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Friday, April 30, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • PAKISTAN: Lack of Access to Contraception, Abortio ...
    KARACHI, Apr 30 (IPS) - Perween Riaz, 36, waited till after she gave birth to her sixth child before she finally got herself sterilised.
  • BURMA: Two Years after Nargis, Life Is Far from No ...
    BOGALAY, Burma, Apr 30 (IPS) - Kyaw Moe is just in his 30s, but he is already on his second shot at life – just like the rest of the residents of Thakan Ngu, a tiny Burmese village in this township of Bogalay.
  • DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Garment Woes Dampen Labour ...
    COLOMBO, Apr 30 (IPS) - Though the global economic crisis has eased in most of Asia, latest reports about falling demand for garments in markets like Europe and the United States have become a new source of concern to Sri Lanka’s troubled garment labour force.
  • MEXICO: Terror Returns to Oaxaca
    MEXICO CITY, Apr 30 (IPS) - A violent incident in which two activists were killed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has raised fears among human rights groups of a return to the unrest and severe clashes between protesters and police that virtually paralysed the state in 2006.
  • Poor Communities Struggle to Attend U.N. Indigenou ...
    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) - "You will never suffer from fatal diseases like cancer and ulcer if you drink mare's milk," says Anna Postnikova, who is currently attending a major U.N. meeting on indigenous issues.

Scoop - NZ

  • Officials Wake Up to Peak Oil, Part 2
    In the first part of this series, I reviewed a series of reports from March supporting the peak oil view, and warning that world oil production very well may go into terminal decline by 2015 or sooner. The sources included the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security and officials with ...
  • US housing price rebound is over
    The rebound in home values is over, as residential real estate prices fall and the threat of a second dip in the housing market begins to take shape. The latest evidence comes from the closely watched S&P/Case-Shiller home price indexes, which reported Tuesday that its 20-city home-price index fell ...
  • Computerised Front Running: Another Goldman-Domina ...
    Market commentators are fond of talking about "free market capitalism," but according to Wall Street commentator Max Keiser, it is no more. It has morphed into what his TV co-host Stacy Herbert calls "rigged market capitalism": all markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain. Keiser ...
  • Systemic risk, fraud .. it continues
    This article by the Financial Times should remove any doubt in anyone's mind that Goldman Sachs was willfully selling fraudulent financial instruments. It appears that they were working in conjunction with Ratings Agencies, Mortgage Origination Firms, and Hedge Funds to cheat investors. "Cheat" mea ...
  • Has Auckland Super City dropped sustainability ?
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Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • The amazing ‘sensorium suite’ of Dr. Houston
    “All the world’s a stage,” William Shakespeare famously wrote. And while Shakespeare’s plays are still performed in premier concert halls and on festival stages, Andrew Houston, an associate professor of drama at the University of Waterloo, is taking his theatre of sound out into the world. “Often, ...
  • Butterflies in the boreal
    When biologist Jeremy Kerr needs a sentinel to demonstrate the effects of climate change, he looks no further than the eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas). That’s because the eastern tailed blue, like other butterfly species Kerr and his students at the University of Ottawa track, has be ...
  • Hip-hop storytellers
  • Trapping an invader
    (Courtesy of the University of Windsor) The first time she saw a group of male round gobies in their nests, pumping out billows of pheromones to attract females to lay their eggs, Lynda Corkum couldn’t help but think of an old boy’s club. “It reminded me of a bunch of men, sitting in a crowded room ...
  • Beefing up
    When a deadly virus spreads through California after being transported from the African rainforest in the 1995 movie Outbreak, most viewers reacted in horror. But not David Asper. He watched with fascination as the main character, an army medical researcher played by Dustin Hoffman, investigated the ...

Signs of the times

  • Congressman Waxman Sneaks Anti-Vitamin Amendment i ...
    Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious: While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would expand the power ...
  • Many Endangered Turtles Dying on Texas Gulf Coast
    Flies buzz everywhere and the stench is overwhelming as biologist Lyndsey Howell stops to analyze the remains of yet another endangered sea turtle washed up from the Gulf of Mexico. "It's been on the beach for a while," Howell says, flipping over the decomposing, dried-out shell. More than 30 dead ...
  • How the Human Brain Learns Language
    There is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species, says a new study from the University of Rochester. Instead, humans rely on several regions of the brain, each designed to accomplish different primitive tasks, ...
  • Out of Mind, Out of Sight: Blinking Eyes Indicate ...
    When your mind wanders, you're not paying attention to what's going in front of you. A new study suggests that it's not just the mind, it's the body, too; when subjects' minds wandered, they blinked more, setting up a tiny physical barrier between themselves and the outside world. Cognitive neurosc ...
  • Be Aware of the Most Common Over-the-Counter and P ...
    It has been confirmed that correctly prescribed pharmaceuticals rank among the five highest causes of death in the USA, and that the U.S. medical system is responsible for more deaths in the USA than anything else! And what dangerous ingredient is common to both prescription painkillers and over the ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Harper Hillbillies . . .
    BRAD FRASER has a Facebook Wall picture he'd like to share with you, and of which he says: Ladies and gentleman, I give you the true image of our current government. Featuring Stephen Harper as Jed, Jason Kenney as Miss Jane, Ramir Jaffer as Mr Drysdale, Vic Toews as Granny, John Baird as Jethro and ...
  • Sweetness and light . . .
    THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT has an interesting review by Bee Wilson of "SUGAR A bittersweet history" by Elizabeth Abbott. It details the sad history from its beginnings to today's industry. Starting in 1791, Toussaint L’Ouverture led a successful slave revolt against French rule in Saint-Domingue, ...
  • Tea Party Troubles . . .
    CARL PALADINO IS THE TEA PARTY CANDIDATE FOR NY STATE GOVERNOR. According to Zachary Roth, of Talking Points Memo's TPMmuckraker , ol' Carl's got a nasty taste in e-mails. In an article " Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality ",  An online news outlet in New York sta ...
  • There's a fly in your soup...
    Eat it if you want to. Via Canadian Cynic , we hear from Kady that the things reported to the Ethics Commissioner are not what we might have thought they were. It's a good one. Another point is that the Ethics Commissioner would be required to suspend any inquiry once the RCMP starts to investig ...
  • Laws and troops
    Stephen Harper : "Of course the fact of the matter is, Mr. Speaker, the government cannot break the law and cannot order public servants to break the law, nor can it do anything that would unnecessarily jeopardize the safety of Canadian troops." What? You mean laws like the Geneva Conventions an ...

Media Matters for America

  • Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claims former Obama no ...
    On his April 29 show, Sean Hannity twice falsely claimed that Dawn Johnsen, President Obama's former nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel before withdrawing her nomination, "sees similarities between pregnancy and slavery." In fact, in the brief to which Hannity refers, ...
  • Quick Fact: Morris falsely claims financial refor ...
    In purporting to lay out why the financial reform bill "is a disaster," Dick Morris falsely asserted that the bill "guarantee[s] banks' survival by establishing a $50 billion rescue fund." In fact, the fund is designed to liquidate failing financial institutions, not "rescue" them. From Morris ...
  • Cavuto's coverage of financial reform is "a word ...
    On the last two editions of Your World , Fox News senior vice president of business news Neil Cavuto devoted more than six minutes to Democratic senators' use of expletives during a hearing. By contrast, he spent less than four minutes on financial regulation legislation that Republicans were ...
  • FLASHBACK: Media advanced falsehood that drilling ...
    In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill currently occurring in the Gulf of Mexico after a rig exploded and sank, Media Matters reviews how media figures advanced the false talking point that oil drilling is environmentally safe because "not one drop of oil was spilled" during Hurricane Katri ...
  • Fox falsely suggested Congressional Hispanic Cauc ...
    On April 29, Fox & Friends falsely suggested that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus was holding a 9-11 worker health care bill "hostage" in order "to get health care" for "illegal aliens." In fact, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is reportedly seeking to ensure that undocumented immigrants wh ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Populist Dem Brad Sherman D-CA, Convenes Hill Hate ...
    Add Brad Sherman (D-CA) to the list of those supposedly liberal Democrats who, when it comes to Israel, are to the right of Rush Limbaugh and Bibi Netanyahu. Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, and Jerry Nadler are old news. They wear their hypocrisy on human rights issues as badges of pride. I ...
  • Neocons: Playing The Dual Loyalty Card
    The neocons AIPAC, its think-tank (the Washington Institute of Near East Policy), and the rest of the usual Israel-can-do-no-wrong crowd is now harping on the question of dual loyalty. Are American Jews being accused of being more loyal to Israel than America? The "dual loyalty card" is suddenl ...
  • Challenging the Roberts Court
    Everyone has joined issue on when, and how, the Democrats ought to challenge the Roberts Court. The assumption seems to be that criticizing judicial activism is fair game, but a path that politicians should walk with care given the esteem in which many Americans hold the Supreme Court. As befits t ...
  • Swiftboating Finance Reform
    Republicans are blocking a Senate vote on the Dodd bill, seeking to build public support by misleading the public. They're claiming to want a stronger bill when in fact they're doing the Street's bidding by seeking a weaker one. Evidence of their tactics comes in the form of a shady anti-financia ...
  • Being Rude to the Deficit Hawks
    I worked at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) for 6 ½ years. During this time, the credibility of my work and that of my colleagues was often impugned by describing EPI as "labor backed." This was partially true, we got 20-25 percent of our funding from unions. However, the clear implication of th ...

TruthOut

  • Tom Engelhardt | Obit Page
    In memory of B.C. She wheeled into the coffee shop, pulled up next to me, and pushed a piece of paper my way. "Take a look," she said. It was a single typed page with her full name, Helena Bascomb Johnson, at the top which was not, of course, how any of us knew her. You usually did what Nina wan ...
  • Democrats Break GOP's Attempted Filibuster in the ...
    The Republican Party finally acknowledged on Wednesday that they are unwilling to alienate voters by continuing to block even debate on Wall Street reform. The good news: Democrats do not appear to have given much ground on negotiations this week as Republicans threw up their blockade. The bad news: ...
  • Protesters Confront Monster Banks, Demand Wells Fa ...
    "We are many and they are few -- and today they have to deal with us!" yelled an organizer at a San Francisco march and rally on Tuesday afternoon aimed at calling out Wells Fargo for its predatory lending practices. A crowd of a few hundred pissed-off consumers responded boisterously by repeating a ...
  • Yes, Virginia, There Is a Legitimate Case Against ...
    There is a myth in wide circulation that the superiority of free trade is simply a settled question on which all serious economists agree. The flip side of this myth, of course, is that anyone who criticizes free trade must either be ignorant of economics, or the spokesman of some special interest w ...
  • Is the Sun Finally Setting on Climate Change Skept ...
    Over the last few years I've noticed something interesting about our ongoing climate change discussions. It used to be that logic and knowledge were the keys. We looked at the best available science, weighed the predicted costs of action versus the predicted costs of inaction, and then considered th ...

Planetsave

  • EPA’s “Climate Change Indicators in the US&# ...
    The last major section from the EPA’s new  Climate Change Indicators in the US report is society and ecosystems. Below are key summary points. Clear changes in growing seasons, bird migration leaf growth and blooming dates have occurred and the trends suggest that they will continue. Heat-related ...
  • Researchers Find Alaskan Megaflood Happened 17,000 ...
    New research from the University of Washington indicates that one of the planet’s largest fresh-water megafloods happened some 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska. The comedic value of this story comes from the location of the megaflood, which flooded areas down what is now the Ma ...
  • Did Earth’s Water Arrive on a Meteor?
    Scientists believe that the discovery of ice and organic molecules on an asteroid lingering in orbit between Mars and Jupiter hints at the origin of Earthâs oceans and life 4 billion years ago. “What we’ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its ...
  • New Southern Ocean Current Discovered
    Ocean currents are one of the driving forces behind our planetâs climate, and according to Japanese and Australian scientists a new current has been discovered in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience the researchers describe an ocean current, ap ...
  • EPA’s “Climate Change Indicators in th ...
    Next in our coverage of the EPA’s new Climate Change Indicators in the US report, below are key summary findings regarding the oceans. From very concerning increases in ocean acidity to a relatively fast-rising sea level to a heating ocean, all of our concerns are not in the atmosphere or on land. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International Signs on to STOP LAND GRA ...
    Grassroots International, along with scores of organizations and global activists, endorses the call of the Via Campesina to "Stop�Land Grabbing Now!" and say no to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank. read more
  • An Open Letter to Oxfam Regarding Biotechnology
    Subheadline:� Grassroots International Among the List of Signers Image:� oxfam-biotech.jpg Grassroots International recently joined a growing list of colleagues and food sove ...
  • The Joy of Justice: Marching with the Coalition of ...
    CIW-march4-10.jpg Below is a blog from our colleague Stephen Bartlett of Agricultural Missions entitled “Praying with our Feet Journal.” Along with 1,000 others, he participated in the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) Farmworker Freedom Ma ...
  • Dispatches from World People's Conference on Clima ...
    A World People's Conference on Climate Change has been called by Bolivia as a response to the failure of COP15 . As one of the few countries that openly criticized the negotiations in Copenhagen and has refused to sign the Copenhagen Accord, Bolivia has invited governments, organizations, and pe ...
  • Israeli-ordered Deportations Threaten Palestinians
    4420016059_8747cf54f2_b.jpg � This week in the West Bank, Palestinians brace for the consequences of one of the harshest Israeli military orders to date. �In what Israeli news source Haaretz called “a step too far ,” the military order set int ...

Climate

  • April 30, 2010
    Climate Bill Analysis to Take Up to 8 Weeks: EIA (Reuters)  The U.S. Energy Information Administration will take up to eight weeks to analyze the stalled Senate climate bill after receiving most of its details from the office of Sen. John Kerry, a spokesman said on Thursday. Gulf Spill S ...
  • April 29, 2010
    Massachusetts' Cape Wind Gets Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down (AP) With federal approval now behind them, developers of what could be the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod still have a tough journey ahead, as opponents vowed to kill the project in the courts. Reid: Despite Activist ...
  • April 29, 2010
    Massachusetts' Cape Wind Gets Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down (AP) With federal approval now behind them, developers of what could be the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod still have a tough journey ahead, as opponents vowed to kill the project in the courts. Reid: Despite Activist Uproar, ...
  • April 28, 2010
    Reid: Senate to Act on Climate Before Immigration (AP)  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he is willing to bring up climate legislation ahead of an immigration bill, a possible first step toward resolving a dispute with Senate Republicans that threatens to derail six months of work. ...
  • April 28, 2010
    Reid: Senate to Act on Climate Before Immigration (AP)  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he is willing to bring up climate legislation ahead of an immigration bill, a possible first step toward resolving a dispute with Senate Republicans that threatens to derail six months of wo ...

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

  • Coulda, Shoulda, Wouldn'tve: What Disasters Are We ...
    "No one could have known." That's what they always say after a disaster. Well, it's what the establishment--a good '60s word, let's bring it back!--says. "No one could have known" is the perfect excuse. Don't blame us, we did the best we could, but we're not clairvoyant. But it's rarely true. Most o ...
  • Harry Reid's opponent: An accident beginning to ha ...
    There is no doubt that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will have to be the comeback kid in his battle for reelection, but take a look at his most likely opponent, and don't count Reid out just yet. Here is the healthcare plan of Reid's likely challenger: If you have major root-canal work ...
  • Murphy's Law and the Stupidity of Obama's Drill-Dr ...
    British Petroleum had a fail-safe system for it's Deepwater Horizon floating deep-water drilling rig. You know, the one that blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving a tangled spaghetti pile of 22-inch steel pipe one mile long all balled up on the sea floor a mile below the surface, and that ...
  • Glenn Beck's show has lost 1/3 of its TV audience ...
    Should we blame it on the Massa Moment? Will that Hindenburg performance soon be seen as the turning point for Glenn Beck : the pivotal moment when the Fox News show began to permanently leak viewers? Who can forget the March day that will live in cable news infamy, when Beck invited embattled Democ ...
  • Big Wins for Big Oil As Alternatives Appear
    It’s too bad for British Petroleum. Or is it? For days after its Transocean operated rig exploded and sank with eleven of its workers in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said it had the oil contained. Not exactly. The rig’s been gushing 1,000 barrels of oil a day since Saturday. Costs for cleanup ar ...

Ten Percent

  • Free Gaza Freedom Flotilla Announces Aid Mission F ...
    Buy Cement To Be Sent On The Freighters Or Donate Here (London, UK) On May 24, 2010, the Freedom Flotilla sets sail for Gaza determined to, once again, challenge Israel’s blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in an open-air prison. Under the coordination of the Free Gaza Movement, numerous hu ...
  • This IS Shock Doctrine
    “We now believe that the Spanish economy’s shift away from credit-fuelled economic growth is likely to result in a more protracted period of sluggish activity than we previously assumed,” Standard & Poor’scredit analyst Marko Mrsnik said. The credit ratings corporations are attacking a country for ...
  • The Human Centipede Model For Leadership In A Hung ...
    Human Centipede is a schlock horror movie whereby a mad doctor who specialises in separating conjoined twins creates a… The clue’s in the title, he surgically attaches three hapless victims together, anus to mouth, to form an organism with one digestive tract, biologically implausible as that may be ...
  • The Met Police Are Protecting A Killer They Know T ...
    I wonder…if Officer E, the killer of Blair Peach, is named and if god forbid some member of the public foolishly follows the incitement by the right wing media (who never fail to side with the police oh the irony) to take an eye for an eye and enacts vigilante justice on the officer then the polic ...
  • An Iran Quiz
    Via Juan Cole, this Iran Quiz by Jeffrey Rudolph is a counterpoint to the pro-attack narrative for a broad (US) audience but it’s worth a spin wherever you are. As our leaders use Iran as a prop to measure their military and foreign policy election race  particulars it is relevant here -what Washin ...

Booman Tribune

  • When Will the Riots in AZ Begin?
    In Maricopa County, masked deputies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio are conducting massive sweeps of the streets in search of illegal aliens. That's right, the tactics of used by members of death squads in Latin America and in Iraq, are being employed to terrorize Hispanic-Americans who happen to live or pass ...
  • Ecological Apocalypse in the Gulf
    What are the chances that British Petroleum and Transocean will pay us back for the staggering costs of cleaning up the mess from their exploded oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico? The Washington Post reports that the oil is already washing ashore: An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exx ...
  • America Likes the Arizona Bill
    While a lot of polling shows a quite tolerant attitude towards undocumented workers, Gallup shows how meaningless those results can be. Most Americans have heard about Arizona's tough new immigration law, and they generally support it. The law was passed partly in response to a lack of federal ...
  • On Charlie Crist's Caucus Choice
    Florida Governor Charlie Crist will announce today that he is leaving the Republican Party and will seek a U.S. Senate seat as an independent. Chris Cillizza is correct in making the following observations: Which side will he caucus with if elected?: Crist is almost certain to deflect this quest ...
  • Progress Report
    It's easy to overlook the many accomplishments of the Obama administration in their first year because so many of them were relatively low profile, or were little more than course corrections. But it will be very hard to overlook what the administration accomplishes this year. Whatever its shortco ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Military drone pilots could be prosecuted as war c ...
    A while ago, we were wondering whether killing a drone or UAV pilot counted as a legitimate act of war. Still no word on that one, but there’s more bad news for the CIA drone pilots in the form of a professor of national security law who suggests that the drone pilots – and their [...] Project Wond ...
  • Feel it in your fingers, feel it in your toes: hap ...
    Via Chairman Bruce, here’s an interior design concept for those of you who find carpets or exposed boards a little pedestrian (arf!) – augmented reality floor tiles. SRSLY. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of s ...
  • Military drone pilots could be prosecuted as war c ...
    A while ago, we were wondering whether killing a drone or UAV pilot counted as a legitimate act of war. Still no word on that one, but there’s more bad news for the CIA drone pilots in the form of a professor of national security law who suggests that the drone pilots – and their [...] Project Won ...
  • Feel it in your fingers, feel it in your toes: hap ...
    Via Chairman Bruce, here’s an interior design concept for those of you who find carpets or exposed boards a little pedestrian (arf!) – augmented reality floor tiles. SRSLY. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of s ...
  • Fantasies of mere competence: Football Manager 201 ...
    ### This being the multi-media future and all, I would like to begin this column by asking you to consider a video taken from Charlie Brooker’s BBC 4 TV series Screenwipe : Now, I consider this to be one of the most enjoyable rants I have ever seen on television. Aside from a few minor quibbles [ ...

Therapy News

  • Self-Regulation in Children Linked with Greater Ac ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When searching for contributing factors in the academic outcomes of young children, education experts and developmental psychologists often consider socio-economic characteristics such as poverty, the education level of the parents, and depressive symptoms in the moth ...
  • Alice Miller, Psychoanalyst and Author, Dies at 87
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline With major contributions to the field of child psychology, Alice Miller has been a controversial figure among professionals and the public for years. Describing the many ways that children can be adversely affected in childhood, the psychoanalyst was sometimes blamed ...
  • Anger 101 – Understanding, Appreciating, and Copin ...
    By Stuart A. Kaplowitz, MFT, Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Stuart and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile The first in a series of articles dedicated to understanding, appreciating, and coping with our anger. “Sticks and Stones.” I am sure most of you have heard this saying and ...
  • “Right” or “Relationship”
    By Laura HS Collins, LCSW Click here to contact Laura and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Fighting verbally is an integral part of any relationship. You put at least two people together in the same place for a long period of time, and they’ll fight eventually. If someone tells you that they “neve ...
  • What Messages About Yourself Are You Sending To Ot ...
    By Lindsey Antin, M.A., MFT, Solution Focused Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lindsey and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile One of the most powerful advantages of solution-focused therapy is its ability to give the client control of his or her therapy. A client learns to see ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Chase: Stop Funding MTR; May 6 Day of Action Again ...
    Chase: Stop Funding MTR; May 6 Day of Action Against Chase's Mountaintop ... It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) Join Rainforest Action Network and allies all over Appalachia and the country in stopping Chase's investments in mountaintop removal . ... UNC students ask leaders not to renew coal contract ...
  • OSMRE announces plans for stream rule study - Char ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) OSMRE announces plans for stream rule study Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 6:03 pm and is filed under Mountaintop Removal , OSMRE. You can follow any responses to this entry ...
  • Senior wins grand prize in film competition - Davi ...
    Senior wins grand prize in film competition Davidsonian “Their community has faced challenges like prescription drug abuse and mountaintop removal that are related to their number one industry, coal-mining,” ...
  • The EPA Has Vetoed a Mountaintop Removal Mining Pe ...
    The EPA Has Vetoed a Mountaintop Removal Mining Permit for First Time CafeSentido.com ... on key environmental regulatory responsibilities, has for the first time in its history vetoed the approval of a permit for mountaintop removal mining. ... and more��
  • EPA sets May 18 W.Va. hearing on mountaintop remov ...
    EPA sets May 18 W.Va. hearing on mountaintop removal permit for planned Spruce ... FOX2now.com EPA has said it plans to veto a previously granted permit for the mountaintop removal operation because valley fills would bury 7 miles of intermittent ... Spruce Mine Veto Hearing Scheduled West Virginia ...

Memeorandum

  • Op-Ed Contributor: Why Arizona Had to Draw a Line ...
    Kris W. Kobach / New York Times : Op-Ed Contributor: Why Arizona Had to Draw a Line on Illegal Immigrants   —  ON Friday, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a law — SB 1070 — that prohibits the harboring of illegal aliens and makes it a state crime for an alien to commit certain federal immigration ...
  • Sarah Palin - If Sarah Palin played a loud, grindi ...
    Ted Nugent / Time : Sarah Palin   —  If Sarah Palin played a loud, grinding instrument, she would be in my band.  The independent patriotic spirit, attitude and soul of our forefathers are alive and well in Sarah.  In the way she lives, what she says and how she dedicates herself to make America b ...
  • Kaine: GOP 'civil war' pushing moderate Republican ...
    Shannon Travis / CNN : Kaine: GOP ‘civil war’ pushing moderate Republicans ‘overboard’   —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - The chairman of the Democratic National Committee suggested Wednesday that Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist could become a political victim of a “corrosive civil war” among Republican ...
  • President Obama knows when you have earned enough ...
    Examiner : President Obama knows when you have earned enough money   —  President Obama stopped by Quincy, IL this afternoon and gave a speech about financial reform.  It contained all of the typical talking points that you might expect: Wall Street is big and greedy and needs to be controlled …
  • Five Dynamics to Watch on Financial Reform. (Tim F ...
    Tim Fernholz / American Prospect : Five Dynamics to Watch on Financial Reform.   —  Here are five trends to watch:  — Dodd's Dealing.  Senate Banking Committee Chair Chris Dodd is still hunting for a deal that brings Republicans on board.  That means he'll be open to negotiating key Republican hang ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.7, western Indian-Antarctic Ridge
    Thursday, April 29, 2010 23:48:06 UTC Friday, April 30, 2010 08:48:06 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.40 km (6.46 mi)
  • M 5.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Thursday, April 29, 2010 07:56:34 UTC Thursday, April 29, 2010 03:56:34 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Thursday, April 29, 2010 00:40:30 UTC Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:40:30 AM at epicenter Depth : 200.40 km (124.52 mi)
  • M 5.5, Myanmar
    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 18:01:21 UTC Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:31:21 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.10 km (21.81 mi)
  • M 5.0, Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia
    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 14:05:06 UTC Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:06 PM at epicenter Depth : 143.00 km (88.86 mi)

China Dialogue

  • “Land-grabbing” in Africa (1)
    In what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era, rich countries are farming land on the continent for their own citizens while Africans go hungry, John Vidal reports. We turned off the main road to Awassa , talked our way past security guards and drove nearly two kilometres ac ...
  • A big fight for small farms
    Battles over forcible acquisition of India’s agricultural land for industry are raging – particularly in the country’s tribal belt, where indigenous groups have upset corporate plans to tap mineral riches. Amy Kazmin reports. First, the land surveyors came. Then the rumours spread through the villag ...
  • Activism makes us happy
    Political engagement may not be a barrel of laughs, but US-German research shows there is a link between well-being and taking action on issues that affect our lives, writes Aditya Chakrabortty. Marching in the drizzle against wars in far-off countries, writing letters protesting the government’s la ...
  • Resisting the urban dinosaurs
    Naive utopian development projects, such as those in drought-stricken Kunming, only exacerbate social and environmental problems, writes Zhu Xiaoyang. The document now facing me, from the Kunming City Planning Commission Office, in the south-west Chinese province of Yunnan, is certainly worth a read ...
  • Preparing for an ice-free Arctic (3)
    China is treading a tricky political line in the North Pole, anxious to be included but unwilling to rock the boat. In the conclusion of a three-part article, Linda Jakobson examines its approach. Although China’s assistant minister of foreign affairs, Hu Zhengyue , has said that “China does not hav ...

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Threat Level

  • Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
    Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars. The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called ...
  • iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
    The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says althou ...
  • Dropping PS3 Linux Support Lands Sony in Court
    Sony’s move to disable Linux on the PlayStation 3 is being met by a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the company of unjustly enriching itself at the expense of its customers. Citing “security concerns,” Sony announced in March it was no longer supporting the so-called “Other OS” feature on th ...
  • S.F. Admin Guilty of Hijacking City Passwords
    After a six-month trial, a San Francisco city admin was found guilty Tuesday of a sole felony count of hijacking the city’s computer system. Terry Childs, 45, was guilty of one count of locking out the city from its FiberWAN network containing city e-mails, payroll, police records, information on ja ...
  • Apple May Have Traced iPhone to Finder’s Address
    People identifying themselves as representing Apple last week visited and sought permission to search the Silicon Valley address of the college-age man who came into possession of a next-generation iPhone prototype, according to a person involved with the find. “Someone came to [the finder's] house ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Germany sees private sector helping Greece
    ATHENS (Reuters) - European banks will contribute to a multi-billion euro Greek bailout, Germany said on Friday, as talks to secure European Union and IMF aid to Athens in return for draconian budget cuts edged toward a deal.
  • Euro edges up on Greek debt aid expectations
    LONDON (Reuters) - The euro rose on Friday, extending gains against the dollar as expectations Greece will soon receive emergency aid helped to quieten jitters about how Athens will pay its debts.
  • Obama, Bill Clinton influential, Hillary not: TIME
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to influence, President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and pop star Lady Gaga have it, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton does not, according to a Time magazine list published Thursday.
  • UPDATE 1-U.S. Gulf state shrimpers sue BP over oil ...
    * Gulf states account for bulk of U.S. shrimp industry (Adds suit filed in Alabama, background, quotes)
  • Stocks rise, euro wavers, await Greek rescue news
    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Friday and the euro steadied on hopes that a fractious European Union will agree on a bailout package for Greece within days as it struggles to keep the debt crisis from spreading to other weak countries.

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: Healthcare for All – April Call
    April’s Healthcare for All call focused more intensely than usual on the actions PDA members and all supporters of Medicare for All can take individually and as a group. Donna Smith, Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair, ...
  • Some Arizona History; A Context for SB 1070?
    By Gerry Straatemeier | From Salon.com As the Arizona anti-immigrant law SB 1070 is signed into law, I was thinking this morning that some Arizona History may begin to explain some of the very different ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 6 with Rep. Ji ...
    PDA national director Tim Carpenter interviews PDA advisory board member Rep. Jim McGovern from Massachusetts' third congressional district on the upcoming Afghanisatn supplemental appropriation bill, Medcare for all and state efforts to pass single-payer healthcare, ...
  • Creating a just and humane healthcare system &#823 ...
    “Declaration of Health Independence and Security” Inasmuch as the national healthcare reform effort did not produce a result that will provide the basic human right to healthcare to all in the United States, the work of ...
  • WALL STREET POKER AFTER DARK
    BanksterUSA Releases New Video Calling for the Break Up of the Big Banks A banking reform bill passed the House in December. Now the action moves to the Senate. Our new video features Jamie “Derivatives” Dimon ...

Marler Blog

  • For those interested in E. coli O145 like those in ...
    Here is a very interesting and recent article on E. coli O145 - including outbreaks:
  • New York now linked to E. coli O145 Outbreak in Mi ...
    Misti Crane of the Columbus Dispatch (she has covered her fair share of E. coli outbreaks) reported a few moments ago that Health officials in New York have linked a person's illness there to the E. coli outbreak in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and are looking into at least 12 more possib ...
  • Durham North Carolina Restaurant linked to 15 Salm ...
    Despite the fact Patti Waller our Epidemiologist has eaten there dozens of times, the Durham County Health Department is investigating Bullock's Barbecue restaurant after 15 people were sickened there last week, officials said Tuesday. Seven people were hospitalized for dehydration because of vomit ...
  • Seven Sickened by Salmonella at Los Dos Amigos
    Douglas County Public Health officials and the Oregon Department of Human Services are investigating an outbreak of salmonellosis that has been reported by local medical providers in the past week. Initial investigation results show that the seven people who have become ill ate at the Los Dos Amigos ...
  • Non-E. coli O157:H7 illnesses climb to 21 in Michi ...
    Columbus Ohio public health officials announced today that five local confirmed cases of non-E. coli O157 have all been linked to seven cases of in Michigan. The cases in Central Ohio are linked by DNA fingerprinting (PFGE) to cases in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition, eight probable cases are unde ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Automotive X Prize revs up for Michigan events, Kn ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Electric , Diesel Governor Granholm and X-Prize CEO Peter Diamandis in the Amp'd Sky - Click above for high-res image gallery At the official kick-off event for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize in Lansing, MI today, the same cars, most of the same people and the s ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.30.10
    Sunk Gulf oil rig spilling up to 5,000 barrels of crude every day Going from "not bad" to worse. James Cameron attempts to terminate the oil and coal lobbies (on CNN) First Pandora, now Eart ...
  • Report: Tesla's Elon Musk says new CUV model due i ...
    Filed under: Crossover , Tesla , Electric IED Tesla EYE concept - Click above for high-res image gallery The Tesla EYE design concept we saw in at the Geneva Motor Show was just an experiment some students at the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin did with the Tesla brand. But the idea that we wi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.29.10
    Know what you want and need, or you may not get to buy a Nissan Leaf "We may tell the customer, 'Look, you'd be better off buying an Altima or a Sentra because your driving patterns are not ideal for this car .'" ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.28.10
    Hey ladies: survey says it's easier to get a guy if you get an eco-car first Go green! Report: Ford Fusion Hybrid pays off quickest Takes just 5.6 years to pay off the hybrid premium. Then it ...

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!

  • Boycotting Arizona’s Racism
    Arizona was the only territory west of Texas to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War. A century later, it fought recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. This week, an anti-immigrant bill was signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Arizona Sen ...
  • Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
    Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from El Alto International, the world’s highest commercial ...
  • Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal
    Massey Energy runs the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine in Montcoal, W.Va., where 29 miners were killed last week. The loss of life is tragic, but the UBB explosion is more than tragic; it is criminal. When corporations are guilty of crimes, however, they don’t go to prison, they don’t forfeit their fre ...
  • Poet and Author Alice Walker Speaking in Gaza
    Following the Israeli siege, Alice Walker visited Gaza in March 2009 along with a 60-member international delegation led by Code Pink. Walking among the ruins, she spoke to Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat.
  • Democracy Now! Evening with Alice Walker on Tuesda ...
    Date: April 13, 2010 Time: 5:00 pm Location: 207 West 25th Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10001 Tickets: $1,000/person Click here to purchase your tickets today. Support Democracy Now! as we launch our new green TV/radio/internet broadcast studios with Alice Walker! Be one ...

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

  • Why Are Windmills Always White And Have Three Blad ...
    The federal government has green-lighted the nation's first offshore wind farm, to be built off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. Opponents claim that 130 white, three-bladed turbines will detract from the natural beauty of Nantucket Sound. Why do all modern windmills look the same?
  • US Approves First Offshore Wind Farm
    Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar traveled to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to announce that the 450 megawatt, 130 turbine, $900 million Cape Wind project is becoming a reality.
  • US Coast Guard Wants to Set Gulf Oil Slick On Fire
    The Gulf oil slick could be set aflame on Wednesday, says US Coast Guard officials. But environmental scientists at Louisiana State University who are studying the oil spill, question whether burning would work. The results will be logged in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
  • Scientists Capture Elusive Giant Palouse Earthworm
    A Foot Long And Smells Like Lilies?
  • What happens to the oil they're skimming off of th ...
    A deep-sea oil well has been leaking 42,000 gallons per day since the massive rig explosion last week off the Louisiana coast. Remote-controlled submarines are trying to plug the leak, and cleanup crews have collected 48,000 gallons of oily water from the area. Is there any use for the recovered oil ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Seize and Liquidate Goldman Sachs
    Webster G. Tarpley April 27, 2010 Today’s Senate hearings, carried on CNBC, Bloomberg, and C-SPAN, represent the first major exposure of the American people to the scandalous frauds of the derivatives casino, including synthetic collateralized debt obligations (synthetic CDOs or CDO²). These are thi ...
  • Ancient artifacts revealed as northern ice patches ...
    What these discoveries mean is that these areas were once as warm as they are now, but you will not find this obvious fact in the article… High in the Mackenzie Mountains, scientists are finding a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools being revealed as warming temperatures melt patches of ice that ...
  • Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative
    For over a month now, since the farcical conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, I have been silent, partly through family commitments abroad in the USA, but also because, in this noisy world, in ‘The Clamour Of The Times’, it is on occasion better to be quiet and contemplative, to o ...
  • Global warming dirt-carbon peril models are wrong, ...
    By Lewis Page According to a statement released this week by the US National Science Foundation, which funded the research: Conventional scientific wisdom holds that even a few degrees of human-caused climate warming will shift fungi and bacteria that consume soil-based carbon into overdrive, and th ...
  • Nails in the Global Warming Coffin
    My silence since mid-February has not meant that I have taken my eye off the climate-change scene. Far from it, although I have to confess that I have become increasingly wearied and bored by the fatuous lack of reality exhibited on this topic by many UK politicians. It is so glaringly obvious that, ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Social Media Marketing Panel at GMU on 13 May
    I'm excited to announce that I will be a panelist at the Social Media Marketing: How to Make It Work for You, event on May 13th, 2010. Related posts: Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Information 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media 10 Ways to Change the World Through Soc ...
  • Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Hea ...
    Add soil depletion to RoundUp’s (and Monsanto’s) ever-growing list of negative effects. More (much more) in and below the cartoon. Apologies for the excess text–it’s taken over this cartoon like RoundUp resistant superweeds are taking over farms across the nation… Related info: USDA downplays ow ...
  • Earth Day Climate Rally Concert 2010 – Exclusive V ...
    Earth Day Climate Rally 2010 Exclusive Videos and Photos by Adam Shake Related posts: Verizon Apologizes for Sponsoring Big Coal Rally and Concert Twilight Earth Exclusive: The Bigger Picture – Documenting Cop15 White House Farmers Market a Success. Photos and Story by Twilight Earth.
  • Earth Music – Earth Day 2010
    Happy Earth Day. Enjoy. Related posts: Happy 40th- Earth Day! Earth Day 2010 – History and Events Earth Day 2010 is Almost Upon Us – 7 Ways to Get Involved Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Information
  • Warning: This Soup is Inedible and Toxic – Toxic S ...
    I knew that big corporations manipulate the system to delay environmental reform. That's a no brainer. But I didn't fully comprehend how many lives they're endangering in the process--around the world. Related posts: Giveaway: A Global Warning? History Channel DVD U.S. Petroleum Industry Respo ...

Inhabitat

  • Silvertree Eco-Tower Rises in the UK
    The Royal Victoria Docks in London are bursting with development, and we were excited to hear that the latest tower to take hold boasts some extraordinary eco features. Designed by Studio RHE, the Silvertree is a 24-story skyscraper wrapped in a shimmering photovoltaic skin that is interspersed with ...
  • Stunning Renovation Showcases Reclaimed Materials, ...
    Sometimes it takes looking to the past and pulling cues from previous design theories to break new ground and push modern green design forward. Dezeen shows us Edwards Moore’s stunning renovation of an existing apartment in Fitzroy, Melbourne that creates more available space by stripping away divi ...
  • Whirlpool’s Green Eco System Kitchen Debuts in Mil ...
    This year’s edition of the Eurocucina kitchen showcase at Milan Design Week was painted green by Whirlpool’s GreenKitchen eco-system prototype. Featuring an impressive level of interconnectivity between different appliances, the beautiful and futuristic kitchen creates an efficient workspace that sa ...
  • Champ: A Sofa that Helps You Get into Shape!
    There’s no reason to let your couch kick your butt into an unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle. Designed for Italian furniture manufacturer Campeggi, Tobias Fraenzel’s “Champ” lets you show your sofa who’s boss. This multi-faceted chair which made its debut at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair not only af ...
  • Green Tech’s Big Patent Problem
    You may remember the battle that raged between pharmaceutical companies who wanted to hold on to their patents and African nations who couldn’t afford the non-generic price tag on the AIDS drugs that would help their dying populations. A similar problem is brewing over green energy technologies: dev ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Plan B: California Braces for Climate Change
    When it comes to environmental regulation, California doesn’t wait for the Feds to ride in and lay down the law. The Golden State led the way on mandating emissions-control equipment in motor vehicles in 1961. It pioneered tailpipe-emissions standards in 1967 and ratcheted them up into the 1990s, p ...
  • What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
    Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba – and Stanford University physician Paul Drain says it’s time for the United States to pay attention to our neighbor’s shoestring success. Despite a 50-year trade embargo by t ...
  • Gene Grows Worm Heads
    A worm named Schmidtea mediterranea has the unique ability to regenerate not only its limbs, but also its head and brain. Now, scientists studying the worm have discovered one of the genes that allows it to accomplish this amazing feat. The gene, called “smed-prep,” regulates the location and struc ...
  • See Better by Believing You Can
    Imagine seeing better by thinking differently. That’s a vision with a future, according to Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer. Eyesight markedly improved when people were experimentally induced to believe that they could see especially well, Langer and her colleagues report in the April P ...
  • Twin Study Deepens Multiple Sclerosis Mystery
    The most detailed genetic investigation ever of multiple sclerosis has produced more questions than answers. Using extremely fine-grained analytical tools, scientists compared genetic information in three sets of identical twins. Of each pair, one twin had MS, and the other didn’t â yet their gen ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - South Korea's president will meet with his Chinese counterpart , as well as with North Korea's No. 2 official, while in Shanghai for 2010 World Expo. It's safe to imagine the Cheonan sinking will lead the agenda. The irony here is that the sinking is bringing Lee face to face with Hu Jintao, while ...
  • For Cyprus, Another Obstacle to Peace
    International Crisis Group /Turkey/Cyprus Project Research Assistant Didem Akyel has a candid appraisal over at World Politics Review of the Turkish Cypriot elections earlier this month, which resulted in a victory for the hard-line candidate Dervis Eroglu. This outcome - which is likely to unravel ...
  • Dancing Around the Word "Torture"
    John Cole spotted something interesting in the media’s coverage of recent revelations of widespread torture in Iraqi government prisons: the New York TimesWashington Post and NPR all use the word “torture” to, rightly, describe the type of abuse endured by the detainees in question. While that migh ...
  • Bono on "Peaceniks in Fatigues"
    Paul David Hewson, KBE — known the world over as by his stage name Bono — articulated last night, probably as well as anyone I've heard on the subject, the crucial interdependence between human development and international security. Recognizing the extraordinary sacrifice of America's soldiers try ...
  • Are Conservative Foreign Policy Minds Closed?
    Daniel Drezner wants to know whether the views of our conservative counterparts have ossified in the same way that domestic policy voices on the right have gotten trapped inside their own echo chamber? I'd go along with Drezner's view that the foreign policy wonks haven't shown the same pathology of ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: American Exceptionalism, Redux.
    Let's pretend for a moment that we don't live in a world where every time there is a Supreme Court vacancy to be filled we are subjected to a chorus of voices soberly suggesting that the president's nominee must meet an inhuman standard of neutrality and be dedicated to limiting their decision-maki ...
  • Schumer and Graham Draft Enforcement-Heavy Immigra ...
    Today, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer released their extended plan for immigration reform. I still need to read over the document more carefully, but just a glance gives you an idea of what they have in mind: Their proposal is 26 pages long, and 17 of those pages detail ways of improving enf ...
  • Grumbling in the White House Press Corps
    President Obama with reporters in happier times (White House/Pete Souza) Politico has an interesting piece up about displeasure within the White House press corps, which feels that it has been mistreated by the administration's press operation. Some of the complaints aren't particularly meaningful ...
  • The Little Picture: The "British Obama."
    Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg visits Watford to launch the 2010 General Election campaign, on April 6. The United Kingdom's general election will be held May 6. (Fishnik/Alex Folkes)
  • Law and Politics on the Supreme Court.
    Common knowledge: Supreme Court confirmation hearings are now conducted on a kindergarten level. The dominant theme is that some judges follow the law, while other judges are "political." And of course the nominee issues an endless stream of vacuous banalities assuring the country that he or she ...

Andy Worthington

  • Seven Days for Seven Years: A Week-Long Vigil for ...
    One month ago, I addressed the disturbing case of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in an article marking “Aafia Siddiqui Day,” in which I ran through what I regarded as some of the particularly pertinent questions to ask regarding her disappearance for five years, the whereabouts of her t ...
  • Fahad Hashmi and Terrorist Hysteria in US Courts
    In America’s post-9/11 zeal for elevating terror suspects to the status of supermen, existentially threatening the very life of the United States in an unprecedented manner (rather than managing one massive attack on the US through the intelligence agencies’ inability to communicate with one another ...
  • Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over ...
    For the prisoners in Guantánamo, countless obstacles have been raised to prevent them from ever being freed. When the Supreme Court granted the prisoners habeas corpus rights in June 2004, for example, the Bush administration responded by convening, instead, military tribunals whose main purpose was ...
  • Review: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” ...
    Iâm pleased to report that Monday nightâs screening of the new documentary film, âOutside the Law: Stories from Guantánamoâ at the Free Word Centre on Farringdon Road was a great success. The screening took place as part of the London International Documentary Festival, and featured an exce ...
  • Col. Morris Davis Criticizes Obama on Guantánamo
    Iâve helped unleash a blogging monster! Two weeks ago, I was delighted to receive an email from Morris Davis, the retired Air Force colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantánamo Bay, who resigned when placed in a chain of command under the Pentagon’s General Couns ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Medicare spending rose an OUTRAGEOUS 5% !eleventy! ...
    That is according to the CBO : Adjusted for timing shifts, Medicare spending rose by $7 billion (or 5 percent). Of course this is reason to be outraged at all that government spending coming out of our pockets, right? Right? Thankfully those fiscally responsible Republicans have come up with the gre ...
  • Not that we should Wonder about McMahon's 5$ bount ...
    But it kind of has to make ya wonder what McMahons' real intentions were when she put a bounty on college students' registration : DA to team with Secretary of State on voter registration probe A Register investigation published Friday online and in Sunday’s newspaper exposed how signature gather ...
  • Is Our Children Learned Yet?
    Clearly our town is hellbent on turning out thousands of uneducated kids in the future as New Milford has frozen the school budget for the second year straight. This is from an email that is circulating around and was forwarded to myself by more than one person: Dear Friends, Below is a letter I s ...
  • Offshore Drilling? WTF OBAMA???
    And before any negotiations on a bill for the milk starts some dumbasses have already given away the entire cow . Good luck with that. We have already seen what your administration's extraordinary leadership skill got us in enhancement of health insurance for profit reform . A little reading l ...
  • When we have a fire...
    The flames are going about twenty five feet in the air right now. If there is one thing every Boy Scout knows how to do? Start a really BIG FIRE.

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 ...
  • Border Watch Group to Form ‘Private Military ...
    Bill Davis, the founder of an Arizona border vigilante group called the Cochise County Militia [motto: “Doing the job our Government refuses to do!”] has taken pride in recent years over what he says is the group’s responsible and safe surveillance of Mexicans coming illegally into the United States ...
  • A Discussion of Today’s Washington Rallies
    I hosted an online chat this afternoon for the Washington Post about the gun rallies around Washington, D.C., and the growing radical right. I thought there were some excellent questions and urge readers to  take a look .
  • 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 ...
  • Soldiers Among Skinheads Charged in Brutal Beating ...
    Three soldiers are among a group of skinheads accused of severely beating a homeless man with baseball bats and pipes in Cincinnati. Police have charged two Iraq war veterans, Pvt. Riley Feller, 24, and Spc. Travis Condor, 25, with the felony assault of 52-year-old John Johnson at a homeless encampm ...

change: org.

  • Five Reasons Gov. Linda Lingle Should Sign Hawaii' ...
    Hawaii is one step closer to saying Aloha to civil unions, as their State House voted late last night in favor of legislation that will extend civil unions to same-sex and opposite-sex couples. The vote was 31-20, a pretty overwhelming total but three votes shy of being able to override a veto from ...
  • Should Passersby Be Arrested for Homeless Hero's D ...
    After the initial shock of reading the story of Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax , who was killed while trying to prevent a mugging in Queens, New York, I couldn't help but remember the last episode of that gloriously cynical sitcom  Seinfeld , where the four main characters were arrested and jailed for breaki ...
  • Massachusetts Health Care Reform Helps Minorities ...
    Researchers have found that health care reform in Massachusetts improved minority patients' access to some surgeries and treatments more than white patients. Boston University School of Medicine researchers studied four years of hospital records of 2,656,554 white patients, 195,481 black patients, a ...
  • Protect Your Skin With Fair Trade This Summer
    As you get ready to head down to the beach for the first time this year, you'll want to make sure your bag is packed and ready to go with all the things you need to enjoy the day: a big towel, sunglasses, your iPod, a magazine, sun block and perhaps some post-tanning lotion or gel to soothe those pa ...
  • Hollywood Changes Its Mind About Plastic Surgery
    The New York Times recently ran a piece about how in Hollywood plastic surgery has already become passé. As writer Laura Holson points out, "It took years for Hollywood to create the perfect woman. Now it wants the old one back." Holson interviews casting directors, directors, and producers who say ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Interior Secretary Approves Cape Wind, Nation's Fi ...
    by Beth Daley In a groundbreaking decision that some say will usher in a new era of clean energy, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today he had approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, the controversial Cape Wind project off of Cape Cod. read more
  • Economic and Corporate Powers Call for Hike in Glo ...
    by Juliette Jowit in Paris Major economies are pushing for substantial increases in the price of water around the world as concern mounts about dwindling supplies and rising population .read more
  • Organic, Small Farmers Fret over FDA Regulation
    by Carolyn Lochhead WASHINGTON - Small farmers in California who have led a national movement away from industrial agriculture face a looming crackdown on food safety that they say is geared to big corporate farms and will make it harder for them to survive. The small growers, many of whom grow doze ...
  • Leaving 'Oil in the Soil': Ecuadoran President Con ...
    QUITO, Ecuador - President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador's largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, th ...
  • Iraqis Tortured at Secret Baghdad Prison, says Wat ...
    by Mark Tran Iraqis held at a secret prison in Baghdad were routinely tortured using whips, electric shocks and rape, according to an investigation by Human Rights Watch. read more

Lifehacker

  • XP-More Extends Windows 7's Virtual Machine Manage ...
    Windows: The built-in virtual machine system in Windows 7 is bare bones. If all you need is to launch XP-mode to run an occasional application, not an issue. XP-More makes managing, creating, and copying virtual machines easier. More�� ...
  • Skyfire 2.0 Plays Some Flash Videos on Android Pho ...
    Android: Skyfire's marquee feature is converting Flash videos on its servers and sends them back for your Android viewing pleasure. But this alternative browser also switches between full and mobile sites on the fly, offers pinch-to-zoom funct ...
  • Save Money by Employing a Third-Party Haggler [Neg ...
    We're big fans of negotiating and always asking for a lower price . Not everyone is comfortable negotiating and some of us didn't grow up around hagglers. In that case it can pay big to employ a friend as a negotiation agent. More�� ...
  • Set Google Voice as Your Skype Caller ID [Skype]
    A Google Voice number, one that rings all your phones, makes good sense as the caller ID number for outgoing Skype calls. Google Voice blocked the verification SMS that Skype needed until recently, but Google's flipped the switch and made it c ...
  • Firefox to Get Totally Customizable Menu Bars [Fir ...
    You could do it with CSS tweaks and various add-ons before, but the latest nightly builds of the next major Firefox version suggest that users will be able to add and remove any toolbar button , from both the main forward/back/address bar to t ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Drone Pilots Are War Criminals: Law Profs
    By Steve Hynd I've thought for some time now that there was a good case to be made that drone attacks on the sovereign territory of nations which the U.S. hadn't declared war against were probably war crimes by virtue of the Nuremberg decision about aggressive warfare - just like Iraq. I also believ ...
  • Taliban Stronger Than Ever, Pentagon Says
    By Steve Hynd Some of us warned that an escalation, or "surge" in COINspeak, would lead to more violence in Afghanistan and actually strengthen the Taliban there. A new Pentagon report suggests we were right. A Pentagon report presented a sobering new assessment Wednesday of the Taliban-led insurgen ...
  • 800 troops in excess of McChrystal's "surge" to he ...
    By Steve Hynd NPR today has a story notable for two reasons. The Pentagon is sending 800 more American soldiers to Afghanistan in the coming weeks to work as trainers for the Afghan security forces. The contingent is needed because other NATO countries still haven't fulfilled their pledges to send t ...
  • The Next COIN Fail
    So the people of Afghanistan don't want us there and they are not alone the American people don't support the effort either and Congress is starting to listen.  If things go badly in Kandahar the pressure will only increase.  So could Kandahar be the beginning pf the end?
  • The Next COIN Fail
    So the people of Afghanistan don't want us there and they are not alone the American people don't support the effort either and Congress is starting to listen.  If things go badly in Kandahar the pressure will only increase.  So could Kandahar be the beginning pf the end?

Water Wars

  • Water Wars, Chicago-Style
    It's your home, you pay your water bill on time. Yet, your neighbor can shut your water off when he gets mad at you. It's happening in Chicago, CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.
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    Based upon space availability, The Champion prints calendar announcements and items for columns, including campus news, newsmakers and others for local organizations and individuals. For a complete listing, visit www.pioneerlocal.com/mortongrove , The deadline is 14 days before the desired publicati ...
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    Endorsement Offers Immediate Exposure to Distributors and Governmental Agencies in 65 Countries
  • United Treatment Centers, Inc. Announces Green Ene ...
    NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - 04/26/10) - United Treatment Centers, Inc. (Pinksheets: UTRM - News ), http://www.aquafreetoothbrush.com/ , the developer and marketer of a new innovative Waterless Toothbrush, announced today that the company's proprietary Aquafreedom waterless toothbrush has received th ...

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Prince Harry becomes eligible to fly choppers ...
    Prince Harry can once again return to fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan after he passed his Army pilot course, making him eligible to fly either the Lynx or Apache helicopters.
  • With three killings in 10 days Taliban haunts Swat ...
    Months after the Pakistan Army declared the Swat Valley safe claiming that the Taliban has been flushed out of the region, the extremists have resumed their activities killing at least three local leaders in ten days.
  • Cameron looks to Afghan withdrawal
    Apr 30 2010 British troops would start coming home from Afghanistan during the next Parliament under a Conservative government, David Cameron has suggested. In the party's clearest signal yet of a t...
  • Troops sent fishing to relax before Afghan deploym ...
    Fishing is being used to help troops keep calm before they head to Afghanistan. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Soldiers preparing to serve in
  • Flash Points: Terrorism; Afghanistan; Ukraine
    "Flash Points" spans the globe and explores hot button issues like national security and foreign policy. This week: Global Terrorism; Afghanistan Reconciliation; Ukrainian Parliament.

Futurismic

  • Military drone pilots could be prosecuted as war c ...
    A while ago, we were wondering whether killing a drone or UAV pilot counted as a legitimate act of war. Still no word on that one, but there’s more bad news for the CIA drone pilots in the form of a professor of national security law who suggests that the drone pilots – and their [...] Project Wond ...
  • Feel it in your fingers, feel it in your toes: hap ...
    Via Chairman Bruce, here’s an interior design concept for those of you who find carpets or exposed boards a little pedestrian (arf!) – augmented reality floor tiles. SRSLY. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of s ...
  • Military drone pilots could be prosecuted as war c ...
    A while ago, we were wondering whether killing a drone or UAV pilot counted as a legitimate act of war. Still no word on that one, but there’s more bad news for the CIA drone pilots in the form of a professor of national security law who suggests that the drone pilots – and their [...] Project Won ...
  • Feel it in your fingers, feel it in your toes: hap ...
    Via Chairman Bruce, here’s an interior design concept for those of you who find carpets or exposed boards a little pedestrian (arf!) – augmented reality floor tiles. SRSLY. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of s ...
  • Fantasies of mere competence: Football Manager 201 ...
    ### This being the multi-media future and all, I would like to begin this column by asking you to consider a video taken from Charlie Brooker’s BBC 4 TV series Screenwipe : Now, I consider this to be one of the most enjoyable rants I have ever seen on television. Aside from a few minor quibbles [ ...

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • House Holds Hearing on Protecting America's Worker ...
    On Workers Memorial Day and the 40 th anniversary of the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on pending legislation, the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), H.R. 2067. ...
  • House Holds Hearing on Protecting America's Worker ...
    On Workers Memorial Day and the 40 th anniversary of the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on pending legislation, the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), H.R. 2067. ...
  • Vote on whistleblower protection becomes a campaig ...
    Richie Robb was West Virginia's longest serving mayor (of South Charleston) when he left that office in 2007. He was a chair of the state's Republican Party and criticized President Bush for the war in Iraq. He has now switched parties and is challenging State Senator Erik Wells in the Democratic pr ...
  • Whistleblower Fired In Montegro For Participation ...
    Sandra Obradovic, leader of Trade Union of Aluminum Plant of Podgorica (KAP) in Montenegro, was fired for participating in a round table organized by anti-corruption organization MANS (The Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector).  Ms. Obradovic is a strong advocate of compliance with labor laws and “ ...
  • Whistleblower fatally shot in kidnapping ordered b ...
    Umar S. Israilov was an official in Chechnya's paramilitary forces, fighting separatists on behalf of the Russian-backed government of Chechnya’s president, Ramzan A. Kadyrov. In 2006, he left Russia and sought asylum.  He filed a complaint in the European Court of Human Rights accusing Kadyrov of p ...

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

  • Feds Just Itching To Regulate The Internet
    It looks like the folks in DC are looking for all sorts of ways to further regulate companies in Silicon Valley. Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing for the FTC to regulate how Facebook handles privacy issues , which has some legal experts scratching their heads noting that the FTC doesn't have the au ...
  • Music Industry Execs Debate Brokep From The Pirate ...
    Over in the UK, on Thursday evening, there was a music industry panel discussion that involved a massive number of panelists (ten -- which seems a bit too many) covering a wide variety of viewpoints from the music industry. Mostly they came from the traditional parts of the music industry, but the ...
  • White House Releases Public Comments On IP Enforce ...
    You may recall that, at the end of March, the White House's "IP Czar" (technical "Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator"), Victoria Espinel, had asked for public comments on how best to enforce intellectual property issues. While we were quite concerned that the tone of the request for comm ...
  • Legal Analysis Of Italian Criminal Conviction Of G ...
    We were among those amazed back in February, when an Italian court ruled that three Google execs were criminally liable for a video posted on Google Video, and were sentenced to six months suspended sentences. The video in question involved some kids taunting a mentally challenged boy and throwing ...
  • Is Just Talking About Infringing Content Infringin ...
    There are people out there who believe that just talking about the fact that infringing content is out there is infringing itself, but that seems like a plainly ridiculous standard for judging infringing content. Yet, we see cases like this all the time. Recently, there was Twitter taking down a t ...

VacTruth

  • Doctors found guilty of getting rich vaccinating o ...
    Christina England Vactruth.com 04/30/2010 A staggering 1,992 Indian doctors were found guilty this week of yet again profiting from the pharmaceutical industries. The Medical Council of India have found that doctors have been violating professional ethics, by excepting gifts, hospitality and ...
  • Grassley Probe: Pharma Provides 81% of NAMI Income
    Vera Hassner Sharav AHRP 04/29/2010 The $$$ amounts–one might call them, “fees for services rendered”–reveal the truth about who wields the greatest influence on NAMI policies–and whose interests are being served by NAMI. For years NAMI (the National Alliance of Mental Illness) refused to dislcose ...
  • Ministry admits proper guidelines not followed in ...
    New Delhi: The Union Health ZeeNews.com 04/29/2010 Ministry has admitted that proper guidelines were not adhered to while carrying out trials of HPV vaccine among young girls in Andhra Pradesh. The admission was made by the Secretary Department of Health Research V M Katoch to the Parliamentary Sta ...
  • Glaxo’s Sales, Profit Increase
    Jeanne Whalen Wall Street Journal 04/49/2010 Sales of the H1N1 swine-flu vaccine continued to buoy GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s earnings in the first quarter, helping to boost net profit by 19%, though Chief Executive Andrew Witty said a milder-than-expected pandemic has prompted some countries to try to ...
  • Sanofi-Aventis 1st quarter profit up 8.6 percent
    Emma Vandore Associated Press 04/29/2010 PARIS â Sanofi-Aventis reported Thursday an 8.6 percent increase in first quarter net profit thanks to its swine flu vaccine and strong sales of diabetes treatment Lantus. France’s largest drug maker said net profit in the three-month period rose to euro1. ...

BroadSnark

  • Does Culture Disappear?
    I often hear people express fear of losing their culture.  Sometimes, I sympathize with them.  I sympathize with indigenous people who are fighting for their dying languages.  I sympathize with the French farmer who led a revolt against McDonalds.  And I sympathize with Jews who – after survivin ...
  • 4/20 Quick Hit
    Not my regular posting day, but I can’t let 4/20 go by without posting something on the drug war.  Here’s a little debate with Ethan Nadelmann followed by links to some orgs that you should know about. Drug Policy Alliance Norml Marijuana Policy Project Stop the Drug War
  • What I’m Up To
    Just got back from the anarchist book fair in New York.  I attended a couple sessions – one on women in prison, one on anarchism and intersectionality.  I’ll give you the lowdown on those soon.  Best part was definitely having a chance to meet people I only knew in cyberspace. Before I went up to ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just got back from seeing Alice Walker at Busboys and Poets.  She spoke a lot about Israel, about finding your voice in the face of unspeakable horror, about starting where you are at and not always seeing change in terms of the big thing (policy…). Can’t wait to read her new book. She also answere ...
  • Does the Supreme Court Lead or Follow?
    Everyone is talking about Supreme Court nominations again.  I agree with those people who think that the court is going to be more conservative with the loss of Stevens.  But I’m looking at that a different way these days. I’ve always paid close attention to Supreme Court picks.  Partly that was ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...
  • Alwaki Tribe Denies Statement
    The Sheik of the Awlaki tribe in Yemen denied that tribal leaders held a meeting or threatened Yemeni citizens as is being widely reported in the Western media. Reuters reported receiving a faxed statement last week from the Awalki tribe that said, “We warn against cooperating with America to kill S ...
  • Yemen National Dialog Coalition Seeks Reform, Broa ...
    Yemen’s National Dialog Committee published an English language summary of its National Salvation Plan yesterday. The document is available at http://yemenvision.wordpress.com/ The National Dialog Committee (NDC) is an important Yemeni civil society coalition dedicated to creating a forum and consen ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

  • USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
    In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
  • Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
    Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
  • Farm to School Needs More Support
    It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
  • Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
    Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
  • USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
    The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

  • The Week in Pictures: US Approves First Offshore W ...
    From the news that the first offshore wind farm in the United States has finally been approved to the oil rig that exploded and sunk last week, that continues to leak 1,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ever day, a lot happened this week in green. The city of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, is b ...
  • Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Savin ...
    Credit: Photo Gigi Brisson A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many endangered or vulnerable, and all wonderfull ...
  • Toyota Prius Named Top Green Car
    Story by Darragh Worland, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com It's been a rough year for Toyota, which has been plagued by recalls, but the Japanese car maker's top selling Prius is still scoring points for the embattled company. Kelley Blue Book (KBB), the largest auto valuation compa ...
  • Obama Bans New Offshore Drilling Until Investigati ...
    image: NOAA As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to spread, and the Coast Guard investigating reports that oil has begun washing ashore in Louisiana, President Obama has banned new offshore oil drilling. White House advisor David Axelrod told ABC News there will be... Read the full story o ...
  • Protect Endangered Species: Wear a Condom
    Story by Katie Levitt, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com. Since February, 350,000 free endangered species condoms have been distributed nationwide. The bulk of those were passed out at Earth Day events on Thursday. The condom campaign is the work of the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Biosingularity

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

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • After 50 years, Russian village recalls U.S. spy w ...
    It is May 1, 1960, and two teenagers are on their way to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) for the annual May Day demonstrations. Both are in high spirits as they walk past the village of Povarnya. Suddenly they hear a roar and see a parachutist falling from a plane in the sky.
  • Russia to finalize time zone changes in fall
    Russia will take a final decision on changing time zones this fall, after the effects of changes introduced in March are examined, a first deputy prime minister said on Friday.
  • British Royal Guards clean their bearskins and tra ...
    The 1st battalion of the Welsh Guards, who guard the Queen, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, will, for the first time in history, march across Red Square. A special group of guardsmen will arrive in Moscow to participate in the Victory Parade.
  • Russian S-400 missiles to go into serial productio ...
    Russian long range ballistic missiles for S-400 Triumph surface-to-air missile systems will go into serial production in the autumn, a leading missile manufacturer said on Friday.
  • Oil spill; “worst in decades” and still growing
    Government officials said the blown-out well 40 miles (65 kilometres) offshore is spewing five times as much oil into the water as originally estimated, about 5-thousand barrels, or 200-thousand gallons (757-thousand litres), a day.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Peter G. Peterson Foundation: What About Military ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Wednesday the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held a conference to “bring together hundreds of stakeholders from across the political spectrum with diverse ideas on how to address critical fiscal issues while continuing to meet the p ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing Muslims .There may have been a second set of torture recordings. It’s hard to imagine them seeing the light of day if they still exist, or any consequences s ...
  • Off the Grid
    Largely offline this week; work-related, nothing serious.� Regular posting resumes this weekend (I think).
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Dear Attorney General Holder, Since Washington is wired for Republican control, liberals’ proposals and goals are usually treated with disdai ...
  • Where is the Debate on Obama's Assassination Progr ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The revelation last week that the president authorized the assassination of a US citizen created a surprisingly small splash. I try not to engage in speculative “imagine if” games, but if the president had done such a thing in 2005 ...

Natural Health News

  • Depressed People Eat More Chocolate
    A study has shown that people who score high on a screening test for depression consume more chocolate. The connection seems to be for chocolate only; there was no association between depression and caffeine, fat, or carbohydrates. The participants were not followed over time, so the researchers ...
  • Mindblowing Sand Sculptures from Around the World
    Sand sculptures can beautiful sources for creativity and imagination.
  • USDA Downplays Own Scientist's Research on Ill Eff ...
    A USDA scientist found that a commonly used pesticides was a soil killer. The USDA’s response? Very little.  Dr. Michael Shannon, a program director at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), compared it to the unfortunate but unavoidable side-effects of a drug. USDA scientist Dr. Robert Kr ...
  • Exercise Can Forestall Osteoporosis
    Higher levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) may decrease your bone mineral density by increasing cytokines, which are regulatory proteins produced by white blood cells. Researchers measured FSH and bone mineral density in 36 women between the ages of 20 to 50. They found that higher FSH lev ...
  • Vitamin D Could Mean Better Quality of Life
    Optimal vitamin D levels might help keep your muscles strong and preserve physical function into old age. Researchers looked at  the relationship between vitamin D status and physical function in a group of relatively healthy seniors.. Those with the highest levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D had bette ...

Antemedius

  • Seven Deadly Sins in Afghanistan
    Teach In on War Remarks By David Swanson, April 29, 2010 If we could establish that funding an escalation of war in Afghanistan was illegal, immoral, against the public will, economically catastrophic, counterproductive on its own terms, and a cynically motivated intentional failure, well then nothi ...
  • Iraqi Torture Victims Appeal Civil Suit To Supreme ...
    There are a lot of reasons to be frothing at the mouth angry at the criminal Bush administration. One of the biggest is the way that they not only managed to overturn a half century of certainty about what torture is and the use of it, in doing so they have also extended the immunity of those commit ...
  • Turning the School Yard into a Classroom
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . In Rwanda, more than 85 percent of the population’s livelihood depends on small-scale agriculture. And the majority of primary school students—roughly 60 percent— will return to rural areas to make their living in ways, instead of goin ...
  • Stop Too Big To Fail: Astroturfing The Anger Over ...
    Justin Elliott writes at TPM Muckraker Wednesday April 21, 2010: Rent-A-Front: New Group Wages Stealth Battle Against Wall Street Reform In the last few weeks , a new player entered the financial reform fray with a $1.6 million ad buy, a respected economist on board, a blitz of opinion columns on ...
  • Dying For Work, Literally
    When one is looking at a statistic it is always worthwhile asking if the statistic is really measuring what you want to know. Take for example, a rating of dangerous jobs. In most of these lists you will find the number of deaths per 100,000 workers per year. This is an important statistic, since dy ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

  • UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
    Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
  • Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
    Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
  • Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
    BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
  • What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
    RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
  • Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
    ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Locally grown, Locally shared: A new model for giv ...
    Over a hundred Baltimore residents gathered on Saturday night for the 4th edition of an innovative fundraising event called STEW. STEW is a joint project of Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, where attendees pay $10/person for the opportunity to share a multi-cou ...
  • Food Access Solutions: Panel Discussion in Anacos ...
    On Friday, April 12th, Food Access Solutions: Urban Agriculture, Local Food, & Community Development, a panel discussion between leaders in the food movement on a regional level and leaders on the local level took place in southeast Washington D.C. in Anacostia. My interest in Urban Agriculture com ...
  • Meatless Monday: A Campaign Rooted in Public Healt ...
    The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health embraced the Meatless Monday campaign back in 2003, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has proudly served as the national campaign’s scientific advisor ever since. Today I welcome and laud The Johns Hopkins Hospital for launching its ...
  • Response to Professor Mitloehner
    Dear Professor Mitloehner, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post.  What you wrote was informative, but your response also raised additional questions for me.  I will lay them out here and you are welcome to respond again. From your response: “I did not write the press releases ...
  • A leader for a livable Future – Happy Cesar Chavez ...
    It wasn’t until I moved to San Francisco after college that I found out who Cesar Chavez was. Being from Pennsylvania, where his birthday is not celebrated as a state holiday, perhaps I knew his name, but certainly not his legacy as a leader and organizer for farm workers rights.  But in California ...

Norwegianity

  • Corn that’s been through the cow
    McClatchy: Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, culminated more than 10 hours of often-contentious testimony by telling Goldman’s top officer, chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, that the firm had “a fundamental conflict” with its clients’ interests as it exited the home mortgage market in 2006 and 20 ...
  • Fillibuttsterers and SD42 pollspeak
    Goldman facts: Today’s Times’ story “I promoted the guys who filed complaint against you” The Fillibuttsters Did Dems prefer fillibuttsters to passage? (i.e., is this another example of oh nos, Republicans won’t let us do what we really didn’t want to do in the first place?) Fillibuttstering keeps t ...
  • Grand Old, Old Party
    Republicans, I think it’s time we take another look at what they’ve got going for them this year. In Arizona, frequent Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano thinks the Republican party will be bankrupted by their foolishly passed and signed bill authorizing police state measures to deal with ...
  • News from the neighborhood
    Turned off iTunes so I could listen to the singing from the Tibetan Cultural Center across the street. I’m somewhat astonished by how much it sounds like Native American singing. I figured there was a reason for the singing and I was right. KULLU – Tibetans living in Himachalâs Kullu district on S ...
  • Fillibuttsters
    abide, v. (əˈbaɪd) Pa. tense abode (əˈbəʊd), also abided. Pa. pple. abode, also abided, abidden. Forms: inf. 1 abíd-an, 2–4 abid-en, 4–5 abyden, 3–6 abyde, 3– abide. ind. pres. 3rd sing. 1 abídeð, 1–4 abit, 4– abideth, 6– abides; (north. 3– abydes, -ys -is). pa. tense 1 abád, 2–3 abad (3 abed, abeod ...

The Seferm Post

  • Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
  • Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
    10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
  • Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
  • Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
    Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
  • Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
    The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.

The World We Live In

  • At least we are not Dubai
    We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
  • 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
    The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
  • Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
    A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation âRah-e-Rastâ. Before the operation âRah-e-Rastâ, an NGO financed preparation of f ...
  • Constitutional Game to Undo Pakistan from the Back ...
    Written By :- Dr Shahid Qureshi Pakistan is unfortunately one of those countries where traitors masquerade as politicians and treachery is deemed to be âlegitimate politicsâ.  There is no prize for guessing how did the desire the revoke the 17th Amendment got transformed into a full fledg ...
  • Palestinians urge global action against Israel
    The Palestinian Authority has called on international bodies and the Arab League summit in Libya to protect East Jerusalem al-Quds against Israeli settlement activities. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the opening of a two-day Arab League summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, called on int ...

Center for Food Safety

  • CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
    High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
  • Happy Earth Day!
    This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...
  • Diverse Interests Back Center for Food Safety, Opp ...
    STATES, SCIENTISTS, ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FARMERS, FOOD COMPANIES, EXPORTERS, FORMER GOVT. OFFICIALS, AND LEGAL SCHOLARS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT. SEVEN AMICUS BRIEFS FILED IN ALL. A myriad of interests – ranging from food companies to farmers unions to scientific experts and legal scholars – have ...
  • “Food, Inc.” Broadcast Premier on POV, ...
    The Academy Award nominated documentary, Food, Inc. premiers on PBS’s POV April 21st! Watch the trailer and tell you friends. Check your local listings for the broadcast schedule, and visit the POV website to download materials and posters to host a viewing party and potluck. You can also check out ...
  • Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
        Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Liquid Continent - A Visit With Malia Nobrega
    http://VoicesOfTruthTV.com - Imagine a continent where the land is water. That's the islands of Polynesia, where long distance travel and communication have been going on for thousands of years. Malia Nobrega's a modern-day example, traveling far and wide, both physically and via the Internet, ...
  • Peach almost certainly killed by police: Report
    �Source WATCH the video (11:07) A previously secret police report into the death of a Kiwi protestor in London 31 years ago has been released tonight.New Zealander Blair Peach was almost certainly killed by police at a demonstration in London in 1979, the previously secret reports revealed. Metr ...
  • Al Jazeera: Slovakia's Radical Roma 'solution'
    Al Jazeera English Reports: "Some 10 per cent of Slovakia's population are of Roma ethnicity, most of whom are illiterate and live in poverty in the country's far east. In an attempt to integrate them into Slovak society, the government has suggested a radical proposal: that Roma children be sent ...
  • Aboriginal Press eBook: When Victims Become Victim ...
    When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry Xenophobic War Against Itself and the Rest of the World Free eBook download: (PDF Format) Brief excerpt from the eBook Edition : -------------------------------------- This Ebook is a complete edition of a ten-part editorial originally published i ...
  • Native American Delegation to Bolivia Climate Summ ...
    Grassroots Indigenous Delegation brings voices of the people to Bolivia Climate Summit By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Top photo: Michelle Cook, Navajo A delegation of grassroots American Indian activists will attend the Bolivia Climate Summit, thanks to the gen ...

Pensieve

  • Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
    A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...
  • Footage of Meteor in Wisconsin
    An impressive video capture of last night’s massive meteor fireball reported in Wisconsin. Related posts:Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics Related posts: Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics
  • Guanajuato’s Tunnels
    As we were wandering Guanajuato looking for a the San Gabriel de Barrera museum and gardens, I stuck my hand out the window of our van and shot these three videos of Guanajuato’s tunnels. Guanajuato is unique in the network of bewildering tunnels that crisscross it. The narrow streets of Guanajuato ...
  • Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende
    I spent a wonderful weekend in Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende. I took over 1,300 pictures, and several videos. All that has taken much of the energy for blogging about it, but I’ll let these few pictures speak for themselves. Related posts:So much to blog about!!! Miguel Torres: Doña Esper ...
  • Inside Costa Rica Features my Article
    After being disappointed by two articles in a row that presented Honduras in the unfavorable light the news wires shine on Honduras, I complained to the editor of Inside Costa Rica with a accusation of severe bias. He responded, and graciously invited me to write an article for them. I thank him, an ...

Green Times

  • Going Green Expo 2010
    Want to know how to do simple things and embrace amazing new green products and technology?  Then this expo is for you…
  • Environmental News -30/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Climate backflip under fire (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-backflip-under-fire-20100429-twm6.html)-Australia is the only government to backtrack on climate-change policy since the disa ...
  • Triple Dipping allowed with Solar Hot Water
    Multiple rebates are on offer for converting to solar hot water. We take the mystery out of what rebates you can access…
  • Environmental News -28/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Peak Oil crunch (http://abcasiapacificnews.com/stories/201004/2883729.htm)-The world may be basking in the warm glow of economic recovery, but some observers are warning of an unseen spectre, lurk ...
  • Environmental News - 22/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Giant Amazon dam to go ahead amid chorus of protest (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/giant-amazon-dam-to-go-ahead-amid-chorus-of-protest-20100421-szqt.html)-Brazil has hastily awarded the tender ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion in No-Bid F ...
    ShareThis Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion in No-Bid Fuel Contracts to Mysterious Companies 28 Apr 2010 The Pentagon's main supply agency has acknowledged awarding $1.4 billion in no-bid contracts to two foreign companies whose ownership and management seem extremely mysterious. The contracts, ...
  • White House: No new drilling efforts until probe o ...
    ShareThis White House: No new drilling efforts until probe of explosion is done 30 Apr 2010 The White House vowed Friday that no expansion of offshore oil drilling will take place until investigations are completed into a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which is sending thousands of gallons of ...
  • Govt declares national disaster as oil reaches Lou ...
    ShareThis Govt declares national disaster as oil reaches Louisiana coast 30 Apr 2010 US President Barack Obama is dispatching senior cabinet members, including the heads of homeland security and environmental protection, to assess the situation in the Gulf of Mexico as a BP oil spill reached the sho ...
  • Gulf spill is really a river of oil, environmental ...
    ShareThis Gulf spill is really a river of oil, environmentalists say 29 Apr 2010 To understand the gravity of the danger facing Louisiana's coast from the oil that began washing ashore Thursday, pollution clean-up veterans offered this starting point: Forget the word "spill." "This isn't a spill," s ...
  • US anti-terrorism team visits Lebanon-Syria border
    ShareThis US anti-terrorism team visits Lebanon-Syria border 29 Apr 2010 A US 'anti-terrorism' assessment team visited the main Lebanon-Syria border crossing this week, a US embassy official said on Thursday, amid allegations that Damascus was supplying its ally Hezbollah with missiles. The official ...

Daily Loaf

  • Mixed Six: Tasting across the Great Divide
    Call it a horizontal tasting of this Colorado brewery.
  • More on Charlie Crist, Joe Scarborough rips into M ...
    We were in St. Petersburg yesterday for all the fun that was Charlie Crist’s declaration of independence.  It was a big deal, as there were lots of local and national media in attendance.  But not so many of “the people” the governor frequently espouses is the reason he’s doing what he’s doing; ...
  • TECO responds to CL story
    Two weeks ago, CL reported on a recent task force’s report on efforts to make the city of Tampa more energy efficient. The task force was a group of 18 individuals who teamed up with Tampa Electric Company on making recommendations regarding clean energy and combating climate change, and was creat ...
  • Florida GOP lawmaker blasts Arizona immigration la ...
    Though popular in many respects because of the public's dissatisfaction with Congress failure to address the issue, the harsh rhetoric previously employed on immigration has significantly hurt the Republican party in the recent past, with California as the best example of what the GOP must fear goi ...
  • Donate sheets and towels for oiled wildlife aid to ...
    The Save Our Seabirds Oiled Wildlife Response Team in Sarasota is in need of sheets and towels to aid the oiled wildlife that will begin to arrive shortly from the Gulf oil spill area.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Tea Partiers shocked that riot police confronted t ...
    Sheesh, what a bunch a clueless newbies, you ask me. Welcome to the real world, kidz (even if many of them are middle-aged) Poli-Tea gets it right. after detailing Tea Party shock that riot police were not friendly. At political protests in the United States, the deployment of riot police to confron ...
  • Cactus gum could be key to cheap clean water for a ...
    Gum from the prickly pear cactus naturally filters contaminated water. Scientists are researching how to do this on a large scale for impoverished areas with bad water. Householders in the developing world could boil a slice of cactus to release the mucilage and add it to water in need of purificat ...
  • Banko$. Revenge is a dish best served with milk
    TrustoCorp products are randomly placed in Delis & Supermarkets throughout your neighborhood. Good luck finding them.
  • The surest way to create socialists
    WaPo Capitalism has not taken a hit like this since Mr. Potter made his appearance as the evil banker in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” No leftist polemicist could come up with as damning a description of contemporary capitalism as the contents of an e-mail that Goldman’s Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre s ...
  • California governor candidates accuse each other o ...
    And they’re both right! But when it comes to the looming public pension crisis, they offer few details.

Coteret

  • Israel Hayom: Israel concerned that Fayyad becomin ...
    Israel Concerned: Fayyad becoming more extreme, and weakening Abu Mazen Shlomo Cezana, Israel Hayom, April 30 2010 The political rivalry between Abu Mazen and Salam Fayyad is causing the latter to become more extreme in his positions against Israel — this is the concern that was recently raised amon ...
  • Administering corporal punishment to a young Popul ...
    At bottom is a set of photos is from page 8 of this morning’s (April 28 2010) Haaretz (Hebrew edition only; download as PDF here.) Caption reads: Pepper spray into the eyes of the Palestinian protester, at point-blank range A 15 year-old Palestinian was arrested yesterday by Border Policemen durin ...
  • Le Monde: A European J Street?
    Cross-posted from JNews. The Jewish peace camp’s attempt at rebirth in Europe Gilles Paris, Le Monde, April 23 2010 [translated by Idit Arad; French original here] The name J Street is already taken, so this is called J Call. On 3rd May, in Brussels, a new European Jewish movement for peace betwe ...
  • Ron Dermer signaling change of Israeli govt. postu ...
    Gov’t changing course; recruiting J-Street for the struggle against Iran Shlomo Cezana, Israel Hayom, April 27 2010 [page 11; Hebrew original here and bottom of post] The Israeli Government is changing its attitude towards J Street; it has decided to engage with the lobby — considered not friendly t ...
  • Maariv: Gen. Saguy reveals details of Lauder broke ...
    Netanyahu and Hafez Assad: The agreement that was not reached Ofer Shelah, Maariv, April 27 2010 [page 8; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The most fascinating interview you did not read appeared this month in Halohem, the newsletter of the IDF disabled veterans organization.  Perhaps it ...

Deadline Live

  • Deadline Live – April 29 2010
    Thursday – Jack Talks with Harley Schlanger of “Executive Intelligence Review Magazine” Hour Two: Jack talks more with Tim Cox of “Get Out Of Our House” www.goooh.com Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | [...]
  • Reason.tv’s Nanny of the Month for April 201 ...
    Last month’s biggest busybody was the New York politician who’s waging a war on salt.This month’s top honors could have gone to the US senator who wants to block betting on box office sales or the Silicon Valley pol who yanked toys from kids’ meals.But the Nanny of the Month goes to the North Caroli ...
  • This Day In History – April 30
    1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. 1803 – The United States purchases the Louisiana Territ ...
  • IRS lacks clout to enforce mandatory health insura ...
    The IRS processed more than 230 million tax returns last year, paid 127 million refunds and received about 68 million phone calls. The agency is responsible for enforcing a tax code that, at 71,000 pages, makes Anna Karenina look like a comic book. Starting in 2014, the agency will have another ...
  • ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire world is not a war zone’
    The US’s unofficial program of targeted killings against terrorist suspects could result in the CIA’s drone operators being prosecuted for war crimes, a prominent law professor told a congressional hearing Wednesday. Loyola Law School professor and former Navy officer David Glazier told a House ...

The Air Vent

  • Decaramelisation
    My least favorite aspect of AGW is the political one, however, Tom is completely fearless, imagine if Real Climate gave me an opportunity to guest post on the politics of global warming. The odds are exactly equal to rolling 23,000 sixes in a row.  Be nice. ———————————————- By Tom Fuller of the San ...
  • Open Thread #2 – AGW Smackdown? Defend your ...
    It’s not really time for another open thread but this topic was suggested on the Reader Background thread by Robert E Phelan. Everyone knows my opinions on global warming, so that’s not very interesting. CO2, capturing of warmth is real. The magnitude of the warmth captured is not known, the dangers ...
  • Global ‘Land temps’ CRU style.
    I did this work several weeks ago.  It’s the same as Roman’s hammer except that there is no offset.   Statistically this is inferior to the method that Roman presented, however this is the standard in climatology.  Nick Stokes pointed out several times that I needed to do the anomaly correctly f ...
  • Schizo Sea Ice
    Confusion about sea ice still reigns as some climate scientists still haven’t got the news about climategate.  Business as usual seems to be the mantra amongst most, while others have clearer vision of what science should be. The NSIDC released its report on sea ice which shows this plot. This plot ...
  • More scare tactics from AR4
    Climatequotes asked me to run this while I was gone to the trade shows.  AR4 has so many problems in its economic and damage from global warming conclusions that the whole document isn’t credible.  It’s going to be fun to see how they make it even better for 5. Unfortunately the well funded/organi ...

Focal Point

  • Boycott Arizona Over Racial Profiling Law
    Rachel Maddow discusses the snowballing campaign to boycott the State of Arizona over its radical new racial profiling law. The law, which takes effect this summer, would allow a police officers to pull people over and demand proof that they are in the county legally. In order to legally do such a t ...
  • Chickens, Cross-Stitch, Burlesque and Women's Libe ...
    Don't look now, but " femivores " are back in the news. Femivores, if you recall, are women who embrace ultra-local food production as feminist statement. Usually this involves some kind of light farming or heavy gardening, possibly some chickens. It's only a matter of time before the New York Times ...
  • World Cup Ad or James Nachtwey's Greatest Hits?
    This FIFA World Cup ad looks like a psychedelic collaboration between Adbusters and James Nachtwey . Way to bum out the entire species, FIFA. Photo credit: flickr user Dr. Motte , licensed under Creative Commons . Topics:
  • Photo: 2 Legs and 5 Shots
    Readers have asked for more original photography at Focal Point. I'm happy to oblige. Here's a fun photo for the weekend, taken during my recent trip to St. John's, Newfoundland. It's a small city where social life revolves around stiff drinks and live music in bars. Think of St. John's as a foggier ...
  • What Would Jesus Insure?
    Conservative Christians used their lobbying muscle to create a gaping loophole in health care reform's individual mandate, reports Sarah Posner in the American Prospect . Members of so-called Health Care Sharing Ministries are now exempt from the requirement to carry health insurance. It's a disaste ...

Inside Facebook

  • GroupCard Gets Acquired By Pre-Paid Card Maker InC ...
    A year and a half after graduating from Facebook’s second fbFund competition, GroupCard has been acquired by pre-paid card provider InComm. The latter company stocks cards in retail stores across the US and other countries, allowing users to buy the cards in order to obtain virtual currency in gam ...
  • Inside Network’s f8 Coverage Roundup: The Open Gra ...
    Facebook announced several big developments last week at the f8 conference in San Francisco, California and the Inside Network was there to bring you breaking and in-depth coverage of the event. Check out our detailed analysis of the Open Graph’s new social plugins and API, below, along with news fr ...
  • CampusBuddy: Another Tool for Colleges and Univers ...
    Facebook may have gotten its start on college campuses, but the service has moved away to focus on building a generally useful product for the general public. The company got rid of features like Courses (which let you list your class course schedule) years ago in favor of letting developers build t ...
  • LivingSocial Raises $14M to Expand Social Group De ...
    LivingSocial raised another $14 million this week, fresh after a round of $25 million fundraising last month, and a spokeswoman tells us the infusion will help it to continue to expand its Deals service — currently a primary revenue source for the company. Deals has been made popular in a big way by ...
  • How to Programmatically Administer Off-Facebook Pa ...
    With the Open Graph protocol that Facebook announced at last week’s f8 conference, any URL can now be treated just like a Facebook Page. After you mark up your site with the right metadata and encourage users to start Liking your site, you can then publish updates to their Facebook News Feed just li ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • When will Israel attack the USA – again?
    Jeff Gates looks at how the dual loyalists at the heart of the US government – Israel’s stooges in the Congress and elsewhere in the US government – are preparing to hoodwink the American public into another war on Israel’s behalf and against the interests of the United States.
  • Americans remaining ill-informed is inexcusable
    Paul J. Balles comments on the ironic misfortune that, despite having all the technology to be informed, Americans remain generally ignorant bystanders amid an increasingly antagonistic Congress and a biased, sloppy and uninformative media.
  • Israel’s big and small apartheids: the meaning of ...
    Jonathan Cook analyses the pillars that prop up Israeli apartheid in pre- and post-1967 Palestine, from the unique and racist nature of Israeli citizenship law, to Jewish control of land, to defining Israeli Arabs as a security threat. In a talk delivered to the fifth Bilin international conferenc ...
  • Supporting Goldstone without repudiating Israel, Z ...
    Debbie Menon welcomes the support of rabbis for Richard Goldstone, who had been excluded from his grandson’s Bar Mitzvah because of his report on Israeli crimes in Gaza, but condemns the rabbis for failing to repudiate Israel, Zionism and world Jewry for what they have done to Palestinians and for t ...
  • End Israel lobbies’ pervasive and damaging influen ...
    Debbie Menon argues that Washington’s support for Israel is tragic, immoral and extremely damaging to Americans given that US “congressional representatives continue to put Israel’s interests before the interests of Americans”

Amazon Rainforest

  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...
  • Repsol applied for a permission to cut more of Ama ...
    Repsol YPF has applied to Peruâs government to cut 454 kilometres of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribesâ land- Workers advised: ‘If peaceful contact and (Tribes) understanding (of their Land being stolen and devastated) canât be reached and ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Boiling Frogs Video Presents Colonel Larry Wilkers ...
    Exclusive Interview: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more: As a card carry ...
  • Russ Baker on President Obama… & His Pack of Wolve ...
    “A SWISS BANK, A PRESIDENT, AND THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT”   Here is a recent damning piece by Russ Baker on President Obama, his cozy relationship with Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO, UBS Group Americas, and a stench and implications that go way beyond this relationship: Last August, the presidential ...
  • Podcast Show #27
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf discusses the fascist shift in the United States, how the state of our liberties has been getting worse under the Obama administration, and how President Obama has assumed the same position as Bush on States Secrets Privilege, unlawful detention an ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • Black Magic
    Black Magic: Her Hands Black Magic: Her Smile Black Magic: Her Skin Black Magic: Her Being Black Magic: Her Promise Black Magic: Her Love Art Credits: 2010 Tafari Stevenson-Howard Muse: Tamara Rasberry Tagged: black women, Women of the African Diaspora
  • Tim Wise and The Privilege of White Guilt
    Whenever I get the opportunity to address a group of black youths or counsel a black male one-on-one, I always impress upon them two truths in our society, which I tell them never to forget. The first is: you are not white. This may seem obvious, but we have come to think of ourselves as being “t ...
  • “Potty ruling spenders core of Africa’ ...
    By declaring the end of third world just recently, Robert B. Zoellick (President The World Bank Group) left me baffled. When this was declared, in all honesty, my first question was: “Is Africa included in this make-believe leap forth?” If yes, how with all the vampiric regimes made of corrupt big s ...
  • Christianity, Just Another Religion
    Sometimes, we christians can be very arrogant because we believe we have Jesus. We equate our “Christianity” with the Truth of Jesus. Jesus was not a “Christian” and I believe that our being arrogant is a major stumbling block for many people looking for an Answer. Within the practice of Christianit ...
  • sat’day riddymz tribute: hip hop legend GURU ...
    The hip hop artist GURU (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal), a member of Gang Starr and the creator of the influential rap-jazz series “Jazzmatazz”, died on Monday from respiratory complications associated with multiple myeloma. He was 47 years old. Rest In Peace

Expose the BNP

  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
  • Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
    The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...
  • Journalists expose ‘murky world’ of far right
    Leading anti-fascist journalists last week gave a fascinating insight into the “murky and disturbing world of far right politics”. Nick Griffin’s biographer Dominic Carman and photojournalist Marc Vallée shed light on the violent and antidemocratic core of the BNP and the English Defence League. A s ...
  • Exposing the Irish National Party
    In February, the Irish Sunday Tribune ran a piece on the emergent Irish National Party, giving undue attention to a group that was little more than one Dublin based paediatric nurse and a couple of impressionable hangers on. The group identified as a moderate party in favour of immigration reform an ...

Sen4Earth

  • Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
    In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...
  • Earth Day 2010
    Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...
  • A Prayer Chain for Mother Earth
    Click Here for “Hug Spiritual Trees” on SEN You’ll find a Prayer for Mother Earth, a Prayer for All Life, and a Prayer Chain for Earth that’s just getting underway. Help it spread around the world! 
  • World Wildlife Fund & Palin Alaska Boycott
    SEN is in the process of developing an article about WWF that indirectly bears upon the Palin Alaska Boycott. For just a few moments we posted the initial draft, as a step in the process of developing a major article bearing many photos and links. A reader happened to see it for the few moments the ...
  • Palin Alaska Boycott Gets ANOTHER Boost from Tina ...
    Click Here for Palin Alaska BOYCOTT Central On sen4earth.org...another SEN donation to Defender's campaign, another Care2-SEN fight-fast fun-fest...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • The Odd World of Right Wing Rage
  • Very Busy
    We have been busy working on a new site, EYEONCITRUS.COM, which will be a news site with an emphasis on Citrus County and the surrounding areas. In addition to the local news we will offer National and International news along with sporting news. Along with this we are continually working on our DVD ...
  • REMINDER: The Vast Majority Of The Government Defi ...
    Many people right now are making a scare story out of the U.S. government’s future deficit projections. Many of these same people are also blaming our government’s horrific projected deficits on the current administration. Problem is, as shown in the chart below (via The Economist), America’s defic ...
  • Nearly Too Late
    Corporate Takeover 95% Complete Time to wake up!! You’ll be late for the END.
  • PEACE
    ………………………………….PEACE…………………………….. No! Sadly dear heart, passivity and quietism won’t make the nightmares go away!.. Some of US write to reach those who are still asleep.. We rally to express our disenchantment with the status quo! We March to show the strength of our convictions. “We” will com ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Taking A Break, So Here’s Someone Else&#8217 ...
    We’ve been enjoying the sunshine (yes, wonderful sunshine) of North Wales for the past week and now we’re moving house, so The Unsuitablog has had to take a back seat for the time being. Don’t worry, we will be back soon, but to tide you over is the latest from the RANVideo YouTube channel, which [ ...
  • Jan Lundberg Attacks Sierra Club’s Support f ...
    Our good friends The Sierra Club are at it again – this time with regards to motor transport. The Sierra Club believe you can have “clean cars” as demonstrated by this press release, emanating from the new radical Executive Director, Michael Brune (didn’t take long for him to become a member of the ...
  • Greenwash of the Week: Chevron’s Solar Proje ...
    Yes, I’m being lazy: we’re packing to move house so The Unsuitablog will be a bit sporadic for a while. Thank goodness there’s so much greenwash to choose from out there. (That was a joke)
  • The Chagos Archipelago – Where “Conservation ...
    No need for comment, straight repost with thanks to Fred. How do you greenwash a large airforce base? A base that is responsible for bombing nearby countries, and which was built on an island you confiscated from residents who are now living in exile on the other side of the world? Easy. You announ ...
  • RecycleBank Is Worse Than Doing Nothing
    We’re moving house soon, which means discovering untold secrets in the rarely visited corners of our current place of abode. After 16 years in the same place, much of that with an attitude that could possibly be described as “hoarder”, it’s no surprise that our domestic recycling bin is being kept ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
    In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.  Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
  • Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
    Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq.  There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens.  In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...
  • Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
    University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery.  The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps.  While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...
  • Evo Morales Scores Again
    Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has secured reelection by a landslide. In fact, the victory gives him an even greater mandate than the one he previously enjoyed.  Unofficial results show that Morales received 63 percent of the vote, an increase of almost 10 percentage points from ...
  • Lingering Corruption in Afghanistan
    Corruption is one of the main factors behind the increasingly dire situation in Afghanistan.  Since 2001, billions of dollars have poured in and yet, there is little to show for it.  To a large extent, much of what hinders the present Afghan government is its inability to tackle systemic cronyism a ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Programmer-Journalist? Hacker-Journalist? Our Iden ...
    Jacqui Maher is the most recent addition to my Interactive News team at the New York Times, and although she started almost six months ago, I have yet to get her business cards -- an embarrassing fact she (rightly) points out at regular intervals. I'm not raising this to highlight my shortcomings as ...
  • A Real Watershed Moment for Citizen Journalism in ...
    Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...
  • A real watershed moment
    Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...
  • Printcasting Plans Mobile Expansion With FeedBrewe ...
    About two years ago, I wrote up an idea for how to leverage standardized web content to create locally-targeted publications with less time, money and software than ever before. The technology and content would be digital, but the output would be optimized for physical distribution as printable PDF ...
  • Serving the community of programmer-journalists: H ...
    For many years now, the NICAR -L email list has been the online home for journalists doing data analysis -- the people doing "computer-assisted reporting" or "precision journalism." Though email lists are an old technology, this one continues to thrive -- just in the past week, there have been 277 p ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Weapon's Edge - Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons ...
    In 2004, the congressionally mandated Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack released an unclassified executive report on its broader study of the U.S.’s vulnerability to EMP weapons strikes. In 2008, the commission released a follow-up report th ...
  • The Traveler's Edge - Be Secure in Your Hotel
    “Be Prepared” is the official motto of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, but its message is equally important for travelers as well.� While attacks on hotels such as those in Pakistan, India and Indonesia are extremely rare, it is a good idea to be prepared for any and all emergencies when staying in ...
  • The Edge of Aging - Age-old customs in China Confr ...
    Deborah Lowry has always liked older people. “They tend to be more comfortable with themselves than younger people are,” she said, “and I’ve always enjoyed hearing about history from someone who’s lived through it.” A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research’s ...
  • Energy Politics - Ukrainian President Stands to Ga ...
    Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich stands to gain from “the gas for fleet” agreement under which he agreed to allow Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to remain in Sevastopol until 2042 in exchange for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s reduction of gas prices for Ukrainian customers, even if the the Ukra ...
  • The Edge of Justice - Is A Life Sentence for Iowa ...
    Some people don't mind if Sholom Rubashkin gets life in prison and rots behind bars until he dies. Others are outraged at the harsh treatment being meted out to Rubashkin and ask in disbelief, “What's going on?” Rubashkin is at the center of the torrid scandal swirling around the massively-investiga ...

High Country News

  • Removing four dams is worth some compromise
    It's not perfect, but the settlement that removes four dams in Oregon and California's Klamath River Basin is the right thing to do.
  • Viva la Archives!
    Budget cuts have endangered California's Water Resources Center Archives, which serves as the state's institutional water memory.
  • Grasshoppered!
    With grasshoppers expected to swarm the West this summer, High Country News looks back at some of the region's most dramatic historic hopper outbreaks.
  • Wilderness by committee
    Complicated deals are being made over wilderness protection in Colorado and in San Juan County, Utah.
  • From Alaska to Paonia
    Visitors from Alaska; more anniversaries; Emily Underwood and YEWS; Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl gets raves; and corrections.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

  • The Next Step: Responsibility and Reconciliation
    Last week was filled with interviews where myself and, at times, another member of the company I deployed with, talked to as many people as we could about the Collateral Murder video, focusing on three points. 1. The video, in context, is not a case of soldiers breaking from the system 2. With the t ...
  • OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OUR FRIENDS IN AFGHANISTAN
    An amazing opportunity is available for communities across the country: The videos from Our Journey to Smile which I’ve been posting on here have been compiled into one long film. On 3/27 at 9pm (est), we will be showing the film along with others groups across the US. Additionally, we will be live ...
  • The Ink People
    Last week, my friend from Eureka, CA, Dave Berman informed me that the community organization where Conor and I spoke on Halloween night was hit by a 6.5 earthquake. The Ink People are, as Dave said, ” limping along”: They are “only able to find temporary space for some admin work and a few of its ...
  • You might just find that you get what you need
    Throughout these intense past few years, there have been times when I have nearly lost any kind of faith. Sometimes what I was seeing on a day to day basis looked far to ugly for there to be a God. Though questions still abound, I understand that sometimes it takes the worst kind of suffering to [.. ...
  • Dangerous gatherings in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

  • Is Barack Obama The Manchurian President ?
    Is Barack Obama The Manchurian President? Aaron Klein, investigative reporter for World Net Daily would tell you yes, President Obama has deep ties to an anti-American extremist nexus that has been instrumental not only in building his political career but in crafting current White House policy. ...
  • Virginia AG Investigating Michael Mann (Mr Hockey ...
    Last week, another sacred cow (a non flatulent one) of the climate change world was taken down a peg, Professor Michael Mann's hockey stick In the same report exonerating the CRU scientists for Climate-gate, the data compiled for the Hockey stick was bashed because the data it used was compiled thro ...
  • MADNESS!! Iran Chosen By UN For Leadership Role In ...
    Ever since Jimmy Carter opened the door for the founding of the fundamentalist Islamic, Republic of Iran, the country has oppressed its female citizens. Within months of the Shah's ouster, the Islamo-fascists began to force women to observe Islamic dress code; many public places were sex-segregated; ...
  • Rachel Maddow Says Americans Are Stupid
    MSNBC's audience continues to decline and its totally�understandable, after all they have no respect for their viewers,�according�to the on-air elitists, they are all stupid. Just yesterday, Rachel Maddow�indicated�that Americans are too stupid to understand when they're being ripped off. �That's wh ...
  • Chuck Schumer Introduces Bill to Restrict First Am ...
    Today, Chuck Schumer stood on the steps of the Supreme Court building to announce his brand new fight against the first amendment, the "Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act" �the DISCLOSE act. ("Get it?" asked Schumer who it seems is auditioning for the role of rea ...

The Real Agenda

  • Uzbek Women Being Sterilized by Stealth
    Times Online WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poor farmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying she and her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never have another child because she had been sterilised. The procedure had been performed ...
  • Obama Administration Admits Death Panels Exist
    Liberty Scout Sarah Palin was right! Of course, when she mentioned it liberals went nuts claiming that she was fear-mongering. Now, President Obama’s Budget Director is heralding the cost cutting measure. Last weekend while you were preparing for the holidays with your family, Harry Reid’s Senate wa ...
  • The Height of Government Lunacy: “Global War ...
    CNS A new government report says global warming could lead to an increase in both cancer and mental illness worldwide, and it calls for more federally funded research to determine how that might happen. The report, A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change, was published by the Interagency Workin ...
  • Illegal drug money saved banks during global finan ...
    NaturalNews.com Billions of dollars from the illegal drug business was the only thing that kept the global financial system from collapsing at the height of the banking crisis just over a year ago, according to the head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. “In many instances, the money from drugs ...
  • A Brave Farmer Takes Monsanto to the Supreme Court
    Russia Today A small farmer is taking on the food giant Monsanto and the argument has gone all the way to the US Supreme Court. The outcome could determine the future of GM seeds in the United States. It’s the case of a multinational corporation vs. small American farmers, environmental activists an ...

Wind Watch

  • Trouble may be in the air for some landholders
    In day two of a Herald investigation, Debra Jopson looks at wind farm leases. There is big money in the wind and the stockbroker-turned-grazier Richard Tanner wants to farm the blustery air above his 400 hectares of country in the state’s north, turning it into power which can be sold, just like h ...
  • Garrett wind project halted temporarily over mud r ...
    Constellation apologizes, but residents are angry Maryland’s first industrial wind farm has gotten off to a rough start, with construction temporarily halted after environmental regulators discovered mud washing from the remote Garrett County mountaintop site into a tributary of one of the state’s w ...
  • Windmill neighbors air gripes over noise; County p ...
    In a dramatic moment during a tense meeting in Boardman Tuesday night, Arman Kluehe stood up and began to drop $20 bills into a pile. “How much will it take to buy you so we can break the noise limit?” he asked the crowd. Several people in the room – close neighbors of the Willow Creek Wind Projec ...
  • Noise complaint generates wind farm fears
    A family’s noise complaint against Invenergy LLC and its Forward Energy Wind Center in Brownsville is spooking wind farm developers trying to do business in the state. “I think it would have a devastating effect in Wisconsin,” said Jim Naleid, managing director of Holmen-based AgWind Energy Partners ...
  • Lecture addresses wind turbine danger
    Steve Slater watches the future of U.S. energy like a hawk, and he doesn’t like what he sees. Slater is the conservation director of HawkWatch, an international organization that monitors scientific research on the raptor class of birds—or birds of prey—and the larger ecosystem they inhabit. Keeping ...

    Blacklisted News

  • ISI behind Frenchmen death?
    The assassination of 11 French engineers in a bomb blast in Karachi in 2002 may not be the work of Islamist terrorists, as alleged these past years, but an act of retaliation carried out by Pakistan's army and Inter-Services Intelligence in response to the French State's failure to pay Pakistani ...
  • Food and water drive Africa land grab
    Rich Arab states such as Saudi Arabia have bought huge tracts of land across Africa in recent years in a bid to combat global food shortages, water scarcity and desertification and feed their burgeoning populations.
  • Private water suppliers poised to grow as demand s ...
    Global Water Intelligence analysts expect the water supply market to grow about 20% in the next five years
  • Cub Scouts Give Up Entirely, Offer Video Game Badg ...
    Just sad and pathetic.
  • Washington to use Armenian territory to attack Ira ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Tehran courts UN members from Brazil to Bosnia on ...
    Summary: Iran has pushed its diplomacy into overdrive as it tries to woo members of the United Nations Security Council away from US-led efforts to impose new sanctions within weeks."The Iranians have to some extent succeeded in recasting the terms of the debate," says Shannon Kile, a nonprolife ...
  • 'Iran sanctions would solve nothing"
    Summary: The Brazilian president has repeated his call for a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program, saying that new Iran sanctions would not be helpful in any way. source: Press TV read more
  • Iran, Egypt ready for battle at U.N. nuclear meeti ...
    Summary: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)- Iran and Egypt are gearing up for battle against the United States and its allies over Israel and developing countries' rights to atomic technology at a major meeting on the Non-Proliferation Treaty. source: Reuters read more
  • Iran, Brazil and the 'bomb'
    Summary: There's only one sensible solution. Washington has to sit on the table with Tehran with a real "unclenched fist" and deploy all diplomatic options in search of an overall Middle East security package - and that would include full denuclearization; that is, no more "secret" Israeli nucle ...
  • Campaign against Obama's nuclear threats
    Summary: Iranian academics have launched a petition against Obama's nuclear threats, of which the openning paragraph reads: Peace and Security are the fundamental causes for humanity, which the United Nations tries to realize in the international realm. But these causes may be realized only if ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Electrical Activity -Is It a Key Indicator of Extr ...
    Physicists from the University of Granada and University of Valencia, analyzing data sent by the Huygens probe from Titan, have “unequivocally” proved that there is natural electrical activity on Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. The world scientist community believes...
  • Most Distant Black Hole Ever Observed
    Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known in a spiral galaxy called NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth. With a mass above fifteen times that of...
  • The Unsolved Mystery of DNA's Telepathic Communica ...
    DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. The explanation: None, at least not yet. Scientists report evidence that contrary to...
  • Were Comets "Incubators" of Life on Earth? New Re ...
    It is widely believed among planetary scientists that carbon dioxide, not ammonia and methane, dominated Earth's earliest atmosphere. The primal, early conditions, essentially Earth as a molten ball with an atmosphere of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and other volcanic emissions may...
  • New Antarctica Research: Ice Sheets Act as Giant M ...
    New Antarctica research may provide critical clues to understanding one of the most dramatic periods of climatic change in Earth's history - and a glimpse into what might lie far ahead in the planet's climate’s future. The giant ice sheets...

Natural News

  • Health freedom alert: Congressman Waxman sneaks an ...
    (NaturalNews) Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious: While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would ex ...
  • WHO issues warning about corruption of pharmaceuti ...
    (NaturalNews) The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a fact sheet warning about the corruption and unethical practices that are endemic to every step of the pharmaceuticals business. "Corruption in the pharmaceutical sector occurs throughout all stages of the medicine chain, from resear ...
  • Teen girls bribed to get Gardasil vaccine with sho ...
    (NaturalNews) The British National Health Service (NHS) has begun bribing teenage girls between the ages of 16 and 18 to get Gardasil vaccines. Officials are giving shopping vouchers worth the equivalent of roughly $70 to girls who agree to get jabbed with the vaccine, which has been implicated in n ...
  • KFC and Komen - What the Cluck? (Take action now!)
    (NaturalNews) We've exposed the marketing fraud behind the Susan G. Komen "Buckets For the Cure" sham and we've satirized it with a hilarious online video and lots of editorial, but today it's time to take action to let Susan G. Komen know their pinkwashing campaign has gone too far. To help us acco ...
  • Want some cancer with that burger? Eating meat lin ...
    (NaturalNews) No one wants cancer served up with their steak or hamburger. But that's just what you may be getting. As NaturalNews has previously reported, numerous studies have linked meat consumption with cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/024966_inflammation_cancer_meat.html). Now comes evidence ...

Threat Level

  • Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
    Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars. The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called ...
  • iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
    The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says althou ...
  • Dropping PS3 Linux Support Lands Sony in Court
    Sony’s move to disable Linux on the PlayStation 3 is being met by a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the company of unjustly enriching itself at the expense of its customers. Citing “security concerns,” Sony announced in March it was no longer supporting the so-called “Other OS” feature on th ...
  • S.F. Admin Guilty of Hijacking City Passwords
    After a six-month trial, a San Francisco city admin was found guilty Tuesday of a sole felony count of hijacking the city’s computer system. Terry Childs, 45, was guilty of one count of locking out the city from its FiberWAN network containing city e-mails, payroll, police records, information on ja ...
  • Apple May Have Traced iPhone to Finder’s Address
    People identifying themselves as representing Apple last week visited and sought permission to search the Silicon Valley address of the college-age man who came into possession of a next-generation iPhone prototype, according to a person involved with the find. “Someone came to [the finder's] house ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Like Bush, Obama Subpoenas New York Times Reporter
    In early 2008 , the Bush Justice Department subpoenaed New York Times reporter James Risen over his book, State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration. Now, just two weeks after taking action against an NSA whistle-blower who leaked information about contract corruptio ...
  • Sarah Palin Endorses "Pathway to Citizenship" for ...
    That Sarah Palin , the propagator-in-chief of the ever-evolving " death panels " fraud deemed the Lie of the Year by Politifact , would blast President Obama for "perpetuating this myth that racial profiling is part" of the draconian new immigration law in Arizona was pathetically predictable. But ...
  • Goldman Sachs, Enron and the Rape of Grandma Milli ...
    Historical events, it is said, occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. But not in the case of Goldman Sachs and the near-collapse of the American financial system. Six years before Congress released emails showing Goldman executives bragged about making "some serious money" betting against t ...
  • McCain's Quadruple Flip-Flop on Immigration
    Just days after praising Arizona's draconian immigration law as a "good tool" and 24 hours after calling on President Obama to immediately "dispatch of 3,000 National Guard troops to our border," John McCain Saturday admitted he's not sure his state's crackdown is even legal . Which means that the ...
  • God's Own Tea Party
    The first lesson in Tea Party 101 is this: Tea Party supporters are just Republicans , only more so. They're old, white, very conservative and vote Republican. They shout the same incendiary slogans on display at any McCain-Palin rally circa October 2008. Tea Baggers and Republicans believe the s ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • McConnell Tries To Dodge Repeated Questions About ...
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been blasting the Senate’s financial regulatory reform bill in recent days, falsely arguing that it “institutionalizes” bailouts for Wall Street. read more
  • Arizona Legislature Makes Being Undocumented a Cri ...
    Arizona is on track to become the first state in the nation to make it a misdemeanor for a person to be there without legal immigration documents.
  • Welcome to “Abortion Recovery Awareness Month”
    We are halfway through April, which you may not have realized has been dubbed “Abortion Recovery Awareness Month” for the second year in a row by Texas Governor, Rick Perry and Minnesota Governor, Tim Pawlenty. Just for the record: Abortion Recovery Awareness Month is not designed to offer comfort t ...
  • Tax Grousing Tells Half The Story
    It’s tax time again, the time of year when Americans grouse about forking over part of their hard-earned cash to the dear old government. These days, there’s a whole movement dedicated to grumbling about taxes full time — I’m talking, of course, about the Right’s latest incarnation — tea partiers, w ...
  • Turkish Mayor Acquitted on Misconduct Charges ... ...
    The charges related to his decision to provide up to 10 tons of water free of charge to district residents in a stand against water privatization.

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Breaking the Middle East impasse (Ali Abunimah, ...
    A new conventional wisdom is rapidly taking shape that the United States can resolve the 130-year-old conflict in Palestine by advancing its own peace plan. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Solarz outlined such a plan, and argued that President Obama could boost its prospects with a "bold gesture" -- ...
  • Feeling the Hate in New York (mblumenthal)
  • Hamas slams Egypt for tunnel deaths (Al Jazeera)
    The Hamas movement has criticised Egyptian security forces after four Palestinians were killed when a smuggling tunnel from the country's Sinai desert region into the Gaza Strip was destroyed. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin said Egyptian authorities had warned the Palestinians that the tunnel would be ...
  • Egypt, Hamas complicit in Israel's Gaza blockade ...
    A convoy of boats laden with humanitarian goods and accompanied by hundreds of journalists, human rights activists and European parliamentarians, is due to challenge Israel's naval blockade of Gaza at the end of May. The Free Gaza movement's 'Freedom Flotilla' will see three cargo ships and five pas ...
  • Israel official: Accepting Palestinians into Israe ...
    Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Thursday that he would rather accept Palestinians as Israeli citizens than divide Israel and the West Bank in a future two-state peace solution. Speaking during a meeting with Greece's ambassador to Israel Kyriakos Loukakis, Rivlin said that he did not see any poin ...

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

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Axis of Logic

  • Britain’s general election: An historic political ...
    30 April 2010 Whatever the outcome of the UK General Election on May 7, British political life has already undergone a tectonic shift. The most extraordinary feature of the election campaign is the ongoing meltdown of the Labour Party. Predictions vary as to what form a coalition government—the ...
  • Organizing for Defeat: The Relevance and Utility o ...
    Published Fall, 2008 in History Cooperative/Journals THE DECLINE AND RETREAT of the North American labour movement in the past two decades has been a matter of extensive commentary and scholarly and political debate.1 While these discussions have contributed immensely to our understanding o ...
  • Gulf oil spill threatens economic, environmental c ...
    30 April 2010 Oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the well beneath where a British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig exploded at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, a rate five times greater than earlier estimates, the US government reported late Wednesday night. US Coast Guard officials...
  • Venezuela Needs an Economic Development Strategy - ...
    Editor's Comment: Mark Weisbrot's informative analysis of the Venezuelan economy helps us understand the myriad statements one hears in the western media from day to day. It may also be helpful to read his article in the context of a few additional facts. First, one can argue about further devalu ...
  • Possible political fall out from U.S. oil spill - ...
    Editor's Note: What a preposterous title, "Possible political fall out from U.S. oil spill." Possible?�Other than the politicians in Washington, who should be held responsible for this disastrous assault on mother earth. After all, they are the ones who make the rules and are charged with regulat ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Rich are richer, poor are poorer: guess who has to ...
    To enlarge upon TomB's comment Wednesday night, Digby has the latest scam from the Kill Social Security summit: Dean Baker attended the Pete Peterson Social Security Destruction summit earlier today and made this important observation at the revolting sight of Peterson and Robert Rubin patting each ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    If we don't give as much money and attention to prevention (no more fucking drilling!) as to cleanup, it'll be as inexcusable as the New Orleans levees. "US President Barack Obama has said "every single available resource" of government will be deployed to help contain the Gulf Coast oil leak. Up to ...
  • Representative Mark Parkinson (r): "Show us your p ...
    How long before a right wingnut politician in the Missouri General Assembly jumps on the Arizona Senate Bill 1070 [pdf] bandwagon? Not very. Reporter Sloane Heller at KSHB-TV in Kansas City is reporting this morning that Representative Mark Parkinson (r) is intent on filing legislation similar to A ...
  • Oil and water don't mix
    That's pretty basic - we learn that one pretty early, and if we have teachers who aren't just taking up space until retirement, we know by seventh grade why that is - water is what is known as a polar molecule with uneven electron sharing and the molecule is formed by hydrogen bonds. A water molecul ...
  • BP = Bad Perpetrator
    If you've been passing up Exxon/Mobil gas stations the last few years in favor of self-proclaimed "green" corporation British Petroleum, last week's oil rig explosion proves that BP is no better than its "competitors." Laura Flanders in The Nation explains: It's too bad for British Petroleum. Or is ...

Care 2

  • STOP Genocide of stray dogs in ROMANIA - TAKE ACTI ...
    Millions of animal lovers from Romania, looking for support and your help in stopping the state authorities to launch soon, a project of mass extermination of stray animals (dogs). We want respect for Community law in question, the Law 60/200 Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Icy asteroid could finally reveal where Earth's wa ...
    Water ice and organic material has been discovered on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.The discovery lends support to the theory that meteorites falling on Earth may have provided the kick-start to life. Submitted by Leslie Y. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Take Action: Put an End to Commercial Whaling
    Tell President Obama to oppose the International Whaling Commission deal that would legitimize the hunting and killing of whales for profit. Call on him to push instead for a deal that ends commercial whaling once and for all! Submitted by Daf Yanez to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Possible political fall out from U.S. oil spill
    A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could undermine support for U.S. offshore drilling, just as lawmakers were warming to the practice, and even upset hopes for winning bipartisan support to U.S. climate legislation. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Are Prozac and Other Psychiatric Drugs Causing the ...
    An interview with investigative reporter Robert Whitaker, about the dramatic increase in mental illness disability and its surprising cause. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • U.S. Office Buildings Need to Get Smart, New Study ...
    Despite rapidly developing technology to support and manage facilities, office buildings in the U.S. are falling behind the curve when it comes to adopting smart solutions that can ramp up energy efficiency and other aspects that affect costs, occupants' comfort and productivity, according to new r ...
  • Global Water Scarcity: Risks and Challenges for Bu ...
    This new Lloyd's 360 Risk Insight report says businesses must act now in the face of diminishing water supplies. The report, produced in conjunction with the WWF, looks at the issue of water scarcity and its impact on business.
  • EPA Contest Seeks the Biggest (Kilowatt) Loser
    Looking to tap into the popularity of contest-based reality shows, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is staging its version of "The Biggest Loser" -- a competition to see which commercial building can shed the most energy waste and be declared the most efficient in the country.
  • Why PepsiCo is Building Dams in India
    Not so long ago, environmental activists in India targeted PepsiCo and other beverage companies for consuming excessive groundwater in local communities. PepsiCo is striving to make a difference by reducing its water use and helping communities secure clean water.
  • U.S. Office Buildings Need to Get Smart, New Study ...
    Despite rapidly developing technology to support and manage facilities, office buildings in the U.S. are falling behind the curve when it comes to adopting smart solutions that can ramp up energy efficiency and other aspects that affect costs, occupants' comfort and productivity, according to new re ...

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No Quarter

  • Not Stalin Rational
    From the blog for the syndicated nightly John Batchelor Show, published 04.25.10 (podcasts). > seamlesstabbing=”false” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” swliveconnect=”true” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”> Containment.   ...
  • S.W.A.T. Called Out To Protect Us From Some Tough ...
    Looks like the riot squad got called out during a peaceful tea party protest at an Obama event yesterday in Quincy, Illinois. Real Clear Politics was kind enough to offer up a video of the S.W.A.T. team marching … But wait till you see who they were asked to protect us from…
  • The Rise and Fall of the Greek Empire
    Only one place remains on my “Bucket List,” and that is to visit Greece. No ancient history, no parade of amazing thinkers, have held such fascination for me. So it is with considerable sorrow that I created this image. This week Greece’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status. [... ...
  • President Obama Wants YOU to Make Hard Choices
    President Obama made a visit to Ottumna, Iowa Wednesday. As reported by Jake Tapper on ABCâs Political Punch: âWe’re going to have to make some tough choicesâ about the deficit and national debt, President Obama said to a crowded gymnasium full of supporters at Indian Hills Community College, ...
  • Drill Baby Drill! Burn Baby Burn!
    This is about as ugly as I could paint it. A disaster on the brink of a risky attempt at a (partial) fix being played out in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers are setting parts of the crude old spill from the exploded oil rig on fire in an uncertain attempt to keep [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Sony on the Importance of Being Green
    Emily Young, General Manager for Sony Europe's Environmental Communications, talks about the importance Sony place on being green. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • What Would Happen To Your Body In Space?
    Hollywood humans in space often brutally explode - but what would really happen to the naked human body if it entered space? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Nostradamus: The Life and Prophecies of the Man Wh ...
    Fortune telling was always a hit and miss affair but one man set an incedible standard half a millenia ago. How often were his visions of the future on target? Read on... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • How Maps Changed the Face of the Earth
    Humanity has always wanted to explore thw world and then make reference works in order to find places again and again. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The History of Pawn Shops
    We have all had moments in our lives when the money problems forced us to resort to selling some prized possession, or loaning it out for a fee. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Turtles vs. Tourism in Puerto Rico
    Environmental groups are asking federal officials to designate a prime tourist development area in Puerto Rico a critical habitat for the endangered leatherback turtle.
  • On Our Radar: Putin Frets Over Polar Bears
    Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia says that Arctic warming threatens polar bears.
  • Q&A: Vying for a Role as Climate Chief
    Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, a candidate to succeed Yvo de Boer as head of the United Nations climate secretariat, suggests a path away from "hopelessness'' in negotiations.
  • In Fearsome Floods, a Dividend
    Floodwaters laden with sewage stimulate the bloom of phytoplankton, which is likely to benefit fisheries in Narragansett Bay.
  • Too Busy for Oil Awards
    Citing an accident, the federal government cancels an awards luncheon for offshore drilling safety.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! UPDATE: Hi to everyone from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leo_Wanta/ - keep it up :)       This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the big ...
  • 2010 Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Notes for Ap ...
    Jesse Trentadue : …who’s testifying about Howe had reported that the plan to bomb the Murrah building four months in advance, had gone with Strassmeir and others to scout the target – the first thing the U.S. Attorney does when Graham stops testifying is ask the judge to seal the transcript, and the ...
  • BlackListedNews: BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes ...
      I can only apologize for not pushing the breakdown of the gold market story out more. It is finally coming loose it seems, & when this occurs it will be another giant 'discontinuity' that'll get filled up with more inflationary ripoffs. A huge basis of the system is gonna croak sometime soon... ...
  • Palin Bachmann: 2010 GOP Convention Center Rally H ...
    Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...
  • Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
    Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...

Daily Censored

  • British Election Leaders’ Debate – The Grand Betra ...
    By Michael Collins The third and final debate between the British party leaders will play a critical role in selecting the next Prime Minister. The first debate altered the course of the election, for a few days anyway. The Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg passed Labour’s Gordon Brown and move ...
  • New Jersey students walk out of public schools
    Picture of the Federal Reserve for Newark School Privatization: The Newark Charter School Fund Building Student walk-outs in New Jersey Thousands of New Jersey high school students walked out of class Tuesday to protest budget cuts.  This was a result of a statewide event organized using text messag ...
  • Open proposal to US higher education: End unlawful ...
    source from Examiner.com. US universities and colleges could end unlawful US wars and stop banksters’ rigged-casino fraud if they taught the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles is an open proposal for their action. Feel free to share it. This is my proposal for the Harva ...
  • History repeats itself – the first time as farce, ...
    Some things never change; one of them is the divide and conquer strategy; the favorite tactic of the capitalist ruling class.  So much could be written that has and although the figures cited below are now much, much worse — with prison populations of over 2.2 million and unemployment and racism r ...
  • Open proposal to US higher education: End unlawful ...
    Source at Examiner.com. US universities and colleges could end unlawful US wars and stop banksters’ rigged-casino fraud if they taught the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles is an open proposal for their action. Feel free to share it. This is my proposal for the Harvard ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Press Release: Mining for Profits
    Transnational corporations are increasingly turning to international arbitration tribunals to resolve disputes over natural resource rights, a new report reveals.
  • War Crimes Then and Now
    The only ones the Afghan war makes safer are the war profiteers pocketing billion-dollar contracts -- and the politicians pocketing campaign contributions in return.
  • Fifty Years Later, the Struggle Continues
    The civil rights movement unified millions of Americans behind one basic issue: getting the vote. They succeeded. What issue today could unify such a movement?
  • Mining for Profits in International Tribunals
    A new report documents increased lawsuits against governments by transnational corporations involved in the oil, mining, and gas industries.
  • Priority Check
    The military claims more than half our taxes.

Pine River World News

  • YEMEN TIMES: British ambassador's attacker trained ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Yemen Times, Sana'a. British ambassador's attacker trained in Marib for three years � � Yemen Times By Nadia Al-Sakkaf Published: �April 29, 2010 The 22 year-old from Taiz governorate responsible for the attack on the British ambassador's env ...
  • Polish Military Prosecutor's Office: The video mad ...
    The following article is from Azeri Press Agency (APA), Baku, Azerbaijan. Polish Military Prosecutor's Office: The video made several minutes after the crash of Polish president's plane in Russia is true � � APA April 28, 2010 �14:14 Baku - APA. The video made several minutes after the crash of Po ...
  • Jeff Gates: When Will Israel Attack the U.S. - Aga ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today . When Will Israel Attack the U.S. - Again? � �Jeff Gates Source: �Veterans Today April 26, 2010 Israel has long been waging war on the U.S. by way of deception. To date, its operatives have worked from the shadows hoping no ...
  • The Suicide Of Multiethnic Sarajevo
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). The Suicide Of Multiethnic Sarajevo � � RFE/RL By Nenad Pejic April 25, 2010 Two events in Sarajevo this week illustrate the huge failures of the Bosnian Federation government. The funeral of Bos ...
  • Wall Street Coup Against U.S. Complete, Israel Set ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from The European Union Times. Wall Street Coup Against U.S. Complete, Israel Set To Fall Next � � E.U. Times April 24, 2010 A new GRU report prepared for Prime Minister Putin circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States "ceas ...

IntelNews

  • Author gets subpoenaed to reveal CIA sources
    The US government has issued a subpoena against a journalist who authored a book on the CIA’s operations during the years of the Bush administration.
  • News you may have missed #339
    US couple arrested for spying for Cuba cooperating, say authorities. Indian diplomat arrested for spying for Pakistan. Former CIA station chief arrested in Virginia.
  • Political wiretap scandal erupts in India
    A major scandal has erupted in India, with the revelation last weekend that government intelligence services have monitored the telecommunications of senior political figures since at least 2006.
  • News you may have missed #338
    US intel on Iran suffering from information overload? Canada's ex-intel boss slams new anti-terrorism measures. Wiretapping scandals continue in Colombia.
  • CIA scores Washington Post charm offensive
    For an agency whose very future is routinely questioned by former employees, the CIA has been getting plenty of positive press in The Washington Post lately.

After Downing Street.org

  • Afghan Taliban Getting Stronger, Pentagon Says
    Afghan Taliban getting stronger, Pentagon says A Pentagon assessment, while expressing confidence in U.S. strategy, says the movement has flourished despite repeated assaults. By Julian E. Barnes | LA Times | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com The report concludes that Afghan people s ...
  • Gaza and the Greater War of Terror
    Teach In on Capitol Hill: What Congress Must Do to End U.S. Wars and Help Secure A Peaceful Middle East April 29, 2010 Rayburn Building, U.S. Congress Statement by Retired U.S. Army Colonel and former U.S. diplomat ...
  • Pentagon Issues Downbeat Assessment On Afghanistan
    Pentagon issues downbeat assessment on Afghanistan By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers | Yahoo! News The Pentagon Wednesday issued a downbeat assessment of the situation in Afghanistan , saying that only one in four Afghans in strategically important areas currently back President Hamid ...
  • ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire World Is Not A War Zone’
    ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire world is not a war zone’ By Daniel Tencer | Raw Story UPDATE: CIA drone operators could be prosecuted for war crimes, lawyer tells Congress The US's unofficial program of targeted killings against terrorist suspects could result in the CIA's drone operators being prosecuted f ...
  • Seven Deadly Sins in Afghanistan
    Teach In on War Remarks By David Swanson, April 29, 2010 If we could establish that funding an escalation of war in Afghanistan was illegal, immoral, against the public will, economically catastrophic, counterproductive on its own terms, and a cynically motivated intentional failure, well then nothi ...

Grist - News

  • Gulf of Mexico: from magnificent resource to indus ...
    by Tom Philpott Fire and a vast oil spill, on top of one of the globe’s most productive fisheries. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard The Gulf of Mexico is a magnificent resource: a kind of natural engine for the production of wild, highly nutritious foodstuff. Here's how the EPA describes it : Gulf f ...
  • Take note, companies: Young workers want urban job ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Downtown ChicagoPhoto: Chicago Man via FlickrBusinesses ought to consider locating in walkable, culturally diverse city centers because that's where young workers want to be, according to some liberal commie rag printed on recycled draft cards. No, scratch that, this argum ...
  • The story of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill [PHOTOS]
    by Grist Photo: Transocean The Deepwater Horizon oil rig, owned by the Houston company Transocean, drilled the deepest oil well in history (35,050 feet) in September 2009 in the Gulf of Mexico. In January, the rig moved to a British Petroleum project 120 miles southeast of New Orleans. Phot ...
  • Louisiana shrimpers file lawsuit over U.S. oil spi ...
    by Agence France-Presse An oil spill or olive oil fate?Photo courtesy HeyRocker via FlickrNEW ORLEANS -- Two Louisiana shrimpers have filed a lawsuit accusing the operators of the rig behind a Gulf of Mexico oil spill of negligence, seeking millions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit, filed in ...
  • The politics of the Gulf oil spill
    by Jonathan Hiskes The ecological fallout of the Gulf oil spill continues as emergency teams plan to set fire to the surface slick in hopes of keeping it away from the coast. The political fallout continues as well: More bad news for the Senate climate and energy bill , as coastal-state s ...

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Washington Independent

  • Goodbye, Homebuyer Tax Credits
    Today, April 30, is the last day for the Obama administration’s tax-credit programs for homebuyers. Purchasers need to have signed a binding agreement by the end of the day and have closed on the home by June 30 in order to receive the credits — $8,000 if it is their first home and $6,500 if [...]
  • Coal Country Lawmakers Stay Silent on Mine Safety ...
    Bruce Watzman, spokesman for the National Mining Association, told Senate lawmakers Tuesday that no new legislation is required to prevent the next mining tragedy.
  • GTMO Doctors Are Examining Omar Khadr Now
    GUANTANAMO BAY — Navy Commander Brad Fagan, a spokesman for the military command running the detention facility here, told reporters that Omar Khadr “is being looked at right now by a doctor.” Khadr is experiencing an “urgent” medical condition, according to Dr. Stephen Xenakis, who briefly checked ...
  • Crist Makes It Official
    In a short speech to supporters, Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) just announced his run for the U.S. Senate as an independent candidate. Crist, once the overwhelming favorite to win the GOP nomination, has fallen far behind Marco Rubio in recent polls. While his path to the Senate may be easier as an in ...
  • Second Miner Confirmed Dead in Kentucky Mining Acc ...
    The Associated Press reports that 27-year-old Justin Travis and 28-year-old Michael Carter were both killed after a roof collapsed Wednesday night at the Dotiki Mine in Western Kentucky. The mine’s safety record should raise eyebrows. State and federal records show more than 40 closure orders for t ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

  • Phoenix Mayor To Sue Over Arizona’s Immigrat ...
    Phoenix mayor to sue over Arizona’s immigration bill, says kids and senior citizens are at risk of being arrested Crooks and Liars- By John Amato Thursday Apr 29, 2010 1:00pm The hits keep coming in for Arizona’s Tancredo/Buchanan bill. The Mayor of Phoenix is no fan of this legislation and said thi ...
  • British soldiers viewed all Iraqis as ‘scum’, Baha ...
    Intelligence officer says officers did not know rules on treatment of prisoners and one tried to mount ‘arse-covering exercise’ after Baha Mousa’s death Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian/UK, April 27, 2010 Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker, was beaten to death in 2003 while in the custody of 1 Batt ...
  • The Legality of Drone Warfare
    By Joanne Mariner, Counterpunch, April 28, 2010 Congress is holding hearings this week on the legality of the US government’s drone warfare program. Conducted by the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the hearings will examin ...
  • Arizona Immigration Law Conjures Ghosts of Souther ...
    The violation was known as “vagrancy.” If you were a black man in the South following Reconstruction, and you were unable to show proof of employment on-demand to the police, you could be arrested and delivered into what Douglas Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, calls “Neo-Slavery.” “Show ...
  • Christian Right’s New Racial Playbook
    Exposing the Christian Right’s New Racial Playbook AlterNet / By Sarah Posner A diversity summit at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University reveals that the religious right’s survival depends on the black and the brown. April 28, 2010 | NOTE: A reel of video highlights of the Freedom Federation Summit, f ...

Solari

  • Feds Launch Criminal Investigation of Wall Street ...
    By Alison Gendar and Bill Hutchinson Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs to determine if the Wall St. giant committed securities fraud, sources said Thursday. The criminal probe comes just days after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit c ...
  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.29.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency charts are f ...
  • USA “Obstruction of Justice”
    YouTube Video By J.D. Tuccille “Was that a threat?” That’s how U.S. border guards at the Lewiston Bridge border crossing responded to a Canadian shopper when, exasperated by the abusive treatment afforded to him and his wife, he asked, “what are you going to do? Shoot me?” Moments later, the couple ...
  • Goldman Whac-A-Mole
    It makes sense to pause in the outpouring of news about Goldman Sachs to ponder what has happened and the nature of the game that is afoot. Goldman is the visible target in a game of economic warfare. Who is on the other side is not clear. For want of a better term, let’s call the [...]
  • Greek Bonds Reach All-time Highs
    The premium investors seek to hold Greek debt has soared today following a day when Standard and Poor’s downgraded Greek’s credit rating to junk status. The premium for a 10-year Greek note over the German bund increased to 995 basis points, the highest since 1995. Moreover, the 2-year Greek bond yi ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Rare tropical butterflies bred
    An expert in Hertfordshire has managed to breed hundreds of rare tropical butterflies from seven abandoned pupae. The kaleidoscope of Heliconius chestertonii - originally from Colombia and the only ones of their kind in Europe - have been bred at Butterfly World. Expert Clive Farrell was given them ...
  • Responsible investors tackle corruption
    A worldwide coalition of investment companies controlling over $1.7 trillion in assets has written this week to 21 major companies, asking them to explain their policies on bribery and corruption. The move follows a strict anti-bribery law coming into force in the UK which caused investors to reasse ...
  • Cancer patient wins NHS drug appeal
    A woman with a rare form of cancer has won her appeal to be provided with a life-prolonging drug on the NHS. Mother-of-two Nikki Phelps, who suffers from a deadly glandular form of the disease, was initially denied state-funded Sunitinib by NHS West Kent despite a Government pledge to increase the a ...
  • Brain therapy fuels Parkinson's hopes
    A device similar to a heart pacemaker that stimulates brain activity in Parkinson's sufferers could improve their overall quality of life, a charity has found. Parkinson's UK said that patients who were treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) required fewer drugs, experienced an improvement on the ...
  • The role of business in water conservation
    Lloyds of London has published a report this week into the threats and opportunities posed to business by the growing threat of global water shortages. It concludes that companies have to act quickly to implement a three point plan in cooperation with governments, NGOs and communities in order to he ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Today’s portent of doom: peak phosphorus!
     Here we go again.  Is there a book telling scientists how to incite panic? Peak oil stems from oil’s special property.  The high quality reserves are a liquid, so there’s a discontinuity in the usual relationship between resource quantity and volume (lower quality, greater volume).  There is ...
  • FM newswire for April 29, interesting articles abo ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “Libertarianism in Ancient China“, Murray N. Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 23 December 23, 2009 Another important work by RAND:  “How Insurgencies End“, Ben Connable and Mart ...
  • FM newswire for April 25, interesting articles abo ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “Donât joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon“, Mark Steyn, Macleans, 22 April 2010 — “Britons have shown a surprising enthusiasm for informing on their fellow citizens.” “Colleague Says Anthr ...
  • The words of a real leader. We have such people to ...
    Rumors swirled around Washington after the Bay of Pigs.   Who directed this disaster?  Who would get blamed?  Kennedy first side-steped the question in his aggressive speech on 20 April 1961 to the the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE; text is here).  But the issue would not go away.  Ken ...
  • Good news: the Treasury Department’s debt ma ...
    Summary:  another in a series about the financial condition of the US government.  This is a follow-up to Another crack in Republic’s foundations: not the size of the debt, but when it’s due (30 October 2009). Considering the size of our debt, the Treasury staff deserves a round of applause for thei ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Greece Agrees to Austerity Moves
    Wall Street Journal -  Greece has agreed with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union to take additional austerity measures expected to yield “around â¬23 billion” ($30 billion) as a precondition for financial assistance, a Greek official familiar with the talks on aid said. “We ...
  • UK: Volunteering and charitable giving in decline, ...
    The Times – Volunteering and giving to charity has fallen over the past five years, according to an official survey. Only 26 per cent of people in England in 2008-9 took part in formal volunteering â unpaid help as part of a group, club or organisation â at least once a month compared with 29 [. ...
  • Goldman Sachs ‘facing criminal charges’
    BBC – Goldman Sachs is under criminal investigation for the way in which it sold complex mortgage-backed products to clients, reports suggest. Earlier this month, the US financial regulator brought civil charges against the bank for defrauding investors. Read Article
  • Belgian lawmakers pass burka ban
    BBC – Belgium’s lower house of parliament has voted for a law that would ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public. The law would ban any clothing that obscures the identity of the wearer in places like parks and on the street. No-one voted against it. Read Article
  • Special Report: Are regulators dropping the ball o ...
    Reuters- Robert Kremer, a U.S. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil, has spent two decades analyzing the rich dirt that yields billions of bushels of food each year and helps the United States retain its title as breadbasket of the world.Kremer’s lab is housed at the University ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Ang digmang bayan ba ay unibersal?
    Ang digmang bayan ba ay unibersal? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Tagalog) “Mahal kong Maoista-Third Worldista,â¨Ang digmang bayan ba ay unibersal? Salamat.” Ang digmang bayan, pangkalahatang pakahulugan, ay unibersal. Ang ibig sabihin nito mayroong mga unibersal na katotohanan sa p ...
  • The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006)
    Review of The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) follows the life of Mao from his humble beginnings to, as one interviewee in the film describes, “the greatest Chinese [person] of the twentieth century.” Immediately not ...
  • What about my revisionist past?
    What about my revisionist past? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, I have been reading your materials for awhile now. I now realize that you are the ones who are really carrying communism forward into the next century. I was in RCP youth circles for a few years. I see t ...
  • Miss Amerika?
    (shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Amerikkka, Communism, Gender, Idiot Amerikkkans, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo
  • Clash of the Titans (2010, Louis Leterrier)
    Movie Review: Clash of the Titans (raimd.wordpress.com) Clash of the Titans (2010, Louis Leterrier) is a reactionary film which promotes compradorism and lackeyism in the main, as well as white supremacy and patriarchy. In the movie, people abandon the gods of Greek mythology, thus incurring their w ...

PakAlert

  • A Wedding To Start A War
    How the wedlock between a Pakistani sportsman and an Indian tennis player is a PR disaster for India and holds implications for relations with Pakistan. A sign of Pakistan-India peace? Hardly. Read how the celebrity wedding was loaded with the kind of symbolism that rattled India and sent the wrong ...
  • Alert: Pakistan, Iran set to face hot July
    —JULY 2010 appears to be a crucial month in American plan —After July 2010, the components would be in place to start a proper war against Iran and do an amputation surgery on Pakistan —A network of Patriot Defence System (PAC-3) has been established in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia ...
  • India’s ‘Kyrgyz plan’ for Pakistan
    RAW was created in the late sixties with one purpose, to destabilize Pakistan. Its first target was East Pakistan. Its second target was Bangladesh. In 1971 RAW was successful in creating the Mukti Bahni, recruiting 80,000 Hindus and then sending them into Muslim Bengal disguised as Pakistani soldie ...
  • Who REALLY Owns The Media In 2010?
    “NOT A SINGLE NEWS ITEM will reach the public without our control,” states the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. “Even now this is attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies whose offices are entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to th ...
  • Transhumanism, PsyWar and B.E.P.’s “Imma Be”
    The Black Eyed Peas “Imma Be / Rock that Body” video is a masterpiece of high tech computer-generated imagery and state of the art digital music production. It is also one of the most blatant examples of Psychological Warfare and deception that I have ever seen in modern mass media. This article wil ...

ecogeek

  • Cape Wind Project Approved!
    Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has approved the Cape Wind offshore wind farm project!  In additon to giving the go-ahead, Salazar outlined a few tweaks to incorporate the concerns of those who have opposed the project. The project will be reduced in scope from the original 170 turbines p ...
  • Japan's Solar Spacecraft Ready to Launch
    Japan's solar sail-powered "space yacht" is all set to launch on May 18.  Ikaros (Interplanetary Kite-Craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun) will be the first spacecraft of its kind to attempt to reach deep space. The craft's 46-foot sails, outfitted with ultra-thin solar cells, will be steere ...
  • World's Best Water Purifier May be the Cactus
    Scientists from the University of South Florida have discovered the water purifying power of the prickly pear cactus.  An extract from the desert-dweller is very effective at removing sediment and bacteria from dirty H2O and, even better, it grows all around the world. The scientists aren't the fi ...
  • Indonesia Harnessing Volcano Power
    Indonesia's 17,000 islands are home to hundreds of volcanoes and approximately 40 percent of the earth's geothermal energy potential and the nation's government is ready to harness that hot, clean energy. The country has set a goal of bringing online 4GW of geothermal capacity by 2014, which will ...
  • Drawing Power from Dutch Coastal Dikes
    Plans are being considered to turn the famous Dutch dikes into tidal power generators. Although originally built to protect the people and land of the Netherlands, now a committee of various government representatives has issued a recent report including some suggestions to revise the operation o ...

Buzzflash

  • Arizona: Poster-State for Republican Rule
    Body The English language contains no single word to perfectly express my profound regret that I went not into polling as a profession, because some people actually get paid -- and paid well -- for generating this: "Poll finds Americans are in an anti-incumbent mood." Well blow me awa ...
  • Business 101 In 2010 -- Verse-Case Scenario
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH If you believe “self-regulation” works With Wall St. firms making serious money You also anticipate yearly visits From Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. read more
  • Moyers and Hightower Talk Populism on the Last Edi ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT The following is a press release from PBS. After years of insightful, award-winning television journalism, Bill Moyers' final edition of his weekly PBS "Journal" will air this Friday evening, April 30. For his concluding show, Moyers features a discussion about "America's real p ...
  • Will You Boycott Arizona?
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION Arizona just passed one of the most shameless, racist laws in recent history. Immigrants can now be detained for looking too "illegal," and police are required to check anyone who could be "suspected of being an illegal immigrant." If citizens don't feel police are doing enough ...
  • Leading U.S. Rights Group Seeks to Intervene in Sp ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT The following is a press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights. Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a motion with� Spain’s national court (Audencia Nacional) seeking to intervene as a party (Acusación Popular) in the criminal invest ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • More Obama DOJ attacks on whistle-blowers
    (updated below - Update II) In February, 2008, the Bush DOJ issued a subpoena to The New York Times ' James Risen, demanding the identity of his source(s) for one chapter in Risen's best-selling book, State of War .� The chapter in question described a painfully inept and counter-produc ...
  • Obama speaks about the Supreme Court
    President Obama gave an interview last night aboard Air Force One in which he was asked about his views of the Supreme Court, and this is what he said: It used to be that the notion of an activist judge was somebody who ignored the will of Congress, ignored democratic processes, and tried t ...
  • White House reporters afraid to criticize the Whit ...
    (updated below) Politico 's�Josh Gerstein and Patrick Gavin have a long article describing the growing anger of the White�House press corps towards the Obama White�House.� Many of the grievances are petty, though some are serious and substantive�(involving lack of transparency and media ...
  • Larry Lessig's "case for Kagan" is the opposite
    Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig has a Huffington�Post piece today making what he calls "The Case for [Elena] Kagan" as Justice Stevens' replacement. �But as anyone who reads it will see, it actually does the opposite:� just as Walter Dellinger's paper-thin defense of�Kagan did , Lessig's piece il ...
  • War propaganda from Afghanistan
    The New York Times yesterday excitedly declared that the imminent Battle of Kandahar "has become the make-or-break offensive of the eight-and-half-year [Afghanistan] war" and is " the pivotal test of President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy."  As Atrios suggests , there never is any such thing as "mak ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Nuclear reactors and soft X-rays
    Science links for this week, including my latest news in Materials Today Self-powered sensors: Biomaterials – Piezoelectric arrays could provide the power for a lab-on-a-chip device Pushing droplets around: Surface science – Pushing droplets around a surface A safe reaction: Nuclear – Self-healing ...
  • Lifelong learning online is about connecting peopl ...
    Individuals now have the autonomy to make their own learning choices and in recent years there has been an emphasis on the “self made learner”, especially in adult education and ongoing professional development. As such, online communities and other so-called web 2.0 tools have come to the fore as p ...
  • Hubble enhanced, open science, and bogus research
    These are a few of the science stories that caught my eye this past week: Hubble’s 20th anniversary treat – A stupendous image of a distant region of space, colour enhanced (of course) but amazing nevertheless. Draft White Paper – Researcher identifiers – How about a "SciID", like OpenID or a DOI b ...
  • Online students and virtual supervisors
    The numbers of international students taking on graduate degrees is on the increase, partly due to the advent of rapid communication and information tools and partly due to the recognition that globalisation is taking over the world. Hah! Supervisors I’ve spoken to over the years have always seen th ...
  • Alchemist, catching electrons, homeopathic fantasi ...
    This week’s Alchemist chemistry news and more… Catching electrons in the act – Scientists are getting close to being able to study chemical reactions and complex materials with individual attosecond pulses of laser light (that's a quintillionth of a second). Here's how Berkeley scientists are doing ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Rights Groups Ask Inter-American Commission to Int ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Puerto Rico and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law (IHRLC) today filed a request asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to inter ...
  • Defeat the Debt Campaign Launches $10 Million Ad B ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2010 Defeat the Debt Today, Defeat the Debt (DTD) launched the second phase of a nationwide advertising campaign to educate the American people about the national debt and the long and short-term personal consequences of the government spending money we don't have. ...
  • Cape Wind, Not Offshore Drilling, Is the Clean Ene ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2010 Greenpeace Kert Davies, Research Director at Greenpeace, in response to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement today that the Cape Wind offshore wind project will be allowed to move forward to construction after nearly a decade of debate and deliberation: ...
  • Forest Service Asked to Protect National Forests f ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity As Arizona’s climate changes, with experts expecting hotter temperatures and longer droughts, the Sierra Club, Sky Island Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Arizona Wilderness Coalition, and other conservation organizations ...
  • Audubon Fears Imperiled Birds Will Be Next Victims ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2010 Audubon Society Audubon experts across the Gulf Coast are monitoring the spread of thousands of gallons of oil that threaten to turn last week's drilling platform explosion into a growing environmental disaster. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Wall Street Grins as Washington Fiddles
    by Jim Hightower Performing a public service was undoubtedly the last thing on the minds of the geniuses who created Abacus 2007-ACI — but I, for one, am grateful to them. read more
  • Israel's Dog and Pony Show
    by Sherine Tadros I recently jumped at the chance to take an all expenses paid helicopter ride over Israel and part of the West Bank. The trip was courtesy of The Israel Project (TIP) which describes itself as a non-profit, non-partisan group working to impact world opinion for the sake of Israe ...
  • Immigration Advocates Rising Up in Anger Across th ...
    by Juan Gonzalez Public furor is mounting across the nation over Arizona's new "show me your papers or go to jail" immigration law. One Hispanic congressman, Raul Grijalva (D-Tucson) is urging tourists and national conventions to boycott his state. Another, our own Jose Serrano (D-Bronx), wants base ...
  • Anti-Immigrant Yahoos Should Read Martin Espada's ...
    by Jeff Biggers Notwithstanding the fact that the first non-native to enter Arizona was an African Muslim without official papers, what better way for California-bred immigrant and present-day Arizona governor Jan Brewer to celebrate April Poetry Month in Arizona than by having all Arizonans--especi ...
  • The Death of Self-Interest Fundamentalism
    by Joe Brewer Have you noticed that a lot of people seem to think that appeals to self-interest lead to a moral and just society? read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Opinions: Sanitation and women, child health; GM i ...
    "If Stephen Harper is serious about maternal health and child health [as suggested by his plans for the upcoming G8 and G20 summits], he needs to recognize that healthy mothers come from healthy communities," Maude Barlow and Meera Karunananthan of the Council of Canadians write in a Chronicle Heral ...
  • Rome New York Mayor James Brown will run for third ...
    ROME Rome Mayor James F. Brown presented his State of the City address at American Alloy Steel on Wednesday night, saying the company is a profound example of keeping both jobs and an industry alive in the city, stabilizing tax rates and being creative.
  • NY State Budget Now 4 Weeks Late
    BUFFALO, NY - New York State lawmakers have wrapped up another three day work week in the state capitol without passing a state budget, which is now four weeks overdue.
  • Rome New York State of the City address of April 2 ...
    Good evening. It is a pleasure and a privilege to be with you here this evening and deliver my seventh State of the City address.
  • Korean firm bags Angat plant for $441 million
    Amid the controversies hounding its privatization and the uncertainties posed by moves at reverting to the existing water protocol, the 246-megawatt Angat hydro power plant proved to be an attractive asset for investors, with the winning offer by Korea Water fetching $440.88 million.

Guardian

  • Today in the election LIVE: the debate aftermath
    • Tony Blair hits campaign trail for Labour • 8.4m people watch third leaders' TV debate • Labour event interrupted by car crash • Cameron says he's not taking anything for granted • Read Andrew Sparrow's lunchtime summary • Read this blog from the start 2.05pm: Earlier this week my colleague Oliver ...
  • US commitment to Israel 'unshakable'
    US secretary of state says threats to Israel's security are growing and must be addressed Hillary Clinton warned Iran and Syria yesterday that America's commitment to Israel's security was unshakable, and they should understand the consequences of threats to the Jewish state. The secretary of state ...
  • Banks say rules could halt recovery
    Report shows two percentage points could be sliced off economic growth as result of measures forcing banks to build up bigger cushions of capital Britain's biggest banks are trying to convince the leaders of the G20 that new rules forcing them to hold billions more pounds of capital could push the U ...
  • Hopes for Greek bailout plan grow
    Megotiations are still taking place in Athens between the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund about the details of the Greek rescue plan Finance ministers from across the eurozone are holding a conference today ahead of a face-to-face meeting on Sunday which is expected to anno ...
  • Army officer died on Afghan patrol
    Commanding officer, who warned of Afghanistan helicopter shortage, and Trooper Joshua Hammond died in roadside bomb The most senior British army officer to be killed since the Falklands war was trying to "inspire" his troops by acting as "top cover" on an armoured vehicle and helping hunt for roadsi ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • The bare facts of biodiversity
    We've known for a couple of years or so that one of the impressive-sounding environmental promises that governments are signed up to - the pledge to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss significantly by 2010 - isn't going to be met. Now, an analysis just published in the journal Science is giving u ...
  • Climate party risks losing its guests
    When you're deciding whether to get dolled up and head off to the party, do you stop to ask who else might be going? Few want to risk being seen somewhere where the action is not; most will do what they can to avoid arriving so early as to give the impression that they need the party more than the ...
  • Oil stirs troubled waters
    As anyone who's ever dressed a salad in vinaigrette will testify, oil and water just don't mix. That's especially true of crude oil and sea water that supports sea lifeforms from fish to birds to plankton to mammals. So when we discover that 42,000 gallons of oil are leaking daily from a stricken ...
  • Ozone's joined-up climate
    Remember the unseemly rush to biofuels ? The sudden impetus from all kinds of bodies including UN institutions, the EU, and governments such as the UK that began about four years ago to ramp up the growing of fuel crops and to adopt liquids made from them as the low-carbon transport panacea? While ...
  • Comeback for climate cautions and caveats
    There are many ways in which climate science has moved on since the mid-1990s, the period from date which the oldest e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and featured in the so-called "ClimateGate" affair - and there are quite a few in which many both insi ...

The Wonk Room

  • Mississippi To Strip Abortion Coverage From Health ...
    Following Arizona’s lead, Mississippi is moving to finalize legislation prohibiting insurers from offering abortion coverage in the exchange, even if it’s paid for with private dollars. The state legislature sent the bill to Gov. Haley Barbour (R) yesterday, after House leadership tabled a motion to ...
  • A Response To Michael Levi On Iran And Climate Pol ...
    At the Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Levi has a thoughtful response to my April 9 post on carbon policy and Iran, “Carbon Cap Would Deny Iran Precious Petrodollars: Over $100 Million A Day.” Levi expressed his concern at the idea that U.S. dependence on imported oil “makes Iran $100 million ...
  • If Republicans Are Really Concerned About Communit ...
    Today, the Senate began debate on financial regulatory reform, after Republicans finally agreed to end three days of obstruction last night and allow the bill to come to the floor. Ever since regulatory reform first began to move through the House of Representatives last year, the GOP (and its allie ...
  • Immigration Draft Proposal Would Allow U.S. Citize ...
    Sens. Harry Reid (D-NV), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will unveil a draft immigration proposal today that’s meant to entice Republicans to support a bipartisan and comprehensive bill. The 26-page draft, obtained by the Associated Press, “attempts to woo GOP senators in part by callin ...
  • Why Kris Kobach Is Wrong About The Arizona Law He ...
    em>Our guest blogger today is David Leopold, President-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and immigration lawyer at David Wolfe Leopold & Associates. In an Op-Ed piece published in todayâs New York Times, Kris W. Kobach, who claims that he “helped draft” Arizonaâs notorious a ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • With Apologies To Any CF Friends Of Mine ...
    And I've got a few friends and acquaintances. But this Afghanistan nightmare is evidence that the Canadian military is one bent institution. I guess the real story here is that scum rises. That explains the rise and rise of complete imbeciles like Rick Hillier. A childish, stupid man, who believ ...
  • Vatican Sex Scandals
    There's a lot happening today. From the rise of Christian-fascism in the USA , to the Obama Administration's simultaneous condemnation of Canada at the Arctic Conference and its request for further Canadian blood to be spilled in Afghanistan . However, I'd like to post a little something regarding ...
  • ezra levant wants to bring it!!!
    Ha! The pudgy stool is losing it ! I don't have a legal opinion on Speaker Peter Milliken's ruling yesterday, over the question of whether the Conservative government has to disclose every single national security document, military document and diplomatic document to MPs who want to see them. B ...
  • Canadian Forces Says They'll Investigate Allegatio ...
    Um, that's okay boys. We'll take it from here. A parliamentary committee has heard stunning allegations from a former translator who claims the Canadian military tried to cover up the fatal shooting of an Afghan man in October 2007. Responding to the allegations late Wednesday, the chief of defen ...
  • David Bercuson Again
    I noticed a lot of people (Hey! For this fucking blog anyway!) liked my recent trashing of David Bercuson's stupid editorial . In the comments section, Alison at Creekside hepped us to the fact that Bercuson's Centre for Military and Strategic Studies is a recipient of almost $800,000 from the Depa ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: The Long and Short of It
    by Brian Pretti. "It has been a very long while since I’ve taken up a big chunk of a discussion to write about crude oil. The time is now for a multiplicity of reasons. You know the old market truism that after bear markets in equities, old leadership rarely emerges as new leadership. And of course ...
  • Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud, Part 3
    by Elliott Wave Int. "With the market’s downtrend recently in abeyance, these transgressions failed to capture the imagination of the public or the scrutiny of law enforcement. But the extreme recriminatory power of the next leg down in social mood suggests that Goldman’s dealings will become a ligh ...
  • A Short Philosophy of History
    by J. R. Nyquist. "The founder of analytic psychology, Carl Jung, proposed the existence of something he called the collective unconscious. He said it was the most misunderstood of his empirical concepts. Its reality could be inferred from the presence of archetypes, most readily discoverable in dr ...
  • Market Observation: Fear Strikes Out
    by Martin Goldberg, CMT. "The markets are heading straight up without even taking a breather. As of Thursday after completing the January correction, there have been 34 days up and only 13 days down. Over that timeframe the S&P has gained about 16%. None of the down days were particularly scary and ...
  • The Tax Window of Opportunity
    by Vedran Vuk. "The biggest danger to your wealth isn’t a bubble in China or Europe – it’s the IRS. Since 1987, top earners have been taxed between 28 percent and 39.6 percent, a relatively low range compared to the 50-percent-and-above rates for most of the century. However, with enormous annual de ...

on Government Oversight

  • MMS Thought Deepwater Horizon was Award-Winningly ...
    This afternoon Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bart Stupak (R-MI) sent letters to BP America and Transocean Ltd. requesting information as part of an investigation into the "companies' risk management...
  • More Lessons From the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
    -- Mandy Smithberger
  • Can Regulators Be Trusted to Crack Down on Derivat ...
    Earlier this week, the Chairs of the Senate Agriculture and Banking Committees reached an agreement on a proposal that could bring sweeping changes to the regulation of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The Democratic leadership announced it will incorporate the joint proposal,...
  • What Congress Can Do to Enhance Government Transpa ...
    This afternoon, POGO General Counsel Scott Amey heads to the Hill for the inaugural event of the new bipartisan Congressional Transparency Caucus. As part of the event, Scott will participate in a panel discussion alongside Daniel Schuman from the Sunlight Foundation , Jerry Brito from the Merca ...
  • Morning Smoke: The CH-53K Helicopter, an "Example ...
    What’s Strangling the CH-53K? by Craig Hooper [Defense Tech] Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion In No-Bid Fuel Contracts To Mysterious Companies by Mark Hosenball [Declassified] Foreign contractors could face prosecution in U.S. courts by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] Senate...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • The Homeless Proclaim "I Am Here"
    A new advertising campaign from the social outreach ministry  Mobile Loaves & Fishes in Austin, Texas caught my eye — and the attention of city motorists as well. The billboard says "I am Danny. I am homeless. I am here." An arrow points to, well, to Danny, a chronically homeless man who has been st ...
  • Was Homeless Hero Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax Your Neigh ...
    Neil Donovan is part of Change.org's  Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Neil is the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Much has been reported on the tragic death of Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, a New Yorker who stopped to help a woman being at ...
  • Homeless Campers Outsmart the Cops
    Last week, Honolulu instituted a no-tents decree for public parks. It smacked of discrimination against those without a roof — who but the homeless is setting up tents? I couldn't help but laugh when I read today that it didn't take long for Honolulu's tent-dwellers to outsmart the authorities by se ...
  • Victory! HIV+ People No Longer Excluded from Housi ...
    It's getting harder to discriminate against HIV-positive individuals in need in New York. The New York State AIDS Advisory Council is now recommending that more HIV-positive individuals be eligible for housing assistance . Previously, eligibility requirements focused on the medical condition of an H ...
  • A Call for Free Voice Messaging
    Call me lucky. I got in on a "beta testing" program with a telecommunications company called Grand Central several years ago. Since then, Google acquired the services, renamed it  Google Voice , and my participation continued — eventually becoming invaluable to me at a time when I unexpectedly neede ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • U.S. resists Euro-nuke removal
    The United States is reportedly resisting the efforts of several European members of NATO to remove U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told NATO foreign ministers meeting in Estonia last week that the Obama administration is not opposed to cuts in the ...
  • Support for Afghan mission drops
    Support for the mission in Afghanistan has fallen markedly among Canadians, a new Angus Reid poll shows. According to the polling firm, 39 percent of Canadians currently support the Afghanistan mission, while 56 percent oppose it. In February, the same question showed 47 percent support and 49 perce ...
  • 505 Order of Canada members call for treaty bannin ...
    In an unprecedented development, more than 500 recipients of the prestigious Order of Canada have come together to call on governments around the world, including Canada, to bring about the elimination of nuclear weapons. “This is the first time that so many recipients of the Order of Canada hav ...
  • Let’s abolish nuclear weapons, once and for all
    Let’s abolish nuclear weapons, once and for all Dear Ceasefire.ca supporter, Can there be any greater threat to planet Earth than the 23,000 thermonuclear bombs currently held by the United States, Russia, and a growing list of other countries? We must end this nuclear threat for ourselves and t ...
  • Loon watch: Logo madness meets nuclear summit
    Fresh from revealing the secret Islamic threat encoded within the logo of the Missile Defense Agency, the right-wing loon crowd has now decided that the logo of the Nuclear Security Summit (shown above) is also sending secret Islamic messages — although Frank Gaffney appears to have stayed out of th ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Obama’s Plan To Raise Taxes & Cut Spending
    April 29, 2010 Bloomberg.com by Brian Faler President Barack Obama’s debt commission started grappling with how to reduce the U.S. government’s red ink in the first of a series of meetings aimed at producing a plan to be sent to Congress. The panel’s three-hour meeting yesterday produced little disa ...
  • Bill Would Require Every New Yorker Be Enrolled As ...
    April 29, 2010 wCBStv.com by Kirsten Cole Organ donation has become a vital way to save lives around the world, but a vast shortage of donors continues to mean people are losing their lives while on waiting lists. But there is a unique proposal that could change all that. New York State Assemblyman ...
  • NASA Unveils Evidence of Life on Mars
    April 29, 2010 theSun.com by Rhodri Phillips Paul Sutherland A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum – the building blocks of life as we know it. NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through t ...
  • Government Claims Global Warming May Cause Cancer
    April 29, 2010 CNSNews.com by Matt Cover A new government report says global warming could lead to an increase in both cancer and mental illness worldwide, and it calls for more federally funded research to determine how that might happen. The report, A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change, wa ...
  • Crib Recall After Babies Get Trapped
    April 29, 2010 WalletPop.com by Mitch Lipka Hundreds of thousands cribs are being recalled after they were connected to reports of infants becoming trapped in them, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is announcing today. The recalls are for cribs sold under the Graco and Simplicity brands. ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • What Israel means to me
    By David Shasha*, April 30, 2010 Over the years there has been a constant spate of books containing the testimonials of American Jews proclaiming their teary-eyed and deeply emotional love of the state of Israel. These books are part of the larger program of Israeli Hasbarah, the form of advocacy t ...
  • Israel official: Accepting Palestinians into Israe ...
    After a recent poll indicated that in increasing numbers Palestinians are losing faith in the two-state solution, remarks by Reuven Rivlin, a senior member of Likud and the Speaker in Israel’s parliament, suggest that a one-state solution may be more likely than most commentators generally imagine. ...
  • Israel’s fascist mood
    Responding to the results of a poll I highlighted yesterday, Gideon Levy writes: Israel is ready for a monster. Nothing will stop it. Every kind of violent and dangerous leader and every war crime will be welcomed here, welcomed by the stupid and ignorant. Our immune systems have long weakened. T ...
  • How to: risk World War III, and blow billions doin ...
    At Wired, Noah Shachtman writes: The Pentagon’s plan to fire ballistic missiles at terrorists isn’t just a nuclear Armageddon risk. It’s a ludicrously expensive way to accidentally start World War III: each weapon could cost anywhere from a few hundred million to $1 billion. The Defense Department ...
  • The perils of PowerPoint
    An article by Elisabeth Bumiller in the New York Times includes the diagram above. The illustration is indispensable for the lede — it does little to convey the principle failings of Powerpoint, least of all the cognitive style that Powerpoint engenders. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of Am ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Study: Melting sea ice major cause of warming in A ...
    No mention of missing “M’s” here in this press release from University of Melbourne Melting sea ice has been shown to be a major cause of warming in the Arctic according to a University of Melbourne study. Findings published in … Continue reading  →
  • Virginia Attorney General goes after Mann and UVA
    Cites nearly half a million dollars in state grant-funded climate research conducted while [Dr. Michael ] Mannâ now director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn Stateâ was at UVA between 1999 and 2005. From The Hook, it seems … Continue reading  →
  • Well, at least they didn’t launch it at Rosw ...
    When you think of NASA and crashes, you think of things like this: But, you usually don’t think about government balloon crashes being “dramatic”, unless of course it’s a balloon crash in Roswell, NM in 1947. Watch this video from … Continue reading  →
  • Another Arctic Sea Ice Milestone
    Many of you watch sea ice as closely as some people follow the NFL, soccer, or NASCAR. So when something of interest happens, I’m not without an inbox full of notices. Today it is encouraging to see the NANSEN is … Continue reading  →
  • Disconnected Computer Modeling
    By Steven Goddard I found a computer simulation of Arctic ice produced by The University Of Washington, which struck me as being particularly disconnected from reality. This group is forecasting that September extent will be lower than last year. Below is their … Continue reading  →

Dandelion Salad

  • Andrew Gavin Marshall: Western civilization on the ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 28, 2010 RTAmerica April 28, 2010 â As U.S. cities and towns wrestle with financial problems, investors are finding a new way to profit on their misery: by buying derivatives that essentially bet municipalities will default. Across the ...
  • Michael Moore On Wall Street
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ mmflint â April 28, 2010 “I’m happy the Obama administration brought these civil charges against them but I think there should be a criminal investigation. A lot of people’s money vaporized and I think when that happens — I’ll tell ya, we spend a lot of energy ...
  • Hammering Out a Contract: Exploiting Low-Paid Work ...
    by Walter Brasch and Rosemary R. Brasch Featured Writers Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com April 27, 2010 Art Welch, the in-school suspension supervisor at the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School (Vo-Tech) in Bloomsburg, Pa., earns $8 an hour, only 75 cents above minimum wage. In th ...
  • Senate probe: Goldman misled clients, nation — and ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Greg Gordon and Chris Adams McClatchy April 26, 2010 WASHINGTON â Goldman Sachs reaped “billions and billions of dollars” by betting on a housing market crash in 2006 and 2007, but the secret wagers put the firm in conflict with the interests of clients who ...
  • Stimulator: How to overthrow the Government + 500 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ subMedia stimulator April 25, 2010 This week: 1. Kyrgyzstan: Itâs Nice! 2. Red Shirt Valet 3. Capitalism must die! 4. Evoâs inconveniences 5. Itâs not Mine 6. Tasekoâs dirt lake 6. The Coup 7. 500 Years of indigenous resistance times two *** 500 Years of ...

Your New Reality

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    Artist Chris Ware's rejected cover for Fortune Magazine : Why was it rejected? Boing Boing explains : (Chris Ware) filled the image with tons of satirical imagery, like the U.S. Treasuring being raided by Wall Street, China dumping money into the ocean, homes being flooded, homes being foreclosed ...
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    There's Big Money In Fearing Up Americans By Darryl Mason Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the genesis of The Tea Party, but she's successfully glommed onto it and exploited it for everything she can get. And she got plenty . Just like Glenn Beck . Which is why I keep saying that Fox News is th ...
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    "The Only Way You Can Get An Elephant To Stand On Its Head Is From Fear Of Pain" Readers Of The New York Daily News watched that video, and read this story , which details how elephants, deepy intelligent and emphatic animals, can only be trained to performed circus tricks through violenc ...
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    When Words Are Weapons.... Philip K Dick, 1978 : "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. George Orwell made this clear in his novel 1984. But another way to control t ...
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Wired - Science

  • Plan B: California Braces for Climate Change
    When it comes to environmental regulation, California doesn’t wait for the Feds to ride in and lay down the law. The Golden State led the way on mandating emissions-control equipment in motor vehicles in 1961. It pioneered tailpipe-emissions standards in 1967 and ratcheted them up into the 1990s, p ...
  • What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
    Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba – and Stanford University physician Paul Drain says it’s time for the United States to pay attention to our neighbor’s shoestring success. Despite a 50-year trade embargo by t ...
  • Gene Grows Worm Heads
    A worm named Schmidtea mediterranea has the unique ability to regenerate not only its limbs, but also its head and brain. Now, scientists studying the worm have discovered one of the genes that allows it to accomplish this amazing feat. The gene, called “smed-prep,” regulates the location and struc ...
  • See Better by Believing You Can
    Imagine seeing better by thinking differently. That’s a vision with a future, according to Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer. Eyesight markedly improved when people were experimentally induced to believe that they could see especially well, Langer and her colleagues report in the April P ...
  • Twin Study Deepens Multiple Sclerosis Mystery
    The most detailed genetic investigation ever of multiple sclerosis has produced more questions than answers. Using extremely fine-grained analytical tools, scientists compared genetic information in three sets of identical twins. Of each pair, one twin had MS, and the other didn’t â yet their gen ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Block Israel’s OECD Membership
    Israel is about to be admitted to an exclusive economic club, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Despite the Government of Israel's failure to comply with OECD demands... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Ian Black: Is the Middle East on a peace process t ...
    Meron Benvenisti: "The whole notion of a Palestinian state now, in 2010, is a sham... The entire discourse is wrong. By continuing that discourse you perpetuate the status quo. The struggle for the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Hamas slams Egypt for tunnel deaths
    “This is a terrible crime committed by Egyptian security against simple Palestinian workers who were trying to earn their daily bread.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more... ...
  • Gideon Levy: Israel’s tyranny of the majority is d ...
    The only democracy in the Middle East is perhaps unique, but it's doubtful if it's the real thing. Results of a poll published in Haaretz yesterday reflect what has been known for a long time: a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Poll: Majority of Israel’s Jews back gag on rights ...
    More than half of Jewish Israelis think human rights organizations that expose immoral behavior by Israel should not be allowed to operate freely, and think there is too much freedom of expression... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Book Published
    Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health concern and a new book focuses on evaluating what is currently known about childhood TBI and the challenges faced by researchers and clinicians in this arena. The book is entitled "Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: New Frontiers in Cli ...
  • 2010 International Conference: Systems Biology of ...
    The Council for Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2) is excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2010 International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease. This three-day conference (June 16-19) will focus on mammalian systems biology, particularly as it applies to human disease ...
  • Pediatric Research Focuses on Nanopediatrics
    "Children are not small adults"--pediatricians say that's what makes their specialty different from the practice of medicine in adults. For similar reasons, researchers exploring the medical uses of nanotechnology believe that the use of molecular-level nanomedicine techniques in children will also ...
  • Professor Available to Discuss Accountability Issu ...
    Melvin Dubnick, professor of public administration with the University of New Hampshire, is available to discuss the accountability issues and political repercussions of the federal government and corporate responses to British Petroleum's oil spill in Louisiana. Dubnick has extensively studied acco ...
  • Crelligence Media Wins Babson College Undergraduat ...
    Crelligence Media is a social media marketing company that specializes in compensated consumer-generated media.

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

  • Stand Up for Human Rights, Boycott Arizona!
    Click here to read this article
  • Video: Bolivia's Answer to UN Climate Summit
    Environmentalists, indigenous leaders and celebrities are gathering in Bolivia this week for a self-styled People's Climate Change Summit. It is being billed as an alternative to the United Nations meeting last December in Copenhagen. Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, says he wants to highlight is ...
  • Consumer Food Choices Survey
    The Consumer Food Choices Survey was put together by Silvia Zuur, a researcher from the Agriculture Section at the Goetheanum - the Centre for Biodynamic Agriculture in Switzerland. Click here to read this article
  • New Meatrix Site Offers Complete Toolbox for Fight ...
    With factory farming threatening to take over the world, the crime fighting superheroes of The Meatrix are off on an extended mission, redoubling their efforts to spread the word. Click here to read this article
  • Max Kane Risks Prison for Refusing to Tell Who Sel ...
    Max Kane has been charged with nothing. There is no case being prosecuted against him or anyone else for anything, not even for selling or buying raw milk. Yet, he has been ordered by the state of Wisconsin to inform on his friends. They want him to name people who sell or buy raw milk. He has refus ...

fotoFrontera

  • Imágenes de flores para el Día de las Madres (reco ...
    He aquí nuestro especial de flores para el Día de las Madres. En algunos países como España se celebra el primer domingo de mayo y en México festejamos a nuestras madrecitas el día 10 de mayo. Con la intención de que usted tenga a su alcance las mejores imágenes de flores, he realizado esta... ...
  • Wallpapers de motocicletas (6 imágenes bonitas)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿Te gustan las motos? Si haz contestado que sí, será mejor que no pierdas más tiempo y disfrutes de esta pequeña colección con 6 wallpapers en alta resolución donde estas bellezas de dos ruedas pasan a ser el centro de. ...
  • Imágenes y fotos de gatitos (11 elementos y algo m ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Esta colección de imágenes de gatitos, está plenamente dedicada para quienes adoran a estos simpáticos, traviesos, pequeños y ronroneadores mininos. Hay varios colores y tamaños. Espero que les gusten. HAZ CLICK SOBR ...
  • La nieve, el mar y los paisajes (35 paraísos natur ...
    Este paquete contiene una de las mejores colecciones de imágenes que usted pueda imaginarse. Se trata de 35 fotografías donde la nieve y los paisajes naturales convergen creando una serie de verdaderos paraísos increíbles, hermosos y majestuosos que hay que ver para creer.Nota: Haz click aquí o... ...
  • Automóviles de lujo (48 wallpapers muy hermosos)
    Si a usted le gusta coleccionar imágenes de autos, le tengo el día de hoy un especial dedicado a estos vólidos de diversas marcas, modelos y colores. En este paquete, usted encontrará 40 wallpapers de automóviles de lujo en alta definición que le aseguro le dejarán una grata experiencia visual. Un.. ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Sorting Through the New Mil Coms Manual
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Still catching up on yesterday’s news that DOD released the much-anticipated 2010 edition of the Manual for Military Commissions (MMC). The Manual is here. Among its many provisions of interest (I’m still skimming) are the rules set forth for prosecut ...
  • Jose Alvarez Appointed Special Advisor on Internat ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This seems like a nice, uncontroversial way to buttress the ICC Prosecutor’s Office: ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo today announced the appointment of Professor Jose Alvarez as his Officeâs Special Advisor on International Law. âProfessor Alvarez is one of the lea ...
  • GATT/GATS and the General Exceptions Quandry
    by Roger Alford When I teach International Trade, one of my favorite parts of the class is the discussion of trade linkages. How does a state balance competing concerns such as labor, the environment, and human rights? Typically the WTO accommodates those concerns through the General Exceptions ...
  • Does South Korea Have the Right to Blockade North ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku What should South Korea do if it confirms the responsibility of North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel?  This article quotes a Korean law professor offering three options: Writing in JoongAng Daily, Kim Hyun-soo, professor of international law at Inha ...
  • An SOS for Cyberspace?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis My colleague David Post and I have an op-ed in today’s National Law Journal.  In it, we challenge the sufficiency of existing responses to cyberattacks, whether in terms of pushing for heightened security, more criminal law enforcement or applying the laws of wa ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • NZ Prime Minister under pressure from coalition pa ...
    Act Party leader Rodney Hide has just released an open letter to Prime Minister John Key, calling on him to delay New Zealand's emissions trading scheme, due to start July 1. Hide argues the government's excuses about an obligation to...
  • Fisking Ken Perrott, again
    I was reading Ken's 'my parachute won't open' site the other day and stumbled across some answers he gave to a sceptic that suggest Ken didn't have a clue what he was talking about. It's not the first time we've...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Germany abandons world climate trea ...
    According to Der Spiegel: Merkel Abandons Aim of Binding Climate Agreement By Dirk Kurbjuweit, Christian Schwägerl and Gerald Traufetter Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a...
  • Australia shelves ETS scheme, NZ under pressure
    NEWS RELEASE FROM NZCSC “The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the costs of living and undermine the competitiveness of New...
  • Obama official, Gore aide caught in climate fundin ...
    Chris Horner breaks the story: Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration’s “green” policies. Zoi, who left her...

Public News Service

  • Legal Challenge Announced to AZ Immigration Law
    Legal Challenge Announced to AZ Immigration Law Phoenix, AZ – Arizona's new immigration law is headed for a federal court challenge. The suit being planned will allege that the state law violates the U.S. Constitution. Comments from Thomas Saenz (SIGNS), president of the Mexican-American Legal Defen ...
  • Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40 ...
    Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40th Phoenix, AZ – Arizona joins the nation today (Thursday) in marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Former Wisconsin U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded the event as a national teach-in. Comments from Tia (TEE-ah) Nelson, the late senator's daug ...
  • Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Fed ...
    Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Federal Health Dollars Phoenix, AZ – Arizona lawmakers have yet to restore funding for KidsCare health insurance. The new federal health care law requires the state to maintain its children’s health insurance program, or lose up to 7-billion dollars for ...
  • AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challen ...
    AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challenge for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – Discussions about keeping the aging brain in tip-top shape are part of the focus at this year’s AARP National Spelling Bee. Spellers from Arizona and around the country will compete June 18-19 in Wyoming– with entries alr ...
  • Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout
    Redefining What It Means to be a Girl Scout Phoenix, AZ – As the Girl Scouts approach their 100th year, the organization is putting more emphasis on helping girls develop their leadership skills. The newer concept is to help girls find and nurture their own strengths. Comments from Tamara (tuh-MAH-r ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Australia Reopens Notorious Detention Center
    Disused WA Air Force base Curtin detention center had been described as a "living hell hole," during its use under a previous Government on the desolate north coast of Western Australia, has alarmed refugee advocates who claim base is the "worst of worst" Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
  • Merkel Abandons Aim of Binding Climate Agreement
    Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a binding agreement on limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius.(nb Bait & Switch of UN agenda at Conference blown ) Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Drone Pilots Are War Criminals: Law Profs
    Law professors giving testimony to a Congressional panel on Wednesday presented yet another case that drone attacks are war crimes - because they're not conducted by lawful combatants.United States seeks to prosecute members of its adversaries for same. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Help put an End to Dolphin Slaughter and Captivity ...
    A host of A-list celebrities have partnered up with the creators of The Cove to encourage people to support the end of dolphin slaughter and captivity. Submitted by Priscilla Lorenzo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • "How to Destroy the Earth's Fresh Water Supplies W ...
    Gas companies use a process called hydraulic fracturing as a way of making gas recovery in tight sands more profitable. It can also be extremely destructive to fresh water supplies. (added http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/water-wealth-power.html) Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �| ...

Angry Indian News

  • Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: ...
    Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: I Can't Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President-democracynow.org: World Peoples’ Conference on Climate... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • With more than 500 aboriginal women missing, actio ...
    With more than 500 aboriginal women missing, action is overdue - The Globe and Mail: Last week, the Manitoba government announced the creation of a joint RCMP and Winnipeg Police task force to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Apocalypse Africa: Made in America - Trailer
    Apocalypse Africa: Made in America - Trailer: [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Protest groups to converge on RBS Edinburgh
     Source Protest groups are getting ready to converge on the RBS Annual General Meeting in Edinburgh tomorrow as well as holding their own alternative 'People's AGM' conference. It's been... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The Death Of Boa Sr
    The Death Of Boa Sr � Canada's World: "The Andaman Islands, for those of you as geographically challenged as yours truly, are an archipelago lying in the Bay of Bengal between India and Burma. They... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Food “Safety” Reform and the Covert Continuation o ...
    The take-away message is clear: the US can’t require foreign producers in less developed nations to have a system that is equal to ours; we have to accept their different or lower standards as equivalent to domestic standards. Nevertheless, the legislation will hold domestic producers to higher stan ...
  • Farm Wars Supports International Seed Day – Save Y ...
    On April 26 celebrate with your community, friends and family by cooking healthy organic food.
  • Monsanto – Conquering Amerika One Stomach At a Tim ...
    One of the biggest cases to come before the Supreme Court regarding the uncontrolled spread of GMO on this planet via the American stomach is about to be heard by a Monsanto shill.
  • The Fake Food Safety bills: Feeding America poison ...
    The PPJ Gazette    By: Marti Oakley ©2010  All Rights reserved  “Our food system is not broken as some claim.  It is not dangerous, it is not rife with disease, it is not a threat to anyone and there is no terrorist in a cave somewhere “over there” plotting and planning on how to defecate in a [... ...
  • Common Plant Vector Injects Genes into Human Cells ...
    A paper published earlier this year reports that T-DNA can be transferred to the chromosomes of human cancer cells...The paper shows that human cancer cells along with neuron and kidney cells were transformed with the Agrobacterium T-DNA. Such observations should raise alarm for those who use Agroba ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion in No-Bid F ...
    ShareThis Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion in No-Bid Fuel Contracts to Mysterious Companies 28 Apr 2010 The Pentagon's main supply agency has acknowledged awarding $1.4 billion in no-bid contracts to two foreign companies whose ownership and management seem extremely mysterious. The contracts, ...
  • White House: No new drilling efforts until probe o ...
    ShareThis White House: No new drilling efforts until probe of explosion is done 30 Apr 2010 The White House vowed Friday that no expansion of offshore oil drilling will take place until investigations are completed into a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which is sending thousands of gallons of ...
  • Govt declares national disaster as oil reaches Lou ...
    ShareThis Govt declares national disaster as oil reaches Louisiana coast 30 Apr 2010 US President Barack Obama is dispatching senior cabinet members, including the heads of homeland security and environmental protection, to assess the situation in the Gulf of Mexico as a BP oil spill reached the sho ...
  • Gulf spill is really a river of oil, environmental ...
    ShareThis Gulf spill is really a river of oil, environmentalists say 29 Apr 2010 To understand the gravity of the danger facing Louisiana's coast from the oil that began washing ashore Thursday, pollution clean-up veterans offered this starting point: Forget the word "spill." "This isn't a spill," s ...
  • US anti-terrorism team visits Lebanon-Syria border
    ShareThis US anti-terrorism team visits Lebanon-Syria border 29 Apr 2010 A US 'anti-terrorism' assessment team visited the main Lebanon-Syria border crossing this week, a US embassy official said on Thursday, amid allegations that Damascus was supplying its ally Hezbollah with missiles. The official ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • NZ Prime Minister under pressure from coalition pa ...
    Act Party leader Rodney Hide has just released an open letter to Prime Minister John Key, calling on him to delay New Zealand's emissions trading scheme, due to start July 1. Hide argues the government's excuses about an obligation to...
  • Fisking Ken Perrott, again
    I was reading Ken's 'my parachute won't open' site the other day and stumbled across some answers he gave to a sceptic that suggest Ken didn't have a clue what he was talking about. It's not the first time we've...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Germany abandons world climate trea ...
    According to Der Spiegel: Merkel Abandons Aim of Binding Climate Agreement By Dirk Kurbjuweit, Christian Schwägerl and Gerald Traufetter Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a...
  • Australia shelves ETS scheme, NZ under pressure
    NEWS RELEASE FROM NZCSC “The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the costs of living and undermine the competitiveness of New...
  • Obama official, Gore aide caught in climate fundin ...
    Chris Horner breaks the story: Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration’s “green” policies. Zoi, who left her...

Mondoweiss

  • Ask Haaretz: What drives ’secret’ US p ...
    From Haaretz, on the Israel lobby, its sociological roots. Why doesn't this stuff ever get exhumed here? Note the reference to money. The Washington Post has said 60 percent of Democratic giving. I guess that's not a story; and Jews and money is an antisemitic, pogrom-producing canard. Until the ...
  • Boycotts from Arizona to Palestine
    Tell me if this sounds familiar: A new order allows enforcement officials to stop anyone who “looks illegal” (read: has brown skin) and demand that they produce documents proving their right to be in a place they call home. Failure to produce such documents can lead to fines, jail time, or depor ...
  • Mearsheimer’s realistic/crystal ball: incipi ...
    John Mearsheimer gave a splendid lecture today at the Palestine Center in D.C. titled "The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners" in which he stated that the two-state-solution is over ("most Israelis are opposed to making the sacrifices that would be necessary to create a viabl ...
  • Israel’s democratic values: Punish human rig ...
    Were you scared by the recent poll finding that the majority of Israeli Jews have profoundly anti-democratic attitudes and support restricting human rights groups, punishing Israeli citizens who call for boycotting the country, and punishing journalists who expose news that expose immoral actions by ...
  • AIPAC would marry apartheid
    Henry Siegman, at Foreign Policy, imagines the inevitable result of the current policies in Israel that Obama has done little to buck-- apartheid-- and wonders what a president would do then: Most of the political parties that comprise Netanyahu's government, including Yisrael Beiteinu, led by Av ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Australian Vaccine Scandal
    THE REAL REASON SO MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT PANVAX? CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT W ...
  • VRM: Pregnancy Tips
    I was recently alerted by a newly pregnant mother of a child with Autism for tips on minerals & vitamins to help strengthen her immune system during the coming months. She believes vaccines were the cause of her child’s Autism and has begun a shift away from her GP. Based on all my research thus far ...
  • VRM: Family Charts The Gradual Decline Of Daughter ...
    VACCINE CRIME: Family charts the gradual decline of daughter (b. 6-3-95) attributed to vaccine trauma: Hepatitis B/6-19-95 (rash), HBPV, OPV, DPT & Hepatitis B/7-27-95 (floppy limbs noted), DPT, HBPV & OPV/9-27-95 (floppiness persisted, outbreak of Eczema, dissociative autistic behavior), DPT & ...
  • VRM: Autism – Steps To Take Toward Prevention & Re ...
    1) Vitamin D is highly recommended – According to Dr. John Cannell, âAutism is caused from a quantitative, not qualitative, variation in one of the enzymes that metabolize Vitamin D. That is, there are no structural differences in these enzymes in autism, only agenetically determined difference in ...
  • VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
    “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
    A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...
  • Simple Living: CDs and DVDs
    If like me, you were a teen in the 90's, you probably have a huge stack of CDs like I do. I would also bet that, like me, you rarely listen to any of those CDs. Over the last few years I've also noticed the same thing with my DVDs. I had a whole shelf of CDs and DVD but never touched 99% of ...
  • The Newest Excitement In My Life: Dual-Flush Toile ...
    Last week I got my quarterly municipal water bill: $ 240 ! That's about $1000 a year I'm paying for water which dries out my skin and reeks of chlorine. This was ample motivation for me to finally get around to installing a dual-flush adapter to our existing toilets. I picked this thing ...
  • My Quick and Easy Square Foot Garden
    Here's my little garden that I did last week. �It's a modified square foot garden where instead of a 4 x 4 bed this is 1 x 28. I have a small 50x 50 lot so there isn't room for anything much larger. The walls of the bed are plastic fake stones. �They're $15 for 9 feet at Walmart and Cana ...
  • Simple Living: Getting Rid of "Stuff"
    "The stuff you own, owns you." I know that saying sounds bizarre and maybe a little paranoid but in many ways it's true. In my the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "I have to clean up and organize; my house is too cluttered.". �It's a little thing but it's one more stress in my life an ...

Michael Yon

  • Big Guns
    28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly.  Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...
  • Battle for Kandahar
    Battle for Kandahar Baghtu Valley 25 April 2010 Afghanistan The counteroffensive has begun.  More accurately, it might be called a counter-counteroffensive.  Close to a decade ago, we beat the Taliban and al Qaeda here.  The Taliban regrew and waged an increasingly successful counteroffensive.  ...
  • War above McChrystal's Head
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  • A Whisper
    Published: 16 April 2010 By: MAJ JF Sucher, MD A singular sentence in reply to a common, simple question. A whisper from Afghanistan has returned a loud echo from Laconia, New Hampshire, a small town of 12,000 (40,000 in the summer) nestled amongst the glacial lakes in the center of the state. D ...

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

  • The Week in Pictures: US Approves First Offshore W ...
    From the news that the first offshore wind farm in the United States has finally been approved to the oil rig that exploded and sunk last week, that continues to leak 1,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ever day, a lot happened this week in green. The city of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, is b ...
  • Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Savin ...
    Credit: Photo Gigi Brisson A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many endangered or vulnerable, and all wonderfull ...
  • Toyota Prius Named Top Green Car
    Story by Darragh Worland, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com It's been a rough year for Toyota, which has been plagued by recalls, but the Japanese car maker's top selling Prius is still scoring points for the embattled company. Kelley Blue Book (KBB), the largest auto valuation compa ...
  • Obama Bans New Offshore Drilling Until Investigati ...
    image: NOAA As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to spread, and the Coast Guard investigating reports that oil has begun washing ashore in Louisiana, President Obama has banned new offshore oil drilling. White House advisor David Axelrod told ABC News there will be... Read the full story o ...
  • Protect Endangered Species: Wear a Condom
    Story by Katie Levitt, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com. Since February, 350,000 free endangered species condoms have been distributed nationwide. The bulk of those were passed out at Earth Day events on Thursday. The condom campaign is the work of the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burmese PM to head political party
    Thein Sein's appointment as head of the Union Solidarity and Development Party may be in violation of election laws, opposition party says
  • Beggar children held in Malaysian camp
    Trafficked Burmese children as young as 10 kept in detention camp for nine months as Burmese embassy and UNHCR "play volleyball" with their futures
  • Suu Kyi’s house plan approved
    Renvoations to begin after lengthy court battle between the opposition leader and her estranged brother over ownership of the house
  • Nyi Nyi Aung: ‘You cannot silence me’
    Nyi Nyi Aung is 41-years-old and originally from Rangoon. He currently works as a computer engineer and political activist in America. I speak to Nyi Nyi Aung on the phone on 19 April 2010. Nyi Nyi Aung (born Kyaw Zaw Lwin) came to the United States as a refugee in 1993. According to his fiancé, he ...
  • Suu Kyi fights party dissolution
    Oppostion leader files lawsuit against junta chief Than Shwe in Burma's top court following the government's refusal to allow her to run for office this year

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Hawaii House approves same-sex civil unions
    [JURIST] The Hawaii House of Representatives [official website] voted 31-20 Thursday to approve legislation [HB 444 text, PDF] allowing same-sex civil unions [JURIST news archive]. The act would confer upon homosexual and heterosexual couples rights and benefits equal to those afforded married coupl ...
  • France judge orders Noriega to remain in custody p ...
    [JURIST] A French judge ruled Tuesday that former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] must remain in custody until his trial on money laundering charges. Noriega arrived in France Tuesday morning after being extradited [JURIST report] from the US, where ...
  • Supreme Court hears arguments on genetically modif ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in Monsanto Company v. Geertson Seed Farms [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on what conditions must be met to obtain a nationwide injunction prohibiting the ...
  • Lawyers for Congo rebel leader Bemba argue legalit ...
    [JURIST] Defense lawyers for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba [case materials, JURIST news archive] argued before the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Tuesday that charges against their client should be dropped. His lawyers argued that h ...
  • Oklahoma legislature overrides veto of anti-aborti ...
    [JURIST] The Oklahoma State Senate [official website] on Tuesday voted 36-12 to override Governor Brad Henry's veto of two anti-abortion bills that will now immediately become law. The first bill [HB 2526 text, RTF] would prevent "wrongful life" lawsuits in which parents seek damages for a child bor ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Why Republicans Are Stalling the Financial Bill
    "Will 41 Republicans Block the Wishes of 65% of Americans?" asks the Democratic National Committee. As of this writing, the answer is -- yes. For the time being, anyway. Republicans aren't stupid. So what's going on here? 1. Government is not popular . People tend to blame George W. Bush for the fi ...
  • 'This Is Alabama. We Speak English'
    In this advertisement , Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James speaks on the apparently incredible waste of government resources it takes to give driver's license examinations in twelve languages. "This is Alabama," he says. "We speak English. If you want to live here, learn it. ... Maybe it ...
  • Gen. Jones Apologizes for Jewish 'Joke'
    Gen. Jones: what words escaped the�barrier�of your teeth? "I wish that I had not made this off the cuff joke at the top of my remarks, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it. It also distracted from the larger message I carried that day: that the United States commitment to Israel's ...
  • The Night Beat: And Then There Were 4 in Florida
    What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. Read it here first: Then there were FOUR. Billionaire Jeff Greene � will enter FL SEN race tomorrow as a Democrat ... expect a paper statement. Life story: he came from nothing. Self-made man. Created jobs. Made a difference. (He also shorted � ...
  • Gingrich Further Enables the Right's Flight From R ...
    My Friday column �weighing in on the issue of epistemic closure on the right, and the flight of conservatives from empirical reality, has provoked fast, angry, and often personal rebukes. So far, the�misreadings are legion.�Of course there are�Republicans with good ideas and conservative leaders wit ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Mark ‘Muntasir’ Halawa, Pimping the Pro-Israel Lec ...
    A few months ago I wrote an expose of a “Mark” Halawa, who’d been adopted by the far-right settler group, Aish Hatorah, as their pet Muslim Jew (more about this later).  I called him “Aish’s Manchurian Muslim.”  The profile about him contained elements so far fetched as to be almost laughable, esp ...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • Alan Dershowitz Accuses Rabbis Supporting Goldston ...
    Everyone knows all the jokes about the lying scumbag lawyers who talk out of both sides of their mouths and get paid for it.  That’s pretty much Alan Dershowitz to a T.  Last week, when it appeared Richard Goldstone would not attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah due to pressure from the South African ...
  • Jeffrey Goldberg, Like a Broken Clock, Gets Things ...
    And it’s worthy celebrating when he does (since it happens so rarely): “I don’t believe that time is on Israel’s side in the American Jewish community,” he said. “I think the average 55-year-old American Jew thinks something very, very different about Israel than the average 25-year-old American Jew ...
  • Laura Bush’s Crisis of Christian Faith: Why God Do ...
    I don’t usually write about subjects like Laura Bush’s personal life, but the N.Y. Times report on her new book struck me as particularly banal and troubling in terms of how she views the way God should work in the world. When she was  a teenager, she caused an auto accident that killed a popular s ...

Ode Magazine

  • Russian surprises
    By: Anne Thomas I grew up during the Cold War. And much to my shame, that meant I knew next to nothing about the vast nation now called Russia. The stories I heard about the then Soviet Union were all government propaganda, so my understanding was distorted, fear-f ...
  • Nau: Fashion, function, and sustainability combine ...
    By: VictoriaKlein What can a small clothing company teach us all about environmental consciousness? A lot, it turns out. From the eco-mecca of Portland, Oregon, Nau (pronounced “now”; Maori for "welcome, come in") was established in 2005 by a small group of b ...
  • Blue is the new green
    By: TheBlueEconomy Nature itself shows us how to innovate, generate wealth and create jobs. The current “green business” model has failed to achieve its vision and goals. The idea that business would provide more capital and consumers would pay more to reduce our ...
  • 10 ways to make every day an Earth Day
    By: VictoriaKlein Celebrating its 40th anniversary, April 22nd is known worldwide simply as Earth Day . U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded the day to inspire year-round eco-awareness & appreciation. In our modern times, his message is still as vital as it was in 1 ...
  • Ahhh, a day without a newspaper
    By: Marco Visscher How might the French be doing today? It’s a historic day: No newspapers are being delivered as printers and distributors went on strike (language alert: article is in French!) after the national union for the newspaper industry announced, sadly, ...

OpEd News

  • European MPs and Ministers Assess Gaza Today
    Under an Israeli imposed siege and repeated attacks, Gazans continue to suffer horrifically
  • A New Paradigm for Leaders: The Macro-to-Micro App ...
    This article reviews the new millennium paradigm, the macro-to-micro approach, in which leaders first consider the macro needs and then formulate ways to fulfill those needs. The article provides 5 considerations that leaders could use as a guide toward implementing the macro-to-micro approach.
  • British Election Leadersapos; Debate - The Grand B ...
    After cleverly branding the Liberal Democrats as something different, an alternative to the old parties, Clegg surged in popularity after the first debate. Brought down to earth after the second appearance and greater scrutiny, Clegg then revealed his true colors. Proposing an alignment with the p ...
  • Cubs vs. Diamondbacks: Boycott Action Held in Resp ...
    Around a hundred supporters of immigrant rights were outside Wrigley Field in Chicago to boycott the first game of the Cubs vs. Diamondbacks four-game series and the Arizona Diamondbacks ownersapos; support for the immigration law recently passed in Arizona.
  • By the Time I Get to Arizona
    This new Arizona law, however, deserves as much condemnation as can be mustered. Beyond the fact that it is so brazenly unconstitutional that it will likely not survive long, there is the matter of turning an entire race of people - nay, make that a few races of people - into suspected criminals.

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  • Wildlife Roundup: The Good News
    As the massive Gulf oil spill reaches the coast, threatening hundreds of species, I can’t think of a better time for our monthly roundup of good news about wildlife conservation: The United Kingdom has announced the creation of the Chagos Archipelago Marine Protected Area, a quarter-milli ...
  • Flip This Town! Wauconda, Washington sold on eBay
      Daphne Fletcher recently put the town of Wauconda, Washington – zip code 98859, about three hours northwest of Spokane and close to the Canadian border -- up for sale on eBay, asking price $359,000.  She got $1000 over the asking price.  The happy buyers-to-be are Maddie and Neal Love of ...
  • Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Realis ...
    Around the world, Americans are notoriously energetic and impatient.  That’s both good and bad.  I learned this first hand when I taught in China after I finished graduate school more than 25 years ago.   I was struck by how common it was for the average Chinese citizen to talk about time in ...
  • LEED-Neighborhood Development: It’s Official ...
    In twin events today in Washington DC and Chicago, the three partners who created LEED-Neighborhood Development (NRDC, the Congress for the New Urbanism and the US Green Building Council ) announced the system’s official launch.  Nearly a decade in the making, LEED-ND is the first national s ...
  • More diverse support for climate legislation: mili ...
    More diverse support for moving forward on climate legislation is visible today. Generals and Admirals: National Journal reports that More than 30 retired military generals and admirals are in Washington this week pushing Congress and the administration to pass the Senate trio's "America ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “I’m Kind of a Big Deal”
    Is Anchorman really the most quoted comedy of the last decade? Seems plausible; alternative candidates? Related posts:Good Deal Stratcom Offers a Deal Was The New Deal A Disastrous Sellout? Related posts: Good Deal Stratcom Offers a Deal Was The New Deal A Disastrous Sellout?
  • Unwarranted Presumptions of Rationality
    Were that this was true: Add Mike Huckabee to the list of Republicans criticizing the Arizona law. As I keep saying, Huckabee is dangerous; heâs very conservative and not very well educated, but heâs smart and sane and has a conscience. Unlike Sarah Palin, he could wind up as President. Certai ...
  • Aftermath of an Upset
    Well, unlike me, Olivier called it. I’m certainly not saying that Ovechkin should be beyond criticism in the wake of his team blowing a 3-1 lead to a significantly superior team. On the other hand, it’s way too early to question whether his status within the game is justified, even leaving aside th ...
  • When Exactly is Violence “Gratuitous”?
    Just a day after it was released earlier this week, the unnervingly violent anti-genocide music video, “Born Free,” was reportedly deleted by YouTube. Actually, as Wired has confirmed, it was only “buried” to make it much harder to find. But the video was simply posted on Vimeo and other sites, and ...
  • Politics Isn’t A Cocktail Party
    One place where you’re particularly likely to see “but would he/she be fun to have a beer with?” standards applied is Supreme Court nomination hearings and the surrounding discourse. You may remember, for example, that Sam Alito’s baseball-watching and nice family were not only supposed to be re ...

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National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Class action over Gulf of Mexico oil spill filed b ...
    The plaintiffs' bar is starting to circle the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. And one of the first lawyers to court is Daniel Becnel Jr., who is also caught up in Toyota's unintended-acceleration litigation.
  • More aspirants emerge to Toyota MDL plaintiffs' co ...
    Two additional attorneys have filed applications for lead counsel status in the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp., while a third submitted a letter to the judge that was returned on Wednesday.
  • Government seeks 10 years for Hollywood couple
    Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to sentence a Hollywood couple who were convicted of bribing a senior government official in Thailand to at least 10 years in prison, the longest term sought any individual who has gone to trial under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
  • District court sets fine of $6,840 in patent marki ...
    A district court judge meted out a high per-offense fine in the case whose remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last December sparked a tsunami of whistle-blower suits against companies for allegedly falsely labeling their products as patented. Still, the total fine was low be ...
  • Illinois county's insurance doesn't cover ex-state ...
    Insurance-wise, an Illinois county and an ex-prosecutor may be out of luck. In a case involving alleged prosecutorial misconduct, the 7th Circuit ruled on April 28 that the National Casualty Co. and the Scottsdale Indemnity Co. have no obligation to defend or indemnify the former state's attorney o ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Lisa Addresses Lincoln Place homeowners about Marc ...
    The below links are from the Lincoln Place Action Group in the Pittsburgh area. I met some of the folks who put this event together while traveling in Washington County. Lisa Graves (the speaker) is a resident of the Pittsburgh area where they are currently signing leases for drilling and she is a m ...
  • Pipeline Matters
    The League of Women Voters of Susquehanna County will host two upcoming events as part of its educational series on Marcellus Shale. A Friday event entitled Pipeline Matters will address right-of-way agreements, lease negotiation questions, landowner options and pipeline impact, according to a news ...
  • WENY TV Coverage for “Faces of Frackland&#82 ...
    WENY TV called me yesterday around 6pm and asked if they could interview me about the “Face of Frackland” Blog. They showed up about an hour later (which didn’t give me much time to collect my thoughts) but I was happy that they gave us a spot on the 11 o’clock news and That Cindy [...]
  • Who the Heck is Calvin Tillman?
    Calvin Tillman is the unpaid mayor of a very small town called Dish, a grid of modest homes on the north Texas plane. Calvin is an authentic American hero. Like the heros those old Westerns we grew up with, Calvin is the guy who doesn’t want a fight but turns out to be very good [...]
  • Natural Gases in Ground Water near Tioga Junction, ...
    The following is the opening statements from journeyoftheforsaken.com Note: The following is excerpted from an excellent and relatively revealing study of the Tioga Junction area, conducted by the USGS. I found this report particularly helpful because it helps explain the uncertainty associated with ...

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environment 360

  • EU Electric Car Strategy Calls for Charging Statio ...
    The European Union has unveiled a strategy to become a world leader in the green vehicle market, including a framework for common standards for electric cars across Europe by 2011 and the development of a network of charging stations continent-wide. Calling this a defining stage for the automotive i ...
  • The Greening of Silicon Valley: It Looks Like the ...
    California’s high-tech giants have long used renewable energy to help power their Silicon Valley headquarters. Now, companies such as Google, Adobe Systems, and eBay are preparing for the next step — investing in off-site solar and wind installations and innovative technologies that will supply thei ...
  • Rising Temperatures in U.S.
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States , and as the accompanying graphic shows, many parts of the country have experienced sharp temperature increases over the past century. The Northeast, Midwest, and West all experienced signi ...
  • Arctic Safeguards Needed As Sea Ice Disappears, WW ...
    Arctic nations should sign a comprehensive agreement to protect the environmentally sensitive region as sea ice melts and the Arctic basin is opened up to shipping, oil and gas drilling, and fishing, according to the conservation group WWF. With the likelihood that summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean ...
  • NASA Image Captures Extent of Oil Leak off U.S. Gu ...
    Click to enlarge NASA Oil leak from damaged rig in the Gulf of Mexico A new image taken by a NASA satellite captures the extent of a major oil spill triggered by the explosion aboard an offshore oil rig about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. An estimated 42,000 gallons o ...

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