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IPS - Inter Press Services

• MALAYSIA: Tougher Days Ahead for Ruling Coalition, ...
  KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 28 (IPS) - A closely contested by-election over the weekend, which saw victory for the ruling coalition, shows that the political terrain in multi-ethnic Malaysia remains divided and raises searching questions for the opposing sides.
• AFRICA: Fair Trade Farmers’ Exports Hit by V ...
  CAPE TOWN, Apr 28 (IPS) - African farmers are assessing the financial impact of the Icelandic volcanic ash clouds that led to a lockdown of Europe’s airspace, forcing fair trade flower growers from Africa to throw away 20 million roses that were meant for the European market.
• MIDEAST: Settler Sewage Ruins Palestinian Crops, D ...
  BEIT UMMAR, West Bank, Apr 28 (IPS) - Residents of this Palestinian village refuse to buy the idea that the flood of raw sewage from the adjacent Israeli settlement of Kfar Etzion, that destroyed vineyards and contaminated their drinking water, was an accident.
• FIJI: Gov’t Not Backing Down on Controversia ...
  SUVA, Apr 28 (IPS) - Fiji’s draft media decree continues to be criticised from within and outside this tiny Pacific nation, but the government is showing no signs of backing down or softening any of its provisions.
• Mexico on the Alert Over Massive Oil Spill
  MEXICO CITY, Apr 28 (IPS) - Mexico is gearing up for the environmental effects of the oil spill caused by last week's sinking of a BP-owned deepwater drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Scoop - NZ

• Computerised Front Running: Another Goldman-Domina ...
  Market commentators are fond of talking about "free market capitalism," but according to Wall Street commentator Max Keiser, it is no more. It has morphed into what his TV co-host Stacy Herbert calls "rigged market capitalism": all markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain. Keiser ...
• Systemic risk, fraud .. it continues
  This article by the Financial Times should remove any doubt in anyone's mind that Goldman Sachs was willfully selling fraudulent financial instruments. It appears that they were working in conjunction with Ratings Agencies, Mortgage Origination Firms, and Hedge Funds to cheat investors. "Cheat" mea ...
• Has Auckland Super City dropped sustainability ?
  oops...did they forget something important along the way ? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Serious doubts about carbon capture and storage
  is there any truth to the concept of carbon capture and storage. New research suggests not . ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Earth Day began with a blow-out ..
  Twenty seven offshore rigs were built along southern California's coastline in the 1960s. This was the inaugural boom era of deep water ocean drilling. Two key developments ushered it in. The first was a set of advances in mining technologies and engineering techniques that allowed for deeper drilli ...

Independent ( London )

• Greek crisis looms over German finance summit
  The worsening financial crisis surrounding Greece overshadowed a planned meeting today between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and other financial institutions.
• Venezuela's chatty leader Chavez joins Twitter
  Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez opened a Twitter account on Tuesday, launching himself into the digital fray to combat opponents who have seized on the micro-blogging site to criticize his socialist government.
• Malcolm X assassin Hagan is freed on parole
  The only man ever to admit involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X was freed on parole yesterday, 45 years after he helped gun down the civil rights leader.
• Thai troops fire into air to halt protest convoy
  Thai troops fired rubber bullets at anti-government protesters today and shot rounds in the air to halt a convoy of demonstrators who took an increasingly violent bid for elections to Bangkok's suburbs.
• Acting President of Nigeria calls for unity
  The acting President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, said it was premature to talk of him making a bid for the leadership in elections due by early next year and called for unity in the ruling party.

Rogue Government.com

• Military cancels nuclear attack test NLE
  The U.S. military has canceled a major field exercise that tests its response to a nuclear attack, angering some officials who say that what is now planned for this month will be a waste of time.
• NASA Claims Some Craters Of The Moon May Be Elect ...
  Exploring the craters at the moon's north and south poles may be even more challenging than previously thought for future astronauts. New NASA calculations now show that solar wind streaming over the rough lunar surface may electrically charge polar craters on the moon.
• We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Powerpoint
• Child sex `no breach of virtue', some priests bel ...
  SOME priests didn't see the molestation of boys as a breach of their celibacy vows, retired Catholic bishop Geoffrey Robinson says.
• Police State Canada 2010 and the G20 Summit
  The G20 summit will be held on June 26-27 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre preceded by the G8 summit which will take place in Huntsville, Ontario. The secretive meetings will be attended by world leaders, finance ministers, central bank governors, along with thousands of other delegates.

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

• Israel jails man for 'holy semen' sex abuse
  An Israeli man has been imprisoned for 10 years for tricking women into sexual acts by claiming his semen was holy and had healing powers. Nissim Aharon, a former employee at the Israeli defence ministry, was convicted of rape, sodomy, indecent acts and aggravated fraudulent acquisition. Women pa ...
• Human Generator: A Man in Georgia Becomes a Scient ...
  "Let there be light!" is a phrase that Zurab Bedia from Georgia takes to a whole new level as he lights fluorescent lamps with just the touch of his hand. "My brother was really into radio," recalls Bedia. "During one of his radio sessions, he was electrocuted and died instantly. Forty days a ...
• Why Antidepressants Don't Work for Treating Depres ...
  Here's some depressing recent medical news: Antidepressants don't work. What's even more depressing is that the pharmaceutical industry and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have deliberately deceived us into believing that they DO work. As a physician, this is frightening to me. Depression is am ...
• FCC Raises the Red Flag about Cell Phone Hazards
  On November 5, 2009, the FCC released their Consumer Facts on "Wireless Devices and Health Concerns." In this document, the FCC recommends precautions for the use of cell phones. According to the FCC, "Recent reports by some health and safety interest groups have suggested that wireless device us ...
• FLASHBACK: Organic Agriculture Beats Biotech at it ...
  Organic agriculture's recently recognized benefits for improving food security don't depend on a boost from genetically modified (GM) technology. While the chemically-based systems that GM requires could be cleaned up with organic techniques, there's no clear reason to degrade organic standards to a ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Parliament is supreme!
  ... but Defence is supremer .
• You have a lemon, you make lemonaid . . .
  Top: a birch arrow (in four pieces) and the stone projectile point. The arrow is 270 years old. Bottom: A 340-year-old bow reconstructed from several fragments found near the ice. SCIENCE DAILY has a report of interest, "Ancient Artifacts Revealed as Northern Ice Patches Melt" . Seems that the warmi ...
• Giving God the Gears . . .
  ACCORDING TO JALOPNIK , there's a Bible just for NASCAR types. Strangely, it is not NASCAR-sanctioned, but then again, as Jalopnik says, " As an aside — you know you're on shaky ground when you can't even get the whorin'-is-racin' NASCAR to license their name to you. "The original report on this cam ...
• The Theory...
  From Bouquets of Gray . Then... the report from CTV . The mysterious third party who uncovered serious allegations that led Prime Minister Stephen Harper to toss MP Helena Guergis out of caucus is a private investigator, CTV News has learned. Police sources say the licensed private eye contacte ...
• Triage in Afghanistan...
  What's wrong with this picture? 1. Immediate , NATO and selected Afghan forces: Evacuated and treated by the most efficient, best equipped and effective battlefield medical system in history. NATO wounded also benefit from the entire healthcare infrastructure of their home states. 2. Immediate , A ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox News burned by dubious Prowler report they f ...
  Fox News' Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier seized on a dubious, anonymously sourced post on The American Spectator 's Washington Prowler blog that claimed that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) withheld a report on health care reform until after the health care vote. Kelly acknowledged ...
• Fox Fiction: "FOXfact" perpetuate "bailout fun ...
  During Fox News host Gregg Jarrett's interview with Sen. Jim DeMint, on-screen text displayed two "FOXfact[s]" that falsely referred to a "$50 bil[lion] bailout fund" contained in financial regulatory reform legislation. Jarrett then asked DeMint if President Obama and others were "deliberately ...
• Media still distorting Kagan's record on military ...
  Peter Beinart claimed that Republicans are "right" to "beat the hell out of" Solicitor General Elena Kagan for "arring the military from campus." In fact, while Kagan briefly applied Harvard's anti-discrimination policy to military recruiters following an appellate court ruling, recruiters ...
• Do conservatives really think new AZ immigration l ...
  Conservative media have claimed that parts of Arizona's new immigration law are similar to federal law and that, therefore, the law should not be controversial. In fact, the immigration enforcement powers given to local law enforcement under the legislation represent a dramatic departure from c ...
• Lowry, Examiner blame Obama for AZ law by ...
  New York Post columnist Rich Lowry and The Washington Examiner defended the controversial new Arizona immigration law by suggesting the state was forced to act because the Obama administration was not enforcing immigration policies; specifically, citing frozen funding for a virtual border fence ...

Global Research.ca

• Award Winning Movie: "SUPERPOWER":
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• Understanding Deep Politics Conference: May 14 - 1 ...
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• Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Do Critics Have a Better Idea for Iran Policy?
  Here is the lede of Kori Schake's slam against current US efforts to keep Iran from getting the bomb: The Obama administration is talking tough on Iran. Despite allowing the Iranian government to escape sanction for a year of not accepting sugar-coated Western deadlines to abandon their nuclear ...
• Arizona Immigration Law is Great! Let's Make it Ev ...
  Friday, Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) signed an immigration bill which requires law enforcement to demand immigration papers from anyone who they have a "reasonable suspicion" is in the country illegally. Asking someone to carry around papers is cruel and unusual. How are people expected to not forget ...
• What is the Best Answer to Conservative Activism?
  My thanks to Jonathan Alter for joining what is becoming a mutual admiration society. Jon understands the Roosevelt-Obama analogy better than anyone--not only by virtue of his vivid, excellent (and presidentially approved) book on FDR's Hundred Days, but also his upcoming book on Obama's fir ...
• VIDEO Jerusalem: A Great Model For Arizona
  I don't know what we would do without Al Jazeera. Like the Israeli media, it goes where the American media fears to tred. Check this out. The occupied areas of Israel (including Arab East Jerusalem) have a segregated road system. Beautiful new roads to get Jewish settlers to work and ba ...
• President Obama vs. The Roberts Court
  Jeff and Barry differ over whether the sparks that have flared up this year between President Obama and the Roberts Court signals the start of a reprise of 1937, or a one-off episode of political theatre that will amount to nothing. Barry seems fairly confident that "the experience of 1937 will ...

TruthOut

• Noam Chomsky | A Middle East Peace That Could Happ ...
  The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its basic contour ...
• Goldman Executives: "No Regrets" for Deals That Ac ...
  Washington - Goldman Sachs traders who helped the firm rack up billions of dollars in profits from secret bets against the housing market told a Senate investigating panel Tuesday that they'd done nothing wrong. Among the four present and former traders was Fabrice Tourre, the 31-year-old Goldman v ...
• Oil Spill: Gulf of Mexico Disaster "Growing by the ...
  The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has tripled in size in 24 hours. Company officials remain confident that they can contain it before it hits land, but environmentalists are increasingly doubtful. Atlanta -�Capping the renegade wellhead spewing 42,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico ...
• A Fitting Memorial to Labor's Dead and Injured
  We're coming up on another Workers Memorial Day on April 28 - a day when organized labor and its allies honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered or died because of workplace hazards and to demand that the government act to lessen the hazards. It's certain that unless federal a ...
• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Past And Pres ...
  The opening this May of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)�review conference at the United Nations seems likely to feature a�conflict that has simmered for decades between nuclear nations and�non-nuclear nations. read more

Planetsave

• Russian Winds Reducing Arctic Sea Ice
  The diminishing Arctic sea ice cover has largely been blamed on climate change and human global warming. New research from Norway suggests this may not be the case. The past 30 years have seen the ice cover surrounding the North Pole diminish significantly, specifically within the last decade. Many ...
• Economy over Environment: The Limited Coverage of ...
  Louisiana’s oil spill is releasing 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, sure to threaten wildlife and resources. It’s not hard to wonder why people are seemingly apathetic when it comes to environmental issues when there isn’t more focus going towards environmental emergencies th ...
• 1st Restaurant Menu to Show Carbon Footprints
  The first restaurant chain to show carbon footprints of its menu items, Otarian, just opened its first store in New York. The first restaurant chain in the world to show the carbon footprint of its menu items, believe it or not, is not McDonald’s. It is vegetarian restaurant chain Otarian . Otaria ...
• Green Spaces Provide Great Economic Potential
  Guest author Jack Lundee of Everything Left provides us with this thoughtful and thought-provoking article on green spaces, green architecture and green infrastructure. The addition and/or substitution of green spaces have been quite controversial topics as of late. Senior resident of the Urban La ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Earth Day: Mainers get good grades but ... | Lewis ...
  AUGUSTA — We asked experts to helps us compare how Maine was doing environmentally compared to the n
• Where Earth Day is everyday
  This year’s Earth Day has come and gone. The celebrations, the speeches, the tree plantings and the
• Natural Gases in Ground Water near Tioga Junction, ...
  The following is the opening statements from journeyoftheforsaken.com Note: The following is excerpt
• April 2010 monitoring
  Today (April 18) it was completely cloudy and cool.  Reminds me of Seattle weather. The air was fres
• How polluted is U.S. drinking water?
  U.S. tap water is some of the cleanest on Earth, generally safe from the microbes and chemicals that

Public Citizen in Texas

• Final Week of the HEB/EarthShare of Texas Campaign ...
  PUBLIC CITIZEN’s TEXAS OFFICE is a This is the final week of the HEB and Earth Share of Texas Campaign. Public Citizen’s Texas office is pleased that H-E-B has selected Earth Share of Texas to be the beneficiary of its in-store coupon promotion for April, in recognition of Earth Day. This means that ...
• 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:

Unexplained Mysteries

• Highland police believed Nessie existed
  A 70-year-old letter from the head of the Highland police has revealed new details of the Loch Ness monster legend. According to the letter the Highla...
• NASA's final shuttle flight slips to November
  The date for the last ever Space Shuttle flight has been pushed back to November, officials have said. The delay will help provide enough time for sci...
• Ghost sightings highest in 25 years
  Sightings and stories of ghosts are currently higher than they've been at any time in the last 25 years. The study was conducted by Lionel Fanthorpe o...
• Hawking: we should avoid alien contact
  Stephen Hawking has suggested that while its highly likely aliens exist we should be doing all we can to avoid them. Many beliefs about alien contact ...
• NASA views "funny tasting" planet
  NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed an extrasolar planet with a peculiar lack of methane. The distant planet is about the size of Neptune 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 28, 2010
  Reid: Senate to Act on Climate Before Immigration (AP)  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he is willing to bring up climate legislation ahead of an immigration bill, a possible first step toward resolving a dispute with Senate Republicans that threatens to derail six months of wo ...
• April 27, 2010
  Australia's Carbon Scheme Delayed to 2012 (Reuters) Australia's government will wait until the end of the Kyoto climate pact in 2012 before pushing ahead with a local carbon emissions trade scheme, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday. U.S. Sen. Kerry: Climate Bill Not 'Dead' (AFP) Sen. J ...
• April 26, 2010
  BASIC Bloc Wants 2011 Climate Pact Deadline (Reuters)  Environment ministers of the Brazil, South Africa, India and China said on Sunday a legally binding agreement to limit climate change needed to be completed by 2011, at the latest. Lieberman Encouraged Energy Bill Will Be on Track (AP) ...
• April 24-25, 2010
  Graham Bolts From Climate Talks, Dimming Hopes for U.S. Bill (Bloomberg) Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina pulled out of negotiations to forge a climate bill, protesting what he called a "cynical ploy" by Democrats to focus instead on immigration. U.S. Senators Postpone Climate ...
• April 23, 2010
  Senators Struggling Over Climate Compromise (Reuters) U.S. senators writing a massive climate bill struggled on Thursday over how to reduce CO2 pollution in the transportation sector, Sen. Lindsey Graham said, adding that he did not yet know whether a measure would be ready by Monday. Massey B ...

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

• Tasing Is About Sending A Message. Send One Back.
  JH Underground's Jim Stanford takes a break from his Jazz Fest duties to alert us to another report on Tasering, this time from my hometown paper: The Teton County attorney said Wednesday he plans to dismiss criminal charges against a man whom police subdued with a Taser last week during a traffic s ...
• Tell the truth and shame a politician
  Right now I have the temperament of a perverted, overweight car salesman in church after spending the night prior knee deep in assorted whores. I am sweaty, panicked and waiting for the other shoe to drop right on my fucking head. The reason I feel this way has nothing to do with my personal life, o ...
• Shorting Democracy
  This may be the single biggest lie in modern American history: "Most Republicans want a bill," said Sen. Richard Shelby, "but they want a substantive bill." We've criticized the Democrats plenty of times on the issue of financial reform, and the Dodd bill isn't perfect. But this wasn't a yea-or-n ...
• The Financial Crisis as Crime Story
  The case has not even been heard in court and the company denies all the allegations. Almost every business publication has carried commentaries by insiders who say the government may have a hard time prevailing, and dismissing all the Sturm and Drang. And yet the public seems to be delighted if not ...
• Dems chance to save 2010
  Democrats need to take an ice-cold shower and view the coming election with cold, clear eyes. At this moment, at best, Democrats will lose enough seats to destroy any working majority for any substantial agenda in the next Congress. The No. 1 issue in the 2010 campaign, by far, is jobs. Americans wa ...

Ten Percent

• The Human Centipede Model For Leadership In A Hung ...
  Human Centipede is a schlock horror movie whereby a mad doctor who specialises in separating conjoined twins creates a… The clue’s in the title, he surgically attaches three hapless victims together, anus to mouth, to form an organism with one digestive tract, biologically implausible as that may be ...
• The Met Police Are Protecting A Killer They Know T ...
  I wonder…if Officer E, the killer of Blair Peach, is named and if god forbid some member of the public foolishly follows the incitement by the right wing media (who never fail to side with the police oh the irony) to take an eye for an eye and enacts vigilante justice on the officer then the polic ...
• An Iran Quiz
  Via Juan Cole, this Iran Quiz by Jeffrey Rudolph is a counterpoint to the pro-attack narrative for a broad (US) audience but it’s worth a spin wherever you are. As our leaders use Iran as a prop to measure their military and foreign policy election race  particulars it is relevant here -what Washin ...
• Metastasising
  (Reuters) - Canada’s minority Conservative government is locked in a power struggle with opposition members of Parliament over allegations that Canadian soldiers left Afghan detainees open to abuse, and the confrontation might just trigger an early election. Last December, the House of Commons, wher ...
• Naomi Klein On The World People’s Conference on Cl ...
  It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to make his main point: to fight climate change, “we nee ...

Booman Tribune

• Can You Think for a Minute?
  Rick Lowry has no problemo with the new Arizona Harass Latinos Act of 2010 and can't understand what all the fuss is about. I was going to tell Lowry to talk to Tom Tancredo, who seemed to suggest that the Arizona law goes too far. But, he has since clarified that he is just fine with the Arizona ...
• Casual Observation
  It's definitely true that Harry Reid is showing some belated and appropriate aggression lately, but why he would announce that he's taking up immigration reform one day and then essentially reverse himself a few days later is beyond me. If he's responding to Lindsey Graham's hissy-fit then it's a s ...
• No Dice, Mr. President
  Via email, the president tells me why I should vote for Arlen Specter in the May 18th primary against Rep. Joe Sestak. He cast a deciding vote in favor of the Recovery Act that brought our economy back from the brink and created more than 120,000 jobs in Pennsylvania in just the first three mon ...
• Bob Bennett Will Be First Casualty of 2010
  Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, the man legendary Mormon columnist Jack Anderson referred to as "Howard Hughes's man in Washington," is going to be the first incumbent senator to lose his job this year. A new Salt Lake Tribune poll of Republican delegates shows Bennett running in third, behind GOP ch ...
• If they Could turn Back Time, Pt. 1
  You hear it all the time, these days. Tea baggers, militia members and various other conservatives all that to "take their country back." My usual response was to ask just how far back they want to go. I used to think I knew. It turns out, I had my time machine set all wrong. After so long "stand ...

European Tribune

• Europe's brilliant China policy
  I think we should take a moment to praise our European leaders, who, while America...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 28 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1922 Birth of...
• Tuesday Open Thread
  April's busting out all over......
• Resisting the Neoliberal Empire?
  This is fun, by Costas Douzinas in the Guardian: Greece's surrender to the diktats of...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 27 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1891 Birth of...

Futurismic

• Lost your head? Just grow a new one
  Well, obviously you can’t regrow your head and brain, but Planarian flatworms can… and the discovery of the gene that (probably) makes this possible has the media doing their customary pulp-sf extrapolation thing and suggesting (albeit sarcastically in the case of El Reg) that we’ll soon be able to ...
• Hawking advocates radio silence to avoid colonial ...
  Stephen Hawking is doing the promo rounds at the moment (hey, the guy has a new TV show to plug, you know how it goes), and his latest riff is that SETI is a risky business. After all, the arrival of Columbus didn’t work out to well for the indigenous peoples of the Americas, AMIRITE? Hawking [...] ...
• Who wants to live forever?
  OK, here’s a deceptively simple debate to start the week off with - if physical immortality was available to you, would you take it? Arguing the case against is Annalee “io9″ Newitz, and here’s Jason Stoddard playing earnest devil’s advocate for the longevity lobby. I have no ethical issues with hum ...
• Chris Beckett: sf is not a genre, it’s a toolkit
  British sf author Chris Beckett has been browsing through the BSFA survey book, and decided to respond to some of Charlie Stross’ comments contained therein regarding science fiction’s longevity and mutation: I agree with [Stross] that it would indeed be âthe trump of deathâ to try and endlessly ...
• Clarke Award administrator Tom Hunter on the troub ...
  As mentioned a while ago, this Wednesday sees the Sci-Fi London film festival playing host to the Arthur C Clarke Award winner announcement ceremony. It’s my great pleasure to turn the Futurismic microphone over to the award’s administrator, Tom Hunter, and give him a chance to talk about the award ...

Therapy News

• Negative Attitudes Towards the Obese Rooted in Dis ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While medical doctors are engaged in finding ways to help obese people better manage their weight, those in the psychology field remain interested in why society reacts to overweight body types with a stubborn and negative approach. Uncovering a clue about the source ...
• Tanning Addiction: The Dark Side of that Golden Gl ...
  By Gail Post, Ph.D., Women’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Gail and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile With Spring upon us and Summer around the corner, that desire for a golden tan starts to nag at most Caucasian women in the U.S. While there is certainly more awareness than ...
• Clergy Sexual Abuse
  By Rosemary Ehat, LMFT Click here to contact Rosemary and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Unfortunately, many people have survived the devastating experience of sexual assault by a trusted authority figure- a priest, a nun, a teacher, a minister. Most of these victims never speak of the abuse, e ...
• The Shadow
  By Dr. Joshua M. Simmons, Psy.D., Jungian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joshua and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Confronting the shadow in one’s personal unconscious is usually the first major endeavor in the course of depth psychotherapy. Jung defined the shadow ...
• Study Finds Teacher Quality Imperative for Early R ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Developmental psychologists, child therapists, and other professionals have long searched for clues as to why some children experience particular difficulty when learning to read, and research has consistently shown that genetics play a major part in the process of ac ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Workers Memorial Day and coal miners' culture - Ex ...
  ABC News Workers Memorial Day and coal miners' culture Examiner.com Activists have raised miners' awareness that mountain top removal ruins their environment and steals future jobs from their sons, but few wish to return to ... Obama at miners' memorial asks 'How can we fail them?' People's World A ...
• The Green Scene - Mountain Xpress
  The Green Scene Mountain Xpress Francine Cavanaugh: We first heard about mountaintop removal when we came [to Western North Carolina] in 2003 [through the] monthly newspaper Appalachian ...
• Mountaintop Removal's Final Four - San Francisco C ...
  The Guardian (blog) Mountaintop Removal's Final Four San Francisco Chronicle (blog) In what could be seen as the semi-final games for the Appalachian Mountains, the long awaited new EPA guidelines on mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) ... EPA Ruling May Accomplish Goals of Mountaintop Removal Op ...
• Is the Immigration Reform Movement More Powerful t ...
  Is the Immigration Reform Movement More Powerful than the Green Movement? Treehugger But that's not quite true -- there is indeed a social movement for green issues (look at 350.org, mountaintop removal mining protesters, Greenpeace, et al). ... and more��
• Obama at miners' memorial asks 'How can we fail th ...
  Reuters Obama at miners' memorial asks 'How can we fail them?' People's World The Beckley area is home to much " mountaintop removal " mining, also by Massey Energy. There is great environmental controversy surrounding the impact of ... Mining lobbyist: 'The president has parked his tanks on our fr ...

Memeorandum

• Poll finds Americans in an anti-incumbent mood as ...
  Washington Post : Poll finds Americans in an anti-incumbent mood as midterm elections near   —  Members of Congress face the most anti-incumbent electorate since 1994, with less than a third of all voters saying they are inclined to support their representatives in November, according to a new Wash ...
• ABC News Poll: Ahead of 2010 Midterm Elections, In ...
  Gary Langer / ABCNEWS : ABC News Poll: Ahead of 2010 Midterm Elections, Incumbent Support Its Lowest Since 1994   —  More Than Half Say Come November Elections, They'll Look for Someone New  —  A third of registered voters are inclined to reelect their representatives in Congress, the fewest since ...
• Texas gov. shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog ...
  Jim Vertuno / Associated Press : Texas gov. shoots, kills ‘wily’ coyote during jog   —  AUSTIN, Texas — Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don't mess with my dog.  —  Perry told The Associated Press on Tuesday he needed just one shot from the laser-sighte ...
• Europe Worried That Greek Crisis Is Poised to Spre ...
  Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times : Europe Worried That Greek Crisis Is Poised to Spread   —  With Greece inching closer to the brink of financial collapse, fear that the debt crisis will spread rattled markets for a second day Wednesday, while an extraordinary collection of global financial leader ...
• Greece Cut to Junk at S&P as Contagion Spreads (Bl ...
  Bloomberg : Greece Cut to Junk at S&P as Contagion Spreads   —  Greece's credit rating was cut three steps to junk by Standard and Poor's, the first time a euro member has lost its investment grade since the currency's 1999 debut.  The euro weakened and stock markets throughout the region plunged. ...

Energy & Environment News

• A Reprieve for the Tiny Pupfish
  The population of the endangered pupfish is rebounding -- and a recent earthquake may even have helped.
• E.P.A. Makes Its Case on Climate Change
  The E.P.A. releases a glossy report to help Americans make sense of climate change data.
• On Patrol With the Reef Ranger
  Scientists say that overfishing has wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean, which is why marine reserves like Glover's Reef, an atoll off Belize, are so important. Belize's government has imposed strict limits on what can be caught, and although there are gaps in enforcement, some scientists here sa ...
• For Summer Sentinels, a Firefly Count
  This summer, would-be scientists and firefly enthusiasts can put their fascination with the glow bug to use by counting fireflies to help scientists with their research.
• On Our Radar: Australia Shelves Carbon Trading Pla ...
  A carbon emissions trading plan founders in the Australian Parliament.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, Crete, Greece
  Saturday, April 24, 2010 15:01:09 UTC Saturday, April 24, 2010 06:01:09 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.0, Costa Rica
  Wednesday, April 28, 2010 00:46:29 UTC Tuesday, April 27, 2010 06:46:29 PM at epicenter Depth : 210.30 km (130.67 mi)
• 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 5.3, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  Tuesday, April 27, 2010 18:15:15 UTC Tuesday, April 27, 2010 09:15:15 AM at epicenter Depth : 36.00 km (22.37 mi)
• M 5.6, western Indian-Antarctic Ridge
  Tuesday, April 27, 2010 17:17:12 UTC Wednesday, April 28, 2010 01:17:12 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• Activism makes us happy
  Political engagement may not be a barrel of laughs, but US-German research shows there is a link between well-being and taking action on issues that affect our lives, writes Aditya Chakrabortty. Marching in the drizzle against wars in far-off countries, writing letters protesting the government’s la ...
• Resisting the urban dinosaurs
  Naive utopian development projects, such as those in drought-stricken Kunming, only exacerbate social and environmental problems, writes Zhu Xiaoyang. The document now facing me, from the Kunming City Planning Commission Office, in the south-west Chinese province of Yunnan, is certainly worth a read ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Exposing the Christian Right's New Racial Playbook ...
  A diversity summit at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University reveals that the religious right's survival depends on the black and the brown.
• Bank Local: Indie Businesses Embrace Move Your Mon ...
  Small businesses and slices of the larger public have begun taking steps to move their money away from big banks.
• The Food Nightmare Beneath Our Feet: We're Running ...
  Each year the world loses an estimated 83 billion tons of soil. What does this mean for food production and what can we do about?
• Bill Moyers, Giant of Television, Retires
  He's been lauded as the Murrow of his generation. With his April 30 retirement from PBS, TV journalism will lose a unique and relentless explorer of American politics and culture.
• Arizona's Draconian Immigration Law Is Great ... F ...
  Discussion about "racial profiling" isvmissing the larger point: what about all the business Arizona's sick, racist law will bring to the copper state?

Threat Level

• S.F. Admin Guilty of Hijacking City Passwords
  After a six-month trial, a San Francisco city admin was found guilty Tuesday of a sole felony count of hijacking the city’s computer system. Terry Childs, 45, was guilty of one count of locking out the city from its FiberWAN network containing city e-mails, payroll, police records, information on ja ...
• Apple May Have Traced iPhone to Finder’s Address
  People identifying themselves as representing Apple last week visited and sought permission to search the Silicon Valley address of the college-age man who came into possession of a next-generation iPhone prototype, according to a person involved with the find. “Someone came to [the finder's] house ...
• Study: Fair Use Contributes Trillions to U.S. Econ ...
  One study after another purports to chronicle how much intellectual property piracy hurts the economy, and contributes to every societal ill from  terrorism to child porn and slavery. A new study unveiled Tuesday sets out to examine intellectual property in a different light: How fair use — which ...
• Feds Say Judge Hampering Webcam Spy Probe
  Prosecutors are claiming that a federal judge is hampering a criminal investigation into a webcam scandal at a Philadelphia suburban school district. The evidence prosecutors are seeking is connected to a federal civil lawsuit in which the plaintiff’s lawyers claim that the Lower Merion School Distr ...
• Expert: Invalid Warrant Used in Raid on iPhone Rep ...
  Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week. Now, a legal expert has raised questions about the legality of the ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Thai troops clash with protesters, 16 wounded
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai troops fired in the air and shot rubber bullets in a chaotic clash with anti-government protesters on a highway in Bangkok's suburbs on Wednesday that wounded at least 16 people and possibly killed one soldier.
• SCENARIOS-Options for Greece if it cannot pay its ...
  LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Financial markets have increased bets Greece will have to restructure its debt or face a default in the medium to longer term to tackle its fiscal problems even if it clinches a planned three-year aid package.
• UPDATE 1-ECB's Stark warns of full-blown sovereign ...
  FRANKFURT, April 28 (Reuters) - The onus is on governments to ensure financial market troubles do not develop into a full blown sovereign debt crisis, European Central Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark said on Wednesday.
• Gates satisfied with US planning to counter Iran t ...
  WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday he was very satisfied with Pentagon planning to counter the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program. (Reporting by Adam Entous and Phil Stewart; editing by Jackie Frank)
• Scenarios: Options for Greece if it cannot pay its ...
  LONDON (Reuters) - Financial markets have increased bets Greece will have to restructure its debt or face a default in the medium to longer term to tackle its fiscal problems even if it clinches a planned three-year aid package.

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

• Some Arizona History; A Context for SB 1070?
  By Gerry Straatemeier | From Salon.com As the Arizona anti-immigrant law SB 1070 is signed into law, I was thinking this morning that some Arizona History may begin to explain some of the very different ...
• The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 6 with Rep. Ji ...
  PDA national director Tim Carpenter interviews PDA advisory board member Rep. Jim McGovern from Massachusetts' third congressional district on the upcoming Afghanisatn supplemental appropriation bill, Medcare for all and state efforts to pass single-payer healthcare, ...
• 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 ...

Marler Blog

• Non-E. coli O157:H7 Outbreaks linked to Colorado P ...
  Eleven inmates at Four Mile Correctional Center may be ill with E coli O111 infections. Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti says three cases have been confirmed, with eight more suspected cases. Officials were working with the state health department to prevent th ...
• 2009 JBS Swift meat recall and E. coli O157:H7 out ...
  In early April 2009, health officials from several states began investigating reports of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses associated with the consumption of ground beef products manufactured by the JBS Swift company. On June 24, 2009, JBS Swift announced a voluntary recall of approximately 41,280 pounds of ...
• As a Mars PA man is on life support, Sally Fallon ...
  According to WPXI , James Orchard, a 67-year-old man from Mars, Pa., is on life support at UPMC Presbyterian because of the raw milk he consumed more than a month ago. James Orchard was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the pe ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 04.28.10
  Hey ladies: survey says it's easier to get a guy if you get an eco-car first Go green! Report: Ford Fusion Hybrid pays off quickest Takes just 5.6 years to pay off the hybrid premium. Then it ...
• Lotus imagines the Toyota Venza, circa 2020 and mi ...
  2020 Toyota Venza as realized by Lotus - Click above for high-res image gallery When General Motors got to work seriously changing the Chevrolet Volt from blocky concept to sleek production model , company engineers discovered that by improving the aerodynamics by 80 counts, the car netted a s ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.27.10
  Chelsea Sexton: why the Volt's engaged roll-out is vital, especially in the first few years GM is walking the fine walk this time around. Compared to Jay Leno's Big Dog Garage, you park in a Superfund s ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.26.10
  Nissan: 6,635 customers have signed up to reserve a Nissan Leaf Impressed? Lutz considers Chevy Cruze a triumph of his ten-year stint at GM More than the Volt, we wonder. ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Likebutton.me shows Facebook's new 'like' button i ...
  Check out this little news aggregator that's aware of your social network. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• 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 ...

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

• Scientists Capture Elusive Giant Palouse Earthworm
  A Foot Long And Smells Like Lilies?
• What happens to the oil they're skimming off of th ...
  A deep-sea oil well has been leaking 42,000 gallons per day since the massive rig explosion last week off the Louisiana coast. Remote-controlled submarines are trying to plug the leak, and cleanup crews have collected 48,000 gallons of oily water from the area. Is there any use for the recovered oil ...
• Top 10 Coal-Burning Countries on the Planet
  When it comes to air pollution, coal is enemy #1. We were curious to know which countries burned the most, so we compiled a list of the top 10 coal-burning countries in the world based on the latest statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
• Brooke Shields Upset that Global Warming Does not ...
  Brooke Shields Upset With Reports that Global Warming Does not Exist. The actress says she is concerned with the growing skepticism surrounding global warming. many questioning whether it is an issue worthy of serious concern or whether it’s simply a marketing term concocted by green companies to bo ...
• Remember That Ash Cloud? It Didn't Exist, Says New ...
  Britain's airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country...new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk. The satellite images ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Jane Burgermeister – POLISH PLANE CRASH TRUT ...
• Poetic Justice in the Kingdom of the Blind
  By Les Visible Maybe one of the reasons that people don’t see what’s coming when its coming is that it doesn’t look like what it is on the way in. Maybe it’s because its only one of the preliminaries and people don’t make the connection that it’s leading to something else. It’s like having flu [...]
• Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infa ...
  “This study was just routine,” said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. ...
• Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage
  By Rady Ananda In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize. Three varieties of Monsanto’s GM corn – Mon 863, insecticide-produc ...
• Swedish expert says CO2 is not the main cause of g ...
  Swedish climate expert Dr. Fred Goldberg has said that carbon dioxide is not the main cause of the global warming. The climate change is not affected by human action, but mainly by the solar activities and ocean currents such as PDO (Pacific Decadal oscillations). He even predicts that the earth is ...

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

• Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?
  Kept on hold for close to half a century, especially in the U.S., psychedelic science is now coming back to life.
• 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.

Twilight Earth

• Earth Day Climate Rally Concert 2010 – Exclusive V ...
  Earth Day Climate Rally 2010 Exclusive Videos and Photos by Adam Shake Related posts: Verizon Apologizes for Sponsoring Big Coal Rally and Concert Twilight Earth Exclusive: The Bigger Picture – Documenting Cop15 White House Farmers Market a Success. Photos and Story by 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 ...

Inhabitat

• San Francisco Launches First Crowd-Sourced Tree Ce ...
  Last week the city of San Francisco announced the first-ever tree census. Joined by the California Department of Forestry and the local nonprofit Friends of the Urban Forest, the city unveiled Urban Forest Map, a website that will allow residents to enter their neighborhood trees in the urban count. ...
• Polar Bear Sugar Cubes Melt Away in Your Morning C ...
  These days itâs hard to deny that global warming is melting away our precious glaciers, and, sadly, the animals living in the polar regions are the ones that are suffering most.  Using this dire fact as her inspiration, Jovana BogdanoviÄ from Young Serbian Designers sends a clear and provocativ ...
• Direct Drive System Reduces Cost, Weight of Wind T ...
  The next generation of wind turbines may not have problem-prone gearboxes if Siemens and GE have anything to say about it. The wind turbine manufacturers have both recently invested in direct drive turbine systems that replace gearboxes with low-speed generators. According to Siemens, the technology ...
• Lazerian Studio’s Stunning Recycled Cardboard Furn ...
  UK-based Lazerian Studio transforms simple sheets of recycled cardboard into beautiful furnishings, giving the material a new lease of life. A collaboration between furniture designer Liam Hopkins and artist Richard Sweeney, the duo showcased several stunning projects at Milan Design Week, including ...
• Yves Béhar’s Free Spectacles Help Students See and ...
  Just when we think design mastermind and Inhabitat favorite Yves Béhar couldn’t possibly come up with a more useful, world-bettering product, he does. Continuing along the vein of his XO $100 laptop for kids in developing nations and an even more awesome $75 tablet version, Béhar is now collaborat ...

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

• High Metabolism Fueled Evolution of Bat Flight
  From wings to low-density bones to echolocation, the evolution of flight in bats required many radical changes. But the most important change may have been metabolic. A genetic comparison of dozens of mammal species shows that bats possess highly modified versions of genes responsible for turning f ...
• EPA Scientist Says East Coast Beaches Threatened b ...
  For most of the 20th century, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, was known for its boardwalk, amusement park, and wide, sandy beaches, popular with daytrippers from Washington, DC. “The bathing beach has a frontage of three miles,” boasted a tourist brochure from about 1900, “and is equal, if not superior ...
• What Climate Change Means for Wine Industry
  John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect Napa’s world famous wines, he gets irritated, almost insulted. “You know, I’ve been getting that que ...
• 1889 Pandemic Didn’t Need Planes to Circle Globe i ...
  The 1889 Russian flu pandemic circled the globe in just four months, captivating the world, despite the lack of airplanes or hyperventilating cable news stations. If that was possible, closing down air traffic in the event of a new pandemic might not do much, argue the authors led by Alain-Jacqu ...
• Mice Make Their Own Morphine
  Illicit drug use and poppy seed bagels may not be the only sources of opioids that turn up in people’s urine. Mammals make their own morphine, a new study shows. Scientists have known for decades that people excrete some morphine in their urine, but most people assumed that the pain-killing drug ca ...

The Progressive Realist

• In New START, Russia Conceded Defeat on Missile De ...
  In conservatives rush to attack the New START treaty, many have overlooked a key clause in the preamble of the treaty . While much of the attention on the text of the preamble focused on the connection between offensive and defensive systems (missiles and missile defense), the treaty contains langua ...
• What Would Happen if Iran Policy Had "Bite"?
  Here is the lede of  Kori Schake's slam against current US efforts to keep Iran from getting the bomb: The Obama administration is talking tough on Iran. Despite allowing the Iranian government to escape sanction for a year of not accepting sugar-coated Western deadlines to abandon their nuclear p ...
• Hillary Clinton to Lead U.S. Delegation to Nonprol ...
  The State Department just announced that the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the United States delegation to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the UN next week. In UN terms, this means the United States will be represented at the "ministerial level," which is a ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - The sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan, increasingly believed to have been the result of a North Korean torpedo, is causing the South Korean military to rethink the priorities of its modernization plan. In particular, some analysts are questioning whether, in trying to turn South Kor ...
• Facts on Jerusalem
  During the recent debate over settlement construction in East Jerusalem, I think it’s become clear that many people inclined to support Israel’s position over the Obama administration’s position don’t actually understand what Israel’s position amounts to. Daniel Seideman’s response to Elie Wiesel o ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Chocolate Baby Formula.
  Yesterday, Mother Jones ran a quick item in which they revealed that Mead-Johnson is making chocolate-flavored baby formula, with ingredients that look alarmingly similar to those not very good for you chocolate drinks you got at the gas station when you were a kid. What's especially scary, too, i ...
• Lightning Round: The Republican Retconning of Real ...
  I'm glad there's been a swift and dedicated push back on the incredibly shameless efforts by the RNC to continue sending out "census" forms designed to confuse and loot their would-be constituents, even after the practice was specifically banned by Congress. And while congressional Republicans are ...
• Drone Strikes Using Smaller Missles.
  The Washington Post, holding a veritable fiesta of anonymous government officials defending the use of drone strikes, reports that the U.S. has started using smaller missiles so as to minimize civilian casualties: The CIA is using new, smaller missiles and advanced surveillance techniques to minim ...
• The Little Picture: The Tower of Doom.
  Storm clouds gather around Goldman Sachs. Yep, pretty much. (Flickr/ antiparticle )
• All Together Now, One More Time...
  I'm tempted just to link to my post from yesterday, but here's the news: Once again, Republican senators have voted as bloc, along with Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson , to prevent the long-awaited financial reform bill from moving to the floor for a full debate. They're not even filibustering the whol ...

Andy Worthington

• Col. Morris Davis Criticizes Obama on Guantánamo
  Iâve helped unleash a blogging monster! Two weeks ago, I was delighted to receive an email from Morris Davis, the retired Air Force colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantánamo Bay, who resigned when placed in a chain of command under the Pentagon’s General Couns ...
• Why Judges Can’t Free Torture Victims from Guantán ...
  Note: This article is published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here, here and here), which has now been extended as “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight.” This project also includes an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date (with links to my articles, the ...
• TONIGHT: London International Documentary Festival ...
  Iâve already posted an article about the screening tonight of âOutside the Law: Stories from Guantánamoâ as part of the London International Documentary Festival at the Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1, so this is primarily a last-minute reminder, although it also gives me an ...
• Andy Worthington Discusses “Guantánamo Habeas Week ...
  On our 14th outing, the ever-indignant Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio and I discussed my “Guantánamo Habeas Week” project (now expanded as “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight”), in which I put together an interactive list of the 47 cases decided in the last 19 months (34 of which have been won by the prison ...
• Time Out reviews “Outside the Law: Stories from Gu ...
  Ahead of Monday’s screening of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) at the London International Documentary Festival, Joe Burnham has given the film a great review in Time Out: [T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Huge Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered Off California
  Seven ancient underwater giants lurk off the Santa Barbara coast, and the biggest is as tall as a six-story building, scientists say.
• 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.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Is Our Children Learned Yet?
  Clearly our town is hellbent on turning out thousands of uneducated kids in the future as New Milford has frozen the school budget for the second year straight. This is from an email that is circulating around and was forwarded to myself by more than one person: Dear Friends, Below is a letter I s ...
• Offshore Drilling? WTF OBAMA???
  And before any negotiations on a bill for the milk starts some dumbasses have already given away the entire cow . Good luck with that. We have already seen what your administration's extraordinary leadership skill got us in enhancement of health insurance for profit reform . A little reading l ...
• When we have a fire...
  The flames are going about twenty five feet in the air right now. If there is one thing every Boy Scout knows how to do? Start a really BIG FIRE.
• The view from here
  My perspective as we wrap up the Bloggers meet up with Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Video coming soon.
• 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 ...

SPL Center

• White Supremacist Richard Barrett Murdered in Miss ...
  Update: Police announced that they arrested Barrettâs neighbor late Thursday afternoon and charged him with murder in connection with Barrettâs slaying. Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington told The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledge r that Vincent McGee, 22, had done yard work for Barrett. Barre ...
• Year in Hate and Extremism Webcast
  Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen and Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok discuss the recently released annual count of hate and extremist groups.
• Facebook Page Advocating Obama’s Death Draws 1 Mil ...
  Last year, California far-right pastor Wiley Drake prayed for President Obama to die. Almost 11 months later, the president not only is alive but healthy enough to play tennis over the weekend. But that hasn’t discouraged a spelling-challenged creator of a Facebook page who also is praying for Obama ...
• White Nationalist Website VDARE in Trouble, Loses ...
  The white nationalist website VDARE.com is in financial trouble — and its founder says that more mainstream anti-immigration groups may be responsible. “If VDARE.com is to survive [the] latest threat, it must have your help now,” writes the website’s founder, Peter Brimelow , in a lengthy letter pub ...
• After Call to Arms, Nativist Extremist Leader Call ...
  A major nativist group known for its armed border patrols is disbanding. In a Monday E-mail to supporters, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Carmen Mercer said the MCDC will no longer exist as an organization, though she encouraged supporters to continue its work independently. âI predict Am ...

change: org.

• SeaWorld's Educational Value Challenged in Congres ...
  Two months after the death of a SeaWorld trainer in the tank of an orca named Tilikum, a House subcommittee held a hearing on Marine Mammals in Captivity: What Constitutes Meaningful Public Education? Among those who headed to Capitol Hill to testify were marine mammal experts, zoo and aquarium rep ...
• Be Careful What You Wear in Oakland
  Boys, put on your suits and girls, put on your dresses. In some places, wearing clothing made for your gender is not just a question of social acceptance but it's dictated by law . According to Oakland's Code of Ordinances , cross-dressing is illegal. Immoral Dress Code 9.08.080 says: "It is unlawfu ...
• A Travesty of Justice in Northern Georgia
  People accused of child molestation are rarely sympathetic characters. But someone like former Georgia kindergarten teacher Tonya Craft might make you think again. Accusations that Craft (left) molested three young girls at a 2008 slumber party — including her own child — have torn apart the small c ...
• Healthy Is the New Green
  In the wake of the 40th Earth Day, a new worldwide survey reports that healthy is the new green. Citizens in eleven countries say that it's not just health care companies that should care about their well-being. Industries as varied as food and beverage and media and entertainment are being called o ...
• Immigrant Communities Bear the Brunt of Climate Ch ...
  While nativist groups love claiming to be green (in an attempt to soften the edges of their hateful messages?), it is important to note in the wake of Earth Day that low-income communities suffer the worst impacts of environmental degradation. It is thus largely minorities and immigrants who bear th ...

Common Dreams -News

• Student Puts the Spotlight on Red Cross' Spending ...
  by Frances Robles Fred Sajous, a Haitian earthquake survivor armed with a video camera and a cause, is a man on a mission: to figure out how the American Red Cross spent the $430 million it raised for the disaster. The former Broward Community College student visited the tent city across the street ...
• Fears Grow over Oil Spill off US Coast
  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – US officials may attempt a controlled burn of a spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday to protect coastlines, as the coast guard warned the deadly disaster could become one of the worst spills in US history. read more
• Monsanto's GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environme ...
  by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops. The decision in this case may have a significant impact on both the future of genetically modified foods and government oversight of that and other environme ...
• 'Hope' Artist Shepard Fairey Not Pleased With Obam ...
  In creating his now iconic Obama "Hope" poster, Shepard Fairey went from being a cult street art figure to an artist synonymous with Barack Obama's revolutionary 2008 presidential campaign. But the artist, whose stylized portrait ...
• Louisiana Gulf Rig Spewing 1,000 Barrels (42,000 g ...
  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Robotic submarines are on Monday racing to stop oil from a sunken rig streaming into the Gulf of Mexico, as BP warned that sealing the seabed leaks could take three months if the operation fails. The British energy giant -- which leases the stricken Deepwater Horizon semi ...

Lifehacker

• Windows Home Server "Vail" Available for ...
  Got a 64-bit PC sitting around, just waiting for a purpose? Dig the idea of automated backups and media streaming in your home? Microsoft is offering up free downloads of its next Windows Home Server, dubbed "Vail," for public testing. More ...
• Wikipedia Companion Adds Mini Browser to Google Ch ...
  Chrome: Searching random bits of Wikipedia information usually involves abandoning your current page and/or opening up a new tab. Wikipedia Companion, a Google Chrome extension, gives you Wikipedia access via a small drop-down window for quick ...
• Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Leaks to Torrent Sit ...
  Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac beta has been leaked to BitTorrent sites. Earlier, we showed you early screenshots of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac , which seems similar to Office 2010, but according to Boy Genius Report, boasts a new and impro ...
• Use Old Grocery Receipts and a Day Pass to Recon S ...
  Saving money at bulk warehouse stores seems like a hit or miss affair. Use your old grocery receipts and a day pass to the warehouse store to see how much a membership would—or wouldn't—save you. More »
• How to Decide Between a Prepaid or Contract Wirele ...
  The flexibility of prepaid cellphone plans is great, and can potentially save you tons of cash—so why does everyone still insist on signing a contract? Let's take a look at the pros and cons of prepaid vs. contract cellphone plans. More » ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• The Next COIN Fail
  So the people of Afghanistan don't want us there and they are not alone the American people don't support the effort either and Congress is starting to listen.  If things go badly in Kandahar the pressure will only increase.  So could Kandahar be the beginning pf the end?
• The Next COIN Fail
  So the people of Afghanistan don't want us there and they are not alone the American people don't support the effort either and Congress is starting to listen.  If things go badly in Kandahar the pressure will only increase.  So could Kandahar be the beginning pf the end?
• Oops, another COIN Fail in Afghanistan
  By Steve Hynd Anand Gopal reports in his latest for McClatchy that the US deal to arm a tribal militia from the Shinwari tribe in Afghanistan is falling apart because the people the US did the deal with only spoke for one Shinwari clan. Achin district, a home of the Shinwari tribe, is part of an amb ...
• Karzai's Brother: "I am the Nancy Pelosi of Kandah ...
  By Steve Hynd The UK's Financial Times continues to be one of the best newspapers for stories looking behind the official spin in Afghanistan. Today, Matthew Green reports on the thorny problem of what US and allied forces intend for the Afghan president's brother, alleged narcolord Ahmed Wali Karza ...
• Oops, another COIN Fail in Afghanistan
  By Steve Hynd Anand Gopal reports in his latest for McClatchy that the US deal to arm a tribal militia from the Shinwari tribe in Afghanistan is falling apart because the people the US did the deal with only spoke for one Shinwari clan. Achin district, a home of the Shinwari tribe, is part of an amb ...

Water Wars

• Latest Georgia news, sports, business and entertai ...
  Latest Georgia news, sports, business and entertainment
• United Treatment Centers, Inc. Announces Green Ene ...
  Endorsement Offers Immediate Exposure to Distributors and Governmental Agencies in 65 Countries
• United Treatment Centers, Inc. Announces Green Ene ...
  NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - 04/26/10) - United Treatment Centers, Inc. (Pinksheets: UTRM - News ), http://www.aquafreetoothbrush.com/ , the developer and marketer of a new innovative Waterless Toothbrush, announced today that the company's proprietary Aquafreedom waterless toothbrush has received th ...
• Climate battle moves to Bolivia
  In Cochabamba in the Andean mountains, whose glaciers are melting, a peoples climate conference was held last week that invigorated the spirit of social and political leaders to intensify the battle against climate change.
• Tonight's Game Postponed
  Stars fans, tonight's 6-o-clock game joins the long list of area event cancellations.

WordPress | Economics

• The Skimmer Economy
  Atrios points out that there is essentially a “skimmer economy.” Some day I hope more pe
• Bastards! One And All!
  Daily Agitator I spent a good portion of my day watching the Senate hearings into the Goldman-Sachs
• Death and Taxes
  Frank Lichtenberg of the National Bureau of Economic Research issues a paper this month finding that
• Illegal Aliens {Immigrants} A National Crisis In T ...
  Jesse (I’m an Idiot) Jackson says that Arizona’s new immigration law will lead to racial
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Electronic Intifada

• US hegemony, not "the lobby," behind complicity wi ...
  Many of Israel's critics blame an "Israel lobby" for the near-total complicity of the US in Israeli annexation, colonization and cleansing programs in the occupied West Ban ...
• Palestinians resist threat of eviction in Jaffa
  Amidst the crater-filled roads, crumbling art deco houses, Jewish-Israeli filled hummus joints and flashing blue lights of passing cop cars, Palestinian citizens of Israel ...
• Israeli forces shoot two Palestinians, internation ...
  At a nonviolent demonstration on 24 April attended by 150 persons against the forceful cessation of farming within what Israel defines as a "buffer zone," two Palestinian d ...
• Book review: Edward Said's commitment in conversat ...
  The new book The Pen and the Sword -- a collection of five interviews with Said conducted between 1987 and 1994 by David Barsamian, the founder of Alternative Radio -- serv ...
• Gaza's calm determination
  To preserve my sense of purpose, and keep the Palestine struggle from becoming a lifeless abstraction, I need periodically to recharge my moral batteries by reconnecting with the a ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Suicide bomber gets to NATO forces in Afghanistan
  Afghan authorities have announced that a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives on Tuesday, targeting a compound providing logistical support to NATO forces.
• Four policemen killed, six injured in suicide att ...
  The Taliban continues to target security forces in the restive tribal areas of Pakistan, as four policemen were killed and six wounded in a suicide attack near the Pir Bala police checkpost in the North West Frontier Province's (NWFP) Bannu District on Wednesday.
• Terrorist attacks spike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
  FILE - In this June 10, 2009, file photo, a Pakistani police officer stands next to U.N. car damaged by Tuesday's suicide blast at the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan. An in...
• Terrorist attacks spike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
  (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)FILE - In this June 10, 2009, file photo, a Pakistani police officer stands next to U.N. car damaged by Tuesday's suicide blast at the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel in Pe...
• Terrorist attacks spike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
  FILE - In this June 10, 2009, file photo, a Pakistani police officer stands next to U.N. car damaged by Tuesday's suicide blast at the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan. An increa...

Futurismic

• Lost your head? Just grow a new one
  Well, obviously you can’t regrow your head and brain, but Planarian flatworms can… and the discovery of the gene that (probably) makes this possible has the media doing their customary pulp-sf extrapolation thing and suggesting (albeit sarcastically in the case of El Reg) that we’ll soon be able to ...
• Hawking advocates radio silence to avoid colonial ...
  Stephen Hawking is doing the promo rounds at the moment (hey, the guy has a new TV show to plug, you know how it goes), and his latest riff is that SETI is a risky business. After all, the arrival of Columbus didn’t work out to well for the indigenous peoples of the Americas, AMIRITE? Hawking [...] ...
• Who wants to live forever?
  OK, here’s a deceptively simple debate to start the week off with - if physical immortality was available to you, would you take it? Arguing the case against is Annalee “io9″ Newitz, and here’s Jason Stoddard playing earnest devil’s advocate for the longevity lobby. I have no ethical issues with hum ...
• Chris Beckett: sf is not a genre, it’s a toolkit
  British sf author Chris Beckett has been browsing through the BSFA survey book, and decided to respond to some of Charlie Stross’ comments contained therein regarding science fiction’s longevity and mutation: I agree with [Stross] that it would indeed be âthe trump of deathâ to try and endlessly ...
• Clarke Award administrator Tom Hunter on the troub ...
  As mentioned a while ago, this Wednesday sees the Sci-Fi London film festival playing host to the Arthur C Clarke Award winner announcement ceremony. It’s my great pleasure to turn the Futurismic microphone over to the award’s administrator, Tom Hunter, and give him a chance to talk about the award ...

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

• Hearing Tomorrow on the Protecting America's Worke ...
  The Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee will be holding a hearing tomorrow at 10:00 am on the whistleblower provisions in Protecting America’s Workers Act ( H.R. 2067 ). These provisions apply to violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), w ...
• Potera-Haskins testifies about Title IX gender dis ...
  Robin Potera-Haskins was the coach of the women's basketball team at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman for three seasons between 2001 and 2004. She led the team to a share of the Big Sky Conference championships in her first two seasons at MSU, in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. Potera-Haskins test ...
• 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 ...

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

• Video Professor Loses Lawsuit Against Amazon Over ...
  The Video Professor is the company that is notoriously litigious over critics of its marketing practices -- and just a few months ago even sent us a threatening email after we wrote a post about some of the company's actions. After a quick discussion between lawyers, the company agreed that it woul ...
• Brazilian Court Fines Google Yet Again Over Anonym ...
  Brazil's laws concerning liability for online posting continue to haunt Google for no good reason. For years now, we've been hearing about lawsuits against Google in Brazil because of comments made on Orkut, Google's social networking site that (for whatever reason) is mostly popular in Brazil. Br ...
• Random House Realizing That Its Old Contracts Don' ...
  A few years back, publisher Random House lost a series of legal battles against an ebook publisher, over the question of whether or not Random House's basic contracts covered ebooks as well. The courts ruled that they did not. While Random House's more recent contracts do explicitly add in ebooks, ...
• As Murdoch Puts Times Online Behind A Paywall, Com ...
  As Rupert Murdoch is getting ready to put paywalls on two of his UK publications, The Times of London and The Sunday Times, his competitors are remaining adamantly free online. The Guardian, for example, has been a loud and proud supporter of free content , and now the Daily Mail Online is standing ...
• Germany "Horrified" That Google's Collecting Publi ...
  German authorities launched a new fit of privacy hysteria last week after discovering that Google's Street View cars are not only taking photographs -- they're recording the publicly-available router MAC addresses and SSIDs seen as the cars travel past Wi-Fi hotspots. UK and European politicians had ...

VacTruth

• Study Suggests Link Between Autism and Use of Cell ...
  Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com 04/21/2010 Update: LifeNews.com has issued a followup to this news story featuring a response from the study [...]
• Flu shot fatality – toddler dies 12 hours af ...
  Suellen Hinde News.com.au 04/25/2010 A FAMILY is in mourning after their toddler unexpectedly died less than 12 hours after receiving a seasonal flu vaccination. Two-year-old twin Ashley Jade Epapara had been “perfectly fine” before dying at her Upper Mt Gravatt home, on Brisbane’s southside, on Ap ...
• Hepatitis jab reaction was all in children’s ...
  (Xinhua) ChinaDaily.com.cn 04/24/2010 GUANGZHOU – A mass psychogenic reaction was to blame for the hospitalization of 46 children after receiving Hepatitis B vaccinations Thursday in south China’s Guangdong Province, local authorities said Friday. The children, among 84 who received the shots a ...
• Allergan Seeks $460K From A Defeated Plaintiff
  Ed Silverman Pharmalot 04/23/2010 And what a plaintiff. The drugmaker wants to recover $460,000 in legal costs from Dee Spears, who unsuccessfully sued Allergan over the death of her 7-year-old daughter, Kristen, after she was administered a series of therapeutic Botox shots. She sued the drugma ...
• WHO ”wasted millions” over swine flu
  PublicService.co.uk Thursday, April 22, 2010 The World Health Organisation (WHO) overreacted to the swine flu crisis which led to hundreds of millions of pounds being spent unnecessarily on vaccines that, in some countries, were hardly used, according to Paul Flynn, head of a Council of Europe i ...

BroadSnark

• Does Culture Disappear?
  I often hear people express fear of losing their culture.  Sometimes, I sympathize with them.  I sympathize with indigenous people who are fighting for their dying languages.  I sympathize with the French farmer who led a revolt against McDonalds.  And I sympathize with Jews who – after survivin ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

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

Armies of Liberation

• Yemen National Dialog Coalition Seeks Reform, Broa ...
  Yemen’s National Dialog Committee published an English language summary of its National Salvation Plan yesterday. The document is available at http://yemenvision.wordpress.com/ The National Dialog Committee (NDC) is an important Yemeni civil society coalition dedicated to creating a forum and consen ...
• Al Qaeda in Yemen, unwanted nomads or essential nu ...
  The announcement that al Qaeda in 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

• Grand Designs' Green Heroes Honoured
  Image from EcoForce Grand Designs, the t.v. house make-over series , has had a good track record of featuring green and ecological houses on the show and in their magazine. This year Kevin McCloud, the star, architect, and presenter of the popular series has chosen what he considers to be the ...
• US & Canada Lose Higher Percentage of Forests Than ...
  photo: Owen Renn via flickr. All I can say is wow! Mongabay is highlighting a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which reveals that between 2000 and 2005 over one million square kilometers of forest were chopped down worldwide, with both the United States and Canad ...
• Women Stand Up Paddle Hawaiian Islands for Oceanic ...
  Photo: Destination 3° via Facebook . The Algalita Marine Research Foundation are the folk who continue to enlighten the world on the impact that plastics pollution is having on marine life and our oceans. It is their groundbreaking work (can you say that about marines sciences?) that is helping ...
• O'Neill Launches ECO'Neill Surfing Apparel (Photos ...
  ECO'Neill signature "Culture" T-Shirt. Credit: Amanda Schwab/Starpix Surf apparel company O'Neill launched Eco'Neill, their first-ever collection of environmentally-conscious clothing, over the weekend at Saturdays Surf NYC in New York City. J.K. Livin Artist Mishka performed an acoustic set a ...
• Sustainability Sneaks Into US Board Rooms, Rolls O ...
  Voyageur Boardroom. Image credit: Ocean Meetings . Writing for TreeHugger, I see dozens of 'green product' press releases per day. Many from big-name ad agencies. Yesterday there was one touting an " ecologically sustainable" double-barreled veeblefetzer (actual product name withheld to prote ...

Biosingularity

• Multiple personal genomes await
  Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
• Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
  IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
• Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as ...
  Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel g ...
• RNA-Loaded Nanoparticles Fight Cancer
  specialized nanoparticle filled with an RNA-based cancer therapy can successfully target human cancer cells and silence the target gene, according to results from an early clinical trial. The research, published today in the journal Nature, is the first to demonstrate this type of tissue targeting a ...
• Gene flaw found in induced stem cells
  Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed i ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• What's the cost if Congress fails?
  If Congress fails, America wins. CFACT's response to Connie Hedegaard the European Union̢۪s Commissioner for Climate Action.
• Climate summit hangover
  No substantial progress towards a global warming treaty. Obama's strategy leaked. Delegate's minds opening. UN plans new treaty push.
• Energy Secretary admits we don’t und ...
  The Energy Secretary is at a loss to explain the cooling trend of the past decade. How then can he support Obama's proposed energy taxes?
• Plastic bags withstand the test of time ... and po ...
  The notion that plastic bags pose a threat to waterborne wildlife is as fashionable as it is false.
• Health scare surrounding BPA still lacks scientifi ...
  Well-orchestrated health scares against beneficial products and technologies have become all too common.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia ready for human rights discussions - Medved ...
• Excursion around the former Hotel Ukraina
  Hotel Ukraina opened in Moscow on April 28 after substantial renovation. The hotel, one of the famous skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style, has not only received a new appearance but also a new name - Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow.
• Russia to continue publishing archive documents on ...
• The Little Mermaid sculpture in Shanghai and Copen ...
  Copenhagen’s iconic sculpture was given the job of representing Denmark at EXPO-2010.
• Russian warship to escort 12 merchant vessels in G ...
  A Russian warship will escort 12 commercial vessels through the Somali pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia to send freighter with candy, books to ISS
  Russia will launch a cargo module to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 28, mission control said on Tuesday.
• Russian 'Silicon Valley'
• Russian, U.S. physicists together synthesize 117th ...
  Russian physicists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna have with U.S. colleagues successfully synthesized a new element
• Russia's Cosmos-3M space carrier orbits military s ...
  A Russian carrier rocket orbited a military satellite on Tuesday at 6:08 Moscow time (2:08 GMT), a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said.
• Russia's Proton rocket takes U.S. satellite to orb ...
  Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket, launched on Saturday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, took a U.S. telecommunications satellite to orbit after a nine-hour flight, a spokesman for Russia's federal space agency said on Sunday.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing Muslims .There may have been a second set of torture recordings. It’s hard to imagine them seeing the light of day if they still exist, or any consequences s ...
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• The Hidden Link to Black-White Disparities in Bad ...
  In the United States, there are disparities in rates of pregnancy problems among women of different skin colors. One previously unexplored possible influence on the disparity in adverse birth outcomes is maternal vitamin D status. � A new review looked at the evidence relating maternal vitamin ...
• The Physical Toll of Loneliness
  Loneliness doesn't just affect your mind; it can also cause problems with your blood pressure. Researchers give a survey to close to 230 people aged 50 to 68. They were asked to rate their feelings about statements such as, "I lack companionship" and "My social relationships are superficial." The ...
• Adderall Causes Serious Side Effects
  Adderall is a stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. � Adderall side effects include heart related problems -- including stroke and heart attack, increased blood pressure and heart rate, and even sudden death. � What’s more, according to Food Consumer: � ...
• 44 Students Sick After Hepatitis B Vaccination
  Forty-four students in China became sick and were taken to the hospital after receiving hepatitis B vaccinations. 84 pupils got the injection, and many began feeling ill half an hour later. China Daily reports that: “The disease control center of Huilai county said they have used more than 90,000 ...
• Omega-3s Cut Colon Cancer Risk
  People who consume omega-3 fats could cut their risk of colon cancer. Researchers examined the relationship between fat intake and bowel cancer risk in more than close to 2,000 people. Among whites, those in the top quartile of omega-3 consumption had half the risk of colon cancer of the bottom qua ...

Antemedius

• Republican Bodine-ism Redux- Nevada Edition
  One of the things that Campaign Managers dread is that that moment when their candidate opens his or her mouth and says something that will divert the entire arc of the campaign. We are witnessing such a moment with Sue Lowden in Nevada. By now you have seen the video of her insisting that she did n ...
• Yes, We Could... Get Out! - Why We Won’t Leave Af ...
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com Yes, we could.� No kidding.� We really� could� withdraw our massive armies, now close to 200,000 troops combined, from� Afghanistan �and� Iraq �(and that’s not even counting our similarly large stealth army of private contractors ,�which helps keep the true si ...
• FDR as Catalyst of Pragmatic Progressive Movement
  Conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan pointed out that they would have been happy to run on the same 1932 Democratic Party platform on which Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched his successful run for the presidency. Where Goldwater and Reagan missed was that they failed to carry the se ...
• EcoJustice: Big Energy Robs Landowners Of Mineral ...
  Daniel Gilbert , a staff writer for The Bristol Herald Courier of Bristol Va/Tn, wrote a series that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing a system that allowed corporations to drain natural gas from landowners' property without paying royalties. Corporations used a Virginia Sta ...
• Reducing Food Waste in the Event of An Erupting Vo ...
  Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . As Iceland’s erupting volcano strands thousands of air travelers across Europe and worldwide, a less publicized but arguably more costly catastrophe is mounting 15,000 miles away: piles of gourmet produce and cut flowers, some of Keny ...

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

• Locally grown, Locally shared: A new model for giv ...
  Over a hundred Baltimore residents gathered on Saturday night for the 4th edition of an innovative fundraising event called STEW. STEW is a joint project of Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, where attendees pay $10/person for the opportunity to share a multi-cou ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Fillibuttsterers and SD42 pollspeak
  Goldman facts: Today’s Times’ story “I promoted the guys who filed complaint against you” The Fillibuttsters Did Dems prefer fillibuttsters to passage? (i.e., is this another example of oh nos, Republicans won’t let us do what we really didn’t want to do in the first place?) Fillibuttstering keeps t ...
• Grand Old, Old Party
  Republicans, I think it’s time we take another look at what they’ve got going for them this year. In Arizona, frequent Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano thinks the Republican party will be bankrupted by their foolishly passed and signed bill authorizing police state measures to deal with ...
• News from the neighborhood
  Turned off iTunes so I could listen to the singing from the Tibetan Cultural Center across the street. I’m somewhat astonished by how much it sounds like Native American singing. I figured there was a reason for the singing and I was right. KULLU – Tibetans living in Himachalâs Kullu district on S ...
• Fillibuttsters
  abide, v. (əˈbaɪd) Pa. tense abode (əˈbəʊd), also abided. Pa. pple. abode, also abided, abidden. Forms: inf. 1 abíd-an, 2–4 abid-en, 4–5 abyden, 3–6 abyde, 3– abide. ind. pres. 3rd sing. 1 abídeð, 1–4 abit, 4– abideth, 6– abides; (north. 3– abydes, -ys -is). pa. tense 1 abád, 2–3 abad (3 abed, abeod ...
• Out of chaos, disorder
  The DFL convention is off and running and has already taken it upon themselves to make this the most very special DFL endorsement convention ever! Mark Dayton, former U.S. Senator and one of the party’s biggest financial benefactors has been denied a floor pass by petty rulesmongers who are peeved t ...

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

• At least we are not Dubai
  We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
• 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

• CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
  High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
• 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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Peach almost certainly killed by police: Report
  �Source WATCH the video (11:07) A previously secret police report into the death of a Kiwi protestor in London 31 years ago has been released tonight.New Zealander Blair Peach was almost certainly killed by police at a demonstration in London in 1979, the previously secret reports revealed. Metr ...
• Al Jazeera: Slovakia's Radical Roma 'solution'
  Al Jazeera English Reports: "Some 10 per cent of Slovakia's population are of Roma ethnicity, most of whom are illiterate and live in poverty in the country's far east. In an attempt to integrate them into Slovak society, the government has suggested a radical proposal: that Roma children be sent ...
• Aboriginal Press eBook: When Victims Become Victim ...
  When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry Xenophobic War Against Itself and the Rest of the World Free eBook download: (PDF Format) Brief excerpt from the eBook Edition : -------------------------------------- This Ebook is a complete edition of a ten-part editorial originally published i ...
• Native American Delegation to Bolivia Climate Summ ...
  Grassroots Indigenous Delegation brings voices of the people to Bolivia Climate Summit By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Top photo: Michelle Cook, Navajo A delegation of grassroots American Indian activists will attend the Bolivia Climate Summit, thanks to the gen ...
• Cynthia McKinney: "They're White Just Like Us . . ...
  Cynthia McKinney on Facebook : The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Barcelona Session, convened for three days, considered the evidence presented to it, and delivered its decision in response to a series of questions that could be summed up as: "Is the E.U. complicit in Israel's crimes against Palesti ...

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 -28/04/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Peak Oil crunch (http://abcasiapacificnews.com/stories/201004/2883729.htm)-The world may be basking in the warm glow of economic recovery, but some observers are warning of an unseen spectre, lurk ...
• 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…
• Greening Education, Increasing Employability
  Whether directly employed in a green job, or in a related field, green skills and sustainable practice become essential as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy.

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Oil Slick Could Become Worst In US History
  ShareThis Oil Slick Could Become Worst In US History 28 Apr 2010 American coastguards say the spill from the site of an oil rig collapse could become one of the worst in US history. The slick covers an area 48 miles long and 39 miles wide, close to the Mississippi Delta. The huge slick is now threat ...
• Ex-Brooklyn College Student Admits Conspiring to H ...
  ShareThis 'He acknowledged that�he knew that a man staying with him was planning to deliver ponchos, sleeping bags and waterproof socks to Al Qaeda.' Ex-Brooklyn College Student Admits Conspiring to Help Al Qaeda 27 Apr 2010 In a widely watched terrorism case, a former Brooklyn College student admit ...
• Afghanistan: U.N. Pulls Workers
  ShareThis Afghanistan: U.N. Pulls Workers 27 Apr 2010 The United Nations withdrew most of its local staff members from Kandahar on Tuesday and instructed its local Afghan employees there to stay home in the coming days because of what it called the "deteriorating" security situation in the southern ...
• BBC Film Crew Accused of Animal Cruelty
  ShareThis 'It was disgraceful - crash TV at its worst.' BBC Film Crew Accused of Animal Cruelty 27 Apr 2010 A film crew for The One Show was sent to cover the story of the bird which has become well known for attacking rowers passing his nest on the River Cam in Cambridge. Witnesses claim the crew h ...
• Oil Giant Shell Pumps Out £3.2bn Profit
  ShareThis Oil Giant Shell Pumps Out £3.2bn Profit 28 Apr 2010 Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell has announced profits of £3.2bn for the first quarter of 2010 - up more than 48% year on year. Shell said current cost of supply net income was £3.2bn ($4.90bn) in the quarter, up from £2.2bn ($3.30bn) in the ...

Daily Loaf

• On the Radar: celebrate International Scurvy Aware ...
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. May 2 is International Scurvy Awareness Day, and it takes the (fruit)cake for the most fun fest dedicated to an all-but-defunct disease. The satire-happy (but scurvy-free) folks at limestrong.com — who founded t ...
• Do It Today: Uncle Kracker’s country rock, “Reexam ...
  You know Uncle Kracker from his easy-going country-stained Top 40 AC rock singles âFollow Meâ and âSmileâ (off 2009âs Happy Hour, that song that played in all those baby promos for The Office), and his cover of âDrift Away” (aka “Give Me The Beat, Boysâ). Rehab opens. Weds., April 28, ...
• Fissure between Florida GOP and Charlie Crist cont ...
  Last week in a committee hearing, both commissioners were criticized for a lack of knowledge in business administration. Klement was a long time editorial writer with the Bradenton Herald -32 years to be precise. Stevens pedigree was perhaps a bigger reach on the PSC, working as an accountant and ...
• “Papers, please”? Yeah, not so much.
  Ever since Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed the new immigration enforcement bill into law, the press has been in an uproar. The Economist called the law “hysterical nativism”, and warned that Arizona was on the path to becoming a “police state”. The Huffington Post said that the new law could lea ...
• A Gay in the Life: Interview with gay comics autho ...
  My favorite school assignment from kindergarten through college came in the fourth grade. Mrs. Adams made her way down each aisle, placing a blank book on each student’s desk. It was the definitive assignment for the year and ensured each of us would move on to the illustrious fifth grade. We were ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Strengthening Those Who Belong to the Land: Mahmud ...
  (crossposted from The Villages Group Blog, where more pics can be found) Mahmud from Susya got up one day from his depression, and built a very basic green house. With simple tools and techniques he succeeded to surprise us with excellent organic vegetables. The vegetables are an essential addition ...
• The Global Movement Spreads: New Wave of Protests ...
  By Avital Aboody On April 24, 2010 at around 15:45 a group of approximately 50 Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists gathered in Hebron next to the checkpoint gate separating Shuhada Street from the Casbah. The protest was organized by a Palestinian group in Hebron called “Youth Against ...
• What if Bil’in held a demo and the army didn ...
  By Emily Schaeffer Some of us have become so used to West Bank demonstrations meaning major Israeli army presence, and, typically, the use of weapons, that we have forgotten what demonstrations in a democracy look like. We’ve forgotten that a protest against oppressive working conditions in downtown ...
• …In Israel, it has been “Arizona&#8221 ...
  (crossposted from assaf.dailykos.com) I am encouraged by the wave of justified indignation, and spontaneous boycott movement, against the new Arizona law. Indeed, requiring citizens and legal resident to carry proof of their status at all times, and encouraging police to profile passersby who “look ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Ultra-green container house in Maylasia
  Jetson Green Using six shipping containers, Anand Bungalows developed the 2,551 square foot project, which includes rainwater harvesting, natural ventilation, water-efficient fixtures, dual-flush toilets, and abundant natural lighting to minimize energy consumption.
• Giant banker to devour innocent consumers tomorrow
  Consumerist Consumers Union, the benevolent entity that publishes Consumer Reports and parent company of our own little operation, would like to warn all of you that a giant banker will be devouring innocent consumers on “The Hill” Wednesday. No consumer is safe. Bankzilla will feast upon your fle ...
• US military meets the enemy and it is PowerPoint
  PowerPoint clarifies important connections in this US military presentation. Why the PowerPoint-bashing? Because it’s a gigantic time-suck, gives the illusion of solving problems while accomplishing little, plus bullet points are overly rigid and don’t explain interconnected situations. “PowerPoi ...
• Sen. Levin grills an amoral thug about his “shitty ...
  Goldman banksters are like Mafioso, aren’t they? And in my view, just as criminal.
• Greece is toast
  S&P just downgraded their debt to junk, their stock market is crashing, Germany is saying maybe Greece needs to leave the eurozone, and, oh yeah, the contagion is spreading, Portugal is blowing up too. Zero Hedge has continuing coverage. You can thank the banksters for most of this catastrophe.

Coteret

• Administering corporal punishment to a young Popul ...
  At bottom is a set of photos is from page 8 of this morning’s (April 28 2010) Haaretz (Hebrew edition only; download as PDF here.) Caption reads: Pepper spray into the eyes of the Palestinian protester, at point-blank range A 15 year-old Palestinian was arrested yesterday by Border Policemen durin ...
• Le Monde: A European J Street?
  Cross-posted from JNews. The Jewish peace camp’s attempt at rebirth in Europe Gilles Paris, Le Monde, April 23 2010 [translated by Idit Arad; French original here] The name J Street is already taken, so this is called J Call. On 3rd May, in Brussels, a new European Jewish movement for peace betwe ...
• Ron Dermer signaling change of Israeli govt. postu ...
  Gov’t changing course; recruiting J-Street for the struggle against Iran Shlomo Cezana, Israel Hayom, April 27 2010 [page 11; Hebrew original here and bottom of post] The Israeli Government is changing its attitude towards J Street; it has decided to engage with the lobby — considered not friendly t ...
• Maariv: Gen. Saguy reveals details of Lauder broke ...
  Netanyahu and Hafez Assad: The agreement that was not reached Ofer Shelah, Maariv, April 27 2010 [page 8; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The most fascinating interview you did not read appeared this month in Halohem, the newsletter of the IDF disabled veterans organization.  Perhaps it ...
• Schaeffer: What if Bil’in held a demo and the army ...
  Emily W. Schaeffer is an American-Israeli human rights lawyer and activist based in Tel Aviv, born and raised in the Boston area. Click here to read a profile of Emily in Ode Magazine, which selected her as one of 2009′s 25 intelligent optimist fro her work in Bil’in. Cross-posted from The Only De ...

Deadline Live

• Viacom Stole From YOU, the YouTube Community, Mike ...
  Viacom owns the Video Sharing web site called Spike.com ( Until Recently ifilm). Spike.com is LOADED with YouTube user videos! And Viacom is suing YouTube over the early copyrighted clips? Spike.com has uploaded YouTube user videos, and has done so consistently since YouTube began RIGHT UP TO THE PR ...
• Paris-To-Atlanta Flight Diverted Over Passenger &# ...
  April 27, 2010 CNN Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• No one comes to aid of elderly man being mugged on ...
  TORONTO – An elderly man who cried out for help as he was being mugged on a Toronto subway train received no assistance from other commuters. The 79-year-old victim, Yusuf Hizel, told City-TV that two thugs asked for change and when he told them he didnât have any they grabbed him and took his wal ...
• Hatred, Intolerance, Violence and the Southern Pov ...
  szandorblestman.com “Haven’t you heard, it’s a battle of words the poster bearer cried. Listen son, said the man with the gun there’s room for you inside.” From the Pink Floyd song “Us and Them” There is a change occurring in the modern world, a fluctuation of ideas. Students of history who look bey ...
• Nelson Mandela to visit Palestine? Apartheid is IL ...
  The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity “committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other ...

The Air Vent

• Time Lapse Plant Growth
  I’ve made a lot of statements about CO2 recently.  My current opinion from every source I’ve found is that there are no verified negative consequences of CO2.  Nothing.    Calling CO2 a dangerous pollutant is more than a bit overstated and calling for decarbonization has no foundation in science ...
• Predictions Of Global Mean Temperatures & IPCC Pro ...
  By Girma Orssengo, B. Tech, MASc, PhD orssengo@lycos.com April 2010 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that human emission of CO2 causes catastrophic global warming. When such extraordinary claim is made, every one with background in science has to look at the data and verif ...
• Pielke Jr. – One blog post, Ten wrong turns
  Pielke Jr recently wrote this: Can you imagine any discoveries or conclusions in climate science would indicate that accelerated decarbonization of the global economy does not make sense? Answer: No Now he is right that “climate science” AKA Scientology– today won’t conclude or present evidence othe ...
• The Real Winners
  Guest post by Tom Fuller (In the back of my mind I have this image of Lucia Liljegren sitting somewhere in Illinois thinking, ‘I know who Tom will pair me with, and I know exactly what he’s going to say. I hope he adds something interesting…’ There are two places on the Internet today where [...]
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• World Cup Ad or James Nachtwey's Greatest Hits?
  This FIFA World Cup ad looks like a psychedelic collaboration between Adbusters and James Nachtwey . Way to bum out the entire species, FIFA. Photo credit: flickr user Dr. Motte , licensed under Creative Commons . Topics:
• Photo: 2 Legs and 5 Shots
  Readers have asked for more original photography at Focal Point. I'm happy to oblige. Here's a fun photo for the weekend, taken during my recent trip to St. John's, Newfoundland. It's a small city where social life revolves around stiff drinks and live music in bars. Think of St. John's as a foggier ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Inside Facebook Turns Four Years Old
  This past week marks Inside Facebookâs 4th birthday. The time has flown by since we started tracking Facebook here on April 22, 2006. While Facebook only had a few million users then, it’s nearing 500 million active worldwide users today, and continues to play an increasingly important role in s ...
• A Look At Facebook’s Three Instant Personalization ...
  At the f8 developer conference that Facebook held last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that, along with launching its new Like button and the Open Graph API, the company would also be working more closely with a select group of outside partners on “instant personalization” integrations that will ...
• Levi’s Uses New Facebook Plugins to Reach Potentia ...
  Levi’s, maker of iconic American jeans and clothes, was one of the first web sites to debut Facebook’s new social plugins last week and already the company has garnered more than 4,000 likes on its web site and increased its Facebook fanbase by several thousand. Exactly how these plugins will affect ...
• US Congressmen Take Closer Look at Certain Faceboo ...
  Facebook launched new ways for developers to reach its users last week at its f8 devleoper conference, and following more recent  government attention to privacy and data security issues in general, the company is now in the political spotlight. Four US senators, Charles Schumer of New York, Michael ...
• Television Takes Over Our List of Top 20 Facebook ...
  Television literally took over our list of Top 20 Facebook Pages this week, or since our last such post Thursday, when TV shows also made up a significant part of the list. Eight of the 20 top Pages, compiled courtesy of Inside Facebook’s PageData tool, were television shows this week, thanks to som ...

Truthout - Tweets

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  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

ReDress News

• Israel’s big and small apartheids: the meaning of ...
  Jonathan Cook analyses the pillars that prop up Israeli apartheid in pre- and post-1967 Palestine, from the unique and racist nature of Israeli citizenship law, to Jewish control of land, to defining Israeli Arabs as a security threat. In a talk delivered to the fifth Bilin international conferenc ...
• Supporting Goldstone without repudiating Israel, Z ...
  Debbie Menon welcomes the support of rabbis for Richard Goldstone, who had been excluded from his grandson’s Bar Mitzvah because of his report on Israeli crimes in Gaza, but condemns the rabbis for failing to repudiate Israel, Zionism and world Jewry for what they have done to Palestinians and for t ...
• 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
• 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Boiling Frogs Video Presents Colonel Larry Wilkers ...
  Exclusive Interview: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more: As a card carry ...
• 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

Afro Spear

• “Potty ruling spenders core of Africa’ ...
  By declaring the end of third world just recently, Robert B. Zoellick (President The World Bank Group) left me baffled. When this was declared, in all honesty, my first question was: “Is Africa included in this make-believe leap forth?” If yes, how with all the vampiric regimes made of corrupt big s ...
• Christianity, Just Another Religion
  Sometimes, we christians can be very arrogant because we believe we have Jesus. We equate our “Christianity” with the Truth of Jesus. Jesus was not a “Christian” and I believe that our being arrogant is a major stumbling block for many people looking for an Answer. Within the practice of Christianit ...
• sat’day riddymz tribute: hip hop legend GURU ...
  The hip hop artist GURU (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal), a member of Gang Starr and the creator of the influential rap-jazz series “Jazzmatazz”, died on Monday from respiratory complications associated with multiple myeloma. He was 47 years old. Rest In Peace
• “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 ...

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

• The Odd World of Right Wing Rage
• 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 ...

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

• Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
  In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.  Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
• 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 ...

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 Weapon's Edge - Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons ...
  In 2004, the congressionally mandated Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack released an unclassified executive report on its broader study of the U.S.’s vulnerability to EMP weapons strikes. In 2008, the commission released a follow-up report th ...
• The Traveler's Edge - Be Secure in Your Hotel
  “Be Prepared” is the official motto of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, but its message is equally important for travelers as well.� While attacks on hotels such as those in Pakistan, India and Indonesia are extremely rare, it is a good idea to be prepared for any and all emergencies when staying in ...
• The Edge of Aging - Age-old customs in China Confr ...
  Deborah Lowry has always liked older people. “They tend to be more comfortable with themselves than younger people are,” she said, “and I’ve always enjoyed hearing about history from someone who’s lived through it.” A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research’s ...
• Energy Politics - Ukrainian President Stands to Ga ...
  Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich stands to gain from “the gas for fleet” agreement under which he agreed to allow Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to remain in Sevastopol until 2042 in exchange for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s reduction of gas prices for Ukrainian customers, even if the the Ukra ...
• 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 ...

High Country News

• Viva la Archives!
  Budget cuts have endangered California's Water Resources Center Archives, which serves as the state's institutional water memory.
• Grasshoppered!
  With grasshoppers expected to swarm the West this summer, High Country News looks back at some of the region's most dramatic historic hopper outbreaks.
• Wilderness by committee
  Complicated deals are being made over wilderness protection in Colorado and in San Juan County, Utah.
• From Alaska to Paonia
  Visitors from Alaska; more anniversaries; Emily Underwood and YEWS; Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl gets raves; and corrections.
• A Western state of mind
  The new short story anthology, Best of the West 2009, is filled with memorable characters and muscular prose.

CounterCurrents

• India Heading For A Bloodbath
  By Rohini Hensman Unless there is a powerful intervention that spells out a practical basis for a durable ceasefire, we are almost certainly heading for a bloodbath. The most urgent requirement is that both government and the Maoists should declare a ceasefire which is unconditional on both sides, ...
• In The Name Of Zionism
  By Uri Avnery If one speaks in Israel of Zionism, one means not Arab. A Zionist state means a state in which non-Jewish citizens cannot be full partners. Eighty percent of Israels citizens (the Jews) are telling the other twenty percent (the Arabs): the state belongs to us, not to you
• No, We Cant Have It All
  By Derrick Jensen We cant have it all. The belief that we can is one of the things that has driven us to this awful place. If insanity could be defined as having lost functional connection with physical reality, to believe we can have it all -- to believe we can simultaneously dismantle a world and ...
• Sacred Economics
  By Charles Eisenstein Sacred Economics offers a fundamental analysis of what has gone wrong with money; it describes a more beautiful world based on a different kind of money and economy; it explains the collective actions necessary to create that world and the means by which these actions can come ...
• From Neptune To Gaza
  By Ramzy Baroud In excerpts from a speech prepared for the Hetherington Memorial Lecture, Ramzy Baroud argues for a history of the people, by the people and for the people

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

• General Jones Jewish Joke--A Totally Different Tak ...
  Sunday night I put up a short post about the National Security Adviser, General Jim Jones telling a Joke about Jews that was inappropriate for the timing, situation and audience. To my surprise it became the most read, linked to and commented on piece ever written for this site (by a large margin). ...
• The 'Jewish Vote' Does Not Exist
  Guest Post by Michael Fenenbock The mainstream American Jewish leadership is hopelessly addicted to strategies that doom us to failure.� Strategies that are guided by faulty assumptions and misplaced priorities.� Lets start with the most prominent. The idea that luring Jewish voters away ...
• The Dodd Bill's Frightening Intrusion Into Your Pe ...
  There are many reasons to disagree with the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (a.k.a the Dodd bill) making its way through the Senate. As it stands now, a provision in the bill calls for the creation of the Office of Financial Research (OFR). A brand new agency, that will not answer ...
• Obama Takes a MAJOR Step Back From His Tax Pledge ...
  “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” Millions of people voted for President Obama based on that promise. ...
• Democrats Admit Congressman Waxman Was Wrong
  The House Energy and Commerce Committee has admitted that Congressmen Waxman and Stupack were wrong to call in major Corporations for a Kangaroo court in front of the committee. Last month AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, joined companies such as John Deere and Verizon announcing plans t ...

The Real Agenda

• A Escape Valve Called Illegal Immigration
  “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive t ...
• Quackery Science from DARPA: Smelling Threats
  WIRED.com No matter how well a terrorist covers their tracks, or how cool they are under pressure, the Pentagon wants to be able to detect, track, and even positively identify them from a distance. And they want to do it using nothing more than the heat and sweat that emanate from a person’s pores. ...
• Una Válvula de Escape Llamada Inmigración Ilegal
  Como hispano sé lo que es vivir en un país menos desarrollado.  Viví en uno por los primeros 18 años de mi vida.  Desde pequeño entendí lo que era no poder tenerlo todo, pues los salarios de mis padres, un educador y una secretaria, no alcanzaban para darme aquello que más quería, pero sí con [...]
• Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA
  PrisonPlanet.tv POLICE STATE 4 chronicles the sickening depths to which our republic has fallen. Veteran documentary filmmaker Alex Jones conclusively proves the existence of a secret network of FEMA camps, now being expanded nationwide. The military industrial complex is transforming our once free ...
• How to crush dissent? You make it a crime
  Infowars.com A major Anti-Defamation League report goes further than ever before in an effort to purge the Internet of all dissent, listing completely non-violent criticism of Obamacare posted on Internet forums as a reason to conduct a “major law enforcement operation” against opponents of big gove ...

Wind Watch

• Study: Wind power would drive up costs
  It costs utilities an extra 10 percent to add large amounts of wind-powered generation to the state’s electric power grid, a year-long study found. The study, released by the Nebraska Power Association, looked at what it would cost to integrate wind resources into the state’s existing power generati ...
• Morrison residents reject wind farm; 245-18 vote b ...
  MORRISON — Town residents voted decisively against wind turbines Monday night. By a 245-18 vote, they asked their Town Board to support a four-part strategy to head off a wind farm development that proposes to build 100 turbines in southern Brown County, 54 of them in Morrison. Packing the gymnasium ...
• Fish & Wildlife opposes wind farm
  A proposed wind farm in Ira could face opposition from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, according to a state official. In a letter dated Dec. 22 [click here], Fish and Wildlife community ecologist Eric Sorenson told Vermont Community Wind Farm that the company’s plan to put up as many as ...
• DOE e-mails to wind energy lobbyists cast cloud ov ...
  The Energy Department worked closely with the wind industry lobby to discredit a Spanish report that criticized wind power as a job killer, internal DOE e-mails reveal. The e-mails obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request show how, starting last April, lobbyists at the American Wind Energy ...
• Bats and wind turbines
  Here’s a mystery, why would bats known for stealth flying skills, that allows them to sense something as small as a human hair have a problem avoiding huge wind turbines? New research reveals what’s happening. Reporter Jo Garrett talks with one of Wisconsin’s leading bat experts who is helping to ...

  Blacklisted News

• Royal Dutch Shell profit surges 57%
  Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday reported a 57% climb in first-quarter profit, with the energy giant benefiting from a surge in oil and gas prices as well as improving production.
• House and Senate Ramming Through Secret Bill Add-O ...
• Former Air Force Intelligence Specialist Claims to ...
  The father of a former Air Force intelligence specialist was left to wonder why his son went from leading a "squeaky clean" life to being accused of claiming he had explosives aboard a trans-Atlantic flight, forcing the jetliner and its passengers to spend the night in Bangor.
• Special army unit ready to be deployed on American ...
  In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.
• Police seize Gizmodo's computers in iPhone probe
  Police have seized computers and servers belonging to an editor of Gizmodo in an investigation that appears to stem from the gadget blog's purchase of a lost Apple iPhone prototype.

The Intelligence Daily

• Japanese Military Joins U.S. And NATO In Horn Of A ...
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — Japanese navy commander Keizo Kitagawa recently...
• CIA Also Used Digital Taping System At Black Site ...
  By Jason Leopold (The Intelligence Daily) — The CIA operated another taping system at a black...
• The Economic Recovery Is Moving Along Quite Well – ...
  By Michael T Snyder (The Intelligence Daily) — If you are part of the Wall Street...
• NATO summit: ‘Not rational enough’
  (The Intelligence Daily) — So NATOâs head berates its foes, as the alliance pursues its own...
• Russia shows customs union documents to U.S. – Shu ...
  Russia has shown the United States the entire package of documents regarding the Customs Union...

My AntiWar

• The slippery slope to strikes on Iran
  Summary: GatesGates is correct that a U.S.-Iranian military confrontation would be severely damaging to Washington?s strategic position. But containment is an inherently unstable and dangerous posture ? perhaps likely to end up sparking a U.S.-Iranian war. source: Politicoread more
• Media Disinformation: Syria Threatens Israel?s Sec ...
  Summary: In the self-sensationalising world of modern media, some truths are better witnessed than told. Over the past fortnight, major media outlets have converged on Syria?s alleged delivery of scud missiles to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. By examining how the story first came to l ...
• Nyc Student Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charge
• Israeli Forces Demolish Settlers’ ‘Oba ...
• Uae Airline Etihad Starts Iraq Flights

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• The slippery slope to strikes on Iran
  Summary: Gates Gates is correct that a U.S.-Iranian military confrontation would be severely damaging to Washington’s strategic position. But containment is an inherently unstable and dangerous posture — perhaps likely to end up sparking a U.S.-Iranian war. source: Politico read more
• Media Disinformation: Syria Threatens Israel’s Sec ...
  Summary: In the self-sensationalising world of modern media, some truths are better witnessed than told. Over the past fortnight, major media outlets have converged on Syria’s alleged delivery of scud missiles to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. By examining how the story first came t ...
• Brazil urges revival of Iran nuclear swap deal
  Summary: Lula TEHRAN, April 27 (Reuters) - Brazil wants to see a revival of a nuclear fuel swap deal as a way to end the West's standoff with Iran over its nuclear programme, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Tuesday. source: Reuters read more
• US-Iran standoff edges to critical juncture
  Summary: Afrasiabi TEHRAN - The Iran nuclear standoff edges closer to a critical crossroads this week, with the potential for sanctions and escalation of tensions between Iran and the West on the one hand and, on the other, the possibility of a breakthrough on the so-called "nuclear fuel exchan ...
• The inflated threat from Iran
  Summary: Stephen M. Walt But I'm still puzzled as to why the Obama administration hasn't tried the one strategy that might actually get somewhere: take the threat of force off the table, tell Tehran that we are willing to talk seriously about the issues that bother them (as well as the items tha ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
  Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
• A Moment of Zen: "Our Place in the Cosmos"
• "Super Cells" That Can Eat Radiation, Generate Ele ...
  We believe multi-cellular organization is where it's at, with our mesoderms and our Mercedes, but there are some super-powered single cells which are far more than meets the unaided eye. We might think their mightiest power is confining us to...
• Biology of Zen
  The awe-inspiring distance normally perceived between humans and their gods through ritual, according to Joseph Campbell, is "the one great story of myth: that in the beginning we were united with the source, but that we were separated from it...
• The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (4/27)
  Belize Reef Offers World a Model for Conservation Glover’s Reef, about 28 miles from the coast of Belize, is one of the only true atolls in the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the site of Belize’s largest “no-take” marine reserve,...

Natural News

• Review of Bear Fruit Bars, USDA Organic real food ...
  (NaturalNews) In the world of food bars, it's tricky to determine what's really good for you. In this article, I'm going to reveal some common myths about food bars as well as a full review of certified USAD Organic Bear Fruit Bars (along with an amazing discount on getting some for yourself). First ...
• Susan G. Komen Buckets for the Cure program expose ...
  (NaturalNews) The whole push behind the new "Buckets for the Cure" pinkwashing campaign by Komen for the Cure is to convince people to buy more fried chicken (which is laced with MSG, by the way) in order to "end breast cancer forever." (http://www.naturalnews.com/images/KFC-SusanKomen-Cure-ScreenCa ...
• Buckets for the Cure challenged on the street by J ...
  (NaturalNews) The host of the NaturalNews Talk Hour, Jonathan Landsman, recently hit the streets of New York to ask people what they thought about the idea of buckets of fried chicken curing cancer. This is in response to the recent alliance announcement between Komen for the Cure and Kentucky Fried ...
• Big Brother to track your medication compliance wi ...
  (NaturalNews) Now that the U.S. government has achieved its monopoly over health care, new technologies are in the works that will allow the government to remotely monitor and track whether ordinary citizens are complying with taking medications prescribed by conventional doctors. One new technology ...
• Natural substance in breast milk destroys cancer c ...
  (NaturalNews) Breast milk is documented to be the best food possible for infants and breastfeeding is known to have enormous health benefits for moms, too. It turns out, however, that breast milk has even more amazing properties. Swedish researchers have found that it contains a compound that kills ...

Threat Level

• S.F. Admin Guilty of Hijacking City Passwords
  After a six-month trial, a San Francisco city admin was found guilty Tuesday of a sole felony count of hijacking the city’s computer system. Terry Childs, 45, was guilty of one count of locking out the city from its FiberWAN network containing city e-mails, payroll, police records, information on ja ...
• Apple May Have Traced iPhone to Finder’s Address
  People identifying themselves as representing Apple last week visited and sought permission to search the Silicon Valley address of the college-age man who came into possession of a next-generation iPhone prototype, according to a person involved with the find. “Someone came to [the finder's] house ...
• Study: Fair Use Contributes Trillions to U.S. Econ ...
  One study after another purports to chronicle how much intellectual property piracy hurts the economy, and contributes to every societal ill from  terrorism to child porn and slavery. A new study unveiled Tuesday sets out to examine intellectual property in a different light: How fair use — which ...
• Feds Say Judge Hampering Webcam Spy Probe
  Prosecutors are claiming that a federal judge is hampering a criminal investigation into a webcam scandal at a Philadelphia suburban school district. The evidence prosecutors are seeking is connected to a federal civil lawsuit in which the plaintiff’s lawyers claim that the Lower Merion School Distr ...
• Expert: Invalid Warrant Used in Raid on iPhone Rep ...
  Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week. Now, a legal expert has raised questions about the legality of the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Goldman Sachs, Enron and the Rape of Grandma Milli ...
  Historical events, it is said, occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. But not in the case of Goldman Sachs and the near-collapse of the American financial system. Six years before Congress released emails showing Goldman executives bragged about making "some serious money" betting against t ...
• McCain's Quadruple Flip-Flop on Immigration
  Just days after praising Arizona's draconian immigration law as a "good tool" and 24 hours after calling on President Obama to immediately "dispatch of 3,000 National Guard troops to our border," John McCain Saturday admitted he's not sure his state's crackdown is even legal . Which means that the ...
• God's Own Tea Party
  The first lesson in Tea Party 101 is this: Tea Party supporters are just Republicans , only more so. They're old, white, very conservative and vote Republican. They shout the same incendiary slogans on display at any McCain-Palin rally circa October 2008. Tea Baggers and Republicans believe the s ...
• McCain's Triple Flip-Flop on Immigration
  It was just three weeks ago that John McCain rewrote his autobiography by proclaiming, "I never considered myself a maverick." Now, the draconian new immigration law in his home state of Arizona has highlighted McCain's tortured reversals on the issue. As even CNN noted on Friday, John McCain was ...
• History Shows Democrats the Party to Trust on Wall ...
  In just a matter of days, the Republican effort to protect predatory Wall Street bankers has gone from the ridiculous to the sublime. Last week, Mitch McConnell endlessly parroted Frank Luntz' " permanent bailout " talking point - the day after meeting with financial executives in New York. Then o ...

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

• Is Iran Really a Threat?
  The Obama administration ratchets up the rhetoric about Iran, but Ray McGovern wonders if this is just another dangerous hype. April 26, 2010
• The Risks in Obama's Mideast Policy
  By pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, President Obama may expose U.S. impotence on the issue, warns Ivan Eland. April 27, 2010
• How Authoritarianism Hurts Religion
  Early Christianity was a diverse, dynamic religion, but then evolved into rigid authoritarianism, writes Rev. Howard Bess. April 25, 2010
• Gaming Wall Street's Roulette Wheel
  Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street giants thought they had the game rigged so they could never lose, says Michael Winship. April 24, 2010
• The Mad Hatter's Tea Party Movement
  Today's Tea Party movement is less like the Boston variety than the Mad Hatter's Alice in Wonderland kind, writes William John Cox. April 22, 2010

CounterPunch

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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?
• Alexander Cockburn : Marijuana, Boom and Bust
• Alexander Cockburn : The White House Egg Roll v. G ...
• Uri Avnery : The Dubai Hit

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• When will time run out for a two-state solution? ...
  Time has been running out for a two-state solution since the beginning of Israel's colonial enterprise in occupied Palestinian territory in 1967. Yet despite this reality, analyses of the situation continue to repeat this now-meaningless cliche year after year, decade after decade. It seems that, to ...
• Green light for Jerusalem settlers (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli soldiers given minor reprimands over shoot ...
  Israeli officers held responsible for the deaths of four Palestinians in the West Bank received only minor reprimands after an internal investigation concluded that the deaths could have been avoided. Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, Israel's military chief, admitted that the incidents last month "cou ...
• Poll: Majority of Israel's Jews back gag on rights ...
  More than half of Jewish Israelis think human rights organizations that expose immoral behavior by Israel should not be allowed to operate freely, and think there is too much freedom of expression here, a recent survey found. The survey, commissioned by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research a ...
• Israel expels citizen from Hebron to Gaza (Ma'an ...
  A 19-year-old Hebron resident was detained by Israeli forces Tuesday night, removed from the West Bank and expelled into Gaza, security sources confirmed. The young man, identified by witnesses as Fadi Aiada Al-Azazma, had lived with his family in Hebron for 15 years. His identity card was reportedl ...

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

• 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
• Military Space Planes - First-Strike Systems by Br ...
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• Nuclear Weapons And Interceptor Missiles: Twin Pil ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism A
• Hammering Out a Contract: Exploiting Low-Paid Work ...
  by Walter Brasch and Rosemary R. Brasch Featured Writers Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com April
• Inside the Stalin Archives by Daniel N. White
  by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 27, 2010 tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.

Axis of Logic

• Fuel Trucks Attacked in Afghanistan - Middle East
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Twelve trucks, most of them carrying fuel to a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, were burned by an angry crowd early Sunday less than 30 miles from Kabul, according to local officials and NATO reports. The attack was thought to be in retribution for two raids by...
• Elite U.S. Units Step Up Effort in Afghan City Bef ...
  Tim Wimborne/Reuters An American military convoy traveled down a highway Saturday in Kandahar Province. Small bands of elite American Special Operations forces have been operating with increased intensity for several weeks in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan’s largest city, picking up or pic ...
• Israeli Rightists Stir Tensions in East Jerusalem ...
  JERUSALEM — A small group of ultra-right-wing Israelis marched through a volatile neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Sunday, arousing passions over the future of the contested city as an American envoy wrapped up an inconclusive three-day visit aimed at getting peace talks under way. The Obama ...
• Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundred ...
  Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed at Guantanamo were innocent, the top people in the Bush Administration knew full well they were innocent, and ...
• On Behalf of Those Who Speak Different Languages - ...
  Poet's note:The World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change was recently held in Bolivia. There was mention of the need for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. Read more at the Peoples World Conference on Climate Change� - Mankh On Behalf of Those Who Speak Different Lan ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  They can keep him. "Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is to be held in French custody until his trial, a judge has ruled. The 76-year old was extradited from the US early on Tuesday and faces 10 years in jail for money laundering. His lawyers had argued that French courts could not try him bec ...
• Whose Votes Count?
  Today's wingnut freakout is over the President of the United States daring to encourage the black people, brown people, red people, yellow people, female people and young people who helped elect him last year to stay involved and vote again this year. Do you see it? Look closer. Yes, that's it: that ...
• American Citizens Under Threat of Destruction
  Idyllic Pacific island paradise sacrificed to the questionable needs of the U.S. Military is nothing new - ask the former residents of Bikini Atoll. Department of Defense squandering tens of billions of dollars on a dubious project is also nothing new. Even American citizens getting bulldozed by unc ...
• Krugman Berates The Raters
  Paul Krugman, in an op-ed piece in the New York Whore Times: Berating the Raters Let's hear it for the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Its work on the financial crisis is increasingly looking like the 21st-century version of the Pecora hearings, which helped usher in New Deal-era ...
• To no one's surprise, the Chamber of Commerce will ...
  Long-time readers know that food , food safety and chemical policy are issues I care deeply about. And given the level of attention I pay to those issues, I can't say I was the least bit surprised this morning when I read that the Chamber of Commerce and a group that represents business interests an ...

Care 2

• Giant Palouse earthworms found, but they aren't as ...
  Two living specimens of the fabled giant Palouse earthworm have been captured for the first time in two decades in what represents a significant discovery of a creature that has achieved a mythic status in the area. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Conservation tourism? Goa shows way - with turtles ...
  Goa's unique practice of mixing turtle conservation with tourism has potential for successful replication across the Indian coast, says an expert. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Germans Want Nuclear Plants Phased Out
  After tens of thousands of people turned out to protest against any extension of life to existing nuclear power plants, it seems clear that Germans continue to be emphatically opposed to nuclear energy. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Activists oppose Indian animal testing lab in Mala ...
  ) Animal rights groups Tuesday slammed a plan by Indian drug company Vivo Bio Tech to build a 140 million dollar animal testing laboratory for preclinical trials in Malaysia. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Smallest horse in the world makes his debut on Utu ...
  Standing only 14 inches tall and weighing in at 6 pounds, Einstein, a pinto colt born last Friday at Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm in New Hampshire is being billed as the smallest horse ever born. Owned by Rachel Wagner and Charles Cantrell of Bellingham, Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it ...

GreenBiz

• EPA Contest Seeks the Biggest (Kilowatt) Loser
  Looking to tap into the popularity of contest-based reality shows, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is staging its version of "The Biggest Loser" -- a competition to see which commercial building can shed the most energy waste and be declared the most efficient in the country.
• Why PepsiCo is Building Dams in India
  Not so long ago, environmental activists in India targeted PepsiCo and other beverage companies for consuming excessive groundwater in local communities. PepsiCo is striving to make a difference by reducing its water use and helping communities secure clean water.
• Are Private Equity Firms the Next Environmental Cr ...
  Given the turbulent ride the financial services sector has recently endured, it seems counter-intuitive that anyone in the sector would devote special attention to environmental matters. Yet that is precisely what has happened, with KKR and The Carlyle Group -- the world's two largest private equ ...
• Are Private Equity Firms the Next Environmental Cr ...
  Given the turbulent ride the financial services sector has recently endured, it seems counter-intuitive that anyone in the sector would devote special attention to environmental matters. Yet that is precisely what has happened, with KKR and The Carlyle Group -- the world's two largest private equi ...
• 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.

Reuters Global

• Killing more efficiently: America’s violin-s ...
  The CIA is using smaller, advanced missiles - some of them no longer than a violin-case - to target militants in Pakistan's tribal belt, according to the Washington Post.
• Discord in Thai kingdom
  Emboldened red shirts on Wednesday plan to fan out across the capital of roughly 15 million people on motorcycles and pickup trucks to "explain to the people" why they've occupied an expensive piece of real estate in downtown Bangkok for the past seven weeks that is taking a mounting toll in lost bu ...
• The quality of MEPs is sometimes strained
  European citizens dole out billions of euros to the European Union and its various institutions -- such as the European Parliament and the European Commission -- each year. But is the money always very well spent?
• EU “maximises its bottom-up cohesion going f ...
  The European Union is a veritable goldmine of convoluted acronyms and empty, cliched phrases that are trotted out by ministers and officials when they're looking for something to say. Here's some of the best and most recent.
• On tipping points and Taliban talks
  One of the issues that seems to arouse the strongest emotions in the Afghan debate is the question of when the United States and its allies should engage in talks with the Taliban

Paul Krugman

• The Cohesion Crisis
  It's getting a bit scary out there.
• The Curious Politics of Immigration
  Immigration divides both parties, but in different ways.
• Epistemic Closure In Macroeconomics
  They literally have no idea what we're talking about.
• Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
  Too much muddled thinking and self-indulgence on financial reform.
• Till Debt Do Us Part
  This review is different.

No Quarter

• Will Rod Blagojevich be Obama’s Monica Lewinsky?
  Rod Blagojevich, ousted Governor of Illinois, has a face (and hair) that cartoonists usually can only dream about. But there is some mighty serious stuff in the wings. It has even been suggested that Rod Blagojevich could possibly bring down the President of the United States!* Blagojevich is n ...
• Consumer Metrics Institute: ‘Double Dip’ Very Real
  I have become a huge fan of Rick Davis of the Consumer Metrics Institute, the Colorado-based effort that tracks real-time consumer purchases to project future economic growth. Recall that during my March 28th conversation with Rick on No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle, Rick projecte ...
• America Burns While the SEC..er..Diddles
  Sometimes a toon can say all I have to say⦠By the way, Harry Markopolos’s book, No One Would Listen, is now available.
• Senators Set Their Hair on Fire
  If you are watching the Senate Government Operations Committee hearing on Goldman Sachs today you are in for a special treat–watching a bipartisan display of abject stupidity and ignorance. So far Democrat Senator Levin and Republican Senator Collins are virtually frothing at the mouth and pounding ...
• “The Tea Party Is Not A Legitimate Movement”
  So claims Gov. Ed Rendell of PA. Yes, the governor thinks that it really is not a movement to be taken seriously, or that will have much of an impact, in the upcoming elections. I used to really like Ed Rendell, especially when he was such a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton. [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• Gardening Tips To Help You Go Green
  How to go green and organic by making the most of your outside space. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Berlin's Legendary Love Parade
  The biggest and most clamorous and amorous street rave in the world read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Technology Seeks to Bring New Life to Dead Sea
  Jordan proposes to save the dwindling Dead Sea by building a 195 kilometer pile line. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Wars Over Water Will Become a Reality
  The most precious resource on the planet is becoming harder to find in some places. Could it lead to future wars? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• View from the Sydney Harbour Bridge
  Take in the best view of Sydney by climbing to the summit of its iconic Harbour Bridge. 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

• Allied Regime Change
  Washington's plans to open a base in Okinawa is good news for nobody.
• Does Israel Belong in the Club?
  The club of the richest countries in the world is about to invite Israel to join. But does it really meet the political requirements?
• Okinawa v. Obama
  Russia Today interviews John Feffer on the Okinawa bases issue.
• Marines Go Home: Anti-Base Activism in Okinawa, Ja ...
  The U.S. military's Kooni Firing Range in the South Korean village of Maehyang-ri was closed in 2005, following a concerted effort by anti-base activists. Kageyama Asako discusses the lessons from Maehyang-re in the context of the Futenma relocation debate that is at the heart of current US-Japan co ...
• Of Donors and Disasters
  When representatives from 136 countries attended the high-level International Donors' Conference in New York on March 31, it looked like good news for Haiti.

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

• Greek downgrade sparks stocks slide
  World stock markets fall sharply after debt rating is downgraded to highly risky.
• Egypt sentences Hezbollah suspects
  Prison terms ranging from six months to life for 26 accused of plotting Sinai tourist attacks.
• India and Pakistan to reopen talks
  Primier Singh will meet his Pakistani counterpart at Asian leaders summit in Bhutan.
• US mulls plan to burn leaking oil
  Coast Guard weighs alternatives as oil slick from undersea well threatens Louisiana coastline.
• Children stabbed in China school
  Second such incident in a span of two months leaves 18 pupils and a teacher injured.

Green Inc. - NYT

• A Reprieve for the Tiny Pupfish
  The population of the endangered pupfish is rebounding -- and a recent earthquake may even have helped.
• E.P.A. Makes Its Case on Climate Change
  The E.P.A. releases a glossy report to help Americans make sense of climate change data.
• On Patrol With the Reef Ranger
  Scientists say that overfishing has wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean, which is why marine reserves like Glover's Reef, an atoll off Belize, are so important. Belize's government has imposed strict limits on what can be caught, and although there are gaps in enforcement, some scientists here sa ...
• For Summer Sentinels, a Firefly Count
  This summer, would-be scientists and firefly enthusiasts can put their fascination with the glow bug to use by counting fireflies to help scientists with their research.
• On Our Radar: Australia Shelves Carbon Trading Pla ...
  A carbon emissions trading plan founders in the Australian Parliament.

Dot Earth News

• On Climate Certainty and Climate Credibility
  Have scientists been clear enough about climate uncertainty?
• China's Motives on Climate and Energy
  Is China's "green" focus more about energy security than climate stability?
• Is China Chortling at Senate Climate Stasis?
  Champions of climate bill warn that China will cheer its failure.
• A New Blog on Climate and Energy Choices
  A new voice clarifying climate and energy choices.
• A New Times Blog On All Things Green
  The New York Times adds Green to its roster of news blogs.

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

• The Pledge of Allegiance: A Symbol of Institutiona ...
  The Pledge of Allegiance: A Symbol of Institutionalized Injustice By: Solomon Comissiong Riddled throughout American society are innumerable institutionally engrained symbols of America’s hypocritical and repugnant justifications of global injustice. These symbols are among the necessary instrument ...
• Our society is killing our children, opening a Pan ...
  A mark of mental health is the ability to repress our knowledge of the world’s cruelty, to be able to live in peace though surrounded on all sides by horror and violent death… It is ironic that if a depressed patient walks into my office and says that the world is so grim that he [...]
• People concerned over more Facebook privacy change ...
  Facebook continues to try and find ways to eliminate your privacy. This time with instant personalizations. It’s now more difficult to opt out of things, making one wonder why they should ever keep a Facebook account at all. Facebook says that you can click one button to opt-out of instant person ...
• This Needs to Go Viral – “What to do About the Ban ...
  The most concise and useful history, analysis, and set of remedies regarding the financial crisis  is found right here in Numerian’s latest post, What to do About the Banks.   He’s the internet poster who has been warning about the calamity facing the economy since 2005 on The Agonist.   Read t ...
• California Scheming: killing public pensions for w ...
  California is dying! With their so-called concern for the fiscal responsibility of California, the front and center of their demolition policies, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday, the 22ndd of April, that they supported controversial plans to r ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Okinawa v. Obama
  Russia Today interviews John Feffer on the Okinawa bases issue.
• Letters to the Editor: Kaul's 'Enduring Literature ...
  Donald Kaul's take on the GOP hits a nerve.
• Allied Regime Change
  Washington's plans to open a base in Okinawa is good news for nobody.
• How to Talk to a Tea Party Activist
  Progressives and tea party activists: Where we agree, disagree, and how we can find common good.
• The Parable of the Taxpayer
  A parable to remind of us all the things we take for granted while we're griping about Tax Day.

Pine River World News

• Polish Military Prosecutor's Office: The video mad ...
  The following article is from Azeri Press Agency (APA), Baku, Azerbaijan. Polish Military Prosecutor's Office: The video made several minutes after the crash of Polish president's plane in Russia is true � � APA April 28, 2010 �14:14 Baku - APA. The video made several minutes after the crash of Po ...
• Jeff Gates: When Will Israel Attack the U.S. - Aga ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today . When Will Israel Attack the U.S. - Again? � �Jeff Gates Source: �Veterans Today April 26, 2010 Israel has long been waging war on the U.S. by way of deception. To date, its operatives have worked from the shadows hoping no ...
• The Suicide Of Multiethnic Sarajevo
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). The Suicide Of Multiethnic Sarajevo � � RFE/RL By Nenad Pejic April 25, 2010 Two events in Sarajevo this week illustrate the huge failures of the Bosnian Federation government. The funeral of Bos ...
• Wall Street Coup Against U.S. Complete, Israel Set ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from The European Union Times. Wall Street Coup Against U.S. Complete, Israel Set To Fall Next � � E.U. Times April 24, 2010 A new GRU report prepared for Prime Minister Putin circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States "ceas ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• Political wiretap scandal erupts in India
  A major scandal has erupted in India, with the revelation last weekend that government intelligence services have monitored the telecommunications of senior political figures since at least 2006.
• News you may have missed #338
  US intel on Iran suffering from information overload? Canada's ex-intel boss slams new anti-terrorism measures. Wiretapping scandals continue in Colombia.
• CIA scores Washington Post charm offensive
  For an agency whose very future is routinely questioned by former employees, the CIA has been getting plenty of positive press in The Washington Post lately.
• News you may have missed #337
  Another Iranian nuclear researcher reportedly defects. Dutch spies to become more active abroad. Why did the CIA destroy waterboarding evidence?
• Russian intelligence arrests, extradites fmr Kyrgy ...
  If there were any doubts that Russia is aggressively courting the new interim government in Kyrgyzstan, they were dispelled earlier today with the announcement that Russian authorities arrested the Central Asian republic’s former interior minister.

After Downing Street.org

• Canadian Speaker Enforces Power of Parliamentary S ...
  Here's a contrast with our rotten system of freedoms a terrorist would have to be an idiot to hate us for.
• How Could a Progressive Democratic Electoral Group ...
  Vote for her here: http://www.primariesmatter.com/elections/california And call DFA to ask them to endorse her: 802-651-3200
• Theodore B. Olson Retained To Represent Paul Minor ...
  Former United States Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson—one of the Nation’s premier appellate attorneys and Supreme Court advocates—will represent Mississippi attorney Paul Minor in his upcoming appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. A partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, D ...
• Marcy Winograd Wins Over Washington, D.C.
  Marcy Winograd held a packed and enthusiastic fundraiser tonight at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C., with Progressive Democrats of America. Everybody loved Marcy, and GAVE MONEY . And she showed this video of the floor fight in which Marcy almost took the California Democratic Party's endors ...
• The Real War Reporters
  Go read this article by William Rivers Pitt: The Real War Reporters .

Grist - News

• Senate Dem leader vows action on both climate and ...
  by Agence France-Presse Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidWASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he was determined to pass sweeping bills to overhaul immigration and to battle climate change this year despite stiff opposition to both measures. "Immigration and ene ...
• 14 buildings compete to be the Biggest Loser (of e ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes The EPA draws inspiration from The Biggest Loser in a new competition that pits 14 buildings against each other to see which can trim its energy usage the most. The National Building Competition is explicitly modeled after the weight-loss reality TV show, spotlighting st ...
• Engineers plan underwater dome to contain Gulf oil ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes They're trying a dome because the robots didn't work. No, really. Damage control for the oil-rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is sounding like a bad science-fiction movie : Engineers are crafting a giant underwater dome to help to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of M ...
• Kerry says climate bill is not dead
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said late Monday that efforts to craft sweeping, comprehensive legislation to combat climate change were still "very much alive." "We're still pushing, we're still talking, we're still fighting, it's very much alive -- and I won't ...
• Australia delays carbon-trading scheme
  by Agence France-Presse SYDNEY - On Tuesday, Australia shelved plans for a carbon-trading system to cut greenhouse-gas emissions until at least 2013, blaming the slow pace of global action and an obstructive opposition. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has described climate change as "the great ...

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Time - Top Stories

• The Derby: Is Kentucky Losing Its Horse Supremacy?
  Behind the undiminished pageantry of Saturday's Run for the Roses, the state's defining industry is in trouble
• Greek Crisis: It's Gut Check Time for Europe
  So now Europe may have a real crisis on its hands. It's been clear to financial markets for months that the debt woes in Greece could spread to the Eurozone's other financially unsound PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain)
• Study: Calcium Helps Predict Heart Attack Risk
  Researchers publish the most thorough study to date of the ability of coronary artery calcium scores to predict the likelihood of future heart disease
• The Long Reach of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa Dynasty
  At no time in Sri Lankan history has the clan of President Mahinda Rajapaksa been so influential in national politics. TIME takes a look at the long reach of this powerful family
• Is Netanyahu Quietly Freezing Jerusalem Settlement ...
  Publicly, the Israeli government remains defiant of U.S. demands to halt building on occupied land, but the bureaucratic mechanism for authorizing new construction appears to have ground to a halt

Washington Independent

• Right Before Khadr Hearing Starts, Gov’t Off ...
  GUANTANAMO BAY — There were doubts, after yesterday’s late-breaking release of the Manual for military commissions, whether this morning’s pre-trial hearing to suppress Omar Khadr’s statements to interrogators would go forward at all. Now, the hearing’s about to get underway — whether Col. Pat Parri ...
• Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald: The Most Important Unse ...
  GUANTANAMO BAY — This morning, attorneys for Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen charged with murder, conspiracy and material support for terrorism, will attempt to persuade a military judge to exclude from his military commission every statement Khadr made to a U.S. interrogator. They will argue, as t ...
• Plenty of Blame Still to Go Around in Massey Minin ...
  Leaders of the Mine Safety and Health Administration Agency haven't done nearly enough to confront coal companies that show patterns of safety violations, critics contend.
• The Republican Counter-Proposal vs. the Dodd Bill
  Tonight, the Republicans released a counter-proposal to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform package. Here is a comparative analysis of the two proposals. First, the similarities. There are many. Both bills create systemic regulators to keep watch over risky firms. Both ensure tha ...
• Hours Before Khadr Hearing Begins, Gates Signs Man ...
  GUANTANAMO BAY — A source from the convening authority for the military commissions just informed the press corps that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has finally signed and issued a Manual for the Military Commissions Act of 2009. It’s 7:30 p.m. as I write this. Approximately 13 and a half hours ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
  Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
  Move over CO2youve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of greenhouse gases are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
  Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
  Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• We love Butchers
  Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleishers Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

• Jon Stewart: Arizona Is The Meth Lab Of Democracy ...
  Jon Stewart: Arizona is the meth lab of democracy Raw Story- By David Edwards Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 — 9:23 am Jon Stewart slammed Arizona Monday for passing a new law that would require citizens to carry proof of residency papers — a measure he likened to slavery-era laws requiring African Ameri ...
• The Lunatics Who Made A Religion Out Of Greed
  Taibbi: The Lunatics Who Made a Religion Out of Greed and Wrecked the Economy The Guardian / By Matt Taibbi April 26, 2010 | The SEC’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs is a chance to prevent greed without limits. So Goldman Sachs, the world’s greatest and smuggest investment bank, has been sued for fr ...
• Garzon who pursued Spain’s fascist assassins finds ...
  By sudhan Powerful enemies are attempting to unseat the ‘superjudge’ who tried to bring the death squads of Franco’s dictatorship to book Giles Tremlett in  Madrid, The Observer/UK, April 25, 2010 The Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, who dared to investigate the atrocities of the Franco dictatorship. ...
• Kucinich: US drone attacks in Pakistan could ‘insp ...
  By Sahil Kapur, The Raw Story, April 19, 2010 WASHINGTON – Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) forcefully criticized the United States’ drone strikes in Pakistan as inspiring the anti-American sentiments they seek to quell, touching upon a consequence of the policy rarely discussed in the media but well-rec ...
• The Lunatics Who Made A Religion Out Of Greed
  Taibbi: The Lunatics Who Made a Religion Out of Greed and Wrecked the Economy The Guardian / By Matt Taibbi April 26, 2010 | The SEC’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs is a chance to prevent greed without limits. So Goldman Sachs, the world’s greatest and smuggest investment bank, has been sued for fr ...

Solari

• StartPage ~ Search the Web Privately
  In last week’s Solari Report, Catherine interviewed author and  privacy expert, Katherine Albrecht. During the interview, Katherine mentioned a search engine that serves to protect the privacy of internet users. That search engine is StartPage. I have installed StartPage and use as it my default se ...
• Lew Rockwell interviews Michael Boldin on State&#8 ...
  April 26, 2010 Michael Boldin is founder and head of the Tenth Amendment Center. “What is the Tenth Amendment, and why should we care? (âAmendment 10 â Powers of the States and People. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are rese ...
• Faking Mental Illnesses
  Nearly 700,000 prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics were dispensed for kids under 13 last year. The changes being proposed for the manual of mental illnessâwhose sales since 2000 have topped $40 millionâwould create even more patients for whom psychoactive drugs can be prescribed. As Dr. Al ...
• Goldman Testifies
  Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, testifies before a Senate subcommittee today on the role his and other investment banks played in triggering the 2008 financial collapse. The hearing comes just one day after Senate Democrats failed to gain the 60 votes needed to act on financial ...
• Goldman Sachs Leaders
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
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• An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
  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

• Exposing the Christian Right's New Racial Playbook ...
  A diversity summit at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University reveals that the religious right's survival depends on the black and the brown.
• How One Lawyer Learned to Make Money Gaming the Pr ...
  Need to pick a good prison? Alan Ellis can help. Attorney, author, and self-publicist, Ellis is the creator of a new legal niche: the fast-talking prison salesman.
• Right-Wing Attacks on South Park Censorship Ignore ...
  It's absurd to buttonhole Comedy Central when U.S. troops are occupying two Muslim nations and bombing a third.
• One Crucial Lesson to Add to Rachel Maddow's TV Sp ...
  "The McVeigh Tapes" warns that we ignore our own recent history of domestic terrorism "at our peril." But do we ignore our government's history of violence at even greater peril?
• Arizona Gov. Signs Sweeping Immigration Crack Down ...
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Sideways News

• Playboy's Hefner saves Hollywood sign
  Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has intervened to save the Hollywood sign from urban sprawl. The 84-year-old stumped up a £582,000 donation to protect the 138-acre site from the development of several luxury estates. The sum was matched by California state , with governor Arnold Schwarzenegger claiming ...
• Campaigners legal protection increased
  In a world first the Supreme Court of the Philippines has issued groundbreaking rules on how environmental cases should be handled, which will come into force later this week. The procedures have rebalanced the legal process between campaigners and corporate or government bodies and made quick and a ...
• Mayor opens East London rail route
  The first section of London Overground's £1 billion East London rail route has officially been opened by the capital's mayor. Boris Johnson marked the start of the route, which builds on and extends the old East London Line and will feature a fleet of new air-conditioned trains.
• Getting under election manifestos' skins
  With the launch of the SNP’s election manifesto, all the main political parties have now laid out their stalls for the UK electorate to come and mull over. The main issues such as economic growth, crime, defence and even climate change will be pored over many times by the media before 6th�May. Howe ...
• Call for carbon enforcer in government
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Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for April 25, interesting articles abo ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “Donât joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon“, Mark Steyn, Macleans, 22 April 2010 — “Britons have shown a surprising enthusiasm for informing on their fellow citizens.” “Colleague Says Anthr ...
• The words of a real leader. We have such people to ...
  Rumors swirled around Washington after the Bay of Pigs.   Who directed this disaster?  Who would get blamed?  Kennedy first side-steped the question in his aggressive speech on 20 April 1961 to the the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE; text is here).  But the issue would not go away.  Ken ...
• Good news: the Treasury Department’s debt ma ...
  Summary:  another in a series about the financial condition of the US government.  This is a follow-up to Another crack in Republic’s foundations: not the size of the debt, but when it’s due (30 October 2009). Considering the size of our debt, the Treasury staff deserves a round of applause for thei ...
• 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 ...
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  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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Food Fights
  Foreignpolicy-Some of the world’s most bitter conflicts have nothing to do with access to resources, ethnic chauvinism, or the balance of power. Here’s a short guide to the planet’s fiercest gastronomic controversies. The Battleground: India The Fight: In October, the Indian government gave its firs ...
• What is a Volcanic Ash Advisory Center?
  Deutsche Welle – The decision to close much of Europe’s airspace because of volcanic ash in the atmosphere is based on computer simulations made by the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center in London. There are a total of nine Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (VAACs) around the world. The London center is run b ...
• New electrolytic cells to play a role in tomorrow’ ...
  Physorg-Today, most energy is produced at large centralised power stations based on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. And then there is the energy produced by hydroelectric power stations, nuclear power stations and wind farms. The energy flows only one way, from the central power stat ...
• Afghan Schoolgirls Poisoned?
• Millions of computers shut down as faulty anti-vir ...
  Daily Mail – Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world slowed down or froze after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a threat. While the problem has now been identified, IT technicians are today having to deal with extra workloads to ensure their systems ar ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006)
  Review of The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) follows the life of Mao from his humble beginnings to, as one interviewee in the film describes, “the greatest Chinese [person] of the twentieth century.” Immediately not ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• A Wedding To Start A War
  How the wedlock between a Pakistani sportsman and an Indian tennis player is a PR disaster for India and holds implications for relations with Pakistan. A sign of Pakistan-India peace? Hardly. Read how the celebrity wedding was loaded with the kind of symbolism that rattled India and sent the wrong ...
• Alert: Pakistan, Iran set to face hot July
  —JULY 2010 appears to be a crucial month in American plan —After July 2010, the components would be in place to start a proper war against Iran and do an amputation surgery on Pakistan —A network of Patriot Defence System (PAC-3) has been established in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia ...
• India’s ‘Kyrgyz plan’ for Pakistan
  RAW was created in the late sixties with one purpose, to destabilize Pakistan. Its first target was East Pakistan. Its second target was Bangladesh. In 1971 RAW was successful in creating the Mukti Bahni, recruiting 80,000 Hindus and then sending them into Muslim Bengal disguised as Pakistani soldie ...
• 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 ...

ecogeek

• World's Best Water Purifier May be the Cactus
  Scientists from the University of South Florida have discovered the water purifying power of the prickly pear cactus.  An extract from the desert-dweller is very effective at removing sediment and bacteria from dirty H2O and, even better, it grows all around the world. The scientists aren't the fi ...
• Indonesia Harnessing Volcano Power
  Indonesia's 17,000 islands are home to hundreds of volcanoes and approximately 40 percent of the earth's geothermal energy potential and the nation's government is ready to harness that hot, clean energy. The country has set a goal of bringing online 4GW of geothermal capacity by 2014, which will ...
• Drawing Power from Dutch Coastal Dikes
  Plans are being considered to turn the famous Dutch dikes into tidal power generators. Although originally built to protect the people and land of the Netherlands, now a committee of various government representatives has issued a recent report including some suggestions to revise the operation o ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• Our Perpetually Indignant Lindsey Graham
  Body In the turbulent matter of immigration reform I wholeheartedly agree with the NY Times' editorial of yesterday -- that "trading insults gets the country nowhere." But in the related matter of the turbulent Lindsey Graham, it seems more factually relevant than insulting to simply ...
• Ancient Ignorance: Arizona Ups the Ante
  Body Yesterday, on CNN's "State of the Union," Georgia's Sen. Saxby Chambliss had this incredibly ignorant thing to say: "[W]e have this issue called state's rights. And this is one situation where the state of Arizona has decided to take matters into their own hands. And if that's wh ...
• Just Like His Boss, Presidential Advisor Goolsbee ...
  CHRISTINE BOWMAN FOR BUZZFLASH Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board and a member of the Council of Economic Advisors , was in fine form Monday when he came to Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, to address the Institute for Policy R ...
• Jonathan Westminster: "The 15% Solution," Serializ ...
  This is the fourth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.� It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A P olitical History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 .� Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly published i ...
• Goldman Sachs Exec Insists, “I Did Not Mislead” -- ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Just another liar’s bold-faced lie .Same chapter. Same book. It resonates with Nixon’s claim ,“ I am not a crook .” read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Larry Lessig's "case for Kagan" is the opposite
  Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig has a Huffington�Post piece today making what he calls "The Case for [Elena] Kagan" as Justice Stevens' replacement. �But as anyone who reads it will see, it actually does the opposite:� just as Walter Dellinger's paper-thin defense of�Kagan did , Lessig's piece il ...
• War propaganda from Afghanistan
  The New York Times yesterday excitedly declared that the imminent Battle of Kandahar "has become the make-or-break offensive of the eight-and-half-year [Afghanistan] war" and is " the pivotal test of President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy."  As Atrios suggests , there never is any such thing as "mak ...
• Ross Douthat's Muslim problem
  Ross Douthat, The New York Times , today : In a way, the muzzling of "South Park" is no more disquieting than any other example of Western institutions' cowering before the threat of Islamist violence. . . . But there's still a sense in which the "South Park" case is particularly illuminati ...
• 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 ...

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

• Hubble enhanced, open science, and bogus research
  These are a few of the science stories that caught my eye this past week: Hubble’s 20th anniversary treat – A stupendous image of a distant region of space, colour enhanced (of course) but amazing nevertheless. Draft White Paper – Researcher identifiers – How about a "SciID", like OpenID or a DOI b ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Drivers, Governments Waste Billions Due to Misguid ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2010 US PIRG Special interest lobbying, policies that favor new construction over repairs, and the appeal of ribbon-cuttings push America to build new highways and bridges faster than it keeps up older ones. The result? A crumbling infrastructure, with 45 percen ...
• Walmart Denied the Option to Defend Gender-Discrim ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2010 Wake-Up Wal-Mart The following statement was released today by Wake Up Walmart: "Today, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Walmart's women workers can vindicate their rights together in a class action case, instead of facing the company one case at ...
• NYC Trial of Fahad Hashmi to Begin Jury Selection ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) The New York City trial of Fahad Hashmi is set to being with jury selection on Wednesday, April 28. Opening arguments are expected Thursday or early next week. The case has drawn attention and criticism from human rights ...
• Lawsuit to Be Launched to Protect Endangered Speci ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity Today the Center for Biological Diversity formally notified the U.S. Forest Service that it will sue the agency for failing to protect endangered species in Arizona and New Mexico national forests, where it continues to appr ...
• Free Press Urges FCC to Move Ahead with Rules to P ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2010 Free Press Today marks the closing of the official public comment cycle in the Federal Communications Commission's open Internet proceeding. Free Press will file reply comments today with the FCC, urging the agency to move forward with its plans to promote inn ...

Common Dreams-Views

• The Death of Self-Interest Fundamentalism
  by Joe Brewer Have you noticed that a lot of people seem to think that appeals to self-interest lead to a moral and just society? read more
• A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
  by Noam Chomsky The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange.  For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.  In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement ...
• Murphy’s Law and the Stupidity of Obama’s Drill-Dr ...
  by Dave Lindorff British Petroleum had a fail-safe system for it's Deepwater Horizon floating deep-water drilling rig. You know, the one that blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving a tangled spaghetti pile of 22-inch steel pipe one mile long all balled up on the sea floor a mile below ...
• ‘God, What a Piece of Crap’
  by Robert Scheer It was the Perry Mason moment in the unraveling of what was left of Goldman Sachs’ reputation. Only in this case, it involved a grizzled former prosecutor, Sen. Carl Levin, rather than a genial defense attorney. The case was broken and the truth about the depth of Goldman’s corrupti ...
• Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling
  by Marjorie Cohn The conservative “states’ rights” mantra sweeping our country has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe is an undocumented immigra ...

Karl Burkart

• OCEANS: maybe the best environmental movie ever
  With photographic technology invented for the film, French director Jacques Perrin takes viewers on a never-before-seen journey into the ocean depths.
• Farmer battles animal factory and wins
  Lynn Henning, a country farmer, wins the Goldman Prize for battling a massive factory cattle operation that was polluting once fertile farms in Michigan.
• Sierra Club: last hope for an endangered movement?
  Environmentalists are quickly joining tigers and pandas on the list of endangered species. Will the Sierra Club manage to save a movement on the brink of extinction?
• 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.

Water Privatization

• UPDATE: Korea Water Offers Highest Bid For 218-MW ...
  UPDATE: Korea Water Offers Highest Bid For 218-MW Angat Power Plant
• Agthia Sees Continued Sales and Profit Growth in F ...
  28 April 2010 Abu Dhabi, UAE: Agthia Group P.J.S.C., a leading Abu Dhabi based food and beverage group (ADX: Agthia), today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2010.
• Why the Deficit Commission?
  Pretend for a moment the bipartisan deficit commission made unprecedented proposals that blew the most ballyhooed budget complaints out of the water
• 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.
• 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

• Markets feel the fear amid Greek debt crisis - LIV ...
  Greek bond yields have hit record highs as ECB and IMF leaders gather in Berlin for showdown talks over the debt crisis that threatens the eurozone 11.21am: You may remember that a few months ago we reported that two rightwing German politicians had insisted that Greece sells its precious art works ...
• Demonstrators clash with troops
  One soldier is feared dead and at least 10 people were injured in violent clashes between Thai troops and red-shirted protesters in a suburb of Bangkok 10.44am: Alex Crawford of Sky News tweets this from Bangkok: Red shirts at rangsit road disperse Red shirts protestor he saw soldier firing inside ...
• Traditional bank holiday rain on way
  Forecasters predict today could be hottest day of year so far but expect a damp May Day weekend The warmest weather of the year so far was expected in parts of England today, with temperatures reaching up to 23C – but don't switch to the summer wardrobe or fire up the barbecue just yet. The early Ma ...
• Ex-police chief defends Green arrest
  The theft of documents from the then home secretary's safe prompted his action, says Bob Quick The former police chief who arrested a Conservative immigration spokesman during a leak inquiry at the Home Office today said documents were stolen from the then home secretary's safe. Bob Quick, whose det ...
• Bowel cancer test could save lives
  Screening and treatment with Flexi-Scope cut deaths by 43%, according to trial published in Lancet A single five-minute test could save thousands of lives from bowel cancer every year, scientists say today, hailing the procedure as the most exciting cancer development in many years. Researchers repo ...

McClatchey

• Everything's bigger in Texas, like a $640 parking ...
  ARLINGTON, Texas — Tweed Clark stopped briefly at the Arlington Municipal Court to pay her daughter's $250 speeding ticket. So, how did Clark end up with a $640 parking violation of her own?
• Levin asks Goldman: Was it just hedging, or someth ...
  WASHINGTON — A Senate investigations panel confronted Goldman Sachs executives Tuesday with evidence that the firm peddled subprime mortgage securities its traders considered to be "crap" as they secretly made huge bets on a housing downturn.
• Paid sick leave pushed for low-income workers
  WASHINGTON — Fresh off passage of a sweeping health care overhaul, the Obama administration is supporting legislation to provide mandatory paid sick leave for more than 30 million additional workers who are some of nation's lowest-paid employees.
• Health coverage delayed for adult children of fede ...
  WASHINGTON — Many parents breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that health insurance companies were opening up coverage to young adult children under the new healthcare law. However, lots of others — including those whose parents who work for the federal government — probably won't be able to g ...
• Senators disappointed by response to Fort Hood sub ...
  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration won't let Senate investigators question the intelligence agents who reviewed e-mails that Maj. Nidal Hasan exchanged with an extremist Islamic cleric before Hasan allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in November, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Climate party risks losing its guests
  When you're deciding whether to get dolled up and head off to the party, do you stop to ask who else might be going? Few want to risk being seen somewhere where the action is not; most will do what they can to avoid arriving so early as to give the impression that they need the party more than the ...
• Oil stirs troubled waters
  As anyone who's ever dressed a salad in vinaigrette will testify, oil and water just don't mix. That's especially true of crude oil and sea water that supports sea lifeforms from fish to birds to plankton to mammals. So when we discover that 42,000 gallons of oil are leaking daily from a stricken ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Vermont House Passes Single Payer Bill: Why It Can ...
  Last Friday, the Vermont House approved “its own version of legislation passed earlier by the Senate” that would allow the state to design “a single-payer system, in which a government agency would administer and make all payments for health care” or a public option. California passed similar legisl ...
• In New START, Russia Conceded Defeat On Missile De ...
  In conservatives rush to attack the New START treaty, many have overlooked a key clause in the preamble of the treaty. While much of the attention on the text of the preamble focused on the connection between offensive and defensive systems (missiles and missile defense), the treaty contains languag ...
• Gov. Bobby Jindal Wants The Federal Government To ...
  Jennifer Haberkorn, formerly of the Washington Times but now with Politico, is reporting that states will face the “first real test of how cooperative the states will be in implementing the massive new health care reform law comes on Friday,” when they have to decide if they’re willing to cooperate ...
• Lincoln Reassures The Wealthy That She Is Committe ...
  Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) has been garnering a lot of attention recently due to her position as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which gave her significant influence over the portion of Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-CT) financial reform legislation dealing with derivatives. To the surprise o ...
• Gay Marriage Opponents Portray Themselves As Victi ...
  My colleague Jeff Krehely is out with a fascinating piece exploring how opponents of gay marriage are responding to the public’s growing support for marriage equality by portraying themselves as “victims of anti-religious (specifically anti-Christian) hate crimes.” And they’re using the courts to pr ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Speaker Milliken pwns stephen harper's Ugly Ass!!
  It's kinda one of the reasons that I'm celebrating about stuff 2nite. Maybe I'll sober-up tomorrow and write something more articulate (but hardly more suitable) but i gotta commemorate this historic event!
• John Ibbitson's Fucked-Up Priorities
  John Ibbitson is valuable for one thing. His columns help to illustrate the nuances of our debased political culture. In this post I speculated that Ibbitson was a craven stooge for the harpercon party of Canada. I critiqued a column where he tried to snidely dismiss the scandal over Canada's comp ...
• Blogging Tory Response to Guergis-Jaffer
  So, when one of their government's cabinet ministers makes a mockery of Canada's anti-terrorism precautions at an airport, and demands special treatment because she's so important, and it turns out that she and her husband, ex-MP of the Party of Decent, Law-Abiding, Taxed-to-Death Little People, app ...
• Globe & Mail March 23rd
  John Ibbitson: "If the U.S. can set its mind to curbing health-care costs and having a public system, why can't we?" "Blah, blah, blah, ... Canada and the US both have problems. Blah, blah, ... health-care is eating up a bigger portion of provincial budgets ... I'm not mentioning that provinces ha ...
• How Stupid Is Barack Obama?
  Seriously. The man is proving the uselessness of the US-American electoral process with everyday of his presidency. He has fucked-up healthcare. He said that building a "single-payer" public healthcare system would require "starting from scratch" when it would only have meant expanding medicare, m ...

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

• Defense Department Tackles Organizational Conflict ...
  Nextgov reports that the Department of Defense (DoD) has proposed a new rule that would require defense contractors to disclose potential organizational conflicts of interest (OCIs) before bidding on a project. The rule also would require contractors to disclose facts...
• Morning Smoke: Execs from Goldman Sachs to Testify ...
  Hearing: Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: The Role of Investment Banks [Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations] Ex-SEC Official's Pitch To Prospective Client: I Promoted The Guys Who Filed Complaint Against You by Justin Elliott [TPMMuckraker] Export Control Policy as...
• POGO Updates Misconduct Records and Rankings for T ...
  POGO has updated its Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD) with a new top 100 ranking based on the fiscal year 2009 data of USAspending.gov. Here's the good news: for 27 of the top 100 recipients of federal contract dollars, POGO...
• Morning Smoke: Did Credit-Rating Agencies Knowingl ...
  Senate panel: Ratings agencies rolled over for Wall Street by Kevin G. Hall and Chris Adams [McClatchy] Ex-Regulator Says Lincoln's Derivatives Bill Not Perfect, but Is 'Superior' to Others by Marian Wang [ProPublica] Lawmaker urges military to plan for bigger...
• 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...

Digital Journal

• The Red Wings defeat the Coyotes in the Stanley Cu ...
  The fourth-seeded Detroit Red Wings defeat the fifth-seeded Phoenix Coyotes in Game 7 of the first round in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
• Activist says something's 'fishy' with Canadian se ...
  The International Fund for Animal Welfare is wondering why the prices for seal pelts have nearly doubled for some sealers when the market has been suffering from a lack of demand.
• Toronto's Triangle Program gives LGBTQ students th ...
  Imagine fearing school because of your sexual orientation- the taunts, the bullies, the physical violence. Teacher Jeffrey White talks about Toronto's Triangle Program, Canada's only LGBTQ school.
• Black bear shot in London, Ontario
  A black bear, possibly from the Bruce Peninsula, wandered hundreds of miles south of its usual range. The large animal was shot when it charged a London police officer. Wounded, it was tracked down, shot and killed.
• Pirate Party of Canada latest option for voters
  In its own words The Pirate Party of Canada strives to reform Canadian copyright laws, reform the patent system and protect every Canadian's right to privacy. They are the new federal option for Canadian voters.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• A Call for Free Voice Messaging
  Call me lucky. I got in on a "beta testing" program with a telecommunications company called Grand Central several years ago. Since then, Google acquired the services, renamed it  Google Voice , and my participation continued — eventually becoming invaluable to me at a time when I unexpectedly neede ...
• Increases in Rent = Increases in Homelessness
  If housing is the answer to homelessness, it should go without saying that that housing better be affordable . It's also obvious that for this country's 38 million renters, a full one-third of American households, to stay in their homes during the recession, they're going to need steady jobs with li ...
• Paving the Way for Homeless Humans and Their Non-H ...
  As awful as it is when people lose their homes, it's even worse when they have pets, which many consider to be non-human family members. Most shelters don't allow pets , so people face an impossible choice. If they keep the pets, they'll all be on the street. If they give up the animals, euthanasia ...
• Dozens Keep Walking As Homeless Hero Bleeds to Dea ...
  In our quest to raise awareness about homelessness and to push for measures to end it, we don't often write about specific crimes against homeless individuals, because, quite tragically, it would make this blog an overwhelmingly negative sphere without advancing the cause. While we strongly believe ...
• Man Cannot Live on Pineapple Alone
  In Australia, the homeless are about to get all the pineapple they can eat. The appropriately-named Australia fruit company Golden Circle used to sell products with the label "proudly Australian-owned." Well, American company Heinz bought it a while back and so can't sell products with those labels ...

Ceasefire.ca

• U.S. resists Euro-nuke removal
  The United States is reportedly resisting the efforts of several European members of NATO to remove U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told NATO foreign ministers meeting in Estonia last week that the Obama administration is not opposed to cuts in the ...
• 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-27-10
  Today, Kevin explains why Americans are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore! And political guru, Dick Morris, stops by to discuss the scam Barack Obama is calling health care reform. Self Help: Essential Vitamin E Supplements KT’s Favorite Cleanses For Superior Health Results Weight Loss ...
• Laughter May Be As Effective As Exercise For Healt ...
  April 27, 2010 Telegraph By Richard Alleyne Doctors describe “mirthful laughter” as the equivalent of “internal jogging” because it can lower blood pressure, stress and boost the immune system much like moderate exercise. A number of volunteers asked to watch just 20 minutes of comedies and stand up ...
• Economists Admit The Stimulus Didn’t Help
  April 27, 2010 CNN Money By Hibah Yousuf The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government’s stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday. In latest quarterly survey by the National Association ...
• Why Intelligent Life in the Universe is Likely to ...
  April 27, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams (NaturalNews) Now that the U.S. government has achieved its monopoly over health care, new technologies are in the works that will allow the government to remotely monitor and track whether ordinary citizens are complying with taking medications prescribed b ...
• Big Brother to Track Your Medication By Electronic ...
  April 27, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams (NaturalNews) Now that the U.S. government has achieved its monopoly over health care, new technologies are in the works that will allow the government to remotely monitor and track whether ordinary citizens are complying with taking medications prescribed b ...

Pambazuka News

• Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
  On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
• Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
  The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
• Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
  Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
• Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
  On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
• Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
  Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...

War in Context

• When will time run out for a two-state solution?
  Yousef Munayyer says it’s time for the Palestinians to give the Israelis an ultimatum: the Palestinian Authority should set a date for the Israeli occupation to end and settlements be dismantled. “If this deadline is not met, the PA should dissolve the authority and convert the disjointed national m ...
• Obama’s Middle East star gazing
  “Despite the inevitable difficulties, so long as I am President, the United States will never waver in our pursuit of a two-state solution that ensures the rights and security of both Israelis and Palestinians.” President Barack Obama, Washington, April 26, 2010. “There has never been in the White ...
• Preparations for a military strike on Iran
  Ten days ago, the New York Times published a story about a memo on Iran from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to National Security Adviser Gen James Jones. David E Sanger and Thom Shanker reported on the contents of this memo, yet neither of them possesses a copy of the memo, nor have they read it, n ...
• Abbas says Obama needs to impose a Middle East sol ...
  In a speech to the Fatah leadership, Mahmoud Abbas pointed out the contradiction inherent in the posture that President Obama has assumed. On the one hand Washington has been pushing the line that a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict represents a vital American interest, yet at the same ...
• In the name of Zionism
  In his latest column, Uri Avery writes: If one speaks in Israel of “Zionism”, one means “not Arab”. A “Zionist” state means a state in which non-Jewish citizens cannot be full partners. Eighty percent of Israel’s citizens (the Jews) are telling the other twenty percent (the Arabs): the state belong ...

Watts Up With That?

• New ground truth: soil microbe negative feedback
  This could be a game changer. From the University of California, Irvine press release, a finding that suggests soil microbes have a negative feedback with temperature increase. This has broad implications for the amount of CO2 emitted estimated in climate … Continue reading  →
• WUWT Sea Ice News #2
  By Steven Goddard Break out the Speedos and Bikinis. Springtime has finally arrived in the Arctic! Guardian Image Temperatures have risen about 15C, and are now averaging a balmy -15C (5F) north of latitude 80N – with sunshine 24 hours … Continue reading  →
• Al Gore says “Denialists in Denial”
  From Al Gore’s Journal: Denialists in Denial April 27, 2010 : 4:52 PM Last week The Wall Street Journal published a ridiculous op-ed titled âClimate Science in Denialâ claiming that “global warming alarmists have been discredited, but you wouldn’t know … Continue reading  →
• New Theme for WUWT
  Don’t worry readers, I’m trying an experiment. WUWT has looked the same for about 3 years, so I’m giving it a makeover. I’ve activated a newly designed theme for WUWT. This one has advantages over the old one in that … Continue reading  →
• Australia dumps Carbon Trading Scheme
  WUWT reader Chris M Writes in Tips and Notes to WUWT Have you noticed that the Australian PM, Kevin Rudd has dumped his CTS until at least 2012. This was his key platform at the last election, when he described … Continue reading  →

Dandelion Salad

• Col. Morris Davis Criticizes Obama on Guantánamo b ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 28 April, 2010 I’ve helped unleash a blogging monster! Two weeks ago, I was delighted to receive an email from Morris Davis, the retired Air Force colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantán ...
• Countdown: Texas Secession (2009)
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ heathr456 May 15, 2009 â From Countdown May 14, 2009. more about “Countdown WTF!! Segment: Texas Secession“, posted with vodpod see The New Secessionists by Chris Hedges Tea Party on Dandelion Salad US split: Collapse of ‘shattered union’ to begin with Texas? ...
• The Big Six banks are shorting the American Dream ...
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com April 26, 2010 The Big Six investment banks, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, are “shorting the American Dream,” according to economist Simon Joh ...
• Larry Wilkerson: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyal ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 26 April, 2010 Exclusive Interview: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politi ...
• Our Complex by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox April 26, 2010 âBefore the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.â — Robert âFighting Bobâ M. La ...

Your New Reality

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  The Drudge Report mere moments after Fox News led a news bulletin with the exact same list of Fox News staffers and regular guests whining about President Obama : Imagine Fox News & F(r)iends' reaction if an American president took an extended holiday soon after he'd been alerted that terrorists ...
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  How To Turn A Boy Into A Killer Bill Willers : I n 1983, the National Film Board of Canada produced a 57-minute film, "Anybody's Son Will Do". Arguably the best anti-war film ever made, and tailored for public television, it scared the hell out of the U.S. military machine, which has done its b ...
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  Singer Joni Mitchell claims she has been suffering from Morgellons disease : "[It's a] weird, incurable disease that seems like it's from outer space. "Fibres in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, veget ...

Wired - Science

• High Metabolism Fueled Evolution of Bat Flight
  From wings to low-density bones to echolocation, the evolution of flight in bats required many radical changes. But the most important change may have been metabolic. A genetic comparison of dozens of mammal species shows that bats possess highly modified versions of genes responsible for turning f ...
• EPA Scientist Says East Coast Beaches Threatened b ...
  For most of the 20th century, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, was known for its boardwalk, amusement park, and wide, sandy beaches, popular with daytrippers from Washington, DC. “The bathing beach has a frontage of three miles,” boasted a tourist brochure from about 1900, “and is equal, if not superior ...
• What Climate Change Means for Wine Industry
  John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect Napa’s world famous wines, he gets irritated, almost insulted. “You know, I’ve been getting that que ...
• 1889 Pandemic Didn’t Need Planes to Circle Globe i ...
  The 1889 Russian flu pandemic circled the globe in just four months, captivating the world, despite the lack of airplanes or hyperventilating cable news stations. If that was possible, closing down air traffic in the event of a new pandemic might not do much, argue the authors led by Alain-Jacqu ...
• Mice Make Their Own Morphine
  Illicit drug use and poppy seed bagels may not be the only sources of opioids that turn up in people’s urine. Mammals make their own morphine, a new study shows. Scientists have known for decades that people excrete some morphine in their urine, but most people assumed that the pain-killing drug ca ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Noam Chomsky: A Middle East Peace That Could Happe ...
  The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Gabriel Sheffer: Are they all really anti-Semites?
  With respect to the Israeli-Arab-Palestinian conflict, Israel has contributed and is contributing to the inability to reach a solution; it is also contributing to the inability to manage the conflict... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Sarkozy: Netanyahu’s foot dragging on peace proces ...
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres that he is disappointed with Benjamin Netanyahu and finds it hard to understand the prime minister's diplomatic plan.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Noam Chomsky: A Middle East Peace That Could Happe ...
  The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Matthew Taylor: Gaza War Crimes – When Will UC Sto ...
  "When will the University of California stop funding war crimes against Palestinian civilians and the occupation of Palestinian land? How much longer will grieving mothers have to wait for justice?" ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian missile cruiser to make port call in India
  Russia's Moskva missile cruiser will make a port call in the southwestern Indian city of Kochi on Friday, a spokesman for the Russian Navy said on Wednesday.
• Russia ready to discuss further disarmament - Medv ...
  Russia is ready for further discussions on disarmament after a long-awaited new arms reduction pact with the United States was signed April 8.
• Russian defense industry falls behind rivals - exp ...
  Russian weapons are falling behind rival products, experts told the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily on Wednesday
• Russia plans to upgrade Black Sea Fleet with new w ...
  Russia's Black Sea Fleet will receive up to four frigates and four diesel-electric submarines in the next five years, a Navy source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
• Bulava missile designer blames industry for test f ...
  Yury Solomonov, the designer of the troubled Bulava ballistic missile, said that the poor state of the Russian defense industry was the main cause of the weapon's failed test launches.

NewsWise

• Peppers May Increase Energy Expenditure in People ...
  In a study designed to test the weight-loss potential of dihydrocapsiate (DCT), the non-spicy cousin of hot peppers, researchers found energy expenditure was significantly increased in those consuming the highest amounts of DCT.
• Cell Study Finds Receptor Can Fight Tamoxifen-resi ...
  A receptor that is present in the nucleus of cells can, when activated, slow the growth of tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells, a new study found. The study built on the recent discovery that farnesoid X receptor (FXR) -- a nuclear receptor found mainly in the liver -- is found in breast cancer ...
• Obese Children Metabolize Drugs Differently Than H ...
  Researchers have provided the first evidence-based data on changes in drug metabolism in obese children as compared to healthy weight children.
• New Rules, Grads: Job Search, THEN Diploma
  In today's tight job market, new college graduates will typically spend 18-24 months seeking employment, says Butler University's Director of Internship and Career Services Gary Beaulieu. "You can't wait until two weeks before graduation to start looking," he said. "You've got to start early and be ...
• Hawkeye Poll: Middle-Aged Americans Most Optimisti ...
  A new poll indicates that middle-aged Americans are much more likely to approve of the health care bill. A national University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released today suggests that 53 percent of 35- to 54-year-olds are in favor of the legislation. This support is despite the fact that only 28 percent of ...

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

• Justice with Monsanto Ties Should Recuse Himself, ...
  Oral arguments will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday in a case involving a federal judge's temporary ban on a breed of genetically-modified alfalfa developed by Monsanto Co. One of the court's justices, Stephen Breyer, has recused himself due to conflict of interest, and some environmental ...
• Bill Gates Funding Geoengineering Research
  Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has been supporting a wide array of research on geoengineering since 2007, ScienceInsider has learned. The world's richest man has provided at least $4.5 million of his own money over 3 years for the study of methods that could alter the stratosphere to reflect ...
• Evo Morales' Referendum on Climate Change
  During his presentation at the UN Climate Conference, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia proposed a global popular referendum that would tackle the root causes of climate change. Click here to read this article
• Not Aging Fast Enough? Drink a Soda!
  The American Beverage Association isn't going to like this news one bit. Food companies now add significant amounts of phosphates to soda and other processed foods. And now researchers have found evidence that phosphates may accelerate aging. Click here to read this article
• California Vintner/Farmer Mike Benziger Talks abou ...
  When Mike Benziger and his family began growing grapes and making wine in 1970s-era Sonoma County, the prevailing agricultural style could be described as "scorched earth." Agrichemical concoctions fed the vines, killed the pests, and flattened the weeds; plentiful well water provided easy irrigatio ...

fotoFrontera

• Primer video del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas
  ¿Le gustan los videos con imágenes lindas? Si usted ha respondido que sí, le invito a disfrutar de nuestro primer video con 33 fotografías de escenarios naturales junto al mar acompañado de una linda canción de José María Napoleón. Si usted tiene un blog, página o sitio web y desea contribuir al... ...
• Imágenes de la naturaleza (33 fotos lindas y verde ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Si usted se considera un amante de la naturaleza y los espacios verdes, he aquí algo que podría gustarle. Se trata de una colección que contiene 33 fotografías de plantas, flores, animales y paisajes realmente verdes... ...
• Escenarios naturales junto al mar (33 elementos)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿Le gustan los paisajes junto al mar? A mi sí y mucho. Pensando que a la mayoría de ustedes también les agradan estos hermosos paraísos terrenales, les tengo en exclusiva y antes que nadie, 33 fotografías que... Ha ...
• Imágenes de bosques y santuarios naturales (37 fot ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Una de las especialidades del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, son las fotografías de paisajes naturales o escenarios campestres. Por eso mismo, no es de extrañarse que el día de hoy tenga para todos ustedes un paquete... ...
• Peticiones especiales: 22 fotografías de gallos o ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. El día de hoy, deseo complacer con una petición especial que me ha solicitado Natalia Torres Herrera quien es parte de nuestra comunidad en Facebook. Ella me dice que está interesada en imágenes de gallos y aquí tenemos ...

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

• The WSJ Warns Against “Flirting” With the ICC
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Adding to our already energetic discussion about the ICC and Kampala is the WSJ Editorial Board’s contribution today.  I share many of the editorial’s skeptical views of the ICC and I think even Kevin would not find any “lies” in this article.  Here is the crux of thei ...
• Fred Hiatt Also Chooses the Post’s Photos?
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Too funny not to post (h/t, Gawker): (The man in the photo, for those who don’t know, is Malcolm X, not Obama.)
• Quote of the Day — The IMT on the Use of Armed For ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller From the Judgment: It was further argued that Germany alone could decide, in accordance with the reservations made by many of the Signatory Powers at the time of the conclusion of the Briand-Kellogg Pact, whether preventive action was a necessity, and that ...
• Howard on the Libel Suit Against Joseph Weiler
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On a non-aggression note, Jennifer Howard has an article in yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education about Karin Calvo-Goller’s baseless criminal-libel suit in France against NYU’s Joseph Weiler.  It’s an excellent piece — and not just because she is kind ...
• President Obama Breaks His Word to Armenians, Won’ ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This is not really a big deal, but it is still annoying when President Obama (or any president) flagrantly breaks his campaign promises with respect to foreign policy matters that are completely within their executive discretion.  Today, in his commemoration of the Armen ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• BREAKING NEWS: Germany abandons world climate trea ...
  According to Der Spiegel: Merkel Abandons Aim of Binding Climate Agreement By Dirk Kurbjuweit, Christian Schwägerl and Gerald Traufetter Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a...
• Australia shelves ETS scheme, NZ under pressure
  NEWS RELEASE FROM NZCSC “The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the costs of living and undermine the competitiveness of New...
• Obama official, Gore aide caught in climate fundin ...
  Chris Horner breaks the story: Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration’s “green” policies. Zoi, who left her...
• Climategate whitewash excoriated by climate scient ...
  While bloggers like OpenParachute's Ken Perrott and Hot Topic's Gareth Renowden have tried to claim vindication from the Oxburgh whitewash, many actual scientists have seen the 'inquiry' for the scam that it is. America's Judith Curry is one of those:...
• 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...

Public News Service

• Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40 ...
  Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40th Phoenix, AZ – Arizona joins the nation today (Thursday) in marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Former Wisconsin U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded the event as a national teach-in. Comments from Tia (TEE-ah) Nelson, the late senator's daug ...
• Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Fed ...
  Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Federal Health Dollars Phoenix, AZ – Arizona lawmakers have yet to restore funding for KidsCare health insurance. The new federal health care law requires the state to maintain its children’s health insurance program, or lose up to 7-billion dollars for ...
• AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challen ...
  AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challenge for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – Discussions about keeping the aging brain in tip-top shape are part of the focus at this year’s AARP National Spelling Bee. Spellers from Arizona and around the country will compete June 18-19 in Wyoming– with entries alr ...
• Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout
  Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout Phoenix, AZ – As the Girl Scouts approach their 100th year, the organization is putting more emphasis on helping girls develop their leadership skills. The newer concept is to help girls find and nurture their own strengths. Comments from Tamara (tuh-MAH-r ...
• Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona
  Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – The American Heart Association has issued a challenge for Arizonans – walk for 30 minutes a day. “National Start! Walking Day,” is April 7th. It’s a national initiative to get people into an exercise program to reduce the risk of heart disease ...

My Care2 Picks

• Arizona Immigration Law Prompts San Francisco to C ...
  Lawmakers in San Francisco today will vote on a citywide boycott of the state of Arizona, in protest of its new illegal immigrant law that has spurred a backlash across the country. Submitted by Judy B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Dangers of Wind Power
  Subsection from 'Blowing our tax dollars on wind farms and news about the NWO' Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The United Nations Is Beyond Reform…It Has to Be ...
  Failures of the UN, the importance of the Bolivia climate summit, why Latin America doesnt need the United States, and much more. Evo Morales' response to the farce of Copenhagen,developed countries were up to no good,didn't respect Mother Earth Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Ukrainian parliament ratifies naval base deal with ...
  Ukrainian parliament has ratified the naval base deal with Russia amid brawls in the chamber and clashes outside parliament - extends lease of naval base that expires in 2017 for another 25 years - 7000 protesters Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Why Does the U.S. Spend $1 Trillion a Year to Figh ...
  The U.S. is pending more than $1 trillion a year on national defense despite fighting only two little wars against enemies with no ships, warplanes or tanks. ( I'd note that 'defense' involves ongoing occupying of foreign lands in forts using mercenaries) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...

Angry Indian News

• Apocalypse Africa: Made in America - Trailer
  Apocalypse Africa: Made in America - Trailer: [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Protest groups to converge on RBS Edinburgh
   Source Protest groups are getting ready to converge on the RBS Annual General Meeting in Edinburgh tomorrow as well as holding their own alternative 'People's AGM' conference. It's been... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• The Death Of Boa Sr
  The Death Of Boa Sr � Canada's World: "The Andaman Islands, for those of you as geographically challenged as yours truly, are an archipelago lying in the Bay of Bengal between India and Burma. They... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Goldman executives cheered housing market's declin ...
  Goldman executives cheered housing market's decline, newly released e-mails show-washingtonpost.com: "The documents show that the firm's executives were celebrating earlier investments calculated to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Iranian technocrats, disillusioned with government ...
  Iranian technocrats, disillusioned with government, offer wealth of intelligence to U.S.-washingtonpost.com: "Some of the most significant new material has come from informants, including scientists... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Farm Wars Supports International Seed Day – Save Y ...
  On April 26 celebrate with your community, friends and family by cooking healthy organic food.
• 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Boldest move for LeBron? Joining Michael in Charlo ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on April 28, 2010 2:04 AM
• Google Street View shoots same woman 43 times (cne ...
  Noted by Kashmir Hill on April 27, 2010 11:04 PM
• Private zoo discovered at Kyrgyz ex-leader's home ...
  Noted by Scott Bowen on April 27, 2010 9:04 PM
• Hair-rub technique appears to yield cheaper, more ...
  Noted by Scott Bowen on April 27, 2010 9:04 PM
• New Yorker ad puts spotlight on Montana (greatfall ...
  Noted by Scott Bowen on April 27, 2010 9:04 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Oil Slick Could Become Worst In US History
  ShareThis Oil Slick Could Become Worst In US History 28 Apr 2010 American coastguards say the spill from the site of an oil rig collapse could become one of the worst in US history. The slick covers an area 48 miles long and 39 miles wide, close to the Mississippi Delta. The huge slick is now threat ...
• Ex-Brooklyn College Student Admits Conspiring to H ...
  ShareThis 'He acknowledged that�he knew that a man staying with him was planning to deliver ponchos, sleeping bags and waterproof socks to Al Qaeda.' Ex-Brooklyn College Student Admits Conspiring to Help Al Qaeda 27 Apr 2010 In a widely watched terrorism case, a former Brooklyn College student admit ...
• Afghanistan: U.N. Pulls Workers
  ShareThis Afghanistan: U.N. Pulls Workers 27 Apr 2010 The United Nations withdrew most of its local staff members from Kandahar on Tuesday and instructed its local Afghan employees there to stay home in the coming days because of what it called the "deteriorating" security situation in the southern ...
• BBC Film Crew Accused of Animal Cruelty
  ShareThis 'It was disgraceful - crash TV at its worst.' BBC Film Crew Accused of Animal Cruelty 27 Apr 2010 A film crew for The One Show was sent to cover the story of the bird which has become well known for attacking rowers passing his nest on the River Cam in Cambridge. Witnesses claim the crew h ...
• Oil Giant Shell Pumps Out £3.2bn Profit
  ShareThis Oil Giant Shell Pumps Out £3.2bn Profit 28 Apr 2010 Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell has announced profits of £3.2bn for the first quarter of 2010 - up more than 48% year on year. Shell said current cost of supply net income was £3.2bn ($4.90bn) in the quarter, up from £2.2bn ($3.30bn) in the ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• BREAKING NEWS: Germany abandons world climate trea ...
  According to Der Spiegel: Merkel Abandons Aim of Binding Climate Agreement By Dirk Kurbjuweit, Christian Schwägerl and Gerald Traufetter Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a...
• Australia shelves ETS scheme, NZ under pressure
  NEWS RELEASE FROM NZCSC “The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the costs of living and undermine the competitiveness of New...
• Obama official, Gore aide caught in climate fundin ...
  Chris Horner breaks the story: Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration’s “green” policies. Zoi, who left her...
• Climategate whitewash excoriated by climate scient ...
  While bloggers like OpenParachute's Ken Perrott and Hot Topic's Gareth Renowden have tried to claim vindication from the Oxburgh whitewash, many actual scientists have seen the 'inquiry' for the scam that it is. America's Judith Curry is one of those:...
• 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...

Mondoweiss

• Israel has been ‘Arizona’ all along
  I am encouraged by the wave of justified indignation, and spontaneous boycott movement, against the new Arizona law. Indeed, requiring citizens and legal resident to carry proof of their status at all times, and encouraging police to profile passersby who "look suspicious", runs counter to the soul ...
• Which has the better punchline?
  The joke: or the apology: I wish that I had not made this off the cuff joke at the top of my remarks, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it. It also distracted from the larger message I carried that day: that the United States commitment to Israel’s security is sacrosanct.
• Orientalism and Double Standards
  Here's yet another attack on Muslims for being�too sensitive about seeing the Prophet Muhammed depicted or caricatured in the press, along with the usual indictment of the West for�caving in and "self-censuring." But when was the last time you saw the Pope, or Jesus, cartooned or ridiculed in a big ...
• Palestinians protest settler attacks in the occupi ...
  Hundreds of Jaffa residents gather on the main street in the heart of Ajami to protest settler intimidation in Jaffa. (Photo: The Daily Nuisance) Tensions are rising between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel after clashes in Occupied East Jerusal ...
• UC divestment spreads – UC San Diego to vote ...
  UC San Diego will be joining Berkeley in holding a vote on divestment tomorrow evening. The San Diego bill under consideration is slightly different, and organizers seem to have learned from some of Berkeley's challenges. From the UC San Diego newspaper The Guardian: The resolution was drafted by ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Australian Vaccine Scandal
  THE REAL REASON SO MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT PANVAX? CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT W ...
• 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 ...

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

• Battle for Kandahar
  Battle for Kandahar Baghtu Valley 25 April 2010 Afghanistan The counteroffensive has begun.  More accurately, it might be called a counter-counteroffensive.  Close to a decade ago, we beat the Taliban and al Qaeda here.  The Taliban regrew and waged an increasingly successful counteroffensive.  ...
• 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 ...

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

• Grand Designs' Green Heroes Honoured
  Image from EcoForce Grand Designs, the t.v. house make-over series , has had a good track record of featuring green and ecological houses on the show and in their magazine. This year Kevin McCloud, the star, architect, and presenter of the popular series has chosen what he considers to be the ...
• US & Canada Lose Higher Percentage of Forests Than ...
  photo: Owen Renn via flickr. All I can say is wow! Mongabay is highlighting a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which reveals that between 2000 and 2005 over one million square kilometers of forest were chopped down worldwide, with both the United States and Canad ...
• Women Stand Up Paddle Hawaiian Islands for Oceanic ...
  Photo: Destination 3° via Facebook . The Algalita Marine Research Foundation are the folk who continue to enlighten the world on the impact that plastics pollution is having on marine life and our oceans. It is their groundbreaking work (can you say that about marines sciences?) that is helping ...
• O'Neill Launches ECO'Neill Surfing Apparel (Photos ...
  ECO'Neill signature "Culture" T-Shirt. Credit: Amanda Schwab/Starpix Surf apparel company O'Neill launched Eco'Neill, their first-ever collection of environmentally-conscious clothing, over the weekend at Saturdays Surf NYC in New York City. J.K. Livin Artist Mishka performed an acoustic set a ...
• Sustainability Sneaks Into US Board Rooms, Rolls O ...
  Voyageur Boardroom. Image credit: Ocean Meetings . Writing for TreeHugger, I see dozens of 'green product' press releases per day. Many from big-name ad agencies. Yesterday there was one touting an " ecologically sustainable" double-barreled veeblefetzer (actual product name withheld to prote ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burmese blogger wins top US award
  Nay Phone Latt honoured for 'paying the cost' of speaking out for the defence of freedom in Burma, one of the world's harshest media environments
• Suicide bomber targets Burmese police
  Man dies after detonating bomb during police interrogation in Burma's eastern Karenni state, killing himself and wounding four officers
• Gry Larsen: ‘The UN has its limits’
  Norwegian state secretary Gry Larsen visited Burma last week where she met with both government officials and opposition groups, and travelled to the country’s dry zone. Norway remains one of the leading funders of exiled media and pro-democracy groups, and was one of the first country’s to open its ...
• Mass call for Burma gas transparency
  Rights groups claim that absense of secrecy clause in contracts for Total and Chevron mean their dealings with the Burmese junta can go public
• Four wounded in grenade attack on dam
  Attacks follow a similar incident at a controversial dam in Kachin state owned by the same Asia World Construction company

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Volcano crisis: Sense vanishes in a puff of ash
  The closure of our airspace casts a highly disturbing light on the way we are governed, says Christopher Booker.
• 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.

National Geographic | Environment

• Huge Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered Off California
  Seven ancient underwater giants lurk off the Santa Barbara coast, and the biggest is as tall as a six-story building, scientists say.
• 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.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Liberia considering war crimes trials for civil wa ...
  [JURIST] Liberian Justice Minister Christiana Tah has said that a report [materials] issued by the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) [official website] will be reviewed by Liberian officials in order to determine if prosecutions for possible war crimes should proceed. The TRC report ...
• Khadr seeking suppression of interrogation stateme ...
  [JURIST] Lawyers representing Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive], a Canadian currently being detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], say they will seek to suppress statements he made during interrogation at a preliminary hearing to begin Wednesday. The hearing is to be the las ...
• France judge orders Noriega to remain in custody p ...
  [JURIST] A French judge ruled Tuesday that former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] must remain in custody until his trial on money laundering charges. Noriega arrived in France Tuesday morning after being extradited [JURIST report] from the US, where ...
• Senate climate change bill delayed as key lawmaker ...
  [JURIST] US Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) [official website] withdrew support for a comprehensive climate change bill on Saturday, delaying the unveiling of the legislation and casting its prospects for passage into doubt. The bill represents a major part of President Barack Obama's legislative agen ...
• Iran leader derides possible UN nuclear sanctions ...
  [JURIST] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Saturday strongly criticized new attempts to impose UN sanctions on his country's nuclear program. Ahmadinejad was in Uganda meeting with President Yoweri Museveni when he made the comments. The Iranian leader sai ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Too Fat to Fight?
  So even I wasn't prepared to go this far. When I saw the headline: " Report Links School Lunches to National Security, " I assumed that some group had found that Al Qaeda or a domestic terrorist group could infiltrate food companies and sneak poison into fish sticks. But no, it's actually a group o ...
• 2010: The Year of the Indignant Independent
  The Pew Center for People and the Press finds that Americans have specific complaints about their government: it has the wrong priorities. It doesn't do enough for Main Street. It is growing too fast without caring about saddling future generations with debt. It isn't getting the job done. These are ...
• Why Megan's Wrong On Romney
  I don't usually cover national committee web ads, but I'm going to make an exception to call foul on a colleague.� Megan McArdle thinks the DNC is wasting the money of its donors by running a web ad that links Mitt Romney to Wall Street. (A " Cry for Help ") Romney's not a candidate for anything, Mc ...
• Marco Rubio Shows How It's Done
  Check out this deft statement about the Arizona law enforcement policy change from Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American Republican Senate candidate from Florida. Think of his intended audience -- Republican primary voters -- and you'll get why Rubio remains the master of the "I get your concerns, but" po ...
• Alexi Giannoulias's Future
  For all the talk about their mastery of Chicago "machine style" politics, Barack Obama's political team is having a lot of trouble fixing the political situation in his home state. The takeover Friday of Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias' family bank was long predicted. His campaign fo ...

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

• Poll Reveals Israelis Support Limiting Democratic ...
  The Only Democracy in the Middle Eastâ¢, right?  Wrong.  Tel Aviv University’s Steinmetz Center published an important opinion survey about Israeli Jewish attitudes toward free speech and civil liberties when they harm Israel’s reputation or that of the IDF.  The poll was taken against the backd ...
• Links for 2010-02-23 [Digg]
  'Brooklyn Bundler' Rabbi, Charged With $4 Million Extortion Brooklyn Chabad Rabbi Milton Balkany has been accused of extorting $3.25-million from a New York hedge fund in order to fend off a non-existent federal Canadian Jewish Tourism Ad Uses Oral Sex to Promote Israeli SIZE DOESN'T MATTER - ...
• Steinmetz Center Hosts Conference on Academic Free ...
  For the past month or so, I’ve inadvertently been focussing my blogging on the general issue of political speech in the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict, and the ways in which the latter suppresses the free exchange of ideas both within Israel and Diaspora Jewish communities.  Many of the most ...
• Links for 2010-03-14 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Detains Israeli Reporter for Leaking Top-Secret Mem We're going to be getting into deep territory tonight regarding Israeli military intelligence, the Shin Bet, and their ability to make a mockery of alleged Israeli democracy and free press.
• Links for 2010-03-15 [Digg]
  TV interview: Mossad Assassination in Dubai A 30 minute interview for ScanTV's "Moral Politics" show dealing with the Israeli Mossad's assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabouh and the repurcussions for Israel from this act.

Ode Magazine

• Nau: Fashion, function, and sustainability combine ...
  By: VictoriaKlein What can a small clothing company teach us all about environmental consciousness? A lot, it turns out. From the eco-mecca of Portland, Oregon, Nau (pronounced “now”; Maori for "welcome, come in") was established in 2005 by a small group of b ...
• Blue is the new green
  By: TheBlueEconomy Nature itself shows us how to innovate, generate wealth and create jobs. The current “green business” model has failed to achieve its vision and goals. The idea that business would provide more capital and consumers would pay more to reduce our ...
• 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 ...

OpEd News

• If a Superpower Afghanistan Invaded and Occupied a ...
  If an omnipotent superpower Afghanistan Invaded the U.S., how many patriotic Americans would cooperate with an Afghan occupation and help the invaders kill American bad guys? Would our Christians resent Muslim armies on our soil? Would we be able to understand and accept the collateral slaughter of ...
• FDR as Catalyst of Pragmatic Progressive Movement
  FDRapos;s pragmatic progressive approach in economics provided opportunity for millions of Depression torn Americans.
• Farmville and the Real World
  Farmville, a popular game and networking site that has 60 million players. More than real farmers. The Ex Farmerapos;s wife- who is not into video games- canapos;t help but wonder. Is it because you donapos;t get your hands dirty anymore, have no risks like unpredictable weather, or because people d ...
• Was there ever any doubt...that the financial pira ...
  While the Congress and the rest of the world bemoan the damage to the world economy wrought by faulty models and exotic financial instruments, the financial wizards and their arcane tools are in no danger of extinction.
• AZ Immigration Law is Really About Vote Suppressio ...
  It was not anti-immigration hysteria that drove the AZ legislature to crack down on immigrants; it was a way to intimidate Hispanic voters, who overwhelmingly vote Democratic. Gov Brewer purged the roles of 100,000 Hispanic voters when she was SoS. The vast majority of perfectly legal voters who lac ...

Switchboard

• Saving Oil = Saving Money
  Infrastructurist brings us another �excellent infographic from Martha Kang McGill today. The graphic shows gasoline consumption by state both overall and per capita. The statewide numbers are not terribly surprising - more populous states obviously use more gasoline. But the per capita u ...
• Fighting to getting toxic waste out of Jersey City
  Last year, NRDC, together with two community groups, Interfaith Community Organization and GRACO, filed a federal lawsuit in New Jersey to compel PPG Industries Inc. - a Pittsburgh-based corporation responsible for toxic hexavalent chromium contamination of a densely populated area of Jersey ...
• Housing market strengthens for smart growth: drama ...
  The housing market is trending ever more dramatically toward smart growth.  A look at recent home sales data in the Washington, DC metro area shows how.  In particular, the May 2010 issue of Washingtonian magazine focuses heavily on the region's real estate.  It contains a list of the 100 “ ...
• Back to the 90s: Emissions Tests Show Diesel Engi ...
  Michael Walsh, MacArthur Fellow and unparalleled global vehicle expert, reported in his recent edition of Car Lines  (an online journal that reports on just about every piece of vehicle pollution news from around the globe), that European trucks meeting the most current European pollution st ...
• EPA Climate Change Indicators Report Shows the Evi ...
  EPA released an achingly beautiful report today compiling 24 indicators of climate change. Starting with basic data on emissions and the rising concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere the report covers changes in the air, water, land, and ice that define our environment and th ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• “Show me your [stiff upper lip]!”
  Via Christopher Shea comes news that will surprise no one I’ve talked to since returning to the States: Irish drinkers lead the EU in the proportion of those drinking that have 3-4 drinks (35%) or 5-6 drinks (19%). As 5 or more drinks as the threshold for binge drinking, the Irish Times hails our su ...
• John Calipari asks: Why do all these street agents ...
  As Rob can attest, the poor guy has really bad luck with that stuff. Now he has to deal with this. Related posts:Anti-Choicers: Women Not Rational Moral Agents A random walk down Wall Street Steinbrenner ought to be paying us. . . Related posts: Anti-Choicers: Women Not Rational Moral Agents A ...
• More Info on Cheonan Sinking
  Closer to an official statement on the sinking of Cheonan: A North Korean torpedo attack was the most likely cause for the sinking of a South Korean warship last month, according to a U.S. military official. The United States believes the ship was sunk by the blast of an underwater explosion, but th ...
• Seriously
  I’d have to agree that “how dare you respond to our laws that give the police virtually unlimited discretion to detain people for the crime of not having a passport handy by not coming to our economically suffering police state” isn’t much of an argument. As many of you know, Arizona is sort of the ...
• Thinking Differently about Somalia, Governance and ...
  That’s what economist Benjamin Powell is doing at the Freeman, where he notes that Western observers who refer to Somalia’s “failed state” status generally overlook the importance of Xeer, the customary law system that holds clan-based society together none too badly. As for piracy? Although they a ...

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

• Tesla Motors Gains Asian Foothold Via First Japan ...
  Tesla Motors is going Japanese as the Silicon Valley electric car manufacturer recently announced it had shipped a dozen of its Roadsters to eager buyers in Japan, gaining its first Asian foothold.
• New Lenovo Laptops Partially Made From Post Consum ...
  Lenovo is getting set to release some greener laptops the company feels make the eco-grade because of partial use of post consumer recycled content in parts like the LCD cover, palm rests and top/bottom case.
• HP Showcases What It Says Is Most Energy-Efficient ...
  HP has debuted a new laser printer which is said to be the most eco-efficient on the market at the moment and which also doesn't require a setup CD to let one connect a computer and start printing.
• “Futuristic Yet Feasible” Is The Shower That Heats ...
  A new design makes use of tiny, piezoelectrically-equipped pipes to heat water uses nothing but the motion of the water itself.
• Pokeberry Weed Could Hold Key to Cheap, Homegrown ...
  A weed common to every continent but Antarctica--the purple pokeberry--has been shown by scientists at Wake Forest University to be a cheap, efficient replacement for spray-on polymers in flexible solar cells.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• COMPLEX LITIGATION: The Class Action Fairness Act, ...
  Class actions increasingly proceed in federal court, but the law has not eliminated forum-shopping.
• 2010: THE APPELLATE HOT LIST
  Our annual Appellate Hot List denotes law firms that made singular contributions to appellate practice during the past year. We asked our readers to nominate firms that earned at least one significant appellate win since January 2009 and that could boast an impressive track record overall. Out of sc ...
• Employees' right to sue must be 'intelligently' wa ...
  A federal appeals court has ruled that job applicants who sign waivers promising not to sue their employers over workplace disputes aren't automatically barred from filing lawsuits.
• Federal Circuit to rehear case involving conduct b ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ordered an en banc rehearing of a case to hash out whether the court should change the standard for when a lawyer's conduct before a patent office can disqualify a patent or some of its claims.
• LAW FIRM RECRUITING: Recruiters squeezed by tight ...
  Search firms struggle to adjust to tepid, yet varied employment climates throughout the country.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Who the Heck is Calvin Tillman?
  Calvin Tillman is the unpaid mayor of a very small town called Dish, a grid of modest homes on the north Texas plane. Calvin is an authentic American hero. Like the heros those old Westerns we grew up with, Calvin is the guy who doesn’t want a fight but turns out to be very good [...]
• Natural Gases in Ground Water near Tioga Junction, ...
  The following is the opening statements from journeyoftheforsaken.com Note: The following is excerpted from an excellent and relatively revealing study of the Tioga Junction area, conducted by the USGS. I found this report particularly helpful because it helps explain the uncertainty associated with ...
• House Bill 2235
  The Pennsylvania House of Representatives will consider Rep. Vitali’s House Bill 2235 this week. The bill would place a 5-year moratorium on new leases of State Forest to natural gas drillers.  The five years would give DCNR time to study the impacts current drilling leases will have on the environ ...
• 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. [...]

News Blaze

• Secretary Clinton to lead U.S. Delegation to the N ...
  Secretary Clinton to lead U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations
• 10th Anniversary of World IP Day
  This is the 10th anniversary of World IP Day. And over the last decade the growth of the knowledge-based economy has been steady and impressive.
• People of Togo Celebrate 50th Commemoration of Nat ...
  On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I congratulate the people of Togo on the 50th commemoration of your national day on April 27.
• Vets Arrested in Lawmaker's Office Urge Her to Not ...
  Military vets previously arrested in lawmaker's office protesting war spending again urge Rep. Matsui to end wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by de-funding them
• Students Formed A Walk-Out On Facebook
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  First Solar To Buy NextLight Renewable For $285 Mln

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  First Solar Inc. (FSLR) said it will buy NextLight Renewable Power LLC for about $285 million, adding to its project pipeline and bolstering its position in ...

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  House Passes Renewable-Energy Bill to Senate

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  APS Seeks Additional Renewable Energy

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  PHOENIX, Apr 27, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Arizona Public Service Co. announces a request for proposal for energy generated from small renewable projects. ...

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  US Ecology, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2010 Results

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  US Ecology Suffers From Weak Demand

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  Port Townsend paper mill gets air permit

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  Human Ecology Building renovation begins Friday

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  Menlo Park water conservation ordinance clears hurdle

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  By Jessica Bernstein-Wax A Menlo Park ordinance aimed at curbing water consumption in backyards and other landscaped areas passed a major hurdle Tuesday ...

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  Floyd E. Dominy dies at 100; federal water official oversaw major dam projects

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  (Los Angeles Times / April 26, 2010) By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Floyd E. Dominy, a federal water official with an outsize personality who ...

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  Court: Los Angeles County violated Clean Water Act

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  AP LOS ANGELES—A court has ruled that Los Angeles County violated the federal Clean Water Act when it discharged polluted water near popular Southern ...

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