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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Q&A: U.S. Immigration Needs an Internal Watchdog
  NEW YORK, Apr 24 (IPS) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has come under growing fire for its poor treatment of would-be immigrants held in detention - including a number of controversial deaths, lack of medical facilities, administrative bungling resulting in loss o ...
• "Radical Reform" Urged for Private-Sector Developm ...
  WASHINGTON, Apr 23 (IPS) - Policies and initiatives by multilateral development banks (MDBs) to support the private sector in developing countries need to be carefully reviewed and reformed to ensure they are reducing poverty and protecting human rights and the environment, according to a ne ...
• NIGERIA: New Law to Promote Locals in Oil Industry
  LAGOS, Apr 23 (IPS) - "This bill seeks to address the compelling need for us as a nation to have indigenous participation in the industry." With these words, Nigeria’s acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, signed the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Bill into law.
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Sharing the Okavango
  GABORONE, Apr 23 (IPS) - Each January, a giant pulse of water from heavy summer rains over the south of Angola enters the Okavango River system and begins a five-month journey through Namibia to a richly biodiverse swamp in Botswana's Kalahari desert. The river is a rarity, scarcely disturbe ...
• Crisis Trapping Millions More in Poverty
  WASHINGTON, Apr 23 (IPS) - The global economic crisis is projected to hamper progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and will directly impact MDGs related to hunger, child and maternal health, gender equality, access to clean water and disease control, according to a report ...

Scoop - NZ

• Economic Superstitions
  It has been an interesting week for connoisseurs of decline and fall. As I'm sure all my readers are aware by now, a small volcano in Iceland managed to chuck a sizable monkey wrench into the gears of business as usual across Europe by filling the upper atmosphere with a massive plume of what amount ...
• 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

Independent ( London )

• Man held in Ireland over murder 14 years ago
  A man has been detained after a European arrest warrant was issued for a murder in Ireland 14 years ago, police said today.
• Attacks against contractors surging in Afghanistan
  Attacks on US contractors, construction companies and aid organizations have been rising just as the United States pushes faster development of Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, as a priority in its strategy to counter the insurgency.
• Former nurse charged with aiding Briton's suicide
  A former nurse accused of encouraging dozens of people to kill themselves was charged with aiding a British man's suicide.
• US state governor vetoes abortion bills
  A US state governor two abortion bills that he said are an unconstitutional attempt by the legislature to insert government into the private lives and decisions of citizens.
• South Korea raises sunk warship
  South Korea today raised the front half of a warship that exploded and sank a month ago near a contested sea border with North Korea, finding clues that support growing suspicions Pyongyang attacked the vessel.

Rogue Government.com

• Five Israelis charged with organ trafficking
  Israel has charged five of its citizens, including a retired army general, with operating a nationwide organ trafficking ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims. The charges include human trafficking for the purpose of organ harvesting and money laundering.
• â��Lehman Was the Leading Purveyor of Liar& ...
• Star Wars 2010? U.S. military launch space plane ...
  A top secret space plane developed by the US military has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its maiden voyage.
• U.S. Faces Choice on New Weapons for Fast Strikes ...
  In coming years, President Obama will decide whether to deploy a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from the United States in under an hour and with such accuracy and force that they would greatly diminish America’s reliance on its nuclear arsenal.
• Fox News Piece: Silverstein Was Seeking Permissio ...
  In a 9/11 conspiracy hit piece on Fox News the writer reveals that Larry Silverstein was on the phone with his insurance company before WTC-7 collapsed asking if it would be OK to blow up the building with controlled demolitions due to supposed safety reasons

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

• Fake War on Terror: First person falsely convicted ...
  The pilot falsely accused of training the hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks has won his almost decade-long miscarriage of justice battle. Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian living in Britain who lost his career as an airline pilot, suffered wrongful imprisonment and damage to his health, ...
• Belgian government collapses after party quits coa ...
  Belgian plans to ban Islamic veils thrown into doubt after centre-right liberal party pulls out of Leterme coalition The collapse of the Belgian government has thrown into doubt plans to pass a law that would ban Islamic veils in public. The government, led by the prime minister, Yves Leterme, fel ...
• Six decades of dispossession
  Founded on ethnic cleansing, erasing the Palestinians remains the modus operandi of the state of Israel, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank. With a strange combination of self- righteousness and self-gratification, Israel this week celebrated its 62nd anniversary. Using skilfully fabricated sou ...
• Israel's Open Secret: Nuclear Armed and Dangerous
  For many years, Israel's open secret is that it's one of eight known nuclear powers, including America and Russia with about 97% of the world's arsenal according to Helen Caldicott in her book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer. The others are Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel - North ...
• Israel's criminal water policy
  By robbing Palestinians of their resources, Tel Aviv intends to see that they will wither away or emigrate into oblivion. Stipulated: Since 1967, when it occupied the Palestinian territories, Israel has been progressively robbing Palestinians of their land, thus pauperising them and stultifying the ...

The Galloping Beaver

• The Maple Syrup Revolution Podcast
  Taaaa Daaaaaaa! The Maple Syrup Revolution is ON!� Step right up and listen to our all-new, all-Canadian, 100% handmade, all-natural, organic, executive version, deluxe PODCAST - Satisfation guaranteed or triple your money back! You can get the podcast here (and eventually at the iTunes store) ...
• Hey Asshole!
  That'd be you there Chuck . About that gay agenda , if you want to call it that, might just be predicated on educating our children so our future society isn't full of dark age retrogressives who do shit like this : The Edmonton Police Service is conducting an internal investigation to determine w ...
• Fred on McChrystal
  FRED REED IS A CURMUDGEON, and as such, is politically-incorrect. That's a wedgie-warning for the dogmatic out there in web-world. He's also very funny at times, kinda like P.J. O'Rourke. Anyway, Fred has a site, Fred On Everything , and one of his pieces is an appraisal of U.S. general Stanley McCh ...
• 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 ...

Media Matters for America

• Hannity falsely claims Graham's anti-Islam comment ...
  On the April 23 edition of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity falsely claimed evangelist Franklin Graham's controversial 2001 comments that Islam "is a very evil and wicked religion" were "taken out of context" and that he was speaking "specifically about radical ...
• Beck falsely claims there's been "zero warming for ...
  On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that there has been "zero warming for over a decade" and that climate change is a "scam" and has been "totally discredited". In fact, longer-term data establishes a warming trend, and the scientific consensus behind human-driven climate change remain ...
• Drudge, NBC Chicago hype allegations from discre ...
  The Drudge Report is hyping a report from a Chicago NBC affiliate that recklessly pushes completely speculative allegations about President Obama based on the disgraced and discredited former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich. Tapper: "Disgraced" Blagojevich of "disputable credibility" and ...
• Fox News whitewashes Franklin Graham's incendiary ...
  Fox News hosts rushed to defend Rev. Franklin Graham both before and after the Pentagon's decision to rescind his invitation to National Prayer Day, reportedly due to concerns over his incendiary comments about Islam. In doing so, the hosts often played portions of Graham's April 22 Fox News ...
• Busy repeating GOP talking points on Fannie/Fredd ...
  On both "opinion" and "straight news" programs, Fox News has channeled the GOP talking points that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac caused the financial crisis and are "getting a free pass" because they are not overhauled by Democrats' financial regulatory reform legislation. But Fox repeatedly igno ...

Global Research.ca

• An Act Of War: The US Congress is Actively Pushing ...
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• Collapse of the Standard of Living in the USA
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• The Swine Flu Panic of 2009: Reconstruction of a M ...
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• America Threatens Global Security with WMD: Former ...
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• Thousands Of Slippers To 'Greet' Tony Blair In Mal ...
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TPM Cafe

• Break Up the Banks Budget Ball: The Game for Peopl ...
  The deficit hawks are moving into high gear next week. President Obama's deficit commission will hold its first public meeting on Tuesday. The next day Wall Street investment banker Peter Peterson will be sponsoring a daylong deficit fest, billed as a "fiscal responsibility summit." This summit will ...
• Support the Troops: Hire Them!
  Three years ago, I got an email from an Iraq veteran from Arlington, Virginia named Joe Tryon. His wife, Melissa, also a disabled combat veteran, was undergoing treatment at Walter Reed. Joe and Melissa are 1 of the more than 115,000 dual-military couples today. Together, they faced countless bureau ...
• While Dersh Lies About J St, Schumer Bashes Obama
  CROSSPOSTED from Media Matters Action Network Chuck Schumer is a Democrat who, it is reported, would love to become Senate Majority Leader someday. That makes it especially odd that he would choose to royally bash a Democratic President for his Middle East policies. But that is what he what h ...
• Has Chuck Schumer EVER Criticized Israel or its Le ...
  Senator Chuck Schumer may have just lost any shot at succeeding Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader if the Nevada Senator stumbles in the upcoming tough 2010 challenge he is facing. Politico 's Ben Smith shares word of a very harsh critique that Schumer publicly shared with a conservative Jewish ...
• What's Holding Obama The Professor Back?
  Dahlia, many thanks for your generous words --and for your excellent question, which has to have occurred to our president from time to time, especially in recent months. Should he say more--should he say anything at all--about his understanding of the Constitution, and about the role of judges ...

TruthOut

• US Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack ...
  Washington - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Ir ...
• Marijuana, Boom and Bust
  Marijuana was by no means the first boom crop to delight my home county of Humboldt, here in Northern California, five-hours' drive from San Francisco up Route 101. Leaving aside the boom of appropriating land from the Indians, there was the timber boom, which crested in the 1950s when Douglas fir i ...
• The Pill 50 Years Later – The Fight for Coverage C ...
  An article published today in TIME magazine explores that little medication with which so many of us are intimately familiar: the pill. The piece is TIME’s cover story, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the FDA’s approval of the pill for contraceptive use. But the fact that we celebrate the 50th ...
• Do the Right Thing
  For a number of years, the running joke about me among my friends was that, because I write for a living, I'm a bum. They didn't really mean it, and there was definitely a tinge of envy in their voices when they cracked on me about it - after all, my commute to work is the 15 feet from my bed to my ...
• Truthout | News in Brief
  Obama calls Arizona immigration bill "misguided." T he Washington Post reports that President Obama urged Congress today to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, saying that inaction would lead to "misguided efforts" and "irresponsibility by others." read more

Planetsave

• Americans Growing Apathy to Environmental Movement
  On the anniversary of the 40 th Earth Day the latest Gallup poll shows that attitudes towards the environmental movement in America are declining. Despite Gallup’s attempt to spin this as a “still positive” result, the 8 point drop in American’s attitudes towards the environmental movement is indic ...
• Extensive Release of Methane Gas from Arctic Shelf ...
  Illustration showing methane chimney from sea floor to surface (USGS) A team of scientists confirms that sea-bottom and surface waters of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf are “super-saturated”  with Methane (CH4) gas and “out-gassing” this potent GHG to the Atmosphere. A variable quantity known ...
• What to do on Earth Day?
  What can we do on Earth Day to help the planet? Change our lives. I have read articles from and communicated with many leading environmental bloggers in the past week or so about Earth Day. As many are right and eagerly ready to say, Earth Day is not enough, not anymore. Today should still be Eart ...
• 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, ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• The water blog: Everybody needs it
  Straight Creek flowing strong at peak runoff during a June snowstorm. PHOTO BY BOB BERWYN. The Color
• World Court Recognizes EIA Is a Duty under Interna ...
  The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, announced in its judgment this week th
• On Cleaning the Spokane River
  Spokane River at State Line In the post-Earth Day Sunday paper, the Spokesman Review published our t
• Purchasing The Correct Water Softener
  Methods Of Water Softening Do you have hard water or poor water quality?  The water hardness level f
• The fifth meeting of the Convention on Biological ...
  Biotechnology is a field of biology that involves the use of living things in engineering, technolog

Public Citizen in Texas

• Ryan Rittenhouse and Nikisha Nathan dance at Publi ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Week in Review
  As we round out an especially celebratory Earth Day Week, work at Public Citizen Texas is as fast-paced as ever. Though, today, our staff is pausing to celebrate a huge victory for all Austinites: yesterday, city council approved the Austin Energy Generation Plan. Our staff worked their tails off to ...
• Ken Flippen, Eric Bremer, Melissa Sanchez, and Dav ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Public Citizen Deputy Director David Power, Meliss ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• High Demand for Appliance Rebates Show That More P ...
  Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Today Texans proved that there is a very high demand for energy-efficient products and services when they made reservations for $23 million worth of appliance rebates in just eight hours, using up rebates in the first day they ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Hubble celebrates 20 years in space
  20 years ago today the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and became our window to the universe. While things didn't go quite according to plan immed...
• Woman "impregnated by aliens" appears on TV
  In this bizarre story a woman in Italy claims to have been abducted and impregnated by aliens. The woman who has appeared on TV not only claims to hav...
• 1 in 5 think haggis is a hill-dwelling animal
  In a recent poll it has been revealed that 1 in 5 people in Britain think haggis is actually an animal. In addition a further 15 percent believed that...
• Dreaming is the brain's way of learning
  New research has boosted the idea that sleep and dreaming can help the brain to learn things. The study demonstrated that those who went to sleep and ...
• World's first full face transplant performed
  A team of 30 doctors and surgeons have performed the world's first full face transplant on a young man in Spain. The man had been left disfigured and ...

Grassroots

• Grassroots International Signs on to STOP LAND GRA ...
  Grassroots International, along with scores of organizations and global activists, endorses the call of the Via Campesina to "Stop�Land Grabbing Now!" and say no to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank. read more
• An Open Letter to Oxfam Regarding Biotechnology
  Subheadline:� Grassroots International Among the List of Signers Image:� oxfam-biotech.jpg Grassroots International recently joined a growing list of colleagues and food sove ...
• 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 ...

Climate

• April 23, 2010
  People's Climate Summit Seeks to Halve Emissions by 2020 (AFP)  A "people's conference" on climate change agreed in Bolivia Thursday to call for the halving of CO2 emissions by 2020 at the next UN climate meeting in Mexico in December. Senators Struggling Over Climate Compromise (Reuters ...
• April 22, 2010
  Green Auction to Mark 40th Anniversary of Earth Day (Reuters) Artists, conservationists, business leaders and film and music stars from around the globe are marking the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day with a green auction to benefit the environment. EPA Prods Congress by Issuing Rules (Th ...
• 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 ...

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

• Tea Party: Why the Right Doesn't Get It (It's the ...
  Larry Elder, a black conservative columnist and Tea Party speaker, has a piece out this week titled "Tea Party: Why the Left Doesn't Get It." Setting aside the question of why any African-American would vote Republican (did any Jews vote for the Nazis?), Elder's column unintentionally reveals the in ...
• Big Liars and the Voters Who Love Them
  It's not surprising that Republicans oppose the Obama Administration - they want to suck up to the rich by maintaining the status quo. And it's not surprising that they lie - this is, after all, the Party that created the fictional Iraqi atomic bomb threat so they would have a winning issue in the ...
• Where Are the Tea Party Protests About Wall Street ...
  We're down to the wire here on financial reform. I can't think of a better time to put pressure on Wall Street and Washington to make sure there is adequate regulation to ensure that we never have another bailout. The AFL-CIO is about to have a protest at Wall Street on April 29th . Great, that make ...
• Someone Must Have Been Telling Lies About Joseph K ...
  Franz Kafka's book "The Trial" begins "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." There follow many thousands of words describing the ordeal of someone denied the right to know the charges against him, to face his a ...
• Noam Chomsky Listens to Talk Radio
  Noam Chomsky tells ex-New York Times reporter Chris Hedges he has "never seen anything like this.'" "This," says the man Hedges believes is "America's greatest intellectual," is the frightening mood of the country -- "the level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions," and the "self-destruc ...

Ten Percent

• Friday! Futurama- A Head in the Polls
  Leela: Don’t let their identical DNA fool you. They differ on some key issues. Johnson: I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far. Jackson: And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn’t go too far enough! Essential General Election viewing.
• Racism Will Turn Arizona Into A Police State
  The slow creeping fascism of a declining empire will have its most explicit success if Arizona’s Republican governor Jan Brewer signs into law SB 1070. In the video below by Nezua he makes the very good point, where are the libertarians when the government is making it a crime not to have your pape ...
• National Not Voting Conservative Day
  From the mighty pen/graphics pad/stone tablet of Beau Bo D’Or- I sort of love the story of Rebekah and James running around the Mail & Indy offices enforcing omertà. In a contest of lesser evils we can all agree the one outcome to be worked against is the ruling class cocktail club known as the [.. ...
• 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. [...]

Booman Tribune

• Immigration vs. Climate Change Reform?
  CNN reports that Immigration Reform will bump Climate Change off this year's agenda. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman dispute this and say Reid has given them assurances that their Climate Change legislation will get a vote this year. In fact, they plan on unveiling their plan on Monday. I don't ...
• Clowns to the Left of Me, Nutters to the Right
  Steve Benen: Long-time readers may recall a discussion we had back in December, about the quality of the debate over health care reform. It was obvious at the time that the meaningful, interesting disputes weren't between conservatives and liberals, but between liberals and other liberals. It' ...
• Not Feeling Too Chipper
  I am starting to get pretty pessimistic about the midterm elections. I think Bob Menendez has done a dreadful job of recruitment. I give him credit for getting (a candidate I can't support) Charlie Melancon to run for David Vitter's seat, but where else are we challenging an incumbent? North Caro ...
• What About Assigning Blame?
  After laying out his simplistic center-right philosophy, David Brooks diagnoses why his form of moderation didn't prevail in Washington: ...I confess that about 16 months ago I had some hope of a revival. The culture war, which had bitterly divided the country for decades, was winding down. The w ...
• Signs of Backbone
  It seems to me like the Democrats are finally starting to take the advice they've been getting from the left since Obama took office. No more interminable negotiating with the Party of Hell No. No more preemptive compromising. Starting to get tough on holds and filibusters and setting aside time ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 24 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1949 Birth of...
• Normal Friday Open Thread
  by Xavier GorceWhat do you mean, it is not normal? it's exactly in accordance with...
• Doom pr0n
  From the "you can't make this up" dept. SEC Staff Watched Porn as Economy Crashed...
• WMFJ?
  Following through a link from ceebs in yesterday's Open Thread, there's a rant from Kevin...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1943 Birth of...

Futurismic

• BOOK REVIEW: Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Sci ...
  Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science-Fiction by Jetse de Vries (ed.) Solaris Books, April 2010; 416pp; £7.99 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1906735661 I’ve been talking about Jetse de Vries’ Shine project for a long time now, for a number of reasons: not only is Jetse a good friend and former colleague, b ...
• Bughunting in the city’s software
  Ah, internet serendipity – a few days after my post about SeeClickFix and systems for crowdsourcing bugfixes in the urban system*, Adam “Speedbird” Greenfield posts about improving “frameworks for citizen responsiveness” [via Chairman Bruce]: So how would you close the loop? How would you arrange th ...
• BOOK REVIEW: Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Sci ...
  Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science-Fiction by Jetse de Vries (ed.) Solaris Books, April 2010; 416pp; £7.99 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1906735661 I’ve been talking about Jetse de Vries’ Shine project for a long time now, for a number of reasons: not only is Jetse a good friend and former colleague, b ...
• Bughunting in the city’s software
  Ah, internet serendipity – a few days after my post about SeeClickFix and systems for crowdsourcing bugfixes in the urban system*, Adam “Speedbird” Greenfield posts about improving “frameworks for citizen responsiveness” [via Chairman Bruce]: So how would you close the loop? How would you arrange th ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Review of Trends in American Cinema Suggests Femal ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Young women and girls often derive role models from film and television, and concerns over the personalities and traits of characters have been rampant for decades. Though women portrayed in films have taken on many new characteristics, some experts aren’t convinced t ...
• Study Measures Impact of Parental Suicide on Child ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Many children grow up facing distinct challenges within their family lives, though some are presented with pronounced difficulty that may have the potential to negatively impact the child’s adult life. The suicide of a parent during childhood is a markedly traumatic ex ...
• World Laughter Day Anticipated by Therapists
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Sometimes it may seem that there’s a special day or week for just about every cause and idea under the sun, but sometimes the reason for celebrating a special day is focused purely on fun and enjoyment. On World Laughter Day, to be held May 2nd, there may be some heal ...
• Canadian Researcher Looks for People with Anorexia
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary As anorexia and other eating disorders have attracted increasing attention and concern among the public as well as researchers, efforts to understand how such problems develop and how they may be treated have gained significant momentum. One doctoral candidate at the U ...
• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Time to end mountaintop removal mining - The Tenne ...
  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Time to end mountaintop removal mining The Tennessean Mountaintop removal and valley fill coal mining occurs mostly in the 12 million-acre coal-bearing region of Central Appalachia. ... RHEIN: End mountaintop removal madness Attleboro Sun Chronicle The End o ...
• EPA pledges new mountain top removal protections - ...
  EPA pledges new mountain top removal protections Free Speech Radio News In the wake of an EPA proposal to veto one of the largest mountain top removal mining permits in the county, the Obama administration announced today new ... and more��
• Preventing the Next Mine Disaster: UNIONIZE - It's ...
  Reuters UK Preventing the Next Mine Disaster: UNIONIZE It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) Flying in the face of these horrible realities,there has been the disturbing development that Mountaintop Removal proponents have been coming out with ... Mountaintop Coal Rules May Send More US Miners Undergroun ...
• Earth Dayâ„¢ -- Tastes Great, Less Filling - Huffi ...
  National Geographic Earth Dayâ„¢ -- Tastes Great, Less Filling Huffington Post (blog) If Chase Bank can open a "green" branch, it can get away with financing mountaintop removal . Instead of inspiring the creation of legislation or a robust ... Eco-groovy activities abound in Monterey County for 40 ...
• Judge Gives EPA Additional Time to Decide on Spruc ...
  WOWK Judge Gives EPA Additional Time to Decide on Spruce No. 1 Mine Permit WOWK ... give the federal Environmental Protection Agency time to reconsider an order to revoke the permit for West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine. ... Judge gives EPA more time in W.Va. mine lawsuit Daily Mail ...

Memeorandum

• Maybe America doesn't want an immobilized judicial ...
  Dahlia Lithwick / Slate : Maybe America doesn't want an immobilized judicial branch after all. … - Climate Change Is Going To Reshape the American Electoral Map.  Here's How.- J. Lo's New Movie Is Terrible but Not as Bad as Other Rom-Coms- Project Runway Finale: The Nazi-Inspired Designs Win ...
• FDIC closes Broadway Bank, Amcore, five others (Ch ...
  Chicago Breaking Business : FDIC closes Broadway Bank, Amcore, five others   —  Ricky McCullough, associate ombudsman for the FDIC, talks to the media about the closing of Broadway Bank on Friday, April 23.  (Phil Velasquez/ Chicago Tribune)  —  By Becky Yerak |  Broadway Bank, the family-run lende ...
• U.S.'s Toughest Immigration Law Is Signed in Arizo ...
  Randal C. Archibold / New York Times : U.S.'s Toughest Immigration Law Is Signed in Arizona   —  PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the toughest illegal immigration bill in the country into law on Friday, aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants.  The governor's m ...
• Arizona governor signs immigration law; foes promi ...
  Alia Beard Rau / Arizona Republic : Arizona governor signs immigration law; foes promise fight   —  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer today signed into law an immigration bill that gives the state toughest law in the nation, making it a state crime to be in the country illegally and requiring local police to ...
• Kerry: Three Big Oil Companies Likely to Back Clim ...
  Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones : Kerry: Three Big Oil Companies Likely to Back Climate Bill   —  When Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman release their climate bill on Monday, they expect to have the backing of three of the five major oil companies, Mother Jones has learned.  In a conf ...

Energy & Environment News

• Business of Green: Government Incentives Lift Sola ...
  Subsidies have started an entrepreneurial rush of regional start-up companies and created thousands of local jobs in installation, construction, maintenance and finance.
• Business of Green: Keeping Delivery Trucks Full, C ...
  A program called Empty Miles aims to find return cargo for trucks that have made deliveries, because driving an empty truck is a waste of money and a producer of greenhouse gases.
• Business of Green: Nuclear Energy Is Coming Back, ...
  Much opposition to nuclear reactors has fallen away, but their revival is proceeding at a crawl.
• Business of Green: The New Jobs in the Nuclear Pow ...
  Seeking a stable, well-paying career, many young people have decided that the prospects for nuclear technicians are promising.
• California's Solar Scorecard
  Why have so few of the state's 7.7 million households gone solar?

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.0, Kepulauan Obi, Indonesia
  Saturday, April 24, 2010 07:41:02 UTC Saturday, April 24, 2010 04:41:02 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.2, Western Australia
  Tuesday, April 20, 2010 00:17:08 UTC Tuesday, April 20, 2010 08:17:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.6, Guatemala
  Sunday, April 18, 2010 13:30:58 UTC Sunday, April 18, 2010 07:30:58 AM at epicenter Depth : 64.00 km (39.77 mi)
• M 5.0, Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia
  Saturday, April 17, 2010 16:00:21 UTC Sunday, April 18, 2010 01:00:21 AM at epicenter Depth : 146.60 km (91.09 mi)
• M 5.3, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia
  Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:02:26 UTC Saturday, April 17, 2010 06:02:26 PM at epicenter Depth : 60.10 km (37.34 mi)

China Dialogue

• Preparing for an ice-free Arctic (3)
  China is treading a tricky political line in the North Pole, anxious to be included but unwilling to rock the boat. In the conclusion of a three-part article, Linda Jakobson examines its approach. Although China’s assistant minister of foreign affairs, Hu Zhengyue , has said that “China does not hav ...
• Preparing for an ice-free Arctic (2)
  A small group of Chinese academics is turning its attention to the commercial and strategic worth of newly open waters – and urging the government to take note. Linda Jakobson reports. As China’s economy is reliant on foreign trade, there are substantial commercial implications if shipping routes ar ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Building a Climate Justice Movement
  The climate justice movement has taken up two enormous concerns: How to address ecological catastrophe and how to develop a new global economic model.
• Will President Obama Stand up for Real Financial R ...
  “Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We rise or we fall together as one nation. So I urge you to join me,” President Obama to Wall Street Executives at Cooper Union, April 22, 2010. Now, in the wake of the Goldman Sachs lawsuit, is a golden moment for President ...
• Why 'I Feel It In My Heart' Is a Terrible Justific ...
  As vivid as the experience of our hearts and minds can feel, it's unreliable and subject to bias.
• Wall Street's Simple Formula for Staying Rich
  Through the Federal Reserve, the public is basically giving the mega banks free money and letting them make bundles on the difference with which they lend.
• Why Are We Still Funding Abstinence-Only Sex Ed?
  With its absence from the president's budget, you might have thought "Just Say No" sex ed was dead -- but the health-care bill gave it new life.

Threat Level

• Man Indicted for ‘Cyber-Extortion’ Threat Against ...
  A California man was hit with an extortion charge this week for allegedly threatening to send out millions of e-mails criticizing his insurance company, if the firm didn’t pay him as much as $3 million. Anthony Digati, 52, faces a maximum two-year prison term if convicted of charges the Federal Bur ...
• Richard Clarke’s Cyberwar: File Under Fiction
  Readers of Richard Clarke’s new book Cyberwar who want to jump to the steamy parts should start at page 64 in the chapter “Cyber Warriors.” It’s there you’ll find the Book of Revelation re-written for the internet age, with the end-times heralded by the Four Trojan Horses of the Apocalypse. Chines ...
• McAfee Probing Bungle That Sparked Global PC Crash
  McAfee said Thursday it was trying to determine how it bungled a security update that crashed perhaps tens of thousands of PCs across the globe. Computers from Australia and Kentucky to the United Kingdom began freezing up late Wednesday after the Santa Clara, California, security firm released an ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Thai government considers red shirts compromise
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai government officials huddled on Saturday to consider a peace overture from tens of thousands of demonstrators demanding snap elections that could end weeks of protests and deadly clashes in Bangkok.
• Euro assets risk losing long-term friends
  LONDON (Reuters) - Failure to stem investor concern about Greece's ability to repay debt risks making outflows from European stocks and the euro disorderly, and would scare away even long-term supporters such as reserve managers.
• South Korea raises warship, looking for link to No ...
  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Saturday raised the front half of a warship that exploded and sank near a contested sea border with North Korea a month ago, seeking clues to confirm growing suspicions that Pyongyang attacked the vessel.
• UPDATE 1-Obama warns of 'misguided' immigration ef ...
  * Democrats may push immigration reform effort in Congress
• Regulators seize bank linked to Senate candidate
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Regulators on Friday seized a Chicago bank owned by the family of the Democratic nominee running for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• Creating a just and humane healthcare system &#823 ...
  “Declaration of Health Independence and Security” Inasmuch as the national healthcare reform effort did not produce a result that will provide the basic human right to healthcare to all in the United States, the work of ...
• WALL STREET POKER AFTER DARK
  BanksterUSA Releases New Video Calling for the Break Up of the Big Banks A banking reform bill passed the House in December. Now the action moves to the Senate. Our new video features Jamie “Derivatives” Dimon ...
• PDA MA Meets with Tsongas at April Vigil
  The Mass. 5th district chapter held it’s second vigil outside the Lowell Ma. office of Rep. Tsongas, and individual chapter members met with her staff to urge her to co-sponsor the new McGovern/Feingold legislation mandating ...
• 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 ...

Marler Blog

• Food Safety News Second bi-annunal meeting
  Eight months into Food Safety News , we had the chance to bring together the Washington DC, Denver and Seattle Bureaus, along with our interns and free-lancers in Las Vegas.  The goal is to talk this weekend about how we have been doing and how we can do better. As I said to one Ag reporter a few ...
• Salmonella Paratyphi B Linked to Frozen Raw Ahi Tu ...
  The Hawaii Department of Health today confirmed 10 cases of salmonella infection on Oahu related to eating previously frozen internationally imported raw ahi.  The people who became ill with Salmonella Paratyphi B reported eating raw ahi, often prepared as poke, that was purchased or served at vario ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• Nissan: 6,635 customers have signed up to reserve ...
  Filed under: Car Buying , Hatchback , Nissan , Electric Nissan Leaf EV - Click above for high-res image gallery How many people plunked down $99 to register for a Nissan Leaf ? According to an email from Nissan , "As of this morning, 6,635 customers signed up to reserve a Nissan Leaf." The reser ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.23.10
  Beijing 2010: Chevrolet Volt MPV5 crossover revealed Tasty. Officially Official: Japan EV Club Mira sets Guinness distance record The little kei car goes 345+ miles on a single charge. ...
• Earth Day Prizelust: Tesla Roadster on Price is ...
  Filed under: Convertible , Performance , Etc. , Tesla , Electric 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport - Click above for high-res image gallery With the thousands of prizes given away on The Price is Right over the centuries decades, it's hard to top the things that have come before. But, today, a new record ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: Twitter's business model (p ...
  Today: Twitter's business model. Yes, there is one. Finally. To talk about what Twitter is going to do--and if they really need to do it--we have two great guests with us here in the studio. First, from CNET, author of our social-networking blog The Social , Caroline McCarthy ( @caro on Twitter). ...
• How to save money with refurb laptops
  You can get a nearly new, nicely restored laptop at a bargain, if you shop carefully. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• 3D TV: A proposal on behalf of the stereo-blind
  There's an easy way to make 3D work for people who can't see it. But no one is doing it. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• Reporters' Roundtable: Can the iPad save journalis ...
  Today's show: Can the iPad save newspapers and magazines? Or, to be more general, can tablets save journalism? It's an important topic and we have two excellent and overqualifiied guests to get into it. First, in the studio, Damon Darlin, the technology editor of a small newspaper that's st ...
• Real-world iPad annoyances: A timeline
  A dozen days of use and the nits and niggles come out.

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

• 20 ways to save green by going green
  Companies are increasingly willing to offer consumers discounts for green behaviors such as recycling electronics and receiving statements electronically. But while the behaviors can have an environmental impact, the savings for consumers are usually nominal.
• Did Earth Day Sell Out to Corporations?
  Once upon a time, or 40 years ago, today was about challenging corporations and the government; now Earth Day is rife with corporate sponsors, according to the New York Times. NYC’s Gray Line, a sightseeing company, will offer trips to green spots in the city; FAO Schwarz has a penguin toy that prom ...
• Eyjafjallajokull Volcano's Ash Cloud Explained [Gr ...
  The eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano during April 2010 has been remarkable for the effects of its ash cloud.
• Scientists find it difficult to predict volcano be ...
  The year of the earthquake has suddenly become the year of the volcano.
• Threat of New, Larger Icelandic Eruption Looms
  For all the worldwide chaos that Iceland's volcano has already created, it may just be the opening act.

Invisible Opportunity

• Were the Polish elite abducted and killed in Polan ...
  By Jane Burgermeister Polish TV journalist Slawomir Wisniewski who was among the first to reach the crash site of the Tupolev plane containing key Polish military and civilian figures, including the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, has said that he believes there was no one on board the crashed plan ...
• Alzheimer’s drugs cause brain damage and act ...
  By S. L. Baker Big Pharma drugs that are being used on humans right now and promoted as potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) could cause the very brain damage and memory loss they are supposed to treat. That’s the conclusion of University of California at San Diego (UCSD) scientists who ...
• Peer-Research Finds Major Climate Model Failures R ...
  Read here. It is well documented that climate models have been abject failures as global predictive tools, and should not be relied upon by policy makers for global decisions. The newest research confirms that the models are also incorrect regarding regional predictions, including the Arctic area cl ...
• Israelis charged with human organ sales
  Five Israelis, including a retired army general, have been charged with running a human organ sales ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims. Court papers say the ring exploited the desperate condition of sick people, calling it a “form of modern slavery”. Police said the traffickers allegedly ...
• Flu shots suspended after kids hospitalised
  The Western Australian Government has suspended all flu vaccinations for children under five while it investigates a spike in admissions to Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth. The Health Minister, Kim Hames, says 45 children have been taken to hospital suffering high temperatures and febrile convul ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Dismantling the 5 Big Talking Points of Marijuana ...
  Opposition to this reform has crystallized within the drug war establishment, and so has their spin.
• An American Phenomenon: The Widespread Psychiatric ...
  The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world, medicating children at a younger and younger age.
• Coca Colla Goes on Sale in Bolivia
  Made from the coca leaf and named after Bolivia's indigenous Colla people, the soda is the latest attempt by Bolivia to expand legal markets for coca products.
• How Los Angeles Became the "Wild West" o ...
  How Los Angeles became the medical marijuana capital of America thanks to a combination of entrepreneurial energy and benign political neglect.
• Don't Just Smoke a Joint on 4/20 -- Take Action Ag ...
  Stand up today with other Americans and get the word out there. This war will end; how soon depends, in part, on you.

Twilight Earth

• Earth Music – Earth Day 2010
  Happy Earth Day. Enjoy. Related posts: Happy 40th- Earth Day! Earth Day 2010 – History and Events Earth Day 2010 is Almost Upon Us – 7 Ways to Get Involved Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Information
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• Shop Locally at the Hester Street Fair in NYC This ...
  Join Inhabitat at the Hester Street Fair this Weekend! Attention New York Inhabitants! Are you looking for something fun, hip and community-friendly to do this beautiful spring weekend? Then come down to the Lower East Side and join us for the grand opening of the Hester Street Fair! This new neigh ...
• BOOM! A Political Statement in the Form of Chocola ...
  Mexico is one of the largest producers of cacao in the world, cultivating this ancient currency for over three millennia. But while it’s the birthplace of chocolate, any production of this lucrative product domestically remains quite scarce. Designed by Héctor Galván, founder of Mexico City based de ...
• Build It Green Certified Residence in Los Angeles
  The Jacobson Residence is a brand new construction in Los Angeles with a high eco factor – enough so that it is Build It Green and ENERGY STAR certified! If you’re not familiar with Build It Green, it’s another green building certification, not quite as popular or well-known as USGBC’s LEED progra ...
• Ellis Park House Set the Sustainable Standard for ...
  Ellis Park House is a 4,300 square foot family home located in the Bloor West Village neighborhood of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. The single family home, completed in 2006, presents a great example of a holistic and integrated approach to sustainable design. Altius Architecture Inc. overcame constru ...
• Cantilever House Combines Commercial Steel and Res ...
  Perched upon a mountain a short drive away from Seattle, Washington, the Cantilever House combines a small-scale commercial steel frame with stunning modern styling. According to Anderson Anderson Architects the efficient construction was created through the union of two standardized, mass produced ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Mysterious Service From Cable, Part II
  Answers about why New York's cable companies are suddenly offering free access to each other's WiFi hot spots.
• A Convenient, Mysterious Service From Cable Compan ...
  Big cable companies have been installing free Wi-Fi networks for their own customers. It's a fantastic development. But it's not clear why they're doing it.
• 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?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Reader Photo Gallery: Your Desk Celebrates Hubble’ ...
  The Hubble Space Telescope’s journey crossed the double-decade mark today, and our readers and followers are celebrating the beloved satellite with their desktops. For the past five weeks, we’ve asked followers of @wiredscience on Twitter to change their computer backgrounds to some of our favorite ...
• Bill Gates and Friends Make Case for Energy R&D
  Bill Gates and a host of other corporate heavy hitters have founded a new organization to push for more research and development into clean energy technology. Gates and former DuPont CEO Charles Holliday heralded the launch of the American Energy Innovation Council with an unusually clear and conci ...
• Wow! Celebrate Hubble’s 20th With Best Space Image ...
  We were already dreading the day Hubble dies, but this mind-blowing new image released to celebrate the space telescope’s 20th anniversary makes us wish for eternal life for the famous satellite even more. This new gem rivals what may be Hubble’s most famous image, a shot of the Pillars of Creation ...
• Evolution’s New Foe: Timid School Administrators
  Evolution education is under attack in Weston, Connecticut, but not from the usual direction. Nobody is promoting intelligent design in the curriculum, or asking schools to teach evolution’s “strengths and weaknesses.” There’s just an administration afraid that teaching third graders too much about ...
• The Nanometer Matterhorn
  Those crazy IBM research engineers, what will they create at the nanoscale next? To demonstrate a new material etching technique that could allow for ever smaller computer chip components to be made, they created a model of the Matterhorn that stands just 25 nanometers tall. That’s 17,912,000,000,0 ...

The Progressive Realist

• "Get Real" About the UK’s Nuclear Trident
  One of the hot issues in yesterday’s UK Prime Minister’s debate is over whether to replace Britainâs Trident nuclear missile system . The fault lines on this issue have oddly unified Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron. Both support spending more than $100 billion on ...
• Brutality and Counterinsurgency
  Recently, while discussing the war in Afghanistan with a conflict studies program in the mid-west, I had a rather odd debate with a leftist professor who was devil's advocating what he claimed was a "neo-conservative" position (based on some of his recent interaction with naval officers and RAND res ...
• Has Hamas Sold Out?
  Interesting dispatch from Gaza City from Edmund Sanders in the LA Times: Hamas, the Palestinian faction viewed by many in the West as a nest of terrorists and Islamic hard-liners, is battling a curious new epithet: moderate. Fifteen months after a punishing Israeli offensive failed to dislodge Hamas ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - China and Japan downplayed a recent media report over Chinese naval maneuvers in the East China Sea. Japanese media had claimed the maneuvers violated Japanese territorial waters near the disputed Okinotori outcropping, which Japan calls an island and China calls a coral reef. Japan's foreign mini ...
• Oil Analysts Say That Iraq’s Oil Goals Are Too Amb ...
  As reported before , some have questioned whether Iraq could achieve its goal of increasing its oil production from roughly 2.4 million barrels a day today to 12 million barrels within ten years. In the last several weeks, a few more experts have voiced their skepticism as well. First, at the end of ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Bespoke Socialism Chic.
  Surveying the evidence that conservative ideological self-identification correlates with wealth, I'm tempted to revisit a pet theory: Some of the very wealthy are looking for an explanation for their good fortune, and the one with the most compelling explanatory power is the conservative brand of b ...
• The Civic Consequences of Shiny Things.
  Steven Johnson has shaped my way of thinking about technology more than any other writer. His 2002 Emergence was a revelation for its description of how everything from ant colonies to cities to software share a certain organic interconnectivity that makes them so powerful. That's what has made his ...
• The Little Picture: SB1070 Signed in Arizona.
  Truly shameful: This afternoon, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed into law a hopelessly draconian anti-immigrant measure that essentially makes it a crime to be an undocumented citizen. The law will require police officers to inquire about a person's immigration status if they form "reasonable sus ...
• Friday Afternoon Reading.
  Bit of a slow news day here in the nation's capital: The weather is beautiful, the House is adjourned, the Senate is waiting for a Monday cloture vote, and the president is traveling. Why not read a fascinating, contrarian essay by Aaron David Miller , a longtime Middle East hand, on the peace proce ...
• Preserving New York City's Water.
  New York State has decided not to allow drilling for natural gas in the watersheds that provide the famously clean, unfiltered water to New York City and other downstate areas. The agreement is the result of a fight between the city and state after the state issued draft regulations last year, accor ...

Andy Worthington

• Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo ...
  Please support my work! Note: This article is published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here and here), which also features an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the judges’ unclassified opinions, and more). O ...
• Technical problems during “Guantánamo Habeas Week”
  POSTSCRIPT: I’ve finally managed to post the article mentioned below, âJudge Rules Yemeniâs Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture.â This is part of my ongoing âGuantánamo Habeas Weekâ project, but it’s now more like âGuantánamo Habeas Fortnight,â as I still have articles t ...
• Andy Worthington Discusses “Guantánamo Habeas Week ...
  On Tuesday I was delighted to talk once more to Peter B. Collins, the independent progressive radio host whose podcasts, uninterrupted by ad breaks, provide a great opportunity to discuss serious issues without interruption. The interview is available here. I met Peter on my trip to the US last Nove ...
• 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer Protest at 1 ...
  At 12 noon on Saturday April 24, 2010, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign is holding a protest opposite 10 Downing Street to mark a sad occasion — 3000 days since British resident Shaker Aamer, who was cleared for release from Guantánamo in 2007, first arrived at the prison. Speakers include: author an ...
• Noam Chomsky Delivers Warning to the US About the ...
  I’m cross-posting an article about Noam Chomsky by Chris Hedges, originally published on Truthdig, because I was struck by the power of his statement, “I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” referring to the current state of politics in the US, and his warning, “It is very similar to ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• New Deadly Fungus Found in U.S., Has Already Kille ...
  The new, hypervirulent fungus strain has already killed six and is spreading in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, a new study says.
• Earth Day at 40: What Good Is It Now?
  After 40 years, outsourced activism is replacing traditional Earth Day activities, and green's gone mainstream, experts say. So what's the point?
• Earth Day at 40: How it Began, Where It's Going
  On its 40th anniversary, the once grassroots Earth Day is now taking root on the Web. But some critics don't like it in any medium.
• Iceland Volcano Has "Quieted Down"—Ash Crisis to E ...
  With a lower plume and visible lava, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano could be entering a gentler phase, which "might help with the ash problem," experts say.
• EARTH DAY PICTURES: Quirky Ways to Mark the Day
  NoneAn undersea cleaning party and the world's largest baked alaska join the ranks of oddball events that have been held on Earth Days past to draw attention to environmental causes.

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

• Counting ‘Confederates’: Once More, Kirk Lyons Til ...
  The neo-Confederate movement ’s best known legal champion is getting some media buzz for urging Southerners to declare their race as “Confederate Southern American” on the 2010 U.S. census questionnaire. In recent video messages posted on YouTube and Facebook, white supremacist attorney Kirk Lyons t ...
• Calling All Thugs: Gas Line Cut After Tea Party Le ...
  The latest news from the opponents of health care reform who like to suggest that supporters should suffer for their transgressions: A day after two Virginia Tea Party activists posted the address of the brother of a congressman who voted for the bill, authorities discovered that someone had severed ...
• Armed MCDC to ‘Forcefully Engage’ Border ‘Criminal ...
  The leader of the nativist extremist group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) publicly repudiates the use of illegal tactics to secure the border against undocumented immigrants. âIf one single individual steps over the line for their personal gratification, we are all stained with that irrespon ...
• Border Watch Group to Form ‘Private Military ...
  Bill Davis, the founder of an Arizona border vigilante group called the Cochise County Militia [motto: “Doing the job our Government refuses to do!”] has taken pride in recent years over what he says is the group’s responsible and safe surveillance of Mexicans coming illegally into the United States ...
• A Discussion of Today’s Washington Rallies
  I hosted an online chat this afternoon for the Washington Post about the gun rallies around Washington, D.C., and the growing radical right. I thought there were some excellent questions and urge readers to  take a look .

change: org.

• Coastal Contenders East: Larry's Beans
  From coast to coast, regular Americans are fighting human trafficking in creative and exceptional ways. Each month, your East and West Coast correspondents give you the play-by-play as contenders from both coasts battle the returning nemesis, modern-day slavery. Join us ringside for our East Coast/W ...
• Arizona Welcomes Juan Crow
  Racial profiling is officially legal in Arizona. "I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like," declared Governor Brewer of Arizona as she signed SB 1070 , the draconian anti-immigrant bill that allows law enforcement officials to arrest people based on a "reasonable suspicion" that they are ...
• Why Archie Comics' New Gay Character Matters
  It's fair to say that Archie comics aren't exactly at the height of cultural relevance these days. The squeaky-clean misadventures of Riverdale's teenagers have never been known for their novel plot ideas or raw, realistic depiction of adolescent sexuality. They've arguably retained a following prec ...
• It Doesn't Take a Brain Surgeon to Notice Health D ...
  Pop quiz: Which of the following groups of people with brain tumors are most likely to be referred to a high-volume hospital specializing in neurosurgery: whites, blacks, Hispanics or low-income Americans? To anyone who knows anything about poverty in America, the answer's obvious. According to a ne ...
• Earth Day Victory for Endangered Dragonfly
  Yesterday, the federal government designated 26,000 acres of protected habitat for the endangered Hine's emerald dragonfly. The Hine's emerald dragonfly is the only dragonfly on the federal list of endangered species. This ruling doubles the amount of dragonfly habitat that had previously been prote ...

Common Dreams -News

• U.S. Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Atta ...
  by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious ...
• Senate Must Strengthen Financial Reform, Bust Up B ...
  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is absolutely right to insist that Congress, finally, get financial regulatory reform finished. And it’s tactically very smart to take the message to Wall Street and tell the financial titans that they will not be permitted to block reform any longer. But ...
• Chemical Industry Front Groups Look to Undermine E ...
  by Suzanne Goldenberg A secretive group linked to a leading European chemical company has joined the campaign to defeat Barack Obama's green agenda, taking the fight beyond the traditional players - the big oil and coal firms - the Guardian has learned. read more
• Rent-A-Front: New Group Wages Stealth Battle Again ...
  by Justin Elliott In the last few weeks, a new player entered the financial reform fray with a $1.6 million ad buy, a respected economist on board, a blitz of opinion columns on left-leaning websites, and a message, cooked right into the group's name -- Stop Too Big To Fail -- that liberals could ...
• Privacy Groups Challenge US Airport Body Scanners
  by William Fisher NEW YORK - More than 30 privacy and civil liberties organizations have filed a formal petition with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), urging the federal agency to shut down the use of 'full body scanners' (FBS) at the nation's airports. read more

Lifehacker

• iTunes Sleep Timer Stops Playback After a User-Def ...
  Mac only: Lots of us like to listen to music as we fall asleep, but if you usually drift off before hitting pause, iTunes will keep playing forever. If you don't feel like making short playlists, try using this handy Applescript. More�� ...
• Microsoft Office 2010 RTM Available for Download [ ...
  Windows: Microsoft just released Office 2010 RTM today for their TechNet and MSDN subscribers. If you happen to have a MSDN or TechNet subscription, head on over to download what will be the last version of Office 2010 before it's officially r ...
• iTag Locates Your Android Phone in the Event of Th ...
  Android: iTag is a free service and application that offers several tools for locating—and if necessary, remotely wiping the data on—your lost, stolen, or misplaced Android phone. More »
• Red Walls and Little Trees: The Landscaped Desk [F ...
  Today's featured workspace doesn't just have a small plant on the desk, it has a Bonsai garden built into the desk—complete with moss, stones, and a sand garden. More »
• CMYK Converter Converts Between Spectrums with Jus ...
  Free web service CMYK Converter, as its name implies, converts your image files between RGB and CMYK color models with a simple three-step process. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Nothing to See Here, Folks: Covering Up a Massacre ...
  By Derrick Crowe “I want to ask: What does apology mean? We apologize for our mistakes and repeat our mistakes again? What meaning does this have?” --Sayid Mohammed Mal, Vice Chancellor, Gardez University. Please sign Rethink Afghanistan’s petition calling for an independent, U.N.-led investigation ...
• 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 ...
• Nothing to See Here, Folks: Covering Up a Massacre ...
  By Derrick Crowe “I want to ask: What does apology mean? We apologize for our mistakes and repeat our mistakes again? What meaning does this have?” --Sayid Mohammed Mal, Vice Chancellor, Gardez University. Please sign Rethink Afghanistan’s petition calling for an independent, U.N.-led investigation ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Regional Happenings: Rodeo, Run for Reading, River ...
  Here's a look at local and regional happenings.
• Other News
  More than 18,000 environmental activists, indigenous representatives and climate scientists have joined Latin American presidents for a major climate conference hosted by Bolivian President Evo Morales in Cochabamba from April 19-22.
• Attack issue from grass roots - Fri, 23 Apr 2010 P ...
  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 ...
• Bottled water faces backlash
  "Carrying bottled water is on its way to being as cool as smoking while pregnant," claims the video "The Story of Bottled Water," which debuted on YouTube last month and garnered more than 450,000 views.
• 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

• A Humanist for Our Time: Brunello Cuccinelli
  In a medieval town in Umbria, a maker of spectacular Italian clothes is attempting to run his compan
• The A, B, Cs of sociology
  Can fanaticism (especially the religious kind) be overcome by proper education and awareness? This i
• America: Consumers are Not Citizens
  At the end of yesterday’s post, I said I would comment on Obama’s Wall Street Reform spe
• China: Crunch Time
  This report is republished with permission of “STRATFOR“ The global system is undergoing
• China: the most misunderstood country in the world ...
  My thesis is almost complete. All that remains is editing and another few lines to write.’ I a

Electronic Intifada

• Travel ban imposed on Palestinian leader in Israel
  This morning, the Israeli Border Police prevented Mr. Ameer Makhoul, the Director of Ittijah - Union of Arab Community-Based Associations inside Israel, from leaving the co ...
• Israel winning its war on goats
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Nine-year-old Ismail spends every afternoon herding his family's flock of sheep and goats, a scraggly group of roughly 20 animals. Th ...
• Right of return not negotiable
  Washington insiders are now touting a misguided Obama-dictated plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Most recently, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Solarz took to the pag ...
• Veolia tries to spin its involvement in the occupa ...
  By participating in the touring Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition , the French transnational company Veolia Environnement is attempting to spin its image ...
• 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Pak Taliban issues 'last warning' to media against ...
  The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has warned newspapers and television channels for the 'last time' for presenting only one side of the story of their struggle and supporting the armed forces.
• U.S., NATO plan to start transferring control of A ...
  The Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia -- Fearful of losing public support for the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and NATO agreed Friday to start transferring control of the country back to its le...
• Attacks against contractors surging in Afghanistan
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan The message, very often, is sent with bloodshed. A suicide bombing last week on a fortified Kandahar guesthouse shared by Western contracting companies killed four A...
• Attacks against contractors surging in Afghanistan
  The message, very often, is sent with bloodshed.A suicide bombing last week on a fortified Kandahar guesthouse shared by Western contracting companies killed four Afghans and injured several Americans...
• Nato finally agrees deal on future of Afghanistan
  Nato has agreed on its long-awaited road map for the future of Afghanistan amid warnings that the process risks tolerating corruption and the power of the warlords for the sake of security. T...

Futurismic

• BOOK REVIEW: Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Sci ...
  Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science-Fiction by Jetse de Vries (ed.) Solaris Books, April 2010; 416pp; £7.99 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1906735661 I’ve been talking about Jetse de Vries’ Shine project for a long time now, for a number of reasons: not only is Jetse a good friend and former colleague, b ...
• Bughunting in the city’s software
  Ah, internet serendipity – a few days after my post about SeeClickFix and systems for crowdsourcing bugfixes in the urban system*, Adam “Speedbird” Greenfield posts about improving “frameworks for citizen responsiveness” [via Chairman Bruce]: So how would you close the loop? How would you arrange th ...
• BOOK REVIEW: Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Sci ...
  Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science-Fiction by Jetse de Vries (ed.) Solaris Books, April 2010; 416pp; £7.99 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1906735661 I’ve been talking about Jetse de Vries’ Shine project for a long time now, for a number of reasons: not only is Jetse a good friend and former colleague, b ...
• Bughunting in the city’s software
  Ah, internet serendipity – a few days after my post about SeeClickFix and systems for crowdsourcing bugfixes in the urban system*, Adam “Speedbird” Greenfield posts about improving “frameworks for citizen responsiveness” [via Chairman Bruce]: So how would you close the loop? How would you arrange th ...
• 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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• NWC Calls for Obama to Appoint New Special Council
  Former U.S. Special Council for the Office of Special Council (OSC) Scott Bloch has been charged with criminal contempt of Congress for withholding “pertinent” information from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Bloch, the head of an office designed to protect whistleblowers and en ...
• House Committee Chair calls for discipline against ...
  Yesterday Rep. John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, questioned the General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Valerie Caproni, about the FBI's use of exigent circumstance letters to collect information without a search warrant. After the hearing, Rep. Conyers issu ...
• 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 ...

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

• Gucci Accidentally Sues Chanel; Gets Restraining O ...
  The various luxury brand companies are pretty quick with trademark lawsuits these days -- often going well beyond reason . We've seen it time and time again -- especially when they sue third parties like Google or eBay. So I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that in their rush to sue, they don' ...
• Nina Paley: My Decision To Turn Down Netflix Due T ...
  Sita Sings the Blues has a few Endorsed DVD distributors. In addition to QuestionCopyright.org and myself , there’s FilmKaravan , a distribution collective that handles “downstream” deals with VistaIndia and IndiePix . Their distributions are on amazon.com (I get a much smaller percentage from ...
• Confused Users Keep Racking Up Ridiculous 3G Bills ...
  We've seen no limit to stories over the years about wireless customers (including a few semi-famous ones ) who wind up with fairly insane wireless broadband bills for any number of reasons. Usually the stories involve someone traveling overseas and not understanding the roaming charges and overages ...
• After Legal Drum-Beating, Author Admits He Trashed ...
  There's been an almighty kerfuffle in British historian circles the last couple of weeks, after some people noticed a couple of reviewers on Amazon were talking up one historian's work while trashing books written by others in the same field. The author in question was named Orlando Figes, a profess ...
• Google: Hate Competition? Come Compete On Our Fibe ...
  Back in February Google announced that the company would be deploying 1 Gbps fiber to the home connections for a lucky community or two. Google's plan is to create a playground to test next-generation ad delivery and to explore fiber deployment options. The announcement has been nothing short of a P ...

VacTruth

• Sheryl Wolfe, beauty queen, dies of massive stroke
  Mary MacIntyre Albuquerque Alternative Medicine Examiner 04/22/2010 Any parent can imagine the devastation when their teen suddenly dies from a stroke. More questions than answers will arise surrounding such a tragedy. According to the aol news story most of the obvious possibilities were ruled ...
• Vaccine Now Misses Many Pneumococcal Infections in ...
  Robert Preidt HealthDay News 04/21/2010 The advent in 2000 of the PCV7 vaccine to battle bacteria that causes pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis (blood infection) in children has caused notable changes in strains that cause these illnesses, researchers report. Most worrisome is the recent spread of s ...
• Flu Vaccine Program Suspended
  Flu vaccination ban goes national after fever, convulsions in children Chris Tomson WAToday 04/23/2010 WA’s chief public health officer Tarun Weeramanthri has defended the response time in closing down the state’s juvenile flu vaccine program amid revelations that children were presenting with con ...
• (Video) Autism and Self-injurious Behavior
  This particular video is graphic. It serves as a reminder what you could be dealing with the rest of your life if your child has an adverse reaction to vaccines. This boy is obviously in EXTREME pain. -Jeffry John Aufderheide
• HPV Vaccine Kills 16-Year-Old Girl Lawsuit Alleges
  PharmaLive 04/21/2010 (PRWEB) April 21, 2010 — A lawsuit filed in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims this week alleges that the HPV vaccine Gardasil caused the death of a 16-year-old Missouri girl. Gardasil is a vaccine used to prevent the transmission of a sexually transmitted disease called human p ...

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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• For Civilization To Be Saved
  EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16
• Will Singh Preside Over New Indian Famine?
  By Ramtanu Maitra Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16
• Will the Financial Crisis Trigger World War III?
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16
• Towards a New Periodic Table of Cosmic Radiation
  By Peter Martinson Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16
• LaRouche's SDI: The World That Should Have Been
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16

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

• Wrangling Data at the South Pole
  Image credit: Boing Boing Boing Boing contributor Maggie Koerth-Baker has profiled Paul Morin, director of the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center—a small research group dedicated to using data collected on Antarctica to improve research efforts across all fields.... Read the full story on ...
• Diver Mike Rutzen Hypnotizes Sharks to Show They'r ...
  Mike Rutzen has an extra special relationship with sharks, and he's working hard to show the world they're really amazing, approachable creatures. Rather than the character out of Jaws , Great Whites are actually smart, sometimes shy, and highly effective hunters. But unfortunately the world is ...
• Gigantic Nation-Sized Mat of Bacteria Found Off S ...
  Photo: Teske Lab 'Spaghetti'-like megabacteria One of the largest collaborations to investigate marine biodiversity has uncovered something on a mind-boggling scale: a giant mat of string-like bacteria - the size of Uruguay or the U.S. state of Alabama - has been discovered deep in the ocean dep ...
• Reliable Structures: A Truly Minimalist Table
  Talk about minimal! Caroline Woolard and Elizabeth Tubergen of the 6 Foot Collaboratory have designed the simplest of all possible tables, supported entirely by the cooperation of the diners. Designboom writes that "users must band together, literally holding the furniture together with their bo ...
• 3D Concrete Printer Could Build Benches on Earth, ...
  Story by David Bois, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com. ; Photo by the.Firebottle via Flickr . While home computer users commonly bemoan the high prices that replacement printer ink cartridges can often fetch, at least we know where to go to find them without too much difficulty. Thi ...

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 [. ...
• 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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Take back our environment for Earth Day!
  How did we let the big government crowd make our environment their ruse de guerre? This Earth Day we call on all people of good sense to retake our environment.
• Lord Monckton at Bonn climate talks
  Monckton: "Nobody here in Bonn seriously imagines that this or any treaty brokered by a UN, which is still reeling from blows to its credibility from the Climategate scandal and revelations of errors in its reports, will ever make any difference to the climate that could be measured even by the most ...
• CFACT carbon credits distributed at Bonn conferenc ...
• Driessen debunks climate hype
  CFACT policy analyst speaks on global warming
• Promoting entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation ...
  CFACT travels to Uganda

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian rocket puts U.S. satellite into space
  Russia's space forces launched on Saturday a Proton-M rocket carrying a U.S. satellite, the Defense Ministry said.
• Russian PM Putin arrives in Austria
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Austria on a two-day working visit on Saturday.
• Ukraine-Russia border may be demarcated in May - s ...
  The issue concerning the demarcation of the state border between Russia and Ukraine may be resolved in May, Ukrainian publication Zerkalo Nedeli said Saturday citing a source.
• Russian-Ukrainian relations enter new stage
• Russia, Poland seek clarification of reasons behin ...
  Russia and Poland are interested in clarifying the reasons behind the air crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, top officials from the two countries said Saturday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian rocket puts U.S. satellite into space
  Russia's space forces launched on Saturday a Proton-M rocket carrying a U.S. satellite, the Defense Ministry said.
• NASA, Roscosmos extend contract for crew transport ...
  U.S.'s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Russian Federal Agency Roscosmos have signed a $335-million modification to the current International Space Station contract for crew transportation in 2013 and 2014.
• Medvedev backs creation of Russian 'Discovery Chan ...
  A Russian scientific-educational TV channel to rival the Discovery Channel and a museum of modern science would be welcome in Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
• Russian, Slovak ministers unveil proton therapy ce ...
  A joint Russian and Slovak proton therapy center to aid cancer patients opened in the north Slovakian town of Ruzomberok on Tuesday.
• More proof of global warming uncovered by Russian ...
  The amount of organic materials dissolved in the Arctic Ocean has doubled over the last 12 years, which is possibly one more sign of global warming, Russian oceanographer Natalia Lapina said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

• Off the Grid
  Largely offline this week; work-related, nothing serious.� Regular posting resumes this weekend (I think).
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• Toxic Fluoride Contaminates Iceland Volcanic Ash a ...
  Animals in southern Iceland are at risk of fluoride poisoning if they inhale or ingest the ash from the recent volcanic eruption. Fluoride poisoning can lead to internal bleeding, long-term bone damage and tooth loss. According to BBC News: “The fluoride in the ash creates acid in the animals' st ...
• Probiotics Benefit Metabolic Syndrome Patients
  A study found that probiotics could help improve the metabolic syndrome by counteracting the adverse effects of a high-fat diet. Metabolic syndrome is a condition characterized by central obesity, hypertension, and disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism. The benefit is comes as a result of reduct ...
• Nestle Challenged on Baby Formula Health Claims
  At a Nestle meeting in Lausanne, Greenpeace activists cut through the ceiling and dropped flyers while absailing above the audience. The shareholders also heard a speech by Patti Rundall, an activist who stated that the firm is still not abiding by adopted by the World Health Assembly. Rundall sai ...
• Bottled Up Anger is Deadly for Heart Patients
  A new study finds that heart disease patients who suppress their anger triple their risk of having a heart attack. Reuters reports that: “Anger and anger suppression were related to the risk of a major adverse event, but this relationship disappeared once the researchers took factors like blood pr ...
• Remarkable Effects of Fat Loss on Your Immune Syst ...
  Even a small amount of weight loss can reverse many of the damaging changes seen in the immune cells of obese people. The cells of your immune system co-exist in a delicate balance. Many factors, including diet and obesity, can alter this balance, creating immune cells that can attack your body ins ...

Antemedius

• Hundreds of Promising Little Projects Bring Hope t ...
  Originally featured in the Montreal Gazette . Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. I grew up in Westmount as an only child with a relatively privileged middle-class life. I attended Selwyn House elementary, and we had season tickets to the Canadiens at the old ...
• Teach In on Capitol Hill on War
  Teach In on War on Capitol Hill Don't Use Any More of Our Money Brown Bag Vigil on April 21st Marcy Winograd in DC on April 27th Harvey Wasserman on Climate Bill Teach In on Capitol Hill on War What Congress Must Do to End U.S. Wars and Help Secure a Peaceful Middle East DESCRIPTION:  Educatio ...
• Hans Herren of the Millennium Institute: High Time ...
  Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet . In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Hans Herren, President of the Millennium Institute. Name : Hans Herren Affiliation : The Millennium Institute Location : Arling ...
• Inside Job: Bet Against The American Dream!
  This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 1.7 million listeners. Produced by Chicago Public Radio, it's distributed by Public Radio International , has won all of the major broadcasting awards, and is often the most popular podcast in the country, ...
• Tomgram: William Astore, The Business of America I ...
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com 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 ...

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

• Food Access Solutions: Panel Discussion in Anacos ...
  On Friday, April 12th, Food Access Solutions: Urban Agriculture, Local Food, & Community Development, a panel discussion between leaders in the food movement on a regional level and leaders on the local level took place in southeast Washington D.C. in Anacostia. My interest in Urban Agriculture com ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Canada on my mind
  The trip is now under control and my senior sky-is-falling moment is over. I have moved into the acceptance stage of grief, having lost a key right I had enjoyed up until recently: my right to drive into Canada just because I want to. I understand that thanks to a Western Hemisphere agreement our go ...
• Life interfering with blogging
  Just deleted a thousand-word rant that wasn’t worth reading. After years of scofflawry my number is up. There are no compassionate provisions left in our border crossing laws and so in order to drive my parents across the border next week to attend the ashes scattering ceremony for my uncle, I will ...
• 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 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

• Happy Earth Day!
  This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...
• 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Jonathan Cook: Why There Are No “Israelis” in the ...
  [ePalestine] Why There Are No “Israelis” in the Jewish State (by Jonathan Cook) Israel Palestine Blogs : Citizens Classed as Jewish or Arab Nationals by Jonathan Cook / April 6th, 2010 A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as “Israelis” ...
• Raed Jarrar: Iraq: Seven Years of Occupation
  Iraq: Seven Years of Occupation | CommonDreams.org: On April 9, 2003, exactly seven years ago, Baghdad fell under the US-led occupation. Baghdad did not fall in 21 days, though; it fell after 13 years of wars, bombings and economic sanctions. Millions of Iraqis, including myself, watched our countr ...
• Cancer patients on the rise in Gaza
  Cancer patients on the rise in Gaza :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : April 6, 2010 GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Yousef Ibrahim, the head of the environment quality authority, said on Tuesday that the number of cancer and kidney failure patients ...
• The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: W ...
  The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: Will It Matter? By Richard Falk : Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of ‘a Jewish homeland' profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as th ...
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz-Stop Saying This Is a Nation ...
  Stop Saying This Is a Nation of Immigrants! � The Speed of Dreams : By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time activist, university professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles, she has written three historical memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, Ou ...

Pensieve

• Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
  A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...
• 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 ...

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…
• Why We Should Buy Australian Owned and Made
  Take a look in your kitchen cupboard, surprisingly, a large number of those familiar brands in there are actually foreign owned – but how can you tell...
• 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…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Pope may face charges at US court
  ShareThis Pope may face charges at US court 24 Apr 2010 The US Supreme Court may take legal action against the Pope over allegations that he conspired to conceal sex abuse charges brought against a Wisconsin priest. A case lodged by an alleged sex abuse victim has brought certain documents to prosec ...
• Threats close Raul Grijalva's district offices
  ShareThis Threats close Raul Grijalva's district offices 23 Apr 2010 Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has closed his Arizona offices after a man called and threatened to "blow everyone’s head off," his office said Friday. The man, who called Grijalva’s Tucson office twice, said he would then go to the s ...
• I hope Obama likes the new format!
  ShareThis esseop102b.eop.gov 1 12 200.36 KB 23 Apr 2010 - 13:42 198.137. [redacting] = [ esseop102b.eop.gov ] OrgName:��� Executive Office Of The President USA OrgID:����� EXOP Address:��� 725 17th Street� NW City:������ Washington StateProv:� DC PostalCode: 20503 Country:��� US
• Pentagon Launches Mystery US Spacecraft
  ShareThis Pentagon Launches Mystery US Spacecraft --Launch is military project controlled by US Air Force Space Command - not NASA 23 Apr 2010 A top-secret rocket has been launched by the US military amid rumours its purpose is to perform experiments for a space weapons programme. Officially the pro ...
• Search Ends for Missing Oil Workers
  ShareThis Search Ends for Missing Oil Workers 23 Apr 2010�The Coast Guard called off its search Friday for 11 oil rig workers who had been missing since an explosion on the rig Tuesday night in the Gulf of Mexico. "We have just made a very difficult decision," said Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, the comm ...

Daily Loaf

• Week in review: The public, the panther and possib ...
  Hillsborough County is suing this resident for building a damn to keep water off of his property. Government officials willingly continue to hand over HDR millions (who designed cracking reservoir) but then sue a successful local dam builder? Maybe we should be employing him instead?
• Q&A with Chris Ingram about the Fla. GOP
  CL: Given his low poll numbers and discontent of him within the GOP, what should Charlie do? Ingram: The best thing Charlie Crist can do at this point is drop out and try to rehabilitate his image. It can be done. But running as anything other than a Republican permanently ruins his chances to r ...
• Politically Androgynous
  Charlie Crist has demonstrated himself to be politically androgynous. Is he a Republican or something else? For that matter, was he ever a Republican? I think he’s probably always been something else.
• Mayor Pam Iorio celebrates the 40th anniversary of ...
  In recognition of Tampa's 28 years of having one of the nation's strongest tree canopy, Mayor Iorio planted a Pignut Hickory tree in Lykes Gaslight Square Park. The Pignut Hickory tree plays the role of purifying water before it enters any stream, river or lake, and is supposed to grow up to 60 ft ...
• Tampa bay leaders gather at Walker Brands to call ...
  The event held at Walker Brands was part of an "Earth Day Revolution for Clean Energy Patriots," marking the culmination of 40 Days of Earth Day events where citizens from all across Florida have been speaking out on the need for a new direction on energy.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Democracy Comes To Chicago
  by Yotam Amit The Chicago Hearing was a success judging by the reactions from the audience and I am proud to have been one of the organizers. Afterwards, I had the rare opportunity of listening to the impressions of an acquaintance who had been previously uninvolved in Israel/Palestine issues. Acco ...
• Live from the Only Democracy Goes to Bil’in
  Follow Jewish Voice for Peace on twitter at jvplive tonight to get live updates from our own Emily Schaeffer from the Bil’in Conference and protests against the Wall. You can download an audio report by Free Speech Radio news from the conference here. “Conference on nonviolent resistance opens in We ...
• Villages Imprisoned, Protesters Arrested, and Tree ...
  From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Soldiers and Border Police officers imposed curfew this on the village of al-Walaja this morning as olive tree uprooting for the construction of the Wall resumed there and in the adjacent town of Beit Jala, where two demonstrators were injured and ...
• Israel Transferring Goods, Fashionably Late
  From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway When the closure was imposed on the Gaza Strip in June 2007, clothes and footwear importers in Gaza found themselves unable to bring goods into the Strip that they had ordered from abroad. For almost three years now, these goods have been sitting in storage containers a ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Will toe-to-heel air injection extend the oil age?
  Apparently this new technique can extract heavy, viscous oil when no other technique can. But gosh, what could possibly go wrong with setting oil on fire underground to burn off some so as to extract the rest? Tip: Big Gav, who is a bit leery about the whole process too.
• Goldman Sachs launches charm offensive to protect ...
  Top Goldman officials in London have embarked on a desperate charm offensive following a series of allegations that threaten to do irreparable damage to the reputation of the Wall Street firm. Good luck with that.
• BFF. Seven banks seized today
  Eight were seized last week. The trendline for Bank Failure Friday is definitely rising.
• Doug Henwood on liberal reaction to Tea Party
  Liberals have done their fair share of puffing up the Tea Party. They love nothing more than getting hot and bothered over the fascist threat as a way of scaring people into voting for Democrats as our last line of defense against the brownshirts. Yeah, the TP is awful, and a lot of people hate [... ...
• The Bob & Sue Traveling Road Show moves on
  We’re moving! Yet again. Sue is a CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner. We moved to Orange County for an business possibility for her that ended in Feb. There are no jobs or contracts for CPAs in SoCal now. In fact, they were laying off CPAs during tax season, something that has never happened before. ...

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

• Doyle likely to sign raw milk bill
  Madison â Gov. Jim Doyle said he will likely sign a bill allowing farmers to sell untreated milk at their farms after the Assembly passed it early Friday. “Unless there is something that’s going to surprise me when I really get into the bill, I would assume I will sign it,” Doyle [...]
• Government Says Al Qaeda Ordered Bombing of Subway ...
  The failed Qaeda plot to bomb three New York City subway stations during the morning rush last September was ordered by two senior Qaeda leaders in the tribal areas of Pakistan, where they met personally with three would-be suicide attackers from Queens to urge them to carry out the plan, a federal ...
• FBI: Passenger threatens to blow up plane
  An out of control passenger who threatened to blow up a plane, still in flight, forced an emergency landing in Albuquerque. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | [...]
• Bret Michaels has brain hemorrhage
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rocker-turned-reality star Bret Michaels has suffered a brain hemorrhage and is in critical condition in hospital, his representatives confirmed on Friday. A spokeswoman for Michaels confirmed a report by People magazine that the 47-year-old musician was rushed to hospital o ...
• Wall Street Deceit and Main Street Revulsion
  szandorblestman.com I had the misfortune of listening to CNBC the other day while visiting my mother. The talking heads on the tube were discussing the surge in stock prices and the lifting of the DOW Industrials above the eleven thousand mark. They went on and on about how much of a psychological b ...

The Air Vent

• Tobis and Pielke
  Pielke has recently written a piece which is forcing me to bite my tongue until I get time to write.  In the meantime Tom has again provided us with a comparison of two Weblogs who occasionally battle. -Jeff By Tom fuller: People looking for logical reasons why alliances and enmities form in the cli ...
• Skeptic Papers
  Yes, I’m putting the ‘k’ back in skeptic. Popular Technology has been adding links to a resource they have created for papers which have non-consensus views.  In my experience, the devil is often in the details so when reading, don’t go by the titles and abstracts but get the papers and check them ...
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• What Would Jesus Insure?
  Conservative Christians used their lobbying muscle to create a gaping loophole in health care reform's individual mandate, reports Sarah Posner in the American Prospect . Members of so-called Health Care Sharing Ministries are now exempt from the requirement to carry health insurance. It's a disaste ...
• TV Psychic Will Not Be Beheaded for Witchcraft Aft ...
  Admit it, skeptics, you were hoping this story was going to be about Uri Geller. I know I was. The Independent reports that Lebanese TV psychic Ali Sibat will not be put to death after all. Saudi Arabia sentenced Sibat to death by decapitation for witchcraft after he was apprehended in the kingdom ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Lobbying, Lite, iPhone, Foursqua ...
  Facebook Lite is No More â Before f8 this week Facebook shut down Facebook Lite, launched in 2009 aimed at helping new users with weak Internet connections have a better Facebook experience. As the company announced on Facebookâs fan Page, âwe’re no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from ...
• Africa Sent More New Users to Facebook in March
  Last month was a good one for Facebook in Africa, as growth went up in five of the seven countries that Facebook tracks. The group added almost half a million new users during the month of March, according to the latest stats from the Global Monitor data within Inside Facebook Gold. North [...]
• Facebook Overhauls Page and App Insights, Adds Dom ...
  Facebook announced a big overhaul of its Insights analytics tool earlier this week at its f8 developer conference. The new version is live now, and provides much improved analysis for Page, application and web site owners. Upgrades include a new dashboard, visualization tools, a lot of new data ...
• Facebook: Credits Will be the “One Currency” on Al ...
  Facebook is sending the clearest message yet that it intends to implement its own virtual currency, Credits, in a way that could be mandatory. This confirms months of speculation we’ve been hearing from developers. Because Facebook takes a 30% fee on Credits purchases, the decision could negative ...
• Name Anagrams and Akinator Answers Reach This Week ...
  The top entry on this week’s list of emerging Facebook apps, measured as those still under a million monthly active users, is Name Analyzer, which doesn’t analyze so much as create a pre-determined anagram from the letters of your name. Each letter is associated with a word (C for Cheerful, H [. ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Anyone else share this experience? --- F ...
  truthout: Anyone else share this experience? --- From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist: http://digg.com/d31PBMU?t #digg #p2 #topprogs
• truthout: From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Chang ...
  truthout: From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist: http://digg.com/d31PBMU?t #Digg #p2 #topprogs #Truthout
• truthout: Robert Scheer | Goldman Plays, We Pay: T ...
  truthout: Robert Scheer | Goldman Plays, We Pay: The story of the financial debacle will end the way it began, ... http://bit.ly/agt8AR #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Awaken, Eaarthlings! (An Earth Day Missi ...
  truthout: Awaken, Eaarthlings! (An Earth Day Missive.): In his recent book, The World We Have: A Buddhist Appro... http://bit.ly/cSQaH8 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Truthout | News in Brief: The BBC and MS ...
  truthout: Truthout | News in Brief: The BBC and MSNBC reported Thursday that as many as 28 people were reported... http://bit.ly/cGezux #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• End Israel lobbies’ pervasive and damaging influen ...
  Debbie Menon argues that Washington’s support for Israel is tragic, immoral and extremely damaging to Americans given that US “congressional representatives continue to put Israel’s interests before the interests of Americans”
• 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
  The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
• 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Russ Baker on President Obama… & His Pack of Wolve ...
  “A SWISS BANK, A PRESIDENT, AND THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT”   Here is a recent damning piece by Russ Baker on President Obama, his cozy relationship with Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO, UBS Group Americas, and a stench and implications that go way beyond this relationship: Last August, the presidential ...
• Podcast Show #27
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf discusses the fascist shift in the United States, how the state of our liberties has been getting worse under the Obama administration, and how President Obama has assumed the same position as Bush on States Secrets Privilege, unlawful detention an ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Jamiol Presents
• Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
  A Book on 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

• “Racial Incitement a One-Way Street for the ...
  Commentary submission by Project 21 A couple of days ago, MSNBC’s David Shuster called me the n-word. Later, Chris Matthews called me a “sellout.” Keith Olbermann then called me a “Little Black Sambo.” CNN’s Rick Sanchez also called me a “biscuit-and-chicken eatin’ white wannabe.” I’m just kidding, ...
• Wangari Maathai, What A Warrior Looks Like Pt1
  Do you ever think of a woman when you hear the word ”warrior”? We usually think of those great men of history, such as Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Chiekh Anta Diop, or the great kings and princes of ancient Egypt, or even the Mau Mau or Zulu or Black Panthers. But does a ...
• Wangari Maathai, What a Warrior Looks Like pt2
  Wangari Maathai became very involved in politics, joining the boards of a number of organizations such as the National Council of Women of Kenya. She became the director of the Kenyan Red Cross Society and was a member of the Kenya Association of University Women. In addition she was also a member ...
• 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 ...

Expose the BNP

• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
• 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 ...

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

• Very Busy
  We have been busy working on a new site, EYEONCITRUS.COM, which will be a news site with an emphasis on Citrus County and the surrounding areas. In addition to the local news we will offer National and International news along with sporting news. Along with this we are continually working on our DVD ...
• 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) [...]

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

• Programmer-Journalist? Hacker-Journalist? Our Iden ...
  Jacqui Maher is the most recent addition to my Interactive News team at the New York Times, and although she started almost six months ago, I have yet to get her business cards -- an embarrassing fact she (rightly) points out at regular intervals. I'm not raising this to highlight my shortcomings as ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

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

High Country News

• Floyd Dominy, the colossus of dams, dies at 100
  Former Bureau of Reclamation commissioner built Glen Canyon dam
• Sinclair flare up
  The Sinclair, Wyo., oil refinery has long been one of the state's most notorious polluters, but until recently, no one seemed to care.
• The burbling air show of migrating snow geese
  Every spring, thousands of honking, spiraling, brilliantly white snow geese take to the endless skies over Montana's vast prairies.
• Audio: High Country Views, episode 4
  Judith Lewis, Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk mining politics. Plus, an audio postcard from a California ghost town.
• Warning: Water policy faces an age of limits
  New water projects and giant pipelines will do nothing to solve the West's drought and its increasing water shortage.

CounterCurrents

• The Imminent Crash Of Oil Supply: Be Afraid, Very ...
  By Nicholas C. Arguimbau A graph drawn by the United States Department of Energy, and the United States militarys Joint Forces Command indicates that world oil supply is going off a cliff. Not in the distant future, but in a year and a half. Production of all liquid fuels, including oil, will drop ...
• Cochabamba Summit Calls For International Climate ...
  By Andres Schipani Cochabamba conference closes with call for rich countries to halve greenhouse gas emissions and set up a court to punish climate crimes
• Cochabamba Moots World Referendum On Climate Chang ...
  By Franz Chavez A world peoples referendum on climate change will be held in April 2011 for the earths peoples to decide how to address this global problem
• A New Climate Movement In Bolivia
  By Naomi Klein Bolivias climate summit has had moments of joy, levity and absurdity. Yet underneath it all, you can feel the emotion that provoked this gathering: rage against helplessness
• The State Of The Earth, 2010
  By Rebecca Solnit Were in a very bad way. But we also know the solution would make most of us richer even if not in the ways we are presently accustomed to counting as wealth

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

• Unions Spreading Fear In Illinois (You Won't See T ...
  The progressives running congress, along with the President, and the Mainstream Media have been doing their best to de-legitimize the efforts of the grass roots Americans who participate in the Tea Party protests. They love to say the rallies are the result of "astro-turf" and the protesters are try ...
• Chief Medicare Actuary Report: Obamacare To Drive ...
  Nancy Pelosi was correct, we wouldn't learn about what was in Obamacare until it became law. The problem is now that America is finding out it is too late. Richard Foster, the Chief Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, a division of the Department of the Health and Human Servic ...
• The GM Loan Payback is a Fraud
  With great fanfare yesterday GM announced that it is paying back the loans it was given by the people of the United States (via the Federal Government) years prior to the scheduled date. Even when the announcement was made, it seemed a bit strange the company has not turned around anywhere near the ...
• FINALLY ! A Democrat (Chuck Schumer) Bashes Obama' ...
  If you are a regular reader of these pages you know I have been very critical of silence displayed by supporters of Israel in the Democratic Party. Only Republicans have stood front and center bashing the President's anti-Israel stance. Today NY Senator Chuck Schumer broke that silence. Well...sort ...
• Why The Dodd Finance Bill Is Bad For America
  Here we go again. The latest job numbers reported that the national unemployment rate is currently 9.7 percent. All the polls show that America wants the government to work on (as Joe Biden the SCHMOTUS said) three letters J-O-B-S. Despite this demand from America,� congress spent much of the last n ...

  Blacklisted News

• Insights Into America's Disneyland And Our "Neo-Fe ...
• Galbraith: Economists Should Move into Background, ...
• “Lehman Was the Leading Purveyor of Liar’s Loans i ...
• Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Inte ...
  Disclosures released a few days ago show that, on top of lobbying the usual suspects Internet companies reach out to like the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. senators and representatives, the fast-growing social network has also been busy deepening ties to government intelligence and homeland ...
• Star Wars 2010? U.S. military launch space plane o ...
  'We don't know when it's coming back'... What? Why? Mission: Classified... Is X-37B start of war in space?

The Intelligence Daily

• 4 alleged U.S. spies shot dead in NW Pakistan
  Suspected Taliban militants killed four persons accused of being U.S. spies in North Waziristan...
• Israel: Whistleblower faces espionage charges for ...
  By Danny Richardson (WSWS) — Anat Kamm, a 23-year-old former soldier and journalist, is...
• Lawyer hints CIA approved Blackwater exec’s allege ...
  A lawyer for the former Blackwater president who has been charged with gun crimes hinted at his...
• Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers
  More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to...
• Defense Spending Is Much Greater than You Think: 1 ...
  By Robert Higgs (The Intelligence Daily) — When President Obama presented his budget recently...

My AntiWar

• Iraqi Government Formation Still Months Away
• Friday: 1 US Soldier, 75 Iraqis Killed; 303 Iraqis ...
• Bulldozers Return to Destroy Children’s Play ...
• Military Court-Martials ‘Birther’
• NATO Agrees Afghan Plan but Says No Rush to Exit

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Sociopath nation: The New York Times on Iran.
  Summary: We are ruled by sociopaths and here is all the proof you need tightly encapsulated in one New York Times editorial. This one editorial lays bare for the world to see the criminally insane collective mindset of American political, media, and corporate elites. source: Boston Libertarian ...
• U.S. Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Atta ...
  Summary: The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Ir ...
• Iran's ace weapon: Why the US won’t gamble on an I ...
  Summary: Given the crescendo of veiled and increasingly unveiled military threats by the US and Israel against Iran, one has to admire the Iranians for their coolness under extreme pressure. The latest despicable – and in some legal opinion, criminal – threat by the White House that it would use ...
• US warms to strike on Iran
  Summary: It is hard to tell whether a major Middle Eastern war is inevitable at this point, but the clouds are getting significantly darker, and the US appears to be rapidly warming up to the idea of a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, whether carried out by the Americans thems ...
• Why Iran wont attack Israel
  Summary: Palestinians are in Israel today because they managed to survive the depopulation of 1948, the year the Jewish state was founded (Arabs constitute about 20% of Israel's population). Ironically, while Benny Morris' scholarship suggests that the mere existence of these Palestinians in Is ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Peru's Huaynaputina Volcano Eruption of 1600 had W ...
  Some 400 years ago, in the upland region of southern Peru, a volcano named Huaynaputina exploded; catastrophically. It was February 19, 1600, and is recorded as the largest volcanic explosion ever in South America. Scientists believe that its eruption may...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
  Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
• 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...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
  Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
• 10 Free iPhone Apps to Help You Go Green for Earth ...
  To help celebrate of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Mashable compiled a list of free green-inspired iPhone apps that promote continued environmental awareness. By becoming more eco-friendly and making small steps to enact change in our daily lives, we...

Natural News

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure sells pink cigarettes ...
  (NaturalNews Satire) Susan G. Komen for the Cure today announced its alliance with the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company in launching its new brand of pink cigarettes called "Komen Smokes." Emblazoned with the slogan, "A pack a day keeps cancer away," three cents from every pack of cigarettes will be dire ...
• Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in th ...
  (NaturalNews) The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders. The use of powerful antipsychotics with priva ...
• Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in th ...
  (NaturalNews) Of all the harmful actions of modern psychiatry, "the mass diagnosing and drugging of children is the most appalling with the most serious consequences for the future of individual lives and for society," warns the world-renowned expert, Dr Peter Breggin, often referred to as the "Cons ...
• 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 ...

Threat Level

• Man Indicted for ‘Cyber-Extortion’ Threat Against ...
  A California man was hit with an extortion charge this week for allegedly threatening to send out millions of e-mails criticizing his insurance company, if the firm didn’t pay him as much as $3 million. Anthony Digati, 52, faces a maximum two-year prison term if convicted of charges the Federal Bur ...
• Richard Clarke’s Cyberwar: File Under Fiction
  Readers of Richard Clarke’s new book Cyberwar who want to jump to the steamy parts should start at page 64 in the chapter “Cyber Warriors.” It’s there you’ll find the Book of Revelation re-written for the internet age, with the end-times heralded by the Four Trojan Horses of the Apocalypse. Chines ...
• McAfee Probing Bungle That Sparked Global PC Crash
  McAfee said Thursday it was trying to determine how it bungled a security update that crashed perhaps tens of thousands of PCs across the globe. Computers from Australia and Kentucky to the United Kingdom began freezing up late Wednesday after the Santa Clara, California, security firm released an ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• The Politics of Life and Death in West Virginia
  In the wake of the Massey Energy tragedy that killed 29 coal miners in West Virginia, there appear to be two steps that could improve worker safety there. First, as the mine accident record of the last decade suggests, join a union. Second, put Democrats in the White House to reverse the GOP's nat ...
• The Unbearable Whiteness of Being a Tea Bagger
  Over the past few weeks, two conservative myths about the Tea Party movement have exploded. First, despite the best efforts of Republicans to paint the angry mobs as independents, a bevy of polls confirmed that Tea Party members are ideologically conservative and overwhelmingly vote Republican . S ...
• Conservatives Resume Cry of Income Tax "Welfare"
  Back in the 1980's, President Ronald Reagan hailed the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) as "the best anti-poverty, the best pro-family, the best job creation measure to come out of Congress." But as Tax Day approaches, conservatives have forsaken their patron saint, decrying the "re ...
• The Grand Old Tea Party Platform
  Urged on by Newt Gingrich , a coalition of Tea Party groups last week unveiled their so-called " Contract from America ." Now, Congressional Republicans including Eric Cantor (R-VA), Mike Pence (R-IN) and Pete Sessions (R-TX) are also hoping to mimic Gingrich's winning 1994 gambit with their own "C ...
• A Year Later, Politico Says Tea Party Importance E ...
  From the beginning, the so-called Tea Party movement has merely been a continuation of the failed 2008 Republican presidential campaign by other means. In April 2009, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show highlighted that truth when he told furious Tea Baggers, "I think you might be confusing tyranny with ...

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

• Alexander Cockburn : Marijuana, Boom and Bust
• Alexander Cockburn : The White House Egg Roll v. G ...
• Uri Avnery : The Dubai Hit
• William P. O'Connor : The Story of Pvt. Hargrove
• Alexander Cockburn : From God to Gaia to Obama's N ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• A state for all its citizens (Nadim N. Rouhana, F ...
  In the conflict studies courses I teach, I expose my students to theories that claim state-sanctioned inequality is a source of perpetual conflict. I know this to be true not only from my academic research, but from personal experience: I also run a small research institution in the northern Israeli ...
• Gas canister injures anti-wall protester in Bil'in ...
  A Palestinian citizen of Israel was injured by a high-velocity tear-gas canister during a protest against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bil'in on Friday, witnesses and Israel's army said. Emad Rezqa, 43, from Yaffa in Israel, was hit in the forehead by an aluminum tear-gas projecti ...
• Mitchell pushes for peace deal (Al Jazeera)
  A White House Middle East envoy has told Israeli and Palestinian leaders that Barack Obama, the US president, wants a peace deal in the region "soon, not in some vague and distant time in the future." George Mitchell delivered the message on Friday after a busy day of talks with Israeli and Palestin ...
• Israel winning its war on goats (Eva Bartlett, In ...
  Nine-year-old Ismail spends every afternoon herding his family's flock of sheep and goats, a scraggly group of roughly 20 animals. They live in a shanty house district near Tel el Howa in Gaza City, where growth is sparse to non-existent. "I walk all over to find food for the animals," he says, swis ...
• Left breaks cover after years in the wilderness ( ...
  One Friday last October, a group of 24 young Israelis marched through the streets of Jerusalem to protest at the eviction of several Palestinian families in the city's occupied east. Maya Wind, 20, one of the demonstrators, recalls: "We felt a bit silly. But we said, 'Let's each bring along two frie ...

Water - AlterNet

• How We Can Stave Off the Triple Threat of Climate, ...
  It is the dramatic convergence of these crises that compel us to shift away from the dominant industrial agriculture model toward more sustainable and just alternatives.
• Bottled and Sold: What's Really in Our Bottled Wat ...
  What's been found in bottled water? Here's a few: benzene, mold, kerosene, styrene, algae, yeast, sand, fecal coliforms, glass particles, sanitizer and crickets.
• Polish 'Road Warrior' Keeps Highway Out of Pristin ...
  Malgorzata Gorska earned her prize for preserving the historic and beautiful Rospuda Valley in Poland.
• Five Ways You Can Help Save Life on Earth
  40 years after the first Earth Day, we're still staring down the barrel of environmental catastrophe. Here are five big approaches we can take to saving life on the planet.
• Flammable Drinking Water? Why Gas Drilling in New ...
  A new EPA study could completely reshape natural gas drilling practices in the U.S. But will New York wait around for the findings?

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• A Mad Tea Party by William John Cox + cartoon by H ...
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• John Kerry in Austin by Daniel N. White
  by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 20, 2010 tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.
• Earth Day in Israel: Apartheid Showing Through the ...
  tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.com/blog/2010/04/23/earth-day-in-israel-apartheid-showing-through-
• Resigned To Truth by Philip A. Faruggio
  by Philip A. Faruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 20 April, 2010 tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpre
• Turkey to Iran: You must show that you are acting ...
  Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 23 April 2010 “France’s rotat

Axis of Logic

• Bulldozers return to destroy children’s playground ...
  Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Soldiers present used violent force to remove Palestinian, Is ...
• May First- High Noon in Nepal - India
  “You must come to Kathmandu with shroud cloth wrapped around your heads and flour in your bags. It will be our last battle. If we succeed, we survive, else it will be the end of our party." — General Secretary Badal of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) There...
• Honduran Misrecognition - Honduras
  As we previously noted, supporters of the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa and the government itself are desperate to find any indication of "recognition" that they can. So pro-coup Honduran news media claimed that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega had "recognized" Honduras by signing an accord to ...
• Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: ...
  As the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba closes, we speak to Bolivian President Evo Morales about the US decision to cut off climate aid to Bolivia; narcotrafficking; the tenth anniversary of the Water Wars in Cochabamba; the protest at the San Cristóbal silver mine; and t ...
• US military launches top-secret robotic spacecraft ...
  A US Air Force unmanned spacecraft has blasted off from Florida, amid a veil of secrecy about its military mission. The robotic space plane, or X-37B, lifted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket at 7:52 pm local time (2352 GMT) Thursday, according video released by the military....

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Staying another 16 months accomplishes what, exactly? This shit will never end. "A wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 100. Most of the attacks occurred near Shia mosques during Friday prayers. At least two went off near the offices of ...
• How to Stop Texas From Destroying American Educati ...
  The textbook wars aren't over; there is still hope for stopping the wingnut freakazoid anti-history Texas is determined to foist on the country. You can support two members of the reality-based world running for the Texas school board, as explained in the following letters to The Nation magazine: Au ...
• Oklahoma Beats Kentucky to a Rape-the-Sluts Bill
  Make no mistake: �this is exactly the same bill that scumsucking sack of shit David Boswell keeps sponsoring in the Kentucky Senate. The Rude Pundit explains: The brutal assault on women's rights continues in states where you'd expect there to be a brutal assault on women's rights. This week's yahoo ...
• It's Not Just Any One Company
  Our entire financial sector is simply rotten to the core. �Everyone is focused on Goldman Sachs right now because they're just the biggest and most pervasive and the windmill the SEC decided to tilt at. � But virtually every one of the big banks was involved in some form of derivatives scam as was v ...
• Gingrich Aiming to Lead "Militant" Tea Party Movem ...
  In today's Washington Post , former disgraced Speaker Newt Gingrich responds to an attack on him by long-time Congressional scholar Norm Ornstein, who said it was simply "bizarre" for right wingers like Gingrich to call President Obama a "radical socialist." "It is only from the perspective of the ...

Care 2

• Four Ways Technology is Helping Wildlife
  Here, in no particular order, are four of a multitude of cool ways technology helps protect animals. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Gray Whale Spends Another Day in San Diego Bay- VI ...
  A gray whale taking a break from its annual migration spent another day cruising around San Diego Bay Tuesday, providing nature-lovers with some rare up-close glimpses of a marine giant usually spotted only in the open ocean Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Homes for Jaguars
  In January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its plan to designate critical habitat areas in the Southwest for endangered jaguars. As the largest cat in North America and the third largest in the world, the jaguar is native to the borderlands Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note- ...
• ACTION ALERT: Canada to Save Japan's Dolphins !!!
  In The Cove, a team of activists and filmmakers infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan. In this remote village they witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public: More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• ACTION ALERT: Tell Facebook to Delete a Fan Page C ...
  Please take 20 seconds to sign the online e-mail petition below. Doing so will send an email to MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, CBS News and NBC News asking them to expose this hate which will hopefully result in the deletion of Submitted by Simone D. to Society & Culture �|� ...

GreenBiz

• 40 Ways to Green the Workplace
  In commemoration of Earth Day’s 40th anniversary, here are 40 ways to make the office a greener place to work.
• Sunny Delight Stops Sending Waste to Landfill
  Sunny Delight Beverage Co.'s Texas manufacturing plant is the company's final site to complete its goal of sending zero waste to landfills. �
• Five Lessons From Walmart's Supply Chain Work in C ...
  Walmart's work helping its suppliers save energy and reduce their carbon footprints is a way to make its supply chain leaner, more resilient and more competitive. It’s time for more companies to follow Walmart’s lead: With the long-awaited GHG Protocol guidance on “Scope 3” GHG accounting schedule ...
• Hilton Trims Excess Waste, Saves Millions with Lig ...
  Hilton Worldwide has reduced water, energy, waste and carbon at 1,300 of its locations with a new resource-tracking systems.
• Two-Thirds of U.K. Water Supply is 'Virtual,' Shor ...
  A new report from the country's Institute of Civil Engineers finds that water shortages elsewhere in the world are not simply other countries' problems, but will come back to bite the U.K.

Reuters Global

• Greece gets help, but debt quicksand is all around
  Greece has asked the EU and IMF for help in escaping from its debt and deficit crisis. The financial lifeline of up to 45 billion euros should provide short-term help. But the quicksand of debt is all around and it's not just Greece among euro zone members that is threatened.
• Which companies are oiling the cogs of EU legislat ...
  The European Union's voluntary Register of interests reveals a lot of interesting things about who is lobbying in Brussels. But one fascinating snippet is that major oil companies such as BP and Shell spend a vast amount less in Europe than they do in Washington trying to gauge and shape legislation ...
• 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.

Paul Krugman

• The Real Chicken-Checkup Fallacy
  Ms. Lowden's perspective is ludicrous even without the feathers.
• Pesos, Ponzi, And Financial Sector Profits
  I'd suggest that what we did between 1980 and 2008 was replace a financial system in which profits were created by lack of competition with a system in which profits were created by misinformation and misperceptions.
• Stop Stop Too Big To Fail
  One of the dangers of a too-simple, not-quite-on-point slogan, is that it's easily hijacked.
• Low Information Voters
  What they don't know can't hurt people like Mitch McConnell.
• Samuelson Memorial
  A bit late, my remarks for the service held the weekend before last.

No Quarter

• Mainstream news tortures readers over SCOTUS anima ...
  To read the many headlines this week on the Supreme Court decision regarding animal abuse videos, you’d think that the justices had personally stomped on little kittens and bunnies for their own sexual amusement. A quick scan of most of the headlines read: -Supreme Court Overturns Animal Cruelty Con ...
• Larry Johnson Interviews Mark Perry on C-Span’s Af ...
  Larry Johnson will appear on C-Span’s program, After Words, this Saturday night (April 24th)at 10:00pm (EST). Larry will be interviewing Mark Perry, author of Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage With Its Enemies. About the Program Mark Perry argues that it is necessary for the U.S. gove ...
• Yep–There’s an App for This!
  Hey guys—want to map your woman’s (or women’s if you’re a player) menstrual cycle? I’m serious. There’s an app for that! In fact there are several. Monica Hesse, writing for the Washington Post, details “Code Red,” an iPhone and (coincidentally—couldn’t make this one up) iPad application that k ...
• SEC jacks-off while bernie made-off with all the d ...
  SEC Porn Problem: Officials Surfing Sites During Financial Crisis, Report Finds This is why I love Hot Air: “While Rome burned, Nero, er, âfiddledâ More at memeorandum: SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed
• Bertha Speaks (And Shouldn’t); And Funding Ban Bac ...
  ACORN’s Leader, Bertha Lewis, recently spoke to a group of young people. Her talk, excerpts below, was mighty interesting: Holy moley, did you catch all of that? Let’s see: Socialism, Check! Demean Tea Party members, Check! And on it goes. Perhaps it was because of this speech that ACORN’s fund ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Why the New US 100 Dollar Bill is Literally No Lon ...
  The SuperDollar is coming, and it isn't green! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How the Signature of Evolution is Written into You ...
  In a new study published in PLoS, scientists found strong evidence of evolutionary mutations in the genomes of several organisms including humans. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Aliens or Anti-gravity? Something Smells in Palmda ...
  Everything in the USA seems bigger, from mega steaks and burgers through to conspiracies. We only ever get told what we NEED to know but that is never the whole story, no read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
• Did the Ancient Egyptians Inhabit the Grand Canyon ...
  Were there people from Egypt occupying an underground city in the USA several thousand years ago? Why will the Smithsonian not answer questions? Find out more... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Explosive Earth Day
  World Earth Day is here, lets all do our bit 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

• Environmental Protection of Bases?
  The new marine protection area in the Indian Ocean seems like a great step forward. Until you look at it a little more carefully.
• Rally Against New U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
  Join us for an Earth Day rally in Washington, DC against the expansion of U.S. military bases in Okinawa.
• 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.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Afghanistan 'foils Kabul bomb plot'
  Pakistani soldier among those held as police stop planned suicide attacks, officials say.
• Abbas rejects temporary state
  Palestinian leader rejects idea after reports Israel was mulling it as way to end deadlock.
• Economic crisis hits global poor
  About 53 million more people condemned to poverty after last year's downturn.
• Arizona signs strict immigrant law
  Law allowing police to detain suspected illegal immigrants is "misguided", Obama says.
• G20 hails global economic recovery
  Finance ministers say stimulus worked, but warn of growing debts amid Greek crisis.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Existential Crisis of a Plastic Bag
  A new movie on the Internet dramatizes the tragic life of a paper bag.
• Swapping Old Duds for a Good Cause
  Why not use the environmental principle of recycling to raise money for another passionate cause?
• On Our Radar: Tracking Asian Monsoons
  Using tree rings, scientists chart Asian monsoons back to the Middle Ages and link the collapse of the Ming dynasty to drought.
• Drilling All but Ruled Out in New York City's Wate ...
  New York state rules out a controversial form of natural gas drilling in two watersheds.
• Imagining a Jet-Free Europe
  Millions of travelers who were stranded in Europe this week were mostly thrilled when planes took flight again. But many people had their first long-haul train experience in years, reminding them - perhaps - that this is an environmentally beneficial -- and often pleasant -- alternative.

Dot Earth News

• A New Times Blog On All Things Green
  The New York Times adds Green to its roster of news blogs.
• Whaling 'Peace Plan' Just Less of the Same?
  A whaling "peace plan" would sanction thousands of whale deaths while, on paper, preserving a moratorium on such hunts.
• Does H. Sapiens Need a New Tune?
  Protest songs typified environmental music for decades. Is a new kind of music needed now?
• Big Coal Booming on Earth Day
  Global coal sales booming on Earth Day.
• Earth Day: The Simple, Local Stuff
  While pondering big issues like climate change and lost biological diversity, it's important to sweat the local details.

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

• Political Patronage for Green Dot Public Schools’ ...
  On Saturday, April 24, 2010 one of the most pernicious enemies of public education will be sworn in as a member of the California State Board of Education. At 5:00pm at a small church on 129 S. Gless St. in Boyle Heights, Benjamin Austin (AKA Ben Austin and The Beverly Hills Barrister) will be rewar ...
• British Elections: The Leaders’ Debate – Foreign ...
  Michael Collins I enjoyed Sterling Newberry’s excellent article of April 19, Liberal Democrats on the Verge of Historic Takedown.  The numbers were certainly there for a Nick Clegg – Liberal Democrat stampede if only Clegg had the ability to finish off the old parties, as he refers to Labour ...
• Detroit says no to the ‘Gated’ community of the pr ...
  Detroit Teachers and the fight against Walton, Gates, the Skillman Foundation their tributaries, minnions and the awful historical agency of tallywhacker Robert Bobb Defend Public Education / Save Our Students will meet this Saturday at 4:30 pm at the Gracious Savior Church, 19484 James Couzens (nor ...
• Dereliction of Derivatives and the deliquescence o ...
  Harvard’s billions and the coming economic meltdown Larry Summers, the Obama administration economic advisor could be responsible for unilaterally destroying the Harvard University endowment fund (Harvard Corporation) as a result of the Milton Friedman market advice he gave the Harvard fund’s manage ...
• Stop the Bubble Machine
  I read in today’s Times that the Afghani want peace and jobs and that the “enemy population” would all but dissolve if they could find gainful employment. “In a recent survey, Kandaharis favored negotiations with the Taliban by a margin of 19 to 1 over continued fighting. Five of six Kandaharis view ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Loaded With Concessions, Climate Bill Wins Backing ...
• Drill Baby Drill: 11 Missing After Offshore Rig Ex ...
• New York Times Calls for Economic Shock Doctrine i ...
• VIDEO: Bank Lobbyists Huddle For Another Secret Me ...
• Why Obama Needs To Name Names

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Other 95 Percent
  Nearly all Americans got a tax cut but don't know it.
• Remembering Benjamin Hooks
  The civil rights leader broke down many barriers.
• 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.

Pine River World News

• Pakistan editorial: Holbrooke's baloney
  [ Blogmaster note : �Of the many Pakistani newspapers that are published online in English, I must admit that I have great respect for the editorial staff at The Frontier Post. They offer excellent hard-hitting editorials that expose the 'big game' being played in Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal a ...
• Layoff notices sent to thousands of U.S. teachers
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Layoff notices sent to thousands of U.S. teachers � � World Socialist Web Site By Andrea Peters April 22, 2010 Hundreds of thousands of public school teachers across the United States are facing possible layoffs t ...
• The CIA Hit List: Muslim Men to be Murdered as "Th ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. "The CIA Hit List": Muslim Men to be Murdered as "Threats to the U.S." Against the Killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi � �J. B. Gerald Source: � Global Research April 22, 2010 You delight in laying down laws Yet you delight more i ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #336
  CIA tech arm invests in camera lens start-up. NSA cyberdefense exercise underway. US spy researchers working on computational intel.
• South charges North Korean agents with assassinati ...
  Two North Koreans who defected to South Korea last November have allegedly admitted to being intelligence officers on a mission to assassinate a North Korean former senior official.
• News you may have missed #335
  Leading al-Qaeda expert to leave FBI. Three more domestic spying programs revealed. NSA Utah facility contractors shortlisted.
• CIA not surprised by Soviet invasion of Czechoslov ...
  Newly declassified CIA documents from 1968 show that the Agency had warned the Lyndon B. Johnson administration that the USSR was preparing to invade Czechoslovakia later that year.
• New book on Canada’s mysterious Agent 235
  A new book published by the Pennsylvania State University Press sheds new light into the life and work of mysterious Agent 235, Canada’s mysterious mid-20th-century spy known as ‘Johnny’.

After Downing Street.org

• Earth Day in Israel: Apartheid Showing Through the ...
  By Stephanie Westbrook On April 22, as part of the global Earth Day celebrations, homes, offices and public buildings in 14 Israeli cities turned out the lights for one hour in an effort to "increase awareness of the vital need to reduce energy consumption." The Earth Day celebrations included scene ...
• America, The Imperial
  By Sherwood Ross I write to you in my last hour In the last hour of the night The hour of fear before the light The hour of persecution and execution Of the headsman’s bloody institution Of prisoners dragged from ...
• Maher to Teabaggers: If You're Unwilling to Cut Mi ...
• Best of the Blogs
  Court Slaps Government Over Use Of Torture Evidence Holder’s Catch-22 on the al-Haramain Ruling Brown, Kaufman Introduce Safe Banking Act of 2010 Terror Tots: Girl Suspended for Terroristic Threat in Pointing Finger At Teacher and Saying “Pew, Pew” Video: White House Pushes Media Out of Lafayette Pa ...
• Why Were CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed?
  Why Were CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed? By Robert Baer | Time The case of the missing 92 CIA interrogation tapes would be a good subject for a modern day Agatha Christie mystery. Someone at the CIA decided the tapes had to be destroyed — even at the risk of an obstruction of justice charge — ...

Grist - News

• More lessons from Wales for moving beyond coal
  by Jonathan Hiskes Guardian columnist George Monbiot reported recently on the unlikely groundswell of environmental progress in Wales, the Appalachia of the U.K. Its national Plaid Cymru party is more progressive and more ambitious than Britain's three leading parties when it comes to build ...
• Hey, look: Denver has a bike-sharing program
  by Jonathan Hiskes Courtesy B-cycleDenver today launches the nation's largest bike-sharing program , distributing 500 bicycles at 50 stations around the city for citizens to use wherever they find them. The B-cycle program mirrors bike-sharing networks in Paris and Montreal, and it'll be fo ...
• Massey denies time off for workers to attend funer ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes The coal and oil industries are really trying to outdo each other these days. Massey Energy, the criminally unsafe coal mining and intimidation company, refuses to give workers time off to attend the funerals of friends who died in Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine, the Wash ...
• Burning oil rig sinks into Gulf of Mexico
  by Jonathan Hiskes This is bad: The oil rig that has been burning in the Gulf of Mexico since an explosion on Tuesday has sunk, CNN reports . The human cost : 17 workers injured (3 critically) and 11 missing. The Coast Guard is searching for th ...
• ‘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 ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• NCAA Expands Tournament To Fit 68 Teams
  The NCAA Tournament will be expanding, but only to 68 teams, not 96 like we feared
• NCAA Continues Bowling For Dollars
  The NCAA made another slick move this ;ate this week, adding two more games to their bowl schedule.
• Lorena Ochoa Set to Retire From Golf
  Lorena Ochoa is leaving the LPGA, but everyone will be better for it.
• Lessons Learned from Franklin Graham and the Penta ...
  Some opinions are best left unsaid, especially when they're negative
• Thunder Crowd Puts Advantage In Their Court
  Oklahoma City fans lift Thunder to a game three victory

Time - Top Stories

• Fixing Detroit: A Laboratory for Saving America's ...
  Detroit is in crisis. But it is hardly alone. Here's how the federal government could help
• Ripple Effects After an Offshore Oil Rig Explosion
  Oil leakage appears to have been avoided after the April 20 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, blunting potential environmental disaster. But it is worth asking, What if?
• Should French Colleges Give Kids Wine Classes?
  As binge drinking among French youth increases, a recent government report recommends teaching French kids about the art of wine appreciation -- as part of the college curriculum
• Death Becomes Him: HBO's Kevorkian Biopic
  You Don't Know Jack addresses all these obvious issues, with an approach that, while obviously focusing on Kevorkian's perspective, gives respectful airing to his opponents.
• Republican Governors Pay Homage To Guy Fawkes
  Now, the Fawkes mythology has come full circle. The Republican Governors Association has embraced the symbolism of Fawkes, launching a rather striking website, RememberNovember.com.

Washington Independent

• Greenpeace Will Not Support Senate Climate Bill
  Earlier this afternoon, I speculated on what the concessions to industry in the Senate climate bill would mean for environmental groups’ support. “Is this enough for some liberal groups to withhold their support?” I asked. “Probably — although the mainstream of the environmental movement is likely ...
• What to Demand from FinReg
  Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute and the blog Rortybomb has a useful chart and paper outlining what to demand from Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill — the provisions that will ensure financial security — along with the chances of each provision making it into the fi ...
• Strategic Defaulters Are Not Mortgage ‘Deadb ...
  Bloomberg News’ Caroline Baum has a tart piece on strategic defaults and consumer spending — invoking the theory, first put forward by HousingWire’s Paul Jackson, that underwater homeowners are purposefully defaulting on their mortgages and using the funds to buy regular goods. That would explain wh ...
• Arizona Governor Signs Immigration Bill
  Phoenix radio station KFYI tweets that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed the controversial immigration bill, Senate bill 1070, into law. The state now has some of the toughest laws in the country that will, among other things, make it a state crime to be in the country illegally and require law ...
• Gutierrez Heads to Arizona to Fight Immigration Bi ...
  Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has announced that he will travel to Phoenix to oppose Arizona Senate bill 1070 at a rally at the State Capitol this Sunday. From a statement he released today: I am going there to let the people of Arizona know that they are not alone in fighting against bigotry and hat ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Controversial Arizona Immigr ...
  Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Controversial Arizona Immigration Bill: Decision Not ‘Made Lightly’ PAUL DAVENPORT and JONATHAN J. COOPER | 04/23/10 07:08 PM | AP PHOENIX â Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs ...
• Evening Jukebox- Jenny Take A Ride
  MITCH RYDER- Jenny Take A Ride-  (Live 1979)
• Moyers: Six Banks Control 60% Of Gross National Pr ...
  Moyers: Six Banks Control 60% of Gross National Product — Is the U.S. at the Mercy of an Unstoppable Oligarchy? Bill Moyers Journal / By Bill Moyers Moyers and economists James Kwak and Simon Johnson wonder whether the financial powers are more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. ...
• America Must Face Up To The Dangers Of Derivatives
  America must face up to the dangers of derivatives George Soros | Financial Times | April 22, 2010 The US Security and Exchange Commission’s civil suit against Goldman Sachs will be vigorously contested by the defendant. It is interesting to speculate which side will win; but we will not know the re ...
• 18 Veterans Kill Themselves Every Day
  18 veterans kill themselves every day: report Raw Story- By Sahil Kapur Friday, April 23rd, 2010 — 10:41 am The suicide rate among war veterans is extraordinary, new data reveals. Thirty try to commit suicide each day, on average, reports the Army Times. Seven percent succeed, while 11 percent are l ...

Solari

• Goldman’s Blankfein Sued by Investors Over S ...
  April 23 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top executives, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, were sued by investors in two lawsuits filed on behalf of the firm over government fraud allegations. The investors, Morton Spiegel and Robert Rosinek, said in complaint ...
• Catherine w/Alex Jones - Shifting to a New Investm ...
  View parts 2, 3, and 4 at YouTube
• Are You Bringing Spychips Into Your Life?
  On this weekâs Solari Report, I will be speaking with Dr. Katherine Albrecht, one of the foremost privacy experts in America and founder of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about sh ...
• Small Towns Take On the Energy Giants
  By Ralph Diermann After selling off their electricity and gas networks to large energy corporations in the early 1990s, small towns in Germany are now banding together to buy back their energy infrastructure. Their bid to get into the energy market may provide opportunities to make money, but it al ...
• Announcing ProFounder
  What we do… ProFounder is a new crowdfunding platform for U.S. entrepreneurs to raise capital from their communities to start or grow a business. On our online platform, entrepreneurs can: create a clear, simple, legally compliant pitch (including customized terms) to raise both equity and debt f ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Arizona Gov. Signs Sweeping Immigration Crack Down ...
  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed on Friday what is now the most punitive and sweeping anti-immigrant state law in the nation.
• Calls Grow to Get Rid of Full Body Scanners at U.S ...
  Over 30 privacy and civil liberties organizations have filed a formal petition with the Department of Homeland Security.
• Actually, Women Are Doing a Fine Job of Protecting ...
  Young women -- and their families and communities -- still care intensely about reproductive rights, they just need to be engaged in new ways.
• Videos of Small Animals Being Crushed by Women in ...
  The Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling comes down to protecting the depiction of a gruesome act on 1st Amendment grounds, not the legality of the gruesome act itself.
• Judge Nixes 'National Prayer Day' But Obama Admini ...
  A federal judge ruled that National Prayer Day's 'sole purpose is to encourage citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise.'

Sideways News

• Sea lion 'Fiddler' on the roof
  An American surfer woke up to the sound of someone shuffling around on the roof of his Newport Beach apartment, Los Angeles, and went up to find a sea lion pup among the deck-chairs. In a blog post , Mike Kai explains how he thought he was still dreaming as he spotted the little creature. Confused, ...
• UK hits "landmark" energy milestone
  Offshore wind farms can now produce up to 1GW of electricity - enough to power 700,000 homes - it has been announced. RenewableUK (RUK) said the opening of two new plants earlier this week had helped the sector reach the milestone. The country currently hosts 11 wind farms, with a massive expansion ...
• Scientists probe viruses to fight cancer
  Research has revealed how viruses can be modified to search for and destroy cancer cells. Scientists at Leeds University discovered that proteins can be added to a virus that allow it to recognise unique markers on the surface of tumours. It is hoped that the development could help patients and crea ...
• Groundbreaking hunger fund unveiled
  A groundbreaking $900m initiative to help the world’s hungry gain food security was unveiled yesterday in the US by a coalition of finance ministers and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) will concentrate on increasing the food supplies th ...
• Kung fu could stop OAP injuries
  Elderly people could avoid bone fractures by learning martial arts, it has been claimed. While turning auntie Flo into a ninja warrior may be a fanciful notion, research suggests that fighting disciplines such as kung fu, karate and judo involve techniques that can help brittle-boned patients fall m ...

Fabius Maximus

• About urban farming: impractical romanticism for a ...
  Excerpt from “The Problem With Little Teeny Farms, part 2: How Many Acres Can Sustain a Family?“, Nathan Lewis, posted at New World Economics, 4 April 2010: We have been bashing the idea of “little teeny farms.” The Problem With Little Teeny Farms, 28 March 2010 The reason we are bashing this ide ...
• FM newswire for April 22, interesting articles abo ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. A rare moment of insightful reporting by the news media about the War:  “Afghanistan: A Tale of Soldiers and a School“, Joe Klein, Time, 15 April 2010 “The Law of Armed Conflict: Six ...
• Apologies are due George Will, vindicated from cha ...
  Remember the firestorm of criticism directed at George Will for his early 2009 columns about global warming, esp that global sea ice was not melting (see George Will: climate criminal or brave but sloppy iconoclast?, 23 February 2009)?  This followed the 2007 low in arctic sea ice, and predictio ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Indonesia aims to tap volcano power
  AFPâ Indonesia has launched an ambitious plan to tap the vast power of its volcanoes and become a world leader in geothermal energy, while trimming greenhouse gas emissions.The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching from the Indian to the Pacific Oceans contains hundreds of volcanoes, ...
• New EU powers for DNA sampling
  Public Service – New EU proposals on crime could allow one member state to order another member state to obtain a DNA sample off a suspect it is investigating.  According to The Daily Telegraph, the EU is considering an EU-wide search warrant. If adopted, law enforcement in an EU state could order ...
• Salmonella leads to new HIV clue
  CBC News – The AIDS virus damages the immune system differently than scientists have thought until now, a study on a bacterial infection indicates. According to the research published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, it’s not actually an immune deficiency but immune “disregulation” that ...
• Editorial – Enigma: Alleged al-Qaeda Leaders Kille ...
  Numerous sources have reported the deaths of two high profile leaders of alQaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. In this exclusive expose, we reveal how these names have cropped up in various reports as killed or captured and even declared by military authorities as being ficti ...
• Oil drilling accidents prompting new safety rules
  AP â Federal regulators did not need this week’s explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already convinced them that changes were needed. The U.S. Minerals and ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• What about my revisionist past?
  What about my revisionist past? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, I have been reading your materials for awhile now. I now realize that you are the ones who are really carrying communism forward into the next century. I was in RCP youth circles for a few years. I see t ...
• Miss Amerika?
  (shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Amerikkka, Communism, Gender, Idiot Amerikkkans, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo
• Clash of the Titans (2010, Louis Leterrier)
  Movie Review: Clash of the Titans (raimd.wordpress.com) Clash of the Titans (2010, Louis Leterrier) is a reactionary film which promotes compradorism and lackeyism in the main, as well as white supremacy and patriarchy. In the movie, people abandon the gods of Greek mythology, thus incurring their w ...
• 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 ...

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

• Who Knew? Whale Poo is Fertilizing the Oceans
  Australian scientists have discovered that whale poo is not only helping ocean plant life to flourish, but also increasing the ocean's ability to absorb CO2. Because whales' diets are made up largely of iron-rich krill (small crustaceans), their droppings are a great fertilizer for marine plants, ...
• Sungevity Wants to Put Solar Panels on the White H ...
  Solar company Sungevity is offering President Obama a free rooftop solar power system for the White House and to get his attention they've launched the Globama campaign. Sungevity is offering the 102-panel, 17.85 kW solar system, installation and warranty as a free donation, at no cost to the Obam ...
• Chevy Adds Another Member of the Volt Family
  Some interesting Earth Day news comes from Chevy. It's a new Volt, which is being unveiled in China today: " Chevrolet is leveraging Auto China 2010, which starts today in Beijing, to introduce the Volt MPV5 electric concept. The five-passenger multi-purpose crossover concept demonstrates the po ...
• 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 ...

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 ...
• 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 ...
• The Lingering Effects of Bush's Impotent Überstate ...
  Body Four of the merely six words in the title of Pew Research Center's latest poll results ( pdf ) are "distrust, discontent, anger" and "rancor." That sort of says it all, doesn't it? A concentrated, supermajority of fuming, "a perfect storm of conditions," said Pew's director, Andr ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Various matters
  There are numerous items -- seemingly disparate but all tied together by common themes -- worth noting from the last couple of days; they are all individually linkable with links at the bottom of the post: (1) The New York Times ' Scott Shane reports today that Dr. Henry Heine, a former U.S. Army ...
• The Obama administration's righteous stance agains ...
  (updated below) For those who believe that there are certain types of hypocrisy and double standards too blatant and shameless even for the U.S. Government to invoke, I'd like to point out how wrong you are: The Washington Post , today : The Pakistani military is holding tho ...
• Follow-up on Supreme Court selection process
  (updated below) The New York Times this morning publishes a very favorable article examining the judicial record and attributes of Diane Wood.  Written by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, it highlights what I documented at length here on Monday :  that Wood is one of the very few judges in the coun ...
• 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 BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 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

• Deepwater Horizon Accident Foreshadows a Potential ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2010 Food & Water Watch Following Tuesday's explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Platform, leased and operated by British Petroleum (BP) in the Gulf of Mexico, the national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch is warning of the possibility of a similarly tragic ...
• Congressional Earmarks for Religious Groups Raise ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2010 Americans United for Separation of Church and State Americans United for Separation of Church and State today called on the Obama administration to investigate ten earmarks for religious schools and ministries that raise constitutional issues about inappropria ...
• Settlement Stops Plan to Develop Wildlife Preserve
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity and San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society As a result of a legal settlement between the Center for Biological Diversity, the San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a 1,100-acre wildlife p ...
• Free Press Urges FCC to Closely Examine Proposed C ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2010 Free Press In response to the announcement that CenturyLink and Qwest Communications have agreed to merge, Free Press Research Director S. Derek Turner said: "We will encourage the Federal Communications Commission to take a very close look at this proposed ...
• UN Backs Climate Conference, Harper Snubs Gatherin ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2010 Council of Canadians The Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia has received the backing of the United Nations. Al Jazeera now reports that, "the United Nations has backed (the) Bolivian sponsored summit on climate change." Al ...

Common Dreams-Views

• 350 Degrees of Inseparability: The Good News About ...
  by Rebecca Solnit These days, I see how optimistic and positive disaster and apocalypse movies were. Remember how, when those giant asteroids or alien space ships headed directly for Earth, everyone rallied and acted as one while our leaders led? We're in a movie like that now, except that th ...
• What the #$@!, Arizona?
  by Erin Rosa While federal lawmakers cautiously mull over the possibility of dropping a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year, legislators in Arizona have passed yet another law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants. What’s more, the Arizona House is advancing a bill that would require ...
• Demonizing Iran: US Media Continue Beating War Dru ...
  by Dave Lindorff Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal had a lead story about Israeli planning to possibly "go it alone" in an attack on Iran if the US were not to "succeed" in its diplomatic efforts to get Iran to "stop" it's alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon capability. read more
• Awaken, Eaarthlings! (An Earth Day Missive)
  by Jill Schneiderman In his recent book, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology (2008), the great Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh asserts that Buddhism, as a robust type of humanism, allows people to learn how to live on our planet not only responsibly, but with compassion an ...
• Nature Will Always Show Us Who Is in Charge
  by Frank McDonald Most people aren't able to pronounce it, but the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland will long be remembered for the utter havoc it has wrought on air travel in Europe, with literally tens of thousands of flights cancelled, hundreds of thousands of people left stranded and ...

Karl Burkart

• Earth Day has become App Day
  Earth Day has provided the occasion for a tsunami of eco-friendly apps for the iPhone and now Android gets some green love.
• Call of the wild now delivered to iPhones
  Authentic sounds of the wild can now be downloaded for free to your iPhone. Assign your friends their own unique howl, hoot or roar.
• Paws vs. Pads: Pets tackle the iPad
  While the verdict may still be out about the iPad in the human world, pets across the country are unanimous in their confusion.
• Video footage from James Cameron's trip to the Ama ...
  James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver go to Brazil and stall (for now) the Bel Money dam project.
• Homeowners: Sell your own carbon credits
  My Emissions Exchange just sold its first carbon credit on behalf of the Wilsons, a family in Harrisburg, Penn.

Water Privatization

• International Desalination Association Announces M ...
  The International Desalination Association (IDA) announced that nine distinguished scientists have joined its Environmental Task Force to explore possible impacts of desalination in the Arabian Gulf and make recommendations to mitigate potential effects. IDA also announced the members of the Task Fo ...
• Union raises concerns about agreement
  City of Powell River officials are disappointed by the reaction of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 798 to a deal with Catalyst Paper Corporation.
• PSALM expects 6 bidders for Angat plant
  The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation expects six firms will participate in the bidding for the 246 megawatt Angat hydro power plant in Norzagaray, Bulacan scheduled on April 28.
• Privatize more GovGuam services
  Could it really be 'We the People' are deciding to no longer be coerced and are actually demanding individual choice and the freedom to choose?
• Union raises concerns about agreement
  City of Powell River officials are disappointed by the reaction of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 798 to a deal with Catalyst Paper Corporation.

Guardian

• How to dress: Cross-body bags
  Pioneered by Just William and loved by cyclists the world over, these bags are suddenly in fashion I have recently discovered how incredibly convenient it is being able to use both�arms while out in public. My, it's a revelation. Being�able to get my Oyster�card out of my pocket without dropping my ...
• Cameron: Northern Ireland and north-east face cuts
  Conservatives' plan to reduce state 'alarming' for regions outside London, says Labour David Cameron sparked a fresh row on public spending last night when he indicated that the north-east of England and Northern Ireland may face a squeeze under the Tories. In a move condemned by Labour as "alarming ...
• Palin tells court of hacker disruption
  Former economics student David Kernell faces up to 50 years in jail if convicted of hacking into email account Sarah Palin today addressed the jury at the criminal trial of the man accused of hacking into her email account during the 2008 presidential election campaign. Palin spent 45 minutes in th ...
• King of hypochondria
  Brian�Dillon on what made�Michael Jackson the�man he was On 16 September 1986, a photograph of Mic hael Jackson, then age d 28 and long embarked on the regal phase of his solo career, appeared on the front page of the National Enquirer . It showed the singer in a striped shirt, dark trousers and whi ...
• Hidden France: the Cévennes
  France receives more visitors than any other country, yet many beautiful spots remain hidden, and few more so than the Cévennes mountains France is one of those countries that we think we know. This assumption is, in part, what shields so many of her more secret places from invasion. And when I say ...

McClatchey

• GOP congressional candidates tout Tea Party creden ...
  Three of the four Republicans seeking their party's nomination in the 4th Congressional District touted their credentials as tea party candidates during a campaign forum Thursday.
• In good sign for economy, AutoNation's car sales i ...
  AutoNation posted turbocharged first-quarter earnings, which the Fort Lauderdale-based auto sales giant said were fueled in part by a 29 percent spike in revenue in Florida compared with last year.
• Florida GOP further cuts ties with disgraced ex-ch ...
  TALLAHASSEE — The Republican Party of Florida's executive committee met swiftly Friday morning and, within 10 minutes of convening, concluded that former party chairman Jim Greer had "injured the name and status" of the party and removed him from any position of power.
• Geithner: Bailouts may end up costing less than ex ...
  WASHINGTON — The government's controversial financial bailouts of automakers, major banks and other industries could cost taxpayers $87 billion when all is said and done, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday.
• Study highlights problems for U.S. strategy in Afg ...
  NEW DELHI — While current U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine in Afghanistan broadly conforms to historical best practices, the Taliban have a number of advantages that have produced insurgent success in the past, according to a new study of 89 past and ongoing insurgencies worldwide.

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

• Rep. Steve King Frustrated GOP Won’t Support ...
  Republicans have responded to passage of the health care law by promising to build a new movement to repeal the measure. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) introduced legislation to rescind the law, but with financial reform debate heating up, Republicans ...
• ‘Get Real’ About The UK’s Nuclea ...
  One of the hot issues in yesterday’s UK Prime Minister’s debate is over whether to replace Britainâs Trident nuclear missile system. The fault lines on this issue have oddly unified Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron. Both support spending more than $100 billion on t ...
• Maine Judge Says Insurers Are Not Entitled To Prof ...
  Back in October, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine, the state’s largest private insurer, sued the state after Maine’s Superintendent of Insurance denied Anthem a rate increase that would have required Maine residents to pay an “additional $12 million in annual premiums for the same level of ...
• Did The Administration’s Own Study Conclude ...
  A new Center on Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) analysis of the non-tax provisions in the new health care law has found that increased utilization by the 34 million newly insured Americans will raise total national expenditures by 0.9% between 2010 and 2019, outweighing the effects of the cost ...
• Catholic League’s Donohue Makes Big Claim: N ...
  Bill Donohue’s Catholic League has reacted to the sex abuse scandal surrounding the Catholic Church by blaming the scandal on homosexuality and attacking newspapers like the New York Times for covering the story. Last month, the organization ran an ad criticizing the paper for failing to recognize t ...

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: The Long and Short of It
  by Brian Pretti. "It has been a very long while since I’ve taken up a big chunk of a discussion to write about crude oil. The time is now for a multiplicity of reasons. You know the old market truism that after bear markets in equities, old leadership rarely emerges as new leadership. And of course ...
• Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud, Part 3
  by Elliott Wave Int. "With the market’s downtrend recently in abeyance, these transgressions failed to capture the imagination of the public or the scrutiny of law enforcement. But the extreme recriminatory power of the next leg down in social mood suggests that Goldman’s dealings will become a ligh ...
• A Short Philosophy of History
  by J. R. Nyquist. "The founder of analytic psychology, Carl Jung, proposed the existence of something he called the collective unconscious. He said it was the most misunderstood of his empirical concepts. Its reality could be inferred from the presence of archetypes, most readily discoverable in dr ...
• 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 ...

on Government Oversight

• Tell Us How You Feel: Thoughts on the Tanker Progr ...
  Between a Defense Appropriations Chair that is almost uniformly termed "the Congressman from Boeing" and news that Retired Air Force General Arthur J. Lichte has gone through the revolving door to join the board of EADS North America, it's hard...
• Morning Smoke: Scott Bloch Charged with Contempt o ...
  Former Head of Whistleblower Protection Office Charged with Contempt of Congress by Michael Smallberg [POGO] Bullying for Boeing [Wall Street Journal] Explaining FinReg: Derivatives by Ezra Klein [The Washington Post] F-35A to Begin Weapons Testing [Air Force Magazine] Pentagon seeks...
• Former Head of Whistleblower Protection Office Cha ...
  The Associated Press reports that former U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch has been charged with criminal contempt of Congress. A copy of the two-page filing by the U.S. Attorney’s office is available here. Longtime POGO fans will recall that Bloch...
• Troubling Irregularities in Federal Contract Spend ...
  Government contract data has come a long way since the Federal Procurement Data System of yore. But in a recent analysis of USAspending.gov, POGO has found some troubling irregularities in federal contract spending data. For example, in the FY 2009...
• Nuclear Weapons Sites Inspections Underway for 201 ...
  POGO was pleased to learn that the Department of Energy’s Office of Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) has scheduled for this year security inspections for all of the DOE sites that hold Category 1 amounts (bomb-making quantities) of nuclear material....

Digital Journal

• Ridley Scott reveals details on 'Alien' 3D prequel
  The director of the upcoming motion picture "Robin Hood," Ridley Scott, spoke with MTV this week to discuss his long anticipated ‘Alien’ prequel, which will be shot in 3D and set in 2058.
• Lotto Max brings lottery announcements to Toronto ...
  This week's Lotto Max jackpot in Canada is $41 million but now Torontonians can receive their lottery information from a unique group that announces the week's jackpot at busy intersections and transit stations.
• Toronto cleans up in the seventh annual 20-Minute ...
  The seventh annual 20-Minute Makekover saw Torontonians take 20 minutes out of their busy schedules to help clean up the city of Toronto at 2 p.m., which was led by Mayor David Miller and other city Councillors.
• Guelph land defenders now in a fight for their leg ...
  The Hanlon Creek 5 are a small group of land defenders who took on the duty of protecting an environmentally sensitive area last year. The property is being developed by the City of Guelph as a business park.
• Filipino Boy Discriminated in Canada Wins $17,000 ...
  The Filipino boy who was discriminated in his school for his eating habits finally got justice from a Canadian court by reversing a decision by a lower court and awarded him damages for discriminatory act.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Parking Meters Installed to Drive Panhandlers Away
  Santa Cruz, California, has joined the growing number of cities that are turning to "parking meters" installed on city streets for the purpose of collecting donations to help homeless people. Funds raised will supposedly go toward things like  bus tickets and IDs . Another purpose is to rid the stre ...
• The Homeless Are Environmentalists By Necessity
  In 2008, an MIT study revealed that homeless people in the United States have a carbon footprint that is over twice the size of the global average. That's quite a heavy footprint. But don't dismay — the homeless are not to blame for global warming or environmental degradation (even though some big c ...
• How Ignoring the Environment Increases Homelessnes ...
  As we pause to celebrate our planet on Earth Day, it's important to remember that while we've all become more aware of how our actions can influence the overall health of the planet, we must also strive to understand how our actions can influence the well-being of populations around the world.  Envi ...
• 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 ...

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

• WTC Leaseholder Wanted To Demolish Building 7 On 9 ...
  April 23, 2010 PrisonPlanet.com by Paul Joseph Watson A Fox News hit piece against Jesse Ventura and the 9/11 truth movement written by former Washington D.C. prosecutor Jeffrey Scott Shapiro inadvertently reveals a shocking truth, that World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein, who collected ...
• South Park Forced To Censor Word ‘Muhammad&# ...
  April 23, 2010 livefeed.HollywoodReportter.com After last week’s episode of the Comedy Central series sparked a threat (and yes, it was certainly a threat) from a radical Islamic website, the network has cracked-down-for-their-own-good on creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone during last night’s conti ...
• Military Launches To Secret Robocraft
  April 23, 2010 news.Yahoo.com A US Air Force unmanned spacecraft has blasted off from Florida, amid a veil of secrecy about its military mission. The robotic space plane, or X-37B, lifted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket at 7:52 pm local time (2352 GMT) Thursday, according to video rel ...
• SEC Staffers ‘Hard At Work’ As Economy ...
  April 23, 2010 WashingtonPost.com by Daniel Wagner Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says. The SEC’s inspector general conduc ...
• Dozens of Australian Children Fall Ill From Flu Va ...
  April 23, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk by Bonnie Malkin The otherwise healthy children, all aged under five, suffered fevers, vomiting and febrile convulsions after receiving the vaccination. More than 20 were admitted to hospital and at least one child is seriously ill. Jim Bishop, the country’s chief medi ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• Nuclear force without nuclear restraint
  Military organizations, like muscles, atrophy unless they get regular exercise. And as much as the destructive power of the Cold War’s nuclear arsenals is credited with having prevented their use, there is no form of deterrence that can have as much appeal to the military as an actual show of force. ...
• How the FBI and the press attempted to destroy an ...
  The one thing we know about President Obama’s view of the war on terrorism is that he doesn’t like the name. But when it comes to one of the longest running and unresolved debates — whether counter-terrorism is a law enforcement or a military issue — it’s unclear how far the current president depart ...
• 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. ...

Watts Up With That?

• Butterfly study: a case study in confirmation bias
  Guest post by Marc Hendrickx A little over a month ago reports appeared in the press (eg. Butterflies ‘fly early as planet warms’) that the common Brown Butterfly (Heteronympha merope) was emerging 10 days earlier than it was 60 years ago all due to global warming attributed solely to CO2 emission ...
• I may as well retire
  Gosh, people send me stuff. Today I discovered a huge windfall. My friend and volunteer moderator DB Stealey sent me 100 TRILLION dollars in the mail today. Here’s a scan of the bank note: I’m rich! I can fund my own climate research group, I can get that Ferrari! Now all I have to do [...]
• Russian scientist suggests colder times ahead, cit ...
  MOSCOW, April 23 (UPI) — A Russian scientist says the Arctic may be getting colder, not warmer, which would hamper the international race to discover new mineral fields. An Arctic cold snap that began in 1998 could last for years, freezing the northern marine passage and making it impassable without ...
• New book from Dr. Roy Spencer
  I have been remiss at posting reviews on several books that people have sent me. I hope to get some of them up in the next week. Dr. Spencer’s announcement below is a start, though his is the one book I don’t have. – Anthony ============ The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled [.. ...
• Dial “M” for mangled – Wikipedia ...
  Ecotretas find more cases of missing “M”s and mangled data in METAR reports making it into climatic temperature data.  I’ve reposted his findings below and added some of my own notes [in brackets] to strengthen his findings. This time it’s Eureka, Nunavut, Canada. From “Up Here” magazine: The first ...

Dandelion Salad

• Bill Maher Becomes a Teabagger
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ yankzny April 23, 2010 â Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rules from April 23, 2010 in which Bill Maher puts on his teabagger hat and tells it like it is. Bill Maher BECOMES a Teabagger – 4/23/10 h/t: Natureboy see To All The âAngryâ Tea Partiers by Ed Ciacc ...
• Radio Roxanne: Earth Day 2010 – The Alleghen ...
  radioroxanne by Roxanne Amico Dandelion Salad Spirit Morph Studio April 22, 2010 This is a link to a 3 minute Radio Roxanne Earth Day 2010 audio post… Please listen, and share it with others. Also below is information about actions to take outside. Given that this is Earth Day, and there are plenty ...
• Kucinich: Sanctions Play into the Hands of Iranian ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1089443 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Apr 22, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against a bill to create economic sanctions against Iran. “I support the Obama administration’s efforts toward ...
• Americans Deserve Recall Power by Joel S. Hirschho ...
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org April 21, 2010 Nothing is more powerful in a democracy than fed up citizens lawfully yanking public officials out of their jobs.  Considering all the frustration and anger about government that is too big, expensive, corrupt and dys ...
• Lynching greedy bankers is not the solution by Fin ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Finian.cunningham@gmail.com 20 April, 2010 Six out ten Americans have a hostile view of Wall Street, according to a recent poll. And this survey was taken before the news last week that the US government is charging top Wall Street bank Goldman Sa ...

Your New Reality

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  James Cameron Declares War On "Climate Change Deniers, Ranters, Fearmongers" Extraordinary.
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  They Live Amongst Us Are beings from other worlds hiding out on Planet Earth, disguised as humans? A poll of more than 23,000 people in 22 countries reveals an astounding number believe the answer is "Yes!" ....more than 40 per cent of people from India and China believe that alien life exists ...
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  From The Boston Globe's The Big Picture coverage of the protests and rioting in Thailand : Photo by Vincent Yu You Have To See The Full Incredible Photo Essay Here .
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  The Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station :
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  This is where stars are born : NASA : "Captured here are the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and the dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of ...

Wired - Science

• Reader Photo Gallery: Your Desk Celebrates Hubble’ ...
  The Hubble Space Telescope’s journey crossed the double-decade mark today, and our readers and followers are celebrating the beloved satellite with their desktops. For the past five weeks, we’ve asked followers of @wiredscience on Twitter to change their computer backgrounds to some of our favorite ...
• Bill Gates and Friends Make Case for Energy R&D
  Bill Gates and a host of other corporate heavy hitters have founded a new organization to push for more research and development into clean energy technology. Gates and former DuPont CEO Charles Holliday heralded the launch of the American Energy Innovation Council with an unusually clear and conci ...
• Wow! Celebrate Hubble’s 20th With Best Space Image ...
  We were already dreading the day Hubble dies, but this mind-blowing new image released to celebrate the space telescope’s 20th anniversary makes us wish for eternal life for the famous satellite even more. This new gem rivals what may be Hubble’s most famous image, a shot of the Pillars of Creation ...
• Evolution’s New Foe: Timid School Administrators
  Evolution education is under attack in Weston, Connecticut, but not from the usual direction. Nobody is promoting intelligent design in the curriculum, or asking schools to teach evolution’s “strengths and weaknesses.” There’s just an administration afraid that teaching third graders too much about ...
• The Nanometer Matterhorn
  Those crazy IBM research engineers, what will they create at the nanoscale next? To demonstrate a new material etching technique that could allow for ever smaller computer chip components to be made, they created a model of the Matterhorn that stands just 25 nanometers tall. That’s 17,912,000,000,0 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Rachel Giora: Milestones in the history of the Isr ...
  Haaretz correspondent Aluf Benn: “Only one thing does bother the Israelis, according to the polls: fear of a diplomatic embargo and an international boycott. The Goldstone Report and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
• Travel ban imposed on Palestinian leader in Israel
  This morning [22 April 2010], the Israeli Border Police prevented Mr. Ameer Makhoul, the Director of Ittijah - Union of Arab Community-Based Associations inside Israel, from leaving the country.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Gas canister injures Bil’in protester
  A Palestinian citizen of Israel was struck in the head with a high-velocity canister during a Friday protest against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bil'in. The man, identified as... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Amira Hass: Access denied
  Defining a Palestinian with a Gaza Strip address as a punishable infiltrator if he is found in the West Bank - as implied by a military order that has now gone into effect - is one more link in a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Boycott!: CRH, Divest Now from Apartheid Israel!
  We, at BOYCOTT!, a group of Israeli citizens, strive to stop our government's human rights and international law violations, which have been facilitated by the cooperation of international companies.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Drills in Far East to involve warships of three Ru ...
  Warships of three Russian fleets will meet in the Sea of Japan during large-scale military exercises in the Far East.
• Russia has no plans to deploy weapons in space - t ...
  The commander of Russia's space forces said on Friday Russia had no plans to deploy weapons of any kind in space
• Russian bombers conduct another Pacific patrol mis ...
  Two Russian Tu-95MS Bear strategic bombers have carried out a routine patrol flight over the Pacific Ocean
• Iran plans to produce missile defense systems simi ...
  Iran intends to produce missile defense systems similar to Russia's S-300 system, the county's PressTV channel said on Thursday, quoting Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi.
• Russia sends additional missile cruiser to Indian ...
  The Moskva missile cruiser will set sail on Friday on a long-range tour of duty, which will culminate with exercises in the Indian Ocean

NewsWise

• In South America, Choreographer Zollar of FSU Offe ...
  Even before she and the Urban Bush Women served as diplomats of dance this spring on a U.S. State Department-sponsored cultural-exchange tour of South America, renowned choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar wore many hats. Make that dancing shoes.
• Causes and Consequences of the Helium-3 Supply Cri ...
  Industries such as nuclear detection, oil and gas, and medical diagnostics could face crippling shortages of Helium 3, a nuclear weapons production byproduct that has become increasing scarce.
• New Use for Surgical Robot: Head and Neck Tumors
  Hospitals are beginning to use a surgical robot for head and neck tumors. The Food and Drug Administration recently cleared the robotic system for tumors in such locations as the tongue, tonsils, mouth and voice box.
• M. D. Anderson Center Expands Research Efforts on ...
  The increasing number of minorities diagnosed with cancer has inspired a variety of initiatives at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center focusing on minority health through research, education and community relations.
• Dem's Not Doomed by Low Congressional Approval Rat ...
  America's satisfaction with government is hovering at all time lows according to recent polls by Gallup and the Pew Research Center, but don't assume these sentiments spell doom for the Democratic Party in coming elections, says a congressional expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

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

• Banned Pesticides Found in Sewage Sludge
  For the first time, Australian researchers find that organochlorine pesticides remain in sewage sludge for more than 10 years. Click here to read this article
• Supreme Court to Take First Look at Genetically Mo ...
  The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday involving a federal judge's temporary ban on a breed of pesticide-resistant alfalfa, setting the stage for the court's first-ever ruling on genetically modified crops. Click here to read this article
• Coming Soon to a Cul-de-Sac Near You: Farming!
  In cities, agriculture might be able to take the place of vacant lots. And in suburbia? Why not grow food on golf courses? Click here to read this article
• Genetically Modified Crops are Not the Answer for ...
  A bill being considered by the Senate right now includes a mandate that we spend foreign aid dollars developing genetically modified (GM) crops. No other kind of agricultural technology is mentioned. Unsurprisingly, Monsanto has lobbied more frequently on this bill than any other entity. Click here ...
• US Senate, Bill Gates Give the Planet a Middle Fin ...
  Today the Senate Foreign Relations committee held a hearing on the Global Food Security Act (S.384), which, as I have documented on this blog before, Monsanto HAS been involved in lobbying on. One of the clauses in the bill specifies that the U.S. should promote biotechnology in its efforts to comba ...

fotoFrontera

• 33 imágenes de paisajes naturales (alta resolución ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Desde el día de ayer, empecé a recomendarles 'Free Amazing Pictures', un blog que aunque está en Inglés, deberá considerarse desde ahora como una excelente fuente de recursos en cuanto a imágenes, fotografías y... ...
• Las cascadas más famosas del mundo (50 fotografías ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.Para variar un poco, tengo para todos ustedes 50 fotografías de las cascadas más famosas del mundo. En el nombre de cada imagen he incluído los datos y la ubicación de las cascadas para que usted pueda obtener más... ...
• Fotografías de chicas muy lindas (33 fotos especia ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.Ya que vamos en línea recta, aquí le traemos 33 nuevas imágenes de chicas muy lindas. En esta sesión fotográfica, usted podrá admirar la belleza de la mujer en su máxima expresión. Morenas, pelirrojas, rubias, asiáticas,. ...
• Increíble colección de automóviles (21 elementos)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ver todas las fotografías. Nuestra serie de imágenes bonitas de autos continúa y aquí tenemos para usted 21 fotografías de estos hermosos vólidos que despiertan suspiros cuando los vemos pasar por la autopista. Son autos de lujo, deportivos, antiguos y... ...
• Imágenes que hablan por sí mismas (20 elementos)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. En el blog 'Free Amazing Pictures', se presenta actualmente una extraordinaria colección de 20 imágenes que hablan por sí mismas. Considerada como una de nuestras fuentes oficiales, este blog nos ofrece acceso directo.. ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Replacing Stevens on Security
  by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted on Balkinization and Scotusblog Since Justice Stevens announced his intention to retire, discussions about what his departure will mean for the Court have regularly noted his military service in World War II. The justice enlisted the day b ...
• ICC Prosecutor Wants Security Council Action on Su ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This sounds impressive, but somehow it feels like the ICC Prosecutors is going in circles on Sudan. THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court prosecutor wants judges to report Sudan to the U.N. Security Council for refusing to hand over a government minis ...
• More Fallout from Uruguay and Argentina
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Did the ICJ ruling on Uruguay and Argentina help to resolve the dispute? Sort of.  There are some pesky protestors, though, who are not exactly convinced by the ruling. Both sides said Tuesday’s decision by the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands gave them ...
• Do the Face-Veil Bans Violate International Law?
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Belgium and France are both considering laws to ban the wearing of full-face veils in public. According to Amnesty International, such bans would violate international human rights law. “A general ban on the wearing of full face veils would violate the rights to freedom ...
• 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Indians tell Key to start circling the wagons
  UBCIC Calls on New Zealand to Offer Unqualified Endorsement of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 22, 2010) - The New Zealand government announced that it will adopt the United Nations Declaration on...
• IPCC bungled Bangladesh sea level predictions
  The formerly cast iron UN IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment Report continues to crumble into rust today, with Bangladeshi scientists finding major errors in the IPCC's claims about the effect of sea level rise on their country. It's enough to make...
• 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:

Public News Service

• Poll Says Financial Reform Is Crucial
  Poll Says Financial Reform Is Crucial Phoenix, AZ – People in Arizona and around the nation want real financial reform and they want it right away, according to a recent survey. Gordon McDonald, the director of the Pew Financial Project, says they found reform is necessary for the economic recovery ...
• AZ Gets an “F” in Government Spending ...
  AZ Gets an “F” in Government Spending Transparency Phoenix, AZ – A new report gives Arizona a failing grade when it comes to openness about government spending. Public Interest Research Group says there should be an on-line database where taxpayers can follow spending at a “checkbook level.” Comment ...
• Teachers’ Chief: Classroom Size Does Matter
  Teachers’ Chief: Classroom Size Does Matter Phoenix, AZ – Arizona voters will decide next month on a temporary one-cent sales tax increase, with much of the funding going to education. Teachers say failure of the tax hike will lead to much larger class sizes and lower educational achievement. Commen ...
• CDC: Arizona Cesarean Births Up 63% in 10 Years
  CDC: Arizona Cesarean Births Up 63% in 10 Years Phoenix, AZ – More than one out of every four births in Arizona is a surgical delivery, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reports that over the last 10 years, the number of C-sections nationwide has ...
• Business Leader: Immigration Bill Threatens &#8220 ...
  Business Leader: Immigration Bill Threatens “Police State” Phoenix, AZ – Opponents of a wide-ranging immigration enforcement bill say the result would be harmful government intrusion into lives and businesses, all in the name of border security. Comments from Sheridan Bailey, owner of a Phoenix stee ...

My Care2 Picks

• A Snitch in Your Pocket
  Law enforcement is tracking Americans' cell phones in real time -- without the benefit of a warrant.Sprint Nextel has even set up a dedicated Web site so that law-enforcement agents can access the records from their desks Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
• 9 Unexpected Things in Drinking Water
  An analysis of federal data from the last five years revealed that more than 20 percent of the nations water-treatment systems have broken provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act,19 million sickened each year Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 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 ...

Angry Indian News

• 60 Minutes- SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS* part#1of2
  1994 *-60 Minutes- SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS* [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hungary: elections April 10th gave the right wing ...
  Gerald and Maas Suppressed News Hungary: elections April 10th gave the right wing Fidesz party a 53% majority, augmented by a 17% vote for the extreme right wing and populist Jobbik party.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Federal judge in KC temporarily blocks Missouri’s ...
  Federal judge in KC temporarily blocks Missouri’s decision to deny Klan group a picnic permit - KansasCity.com: "A federal court hearing has been scheduled in the case of a Ku Klux Klan group that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Vicious Kansas Gay-Bashers Finally Find a Friend
  Vicious Kansas Gay-Bashers Finally Find a Friend | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based group notorious for turning tragedies into gay-bashing... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• White Supremacist a Victim of his own Ideas
  Slain Miss. white supremacist was stabbed, beaten - Yahoo! NewsPEARL, Miss. – A white supremacist lawyer was stabbed and beaten to death by a black neighbor who had done yard work for him, police... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Monsanto – Conquering Amerika One Stomach At a Tim ...
  One of the biggest cases to come before the Supreme Court regarding the uncontrolled spread of GMO on this planet via the American stomach is about to be heard by a Monsanto shill.
• The Fake Food Safety bills: Feeding America poison ...
  The PPJ Gazette    By: Marti Oakley ©2010  All Rights reserved  “Our food system is not broken as some claim.  It is not dangerous, it is not rife with disease, it is not a threat to anyone and there is no terrorist in a cave somewhere “over there” plotting and planning on how to defecate in a [... ...
• Common Plant Vector Injects Genes into Human Cells ...
  A paper published earlier this year reports that T-DNA can be transferred to the chromosomes of human cancer cells...The paper shows that human cancer cells along with neuron and kidney cells were transformed with the Agrobacterium T-DNA. Such observations should raise alarm for those who use Agroba ...
• You can stop GE Alfalfa and GE Wheat in Canada!
  The Council of Canadians encourages you to respond to this alert from the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.
• Bayer admits GMO contamination out of control
  Drug and chemical giant Bayer AG has admitted that there is no way to stop the uncontrolled spread of its genetically modified crops, and farmers win lawsuits for contamination!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Ins ...
  Noted by Kashmir Hill on April 23, 2010 3:04 PM
• Facebook's Social Web: How to Protect Your Privacy ...
  Noted by Kashmir Hill on April 23, 2010 3:04 PM
• Yerr out!!! N.J. County school district eliminates ...
  Noted by Bob Cook on April 23, 2010 3:04 PM
• Tim Tebow draft pick good for Broncos and America, ...
  Noted by Bob Cook on April 23, 2010 2:04 PM
• Found: The Future of Children’s Books (Wired News)
  Noted by David Knowles on April 23, 2010 2:04 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Pope may face charges at US court
  ShareThis Pope may face charges at US court 24 Apr 2010 The US Supreme Court may take legal action against the Pope over allegations that he conspired to conceal sex abuse charges brought against a Wisconsin priest. A case lodged by an alleged sex abuse victim has brought certain documents to prosec ...
• Threats close Raul Grijalva's district offices
  ShareThis Threats close Raul Grijalva's district offices 23 Apr 2010 Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has closed his Arizona offices after a man called and threatened to "blow everyone’s head off," his office said Friday. The man, who called Grijalva’s Tucson office twice, said he would then go to the s ...
• I hope Obama likes the new format!
  ShareThis esseop102b.eop.gov 1 12 200.36 KB 23 Apr 2010 - 13:42 198.137. [redacting] = [ esseop102b.eop.gov ] OrgName:��� Executive Office Of The President USA OrgID:����� EXOP Address:��� 725 17th Street� NW City:������ Washington StateProv:� DC PostalCode: 20503 Country:��� US
• Pentagon Launches Mystery US Spacecraft
  ShareThis Pentagon Launches Mystery US Spacecraft --Launch is military project controlled by US Air Force Space Command - not NASA 23 Apr 2010 A top-secret rocket has been launched by the US military amid rumours its purpose is to perform experiments for a space weapons programme. Officially the pro ...
• Search Ends for Missing Oil Workers
  ShareThis Search Ends for Missing Oil Workers 23 Apr 2010�The Coast Guard called off its search Friday for 11 oil rig workers who had been missing since an explosion on the rig Tuesday night in the Gulf of Mexico. "We have just made a very difficult decision," said Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, the comm ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Indians tell Key to start circling the wagons
  UBCIC Calls on New Zealand to Offer Unqualified Endorsement of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 22, 2010) - The New Zealand government announced that it will adopt the United Nations Declaration on...
• IPCC bungled Bangladesh sea level predictions
  The formerly cast iron UN IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment Report continues to crumble into rust today, with Bangladeshi scientists finding major errors in the IPCC's claims about the effect of sea level rise on their country. It's enough to make...
• 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:

Mondoweiss

• Brandeis students prepare to protest Michael Oren ...
  Recently, I was alerted by my Brandeis student newspaper, The Justice, that Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren would be our keynote commencement speaker. Needless to say, I was disappointed, and not just because there were better choices even among the other honorary degree recipients (Paul ...
• Report from Bil’in: ’soldiers showed n ...
  The Israeli military chases a protester in Bil'in. (Photo: Hamde Abo Rahma) Hamde Abo Rahma sends this report on the latest protest in Bil'in: Today’s demonstration marked the culminating event in the Fifth Bil’in International Conference for Palestinian Popular Resistance, which began on Wednes ...
• Barack Obama is speaking the language of Israel-fi ...
  William Quandt, a National Security Council staffer in the NSC’s Middle East office during the Nixon and Carter administrations, has an article up at Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel downplaying any hopes that the Obama administration is serious about pushing for a solution in Israel/Palestine. ...
• Clemons suggests that Schumer is representing Isra ...
  Great post by Steve Clemons demanding to know if Chuck Schumer has ever sided with the U.S. against Israel. "Has Chuck Schumer EVER Criticized Israel or its Leadership in the Way He Just Unloaded on Obama?" Says that Schumer's tonguelashing of the Obama administration for putting pressure on Netanya ...
• Wiesel should stop offering celestial prescription ...
  More than a hundred activists from the Sheikh Jarrah movement in Jerusalem published an open letter to Elie Wiesel in response to the letter Wiesel published last week in the Washington Post: Dear Mr. Wiesel, We write to you from Jerusalem to convey our frustration, even outrage, at your recently ...

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

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Wrangling Data at the South Pole
  Image credit: Boing Boing Boing Boing contributor Maggie Koerth-Baker has profiled Paul Morin, director of the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center—a small research group dedicated to using data collected on Antarctica to improve research efforts across all fields.... Read the full story on ...
• Diver Mike Rutzen Hypnotizes Sharks to Show They'r ...
  Mike Rutzen has an extra special relationship with sharks, and he's working hard to show the world they're really amazing, approachable creatures. Rather than the character out of Jaws , Great Whites are actually smart, sometimes shy, and highly effective hunters. But unfortunately the world is ...
• Gigantic Nation-Sized Mat of Bacteria Found Off S ...
  Photo: Teske Lab 'Spaghetti'-like megabacteria One of the largest collaborations to investigate marine biodiversity has uncovered something on a mind-boggling scale: a giant mat of string-like bacteria - the size of Uruguay or the U.S. state of Alabama - has been discovered deep in the ocean dep ...
• Reliable Structures: A Truly Minimalist Table
  Talk about minimal! Caroline Woolard and Elizabeth Tubergen of the 6 Foot Collaboratory have designed the simplest of all possible tables, supported entirely by the cooperation of the diners. Designboom writes that "users must band together, literally holding the furniture together with their bo ...
• 3D Concrete Printer Could Build Benches on Earth, ...
  Story by David Bois, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com. ; Photo by the.Firebottle via Flickr . While home computer users commonly bemoan the high prices that replacement printer ink cartridges can often fetch, at least we know where to go to find them without too much difficulty. Thi ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burma accepts first election parties
  Two parties with alleged close ties to the ruling junta become first of 19 parties to be accepted onto next stage of election registration process
• $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

Telegraph - Climate Change

• David Cameron defends his green credentials in lea ...
  Climate change finally made it into the election debate with David Cameron forced to defend his green policies.
• Earth Day 2010: a history of four decades of envir ...
  A history about the annual Earth Day, which is in its 40th year.
• Biofuels cause four times more carbon emissions
  Green fuels made from soy beans cause four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to a European report into biofuels.
• Will Anderson: The carbon-zero house builder
  Will Anderson, built his house in Clapham, south London, that is completely energy self-sufficient and which generates more power and heat on site than it consumes.
• Millions of tiny microbes open new frontier in sci ...
  Millions of species new to science have been discovered in the most ambitious survey ever to look at tiny life forms at the bottom of the ocean.

National Geographic | Environment

• New Deadly Fungus Found in U.S., Has Already Kille ...
  The new, hypervirulent fungus strain has already killed six and is spreading in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, a new study says.
• Earth Day at 40: What Good Is It Now?
  After 40 years, outsourced activism is replacing traditional Earth Day activities, and green's gone mainstream, experts say. So what's the point?
• Earth Day at 40: How it Began, Where It's Going
  On its 40th anniversary, the once grassroots Earth Day is now taking root on the Web. But some critics don't like it in any medium.
• Iceland Volcano Has "Quieted Down"—Ash Crisis to E ...
  With a lower plume and visible lava, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano could be entering a gentler phase, which "might help with the ash problem," experts say.
• EARTH DAY PICTURES: Quirky Ways to Mark the Day
  NoneAn undersea cleaning party and the world's largest baked alaska join the ranks of oddball events that have been held on Earth Days past to draw attention to environmental causes.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Bosnian Serbs sentenced to 31 years for Srebrenica ...
  [JURIST] The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court [official website] on Thursday convicted [press release] Radomir Vukovic and Zoran Tomic for their alleged roles in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian civil war [JURIST news archives]. The accused were found guilty of genocide ...
• US Navy SEAL acquitted of Iraqi prisoner assault c ...
  [JURIST] A US military panel in Iraq on Thursday acquitted Navy SEAL [official website] Julio Huertas of any wrongdoing in connection with the alleged assault of a high-profile Iraqi detainee. A six-person jury found Huertas not guilty [AP report] on charges of dereliction of duty and impeding an in ...
• Civil rights groups seek suspension of airport ful ...
  [JURIST] A group of more than 30 privacy and civil liberty groups on Wednesday asked [petition, PDF; press release] the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] to suspend the full body scanner [TSA backgrounder] program being implemented by the Transportation Security Administration ...
• Germany prosecutors charge ex-Red Army Faction mem ...
  [JURIST] German federal prosecutors said Wednesday that they have charged former Red Army Faction (RAF) [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] member Verena Beckman for the 1977 murders of federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and two other men. Beckman was originally arrested two months after Buback ...
• Rwanda opposition leader arrested on genocide deni ...
  [JURIST] Rwandan authorities arrested opposition presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza [campaign website] Wednesday, accusing her of denying the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive] and collaborating with terrorists. Authorities cited Ingabire's call for the prose ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• American Politics Revived in Britain
  In Britain, an American-educated third party politician is riding a wave �of American-style rave reviews after an American-style television debate to an American-style bounce in pre-election polls. Nicholas Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, is now (suddenly) the most popular politician in ...
• Gay Activists v. The White House: The Inside Story
  For 17 years, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy has grabbed thousands of gay soldiers by their collars and thrown them out of the military. By this time next year, that policy will be gone. ( Update : I should have written "most likely." I can't predict the future.)� Gay people will be openly serving ...
• Have Conservatives Gone Mad?
  Serious thinkers on the right have finally gotten around to a full and open debate on the epistemic closure problem that's plaguing the conservative movement. The issue, to put it in terms that even I can understand, because I didn't study philosophy much in college: has the conservative base gone m ...
• Schadenfreude and the Classified Gates Memo
  I suspect that conservatives in our polity will be quite pleased with the way Bob Gates's classified memo �is being interpreted the media. It would appear to confirm a long-held conviction that the Obama administration is feckless when it comes to dealing with Iran, and reckless about not actively p ...
• President to Wall Street
  President Obama will take his case for financial regulatory reform to the belly of the beast. He'll (tie up traffic and) speak to an audience of Wall Streeters in New York this Thursday. He will speak at Cooper Union. His speech is designed to coincide with a push from Democrats to open floor debate ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• J Street Pimps Noa’s U.S. Concert Tour, Israeli Pe ...
  Lately J Street has made a few lame political decisions, one of them being joining with Stand With Us and the ADL in denouncing the Berkeley student divestment initiative.  I’ve also been annoyed to discover that J Street is promoting Noa’s national concert tour: STG Presents NOA with special guest ...
• South African Jewry Relents, Invites Goldstone to ...
  The Jewish blogosphere has won another victory for decency. The leadership of the South African Jewish community had colluded to make Judge Richard Goldstone feel unwanted in his own native Jewish community at his grandson’s upcoming bar mitzvah. After hearing of threats of demonstrations outside ...
• Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
  Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
• A Prayer of Desmond Tutu
  NPR featured a music review of an inspiring piece of music, Luminosity, by James Whitbourn. �One of the songs is A Prayer of Desmond Tutu, which is a meditation narrated by him along with a powerful set of choral voices affirming his message: Goodness is stronger than evil Love is stronger than hat ...
• Israeli Extremists Deface Kamm Home
  Ynetnews reports that Israeli extremists have defaced the home of Anat Kamm’s parents in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood with the graffiti: Kamm traitors–price tag for spies Keep in mind that the far-right settlers have adopted a policy called “price tag,” they believe will discourage the government ...

Ode Magazine

• 10 ways to make every day an Earth Day
  By: VictoriaKlein Celebrating its 40th anniversary, April 22nd is known worldwide simply as Earth Day . U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded the day to inspire year-round eco-awareness & appreciation. In our modern times, his message is still as vital as it was in 1 ...
• 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 ...

OpEd News

• Fabricating Terrorism: Victims of UK Injustice
  Britain partnered with America to target innocent victims.
• This bill will kill small farms, and wreck our foo ...
  The US Senate is expected to vote on a sweeping overhaul of the food safety laws very soon! As it is currently written, the bill, S. 510, will actually make our food less safe.Unless it is amended, the Food Safety Modernization Act will regulate our local food sources out of business. As written now ...
• Voting News: GA AG wont sue over citizen checks. L ...
  Georgia AG refuses to file suit over voter citizenship checks...Provision to kill Home Rule from Florida law was defeated in legislature. This protects hard fought, highly touted Sarasota County chartered election audits... 450 Republicans in Clermont Co. will have to re-vote...Lucas Co. OH BOE inve ...
• Do the Right Thing
  George W. Bush and his people got a walk for the flagrant crimes they committed, and weapos;ve watched these Wall Street criminals thus far escape equally scot-free, and I am here to tell you, the view from the sidewalk is nothing but livid little people who wonder what it has to take before someone ...
• Gulf Rig blowout parallels Santa Barbara oil blowo ...
  Probable Cause and Scenario that led to the oil disaster in The Gulf of Mexico, when Offshore Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, owned by Trans Ocean Ltd., and contracted to BP, exploded burnt and sank. Do not let this happen in Santa Barbara. One oil disaster there was big enough. Stop the drilling for oi ...

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• In praise of the IMO's actions to reduce ship poll ...
  Today, a New York Times editorial praised the International Maritime Organization’s recent decision that large cruise ships will no longer be able to burn heavy fuel in Antarctic waters, as well as its March adoption of an Emission Control Area to reduce ship pollution within 200 miles of th ...
• State’s NYC watershed announcement not all it
  Following many months of intense pressure by environmental groups, elected officials and individual NYC residents, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation announced today that it was effectively removing the NYC and Syracuse drinking watersheds from controversial natural gas drillin ...
• To celebrate Earth Day, see Oceans – a new film is ...
  This weekend, I’m hoping to see the ocean as never before. Disneynature has created a new film – Oceans – that celebrates the amazing life that lives under the waves. The clips I’ve seen so far seem to live up to the hype that the film provides a whole new look at our seas. In you haven't se ...
• Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation: More ...
  On Monday, April 26th, Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman (KGL) are expected to release their proposed climate legislation. If properly crafted, climate legislation will reduce dangerous global warming pollution, increase national security by reducing oil consumption, help kick start Ameri ...
• L.A.’s 30/10 Transit Initiative Moves Forward! No ...
  Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Metro) Board unanimously passed a motion to support the so-called 30/10 Initiative, which my colleague Adrian Martinez and I blogged about earlier this week ( here and here ).  This approval is a major step forward in ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• An Epidemic of Suicides Among Veterans
  This from a new report described in the Army Times: Troubling new data show there are an average of 950 suicide attempts each month by veterans who are receiving some type of treatment from the Veterans Affairs Department. Seven percent of the attempts are successful, and 11 percent of those who don ...
• Legal Conservatism Does Not Have Anything to do Wi ...
  Matt beat me to it, but while I agree with 90% of what she says I think that Dahlia’s framing of the debate in this article concedes way too much (as much of her argument itself makes clear.)   Republicans do not want an  “immobilized judicial branch,” and this doesn’t accurately describe the Robe ...
• Friday Daddy Blogging
  Related posts:Friday Daddy Blogging Friday Daddy Blogging Friday Daddy Blogging Related posts: Friday Daddy Blogging Friday Daddy Blogging Friday Daddy Blogging
• Friday Exasperated Mommy Blogging
  I don’t know which version of the video below has the worse message for young adults: this one, in which pop artist Kesha promotes binge drinking and capricious, careless, drunken sex: Or this parody, in which Barely Political promotes the promotion of binge drinking and capricious, careless, drunk ...
• Prompt Global Strike: Still Not Actually Dead. Ki ...
  Noah Shachtman notices what I noticed two weeks ago: The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The New York Times is reporting that the Defense Department is once again looking to equip intercontinental ballisti ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• A Chinese City and Apollo Solar Join Forces to Cre ...
  Ningguo City Municipal Government and Apollo Solar Energy are planning the construction of Ningguo, a city in China that will be completely reliant on solar energy.
• Recharge Smart Charger Offers Recharge Time, Batte ...
  It's no fun when your favorite electronic gadget dies due to dead rechargeable batteries. Energizer's Recharge Smart Charger prevents such tragedy with charge and fuel meters.
• Cow Brain Chemical Heads Into Battery, Solar Cells ...
  Researchers at Stanford University have discovered that clathrin, a protein found in cow brains, is able to form nanostructured inorganic material that can be used in solar cells and batteries.
• California Utility PG&E’s New Solar Initiative Thi ...
  Pacific Gas & Electric is moving ahead with a 500 MW solar array that will be assembled out of moderately sized installations near company substations and through independent developers.
• Edmunds Recognizes Coulomb, Better Place With Gree ...
  The Edmunds Green Car Advisor Blog recently recognized two California-based EV charging infrastructure developers with its first annual Green Car Breakthrough Award.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Harvard Law students collecting money for public i ...
  A group of Harvard law students are taking an unusual approach to bankrolling a new public interest fellowship: They are passing the hat. They hope to raise enough money to send at least one of their classmates into a public interest job for a year after graduation.
• Judge tosses investors' Madoff-related claims agai ...
  A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is liable to investors for failing to detect Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
• Falling Stars
  Movie producer Gerald Green and his wife, Patricia, face more than 20 years in prison for a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act conviction involving the bribing of Thai officials in connection with a Bangkok film festival.
• COURTSIDE: Pushing for a nonjudge on the high cour ...
  With nine former federal appellate judges on the current Court, some are saying: enough already.
• High court enters final stretch of term
  This is the final week of argument for the U.S. Supreme Court with four cases left on the docket and dozens more still to be decided. The week also marks the last time Justice John Paul Stevens is expected to hear arguments with his fellow justices.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Upcoming Events-Calvin Tillman and Josh Fox
  APRIL 30TH CALVIN TILLMAN MAYOR OF DISH, TEXAS WILL BE IN WILLIAMSPORT 7:30 IN THE GENETTI BALLROOM WHAT GAS EXPLORATION HAS MEANT TO HIS TOWN AND WHY THAT IS IMPORTANT TO US MAY 11TH GASLAND JOSH FOX WILL BE HERE TO PRESENT HIS AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY FILM 7:30 AT THE COMMUNITY ARTS C ...
• Seeing Gas Drilling’s Ugly Side Firsthand
  The following is a blog – a personal perspective –  on visiting Dimock, PA and seeing for the first time gas drilling’s impact on that area. After taking the last couple of weekends to travel around PA to see this sort of thing for myself I know how scary and powerful it can be. [...]
• 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

News Blaze

• Wine Really Is Good For Your Health - According To ...
  As with anything wonderful in life, 'All Things Within Measure Should Be The Motto Of The Day, as alcohol abuse is a complex, slippery slope that can sneak up on those who use their 'vino' to escape problems and mask feelings.
• Harry Brown - Senior Citizen With Ammo and Attitud ...
  Michael Caine is commanding and convincing and watching him in Dirty Harry mode when wheezing from emphysema is quite an experience. You really shouldn't miss a minute.
• 15 Hurt in Kashmir Clashes Against Death Penalty V ...
  At least 15 persons were injured in the day-long clashes with police and paramilitary soldiers in the strike-hit Kashmir on Friday.
• Twitter: To Send Forth A Paid Search
  Twitter, the micro-blogging and social networking service, allows members to send/receive a text up to 140 characters.
• Servicemembers Get Free Access to Military Caregiv ...
  The service, Sittercity.com, is a $120-per-year value on average and free to active-duty Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, National Guard, Reserve servicemembers and their dependents.

environment 360

• Study of Coal Region Streams Suggests Link Between ...
  West Virginia residents living near streams that have been badly polluted by coal mining suffer from high rates of cancer , according to a new study. Research by two scientists at West Virginia University suggests a strong correlation — though not a direct causal link — between higher incidences of ...
• 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 ...
• Number of Environmental Courts Doubled Worldwide S ...
  The number of courts that resolve environmental disputes has nearly doubled in the last five years as the complexity of environmental law and public awareness have increased, according to a new study. There are 354 environmental courts in 41 countries, with more than 170 created since 2005, accordin ...
• Interview: Senator Cantwell on Her Alternative to ...
  As energy and climate legislation continues to founder in the U.S. Senate, one Democratic senator, Maria Cantwell of Washington, says it’s time for a new strategy. Her legislation, co-sponsored by Republican Susan Collins of Maine and praised by many for its simplicity, would make the country’s majo ...
• A New Approach in the Senate To Putting a Price on ...
  As climate and energy legislation continues to founder in Washington, Senator Maria Cantwell says it’s time for a new strategy. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , Cantwell explains why her bill can avoid the pitfalls of cap-and-trade and win the support of the public. BY ELIZABETH KOLBER ...

Red Ice Creations

• The Americanization of Mental Illness
• Tasseography - Tempest in a Teacup
• Is Dick Cheney Really That Bad?
• Streaming Doomsday Clock Video
• Doomsday clock to change on Jan. 14

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Renewable Energy Atlas Shows Vermont's Energy Options

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- Apr 23, 2010

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REDLANDS, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Renewable Energy Atlas of Vermont, built on ESRI's ArcGIS technology, was launched on Earth Day, April 22, ...

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Renewable Funding expands

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- Apr 23, 2010

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After its recent San Francisco launch, Oakland-based Renewable Funding said this week it will support programs in Santa Fe County, NM, Santa Barbara County, ...

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Wisconsin: Renewable-energy bill dies on Earth Day

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- Apr 23, 2010

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A version introduced in January called for a quarter of Wisconsin's energy to come from renewable sources by 2025. The bill also eased restrictions on ...

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Ecology: Squalicum Harbor spill occurred during fuel transfer

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- Apr 23, 2010

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During a fuel transfer, the fuel is moved from tank to tank on a boat, said Ecology spokeswoman Katie Skipper. Different containment measures can be taken ...

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Hydraulic oil spill draining into Elliott Bay

Seattle Times

- Apr 23, 2010

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State Department of Ecology spokeswoman Katie Skipper said the department and a private spill-cleanup contractor had placed an oil containment and absorbent ...

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Study finds better sediment in Commencement Bay

Seattle Post Intelligencer

- Apr 23, 2010

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Although pollution from industries, sewer and shipping has decreased, new pollutants from sources that are hard to trace still threaten the bay, ecology ...

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Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology): A Playlist For Earth Day

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- Apr 22, 2010

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A wonderful guy who I had the honor of knowing and working with died suddenly yesterday at age 49. We never know how long we have on this planet. ...

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Both systems currently are not required by the US Environmental Protection Agency to have expensive treatment plants for their water, something that Grannis ...

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3M and Sewerin GmbH Announce Exclusive U.S. Water Leak Detection Strategic ...

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- Apr 23, 2010

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Under the alliance, 3M will assume the exclusive distribution rights for the sale of Sewerin's entire water leak detection product portfolio in the United ...

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Man arrested on suspicion of stealing fire hydrants

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- Apr 23, 2010

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Police said his luck ran out this week, when Mike Hurst, an 11-year veteran of the West Valley Water District, saw Burian driving on a south Rialto street. ...

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Advisory to boil water called off for residents in central Stockton

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- Apr 24, 2010

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By The Record STOCKTON - Central Stockton residents can stop boiling water for drinking, brushing teeth, preparing food or washing dishes, according to Ross ...

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