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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • JORDAN: Women Make Progress But Honour Killings Pe ...
    AMMAN, Apr 22 (IPS) - Earlier this month, a 33-year-old man was charged with hammering his wife to death and dumping her body on the highway leading to the Queen Alia International Airport. The husband confessed to murdering her ''to defend his honour,’’ as she was meeting a male friend.
  • NIGER: Lack of Data on Causes of Death Buffers Fre ...
    PARIS, Apr 22 (IPS) - French state-owned company Areva continues to deny any wrongdoing after findings that populated areas in Niger remain contaminated with high levels of radio-activity. The company seems to be escaping censure partly because of lack of data on cancer-related causes of de ...
  • CHINA: Sky-high Property Prices Leave Middle Class ...
    BEIJING, Apr 22 (IPS) - Courteous and efficient, Xing Xina is dealing with the long queue of bank customers in front of her without a hint of resentment.
  • Developing Countries Leading Economic Rebound
    WASHINGTON, Apr 21 (IPS) - Led by growth in developing countries, the global economy is rebounding more quickly than expected, according to the latest 'World Economic Outlook' (WEO) released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) here Wednesday.
  • A North-South Pact to Resolve Water, Sanitation Cr ...
    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 21 (IPS) - An international coalition of over 120 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is demanding a North-South partnership to resolve the spreading global crisis in water and sanitation.

Scoop - NZ

  • Taliban demand exchange for two ex-ISI officers
    The Pakistani Taliban are demanding the government release two top Afghan Taliban commanders in exchange for two former ISI officers who are known supporters of jihadist groups. The Taliban released a videotape today of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers Colonel Imam and Khalid Khawaja, bo ...
  • NZa4s regulations "not good enough" for NZ to bec ...
    Paul Holmes Interviews Chairwoman Of The Securities Commission, Jane Diplock. New Zealand's regulations "not good enough" for New Zealand to become a financial hub for Asia-Pacific, as the government has been advocating; Hong Kong and Singapore won't recognise our managed funds ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_ ...
  • Germany warns of 'Lehman' crisis if Greece default ...
    "Greece's debts are all in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. The consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank," he said. Mr Schauble said Berlin had scant room for manoeuvre over the bail-out given ...
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

  • Brazil tops world asking Google to remove content
    Brazil tops the list of countries asking Google Inc to remove content from its services, the Internet search company disclosed in a new web tool - but it said statistics on China are secret.
  • Caught in the crossfire of Pakistan's secret war
    Staying alive is not a simple business for people in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. The local Taliban and the army compete mercilessly to establish their authority along the border with Afghanistan. "If we support the army, the Taliban is unhappy and if we support the Taliban then the arm ...
  • 'Inspirational' IOC president Samaranch dies
    Juan Antonio Samaranch, who steered the Olympic movement through two turbulent decades marked by political boycotts, bribery, drug scandals and a greater emphasis on commercialism, has died at the age of 89.
  • Poland sets snap election for June
    Poland will hold a presidential election on 20 June following the death of Lech Kaczynski with polls suggesting that acting president Bronislaw Komorowski will win comfortably.
  • Saharan countries' bid to fight terror
    four sahara desert nations opened a joint military headquarters yesterday in an unusual joint effort to combat terrorism and trafficking in north-west Africa.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Butterflies in the boreal
    When biologist Jeremy Kerr needs a sentinel to demonstrate the effects of climate change, he looks no further than the eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas). That’s because the eastern tailed blue, like other butterfly species Kerr and his students at the University of Ottawa track, has be ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Immortal Technique on 9/11, abuse of power and rel ...
    The U.S. government uses foreign wars to distract people's attention from internal problems. That's according to rapper and political activist 'Immortal Technique'. In an exclusive interview with RT's Marina Portnaya he says America's bad decisions are covered up with lame excuses. Part 1
  • South Korean military intelligence accuses North K ...
    An elite North Korean suicide squad of human torpedoes has been blamed for the sinking of a South Korean ship in mysterious circumstances. Korea's Defence Intelligence Command had alerted the navy weeks ahead of the sinking that North Korean suicide squads were being deployed, according to reports ...
  • NPR & Trust in Government
    I was just sitting down in my kitchen this morning -- Sunday, April 18th, 2010 -- to a bowl of oatmeal topped with walnuts, some pieces of ginger, and a little brown sugar when I heard the host of NPR's Sunday Weekend Edition program, Liane Hansen, say that the next segment would begin a series of p ...
  • US warns of "education catastrophe" as up to 300,0 ...
    School districts around the country, forced to resort to drastic money-saving measures, are warning hundreds of thousands of teachers that their jobs may be eliminated in June. The districts have no choice, they say, because their usual sources of revenue - state money and local property taxes - ...
  • Senators Seek Cash as They Mull Rules
    Lawmakers in both parties have been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Wall Street in recent months, offering the industry access to members of Congress who are working on legislation that could alter the rules for American finance. Democrats and Republicans hav ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Valley of Futility
    LAST WEEK, THE U.S. PULLED OUT OF THE KORENGAL VALLEY . According to an article in the NYT by Sebastian Junger, "Farewell to Korengal" ,  For much of 2007 and 2008, I was an embedded reporter with a platoon of airborne infantry at a remote outpost called Restrepo, which was attacked up to four times ...
  • Hitler's birthday...
    ...poetically marked by Statistics Canada . A new study says the number of mixed-race couples has risen considerably in Canada. Numbers gleaned from the last census indicate there were 289,400 mixed unions in 2006, 33.1 per cent more than in 2001. "As Canada's population becomes increasingly ...
  • deeper into the warren?
    A little problematic, eh Pete ? A fghan President Hamid Karzai’s erratic behavior of late, including suggestions he may join the Taliban , have a “corrosive impact” on Canadian troops, the Defence Minister says. Just back from Afghanistan, Peter MacKay told The Globe and Mail today that was the ...
  • El Degüello Pasa
    ACCORDING TO WIKI , El Degüello means "no mercy" or "to put to the sword" . The literal translation is "a throat slitting ". Originally a bugle call, it was used by Howard Hawks in the 1959 flick, " Rio Bravo ". Well, FABIUS has an article, "Stratfor looks at Mexico: “The Struggle for Balance” featu ...
  • The new standard in shamelessness
    In trying to defend the indefensible, a common neocon tactic is to go on the offensive with ad homenin attacks on the media carrying the story or on the source of the story. Sometimes this means villifying the victim, as the government of Canada has done with Abousfian Abdelrazik and Omar Khadr , so ...

Media Matters for America

  • Quick Fact: O'Reilly advances myth that DADT repea ...
    On The O'Reilly Factor , Bill O'Reilly advanced the falsehood that repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" would "cause a lot of morale problems" in the military. Studies of other countries show that allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly does not affect morale. From the April 21 edition of Fox N ...
  • Conservative media baselessly accuse White House ...
    Media conservatives have levied the completely baseless allegation that the White House was "colluding" with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in filing a civil lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs of fraud in order to create a "villain" to "bolster support for the crackdown on the banks f ...
  • Right-wing media criticize financial reform with ...
    Criticizing Democratic efforts to reform regulation of the financial industry, right-wing media figures have begun repeating the myth that affordable housing initiatives are to blame for the 2008 financial crisis, pointing to the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. E ...
  • Right wing falsely accuses Obama admin. of "cooki ...
    Right-wing media figures falsely accused the Obama administration of "cooking the books" on the stimulus package, arguing that the fact the administration has lowered its estimate of jobs that would exist without the stimulus package means that the administration dishonestly inflated its estimate ...
  • Witch hunt: Washington Times attempts to ...
    In another distortion-laden attack, The Washington Times falsely claimed that judicial nominee Goodwin Liu is "beholden to foreign law" and would look to foreign law for legal "authority" in reaching decisions. In fact, in the law review article the Times cited, Liu spoke favorably about Supreme Co ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • 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 Germ ...
  • 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 ...
  • Question: Were Democrats Involved In Decision Not ...
    I am struggling over the Goldman Sachs story. As TPM Cafe readers know, I make no pretense to knowing economics. Yes, I know a lot more than John McCain. But mainly I rely on Krugman, Chait and a few others. So here's the question? How did these newfangled financial instruments escape regu ...

TruthOut

  • Who Let the Blue Dogs Out?
    This is a grim story about the care and feeding of a Blue Dog. Right now, Congresswoman Jane Harman is facing a serious primary challenge from a genuine progressive, Marcy Winograd, in Southern California's 36th Congressional district. Last Saturday afternoon, I sat on stage with both candidates a ...
  • GOP's Grassley Joins Democrats In Passing Limits o ...
    Washington - The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved by 13-8 tough new curbs on derivatives, the financial tools that had a big role in triggering the 2008 financial crisis. The vote sent a strong signal that a broader financial regulatory overhaul is within reach of enactment. read m ...
  • US and Israel: The Procedural Relationship
    Media attention concerning US-Israeli relations has been feverish recently. It is commonly assumed that the friction indicates cracks in the "special relationship," precipitated by ill feelings between the Obama administration and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. There very well may be i ...
  • Truthout | News in Brief
    The Washington Post reports that after Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy last June, the company reported today that it lost $3.8 billion through the end of the year, but it expects its operations to break even in 2010. The announcement came in the report of Chrysler's financial standing since the US ...
  • Bill Moyers Journal | The Case for Net Neutrality
    Airtime: Friday, April 23, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here ). read more

Planetsave

  • Mountains Add to What We Don’t Know about the Clim ...
    A new study to be published in the International Journal of Climatology concludes that predicting the effects of global warming in the future could be significantly affected by mountains. The study, written by researchers from Oregon State University using the unique historical data provided by Ore ...
  • Copenhagen Accord Dooming us to Three degrees Warm ...
    The pledges to curb carbon emissions made during 2009âs Copenhagen Accord are more likely to see Earth suffer a three degree warming rather than the dealâs target of two degrees. Such a warming could have dire affects for Earthâs climate system, possibly increasing the frequency of droughts, ...
  • Here’s Your Chance to Ask Starbucks “W ...
    Starbucks invites you to join a live online conversation about the company’s efforts to make its cups recyclable. Imagine… you’re in a Starbucks enjoying your double tall, soy latte and chatting with a close friend. You finish your beverage, and get up to throw away your soiled paper cup. But th ...
  • Public Urination Commercials: One Way to Stop Vehi ...
    This is one way to get attention for a very serious but often ignored issue (i.e. vehicle idling) — create a commercial equating it to public urination. Vehicle idling is responsible for countless emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. It is also completely useless much of the time, p ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

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

Grassroots

  • The Joy of Justice: Marching with the Coalition of ...
    CIW-march4-10.jpg Below is a blog from our colleague Stephen Bartlett of Agricultural Missions entitled “Praying with our Feet Journal.” Along with 1,000 others, he participated in the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) Farmworker Freedom Ma ...
  • Dispatches from World People's Conference on Clima ...
    A World People's Conference on Climate Change has been called by Bolivia as a response to the failure of COP15 . As one of the few countries that openly criticized the negotiations in Copenhagen and has refused to sign the Copenhagen Accord, Bolivia has invited governments, organizations, and pe ...
  • 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
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Climate

  • April 21, 2010
    Sen. Kerry Hints at Changes in Climate Bill (Reuters) Sen. John Kerry, leading the drive for compromise climate change legislation, said on Tuesday his proposal would not contain any sort of motor fuels tax and could scrap an oil sector "fee" that has been discussed. White House: Climat ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Goldman Plays, We Pay
    � from Truthdig The story of the financial debacle will end the way it began, with the super-hustlers from Goldman Sachs at the center of the action and profiting wildly. Never in U.S. history has one company wielded such destructive power over our political economy, irrespective of whether a Republ ...
  • The F Word: Coal Company Shopping Spree
    Last week, I noted that rating agency Standard and Poors had upgraded Massey Energy from "hold" to a "buy." Massey's the company that owns the mine where 29 miners were killed in an explosion recently. Now we find out that Standard and Poors were right: Massey's prospects are only going up -- in fac ...
  • Clarence Thomas's Wife, "Ginni" (Admirer of Right ...
    Early next month, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas will officially launch Liberty Central , a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization that will be "activating informed American patriots who are seeking knowledge of the core founding principles and passionate about preserving freedom and liberty." Libert ...
  • Tomgram: William Astore, The Business of America I ...
    from TomDispatch It’s hard to miss these days. The headlines tell the story -- repetitively. Everyone, it seems, is on the take. The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Goldman Sachs with securities fraud for creating and selling “a mortgage investment that was secretly intended to fail ...
  • Who Let the Blue Dogs Out?
    This is a grim story about the care and feeding of a Blue Dog. Right now, Congresswoman Jane Harman is facing a serious primary challenge from a genuine progressive, Marcy Winograd, in Southern California’s 36th congressional district. Last Saturday afternoon (April 17), I sat on stage with both can ...

Ten Percent

  • Why Argentina Is Better Than The US & UK
    They tried and sentenced former leader Reynaldo Bignone for crimes against humanity, Reynaldo Bignone, 82, was convicted along with five other former military officers for 56 cases involving torture, illegal detentions and other crimes in one of Argentina’s largest torture centres, the Campo de Mayo ...
  • Of Badgers & Men (& Censorship)
    The reason for my blog being censored by WordPress was because of a post about ‘Sir’ Howard Newby, I have not been told this in an email or any such civilised notification but I found the post had been altered by WP admin and was the source of me being barred from my own blog. [...]
  • Avast Me Hearties, Meet The MV Rachel Corrie!
    FreeGaza.org (Dundalk, Ireland, April 20, 2010) The 1200-ton cargo ship had been abandoned in July 2009, off the coast of Ireland. She was then impounded after an inspection by the International Transport Federation (ITF) discovered her owners had exploited their Lithuanian crewmembers – not paying ...
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Serious Questions
    It seems like a foregone conclusion that Obama will soon sign a financial regulatory reforms bill. He may even pass it with significant Republican support. Will success breed success? Is the Party of Hell No strategy breaking down?
  • Need a Laugh?
    Watch this: You can't parody these people.
  • Thank You, Dorothy Height
    Living and working in Washington, it's not unusual to run in to famous people. No, not "movie star famous." At least not most of the time. But people who hold important positions or people whose work and actions have made history, and made a difference in the lives of countless others. Dr. Dor ...
  • Three Senate Races to Watch
    While the Daily Caller takes a look at how the Tea Party might affect various Senate races, I'd like to look at a broader set of concerns related to how our midterm elections might shake things up in both major parties. The big enchilada is obviously Majority Leader Harry Reid's reelection campa ...
  • The Greening of the Military
    Guess which organization is one of the most pro-active groups in our country when it comes to promoting and converting the energy it requires to alternative fuels and renewable energy? The answer might surprise you. I know it did me (from McClatchy): it's the US Military! While deliberations g ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Foreign Accent Syndrome
    Strange things are afoot in the language centres of our brains. Just the other week, we had the story of the Croatian teenager who woke from a coma unable to speak her native language, but mysteriously fluent in German. Slightly more mundane (but still pretty weird) is Foreign Accent Syndrome, where ...
  • Another high-frequency trading software theft alle ...
    Remember the story about the guy who’d allegedly “stolen” (more accurately, downloaded a copy of) the Goldman-Sachs automated trading algorithm software? Well, now a young banker formerly employed by Societe Generale is accused of a very similar crime. There’ll probably be plenty more incidents lik ...
  • UK houses to powered by poo
    INHABITAT reports that a pilot scheme in Oxfordshire will see 130 homes supplied with biomethane derived from human fecal matter in sewage. Personally I think this is a great idea… but if we’re going to use shit to heat our homes, maybe we should try to find a way of harnessing the foetid power of [ ...
  • Davis asks Lethem about Dick
    H+ Magazine puts out some interesting content, even if you don’t consider yourself a transhumanist: here’s Erik “Techgnosis” Davis interviewing Jonathan Lethem about science fiction legend Philip K Dick: For people familiar with Dickâs personal experiences, his biography and his temperament, the i ...
  • LilyPad: floating climate-refugee metropolis conce ...
    Sometimes it seems like architects and designers are the last bastion of that positive and streamlined best-case-scenario futurism that informed Golden Age science fiction. Check out the LilyPad from Vincent Callebaut, which is his idea for a floating home for all the people who’ll be displaced by c ...

Therapy News

  • British Program Investigates Women with Psychologi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though they can sometimes be stereotypical or cliched, characters in literature portraying those with psychological concerns can communicate a great deal about contemporary ideas of mental health and the issues that surround them. Recently, a British radio program has ...
  • Ecstasy Shows Potential for PTSD Clients in Psycho ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The drug ecstasy or MDMA has been illegal in the United States and several parts of the world for many years, but medical and psychotherapy professionals have been interested in its effects on the emotions and sense of well-being for some time. Probing the potential o ...
  • Alcohol Treatment – Will Your Program Work?
    By Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. & Ed Wilson, Ph.D., MAC, Drug & Alcohol Addiction Topic Expert Contributors Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her Profile Click here to contact Ed and/or see his Profile People are always calling us and saying “I’ve been to treatment and it didn’t work. Will you ...
  • British Red Cross Therapy Professional Sent to Hel ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline With travel delays becoming an increasingly frustrating issue throughout much of Europe due to the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, many travelers are experiencing a logistical difficulty that authorities worry may be an emotional difficulty, as well. ...
  • Good and Bad Deeds Impact Willpower, Physical Abil ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Some people perceive that willpower must be summoned seemingly from thin air in order to complete difficult tasks, and that physical ability is solely derived from training and physiology. In a study recently concluded at Harvard University, however, researchers found ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • W.Va. Mining Protester Cited For Contempt - WJZ
    W.Va. Mining Protester Cited For Contempt WJZ (AP) ― A West Virginia judge found an anti- mountaintop removal mining activist in contempt Wednesday for chaining himself to chairs in the lobby of a ... W.Va. mining protesters cited for contempt Charleston Gazette all 15 news articles��
  • Mining protester cited for contempt - Charleston G ...
    Mining protester cited for contempt Charleston Gazette A West Virginia judge found an anti- mountaintop removal mining activist in contempt Wednesday for chaining himself to chairs in the lobby of a Massey Energy ... and more��
  • Farmington Valley Oh The West Virginia Hills - Har ...
    Farmington Valley Oh The West Virginia Hills Hartford Courant According to Olivia, approximately 500 mountains have been destroyed due to mountaintop removal mining and more than 1200 streams have been ruined with ...
  • W.Va. mining protesters cited for contempt - Charl ...
    W.Va. mining protesters cited for contempt Charleston Gazette (AP) - A West Virginia judge has found three anti- mountaintop removal mining activists in contempt for chaining themselves to chairs in the lobby of a ... and more��
  • The Nation: The New Crack Down On Big Coal - NPR
    The Nation: The New Crack Down On Big Coal NPR This past March, following several modest moves toward greater scrutiny of mountaintop removal permits in the past year, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Memeorandum

  • A Republican May Test Odds as an Outsider (Damien ...
    Damien Cave / New York Times : A Republican May Test Odds as an Outsider   —  COCOA BEACH, Fla. — Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida darted out of the Tallahassee rain on Tuesday, dragging a band of reporters to his office before answering The Question: Will you leave the Republican Party to run for the ...
  • Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option (C ...
    Charles Babington / Associated Press : Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option   —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days. ...
  • Steele: No reason for black GOP base (Andy Barr/Th ...
    Andy Barr / The Politico : Steele: No reason for black GOP base   —  Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told a group of students that African-Americans “don't have a reason” to vote for Republicans.  —  Steele was asked Tuesday night during a speech to roughly 200 students at De ...
  • Liberty and Tyranny and Epistemic Closure - By: Ji ...
    Jim Manzi / The Corner on National Review Online : Liberty and Tyranny and Epistemic Closure — By: Jim Manzi   —  Jonah notes Ross Douthat's very interesting post, in which Ross had this to say:  —  Conservative domestic policy would be in better shape if conservative magazines and conservative col ...
  • Senate Panel Approves Derivatives Reform Bill (New ...
    New York Times : Senate Panel Approves Derivatives Reform Bill   —  WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and Democrats predicted on Wednesday that Congress would soon pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system, indicating a potentially swift resolution of the latest partisa ...

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China Dialogue

  • Preparing for an ice-free Arctic (1)
    Climate change is expected to transform the geography – and geopolitical weight – of the polar regions. In the first instalment of a three-part article, Linda Jakobson explores China’s growing interest in the thawing north. China is paying increasing attention to the melting of the ice in the Arctic ...
  • A paper victory
    Revelations about the extent of China’s pollution problems have undermined cries of victory from the environment ministry – and raised questions about its clout, argues Liu Jianqiang. In early February, the results of a national pollution survey released by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Prot ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • ACTA Backs Away From 3 Strikes
    A proposed global intellectual-property treaty no longer nudges the international community to develop “three strikes” protocols to suspend internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released Tuesday. The of ...
  • Second Banker Accused of Stealing ‘High-Frequency’ ...
    It was only a matter of time before another banker, lured by the prospects of riches, would get busted on allegations of stealing source code connected to a high-frequency, stock-and-commodities trading platform. The latest arrest concerns a former Societe Generale trader who was being detained Tue ...
  • Google: U.S. Demanded User Info 3,500 Times in Six ...
    For years, search engines and ISPS have refused to tell the public how many times the cops and feds have forced them to turn over information on users. But on Tuesday, Google broke that unwritten code of silence, unveiling a Government Requests Tool that shows the public how often individual goverm ...
  • Report: Google Hackers Stole Code to Global Passwo ...
    The hackers who breached Google’s network last year were able to nab the source code for the company’s global password system, according to the New York Times. The Single Sign-On password system, which Google referred to internally as Gaia, allows users to log into a constellation of services the co ...
  • 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 ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • 7 Events in 14 Days
    In the past two weeks, PDA has been stoking the fire of the Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign in Pennsylvania and California. With the healthcare debate in Congress temporarily behind us, we’re now turning up the ...
  • A Mad Tea Party
    By William John Cox | PDA Blog Contributor There are good reasons why the tea partyers are mad; however, their solutions are equally mad. The movement is being joined by independents, republicans, and democrats who have come ...
  • 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

Marler Blog

  • E. coli O157:H7 Recall in Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio ...
    Beltex Corporation, a Fort Worth, Texas, establishment, is recalling approximately 135,500 pounds of beef trim products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products are subje ...
  • The Time has come to pass S 510, the FDA Food Safe ...
    Senators, Reid, Durbin and Harkin have all promised to move this bill (Reid with a direct call to Linda Rivera), but Wall Street financial reform has moved in front over the last week.� Come on!� The time has come to pass S 510.� Yes, the bill is not perfect.� Yes, it has some amendments, like bann ...
  • FSIS Petition for Ruling on Declaring all enterohe ...
    I received yet another letter from my recent pen pal, Dr. Derfler, at the USDA’s FSIS. (click on image below): For those interested in the retail hamburger testing for non-O157 that prompted the Petition, click here .  That Abstract was based upon about 1,000 samples.  We now have sampled about 5 ...
  • Off to Shanghai - China International Food Safety ...
    I look forward to being a sponsor at this years event (for the 4th time).� Food safety is crucial to both public health and the prosperity of the food trade. Governments and industry alike face major challenges in their quest to improve food safety and better protect consumers. For its part, the Chi ...
  • As a Mars PA man is on life support, Sally Fallon ...
    According to WPXI , James Orchard, a 67-year-old man from Mars, Pa., is on life support at UPMC Presbyterian because of the raw milk he consumed more than a month ago. James Orchard was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the pe ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 04.22.10
    Volt production pushed up to October? GM says plans "have not changed" So, um, when, exactly? Scientist wants automakers held accountable for how electricty is generated for plug-ins This not ...
  • Is the Chevy Volt coming in October? The news is c ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Chevrolet , GM , Electric 2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for high-res gallery According to Consumer Reports , Chairman Ed Whitacre has said that the Chevrolet Volt will go on sale this October. Of course, we've heard this rumor before , and each time GM says that the original ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.20.10
    EPA still not settled on MPG labels for plug-ins, Volt unlikely to get 230 mpg That's not going to make The General happy. Taxes drive gas prices to over $7 a gallon in UK, mass boycott comi ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

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!

  • Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
    Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from El Alto International, the world’s highest commercial ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • James Cameron Fights Real Life Avatar Battle in Ra ...
    The Hollywood megamovie director, with war paint on his face and a spear in his hand, met with leaders of 18 indigenous tribes last week to plan their battle to stop a proposed dam that would flood hundreds of miles of the Amazon.
  • NASA's Earth Day Gift Runs On a 56,832-Core Superc ...
    Earth Week is upon us, and NASA has prepared a very special gift for the blue planet. Dwarfing the iPods that we customarily give each other to celebrate another year of existence, NASA put together NEX, a planetary data-crunching tool that uses a 56,832-core, 128-screen supercomputer to blend globa ...
  • A 2nd garbage patch: Plastic soup seen in Atlantic
    Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles (kilometers) in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • So Many Earthquakes! The End is Nigh! --
    After China's quake, it's hard not to wonder -- is something crazy going on with Earth's crust?
  • U.S. Military Report Says Massive Oil Shortages by ...
    The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact ... the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Political Backlash in Europe Over Goldman
    By MARCUS WALKER in Berlin and DAVID ENRICH in London Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in danger of losing business with a key group of clients as a result of the fraud allegations it faces: governments in Europe and the U.S. Politicians in the U.K. and Germany are starting to call on their governments to c ...
  • Al-Qaeda Chief In Iraq: Captured, Killed, Never Ac ...
    Steve Watson U.S. and Iraqi officials have today announced that two “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” leaders have been killed in an air strike carried out by American troops. A major flaw in the story that seems to have been overlooked, is that both of the men have already been reported captured and killed on sev ...
  • How Scientific Is Modern Medicine Really?
    By Dana Ullman Doctors today commonly assert that they practice “scientific medicine,” and patients think that the medical treatments they receive are “scientifically proven.” However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and profitable marketing ruse, not fact. The British Medical Journ ...
  • Missing Heat Hides From Climate Scientists
    By Doug Hoffman Climate scientists have decided that as much as half of the heat energy, believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, is hiding somewhere it can not be found. By measuring the radiative energy input at the top of Earth’s atmosphere, scientists have a pretty good idea of how mu ...
  • Global warming alarmists were wrong about Gulf Str ...
    By Barbara Hollingsworth Another addition to the non-events predicted by the global warming crowd: The Gulf Stream is not, repeat NOT, slowing down. Between 2002 and 2009, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have seen no, repeat NO, discernible long-term trend in the major oceanic circu ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Warning: This Soup is Inedible and Toxic – Toxic S ...
    I knew that big corporations manipulate the system to delay environmental reform. That's a no brainer. But I didn't fully comprehend how many lives they're endangering in the process--around the world. Related posts: Giveaway: A Global Warning? History Channel DVD U.S. Petroleum Industry Respo ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Zero Energy Green Tomorrow House Achieves LEED Pla ...
    Built in the Gyeonggi Province, the Green Tomorrow house is a stunning self-sufficient emission-free residence with a fossil fuel consumption of zero. Not content with just making an incredibly low greenhouse gas-emitting house, the team at Samoo Architects achieved the first LEED Platinum rating fo ...
  • California’s First LEED Platinum School Teaches Wi ...
    A LEED School allows children to learn in a environmentally thoughtfull space.
  • Malva Lamp Topped With a Totally Compostable Shade
    Compost and lighting don’t usually go together, but innovative design studio Ett La Benn decided the two seemingly separate things would mesh perfectly together in their new Malva lamp. Unveiled at Milan Design Week, this minimalist, contemporary fixture was inspired by the natural material propert ...
  • BKLYN Designs Sneak Peek: Katch’s I-Beam Inspired ...
    Milan Design Week is wrapping up, and we’re getting into gear for the best of BKLYN Designs! One piece of furniture that has already caught our eye is this Lucky Beam bench by Brooklyn-based eco-design house Katch Design. Made from 100% recyclable aluminum, this bench features a solvent free powder ...
  • Sharps Compliance Recycles Used Syringes Into Buil ...
    Every year people with medial conditions use 3 billion syringes to self inject. Government regulations require those syringes to be disposed of safely with companies like like Sharps Compliance, although unfortunately the end game for syringes is usually the landfill. All that may change, however — ...

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

  • Upward Physical Movement Brings Back Happy Memorie ...
    Physical movement and memory are so closely intertwined that even a seemingly meaningless motion, like moving marbles from one box to another, alters the speed and tenor of recall. The marble-moving study was performed by Daniel Casasanto and Katinka Dykstra, psychologists at the Max Planck Institu ...
  • New Space Telescope Delivers First Mind-Blowing Vi ...
    NASA’s latest space telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is delivering unprecedented images of our local star. The telescope was launched Feb. 11. NASA released the first tremendously exciting data from the mission today. “These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in ...
  • License to Green: Clean Energy vs. Patents
    Developing new green technologies — like cheaper solar panels or methods of extracting energy from ocean tides — is a top priority for combating climate change, because global carbon emissions cannot be stabilized with existing technologies. In rich countries, where most tech development takes plac ...
  • Male Spiders Have Safer Sex With Siblings
    Inbreeding isn’t worth dying for, even in a spider species where males routinely pay for sex with their lives. Sex is never safe for males of the species Argiope bruennichi, one of Europe’s common orb-web spiders. In lab tests conducted by behavioral ecologists at the Zoological Institute and Museu ...
  • The Plan to Map Every Tree in San Francisco
    Every tree in San Francisco will soon be accounted for online, thanks to a new, Wikified project that aims to plot them all. The Urban Forest Map will officially launch Wednesday, drawing on tree information collected by the city of San Francisco and Friends of the Urban Forest, a non-profit group. ...

The Progressive Realist

  • The Commander-in-Chief in His Labyrinth
    A recently leaked memo from Defense Secretary Gates has caused a bit of a stir in foreign policy circles due to the arguable “bombshell” lurking in the lede: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not ha ...
  • A Russia-Poland "Reset"?
    Will the tragic plane crash over Smolensk that killed 96 of Poland’s top political elite provide the opening for a less fraught and more productive Russian-Polish relationship? That would require both countries coming to terms with a contested history, and with policy differences over the joint EU ...
  • DoD Report: "Iran’s Ideological Goals Have Taken a ...
    The usual venues are raising alarm about a newly released Department of Defense report on Iranian military power that states that Iran could probably develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the U.S. by 2015 “with sufficient foreign assistance.” While this is certainly worth paying attention to, ...
  • Victories, Foreign and Domestic: Can Domestic Vict ...
    Friedman had an oddly-timed column in yesterday's Times about the potential effects of Obama's healthcare victory on the Administration's foreign policy agenda. I say oddly-timed because the bill passed a month ago now, and most such prognostications have already slipped into the mists of discourse ...
  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - China confirmed having granted Venezuela two loans worth more than $20 billion. The news here is that one of the loans, worth $10.2 billion, is in yuan, and will be a "pilot test for internationalizing" the Chinese currency. - Japanese government sources claimed that two Chinese submarines and eig ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Compared to the Federal Governmen ...
    It shouldn't surprise anyone that the reaction from the Tea Partiers to financial regulation legislation has largely been "no comment." The glue of the Tea Party movement is protest against redistributionist government that unfairly taxes the hard working and then gives handouts to the undeserving. ...
  • Bachmann Runs Net Neutrality Through Her English-t ...
    Paul suggests below that Minnesota Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann is the embodiment of the theory that people who are demonstrably crazy tend to have have far more potential for career advancement in the Republican Party than the Democratic Party. And her convoluted understanding of the whole ...
  • Graham's Deep, Dark Secret: He Likes Immigration R ...
    Looks like the nativist group Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) is getting desperate. William Gheen 's rant at a rally "outing" Sen. Lindsey Graham , who supports comprehensive immigration reform, has gone viral. Though Graham has said repeatedly that he is not gay (just single), ALIPAC insis ...
  • The Little Picture: It's All About the Benjamins.
    Today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke unveiled the new $100 bill. The note has two new security features and will go into circulation February 2011. We here at TAP are somewhat more fond of -- and familiar with -- Abraham Lincoln 's visage. (Department of the Treasury/ ...
  • The Strange Journey of Gary Gensler.
    At the end of the Clinton administration, Gary Gensler was one of the Treasury officials who argued against regulating derivatives contracts. Now he's the head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the primary derivatives regulator. You'd think that would be a bad thing, but as our o ...

Andy Worthington

  • Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the ...
    Note: This article is published as part of âGuantánamo Habeas Weekâ (introduced here), which also features an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the judgesâ unclassified opinions, and more). Despite the Bush administrationâs fearsome rhetoric regarding Gu ...
  • Urgent appeal for the UK to offer refuge to Ahmed ...
    The case of Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian who sought asylum in the UK, and lived here for nearly three years, has long been a source of concern for human rights activists. Although he was cleared for release from Guantánamo in 2007, he is terrified of returning to Algeria, and with good reason. Althou ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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

  • April 19: A Schedule
    April 19 is the most significant date on the antigovernment âPatriotâ movementâs calendar. It marks the day that the first shots were fired against the British in 1775 at Lexington and Concord, but itâs also the anniversary of the end of the 1993 FBI siege at Waco, Texas, as well as the 1995 ...
  • Dobbs to Nativist Leader: ‘Dump the Hate’
    Talk radio host Lou Dobbs excoriated nativist leader William Gheen on air today for making comments about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sexual orientation. “I cannot even imagine why you would do such a thing,” Dobbs told Gheen, who appeared as a guest on Dobbs’ nationally syndicated show. Gheen, who heads ...
  • Vicious Kansas Gay-Bashers Finally Find a Friend
    Westboro Baptist Church , a Kansas-based group notorious for turning tragedies into gay-bashing opportunities, is pretty much universally reviled. Even an Arizona-based Ku Klux Klan group forcefully (if ungrammatically) rejected the group in a “disclaimer” published on its website. “The Ku Klux Klan ...
  • Former Neo-Nazi Leader Sentenced to Prison for Thr ...
    Former neo-Nazi leader Bill White will spend 2½ years in prison for threatening his perceived enemies. U.S. District Judge James Turk sentenced White to 30 months on each of three counts, according to a federal court filing. The sentences will be served at the same time, with credit for time served. ...
  • Fifteen Years Later: A Grim Anniversary in Oklahom ...
    Next Monday, Americans will mark the 15 th anniversary of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City — the worst single act of domestic terrorism in our nation’s history and a grim reminder of the fruits of right-wing radicalism. Although Timothy McVeigh and confederates Terry Nichols and Mi ...

change: org.

  • Disneynature Sets Out to Save the Oceans
    Last Earth Day, Disneynature released the movie Earth. As you might imagine, I've seen a lot of nature shows over the years, but the footage in this film blew me away. It was visually incredible and, in true Disney fashion, told a story that you had no choice but to get emotionally invested in. But  ...
  • Echoing Green Announces Finalists
    Seed stage funding and support fellowship offered by Echoing Green has just announced their finalists for this year's competition. The group is diverse in subject, but they are consistent in the strength of their ideas. The real question for the judges to decide now is, who can execute? The projects ...
  • Dr. Dorothy Height—Extraordinary Leader, Lantern, ...
    Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund, is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. "We African American Women seldom do just what we want to do, but always what we have to do. I am grateful to have been in a time and place w ...
  • Beefing Up Title IX
    Title IX, created to ensure gender equity in schools that receive federal funding, had its legs cut out from under it by a Bush-era policy that essentially allowed schools to stick with their status quo. Universities can show compliance with Title IX in three ways: making sure that the percentage of ...
  • How to Simultaneously Improve America and Annoy Gl ...
    Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and other talking heads, cover your ears. What follows is a call to volunteerism for Poverty in America readers. You read right — volunteerism. That promoter of human dignity. That indispensable part of the American experience that binds together individuals from different ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Under-Fire Goldman Sachs Reveals 90% Jump in Profi ...
    by Andrew Clark The under-fire Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs faced a fresh barrage of public and political outcry today as it revealed a 90% leap in profits in spite of accusations of dishonesty in its dealing with clients, raising the spectre of multimillion dollar bonuses at the height of a battl ...
  • Supreme Court Appears to Back Student Group's Excl ...
    by Michael Doyle WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared poised Monday to strike down a San Francisco law school's refusal to recognize a Christian student group because it effectively prohibits gays from joining. With pointed questions and sharp tones, the court's most vocal ...
  • Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent and Human Rig ...
    by Andrew Stelzer TAMPA, Florida - 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 tomatoes. T ...
  • 'Too Fat' for Empire? Military Generals Target Sch ...
    by Mary Clare Jalonick WASHINGTON - School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat. That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that scho ...
  • Report: 'The Big Fat Lie about Doubling Food Produ ...
    by Juliette Jowit A declaration that global food production needs to double to feed the world by the middle of this century provoked shock when it was announced by the UN food chief. It has since become a founding pillar of food policy, cited by leading British politicians and government scientists, ...

Lifehacker

  • Every Time Zone Makes Elegant Sense of Internation ...
    Managing two or three time zones in your head should be easy, but the brain just doesn't seem to like living in more than one place. Every Time Zone helps make sense of the time, and date, anywhere in the world. More�� ...
  • Google Maps Adds Auto-Suggestions From Popular Sea ...
    Can't remember the name of that Brazilian steak place with "Fogo" in the name? Google Maps can now offer up the answer, as it adds popular searches, local business results, and hints from your previous searches to its search box. More�� ...
  • Hulu Plus Subscription Plan to Offer Greater Back ...
    The free Hulu you know, with the last five episodes of most sponsored shows available for streaming, with ads, will still exist. But Hulu looks to be pushing Hulu Plus, a $10 per month archive access plan, as early as late May. More�� ...
  • Free Up Drive Space by Deleting the Hiberfil.sys [ ...
    Windows: If you routinely use Hibernation mode, this trick isn't for you. If you never use Hibernate mode on your desktop or laptop, this trick will free up 4-6GB of disk space on your system disk. More��
  • Podcast Introduction to Basic Meditation and Mindf ...
    Meditation means a lot of different things, but at its heart is a quieting of the mind, which can boost your focus and general health. Audio Dharma offers six free recorded classes that introduces concepts and helps you through some early sits ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • US Generals Admit Only Way To "Stop Iran" Is To In ...
    By Steve Hynd Via the BBC, an illuminating discussion in the Senate: If Iran decides to go for nuclear weapons, the US may not be able to permanently stop this from happening unless it is willing to occupy the country. This is the candid conclusion of one army general testifying in front of the Sena ...
  • In Afghanistan, A Badge Of Courage
    By Steve Hynd From the UK's Daily Mail: German soldiers are wearing their hearts on their sleeves - in the form of a badge that protests their country's involvement in the war in Afghanistan. Some troops have taken to wearing the cloth accessory that states - ironically - 'I fight for Merkel' in a b ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Amy Goodman: Bolivia knows only grass roots can sp ...
    COCHABAMBA, Bolivia Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from El Alto International, the worlds ...
  • YES, HES THIRSTY AGAIN
    Assuming the Icelandic volcano relents sufficiently for European skies to open up again, Shekhar Kapur is very much looking forward to being in Cannes for its 63rd film festival from May 12-23.
  • Can California fix the Delta before disaster strik ...
    BERKELEY When visiting Sherman Island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, it is easy to forget the region's ever-present threat of catastrophic floods and instead revel in the West Coast's largest estuary, which supports farmers, anglers and more than 700 native species of plants and animals ...
  • Worldly Wise
    The Syracuse International Film Festival hosts two unique events this week that focus on ecological issues, both at Eastwoods Palace Theatre , 2384 James St. The documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars will screen on Thursday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., a cautionary tale about our fresh-water supply.
  • Can California fix the Delta before disaster strik ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Better management of the overlapping infrastructure systems in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is the goal of a four-year, $2 million project headed by UC Berkeley researchers. Networks of highways, railroads, and electrical, gas, and telecommunication lines intersect in the ...

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Electronic Intifada

  • Gil Scott-Heron: don't play apartheid Israel!
    The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is gravely disappointed by the announcement that well-known, progressive artist Gil Scott-Heron is ...
  • Hamas vows to carry out more executions
    GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - The Hamas authorities in Gaza have vowed to carry out more executions of those on death row despite intense international criticism and conde ...
  • Video: US Jews break Israel's "Law of Return"
    As US Jews, we have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel's "Law of Return," while many Palestinians have not been able to return home in over 60 years. It is not right that we may "return" to a state that is not ours while Palestinians are excluded and continuously dispossessed. ...
  • Gil Scott-Heron: don't go to the moon
    Matthew Cassel writes a letter to the Black American artist Gil Scott-Heron asking him not to cancel his upcoming concert in Tel Aviv: "Your scheduled concert in Tel Aviv is in dir ...
  • El Al sued for racial profiling
    Two Palestinian citizens of Israel have won $8,000 in damages from Israel's national carrier, El Al, after a court found that their treatment by the company's security staff at a N ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • New McChrystal Approach Means Greater Danger for G ...
    During his much-anticipated visit to Berlin, US General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, refrained from making any demands for additional German troops. But McCh...
  • Backed by Pak Army, Taliban, foreign militants fin ...
    Islamabad, Apr. 22 : Having been chased out of South Waziristan, foreign militants, including Arabs, Chechens and Uzbeks, are reportedly establishing a new base farther north under the protection of a...
  • Unknown gunmen assassinate four in Afghanistan, po ...
    Kabul - Suspected Taliban militants have assassinated four people including government officials and a tribal chief, in the latest series of targeted attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.Me...
  • An Afghan lesson in supply and demand
    Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan He's a young man in an ill-fitting suit standing in the principal's office beneath pictures of Afghan sages and Wile E. Coyote. There's no principal, but he says he'l...
  • No friendly waves only hatred for British troops i ...
    British troops in Afghanistan's Upper Sangin valley. Photograph: Rupert Frere/AP As with so many of the Helmand towns where the British are present the bazaar in Sangin is officially "thriving".Inde...

Futurismic

  • Foreign Accent Syndrome
    Strange things are afoot in the language centres of our brains. Just the other week, we had the story of the Croatian teenager who woke from a coma unable to speak her native language, but mysteriously fluent in German. Slightly more mundane (but still pretty weird) is Foreign Accent Syndrome, where ...
  • Another high-frequency trading software theft alle ...
    Remember the story about the guy who’d allegedly “stolen” (more accurately, downloaded a copy of) the Goldman-Sachs automated trading algorithm software? Well, now a young banker formerly employed by Societe Generale is accused of a very similar crime. There’ll probably be plenty more incidents lik ...
  • UK houses to powered by poo
    INHABITAT reports that a pilot scheme in Oxfordshire will see 130 homes supplied with biomethane derived from human fecal matter in sewage. Personally I think this is a great idea… but if we’re going to use shit to heat our homes, maybe we should try to find a way of harnessing the foetid power of [ ...
  • Davis asks Lethem about Dick
    H+ Magazine puts out some interesting content, even if you don’t consider yourself a transhumanist: here’s Erik “Techgnosis” Davis interviewing Jonathan Lethem about science fiction legend Philip K Dick: For people familiar with Dickâs personal experiences, his biography and his temperament, the i ...
  • LilyPad: floating climate-refugee metropolis conce ...
    Sometimes it seems like architects and designers are the last bastion of that positive and streamlined best-case-scenario futurism that informed Golden Age science fiction. Check out the LilyPad from Vincent Callebaut, which is his idea for a floating home for all the people who’ll be displaced by c ...

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Malaysia passes limited whistleblower protection
    The Star of Penang, Malaysia, reports that parliament there has passed a new Whistleblower Protection Bill. Unfortunately, the bill only protects informants who provide confidential information to the government. The Star rightfully inquired of the government why other disclosures would not be prote ...
  • Wisconsin Senate passes shield law
    The Wisconsin Senate yesterday passed a "Shield Law" that would protect journalists and their confidential sources. The bill now goes to the Governor who has expressed support for the bill. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Pat Kreitlow, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , "This bill is not about protect ...
  • ARB asks for briefs on SOX subsidiary coverage
    Last week the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued an order inviting all interested persons to submit briefs on whether employees of subsidiaries are protected by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The briefs are due July 15, 2010. The invitation comes in the case of Carri ...
  • Feds prosecute another whistleblower
    The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting another whistleblower.� According to an indictment by a Baltimore grand jury ( reported here by the New York Times ), Thomas A. Drake released classified emails showing that the National Security Administration (NSA) wasted billions of taxpayer dollars tryi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Duh, Don't Leave A Thumb Drive With Child Porn Plu ...
    Jim submitted this story about a paramedic who left a thumb drive containing child pornography plugged into a shared computer. A coworker later found the files on the thumb drive, and the owner of the drive was brought up on charges for the offending files. Obviously child pornography is a s ...
  • Dish Network Lies About Having 200 HD Channels, Ho ...
    For several years TV carriers have enjoyed bickering over which company has the most HD channels, in part because it creates a debate focused on perceived value -- and steers the conversation away from who offers the lowest prices (or the fact that companies seem to impose annual or bi-annual TV hik ...
  • UK Testing Speed Cameras From Space? Not Exactly, ...
    Reader btr1701 submitted this story about the UK testing speed cameras that "trap motorists from space." Although the Telegraph article conjures up images of Big Brother spying on drivers from satellites, the facts are (somewhat) less sinister. The system essentially combines license plate recogni ...
  • How Engaging Is An Open Public Discussion If It Co ...
    There's been a lot of attention paid to Pierre Omidyar's attempt to build a new kind of local news organization in Hawaii. Omidyar, of course, was the founder of eBay, and many of the early comments about the project made it sound like a "new" type of news organization that really was very much abo ...
  • Blizzard Sells $2 Million In Virtual Livestock In ...
    From Farmville to Second Life, there's no question that if you're able to create a virtual world in which people pay real money for virtual goods, then you've got a winner on your hands. For years now, virtual sweatshops have existed to farm World of Warcraft for gold and rare items, that can then ...

VacTruth

  • B.C. may trash vaccine worth $20m
    Rob Shaw Canwest News Service 04/21/2010 B.C. could throw away almost $20 million worth of H1N1 vaccine because it went unused during swine flu season and will soon expire. Only 40 per cent of B.C.’s population chose to be vaccinated against H1N1, which meant roughly 2.5 million of the 4.3 million ...
  • Are panel chosen to investigate Gardasil in India ...
    Again the group Truth about Gardasil lead the world in the fight to get a ban on the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix. On the 16th April 2010 they released another strong press release. They ask if, the panel of investigators selected to examine alleged violations of guidelines in India, are cap ...
  • 8 Invented Diseases Big Pharma Is Banking on
    Martha Rosenberg AlterNet 04/16/2010 Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in 1997, pharma’s credo has been When The Medication Is Ready, The Disease (and Patients) Will Appear. Who knew so many people suffered from restless legs? But pharma’s recent plan to move from mass-market molecu ...
  • Empty Pharmacies Get Paid Millions
    April 5, 2010 Via Electronic Transmission (Click Here to See the Letter on Sen. Grassley’s Webpage.) The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20201 Dear Secretary Sebelius: As the senior Senator from Iowa and R ...
  • (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 ...

BroadSnark

  • 4/20 Quick Hit
    Not my regular posting day, but I can’t let 4/20 go by without posting something on the drug war.  Here’s a little debate with Ethan Nadelmann followed by links to some orgs that you should know about. Drug Policy Alliance Norml Marijuana Policy Project Stop the Drug War
  • 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 [...]

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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 Yemenâs (AQIY) leadership escaped to Somalia in recent weeks is not the end of Yemenâs 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

  • Trunks for Trunks: Buy Underwear and Plant Trees
    Story by Katie Leavitt, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com PACT is offering to plant 20 trees per purchase of each pair of organic cotton underwear in their Green Belt Movement collection. In the spirit of Earth Week, from April 16 to April 25, 100 percent of the proceeds will go towa ...
  • Gearless Checks Out the Tesla Model S (Video)
    Image credit: Gearless When I wrote about Robert Llewellyn's experiment with fast electric vehicle charging , one commenter rather uncharitably argued that this was "why entertainers should not do science reporting and green web sites should not parrot the poorly thought out entertainment." Sur ...
  • Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Design Academy Eindhove ...
    Water Fountain and Personal Fresh Air. Images by Design Academy Eindhoven One of the shows that stood out this year at the Milan Furniture Fair was the Design Academy Eindhoven 's Question exhibition at the up and coming district Ventura Lambrate . With all this excess of design and the various ...
  • I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here
    Image from NY Daily News Now that the planes are flying and the Royal Navy is on the seas, it's time for a bit of fun... Everyone gets a perverse enjoyment out of seeing the rich and pampered reduced to travelling steerage and the air shut down was a great leveler. Reading about celebrities ...
  • BIG Oil Rig Explosion Off Louisiana Coast, 11 to 1 ...
    This photo of the Deepwater Horizon rig was taken on Wed 21 Apr 2010 12:39:42 AM EDT. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Reminding Us of the Dangers of Fossil Fuels After the tragedy in a coal mine in West Virginia and the oil spill caused by a coal-carrying ship near Australia, disaster strikes again in ...

Biosingularity

  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D is ...
  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...
  • To starve a tumor
    Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the “Warburg effect” after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto Warburg. However, the field of cancer-cell metabolism has been largely ignored since the 1970s, when researche ...
  • Smart Pill Reports Back
    The medicine cabinet of the future could help make sure patients take their medications on time via a myriad of smart technologies. There are already pill bottles that wirelessly report to a computer when a cap has been opened, and devices for automatically dispensing medicine at the right time, and ...

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. 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

  • Two Arthritis Powerhouses Even Stronger Together
    New research shows that omega-3 fats and glucosamine work together to provide additional benefits for people with osteoarthritis. Scientists gave 1500 mg of glucosamine sulfate to the study participants, but some also received 200 mg of omega-3 fats. Both groups had about the same number of partici ...
  • The Estrogen Dilemma
    Estrogen has become a tricky problem for many women in the present day.  There are many conflicting studies -- depression studies, dementia studies, menopause studies, and more.  There are a number of different kinds of estrogen; pharmaceutical estradiol comes from plant molecules modified in a la ...
  • Health Insurance Companies Invest Billions in Fast ...
    Companies providing life and health insurance own nearly $2 billion worth of stock in the fast-food industry. The investments were in Jack in the Box, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy’s/Arby’s, and Yum! Brands, which includes KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. Dr. Pauline Rosenau, a professor of manageme ...
  • Can Dieting Cause Heart Disease and Cancer?
    Going on a diet may increase your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes and cancer. A study found that dieters produced higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. � The hormone actually caused some dieters put on more weight. The Economic Times notes that: � “The study ... lo ...
  • Too Many Antibiotics are Being Given to Animals
    The total number of antibiotics used in agriculture in the U.S. is still on the rise. The Union of Concerned Scientists alleges that 70 percent of this use is in animals that are vulnerable to disease due to crowded and unsanitary conditions. This over-use of antibiotics is creating resistant bact ...

Antemedius

  • McClatchy's Greg Gordon Explains SEC Charges Again ...
    McClatchy News' Greg Gordon talks with Paul Jay of The Real News Network with his analysis of the SEC civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs and Goldman VP Fabrice Tourre: Real News Network - April 17, 2010 Goldman Sachs charged with fraud McClatchy's Greg Gordon explains SEC charges again ...
  • EcoJustice: Big Energy Robs Landowners Of Mineral ...
    Daniel Gilbert , a staff writer for The Bristol Herald Courier of Bristol Va/Tn, wrote a series that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing a system that allowed corporations to drain natural gas from landowners' property without paying royalties. Corporations used a Virginia St ...
  • Reducing Food Waste in the Event of An Erupting Vo ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . As Iceland’s erupting volcano strands thousands of air travelers across Europe and worldwide, a less publicized but arguably more costly catastrophe is mounting 15,000 miles away: piles of gourmet produce and cut flowers, some of Keny ...
  • Re-Creation: Can The US Dollar Collapse? Part 4
    In the first three segments of this six part interview we've 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, talk with Paul ...
  • SEC Files Lawsuit Against Goldman Sachs. Criminal ...
    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents, Fabrice Tourre, for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter. MSNBC's Dy ...

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

  • WaPost’s Mallaby covers for Goldman Sachs
    When you have as much money as Goldman Sachs, it’s not hard to buy yourself some defenders. I’m just surprised that Sebastian Mallaby would be one of them. Compare and contrast his take with these: Hunter on synthetic CDOs (directly rebuts Mallaby’s fanciful account) Too much money? How the new bil ...
  • More ugly than would fit into one post
    Just when you think the right couldn’t possibly be any more detestable, along comes Jonah Goldberg, Lucianne’s ratfucking bastard. He attended the Tea Day party in Cincinnati, one of the most racist cities in the USA. Here is his report: I didn’t see a single racist or bigoted sign or hear a single ...
  • Hitting the fan
    Gathered so many links yesterday I didn’t have time to post them and yes, they’re mostly about Goldman Sucks, the Republicans who love Wall Street and want to have its babies, and a handful of disgruntled Dems who are not owned by Wall Street or Bob Rubin. Clusterfuck Nation Jonathan Schwarz on Ala ...
  • 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 [...]

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 âRah-e-Rastâ. Before the operation âRah-e-Rastâ, 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 âlegitimate politicsâ.  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

  • Viola Wilkins: Mother Earth: Bolivian President Bl ...
    Pablo and Taegen “We are gathered here because the so-called developed countries didn’t meet their obligation of establishing substantial commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen. If those countries had respected the Kyoto Protocol and had agreed to substantially reduce the emi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Environmental News - 22/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Giant Amazon dam to go ahead amid chorus of protest (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/giant-amazon-dam-to-go-ahead-amid-chorus-of-protest-20100421-szqt.html)-Brazil has hastily awarded the tender ...
  • Pole to Pole for Earth Day
    It’s precious. It’s stunning. It’s worth celebrating – and the BBC has joined the party: a FREE Planet Earth Episode download for Earth Day…
  • Green Celebrities
    Which celebrities walk the green walk? We take a look at 15 green celebrities from around the world…
  • SMART GRID ! Watt’s Wrong With Our Current Grid?
    Our mechanical, clunky grid, built more than 100 years ago, is stretched to overload in many places – but new age smarts are just down the line…
  • Environmental News - 16/03/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   CO2 at new highs despite economic slowdown-Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked indu ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Pakistan holding thousands in indefinite detention ...
    ShareThis Pakistan holding thousands in indefinite detention, officials say 22 Apr 2010 The Pakistani military is holding thousands of suspected militants in indefinite detention, arguing that the nation's dysfunctional civilian justice system cannot be trusted to prevent them from walking free, acc ...
  • Recycled al-Qaeda: Ayyub al-Masri 'killed' on Sund ...
    ShareThis 'Killed,' arrested, devalued, re-arrested, 're-killed' Recycled al-Qaeda: Ayyub al-Masri 'killed' on Sunday, captured in 2008 By Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/ 19 April 2010 Head of al-Qaeda in Iraq 'killed in raid' 19 Apr 2010 The US said that its forces had dealt a devastating blow ...
  • Let U.S. pay cost of Flight 253 terror trial secur ...
    ShareThis Let U.S. pay cost of Flight 253 terror trial security, Miller asks 21 Apr 2010 A Michigan congresswoman wants the U.S. Department of of Homeland Security to provide federal funds to defray any state and local costs arising from the trial of a man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-boun ...
  • 'Toxic stew' of chemicals causing male fish to car ...
    ShareThis 'Toxic stew' of chemicals causing male fish to carry eggs in testes 21 Apr 2010 More than 80% of the male bass fish in Washington's major river are now exhibiting female traits such as egg production because of a "toxic stew" of pollutants, scientists and campaigners reported yesterday. In ...
  • Lawyer: Stuck Throttle Found in Car of Imprisoned ...
    ShareThis � Lawyer: Stuck Throttle Found in Car of Imprisoned Toyota Driver 21 Apr 2010 The lawyer for a Toyota owner serving an eight-year prison sentence for vehicular homicide says a new inspection of his car found a possible fau ...

Daily Loaf

  • Photo review: Wanee Festival 2010 at Spirit of Suw ...
    This past weekend, the Allman Brothers returned to host and perform at the sixth annual edition of Wanee, the classic rock ensemble’s annual festival at Spirit of Suwanee Music Park in Live Oak. All the Allmans friends and family were in attendance along with a range of appealing musical match-ups. ...
  • Green Community Calendar weekend events: Earth Day ...
    Check out this weekend's green-related events!
  • On the Radar: Barkin HeARTs, Bay of Beards and Pad ...
    Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Inspired citizens of Tampa Bay and beyond get creative to raise money for some darn good causes. First up is Barkin HeARTs: an Alice in Wonderland-themed fundraiser for the non-profit pet rescue, Dogma. Created ...
  • Do It Today: Earth Day 2010 brings the Trashy Fash ...
    It’s as if Project Runway cut their budget and auf’d Heidi Klum: See the art of trash upcycled into eco-fashion (complete with runway show) by amateur designers at the third annual Trashy Fashion Show at the Largo Cultural Center in celebration of Earth Day. Get there early to check out the Green E ...
  • “Fire Kathy Castor” cries heard at the Hillsboroug ...
    The most critical of Kathy Castor was Mike Prendergrast, who said he was tired of the Pelosi-Castor "machine." Before answering a question s to what committee he'd like to serve on if elected, the 31-year Army veteran said, "the seat we're talking about does not belong to Kathy Castor, it belongs ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Activist On Trial For Supporting Bedouin
    A thank you from Yeela Raanan of the RCUV (Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages.) I was taken to court yesterday for sitting in a home in an unrecognized Bedouin village, as the bulldozer was at the wall â ready to demolish the house. The police carried me out of the home and arrested me, an ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • 2010 Midterms: Jobs vs. Wars in California
    California's budget crisis is actually much less than they're spending on the war in Afghanistan. $26 billion for the budget vs $38 billion for war. And what do they get for it? It's not better to live in California thanks to the war. It's actually getting much, much worse.
  • Links
    South Korean ship was sunk by North Korea torpedo 56% of Californians support legalizing pot in November election John Paulson now raging bull on housing and economy. (He shorted that Goldman CDO of mortgages and made billions a few years ago.) Greece welcomes its new IMF overlords with day of riot ...
  • The original Crack Shack or Mansion game
    Apparently some areas are still having a real estate boom.
  • Criminal charges for Goldman? Be still my heart
    Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, says he may collaborate with DoJ “to see if there are cases of fraud and if AIG and as a result, the American taxpayers, were victims of similar types of fraud.” Added bonuses: The Fab One will testify before the Senate on April 27. Sen. Levin: Anot ...
  • The Meth Project launches Paint the State Project
    Idaho and Montana teens spread the word about Meth by creating original artwork in the 2010 Paint the State contest The Meth Project gets results too. Recent survey data in Montana, where the Meth Project first initiated its prevention campaign in 2005, demonstrates attitudes and behaviors toward Me ...

Coteret

  • Bibi and Lieberman at odds over new UN Ambassador; ...
    One would think that a government, which repeats ad nauseum that effective diplomacy will lead to international acceptance of its hard-line agenda, would be able to get this right. That assumption, however, should probably have been discarded after the appointment of a Putinist as Foreign Minister, ...
  • Maariv: Shas Rabbi Yosef OKs East J’lem sett ...
    If Elie Wiesel now wants to run a full page ad in Maariv, I think I can get him a good price: $10,000-$20,000. It’s a tabloid, however, so he’ll have to reformat his Washington Post ad on Jerusalem. On a more serious note, this is a potentially significant report that should be handled with care. ...
  • 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, Israelâs 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • Arizona Lawmaker Explains Need For Birth Certifica ...
    April 21, 2010 CNN Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • This Day In History – April 22
    1864 â The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 which mandates that the inscription “In God We Trust” be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. 1870 â Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary, was born. 1889 â At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1 ...
  • Time To Consider Ocean Transport Again?
    We have been noting that flying is dying for a couple of years, as the combination of peak oil and security concerns conspire to make it miserable and expensive. Now we can toss in volcanoes, and question whether it is time for a return to liners as a viable mode of [...]
  • 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. I ...
  • UK Suspends ‘Titanic Laws’ to Bring St ...
    LONDON, April 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Lloyd’s List – the leading news and information service for the global shipping industry – has learned that the UK Department for Transport is allowing Dover ferry operators to carry passengers in numbers that would normally be illegal under rules against over ...

The Air Vent

  • Reader Background
    Kendra on the last thread suggested a discussion of our various backgrounds and how we came to be interested in climate science.  It’s not my normal around here but neither is arguing for the true warming effects of CO2 to be recognized by skeptics.  I think it would be interesting to hear from so ...
  • The Climate Ecosystem, Part II
    By Tom Fuller I’d like to express my thanks to Jeff for letting me guest blog here. I’m sure he needs the break, but I need a neutral forum even more than he needs his rest. I don’t want people to think I’m doing this to attract traffic to my own webspace, so this is a [...]
  • 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. [...]

Focal Point

  • Video: Extreme Makeover, Blogger Edition
    I have good news and bad news on the JUNO front. The bad news is that my partner, Darcy James Argue, and Secret Society didn't take home the statuette for Best Contemporary Jazz Album for Infernal Machines . On the upside, drippy teen phenom Justin Bieber didn't win anything, either. Further g ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • New Details of Facebook’s Location Plans Appear in ...
    Many people were expecting Facebook to make an announcement about a location-based service at f8, but the company didn’t say anything. Instead, it launched the Open Graph, a set of plugins and protocols intended to extend Facebook features to the web. But the protocols include some information about ...
  • Facebook Searching For Ways to Break Into Mobile A ...
    Today’s mobile panel at the Facebook f8 developer conference was notable for the subject it didn’t cover: Facebook itself. With four panelists and one moderator from Facebook, everyone involved managed to talk a lot about the iPhone without bringing up Facebook more than a handful of times. Sile ...
  • New Facebook Activity Stream Plugin Brings Filtere ...
    At todayâs f8 conference, Facebook announced several new products, including a series of social “plugins” (widgets) that enable third-party websites to incorporate Facebookâs social functionality onto their sites to increase distribution and user engagement. One of these is the activity stream p ...
  • With the Open Graph Protocol, Any URL Can Be Treat ...
    We are here at f8, where Facebook has announced its vision for the “Open Graph,” as well as a new set of plugins (widgets) designed to write to and read from the Graph on any website. Facebook’s Mark Kinsey and Austin Haugen just explained in more detail how publishers, brands, and media companies c ...
  • Facebook Recommendations Plugin to Make Website Co ...
    Web sites will be able to recommend their content to users based on what their friends are reading, via a new “Recommendations” plugin that Facebook is introducing today at its f8 developer conference. Because the social data is stored on Facebook’s servers, the Recommendations plugin will display ...

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ReDress News

  • Polanski’s ghost writer: Tony Blair and the absent ...
    Gilad Atzmon reviews Roman Polanski’s film, “The Ghost Writer”, noting the similarities between the fictional former British prime minister in the film, Adam Lang, and suspected war criminal Tony Blair, as well as some crucial differences, such as the absence of Zionists and Israel lobbyists in the ...
  • What Anglicans need is another Tutu as top cat
    Stuart Littlewood views the silence of the head of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, over Palestinian suffering, especially in Gaza, which he had promised to visit but had not been heard to mention since. He contrasts this with Mr Rowan’s fawning over Israel and the ...
  • 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.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...
  • Repsol applied for a permission to cut more of Ama ...
    Repsol YPF has applied to Peruâs government to cut 454 kilometres of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribesâ land- Workers advised: ‘If peaceful contact and (Tribes) understanding (of their Land being stolen and devastated) canât be reached and ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
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  • Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
    A Book on âArming Americaâs Enemiesâ Written by Americaâs 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

  • In The Neo-Race War, The Fight Against “Oper ...
    I’ll keep this short and sweet. There are White Nationalist factions in the Congress and particularly within the GOP who totally lost their minds when Barack Obama became President. These mostly Viagra’d out old farts serve less as spokespersons for We The People than they do for defense, oil, heal ...
  • 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 ...
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Expose the BNP

  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
  • 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 ...

Sen4Earth

  • Earth Day 2010
    Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A Real Watershed Moment for Citizen Journalism in ...
    Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...
  • A real watershed moment
    Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...
  • Printcasting Plans Mobile Expansion With FeedBrewe ...
    About two years ago, I wrote up an idea for how to leverage standardized web content to create locally-targeted publications with less time, money and software than ever before. The technology and content would be digital, but the output would be optimized for physical distribution as printable PDF ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Religious Freedom - Acting Against Anti-Semitism o ...
    �“We ask young people to carry on our struggle against Nazi ideology,” declared President Obama on June 5, 2009 at Buchenwald.� He continued advocating� “…for a just, peaceful and tolerant world; a world that has no place for anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and right-wing extremism."� On March 16 ...
  • The Traveler's Edge - Volcanic Eruption in Iceland ...
    Meteorologists continue to examine how winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere will be set up between Iceland and Europe over the next few days as an indication to how the ash plume from an Icelandic volcano will behave and affect air travel. It appears the plume could end up shifting farther so ...
  • Book Review - Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mo ...
    Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team and Get Better Results. Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan. Jossey Bass. 240 pages. In just about every organization I've worked for or with, I've repeatedly observed a formal hierarchy in place as well as an unofficia ...
  • Blaxthos and Fred the Oyster Edit Holocaust Histor ...
    It is frightening to think that Holocaust history on Wikipedia is in the hands of anonymous contributors with names such as Blaxthos and Fred the Oyster (see “Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge” , Page One, April 12, 2010). Who are these people? What are their real names? What are their r ...
  • Wikipedia Is Insidious and Dangerous
    Edwin Black's investigation of Wikipedia offers an incredibly calm and thoughtful article (see Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge , Page One, April 12, 2010). It sounded much like an elder jurist handing down his well-thought-out decision after much consideration and the lower court's ina ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • NATO Forces Kill Four Afghan School Children
    By Deutsche Presse-Agentur Afghan officials said Tuesday that NATO forces shot dead four Afghan school students. The incident happened around three kilometres south of Khost city, the capital of the south-eastern province of Khost. All the deceased were civilians who were driving in a vehicle that ...
  • IOF killed 13 Gazans, Injured 62 In The Past Three ...
    By Palestinian Information Center Al-Mizan centre for human rights issued its quarterly report on the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law against the Gaza people during the first three months of 2010. The center said that 13 Gazans were killed by the IOF during the reporting period ...
  • Bolivian President Blames Capitalism For Global W ...
    By Environment News Service Bolivian President Evo Morales said capitalism is to blame for global warming and the accelerated deterioration of the planetary ecosystem in a speech today opening an international conference on climate change and the rights of Mother Earth.
  • Capitalism And Plastic No, Mother Earth And Indige ...
    By Jan Lundberg At the Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, the consistent message is ecological, indigenous, communitarian and anti-corporate. The great majority of speakers sound radical and have the support of the thousands of attendees. The message is welco ...
  • The World At 4 Degrees Celsius: Last Call On Clima ...
    By Andrew Glikson A warning from the past and a blueprint for an emergency CO2 draw-down effort

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

  • The Iranian Nukes-Will Israel Have To Save the Wor ...
    The world is fighting a world-wide terrorist threat as never before. Iran is so close to acquiring a nuclear weapon for its own use, or maybe to share with it's� satellites Hamas and Hezbollah. The world is circling its wagons, around the terrorist Iran. Publicly Opposing the Iranian nuclear ef ...
  • Frank Rich and the Dictatorship of the "Downtrodde ...
    Something I didn't know until this week is that my friend Barry Rubin grew up with the New York Times' Frank Rich. Well not his whole childhood, just middle school. In the article below Barry tells us all about the Frank Rich of his youth. He gives us insight into how the son of a shoe store owner i ...
  • FBI and House Ethics Committee Launch Separate Pro ...
    �Former Congressman Eric Massa is the gift that keeps on giving. Now the FBI, Justice Department and the House Ethics Committee have each launched probes into the Massa's conduct as a Congressman, is looking into allegations of sexual impropriety by Massa (groping his male staff) the misuse of $4 ...
  • Democrats Introduce Bill To Dramatically Increase ...
    Today Congressman� Oberstar (D – MN) introduced the “America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act”� in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.� Rep. Oberstar who is Charmian of the committee calls the bill an important step toward protecting America’s waters. The truth is the legislation ...
  • Justice Department Warns of Increasing Violence S ...
    Over the past week the Illegal Immigration debate has gotten louder and nastier. The Arizona Senate voted Monday to approve a bill which would give police in the state broad new powers to do what the federal government has been negligent for not doing, enforcing immigration laws (it's still not kno ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Heritage Foundation indignantly denies influencing ...
    It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts. Romney is a politician, and even politicians with more spine than Romney (i.e., nearly all of them) are sometimes forced into awkward postures by the s ...
  • Arizona House gives nod to 'birther bill'
    The so-called birther bill won initial approval from the state House on Monday, advancing legislation that would require presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate before they can be on the ballot in Arizona.
  • Are school lunches a national security threat?
    School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.
  • What If Germany Leaves Eurozone?
    It has only been a month since German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested that the Eurozone needed a way to eject companies from the alliance if they persistently broke its financial rules. Greece was at the top of here target list as its deficit moved to 13% of GDP.
  • Nothing is Forever, Even European Union
    Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, all members of the European Union currency union – are rocking the union’s boat at the moment.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Turkey's relations with Iran very special, FM Davu ...
    Summary: Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran, Davutoğlu said that he held comprehensive talks with Mottaki on Tuesday and that identical meetings would continue in the future. source: Today´s Zaman read more
  • Why economic sanctions on Iran won't work
    Summary: Juan Cole Very few sanctions have actually produced regime change or altered regime behavior. The U.S. could not even accomplish this goal with regard to a small island 90 miles off its shores, Cuba. That an oil giant halfway around the world with a population of 70 million that is as b ...
  • Twenty Percent Solution: Breaking the Iranian Stal ...
    Summary: We propose the perfect litmus test for Iranian nuclear intensions. The international community should simply say “yes” and accept the terms of Tehran’s exchange proposal. The big achievement has already been made: getting Iran to agree to the fuel swap. source: FAS read more
  • Iran's disarmament conference: The power of logic
    Summary: Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No One This counter-conference highlighted the real reason for targeting Iran: more than any other country, it exposes Washington’s real agenda, its imperial agenda. As if responding to the conference's success, a secret memo penned by Defence ...
  • Turkey ready to be Iran nuclear deal intermediary
    Summary: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Tuesday diplomacy is the best way to resolve the row over Iran's atomic programme and that Ankara is ready to mediate between Tehran and world powers. source: AFP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Is Iceland's 'Big One' -the Massive Katla Volcano- ...
    While the after effects of the volcano Eyjafjallajokull are slowly beginning to dissipate, scientists warn that the new worry surrounds the adjacent and massive Katla volcano. Eyjafjallajokull has served as the opening act or at the least a contributing trigger...
  • 'Last Universal Common Ancestor': Life on Earth Be ...
    The ancestor of all life on Earth today has been dubbed LUCA, short for Last Universal Common Ancestor. The fact that there must have been a LUCA was first made clear in the 1960s when the genetic code was deciphered...
  • Extreme Microbes found in African Lake of Natural ...
    A lake of natural hot liquid asphalt in Trinidad and Tobago has been found to be teeming with microbes despite the toxic environment. The lake, aptly named Pitch Lake (the old name for tar), is the nearest analog so far...
  • Image of the Day: Enigmatic Beauty of the Cone Neb ...
    The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright star just above the cone is the tree topper and the very bright star at...
  • New Tech: Pandora Partners with Facebook for Socia ...
    If you love your music and playlists, this is a huge deal: music discovery engine Pandora is receiving deep social integration with Facebook, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday at the F8 Developer Conference. Pandora will be able to...

Natural News

  • Susan G. Komen for the Cure makes mockery of self ...
    (NaturalNews) Susan G. Komen for the Cure has now crossed the line into asinine idiocy thanks to its new alliance with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), where pink buckets of fried chicken are sold under the slogan, "Buckets for the Cure." I'm not making this up. See the ad image yourself at: http://www ...
  • Big Brother doctors say patients don't need to see ...
    (NaturalNews) If you are an American, you probably assume that this is a free country. So if you agree to undergo imaging tests -- which cost you or your insurance company hundreds and even thousands of dollars and may subject you to radiation -- you have every right to see the results. After all, i ...
  • Most prostate cancers detected by screening aren't ...
    (NaturalNews) Only about one in 10 prostate cancers detected by screening actually poses a threat to a man's life, according to a new analysis conducted by researchers from the University if Cambridge. The findings come from a preliminary analysis of data from the ongoing Prostate Testing for Cancer ...
  • Pharmaceutical pinball (comic)
    (NaturalNews) There's a pervasive (but false) idea in western medicine that the more pharmaceuticals you take, the healthier you'll get. That's how pharmaceuticals are marketed, in fact: Take these pills if you want to be healthier! If you take one pill, the ads claim, you'll have a healthy heart. A ...
  • The 10 biggest health care lies in America
    (NaturalNews) Mainstream health care isn't based on "health" or "caring." It's actually based on an engrained system of medical mythology that's practiced -- and defended -- by those who profit from the continuation of sickness and disease. This system of medical mythology might also simply be calle ...

Threat Level

  • ACTA Backs Away From 3 Strikes
    A proposed global intellectual-property treaty no longer nudges the international community to develop “three strikes” protocols to suspend internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released Tuesday. The of ...
  • Second Banker Accused of Stealing ‘High-Frequency’ ...
    It was only a matter of time before another banker, lured by the prospects of riches, would get busted on allegations of stealing source code connected to a high-frequency, stock-and-commodities trading platform. The latest arrest concerns a former Societe Generale trader who was being detained Tue ...
  • Google: U.S. Demanded User Info 3,500 Times in Six ...
    For years, search engines and ISPS have refused to tell the public how many times the cops and feds have forced them to turn over information on users. But on Tuesday, Google broke that unwritten code of silence, unveiling a Government Requests Tool that shows the public how often individual goverm ...
  • Report: Google Hackers Stole Code to Global Passwo ...
    The hackers who breached Google’s network last year were able to nab the source code for the company’s global password system, according to the New York Times. The Single Sign-On password system, which Google referred to internally as Gaia, allows users to log into a constellation of services the co ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • For Republican Wordsmiths, Opposites Attract
    In a rare moment of Republican candor, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker debunked the talking point at the center of the GOP's campaign to protect predatory Wall Street bankers . Bucking his party's leadership, Corker defended reform provisions charging banks to create a resolution fund for winding down ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 'Old Hacks' Return to Vietnam
    On the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Don North and other war correspondents revisit old haunts and recall lost friends. April 21, 2010
  • Obama's Nuclear Spring Fell Back
    Fearing right-wing national-security attacks, President Obama shied from revamping nuclear-use policies, says Melvin A. Goodman. April 20, 2010
  • Obama's Modest Shift on Nuke Policy
    President Obama's revised nuclear policy doesn't repair the damage caused by President Bush's reckless actions, writes Ivan Eland. April 20, 2010
  • Pharma Invades Water Supplies
    Toxicologists are finding small but troubling amounts of Prozac and other drugs entering the water supplies, warns Gary G. Kohls. April 20, 2010
  • Questioning the Bible
    Rev. Howard Bess says Christians should read the Bible as a complex historical debate argued out over ancient centuries. April 18, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Holiday over for Israel as Obama lays down the law ...
    Israel went back to work yesterday after a holiday season that has disrupted most of April. For the Israeli coalition government, however, that return is probably even less welcome than to everyone else, with the country expected to come up with answers to US probing over a peace process with the Pa ...
  • Lebanon: Syria has not supplied Scud missiles to ...
    The Lebanese government today angrily denounced Israeli claims that Syria has supplied Hezbollah militia with Scud ballistic missiles, comparing it with the misinformation about weapons of mass destruction in the leadup to the Iraq war.
  • Israeli military dubs settler clash 'intolerable' ...
    Israel's military has dubbed as "intolerable" what it described as a "riot" by settlers in the West Bank. The military said about 100 settlers threw rocks and attacked soldiers as they tried to stop the settlers entering a Palestinian village.
  • U.S. officials slam pro-Israel Jerusalem ad; Liebe ...
    United States administration officials have voiced harsh criticism over advertisements in favor of Israel's position on Jerusalem that appeared in the U.S. press with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's encouragement.
  • Gaza protesters test Israeli no-go zone (Ma'an Ne ...
    Shots were fired after hundreds of Palestinians marched north of Beit Lahiya toward the Israeli military no-go zone in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. Local Initiative coordinator Saber Az-Za'aneen said residents began the rally from the Atatra village raising Palestinian flags and marching ...

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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 ...

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They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    This reminds us of that moment in the horror movie when everybody relaxes and laughs - right before the real monster attacks. "Air traffic in Europe should be back to "almost 100%" on Thursday, after six days of unprecedented travel chaos, the air traffic agency Eurocontrol says. Airlines resumed se ...
  • Pure Genius
    From VoteVets, of course:
  • Change the World on Earth Day: Plant a Garden
    Friend of mine went out to the yard a few weeks ago to enjoy some early spring warmth and sunshine. Unfortunately, the lawn company had just sprayed the place with the poisons used to create an unnatural perfection. �My friend ended up seriously ill for almost a month. �It's unprovable, but there's ...
  • Number 90
    A 28-year-old National Guard member is Kentucky's 90th death in the Iraq/Afghanistan clusterfuck. From the Department of Military Affairs press release: A Kentucky Army National Guard Soldier has died while serving in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Sgt. Randolph A. Sigley, J ...
  • How to Use Financial Reform to Crush Both Wall Str ...
    From TPM: � Suddenly, repugs jump on financial reform bandwagon. From Zandar: � And Blue Dog Senator Tom Carper defects. Doesn't anyone remember how Tom DeLay and Trent Lott used to play this game? �They deliberately wrote bills to be so insanely wingnut freakazoid that no dem - not even the repug- ...

Care 2

  • BOLIVIA: Save the Planet from Capitalism, Morales ...
    Activists meeting at the people's conference on climate change in this Bolivian city booed a message from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon but cheered at host President Evo Morales's chant of "planet or death!" Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • FIGHTING BACK AGAINST WALMART
    Galvanized by a proposed Walmart supercenter, historians, residents, and Civil War buffs are struggling to protect a threatened battlefield in northeastern Virginia Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Lab Testing on Chimpanzees !!!!
    Innocent chimpanzees are being harmed and killed due to the inhumane practice of animal laboratory testing. Chimps are used as test subjects in pharmaceutical labs to determine the effectiveness of drugs on humans. Most often the animals are euthanized Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • Seven lions safe at LIONSROCK
    Hope, Arandas , Muhawish, Amra and Khawla have arrived safely at LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary after a long journey that started with their rescue in January this year from terrible captive conditions. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Ban the trophy hunt in the Great Bea ...
    Stop the senseless "TROPHY HUNTING" of the bears in the beautiful pristine Great Bear Rainforest. We view trophy hunting as being as being nothing but senseless slaughter Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

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  • Biofuels’ green credentials called into ques ...
    EU studies have sowed doubt about biofuels' green credentials. But will the EU change its biofuels targets, or just gloss over the evidence?
  • When India-Pakistan wargames become real
    Pakistan is conducting its biggest military exercises in 21 years designed to test a riposte to India's Cold Start doctrine of a rapid and deep thrust into Pakistan. But you are never far from real action on the heavily militarised border between the two countries as cross-border firing over the wee ...
  • Senate Republicans keeping powder dry on START tre ...
    There appears to be no rush among Senate Republicans to finish what President Obama STARTed when he signed the new arms reduction treaty with Russia's Dmitry Medvedev.
  • Luxury brands ride high in online trade dispute
    European Union competition regulators have issued updated rules on trade via the Internet. Luxury brand manufacturers appear to like the revised guidelines, which protect them from discount sellers. But how long will they be able to stay protected?
  • A “Greed Tax” on banks
    The IMF has proposed what might be called a greed tax on banks. Populism? Or a reasonable limit on people being accused of knowing none?

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • This Testimony Could Be A Game Changer
    As Goldman Sachs continues to be in the news, this revelation could affect the SEC’s charges (h/t to HelenK for alerting me to this ): Testimony Could Undercut SEC Charge Against Goldman The government has testimony from a Paulson & Co. official that could contradict its own claims against Goldman S ...
  • Fox News Made Him Do It!
    “Taking responsibility” is rapidly becoming an anachronism. Too few have the courage to admit that maybe, just maybe, they had even a teensy weensy role in anything that goes sour. The latest story involves the harassment of Nancy Pelosi by a man whose mom is sure she knows why her sweet boy wou ...
  • Just Another Dog and Pony Reform Show
    We have all seen this show before. You enter the tent and the first thing you see is a trainer with a group of dogs on one side doing amazing dog tricks. On the other side is a trainer with a group of ponies doing awesome pony tricks. And both trainers are vehemently arguing over which [...]
  • Goldman’s Animal House
    Trust. Would you know it if you saw it? Would you be able to distinguish real trust from the appearance of trust? Whom can you trust? Wall Street is an industry in which trust is too often promoted, but too seldom practiced. When somebody would say to me “Trust me on this,” I would get increasingly ...
  • “The Gays” Are Not Happy With Obama
    Nope – they surely are not. Seems the LBGT community wants Obama to keep his promise about DADT. Yes, seems they believed him when he said he would get rid of it tout de suite (and I say “they” because I never thought for a second that he gave a damn about our [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Incredible Reverse Graffiti by Dutch Ink
    Reverse Graffiti has made its way to Durban, South Africa. 4 guys, Martin Pace, JP Jordaan, Stathi Kougianos and Nick Ferreira form part of a hot creative collaboration read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • George Washington Owes $300,000 in Past Due Book F ...
    George Washington failed to return two books taken out from the New York Society Library in 1789. Was the NYSL is willing to forgive the $300,000 fine? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Simplest Complex Organism on Earth
    Have you ever wondered what the link between unicellular organisms (like Amoeba) and multicellular organisms is? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Reverse Graffiti by Dutch Ink from Durban
    Reverse Graffiti has made its way to Durban, South Africa. 4 guys, Martin Pace, JP Jordaan, Stathi Kougianos and Nick Ferreira form part of a hot creative collaboration read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • Giant Tetris Shapes Invade Sydney
    In the alleyways of Sydney, alien forces have been at play in the form of strange objects seen hovering over the heads of awe-struck denizens. 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

  • Zimbabwe: Sanctions and Solidarity
    While the debate about sanctions in the case of Zimbabwe is heated, it often misses the point. Both supporters and opponents of sanctions exaggerate their importance and underestimate other policy tools. The reality is that sanctions are neither comprehensive nor targeted.
  • Does Corruption Create Poverty?
    Bribery and sweetheart deals are a curse for democracy and civil society. But as columnist Walden Bello explains, corruption is not the principal cause of global poverty.
  • Interview with Mwandawiro Mghanga
    The Kenyan opposition leader talks about U.S. relations with his country in the age of Obama.
  • Nuclear Follies
    Are we in the process of giving up our nuclear addiction, or is this just flimflam from an addict who refuses to go cold turkey?
  • Tax Day and America's Wars
    Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities "squabble over crumbs," as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon's coffers and into America's wars.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • By Fits and Starts, an Arduous Clean-Up
    It took local crises and lonely voices to jump-start environmental action in the United States. But today the challenge is vastly more complex than sludge in the water or soot in the sky.
  • An Earth Day Pitch Raises Eyebrows
    An environmental group distributes condoms -- made of latex, which does not easily decompose and is a source of litter -- to call attention to the perils of population growth.
  • Green: A New Name, a Broader Mission
    As Earth Day observes its 40th anniversary, we're introducing a new and more ambitious online effort that broadens our lens to include all areas where people and planet meet.
  • Critics Challenge Safety of New Reactor Design
    A new, safer nuclear reactor design from Westinghouse has a dangerous flaw, according to environmental groups that are fighting two Georgia reactors that propose to use the technology.
  • A Big Bet on Solar Technology
    Amonix, a maker of concentrating photovoltaic power systems, gets a $129.4 million investment from a leading venture capital firm.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! UPDATE: Hi to everyone from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leo_Wanta/ - keep it up :)       This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the big ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • “Proving Election Fraud” by Richard Charnin (Truth ...
    By Michael Collins Stock deals are rigged for insiders.  Big money runs Congress.  And we’ve gone to war based on a series of calculated lies. Are you willing to accept the fact that our elections are subject to the same type of corruption? If you are, then Proving Election Fraud by Richard C ...
  • 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 ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Indigenous People Take on the Climate Crisis in Co ...
    Hopes are high that this summit will represent a turning point the process and product of climate negotiations.
  • Nuclear Follies
    Are we in the process of giving up our nuclear addiction, or is this just flimflam from an addict who refuses to go cold turkey?
  • 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.

Pine River World News

  • Pentagon Continues to Use "Personality Disorder" D ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today. Pentagon Continues to Use "Personality Disorder" Discharges to Cheat Veterans Out of Benefits � �Sherwood Ross Source: � Veterans Today April 20, 2010 An army sergeant who had received 22 honors including a Combat Action Badge ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Racial Profiling at New York Airpor ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Racial Profiling at New York Airport Law Suit against Israel's national carrier, El Al. � �Jonathan Cook Source: � Global Research April 20, 2010 NAZARETH - Two Israeli Arab brothers have won $8,000 in damages from Israel's ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

After Downing Street.org

  • No Joke: The U.S. State Dept Wants to Know How We' ...
    I mean other than the war, murder, torture, lawless imprisonment, warrantless spying, lack of a free press or freedom of speech and assembly, absence of rights in the workplace, abusive justice system, death penalty, and discrimination. You know, on the big stuff, How are we doing?
  • TomDispatch: American Kleptocracy: How Fears of So ...
    From TomDispatch: Today's offering, a new word to describe how our country works -- kleptocracy -- and an original analysis to go with it -- William J. Astore, " American Kleptocracy, How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft ." Close your purse or keep your hand on that back pocket wh ...
  • For Jerusalem, A Response To Elie Wiesel
    For Jerusalem, a response to Elie Wiesel By Yossi Sarid | Haaretz | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com With great interest I read the beautiful open letter you penned to the U.S. president that appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and International Herald Tribune on F ...
  • America No. 1? America By The Numbers
    America No. 1? America by the numbers by Michael Ventura | Information Clearing House No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is ...
  • I Won't Vote for You If You Vote to Escalate War
    By David Swanson Congress is about to consider whether to vote for another $33 billion, not to continue but purely to escalate the level of war in Afghanistan by sending more troops and contractors. A No vote needs to be rewarded, and a Yes vote punished. So I am committing to vote for the reelect ...

Grist - News

  • ‘Save transit’ rallies start up around ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Courtesy Atlanta Journal Constitution The rallies that get all the attention these days are about stopping new initiatives, like health-care reform. But here we've got rallies about defending part of the shared social fabric. Off-duty public trans ...
  • Workers found safe, but Gulf oil rig in danger of ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes The Deepwater Horizon rig, pre-explosion and pre-tipping.Photo: TransoceanReuters is reporting that the 11 workers missing after an explosion on a Gulf Coast oil rig have been found safe. An explosion on a drilling rig 50 miles off the Louisiana coast late Tuesday night f ...
  • Bolivia’s Morales slams capitalist debt to g ...
    by Agence France-Presse Evo MoralesCOCHABAMBA, Bolivia -- Bolivian President Evo Morales has rallied a "people's conference" on climate change , calling for the death of careless capitalism so that the Earth can live. Environmental activists, indigenous leaders, and Hollywood celebrities are t ...
  • Brazil awards dam contract despite environmental p ...
    by Agence France-Presse BRASILIA -- Brazil on Tuesday speedily awarded the tender for a controversial hydroelectric dam projected to be the world's third-largest, despite fierce opposition from environmentalists. The government pushed ahead with the bidding process to begin construction of the ...
  • Each party has a clean-energy plan in U.K. electio ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Conservative Party's "Vote blue, go green" logo.The United Kingdom holds its general election in two weeks, and Jeremy Lovell of Climatewire runs down the plans of the three largest parties for tackling climate change and switching to a low-carbon economy. The plans are a ...

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Washington Independent

  • Is Blackwater Bidding on State Dept. Contract?
    Jeremy Scahill, journalism’s most dogged investigator of the privatized military, reports that the State Department’s Worldwide Personal Protective Services contract is up for bid. Why’s that important? Because the contract — now apparently re-dubbed the Worldwide Protective Services program — is th ...
  • Intel Chief Concedes That Legal Authorities on Mil ...
    Another thing that Noah Shachtman got into during his interview Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the military’s newest command, U.S. Cyber Command, which will probably be helmed by Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency. At his conf ...
  • The Fed’s Annual Earnings Increase
    It’s earnings week — and the Federal Reserve system is offering up details on its 2009 balance sheet. The bank notes that though the total value of its assets “did not change significantly,” the composition of those assets changed dramatically. The bank shed $1.3 trillion in central bank liquidity ...
  • How to Break Up the Banks?
    Senators agree that the banks are too big. But multiple bills and possible amendments circulating on the Hill offer different solutions to that problem. Here is a primer on the main proposals. The American Financial Stability Act: Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal i ...
  • DeMint Support = Fast Cash
    Just yesterday, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced his decision to endorse Indiana Senate candidate Marlin Stutzman, who faces multiple challengers in the May 4 GOP primary. DeMint told FOX News yesterday, “We can raise some money and we’re going to do that with a money bomb over the next week, try ...

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 CO2youve 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 Fleishers Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

  • Glenn Beck: The Televangelist Con Man Selling God& ...
    During yesterday’s Glenn Beck radio show, Beck delivered a 10-minute monologue in which he hit all of his phony-baloney touchstones — some of them, as I’ve been writing for the last several weeks, are dangerous and some are simply ridiculous. But primarily, Beck was in full televangelist mode abo ...
  • America, this is Yoo
    The Berkeley Daily Planet Cornell, TP and Yoo From Matt Cornell Tuesday April 20, 2010 According to a press release from Los Angeles artist Matt Cornell, students at UC Berkeley were surprised to discover a new brand of toilet paper in the stalls of the law school building this morning. Cornell m ...
  • Arizona Legislature Demands Immigrants And Preside ...
    Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status. Think Progress- By Andrea Nill on Apr 20th, 2010 at 6:30 pm Just a few days after Arizona lawmakers passed an immigration law that will essentially require anyone who is or looks like an immigrant to ...
  • Tea Bag Edition: Explosive evidence in videos cont ...
    Youtube From: wordgeezer April 19, 2010 Now, listen up you arm chair revolutionaries, this happened on G. Duhbya Bush’s watch,so don’t go blamin Obama. It’’s true that Obama works for the same shadow government that Duhhbya did, but he’s considerable smarter. Thats why they don’t like him much and ...
  • Newsweek: ‘Another Big Shoe’ To Drop O ...
    Newsweek: ‘Another Big Shoe’ To Drop On Goldman Sachs? Crooks and Liars- By Susie Madrak Tuesday Apr 20, 2010 2:00pm This is really heating up. Stay tuned for further developments as Congress is emboldened by the SEC civil fraud charges: Washington is suddenly looking very unkind to the firm ...

Solari

  • Community Call to Prayer
    Yellow Cactus by Georgia O’Keeffe And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. ~Deuteronomy 31:8 Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live on the conference li ...
  • Bet Against The American Dream
    For seven months a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica looked into a story for us, the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us. Bet Against the American Dream from Alexander Hotz on Vimeo. ...
  • Federal Health Care Nullification Act
    The following is Tenth Amendment Center approved legislation to nullify federal overreach into the health care industry. Activists, we encourage you to send this to your state senators and representatives—and ask them to introduce this legislation in your state. An Act to render null and void certa ...
  • Americans Don’t Trust the Federal Government
    By Liz Sidot Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don’t trust the federal government and have little faith it can solve America’s ills, the survey found. Continue readin ...
  • Geneen Roth on Women Food and God
    I finished Geneen Roth’s new book Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Anything this weekend. This is a beautifully written, inspiring book. Related reading: Geneen Roth on Women Food and God YouTube Video

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

  • India’s growth fails the rural poor
    India’s economic boom over the last two decades has created a yawning income gap which threatens its future, according to a report from the Reuters news agency. Over the years since 1991, average GDP per capita has risen by over 50% to around $1,100. However, the proportion of the country’s populat ...
  • The importance of giving revealed
    Giving to charity can enhance your reputation and help you reap rewards in the future, according to a study. Scientists found that those who donated enjoyed benefits at a later date, as their reputation was improved and others became more likely to want to work with them or to help them. In the stud ...
  • Orange Prize shortlist announced
    Contenders for the Orange Prize for Fiction were announced this week, with Hilary Mantel firmly in place as the bookies’ favourite for her novel Wolf Hall which has already won the Booker Prize. The winner will be announced on 9th June and will bag £30,000 and, more importantly, the publicity and p ...
  • Endangered species 'may be breeding'
    Hopes that the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros is breeding in the wild have been raised by Malaysian conservationists, who caught film footage of a pregnant rhino on Borneo island. Raymond Alfred of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said a remote camera set up in a forest near Sabah state had captured st ...
  • YouTube eyes up TV audiences
    YouTube boss Chad Hurley wants the website to be watched not in fifteen minute sessions, but over hours the way audiences watch television. The site, which was bought by Google, would tap into a worldwide advertising market previously ruled by old media. Hurley, 33, told The Sunday Telegraph that t ...

Fabius Maximus

  • What caused the Spring 2008 spike in oil prices?
    Bad news, but not a surprise:   oil demand has become less responsive to prices.   This explains much or all of the Spring 2008 spike in oil prices.  World GDP had grown at 5%+ for 5 years, and oil production could not keep up.  Large increases in oil prices were the only way to balance oil suppy [. ...
  • FM newswire for April 21, interesting articles abo ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. We’re amnesiacs, so it works:  “Author, Author – A conservative think tank indignantly denies influencing Obamacare“, Timothy Noah, Slate, 19 April 2010 “American Kleptocracy – How F ...
  • More about shochkwaves of the volcanic kind
    Although we are obsessed with a few possible shockwaves, there are many others to which we remain oblivious.  We put disproportionate resources into the few, magnifying the danger from the others.  We have been warned about the others, but prefer to remain blind.  Here’s one example: “Atmosphe ...
  • FM newswire for April 20, interesting articles abo ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Understanding the potential role of civil and criminal charges in the Goldman Sachs case:  “Parallel Criminal and SEC Prosecution Present New Risks for Public Companies and their Of ...
  • All you need to know about the SEC vs. Goldman Sac ...
    This is yet another wave of government action against our large financial institutions.  Always late.  Always ineffective.  The essence of the situation is captured by a scene in the great western “Chisum”, based on the Lincoln County War.  Lawrence Murphy was the leader of the syndicate runni ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Goldman Sachs was top Obama donor
    CNN – For Goldman Sachs, a large financial investment in President Obama does not appear to be paying off. Wall Street’s top investment bank was a generous contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign. The company has defended itself from civil fraud charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Com ...
  • To young voters, socialism isn’t a bad word
    Boston Globe – TIM ROESCH, a 46-year-old tea party supporter at last Wednesdayâs rally on the Common, was not happy with a group of nearby college students. âYou should get a group picture and send it to your parents,ââ he grumbled at them. He was displeased with the signs they held, which h ...
  • Research Reveals Genetic Secrets Underlying Remark ...
    ScienceDaily — The domestication of animals and plants is the most important technological innovation during human history. This genetic transformation of wild species has occurred as humans have used individuals carrying favorable gene variants for breeding purposes. In the current issue of Nature, ...
  • Is 3-D TV Dangerous?
    Live Science – That’s what many are wondering now that electronics giant Samsung issued guidelines on its Web site warning consumers of potential health risks associated with the emerging technology. The warning advises parents to monitor their children as they watch 3-D and cautions that it could t ...
  • Japan PM says end-May remains deadline on base feu ...
    Reuters – Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Wednesday he would stick to an end of May deadline to resolve a row over a U.S. airbase ahead of an election, and vowed to stake his job on achieving his policies. Read article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Dear Maoist-Third Worldist.. Are you a bunch of pr ...
    Liberalism or puritanism? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, I read your last article on casual sex amongst Amerikans. What do you have against sex? Are you a bunch of prudes? Thanks” MSH responds: Thank you for writing. The point of that article was not to criticize ...
  • What about the Second World?
    What about the Second World? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, The First World is made up of exploiters. And the Third World are countries that have  populations that are mostly exploited. What is the Second World? Raised-fist saluteâ Thank you for writing. We hav ...
  • Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
    (shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Amerikkka, Communism, Idiot Amerikkkans, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, North America
  • Growth of casual sex in the United States
    Growth of  casual sex in the United States (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a new report, there is an increase toward multiple sexual parters, especially amongst  those people in the United States who are in nonromantic sexual relationships. Sociologist author Anthonsy Paik: “The ...
  • Leaked video shows U.S. brutality in Iraq
    Leaked video shows U.S. brutality in Iraq (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A webpage, Wikileaks, has released a dramatic video showing the brutality of the U.S. military in Iraq. According to the webpage: âWikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slay ...

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
    With the correct mindset, and the right knowledge, any catastrophe is survivable, including “the bomb.” Futility only arises when a man decides for himself that he is not capable. Circumstances do not decide for him. This fact is at the heart of all survival. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpr ...
  • BBC Documentary: Evidence Israel’s nuclear weapons ...
    Is it not unjust or what else do you call it? Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
  • 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

  • Vertical Farming That Does Work
    Although we've been sceptical about the financial viability of vertical farming schemes , that doesn't mean we are opposed to bringing more greenery into urban areas in any way, and systems that merge vegetation with buildings can be both beneficial and beautiful. We are definitely fans of green ...
  • Green Hornet Will Go Supersonic on Biofuel
    As you may recall, last August the Navy put out a call to biofuel companies for 40,000 gallons of fuel to start testing in their F/A-18 Super Hornet jet.  Sustainable Oils ultimately won the contract to develop biofuel for the military branch and now the Navy is prepared to take the Hornet on a sup ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Oh, Those Madcap Populist Republicans
    Body While only 2 out of 10 Americans say they usually trust the federal government -- "among the lowest measures in more than half a century," says Pew Research -- and while 7 out of 10 regard that government as unspeakably "inefficient," and while less than 4 out of 10 possess a "fa ...
  • Should the Wall Street Honchos Responsible for the ...
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION The fallout from government's civil charges against Goldman Sachs has already begun. Still, it's not clear if this is the beginning of a wider attempt to seriously punish Wall Street for its obvious role in the recession or just a show for politics .What do you think will happen ...
  • Where Does Your Privacy End?
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION The Supreme Court is ruling on a case involving a police officer sending sexy messages from his pager. The sexting officer, his wife, his mistress, and others are suing because the chief-of-police boss read messages sent from the department-issued pager. This case brings up an i ...
  • Emanuel, "This Week" and Chevron: An Example of Wh ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT Even many progressives who read BuzzFlash think all advertising is benign, but if it were benign companies wouldn't pay billions of dollars to get Americans to buy things that they don't need and drive them into debt. They wouldn't buy ads on the media for controversial corporat ...
  • Insurrection on the Potomac: The Gun Guys Go Sedit ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN The politically charged gun movement in America that began when right wing ideologues took over the NRA in the '70s (in what was called "The Revolt at Cincinnati") has been pathological from the beginning.� That certainly is the case with the twin pro-gun ralli ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Unlearned lessons from the Steven Hatfill case
    Andrew Sullivan rightly recommends this new Atlantic article by David Freed, which details how the FBI and a mindless, stenographic American media combined to destroy the life of Steven Hatfill.  Hatfill is the former U.S. Government scientist who for years was publicly depicted as the anthrax attac ...
  • 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 BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Online students and virtual supervisors
    The numbers of international students taking on graduate degrees is on the increase, partly due to the advent of rapid communication and information tools and partly due to the recognition that globalisation is taking over the world. Hah! Supervisors I’ve spoken to over the years have always seen th ...
  • Alchemist, catching electrons, homeopathic fantasi ...
    This week’s Alchemist chemistry news and more… Catching electrons in the act – Scientists are getting close to being able to study chemical reactions and complex materials with individual attosecond pulses of laser light (that's a quintillionth of a second). Here's how Berkeley scientists are doing ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Google Announces New Tool To Track Information Re ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today welcomed a new tool launched by Google to track and display the number of government requests the company receives worldwide, country by country. The Government Request Transparency Tool differentiates between requ ...
  • Voting Rights Bill with NRA Gun Amendment Pulled f ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2010 Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Today, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the District of Columbia Voting Rights Act would be pulled from consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives because of the chamber’s inability to stop a National Rifle Ass ...
  • Statement by Wade Henderson on the Death of Civil ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2010 The Leadership Council "It is with a heavy heart that I mourn the passing of our chairperson, Dr. Dorothy I. Height. For the past seven decades, her work and her wisdom have enriched and ennobled the civil rights movement and our nation. � read more
  • Arizona Republicans Use Rhetoric of Fear to Push T ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2010 PFAW The Arizona Senate yesterday passed one of the harshest immigration enforcement laws in the country. The bill, written by right-wing state senator Russell Pearce, would allow police to arrest anyone who could not immediately prove they are in the country ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Justice for Black Farmers
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) joined southern Black farmers and the Network of Black Farm Groups today to highlight the need for Congressional action to appropriate funds to pay a court settlement for racially discriminatory prac ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Goldman Plays, We Pay
    by Robert Scheer The story of the financial debacle will end the way it began, with the super-hustlers from Goldman Sachs at the center of the action and profiting wildly. Never in U.S. history has one company wielded such destructive power over our political economy, irrespective of whether a Repub ...
  • The Cochabamba Water Revolt, Ten Years Later
    by Jim Shultz Ten years ago these streets felt very different than the festive atmosphere this week. Under pressure from the World Bank, Bolivia's conservative government signed a 40-year lease, putting the city's water system into the hands of the San Francisco-based engineering giant, Bechtel. ...
  • Killing the Competition
    by Jim Hightower Golly, whatever happened to America's good ol', bold-and-brassy, can-do competitive drive? To see a troubling sign for our nation's famed, free-enterprise frontier spirit, sneak a peek at the downward flight path of America's major airlines. These corporations have become no-can-do ...
  • Nuclear Follies
    by John Feffer If the Russian army makes the bold decision to invade Germany, we can just nuke those damn communist soldiers into oblivion with the 200 tactical nuclear weapons we deploy in Europe. Oh, they're not communists any longer? Oh, Germany and Russia have excellent relations at the mom ...
  • Remember Miners on Earth Day
    by Pat LaMarche Tomorrow is Earth Day. You know what that means: Tree huggers everywhere will preach about the planet and how they’re going to “save it.” It’s laughable really. Here we are 40 years of Earth Days later and they haven’t ended environmental degradation or grown any closer to staving o ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Amy Goodman: Bolivia knows only grass roots can sp ...
    COCHABAMBA, Bolivia Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from El Alto International, the worlds ...
  • Earth Day: No Time to Recover - Pastoralist women ...
    CARE International - UK On Earth Day CARE International and Save the Children UK warn that urgent action is needed to help poor women and children adapt to the severe impacts of climate change on their livelihoods, health and education. This is vividly seen in Ethiopia, where pastoralists are strugg ...
  • Liberia : Seeds of Poverty (1)
    The International Labour Organization (ILO) provided funding ro employ several women and men in Grand Kru County in labour intensive jobs as means of helpingto ease high levels uf unemployment. The Ministry of Public Works received the funding. No record of the funded project, no jobs.
  • Maui prison plans revived
    A proposed $235 million prison to replace the overcrowded and dilapidated Maui Community Correctional Center is back on track, according to Gov. Linda Lingle. After halting plans for the Maui prison last September, Lingle said yesterday she was ready to move ahead with new plans that called for "pri ...
  • Times Calendar: April 22-28
    Jewelry Recyling Class. 6:15 p.m. Reuse, recycle and renew old jewelry and transform it into something new. Cost is $12 plus supplies. For more information, call 534-0223. Beaucoup Beads. 111 Rena Drive. 991-0411.

Guardian

  • Ryanair backs down over ash cloud compensation
    Thousands of passengers stranded by the six-day shutdown of airspace are still trying to make their way back to the UK, as recriminations grow over the way the airlines and the government handled the crisis. Follow live updates 11.45am: Transport secretary Lord Adonis, has welcomed Ryanair's climbd ...
  • Clegg hits back over donations attack
    • Rightwing press takes aim at Clegg ahead of debate • 2009-10 public borrowing hits record £152.8bn • 'Laptop stolen' in burglary of Liam Fox's London home 12.02pm: #nickcleggsfault is now the top trending Twitter topic in the UK (it is meant ironically, in case you wondered). He is being blamed f ...
  • Crime falls by 7% despite recession
    Latest figures show expected effects of recession have not eventuated as risk of being crime victim reaches 30-year low Crime fell by 7% in England and Wales during 2009 despite the recession, according to the latest set of crime figures published today. The dramatic drop in overall crime was accomp ...
  • Islamic veils face ban in Belgium
    Belgium to outlaw burqas and niqabs in public but human rights campaigners say ban violates religious freedom Belgium's parliament is expected to pass a law today that would ban Islamic veils in public, making it the first European country to ban the wearing of the burqa or niqab. The bill, which ha ...
  • UK church states 'sorrow' over abuse
    Archbishop of Westminster's statement on behalf of Catholic church in England and Wales follows pope's call for change Catholic bishops in England and Wales today asked for forgiveness and offered a "heartfelt" apology for the child abuse scandal that has engulfed the church. A joint statement prese ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Ozone's joined-up climate
    Remember the unseemly rush to biofuels ? The sudden impetus from all kinds of bodies including UN institutions, the EU, and governments such as the UK that began about four years ago to ramp up the growing of fuel crops and to adopt liquids made from them as the low-carbon transport panacea? While ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Lugar And Voinovich Float Alternative To Comprehen ...
    Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham are working with the White House, environmentalists, and industry to craft comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation, which they plan to unveil on Monday. But Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), both of whom have ad ...
  • Republicans Prepare To Smear Obama’s CMS Nom ...
    everal news outlets are reporting that Republicans are preparing to re-litigate the health care reform debate by blocking the nomination of Donald Berwick, Harvard University professor, to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As the Washington Post notes, “Democrats in the Senat ...
  • Sen. Mark Udall: Democrats Are ‘Within A Vot ...
    As gay activists organize against the administration’s reluctance to commit to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell this year, Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) — a member of the critical Senate Armed Services Committee — is saying that Democrats are “within a vote or two” of including repeal legislation in this ye ...
  • Gibbs Says White House Will Wait For Pentagon To C ...
    Yesterday, veterans discharged under the Military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy handcuffed themselves to the White House fence to protest the administration’s refusal to ending the policy before the end of the year. Park Police responded to the incident by closing down Lafayette Park and moving rep ...
  • DoD Report: ‘Iran’s Ideological Goals Have T ...
    The usual venues are raising alarm about a newly released Department of Defense report on Iranian military power that states that Iran could probably develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the U.S. by 2015 “with sufficient foreign assistance.” While this is certainly worth paying attention to, ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Busy Easter Post
    Here. there.
  • Jeffrey Simpson Was Under the Weather Today
    Or something else was responsible for today's lame-ass column: " Cracks in the bedrock of U.S. - Israel relations? " (Note: He recently wrote something with the title " When the penny drops, denial over health care stops " that must have also been written while he had the sniffles, it's such a brain ...
  • Today I am Sick ...
    And I was going to hang out with the young kids tonight. Oh well ...
  • Non-Political Video Post
    Sam and Dave: "Hold On, I'm Coming"
  • 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 ...

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

  • Concerns About the Indictment of a Former NSA Offi ...
    Last week a grand jury indicted Thomas Drake, a former senior official at the National Security Agency (NSA), on charges of willful retention of classified information, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that...
  • POGO Submits FOIA Request for Records Contained in ...
    POGO has just submitted a Freedom Of Information (FOIA) request for all records contained in the government's new contractor performance and responsibility database. The database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), will be available to all government...
  • Morning Smoke: EADS Will Submit Bid for Tanker Con ...
    It’s Official: EADS Bids For KC-X by Colin Clark [DoD Buzz] SEC Rebuked for Regulatory Failure With Lehman Brothers by Marian Wang [ProPublica] Cantwell Raises Possibility of Glass-Steagall Type Amendment by Annie Lowrey [The Washington Independent] Pentagon looks to use...
  • From Energy Industry Regulator to Energy Industry ...
    Today the Blog of the Legal Times reports that a former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Suedeen Kelly, will co-chair lobbying firm Patton Boggs' energy industry practice. For those unfamiliar with FERC, it is the independent agency...
  • Morning Smoke: SEC Enforcement Lawyer Repeatedly S ...
    SEC Enforcement Lawyer Who Quashed Stanford Probes Later Did Legal Work For Stanford by Justin Elliott [TPMMuckraker] Pentagon planning more oversight of war-zone contractors by Dana Hedgpeth [The Washington Post] Banks, Exchanges Seek to Influence Derivatives Reform by [Sunlight Foundation...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • What To Expect When You're Homeless and Expecting
    I'm not a mom, but I have heard many stories from moms about the joys and pains of pregnancy and childbirth. Mind you, these stories are relayed from within the context of the middle class experience. "Pregnancy is not fun," a wealthy-looking stranger told me on the subway just the other day.  If I ...
  • What Really Makes a "Success Story"?
    Larry Moore has attained minor celebrity status in San Francisco, and well  beyond , since he became a local media favorite. After six years homeless, and panhandling to buy booze, he'd finally had enough. He decided to begin a street business in a bustling downtown area. He sobered up, spruced up a ...
  • Hogwash: Muslim Mom Denied Foster Kids Because She ...
    Now this is pig-headed. A potential foster parent in Maryland is being denied the chance to provide a stable, caring environment for foster children badly in need of nurturing all because ... she doesn't eat pork? There's got to be more to it, right? Unfortunately, there is. Contemporary Family Serv ...
  • New NYC Commissioner: "I Haven't Worked Directly i ...
    Neil Donovan is part of Change.org's  Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Neil is the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Mayor Bloomberg accepted the resignation of New York City's embattled Homeless Services Commissioner, Rob Hess, yester ...
  • NYC Has a New, Inexperienced Homeless Services Com ...
    After four tumultuous years as Commissioner of New York City's  Department of Homeless Services , Robert Hess has resigned . DHS is responsible for the public shelter system in the city. Hess will be replaced by Seth Diamond, currently an Executive Deputy Commissioner at the city's Human Resources ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Support for Afghan mission drops
    Support for the mission in Afghanistan has fallen markedly among Canadians, a new Angus Reid poll shows. According to the polling firm, 39 percent of Canadians currently support the Afghanistan mission, while 56 percent oppose it. In February, the same question showed 47 percent support and 49 perce ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-21-10
    Today, Kevin gives you the vital information that can help improve your health and fill your wallet! Self Help: Natural Cures Uncontaminated Meat The Fountain of Youth Feed Your Brain Water Filters For Every Budget Keep Your Body Safe Health: Drug Vending Machines FDA To Halt Avandia Safety Study US ...
  • Secret Gates Memo Calls for Iran Attack
    April 21, 2010 Press TV A secret memo by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates urges Washington to consider the use of military force against Iran if diplomacy fails to scrap the country’s nuclear program. In what seems to be a new twist in US efforts to tackle Iran’s enrichment activities, The New York ...
  • Teens Text More Than Talk Face to Face
    April 21, 2010 AOL News By Carl Franzen Not so long ago, “text” simply described plain old letters on a page. Today, according to new research, it’s become the primary method of communication for America’s teenagers, more popular even than face-to-face conversations. It’s enough to make even the lea ...
  • People Consume Up to 46 Teaspoons of Sugar a Day!
    April 21, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk Researchers say food companies have been consistently increasing the sugar content of their products to make them more enticing to customers. And they warn that a high-sugar diet is just as deadly as a high-fat diet when it came to increasing cholesterol and adding to ...
  • Man Died After Medics Missed Disease 6 Times
    April 21, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk By Nick Britten Malcolm Drake, 23, died from Crohn’s Disease and spent his final hours unable to move or eat. He had sought help six times in the days before he died, but GPs and two Accident and Emergency doctors had missed his condition. He was even refused an MRI sc ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Dare Israel go it alone in attacking Iran?
    As some senior Israeli officials see signs the US may be willing to live with a nuclear-armed Iran, the Wall Street Journal says Israel is now considering unilateral military action. Many Israeli military experts say Israel can easily cope with any military retaliation by Iran in response to a stri ...
  • Obama administration looks beyond sanctions agains ...
    David Ignatius sketches some of the details in the the sanctions regime being crafted by Stuart Levey, undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, but he concedes that sanctions have rarely been effective instruments for changing policy. For policymakers, the discussion ...
  • American kleptocracy — How fears of socialism and ...
    At TomDispatch, William Astore writes: America is not now, nor has it often been, a hotbed of political radicalism. We have no substantial socialist or workers’ party. (Unless you’re deluded, please don’t count the corporate-friendly “Democrat” party here.) We have no substantial fascist party. ...
  • Sanctions-busting is in Dubai’s DNA
    In The Guardian, Raymond Barrett writes: Dubai â separated from Iran by the waters of the Gulf â has excelled as a channel for circumventing the variety of international sanctions that have built up over the decades. Be it restrictions on badly needed aviation spare parts, “dual use” electronic ...
  • Dread surrounds Operation Hope
    Jean MacKenzie writes: It is being called Operation Omid. The word omid means “hope” in Afghanistanâs Dari language. But, judging by the reaction of local residents, the coming U.S.-led military offensive against the Taliban in Kandahar could not be more inappropriately named. In Kandahar, resi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Second Mann spoof video removed
    Somebody just can’t handle satire. PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, April 21st 2010 CONTACT Jeff Davis No Cap and Trade Coalition 612-605-3303 Ext. 702 Jeff.davis@mnmajority.org Video Spoofing Michael Mann Removed by YouTube â Bogus Reason Given St. Paul â At a Washington DC press conferenc ...
  • Guardian Continues To Spread Misinformation About ...
    By Steven Goddard Yesterday WUWT reported on the inaccurate #1 environmental story at Guardian. The Guardian article originally read : The volcanic eruption has released carbon dioxide, but the amount is dwarfed by the savings. Based on readings taken by scientists during the first phase of Eyj ...
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory – STUNNING first ...
    Images and movies are now available from NASA. I’ve posted them here as promised. The movies available at links below are stunning, Enjoy. Press release also follows. – Anthony Images from the SDO Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) views the lower atm ...
  • Not a joke: Gore’s “Inconvenient Youth ...
    Somebody really should take Mr. Gore aside and explain the imagery this name and the “personal blessing” by Gore conjures up. Newsbusters has a story on the creation of this group back in 2008, with the backstory on the connections of the people involved. Press release: Inconvenient Youth: Al Goreâ ...
  • Airlines Blame Flawed Computer Modeling For Up To ...
    As a follow up to our 4/19 story about ash cloud modeling: Ash cloud models â overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr. Jerome Ravetz I offer below a compendium of articles from Benny’ Pieser’s CCNET and GWPF of the UK Above: The Met Office has been blamed for triggering the âunnecessary ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Anybody’s Son Will Do (1983; must-see)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Thanks to Emily Spence for sending this to DS.  Please send this http://wp.me/p5qmX-kfh (short link) to anyone you know who may be considering joining the military.  Thank you. By Bill Willers 20 April, 2010 Opednews.com In 1983, the National Film Board of ...
  • Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald Reagan, and the $50.00 Bi ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com April 20, 2010 Representative Patrick McHenry, a Republican appropriately enough of North Carolina, has proposed replacing the visage of Ulysses S. Grant with that of Ronald Reagan on the $50.00 bill. This ...
  • Humanity and Its Absence By David Kennedy + A Lett ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Thanks to Emily Spence for sending this to DS with permission from the authors. By David Kennedy Dear Franklin, I have just read your letter to Janet with its heart-rending account of the Sabra-Shatilla massacre. It is good to know there are still people who c ...
  • Al Qaeda’s Top Gun by Jeremy R. Hammond
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal 17 April, 2010 An examination of the documentary record reveals a clear pattern of willful deception on the part of the 9/11 Commission with regard to alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour in an apparent effort to manipulate ...
  • Emails show CIA detroyed interrogation tapes
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish April 16, 2010 â More than one-hundred pages of newly released documents from the US’s top intelligence branch are providing the clearest look yet at the CIA’s decision to destroy videotapes of detainee interrogation. The new documen ...

Your New Reality

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    Vultures feeding, amazing birds : They look pretty excited, whatever they're tearing to pieces must be mighty tasty. Gee, that kind of looks like.... Oh. The above photos are from this incredible series detailing , and I mean detailing, a Tibetan burial ritual. The basic belief is that y ...
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    I don't know about you, but I find the Google's logo for Earth Day just a bit creepy :
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    Hard not to wonder how advanced the 'heart attack dart' technology is today, decades on from the footage and discussion detailed in this video :
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    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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Upward Physical Movement Brings Back Happy Memorie ...
    Physical movement and memory are so closely intertwined that even a seemingly meaningless motion, like moving marbles from one box to another, alters the speed and tenor of recall. The marble-moving study was performed by Daniel Casasanto and Katinka Dykstra, psychologists at the Max Planck Institu ...
  • New Space Telescope Delivers First Mind-Blowing Vi ...
    NASA’s latest space telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is delivering unprecedented images of our local star. The telescope was launched Feb. 11. NASA released the first tremendously exciting data from the mission today. “These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in ...
  • License to Green: Clean Energy vs. Patents
    Developing new green technologies — like cheaper solar panels or methods of extracting energy from ocean tides — is a top priority for combating climate change, because global carbon emissions cannot be stabilized with existing technologies. In rich countries, where most tech development takes plac ...
  • Male Spiders Have Safer Sex With Siblings
    Inbreeding isn’t worth dying for, even in a spider species where males routinely pay for sex with their lives. Sex is never safe for males of the species Argiope bruennichi, one of Europe’s common orb-web spiders. In lab tests conducted by behavioral ecologists at the Zoological Institute and Museu ...
  • The Plan to Map Every Tree in San Francisco
    Every tree in San Francisco will soon be accounted for online, thanks to a new, Wikified project that aims to plot them all. The Urban Forest Map will officially launch Wednesday, drawing on tree information collected by the city of San Francisco and Friends of the Urban Forest, a non-profit group. ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • US officials slam pro-Israeli ads in American medi ...
    United States administration officials have voiced harsh criticism over advertisements in favor of Israel's position on Jerusalem that appeared in the U.S. press with Prime Minister Benjamin... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Bradley Burston: Declare Independence. Free Israel ...
    Will a serious battle against Occupation cause a deep rift in the Jewish People? Will it drive a wedge between all those who believe that the Jews, like other peoples, deserve a state of their own? ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • UN Special Raporteur: Israeli Military Orders “in ...
    Richard Falk: “a wide range of violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law could be linked to actions carried out by the Government of Israel under these Orders, with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Daoud Kuttab: Has Israel Reneged on the Unity of W ...
    While public deportation which are contrary to the Geneva Conventions had stopped in 1992, a much more sinister plan appears to have been implemented. The new undeclared policy is called by some "the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • New York Airport ‘Blind’ to El Al Racial Profiling
    A 2007 report on racial profiling by Israeli carriers... concluded: "it is hard to find any Arab citizen who travels abroad by air and who has not experienced a discriminatory security check at least... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • International Scope of Education Research Highligh ...
    At the American Educational Research Association's 91st Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, several Presidential sessions will focus on international aspects of education research.
  • Extremely Preterm Babies Face Long-Term Lung Defic ...
    More than half of children who were born very early--at 25 weeks or less (normal gestation is around 40 weeks)-- have abnormal lung function and are twice as likely as their full-term peers to have a diagnosis of asthma, according to U.K. researchers, who followed a national cohort of extremely pret ...
  • Ozone and Traffic Pollution Increase Asthma-Relate ...
    Both ozone and primary pollutants from traffic substantially increase asthma-related emergency department visits in children, especially during the warm season, according to researchers from the Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta.
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment Database Hits Milestone ...
    Radiotherapy Centers of Georgia (RCOG), a division of RC Cancer Centers announced that as of March 23, they reached a new milestone and treated their 12,500th patient for prostate cancer with their ProstRcision(r) treatment therapy. The milestone means their treatment database is one of the most co ...
  • Should Specialist Practices Play a Role in Patient ...
    The passage of the new health care reform bill has spurred renewed interest in patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), a new model of care that facilitates partnerships between patients and their physicians to ensure patients get their immediate needs taken care of and uses the tools of technology to ...

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

  • Sewage Sludge: A Youth Blogger's Educational Overv ...
    Youth blogger demands some answers to conundrum of the sewage sludge/biosolids land application safety controversy. Click here to read this article
  • Organic Watchdog Asks USDA to Overturn Bush-Era Il ...
    For years, the USDA's National Organic Program has failed to enforce federal organic standards that prohibit the use of certain unapproved synthetic substances in organic infant formula and other organic foods. The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based food and farm policy research group, is taki ...
  • Rats on Junk Food Pass Cancer Down the Generations
    Genes may not be the only way cancer passes down the generations. Feeding pregnant rats a fatty diet puts both their daughters and granddaughters at greater risk of breast cancer. Click here to read this article
  • What to Do When the Current Climate Change Legisla ...
    If that plucky, animated, singing scrap of paper from Schoolhouse Rock!--"(I'm Just a) Bill"--were around today, he'd be begging us to keep him out of the Senate. That's where good ideas go to get their teeth knocked out, to get fattened with pork and disfigured with loopholes, coming out the other ...
  • Time for the Public to Reinvest in Food-System Inf ...
    To enter a farmers' market in a U.S. city in the summer is to experience firsthand the recent revival of small-scale farming. Stand after stand offers a dazzling variety of chemical-free produce, pasture-raised meat and eggs, farmstead cheeses, and more. Click here to read this article

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Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • U.S. Will Prosecute More Pirates in the Eastern Di ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Although the U.S. is already prosecuting a pirate captured last year in New York, I hadn’t realized the U.S. was going to be trying other pirates in federal court as well.  But since Kenya has stopped accepting pirates for prosecution in their courts, I guess it makes s ...
  • Argentina May Investigate Spain’s Franco-era War C ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This seems like a bad idea for a number of reasons that are too obvious to go into here. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine human rights groups are turning the tables on Spain, hoping to open a judicial probe of murders and disappearances committed during the Spanish Ci ...
  • Ten Ways to Avoid the Americanization of Internati ...
    by Roger Alford The ABA Journal has an interesting article on the Americanization of international arbitration. There's nothing particularly new to our readers in this article. It's a theme that my friend and colleague Tom Stipanowich has written about extensively . I've written a bit about the ...
  • George Washington’s 220 Year Overdue Library Book: ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku In all the amused press notices about George Washington’s (very) overdue library books, one small detail is worth noting. The library’s ledgers show that Washington took out the books on 5 October 1789, some five months into his presidency at a time when New York was sti ...
  • LOAC Conference at Catholic University, DC, Friday ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson If you are going to be in DC on Friday, April 23, there will be a terrific law of armed conflict program all day at Catholic University, Columbus Law School, including Harold Koh as lunchtime keynote speaker and a host of luminaries on the panels.  Advance ...

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

  • Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40 ...
    Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40th Phoenix, AZ – Arizona joins the nation today (Thursday) in marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Former Wisconsin U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded the event as a national teach-in. Comments from Tia (TEE-ah) Nelson, the late senator's daug ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Four of the Most Dangerous Fraudulent Scientific T ...
    With threats of climatic disruption, food and energy shortages, epidemics, waves of extinctions, and other calamities looming larger every day, reports from the world of scientific research are getting plenty of attention in the media. But at times, scien Submitted by Daf Yanez to Environment �|� � ...
  • Canada-EU trade agreement threatens Canada's proc ...
    The proposed CETA would have adverse impact on public services, such as waste, drinking water, and public transit. The proposed rules would entrench commercialization and make it far harder for governments to reverse failed privatizations. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Transaction Costs
    Once upon a time Canadian foreign policy centred on the United Nations the exercise of [relative] impartiality when dealing with parties in conflict. We saddled up with the big boys' posse and galloped off a-fighting.invariably support vicious characters. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
  • Though Her Body Grows Frail, A-Bomb Survivor's Wil ...
    At a nursing home in Hiroshima's Minami Ward, 86-year-old Suzuko Numata lies in her bed and watches news about defections from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party on television . "When it comes to politics, I can't trust any of the parties," she Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Bill Clinton should understand the anger over stea ...
    Tea Party protesters seem most alarmed by the accelerating exercise of fantasy politics, which blithely spends trillions of dollars that arent there. This isnt a liberal or conservative point. Its a matter of responsibility. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Angry Indian News

  • John John: Women get shit done -- at the Global In ...
    Women get shit done -- at the Global Indigenous Women's Caucus that is! | rabble.caI'm in NYC this week for the ninth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).It's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Ciudad Juarez women still being tortured by killer ...
    Ciudad Juarez women still being tortured by killers | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — From her mountainside neighborhood of dirt streets and cramped concrete houses,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Association France-Palestine Solidarit� (AFPS) cal ...
    Association France-Palestine Solidarity (AFPS) calls on French government to block Israel OECD membership � Hold Israel Accountable:AFPS is concerned about Israel potential accession to OECD. On the ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Conservative party to send gay MP to quell EU extr ...
    Conservative party to send gay MP to quell EU extremists | Politics | The Guardian: "David Cameron is to dispatch the most senior gay member of his frontbench team to Poland to encourage the Tories'... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada
    Walkom: Was Afghan torture a deliberate tool for Canada? - thestar.comThe most stunning news out of Ottawa this week has nothing to do with embattled MP Helena Guergis. Rather, it is the testimony of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Pakistan holding thousands in indefinite detention ...
    ShareThis Pakistan holding thousands in indefinite detention, officials say 22 Apr 2010 The Pakistani military is holding thousands of suspected militants in indefinite detention, arguing that the nation's dysfunctional civilian justice system cannot be trusted to prevent them from walking free, acc ...
  • Recycled al-Qaeda: Ayyub al-Masri 'killed' on Sund ...
    ShareThis 'Killed,' arrested, devalued, re-arrested, 're-killed' Recycled al-Qaeda: Ayyub al-Masri 'killed' on Sunday, captured in 2008 By Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/ 19 April 2010 Head of al-Qaeda in Iraq 'killed in raid' 19 Apr 2010 The US said that its forces had dealt a devastating blow ...
  • Let U.S. pay cost of Flight 253 terror trial secur ...
    ShareThis Let U.S. pay cost of Flight 253 terror trial security, Miller asks 21 Apr 2010 A Michigan congresswoman wants the U.S. Department of of Homeland Security to provide federal funds to defray any state and local costs arising from the trial of a man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-boun ...
  • 'Toxic stew' of chemicals causing male fish to car ...
    ShareThis 'Toxic stew' of chemicals causing male fish to carry eggs in testes 21 Apr 2010 More than 80% of the male bass fish in Washington's major river are now exhibiting female traits such as egg production because of a "toxic stew" of pollutants, scientists and campaigners reported yesterday. In ...
  • Lawyer: Stuck Throttle Found in Car of Imprisoned ...
    ShareThis � Lawyer: Stuck Throttle Found in Car of Imprisoned Toyota Driver 21 Apr 2010 The lawyer for a Toyota owner serving an eight-year prison sentence for vehicular homicide says a new inspection of his car found a possible fau ...

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

  • Chicago hearing looks at the effect of US military ...
    Videos from last weekend's mock Congressional Hearing in Chicago about US policy toward Israel/Palestine have been posted.� Below are two of the most powerful. The first featuers Amr Shurrab from Khan Younis who lost two of his brothers on the same day during the Israeli attack on Gaza in January, 2 ...
  • I think UN Partition vote happened this way, too
    Great piece of reporting by Josh Nathan-Kazis at the Forward, on how the Israel lobby beat back divestment at Berkeley last week. In the two weeks prior [to April 14 vote], Berkeley Hillel coordinated a comprehensive national lobbying campaign consisting of a teach-in, face-to-face meetings with ...
  • ‘TNR’s hit man on HRW likes to talk ab ...
    The forthcoming New Republic, not yet available online, has a hit job on Human Rights Watch written by Benjamin Birnbaum. I am told this is the same Ben Birnbaum who wrote for the Cornell Sun a few years ago: Lastly and most controversially, European nations must slow the relative growth of their ...
  • Treasury officials are sure cozy with Israel lobby
    Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, "Setting the Trap on Iran:" The next step in this pressure campaign is the sanctions regime being crafted by Stuart Levey, undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence. This will have several interlocking components: The showpie ...
  • Minnesota students lock-down a Caterpillar plant, ...
    Wow, another sign that Israel/Palestine is coming home, and that the American left has taken on the issue: a half-dozen Macalester College students, in St. Paul, Minnesota, participated in a lockdown of a Caterpillar distribution plant yesterday, and managed to block a driveway at the plant for some ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Pregnancy Tips
    I was recently alerted by a newly pregnant mother of a child with Autism for tips on minerals & vitamins to help strengthen her immune system during the coming months. She believes vaccines were the cause of her child’s Autism and has begun a shift away from her GP. Based on all my research thus far ...
  • 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, âAutism 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 ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
    A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Yon

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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

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  • Trunks for Trunks: Buy Underwear and Plant Trees
    Story by Katie Leavitt, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com PACT is offering to plant 20 trees per purchase of each pair of organic cotton underwear in their Green Belt Movement collection. In the spirit of Earth Week, from April 16 to April 25, 100 percent of the proceeds will go towa ...
  • Gearless Checks Out the Tesla Model S (Video)
    Image credit: Gearless When I wrote about Robert Llewellyn's experiment with fast electric vehicle charging , one commenter rather uncharitably argued that this was "why entertainers should not do science reporting and green web sites should not parrot the poorly thought out entertainment." Sur ...
  • Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Design Academy Eindhove ...
    Water Fountain and Personal Fresh Air. Images by Design Academy Eindhoven One of the shows that stood out this year at the Milan Furniture Fair was the Design Academy Eindhoven 's Question exhibition at the up and coming district Ventura Lambrate . With all this excess of design and the various ...
  • I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here
    Image from NY Daily News Now that the planes are flying and the Royal Navy is on the seas, it's time for a bit of fun... Everyone gets a perverse enjoyment out of seeing the rich and pampered reduced to travelling steerage and the air shut down was a great leveler. Reading about celebrities ...
  • BIG Oil Rig Explosion Off Louisiana Coast, 11 to 1 ...
    This photo of the Deepwater Horizon rig was taken on Wed 21 Apr 2010 12:39:42 AM EDT. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Reminding Us of the Dangers of Fossil Fuels After the tragedy in a coal mine in West Virginia and the oil spill caused by a coal-carrying ship near Australia, disaster strikes again in ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • $1000 offered to catch Rangoon bomber
    Reward offered despite Burmese media already pointing the blame at opposition groups for alleged grenade attacks that killed 10
  • Irrawaddy water shortage fuelling disease
    Water shortage problem compounded by polluted rivers and the termination of water-purification supplies from aid groups
  • India eyes $5.6bn Burma hydropower deal
    India looks to expand economic presence in its eastern neighbour with plans underway to construct two major hydropower dams
  • US rep says China ‘stealing Burma’
    Congressman warns that Burma could be lost to China 'for generations to come' as a power grab 'depletes' Burma's natural resources
  • Waiting in the Shadow of Darkness
    View Photo Album Rangoon waits in the shadow of darkness of the general elections that are looming on the horizon. The ruling military regime’s (State Peace and Development Council) steps towards a disciplined democracy will bring little hope to a nation already ravaged with poverty that is worsenin ...

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  • Supreme Court hears arguments on restitution order ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in Dolan v. United States [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on whether a district court may enter a restitution order beyond the time limit prescribed in 18 ...
  • Russia Constitutional Court upholds ban on jury tr ...
    [JURIST] Russia's Constitutional Court [official website, in Russian] on Monday upheld [judgment text, in Russian] the practice of trying terrorism cases in the absence of juries. Several Russian citizens had challenged the constitutionality of certain provisions of the country's Criminal Procedure ...
  • UN chief legal counsel urges financial support for ...
    [JURIST] The Chief Legal Counsel [official website] to the UN, Under-Secretary-General Patricia O'Brien [official profile, PDF], and Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister Sok An said Monday that the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website] needs financial support from th ...
  • ICJ rules Uruguay may continue operating pulp mill ...
    [JURIST] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] in The Hague ruled [judgment, PDF; case materials] Tuesday that Uruguay may continue operating a pulp mill on the River Uruguay despite breaching its treaty obligations to Argentina. The ICJ found that Uruguay did not breach its su ...
  • Oklahoma lawmakers approve bills restricting abort ...
    [JURIST] The Oklahoma State Senate [official website] voted to approve five anti-abortion bills on Monday, sending three to Governor Brad Henry [official website] for his approval and returning two to the Oklahoma State House of Representatives [official website]. The first bill [HB 2526 text, RTF] ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Crist Inching Towards... Somewhere
    A Florida television station and conservative blogger Dan Rheil are� claiming that Charlie Crist will announce today that he's going to run for Senate with no party affiliation. My reporting suggests that those reports are premature. I'm not sure that Crist has made up his mind yet -- and there's a ...
  • Question Time w/ Marc Ambinder
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  • The New Senate Energy Bill: A Preview
    Despite the odds, Senate Democrats are determined to pass a comprehensive energy bill by year's end. Their best vehicle is likely to debut on April 26, when Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman unveil their long-awaited legislation. The senators crafted the bill with the poli ...
  • Too Fat to Fight?
    So even I wasn't prepared to go this far. When I saw the headline: " Report Links School Lunches To National Security, " I assumed that some group had found that Al Qaeda or a domestic terrorist group could infiltrate food companies and sneak poison into fish sticks.� But no, it's actually a group ...
  • 2010: The Year of the Indignant Independent
    The Pew Center for People and the Press finds that Americans have specific complaints about their government: it has the wrong priorities. It doesn't do enough for Main Street. It is growing too fast without caring about saddling future generations with debt. It isn't getting the job done. These are ...

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  • Mossad, the Cult of Secrecy, and Its Israeli Victi ...
    An Israeli journalist offered me an telling story about the damage and pain that the cult of secrecy, embraced by the Shin Bet and Mossad, can inflict on its Israeli victims. I apologize that many of these sources are in Hebrew and may be inaccessible to those who aren’t Hebrew speakers. In 1993, ...
  • Rabbi’s Chide South African Jews, Wish Judge Golds ...
    When I first read that the leadership of the South African Jewish community including its chief rabbi had made Judge Richard Goldstone feel unwanted among his own people on the occasion of his grandson’s bar mitzvah, I felt incensed.  It seemed as if a group of mean-spirited fellow Jews were hijack ...
  • Clarion Fund’s New Anti-Iran Film to Star Iranian ...
    Eli Clifton writes that Clarion Fund’s new anti-Iran film is to be called (quite creatively) Iranium. I wrote about it a few weeks ago when news of it first surfaced. But now the Aish HaTorah-affiliated Clarion has a website for the film which reveals some interesting and damaging information. A ...
  • 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 ...

Ode Magazine

  • Ahhh, a day without a newspaper
    By: Marco Visscher How might the French be doing today? It’s a historic day: No newspapers are being delivered as printers and distributors went on strike (language alert: article is in French!) after the national union for the newspaper industry announced, sadly, ...
  • Hope therapy will get us through tough times
    How hope therapy can help banish mild mood disorders and boost happiness. Photo: Dusanzidar/ Dreamstime.com Things were going pretty well for Melanie. After struggling with being overweight, she had recently dropped a significant number of pounds. She felt great and looked ...
  • Cancer survivor starts a $7 Self-Health School to ...
    By: Patriciahoran In answer to the health care bill, the economic climate and the rapidly rising demand for alternative medicine, Dr. Nancy Offenhauser launched the “$7 Self-Health School“ in Kent, CT, after estimating $7 a day to be about what it cost to heal hers ...
  • 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 ...

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  • My place on the earth
    � � Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily�about community, development, and the environment.� For more posts, see his blog's home page .� �
  • 4 Reasons to Celebrate Earth Day
    Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.   While we have much work to do, we have much to celebrate.   Because my work is related to vehicle pollution, here’s my list of vehicle pollution wins to celebrate:  No lead in gasoline:  The first, and probably most important, step to clean up ...
  • Earth Friendly Cars
    On a daily basis, driving your car has one of the biggest impacts on the environment. The good news is that thanks in large part to strong fuel economy and pollution standards, automakers are finally putting their clean car programs in high gear. We expect over the next year or two, just abo ...
  • FirstEnergy’s Bayshore Plant: A Real Live Bass-o-M ...
    The curious case of the Bayshore coal plant near Toledo, Ohio made me wonder if Dan Aykroyd has any involvement with the facility's owner, FirstEnergy (he doesn't). After all, the aging coal plant on Lake Erie is eerily similar to his brilliant and classic Bass-o-Matic sk ...
  • Spending Earth Day in Our Own Backyard
      With the 40th anniversary of Earth Day fast approaching, the Eco Committee here in NRDC’s Santa Monica office has been hard at work planning a week’s worth of events worthy of commemorating four decades of environmental activism and awareness.  Our first two “Earth Week” activities took p ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Monitoring the NGO Sector
    Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris says NGO Monitor should practice what it preaches when it comes to transparency about donations from government funders. The dialogue in comments on this and older threads is illuminating and raises some interesting questions about the accountability of the NGO secto ...
  • Carlos Silva, Resurrected
    Whatever.  My favorite bit: âOne thing he was always telling me: âWhen they gave you that money, it was for what you already did, not for what youâre going to do,â â Silva said. âHe said nobody gave you that money because youâre going to do something, itâs for what you already did. ...
  • Postcards from home? I think I’d rather stay ...
    As I’m currently trapped not only in England (by a volcano) but inside (by a rampaging cold), I thought I’d reconnect with the American political discourse I miss so much by reading a transcript of Sarah Palin’s speech in Hamilton, Ontario last week.  For a little under twenty grand, some lucky Can ...
  • Kill Whitey!
    In response to overwhelming popular demand, we have finally figured out how to change the background from white to cream. I hope you people are happy now. More importantly, we have begun to try a series of fixes for the slow/no page load issue. Please indicate in comments if you continue to have p ...
  • He’s Not Artistic, And He Has No Integrity
    The cottage industry of liberals who were convinced that John McCain’s brief fit of pique against George W. Bush reflected his Real Authentic Moderate Liberal self (I still think this installment of Jacob Weisberg’s McCain hagiography project is definitive) was an especially silly episode in our dub ...

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  • Information for an Informed Citizenry
    Here is a link to a three part series on the Marcellus Shale Gas Play. The fellow speaking is Tony Ingraffea. He has a PhD in rock -fracture mechanics and is from Cornell University. http://essentialdissent.blogspot.com/search?q=ingraffea
  • News From PA Environment Digest : April 19, 2010
    http://www.paenvironmentdigest.com/newsletter/default.asp?NewsletterID=711 This is a weekly e-publication with very useful info about a lot of issues concerning Pennsylvania’s environment. Those interested can sign up to receive the PA Environmental Digest in their email. Each week there are a numbe ...
  • 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 ...

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  • Concentrated Solar Technology Receives Major Backi ...
    U.S. investors have invested $129.4 million in a promising solar technology that uses plastic lenses to concentrate sunlight onto small but highly efficient solar cells. The so-called multijunction cells, developed by California-based Amonix, generate more electricity than conventional photovoltaic ...
  • 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 ...

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Plotting Vermont's energy future? Atlas literally puts renewables on the map
vtdigger.org
- Apr 22, 2010
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The site, called the Vermont Renewable Energy Atlas, provides an estimate of how much energy could be produced from renewable energy sources in any given ...
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Green Plains Renewable Energy Completes Acquisitions of Tennessee Agribusiness ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Apr 22, 2010
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Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRE) is North America's fourth largest ethanol producer, operating a total of six ethanol plants in Indiana, ...
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- Apr 22, 2010
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Because renewable energy projects are very capital intensive, the availability and cost of financing is key for a project's economic viability. ...
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Unclear cost of renewable energy plan continues to stir debate.
Austin American-Statesman
- Apr 21, 2010
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Austin Energy would get 35 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 , up from 11 percent now. That would place Austin among the nation's ...
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New Hanford radiation cleanup deadlines proposed
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Apr 22, 2010
- 26 minutes ago
"We've come up with a change package that satisfies the interest of DOE, Ecology and the public," said Deborah Singleton, project manager for the Washington ...
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Ecology invites public review of modification to stormwater permit that covers ...
Access Washington
- Apr 21, 2010
- 14 hours ago
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is seeking public input on changes to the state's Phase 1 Municipal Stormwater Permit. ...
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US Ecology Announces Schedule for Its First Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Apr 21, 2010
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BOISE, ID, Apr 21, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- US Ecology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECOL) today announced that it will release financial results for the first ...
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Earth Day planted seed of conservation
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Apr 21, 2010
- 9 hours ago
... on Wednesday wrestle a tree into place as they volunteer with others from the law firm Godfrey & Kahn to plant trees at the Urban Ecology Center. ...
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DWP, homeowners can't come to terms on broken water main settlements
Los Angeles Times
- Apr 21, 2010
- 8 hours ago
Some Studio City residents trying to get reimbursement from the utility for last year's water main break say the city is dragging its feet. ...
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Bishop, Chaffetz rain criticism on water bill
Salt Lake Tribune
- Apr 22, 2010
- 5 hours ago
By Patty Henetz Two Utah Republicans are leading a Western Congressional Caucus charge against a clean-water bill they say would give the federal government ...
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Homebuilder pays to settle alleged violations
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- Apr 22, 2010
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National homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises, based in Red Bank, Monmouth County, has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations ...
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Glacier Water Announces Fiscal Year 2009 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
- Apr 21, 2010
- 13 hours ago
Brian McInerney, Chief Executive Officer of Glacier Water, said, "Glacier achieved a milestone in 2009 with revenues exceeding $100000000. ...
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