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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RIGHTS-BURMA: Displaced Children Getting Traumati ...
    BANGKOK, Apr 8 (IPS) - "Our village was attacked many times. (The Burmese military) would come and take whatever they wanted from the village. Anything they don't want, they'd burn," said 19-year-old K K, recalling his experiences six years ago in the country’s southern Karen state.
  • RIGHTS: UNESCO in Disarray Over Controversial Pr ...
    PARIS, Apr 8 (IPS) - As UNESCO’s executive board meets here in the first of its two sessions per year, behind-the-scenes wrangling could result in a controversial life sciences prize being put on hold indefinitely.
  • RIGHTS-NEPAL: Laws Have Changed, Mindsets Haven& ...
    KATHMANDU, Apr 8 (IPS) - When Ranjit Thapa applied for citizenship by descent through his mother at the Kathmandu District Administration Office, little did he know that the road ahead was fraught with obstacles.
  • SRI LANKA: Islamic Convert’s Detention Spar ...
    COLOMBO, Apr 8 (IPS) - Issues of religious tolerance, the rule of law and freedom of expression in this mainly Buddhist country are being thrown into debate by the detention of a Sri Lankan Buddhist woman who converted to Islam and was writing a book on her conversion.
  • MIDEAST: Obama Said to Mull Israel-Palestinian P ...
    WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (IPS) - Amid still-unresolved tensions over Jewish settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, two major publications reported Wednesday that President Barack Obama is seriously considering proposing later this year a U.S. peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Scoop - NZ

  • Deflation: Bernanke shuts down his printing press
    The US Federal Reserve has completed its purchase of $1.7 trillion (£1.1bn) of mortgage securities, agency debt and US Treasuries, the conjuring trick of "credit easing" that allowed Ben Bernanke to create stimulus equal to 12pc of GDP. The Fed's money creation has been more or less the size of Wa ...
  • Steep increase in US March personal bankruptcies
    More Americans filed for bankruptcy protection in March than during any month since the federal personal bankruptcy law was tightened in October 2005, a new report says, a result of high unemployment and the housing crash. Federal courts reported over 158,000 bankruptcy filings in March, or 6,900 a ...
  • A Chinese on China's Real Estate Bubble
    In response to 10 Signs of Speculative Mania in China "Panda" a Chinese, commented on the real estate bubble in China. Panda Writes: I am from China and I am shocked by the real estate bubble in China. Housing in China now is more expensive than in the US, while salaries are way lower than in ...
  • What the foreshore and seabed is really about
    Predictably, the media has covered the foreshore and seabed issue with lots of pictures of people on beaches and focused on the a4˜access for all' guarantee. Nevermind that access to the beaches (at least those that aren't privately owned) has never been in doubt. The foreshore and seabed is a huge ...
  • Sticking It To The Underclass
    Remember "the underclass"? They were briefly fashionable in National circles in 2007. John Key expressed his oh so sincere concern at their plight in his state of the nation speech "The Kiwi Way: A Fair Go For All". He paraded about the place with the photogenic young girl from McGehan Close. He pro ...

Independent ( London )

  • Andrew Buncombe: Was a gay Indian academic driven ...
    Amid the flurry of sad stories that filled the papers today - for instance, the awful, heart-breaking accounts of the Indian troops under deadly fire from Maoist rebels phoning their families to say good-bye - the tale of Shrinivas Ramachandra Siras caught my eye.
  • Obama and Medvedev sign nuclear deal in Prague
    Reaching anew for peace, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today signed a treaty to shrink their nations' nuclear arsenals, the biggest such pact between the former Cold War foes in a generation.
  • US author says China media can't cover Google book
    The author of a new book about Google will not promote it in China next month because he says the government is restricting the Chinese media's writings about the company since it moved its search engine off the mainland to avoid censorship.
  • Chinese man gets death sentence for murdering eigh ...
    A Chinese court sentenced a former medical worker to death for the stabbing murders of eight schoolchildren a little more than two weeks ago.
  • Leaders poised to sign nuclear deal in Prague
    President Barack Obama is taking the first major step in his push toward a nuclear-free world, returning to Prague to sign the kind of arms-reduction treaty with Russia unseen for nearly two decades.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Trapping an invader
    (Courtesy of the University of Windsor) The first time she saw a group of male round gobies in their nests, pumping out billows of pheromones to attract females to lay their eggs, Lynda Corkum couldn’t help but think of an old boy’s club. “It reminded me of a bunch of men, sitting in a crowded room ...
  • Beefing up
    When a deadly virus spreads through California after being transported from the African rainforest in the 1995 movie Outbreak, most viewers reacted in horror. But not David Asper. He watched with fascination as the main character, an army medical researcher played by Dustin Hoffman, investigated the ...
  • The power of autism
    (Courtesy of Le Devoir)   Montréal researchers have uncovered previously unsuspected intellectual potential in many people with autism, a discovery that opens doors to new approaches for education.   A new approach to research, which looks at the neural disorder not in terms deficits, but in terms o ...
  • Disappearing act
    (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia)   A commitment to both discovery and education places the Beaty Biodiversity Centre in a unique position to safeguard our natural heritage by bringing together outstanding researchers, exceptional facilities, and the public to better un ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Inside Story - What are the rules of engagement?
    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 WikiLeaks site campaigns for freedom of information and posts leaked documents online. What are the rules of engagement and is this kind of violence justified?
  • Obama Attorney General Tries To Revive Bush-era Te ...
    Washington - Attorney General Eric Holder is in Spain trying to revive a Bush-era counterterrorism program that the U.S. views as a key tool in tracking terrorist money transfers but European Union lawmakers reject because of civil liberties concerns. The Obama administration argues that the Terr ...
  • Switzerland launches biometric passport
    From March 1 biometric passports will be issued in Switzerland - containing a holder's photograph and fingerprints - bringing the country into line with its neighbours. The move was approved by a wafer-thin majority of voters last year amid scepticism over security. The Swiss abroad will be able to ...
  • South Korea sailors describe mystery ship blast
    South Korean sailors who escaped a warship which sank last month have said they felt a large "external blast" before the ship went down. Speaking publicly for the first time since the incident, the sailors said the ship had been operating normally before it sank off Baengnyeong Island. Officials i ...
  • Mystery Object Found Orbiting Brown Dwarf
    Big planet or companion brown dwarf? Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unusual object orbiting a brown dwarf, and its discovery could fuel additional debate about what exactly constitutes a planet. The object circles a nearby brown dwarf in t ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • New Model Muj
    EDGE IS A WONDERFUL COMPENDIUM of scientific pondering from A-Z. One of its contributors, Scott Atran, presented a statement before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats & Capabilities last month, " Pathways To and From Violent Extremism: the Case for Science-based Field Researc ...
  • Canadian Navy to purchase BC Ferries
    A leak from the Department of National Defence suggests that the Canadian Navy, desperate for a roll-on/roll-off capability, will purchase the entire BC Ferry fleet as a strategic resource. A navy spokesperson declined to comment except to say: BC Ferries and the navy have always worked hand-in-han ...
  • Chuck and Camel . . .
    Prince Charles decided to take up jogging.  Every day, he'd jog past a hooker standing on the same street corner.  He learned to brace himself as he approached her for what was almost certain to follow. "One hundred and fifty pounds!" she'd shout from the curb. "No! Five pounds!" he would fire ...
  • POLL: While we're banning Niqabs..
    ...and consequently denying Muslim women their own agency and possibly creating circumstances that keep them indoors and out of public sight, because some people don't like they way they dress, perhaps we might also do something arguably much more socially productive and ban adolescent males from we ...
  • Here is where we juxtapose...
    "...one reason why we're there" , "Afghanistan is currently training, mentoring, and equipping membersof the Afghan National Police with the help of Canada. A well-led, trained, andequipped Afghan National Police force is essential to allow the Government of Afghanistan to assume responsibility fo ...

Media Matters for America

  • Rove rehashes tired claim that health care bill " ...
    In his Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove advanced the claim that the health care legislation "only appears to be affordable on paper because it includes 10 years worth of revenue from huge tax increases and gigantic Medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending." But, in fact, the nonpartis ...
  • Mother links son's Pelosi death threats to Fox -- ...
    Eleanor Giusti, the mother of Gregory Giusti -- who was arrested after allegedly threatening the life of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her support of health care reform -- has stated that Fox News was a factor in her son's alleged actions. As Media Matters for America has documented, Fox News ...
  • Following Fox's violent rhetoric, mother blames n ...
    Following the arrest of Gregory Giusti for allegedly threatening Speaker Nancy Pelosi's life over health care reform, Giusti's mother stated that Fox News was a factor in her son's alleged actions. In the wake of this incident, Media Matters for America takes a look back at Fox News' recent his ...
  • Beck's false warning: Proposed capital gains tax ...
    Glenn Beck falsely claimed that President Obama's proposed increase to the capital gains tax "affects every single American who invests." In fact, Obama's proposal would only impact married taxpayers with income greater than $250,000 and single taxpayers with income greater than $200,000. From ...
  • Former Bush lawyer debunks latest right-wing att ...
    Conservative media figures have seized on the fact that federal appeals court nominee Goodwin Liu submitted additional responses to his Senate questionnaire to attack Liu's character and fitness for the bench. However, Richard Painter, former Bush administration assistant White House counsel, h ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Race and Power at The New York Times
    Everyone attending the long wake for high-end newspapers knows about My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times, the new memoir-cum-indictment of racism at that paper by the late Gerald Boyd, who was fired as its managing editor in 2003 along with executive editor Howell Rain ...
  • Making The One State Solution Inevitable
    Other than screaming by the right, there does not seem to be any significant aftermath to President Obama's decision to oppose Israeli settlement expansion. The Israeli government is simply ignoring Obama's demand to stop building in the Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. And it couldn't care less ...
  • Libertarian Legacy
    Don Blankenship runs Massey Energy, the owner of the mine where at least 25 people died in an explosion this week, days after the mine was cited for dangerous accumulations of coal dust. Blankenship considers himself an old fashioned coal baron street fighter, who specializes in fighting off any reg ...
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  • 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. Some background: The big banks that got federal bailouts, as well as their supporte ...

TruthOut

  • San Francisco Man Arrested for Allegedly Threateni ...
    WASHINGTON — The FBI on Wednesday arrested a San Francisco man for allegedly making threats against Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she voted to back a massive health care overhaul, authorities said. Agents arrested Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, at his home midday Wednesday, said Patti Ha ...
  • Boost Haiti's Self-Sufficiency by "Buying Local" R ...
    Washington, D.C. - The international community could, in the words of former President Bill Clinton, help Haiti "become more self-sufficient" by purchasing the entire Haitian rice crop over the next two years for just 2.35 percent of total current committed aid funds. read more
  • Kyrgyzstan Opposition Takes Over in Bishkek
    With opposition leaders claiming they've formed their own government in Bishkek and reports that Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has left the country, What will happen to the US use of the Manas air base? Violent protests in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan – a vital US ally that hosts Manas, ...
  • Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window ...
    The scary economic developments of the past two years are contributing to a renaissance of discussion about "Corporate Social Responsibility," and how it might have helped head off Wall Street's precipitous failure. To explore that question, Truthout contributor William Fisher talked with Chip Pitts ...
  • Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, ...
    On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July 2007 as soldiers aboard it killed 12 people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency: photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmag ...

Planetsave

  • American’s Want Focus on Energy over Environment
    For the first time in 10 years Americans believe that increasing energy supplies should be prioritized over the environmental conservation. For the first time since the question was first asked by Gallup in 2001 – at which point 52% of respondents favoured environment over energy production – ...
  • American Waterways Seeing Temperature Increases
    According to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment water temperatures are increasing in many streams and rivers throughout the United States. “Warming waters can impact the basic ecological processes taking place in our nation’s rivers and streams,” said Dr. ...
  • Earth’s Climate Related to Planet’s Eccentricity
    According to a new study the regular shift in Earth’s orbit may have a direct linkage to a change in the climate. In an analysis that looked at ocean sediment cores from 57 locations, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki has found that over the past 1.2 million years there appears a linkag ...
  • “Most Threatened” Species Category Doe ...
    The International Union for the Conservation of Nature released a report early last month that included categorizations of the most threatened species in the world, including well over 600 primate species that are at risk due primarily to human activities; primarily the degredation of their natural ...
  • Let’s Ask the New York Times to Run this NRD ...
    Native Alaskans need our help for Earth Day. Help save Bristol Bay in Alaska and it’s wildlife. Natural Resources Defense Council is trying to create visibility around the issue of saving Alaska’s Wildlife Eden from becoming a landfill. Few Americans are aware of the UK’s bargain to dump toxic was ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Is there life after bodily death?
    For years philosophers have speculated over whether or not near death experiences are evidence of life after death. What happens when we die is probab...
  • Hitler 'wanted to steal' Turin Shroud
    The Turin Shroud was secretly hidden during World War 2 because Hitler allegedly wanted to steal it. It is thought that the Nazi leader was obsessed w...
  • NASA plans new robot generation
    NASA is planning a whole new generation of robotic space missions to the moon and beyond. While there may not be any plans to return people to the moo...
  • Freaky physics prove parallel universes exist
    Its the stuff of science fiction but now some scientists believe parallel universes really do exist. An unusual discovery suggesting a quantum state c...
  • Fossil find reveals Velociraptor and prey
    A new fossil find has revealed a prehistoric Velociraptor in deadly combat with a Protoceratops. The find depicts a scene that would have been commonp...

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 8, 2010
    Schism Remains as World Bank Votes on $3B Coal Plant Loan (Washington Post) The World Bank votes today on whether to lend $3 billion to South Africa's state-owned utility to build a giant coal plant over objections of environment groups and trade unions who say the money should be spent on ...
  • April 7, 2010
    Is the UK Set for a Green Election? (Business Green) As Gordon Brown fires the starting pistol on what promises to be the closest election in decades, green business leaders ask whether the low carbon economy could prove a vote winner. James Hansen Wins $100,000 Award for Climate Work (Reuter ...
  • April 6, 2010
    U.S. Sued Over Nuclear Waste Fees (New York Times) Sixteen utilities and a trade association sued the Energy Department to halt the government’s collection of nuclear waste disposal fees, arguing that the country no longer has a disposal plan. Industry Groups Challenge EPA's Reconsideration o ...
  • 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 Brow ...
  • 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 subsidiary ...

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

  • This Time It's Impersonal: Anatomy of a Corporate ...
    One year ago, I was fired. Not laid off—fired. In a layoff, you go home until the factory calls you back to work. I got fired. Everyone knew there would be a bloodbath. Management tried to keep it secret. But we knew. Human resources experts say mass firings should take place on a Friday. Worker bee ...
  • The F Word: Impossible to Ignore Wikileaks Tape
    "Well, it's their fault bringing their kids to a battle." Those words, spoken by a faceless soldier, echo from a classified US military video released by the site Wikileaks.org. The release comes on the heels of the revelation of a cover-up in Afghanistan--and the anniversary of the death of Dr. Mar ...
  • So, we are terrorists!
    Once Dr. Hossein Beik-baghban, a renowned Iranian professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Strasbourg, while addressing a gathering in our university, digressed to explain a bitterly interesting memory from his first years as an Iranian scholar in France: "I was standing in a queue in a la ...
  • Earning His Nobel Prize
    � from Truthdig At last, a believable sighting of that peace president many of us thought we had elected. Give Barack Obama credit, big time, for the startling progress he has made in tempering the threat of nuclear annihilation. The Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review Report for the first ...
  • Obama Threatens Iran with Nukes
    In readjusting U.S. policy on when to launch a nuclear strike, President Barack Obama has repudiated the use of nukes against non-nuclear states with the exception of Iran, which he termed an “outlier” along with North Korea. However, since North Korea already possesses at least a limited nuclea ...

Ten Percent

  • People Worth Voting For: Derek Wall
    “British politics has hit an all time low in the eyes of the public.  And for good reason. Our politicians betrayed us by uncritically following America into illegal wars, causing untold pain and suffering to families here and abroad.  They sat idly by as the banks recklessly gambled billions on th ...
  • Electioneering
    I can hardly contain the excitement…
  • Easy
    Go on, press the button, it’s easy. You’ve been trained in such a way that makes it very easy, that directs your libido into desiring the kill, to ‘Get Some’. And don’t worry, the acculturation in the Homeland is such that whatever you do you will be the Good Guy. And thus the cycle continues, [... ...
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Anatomy of Right-Wing Foreign Policy Critique
    If you asked me to come up with an essay critical of Barack Obama's foreign policy from a Republican point-of-view, I'd probably come up with something like this because it is so predictable. You begin with the penis. I despair of this latest episode of gestural theater designed to make the U.S ...
  • Serious Question
    If 2010 is like 1994, or even kind of like it (say, the Republicans make big gains, but don't take back either house of Congress), how will the next two years of Obama's presidency go?
  • Open Thread
    I'm sorry. No matter how I try, the last two days I can't seem to get any blogging done. Between sustained power outages and parenting duties, the stars will not align for me. I tried the bookstore, but I used up all my time feeding, playing, and changing the FinnMan. I have to say, though, that ...
  • What Would Nixon Do
    Pretend with me for a moment that the following events, some of which have already occurred and some of which are scheduled to occur this April 19, 2010, might have occurred during the Nixon Administration in the early 70's. Then ask yourself this question: What Would Nixon Do? Imagine for a mome ...
  • Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Heritage Month
    Yeah, after Mark Warner abolished it, Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Heritage Month is back for all Virginians. You can celebrate the wonderful decision to take up arms against the federal government for no other reason than you didn't like the outcome of a presidential election. You know, not like ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Oxygen not a prerequisite for life after all
    Dust off those life-on-other-planets hard sf stories in your trunks, writer-types, because the subgenre might just have had a much-needed shot in the arm: the oddly-named Zoologger is a little multicellular critter discovered in deep mud in the Mediterranean, and it doesn’t need oxygen for its survi ...
  • Becoming Planetary Gardeners: Geoengineering
    The Earth’s climate is a complex web of systems: ocean temperature and current, sea and glacier ice, air, wind, sun, and more. Strands of that web are being plucked by the variety of things which are causing our climate to change: pollution, extra carbon dioxide, soot, cow farts, and maybe even su ...
  • Fooling facial recognition software: the Adam Ant ...
    This one’s been doing the rounds for a few days, but I thought I’d throw it out for those of you who’ve not seen it yet: some graduate research suggests that stylised facial decoration and make-up (a la eighties New Romo band promo shots and cyberpunk bandwagon movies) may be a simple and effective ...
  • The Grand Unified Theory of Artificial Intelligenc ...
    Artificial intelligence research has long harboured two basic (and opposed) approaches – the earlier method of trying to discover the “rules of thought”, and the more modern probabilistic approach to machine learning. Now some smart guy from MIT called Noah Goodman reckons he has reconciled the two ...
  • Fabber viruses
    Among the obligatory swathe of spoof posts for 1st April this year was one from 3D printing outfit Shapeways, who claimed to have fallen victim to the first proof-of-concept virus for fabricators[via Fabbaloo]. The best spoofs always have an element of truth, or at least truthiness. While Shapeways ...

Therapy News

  • Sleep Issues and Substance Abuse Linked in Childre ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While sleep concerns including insomnia and a general sense of sleepiness throughout the day are typically thought of as being issues that affect adults, a growing number of children are exhibiting such difficulties. A recent study carried out at Idaho State Universit ...
  • Romania’s Psychological Health System Criticized
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though efforts to improve the quality of medical care in Romania have amplified since the country’s induction to the European Union, concerns still exist over the quality of institutionalized care available for those with psychological concerns. During a recent visit ...
  • Turning It Over
    By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile This article is a meditation on the third step of Alcoholics Anonymous (and all other 12-step programs). The third step says: “We made a dec ...
  • Childhood Fears
    By Jackie Pearson, LMFT, Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jackie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Childhood fears are both real and imaginary. It is important for parents to be supportive and help children understand how to deal with them. First, let us address real fe ...
  • Interpersonal Neurobiology – The Basics
    By Christopher Diggins, MA, LMHC, Interpersonal Neurobiology Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Christopher and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile It has only been in the past 10+ years that researchers have discovered “experience” changes the way neurons fire in our bodies. Just in the ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • RHEIN: End mountaintop removal madness - Attleboro ...
    The Daily Inquirer RHEIN: End mountaintop removal madness Attleboro Sun Chronicle So far, more than 500 mountains have been affected by a practice known as mountaintop removal . After clear-cutting the mountaintop's forest, miners blow it ... Massey Energy, West Virginia Mine Owner, Draws Scorn on ...
  • Why Do We Still Have Mining Disasters? - New York ...
    Telegraph.co.uk Why Do We Still Have Mining Disasters? New York Times (blog) ... and safer to operate (although in Appalachia, this shift has lead to the environmentally devastating practice known as mountaintop removal mining). ... Coal, corruption and campaign finance reform Washington Post (blog ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Redux: Bobby vs. Blankenship I ...
    Mountaintop Removal Redux: Bobby vs. Blankenship II Huffington Post (blog) In a reprise of the debate between NRDC's Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship over mountaintop removal coal mining, the Washington ... and more��
  • Coal River activist: 'We are all being used' - CNN ...
    Coal River activist: 'We are all being used' CNN (blog) ... become an environmental activist, committed to doing everything I can to stop the destructive practice of coal extraction known as mountaintop removal . ... and more��
  • Massey Energy, West Virginia Mine Owner, Draws Sco ...
    The Hindu Massey Energy, West Virginia Mine Owner, Draws Scorn on Wall Street ABC News Last year, Citigroup also adopted its own policy to address concerns over mountaintop removal . A Citigroup spokeswoman declined comment on whether the bank ... Coal, corruption and campaign finance reform Washin ...

Memeorandum

  • MISUNDERSTANDING? - ABOVE THE POST UPDATE: Accordi ...
    Gabriel Malor / Ace of Spades HQ : MISUNDERSTANDING?   —  ABOVE THE POST UPDATE: According to CNN, another diplomat is saying that this is a misunderstanding.  The story is that the man was smoking in the lavatory and when challenged by an air marshal, he mouthed off sarcastically “I was trying to ...
  • Obama Administration Confirms My Assessment On The ...
    AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere : Obama Administration Confirms My Assessment On Their Deadly National Security Failures   —  Over the weekend I produced a timeline of reported events and on-the-record comments by key Obama administration officials charged with protecting this nation from terrorist a ...
  • NBC: Passenger subdued aboard United jet (msnbc.co ...
    msnbc.com : NBC: Passenger subdued aboard United jet   —  Air marshal smelled smoke on flight from D.C. to Denver; jet lands safely  —  A passenger was subdued by a federal air marshal during an incident aboard an airliner flying from Washington to Denver on Wednesday night, sources told NBC News.
  • Air Marshals Stop Alleged 'Shoe Bomb' Attempt On U ...
    ABCNEWS : Air Marshals Stop Alleged ‘Shoe Bomb’ Attempt On United Jet to Denver   —  Qatari Diplomat In Custody After Attempting to ‘Light Up’ His Shoes  —  Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to “light his shoes on fire” on a United flight from Washington Reagan to De ...
  • GOP will win House, Senate (Dick Morris/The Hill)
    Dick Morris / The Hill : GOP will win House, Senate   —  Stanley Greenberg and James Carville claim that the Republican Party has peaked too soon.  —  Stanley Greenberg and James Carville claim that the Republican Party has peaked too soon.  Incredibly, Greenberg says that “when we look back on thi ...

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China Dialogue

  • Racing to save India’s tigers (2)
    Problems faced by both country and cat stem from poverty, illiteracy and overpopulation. But, writes Gethin Chamberlain, complacency is not endemic and volunteers are defending woodland habitats from poachers and loggers. Tiger Watch ’s approach to poaching is clearly having an effect, but that has ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Case of the Topless Teenager: A Legal Win for ...
    In March the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit delivered a win -- but a narrow win -- to teens who are determined to protect their First Amendment rights.
  • Erykah Badu Naked: Why Did Everyone Freak Out Abou ...
    Badu has been slammed for disrobing in downtown Dallas in her new video. What is it about black women's bodies that still draws and terrifies our puritanical society?
  • How Would Nixon Have Treated the Teabaggers Callin ...
    This post originally appeared on the Booman Tribune. Pretend with me for a moment that the following events, some of which have already occurred and some of which are scheduled to occur this April 19, 2010, might have occurred during the Nixon Administration in the early 70s. Then ask yourself this ...
  • We Can't Keep Funding What We Believe Is Evil
    There is really only one way to stop the collateral murder by our military: stop the wars and bring our troops home.
  • Finally! SEC Charges a Big Bank with Fraud
    Finally! Nearly two years after one of the worst financial crashes in history—and nearly three years after the crisis broke out—the SEC has charged a major bank with accounting fraud. On Wednesday, the SEC charged Regions Financial subsidiary Morgan Keegan with fraudulently overvaluing its holdings ...

Threat Level

  • It’s Cyberwar! Let’s Play Bingo!
    While it’s clear from the cyberwar news that we are living in a war zone when we turn on our computers, we at Wired.com refuse to surrender — even at the risk of taking an e-bullet in the name of Freedom. So strap on your iFlak jackets and use this Wired.com CyberWar bingo card the next [...]
  • Artists’ Lawsuit Demands Piece of Google Books Pie
    Google’s legal battle to create a digital library of the world’s books hit another snag Wednesday when photographers and illustrators filed suit claiming the Mountain View, California, search giant was unlawfully scanning and posting their works online without permission or payment. The suit brought ...
  • Romania Swoops In on 70 Cybertheft Suspects
    Romanian police arrested 70 suspects Tuesday who they claim were involved in eBay scams and other cybercrimes since 2006. Believed to be members of three separate gangs, the scammers used phishing attacks to get the login credentials of eBay account holders, then used the accounts to auction nonexi ...
  • Second Man Sentenced in Trojan Horse Bank Scam
    A New York man was sentenced to three years imprisonment in connection to bank fraud charges for his role in a scheme that compromised online banking and brokerage accounts, the authorities said Wednesday. The sentencing of Aleksey Volynskiy marks the second defendant sentenced in the fraud that net ...
  • Spy Network Pilfered Classified Docs From Indian G ...
    A spy network targeting government networks in India and other countries has been pilfering highly classified and other sensitive documents related to missile systems, the movement of military forces and relations among countries, according to a report released Tuesday. It also grabbed nearly a year ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Iran will not beg to avoid sanctions: Ahmadinejad
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Thursday he would not plead with opponents of Tehran's nuclear program in order to avoid sanctions as Russia and the United States said new measures might be necessary.
  • Playboy photographers find reality TV hard work
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They thought it would be all fun and glamour, but when 10 photographers recently gathered for a new reality TV show, they learned there was more to taking pictures of naked women than a good camera lens.
  • Stronger yuan may deal another blow to euro
    LONDON (Reuters) - A loosening in China's yuan policy that lets the currency rise while keeping it pegged to the dollar may deal another blow to the battered euro as such a move is seen slowing China's accumulation of foreign reserves.
  • Japan's video game visionary: the console is dying
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Hideo Kojima, one of the world's most famous video game creators, sees a future for digital entertainment outside the box -- outside any box.
  • First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
    PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Ap ...
    Since several people tried unsuccessfully to join this month’s call, we’re happy to compensate for faulty technology with the recording from this rich and informative conference. Mary Nichols-Rhodes spoke first, describing the plans for the ...
  • We Must Speak
    By Norman Solomon “A time comes when silence is betrayal.â€� The night after President Obama’s recent visit to Afghanistan, I couldn’t sleep. As much as his rhetoric, the president’s attire spoke of a callousing escalation. We seemed to ...
  • 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 ...

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 04.08.10
    New York 2010: Tiny Spin in the Amp'd Equinox all-electric SUV Another step completed for the Midwest EV company, some more to go. Zetsche admits Daimler couldn't have financed Smart revival without Renaul ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.07.10
    Turbodiesel Ford Mustang? Could happen in Europe someday... Would you want it here? Video: Nissan compares Leaf electric car to a wood chair Hmmm, is this the right way to sell an EV? ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

  • Collateral Murder in Iraq
    A United States military video was released this week showing the indiscriminate targeting and killing of civilians in Baghdad. The nonprofit news organization WikiLeaks obtained the video and made it available on the Internet. The video was made July 12, 2007, by a U.S. military Apache helicopter ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Coal Mine Disaster Shows Economics Still Trumps Sa ...
    This week's disaster in West Virginia brings with it grim but familiar images and headlines, a new chapter in American coal mining's sometimes tragic legacy. The accident also reminds us that, despite federal and private-sector plans for adding alternative energy sources to the national grid, the na ...
  • 18 Disastrous Invasive Species (That Happen To Be ...
    Invasive species are a major problem the world over. They kill local plants and animals, clog streams, destroy habitats, and devastate anything natural in their path. Sometimes they were introduced for a purpose, sometimes they escaped into the wild — but they always cause trouble.
  • Sun Will Power Boat's Historic Attempt
    With its sleek, space-age design, a new solar-powered boat is aiming to make nautical history and perhaps help save the planet as well.
  • 16-Year-Old Recycles 300K Pounds Of eWaste
    He's overseen the recycling of 300,000 pounds of e-waste. He's successfully lobbied the Rhode Island state legislature to ban the dumping of electronics. He's used refurbished computers to create media centers in developing countries like Cameroon and Sri Lanka to foster computer literacy. He’s Alex ...
  • 11 clean tech innovations that can change the worl ...
    The clean technology boom seems to spread exponentially every year. These new eco-friendly inventions compete with, and sometimes surpass, their conventional counterparts. It's a reminder that the only thing tying us to old, less-than-clean industries is a lack of imagination. Here's our list of som ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Doubts on the True Cause of Deaths in 1918-19 Flu ...
    By Dr. Mercola A researcher who authored one of the first articles connecting aspirin to Reye’s Syndrome, a lethal disease that attacks the liver and brain, is suggesting that aspirin also could be to blame for a significant portion of deaths in the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. In an article in Cli ...
  • Eustace Mullins – What The Rothschild Empire ...
    By Eustace C. Mullins A very popular movie in Japan was Pride, The Fateful Moment, which shows Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo in a favorable light. With six others, he was hanged in 1968 as a war criminal. During his trial, his lawyers stated to the International Tribunal for the Far East, th ...
  • Climate Change Fraud – Senators Question Fla ...
    Written by Alex Newman, New American | 05 April 2010 After admitting that the United States’ own climate data was worse than the Climategate-tainted University of East Anglia’s, two U.S. Senators are demanding answers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “In light of recent re ...
  • Former IAEA chief: Iraq war killed “a million inno ...
    By Patrick Martin 3 April 2010 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 million innocent people and could be held accountable under i ...
  • Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox – SlayStation
    By Cindy Sheehan With reports stating that, from the top down, the US military is filled with Christian zealots, I wonder who “authorizes” Murder by Joystick? Does the 6th Commandment say: “Thou shalt not murder; unless you can pretend you’re playing a video game?â€� The mass murder of the 21st ...

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

Twilight Earth

  • Explosion at West Virginia Massey Coal Mine Kills ...
    A huge explosion ripped through a West Virginia coal mine operated by Massey Energy Co. and headed by Don Blankenship, killing 25 miners. Related posts: Coal’s Health Costs In Appalachia Outweigh Economic Benefits Massey Energy is Blasting on Coal River Mountain, Endangering Local Lives -Vid ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Macquarie Bank’s Green Office is Part Space ...
    Read the rest of Macquarie Bank’s Green Office is Part Space Station, Part Cathedral Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", australia, carbon neutral systems, clive Wilkinson architects, collaborative workspace, cwa, employee wellbeing, flexible work ...
  • Comcast’s Zero-Carbon Sonoma County Facility ...
    Comcast’s Operations Center in Sonoma County just received one of the highest honors in green building — it was certified LEED Platinum this week by the USGBC. The Operations Center is part of The Sonoma Mountain Village, an ambitious zero-carbon, solar-powered development being constructed by Codd ...
  • Energy Star Under Fire, Faces Major Overhaul
    The Energy Star Program may be facing a major overhaul after congressional auditors reported that they were able to receive certification for a number of ridiculous fake products including a gasoline-powered alarm clock. Maine’s Senator Susan Collins announced that this week she will be proposing c ...
  • Collapsible, Biodegradable Coke Bottle Proves it&# ...
    Designer Andrew Kim has created a new Eco Coke concept bottle that minimizes the packaging’s environmental footprint while maximizing its efficiency. The square bottles are more collapsible, fit tightly with other bottles for efficient shipping and stocking, and are made from sugar based bioplastic ...
  • Minnesota Twins Start the Season in a Great Green ...
    The Minnesota Twins are set to christen their new green stadium on April 12th in a game against the Boston Red Sox! Target Field is ready for opening day and during its construction no green features were spared. From a rainwater collection system to low-VOC finishes, energy efficient lighting, and ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Mystery Object Defies Astronomical Classification
    A mysterious object discovered near a brown dwarf doesn’t fit into any known astronomical category. The newly discovered mystery companion forms a binary system with the brown dwarf, located 460 light-years away in the Taurus star-forming system. The object is too light to be another brown dwarf, b ...
  • Pigeon Flocks Let the Best Bird Lead
    Even the bird-brained can follow a leader. When pigeons fly in flocks, each bird falls behind another with better navigational skill, and the savviest among them leads the flock, scientists report in the April 8 Nature. The research suggests hierarchies can serve peaceful purposes in the animal kin ...
  • First Animals Found That Live Without Oxygen
    In the muck of the deep Mediterranean seafloor, scientists have found the first multicellular animals capable of surviving in an entirely oxygen-free environment. Some types of bacteria and other single-celled organisms can live without oxygen, but nothing as complex had been found as these three s ...
  • New Giant Lizard Discovered in the Philippines
    Scientists couldn’t see the lizard for the trees. But now they’ve tracked down and named Varanus bitatawa, a skittish reptile that’s hard to spot even though it grows up to 2 meters long and sports bright yellow speckles. In forests on the Philippine island of Luzon, the newly discovered monitor li ...
  • Gut Bacteria Give Super Seaweed-Digestion Power to ...
    The old adage, “You are what you eat,” has a bacterial component. In a neat confluence of human history, stomach bacteria and food, researchers have found that the intestinal microbes of Japanese people may be souped up for eating seaweed. “In a marine bacteria, we identified an enzyme that is very ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - The Chinese government has asked several Chinese TV broadcasters to stop using a list of English-language abbreviations , and to provide Chinese-language explanations for those that are unavoidable. This is something you see in France, where advertisers must put an asterix beside English-language ...
  • A Revolution in Kyrgyzstan?
    As I write this, there is an uprising in Kyrgyzstan. I strongly suspect that about 24 hours from now, it will be a revolution. Kyrgyzstan isn’t a country that most people know much about. It’s located in Central Asia, a region that doesn’t get much attention, and it’s one of the smaller, less prosp ...
  • Prague Treaty Will Achieve Real, Albeit Modest Cut ...
    I heard the notion yesterday that maybe the New START Treaty being signed in Prague today (henceforth the Prague Treaty to avoid acronym paradoxes caused by the phrase “START Treaty”) was actually kind of meaningless thanks to a bomber loophole. Jeffrey Lewis looks at this in great detail and conclu ...
  • Obama to Propose Peace Plan?
    David Ignatius reports that President Obama is “‘ seriously considering’ proposing an American peace plan to resolve the Palestinian conflict, according to two top administration officials”: “Everyone knows the basic outlines of a peace deal,” said one of the senior officials, citing the agreement t ...
  • The "Surge" Protectors
    Andrew Exum continues to display his lack of preparedness to be viewed as a serious defense analyst with his latest Abu M post - " Just Admit It: The Surge Worked ." He wants to drag us back into the argument about whether the long-delayed reinforcement of harried, overworked US forces in Iraq in 20 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The Chivas Regal Theory of Bipart ...
    The significance of the Obama administration removing the designation "Islamic radicalism" from the current National Security Strategy is readily apparent when one reads the 2002-era proclamation: "The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years ...
  • Chief Military Commissions Prosecutor: "Little Pra ...
    The ability of military commissions to protect classified information in terrorism cases has been cited as an explanation for why they should be used instead of federal courts to prosecute terror suspects. That is one of the reasons why Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging the administration to try the all ...
  • A Tea Party With a Side of Bacon?
    If you love freedom, you'll eat this. (Flickr/ permanently scatterbrained ) One of the little-noticed provisions in the recently passed Affordable Care Act mandates that restaurant chains with more than 20 locations will have to post the calories contained in all their offerings. There's a lot of ...
  • Ring Around the Regulators.
    Tim Fernholz asks why the administration is shying away from giving firm guidelines on prudential standards : While members of Congress take their spring break, the debate over financial reform and, most relevantly, Sen. Chris Dodd 's omnibus bill simmer here in Washington. Dodd's bill has raised a ...
  • None of Us Is 'Escaping' Our Taxes.
    Sometimes, the Associated Press makes you wonder from what planet they are reporting. Sometimes, the facts are simply wrong or confused. Other times, the facts are laid out in such an inflammatory way that people will be able to take from them what they will. Today, under the headline "Nearly half ...

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.â€� 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

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

  • Calling All Thugs: Gas Line Cut After Tea Party Le ...
    The latest news from the opponents of health care reform who like to suggest that supporters should suffer for their transgressions: A day after two Virginia Tea Party activists posted the address of the brother of a congressman who voted for the bill, authorities discovered that someone had severed ...
  • Armed MCDC to ‘Forcefully Engage’ Border ‘Criminal ...
    The leader of the nativist extremist group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) publicly repudiates the use of illegal tactics to secure the border against undocumented immigrants. “If one single individual steps over the line for their personal gratification, we are all stained with that irrespon ...
  • Croatian Extremist Joins White Hate Group Leadersh ...
    A popular speaker at gatherings of white supremacists and anti-Semites has joined the board of directors of the nascent white nationalist political party, American Third Position (A3P). Tomislav Sunic, who describes himself as a former professor, Croatian diplomat and author, has spoken on multiple ...
  • The Unlikeliest Conspiracy-Monger: Colorado Public ...
    Law-abiding U.S. citizens who express politically unpopular views are at risk of being rounded up and imprisoned in concentration camps by a tyrannical government. That’s according to a conspiracy theory that has long been popular within the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. Although recently debun ...
  • Nine Members of the Hutaree Militia Indicted in Pl ...
    Nine members of the Hutaree Militia were indicted today in what federal authorities are describing as a plot to murder a law enforcement officer in Michigan and then attack other officials who gathered for the funeral. The five-count indictment followed a series of raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indian ...

change: org.

  • Wisconsin Attorney To Sex Ed Teachers: Show a Kid ...
    A District Attorney in Wisconsin is warning sex education teachers that if they follow a new law which mandates that they show youth how to use condoms and other contraceptives, they could face arrest. Let me emphasis that part: THEY COULD FACE ARREST. In a letter (pdf) dated March 24, 2010, Juneau ...
  • Help Wanted: FDA Advisors, No Expertise Needed
    Economic recovery may be slow, but somebody's  hiring : the FDA. NPR reports that the FDA is looking for consumer representatives to serve on some of the 48 advisory committees that make recommendations about what's ready to go to market. Strangely, the agency made a point of noting that prospective ...
  • "Anchor Baby" Rhetoric Denounced
    If Steve Levy actually becomes governor of New York, I'll probably have to move. It's just one of those things. Levy's divisive, hate-filled, derogatory anti-immigrant rhetoric motivated Attorney General candidate Sean Coffey to give a frank interview condemning the gubernatorial candidate's use of ...
  • Pro-Life & Pro-Choice: Reduce the Financial Need f ...
    Who are the people at Crisis Pregnancy Centers to decide for a woman that she shouldn't have an abortion? That's exactly what they do when they manipulate, mislead, and outright lie to pregnant women who come to them seeking comprehensive information about their options. Obviously they know better t ...
  • Utah GOP Talks About Ending AIDS Drug Program
    Ah, yes, Utah. The state that brought us the Mormon funding for Proposition 8, financial support necessary to pass the amendment to ban marriage equality in California, is now eying funding for its AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). During a monthly review of federal grant applications, Republican ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Afghan Poll Body Backs Karzai on Electoral Row
    by Sayed Salahuddin KABUL - Afghanistan's election commission said on Tuesday it backed a decree by President Hamid Karzai that limits foreigners' role in elections, scoring him another point in a dispute that has put him at odds with Washington. The procedure of how to run the parliamentary ...
  • Obey says Deficit Fears Shouldn't Trump Job Creati ...
    by Walter Alarkon Rep. David Obey said concerns about the federal deficit shouldn't trump efforts to repair the economy and create jobs. "We must address the debt and budget deficits for the long-term health of our nation," Obey, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said in a long ...
  • Suit Challenges Ultra-Restrictive Prison Units
    by William Fisher NEW YORK - Two U.S. federal prisons are being used overwhelmingly to hold Muslim prisoners and prisoners with unpopular political beliefs, and are practicing religious profiling, retaliation and arbitrary punishment, according to a lawsuit filed by the Centre for Constitutional Rig ...
  • Brief History, Destructive Impact: Geologists Deba ...
    by Steve Connor Biologists have their principles of evolution, physicists have their laws of thermodynamics and chemists have their periodic table. For geologists, perhaps the most hallowed reference source is the Geological Time Scale, a complex timeline depicting the entire history of the Earth as ...
  • Economist's Cry: Break Up the Banks!
    by Chris Isidore NEW YORK -- Simon Johnson would seem to be an unlikely candidate to be throwing stones at the global financial system. Johnson is the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, the organization that uses the economic might of the world's largest nations to rescue sma ...

Lifehacker

  • Add-Ons Cause 70 Percent of IE8's Crashes [Interne ...
    Internet Explorer doesn't exactly have it all over Firefox, or even Chrome, when it comes to a robust collection of add-ons that add great features. Still, they exist , and, well, they cause crashes. Most crashes, in fact, according to a Micro ...
  • Google Maps for BlackBerry Adds Voice Search, Star ...
    BlackBerry users can now get some of the same goodies Android users have been enjoying on their mobile map search, like voice search, synchronized stars and search history, and a few other goodies. More��
  • Create Instant QR Codes with a Bookmarklet [Bookma ...
    Creating camera-phone-friendly QR codes with a goo.gl shortlink URL tweak is nice, but one of our readers took the next logical step. His bookmarklets creates a goo.gl link, automatically converts it to a QR code, and shows you the result. ...
  • Xmarks for Firefox Syncs Open Tabs Between Browser ...
    Firefox: Fans of the Xmarks bookmark and password syncing service, rejoice. You can now close down any Firefox browser connected to Xmarks and open whatever tabs you left standing on another browser. It's a nice little bit of worry reduction. ...
  • AutoPagerize Enables Infinite Page Scrolling [Down ...
    Firefox/Chrome: If you're tired of clicking through page after page of search results and would prefer to simply scroll through the pages on an infinite rotation, AutoPagerize enables endless scrolling. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Taliban: Karzai Is Our Brother
    By Steve Hynd The Taliban have responded to Karzai's reported threats to join them and a new speech he made yesterday asking them to join his government,according to Afghan news service Qugnoos: The Taliban reacted against yesterday’s speech by President Karzai saying, “They are Afghans, and Karzai ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Film events
    The Met: Live in HD: "Hamlet" starring Simon Keenlyside, 6:30 p.m. Wed. Various theaters. www.fathomevents.com.
  • Will yet another state water war settle anything?
    The Central Valley has long served as the fulcrum in California's water wars . The northern half of the state is blessed with an abundance of that most vital resource; the parched southern half needs it in order to slake its unrelenting, growth-driven thirst. In between is the equally thirsty valley ...
  • Bay County Update
    To figure out the future the Bay County Commission met to make final plans. From the start, the conversation circulated around spring break.
  • Water Wars
    For years, Waterbury was piping water from the Shepaug River into the city's reservoir and selling the excess water to other towns. In the summer months, Waterbury took so much water that the river was too shallow and too hot for aquatic life.
  • 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.

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Futurismic

  • Oxygen not a prerequisite for life after all
    Dust off those life-on-other-planets hard sf stories in your trunks, writer-types, because the subgenre might just have had a much-needed shot in the arm: the oddly-named Zoologger is a little multicellular critter discovered in deep mud in the Mediterranean, and it doesn’t need oxygen for its survi ...
  • Becoming Planetary Gardeners: Geoengineering
    The Earth’s climate is a complex web of systems: ocean temperature and current, sea and glacier ice, air, wind, sun, and more. Strands of that web are being plucked by the variety of things which are causing our climate to change: pollution, extra carbon dioxide, soot, cow farts, and maybe even su ...
  • Fooling facial recognition software: the Adam Ant ...
    This one’s been doing the rounds for a few days, but I thought I’d throw it out for those of you who’ve not seen it yet: some graduate research suggests that stylised facial decoration and make-up (a la eighties New Romo band promo shots and cyberpunk bandwagon movies) may be a simple and effective ...
  • The Grand Unified Theory of Artificial Intelligenc ...
    Artificial intelligence research has long harboured two basic (and opposed) approaches – the earlier method of trying to discover the “rules of thought”, and the more modern probabilistic approach to machine learning. Now some smart guy from MIT called Noah Goodman reckons he has reconciled the two ...
  • Fabber viruses
    Among the obligatory swathe of spoof posts for 1st April this year was one from 3D printing outfit Shapeways, who claimed to have fallen victim to the first proof-of-concept virus for fabricators[via Fabbaloo]. The best spoofs always have an element of truth, or at least truthiness. While Shapeways ...

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • DOJ Demonstrates "Chutzpah"
    Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an extremely misleading press release on the departments “successes” in tax enforcement. However, as NWC Executive Director, Stephen M. Kohn responded, the “DOJ spends much ink describing the importance of the UBS case without finding the space to add tw ...
  • NWC responds to DOJ press release on UBS whistlebl ...
    Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), has issued the following statement in response to a Justice Department press release: The Department of Justice (DOJ) press release crediting their efforts to prosecute Bradley Birkenfeld with increasing tax compli ...
  • Water quality whistleblower sues in Chicago
    Anthony Sacco is the former general manager of the Broadview-Westchester Joint Water Agency, which supplies drinking water to suburbs west of Chicago. Then he reported to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency that the Agency had fabricated water testing reports. According to his complaint fil ...
  • ACLU of Ohio calls on University of Akron to keep ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio issued a press release today calling on the University of Akron to retain Professor Matt Williams.� Prof. Williams resigned his adjunct position last October to protest the university's policy of collecting a DNA sample from all job applicants. The p ...
  • WikiLeaks.org releases 2007 video of US troops kil ...
    WikiLeaks.org has released an 18 minute video that shows United States armed forces in Iraq attacking a group that included two journalists from Reuters. The journalists, and about ten other civilians, were fatally injured in the 2007 attack. National Public Radio (NPR) this morning reports (althou ...

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

  • Newspapers Pushing For Hot News Doctrine May Find ...
    It's no secret that newspapers have been struggling, and many are out to blame the internet, even as the evidence suggests their troubles began long before the internet became popular. However, a really troubling aspect of all of this is that some newspaper industry lawyers have been pushing for ma ...
  • Copyright A Priority For The DOJ; But Identity Fra ...
    Well, isn't this just great. Just a little while back, the Justice Department announced that fighting "intellectual property crime" was a major priority . At the time, we wondered if there weren't more important things for the DOJ to be working on. The answer is yes, of course, but the Justice De ...
  • Bunch Of Companies Sued Over Encryption Patents
    Another day, another story of a company no one's heard of who seems to produce nothing but patents, filing a lawsuit against a ton of companies in East Texas (of course). This one, sent in by the Bored SysAdmin , involves a company called The Pacid Group, suing Asus, Samsung, Sony, Sony Ericsson, ...
  • Careful What You Wish For: Greater IP Enforcement ...
    Supporters of stronger intellectual property laws in other countries ought to be careful what they ask for... they just might get it, and then discover they didn't really want it after all. For example, for many, many years, US companies have been screaming loudly about how the US should pressure C ...
  • The Black Art Of Getting A Bogus Patent Approved
    Joe Mullin has an excellent and detailed blog post about how Scott Harris -- no stranger to patent-related controversy -- got some bad news in his patent lawsuit against FedEx over its barcode scanning system, as the court's claim construction greatly limited the patent. The patent is no longer tec ...

VacTruth

  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/08/2010 My Story and the stigma of false accusations a after vaccine injury With an accusation of MSBP comes suspicion, stigma, prejudice and discrimination. I was wrongly accused of MSBP in late 1999 and my children were both put on the “at risk register” by ...
  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/07/2010 The justice system is fraught with difficulties for an accused person. The odds are always stacked up against them due to failures in legal aid [ as established by the case of Steel and Morris v UK that showed the unavailability of legal aid in defama ...
  • False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy, The Trut ...
    . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 04/06/2010 Vaccines, a differential viewpoint (Read Part: 1) For many years professionals have been linking adverse reactions to vaccines with autism, neurological disorders, sudden infant death and symptoms mimicking those of shaken baby syndrome, however, prof ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A little over a week ago, I sent an email to all those who asked to be put on the email list for the women-focused gathering.  I’ll be sending another one this week.  If you are supposed to be on that list and aren’t, let me know. The anti-sex crusaders can be so vicious.  HT to [...]
  • 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.

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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 صÙ�قات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوÙ�اك – Ù�براير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صÙ�قة 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

  • The UK General Election
    By Dark Politricks Our beloved dear leader has just set the ball rolling for the media frenzy that the next month leading up to the general election will surely become. I wonder whether we will have any memorable moments like election campaigns of recent years such as My Blair being harangued by Gra ...
  • As expected the neo-cons are already defending the ...
    By Dark Politricks I expect nothing less from those who see war in gold tinted lenses and who wish for nothing less than for the US military to conquer the whole of the Middle East either for the glory of the homeland, to help hasten the return of Jesus or to keep their Israeli controllers happy. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Our Oceans Are Un-Owned, Un-Explored, Un-Protected ...
    Photo by the Tahoe guy The Ted Oceans' Mission Blue conference in the Galapagos is under full swing, and there are some big concepts being discussed among the attendees and speakers. The mission of the conference is to try to further Sylvia Earl's TED wish of expanding our marine protected area ...
  • Best of Inhabitat: TV Stand Butcher Block, Empty S ...
    This week over at Inhabitat , we saw a barrage of awesome design projects that involved taking something old and crumbly and upcycling it into something even better than new. From a chapel in Utrecht turned crisp white modern residence , to an old dairy barn converted into a state of the art eco ...
  • Climate Change Causing Soay Sheep to Shrink. No It ...
    Photo via Sam W A little less than a year ago, we reported about the findings that global warming is causing the Soay sheep of Scotland to shrink and get lighter in color, all to adapt to higher temperatures. However, it turns out that chalking the changes up to global warming is causing quite ...
  • Crowd-Sourcing Solutions to Plastic-Filled Oceans
    Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans , and this year got her Mission Blue pro... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Century Gothic Saves More Ink Than Ecofont
    Two years ago Jaymi wrote about ecofont, the typeface that Takes The Swiss Cheese Approach to Saving Printer Ink. It worked, but it didn't exactly set the type design world's hearts aflutter, being a little rounder and nicer looking than arial (anything is nicer than arial) but not exciting t ...

Biosingularity

  • To starve a tumor
    Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the “Warburg effect” after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto Warburg. However, the field of cancer-cell metabolism has been largely ignored since the 1970s, when researche ...
  • Smart Pill Reports Back
    The medicine cabinet of the future could help make sure patients take their medications on time via a myriad of smart technologies. There are already pill bottles that wirelessly report to a computer when a cap has been opened, and devices for automatically dispensing medicine at the right time, and ...
  • New Drug Cures Hard-to-Treat Hepatitis C
    Patients who fail current hepatitis C virus HCV treatments have few other options except trying the same drugs again, but an experimental antiviral drug is poised to change that.When the drug telaprevir was added to standard treatment with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin, which are also antivirals, ...
  • Lesser-known C-diff a bigger hospital threat than ...
    Theres good and bad news on the “superbug” front. In community hospitals in the Southeast, an easily spread bacterium appears to have overtaken the widely feared MRSA as the most common hospital-acquired infection. But a pilot project in Ohio found that pushing hard on simple things such as hand was ...
  • Light Switches for Neurons
    Just five years ago, scientists at Stanford University discovered that neurons injected with a photo-sensitive gene from algae could be turned on or off with the flip of a light switch. This discovery has since turned hundreds of labs onto the young field of optogenetics. Today researchers around th ...

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Pruning Shears

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

  • Will Whole Foods Move Back to its Organic Roots?
    In a campaign called "Let's Retake Our Plates!", Whole Foods rails against the way food scientists have created fake food and turned generations of innocent Americans into "walking food science experiments." The campaign is clearly a response to criticism the chain has taken for become what cri ...
  • A Tax to Combat America's Sugary Diet
    A number of scientific studies have found that the amount of sugar Americans consume is a major factor in how big they have become. In the last half-century, consumption of sugars by the average American has increased by more than 24 pounds a year. The studies indicate that the main dietary culpri ...
  • Die-Off of Honeybees Stings Industry
    The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A quick federal survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a new study shows honeybees' pollen and hives laden with pesticides. Federal agencies are still scrambling to figure out what is behind this threat, orde ...
  • Omega-3 Slashes Your Risk of Heart Failure
    Increased intakes of omega-3 fats may reduce a woman’s risk of heart failure by about 25 percent, according to new findings. The heart health benefits of omega-3 fats are well-documented. They have been linked to improvements in blood lipid levels, a reduced tendency of thrombosis, blood pressure ...
  • 5 Ways to Become an Optimist
    Reframe "disasters." In tough economic times, many people are worried that they will lose their jobs.  While you shouldn't deny that your current position might not last forever, there will probably be other professional opportunities that, after a period of adjustment, could potentially be as chall ...

Antemedius

  • Seeing: American Exceptionalism
    [R]eality, or the world we all know, is only a description that has been pounded into you from the moment you were born. The reality of our day-to-day life, then, consists of an endless flow of perceptual interpretations which we have learned to make in common. I am teaching you how to see as oppos ...
  • Friday at 8PM EDT on Blog Talk Radio
    After calling in to Diane G's Blog Talk Radio program last Friday evening, which dealt with 9/11 conspiracy hypotheses, I decided to revive my own show for a special continuing discussion on the subject since I wasn't able to fully discuss my own interpretation of that day's events. The show will l ...
  • WaPo Wants Immunity for War Crimes
    By David Swanson When my friend Jodie Evans recently tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove, he declared the Downing Street Minutes to be "a complete fabrication." Of course, this "complete fabrication" was actually the minutes of an official meeting held by then British Prime Minister Tony ...
  • Ann Coulter Confronted by Canadians for Racist Com ...
    Calgary gave American right-wing commentator Ann Coulter a mostly warm welcome last week with a scattering of protesters outnumbered by the nearly 1,000 people who paid to hear her speak. Coulter would be expected to draw fewer protesters in Calgary because that is basically Conservative Party count ...
  • Obama Administration Authorizes CIA to Kill US Cit ...
    The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a US citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States l ...

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

  • Links of wrath
    Three thousand safety violations, $2.2 million in fines. Can we arrest the owner yet? Or did paying a million bucks to teabaggers immunize him? The NYTimes acknowledges that Don L. Blankenship is “pugnacious,” which I believe still translates from the original AP Stylebook as “asshole.” More on mine ...
  • At half mast
    Coal mine fatalities hit an all-time low last year, just 18 miners perishing in this country. 2010’s not off to such a good start following yesterday’s explosion at the Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine south of Charleston. So far 25 miners are known to be dead, or over ten percent of the mine’s ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 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 an ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Cancer patients on the rise in Gaza
    Cancer patients on the rise in Gaza :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : April 6, 2010 GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Yousef Ibrahim, the head of the environment quality authority, said on Tuesday that the number of cancer and kidney failure patients ...
  • The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: W ...
    The Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War: Will It Matter? By Richard Falk : Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of ‘a Jewish homeland' profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as th ...
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz-Stop Saying This Is a Nation ...
    Stop Saying This Is a Nation of Immigrants! � The Speed of Dreams : By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time activist, university professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles, she has written three historical memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, Ou ...
  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • Guanajuato’s Tunnels
    As we were wandering Guanajuato looking for a the San Gabriel de Barrera museum and gardens, I stuck my hand out the window of our van and shot these three videos of Guanajuato’s tunnels. Guanajuato is unique in the network of bewildering tunnels that crisscross it. The narrow streets of Guanajuato ...
  • Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende
    I spent a wonderful weekend in Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende. I took over 1,300 pictures, and several videos. All that has taken much of the energy for blogging about it, but I’ll let these few pictures speak for themselves. Related posts:So much to blog about!!! Miguel Torres: Doña Esper ...
  • Inside Costa Rica Features my Article
    After being disappointed by two articles in a row that presented Honduras in the unfavorable light the news wires shine on Honduras, I complained to the editor of Inside Costa Rica with a accusation of severe bias. He responded, and graciously invited me to write an article for them. I thank him, an ...
  • Chigüire Bipolar Hacked, Bad Week for Freedom
    This week has seen the demise of Google China, the arrest of Guillermo Zuolaga, the president of Globovisión, Venezuela’s last opposition channel, and the reelection of Jose Miguel Insulza as the leader of the OAS. In a much smaller and more personal level, my website was hacked. But that the Chigà ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News - 08/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Climate scientist Hansen wins $100,000 prize (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63636N20100407)-U.S. climate scientist James Hansen won a $100,000 environmental prize Wednesday for decades of ...
  • Environmental News - 06/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Why climate realists and skeptics talk past each other (http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-02-why-climate-realists-and-skeptics-talk-past-each-other/)-Truth be told, I’m more interested in peopl ...
  • Meet the Dinosaur of Wildlife Victoria – Annie Fra ...
    Here’s a woman who truly ‘walks the talk’ when it comes to protecting and defending those who can’t defend themselves.
  • Environmental News - 01/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Coal fuels much of internet 'cloud', says Greenpeace (http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/coal-fuels-much-of-internet-cloud-says-greenpeace-20100331-rc7v.html)-The 'cloud' of data ...
  • Invest in Green!
    Can you earn money while caring for the Earth? We take a look at the fast growing area of Green Franchises…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel launches ground incursion into Gaza Strip
    Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its troops entering the south of the long-blockaded coastal sliver. Israeli tanks and bulldozers advanced about 500 meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday, Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported.
  • Ahmadinejad: US bogged down, doomed to fail in reg ...
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the United States is doomed to crumple as it is mired in a swamp in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The US is so bogged down in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan that it is doomed to be defeated whether it stays or escapes," Ahmadinejad said Wednesday night ...
  • Two more NATO soldiers fall in Afghanistan
    Another foreign soldier has been killed in Southern Afghanistan, bringing to 147 the number of US-led forces killed in the country this year. "An ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) service member died following an insurgent engagement in southern Afghanistan today," ISAF said.
  • Video purportedly shows U.S. soldier captured in A ...
    A video purportedly showing a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan last June was posted Wednesday on a radical Web site. Pfc. Bowe Robert Bergdahl, 23, disappeared from his combat outpost in southeastern Paktika province sometime after he finished his guard duty shift on the night of June 29.
  • US Treasury beefing up staff in Afghanistan
    The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more staff to Afghanistan to 'target' the financial networks that provide money for the Taliban, a Treasury official said Wednesday. The boost in personnel there, along with additional staff dedicated to that effort here in Washington, will coincide with ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Wife and Nine Children of Bil’in Political P ...
    Adeeb Abu Rahma, a taxi driver from the West Bank Village of  Bil’in, is known for his  firm committment to nonviolence during the weekly demonstrations against the Wall. At the July 10, 2009 demonstration, he was grabbed by Israeli soldiers  as he walked away from them, his message of resist ...
  • Swedish Palestinians Barred Entry for Promoting Co ...
    A Jewish-Palestinian joint dialogue group arrived from Sweden’s Olof Palme Centre for a visit to Israel. You might think they would have no problems gaining entrance into Israel. You would be wrong. Here’s the Ha’aretz editorial on the subject. Last week Israel deported three Swedish women from Ben ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • 29 ballot propositions could be on California ball ...
    Ballotopedia. Seven have already qualified, five for June 8, two for Nov 2. The legislature is considering nine. Forty four are in the process of getting signatures, twelve of those are active. Six are pending or pre-qualified. The deadline for qualifying for June 2 has past, thus any ballot qualify ...
  • Just how long has priestly abuse been going on?
    Many decades, according to Andrew Sullivan readers.
  • Squidbillies
    “An improvised and dysfunctional family of anthropomorphic, air-breathing, redneck squids who live in a rural Appalachian community in the US state of Georgia,” IMDB says. This is the intro video for the show. Adult Swim has all the videos. They make South Park look sane. Heh.
  • Solar aircraft makes maiden flight
    The Solar Impulse made its first flight today and all went well. It’s solar-powered and one day they plan to fly it around the planet in five days using only solar power. TED has more.
  • Colorado town legalizes marijuana
    Voters in Nederland Colorado just approved an initiative legalizing marijuana. This isn’t just for personal use or possession up to a specific amount. Rather marijuana is now completely legal there. This includes growing and transport. In addition to being an intelligent move on many levels, not the ...

Coteret

  • White House sources to Yediot: Answers by Monday o ...
    Obama to meet leaders attending nuclear conference next week Netanyahu is not on Obama’s schedule Sources in US administration: Netanyahu can meet Obama only if he gives positive answers to his demands Orly Azulai, Yediot, April 7 2010 [page 11; scan of Hebrew original here] During the nuclear conf ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • Deadline Live – April 7 2010
    Wednesday – Special Guest Hosts Meria Heller and Richard Grove discuss use of language against us and how to decipher their use of words by thinking critically. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window [...]
  • This Day In History – April 8
    1513 – Explorer Juan Ponce de León declares Florida a territory of Spain. 1895 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The ...
  • Breaking “False Flag” News – Den ...
    Man allegedly tries to set fire to his shoes when challenged about taking too long in the toilet…. it cant get any more blatent ppl, wake up, this is BS!!!! This guy was probably having a cigarette at the very most, but no doubt the mediopoly will spin it as more TERROR!!! Book Mark it-> del.icio. ...
  • CNN Touts Civilian Service Corps As Way Of Sheddin ...
    CNN has some advice for any former students now saddled with excess debt carry out a decade of social work or join the ranks of the governments civilian service corps. CNN business news correspondent Stephanie Elam put on the hard sell for government service to viewers of Newsroom. This is really ab ...
  • Campus Cop Shoots Black Teacher in the Head with M ...
    Campus Cop Shoots Black Teacher in the Head with M4 Assault Rifle Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | [...]

The Air Vent

  • Greenpeace got it right
    Well we won another small battle. Thanks to everyone who paid attention to our last post here on greenpeace.  They have taken down their post and retracted their demands for an army of lawbreakers to target homes of skeptics and those who fight the good war against authoritarian politics.  I’m cer ...
  • Legislting Physics
    To start out, I’ll admit that I don’t have all the facts on the mileage standards and haven’t even had time to read the law.  That said, I do have experience with internal combustion engines having taught labs, studied and even published on them, and I do have an opinion of the assignment of fuel [ ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • An Engagement Ring is a Deposit on a Wife
    Via Gawker we learn that a New York judge reaffirmed a guy's right to demand the ring back if the engagement breaks off for any reason. In the case before the court, a Long Island woman maintained that she should be allowed to keep the $19,000 ring because her former fiance cheated on her: On M ...
  • FBI Astroturfs the Astroturfers to Nab Nut Who Thr ...
    An FBI Special Agent impersonated a representative of a real, legal anti health care reform group in order to positively identify a Washington man who allegedly left a series of anonymous death threats on the office voicemail of Sen. Patti Murray (D-Wash). The agent called up Charles Alan Wilson cla ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Chinese Gaming Companies May Be Looking at Acquiri ...
    It’s not just US game and media companies who are looking around at buying big social game developers. Chinese media and gaming leaders Tencent and Shanda Games are, too, according to rumors going around some technology circles in Asia. Although neither company has showed much interest in Facebook ...
  • Mobile Dominates This Week’s List of Fast Growing ...
    We’re seeing stronger than usual growth for mobile apps that connect smartphones to Facebook this week, with the three big names gathering about a million new daily active users on this week’s AppData list of quickly growing Facebook apps. Facebook for iPhone, Facebook for BlackBerry and Mobile ...
  • Will Facebook Start Investing More in Its Own Apps ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article is from Inside Facebook Gold, our new data and analysis membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth. In addition to monthly data updates, Inside Facebook Gold presents weekly in-depth analysis articles exploring the most critical developments impa ...
  • Announcing Inside Facebook Gold – Our New Data & A ...
    When I first started InsideFacebook.com in 2006, Facebook was already a staple of college life and a sign of the future of the social web. Since then, it has grown to become a very widely adopted communications and identity service, a powerful advertising and entertainment platform, and a househ ...
  • JD Supra Finds a Facebook Audience for Legal Artic ...
    Facebook is the last place you’d expect to find dry, technical legalese-ridden explanations about the intricacies of different areas of law — yet, legal document content distribution service JD Supra has created about 20 Facebook Pages that do just that, and it has thousands of fans, to boot. These ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel and the question of legitimacy
    As the world wakes up to the reality of the colonial implant in the Middle East known as Israel, the hitherto unthinkable question of that implant’s legitimacy is on more people’s lips than ever before. Thanks to the internet, which is allowing a growing number of ordinary people to learn the trut ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
    A Book on ‘Arming America’s Enemies’ Written by America’s Enemies?! David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), has a new book out (which I haven’t read) about AQ Khan and the nuclear black market called Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Tra ...
  • 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, ...

Afro Spear

  • “Godless Goddess Erykah Badu” by Eddie ...
    I found this post by Eddie Griffin a very thought-provoking take on the Erykah Badu nude music video controversy. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BROTHERS IN DALLAS She left nothing to the imagination, but much to be desired. She is neither cute, nor as fine as she thinks herself to be. Ms. Erykah Badu is vai ...
  • 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 ...

Expose the BNP

  • Collett arrested on suspicion of threatening to ki ...
    LAST week BNP youth leader Mark Collett was suspended from the party for allegedly threatening to kill Nick Griffin. Collett (29) was detained by police following claims by the BNP that he was involved in a plot to harm both Griffin and party financer James Dowson. However, sources close to the BNP ...
  • On the ground in Dudley
    Entering the town of Dudley on Saturday was like entering a ghost town, an almost militarised ghost town. More than half the roads in the town centre were closed, with police manning the roadblocks. As we made our way to where the English Defence League rally was due to be held we walked past rows [ ...
  • 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 ...

Sen4Earth

  • Drill Us to Hell? Say What YOU Demand!
    Drill Oil, USA & World to Hell? Tell Us, Them What YOU want!   The USA and world will soon be out of oil regardless. Tell us what YOU demand, we’ll tell THEM for you. The consequences of “too little too late”. Tools and links for more info and ACTION.   The Energy and Climate Bill being debated in ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Jan Lundberg Attacks Sierra Club’s Support f ...
    Our good friends The Sierra Club are at it again – this time with regards to motor transport. The Sierra Club believe you can have “clean cars” as demonstrated by this press release, emanating from the new radical Executive Director, Michael Brune (didn’t take long for him to become a member of the ...
  • Greenwash of the Week: Chevron’s Solar Proje ...
    Yes, I’m being lazy: we’re packing to move house so The Unsuitablog will be a bit sporadic for a while. Thank goodness there’s so much greenwash to choose from out there. (That was a joke)
  • The Chagos Archipelago – Where “Conservation ...
    No need for comment, straight repost with thanks to Fred. How do you greenwash a large airforce base? A base that is responsible for bombing nearby countries, and which was built on an island you confiscated from residents who are now living in exile on the other side of the world? Easy. You announ ...
  • RecycleBank Is Worse Than Doing Nothing
    We’re moving house soon, which means discovering untold secrets in the rarely visited corners of our current place of abode. After 16 years in the same place, much of that with an attitude that could possibly be described as “hoarder”, it’s no surprise that our domestic recycling bin is being kept ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for Oil and Gas - Polarizing the North Po ...
    Throughout human history, the Arctic has had little trouble retaining its reputation for austere beauty. However as the irreversible effects of global climate change continue to negatively impact ecosystems worldwide, the once ice blanketed region is rapidly melting away. This climatic shift has cau ...
  • Michael Marrus Misses Thomas J. Watson Conviction
    The great Canadian professor Michael Marrus claimed that Thomas J. Watson, president of IBM, was no "corporate scoundrel" (see Michael Marrus Falters in Some Measure of Justice , Arts, March 1, 2010), but rather just a "maverick." Here is what I did. I checked Google Books and after one minute found ...
  • Trolley Lines Should be Encouraged Not Dismissed
    I am another who believes The Washington Times has written a dismissive editorial (entitled “Obama’s Trolley Folly”) that frames streetcars and public transportation as a left versus right issue. Nothing should be further from the truth. Support for public transportation, especially streetcars, shou ...
  • Coverage of Africa Top Notch
    As a man who spent some time a few years back associated with the European diplomatic corps and residing in Africa, I find news coverage of both the tragedies and the majesties of every day life in Africa is simply absent from newspapers and networks in the United States. For this reason, I am happy ...
  • Fighting Obesity - School Lunches May Make for Obe ...
    Findings by University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center show need for initiatives such as Project Healthy Schools, which teaches sixth-graders heart-healthy lifestyles. Children who eat school lunches more likely to be overweight� Middle school children who regularly eat school lunches are more lik ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Obama targets US citizen for 'kill or capture'
    The Obama Administration has authorised the targeted killing of an American citizen in what is believed to be an unprecedented move in the War against Terror.
  • 100 million Americans question or find fault with ...
    In the recent Angus Reid Public Opinion survey of a representative national sample of American adults, 62 per cent of respondents disagree with the view that the “Sept. 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pretext for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion against Afg ...
  • More Surveillance: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and ...
    Senator Joe Lieberman, in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press , says that he is worried about the threat of domestic terrorism on public transportation systems:
  • European Parliament Questioned on Chemtrails
    Subject: aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water but cause persistent milky veils, possibly due to the presence of barium, aluminium and iron
  • Is the U.S. on its way toward a Debt Disaster?

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Buchanan on Russia Today: Iran sanctions pave way ...
    Summary: Facing a staggering deficit, increasingly unpopular overseas engagements and no clear resolution over the nuclear fallout with Iran, some Americans are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Obama administration. Pat Buchanan, the Washington political commentator and former Presi ...
  • Is Iran Now a Nuclear Target for the United States ...
    Summary: Tomorrow—Tuesday, April 6, 2010—the Obama Administration will proclaim, as a matter of declaratory policy, that the United States claims the prerogative to use nuclear weapons against the Islamic Republic of Iran, even as Iran remains a non-nuclear-weapons state. The Administration w ...
  • What War With Iran Means
    Summary: "Teheran has not started a war in memory and is not going to launch a suicide attack on a superpower with thousands of nuclear weapons. As with Iraq in 2003, the war will be launched by the United States against a nation that did not attack us — to strip it of weapons it does not have ...
  • Iran says still ready to negotiate nuclear swap
    Summary: Iran is still ready to negotiate a solution to its nuclear stand-off with the West, but only on the condition that foreign powers agree to a fuel swap on Iranian territory, the foreign ministry said on Monday. source: Reuters read more
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Unearthing Ice Age Trees To Predict Future Climate ...
    "While it will be fascinating to find out more about the earth 30,000 years ago perhaps more importantly we will have a better appreciation of the challenges of future climate change." Chris Turney of the University of Exeter A team...
  • Will Saturn's Moon Enceladus Prove a "Second Gene ...
    On the small, icy moon Enceladus, “the mother lode of all discoveries was discovered at the South Pole,” said Carolyn Porco in a talk at Harvard University. Porco is director of flight operations and imaging team leader for the Cassini...
  • New Species Living Without Oxygen Point to Future ...
    A newly identified species, a loriciferan identified as a species of the genus Spinoloricus has been discovered by Roberto Danovaro at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy. Electron microscopy revealed the three new species of loriciferans, resembling jellyfish...
  • Plants Live and Die According To A Precise Scale ( ...
    In a striking revelation, scientists have discovered that all plants live and die by a precise and simple rule. Scientists have found for the first time that plants can self-regulate their populations to maintain stability and optimize their lives, and...
  • Image of the Day: The Violent Beauty of the Flame ...
    The brilliant Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024, is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a star-forming region that includes the famous Horsehead Nebula in the Constellation Orion (below), about 900 to 1,500 light-years away from Earth. The bright...

Natural News

  • Seasonal flu vaccines increase risk of pandemic H1 ...
    (NaturalNews) I remember the H1N1 "swine flu" season of 2009 very well. People were rushing out to get vaccinated, scared half to death by the mainstream media which was pushing false reports that the swine flu would kill tens of millions of people and that only a vaccine could save you. The CDC and ...
  • Transplanted organs impart memories onto recipient ...
    (NaturalNews) Becoming an organ donor is a great way to help out a person in the event of one's death. A study has shown, however, that sometimes donor recipients take on certain characteristics or personality traits from the donor, a phenomenon that researchers are having a difficult time explainin ...
  • New hope for MS patients from UV light from the su ...
    (NaturalNews) It's not a new idea that multiple sclerosis (MS) is somehow tied to sunlight -- or, rather, the lack of adequate exposure to sunlight. For more than three decades, researchers have noted that MS is much more common in higher latitudes than in the tropics. So, because bright sunlight is ...
  • Heal yourself in 15 days with the joy of exercisin ...
    (NaturalNews) In our 15-day self-healing series, we've so far covered everything from juicing and fasting to how to stop making disease. But we haven't yet covered one of the elements most commonly associated with self-healing: Exercise! But don't groan: This isn't going to be some boring rehash of ...
  • New study: Breast cancer deaths lower in areas wit ...
    (NaturalNews) A 2005 study concluded that a push in Denmark to screen large numbers of women for breast cancer with mammography had reduced breast cancer deaths in Copenhagen by a whopping 25 percent. Sounds like proof that regular mammograms are truly life-savers, right? Wrong. Scientists from the ...

Threat Level

  • It’s Cyberwar! Let’s Play Bingo!
    While it’s clear from the cyberwar news that we are living in a war zone when we turn on our computers, we at Wired.com refuse to surrender — even at the risk of taking an e-bullet in the name of Freedom. So strap on your iFlak jackets and use this Wired.com CyberWar bingo card the next [...]
  • Artists’ Lawsuit Demands Piece of Google Books Pie
    Google’s legal battle to create a digital library of the world’s books hit another snag Wednesday when photographers and illustrators filed suit claiming the Mountain View, California, search giant was unlawfully scanning and posting their works online without permission or payment. The suit brought ...
  • Romania Swoops In on 70 Cybertheft Suspects
    Romanian police arrested 70 suspects Tuesday who they claim were involved in eBay scams and other cybercrimes since 2006. Believed to be members of three separate gangs, the scammers used phishing attacks to get the login credentials of eBay account holders, then used the accounts to auction nonexi ...
  • Second Man Sentenced in Trojan Horse Bank Scam
    A New York man was sentenced to three years imprisonment in connection to bank fraud charges for his role in a scheme that compromised online banking and brokerage accounts, the authorities said Wednesday. The sentencing of Aleksey Volynskiy marks the second defendant sentenced in the fraud that net ...
  • Spy Network Pilfered Classified Docs From Indian G ...
    A spy network targeting government networks in India and other countries has been pilfering highly classified and other sensitive documents related to missile systems, the movement of military forces and relations among countries, according to a report released Tuesday. It also grabbed nearly a year ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Republican Confederacy of Dunces
    A modest proposal: no one displaying the Confederate flag gets to lecture any American about patriotism - ever . Ditto for anyone trafficking in Confederate nostalgia as a political strategy. Of course, that new red, white and blue rule would pose a problem for today's Republican Party. After all ...
  • Introducing McCain 5.0
    Arizona Senator and self-proclaimed maverick John McCain raised eyebrows this week with declaration in Newsweek that, "I never considered myself a maverick." But as it turns out, this new role for the failed 2008 GOP presidential candidate isn't his second incarnation, but his fifth. In a thirty y ...
  • 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. ...

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

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

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Not Our Friends
    Barack Obama apparently continues to believe there is a "silent majority" of Americans who really, really, want him to steer a "middle" course (which is really far-right-wingnut compared to 30 years ago, and seems "centrist" only compared to the World According to Beck) on policy and nominations. It ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    BREAKING: We'll know by morning what happened on United flight 663 Wednesday night - either tragedy was once more averted, or someone overreacted. There's never any middle ground on these things. "A United Airlines flight from Washington landed safely in Denver on Wednesday night and a passenger was ...
  • Worse Than Waterboarding
    I can make a strong national-security case for beating the shit out of Ben Chandler, too - that doesn't make it right. And this ... this is the result of allowing a sociopath to spend eight years shitting on the constitution and replacing American moral leadership with the values of Pol Pot. �That i ...
  • Celebrating Treason and Traitors
    As usual, after everybody and his Yankee grandmother has had his say, the Rude Pundit nails it in short strokes: But, hey, go ahead, Virginia, and celebrate your slave-owning exploiters of the poor, white, racist yeoman farmers who made up the bulk of the Confederate Army. Celebrate how the wealthy ...
  • What Makes You Mad
    Down with Tyranny brings us a nice reality checklist: Is your brother-in-law a teabagger? He might be interested in discussing this. It was originally posted on Rosie O'Donnell's blog as a response to all the anti-Obama email she gets. You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recoun ...

Care 2

  • Taxpayers, Ahoy! Extraordinary Tax Deductions?
    Sometimes, despite objections from the IRS, taxpayers get to write off the darndest things. Here are our favorites. Submitted by Rooibos Bird to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Geologist Connects Regular Changes of Earth's Orbi ...
    In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth's orbital cycle to changes in Earth's climate. Submitted by Maria Villalta Quiros to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 50 Awesome Ways to Reuse All Your Old Beer Bottles
    Why not take it a step further and find something useful to do with your empties? Here we take a look at 50 ways to reuse your beer bottles. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 70 Essential Personal Development Blogs for Colleg ...
    These blogs offer some helpful guidance for life as a college student and beyond that can guide your decisions and give you a leg up on emerging from school well-rounded and in control of your life. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Sealions, Why?
    The next time anyone encounters a dead animal, whether it be on the shores or fields with a bullet in its body, they should bow their heads in reverence to the life that was sacrificed, and make a pledge to stand up and say--the killing has got to stop. Submitted by marjolein soederhuizen to Animals ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Japan “opens up” to freelancers
    Yukio Hatoyama at a news conference
  • 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.

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  • selective memory continues on the left
    Continuing the theme of the utter hypocrisy on the Left, check out these stories: 1. Chris Tingles Matthews and “regime” “I’ve never seen language like this in the American press,â€� Matthews said, before calling Limbaugh a “walrus underwater*.â€� “We know that word regime, it was used by ...
  • my name is maxine waters, and i am a friggin hypoc ...
    A hypocrite and a liar. H/T Breitbart via Memeorandum Maxine Water’s original interview here. ‘Riot Is the Voice of the Unheard‘ ” “I’m not asking people not to be angry. . . . I have a right to be angry.” “The tea-party protesters are angry, and as Maxine Waters said in 1992, it’s OK to be angry. ...
  • “Racist” Jumps the Shark
    The issue of race in politics may have jumped the shark. Or at least is moving rapidly in that direction. Three articles caught my eye. In Commentary, Michael C. Moynihan revisits Frank Rich’s “tea-partiers-as-racist-scum” theme. But today, Moynihan notes the purity of anti-racists isn’t assure ...
  • Fear Itself Folo
    Some readers of this blog took exception to my post titled “Fear Itself,” which was published on April 6. I’d like to address the objections. Protest is the American way. The health care bill, a massive piece of legislation, had many elements which some could find objectionable. Mandates are worr ...
  • ed shultz on violence: “it’s not happening on both ...
    Oh this is rich! SCHULTZ: Tell me a Democrat who’s thrown a brick through a window, who has also recently threatened families and also left messages about how you’re gonna die. Tell me who those people are on the left right now? See newsbusters for the entire transcript. OK, Ed, here are some examp ...

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    Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...
  • Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
    Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...
  • War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
    Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
  • 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 ...

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    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 widely:  Explaining the need for monet ...
  • We Need An Educational Revolution!
    Why do we need an educational revolution in the United States? Many students receive the necessary tools to overcome struggles in public education by the support of parents, teachers and interventions. There are a great number of students who do not receive additional support for whatever reason. Th ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fox “news” continues CBS, ABC, CNN propaganda to a ...
    view videos and engage in comments at source. In the video clip from Fox below, Bill Kristol advocates US military attack on Iran because he predicts that Israel will attack Iran. This is propaganda for an unlawful war for the following “emperor has no clothesâ€� obvious reasons. Fox “reporting” i ...
  • 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 ...

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  • The American Recovery, Lots of Puff But No Substan ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. The American Recovery, Lots of Puff But No Substance � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina April 5, 2010, 2010 Ok, ok, if one reads the U.S. post and watches Wall Street, ...
  • 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 ...

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    CIA investigator sentenced. President Ford authorized warrantless wiretaps, memo shows. Yemeni court upholds alleged spies’ sentences.
  • Essential links on WikiLeaks video of Iraq shootin ...
    Whistleblower site WikiLeaks has released a leaked video taken from a US military helicopter in July 2007, showing US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians, killing 12 people and wounding two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency.
  • Analysis: Can the CIA sabotage the Iranian nuclear ...
    There is no doubt that the CIA has been actively trying to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons program since at least February of 2008, when US President George W. Bush authorized Langley to intensify its covert efforts against Tehran. But how effective has it been?
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    Intelligence not hampered by waterboarding ban, says CIA's top spy. CIA given details of British Muslim students. CIA death at Salt Pit gets fresh attention.
  • 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.

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  • Towns invest in smarter streets ... in Mississippi
    by Jonathan Hiskes Two Mississippi towns want better options than auto-only streets, and now they’ve made it official. The towns of Tupelo (pop. 36,223) and Hernando (pop. 6,812) each passed Complete Streets legislation that ensures roads will be built and maintained for walkers, cyclists, and ...
  • St. Louis votes for better transit, despite Tea Pa ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Here’s some good news: St. Louis citizens want robust mass transit, and they’re willing to pay for it. Despite a Tea Party opposition campaign, St. Louis County voters on Tuesday approved a half-cent sales tax increase to stabilize and eventually expand the region’s ailing tr ...
  • This week in comically evil corporate behavior
    by Jonathan Hiskes Updated It’s only Wednesday and we've already got way more than a week's worth of comically evil behavior from the fossil-fuel sector. Item the first : A Chinese coal freighter tried to take a shortcut through Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and rammed into the ...
  • WHO mobilizes 1,000 cities in urban health drive
    by Agence France-Presse Urbanization in the third world: Haitian slum outside of Port-au-PrinceGENEVA  - The U.N. health agency on Wednesday launched a global "1,000 cities, 1,000 lives" drive to combat a triple threat to health in fast-growing urban areas, now home to more than half of the wor ...
  • America’s most bike-friendly cities and big ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Bicycling Magazine released its annual list of America’s most bike-friendly cities today, and Grist’s hometown Seattle comes in at No. 4. Great, right? Well, sort of: The mag bases its praise on the city’s 10-year, $240-million bike master plan , which is intended to triple ...

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  • Dozens More Massey Mines Cited as Unsafe
    Safety violations are "a normal part of the mining process," says Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
  • Union Members Protest ICE Abuses
    Starting tomorrow, members of Services Employees International Union are protesting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a two-day prayer vigil outside local ICE offices around the country, including those in Los Angeles, Boston and Minneapolis. This vigil comes after reports of mismana ...
  • The National Security Case Against Killing Anwar a ...
    For a moment, leave aside the legal questions about the Obama administration’s apparent decision that it possesses the legal authority to order the extra-judicial killing of American citizen and possible al-Qaeda affiliate Anwar al-Awlaki. Karen Greenberg, director of New York University’s Center on ...
  • Introducing Our New Economy Reporter, Annie Lowrey ...
    I’m thrilled and proud to introduce the newest member of the TWI team, Annie Lowrey. Annie is wrapping up her illustrious stint as an assistant editor at Foreign Policy; previously, she worked in the Washington bureau of The New Yorker. With the health care debate now (more or less) behind us, lawma ...
  • Are Anwar al-Awlaki’s Ties to 9/11 Strong En ...
    In an interview with Adam Serwer of The American Prospect, Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress says that the September 14, 2001 congressional Authorization to Use Military Force in response to 9/11 provides the Obama administration with the legal authority to launch the extra-judicial killi ...

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

  • Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud
    So here goes. Beginning with this post, I intend to expose Glenn Beck as a fraud. A dangerous faker who deliberately manipulates his audience by appealing to their basest instincts. As a man who only embraces conservatism and the tea party movement as a means to furthering his significant person ...
  • Porn star to run as Republican for David Vitters s ...
    Caribou Barbie might be carrying things a little too far with her motorcycle jacket, but, by the same token, so is Stormy Daniels who claims that she is running against David Vitter for his senate seat. While it is rumored that Sarah owns a Harley, it turns out that it was a brand new pink [...]
  • How Glenn Beck Helps Violent Right-Wing Militias
    How Glenn Beck Helps Violent Right-Wing Militias Media Matters for America / By Eric Boehlert April 7, 2010 | Glenn Beck has done more than any other person to amplify and mainstream the movement’s hateful and foreboding anti-government message. Reading last week’s disturbing news accounts ...
  • Rachel Maddow: John McCain’s Abandonment Of “Maver ...
    Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on John McCain’s Abandonment of “Maverick” Brand Firedoglake- By: Blue Texan Tuesday April 6, 2010 4:50 am And it’s not just that he’s used that sham of a nickname for years. He just did last week. At a campaign really for McCain on March 26th, Palin asked A ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • IRS Launches New Global Program to Target ‘High We ...
    By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new global program to target what it calls “high wealth individuals,” IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said Monday. “Through our new global high wealth operating unit we are taking a unified look at the entire web of bu ...
  • Review of FBAR Regulations
    March 2010 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2010-23 and Announcement 2010-16 (collectively, the “IRS Guidance”) regarding Form TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank And Financial Accounts (the FBAR) on February 26, 2010. Notice 2010-23 provides administrative relief to taxpayers who ...
  • Court of Appeals Says Forget Net Neutrality
    By Mike Zapler and Mike Swift Intervening in a high-stakes battle over regulation of Web traffic, a U.S. appeals court issued a ruling Tuesday that sharply undermines the federal government’s ability to enforce its vision of a free Internet. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ru ...
  • A Solari Report - Census Fines
    Introduction In our previous blog article about the census A Solari Report— The 2010 Census, we indicated that under 13 U.S. Code § 221, failure to respond to the decennial census was punishable by a fine of up to $100. So it was a shock when we were told that a subscriber who listened to Fox [...]
  • Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act
    The full Act Foreign Financial Institution Provisions of the HIRE ACT Related reading: Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act at Wikipedia Summaries of the Hiring Act: Pillsbury Summary Sidley Austin Summary King & Spalding Client Alert KPMG Flash International Executive Alert 2010-066 (March ...

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

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  • Star's 'dark companion' revealed
    Astronomers in the US have been given a glimpse of a "mysterious dark companion" in a distant solar system that has baffled fellow stargazers for nearly 200 years. The vibrancy of Epsilon Aurigae, the fifth brightest star in the northern constellation Auriga, is dimmer than it should be given its ma ...
  • Climate change campaign smashes targets
    An online campaign to push climate change up the general election agenda smashed its initial targets within 12 hours of being launched yesterday and continues to gather momentum. The campaign, entitled What are the candidates promising on climate change?, is run by Friends of the Earth (FoE) and enc ...
  • Jay-Z? 99 problems for Scrabble purists
    As Scrabble players, you would have been there. There’s a triple letter square on a double word line and you’re staring at Qantas. But players are in luck, as manufacturer Mattel announces changes which have caused a stir amid purists. By allowing proper nouns, Scrabble is moving goalposts which hav ...
  • Stay-at-home father numbers on the rise
    The number of fathers opting to become the primary carer in their home has risen ten-fold in the past decade. According to a recent survey, there are now 600,000 stay-at-home fathers taking on the role of primary carer in the UK, with financial pressure cited as the main reason. The findings are in ...
  • Giant lizard discovered in Philippines
    Scientists have discovered a new giant species of monitor lizard in the Philippines. The two-metre-long, brightly-coloured Varanus bitatawa, thought to eat fruit, was found in a forest on the heavily populated Luzon Island. Researchers documenting the discovery in the Royal Society Biology Letters j ...

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for April 8, interesting articles abou ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. A valuable insight about economics:  “In Condemnation of One-Equation Economics“, Brad DeLong (Prof Economics, Berekeley), 23 January 2007 Good news:  ...
  • It’s Confederate History Month in Virginia!
    (1)  Proclamation by Bob McDonnell, Governor of Virginia (R), that April is Confederate History Month — Red emphasis added, drawing attention to a nice touch by the Governor at the end of this. WHEREAS, April is the month in which the people of Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in ...
  • FM newswire for April 7, interesting articles abou ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. “Natural Gas in North America: A Panacea to Replace. Imported Oil?“, J. David Hughes, Global Sustainability Research, 14 September 2009 “What the Frack? N ...
  • About the Wikileaks footage of possible war crimes
    Everybody who cares to see it has seen it.  I have four comments. Guns are not magic wands.  Our soldiers are not Shao Lin monks (either the real or TV versions). Anyone surprised by this knows little about war.  Esp war in foreign lands.  Esp counter-insurgencies. Anyone who supports the war a ...
  • Don’t read the media’s spin about Karz ...
    Relying on the US media to learn about the world results in cluelessness.  They wash the news until no color remains, nothing unsettling to our sensibilities.  Yet the truth is plainly visible, and easily available.  Here’s a small example.  While the American people remain ignorant of our relat ...

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  • What The Top U.S. Companies Pay In Taxes
    Forbes – As you work on your taxes this month, here’s something to raise your hackles: Some of the world’s biggest, most profitable corporations enjoy a far lower tax rate than you do–that is, if they pay taxes at all. The most egregious example is General Electric ( GE – news – people ). Last [...]
  • Can apricot kernels keep cancer at bay?
    The Age – PAUL Reid should be dead. Diagnosed with a rare, incurable lymphoma, he was given five years, seven tops, by his oncologist. But, having cheated death in the Ash Wednesday bushfires, he was not about to surrender his life without a fight. His weapon of choice? Apricot kernels. Thirty a day ...
  • Obama targets US citizen for ‘kill or capture’
    Times – The Obama Administration has authorised the targeted killing of an American citizen in what is believed to be an unprecedented move in the War against Terror. According to US media reports, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to last November’s attack on Fort Hood, ...
  • Humane Society finds abuse by U.S. egg producers
    Reuters – An undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States of major U.S. egg producers showed “rampant abuse” of hens, which the animal rights group said on Wednesday could prompt more consumers to embrace “cage-free” methods of production. Footage collected in February and M ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – US – FCC loses key ...
    Associated Press – A federal court threw the future of Internet regulations into doubt Tuesday with a far-reaching decision that went against the Federal Communications Commission and could even hamper the government’s plans to expand broadband access in the United States. Read Article

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  • Leaked video shows U.S. brutality in Iraq
    Leaked video shows U.S. brutality in Iraq (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A webpage, Wikileaks, has released a dramatic video showing the brutality of the U.S. military in Iraq. According to the webpage: “WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slay ...
  • The global slum grows
    The global slum grows (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The global slum has grown by 51 million in the past 10 years, according to a recent United Nations report. The number of inhabitants in the world’s slum grew to 828 million in 2010. Overwhelmingly, these slum dwellers reside in the Third Worl ...
  • Amerikkans eat the poor
    (shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Amerikkka, Communism, Idiot Amerikkkans, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, North America, Parasitism and the labor aristocracy
  • 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 ...
    Jednostavna pitanja prema brojevima.. većina u Sjedinjenim Državama: revolucionarna ili ne? autor: Prairie Fire (English) (Macedonian) (Tagalog) (Serbo-Croatian) (Czech) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Srednji (ne prosečni, nego onaj iznad kog su 50%) prihod po domaćinstvu u 2006 bio je 48.201 ...

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

  • Cree Modules to Speed Adoption of LED Lighting
    Cree, one of the world leaders in LED-for-lighting technology, is bringing a new product to market that could help rapidly increase the adoption of LED lighting. LEDs are complicated, the drivers to control them, the optics to focus them, even the bodies to house them have to be specially designed ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Republicans Doing What the GOP Does Best: Threats, ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Repuglicans doing what they do best -- threats and intimidation :This� Sunday's New York Times profiled several law school clinics �across the country that are involved in suits against powerful factory farms, lax government regulators, the oil and gas industry and l ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Michael Steele Faults His Race for Low Approval Ra ...
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION Recently appearing on� Good Morning America , GOP leader Michael Steele had a number of issues to address, not the least of which involved trying to explain the expenses paid out by the RNC for a trip to a bondage-themed topless nightclub. During the interview, a viewer asked if ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Olbermann on Obama's assassination program
    There are many legitimate criticisms voiced about Keith Olbermann, but he deserves substantial credit for his coverage last night of a story that is as self-evidently significant as it under-covered:�� Barack Obama's assassination program aimed at American citizens .� He not only led off his show wi ...
  • Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. ...
    (updated below - Update II) In late January, I wrote about the Obama administration's "presidential assassination program," whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they're ...
  • Follow-up points on the WikiLeaks video
    A few follow-up points to the discussion here over the last couple of days regarding the�Iraq/WikiLeaks video: (1) �The more I think about it, the more astounding I find it that there could even be a debate over the fact that incidents like the one depicted on this video are exceedingly common, a ...
  • N.Y. Times, Weekly Standard join in a falsehood
    I�just have to put this in a separate post from my two prior ones on the�WikiLeaks video because it reveals how blatant falsehoods become lodged in our political discourse.� In reporting today on the Iraq video, The New York Times'� Elisabeth Bumiller strongly implies that WikiLeaks failed to releas ...
  • Iraq slaughter not an aberration
    I was just on Democracy Now along with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange discussing the Iraq video they released yesterday , and there's one vital point I�want to emphasize.� Shining light on what our government and military do is so critical precisely because it forces people to see what is really being do ...

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Sciencebase

  • The Open Laboratory 2009
    The self-proclaimed “best in science writing on blogs” brings us once again a wide range of posts from the great and the good of the scientific blogosphere. The project was started with Bora Zivkovic (Blog Around the Clock) who recognised that science blogs were taking on a more and more relevant ro ...
  • Element 117
    Element 117 discovered, ancient climate, change, and intute’s green service. Elemental discoveries – element 117 – An international team of scientists from Russia and the United States, including two Department of Energy national laboratories and two universities, has discovered the newest superhea ...
  • 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; ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Court Limits FCC’s Ability To Stop Broadband Provi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2010 ACLU A federal appeals court today ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) cannot require broadband service providers to treat all lawful Internet content equally. The decision rendered the FCC unable to enforce “network neutrality,” the principle t ...
  • Federal Judge Approves ACLU Settlement Forcing Swe ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2010 ACLU A federal judge today gave final approval to a settlement agreement that paves the way for sweeping improvements to conditions at the Baltimore City Jail. The approval comes after the American Civil Liberties Union and the Baltimore-based Public Justice C ...
  • Obama Administration Sets New Course for Post-Cold ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today called the Obama administration's new nuclear weapons policy "the most far-reaching since the end of the Cold War" and urged President Obama to "go even further to strengthen nati ...
  • Congressman Collin Peterson Wins Biofool of the Ye ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2010 Friends of The Earth  Congressman Collin Peterson, chairman of the powerful House Agriculture Committee, prevailed against tough competition to receive Friends of the Earth's annual Biofool of the Year award, which was delivered to his office on Monday. read mo ...
  • "What Killed the Miners? Profits Over Safety?"
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) MARK BRENNER read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Deficit Fascinates Media—Its Causes, Not So Much
    by Janine Jackson The role of George W. Bush's tax cuts in the current federal deficit is tremendous. Their role in corporate media's current round of deficit obsession, however, is tenuous at best. Sometimes acknowledged in editorials or op-eds, the cuts generally only make it into news repo ...
  • Reconstruction Redux
    by Elle Gray Some time ago, a fellow scholar, Summer McDonald , asked me if I thought the current political atmosphere in the US reminded me of another period. We talked about it, and agreed that it seems reminiscent of the reconstruction and redemption periods just after the civil war. read more
  • Reclaiming Our Hope
    by Paul Rogat Loeb How do we counter political demoralization among those who had such high hopes for the American political process just over a year ago? It helped to finally pass the healthcare reform bill--Democratic Party donations have surged since the vote. But we're still facing dashed ho ...
  • The Death of Public Education
    by Derrick Z. Jackson The news says we are watching the death of public education before our eyes. Detroit is closing more than 40 schools, Kansas City wants to close more than 40 percent of its school buildings. Other cities have been closing schools over the last decade. Boston avoided closings in ...
  • Pinpricks Derail Action on Climate
    by Linda McQuaig Of course, it's possible that the incredibly warm, barbecues-in-March weather we've recently enjoyed is just a fluke and has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change. It's also possible that if your 2-year-old falls into a swimming pool, he might manage to thrash his way to ...

Karl Burkart

  • The war is just beginning.. on Climate TV
    Yours truly will be featured on the latest edition of Climate TV talking about mountaintop mining and the future of climate activism: 'The war is just beginning.'
  • Greenpeace: civil disobedience is NOT 'terrorism'
    Recent Greenpeace videos inciting civil disobedience have summoned the wrath of an anti-environmental cyber army which is framing Greenpeace as a terrorist organization.
  • iPad 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.
  • 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!

Water Privatization

  • NOAA launches aquaculture plan, economic incentive ...
    The Obama administration next week reintroduces to the nation the rough outlines of an offshore ocean aquaculture policy dating back more than a decade, which while still lacking specifics, offers powerful economic incentives if environmental, technological and political problems can be solved.
  • Bulgaria PM Implicates Power Utilities, Political ...
    Bulgarias power utilities and the lobbyists who helped implement the present electricity pricing schemes have committed a daylight robbery, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared.
  • Bulgaria Govt Assuages Fears over Power Utilities ...
    A day after Bulgaria's prime minister warned the privatisation deals with the three main power distributors may be revised, a deputy economy minister has assured this scenario will hardly unfold.
  • Isobel Coleman: Rwanda: Far from Failing, Far from ...
    Today is National Genocide Day in Rwanda, marking the 16th anniversary of the start of the genocide that claimed nearly a million lives out of...
  • Government invites investor bids on AECL's CANDU d ...
    This handout photo shows the iside of a CANDU Reactor at Bruce Nuclear Plant on Lake Huron. The Harper government on Thursday invited investors to submit bids on the CANDU reactor division of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., the latest step in the government's plan to restructure the Crown corporation.

Guardian

  • Conjoined twins operation successful
    Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are in a stable condition after being separated in a 14-hour operation involving 20 staff The parents of conjoined twins said today their baby sons had won the "battle of their lives" after they were successfully separated in a 14-hour operation at Great Ormond Street ho ...
  • US signs nuclear pact with Russia
    • US and Russian presidents meet in Prague • Arms treaty will slash two countries' nuclear arsenals by a third The US president, Barack Obama, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian leader, today signed an arms treaty that will slash their respective nuclear arsenals by a third. The two men shook hands t ...
  • Care manager not guilty of murders
    Jury still considering manslaughter charges over deaths of two elderly residents by painkiller overdose Former Somerset care home manager Rachel Baker has been cleared of murdering two elderly residents. Baker, 44, a registered nurse, was found not guilty of killing Frances Hay, 85, and Lucy Cox, 97 ...
  • Kyrgyzstan opposition seizes power
    Opposition leaders say they have taken control of security, state television and various government buildings Opposition leaders in Kyrgyzstan today declared that they had seized power and had taken control of security headquarters, state television and various government buildings. The declaration ...
  • Petrol price hits all-time high
    The average price for a litre of petrol is now £1.20 Petrol prices have soared to an all-time high, it was announced today. The average price for a litre of petrol at the pumps is now £1.20, eclipsing the previous peak of £1.19 reached in July 2008, the RAC said. "This is a dark day for motorists," ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Bonn voyage for Copenhagen bus
    The battered old charabanc of the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) splutters back into life this week for a quick three-day outing. But how it runs during the course of the year, and where its final destination lies, are issues that the drivers and passengers have yet to decide. It appears that th ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Sebelius Begins Implementing Health Reform, Pushes ...
    Yesterday, during a speech at the National Press Club, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius laid out the path forward for implementing the new health care law. The Secretary promised that HHS would serve as a “help desk” for Americans confused about the new legislation and would gui ...
  • Why Wasn’t Malpractice Reform Included In Th ...
    While progressives generally support the new health care law, many remain disappointed that the plan did not include a public option, a national exchange, or stronger rate-review provisions. I share these concerns, but I’m also surprised that the administration did not include stronger malpractice r ...
  • Neil Cavuto: It’s ‘Bizarre’ To E ...
    Yesterday, Neil Cavuto hosted Dan Stein, president of the anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), to talk about a new Department of Labor initiative, “We Can Help!,” aimed at expanding its effort to enforce wage and hour rules by encouraging low-wage and immigrant workers t ...
  • South Carolina AG Reveals Political Nature Of Laws ...
    I’ve maintained that the Attorneys General and now the Governors who are suing the federal government over the constitutionality of health care reform are doing so in their capacity as politicians, not lawyers or lawmakers. At least 4 of the AGs that have signed on to Bill McCollum’s case in Florida ...
  • Coburn Justifies Blocking Unemployment Benefits: I ...
    A few weeks ago, for the second time in two months, Senate Republicans objected to an extension of unemployment benefits. While the last dispute was resolved in time to keep benefits from expiring, as of Monday, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers are seeing their benefits come to an end. Se ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The "WikiLeaks" Video and "Jarhead"
    A couple of days ago I posted a youtube link to Bobby McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" because it's been stuck in my head (for a week now!) after hearing it over and over as my partner watched the movie " Jarhead " over and over to critique the film for an English class. Well, last night I s ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Morning Smoke: A First Look at Agencies' Open Gove ...
    Agencies' open government plans receive mostly positive reviews by Aliya Sternstein [Nextgov] Dozens More Massey Mines Cited Unsafe by Mike Lillis [The Washington Independent] The great F-35 cost riddle by Stephen Trimble [The DEW Line] Greenspan’s Fed Didn’t Focus on...
  • Agency Open Government Plans Due Today
    Today marks the due date for executive branch agency Open Government Plans, the next stop on the White House's .
  • Morning Smoke: DOD Confides that F-35 Costs Could ...
    DOD: High F-35 costs to go higher still by Bob Cox [Sky Talk] Federal Reserve Gets Political, Sends Congress Veiled Message by Shahien Nasiripour [The Huffington Post] Administration turns up heat on noncompliant Recovery Act recipients by Robert Brodsky [Government...
  • Court Favors the Facts of Whistleblower to Deepwat ...
    Yesterday the United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division partially upheld a motion to dismiss Deepwater whistleblower Michael DeKort's false claims act suit against Integrated Coast Guard Systems LLC (ICGS) and Lockheed Martin Corporation. The court has not prevented the case ...
  • Hopefully Coming Soon: CRS Access For All, and Oth ...
    POGO applauds Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) for introducing the . This bill would greatly improve transparency in the federal government by increasing and enhancing public access to congressional records.

Digital Journal

  • Mounties Guarding Canadian Parliament to be Issued ...
    The atmosphere on Parliament Hill may be getting a makeover in coming years, as RCMP guarding the buildings are issued with new automatic weapons. In addition, the Government is considering plans to create an "integrated security system" on the Hill.
  • Predictions for 2010 seal hunt: few hunters, recor ...
    Just as the Canadian seal hunt is about to get underway on April 8th in Newfoundland. Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans is being criticized for allowing the hunt to proceed.
  • Carbon tax aggressive approach to vehicle emission ...
    Vehicle manufacturers producing for the Canadian market have been given aggressive new guidelines for emission controls and they are accompanied by a big stick. If they do not meet the standards voluntarily they may be confronted with a carbon tax.
  • Atlantic hurricane season could be 'busy'
    Hurricane experts are speculating that the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season could be an uncharacteristically busy season. The season begins on June first.
  • Stephen Harper: Hamid Karzai's Taliban comments un ...
    It was sure to create a problem for many countries engulfed in the war in Afghanistan when Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened to join the Taliban. This prompted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to deem it as unacceptable.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Homeless Activists Claim Vacant Homes in Protest
    On Easter Sunday, homeless activists and supporters rallied at noon in the Mission district of San Francisco. The group, " Homes Not Jails " (tagline: "Coming soon to a vacant building near you!"), marched and chanted down Mission Street accompanied by the spirited music of the Brass Liberation Orch ...
  • Social Networks Risk Client Privacy, Please Retwee ...
    My day job allows me to meet a lot of people in the social sector, many of whom work for, and run, homeless service organizations. Therefore, a large number of my Twitter and Facebook friends are individuals who work in homeless services. While the majority of these individuals are great, inspir ...
  • Danger Is a Constant Companion for Street Kids
    When the naked body of a 19-year-old girl was found behind a church in Times Square last August, no newspaper ran the story. No suspects have been named. Too few leads came in to the Crimestoppers. Instead, April very quietly became another of the approximately 5,000 children who die every year due ...
  • Creative Homeless Are the Real Starving Artists
    No one says, "I want to be poor or homeless when I grow up." No one willingly sets their sights on a life of struggle and social exclusion. But like everyone else, people living in homelessness and poverty have aspirations, ones that go beyond getting permanent housing. But often, basic survival put ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Experts agree: Peacekeeping is alive!
    Four years ago, David Bercuson, Director of the DND-funded Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, declared that UN peacekeeping was dead: As far as UN-led operations,… there just aren’t any left in the world today and you ought to really know that. These old Blue Helmet operations which our a ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Posture Review released
    The new U.S. Nuclear Posture Review was released on Tuesday. Full text of the report (72 pages) NPR summary factsheet (2 pages) Obama statement on NPR Other U.S. government background information Commentary Ceasefire.ca’s report on NPR contents, 5 April 2010 Statement on Nuclear Posture R ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Jeffrey Smith – Seeds of Deception
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with best-selling author and independent filmmaker, Jeffrey Smith, and click here to learn more about The Seeds of Deception.      Jeffrey Smith 04/07/10
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-7-10
    Kevin was right AGAIN!! Today, Kevin enlightens you with all of the latest new reports he has been talking about for years, including how Swedish Scientists have found that calcium leads to a longer, healthier life. Sound familiar? Once Scarce, H1N1 Vaccines Now Trashed Maximize Your Downline People ...
  • 5/8/10 Perpetual Money Making Machine Seminar
    How to Create a Perpetual Money Making Machine DATE: Saturday, May 8th, 2010 LOCATION: Chicago, IL (upon registration you will emailed the exact location) This seminar is going to be revealing the exact moneymaking method that I used to generate a reported 45 million dollars in profit in just 18 m ...
  • Exercise ‘Magic Drug’ for Depression
    April 7, 2010 AOL News By Catherine Donaldson-Evans Looks like Prozac has some competition. Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Boston University are calling exercise a “magic drug” for depression and anxiety. It has long been known that working out boosts the production of se ...
  • Spirit Airlines To Charge $45 For Carry-Ons
    April 7, 2010 AOL News By Joshua Freed Baggage fees have sneaked out of the belly of the plane and into the overhead bin. Spirit Airlines will charge as much as $45 each way for a carry-on bag starting Aug. 1. Personal items like purses and laptop computers that fit under the seat will still be free ...

Pambazuka News

  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
    Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...

War in Context

  • Look in the mirror Avigdor
    “The problem is not Turkey, the problem is Erdogan,” Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, told Ynet on Monday. Sorry Mr Lieberman: it’s you — not Turkey’s prime minister — who has a serious image problem. How many other countries in the world have a foreign minister who would best serve hi ...
  • Michel Warschawski interview
    Michel Warschawski is a writer and journalist and founder of The Alternative Information Center, an internationally oriented, progressive, joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization. At the end of the war on Gaza, Warschawski wrote this: Absolutely Not! Not in Their Name, Not in Ours Ehud B ...
  • Wars of excess
    Tom Engelhardt writes: Whether it’s 3.1 million items of equipment, or 3 million, 2.8 million, or 1.5 million, whether 341 “facilities” (not including perhaps ten mega-bases which will still be operating in 2011 with tens of thousands of American soldiers, civilians, and private contractors working ...
  • The over-rated middle way
    “Obama to take middle course in new nuclear policy,” a headline in the Washington Post declares. There are a few instances where “middle” signals danger — he was driving drunk down the middle of the road — but generally speaking, middle is supposed to be good. But when the Post tells us Obama is go ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • “It really shows what’s been going on ...
    Via Tom Nelson: Another warmist in the Arctic: GE sponsors 15-year-old on polar trip. Photo courtesy of GE and Scott Draper Shortly after twice reporting a temperature of -34 C, he suggests that the ice is “falling apart” around him. Skiing and trekking to the North Pole: Parker Liautaud b ...
  • Conservamentalism
    It is not often that I turn a comment into a complete post, but this comment from Willis Eschenbach on the Trust and Mistrust article today, merits such a promotion. – Anthony Which death is more troubling? (images: from NOAA, left, Wikimedia, right) Willis Eschenbach (20:55:17) : I am surprised a ...
  • Faint young sun paradox explained by Stanford &#82 ...
    Early Earth stayed warm because its ocean absorbed more sunlight; greenhouse gases were not involved, Stanford researchers say. See more about the Faint sun paradox here. A video clip follows. From a Stanford University News press release. Researchers have long wondered why water on Earth was no ...
  • NSIDC: Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season – latest s ...
    From NSIDC Sea Ice News: Cold snap causes late-season growth spurt Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year on March 31 at 15.25 million square kilometers (5.89 million square miles). This was the latest date for the maximum Arctic sea ice extent since the start of the satellite r ...
  • A New And Effective Climate Model
    The problem with existing climate models: Guest post by Stephen Wilde Even those who aver that man’s activity affects climate on a global scale rather than just locally or regionally appear to accept that the existing climate models are incomplete. It is a given that the existing models do not fully ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Screw Cuss Free Week!
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Thanks to Frank Minero for sending this to DS. War is obscene, not words.  ~ DS frankodelic April 05, 2010 — http://www.ScrewCussFreeWeek.com click 4 our facebook page! The Screw ‘Cuss Free Week’ Protest was held March 13, 2010 at the corner of Fair ...
  • Take This Empire and Shove It! by Cindy Sheehan
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox April 7, 2010 “Listen, I can’t get involved. I’ve got work to do. It’s not that I like the Empire; I hate it. But there’s nothing I can do about it right now… It’s all such a [...]
  • A Win for Whistle Blowers by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 6. 2010 Why would Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, so mistreat and silence one of their top molecular biologists that a federal jury in Connecticut awarded her $1.37 million in damages last week? The unraveling answe ...
  • What happened to the Israeli peace movement? + Bei ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com On the border Pt.2 Report from the Middle East: What happened to the Israeli peace movement? Michel Warschawski: On the border Pt.2 *** Beit Ommar Demonstration (13.3.10) – PSP PalestineSolidarity March 16, 2010 — On March 13t ...
  • Interview with David Degraw: Stop paying taxes!
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica April 05, 2010 — Should the people stop paying taxes and start their own government? David Degraw says that the government has become an organized criminal that has seized control of the economy and is bent on destroying the middle class of A ...

Your New Reality

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    Do You Feel Safer Yet? Soldiers and police in combat gear, armed with mega-powerful M4s, patrol New York City's subway.....because bombs exploded in the Moscow subway yesterday (?) . The New York Post calls them "armed guards" .
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    Fudge You, You MotherFudger By Darryl Mason Okay, it's not Bye Bye Birdie or Hello Dolly!, but why isn't Scarface a good morality play for kids? Sure he flies high, but Tony Montana pays dearly for his crimes. The peak of success sees him become a prisoner in his own home, crippled by paranoia, ...
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    Does Hollywood help pre-condition Americans for coming new realities?
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    I wonder if George Lucas watched Woody Allen's 1973 sci-fi satire Sleeper when he was writing early Stars Wars screenplays? Am I the only one who can see similarities between Allen's android character and C3-PO? Head movements, attitude, shuffling walk? A famililarish robot-dismantling moon in The E ...

Wired - Science

  • Mystery Object Defies Astronomical Classification
    A mysterious object discovered near a brown dwarf doesn’t fit into any known astronomical category. The newly discovered mystery companion forms a binary system with the brown dwarf, located 460 light-years away in the Taurus star-forming system. The object is too light to be another brown dwarf, b ...
  • Pigeon Flocks Let the Best Bird Lead
    Even the bird-brained can follow a leader. When pigeons fly in flocks, each bird falls behind another with better navigational skill, and the savviest among them leads the flock, scientists report in the April 8 Nature. The research suggests hierarchies can serve peaceful purposes in the animal kin ...
  • First Animals Found That Live Without Oxygen
    In the muck of the deep Mediterranean seafloor, scientists have found the first multicellular animals capable of surviving in an entirely oxygen-free environment. Some types of bacteria and other single-celled organisms can live without oxygen, but nothing as complex had been found as these three s ...
  • New Giant Lizard Discovered in the Philippines
    Scientists couldn’t see the lizard for the trees. But now they’ve tracked down and named Varanus bitatawa, a skittish reptile that’s hard to spot even though it grows up to 2 meters long and sports bright yellow speckles. In forests on the Philippine island of Luzon, the newly discovered monitor li ...
  • Gut Bacteria Give Super Seaweed-Digestion Power to ...
    The old adage, “You are what you eat,” has a bacterial component. In a neat confluence of human history, stomach bacteria and food, researchers have found that the intestinal microbes of Japanese people may be souped up for eating seaweed. “In a marine bacteria, we identified an enzyme that is very ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Code Pink: Truth or Lies – What’s the Real Threat ...
    Code Pink [On the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and subsequent cover up, by the US military]: Investigate, don't cover up! We strongly condemn the cover-ups and the move to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Hanan Ashrawi: No chance for peace with Netanyahu
    Dr Hanan Ashrawi, the first woman to be elected a member of the PLO's Executive Committee, is skeptical that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas could... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Mustafa Barghouthi: Israel knows apartheid has no ...
    I believe, even today, in the importance of the two-state solution. But with every passing day I see what can only be described as Israel’s dogged determination to block such an outcome. The time has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Mya Guarnieri: Reporter’s Notebook – Publish and B ...
    I understand the need to keep details of a court case quiet. That's a gag I can respect. But blacking out news of Kam's arrest itself is a strike against free speech and freedom of the press. As... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Jonathan Ben-Artzi: Peace for Israelis and Palesti ...
    Americans are heavily involved in the conflict: from funding (the US provides Israel with roughly $3 billion annually in military aid) to corporate investments (Microsoft has one of its major... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Unique Cancer Library Feted During National Librar ...
    New Jersey's only NCI-Comprehensive Cancer Center is joining communities, schools and other institutions across the nation in celebrating the contributions of their libraries and librarians during this year's National Library Week (April 11 - 17). The unique library at The Cancer Institute of New J ...
  • Sleep Apnea Linked to Increased Risk of Stroke
    Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with an increased risk of stroke in middle-aged and older adults, especially men, according to new results from new research supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. Overall, sleep apnea more ...
  • Digital Divide Changing but Not for Students Torn ...
    When students enter college, they either have it or they don't. Which side of the digital divide they fall on can shape their identities and what route they take into careers. Research looked at technology knowledge of 500 undergraduate students and how skills they brought from high school impacted ...
  • Patient Trial of Personalized Two-Drug Therapy for ...
    Patients suffering from recently diagnosed malignant brain tumors called glioblastoma multiforme or a rare variant called gliosarcoma may be eligible to participate in a Phase II clinical trial at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that combines two innovative drugs.
  • Scientists Unravel Brain-Hormone Circuit That Help ...
    New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggest that the hormones leptin and insulin work together in specific neurons in the hypothalamus region of the brain to affect both the regulation of blood sugar levels in the body and, surprisingly, female fertility.

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

  • Sustainable Urban Farming Ideas That Think Inside ...
    In my last Green State column, I wrote about Agriculture 2.0. The conference, held in Silicon Valley recently, brought together venture capitalists and sustainable ag startups in an effort to jump start a market for the regional distribution of fresh food. Click here to read this article
  • Francesca Vietor is Suing Over Sludge
    I'm rather surprised about the first lawsuit to come out of the San Francisco sewage sludge giveaway program. After the city gave away its hazardous sludge to gardeners, calling it "organic biosolids compost," you'd think that the city itself (or its Public Utilities Commission - SFPUC for short - m ...
  • Farmers Deceived About Sewage Sludge Safety
    On March 27th Citizens for Sludge-Free Land sent a letter to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and US EPA Region 3 that information provided to Virginia landowners about using sewage sludges as fertilizer is deceptive. Land application permits are being granted in several Virginia cou ...
  • 76 Groups Implore USDA to Keep Out Canada's Mad Co ...
    Seventy-six organizations representing tens of millions of Americans today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking that the agency immediately strengthen U.S. border protections to keep out cows from Canada with mad cow disease. Click here to read this article
  • Saying No to 'GMOs" and Monsanto: Buy Organic
    It's my faith in Mother Nature's wisdom that spurs a knee-jerk skepticism every time I hear news of technology tampering with a system that has been working wonders since the beginning of time. In particular, I am floored by the whole genetically modified food idea. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

Climategate

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 ...
  • A Question About Targeted Killing
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As the Washington Post notes, the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to assassinate Aulaqi wherever he is found.  It is very unlikely that CIA agents qualify as lawful combatants — they don’t distinguish themselves from the civilian population, th ...
  • The Constitutionality of President Obama’s Targete ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The NYT reports that the Obama Administration has authorized the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, The article notes the international law justification for his killing: he is an avowed member of Al Qaeda actively engaged ...
  • Bashir Was Ready to Step Down Before the Arrest Wa ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller That’s what Rob Crilly claims in an editorial today in the Telegraph: Before he was indicted, Bashir told regional leaders and his confidantes that he was ready to step down: after 20 years in office, he was ready for a holiday, and retirement to a smart ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Errors in Royal Society of NZ climate change paper
    The Royal Society of New Zealand has again nailed its sorry little tail to the mast of a sinking global warming ship, with a statement designed to convince news media, politicians and the public that the science behind climate change...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout
    Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout Phoenix, AZ – As the Girl Scouts approach their 100th year, the organization is putting more emphasis on helping girls develop their leadership skills. The newer concept is to help girls find and nurture their own strengths. Comments from Tamara (tuh-MAH-r ...
  • Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona
    Start Walking Challenge Issued for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – The American Heart Association has issued a challenge for Arizonans – walk for 30 minutes a day. “National Start! Walking Day,” is April 7th. It’s a national initiative to get people into an exercise program to reduce the risk of heart disease ...
  • Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates
    Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since 1972, the number of state prison inmates in the U.S. has gone down, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. But Arizona’s inmate population continues to rise. Comments from Adam Gelb, Pew’s ...
  • Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Lif ...
    Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Life-Threatened Kids Phoenix, AZ – Families caring full-time for a child diagnosed with a life-threatening condition will be able to get a needed break when Ryan House opens later this month in central Phoenix. The facility will focus on making kids com ...
  • Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Ad ...
    Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Adopt Phoenix, AZ – A bill giving adoption priority to married couples has passed the Arizona House and awaits a hearing in the Senate. One lawmaker rejects the idea that a mom and dad are always the ideal situation for an adopted child. Comments from ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Canadian Mining Company Faces Troubles In Mongolia
    Rapid chain of events that put Khan Resources on the verge of losing vast amounts of money and essentially being kicked out of Mongolia. "Mongolian government changed the law saying now that Mongolia has to take at least a 51 percent stake in such venture Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
  • Joblessness hits male vets of current wars - USATO ...
    Unemployment for male Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans has tripled since the recession began, rising from 5% in March 2007 to 15% last month, Labor Dept statistics show.More than 250,000 of these veterans were unemployed last month. An additional Submitted by Donnette Davis to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Over 20,000 Coal Mine Safety Violations So Far Thi ...
    The US Mine Safety and Health Administration reports over 20,000 safety violations in underground coal mines so far this year - an average of over 200 violations per day. Why hasn't the corporate news media reported on this part of the story? Submitted by Jonathan Cook to US Politics & Gov't �|� � ...
  • Water Fight!
    Steve Solomon declares, “Water is visibly showing through as a root cause of nearly every headline issue transforming the world order and planetary environment.” I took a survey to gauge the nature and potential volatility of water fights. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Group Asks Companies to Report Water Use - NYTimes ...
    water use by corporations is becoming a critical component in continuing to do business around the world. water is finally getting the attention and protection that it needs. Submitted by Linda Bishop to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Dozens killed in Kyrgyzstan unrest
    Dozens killed in Kyrgyzstan unrest - latimes.com: "Reporting from Islamabad, PakistanThe small, mountainous Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, a vital conduit for supplies to U.S. forces in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • McDonnell issues thorough apology for leaving slav ...
    Virginia Politics Blog - McDonnell issues thorough apology for leaving slavery out of proclamation: "Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) apologized late Wednesday for failing to include slavery in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • U.S. forecaster sees increased 2010 hurricane thre ...
    U.S. forecaster sees increased 2010 hurricane threat | Reuters: "In its second forecast in four months for the 2010 season, the leading storm research team founded by hurricane forecast pioneer... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Breathing problems persist in September 11 rescuer ...
    Breathing problems persist in September 11 rescuers | Reuters: "Breathing problems among New York Fire Department employees, caused by dust, smoke and other toxic chemicals, became apparent one year... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israel main threat to Mid-East peace: Turkish PM
    Israel main threat to Mid-East peace: Turkish PM: "PARIS, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel was the main threat to peace in the Middle East, the visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel launches ground incursion into Gaza Strip
    Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its troops entering the south of the long-blockaded coastal sliver. Israeli tanks and bulldozers advanced about 500 meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday, Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported.
  • Ahmadinejad: US bogged down, doomed to fail in reg ...
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the United States is doomed to crumple as it is mired in a swamp in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The US is so bogged down in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan that it is doomed to be defeated whether it stays or escapes," Ahmadinejad said Wednesday night ...
  • Two more NATO soldiers fall in Afghanistan
    Another foreign soldier has been killed in Southern Afghanistan, bringing to 147 the number of US-led forces killed in the country this year. "An ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) service member died following an insurgent engagement in southern Afghanistan today," ISAF said.
  • Video purportedly shows U.S. soldier captured in A ...
    A video purportedly showing a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan last June was posted Wednesday on a radical Web site. Pfc. Bowe Robert Bergdahl, 23, disappeared from his combat outpost in southeastern Paktika province sometime after he finished his guard duty shift on the night of June 29.
  • US Treasury beefing up staff in Afghanistan
    The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more staff to Afghanistan to 'target' the financial networks that provide money for the Taliban, a Treasury official said Wednesday. The boost in personnel there, along with additional staff dedicated to that effort here in Washington, will coincide with ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Errors in Royal Society of NZ climate change paper
    The Royal Society of New Zealand has again nailed its sorry little tail to the mast of a sinking global warming ship, with a statement designed to convince news media, politicians and the public that the science behind climate change...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • NYT protects Israel on ‘live ammunition&#821 ...
    An interesting juxtaposition (pointed out by Matt Berkman): NY Times article on Kyrgyzstan protests: "Earlier in the day, the police used live ammunition, tear gas and stun grenades against a crowd of thousands that massed in front of the presidential office in Bishkek, according to witness accounts ...
  • What settlements look like
    Anyone who wants to understand Israeli settlements should understand how they look to Palestinians. Here are three pictures from Hamde’s facebook page. An olive tree has been dismembered to make way for more land confiscation for a settlement in the first shot, in the second we see how young Palesti ...
  • Gaza shows, Israel is main threat to peace in regi ...
    AFP reports on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan: "Goldstone is a Jew and his report is clear," the Turkish leader told reporters invited to meet him at the Paris Ritz hotel. "It’s not because we are Muslims that we take this position. Our position is humanitarian. "It’s Israel that is the princ ...
  • ‘NYT’ distorts history of nonviolent r ...
    On the front page of the New York Times today, there is a large photo of West Bank Palestinians planting trees, "part of a new, nonviolent approach to assert their land claims," as Times correspondent Ethan Bronner says. While it’s good that the Times is covering nonviolent resistance to the Israeli ...
  • Look in the mirror Avigdor
     “The problem is not Turkey, the problem is Erdogan,” Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, told Ynet on Monday. Sorry Mr Lieberman: it’s you — not Turkey’s prime minister — who has a serious image problem. How many other countries in the world have a foreign minister who would best serve hi ...

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

  • Our Oceans Are Un-Owned, Un-Explored, Un-Protected ...
    Photo by the Tahoe guy The Ted Oceans' Mission Blue conference in the Galapagos is under full swing, and there are some big concepts being discussed among the attendees and speakers. The mission of the conference is to try to further Sylvia Earl's TED wish of expanding our marine protected area ...
  • Best of Inhabitat: TV Stand Butcher Block, Empty S ...
    This week over at Inhabitat , we saw a barrage of awesome design projects that involved taking something old and crumbly and upcycling it into something even better than new. From a chapel in Utrecht turned crisp white modern residence , to an old dairy barn converted into a state of the art eco ...
  • Climate Change Causing Soay Sheep to Shrink. No It ...
    Photo via Sam W A little less than a year ago, we reported about the findings that global warming is causing the Soay sheep of Scotland to shrink and get lighter in color, all to adapt to higher temperatures. However, it turns out that chalking the changes up to global warming is causing quite ...
  • Crowd-Sourcing Solutions to Plastic-Filled Oceans
    Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans , and this year got her Mission Blue pro... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Century Gothic Saves More Ink Than Ecofont
    Two years ago Jaymi wrote about ecofont, the typeface that Takes The Swiss Cheese Approach to Saving Printer Ink. It worked, but it didn't exactly set the type design world's hearts aflutter, being a little rounder and nicer looking than arial (anything is nicer than arial) but not exciting t ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Kenya foreign ministry seeking release of Guantana ...
    [JURIST] The Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs [official website] declared Wednesday that Kenya's government is attempting to secure the release of Kenyan native Mohammed Abdumalik, who is currently detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. The news was revealed in a letter [AP report] to A ...
  • Oklahoma governor signs 3 anti-abortion bills into ...
    [JURIST] Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry [official website] signed three anti-abortion bills into law Monday. The first bill [SB 1890 text, RTF] prohibits abortions performed because of the gender of the fetus. The second bill [SB 1891 text, RTF] creates the Freedom of Conscience Act and protects medic ...
  • Algeria national seeks emergency stay of transfer ...
    [JURIST] Lawyers for an Algerian national detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] on Monday filed an emergency motion [text, PDF] in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] to block the detainee's transfer to his home country. Petitioner Ahmed Belbacha renewed ...
  • Egypt court orders release of 16 Muslim Brotherhoo ...
    [JURIST] An Egyptian criminal court on Sunday ordered 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) [party website; JURIST news archive] released on bail [MB press release], including deputy chairman Mahmoud Ezzat and spokesperson Essam al-Erian. The members of MB, which has been banned in Egypt [JURIST ...
  • Rights group calls for inquiry into Yemen war crim ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] (HRW) called Wednesday for an investigation into alleged war crimes [press release] committed during the recent conflict between the government of Yemen [BBC timeline] and Shiite Huthi Rebels. According to HRW's report [text, PDF], "All Quiet on the Nor ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The U.S. And China Think They Can Dance
    Given that U.S.-China relations appear to be spotty at the moment, it was a coup of sorts -- convincing Chinese President Hu Jintau to attend the U.S.-sponsored nuclear security summit in Washington next week. Last month, an administration official confided, that it was unlikely that China would att ...
  • Obama: "Current Republican Nominee Mitt Romne ...
    Clearly a Freudian slip by the president, but I wonder what Mitt Romney thinks of being anointed by Obama so early. Here's what he said, in an interview with CBS News's Harry Smith: " Yeah, the--the sort of plan proposed by current Republican nominee Mitt Romney, yeah." The context: after the jump. ...
  • A Smart, New Airline Security Policy -- Really!
    Readers of The Atlantic will appreciate our obsession with security theater, as most memorably demonstrated by Jeffrey Goldberg 's regular attempts to get arrested for showing TSA representatives Hezbollah flags, among other things.� There is no TSA director -- Obama's two nominees have withdrawn fo ...
  • Dick Leinenkugel Might Run For Senate
    Wispolitics.com reports today that Wisconsin's Commerce Secretary, Dick Leinenkugel, may soon resign his post to challenge Russ Feingold for the U.S. Senate.�Leinenkugel would run as a Republican, and might challenge former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who is also considering a bid. I tweeted this news, adm ...
  • The Appeal Of Not Appealing
    Will the Justice Department appeal Judge Vaughn Walker's determination that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretap program was illegal?� Your best bet: no. The victory may have been a win for history, and the plaintiffs in the case, two lawyers associated with the El-Hamarain charity, ma ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Kam-Blau Case: Shin Bet Pimping for IDF General?
    Throughout the coverage I’ve written and read about the Anat Kam affair, I’ve heard a number of sources say they understood that the entire investigation was much bigger than just Anat Kam; that it involved, and was designed to protect, someone important.  I never heard anything more specific than ...
  • Shin Bet to Announce End of Kam Gag Order
    Noam Sheizaf reports that finally, humbled by the disdain of the entire Israeli nation, the Shin Bet will announce tomorrow morning the end of the gag order on the Anat Kam-Uri Blau case.  This is a feeble attempt at damage control, as every major Israeli media outlet has heaped scorn and derision o ...
  • IDF Military Censor: Kam Gag Gives Censorship a Ba ...
    Israeli media are beginning to place blame for the farce of the Anat Kam gag order squarely at the feet of Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin.  You know how bad things have become for him when even the chief Israeli military censor parts company in order to maintain its good name.  Didi Remez features th ...
  • Judge Who Approved Kam Gag Order Perverted Justice ...
    Judge Einat Ron, the Petah Tikva magistrate who granted the gag order in the Anat Kam case has a sordid history going back to an infamous 2003 case in which she counseled the IDF how to lie to the Israeli NGO, B’Tselem, to avoid a wrongful death investigation.  At that point, she was Colonel Ron [. ...
  • Anat Kam: Grey Lady Awakens from Her Slumbers…Fina ...
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Maui sugar company plays role in renewable energy effort
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- Apr 08, 2010
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By Gene Park Maui's Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. is the centerpiece of a multimillion-dollar federal effort to research renewable energy in Hawaii. ...
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Beach cleanup coming April 17, and watch for pesticide cans
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- Apr 08, 2010
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This year, the state Department of Ecology is asking volunteers to be on the lookout for 1-liter aluminum canisters that might contain residues of a ...
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Let 13-Year-Old Attend Ecology Course In Africa
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Newark resident hoping to recover 40-year-old flag
The Newark Advocate
- Apr 08, 2010
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TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Officials are urging residents in Baltimore County to continue conserving water a day after an outage. Baltimore City Department of ...
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LA Council Wants Control Of Department Of Water And Power
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By Dennis Romero, Wednesday, Apr. 7 2010 @ 4:54PM ​As the mayor's office continued to argue for the need for Department of Water and Power rate hikes, ...
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Top Florida court mulling Everglades debt deal
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Panel explores impact of Marcellus drilling on water supplies
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