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IPS - Inter Press Services

• San Fight Land Grab in Namibian Park
  
  
  BORICHA, Namibia, May 15 (IPS) - Pensioner Makena Makanga slowly savours a piece of manketti fruit unaware that the tree it came from will soon be chopped down and mulched along with the rest of her forest to make way for a massive agribusiness project.
• GREECE: Turks Bearing Gifts
  
  
  ATHENS, May 15 (IPS) - The first visit in six years of a Turkish prime minister to Greece has been widely hailed as a historical rapprochement after a long period of mutual bitterness.
• Angola's Small-Scale Farmers Welcome Investment, U ...
  
  
  LUANDA, May 15 (IPS) - Think small to overcome big problems - that was the message to African governments being urged to do more to increase food security and reduce hunger and malnutrition on the continent.
• Q&A: Fewer Protests, More Political Pressure to Fi ...
  
  
  LA PAZ, May 16 (IPS) - Moving away from public protests and towards exerting political pressure on leaders in industrialised countries is the strategy chosen by the environmental movement 350.org to fight global warming, said its co-founder Kelly Blynn in an interview with IPS.
• THAILAND: Media Grapple with Questions of Credibil ...
  
  
  BANGKOK, May 15 (IPS/Asia Media Forum) - Two months into Thailand’s anti-government protests and as an army-led blockade is underway to end them, the media are struggling with challenges to their credibility and perceptions of bias in the South-east Asian country’s gravest political stale ...

Scoop - NZ

• How to get global CO2 down to 350ppm
  
  
  In your widely publicized May 2010 letter to Bill McKibben, you ask for specific strategies to achieve a global CO2 reduction down to 350ppm. Here's how, from the United States arm of the international Transition movement. 1. Understand the full magnitude of the problem. Climate change isn't ...
• Giant Plumes of Oil Found Under Gulf of Mexico
  
  
  Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the gov ...
• Are Angelos friends still getting perks from BoA ?
  
  
  While driving to Miami last week, I began receiving phone calls from homeowners telling me they were receiving calls from Bank of America trying to convince them to modify their loan. At first, I thought nothing of it until multiple homeowners began telling me the same thing. They had high income ...
• US housing entering second wave of problems
  
  
  To put it bluntly, the U.S. housing market today is in deep water. Nothing exemplifies the transfer of risk to the public from the private investment banks more than the deep losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fannie Mae announced a stunning first quarter loss of $13.1 billion while Freddie Mac ...
• JOHN KEY: Joke? Or deliberate insult?
  
  
  John Key's recent 'joke' is insulting and quite distasteful. It appears to be part of a recent continuing pattern by this government. I'd hazard a guess that they're worried about polling numbers amongst their own voters, and getting some interesting blowback from their members at recent regional c ...

Independent ( London )

• Canadian fighter jets escort plane after bomb thre ...
  
  
  Canadian fighter jets escorted a Cathay Pacific plane from Hong Kong to a safe landing in Vancouver International Airport following a bomb threat.
• Wagner star and director clash in US costume drama
  
  
  Gods, giants, and mythical dwarves aren't the only flamboyant creatures declaring war on each other in American opera's latest rendering of the Ring cycle. With Wagnerian derring-do, a leading British tenor has just launched a blistering public attack on a high-profile new production of the famous ...
• BP boss defends company against Obama's attack
  
  
  Tony Hayward, the beleaguered boss of BP, was fighting a rearguard action yesterday after furious criticism from the US President Barack Obama, who accused BP of trying to pass the buck over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
• Death tolls set to spiral as allied forces face 40 ...
  
  
  British troops in Afghanistan are coming under the fiercest and most sustained assault since the start of the conflict nine years ago, with coalition forces subjected to more than 40 attacks each day in March: double the rate of a year ago. Attacks by the Taliban between September 2009 and March 20 ...
• 'Nobody is winning,' admits McChrystal
  
  
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in London yesterday as US generals express doubts that the fight against the Taliban is having any success.

Rogue Government.com

• Low vitamin D tied to depression in older people
  
  
  Older men and women with lower levels of vitamin D in their blood are more prone to become depressed over time, new research shows.
• Trichet: Europe's Economy In Deepest Crisis Since ...
  
  
  The President of the European Central Bank is quoted as saying that he still sees Europe's economy in its deepest crisis since World War II or even World War I.
• Obama Administration Proposes Rolling Back Fifth ...
  
  
  President Obama ’s legal advisers are considering asking Congress to allow the government to detain terrorism suspects longer after their arrests before presenting them to a judge for an initial hearing, according to administration officials familiar with the discussions.
• Will The U.K. Be The Next European Nation To Expe ...
  
  
  Now that the Greek debt crisis has been "fixed" by a gigantic pile of more debt, many are wondering which European nation will be next to experience a massive debt crisis.�
• Facebook loses friends as privacy campaign grows
  
  
  Type "How do I ..." into the search engine and one of the first suggestions it comes up with continues: "... delete my Facebook account?" Today it was the ninth top-ranked search term, bringing more than 18m results.

Innovation Canada

• Project waste water
  
  
  Last fall, they were just four guys with an assignment to complete as part of their final year of chemical engineering studies at Toronto’s Ryerson University. This spring, they are the award-winning designers of a new process for treating waste water that could be used to remove a number of hazardo ...
• 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

Signs of the times

• Thousands pour into St. Peter's Square in show of ...
  
  
  Vatican City - A crowd estimated by the Vatican at 150,000 filled St. Peter's Square on Sunday in a major show of support for Pope Benedict XVI over the clerical sex abuse scandal. Benedict said he was comforted by such a "beautiful and spontaneous show of faith and solidarity" and again denounce ...
• Tainted nuke plant water reaches major New Jersey ...
  
  
  Lacey Township, New Jersey - Radioactive water that leaked from the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state's environmental chief said Friday. The state Department of Environmental Prote ...
• Scientists forecast decades of ash clouds
  
  
  Many more of Iceland's volcanoes seem to be stirring Iceland could be at the start of a surge in volcanic activity that may produce more eruptions. The Icelandic eruption that has caused misery for air travellers could be part of a surge in volcanic activity that will affect the whole of Europe ...
• BP expects Gulf oil siphon to work after setback
  
  
  Robert, Lousiana - BP hopes to start using a mile-long tube to suck oil from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday night after a setback. If successful, the deepsea experiment would reduce but not end a spill that's spewed millions of gallons of crude into the ocean. The company al ...
• Russia Develops Fundamentally New Space Weapons
  
  
  Russia's air and space forces are preparing for future threats from space with a "fundamentally new weapon," a senior officer said Saturday on Ekho Moskvy radio. "We are developing a fundamentally new weapon that can destroy potential targets in space," Col. Eduard Sigalov of Russia's air and space ...

The Galloping Beaver

• "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 ...
• How the adults do it
  
  
  Gordon Brown , British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will tender his resignation to the Queen immediately, given that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are near a deal on forming a coalition government. Earlier, Brown had suggested he would stay on until September. "My constitutional d ...
• Frank Frazetta, 1928-2010
  
  
  LOCUS reports that Frank Frazetta has died. If you're over 40, or if you're a sword-and-sorcery/SF fan, you've seen lots of his stuff. Frank inspired a whole wave of artists. Artist Frank Frazetta, 82, died May 10, 2009 of a stroke in a hospital near Boca Grande FL. Frazetta is best known for his ic ...
• Tea Party: tantrum?
  
  
  THE ATLANTIC has a fine article on the Tea Party, by Michael Kinsley, "My Country, Tis of Me" , which takes a look at what makes it tick, and doesn't like it: "There’s nothing patriotic about the Tea Party Patriots." The right-wing populist Tea Party movement has politicians of both parties spooked. ...

Media Matters for America

• Hannity's double whammy: falsely claims Obama is ...
  
  
  Sean Hannity falsely claimed that President Obama is "cutting troops' pay" and "cutting back on the military spending now as we speak." In fact, the Obama administration requested an increase in soldiers' salaries and also requested a larger overall defense budget for fiscal year 2011. Hannity' ...
• Witch hunt: Right wing distorts CMS nominee Berw ...
  
  
  Right-wing media have launched an assault on Donald Berwick, President Obama's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Those attacks distort Berwick's statements on the U.S. and U.K. health care systems and ignore fundamental realities about the those systems, as well ...
• WND attacks Kagan for admiring a judge that even ...
  
  
  WorldNetDaily.com reporter Aaron Klein baselessly suggested Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is not mainstream because she reportedly once called retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak "my judicial hero." In fact, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia once presented Barak with an awa ...
• Limbaugh and Beck falsely claim Kagan supports re ...
  
  
  Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others have falsely claimed that Elena Kagan wants to censor right-wing speech. In fact, in the article they cited, Kagan specifically stated that the government "may not restrict" speech "because it disagrees with ... the ideas espoused by the speaker." Limbaugh ...
• WorldNetDaily distorts Kagan's record to falsely ...
  
  
  WorldNetDaily falsely suggested that Elena Kagan supported state sponsors of terrorism by asking the Supreme Court not to hear a case against the Saudi royal family. In fact, Kagan's actions as solicitor general are not evidence of her personal legal views, and the administrations of Presidents ...

Global Research.ca

• Nuclear-Weapons-Free Middle East: Dismantling Isra ...
  
  
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• Financial Fraud. How It Works. The Truth behind th ...
  
  
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• Alice in Videoland: Looking Through a Rectangular ...
  
  
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• The Public Sector and the Economic Crisis: Searchi ...
  
  
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• Russia Sells Syria Warplanes: Official
  
  
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TPM Cafe

• GOP Victory Mirage
  
  
  Almost six months ago I suggested that the conventional Washington wisdom of a Republican sweep this November was fatally flawed. Now a new AP-Gfk poll shows that the Democrats are staging a major comeback. People want Democrats to control Congress after this fall's elections, a shift from April, ...
• J Street Smashmouths The "Israel-Can-Do-No-Wrong" ...
  
  
  Success clearly has not made J Street timid. This week Jeremy Ben Ami addressed an open letter to the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. The Conference -- along with AIPAC, ADL and the American Jewish Committee-- essentially constitute the "Israel is always rig ...
• This Week in Bigotry
  
  
  This Week in Bigotry In an attempt to " rebrand " Arizona, whose recent immigration law has been called racist, Governor Jan Brewer bans teaching ethnic studies. After smearing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan for having worked for civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, GOP furthers discredits h ...
• Lula Must Not Undermine Brazil's Chance to be the ...
  
  
  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 's remarkable tenure closes at the end of this year -- and already some are speaking of him as a possible candidate to succeed Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank or even Ban Ki Moon as Secretary General of the United Nations. Normally, the ...
• Lincoln to the Rescue
  
  
  Right now, the biggest battle in bank reform is over a provision introduced by Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas that would force the giant Wall Street banks to give up their lucrative derivative trading businesses if they want the government (i.e. taxpayers) to continue insuring their commercial ...

TruthOut

• William Astore | Obama Dresses Down the Military, ...
  
  
  Obama Dresses Down the Military, but What's Changed? According to NBC News and journalist Jonathan Alter in his book "The Promise," President Barack Obama "dressed down" senior generals at the Pentagon for attempting in 2009 to "box him in" on troop levels in Afghanistan. The "exceedingly unhappy" p ...
• New Arizona Bills Continue Targeting of Minority G ...
  
  
  Tucson's Unified School District is 56 percent Latino, but you may not know it by the changes in the curriculum.� According to bills recently passed in the Arizona state legislature, the Mexican-American studies program may no longer be offered, and you certainly won't be hearing any Spanish-inflect ...
• Gulf Spill Oil Driven by Complex Ocean Currents an ...
  
  
  The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is far different than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. The complex marine environment has currents and eddies that could carry the oil anywhere in the Gulf. Oil boom stretches along empty beaches, tar balls have washed ashore along the Alabama and Mississippi ...
• Thailand Protests: A Battle With No Clear Victors
  
  
  Bangkok, Thailand — Just one week ago, the political strife crippling Bangkok was poised to end. But Friday, the city’s main thoroughfares were lit by burning tires. Masked men in motorbike helmets yanked soldiers from trucks. Ambulances idled outside conflict zones, waiting for the next protesters ...
• There's No Time Like Now to Be an Activist
  
  
  Eighty-one tons of mercury is emitted into the atmosphere each year as a result of electric power generation. Every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic. Here it comes ...� Every second, 10,000 gallons of gasoline are burned in the US. Each year, Americans use 2.2 billion pou ...

Planetsave

• Canadians Step Up for Animal Advocacy: Protesting ...
  
  
  Hundreds of dogs and cats at the OSPCA in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada were set to be euthanized due to the spread of ringworm amongst shelter animals and people. Many were saved as a result of positive human impact. Something has been happening in the Toronto area in Canada that hasn’t been receivin ...
• Controversial New Whaling Quotas Proposed by IWC
  
  
  A controversial new proposal would allow nations (i.e. Japan, Norway and Iceland) to kill endangered whales. Quotas will be based on politics, not science. In 1986, commercial whaling was officially banned by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), an entity established to protect dramatically ...
• Carbon Disclosure Project: Green Data for the Eco- ...
  
  
  Modern global anthropogenic Carbon emissions In the face of growing concern over climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, more and more people, groups and organizations are adopting “green” policies and initiatives. These efforts may also include choosing to invest in companies and other bus ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

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• Lake Minnetonka water quality report card
  
  
  (The Laker) — With the boating and swimming season beginning to gather steam in the western po
• Otter Naught
  
  
  by jhwygirl That’s what many said to the State Land Board (and to 3 of its 5 members, Governor
• Legislative Approaches to Defining “Waters of the ...
  
  
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41225.pdf [From summary] In the 111t
• Chesapeake Bay Executive Order : New Federal Strat ...
  
  
  US EPA http://executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net/ The “Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesa

Public Citizen in Texas

• Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
  
  
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• 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 ...
• Get to Know an Activist: Carol Geiger
  
  
  Say hello to Carol Geiger. Carol is a Public Citizen stalwart and our Office Manager and EarthShare representative. She’s seen our Austin office grow from three to eight people and move into our current location right across from the Capitol building. Carol is a self-proclaimed “non-profit junkie” a ...
• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
  
  
  Here are the weekly highlights from the Texas Progressive Alliance. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants to know why Republicans like Victoria’s DA Steve Tyler, Nueces County’s DA Anna Jimenez and (who could forget) Alberto Gonzales abuse their offices? The Texas Cloverleaf thinks Rick Perry is e ...
• Russel Smith, Executive Director of TREIA, at Pub ...
  
  
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Unexplained Mysteries

• Easter Island statue transport mystery deepens
  
  
  The method believed to be used by the inhabitants of Easter Island to move their statues has been called in to question. Up until now it has been wide...
• Japan prepares launch of first true solar sail
  
  
  The Japanese space agency will be launching the first ever spacecraft fully propelled by a solar sail. Measuring 20 metres from corner to corner IKARO...
• Scientists build nanoscopic spiderbot
  
  
  The tiny molecular robot is built from DNA and is a mere four billionths of a metre in diameter. The feat represents one more step closer to a future ...
• Anti-aging pill available within 2 years ?
  
  
  A leading authority on aging has claimed that within two years a drug could be available to extend lifespans past 100. Professor Nir Barzilai believes...
• Jupiter loses one of its stripes
  
  
  Jupiter has lost one of its distinctive red stripes and scientists are perplexed as to what happened to it. The red band was clearly visible on Jupite...

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
  
  
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Climate

• May 15-16, 2010
  
  
  BP's Own Probe Finds Safety Issues on Atlantis Rig (AP)  The company whose drilling triggered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," records and int ...
• May 14, 2010
  
  
  EPA Finalizing Emissions Rule that Would Lessen Impact on Small Businesses (Washington Post)  The EPA announced Thursday that it is finalizing a rule aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions from the largest emitters in the U.S., a proposal that would soften the regulation's impact on small ...
• May 13, 2010
  
  
  BP to Try New Fix as Oil Spill Threatens Gulf (Reuters) Energy giant BP was preparing on Thursday to once again try and staunch the unchecked flow of oil from a ruptured well that threatens an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Poll: Spill Not Obama's Katrina, Drilling Still ...
• May 12, 2010
  
  
  Senate Climate Bill Unveiled but Fate Uncertain (Reuters) A new Senate bill to be unveiled today would impose new limits on CO2 pollution from factories, utilities and vehicles, while expanding heavy-polluting domestic oil production and nuclear power generation. Bill Would Allow States ...
• 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 ...

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

• Why They Bomb Us: The Predictable and Inevitable B ...
  
  
  Imagine, if you can, an alternate universe. Imagine that in this alternate universe, a foreign military power begins flying remote-controlled warplanes over your town, using on-board missiles to kill hundreds of your innocent neighbors. Now imagine that when you read the newspaper about this ongoi ...
• Palin Around with Terrorists' Pals: Sarah Speaks t ...
  
  
  I must say that I was truly honored -- humbled if you will -- to have the former demi-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, contact me and ask me to write her speech for today's family-friendly event -- the NRA annual convention in Charlotte, North Carolina (it must be all the nice things I've said ...
• Out of Iraq? Don't Hold Your Breath
  
  
  � from Truthout President Obama will not get the United States out of Iraq in his first term. If he wins a second term, it is highly unlikely he will get us out of Iraq before he finally leaves office. Print that out and tack it to your wall. Six years from now, it will still be hanging there, yello ...
• The Return of Madcap Capitalism
  
  
  For much of the post-World War II era, there was a broad consensus that well-regulated capitalism – paired with an effective public sector – was the economic model that worked best, especially compared with the Soviet Union’s heavy-handed central planning or the madcap capitalism that had led to ...
• Chevron's "Crude" Attempt to Suppress Free Speech
  
  
  by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Even as headlines and broadcast news are dominated by BP's fire-ravaged, sunken offshore rig and the ruptured well gushing a reported 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, there's another important story involving Big Oil and pollution - one that ...

Ten Percent

• MV Rachel Corrie Sets Sail
  
  
  FreeGaza- 14 May 2010 – At 22:45 local time tonight, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom Flotilla, set sail from Ireland on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. There, ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza. This past week reports from Is ...
• Friday! Theme From TenPercent
  
  
  It’s the last Friday on wordpress.com before the move on Monday to tenpercent.org.uk and just in the nick of time the decision as to the theme of the blog has been reached. It was not easy, there were some long nights, vinyl rummaging and acts of terror. It’s been a hard fought battle and the [...]
• ConDems Show Vicious Neoliberal Principles In Atta ...
  
  
  Given they both agree cuts which will entail more unemployment they are then further victimising the people they make unemployed, a searingly middle and upper class attitude that is based in the ‘scrounger’ idea that is demonstrably dishonest, they know full well their ideology depends on and create ...
• 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 ...

Booman Tribune

• It's Time for Bob Gates to Step Down
  
  
  I have been generally pleased with the job Robert Gates has done as Defense Secretary, both under Obama and under Bush. I was a lonely voice who said he was a decent pick to replace Rumsfeld despite his ties to the Iran-Contra Affair and his perjurious testimony before Congress. In retrospect, he' ...
• Casual Observation
  
  
  Young conservatives are so ridiculous.
• Weekend Open Thread
  
  
  Just wanted to announce our newest addition to the front-page. The FinnMan is a chip off the old block. It didn't take him long to imitate Daddy. (click to enlarge) It's CabinGirl's birthday tomorrow. She'll be thirty. Again.
• Uptick for Dems
  
  
  Here is some mixed good news: Democrats picked up ground in a new generic balllot poll, but anti-incumbent sentiment remains intense. Democrats lead Republicans 45%-40% in the most recent Associated Press poll, a reversal from Republicans' 44%-41% lead last month. But only 36% of respondent ...
• On Behalf of My Friends
  
  
  A month ago I wrote about my friends Mr. and Mrs. Noz, who have been in Kazakhstan since December attempting to adopt a little boy. Well, tragically, they were denied the opportunity to take the boy home with them. They plan to appeal, but today Kazakhstan has decided to stop all new applications ...

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Futurismic

• Outsource to outlaws: Indian data entry firm hires ...
  
  
  Here’s one way to keep a large worker-base available at low low wages – outsourcing to overseas prison inmates. [via SlashDot] Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Outsource to outlaws: Indian data entry firm hires inmates Share and Enjoy: Pr ...
• Dangerous ideas: controlling design files for ille ...
  
  
  Here’s an interesting question for a future full of fabrication devices: if it’s illegal to own a certain object, is it also illegal to own the design files that would enable you to print out that object? Fabbaloo asks the question after noticing some enterprising member of the counterculture though ...
• Fungus could clean up polluting plastics
  
  
  Nature’s got a way, brothers (and sisters)… not only could we start using fungus as a building material, but it looks like we could use the stuff to leech Bisphenol A – the nasty compound in polycarbonate plastics – from waste materials, keeping it out of the ecosystem at large. Of course, there’s n ...
• Diaspora: open-source distributed Facebook equival ...
  
  
  I’m surprised it hasn’t happened before (as it’s an idea I predicted in rudimentary form for an article in Focus back in 2007, and I’m hardly at the cutting edge of web software thinking), but the Facebook privacy backlash has prompted a small gang of geeks to build an open-source distributed social ...
• Virtual bodies, mutable genders
  
  
  Here’s an interesting bit of research from sunny Barcelona: men wearing a virtual reality headset that allowed them to perceive themselves as a female avatar started to identify strongly with their temporarily-assumed gender. … men donned a virtual reality (VR) headset that allowed them to see and h ...

Therapy News

• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy Reading! ⢠Mental Health Essential but Often Misunderstood ⢠What 40 Years of Psychology has Meant to Psyc ...
• Meditation Training Boosts Attention, Visual Perce ...
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Meditation is being increasingly highlighted for its apparent ability to aid in many personal care and mental health efforts, and a recent research project based in Colorado has performed extensive work to show that intensive meditation training can have particularly ...
• Caretaker: A Wife’s Commitment to Battle Cancer
  
  
  Written by Kathleen Rohan, Provided by KnowCancer.com I have taken on many roles in my life: daughter, sister, friend, cousin, niece, girlfriend, fiancé, college graduate, wife, and new mother. But in April of 2008, I took on a very unexpected role, one that challenged me more than I ever could have ...
• There’s a Bully in All of Us!
  
  
  GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MS, LPC Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Recently, Justin Fiet from The Don Weeks Morning Show on 810 WGY, in Albany, New York sent me the email below inviting me to do an interview with Don on bullying… This ...
• Bored to Smiles: Sex Addiction and Social Attuneme ...
  
  
  By Darren Haber, MFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darren and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile If it’s true that one of the core beliefs of people addicted to sex is that “sex is my most important need (or the most important sign of love)” (Carnes, 1983) ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Former Vice President Al Gore receives UT honorary ...
  
  
  Former Vice President Al Gore receives UT honorary doctorate The Tennessean ... just west of Knoxville in 2008 and destructive mountaintop removal coal mining practices are all "connected to our dependence on carbon-based fuels. ... and more��
• Stop Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining! - unE ...
  
  
  Veterans Today Network Stop Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining! unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Taking a step in the right direction, the Environmental Protection Agency has moved to veto the permit for the largest proposed mountaintop removal mine in ... Momentum Builds Against Mountaintop ...
• Massey annual stockholders Protest - Infoshop News
  
  
  CBS News Massey annual stockholders Protest Infoshop News “He has eagerly positioned himself as the 'spokesperson' for the mountaintop removal mining industry and consistently works to block a future that all ... Annual meeting to test Massey's ability to handle crisis and criticism Richmond Times ...
• Kentucky: Mountain Justice Summer 2010 - Infoshop ...
  
  
  Kentucky: Mountain Justice Summer 2010 Infoshop News Join us for ten days spent cultivating the skills and visions needed to abolish mountaintop removal and build vibrant, healthy, self-reliant communities. ...
• Taking Out TECO: Restricting Investments in Mounta ...
  
  
  Taking Out TECO: Restricting Investments in Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) By all accounts, TECO Coal is one of the nation's worst offendors when it comes to mountaintop removal coal mining. As part of NRDC's campaign to end ...

Memeorandum

• U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doub ...
  
  
  Mark Mazzetti / New York Times : U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts   —  WASHINGTON — Top military officials have continued to rely on a secret network of private spies who have produced hundreds of reports from deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to American official ...
• Ricochet: Making Conservatism Fun Again (Jordan Sm ...
  
  
  Jordan Smith / The Atlantic Online : Ricochet: Making Conservatism Fun Again   —  If conservative ideas are dead, as many liberals claim, nobody seems to have told conservatives.  Right-wingers believe their ideas are alive and fit for implementation.  All that is needed, perhaps, is new personalit ...
• Home of Swedish Muhammad cartoonist attacked (Loui ...
  
  
  Louise Nordstrom / Associated Press : Home of Swedish Muhammad cartoonist attacked   —  STOCKHOLM — The home of a Swedish artist who once drew a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as a dog has been hit by a suspected arson attack, police said Saturday.  —  Lars Vilks, who lives in Nyhamnslage in south ...
• Public Works Are Hard to Do (Myglesias/Matthew Ygl ...
  
  
  Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias : Public Works Are Hard to Do   —  Harold Meyerson explains why it hasn't been possible to use public works to counter massive unemployment in construction, and wouldn't have been even had more funds been appropriated: … Two lessons from this.  One is that I think we n ...
• Horrible: Full video of the attack on Sweden's Moh ...
  
  
  Allahpundit / Hot Air : Horrible: Full video of the attack on Sweden's Mohammed cartoonist   —  Via Ace, whose post you should read if only for the brilliance of his headline.  Some of you will be tempted twice over to skip this: It's long, and you've already seen the most dramatic bit.  Don't skip ...

Energy & Environment News

• E.P.A. Announces New Greenhouse Gas Emission Rule
  
  
  Starting in July 2011, new sources of at least 100,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year will have to seek permits, the agency said.
• Venezuela Offshore Rig Sinks
  
  
  An offshore natural gas exploration rig leased to Venezuela’s national oil company sank off the coast of northeastern Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela announced early Thursday.
• Dauphin Island Journal: Sunbathing, and Keeping an ...
  
  
  At Dauphin Island, Ala., people in swimwear are sharing the beaches with people dressed to protect against an encroachment of oil.
• BP Describes Race to Fix Well as Obama Warns of Oi ...
  
  
  BP prepared to install a shutoff valve on one of three leaks gushing from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• U.S. Clears Test of Gene-Altered Trees in South
  
  
  The controversial test is meant to see if the eucalyptus trees can become a new source of wood, as well as material for biofuels.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
  
  
  Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:35:50 UTC Sunday, May 16, 2010 09:35:50 PM at epicenter Depth : 34.50 km (21.44 mi)
• M 5.4, Andaman Islands, India region
  
  
  Sunday, May 16, 2010 08:55:46 UTC Sunday, May 16, 2010 02:55:46 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.8, Puerto Rico
  
  
  Sunday, May 16, 2010 05:16:10 UTC Sunday, May 16, 2010 01:16:10 AM at epicenter Depth : 113.00 km (70.21 mi)
• M 5.1, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  
  
  Sunday, May 16, 2010 05:30:58 UTC Sunday, May 16, 2010 04:30:58 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.8, Puerto Rico
  
  
  Sunday, May 16, 2010 05:16:09 UTC Sunday, May 16, 2010 01:16:09 AM at epicenter Depth : 109.00 km (67.73 mi)

China Dialogue

• The fire-starters
  
  
  Forceful academics – dubbed the “incinerationists” – are promoting waste-to-energy plants in China. But, says Meng Dengke, winner of the “investigative journalism” category in the China Environmental Press Awards, these experts’ corporate links are raising doubts about their motives. This article wa ...
• Hot wind in the desert
  
  
  Vast wind farms have sprung up in the Gobi Desert, born of China’s latest investment frenzy. But in the bid to hit renewable targets, financial risks have been ignored, says Lu Zhenhua, winner of the “biggest impact” category in the China Environmental Press Awards. China's first Environmental Press ...
• Katrina’s echoes
  
  
  The great oil-spill off the southern shore of the United States spells disaster for fishing fleets and brings to mind a terrible legacy, writes Jim Gabour in New Orleans. This dispatch from Louisiana, in the southern United States, was written on Sunday May 2, 2010. Today, a stormy Sunday h ...
• 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 , ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Already-Vanishing Oyster Reefs Under Threat from O ...
  
  
  Cross-posted from Treehugger.com Up until a couple weeks ago, the Nature Conservancy was in the midst of an important conservation project — building up vanishing oyster reefs, as well as restoring eroding coastlines in the Gulf of Mexico. The innovative project, which makes use of three differen ...
• Help! What’s the cure for financial insanity ...
  
  
  Now that the bank lobbyists are nearly finished neutering the financial reform bill, it’s time to face reality: our financial world will continue to be run by the very financiers who crashed the system two years ago. The bankers’ arguments ricocheting through the halls of Congress make it seem as if ...
• White House Task Force on Obesity reports In
  
  
  Cross-posted from Food Politics. This report, Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within A Generation, is a terrific summary of where we stand today on childhood obesity (“the challenge we face”) and what to do about it. The report wants to reduce rates of child obesity to where they were b ...
• Maine GOP Forced to Apologize After Convention-Goe ...
  
  
  Cross-posted from Think Progress. Although Maine is known for its two moderate Republican senators — Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — last weekâs state GOP convention showed the growing influence of far-right activists. An âoverwhelming majority of delegatesâ voted to âscrap the the pro ...
• Why the Senate Climate Bill Is Doomed
  
  
  Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), though down one man, finally released their stab at climate legislation this week. One of the most crucial sections in the bill covers off-shore oil drilling, an issue that was supposed to help solve the tricky math of reaching 60 votes. But ...

Threat Level

• Filming Transformers 3 Being Filmed Violates Copyr ...
  
  
  On Monday business strategist Ben Brown was in a meeting in a downtown Los Angeles office building when he heard a commotion outside the window. When he looked down, he saw the alleyway had been closed off to shoot an exterior scene for a movie — a common enough sight in L.A. But this movie was [.. ...
• Google Street View Cams Collected Private Content ...
  
  
  Google’s roaming Street View cameras have been doing more than snap pics of your neighborhood; they’ve also been collecting packets of information sent over private WiFi networks, the company acknowledged Friday. The company said the collection was “a mistake,” the result of a programming error, an ...
• Google to Offer Encrypted Search Next Week
  
  
  Google will begin letting users run encrypted searches on its flagship search site Google.com starting next week, the company said in a blog post Thursday. Allowing users to search using https - the web security system which many associate with online banking and shopping — would mark a first for a ...
• Roommate’s Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder
  
  
  REDWOOD CITY, California — Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the ongoing police investigation. The tip sent police racing to the home of 21-year-old B ...
• Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Papers Unsealed
  
  
  Update: Roommate’s Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder A California judge Friday ordered the unsealing of 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. Wired.com, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Time and ot ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• WRAPUP 1-Under pressure, BP tries again to contain ...
  
  
  GALLIANO, La., May 16 (Reuters) - Energy giant BP made a new attempt to siphon gushing oil from an offshore well as political pressure and public outrage increased over the company's slow progress at stopping environmental disaster.
• USGS reports moderate earthquake in Puerto Rico
  
  
  WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit in western Puerto Rico on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
• Fed's Hoenig says low rates can lead to bubbles: r ...
  
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Keeping interest rates low for a long time can create ripe conditions for dangerous asset price bubbles, a Federal Reserve official said in a Wall Street Journal interview published on Saturday.
• Gaza rally raises Palestinian reconciliation hopes
  
  
  GAZA (Reuters) - Leaders of rival Palestinian factions displayed rare unity on Saturday as they marked their "day of catastrophe" or nakba at a rally in Gaza, raising hopes of reconciliation between the two bitter rival parties.
• Thai protesters defiant, more fighting feared
  
  
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai government threatened on Sunday to impose a curfew in Bangkok after three days of fighting that has killed at least 24 people and spiraled into chaotic urban warfare, with both sides calling for reinforcements.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• Blue dog Harman out, Progressive Winograd in!
  
  
  Let’s get Marcy Winograd Elected! ...
• Progressive populism and you
  
  
  I spent a weekend with my PDA buddies in California, as we organized around the State Democratic Party Convention in Los Angeles. It was a great weekend, full of close friends, good beer, great ...
• IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Ma ...
  
  
  Mary Nichols-Rhodes, PDA-OH state coordinator, started the discussion by describing the planning for both the US Social Forum in June and the National Peace Conference in July. PDA participation in both will be strong, because ...
• Video: Vote No on Funding Escalation
  
  
  Video: Vote No on Funding Escalation http://vimeo.com/11346739 On Thursday, April 29, 2010, a "Teach-In on Capitol Hill," was held in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Building, in Washington, D.C., dealing with the question of what the ...
• Slideshow: Rally against SB1070 with Congressman ...
  
  

Marler Blog

• Orem and Heber Utah Raw Milk Linked to Salmonella ...
  
  
  According to the Deseret News , six people, ages 2 to 56, were diagnosed with Salmonella Newport in April, according to Utah County Health Department spokesman Lance Madigan. Four of the cases were in Utah County, with one each in Salt Lake and Wasatch counties. When investigators went through their ...
• Orem and Heber Utah Raw Milk Linked to Salmonella ...
  
  
  According to the Deseret News , six people, ages 2 to 56, were diagnosed with Salmonella Newport in April, according to Utah County Health Department spokesman Lance Madigan. Four of the cases were in Utah County, with one each in Salt Lake and Wasatch counties. When investigators went through their ...
• 30 E. coli O145 cases in Michigan, New York, Ohio ...
  
  
  The CDC reports this week that a total of 23 confirmed and 7 probable E. coli O145 cases related to this outbreak have been reported from 4 states since March 1, 2010. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is: MI (10 confirmed and 3 probable), NY (4 confirmed and 3 prob ...
• 30 E. coli O145 cases in Michigan, New York, Ohio ...
  
  
  The CDC reports this week that a total of 23 confirmed and 7 probable E. coli O145 cases related to this outbreak have been reported from 4 states since March 1, 2010. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is: MI (10 confirmed and 3 probable), NY (4 confirmed and 3 prob ...
• Blogging from the train between DC and NYC - 24 Ho ...
  
  
  It was a fascinating few hours at a meeting with a delegation from China as they listened to former FSIS head, Tom Billy, CSPI Food Safety Director, Caroline Smith DeWaal and yours truly, talk candidly about the state of affairs of food safety in the United States. I spoke primarily about how the c ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 05.14.10
  
  
  Climate Bill details unveiled: emissions, clean coal, transportation and much more at stake It's the American Power Act (read it in PDF ). Say what? Plug-in Prius can't charge additional battery packs on ...
• AutoblogGreen for 05.13.10
  
  
  AFVI 2010: Technology parade includes propane lawn mowners, CNG hydraulic hybrids, more Now that's an alternative powertrain. FEV shows off RE-EV Fiat 500 with Wankel in Vienna We kind of wa ...
• 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, ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: The patent mess (podcast)
  
  
  This week our topic is: the patent mess. Are patents stifling innovation or helping it? Or put another way, do patents just take money out of the technology world and funnel it to lawyers, or is there a benefit to the system? There's been a lot of patent news lately. In a typical story, Apple cl ...
• 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

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!

• India's Most Famous Political Prisoner Dr. Binayak ...
  
  
  Just under a year ago Dr. Binayak Sen, India’s most famous political prisoner, was released on bail after 2 years of imprisonment. Dr. Sen is a world-renowned “physician of the poor,” winner of the 2008 Jonathan Mann award for global health and human rights, and Vice President of India’s oldest civ ...
• Singing Lena Horne’s Praises
  
  
  Lena Horne died this week at the age of 92. More than just a brilliant singer and actress, she was a pioneering civil rights activist, breaking racial barriers for generations of African-Americans who have followed her. She fought segregation and McCarthyism, was blacklisted, yet persisted to gain ...
• 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 ...

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

• Engineering Bacteria to Clean Up Atrazine (w/ Vide ...
  
  
  Can we get bugs to do our bidding? Emory chemist Justin Gallivan has moved science another step closer to that possibility. His lab reprogrammed an innocuous strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli to 'seek and destroy' the molecules of an herbicide called atrazine.
• Silver tells a volatile story of Earth's origin.
  
  
  Tiny variations in the isotopic composition of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks are helping scientists put together a timetable of how our planet was assembled nearly 5 billion years ago. The new study, published in the journal Science, indicates that water and other key volatiles may have been ...
• 7 Shocking Ways to Visualize the Gulf Oil Spill
  
  
  Apps, graphics, photos and video of the unfolding environmental disaster. Be prepared to be moved to action.
• Gov't Dispatches Crack Scientist Team to Solve Oil ...
  
  
  A crack team of physicists, mining engineers and even a hydrogen bomb expert is the latest brain trust to tackle the Deepwater Horizon undersea oil disaster.
• Liquid Hills in Italy - [wow video]
  
  
  WOW WTF Liquid Hills!!!

Invisible Opportunity

• Pardon my Language, you Lying Sacks of S**t.
  
  
  By Les Visible It’s Petri Dish after all and it needs to be said; a loosely aligned aggregate of psychopaths, bi-pedal lizards, Satanists, Draconian Religion Junkies, Coprophagial Wannabe Anti-Christ’s, Garden Variety Greed Monkeys and assorted clowns with the blood of children on their costumes and ...
• CIA Officer Explains New World Order’s Demis ...
• “Knowing” Movie and the Oil Rig Explos ...
  
  
  This presentation is about a scene in a TV News report of Hollywood movie “KNOWING” in 2009, a report exactly the same mentioned an Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico become reality in April 20, 2010. many speculation and discussion on what reason behind the incident, people want to knew if is ...
• Food and Ethanol Shortages Imminent as Earth Enter ...
  
  
  The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), the leading independent research organization in the United States on the subject of the next climate change, issues today the following warning of imminent crop damage expected to produce food and ethanol shortages for the US and Canada: Over the next 3 ...
• “Climategate” & Leaked Emails: Scienti ...
  
  
  Posted by Lisa Facts from the Wall Street Journal: 3,000 emails and documents of some of the world’s most influential climatologists were released in the fall of 2009 after the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit’s servers were hacked and messages were published on the Internet. Phil J ...

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

• Why Caffeine Is the Perfect Addiction for a Worker ...
  
  
  There's a $60 billion-plus industry pushing hard to promote caffeine's image in the public mind.
• America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists
  
  
  Wall Street's captains of industry and top policymakers in Washington are often the same people. A lot of them get rich by playing for both teams.
• Why Ending Marijuana Prohibition is a Racial Justi ...
  
  
  The struggle to end America's disastrous war on drugs is a struggle for common sense, human rights and of course for racial justice.
• Is Obama Serious About Ending the War on Drugs?
  
  
  Obama has promised to do away with the war on drugs. So far, policy is lagging.
• America's Gone Nuts on Prescription Drugs
  
  
  If you're sitting at the blackjack table wearing an adult diaper with a face the size of Elvis's ass and a four-hour erection, maybe it's time to cut down on the pills.

Twilight Earth

• BP Oil Spill Gushing 10 Times More Oil Than Offici ...
  
  
  The BP Gulf Oil Spill has surpassed the Exxon Valdez in the amount of oil spilled and gushing 10 times more oil than official estimates. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data High Altitude Photos of the Lost Horizon BP Oil Spill Gas Spill in Newburyport P ...
• Plans for Virginias Offshore Drilling Indefinitely ...
  
  
  In the wake of the BP Oil Spill, Virginia has indefinitely postponed offshore Drilling. Related posts: UNEP Plans to Rid the World of 9 Dangerous Chemicals EPA Seeks to Protect Children Through Airborne Lead Detection Standards Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears
• 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

Inhabitat

• How to Use Technology to Green Your Shopping Spree
  
  
  While the recent rise in consumer spending is certainly a good sign for our ailing economy, what does this mean for our fragile environment? If you’re one of the many stepping out this weekend for a spring shopping spree, you’ll definitely want to check out our handy tech tips on how to become a mor ...
• Glassphemy: A Way to Recycle Glass Bottles with Fu ...
  
  
  Pissed off about oil spills? Angered by over-packaging? Rather than letting all that pent up frustration to get the better of you, why not grab a used glass bottle instead and commit GLASSPHEMY!?  From the same folks who brought you last year’s famed Brooklyn dumpster pools, now come the re ...
• Bookshelf Built Simply from Waste Wood Blocks and ...
  
  
  Call it Survivor: Designer’s Edition or Project Eco-Design, but we’ve got one reality TV inspired challenge for you: What could you build with just some cotton rope and a pile of wood blocks? An impossible task you say? Well, designer Amy Hunting has got you beat. In an experiment to construct ...
• Exceptional Earth-Walled Home is a Desert Oasis
  
  
  This truly stunning home in Scottsdale, Arizona offers a great lesson in site-appropriate design. The large roof overhangs and massive rammed earth walls help keep it cool in a desert environment. Designed by architectural firm Kendle Design, the home is open to the desert light and views but mainta ...
• BIOMIMICRY: Pratt Student Designs a Table Inspired ...
  
  
  Industrial Design student, Alvaro Uribe of Pratt Institute, wowed us last weekend at BKLYN Designs with his sleek Mantis Table. Inspired by insect body parts and adding a light and elegant touch to any interior, the table’s base is structured to mimic the small and delicate legs of a praying mantis ...

Pogue's Posts

• The Making of the Distracted Driving Video
  
  
  The behind the scenes look at the making of the most recent David Pogue video.
• Text-Blocking Apps Only Work if You Use Them
  
  
  Skeptics of apps intended to keep you from texting while driving have some good points to make.
• A Mysterious Service From Cable, Part II
  
  
  Answers about why New York's cable companies are suddenly offering free access to each other's WiFi hot spots.
• A Convenient, Mysterious Service From Cable Compan ...
  
  
  Big cable companies have been installing free Wi-Fi networks for their own customers. It's a fantastic development. But it's not clear why they're doing it.
• Android Tries Harder
  
  
  Google is trying very hard to get developers to build apps for Android app phones.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Jury Reaches Decision in Brain-Scan Test Case
  
  
  After a judge excluded brain scan evidence offered by the plaintiff, a jury quickly found for the defense in a Brooklyn sexual harassment case this week. The case, which drew national attention following a Wired.com article earlier this month, was one of the first times that fMRI brain scanning ha ...
• Early Birds’ Wings Probably Didn’t Flap
  
  
  The wings were willing, but the feathers were weak. Delicate, thin-shafted plumage would have made flapping difficult if not impossible for two prehistoric birds, a new analysis of fossil feathers suggests. Their feathers probably would have buckled or snapped during strong flapping or sharp maneu ...
• Video: Strapping in With the Crew of the Shuttle f ...
  
  
  The STS-132 crew will buckle into the space shuttle Atlantis tomorrow before launching into orbit for a 12 day mission to the International Space Station. It is the last scheduled flight of Atlantis, and the last scheduled flight for each of the six astronauts aboard. Earlier this month I found mys ...
• Stem Cell Solution for Hearing Loss Makes Progress
  
  
  If a few too many AC/DC concerts now have you turning up the volume on hearing aids instead of headphones, a new stem cell study in mice is reason for hope. A team led by Stefan Heller of Stanford University set out to elucidate basic principles of how the inner ear detects sound. But they also [.. ...
• Colossal Squid Far from Fearsome Predators
  
  
  In the popular imagination, the colossal squid is fast and terrifying, able to dispatch whales and submarines with ease. But the image of the squid as a nasty predator of the deep is probably more mythology than biology argue Rui Rosa of the Laboratorio Marıtimo da Guia in Lisbon and Brad Seibel of ...

The Progressive Realist

• Pakistani Taliban Allegedly Claims Responsibility ...
  
  
  I have tended towards skepticism on the Obama administration's claim that the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing. The White House hasn't released much compelling evidence to support that claim, not even to Congress , and TTP spokesman Azam Tariq denied the group ...
• Egypt Cites US "Emergency Law" to Defend Its Own
  
  
  The ill wind of political repression continues to blow in Egypt — earlier this week, the Egyptian government approved a two-year extension of an emergency law thatâs been continuously in effect since 1981, despite repeated promises to repeal it. The emergency law lets the Egyptian government limit ...
• Iraq's Oil Exports Drop In March And April 2010
  
  
  After Iraq hit a post-invasion high in oil exports in early 2010, both output and foreign sales dropped the next two months. In February 2010 Iraq produced an average of 2.44 million barrels a day and exported 2.05 million barrels a day, the largest amount since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 20 ...
• Elena Kagan and Executive Power
  
  
  The idea that Elena Kagan is John Yoo with wide lapels now seems to be an established Beltway fact. "Libertarian" law professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds squeals with delight at her "Cheneyesque" views of executive power. Rudy Giuliani chuckles about her views on national security, which he al ...
• Egypt Cites U.S. ‘Emergency Law’ to Defend Its Own
  
  
  The ill wind of political repression continues to blow in Egypt — earlier this week, the Egyptian government approved a two-year extension of an emergency law thatâs been continuously in effect since 1981, despite repeated promises to repeal it. The emergency law lets the Egyptian government limit ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Real Men Repeal Constitutional Am ...
  
  
  Bruce Bartlett has a couple of ideas for congressional reform, including increasing the size of the House of Representatives, but I'm more interested in the other idea, repealing the 17th Amendment. The idea of making senators once again the product of state legislatures rather than popular vote ha ...
• "Modernizing" Miranda.
  
  
  Attorney General Eric Holder 's vague proposal to "modernize" the public safety exception for Miranda in terrorism cases has already won Charles Krauthammer 's approval , even though neither Holder nor the administration have given much detail as to what exactly they have in mind. Benjamin Witte ...
• The Little Picture: A Garden Stroll.
  
  
  Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Afghan President Hamid Karzai took a tour the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, where the idea for the United Nations was developed. Roses were smelled; jokes were told.
• Elena Kagan And Executive Power.
  
  
  The idea that Elena Kagan is John Yoo with wide lapels now seems to be an established Beltway fact. "Libertarian" law professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds squeals with delight at her "Cheneyesque" views of executive power. Rudy Giuliani chuckles about her views on national security, which he also ...
• The Generation Gap in Abortion Support.
  
  
  A new Gallup poll shows that young people's support for abortion has fallen. Only about a quarter of people aged 18 to 29 support access to abortion for any reason and without restriction. Though that's bigger than the number of older Americans who support abortion without caveat, the gap is narrowi ...

Andy Worthington

• Ask your MPs what they think about secret evidence ...
  
  
  As a follow-up to my recent article, “98 MPs Who Supported Human Rights While Countering Terrorism,” in which I presented a list of current MPs who had supported the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, had opposed the use of secret evidence in UK courts, ...
• 98 MPs Who Supported Human Rights While Countering ...
  
  
  Just before the election, I created a list of 149 MPs (out of 650 in total), who had signed up to two important Early Day Motions over the previous 12 months. The first opposed the use of secret evidence in UK courts, particularly in the cases of terror suspects (both British and foreign nationals), ...
• The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and G ...
  
  
  Are we so inured to the implementation of torture by the Bush administration that we no longer recognize what torture is? Torture, according to the UN Convention Against Torture, to which the US is a signatory, is “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentional ...
• Can David Cameron’s Coalition Government Deliver J ...
  
  
  Today, the UK adapts to new political realities — a Tory Prime Minister, for the first time since 1997, a unique coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, and a Labour party, leaderless and in opposition, having apparently blown its opportunity to forge a fragile coalition with the Lib ...
• After “Guantánamo Habeas Week,” Analysis of Succes ...
  
  
  Please support my work! My thanks to everyone who supported my recent “Guantánamo Habeas Week” project, which, due to the scale of the project and some scheduling difficulties, actually ran for three weeks, with an introduction here, an interactive list of all 47 cases to date, and six detail ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  
  
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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• Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill
  
  
  Evaporation, dilution, and oil-hungry bacteria are already combatting the Gulf slick, experts say.
• Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
  
  
  Twenty-five years later, the lingering "hole" over Antarctica is close to closing—but that may not be entirely a good thing. Antarctica - Antarctic - Polar Regions - Ozone depletion - Environment
• Hurricane Could Push Spilled Gulf Oil Into New Orl ...
  
  
  With predictions for a feisty 2010 hurricane season, experts fear that a major storm could carry oil from the Gulf spill into downtown.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• McMahon Gushes Over Deregulating Oil
  
  
  McMahon Campaign Literature From TheDay.com According to The Day and at the same time that we are witnessing the results of the typical Republican deregulation-run-amok of anything that moves money to these Multinational Oil Corporations wash in ashore as tar balls and dead dolphins on American shor ...
• 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 ...

SPL Center

• Hate Group Lawyer Drafted Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant ...
  
  
  Arizona’s controversial anti-immigrant law was written by a lawyer at the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) , which the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed as an anti-immigrant hate group since 2007. The law, a recipe for racial profiling, would make the failure t ...
• White Supremacist Richard Barrett Murdered in Miss ...
  
  
  Update: Police announced that they arrested Barrettâs neighbor late Thursday afternoon and charged him with murder in connection with Barrettâs slaying. Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington told The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledge r that Vincent McGee, 22, had done yard work for Barrett. Barre ...
• Murdered Racist Leader May Have Propositioned Kill ...
  
  
  White supremacist Richard Barrett enthusiastically denigrated gays and blacks. In 1994, he led an anti-gay rally in Boston after a St. Patrick’s Day parade was cancelled in response to a court order that forbade the exclusion of homosexual marchers. Six years earlier, he signed “The Forsyth County C ...
• Secrets of the Movement: Top Stormfront Advertiser ...
  
  
  At first blush, Tip of the Spear Consulting Services doesn’t seem unique as a security consultant, with its offers to provide bodyguards, surveillance, debugging and polygraph technicians, as well as legal and financial advice on such matters as tax shelters and anonymous banking services. But one w ...
• Facebook Page Advocating Obama’s Death Draws 1 Mil ...
  
  
  Last year, California far-right pastor Wiley Drake prayed for President Obama to die. Almost 11 months later, the president not only is alive but healthy enough to play tennis over the weekend. But that hasn’t discouraged a spelling-challenged creator of a Facebook page who also is praying for Obama ...

change: org.

• Gas Rig Goes Down in the Caribbean
  
  
  Another rig down : this time, a natural gas platform off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. Venezuelan authorities claim that all 95 workers were safely evacuated and that the accident has been contained and poses no threat to environment. With the whole world looking at the oil spill, and this be ...
• Are Home Births in New York Coming to an End?
  
  
  In March, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that cesarean births had jumped to an all-time high in the United States, to the point where the procedure - though it can only be performed on women - is now the most-performed surgical procedure in the country. C-section births r ...
• How Forced Labor in Asia Costs You Money
  
  
  Do you think it's possible that slavery in the Thai fishing industry can impact the price of your home in California? What about whether children forced into domestic servitude in Malaysia affecting the U.S. job market? The fact is that forced labor anywhere in the world can affect your bottom line, ...
• Betty White Takes On Pet Cancer
  
  
  If there was ever an 88-year-old who deserved her own action figure, it's Betty White. Among her many achievements as an actress, she made history a week ago when she hosted   Saturday Night Live. But she's been changing the game for animals much longer than that.  Betty has been a trustee at the Mo ...
• 10 Reasons for Henry Cuellar to Co-Sponsor the DRE ...
  
  
  The DREAM Act has been on a roll lately, gaining 10 House co-sponsors this past April alone. But there is one Congressman that is oddly missing: Henry Cuellar, who represents the 28th district of Texas, sharing a border with Mexico. With his background, Cuellar has every reason to co-sponsor the DRE ...

Common Dreams -News

• Thai Troops Fire on Redshirts as Crisis Escalates
  
  
  by Sam Jones and agencies Thai troops opened fire on rioting anti-government protesters today as the government tried to throw a security cordon around the protest site occupied for nearly two months by the redshirts. Bangkok's commercial district was turned into a battlefield with troops firing tea ...
• Gulf Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Believed
  
  
  by Richard Harris The amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico is far greater than official estimates suggest, according to an exclusive NPR analysis. At NPR's request, experts analyzed video that BP released Wednesday. Their findings suggest the BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Ex ...
• Lawsuit to Challenge Salazar's Wholesale Disregard ...
  
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal notice of intent to sue Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for ignoring marine-mammal protection laws when approving offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. read more
• Afghans Angry at 'Civilian Deaths'
  
  
  One person has been shot dead by police as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan, accusing Nato-led forces of killing civilians during an overnight raid near the city of Jalalabad.  Angry Afghans set fire to tyres and blocked roads in the Surkh Road district of Nangah ...
• Obama, Karzai Still Split on Peace Talks with Tali ...
  
  
  by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to portray a united front on the issue of a political settlement with the Taliban in their joint press conference Wednesday. But their comments underlined the deep rift that divides Karzai and the Unit ...

Lifehacker

• From the Tips Box: Keyboard Navigation, Glasses Cl ...
  
  
  Readers offer their best tips for getting Vim-like keyboard navigation in Windows, making your own glasses cleaner, and putting a quick shortcut to turn your connection on and off on your taskbar. More�� Windows - Share ...
• This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
  
  
  This week we helped you work past your procrastination problems, slimmed down your bulky keychain, explained how to build the ultimate media center, start to finish, and more. More��
• Dry Up Grease Stains with Plain White Chalk [Cleve ...
  
  
  We've showed you how to get out tough stains and even make your own detergent , but oil and grease stains are notorious for lingering after washing. Next time you spill salad dressing on yourself, just rub it with chalk for quick absorption. ...
• uTorrent Griffin Adds Extension-Style Functionalit ...
  
  
  Windows only: The popular BitTorrent client uTorrent today released an alpha version of uTorrent 2.2, adding a new Apps functionality that allows users to extend uTorrent's functionality while keeping the core application fast and lightweight. ...
• The Cleverest Way to Find a Job Using Google Also ...
  
  
  Yesterday we highlighted how one clever copywriter got his name in front of the top creative directors in his industry. If the idea strikes you as worthwhile, turns out you can accomplish pretty much the same thing on Facebook. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• President Obama, Bringing the Truthiness on Afghan ...
  
  
  By Derrick Crowe President Obama told reporters on May 12, 2010, that "we're beginning to reverse the momentum of the insurgency" in Afghanistan. According to his administration's own report given to Congress last week, that's not true . The insurgency is growing in size and capabil ...
• So close and yet so far
  
  
  By BJ Bjornson According to McClatchy, the Pentagon is rethinking the whole counterinsurgency doctrine that they have been playing with for the last decade. The article did get my hopes up with the way it began. Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipme ...
• WaPo Wants To Fire Eikenberry To Save McChrystal
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Deputy editor Jackson Deihl takes to the WaPo today to tell us something obvious and suggest a radical solution. He writes: The countless red carpets rolled out for Hamid Karzai in Washington this week could not disguise an ugly emerging reality: So far, Barack Obama's surge in Afghani ...
• Talking to the Taliban
  
  
  By Dave Anderson: The LA Times reports that the Obama Administration is backing plans to face reality. The Karzai government has been talking with significant senior elements of the Quetta Shura Taliban and other allied anti-government factions for over a year now. The US will now stick its toe into ...
• COIN is like Soviet Communism?
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Spencer Ackerman has received a paper from a source living in Kandahar, Afghanistan, entitled "A Counterproductive Counterinsurgency". Although the anonymous author is supportive of COIN theory (emphasis mine): An effective counterinsurgency can only be waged by an organization that is ...

Water Wars

• Sean Carasso: DC10 Has Arrived
  
  
  This week, in Washington, D.C., social entrepreneurs are convening for the Summit Series DC10 Conference. With all the hype and anticipation, one has to wonder -- will it live up to its legacy?
• Water wars: Genesee Co. area vs. Detroit
  
  
  New pipeline debate sparks discussion
• Water wars kill five in parched MP
  
  
  Water has always been the most precious yet scarce commodity in Madhya Pradesh. But the recent deaths of five people -- in fights and disputes over water -- are a grim reminder of the water crisis plaguing the state.
• Book Review: Doing Dangerously Well by Carole Enah ...
  
  
  The basis for three good books in this one, instead they've been crammed under one cover and the whole suffers accordingly.
• Water War Updated: All Quiet On The Northwestern F ...
  
  
  For the small-town journalist, finding the memorandum of understanding was like stumbling across the Zimmerman Telegram or the Protocols of Zion.

WordPress | Economics

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• Australia's bid for future FIFA World Cup
  
  
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• The U.S. Should Establish a No-Fault Antibiotic In ...
  
  
  Few inventions in the history of mankind have saved more lives than antibiotics. Antibiotics are com
• Fixing San Diego
  
  
  Same story, different day…
• Germany lashes out at Google for privacy breach
  
  
  BERLIN – Germany’s consumer protection minister strongly criticized Google for a widespr

Electronic Intifada

• Gaza youth learn music and challenge the occupatio ...
  
  
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Mohammed Omer, 28, is one of five teachers at the Gaza Music School in Tel al-Howa, Gaza City. Formerly in the al-Quds hospital Red Crescent ...
• Arrest of Palestinian leaders in Israel "a dangero ...
  
  
  The recent arrest of two respected public figures from Israel's Palestinian Arab minority in nighttime raids on their homes by the Shin Bet secret police -- brought to light this w ...
• Israel increasingly resembling a police state
  
  
  RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu has been sentenced to another three months imprisonment for allegedly refusing to perform commu ...
• Irish activists urge divestment at CRH annual meet ...
  
  
  Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) activists are pressuring the Ireland-based international building materials group CRH to divest from its Israeli subsidiary Mashav. Las ...
• 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Soldier killed, security guards injured in Afghani ...
  
  
  A NATO soldier was killed in combat in southern Afghanistan and four private security guards were injured in an ambush on their convoy, officials said Sunday
• Sex-ban on US troops not working, 15 female soldie ...
  
  
  The American Army's ban on sex hardly seems to be working with over fifteen pregnant women soldiers being sent home from Afghanistan.
• JI chief demands dialogue with Taliban in Pak
  
  
  Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawwar Hasan has asked the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led Government to initiate peace talks with the Taliban, saying if dialogue can be restarted with India then there should also be no harm in deliberations with the extremist outfit.
• 15 killed as Pakistani jets pound militant hideout ...
  
  
  Pakistani military jets Sunday pounded Taliban positions in the tribal district of Orakzai, killing at least 15 rebels, security officials said.
• US spy ring at work in Pakistan, Afghanistan
  
  
  US military officials are still using private detectives to track Taliban guerrillas in Pakistan and Afghanistan in defiance of defence department norms, The New York Times has reported.

Futurismic

• Outsource to outlaws: Indian data entry firm hires ...
  
  
  Here’s one way to keep a large worker-base available at low low wages – outsourcing to overseas prison inmates. [via SlashDot] Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Outsource to outlaws: Indian data entry firm hires inmates Share and Enjoy: Pr ...
• Dangerous ideas: controlling design files for ille ...
  
  
  Here’s an interesting question for a future full of fabrication devices: if it’s illegal to own a certain object, is it also illegal to own the design files that would enable you to print out that object? Fabbaloo asks the question after noticing some enterprising member of the counterculture though ...
• Fungus could clean up polluting plastics
  
  
  Nature’s got a way, brothers (and sisters)… not only could we start using fungus as a building material, but it looks like we could use the stuff to leech Bisphenol A – the nasty compound in polycarbonate plastics – from waste materials, keeping it out of the ecosystem at large. Of course, there’s n ...
• Diaspora: open-source distributed Facebook equival ...
  
  
  I’m surprised it hasn’t happened before (as it’s an idea I predicted in rudimentary form for an article in Focus back in 2007, and I’m hardly at the cutting edge of web software thinking), but the Facebook privacy backlash has prompted a small gang of geeks to build an open-source distributed social ...
• Virtual bodies, mutable genders
  
  
  Here’s an interesting bit of research from sunny Barcelona: men wearing a virtual reality headset that allowed them to perceive themselves as a female avatar started to identify strongly with their temporarily-assumed gender. … men donned a virtual reality (VR) headset that allowed them to see and h ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
  
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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• New Article Offers In-Depth Coverage of Stroupe Ca ...
  
  
  Richard Renner recently posted discussion of BB&T's refusal to reinstate whistleblower Amy Stroupe. An article, appearing today on Thebigmoney.com gives us a more in-depth look at the case. While working at BB&T bank, Stroupe was an investigator who uncovered a $20 million ponzi scheme. Discovering ...
• OSHA to PATH: no retaliation against injured emplo ...
  
  
  One of the outcomes of the 9/11 Commission was that Congress passed two whistleblower protection laws for railroad and public transit employees in 2008. These are the Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA), 49 U.S.C. � 20109, and the National Transit System Security Act (NTSSA). Both are part of Public Law ...
• 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 ...

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

• Some Fiction About Fan Fiction
  
  
  Reader Andrew sends in a blog post by George R.R. Martin, author of the fantasy series Song of Ice and Fire among other things, about his intense dislike for fan fiction . The post is long and rambles on repeating points somewhat randomly, but there are a few key points that he makes, that don't se ...
• Does Intellectual Property Go Against Traditional ...
  
  
  With India in the middle of its process of revamping its copyright laws due to pressure from Western nations (just a few years after it revamped its patent laws, also due to pressure from Western nations), Quentin Hartman points us to an interesting writeup by Venkatesh Hariharan taking a look at t ...
• Has Shepard Fairey Learned That He's Been Hypocrit ...
  
  
  Shepard Fairey, the well-known appropriation artist who created the famous Obama "Hope" poster is in a well-publicized legal dispute over the image of that poster, with both the Associated Press and the photographer who took the original photo. It's a fascinating fair use/copyright lawsuit, but it' ...
• FTC Gives Ann Taylor A Pass In First 'Blog Disclos ...
  
  
  We expressed some serious concerns with the somewhat ambiguous FTC disclosure rules directed at blogs and new media that went into effect last year, and we've been waiting to see how the FTC enforces those rules. We found it odd that the FTC apparently felt that celebrities could be held to differe ...
• Google Admits It Was Accidentally Collecting Some ...
  
  
  Last month, we wrote about the out-of-proportion freak out in Germany over the news that Google's Street View photo-taking cars were also mapping WiFi data . There seemed to be lots of concern over this, despite no specific explanation of what harm was being done. However, in a move that is sure t ...

VacTruth

• Gates steers clear of HPV vaccine row
  
  
  The Hindu 05/15/2010 Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Friday denied knowledge of the controversy over alleged violations of ethics during clinical trials of HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine conducted by a U.S.-based non-governmental organisation for a pharmaceu ...
• FDA: Rotavirus Vaccines Safe Despite Pig Virus
  
  
  Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health News 05/14/2010 Both rotavirus vaccines given to U.S. infants carry tiny amounts of pig virus or pig virus DNA — but due to the vaccines’ strong safety record, the FDA says doctors should resume their use. Last March, the FDA suspended use of GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix ...
• Whom Do We Serve? The Medical Doctor’s Conundrum
  
  
  Suzanne Humphries, MD International Medical Council on Vaccination 05/15/2010 Do doctors swear an oath to the CDC? The FDA? The AMA? Just who are doctors responsible to anyway? Most doctors do swear an oath upon leaving medical school and it is named after an ancient physician named Hippocrates ...
• Vaccine-derived polioviruses found in immunodefici ...
  
  
  Pediatric Supersite 05/13/2010 Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 was detected in five of six documented cases of immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived polioviruses in Iran from 1995 to 2008 — indicating a global need to change to an inactivated polio vaccine schedule. Researchers from severa ...
• Something sick in the system
  
  
  JOHN GARNAUT TheAge.com.au 05/14/2010 ON MARCH 19, Shandong farmer Li Baoxiang consented to his only son being vaccinated for swine flu. That night, eight-year-old Li Zhikang said he felt sick. By the morning his body was trembling all over. Yesterday the father stood with tears streaming down his ...

BroadSnark

• Putting “I” Back Into Your Vocabulary
  
  
  Considering the amount of people who seem to do nothing but talk about themselves on their blog, Facebook or Twitter accounts, you may think I’m crazy for suggesting that we don’t have enough “I” in our lives. But hear me out. How many times have you heard people bitch about the anonymous “they” tha ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  There is a new project being kicked off to try and get anarchist texts to people in places where they are not so easily available.  Check out Books for Anarchists. The session I attended at the NY anarchist book fair on women in prison is online. Polycentric Order has an interesting article In Defen ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• We Can Defeat Fascism Again!
  
  
  EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• Onward to Mars: The Triumph of the Weak Forces
  
  
  By Oyang Teng Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• The Crisis Is Already Here: Now, Grab the Solution ...
  
  
  Interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• European Blow-Out Makes Glass-Steagall Urgent, Now ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.
• With Obama Opposed, Glass-Steagall Heads to the Se ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.

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

• Wetland Conservation Expanding 75,000 Acres in 22 ...
  
  
  photo: J. Novak The USDA announced last week that they would be expanding funding for wetland conservation in 22 states and Puerto Rico. Nearly $175,000 million will be distributed in order to extend wetland conservation by 75,000 acres. This is great news in my home state of South Carolina whe ...
• Jazz Up Your Bike with Bold, Vintage Handlebar Bag ...
  
  
  Credit: Beatrice Holiday When we saw Beatrice Holiday bicycle seat covers made with vintage upholstery fabric, which slightly resembles our grandmother's old couch--at least the plastic cover helped preserve it--on Modish , we were curious. And when we checked out their shop on Etsy and discove ...
• Costa Rica Builds 'Underground Railroad' for Jagua ...
  
  
  A jaguar in Brazil. Photo by Steve Winter/Panthera via The New York Times . Even the the most lovelorn humans likely wouldn't go to these lengths to find a mate: Camera traps have shown that some jaguars swim across the 500- to 1,000-foot-wide Panama Canal in order to expand their breeding opti ...
• Hayes Valley Farm- Get Your Hands Dirty or Watch D ...
  
  
  photo: Zoey Kroll Zooming by Oak and Fell Streets in San Francisco, you may not notice the bustling growth that is taking place behind the fence on the corner of Laguna and Oak. When the City removed the Laguna freeway off-ramp, there remained 2.5 acres of unused space, from Oak to Fell and fr ...
• Extreme Spring Weather Kills Valuable US Ginseng C ...
  
  
  "Fay Tai sorts through ginseng root at Hsu's Ginseng Enterprises north of Wausau in this 2004 photo." Image and caption credit: Gary Porter, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel The USA doesn't legally export much high-value product to China. Some high tech stuff for aerospace and defense and some soft ...

Biosingularity

• Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
  
  
  People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...
• Examining Individual Tumor Cells
  
  
  Despite decades of research into cancer biology, researchers still dont fully understand what happens to the malignant cells DNA as they mutate. Its not an idle question: The better biologists appreciate how DNA changes, the better they can create therapies that specifically target the disease. Now ...
• Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
  
  
  Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...
• 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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Collegians protest Gore honorary degree in Knoxvil ...
  
  
  CFACT students unite with local tea party organizers to stage a protest against the University of Tennessee's awarding of an honorary degree to Al Gore.
• Taxpayers shouldn't pay for oil spill clean-up
  
  
  It may turn out that the public still supports offshore drilling -- albeit with new safeguards based on what is learned from this spill -- but not a moratorium on all offshore oil production
• Oil drilling minimizes natural oil leaks
  
  
  Off the coast of Santa Barbara and elsewhere, oil seeps from the ocean floor release oily bubbles or droplets of oil.
• Questions posed for Kerry, Lieberman on new climat ...
  
  
  CFACT's Driessen: "Senators have some explaining to do"
• Lessons from the Gulf blowout
  
  
  Learning (the right lessons, hopefully) from the Gulf of Mexico disaster

Ria Novosti Online News

• Chilean President Pinera sells his last major asse ...
  
  
  Chile's billionaire president, Sebastian Pinera, has sold Chilevision television station, his last major asset, for an estimated $130 million, the Chilean media reported on Sunday
• Rescue workers to pump more water into blast-hit S ...
  
  
  Rescue workers are starting building a third water supply pipe at a Siberian coalmine where a deadly explosion killed at least 66 people last weekend, the press office of the regional emergencies department said on Sunday
• West Siberian mine blast
  
  
• Russian border guards seize large batch of illegal ...
  
  
  The border guards in the Trans-Baikal area in south-east Siberia have seized a large batch of illegal Chinese imports, the press office of the regional border guard department said on Sunday
• N. Korean warships violate S. Korean sea border — ...
  
  
  Two North Korean patrol boats crossed into South Korean territorial waters late on Saturday but retreated after receiving warnings from the South Korean Navy.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian space freighter undocked from ISS
  
  
  The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) undocked a Russian space freighter on Monday, a Mission Control spokesperson said
• Iran to orbit 5-6 telecom satellites 'soon'
  
  
  Tehran is planning to launch up to six satellites in the near future, Fars news agency quoted Iranian Telecommunications Minister Reza Taqipour as saying on Friday.
• Russian, Ukrainian scientists win 2010 Global Ener ...
  
  
  The 2010 Global Energy Prize has been awarded to a Russian and a Ukrainian scientist, the vice president of the Russian Academy of Scientists said on Tuesday.
• Icelandic volcano ejects 140 mln cu m of ash - sci ...
  
  
  Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano has thrown out about 140 million cubic meters of ash over the past three days
• Space Shuttle may continue through next year - Ros ...
  
  
  The U.S. Space Shuttle program may not come to an end this year, Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said in a statement, citing International Space Station (ISS) manager

Pruning Shears

• Consumers Get Businesslike; Business Gets Nervous
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday Shahien Nasiripour wrote about the growing problem of strategic defaults, where homeowners who are able to pay their mortgages instead let them go into foreclosure. Generally the homes are worth substantially less than th ...
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• Does Washing Produce Get Rid of Bacteria?
  
  
  Washing produce, even very carefully, may not remove all the bacteria present. Rough surfaces provide lots of places in which bacteria can hide out. You may want to wash rougher-surfaced fruit more carefully. However, according to Live Science: “For vegetables and other foods that are eaten raw, ...
• Natural Ways to Relieve Heartburn Symptoms
  
  
  Here are some of the side-effect free methods U.S. News & World Report lists as ways to relieve heartburn: Avoid heartburn-triggering foods Stay upright for a few hours after you eat Eat smaller meals Go easy on caffeine and alcohol, an ...
• Why Being a Perfectionist May Not Be So Perfect
  
  
  Perfectionism at its extreme prevents you from being your best : You become less efficient . You spend more time on a task than required. You become less effective. Sometimes, additions add no value. You procrastinate . The “perfect” moment never strikes. You miss the bigger pi ...
• Medicines and Treatments That Patients Don't Need
  
  
  A journal published by the American Medical Association is taking a hard look at the perils of extra tests and treatments. Too many tests can often lead to unnecessary treatments or even hurt the patient. "Less Is More" will become a feature in the Archives of Internal Medicine. It will examine tr ...
• Perfume Companies Withhold Important Chemical Info ...
  
  
  Perfumes often list “fragrance” as an ingredient, but fail to name the specific chemicals involved. This dangerous practice could result in allergic reactions and other health effects. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found an average of 14 unlisted ingredients in each of 17 popular perfumes. Compan ...

Antemedius

• 28% Of Republicans Say BP Disaster Makes Them Want ...
  
  
  I have been writing occasionally on the instances of Jethro Bodine-ism in Republican elected officials. Bodine-ism is the condition where a person will cheerfully and apparently with no irony or bad-faith repeat the talking points of their party, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to contrary ...
• Despite Challenges, Conserving Natural Resources a ...
  
  
  Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet . Madagascar has had more than its share of bad luck in the last year. In 2009, a military coup deposed the government. But the government wasn’t the only thing that collapsed. The island nation’s $400 million per year tourism revenue ...
• Your cellphone is killing people: Regulate conflic ...
  
  
  In 1994, a Hutu paramilitary organization called the Interahamwe perpetrated a mass genocide in Rwanda against another ethnic group, the Tutsi. In response, the Rwandese Patriotic Front eventually drove the Interahamwe, their supporters, and the Hutu who feared retaliation into nearby countries: ove ...
• Moving Forward On Criminal Justice Reform Commissi ...
  
  
  If one wants to make a statement that will not get any argument, then saying that the United States faces a whole folio of problems is the one that to choose. The high profile ones are well known, but that does not mean that we don’t have others which should have been hovering in the background wait ...
• Apocalypse Never: Read This Book or Die
  
  
  By David Swanson Tad Daley writes, in his new book, "Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World," that he would like his book to have the impact of "Common Sense," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," or "The Jungle." Yeah, buddy, what author wouldn't? But Daley has a unique argument for the ...

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

• Koua Fong Lee update
  
  
  I was thinking earlier this week that it was fairly amazing how completely Koua Fong Lee had fallen off the local news map, so I guess I’m not surprised the Strib has a Saturday editorial on the case and some new information. This week’s new information came in a report from Richard F. Dusek, a [... ...
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect
  
  
  You know by now that Lisa Murkowski blocked Senate efforts to raise the limits on BP’s exposure in the ongoing Gulf spill, but did you know that Murkowski’s husband is the BP employee who was responsible for testing the blowout preventers? How on earth does that fly with Alaskans? - Ninety-eight per ...
• Oil of corruption
  
  
  I think these side by side PiPress headlines pretty much explain the mess we’re in. Draw any conclusion you like, just don’t tell me this makes sense. - Scientists say the BP spill is way underestimated, while the government now says that the party-like-there’s-no-tomorrow Minerals Management Servic ...
• As AZ slowly circles the bowl . . .
  
  
  Cypress Hill is boycotting Arizona. Top Mexican soccer team cancels Phoenix match. Bill McCollum flip flops on Arizona’s show-us-your-papers law (does he have any clue how much money Disney would spend to avoid a tourism boycott of Orlando?). The City of Phoenix is saying that they’re in a near econ ...
• Banksters, tampons and other news of the day
  
  
  This, at long last, is what the right is reduced to: Tampons. Icky, scary, girl thingy tampons. Maybe with wings, maybe not. - Andrew Cuomo is going after eight banks for misleading the already-in-the-bag ratings agencies. I understand it’s hard to get the money back, but if the Republicans have acc ...

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

• Industrial Hemp
  
  
  Hemp has been unfairly relegated to illegality for most of this century – we expose the amazing eco-sustainable superiority of industrial hemp…
• Environmental News -29/04/10
  
  
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) The innovator: Anna Bullus (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/25/lucy-siegle-innovator-anna-bullus-chewing-gum-recycler)-The chewing-gum recycler, 25, on her groundbreaking pink bubbl ...
• Environmental News - 12/04/10
  
  
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Climate 'debate' is just nitpicking (http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/climate-debate-is-just-nitpicking-20100409-rxan.html)-The most fundamental problem with the "climate change debate" is t ...
• Smells Good – Is It?
  
  
  Just how natural and green are the fragrances we surround ourselves with – should we believe our nose?
• The Challenges of Getting About and Being Green in ...
  
  
  Does where you live affect how green your transport can be? We take a look at regional green transport options…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram ...
  
  
  ShareThis Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram By Marc Ambinder 14 May 2010 The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) runs a classified interrogation facility for high-value detainees inside Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, defense and administration officials said, and prisoners there are ...
• Canadian commander accused of murders and sex atta ...
  
  
  ShareThis Canadian commander accused of murders and sex attacks --One of Canada's most senior military figures has been accused of being a sexual predator responsible for up to ten murders . 14 May 2010 In a case that has shocked and transfixed the nation, British-born Colonel Russell Williams has b ...
• Obama wants $80 bln to upgrade nuclear arms comple ...
  
  
  ShareThis Obama wants $80 bln to upgrade nuclear arms complex 13 May 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama sent a landmark arms-reduction treaty with Russia to the Senate on Thursday for ratification and called for $80 billion in nuclear funding, which could help win opposition support. Defense Secretary ...
• Palin Warns "Mama Grizzlies" Will Take Back Countr ...
  
  
  ShareThis Palin Warns "Mama Grizzlies" Will Take Back Country [ That's right. They can start by devouring Sarah Palin, the polar bear- and wolf-killing terrorist. ] 14 May 2010 Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says "mama grizzles" will punish Washington in November's midterm elections. [ Mama polar be ...
• Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say
  
  
  ShareThis Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say 13 May 2010 Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom. But scientists and environmenta ...

Daily Loaf

• Restaurant News: Bowled in St. Pete has closed
  
  
  Bye, guys.
• Live coverage of the Pre-Heat (Heatwave) music pan ...
  
  
  This year's event features workshops on copyright and entertainment law with Kevin Astl, Esq., a DJ/producers beat workshop with Young Deacon (tampahiphop.com) and a demo listening session with Bay Area music critics and radio DJs. Tickets are $5 or free with your Heatwave wristband. Food and refre ...
• Summer Guide 2010 Spotlight: Living the sweets lif ...
  
  
  They certainly got the name right. Pinky's Ice Cream and Candy Shop, a small strip-mall storefront in Indian Rocks Beach, is a retro explosion of color and sweets …
• Possible solutions for the Gulf oil spill: Garbage ...
  
  
  With an estimated 200,000 gallons of oil still leaking into the Gulf every day -- and no end in sight as of now -- here are a few inventive ideas on putting a stop to the incessant flow.
• Top Chef: Washington D.C. premiering in June – New ...
  
  
  The newest installment of Top Chef takes place in our nation's capital this season and premieres on June 16. Check out the new faces!

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Israeli Govt. Criminalizes Its Arab-Citizen Leader ...
  
  
  (crossposted on Daily Kos) On Monday I reported here the arrest of two prominent Palestinian citizens of Israel – Dr. Omar Saeed and Ameer Makhoul – at a time when these news still banned from publication in Israel. The ban was partially lifted a few hours later, crumbling under the pressure of bot ...
• Israeli Writer Michal Peleg Calls Out Her Governme ...
  
  
  by Michal Peleg Dr. Omar Said from Kafr Kana, Israel, was arrested on April 24, at a border crossing between Israel and Jordan, and is held since in prison for investigation, without trial. Dr. Said is a pharmacologist, an expert of academic and international fame in the medical use of he ...
• Palestinian Teenager Shot, Apparently By Settler
  
  
  From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. Aysar Yasser a-Zaben, 16 years old, was shot in his back yesterday evening in his family’s lands in Mazra’a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah, apparently by a settler. Aysar al-Zaben’s body was found in his plot by family members only hours after he w ...
• Jerusalem Day in Sheikh Jarrah: Not Here, Not Now
  
  
  By Jeremy Siegman, reprinted from Sheikh Jarrah: A Just Struggle for a Just Jerusalem “We will never let Jerusalem again be a divided, gloomy, and halved city,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today to celebrate Jerusalem Day, a national and religious holiday in Israel marking the day that I ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Giant plumes of oil forming under the Gulf
  
  
  NY Times Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates th ...
• Difference between Utah and California
  
  
  Here in Utah, they have drug courts. Offenders get sentenced to rehab houses and if they screw up, they go the jail for a few weeks or months. Sometimes it’s a revolving door for quite a while. But here’s the difference. Probably because of a LDS-inspired belief in redemption, Utah doesn’t throw you ...
• Farm workers in California homeless, living in orc ...
  
  
  Homeless Farmworkers in the Central Valley from New America Media on Vimeo. Aid workers are finding farm workers who have live in cold, unused orchards all winter because there are no jobs. Unemployment in some of the farming counties is now over 30%. One of the reasons is the endless water wars of ...
• Tip: Don’t go to Juarez and think you can be a dru ...
  
  
  Three Americans at a wedding in Juarez recently were kidnapped, tortured, and killed. Mexico’s Drug War opines: The groom’s father has told authorities and the media that he has no idea why his son and the others were kidnapped and killed, but the immediate answer is that they seriously ticked off ...
• High speed rail won’t happen without federal fundi ...
  
  
  The US needs unquestionably needs high speed rail nationwide. Yet many states are in deep financial trouble and can’t fund it. Federal government outlays have been minor at best. Why is it the feds can shovel hundreds of billions to the banks in the form of bailouts and cheap credit yet can’t fund ...

Coteret

• Maariv: Minister Ben Eliezer shaken by hostility t ...
  
  
  They just hate Excerpt from column, Ben Caspit, Maariv Friday Political Supplement, May 14 2010 [page 2] Speaking of bulldozers, [Benyamin] Fuad Ben Eliezer was in Brussels last week, on a one-day working trip, including meetings with many senior European officials from the EU and the European Parli ...
• Witness to a demonstration: A Friday in Nabi Salih
  
  
  Lisa Goldman is a freelance journalist and blogger. Her articles have been published in Time Out Tel Aviv, Ynet, the Forward, Haaretz, the Jewish Quarterly, Corriere Della Sera, the Guardian and the Columbia Journalism Review. She is the author of City Guide: Tel Aviv and lives in the city. Cross ...
• Haim Saban gives unusually blunt assessment of Oba ...
  
  
  Israeli-American TV magnate and democratic mega donor Haim Saban (see Connie Bruck’s recent New Yorker profile here) is unhappy with the Obama administration Israeli policies. Usually restrained, in an interview for Israeli Channel Ten TV News broadcast Thursday (May 13 2010), Saban let his guard ...
• Maariv: Lieberman launching diplomatic offensive a ...
  
  
  The new front Ben Caspit, Maariv, May 13 2010 [page 2 with front-page teaser; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Israel is threatening to launch a global campaign against Saudi Arabia, in keeping with a decision that was made by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and which has been kept sec ...
• On the partisan politicization of “Jerusalem ...
  
  
  Shachar-Mario Mordechai is a poet living in Tel Aviv. He is the 2010 recipient of Tel Aviv Municipality’s nationwide “Poetry By the Way” competition. His poems, translations and reviews have been published by various magazines, literary supplements and online site. His book of poems, “History of th ...

Deadline Live

• US drug war has met none of its goals
  
  
  MEXICO CITY â After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread. Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn’t worked. “In the grand scheme, it h ...
• Mexican Defense Department: ‘Narcopsychosis’ Pushi ...
  
  
  By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info May 15, 2010 Last week, the Mexican Defense Department issued a report stating that five states in Mexico are on the brink of social collapse, according to the newspaper Excelsior. The current social crisis plaguing these five states is being caused by ‘Narcopsycho ...
• Arizona, States’ Rights and Immigration
  
  
  szandorblestman.com I had an interesting conversation the other day about the recent immigration law passed in Arizona. I was asked what I thought about the situation. I had to admit that this issue was a tough one to form an opinion about. I have my opinion on immigration in general, but I don’t li ...
• CHIPLESS & INVISIBLE RFID Ink Safe For Humans, Cat ...
  
  
  Mark of the Beast now available in Invisible to the eye INK? The process developed by Somark involves a geometric array of micro-needles and an ink capsule, which is used to ‘tattoo’ an animal. The ink can be detected from 4 feet away. A startup company developing chipless RFID ink has tested its pr ...
• Oil Spill: “Missing” Data mires Invest ...
  
  
  As Latest Effort Sees Workers Try to Siphon Oil Gushing from Riser, Missing Safety Test Data Raise More Questions (CBS/AP) In the fateful hours before the Deepwater Horizon exploded about 50 miles off the Louisiana shore, a safety test was supposedly performed to detect if explosive gas was leaki ...

The Air Vent

• Lukelimiters
  
  
  I’m not sure people realize that blogging is more about reading than writing.   Sure, I do enjoy the privilege  of placing my thoughts on line for discussion with a lot of smart people, so there is a measure of talk, but from a functional perspective, blogging is mostly reading. By the time you g ...
• Offline
  
  
  The blog is difficult to run full time.  I’ve got a newborn, a company and now an interesting chance to meet Lucia, Anthony and SteveM.  I don’t like Pielke’s latest paper in the same fashion that I don’t like the rest of the unrequired (is that a word?) leftist solutions to plant food.   I wrot ...
• ICCC – Chicago
  
  
  I’ll  be going to the Chicago climate change conference this weekend.  It’s actually a pretty exciting opportunity, besides meeting a lot of famous names for dinner, I’m planning to catch some of the presentations.  This will be the first time that I’ve met any of the personalities from the inter ...
• Crisis at Grist – Send your money
  
  
  Grist a fine bathroom publication, which wastes electrons by the minute trying to instill wondrous solutions to CO2, has sent me an email.  In it they requested I send them a check to help save the ‘endangered’ reporter. It’s not easy — especially when said species try to bite us or start growling ...
• Waterwars
  
  
  I really enjoy Willis Eschenbach’s posts on WUWT.  He’s a good writer and makes reading fun.  Today he’s put one up on the super cloud maker ships which launch water into the air to increase cloud cover and save us all from global warming doom. Bill Gates invested in the project apparently, but Wi ...

Focal Point

• Regulators Let BP Skip Required Permits
  
  
  Federal regulators apparently allowed BP and dozens of other oil companies to begin drilling without obtaining mandatory environmental permits, according to the New York Times. By law, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) needs to get the OK of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
• Video: Octopus vs. Subcompact Shark
  
  
  Octopus and hidden cameras go together like chocolate and peanut butter. You never know what those crazy cephalopods will get up to . Today, Boing Boing dug up some neat old National Geographic hidden camera footage that solved a marine murder mystery : Why were so many spiny dogfish t ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: iPad Apps (?), Privacy, Slidesho ...
  
  
  Facebook Pursues New Domain Name – Facebook filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization in order to obtain the name Facebook.me, currently registered to a man in the United Arab Emirates. Facebook has previously secured similar domains — .cn, .ir, .es, .com.au and .ie — and w ...
• Royal Dutch Airlines Has a Fast-Growing Facebook A ...
  
  
  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has created an interesting Facebook gimmick for fans in Europe that not only helps the company with its branding with the help of Icemedia, but also incorporates users’ Facebook photos. Using the company’s application FreeLuggageTags, users may create luggage tags from Faceb ...
• New Security Tools Prevent and Alert Users to Unau ...
  
  
  New Facebook security systems focused on preventing unauthorized logins are now active in the Account Settings -> Account Security panel. Outlined in a post to the official Facebook Blog, these tools come amidst a storm of criticism over privacy and security flaps regarding exposed chats and user da ...
• Facebook, Involver Launch FIFA World Cup Leaderboa ...
  
  
  The FIFA World Cup is set to run June 11 – July 11 in South Africa and, by the time the football/soccer matches roll around, everyone everywhere will be held rapt by the games —  on Facebook. The company released its Goal! Leaderboard Thursday, created by Involver, on its Sports Facebook Page. The ...
• Profile Modifications Get Big On This Week’s List ...
  
  
  Say hello to Profile Box; you may be seeing a lot of it in coming weeks. The profile modification app hit the big time this week, reaching the top of our list of emerging Facebook apps still under a million monthly active users. Profile Box is a little piece of MySpace right [...]

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: William Astore | Obama Dresses Down the ...
  
  
  truthout: William Astore | Obama Dresses Down the Military, but What's Changed?: Obama Dresses Down the Militar... http://bit.ly/dgraJ5 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: New Arizona Bills Continue Targeting of ...
  
  
  truthout: New Arizona Bills Continue Targeting of Minority Groups, Critics Say: Tucson's Unified School Distric... http://bit.ly/9q6qvz #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Obama calls BP, Transocean Testimony "Ri ...
  
  
  truthout: Obama calls BP, Transocean Testimony "Ridiculous Spectacle": Washington — President Barack Obama took... http://bit.ly/dpz7uF #Truthout #p2
• truthout: There's No Time Like Now to Be an Activi ...
  
  
  truthout: There's No Time Like Now to Be an Activist: Eighty-one tons of mercury is emitted into the atmosphere... http://bit.ly/av6g1W #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Demand Everything! An Interview With Phi ...
  
  
  truthout: Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley: Simon Critchley is chair of the Dep... http://bit.ly/a3LZZM #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• US funds Israel’s apartheid roads plan
  
  
  Jonathan Cook reports that a US government aid agency is financing the construction of Jews-only apartheid roads in the illegally-occupied West Bank, contrary to Washington’s pledge not to assist in implementing Israel’s “apartheid road” plan and its oft-stated goal to establish a viable Palestinian ...
• Netanyahu will be pleased. Now UK has an upper-cla ...
  
  
  Stuart Littlewood views the Zionist roots of Britain’s senior coalition party, the Conservatives, especially its leader David Cameron and the foreign secretary, William Hague, both self-confessed Israel stooges. He asks whether Nick Clegg, leader of the junior coalition partner, the Liberal Democrat ...
• Israel’s red line – real democracy: secret police ...
  
  
  Jonathan Cook reports on the growing persecution of Israeli Arab civil society leaders by the Israeli secret police as part of a strategy designed to castrate the country’s Arab community politically and to prevent it from helping to expose Israeli racism and apartheid internationally.
• Are the bombers in Iraq Al-Qaeda, the CIA or Israe ...
  
  
  Christopher King argues that it is likely that the American CIA – or Israel acting on its behalf – is responsible for recent atrocities in Iraq, in order to extend and consolidate the occupation, just as it is probable that the Times Square bomber was, wittingly or otherwise, acting for the CIA or I ...
• Israel lobby’s control of Western media
  
  
  Paul J. Balles compares China’s open control of the press with the “lies under pretence of freedom” of the Western media under the control of special interests, especially the Israel lobby.

Amazon Rainforest

• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
  
  
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
• Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
  
  
  President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
  
  
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
• Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
  
  
  The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
• Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
  
  
  Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
  
  
• The Ill-Logic of the U.S. Predator Drone Campaign
  
  
  A Bad Omen for America   William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of the law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last [...]
• 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 ...

Afro Spear

• Are Marriage Relationships to be Built?
  
  
  There is a lot of talk these days about marriage and how difficult it can be.  Everywhere you turn, someone is talking about how many marriages are failing.  How divorce is soaring, even in the “church”.  Some folk even believe that the marriage covenant isn’t necessary in this day and age. ...
• sat’day riddymz
  
  
  Thanks to Bro. Désiré for this.
• “See Something, Say Something: New York City ...
  
  
  Commentary submission by Project 21 After a bomb was recently discovered in a smoking Nissan SUV in Times Square, America watched anxiously as city, state, and federal authorities investigated. In just 53 hours, law enforcement and national security teams working together successfully apprehended th ...
• 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)

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

• Time is short…
  
  
  "It doesn't take DNA to make a dad," she said. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease.
• 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 [...]

Unsuitable Blog

• Green Youth Movement: The Frightening Face of Youn ...
  
  
  An impending sense of dispair tends to fall over me when I open my mailbox in the morning. Alongside the genuine spam comes a pile of cut-and-paste guff that spews from the keyboards of public relations firms who have been paid a few bucks to send out sycophantic press releases on behalf of their c ...
• 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 [ ...

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

• DIY Mappers Offer Remarkable Images of Gulf Coast ...
  
  
  Last week, as the mainstream press reported on the worsening environmental and economic crisis that is the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf Coast, I and a small group of DIY mappers flew down to New Orleans to coordinate a grassroots, citizen effort to map the spill. Instead of helicopters an ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Traveler's Edge - Volcanic Ash Again Disrupts ...
  
  
  Volcanic ash from Iceland's erupting volcano is again grounding flights in Europe as it continues to spread across the continent. Millions of travelers are being affected as flights are canceled and delayed. Civil aviation authorities say the disruption could last for several more days. The European ...
• Book Review - The War Comes Home: How America Trea ...
  
  
  The War Comes Home: Washington's War Against America's Veterans. Aaron Glantz. University of California Press.�2009. 288 pp. I once commuted to work on the Long Island Railroad with a neighbor. He had been an Air Force captain during the Vietnam War and one of his jobs in the states was telling peop ...
• Rubashkin Despised but Lady Justice Must be Blind
  
  
  If there is no justice for the weakest and the most despised in our society, then none of us can be assured justice.�The "Lady Justice" statue wears a blindfold for a reason.�Thus, I appreciate both Edwin Black and Brett Tollman’s articles regarding the injustice that Shlomo Rubashkin is and has fac ...
• Gulf Spill Arises from a Risk Society Must Not Tak ...
  
  
  The current massive Gulf spill only serves to reinforce what we should all know. The risk for oil involve risks that society need not take. It is not just a political risk or a military risk, but also an environmental risk. The millions we are now spending on this horrid clean-up—if we can ever clea ...
• Ravensfire and Robofish Continue Wikipedia Blockag ...
  
  
  I admire the courage of Edwin Black in taking on the band of anonymous zealots that comprise what we know as Wikipedia (see Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge , Page One, April 12, 2010). It was not bad enough that people with the bizarre names of Blaxthos and Fred the Oyster tried to del ...

High Country News

• Springtime is whine-time
  
  
  Spring is the cruelest month in the Rocky Mountain West.
• Black Sunday won't ever happen again
  
  
  Twenty-eight years ago, the oil shale industry abruptly pulled out of western Colorado, leaving the local economy in shambles and teaching a painful lesson.
• What it took to win one small victory
  
  
  The small community of Conway, Wash., successfully fought off a cell-phone tower, but paid a high price for victory.
• Small wonders, big world
  
  
  A couple of hitherto-unknown bees are discovered in Nevada -- just two of the many new species found every year.
• It takes a district: Utah landowners control groun ...
  
  
  In southern Utah's Escalante Valley, local landowners will form a water district to save their declining aquifer.

CounterCurrents

• Police Atrocity Against Villagers In Orissa
  
  
  By Nachiketa Desai In a massive armed assault using crude bombs, bullets and batons, the Orissa police cracked down on over 1,500 villagers staging a peaceful sit-in dharna since January last against their imminent displacement to make way for South Korean mega corp Poscos 12 million ton Greenfield ...
• Stop Police Attacks On Peaceful Protesters In Ori ...
  
  
  Appeal By Concerned Citizens We believe that, to crush peaceful dissent in such a brutal manner can only serve to undermine Indian democracy and push large sections of the Indian population to the point of desperation. At no point, in their struggle for over five years, have the anti-POSCO protest ...
• Police Attack On Anti-POSCO Peoples Movement - Chr ...
  
  
  By POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti More than 100 villagers injured, the condition of 5 persons is serious and 18 persons including 5 women got arrested by the Police under the direct supervision of Orissa Chief Minister- POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS)
• The Real Story Of The POSCO Project
  
  
  By Campaign for Survival and Dignity This is not just a dispute over land acquisition for development.The POSCO project is illegal and will not bring any benefits for the local population or the countrys economy. Rather, it is simply plunder of lives and resources
• Timeline Of Events In POSCO Project Area Relating ...
  
  
  By Campaign for Survival and Dignity Timeline of events in POSCO project area

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

• The U.S. Government Knows that Iran Helps al-Qaida ...
  
  
  By Barry Rubin Here's a story that should mark the pivotal moment in U.S. foreign policy. It should be on the lips of every White House and State Department official. It should fundamentally transform the nature of Obama Administration foreign policy. It's that important. But it isn't that ...
• SEIU Wants Fries and a McApple Pie With That Card ...
  
  
  Remember card check? That provision in the Employee Free Choice Act that takes away free choice by eliminating the secret ballot? Many people think that the Employee Free Choice act is dead, but as long as the Democrats control congress and there is a Progressive Democrat in the White House, this ac ...
• Human Rodent Pat Buchanan Complains Supreme Court ...
  
  
  It was William F Buckley Jr who confirmed that Buchanan hated Jews.� In Search of Anti-Semitism " December 31, 1991, subsequently made the cornerstone of a book , William F. Buckley, Jr. concluded, that Buchanan was indeed an anti-Semite: I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan ...
• Stupid Progressive Blogger Tricks: The Crooks and ...
  
  
  For the second time this week a progressive website has rushed to scream "AstroTurf" but in its haste to point out something that didn't exist, they forgot to check out whether the story was true.� OOPSIES! In both cases when presented with the facts, the site refused to admit its mistake. Earlier ...
• Mr. President Free Brother Irving and Cousin Gail
  
  
  The Obama administration is keeping Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's family under lock and key. We don't know if it is a "home arrest," or whether they have been shipped to some political internment camp. OK we do know, they have simply been told by the Administration to shut the heck up. Pr ...

The Real Agenda

• Bolsa de España cae 6.64%
  
  
  Las dudas sobre la recuperación de la economía europea y el retroceso de los mercados internacionales, entre otros factores, han provocado que el índice de referencia de la bolsa española, el Ibex-35, haya perdido 662,80 puntos, equivalentes al 6,64%. Se sitúa así en 9.314,70 puntos. Terra.es La bol ...
• International Action to arrest Henry Kissinger
  
  
  Sovereign Independent Henry Kissinger has an International Arrest Warrant out for him and an attempt is made to enforce it in Four Seasons Hotel DublinIreland where he was staying 8th May 2010. The annual Trilateral conference headed up and attended by David Rockefeller was held in the hotel on the ...
• US media demands Greek-style austerity for America ...
  
  
  WSNM In recent days, the US media—led by the standard bearer of American liberalism, the New York Times—has insisted that workers in the US, like their brethren in Greece, have been living the good life for far too long and must accept a drastic and permanent reduction in their living standards. In ...
• The second debt storm
  
  
  Who will bail out the countries that bailed out the world’s corporations? Market Watch The debt mountain that brought down some of the world’s biggest banks and dragged the international financial system to the brink of disaster has simply shifted to governments. Now it’s threatening countries aroun ...
• President Nicolas Sarkozy: France out of Euro zone
  
  
  President Nicolas Sarkozy slammed his fist on the table and threatened to pull France out of the euro at a meeting of European leaders deciding Greece’s aid package last Friday, according to Spain’s El Pais newspaper. UK Telegraph He newspaper cited comments by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodri ...

Wind Watch

• The Sisters wind farm blow
  
  
  A contentious wind farm proposal for The Sisters has been rejected by Victoria’s planning tribunal, leaving deep divisions in the small dairying community. In a rare ruling against the burgeoning green energy sector the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal upheld Moyne Shire Council’s refusal ...
• Windmill down, fences up: Safety measures implemen ...
  
  
  FENNER — Enel Energy officials announced in March that heightened safety measures would be taken in light of the collapse of a windmill in the Fenner Wind Farm on Buyea Road Dec. 27. âWhen the incident occurred, we fenced it off and set up security,â said Hank Sennott, director of corporate affa ...
• Researcher concerned about wind tower impact on bi ...
  
  
  On a real clear day, the mountains of Pennsylvania are the only thing besides water that can be seen when looking south over Lake Erie from Long Point’s beach. That could change. An offshore wind development of 500 to 800 turbines is in the early planning stages for the waters off Long Point accordi ...
• Turbine protest creates storm
  
  
  About 250 opponents of wind turbines blasted the Dalton McGuinty government over its decision to override municipalities in locating the electricity generators. The protest Wednesday outside Queen’s Park coincided with a Conservative MPP’s motion in the Ontario legislature for a moratorium on wind t ...
• Couple sue for £380k after being driven out of hom ...
  
  
  The 150-acre farm was the answer to Julian and Jane Davis’s dreams of a quiet life in the country. He would grow crops while she planned to build a wooden chalet to run reflexology, therapy and counselling sessions. Their rural peace was shattered, however, when eight giant wind turbines were erecte ...

Not My Tribe

• Is Walmart Price “Rollback” trademark ...
  
  
  What are Walmart “price ROLLBACKS” but a way to take credit for sale pricing present and past? You generate buyer goodwill for what you’re advertizing, and reap customer loyalty for good deals you supposedly offered in times bygone. Do “rollbacks” recall fond bargain-hunting nostalgia or are they ma ...
• Best cloak your SSID? Google won’t say
  
  
  WiFi users who opt for the convenience of broadcasting their SSIDs, versus cloaking their wireless networks, based on the security strategy that a privacy measure calls attention to itself, were shocked last week to learn that Google’s Streetview vehicles were logging open WiFi signals together with ...
• John Pilger: Gaza flotilla is one of most importan ...
  
  
  Still waiting for aerial photos of MV Rachel Corrie leaving Ireland for the Mediterranean. Feel like you’re missing out? This quote from Journalist-superstar John Pilger won’t help: “The Freedom Flotilla is one of the most important direct actions of my lifetime. With its desperately-needed supplies ...
• Why does media minimize the oil spill?
  
  
  Until yesterday, how many barrels of oil per day had you been informed were fueling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill calamity?    a) 1,000    b) 5,000    c) 50,000    d) 100,000 Experts who weren’t BP said the answer from the beginning was D. The media is now warming the public to [...]
• 16-year-old Jessica Watson completes solo circumna ...
  
  
  When Australian teen Jessica Watson arrives in Sidney tomorrow, she will be the youngest person to sail around the globe alone. The 16-year-old is being denied an official record however, for the same reason the Olympics enforce a minimum age for gymnasts. Although a formal snubbing might seem despo ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• The LIHOP Case against Cheney and Bush
  
  
  After more than a year of researching and editing together short clips, I have finished an hour long presentation reviewing the best evidence that key members of the Bush Administration were, at the very least, aware of the coming 9/11 attack and allowed it to happen for political reasons. Topics i ...
• Possible Confirmation of "Pull It" - In A Hitpiece ...
  
  
  By: John-Michael P. Talboo and ScootleRoyale First, a little background: A writer for FOX News has just inadvertently exposed some key WTC 7 evidence... while writing a hitpiece ! In an article entitled Shame On Jesse Ventura !, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro writes: "Governor Ventura and many 9/11 “ T ...
• The UK Election Puppet Show [Updated]
  
  
  In the US, when a party is in power, the other party at least pretends to be opposed to the globalist agenda that the party in power is carrying out. Here in the UK they don't even give us that! The leaders of all three of the major parties (Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat) are blatantly ...
• History Repeats Itself
  
  
  So I've just finished watching a repeat of the History Channel's documentary "The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction?" And I basically felt the same thing I usually feel when I watch this particular piece: disgust. This documentary has always had a special significance with me, because it was this v ...
• LIHOP and MIHOP are not mutually exclusive!
  
  
  Pat Curley has claimed in a recent post that LIHOP and MIHOP are mutually exclusive . This is not true, as it assumes a black and white world. As we have said many times on this blog, the world is not black or white . What debunkers never seem to understand is that 9/11 truth does not claim any spec ...

Fooducate

• School Lunch Meat Safety Improved to … Fast Food S ...
  
  
  The USDA is enacting more stringent safety regulations for ground meats provided to school lunch programs. This will bring the safety programs up to the safety levels of no less than … hold your breath … fast food burgers. The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Friday that it will require all gr ...
• Heinz Ketchup Losing Some Salt. What About HFCS?
  
  
  Heinz, the brand most associated with ketchup, is reformulating its flagship condiment for the first time in four decades. In what seems to be the sign of the times, the company will remove 15% of the sodium from the regular ketchup. A serving – one tablespoon – currently contains 190mg of sodium, ...
• Can These Innovative Plates Improve Our Diets?
  
  
  Here’s an interesting take on the Food Pyramid. Why not mark plates according to the proportion of each type of food family our bodies need? The concept, called Wheel of Nutrition, from 2 Milan designers, is a simple hack, or behavioral nudge, that supposedly will help people load up the correct am ...
• Why The Junk Food Industry Will Survive The First ...
  
  
  In February, to much fanfare and public applaud, First Lady Michelle Obama launched Let’s Move, a campaign designed to eradicate childhood obesity within one generation. Despite her best efforts, and the wonderful team she has put together, we were skeptical, and remain so today. Not because we don’ ...
• Going Nuts for Lower Cholesterol
  
  
  A study published earlier this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine, reaffirmed what many previous researchers have found – consumption of nuts helps reduce bad cholesterol levels in the blood. Though nuts are high calorie foods due to their fat content, they are for the most part beneficial u ...

Traffikd

• Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
  
  
  One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
• 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
  
  
  I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...
• Blog Design Showcase
  
  
  The typical post topics covered here involve topics related to social media marketing or blogging . One way to increase traffic to your site is to use an attractive design that will draw a lot of attention. Web design galleries and showcase blog posts like this one send considerable amounts of visit ...
• 10 Reasons to Be a Freelance Blogger
  
  
  I talk to a lot of people on a regular basis who want to make money with the internet, and blogging is often the preferred method. While it is certainly possible to earn a living with your own blog, it's a lot more work than most people anticipate, and the percentage of bloggers who stick with it lo ...
• Using Social Media as Part of a Balanced Plan for ...
  
  
  When it comes to social media marketing you'll hear some people say that it is best opportunity out there for bloggers and website owners, and others will tell you that it's a complete waste of time. In my opinion, and from my experience, social media brings a lot of potential for getting exposure t ...

  Blacklisted News

• Obama Sends Bomb, Mars Experts to Fix BP Oil Spill
  
  
  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu signaled his lack of confidence in the industry experts trying to control BP Plc’s leaking oil well by hand-picking a team of scientists with reputations for creative problem solving.
• Trichet: Europe's Economy In Deepest Crisis Since ...
  
  
  The President of the European Central Bank is quoted as saying that he still sees Europe's economy in its deepest crisis since World War II or even World War I.
• U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms tr ...
  
  
  The proposed legally binding treaty would tighten regulation of, and set international standards for, the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons.
• U.S. State Department to aggressively confront GM ...
  
  
  A World of Benefits? For Whom?
• Europe’s Fascist Bailout Means Britain’s About To ...
  
  
  Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse.

The Intelligence Daily

• More Often Than Not, Cults (Religious, Satanic, Po ...
  
  
  Comment: What are cults good for? :) One can create and/or control elite groups, and subsequently,...
• NATO In Afghanistan: World War In One Country
  
  
  (Intelligence Daily) — Since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took control of the...
• After Money
  
  
  By John Michael Greer (Intelligence Daily) — The discussion of the risks of complexity in the...
• Human Terrain Teams Feared more than CIA: Cureton ...
  
  
  By John Stanton (Intelligence Daily) — â¦You have no sense about the intriguing world of...
• Blum’s Report: Terminally Dumb People — The Teabag ...
  
  
  By William Blum (Intelligence Daily) — If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the...

My AntiWar

• French academic freed from Iran, heading home
  
  
  Summary: Clotilde ReissPARIS ? French academic Clotilde Reiss, held in Iran for 10 months since her arrest after anti-government protests, was en route home for France Sunday where she was to be met by President Nicolas Sarkozy, his office said. source: AFPread more
• Israel: Search Begins for Settler Who Allegedly Ki ...
• Crisis Deepens as Urban Warfare Rages in Bangkok
• Suu Kyi Says US Envoy’s Visit Was Beneficial
• Saturday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 14 Wounded

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• French academic freed from Iran, heading home
  
  
  Summary: Clotilde Reiss PARIS — French academic Clotilde Reiss, held in Iran for 10 months since her arrest after anti-government protests, was en route home for France Sunday where she was to be met by President Nicolas Sarkozy, his office said. source: AFP read more
• Iran wants guarantees for last hurdle in nuclear f ...
  
  
  Summary: Mehmanparast "There is an agreement on the time and the volume of the fuel to be exchanged," Mehmanparast said according to Al-Alam, without elaborating on the deal or with whom it was reached. "But there is still the venue (to be decided) and if there are concrete guarantees, Iran is w ...
• Iran, China and Brazil intensify the nuclear chess ...
  
  
  Summary: Even as U.S. officials report steady progress in winning support for a new round of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran over the nuclear standoff, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to welcome Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — and possibly also Turkis ...
• Brazil’s Iran Diplomacy Worries U.S. Officials
  
  
  Summary: Earlier in the week, Mr. da Silva scolded the world’s most powerful nations on Brazilian television, saying that none of the heads of state pushing hardest for sanctions had spoken directly with Mr. Ahmadinejad. “Why doesn’t Obama call Ahmadinejad,” Mr. da Silva asked, “or Sarkozy, or A ...
• Brazil, Turkey Try to Rescue Iran Diplomacy
  
  
  Summary: At the UN, the United States is continuing its quixotic bid for another round of sanctions against Iran, even while U.S. officials know that no set of sanctions is likely to achieve its intended goal of persuading or forcing Iran to halt its nuclear program. Dreyfuss But several countri ...

The Daily Galaxy

• NASA's NEEMO Mission: Explores Outer Space 65 Feet ...
  
  
  Obama's new NASA mission may not be sending anyone to the moon or Mars until the next decade, but they're preparing for the future in an undersea laboratory three miles off of Key Largo. The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations—its...
• Image of the Day: Asteroids Arc Across the Tadpole ...
  
  
  A new infrared image of the Tadpole nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth accidentally captured an asteroid in our solar system passing by. The asteroid, called 1719 Jens discovered in 1950, orbits in...
• Space Detectives: Massive Renegade Star Being Trac ...
  
  
  A massive renegade star is being tracked by three of the world's great observatories rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 400 000 kilometers per hour, a speed that would get a rocket to the Moon and...
• New Easter Island Discovery Upends Prior Theories
  
  
  A striking new discovery by archaeologists has disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island. Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London and The University of Manchester, has shown...
• Image of the Day: Beam Me Up!
  
  
  "At one point the light would come straight up from the peak, like there was someone doing nuclear testing just behind it. The landscape became significantly brighter and i just smiled to myself... This is 4 seconds of concentrated northern...

Natural News

• Giant hexagon of clouds spins on Saturn while clou ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Here at NaturalNews, we normally report on Earthly events, but right now some rather grand events are taking place in our solar system that you may want to know about. For starters, there's the odd fact that one of Jupiter's huge red stripes -- which is really a massive storm system ma ...
• Smoke flavoring may be toxic to humans
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Several concentrated smoke flavorings may pose health risks in humans, according to the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA's) panel on flavorings. "The panel expressed safety concerns for several smoke flavorings where intake levels could be relatively close to the levels which may ...
• Why U.S. lawmakers oppose renewable energy grants
  
  
  (NaturalNews) With the economy in shambles throughout the past year or two, lawmakers have been scrambling to find ways to spur growth and increase American jobs. However many are opposing stimulus efforts that create jobs overseas, including renewable energy grants that end up creating manufacturin ...
• Do healing foods work better than Big Pharma's dru ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) The drug industry is constantly trying to convince you that drugs are good for your health while nutritional supplements and healthy foods are somehow bad for you. This same line of nonsense is also repeated by the FDA, which goes out of its way to censor the truth about the healing pr ...
• Pharmacies vs. Health Food Stores (comic)
  
  
  (NaturalNews) The drug industry is constantly trying to convince you that drugs are good for your health while nutritional supplements and healthy foods are somehow bad for you. This same line of nonsense is also repeated by the FDA, which goes out of its way to censor the truth about the healing pr ...

Threat Level

• Filming Transformers 3 Being Filmed Violates Copyr ...
  
  
  On Monday business strategist Ben Brown was in a meeting in a downtown Los Angeles office building when he heard a commotion outside the window. When he looked down, he saw the alleyway had been closed off to shoot an exterior scene for a movie — a common enough sight in L.A. But this movie was [.. ...
• Google Street View Cams Collected Private Content ...
  
  
  Google’s roaming Street View cameras have been doing more than snap pics of your neighborhood; they’ve also been collecting packets of information sent over private WiFi networks, the company acknowledged Friday. The company said the collection was “a mistake,” the result of a programming error, an ...
• Google to Offer Encrypted Search Next Week
  
  
  Google will begin letting users run encrypted searches on its flagship search site Google.com starting next week, the company said in a blog post Thursday. Allowing users to search using https - the web security system which many associate with online banking and shopping — would mark a first for a ...
• Roommate’s Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder
  
  
  REDWOOD CITY, California — Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the ongoing police investigation. The tip sent police racing to the home of 21-year-old B ...
• Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Papers Unsealed
  
  
  Update: Roommate’s Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder A California judge Friday ordered the unsealing of 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. Wired.com, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Time and ot ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Intensity vs. Propensity in the 2010 Campaign
  
  
  This week has brought a mixed bag for Democrats anxious about the party's prospects for the 2010 midterm elections. Gallup reported a marked shrinkage in the " enthusiasm gap ," as the GOP's edge in "very enthusiastic" voters dropped by half since early April/ But as Hotline reported, Democratic ...
• Pat Buchanan's Jewish Quota for the Supreme Court
  
  
  With President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan, some conservatives are lamenting the prospect of a United States Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice . But for Pat Buchanan , the corollary is that one religious group is being dangerously overrepresented on the nation's highest court. ...
• GOP's "Second Opinion" on Health Care Same as Firs ...
  
  
  Back in March, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his party's fall campaign to undo health care reform, declaring, "I think the slogan will be 'repeal and replace', 'repeal and replace.'" But a funny thing happened on the way to November. Surveys from Kaiser and Deloitte showed Ameri ...
• YouCut Deficit Sham is Cantor's Latest Gimmick
  
  
  Just days after he acknowledged the collapse of his effort to rebrand the GOP , House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) is resorting to yet another gimmick to resuscitate his party. On Wednesday, Cantor debuted " YouCut ," a campaign which promises that House Republicans will call for spending cuts ...
• 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 ...

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

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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?
• Alexander Cockburn : Marijuana, Boom and Bust
• Alexander Cockburn : The White House Egg Roll v. G ...
• Uri Avnery : The Dubai Hit

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Palestinians mark Nakba (Al Jazeera)
• Nakba unites Gaza factions (Ma'an News)
  
  
  Nakba Day has united major factions in Gaza, including Fatah and Hamas, as Palestinians marked the 62nd anniversary of mass forced displacement from their homes by pre-state Israeli militia in 1948. Protesters marched from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to the UN building in Gaza City to affirm the ...
• Search begins for settler who allegedly killed Ara ...
  
  
  A Palestinian youth was shot and killed in the West Bank by an Israeli Thursday night, while Israeli soldiers shot dead a 75-year-old Palestinian near the border fence with the Gaza Strip Friday. One more Palestinian was injured in the shooting near the Strip. The incident in which 15-year-old Aysar ...
• Third-generation refugees still retain their pligh ...
  
  
  6-year-old third-generation refugeeMohammed Akila, has done a lot to retain his identity as a refugeedespite the fact that he has never seen his hometown, Jaffa" I have never been to Jaffa, but I still hope to see it, my fathertells me it's the most beautiful city overlooking the Mediterranean," sai ...
• Still continuing (The Jordan Times)
  
  
  Yesterday marked the 62nd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. Some argue, reasonably, that the Nakba shouldn't be commemorated because it is continuing, and marking down one day to remember it loses sight of this fact. But Nakba day serves a useful purpose: it is the day when the focus falls, as i ...

Water - AlterNet

• Tainted Water: Nitrate Contamination Spreading in ...
  
  
  Much of California's water supply is polluted with nitrates, a byproduct of factory farming -- and the situation is worsening.
• Will a Huge New Desalination Plant in Southern Cal ...
  
  
  Critics of the plant say it is a costly, unnecessary boondoggle that often malfunctions and carries damaging environmental side effects.
• Chesapeake Bay Case Settled With Nation's Largest ...
  
  
  This may be the best hope for the Chesapeake seen in years.
• Gulf Oil Spill Proves the Idiocy of Unfettered Der ...
  
  
  Government regulation of multinational corporations needs to be made respectable once again with adequately funded agencies pursuing an uncompromised public interest agenda.
• Fresh Gulf Seafood Gets Added to the Cost of Offsh ...
  
  
  Still working to overcome the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Delta communities are again bracing for an unthinkable environmental disaster.

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

• NATO In Afghanistan: World War In One Country by R ...
  
  
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• The Different Face of the Third World War By Siv O ...
  
  
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• Israel: The not-so-new Fascism – Palestinians: the ...
  
  
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• Below the surface of oil hemorrhage by Roxanne Ami ...
  
  
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• The Exceptional US Constitution by Steven Jonas, M ...
  
  
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Axis of Logic

• Obama plan would delay probable cause hearings to ...
  
  
  In a move that's being heavily criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Obama administration is planning to ask Congress to delay terror suspects' probable cause hearings as a way to allow interrogators additional time for questioning before the individual is informed of their ...
• Arizona Students Protest New Law Banning Ethnic St ...
  
  
  Just three weeks after signing a highly controversial anti-immigrant bill that orders police officers to stop and interrogate anyone they suspect is an undocumented immigrant, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed a new law banning ethnic studies in Arizona public schools. The law could shut down ...
• Israel’s Intimidation Tactics Won’t Stop Us: First ...
  
  
  London, 14 May 2010: At 22:45 local time tonight, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom Flotilla, set sail from Ireland on its way to the Mediterranean Sea.� Three ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza. This past week...
• Oaxaca: Aftermath of the Ambush - World News
  
  
  San Juan Copala Calls for Second Human Rights Caravan to Break Siege In an act of implacable defiance, the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala has called on civil organizations to organize another Human Rights caravan to attempt to break the paramilitary blockade surrounding their besieged ...
• Relations with Venezuela Disputed in Colombian Pre ...
  
  
  Colombia’s tense relations with Venezuela have been a hot-button issue in Colombia’s presidential race. This week, a dispute occurred in the Organization of American States (OAS), with Colombia accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of “intervention,” and Venezuela responding that it is being pu ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  
  There are two ways to end protests that have gone violent: �Give them what they want, or kill them all. "Thailand's PM Abhisit Vejjajiva has said troops will "push forward" with an operation to end an anti-government protest in the heart of Bangkok. He said military intervention was the only way to ...
• So You thought BP And Transocean Sucked
  
  
  And of course they do. �But thanks to this Op-ed pice by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship from Truthout, we get a smidgen of keener insight into just how thoroughly those two companies suck... (Have you read, by the way, that after the surviving, dazed and frightened workers were evacuated from that ...
• An interesting question
  
  
  Via Facebook : "If a cop stops me and says ?'papers'? and I say 'scissors.' Do I win?"
• Your Stake in Wall Street Reform
  
  
  "Next week, we have a chance to help lay a cornerstone in that foundation. The reform bill being debated in the Senate will not solve every problem in our financial system - no bill could. But what this strong bill will do is important, and I urge the Senate to pass it as soon as possible, so we can ...
• Tea Party: Blessing or Curse for GOP?
  
  
  Dana Milbank of the Post and Charles Blow over at the Times got me thinking again this morning about just what the Tea Party movement is and what role it may play in the future of American politics, both short term and long. Here's what I'm thinking. �We already know that the Tea Party movement is t ...

Care 2

• Protesters stage mock oil spill on Tybee Island
  
  
  Thirty protesters gathered around a mock oil spill on Tybee's beach Friday to tell BP to clean up the Gulf Coast and to call for an end to plans for offshore drilling that could threaten Georgia's shores. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Guide shot moose to bait bears, prosecutors say
  
  
  For years, hunters at the Newhalen Lodge in Nondalton have had good chances of bagging a grizzly. Big game guide Fred E. Sims' tactics ensured it, authorities say. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Monsanto Watch: Targeting American Farmers With La ...
  
  
  Monsanto is Big Brother of the agriculture industry. To farmers trying to make a living, Monsanto is watching you, especially if you buy their wonder seeds or your neighbor does. Farmers are being driven out of business by Monsanto's harassment. Submitted by Tippers A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �N ...
• Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infa ...
  
  
  Hamsters,two years,three generations, GM diet, especially maximum GM soy,showed Devastating results.Third generation, Lost Ability to have Babies. (GM) soy, 91% of US fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. A multi-billion dollar industry. Submitted by Tippers A. to Health & Wellness � ...
• Japanese Government Covers Up Mercury Poisoning Fr ...
  
  
  Tokyo, Japan For many years, Taiji, Japan has been a target of international criticism due to its cruel mass capture and horrific slaughter of mercury-contaminated dolphins and pilot whales, both for human consumption and to supply captive marine mam Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please to Anima ...

GreenBiz

• Green Cement Startup Wins MIT $100K Entrepreneur C ...
  
  
  A startup company comprised of MIT graduates that has created an emissions-reducing, nanoengineered cement won $100,000 in funding to get its business off the ground.
• P&G Launches the Latest Supplier Sustainability Sc ...
  
  
  Procter & Gamble has launched a scorecard to measure the environmental impacts of hundreds of suppliers, share practices and encourage improvements. �
• Walmart's Sustainability Report Reveals Successes, ...
  
  
  In its 2010 Global Sustainability report released Tuesday, the company described its efforts over the course of a year in which it made a slew of notable headlines. The company has improved fleet efficiency by 60 percent and reduced facility greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent, but faces challen ...
• 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.

Reuters Global

• Playing with inflated numbers
  
  
  Setting an inflation target for countries wanting to join the European single currency would seem to be a sound idea. But when an inflation target effectively becomes a deflation target, has something gone wrong?
• 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.

Paul Krugman

• Will 2010 be 1948?
  
  
  What if the GOP doesn't win the House?
• MisIMFormation?
  
  
  Hiding the real story in the fine print.
• Ignoring The Elephant In the Euro
  
  
  Pretending not to notice the real problem.
• They Have Made a Desert
  
  
  If this be success, what does failure look like?
• Why Libertarianism Doesn't Work, Part N
  
  
  Torts for me, not for thee.

No Quarter

• No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyl ...
  
  
  Do you feel as if nobody is listening to you? Do you feel as if you have been disenfranchised? Do you feel as if Washington is working on its own agenda? Do you sense that large parts of the media are parsing information and representing their protected interests rather than truly pursuing truth, tr ...
• The World Boole Made
  
  
  George Boole (1815-1864) is, in large part, responsible for our current technological society. His studies and discoveries in mathematics and logic were the necessary precursors for the development of computers. Boolean logic is fundamental to computer science and can reasonably be inferred to repre ...
• The Incompetence of Eric Holder
• The Bizarre Delusions of Michael Scheuer
  
  
  Want to see a guy who needs the help of a good shrink? Watch this: Poor Michael Scheuer. A failed CIA analyst on so many levels and, to top it off, four cards shy of a full deck. Look at the guy’s eyes and expression. You haven’t seen that kind of demented [...]
• White House Provides “Interview” With SCOTUS Nomin ...
  
  
  Oh, this is rich, In yet another breach of protocol, the White House has crafted an interview with SCOTUS Nominee, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, as this article highlights, Kaganâs Video on White House Blog. What’s wrong with that, one might ask? Well, this: White Houses usually keep their S ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Mystery Behind History's Most Legendary Sea Mo ...
  
  
  There are myths, legends and recorded 'sightings' of many weird and wonderful monsters in our oceans, but nobody can be certain what is or is not real. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Mysterious Mirror Man Spotted in Los Angeles
  
  
  A living statue made with shattered mirror fragments. If you're looking for deep critiques of modernity or simply fascinating visual art, this is it. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• South Africa's World Heritage Game Reserve
  
  
  An African World Heritage site called home for just a few in the world. Locals are spoilt with the surrounding of bush and beach, and sightings of wildlife. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• The Animal Kingdom's Ultimate Masters of Disguise
  
  
  Humanity has no need to hide from hunters, but we are the fortunate species on the planet. Lots of creatures need to stay out of sight just to survive nature's savagery read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
• Incredible Cellphone Robots that Interact with Hum ...
  
  
  Cellphone robots represent a revolutionary technology in the cellphone industry. These cellphone robots are efficient and capable of communicating well with people. 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

• Shahzad: A Pretext, Not a Man
  
  
  Pakistani officials believe the U.S. is trying to use the Shahzad case to pressure the country to launch a ground offensive against the militant hornets' nest in Waziristan province.
• A Final Survey of Nuclear Posture Perspectives
  
  
  Once and for all, is the Obama administration nuclear posture review slumped or standing up straight? Here's a sample of commentators whose insights -- from fresh to just plain strange -- jumped out at us. (The new START treaty is remarked upon as well.)
• Okinawa and Obama's Base-Based Addiction
  
  
  Japanese PM Hatoyama tries to sell Okinawa on a modified base relocation plan.
• Arizona Rising
  
  
  The fight against Arizona's new immigration law is heating up.
• An Emerging Trend in East Asia: Military Budget In ...
  
  
  The recent military budget increases in East Asia are motivated by various factors -- flash point-driven, hedging strategy-driven, or governance-driven -- but they do necessarily trigger an arms race in the region.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  
  
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  
  
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  
  
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  
  
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  
  
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Parts of Thai capital under curfew
  
  
  Death toll rises as army continues operations against red shirt protesters in Bangkok.
• Brazil president begins Iran visit
  
  
  Lula "optimistic" about persuading hosts to reach deal with West over nuclear programme.
• BP prepares to siphon spilled oil
  
  
  US officials ask oil firm to clarify payment plans as tube to suck up oil is assembled.
• Mexican politician goes 'missing'
  
  
  Car of influential ruling party member found in Queretaro state shows "signs of violence".
• French spy suspect leaving Iran
  
  
  Woman arrested after disputed presidential poll, released and on her way home.

Green Inc. - NYT

• A Looming Shortage of Oil Boom?
  
  
  BP and the Coast Guard are engaged in a frantic effort to secure millions of additional feet of oil-containment boom, supplies of which are spread thin across the Gulf coast.
• The Call in the Middle of the Night
  
  
  A video shot in a government office shows that from the outset, federal experts entertained a high estimate of the potential spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• The Climate Bills, Side by Side
  
  
  Many of the differences between the House and Senate climate bills are so slight, one could also call them similarities, according to a side-by-side comparison put together by Paul Bledsoe of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan advisory group.
• On Our Radar: Senate Clash Over Oil Liability
  
  
  An Alaska Republican seeks to block a bill that would raise the liability caps for oil companies from $75 million to $10 billion to ensure that they cover the full costs of disasters like the gulf spill.
• Warming Imperils Lizards, Scientists Warn
  
  
  The warming of the Earth's climate is driving lizards in Mexico toward extinction, according to a new study published in the journal Science.

Dot Earth News

• 'Top Hat' Out, Insertion Tube In
  
  
  Try, try, try again is the operative phrase as BP tries using a giant catheter to suck up gushing oil.
• Reviewers of Climate Panel Seek Public Input
  
  
  A review of the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change begins.
• On Climate, Food and Security
  
  
  A growing human population with an expanding appetite on a finite planet needs new options to avoid hunger.
• Obama Points Finger on Oil Mess
  
  
  President Obama speaks about BP and its oil gusher.
• Move Over, BP
  
  
  It's time for President Obama to clamp down on BP's work on the oil leak.

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

• Standardized Testing: A Race to Nowhere
  
  
  Race To Nowhere is an excellent description of the standardized testing movement. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, increased the role of the federal government in public education and also expanded the role of standardized testing. This morning, I had a conversation with another educator wh ...
• Race to the Top – Cannibalizing teachers and stude ...
  
  
  High stake testing is the cornerstone of the new No Child Left Behind, rebranded as the wretched Race to the Top by Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.  He and the testing corporations, the Wall Street venture capitalists and those for profit forces bent on destroying teacher unions, privatizing ed ...
• Lady Liberty Charter School, the Newark Charter Sc ...
  
  
  Lady Liberty Charter School Picture of  Big Zoo!  Lady Liberty Charter school, out of New Jersey opened, ironically on September 11, 2001.  The school now is about four hundred and fifty students, mostly made up of black and latino students. The school opened in an abandoned Catholic School in New J ...
• The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Afghanistan
  
  
  The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Afghanistan By Chris McManus In the movie ”American Gangster” the Harlem druglord  Frank Lucas is played by Denzel Washington.  The movie portrays the smuggling of tons of heroin into the US from Vietnam using the coffins of dead American servicemen. Lucas bragged ...
• GM’S SHELL GAME
  
  
  Joe, whose business has gone bad, borrows $100 from Mike. The next day he borrows another $100. Some months later, he pays Mike $100 and says: “Business has picked up. I really needed that $100.” On April 21, the Wall Street Journal published an op ed by Ed Whitacre, CEO of General Motors, claiming ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• BP must clarify intentions on clean up costs: US
• More troops hospitalized for mental health than an ...
• Minority student activists protest education cuts
• Google says StreetView vans accidentally spied on ...
• As al-Maliki edges toward power, former Iraqi prem ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Angry about Arizona
  
  
  Cities boycott Arizona to protest its immigration law as the state cracks down on ethnic studies.
• Okinawa and Obama's Base-Based Addiction
  
  
  Japanese PM Hatoyama tries to sell Okinawa on a modified base relocation plan.
• Kerry, Lieberman Promote Offshore Oil, Coal, Nukes ...
  
  
  There's not much in the bill that will actually fight climate change.
• From the Frontlines: May 13th, 2010
  
  
  The forgotten people of America,drone maps of Pakistan, and an amendment we can get behind.
• American Power Act
  
  
  New energy bill mixes support for coal, nuclear, and oil industries with measures meant to reduce pollution and planet-warming emissions.

Pine River World News

• Gordon Duff: The Mojave Fraud
  
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . The Mojave Fraud � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today May 14, 2010 Click. There it goes again. I got another email about the stolen Mojave Cross, the war memorial few could find ...
• Jeff Gates: Is the "Times Square Terrorist" more F ...
  
  
  The following article is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today. Is the "Times Square Terrorist" more Field-based Warfare? � �Jeff Gates Source: � Veterans Today May 12, 2010 In March 2001, Indonesian Intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat asked American James M. ("Mel") Rockefeller to assess the T ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #351
  
  
  Former CIA agent admits role in Plame case. Indian double agent refused Pakistani handler's marriage proposal. US Pentagon details Cold War mind-control tests.
• Comment: Major changes in Australian, NZ spy agenc ...
  
  
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | This website has been keeping tabs on the ongoing transformation of New Zealand and Australian intelligence agencies. Recent media reports from both countries indicate that the changes, many of which are still underway, will mark the broadest reorganization in New Zeal ...
• News you may have missed #350
  
  
  Venezuela to release more alleged Colombian spies. NSA head confirmed as chief of US Cyber Command. Gulf authorities still silent on Iranian spy ring.
• Analysis: Europe Offers Different Counterterrorism ...
  
  
  I have in the past posed the intriguing question of whether US intelligence agencies should learn from the French approach to counterterrorism. This issue has now come up again in an interesting Washington Post essay, which examines the different approaches to Islamic militancy by American and Euro ...
• News you may have missed #349
  
  
  New spy agency won't spy...says Fiji government. Ex-CIA analyst lashes out at Ignatius.

After Downing Street.org

• Video: Deborah Rudacille Reads from her book, “Roo ...
  
  
  Deborah Rudacille Reads from her book, “Roots of Steel” from William Hughes on Vimeo . read more
• NY Judge: Torture No Grounds To Dismiss Indictment
  
  
  NY Judge: Torture no grounds to dismiss indictment By Larry Neumeister, AP | Google News A Guantanamo Bay detainee brought to the United States for trial on charges he helped the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa while he was an aide to Osama bin Laden cannot use allegations of torture by the ...
• Jesse Jackson Says Prosecute Blankenship and Banke ...
• Crew Argued Over Drilling Plan Before Rig Explosio ...
  
  
  Crew Argued Over Drilling Plan Before Rig Explosion By Russell Gold | WSJ About 11 hours before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, a disagreement took place between the top manager for oil giant BP PLC on the drilling rig and his counterpart for the rig's owner, Transocean Ltd., concerning the final s ...
• Purdue Professor Calculates Oil Spill Loss

Grist - News

• U.S. approves use of subsea dispersants to battle ...
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse NEW ORLEANS -- U.S. officials on Friday approved the use of controversial subsea chemical dispersants to battle a massive oil spill gushing out of a ruptured offshore well deep in the Gulf of Mexico. "This was not a decision that was made lightly," said U.S. Coast Gu ...
• Obama’s uninspiring ‘anger’ at B ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes Obama giving his "angry" speechPresident Obama has so far declined to give voice to the connection between the massive, stomach-churning fossil-fuel disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the massive, stomach-turning damage that fossil fuels wreak every day. He hasn't used his ...
• Living Buildings, Living Cities, and $125,000 up f ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes $125,000 to play SimCity? Sort of. A new contest from the Cascadia Region Green Building Council is offering serious cash for the best visual renderings of an existing city transformed into a place that's sustainable. Like, really sustainable. ...
• Top 10 countries ruining the planet—and more ...
  
  
  by Randy Rieland We're #2! We're #2! Sure enough, here's a new study out of the University of Adelaide in Australia, naming the Top 10 Countries Ruining the Planet , and the U.S. isn't even the leader.  It ranks second behind Brazil, followed by China, Indonesia, and Japan.  The research fo ...
• Obama takes aim at oil companies over oil spill
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- A visibly angered President Barack Obama hit out at oil companies Friday for trying to avoid blame over a massive slick, and vowed an all-out effort to stop the leak pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. "I will not tolerate more finger-pointing or irresponsibi ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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Time - Top Stories

• Asia's Best of 2010 for Mind, Body and Soul
  
  
  Our annual Best of Asia guide scours the continent to bring you its finest experiences for the mind, body and soul
• Britain's Labour Leadership Race: A (Mili)band of ...
  
  
  Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband faces a familiar rival in his quest to succeed Gordon Brown -- his younger brother, Ed
• Was Supreme Court Nominee Kagan a Youthful Sociali ...
  
  
  The conservative blogosphere has lit up with commentaries on her student thesis on New York's Socialist Party, but her personal views are not exactly clear from the document
• LA Will Boycott Arizona. Will the Lakers Follow?
  
  
  The Phoenix Suns protested Arizona's controversial new immigration law on their shirts. The Lakers, who face the Suns next in the playoffs -- and have three foreign players on the team -- look primed to take a stand. Will they deliver?
• Who is Killing Honduran Journalists?
  
  
  A rash of murders of media figures has raised fears of a campaign to silence journalism. And the government's preemptive dismissal of such fears gives little cause for confidence

Washington Independent

• Labor Department Shutters West Virginia Mine Over ...
  
  
  With all the focus on Massey Energy, it’s worth noting that they’re not the lone coal company facing fire over safety issues in recent weeks. Indeed, federal officials this week closed down a West Virginia mine owned by St. Louis-based Patriot Coal Corp over safety concerns, Reuters reports. On Tues ...
• How the Movement of the Oil Slick Might Affect Dam ...
  
  
  If you’re interested in commentary about the the possible economic impact of the oil slick, I highly recommend signing up for the emails from David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors. (I quoted him earlier on the worst case scenario — read: multi-billion-dollar catastrophe.) In his most recent advisory em ...
• Philadelphia Fed Sees Little Chance of Double Dip, ...
  
  
  Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released a survey of 44 economic forecasters. The forecasters — all economists in the private sector — see a smaller chance of a double-dip recession and expect stronger economic growth in the next 18 months. The economists said there is a 7.4 percent ...
• Massey CEO to Testify Before Senate May 20
  
  
  Don Blankenship, the pugnacious head of Massey Energy, will appear before the Senate Labor Committee Appropriations Sub-committee on Labor next Thursday, the committee just announced. He’ll be sitting on a two-man panel that will also include a long-time nemesis, Cecil Roberts, head of the United Mi ...
• Retail Sales Climb in April
  
  
  This morning, the Census Bureau reported that retail sales climbed in April, good news for business and more evidence of a present, if slow-growing, self-sustaining recovery. The Census Bureau said retail and food services sales climbed 0.4 percent to $366.4 billion. Retail sales alone climbed 0.5 p ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

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

Suzie-Q

• Tea Partiers Riding To Arizona’s Rescue
  
  
  Tea Partiers Riding To Arizona’s Rescue TPM MUCKRAKER Zachary Roth | May 14, 2010, 1:17PM Tea Party activists are riding to Arizona’s rescue in the state’s time of need. Conservative activists recently launched a “Buycott”, urging people to support and do business with several Arizona-based companie ...
• Lewis Black: “Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourette&# ...
  
  
  Lewis Black: “Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourette’s” (VIDEO) First Posted: 05-13-10 08:40 AM   |   Updated: 05-13-10 08:46 AM Glenn Beck’s antics have always proved to be great fodder for the “Daily Show.” Lewis Black took it a step further with an entire segment mocking the Fox News host for his ten ...
• Criminal Charges Likely Over Oil Spill?
  
  
  Report: Criminal Charges Likely Over Oil Spill TPM MUCKRAKER Justin Elliott | May 13, 2010, 8:59AM Environmental law experts tell McClatchy it’s likely the Justice Department will ultimately bring criminal charges against the companies involved in the oil spill, potentially under the Clean Water and ...
• Will Someone Please Pinch Me?
  
  
  Once asked what his favourite joke was, David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party and now Prime Minister, replied, “Nick Clegg”. Nick Clegg is the leader of the Liberal-Democrat Party and is now the Deputy Prime Minister. Constructive talks between teams representing their two parties lasting ...
• A Flawed Giant Departs
  
  
  It never ceases to amaze and move me the grace with which the losing girls make their exit from Over the Rainbow – a grace which Gordon Brown also displayed as he made his final departure from Number 10 Downing Street. Last Thursday, the British electorate went to the polls to elect a new government ...

Solari

• Complete Idiot’s Guide to 2012
  
  
  By ND, Dr. Synthia Andrews, Colin Andrews I have tried on numerous occasions to sort out what the hullabaloo about 2012 is all about. A few months ago, I spent several hours in the jacuzzi reading The Complete Idiot’s Guide to 2012. It helped me organize the various issues into an organized framewo ...
• China May Expand Yuan Settlement to 18 More Provin ...
  
  
  China plans to expand settlements of international trade using yuan to as many as 18 more provinces and cities to meet rising demand from companies, two bankers involved in the program said. Cross-border transactions using the currency have been allowed in Shanghai and Guangdong since July last year ...
• Clinton: Timing Of Goldman Sachs Suit Is “Su ...
  
  
  YouTube Interviewer: What did you take away from the Goldman Sachs hearings? Clinton: … [comments on Goldman Sachs/SEC lawsuit] I think there’s a bigger problem here, which is that too much of our growth in last decade was in finance & ever since we went off the gold standard, which was necessary ...
• Let the earth bring forth the living creatures&#82 ...
  
  
  It keeps happening. Animals keep showing up. Yesterday there was a electric blue bird that I had never seen before. Last night, I was driving back from Top of the World Farm and there was a lamb wandering free munching away at the side of the road. A client reports a wild peacock at his window. A f ...
• Rigged-Market Theory Scores a Perfect Quarter
  
  
  By Jonathan Weil Score another triumph for the rigged- market theory. In a feat that would seem to defy the odds, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America this week each said its trading desk made money every day of the first quarter. Goldman said its daily net trading revenue topped $100 m ...

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

• Why Privacy on Facebook Is 'Virtually Impossible'
  
  
  Controversy grows, as Facebook's lack of privacy control = goldmine for marketing companies.
• Arizona Superintendent Uses 'I Have a Dream' Speec ...
  
  
  Hatemongers in Arizona are now taking aim at kids by trying to kill a program that's bolstered academic achievement by Latino students.
• The Great Kagan Supreme Court Debate
  
  
  Two leading legal experts debate the pros and cons of Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan.
• Why Ending Marijuana Prohibition is a Racial Justi ...
  
  
  The struggle to end America's disastrous war on drugs is a struggle for common sense, human rights and of course for racial justice.
• What If BP Were A Human Being?
  
  
  If BP were a person it would be a career criminal, a pathological liar and an international serial killer with a rap sheet several times the size of the Chicago Yellow Pages.

Sideways News

• Britons 'obsessed with weather'
  
  
  Britons spend around six months of their lives talking about the weather, research has suggested. A poll of more than 2,000 people by Lloyds TSB Insurance found the topic beat jobs and sport as the nation's most commonly used ice-breaker, with some respondents even using it in business meetings. Old ...
• Sugar 'may ease baby jab pains'
  
  
  Giving babies a sugary treat before an injection makes them less likely to cry, research has suggested. A study, published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, found that children were 20% more unlikely to be tearful after the procedure if they had been given a 30% glucose solution befor ...
• Churchill given first class status
  
  
  Royal Mail has issued a new series of Second World War stamps featuring Sir Winston Churchill and other iconic scenes to mark the 70th anniversary of the Blitz. The wartime Prime Minister appears on a first class stamp in the Britain Alone collection. Another stamp in the collection of 12 shows thre ...
• Brazil leads in donations to Haiti Fund
  
  
  The Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF) received its first international contribution this week after Brazil honoured its pledge and donated $55m to help the country rebuild after it was devastated by and earthquake on January 12th 2010. The fund was established by the World Bank after the international ...
• Stem cell transplants 'help animals'
  
  
  Medicine is advancing by leaps and bounds and veterinary medicine is no exception. In fact, because the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) has less restrictions on animal research studies compared to human studies, some of today's advances are further along for animals. Regenerative medicine use ...

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for May 15, interesting articles about ...
  
  
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “The Failure of Surveillance Cameras“, Steve Chapman, Reason, 6 May 2010 — “When it comes to preventing and solving crimes, cameras are about as useful as a pet rock.” Interesting arti ...
• Kinsley – “My Country, Tis of Me &#821 ...
  
  
  Worth reading in full, as it well expresses many of the themes discusssed on this website:   “My Country, Tis of Me – Thereâs nothing patriotic about the Tea Party Patriots“, Michael Kinsley, The Atlantic, June 2010 — Excerpt: The Tea Party movementâs goals, when stated specifically, are mostl ...
• Stratfor: Setting the Record Straight on Grassroot ...
  
  
  “Setting the Record Straight on Grassroots Jihadism“, Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 13 May 2010 — This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. In the wake of the botched May 1 Times Square attack, some observers have begun to characterize Faisal Shahzad and the threat he posed as some sort of ...
• FM newswire for May 14, interesting articles about ...
  
  
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “Nuclear Power’s Role in Generating Electricity“, CBO, May 2008 (46 pages) “Glenn Beck’s partisan historians – The academics behind the progressivism-as-fascism meme“, Michael Lind, Sa ...
• Another example of the “it’s on the In ...
  
  
  The comments on the FM website are littered with folks — probably smart, well-educated people — parroting nonsense they picked up on the Internet.  We need to be more careful — and hold websites responsible for the information they post.  Today’s example is Zero Hedge, a fun website posting inte ...

Open Your Eyes News

• US Troops Carrying Out ‘Battlefield Executions’ In ...
  
  
  Huffington Post – “One of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan,” Hersh said during a discussion at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference last month in Gene ...
• BP Trying to Insert Tube Into Leaking Gulf Oil Pip ...
  
  
  Bloomberg- BP Plc, the largest oil and natural- gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico, is trying to insert a tube into a leaking pipe at a well off Louisiana, advancing a plan to divert much of the crude into a ship on the surface. “We hope to begin operations overnight,” Doug Suttles, BP’s chief [...]
• Quotation Of The Week
  
  
  “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” - Benito Mussolini As voted for by OYEN readers on our Facebook page this week, selected from the daily Thoughts of The Day. Did you have your say?
• UK airspace may close due to volcanic ash
  
  
  Reuters – Parts of British airspace may have to close from Sunday until Tuesday due to volcanic ash from Iceland, the government said on Saturday. Different parts of airspace including the south east, where Europe’s busiest airport Heathrow is located, are likely to be closed at different times, the ...
• Two killed in violent clashes in Kyrgyzstan
  
  
  Telegraph – At least two people died in violent clashes in Kyrgyzstan after backers of deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev seized buildings in a challenge to the new government’s fragile authority. Read article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• What about the RIM?
  
  
  What about the RIM? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) was an attempt to regroup various parties under various versions of First Worldist “Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.” The more well-known signatories to early RIM statements included Communist Party of ...
• The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006)
  
  
  The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) reviewed by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) follows the life of Mao from his humble beginnings to, as one interviewee in the film describes, “the greatest Chinese [person] of the twentieth century.” ...
• Big Majority of Amerikkkans support racist law in ...
  
  
  Big Majority of Amerikkkans support racist law in Arizona (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a new Pew Research Poll, a big majority of Amerikans support the racist Arizona law. 73% approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status when police demand it. 67% ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• The Evil Doer and the Times Square Fizzler
  
  
  Were Muslim Evil Doers again at work in New York? Is that the lesson to be learned from a May 1st “car bomb” that fizzled while parked alongside the Marriott Hotel in Manhattan’s busy Times Square? Why now? The clues are there if only investigators will follow the facts. With reports of thi ...
• 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 ...

ecogeek

• China's Telecom Sector Credits Telecommuting with ...
  
  
  China's telecom sector released a report this week claiming that it had slashed emissions by 48.5 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2008 by increasing telecommuting, a greater reliance on electronic data storage and more efficient logistics.  This savings is comparable to the amount of emissions Swe ...
• Japanese Town Testing Solar-Powered EVs
  
  
  Right now, electric cars may not emit greenhouse gases themselves, but the coal-fired power plants that provide the electricity that fuels those cars do.   That may be the ugly reality now, but ideally in the not too far future, EVs will juice up with clean, renewable energy.  One Japanese town is ...
• Throw Out the Spare Tire, Replace It With an Elect ...
  
  
  Volkswagen has debuted its first electric bike that conveniently folds down to a disc that fits in the spare tire compartment of a trunk. Before you start writing your comment about how an electric bike is no replacement for a spare tire if you have a flat or blowout, let me say, that's not really ...
• Sustainable Brick Made from Sand, Bacteria and Pee
  
  
  It seems like pee, or more specifically urea, is becoming quite the sustainable ingredient.  Beyond being tapped as a good source of hydrogen , it's powering batteries and is now being used to make sustainable bricks. Architect Ginger Krieg Dosier has designed a way of "growing" bricks by combinin ...
• Super-Insulator Aerogel Could Also Clean Up Oil Sp ...
  
  
  Aerogel, the amazing material that is 37 times better than fiberglass as insulation , could also be the perfect tool for cleaning up oil spills.  The downside is that Aerogel isn't ready for the large-scale production necessary to help with the current oil disaster. The material is incredibly low ...

Buzzflash

• Is America's Chernobyl in Canada's Future?
  
  
  CHRIS GENOVALI FOR BUZZFLASH Many Canadians have been anxiously following the unfolding Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster and are experiencing a deep sense of unease as they scan the daily media reports. Such foreboding is clearly understandable as one can't help thinking this might be a nightmarish ...
• Why the Hell isn't Congress Ripping into the Bush/ ...
  
  
  STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH.COM I know -- we’re not supposed to “look back but ahead.” That’s become a virtual bi-partisan slogan.� Republicans don’t want to look back because, "back there" is all the stuff that got their party run out of power. And Democrats don’t want to look back because they ...
• Hunting for the Next ACORN, Conservatives Launch A ...
  
  
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH After three decades, it took a pair of right-wing movement activists masquerading as a pimp and prostitute, equipped with a hidden camera and a phony storyline, and access to Andrew Breitbart’s well-traveled websites to finally take down ACORN. With that success under th ...
• Dark Green
  
  
  ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH This is what happens sometimes when you play God: “Birds dropped from the air. The sky rained mud. And, as men from the rig struggled to save themselves from the aftermath of (the) explosion . . . the Gulf of Mexico itself caught on fire.” The Washington Post, coverin ...
• GOP Congressional Candidate Brad Goehring's Violen ...
  
  
  BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Ah Pope Benedict, you still don't get it :According to CNS' John Thavis, the pope said: The church has a profound need to relearn penance, to accept purification, to learn on the one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice... We have to relearn these ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Bloggingheads: SCOTUS and restraining corporate i ...
  
  
  For those hordes of people who haven't yet gotten enough of me and Larry Lessig this week, our traveling road show continued as we recorded a Bloggingheads session yesterday�(video below).� We discussed our contentious exchange from earlier this week and the lessons to be drawn from it;�Elena Kagan' ...
• New target of rights erosions: U.S. citizens
  
  
  A primary reason Bush and Cheney succeeded in their radical erosion of core liberties is because they focused their assault on non-citizens with foreign-sounding names, casting the appearance that none of what they were doing would ever affect the average American.� There were several exceptions to ...
• Continuing the Kagan debate with Larry Lessig
  
  
  I didn't necessarily intend to be so engulfed by the Elena Kagan debate -- speaking and writing about it every day, here and in other venues, to the exclusion of most other matters -- but I�suppose that's inevitable once you become centrally identified with a position.� I�hope and expect to turn to ...
• "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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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

• Crude Awakening Activists Hold National “Day of A ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010 Rising Tide North America Activists in cities and towns around the country express outrage, solidarity and grief about the catastrophic Gulf Oil spill during a “Day of Action, Night of Mourning” on Friday, May 14. Coastal ecosystems and species, and ocean-based eco ...
• Seattle Boycott BP Rolling Action Tomorrow 8:30AM- ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010 Backbone Campaign Due to the recent Ecotrocities in the Gulf of Mexico, the Backbone Campaign is instigating a rolling creative action in Seattle tomorrow - Friday, May 14, from 8:30am-1pm. read more
• Alaskans in the Gulf: Lessons from Exxon Valdez
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) RIKI OTT, via Lisa Marie Jacobs Martin is political director of , one of several groups urging President Obama -- who is meeting Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai today in Washington -- to say "yes to President Karzai's reques ...
• Maryland First to Bar Schools Releasing Tests to M ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) AP is reporting : "A first-of-its-kind law bars public high schools in Maryland from automatically sending student scores on a widely used military aptitude test to recruiters, a practice that critics say was giving the armed for ...
• More than 2,225 Organizations Representing Every C ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2010 NLIHC  In a dramatic show of grassroots support for the National Housing Trust Fund, more than 2,225 organizations representing every Congressional district in the country are sending a letter this week to every U.S. Senator and Representative urging immediate fund ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Could Congress Block Antiworker IMF 'Bailouts' in ...
  
  
  by Robert Naiman Republicans in Congress are trying to block the U.S. Treasury Department from supporting U.S. read more
• Million-Dollar Ad Blitz to Kill Net Neutrality
  
  
  by Megan Tady On Tuesday morning, an AT&T-funded front group, Americans for Prosperity, announced a $1.4 million advertising blitz to try to convince Americans that the FCC is plotting to "take over the Internet." read more
• Laura Bush Meets the Sex Bloggers
  
  
  by Mark Morford And over here we've got what we can only hope will be the final nationwide appearance of any kind whatsoever of one dangerously prim, heavily shellacked Laura Bush, trotting herself out like some sort of equestrian trophy on Larry King Live to shill for her new book, "Shut Up and Sit ...
• Let’s Rejoice in Terror’s Benefits!
  
  
  by John Kirby On May 6, The New York Post ran the following story on its front page: “THANKS, FAISAL! Inept terror thug saves 900 cop jobs” “That’s how many cops were going to be cut before Faisal’s botched bid at Times Square terror. His effort prompted the city to restore $55 million to the NYPD, ...
• Yemen’s Sorrowful Options: ‘Revolt, Migrate or Die ...
  
  
  by Ramzy Baroud When the Soviets concluded their pull out from Afghanistan in February 1989, the United States government abruptly lost interest in the country. A devastated economic infrastructure, entrenched poverty, deep-rooted factionalism and lack of international aid caused the country to desc ...

Karl Burkart

• Dispatches from the Gulf
  
  
  Watchdog group Blue Seals provides this report about NGO barricades and BP's 'media lockdown' in the Gulf.
• Dirty facts about the BP oil catastrophe
  
  
  A compilation of some of the most disturbing factoids about BP and the federal government's response to the catastrophe.
• Facebook be forewarned ... the Diaspora is coming
  
  
  4 supergeeks just raised enough money to program a peer-to-peer social networking system that could spell trouble for Facebook. Will they succeed?
• Facebook be forewarned… the Diaspora is coming
  
  
  4 super-geeks just raised enough money to program a peer-to-peer social networking system that could spell trouble for Facebook. Will they succeed?
• John Kerry: 'We need your help'
  
  
  On a group phone call tonight, Senator Kerry implores young organizers to push their senators on the climate bill.

Water Privatization

• Kuwait: Govt plans to go ahead with privatization ...
  
  
  16 May 2010 KUWAIT: The Cabinet will discuss several topics during its meeting today, most important of which is its asking of the ministerial finance and legislative committees to prepare their comments on the financial liability law.
• Taxes up by $84 in Randolph
  
  
  RANDOLPH TWP. State aid cuts of more than $531,000 have put a huge dent in the townships plan for the 2010 municipal budget and capital improvement program.
• Taxes up by $84 in Randolph
  
  
  RANDOLPH TWP. State aid cuts of more than $531,000 have put a huge dent in the townships plan for the 2010 municipal budget and capital improvement program.
• Taxes up by $84 in Randolph
  
  
  RANDOLPH TWP. State aid cuts of more than $531,000 have put a huge dent in the townships plan for the 2010 municipal budget and capital improvement program.
• Taxes up by $84 in Randolph
  
  
  RANDOLPH TWP. State aid cuts of more than $531,000 have put a huge dent in the townships plan for the 2010 municipal budget and capital improvement program.

Guardian

• Volcanic ash cloud cancels flights across Britain
  
  
  Cloud expected to bring more disruption to flights in England as British Airways strike looms Flights have been cancelled across large parts of Britain today because of a "rapidly encroaching" volcanic ash cloud that threatens further disruption for travellers. Air traffic chiefs closed the skies ab ...
• Triesman accused of bribery claim
  
  
  • Reports say Lord Triesman accused rivals of bribing referees • Newspaper says bid chairman attacked Spain and Russia England's bid for the 2018 World Cup has been thrown into confusion after newspaper claims that the bid's chairman has accused two rival bidders, Spain and Russia, of corruption. Ac ...
• Actor accuses Polanski over abuse
  
  
  Charlotte Lewis makes allegations to support charges in US The legal problems of the film director Roman Polanski, who is currently under house arrest in his Swiss chateau awaiting extradition to the US charged with raping a 13-year-old girl three decades ago, thickened yesterday when a British acto ...
• State of the rainbow nation
  
  
  Rian Malan, writer, journalist and documentary-maker, argues for living on the edge in South Africa It's a sunny weekday afternoon in Jo'burg, and I am lunching with friends at an outdoor restaurant. The joint we're in was hit by armed robbers earlier this week. The newspapers on the table are full ...
• Why are breasts getting bigger?
  
  
  In recent years the average bra size has expanded from 34B to 36D. Lingerie retailers, dietitians and doctors reveal why – and explain how bra designers are staying ahead of the curve Odd things are happening in women's bras. In recent years, the average British bra size has jumped from 34B to 36D, ...

McClatchey

• Quest for oil leaves trail of damage across the gl ...
  
  
  Like many of her neighbors, Celina Harpe is angry about the oil pollution at her doorstep. No longer can she eat the silvery fish that dart along the shore near her home. Even the wind that hurries over the water reeks of oil waste.
• DeMint affects campaigns nationwide, sometimes ruf ...
  
  
  WASHINGTON — When voters go to the polls Tuesday for U.S. Senate primary elections in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, they'll write a new act in the ongoing shake-up of the Republican political establishment that's being led by conservative freshman Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
• Small banks made bad decisions, too, as Georgia il ...
  
  
  ATLANTA — As law enforcement agencies and regulators investigate the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and lawmakers debate legislation to revamp financial regulations, it's become conventional wisdom that big investment and commercial banks caused the crisis and small community banks are pa ...
• Small Georgia banks bet too big on Atlanta real es ...
  
  
  WASHINGTON — Georgia's implosion of small banks sent aftershocks throughout the middle part of the state in places such as Macon and Columbus, as several community banks waded into Atlanta's tempestuous housing market and collapsed under the burden of portfolios that were disproportionately weighted ...
• Former Mexican presidential candidate goes missing
  
  
  MEXICO CITY — A former presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling party has gone missing, authorities said Saturday, the latest in a spate of political violence presumably linked to drug cartels.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• IPCC review: friend or foe?
  
  
  "Now that we're in the kitchen, we have to take the heat," said Rajendra Pachauri. "And we have to recognise that the stakes are very high. So we have to prepare ourselves for criticism, and this is not something we have done in the past." Indeed not. The worlds of climate science and politics wer ...
• Much-drilled bill signals climate endgame
  
  
  And then there were two... Republican Senator Lindsey Graham having departed the group , it was left to Democrat John Kerry and Independent (Democrat-attached) Joe Lieberman to unveil the latest version of the US climate bill , which now sports the distinctly Stars-and-Stripes title of the American ...
• 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 Wonk Room

• Right-Wing Lawmakers Demand SCOTUS Nominee Kagan F ...
  
  
  Justice Antonin Scalia is the Supreme Court’s most outspoken conservative.  He defends torture and finds little wrong with executing the innocent.  When a majority of his colleagues reached the radical conclusion that people have a right to choose their own sex partners, Scalia railed against them ...
• Offshore Drilling Lobbyist: BP Disaster Could Lead ...
  
  
  As the BP-Halliburton oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico grows, President Barack Obama vowed to change the “cozy relationship” between government and the oil and gas industry. The Minerals Management Service (MMS), a 1700-person bureau in the Department of the Interior that manages $13.7 billion per ...
• Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon: Politicians Who ‘ ...
  
  
  Over the past month, the state of Arizona has come into the national spotlight since it enacted the nation’s harshest immigration law, SB-1070. In another controversial move, this week Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) signed into law a bill that will ban ethnic studies in public schools. A couple weeks ago, ...
• Egypt Cites US ‘Emergency Law’ To Defe ...
  
  
  Our guest blogger is Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. The ill wind of political repression continues to blow in Egypt — earlier this week, the Egyptian government approved a two-year extension of an emergency law thatâs been continuously in effect since 1981, despi ...
• Does Blanche Lincoln Even Understand The Estate Ta ...
  
  
  It’s no secret that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) — along with her Republican counterpart, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) — are on a quest to cut the estate tax, slashing taxes for the heirs of multimillionaires. Instead of reinstating the currently expired estate tax at the 2009 level (45 percent, with a $3.5 m ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Speaker Milliken pwns stephen harper's Ugly Ass!!
  
  
  It's kinda one of the reasons that I'm celebrating about stuff 2nite. Maybe I'll sober-up tomorrow and write something more articulate (but hardly more suitable) but i gotta commemorate this historic event!
• John Ibbitson's Fucked-Up Priorities
  
  
  John Ibbitson is valuable for one thing. His columns help to illustrate the nuances of our debased political culture. In this post I speculated that Ibbitson was a craven stooge for the harpercon party of Canada. I critiqued a column where he tried to snidely dismiss the scandal over Canada's comp ...
• Blogging Tory Response to Guergis-Jaffer
  
  
  So, when one of their government's cabinet ministers makes a mockery of Canada's anti-terrorism precautions at an airport, and demands special treatment because she's so important, and it turns out that she and her husband, ex-MP of the Party of Decent, Law-Abiding, Taxed-to-Death Little People, app ...
• Federal MPs Unable to Account For Their Spending
  
  
  How else to explain the revolting refusal to allow public scrutiny into their spending? All parties except the Bloc Quebecois apparently imagine that the Canadian public trusts them to not rip us off when they ask for compensation for "other" expenses. Either that, or (more likely) they know that w ...
• How Stupid Is Barack Obama?
  
  
  Seriously. The man is proving the uselessness of the US-American electoral process with everyday of his presidency. He has fucked-up healthcare. He said that building a "single-payer" public healthcare system would require "starting from scratch" when it would only have meant expanding medicare, m ...

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

• New Podcast: POGO's Favorite FinReg Amendments
  
  
  A special POGO FinReg podcast is now available for your listening pleasure! This week we discussed our favorite amendments to financial regulatory reform legislation, such as the amendment to audit the Federal Reserve. Download the latest podcast here. You can...
• President Obama Agrees With POGO: Cozy Relationshi ...
  
  
  Ed O'Keefe reports that President Obama called out the Minerals Management Service (MMS) today for its incestuous ties with the industry it oversees. "For too long, for a decade or more, there's been a cozy relationship between the oil companies...
• Morning Smoke: Curbs on Ratings Agencies Approved ...
  
  
  Senate Approves New Curbs On Rating Agencies, Though One Provision Overlooked by Shahien Nasiripour [The Huffington Post] For U.S. government and BP, no choice but to work together by Juliet Eilperin [Washington Post] U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed...
• MacLean Denied, MSPB Lives Up To Whistleblower-Unf ...
  
  
  Yesterday, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ruled to deny whistleblower Robert MacLean’s claim that he was fired from his job as a federal air marshal for exercising his right to protected speech. (In 2003, MacLean tried to blow the...
• Grassley Proposes FinReg Amendment That Would Stre ...
  
  
  Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has introduced an amendment to the financial regulatory reform bill that would strengthen the independence of certain agency-appointed inspectors general (IGs), including those that serve as watchdogs at our nation's financial regulatory agencies. POGO has just...

Digital Journal

• Scientist plans to put crude into Arctic ocean to ...
  
  
  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is behind a plan to dump up to 1,200 liters of crude oil in the Arctic Ocean in a bid to test clean-up responses.
• Canadian coalition urges international inquiry on ...
  
  
  May has been marked by the global Tamil community as the month of remembrance for those who have been slaughtered by the Sri Lankan government during the unpleasant times, which still persists.
• International demonstrations to retire Lolita the ...
  
  
  May 15 has been unofficially dubbed as the International Day of Protest for Lolita. Worldwide demonstrations were held on Saturday for the “retirement” of Lolita who is currently held in a small tank at the Miami Seaquarium.
• Montreal City Chronicles (Part 4)
  
  
  The fourth installment which looks at life in a large Canadian city going through a rough patch urban-wise. This segment looks at recent street problems in Montreal.
• The Last Spike Revisited presented at Harbourfront ...
  
  
  A chilling collection of photography, readings and films about Chinese Canadians is being presented this weekend at Harbourfront Centre.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Congress Considers Beach House Bailout
  
  
  Congress has finally started to wake up to the fact that homelessness, especially along Florida's beaches, is an issue. If you're homeless and living in Florida however, you're truly out of luck. The problem with Congress waking up to the issue of homelessness is that rich politicians don't quite gr ...
• 75% of Homeless Adults Miss Out on Health Care
  
  
  The American Journal of Public Health is preparing to publish a study that concludes that most homeless adults can't access needed health care . Duh, right? The results may be obvious, but at least now they're entered in the public record as scientific research rather than anecdotal evidence. Advoca ...
• Sure, Sleep Outside, But No Sleeping Bags Allowed
  
  
  Boulder, Colorado is often described as spot of beauty and compassion. But even here, in a county with an above-average median income and a below-average poverty rate, the effects of the recession can be seen in the empty storefronts and the growing numbers of homeless and precariously-housed people ...
• The Real Work Begins On Move-In Day
  
  
  As an outreach and recovery specialist, I spend considerable time hunting folks down on the streets and locating "affordable" housing from an inventory of homes that is so small it would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic. I then spend long periods of time getting the vast majority of the people ...
• Why Hotels Aren't Suitable Housing
  
  
  There are as many reasons a hotel makes a bad dwelling for a family as there are hotels. They're crowded. They're expensive. Often, they don't have kitchens for cooking. Constantly rotating neighbors can include criminals and sex offenders. It's not an address someone can put on a job application. T ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Navy faces budget crunch?
  
  
  Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, the commander of the Canadian Navy, are contradicting each other on the state of the Navy’s budget (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped navy being cut to bone, analysts say,” Montreal Gazette, 12 May 2010; see also David Pugliese, “MacKay says ...
• Navy faces budget crunch?
  
  
  Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, the commander of the Canadian Navy, are contradicting each other on the state of the Navy’s budget (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped navy being cut to bone, analysts say,” Montreal Gazette, 12 May 2010; see also David Pugliese, “MacKay says ...
• Russian nuke data falls short
  
  
  Russia has presented a chart and other data detailing recent reductions in its nuclear forces to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference currently underway in New York. But the information provided falls far short of the (itself incomplete) level of disclosure recently made by the United Stat ...
• 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Euro Tumbles To 18-Month Low Over Debt Woes
  
  
  May 14, 2010 Telegraph By Angela Monaghan The sell-off of the single currency accelerated on Friday, falling to as low as $1.2433 at one point, its lowest level since November 2008. Analysts at Commerzbank warned “a further fall towards parity cannot be excluded”. World stock markets were down acros ...
• Bank of England Claims USA Faces Same Problems As ...
  
  
  May 14, 2010 Telegraph By Edmund Conway Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, fears that America shares many of the same fiscal problems currently haunting Europe. He also believes that European Union must become a federalised fiscal union (in other words with central power to tax and spend) ...
• Controversy Over CIA Authorization to Kill U.S. Ci ...
  
  
  May 14, 2010 The New York Times By Scott Shane WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay ...
• Autistic Boy Charged With Making Terrorist Threats ...
  
  
  May 14, 2010 My Fox DC SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. – A fourteen-year-old autistic boy is facing terrorist charges after a sketch he made in school. The sketch shows two stick-figures. One of them is labeled âMeâ and is shown shooting a gun at another with a teacherâs name above it. Click here for the f ...
• Sarkozy Threatens To Pull France Out of Euro
  
  
  May 14, 2010 Telegraph By a Reuters reporter in Madrid The newspaper cited comments by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero  to members of his party on Wednesday as relayed by people present at that meeting. A spokesman for the Spanish Prime Minister’s office confirmed the meeting be ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• Remembering the Nakba
  
  
  Shabbah TV: Palestine/Israel history since 1878 — 13 min 33 sec Nabil Shaath writes: Today Israel celebrated 62 years since its formation on 15 May 1948. For Palestinians, today marks the 62nd year since the Nakba â our national and personal catastrophe, involving the loss of our ancestral homel ...
• Israel’s red line: real democracy
  
  
  Jonathan Cook writes: The recent arrest of two respected public figures from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority in night-time raids on their homes by the Shin Bet secret police – brought to light this week when a gag order was partially lifted – has sent shock waves through the community. The arre ...
• The attacks on Goldstone
  
  
  In Haaretz, Hagai El-Ad writes: What will they come up with next? The campaign to discredit Judge Richard Goldstone, his fact-finding commission and the report that now bears his name seems to reach new heights every week. The latest installment in this high-drama farce has been the revelations abo ...
• Obama wants US taxpayers to pay for an Israeli def ...
  
  
  Israel’s newly developed “Iron Dome” missile defense shield will supposedly provide vital protection from rocket attacks from Gaza or Lebanon. The system’s manufacturer, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, says: The Iron dome is a cost effective system that can handle multiple threats simultaneously ...
• Obama’s torture loophole
  
  
  What’s the difference between a US-military-run detention facility and an intelligence gathering facility? For one thing, Red Cross officials are being prevented from seeing how prisoners are treated when held at Bagram’s intelligence gathering facility. Is that so that they can be tortured in secre ...

Watts Up With That?

• Extraterrestrial Global Warming
  
  
  People send me stuff. Alan Siddons writes in an email: Researching for a paper that Martin Hertzberg, Hans Schreuder and I are writing, I chanced upon a chart that might intrigue or amuse you. After temperature sensors were planted on … Continue reading →
• Hey dude, where’s my solar ramp up?
  
  
  Guest post by David Archibald The prognostications based on spotless days are now a distant memory. From here, given that the green corona brightness indicates that solar maximum will in 2015, the big unknown is what the maximum amplitude will … Continue reading →
• Sea Ice Graphs Have Limited Predictive Value
  
  
  By Steve Goddard I like to watch the sea ice graphs as much as anyone, and have wondered how much value they have in forecasting the summer minimum. So I researched it a bit and discovered that their predictive power … Continue reading →
• Off to the conference
  
  
  I’m about to leave for ICCC4, which is predictably being billed as “denialpalooza” by our friends in alarmist world. Heh. Maybe smearapalooza might be a good label for their response. This year, the conference is in Chicago, and it appears … Continue reading →
• NIWA’s Kiwi Kaper
  
  
  It should be noted that NIWA is not the official Meteorological Service of New Zealand. From their FAQs:  Is NIWA the Met Service? No, the MetService is a separate company which can be found at www.metservice.com. NIWA does perform climate … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Whistle-Blowers: A Conversation with Ellsberg and ...
  
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Open Society Institute John Dean, former White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon, discusses the “excessive” amount of executive power made available to the U.S. presidency by former President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. He also examines the ...
• The Ongoing Misery of Mordechai Vanunu by Eileen F ...
  
  
  by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 14 May, 2010 On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service.” [1] Vanunu is scheduled to return to jail on May 23, 20 ...
• Getting to Know Elena Kagan by Ralph Nader
  
  
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095679 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page May 14, 2010 Given the Niagara of commentary on the nomination of Elena Kagan to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, we know very little about the nomin ...
• Israel: The not-so-new Fascism – Palestinians: the ...
  
  
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 13 May, 2010 The parallels are obvious to see, unless of course you don’t want to see the ‘victims’ turn into the victimizers. Such is the case with Israel, which quite properly should be described as a white racist, settler colonial state ...
• The Exceptional US Constitution by Steven Jonas, M ...
  
  
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com May 13, 2010 As I have noted in a recent Commentary, the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States states: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insu ...

Your New Reality

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  We Are Told Animals Can't Comprehend Death, Or Mourn Their Own, But What Do You See? The Squirrel Who Stands Guard Over An Injured Friend : The Elephants That Grieve Over Their Dead : The Cat That Won't Leave His Dead Friend's Side : Why do we assume they have 'human emotions'? Why do w ...
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  President Obama manages to get off a whole bunch of great lines, mostly written for him by staffers of the Daily Show, at the White House Correspondents Dinner : Though Obama's jokes about using Predator drones to protect his daughters from aspiring boyfriends - "you won't even hear them coming" ...
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  The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was longer and wider than a football field. It sits at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, after explosions shattered the platform and killed 11 people on April 20. Then the oil and natural gas began to flow. BP doesn't know how to stop this : ,,,,one intense ...
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  Portrait Of A Chief Executive, 2010 The titans of Silicon Valley : Ellison says he learned that Sun's pony-tailed chief executive, Jonathan Schwartz, ignored problems as they escalated, made poor strategic decisions and spent too much time working on his blog, which Sun translated into 11 langua ...
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  Life Magazine promotes the below image of Berlin, after 350 massive aerial bombardments by the Allies from 1940 to 1945, that killed tens of thousands of civilians, as "never before published". Why not? Too shocking for Americans to see that entire city blocks of civilian apartments, theatres, pa ...

Wired - Science

• Jury Reaches Decision in Brain-Scan Test Case
  
  
  After a judge excluded brain scan evidence offered by the plaintiff, a jury quickly found for the defense in a Brooklyn sexual harassment case this week. The case, which drew national attention following a Wired.com article earlier this month, was one of the first times that fMRI brain scanning ha ...
• Early Birds’ Wings Probably Didn’t Flap
  
  
  The wings were willing, but the feathers were weak. Delicate, thin-shafted plumage would have made flapping difficult if not impossible for two prehistoric birds, a new analysis of fossil feathers suggests. Their feathers probably would have buckled or snapped during strong flapping or sharp maneu ...
• Video: Strapping in With the Crew of the Shuttle f ...
  
  
  The STS-132 crew will buckle into the space shuttle Atlantis tomorrow before launching into orbit for a 12 day mission to the International Space Station. It is the last scheduled flight of Atlantis, and the last scheduled flight for each of the six astronauts aboard. Earlier this month I found mys ...
• Stem Cell Solution for Hearing Loss Makes Progress
  
  
  If a few too many AC/DC concerts now have you turning up the volume on hearing aids instead of headphones, a new stem cell study in mice is reason for hope. A team led by Stefan Heller of Stanford University set out to elucidate basic principles of how the inner ear detects sound. But they also [.. ...
• Colossal Squid Far from Fearsome Predators
  
  
  In the popular imagination, the colossal squid is fast and terrifying, able to dispatch whales and submarines with ease. But the image of the squid as a nasty predator of the deep is probably more mythology than biology argue Rui Rosa of the Laboratorio Marıtimo da Guia in Lisbon and Brad Seibel of ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Gideon Levy: Boycotting the boycotters
  
  
  It would be possible to identify with these intolerant reactions were it not for the fact that Israel itself is one of the world's prolific boycotters. Not only does it boycott, it preaches to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Israeli Students: IDC head called B’Tselem a ‘fift ...
  
  
  The president of the Interdisciplinary Center, Uriel Reichman, described the human rights watchdog B'Tselem as a "fifth column" and said that inviting its representatives to speak at the college was... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Moshe Neeman: Response to University of California ...
  
  
  For the past 43 years, Israel has been occupying Palestinian and other Arab lands conquered in 1967. Since then, and especially in the past 20 years, a campaign of ethnic cleansing has been... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Azmi Bishara: ‘We want to live’
  
  
  When life is reduced to this brand of “we want to live” you have to fabricate it, as it does not have the wherewithal to regenerate itself. There can be no life under occupation without a fight... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Hagai El-Ad: Pins in the Goldstone voodoo doll
  
  
  At the end of the day, after Goldstone is finally exorcised as a witch and Israel's human rights NGOs shut down, what then? Won't accountability still be a cornerstone of the rule of law? Putting the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• UPDATE: Russia plans to develop 5th-generation 'st ...
  
  
  A Russian helicopter company is planning to develop the world's first fifth-generation combat helicopter, which experts say would be able to attack fighter jets and be invisible for radars, the Gazeta daily said on Thursday.
• Russia's space defenses in shambles - experts
  
  
  A group of retired Russian generals warned on Thursday that the country's space defenses are obsolete and have a limited capability to counter possible threats from space.
• Russian company unveils plans for 5th-generation ' ...
  
  
  Russian Helicopters is planning to create the world's first fifth-generation combat helicopter which experts say would be able to attack fighter jets and be invisible for radars, Russian daily Gazeta said on Thursday
• Russia to upgrade Admiral Gorshkov for India on ti ...
  
  
  Russia will keep to the time period specified in the contract for the retrofit of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier for the Indian Navy, the head of Russia's united shipbuilding corporation said on Tuesday
• Russia, Turkey could increase trade to $100 bln ov ...
  
  
  Russia and Turkey could increase bilateral trade to $100 billion over the next five years, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.

NewsWise

• New Technique May Quickly Distinguish between Acti ...
  
  
  An emerging technique designed to quickly distinguish between people with active and dormant tuberculosis may help health professionals diagnose the disease sooner, thereby potentially limiting early exposure to the disease, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Ce ...
• Joslin Diabetes Center Names John Brooks Chairman ...
  
  
  Boston life sciences leader provides expertise to world's leading diabetes research and clinical care organization.
• Social Work Student Earns Degree Just Days Before ...
  
  
  Ashley Brown, who earns her Master of Social Work degree Saturday from Baylor University's School of Social Work, has more reason than most to celebrate her achievement. Her graduation comes just days before she undergoes her second kidney transplant in 10 years.
• As College Graduates Hit the Workforce, So Do More ...
  
  
  As thousands of Generation Y college graduates flood the workforce this spring, the nation's employers may want to brace themselves for a new crop of entitlement-minded workers.
• Belly Fat Or Hip Fat - It Really Is All in Your Ge ...
  
  
  The age-old question of why men store fat in their bellies and women store it in their hips may have finally been answered: Genetically speaking, the fat tissue is almost completely different.

Intel Trends

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Take Action: Organic Sausage Should Have Organic C ...
  
  
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• Take Action Against Organic Fraud in the Health & ...
  
  
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• New Report Indicates FDA Needs to Stop Using "Biom ...
  
  
  Drugs to treat diabetes are often approved simply because they lower blood sugar and heart drugs can win FDA approval because they lower cholesterol. But the report said this does not mean they make patients healthier. Click here to read this article
• Monsanto's Deadly Gift of 475 Tons of Genetically- ...
  
  
  Haiti's earthquake on 12 January this year has been a lucky business break for some. The transnational firm Monsanto is offering the country's farmers a deadly gift of 475 tonnes of genetically-modified (GM) seeds, along with associated fertilizer and pesticides, which will be handed out free by the ...
• President's Cancer Panel: 'Eat Organic, Ward Off C ...
  
  
  The President's Cancer Panel says that the "risk of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated," that "nearly 80,000 chemicals [are] on the market in the United States, many of which are ... understudied and largely unregulated," and that "the public remains unaware ... that chil ...

fotoFrontera

• La foto de tu mamita y la tuya en estas imágenes P ...
  
  
  Estamos a sólo 5 días de celebrar en México, Guatemala, El Salvador y en otros países el Día de las Madres. Por eso mismo, hoy tengo para todos ustedes una carpeta que contiene 6 versiones diferentes de una imagen PNG decorada con hermosos tulipanes, donde usted podrá colocar la foto de su mamita y. ...
• De regreso al Parque de la Fuente (39 fotos gratis ...
  
  
  En este foto reportaje, José Luis Ávila Herrera tiene para usted 39 fotografías gratuitas relacionadas con la visita a un parque muy lindo en la zona de Plateau Mont-Royal. El paquete incluye fotos de personas, árboles, ardillas, perros, plantas, flores, iglesias, casas, ciclistas, malabaristas,... ...
• Nuevas imágenes fantásticas (37 elementos increíbl ...
  
  
  Me congratulo al poder ofrecerle a usted una excelente colección con 37 nuevas imágenes fantásticas. Sea testigo de la alta creatividad y descubra esta serie de paisajes increíbles. Un acercamiento directo a la fusión entre la realidad y la ficción.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar. ...
• Los insectos de mi jardín (40 fotos tipo macro)
  
  
  Si a usted como yo, le gustan las fotografías macro de insectos, le tengo una excelente noticia. El día de hoy, deseo ofrecerle sin ningún costo, un paquete que incluye 40 fotografías de pequeños insectos. Mariposas, Arañas, Libélulas, Catarinas, Caballitos de mar, Hormigas, Escarabajos, Etc. Es... ...
• Etnias de China (Una colección preciosa con 56 fot ...
  
  
  'Etnias de China', viene a convertirse en una colección nunca antes vista. La combinación en sus trajes típicos y regionales, contrasta con la belleza de cada uno de sus miembros dentro de las familias. Las mujeres, merecen atención especial y rindo tributo a su belleza sin igual. No espere más y... ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Can Richard Goldstone Be Barred from U.S.?
  
  
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I seriously doubt it, but Richard Sher, a former Department of Justice official in the Office of Special Investigations, thinks Goldstone’s apartheid-era past justifies denying Goldstone a visa to the U.S. In a letter sent to US officials, Neal Sher, a former executive d ...
• The Los Angeles Times on Garzon’s Suspension
  
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A good editorial, one that provides important context.  Here’s a snippet: From the beginning, the case against Garzon has seemed to be motivated by political and personal vendettas, and the timing of these decisions is no exception. Early in the week, Ga ...
• Peter Schuck Responds to My Post
  
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Professor Schuck has graciously permitted me to post his response.  Here it is: I am grateful for the comments that have been posted about my op-ed, and believe that John correctly captures my position.  It is common for the law to permit finders of fact to ...
• Time to Move to the ICC! Garzon Suspended from Sp ...
  
  
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Well, it’s a good thing he already has another job lined up, although I agree with Kevin (!) that the ICC Prosecutor is making a mistake in bringing Garzon on board.  The AP reports: MADRID â The Spanish judge who became an international hero by going after Augusto Pi ...
• Thoughts on Peter Schuck’s Wall Street Journ ...
  
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller Ken has already flagged the editorial , in which Schuck -- a superb scholar who teaches at Yale -- argues that it would be constitutionally permissible to strip Faisal Shahzad's US citizenship because of his attempt to set off a car-bomb in Times Square.  I'm skeptical of S ...

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

• How Iran's opposition inverts old slogans
  
  
  Olivia Cornes navigates some of the opposition chants heard in Iran since June's disputed presidential elections,with the help of BBCPersian.com and protesters themselves.( Govt accused BBC of propaganda since start of broadcasts :SoTT reported CIA ploys Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
• National Security and Afghanistan Talking Points
  
  
  Eight years ago Al Qaeda terrorists - who trained and lived inside Afghanistan - launched a deadly attack on the American homeland. In October of 2001, America retaliated and defeated the Taliban. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Territorians to be barcoded
  
  
  TERRITORY victims in large-scale accidents or catastrophes will soon be barcoded at the scene before being sent to hospital. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• It they run,they're VC.If they don't run,they're w ...
  
  
  "The good guys" are now executing prisoners on the battlefield, or at least that is the story that has been relayed to Hersh by U.S. troops. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Global Economic Crisis. The Great Depression of th ...
  
  
  Each of the authors in this timely collection digs beneath the gilded surface to reveal a complex web of deceit and media distortion which serves to conceal the workings of the global economic system and its devastating impacts on people's lives. Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! ...

Angry Indian News

• New Arizona Bills Continue Targeting of Minority G ...
  
  
  t r u t h o u t | New Arizona Bills Continue Targeting of Minority Groups, Critics Say: "Tucson's Unified School District is 56 percent Latino, but you may not know it by the changes in the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Observations: Genetic ancestry testing is an inexa ...
  
  
  Observations: Genetic ancestry testing is an inexact science, task force says-scientificamerican: "As store-based distribution of genetic health tests remains stalled pending federal review, genetic... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Arson attack on Muhammad artist’s home - The Local
  
  
  Arson attack on Muhammad artist’s home - The Local: "Vilks was not at his home in Nyhamnsl�ge at the time of the attack. An acquaintance of the artist discovered the damage on Saturday morning.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Preacher settles for dialogue over book-burning - ...
  
  
  Preacher settles for dialogue over book-burning - The Local: "Holger Nilsson, an independent evangelist preacher, provoked fury earlier this month when he urged residents of Vetlanda to burn... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Unexplained Mysteries - Easter Island statue trans ...
  
  
  Unexplained Mysteries - Easter Island statue transport mystery deepens: "The method believed to be used by the inhabitants of Easter Island to move their statues has been called in to question.Up... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Marti Oakley Talks about Food Safety and Attacks o ...
  
  
  Marti Oakley on the John Wallace show May 14th discussing food safety legislation and government attacks on family farms.
• Wisconsin DATCP begins Agriculture police state
  
  
  For Immediate Release:  DATCP Trespasses on Local Farmer’s Property, Collects Evidence Without a Warrant, and Violates Basic Bio-security Protocol Endangering the Health of Animals They are Supposedly Protecting On May 5, 2010, Melissa Cochran, Animal Health Inspector for the Wisconsin Department ...
• 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• National Insurance Crime Bureau: Staged accident c ...
  
  
  Noted by Joe D'Allegro on May 16, 2010 8:05 AM
• Argentina: Greek financial rescue Is doomed to fai ...
  
  
  Noted by Nancy Miller on May 16, 2010 8:05 AM
• No more Madoffs: SEC chief's big bet on Goldman (T ...
  
  
  Noted by Nancy Miller on May 16, 2010 8:05 AM
• AP IMPACT: US drug war has met none of its goals ( ...
  
  
  Noted by Allison Kilkenny on May 16, 2010 7:05 AM
• Canadian fighters scrambled after bomb threat to p ...
  
  
  Noted by Rachel King on May 16, 2010 5:05 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram ...
  
  
  ShareThis Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram By Marc Ambinder 14 May 2010 The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) runs a classified interrogation facility for high-value detainees inside Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, defense and administration officials said, and prisoners there are ...
• Canadian commander accused of murders and sex atta ...
  
  
  ShareThis Canadian commander accused of murders and sex attacks --One of Canada's most senior military figures has been accused of being a sexual predator responsible for up to ten murders . 14 May 2010 In a case that has shocked and transfixed the nation, British-born Colonel Russell Williams has b ...
• Obama wants $80 bln to upgrade nuclear arms comple ...
  
  
  ShareThis Obama wants $80 bln to upgrade nuclear arms complex 13 May 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama sent a landmark arms-reduction treaty with Russia to the Senate on Thursday for ratification and called for $80 billion in nuclear funding, which could help win opposition support. Defense Secretary ...
• Palin Warns "Mama Grizzlies" Will Take Back Countr ...
  
  
  ShareThis Palin Warns "Mama Grizzlies" Will Take Back Country [ That's right. They can start by devouring Sarah Palin, the polar bear- and wolf-killing terrorist. ] 14 May 2010 Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says "mama grizzles" will punish Washington in November's midterm elections. [ Mama polar be ...
• Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say
  
  
  ShareThis Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say 13 May 2010 Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom. But scientists and environmenta ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Questions for IPCC Vice Chair David Wratt as new I ...
  
  
  NIWA's David Wratt was the Vice Chair of the UN IPCC's Working Group 1 (WG-1), the prestigious "science" report on climate change. Wratt and others have previously talked of how impeccable the WG-1 process was, so I'd be interested in...
• Watching the deniers can be entertaining
  
  
  Is it just me, or does anyone else think that global warming website Watching the Deniers is in a spot of difficulty on this thread (read right through for the context)? I'm not sure whether WTD simply doesn't understand, or...
• 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...

Mondoweiss

• Angry in Ames
  
  
  Susan Johnson just completed a roadtrip through Illinois and Iowa talking about Gaza. Some more of her notes: Des Moines. People were very concerned about condition of children, especially children's trauma. Wanted to know what was and could be done [...]
• Israeli soldiers drag, beat and kick Israeli woman
  
  
  This is video of the Israeli occupying army breaking up a demonstration in Nabi Saleh in the West Bank yesterday. Thanks to Joseph Dana, who points out that after the first ugly portion involving an Israeli woman (beaten to the point that her head was bleeding), the video shows soldiers firing on Pa ...
• Even Reform American rabbis are fanatical about Je ...
  
  
  Here's a Reform group, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, attacking the Kairos document, issued by Palestinian Christians last year. One point I need to land on: The rabbis say at the start that they seek "an end to the occupation of Palestinians lands" and then in a footnote state, "We def ...
• ‘NYT’ offers neoconnish shelter to Ber ...
  
  
  It is important to emphasize how much the New York Times remains a haven for neoconservative thinking about the Islamic world and US policy in the Middle East. The reformation/restoration have not occurred. Last week the New York Times Book Review allowed Harold Bloom to devote his review of Antho ...
• This sure beats Niger yellow cake
  
  
  Wowie, zowie. This'll get your hair on fire. I gather this is the Apollo affair. From FAS secrecy blog: In 1965, over 200 pounds of weapons-grade highly enriched uranium went missing from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania.� Circumstantial eviden ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
  
  
  A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]
• 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 & ...

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

• Penguins of Afghanistan
  
  
    Penguins of Afghanistan and A few Words on Charlie Company Published: 13 May 2010 There are no birth certificates in these villages.  No death certificates.  No driver’s licenses or addresses or phonebooks, and if there were, few people would be able to read them.  In this mostly illiterate c ...
• An Afghan Story
  
  
  Published: 9 May 2010 If normal life were a river, most days would likely be a slow-moving, meandering passage.  But when a life squeezes into the gorge of war, there can be a deafening whitewater, falls and yet bigger falls, slams against stones, falls again and underwater no air and over the fa ...
• Big Guns
  
  
  28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly.  Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...
• Battle for Kandahar
  
  
  Battle for Kandahar Baghtu Valley 25 April 2010 Afghanistan The counteroffensive has begun.  More accurately, it might be called a counter-counteroffensive.  Close to a decade ago, we beat the Taliban and al Qaeda here.  The Taliban regrew and waged an increasingly successful counteroffensive.  ...
• War above McChrystal's Head
  
  
  Published: 17 April 2010 Originally posted on Facebook   {loadposition user8}

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

• Wetland Conservation Expanding 75,000 Acres in 22 ...
  
  
  photo: J. Novak The USDA announced last week that they would be expanding funding for wetland conservation in 22 states and Puerto Rico. Nearly $175,000 million will be distributed in order to extend wetland conservation by 75,000 acres. This is great news in my home state of South Carolina whe ...
• Jazz Up Your Bike with Bold, Vintage Handlebar Bag ...
  
  
  Credit: Beatrice Holiday When we saw Beatrice Holiday bicycle seat covers made with vintage upholstery fabric, which slightly resembles our grandmother's old couch--at least the plastic cover helped preserve it--on Modish , we were curious. And when we checked out their shop on Etsy and discove ...
• Costa Rica Builds 'Underground Railroad' for Jagua ...
  
  
  A jaguar in Brazil. Photo by Steve Winter/Panthera via The New York Times . Even the the most lovelorn humans likely wouldn't go to these lengths to find a mate: Camera traps have shown that some jaguars swim across the 500- to 1,000-foot-wide Panama Canal in order to expand their breeding opti ...
• Hayes Valley Farm- Get Your Hands Dirty or Watch D ...
  
  
  photo: Zoey Kroll Zooming by Oak and Fell Streets in San Francisco, you may not notice the bustling growth that is taking place behind the fence on the corner of Laguna and Oak. When the City removed the Laguna freeway off-ramp, there remained 2.5 acres of unused space, from Oak to Fell and fr ...
• Extreme Spring Weather Kills Valuable US Ginseng C ...
  
  
  "Fay Tai sorts through ginseng root at Hsu's Ginseng Enterprises north of Wausau in this 2004 photo." Image and caption credit: Gary Porter, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel The USA doesn't legally export much high-value product to China. Some high tech stuff for aerospace and defense and some soft ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Water crisis hits Rangoon
  
  
  Increasing electricity cuts mean Rangoon residents hit by heatwave are unable to pump already depleted water supplies to apartments
• UN rues Burma election monitor ban
  
  
  Foreign election observers would 'inspire confidence' in Burma's polls, says UN in the wake of comments by election chief that monitors would be banned
• Burma rejects child beggar repatriation
  
  
  Six trafficked Burmese children held in a Malaysian immigration camp are set to remain there as the Burmese embassy denies them financial help to return home
• First Rohingya delegate visits US congress
  
  
  Senators and congressmen told of the 'neglected' issue of ethnic and religious rights in Burma as outrage continues at Rohingya treatment
• NLD questions Central Court rejection
  
  
  National League for Democracy claim that rejection of appeal over party dissolution did not follow legal protocol and came without reasons

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climate change threatens lizards with extinction
  
  
  Lizards are in danger of dying out on a large scale as rising global temperatures force them to spend more time staying cool in the shade and less time tending to basic needs like eating and mating.
• Climate change could make half the world uninhabit ...
  
  
  Climate change could make half of the world uninhabitable for humans as a rise in temperature makes it too hot to survive, scientists have warned.
• General election 2010: hung Parliament could stren ...
  
  
  A hung Parliament could mean tougher policies on climate change, with parties agreed on building more wind turbines and insulating homes.
• Gulf oil slick is a disaster for world climate dea ...
  
  
  Offshore oil drilling could become unacceptable, eliminating Barack Obama's bargaining tool with the Republicans, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• General Election 2010: Political parties are green ...
  
  
  There is one party that fully endorses the rejectionist case on global warming, says Geoffrey Lean.

National Geographic | Environment

• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  
  
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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• Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill
  
  
  Evaporation, dilution, and oil-hungry bacteria are already combatting the Gulf slick, experts say.
• Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
  
  
  Twenty-five years later, the lingering "hole" over Antarctica is close to closing—but that may not be entirely a good thing. Antarctica - Antarctic - Polar Regions - Ozone depletion - Environment
• Hurricane Could Push Spilled Gulf Oil Into New Orl ...
  
  
  With predictions for a feisty 2010 hurricane season, experts fear that a major storm could carry oil from the Gulf spill into downtown.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Rights group urges UK to set up judicial inquiry o ...
  
  
  [JURIST] Human Rights Watch [official website] on Friday urged the new UK government to set up a judicial inquiry [press release] on torture [JURIST news archive] allegations and reaffirm its support for human rights. The rights group claimed that allegations of complicity in the torture of terroris ...
• UN expert urges legal reforms to fight global hung ...
  
  
  [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food [official website] Olivier De Schutter [official profile] on Friday urged reforms [UN News Centre report] to legal systems to fight hunger and promote the right to food. The UN High-Level Task Force for the Global Food Crisis [official website] is ...
• Iraq recount shows no signs of fraud in March elec ...
  
  
  [JURIST] Spokesman for Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) [official website] Qassim al-Aboudi announced Friday that the completed recount of votes cast in the March 7 parliamentary elections [CEIP backgrounder; JURIST news archive] showed no signs of fraud or major irregularities. T ...
• Small business lobby group joins health care lawsu ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) [association website], a small business lobby group, joined a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Friday challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted health care reform law [text; JURIST news archive]. The NFIB joins 20 states in ...
• UN torture experts urge probe of Syria, Yemen, Jor ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) [official website] on Friday urged [press release] Syria, Yemen, and Jordan to conduct thorough investigations into allegations of torture [JURIST news archive] by law enforcement officials. Concluding its forty-fourth session, the group of 10 independ ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Bagram: What Appendix M Says About Interrogation
  
  
  Several readers have asked me to provide more information on the Army Field Manual's Appendix M , which sanctions a "restricted" interrogation technique, but which the D.I.A.'s interrogators are using, under secret orders, to employ harsher techniques. The Appendix is not classified. It applies to a ...
• A Picture of the Bagram Interrogation Facility
  
  
  Here is a picture of the outer perimeter of the area near the Bagram Internment Facility that the Defense Intelligence Agency uses as an interrogation facility .� View image
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Grizzly Moms
  
  
  Nothing wakes you up like a cold, bracing dose of Sarah Palin. Speaking to 550 pro-lifers in Washington this morning, �Palin belted out her version of "frontier feminism," an amalgam of Western economic and resource conservatism overlayed with traditional social values. It's a movement of "moms" who ...
• Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram
  
  
  The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) runs a classified interrogation facility for high-value detainees inside Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, defense and administration officials said, and prisoners there are sometimes subject to tougher interrogation methods than those used elsewhere. Both the N ...
• The Night Beat: Angry Obama Expected Tomorrow
  
  
  President Obama is angry about the oil spill, its magnitude, and BP's stalling -- and tomorrow, he is going to let his frustrations spill out at a late-morning press availability after he meets with senior officials. Tonight, Obama raised $1.3 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Commi ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...
• [COAT] Help Protest Canada's top WAR-industry Baza ...
• [COAT] Help Oppose Canada's Top Weapons Bazaar! - ...
• [COAT] Haiti Protests! 100s of photos/videos/artic ...
• [COAT] James Bond vs CIDA in Haiti: Voodoo Power & ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Former Aipac Director Incites U.S. Government Agai ...
  
  
  Neal Sher, a former Justice Department lawyer and Aipac director, has demanded that the U.S. government refuse admittance to Richard Goldstone as an undesirable.  Of course, the media outlet that announced this development is the home of pro-Israel incitement, the Jerusalem Post: In a letter sent ...
• Jaja’s Wife Denies Hezbollah Connection
  
  
  Note: There is some question about whether Hassan Geagea’s name should be spelled ‘Jaja.’  Since it appears that there is a Hassan Jaja on Facebook (as well as Hassan ‘Geagea’) who lists as a Friend Rayan Zuayter, who is the actual wife of Geagea/Jaja, I’ve decided to change the spelling of his nam ...
• Hassan Geagea, Shin Bet’s All-Purpose ‘Hezbollah S ...
  
  
  A member of the Free Ameer Makhoul Facebook group, Disk Missing, did a cracker-jack piece of research and noted that Israeli Palestinian anti-Wall activist, Jamal Juma’a, was arrested last December and imprisoned for several weeks.  Machsom Watch observed his legal hearings and characterized the ev ...
• Omar Said, Practitioner of Arab Traditional Medici ...
  
  
  Lately, I have written extensively about Ameer Makhoul, whose arrest by the Shin Bet was placed under seal and broken by Israeli and American bloggers and journalists (including me).  But I haven’t written at all about Makhoul’s colleague, Omar Said, who was also arrested.  I just discovered a mov ...
• Who is Hassan Geagea and Why is He a Shin Bet Forb ...
  
  
  Yesterday, I reported that Haaretz had inadvertently published secret information revealing that Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said met with a Lebanese, Hassan Geagea, who the Shin Bet claimed was a Hezbollah agent. Based on his family name Rechavia Berman and I assumed Hassan was a Maronite Christian and ...

Ode Magazine

• A hopeful tipping point
  
  
  By: kirstenneff In environmental circles the phrase “tipping point” is usually referred to when speaking about the catastrophic effect of climate change and our inability to reverse our own exponential negative impact on the planet. Pretty depressing. And overwhel ...
• Organic agriculture can feed the world
  
  
  By: Marco Visscher The world’s most popular herbicide isn’t so effective anymore. More and more, weeds show resistance to glyphosate, better known under Monsanto’s brand-name, Roundup, which is used by farmers across the globe. This is a serious problem, says ...
• Hyperlocavore: A yard sharing community
  
  
  By: hyperlocavore After 25 years in the tech field, I moved to the country and launched hyperlocavore , a free yard sharing community, to help people become more resilient and healthy where they live as the economy started to tank. People really need tools and help ...
• Second-grader raises money for African orphans
  
  
  By: METschannen In the summer of 2008, I spent a few months teaching in a rural village outside of Arusha, Tanzania. Upon my return to the states, I vowed to assist the children and families I met and worked with in Tanzania. As an elementary special education teac ...
• Hope therapy will get us through tough times
  
  
  How hope therapy can help banish mild mood disorders and boost happiness. Photo: Dusanzidar/ Dreamstime.com Things were going pretty well for Melanie. After struggling with being overweight, she had recently dropped a significant number of pounds. She felt great and looked ...

OpEd News

• Hunt for the best doctor and the best hospital
  
  
  WorldMed Assist also provides medical tourism as an option for self-insured businesses seeking expanded and affordable healthcare options for employees
• BP takes a leak on America
  
  
  A love letter to BP. They really need a hug right now, and Iapos;m just the guy to give it to them.
• The US vs China: the Race to Produce Composite Fib ...
  
  
  It appears that is an elegantly simple technological solution to current US de-industrialization, sovereign debt, American carbon debt and even endless Middle East wars to protect our claim on imported oil. Yet for some reason China, India, Japan and Germany are far ahead of us in gearing up to prod ...
• Bring Forth The Gays! Bring Forth The Jews! And RE ...
  
  
  The Right (both Christian and otherwise) is totally confused about denouncing Elena Kagan as a future Justice of the Supreme Court. Lesbian? Anti-military? Obamaapos;s Harriet Miers? Hey, itapos;s fun watching them all grasp at straws!
• Six postulates designed to lead to a wealthy natio ...
  
  
  How to create a wealthy nation based on six simple postulates

Switchboard

• Predator poison kills dogs in Idaho
  
  
  As reported in the Idaho Falls Post Register (subscription required): Compound 1080, a pesticide that is highly toxic to humans and animals and has no known antidote, is the poisoning agent in a rash of dog deaths in a two-block area in [Salmon, Idaho's] main residential section, authorit ...
• A second look at CBO’s employment study: Climate l ...
  
  
  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a study examining the employment effects of putting a cap on carbon emissions. It concluded that climate legislation would have modest, if not negligible, impacts: “[Climate legislation] would probably have only a small [slightly negati ...
• Constructing oil and gas wells: "many of today's w ...
  
  
  The tragic catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the oil spilling from the Deepwater Horizon rig sounds more and more like the results of a perfect storm of poor drilling practices. We've read about potential contributors being the cementing process, faulty equipment, unorthodox proces ...
• Voice Off the Bayou
  
  
  Derrick Evans squinted into the sunlight glaring off the brackish water of Grand Bayou, an hour's drive south of New Orleans, filled his lungs with the pungent air of the fertile delta wetlands, and gazed off toward the Gulf of Mexico. A mile away lay the leading edge of 4 million gallons o ...
• The Clean Energy Bill Is No Place For Dirty Energy ...
  
  
  There is much to commend in Senator Kerry’s and Senator Lieberman’s just-released comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, beginning with solid core carbon pollution limits. These emission limits tighten every year and will drive investments in clean energy that create jobs, cut p ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Definition of Insanity is Putting Jesus Colome ...
  
  
  I’m not sure what was more painful, watching this game in general or listening to Tim McCarver repeatedly trying and failing to pronounce “Tuiasosopo.” Related posts:I’d Suggest Trying Warren Moon Instead First they made us pronounce her name correctly . . . Situation: Belarus! Related posts: I ...
• Saturday night video
  
  
  Jackson Browne and David Lindley, London 1976 Related posts:I Know What I am Doing Saturday Night Saturday Night Science Debate Late Night Video Related posts: I Know What I am Doing Saturday Night Saturday Night Science Debate Late Night Video
• Computer Geeks: “Give Us Your Huddled Facebo ...
  
  
  Recently I wrote about the need for Facebook alternatives. A team of NYU computer science students may have just the thing: Why can’t privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand? That’s the question being raised by those behind the new Diaspora project, an ambitious undertaking to build an “anti-Face ...
• 1969 Sino-Soviet War
  
  
  This claim has appeared in a few other places, but apparently without the official sanction: Liu Chenshan, the author of a series of articles that chronicle the five times China has faced a nuclear threat since 1949, wrote that the most serious threat came in 1969 at the height of a bitter border di ...
• The Apocryphal Cocktail Party Gambit
  
  
  This is true: Thers’ Fifth Iron Law of the Internets: Twice as many people have gone on the Internet to claim they stopped being liberals because of things said at coastal liberal cocktail parties than, statistically speaking, could have ever attended coastal liberal cocktail parties to begin with. ...

Desert Research Institute

• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  
  
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
• The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
  
  
  The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.
• Mercury Depletion Events at the Dead Sea
  
  
  Researchers characterize atmospheric mercury depletion events at the Dead Sea in Israel and the atmospheric chemistry responsible for these events.
• Storm Peak Lab Contributes Data to Microbe Researc ...
  
  
  Using data collected at DRI's Storm Peak Lab, researchers have found that airborne microbial diversity is much greater than expected.
• Cloud Seeding Program Receives Support from SNWA a ...
  
  
  Cloud seeding will continue this year in the Tahoe/Truckee River Basin, the Ruby Mountains and with one generator near Tuscarora, Nevada.

Earth Techling

• Morning Glory LED Flower Lighting Blooms When Nigh ...
  
  
  An innovative lighting design from the Netherlands hangs in a window and "blooms" through a series of geometric patterns when the sun goes down, revealing a LED light within.
• Casa Chaira Offers Green Modular Homes for Saintly ...
  
  
  A brand-new 16 unit modular complex featuring recycled, eco-friendly materials, high-efficiency systems and appliances and a PV solar system is the new home of Sisters of St. Francis in Denver.
• Unique OBO Light Concept Sets The Right LED Mood L ...
  
  
  An oblong-shaped, battery-powered lamp concept called the Obo makes use of 1-watt LED lights in a glowing ring to illuminate walls at home for that special mood or moment.
• World’s First Diesel-Powered Helicopter Hits Proto ...
  
  
  The Delta D2 helicopter prototype, manufactured by Australia-based Delta Helicopters, is a self-assembled, diesel-fueled helicopter capable of utilizing biofuel and synthetic fuels.
• Solar-Powered Elephant Night-night Light Is Green ...
  
  
  In need of a eco nightlight to allay the fears of the little ones in your abode? The Elephant Night-night Light is a solar-powered LED meant to stick to windows. Power it by day, let it glow all night.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Judge agrees to expand plaintiffs' committees in T ...
  
  
  A federal judge in California acceded to plaintiffs' request for a robust litigation committee structure in appointing lead counsel for the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden unintended acceleration defects in its vehicles.
• Toyota economic damages could surpass $7 billion
  
  
  Plaintiff's counsel could seek as much as $7.35 billion from Toyota Motor Co. to compensate consumers for the diminished value of their vehicles in light of problems with sudden unintended acceleration, one of those lawyers said on Wednesday.
• 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.
• LAW FIRM ADMINISTRATION: IT departments can be pro ...
  
  
  Information Technology departments can help law firms generate significant profitability. But the reality is that most firms still view IT as a cost center and a "keep the lights on" type of function.
• Rookie year as SG included some missteps
  
  
  In her year as Solicitor General, Elena Kagan was confident, despite tangles with Chief Justice John Roberts, and a defeat in Citizens United.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Frack Country Blues
  
  
  Because sometime all you can do is laugh……Thanks! http://frackcountryblues.com/2010/04/23/outdoor-recreation/
• What has Matt Baker done to protect Pennsylvania f ...
  
  
  Below is a letter written to the Wellsboro Gazette. Voting day is coming up quickly and here is an opportunity for those of us who are unhappy with the decisions Matt Baker has been making in regards to the gas rush. The fact that Matt Baker has not had, and will not otherwise, have anyone [...]
• Stunned at Shuster’s Words
  
  
  Here are a few letters to the editor from a paper out of Bedford, PA area. This was sent to me by a farmer who lives in that are whose livestock and water has been polluted. She does not have a lease with any gas company but lives near a large compressor station and gas [...]
• “Gasland”
  
  
  GASLAND An INTERNATIONAL WOW COMPANY PRODUCTION SELECTED FOR SUNDANCE http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/GASLANDPRESSRELEASE.pdf
• House Bill 2235 Letter
  
  
  Here’s is a sample letter to my local representative. Please feel free to copy and paste it if you are not sure how to write your own. Make sure you send it to your correct representative. Representative Matthew Baker Ryan Office Building, Room 115 451 North Third Street Harrisburg, PA 17120-2068 De ...

News Blaze

• New Comic Singing Impressionist Show Opening Plane ...
  
  
  This fast-paced fun filled show features an all-star celebrity cast of rapid-fire voice impressions including many of Las Vegas' biggest headliners.
• 'Run!' he screamed. 'It's still alive!!'
  
  
  'The first volume of this collection was simply the unnerving appetizer. Vance and Geier now offer up the main course and it's a terror filled delight!' said Ron Fortier, editor of 'The Feasting'.
• Rastrabadi Gorkha Seva Dal Proposal to UCPN Maoist ...
  
  
  The Basantapur Peace Rally held last Friday; has been a historic victory for the Nepali people. The Gorkhali, Nepali people have once again sighed in relief.
• SBDC presents Business Growth Conference
  
  
  The Small Business Development Center at the Central Florida Development Council is a non-profit organization that designs and delivers a collection of programs directed towards strengthening the economic benefit of Central Florida.
• Progress on Kashmir dispute should be visible
  
  
  Mufti Mohammad Sayed says 'There has to be visible progress on the Kashmir resolution to bring to an early end the dark chapter of hostility that had consumed many generations of people here who are now losing patience.'

environment 360

• The Greening of Silicon Valley: It Looks Like the ...
  
  
  California’s high-tech giants have long used renewable energy to help power their Silicon Valley headquarters. Now, companies such as Google, Adobe Systems, and eBay are preparing for the next step — investing in off-site solar and wind installations and innovative technologies that will supply thei ...
• U.S. Interior Approves First Offshore Wind Farm of ...
  
  
  U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has approved the nation’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, a $1 billion project that has survived nine years of regulatory review and a well-financed campaign to kill the plan. The Cape Wind project will include construction of ...
• Rising Temperatures in U.S.
  
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States , and as the accompanying graphic shows, many parts of the country have experienced Click to enlarge EPA U.S. temperature change, 1901-2008 sharp temperature increases over the past century ...
• Arctic Safeguards Needed As Sea Ice Disappears, WW ...
  
  
  Arctic nations should sign a comprehensive agreement to protect the environmentally sensitive region as sea ice melts and the Arctic basin is opened up to shipping, oil and gas drilling, and fishing, according to the conservation group WWF. With the likelihood that summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean ...
• NASA Image Captures Extent of Oil Leak off U.S. Gu ...
  
  
  Click to enlarge NASA Oil leak from damaged rig in the Gulf of Mexico A new image taken by a NASA satellite captures the extent of a major oil spill triggered by the explosion aboard an offshore oil rig about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. An estimated 42,000 gallons o ...

Red Ice Creations

• In Safety Study, Sheep on Meth Are Shocked With Ta ...
• Vatican tied Mount Graham Observatory launches LUC ...
• Separate Truths: Misleading - and dangerous - o th ...
• Smoke bombs, eggs fly in Ukraine parliament
• Thomas Hagan, only man to admit role in Malcolm X ...

Russia Today

• Last attempt to find mine blast survivors
  
  
  A week after the double blast at the Raspadskya mine, emergency teams are flooding the tunnels in an attempt to put out the fires raging inside.
• Testing your DNA at home: are you ready?
  
  
  The U.S. maker of a genetic testing kit has announced this week that it would be sold in drugstores for the first time.
• Animal activists across Russia voice their concern ...
  
  
  Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of over 50 Russian cities to protest against cruelty to stray animals as part of the “Russia without cruelty” campaign.
• CSKA snap at Zenit’s heels, Nalchik’s fall continu ...
  
  
  As the Russian Premier League takes a two-month break, its former leaders Spartak Nalchik have missed the chance to break back into the top three following a 1-0 defeat at Tomsk in Siberia.
• Meet Woody Allen, at Cannes!
  
  
  “The wizard of wit,” one of the world’s most renowned filmmakers - Woody Allen - has showed off his latest masterpiece at the Cannes Film Festival.

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

• Where Art Thou V’ger?
  
  
  Voyager 2, one of the path-finding Outer Solar System exploration probes launched during the 1970s, is at the very edge of the Solar System and is ready to cross into interstellar space. But a few weeks ago it started to spout back to Earth unintelligible signals then it cut out. Did it meet aliens? ...
• Quantum Photosynthesis / Metamaterial Multiverse
  
  
  When one thinks of quantum physics or mechanics, a picture of myriad billions of particles go dancing in my head and visions of parallel universes impinge on my consciousness. Or not. Whatever. Anyway, the point is people don’t equate quantum physics with plants and photosynthesis. Huh? The future o ...
• Ares Resurrection
  
  
  President Obama in his FY2011 budget for NASA cancelled the Constellation Program and its Ares 1 and 5 rockets that were to be used for a return to the Moon. The program was under-funded from the start since the previous Bush 2 Administration and subsequent Congresses since 2005, so the timelines fo ...
• More Tesla Tech / Russia’s Illegal Alien Pro ...
  
  
  In this 21st Century, perhaps we not only owe our tech to folks like Einstein, Edison and Hawking, but to the greatest one of all. Nicola Tesla. Tesla, a pioneering Serbian-born physicist, made the prediction about the portable messaging service in the Popular Mechanics magazine in 1909. Tesla, whos ...
• CGI Tour of Mars: Proof of Life?
  
  
  Below is a YouTube presentation of a “Google Mars” type tour of the planet Mars depicting vegetation and ancient city blocks. I couldn’t tell anything, but the overhead effects were pretty good. Who ever set this up knew what they were doing, but I’m no expert in CGI or Photoshop. Enjoy. … Intellige ...

Tippers News

• Scientists Test Pesticides Made From Scorpion Veno ...
  
  
  Pesticide use has even been tied to Suicide Rates in Humans.. So Researchers are testing the venom of scorpions for self-defense can also protect your plants against unwanted pests like moths locusts and beetles negligible impact on bees or humans. Submitted by Tippers A. to Science & Tech �|� �Not ...
• Babies are polluted at birth, new report says
  
  
  There are more than 80,000 chemicals on the market today, only 200 of them have been tested for safety, EPA only require safety testing after there is proof that a substance poses a health risk under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 Submitted by Tippers A. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! ...
• Merchants take the lead on Triclosan Ban
  
  
  Businesses and organizations commitment to not purchase, use, or sell products that contain triclosan, soaps, detergents, toothpastes, deodorants, etc.Endocrine disruptor, male and female reproductive hormones, cancer risk, and water contaminant. Submitted by Tippers A. to Business �|� �Note-it! ...
• Will FDA Ban Triclosan? common in Antibacterial Pr ...
  
  
  If you've ever used antibacterial soap, chances are you've rubbed the chemical triclosan on your hands, triclosan is so common that it's been found in the urine of 75 percent of the population, detected in breast milk and 58 percent of US waterways Submitted by Tippers A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
• 78-Year-Old Arkansas Man Fights to Keep Pet Pig - ...
  
  
  Less than a week after Wliferd Kallhouff, 78, moved to a subdivision in Mountain Home Ark., police told him the pig had to go because the city prohibits hogs and other farm animals, the Baxter Bulletin reports. Trial is set for June 29th. Submitted by BarbCat Kay to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...

The Freeman

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  Anyone who read the USA Today article proclaiming that the overall national tax burden is at a 60-year low of 9.2 percent must check out these articles from: Wall Street Pit The Washington Examiner Time Psst: USA Today didn’t count the second biggest federal tax or a major state tax.
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  “Less than a month after signing the nationâs toughest law on illegal immigration, Gov. Jan Brewer  of Arizona has again upset the stateâs large Hispanic population, signing a bill aimed at ending ethnic studies in Tucson schools. Under the law signed on Tuesday, any school district that offers ...
• President Urges Job Creation
  
  
  “President Obama asked Congress on Thursday to swiftly pursue a new round of jobs legislation, arguing that his steps to rescue the economy are working, but it doesn’t feel that way to many struggling Americans.” (Washington Times, Friday) Quick, takeover another union-run industry. FEE Timely Cla ...
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  When companies are sheltered from the market’s disciplinary competitive forces, incentives turn perverse.
• April Budget Deficit Hits $82.7 Billion
  
  
  “The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the federal deficit for April soared to $82.7 billion, the largest imbalance for that month on record. That was significantly higher than last year’s April deficit of $20 billion and above the $30 billion deficit that private-sector economists had expecte ...

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• What you should know about HTML5 today
  
  
  If you teach online journalism, you’ve probably been hearing questions from students about the validity of what they are learning today. If you’re teaching Web design for current standards and current browsers, they are asking, “What about HTML5 and CSS3?” If you’re teaching Flash, they are aski ...
• HTML5 demystified
  
  
  This slideshow provides a really clear overview of what HTML5 includes, why it’s exciting, and when browser support can be expected. The slideshow was produced by Derek Bender.
• Social media theory and practice: An outline
  
  
  Carrie Brown-Smith is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Memphis. Last month she posted a first draft of a syllabus for a college course about social media . I took a look at it today, and I suggest you do the same. Ultimately, this course hopes to foster the meta-skill of a ...
• Understanding the canvas in HTML5
  
  
  Last week I tried to summarize key points about HTML5 , the emerging standard that will affect the way Web pages — and other digital media — are created in the near future. There were two aspects of HTML5 that I mostly left out. One is mobile (the interaction of HTML5 and the Internet on your phone ...
• A look back: Where HTML began
  
  
  I just finished reading Chapter 1 of Dive into HTML5, by Mark Pilgrim, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone who remembers the day he or she first clicked a little blue link in the Netscape beta will probably be just as happy as I was to read it. It’s a history, a gentle and yet geeky history, that l ...
  

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  Saratoga Springs offers water after outbreak

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  AP SARATOGA SPRINGS » Thousands of residents in the northern half of Saratoga Springs in Utah County continue to boil their water after a bacterial outbreak ...

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  USC defeats LMU in water polo semifinal

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  SAN DIEGO -- Second-seeded USC ended Loyola Marymount's bid for an NCAA championship in women's water polo, defeating the Lions, 10-6, in a semifinal ...

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  Huge underwater oil plumes found in Gulf of Mexico

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  Scientists have found huge plumes of oil lurking under the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico, as BP hit a snag in its latest effort to slow down ...

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