Fair Use Note

WARNING for European visitors: European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent. As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities.

Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, May 10, 2010

10 May - RSS SnapShot!

Feeds Update From Opit's LinkFest!* at My Opera Community
*Blog/About/ Resource Index as well as live Personalized RSS Aggregator Working Demonstration

 

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Israeli Settlers Step Up Attacks on Pales ...
    LUBBAN ASH SHARQIYA, West Bank, May 10 (IPS) - "There is immense anger as well as a feeling of vulnerability and fear when a place of sanctuary and holiness is subject to indiscriminate violence," says Issa Hussein.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Australia Backflips on Climate Action
    MELBOURNE, Australia, May 10 (IPS) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party has made much of its plans to tackle climate change even before it came to power with victory in the country’s 2007 election.
  • ASTRONOMY: Big Southern Eye in Search of Extraterr ...
    SANTIAGO, May 9 (Tierramérica) - The construction of the world's largest telescope in the northern region of Antofagasta could make Chile an international leader in astronomy research and provide a launch pad for developing other scientific disciplines.
  • PHILIPPINES: On Eve of Poll, Voters Long for a Cle ...
    MANILA, May 9 (IPS) - The cheers from the final campaign rallies of nine presidential candidates have faded away, and it is just hours before Filipinos go to the polls on Monday. But voters like Roberto Mendoza doubt that the next president can tackle problems like corruption that have lo ...
  • BIODIVERSITY: Odds Stacked Against San Harvesters ...
    BWABWATA, Namibia, May 8 (IPS/IFEJ) - Nguni Diyasen gently loosens the earth with a hoe and then widens the hole with her bare hands. Fifty centimetres down she uncovers the light brown root of a devil's claw. Used to treat arthritis and rheumatism, the plant also constitutes her only income ...

Scoop - NZ

  • An American Chernobyl
    The drawing of parallels between industrial accidents is a dubious armchair sport, but here the parallels are just piling up and are becoming too hard to ignore: * An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 spewed radioactive waste across Europe * A recent explosion and sink ...
  • BNP routed in East London
    The British National Party failed to secure its first MP after far-right leader Nick Griffin was resoundingly beaten by 18,000 votes in its key target ward of Barking in east London. Amid jubilant scenes at the count, Labour's victorious candidate, Magaret Hodge, increased her majority and said the ...
  • Dow plunge raises alarm on algo trading
    A spine-chilling slide of nearly 1,000 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its biggest intraday points drop ever, led to heightened calls for a crackdown on computer-driven high-frequency trading. The slide, which in one 10-minute stretch knocked the index down nearly 700 points, may have b ...
  • Euro plunges as Club Med debt fears spread
    Yields on German two-year debt reached a record low, falling to 0.71pc on safe-haven demand in echoes of credit stress at the height of the financial crisis. This is below the European Central Bank's short-term rate of 1pc. "This is very unusual and indicates concern about systemic risk from soverei ...
  • US banks heavily exposed to European debt
    The European debt crisis could quickly spread to US banks, which are heavily exposed to Europe, banking analyst Dick Bove told CNBC.com. Bove, of Rochdale Securities, released research showing the massive exposure US banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have to European debt. ...

Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

  • EU Crafts $962 Billion Show of Force to Halt Cris ...
    European policy makers unveiled an unprecedented loan package worth almost $1 trillion and a program of bond purchases to stop a sovereign-debt crisis that threatened to shatter confidence in the euro. Stocks surged around the world, the euro strengthened and commodities rallied.
  • Governments In Southeast Asia Detain Thousands In ...
    A new report released today documents the arbitrary detention of thousands of drug users, mostly young people, in controversial detention centers in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.
  • Africa The New Crude Frontier
    Africa is experiencing an oil-and-gas boom as the continent’s relatively unexplored prospects present a tantalizing draw for foreign oil companies eager to feed the world’s growing energy appetite.
  • License to frustrate: Get-tough ID policies could ...
    No matter how you feel about illegal immigration, and no matter how much we want to protect ourselves from terrorism, the hellish bureaucratic scenes now unfolding at DMV offices across South Florida serve as a reminder: Be careful what you wish for.
  • U.S. Federal Reserve Opens Credit Line To Europe
    The US Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program to ship US dollars to Europe in a move to head off a broader financial crisis on the continent.

Innovation Canada

  • A symphony of science
    Words such as “laboratory” and “experiment” conjure up white-coated scientists mixing chemicals to better understand diseases like cancer or environmental challenges like energy consumption. We don’t usually picture a pianist, a playwright, a dancer or an acoustical engineer. When artists experiment ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Airport plods seize man with electric vibro-pleasu ...
    Bumbling Pakistani security operatives have detained a man at Karachi airport for attempting to board a plane with a pair of electrical vibro-massage shoes. Multiple reports indicate that the passenger, Faiz Mohammad, 30, was about to board a Thai Airways flight to Oman when he was seized following ...
  • Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline
    Min Liu, a 21-year-old liberal arts student at the New School in New York City, got a Facebook account at 17 and chronicled her college life in detail, from rooftop drinks with friends to dancing at a downtown club. Recently, though, she has had second thoughts. Concerned about her career prospects ...
  • Cameras diminish American freedom
    New York City has thousands of police surveillance cameras, which really come in handy when a terrorist strikes. After the car bomb attempt last weekend, they captured an image of the vehicle driving through Times Square and one of a guy taking off his shirt who looked nothing like the guy arrested ...
  • Companies Exploiting Socially-Networked Children t ...
    In response to recent bans on junk food advertising in the U.K., junk food manufacturers like Fanta, which is part of Coca-Cola, have found a loophole to the restriction. Producers are paying children the equivalent of roughly $40 a week to plug company products to their friends through social netwo ...
  • Dead Doctors Still Making Millions from Medicare B ...
    Medicare issued as much as $92 million in payments between 2000 and 2007 for medical procedures or devices ordered under the names of doctors who had already died, according to a 2008 Senate committee report. Prescriptions written in the names of deceased doctors are only one of the fraudulent tech ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Chuckles McVety want to give you a wedgie
    Read this story on the rise of the religious right in Canada and don't get scared, get angry. Then get busy and stop this tiny minority from seizing control of the political agenda in Canada with the same kind of wedge tactics they have used in the United States. The whole introduction of abortion i ...
  • A new, improved face-plant . . .
    They said dude hit the back of the truck at about 120mph.
  • General salute
    This seems to be the (slightly over the top) 'present arms' in the Ejército Bolivariano : The rehearsal blooper footage must be hilarious!
  • HarperNickleback
    I find myself oddly pleased with the association . They go well together.
  • Thresholds
    The other evening I sat in a lecture theatre listening to a stalwart of the old guard Canadian progressive left talk about the issues of today. The audience, as usual at these things, comprised a mixed bag of well-meaning 20-somethings in skinny jeans, with canvas satchels and unkempt hair, and grey ...

Media Matters for America

  • Myths and falsehoods about Elena Kagan's Supreme C ...
    Media Matters for America has compiled and debunked myths and falsehoods about Solicitor General Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination. Myth: Kagan's policies on military recruiters make her "an anti-military zealot" and an extremist on social issues Myth: Kagan is "radical" Myth: Kagan's thes ...
  • Conservatives and legal experts praise Kagan's in ...
    Despite the predictable smears from conservative partisans in the media, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has been praised by many leading figures on the right. Media Matters has documented examples of conservatives, legal experts, and media figures complimenting Kagan's inte ...
  • Conservative opposition to Kagan is motivated by ...
    From the beginning, conservative media figures made it clear they would aggressively fight whoever President Obama nominated in order to excite their base and weaken the White House. By indiscriminately attacking potential nominees regardless of their opinions or qualifications, conservatives ...
  • Allen's "critics" of Kagan rely on distortions an ...
    In his May 9 "Playbook," Politico's Mike Allen claimed President Obama was "poised to name" Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court and purported to characterize "what critics will say" about the nomination. However, the "critics' " arguments that Allen presented rest on baseless acc ...
  • Huckabee falsely claims national debt is "eight t ...
    Mike Huckabee falsely claimed that under President Obama, the national debt is "eight times" what it was under President Bush. In fact, the total public federal debt on May 6 was 1.2 times larger than it was when Obama entered office. Huckabee falsely asserts debt has increased "eight times" u ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Third Way ConservaDems Get it Wrong: Progressives ...
    Anne Kim and Jonathan Cowan of Third Way took to the Politico Arena op ed page (and url) on Thursday with the hoary slander that progressives care only about "expanding the entitlement state" and have no interest in economic growth or expanding wealth. Apparently blind to the worst economic downtur ...
  • International Treaties & the US Senate
    During a Maria Leavey Memorial Breakfast Series discussion with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), I asked the Senator in May 2008 whether there would be any action before the end of that Congress on the " Law of the Sea Treaty ". This treaty was one that most Democrats supported, Senate For ...
  • Israeli Government Hands Journalists The Line On G ...
    The Israelis will never tire of their obsession with Judge Richard Goldstone. Because he had the temerity to write a United Nations report calling Israel's actions in Gaza "war crimes," they are utterly unhinged by the man. And so are their media messengers. The obsession is personal because t ...
  • Presented By:
  • The (Almost) Crash of Wall Street
    Ninety minutes before the end of the trading day today, the U.S. stock market almost melted down The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 1,000 points. The market regained ground before the end, like a giant 747 narrowly averting a crash landing, but the questions of the day are: What happene ...

TruthOut

  • Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers ...
    In the habeas corpus petitions submitted by prisoners at Guant�namo, district court judges have, to date, ruled in 34 out of 47 cases �that the government has failed to demonstrate that the men in question had any meaningful connection to either al-Qaeda or the Taliban. read more
  • Alexander Cockburn | You Drill, You Spill
    Sobering, is it not, to realize that the possible survival of a huge oil company, of several billion shrimp, assorted species of fish and birds, not to mention avoidance of a near lethal lurch in the fortunes of Louisiana's fishing and ocean rec industries and the future of offshore drilling along t ...
  • Connie Schultz | A Mom's Worry Becomes a Son's Cal ...
    Nell Ann Craig is not one of those mothers who need material proof of their sons' love. "A card," she said. "A card's just fine. Or a call. I love when they call. I just want to hear their voices." The spend-spend-spend mantra of Mother's Day always has bugged Nell, but this year's retail overdriv ...
  • A Mother’s Day Wish for a Non-Toxic World
    There’s just one thing I want for Mother’s Day. But my three fabulous kids can’t give it to me, neither can my wonderful husband. The one thing I want, only Congress and the President can give me: peace of mind. While I might be loath to admit it sometimes, I am just your average suburban mom-- th ...
  • Confessions of a Military Mom
    In America, Mother's Day falls on May 9 this year. In Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon it fell on March 21, and in Afghanistan it fell on March 8, where it is also celebrated as the first day of spring. Israel forgoes Mother's Day in favor of Family Day, celebrated on February 14 this year. I tak ...

Planetsave

  • 255 Leading Scientists, 11 Nobel Laureates Write L ...
    A stunning letter of support for climate scientists and climate science from hundreds of leading world scientists was published in the journal Science today. You could hardly ask for a stronger letter of support for climate scientists and the conclusions they have made. You could hardly ask for a ...
  • National Bike Month is Here
    National Bike Month is here and there are a lot of reasons to participate! It’s that time of year again. The sun is shining more and more (in most places in the Northern Hemisphere), the birds are chirping, and you can see more and more people on the streets riding their bikes. If you aren’t alrea ...
  • Fishing 17 Times Harder Than 1880s
    The UK fishing fleet has to work 17 times harder today than it did in the 1880s to catch the same amount of fish. Researchers from the University of York and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) looked back through UK Government data to analyse the change in fish stocks since 1889. What they found ...
  • Countries Ranked on Environmental Impact in New St ...
    Many of Earth’s countries have been ranked for their environmental impact in a new study. Led by the University of Adelaide’s Environmental Institute, the study ranks over 170 countries in terms of their environmental impact measured against their total available resources as well as in terms of t ...
  • Future Temperatures Could Exceed Human Livability
    All the focus on reducing climate change is based on what will happen this century, but what happens the century after if we fail? According to new research findings, reasonable worse-cast scenarios for global warming if rising greenhouse gas emissions are not stamped out immediately could see Eart ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Tom Smitty Smith, director of Public Citizen's Tex ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • The Other Coal Deaths
    A guest column by Ted Nace of CoalSwarm: Every day in the United States, on average, 65 people die due to particulates from coal plants. On average, each of these deaths represents 14 years of lost life. These 65 deaths happen day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. They ...
  • Sarah McDonald dancing at Public Citizen Texas' 25 ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • New Report on Carbon Capture and Sequestration Say ...
    According to a new study published in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) by Michael Economides of the University of Houston and Christine Ehlig-Economides of Texas A&M University, clean coal is unlikely to prove a real solution to carbon emissi ...
  • Final Week of the HEB/EarthShare of Texas Campaign ...
    PUBLIC CITIZEN’s TEXAS OFFICE is a This is the final week of the HEB and Earth Share of Texas Campaign. Public Citizen’s Texas office is pleased that H-E-B has selected Earth Share of Texas to be the beneficiary of its in-store coupon promotion for April, in recognition of Earth Day. This means that ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Biotechnology: A False Sense of Food Security
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Timi Gerson is Director of Advocacy for American Jewish World Service. Gerson started her career organizing legislative campaigns for fair U.S. trade policy as field director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. ...
  • Institutional Giving and Communications Coordinato ...
    Grassroots International is a human rights and international development organization striving to create a just and sustainable world through grantmaking, advocacy and alliance-building movements with a focus on land, water and food as human rights.� Since 1983 we have worked in the Middle East, Asi ...
  • Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy - 1/2 ...
    Overview: � Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy works with the Executive Director and the Director of Development and Communications (DDC) to recruit, develop, solicit and coordinate major individual contributors. The ADSP has specific responsibilities as detailed below. The ADSP may also ...
  • Indigenous Women take on a big fight in Guatemala
    Guate-women.jpg � read more
  • 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

Climate

  • May 10, 2010
    Lieberman on Climate Bill: 'I Think We've Got a Real Shot at This' (The Hill) Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Sunday that the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill helps make the case for passage of the climate and energy bill that he's rolling out May 12 with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Wi ...
  • May 8-9, 2010
    BP Oil: Collection Chamber Clogs, Removed From Leaking Gulf Well (Bloomberg) BP's latest effort to prevent oil leaks from damaging wildlife and tourism on the U.S. coast are being stymied as cold and pressure a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico formed ice that clogged a containmen ...
  • May 7, 2010
    250 Scientists Decry "Assaults" on Climate Research (Reuters) More than 250 scientists, all members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, published an open letter in the journal Science on Friday, defending climate change research against "political assaults." U.S. Puts Hold on Dril ...
  • May 6, 2010
    Senate Cap-And-Trade Bill Coming Out Next Week: Boxer (Greenwire)  Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are planning to release their climate and energy bill as soon as next week even if they cannot win back their longtime GOP partner, according to a top Senate Democrat. ...
  • May 5, 2010
    Lieberman: Pushing Climate Bill without Sen. Graham is 'an Open Question' (The Hill)  Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he is "open" to advancing the legislation without co-sponsor Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has suspended his support. Execs: 60,000 Barrels is Worst-Case Gulf Scenario ...

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

  • The Age of Ennui
    Watching the British electorate in action (inaction?) during this campaign cycle I'm reminded of... well, the American electorate. This is nothing new. There's been enormous parallels between the two countries for decades now, even if the timing of that link has gotten a bit skewed of late. Trading ...
  • Curse of the Flat Learning Curve
    The most depressing thing about getting older is loss of innocence. I can no longer find comfort in the belief that "those in-charge" must be smarter than the average bear. Not true. Not even close. Where's my proof? Where's isn't it, is more to the point. But let me point out just one example. Smar ...
  • The Gross Negligence of BP: Oil Giant's Trying to ...
    I've seen this movie before. In 1989, I was a fraud investigator hired to dig into the cause of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Despite Exxon's name on that boat, I found the party most to blame for the destruction was ... British Petroleum. That's important to know, because the way BP caused devas ...
  • Was the Market Pushed?
    The Wall Street Journal headline on the day after we almost lost the U.S. stock market reported that the wise men on the Street were "baffled" by the big drop Thursday. The Financial Times called the event "Shambolic" as if only a shaman can decode it. A week after CNBC assured its high-net-worth vi ...
  • Can Elena Kagan Fill Justice Stevens' Mighty Shoes ...
    As the Rehnquist court continued to eviscerate the right of the people to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens filed principled and courageous dissents. For example, the majority held in the 1991 case of California v. Acevedo that although the police c ...

Ten Percent

  • This Blog Is Moving Next Week
    Yes dear readers, at last it has come to pass, the new site is getting onto its feet and so it is time to do this moving thing. So this Monday 10th May marks the end of the beginning, a week from now (Monday 17th May) new posts will not appear here, they will appear [...]
  • Hague Reacts Badly To Clegg Compliment During Nego ...
    Situation deteriorates when Aschcroft interrupts and asks for his money back.
  • Friday! The Sundays- Can’t Be Sure
  • Tories Are Bigoted Authoritarians, There Is Nothin ...
    To prove they are not Tory-Lite and as duplicitous as any other party the Lib Dems have to reject any deal with Cameron, instead they and Labour should agree a coalition that works towards an election under a new PR system within two years. Tories supported apartheid, they legalised homophobia, they ...
  • Two Pints Of Lager & Some Eco-Socialism With Human ...
    Ok, not actually my polling station  but the one in the village next along, does this increase turnout? And will booze enhance the Left’s chances, hmmm. Anyways, my 14 year old niece asked ‘is that where poll dances go on?’ Has neoliberal enabled/feminism subverting raunch culture destroyed politic ...

Booman Tribune

  • Tar Balls and States Rights
    Alabama is no longer a sweet home, nor can we accurately refer to its beaches as having a crimson tide. No in all fairness we must now call Alabama the land of the tar balls that BP let out (from AP): Frankly I fail to understand those who believe in states rights permitting "scientists" fro ...
  • Looks Like Its Kagan
    It's not a big surprise that Obama selected Elena Kagan to be his nominee to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, but it is a little bit disappointing. Glenn Greenwald has been on a rampage against Kagan, and he makes many strong arguments against her nomination. The strongest argument ...
  • The Vandals Stole the Handles
    It looks Germany just became as ungovernable as the United Kingdom. We're not doing so hot ourselves. Things are looking pretty shitty all around, with Greece going to seed, a volcano that won't stop spewing flight-grounding ash, and an oil gusher that can't be capped in the Gulf of Mexico. I can ...
  • Non-Bennett Utah News
    Brigham Young had a lot of children. So, it stands to reason that a lot of people walking around today are related to him. For example, Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Steve Young is his great-great-great-grandson. And Claudia Wright is his great-great-granddaughter. But she's not a Mormon anymore ...
  • Robert Gates is Making Sense
    I have to admit that it is a surprising but pleasing sight to see Defense Secretary Robert Gates quoting Eisenhower and talking about cutting the military budget. It helps that Gates has traditionally served in Republican administrations and can't be painted as some kind of peacenik. For exam ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 12
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 12 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • Personal Information: episode 12
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 12 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
  • Glitch trading: narrativizing the actions of algor ...
    Having mentioned the sensitivity of the markets with respect to the UK election results, it makes sense to point out Tim Maly’s recent post about automated trading programs and market movements. The point is that 60% of stock trades are being done by machines, operating according to a set of algorit ...
  • UK General Election 2010: live lessons in politica ...
    I’m a little nusy again today, so in lieu of posting anything more substantial, I’ll suggest that those of you who aren’t already might want to keep half an eye on the post-election wrangling here in the UK, for many reasons. First and foremost, the result was unexpected, and unusual in that it sees ...
  • Glitch trading: narrativizing the actions of algor ...
    Having mentioned the sensitivity of the markets with respect to the UK election results, it makes sense to point out Tim Maly’s recent post about automated trading programs and market movements. The point is that 60% of stock trades are being done by machines, operating according to a set of algorit ...

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Enjoy! ⢠May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Hopes to Remove Stigma ⢠UK Split over Regulation Proposals â ...
  • Cause of Risky Behavior in Teens Found to be Compl ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though therapists, doctors, and parents themselves may have their own theories about why teenagers are prone to exhibiting risky behaviors, consensus often rests with the idea that the executive cognitive function of the brain simply hasn’t fully developed in adolesce ...
  • Confiding in Others May Help Men, but not Women, I ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Though it may be a difficult topic for some clients to consider and discuss, sexual well-being can play a crucial role in overall happiness and mental health, and experiencing a poor sex life or harboring negative thoughts about one’s ability can be detrimental to dail ...
  • Painting the Landscape of Modern Psychopharmacolog ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Criticisms over the prevalence of over-medication among modern therapists, psychiatrists, and psychopharmacologists has been reaching a crescendo for quite some time, with parents upset about the dangers of over-prescribing for their children, and adults concerned abo ...
  • Weight Loss Program Addresses Emotional Eating
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For many people attempting to lose weight, the emotional aspects of the challenge can be just as great, if not more difficult, than the physical. In recognition of the lack of knowledge and advice about emotional eating given to those on a weight loss plan, a study at ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Stop Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining! - unE ...
    Veterans Today Network Stop Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining! unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Taking a step in the right direction, the Environmental Protection Agency has moved to veto the permit for the largest proposed mountaintop removal mine in ... Momentum Builds Against Mountaintop ...
  • BIG NEWS: Sen. Byrd Questions Role of Coal - Natur ...
    State Journal BIG NEWS: Sen. Byrd Questions Role of Coal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Byrd, echoing his criticism a few months ago of mountaintop removal , slams this rapacious mining method which has leveled much of Appalachia, polluted its ... Byrd calls for re-examination of state's ...
  • Grass Roots Group Mountain Justice Announces Prote ...
    Examiner.com Grass Roots Group Mountain Justice Announces Protest Examiner.com The organization Mountain Justice exists to aid the growing anti- Mountaintop Removal citizens Movement.They work to help protect the Appalachia's cultural ... and more��
  • Mountaintop mining bad for environment - Bowling G ...
    Mountaintop mining bad for environment Bowling Green Daily News Recently, the Daily News published an Associated Press report containing the stance of would-be Kentucky senators regarding mountaintop removal mining. ...
  • Philanthropy report: May 9 - Knoxville News Sentin ...
    Philanthropy report: May 9 Knoxville News Sentinel Proceeds will help United Mountain Defense's efforts to prevent mountain-top removal . Info: www.ampmusicfest.com. n The Knoxville Croquet Tournament to ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama picks Kagan for Court (Josh Gerstein/The Pol ...
    Josh Gerstein / The Politico : Obama picks Kagan for Court   —  President Barack Obama will announce Monday that he has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his second nominee to the Supreme Court, according to an administration official.  —  If confirmed, the former Harvard Law School dean w ...
  • Where We Go From Here - The Administration plans t ...
    Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog : Where We Go From Here   —  The Administration plans to identify its nominee in “guidance” at 7:20 tomorrow morning, with a formal announcement by the President at 10 a.m.  —  If the nominee is Elena Kagan, then Mike Allen of Politico will go down as the reporter with th ...
  • Will Janet Napolitano Be Fired For Times Square In ...
    Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run : Will Janet Napolitano Be Fired For Times Square Incompetence?   —  Attorney General Eric Holder tells Jake Tapper this morning that alleged Times Square bombing screwup Faisal Shahzad was facilitated, financed and working under the direction of the Pakistani Taliban.
  • AP: Obama Taps Elena Kagan for Supreme Court (Aria ...
    Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS : AP: Obama Taps Elena Kagan for Supreme Court   —  Associated Press Reporting Solicitor General Kagan to Be Fourth Woman Nominated to Supreme Court  —  President Obama has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to ...
  • Obama Is Said to Choose Elena Kagan for the Suprem ...
    New York Times : Obama Is Said to Choose Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Europe's green delusion
    The European Union likes to think of itself as the unrivalled champion of eco-governance but, argues Derrick Sutter, it is far from living up to its image. In the face of China’s waxing importance on the international stage, the European Union has desperately sought to assert its strategic relevance ...
  • Ethiopia’s push for mega-dams
    Proud of its status as Africa’s “water tower”, the country has created controversy along with hydropower as it pursues its strategy to boost energy by 15-fold in a decade. Xan Rice reports. At the foot of a towering gorge slicing through southern Ethiopia , the Omo River suddenly disappears into a t ...
  • A deadly white dust (2)
    As western countries have outlawed asbestos, the industry has turned its focus to the developing world. Melody Kemp looks at the challenges facing campaigners for change. In a grainy black and white Chinese-government film, shown to me by a labour activist in Hong Kong, a man walks unsteadily toward ...
  • A deadly white dust (1)
    Asbestos causes 100,000 deaths each year but its trade in Asia – overseen by a powerful lobby – is still flourishing. Melody Kemp reports. In parts of Asia, carrying 500 grams of one lethal white powder – heroin – can draw a death sentence. But importing 1,000 tonnes of another is both legal and pro ...
  • “Land-grabbing” in Africa (2)
    Even Sudan, emerging from civil war, is not off-limits to investors seeking land and profits, John Vidal writes. Ethiopia, too, is a land-rush centre where many deals are condemned as “new colonialism”. Nowhere is now out of bounds. Sudan , emerging from civil war and mostly bereft of development fo ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Regardless of our stance on immigration, the SB107 ...
    By Jeffrey Cohen, associate professor, Ohio State University Governor Brewer’s signing of Arizona law SB1070 late last month has shifted the debate concerning immigration reform in our country and changed the very environment into which migrants (legal and extra legal) now live. The law, which at i ...
  • The GOP Seems Bent on Backing Crazy Right-Wingers ...
    From coast-to-coast, so-called mainstream or "establishment" Republicans are getting battered for their lack of commitment to the "principles" of conservatism.
  • RNC Finance Officials Fired Over Boozy 'Office Sup ...
    Last month, we told you about RNC Deputy Finance Director Debbie LeHardy's lavish spending on the RNC's dime. It only took Michael Steele a month to fire her.
  • The GOP Seems Bent on Backing Crazy Right-Wingers ...
    This post originally appeared on Daily Kos. Saturday brought the somewhat unsurprising, but nonetheless significant, news that Utah Republicans, in their state nominating conventions, had fired their incumbent Senator. Bob Bennett is not burdened by scandal, nor has he been the kind of perennially u ...
  • Christian Right's Favorite Muslim Convert Exposed ...
    Liberty Seminary President Ergun Caner claims he traveled the road 'from jihad to Jesus,' but Baptist bloggers say his stories of terrorist training are false.

Threat Level

  • FCC Lets Hollywood Turn Off Your Output Jacks
    Hollywood will soon have the power to remotely disable the analog outputs on your set-top box, under a decision by federal regulators on Friday intended to prevent home recording of new movie releases. The move by the Federal Communications Commission grants cable and satellite providers the power ...
  • Coder Journeys From Wall Street to Prison
    Over a month has elapsed since the years-long investigation and prosecution of TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez came to a dramatic end, with Gonzalez sentenced to 20 years in prison for the largest identity theft case in U.S. history. Now a little-noted postscript to that high-profile case is unfolding aw ...
  • Wired Urges Judge to Unseal Gizmodo Search
    Wired.com and other news outlets are asking a California judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit that led to a police raid on the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone. Under California law, the public has a right to see the documents that led San Mateo Co ...
  • Bombing Arrest Followed Law Enforcement Slip-Ups a ...
    “I was expecting you,” suspected bomber Faisal Shahzad reportedly told the border agents who seized him from his Dubai-bound flight Monday evening. And clearly the suspect should have been expecting agents, given the trail of clues he allegedly left behind and the steps investigators were taking t ...
  • Judge Rules Post on Cop-Rating Site is Protected S ...
    A federal judge has struck down a Florida law prohibiting the publication of a police officer’s name, phone number or address, calling the statute an unconstitutional restraint on speech. The decision leaves Arizona, Colorado and Washington state with similar laws on the books. Florida authoritie ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

Marler Blog

  • E. coli and Lettuce and Spinach - A bit(e) of hist ...
    A table of 34 previous outbreaks involving E. coli and Salmonella and leafy greens, like lettuce and spinach, courtesy of our friends at Barf Blog:
  • Yuma Arizona cancels the 4th of July and is in den ...
    It must be the heat - will be over 100 today.
  • Food poisoning cause of three deaths in Central St ...
    I was reading the Town Talk of Pineville and Alexandria (I visited there once and used to have some friends there), Louisiana this evening and read that State officials are suspecting food poisoning as the cause of the deaths of three patients at Central State Hospital.   A total of 40 patients of t ...
  • Confidential Settlement Reached in Cleveland, Ohio ...
    In my work there are cases that haunt you. Some are the cases you work on for years, but cannot figure out the legal source of the poison that killed someone’s child. Then there are other cases, like the senseless death of Abby nearly a year ago, and her grandfather’s death just last Saturday, tha ...
  • New York E. coli cases have cost millions for Hemo ...
    BJ's Wholesale Club agreed to pay $11 million November 22, 2006 BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. and a meat supplier last week agreed to pay $11 million to the family of a New York girl who became ill with E. coli O157:H7 after eating contaminated hamburgers. Attorneys for K. K., who suffered life-thre ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 05.10.10
    Video: Schwarzenegger promises "Hydrogen Highway" efforts will continue Goals have not been met, but the tas. Automotive X-Prize: Zap Alias can stop, swerve at MIS With Al Unser, ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 05.07.10
    Automotive X-Prize: Spira foam trike wants to save gas, lives This is how Crocs enter the green car world. Daimler CEO says there's not enough oil for China, country has no choice but to ad ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 05.06.10
    Report: Nissan Leaf battery pack costs only �6,000 ($9,000) or $375/kWh! So that's the secret. Japan: still the future - Daihatsu unveiled Chevy Volt-like concept 17 years ago Back to the now ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 05.05.10
    Environmental group says supporting electric vehicles purchases is a waste of government money Money should go into research, not rebates. Video: Automotive X Prize "moose" tests show Aptera hitting cones ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 05.04.10
    Discussion fodder: Could there be an environmental disaster like the Gulf spill if we got off oil? What might be on the horizon. Tesla IPO could go decently, or worse, depending on CEO's divorce trial ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Ethics in online journalism ...
    The linchpin of the topic of ethics on online journalism is, of course, " Gizmodogate ," in which tech blog Gizmodo paid to acquire a prototype iPhone that an Apple employee left behind in a bar and picked up by someone else. But the iPhone story isn't the only time that the ethics of tech blo ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Facebook and privacy (podca ...
    Our topic this week: Facebook and privacy. At the F8 conference on April 21, Facebook rolled out privacy changes and new data sharing features. As usually happens when Facebook makes a privacy change, there was a swift and mighty backlash against them. But this time, even the federal government ...
  • Do not pay for security software
    PC makers should be offering free antivirus apps. They're not, and here's why. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
  • Likebutton.me shows Facebook's new 'like' button i ...
    Check out this little news aggregator that's aware of your social network. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Twitter's business model (p ...
    Today: Twitter's business model. Yes, there is one. Finally. To talk about what Twitter is going to do--and if they really need to do it--we have two great guests with us here in the studio. First, from CNET, author of our social-networking blog The Social , Caroline McCarthy ( @caro on Twitter). ...

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!

  • BP: Billionaire Polluter
    Less than a week after British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and unleashing what could be the worst industrial environmental disaster in U.S. history, the company announced more than $6 billion in profits for the first quarter of ...
  • Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Producers File Laws ...
    Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman along with producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar are filing a federal lawsuit today that challenges the police crackdown on journalists at the Republican National Convention in 2008. The suit is filed against the Minneapolis and ...
  • "The Curse of Abundance": Alberto Acosta on the Fa ...
    The government of Ecuador is pioneering a new strategy to promote development in poor countries while also minimizing environmental damage caused by extraction of natural resources. Under Ecuador’s proposal known as “ITT Yasuni,” Ecuador will refrain from exploiting an oil field under the Amazon r ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Under Threat in the Gulf, A Refuge Created by Roos ...
    Among the natural treasures at risk from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created by Theodore Roosevelt to halt a grave threat to birds in his era — the lucrative trade in plumage. Now, oil from the BP spill is starting to wash up on beaches where Roosevelt ...
  • Ice Crystals Clog Dome Meant To Contain Oil
    The containment box had been considered the best hope of stanching the flow of oil into the Gulf in the short term. Meanwhile, an investigation by BP suggests the deadly blast on the oil rig was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column.
  • India to Replace 400 Million Incandescent Lamps wi ...
    India is all set to launch a project to replace as many as 400 million incandescent lamps with CFLs. The project will be the largest CDM project in the world, offsetting 40 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually.
  • Orange-Bellied Parrot on Verge Of Extinction
    The announcement by federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett that the orange-bellied parrot will be gone from the wild in the next three to five years is due to the fact that there are fewer than 50 birds in the wild, down from an estimate of about 140 only a couple of years ago.
  • The 2010 Gulf Oil Spill: A Photographic Timeline
    More than 200,000 gallons of oil a day have been pouring into the sea since April 22, as experts have tried to shut off the flow of oil from the wellhead. The oil has begun washing up on the Louisiana shoreline, and may soon reach the coasts of other gulf states, threatening the region’s fragile eco ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Video Harry Oldfield 6/11 – Energy Fields Re ...
    Check out this video about  energy fields.  The full series is available at youtube. By happyduckuk February 22, 2010 â We can’t wait any longer for other people to put this video up, it’s too important.  The conventional medical paradigm isn’t working, we need a re-think – we need a new paradi ...
  • Crop Circle at Old Sarum, Near Salisbury, Wiltshir ...
    Reported 5th May 2010. Herewith the first crop circle of 2010. It is in oil seed rape and measures approx: 180 foot diameter.  It is a circle containing six arcs intercepted by a small circle surrounded by a larger circle. A lozenge shape lies alongside the sixth arc with seven circles lying in an a ...
  • Laptop Scandal School’s Own Law Firm: Aside ...
    from the we-find-ourselves-not-guilty dept A law firm employed by the Pennsylvania school district caught using student laptop webcams to spy on students at home has released a 72-page report (pdf) on the incident after a 10-week investigation. Most of the report’s findings aren’t too surprising; it ...
  • NIH panel foolishly insists Alzheimer’s can& ...
    By Mike Adams An independent panel of supposed experts recently met at the National Institutes of Health near Washington, D.C., to discuss whether or not Alzheimer’s Disease can be prevented through dietary and lifestyle changes. After evaluating a handful of studies that deal with the subject, the ...
  • Pennsylvania threatens citizens with Big Brother t ...
    By Mike Adams Just when you thought the truth couldn’t get any stranger than fiction, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue decides to launch a creepy new Big Brother “Tax Amnesty” program aimed at getting delinquent taxpayers to pay up on their back taxes. But the state agency has stooped to using ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Photo Sunday – Photo Journal of Swallow Falls Stat ...
    Photos of Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland with camping, hiking and waterfalls. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Brandywine Falls – Cuyahoga Valley National Park Photo Sunday – Great Falls National Park Photo Sunday – Shenandoah National Park
  • NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil S ...
    In the face of the tragic BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill, NOAA has been redirected to collect seafloor and water column data from areas near the Gulf of Mexico. Related posts: NOAA Sued Over Lack of Ribbon Seal Protection Gas Spill in Newburyport Poisons River and Sends EPA Scrambling Second Coal ...
  • Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon)
    More: Hope > Restore the moratorium Exxon Valdez â vs- Deepwater Horizon Why do peak oilers and climate changers not get along better? Follow Mean Joe Green (Joe Mohr) at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Tea Partiers ...
  • Documentary: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Wa ...
    Canadian explorer and environmental filmmaker Mark Terry will present his award-winning documentary The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning during the International Polar Year Science Conference and the PolarCINEMA Film Festival June 8 to 12. Related posts: Warning: This Soup is Inedible a ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • High-Flying Algae Airships are Self-Sufficient Air ...
    Architect Vincent Callebaut recently unveiled a blue-sky plan for a high-flying fleet of self-sufficient aircraft that are one part zeppelin cities and one part hydrogen-generating floating farms. Dubbed Hydrogenase, the algae-producing airborne cities are 100% emission-free and are capable of gener ...
  • Inhabitat Reports from Designers & Agents Green Ro ...
    Read the rest of Inhabitat Reports from Designers & Agents Green Room 2010!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: brit ligget, d&a, Desig ...
  • Win a Garnet-and-Diamond Necklace From Brilliant E ...
    Happy Mother’s Day! Diamonds are forever, and a mother’s love is… If you’re one of the many who can’t wait to pamper and praise the one who gave you life this lovely Sunday, you’ll definitely want to join in on our latest giveaway made special for MOM! Weâve partnered with Brilliant Earth to ...
  • Modern Paper Pulp Furniture Looks Like Giant Egg C ...
    Egg carton crafts have never looked so good. Designed by Dan Hochberg and Odelia Lavie, ‘Pulp Furniture’ adapts the same process used to create protective pulp packaging to fashion stylish and modern furniture. The series, which consists of a coffee table, complimentary seating and a wall clock, may ...
  • ECO ART: Solar-Powered Speakers Sing for Renewable ...
    Making a statement through music is far from unfamiliar – some of the most powerful messages of our time have been embodied in the most fetching melodies. Taking the wide human reach held within this medium, designer Craig Colorusso has created “Sun Boxes,” an alien field of independently operating, ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Photo: Icelandic Volcano Begins Erupting Again
    Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano began erupting again earlier this week. This image, captured May 6 by the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite, clearly shows the grayish brown ash of the plume blowing east. The eruption is the latest in a string that began March 20 and that grounded flights ...
  • Finding the Right Asteroid for Astronauts to Land ...
    The Little Prince, who stood tall on his fictional house-sized asteroid B612, may soon have company. Since President Obama announced last month that NASA plans to send people to an asteroid by 2025 (SN: 5/8/10, p. 10), scientists have been scrambling to fill in the details. Before astronauts can em ...
  • Better Oil Dispersant Tests Delayed in Gulf
    A promising alternative to the highly toxic oil dispersant being used in the Gulf is finally being tested, but slowly. Dispersit was approved 10 years ago by the Environmental Protection Agency for emergency cleanup use. In lab comparisons, it’s twice as good at breaking down South Louisiana crude ...
  • New Global Map of Every Country’s Tallest Building
    You can now see the tallest building in every country of the world on one big map, thanks to an obsessive documentarian of engineering accomplishments. The anonymous cartographer described the new map on the website,
  • Photo: Looking Back at the Space Station From Eart ...
    The newly installed cupola on the International Space Station provides the astronauts with a window onto the Earth below them. Now, Ralf Vandebergh has captured an image of that space station component from his backyard telescope. The new viewing station was launched in February on space shuttle mi ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Liz Cheney Out of the Loop on Terrorism, US Law an ...
    Raising the question of whether she’s actually been paying attention to the news this week, this morning on Fox News Liz Cheney attacked the Obama administration’s handling of attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad as “insufficient,” insisting that the administration’s “first instinct is to in ...
  • Bullish on China
    My personal sense is that the skeptics about the viability of China’s economic performance are mistaken, that essentially people don’t like the idea that the lesson of the Chinese economy in the 2008-2010 period is that better policy could have helped other countries weather the storm much better th ...
  • Get the US Senate Back in the International Treaty ...
    During a Maria Leavey Memorial Breakfast Series discussion with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), I asked the Senator in May 2008 whether there would be any action before the end of that Congress on the " Law of the Sea Treaty ". This treaty was one that most Democrats supported, Senate For ...
  • "Boots on the Ground" in Pakistan
    I have a lot of questions about yesterday's New York Times report that the Obama administration is debating an expanded "boots on the ground" presence in Pakistan, but the fundamental question is this: What does Washington hope to accomplish by sending more troops to Pakistan? Policymakers have b ...
  • The Cost of Iraq
    My colleagues Matt Duss, Peter Juul, and Brian Kaplan have a memo out in which they try to tally up the full cost of Iraq âhuman, financial, and strategicâand discover that the price was very, very, very high. I think this is important because I’ve developed a concern in the wake of the “surge” ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Sneaky Fed Audit Compromise.
    Via Matt Yglesias , here's an important post from David Dayen that considers the deal to include an audit of the Federal Reserve in the financial-reform bill, the importance of said audit, and why Ron Paul is not the person to listen to on the issue -- mainly because Paul doesn't want to audit the F ...
  • A Modest Proposal: No Pundit Day
    On Sunday, The Washington Post asked various famous people for suggestions of "things we should toss." The results were somewhat interesting, particularly one: Donna Brazile , one of the country's best-known pundits, suggested that we ought to get rid of pundits . Just try to imagine it for a moment ...
  • Flashback: FBI Attorney Called For Codifying Miran ...
    Over the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder said he thought that Congress should clarify the public-safety exception to the Miranda rule, which allows arresting officers to delay reading suspects their Miranda rights in the event that there are lives immediately in danger. Holder, and the Obama a ...
  • The Changed Face of Immigration.
    There are a lot of interesting things in this new report from the Brookings Institution called "The State of Metropolitan America," and there was one striking graphic I wanted to share. We all know that the face of immigration has changed in recent years, but compare the origin of today's immigrants ...
  • Kagan More Progressive on Executive Power Than Ini ...
    Nina Totenberg points to a 2005 letter that arguably holds more weight in revealing Elena Kagan 's views of executive power than her brief exchange with Sen. Lindsey Graham during her confirmation hearing: In a 2005 letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy , Kagan and three other deans of major American law s ...

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers ...
    Note: This article is the last of eight articles published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here, here, here, here and here), which I extended to become “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight.” This project also includes an interactive list of all 47 rulings to d ...
  • I’m in Technorati’s Top 20 World Politics Blogs: P ...
    Regular readers will be aware that, on occasion, I take a break from my relentless reporting about Guantánamo and other crimes committed as part of the “War on Terror” to discuss the current state of journalism, and to mention how, as a freelance journalist working mainly in the new media, I am prof ...
  • Abandoned in Spain: The Palestinian Freed from Gua ...
    As two former Guantánamo prisoners begin new lives in Europe (an unidentified Yemeni in Spain, and a Syrian in Bulgaria, whose story Iâll be reporting soon), there are concerns that the ill-defined obligations of countries accepting cleared prisoners from Guantánamo have left the first prisoner ...
  • As Hung Parliament Looms, This Was a Bad Election ...
    With all 650 results declared in the 2010 General Election, it is now confirmed that no party has an outright majority. The Tories won 307 seats (19 short of a majority), Labour won 258, the Liberal Democrats won 57 and other parties won 28. For those who hoped that electoral reform would be signifi ...
  • Gareth Peirce’s Statement in Support of Aafia Sidd ...
    I recently watched (for the first time, I concede), the film “In the Name of the Father,” about the Guildford Four, in which Emma Thompson plays the part of Gareth Peirce, who exposed the abhorrent miscarriage of justice in that dreadful case of torture and false confessions, which was only overturn ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Welcome Back To The New and Improved New Milford B ...
    This is just a switch over to the new Blogger In Draft Templates ... But I plan on overhauling the place more, installing some better vats, dusting off the mugs and shot glasses. Be careful as you wander around and try not to knock over the cases of empties over on the side bar because recycling bro ...
  • Eric Cantor: "Dem Thugs Did This To Me!"
    From Jed Lewison : It's clear from the Richmond police statement that Cantor's office was not directly targeted. Rather, an office that he has used in the past (but not his main campaign office) was randomly struck by a bullet that had been fired into the sky. I'm not minimizing the dangers of ran ...
  • The view from here...
    Pretty sure you can guess where I am. Hope you had a nice green beer kind of weekend. :)
  • Grayson's Message Embraced By Florida Republicans
    That all mythical squishy middle centristy stuff that The Village preschoolers can not read or write beyond? The one that Obama keeps trying to to pander to and live off of while producing medicocre to pure crap legislation, IF he can get anything to pass at all, which is pissing everybody on all p ...
  • RIP Jon Swift
    A sad day for the entire Bloggosphere as Al Weisel, AKA Jon Swift, has passed away : The great Jon Swift has died. That's the "blogging" angle to a personal tragedy. In reality, the voice of Jon Swift - the hilarious faux conservative blogger whose talent and passion were evident in every post - bel ...

SPL Center

  • Louisiana KKK Leader Pleads Guilty to Killing Recr ...
    The murder trial of Louisiana klansman Raymond âChuckâ Foster ended abruptly Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of a new recruit and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. Fosterâs plea brings an end to a case in which seven people were arrested initi ...
  • Anti-Semitic Pub Cribs Copy from ‘Elite-Controlled ...
    American Free Press , the anti-Semitic weekly that bills itself as “America’s Last Real Newspaper,” insists that it is battling a mainstream media secretly in the thrall of powerful globalists. A statement on its website screams “THE MEDIA IS THE ENEMY.” It continues: “That’s why American Free Press ...
  • 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 .
  • Arizona Debate Unleashes New ‘Reconquista’ Accusat ...
    As the debate intensifies over Arizona’s harsh new law aimed at undocumented immigrants, nativist groups are claiming that opponents of the measure support nothing less than the reconquest of the Southwest by Mexicans. Though the myth of “la reconquista” — a purported secret Mexican conspiracy to ta ...

change: org.

  • Guilt and Justice on Mother's Day
    Mother's Day is always hard for my family, but this year's held a special significance: it's what would have been my older sister's 36th birthday. Twenty years ago, my sister was shot and killed two weeks before she turned 16, and the case remains unsolved. I can't speak for anyone else in my family ...
  • West Virginia County Gets Dangerous Dog Legislatio ...
    A rural West Virginia County changed its breed-specific ordinance for the better last week, in that it's no longer actually breed-specific. The original ordinance was passed in December of last year, and to be frank, it was a textbook example of unworkable and unfair breed specific legislation. Foll ...
  • May and Mother's Day and the Other Side of Choice
    Sometimes I really dread the coming of the month of May. Aside from the coming of the onslaught of Yellow Dust that sweeps over the Korean Peninsula here that aggravates our allergies in Spring, I know that I have to deal with Mother's Day. It is funny to hear a mother complaining about Mother's Day ...
  • Weekend Entrepreneur Links: Mama's Day Edition
    Today is the day when we all recognize the importance of the women who raised us, fed us, and put us on the right path. This Weekend Entrepreneur Links is overflowing with some of the creative ways social innovators are honoring their moms, plus some other interesting and important stuff, as well. T ...
  • Interior Dept. Employees Do Blow But Fail to Preve ...
    A culture of ethical failure. That's how Inspector General Earl E. Devaney described the  Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency of the Interior Department that collects oil and gas royalties, in a 2008 report to Congress. In a nutshell, Bush-era MMS employees allowed energy companies to lavi ...

Common Dreams -News

  • General 'Tried to Cover Up Truth About Death of Ra ...
    by Ben Lynfield Seven years after the American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, evidence has emerged which appears to implicate Israel's Gaza commander at the time, in an attempt to obstruct the official investigation into her death. read more
  • The World Bank in the Hot Seat Over Land Grabbing
    A curious thing happened last week. A lot of people were under the impression that the World Bank was going to release its long-awaited study on global land grabs at its annual land conference in Washington DC on 26 April 2010. This is what GRAIN was told. It's what many journalists were tol ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill: A Symbol of What Fossil Fuels Do t ...
    by Dan Froomkin The leading edge of a vast oil slick started to come ashore in Louisiana on Thursday night, a shroud of devastation falling on America's coastline even as the blown-out BP oil well that produced it continues to belch millions of gallons of thick crude into the Gulf of Mexico for ...
  • US Warns Pakistan over Times Square Bomb Atempt
    by Anne Barrowclough The United States has delivered a tough new warning to Pakistan to crack down on Islamic militants or face severe consequences after the failed Times Square bombing. In a meeting on Friday between Stanley McChrystal, the US military commander in Afghanistan, and Pakistani ...
  • Probe Uncovers Strip Searches, Chains and Racism a ...
    by Charler Piller SACRAMENTO - Jason Brannigan's eyes widened as he relived the day he says prison guards pepper-sprayed his face at point-blank range, then pulled him through the cellblock naked, his hands and feet shackled. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Brannigan recalled gasping in pai ...

Lifehacker

  • DocTranslator Translates Office Documents with Goo ...
    Google's webapps can translate uploaded Microsoft Office documents, but with many caveats involving file sizes and HTML formatting. DocTranslator, a Java-powered webapp, runs your Office and text documents through Google Translate and sends th ...
  • Focus on Cheap Core Ingredients to Save on Groceri ...
    Shoppers can utilize a lot of strategy and psychology to effectively using coupons and finding deals at the supermarket, but the core of saving good money on groceries lies in learning to cook with cheap, fresh core ingredients. More�� ...
  • Five Best Personal Landing Pages [Hive Five]
    Not everyone has the time or inclination to build and maintain a full-fledged web site. If you're just looking for a simple way to unify all your online profiles, these personal landing pages are a perfect fit. More�� H ...
  • DIY Garden Fountain Out of Old Garden Ornaments [D ...
    If your backyard is looking dull after the long winter, consider brightening it up with a small fountain. DIY web site Instructables has a guide to making your own out of pretty much any structure you already have lying around. More�� ...
  • Everything You Need to Know About Modern Lawn Mowe ...
    Summer's almost here, meaning it's time for the long-dreaded tradition of breaking out the old lawn mower. If the frustration is too much to bear, or your mower is just plain worn down, here are some tips for buying a new one. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • 52% Of Americans Think Afghanistan Not Worth Its C ...
    By Steve Hynd A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that the Surge hasn't given a long-term boost to the popularity of the Afghan occupation among the American public, with a net 52% saying that the war there has not been worth fighting. A majority says the war in Afghanistan is not worth its co ...
  • Even David Ignatius Is "Anxious" About Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd The Washington Post's David Ignatius, who I refer to as Agent Ignatius due to his being the greatest living apologist for the CIA as well as stenographer to the spies and spooks of all nations,admits to being "anxious" about Afghanistan. Actually, more than just anxious. He writes: The ...
  • Horses Fled, Please Bolt Doors On Barn
    By Steve Hynd The AP's headline says it all: US says too few Afghans to take control in Marjah. Not nearly enough trained Afghans are available to take control of key Taliban strongholds like Marjah after the military has pushed out the enemy, U.S. officials told a Senate panel on Thursday. The lack ...
  • The Black Prince Tape
    By Steve Hynd The ever-excellent Jeremy Scahill has yet another Blackwater exclusive, having procured a tape of an Erik Prince speech "delivered January 14 at the University of Michigan in front of an audience of entrepreneurs, ROTC commanders and cadets, businesspeople and military veterans". Princ ...
  • Friday Night AFPAK
    Commentary By Ron Beasley The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cAfghanistan Stability Chartwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party The fact that the most intelligent pundit is on The Comedy Channel........

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

  • QuadSight
    Musings on the capital markets, the economy, technology and other opinionated things you should read
  • Economic enlightenment?
    The answer: the test is rigged! A recent study by Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. Klein, published in
  • Greece a Lesson for Blocs Aim to Emulate EU
    Greece crisis must be termed as a discouraging event for blocs from Latin America and the Gulf which
  • Afraid of Confucius
    Guy Sorman in City Journal: Stefan Halper’s new book argues that the democratic, free-market model c
  • Greece-ing the Skids
    WASHINGTON (AP) – Your parents were right. Money can’t buy you happiness. That was the m

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • 'Little Pakistan' fear backlash over Pa ...
    Hundreds of people of Pakistani origin living in Brooklyn's Coney Island Avenue, which is often referred a 'little Pakistan', are worried about backlashes against them following US Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks that the Pakistan Taliban was behind the May 1 botched Times Square bombing plot ...
  • Germany Clears Way to Compensate Kunduz Bombing Vi ...
    After mulling the issue for months, the German government is preparing to pay compensation in the wake of the Sept. 4 bombing near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan that caused numerous civilian deaths. ...
  • Roadside bomb kills 2 Afghan civilians
    KABUL A roadside bomb struck a car Monday in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two civilians a day after an insurgent rocket killed four other civilians, authorities said. Monday's bombin...
  • WH red carpet's out for Karzai visit to Washi ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai, front left, accompanied by US and NATO forces in Afghanistan Commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, right, walks in a tarmac upon arrival at Bagram Air Field, Saturday, May ...
  • U.S. Says Pakistani Taliban Behind Bomb Attempt
    May 10, 2010 The investigation into the attempted bombing in New York's Times Square is uncovering revelations. On Sunday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on ABC's

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 12
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 12 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • Personal Information: episode 12
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 12 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
  • Glitch trading: narrativizing the actions of algor ...
    Having mentioned the sensitivity of the markets with respect to the UK election results, it makes sense to point out Tim Maly’s recent post about automated trading programs and market movements. The point is that 60% of stock trades are being done by machines, operating according to a set of algorit ...
  • UK General Election 2010: live lessons in politica ...
    I’m a little nusy again today, so in lieu of posting anything more substantial, I’ll suggest that those of you who aren’t already might want to keep half an eye on the post-election wrangling here in the UK, for many reasons. First and foremost, the result was unexpected, and unusual in that it sees ...
  • Glitch trading: narrativizing the actions of algor ...
    Having mentioned the sensitivity of the markets with respect to the UK election results, it makes sense to point out Tim Maly’s recent post about automated trading programs and market movements. The point is that 60% of stock trades are being done by machines, operating according to a set of algorit ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC to Host Seminar in Honor of Earth Day
     In honor of Earth Day, The National Whistleblowers Center will host a special training seminar: “ Protecting Environmental Whistleblowers. ” The training will take place on April 21, from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm, and is open to environmental activists and attorneys, who can participate in person at the ...
  • Drilling for the Truth in the Gulf with the False ...
    The first person or group who drills and hits the truth in the Gulf of Mexico can win a huge payoff IF they use the False Claims Act.  We want everyone who can to use this law and drill for the truth in the Gulf, not only to find out about the current disaster, but also to prevent future catastr ...
  • Upcoming Seminar: Integrating the False Claims Act ...
    The False Claims Act is the most powerful federal whistleblower law. Unfortunately, attorneys and their clients often miss the opportunity to file a claim, because they lack knowledge of the law's unique requirements and procedures. This seminar will provide an introduction to the law to help an att ...
  • Free Seminar on OSHA Whistleblower Program
    Professionals for the Public Interest will host the event “Whistleblowers and OSHA: Strengthening Professional Integrity” on May 11th from 11:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). The event is free and open to the public with advance registration. ...
  • Financial reform bill could increase detection of ...
    Business Ethics magazine is reporting on the anticipation of corporate lawyers for more work in defending corruption cases.� In an article yesterday, Michael Connor writes about a whistleblower reward provision in the current draft of the financial reform bill. The bill would guarantee a reward of u ...

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

  • Google Lawyer Says ACTA Is 'Cultural Imperialism'
    With the official release of ACTA finally out, it's good to see various organizations speaking out against the many problems found in the draft agreement. We've already covered the detailed arguments against ACTA supported by numerous organizations. And now, a Google lawyer, Daphne Keller, has spo ...
  • Because Nokia And Apple Aren't In Enough Patent La ...
    Ah, the patent nuclear war in action. After Apple roundly destroyed Nokia's reputation as being the leading innovator when it came to smartphones, Nokia got petulant and sued Apple for patent infringement. In response, in typical patent nuclear war fashion, Apple turned around and sued Nokia back ...
  • As US Still Argues Over Semantics, Australia Expan ...
    About a year ago, long before the FCC came out with its incredibly weak broadband plan that is full of non-specific nothingness, we had suggested that if the new FCC really wanted to be bold, it should look at what Australia was doing , building on an idea that we first started talking about back in ...
  • FCC Gives Hollywood The Right To Break Your TV/DVR ...
    For a couple years now, the MPAA has been asking the FCC to break your TV/DVR, and let them effectively put a type of DRM (by enabling "Selectable Output Control" or SOC) on video content, such that you will not be able to access the content via third party devices, such as your DVR or your Slingbox ...
  • Library Group And Others Issue Declaration For Con ...
    Stuart Hamilton from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) alerted us to the news that his organization, along with "a broad based coalition of European groups, representing consumers, creators, libraries, civil society and technology companies" have put togeth ...

VacTruth

  • Pertussis Infection in Fully Vaccinated Children i ...
    Emerging Infections Diseases Vol. 6, No. 5, September–October 2000 Pertussis, an acute disease of the upper respiratory tract caused by the gram-negative bacillus Bordetella pertussis, lasts 6 to 8 weeks and has three clinical stages. The initial (catarrhal) stage resembles a common cold with a mil ...
  • Parents of Autistic Children Weren’t Entirel ...
    Parents of autistic kids have said that autism HAS to be caused by the vaccines given to their kids. For many, there was a noticeable difference between their child before and after vaccines.
  • Paul Offit’s 10,000 Vaccines and the Milgram Exper ...
    John Stone Age of Autism 05/10/2010 Question: “How many vaccines is it safe for a pediatrician to give a two month old infant?” Answer: “It depends how much they are getting paid.” An old joke The Milgram experiment has long past into modern folklore. In 1961 a 28 year-old psychologist at Yale, Sta ...
  • Certain vaccines have been known to cause epilepsy ...
    Christina England Vactruth.com 05/09/2010 Over the recent months there have been several articles highlighting cases where children have had seizures after vaccines. This is being portrayed as something new. A sudden rise in children having seizures after the flu vaccine in Western Australia c ...
  • FDA panel members support continued use of both ro ...
    Thomas H. Maugh II LATimes Health 05/07/2010 Members of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meeting Friday urged physicians to continue using both commercial rotavirus vaccines despite evidence that both carry trace contaminants from a harmless pig virus. The panel did not take a f ...

BroadSnark

  • Responding to Anarchy in the News
    I keep an eye out for mentions of anarchy or anarchists in the news.  More often than not, when we are mentioned, it relates to some act of destruction that is being condemned.  Anarchist responses to these reports, if there are any responses at all, are usually confined to internal discussions on a ...
  • 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 ...

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 TreeHugger Swimsuit Issue: Sizzling Fashion fo ...
    Tye-dye string bikini by Kelly B. Credit: BTC Elements Whether you dare to bare in a string bikini or prefer to be demure in a one-piece we have rounded up 10 sexy and sustainable options to aid your search for the perfect swimsuit . From an organic cotton bikini in a vibrant zebra print to a ...
  • Rare Bee Species Lives Alone, Makes Nest Out of F ...
    When we think of bees, we often think of those cartoon-like swarms that populate a giant hive . But a rare new species observed in the Middle East is about to change all of that. The Osmia avoseta is a solitary bee that constructs its nest from petals and mud creating a cocoon-like dwelling for ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: A Great Use For Those Veggie E ...
    This weekend I had an astonishing amount of asparagus ends, wild leek roots and leaves and fiddlehead stalks. Literally pounds of the stuff that I couldn't bring myself to throw out. I had to do something with all that stuff.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • "Talking Tires" By 2013?
    Image credit: Autoblog Green We already know that maintaining proper tire pressure means better gas mileage , and while some may have scoffed, I much preferred Obama's enthusiasm for tire gauges than his ridiculously ill-timed expansion of offshore drilli... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
  • Has British Petroleum Opened Another Door To Carbo ...
    Darvaz: The Door to Hell, a drilling project gone wrong - collapsed natural gas dome burning 35 years in Uzbekistan. Image credit: English Russia blog People have a hard time accepting the fact that oil and gas deep in the earth is of biotic origin: pressure-stored plant material from the Carb ...

Biosingularity

  • Life’s smallest motor, cargo carrier of the ...
    Life’s smallest motor, a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide, does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brandeis University. The researchers crea ...
  • Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Bra ...
    As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain”. ...
  • Brain surgery boosts spirituality
    Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. To investigate the neural basis of spirituality, Cosimo Urgesi, a cognitive neuroscie ...
  • Researchers Discover First Genes for Stuttering
    Stuttering may be the result of a glitch in the day-to-day process by which cellular components in key regions of the brain are broken down and recycled, says a study in the Feb. 10 Online First issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, led by researchers at the National Institute on ...
  • New clue why autistic people don’t want hugs
    Why do people with fragile X syndrome, a genetic defect that is the best-known cause of autism and inherited mental retardation, recoil from hugs and physical touch – even from their parents? New research has found in fragile X syndrome there is delayed development of the sensory cortex, the part of ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • (Desperately) Looking for Arctic warming
    Adventurous alarmists return with frostbite from Arctic treks on rescue helicopters. "Global warming can mean colder," explains one Greenpeace activist.
  • Species safe even if world warms
    Biologists are again predicting massive species losses as the world warms. But there have been few findings of extinctions among continental bird and mammal species over the past 500 years.
  • What's the cost if Congress fails?
    If Congress fails, America wins. CFACT's response to Connie Hedegaard the European Union̢۪s Commissioner for Climate Action.
  • Climate summit hangover
    No substantial progress towards a global warming treaty. Obama's strategy leaked. Delegate's minds opening. UN plans new treaty push.
  • Energy Secretary admits we don't understand climat ...
    The Energy Secretary is at a loss to explain the cooling trend of the past decade. How then can he support Obama's proposed energy taxes?

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. CBS reported that secret military aircraft was used to help track down the would-be Times Square bomber, then almost immediately flushed it d ...
  • ACTA and the Overblown Threat of Piracy
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been largely negotiated behind closed doors, and only recently was an official draft made public . The Obama administration even declared an early draft classified in refusing to co ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Spencer Ackerman is at Guatánamo reporting on Obama’s first Military Commissions trial. What happens with Omar Khadr in the course of this proceeding could have enormous implications for detainee policy. Think about it: If the in ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • Broccoli Component Limits Breast Cancer Stem Cells
    Sulforaphane, a compound found in broccoli, could help treat breast cancer by targeting cancer stem cells, which fuel the growth of tumors. Sulforaphane was tested in both mice and cell cultures. It targeted and killed the cancer stem cells. and prevented new tumors from growing. Science Daily rep ...
  • Gut Bacteria Offer New Hope for People with Celiac ...
    Probiotics and/or prebiotics may help alleviate the severity of celiac disease. According to a new research study, intestinal bacteria in celiac patients could influence inflammation to varying degrees. This means that altering intestinal microbiota could improve the quality of life for celiac pati ...
  • Despicable Conditions Caused FDA to Recall Childre ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a report detailing quality and security lapses at the factory that produced the children's Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and other over-the-counter drugs that were recently recalled. The agency is considering actions that may include criminal penalties ...
  • A Natural Swine Flu Breakthrough?
    In a finding that could offer new hope for the containment of influenza outbreaks, a natural extract from seaweed has been shown to inhibit the H1N1 virus. The extract is derived from the Undaria pinnatifida species of seaweed. In vitro tests have shown that it can inhibit the H1N1 influenza vi ...
  • Sleeping for Less Than Six Hours Linked to Early D ...
    Consistently sleeping for fewer than six hours each night may cause an early death. However, too much sleep can also problems. New research analyzed data from 16 separate studies. People who habitually slept for less than six hours a night were 12 percent more likely to experience premature death. ...

Antemedius

  • The Commanded in Chief
    Have you wondered why the antiwar movement in America seems to be so co-opted since the 2008 election? Have you wondered why Obama seems unable to move forward with any substantive changes in US Foreign Policy, or make any headway in winding down the middle east wars? Via Michael Moore: Seymour Her ...
  • BP's Three Strikes = Jail Time Now?
    BP says that it accepts responsibility for this underwater oil volcano. In this case, responsibility needs to mean more than slapping monetary fines and/or probation on a company that now has a record of criminal convictions for environmental crimes for which it remains on probation . Convictions f ...
  • How Will the British Hung Parliament be Resolved?
    Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats got a boost from the candidates’ televised debates, but Thursday on election day his standing was diminished compared to promising figures released after the first debate. Such an occurrence was anything but surprising. Followers of the 1992 U.S. presidential cam ...
  • OSHA: Safety Violations at BP's US Refineries Enda ...
    British Petroleum's (BP) troubles are not just limited to its Gulf of Mexico operations, where a deadly blast aboard a drilling rig two weeks ago ruptured an oil well 5,000 feet below the sea's surface and triggered a massive oil leak that is now the size of a small country. The oil conglomerate is ...
  • A Conversation with Dave Andrews
    Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet . In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Dave Andrews, Senior Representative for Food & Water Watch. Name: Dave Andrews Affiliation: Food & Water Watch Location: Washing ...

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

  • Taking the Meat We Eat Out of the Factory and Putt ...
    On Tuesday, Animal Welfare Approved and the Pew Environment Group presented a public panel discussion about raising pasture-based animals, and reclaiming these sustainable farming systems as the source of our meat and dairy.  The star-studded panel included Nicolette Hahn Niman, attorney and author ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Being right means never having to say you’re ...
    A new study on California prisons produces jaw-dropping evidence that yes, the California prison system is completely out of control and, for prisoners, a racist hell on earth. Jason Brannigan’s eyes widened as he relived the day he says prison guards pepper-sprayed his face at point-blank range, th ...
  • Captain Rentboy and the Knights of the FEC
    Links: Frank Rich on the Times Square bomb and the WHCD FEC opens door for massive funding of key legislative races (again, this is the year when Americans turn off their TVs and start learning how to do their own commercial-free entertainment programming) Judge deprivatizes email Gryphen on David K ...
  • Hickel-less and Palined in Alaska
    The power went out Thursday night. Another transformer blew, the third one in the last year. Four outages in the last year altogether and that’s damned close to the total number of outages in the twelve years prior. I think all the transformers in this neighborhood are about the same age, and are in ...
  • Too much news (& our automated blogging systems cr ...
    I’m late posting and the Thursday automatic trading crash on Wall Street still hasn’t been explained, leaving me to wonder how much money the a$$holes made shorting stock yesterday. Wall Street is a criminal enterprise run by predatory thugs who use computer glitches like gangsters use guns. If the ...
  • Fighting terrorism with more guns
    I cannot make sense of the uproar over Mirandizing Shahzad. Some of our national leaders are self-paralzyed with bedwetting fears. From an editorial in this morning’s NYTimes: Senators McCain and Lieberman say military trials will show strength. Abandoning democratic institutions in the face of terr ...

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

  • Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
        Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Young Sid: "I did it for my city".
    �By Omar Hamed Source South Auckland rapper Young Sid has just released his second album What Doesn’t Kill Me. The songs provide a gritty sequel to Smashproof’s The Weekend and provide the listener with new maps of the south Auckland underworld. In this review Omar Hamed argues that Young ...
  • This Is Mandela's South Africa
    Archbishop Emeritus Desmond says that former President Mandela would be saddened by what is going on in South Africa. Mandela, who is 91, is understandably an absent figure in the current political landscape. Nonetheless, Mandela is not figuratively absent. He is a symbol, a gesture, and a myth ...
  • Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell-Collapse of ne ...
    By Brenda Norrell for Photo by James Fortier There is no better place to document the collapse of the news industry than with the coverage of what happened when military helicopters attempted to land on sacred burial ground at Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge in South Dakota on Saturday. The worst cov ...
  • Dept. of Corrections and Other Matters Concerning ...
    The Intelligent Aboriginal News Service has received a flurry of angry responses to our coverage of the ‘Wounded Knee Crisis - 05.01.2001’ (mostly by one individual) and now that more information has come forward, we are submitting a ‘Dept. of Corrections’ report as well as our thoughts about this p ...
  • Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010
    Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010 Sane Reading Material for Smart Aboriginals This Issue : Aboriginal News Group: Brief Thoughts About a "Random American Bombardment" J. B.Gerald: Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulakqi & others Frantz Fanon: Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight ...

Pensieve

  • Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
    The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
  • False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
    To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
  • Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
    Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...
  • 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

Green Times

  • Environmental News -08/05/10
    Environmental News   Hair sausages to the rescue As an orange slick of oil washed onto Louisiana's sandy barrier islands, prized as a historic wildlife refuge, crews worked to lower a containment vessel over a leak 1500 metres below the Gulf of Mexico surface and US officials extended a tempo ...
  • Japan: An Emerging Market for Australian Investors
    The Renewable Energy sector in Japan is an emerging market for Australian investors and businesses…
  • Environmental News -05/05/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) The Oil Slick You Can't See (http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-the-oil-slick-you-cant-see/19460901)-If you think that slick of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico is a nasty sight ...
  • Environmental News -04/05/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Germany wants 1 million electric cars by 2020 (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9FFGH0O1.htm)-German Chancellor Angela Merkel and executives from the country's automakers and energy c ...
  • Green Fashion Designers
    Want to look trendy and modern but not at the expense of the planet? We check out some of the worlds leading eco-fashion designers…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 10 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan
    ShareThis 10 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan 09 May 2010 At least ten people have been killed in the latest US missile strike in tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan, local security officials confirm. According to two Pakistani intelligence officials on Sunday, a US drone fired two missiles ...
  • EU approves $500b euro debt measures
    ShareThis EU approves $500b euro debt measures �10 Feb 2010 EU finance ministers have agreed to measures worth more than 500 billion euros ($717 billion) to stop the Greek debt crisis from spreading. The fund will give members of the single currency bloc access to 440 billion euros of loan guarantee ...
  • Obama Picks Kagan, Backer of Indefinite Detention ...
    ShareThis Breaking: President Barack Obama to pick U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as U.S. Supreme Court nominee (CLG compilation) 09 May 2010 You know you're in trouble when Faux News is calling�her 'a brilliant woman.' During her hearings to be confirmed as Solicitor General, the New York Times ...
  • AP: Bubble of methane triggered rig blast
    ShareThis AP: Bubble of methane triggered rig blast 08 May 2010 The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, ...
  • Liberal Democrats to hand power to David Cameron
    ShareThis Liberal Democrats to hand power to David Cameron 09 May 2010 David Cameron and Nick Clegg held their first face-to-face talks since last week's election yesterday evening as party figures began to talk up the likelihood of a Tory minority government held up by Liberal Democrat support. The ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Four Beaten and Arrested at Al-Walaje Sit-In
    by Mazin Qumsiyeh Our ten hour ordeal with the occupation forces started at 8:30 AM as we gathered in the small village of Al-Walaje. A tiny store with an elderly women who insisted on making me coffee and not charging me.   Idyllic setting except for the heavy bulldozers now carving the hills to ...
  • Israel Arrests its Own Citizen, a Human Rights Dir ...
    Ittijah General Director Ameer Makhoul Arrested by Israeli Authorities Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Condemn Arrest as Arbitrary and Seek Immediate International Intervention [Ramallah, 6 May 2010] This morning at 3:10 a.m., Israeli Security Agency (GSS) agents accompanied by Israeli po ...
  • Two More Arrests of Activists, One is a Teenager.
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Two residents of Ni’lin were arrested by the Israeli Army tonight, during a night-time raid on the village. Their arrest follows the two similar arrests last week, and may signal a renewed increase of anti-Wall arrests. A large military force, incl ...
  • Another Day, Another Arrest of Human Rights Worker
    From The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. Israeli authorities have taken Izzet Sahin, the representative and founder of IHH (The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief)’s Office in West Bank, into custody on the 27th of April. Izzet Sah ...
  • Villages Group: First Biodigester Unit at Work in ...
    (crossposted from the Villages Group Blog) Following the success of the Villages Group’s first environmental initiative – the renewable energy project, which has been now running independently for about a year under the banner Comet-ME – the Villages Group is now launching a second environmental in ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • EU to use economic shock and awe
    Right, that worked so well when Paulson did it here in 2008. It’s a desperation ploy and even its proponents agree it does nothing to solve underlying problems.
  • Of all the possible Supreme Court nominees
    Obama choose one with ties to Goldman Sachs who has no experience as being a judge. There wasn’t someone better qualified with no links to the Squid?
  • The decline of the West
    The real battle now is nation-states vs. the global economic system, says John Robb. The economic system will win. Nation states will hollow out and become mere shells of themselves. The clear and unambiguous message to every citizen of the West will be: You are on your own. You are in direct com ...
  • Feds launch civil and criminal investigations of J ...
    The probes are centering on whether or not JPMorgan, a top derivatives holder in precious metals, acted improperly to depress the price of silver, sources said. Gosh, it’s looking more and more like our fabled investment banks are just a bunch of thieves and criminals. I’m waiting for the Obama Admi ...
  • Science magazine photoshops polar bear on ice floe ...
    This was supposed to illustrate the dangers of climate change. But what it did was to give climate change foes more ammo to use, “see they faked it again.” I’m staggered at the political stupidity of too much of the climate change movement. After the considerable recent damage caused by reports of ...

Coteret

  • Nahum Barnea: Under Obama, deceit on settlement ex ...
    The winking duo Op-ed, Nahum Barnea, Yediot, May 10-10 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Last Wednesday, MK Danny Danon (Likud) notified me that Netanyahu was going to make a dramatic decision on the matter of the settlement outposts.  I thrive on dramas.  I called the defense minister’s ...
  • A right-wing one state solution?
    Ben Dror Yemini, a senior columnist at Maariv, likes to position himself as a “centrist” by regularly and viciously attacking what he considers the “illegitimate left.” Occasionally, he also finds something he considers beyond the pale on his right. He is now positively horrified by a new trend: ...
  • Maariv feature documents “settlement freeze& ...
    In a Yediot op-ed Thursday (May 6 2010) defense analyst Alex Fishman warned that the “settlement freeze” was a ticking time bomb that would derail diplomatic negotiations come September. In a feature for the Friday Political Supplement of Yediot’s competition, Maariv, Shalom Yerushalmi provided ...
  • Sheizaf: “Like Alan Dershowitz, but with a conscie ...
    Cross-posted from Promised Land. Yesterday, Alan Dershowitz, the attorney for OJ Simpson and IDF occupation, received another honorary doctorate, this time from my very own Tel Aviv University. Dershowitz took the opportunity to declare that “students shouldn’t have the Leftist views of professors i ...
  • Makor Rishon: US Ambassador and other officials re ...
    Capital freeze: US Ambassador wants construction plans, Ministers hesitate approval Ariel Kahane, Makor Rishon, May 7 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The prime minister and senior ministers have vehemently denied over the past two weeks all reports of a de-facto Israeli ...

Deadline Live

  • Climate change deniers accused of McCarthyism
    In a letter published in the journal Science, more than 250 members of the US National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel Prize laureates, condemned the increase in “political assaults” on scientists who argue greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet. The ‘climategate’ scandal ...
  • Obama Picks Kagan, Backer of Indefinite Detention ...
    Breaking: President Barack Obama to pick U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as U.S. Supreme Court nominee (CLG compilation) 09 May 2010 You know you’re in trouble when Faux News is calling her ‘a brilliant woman.’ During her hearings to be confirmed as Solicitor General, the New York Times para ...
  • Michigan lawmaker plans Arizona-like immigration b ...
    LANSING — A Michigan lawmaker believes the state’s law enforcement officers need the authority to arrest illegal immigrants and is drafting legislation similar to Arizona’s new immigration law. Rep. Kim Meltzer, R-Clinton Township, said her bill would allow police to request proof of citizenship fr ...
  • U.S. considers legal action against Arizona
    Washington, D.C. (CNN) – The federal government is considering filing a lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law. Sunday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the law violates federal civil rights statutes. Holder worries the law could lead to less co-operation between the Hispanic communi ...
  • FIVE MYTHS ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FROM US GOVER ...
    1. “Immigrants take jobs away from Americans”—“Although legal immigrants account for 12.5 percent of the U.S. Population, they make up 15 percent of the work-force,” said Meissner. “As a result of this growth, economists estimate that wages for the vast majority of American workers are slightly high ...

The Air Vent

  • Robust – Not so much
    A reader sent me a link to a new paper by Berger, analyzing the coherence (covariance) of various popular proxy reconstructions (hockeysticks).  The paper can be accessed for free here. Similarly to global temperature metrics from the same data, such reconstructions are often declared to support eac ...
  • The Null Theory
    Recently 250 scientists signed a letter on climate change, I urge readers to read it as it’s being touted as a big story in the news.  As we are supposed to be the technical skeptics, there are a few issues which are easy pickings in the letter.  The letter is an undisguised attempt to alter [...]
  • Another Rock
    There is a myth about global warming, perpetuated by the media, that AGW does not have a political motive.  I’ve had several commenters complain here that the politics are not right vs left they are on both sides.  Tom Fuller would be a great example of someone on the left who sees that AGW is [.. ...
  • Ugandan Ice Cap Split in Two by Global Warming!
    I’m not terribly inspired this morning, but in reading the news I found this headline. Global Warming Splits Ugandan Ice Cap and this Ice cap on west Ugandan mountain range splits and this Uganda’s highest ice cap splits on Mt Margherita It sounds pretty serious right, listen to this quote. Margheri ...
  • Uncertainty be damned. When in doubt – GO B ...
    I’m glad that climate science doesn’t let things like physics, common sense or reason get in the way of their models.  They have taken the ridiculous uncertainty of modeling climate in the future and expanded the range all the way to 25F.  Imagine Canada with Florida temperatures, ice hockey gone ...

Focal Point

  • AAP on Female Genital Mutilation: Let's Not and Sa ...
    The American Academy of Pediatrics is under fire for revising its guidelines on female genital mutilation (FGM). U.S. federal law bans all forms of female genital cutting for minors. However, the bioethics division of the AAP wants the law changed to allow doctors to ceremonially nick the clitoris ...
  • U.S. Refuses International Help with Oil Spill Cle ...
    As of last Wednesday , 13 entities had offered assistance with the Gulf oil spill cleanup including Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations. The list offers came from a State ...
  • Book Review: Born For Love
    Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered By Maia Szalavitz and Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D. Born for Love would make a great Mother's Day gift. When it comes to the biopsychosocial roots of empathy, moms play a starring role. Co-written by a science journalist and a child psychiatrist, ...
  • "Think Tanked" Rolls Out
    � The D.C. think tank archipelago constitutes a kind of shadow government. These organizations house policy shops, lobbying and advocacy campaigns, media production, education and training programs, and much more. They even provide a sort of social safety net for the political operatives, a warm ...
  • If You Oppose Equal Marriage, You Are a Bigot
    When you cover a beat, you get to know the good guys and the bad guys. If you don't have strong opinions about who's who, you're probably not doing your job.  Dave Weigel covers birthers, Birchers, teabaggers, and other movement conservatives for the Washington Post . Nobody knows this beat bette ...

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, May 3rd, 2010 Big Slowdown Across Most of This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU Top 25 MySpace Games fo ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Privacy Visualization, Topix, Un ...
    Visualizing Facebook’s Move Towards Openness — Whatever you think about Facebook’s relentless efforts to make its service more open and central to the web — and sneakily destroy user privacy, as some see it — you should be sure to check out this infographic of the company’s changes. Created by user ...
  • Thanks to Our Sponsors
    Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! RockYou providers developers with virtual currency and display ad monetization services. Matomy is a provider of alternative payment solutions for social netw ...
  • Family Feud: How a 30-Something Brand Built a Succ ...
    Brands haven’t had much success in the Facebook app market. Although quite a few large companies have a successful Page for themselves or a product, it’s rare to see an app that has had any success at all working with a well-known name. Which is why we’ve been watching Family Feud [...]
  • Bing Shopping Allows Publishing Items to Facebook
    Online shopping just became a little bit more social, as Bing Shopping has integrated Facebook and Twitter into its interface. Now while using Bing Shopping, Facebook users can post an item to their profile, letting them begin conversations with their friends about the potential merits of owning it. ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Which whore should UK Liberal Democrat leader Cleg ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that, while Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg contemplates whether to ally himself with the Conservative or Labour party, the fact is that “never before in electoral history were the British public presented with such a rubbish choice”, with “no-one ‘clean’ enough, honourab ...
  • Either way, Zionists win in Britain’s confused ele ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the emergence of the Conservative Party as the largest party in the UK parliament following the 6 May general election, in which Labour came second, will guarantee the continued stranglehold of Israel’s stooges over British politics and put British security at considera ...
  • Iran sanctions and worse
    Paul J. Balles views the campaign by Israel lobbyists in the US administration and Congress to impose sanctions on Iran as a precursor to direct aggression à la Iraq, and on the few lone voices of common sense.
  • Not much time remains for Israel – film review
    Gilad Atzmon reviews Elia Suleiman’s film, “The time that remains”, which depicts the struggle in Palestine between the Jewish colonial settler population and the indigenous Palestinians, contrasting the alienness of the colonists with the harmony between the indigenous population and the land.
  • UK general election: Shhh... don’t mention the Isr ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the conspicuous absence of any mention of the Israeli occupation in the British general election campaign, against the background of the paralysing influence of the Israel lobby on the three main political parties and the silent complicity of the mainstream media, including t ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • 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 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Crossing Zero
    The Vanishing Point for the American Empire The region today delineated as both Afghanistan and Pakistan has known many borders over the millennia, yet none have been more artificial or contentious than the one today separating Pakistan from Afghanistan known as the Durand line but referred to by th ...
  • Podcast Show #28
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Professor Francis Boyle Professor Francis Boyle discusses the October 2001 anthrax attack, the technology behind the letter to Senator Daschle, and assesses the case based on his years of expertise with America’s bio-weapons programs, and as an expert who was responsibl ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • A Legend Gone
    Lena Horne put the class in classy & the fox in foxy!!! This American barrier busting legend will surely be missed! Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010)
  • Happy Mother’s Day
    To all our mothers, on this day and everyday, thank you! Let’s make a pledge today in honour of our moms to supports mothers in Africa. Don’t just think and talk about it, be about it! Click on the image below to get involved. 
  • Helen Grant, OBV Alumnui has made political and Co ...
    Hat tip: Operation Black Vote Helen Grant, OBV Alumnui has made political and Conservative Party history by winning the Southeast seat Maidstone and the Weald becoming the first Black female Conservative in the House of Commons. The seat she takes over was represented by Westminster firebrand Anne W ...
  • Bunny Wailer – Liberation!
    When I was a part of the Uhuru Movement here in Oakland Ca, back in the late 1980s, I was introduced to alot of powerful protest music, and most of it was Roots Reggae.  I was already familiar with Bob Marley, since his hit Roots, Rock, Reggae was played “on the R and B” here [...]
  • A Compassionate Soul
    who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own who will cry for the little boy, he cried himself to sleep who will cry for the little boy, who never had it for keeps who will cry for the little boy, who [...]

Expose the BNP

  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • 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 ...

Sen4Earth

  • Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
    The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • 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! 

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

  • Regaining our Rights, one step at a time..
    When good people do nothing, they get something, but it’s not good! The people in government who are out of the pockets of Corporate America are demonstrating their steps to take away our freedoms, so they will have an easier time engaging in WAR. They create an atmosphere of fear in order to have a ...
  • Oil Rig in Gulf pictures, Last moments
    Everyone now knows of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which caught fire, burned for two days, and then sank in 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. There are still 11 men missing, and they are not expected to be found. Here are some details that you may not have seen or heard [...]
  • Gulf Catastrophe or Drill, Baby, Drill
    The depth of this catastrophe will have worldwide ramifications and note who it is that covers this story with in-depth analysis; it is not the American media, but rather the BBC. The tentacles of Corporate America will soon discover even their manipulation of the news will not hide these facts. (DR ...
  • 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 ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Sustainable Brands 2010 (from The Good Human)
    David at The Good Human got in touch to let me know about his brilliant article on yet another “Hey guys, aren’t we green!” PR back-slapping shindig. Of course I had to repost it, and couldn’t resist a little subvertising (see above)… What do you get when a bunch of unsustainable companies pay a lo ...
  • We Are The Hollow Men
    The difference is stark and intense – from a vision of the sub-American suburban Utopia ringed with shopping malls and trunk roads, to a house on the edge of a Scottish village within earshot of the River Tweed, surrounded by the kind of garden that would tempt the most driven individual to pack up ...
  • 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)

Subalternate Reality

  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
  • 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 ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Freedom Fone Answers Questions on Zimbabwe Constit ...
    Two weeks ago the latest version of Freedom Fone , affectionately known to his handlers as "Fred," was set loose. Inspired by the cockney rhyming slang "dog and bone" (meaning phone), the Freedom Fone dog logo and quirky character of Fred was born a few years ago. Fred is still young, but after a ...
  • Programming Language for Kids Banned from Apple Ap ...
    The MIT News Office recently interviewed one of our colleagues at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Mitch Resnick. Resnick is a long-time Media Lab professor best known for helping develop and deploy Scratch, a programming language for kids. But this month Apple rejected an app that would al ...
  • In Need of a DocumentCloud for Video, Data
    Brainstorming the next brilliant News Challenge project? I've got two for you, and you've got until fall to noodle over them. As the program director for DocumentCloud I spend a lot of time talking to journalists, writers and researchers about what DocumentCloud is and, often, what it isn't. Do ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Oil - Democrats Propose Massive Increa ...
    Congressional Democrats are pushing their first legislative response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, proposing to vastly raise the liability cap on companies that are responsible for offshore disasters. With anger at BP mounting by the day, the legislation has clear populist inspiration and could win e ...
  • The Immigration Edge - How Arizona and the US Resp ...
    The United States has resorted to fairly extreme state action in order to control undocumented immigrants. This is a long history, with ups and downs. The current phase of strong-state action began in the 1990s with Bill Clinton. But the US is not alone. Some of the most powerful states in the world ...
  • The Edge of Oil - Caution Required for Gulf Oil Sp ...
    With millions of gallons crude oil being spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the focus now is on shutting down the leak. However, in the cleanup efforts to come, “extreme caution” must be exercised so as not to make a bad situation even worse, says a leading bioremed ...
  • Inside Latin America - Bribery Scandal Dampens Sou ...
    During the May 4 summit conference of the Union of South American Countries (UNASUR) held in the city of Campana—near Buenos Aires, Argentina—President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela affirmed that accusations laid against him over alleged bribery is part of a “political operation” to harm relations betwee ...
  • Pentagon on the Edge - America’s Defense Budget Wa ...
    General Eisenhower – whose portrait hangs behind my desk at the Pentagon, and whose life has been a source of wisdom and inspiration – is a hero of mine. Eisenhower was a low-maintenance leader of simple tastes, modest demands, and small entourages – in stark contrast to what often happens at the up ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • India: Criminalizing Dissent
    By Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations The most recent alert (regarding use of section 39, UAPA) issued by the government in so called public interest has brought out in the open what had so far been implicit in its anti-Maoist policy. The purpose of the circular is to intimidate voice ...
  • Karnataka : Operation Media Gagging
    By Gauri Lankesh The Central home minister P Chidambaram has often issued veiled threats to intellectuals who offer covert or overt support to the Maoists, whom the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has identified as the biggest internal security threat to the country today. While Singh and Chidambara ...
  • Vedanta, Chidambaram, Chattisgarh And Maoist
    By Syed Ali Mujtaba The government which is responsible for creating the Maoists problems is bent on using its strong arm tactics to tackle the problem as if unaware of the fact that one can lord over with the bayonet of the gun but cant sit on it
  • My Mothers Day Gift To The Planet: Not Having Kids
    By Chris Bolgiano Like me, many women could discover that a childfree life offers meaningful experiences that balance the loss of mothering, and theirs could be a great gift to a beleaguered planet
  • The Imminent Collapse Of Industrial Society
    By Peter Goodchild What seems the best general concept of human society later in this century is not easy to formulate. People with the information and skills required for supplying themselves and their community with food and shelter can certainly be called survivalists, even if there should be a ...

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

  • Obama and Jerusalem, Its All Moshe Dayan's Fault
    Tuesday night begins Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day. It celebrates the day in 1967 that the IDF returned the Old Jerusalem to Jewish hands. Jews were denied access to the Holy sites in the Old City Jerusalem since 1948, when Jordan took it over during the War of Independence. In the interven ...
  • Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and Mike Klonsky, The Thr ...
    When looking at the President's Marxist past, most people focus on Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who was described by the President as "just a guy from the neighborhood."� Actually the Obama, Ayers "duo" was actually a threesome:the future president, Bill Ayers and Mike Klonsky. Klonsky ...
  • More Democratic Seats in Play Than Ever Before-Spe ...
    Depending on who you believe there are anywhere from 57 to 84 Democratic Congressional seats in play for the upcoming midterm elections, IBD averaged the numbers from the Cook Political Report , the Rothenberg Political Report , Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball and Real Clear Politics � and found th ...
  • Palestinian-American Fired for Sexting at Work Cla ...
    This is something that could only happen in our overly PC litigious society. Former Homestead Florida City Manager Mohammad Aref “Mike” Shehadeh, a man of Palestinian descent� was fired from his nearly $180,000 city government job after allegedly viewing a fetish website at work and sending sexuall ...
  • After Times Square: The Media's Refusal to Discuss ...
    By Barry Rubin A lot has been said about media contortions to avoid the “I” word when talking about terrorists, and most specifically about the Times Square bomber. But when one sees it in an extended analysis (22 long paragraphs) in the country’s best newspaper, not just some remarks on te ...

The Real Agenda

  • $1 trillion to handle financial collapse, dead cur ...
    Bloomberg European policy makers unveiled an unprecedented loan package worth nearly $1 trillion and a program of securities purchases as they spearheaded a drive to stop a sovereign-debt crisis that threatened to shatter confidence in the euro.     Jolted into action by last week’s slide in the cur ...
  • So, you think the dollar gained value?
    The inflated currency isn’t worth a 1,200th of an ounce of gold Lew Rockwell The collapse of the dollar to less than a 1,200th of an ounce of gold is emerging as one of the astonishing stories of our time. Yet even more astonishing is the lack of focus on that story by the intelligentsia [...]
  • The New Prison Industrial-Complex
    Global Research There is a new technological trend in the United States that promises to use advances in Internet, GPS, and chemical detection technology to manage states’ surging prison and parolee populations. Several states, particularly those with massive budget deficits like California and Mich ...
  • Watch out for Diabetes Drugs. Your Heart will tha ...
    Natural News Widely used diabetes drugs appear to increase patients’ risk of potentially fatal heart problems, according to a study conducted by researchers from Imperial College London and published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers examined patient and prescription records to examine ra ...
  • How Big is the Reserve and How Big are the Lies?
    Money Changer On February 15 a friend called me today to ask how much money the banking system could have created on $100 in 1947. I dug into my files and into the St. Louis Fed’s data On February 15 a friend called metoday to ask how much money the banking system could have created on $100 in ...

Wind Watch

  • Harwich turns its back on wind turbines
    HARWICH â In a big showdown over wind power, neighbors of two proposed 400-foot tall industrial wind turbines drew enough voters to town meeting to kill the town’s eight-year-long push for the clean energy project. “When this matter came up eight years ago, everybody thought wind energy was a good ...
  • For some, wind farms have potential to be too clos ...
    Concerns about health have some Crofte Township residents opposed to a nearby wind farm. NextEra Energy proposed last fall to build five wind turbines within the township. Some adjacent landowners and nearby neighbors are concerned about the nearness of the towers to their homes. “Our primary concer ...
  • Wind power generates turbulence
    A report by Quebec’s environmental review agency slams a proposed wind project in central Quebec for shutting local residents out of the planning process. The 100-megawatt Ãrable wind farm is scheduled to go into production next year near St. Ferdinand, 200 kilometres east of Montreal. The report b ...
  • A mighty wind: Nova Scotia’s tough new renew ...
    Nova Scotiaâs energy minister was delivering a prepared speech atop Dalhousie Mountain, Pictou County last Friday when he suddenly stopped to observe, “My god, itâs quiet isnât it?” Bill Estabrooks was standing beneath the barely-turning blades of a 400-foot wind turbine. Six of nine turbines ...
  • Moorabool residents unite against wind farms
    Moorabool residents turned out in force last night to voice their anger at two proposed wind farms in the shire. About 250 people packed the Ballan Mechanics Institute for a special council meeting, with the majority of speakers raising concerns at the proposed Greendale and Yaloak South wind farms ...

Not My Tribe

  • Betty White’s muffin on the boob tube
    Which came first: the Snickers ad, the Facebook group, or SNL’s crowdsourced mandate to fete American sitcom icon Betty White? The meme of this blonde’s netroots smacked of a publicist’s hand. White’s performance Saturday night appeared to validate a presumption the show has been reluctance until no ...
  • Can’t Trust Goobers, part 2: Lettuce Spray
    Another outbreak of e-coli in lettuce traced so far back to farms in Arizona. This is very nearly the scenario from summer before last, with tomatoes and Jalapeño peppers. That was blamed on Illegal Aliens pooping in the fields. Had to be “illegals” you know, because American Citizens, not only doe ...
  • Originally it was Antiwar Mother’s Day
    For how many war years longer will a MOTHER’S DAY tradition be to remind the vast Hallmark-washed that Mom’s postbellum holiday originated as a grassroots resistance by mothers opposed to enlisting their sons in war? Quoth abolitionist/pacifist/feminist/poet Julia Ward Howe in the Mother’s Day Procl ...
  • The TeaBag threat
    People who say they have an exclusive right to define the constitution of the united states, say that they further have a right and indeed a duty to KILL anybody, Americans included, who is “an enemy of the constitution” must I be Repetitive, why, yes I must, the Constitution that they’ve declared t ...
  • Goldman Sachs hires ethics advisers, forms committ ...
    You know, a company as large and old as that would have done something like that Centuries ago. If they’d any intent of actually following any kinds of ethical or legal standard guidelines. “Well, Gosh dang it, fellers, we just didn’t have any Idea that stealing from large numbers of people is immor ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • WTC Free Fall Rebuttal to dprjones
    StooBradley YouTube.com May 04, 2010 In a recent video dprjones challenged "Truthers" to address his 5 points about the collapse of the WTC towers on 9/11. Contrary to his advice to avoid facts and evidence, here is my rebuttal that offers a more accurate way to measure collapse speeds and a closer ...
  • More Discrediting by Association
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asks the question " How Indeed Could We Think of the Truthers As Kooks and Weirdos ;" pointing to these articles posted on 911blogger.com yesterday. An anonymous commenter on Pat's blog first made note that above the 911blogger post in question it is clea ...
  • Bin Laden "Living Comfortably in Iran"
    Is there a country you want to invade? Can't get those pesky free-thinking citizens to agree? No problem, we've got just the thing to you! It's called Feathered Cocaine - The Bogeyman Reviver! Guaranteed to resurrect your favourite long-dead, face-changing, ex-CIA asset ... or your money back!
  • 9/11 Un-debunked Version 2.0
    A new version of my "9/11 Un -debunked" series. I will be uploading new videos to the playlist from time to time. To view the videos separately , please go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/citizenfor911truth1
  • My New Blog [Renamed]
    As people may have noticed, I haven't exactly been staying on topic in recent months in my blog posts. So to avoid discrediting this blog any further, I've created my own personal blog to talk about general stuff that's beyond the scope of this blog. It's called "Scootle The Anti-Skeptic" (I need to ...

Fooducate

  • PepsiCo CEO – ‘If all consumers exercised…obesity ...
    Folks, we didn’t make this up. Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo’s CEO, was recently interviewed by Fortune magazine. Substantial parts of the interview dealt with the mega corporation’s shift to healthier foods. To be more accurate, less-bad foods. Currently, the largest food and beverage company in America rec ...
  • Serving Sizes – What a Joke
    Jokes.com Brian Regan – Serving Size comedians.comedycentral.com Futurama New Episodes Funny Demon Zombie TV Show Funny TV Comedy Blog If there is one datum that throws off the entire purpose of the nutrition facts panel, it has got to be the serving size. We take a quick gl ...
  • Are Quaker Chewy Granola Bars Good for You?
    Here’s a “good for you” snack, according to its manufacturer, Quaker Oats, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. Granola bars enjoy a health halo due to the fact that they are from “granola”. From the box: Good source of calcium (10% of daily value per 40 grams). 0g Trans fat (See nutrition facts for saturate ...
  • Time Magazine on Nutrition Labels
    Take a look at Time online, with a good writeup of the confusing front-of-pack labels that shoppers for healthy food are seeing in supermarkets these days. The article covers the following systems, with commentary on pros and cons of each. Kellogg’s Nutrition at a Glance American Heart Associati ...
  • Another Reason to Quit Sugary Soft Drinks – Choles ...
    AS if there aren’t enough reasons to spend our calories elsewhere, a new study shows that People who eat and drink high amounts of added sugars have lower blood levels of so-called good cholesterol and higher levels of harmful triglycerides than those with diets lower in such sweeteners âWe look ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Israel Set To Be Accepted Into OECD
    Israel is expected to get the go-ahead to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at a meeting of representatives of the 31 member countries in Paris on Monday.
  • Governments In Southeast Asia Detain Thousands In ...
    A new report released today documents the arbitrary detention of thousands of drug users, mostly young people, in controversial detention centers in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. While the detention is supposedly for treatment, children and adults are held in boot camp-like centers where they do not ...
  • Death Spiral of the Welfare State
    What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn't Greece's problem alone, and that's why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens eco nomic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populatio ...
  • Africa: The new crude frontier
    Africa is experiencing an oil-and-gas boom as the continent’s relatively unexplored prospects present a tantalizing draw for foreign oil companies eager to feed the world’s growing energy appetite.
  • US Landlord Who Used Hidden Cameras To Spy On 34 F ...
    US Landlord Who Used Hidden Cameras To Spy On 34 Female Tenants Gets 4-10 Years In Prison

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US 'out of options' on Iran
    Summary: Iran and the US shared common enemies in Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, as well as in al-Qaeda, and they have much to gain from closer cooperation on the remaining fronts.Obama started last year with a promise to negotiate with the Islamic Republic and it is time for him to make good o ...
  • U.S. Business Groups Fault Rush to Sanctions on Ir ...
    Summary: The Iranian proposal would let the U.S. and the other members of the U.N. Security Council and the IAEA realise all the advantages from the nuclear exchange with some small changes in how the low enriched uranium is stored until the nuclear fuel rods are delivered. Some Iran specialist ...
  • IAEA's Amano Oversteps His Bounds on Iran
    Summary: Yukiya Amano According to the New York Times, IAEA head Amano has "asserted a right" to investigate Iran's missile program because it could be related to nuclear weapons. He has also repeated the mantra that the IAEA cannot verify the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear progr ...
  • Iran positive on fresh nuclear talks with West
    Summary: ANKARA — Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has welcomed a proposal for new talks with Western powers over his country's nuclear programme, possibly in Turkey, media reported late Friday. source: AFP read more
  • The NPT farce
    Summary: While no one seems to have any logical answers to these questions, the United Nations ceremoniously holds NPT "Review Conferences" every five years. The May 2010 Review Conference would have been just another routine event had it not been for Iran's president, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, w ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Are Supernovas the Death Beam of Advanced Life in ...
    Most astronomers today believe that one of the most plausible reasons we have yet to detect intelligent life in the universe is due to the deadly effects of local supernova explosions that wipe out all life in a given region...
  • Scientists Discover Missing Link Between Organic a ...
    Philosophers and scientists have argued about the origins of life from inorganic matter ever since Empedocles (430 B.C.) argued that every thing in the universe is made up of a combination of four eternal 'elements' or 'roots of all': earth,...
  • Image of Inifinty: "Cosmic Magnifying Glass" Revea ...
    A new wide-field image released today by ESO is both a wide-field and long-exposure one, revealing thousands of distant galaxies and more, particularly a large group belonging to the massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 315. As crowded as it...
  • The Daily "140" Insight
    The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson -Harvard evolutionary biologist
  • You Create the Caption

Natural News

  • Raw milk battle reveals FDA abandonment of basic h ...
    (NaturalNews) The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), an organization whose mission includes "defending the rights and broadening the freedoms of family farms and protecting consumer access to raw milk and nutrient dense foods", recently filed a lawsuit against the FDA for its ban on inter ...
  • NaturalNews Store discount code to be announced to ...
    (NaturalNews) The NaturalNews Store, which offers health-related foods, food ingredients, kitchen appliances and healthy personal care products, will be announcing an unprecedented special this Tuesday exclusively to the NaturalNews email list .This special will allow subscribers to take advantage o ...
  • Dead doctors still making millions from Medicare b ...
    (NaturalNews) Medicare issued as much as $92 million in payments between 2000 and 2007 for medical procedures or devices ordered under the names of doctors who had already died, according to a 2008 Senate committee report. Prescriptions written in the names of deceased doctors are only one of the fr ...
  • Is Gulf oil rig disaster far worse than we're bein ...
    (NaturalNews) Reports about the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been largely underestimated, according to commentators, including Paul Noel, a Software Engineer for the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. He believes that the pocket of oil that's been hit is so powerful and under so much ...
  • FDA continues dragging its feet on Bisphenol-A dec ...
    (NaturalNews) The FDA has missed three self-imposed deadlines to re-evaluate its approval of the endocrine-disrupting chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA), after originally promising in June 2009 to deliver a finding in "weeks not months." BPA is a prevalent industrial chemical used to make plastics hard and ...

Threat Level

  • FCC Lets Hollywood Turn Off Your Output Jacks
    Hollywood will soon have the power to remotely disable the analog outputs on your set-top box, under a decision by federal regulators on Friday intended to prevent home recording of new movie releases. The move by the Federal Communications Commission grants cable and satellite providers the power ...
  • Coder Journeys From Wall Street to Prison
    Over a month has elapsed since the years-long investigation and prosecution of TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez came to a dramatic end, with Gonzalez sentenced to 20 years in prison for the largest identity theft case in U.S. history. Now a little-noted postscript to that high-profile case is unfolding aw ...
  • Wired Urges Judge to Unseal Gizmodo Search
    Wired.com and other news outlets are asking a California judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit that led to a police raid on the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone. Under California law, the public has a right to see the documents that led San Mateo Co ...
  • Bombing Arrest Followed Law Enforcement Slip-Ups a ...
    “I was expecting you,” suspected bomber Faisal Shahzad reportedly told the border agents who seized him from his Dubai-bound flight Monday evening. And clearly the suspect should have been expecting agents, given the trail of clues he allegedly left behind and the steps investigators were taking t ...
  • Judge Rules Post on Cop-Rating Site is Protected S ...
    A federal judge has struck down a Florida law prohibiting the publication of a police officer’s name, phone number or address, calling the statute an unconstitutional restraint on speech. The decision leaves Arizona, Colorado and Washington state with similar laws on the books. Florida authoritie ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Judge Cornyn's War on the Rule of Law
    That Texas Senator John Cornyn joined John McCain in the Republican chorus denouncing the Obama administration for reading Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights is unsurprising. Unsurprising and sadly ironic. After all, from detainee torture and illicit domestic surveillance ...
  • Shahzad or Rudolph, U.S Citizens Have Miranda Righ ...
    It's official: John McCain is now more addled than Glenn Beck . While the Fox News host insisted to the dismay of his colleagues that Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad "has all the rights under the Constitution," McCain declared that reading Miranda rights to an American citizen is a "seriou ...
  • Believing, Not Knowing: The Sarah Palin Story
    Believing, not knowing. For her fiercest critics and most fervent supporters alike, that is the hallmark of Sarah Palin . And on no issue does Palin's belief trump her knowledge more than energy. After all, the woman John McCain declared "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the U ...
  • Two Strikes for Republican Rebranding Effort
    Two years ago, former Virginia Republican Congressman Tom Davis lamented, "The Republican brand is in the trash can...if we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf." Now 24 months later, Republican leaders have abandoned their second attempt to rebrand their tainted product. Nevertheless, ...
  • The Tax Cheating Crisis in Greece - and the U.S.
    Even as the European Union and the IMF unveiled a $160 billion bailout package to avert a fiscal disaster in Greece , the New York Times documented one culprit behind that nation's fiscal woes: tax cheating . But while the $30 billion Athens loses annually to tax fraud and evasion proportionately f ...

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

  • Key October Surprise Evidence Hidden
    A Russian report on the 1980 October Surprise case was apparently kept from the chief congressional investigator, says Robert Parry. May 6, 2010
  • The Original Anti-War Mother's Day
    The first Mother's Day was not just a time to express sentimentality; it was a protest against the evils of war, recalls Gary G. Kohls. May 6, 2010
  • Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America
    Loose talk on Iraq tricked the U.S into the disastrous war in Iraq; now the same loose lips are flapping about Iran, says Ray McGovern. May 5, 2010
  • BP Flouted US Safety Rules
    Besides the oil spill fouling the Gulf of Mexico, BP has a history of cutting corners on safety regulations, reports Jason Leopold. May 5, 2010
  • The Tea Party's Blind Eye on Torture
    Tea Partiers say they want liberty from Big Government, but didn't object to President Bush's "war on terror" abuses, notes Ivan Eland. May 4, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • A massacre of Arabs masked by a state of national ...
    More than one unwitting visitor to Jerusalem has fallen prey to the bizarre delusion that they are the Messiah. Usually, they are whisked off to the serene surroundings of Kfar Shaul psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of the city, where they are gently nursed back to health. It is an interesting ...
  • Israeli air raids hit southern Gaza (Al Jazeera)
    Israel has carried out two air strikes on positions in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said the attack early on Monday was "in response to the rocket that hit Israeli territory on Saturday night" and vowed to "continue to operate against those who use terror". Monday's attack, in which ...
  • Palestinian leaders agree to indirect talks with I ...
  • On Goldstone's Bar Mitzvah and Finkelstein's book ...
    In his report on Gaza issued late last year, prominent South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. His language also showed awareness of the fact that the former is an occupying power with most sophisticated weapon arsenal (as reflecting in the number of ...
  • PLO approves indirect Israel talks (Al Jazeera)
    Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Fatah movement have given their backing to indirect peace talks with Israel, an official has said. Saturday's decision was announced after a three-hour meeting of PLO and Fatah officials in the West Bank. "The Palestinian leadership has ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • TruthHugger is on indefinite vacation.
    Zzzzzzzz Time is not on my side.  Although I continue to observe and analyze current events and political shenanigans with critical eyes. I am setting aside the venting of opinion and observation to attend to personal priorities. TruthHugger may be resurrected during the next political disaster, but ...
  • 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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Obama administration blocked efforts to stop BP oi ...
    10 May 2010 In 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon ope ...
  • The international significance of the Greek genera ...
    10 May 2010 The Greek general strike and continuing mass protests against the European-IMF austerity package negotiated last week with Prime Minister George Papandreou, of the social-democratic PASOK party, are a sign of coming class struggles in Europe and around the world. There is bitter oppo ...
  • Hey Elton! - Palestine
    08 May, 2010 — Palestinian civil society has called on Elton John to respect their boycott call and cancel his June 17th concert in Tel Aviv. If he does so, he'll be joining Santana and Gil-Scott Heron, who recently cancelled their spring concerts in Israel. This video suggests six reasons...
  • Why Threaten Pakistan, Secretary Clinton? - Pakist ...
    The threats hurled at Pakistan by�US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton come as a surprise. Clinton threatened ‘very serious consequences’ if a terror attempt like the failed Time Square bombing were to succeed and were found to have originated in Pakistan.�Her utterances were entirely uncalled f ...
  • The Economist on Nicaragua - Nicaragua
    Editor's Note: When we read the attack by The Economist on the government of Nicaragua and their democratically-elected president, Daniel Ortega, we called on toni solo*, a 20 year veteran resident journalist on Nicaraguan political affairs to respond and he kindly agreed. - Les Blough, Editor ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Obama picks Kagan �"President Barack Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News' Pete Williams reported late Sunday night. ... Kagan, 50, served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009. Obama nominated her t ...
  • The Other Rejected Incumbent in Utah
    You've heard that Utah's republicans denied a place on the primary ballot to wingnut freakazoid 18-year Senator Bob Bennett yesterday. But did you know that Utah's Democrats denied the party endorsement to incumbent Blue Dog representative Jim Matheson? �And in doing so opened the door for - in Down ...
  • The changing complexion of the suburbs
    When we moved to Kansas City when the oldest kid, now 27, was a freshman in high school, we moved to one of the close-in Johnson County suburbs. We lived in a four bedroom split level that sat on a lot that covered almost a half acre. �It was more work than a newborn baby and it never slept or grew ...
  • When Bad Lies Become Worse Legislation
    It's bad enough when the primary obstacle to good Democratic legislation is the non-stop onslaught of repeated, shameless lies from repugs - death panels, permanent bailouts, skyrocketing electric bills, etc. The real horror is when blatant lies become the foundation for destructive laws. Like Arizo ...
  • Stopping Fundamentalism From Destroying the Milita ...
    From contracting out essential services to greedy, incompetent corporations through shoddy or nonexistent equipment right up to committing torture and killing thousands of troops for a baseless and illegal war, is there anything the repugs and the freakazoids won't do to destroy the U.S. Military? T ...

Care 2

  • Airgun thug used Roma the cat for target practice
    "I knew straight away that it was an airgun pellet. She had surgery to have it removed, but it was only after she had this that we found that she had another pellet inside her. "We arranged for her to be X-rayed and one more pellet was found. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • GOCE Satellite Determines Gravitational Force in t ...
    In a May 7 session at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly in Vienna, researchers presented the first interim results of the ESA mission GOCE, the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Petition-Stricter animal abuse laws and enforment
    Some states are improving but most have lenient law pertaining to animal abuse offenders & their punishment. In this petition, I want to ask more for more laws protecting animals from abuse & asking law enforcement to punish these criminals more harshly. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� ...
  • Petition-Making Animal Experimentation illegal
    Unfortunatly still today, animals are tested on for all types of products such as deoderent, hand soap, laundry detergent, and lipstick. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • FDA Delays BPA Safety Ruling for the Third Time
    A thousand papers showing this estrogenic chemical (BPA), with it's harmful impact.. But the FDA is waiting for more government-funded studies before taking a stance.. Its unclear exactly how long the FDA will postpone its decision. Submitted by Tippers A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

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 ...

Reuters Global

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • LA Times Declines To Endorse Barbara Boxer
    On Friday, the LA Times made a rather shocking announcement in advance of the primary races for Senator and Governor – they are “Choosing not to choose.” They will not endorse anyone from either party for either race stating that “[i]n both parties, the races for governor and Senate have been under ...
  • David Ignatius: CIA’s Senior Apologist Strikes Aga ...
    Editor’s Note: Republished from Truthout.org with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. David Ignatius, The Washington Post’s self-appointed apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has struck again. Last year, Ignatius argued that it was "just pla ...
  • No Quarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie Ab ...
    GUEST: New York Times Bestselling Author DAVID KIRBY
  • Happy Mother’s Day!
    In recognition of this day, one truly worth celebrating every day, I would like to share this beautiful song from Martina McBride with you: And this one from Sheryl Crow: And last, but certainly not least, this tribute to Motherhood: I think that just about says it all. But not quite all. This ...
  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle ...
    Editor’s Note: May 9th program concluded and promo bumped down. You can catch the podcast of the show via BlogTalkRadio or iTunes. Check the right column for instructions on how to listen via iTunes. The challenges on our economic landscape remain daunting. While employment and manufacturing may be ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • What to Do When a Volcano Erupts
    Admire volcanoes from afar and in the event of an eruption, follow these steps. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Monkey Puzzle Tree: Nature's Riddle
    The Monkey-Puzzle Tree has a primitive, unique appearance like nothing you've seen. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Native American Indians: The World's First Environ ...
    The environmental movement grows larger and stronger everyday, yet we need look no further than the Native American Indians to find the original environmentalists. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Benefits of Harvesting and Eating Dandelions
    They grow everywhere or so it seems, you do not have to tend them, water them or feed them; all you need to do is appreciate them and harvest them. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How to Spot a Diamond Scam
    This article offers tips on how to not get scammed when shopping for a diamond. 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

  • Drug Policy Disconnect
    The Obama administration's rhetoric on drug policy has changed dramatically. But has the policy changed to fit the rhetoric?
  • Mexico's State of Impunity
    The killing of two human rights activists in Mexico is only the most recent example of Mexico’s slide into lawlessness. The Mexican government, columnist Laura Carlsen argues, is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
  • Obama and U.S. Military Engagement in Africa
    Upon replacing George W. Bush as US president, hopes were high that Barack Obama would oversee sweeping change in relation to US military policy. But far from seeing a reversal, such policy has in fact intensified, entirely at the expense of more progressive diplomatic and economically-based approac ...
  • Sanctions Debate Heats Up
    The recent and highly unusual public launch of a "conference committee" of both houses of Congress to hash out differences in long-pending legislation to impose unilateral sanctions on Iran marks a new stage in the escalating debate over what to do about Tehran's nuclear programme.
  • Needed: A Coherent U.S. Strategy for India
    US policy towards India can no longer be reduced to narrowly defined regional issues, especially after a decade of sustained growth and the changes wrought by the Bush administration.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • New videos: Mayday Immigrant Rights March, Keith E ...
    Oh hai, thanks for visiting... A lot of things going on and thus little time (if any) for posts. I got some neat events taped around MayDay weekend in Minneapolis, including the Immigrant Rights March around downtown & Loring Park. Also had my video of US Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN5) describing th ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Whom Does the State Represent?
    By Numerian âWhere are Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan when you need them?â So lamented CNBC business commentator Larry Kudlow yesterday in response to riots in Greece over proposed financial cutbacks. Greek protesters, numbering over 10,000, shut down commerce, took over the Acropolis â ...
  • Jonathan Swift – Are you hungry for kids?
      Diana Chapman is a reporter from Los Angeles.  She is a formidable fighter for public education with the heart of an elementary student and the cognition of issues in public education.  She is also a distinguished LA reporter. Diana is doing the scratch and smell test through ‘sherlocking’ (invest ...
  • Testing, one, two, three – Summary of Chavez Educa ...
        Well over 300 students, educators, parents and community members attended the sixth annual Chavez Educational Conference held at Fresno State University. Attendees, presenters, and keynotes came from all over California and as far away as Colorado.  Eleven break out session covered the two days- ...
  • Testing, one, two, three – Summary of Chavez Educa ...
    Summary of Chavez Education Conference 4/30-5/1/2010     Well over 300 students, educators, parents and community members attended the sixth annual Chavez Educational Conference held at Fresno State University. Attendees, presenters, and keynotes came from all over California and as far away as Colo ...
  • Bread and Circus
    The Roman and US Empires: A point of view “There is nothing so frightening as ignorance in action.”  â Goethe The fall of the Roman Empire has been the subject of much debate and comment for many centuries.  Indeed, the founding of our own republic was built on the founderâs of this countryâ ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • U.S. Diseases Linked To Missing Israeli Scientist
    The following article is reprinted with permission from The European Union Times. U.S. Diseases Linked To Missing Israeli Scientist � � E.U. Times May 9, 2010 Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne ...
  • Financial Manipulation and Inside Information: Did ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Financial Manipulation and Inside Information: �Did the Stock Market Drop Or Was It Pushed? � �Danny Schechter Source: � Global Research May 8, 2010 The Wall Street Journal headline on the day after we almost lost the mark ...
  • F. William Engdahl: The "Evil Guys List"? "Free Jo ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The "Evil Guys List"? "Free Journalism" in the Service of U.S. Foreign Policy � �F. William Engdahl Source: � Global Research May 5, 2010 An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters san ...
  • Gordon Duff: Times Square Bomb Hoax, Israeli Intel ...
    Blogmaster note : At first I wasn't going to republish the following commentary but in light of all the media hoopla about the "Pakistani Taliban" supposedly behind the car bomb found in New York City's Times Square it is necessary for my readers to start thinking along the lines of a "set up" - wit ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

After Downing Street.org

  • Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values
    By Norman Solomon If President Obama has his way, Elena Kagan will replace John Paul Stevens -- and the Supreme Court will move rightward. The nomination is very disturbing, especially because it’s part of a pattern. The White House is in the grip of conventional centrist wisdom. Grim resu ...
  • Doing something about the global death of Intellec ...
    By Dr Hakim / Young I’m trained as a medical doctor, so I’m not an expert on intellectual thought, philosophy or political ideologies. To put my views in the right frame, I remember the medical school motto ‘Not pride of knowledge, but humility of wisdom’ and so suggest that the more reliable eye of ...
  • Charlottesville, Va., To Protest Rep. Tom Perriell ...
    Brown Bag Lunch Vigil for Peace -- May 19, 2010 VA's 5th District One of Over 100 to Hold Vigils Against War Funding at Congressional Offices on May 19th WHAT: A mid-day vigil against funding an escalation in Afghanistan, bring your brown-bag lunch WHERE: Tom Perriello’s Congressional Office 313 2n ...
  • Video: Portland, Maine, Opposes Any More War Fundi ...
  • The Dialogue for Peace is going live tonight!
    By Mark Manning Our first video conference is tonight, May 9th 11:00 pm PST ( May 10th 9:00 am Baghdad) between students of University of California, Santa Barbara and Islamic University, Baghdad. The next generation of leaders will take the first steps in building relationships for a more peaceful ...

Grist - News

  • Disaster of a new dimension looms in Gulf of Mexic ...
    by Agence France-Presse Booms on Breton Island, La.Photo: Natural Resources Defense Council NEW ORLEANS, La. - BP officials desperately searched for a new fix to the enormous Gulf of Mexico oil spill after efforts to cap a gushing leak with a containment dome hit a perilous snag. British e ...
  • Dome plunged deep into sea to cap U.S. oil leak
    by Agence France-Presse The dome en route to the oil spill.Photo: U.S. Coast GuardVENICE, Louisiana -- Workers lowered a huge dome over an oil leak gushing from a sunken rig deep in the Gulf of Mexico Friday as energy giant BP raced to contain a slick moving perilously closer to the U.S. coast. ...
  • Key U.S. senator: climate bill progress impossible
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- A key U.S. senator said Friday that action on legislation to fight climate change was "impossible" for now because of fierce new opposition to offshore drilling after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "I believe it would be wise to pause the process and reasse ...
  • With Gulf-spill facts in short supply, spin takes ...
    by Grist You spin me right round ...Photo: Pip Wilson For all the fire-hose coverage of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it’s a story with startlingly few known facts.  We don’t know how much oil has actually spilled out.  We don’t know where or when it will hit land. We don’t know exactly what ...
  • Betting site sets odds on BP containment dome
    by Jonathan Hiskes From our sports department a press release, we learn that at least one online gambling site is taking bets on whether BP's underwater mega-dome will be successful. BP is attempting an unprecedented engineering feat to deal with the Gulf oil spill: a 100-ton, 40-foot-tall, ...

Popular Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Senate Condemns Tyranny in Burma
    In a symbolic gesture, the Senate this afternoon approved a resolution calling for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democacy activist and Nobel Laureate whose been under house arrest at the hands of Burma’s military leaders for most of the last two decades. The resolution a ...
  • Warner, Kaufman Propose Regulating High Frequency ...
    After yesterday’s market boomerang — when the Dow Jones Industrial Average cratered nearly 1,000 points before rebounding, all in a matter of minutes and possibly because of a computer trading system error — Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) say that they want an inquiry into high-f ...
  • A Congressional Shout Out to Hemp History Week
    Yesterday, to honor Hemp History Week (who knew?), Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) used the occasion to promote his proposal to legalize the domestic production of industrial hemp, a genetic but non-psychoactive relative of marijuana. Paul’s sprawling speech touched on more topics surrounding the plant than ...
  • Why Do Budget Hawks Keep Invoking Reagan?
    This morning, Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, senior House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, wondered aloud why Democrats faced with the recent recession didn’t adopt the same policies favored by Ronald Reagan during the economic downturn nearly 30 years ago. “President Reagan pursued pro-growth p ...
  • W.Va. Bishop Challenges Industry, Regulators Over ...
    It seems that the criticism aimed at the coal industry and government safety officials following a deadly West Virginia mining blast last month has far transcended lawmakers and unions. From the altar, Michael J. Bransfield, Catholic Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, also took up the issue recently, ar ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
    It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture ...
  • Teacher breaks 4th graders arm for forgetting Iq ...
    LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
    Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglias Climatic R Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We're expanding, while economy shrinks
    Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
  • Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
    The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...

Suzie-Q

  • Neo Conservatives back “Jewish Americans for ...
    Well, I really did try to notify this web site, but got this message. Anyway, the credits for this beautiful picture of Neo Caribou Barbie are shown. Don’t worry, It’s OK to click this one because it’s only a picture of the link..G: Who Are the Jews Behind Palin in 2012? By Gal Beckerman Published [ ...
  • Time for Gordon Brown to Sing “Over the Rain ...
    While all this has been going on another electoral contest has been taking place, this time not to decide who will be playing the role of Dorothy, but who will govern the country. The three main contenders for the role of Prime Minister are, as one satirical magazine put it, the “devil you know” (Go ...
  • SNL: Betty White Lights Up Ladies Night- 5/8/10 (V ...
    Betty White On SNL: Golden Girl Lights Up Ladies Night (VIDEO) Huffington Post |  Dan Abramson First Posted: 05- 9-10 09:25 AM   |   Updated: 05- 9-10 09:33 AM Congrats, internet! We did it! The Betty White episode in the books and seeing her grace the Studio 8H stage was a delight. And joining her ...
  • Jon Stewart : Mocks Rekers’s Rentboy Romp, B ...
    Stewart Takes On EVERYTHING: Mocks Rekers’s Rentboy Romp, BP, Greece, And More (VIDEO) Huff Post- First Posted: 05- 7-10 08:16 AM   |   Updated: 05- 7-10 08:44 AM While it was tempting to just discuss the fact that Roland Martin inexplicably wore an ascot on national television, Jon Stewart ha ...
  • Another battle of Okinawa
    Despite protests, the U.S. insists on going ahead with plans for a new military base on the island. By Chalmers Johnson, Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2010 The United States is on the verge of permanently damaging its alliance with Japan in a dispute over a military base in Okinawa. This island prefectu ...

Solari

  • NY Post says Feds Probing JPMorgan in Silver Marke ...
    By Michael Gray Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, The Post has learned. The probes are centering on whether or not JPMorgan, a top derivatives holder in precious metals, acted improperly to depre ...
  • Lying to Cut Retirement Benefits
    Continue reading U.S. Retirement Benefits To Be Cut? Did you notice they did not suggest finding out where the $4 trillion went that is missing from the US government and getting it back? What about the $12 trillion of bailouts? Related reading: The Missing Money
  • Nashville Tennessee Flood 2010
    Nashville Tennessee Flood 2010 YouTube (3 May 10)
  • Money & Markets - Week of 5.9.10
    EU to Set Up Fund to Prevent Spread of Greek Crisis Bloomberg.com (10 May 10) European Central Bank to Intervene in Markets, Lux Finance Minister Says GATA (10 May 10) European Central Bank to Buy Government And Private Bonds GATA (10 May 10) Fed Reopens Dollar Credit Lines to Europe GATA (9 May 1 ...
  • Geopolitical - Week of 5.9.10

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • 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��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Spill will spell trouble long after it's fixed
    The massive oil spill currently being battled in the Gulf of Mexico will impact tens of thousands of marine animals and wildlife. The accident occurred in an area that is already environmentally fragile and at a time when many species are taking care of their young. But even after the leak is repai ...
  • Green Party makes electoral history
    Brighton Pavilion voted for Green Party leader Caroline Lucas to become its MP, the party's first ever representative in the House of Commons. The Greens ran a targeted campaign in the constituency and managed to take the seat from Labour. Ms Lucas, speaking after the result was announced, said: "To ...
  • Bone marrow MS trial 'encouraging'
    A study into a new type of treatment for multiple sclerosis where patients are treated with bone marrow stem cells has proven "encouraging", according to scientists. Volunteers for the treatment were given a general anaesthetic during which bone marrow was harvested. The marrow was then injected int ...
  • Phoenix hope for disbanded football club
    Chester City Football Club has been given fresh hope of rising anew from liquidation after councillors leased its former ground to supporters. The fate of the stadium was in the hands of Cheshire West and Chester Council, which had to choose between fans and a business proposal from Danish consortiu ...
  • Course promotes activism in fashion
    An innovative new online course has opened this week to enable people to explore the link between fashion and Fairtrade and act upon their findings. The course is run by People and Planet, the UK’s largest student campaigning network, and culminates with students creating their own video to help a c ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Never waste a crisis. That just makes the next on ...
    In America today the truth is often easily seen.  Statements of the obvious or about the inevitable attract the loudest criticism.  So it was at the start of the financial crisis, when  Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, told a  conference of top corporate chief executives in November 2008. ...
  • FM newswire for May 9, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “The Iraq War Ledger – A Tabulation of the Human, Financial, and Strategic Costs“, Center for American Progress, 6 May 2010 — But it was worth it for Iran. Brilliant; I recommend readi ...
  • The Decline of the State in Europe and the US, a b ...
    Events in Europe and the US play out as an almost mathematical proof of Martin van Creveld’s forecast that the 21st century would see the decline of the nation-state.  In Europe’s it’s  plain to see, if invisible to its elites.  Ditto in the US.  Here’s one example of the State’s decline, an exc ...
  • FM newswire for May 8, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. This is a tale about the horrors of medical care in Mexico (next to us, but with a very different system), Fred Reed, 18 April 2010 Big expenditures on fun things:  “A Tale of Carrier ...
  • The evolution of the Republican Party has shaped A ...
    The evolution of the Republican Party has been one of the great forces shaping American politics since the 1960′s — an amazing transformation from pro-civil rights, isolationism, and fiscal prudence to advocacy of racism, foreign wars, and massive deficits.  Goldwater’s decision to vote against th ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Common Mosquito Repellent No Longer Repels Certain ...
    ScienceDaily— Mosquitoes can develop a resistance to substances used to repel them. This has been shown for the first time in laboratory tests at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and associates in the UK. It is the yellow fever mosquito that has developed a resistance to the mos ...
  • Taser, Cops Sued for Death by Shock
    Courthouse News – Police Tasered a naked man for 52 seconds, until he died, the man’s family claims in Federal Court. In July 2008, Samuel De Boise, 29, came out of his house naked, calling himself God, obviously deluded, according to the complaint. Read Article
  • Tsunami alerts ‘confuse public’, says Noaa scienti ...
    BBC – Tsunami warnings need to convey information that is more meaningful to the public, a top US researcher says. Traditional alerts that have focussed on “wave amplitudes” are confusing to most people, says Dr Vasily Titov. “We’re scientists and we’re really proud of our models and our accuracy b ...
  • No end in sight to spill as BP costs mount
    Reuters – BP Plc said on Monday it had incurred $350 million in costs so far from the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as fears mounted of a prolonged and growing environmental and economic disaster. BP was considering its next move to contain the spill after its most promising short-term remedy ...
  • 20 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan
    Press TV – At least twenty people have been killed in the latest US missile strike in tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan, local security officials confirm. According to two Pakistani intelligence officials on Sunday, a US drone fired two missiles that hit the house of local tribesman Awal Gul i ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Isang paalala ng mga matatanda sa usa
    Isang paalala ng mga matatanda sa usa (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com) Nakakatawang isipin na hanggang sa ngayon ay may ilang peke na tinatawag ang kanilang mga sarili bilang Maoista habang abot langit nilang sinusuportahan ang nadis-armahang repormismong pinangungunahan ng rebisyunistang taksil na si P ...
  • On the upcoming elections in the Philippines
    On the upcoming elections in the Philippines (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com) There are only a few days left before the presidential elections starts. The people are, once again, going to choose who will be their next oppressor. Like in the past, today’s elections bamboozle the people. People are being ...
  • Arizona SB1070, the Continuing War Against the Mex ...
    Arizona SB1070, the Continuing War Against the Mexicano People (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Recently the Arizona state legislature passed, and Governor Jan Brewer signed into law, SB1070, as of now the most draconian law passed directed at undocumented immigrants. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 mak ...
  • Sa napipintong eleksyon sa Pilipinas
    Sa napipintong eleksyon sa Pilipinas (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com) Ilang araw na lang ang nabibilang bago magsimula ang eleksyong presidensyal. Ang taumbayan, na naman, ay mamimili kung sino ang kanilang susunod na mang-aapi. Tulad ng dati, panloloko sa mamamayan ang eleksyon ngayon. Binibigyan ng mg ...
  • Arizona SB1070, the Continuing War Against the Mex ...
    Arizona SB1070, the Continuing War Against the Mexicano People (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Recently the Arizona state legislature passed, and Governor Jan Brewer signed into law, SB1070, as of now the most draconian law passed directed at undocumented immigrants. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 mak ...

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

  • Toyota Introducing $50k Fuel Cell Car in 2015
    Last year, Toyota re-committed to producing a hydrogen fuel cell car by 2015 and it looks like they're keeping their promise, and making it cheaper.  The automaker says it has slashed the cost of producing a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle by 90 percent, allowing them to introduce a fuel cell sedan in 2 ...
  • Another Hurdle Cleared for Cape Wind
    Last week, the Cape Wind offshore wind farm was approved by the federal government , but there were still some unknowns left to deal with, a major one being who would buy the power the wind farm generated.  Today, that part has at least partially been decided, with Massachusetts utility National Gr ...
  • Printed Paper Solar Cells
    Solar panel materials are getting thinner and thinner. Now, MIT researchers have announced a method for printing solar cell material on paper . The efficiency of this method is far lower than other kinds of solar cells. The paper solar cells have an efficiency of around 1.5-2%, while commercial ...
  • Japan Turns to Adult Diapers for Fuel
    Japan's population is getting older.  Their birth rate has declined, and with that, a drop in production of baby diapers.  But conversely, the production of adult diapers has risen seven percent in just two years, hitting 5 billion units last year.  Leave it to Japan to turn an increase in adult di ...
  • NASA's Robot Diver is Fueled by Ocean Temps
    NASA's newest robot can dive and swim for indefinite periods of time because it's powered by an unlimited resource:  the ocean's temperatures.  The robotic buoy utilizes thermal energy each time it moves from cold deep waters to warm surface waters. The SOLO-TREC diver has been taking 500-meter di ...

Buzzflash

  • Right and Left: Mutual Visions of Amoral Supermen
    Body Even though the mind-melding, word-spinning Frank Luntz has been quoted by GOP insiders as saying that a House Republican majority in 2011 is "a done deal," Karl Rove and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, who remembers what an effective RNC looked like, are taking no chances. The ...
  • Citizens United and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Team ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Today the House Administration Committee heard testimony on the Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections, or DISCLOSE Act (HR. 5175) .As the legislation was written in response to the changes made to campaign finance as a result of ...
  • Anatomy of an Oil Disaster: Heckuva Job, Kenny!
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH � ����������� Who is responsible for the great environmental disaster arising from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?� As the country reels from the sheer magnitude of the accident, the media has rightly pointed the finger at BP. �Yet, not nearly enough attention ha ...
  • BP Stands for Brainless Pinheads: Maybe this will ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH They’ve tried fire and robots and domes and booms and drones and boxes and rosary beads and even panty hose stuffed with human hair but so far nothing has slowed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from creeping towards our Southern Coast like a drunken lobbyist staggering to ...
  • If You Knew Bernie Like I Knew Bernie: Bush Tried ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s close friend and business partner, the now-disgraced Bernard Kerik, is about two weeks shy of entering prison after being convicted and sentenced to four years for committing several felonies. These days he’s spending ti ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The latest on Elena Kagan
    I've laid out my case against Elena Kagan as thoroughly as I�could, but with several anonymous (i.e., unreliable)� reports percolating that she's the likely choice and could be announced as early as Monday, it's worthwhile to note several recent items from others pertaining to her selection: (1) ...
  • Bloggingheads with David Frum & other matters
    A couple of days ago, I had a BloggingheadsTV discussion with�David�Frum, posted below, regarding Elena Kagan and Harriet Miers; the extent to which "epistemic closure"�exists among progressives as well as conservatives; Obama's embrace of Bush's Terrorism policies; and the�Times Square incident and ...
  • Blog news
    I'm taking the next week off and will return here on Monday, May 10.� Sadly, I'm not taking a traveling/disappearing vacation, but mostly a working one:��to finish a long magazine article I've been working on for too long and also, hopefully, to finish my slightly overdue book.� As a result, if some ...
  • Obama's criticisms of the Warren and Burger courts
    (updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV) Yesterday I wrote about what seemed to be President Obama's fairly stunning disparagement of the Warren and Burger Courts (expressed on the eve of naming Justice Stevens' replacement), as he echoed the classic, decades-old, right-wing ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Bookmarks for May 4th from 07:56 to 15:23
    These are my links for May 4th from 07:56 to 15:23: Interview with Michael Mueller aka @eurogene aka @nutrigenomics – The pros and cons of being a scientist WolframTones ringtones with a scientific twist – Create your own mobile phone ringtones using Wolfram's audio perspective on the computationa ...
  • April Alchemist Arrives
    The Alchemist travels back billions of years to the dawn of life this week to learn how aspartic acid may be the crystal Eve, the mother of all chirality while heading back to the future also discovers how biology and nanotechnology might be fused to produce new metamaterials for a range of medical ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Settlement Will Secure Habitat for Black Abalone E ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity A court-ordered settlement filed yesterday requires the federal government to protect habitat for the endangered black abalone. The agreement results from a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity challenging the Natio ...
  • State Assembly Passes Bill Eliminating Barriers to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Equality California (EQCA) Today the California State Assembly passed the Separation Equity Act (AB 2700) in a 44-21 vote. The bill, introduced by Assemblymember Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) and co-sponsored by Equality California and the Conference of California Bar ...
  • President’s Cancer Panel Warns Public About Chemic ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Environmental Working Group (EWG) In a landmark report issued today , the President's Cancer Panel asserts that public health officials have "grossly underestimated" the likelihood that environmental contaminants trigger a large proportion of the cancers diagnosed ...
  • Public Citizen to Congress: Legislation to Restrai ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Public Citizen Before the 2010 elections, Congress should approve legislation designed to restrain corporate election spending and close the loopholes of current campaign finance laws, Public Citizen told the Committee on House Appropriations today. read more
  • * BP and D.C. * 'Worst Industrial Disaster'
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) ANTONIA JUHASZ Juhasz recently wrote a piece for the UK Guardian titled " BP spends millions lobbying as it drills ever deeper and the environment pays ." read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Net Neutrality's Weird Week
    by Timothy Karr On Thursday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski blinked. He balked. He backed away from phone and cable companies and moved toward broadband policies that will preserve the open Internet and promote universal access. For a moment, the chairman had a lot of people worried. A Washington ...
  • Obama Administration Demands Amnesia From Reporter ...
    by Dan Froomkin Jack Newfield, the legendary investigative reporter, once wrote that if government officials had their way, journalists would be "stenographers with amnesia." The "amnesia" part, at least, was generally considered a bit of an exaggeration. But now, the Pentagon has banned four re ...
  • Evolution Revisited
    by Christopher Brauchli Darwinian man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved. — William Gilbert, Princess Ida read more
  • The US Must Not Resume Training Indonesia’s Killer ...
    by Kristin Sundell There is something unnerving about hearing orders for your execution. Even more unnerving is the news that amid reports of continuing killings and abuses, President Barack Obama wants to resume US training for the Indonesian military unit that threatened my life and enjoys impunit ...
  • Kent State and the Frisbee Revolution
    by Michael Winship I was a freshman at Georgetown University when it happened, 40 years ago on May 4. Most of us didn't know what had taken place until late in the day. We were in class or studying for finals, so hours went by until my friends and I heard the news. On that warm spring Monday, the Oh ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Greece's financial pain could ripple across USA
    ATHENS A hard life is about to get harder for Manolis Fylaktidis. Greece's cash-strapped government is cutting the schoolteacher's $27,300 salary by about $5,300 as part of a dramatic austerity move the prime minister says is needed to pay the country's ballooning debt.
  • Political Notebook
    - Henry Ross campaign for U.S. Congress plans a 750-mile, 30-city Main Street Mississippi Tour from Tuesday through Friday.
  • Kuwait seeks to boost oil output to 4m bpd by 2020
    Kuwait seeks to boost oil output to 4m bpd by 2020
  • Private Conversation
    During the last decade, private investment in everything from phone lines to highways has seen a resurgence in developing countries, but the Middle East and North Africa have largely been left out of the boom.
  • Greece's financial pain could ripple across USA
    The financial pain in Greek households will ripple onto American shores. Already, it's more expensive for U.S. corporations to raise money.

Guardian

  • LIVE: 'Progress made' as coalition talks break
    • Tories and Lib Dems hint they are close to a deal • FTSE 100 rises in early trading • Major tells Tories to remember they didn't win election • Read a summary of events so far 1.29pm: Gordon Brown met Nick Clegg again today in person, the BBC is reporting .1.26pm: Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tor ...
  • BA price-fixing trial collapses
    The trial of four senior British Airways executives over price-fixing allegations with Virgin Atlantic collapsed after the OFT's prosecuting team failed to disclose key documents Serious and significant failings by the Office of Fair Trading led to the collapse of the trial of senior British Airways ...
  • Mugabe opponent Roy Bennett freed
    MDC member speaks of relief after being found not guilty of terrorism charges that could have resulted in death penalty Roy Bennett, a leading opponent of Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, has been acquitted of terrorism charges that could have resulted in the death penalty. The high court in Har ...
  • LIVE: Sats boycott by schools
    Thousands of pupils at primary schools across England will get out of taking their Sats today as their headteachers stage a boycott of the national tests. But will the protest be as big as the unions have predicted? Tell us what's going on in your area as we follow the action live. 12.49pm: There ar ...
  • Interest rates held at 0.5%
    The Bank of England is expected to comment on the outlook for the UK at its quarterly inflation report and news conference on Wednesday The Bank of England left interest rates at a record low today as markets rallied and politicians breathed a sigh of relief following the €720bn (£628bn) eurozone ba ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Deep reflections on the ozone story
    There'll be a party in the chemistry labs at Cambridge University this Friday. But no-one will turn up with hugely coiffured hair, the champagne will be served warm, and if a fire should break out, there'll be nothing to use on it but old-fashioned water, CO2 and sand. Well... that's how life migh ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Has Liz Cheney Been Reading The News This Week?
    Raising the question of whether she’s actually been paying attention to the news this week, this morning on Fox News Liz Cheney attacked the Obama administration’s handling of attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad as “insufficient,” insisting that the administration’s “first instinct is to in ...
  • Breaking: BP Effort To Use Dome To Contain Oil Dis ...
    The Wonk Room has completed its live blogging from the Gulf Coast. Efforts to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil gusher with a 100-ton, four-story concrete-and-steel box have failed, BP officials announced. The giant box, known as a cofferdam, was lowered onto the leaking wellhead yesterday, with the ...
  • Greece And The Failure Of Conservative Economics A ...
    For a few hours on Thursday, it looked like it was September 2008 all over again, as the global financial system appeared to be on the brink of having a meltdown. This time, the crisis wasn’t over banks, but over countries — specifically over fears that Greece wonât be able to pay back its mountin ...
  • Why Marco Rubio Shouldn’t Have Flip-Flopped ...
    This past Thursday, in what’s become a pretty typical move for Florida senatorial candidate Marco Rubio (R), he flip-flopped on his opposition to Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB-1070. While as little as a week ago, Rubio was concerned the law would “unreasonably single out people who ar ...
  • Trust But Verify: WellPoint Announces It Will Cond ...
    Responding to Kathleen Sebelius’ call on states to review proposed premium increases, WellPoint has announced that it “will conduct a third-party review of all its individual market 2010 rate filings.” The move comes just days after independent analysts in California discovered that WellPoint âove ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Non-Political Video Post
    Sam and Dave: "Hold On, I'm Coming"
  • Song Stuck In My Head
    My partner had to critique the movie "Jarhead" for an English class, and as a result of hearing it over and over, I've got this song stuck in my head, so I'll share it with you ... ... and what the hell, why not ...
  • General Natynczyk Clears His Organization
    Please, please General Natynczyk ! I already said not to bother investigating yourselves! (Sigh!) Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the chief of defence staff, said Friday that the Canadian Forces have reviewed the interpreter's testimony to a parliamentary committee and are convinced that their soldiers ac ...
  • "Investors," High Frequency Trading, and Market Me ...
    Okay. Even assuming that all of Greece's economic troubles were caused by a bloated, inefficient public sector and counter-productive social programs, I'd still get a real kick out of all these nameless "investors" who want to make sure that the Greeks endure a really, really punishing austerity pr ...
  • Still Alive ...
    Here's a video: I'll be typing more in about a week.

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Feed has moved
    This feed has moved to .
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Gates Aims to Cut Overhead Expenses ...
    Gates: Cuts in Pentagon bureaucracy needed to help maintain military force by Greg Jaffe [Washington Post] Sex & Drugs & the Spill by Paul Krugman [New York Times] Silencing the Whistleblowers by Michael Hudson [The Big Money] Ignoring the Elephant...
  • Legislative Odds and Ends
    -- Bryan Rahija
  • The Amount of Royalties Taxpayers Have Lost in the ...
    Although the math for this is incredibly complicated, depending on transportation cost deductions and other possible deductions, we thought we would try to calculate a very approximate idea of what this spill could be costing taxpayers in royalties. Assuming the...
  • Morning Smoke: Government Agency Gradually Shifted ...
    Oil Regulator Ceded Oversight to Drillers by Russell Gold and Stephen Power [Wall Street Journal] How ‘Hard to Fathom’ Derivatives Rule Emerged in U.S. Senate by Phil Mattingly and Robert Schmidt [Bloomberg] Former Oil Rig Worker Says Cheating on Blowout...
  • What Does Obey's Retirement Mean for the F-22?
    I'm sure you haven't heard, but the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey (D-WI), is retiring. It's hardly being reported and no one's freaking out about it. My good government listservs are quivering at the intentions of the...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Learning to Become a Right Hand Man
    One of my most priceless moments running a homeless shelter came when two residents who really didn't get along literally became each others' left and right hands. The woman was born with just one hand on one arm, only a stub on the other. That week, the guy cut one of his hands on a broken glass wh ...
  • Turning the Homeless Into Consumers
    Just so we're all on the same page, let's start with a definition : Main Entry: con·sum·er Pronunciation: \kən-ˈsü-mər\ Function: noun Usage: often attributive Date: 15th century : one that consumes: as a : one that utilizes economic goods b : an organism requiring complex organic compounds for fo ...
  • Urge California to Call Attacks on the Homeless Wh ...
    California is leading the nation in civil rights legislation once again. This week the state Assembly voted to add the homeless to the list of groups under hate crime protections. Already Maryland and Maine, as well as Washington, D.C., have declared violence against the homeless to be hate crimes. ...
  • There's No Such Thing As "Homeless"
    " The human race has evolved, Spike." "Into a bunch of namby-pamby self-analyzing wankers .... " —from the TV show Angel I'm a Metis. For those of you out there who don't know what that is, it's French and North American Aboriginal. The correct term for my lineage is Wissikodiwinnme but that's a bit ...
  • Help Protect Victims of Domestic Violence from Unf ...
    If you think being the victim of intimate-partner or family violence is a raw deal, how about being forced into homelessness because of it? Imagine being battered by your partner, and then getting evicted because you were perceived as a nuisance by your neighbors — your wails, a cacophony. You will ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian lawyers, academics call for nuclear disar ...
    Two recent statements organized by the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Legal Experts and Lawyers Call for Abolition We… call on the Government of Canada: 1) to find early and prominent opportunities to publicly reaffirm Canadaâs commitment to a world without nuclear weapons; 2) to ...
  • TVO’s The Agenda - After Afghanistan: Peacekeeper ...
    TVO's The Agenda - After Afghanistan: Peacekeepers or War makers? Recorded Thursday, April 29 2010. Canada's military role After Afghanistan. Live from the Munk School of Global Affairs.
  • Where have all the Blue Berets gone?
    A recent discussion on the future role of Canada’s military forces demonstrated once again that some of Canada’s most well known defence and foreign policy experts don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to UN peacekeeping. Four years ago, David Bercuson, Director of the DND-funded Cent ...
  • Cannon fires a dud at NPT RevCon
    “Canada has managed the extraordinary feat of presenting its opening statement to the NPT Review Conference without any substantive reference to ‘disarmament’ â one of the three foundational pillars of the Treaty,” reports arms control expert Ernie Regehr (”Canadaâs opening statement at NPT: pro ...
  • Five thousand one hundred and thirteen
    For the first time, the United States has formally disclosed the current size of its nuclear stockpile–5113 weapons as of 30 September 2009 (Anne Gearan, “U.S. comes clean on size of nuclear stockpile: 5,113,” Associated Press, 3 May 2010). U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed the numbe ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • More Groups Forming as Dissatisfaction with Washin ...
    Click here for the full report.
  • U.S. Food Prices ‘Spiraling Out of Control’
    May 7, 2010 The Trumpet U.S. food prices jumped by 2.4% in March 2010 in the largest monthly leap in more than 26 years, and the sixth consecutive monthly increase. The National Inflation Association (NIA) issued an alert to its members April 22 warning that the sharp upswing in U.S. food inflation ...
  • Hyper-Inflationary Great Depression Is Coming
    May 7, 2010 International Business Times The Gold Report: John, last December you stated, “The U.S. economic and systemic crisis of the past of the past two years are just precursors to a great collapse,” or what you call a “hyper-inflationary great depression.” Is this prediction unique to the U.S. ...
  • UK Budget Deficit To Surpass Greece’s
    May 7, 2010 Guardian By Katie Allen Whoever wins the election must make sorting out the public finances the top priority, the European commission warned on the eve of the poll, as it predicted the British budget deficit would swell this year to become the biggest in the European Union, overtaking ev ...
  • Stocks Dive Worldwide on European Debt Concern
    May 7, 2010 Bloomberg By Michael P. Regan and Rita Nazareth May 7 (Bloomberg) — Global stocks tumbled, while Treasuries rallied after Europeâs debt crisis spurred a market rout yesterday that undermined confidence in financial trading mechanisms. Oil slid 1.5 percent to lead commodities lower. The ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • To See If I Am Smiling
    In the documentary, To See If I Am Smiling (released in 2007), six young Israeli women recount their experiences of military service in the occupied Palestinian territories. The title comes from a story told by Meytal, a medic and medical officer. Having described how cleaning the corpses of Palest ...
  • IAEA set to focus on Israel
    The Associated Press reports: Israel’s secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press. ...
  • Israel still might not dodge a human rights threat ...
    “Sighs of relief will have been heard in Israel’s London embassy on Friday morning as it emerged that Britain’s Liberal Democrat party had failed to capitalize on a surge in pre-election opinion polls,” Haaretz reported. Cleggmania might have proven to be short-lived — or at least not translated we ...
  • Lieberman’s TEA party and dual loyalty
    Joe Lieberman’s Terrorist Expatriation Act is designed to strip the constitutional rights from any American who is accused of supporting terrorism, but the political sentiment he’s tapping into is simply, America first. Does Lieberman have no concern about where this might go? How about this New Yo ...
  • An arrest warrant needs a name on it; a death warr ...
    In the narrative that sketches the legality of the war on terrorism, the tribal nature of the “battlefield” is the pretext used to justify killing people instead of attempting to arrest them. Counterterrorism experts scoff at the notion that FBI agents (or Pakistani law enforcement officials for tha ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Lessons from the Gulf blowout
    Learning (the right lessons, hopefully) from the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Also, a transcript of an radio call in of an eyewitness account (provided by geologist Jimmy Haigh) follows this article. Guest post by Paul Driessen Transoceanâs semi-submersible drilling vessel … Continue reading →
  • WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #4
    By Steve Goddard The Catlin Expedition is Now only 45 miles away from the North Pole. They have traveled 265 miles (as the crow flies) since March 3, for an average of about four miles per day.  They only have … Continue reading →
  • Add your own ‘Radar Channel’ to your T ...
    I’ve mentioned in the past that my weather technology business has been hit hard by the current economy and that from time to time I would be using WUWT to announce new products or product reviews that might interest readers. … Continue reading →
  • Venus Envy
    By Steve Goddard ESA’s Venus Express mission has been studying the planet and a basic atmospheric model is emerging. Venus has long been the CO2 bogeyman of climate science.  In my last piece about Venus I laid out arguments against … Continue reading →
  • Climate Actually Changes! Film at 11:00!
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Last month (April 2010), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put out a study called “Climate Change Indicators in the United States” (13 Mb PDF). I read through it … depressingly bad science. To start … Continue reading  →

Dandelion Salad

  • After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck with Nietzsche ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig May 10, 2010 It is hard to muster much sympathy over the implosion of the Catholic Church, traditional Protestant denominations or Jewish synagogues. These institutions were passive as the Christian right, which peddles magical thinking and a ...
  • Emperor Hickel: The Man Who Invented Alaska &#8230 ...
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 10 May, 2010 Wally Hickel invented Alaska and told me he regretted it. He also invented Sarah Palin, and I was hoping, when I travel to Alaska next month, to ask him whether he also regretted that second creation. Hickel wanted to be ...
  • NATO: Global Military Bloc Finalizes 21st Century ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism May 8, 2010 In Brussels in the first week of May NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen delivered his urbi et orbi (to the city and the world) monthly address, the bloc’s Military Committee assem ...
  • Mother’s Day Manifesto 2010 by Eileen Flemin ...
    by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 6, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad The genesis of Mother’s Day in the U.S.A. began when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community and fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a ...
  • Here Come Those Chickens Again by Cindy Sheehan
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox May 6, 2010 “Chickens Coming Home to Roost:” Proverb: When one has to face the consequences of mistakes or bad deeds. As soon as I heard that Pakistani-American, Faisal Shahzad, was arrested for the ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    "Rupert Murdoch Is Poison" Sky News airs some uncensored comments from members of the public : Sky News was doing this interview in a public space, in a democracy. For now at least, shouting your opinions in public is not against the law. So if you get the opportunity to do so, feel free to ...
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    Riot Dog If you've been watching footage of the Greece Riots, and you keep seeing that a dog darting amongst protesters and squaring up to the police and you've been thinking, 'Weird, that dog looks so familiar', you're right. He is familiar. Because he's been out front of numerous protests and ma ...
  • No title
    Glenn Beck's Star Fading Fast As Advertisers Bail Don't let anybody ever tell you that boycotting corporations that you disagree with, for their actions or for their decisions on who they support their advertising dollars, don't work. They work. Rupert Murdoch now has to deny to the media that he ...
  • No title
    The War On Nipples, Or The 2010 British Elections By Darryl Mason Brits have gone to the polls today to elect a new government. As you may already be aware, the rise of the Liberal Democrats party to almost equal pegging with prime minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party shows just what sort of chaos ...

Wired - Science

  • Photo: Icelandic Volcano Begins Erupting Again
    Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano began erupting again earlier this week. This image, captured May 6 by the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite, clearly shows the grayish brown ash of the plume blowing east. The eruption is the latest in a string that began March 20 and that grounded flights ...
  • Finding the Right Asteroid for Astronauts to Land ...
    The Little Prince, who stood tall on his fictional house-sized asteroid B612, may soon have company. Since President Obama announced last month that NASA plans to send people to an asteroid by 2025 (SN: 5/8/10, p. 10), scientists have been scrambling to fill in the details. Before astronauts can em ...
  • Better Oil Dispersant Tests Delayed in Gulf
    A promising alternative to the highly toxic oil dispersant being used in the Gulf is finally being tested, but slowly. Dispersit was approved 10 years ago by the Environmental Protection Agency for emergency cleanup use. In lab comparisons, it’s twice as good at breaking down South Louisiana crude ...
  • New Global Map of Every Country’s Tallest Building
    You can now see the tallest building in every country of the world on one big map, thanks to an obsessive documentarian of engineering accomplishments. The anonymous cartographer described the new map on the website,
  • Photo: Looking Back at the Space Station From Eart ...
    The newly installed cupola on the International Space Station provides the astronauts with a window onto the Earth below them. Now, Ralf Vandebergh has captured an image of that space station component from his backyard telescope. The new viewing station was launched in February on space shuttle mi ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Poll: Obama to blame for US-Israel crisis
    War and Peace Index survey shows 48% of Israelis believe US president managing relations with Israel poorly or very poorly, but clear majority defines ties between the two countries as very good or... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy: Israel’s security measures? Don’t ma ...
    Who says Jewish humor has disappeared from Israel? Who says that even the state's shadowiest organizations don't enjoy occasional moments of levity, in between carrying out assassinations and foiling... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • The IOA’s First FUNDRAISER…
    DearIOA readers, We need your support, and we need it now. Your support will enable us to continue, expand, and improve coverage of the Occupation. Please help the IOA by clicking on the Donate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Hopes and Prospects – Chomsky-signed ...
    Noam Chomsky's support of the IOA knows no bounds... In addition to being an active member of the IOA Advisory Board, Noam agreed to sign copies of his new book Hopes and Prospects which we are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • General ‘tried to cover up truth about death of Ra ...
    Seven years after the American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, evidence has emerged which appears to implicate Israel's Gaza commander at the time, in an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Smarter Use of Existing Treatment Helps Dramatical ...
    A multicenter trial led by investigators from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital achieved 71 percent survival after three years--20 percent better than previously reported U.S. rates.
  • Thyroid Disease Research Leading to "Personalized ...
    At the ATA's Spring Meeting, thyroidologists will present new research to both confront the rise in thyroid diseases and create new and better ways to treat thyroid diseases in an era of "personalized medicine."
  • "Personalized Medicine" Theme of ATA's 2010 Spring ...
    New approaches to thyroid diseases are necessary to confront rising thyroid disease rates. Internationally recognized thyroid disease experts will meet to discuss "Thyroid Disorders in the Era of Personalized Medicine."
  • New Survey Finds Parents Need Help Encouraging The ...
    Nearly all science teachers wish their students' parents had more opportunities to engage in science with their children, and many parents admit they need help.
  • U.S. Sen. Schumer & Others Address Clarkson U. Gra ...
    U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer; Martin J. Fisher, the co-founder and CEO of KickStart International; Carl B. Mack, the executive director of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE); and J. Craig Venter, founder, chairman, and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, and founder and CEO of ...

Intel Trends

  • NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
    * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
    The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
  • Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
  • IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
    Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
    The President's Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies. Click here to read this article
  • Disturbing Questions Remain about GM Flax Contamin ...
    Last September, the Flax Council of Canada (FCC) announced that an unapproved variety of genetically modified flax was detected in food products in Europe. The GM flax variety was identified as FP967 or "Triffid," which had been developed in Canada, but was never commercialized and has been illegal ...
  • Canada Bans Nanotechnology in Organics
    Canada has banned nanotechnology in organic food production. An amendment was added to Canada's national organic rules banning nanotechnology as a "Prohibited Substance or Method." The section lists substances or techniques that are prohibited in organic food production, including genetic engineerin ...
  • Corporations Move in on Your Garden
    The seed geniuses, many housed at a university in your state, are hybridizing heirloom-like plants and, you guessed it, patenting the seeds. They have, in their minds, “improved” the plants. In the minds of the rest of us, we should recognize that they have patented and captured the plants that once ...
  • Experts Debunk Calls to Allow GMOs in Organics
    Supporters of biotechnology have proposed integrating genetically modified organisms into organic agriculture. But several noted experts in organic agriculture dismiss the idea, saying the two approaches are fundamentally at odds. They say that genetically modified foods raise health and environment ...

fotoFrontera

  • 6 porta retratos nuevos para el Día de las Madres
    Justamente ayer, compartí con ustedes un hermoso porta retratos para su mami decorado con rosas rojas. Al ver la enorme aceptación que tuvo, hoy traigo para ustedes 6 nuevos porta retratos decorados con hermosas flores de colores. Las imágenes son .PNG y una de ellas es .PSD. Las podrás editar... ...
  • 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.. ...
  • Imágenes de colores o sicodélicas (31 elementos)
    En este paquete, usted encontrará 31 imágenes sicodélicas o simplemente imágenes que tienen como característica principal, una sobredosis de colores. La cratividad se hace presente a través de esta hermosa colección que hoy tenemos para todos ustedes. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para... ...
  • Coloca la foto de tu mami en este porta retratos d ...
    Estamos en la recta final para celebrar en México, Guatemala y el Salvador a nuestras madrecitas. Por eso mismo, hoy tengo para ti un hermoso portaretratos para que coloques la foto de tu mami. Luego, la puedes imprimir o mandársela por correo si está lejos de ti. Es un archivo PSD que podrás... ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Lieberman “Terrorist Expatriation Act”- Constituti ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Joe Lieberman has just rolled out a bill (text here) which would strip individuals associated with foreign terrorist groups of their US citizenship. He’s been playing this as if it were a minor statutory fix.  It’s true, as he’s been stressing, that current law term ...
  • Can the ICC Prosecutor Investigate Gaza? ICC Pros ...
    by Julian Ku Last year, the Palestinian National Authority filed a declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.  This declaration is controversial, to say the least, because it could potentially give the ICC jurisdiction over Israeli military forces operating in Gaza ...
  • DeGirolami on Banning the Burqa
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen My colleague Marc DeGirolami has a guest post over at PrawfsBlawg reacting to an op-ed in today’s New York Times by Jean-François Copé, the the majority leader of the French National Assembly, in which Copé defends banning the burqa and the niqab. While Marc se ...
  • Here Comes Associate Justice Elena Kagan; Sorry, J ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It’s a done deal:  President Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow.  Kagan will be the first nominee for the Court since the 1970s who has no judicial experience, although I doubt this will be a problem for her (it ma ...
  • Trivia Question of the Day (Updated)
    by Kevin Jon Heller What's the only modern international or internationalized criminal tribunal that either has or had universal jurisdiction? Update: That didn't take long.  Reader "Mark" answered correctly.  The answer is after the jump.

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Online petition to scrap Emissions Trading Schemes
    Send a signal to the NZ government, and in fact governments everywhere... "SUSPEND THE EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME" PETITION On July 1st National intends to inflict on New Zealand the world's most comprehensive and expensive emissions trading scheme. It will increase...
  • Stoat bites Trufflehunter
    Not sure whether to feel good or recoil in horror at the realisation arch global-warmist William 'Stoat" Connolly and I agree on something. I nearly posted on yet more bad science from Hot Topic last week, but in the end...
  • Why is Obama looking sheepish?
    CAPTION: "Go on, Barry, tell me you didn't you ol hounddog..." A Tiger, a Baker, a scandalstick maker.... You couldn't make it up...but then again maybe you could. Is the Obama cheating scandal with Vera Baker for real? Drudge frontpaged...
  • Labour's $100K donation claim
    To read the story, click on the cover...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Doctor Has Advice for Arizonans During American St ...
    Doctor Has Advice for Arizonans During American Stroke Month Phoenix, AZ - May is American Stroke Month, and the American Stroke Association wants people to recognize the risk factors for stroke and learn the warning signs. Only heart disease, cancer and accidents kill more people in Arizona than st ...
  • A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Rel ...
    A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Relief Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is in the top half of states for food hardship — the lack of money to buy food that families need — according to the Food Research and Action Center. Thousands of Arizona letter carriers will try to fix that with their annual one-day fo ...
  • Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law
    Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law Phoenix, AZ – A delegation of Arizona political, faith, human rights, business and labor leaders travels to the nation’s capital today (Tuesday) for a meeting with Justice Department officials, urging them to invalidate Arizona’s tough new immigration ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Gates to Pentagon Bureaucrats: You're Next
    Gates informed the military establishment that the post-9/11 "gusher of defense spending... has been turned off, and will stay off for a good period of time." Submitted by Judy C. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tainted nuke plant water reaches major NJ aquifer
    Aquifer supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey. Tritium leaked from underground pipes at Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station April 9, 2009, and has been spreading underground at 1 to 3 feet a day. Leaks found after 20-year license Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �No ...
  • Our Pasturelands Have Become Seriously Degraded- L ...
    We have gone to a market economyThe unemployed tend livestock in order to make their bread and butter. As a result, natural free resources in public property- non-scheduled pasture-land consumption started. Pasture-land collapse has started from this time Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cultu ...
  • Americans "bombarded" with cancer source
    Americans are being "bombarded" with cancer-causing chemicals and radiation and the federal government must do far more to protect them, presidential cancer advisers said on Thursday. Submitted by Marta Martinez to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Goggles turns Android into pocket translator
    The mobile application for Android got updated today with the ability to snap a picture of some words and instantly translate them into the language of the owner. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • BP suffers snag in US Gulf oil containment effort
    BP suffers snag in US Gulf oil containment effort-canada.com: "ROBERT, La., (Reuters) - BP Plc suffered a setback on Saturday in an attempt to contain oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico with a huge... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • John John: Canadian military officers describe som ...
    Canadian military officers describe some Afghan police as 'no better than criminals': "OTTAWA — Canadian military officers described some of the Afghan National Police to whom they turned over... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • "Women of Anahuac"
    "Women of Anahuac" Part I: [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Africa: 'Blood diamond' sale approved by Zim court
    News - Africa: 'Blood diamond' sale approved by Zim court: "The Zimbabwe high court has approved the sale of diamonds from a field plagued by human rights abuses, as Harare moved to defy the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • An activist and icon comes to the screen
    An activist and icon comes to the screen-vancouversun.com/By the age of 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had nothing left to prove. She had written songs recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Military Law – No Longer Just for the Military: Ar ...
    No “Branch” of Military, or anyone who comes under Title 10 and the UCMJ is at any time supposed to be “deciding” or adjudicating civilian affairs. The Coast Guard as this Special Branch of Military is filing “civil complaints” and “charges” against whom it is itself identifying as civilians.
  • More than 80 Groups Urge FDA and USDA to Change U. ...
    For Immediate release Naomi Starkman Consumers Union nstarkman@gmail.com 917.539.3924-c Position Will Create Problems for American Producers to Label Products GM/GE-Free Upcoming International Codex Meeting to Discuss Food Labeling, May 3 Yonkers, NY—Consumers Union, the nonprofit publishe ...
  • S.3217 Restoring American Financial Stability Act: ...
    The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved ________________________ “I guess, Henry Waxman was the only person to discover this close tie between financial reform and dietary supplements.  Who would have imagined such a thing?  Guess that’s why he’s a Senator; he can divin ...
  • A news flash for the District of Criminals: It is ...
    We can send troops all over the world to defend other people (only if they have assets we want), to bring democracy to people who don’t want it (after all, look at the example we have set) and appear out of no where when an earthquake occurs on an island. But we can’t defend America from an illegal ...
  • What the MSM won’t tell you about about the ranche ...
    As you know, one of our local ranchers, Bob Krentz, an R-CALF member, was murdered in Douglas, AZ, two weeks ago. His funeral is tomorrow. I received three messages from different officers within the Rangers and law enforcement. Yesterday afternoon I talked to another rancher near us who is a friend ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 10 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan
    ShareThis 10 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan 09 May 2010 At least ten people have been killed in the latest US missile strike in tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan, local security officials confirm. According to two Pakistani intelligence officials on Sunday, a US drone fired two missiles ...
  • EU approves $500b euro debt measures
    ShareThis EU approves $500b euro debt measures �10 Feb 2010 EU finance ministers have agreed to measures worth more than 500 billion euros ($717 billion) to stop the Greek debt crisis from spreading. The fund will give members of the single currency bloc access to 440 billion euros of loan guarantee ...
  • Obama Picks Kagan, Backer of Indefinite Detention ...
    ShareThis Breaking: President Barack Obama to pick U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as U.S. Supreme Court nominee (CLG compilation) 09 May 2010 You know you're in trouble when Faux News is calling�her 'a brilliant woman.' During her hearings to be confirmed as Solicitor General, the New York Times ...
  • AP: Bubble of methane triggered rig blast
    ShareThis AP: Bubble of methane triggered rig blast 08 May 2010 The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, ...
  • Liberal Democrats to hand power to David Cameron
    ShareThis Liberal Democrats to hand power to David Cameron 09 May 2010 David Cameron and Nick Clegg held their first face-to-face talks since last week's election yesterday evening as party figures began to talk up the likelihood of a Tory minority government held up by Liberal Democrat support. The ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Online petition to scrap Emissions Trading Schemes
    Send a signal to the NZ government, and in fact governments everywhere... � "SUSPEND THE EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME" PETITION On July 1st National intends to inflict on New Zealand the world's most comprehensive and expensive emissions trading scheme. It will increase the cost of power and petrol ...
  • Stoat bites Trufflehunter
    Not sure whether to feel good or recoil in horror at the realisation arch global-warmist William 'Stoat" Connolly and I agree on something. I nearly posted on yet more bad science from Hot Topic last week, but in the end...
  • Why is Obama looking sheepish?
    CAPTION: "Go on, Barry, tell me you didn't you ol hounddog..." A Tiger, a Baker, a scandalstick maker.... You couldn't make it up...but then again maybe you could. Is the Obama cheating scandal with Vera Baker for real? Drudge frontpaged...
  • Labour's $100K donation claim
    To read the story, click on the cover...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • ‘60 Minutes’ piece hints that Palestin ...
    The Petraeus view that Israel's policies endanger Americans is gaining traction. Tonight on "60 Minutes," Steve Kroft's piece on homegrown terrorism in the wake of the Times Square case included an interview with Phillip Mudd, till recently the domestic terrorism expert in the FBI's intelligence lea ...
  • Desch: Bloom misses the historical shift re anti-S ...
    Harold Bloom’s review of the new Anthony Julius book on Antisemitism in England in the New York Times book Review is a landmark in the increasing absurdity of the whole concept of anti-Semitism. To conflate classical anti-Semitism, which was based on the notion that Jews could never be a part of g ...
  • Goodbye, settlement roads!
    HEY ELTON from John Greyson on Vimeo.You have to watch this: fabulous Elton John parody-medley done by John Greyson, the Canadian filmmaker who touched off the Toronto explosion last fall, calling on Elton John to cancel his June 17 Tel Aviv gig. Check out the last ten seconds that dream about Pales ...
  • Israeli children rally against the killings
    of baby seals. Canadian embassy, Tel Aviv. (h/t Max Blumenthal)
  • Startup Arabs
    Two weeks ago I flew to Qatar to take part in the Doha debates. I was traveling halfway round the world for a two-day visit but it was worth it to me because I'm eager to learn more about the Arab world, including the westernizers in the Persian Gulf. On the plane out I was filled [...]

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Massive Recall Of Children’s Tylenol Pr ...
    MASSIVE RECALL OF CHILDREN’S TYLENOL, MOTRIN, ZYRTEC & BENADRYL PRODUCTS UNDERWAY Raw materials used to make over-the-counter infant’s and children’s medications, which are subject to a massive recall, tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspe ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • An Afghan Story
    Published: 9 May 2010 If normal life were a river, most days would likely be a slow-moving, meandering passage.  But when a life squeezes into the gorge of war, there can be a deafening whitewater, falls and yet bigger falls, slams against stones, falls again and underwater no air and over the fa ...
  • 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
    Published: 17 April 2010 Originally posted on Facebook   {loadposition user8}
  • Supportfooter
    {loadposition user8}

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 TreeHugger Swimsuit Issue: Sizzling Fashion fo ...
    Tye-dye string bikini by Kelly B. Credit: BTC Elements Whether you dare to bare in a string bikini or prefer to be demure in a one-piece we have rounded up 10 sexy and sustainable options to aid your search for the perfect swimsuit . From an organic cotton bikini in a vibrant zebra print to a ...
  • Rare Bee Species Lives Alone, Makes Nest Out of F ...
    When we think of bees, we often think of those cartoon-like swarms that populate a giant hive . But a rare new species observed in the Middle East is about to change all of that. The Osmia avoseta is a solitary bee that constructs its nest from petals and mud creating a cocoon-like dwelling for ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: A Great Use For Those Veggie E ...
    This weekend I had an astonishing amount of asparagus ends, wild leek roots and leaves and fiddlehead stalks. Literally pounds of the stuff that I couldn't bring myself to throw out. I had to do something with all that stuff.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • "Talking Tires" By 2013?
    Image credit: Autoblog Green We already know that maintaining proper tire pressure means better gas mileage , and while some may have scoffed, I much preferred Obama's enthusiasm for tire gauges than his ridiculously ill-timed expansion of offshore drilli... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
  • Has British Petroleum Opened Another Door To Carbo ...
    Darvaz: The Door to Hell, a drilling project gone wrong - collapsed natural gas dome burning 35 years in Uzbekistan. Image credit: English Russia blog People have a hard time accepting the fact that oil and gas deep in the earth is of biotic origin: pressure-stored plant material from the Carb ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Privatised petrol stations to open
    Around 250 stations across Burma will open next week as economic analysts warn that the private sector may be unable to control retail prices
  • Water shortages sweeping Burma
    Electricity cuts, hydropower projects and abnormally hot weather are triggering water shortages from Sagaing division in the north to the Irrawaddy delta
  • Elaine Pearson: ‘Malaysia falls short’
    Malaysia was accused last week of ‘playing volleyball’ with the lives of six trafficked Burmese children, one as young as 10, now being held in a Malaysian detention camp. The country’s track record on asylum seekers and trafficking victims has drawn widespread criticism, particularly last year foll ...
  • US envoy to meet with Suu Kyi
    Kurt Campbell to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi for the second time in six months days after her opposition party was legally dissolved
  • Burma to enact anti-terror laws
    New laws follow in the wake of a series of bombings across Burma that the government has pinned on exiled opposition groups

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Comoros high court overturns extension of presiden ...
    [JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Comoros [BBC backgrounder] on Saturday overturned [official report, in French] an extension of the president's term in office, holding that his mandate will end later this month. The court ruled that after the mandate ends on May 26 the president of the Muslim In ...
  • China disbars two human rights lawyers
    [JURIST] Two Chinese human rights lawyers who have represented Falun Gong [group website; BBC backgrounder] defendants were permanently disbarred [Tang decision, Liu decision, in Chinese] Friday after being accused of disrupting courtrooms. In a Beijing Municipal Judicial Bureau [official website, i ...
  • Germany high court rejects temporary injunction ag ...
    [JURIST] Germany's constitutional court [official website, in German] Saturday refused [judgment, in German; press release, in German] to issue a temporary injunction against the German government's €22.4 billion ($28.5 billion) contribution [WSJ report] to a bailout package for Greece, which has la ...
  • Nokia sues Apple for alleged iPad, iPhone patent i ...
    [JURIST] Finnish telecommunications company Nokia [corporate website] announced Friday that it has filed a complaint [press release] in the US District Court in the Western District for Wisconsin [official website] alleging that Apple [corporate website] iPad and iPhone 3G products infringe five Nok ...
  • Canada high court rules journalists lack broad rig ...
    [JURIST] The Canadian Supreme Court [official website] ruled [judgment text] Friday that journalists do not have an automatic right to shield their sources and that decisions on who is entitled to remain anonymous will be made on a case by case basis. The ruling upholds an order requiring a former N ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Night Beat: The Rest of Tomorrow's News
    The Senate will decide TOMORROW what the schedule is for completing work on financial regulatory reform. Suffice it to say, there will be some Dems who won't get to offer the amendments they wanted. The RNC meets this week, Watch for: WEDNESDAY's announcement that Tampa will be chosen as t ...
  • The Night Beat: Kagan It Is
    At 11:00 a.m. ET, President Obama will introduce his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, as his choice for associate justice of the Supreme Court. The pro-forma criticism will come from the right; the more interesting response will be from the left -- whether Kagan is progressive enough, whether she end ...
  • Question Time with Marc Ambinder
    Thanks for a great series of questions on SCOTUS, the legislative agenda, Obama's blackness, and more.�
  • Bringing California's Budget Back From the Brink
    John A. Perez, the speaker of the California State Assembly, was sitting in a corner of a hotel lounge in Washington D.C. describing in matter-of-fact terms how one of the largest economies in the world is coping with the greatest budget crisis it has ever confronted. �(He was in Washington to exped ...
  • The Night Beat: The Next Chief of Staff
    What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. The Queen of England wants to sleep late. She won't see anyone with a plan for government until 1:00 pm GMT tomorrow. As in the day after tomorrow, in the states. Majority for Tories is TBD; as you know, the current PM's government gets the first ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Latest on Ameer Makhoul, Secret Arrest, Gag Order, ...
    Those of you who followed this blog during the thick of the Anat Kamm-Uri Blau case, noted a critical juncture at which the weight of the secret gag order charade became too heavy.  After the Israeli media itself began obliquely ridiculing the Shin Bet for maintaining a secret that the whole world k ...
  • Site Down: Apologies for Any Inconvenience
    I apologize to all my readers that technical problems with my site installation caused my web host to suspend my account for the past 12 hours.  This may have been due to some buggy scripts connected to one or more plugins I use.  But the site has been reinstated and you should have full access [... ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Why Does the Shin Bet Hate and Fear Ameer Makhoul?
    To my great delight, Israeli bloggers, unlike their journalistic counterparts, are defying the Shin Bet’s gag order on reporting the secret arrest of Ameer Makhoul, director of the Israeli Palestinian human rights NGO, Ittijah.  Kol hakavod to friends and allies Uri Breitman, Yossi Gurvitz, Idan La ...
  • Tel Aviv University Honors Dershowitz with Honorar ...
    Tel Aviv University will confer an honorary doctorate on Alan Dershowitz tomorrow Saturday, May 8th at 9PM at Smolarz Auditorium on campus.  Perhaps you good reader would like to speculate on the particular speciality for which the Dersh will be honored.  Perhaps Israel’s leading hasbarist?  Perh ...

Ode Magazine

  • Getting vaccines where they're needed the most
    VillageReach helps to deliver essential vaccines to remote areas in developing countries. Photo: VillageReach It is widely known that vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives in poor countries. In some areas, in fact, living conditions are so dire tha ...
  • Malaria Consortium saves lives one net at a time
    Photographer William Daniels documents an organization that is saving lives by providing free mosquito nets to those in the developing world where malaria has become a widespread. Malaria kills one person every 30 seconds. Nine out of 10 times, the victim is a young African child. The An ...
  • Partners in Health continue to help people of Hait ...
    Beyond mountains, there are mountains. ...so goes the Haitian proverb, and those words can resonate and pull at you like a perfect bass line. Head and heart become joined. Your feet begin to move not toward any one destination, but to all destinations. Climbing a mountain is ...
  • Video: VillageReach and VidaGas ensure vaccines re ...
    Issue: March 2010 Related Reading What's your walk score? Developing countries You are what you think, you are what you believe Bulungula Lodge: Where peace is prospering
  • The joy of dirt
    Soil is as essential a natural resource as air and water. Yet weâre running out of healthy, fertile dirt at an alarming rate. One manâs odyssey to retrace and reduce his soil footprint. At his farm in Willits, California, John Jeavons teaches the next generation to grow soil. P ...

OpEd News

  • Controlled Opposition
    The people in power within government have a fail-safe plan to maintain their control over the citizens, they manage and control any and all people and groups that would attempt to bring an end to their power and wealth, this is called controlled opposition.
  • Vanishing Uranium Resources
    There was a mysterious disappearance of uranium in South Australia last week. Uranium mining hopeful PepinNini Minerals reported a new resource estimate on its Crocker Well project. And something was missing.
  • Crude Oil Plunges as Turbulence Rocks Financial Ma ...
    In a week of market turmoil resulting from Greeceapos;s fiscal crisis, oil went from an intraday high above $87 on Monday -" its highest point in more than a year and a half -" to plunge briefly below $75 on Friday.
  • CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE IN UTAH FIRING SQUAD EXECUTIO ...
    Utah until four years ago allowed firing squad execution of the condemned. It was an old Mormon ritual carried out by the state. However a convict has recently chosen death by firing squad making for the state delivery of a religious ritual. The article suggest a way in which all parties get their ...
  • Christopher Wilhelm Art
    Political Art from a new artist!

Switchboard

  • New tar sands pipeline means high gas prices, over ...
    Several new reports came out today all with a common message: tar sands is not the right choice for our energy future. These reports are especially timely since the United States is considering a proposal to build yet another tar sands pipeline. This newest TransCanada Keystone XL tar sand ...
  • Walkability 101-A, by Roger Lewis
    Washington Post columnist and architect Roger Lewis has published a terrific, concise summary of why we should do more to promote walking as a transportation mode and what a community needs to become more walkable.  I hope that policy advocates read it. Although it has been a long time (lat ...
  • In Wake of Oil Spill, Most Americans See Need for ...
    This week, NRDC has been making the case that the Gulf Oil spill is a disaster that should shock the Congress into acting on a big scale to reform our energy system and get moving on clean energy and climate legislation. After all if we really want to prevent future oil spills, we have to cu ...
  • Oil Spills and Human Health: Lessons from History
    Oil spill clean-up brings workers and volunteers into close contact with chemicals that are known to be hazardous to human health. �As we deal with the oil spill in the Gulf, it helps to brush up on history.�� After�the Exxon Valdez disaster, the National Institute for Occupational Safety a ...
  • Farmers aren’t the only ones who should be concern ...
    Earlier this week, the New York Times reported on an emerging threat facing farmers, rural communities and the environment: The proliferation of “superweeds” that are resistant to the widely used herbicide “Roundup” (also sold generically as glyphosate). First some background:  In the 1990s ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Whiff
    Apparently, Elena Kagan will be nominated for the Supreme Court.   I will go into more detail about this later, but there shouldn’t be any sugarcoating — it’s a poor choice.    One way of seeing this is to examine Marty Peretz’s attempted defense.   Boil off the usual add homienems and you’re ...
  • Toward Even Happier Mothers’ Days…
    Send mothers you know a customized version of this video at MomsRising.org. Also, check out Nicholas Kristof’s a long list of organizations working to improve the world for mothers to which you can contribute. Related posts:Of Mothers & Morality Mothers I’m Goin’ In! Related posts: Of Mother ...
  • VE Day, Moscow Style
    Nice slideshow of the 65th anniversary celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Love the T-34s: But especially dig Medvedev’s handshake with Death: Related posts:Presidential Statement of the Day Lessons on Civility, Crazy Style Death Row, Japan Style Related posts: Presidential St ...
  • Marty Peretz weighs in on the awesomeness of Elena ...
    And boy does he have good argument! I’m a bit bemused that my favorite trivial pursuit is illustrated by a cover story in Peretz’s own magazine. Related posts:Being There, Elena Kagan edition The strange career of Elena Kagan Marty Peretz Weekly’s Loss… Related posts: Being There, Elena Kagan e ...
  • Is It Time to Ban Explosive Weapons?
    UK-based NGO Landmine Action says yes. In a recent report, the organization points out that we do not consider explosive bombs an acceptable tool in police operations, and proposes they be stigmatized as tools of counter-insurgency and military operations other than war as well – at least when used ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • 1st Circuit considers whether tort cases against U ...
    At oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit hearing on May 7, Judge Bruce Selya was openly skeptical about whether circuit precedent could support two lower-court judgments awarding $8.4 million to the estates and families of two men murdered by mobster James "Whitey" Bulge ...
  • Behind Closed Doors
    No cameras, no audio and now, no main entry to the high court. Is Court growing more insular under Roberts?
  • DOJ presses law firms in LCD probe
    The U.S. Department of Justice's broad investigation into price-fixing by the LCD screen industry has netted more than $860 million in fines and resulted in criminal charges against nearly a dozen executives.
  • Murder mystery heads to trial
    This week — almost four years after D.C. lawyer Robert Wone was found dead — a former Arent Fox partner and two others will go to trial for crimes related to Wone's murder.
  • Open Web, Insert Foot
    It's not as if lawyers never misbehaved before. But now they're making the same old mistakes — soliciting for sex, slamming judges, talking trash about clients — online, leaving a digital trail for bar counsel to follow.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Stunned at Shuster’s Words
    Here are a few letters to the editor from a paper out of Bedford, PA area. This was sent to me by a farmer who lives in that are whose livestock and water has been polluted. She does not have a lease with any gas company but lives near a large compressor station and gas [...]
  • “Gasland”
    GASLAND An INTERNATIONAL WOW COMPANY PRODUCTION SELECTED FOR SUNDANCE http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/GASLANDPRESSRELEASE.pdf
  • House Bill 2235 Letter
    Here’s is a sample letter to my local representative. Please feel free to copy and paste it if you are not sure how to write your own. Make sure you send it to your correct representative. Representative Matthew Baker Ryan Office Building, Room 115 451 North Third Street Harrisburg, PA 17120-2068 De ...
  • A Letter to the Editor…
    The following letter to the editor in today’s Williamsport Sun-Gazette has some interesting ideas. Whether or not you agree with any or all of these, it surely will get you considering ways to think out of the box in addressing gas drilling issues. A Gas Drilling Protection Plan-Posted April 29th-le ...
  • Delay Equals Opportunity…make your voice hea ...
    Last week’s expected House floor action on the Save the Forests bill (HB 2235) – to protect the best parts of our state forest land from gas drilling – was pushed back to next week. HB 2235 would impose a five-year freeze on new leasing of state land for gas drilling until the state can [...]

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Environmentally Caused Cancers ‘Grossly Underestim ...
    Saying “the true burden of environmentally induced cancers gas been grossly underestimated ,” a White House cancer panel has urged President Obama “to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cri ...
  • Record Drop in U.S. CO2 Emissions; European Mayors ...
    Carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. dropped a record 7 percent in 2009 , due in large part to the economic recession. Meanwhile, in Europe more than 500 mayors vowed a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. U.S. greenhouse gas emissions declined by more than 400 million tons last ...
  • Under Threat in the Gulf, A Refuge Created by Roos ...
    Among the natural treasures at risk from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created by Theodore Roosevelt to halt a grave threat to birds in his era — the lucrative trade in plumage. Now, oil from the BP spill is starting to wash up on beaches where Roosevelt ...
  • Illegal Logging in Indonesia Undermines Sustainabl ...
    Rampant illegal logging in Indonesia is undermining the sustainability and strength of the forest products industry in Indonesia and the United States and thwarting efforts to preserve forests to slow global warming, according to a new report . The report by the BlueGreen Alliance and several U.S. e ...
  • British Fish Stocks Fell Precipitously in Last Cen ...
    Fish stocks in the United Kingdom virtually collapsed in the 20th century, with the amount of fish in British waters falling by 94 percent since 1889, according to a new study. So few fish remain in British waters that fishermen today would have to work 17 times harder than 118 years ago to catch th ...

Red Ice Creations

Russia Today

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

  • More Tesla Tech / Russia’s Illegal Alien Pro ...
    In this 21st Century, perhaps we not only owe our tech to folks like Einstein, Edison and Hawking, but to the greatest one of all. Nicola Tesla. Tesla, a pioneering Serbian-born physicist, made the prediction about the portable messaging service in the Popular Mechanics magazine in 1909. Tesla, whos ...
  • CGI Tour of Mars: Proof of Life?
    Below is a YouTube presentation of a “Google Mars” type tour of the planet Mars depicting vegetation and ancient city blocks. I couldn’t tell anything, but the overhead effects were pretty good. Who ever set this up knew what they were doing, but I’m no expert in CGI or Photoshop. Enjoy. … Intellige ...
  • NASA Mars Life Disclaimer / But there’s proo ...
    On April 28th last Wednesday, The Sun of the UK, published an article about a NASA source claiming there was evidence for life on Mars (they have since taken it out). However, it didn’t take NASA long to print a disclaimer: A Wednesday article in the U.K.’s “The Sun” newspaper entitled, “NASA: Evide ...
  • And now, from the Fortean perspective…
    All week long we’ve looked at different articles with conflicting viewpoints on Hawking’s statements that we should take care in broadcasting our presence to the Universe, because we might attract a powerful interstellar nomadic species that could very well steal our planet and kill us all. Of cours ...
  • Post Obama Speech Meeting At KSC
    On April 15th just this past week, the Obamanator stopped by Kennedy Spaceflight Center to back up his FY2011 vision of changes for NASA. His plan includes an increase to NASA’s budget of $6 billion $omolian$ over a period of 5 years, but it cancels the beleaguered Constellation Program that is long ...

Tippers News

  • PNC Bank to host pet adoption
    On Saturday, May 22, PNC staff and Animal Alliance volunteers will showcase the many dogs available for adoption through Animal Alliance from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the PNC Bank on Route 523, Sergeantsville. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Dog takes motherless lamb under her paw
    When the little black-and-white lamb's mother wouldn't nurse her, Shaw started feeding the lamb special powdered milk. Their dog Sunny's maternal instincts kicked in too, and she started producing milk. Now Sunny, who hasn't had a litter of Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • Man Rescues Kitten On Charlotte Interstate
    "Finally the cars cleared out," he said. "I ran out and grabbed the bag and this little guy here came out of the bag. And he's doing alright right now." The kitten is scratched and may have a broken leg. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mario Batali Adopts Meatless Mondays - iVillage
    In an effort to raise awareness about Meatless Mondays, a non-profit initiative in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heath with the goal of reducing meat consumption by 15%, Chef Mario Batali is joining the movement. Read Mo Submitted by Brenda S. to Green Lifestyle � ...
  • Bangladesh tiger poachers to face life in prison
    Under the country's existing law, which dates from 1974, the maximum penalty for a wildlife poacher or smuggler is a 2,000 taka (30 dollar) fine and a two-year prison sentence. The laws are "outdated and too lenient" to preserve the country's Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

The Freeman

  • Fed Will Print Dollars to Help Europe
    “After months of quietly watching from the sidelines, the United States finally intervened in the European debt crisis on Sunday night. The Federal Reserve announced that it would open currency swap lines with the European Central Bank â in essence, printing dollars and exchanging them for euros t ...
  • BP Opposed Regulations to Prevent Spills
    “The company that owns the offshore well spewing crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico and other major oil companies spearheaded a campaign to thwart a government plan to impose tighter regulations aimed at preventing similar disasters, according to government records.” (USA Today, Monday) But the compani ...
  • Banks Fight Exclusion from Derivatives Business
    “The nationâs five largest banks, which dominate the derivatives business, have dispatched trade groups, paid lobbyists and their own executives to convince senators that excluding banks from the derivatives business would make markets less safe by shifting the trading to foreign banks and other i ...
  • Senseless Census Ads
    âEconomic calculation can only take place by means of money prices established in the market for production goods in a society resting on private property in the means of production.â â Ludwig von Mises For the past several months we’ve been subjected to numerous advertisements shaming us into ...
  • Happy Birthday, F. A. Hayek
    F. A. Hayek, Austrian economist, social philosopher, and champion of liberty, was born on this day in 1899. Read Pete Boettke’s 1992 appreciation of Hayek and Mario Rizzo’s tribute. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics biographical entry is here.

SideBar Search : Spiders for Water Related News 

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
ProLogis Renewable Energy Announces New Rooftop Solar Project in Southern ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- May 10, 2010
- 1 hour ago
The ProLogis Renewable Energy group was formed in 2009 to procure new business, manage installations and provide development services for renewable energy ...
clipped from Google - 5/2010
Revonergy Inc. Engages Ecoforge Consultants to Pursue Waste-To-Energy Projects ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- May 10, 2010
- 56 minutes ago
Ecoforge is a dynamic, boutique investment advisory and strategy consulting firm with a focus on Renewable Energy and other green businesses. ...
clipped from Google - 5/2010
USDA Rural Development Accepting Applications For Renewable Energy And Energy ...
MyABC50.com
- May 10, 2010
- 6 minutes ago
The US Department of Agriculture Rural Development Agency is accepting grant and loan guarantee applications for renewable energy and energy efficiency ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 5/2010
Wind turbine blade stirs Columbus residents to think about renewable energy
OSU - The Lantern
- May 09, 2010
- 13 hours ago
Signatures will be collected along the way, and the purpose is to create awareness of the need for renewable energy policy change at the federal level. ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 5/2010
powered by

Human Habitat

ecology water energy
US Ecology, Inc. to Present at the Robert W. Baird & Co. Growth Stock Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
- May 07, 2010
- May 07, 2010
US Ecology's presentation is scheduled for 10:05 am Central Time (9:05 Mountain Time and 11:05 Eastern Time). Individuals interested in listening to the ...
clipped from Google - 5/2010
Safety And Ecology Corporation Gets Contract To Perform Demolition At Los Alamos
Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Portal (blog)
- May 10, 2010
- 1 hour ago
Safety and Ecology Corporation (SEC) is a rapidly growing environmental services company in the US, providing services nationally, in Europe and the ...
clipped from Google - 5/2010
Hunting helps wildlife, society
Oregon Daily Emerald
- May 09, 2010
- 9 hours ago
Nutria are considered an invasive species and a danger to the local ecology because they damage wetlands habitats by destroying vegetation. ...
clipped from Google - 5/2010
President orders forming of supervisory committee on biotech park
Focus Taiwan News Channel
- May 10, 2010
- 3 hours ago
Even though the planned biotech park will not impact the area's ecology, Ma went on, however, a supervisory committee is still needed to oversee the ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 5/2010
powered by

Water Power

Google
Soon: All Google services to get Apps support
ZDNet (blog)
- May 08, 2010
- May 08, 2010
By Garett Rogers | May 8, 2010, 10:44am PDT Have you ever wanted to log into services like iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, or Picasa using your Google Apps ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 5/2010
Google Editions: My E-Book Feature Wish List
PC World
- May 06, 2010
- May 06, 2010
Google is launching an e-book store this summer, and the only way I could be more excited is if I actually knew anything about the service, dubbed Google ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 5/2010
Google Goggles Now Supports Translation
PC Magazine
- May 07, 2010
- May 07, 2010
Google Goggles, launched last year, is one of the new wave of augmented-reality apps that combine a smartphone camera with a layer of data, giving you more ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 5/2010
Google Revamps Mobile Search, Too
PC Magazine
- May 06, 2010
- May 06, 2010
Google search facelift extends beyond the desktop: The company also rolled out a new version of its mobile search. FCC proposed reclassifying the ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 5/2010
powered by



 

Related articles by Zemanta
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]
Posted by opit at 9:01 AM
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)