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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ICELAND: Int'l Arrest Warrant Against Top Bank Off ...
    REYKJAVIK, May 12 (IPS) - Vigorously pursuing those allegedly responsible for Iceland’s 2008 financial crisis, investigators have got issued an international arrest warrant against Sigurdur Einarsson, chairman of the board of governors of the failed Kaupthing Bank.
  • WORLD: Markets Can’t Self-Regulate; State Sh ...
    GENEVA, May 12 (IPS) - The Washington Consensus is dead and the state must play a new role in development. The triple crises – economy, food and climate – show the need for a new developmental model as export-led growth and financial speculation in agricultural markets have proven to be disa ...
  • MALAYSIA: Gov’t Urged to Explore Alternative ...
    KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 (IPS) - Instead of going nuclear, the Malaysian government should be harnessing alternative energy resources, which are adequate in supply, said the country’s anti-nuclear lobby.
  • Pope's Visit Finds Catholicism on the Decline in P ...
    LISBON, May 11 (IPS) - Pope Benedict XVI began a four-day visit to Portugal Tuesday in an uncomfortable scenario for himself and his followers, amidst accusations that the Catholic Church leadership protected pedophile priests, and the free distribution of condoms by hundreds of protesters h ...
  • Death Penalty Back on the Agenda in Nigeria
    LAGOS, May 11 (IPS) - It has been nearly twenty years since an official execution has taken place in Nigeria. State governors have been unwilling to sign the execution warrants of persons on death row.

Scoop - NZ

  • Government makes R & D commitment .
    $321 million coming via the budget . Is it enough ?Does it make up for cancelling the R&D tax credit ? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Stop arguing and just get on with the opportunitie ...
    Time to stop the arguments and make the most of the opportunities the ETS provides , says Markit head ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Green Party warns on food contamination
    Sloppy food import rules and no penalties for food residues brings our food importing rules into question ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Did Osama bin Laden Die in 2001 ?
    In 2009, I published a little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?1 Much evidence, I showed, suggested that Osama bin Laden had died on or about December 13, 2001. (Although this book was ignored by the US press, it received major reviews in British newspapers,2 and it even provided the bas ...
  • Phar Lap arsenic theory confirmed
    Scientists say they have confirmed the theory that Australian racehorse legend Phar Lap was killed by arsenic poisoning. Associate Professor Ivan Kempson of Taiwan's Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica in Taipei and Dermot Henry of Museum Victoria report their findings online ahead of print publi ...

Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

  • Internet approaches addressing limit
    In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks of net addresses to give out, estimates suggest.
  • Bloomberg Visits London To Check Out Spy Cameras ...
    New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg took part in a fact-finding mission Tuesday in the wake of the thwarted Times Square bombing, visiting centers where experts monitor a vast network of security cameras — one of the largest in the world.
  • World Health Organization Moving Ahead on Billion ...
    The World Health Organization is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose billions of dollars in global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in dis ...
  • Euro, Stocks, Commodities Retreat as Bailout Opti ...
    The euro lost all of yesterday’s gains on concern the $1 trillion bailout will hurt European economic growth. Stocks fell, paring the MSCI World Index’s biggest advance in a year. Chinese shares entered a bear market.
  • Gold Hits 6 Month high
    Gold futures hit their highest level since Dec. 3, as concerns about European sovereign debt returned to the market just one day after European officials announced a support plan totaling nearly $1 billion that they had hoped would calm these fears.

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

  • Cameron and Clegg shake on new pact for UK
    David Cameron and Nick Clegg have shaken hands on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street before getting down to the business of running the country. The pair went to work hours after finally putting together their historic Tory/Lib Dem coalition government. The new Prime Minister promised the uni ...
  • Libyan Jet with 104 Crashes; Boy Sole Survivor
    A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline's brightly colored logo. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor. The Dutch prime mini ...
  • UK: Baby Fell 30 Feet from Window But His Mother O ...
    A mother whose toddler plunged from a third-floor window on to a pavement 30 feet below, only discovered the accident had happened when police knocked on her door. Luckily, the 20-month-old boy escaped with only a broken arm after falling on to the pavement below. He had climbed up to the windowsil ...
  • South Africa: Woman Kicked to Death by Giraffe as ...
    A woman was kicked to death by a giraffe as she walked her dogs on a game farm in South Africa, police said today. Merike Engelbrecht, 25, died instantly on Saturday after the animal lashed out at her near Musina in the country's Limpopo province. Police spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Ronel Otto s ...
  • UK: Two 10-Year-Old Boys "Raped 8-Year-Old Girl in ...
    Two ten-year-old boys lured an eight-year-old girl to a 'secluded' spot before helping each other to rape her, a court heard today. The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took their victim to various locations, before eventually leading her to a field and raping her while she pleaded with ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • At the going down of the Sun...
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Canadian naval Petty Officer Second Class Craig Blake, Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic). Killed due to enemy action. Ready, Aye, Ready Strength in depth
  • 1910 to 2010... and still counting
    There are probably a lot of topics involving the Canadian Navy that I could go into this morning. But not today. Today it's white gaiters and Number Ones. Today, from St. John's to Victoria, the members of the the Canadian Navy will step off in column of route to mark the 100th anniversary of its ...
  • Armageddon tired of superstition dictating governm ...
    The Divine Ms. Z has a great piece in today's Toronto Star - an interview with Marci McDonald , author of the just-released The Armageddon Factor: the Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada , about which I blogged the other day . She points out the release of the book come on the very day that Cana ...
  • "If they run, they're VC. If they don't run, they' ...
    Most of the news out of Afghanistan is depressing and occasionally enraging, but when I see Seymour Hersh's byline attached to a story, I make sure to read it even though I know it will probably be both depressing and enraging. This story is no exception. It seems "the good guys" are now executing p ...
  • Dragging it out...
    Impolitical on the Great Extension : ...So basically everyone is in agreement that MPs get to see the documents. It's whether there are any teeth in the seeing that is the remaining question. What good is it, after all, to be permitted into the room if you can't really do anything accountability ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity advances falsehood that Kagan "thr[ew] mil ...
    Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Elena Kagan "thr[ew] military recruiters on college campus at Harvard ... off the college campus in the middle of a war in violation of federal law." In fact, Kagan consistently followed the law, Harvard students had access to military recruiters during her entire ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Harvard Law military recruitment not di ...
    Right-wing media figures have perpetuated the falsehood that Elena Kagan banned military recruiters from Harvard Law School during her tenure as dean. Not only did students have access to military recruiters throughout Kagan's tenure, Media Matters for America has learned that military recruitment ...
  • REPORT: Kagan's legal experience comparable to Re ...
    Right-wing media have claimed that Solicitor General Elena Kagan has insufficient experience to be a Supreme Court justice. In fact, Kagan's legal experience is comparable to that of several recent conservative justices at the time of their nominations: William Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas, and J ...
  • On Fox, Bossie falsely suggests Kagan supports boo ...
    On Fox News, Citizens United president David Bossie falsely suggested that Solicitor General Elena Kagan argued in a Supreme Court case that "books could be banned." In fact, Kagan specifically stated that federal campaign finance law had never banned books and likely could not do so. From the Ma ...
  • Right-wing media target Kagan's physical appearanc ...
    Right-wing media figures have responded to Elena Kagan's nomination to be the fourth female Supreme Court justice in history by attacking her physical appearance. Right-wingers respond to historic nomination with vicious attacks on Kagan's looks Boortz: "Has anyone seen Mike Myers and your new ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Gates Takes on The Military Industrial Complex
    Last Saturday, Secretary of Defense Bob Gates went out to the Eisenhower library to remind the nation that Ike's warning about the "unwarranted influence of the Military Industrial Complex" was more prescient than ever. Cynics will argue that Gates is just tinkering at the margins, but if you read t ...
  • New York Justice Goes National
    Barack Obama's vision of American justice seems a bit parochial, with Attorney General Eric Holder hailing from the New York City borough of Queens; Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg coming from a once-proud, upwardly mobile Jewish section of Brooklyn that contains her alma mater Abraham Lin ...
  • Wall Street: Land of the Million Dollar Babies
    Wall Street is know around the world as the land of the million dollar babies since is chock full of people who have gotten incredibly rich as a result of handouts from the government. These handouts come in all forms, but most in the size extra large. The basic story is always the same; the banks a ...
  • Why Elena Kagan Is A Terrific Choice
    Massachusetts has been Elena Kagan's adopted home, but it's not for such home state boosterism, parochial reasons why I think she's a terrific choice. No, it's because I got to know her well not in Boston, but here in the Senate. In the spring of 1998, Elena was hard at work in the Clinton White ...
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TruthOut

  • Senate Votes 96-0 to Audit Fed
    Washington - The Senate voted 96 to 0 Tuesday to open the secretive Federal Reserve Board's emergency lending practices to a congressional audit, as well as require a detailed disclosure of who's getting the funds. "We are on the verge of lifting the veil of secrecy on perhaps the most important go ...
  • Authenticating the Inauthentic
    In recent years, much of our economy - and now, almost the entirety of our media - has come to rest on the public display of authenticity: ads that constantly bemoan the notion of the sales pitch, heartfelt apologies that run on the evening news whenever another perpetrator of a large-scale bank fra ...
  • Paul Loeb: What It Means to Be a Citizen
    Paul Loeb has spent decades exploring and writing about community involvement and citizen activism. In 1999, he wrote the book, "Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times." It didn’t take off at first, but through word of mouth, its popularity spread to activists, teachers, and ...
  • Ira Chernus | Why Are So Many Americans Scared of ...
    As long as our national life revolves around unrealistic, hyped-up fears of "foreign invaders" and "illegal aliens," we all lose. read more
  • Only $242 Million Spent So Far on Government's $75 ...
    When the administration launched its foreclosure prevention program, it committed to spend up to $75 billion. By the end of March, more than a year later, only about $242 million had actually been paid out. read more

Planetsave

  • Why So Much Opposition Towards Plastic Bag Bans an ...
    Cities around the world are enforcing the use of reusable shopping bags. Countries worldwide are slowly adopting plastic bag bans, or they’re enforcing plastic bag tax to charge those who are not using the reusable fabric bags that are being sold in many stores. I’m behind the idea, and have been u ...
  • Common Herbicide Found to ‘Chemically Castra ...
    African clawed frog - Xenopus laevis Atrazine, the most commonly used herbicide in the world, has been found to disrupt the reproductive cycles of the African clawed frog and may offer a partial solution to the global decline in amphibian species. Atrazine is the most common herbicide used world-w ...
  • 114 Year Temperature Record Rare Indeed
    One family has spent several generations maintaining a 114 year daily temperature record of the Mohonk Preserve. In a day and age where acquiring reliable and long weather records are a must for effective weather speculation, the Mohonk Preserve is a rarity. A weather station that has never missed ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texans Don’t Want Texas to Become a Dumping Ground ...
    A new poll shows 70% of Texans oppose importing radioactive waste to Texas for storage in Andrews County. Yet a crucial vote on a new rule by non-elected members of a commission could make Texas into the radioactive waste dump for the nation, and perhaps the world. Originally only Texas and two othe ...
  • Old Settler’s Music Festival
    If you love and appreciate one or more of the following items, I’ve got a great idea for how to spend your weekend: Bluegrass Americana Camping Barbeque the Texas Hill Country Public Citizen One out of six? Four, five, six? Excellent! Join us this weekend, April 15-18, at the Old Settler’s Music Fes ...
  • Week in Review
    This week’s string of fossil fuel disasters–a Chinese coal carrier striking the Great Barrier Reef and dumping tons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, an oil pipeline spilling into the Louisiana Delta National Wildlife Refuge at the same time an Exxon Mobil barge was dredging off coast for oil explorati ...
  • Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Webinar on Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compa ...
    The day after our radioactive waste importation webinar, the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission announced that it would delay consideration of the rule that would have allowed the import of low level nuclear waste from the entire nation into Texas.  The rule will not be considered ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Individual Giving and e-Advocacy Coordinator – ful ...
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  • 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

Climate

  • May 11, 2010
    Oil Executives Face Congress on Gulf Spill (Reuters) Big oil will go under the spotlight today when U.S. lawmakers grill top executives on a drilling rig explosion and oil spill that threatens an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. Nitrogen-Cement Mix Is Focus of Gulf Inqui ...
  • 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. ...

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 Problem With Elena Kagan Is Barack Obama
    I have no idea what kind of Justice Elena Kagan is going to be, and almost no one else does either. She might be a terrific progressive or she might move the Court to the right, as some fear . My problem with her isn't her stated positions, as she doesn't have very many. My problem with her is my pr ...
  • Here We Go Again
    � from Truthout I'm beginning to get the sense that, had President Obama chosen a different course in life and decided to be a boxer, he would have fought in the style of James Braddock, whose concept of defense was to lead with his chin and get pounded on until the other guy wore himself out. After ...
  • EXPLANATIONS: Don't Blame Greece...
    I’ve been thinking about explanations. Actually I’ve been thinking about tall tales, pensions, Greece, the EURO, the US dollar, and the markets. Last week Lucy had a lot of “splaining” to do. We were watching the Greeks rioting, the gulf oil slicks floating towards our coast, and the stock markets t ...
  • Why Are So Many Americans Scared of Undocumented I ...
    from AlterNet “The overwhelming majority of Americans think the country’s immigration policies need to be seriously overhauled.” And most Americans support Arizona’s stringent new immigration enforcement law, “even though they say it may lead to racial profiling.” That’s the finding of the latest ...
  • They're Violating 30 Centuries Of Moral Law - And ...
    There are basically two dimensions to the financial crisis. One is the way finance has evolved into a gambling operation that's fundamentally risky and fails to contribute to the real economy. The other is plain, old-fashioned greed - the kind that exploits the weak and vulnerable in a shameful ma ...

Ten Percent

  • Mr. David Eton-Murdoch is Prime Minister
    Here comes the 32nd year of neoliberalism, this time in toff(ee?) flavour. Surprisingly I have a Tory acquaintance, one Mister Degby Reardon who when he has sobered up I shall invite for his views on the Blue Reich, last I heard from him he was chanting ‘Cameroooooonnnnnnssss Komandos!’ and urinatin ...
  • Cowering Before Capital
    If this were debt cancellation and stimulus it would be interesting and the details are not out but I somehow doubt this will be much more than doing what the markets want, the level of debt created by financialisation and neoliberal policies is socially unsustainable unless police states become sta ...
  • 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

Booman Tribune

  • Twists & Turns in Congress
    West Virginia State Sen. Mike Oliverio drubbed 27-year House veteran Alan Mollohan (D-WV-01) tonight in the Democratic primary. They're not done counting, but it currently stands at 56%-44%. With the announced retirement of Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, Mollohan stood to become second in seniority ...
  • 10 Percent of Americans Are Morans
    Now we finally know the size of Fox News/Limbaugh's audience, and it ain't a majority of Americans by a long, long, long shot: Ten percent of Americans believe environmentalists intentionally sabotaged the oil rig Deepwater Horizon off the Gulf Coast according to a poll released Tuesday, apparent ...
  • Serious Question
    Pretty much everyone hates Jim DeMint. I know South Carolina is really conservative, but don't most people there think DeMint is a grandstanding jackass who gets nothing done for their state? He obviously is loathed by his Republican colleagues in the Senate, including the leadership. The Democra ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Andrew Sullivan
    I agree with John Tabin that Andrew Sullivan is not a serious person, but I also understand Sullivan's position that his views on "the closet" have evolved over time. Here's the deal, though. Sullivan is allowing his personal idiosyncratic agenda to color his analysis. Sullivan wants Kagan to b ...
  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Has the “War on Drugs” gone biological in Afghanis ...
    This is sure to end well: UK and US forces in Afghanistan stand accused of using biological warfare tactics against the region’s opium poppy crops, which are being rapidly swept by some hitherto-unseen disease. According to the Telegraph, yields have dropped by up to 90 per cent in some fields. [... ...
  • UAV drones for the Texas/Mexico border
    When you’ve got a nice new hammer, everything looks like a nail: Statesman.com reports that the US government is about to cave in to pressure from Texan politicos and agree to supply UAV drones for surveillance duties along the border with Mexico: If approved, the unmanned aircraft in Texas would ad ...
  • Photochemical Tissue Bonding: a light touch for ba ...
    File under “new theoretical tech that might end up looking vaguely like something out of Star Trek”: though they don’t provide much detail or any links to such, Gizmag reports briefly on Photochemical Tissue Bonding, which… … can replace conventional sutures, staples and glues in repairing skin woun ...
  • Has the “War on Drugs” gone biological ...
    This is sure to end well: UK and US forces in Afghanistan stand accused of using biological warfare tactics against the region’s opium poppy crops, which are being rapidly swept by some hitherto-unseen disease. According to the Telegraph, yields have dropped by up to 90 per cent in some fields. [... ...
  • UAV drones for the Texas/Mexico border
    When you’ve got a nice new hammer, everything looks like a nail: Statesman.com reports that the US government is about to cave in to pressure from Texan politicos and agree to supply UAV drones for surveillance duties along the border with Mexico: If approved, the unmanned aircraft in Texas would ad ...

Therapy News

  • Phone Therapy Gets Boost from Study
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Finding new ways of offering psychotherapy is a prominent issue among today’s professionals, and interest in the development of treatment programs that take place over the phone has been steadily increasing. Though some remain skeptical about the ability of phone-base ...
  • Heart Attack-Related Depression Found Linked to Va ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Among the many potential effects of having a heart attack, many clients experience the onset of depression, an issue which can exacerbate physical health symptoms and contribute to further hospital stays. Examining this link between heart attacks and depression, a res ...
  • Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
    By Cynthia W. Lubow, MS, MFT, Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Cynthia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Self-attack or destructive self-criticism is a cornerstone of depression. Confusingly, it can cause depression and it can be caused by depression, but it is always d ...
  • Global Dreams
    By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Two weeks ago I went to Antalya, Turkey, to attend the World Conference on Psychology, Counseling and Guidance, and to give a paper called “Two in a room together ...
  • Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Conversations
    By Irina Firstein, LCSW, Communication Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Irina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Understand that communication begins on the inside and determines the outside.” ~ P.S. Perkins We as therapists spend a lot of time coaching our patients on In ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Green Scene: Blowing in the wind - Mountain Xpress
    Green Scene: Blowing in the wind Mountain Xpress But others argue that the alternative to wind energy is the continued reliance upon mountaintop-removal coal, of which North Carolina is the No. 1 consumer. ... and more��
  • In Wake of BP Spill, Democrats to Re-Introduce Cli ...
    In Wake of BP Spill, Democrats to Re-Introduce Climate Bill Eco Factory ... states will vote against the bill in protest of the EPA's decision to halt mountaintop removal mining with an implementation of the clean water act. ... and more��
  • Haven't We Learned, Yet? - RenewableEnergyWorld.co ...
    Haven't We Learned, Yet? RenewableEnergyWorld.com And of course, let's add to all that the local, regional and national campaigns against mountaintop removal coal mining that throws coal and rock waste onto ... and more��
  • Readers' voice: May 11, 2010 - Charleston Gazette
    Readers' voice: May 11, 2010 Charleston Gazette Why don't you people drive out to one of these mountaintop-removal sites and just look? We're not against coal; we're against mountaintop removal . ...
  • Video:Dis-invest-a-lujah! - It's Getting Hot In He ...
    Video:Dis-invest-a-lujah! It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) Billy's folks in NYC: Hidden-cam, an inspirational video showing a Chase bank customer closing her account, and explaining mountaintop removal to several ...

Memeorandum

  • Kagan's friends: She's not gay (Ben Smith/The Poli ...
    Ben Smith / The Politico : Kagan's friends: She's not gay   —  Elena Kagan is not a lesbian, one of her best friends told POLITICO Tuesday night, responding to persistent rumors and innuendo about the Supreme Court nominee's personal life.  —  “I've known her for most of her adult life and I know ...
  • What It Takes - About a decade ago, one began to n ...
    David Brooks / New York Times : What It Takes   —  About a decade ago, one began to notice a profusion of Organization Kids at elite college campuses.  These were bright students who had been formed by the meritocratic system placed in front of them.  They had great grades, perfect teacher recommen ...
  • Kagan and the Military: What Really Happened (Robe ...
    Robert C. Clark / Wall Street Journal : Kagan and the Military: What Really Happened   —  As dean, she upheld a policy already in place.  —  With the announcement of Elena Kagan as nominee for the open seat on the Supreme Court, comments both sound and foolish are sure to flood the media.  In the ...
  • CD11: Goehring wants to thin 'liberal' herd (Lisa ...
    Lisa Vorderbrueggen / Political Blotter : CD11: Goehring wants to thin ‘liberal’ herd   —  Congressional District 11 GOP candidate Brad Goehring is drawing fire for his confrontational Facebook statement today: … Check out all the comments; 57 when I looked a few minutes ago. … LAV 3:23 p.m. Scree ...
  • Alan Mollohan loses primary fight (Chris Cillizza/ ...
    Chris Cillizza / The Fix : Alan Mollohan loses primary fight   —  West Virginia Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan lost his bid for a 15th term tonight at the hands of state Sen. Mike Oliverio, a defeat that further affirms the anti-incumbent sentiment coursing through the country.  —  Mollohan hadn't f ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Heated debate
    There’s no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to tackling climate change, says Mike Hulme. That’s why we need to stop looking for scapegoats and start engaging in honest discussion.  One of the enduring characteristics of public debates and political negotiations about climate change is tha ...
  • Mountains of rubbish
    The Qinghai-Tibet railway has brought an influx of non-biodegradable waste to the Himalayan plateau, posing serious environmental challenges. He Haining and Guo Haiyan report. Modernisation has left Tibet grappling with a sudden growth in rubbish. Since the completion of the Qinghai-Tibet railway , ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Cite Confidential Informant in iPhone ...
    California prosecutors investigating Gizmodo’s purchase of a prototype iPhone have offered a new argument for keeping details of the probe a secret: Public disclosure could compromise “the identity of an informer.” The claim, made in a court filing Thursday, is the first indication that police cult ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Factbox: Chronology of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
    (Reuters) - A drilling rig explosion on April 20 left 11 workers missing and presumed dead, and the rig's subsequent collapse unleashed a major oil spill that threatens the ecosystems and economy of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
  • Libya plane crash kills 103, Dutch boy survives
    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan Airbus jet crashed early on Wednesday as it tried to land in Tripoli airport, killing 103 people on board, most of them Dutch, leaving a young Dutch boy the sole survivor, officials said.
  • WRAPUP 1-Big oil to get more grilling as oil gushe ...
    * Oil execs to be grilled again by U.S. lawmakers * BP stock value drops $30 billion, underscoring uncertainty * Protests planned in several U.S. cities * Oil starting to wash up on shore, BP says
  • WRAPUP 7-Executives trade blame as oil gushes in U ...
    WASHINGTON/PORT FOURCHON, La., May 11 (Reuters) - Executives from BP Plc and other companies involved in a deadly Gulf of Mexico offshore oil well blowout blamed each other in Washington on Tuesday as troops and prison inmates rushed to shore up Louisiana's coast against a huge oil slick.
  • Niecy Nash no longer "Dancing with the Stars"
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Niecy Nash was eliminated from ABC's ballroom competition show "Dancing with the Stars" on Tuesday after receiving the lowest scores from the judges and failing to rally viewers to her side.

Equality Trust

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

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Marler Blog

  • First E. coli O145 Lawsuit to be Filed in Romaine ...
    In a day that Federal and State Officials Confirm Link Between Bagged Romaine Lettuce and E. coli O145 Illness Outbreak , Vaughan Foods Recalls Romaine Lettuce Linked to Contamination , E. coli concerns prompt another romaine recall , Lettuce recall expands as FDA investigates Arizona farm as source ...
  • More on the Raw Milk Issue
    In what seems like a near daily article on raw milk, I gave Georgina Gustin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (my dad was a paper boy for them during the depression) a few choice words: Bill Marler, an attorney who specializes in food-borne illness cases, recently represented two Missouri residents wh ...
  • USDA Announces New Performance Standards for Salmo ...
    From a USDA /FSIS press release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new performance standards to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in young chickens (broilers) and turkeys, fulfilling another key recommendation of the President's Food Safety Working Group. USDA's Food Safety and In ...
  • Michigan Daily links lack of USDA regulation to E. ...
    Suzanne Jacobs of the Michigan Daily wrote in her front page story this a.m., “E. coli outbreak at ‘U’ caused by non-USDA regulated strain,” about the failure of most labs, business and health departments to test for pathogenic E. coli other than E. coli O157:H7. I had a long talk with AP on why I ...
  • 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:

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 05.12.10
    Can the Nissan Leaf really run 0-60 mph in 5 seconds? Not likely We're told CBS got this one wrong. AFVI 2010: T. Boone Pickens believes God gave the U.S. our natural gas supplies God was unav ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 05.11.10
    Video: Fox News reportedly refusing to air ad denouncing dependence on foreign oil We're not confused. AFVI 2010: T. Boone Pickens says V-Vehicles will someday add natural gas to high-mpg model ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will debate democratic strategist Paul Begala on CNN’s John King, USA , on Tuesday, May 11th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Part II: Singer and Civil Rights Activist Lena Hor ...
    The pioneering African-American actress, singer, and civil rights activist has died at the age of 91. We speak with James Gavin, author of, Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne , about her activism, her friendship with Harry Belafonte, President Obama’s remarks after her passing, and more. Pa ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Liquid Hills in Italy - [wow video]
    WOW WTF Liquid Hills!!!
  • New Study Lists the Top 10 Countries Killing the P ...
    A new study has ranked most of the world’s countries for their environmental impact. Listed here are the top ten worst offending countries for absolute environmental impact, those that are just doing the most damage, regardless of per capita calculations.
  • How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
    The spill covers at least 2500 square miles of ocean surface. You can see the extent of the damage here as of May 6th, just southeast of New Orleans. But how big is the spill, really? It's hard to get a sense of the true size when it's over the ocean floor. Use the links below to see how large the s ...
  • Rare Bee Species Lives Alone, Makes Nest From Flow ...
    When we think of bees, we often think of a cartoon-like swarm that populates a giant hive. But a rare new species discovered in the Middle East is about to change all of that.
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Ever More Pervasive Darkness of this World.
    By Les Visible I watched Ahmadinejad’s speech at the U.N. He was measured and respectful. He was less direct than I would have been but he is the leader of a nation and I am not. Well, let’s review a few things and you are welcome to accept what I have to say or disprove [...]
  • Doctors found guilty of getting rich vaccinating o ...
    Christina England Vactruth.com 04/30/2010 A staggering 1,992 Indian doctors were found guilty this week of yet again profiting from the pharmaceutical industries. The Medical Council of India have found that doctors have been violating professional ethics, by excepting gifts, hospitality and financi ...
  • Raw milk battle reveals FDA abandonment of basic h ...
    By Mike Adams 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 ...
  • American Thinker: The World Turned Upside Down
    By Ed Lasky Melanie Phillips, the columnist for the British newspaper the Spectator, has written a fine new book: The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power. Ms. Phillips lives up to her reputation for tackling political and social issues in this attempt to create an o ...
  • The Problems with Al Gore
    By David Deming There are two problems with Al Gore. First, he’s a demagogue who lacks an appreciation for the ethics and methods of science. Second, he’s a not a scientist, but a celebrity and politician who does not understand the technical aspects of science. Put succinctly, the man simply doesn’ ...

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

  • High Altitude Photos of the Lost Horizon BP Oil Sp ...
    Amazing high altitude and satellite imagery of the Lost Horizon BP Oil Spill Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data Gas Spill in Newburyport Poisons River and Sends EPA Scrambling New High Res Photos From the Refurbished Hubble Telescope
  • Spring Creep is a Fast Moving Phenomenon
    Just how quickly is Spring arriving? Faster than it should be. Related posts: New Birds at Your Feeder? The Top 10 Species Moving North Due to Climate Change. [photos] First Day of Spring – 2010 (Photo Essay) The First Day of Spring, 2009 – Photo Sunday
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Frank Gehry Slams LEED, Calls Sustainable Design “ ...
    Frank Gehry, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect responsible for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Dancing House in Prague, has slammed the LEED certification saying it is awarded for 'bogus stuff' and has said that the climate change and sustainable design issue is a "political one."
  • AIA Launches First Living: Home Tours in Marin Thi ...
    Heads up San Francisco architecture fans! This weekend the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco will be kicking off its first-ever set of Living: Home tours in gorgeous Marin County! There will be some breathtaking green projects on display ranging from Dwyer Design’s Radius House reno ...
  • Giant SolPix LED Wall is an Energy Generating Sola ...
    This brilliant SolPix LED wall combines three of our favorite things: energy efficient lighting, solar power, and bling. The giant media wall is embedded with LED lights and a photovoltaic array, plus it can also function as a set of heavy-duty blinds — each piece shifts according to the focus of su ...
  • Modern Cabinets Built from Recycled Gymnasium Floo ...
    Our friends at Designboom recently tipped us off to these beautiful reclaimed cabinets made by Denmark-based Søren Rose Studio. Dubbed âGymnasiumâ, the collection was inspired by the glory days of high school and is made from recycled gym flooring. These cabinets are not only assembled with ren ...
  • Tech to Help Green Your Shopping Spree
    Shopping may seem like it doesn’t quite go hand in hand with being green but unless you’re planning to never step into a store again, it can’t hurt to take steps to alleviate some of the carbon footprint that goes along with buying things. Check out our top tips for making your shopping trips as [.. ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • The Enemy Within: Male Fish Dislike Their Reflecti ...
    Even though a male cichlid is one tough fish, he may be scared of his own reflection. A new study shows that squaring off to fight a mirror opponent can be worse than fighting a real foe. Male cichlid fish readily attack other males as well as mirror images of themselves, posturing and lunging wit ...
  • Hubble Deciphers Misfit Star Mystery
    The massive, hot star seemed out of place when astronomers first spotted it in 2006, and now thanks to Hubble, we know why. The misfit, 30 Dor #016, appears to have been ejected from a cluster of even heftier stars, pinging off of them and off into space at tremendous speed. The star is traveling a ...
  • The Crystals at the Center of the Earth
    Seismic waves traveling between Earth’s poles move faster than those moving east-west, and now scientists think they may know why. The iron alloys in the solid inner core of the Earth appear to have crystallized in such a way that it’s easier for energy to pass on the north-south axis than on the e ...
  • Gravity Lows Mark Burial Sites of Ancient Tectonic ...
    Scientists have unearthed a new explanation for several low-gravity spots detected around the world. Theyâre blaming the anomalies on vast “slab graveyards” that lie buried deep near the planetâs core. When these slabs of rock were buried long ago, they released water that reduced the density o ...
  • Mice Show Pain on Their Faces Just Like Humans
    Mice in pain have facial expressions that are very similar to human facial expressions, according to scientists who have developed the “mouse grimace scale.” The pain expressions of mice could help researchers gauge the effectiveness of new drugs. People have been using similar facial-expression co ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Palestinian Official: I Call Palestine "The New Ph ...
    I recently returned from a trip to Israel and Palestine, where I had the chance to speak with a number of Palestinian officials about the challenges facing the Palestinian national movement. Near the top of the list, of course, was the problem of Israeli settlements. One official remarked to me that ...
  • Iranian Opposition Leader Moussavi Takes Political ...
    Mir Hossein Moussavi released a statement yesterday May 10 condemning the “unjust” executions of five Kurdish citizens of Iran that were carried out in the wee hours of May 9. Moussavi’s statement faced a harsh reaction from hard-liners in Iran that accused Moussavi of siding with “terrorists” and “ ...
  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - China's central bank promised to maintain a "basically stable" exchange rate and a "moderately easy" monetary policy, in its first-quarter report released yesterday. The language has some analysts expecting an imminent shift toward a stronger yuan. Meanwhile, China posted double-digit trade growth ...
  • What's So Backward About "Peace Through Strength"
    Given that the modern GOP is totally bereft of ideas , it shouldn’t surprise anyone to see that the right has resorted to resuscitating old ones.  What is a touch surprising is that many of the old ideas being revived should be so terribly bad.  Take one of the latest recycled concepts gaining trac ...
  • Hapless Terrorists
    Spencer Ackerman thinks Faisal Shahzad 's ineptness is evidence that extremist groups are losing: But maybe TTP doesn’t understand the concepts involved. Or maybe TTP doesn’t have the caliber of disciplined recruit who understands the concepts involved; is willing to give up his life or his free ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: I Blame the System, Society, Elit ...
    An emerging criticism of Elena Kagan is that she is the a product of an elite legal academic culture that is, in Paul Campos ' words , "an intellectually bankrupt and politically corrupt insider game." This argument also has some purchase on the right, most conspicuously in today's David Brooks col ...
  • Consensus and the Court.
    I completely agree with Silvana that Kagan 's credentials as a consensus-builder don't in themselves undermine her liberal credentials. On the other hand, as I implied yesterday, I don't think that one should be under any illusions that Kagan actually will be able to build consensus on the Supre ...
  • Farewell, Facebook.
    Laura McGann says goodbye to the ubiquitous social networking site: The chorus of pro-privacy, anti-Facebook bloggers is getting louder. Facebook wants to keep track of everything you "like" -- all over the Web and even in the real world. McDonald's has signed on as Facebook's first geolocation par ...
  • The Little Picture: Moving Forward on the Gulf Coa ...
    Today, executives from BP and Transocean testified before Congress on the Gulf Coast oil leak. Clean-up and containment efforts are still underway. (Flickr/ U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District External Affairs )
  • William Ayers on Terrorism.
    Via Ben Smith , William Ayers writes The New Yorker to take issue with Nicholas Lemann 's definition of terrorism. An excerpt: Terrorists, he continues, target ordinary citizens, or, when they kill soldiers, their attacks don’t take place on the field of battle. That’s a convenient tautology: if an ...

Andy Worthington

  • Judge Denies Habeas Petition of an Ill and Abused ...
    On April 20, unnoticed by any media outlet whatsoever, a Libyan prisoner at Guantánamo, Omar Mohammed Khalifh (also identified as Omar Abu Bakr) lost his habeas corpus petition. I learned about the ruling through a “Guantánamo Habeas Scorecard” maintained by the Center for Constitutional Rights, but ...
  • With Gordon Brown’s Resignation, Is a Labour-Lib D ...
    Since Friday morning, when it became apparent that no party had won an overall majority in Britain’s General Election, the country has been in an unprecedented state of limbo. Personally, I was surprised at how relieved I was that, despite the overt or subliminal support of just about every media ou ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • An Arizona Minutemen Group Folds
    Apparently, either they were shocked that people answered their calls to violence or they are broke from their profiteering leaderships' greed. The only question in my mind is "how will they reincarnate their particular brand of crazy?" Because as long as there are crazy people around there wil ...
  • Support The Troops - Pay Your Taxes
    Connecticut Man1 It is the tax deadline and this stuff is pretty self explanatory. You pay taxes and they get beans, bullets and valuable training that might just save their lives. When you want tax cut after tax cut? The active duty soldiers serving overseas, in training here or elsewhere and the ...
  • The Root Of The Problem: Education
    From former New Milford raised a glass and brewed Todd Umbarger and without further comment since it says enough on its own (and I could add an essay to this BUT...) : click on this for larger With previous permission from Todd Umbarger . Todd is a New York-based illustrator and draws the politi ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Racist Radio Host Pines for All-White Golf, Segreg ...
    Count James Edwards , host of the Memphis-based white nationalist, anti-Semitic radio show called “Political Cesspool” , as among those likely celebrating Phil Mickelson’s victory at the Masters golf tournament on Sunday. Not because Mickelson is a feel-good story, winning the green jacket as his ca ...
  • Hal Turner to Face Third Trial for Online Threats
    After two juries failed to decide whether he threatened federal judges, hate blogger Hal Turner will face yet another trial in Brooklyn this summer. Turner’s third trial is scheduled for Aug. 9. When Turner’s second trial ended in a hung jury on March 10, the government left open the possibility tha ...
  • Fox Uses Dubious Stats to Demonize Undocumented Im ...
    Fox News made the alarming claim this morning that 2,158 Americans are murdered every year by undocumented immigrants. Problem is, it’s almost certainly wrong . In response to our request for comment, a Fox News spokeswoman said she would look into precisely where that number came from. (We will upd ...
  • Rachel Maddow Goes A-Steinin’
    On its website, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) bills itself as a âreliable source of informationâ on immigration. But FAIR President Dan Stein wasnât exactly reliable on facts concerning his own organization when he appeared last night on MSNBCâs âThe Rachel Maddow S ...
  • An Irritated World Net Daily Denounces Terrible Re ...
    For an organization that loathes the mainstream media, World Net Daily sure craves their acceptance. The book publishing division of the far-right, Obama-obsessed organization released a new title about the president last week and it’s furious about the contempt with which major news organizations h ...

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  • Arizona: Stop Violent Crime By Protecting Undocume ...
    With Mother's Day just past, this is a good time to remember the need to protect women and their children. As you might have heard, "Hips Don't Lie" singer Shakira has used her star status to denounce Arizona SB 1070 as endangering women. Whenever, wherever, she thinks this law "is unjust and it's i ...
  • Hotel Workers Bravely Ask People to Boycott Their ...
    A good hotel is one that's clean, spacious, quiet, and, above all, comfortable. If it strives to provide visitors with a comfortable night's stay, shouldn't it also provide the opportunity for its employees to make a comfortable living? Service industry jobs are notoriously low-paying, back-breaking ...
  • Elena Kagan's Courage on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
    President Obama has made a decision that could impact us for years to come by selecting Elena Kagan , Solicitor General of the United States, as his nominee for the country's 112th Supreme Court justice. If she is confirmed, what will this mean for LGBT Americans and the future of gay rights? Kagan ...
  • Bad News, Bears: National Parks Allow Guns
    Thanks a new law that went into effect earlier this year, people planning to visit National Parks this summer can now pack heat along with their camping gear. But what does the right to bear arms mean for bears and other protected wildlife? Lifting the ban on loaded firearms won't exactly turn our p ...
  • An Omnivore's Dilemma: Does Vegetarianism Really D ...
    A recent study suggests that a vegetarian diet can lower peoples' levels of antibiotics and phthalates , a hormone-disrupting chemical. Researchers tested folks' chemical levels before a five-day stay at a Buddhist temple. During those five days, subjects engaged in the lifestyle of a traditional Bu ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Warns Pakistan over Times Square Bomb Attempt
    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 ...
  • Greece Warns Against Default as EU Finance Chiefs ...
    ATHENS  – Greece's finance minister warned Sunday of the catastrophic results that a debt default would have for his troubled nation as the government prepared to announce an overhaul of the pension system. EU finance chiefs meanwhile met in Brussels to try and stop the collapse in investor conf ...
  • Rising Cost of Carbon Capture is Killing the Great ...
    by Rob Edwards Rising costs have prompted new fears for one of the central planks of the ­Scottish ­Government's strategy for cutting climate pollution. Scottish ministers want to keep ­burning coal in power stations by ­developing technology to capture and store the carbon dioxide they belch out. B ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill: Quick Fix Dashed as BP Tower Fails ...
    by Maev Kennedy and agencies Hopes of a quick fix to stop oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig gushing into the Gulf of Mexico were dashed on Saturday, when a build-up of crystallised gas blocked the pipes in the huge metal containment tower, which then had to be lifted from the seabed. read more

Lifehacker

  • LucyPhone Waits On Hold for Customer Service For Y ...
    Elevator jazz, assurances of "unusual call volumes," having to leave your phone on speaker mode—waiting on hold stinks. Free service LucyPhone can listen to the hold music for you, then call you back when a real human picks up. More » ...
  • Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Picture Insertion
    Gmail just picked up another drag-and-drop feature, less than a month after giving attachments that convenience . Starting in Chrome, and coming to other browsers soon, you can drag pictures into messages to embed them inside the body. More ...
  • Happy Birthday, RAM [Memory]
    Wired notes that the patent for computer memory, and therefore the creation of RAM, was filed 59 years ago today , in 1951. Celebrate by upgrading your computer's RAM (or your MacBook's ). But first, consider whether you really need more than ...
  • Save Money by Paying Upfront Instead of Over Time ...
    Payment plans can make life a whole lot easier if you don't have a reserve of cash, but personal finance blog Get Rich Slowly points out that once you have accumulated some savings, you'll likely get a better deal by paying upfront. More�� ...
  • From the Tips Box: Blu-Ray Exchange, Page Breaks, ...
    Readers offer their best tips for turning DVDs into Blu-Ray discs, starting a new page in a Word document, and gently drying your delicates. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • NYC And The TTP: Spinning The War On Terror
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, Attorney General Holder "flatly asserted that the defendant in the Times Square bombing attempt was trained by the Taliban in Pakistan," and immediately went on to call for neutering Miranda as if the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, hadn't talked both before and after being read hi ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Former Bush officials find work with leading playe ...
    A former Bush administration official whose tenure was marked by systematic attempts to weaken endangered species protections has gone to work for a powerful California farm district that has the same aim in the Delta.
  • Former Bush officials find work with leading playe ...
    A former Bush administration official whose tenure was marked by systematic attempts to weaken endangered species protections has gone to work for a powerful California farm district that has the same aim in the Delta.
  • Former Bush officials find work with leading playe ...
    Pair who weakened endangered species protection plans move to nation's largest irrigation district, a leading foe protecting Delta fish.
  • Water wars
    When the Webb County Commissioners Court voted Monday to oppose a plan to draw water from the Pecos River watershed upstream of the Rio Grande, they became one more voice in the border region speaking out against the proposal.
  • Air, Water Issues Behind Legal Challenges to Georg ...
    , May 10, 2010 (ENS) - Two conservation groups today filed petitions for hearings challenging approvals for two coal-fired power plants issued in April by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, EDP.

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Electronic Intifada

  • Israel imposing occupation tactics on its Palestin ...
    Several examples, including the arrests of Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said, now point to an uncomfortable reality for the self-proclaimed "only democracy in the Middle East": p ...
  • A day in Jerusalem
    Jerusalem is only an hour and a half drive away from where I live in Gaza City. I grew up contemplating the moment I would see Jerusalem, but that day wouldn't come until I ...
  • Israeli settlers attack Palestinian mosques
    LUBBAN AL-SHARQIYA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - "There is immense anger as well as a feeling of vulnerability and fear when a place of sanctuary and holiness is subject to indiscrim ...
  • Fourth annual Houston Palestine film fest opens th ...
    The Houston Palestine Film Festival is proud to bring Houston another year of great films and thoughtful discussion with its fourth annual film festival. This year's progra ...
  • Palestinian civil society slams OECD over Israel's ...
    Palestinian civil society represented by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, a wide coalition of the largest Palestinian mass organizations and trade ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Has the “War on Drugs” gone biological in Afghanis ...
    This is sure to end well: UK and US forces in Afghanistan stand accused of using biological warfare tactics against the region’s opium poppy crops, which are being rapidly swept by some hitherto-unseen disease. According to the Telegraph, yields have dropped by up to 90 per cent in some fields. [... ...
  • UAV drones for the Texas/Mexico border
    When you’ve got a nice new hammer, everything looks like a nail: Statesman.com reports that the US government is about to cave in to pressure from Texan politicos and agree to supply UAV drones for surveillance duties along the border with Mexico: If approved, the unmanned aircraft in Texas would ad ...
  • Photochemical Tissue Bonding: a light touch for ba ...
    File under “new theoretical tech that might end up looking vaguely like something out of Star Trek”: though they don’t provide much detail or any links to such, Gizmag reports briefly on Photochemical Tissue Bonding, which… … can replace conventional sutures, staples and glues in repairing skin woun ...
  • Has the “War on Drugs” gone biological ...
    This is sure to end well: UK and US forces in Afghanistan stand accused of using biological warfare tactics against the region’s opium poppy crops, which are being rapidly swept by some hitherto-unseen disease. According to the Telegraph, yields have dropped by up to 90 per cent in some fields. [... ...
  • UAV drones for the Texas/Mexico border
    When you’ve got a nice new hammer, everything looks like a nail: Statesman.com reports that the US government is about to cave in to pressure from Texan politicos and agree to supply UAV drones for surveillance duties along the border with Mexico: If approved, the unmanned aircraft in Texas would ad ...

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA head plans to improve whistleblower program
    Dr. David Michaels , the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, made his first public remarks today about his plans for OSHA's whistleblower program. The occasion was a meeting of Professionals for the Public Interest . Dr. Michaels opened by stating that ...
  • Rhode Island council member blew whistle on briber ...
    WPRI is reporting on its web page that a recent federal indictment of three members of the North Providence town council arose from another council member blowing the whistle on them. Last Thursday, Town Council President Joseph Burchfield, Councilman Raymond Douglas and Councilman John Zambarano po ...
  • OSHA finds pilot suffered retaliation under AIR 21
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced on Friday that it has found that New Jersey based air carrier Worldwide Jet Charter LLC retaliated against one of its pilots. OSHA has issued a reinstatement order, and this order has immediate effect even if Worldwide chooses to app ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Trio Of Important First Sale Cases All Hit Appeals ...
    Zusha Elinson has noted that a trio of important cases concerning the "first sale doctrine" in copyright law will all be heard on appeal in the (at times wacky) 9th Circuit in early June. We've written about all three cases here before. There's UMG v. Augusto , which questions whether or not it's ...
  • Is A Documentary Investigative Reporting? Should F ...
    While there are still ongoing arguments over whether or not bloggers should be considered journalists when it comes to keeping their sources and source materials confidential, there's another arena impacted by all of this as well: documentary filmmakers. A judge has ordered a documentary filmmaker ...
  • Forbes Recognizes That There Are Better Business M ...
    We've been making this point for years (and living it with our Insight Community offering ), but it appears that other media providers are finally recognizing that there really are other business models than "advertising" or "subscriptions." There's been this theory out there for the longest time t ...
  • Duh: Connecting With People Face-To-Face Makes Mos ...
    Well, here's yet another useless study. Apparently, someone had to do some research to find out that, for most people, it's more preferable to spend time face-to-face with others , rather than just online via social networks and the like: Almost two-fifths, or 40 percent, of those surveyed said ...
  • Can You Copyright Blank Forms Used To File Papers ...
    Eric Goldman points us to the news of a lawsuit concerning the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Inc (ISDA), an industry trade group focused on the financial derivatives market. ISDA supposedly created a set of forms that can be used by parties in a derivatives transaction -- which i ...

VacTruth

  • Exposure to Polio Vaccine Through Aerial Vaccines ...
    Hildegarde Staninger, Ph.D., © Sept. 9, 2009 Presented at the NREP 2009 Virtual Conference, Des Plaines, IL Oct. 5 & 6, 2009 ABSTRACT: The use of adenoviral protein envelopes as specific immunization and nano gene delivery systems has been observed in an individual, who was never vaccinated for pol ...
  • Killed by Polio shot or heart defect?
    AN eight-month-old girl's death, which occurred a matter of hours after she received a polio vaccine injection, has resulted in an inquiry being ordered.
  • Drugmakers: Trypsin likely culprit in Rotavirus va ...
    Rotavirus vaccine makers say they believe a contaminant of the pig enzyme trypsin, used in the vaccine's manufacture, is responsible for the pig virus detected in both GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix and Merck's RotaTeq.
  • Parents need to be convinced their daughters shoul ...
    Even when financial and healthcare barriers are removed, some parents remain hesitant to have their daughters receive the HPV vaccine.
  • Family Claims Vaccine Gave Daughter Seizures
    Alexis Wolf, 16, wishes she had spent this day at school with her friends. But that's no longer a part of her life. Uncontrollable vomiting and seizures have left Alexis brain-damaged.

BroadSnark

  • What if the North Had Seceded?
    Here in the United States, the idea of secession is inextricably tied to slavery.  And there is damn good reason for that.  Despite what some putrid politicians may claim, the civil war was very much about slavery.  But the Confederacy didn’t invent the idea of secession.  They aren’t the only p ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • EU Climate Chief: No US, No Global Climate Deal
    European Union's climate chief Connie Hedegaard via flickr The world needs a binding, fair, and ambitious climate deal, something that was not accomplished in Copenhagen at the end of last year. The stakes are even higher this year, but the U.S.'s intransigence is making the prospects for a glo ...
  • Australia Developing the World's First Biofuel Cap ...
    Both photos: Delta Helicopters Earlier this year, our transport editor, Mike, pondered the concept of diesel helicopters . Well, they may be closer than he thought. Delta Helicopters of Queensland, Australia, are already prepping their Delta D2 prototype to be the world's first diesel helicopte ...
  • Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Gets Green Thumb ...
    photo: Wikipedia While characterizing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as a " nominee for the global warming century " as Climate Progress does might be placing a bit too much flourish on the situation, should Kagan be confirmed all signs do point to the environment having a new ally... Read ...
  • Something Not Covered In Oil - Image of Elusive Fi ...
    Photo via The Guardian; Credit Arthur Kingdon During the coverage of the BP oil leak, we've been watching with our stomachs in knots over the damage being done to marine wildlife. To take a quick breather from the heartbreaking images of birds and shorelines covered in lethal black gook, we hav ...
  • With the Wheel of Nutrition, Even Your Dinner Plat ...
    HAF We have got to the point where restaurants have to post the nutritional content of the food that they serve, but really, is having your dinner plate tell you what to eat a step too far? Rui Pereira and Hafsteinn Juliusson have designed a dinner plate that "reminds us of the fundamentals of ...

Biosingularity

  • Study: Chocolate may reduce heart risk
    The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40%. German researchers followed nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questio ...
  • Prostate drug may work as a preventive
    Men at an above-normal risk of prostate cancer may be able to reduce their risk of developing the disease by taking a drug already on the market. In research reported Wednesday, the drug dutasteride, currently used to shrink enlarged prostates, was found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by abou ...
  • Cancer vaccines may be on the verge of wider use
    One of the persistent frustrations in cancer treatment has been the way that tumors can evade our immune systems as they grow and multiply inside our bodies. Even though cancer cells have special surface markers, known as antigens, the body often doesn’t seem to be able to mount a full-fledged attac ...
  • Insulin-producing Cells Can Regenerate In Diabetic ...
    Replacements for some diabetics’ missing insulin-producing cells might be found in the patients’ own pancreases, a new study in mice suggests. Alpha cells in the pancreas can spontaneously transform into insulin-producing beta cells, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland report on ...
  • Prostate Cancer Results While You Wait
    In an office park in Woburn, MA, a volunteer presents his fingertip for a quick finger stick. A phlebotomist wicks up the small drop of blood with a specially made square of plastic, then snaps the plastic into a credit-card sized microfluidics cartridge and feeds it into a special reader. Fifteen m ...

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Pruning Shears

  • The Bonuses Clearly Worked
    Goldman Sachs appears to be retaining its talent a little too well.
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • The Silent Epidemic -- Legal Prescription Drug Abu ...
    Not a lot of attention is paid to prescription drug abuse. But nearly 20 percent of Americans have used prescription drugs for nonmedicinal reasons.  Three quarters of those may be abusing prescription drugs. Between 1992 and 2002, the number of prescriptions written increased by 61 percent. In tha ...
  • How to Improve Medical Science, for Free
    Randomized, placebo-controlled trials are the foundation of modern medical science. But there's a big problem them -- selective publication. When companies don’t like the results of a drug trial, they just file the inconvenient results away and never publish them. They can keep running trials until, ...
  • Keep Your Toddlers Away From TV If You Want them S ...
    If you want your children to be slimmer and more intelligent, keep them away from the television set as toddlers. A shocking study finds that television exposure at age two predicts negative consequences which range from poor school adjustment to unhealthy habits, including: A 7 percent decr ...
  • Shady Marketing Tricks Used to Trick Your Kids to ...
    Marketers are now creating promotional content that viewers pay more attention to than commercials that can be ignored or muted. Children today can log onto commercial Web sites and create avatars, play with virtual pets and interact with their favorite TV characters. AlterNet reports: “On the McD ...
  • Low Sex Drive? This Contraceptive May Be to Blame
    Many doctors maintain that birth control pills it may lower women's libido, and sometimes lead to sexual dysfunction. A new study adds evidence to this argument. Researchers found that women who used a hormonal method of birth control, such as oral contraceptives, had lower levels of sexual desire ...

Antemedius

  • Trading Due Process For Supposed Security
    It is a central pillar of my philosophy of life that if you live in fear the worst thing that can happen to you already has. While not wanting to get all fan-boy about things Frank Herbert did hit on a small “t” truth when he wrote that fear is the mind killer. This is why there are and have been a ...
  • Feeding Communities by Focusing on Women
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . In Washington DC last week at the House Hunger Caucus briefing, panelist, Cheryl Morden, Director of the North American Liaison Office of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), concluded that, in the global agricu ...
  • The Mind of Elena Kagan
    Editorial Director Bob Cohn of The Atlantic talks with Stuart Taylor of The National Journal about the appointment of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama. Stuart, a Supreme Court expert who used to cover the justices for the New York Times and the author of a post at The Atlantic [May 1 ...
  • Will Republicans Run on Tea Party Issues?
    In 1949 a book by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. first appeared that would launch a phrase that would live ever thereafter. The title of his book was “The Vital Center,” which ultimately became a catch phrase for a political phenomenon that was far from his intent, and in fact incurred the disapproval of t ...
  • When the CIA Overthrew Iran for British Petroleum
    The current Gulf tragedy and the dangers of an enthusiastic “Drill, baby, drill!” pattern highlights the issue of how big oil has flexed its mighty muscles in the international political sphere. Today’s ongoing tragedy involves the same British Petroleum that in 1953 used the CIA in a menacing way t ...

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

  • A puerility of politicians
    - Because when people die as a direct result of your cheap-assed governance, who wouldn’t double down and veto more necessary funding? Worst governor not from an original Confederacy state ever. But there is a solution. Go to the 400 Bar on the West Bank Wednesday night to see John Doe, Exene Cerven ...
  • Our downpressor society
    It’s like a big joke and we’re the butt of it. Each day we learn more about Bush’s crimes (and Obama’s refusal to prosecute them), and Obama’s penchant for hanging on to the power Bush-Cheney usurped for themselves at the expense of our Constitution. Today’s education includes: Revelations that Elen ...
  • Misty colored memories
    From the otherwise utterly forgettable Guy Gardner: Warrior #26, December 1994. I’m not saying this particular issue phoned it in, but leaden dialogue aside here’s what their newly elected Bill Clinton looked like: Gipperesque, imho.
  • Civil wars never end
    Doesn’t it ever freak out the Zionists that their new political buddies keep bringing back Fred Malek? Does anyone really think that any liberal could ever cut up and bbq a dog and still have any kind of political future? But seriously, it’s OK if you’re a Republican. Pedophilia? Be as hands-on as y ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Update: CFS Fighting Monsanto in the Supreme Court ...
    On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Watch a short message from CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell, an ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • NORAD to fly exercise missions over Minnesota
    ShareThis NORAD to fly exercise missions over Minnesota 11 May 2010 If you see military jets flying alongside passenger planes in the skies today, don't panic, it's just a drill. [Well, until they*go live.*] The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will be conducting exercise flights ove ...
  • Shin Bet blackmails al-Quds students
    ShareThis Shin Bet blackmails al-Quds students 12 May 2010 The Shin Bet is reportedly trying to entice Palestinian medical students to join the Israeli intelligence service by promising entry permits to al-Quds (Jerusalem). The spying agency allegedly tried to blackmail two fifth-year medical studen ...
  • David Cameron becomes Prime Minister after coaliti ...
    ShareThis David Cameron becomes Prime Minister after coalition deal with Liberal Democrats 12 May� 2010 David Cameron has become Prime Minister after agreeing a deal with the LiberaMr Cameron, 43, becomes the youngest premier since Lord Liverpool almost 200 years ago, and the first Conservative in N ...
  • Impatient Lib Dems begin talks with Labour
    ShareThis Impatient Lib Dems begin talks with Labour 11 May 2010 Nick Clegg's Lib Dems began formal discussions with Labour last night on a possible power-sharing deal that could allow Gordon Brown's party to stay in office for up to five more years. In a dramatic gesture yesterday afternoon, the Li ...
  • Nato has only seven months to take Kandahar from t ...
    ShareThis Nato has only seven months to take Kandahar from the Taleban 11 May 2010 The campaign to drive the Taleban out of Kandahar province has until the end of the year to succeed if it is to capitalise on maximum troop numbers and political unity, Nato commanders and Western diplomats told The T ...

Daily Loaf

  • Office organizing and productivity tip: The import ...
    We need to be realistic about what we can actually get done each day. That’s why a daily to-do list is important.
  • New Senate energy bill would allow Florida to opt- ...
    According to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the proposed energy bill last night, it would allow states directly affected by offshore drilling to veto drilling plans of nearby states if they can show significant negative effects from an accident.
  • On the Radar: the Tempus T-Shirt Show and a Berlin ...
    Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming arts events to mark your calendars for. Forget looking at boring paintings just hanging there on a wall: this weekend’s art exhibitions use everything but a canvas on which to share the artist’s unique visions. The T-Shirt Show features the wor ...
  • Do It Today: Minus the Bear roars at The Ritz, All ...
    For their fourth full-length, Omni, Seattle-based indie rock five-piece Minus the Bear (pictured) signed with new label Dangerbird Records, brought on Grammy-winning producer Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, My Morning Jacket), and tried a more organic approach in the studio (fewer scratch track ...
  • Insurgent Republicans jump on immigration as a way ...
    There haven't been any polls released locally to determine if Marks is getting any traction on the issue, but one of his opponents, Dana Young, echoed Marks' attitude when discussing illegal immigration on Monday night in a debate, saying it is costing Floridians nearly $4 million a year

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • About the Secret Empire that has just decided to C ...
    (adapted from this Monday post on Daily Kos. Since then, the gag has been partially lifted, most probably due to the combined pressure of bloggers ignoring the gag and the Israeli-Palestinian community openly protesting the arrests.) No, this story does not come from the Occupied Territories, where ...
  • What if Tea Partiers were Palestinians?
    By Jesse Bacon The Congresswoman from my neck of the Big Woods, Michele Bachmann (R-Parallel Earth) made headlines when she compared the census to WWII Japanese internment camps. It seems to be a common belief in the Tea Party movement that the government is planning to round up its supporters; thei ...
  • Hebron From All Angles
    For the past three Saturdays I have attended the new wave of weekly Hebron protests in the Casbah (Old City). The protests are intended to disrupt army-accompanied settler tours that pass through the Casbah each week, and demand the re-opening of Shuhada Street and an end to the occupation of the c ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Schwarzenegger: Budget cuts will be “very terrible ...
    Among the cuts to close the gaping $20 billion California deficit could be welfare programs “including the main one that provides cash and job assistance to families below the poverty line.” That sounds like food stamps to me. So, those least able to survive will be hurt the most. They of course ar ...
  • Purple pokeberries could be used to create afforda ...
    The purple juice from the berries can be used to coat inexpensive fiber-based solar cells, increasing efficiency, say researchers. Pokeberries proliferate even during drought and in rocky, infertile soil. That means residents of rural Africa, for instance, could raise the plants for pennies. Then ...
  • Oil spill: Feds Won’t release BP inspection record ...
    CBS News asked Mineral Management Service for safety inspection records for Deepwater Horizon. It took the MMS a week and a half to reply saying, we can’t release it because it’s “part of an ongoing investigation” and that they were going “scrutinize these documents very carefully to ensure they me ...
  • Solar water heater from plastic bottles
    A retired mechanic in Brazil, José Alano, has invented a simple, effective solar hot water heater using discarded plastic bottles. The idea has spread and there are now thousands of them installed. The alternative water heater can provide power savings of up to 30 per cent, but apart from that, Ala ...
  • Irish protesters storm Parliament over bankster ba ...
    Why aren’t protesters taking the same kind of action, Futurejacked asks.

Coteret

  • Yediot: After bowing to US pressure on OECD vote, ...
    Turkish gesture Itamar Eichner, Yediot, May 12 2010 [page 15; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Thirty-one countries voted on Monday unanimously to approve Israel’s inclusion in the OECD.  It has now become apparent that this initiative was not thwarted due to a Turkish gesture and heavy A ...
  • Sfard: The lesser known settlement freeze deal
    Cross-posted with permission from The Middle East Channel. Recent and related Coteret posts: Nahum Barnea: Under Obama, deceit on settlement expansion is no longer viable | Maariv feature documents âsettlement freezeâ sham | Makor Rishon: US Ambassador and other officials regularly review de ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • Blackwater (XE) is funding a Crowd-Sourced America ...
    There is not an article to write about this just yet, but we wanted to share with you the website in question where the organization is creating a massive crowd of snitches and rats. Here is the link to the website: http://snapscouts.org/ Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | ...
  • This Day In History – May 12
    1780 – Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces. 1862 – U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. 1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of ...
  • Drunk Power Tripping Cops Steal Pizza & Assault St ...
    Just more evidence on how these criminals with badges think they are above the law and can do anything they want. At the same time, they attempt to subdue and oppress the citizens that they are supposed to “serve and protect” into following the same laws that they intentionally and continuously brea ...
  • Gov. Paterson urges civilian-led task force for ho ...
    Gov. Paterson wants more people to react like the two hero street vendors who saw something and said something last week in Times Square. The governor, visiting Lance Orton and Duane Jackson, the guys who alerted police to Faisal Shahzad’s smoking car, called last night for the creation of a ta ...
  • Red Cross confirms ’secret jail’ in Ba ...
    The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility for detainees that is distinct from its main prison, the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC. Nine former prisoners have told the BBC that they were held in a separate building, and subjected to abuse. The US military says the main priso ...

The Air Vent

  • Worst of all worlds
    From WUWT, national cap and trade rears its ugly head. From greenhellblog, WUWT, and John Pittman, a summary of the next method to steal your money.  Don’t bother with the summary, at least read the section by section. Summary Section by section The liberals are proposing one of the most evil bills ...
  • The state of climate temperature data.
    Bart Verheggan left a comment on the recent global land temperature thread which supports Eric Steig’s comment, that one of the reasons scientists don’t have good surface temperature data, is because it’s unglamorous. Eric Steig made some very insightful comments here. I have the same experience as ...
  • 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 [.. ...

Focal Point

  • BP to Deploy "Top Hat" to Staunch Gulf Geyser; Nex ...
    Oil giant BP announced a new plan to staunch the high-pressure oil geyser befouling the Gulf of Mexico, they call it the Top Hat . The Top Hat is a slightly smaller version of 100-ton steel and concrete box BP tried to lower onto the ruined, gushing wellhead. Unfortunately, buoyant methane crystals ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Analysis: Some Facebook Privacy Issues Are Real, S ...
    Facebook has consistently pushed its users to make more personal information public over the last several years. It believes doing so will allow it to offer better products to users, and the marketers and developers who want to reach them. But some users, privacy groups and politicians have matched ...
  • Users Can Now Manage Event RSVPs from the Facebook ...
    Facebook has launched an addition to its home page events tool: a button that shows the number of pending event invitations, which folds out to allow users to manage RSVPs from the home page’s right sidebar. The right sidebar of the new home page launched in February and hosted a list of upcoming ev ...
  • Asian Growth on Facebook Lead by India in April 20 ...
    India has at last taken the lead in growth for the Asian continent, a position that it may continue to hold for a good long time. It’s hard to argue with a population of 1.1 billion people; and China, the only country in the world with a higher population, doesn’t allow [...]
  • Mostly Television, Some Musicians on This Week’s T ...
    Television shows ruled our list of Top 20 Facebook Pages again this week, as measured by our PageData tool, counting the number of fans added to a Page each day. We’ve seen the rise of the TV show on the list for a few weeks, knocking out most of our regulars like Facebook’s Page and [...]
  • Hallmark Social Calendar Becomes More Game-Like, A ...
    When Social Calendar got its start back in 2008, it was an application that essentially tried to outdo Facebook’s own Events function, keeping users up to organize events and keep up with important dates, like friends’ birthdays. In the time since then the app’s developers have added a number of ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Verdict on UK’s hung parliament: a plague on all y ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the unappealing suitors of Britain’s Liberal Democrats – the kingmakers in the new hung parliament – and the problems of the Liberal Democrats themselves.
  • From Shas to Hamas: the group behind the “South Pa ...
    Maidhc Ó Cathail views the role of supposed Jewish converts to Islam in confirming the Islamophobic propaganda of US neo-conservatives and the Murdoch-owned media who try to scare Americans into fighting Israel’s wars with dire warnings that the Muslims are coming.
  • 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.

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

  • The Brazen Turkish Lobby
    Leading Law Firm Hires Accused Criminal to Head Up New Office in Turkey DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest international law firms, is opening for business in Turkey. According to The Lawyer magazine,”DLA Piper has been targeting Turkey after bringing on board (former Under Secretary of State) Ma ...
  • 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

Afro Spear

  • Sean Penn in Haiti–NGOs Not Spending Money T ...
    This is a Repost From The Haitian Blogger Sean Penn in Haiti: NGOs Not Spending Money to Head Off Diphtheria Epidemic I just read this post from the Haitian Blogger. Very shocking that a child has died from a very treatable disease, but not surprising. I’m glad that at least Sean Penn bore witness t ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • 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.

David J. Gregory

  • I need your help….
    This a contest that Advance America is running, they are a payday advance business, which unfortunately, I’v been dealing with since the beginning of the year. I had anticipated ending our relationship when my income tax return. Social Security confiscated that money because they said they had overp ...
  • Rate the link within this post, thanks
    Please consider rating this page to help me out, thanks Dave Please rate the page below and forward it to your friends… There is also a link on this page to enter a daily contest for $100.00 prize. http://www.americadeservesaraise.com/nomination/rebekahs_dad Most people have a future while others on ...
  • 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 ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Monthly Undermining Task, May 2010: Mind Your Lang ...
    Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free But what price now for a shallow piece of dignity - A Design for Life, Manic Street Preachers Could these be the most ironic lines ever written, or just a dumb piece of worthy lyricism? Take them apart and any scholar of European history will ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Afghanistan, Iraq And Next Pakistan?
    By Gulam A. Mitha Does it have to be that an entire country and its innocent civilians have to be punished after the failed New York Times Square bomb attempt by one person? It seems to be that way. Maybe another false flag operation was planned to issue stern warnings to Pakistan that should ther ...
  • Lieberman Preys On Voter Fears, Proposes Law To Pr ...
    By Liliana Segura Days after Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen and resident of Connecticut, tried to blow up a car bomb in Times Square, Sen. Joe Lieberman seized on renewed fears of a terrorist attack to announce his latest legislative gambit: the Terrorism Expatriation Act -- or TEA ...
  • Assassination of US Muslim Cleric Is Illegal, Immo ...
    By Bill Quigley Assassinating Awlaki in the US would be murder, a capital crime, punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty. Morally, few would argue that agents of the FBI or the CIA could murder the cleric in the US. If it is illegal and immoral to kill a Muslim cleric in the US why ...
  • After Religion Fizzles, We are Stuck With Nietzsch ...
    By Chris Hedges We are rapidly losing the capacity for the moral life. We reject the anxiety of individual responsibility that laid the foundations for the open society. We are enjoined, after all, to love our neighbor, not our tribe. This empowerment of individual conscience was the starting point ...
  • The Century Of Famine
    By Peter Goodchild Famine caused by petroleum supply failure alone will result in about 2.5 billion above-normal deaths before the year 2050; lost and averted births will amount to roughly an equal number

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

  • Happy Yom Yerushalayim
    Ani Yehudi – I am a Jew Matisyahu - Jerusalem (Out Of Darkness Comes Light) Happy Jerusalem Day 2010 from AICE Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list. Feel free to reproduce any article but please link back to http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
  • Harvard Astrophysicist: Global Warming Probabiliti ...
    Broccoli, Hogwash, Balderdash. Phoney, Baloney, Tripe and Trash. Those words were written by Oscar Hammerstein II for the musical Allegro he wrote with Richard Rogers, but they could have been written by , Dr. Willie Soon, a solar and climate scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophy ...
  • Why Did The SEIU Pay The White House Political Dir ...
    We all know about the love connection between President Obama and former SEIU head Andy Stern, but we sometimes forget that the SEIU influence on the White House goes beyond Stern.� Political Director Patrick Gaspard used to be the head of the SEIU in New York and former SEIU New York boss Patrick G ...
  • Hot Off The Presses! CBO Increases Estimated Cost ...
    Hot off the Presses, the Congressional Budget Office� released� a revised estimate of Obamacare, adding� about $115 billion more in discretionary spending over ten years than the original cost projections which were already suspect. The additional spending would bring the total estimated cost of the ...
  • Its Time For America to Be Smarter Than Our Enemie ...
    “I always disagree…when people end by saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence. In the same way, a man can k ...

The Real Agenda

  • Una Conflagración Financiera de Proporciones Inmen ...
    Dinero creado de la nada, una depresión inflacionaria, años de gastos desmedidos, la deuda griega impagable, la zona europea enpeligro, una pérdida de integridad en los mercados de EE.UU., cargos criminales contra Goldman Sachs, bancos a la ofensiva en transacciones de alto riesgo, la Reserva Federa ...
  • 1 Trillón de dólares Robado de los Contribuyentes ...
    Los estrategas políticos europeos dieron a conocer un paquete de préstamos sin precedentes por el valor de casi $ 1 trillón de dólares  y un programa de compras de valores, para detener una crisis de deuda soberana que amenaza con destruir la confianza en el euro. El Euro fue sacudido la semana pasa ...
  • Brasil viola Libertades Civiles
    Brasil es conocido por la samba, hermosas playas y gente amable. El país es a menudo comparado con los países más desarrollados debido a su tamaño, población y recursos. Pero hay una cosa más en la que Brasil es similar a los llamados países desarrollados: Brasil también viola las libertades civiles ...
  • Casa Blanca y British Petroleum Encubren Desastre ...
    Wayne Madsen Report WMR ha sido informado por fuentes del Cuerpo de Ingenieros del Ejército de E.E.U.U, la Agencia Federal de Emergencias (FEMA), y la el Departamento de Protección del Medio Ambiente de Florida, que la Casa Blanca y British Petroleum (BP), que donó 71.000 dólares en el 2008 a la cam ...
  • White House, British Petroleum Oil Spill Cover-Up
    Wayne Madsen Report WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama’s 2008 presidentia ...

Wind Watch

  • 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 ...
  • Lincolnshire wind farm rejected to help autistic b ...
    A North Lincolnshire wind farm plan has been rejected because of the “serious effect” it would have on eight-year-old autistic twin boys living nearby. Anita and Trevor Glathorne, whose Burton upon Stather home is already overlooked by one wind farm, said the rotating blades affected their sons. The ...
  • Caribou threatened by wind farms, expert says
    The wind-farm industry is putting threatened woodland caribou herds at increased risk by seeking to put their projects on the same windswept alpine ridges that represent critical wintering habitat, a provincial caribou expert warns. Dale Seip, a wildlife ecologist with the Ministry of Forests and Ra ...
  • Locals keep eye on wind farm petition; Landowners ...
    A trio of environmental groups are seeking to list the Steens Mountain area with other protected areas in the state, such as the Crater Lake National Park and Columbia River Gorge National Scenic area. Wind projects are not allowed in protected areas, and the listing would shut down two wind proje ...
  • Cape May Historic Preservation Commission urges Ci ...
    CAPE MAY – Modern windmills could detract from the historic character of this Victorian seaside resort that uses its history to attract tourists. Modern windmills also could save huge amounts of money on energy. Those are the two sides of a debate here as Cape May’s Historic Preservation Commission ...

Not My Tribe

  • Freedom Flotilla flagship off to Gaza
    The rechristened MV Rachel Corrie sails today from Dundalk, Ireland, to join the Freedom Flotilla intent on running the blockade of Gaza. Israel is already warning Cyprus against allowing the humanitarian convoy to shelter in its ports, and Turkish supporters are rebuffing Israeli threats to bomb r ...
  • Speaking of Outrageous lies, and the lying liars w ...
    Gordon Brown, who orchestrated the buildup to War in Iraq along with Cheney, his meat-puppet Bush and Bush’s Poodle then-PM of the United Kingdom Tony Blair is resigning as Prime Minister. After not very casually admitting that he and Bush and Cheney and Blair knew beforehand that the “evidence” aga ...
  • “Warrior” drops peacekeeping pretense
    COLO. SPRINGS- Just down the street, all week, the Olympic Training Center hosts the Warrior Games, a Special Olympics for wounded vets. And there it is: not injured peace- keepers, not disabled freedom-bringers, not usurpers of foreign lives and liberty taken down a notch, but Wounded fucking Warri ...
  • Surprise, they literally screwed the Watchdogs
    The Oil companies, that is. A 2008 interior department investigation found some MMS employees took drugs and had sex with energy company representatives. Some staff had also accepted gifts and free holidays, amid “a culture of ethical failure”, according to the investigation. No, babe, it’s not lik ...
  • Seize BP put cleanup fund in escrow
    Colorado Springs isn’t big on anti-corporate indignation. We tried Wall Street rallies, stood beneath WaMu with posters crying JUMP YOU FUCKERS! but got no takers. Not much understanding of finance fraud in the provinces: our teabaggers are so used to heckling hippies, they forget which side of the ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Time To Broadcast The Truth
    If you're like me, then you're probably pretty irritated by all the new and pointless features Youtube is adding to their site. They're making it more and more difficult all the time to upload the videos you want to upload. There are so many good videos out there about 9/11 related stuff, and it's a ...
  • 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

Fooducate

  • Logic FAIL: Sodapop is 90% Water, The Most Importa ...
    Last week NPR held an interesting debate about the taxing of sugary soft drinks. Representing the Cokes and Pepsis of the world was Maureen Storey of the American Beverage Association. In her words: Soda is comprised mostly of water. A full-calorie soft drink has 90 percent water, and a diet soft ...
  • 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 ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Wall Street crash exposes world of stock market el ...
  • 'Vampire Squid' Goldman Sachs confesses it is bein ...
  • Stock market time bomb?
    The derivatives market is now estimated at $700 trillion (notional, or face, value, not market value). The world's gross domestic product in 2009: $69.8 trillion; America's, $14.2 trillion. The total market cap of all major global stock markets? A mere $30 trillion. And the total amount of dollar bi ...
  • Samuelson: Death Spiral of the Welfare State
    Aging populations have been promised huge health and retirement benefits, which countries haven't fully covered with taxes. The reckoning has arrived in Greece, but it awaits most wealthy societies.
  • Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes ...
    A former contractor who worked for BP claims the oil conglomerate broke federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintain crucial safety and engineering documents related to one of the firms other deepwater production projects in the Gulf of Mexico, according to internal e ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran: Brazil and Turkey make new nuclear proposal
    Summary: Iran said Tuesday that Brazil and Turkey have offered a promising new proposal for a nuclear fuel deal as Tehran steps up a diplomatic push to stave off new U.N. sanctions over its disputed nuclear program. source: Associated Press read more
  • Iran criticizes U.S. for inconsistent policy to Ir ...
    Summary: Ali Larijani Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, noted that the Obama administration was "sometimes offering jests and sometimes resorting to its old ways." Reiterating that Iran would continue on its path of peaceful nuclear energy, he stressed that "Iran has never turned away fro ...
  • IAEA Promises Not to Compare Israeli Nukes to Iran ...
    Summary: In an attempt to salve over concerns that the IAEA’s discussion of the Israeli nuclear arsenal would bring any actual policy change, officials are saying that the IAEA will not, under any circumstances, attempt to draw a parallel between Israel and Iran. source: AntiWar.com read more
  • Israel says it's better prepared for war with Iran
    Summary: Israeli F-15C Baz Jets Israel's deputy premier said Monday that Israel's air force has improved its capabilities and is better prepared for a war with Iran, considered a dangerous enemy because of its nuclear program. source: AP read more
  • Iran urges Shell, Repsol to decide on gas project ...
    Summary: The head of National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) Reza Kasayizadeh said Monday that Iran has given Shell and Repsol two weeks to make their final decision on investing in key gas projects in southern Iran, the local satellite Press TV reported. source: Xinhua read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Scientists Challenge Climate-Change Naysayers: "As ...
    "Climate change is a theory as certain as the theory of the Earth’s age (4.5 billion years), the Big Bang Theory, and the theory of evolution." Members of the National Academy of Sciences, in their words, have countered the "lies"...
  • Chandra Space Observatory Locates "Missing Matter" ...
    One of the great, unsolved mysteries of 21st-century science is the existence of the missing matter of the universe. Using observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, astronomers have announced a robust detection of a vast reservoir of...
  • Vast Clouds of Life's Building-Blocks Discovered i ...
    The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potential life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion Nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy and one of the most prolific chemical factories in space, although the full...
  • Mysterious Dark Hole in Space Discovered for 1st T ...
    ESA’s Herschel infrared space telescope has made an unexpected discovery: a dark hole in space. The hole has provided astronomers with a surprising glimpse into the end of the star-forming process. A cloud of bright reflective gas known to astronomers...
  • Russia's Mars "500" Mission Replicates the Real St ...
    A crew of six, including two Europeans, will soon begin a grueling simulated mission to Mars, the Mars 500 experiment, that will last as long as a real journey in a mockup that includes an interplanetary spaceship, Mars lander and...

Natural News

  • Influenza vaccine sends children into convulsions
    (NaturalNews) Influenza vaccines have sent 57 children into life-threatening convulsions, reports The Age out of Australia. These influenza vaccines were being give to children under five to "protect" them from seasonal flu, but after receiving the shots, these children started going into convulsion ...
  • New research: vitamin K protects against non-Hodgk ...
    (NaturalNews) Non-Hodgkin lymphomas belong to a large group of immune system cancers involving lymphocytes (white blood cells). In 2009, according the National Cancer Institute (NCI) about 65,980 Americans were diagnosed with this form of cancer and almost 20,000 died from the disease. But now scien ...
  • Call for ban on BPA chemical in baby bottles
    (NaturalNews) Seven leading scientists have sent a letter to the United Kingdom's Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, urging him to ban the use of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in products intended for use in feeding infants. "We urge you now to adopt a standpoint consistent with t ...
  • Presidential cancer advisors find courage to warn ...
    (NaturalNews) When a government panel of experts finds the courage to tell the truth about cancer, it's an event so rare that it becomes newsworthy. Late last week, a report from the President's Cancer Panel (PCP) broke ranks with the sick-care cancer establishment and dared to say something that na ...
  • Terminal cancer patients spend final days sufferin ...
    (NaturalNews) A new analysis just published in the journal Cancer concludes that a significant proportion of terminally ill cancer patients spend most of their final days and weeks subjected to grueling radiation therapy (radiotherapy). What makes this extra heartbreaking and downright outrageous is ...

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Cite Confidential Informant in iPhone ...
    California prosecutors investigating Gizmodo’s purchase of a prototype iPhone have offered a new argument for keeping details of the probe a secret: Public disclosure could compromise “the identity of an informer.” The claim, made in a court filing Thursday, is the first indication that police cult ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Tea Parties Rage as Taxes Hit Lowest Level Since 1 ...
    For almost a year and a half, furious Tea Party protesters have been chanting "Taxed Enough Already." But as it turns out, "taxed enough" actually means " at the lowest levels since 1950 ." That's the word from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which found that Americans paid the smallest overall t ...
  • Republicans Defend Slavery to Attack Kagan
    One month after Republican Governors Bob McDonnell and Haley Barbour celebrated a slavery-free version of the Confederacy , the GOP is defending slavery in order to attack President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan . In an RNC memo released today, Republicans blast the former clerk to Thu ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Israel's 'disappeared' (Nadia Hijab, Agence Globa ...
    At first it seemed bizarre. Israel slapped a blanket gag order to prevent media coverage of the May 6 arrest of Ameer Makhoul, a prominent Palestinian citizen of Israel who heads Ittijah, a coalition of 64 major civil society organizations. Yet in no time at all the news had shot round the world, an ...
  • Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Pers ...
    Established in 1998, the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BRC) "defend(s) and promote(s) the rights of Palestinian refugees and IDPs (to) advance (their) collective rights." In January 2010, BRC published a report titled, "Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Interna ...
  • US urges Middle East peace push (Al Jazeera)
    Barack Obama, the US president has warned that Israel and the Palestinians will be held 'accountable' if either side takes actions that undermine US-mediated talks, the White House has said. The White House did not elaborate on Obama's warning, but the United States has long-standing concerns about ...
  • Israel does not yet deserve a place in the OECD ( ...
    Australia missed a chance to defend international law and human rights by voting this week to support Israel's application for membership to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD was founded in 1960 by states practising democracy and free market principles to di ...
  • Israel seeks to silence dissent (Ben White, The G ...
    Last Thursday, in the early hours of the morning, a Palestinian community leader's home was raided by Israeli security forces. In front of his family, the wanted man was hauled off to detention without access to a lawyer, while his home and offices were ransacked and property confiscated.

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

  • Senate votes 96-0 to audit Fed - World News
    Editor's note: If with this vote, the US Senate actually intends to carry out a righteous (?) audit of the Fed it may mean that they finally see the house burning down around them. If that audit is a real threat, the shredders at the Fed must be smokin'. -...
  • The Panama Deception - Panama
    Introduction by Arturo Rosales – Axis of Logic columnist � This video is more than a historical document concerning US relations with Panama. It is probably the main document in public circulation covering the December 20th 1989 invasion of Panama by US forces to overthrow General Manuel N ...
  • The Oil Spill: Accident or Cyber Attack? - Critic ...
    Before the massive oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, experts and politicians confidently said that it couldn’t happen. Or, if something did go wrong, the impacts would be swiftly contained with minimal leaking. Now that those assurances have been proven wrong, they claim that it was an a ...
  • How Media helps U.S. escalate war in Pakistan - Me ...
    Much Western media attention has been devoted to the Saturday, 1 May, failed bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square. As I wrote recently, had the bomb been set up by some white Christian American-born American the story by now would be just a sheet of newspaper blowing around in...
  • Free Ameer Makhoul! Stop Repression of Palestinian ...
    May 6, 2010 at 6 am the Israeli General Security Service and Israeli police raided Ameer Makhoul’s home in Haifa and arrested him. Makhoul, serves as General Director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and Chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Fre ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    $90,000,000 That is how much Phoenix could lose as conventions and events that were to be held in the city cancel their plans because of the offensive and odious anti-immigrant law that mandates police racially profile the people they come in contact with. But wait! There's more! If the state keeps ...
  • Cherish This Secular Victory - It Won't Last
    Wonkette, at 2 p.m. this afternoon: The Supreme Court and the Obama Administration and the Troops/Veterans and Jesus all got together to try to keep an illegal goddamned religious statue in Mojave National Preserve, but guess what? The Devil is stronger, because He Is Legion, and the dumb/hideous Mo ...
  • BP Is Still Grappling With Its 2005 Texas City Dis ...
    While various officials try to sort out who's to blame for the environmental disaster, not to mention the deaths of 11 workers, in the Gulf of Mexico, it may be time for a bit of context. BP, the London-based multinational oil giant that's behind the huge Gulf oil spill, is still paying for a March ...
  • Yay, Bernie!
    I was a little bit peeved at Senator McCaskill earlier this month when she came out against Senator Sanders' "Audit the Fed" amendment. "What the hell?" I thought to myself. "She was our State Auditor! Why is the auditor scared of an audit?" Especially after she voted for an audit of the fed just la ...
  • More Nuclear Power Plants - Yeah, That's the Ticke ...
    Daniel Dayen at FireDogLake: We know now that the containment dome in the Gulf has failed, meaning that the underwater gusher spurting 200,000 gallons into the water will persist for weeks if not months. Tar balls have hit the shore in Alabama, and the toll on marine life will be great. With months ...

Care 2

  • What Does a Justice Kagan Mean for Indian Country?
    The answer at this point is nobody knows, or could possibly know. Solicitor General Kagan has almost no paper record of scholarship on Indian law, no judicial opinions, and little else in the way of a paper trail. Her most intimate association with Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Cultur ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell Dog-Killing Police: Stop Parami ...
    Police in Columbia, MO recently carried out a paramilitary-style raid at the home of a local man suspected of possessing marijuana. In the process of raiding his home the police shot his dogs and arrested him as his wife and seven year-old son watched. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • Who shot a bald eagle near Rainier?
    The Fish & Wildlife Division of the Oregon State Police are asking for the public's help to identify who fired a shotgun at a bald eagle late last Submitted by Lone Wolf to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Protected areas vital for saving elephants, chimps ...
    In a landscape-wide study in the Congo, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) found that core protected areas and strong anti-poaching efforts are necessary to maintain viable populations of forest elephants, western lowland gorillas, and chimpanzees Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Not ...
  • More than half of the world's plants and animals ' ...
    For decades, rare exotic species such as the tiger, panda and snow leopard have become symbols of the world's disappearing wildlife. But according to a new report, common animals are vanishing at an even more alarming rate. Submitted by Simone D. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...

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

  • The incredible shrinking Kim Jong-il
    North Korean leader Kim Jong-il emerged from his reclusive life last week for a rare visit to China looking every bit the part of a man nearing 70 recovering from serious illness
  • The coming conflict with China
    2008 was the last presidential election when voters didn't know or care about the candidates views on China, argues political risk analyst Ian Bremmer.
  • Managing in a crisis, EU style
    The European Union struck a last-minute deal early on Monday that may have prevented a global debt crisis. But has the EU's tendency to get things done only when they reach a point a crisis gone too far this time?
  • Finding your inner Neanderthal
    You may wonder what great-great-great grandma would have looked like.
  • Ordinary Indonesians mourn loss of Finance Ministe ...
    The decision by Indonesia's reformist Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati to move to the World Bank must have thrilled those politicians who lobbied hard to dethrone her and derail her anti-corruption drive. But Indonesia's 'wong cilik' or the little people appear to be in mourning.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Virus Warning Message–Worry Not
    We don’t know why, but folks who are on Microsoft systems are getting a warning that the site is UNSAFE. NOT TRUE. Fear not. We’re trying to figure out what’s going on. Hang in there. Thanks. THE NOQUARTER GANG
  • Separation of Church and State: Drawing the Line i ...
    The Mojave Desert, an unforgiving expanse that joins the lower part of California with Arizona, is not a place to run out of gas. The mostly federal land, yellow and rocky except for brave cacti, appears mostly inert for as far as the eye can see. It’s as if nothing at all ever [...]
  • Obama: Information Distracts You but Not Me
    During a commencement address in VA, PBO lamented the media age. (Obama laments much whenever he talks, doesn’t he? He’s got that faintly disapproving condescension down pat.)This is from Agence France Presse. HAMPTON, Virginia â US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbo ...
  • Tell Me Again Why Freddie Mac
    And Fannie Mae are not included in the big Financial Reform Bill? I am just curious since they helped create this economic situation in which we find ourselves, and have drained billions of dollars from the coffers over the past couple of years. Now they want MORE. Oh, yeah – Freddie Mac is [...]
  • Euro Crisis Merely Delayed, Not Averted
    They blinked. The European Union and European Central Bank stole a play from the wizards in Washington to avert an immediate currency crisis in the EU and the potential ripple effect around the world. Did they do the right thing? For me, the question of addressing the fiscal crisis within the EU is ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Bike Riding: The Best Fitness Exercise
    Riding a bike is the best option to stay fit, and it is even more beneficial if you ride your bike to your workplace. You can reach your workplace with ease and save time read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • The Lethal Radioactive Core that Killed Two Physic ...
    An account of the two fatal incidents caused by what has gone done in history as the infamous 'Demon Core' plutonium core. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Destructive Power of Sound Bullets
    Newton's cradle, a desk toy, has inspired a powerful new weapon capable of obliterating submarines or tumors... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Worms and Caterpillars: Nature's Wriggly Invertebr ...
    We may not think fondly of the slimy things that slither noiselessly beneath our feet and in the plants around us, but they have a purpose and a beauty all of their own read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • 5 Unusual Facts About Stars
    They're out there, shining away in the night sky, and we see them every night. Here's five interesting facts about stars you probably didn't know... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Will Gulf Fish Get a Break?
    While the uncontrolled oil leak caused by the blowout of a BP-leased offshore rig presents a sensational image of environmental harm, the battle over the red snapper is a telling illustration of a far more devastating impact:industrial-scale fishing.
  • Amid Conflict, a Consensus on Efficiency
    Hundreds of local government officials, business executives and advocates for energy reform are gathered to talk about energy efficiency in Washington. Amid endless policy conflicts, it's touted as an easy point of agreement.
  • On Our Radar: The Spill, Viewed From Space
    Legislators in Florida will weigh a constitutional amendment to ban offshore drilling.
  • Live-Blogging the Senate Hearing on Offshore Drill ...
    Green live-blogs a Senate hearing on offshore oil drilling and the BP oil accident in the gulf.
  • Obama Proposes to Split Drilling Oversight
    The Obama administration is proposing to split the agency that oversees offshore oil drilling into two parts, one to inspect oil rigs and enforce safety, the other to oversee leases for drilling and collect royalties, the White House said Tuesday.

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

  • Clegg Throws the People Under the Bus
    Michael Collins “I genuinely believe it is the national interest, in the interest of everybody in Great Britain, first to use this opportunity to usher in a new politics after the discredited politics of the past.” Speaking to rally for proportional representation: Nick Clegg, May 8 Nick Clegg an ...
  • Deadline: Detroit, Michigan – Sit in at Governor J ...
    Sit-in at Michigan Governor Jenniffer Granholm’s Office on May 12th!  Walk-out by Detroit high school students on May 18th Readers of Daily Censored know that they can get the most up to date news on the fight against the privatization of education at this site.  No where more than Detroit can one s ...
  • Innocent but on Death ROW!
    www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please Tune in for an engaging and informative interview with Juan Melendez. Mr. Juan Melendez was an innocent man who spent nearly eighteen years on death row for a crime he did not commit. The was a documentary made about Juan titled “Juan Melendez 6446″. Th ...
  • Economist Tim Madden: The PIIGS Brief: understandi ...
    source. Tim Madden is an economist with expertise on credit and banking. Tim and I are colleagues in lobbying government for public banking, with concentration in the US for state-owned banks (and here). The good news is that structural solutions to our economic controlled demolition are obvious and ...
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics endorses femal ...
    The Academy suggested it was OK to go ahead and “nick” a newborn female’s clitoris because the families of some “African or Asian cultures” would get it done in otherwise horrific conditions.  FIRST, let it be known that female genital mutilation, fgm, is a not so uncommon Muslim practice.  Giving i ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • Pakistan editorial: Hillary's bluster
    The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. Hillary's bluster � � The Frontier Post May 10, 2010 No harm would have come to her health, had Hillary Clinton, U.S. secretary of state, before shooting off her odious bluster of severe consequences to Pakistan done a bit of s ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #348
    UAE security sector benefits from al-Mabhouh assassination. US knew Guatemalan Army was behind notorious 1982 massacre. New presiding judge in US FISA court.
  • India blacklists Chinese phone companies over spyi ...
    The government of India has officially barred a number of Chinese telephone equipment providers from operating in India, citing their strong links with the Chinese military.
  • News you may have missed #347
    CIA drones now target non-listed targets in Pakistan. Democrat Senator presses Obama for more NSA powers. Lebanese officer charged as Israel spy may get death.
  • Analysis: An Economic Security Role for European S ...
    Last February, Spain’s intelligence service, CNI, began investigating alleged suspicious efforts by foreign financial speculators to destabilize the Spanish economy. There are indications that other European intelligence services are following in the CNI’s footsteps. On the website of the Research ...
  • News you may have missed #346 (Iran spy ring editi ...
    Iran denies connection with Bahrain spy ring. Kuwait media banned from reporting on alleged spy ring. Saudi minister denies Kuwait visit linked to Iran spy ring.

After Downing Street.org

  • SCIENCE SUMMARY
    Racial Disparities Evident in Taking Sexual Histories in Emergency Departments Children's Well-Being Another Casualty of Recession: Researchers See Marked Increase in Abusive Head Trauma Cases During Economic Downturn Toddlers and TV: Early Exposure Has Negative and Long-Term Impact Hardship and Hu ...
  • Senate Votes to Audit the Fed
    Senate Votes to Audit the Fed By John Nichols | The Nation “The Fed can no longer operate in virtual secrecy,” declared Vermont independent Bernie Sanders Tuesday after the Senate voted 96-0 to add his " Audit the Fed " amendment to the financial regulatory reform bill. The Senate amendment is not ...
  • Protests As US Congress Opens Oil Spill Hearing
    Protests as US Congress opens oil spill hearing | AFP Protesters called out "BP kills" and waved signs denouncing the British energy giant Tuesday as the US Congress opened its first hearing into the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "BP kills wildlife, BP kills people, BP kills the pl ...
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  • War Escalation Funding Bill to Get Lipstick, Eye L ...
    Looks like Senate wants to add LOTS of gloss to this pig, and House wants to vote only once and only on the glossed-up Senate version.--DS Senate panel readies war funding bill, flood aid By ANDREW TAYLOR (AP) WASHINGTON — A top Senate Democrat is fashioning a nearly $60 billion measure mixing war ...

Grist - News

  • A three-way blame game at oil-spill hearing
    by Jonathan Hiskes Here's your 30-second wrap of the first congressional hearing on the BP Gulf oil disaster: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hauled in executives from BP America, which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig; Transocean, which owned the ...
  • White flight and the urban-suburban switcheroo
    by Jonathan Hiskes Suburban ChicagoCourtesy Scorpians and Centaurs via FlickrThe idea of racially diverse American cities ringed by mostly white suburbs is essentially flip-flopping, according to the Brookings Institution's big new demographic report, " The State of Metropolitan America ." T ...
  • The Yes Men send an intern to the Bolivia Climate ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes Prankster duo the The Yes Men sent an intern to the "people's" climate summit in Bolivia last month, and he made a pretty entertaining video. The alternative conference, led by Bolivian President Evo Morales , skewed toward the global down-with-capitalism crowd and doesn't ...
  • Political fallout from the Gulf oil spill: Hill he ...
    by Randy Rieland Now it's really starting to get ugly.� Not in the Gulf of Mexico -- that's already borderline hideous -- but in Washington.� The top execs of the three partners in the toppled, leaking oil rig -- BP, Transocean, and Halliburton -- made their first public appearances before C ...
  • Louisiana fishermen say media, not oil, killing th ...
    by Agence France-Presse The fish are still flowing: yellowfin tuna from the deepwaters of Louisiana.Photo courtesy of www.NRDC.comVENICE, La. - Louisiana's charter fishermen are slamming media coverage of the Gulf oil spill for doing more damage to the tourism industry than the slick itself, wi ...

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Time - Top Stories

  • Will the Gulf Oil Spill Block Alaska Drilling Plan ...
    In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon accident, it is unclear whether the energy company Shell will pursue drilling for oil and natural gas in the Arctic waters off Alaska's northwest coast
  • Afghan Taliban Endgame Talks Set for Karzai's U.S. ...
    The Afghan President appears to be seeking Washington's backing for talks with the Taliban, but the Administration may not yet be ready to go there
  • How Many Republican Votes Can Kagan Woo?
    For all that her rollout has gone smoothly, Elena Kagan would be lucky to garner 65 votes for her confirmation -- a relatively low level of support for a Supreme Court Justice.
  • American Idol: Judging the Final Four
    Last night, Jamie Foxx made a return appearance to American Idol to coach the four remaining singers in -- the music of the movies! The songs of the silver screen! Les chansons du cinema! Who was a box-office smash? Who went over like Ishtar?
  • After Maoist Protests, Nepal Faces a Murky Future
    Last week, traffic in Kathmandu was bullied off the streets as tens of thousands of Maoist protesters hoping to topple the current government barricaded stretches of the capital's main road on May 4

Washington Independent

  • Failure of Regulators to Regulate Led to Recent Di ...
    "Regulation is like a four-letter word," said one former Labor Department official.
  • Oliverio Ousts Incumbent Mollohan in W.Va. Primary
    Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) tonight became the second incumbent in a week to be ousted by his own party, losing to state Sen. Mike Oliverio 56-44 percent in the primary in West Virginia’s 1st District. Mollohan has been in Congress since 1983 and had easily fended off challenges since his first re- ...
  • Tomorrow’s Climate Bill, Today!
    Below is the leaked text of the draft climate bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil tomorrow (via Post Carbon): PowerActDraft
  • Feinstein, Bond: No Definitive Evidence Yet Tying ...
    Following a classified briefing on the attempted car-bombing of Times Square for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the panel’s leadership said there was not yet definitive evidence tying the Pakistani Taliban to the failed terrorist attack believed to be perpetrated by naturalized U.S. ci ...
  • Senate Votes to Study, Not Wind Down, Fannie and F ...
    The Senate just voted on two amendments tackling the loss-taking government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which stabilize the mortgage market at a $7 billion-per-month cost. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Judd Gregg’s (R-N.H.) amendment to end Fannie and ...

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

  • Mearsheimer: Israel’s fated bleak future as an apa ...
    By John J. Mearsheimer, Chicago Tribune, May 9, 2010 President Barack Obama has finally coaxed Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. He and most Americans hope that the talks will lead to the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Regrettably, that is not goi ...
  • Oil Companies To Face Gulf Spill Hearings
    Oil Execs To Face Senate For First Spill Hearings Tuesday TPM MUCKRAKER Justin Elliott | May 10, 2010, 6:23PM On Tuesday officials from some of the major companies involved in the Gulf oil spill will face senators for the first in a long series of congressional hearings. First up, at 10 a.m. ET, the ...
  • CIA allowed to kill terrorist suspects without ide ...
    uruknet.info, May 5, 2010 By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times, reporting from Washington CIA drones have broader list of targets The agency since 2008 has been secretly allowed to kill unnamed suspects in Pakistan. The CIA received secret permission to attack a wider range of targets, including sus ...
  • Intel officials: American missiles kill 10 in Paki ...
    The Guardian/UK, May 9, 2010 RASOOL DAWAR, AP foreign Suspected U.S. missiles struck a house in Taliban-dominated northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 10 people in the latest American strike targeting militant leaders, intelligence officials said. The strikes were in North Waziristan, a tribal r ...
  • 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 [ ...

Solari

  • David Cameron PM Statement
    YouTube Related reading: David Cameron Enters No10 as Prime Minister ITN (12 May 10) General Election 2010: Timeline of The Day David Cameron Became Prime Minister Telegraph.co.uk (12 May 10)
  • The Popsicle Index Rant
    I have said it 1,000 times. I will keep saying it. At the root, it is very simple. The Popsicle Index is the % of people who believe a child can leave their home, go to the closest place to buy a popsicle and come home alone safely. For my entire life I have watched the people [...]
  • Social Irresponsibility Down
    I just noticed that stocks high on my list of “least socially responsible” started dropping in April relative to general market levels. Here is a stock chart comparing the S&P 500 over the last six months to leaders of the suppression of the precious metals market, Goldman (GS) and JP Morgan Chase ( ...
  • Growing Number of Earthquakes
    View larger chart at USGS Earthquakes website View larger chart at USGS Earthquakes website Establishment date for HAARP: 1983
  • 40 Million Americans on Food Stamps
    By Charles Abbott Nearly 40 million Americans received food stamps — the latest in an ever-higher string of record enrollment that dates from December 2008 and the U.S. recession, according to a government update. Food stamps are the primary federal anti-hunger program, helping poor people buy food ...

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

  • Under threat radio station wins awards
    BBC 6 Music enjoyed a successful night at the radio industry's biggest awards event despite being earmarked for closure. Former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker won the Rising Star award for his radio show, while fellow 6 Music presenters Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish walked away with the Best Comedy gong at ...
  • Drugs promise longer life 'in two years'
    Scientists may be able to launch drugs within the next couple of years that will help people live to more than 100 years old. Professor Nir Barzilai, a leading age scientist, claims that drugs tackling a range of illness faced by elderly people are just around the corner. He said that while the drug ...
  • UN calls for electricity for all
    The United Nations has published an ambitious roadmap calling on countries to ensure all people have access to electricity by 2030. This is seen as a key driver in the elimination of poverty and the improvement of health. However the report is also keen to ensure that this does not put at risk lowe ...
  • Child labour in the US exposed
    Child labourers in the USA are routinely subjected to dangerous conditions which would not be tolerated in many developing countries, according to a new report published by Human Rights Watch last week. Many work long hours from an early age and are forced to buy equipment from their own wages which ...
  • Dream trip for newlyweds
    Two lucky newlyweds have won a six-month trip to explore romantic honeymoon destinations. Mark and Denise Duffield-Thomas, from London, won the "Ultimate Job in Ireland" competition, organised by Runaway Bride and Groom. The competition, launched in February, attracted 30,000 applications from over ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The hidden key to understanding Europe’s cri ...
    Summary:   The response by major national governments to the Greek crisis is rational, and inevitable.  It has nothing to do with Greece, and everything to do with these government’s own debts and deficits.  This is the key to understanding the crisis. {Trantor’s} dependence upon the outer worl ...
  • FM newswire for May 11, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Everyday another potential shockwave:  “Rumbles hint that Mount Fuji is getting angry“, New Scientist, 5 May 2010 “Sovereign Debt Problems in Advanced Industrial Countries“, William B ...
  • If humanity is unprepared for Peak Oil, here are s ...
    One reason the arrival of peak oil might catch the world by surprise is the repeated false predictions by peak oil experts.  Confident predictions, often contemptuous of mainstream experts.  The quality of their work is often shoddy, their admissions of error are rare.  Repeatedly crying wolf is the ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Toxic ash threatens Iceland animals
    BBC – Farmers in southern Iceland have been racing to protect their animals from being poisoned by volcanic dust. The animals are at risk of fluoride poisoning if they inhale or ingest the ash, leading to internal bleeding, long-term bone damage and teeth loss. Sheep, cattle and horses were rushed ...
  • Elena Kagan’s Goldman Sachs Ties Brought Up Again
    Huffington Post – Just days before the president is expected to announce his choice for the Supreme Court, the perceived front-runner for that post is being plagued by a story that actually broke in March 2009. Read article
  • Wall Street crash exposes world of stock market el ...
    Telegraph – In 10 bone-shaking minutes on Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average – representing the 30 most venerable US firms – briefly lost almost a tenth of its value. Open-jawed investors blanched as the pensions and savings of millions of Americans were decimated, along with the livelih ...
  • Regulations increase cost of dangerous-pathogen re ...
    Nature – Complex US regulations governing experiments with dangerous pathogens and toxins have reduced research efficiency, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1 this week. The average cost of a research paper on the Ebola virus has increased from abo ...
  • Obama revives Russia civilian nuclear pact
    BBC – US President Barack Obama has revived a civilian nuclear energy pact with Moscow, which was shelved in the wake of Russia’s 2008 conflict with Georgia. Mr Obama resubmitted the pact to Congress, saying US-Russian co-operation over Iran justified the move. Read article

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

  • GM Looks to Hawaii for Affordable Hydrogen
    GM has announced that is partnering with Hawaii utility The Gas Company to develop hydrogen fueling infrastructure on the island of Oahu. The utility produces hydrogen along with synthetic natural gas.  Through this partnership, it will tap into its pipelines, separate the hydrogen from the natura ...
  • Think EVs Coming to U.S. By End of Year
    Think Global has come back from teetering on the brink of bankruptcy in a big way.  The Norwegian automaker just raised $40 million in investments that will drive their expansion into North America. It was just last year that the electric car manufacturer had to stop production of their TH!INK Cit ...
  • Using Underwater Kites to Generate Power
    Minesto, a spin-off from Swedish automaker Saab, is developing what it calls it's "Deep Green" technology , underwater kites tethered to the ocean floor that could produce continuous energy from tidal flows. A single Deep Green turbine could produce up to 500 kilowatts of electricity. And tides ...
  • Weather Notes from Both Poles
    Indicators continue to show disturbing trends and unexpected events, indicating that changes are taking place in the Earth's environment. The South Pole has had its warmest year ever (since recordkeeping began in the 1950s), and the North Pole experienced unexpected rain in late April. "My busin ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • The GOP v. Elena Kagan: Yet Another Wretched Farce ...
    Body "I don't know anyone who has had a conversation with her in which she expressed a personal conviction on a question of constitutional law in the past decade," wrote the respected SCOTUSblog's Tom Goldstein of Elena Kagan. And we know why. She wanted to be on the Supreme Court. Ho ...
  • 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 ...
  • Oil, Big Money and War: It's All Connected. There' ...
    WINSLOW MYERS FOR BUZZFLASH ������ �� "It is our own ethics, our buying power, our involvement, our votes, our holding great powers accountable, that is the only possible key to redressing the present dysfunctional imbalances—imbalances between impersonal corporate power and the well-being of shrimp ...
  • Are Most Progressives Too Passive When They Should ...
    MICHAEL WINSHIP FOR BUZZFLASH The original title for Michael's commentary is "Kent State and the Frisbee Revolution," BuzzFlash Felt the primary and vital message of this profoundly important essay is the title BuzzFlash wrote, "Are Most Progressives Too Passive When They Should Seize the Agenda?" I ...
  • Stop Playing Political Games and Start Making Sens ...
    Body � Irrational discourse and political high jinks are proof that we are far from establishing a sense of common national purpose. The Tea Party movement, birthers, and a new group, the “Tenth-Amendment Task Force,” are converging to further disrupt an already fractured political la ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • "Washington Intellectual Dishonesty" defined
    In the post I wrote yesterday after the Kagan announcement, I noted one genuinely encouraging aspect of her record:  in 1995, she rightly excoriated the Supreme Court confirmation process as a "vapid and hollow charade" because nominees refuse to answer any meaningful questions about what they think ...
  • How people spew total falsehoods on TV
    I appeared on The Rachel Maddow Sho w last night to articulate the case against Elena Kagan, and was then followed by Kagan friend and defender Larry Lessig of Harvard Law School, who spent five minutes (in my absence) trying to discredit me and what I said (video of the two segments is below).  Alt ...
  • Obama's natural choice of Kagan
    (updated below) It's anything but surprising that President Obama has chosen Elena Kagan to replace�John Paul Stevens on the� Supreme Court .� Nothing is a better fit for this White House than a blank slate, institution-loyal, seemingly principle-free careerist who spent the last 15 mon ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • My favourite chemistry things
    Skeptical Chymist tells me (via Twitter) that they were enjoying the favourite things about chemistry meme started by ChemJobber and continued by Azmanam (known to Sciencebase readers for his chemical spelling dictionary and the C+EN team. As is the wont of meme creators, you pay it forward and hav ...
  • Submarine eruptions, hybrid materials, and quarks
    The first three links are to my latest column on Intute is now online: Scrubbing up knowledge of submarine volcanoes – Consider the simple pumice stone next time you're having a bathtime scrub… Metallic liquid crystals – A new class of materials formed by combining liquid crystals and metal cluste ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Kagan's 'Shocking' Record on Diversity
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) ANUPAM CHANDER LUIS FUENTES-ROHWER ANGELA ONWUACHI-WILLIG All three are professors of law: Anupam Chander is at the University of California-Davis School of Law; Luis Fuentes-Rohwer is at Indiana University's School of ...
  • ACLU to Argue in Appeals Court That South Carolina ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union will argue in a federal appeals court in Virginia on Tuesday, May 11 that South Carolina's so-called "sore loser" statute unconstitutionally violates the right of voters and parties to select the candidates of their choos ...
  • Free Press Releases 'New Public Media: A Plan for ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2010 Free Press A new policy paper from Free Press called New Public Media: A Plan for Action presents a series of creative policies and proposes reforms to support quality news reporting in local communities and to build a world-class noncommercial media system in ...
  • Senate Committee Should Question Elena Kagan on Is ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2010 Americans United for Separation of Church and State Americans United for Separation of Church and State today called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on her views concerning a range of church-state issues. President ...
  • Offshore Arctic Drilling Still Scheduled in Less T ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2010 Environmental Groups The following is a statement from the above listed organizations: read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Power of the 'Bond Market' Near and Far
    by Arthur MacEwan With the crisis in Greece and other countries, commentators have said that governments are “under pressure from the bond market” or that bond markets will “punish” governments. What does this mean? —Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Queens, N.Y. It means that money is power. read more
  • Oil Spill Not This Year's Only Environmental Disas ...
    by Bill Berry The gulf oil disaster is plenty bad, but it wasn't the only frightening environmental news in the past few days. The oil spill, of course, has all the right triggers for the media swarm - dead sea creatures, beaches threatened, the fishing industry devastated, politicians running f ...
  • Crime Pays for BP
    by Daphne Wysham It turns out crime pays. Big time. BP, the oil company responsible for what may become the largest oil spill of all time in the United States has been breaking the law, again and again. And each time, the company formerly known as British Petroleum has learned its lesson: Keep break ...
  • Why Local Economies Matter
    by Anna White Around the world, there is a growing movement to pull back from the relentless march of corporate globalization by re-rooting economic and social activities at the community level. From the burgeoning popularity of farmers' markets and food co-ops to the revitalization of community ban ...
  • Teachable Moments -- But Where's the Teacher-in-Ch ...
    by Robert Kuttner This has been a providential month for teachable moments. They have included the details of the government's civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs; the gruesome and needless corporate murder of miners in West Virginia; the BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico; and then to complete ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Privatization Minister To Represent Pakistan PM At ...
    KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 (Bernama) -- Pakistan's Minister for Privatization, Senator Waqar Ahmad, will represent the country's Prime Minister, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, at the 6th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) here.
  • Ecuador considers natives' proposals on Water Law ...
    Soliz said according to the new Constitution, the preallotment will be directed only by the decentralized autonomous governments to health, education, research, science and technology sectors. "The transfer of preallotment will be predictable and automatic, other budget allotments are prohibited," S ...
  • Four battling over House seat in 48th District
    Marcellus shale, state taxes and term limits have emerged as top issues this year in the battle for the 48th District legislative seat being left vacant by state Rep. Tim Solobay, D-Canonsburg, who is seeking a state Senate seat.
  • Soybean Wars
    Land reform put on hold as President Lugos already mixed record becomes even more muddy, particularly when it comes to honoring his pledge to give land to the landless.
  • Arizona lightbulb idea is shot down
    PHOENIX � Arizonans are not going to get a chance to continue to buy the bulbs that bathe their homes in warm incandescent light long after theyre banned everywhere�else. Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday vetoed legislation which would have allowed the manufacture and sale of these traditional tungsten lig ...

Guardian

  • Cameron and Clegg begin running country
    • Theresa May home secretary, Kenneth Clarke justice secretary • Document setting out terms of coalition published today • Alan Johnson out of Labour race; endorses David Miliband 12.05pm: And what about Clarke going to justice? • He is a QC. And he will be happy to tear up ID cards etc. • Cameron h ...
  • Child survives plane crash
    Dutch child believed to be sole survivor after Afriqiyah Airways plane crashes at Tripoli airport en route to London Gatwick A Dutch boy is the only survivor of a plane crash in Libya that killed more than 100 people. The plane crashed short of the runway at Tripoli airport en route to London's Gatw ...
  • Financial crisis not over, says King
    But Bank played down concerns about high inflation and suggested it would fall back below the government-set 2% target over the next two years The Bank of England issued a stark warning this morning that worries over countries' public finances threaten economic growth and that Britain's new governme ...
  • Frost brings winter chill to May
    Snowfall, overnight temperatures of -1C and daytime ones four degrees below normal just days before Chelsea flower show The famously bracing seaside resort of Skegness managed an overnight temperature of -1C, snow flakes fluttered down on Tyneside, and with more snow forecast for the Scottish highla ...
  • Thai red shirts face army siege
    Limiting of water, food and power to Bangkok protest area raises fears of violence as negotiations with government fall apart The Thai government turned to siege tactics today over the standoff with protesters barricaded in central Bangkok, announcing that the army would limit supplies of water, foo ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Will and equity - does climate alternative offer e ...
    No-one I know who survived the two-week incarceration in Copenhagen's Bella Center in December believes everything is tight and rosy with the UN climate process. The yawning chasm between the rhetoric of "the most serious problem facing humanity" and the reality that governments are nowhere near ag ...
  • A financial trick in the familiar biodiversity tal ...
    Often when I've written about biodiversity down the years, I've been assailed by a strong sense of deja vu. While "we're screwing up life on Earth" still sounds like big news to me, it isn't always to news editors, whose reaction is often along the lines of "but we know that". And in truth, the de ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Sen. Carl Levin Promises To Defy Gates And Attach ...
    Roll Call is reporting that Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) will defy Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ request to delay legislative action on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell until the Pentagon Study Group complete its year-long review of the policy and could possibly attach ...
  • Leaked Overview Of Kerry-Lieberman American Power ...
    Tomorrow, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) will unveil their long-awaited American Power Act, comprehensive climate and energy legislation designed to achieve President Obama’s commitment to addressing the threats of our fossil-fuel dependence. Draft summaries of the legislation ...
  • Govs. Pawlenty and Sanford Veto Common Sense Tax I ...
    Due to the effects of the Great Recession, states across the country are facing severe budget shortfalls for the next few years. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, cumulative state budget shortfalls will total $180 billion in fiscal year 2011 and another $120 billion in 2012. A ...
  • Rep. Steve King: Gays Shouldn’t Wear Their S ...
    Over at Good As You, Jeremy Hooper catches Rep. Steve King (R-IA) saying that employers only discriminate against gay and lesbian people because “they wear their sexuality on their sleeve.” During a conversation with Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act ...
  • Bingaman Rebukes Lieberman’s Oil Disaster Ex ...
    Last week, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) defended the inclusion of expanded offshore drilling in the climate bill he will unveil tomorrow, brushing off the deadly Gulf disaster by saying that “accidents happen“: There were good reasons for us to put in offshore drilling, and this terrible accident is ve ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Random Crap
    One would think that the dearth of terrorist outrages in Canada (before and after 9-11 in the UNITED STATES) would have calmed down all the precious darlings hiding under their beds sucking their thumbs. But, sadly no. According to Alison at Creekside , the harpercons are still shitting themselves ...
  • Busy Easter Post
    Here. there.
  • Jeffrey Simpson Was Under the Weather Today
    Or something else was responsible for today's lame-ass column: " Cracks in the bedrock of U.S. - Israel relations? " (Note: He recently wrote something with the title " When the penny drops, denial over health care stops " that must have also been written while he had the sniffles, it's such a brain ...
  • Down to the Wire on Detainee Documents in Parliame ...
    So, the parties are still trying to figure out the mechanics of complying with Speaker Milliken's ruling while respecting the harpercon government's bullshit "national security" concerns. In the Globe & Mail article link there's some speculation about whether the Liberals will attempt to cut a side ...
  • Non-Political Video Post
    Sam and Dave: "Hold On, I'm Coming"

Financial Sense Editorials

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  • 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

  • Groups Urge Lawmakers to Ensure Public Access to W ...
    POGO and other groups (including Americans for Financial Reform) are calling on the Senate to pass an amendment introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that would ensure public access to whistleblower disclosures on financial fraud. Tucked inside the financial regulatory...
  • Congress Should Bring Back One of its Oversight To ...
    POGO just signed on to a letter to Congress with 90 other groups calling for funds for the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in the FY 2011 appropriations bill. Before OTA’s funding was cut in 1995, it succeeded in its...
  • Questions to Ask Salazar About Splitting the Miner ...
    At one o'clock, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will outline his plans to split the Minerals Management Service (MMS) into two agencies, one in charge enforcing safety regulations, inspecting oil rigs, and investigating oil companies; and one in charge of leasing...
  • Splitting MMS a Good Start, but Mission Conflict R ...
    Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar is set to propose big changes for the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS), the government agency responsible for oversight of offshore drilling and collection of oil and gas royalty payments. Salazar reportedly will urge Congress...
  • Morning Smoke: Secretary of Interior Proposes Rest ...
    Proposal to Split Agency That Monitors Drilling by Matt Daley [Associated Press] Hearings to examine current issues related to offshore oil and gas development including the Department of the Interior's recent five year planning announcements and the accident in the...

Digital Journal

  • Community of Osprey Lake, BC
    Leaning off the Hwy 97 west in Summerland, BC, there’s a short drive through the city that links the sunny Okanagan Valley with Princeton with the Old Princeton Highway that starts right outside the city centre.
  • Ontario-Quebec border region rocked by earthquake
    A minor 2.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Ontario-Quebec border region in Canada but did not cause any significant harm or damages.
  • Reflections on Outlawed Belgian, French, Italian & ...
    Belgium's recent burqa ban legislation and France's intention to outlaw burqas raises controversial questions over the issues surrounding the principles of multiculturalism, religious freedom, immigration policies, and assimilation into one's new country.
  • Iranian-Canadian journalist sentenced to flogging ...
    Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and documentary maker was arrested in Iran last year during the protests against the election results.
  • Facebook deletes kitty crush club
    A group of animal torturers called the North Central Cat Death Group has had it's site removed from Facebook. The removal came after complaints from The Ontario SPCA and other animal lovers using the popular social networking site.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Craigslist Makes it Too Easy to Pimp Homeless Chil ...
    The average age at which young girls first become prostitutes in America is 12 to 14 years old . Twelve to 14. They don't look like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and they sure don't get treated like her. No nice man rescues them and buys them thousands of dollars of expensive clothes. That's the fan ...
  • Want Your Own Homeless Person? There's an App for ...
    iPhone users in the UK can adopt a new virtual pet — their very own hobo. The iHobo app is a free game that attempts to give people a sense of the needs of the homeless by putting them in charge of one virtual homeless person's fate. The "hobo," which is the first-ever use of live action video in an ...
  • From Homeless to Homeless Advocate in Washington, ...
    I arrived in Washington, D.C. on the night of July 31st, 2005. Having received many gifts while hitchhiking from Gainesville, Florida, I was able to board a Greyhound bus in Charlottesville, Virginia and ride the rest of the way to D.C. I'd actually come to the capital to get involved in the anti-wa ...
  • Being Homeless In Washington, DC -- My Introductor ...
    I, Eric Jonathan Sheptock, arrived in Washington, DC on the night of July 31st, 2005. Having received many gifts while hitch-hiking from Gainesville, FL, I was able to board Greyhound in Charlottesville, VA and ride the rest of the way to DC. I'd actually come to the capital to involve myself in the ...
  • There's Not Much to Celebrate During National Fost ...
    May is National Foster Care Month , a time to reflect on the country's system of last resort for many kids and to remember the children within it. Like with other national awareness-raising months, attention and ideas for improvement are welcome. But unlike some, like Black History Month or Women's ...

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

  • Dale Robertson – Tea Party Founder
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevinâs interview with the founder of the Tea Party, Dale Robertson, and click here to learn more about this controversial movement.  More on Dale… Tea Party Patriots Tea Party Nation  âObama & The “Tea-Baggers” Tea Party Flexes Muscle in Utah Media vs ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-11-10
    Today, the all-seeing Kevin Trudeau reveals his predictions for the future! Find out how the government is taking advantage of your fears and why so many people are willing to trade in their freedoms for security.  Plus, the founder of the Tea Party Movement, Dale Robertson, stops by to explain why ...
  • A Rare Employment Opportunity with KT!
    I’ve got two amazing employment opportunities! I’m looking for Sales Professionals… * $100,000 Salary plus Commission * All sales made via the telephone * Must have excellent telephone sales skills * Great Benefits * Top sales people can earn over $300,000 per year * No Cold Calling I’m also l ...
  • State Government Agency Brags That It Will Track Y ...
    May 11, 2010 States and federal authorities are so desperate for cash they have begun to resort to television attack ads. Not the sort of attack ads politicians have tried to ban from campaigns either. This new form of attack ad is based upon raw intimidation of the public by so-called public servan ...
  • Congress Members Bet on Fall in Stocks
    May 11, 2010 The Wall Street Journal By Jason Zweig Some members of Congress made risky bets with their own money that U.S. stocks or bonds would fall during the financial crisis, a Wall Street Journal analysis of congressional disclosures shows. Senators have criticized Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...

War in Context

  • Israel’s dark past arming apartheid South Africa
    A new attack on Judge Richard Goldstone is the latest effort in a campaign to direct attention away his allegations that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, but in this instance, questions about Goldstone’s record as a judge in apartheid South Africa are overshadowed by the Jewish state’s own role ...
  • America’s latest nemesis
    Among the many problems the Obama administration inherited from the Bush administration, none may be more troublesome than the fact that the man once granted the status most dangerous man in the world still remains the most elusive man in the world. But if Osama bin Laden can’t be tracked down, may ...
  • The terrorism recruiting myth
    After almost a decade of a US-led global war on terrorism, America’s approach to the issue has barely advanced from being a deadly game of Whack-a-Mole. On CBS, Scott Pelley asked Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: “I wonder if there’s anything about U.S. foreign policy that needs to change in yo ...
  • 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. ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I noted on the news that there is a new plan afoot to cool down the planet. This one supposedly has been given big money by none other than Bill Gates. The plan involves a … Continue reading →
  • IPCC’s Chairman Pachauri Conflicted
    A new paper by the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) explores recent revelations of the commercial links and associations of IPCC Chair Dr Pachauri, including his direct involvement with carbon trading as advisor to the Chicago Climate Exchange and … Continue reading →
  • Preview of Kerry-Lieberman climate bill
    Steve Milloy’s Green Hell blog has the scoop. A poll follows. Leak of the day! Kerry-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill Most of the world will learn tomorrow about the Kerry-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill. But you can check out the bill summary and section-by-section analysis … Continue reading →
  • Spencer on Earth’s missing energy
    Earths Missing Energy: Trenberthâs Plot Proves My Point By Dr. Roy Spencer The plot that is included in Kevin Trenberthâs most recent post on Roger Pielke, Sr.âs blog actually proves the point I have been making: The trend in the … Continue reading →
  • Kerry-(Graham)-Lieberman: a monstrous collection o ...
    By Myron Ebell, via Globalwarming.org The chance that the Senate will pass a comprehensive energy-rationing (a k a climate) bill this year remains close to zero.  BPâs big oil spill in the Gulf changes very little. The global warming movement … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Eastern Europe: From Socialist Bloc and Non-Alignm ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism May 10, 2010 Eleven years ago today the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was in the seventh week of a bombing war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, one which saw over 1,000 Western military ...
  • Arizona and the Alien-Nation of America by Walter ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com May 9, 2010 My father, a federal employee with a top secret clearance, carried a copy of his birth certificate when he went into Baja California from our home in San Diego. Many times, when he tried to reenter the U.S., he was sto ...
  • With ‘Hat In Hand’: American Serfdom b ...
    by Philip A. Faruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 8 May, 2010 A scene in Claude Berri’s fine 1993 film Germinal captures the essence of it all. French coal miners, circa 1880s, are enduring bleak conditions. They have no union, so a group of them ask to speak to the mine owner at his manor house ...
  • CIA allowed to kill terrorist suspects without ide ...
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1093317 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ David Cloud www.smh.com.au May 7, 2010 WASHINGTON: The CIA received secret permission to attack a wider range of targets, including suspected militants whose names are not known, as part of a dramatic expansion of its ...
  • On The Edge With Max Keiser: Ellen Brown on Comput ...
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1093731 with Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com May 8, 2010 PressTVGlobalNews May 08, 2010 — An exclusive interview with Ellen Brown, Author of Web of Debt On The Edge With Max Keiser-05-07-2010(Part1) On The Edge With Max Keiser-05-07 ...

Your New Reality

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    As a British politician journalist, Adam Boulton has endured more than 15 years of Alistair "Master Of Spin" Campbell's infuriating bullshit. The UK election is over, the Labour Party lost, the era of Tony Blair's New Labour is in ruins. Adam Boulton no longer has to put with Campbell's rejigging ...
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    A very young Jon Stewart, in some sort of Fonzie getup, interviews George Carlin on cannabis and creativity :
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    From the 1985 claymation film, The Adventures Of Mark Twain :
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    Osama Bin Bones The Benjamin Button effect in Osama Bin Laden photos : A fascinating read : Did Osama Bin Laden Confess To The 9/11 Attacks, And Did He Die, In 2001 ? David Ray Griffin goes into great detail in the above piece, and his conclusions have a certain logic to them, but there is ple ...
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    You Sir, Just Might Be A Superhero The first time I watched this I thought, for a second, that there was some kind of bubble around this father and his child, protecting them both, from an instant of destruction. But that would be some kind of crazy : The father and child survived. On the fourt ...

Wired - Science

  • The Enemy Within: Male Fish Dislike Their Reflecti ...
    Even though a male cichlid is one tough fish, he may be scared of his own reflection. A new study shows that squaring off to fight a mirror opponent can be worse than fighting a real foe. Male cichlid fish readily attack other males as well as mirror images of themselves, posturing and lunging wit ...
  • Hubble Deciphers Misfit Star Mystery
    The massive, hot star seemed out of place when astronomers first spotted it in 2006, and now thanks to Hubble, we know why. The misfit, 30 Dor #016, appears to have been ejected from a cluster of even heftier stars, pinging off of them and off into space at tremendous speed. The star is traveling a ...
  • The Crystals at the Center of the Earth
    Seismic waves traveling between Earth’s poles move faster than those moving east-west, and now scientists think they may know why. The iron alloys in the solid inner core of the Earth appear to have crystallized in such a way that it’s easier for energy to pass on the north-south axis than on the e ...
  • Gravity Lows Mark Burial Sites of Ancient Tectonic ...
    Scientists have unearthed a new explanation for several low-gravity spots detected around the world. Theyâre blaming the anomalies on vast “slab graveyards” that lie buried deep near the planetâs core. When these slabs of rock were buried long ago, they released water that reduced the density o ...
  • Mice Show Pain on Their Faces Just Like Humans
    Mice in pain have facial expressions that are very similar to human facial expressions, according to scientists who have developed the “mouse grimace scale.” The pain expressions of mice could help researchers gauge the effectiveness of new drugs. People have been using similar facial-expression co ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Shin Bet recruiters enticing Palestinian medical s ...
    The Shin Bet security service is trying to recruit Palestinian medical students as a condition for granting them entry permits to Jerusalem, according to two medical students at Al-Quds University... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Mohammed Barakeh Interview: Is Israel really a fas ...
    "We are demonstrating over the collective slander. An Arab doesn't commit a crime alone, but rather in the name of the Arab nation. This is plainly an attempt to isolate and exclude the Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Video: Ameer Makhoul, Omar Said -Israel lifts gag ...
    In the past two weeks the Israeli internal intelligence agency, the Shabak / Shin Bet, arrested two prominent Israeli activists in the middle of the night. The men are well known leaders of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Ameer Makhoul’s Gag Order
    The original Hebrew version of the gag order issued by the Israeli court in the matter of the arrest and investigation of Ameer Makhoul, and an English translation. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
  • Ezra Nawi to Be Jailed for Non-violent Resistance ...
    On Sunday, 23 May 2010, Ta’ayush activist Ezra Nawi will be jailed for a month for his protest against house demolitions in the Palestinian village of Um al-Chir (see video of action). As openly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Intel Trends

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    * * 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

  • Lettuce Recall Expands as FDA Investigates E. coli
    A recall of romaine lettuce that has sickened students with E. coli poisoning is expanding as the government tries to find out where the contamination occurred. Click here to read this article
  • Dmitry Orlov on Why the US is Headed Toward Soviet ...
    "Really, there's no one at the helm now," Dmitry Orlov says nonchalantly. We are talking about the economic crisis and the way that the destructive system of our economy operates without anyone really leading it. It's a perfect statement from a man who has traded in his house and car to live on a sa ...
  • Organic Practices can Feed the World
    In May 2004, Catherine Badgley, an evolutionary biology professor at the University of Michigan, took her students on a research trip to an organic farm near their campus. Standing on the acre-and-a-half farm, Badgley asked the farmer, Rob MacKercher, how much food he produces annually. "Twenty-seve ...
  • Raw Deal? Farmers Decry Plan to Restrict Sale of U ...
    William Coutu is a dairy farmer who doesn't like milk unless it's coffee-flavored or sweetened with chocolate. But lately it's the state's plan to tighten raw milk regulations that is leaving a sour taste in his mouth. Click here to read this article
  • Nature Loss 'to Damage Economies'
    The Earth's ongoing nature losses may soon begin to hit national economies, a major UN report has warned. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Nuevas fotografías del volcán Eyjafjallajökull Isl ...
    Hace algunos días, le presenté a usted una colección de fotografías sobre la actividad del volcán Eyjafjallajökull en Islandia (si no la vio, haciendo click aquí podrá verla). El día de hoy, le tengo a usted 7 nuevas imágenes que demuestran con detalles pequeñas explosiones causando la derrama de... ...
  • Pasarela por la sabana de Africa (14 fotos de anim ...
    Este paquete contiene 14 fotografías de animales salvajes en alta definición. Descubra con detalle la belleza de nuestra fauna y admire de cerca a las jirafas, leones, changos, pumas, ciervos, venados y zorros. Una verdadera pasarela o safari hacia un viaje imaginario al África, la sabana y las... ...
  • Imágenes de flores para el Día de las Madres (reco ...
    He aquí nuestro especial de flores para el Día de las Madres. En algunos países como España se celebra el primer domingo de mayo y en México festejamos a nuestras madrecitas el día 10 de mayo. Con la intención de que usted tenga a su alcance las mejores imágenes de flores, he realizado esta... ...
  • Flores y corazones para el Día de las Madres (26 a ...
    Este paquete, contiene 26 imágenes de arreglos florales en forma de corazones. Escribe un pequeño mensaje sobre ellos y derrama tu creatividad en aras de celebrar de manera especial este próximo Día de las Madres. Ya no hay excusas para hacerle saber a nuestras madrecitas lo mucho que las queremos.. ...
  • Un paseo por los verdes prados (50 imágenes de 130 ...
    Este paquete, contiene 50 imágenes o fotografías de paisajes naturales. Un recorrido visual por los verdes prados en contacto directo con nuestra naturaleza. Campos, sembradíos, árboles, flores, ríos, montañas y algunos otros elementos propios de las zonas rurales.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la... ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • A Really, Really Bad Idea
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The New York Times is reporting that Moreno-Ocampo has offered Spain’s Judge Garzon a temporary position as one of his advisors: Spainâs well-known investigating magistrate, Baltasar Garzón who is being prosecuted in a case filed by far-right Spanish g ...
  • U.N. Special Rapporteurs Weigh in On Arizona Immig ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m sorry, but I still find the argument that the Arizona Immigration Law violates the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination deeply unpersuasive.  The fact that five U.N. special rapporteurs on human rights have weighed in here with the sa ...
  • Kagan to World: Don’t Ask Me Anything Revealing!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Roger blogged below about how Kagan called in 1995 for substantive questioning of Supreme Court nominees.  Just in time to avoid being asked such questions herself, she’s changed her mind: The White House Monday said that Supreme Court nominee wonât foll ...
  • Upcoming Conference: “International Law and the Is ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Is there anything new or useful to say about “International Law and the Israeli-Arab Dispute”?  Well, a number of scholars (including Ken, Roger, and myself) will try to come up with something next Monday, May 17, during a conference at Northwestern University School o ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Open letter to Nick Smith
    Nick, I’ve listened with increasing interest to your disingenuous attempts to disown your comments from 2005 when you said this: “The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • A Whole Family Approach To Raising At-Risk Kids
    A Whole Family Approach To Raising At-Risk Kids Phoenix, AZ – It’s well-established that parents play a vital role in the education of their children. But some parents don’t have the needed literacy skills. A Phoenix-based foundation is focused on educating at-risk pre-school kids and their parents. ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • We don't Want Your Stinking War!
    This old commentary on Ahmadinejad isn't the usual 'face' put on Iran in the media. Here's more http://ahmadinejadquotes.blogspot.com/ http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/04/politics-of-perception-foreign-policy.html Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
  • How Senator Vitter Battled the EPA Over Formaldehy ...
    When Sen. David Vitter persuaded the EPA to agree to yet another review of its delayed assessment of the health risks of formaldehyde he was praised by companies that use or manufacture a chemical found in everything from plywood to carpet. Delay for $$ Submitted by steve cohn to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • U.N. report: Eco-systems at 'tipping point'
    The world's eco-systems are at risk of "rapid degradation and collapse" - report by Third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3) published by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Eco-systems include Amazon rainforest, freshwater lakes,coral reefs Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� � ...
  • 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

  • Iraq squatter camp population on the rise: UN
    Iraq squatter camp population on the rise: UN :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "BAGHDAD — The number of Iraqis who have fled their... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US encourages Israeli crime: Hamas
    US encourages Israeli crime: Hamas-presstv.ir: "Hamas says the United States is encouraging Israeli criminality by supplying Tel Aviv's war machine.Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Washington is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • France moves to ban burqa
    France moves to ban burqa-presstv.ir:The French Parliament has passed a resolution condemning the niqab full-face veil and the burqa, paving the way for a legal ban.In the pre-voting address to the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • "TIME distorts truth about occupation"
    "TIME distorts truth about occupation":Malalai JoyaAfghan political activist Malalai Joya has criticized TIME magazine, saying it has "painted a false picture" of her.At the end of April, TIME named... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • SPLA, rivals engage in deadly clashes
    SPLA, rivals engage in deadly clashes: "A commander who defected from the Sudan People's Liberation Army and started his own militia in southern Sudan says his men killed 36 SPLA soldiers after the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Adventures of Aggie the Traveling Agrobacteriu ...
    Narrated slide show outlining the genetic engineering process and its effects on health and the environment in a simple and fun, easy to understand format for both adults and children. Order now!
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • NORAD to fly exercise missions over Minnesota
    ShareThis NORAD to fly exercise missions over Minnesota 11 May 2010 If you see military jets flying alongside passenger planes in the skies today, don't panic, it's just a drill. [Well, until they*go live.*] The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will be conducting exercise flights ove ...
  • Shin Bet blackmails al-Quds students
    ShareThis Shin Bet blackmails al-Quds students 12 May 2010 The Shin Bet is reportedly trying to entice Palestinian medical students to join the Israeli intelligence service by promising entry permits to al-Quds (Jerusalem). The spying agency allegedly tried to blackmail two fifth-year medical studen ...
  • David Cameron becomes Prime Minister after coaliti ...
    ShareThis David Cameron becomes Prime Minister after coalition deal with Liberal Democrats 12 May� 2010 David Cameron has become Prime Minister after agreeing a deal with the LiberaMr Cameron, 43, becomes the youngest premier since Lord Liverpool almost 200 years ago, and the first Conservative in N ...
  • Impatient Lib Dems begin talks with Labour
    ShareThis Impatient Lib Dems begin talks with Labour 11 May 2010 Nick Clegg's Lib Dems began formal discussions with Labour last night on a possible power-sharing deal that could allow Gordon Brown's party to stay in office for up to five more years. In a dramatic gesture yesterday afternoon, the Li ...
  • Nato has only seven months to take Kandahar from t ...
    ShareThis Nato has only seven months to take Kandahar from the Taleban 11 May 2010 The campaign to drive the Taleban out of Kandahar province has until the end of the year to succeed if it is to capitalise on maximum troop numbers and political unity, Nato commanders and Western diplomats told The T ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Open letter to Nick Smith
    Nick, I’ve listened with increasing interest to your disingenuous attempts to disown your comments from 2005 when you said this: � “ The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the costs of living and under ...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • if this were happening in the U.S., we would fill ...
    This picture was taken a few hours ago in Palestine, in the village of Bil'in, by the photographer Hamde Abu Rahma. The poster in the photo commemorates Bassem Abu Rahme, who was killed in Bil'in 13 months ago when he was protesting the confiscation of the village's land. Israeli Defense Forces sho ...
  • memo to Obama: construction in East Jerusalem is g ...
    From Ma'an: On Monday, an Israeli cabinet official construction would continue unabated in East Jerusalem, in spite of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's assurances that a slow-down would be implemented in light of Palestinian entry into US-brokered proximity talks. Speaking to Israe ...
  • Homage to Haiti
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--The hundreds of journalists who showed up here right after January 12 missed a key element of the story; the killer earthquake did not strike hardest in the very poorest areas. Out in the seaside shantytowns to the north, in Cite Soleil and La Saline, the single-story scrap me ...
  • Who put charming the Israeli public at the top of ...
    Remember when Obama went off to have dinner with his kids and left Bibi to chill in the Roosevelt Room til he came up with an alternative to "Jerusalem is not a settlement" during the AIPAC fiasco? The Israeli press reported that when Bibi got home he called for an emergency meeting w/ Elie Wiesel [ ...
  • Fungus threatens to delegitimize Israel
    I never cease to be amazed at the strange news items that appear in the Israeli press. And sometimes they are true. An American-Israeli microbiologist named Dr. Joseph Moshe has been linked to the spread of a deadly airborne fungal disease which is reported to have spread from the United States to ...

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
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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

  • EU Climate Chief: No US, No Global Climate Deal
    European Union's climate chief Connie Hedegaard via flickr The world needs a binding, fair, and ambitious climate deal, something that was not accomplished in Copenhagen at the end of last year. The stakes are even higher this year, but the U.S.'s intransigence is making the prospects for a glo ...
  • Australia Developing the World's First Biofuel Cap ...
    Both photos: Delta Helicopters Earlier this year, our transport editor, Mike, pondered the concept of diesel helicopters . Well, they may be closer than he thought. Delta Helicopters of Queensland, Australia, are already prepping their Delta D2 prototype to be the world's first diesel helicopte ...
  • Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Gets Green Thumb ...
    photo: Wikipedia While characterizing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as a " nominee for the global warming century " as Climate Progress does might be placing a bit too much flourish on the situation, should Kagan be confirmed all signs do point to the environment having a new ally... Read ...
  • Something Not Covered In Oil - Image of Elusive Fi ...
    Photo via The Guardian; Credit Arthur Kingdon During the coverage of the BP oil leak, we've been watching with our stomachs in knots over the damage being done to marine wildlife. To take a quick breather from the heartbreaking images of birds and shorelines covered in lethal black gook, we hav ...
  • With the Wheel of Nutrition, Even Your Dinner Plat ...
    HAF We have got to the point where restaurants have to post the nutritional content of the food that they serve, but really, is having your dinner plate tell you what to eat a step too far? Rui Pereira and Hafsteinn Juliusson have designed a dinner plate that "reminds us of the fundamentals of ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • France parliament passes resolution against burqa
    [JURIST] The French National Assembly [official website, in French] on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution [text, in French] condemning the Islamic burqa [JURIST news archive] and other full face veils as contrary to gender equality. The resolution passed with 434 votes [AFP report, in French], ...
  • Vietnam appeals court upholds activists' sentences
    [JURIST] A Vietnamese appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the sentences facing two democracy activists convicted of subversion. The court upheld [BBC report] the sentence of five years imprisonment and three subsequent years of house arrest for prominent human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh [JURIST news a ...
  • Egypt parliament extends state of emergency
    [JURIST] The Egyptian Parliament [official website] on Tuesday voted to extend the country's state of emergency [JURIST news archive] for two years. Despite the two-year extension, parliament voted to limit the application of the emergency laws [Al Jazeera report] only to cases of terrorism and drug ...
  • Suu Kyi files final appeal of house arrest extensi ...
    [JURIST] Lawyers for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] filed a final appeal in Myanmar's Supreme Court on Monday challenging the 18-month extension of her house arrest. The appeal requests that the court forward her case [AP report] to the Special Appellate Bra ...
  • UN rights experts say Arizona immigration law may ...
    [JURIST] A group of UN human rights experts said Monday that Arizona's new immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive] could violate international standards [press release] that are binding on the US. The group of six UN experts, which includes UN Special Rapporteur on human rights of m ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • A Democratic Congressman Is Defeated
    By twelve percentage points, Democrats forced Rep. Alan Mollohan from his West Virginia congressional seat last night. State Sen. Steve Oliverio received 56 percent of the vote to Mollohan's 44%. If you don't count Bart Stupak's retirement, Mollohan was the first Democrat hounded out of his office i ...
  • The Night Beat: Palin's New Book; Dead Heat i ...
    With 20 percent of the vote reporting, State Sen. Steve Oliverio (D) leads incumbent Al Mollohan in the WV primary. Tomorrow at 11:15 AM ET; two parents who tolerate each other and cannot divorce, for the sake of the children, will put on a brave face at the White House. November 23, 2010, right ...
  • Inside the First Lady's Obesity Report
    I've finally gotten through the 98 pages of the First Lady's Let's Move task force report on preventing childhood obesity. It's a substantive document. For those who are familiar with the problem and the research, it would be little more than a good introduction to the quandary were it not for its a ...
  • Macropolitical Moment, 5/11/2010
    Only at this moment in time could a bill that includes a (partial) audit of the Federal Reserve be passed by the U.S. Senate 96 to 0. I recall a time, not three years ago, when Ron Paul was regularly mocked for his call to audit the Fed. Now, Congress's convivial socialist, Bernie Saunders of Vermon ...
  • The City Intellectuals Take Over
    What does it mean to say that Elena Kagan is Barack Obama's Barack Obama? Is this an allusion to her educational pedigree? Her get-along, go-along style? A self-conscious intellectual who molds opinions like silly putty through charm and suasion? A brilliant sphinx? An�Ivy League lawyer, just like O ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Makhoul Secret Court Documents: Gag Order and Ruli ...
    Thanks to some sterling unnamed Israeli sources, I’m displaying both the original April 22nd gag order signed by Judge Einat Ron against Ameer Makhoul and the May 10th decision (pdf) partially lifting the gag order.  As far as I know these documents have not yet been published in Israel.  I hope ...
  • Shin Bet Judge Denies Foreign Media Plays Any Role ...
    A few of my Israeli friends have sent me a link to a Yediot interview with Judge Einat Ron, who I disparagingly call the “Shin Bet judge” in my post title, even though she formally isn’t.  She’s a real judge who might just as well work directly for the Shin Bet since, as with all [...] No related ...
  • Links for 2010-03-15 [Digg]
    TV interview: Mossad Assassination in Dubai A 30 minute interview for ScanTV's "Moral Politics" show dealing with the Israeli Mossad's assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabouh and the repurcussions for Israel from this act.
  • Links for 2010-03-14 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Detains Israeli Reporter for Leaking Top-Secret Mem We're going to be getting into deep territory tonight regarding Israeli military intelligence, the Shin Bet, and their ability to make a mockery of alleged Israeli democracy and free press.
  • Shin Bet Removes Gag, Makhoul and Said Accused of ...
    Shades of Azmi Bishara!  The Shin Bet has dusted off its “Arab terror” playbook and come up with the equivalent of the failed, but tried-and-true old standard: when you have an uppity Arab who’s bugging the hell out of you but doing so in accordance with the laws of the land, arrest him under secre ...

Ode Magazine

  • The modern and traditional coexisting
    By: Anne Thomas One of the many delights of Japan is how the modern and traditional coexist. Sometimes smoothly, most often surprisingly, but coexist they indeed do. I get a chuckle when I see a really tough guy whip out a folding hand fan and flutteringly co ...
  • Goal are gifts, not burdens
    By: tarasophiamohr It’s a funny thing, for many of us, the very concept of goals can bring up all kinds of unhelpful thoughts about: The things we think we should be doing. The things we think a “good person” would do. The parts of ourselves we like least an ...
  • Anti-recession eating
    By: kiasanford As a Clinical Nutritionist, I get a lot of questions that start out something like this: “So I know I should be eating better, but right now my finances are so tight, how can I take care of myself and my family on a budget?” First, I have to say I'm ...
  • Obama should see the value of modern entertainment ...
    By: Marco Visscher Obama has potential to be such a modern, cool president. During his campaign, he and his Blackberry were inseperable. But on Sunday he was being rather arrogant about “iPods and iPads and PlayStations and Xboxes.” He claims they transform "inform ...
  • And the Maggie goes to...
    By: EmilyAviles This past weekend in sunny Los Angeles, Ode Magazine’s May 2009 issue was awarded a Maggie from the Western Publishing Association (WPA) . The Maggies, also known as the Oscars of the magazine industry, have been awarded annually for 59 years and re ...

OpEd News

  • Clegg Throws the People Under the Bus
    Clegg abandons the 52% combined progressive alliance of Liberal Democrats and Labour in favor of the servants of the financial elite. Some reformer!
  • Here We Go Again
    Few issues raise more consternation and rage on the left than the constitutional crisis created by the deranged activities of the Bush administration. Liberals will point to this in disgust and accuse Obama of moving the Supreme Court even further to the right.
  • Why Do Americans Pretend They Have Government?
    The Office of the Presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court are practically useless. If government were functionally effective the U.S. wouldnapos;t be decaying like an overripe grape in November.
  • More Cynicism
    Weapos;ve got this cynicism thing all wrong. As Charles M. Young of ThisCantBeHappening.net explains, we need more real cynicism, not less.
  • Done right, immigration reform will boost the U.S. ...
    The U.S. economy needs immigrants. According to the Center for American Progress, if we passed immigration reform that included legalization, there would be an estimated $1.5 trillion boost to U.S. GDP over 10 years.

Switchboard

  • Metro area commuting data from Brookings: best and ...
    Yesterday the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program released its signature report, The State of Metropolitan America .  The study is a comprehensive examination of a range of data indicators on America’s 100 largest metro regions.  According to the project’s website, the analys ...
  • Resolved: Tar sands are an expensive and risky inv ...
    RESOLVED: Shareholders request that an independent committee of the Board prepare a report (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on the environmental damage that would result from the company’s expanding oil sands operations in the Canadian boreal forest. The report shoul ...
  • Latino Business Owners Say We Should Stay the Cour ...
    As we wait for the highly anticipated draft climate bill coming out of the Senate tomorrow, I’d like to share with you a new Op-Ed signed on to by 10 key Hispanic business owners from across the country. These leaders in the Latino community say that the U.S. needs to lead on climate and cle ...
  • Change Shouldn't Be This Hard
    As Senators Kerry and Lieberman prepare to release the discussion draft of their comprehensive energy and climate bill tomorrow, NRDC is launching a powerful new national TV spot, called “ Change ,” that makes the case for moving to clean energy. This hard-hitting ad reflects both the import ...
  • Rush to Judgement
    Rush Limbaugh called me a wacko environmentalist.  I must consider why. I had said the Gulf oil spill was a problem and the government should do something because of it.  To me this view had the virtue of being a truth – maybe a truism.  But apparently Limbaugh disagrees.  Let’s review the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Four Weeks In, Glee Has Got Its Groove Back
    This week we deal with disability, gender identity, cross-ethnic relationships (OK, ‘deal’ might be too strong a word) and Mercedes and Santana unleash some amazing vocal mojo. Plus we find out where Quinn has been living since Finn broke it off with her. Plus the old Sue Sylvester seems to be back, ...
  • Slap in the Facebook
    Julian Smith: “Listen up, Zuckerberg.” The FB Cartel strikes back: Related posts:The Would-Be Facebook Refugee’s Dilemma No Quarter Like Your Great-Grandmother, We’re Now on Facebook Related posts: The Would-Be Facebook Refugee’s Dilemma No Quarter Like Your Great-Grandmother, We’re Now on Fa ...
  • Damn.
    I have to apologize in breaking in to the 24/7 coverage about the Kagan appointment that our readers expect and demand from LGM, but let’s face it: this is one of the areas we’re damned good at.  I largely agree with the disappointment that my colleagues are articulating. Here in the UK, we have a ...
  • Opportunity Cost
    I’m not saying that she will be as bad as the endorsement suggests. But let’s be frank: when you’re a Democratic president with 59 votes in the Senate and you nominate someone that Glenn Reynolds can get behind, it’s a wasted opportunity. And that goes triple when he’s able to tout with [...] R ...
  • Again With The Judicial Term Limits
    This seems like a good time to note that Matt is completely right about judicial term limits. I’ve been through this before, so rather than elaborating again I’ll just emphasize that since justices are already perfectly free to resign and get rewarded by powerful interests they’ve favored in past ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Suing Toyota
    Dozens of lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. claiming unintended acceleration of its vehicles are moving along in state courts. Discovery in these cases could help plaintiffs' counsel in the federal multidistrict litigation.
  • In major setback for Microsoft, PTO confirms valid ...
    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent confirmation of the validity of a patent that netted i4i Limited Partnership a $290 million infringement judgment against Microsoft Corp. means the U.S. Supreme Court is likely Microsoft's last hope to overturn the judgment.
  • Clash over oil spill MDL pits Louisiana against Te ...
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  • “Gasland”
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  • Ares Resurrection
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    The Niabi Zoo in Coal Valley, Illinois, is considering relocating Babe and Sophie, the two Asian elephants at the zoo, to another zooeither permanently or until the zoo can expand the elephant exhibit. While the zoo's recognition of the current elephant Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...

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