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IPS - Inter Press Services

• HEALTH-CHINA : Wave of Anger Rises Over Vaccine ...
  BEIJING, Apr 6 (IPS) - Shortly after Liu Yan’s four-year-old son, Liu Yi, was bitten by a dog, he did what any responsible parent would do: took his child to the hospital for a vaccination. Two weeks later, after the fourth injection, Liu Yi became violently ill.
• ENVIRONMENT-INDONESIA: Solving Waste Woes Far fro ...
  TANGERANG, Indonesia, Apr 6 (IPS) - By running his illegal dumpsite, Nasrulloh believes he is doing the community good, helping the city government, doing his bit for the environment – while making money for himself as well.
• SUDAN: U.S. Support of Elections Draws Criticism
  WASHINGTON, Apr 5 (IPS) - Recent remarks by the U.S. envoy to Sudan predicting credible elections have led to criticism both here and in Sudan over Washington's policy toward the African nation.
• POLITICS-CUBA: Castro Confronts US, EU
  HAVANA, Apr 5 (IPS) - Cuban President Raúl Castro has confirmed the worst economic forecasts for his country, in an international context that could become even more complicated following his refusal to address demands on human rights issues.
• MOZAMBIQUE: Earthquakes: Not a Matter of If, But ...
  MAPUTO, Apr 5 (IPS) - Time is everything in responding to a natural disaster. Mozambique's disaster management specialists are worried that they are missing key data on the small tremors that take place almost daily in the quake-prone country.

Scoop - NZ

• Karzai's Iran-China dalliance riles Obama
  Great moments in diplomatic timing are hard to distinguish when the practitioners are inscrutable entities. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visits to China and Iran within the week rang alarm bells in Washington which were heard in the Oval Office of the White House. Karzai's two days of talks in B ...
• Irish Banks Need $43 Billion on a4˜Appallinga4™ Le ...
  Ireland's banks need $43 billion in new capital after "appalling" lending decisions left the country's financial system on the brink of collapse. The fund-raising requirement was announced after the National Asset Management Agency said it will apply an average discount of 47 percent on the first b ...
• Hide: Erecting a new dysfunction
  THE GOVERNMENT promises its super city designs for Auckland will end all the local infighting and inefficiency that have long hobbled the region. However, its weak and woolly designs for council-controlled organisations sow all the seeds for infighting and inefficiency between the CCOs. Inter-CCO c ...
• Looting Main Street : Rolling Stone
  If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation department in Jefferson County, Alabama. Pack got rudely introduced to life in post-crisis America last August, when word came down that she and 1,000 o ...
• Ashcroft faces fresh inquiry over Tory polling
  The Conservatives are facing fresh questions over donations from their deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft, after the elections watchdog announced it is investigating complaints about opinion polls worth hundreds of thousands of pounds which the peer funded in 2005. The Electoral Commission is making pr ...

Independent ( London )

• Leaked video shows Reuters journalists killed by U ...
  Classified US military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, was released yesterday by a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption.
• China journalist club shuts website after attack
  The Foreign Correspondents Club of China has shut its website after a burst of hacker attacks, days after attacks on the Yahoo email accounts of some foreign journalists covering China were discovered.
• Sherpa to scatter Hillary's ashes on Everest
  A record-breaking Nepalese Sherpa flew to Mount Everest today to prepare to scale the world's highest mountain once again and scatter the ashes of its most celebrated climber, Sir Edmund Hillary.
• L'Aquila honours quake victims with candlelit vigi ...
  Thousands of Italians have held a candlelight vigil to remember the 308 people killed in the earthquake that devastated the central city of L'Aquila a year ago.
• L'Aquila honors quake victims with candlelit vigil
  Thousands of Italians have held a candlelight vigil to remember the 308 people killed in the earthquake that devastated the central city of L'Aquila a year ago.

Rogue Government.com

• CIA can withhold Oklahoma City documents
  A federal judge in Utah ruled in favor of the CIA in the agency's refusal to release documents regarding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• Leaked video shows US forces killing reporters, c ...
  US military personnel apparently mistook the cameras slung over the backs of two Reuters journalists for weapons when they opened fire on them and a group of people in a Baghdad suburb in 2007, recently released video footage shows.
• On First Day, Apple Sells 300,000 iPads
  Apple said on Monday that it had sold more than 300,000 iPads on the device’s first day on the market, a figure that included preorders. That met the expectations of financial analysts who were keeping tabs on the release of the company’s highly anticipated tablet computer.
• Unemployment benefits expire for thousands
  Extended unemployment benefits will temporarily expire for thousands of Americans on Monday because the Senate went on its spring recess without approving a one-month deadline extension.
• Silver Short Squeeze Could Be Imminent
  On December 11th, 2009 NIA declared silver the best investment for the next decade. In our December 11th article, we said that it wasn't a coincidence that the very day Bear Stearns failed was the same day silver reached its multi-decade high of over $21 per ounce.

Innovation Canada

• Beefing up
  When a deadly virus spreads through California after being transported from the African rainforest in the 1995 movie Outbreak, most viewers reacted in horror. But not David Asper. He watched with fascination as the main character, an army medical researcher played by Dustin Hoffman, investigated the ...
• The power of autism
  (Courtesy of Le Devoir)   Montréal researchers have uncovered previously unsuspected intellectual potential in many people with autism, a discovery that opens doors to new approaches for education.   A new approach to research, which looks at the neural disorder not in terms deficits, but in terms o ...
• Disappearing act
  (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia)   A commitment to both discovery and education places the Beaty Biodiversity Centre in a unique position to safeguard our natural heritage by bringing together outstanding researchers, exceptional facilities, and the public to better un ...
• Particle accelerating … in high school
  For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...
• Nose jobs
  (Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...

Signs of the times

• It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Russia's "flyi ...
  Russia has launched a program to build a powerful, multi-purpose airship that will certainly cause many people on the ground to take notice. The "Locomoskayner" airship takes to the air with nothing more than helium, but will also have special outfitted hot air cells to regulate its buoyancy, RIA N ...
• Foreclosures' coming wave: Commercial properties
  The 5-foot alligator lurking in the algae-green waters of the community swimming pool was not the worst thing code-enforcement officers have found in recent years at AAA Apartments in Cocoa. Bathrooms infested with mold. Walls with gaping holes where air conditioners had been ripped out. Garbage an ...
• US delays China currency report, urges flexible yu ...
  WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Timothy F Geithner delayed a scheduled April 15 report to Congress on exchange-rate policies, sidestepping a decision on whether to accuse China of manipulating the value of the yuan. Geithner in a statement on Saturday urged China to move toward a more flexible cu ...
• Office Vacancy Rate Hits 16 - Year High
  The U.S. office vacancy rate in the first quarter reached its highest level in 16 years, but the decline in rents eased and crept closer to stabilization, according to a report by real estate research firm Reis Inc. The U.S. office vacancy rate rose to 17.2 percent, a level unseen since 1994, as th ...
• Over $5 bln arms contracts with Venezuela in the w ...
  Venezuela could sign over $5 billion worth of contracts for Russian arms and military equipment, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. "Our delegation has just returned from Venezuela, while the aggregate volume of contracts could exceed $5 billion," Putin said at a meeting with Rus ...

The Galloping Beaver

• They were busy...
  The previous administration, that is. You see, Afghanistan was one of those horrible inconveniences that sprung up and got in the way of the scheduled invasion and subjugation of Iraq. And nothing was going to stop the creation of the neocon utopia . Year Zero in Iraq was so much more inviting to t ...
• Julius Malema, hate speech and Canada's Own
  Julius Malema is the 28 year old leader of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of governing party. He is currently visiting Zimbabwe as a guest of Mugabe's Zanu-PF and raising a storm by singing the apartheid era resistance song "Kill the Boer" , which he is now barred ...
• "Spray and Pray" and other problems . . .
  Taliban fighters training in Afghanistan in 2009. THE NYT BLOG, " AT WAR ", NOTES FROM THE FRONT LINES has an article by C.J. Chivers, " The Weakness of Taliban Marksmanship ". Apparently, the Muj just don't have what it takes to get the round in the X-ring. The problem has a number of sources: lac ...
• Hillary drops the A bomb on Cannon
  At the G-8 foreign ministers wrap-up today, Hillary Cinton was asked about Canada's initiative on child and maternal health care in the Third World. Clinton responded : "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning an ...
• How could this have been more appropriate?
  Perhaps by not calling the dead onto the parade square at all.

Media Matters for America

• Quick Fact: Morris falsely suggested health care ...
  Dick Morris falsely suggested that the recently-passed health care legislation would lead to "higher premiums" for "most" Americans. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that by 2016 the Senate's version of health care reform -- on which Obama's plan is largely modeled -- wo ...
• Fox & Friends allows doctor to fals ...
  Appearing on Fox & Friends , Dr. Jack Cassell, who posted a sign outside his practice instructing people who voted for President Obama to "seek urologic care elsewhere," falsely claimed without challenge that under the health care reform law, hospice care is "going to be totally cut in 2012," ...
• Ben Stein falsely claims health care reform ends ...
  Ben Stein falsely claimed that companies are "not going to get a certain subsidy for drug costs" under health care reform. In fact, companies will still receive the tax-free government subsidy, but the legislation ends the "highly unusual" ability of companies to also take a tax deduction on th ...
• Right-wing delusion: Net neutrality is government ...
  Right-wing media have falsely claimed that the net neutrality principle supported by the Obama administration is an attempt by the government to control Internet content. In fact, net neutrality does not mean government control of content on the Internet; rather, net neutrality ensures equal an ...
• Reagan vs. "Reagan Conservative" Sean Hannity
  A chapter in Sean Hannity's new book, Conservative Victory , is titled "Why I'm a Reagan Conservative." But from immigration reform to tax policy to the proper response to terrorism, the political platform Hannity espouses in the book and on his Fox News program directly contradicts the policies ca ...

Global Research.ca

• The Micro Chipping of Americans?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Why There Are no ‘Israelis’ in the Jewish State
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• War Crimes: "After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there ...
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• Tensions Mount Between Washington and its Puppet i ...
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• Karzai and Obama: Biting the Hand That Feeds
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• No Jobs Recovery
  The US economy added 162,000 jobs in March. Great news until you look more closely. In March, the federal government began hiring census takers big time. These are six-month temp jobs, and they tell us nothing about underlying trends in the labor market. It's hard to gauge precisely how many were hi ...
• "Don't know much about history"
  In the early 1850's after the British had been forced to withdraw from Afghanistan in humiliation, Rudyard Kipling,the poet of British Imperialism wrote these lines. When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains. And the women come out to cut up what remains. Just roll to your rifle and blow ...
• Beware Racial Conspiracy Mongers -- on All Sides
  The New Republic recently published (unwittingly, no doubt) a right-wing alarm about a curse that's supposedly been cast on African-Americans and all of us by the leftist-activist professors Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, who tried to bring down capitalism by flooding the welfare rolls in th ...
• LIVE STREAM at 5:15pm EST: Josh Marshall on New Me ...
  Josh is in Washington, D.C. today speaking at the New America Foundation. He'll be talking with The Washington Note publisher and Cafe contributor Steve Clemons. You can watch a live stream of the 5:15 - 6:15 EST event here. Washington Note - United States - New America Foundation - Josh Marsh ...
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TruthOut

• Wikileaks Releases Video Depicting US Forces Killi ...
  A video released on the Internet Monday by WikiLeaks , a small nonprofit dedicated to publishing classified information from the US and other governments, appears to show the killing of two Iraqi journalists with Reuters and about nine other Iraqis in a Baghdad suburb in 2007 that is sharply at ...
• Robert Reich | Break Up the Banks
  A fight is brewing in Washington – or, at the least, it ought to be brewing – over whether to put limits on the size of financial entities in order that none becomes "too big to fail" in a future financial crisis. read more
• William Astore | Baseball Has Lost Some of Its Sou ...
  Baseball is my favorite sport. I grew up with the Boston Red Sox and endured forty years of heartrending frustration until my team finally broke the Curse of the Bambino in 2004. I no longer had to endure chants of "1918" (the last time we had won the World Series) from loudmouth Yankees fans who in ...
• E.J. Dionne Jr. | Barack Obama, Meet Sisyphus
  Washington - Toward the end of the health care battle, a beleaguered Obama staff member sent me an e-mail that ended with the words: "Sisyphus was a sissy compared to what we've been through!" read more
• Fighting School Failure Isn't Rocket Science
  In the U.S., 30% of youth fail high school every year, and the vast majority come from poor communities and populations of color. We must solve this problem. In the United States, 30% of youth fail high school every year, and the vast majority come from poor communities and populations of color. We ...

Planetsave

• Reliable Wind Power through Connected Grid
  “Making wind-generated electricity more steady will enable wind power to become a much larger fraction of our electric sources,” said Willett Kempton, University of Delaware professor of marine policy and author of a new paper which proposes linking wind powered generators to steady electrical prod ...
• Betacup Encourages Collaboration to Create a Susta ...
  Betacup Challenge recruits designers to create a sustainable coffee cup You have a chance to help create the perfect, sustainable coffee cup and win a piece of $20,000 through the Betacup Challenge. Most of us enjoy a cup of java in the morning. And if you are anything like me, you typically get yo ...
• Greenpeace Blocks Ship with Endangered Fin Whale M ...
  Greenpeace activists blocked a shipment of endangered fin whale meat going from Iceland to Japan via Rotterdam in Holland and sent a request to the Dutch government as well. On Friday morning, Greenpeace activists sacrificed their Easter holidays in order to help stop the killing and trade of enda ...
• Satellites, GPS Capture Migrating Greenland Ice Co ...
  The chart shows the averaged rate of Greenland's mass loss, measured in centimeters of ice thickness, between February 2003 and June 2009 (AGU). New study and coordinated video simulation show ice loss migration in Greenland for the first time. Greenland’s ice mass loss over the past decade–concent ...
• Climate Change Deniers Making Avatar DVD Release E ...
  The Avatar DVD release is to be environmentally themed. Is it because of how much climate change deniers have irked director James Cameron? Well, if you saw Avatar, you know it had a bit of an environmentalist message in it. Apparently, this upset a number of climate change deniers who, very selfl ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Cycle of Insanity Video
  http://www.knowyourh2o.org/ The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water is a short, animated film
• Riverdale Avenue Green Street Under Construction
  View of the Riverdale Green Street project under construction. Photo taken from the street-end mini-
• Innovative Financing Mechanisms for the Water Sect ...
  OECD (RFFers can access full text through OECD iLibrary. User ID and password are on the library
• Pricing Water Resources and Water and Sanitation S ...
  OECD (RFFers can access full text on OECD iLibrary. User ID and password are on the library’s
• KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES-PART 2
  The Pew Commission Ref #1 stated that CAFO food products were not cheap except to the consumer becau

Public Citizen in Texas

• April Showers Bring May Flowers, But In Texas, Apr ...
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) hearings in Texas in April 2010
• April 15 hearing on Comanche Peak in Granbury, TX
  Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel will hear oral arguments on Comanche Peak Combined License (COL) proceedings on April 15 in Granbury, Texas
• Russel Smith, Executive Director of TREIA, at Pub ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Carol Geiger, Public Citizen's Office Manager, at ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Eric Bremer and Andy Wilson at Public Citizen Texa ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

• Mayor sends in troops after alien April Fool
  The mayor of Jafr in Jordan called in the troops after an April Fool claimed aliens had caused widespread panic. The joke report claimed that a UFO ha...
• Woman brought back from the dead 114 times
  A woman from North Wales was brought back to life 114 times with electric shocks over a period of 30 hours. Ann Mintram had suffered from Sudden Adult...
• Nine-legged octopus found in Florida
  In an unusual find the head chef of a Florida restaurant discovered a nine-legged octopus in a seafood shipment. "I'm like, this can't be. I've seen a...
• Europa's hidden secret: is there life out there ?
  Jupiter's moon Europa may seem like a barren ball of ice but underneath that shell could be oceans teeming with life. Its the single most promising pl...
• Mars rover falls in to silence
  NASA have conceded that the Mars rover Spirit has stopped responding to attempts to communicate with it. Since 2004 the Mars rover Spirit has trundled...

Grassroots

• True Cost of Cheap Food
  peoplebeforeprofitDSC00464_1.jpg How does cheap food contribute to global hunger?� Tim Wise, a former Grassroots International Executive Director, recently wrote an article in Resurgence magazine explaining the contradictory nature of food an ...
• Haitian Led Reconstruction and Development
  Subheadline:� A compilation of recommendation documents from several Haitian civil society and diaspora conferences, organizations and coalitions Haiti_leader.JPG Grassroots Intern ...
• Honoring Land Day in 2010, and Remembering Its Roo ...
  4420070025_7d496d4fc5_b1.jpg � Sakhnin is a Palestinian village nestled between the mountains of Israel’s Galilee and is known for at least 3,500 years of agrarian tradition. It wasn’t until March 30, 1976, however, that the people of Sakhnin ...
• Water Rights -- What's Wrong?
  bechtel-water.jpg Frankly,�a lot! read more
• Combating Hunger by Reforesting Haiti
  � Last August, I stood in Haiti’s Artibonite valley with several peasant organizers and looked out at the mountains leading up to the Central Plateau. The older leaders in the group explained in depth how green the mountains once were, while the younger organizers and I listened in amazement. The tr ...

Climate

• April 6, 2010
  25 Killed in West Virginia Coal Mine Blast (Charleston Gazette) Twenty-five coal miners were killed after a huge explosion at a Massey Energy mine in West Virginia, the worst mine disaster in the United States in more than a quarter-century. U.S. Sued Over Nuclear Waste Fees (New York ...
• April 5, 2010
  Drilling Plan May Buoy Efforts on U.S. Energy Policy (New York Times) As Sen. Lindsey Graham prods Republicans to respond to younger voters’ environmental concerns, there is a chance of offsetting Democratic defections on the climate bill. “There’s a path to five or six Republicans,” Carol ...
• April 4, 2010
  Panel Advises Against Cape Cod Wind Project (Reuters) A federal advisory panel urged the U.S. Interior Department on Friday to block a $1 billion wind project off Cape Cod opposed by local business leaders and politicians. Arch Coal Sues EPA Over Veto of W.Va. Mine Permit (AP) A s ...
• April 2, 2010
  Canada Mirrors US Crackdown on Vehicle Emissions (Reuters) The U.S. on Thursday finalized its first greenhouse gas emissions rules on autos and significantly boosted fuel efficiency standards for the first time since the 1970s, moves Canada jointly imposed on its industry. Virginia AG C ...
• April 1, 2010
  UN Official: No Climate Deal Likely Until 2011 (AP) Yvo de Boer, the outgoing head of the U.N. climate change secretariat, said countries need to restore confidence in U.N. negotiations following the dismal results of the Copenhagen summit, meaning no deal likely until late 2011. NASA ...

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

• Did Obama Sandbag His Own Health Care Bill?
  So Barack Obama got his change. Other people can even believe in it if they want. I regret to say I remain unimpressed. And that's about the nicest way I know how to put it. In fairness, I will say two things about this bill that redound well for him. First, passing major health care legislation ...
• You Tube vs. TV
  I've worked in television and online media. Right now, we have a show that has over 200 million views on You Tube ( The Young Turks ). So, I have a great vantage point on both sides of this issue. But you must be wondering, who would even ask this question. What's bigger - You Tube or TV? Right now, ...
• Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Welcome to Fandora
  — from TomDispatch Take me out to the ball game ... Though, in the case of my team, the New York Mets on the first day of a new baseball season, that line should probably go something like: Take me (and my armored truck) out to the ball game... After all, at the aptly branded new Mets stadium, Citi ...
• Democratic Forces Will Face Tough Time in Egypt's ...
  Although Egypt's heir apparent Gamal Mubarak says next year's election "is going to be free and fair," his father Hosni's regime has tightened the election laws to block other contenders to his presidency, an American magazine says. Mubarak senior has also used the odious Emergency Law to jail five ...
• It's a Good START
  The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and Russia has been accomplished by negotiation and good will. The treaty reduces nuclear warheads on each side to a total of 1,550. It also reduces the number of ballistic missiles, submarines and heavy bombers used to delive ...

Ten Percent

• Stop The Wash Up Of The Internet
  I have written to my MP previously about it, now this is down to the wire to stop them using the non-democratic wash up procedure to allow Mandelson to push through the record and film corporations internet abusing laws (email is better than twitter, faxes better than email, letters better than faxe ...
• Coalition To Break The Blockade On Gaza Announced
  FreeGaza:- Istanbul, Turkey – Following months of preparation, a coalition bringing together a number of organizations and movements working to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza was announced yesterday in Istanbul.  The coalition, comprised of the Turkey-based IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi) organiz ...
• Jim Lobe On Drone Legality
  (IPS) - While welcoming an initial effort by the administration of President Barack Obama to offer a legal justification for drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists overseas, human rights groups say critical questions remain unanswered. In an address to an international law group last week, State ...
• Spanish Fascists Try To Silence Human Rights Judge
  (IPS) – Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, who became world-famous when he issued the warrant that resulted in former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s arrest in London in 1998, is now facing legal charges himself, which could cost him his job. Garzón, who sits on the Audiencia Nacional, Spain’s hig ...
• John McDonnell’s Letter To The Guardian Re: RMT Ba ...
  The media treatment of RMT and Bob Crow over the last 48 hours over the Network Rail strike ballot has been the worst example of a concerted campaign of media bias against a trade union that we have seen since the 1980s miners’ strike. John Humphrys’s interview of Bob Crow, with his references to ba ...

Booman Tribune

• A New Nuclear Posture
  I like that President Obama isn't just paying lip service to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, but is actually thinking through ways to change the paradigm so that other nations can think anew about the role of nuclear weapons in their own defense systems. My only concern is that he make s ...
• Serious Question
  I'm glad that "U.S. documentation is helping judges to overcome the hurdles of impunity in Uruguay," but I wonder whether we can do the same here in less than thirty-seven years. Is there hope? Not if these people have any say in the matter.
• Casual Observation
  Here's how this works. I never considered John McCain to be an honorable man. See? That's an honest statement. I know it's heresy to voice such things. But that's only because the press considers John McCain to be a former POW. And that's probably not something John McCain would say about hims ...
• Casual Observation
  Eric Massa and Eliot Spitzer want to know why John Ensign and David Vitter are still in the U.S. Senate. William Jefferson wants to know why Ensign, at least, is not in prison.
• A Look Ahead to 2012
  Mark Halperin takes an early look at the shape of the Republican primary field for the presidential election in 2012. One thing I'll note right off the bat is that this will be the second straight election without a natural successor for the Republicans. And it's even worse than that. With the ex ...

European Tribune

• How to rebuild trust
  Doug Saunders has an interesting article about the fact that the dominant theme of our...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1934 – Birth of...
• Monday Open Thread
  There's nothing quite like an island in the Atlantic when there are gale force winds...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 5 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1942 – Peter Greenaway,...
• Easter Sunday Open Thread
  Got eggs?...

Futurismic

• Personal Information – episode 7
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. [Sorry it's so late; been at Eastercon. Hey, even webzine editors need a holiday once in a while, AMIRITE? - PGR] Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information – episo ...
• Away at Eastercon
  Hey, folks – just a note to let you know I’m away drinking beer and talking books networking with other sf publishing professionals at Eastercon this weekend, and that I’m treating it as a largely-away-from-the-internet holiday. Of course, I’m never completely away from the internet (who is?), but w ...
• NEW FICTION: OUT WALKING THE STREETS by Eric Del C ...
  They've put me on this train, among regular people. I've promised to control myself, and my promises have convinced those who needed convincing. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 NEW FICTION: OUT WALKING THE STREETS by Eric Del Carlo
• Futurismic fiction submissions form closed! (But n ...
  The title says it all, folks – as of April 1st (no joke) we’re shutting down the fiction submissions webform here at Futurismic so that hard-workin’ Chris East can catch up on the slush mountain and get some well-deserved time away. So if you’ve been working on something to send to us, you’ve got a ...
• Nation-building 101
  Fancy starting up your own micronation? It’s not enough to just think up a flag and occupy your turf; there’s paperwork to be done. Luckily, Wired UK has a four-point beginner’s guide, as suggested by former UN strategy co-ordinator  Carne Ross, to get you started. Step one: Play by the rules – Mee ...

Therapy News

• FAA Announces New Depression-Related Policies
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Pilots are faced with numerous strict requirements and guidelines for their work, and until recently, many of those with symptoms of depression may have felt unable to meet these requirements, forcing them to hide their psychological concerns. Hoping to end this trend ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up – 4/2/2010
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Enjoy! • To Remember the Good Times, Reach for the Sky • Exploration in Toddlers Activated by Fathers • Unders ...
• Fanning the Spark of Sexual Passion
  By Jill Denton, LMFT, CSAT, CSE, CCS, Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jill and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When I opened my psychotherapy practice in the late 1970’s I saw myself as a feminist psychotherapist, putting the majority of my focus on women. ...
• Does Using the Diagnosis of PTSD Keep People from ...
  By John Lee, LMHC, Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile I’ve said to people for years, symptoms are what is important, not the “label” or the name of the disorder. Labeling with a disorder in itself could actually g ...
• “Passing” As Non-Disabled
  By Wendy Smith, MA, LMHCA, Disability Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Wendy and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile While some disabilities are immediately evident to people who see a person with a disability, other disabilities are “invisible.” Beginning in childhood, people with disa ...

Mountaintop Removal

• EPA pledges new mountain top removal protections - ...
  EPA pledges new mountain top removal protections Free Speech Radio News In the wake of an EPA proposal to veto one of the largest mountain top removal mining permits in the county, the Obama administration announced today new ... and more��
• EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop- ...
  KRQE EPA Proposes Veto of Permit for Major Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mine New York Times US EPA proposed a veto today of the Clean Water Act permit issued for one of Central Appalachia's largest mountaintop-removal ... EPA Wants To Revoke A MTR Permit; RAN Launches Its Mountain Pledge Treehugger EPA ...
• Mountaintop Removal Mining: An Environmental Horro ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Mountaintop Removal Mining: An Environmental Horror Firedoglake (blog) First and foremost, I am against mountaintop removal mining (as if this was not evident by the header) and I believe it to be raping the environment and ... EPA Restricts Mountaintop Removal Knoxville M ...
• Rev. Billy Talen ARRESTED After Placing 'Holy Hex' ...
  NewsBlaze Rev. Billy Talen ARRESTED After Placing 'Holy Hex' On JPMorgan Huffington Post (blog) Protesting what he calls JPMorgan's financing for mountaintop removal in Appalachia, Rev. Billy Talen led his Church Of Life congregation in an Easter ... Rev. Billy Arrested on Easter After 'Hexing' JPM ...
• US Senate candidates pledge allegiance to coal - K ...
  US Senate candidates pledge allegiance to coal KTVB All five expressed their support for the mining practice known as mountaintop removal coal mining, which, as the name implies, involves blasting away peaks ... US Senate Candidates Pledge Allegiance To Coal WKRG-TV all 18 news articles�� ...

Memeorandum

• Video: Collateral murder, or the risks of war zone ...
  Ed Morrissey / Hot Air : Video: Collateral murder, or the risks of war zones?   —  Wikileaks released a video today of an engagement in Baghdad in 2007 that resulted in the deaths of two journalists from Reuters in an effort to accuse the US of covering up a war crime.  Calling the incident “collat ...
• Unemployment benefits expire for thousands (Briann ...
  Brianna Keilar / CNN : Unemployment benefits expire for thousands   —  (CNN) — Extended unemployment benefits will temporarily expire for thousands of Americans on Monday because the Senate went on its spring recess without approving a one-month deadline extension.  —  The extension, which had bip ...
• Street Fight - Obama can get everything he wants o ...
  Noam Scheiber / The New Republic : Street Fight   —  Obama can get everything he wants on financial reform—if only he gets tough.  —  Last week, Alabama Republican Richard Shelby, the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, floated a compromise on the consumer financial protection agency th ...
• Tea Party 48% Obama 44% (Rasmussen Reports)
  Rasmussen Reports : Tea Party 48% Obama 44%   —  On major issues, 48% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is closer to their views than President Barack Obama.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% hold the opposite view and believe the president's views ...
• Court Challenge: Replacing Stevens (Jess Bravin/Wa ...
  Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal : Court Challenge: Replacing Stevens   —  Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens's latest public musings about retirement highlight the challenge President Barack Obama faces in choosing a successor for the leader of the court's liberal minority.  —  Whomever Mr. ...

Energy & Environment News

• Utilities Sue U.S. to Halt Nuclear Waste Disposal ...
  Sixteen utilities and a trade group no longer want to pay fees, saying that the government lacks a disposal plan.
• Green Inc. Column: Gasoline Still Has Some Advanta ...
  Electric cars are attracting interest as a realistic and clean fuel option, but the fresh attention may highlight flaws of this fuel source.
• Off the Shelf: ‘Green Gone Wrong’: C ...
  In a new book, Heather Rogers warns of the dangers of buying into green euphoria and says green capitalism is undermining ecological progress.
• Field Notes: The Burden of Paying for Wedding Bell ...
  With the upswing in the cost for weddings, most everybody now chips in to pay for them.
• Massachusetts and Rhode Compete Over Wind Farm
  Massachusetts and Rhode Island are taking different approaches in their competition to become a leader in alternative energy.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, Baja California, Mexico
  Sunday, April 4, 2010 23:15:10 UTC Sunday, April 4, 2010 04:15:10 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 7.2, Baja California, Mexico
  Sunday, April 4, 2010 22:40:41 UTC Sunday, April 4, 2010 03:40:41 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Fiji region
  Sunday, April 4, 2010 20:28:04 UTC Monday, April 5, 2010 08:28:04 AM at epicenter Depth : 23.00 km (14.29 mi)
• M 5.1, Kepulauan Mentawai region, Indonesia
  Saturday, April 3, 2010 22:33:43 UTC Sunday, April 4, 2010 05:33:43 AM at epicenter Depth : 44.10 km (27.40 mi)
• M 6.6, Andaman Islands, India region
  Tuesday, March 30, 2010 16:54:47 UTC Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:24:47 PM at epicenter Depth : 41.70 km (25.91 mi)

China Dialogue

• Racing to save India’s tigers (1)
  As conservationists argue over the number of the country’s big cats still living in the wild, radical steps are needed if the species is to survive. Gethin Chamberlain reports. The poachers perch on the rough platforms they have built in the trees about five metres above the forest floor, waiting pa ...
• Venturing forth
  Major investors around the world are turning their attention to clean technology. John Elkington visited Silicon Valley – California’s high-tech hub – and found cause for cheer. It is always exciting to be in California, particularly when the venture-capital community there is working itself up into ...
• Causes for optimism (2)
  Copenhagen failed to deliver – but it also revealed truths about climate geopolitics that might just make it easier to tackle global warming, says Michael Grubb. From a research perspective, Copenhagen was a call to arms for a community that it seems has never paid enough attention to political anal ...
• Causes for optimism (1)
  The bare-bones climate agreement produced at Copenhagen has provoked international gloom. But, argues Michael Grubb, history may judge it more kindly. “Diplomatic disasters don’t come much bigger than this” was the verdict of one European-based newspaper on the outcome of the Copenhagen climate-chan ...
• Man with a mission
  Kirit Parikh, former member of India’s Planning Commission, chairs a 26-member expert group tasked with developing a low-carbon growth strategy for India. Here, he tells Anna da Costa about his plans. There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India wo ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• A Helping Hand, Then a Slap in the Face: U.S. Immi ...
  What might ICE do next? Target injured Haitian evacuees hospitalized in American jails? The possibility doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
• How the Israeli Government Tried to Spin Its Way o ...
  In this excerpt from his new book, Finkelstein dissects the PR effort to cover up the inhuman acts committed by Israel's massive offensive in the Gaza strip in 2009.
• Get Used to It: 28% of Americans Support the Tea P ...
  Tired of hearing about the hate-mongering Tea Partiers? Well, you’re about to get more tired of it. An astounding Gallup poll released today shows that a whopping 28 percent of Americans support the Tea Party movement. Yep, that’s right. More than 1 in 4 Americans thinks the Party of Sarah Palin is ...
• Do You Have Empathy… for Conservatives?
  A lot of us left-of-center types like to think we have more empathy for other people’s pain than those hardhearted conservatives. But do we have any empathy for the pain conservatives are in? If you’re inclined to write a scathing comment just about that, please check out this post and maybe even go ...
• Is Michael Steele seriously playing the race card?
  Facing tough questions, a donor exodus and a very funny scandal over money spent at a strip club in West Hollywood, RNC Chairman Michael Steele is now playing the race card. And what’s even funnier is his attempt to channel President Barack Obama while doing it. Here’s the lowdown on Steele’s mo ...

Threat Level

• President Ford Approved Warrantless Domestic Surve ...
  In 1974, while the country was embroiled in a national debate over excessive government surveillance, then President Gerald Ford authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct warrantless domestic surveillance, according to a classified memo recently obtained by the Center for Investigat ...
• 30-Year Computer Ban for Sex Offender Overturned
  Just in time for the iPad launch, a federal appeals court Friday overturned a 30-year computer ban imposed on a sex offender caught in an online police sting. Mark Wayne Russell, 50, was arrested in 2006 after traveling from his home in Columbia, Maryland to a location in Washington D.C. where he e ...
• Law Against Police Bumper Stickers Unconstitutiona ...
  A local Ohio ordinance making it a crime for civilians to  display  bumper stickers of police organizations is unconstitutional, a federal judge says. The First Amendment decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett blocks the suburban Village of Lockland from enforcing the minor-misdemeanor stat ...
• Appeals Court Sides With eBay in Tiffany Trademark ...
  A federal appeals court ruled against luxury jeweler Tiffany and Co. on Thursday in finding eBay is not liable for trademark infringement just because some sellers  hawk counterfeit goods. Tiffany’s lawsuit accused the online auction house of contributory trademark infringement because it allegedly ...
• Urban Legend Watch: Cyberwar Attack on U.S. Centra ...
  Claim: A foreign government’s computer hackers were found lurking on a classified U.S. military network in 2008. UNLIKELY Example: [Collected from the internet, March 2010] More than 20 years ago, the United States realized that having an advantage in “intangible factors” — more informat ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Yuan revaluation would yield limited U.S. benefits
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's revaluation of the yuan could yield long-term benefits for both China and the world economy, but analysts say it won't restore vanished U.S. manufacturing jobs if past experience is any guide.
• Reuters seeks US army video of staff killed in Ira ...
  Reuters has urged the U.S. military to hand over video footage from U.S. attack helicopters and other materials relating to the killing of two Iraqi staff in Baghdad a year ago.
• Greek debt concerns return to hit euro
  LONDON (Reuters) - The euro fell against both the dollar and yen on Tuesday on renewed worries about Greek debt but European equities hit fresh 18-month highs, outperforming flat global share markets.
• Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi s ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, was released on Monday by a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption.
• Republican staff shake-up amid nightclub furor
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican National Committee had a top-level staff shake-up on Monday after revelations that it spent $2,000 to entertain potential contributors at a sex-themed nightclub.

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

• PDA Field Report 3/26/10 – 4/2/10
  PDA Field Report 3/26/10 – 4/2/10 IMPORTANT: • We have 100 Brown Bag Lunch Vigils confirmed for April 21st. Let’s keep them coming! Remember that this is tax month so spend some time on the National Priorities Project ...
• IOT: Special Clean, Fair, Transparent Elections M ...
  Special Clean, Fair, Transparent Elections call with John Bonifaz on the Free Speech for People campaign, 3/31/10 John Bonifaz—former PDA board member, legal director of Voter Action, director of Free Speech for People, and active PDA ...
• Crazy From the Ground Up
  by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Author’s Note: Sometimes, the best way to celebrate April Fools’ Day is by spotlighting some actual there-but-by-the-grace-of-God-go-I fools, genuine and in ...
• What’s Another Month? April Call Schedules
  What's another month?! Dear Conor, Members of PDA national team will be on the road in Pennsylvania and California from April 7th to the 21st, so we have had to change the conference call schedule a bit. ...
• 91 and counting
  Six years ago I stood with PDA at Roxbury, Mass., when you began your journey. Together we have called for an end to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and for “Medicare-For-All”–”Healthcare NOT Warfare.” During ...

Marler Blog

• North American Bison Co-Op Recalls Cow Tonsils Due ...
  North American Bison Co-Op, a New Rockford, N.D., establishment is recalling approximately 25,000 pounds of whole beef heads containing tongues that may not have had the tonsils completely removed, which is not compliant with regulations that require the removal of tonsils from cattle of all ages, t ...
• Whole Foods Market Recalls Tuna Due to Scombroid F ...
  Whole Foods Market announced the recall of its Whole Catch Yellow fin Tuna Steaks (frozen) with a best by date of Dec 5th, 2010 because of possible elevated levels of histamine that may result in symptoms that generally appear within minutes to an hour after eating the affected fish. The product, s ...
• About-E. coli, About-Campylobacter, About-Hepatiti ...
  We have been working on updating www.about-ecoli.com , www.about-campylobacter.com , www.about-hepatitis.com and www.about-salmonella.com and have finally finished the upgrades.  In addition to updating the content to reflect the newest information on the "bugs," we added a new section called "One F ...
• William Marler to Receive the 2010 NSF Food Safety ...
  I will be in Washington DC both this week and next. Next week I will be at the Food Safety Summit receiving the 2010 NSF Food Safety Leadership Award for Education. NSF has worked for over 65 years to assure food safety, quality, and consistency. The NSF Food Safety Leadership Award was created ...
• Off to DC this Week - Grocery Manufacturers Associ ...
  I always enjoy going to DC (always the wannabe politician) – especially in the Spring (cherry blossoms) and when Congress is on recess. I am also looking forward to speaking at the Grocery Manufacturers Association Litigation Conference on April 7 and 8, 2010 in Washington DC. My topic, “Secre ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 04.06.10
  What's the real cost of new CAFE regulations? Millions, billions, nothing? Take the long view. It looks better. Report: Writer stands behind story, says Aptera still plans to export 2e from China to U.S ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.05.10
  KGLERB stands for potential fuel tax increase based on carbon content in U.S. The future will be tricky. Colorado tax credit makes electric motorcycles really cheap (like $3,000 cheap) ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.02.10
  Plug-in vehicle industry responds to Nissan Leaf's low price Who's worried, who's not. New Federal CAFE standards officially released, 34.1 mpg by 2016 Spend an extra $1,000 up front, get $3,0 ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.01.10
  New York 2010: The inside story of the Nissan Leaf price There was a target price, and Nissan met it. Drill Baby Drill? Obama says "Yes we can." ...
• New York 2010: Ford and Microsoft announce Hohm el ...
  Filed under: Hybrid , Ford , Electric Alongside the debut of the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid at this year's New York Auto Show , Ford announced an extension of its partnership with Microsoft (see also: Sync ) into the electric vehicle (EV) recharging realm. The new space that Microsoft and Ford want to ta ...

Rafe's Radar

• If you can, buy your iPad books from Amazon
  Both Apple and Amazon have good readers for the iPad, but Amazon gives you more flexibility. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• Coming April 8: CNET Showcase--3D in the home
  I'm happy to announce that we're launching a little event series here in San Francisco, called CNET Showcase . Our goal is to bring local tech enthusiasts together to talk about new consumer technologies with the people who are studying them and making them. And--bonus!--we want to give ... Original ...
• Taxation without negotiation for Calif. smartphone ...
  Cell phone buyers in California pay unfair tax on devices bought under contract. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• The Rescue survey: Car navigation systems
  Is convenience worth a 10x premium? Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• Demo debrief: Rafe and Josh's favorites
  This year's Demo Spring conference has come to a close, and we take a minute to look back at some of our favorites. Originally posted at Webware ...

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!

• The Obscenity of War
  President Barack Obama has just returned from his first trip as commander in chief to Afghanistan. The U.S.-led invasion and occupation of that country are now in their ninth year, amid increasing comparisons to Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg, whom Henry Kissinger once called “the most dangerous man in ...
• Part II: Daniel Ellsberg on US Foreign Policy
  Part II of our conversation with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. He speaks on the under-reported leaked memos of US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, US Policy on Iran, and more. In 1971, the then-RAND Corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the media what became kn ...
• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN tonight at 7pm ET
  Amy will make her third appearance on CNN’s new show, John King USA tonight at 7pm ET. If you missed her March 26th appearance, take a look here: If you want to see more of Amy on CNN, please get in touch with John King and his team to let them know. You can contact them via: Emai ...
• Indonesian Media Reports Journalist Allan Nairn Fa ...
  A leading TV news network in Indonesia is reporting the Indonesian military is planning to charge journalist Allan Nairn with “smearing [its] good name.” In an appearance on Democracy Now! last week, Allan exposed that US-backed Indonesian armed forces assassinated a series of civilian activists ...
• Obama’s Bad Prescription for Indonesia
  President Barack Obama dedicated the signing of health care legislation to a number of people, including his mother, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, who, he said, “argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days.” The health care legislative process and its frenetic endgame prom ...

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

• River reveals chilling tracks of ancient flood.
  Could this be the evidence we need to pinpoint the time and cause of the Younger Dryas cooling and associated climate disruption c13,000 years ago?
• Officials Fear Ship Breaking Apart on Barrier Reef ...
  A Chinese ship has run aground on the Great Barrier Reef, prompting fears of environmental damage.
• The 8 Least Popular But Totally Awesome National P ...
  These eight national parks and monuments are getaways where the human traffic is less dense (in some cases, nonexistent), the landscapes just as breathtaking, and the photo-ops just as plentiful.
• Climate change, happening before your eyes | Heral ...
  Andrew writes for Melbourne's Herald Sun, Sydney's Daily Telegraph and Adelaide's Advertiser. He runs Australia's most-read political blog, and appears on Channel 9, ABC TV's Insiders and (soon) daily on radio MTR 1377.
• Mega-flood triggered Europe's last big freeze
  Europe was plunged into a mini ice age 13,000 years ago after global warming caused a mega-flood, geologists said today.

Invisible Opportunity

• Shades of Gray and the Abattoir Stench
  By Les Visible Why I am writing about this is because I have been thinking about the UN Security Council and Iran as well as what is going on behind the scenes. The news reports that so and so said this and that. The news reports that certain countries are going to do this and that. [...]
• We Spoke Loudly…But It Didn’t Matter A ...
  By J. Speer-Williams 3-31-10 Beholden to a handful of financial oligarchs, congressional democrats passed Obamacare, over the opposition of millions of Americans, while republicans in Washington kept the left/right paradigm alive by pretending to oppose the new Healthcare “Reform” Bill. With the plu ...
• Sudden Mass American Enlightenment Puzzles Congres ...
  By Ignatious O’Reilly Washington – President Obama, U.S. congressmen and their aides held an emergency four hour-long meeting Wednesday to decide what action to take to stem a sudden and unprecedented mass enlightenment of the US population that threatens to destabilize the Government and create a f ...
• IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO BREAK THE SILENCE
  By Rev. Martin Luther King 4 April 1967 Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with ...
• Mumbai Terrorist Was US Agent
  By Alex Newman After terrorist conspirator and “former” U.S. government agent David Coleman Headley received promises of leniency and extradition protection from American prosecutors for his role in the 2008 Mumbai massacre, speculation about his true masters was set ablaze as outrage erupted across ...

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

• Drugged Warriors: Sharp Rise in U. S. Military Psy ...
  One in six service members is now taking at least one psychiatric drug, according to the Navy Times, with many soldiers taking “drug cocktail†combinations.
• Let's End the War on Drugs
  "It's time to step out of our comfort zones, acknowledge the truth -- and challenge our leaders ... and ourselves ... to change."
• The Drug War: A War on Women and Their Families
  Since 1977, the rate of female imprisonment has increased by nearly 800% and is still rising -- much of it attributable to the war on drugs.
• Afghanistan: The World's Number One Narco-State?
  The Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in Afghanistan from which there is neither an easy end nor an obvious exit.
• Hightower: Wal-Mart and the Essence of the Inhuman ...
  Think corporations share some of mankind's key characteristics, like compassion? Think again. As Joseph Casias' case illustrates, they're more ruthless than ever.

Twilight Earth

• Chinese Coal Ship Smashes into Great Barrier Reef ...
  A Chinese coal ship carrying 950 metric tons of fuel oil, stranded off the coast of Australia, is breaking apart and spilling coal and fuel oil onto the Great Barrier reef. Related posts: Worlds Largest Underwater City – The Great Barrier Reef Second Coal Company Sludge Spill – Bad For the C ...
• Photo Sunday – Easter and Passover – Renewal and R ...
  This week celebrates both Christian and Jewish Holidays and traditions. Both of these traditions represent a celebration of overcoming death and a time of hope realized. Related posts: Photo Sunday – All Things to All People Photo Sunday – The Meaning of Sacrifice Photo Sunday – When its Ra ...
• Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon)
  In case either group needs some guidance, click here. Follow Mean Joe Green (Joe Mohr) at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons… Related posts:School Lunch Reform? I Dont Think So! (Cartoon) Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles One Million Acts ...
• Happy 40th- Earth Day! Earth Day 2010 – History an ...
  April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of the modern environmental movement, Earth Day. Every day is Earth Day in my book, but certainly our Earth deserves its own holiday. Related posts: International World Water Day 2010- March 22nd Earth Days Documentary – History of the Environmental Movem ...
• Environmental Graffiti Launches New Citizen Writer ...
  Our friends over at Environmental Graffiti have Re-launched their wildly popular and successful UK based Green Blog, and are offering world citizens the opportunity to contribute their own writing. Related posts: Senior Citizen Tells Youth – Dont Make the Mistakes We Made Japan takes One Gia ...

Inhabitat

• Soeul Gains An Underground Earth House by Byoung S ...
  Korean architect Byoung Soo Cho has built an underground house outside Soeul. Called Earth House, it’s not as fancy as some iterations of the subterranean abode, drawing instead on Cho’s very unpretentious inspirations: Taoist minimalism and the utilitarianism of the silos, barns and sheds Cho has ...
• City of Los Angeles Releases Breakthrough Solar Fe ...
  Due to its sheer size and sunny climate, the City of Los Angeles has an excellent opportunity to become a world leader in renewable energy resources. As the City currently wages a debate over funding for future Renewable Projects at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Los Angeles Bu ...
• Beautiful Wildfire Table Made from Multi-tone Scra ...
  This striking multi-tone wildfire table is made from random offcuts of plantation acacia wood that would normally be pulped or thrown away. The name is given because of the mixing of light and dark pieces to create an eye-catching color combination reminiscent of flames licking across the surface. ...
• Off-Grid Cliff House Harnesses the Elements for Se ...
  Off the Grid means many things to many people. The Cliff House on Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, interprets “off the grid” as grand self-sufficiency. Designed by Altius Architecture Inc, the home’s form is both integrated in the landscape’s mass and floats above it using cantilevers and floor-to-ceiling ...
• New Synchrophasors Are the Key to a Smarter, More ...
  The grid is about to get a whole lot smarter with the introduction of synchrophasors — high tech devices that measure and transmit incoming energy data at blinding speeds. When deployed en masse, the nifty devices will help to significantly increase the amount of reliable energy transmitted across ...

Pogue's Posts

• Apple iPad FAQ's
  I answer the most frequently asked questions I've received about the iPad.
• Why the Line2 App is Up and Down
  An explanation of the ups and downs of Line2, the popular iPhone calling app.
• A Bigger Sensor for a Coat-Pocket Camera
  Samsung's NX10 takes the necessary next step in the development of a small camera that takes SLR-quality photos.
• A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power
  My family has now been without electricity, heat or hot water for five days. I gotta tell you: it's getting old.
• Photo Tip: Slowing a Babbling Brook
  Try photographing a babbling brook on a sunny day. Here's the trick to avoiding an overexposed shot.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Chain of Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power Atlant ...
  A 1,550-mile-long network of offshore wind stations could provide power from Massachusetts to North Carolina with minimal threat of outages, according to a new study. By connecting stations together, the system could eliminate the biggest downside of wind power: intermittency. The concept is simple ...
• 95-Million-Year-Old Bugs Found in African Amber Su ...
  Newly discovered pieces of amber have given scientists a peek into the Africa of 95 million years ago, when flowering plants blossomed across Earth and the animal world scrambled to adapt. Suspended in the stream of time were ancestors of modern spiders, wasps and ferns, but the prize is a wingless ...
• Sequencing the Video Genome
  Think organisms are the only ones with genomes?  Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology are sequencing the “video genome” to put an end to video piracy on the internet. The technique works by detecting features that remain basically unchanged by typical color and resolution manipulations ...
• Why Volcanic Eruptions Can Spark Lightning
  It’s the ultimate love-at-first-sight story: In the middle of the desert, hundreds of miles from anything else, lonely sand grains meet up in a crowd and decide to electrify each other. Sparks fly. Physicists have long puzzled over why sand grains and other small particles can build up electrical c ...
• Inca Skeletons Show Evidence of Spanish Brutality
  If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities caused by Spanish conquerors. European newcomers killed some Inca individuals with guns, steel lances ...

The Progressive Realist

• Nuclear Posture Review Taking Shape
  In an interview with the Times today , President Obama gave the approximate outlines of how he intends to alter America's twenty-first century nuclear posture. Assuming his statements reflect the reality of the forthcoming document, it looks as though the changes will be fairly significant. I won't ...
• Conflict Over Subsidies Exposes Ideological Divide ...
  The conflict between the Iranian parliament and the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the issue of subsidy reform has reached a new level. For nearly six months, the administration and the parliament have fought over what and how much needs be cut, and who gets to control the cash sur ...
• Is Hamid Karzai Crazy?
  On April Fools Day, Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at "foreigners" who have been criticizing his corrupt, inept government, leveling bizarre charges that the rampant fraud in the recent elections was perpetrated by UN officials, the European Union, and other non-Afghans.   It was, alas, n ...
• Don’t Ban the Veil: Why Peter Berkowitz Is Wrong
  In the Wall Street Journal today, Peter Berkowitz weighs in on the controversy surrounding French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s call to ban the Muslim face veil . Berkowitz argues that France has unique reasons why it should ban women from wearing the Muslim face veil. He is right that France is in ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - Those calling for Japan to mediate in the U.S.-China dispute over the yuan's valuation might be surprised to learn that Japan could be with Beijing on this one .- Burma's "prime minister" general will attend the upcoming ASEAN summit in Vietnam . ASEAN has been resisting efforts to get it to press ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: But Mori, Don't You Believe in Fr ...
  Paul Krugman makes a simple yet fundamentally important observation about ideological perception: "On the right, people are for smaller government as a matter of principle -- smaller government for its own sake. And so they naturally imagine that their opponents must be their mirror image, wanting ...
• You Are Not Your iPad.
  Is this man a little too excited about his latest consumer electronics purchase? (Flickr/ Josh Liba ) In the early 1960s, advertising executives realized it could be incredibly fruitful to sell products not as objects with practical uses, but as emblems of identity. That car isn't a machine that c ...
• The Little Picture: Woods Q&A.
  Golf superstar Tiger Woods held a press conference today before returning to the Masters, during which reporters asked such pressing questions as "What kind of golfer do you think you'll be now?" It was the first since a Thanksgiving accident spawned reports of Woods's marital infidelity. Woods is ...
• A Tea Party for Obama.
  Archon Fung says the power of mobilized independent citizens is easily forgotten and often denied by the Washington cognoscenti. As a candidate for the White House, Barack Obama benefited from an unprecedented, broad-based, and passionate grass-roots mobilization. As president, Obama seems to have ...
• Tolling the Cross Bronx.
  A few days ago, The New York Times had a light-hearted story about how Bronx residents like to saunter down to the Cross Bronx Expressway, or stare at it contemplatively from their windows, as a source of entertainment or an inspired, quiet reverie. They used a study showing that the highway has thr ...

Andy Worthington

• Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for Nothing
  The story of Abu Zubaydah — a Saudi-born Palestinian whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn — has always been absolutely central to the “War on Terror.” Seized in a house raid in Faisalabad, Pakistan on March 28, 2002, he was immediately touted as “al-Qaeda’s chief of operations a ...
• Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Closure of G ...
  On Tuesday, I was delighted to be invited to a TV studio on a boat on the Thames to take part in “Crosstalk” on Russia Today, hosted by Peter Lavelle. The other guest, who, I believe, was not obliged to endure the most miserable wind and rain to reach the equivalent studio in Washington D.C., [...]
• An interview with Andy Worthington, author of “The ...
  The following interview, conducted by email, was published on the Pakistani website Celebrity Dialogue, run by blogger Zeeshan Kureshi, which describes itself as being “dedicated to bringing forward those who have made a difference in our world.” Celebrity Dialogue: Andy, we really appreciate the ti ...
• Anger in Yemen Over Halt to Release of Cleared Gua ...
  I’m cross-posting below an article that was published on NPR’s website yesterday, primarily because the sister of Abdul Salam al-Hila (also identified as Abdulsalam al-Hela), a Yemeni colonel who was kidnapped in Egypt in 2002 and rendered to the CIA’s “Dark Prison” before his transfer to Guantánamo ...
• “Victory at last!” by Guantánamo lawyer David Reme ...
  The following article, circulated as an email by Guantánamo lawyer David Remes this morning, apparently caught a number of people off-guard, and David has subsequently found himself taken to task for circulating it. In contrast, I thought it was a perfect April Fools’ Day joke, and neatly encapsulat ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Mexico Earthquake Zone Linked to California Faults
  The magnitude 7.2 temblor was caused by the same tectonic shifts that formed the Baja Peninsula and the San Andreas Fault, geologists say.
• Solar Brings Light to Haiti
  With a crucial meeting at the United Nations today on the rebuilding of Haiti, renewable energy advocates and entrepreneurs are urging donors to consider the role that solar power can play in an impoverished nation that has one of the lowest rates of access to electricity in the world. ...
• Gene-Altered "Enviropig" to Reduce Dead Zones?
  "Enviropig," now approved for limited production, is modified to excrete less phosphorous, a key trigger of algal blooms, scientists say.
• Earth Hour 2010: Record 121 Countries to Go Dark
  In the biggest Earth Hour yet, millions of businesses and homes around the world will participate in a voluntary blackout to show support for action against global warming.
• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Dudchik: News Aggregator or the Big CON?
  Most "news aggregators" are meant to misinform. This is even truer when they are run by ideologues and propagandists more interested in hyper-partisan talking points than reality. In order to be shocked by this I would need to be licking the inside of a light-bulb socket. If anyone else is shocked ...
• "Fashion Show"
  A little something from Lauren Greenfield: Greenfield's video "Fashion Show" mixes filmed footage with still photography from over 50 runway shows in New York, Milan and Paris. Cut to the pulsating beat of Fol Chen's latest musical single, "The Longer You Wait", the multimedia piece is an experienti ...
• Would you drive this car?
  More importantly, would you buy and drive this car? Tata Motors May Launch Nano In America: Special Editions In The Works Efficient, light, and affordable. That is the philosophy behind the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, and one of the smallest as well. Launched earlier this year in Tata’s ho ...
• Medicare spending rose an OUTRAGEOUS 5% !eleventy! ...
  That is according to the CBO : Adjusted for timing shifts, Medicare spending rose by $7 billion (or 5 percent). Of course this is reason to be outraged at all that government spending coming out of our pockets, right? Right? Thankfully those fiscally responsible Republicans have come up with the gre ...
• Lieberman's numbers in Connecticut tank - Public O ...
  From Scarce at MLN, Joe Lieberman's numbers across the board are pitiful after his healthcare asshattery . That's the word from PPP's poll they've done this week in Connecticut. Want to know how far Joe Lieberman has fallen in the wake of the health care vote last month? Barack Obama's approval rat ...

SPL Center

• Ally: Minutemen Leader Knew Defamatory Video Was F ...
  To hear San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk’s crony and fellow nativist extremist Ray Carney tell it, Schwilk’s alleged defamation in December – for the second time – of a civil rights activist was no case of mistaken identity. In fact, Carney says, he warned Schwilk that a video in which a woma ...
• What if They Gave a Klan Rally and Nobody Came?
  They really ought to call them the Ku Klutz Klan. This Saturday, the Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — a once-powerful organization that in 1960 coordinated more than 1,000 simultaneous cross burnings in a frightening display of Southern resistance to desegregation — held a ra ...
• Year in Hate and Extremism Webcast
  Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen and Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok discuss the recently released annual count of hate and extremist groups.
• Answering Our Critics: SPLC ‘Smear’ Dissected
  This Thursday, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) — a Washington, D.C., think tank that describes itself as “pro-immigrant” but pumps out an endless stream of papers claiming that immigration is hurting America in a myriad of ways — plans to issue a “report” attacking the Southern Poverty Law ...
• Leading Holocaust Denier Leaves German Prison
  Longtime Hitler enthusiast and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison on Monday after serving five years for the crime of inciting racial hatred. Zundel, who turns 71 next month, said he would be heading to his home in the Black Forest to regain his health. “It’s kind of a s ...

change: org.

• Animal Prisoners of the Drug War
  School principal Ana Julia Torres made internet fame a couple of years ago when a lion embracing her was captured on film. The lion is Jupiter, a former circus animal who lives with approximately 800 other exotic animals at Villa Lorena in Colombia. Villa Lorena is not only a haven for retired perfo ...
• Beyond Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Benefits for All Mil ...
  Many people see issues of bunks and showers as the biggest stumbling blocks to repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. A lesser-discussed matter, however, is the benefits for families of servicemembers with same-sex partners. Military families get an extensive set of benefits, includi ...
• Teen Traffickers: Look Who's Getting into the Huma ...
  When I talk about human trafficking in America, some people are shocked to learn it happens here. Many think that it's something happening "over there," over there being a vague conglomeration of Eastern European, Asian, and African countries. Maybe traffickers take a pit stop in the good ol' U.S.of ...
• KKK Rally in South Carolina Is a One-Man Show
  Saturday's Ku Klux Klan rally in South Carolina was a good deal more subdued than the one in Georgia this February: only one KKK member showed up. The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch asks , "What if They Gave a Klan Rally and Nobody Came?" Though Grand Dragon Tim Bradley had predicted at lea ...
• The Power of a Single Volunteer
  Why would a beautiful young woman with a full-time academic workload spend hours and hours of her limited free-time to help homeless people in her town? Meet Tiffany, a volunteer who has touched my life. Like many people, Tiffany was looking for her passion. A rewarding purpose to which she could de ...

Common Dreams -News

• Flat Unemployment Rate Masks the Race Gap
  by Aaron Glantz The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in March, but the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent, according to new figures released by the Labor Department Friday. On the whole, the economic news was mixed, but for African Americans, it was particularly troubling. The unemploym ...
• More Than 200,000 to Lose Jobless Benefits Monday ...
  by Walter Alarkon Starting Monday, more than 200,000 unemployed Americans won't see jobless benefits they're expecting because Congress failed to act. The interruption in benefits will last two weeks at a minimum, according to Judy Conti of the National Employment Law Project (NELP), since lawmakers ...
• Dozens Dead in Baghdad Shooting
  Up to 25 people have been killed after a group of men dressed in Iraqi army uniforms stormed five houses in southern Baghdad, Iraqi authorities have said. The attack took place in a village in the capital's Rasheed district in the early hours of Saturday. read more
• Watchdog Group Raises Alarm Over ‘Payday Loans’ at ...
  by Katherine Reynolds Lewis Increasingly, mainstream banks are offering products similar to payday loans — short-term, high-interest loans secured by a pending paycheck — according to a consumer group that called on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to stop the practice. Banks includi ...
• Obama's Second Chance on the Predominant Moral Iss ...
  by Dr. James Hansen President Obama, finally, took a get-involved get-tough approach to negotiations on health care legislation and the arms control treaty with Russia -- with success. Could this be the turn-around for what might still be a great presidency? The predominant moral issue of the 21st ...

Lifehacker

• CallTrack Plots Your Calls on a Google Calendar. [ ...
  Android: Google Voice tracks all your calls in a searchable list. If you can't get down with Voice, or want even more convenient tracking, CallTrack plots all your calls, or just particular calls, on a Google Calendar of your choosing. More ...
• File Blender Converts Files with Drag and Drop Eas ...
  Windows: File Blender is a free and portable interface for more than a half-dozen tools. Drag and drop everything from pictures to music to File Blender and convert it to something new. More��
• It's Spring Cleaning Time at Lifehacker [Announcem ...
  Have a big stack of files on your desktop—real or virtual—you can't seem to get rid of? Packed away a lot of junk over winter? Need to drop the weight of some unneeded clutter? It's spring cleaning time. More »
• How to Fix the iPad's Google Calendar Sync Limitat ...
  Google Sync can keep your Google Calendar changes in sync with your brand-spanking-new iPad, but only through one primary calendar by default. You can switch on multiple calendars by emulating an iPhone browser and heading to Google Sync's mob ...
• HearNames.com Boosts Your Pronunciation, Helps Avo ...
  People with uncommon names don't expect perfect pronunciation the first time they meet someone, but they're probably impressed when they encounter it. Get a jump on your next business meeting or speaking opportunity with HearNames.com, along w ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Too Easy On Them By Half
  By Steve Hynd Josh Mull at The Seminal comes up with a short list of timely examples of ignoring the humanity of Afghans, treating them as aliens, objects. He writes: "Those men and pregnant women our soldiers were carving bullets out of, those are the Afghans who "don’t like or don’t trust" foreign ...
• Too Easy On Them By Half
  By Steve Hynd Josh Mull at The Seminal comes up with a short list of timely examples of ignoring the humanity of Afghans, treating them as aliens, objects. He writes: "Those men and pregnant women our soldiers were carving bullets out of, those are the Afghans who "don’t like or don’t trust" foreign ...
• Karzai Threatens To Join Taliban
  By Steve Hynd This is some pretty strong stuff (from the AP, sorry) - apparently Afghan president Hamid Karzai threatened to join the Taliban if the U.S. and its allies didn't back off some on pressuring him for political reform. "He said that 'if I come under foreign pressure, I might join the Tali ...
• Stenography And Afghanistan
  By Steve Hynd Derrick Crowe's post below is an excellent piece exploring the scandalous details emerging about the killing and coverup of three Afghan women, two of them heavily pregnant, by U.S. special forces. The whole affair fits a consistent pattern of "collateral deaths"; one that includes nig ...
• U.S. and Allied Forces: We Killed Those Pregnant A ...
  By Derrick Crowe Brave New Foundation's Rethink Afghanistan project has been following the story about a night raid in Gardez by U.S. and Afghan forces (see the video above), and today those forces made a major admission about their responsibility for civilian deaths. In a press release issued on Ea ...

Water Wars

• Water hits boiling point
  CALHOUN, Ga. -- What two decades of warnings from environmentalists couldn't do, three years of dry weather, news coverage showing dry moonscapes where lakes should be and the very real possibility of running out of water finally did.
• Thai-ASEAN News Network
  With Songkran fast approaching, toy store operators and stall holders at Sampeng Market in Yaowarat have begun preparing for rising demand by decorating their outlets with a range of fancy squirt guns.
• Recognized activist talks environment
  By: Kristyn Winch Time magazine hero Vandana Shiva says economies should be based on Earth International environmental activist, scientist and author Vandana Shiva lectured about food security and climate change Friday afternoon in the Belk Auditorium of the School of Business....
• Annual Tech series teaches sustainability
  Louisiana Tech University is in the midst of its annual Shaping the 21st Century series, and William Willoughby, associate dean and director of graduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts, said this year's series is different in that it does not focus on one nation or region of the world, but on ...
• Discourse on India-Pakistan water sharing hots up
  ISLAMABAD: As public discourse on the water component of India-Pakistan relations takes on a shrill note with charges like stealing water and water wars being levelled against India, High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal on Saturday said India had never hindered water flows into Pakistan even during th ...

WordPress | Economics

• Dairies try to force an Illinois farmer to cease f ...
  Here’s an excerpt from a fascinating and significant post by midlife farm wife Donna OShaughne
• Anatomy of a Crash: 2009 vs 1907
  comparison of the Panic of 1907 with the recent Credit Crisis “There is something about the pa
• Marx and the Crisis - Marx e la Crisi
  Karl Marx MARX AND THE CRISIS – MARX E LA CRISI Il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e la Facoltà d
• A misunderstanding of capitalism?
  I’ve been listening to the audiobook version of The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centurie
• Democracy failed in the U.S.
  I am sad. I am worried. I am disgusted. The United States has just made a giant leap toward socialis

Electronic Intifada

• Under the beautiful valley
  While the world's eyes are riveted to the political arguments between the Obama Administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the ground Israel is covertly tight ...
• Israel destroys Gaza dairy for second time
  It was not a chemical plant, nor a nuclear facility, nor a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction. But almost all the rubble of the entirely destroyed factory was cove ...
• Israel's "Iron Dome" system aims to pacify, not pr ...
  Israel's Iron Dome program has been controversial from its inception in 2005. Besides the nationalist economic motive, Israel's efforts at intercepting rockets and mortar shells ar ...
• Israel gags news on extrajudicial killings
  RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - An Israeli journalist remains under house arrest and another lives abroad, after they broke news on Israeli undercover units carrying out assas ...
• Four Palestinians injured during Land Day protest ...
  Four nonviolent demonstrators were shot at close range with live ammunition by Israeli soldiers during six simultaneous protests throughout the Gaza Strip commemorating Land Day. T ...

Afghanistan Sun

• US special forces using heavy metal music to fight ...
  Kabul, Apr 6(ANI) US special forces fighting in Afghanistan to expel the Taliban have found a new weapon as part of their "psychological operations" in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan- heavy metal music.
• UN closes Peshawar offices for two days
  The UN announced a two-day closure of its offices here Tuesday, a day after a deadly Taliban attack on the US consulate in this northwestern Pakistani city and a massive explosion at a political rally in Lower Dir claimed 59 lives.
• Karzai defends comments over fraud in Afghanistan& ...
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has defended his comments against the West about fraud in his country's presidential election, which caused dismay in Washington, where the White House called it "troubling".
• Karzai threatens to join Taliban
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly threatened to join the Taliban if he continues to come under 'outside pressure' to reform, a media report said Tuesday.
• Airstrike kills 4 civilians killed in Afghan south
  KABUL — A NATO airstrike on a residence in southern Afghanistan killed four civilians and four insurgents, an Afghan official and the military alliance said Tuesday. Afghan authorities and ...

Futurismic

• Personal Information – episode 7
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. [Sorry it's so late; been at Eastercon. Hey, even webzine editors need a holiday once in a while, AMIRITE? - PGR] Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information – episo ...
• Away at Eastercon
  Hey, folks – just a note to let you know I’m away drinking beer and talking books networking with other sf publishing professionals at Eastercon this weekend, and that I’m treating it as a largely-away-from-the-internet holiday. Of course, I’m never completely away from the internet (who is?), but w ...
• NEW FICTION: OUT WALKING THE STREETS by Eric Del C ...
  They've put me on this train, among regular people. I've promised to control myself, and my promises have convinced those who needed convincing. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 NEW FICTION: OUT WALKING THE STREETS by Eric Del Carlo
• Futurismic fiction submissions form closed! (But n ...
  The title says it all, folks – as of April 1st (no joke) we’re shutting down the fiction submissions webform here at Futurismic so that hard-workin’ Chris East can catch up on the slush mountain and get some well-deserved time away. So if you’ve been working on something to send to us, you’ve got a ...
• Nation-building 101
  Fancy starting up your own micronation? It’s not enough to just think up a flag and occupy your turf; there’s paperwork to be done. Luckily, Wired UK has a four-point beginner’s guide, as suggested by former UN strategy co-ordinator  Carne Ross, to get you started. Step one: Play by the rules – Mee ...

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

• Scientists raise concerns about radiation risk of ...
  Several media sources are reporting on concerns raised by scientists about the radiation dangers of CT scans. CT scans delivers the radiation exposure of about 400 chest x-rays. Their popularity for colon cancer screening and other diagnoses has increased the average American's lifetime radiation ex ...
• Birkenfeld Featured in World Policy Journal's "Cri ...
  An article written by Bradley Birkenfeld appears in the Spring 2010 issue of the World Policy Journal , released by the World Policy Institute.  The “Crime + Corruption” issue examines how corruption occurs, its effect on society, and how to stop it. Birkenfeld’s article, “ Inside the Cartel ,” is d ...
• Amy Stroupe wins reinstatement to BB&T!
  I reported here last September about Amy Stroupe's whistleblower hearing against BB&T bank. While working as an investigator for the bank, she uncovered a $20 million ponzi scheme. A bank official and some developers used a phony land development to recruit customers. After BB&T fired Stroupe, she ...
• NWC Seminar on Whistleblowers and the Media availa ...
  C-SPAN aired today's National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) seminar on Whistleblowers, Lawyers and the Media.� It is available on C-SPAN online . The seminar features insights about some of the most famous whistleblower cases in the media, and general comments about what whistleblowers should know bef ...
• Judge approves $3 million settlement of CIA decept ...
  I previously wrote here about the extraordinary findings of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth in Horn v. Huddle .� See my posts of August 28 and November 12, 2009 . Judge Lamberth found that officials of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including Director George Tenet and an agenc ...

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

• UK Shop Refuses To Make Prints Of Digital Photos B ...
  Want to know what happens when you increase the liability of third parties for copyright infringement? Stories of shops refusing to print digital photos. We've seen it for a while in the US. Five years ago we had stories of photoshops in the US refusing to make prints on photos because of the ass ...
• Does ACTA Kill Online Anonymity?
  With the full draft of ACTA leaked, lots of people have been highlighting the various lowlights found in the draft. Andrew Moshirnia, over at the Citizen Media Law Project, has picked up on another one. If you read the draft, it appears to remove due process in revealing anonymous users . While o ...
• Why We Need Better Metrics For Measuring User-Gene ...
  Much has been made about the iPad as a consumptive , rather than creative, device. Some, including law professor Tim Wu at a recent New America event , have voiced concern that it heralds the end of a golden era of user-generated content. But to truly understand the importance and impact of user-gen ...
• Beware The Seductive Power Of Surveillance
  Jessie Hirsh has a great blog post about the seductive power of surveillance , covering how surveillance systems put in place with limitations and for the best of intentions almost always get abused, as it just becomes too tempting to use them to a much greater level. The example he discusses, of c ...
• Reporter Matchmaking: New Journalism At Work
  While we still hear some traditional journalists whining and complaining about the dying journalism field, it's really exciting to see those who aren't paying attention to that working hard on reinventing journalism in a way that works. We already wrote about how the Planet Money team at NPR spent ...

VacTruth

• False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy: The Trut ...
  . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/05/2010 Diagnosing Munchausen by Proxy Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy or MSBP is a diagnosis given to a mother or care giver to describe aspects of their behaviour. This behaviour usually includes subjecting what appears to be a previously healthy child to unn ...
• HPV vaccine not just for women anymore
  . . . Geoffrey Cunningham The New Hampshire 03/30/2010 Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S, and affects both men and women. Up until recently, the two vaccines that exist for the disease were available to women only. A few months ago, how ...
• Vaccine with no jab: Protein vaccines for needle-f ...
  . . . PhysOrg.com 04/01/2010 (PhysOrg.com) — Most immunizations currently involve an injection in the arm. In the future, vaccination may be accomplished without the unpleasant jab of a needle: a team led by Victor C. Yang at the University of Michigan (USA) has developed a method by which vaccines ...
• GSK will provide free vaccines for low-income Amer ...
  . . . John Carrol Fierce Vaccines 03/31/2010 GlaxoSmithKline has decided to make a direct contribution for improving the poor vaccination rates in U.S. adults. The pharma giant has created a new program that provides free shots against hepatitis A and B, cervical cancer, tetanus, diphtheria and who ...
• Medical experts in Shanxi to investigate vaccine p ...
  . . . By Shan Juan China Daily 03/30/2010 BEIJING – A team of eight medical experts sent by the Chinese Medical Association has arrived in Shanxi province to help with the ongoing investigation of the latest vaccine scandal. Specialists in neurology, allergic reaction, vaccine adverse reaction, ...

BroadSnark

• Monstrous
  I had a post all ready to put up tonight, but I just watched the video of U.S. soldiers mowing down people on an Iraq street and I can’t think about anything else.    It is so cold, so monstrous. If you haven’t seen the video yet, it is below.  And remember, as you watch it, that [...]
• Guest Post at Womanist Musings
  One of the blogs I follow religiously is Womanist Musings.  Renee always makes me think.  This week she had a guest post by Kola Boof that set off a bit of a kerfuffle.  Renee then challenged her readers to respond with their own post, which I did. Below are links to all the posts (and comment [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Incredibly, the NY anarchist book fair is just two weeks from Saturday.  Don’t forget to pop me over an email if you are going (mel@broadsnark.com). Today is both César Chávez day and The International Transgender Day of Visibility.  I think it’s sort of appropriate that the two groups who are m ...
• Carnival of the Godless
  There is a new Carnival of the Godless up at Arizona Atheist.  Enjoy.
• Growing up Jewish – Passover Edition
  It’s passover, the perfect time for another installment of Growing up Jewish. Passover is a very big holiday for the Jews.  It commemorates our escape from slavery in Egypt about two gazillion years ago.  (We have very long memories).  The story goes like this. Once upon a time the Jews were slav ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

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

Armies of Liberation

• US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
  The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
• Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
  In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
• Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
  Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
• Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
  اليمن تعقد صفقات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوفاك – فبراير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صفقة مع ...
• Yemen’s three terror fronts
  By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...

Dark Politricks

• Video of US Troops massacre in Iraq
  The following video is from wikileaks.org and shows the US military in action in Iraq engaging in the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad. The dead included two Reuters reporters. The video has been at the center of a freedom of information request which ...
• Question – Do you deny the laws of physics?
  By Dark Politricks This article and the videos contained within should be compulsory viewing for anyone who believes that any talk of controlled demolitions in relation to the World Trade Center is the crazy talk of tin foil hat wearing loons. Its a collection of clips, news stories, talks and li ...
• Why I am glad the Special Relationship might be ov ...
  by Dark Politricks One piece of news I have heard over the weekend has really cheered me up. It was a report by the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee that said that the government should be “less deferential” toward the Americans and that the overused and totally phony term the specia ...
• Lib Dem response to my enquiry about their Freedom ...
  By Dark Politricks Recently I wrote a couple of articles about the Liberal Democrats and their proposed freedom bill which can be found here, here . I then emailed the Liberal Democrats asking them whether implementation of their freedom bill would be a key part of any bargaining to form a coalli ...
• Chris Huhne and the Lib Dem’s Freedom Bill
  By Dark Politricks I've always liked the Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne and personally thought he should have won their last leadership contest instead of Nick Clegg. Although Clegg comes across okay I have always found Chris to be more articulate and he seems to have much more passion especially w ...

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

• NYC Event: Sense and Sustainability Fashion Show a ...
  Tina Tandon fall 2009 collection. Credit: Tina Tandon A fusion of fashion and philanthropy, Sense and Sustainability is both a runway show -- featuring ethical threads by Rachel Lyra Hospodar, Helen Asir, Marcus Hicks , and Swati Argade -- and fundraiser for First Sight . Set in India, the docu ...
• Sleek Recycled Pallets Furniture to Improve Work o ...
  Photos: Design Simple . Revale is a project by Brazilian studio Design Simples , aimed to improve the work and life of the Unindo Forças woodwork cooperative in Vale do Sol (Barueri, Sao Paulo). With the idea to provide the conditions for the cooperative to compete with higher quality goods ...
• Recycled Jewelery From Straws, Records and Phone C ...
  Image from Linda Schailon If you are yearning for something cheap and cheerful to liven up your boring post-winter, not-yet-spring wardrobe, here's the trick: recycled jewelery made from old vinyl records or straws. Sounds strange but looks great. Designer Linda Schailon makes a collection ...
• Greenland Ice Cover Loss Shown with New Earth-Spac ...
  Image via YouTube video A new combined Earth-Space monitoring system is helping geophysicists and climatologists watch the ice coverage of Greenland and monitor how the ice mass is shifting north. A short video animating the change is startling, and the data also documents for the first time wh ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Tofu and Wild Mushrooms
  Photo:Kelly Rossiter TreeHugger founder Graham Hill found himself in a quandry about a year ago. He knew the health problems that can be caused by eating meat, the awful treatment of animals in factory farming , as well as the ecological problems for the health of the planet. And yet, he still ...

Biosingularity

• Cell bio, automation merge to screen every human g ...
  Every now and then, there’s a bit of science that’s a combination of brute force and tour de force. Examples that spring to mind mostly come from the world of small, manageable experimental animals, like the mapping of every single cell division of the worm C. elegans, a feat that won John Sulston a ...
• A Two-Pronged Attack on Cancer
  Last year marked a first for engineered antibodies–the European Commission approved a new cancer drug called Removab catumaxomab, an antibody specially designed to grab both cancer cells and immune cells in such a way that the immune cell can kill the cancer cell. The drug is undergoing testing for ...
• Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Find ...
  A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely, before age 55, of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes were at almost double the risk of d ...
• How to Change A Skin Cell Into A Nerve Cell or Cel ...
  Eyeballs just don’t become toenails — even though the same genome sits in the nucleus of every cell. The difference is in the parts of the genome that are expressed — a cell’s identity is determined by the specific genes that are active within that cell. The differentiation of a cell, and a cell’s c ...
• Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Bra ...
  As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain”. ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• 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.
• With Adversaries Like This – You Don ...
• CFACT continues their mission in Cancún
  CFACT students deliver laptops and hope to la Ciudad de la Alegria.
• Greenpeace Opts for Millions of Blind Kids
  We can't prevent earthquakes, but we can prevent blindness.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Chechen court bans Russian encyclopedia volume on ...
  A court in Chechnya has banned material about Chechnya and Chechen extremism published in the 58th volume of the Big Russian Encyclopedia for discriminating against Russia's North Caucasus republic.
• U.S. missile shield plans currently no threat to R ...
  Washington's plans for a missile defense shield do not presently constitute any threat to Moscow's strategic interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
• Kudrin promises Russia ten years without state exp ...
  Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on Tuesday promised ten years of the country's development without any increase in government spending.
• Deputy PM may become Russian Olympic Committee pre ...
  Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov may become the new president of the Russian Olympic Committee, the Russian businees daily Vedemosti said.
• Observers: Corruption hits Russian security
  Dimitri Simes, president of the Washington-based Nixon Center think tank, told CNN it's vital for Moscow to restore the capabilities of Russia's Federal Security Service, the successor organization to the KGB.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• CERN sets date for first 7 TeV particle smashes in ...
  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time collide particles at an energy of 7 tera-electron volts (TeV), or 3.5 TeV per beam, on March 30, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on its website.
• World space agencies confirm serviceability of ISS ...
  There are no technical constraints to extending the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) until at least 2020, top international space officials said on Thursday.
• Brazil to develop carrier rocket by 2014
  Brazil plans to develop its own carrier rocket for conveying small satellites into orbit by 2014, the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) said on Monday.
• Russia to launch Cryosat-2 satellite on April 8
  The launch of the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 Earth Explorer satellite on a Russian Rokot carrier rocket is scheduled for April 8, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
• Russian Nobel laureate to work on Kremlin's 'Silic ...
  A Russian Nobel Prize winner will become a scientific adviser to the high-tech business park the government is setting up near Moscow as the Russian "Silicon Valley," a Russian newspaper reported on Monday.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This could be huge. WikiLeaks may be taking over the functions formerly held by well-funded (and supported) investigative journalism at big ...
• What's So Bad About A Value Added Tax?
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Over the last few weeks I have heard some rumblings about a value-added tax (VAT), “a fee that is assessed against businesses by a government at various points in the production of goods or services-usually any time a product is reso ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Jane Mayer dismantled Marc Thiessen’s book “Courting Disaster”: In order to make the case that America was blind to the threat of Al Qaeda in the days before 9/11, Thiessen skips over the scandalous amount of intelligence that reache ...
• Political Rehabilitation and Financial Reform
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Republicans may be at their lowest point since 1964. Sure, they got walloped in 2006 and again in 2008, but afterwards seemed to project an attitude of “beaten but unbowed.” Now though, there is an air of capitulation about them, w ...
• 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. I don’t want the military to be above criticism, so I don’t have a problem with this . It is worth noting, though, that a similarly sharp cr ...

Natural Health News

• Small Soda Taxes Might Not Make a Dent in Childhoo ...
  Small taxes on soda do little to reduce soft drink consumption or prevent childhood obesity, but larger levies probably would, according to new research. The study is being released as a recent wave of proposals would raise soda taxes or create new ones on sugared beverages. But they'll have to be ...
• Pfizer Gives Details on Payments to Doctors
  Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, said that it paid about $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf in the last six months of 2009, its first public accounting of payments to the people who decide which drugs to recommend. Pfizer al ...
• The Vitamin D Solution
  What do obesity, heart disease, depression, diabetes, and fibromyalgia have in common? The answer is vitamin D deficiency. More than 200 million Americans lack this essential vitamin. In the landmark book The Vitamin D Solution, Dr. Michael F. Holick identifies the causes of vitamin D deficiency, o ...
• 10 Most Incredible Images of Sunsets
  How many people turn around when they watch a beautiful sunset?  Here are a few good reasons why they should. Anticrepuscular rays are spectacular optical phenomena that are quite rare and they require the viewer to have his or her back to the sun. They are columns of sunlit air streaming through ga ...
• Farm Pesticides Linked to Deadly Skin Cancer
  Workers who apply certain pesticides to farm fields are twice as likely to contract melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, according to a new scientific study. The researchers identified six pesticides that, with repeated exposure, doubled the risk of skin cancer among farmers and other workers wh ...

Antemedius

• 28 Countries Helped U.S. Detain War on Terror Susp ...
  Twenty-eight nations have cooperated with the U.S. to detain in their prisons, and sometimes to interrogate and torture, suspects arrested as part of the U.S. “War on Terror.” The complicit countries have kept suspects in prisons ranging from public interior ministry buildings to “safe house” villas ...
• Wikileaks: Reuters and kids as Collateral Damage
  The man, dressed in a white shirt and dark pants, strides confidently down the middle of the suburban street in Iraq, his camera bag slung over one shoulder, his co worker following behind, with other men in summer clothing ambling down the road. He pauses to speak into his cell phone. In the dista ...
• Open Letter to So-Called Left-Wing Bloggers
  An open letter to so-called leftist bloggers: It's interesting that we are seeing the usual excuse-making for how and why the health care battle went the way it did. Bloggers are calling for civility after having displayed nothing but outright hostility to their readers, calling for cooperation aft ...
• The Crisis of Neoliberalism
  Dr. Gerard Dumenil, of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at The University of Massachusetts, is one of the world's foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crises, and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have been translated into several languages, includ ...
• Nourishing the Planet in Basil Magazine
  Crossposted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Check out this great new regular feature for Basil Magazine from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project: Hello readers of Basil Magazine! I am very excited to be a new contributor to Basil as I travel throu ...

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

• A leader for a livable Future – Happy Cesar Chavez ...
  It wasn’t until I moved to San Francisco after college that I found out who Cesar Chavez was. Being from Pennsylvania, where his birthday is not celebrated as a state holiday, perhaps I knew his name, but certainly not his legacy as a leader and organizer for farm workers rights.  But in California ...
• DC Healthy Schools Act
  On Friday, March 26th  the DC Council listened to testimony from various concerned citizens and experts from the community on the DC Healthy Schools Act.  This bill represents a wonderful first step in improving the health of DC’s children and the role that schools play in the sustainability of ou ...
• Unsupported Claims About Livestock and Climate Cha ...
  As a public health doctoral student, I have been taught the importance of communicating scientific information to the public, journalists, and policy makers in a careful manner, especially when dealing with complex issues.  Scientific research almost never provides clear answers, but as a scientist ...
• Maryland’s Grocery Store Tax Credit Bill Could Imp ...
  Maryland House Bill 1135, the Grocery Store Property Tax Credit Bill, passed the House yesterday with 138-0 votes! The bill grants a property tax credit to grocery stores throughout the state located in low-income areas. Delegate Justin Ross, the main sponsor of the bill, represents Prince George’s ...
• Urban Chicken Farming
  This past Saturday, the Baltimore Food Makers held their monthly potluck in Northeast Baltimore at the home of an urban chicken farming couple. Our hosts distilled a lifetime of farming know-how into a short tour of their backyard chicken coop, and fielded questions about their three hens, poultry h ...

Norwegianity

• Return of the link spreader
  Cleaning up the accumulated links as well as adding some new ones. Sorted because the health dept. said I had to. - The Wonderful World of Finance: Brick wall justice Heath care reform win has changed financial reform ballgame A reckoning over Bear Stearns? Hail our overlords! Because stock prices a ...
• Getting back on schedule
  Just put buddy Jon on the road back to Wisconsin, but over coffee this morning our conversation prompted me to wonder aloud, is there any foreign threat to the well being of this nation half as menacing as the threat posed by Wall Street and our predator class capitalist overlords? No, we couldn’t t ...
• Roland, the headless chocolate bunny
  - It’s Easter Sunday and the Strib has rolled away the stone with both an editorial and an interview with Koua Fong Lee. Attention should be paid, and commenters are raising the question of why absentee Gov. BridgeFail doesn’t just commute Lee’s sentence as a matter of basic fairness. I think that ...
• Suffer little children and forbid them not, especi ...
  Just in time for Easter: [The Rev. Michael] Teta was accused of engaging in abuse not long after coming to the Diocese of Tucson, Ariz., in 1978. Among the eventual allegations: That he molested two boys, ages 7 and 9, in the confessional as they prepared for their First Communion. Bishop Manue ...
• Good day to flog Jesus
  What you came here for: Krugman Suddenly there are lots of stories about the Koch brothers Whack jobs threaten governors in several states Because failed means failed (means failed) Failing on purpose Calling out themselves Obama already has a terrorist Top Ten Why Africa is poor, cont. Why you ne ...

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

• Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
  A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation ‘Rah-e-Rast’. Before the operation ‘Rah-e-Rast’, an NGO financed preparation of f ...
• Constitutional Game to Undo Pakistan from the Back ...
  Written By :- Dr Shahid Qureshi Pakistan is unfortunately one of those countries where traitors masquerade as politicians and treachery is deemed to be ‘legitimate politics’.  There is no prize for guessing how did the desire the revoke the 17th Amendment got transformed into a full fledg ...
• Palestinians urge global action against Israel
  The Palestinian Authority has called on international bodies and the Arab League summit in Libya to protect East Jerusalem al-Quds against Israeli settlement activities. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the opening of a two-day Arab League summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, called on int ...
• Bling Faith or Emotional Pull ?? | Teeth Maestro
  Recent debates, especially on facebook , regarding Zaid Hamid and his relations with a convicted blasphemer who died in jail almost a decade ago have certainly caught the Pakistani youth by surprise. They find themselves locked in an argument which is taking a heavy toll on their intellect and ener ...
• Israeli tanks cross technical fence near Lebanon
  Two Israeli tanks have crossed their technical fence near the border with Lebanon two kilometers south of the disputed Ghajar village. The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, also known as the UNIFIL, were present in the area along with Lebanese Armed Forces to make sure that the Israeli ...

Center for Food Safety

• Court Rules in GMO Sugar Beet Case
  Today, federal district Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California denied a request by a coalition of organic seed growers, and conservation and food safety groups seeking a temporary ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. While Judge White denied the pr ...
• More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...
  Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
• Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...
  Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
• Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
  Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
• Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
  Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: W ...
  The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: Will It Matter? By Richard Falk : Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of ‘a Jewish homeland' profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as th ...
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz-Stop Saying This Is a Nation ...
  Stop Saying This Is a Nation of Immigrants! � The Speed of Dreams : By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time activist, university professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles, she has written three historical memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, Ou ...
• 10 reasons to Commemorate the Chicano Moratoriums ...
  Submitted by Social Justice Affairs correspondent Viola Wilkins: -- 10 reasons to Commemorate the Chicano Moratoriums 1969-1971 1. Because they opposed an unjust war. 2. Because they were grass roots based 3. Because they supported the non violent struggle for social justice 4. Because ...
• Australiasia Bureau-Chief: Sina Brown-Davis - Lex ...
  On August 9th 2008 Lex Wotton, invited by Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne, spoke at the Solidarity Fiesta at the MUA Auditorium prior to his trial relating to the riots in Palm Island. He was charged with "riot with destruction" and describes in his own words the events that day. h ...
• Clayton Thomas-Muller-Speaking at the Green Jobs C ...
  Clayton Thomas-Muller from Glen Richards on Vimeo . Speaking at the Green Jobs Conference, Toronto

Pensieve

• Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende
  I spent a wonderful weekend in Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende. I took over 1,300 pictures, and several videos. All that has taken much of the energy for blogging about it, but I’ll let these few pictures speak for themselves. Related posts:So much to blog about!!! Miguel Torres: Doña Esper ...
• Inside Costa Rica Features my Article
  After being disappointed by two articles in a row that presented Honduras in the unfavorable light the news wires shine on Honduras, I complained to the editor of Inside Costa Rica with a accusation of severe bias. He responded, and graciously invited me to write an article for them. I thank him, an ...
• Chigüire Bipolar Hacked, Bad Week for Freedom
  This week has seen the demise of Google China, the arrest of Guillermo Zuolaga, the president of Globovisión, Venezuela’s last opposition channel, and the reelection of Jose Miguel Insulza as the leader of the OAS. In a much smaller and more personal level, my website was hacked. But that the Chigà ...
• My Site Was Hacked, sorry
  Apparently my site was hacked. I removed 17 links to malware and have resubmitted this site to Google, hopefully everything will be ok soon. Related posts:Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar What! (Google Suggest oddity) Here Comes Another Bubble Related posts: Presidential Island, by E ...
• Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar
  El Chigüire Bipolar is a Venezuelan spoof news website inspired by The Onion and the Colbert Report. It has probably been the cause of Hugo Chavez’s latest attack on the freedom of Venezuleans, his threat to censor the internet. Thanks Gringa for leading me to find this! If your browser is warning ...

Green Times

• The Story of Bottled Water
  Released to coincide with World Water Day is the latest animated video from Annie Leonard takes a provocative, humorous look at bottled water…  
• Environmental News - 25/03/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Businesses 'should protect environment' (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/businesses-should-protect-environment-20100324-quhg.html)-Nine out of ten Australians believe big business ...
• 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.
• Environmental News - 01/02/10
  Environmental News Mining 'threat to swamps and rock art' (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/mining-threat-to-swamps-and-rock-art-20100129-n48w.html) - A VAST new coalmine planned for Sydney's south-western outskirts will damage the city's natural desalination plant - the ''hanging swamps'' that f ...
• Biomass Energy from Macadamia Nuts
  What do you do with 5,000 tonnes of Macadamia Nut shells? Create electricity of course! Australia’s largest energy retailer, AGL, is helping to create biomass fuel from macadamia nut shells, as part of its effort to invest in sustainable energy sources.

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Leaked video footage shows Iraq journalists killed ...
  The video is graphic, and disturbing. As a group of men amble down a Baghdad street two US Army helicopters open fire, repeatedly shooting the men and gunning one down as he tries to flee . As the dust clears, the troops survey their handiwork. "Look at those dead b******s," one pilot says. "Nice," ...
• Karzai threat to join Taleban
  Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has threatened to abandon the political process and join the Taleban if he continues to come under outside pressure to reform. Mr Karzai made his statement at a closed-door meeting with selected Afghan MPs - just days after instigating a diplomatic controversy by alleging ...
• Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms
  President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons. But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for "outliers like Iran and North Korea" that ha ...
• Chicago terrorism suspect pleads not guilty
  A Chicago cab driver pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he attempted to aid al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] by sending money to a terrorist leader believed to be in Pakistan. Raja Lahrasib Khan, an American citizen born in Pakistan, appeared briefly before U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel to enter ...
• State Lawyers Denied Access to Patients In 'Neurob ...
  New York State's highest court has refused to order nursing homes to give state lawyers access to hundreds of psychiatric patients so they can advocate for their rights to treatment alternatives, living conditions or even release. The Court of Appeals, divided 4 to 3, concluded last week that be ...

Daily Loaf

• Do It Today: The Ataris pop-punk, pay-what-you-can ...
  Indiana-based pop-punkers The Ataris have seen 15 musicians come and go from their lineup since its inception in 1995. Unsurprisingly, the foursome’s style has progressed from the snapshot-songwriting approach on their Kung Fu Record  debut, …Anywhere But Here, to their most recognizable mainstream ...
• On the Radar: American Stage descends into Reefer ...
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming arts events to mark your calendars for. In preparation for its upcoming string of performances at the Orlando International Fringe Festival, American Stage hosts four nights of Reefer Madness, based on the 1936 film cult classic. T. Scott Wooten (p ...
• Taboo 4 fetish performances: Styker Vawn, RubberDo ...
  Five sexy videos of the fetish performances you missed at Taboo 4.
• Castor writes to Obama about offshore drilling
  Obama's announcement last week angered environmentalists, and didn't seem to get that great a reaction from Republicans, who the President was obviously trying to appease as he tries to get a climate change bill passed in the Senate.
• Help the SPC environmental clubs clean up Clearwat ...
  Help the SPC environmental clubs and USGBC students make Clearwater Beach beautiful. After Spring Break, it needs a little TLC.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Israel’s Nukes Are Off Limits
  By Rela Mazali In an extensive, research-based 2009 position paper titled: On Nuclear Weapons: A Feminist Perspective, Edna Gorney and Hedva Eyal of the Isha L’Isha Haifa Feminist Center wrote, “the Israeli public remains excluded from the [nuclear] debate. The public does not ask questions, ...
• Palestinian Police Crack Down on Protest for Israe ...
  by Jesse Bacon Organizer Mousa Abu Maria, whose home was raided March 8th, has been detained again. This time, the force attempting to suppress his demonstrations in Beit Ommar was not the Israeli army, but rather the Palestinian Authority police. It seems both Israeli and Palestinian officials can ...
• Israeli Military Offers “Cartoon” Theo ...
   Ha’aretz reports that  a year after Bassem Abu Rahmeh was fatally shot in the chest by a tear gas grenade as he stood unarmed at the weekly protest against the Wall in the West Bank village of Bi’lin,  the military prosecution has decided that it would not investigate his death. Although b ...
• “What Compels You to Do That?”: Teachi ...
  By Rebecca Kirzner I teach English in Hebron. There. It’s said. The seemingly innocuous statement that generates an onslaught of questions, quizzical looks, and widened eyes. To be fair, it’s the type of statement that one does not often hear from a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, living in Jer ...
• Celebrating Passover and Land Day in Budrus
  By Rebecca Vilkomerson Monday evening: a standard seder in north Tel Aviv with my family, where the story of the historic liberation of the Jews from oppression by organizing themselves (my own personal takeaway from the Pesach tale) passed quite quickly by in favor of dinner.  Tuesday:  the f ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Afghan humanity missing from our debate
  I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Former South Carolina senator Fritz Hollings has an excellent editorial out today calling the US war in [...]
• Synchrophasors. For a smarter grid
  Synchrophasors sit in electricity substations and report on conditions on the lines. The current new breed of synchrophasors reports back 30 times a second rather than every 2-4 seconds as the older ones do. Better yet, it will report back with a time stamp, which it will generate by listening for a ...
• The Mormon Worker. Radical politics and Mormonism
  The Mormon Worker is an independent newspaper/journal devoted to Mormonism and radical politics. It is published by members of the LDS Church. The paper is modeled after the legendary Catholic Worker which has been in publication for over seventy years. The primary objective of The Mormon Worker is ...
• Iraq: Wikileaks video of US military killing journ ...
  Boing Boing Wikileaks claims to have obtained and decrypted video that shows US occupying forces in an Apache helicopter intentionally firing on a dozen civilians in Baghdad, including journalists working for the Reuters news organization Update: As of 2PM PT, a Senior U.S. official is confirming a ...
• Outlaw pot growers in California fear legalization
  They say it’ll drive down prices and destroy the local underground economy. Growers in Humboldt County are even meeting with civic officials to determine what to do, which I guess means it’s de facto legal there. They should do what Joe Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy clan, did. He was a major boo ...

Coteret

• The unnamed “senior Netanyahu aide” in ...
  This morning the New York Times covers a story that has been central to Israeli public debate for months: The ongoing campaign to silence dissent in Israel and suppress the local human rights community. Reporter Isabel Kershner does not name the official associated with the campaign nor specify the ...
• Yediot’s Barnea: Netanyahu asks Wiesel to in ...
  Say something to Obama Nahum Barnea, Yediot, April 4 2010 [page 2 with front-page teaser] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows that he is in deep trouble at the White House. This weekend he made an interesting effort to find ways into Barack Obama’s heart. The author Elie Wiesel, in Israel for th ...
• Hanoch Marmari: It cannot happen here!
  This morning’s (April 1 2010) readers of Yediot were treated to a particularly cumbersome and puzzling news item, entitled “What the the GSS doesn’t want you to know”: What all the world’s citizens are allowed to know is denied Israeli residents: Foreign newspapers and international media publish a ...
• Fmr. Israeli NSC Chief: Time to say “no, we ...
  CORRECTION: A reader was quick to point out that Uzi Dayan is a the former head of the National Security Council. The current one being Uzi Arad. See this link for more. Although active in the Likud, Dayan apparently carries no current official position, which of course greatly reduces the importanc ...
• Arrested for Post Zionism
  Cross posted from Promised Land. Editors note: Note how the charge resembles Yuval Diskin’s definition of the Shabak’s mandate. —– Pay close attention to this item. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s an important one: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (Spain) and Bridgette Chappel ...

Deadline Live

• This Day In History – April 6
  1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins. 1814 – Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. ...
• WikiLeaks releases secret video of journalists & c ...
  WikiLeaks releases secret video of journalists & civilians killed in Baghdad Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Pope’s immunity to prosecution may be challenged i ...
  Protests are growing against Pope Benedict XVI’s planned trip to Britain, where some lawyers question whether the Vatican’s implicit statehood status should shield the pope from prosecution over sex crimes by pedophile priests. More than 10,000 people have signed a petition on Downing Street’s web s ...
• R&B singer Erykah Badu in trouble for naked ambiti ...
  NEW YORK (Billboard) – Erykah Badu has been charged with disorderly conduct over her nude video shoot for her latest single, “Window Seat,” according to TMZ.com. The Grammy-winning R&B singer will be mailed a citation and faces up to a $500 fine. According to the site, a Texas woman filed an indecen ...
• This Day In History – April 5
  1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain. 1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island. 1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises hi ...

The Air Vent

• Over the top – Demand a retraction and apolo ...
  Greenpeace openly threatened skeptics yesterday.  They are known for attacking legal fishing vessels violently, this post didn’t become official policy yet but someone had to clear this kind of extremist rhetoric.   I was ignoring it until I read the same story on climate skeptic. They have gone t ...
• Arctic Winds
  Often here, I’ve made the point that the 06-07-08 sea ice reductions in the Arctic were created by winds and water flow rather than temperature.    These reductions look pretty dramatic in video, but the key is that the wind patterns are very much visible during the summer melt season – especiall ...
• Islands of Reason
  This is an update to the sea ice situation.  Yes,  I’m a sea ice watcher.  I keep waiting for it to melt away leaving us with nothing but corrosive liquid di-hydrogen monoxide.  It seems that climatologists must be reading the Air Vent and WUWT pretty regularly as they have just released their c ...
• The Solution is the Problem
  Willis Eschenbach asked a number of questions of climate scientists at this thread on WUWT. I’m not a ‘climate scientist’  but the questions are fun, and those of us who are not climate scientists can form informed opinions on these.  On the WUWT thread, climate scientists are invited  to answer, ...
• Climate Scientists Speak up or we WILL hear you!
  While sitting here with my son, I took a moment to look around blogland and noticed Climate Audit has come out with what I consider a proper response to the rubbish science recently swept to the corner by the UK parliament. In fact, it has got to be the strongest worded post I’ve seen from [...]

Focal Point

• Celibacy and Child Rape
  At the New York Review of Books Blog, controversial Catholic theologian Hans Küng blames the celibate priesthood for the epidemic of child rape in the Catholic Church. (The term "rape" is mine and it's carefully chosen. When adults force sex on children, that's rape.) He argues convincingly that ...
• As Seen on Rachel Maddow...
  My story in AlterNet about the Republican National Committee's creative expense accounting got picked up by Rachel Maddow last night. Watch the video: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Topics: Politics & Policy
• Booze is an "Office Supply" at the RNC
  When I read that Republican National Committee staffers had expensed nearly $2000 worth of "meals" at bondage-themed Hollywood nightclub specializing in simulated lesbian sex, I knew it couldn't be an isolated incident. No one would be bold enough to expense that unless they were sure they could g ...
• The Marketing Wizards Behind the Bitter Community ...
  A few days ago, I posted about an unusual ad that appeared in my local subway stop. The ad featured a kid with a broken leg hobbling down a hospital corridor on crutches. The copy read: " Football? Nope. Broken sidewalks. Broken sidewalk stories won't win us a Pulitzer, but they could keep you out ...
• Calls to Move Goalposts as Girls Surpass Boys in S ...
  In his latest op/ed Nick Kristof is lamenting the fact that girls are outperforming boys at school. Kristof is as ardent a defender of women's rights as anyone in the established media, so he gets a proverbial clitoral ' hood pass . That said, Kristof seems uncharacteristically oblivious to th ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook for iPad Still Not Released, Third Partie ...
  Many people expected to see an official Facebook app launch along with the iPad this past weekend, but it didn’t. Instead, new owners of the tablet device looked in the App Store for a Facebook and found an unofficial app called Facebook Ultimate, for $2.99. It got as high as number 7 [...]
• Citing Legal Risks, Facebook Restricts Employee St ...
  Facebook implemented a new policy against insider stock trading last Friday. The point is to keep employees with stock to sell from getting in legal trouble, according to a source familiar with the matter. It comes at a time when Facebook’s valuation is climbing fast, based off of strong user and ...
• Facebook Dating Dominated by Apps, Bigger Names Fa ...
  Online dating has been getting more and more mainstream over the past few years and, unsurprisingly, many companies have been trying to provide versions on Facebook as well. The promise is that developers can use Facebook’s social graph and communication channels to build applications match the righ ...
• Airlines Share Specials on Facebook but Stop Short ...
  Many different types of businesses are setting up shop on Facebook these days but airlines have a marketing model especially suited for the type of fan interaction that Facebook can provide — cheap air fares. We’ve taken a look at airlines along with other travel companies previously but this time ...
• Few New Names Appear on This Week’s List of Top Fa ...
  Although the games category pulsed with activity last week on Facebook, there wasn’t a lot to see outside of it in terms of growth. New games from Electronic Arts, Playdom, CrowdStar and others appear on this week’s list of fastest-gaining Facebook apps by monthly active users, but only a handf ...

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

• Israel’s choice of lawlessness and defiance
  William A. Cook considers what might have been had the Jews decided to work within international law, rather than defy it and seize most of Palestine by force and through ethnic cleansing, and live side by side with the Palestinians the indigenous inhabitants of the Palestine.
• Reversing Israel’s faux legitimacy
  Paul J. Balles considers Israel’s false claim to legitimacy, how it can be undone and the probable counter-response from Israel and its Zionist allies and lobbyists around the world.
• Was Israel ever legitimate?
  Jeff Gates views the fraud that underpins Israel’s claim to “legitimacy” and argues that the perpetuation of the myth of Israel’s legitimacy constitutes a real and present danger to United States national security and wellbeing.
• Israel and the “delegitimization” oxymoron
  Alan Hart argues that in law the foundations upon which Israel claims legitimacy do not actually exist and that “only the Palestinians could give it the legitimacy it craved”. He says that “what delegitimizes Israel is the truth of history”, which is why “Zionism has worked so hard … to have the tru ...
• Palestinians are winning the legitimacy war: will ...
  Richard Falk argues that a Palestinian victory in the legitimacy war with Israel would not necessarily produce the desired political results and that it is vital that the Palestinians exercise "patience, resolve, leadership and vision, as well as sufficient pressure" if they are to win their just ri ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Travelling down the Amazon Road
  In the opening of the Sustainability International Forum in Manaus, Brazil, Thomas Lovejoy, the scientist who invented the concept of biodiversity, criticized the construction of a highway through pristine areas in the Amazon rainforest. For Lovejoy, the highway poses a serious threat to the Amazon ...
• Top Amazonia activist shot dead!
  Pedro Alcantara de Souza, who headed a union of landless farmers in Para, was shot in the head five times by two men on motorcycles, according to a police spokesman in the town of Redencao. Souza was riding a bicycle on the outskirts of the town and his wife was with him when he was shot, [...]
• Avatar Director James Cameron returns from a visit ...
  James Cameron, director of Avatar, will hold a press conference on Wednesday, March 31 at 10 am at Hotel Tropical to report back on his experience a three-day visit to the Big Bend region of the Xingu River, site of the proposed Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam project. “I was told by my friends at ...
• Amazonia for Sale – new documentary – ...
  Amazonia for Sale is a new documentary on the Awajun People and their struggle to protect their ancestral territory. Approximately 35 minutes in length, Amazonia for Sale tells the story of the Awajun Peoples, who, like so many other Indigenous People around the world, are struggling to preserve the ...
• New threat to uncontacted Tribes in Amazonia !
  Anglo-French oil company Perenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest. The pipeline is being built to transport an estimated three hundred million barrels of oil from the depths of the northern Peruvian Amazon. The company ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
  A Book on ‘Arming America’s Enemies’ Written by America’s Enemies?! David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), has a new book out (which I haven’t read) about AQ Khan and the nuclear black market called Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Tra ...
• Updates & Weekly Round Up for March 28
  Today marks Boiling Frogs Post’s fifth month of operation, and the last day of our fundraising campaign. On behalf of our team members I want to thank all of you for your support, with a special thanks to 658 of you who donated to our cause. We may not have reached our benchmark for our [...]
• Podcast Show #26
  NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White House Last week Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publicly debate on the Whistleblow ...
• White House vs. Whistleblowers Debate: NWC Accepts ...
  National Whistleblowers Center & Boiling Frogs Post Ask White House to Reconsider On Friday, March 19, Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, ...
• Boiling Frogs Post Takes Obama White House to Task ...
  Boiling Frogs Will Host a Public Debate on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act Boiling Frogs Post has invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publ ...

Afro Spear

• A Simple Easter Message
  “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 For Christians like me, Easter is a time of remembrance and reflection on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. His death as payment for my sins and His resurrection as the doorway to the gift from God ...
• sat’day riddymz
• easter riddymz
• Canada’s Olympic Hockey Gold!
  Congratulations to the Canadian Olympic men’s and women’s hockey teams for bringing home the gold medal! What is even more satisfying is that both gold medal games were against our neighbours to the south, the USA. Make no mistake about it, hockey in Canada is like football in Brazil, rugby in Ne ...
• Will junta rid Africa of tyranny or resurge? by Nk ...
  I abhor undemocratic means of ascending to power. When Capt. Mousa Dadis Camara survived an attempt on his life by his aide Boubakar Diakite, many thought it was just an isolated incident  and a passing cloud. To the contrary, thinkers had a different take of this. Is this the beginning of a new era ...

Expose the BNP

• On the ground in Dudley
  Entering the town of Dudley on Saturday was like entering a ghost town, an almost militarised ghost town. More than half the roads in the town centre were closed, with police manning the roadblocks. As we made our way to where the English Defence League rally was due to be held we walked past rows [ ...
• EDL attack journalists in Dudley
  The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who witnessed the EDL rally in Dudley on Saturday. Entering the town of Dudley last Saturday was like entering a ghost town, an almost militarised ghost town. More than half the roads in the town centre were closed, with police manning the ...
• Multi-racial communities celebrated in Dudley
  Anti-fascist demonstrators are meeting in Dudley today to celebrate Dudley’s multi faith and multi racial community.  The event put on by Unite Against Fascism in partnership with Love Music Hate Racism, brings together anti-fascists, interfaith communities, local politicians and young people to ...
• BNP leader facing suspension for racist rant
  Barking and Dagenham’s disgraced BNP leader Bob Bailey may be suspended from his role as councillor for making racially offensive remarks. His racist rant was made during a planning meeting in July last year, when the predominantly Nigerian Redeemed Christian Church of God, applied for permission to ...
• Police protection of fascist movements
  Witnesses to last weekend’s demonstration against the English Defence League in Bolton reported deeply disturbing police operational tactics. Greater Manchester Police sought to stymie the Unite Against Fascism counter-demonstration with aggression and brutality, whilst allowing the racist EDL to ra ...

Sen45Earth

• ABC’s Kimmel Joins SEN’s Palin Alaska ...
  Click Here For Kimmel’s Video on ABC Please Note: Kimmel’s Condemnation Video is Comedic, but uses animation and special effects to imitate (ie fake) Sarah Palin shooting Alaskan Wildlife. Also, there is a 30-second ad before the two-minute Kimmel video starts. Click Here to Condemn and Boycott Th ...
• SEN Condemns EDF, Walmart, Fox News, Glenn Beck, D ...
  Click Here for the Boycott Action Page for All Above Article this Page: SEN Condemns EDF and Walmart The Environmental Defense Fund is a non-profit organization that purports to be helping to save planet earth. In fact EDF has partnered with Walmart and is now shamefully singing Walmart’s praises on ...
• Overshoot: Climate, Inequity and Corruption
  (See Recent Posts at Right for More articles) The author of the article below is Dr. Glen Barry, President and Founder of Ecological Internet (EI). He is recognized internationally by the environmental movement as a leading global visionary, environmental policy critic and public intellectual commit ...
• More Proof of Need for Urgent Action
  Click Here for SEN’s Catastrophe Summary This page is to document, detail and expand upon the facts for the benefit of those who may be understandably disbelieving or skeptical.                        In World Energy and Population Trends to 2100, Paul Chefurka establishes the direct c ...
• Sustainability Education Network
  Welcome to Sustainability Education Network! The main website of Sustainability Education Network (SEN) at sen4earth.org will not be completed until May. In the meantime, we are using this ”blog” or article section of sen4earth.org to get underway without delay, because the world is running out of ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

• 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 ...
• Scientists vs Deniers
  The following groups say the danger of human-caused climate change is a … FACT: U.S. Agency for International Development United States Department of Agriculture National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Institute of Standards and Technology United States Department of Defense United St ...
• BT’s Stupid Little Phone Book Claim
  30,000 tonnes of phonebooks in the UK alone, and perhaps 100,000 tonnes more in the USA…every year! That’s an awful lot of paper; an awful lot of forest being ripped up; a huge amount of energy being used to pulp, print, distribute and (possibly) recycle the books. What a pointless waste, especiall ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Clifford Stoll Was Wrong, But Internet is Far From ...
  Poor Clifford Stoll . His 1995 Newsweek essay The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana resurfaced last month and, yes, is still so curmudgeony that it makes Dennis the Menace's Mr. Wilson sound like Pangloss: What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is th ...
• Agriculture and Us
  I attended an Ashoka conference in New Delhi yesterday on rural innovation and farming. There were so many new things I realized about agriculture's deep rooted connections with culture, society and the economy that I decided to immediately write about it before the memories fade. Plus. I watched Av ...
• Printcasting Adds Partners in Philadelphia, Puerto ...
  Do niche print magazines still have a role to play in the digital age? Media outlets in five different cities around the world are using the Printcasting publishing network to try and answer this question. We've added three partners in two weeks. They are: La República , one of the leading newspaper ...
• Hacks and Hackers: A New Community for Technojourn ...
  Last June, at the annual Center for Future Civic Media Conference , I got to talking with Aron Pilhofer (an old friend, leader of the New York Times news applications team and a Knight News Challenge winner for the DocumentCloud project) about the growing number of people who are now doing computer ...
• How Mark Luckie Created 'The Digital Journalist's ...
  It's an increasingly common story in the news business: Young journalist roars out of graduate school at Berkeley, gets a great job at a magazine in New York, works like mad, gets laid off when the economy tanks, turns to his blog and Twitter to brand himself a rock star in his field, publishes a bo ...

  Blacklisted News

• Brown hails move on global bank tax
  Gordon Brown on Sunday said the large economies were close to agreeing a global tax on banks that would cost the financial sector billions of pounds a year but played down expectations that a deal could be struck at the next Group of 20 meeting in June.
• Rubin and Greenspan to face crisis inquiry
  Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary who played a key role in financial deregulation during Bill Clinton’s presidency and who has kept a low profile since stepping down as a special adviser to Citigroup in January 2009, is to be questioned by the US financial crisis inquiry commission this we ...
• Wall Street Bailout Cost Reaches $4.6 Trillion; Mo ...
  Discussions of Washington’s bailout of Wall Street have mostly focused on what the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has spent: $410 billion. But the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) claims the real total of the federal rescue amounts to the staggering figure of $4.6 trillion. Trillion, not b ...
• McChrystal Admits U.S. Troops are Killing Innocent ...
  Despite imposing new rules of engagement since taking over U.S. military operations, McChrystal finds himself frustrated over the lack of improvement with civilian killings in this area.
• Proof that Regulators Knew of and Allowed Debt-Hid ...
  As the law professors point out, you can have all sorts of laws on the books, but if regulators aren't enforcing them , they are not worth the paper they are written on.

The Intelligence Daily

• CIA Seeks to Influence Opinion on Wars
  By Daan De Witt (The Intelligence Daily) — The CIA recommendations for influencing the...
• Mongolia: Pentagon Trojan Horse Wedged Between Chi ...
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — Because of its history, its location and the...
• Nineteen Eighty-Four Came a bit Late, but its Brav ...
  By Justin O’Connell (The Intelligence Daily) — If, in the 1950’s, you had referred to...
• Small Central Asian States Plagued by Energy Short ...
  by Philip de Leon (The Intelligence Daily) — Surfing the wave of the hype for renewable...
• Who Cares About Urban Poverty?
  (The Intelligence Daily) — While the United Nations recently claimed victory for the...

My AntiWar

• Russia still hopes diplomacy to solve Iran standof ...
  Summary: Sergei RyabkovSergei Ryabkov: “Nothing is happening today which would give grounds to talk of a ‘new page’ or a ‘new chapter’. Normal discussions are going on, as they have always been and will be”. source: AFPread more
• US Defends Legality of Killing With Drones
• Karzai, White House Escalate War of Words
• Eight Tankers Supplying Oil to NATO Forces Torched ...
• Pakistan Tests Indigenous Drone

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• SENIOR IAEA OFFICIALS TO PARTICIPATE IN TEHRAN CON ...
  Summary: Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh has announced that senior officials of the UN nuclear bodies are scheduled to take part in the international conference on nuclear disarmament to be held here next week. source: NAM News Network (NNN) r ...
• Russia still hopes diplomacy to solve Iran standof ...
  Summary: Sergei Ryabkov Sergei Ryabkov: "Nothing is happening today which would give grounds to talk of a 'new page' or a 'new chapter'. Normal discussions are going on, as they have always been and will be". source: AFP read more
• Washington piles pressure on Iran and ignores Isra ...
  Summary: It is depressing to see the United States working relentlessly to get the international community to impose sanctions on Iran for its alleged attempt to make nuclear weapons though Washington could not show a shred of evidence to prove its allegation. source: Arab News read more
• Is Iran a Threat to Global Security? U.S. is Wagin ...
  Summary: Obama Mideast Tittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military strike against Iran are being renewed these days. President Obama, to whom I still wonder why the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, is confessing that former President Bush was right in his belief that Iran poses a serious t ...
• Forbes Lies about “Tea and talk with President Abd ...
  Summary: The real game for Forbes seems to be not to provide its audience with the real-time reporting, uncompromising commentary, concise analysis, relevant tools and community they need to succeed at work, but to frighten them from their opportunities to do business with potentially one of the ...

The Daily Galaxy

• 95-Million Year Old Amber Deposits Discovered in A ...
  In the first major discovery of its kind on the African continent, a 95-million-year-old amber deposit, formed from the sap of an unknown tree, is adding new fungus, insects, spiders, nematodes, and even bacteria to a Cretaceous ecosystem -a warm...
• Asteroid Alert: New Space Observatory Predicted to ...
  WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, to search for "dark" objects in space like brown dwarf stars, vast dust clouds, and Earth-approaching asteroids. WISE finds them by sensing their heat in the form of infrared light most other telescopes can't...
• NASA Develops New Tech to Monitor Earth's Oceans
  "Most of Earth is covered by ocean, yet we know less about the ocean than we do about the surface of some planets. This technology to harvest energy from the ocean will have huge implications for how we can measure...
• Image of the Day -Mar's Massive Holden Crater
  Layers inside Holden Crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars are shown in enhanced color in this image (click to enlarge) from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The photo was one of...
• Moment of Zen: Hubble Space Images 2010 (VIDEO)

Natural News

• Review of new brown rice protein products: Boku Su ...
  (NaturalNews) For those who enjoy high-quality plant-based proteins for your smoothies or protein shakes, there are some remarkable new products you'll want to know about. In this article, I reveal three new organic sprouted brown rice protein products that represent the best of the best in the plan ...
• Chocolate lowers blood pressure and slashes risk o ...
  (NaturalNews) As NaturalNews reported previously, Canadian scientists have found that consuming chocolate regularly significantly reduces the odds of having a stroke (http://www.naturalnews.com/028278_chocolate_strokes.html). Now other researchers have just published a study in the European Heart Jo ...
• Prostate cancer drug boosts heart disease risk
  (NaturalNews) A common prostate cancer treatment may significantly increase men's risk of heart problems, according to a study conducted by researchers from King's College London and presented at a joint meeting of the European Cancer Organization and the European Society for Medical Oncology in Ber ...
• Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych ...
  (NaturalNews) What would happen if the Columbine high school rampage shooters who were psyched out on mind-altering antidepressant drugs had been piloting a jet airliner instead? On Friday, the FAA issued a new rule that says pilots taking psychiatric medications are now allowed to pilot passenger a ...
• Diabetes drug linked to kidney problems, but FDA k ...
  (NaturalNews) Three days after approving the Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals drug Byetta as a stand-alone treatment for Type 2 diabetes, the FDA announced that the drug has been linked to kidney damage. "Health care professionals and patients taking Byetta should pay close attention to any sign ...

Threat Level

• President Ford Approved Warrantless Domestic Surve ...
  In 1974, while the country was embroiled in a national debate over excessive government surveillance, then President Gerald Ford authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct warrantless domestic surveillance, according to a classified memo recently obtained by the Center for Investigat ...
• 30-Year Computer Ban for Sex Offender Overturned
  Just in time for the iPad launch, a federal appeals court Friday overturned a 30-year computer ban imposed on a sex offender caught in an online police sting. Mark Wayne Russell, 50, was arrested in 2006 after traveling from his home in Columbia, Maryland to a location in Washington D.C. where he e ...
• Law Against Police Bumper Stickers Unconstitutiona ...
  A local Ohio ordinance making it a crime for civilians to  display  bumper stickers of police organizations is unconstitutional, a federal judge says. The First Amendment decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett blocks the suburban Village of Lockland from enforcing the minor-misdemeanor stat ...
• Appeals Court Sides With eBay in Tiffany Trademark ...
  A federal appeals court ruled against luxury jeweler Tiffany and Co. on Thursday in finding eBay is not liable for trademark infringement just because some sellers  hawk counterfeit goods. Tiffany’s lawsuit accused the online auction house of contributory trademark infringement because it allegedly ...
• Urban Legend Watch: Cyberwar Attack on U.S. Centra ...
  Claim: A foreign government’s computer hackers were found lurking on a classified U.S. military network in 2008. UNLIKELY Example: [Collected from the internet, March 2010] More than 20 years ago, the United States realized that having an advantage in “intangible factors” — more informat ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• The Myth of the Mainstream Tea Party
  In the wake of two new surveys from Gallup and the Winston Group , the conservative blogosphere and general media alike have been quick to proclaim the Tea Party movement "mainstream." While the Los Angeles Time promoted the " Myth-Busting Polls ," one right-wing blog laughingly warned of a " Suici ...
• How Jon Kyl Learned to Love the Judicial Filibuste ...
  With word that 89 year old Justice John Paul Stevens may step down from the Supreme Court as soon as this year , the second-ranking Republican in the Senate made clear his party wouldn't hesitate to filibuster Stevens' replacement. Asked if the GOP would resort to the obstructionist tactic it once ...
• When Romney Met Kennedy
  As his somersaulting positions on abortion, immigration, Iran, Osama Bin Laden and myriad other issues showed, watching Mitt Romney's political gymnastics has long been painful. But with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Romney's contortionist act has reached a new low. ...
• New IRS Unit Targets Wealthy Tax Cheats
  As FactCheck documented in detail, the Republicans' "scary claim" that the IRS will hire 16,500 new agents to enforce the new health care law "simply lacks any foundation in fact." But for a Republican Party which spent much of the 1990's successfully waging war on the Internal Revenue Service on b ...
• April Fool's Jokes We'd Like to See
  After " Tea Party Thanks Obama for Tax Cuts ," here are some of the other April Fool's jokes I'd like to see: Republican donors stop paying to see women in leather bondage attire and instead watch for free as Sarah Palin wears her dominatrix jacket at campaign events. Republicans also decide it's ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The American Taliban by Bruce Gagnon
  Christians cannot love their enemies and kill them, tooOriginally uploaded by Lorri37 by Bruce Gagnonfeatured writerDandelion SaladOrganizing NotesMarch 27, 2010A French documentary about the right-wing Christian fundamentalists who are preparing to wage war on behalf of Jesus.The difference between ...
• Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Chris HedgesFeatured WriterDandelion SaladUCTV – University of California Television11/1/200459 minutesVeteran New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges has covered conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador and Israel. Tune in for this thought-provoking lecture based on ...
• NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is ...
  Propaganda Alertcompiled by Cem ErtrFeatured WriterDandelion Salad27 March 2010 http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-D6107D8E-02CBC541/natolive/opinions_62395.htm excerpts from: Building a Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture Speech by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Anders ...
• received goods 27mar10
  It’s like watching a reknowned and venerable pointillist taking up a brushpen. Studying the paper for long moments, considering its tooth and weight. Laying down five lines without apparent consideration for where they should be or what they are. And with the sixth mark you realise, you see, you can ...
• The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground f ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, March 28, 2010A Recent report in Star and Stripes reveals the nature of the US military operation in Haiti. Combat units from Iraq and Afghanistan have been deployed in Haiti under the banner of a humanitarian operation. Conv ...

Consortium News

• Is Vatican Guilty in Child-Sex Scandal?
  Faced with new evidence of priests molesting boys, the Vatican rallies to the defense of Pope Benedict XVI, reports Robert Parry. April 5, 2010
• Making Aggressive War OK, for Some
  The United States once led the world in condemning aggressive war, but not so much anymore, observes David Swanson. April 4, 2010
• Forgetting Dr. King's Dream of Justice
  Before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. faced disdain for demanding economic justice, recall Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. April 2, 2010
• A Method to Republican 'Madness'
  Republican resistance to President Obama follows a GOP playbook that dates back four-plus decades, reports Robert Parry. March 31, 2010
• King's Prophetic Words of Peace
  Forty-three years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. pointed toward a different path for the United States, recalls Gary G. Kohls. March 30, 2010

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Al-Nakba Denial: Concealing Catastrophe (Tammy Ob ...
  On May 15, 1948, one day after the British mandate over Palestine ended, the Jewish state of Israel was officially created. That date marked the beginning of a 62-year exile for 750,000 P ...
• Palestine: Israeli Love Song (neverbeforecampaign ...
• Gandhi's grandson applauds non-violent protest (M ...
  Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of the late Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, visited the West Bank village of Bil'in on Monday, accompanied by Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Bargho ...
• Rhythms of resistance (Giles Trendle, Al Jazeera)
  Music is an important weapon of cultural resistance and a means of safeguarding national identity for those Palestinian musicians living inside Israel and occupied east Jerusalem. "As Pal ...
• Turkish PM: We cannot ignore murder of Gaza's chil ...
  "We cannot watch the murder of children in Gaza with indifference. This is not humane," said Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose repeated criticism of Israel recently spa ...

Water - AlterNet

• Coal Ship Runs Aground, Great Barrier Reef Threate ...
  Authorities are worried that an oil spill will do damage to the Great Barrier Reef, which is already struggling to stay healthy.
• Drinkable Water Is Vanishing: A Few Simple Things ...
  How much water do we and all of our many products actually use? An expert breaks it down and tells us how to cut back.
• Can Consumer Pressure Help Save Our Fisheries?
  Right now 70 percent of the world's fisheries are being harvested at capacity or are in decline, but there are some reasons to be hopeful.
• How an Unlikely Coalition of Farmers, Ranchers, In ...
  Only a few years ago, the Klamath embodied a failure to resolve natural resources disputes; now, it stands as an example of how to step past confrontation and negotiate.
• It Takes a Network: Water Seminar Draws Participan ...
  In early February, representatives from more than 30 countries met to discuss the benefits and dangers of democratizing water resources.

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

• The United States takes the matter of three-headed ...
  by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 5 April, 2010 tweetmeme_url = 'h
• 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests? A review o ...
  by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal 5 April, 2010 Jeremy R.
• How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America ...
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• Obama Fiddles in Afghanistan by Sean Fenley
  by Sean Fenley Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything April 4, 2010 tweetmeme_url = 'http://wor
• CrossTalk on Gitmo: Morphing injustice - Andy Wort ...
  tweetmeme_url = 'http://wordpress.com/blog/2010/04/04/crosstalk-on-gitmo-morphing-injustice-andy-wor

Axis of Logic

• If you eat today, don't get used to it
• Israeli forces violent action on Good Friday
• Pro-GMO chemical polluter becomes Obama's ag trade ...
• Why Insurgency in Balochistan Cannot Succeed?
• Australia: Look Different and Risk being Assaulted

They Gave Us a Republic

• No Such Thing As A Too-Liberal Supreme Court Nomin ...
  Face it: If President Obama nominated Robert "Attila the Hun was a Socialist" Bork to the Supreme Court, Senate repugs would still filibuster him. That's just one reason why any nominee more conservative than the most liberal lawyers on the planet would be appeasement to the wingnut freakazoids. Dav ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Completely predictable. "The US has expressed "great concern" over a deadly assault by militants on the American consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban say they carried out the attack, which left three guards and four militants dead. A gun battle erupted bet ...
• Artificial joint replacements, lack of accountabil ...
  I was in my early thirties when my ability to do my job became compromised by severe osteoarthritis in my knees and I started the transition from all-trauma, all the time to a more sedate job in the lab, working at centrifuges and analyzers and microscopes and only responding to traumas in-house, ru ...
• Sign Of The Times: Company Has Gotten Rich Helping ...
  A St. Louis-based company has gotten rich, and is getting richer, one of the old-fashioned ways: They profit off other people's misfortunes. The Talx Corp. reportedly handles over 30 percent of the nation's unemployment claims, with a list of corporate clients that, The New York Times says, "reads l ...
• Census Competition - Can You Beat Wisconsin?
  Here's a cool interactive map that lets you see the census return percentage by state, county and even neighborhood. �As of today, Wisconsin leads the states with 69 percent. At 62 percent, Kentucky's return rate is above the national average of 56 percent, but the county breakdowns range from 73 pe ...

Care 2

• The Current State of Unemployment
  Here is the unemployment situation right now in our country. US unemployment rate change by state from Feb 2009 to Feb 2010 Submitted by John C. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Greyhounds Need Wings !!!
  As GREY2K USA’s campaigns to end dog racing take flight around the country, we must work on the ground in all racing states. That means the greyhounds need wings! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Ten Billion Downloads for iTunes
  That’s right, more than ten billion songs have been purchased from iTunes since its inception. For those that are curious, the ten billionth download was a Johnny Cash song, titled, “Guess Things Happen That Way,” . Submitted by Bonnie D. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Meet Chocolat, the heroic dog who saves British so ...
  He is a super-sniffer who has been hailed a hero for saving dozens of British soldiers' lives by discovering a Taliban bomb factory. Gutsy canine Chocolat is now expected to be honoured with the Dickin Medal - the animal equivalent of the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• The 8 most irritating types of gadget owners
  We've met them:those people who butcher the use of sweet sweet technology in such a way that you wish they'd be devoured by a hundred angry widebeests. Here are 8 of the worst. Submitted by Darryl M. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Water's Trickle-Down Business Model
  A startup called The Water Initiative aims to help solve the world's water crisis by treating contaminated water at the point of use. It's a simple idea -- sell equipment that will purify water to local distributors in poor communities around the world.
• NBA's Second Shot at Green Week Aims for a Slam Du ...
  The NBA tips off its second annual Green Week with a number of programs that expand tree planting activities and greenwear promotions, which got lots of attention in Year 1, to broader team efforts.
• Can GMO Pigs Shrink the Gulf's Dead Zone?
  The latest crazy idea of the day combines genetic modification with industrial agriculture to reduce water pollution from hog farms.
• How IT Helped Citi Become 'America's Greenest Bank ...
  Virtualization, a companywide PC upgrade and strict e-waste policies are some of the moved that combined to propel Citi to the top of "America's Greenest Banks," a new list compiled for the first time by Bank Technology News.
• Recycling Concrete
  In its report “Recycling Concrete,” the Cement Sustainability Initiative argues that the recycling of concrete can reduce natural resource exploitation and waste going to landfill. The report asks for an ultimate goal of “zero landfill” of concrete

Reuters Global

• Outsourcing homework to India
  Outsourcing, of course, started as a way for American companies to lower costs by shifting work to cheaper locations. After nearly two decades, that practice has become so mainstream that hundreds of U.S. businesses — from Wall Street banks to law firms, architects and others — routinely outsource t ...
• On U.S., India and Pakistan: maybe some transparen ...
  According to the Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama issued a secret directive in December to step up U.S. diplomacy to ease tensions between India and Pakistan.
• Germany slips up again in Afghanistan
  Germany has slipped up again in Afghanistan, mistakenly killing five Afghan soldiers after losing three of its own soldiers in a gunfight with insurgents in the northern province of Kunduz. For a nation with little appetite for the war 3,000 miles away, the lossess couldn't come at a worse time.
• Teaching Twitter in Havana
  As an educational institution, Cuba’s Blogger Academy suffers from a few notable deficiencies. Its six-month course doesn’t grant an accredited degree, and its single, cramped classroom — the living room of founder Yoani Sanchez — isn’t even hooked up to the internet.
• India, U.S. push ahead with ground-breaking nuclea ...
  For all the hand-wringing in India over getting sidelined by the United States in its regional strategy, the two countries have gone ahead and just completed an important deal on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from reactors to be built in India.

Paul Krugman

• Me And The Bubble
  What I said when.
• Corridor Of Evil
  The Onion, right as usual.
• WWS 543, April 5
  Trade and wages in advanced countries.
• Alan Greenspan: Still Not A Mensch
  He still won't take responsibility for his actions.
• European Leisure
  It's a social choice.

No Quarter

• Too Good for the Masses
  Opening Day. Washington Nationals versus Philadelphia Phillies (the boys from the City of brotherly love beat the Nats senseless). Barack Obama and I got to share a couple of moments. First, I got to laugh heartily at his lame toss–high, soft and way to the left–to Nat’s third baseman, Ryan Zimme ...
• Democratic Women in the Tea Party Movement Bust An ...
  It is shocking that even CNN has reported on Disgruntled Democrats Joining the Tea Party. Shannon Travis’ story quotes two disaffected educated, liberal women and their unlikely path to the tea party protests: Some Americans who say they have been sympathetic to Democratic causes in the past — so ...
• Beyond the Veil
  The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald By Fitzgerald’s standards, the wave of anti-veil rhetoric sweeping across Europe has probably catapulted the cont ...
• Obama, The Great Pretender
  Obot disciples are in denial, insisting that things with their boy are just swell. Meanwhile, all opinion polls show a downward trend and that Obama is at the lowest support of any President at this point in their tenure. So I was thinking, “How do I convey this disconnect with reality?” and [... ...
• Happy Easter And Blessed Spring **Open Thread**
  For all of my friends and family celebrating Easter, “Hallelujah, the Lord is Risen; the Lord is risen indeed, Hallelujah.” And to celebrate this joyous holiday, I would like to provide you with the following selections. They are parts of a BBC production on different composers and their contributi ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Happy World Water Day
• This is How Environmental Graffiti is About to Shi ...
• Paradise is a Land Called Kissimmee
• 13 Incredible Arcus Clouds
• Amazing Tape Graffiti by Buff Diss

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Postcard From...Cape Town
  Africa is getting its first World Cup this year. But not everyone in Cape Town is enthusiastic.
• U.S. Lawmakers Support Illegal Annexation
  By supporting Morocco's illegal annexation of Western Sahara, the Senate is establishing a dangerous precedent in international relations.
• The Foreign Policy of Baseball
  Major league baseball and U.S. global policy have both been acting like they're on steroids. But the similarities run a great deal deeper.
• The State of the World's Women
  On the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day: the good, the bad, and the potentially ugly.
• Egypt's Impending Political Earthquake
  Egypt is gearing up for a presidential election that will likely transform the politics of this critical Middle Eastern country -- and the United States can play a constructive role.

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

• Multiple explosions rock Baghdad
  String of attacks on residential buildings across Iraqi capital leave at least 15 dead.
• Indian police killed by Maoists
  Up to 55 paramilitary personnel killed by rebels in Chattisgarh state.
• Toll rises in US mine blast
  At least 25 dead and four still unaccounted for at West Virginia coal mine.
• Thai red shirts step up pressure
  Hundreds of riot police deployed as protesters defy orders to clear Bangkok streets.
• Video shows 'US attack' on Iraqis
  WikiLeaks footage believed to show US military shooting on crowded Baghdad square in 2007.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Q.&A.: Transportation Secretary on Biking, Walking ...
  "I think that livable and sustainable communities is a game changer," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, explaining his "sea change" policy to support biking and walking alongside road projects.
• Of Biofuels, Land Grabs and Food Prices
  An antipoverty group staged mock land grabs in Europe last week to highlight the dangers of the European Union's biofuels policies.
• Boost for U.S.-China Clean Energy Research
  The Department of Energy announced this week the availability of $37.5 million in funding to support a joint U.S.-China clean energy research initiative.
• Clean Technology Investments Bounce Back
  Global investments were up 29 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009 and 83 percent from the same quarter a year ago, according to a new report.
• New Efficiency Standards for Water Heaters
  The Obama administration on Thursday released new energy efficiency standards for water heaters and other appliances that it said would save consumers $10 billion over 30 years while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Dot Earth News

• Dot Earth 2.0
  Dot Earth shifts to a new home at The New York Times.
• Can Humans Manage the Atmosphere?
  Humanity's growing pains on a finite planet include pondering how to "manage" the atmosphere.
• Weather Forecasters on Global Warming
  Video excerpts of on-air comments by meteorologists, who are more likely than climatologists to question the science of climate change. Whom do you trust when it comes to climate science?
• In Canada, TV Goes Deep on Climate
  A rare thing: five hours of television on climate modeling, science, politics, media coverage and more.
• Heat-Toting Ocean Currents Chugging Along
  New findings boost confidence that Atlantic Ocean currents are not at risk from climate change.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
  Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...
• War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
  Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
• Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
  Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
• Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
  Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
• Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...
  Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...

Daily Censored

• Fresno Conference on literacy and high stakes test ...
  It has become intellectually fashionable today to speak about the rising despair, hopelessness, a yearning for fascism on the part of some and apathy among the American people in face of the drastic economic and social policies that threaten everything from public education, employment and the envir ...
• ABC escalates Iran war propaganda: champions CIA d ...
  author engages in comments (as do Operation Mockingbird assets) at source. ABC News reported as fact a CIA claim from unnamed US “officials” that a young Iranian nuclear scientist reported as abducted by his wife last year had voluntarily abandoned his family in Iran to allegedly defect to the Unite ...
• American Monetary Institute (AMI): History of mone ...
  author engages in comments at source. The American Monetary Institute is the world’s leading organization for understanding monetary history and how to reform monetary policy. These six articles reprint AMI’s principle information, available at AMI’s website, with their express permission to share w ...
• American Monetary Institute (AMI): History of mone ...
  author engages in comments at source. The American Monetary Institute is the world’s leading organization for understanding monetary history and how to reform monetary policy. These six articles reprint AMI’s principle information, available at AMI’s website, with their express permission to share w ...
• Collateral Murder, the WikiLeaks video
  This is the video shot of US military personnel firing upon and killing over a dozen people, including two Reuters journalists. Reuters has tried to obtain the video from the Pentagon several times without success. Thanks to anonymous whistleblowers, Wikileaks now has the video. The following is f ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Reverse the Tax Shift
  When rich individuals and corporations don't pay their fair share, the bills get passed to the middle class.
• Israel-U.S. Relations, Obama Visits Afghanistan, a ...
  Talking points on the aftermath of Biden's trip to Israel, the president's trip to Afghanistan, and the elections in Iraq.
• Earthquake Olympics
  Democracy, market forces, and religious apostasy aren't determining factors in the scores Chile and Haiti notched in this grim competition.
• Enabling Wall Street's Gambling Problem
  Thought bankers had learned their lesson in 2008? Think again.
• Advice for the Blue Ribbon Commission
  Hopefully Obama's new commission will motivate the country to finally deal with the toxic legacy of the nuclear age.

Pine River World News

• Is Iran a Threat to Global Security? U.S. is Wagin ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Is Iran a Threat to Global Security? U.S. is Waging War against the Wrong Country � �Kourosh Ziabari Source: � Global Research April 4, 2010 Tittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military strike against Iran are be ...
• Pravda: Moscow Subway Bombers Identified
  The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda. Moscow Subway Bombers Identified � � Pravda.ru April 2, 2010 One of the terrorists, who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway on March 29, was tentatively identified as Jennet Abdurakhmanova, aged 17. She is a widow of the leader of ...
• Gordon Duff: Time To Send "Hanoi John" McCain Pack ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . Time To Send "Hanoi John" McCain Packing � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 31, 2010 * �Never has an American candidate had so much to hide and done so much to hurt Amer ...
• Ramzy Baroud: This Land Belongs to Me
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. This Land Belongs to Me � �Ramzy Baroud March 31, 2010 As I listened to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address an animated crowed of supporters on March 22, I felt physically sick. The man has already displayed time a ...
• Backlash against Muslims simmering in Russia after ...
  [ Blogmaster note : �I wrote the following article for my satellite blog, IntelTrends, but I believe it may also be of interest to readers of Pine River World News.] Backlash against Muslims simmering in Russia after Metro bomb blasts � � IntelTrends By Steve in Wisconsin March 30, 2010 The recent ...

IntelNews

• Situation report on the al-Haramain wiretap case
  Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire provides an excellent situation report on the recent decision by a US district court, which faulted the US government for unconstitutionally wiretapping a US-based Saudi charity.
• News you may have missed #323 (Cold War edition)
  Story of the Soviet Trojan seal retold. Soviet spy radio found in a Welsh field. 1950s-60s spy gadgets on sale at eBay.
• Colombia, Venezuela, silent on alleged spy arrests
  Caracas and Bogota are remaining silent on the arrests of eight alleged Colombian spies in northwest Venezuela.
• News you may have missed #322 (Netherlands edition ...
  Moroccan-Dutch policeman to face spying charges. Easy to spy in Holland, says Dutch secret service.
• News you may have missed #321 (CIA edition)
  Uruguay ex-president sent to prison for 1973 coup. FSB 'dropped the ball' in Moscow metro bombings. Calls for expanded DoJ probe of FBI killing of Detroit imam.

After Downing Street.org

• Among the Righteous: Lost Stories of the Holocaust ...
  Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? That's the question author Robert Satloff had in mind when he set out to discover the lost, true stories of survival, courage and betrayal in Arab lands during World War II. The history of the Holocaust in Europe is well-documented, but the history o ...
• Looting Main Street
  Looting Main Street How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece By Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads ...
• Former IAEA Chief: Iraq War Killed “A Million Inno ...
  Former IAEA chief: Iraq war killed “a million innocent civilians” By Patrick Martin | WSWS The former head of the UN’s chief nuclear agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, said in an interview with the British newspaper Guardian Wednesday that those who launched the war in Iraq were responsible for killing a ...
• Not Just Guantanamo: U.S. Torturing Muslim Pre-Tri ...
  Not Just Guantanamo: U.S. Torturing Muslim Pre-Trial Detainee in New York City by Bill Quigley | Common Dreams Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been ke ...
• An Antidote to Despair: Paul Loeb’s New Soul of a ...
  An Antidote to Despair: Paul Loeb’s New Soul of a Citizen “I stayed up half the night reading Soul of a Citizen, finding it a beautiful and morally transcendent work. Paul Loeb is a personal hero of mine who gives decency and generosity a political character, in the humblest of ways. The new editio ...

Grist - News

• A movement far larger than the Tea Party
  by Jonathan Hiskes As an antidote to news of the oil spill on the Great Barrier Reef , here’s Paul Hawken giving last May’s commencement address at Portland University. From the entrepreneur, author, and ideas guy: There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and i ...
• One more blow to the ailing Great Barrier Reef
  by Jonathan Hiskes The Shen Neng 1 in a plume of heavy oil in Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.Australian Maritime Safety AuthorityUgh. Everything about this is bad: A Chinese freighter crashed into Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Saturday, running aground and spilling heavy fuel oil into the wate ...
• Coal freighter rams Great Barrier Reef, spilling o ...
  by Agence France-Presse Photo courtesy the.rohit via FlickrSYDNEY -- Australian authorities were Monday battling to prevent a badly damaged Chinese coal carrier stranded on the Great Barrier Reef from spilling tonnes of oil into pristine waters teeming with marine life. The Shen Neng 1 ran agr ...
• After Copenhagen setback, U.N. seeks way forward o ...
  by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- Countries gather this week in the hope of erasing bitter memories of the Copenhagen summit and restoring faith in the battered U.N. process for combating climate change. Negotiators meet in Bonn from Friday to Sunday for the first official talks under the U.N. ...
• Easter and plastic eggs
  by Jonathan Hiskes There’s always a place for some old-fashioned hating on plastics, especially if there’s a timely hook: “If the traditional Easter egg is a symbol of resurrection, or a more paganesque generalized celebration of fertility, than what does a plastic Easter egg signify?” Andrew ...

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Time - Top Stories

• The Stock Market: The Economy's Cheering Section
  It's long been a manic-depressive member of that moody club known as the Leading Economic Indicators. But now it really seems to saying that being of sound mind, it is honestly upbeat
• Terre'Blanche Murder Reveals South Africa Racial D ...
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• Pakistani Taliban Bomb Attack: U.S. Consulate a Ta ...
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• Call Centers Move from Overseas to U.S., Bringing ...
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• How Social Networks Impact Drinking Habits
  The researchers found that, like so many other things, drinking habits can be contagious.

Washington Independent

• U.S. Military in Iraq Responds to Wikileaks, Relea ...
  After much of the day’s news was dominated by Wikileaks’ distribution of a graphic video purporting to show U.S. military personnel in Iraq in 2007 firing from a helicopter on Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, the U.S. military command in Iraq has released the following statement. It doesn’t deny the ver ...
• GOP Hypocrisy, Part Many
  Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) — who tomorrow will join a growing list of state officials to file suit against the individual mandate in the Democrats’ health reform law — explained to Fox News today that he’s doing so because he’s “concerned about the Constitution.” “It doesn’t bother me that every R ...
• U.S. Looking to Fine Toyota $7 for Each Car Recall ...
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Commission is seeking $16.375 million in civil fines against Toyota after the automaker was forced to recall 2.3 million vehicles over an accelerator glitch, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Monday. The DOT says that the fine — the maximum allowable — ...
• PJ Crowley Puts Hamid Karzai on Notice
  More than halfway through a coy interview with Josh Rogin about whether or not Afghan President Hamid Karzai really walked back his inflammatory Thursday speech in a Friday phone call with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley has this to say about Karzai ...
• A (Short) Guide to the Jobless Benefits Blame Game
  With countless headlines reminding readers that jobless benefits begin expiring today, it was inevitable that each party would be slinging blame over the Senate’s failure to pass a filing extension before leaving town last month for spring break. Which is why you’ve got Senate Majority Leader Harry ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• Will Fox News Destroy the Republican Party?
  Will Fox News Destroy the Republican Party? The Nation / By Leslie Savan Fox news realizes that the best way to defend right-wing victories is to keep American politics in a state of chaos, with tea parties and fresh social outrages at every turn. April 4, 2010 | Over the past week or so, s ...
• The Evangelical “Mainstream” Insanity ...
  The Evangelical “Mainstream” Insanity Behind the Michigan “End Times” Militia Huff Post – Frank Schaeffer Posted: April 1, 2010 02:24 PM A federal prosecutor in Michigan says authorities decided to arrest members of the Hutaree Christian militia after learning “they were prepared to kill.” Wh ...
• Forensic Experts To Start New Search Through WTC R ...
  Forensic experts to reexamine WTC rubble By Raw Story Thursday, April 1st, 2010 — 7:30 pm New York forensic experts will start a major new search Monday through debris from the World Trade Center for remains of people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack, officials said. About 844 cubic yards ( ...
• Evening Jukebox- Crazy
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• LL Cool J vs. Fox News And Sarah Palin
  LL Cool J vs. Fox News, Sarah Palin [UPDATE: Toby Keith Responds] Huffington Post |  Danny Shea First Posted: 03-31-10 11:10 AM   |   Updated: 03-31-10 06:28 PM Updates below… Fox News has an unlikely adversary: rapper LL Cool J. Afte ...

Solari

• The Next Generation - 3D Mobile Phones
  A new generation of 3D mobile phones that don’t require special glasses, could go on sale by the end of this year. Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp unveiled a new three-inch liquid crystal display screen that played 3D animations over the weekend. The company also showed off a touch-panel sc ...
• The World According to Monsanto
  The World According to Monsanto The following documentary is a thorough, in-depth look at the history of one of the world’s most dangerous and despised corporations and the serious.. The World According to Monsanto -YouTube Video Related article: Obama Gives Key Agriculture Post to Monsanto Man I ...
• Robotic Winged Space Plane
  By John Antczak After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway. The ultimate purpose of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle and details about the ...
• Stopping Entpreneurship - Make Internships Illegal
  With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor. Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials ...
• Tips To Avoid Brands Made With GMO’s
  Tip #1: Buy Organic Certified organic products cannot be produced using GMO ingredients. So if you can, buy only products labeled “100% organic”, “organic,” or “made with organic ingredients.” [CAF Note: Since the USDA controls this brand, this may not always be a trustworthy source.  You can also ...

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

• The Drug War: A War on Women and Their Families
  Since 1977, the rate of female imprisonment has increased by nearly 800% and is still rising -- much of it attributable to the war on drugs.
• Obama's Next Supreme Court Nominee Will Be Crucial ...
  Our government has abused its power too long. We must make sure the next Supreme Court justice does not support indefinite detention without trial.
• Supreme Court Protects Immigrant Due Process Right ...
  The ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky requires defense attorneys to accurately advise their non-citizen clients of the potential immigration consequences of pleading guilty to a crime.
• Intelligence Agencies Allegedly Going to Extremes ...
  Disturbing allegations have surfaced around WikiLeaks' promise to release a video April 5 at the National Press Club confirming a war-time massacre.
• Why Are Pedophilia-Hiding, Child-Abusing Church Fa ...
  The moral authority granted the Catholic Church in the secular world is the most repellent aspect of the current crisis.

Sideways News

• Week in pictures: 6th April 2010
  A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
• Green your cat
  Mars Petcare brands Sheba and Whiskas are to sell products using sustainably caught fish, allowing Britain’s 8 million cat owners to feed their pets with a clean conscience. The Marine Stewardship Council Certified cat food will be available later in the year. Environmentalists have been greening up ...
• Michelin star rating goes green
  A new rating system launched by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) will rate restaurants according to how green and sustainable they are. Food provenance in restaurants – apart from a select few – has been slow to catch on. The new award scheme of bronze, silver and gold will be listed in ...
• Don’t have children: save the earth
  “The single most meaningful contribution I can make to a cleaner, greener world is not to have children,” writes Lisa Hymas of environmental news site Grist.
• Ordnance Survey maps go online
  A new form of Ordnance Survey map is now available, but they won't be accessible to hikers out on the moors unless they have a laptop with them. Digital forms of the maps are now freely available to members of the public and companies. Information about electoral and local authority boundaries will ...

Fabius Maximus

• Today’s example of American foreign policy w ...
  (1)  The initial outrage Remarks on April 1 by Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, spoke to employees of the state election commission.  This was later broadcast on local television.  Here are excerpts from the New York Times and Reuters stories (they give no transcript).  He’s building ...
• Today’s warning of a socialist future!
  Today’s warning:  “SEXUAL HARASSMENT under socialism“, Glenn Reynolds, The Instapundit, 4 April 2009 (link).  Reynolds points us a sad story posted by Bryan Caplan, Library of Economics and Literature, 4 April 2010 — an excerpt from Eugen Richter’s Pictures of a Socialistic Future (the punch line ...
• American States on the brink of financial catastro ...
  In the third year of the worst recession since the 1930’s many States totter on the brink of catastrophe, after generations of imprudent management.  Ahead lie even greater challenges, as employees cash in on their insanely generous pensions.  A few charts tell the tale — showing America’s most p ...
• Quote of the day: ‘you must spend a trillon ...
  While that’s not a real quote, it aptly summarizes the current news.  See this following excerpt from a major new article providing a summary of the climate science debate:  “Climate Catastrophe – A Superstorm for Global Warming Research“, Der Spiegel, 1 April 2010.  It’s strongly slanted in fa ...
• Today’s agitprop: Don Surber borrows at a l ...
  Part of conseratives’ ”the worse, the better” strategy is to arouse fear using a steady stream of “the end is neigh” warnings.  This requires both imagination and a willingness to exaggerate.   As seen when reading Reynold’s and his peers since Obama’s election.  Hyping every bit of bad ec ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Russia ships China 15 S-300 missile systems: repor ...
  Space Daily – Russia has shipped China 15 advanced surface-to-air missile systems, the director of the Russian plant which produces the weapons was cited by news agencies as saying on Friday. The truck-mounted air defence S-300 batteries, known by NATO as SA-20 Gargoyles, can target aircraft and ba ...
• WikiLeaks posts video of ‘US military killings’ in ...
  BBC – WikiLeaks has posted a video on its website which it claims shows the killing of civilians by the US military in Baghdad in 2007. The website’s organisers say they were given the footage, which they say comes from cameras on US Apache helicopters. They say they decrypted it, but would not rev ...
• Australia to appoint population minister; develop ...
  Reuters – Australia is to create a new government post of minister for population tasked of developing an official population strategy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Saturday. Tony Burke, currently minister for agriculture, forestry and fisheries, will add the new job to his current portfolio, R ...
• Israel pressures China to back Tehran sanctions
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• The world’s biggest investment banks ordered to in ...
  Times – Some of the world’s biggest investment banks could be forced to pump billions of pounds into their UK businesses following a probe by the City regulator. The Financial Services Authority has been conducting stress tests on the British operations of foreign banks to examine what would happe ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Wildcat strikers killed in Peru
  Wildcat strikers killed in Peru (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Six people were killed during a protest by Peruvian miners against stricter regulations on the mining industry by the Alan Garcia administration. The protest occurred near the town of Chala on Sunday. Protesters wielded clubs and ro ...
• Jednostavna pitanja prema brojevima.. većina u Sje ...
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• Imperialists move closer to imposing more sanction ...
  Imperialists move closer to imposing more sanctions on Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The United States has been leading the charge against Iran over the past months. More sanctions against the Islamic Republic are now on the table at the United Nations Security Council. New sanctions will ...
• Crackers arrest “illegal” McDonald’s workers, cite ...
  Crackers arrest “illegal” McDonald’s workers, cite economic and cultural reasons (http://raimd.wordpress.com) In March, raids targeting migrants in Phoenix-area McDonald’s restaurants concluded in the arrest of 21 people and a hunt for dozens more. Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, who in the pa ...
• RAIM-Seattle: 7 years of ongoing u$ imperialist sl ...
  7 years of ongoing u$ imperialist slaughter in Iraq (raims.wordpress.com) Figures and statistics are stubborn things sometimes, especially for the impotent First Worldist “anti-war left.” A RAIM-S analysis of polling data reveals that roughly 75% of Amerikkkans supported the invasion and occupation ...

PakAlert

• Three massive blasts rock Peshawar within 20 min
  PESHAWAR: A series of powerful explosions and gunfire rocked Peshawar area of Saddar on Monday as heavy grey smoke spewed into the sky, witnesses and a security official said. Continue reading… Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
• Anti-terrorism court issued non-bailable arrest wa ...
  An anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued non-bailable arrest warrants of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the Mumbai attacks, and Fahim Arshad Ansari, an Indian national accused of helping the assailants. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
• US Is Waging War Against The Wrong Country
  By Kourosh Ziabari Freelance Journalist And Media Correspondent, Iran Tittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military strike against Iran are being renewed these days. President Obama, to whom I still wonder why the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, is confessing that former President Bush was ri ...
• Mossad’s One Million Helpers World-Wide
  By Martin Webster Aftershocks following the assassination in Dubai in January of Palestinian Hamas leader Mahmoud Mabhouh by Israel’s secret service Mossad finally shook the Palace of Westminster in London on the afternoon of Tuesday 23rd March. The assassination was perpetrated by a ...
• The Road To Armageddon
  The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome. Paul Craig Roberts The Washington Times is a news ...

ecogeek

• Getting Hybrid Technology into Conventional Cars
  Engine idling is a significant factor in gasoline engine inefficiency, making up as much as 17% of the fuel consumed in urban driving. To address this, some manufacturers are looking at incorporating hybrid-style technology such as start-stop systems as a way of gathering some of the " low-hangi ...
• Health Care Goes Solar
  The largest non-profit health maintenance organization (HMO) in the country is getting into the solar game.  Kaiser Permanente has announced plans to install 15 MW of solar PV arrays on their buildings throughout California, saying "what's good for the environment is good for our health." Hospital ...
• Ultra-Light EV Barely Tips the Scales But Can't Hi ...
  Japanese company Teijin Ltd has designed an ultra-light concept EV that barely tips the scales at 963 pounds, showcasing technologies and manufacturing methods that shed weight, but, unfortunately, also make the car unsafe to drive. The PU_PA EV is a two-seater that weighs about half of a normal E ...
• Ford Partners with Microsoft to Bring Energy Manag ...
  Microsoft has a new partner for its Hohm software :  Ford Motor Co .  The two companies are pairing up to outfit Ford's electric vehicles with Hohm's energy management tools. The partnership will allow the EV drivers to charge their cars in a more affordable and responsible way, lessening the stra ...
• Upgrade to LEDs or the Easter Bunny Gets It!
  Cree is a leading manufacturer of LEDs and the circuitry and components needed to bring them into our homes and businesses. They've been growing like crazy and, thankfully, have also managed to hire someone who knows something about social media. That someone decided to show, very clearly ...

Buzzflash

• Come on, Mr. Obama, thrust with a Big Narrative, s ...
  Body See what I mean, what I meant , and what I'll continue to warn? Rush Limbaugh unveiled his latest right-wing "outrage" last week, yet yesterday evening the hosts of MSNBC's "Hardball" and "The Ed Show" were still working overtime promoting none other than ... Rush Limbaugh. What ...
• A nation slipping off its meds
  Body Perhaps some peace could be gained if pollsters stopped polling for a while, or the media ceased reporting their endless tabulations of a national mental breakdown; but then again, without these clinical surveys, how would we know just how goofy we actually are? Of course we can ...
• Seniors Who Disparage Healthcare as Socialism Shou ...
  The Tea Party movement and the GOP has been making the outrageous charge that healthcare reform is socialism. At the same time, many seniors who are members of the Tea Party and are Republicans have defiantly warned the government not to "mess" with their Medicare. Who do they think is paying ...
• This is Where Slimy Lawyer Jokes Come From: Politi ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Law students across the country are learning a very tough lesson in justice these days: If you go up against powerful institutions in the courtroom, you'd better be prepared to do it without public funds. This Sunday's New York Times profiled several law schoo ...
• Obama’s War: Death to Women and Children, Cover-Up ...
  DAVE LINDORFF FOR BUZZFLASH So finally the truth comes out...sort of. After initially claiming that two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in a US Special Forces raid on an Afghan home in Khataba in February had been discovered bound and slain by the Americans, the US military has admitted tha ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• WikiLeaks releases video of slaughter in Iraq
  (updated below) A week ago, I wrote about the war being waged on WikiLeaks by the�Pentagon and other governments and corporations around the world, and noted at the time -- as a result of my interview with editor Julian Assange -- that WikiLeaks had obtained classified videos that were ...
• Ross Douthat invents a false claim for "balance"
  In his New York Times column today , Ross Douthat laments the lack of real political debates on cable news shows, and writes this: What might work, instead, is a cable news network devoted to actual debate. For all the red-faced shouting, debate isn’t really what you get on Fox and MSNBC. H ...
• How Americans are propagandized about Afghanistan
  On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounde ...
• Things that would not happen today
  (updated below - Update II) From the obituary of Jerald terHorst , who died yesterday: Jerald terHorst, who resigned as President Gerald Ford's press secretary just 30 days after taking the job because of the pardon Ford granted former President Richard Nixon, has died of conge ...
• The criminal NSA eavesdropping program
  While torture and aggressive war may have been the most serious crimes which the Bush administration committed, its warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens was its clearest and most undeniable lawbreaking.  Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker yesterday became the third federal judge -- out o ...

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

• Spectroscopy Now
  Latest science news from David Bradley with a spectroscopic bent… Muscling in on the mussels’ grip – Spectroscopy has been used to probe the chemical composition of the cuticle of the common bivalve mollusc commonly known as the mussel. The research provides the first direct evidence that the cutic ...
• Press releases should be about people
  We’re all increasingly familiar with corporate press releases. There are countless websites that regurgitate the corporate and institutional public relations output for wider and wider audiences. If you’re familiar with the blogosphere, you will almost certainly recognise that many posts simply echo ...
• Climate emails, MS trek, Gulf Stream safe
  Latest science news snippets Hacked climate emails – Hacked climate email inquiry clears Jones but questions remain Trekking for multiple sclerosis – Wendy Booker (wendybooker.net), is determined to change the face of MS. Her mission? Climb the Seven Summits—the highest mountains on each continent; ...
• Materials, water, and light
  Some scientific links from this week, including my Materials Today news round up. Periodic Table of Parodies – Yet more periodic table fun and games Similar websites to Sciencebase – This neat little tool automagically works out your site's keywords and searches for other sites with the same keywor ...
• Awards, PTs, and green phones
  Awards – Research Blogging – Winners and finalists in the Research Blogging Awards 2010 announced today! A Clever Periodic Table from Sciencebase | Genome Alberta Education – It's official. My periodic table of science bloggers is clever, even if it maybe didn't include enough Canadians. Go Green! ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• DHS Announces Changes To Airline Screening Program
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2010 ACLU The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced changes to its international airline passenger screening process, discontinuing its heavy reliance on racial profiling to focus more on intelligence-based screening. In the wake of an attempted atta ...
• NOW Applauds Life Sentence for Roeder, Calls for A ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2010 NOW The National Organization for Women is grateful that anti-abortion rights murderer Scott Roeder was given a life sentence for his deliberate killing of Dr. George Tiller last May. Judge Warren Wilbert made a just decision in handing down the strictest sente ...
• Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the Mar ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2010 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Today's jobs report provides further evidence that the labor market has stabilized after experiencing its most severe jobs decline since the 1930s. Job losses slowed dramatically after President Obama and Cong ...
• Experimental Prison Units Challenged, Albany “Stin ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York City filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging violations of fundamental constitutional rights at two experimental federal prison units called Communication Management Uni ...
• CCFC Honors Story of Stuff Creator Annie Leonard w ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2010 Campaign for A Commercial-Free Childhood The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) is proud to announce that Annie Leonard -- creator and host of the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff -- has been selected to receive the fourth Fred Rogers Int ...

Common Dreams-Views

• We Still Don’t Hear Him
  by Bob Herbert The great man was moving with what seemed like great reluctance. He knew as he climbed from the car in Upper Manhattan that he was stepping into the maelstrom, that there were powerful people who would not react kindly to what he had to say. “I come to this magnificent house of worsh ...
• Health Care and Etymology
  by Christopher Brauchli Three faces wears the doctor: when first sought An angel’s; and a god’s the cure half-wrought; But when, the cure complete, he seeks his fee, The devil looks less terrible than he. — Anonymous � read more
• Organic Farming Opens a Way for Farmers to Return ...
  by Olga Bonfiglio "There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth:  the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way."  Benjamin Franklin The twenty-first century's uncertainty about the future abou ...
• Dr. King's Economic Dream Deferred
  by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Forty-two years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. To those of us who were alive then, the images are etched in painful memory: One day, Dr. King is standing with colleagues, including Ralph ...
• Is Racism Still Alive in America?
  by Cesar Chelala For people throughout the world, the election of Barak Obama to the U.S. presidency seemed to signal in a new era, that of the end of racism. Indeed, Obama's election was a momentous occasion and, one would have hoped, a milestone on the road to reconciliation. However, some r ...

Karl Burkart

• iPhone verdict: it's green
  A host of eco features and the simple fact that the iPad delivers 3 devices in one, may make it the greenest device of 2010.
• E-mail Hawaii today and save marine life
  A history-making vote tomorrow could ban shark finning in Hawaii -- a major step to saving our oceans. E-mail your support today!
• Email Hawaii today and save marine life
  A history-making vote tomorrow could ban shark finning in Hawaii -- a major step to saving our oceans. Email your support today!
• Mountain lovers, don't get excited yet about EPA r ...
  New EPA ruling on infilling valleys may limit future mountaintop mining permits, but it's only the first step in a long process to stop the 'Appalachian Apocalypse.'
• Top 5 naked protesters
  This week Planet100 counts down the top 5 naked protests. What would you strip for?

Water Privatization

• Crisis water reserve project for Jeddah
  06 April 2010 JEDDAH - Jeddah's water authority is working on a project to ensure the city has a strategic water reserve of six million cubic meters to meet the growing demand for water , especially during a crisis.
• Letters To The Editor
  Anyone from a developing country will agree with me that access to good drinking water is a challenge for many people. The solution is not as black and white as Mr. McManus saw it in his column titled, Water privatization is globally inequitable.
• New party set to be launched this week
  Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, who is set to leave the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party after severely criticizing the party leadership, and former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma confirmed Monday evening their plans to launch a new party by the end of the week. Hiranuma, an independent ...
• 3 Stocks That Just Make Sense
  Throw your complex computer models and charting software out the window, these three stocks just plain make sense.
• Letter: New rules a burden on fishermen
  The emergency economic opportunity program for New England commercial fishing industry sent to the Obama administration by seven members of Congress asks for common sense executive action to break through bureaucratic knots and dubious science that are causing what was described as unnecessary job l ...

Guardian

• Brown fires starting pistol for 6 May election
  • Brown visits the Queen and announces election on May 6 • Says that he wants a mandate to secure recovery • Cameron promises to fight for "the great ignored" • Clegg says today is "beginning of the end" for Brown 11.17am: Time for a mid-morning summary. • Gordon Brown announced the election. He sa ...
• US mine explosion kills 25
  Four miners still missing after blast at West Virginia plant Twenty-five miners were killed and at least four were still unaccounted for today after an explosion in a mine in West Virginia – the worst US mining disaster for more than 25 years. The search for survivors of the explosion more than 300m ...
• Obama unveils nuclear doctrine
  Revamped strategy to rule out use of atomic weapons in response to attacks from non-nuclear states The US will not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that comply with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, even if it is attacked with biological or chemical weapons, Barack Obama is expecte ...
• Terre'Blanche suspects face charges
  AWB supporters and black groups forced apart by police after trading insults and singing racially-charged songs Racial tensions were rising outside the court where two farm workers accused of murdering the South African white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche were due to appear today. Separate groups ...
• Digital bill poised for second reading
  The election is being called today – which would push this controversial bill through to the 'wash-up'. Has it had enough debate? It's the big day for the digital economy bill - 6 April, second reading and perhaps some debate in the house of Commons. Gordon Brown is also expected to take a trip to B ...

McClatchey

• Alaska lawmakers may drop Endangered Species Act f ...
  JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature is about to abandon a planned public relations effort aimed at fighting the Endangered Species Act. Lawmakers want to put the $1.5 million toward a new office building for themselves in Anchorage, but there's a push to use it instead for an independent study of how th ...
• Commentary: Fred Phelps' Westboro is a church in n ...
  You will be furious when you finish this column. Fair warning.
• Commentary: Obama's offshore drilling plan is odd
  In unveiling his plan for on offshore drilling for oil and gas, President Obama resembles the gambler who turns over his hole card before anyone has had a chance to place a bet.
• Obama administration unveils new nuclear weapons p ...
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Tuesday will reject the development of "new" U.S. nuclear weapons and dial back current policy that allows the U.S. to use nuclear weapons in response to attacks by non-nuclear nations, administration officials said Monday.
• Candidates see tea party support as a double-edged ...
  WASHINGTON — If Kentucky Republican Senate hopeful Rand Paul, a darling of the tea party movement, sails to victory in Kentucky's May 18 GOP primary, his victory could prove a harbinger of things to come during this November's mid-term elections.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• MPs' message of climate trust
  The first of the numerous enquiries into the state of climate science has just been published in the UK, and - you might be tempted to conclude - so far, so predictable, in terms of its conclusions and of the reactions to it. It's important to be clear on what the enquiry by the House of Commons Sc ...
• Whaling words: Into the new
  Few things drive people who would like to see whaling end to distraction quite as much as the lack of engagement with the issue across Japanese society. Their argument goes like this: continuing whaling is clearly not in the best interests of Japan as a nation, raising opprobrium in countries that ...
• CITES: Murky waters for marine conservation
  So, the once-every-three-years Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting has come to an end; and rather like the last time, conservationists are coming away with hands empty, apart from a few scrappy morsels of succour. I haven't been at the meeting in Doha, but I have ...
• Does healthcare win leave climate in better shape?
  The passage of President Obama's healthcare reform package prompts the question: what might it mean for climate change legislation? Will it clear the path for a climate bill this year , as some believe? Or has politicking over the healthcare bill poisoned the well of goodwill in Washington, as oth ...
• Tuna defeat's hypocritical roots
  The frustration of conservation groups at the outcome of Thursday's tuna trade discussions was almost palpable. The proposal to ban international trade in the Atlantic bluefin discussed at the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting - tabled by Monaco and backed b ...

The Wonk Room

• Seven Killed, At Least 19 Missing In Massey Coal M ...
  Seven miners were killed and another 19 are missing “after an explosion rocked a Massey Energy underground coal mine” in southern West Virginia this afternoon. The explosion took place at 3 pm at Massey subsidiary Performance Coal Co.’s Upper Big Branch Mine-South between the towns of Montcoal and N ...
• Insurers Report Consumers Gaming The Individual Ma ...
  The Boston Globe reports that “[t]housands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts’ 2006 health insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage“: In 2009 alone, 936 people signed up for ...
• DHS Inspector General: No Assurance That Deputizat ...
  Last Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general released a stinging critique of DHS’ 287(g) program, a controversial initiative which allows local police to enforce immigration laws. Immigrant and civil rights activists have long claimed that the program leaves all brown-sk ...
• Sen. Boxer Introduces Legislation To Extend COBRA ...
  Most Americans who lose their jobs and the health insurance coverage that comes with it have the option of maintaining their insurance at the community-rated premium through the COBRA program. COBRA provides coverage to “certain former employees, retirees, spouses, former spouses, and dependent chil ...
• Cuccinelli’s Climate Denier Lawsuits Could J ...
  Virginia’s radical attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA), is threatening the recovery of the American auto industry with new climate denial lawsuits. To the applause of automakers, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation finalized landmark new fuel economy standards last w ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Obama Care and Deficit Hysteria
  Well, Obama passed his "health care reform." I've never been taken in by Obama's neoliberal bullshit and I think that this health care bill is a piece of shit. The most that I'll say it might be is a health care version of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 . Because of opposition and amendment of The C ...
• Chumps and Change
  In his essay " Is America Yearning For Fascism " Chris Hedges says that as long as "leftists" or "progressives" in the USA continue to cling stupidly to the Democratic Party, so long will the left be irrelevant to the genuine anger against what corporate neo-liberalism has created. Even worse, Hedge ...
• The harpercons CAN be defeated
  Sentiments have been expressed numerous places that it would be unwise to force an election over the harpercons' complicity in torture and contempt for parliamentary democracy. I disagree. I believe that the Canadian electorate CAN be energized on these issues, if the opposition parties put them f ...
• The Whole Stupid Little "Dosting" Thing
  Maybe harper was trying to pretend he was sensitive to women's rights. And/But/Or Maybe harper was trying to pretend that he was responsive to public opinion. And/But/Or Maybe harper now gets to say that Canadians don't go in for "political correctness." And/But/Or harper didn't tell his cabin ...
• Busy Easter Post
  Here. there.

Financial Sense Editorials

• Census Numbers Uncensored
  by Vedran Vuk. "The Census aims to be every man’s hero. It promises an economic stimulus, a reduction in unemployment, and greater funds for every community. Of course, the reality is much closer to a game of musical chairs with your money. And guess who will be left standing?"
• Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyon ...
  by Elliott Wave Int. "The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone ...
• Market Observation: Dollar Free Ride
  by Ryan J. Puplava, CMT. "The U.S. dollar has enjoyed a free ride since Europe’s economic troubles with Greece. Sovereign debt downgrades had encouraged assets to begin leaving the European region causing the euro to drop. The euro zone’s current account balance fell pretty strongly in January. The ...
• Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyon ...
  by Elliott Wave Int. "The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone ...
• Progress is Slowing
  by Paul Nolte. "From the Washington euphoric high on Monday (As VP Biden said: “this is a big ____ deal!!) to the realization that many companies will be taking write-downs due to the increased costs of the bill by week's end could put a crimp in what many believe to be a good quarterly earnings sea ...

on Government Oversight

• Not Much Bounty for SEC Whistleblower Program
  For more than 20 years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had a program in place to reward whistleblowers who provide the agency with information about insider trading. But a new audit by the SEC Office of Inspector General...
• Morning Smoke: Another Spin of the Revolving Door ...
  SEC Lawyer One Day, Opponent the Next by Tom McGinty [The Wall Street Journal] Agencies to unveil open government plans under president's directive by Aliya Sternstein [Nextgov] High road contracting policy comes into focus by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] F-35...
• More Misbehavior by KBR Suspected on LOGCAP III Co ...
  Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced it has filed another False Claims Act lawsuit against KBR. This one alleges false billing for the use of unauthorized private armed security in Iraq under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) III contract....
• More Encouraging Nuclear Weapons Oversight from th ...
  Echoing POGO's concerns about the Department of Energy's (DOE) "2010 Safety and Security Reform Plan" giving contractors "the flexibility to tailor and implement safety and security programs without excessive federal oversight or overly prescriptive departmental requirements," Representatives Joe Ba ...
• POGO Presses DHHS to Answer Questions Instead of D ...
  In its letter today, POGO continued to push the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to release documents related to the pandemic flu vaccine. Over the course of our recent correspondence, the Department has failed to address POGO's direct...

Digital Journal

• Baseball season off and running
  Opening Day for Major League Baseball was technically Sunday night, but Monday saw a full slate of games with 13 meetings.
• Canadian neighbors turn out to be brothers
  Two Canadian men who were separated at birth and put up for adoption realized that they actually lived across the street from each other.
• Pacquiao's Canadian Adviser Says the Filipino Boxe ...
  A close adviser of Manny Pacquiao says he believes the Filipino boxer is not retiring yet. Pacquiao's adviser Michael Koncz said Pacquiao may still fight even if he is elected congressman of his province in the May 10 Philippine elections.
• Canadian loonie within a hair of parity with U.S. ...
  As commodities rose, the Canadian loonie was within an inch of parity with the United States dollar on Monday when it hit 99.7 cents U.S. in the mid-afternoon trading session.
• Canada's first embryo donation program launches
  Beginnings Family Services in Hamilton, Ontario launched Canada's first open embryo donation program on Monday. The not-for-profit charity has been open for clients since 1985.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• The Power of a Single Volunteer
  Why would a beautiful young woman with a full-time academic workload spend hours and hours of her limited free-time to help homeless people in her town? Meet Tiffany, a volunteer who has touched my life. Like many people, Tiffany was looking for her passion. A rewarding purpose to which she could de ...
• The Argument Against the Argument for Insane Asylu ...
  This past weekend,  The Oregonian , the largest newspaper in Oregon, published a guest column from its former managing editor, Jack Hart. He wrote about the homeless situation in Portland in the wake of the police shooting of  a homeless man named Jackie Collins who had been on the city's streets fo ...
• Life After Homelessness: Home Is Where You Rest Yo ...
  This is the second of a five-part series looking at the lives of young people making the journey out of long-term homelessness at Hospitality House in Australia. Read the first post here . In most shelters, there are so many rules. I've found that when working with a person just coming out of homele ...
• Does This Reflective Vest Make My Panhandling Look ...
  Lawmakers in Tampa recently found out that they couldn't ban panhandling along the city's streets and highways without also banning church solicitors, newspaper salesmen and others. So they say they decided to make panhandling safer with a new ordinance that requires everyone soliciting on the side ...
• It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's the World's First ...
  "Street Shield" is quite possibly the world's first homeless superhero. He's the subject of an ongoing comic strip published in The Pavement , a free monthly magazine for the homeless in London and Scotland. And he is awesome. The magazine just published the 12th installment in its April issue. Alre ...

Ceasefire.ca

• U.S. to reduce role of nuclear weapons
  The United States will reduce the role assigned to nuclear weapons in its national security strategy, the New York Times reports (David E. Sanger & Peter Baker, “Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms,” New York Times, 5 April 2010). The Obama administration’s much-delayed Nuclear Posture Rev ...
• Tim’s employees eligible for small, regular medal
  Tim Hortons employees at Kandahar Airfield are now eligible to receive the General Service Medal for their service in Afghanistan, Canwest News Service reports (David Pugliese & Katherine Laidlaw, “Tim Hortons staff eligible for Afghan war medals,” Victoria Times-Colonist, 29 March 2010). The chang ...
• Fowler scorches Canadian foreign policy
  Former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler launched a blistering attack on the foreign policy of recent Canadian governments during a speech to the Liberal Party’s “thinkers’ conference” on Sunday (video of speech here). Fowler, now retired, was a senior member of the Canadian foreign policy establishme ...
• U.S. and Russia agree on modest nuclear cuts
  The United States and Russia have reached agreement on the terms of a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty, the White House reported on Friday (”Key Facts about the New START Treaty,” Whitehouse.gov, 26 March 2010). The new treaty, which will be signed in Prague on April 8th, will replace bot ...
• Petition: Make Canada a UN Peacekeeper again
  Once the world's top contributor of troops for UN Peacekeeping, Canada has fallen far down the list as the military has turned away from the UN. Urge Prime Minister Harper, the political party leaders and your Member of Parliament to make Canada a proud UN Peacekeeeper once again.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Recent Economic Growth Nothing But A Mirage
  April 5, 2010 Prison Planet By Bob Chapman A smoke and mirrors Economy, a rigged market means you will lose, capital controls now in place, market manipulation is public policy, stock market overpriced by manipulations, no monetary tightening without a collapse, predictions of gains and losses in jo ...
• Office Vacancy Rate Hits 16-Year High
  April 5, 2010 Yahoo News By Reuters The U.S. office vacancy rate in the first quarter reached its highest level in 16 years, but the decline in rents eased and crept closer to stabilization, according to a report by real estate research firm Reis Inc. The U.S. office vacancy rate rose to 17.2 percen ...
• Police Secretly Photographing 14 Mil Motorists a D ...
  April 5, 2010 DailyMail.co.uk By Rebecca Camber Police are secretly photographing up to 14million motorists a day and keeping their details for years, it has emerged. Images of drivers and their front seat passengers are being captured by a network of cameras and held on a database without their kno ...
• The Greenpeace Threat: “We Know Where You Live”
  April 5, 2010 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson An article carried by the official Greenpeace website written by a Greenpeace member urges climate activists to resort to criminal activity in an effort to reinvigorate momentum for their stalling global warming agenda, while ominously threatening cl ...
• Feds Find Pfizer Too Big To Nail
  April 5, 2010 CNN By Drew Griffin and Andy Segal Imagine being charged with a crime, but an imaginary friend takes the rap for you. That is essentially what happened when Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, was caught illegally marketing Bextra, a painkiller that was taken off the ma ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• Lies and cover-ups in the name of force protection
  When a leaked US Army report recently revealed that the military regards Wikileaks as a potential force protection threat, the leak not only exposed the army’s fears but it also shed light on the breadth of this concept: force protection. From the Pentagon’s perspective, protecting American troops a ...
• Karzai’s troublesome independence
  After Benjamin Netanyahu was recently insulted by President Obama during his March visit to Washington (Obama declined to offer him dinner), Israeli commentators struggled to make an appropriate comparison and for some reason thought this was treatment that the head of a small African state might ex ...
• Keeping up the war effort
  What’s the key to making sure the US “prevails” in Afghanistan? Making sure that American taxpayers remain sufficiently ignorant and indifferent about what’s happening over there. The news that US soldiers apparently gouged bullets out of the bodies of pregnant women will likely be yet another stor ...
• The Israel lobby’s curious defense of an alleged S ...
  Yousuf v. Samantar is the first human rights suit arising from abuses committed in Somalia under the brutal regime of Siad Barre. It is currently pending before the Supreme Court, where an odd coalition of defenders has filed briefs on behalf of the defendant, Mohammed Samantar, a prime minister und ...
• Israel’s censorship scandal
  Judith Miller reports: You’ve probably never heard of Anat Kamm. Few people have. But for nearly four months, the 23-year-old Israeli journalist has been under house arrest in Tel Aviv for allegedly stealing and leaking secret Israeli defense ministry documents to a journalist from Ha’aretz, one ...

Watts Up With That?

• More “hiding the decline”
  Steve McIntyre points out some inconvenient data from Law Dome. Re-reading Climategate and AR4 Review Comments, I noticed an interesting discussion about handling the Law Dome O18 record – a series used in Mann and Jones (2003) and Jones and Mann (2004) with a very elevated MWP. The Law Dome O18 ...
• Global Warming and “The Early Spring” Part II
  Guest post by Steven Goddard Photo Credit : BBC News Last April, I wrote an article titled Global Warming and “The Early Spring” which highlighted one of the favorite AGW myths, that CO2 is making winter warmer and spring arrive earlier.  Here is the 2010 UK update. In 2005, the BBC wrote this arti ...
• March Global Sea Surface Temperatures
  “Hot” on the heels (ahem) of the March UAH global temperature anomaly, we have the likely primary driver of that number, a persistent El Nino in the Pacific. WUWT contributor Bob (you want graphs with that?) Tisdale explains. – Anthony March 2010 SST Anomaly Update Guest Post by Bob Tisdale MONTHLY ...
• March UAH Global Temperature Update
  by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature continues to be quite warm: +0.65 deg. C for March, 2010. This is about the same as January. Global average sea surface temperatures (not shown) remain high. As a reminder, last month we change to Version 5.3 of our dat ...
• Spaceweather alert – first “red alert& ...
  From the Rice University Spaceweather listserver: The listserver moderator writes in a separate email: =================================== WOW – a real honest substorm coming! As those in our “spacalrt” email listserver have just heard, the ACE spacecraft is measuring a high speed southward IMF, s ...

Dandelion Salad

• Keiser Report №31: Gold + The Irish ‘Bad Ban ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday April 06, 2010 — This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of Tony “No Blood for Oil” Blair lying about selling the UK gold supply on “technical advice of the Bank of England;” a millionaire tramp in Sweden and ...
• Helen Caldicott: Nuclear Power is Not the Answer t ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Helen Caldicott’s talks are always a must-see.  ~DS talkingsticktv April 02, 2010 — Talk by Helen Caldicott speaking with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility March 25, 2010 in Seattle and videotaped by Todd Boyle. Helen Caldicott: Nucle ...
• Noam Chomsky: Rekindling the Radical Imagination + ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Rekindling the Radical Imagination – Piven, Jones, Roy & Chomsky, March 21, 2010 by pdxjustice Media Productions http://vimeo.com/10623141 The final plenary at the 2010 LEFT FORUM conference in New York features Francis Fox Piven, Brian Jones, Arundhati ...
• Activist leaders targeted in E. Jerusalem + Israel ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews April 02, 2010 — Police target activist leaders who protest settler takeovers in Sheikh Jarrah (E.J’slem) in recent weeks Activist leaders targeted in E. Jerusalem *** Israel threatens more Gaza attacks AlJazeeraEnglish April 02, 2010 †...
• Timothy Geithner is a Sniveling Scamster By Mike W ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Mike Whitney April 01, 2010 “Information Clearing House“ Whew. That was fast. It didn’t take long for Wall Street to figure out how to game Obama’s new mortgage modification program, did it? The plan was hyped as help for “struggling homeowners”, but it turn ...

Your New Reality

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  The Future Is Now! But With PayPhones & Faxes How the future was envisaged in a series of AT&T ads back in 1993. Note cute importance still placed on faxes, the lack of remote controls for TV units, and non-existence of 3G phones with inbuilt movie studio editing and worldwide instant broadcast cap ...
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  China Fires Back At US Over Human Rights : "The US Citizens' Freedom To Access & Distribute Information Is Under Strict Supervision" China has compiled a detailed, well sourced report on human rights' violations in the United States, through 2008-2009. It makes for some very interesting reading, no ...
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  How The US Intends To Stop The Next Financial Crisis : 'We Will Ask People To Stop Cheating' And so it is up left up to the 'funny coz it's true' alternative news like The Daily Show to expose just how vulnerable the US economy and financial institutions was to theft, fraud and apocalyptic gree ...
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  Sarah Palin Won't Settle For Just Any Old Private Jet Really, Sarah Palin is just like you, and me.....If you and me were 1990s high-flying rock stars, on a massive ego trip, looking to cash in at every opportunity : Palin’s contract, according to Shreeve, who had a look at it, called for her to be ...
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  Dave Devries sensational and occasionally downright disturbing artistic reworkings of children's drawings make you wonder whether four year old kids really see the monsters in their imaginations, that they try to get down on paper, as vividly horrific as these : They really are the creatures of ...

Wired - Science

• Chain of Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power Atlant ...
  A 1,550-mile-long network of offshore wind stations could provide power from Massachusetts to North Carolina with minimal threat of outages, according to a new study. By connecting stations together, the system could eliminate the biggest downside of wind power: intermittency. The concept is simple ...
• 95-Million-Year-Old Bugs Found in African Amber Su ...
  Newly discovered pieces of amber have given scientists a peek into the Africa of 95 million years ago, when flowering plants blossomed across Earth and the animal world scrambled to adapt. Suspended in the stream of time were ancestors of modern spiders, wasps and ferns, but the prize is a wingless ...
• Sequencing the Video Genome
  Think organisms are the only ones with genomes?  Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology are sequencing the “video genome” to put an end to video piracy on the internet. The technique works by detecting features that remain basically unchanged by typical color and resolution manipulations ...
• Why Volcanic Eruptions Can Spark Lightning
  It’s the ultimate love-at-first-sight story: In the middle of the desert, hundreds of miles from anything else, lonely sand grains meet up in a crowd and decide to electrify each other. Sparks fly. Physicists have long puzzled over why sand grains and other small particles can build up electrical c ...
• Inca Skeletons Show Evidence of Spanish Brutality
  If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities caused by Spanish conquerors. European newcomers killed some Inca individuals with guns, steel lances ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Richard Falk: The Palestinians are winning the leg ...
  Richard Falk argues that a Palestinian victory in the legitimacy war with Israel would not necessarily produce the desired political results and that it is vital that the Palestinians exercise... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Haaretz: Discrimination at Ben-Gurion
  The policy of closing the country's doors to visitors based on their political ideology is foreign to democratic countries. The fact that the group's Jewish members were ultimately allowed to stay... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Judith Miller: Israel’s Censorship Scandal
  Richard Silverstein: “In what kind of country does a journalist simply disappear with other journalists and news outlets having no recourse to publish about it? China? Cuba? Vietnam? Iran? North... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Israel deports three Swedish activists with Palest ...
  Amira Hass: Israeli authorities on Thursday deported three Swedish citizens who arrived in the country earlier that day in a delegation of seven young people with Jewish and Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
• Ramallah is not Palestine
  Mr. Wahdan: “This particular class of the bourgeoisie exploited the people who fought the struggle. We did this for their benefit. They were the ones who got something out of it.” Wahdan’s... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• U.S. missile shield plans currently no threat to R ...
  Washington's plans for a missile defense shield do not presently constitute any threat to Moscow's strategic interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
• Russia will only buy fully-equipped Mistral from F ...
  The chief of the Russian General Staff said Thursday that Russia would only buy a fully-equipped Mistral-class amphibious assault ship from France.
• Russia could modernize Slovakian combat helicopter ...
  Russia could help Slovakia modernize its fleet of Soviet-made combat helicopters.
• Russian Airborne Troops to hold exercises in north ...
  Over 300 paratroopers from the 76th Airborne Division will be airdropped during military exercises in northwest Russia on Thursday.
• Russia's Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered cruiser plie ...
  The Russian nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Veliky, deployed to participate in the largest Russian Navy drills in the Indian Ocean, has crossed the English Channel for the first time in her history.

NewsWise

• Doctors with Ownership in Surgery Center Operate M ...
  When doctors become invested in an outpatient surgery center, they perform on average twice as many surgeries as doctors with no such financial stake, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.
• Rome Foundation Introduces Clinical Tool for Diagn ...
  New clinical algorithms give physicians a practical, efficient and cost-effective aid to diagnose frequent GI symptoms that patients commonly bring to their primary care doctors and gastroenterologists--symptoms of functional GI disorders that are often difficult to diagnose. The tool has the potent ...
• New Pyrimidine Compounds May Lead to Improved Trea ...
  Src (short for sarcoma) is a family of proto-oncogenic tyrosine kinases active in many cancer tumors, including medulloblastoma, the most common malignant cancer in children. A recent study shows that pyrazolo-[3,4-d]-pyrimidine-derivatives, designed to target Src, may be effective in interfering ...
• Controversial Arrhythmia Drug Provides Only Modest ...
  In a rigorous new review of the antiarrhythmic drug dronedarone (Multaq), researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute conclude that the controversial drug is only modestly effective and has no clear safety benefits. The review, to be published in the April 23 issue of the Journal of the American ...
• XanGo(r) Juice May Help Lower Marker of Inflammati ...
  A study suggests mangosteen juice may also play a role in reducing the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

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

• Congress May Lift Trade and Travel Restrictions to ...
  Bloomberg writer Jonathan J. Levin reported yesterday that, "The U.S. House of Representatives may pass a bill next month that would ease restrictions on agricultural exports to Cuba and lift a ban on travel to the Communist island, the measure’s sponsor said. Click here to read this article
• How to Light a Prairie Fire
  As I travel around the country doing concerts people earnestly, often a bit desperately, wonder aloud to me, what's it going to take to get people really riled up and ready to do something about this situation? How much greater must the divide between the rich and poor grow? How many more ecological ...
• Nestle Drops Palm Oil Supplier Destroying Rainfore ...
  Nestle, the world's biggest food group, said it had stopped buying palm oil from Indonesia's Sinar Mas due to concerns about rainforest destruction, following a similar move by consumer goods firm Unilever. Click here to read this article
• Scientists Say F.D.A. Ignored Radiation Warnings
  Urgent warnings by government experts about the risks of routinely using powerful CT scans to screen patients for colon cancer were brushed aside by the Food and Drug Administration, according to agency documents and interviews with agency scientists. Click here to read this article
• US Oil Company Donated Millions to Climate Skeptic ...
  Report identifies Koch Industries giving $73m to climate sceptic groups 'spreading inaccurate and misleading information' Click here to read this article

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Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Another Reason for the ICC to Formally Investigate ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller So, it turns out that the US military was lying through its teeth when it claimed that the three Afghan women murdered during a “bungled” Special Operations attack in Afghanistan six weeks ago were not killed by NATO — read: American — forces: NATO military ...
• The U.S. Senate (Sort of) Backs Morocco in the Wes ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It’s not exactly a hot topic, even among international lawyers, yet the ongoing dispute over the Western Sahara (and Morocco’s claim to it) has drawn the attention of 54 U.S. Senators, who recently sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Clinton about it favoring suppor ...
• Should the U.S. Annex Haiti? And Make Bill Clinton ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Interesting discussion of innovative ways to deal with Haiti’s long-term problems.  Haiti is very close to a failed state. So it’s time to think big. Here are four out of the box choices:  1) A New Haitian Constitution; 2) UN Trusteeship; 3) U.S. Protectorate; 4) U.S. ...
• Ecuador Rejects Arbitration Award
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This is not surprising, although I doubt they have much a legal basis to resist enforcement. Ecuadorean officials are rejecting an international arbitration tribunal’s ruling that it violated international law and must pay $700 million to the ChevronCorp. President Rafa ...
• ICC Judges Approve Investigation of Kenya
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Add another African case to the ICC’s docket. The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, has given its prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo the green light to investigate the role of senior politicians in Kenya’s post-election violence that killed 1,300 Kenya ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• A response to Cleo Paskal
  Cleo Paskal's take on global warming has been getting a little publicity, and I see she's commenting over at Hot Topic. However, I see her argument has fundamental weaknesses. Cleo, I'm curious to know why your article failed to address...
• The Easter Challenge
  The Easter Challenge Given that it's Easter, I'd like to post something for atheists and agnostics to rip apart, sink their teeth into: Chapter 14 of my book The Divinity Code. Go for your lives: CHAPTER 14 Resurrection: Fact or...
• Climategate: global warmers blame TBR.cc
  Desmogblog has just published what it's calling an "autopsy" of Climategate. Regular readers of TBR.cc may find it interesting: Spreading the Story Far and Wide: Six hours after Wishart confirmed the leak in TGIF, James Delingpole published the story in...
• Does climate change mean more spiders?
  Got bitten by a fairly sizeable spider overnight, as did Heidi. Photo of my shoulder shows a couple of puncture marks, 8mm apart (outer edge to outer edge). Treatment: antibiotic manuka honey, and band-aid. Itchy, sometimes painful, and I recall...
• Arctic ice continues to improve
  Yes, weather is not climate. But I've posted this because the resident nut-job at Hot Topic is trying to insinuate a more catastrophic perspective.

Public News Service

• Business Leader: Immigration Bill Threatens &#8220 ...
  Business Leader: Immigration Bill Threatens “Police State” Phoenix, AZ – Opponents of a wide-ranging immigration enforcement bill say the result would be harmful government intrusion into lives and businesses, all in the name of border security. Comments from Sheridan Bailey, owner of a Phoenix stee ...
• AZ Advocates Celebrate EPA Clean Car Standards
  AZ Advocates Celebrate EPA Clean Car Standards Phoenix, AZ – New federal clean car standards will require better gas mileage and reduced car and truck emissions over the next six years. Arizona clean air advocates say the result will be lower overall transportation costs and improved public health. ...
• Survey: AZ Hispanics Hit Harder by Recession
  Survey: AZ Hispanics Hit Harder by Recession Phoenix, AZ - A new survey from AARP finds Hispanics in Arizona, and nationwide, have lost jobs at a rate twice as high as the rest of the country...and most are feeling the pressures of the economy on a day-to-day basis. Comments from Rocky Egusquiza (eh ...
• AZ Indian Country Eyed for Clean Energy Developmen ...
  AZ Indian Country Eyed for Clean Energy Development Phoenix, AZ – Native American tribes manage 95-million acres of possibilities for clean energy development, as outlined in a new report from the National Tribal Environmental Council and other groups* - but there are obstacles to getting projects ...
• Activist: No Logical Reason to Delay “Don&#8 ...
  Activist: No Logical Reason to Delay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Phoenix, AZ –The Pentagon is moving toward eventual repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the policy that allows gay men and lesbians to serve in the military, so long as they hide their sexual orientation. A long-time national activi ...

My Care2 Picks

• 28 Countries Helped U.S. Detain War on Terror Susp ...
  As the London-based legal rights group Reprieve estimates the U.S. has used 17 ships as floating prisons since 2001, the total number of prisons operated by the U.S. and/or its allies to house alleged terrorist suspects since 2001 exceeds 100. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• David Brooks Solves All of Haiti’s Problems!!!!
  Pretty sweet gig ; Writing any fool thing that pops into your stupid head and never having to explain yourself when you turn out to be catastrophically wrong, even nine times out of ten wrong.( Also at http://thwapschoolyard.blogspot.com/ ) Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-i ...
• Lenny Foster to UN and Obama: Release Peltier
  Address by Lenny Foster to the United Nations and President Obama to free Leonard Peltier, the longest held political prisoner in the USA. Submitted by Patricia W. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Children, the childless, and diverse human ecosyst ...
  Connections with others are how we develop a sense of empathy and decency, which turn out to be crucial to happiness. It stands to reason that if we want more healthy, happy people, we should create more supportive social networks. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Pentagon Gives Gulnara Karimova Huge Contract For ...
  Home Office refused asylum applications of every one of the few dozen escapees from Uzbekistan to make it to the UK - which still has the Soviet exit visa system and locks its people in. Uzbekistan is a major supply base for the Afghan occupation Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...

Angry Indian News

• John John: The View From Canada
  Post by IIN Canadian Correspondent John John:--Chechen curse must be lifted | Eric Margolis | Columnists | Comment | Toronto SunChechens are Russia’s nemesis. Even the notoriously brutal Russian... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• We Can't Save The Planet: Lovelock
  We Can't Save The Planet: Lovelock: "The man who achieved global fame for his theory that the whole earth is a single organism now believes that we can only hope that the earth will take care of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: W ...
  The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: Will It Matter? By Richard Falk: Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Israel 'using Facebook to recruit Gaza collaborato ...
  BBC News - Israel 'using Facebook to recruit Gaza collaborators': Israel has long maintained networks of informers in the West Bank and Gaza in its effort to derail the activities of militant... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• No joke: Karzai threatens to join the Taliban | Ra ...
  No joke: Karzai threatens to join the Taliban | Raw Story: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai has slammed Western backers for the second time in a week, accusing the United States of interference, The... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• None Dare Call It Genocide – Dr. Stanley Monteith
  Must-see video
• Ode to Oggie Dog
  Oh that time would stand still And breath with me your lasting soul You were and are a good dog I was and am your faithful friend This is where we part this mortal shell And breath together in it no more I was and am your faithful friend Oggie Dog – my buddy, my protector, my pal Would that ...
• Wanted Dead or Alive!
• Judge strikes fear into biotech industry with null ...
  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which has handed corporations intellectual property monopolies over everything ranging from human genes to animals and seeds...Fortunately, things are beginning to shift. Earlier this week, a federal judge struck down patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
• McCarthy rises from the dead: The Southern Poverty ...
  The PJJ Gazette by: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ___________________________ One of the darkest periods of our recent social and political history were the years Joe McCarthy mounted what became known as the “Second Red Scare”.  McCarthyism lasted from the 1940’s well into t ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Israel's biggest challenge: Integrating its Arab m ...
  Noted by Eileen White Read on April 6, 2010 4:04 AM
• What drives female suicide bombers? (salon.com)
  Noted by Eileen White Read on April 6, 2010 3:04 AM
• BBC News - Israel 'using Facebook to recruit Gaza ...
  Noted by Eileen White Read on April 6, 2010 3:04 AM
• Divided, the Palestinians won't risk a third intif ...
  Noted by Eileen White Read on April 6, 2010 3:04 AM
• Israel knows apartheid has no future (Financial Ti ...
  Noted by Eileen White Read on April 6, 2010 3:04 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Leaked video footage shows Iraq journalists killed ...
  The video is graphic, and disturbing. As a group of men amble down a Baghdad street two US Army helicopters open fire, repeatedly shooting the men and gunning one down as he tries to flee . As the dust clears, the troops survey their handiwork. "Look at those dead b******s," one pilot says. "Nice," ...
• Karzai threat to join Taleban
  Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has threatened to abandon the political process and join the Taleban if he continues to come under outside pressure to reform. Mr Karzai made his statement at a closed-door meeting with selected Afghan MPs - just days after instigating a diplomatic controversy by alleging ...
• Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms
  President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons. But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for "outliers like Iran and North Korea" that ha ...
• Chicago terrorism suspect pleads not guilty
  A Chicago cab driver pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he attempted to aid al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] by sending money to a terrorist leader believed to be in Pakistan. Raja Lahrasib Khan, an American citizen born in Pakistan, appeared briefly before U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel to enter ...
• State Lawyers Denied Access to Patients In 'Neurob ...
  New York State's highest court has refused to order nursing homes to give state lawyers access to hundreds of psychiatric patients so they can advocate for their rights to treatment alternatives, living conditions or even release. The Court of Appeals, divided 4 to 3, concluded last week that be ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• A response to Cleo Paskal
  Cleo Paskal's take on global warming has been getting a little publicity, and I see she's commenting over at Hot Topic. However, I see her argument has fundamental weaknesses. Cleo, I'm curious to know why your article failed to address...
• The Easter Challenge
  The Easter Challenge Given that it's Easter, I'd like to post something for atheists and agnostics to rip apart, sink their teeth into: Chapter 14 of my book The Divinity Code. Go for your lives: CHAP TER 14 Re surrection : Fact o r Fig men t? “That within a few weeks after the crucifixion ...
• Climategate: global warmers blame TBR.cc
  Desmogblog has just published what it's calling an "autopsy" of Climategate. Regular readers of TBR.cc may find it interesting: Spreading the Story Far and Wide: Six hours after Wishart confirmed the leak in TGIF, James Delingpole published the story in...
• Does climate change mean more spiders?
  Got bitten by a fairly sizeable spider overnight, as did Heidi. Photo of my shoulder shows a couple of puncture marks, 8mm apart (outer edge to outer edge). Treatment: antibiotic manuka honey, and band-aid. Itchy, sometimes painful, and I recall...
• Arctic ice continues to improve
  Yes, weather is not climate. But I've posted this because the resident nut-job at Hot Topic is trying to insinuate a more catastrophic perspective.

Mondoweiss

• Air strikes on Gazan cheese factory is a reprise o ...
  Rami Almeghari, writing from the Gaza Strip for the Electronic Intifada, has an important report about the Israeli air strike that destroyed the Dalloul cheese and dairy factory in Gaza City last Friday during a series of Israeli strikes inside Gaza that injured 3 children. Almeghari, a journalist a ...
• Hey, Rep Kirk’s got to hide his Israel love ...
  Here is a what appears to be a very strange situation, but is not so strange after all. This link is to Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk’s page for Jewish voters, replete with Hebrew, which makes it appear that he is running for the Israeli Knesset and not the US Congress. Now this [...]
• Shocking Baghdad video echoes Goldstone’s Ga ...
  Astonishing video on Wikileaks.org of Americans in Apache helicopters killing civilians in Baghdad, including a Reuters photographer. I always say the Israel lobby suppressed Goldstone; but what about the American government’s interest in covering up its own attacks on civilians. This is the playboo ...
• When will the NYT’s admirable coverage of th ...
  expose it to justifiable charges of hypocrisy with respect to the religious politics of Israel/Palestine? Jim Crow conditions through most of the land. A separate roadway system for Jews and Palestinians. Checkpoints that feel like cattle stations. 10,000 political prisoners, including many children ...
• ‘Night’-time for Barack
  Didi Remez picks up an Israeli report that Netanyahu met with Elie Wiesel to ask him to appeal to Obama on the standoff between the countries: Obama venerates Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate. He sees in him a role model for the struggle for human rights… It would be nice to think t ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
  “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...
• Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
• Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...
• VRM: Photo Gallery
  ‘We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination. Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed a ...
• VRM: Your Testimonials On Vaccine Carnage – ...
  Vaccine Damage Updates: An opportunity to contribute your testimonials from around the world: Charting Physiological & Neurological reactions, including all related trauma to the H1N1 shot & other vaccines. Charting miscarriages resulting from vaccines – Pregnant women are at a heightened risk o ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• Simple Living: Getting Rid of "Stuff"
  "The stuff you own, owns you." I know that saying sounds bizarre and maybe a little paranoid but in many ways it's true. In my the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "I have to clean up and organize; my house is too cluttered.". �It's a little thing but it's one more stress in my life an ...
• Product Review: Hydroclean Water-Saving Toilet Fil ...
  The other week my wife surprised me with a gift that only a prepper could �get excited over: a dual-flush toilet retrofit! I'm really excited to try out this gadget, however when I read the instructions I found out that it doesn't work with the "ball and lever" floater style fill valves. �I'd ...
• More Tips My Wife Hates
  People seemed to get a kick out of my post about tips that my wife hates so I thought I'd keep it. I should let you know though that she doesn't hate all these things. �She seems to range from strong dislike to tolerance with a dash of "my husband is odd". �I should create a "Spousal Colour ...
• A Reader Asks How to Pay Off Student Loans
  A� Next Best West reader posted this in the comments which I think deserves a post of it's own as a reply: "I borrowed 12,250 for my college education to become a Registered Nurse. I took out these loans in the early 90s and after three deferments and consolidation I owe 30,000. I want to go ...
• The Ladies Will Be On the Family Preparedness Guid ...
  Last Saturday American Prepper , WVSanta , Matt and Bob were interviewed on James Stevens' Family Preparedness Guide radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They did a great job explaining the ins and outs of prepping and why we do it. Kudos guys!!! If you missed the show, you can download it here . This Sa ...

Michael Yon

• Village Boys
  Easter Sunday, 2010 Anywhere, Afghanistan Back in December, C-Co  1-17th Infantry battalion had been in about the worst place in Afghanistan.  There is stiff competition for the position of actual worst place, and I am sure there are many contenders that remain unknown, but the Arghandab was one ...
• War reporter Michael Yon wants answers on Seattle ...
  Published: 02 April 2010 FROM: Americans for Limited Government April 1st, 2010, Fairfax, VA—Michael Yon continues to question why he was arrested upon arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for his refusal to answer a question about how much m ...
• RED HORSE
  RED HORSE in the Desert of Death Some troops in Afghanistan go months without a shower.  Major Ryan O’Conner, XO of the 1-17th Infantry, now in Kandahar Province, said that during a previous tour his Soldiers fought half a year without so much as a dip in a creek.  Shortages of drinking water aff ...
• The Battle for Kandahar: Part I
  FOB Frontenac, Afghanistan 28 March 2010 Under an early morning sky, a red glow is cast from the lights on an Air Force water drilling rig.  A new MATV, or “MRAP All Terrain Vehicle,” is being deployed to Afghanistan to combat homemade bombs, the favorite weapon of the Taliban. The 1-17th ha ...
• The Scent of Weakness
  Kandahar Province, Afghanistan 25 March 2010 Dogs have been trained to carry bombs to attack enemies for decades.  The Soviets and others have used dogs as low-tech smart bombs.  Yet canine platoons likely would rebel if they caught scent they were being duped to die. Today, more sophisticated p ...

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

• NYC Event: Sense and Sustainability Fashion Show a ...
  Tina Tandon fall 2009 collection. Credit: Tina Tandon A fusion of fashion and philanthropy, Sense and Sustainability is both a runway show -- featuring ethical threads by Rachel Lyra Hospodar, Helen Asir, Marcus Hicks , and Swati Argade -- and fundraiser for First Sight . Set in India, the docu ...
• Sleek Recycled Pallets Furniture to Improve Work o ...
  Photos: Design Simple . Revale is a project by Brazilian studio Design Simples , aimed to improve the work and life of the Unindo Forças woodwork cooperative in Vale do Sol (Barueri, Sao Paulo). With the idea to provide the conditions for the cooperative to compete with higher quality goods ...
• Recycled Jewelery From Straws, Records and Phone C ...
  Image from Linda Schailon If you are yearning for something cheap and cheerful to liven up your boring post-winter, not-yet-spring wardrobe, here's the trick: recycled jewelery made from old vinyl records or straws. Sounds strange but looks great. Designer Linda Schailon makes a collection ...
• Greenland Ice Cover Loss Shown with New Earth-Spac ...
  Image via YouTube video A new combined Earth-Space monitoring system is helping geophysicists and climatologists watch the ice coverage of Greenland and monitor how the ice mass is shifting north. A short video animating the change is startling, and the data also documents for the first time wh ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Tofu and Wild Mushrooms
  Photo:Kelly Rossiter TreeHugger founder Graham Hill found himself in a quandry about a year ago. He knew the health problems that can be caused by eating meat, the awful treatment of animals in factory farming , as well as the ecological problems for the health of the planet. And yet, he still ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Suu Kyi’s party calls for landmine ban
  National League for Democracy breaks silence on landmines as rights groups fear returning Karen refugees are at high risk of injury or death
• Burma ‘to escape criticism’ at ASEAN s ...
  Observers warn that participating countries are keen to avoid setting a precedent of discussing human rights violations in ASEAN member states
• 100-strong army convoy in Kachin
  Tension mounting in Kachin state as Burmese army trucks head north to prepare for possible rebuke to border guard proposal
• China ‘not to blame’ for shrinking Mekong
  Beijing cites dry weather and not aggressive dam building as the driving factor behind the Mekong river's lowest water levels in 50 years
• Food imports to Wa state ‘blocked’
  Blockade could be a precursor to heavy fighting in northeastern Burma should the Wa army continue to reject border guard proposals

Telegraph - Climate Change

• James Lovelock: 'humans too stupid to stop climate ...
  Prof Lovelock, who is behind the Gaia theory, claimed humans were "not clever enough" to handle global warming problems.
• Gulf Stream is not slowing down, scientists claim
  The Gulf Stream is not being slowed down by climate change, a study indicates.
• Climate change is the new health and safety
  All public bodies should have a legal duty to protect their workers from climate change in the same way as institutions currently carry out health and safety checks, according to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
• Arctic ice increased during freezing winter
  The amount of sea ice covering the Arctic has dramatically increased during the cold winter, reaching levels not seen at this time of year for almost a decade.
• MPs begin the Climategate whitewash
  The Commons committee seemed unable even to understand the evidence, says Christopher Booker

National Geographic | Environment

• Mexico Earthquake Zone Linked to California Faults
  The magnitude 7.2 temblor was caused by the same tectonic shifts that formed the Baja Peninsula and the San Andreas Fault, geologists say.
• Solar Brings Light to Haiti
  With a crucial meeting at the United Nations today on the rebuilding of Haiti, renewable energy advocates and entrepreneurs are urging donors to consider the role that solar power can play in an impoverished nation that has one of the lowest rates of access to electricity in the world. ...
• Gene-Altered "Enviropig" to Reduce Dead Zones?
  "Enviropig," now approved for limited production, is modified to excrete less phosphorous, a key trigger of algal blooms, scientists say.
• Earth Hour 2010: Record 121 Countries to Go Dark
  In the biggest Earth Hour yet, millions of businesses and homes around the world will participate in a voluntary blackout to show support for action against global warming.
• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Canada proposes new vehicle emissions regulations
  [JURIST] Canadian Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice [official profile] on Thursday proposed [press release] a new set of regulations [text, PDF; backgrounder] aimed to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted from vehicles. The new standards will apply to cars and light truck models starting in ...
• Pakistan lawmakers weigh bill to curb presidential ...
  [JURIST] Pakistani lawmakers were weighing a constitutional bill Friday that would greatly limit the powers of President Asif Ali Zardari [official website], reversing the expansion of presidential powers under former military leader Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile, JURIST news archive]. If passed by ...
• Kenya parliament approves constitution draft
  [JURIST] The Kenyan Parliament [official website] on Thursday unanimously approved [press release] a draft constitution [text, PDF]. The vote follows two days of contentious debate [AP report], though none of the many proposals for amendment passed, and the draft remained as introduced by the Commit ...
• UN SG urges Turkmenistan to emphasize human rights
  [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Friday urged Turkmenistan to place a stronger emphasis on human rights [press release]. At a joint press conference with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Ban said that he, "called on the government to fulfill all obli ...
• Germany considering accepting Guantanamo detainees
  [JURIST] The German government is considering accepting detainees held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], according to interviews [text] published this week by Der Spiegel magazine. German Chancellor Angela Merkel [official profile], Interior Minister Thomas de Maizie ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Key To The Nuclear Posture Review
  It looks like President Obama has decided to make the nuclear non-proliferation treaty the key to his new nuclear strategy, by pledging that the United States won't use nuclear weapons to respond to an attack by a country that adheres to the treaty. That would be a significant shift from the Cold Wa ...
• NSA Wiretap Program Declared Illegal
  The National Security Agency broke the law when it wiretapped two American lawyers working for the El-Haramain Charity Foundation, an judge ruled Wednesday. The government has not decided whether to appeal this long-awaited decision, as it touches on subjects ranging from the state secrets privileg ...
• Is Larry Summers Leaving?
  On March 26, Fox Business News's Charlie Gasparino reported that Larry Summers, the chairman of the National Economic Council, had begun talking to associates (unnamed, apparently, meaning anonymous) about retiring after the election. Circuits pinged everywhere in Washington. Later that wee ...
• In Defense Of Politics
  Pick your battles carefully. Ignoring that, here is my response to an American Prospect post by Tim Fernholz wondering when I became Mark Halperin. Not liking Halperin, or blaming him for all the ills that befall modern political journalism is a la mode , so for the sake of being contrarian, I'm OK ...
• Obama Made Me Spend More of Your Money
  Courtesy of CBS Radio's Barry Bagnato, check out this excuse as to why Rep. Todd Tiahart (R-KS) said he had to increase the size of his office payroll by a cool $200,000, or 22 percent: "We saw that spike with the election of President Obama," [a staff member said.] "We had to employ a number of pe ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [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 ...
• [COAT] Myths for Profit: New Cdn anti-War film: 35 ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
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• 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

• Where in the World is Anat Kam?
  Related posts:Maariv Satirizes Anat Kam Gag Order Let it not be said that in a nation in... Anat Kam, Self-Censorship and the Israeli Left This blog was the first English-language source which reported that... Anat Kam-Uri Blau Case Enters Decisive New Phase The foreign media continue to open up t ...
• Cozy Relationship Between Israeli Judiciary, Milit ...
  There is much that is instructive in the Anat Kam case about the deficiencies in Israeli democracy.  I’ve discussed many of them in earlier posts.  Tonight, I want to talk about the overly cozy relationship between the judiciary and the military-intelligence apparatus.  Let’s say you’re the Shin ...
• Anat Kam: the Story That Dare Not Speak Her Name
  If you’re an Israeli editor or reporter, you know what thousands of other Israelis know.  That Anat Kam is under house arrest for allegedly leaking up to 1,000 top secret IDF documents to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau, who’s been writing some of the most hard-hitting exposes about army and defense mini ...
• Kam Case: Sorry State of MSM, Critical Role of Blo ...
  In a discussion with Avner Cohen earlier today I learned that Facebook is hugely popular in Israel and that many Israelis are getting their knowledge of the Anat Kam from Facebook because they can’t find it in the Israeli MSM.  I confirmed this via my site stats which show that almost half my visit ...
• Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
  Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.

Ode Magazine

• Budadogs gives new leash on life
  By: MarisaBeahm Answering the cries of abandoned and abused animals in Budapest, a group of committed Norwegian veterinarians launched Budadogs , a nonprofit that rehabilitates and facilitates adoption for some of the capital's neediest canines, many of which are i ...
• Ton's Musical Musings: Matthias Loibner and the hu ...
  By: Ton Maas Many heads turned in surprise on the 2nd day of the Danube Music Festival , when Mathias Loibner from Vienna in Austria started rotating the handle of his hurdy-gurdy. The sound of this ancient instrument combines the qualities of fiddle, bagpipes and ...
• Ode reader plans to travel to Haiti to help homele ...
  By: danniedog I'm heading to Haiti this summer on a fact finding mission to learn the ins and outs of working for individual families or communities. I do not wish to be constricted by rules of particular organizations. I'm trying to gather information now pertain ...
• The quest for peace is unique to each of us
  By: PeaceCorso I look for subjects for this blog all the time, of course. Most of them find me, but when I find myself, on a rainy quiet morning like this one, I love to go back and look at the things I’ve squirreled away for Ode posts. This one is yummy. It’s c ...
• Getting vaccines where they're needed the most
  VillageReach helps to deliver essential vaccines to remote areas in developing countries. Photo: VillageReach It is widely known that vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives in poor countries. In some areas, in fact, living conditions are so dire tha ...

OpEd News

• Feel Safer Now?
  None of my jusual distractions worked in this case to detour my anger!
• The Demon Haunted World
  A review of the Carl Sagan book, "Demon Haunted World"
• How much should the CEO of WellPoint get?
  Angela Braly, the CEO of health insurance giant WellPoint just received a whopping $13.1 million in pay, a 51 percent increase in compensation in 2009. This at the same time "WellPointapos;s California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, is seeking a double-digit rate increases for many of its 800,000 ...
• Hall-la-lou-lou-ing for Oklahomaapos;s Senator Tom ...
  As Henry II is alleged to have said to his henchmen in regard to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, who had been blocking some of Henryapos;s governing and expropriating plans, "Is there no one to rid me of this meddlesome priest?" Odd isnapos;t it how frequently, almost inevitabl ...
• US-Committed Atrocities in Afghanistan
  The major US media wonapos;t ever report them or explain Iraq and Afghan wars are illegal

Switchboard

• Jobs -- Or NFL-Sized Cow Pasture?
  In 2009, the California legislature gave billionaire Ed Roski an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act (commonly known as “CEQA”) to construct a new football stadium in the City of Industry.  That meant that a judge could never rule on whether the environmental review for t ...
• Michelle Branch Lends Her Voice to NRDC’s “Music S ...
  A few months ago I had the distinct pleasure of attending an event in Nashville , hosted by country music legend Emmylou Harris, to debut one of NRDC’s key initiatives to end mountaintop removal coal mining.  MusicSavesMountains.org is a way for popular singers, songwriters and musicians can ...
• "Antibacterial" Soaps: Buyer Beware!
  I can be�a fanatic about germs. I wash my hands thoroughly and frequently, and when I don't have access to a sink, I use an alcohol-based skin sanitizer. As a physician, I know that most�germs are spread by hand-to-mouth or hand-to-nose contact. So good hand washing is the most important thi ...
• Delicious, Nutritious, Local Food
  This blog was originally published on Greenlight by Susan Clark, executive director of the Columbia Foundation, which funds sustainable food and farming projects throughout California. Clark helped judge NRDC's 2010 Growing Green Awards, which honor sustainable food pioneers. Check back on A ...
• Plastic Bags: Time for a Confession
  As we left the supermarket Friday evening, we saw a family of five lugging their groceries to the parking lot. Each family member was carrying a reusable bag; one young man had an unbagged jug of cider. And there we stood with our cartfull of plastic bags. Redfaced with embarassment and happ ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Tea Party’s love affair with tokenism.
  Remember all those older, white conservatives who were upset when I pointed out that most Sarah Palin fans were older, white conservatives?   They do.   The headliners of the current Tea Party Express include a few token minority participants whose presence is designed to prevent critics like me f ...
• May 6
  A poorly kept secret: tomorrow morning Gordon Brown will go to the Queen and do that thing he has to do in order to dissolve Parliament and have an election.  Every general election since 1997 has been held simultaneous with local elections, this year was widely assumed to be no different, that day ...
• Precision Targeting At Work
  Wikileaks has just released this “classified US military video” depicting what appears to be the slaying of unarmed civilians by a military helicopter in Iraq in 2007. Two were Reuters journalists; two of the injured were children. I will definitely be using this film in my class next year. But as ...
• How beneficial is breastfeeding?
  A new study makes some audacious claims about the supposed value of breastfeeding. Apparently, such claims are both very common and very controversial. I’m not familiar with the relevant epidemiological literature, but I suspect that debates in this area are influenced heavily by, among other thing ...
• Deep Thought
  Watching Mike Jacobs up there hacking is almost enough to make me miss Daniel “the poor man’s Ed Kranepool” Murphy…. Related posts:Deep Thoughts Deep Thought Deep Thought Related posts: Deep Thoughts Deep Thought Deep Thought

Desert Research Institute

• 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.
• Inside Renewable Energy: Interview with Dr. Michae ...
  DRI's Dr. Michael Auerbach was interviewed by RenewableEnergyWorld.com about Nevada's geothermal resources and DRI’s role in studying the consequences of not developing renewable energy.
• 2010 Nevada Medal Recipient Dr. Robert D. Ballard
  The 2010 Nevada Medal recipient is Dr. Robert Ballard, a shipwreck explorer and scientist who discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck and the PT 109.

 

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Premier Power Signs Memorandum of Understanding for Financing U.S. Solar PV ...

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Premier Power Renewable Energy, Inc. is a leading global provider of large and small-scale solar power systems, delivering unmatched experience to ...

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Renovalia May Sell 25% of Spanish Renewable-Energy Producer

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By Ben Sills and Javier Marquina April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Renovalia Energy SA, the Spanish renewable-energy producer, may sell a stake of at least 25 percent ...

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Nebraska utility seeks renewable energy projects

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Nebraska Public Power District is seeking to purchase energy from small-scale renewable energy projects. NPPD's new request for proposals calls for a power ...

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China Resources Power to buy more coal mines

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Ecology dispatches state-funded emergency response tug

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- Apr 05, 2010

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OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) dispatched the state-funded emergency response tug Hunter stationed at Neah Bay at 10 am today ...

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New major trains for economics, ecology

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"The major offers students a unique opportunity to receive training in economics, public policy, ecology and natural resource management," Barnett said. ...

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Safety and Ecology Wins $16.8 M in Stimulus to Clean Up ORNL

EP Magazine

- Apr 05, 2010

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Safety and Ecology Corporation, a subsidiary of Homeland Security Capital Corporation, was awarded a contract valued at $16.8M under the American Recovery ...

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US Ecology Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.18 per Share

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Our View: Water use battles play out in rate hike talk

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- Apr 05, 2010

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Now that Poland Spring's proposed deal with the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District is dead, the more likely problem for York County homeowners ...

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At quake's epicenter, water gurgled from ground

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Garcia Briseno, 38, saw the ground crack and cough up water as she waited out the quake outside her home. After the shaking, she went inside to find that ...

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Poor Mexican villagers struggle to cope without water and power in wake of 7.2 ...

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In a poor farming village about 20 miles south of Mexicali, the Baja government was setting up a relief center Monday to distribute blankets, food and water ...

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By Chris Vongsarath County water officials are in the process of redrawing the water district's electoral boundary lines to create seven smaller, ...

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