Amherst, talking with Paul Jay of ...
• The Danger Of Populist Movements
  The major thing that drives my activism is a desire to see things get better for the people of the United States. The people are the nation, which is something that the Tea Party so-called patriots seem to forget. The recognition that we, as citizens, are all in this together and can’t be constantly ...
• Chomsky Reveals Concern Over the Potential of Fas ...
  Noam Chomsky, a leading opponent of the Vietnam War and an outspoken progressive for many years, is quoted in the April 12 edition of The Progressive revealing concern over the potential for Fascism coming to America. Chomsky related that he is just old enough to harbor sad and tragic memories of th ...

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

• The special specialness of the talented one-tenth ...
  Oooh, this is special. One hundred DFL delegates have formed a voting bloc, reNEW Minnesota, to give them more clout at this coming weekend’s endorsement convention in Duluth. Because what could be more special than 12.5% of the most talented one-tenth of one percent picking our next failed gubernat ...
• Newspaper links
  Had a few beers last night and then, as the saying goes, this morning the beers had me. It’s not nice to sleep in until 9:30 and then start working out with your trainer at 10 am. Beer aside, the NBA playoffs are upon us and I’m going to be more focused on them than the news [...]
• Newspaper links
  Had a few beers last night and then, as the saying goes, this morning the beers had me. It’s not nice to sleep in until 9:30 and then start working out with your trainer at 10 am. Beer aside, the NBA playoffs are upon us and I’m going to be more focused on them than the news [...]
• Newspaper links
  Had a few beers last night and then, as the saying goes, this morning the beers had me. It’s not nice to sleep in until 9:30 and then start working out with your trainer at 10 am. Beer aside, the NBA playoffs are upon us and I’m going to be more focused on them than the news [...]
• Newspaper links
  Had a few beers last night and then, as the saying goes, this morning the beers had me. It’s not nice to sleep in until 9:30 and then start working out with your trainer at 10 am. Beer aside, the NBA playoffs are upon us and I’m going to be more focused on them than the news [...]

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

• Diverse Interests Back Center for Food Safety, Opp ...
  STATES, SCIENTISTS, ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FARMERS, FOOD COMPANIES, EXPORTERS, FORMER GOVT. OFFICIALS, AND LEGAL SCHOLARS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT. SEVEN AMICUS BRIEFS FILED IN ALL. A myriad of interests – ranging from food companies to farmers unions to scientific experts and legal scholars – have ...
• “Food, Inc.” Broadcast Premier on POV, ...
  The Academy Award nominated documentary, Food, Inc. premiers on PBS’s POV April 21st! Watch the trailer and tell you friends. Check your local listings for the broadcast schedule, and visit the POV website to download materials and posters to host a viewing party and potluck. You can also check out ...
• 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Leonard Peltier on the Bolivian Climate Conference
  April 20, 2010 My warmest regards to our host, Bolivian President Evo Morales. To Presidents Rafael Correa, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and other esteemed Heads of State; national representatives; and all concerned citizens in attendance at the People’s Conference on Climate Change: I send warm ...
• Death of Ian Tomlinson - Wikipedia, the free encyc ...
  Death of Ian Tomlinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Ian Tomlinson (7 February 1962 – 1 April 2009) was an English newspaper vendor who collapsed and died in the City of London on his way home from work during the G-20 summit protests. A first postmortem examination indicated that he had suf ...
• Brother Fox has the last laugh
  � � � Gary Foley presents his tribute at Chicka Dixon's state funeral By Peter Boyle Indigenous and trade union activist Chicka "The Fox" Dixon (1928-2010), was farewelled by more than a thousand people in a state funeral in Sydney Town Hall today. Chicka was from the Yuin p ...
• Orwell: Politics and the English Language
  Orwell: Politics and the English Language Politics and the English Language 1946 Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and ...
• ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENT OF LEONARD PELTIER
  THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL PERIDOIC REVIEW March 26, 2010 San Francisco, California ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENT OF LEONARD PELTIER Lenny Foster (Dine’) Navajo Nation Corrections Project Board of Directors International Indian Treaty Council My name is Lenny Foster (Dine’) and I am the Program Super ...

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

• Green Celebrities
  Which celebrities walk the green walk? We take a look at 15 green celebrities from around the world…
• Australia’s Kangaroo Cull: Green or Greenwash?
  Are kangaroos a pest? Are they a sustainable alternative to red meat? Or are they now an endangered national icon? The myths exposed…
• Environmental News - 03/03/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   Rees's plan to save redgums faces the axe -The decision of the former premier Nathan Rees to immediately end logging of the Riverina redgums has been reversed by the state government.  It ...
• Environmental News - 04/02/10
  Environmental News Avatar shows how dumbing down works (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/feb/03/environmental-films-avatar) - Clever-clever issue films preach to the choir. Want to reach the rest? Go dumbChina's Wen seeks binding climate deal in Mexico (http://www.reuters.com/article/i ...
• Natural and Green Beauty Tips
  As a female it’s sometimes easy to fall in to the trap of temptation: to fill the bathroom cupboards with all those alluring bath, body and beauty care products that promise to bring about youth, glamour and beauty, and look oh-so-pretty on the bathroom shelf with their delightful packaging. But hav ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• UN bodyguard 'executed by Afghan police'
  A United Nations bodyguard who saved 17 colleagues by holding back Taliban fighters who stormed a guesthouse was minutes later executed by Afghan police, according to a video which has been seen by officials. An amateur video of the attack seen by UN officials and Stern magazine now appears to ...
• 120 Afghans die in a week of carnage
  The war in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of 120 people and injured over 100 more over the past week. On Sunday, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said dozens of civilians were killed in another week of carnage. He also confirmed that 20 policemen and scores of militants los ...
• Suicide bombs kill 50 in Pakistan
  Up to 50 people have been killed in a series of suicide bombings in southern Pakistan over the weekend. This morning a suicide bomber killed seven people and wounded 26 when he rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a police station in the town of Billitung, in the Kohat region on the border ...
• Pakistan: Blast hits oil tankers on NATO route
  An official says suspected Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan detonated two bombs that destroyed a pair of oil tankers along a vital supply route used by NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Local official Iqbal Khan says the twin explosions occurred in the Takhta Beg area of Khyber tri ...
• White supremacists, demonstrators square off in LA
  A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered to shout them down in a tense standoff that included several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear... Five people, all of them counter-protesters [Yea ...

Daily Loaf

• Do It Today: it’s 4/20, Sick Puppies rock out, aut ...
  Sydney-based alt rock trio Sick Puppies (pictured) have only released three full-length studio albums since their inception in 1997, but what they lack in prolificacy they make up for in YouTube hits. Their inspirational power-ballad “All The Same” was featured in a video for the Free Hugs Campaign ...
• On the Radar: The Florida Orchestra’s free Pops in ...
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Cheap date night alert: Bring your dinner, a picnic blanket and your sweetie, and enjoy an evening of classical music in the great outdoors.  The Florida Orchestra’s free Pops in the Park hits two Tampa locations ...
• The proof is in the polls: Minorities, big compani ...
  A few interesting articles and studies highlighting communities that support clean energy.
• Why are you looking at my breasts? (semi-NSFW)
  I wasn't always a 34DD. Men actually used to look at my face first when talking to me. I guess an average 34B isn't all that distracting, which could be part of the reason I decided to upgrade my chest size four years ago.
• The Sounds of CL, Vol. I: What the music team is l ...
  Ever wonder what the Creative Loafing music team has been listening to, above and beyond all those albums we review? There's plenty, believe me; here's this Monday's selections.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• A Nonviolent Che Guevara in Gaza
  By Ashely Bates, reprinted from her Dispatches from Gaza blog with permission (Ed’s note. The spreading of the unarmed protests for real democracy to Gaza shows that the tactic is working. And if it works people will want to try it, in ways that defy stereotypes of “violent” Hamas-controlled Gaza. T ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Arizona legalizes concealed weapon carry without a ...
  They join Alaska and Vermont in allowing CCW without a permit.
• ‘Perfume Grass’ removes antibiotics from water sup ...
  In recent tests, this weed-like grass removed 95% of antibiotics and other contaminants from water.
• Water shortages vs. golf course consumption
  Tip: Aquanomics
• Okay, it’s what I said, but it’s not what I *meant ...
  U.S. bank chief mobbed by angry borrowers after saying homeowners being foreclosed could “come to me.” Minutes later, around 50 borrowers burst from the audience and presented Lowman with a 6-page document alleging his bank reneged on a pledge to help struggling homeowners. The activist who organi ...
• UK homes to get biogas from human poop
  BBC: They will test the process on 130 homes. The smell of the biogas is exactly the same as natural gas.

Coteret

• Sheizaf: The persecution of Haaretz
  Cross-posted from Promised Land. Editor’s note: A recent Coteret post bemoaned, in this context, the absence of satire. Eretz Nehederet has now come through with a skit. It can be viewed here (Hebrew only; H/T Richard Silverstein.) —- The persecution of Haaretz Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily paper ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• This Day In History: April 20
  1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador. 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory. 1861 – Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in th ...
• Are ‘tea party’ rallies given preferen ...
  “Tea party” activists successfully lobbied security officials in Raleigh, N.C., last Thursday to reverse a ban on carrying full-sized flagpoles and signs at a tax day rally. Antiwar protesters, however, argue that they’re often not afforded such luxuries. Do tea party activists get preferential trea ...
• Government Says No Privacy For Employee Messages
  Washington…. Employees cannot expect a right of privacy when they send personal messages from their work computers, cellphones and other devices — even if they’re footing the bill, a government lawyer argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Nationwide, most employers have adopted policies telli ...
• Gun-rights advocates gather in Va. and D.C. to cel ...
  In Virginia, they carried handguns on their hips and rifles slung over their backs. In the nation’s capital, where possession of guns is strictly regulated, they came carrying only signs and handbills, which one man had thrust into an empty holster. The protest by hundreds of gun-rights advocates ...
• Obama administration subpoenaed in Fort Hood probe
  Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, an independent, and Susan Collins, the panel’s top Republican, took the action after the departments of Justice and Defense failed to provide the materials by Monday’s deadline. The two senators have been trying for months to obtain docu ...

The Air Vent

• Radiative Physics – Yes CO2 Does Create Warm ...
  I’m forced to spell out again how I am so darn sure that CO2 causes some warming.  Some of this seems like it’s too obvious but that’s probably because I work in optics and these equations are very familiar.  When considering radiative absorption of CO2, we need to look at Plancks equation and the ...
• ?
  It turns out Phil Jones and cohorts did nothing wrong.  Who knew? Climategate accusations shrivel under the glare of multiple investigations They claim hide the decline was a simple removal of erroneous data.
• A Comparison of Tier 2 Climate Weblogs
  A generously provided guest post by Tom Fuller of the examiner. Tom offered this to provide some rest for me to take care of the family. Tom’s writing style is quite a bit different than the usual fare around here, he’s a better writer -I think- and he compares this blog with Deltoid. [...]
• 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 ...

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

• If You Link Your Facebook Profile Data to Pages, t ...
  Facebook’s new user profile Pages transition tool includes an obvious and yet not obvious way that users might make personal information more publicly available. The company is launching a set of new Pages designed for non-commercial purposes today, and as part of that it is asking users to convert ...
• Facebook Platform Ad Networks Seeing Increased Enf ...
  [Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Inside Facebook Gold, our new data and analysis membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth. Inside Facebook Gold presents weekly in-depth analysis articles exploring the most critical developments impacting the future of the Facebook e ...
• In Big New Product Push, Facebook Set to Launch 6. ...
  In what amounts to a big new product push for the company, Facebook is turning previously static information in user profiles into links to 6.5 million new Community Pages. It’s also further clarifying the point of Pages, dividing out official ones for businesses, celebrities and other known enti ...
• AdParlor Introduces Facebook Ads API Service for C ...
  AdParlor, a company that has long provided advertising services on Facebook, is launching a new product today that lets developers buy installs in bulk through Facebook’s performance advertising system. Like a number of other companies, it is providing this service through Facebook’s Ads API — but i ...
• Adknowledge Introduces Auto-Selection Service for ...
  Adknowledge is introducing a new way for developers to monetize apps: a cookie that will identify users and serve them the most relevant form of monetization, whether direct payments, offers or banner advertising. The company is one of the few on Facebook to offer all three services — offers and ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Goldman Hires Ex-White House Counsel to ...
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• truthout: Soldiers in "Wikileaks" Unit Apologize f ...
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• truthout: US Soldier Dies in Raid that Kills Top a ...
  truthout: US Soldier Dies in Raid that Kills Top al Qaida in Iraq Leaders: Baghdad - Iraqi and U.S. security fo... http://bit.ly/9EQWnR #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Leaving Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan: our educat ...
  Christopher King considers the evidence which indicate that murder of civilians and state-sponsored terrorism are tools of US policy in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and argues that unless Britain leaves Afghanistan immediately, it will not recover morally or economically and will not be on the pa ...
• 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.

Amazon Rainforest

• Court reveals evidence tampering in Ecuador!
  Chevron is ignoring explosive charges that it tampered with crucial scientific evidence and intentionally misled the court in the Aguinda v ChevronTexaco environmental trial in Ecuador, representatives of the plaintiffs say. “These revelations are extraordinarily concerning and Chevron must explain ...
• 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Russ Baker on President Obama… & His Pack of Wolve ...
  “A SWISS BANK, A PRESIDENT, AND THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT”   Here is a recent damning piece by Russ Baker on President Obama, his cozy relationship with Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO, UBS Group Americas, and a stench and implications that go way beyond this relationship: Last August, the presidential ...
• 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 ...

Afro Spear

• Glenn Beck: from the age of reason to the age of r ...
  Propaganda: 1. information, ideas or rumours deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, instituion, nation, etc., 2. Official government communications to the public that are designed to influence opinion. The information may be true or false, but it is always carefully se ...
• The Dilemma Of Being Part Of A Giant, Mutant, Para ...
  “How can the US help the world heal and improve its relationships with other citizens of the world?” Hello, AfroSpear readers. My name is Kit, and I am a new contributor here. This above question was posed to me by a cyber-friend at my main blog, Keep It Trill. The images that immediately came were: ...
• Mental Assent Victims
  Victims of mental assent are those who know the Word is true, but do not obey it for themselves, or obey only what is convenient, and put the inconvenient aside. When He said “I am the Truth, the Way and the Life” the mental assenter says, Amen!, then goes along with their lives without Him in ...
• 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 [...]

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

• Serving the community of programmer-journalists: H ...
  For many years now, the NICAR -L email list has been the online home for journalists doing data analysis -- the people doing "computer-assisted reporting" or "precision journalism." Though email lists are an old technology, this one continues to thrive -- just in the past week, there have been 277 p ...
• Serving the community of programmer-journalists: H ...
  For many years now, the NICAR -L email list has been the online home for journalists doing data analysis -- the people doing "computer-assisted reporting" or "precision journalism." Though email lists are an old technology, this one continues to thrive -- just in the past week, there have been 277 p ...
• Serving the community of programmer-journalists: H ...
  For many years now, the NICAR -L email list has been the online home for journalists doing data analysis -- the people doing "computer-assisted reporting" or "precision journalism." Though email lists are an old technology, this one continues to thrive -- just in the past week, there have been 277 p ...
• Serving the community of programmer-journalists: H ...
  For many years now, the NICAR -L email list has been the online home for journalists doing data analysis -- the people doing "computer-assisted reporting" or "precision journalism." Though email lists are an old technology, this one continues to thrive -- just in the past week, there have been 277 p ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Edge of Justice - Is A Life Sentence for Iowa ...
  Some people don't mind if Sholom Rubashkin gets life in prison and rots behind bars until he dies. Others are outraged at the harsh treatment being meted out to Rubashkin and ask in disbelief, “What's going on?” Rubashkin is at the center of the torrid scandal swirling around the massively-investiga ...
• Edge on the Middle East - Iranian-Syrian Missile T ...
  Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak sent officials in Damascus and Washington scrambling when he claimed on April 13 that Syria is providing the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah with Scud missiles whose accuracy and range threaten more Israeli cities than ever before. His unexpected announcement, t ...
• Edge on Wikipedia - Wikipedia Blocks Fred the Oyst ...
  Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia created by anonymous editors, has reacted to disclosures in The Cutting Edge News that three of its editors were jointly seeking to water down or delete the history of IBM's involvement in the Holocaust. One editor has been banned and a second has been openly chall ...
• The Edge of Coal - Democrats Pressure Coal Execs t ...
  House Democrats on Wednesday pressured coal company executives to drop opposition to climate legislation at a hearing that also briefly touched on safety issues following the explosion last week that killed 29 miners. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy ...
• Inside Islam - Iranian Cleric Links Earthquakes, H ...
  The temporary Friday prayer leader of Tehran, Kazem Sadighi, said today that “women who don’t have a suitable appearance” (meaning women who do not fully observe the obligatory Islamic hijab) attract young men and lead to the spreading of adultery in the Iranian society which—according to the cleric ...

High Country News

• Balancing act
  A look at how Western state governments are managing their budget shortfalls.
• Nevada's Golden Child
  Hardrock mining's outsized political power in Nevada may finally be eroding, thanks to state budget woes.
• 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.

CounterCurrents

• We Are The People Of India Too
  By Himanshu Kumar Jana Gana Mana Adhinayak Jaya he? Are all these people in their tattered clothes and burned homes not one of We, the people of India? The day the police raise their guns for the poor and the victimized, there will be no need for Naxalism
• U.S. Soldiers From Wikileaks Collateral Murder Vid ...
  By Josh Stieber & Ethan McCord Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks Collateral Murder incident have written an open-letter of Reconciliation and Responsibility to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a doze ...
• Noam Chomsky Has Never Seen Anything Like This
  By Chris Hedges It is very similar to late Weimar Germany,Chomsky told me when I called him at his office in Cambridge, Mass. The parallels are striking. There was also tremendous disillusionment with the parliamentary system. The most striking fact about Weimar was not that the Nazis managed to d ...
• Pentagon Alert From ... 2008: Towards A Severe Ene ...
  By Matthieu Auzanneau The report of the United States Joint Forces Command, the Joint Operating Environment for 2008 already offered the same diagnosis, word for word (p. 17): By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could rea ...
• WhenThe U.S. Energy Secretary Spoke Of Peak Oil
  By Matthieu Auzanneau The U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, knows and understands the issues of global peak oil production. During a talk he gave in March 2005 as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory, Steven Chu advanced the hypo ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• The Next Step: Responsibility and Reconciliation
  Last week was filled with interviews where myself and, at times, another member of the company I deployed with, talked to as many people as we could about the Collateral Murder video, focusing on three points. 1. The video, in context, is not a case of soldiers breaking from the system 2. With the t ...
• 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!

Yid With Lid

• Bill Clinton Figures Out The Perfect Middle East S ...
  More Wisdom from my friend Barry Rubin It’s truly amazing what some people say about the Middle East without anyone noticing the inaccuracies and contradictions. An interview former President Bill Clinton gave to the ABC news’ program “This Week” is a wonderful example of this situation. ...
• Islamist Website Threatens South Park Creators Wi ...
  As you can tell by the video above, Revolutionmuslim.com does not believe that South Park is very funny. In fact the website's proprietors are going after the creators of the TV's "South Park" after an episode last week included an image of the Prophet Mohammad in a giant teddy bear costume ...
• Al Gore Hypocrisy Alert--Took Cash From Major Poll ...
  Al Gore has made millions of dollars from the Global Warming Hoax, and that is despite the fact that he is a major hypocrite, with a "carbon footprint" the size of Cleveland.� He travels the world in his private planes and gas guzzling limousines, he has a large energy inefficient estate in Tenn ...
• Holy Cow !!! Rick Sanchez is Truly a Moron
  The Situation In Iceland is rather scary as a volcano under a glacier erupted for the second time in less than a month melting ice and sending rushing flood waters from around the Eyjafjallajokull glacier and down the mountainside. Scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 ...
• New Poll: American Jewish Voters Are Abandoning Ob ...
  Last week the American Jewish Congress released a poll that indicated support for Barack Obama amongst American Jews was slipping but he still held a sizable approval advantage amongst that group. At the time I suggested that any political poll run by a major Jewish organization should be taken with ...

  Blacklisted News

• U.S. Spent $5.6 Billion Last Year Treating Veteran ...
• One third of Americans say own govt a threat: Poll
  Nearly one out of three Americans view the US government as a "major threat" to their freedoms, and four out of five say they don't trust Washington to solve their problems, according to a new poll out Monday.
• High Frequency Trading High-tech Highway Robbery
  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) knows that High-Frequency Trading (HFT) manipulates the market and bilks investors out of tens of billions of dollars every year.
• Obama Gladly Embraces Bush’s Anti-Terrorism Powers
  Regardless of the rhetorical attacks Republicans have lobbed at him for being soft on terrorism, President Barack Obama is continuing much of his predecessor’s policies and strategies for the war on terror, argues Eli Lake at Reason.com .
• Air Force Looks for ‘Core Algorithms’ of Human Tho ...
  The latest effort comes from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research , which is looking to build “mathematical or computational models of human attention, memory, categorization, reasoning, problem solving, learning and motivation, and decision making.”

The Intelligence Daily

• WikiLeaks Video – The Greater Horror
  By Michael Collins (The Intelligence Daily) — There they are, the people who brought you...
• A Blindness to Systems: The inability to think abo ...
  By John Michael Greer (The Intelligence Daily) — “I feel my fate in what I cannot fear,” poet...
• McChrystal Backtracks on Troop Veto for Kandahar S ...
  By Gareth Porter (The Intelligence Daily) — The U.S. military has now officially backtracked...
• Human Terrain System = Military Intelligence Progr ...
  By John Stanton (The Intelligence Daily) – US Army Clarifies HTS Role There has been a lot of...
• The Aftermath of the Kyrgyz Revolution – The Lesse ...
  Related: The Truth Behind The Recent Unrest in Kyrgyzstan by Dr. John CK (The Intelligence Daily)...

My AntiWar

• Book Review: Norman Finkelstein’s “Thi ...
  rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rDespite Israel’s attempts to spin its 2008 Gaza invasion, global public opinion of Israel has sunk to an all-time low. In his latest book, “This Time We Went Too Far,” Norman Finkelstein argues that Gaza marked a turning point in public opinion reminiscent of the i ...
• Iran seeks friends to fight sanctions
  Summary: Iran, with some support from developing countries tired of the double standards, they claim (with some justification), that the West maintains, is playing a long and possibly shrewd diplomatic game. Permanent UN Security Council members Russia and China were represented, albeit at the lev ...
• Iran disarmament summit affects US policy
  Summary: On the day Iran wrapped up an international conference in Tehran and called on world powers to adhere to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a report was released in the United States pronouncing that the White House does not have an “effective long-range policy” for dealing with ...
• “Obama and Iran: Dialogue or Sanctions?&#822 ...
  Summary: On the eve of Nowruz 1389 (the Iranian New Year), U.S. President Barack Obama’s main foreign policy challenge remained Iran’s nuclear program and choosing between a direct strategic dialogue or new rounds of sanctions, combined with exploiting Iran’s domestic political situation in order ...
• Nuclear Weapons; Source of Global Panic
  Summary: Studies and experiences gained during World War II have clearly proven that weapons of mass destruction are not only inhuman, but also inefficient and a world free of such weapons will be, no doubt, more stable and more secure. source: Iran Affairsread more

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran seeks friends to fight sanctions
  Summary: Iran, with some support from developing countries tired of the double standards, they claim (with some justification), that the West maintains, is playing a long and possibly shrewd diplomatic game. Permanent UN Security Council members Russia and China were represented, albeit at the ...
• Iran disarmament summit affects US policy
  Summary: On the day Iran wrapped up an international conference in Tehran and called on world powers to adhere to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a report was released in the United States pronouncing that the White House does not have an "effective long-range policy" for dealing w ...
• "Obama and Iran: Dialogue or Sanctions?"
  Summary: On the eve of Nowruz 1389 (the Iranian New Year), U.S. President Barack Obama's main foreign policy challenge remained Iran's nuclear program and choosing between a direct strategic dialogue or new rounds of sanctions, combined with exploiting Iran's domestic political situation in or ...
• Nuclear Weapons; Source of Global Panic
  Summary: Studies and experiences gained during World War II have clearly proven that weapons of mass destruction are not only inhuman, but also inefficient and a world free of such weapons will be, no doubt, more stable and more secure. source: Iran Affairs read more
• Can the Obama Administration take a deal with Iran ...
  Summary: Tehran Reactor We have argued that the Obama Administration’s approach to Iran sanctions is, truly, a “dead end” policy and that the only way out of this dead end “is to get serious about nuclear diplomacy with Iran—first of all, by reaching agreement on a plan to refuel the Tehran Rese ...

The Daily Galaxy

• The Coming Age of Avatars for Space Exploration
  "If every habitable world in the universe is unique, and the precise chemical conditions of a planet helps shape the life that evolves there, then avatars could allow aliens to visit other worlds from the safety of their spaceship. Could...
• Unlocking the Secret of Dark Energy: Search for 'S ...
  The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment — HETDEX, at The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory will be the first major experiment to probe dark energy. Its observations will narrow the list of possible explanations for dark energy, and...
• Did Black Holes Turn Up the Radio Volume of the Un ...
  Have Black Holes Been Turning Up the Volume on the Cosmic Radio Background? Astronomers investigating why the cosmic background radiation is much brighter at radio wavelengths than expected have identified a potential perp: fast spinning black holes early in the...
• Peru's Huaynaputina Volcano Eruption of 1600 had W ...
  Some 400 years ago, in the upland region of southern Peru, a volcano named Huaynaputina exploded; catastrophically. It was February 19, 1600, and is recorded as the largest volcanic explosion ever in South America. Scientists believe that its eruption may...
• Image of the Day: Lightning Streaks Across the Sky ...
  Image credit: Lightning streaks across the sky as lava flows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokul April 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Natural News

• Orange TKO review: An amazing natural cleaner that ...
  (NaturalNews) By now, most NaturalNews readers have realized that mainstream household cleaning products are filled with toxic chemicals. Typical household cleaners, including window cleaners, bathroom tile cleaners, toilet cleaners and kitchen cleaning products, are frequently loaded with toxic che ...
• Suzy Cohen talks about Diabetes Without Drugs in v ...
  (NaturalNews) Author Suzy Cohen, also known as "the rebel pharmacist," talks about beating diabetes without drugs in a new video interview with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. The video is available for viewing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOrsMzwXyvY In this interview, Suzy explains why diabete ...
• NaturalNews Store offers Orange TKO natural d'limo ...
  (NaturalNews) Orange TKO is the amazing household cleaning concentrate made from orange peels. It's environmentally safe and non-toxic and yet has the cleaning power to remove stains and odors from almost any surface or material. It's safe and natural enough to use on pets and baby cribs, yet strong ...
• Heal yourself in 15 days by listening to your body ...
  (NaturalNews) Continuing with our 15-day self-healing series, today we're going to shift focus inward. This chapter on self-healing is about learning how to listen to your body and understand what it's really trying to tell you. In medicine, the word "symptoms" is thrown around as if it were somethi ...
• Vitamin D deficiency linked to more aggressive lym ...
  (NaturalNews) Lymphoma patients with vitamin D deficiency are twice as likely to die from their cancer than patients with sufficient blood levels of the vitamin, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Mayo Clinic and presented at a meeting of the American Society of Hematology. Resea ...

Threat Level

• Cops Pull Plug on Rent-a-Fraudster Service for Ban ...
  Two Belarusian nationals suspected of operating a rent-a-fraudster service for bank and identity thieves have been arrested overseas, according to New York authorities, who unsealed an indictment for one of the suspects on Monday. Dmitry Naskovets, 25, and Sergey Semashko, 25, are suspected of crea ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Getting Away with Murder: How the GOP Killed Trust ...
  That Americans' trust in government has plummeted to near-record lows isn't a surprise. After all, as the Pew Research Center documented, distrust of Washington is an American tradition , one which tends to rise and fall inversely with the economy . But the spike in anger towards the federal gover ...
• McCain: "Pull the Trigger" on Iran
  On Sunday, the New York Times revealed that Defense Secretary Robert Gates penned a secret memo warning "the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran's steady progress toward nuclear capability." Predictably, within hours of the story's publication John McCai ...
• 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 ...

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

• The case for a One-State Solution (Ahmed Moor, Th ...
  Washington insiders are now touting a misguided Obama-dictated plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Most recently, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Solarz took to the pages of t ...
• Deporting Gandhi from Palestine (Link TV)
• Netanyahu digs in, rebuffs Obama (BBC News)
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will not accept demands that Israel stop building in occupied East Jerusalem. Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. It annex ...
• Palestinian Israeli brothers win payout for El Al ...
  Two Palestinian Israeli brothers have won US$8,000 (Dh29,000) in damages from Israel's national carrier, El Al, after a court found that their treatment by the company's security staff at ...
• Custodial death marred Palestinian Prisoners Day ...
  A young Palestinian man died in Israeli custody as hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of villages and towns across the West Bank and Gaza to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners Da ...

Water - AlterNet

• Enviro Heroes: Meet This Year's Prestigious Goldma ...
  Among the grassroots leaders who are taking on some of the most challenging environmental problems is a Michigan family farmer fighting livestock pollution.
• Water Wars: How One City's Fight Against a Multina ...
  Cochabama, Bolivia was ground zero 10 years ago in the fight against water privatization, but the threat still persists across the world.
• 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.

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

• Col. Morris Davis Defends the Rule of Law, Calls f ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 14 April, 2010 Yesterd
• Cindy Sheehan: Banned in Scranton
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• We Are All in this Together By Timothy V. Gatto
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• Exclusive: Doctors who take human life of any kind ...
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• Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney and Rum ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 13 April, 2010 tweetme

Axis of Logic

• Goldman Sachs criminals skate
• 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

They Gave Us a Republic

• Kentucky Too Conservative for AynRandPaul
  To a post at TPM yesterday about Florida Governor Charlie Crist's apparent plans to blow the Senate race to smithereens by running as an indepedent, Zonk commented: What I think I find most amusing this cycle -- Two of the RSCC's biggest and brightest recruits (Crist and Grayson in KY) are crashing ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Buy flight insurance. �Lots of flight insurance. "The EU has moved to ease air travel curbs imposed after much of Europe's airspace was shut because of the spread of volcanic ash from Iceland. Transport ministers proposed creating a core no-fly area, a limited-service zone and an open-skies area. Bu ...
• Whom Would You Treat This Way?
  Teddy Partridge explains why President Obama's executive order was necessary: This shouldn't happen in 21st century America. We say we've given people the legal tools to protect themselves and their relationships from this kind of horror. A same-sex Sonoma County (CA) couple, Harold & Clay, found th ...
• 9:02 a.m. central
  That is what time the Oklahoma City bombing occurred on this date fifteen years ago. This morning I woke up nervous and I don't think I fully exhaled until that minute on the clock had passed and I had not heard any huge booms or sirens. The KC branch of the Federal Reserve and the National WW I Me ...
• "Common Sense" Stupidity
  If you needed any more proof that Dan Mongiardo is a repug with aspirations to become the next Sarah Palin, his latest bleats about "common sense" should be plenty. Here's the problem with common sense: it leads you to think shit that just ain't true. Common sense says the world is flat and the sun ...

Care 2

• Are teeth whitening compounds harmful for dental h ...
  Most of the teeth whitening applications will have hydrogen peroxide in them. The application of peroxide chemistry applies the effectiveness of the teeth whitening compounds. Submitted by Eva Coloma to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Urgent petition: Help Save Starving Horses at sout ...
  More than 30 dead horses on the property of Thomas Reardon. It is very disheartening to stand by and know these animals are dying. The horses go for long stretches with no hay or water, even in the depths of winter Submitted by jeannie w. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Ban and Boycott Rodeo Cruelty
  Victims of cruelty--rodeo animals--need your voice. Stop the unnecessary pain, suffering, and injuries inflicted by rodeo's cruel events. Stop greedy exploitation of peaceful animals for greedy promoters. The violence of calf roping, flank straps, electri Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �No ...
• Do not Condemn Boo(Queenie) to a Life @ San Antoni ...
  ACTION ALERT. QUEENIE NEEDS US... A Sanctuary would be better than the San Antonio Zoo. Please Help Queenie now...before it's too late. Submitted by Elizabeth S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Best Low Fat Diet Plan Recipes | Best Diets
  ccording to the American Heart Association the total intake of fat should not exceed 30% of your total daily calorie intake. This keeps your weight in check and also controls the risk of coronary diseases. Submitted by James Price to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Two-Thirds of U.K. Water Supply is 'Virtual,' Shor ...
  A new report from the country's Institute of Civil Engineers finds that water shortages elsewhere in the world are not simply other countries' problems, but will come back to bite the U.K.
• The View from the C-Suite: Waste Management CEO Da ...
  In an exclusive interivew, CEO David Steiner talks about reinventing business models, biofuels, Barbie dolls and why Waste Management supports a zero-waste future.
• 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.

Reuters Global

• Impact of the volcano disruption on the airline in ...
  One of the biggest questions, which engineers will be grappling with right now, is whether there is a cost-efficient way to ‘design out’ the current problems that aircraft experience with dust clouds. The short answer is that it may be possible to make modifications to aircraft engine cores to make ...
• Bombing your own people: the use of air power in S ...
  Pakistani army chief of staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani offered a rare apology at the weekend for a deadly air strike in the Khyber region in the northwest in which residents and local officials say at least 63 civilians were killed.
• Ash-stranded 2,000 kilometres from home
  “We’ve gone on holiday by mistake!” That quote from "Withnail and I" has been rattling around my brain for the last few days as I’ve looked for a way to complete the 2,000 kilometres or so from a small town in Spain, and my home in London.
• I can prove that avoiding the ash cloud is possibl ...
  How do you get from Helsinki to Milan when the whole of the airspace in northern Europe is closed? Well, I did it and what's more -- most of the journey was done by plane.
• Why the Icelandic volcano could herald even more d ...
  The Icelandic volcano which has erupted could potentially sputter on for months or even more than a year. Much could depend upon weather patterns, especially wind direction, over the next few days.

Paul Krugman

• Six Doctrines In Search Of A Policy Regime
  My Minsky talk.
• Minsky Conference
  Can this financial system be saved?
• Six Doctrines In Search Of A Policy Regime
  My Minsky talk.
• Minsky Conference
  Can this financial system be saved?
• Six Doctrines In Search Of A Policy Regime
  My Minsky talk.

No Quarter

• Outrageous Leftist Hypocrisy
  You need to check out Allahpundit’s piece at HotAir on the most despicable conduct of one Joe Klein. A.P. writes: After watching this twice, I’m inclined to call it one of the most perfect bits of self-parody that I’ve ever seen. The smugness, the laziness of the analysis — this would qualify ...
• Tune In To NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with ...
  Promo for April 19th show bumped down. You can listen to the archived show via BlogTalkRadio, or using iTunes (read our instructions in the right column). Join Sins of Omission Monday, April 19, 2010 at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles interviews prizewinning author and historian MARY P. RYAN about ...
• Surprise! Health Insurers ‘Reclassifying’ Expenses
  Bet you didn’t see this one coming. One of the cost control measures under the new health care law passed just last month was “medical loss ratio” floors that go into effect on January 1, 2011. The MLR floor requires health insurers to spend at least 80 cents out of every insurance premium dollar ...
• Why I Think Goldman Is Guilty
  Information is everything. Regular readers of Sense on Cents and No Quarter know how often I have raised that point as being perhaps the most important factor on Wall Street. Information, timely access to information, and the reliability of that information all move markets. Who gets the information ...
• Grounded…**Updated**
  As you probably have heard by now, there is a massive volcanic eruption occurring now in Iceland (and on the big island of Hawaii, Montserrat, and probably some other places, too). The plume of ash is extending so high, it is literally grounding planes in Europe: While the EU may be considering e ...

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

• Flights resume amid fresh ash cloud
  A number of major European airports reopen as Icelandic volcano blasts lava and ash.
• Red shirts put off protest march
  Planned march to financial district delayed as Thai protesters beef up own base.
• China quake death toll passes 2,000
  Nearly 200 people still missing in Qinghai as government declares day of mourning.
• Poll result delay worries Sudanese
  Opposition rejects partial results of a "rigged" poll, sparking fears of violence.
• Chavez hosts regional allies
  Venezuelan president kicks off celebrations to mark 200 years of country's independence.

Green Inc. - NYT

• A 'Hamburger Helper' for Diesel Fuel
  A Nevada company has found a way to use natural gas as a cheap extender for diesel fuel.
• 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.

Dot Earth News

• On Ash and the Global Aviation Boom
  A geoscientist weighs the odds of ash disruption in North America as an artist charts the aviation explosion.
• 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.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• 2010 Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Notes for Ap ...
  Jesse Trentadue : …who’s testifying about Howe had reported that the plan to bomb the Murrah building four months in advance, had gone with Strassmeir and others to scout the target – the first thing the U.S. Attorney does when Graham stops testifying is ask the judge to seal the transcript, and the ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• THE DECLINE OF THE CHURCH?
  By Saul Landau Scandals distract the public from focusing on key issues. Sometimes, however, they also provide insights into the character of leading cultural and political figures — and their institutions. When the story finally broke — after perhaps centuries of cover-ups — about priests abusing y ...
• Obama’s Nuclear Policy, the Military-Industrial Co ...
  In 1962 I was a high school student in New York City when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened. I used to wake up every morning wondering if this was to be my last day. One day at the height of that crisis, I was sitting in my English Literature class when an ambulance went by [...]
• Privatizing Public Schools: Charter Schools and Wa ...
  www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please join us this episode (Tuesday April 20, 2010 at 10 :00 PM EST) for our exclusive interview with Devon, a student activist from Detroit Michigan, as we talk about the recent attacks on his school system by corporations like Walmart and [...]
• USSR NUCLEAR PROPOSAL IGNORED BY THE U.S.
  CENSORED IN 1983: DETAILED USSR NUCLEAR PROPOSAL IGNORED BY THE U.S. When the USSR representatives walk out of arms control talks, President Reagan vilifies them and the U.S. press provides front page coverage to their militant posture. But when the USSR makes a detailed public proposal to remove t ...
• Tea baggers fail to see their own hypocrisy
  So, there was yet another tea party rally, this time in Boston. They’re still pissed off at health care reform, calling it socialist and communist without ever understanding the definition of those two words. I wonder where they were a few years ago when Medicare part D was push through with no vo ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• A Primer on Nuclear Material
  Robert Siegel gets a primer on nuclear material and storage from Robert Alvarez, who served as a senior policy adviser to the Secretary of Energy during the Clinton administration.
• Housing is a Human Right
  Self-righteous human rights attacks on other countries don't help mask glaring needs at home, particularly food and shelter for millions.
• 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.

Pine River World News

• Jane Burgermeister: Questions about plane crash gr ...
  The following post is from Jane Burgermeister's blog, Case about Bird Flu . Aside from her blog's title she is now "covering the Polish plane crash and the New World Order". Questions about plane crash grow in Poland � �Jane Burgermeister April 18, 2010 In the clear, blue skies above Krakow, the ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• NSA whistleblower prosecutions continue under Obam ...
  Legal observers were surprised late last week when a grand jury in Baltimore indicted a former senior official of the US National Security Agency (NSA) for leaking classified information to a local newspaper reporter.
• News you may have missed #332
  How US weapons technology is finding its way to Iran. US lawyers seek illegal wiretapping damages.
• Comment: Is Palestinian Fatah Spying for Israel?
  Gaza-based Palestinian movement Hamas has again accused a senior official of rival Palestinian group Fatah of spying for Israel. These accusations should be considered within the context of the increasingly close collaboration between Fatah, the CIA, and Israeli security agencies.
• News you may have missed #331
  CIA deputy director to step down. US eyes cash deal for Kyrgyzstan base. Court case may reveal IRA spy's role.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• Video: Harvey Wasserman on Climate Bill, Hemp, Nuk ...
  Harvey Wasserman spoke in Charlottesville, Va., on April 19, 2010. He discussed past activist successes and new strategies, and the vision of his book Solartopia , as well as the concerns expressed in his recent popular article "Will the Climate Bill Nuke Earth Day?" Wasserman laid out five ke ...
• David Swanson on Jeff Farias Show
• Fraud: It’s Much Bigger Than Goldman Sachs
  Fraud: It’s Much Bigger Than Goldman Sachs By Greg Hunter | USA Watchdog Goldman Sachs was charged with fraud last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investment bank says the charges are “unfounded in law and fact.” Regulators allege “Goldman wrongly permitted a client that was b ...
• In Response to CREW FOIA Request for Missing Tortu ...
  IN RESPONSE TO CREW FOIA REQUEST FOR MISSING TORTURE MEMO EMAILS, DOJ RELEASES DOCUMENTS ON DEPARTMENT’S EMAIL RETENTION POLICY | CREW On Friday, April 16, CREW received an initial response to its Freedom of Information Act request of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) related ...
• $33 Billion Corporate Tax Giveaway, Plus $33 Billi ...
  This corporate tax giveaway is half of the $66 billion we're tossing in the trash right now. The other half is to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Somebody must have decided 33 was a good sounding number.

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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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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• Will The SEC Charges Dent Goldman Sachs Reputation ...
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• Beyond the Ash in Iceland
  Beyond the ash in Iceland, there's history, beauty and a great cuisine.

Time - Top Stories

• U.K. Election: Clegg's Liberal Democrats Shake Up ...
  A strong showing by the Liberal Democrats' leader Nick Clegg in Britain's first-ever televised campaign debate has led to a surge in popularity that could bring a surprising result in Britain's May 6 poll -- just not the way you think
• Over the River, Ralliers Gun for Washington's Atte ...
  On Monday, 100 or so gun-rights advocates gathered at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Virginia, gave up the glitz of the Mall to take advantage of state law, which, unlike Washington D.C., allows people to carry loaded handguns and unloaded rifles
• U.S. U.N. Sanctions Unlikely to Stop Iran Nuclear ...
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  Almost half a century after the Equal Pay Act, American women still earn a fraction of what men do. But the size of the gap -- and the reasons behind it -- depend on whom you ask
• Global Warming: Climate Scientists Investigate Los ...
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Washington Independent

• Holbrooke Turns Page on Karzai Squabble (And Settl ...
  The Obama administration doesn’t want to fight with Afghan President Hamid Karzai anymore. Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the U.S.’s relationship with the Afghan president is in “good shape.” That stuff about Karzai threatening to join the Taliba ...
• Small Business Owners Represent Lost Opportunity f ...
  "It is only a matter of getting the money," one small business owner says. "If I did, I could open in a month."
• Lehman’s Fuld: ‘I Have Absolutely No R ...
  Tomorrow, the House Financial Services Committee, headed by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), will hear testimony regarding the Valukas Report — a lawyer’s examination of the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers, which uncovered fraudulent actions, including the now-infamous “Repo 105” account ...
• Arizona Senate Passes Controversial Immigration Bi ...
  The Arizona Senate just passed the controversial Senate bill 1070 (“Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act”), one of the toughest immigration bills in the country, by a vote of 17-11. All but one Republican voted for the bill, while all voting Democrats were opposed. Several senators ...
• Armed Group Warns Lawmakers of ‘Consequences ...
  President Obama might have signed the bill that allows loaded weapons in national parks, but don’t tell that to the armed activists who gathered Monday at Virginia’s Fort Hunt to showcase their Second Amendment rights. They claim to be quite threatened by the current leaders in Washington, and they ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• Dispatch From Guntopia
  Dispatch From Guntopia Cliff Schecter Best-selling author, public-relations consultant, pundit, bon vivant Posted: April 19, 2010 03:31 PM This morning, on the 15th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City mass murder, I drove from Washington, D.C. across the 14th Street Bridge to get on the George Wa ...
• US Foreign Policy: Sixty Years of Disaster
  by: Michael Gass, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis, April 15, 2010 (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: GrungeTextures, Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock / U.S. Army) On August 19, 1953, pro-Shah supporters in Iran staged a [...]
• “After Hiroshima And Nagasaki, There Was Fallujah. ...
  By William Blum, ZNet, April 17, 2010 When did it begin, all this “We take your [call/problem/question] very seriously”? With answering-machine hell? As you wait endlessly, the company or government agency assures you that they take seriously whatever reason you’re calling. What a kind an ...
• Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges ‘Just The Tip Of The I ...
  Goldman Sachs fraud charges ‘just the tip of the iceberg’: prof Raw Story- By Andrew McLemore Saturday, April 17th, 2010 — 10:06 pm Charges of fraud brought against banking titan Goldman Sachs by the Securities and Exchange Commission rocked financial markets Friday, but experts say the ...
• Icelandic Volcano Ash May Hover For Days
  Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe SYLVIA HUI and ANGELA CHARLTON | 04/17/10 10:25 PM | PARIS — The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about ...

Solari

• Jim Johnson, Goldman Sachs Director
  Jim Johnson played an interesting role in the pump and dump of the American economy. He launched the pump as Chairman of Fannie Mae and since 1999 (the year he joined the board of Goldman per the proxy) he continued as a Goldman Sachs director to participate in the pump and then the dump. Now the [ ...
• The Rats Are Jumping Ship….
  By Jake Tapper In my EXCLUSIVE “This Week” interview, I asked former President Bill Clinton if he thought he got bad advice on regulating complex financial instruments known as derivatives from his former Treasury Secretaries, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers.  He acknowledged that he was wrong to ta ...
• Goldman Director Rajat Gupta to Leave
  By Susan Pulliam Rajat Gupta told Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in March he wouldn’t stand for re-election as a director, after receiving notice from prosecutors that they were reviewing recorded conversations between him and Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, people close to the matter say. Mr. Gupt ...
• Iceland Volcano Spews More Ash
  BY Larry Mcshane The great Icelandic ash plume cast its devastating shadow over international air traffic again Saturday, grounding millions of global travelers - including hundreds trapped at Kennedy Airport. The ongoing volcanic eruptions shut down airspace in 15 countries across Europe and elsew ...
• Defense Spending Is Much Greater than You Think
  By Robert Higgs Continue reading Defense Spending Is Much Greater Than You Think

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 ...
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• An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Why It Matters That Obama Marked "Black" ...
  Those who yearn for a postracial America hoped Obama had transcended blackness, but the real threat he poses to the American racial order is that he disrupts whiteness.
• Facing the Threat from the Far Right, Noam Chomsky ...
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• Gun March Warm-Up: Oath Keepers Founder Goes Off o ...
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• The Inspiring 'Freedom Movement' That Paved the Wa ...
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Sideways News

• 'Good Samaritan' risks life to save child
  Police have appealed for information over the identity of a man who risked his own life to pull a toddler from a burning car wreck. His actions saved the life of the three-year-old boy, who had been involved in a fatal two-vehicle collision in the village of Heath and Reach, between Milton Keynes an ...
• Vitamins 'reduce breast cancer risk'
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• Endangered cats 'running out of lives'
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• Election debates echo US showcases
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• Where you shop makes a world of difference
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Fabius Maximus

• The Tea Party Movement disproves my recommendation ...
  Many folks said I was wrong, and so it proved to be.   We have the mass citizen involvement I long recommended, and it looks like an expression of the delusions that led us along this dark path.  A path well described by C. S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters, chapter VII: … the safest road to ...
• FM newswire for April 19, interesting articles abo ...
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• About the Tea Party Movement: who they are and wh ...
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• About the Tea Party Movement: who they are and wh ...
  From a CBS News – New York Times poll conducted April 5 – 10, 2010.  Pay attention!  This is the first mass movement in America since the early 1970’s.  At the end are links to other articles and posts about the Tea Party movement. Summary Complete results:  who they are Complete results:  wha ...
• About the Tea Party Movement: who they are and wh ...
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Open Your Eyes News

• Editorial: White Washes & Great Excuses
  There is an old saying in politics that states “you only have an official inquiry if you are sure the result will be favourable”. So it has come to pass with the Climate-Gate scandal, which we predicted as soon as its establishment and pro-anthropogenic global warming members were announced. Read E ...
• China offered oil for sanctions deal over Iran
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• UK Police: Let Us Sedate Suspects
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• Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn ...
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• Goldman Sachs set to pay £3.5bn in bonuses
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Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Dear Maoist-Third Worldist.. Are you a bunch of pr ...
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• What about the Second World?
  What about the Second World? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, The First World is made up of exploiters. And the Third World are countries that have  populations that are mostly exploited. What is the Second World? Raised-fist salute” Thank you for writing. We hav ...
• Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
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• Growth of casual sex in the United States
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• Leaked video shows U.S. brutality in Iraq
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PakAlert

• Who REALLY Owns The Media In 2010?
  “NOT A SINGLE NEWS ITEM will reach the public without our control,” states the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. “Even now this is attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies whose offices are entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to th ...
• Transhumanism, PsyWar and B.E.P.’s “Imma Be”
  The Black Eyed Peas “Imma Be / Rock that Body” video is a masterpiece of high tech computer-generated imagery and state of the art digital music production. It is also one of the most blatant examples of Psychological Warfare and deception that I have ever seen in modern mass media. This article wil ...
• SURVIVE ANYTHING! Chapter 1: Nuclear Attack
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• BBC Documentary: Evidence Israel’s nuclear weapons ...
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• Mass Depopulation, Genocide, WW3? Part 2 The Satan ...
  Part 2 The Satanic New World Order Read part one here: Mass Depopulation, Genocide, WW3? (Pal Telegraph, by Peter Eyre) – I and many other writers have talked about the New World Order (NWO) but who are they and just how far will they go to achieve their goals? The answer [...] Read Mor ...

ecogeek

• Prius Minivan May Debut in 2011
  Imagine the Toyota Prius .  Now imagine it stretched a little longer and taller, perhaps a "Baby on Board" sticker attached to the back, and that may just be what's in store for a new version of the hybrid vehicle. Japanese news source Nikkei is reporting that Toyota will be releasing a Prius mini ...
• NASA and Chrysler Team Up to 'Share Knowledge,' Se ...
  A vague, but potentially exciting announcement from Chrysler this week says that the automaker and NASA are pairing up to "share knowledge" and resources on advanced technologies. The topics that this new alliance will discuss and investigate include materials engineering, robotics, radar, battery ...
• Envision Launching Three Sub-$30k EVs This Summer
  There's been a lot of press lately about EV launches and pricing strategies of big auto companies, like Nissan with their LEAF.  But out of the shadows, practically-unknown Envision Motor Company has emerged and announced that they will be launching not one, but three EVs this summer, all with a pr ...
• IBM Requiring Suppliers to Track and Report Enviro ...
  IBM has made a significant step in cleaning up its global operations.  It's now requiring all of its suppliers in 90 different countries to install management systems to track environmental data like energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste and recycling levels.  All suppliers must set envir ...
• Solar-Powered Airplane Has Its Maiden Flight
  The Solar Impulse HB-SIA, a solar-powered aircraft under development for an emissions-free around-the-world flight , had its maiden flight on April 7. Bertrand Piccard, the adventurer who first flew a balloon non-stop around the globe, is the chairman of the Solar Impulse project. The plane was ...

Buzzflash

• Winning 2010 through Massive Re-orientation
  Body And now, from Pew Research Center, the latest pronouncement of the American electorate's cognitive dysfunction: "Independents who are highly frustrated with government are highly committed to voting this year," said the Center's director, Andrew Kohut, "and they favor Republican ...
• Cable News Silent When Democrats Win Off-year Elec ...
  MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH The first post Health Care Reform election was held but you won't see any news about it on the cable news networks because a Democrat won. On April 13th, Democrat Ted Deutch won 62% to 35% over Republican Ed Lynch in a special election for Congress held in Florida that w ...
• Chinese Transport Ship Runs Aground Down Under, Ba ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH This massive mishap is causing Much uproar there and grief At what may now be known as The (Not So) Great Barrier Reef. read more
• Ex-NY Congressman Had History of Groping Male Empl ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Within the Democratic ranks Eric Massa will live in infamy More than just sexual overtures He played a whole symphony .read more
• New Whine In An Old Bottle -- Verse-Case Scenario
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH “ Bill Clinton killed his enemies! ” "Bill Clinton also dealt drugs! ” These were the favorite rumors Of Bubba-era extremist thugs. The Tea Party movement isn’t new I’m providing this information To suggest it’s just the latest version Of right wing disinformation. rea ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The long, clear, inspiring record of Diane Wood
  If one were to analogize the search for Justice Stevens' replacement to the recently concluded health care debate, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood would be the public option.  Just as the truly left-wing health care approach (a single-payer system) was eliminated from consideration ...
• 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 ...

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

• New BC Guidelines for Forest Carbon Offsets Called ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2010 ForestEthics New B.C. guidelines for forest carbon offsets are "fake climate change action" and will fail to reduce carbon emissions quickly or protect vulnerable ecosystems, nine environmental groups said today. The guidelines released by the Pacific Carbon Tr ...
• Obama Orders Greater Medical Rights For Same-Sex P ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2010 ACLU President Obama has asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to order all hospitals that participate in Medicaid and Medicare to allow patients to designate who shall be allowed to visit them and make medical decisions on their behalf. The ord ...
• Statement on Fraud Charges Against Goldman Sachs
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2010 Senator Bernie Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Goldman Sachs & Co. of fraud. “While its action was slow in coming, I applaud the SEC for finally beginning to deal wi ...
• Dow Cannot Run from the Legacy of Bhopal by Sponso ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2010 Amnesty International The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) cannot run from its responsibility for the ongoing impacts of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak by sponsoring Live Earth ‘Run for Water’ events, Amnesty International said today. Thousands of people died and more ...
• Veterans of "Wikileaks" Incident Announce "Letter ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2010 Media Advisory Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" incident have written an open-letter of "Reconciliation and Responsibility" to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundred ...
  by Bill Quigley Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed at Guantanamo were innocent, the top people in the Bush Administration knew full well they were i ...
• Bank Local: Indie Businesses Embrace Move Your Mon ...
  by Stacy Mitchell Across the country, independent business groups that have been urging people to "buy local" are now making "bank local" an increasingly prominent part of their message, bringing new grassroots visibility and organizational infrastructure to the Move Your Money movement. read mo ...
• Squashing the Goldman Vampire Squid
  by Dean Baker In the past few months we have learned a number of things about Goldman Sachs. read more
• The Long, Clear, Inspiring Record of Diane Wood
  by Glenn Greenwald If one were to analogize the search for Justice Stevens' replacement to the recently concluded health care debate, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood would be the public option.  Just as the truly left-wing health care approach (a single-payer system) was elimin ...
• U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico
  by Dunya Cope The soldiers burst into Fernanda Hernández's house at eight in the morning. There were 39 of them. Fernanda was with her two young children. read more

Karl Burkart

• Video footage from James Cameron's trip to the Ama ...
  James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver go to Brazil and stall (for now) the Bel Money dam project.
• Homeowners: Sell your own carbon credits
  My Emissions Exchange just sold its first carbon credit on behalf of the Wilsons, a family in Harrisburg, Penn.
• A solution to reverse Africa's growing deserts
  Groasis, an ingenious passive 'water incubator' collects dew drops, making reforestation in barren lands possible.
• Planet 100's 100th episode!
  A major milestone for the Planet 100 team ... 100 episodes. Woot!
• Video footage from James Cameron's trip to the Ama ...
  James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver go to Brazil and stall (for now) the Bel Money dam project.

Water Privatization

• Environmental Groups List Arroyos Crimes Against t ...
  By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Various environmental groups slammed the biodiversity conservation award given to Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo by International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF) and Global Environment Facility (GEF). Katribu party list first nominee Beverly Longid said it was ...
• New L.A. jobs czar Austin Beutner plans a top-down ...
  Declaring the dawn of "a new era of accountability," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday nominated jobs czar Austin Beutner as interim chief of the DWP and ordered a top-down review of the $4 billion agency.
• Villaraigosa makes it official: Deputy Mayor Austi ...
  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa nominated today his first deputy mayor, Austin Beutner, to be interim general manager of the Department of Water and Power.
• City Projects $10 Million Budget Shortfall in 2011
  CORPUS CHRISTI - City staff is facing a $10 million shortfall for next year's budget. First, here's a little history: Just recently the city council approved changes to the current budget to make up for a $6.6 million shortfall. Some of those changes included eliminating car allowances and use of wo ...
• Another week of GW News, April 18, 2010 [A Few Thi ...
  Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

Guardian

• Government seeks flying routes through the ash
  Airports condemn 'blanket approach' to banning UK flights saying other countries are operating more flexible policies The government, safety regulators and aviation companies were today working to establish safe flying corridors through volcanic ash over UK airspace as airport operators condemned th ...
• Inflation exceeds expectations
  A week of crucial economic data for the government got off to a bad start this morning as March inflation came in higher than expected A week of crucial economic data for the government got off to a bad start this morning as March inflation came in higher than expected after costlier fuel and airlin ...
• Today in the election LIVE
  • Lib Dems continue to threaten Labour and Tories in polls • Tories say rising inflation is 'worrying news' for families • Lib Dems publish plans to reform banking system • SNP launches manifesto • Read Andrew Sparrow's mid-morning summary 1.56pm: Nick Clegg may have found himself drowned out this m ...
• Climate sceptic wins data victory
  Belfast ecologist forced to hand over tree-ring data describes order from information commission as a 'staggering injustice' An arch-critic of climate scientists has won a major victory in his campaign to win access to British university data that could reveal details of Europe's past climate. In a ...
• Goldman Sachs results LIVE
  Follow the action now with Jill Treanor as the under-fire Wall Street bank publishes its financial results and discloses its latest bonus pot 2.05pm: A very direct question from an analyst at Macquarie about the SEC deal, trying to get to the point of whether ACA knew that Paulson was the "short" si ...

McClatchey

• Florida Gov. Crist facing pressure from GOP to dro ...
  With Gov. Charlie Crist facing a brutal Republican U.S. Senate primary or a full-blown party mutiny if he runs as an independent, prominent supporters are urging him to consider a third option: quitting altogether.
• Marijuana smoke-ins pay homage to pot's '420' nick ...
  Today is the Fourth of July of weed.
• Haiti's universities are a low priority during ear ...
  On a recent weekday afternoon at the University of Haiti, students huddled under a large tree while a professor lectured over a megaphone, his voice booming over the rumble of generators and squeals of homeless children at play.
• Health care tax credits for small businesses start ...
  More than 500,000 Internal Revenue Service postcards will go out this week to California small businesses and tax-exempt groups that may qualify for new tax credits on their employees' health care premiums.
• Now it's the Senate's turn to take on Goldman, Moo ...
  WASHINGTON — A special Senate panel over the next week will begin to unveil the results of yearlong inquiries into the roles of Goldman Sachs and credit ratings agencies such as Moody's Investors Service in the subprime mortgage meltdown.

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

• Sen. Corker Refutes Sen. McConnell: The Resolution ...
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the Senate floor today to repeat the false assertion that the pending financial reform bill will lead to further taxpayer-funded bailouts. A number of other Republicans — including House Minority Leader John Boehner — have repeated the false righ ...
• Conservatives Run Away From Their Own Ideas To Pai ...
  While the final health care reform law probably resembles the GOP’s 1993 health care plan closer than some of the more progressive alternatives Democrats proposed during the 2008 Presidential election, Republicans and their conservative allies have gone to great lengths to portray reform as a radica ...
• ALIPAC Leader: Politicians And ‘Illegal Alie ...
  Last Thursday, William Gheen of the immigration restrictionist group — Americans for Legal Immigration Reform PAC — spoke at a Houston Tea Party event on what he views as a “conspiracy” or “globalist” plan to “transfigure this country” through illegal immigration. In a video of his speech distribut ...
• Romney Says His ‘Model For The Nation’ ...
  Andrew Romano forces Mitt Romney to explain why he continues to defend federal the Massachusetts health care plan while calling for the repeal of its federal cousin, ObamaCare. Romney’s argument boils down to this: health reform should be done on the state level with help from the federal government ...
• Gay Groups Pressure Obama Administration To Repeal ...
  Opponents of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) have grown increasingly frustrated at the administration’s unwillingness to support including repeal legislation in this year’s defense authorization bill. With unprecedented support within the Pentagon, favorable public opinion within the ranks and the publ ...

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

• Investigations Probe Office of Thrift Supervision' ...
  The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) was delivered a damaging one-two punch last week with the release of findings from two separate government investigations into the collapse of Washington Mutual Bank. OTS served as the primary government regulator for WaMu...
• IG Slams SEC for Inexcusable Delays in Cracking Do ...
  The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Forth Worth Office repeatedly failed to act on overwhelming evidence pointing to the massive Ponzi scheme orchestrated by R. Allen Stanford, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigative report made available to...
• Morning Bonfire: SEC Investigating Whether Other F ...
  SEC Probes Other Soured Deals by Carrick Mollenkamp, Serena Ng, Gregory Zuckerman and Scott Patterson [The Wall Street Journal] Sikorsky + Lockheed Martin = Presidential Helo? by Bettina Chavanne [Aviation Week] Millions stolen from Iraq rebuilding by Joe Gould [Military...
• 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...

Digital Journal

• Michael Buble shines at Canada's Juno Awards
  Michael Buble was the big winner last night as the Canadian music industry gathered at Mile One Center to celebrate Canada's answer to the Emmy's which we call The Juno Awards.
• Bob McDonald: '.01 percent of world's water availa ...
  The water you drink has been around for millions of years. It has quenched the thirst of dinosaurs, flowed down Roman aqueducts and now that same water pours from the faucets in your home to bathe in, to cook with, to drink.
• Canadian grannies going to African Grandmothers Ga ...
  Canada will be missing 43 grannies in May when they take off to the first ever African Grandmothers Gathering in Manzini, Swaziland.
• Ontario to meet politicians to discuss tuition fee ...
  More than 40 Ontario medical students will be meeting with members from all three provincial parties Monday to discuss medical school tuition fees.
• Toronto's Queens Quay tranformation formally begin ...
  The approval process for the Queens Quay Revitalization Environmental Assessment has been cleared by Ontario's Minister of the Environment, John Gerretsen. The next step will see a world-class street come to what was a traffic eye sore.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Bon Jovi, Rock Star and Homeless Ally
  We've been remiss not to have mentioned yet that Jon Bon Jovi is solidifying his reputation as the most famous and handsome homeless ally out there by visiting a homeless shelter in each city where his band plays while on tour . "This is the issue that moves me," he said as he toured a Dallas shelte ...
• Homeless Youth on the Daily Threat of Violence
  Violence against homeless young people is far too common, with about 5,000 dying on the streets every year. A new fund created by Covenant House is trying to address it the issue. The  April Fund , commemorating April, a 19-year-old New York woman who was killed on the streets last August, aims to i ...
• How You Can Save Lives On Hollywood Boulevard
  For those who have heard me speak or have been following me you already know how much I love  Common Ground . Just before the holidays I had the honor of interviewing Los Angeles Field Director  Beth Sandor and Innovations Department Director  Becky Kanis , which may have been my favorite interview ...
• Life After Homelessness: Becoming a Man
  This is the fourth of a five-part series looking at the lives of young people making the journey out of  long-term homelessness at Hospitality House in Australia. Read previous posts here , here and here . Recently, I got out the lawn mower at our small shelter so one of the residents, Simon, could ...
• Life After Homelessness: Becoming a Man
  This is the fourth of a five-part series looking at the lives of young people making the journey out of  long-term homelessness at Hospitality House in Australia. Read previous posts here , here and here . Recently, I got out the lawn mower at our small shelter so one of the residents, Simon, could ...

Ceasefire.ca

• 505 Order of Canada members call for treaty bannin ...
  In an unprecedented development, more than 500 recipients of the prestigious Order of Canada have come together to call on governments around the world, including Canada, to bring about the elimination of nuclear weapons. “This is the first time that so many recipients of the Order of Canada hav ...
• Let’s abolish nuclear weapons, once and for all
  Let’s abolish nuclear weapons, once and for all Dear Ceasefire.ca supporter, Can there be any greater threat to planet Earth than the 23,000 thermonuclear bombs currently held by the United States, Russia, and a growing list of other countries? We must end this nuclear threat for ourselves and t ...
• 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

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Judge Threatens KT With Jail
  April 19, 2010 CBS2Chicago.com by Mike Robinson A federal judge threatened Friday to have author and infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau prosecuted for criminal contempt and jailed for violating a court order to stop airing misleading ads for his books on losing weight and other health issues. U.S. D ...
• Andrew Breitbart Joins the Show!
  Author, editor of the Drudge Report and commentator for the Washington Times, Andrew Breitbart, joins Kevin this week to reveal the latest secret our government is keeping from you.  Find out the shocking truth! His websites, breitbart.com is one of the most trusted new sources on the web, and now ...
• I would like to express my greatest gratitude for ...
  Dear Kevin, I would like to express my greatest gratitude for all you do. When I was a young boy my father taught me to question everything and find out for myself what is truth or not. I do not take your word for scripture, but I love that you challenge my mind to look. I [...]
• The impact you have made on my life cannot be meas ...
  Hi Kevin, I recently became a subscriber to your website and started download your show to iTunes, so I can listen while I work. First off, Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU for all that you do and have done over the years. The impact you have made on my life and countless millions of other lives [... ...
• Latest Update In My Civil Case With The FTC
  On Friday, April 16, the judge entered a judgment in my civil case with the FTC.  In a surprise move, the judge not only reinstated the $37 million judgment that the Court of Appeals had reversed, but is seeking to turn the civil case into a criminal case. Click here to read the court’s opinion.

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

• Iran’s nuclear capabilities
  Thomas Schelling, a Nobel laureate and an expert in nuclear strategy, spoke at the New America Foundation in Washington last week. Having recently attended the highly influential Herzliya Conference in Israel, Schelling said: I was impressed with how many Israelis speculate that what Iran wants to ...
• Who’s behind the Gates memo leak?
  The New York Times reports on a “secret three-page memorandum” that Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent to National Security Adviser Gen James Jones in January, warning that “the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capab ...
• Kucinich: White House assassination policy is extr ...
  Jeremy Scahill writes in The Nation: There has been almost universal silence among Congressional Democrats on the Obama administration’s recently revealed decision to authorize the assassination of a US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, has been accused of providing inspi ...
• US Army researchers: Why the Kandahar offensive co ...
  At Wired, Nathan Hodge reports: The southern Afghan province of Kandahar trusts the Taliban more than the government. And that’s according to a survey commissioned by the U.S. Army. Kandahar is expected to be the focal point of operations for U.S. and NATO troops this summer, but a poll recently c ...
• 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

• New pix of Iceland volcanic plume
  From ESA (zoomed image below the read more line) New satellite image of ash spewing from Iceland’s volcano 19 April 2010 In this image taken [at] (14:45 CET) by ESA’s Envisat satellite, a heavy plume of ash from the Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano is seen travelling in a roughly southeasterly direction. ...
• Royal Ash: Royal society jumps on magma driven wor ...
  Guest post by Steven Goddard Wikipedia Image of Disaster Movie poster While volcanic ash falls on Britain, in yet another assault on reason, the Royal Society has warned : In papers published by the Royal Society, researchers warned that melting ice, sea level rises and even increasingly heavy st ...
• Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post ...
  “We sent ten Boeing 747 and Airbus 340 jets on transfer flights from Munich to Frankfurt,” Lufthansa spokesman Klaus Walther told the paper. The planes were moved in order to be in the most useful place once the ban is lifted, he explained. “Our machines flew to a height of 24,000 feet, or around ...
• Clean air, a problem?
  Here’s a headline I thought I’d never see. In the 60’s and 70’s we were bombarded with images like these: Now we here that may be a bad thing. Make up your minds! Though I think oceans have good share of the cause too. From the LA Times Why cleaner air could speed global warming Aerosol pollution, w ...
• Volcanoes and Water
  Guest Post by Steven Goddard The Guardian image below taken this week near Iceland has the caption “Smoke and ash billows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland Photograph: Ingolfur Juliusson/Reuters” The Guardian caption is for the most part incorrect.  Note that the volcanic cloud is largel ...

Dandelion Salad

• Chris Hedges: When America leaves reality behind
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1088335 As a Socialist, I can assure you Obama is not a Socialist.  — Chris Hedges by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 17, 2010 Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ 04/16/2010 Pulitzer-prize winning foreign correspondent Chris Hedges argues th ...
• Depleted uranium is destroying life By Jerry Mazza
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com April 15, 2010 I have long heard sound-bites or seen passages about depleted uranium that sounded more than dire. But given my own cognitive dissonance, and the fact that I was writing about many other dire topics at the time, ...
• The full text of Iran UN ambassador letter to UNSC
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Thanks to Cem Ertür for sending this to DS. http://isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1519574&Lang=E The full text of Iran UN ambassador letter to UNSC ISNA, 14 April 2010 Iran’s UN ambassador Mohammad Khazaee called for the Security Council and other UN re ...
• Michel Chossudovsky: Nuclear summit is a PR smokes ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday April 15, 2010 — Obama is masking the real issues over nuclear weapons by presenting the idea that nuclear terrorism is a major threat, says Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Canadian Centre for Research on Globalization. Michel Chossu ...
• Palast, Live from Hell
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com April 14, 2010 “The CBS logo isn’t an eyeball, it’s actually just a pimple on the rectum of Viacom Corporation.” Hear Greg Palast live with This is Hell radio host Chuck Mertz. In this 90 minute head-to-head, Greg goes in-dept ...

Your New Reality

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  The War On You....Or Dave By Darryl Mason Since the 9/11 attacks, Al Qaeda as a legitimate threat to Americans, and the American way of life, and even American values, has proven to be something of a washout. Yes, terrorists supposedly inspired or influenced by Al Qaeda have tried to attack Ameri ...
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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

• Rewiring Plants Could Supersize Crops
  With a bit of biomathematical wizardry, researchers have found a new way for plants to breathe. The newly discovered chemical reactions would allow plants to process carbon dioxide more efficiently. Crops could grow to enormous size. “We wondered if we could take parts designed by nature, and rewir ...
• North American Dinosaurs Were One Big Happy Family
  Dinosaurs may have roamed and mingled more freely in the western interior of North America than previously thought, according to a new study. For decades, many paleontologists believed that during the Late Cretaceous period, from about 100 million to 65 million years ago, dinosaur species occupied ...
• Betting on Climate Change: Corporations Stand to M ...
  Last year, Beluga Shipping discovered that there’s money in global warming. Beluga is a German firm that specializes in “super heavy lift” transport. Its vessels are equipped with massive cranes, allowing it to load and unload massive objects, like multi-ton propeller blades for wind turbines. It i ...
• Spectacular New View of a Cosmic Cat’s Paw
  This new image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula reveals new details laid bare by the near-infrared imaging of the VISTA telescope. The Cat’s Paw, located 5,500 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation is filled with dust that makes for a beautiful image (below) but obscures many of the stars. The Euro ...
• Ultrathin Silk-Based Electronics Make Better Brain ...
  Silk has made its way from the soft curves of the body to the spongy folds of the brain. Engineers have now designed silk-based electronics that stick to the surface of the brain, similar to the way a silk dress clings to the hips. The stretchable, ultrathin design would make for better brain-compu ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Akiva Eldar: This Independence Day, Israel still t ...
  In its 62nd year of independence, as it has every year since March 2002, Israel is taking advantage of its independence to turn its back on the Arab Peace Initiative. This year, too, it is ignoring a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Rashid Khalidi: Bad Faith in the Holy City
  [O]nly a negotiation in which all of Jerusalem is placed on the table will suffice. This is not only the right thing to do; such a posture is rooted in a solemn U.S. obligation made in the all but... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Yossi Sarid: For Jerusalem, a response to Elie Wie ...
  Someone has deceived you... Not only may an Arab not build "anywhere," but he may thank his god if he is not evicted from his home and thrown out onto the street with his family and property. Perhaps... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Rashid Khalidi: Bad Faith in the Holy City
  [O]nly a negotiation in which all of Jerusalem is placed on the table will suffice. This is not only the right thing to do; such a posture is rooted in a solemn U.S. obligation made in the all but... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Yossi Sarid: For Jerusalem, a response to Elie Wie ...
  Someone has deceived you... Not only may an Arab not build "anywhere," but he may thank his god if he is not evicted from his home and thrown out onto the street with his family and property. Perhaps... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Blackseafor warships leave Bulgaria to conduct nex ...
  The warships of the Black Sea Naval group left the Bulgarian port of Varna on Tuesday to conduct the next stage of exercises, a Black Sea Fleet commander said.
• Premier Putin satisfied with Russian fifth-generat ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was satisfied with the tests of a Russian fifth-generation fighter jet.
• Large-scale military exhibition opens in Malaysia
  A large-scale international exhibition of arms and military equipment, Defence Services Asia (DSA)-2010, opened on Monday in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, bringing together arms producers and suppliers from all over the world.
• Large-scale military exhibition opens in Malaysia
  A large-scale international exhibition of arms and military equipment, Defence Services Asia (DSA)-2010, opened on Monday in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, bringing together arms producers and suppliers from all over the world.
• Large-scale military exhibition opens in Malaysia
  A large-scale international exhibition of arms and military equipment, Defence Services Asia (DSA)-2010, opened on Monday in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, bringing together arms producers and suppliers from all over the world.

NewsWise

• Missile Defense Issues Examined in New Book
  Secure World Foundation recognizes a new book, American Missile Defense: A Guide to the Issues, expertly written by Secure World Foundation's Victoria Samson.
• "Ten Most Wanted" Plants Inspected for Clues to Cl ...
  Students, gardeners, retirees, and other volunteers who are taking part in a nationwide initiative, Project BudBurst, are finding hints that certain plants are blooming unusually early, perhaps as a result of climate change. These citizen scientists are recording the timing of flowers and foliage, a ...
• Obesity Gene, Carried by More than a Third of the ...
  UCLA researchers have found that a variant of the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene, found in more than a third of the world's population and known to cause weight gain, is also associated with a loss of brain tissue.
• Loyola To Celebrate National Donate Life Month
  Organ recipients, living donors, donor families to give thanks, share hugs and tears at annual Candlelight Ceremony.
• Recession Illustrates the Need for Public Assistan ...
  Thomas Hirschl, professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University, comments about the widespread reliance on food stamps, Medicaid, reduced school lunches and other forms of public assistance.

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

• Cows on Drugs
  More than 30 years ago, when I was commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, we proposed eliminating the use of penicillin and two other antibiotics to promote growth in animals raised for food. When agribusiness interests persuaded Congress not to approve that regulation, we s ...
• Monsanto Faces Rising Grassroots Opposition in Sou ...
  Multinational seed and chemical companies looking to gain a new customer base in Africa are facing increasing resistance from both farmers and consumers. Nonetheless, they are making inroads by partnering with African institutions and governments that are eager to 'modernize' their agricultural sec ...
• Corporations Love to Talk About Going Green, but N ...
  The idea was that my readers and other bloggers would cheerfully provide me with examples of how companies are preparing for the downsides -- not to mention the opportunities -- of climate change. I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of responses; what I got was a shocking lack of evidence tha ...
• Toxic Sewage Sludge: The EPA’s Forgotten Priority
  Imagine a product so ubiquitous that it is made in every city in the nation, yet so under the radar that the Environmental Protection Agency admits it does not understand the risks of the 135 potentially hazardous substances that the product may contain. Click here to read this article
• Growing Food with Sewage Sludge: The Poop on Bioso ...
  Nova Scotia consumers should think again if they believe they are not eating foods grown in biosolids, says a strong opponent of the controversial fertilizer. Click here to read this article

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

• Charming Betsy in the Ninth Circuit
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I am simply raiding Eugene Volokh’s edited clip from this new holding in the Ninth Circuit, including a discussion of the Charming Betsy canon (see the last couple of paragraphs, below the fold).  From Serra v. Lapin (9th Cir. Apr. 9, 2010) (Clifton, J., ...
• The Neverending Torture Debate: Marc Thiessen’s Re ...
  by Julian Ku In interests of being "fair and balanced," I thought I'd post Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen's rebuttal to Jane Mayer's "devastating" New Yorker review of his book on Bush-era interrogation policies. At this point, neither side is really arguing the law much, but both seem fo ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Latest Investigate hits stores, and controversy
  The latest Investigate hit the stores today...fascinating reading...
• 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 News Service

• Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Fed ...
  Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Federal Health Dollars Phoenix, AZ – Arizona lawmakers have yet to restore funding for KidsCare health insurance. The new federal health care law requires the state to maintain its children’s health insurance program, or lose up to 7-billion dollars for ...
• AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challen ...
  AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challenge for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – Discussions about keeping the aging brain in tip-top shape are part of the focus at this year’s AARP National Spelling Bee. Spellers from Arizona and around the country will compete June 18-19 in Wyoming– with entries alr ...
• Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout
  Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout Phoenix, AZ – As the Girl Scouts approach their 100th year, the organization is putting more emphasis on helping girls develop their leadership skills. The newer concept is to help girls find and nurture their own strengths. Comments from Tamara (tuh-MAH-r ...
• Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona
  Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – The American Heart Association has issued a challenge for Arizonans – walk for 30 minutes a day. “National Start! Walking Day,” is April 7th. It’s a national initiative to get people into an exercise program to reduce the risk of heart disease ...
• Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates
  Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since 1972, the number of state prison inmates in the U.S. has gone down, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. But Arizona’s inmate population continues to rise. Comments from Adam Gelb, Pew’s ...

My Care2 Picks

• Jakarta's Slums Struggle with Sanitation
  In Jakarta's northern Muara Angke coastal area, a lack of access to piped water has forced people to bathe and wash clothes using murky grey water from fish ponds. "I don't feel disgusted at all. I've gotten used to it," Ibu Nunung, who shells mussels Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Cyber-Warfare Chief's Deception
  Not for the first time, neither Inhofe nor his colleagues seem to have done their homework. Or maybe it is simply the case that Congress now accepts being lied to as part of the woodwork in the Capitol. Submitted by Raymond S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• A Prayer Chain for Earth, All Life, Care2 Friend P ...
  Join us in the start of a Prayer Chain for Earth and All Life, one dedicated to a beloved friend to many on Care2, Pastor Tim, just diagnosed with lung cancer. All are welcome, no matter their spiritual or religious beliefs. In this we are one. Submitted by Gregory Hilbert to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Kathleen Parker and Joe Klein: Tea Party fringe gr ...
  Klein: I did a little bit of research...I looked up the definition of sedition, which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state and a lot of these statements-- especially coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a c Submitted by Melva H. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• Revised CBO Analysis of 2011 Budget
  Trillion dollar average deficit for each of 10 years Put that into perspective, during the heavy spending Bush years the highest deficit was $459 billion dollars.BY 2020, the deficit would reach 5.6 percent of GDP,compared with 3.0 percent baseline Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't � ...

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

• Common Plant Vector Injects Genes into Human Cells ...
  A paper published earlier this year reports that T-DNA can be transferred to the chromosomes of human cancer cells...The paper shows that human cancer cells along with neuron and kidney cells were transformed with the Agrobacterium T-DNA. Such observations should raise alarm for those who use Agroba ...
• 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Saudis Tighten China Energy Ties to Reduce U.S. De ...
  Noted by Devon Pendleton on April 20, 2010 6:04 AM
• Volcano impact: As Dutch orchids wilt, New Zealand ...
  Noted by Rachel King on April 20, 2010 5:04 AM
• New ash cloud could extend air travel threat (edit ...
  Noted by Rachel King on April 20, 2010 3:04 AM
• H.S. sports saved in Mansfield, Mass (rivals.com)
  Noted by Bob Cook on April 19, 2010 3:04 PM
• Switch-pitcher: More than just a novelty act (riva ...
  Noted by Bob Cook on April 19, 2010 3:04 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• UN bodyguard 'executed by Afghan police'
  A United Nations bodyguard who saved 17 colleagues by holding back Taliban fighters who stormed a guesthouse was minutes later executed by Afghan police, according to a video which has been seen by officials. An amateur video of the attack seen by UN officials and Stern magazine now appears to ...
• 120 Afghans die in a week of carnage
  The war in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of 120 people and injured over 100 more over the past week. On Sunday, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said dozens of civilians were killed in another week of carnage. He also confirmed that 20 policemen and scores of militants los ...
• Suicide bombs kill 50 in Pakistan
  Up to 50 people have been killed in a series of suicide bombings in southern Pakistan over the weekend. This morning a suicide bomber killed seven people and wounded 26 when he rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a police station in the town of Billitung, in the Kohat region on the border ...
• Pakistan: Blast hits oil tankers on NATO route
  An official says suspected Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan detonated two bombs that destroyed a pair of oil tankers along a vital supply route used by NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Local official Iqbal Khan says the twin explosions occurred in the Takhta Beg area of Khyber tri ...
• White supremacists, demonstrators square off in LA
  A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered to shout them down in a tense standoff that included several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear... Five people, all of them counter-protesters [Yea ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Latest Investigate hits stores, and controversy
  The latest Investigate hit the stores today...fascinating reading...
• 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?

Mondoweiss

• Homogeneity in Israel causes culture shock to dive ...
  Phil mashed up my post on the Mamilla talk at Columbia and an article about the Olmert scandal by Isabel Kershner in the New York Times to ask an important question: "Are there non-Jews in West Jerusalem?" I'm going riff on this further by bringing in an article from Ha'aretz today, mindful that, t ...
• Realist Ian Lustick pulls out of Phila teach-in wi ...
  On Saturday I was part of a teach-in at the University of Pennsylvania on recent developments in the Israel-Palestine conflict organized by several Philadelphia peace groups. Another participant was to be Ian Lustick, a realist scholar who did an important paper on Israel’s crisis two years back. W ...
• Assessing Iran’s nuclear intentions
  Thomas Schelling, a Nobel laureate and an expert in nuclear strategy, spoke at the New America Foundation in Washington last week. Having recently attended the highly influential Herzliya Conference in Israel, Schelling said: I was impressed with how many Israelis speculate that what Iran wants t ...
• Israel is debated at California Democratic convent ...
  We often note the news that Democratic rank-and-file support for Israel is fading. Well, the California State Democratic Convention yesterday endorsed Congresswoman Jane Harman for reelection from a district around Los Angeles, but before it did so, Harman and her opponent, Marcy Winograd, both appe ...
• Toronto threatens Pride march funding over aparthe ...
  Update: As can be expected Muzzlewatch has been all over this story. Check out their great in-depth report here. The Toronto Star reports that the city of Toronto is considering withdrawing funding from the Toronto Pride march next year if the organization Queers Against Israeli Apartheid i ...

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

• The Good News: No Carbon Emissions From Europe an ...
  Image from twitter #getmehome There is some good news about the grounding of 63,000 flights due to the volcanic eruptions in Iceland. It has saved 1.3M tons of carbon dioxide so far. And the ban is scheduled to continue until some time today-- maybe . On a normal day, flights in the Europ ...
• Brilliance of Octopus Inspires Filmmaker Mike deGr ...
  Photo by foxtongue Some incredible talks have been coming out of TED's Mission Blue excursion , a trip to the Galapagos with some of the most brilliant ocean scientists and activists who gave talks about what's happening with our oceans. There is nothing like the energy of scientists passionate ...
• 130 UK Homes to Get 100% of Gas from Human Feces t ...
  No, it will look nothing like this. Photo via Arkine The UK relies heavily on natural gas from the soon-to-be-depleted North Sea stores, according to the BBC . With that supply running out, and with generous incentives available for renewable power projects, it appears there's been some major i ...
• Twittering Adds How Much to Your Carbon Footprint?
  Image via Mykl Roventine It seems like just yesterday that we went round and round about how much energy a typical Google search uses , and what kind of carbon footprint that equates to. The use of our computers and data centers adds up to a significant amount of electricity use , which adds up ...
• Volcanoes, Revolutions and Wars Seem To Go Togethe ...
  In 1783, another Icelandic volcano, Laki, erupted and kept spitting out ash and 120 tons of sulfur dioxide (equal to 3 times the annual industrial output of Europe) and 8 million tons of hydrogen fluoride. 25% of the population of Iceland died, either from famine or from the flouride. In North A ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• List of registered parties
  All political parties are required to register for elections this year by 14 May or otherwise face dissolution
• Junta raking candidate backgrounds
  Authorities begin collecting background information on election candidates as 19 political parties await approval after registering
• Kachin army holds mass public forum
  Meeting comes as fears grow about a possible outbreak of fighting in northern Burma with both sides strengthening forces and unable to compromise
• Japan and Malaysia urge free elections
  Two countries issue joint statement arguing that free and fair elections in Burma this year are a prerequisite for stability in the country
• Rangoon bombings
  View Photo Album As thousands gathered in Rangoon last week to celebrate Burmese new year (‘Thingyan’), three bombs exploded in an area close to Kandawgyi lake and popular with revellers. Up to nine people died and hundreds were injured in Rangoon’s worst bombing in five years, although no arrests h ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Millions of tiny microbes open new frontier in sci ...
  Millions of species new to science have been discovered in the most ambitious survey ever to look at tiny life forms at the bottom of the ocean.
• Volcanic ash cloud: Global warming may trigger mor ...
  Climate change could spark more ''hazardous'' geological events such as volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides, scientists have warned.
• 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.

National Geographic | Environment

• Iceland Volcano Has "Quieted Down"—Ash Crisis to E ...
  With a lower plume and visible lava, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano could be entering a gentler phase, which "might help with the ash problem," experts say.
• 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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Jurist - Legal Research

• 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 ...
• Convicted Bosnian war criminal dies while awaiting ...
  [JURIST] Former commander of the Bosnian army during the 1992-1994 Bosnian civil war [JURIST news archive] Rasim Delic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; Trial Watch profile] died Friday of cancer in his home. Delic was awaiting a decision from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (IC ...
• Arkansas judge strikes down gay adoption ban
  [JURIST] An Arkansas judge ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that a state law prohibiting all unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children violates the Arkansas Constitution [text, PDF]. Critics claimed that the Arkansas Adoption and Foster Care Act of 2008 [ACLU backgrounder], or Initiated Act I ...
• Former Blackwater executives indicted on weapons c ...
  [JURIST] A federal grand jury on Friday indicted [press release] five former Blackwater [JURIST news archive] executives on charges of weapons violations and lying to criminal investigators. The 15-count indictment [LAT report] charges five former executives, including former president Gary Jackson, ...
• Supreme Court hears religious student group, workp ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Monday in two cases. In Christian Legal Society v. Martinez [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report], the court heard arguments on whether a state law school may deny recog ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Beating Obesity: 10 Ideas to Solve the Problem
  I hope you're still thinking of that child I wrote about yesterday . In my article on obesity, I tried not to bias the writing by unveiling my own set of policy preferences. There was plenty of Marc Ambinder in that thing.� But I do have some ideas, actually, that flow from the reporting I did. And ...
• Beating Obesity: Responding to Readers
  Here's a representative selection of e-mails and comments I've seen about Beating Obesity , my May feature for the Atlantic. I've attached some of my own thoughts to each. Prior to joining the campaign I ate healthy and exercised regularly. I consistently turned down cheap, easy and unhealthy food ...
• A Not-So-Very Special Election
  I'm with The Fix .Yesterday's special election in Florida's heavily Democratic 19th Congressional District does not amount to a referendum on health care politics, post passage. It's a very heavily Dem district, House races are fundamentally different from Senate races, Democrats had a good candidat ...
• A Change of Leadership at the CIA
  The influential number two executive at the CIA, Steve Kappes, is stepping down. �In a memo to CIA employees today, director Leon Panetta announced that Kappes will retire in May. "Steve is a one-of-a-kind professional who has dedicated himself to the CIA. �He has helped me tremendously in guiding t ...
• Is the Senate Suddenly Saved for Democrats?
  News broke overnight that former Republican New York Gov. George Pataki has decided not to run for Senate, leaving incumbent-appointee Kirsten Gillibrand all but assured to win the election for her first full term in November. (Pataki's decision not to run also makes it harder for several Republican ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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• [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 ...

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• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
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• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Israeli Pop Star Joins Im Tirtzu, Accusing Peace A ...
  Im Tirtzu’s rightist onslaught against Israeli liberals continues with a new uber-maudlin flag-waver performed by Mizrahi pop star, Amir Benayoun.  Full of the nostalgic ornamented strains of solo violin and accompanied by IDF promotional stills, it accuses Israeli human rights activists of knifin ...
• Efrat: Without Palestinians ‘Who’ll Wipe Settlers’ ...
  Worried that the hired help might steal the silverware or take vengeance for stealing surrounding land, Rabbi Sholom Riskin’s Efrat is Arabrein on Yom HaAtzmaoot.  But on other days it appears little of any real value gets done there without them. An Israeli reader has e-mailed me a message meant f ...
• Wiesel: ‘If I Lie About Thee, O Jerusalem’
  The more Elie Wiesel attempts to insert himself into the political discourse on behalf of the Netanyahu government and its intransigent positions vis a vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the more irrelevant he has become. The Israeli Independence Day ad he and his financial sponsors bought in the ...
• 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 ...

Ode Magazine

• Learn how your creativity can impact social change ...
  By: cmcansh The second annual HATCH fest begins April 15 in beautiful and inspiring Asheville, North Carolina. The mission of this non-profit is to mentor, educate, inspire and recognize the next generation of creative innovators. With this mission in mind, the f ...
• Ton's Musical Musings: Danube Music Festival 2010 ...
  By: Ton Maas The second edition of the Danube Music Festival sailed from Vienna last Saturday, heading for its first stop in the Hungarian town of Esztergom. On board the MS Sofia were the opening acts: Hungarian jazz master Mihaly Dresch and his quartet, plus th ...
• Ton's Musical Musings: Supreme moments on the Danu ...
  By: Ton Maas Back in Amsterdam I look back on a fantastic time on the Danube, attending the 2nd edition of the Danube Music Festival. Simon Broughton, editor-in-chief of Songlines Magazine and editor of the Rough Guide to World Music , who joined the festival for i ...
• Environmentalists should not celebrate European ai ...
  By: Marco Visscher The anxiety when most of Europe’s airports shut down due to the Icelandic volcano eruption soon transformed into a sense of resignation. People seemed quick in making peace with their unfortunate fate. Some even became outspokenly optimistic. A ...
• The Wheaton Experience of PeaceWomen
  By: PeaceCorso Wow is the first word that comes to me from our PeaceWomen experience at Wheaton. Wow, was it fun! Wow, did we learn! Wow, we can’t wait to do it again! My friend Clinton O’Dell sponsored us at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. Wheaton is a small, bea ...

OpEd News

• Goldman Sachs: Master of the Universe
  Donapos;t bet against Goldman
• The Greatest Conundrum: Conning
  How corporations pay nothing in taxes.
• Shale Gas Changing Market Paradigm in U.S. as Elec ...
  Wholesale electricity prices in the U.S. fell by more than half last year, driven largely by a decline of more than 50% in natural gas prices in what looks like a permanent shift in the domestic energy market, according to a recent government report.
• Lawlessness, Corruption, Seeds of Evil and America ...
  Choice is killing America. People are choosing, whether they actually make a choice, or make NO choice. No choice IS a choice, and it leads to certain effects. America is in HUGE trouble. Will it survive because of the stirring of people and groups, or will they be lulled back to sleep and seduc ...
• Nukes and Temples
  Israelapos;s nuclear secret. Third Temple, coming of Messiah

Switchboard

• LIVE: What's Next for Climate Policy, a Panel Disc ...
  In my last post, I asked " Can the Senate pass a bill that delivers 2 million jobs, 2 billion tons and $2 trillion? " Tuesday night I'll be joining a panel of experts to discuss that question and more at George Washington University. The event will start with a one-on-one discussion with EPA ...
• Cabot Sanctioned Big Time for Dimock Disaster
  “I feel like God is just looking down and everything Cabot tries, He just messes with them.”  Or such is my attempt at paraphrasing Dimock, PA resident, Pat Farnelli, as – standing in her backyard and pointing out the natural gas production operations that surround her home in every directio ...
• This Earth Day we need more than a celebration. We ...
  On the fortieth anniversary of the first Earth Day there is much to celebrate : Our air is cleaner and our rivers no longer catch on fire. But we can’t rest on our laurels when millions of Americans still breathe unhealthy air and the concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s ...
• A Clear-Eyed Look at China’s Climate Target
  Here is a post by NRDC China Fellow, David Cohen-Tanugi, who is in our Washington, DC office: In the lead-up to Copenhagen, and again in its submission to the UNFCCC in January, China announced a target to lower its carbon intensity, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of GDP, by ...
• Advocating for Comprehensive Climate and Energy Le ...
  A Greenwire article picked up by the New York Times reported that NRDC President Frances Beinecke met with President Obama’s Chief of Staff to discuss climate legislation… Frances’ involvement in that meeting was also mentioned in a Washington Post Post Carbon  blog post covering the upcomin ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Plymouth Argyle 0 – 2 Newcastle United: Rele ...
  Something I’ve always loved about the way soccer football is organized virtually everywhere not called North America is promotion and relegation.  For the uninitiated, league “systems” are set up in a pyramid fashion.  England’s is the most elaborate, extending down 21 tiers, and in theory, a team ...
• Advocacy Campaigns and the ICC
  Part of what I do is track emerging issue campaigns. Apparently the Review Conference of the International Criminal Court has become a focal point for some such campaigners. The conference, occurring later this Spring, includes a reassessment of “crimes under the court’s jurisdiction.” Well turns o ...
• Prime Minister Clegg?
  Short answer: unlikely. I’ve been contemplating an approach to the sudden rise of the Liberal Democrats while busy trying to consider helping finish this paper I’m scheduled to present in Chicago Saturday morning.  I also picked the precise wrong month to leave the new constituency handbook publish ...
• The Non-Radicalism of Diane Wood’s Church an ...
  This Charlie Savage article about the politics of Obama’s Supreme Court nominations starts off by reminding us that attempting to preempt conservative claims that a Supreme Court nominee is a radical “judicial activist” is a waste of time, since anybody to the left of Sam Alito will be portrayed as ...
• “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 ...

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

• Solar Powered Flower Lights Add Nighttime Garden F ...
  The Blossoming Garden Solar Light looks like a flower by day, then folds up into a glowing accent light by night.
• Massive Romanian Wind Power Project To Power Nearl ...
  One of the world's largest wind power projects to date is getting set to kick off in Romania, with a reported 1,500 megawatts of power (MW) set to come online by 2017 to power nearly 1 million homes.
• Large Scale Solar Project May Surface Near Flagsta ...
  A major new solar project being considered near Flagstaff, Arizona, could potentially power thousands of homes and be more effective than similar projects because of its location.
• Solar Powered StudyLite Lamp Takes Strain Off Eyes ...
  A new ring-shaped solar-charged LED light relieves eye strain in extended study sessions and provides six hours of light on a single charge.
• Nissan’s Leaf Electric Car Reservations Kick Off T ...
  Nissan is set to kick off taking reservations for its upcoming Leaf electric car starting tomorrow and will prioritize first those who have already signed up for information with it.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• OPINION: When is an equity partner not an equity p ...
  It is time to develop a uniform definition, to ensure that all entities and publications are collecting consistent data.
• OPINION: Time to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act
  The statute would strengthen the Equal Pay Act by eliminating loopholes and amending outdated provisions.
• Law students push schools for better employment nu ...
  Two law students have founded a non-profit organization with the goal of compiling detailed employment and salary information from all ABA-accredited law schools. The goal is to collect data on individual law graduates, rather than the general class breakdowns required by the ABA and U.S. News.
• Ruling may rein in patent re-examinations
  A federal appeals court ruling may curb the growing trend of using re-examinations to challenge other parties' patents.
• Judge's service on corporate board was an ethics v ...
  A former North Carolina judge who shouted at a fellow judge that she was a "political hack" who was "bought and paid for" violated the state's ethics code — but not for his rant against his colleague.

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

• Avatar DVD Review
  James Cameron wrote the script for Avatar back in 1994, but was unable to turn his vision into a movie until now because, as he explains it, he had to wait for technological innovations to catch up to his expectations of the 3-D spectacular.
• Forty Years Ago, Earth Day Began in The United Sta ...
  Forty years ago, Earth Day began in the United States as a 'teach-in' - a day to educate people about the environmental challenges facing our planet.
• Ash Dispersion Depends on Eruptions
  'The ash dispersion is similar to a steam train, and ash clouds are pumped out at different times with various intensities' said AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity.
• Sudan Troika Joint Statement on the Sudanese Elect ...
  Following is the text of a joint statement by the Sudan Troika (United States, United Kingdom, and Norway) on the recent elections in Sudan.
• Death at a Funeral Film Review
  Death at a Funeral sounds like a classic case of a production that probably sounded like a 'can't miss' when its assorted elements were being pitched to studio execs.

environment 360

• Countless Microbe Species Discovered in Census of ...
  The 10-year Census of Marine Life has discovered huge numbers of previously unknown microbes, zooplankton, crustaceans, worms, and other small species , astonishing scientists with the sheer number of life forms that make up the lower orders of the marine food chain. Scientists estimate that as many ...
• New York Exhibit Shows Visions of the City Adaptin ...
  The effects of climate change and sea-level rise on coastal cities present a new challenge to urban planners, one that inspires the exhibition, Rising Currents, now at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Five teams of architects and landscape designers were asked to envision projects for New York ...
• The Earth’s ‘Missing Heat’
  Scientists are unable to account for about half of the heat that is believed to have accumulated in the atmosphere in recent years as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, according to a new study. Using data from satellites and other sources, scientists from the U.S. National Center for Atmosphe ...
• U.S. Air Force Concerns Threaten World’s Biggest W ...
  The U.S. Air Force is threatening to halt construction of a 845-megawatt wind farm in eastern Oregon that would be the world’s largest wind project, citing concerns that the wind turbines would interfere with a nearby military radar station. Clean energy advocates are concerned that the confrontatio ...
• Low Solar Activity Linked to Cold Winter in Northe ...
  This year’s unusually cold winter in northern Europe is probably linked to low solar activity, which altered North Atlantic temperature and wind patterns and prevented warmer jet stream winds from the west reaching northern Europe . Scientists in the UK and Germany analyzed solar activity, temperatu ...
  
  
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  Ecotones: A Musical Ecology of Wisconsin

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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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  Clegg's financial reforms offer new "ecology of banking"

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  Ecology Day on Saturday at the Staten Island Mall

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  GDF Suez Wins 600 Million-Pound Order From UK Water Companies

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