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IPS - Inter Press Services

• MIDEAST: Dreaming With Their Feet
  GAZA CITY, May 18 (IPS) - Ahmed Ismail, 23, is leading a dance out of troubled times in Gaza. Breakdancing is his way to help the youth of Gaza begin dreaming and having fun again.
• MIDEAST: Chomsky - Latest Jewish Thinker Savaged b ...
  RAMALLAH, May 18 (IPS) - When internationally renowned linguist, philosopher and political analyst Noam Chomsky was barred from entering the West Bank, he joined a chorus of Jewish intellectuals savaged by the Israeli government for outspoken criticism.
• PAKISTAN: TB-Afflicted Women Struggle to Overcome ...
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 18 (IPS) - Abdul Wahid’s wife had been unwell for two years, showing symptoms of a chronic infectious disease such as prolonged coughing, before she finally decided to see a doctor.
• Bill for Afghan War Could Run into the Trillions
  WASHINGTON, May 17 (IPS) - The U.S. Senate is moving forward with a 59-billion-dollar spending bill, of which 33.5 billion dollars would be allocated for the war in Afghanistan.
• Football Fortunes for Mexican TV
  MEXICO CITY, May 17 (IPS) - Horacio Ramos is not bothered about paying an extra 50 dollars on his television subscription so that he can watch the entire FIFA World Cup, which kicks off Jun. 11 in South Africa.

Scoop - NZ

• Dont be jealous, they are better than you
  Key has finally admitted his tax cuts are for the rich. But that's okay, he says, because the rich are so much more important than us. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Fisk: Dubai hunts Brit over Al-Mabhouh murder
  Within 48 hours of becoming Foreign Secretary, William Hague faces a political crisis over the Middle East. The emirate of Dubai has named a British citizen as a 19th suspect of the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas official murdered in the emirate four months ago, apparently by a group that ...
• BP accused of using Gulf as 'toxic testing-ground'
  State officials are angry that federal regulators gave the company permission to try out new chemical techniques to break up and hold back the growing tide of oil. Despite registering concerns about the potential implications for the environment, marine life and human health, Governor Bobby Jindal' ...
• What caused the explosion on Deepwater Horizon?
  As more details emerge about the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, which killed 11 workers and spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, it has become clear that the single-minded drive for profit and a total lack of regulation created the disaster. In the immediate ...
• Increased Burglary in New Zealand
  Increased burglary rate in New Zealand and Auckland are leading to a rush in purchasing security items such as drive way gates, perimeter fencing and electric fencing. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent ( London )

• Egyptians go online to seek political change
  Eman AbdelRahman is one of 200,000 people who have signed up on Facebook to back Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear boss who has said he wants to shatter 30 years of political stasis in Egypt by running for president.
• Briton feared dead after Afghan plane crash
  Three British nationals were feared dead today after a passenger plane crashed in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan.
• Australian opposition leader under fire over gaff
  An Australian political leader came under attack today for speaking what many would consider a self-evident truth - that not everything any politician says can be believed.
• Hopes fade for trapped Turkish miners
  An engineer said hopes were fading today for 30 trapped Turkish miners as rescuers struggled to reach them after a methane gas explosion hit a coal mine in northern Turkey.
• Long prison term for Chinese billionaire
  A home appliance dealer who once was China's richest businessman was sentenced to 14 years in prison after being convicted of insider trading and other offences.

Rogue Government.com

• â��Thereâ��s No Money Left,â�� ...
  Arriving for work at the U.K. Treasury last week, the incoming chief secretary, David Laws, found a note from his predecessor, Liam Byrne, offering advice on the job.  “Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left,” Laws cited it as saying.
• Sail-powered spacecraft to be launched by Japan
  Ikaros – which stands for Interplanetary Kite-Craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun – works on the same principle as a yacht, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
• Files reveal Britain's secret biological weapons ...
  British scientists experimented with ways of spreading foot-and-mouth disease, and lethal infections such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid in secret biological warfare trials during the second world war .
• Scientists: â��Inefficientâ�� sex wil ...
  Couples will stop having sex to conceive babies within a decade and use IVF instead, scientists said yesterday.
• BBC director hails journalism as PR at Royal Inst ...
  The BBC director general, Mark Thompson , today backed research suggesting that the corporation's journalism output is more important to the country's image overseas than the UK government.

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

• Why BP won't pay for full Gulf spill clean-up
  Oil giant BP has been making public statements about its corporate social responsibility for as many years as it's behaved irresponsibly. Saturday the White House warned BP that it expects the oil giant to pay all damages associated with the disastrous oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, even if th ...
• North Dakota: Man Accused in Stabbing Over Juke Bo ...
  A Bismarck man was charged with aggravated assault on Friday after allegedly stabbing a bar owner over the volume of his juke box. Sgt. Mark Buschena said the suspect, John Wetzel, 33, threw an ashtray and became belligerent when the bar owner wouldn't turn up the volume on the juke box. Buschena ...
• NASA, Google Data Show North Korea Logging In as " ...
  Using NASA satellite data and Google Earth, a Purdue University researcher has reported finding evidence that North Korea has been logging in what is designated as a protected United Nations forest preserve. Guofan Shao, professor of geo-eco-informatics, studies the Mount Paekdu Biosphere Reserve, ...
• Philippines: Japanese National Stabbed to Death in ...
  A 70-year-old Japanese national was found stabbed dead inside his rented house in Zamboanga City over the weekend, even as police invited his Filipina helper to shed light on the killing. Radio dzXL reported that the victim, initially identified as Tokio Miyake, 70, bore stab wounds in different pa ...
• Texas: Woman Shoots Ex-Husband After He Stabbed He ...
  A woman shot and killed her ex-husband after he stabbed her repeatedly in her home. The incident happened around 4:30pm Sunday in the 3400 block of Yupon. The man, 32, suffered a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the suspect is pending notification to family member ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Read "Far and Wide" lately?
  No? Here's a reason to read every new post.
• "Torture is torture"
  Says Brigadier-General Guy Laroche , former Task Force Commander, at the Military Police Complaints Commission. He also said some other things. Testifying before a public hearing by the Military Police Complaints Commission in Ottawa Tuesday, Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche said he felt Canada's Department ...
• Happy International Day Against Homophobia
  This has been known about for a few years now but here, courtesy of Rabble , is a reminder of the speech that Darrell Reid, former president of Focus On The Family Canada and now Harper's deputy chief of staff , gave in Singapore at a 2003 Focus On The Family seminar . Speaking as a historian, Darre ...
• High Velocity
  DEFENCETECH has a report, "Killer Drone Builder General Atomics Builds Killer Electromagnetic Rail Cannon" , by Greg Grant, that is worthy of your attention, with a, pardon the expression, killer video that shows what this piece of ordnance, built by General Atomics, who make the Predator, can do.  ...
• Armageddon tired of superstition dictating governm ...
  The Divine Ms. Z has a great piece in today's Toronto Star - an interview with Marci McDonald , author of the just-released The Armageddon Factor: the Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada , about which I blogged the other day . She points out the release of the book come on the very day that Cana ...

Media Matters for America

• WND's Klein hits Kagan for agreeing with Scalia o ...
  Aaron Klein falsely suggested Elena Kagan supports government "disappear[ing]" some speech, which he contrasted with her statement that government bans on flag-burning are unconstitutional. But Kagan has said that government "may not restrict" speech "because it disagrees with" it, and her pos ...
• Wash. Examiner falsely suggested Kag ...
  The Washington Examiner �falsely suggested that Elena Kagan wanted to "ban pamphlets" written by individuals. In fact, Kagan argued that government could prohibit� corporations and unions �-- not individuals -- from spending general funds on pamphlets to directly support or oppose political candida ...
• Beck pushes false claims about Sunstein, OIRA
  Glenn Beck falsely accused Cass Sunstein, head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, of "saying that every website needs to include links to an opposing view" and falsely asserted that Sunstein wants to "tax speech, stop speech" and "[d]iscredit speech, even speech that e ...
• Kelly baselessly claims that Kagan "hampered the ...
  Megyn Kelly falsely claimed that as dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan "bann[ed] the military from the campus" and baselessly asserted that Kagan "hampered the [military] recruiting effort" at Harvard. In fact, Harvard's data show that Kagan's actions did not hurt military recruitment, and ...
• UPDATED: Myths and falsehoods about Elena Kagan's ...
  Media Matters for America �has compiled an updated list of 29 myths and falsehoods about Solicitor General Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination. Myth: Kagan banned military recruiters from Harvard (UPDATED) Myth: Kagan is "anti-military" (UPDATED) Myth: Kagan is "radical" Myth: Kagan's thes ...

Global Research.ca

• How Will the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Affect Off S ...
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• Vison for the Future: The Age of Space-Solar Energ ...
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• Massacre in Thailand and Obama’s Foreign Policy St ...
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• 200 NATO Troops Die in Afghanistan This Year
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Global Military Doctrine: NATO "Must Be Ready to I ...
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TPM Cafe

• A Real Remedy for the Big Spill
  Long after the 1989 Exxon-Valdez spilled its oil into a pristine Alaskan inlet, neither the environmental recovery nor the ensuing litigation was yet complete. Indeed, in 2008 -- 19 years after the damage was done -- the Supreme Court overturned the punitive damage award of the courts below. This ca ...
• The Jewish Establishment Collapse by Peter Beinart ...
  The rightwing "pro-Israel" establishment is reeling today. Senior New America Foundation fellow and and former New Republic editor, Peter Beinart, has a blockbuster piece in The New York Review on how the AIPAC/AJC/ADL etc crowd has lost its hold on younger Jews. It is worth noting that Beinart, ...
• BP Stands for Bad Petroleum
  Saturday the White House warned BP that it expects the oil giant to pay all damages associated with the disastrous oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, even if the costs exceed the $75 million liability cap under federal law. BP responded Sunday saying its public statements are "absolutely consistent" ...
• The Jewish Establishment Collapse by Peter Beinart ...
  The rightwing "pro-Israel" establishment is reeling today. Senior New America Foundation fellow and and former New Republic editor, Peter Beinart, has a blockbuster piece in The New York Review on how the AIPAC/AJC/ADL etc crowd has lost its hold on younger Jews. It is worth noting that Beinart, s ...
• BP Stands for Bad Petroleum
  Saturday the White House warned BP that it expects the oil giant to pay all damages associated with the disastrous oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, even if the costs exceed the $75 million liability cap under federal law. BP responded Sunday saying its public statements are "absolutely consistent" ...

TruthOut

• Dispatches From the Road: A Travelogue of True Sto ...
  Two decades ago, an encounter with a now-famous global trailblazer helped point me on a path of international travel from which I've never looked back. The lessons I've learned on the road have informed my career choice, my activism, and even my willingness to be open to perfect strangers. Recently ...
• Connie Schultz | Why Didn't Coach Tell Me Only Les ...
  Several questions are burning my brain after last week's flare-up over The Wall Street Journal's decision to run a photo of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan In case you missed it -- and bless you for caring about real news --accusations and denials were flying like foul balls over the decision to r ...
• Ezra Klein | Elena Kagan Must Talk: With Great Sup ...
  Ever wonder why most of your credit card mail comes from South Dakota? The answer is a 1978 Supreme Court decision called Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp . At issue was one word in the 1863 National Bank Act that would decide how credit was regulated: did "loca ...
• Hitler, Human Will and Reality
  In “The Anatomy Of Human Destructiveness,” Erich Fromm writes that Hitler himself considered his greatest asset to be his unbending will. The reason I mention this is on May 10, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of Western Europe. After remilitarizing the Rhineland, absorbing Austria, annexing ...
• Dave Lindorff | Obama Has Learned Nothing From the ...
  President Obama claims to have learned a lesson from the disastrous blowout of British Petroleum drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico: a “cozy relationship” between the agency that regulates oil drilling, the Minerals Management Service, and the oil industry, he charges, allowed companies to drill in ...

Planetsave

• Schools of Fish Powering Wind Energy Innovation
  Schooling fish and their interaction with one another has inspired a Caltech professor to rethink how wind energy can be created. Head of Caltechâs Biological Propulsion Laboratory John Dabiri and two of his graduate students have turned to schools of fish to further our knowledge of how wind tur ...
• What Was Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on the Environ ...
  The worst hurricane to ever hit the United States is still being felt today. It’s been almost 5 years since the deadliest hurricane and most expensive natural disaster in US history made landfall, and scientists are still discovering its affects. Scientists studying the hurricanes impact have shown ...
• How We Wrecked the Ocean – Ecologist Jeremy ...
  Jeremy Jackson calls himself a tropical ecologist. He has spent decades studying marine habitats. He is one of the foremost experts on coral reefs in the world. And he knows his geologic history too. Recently, Mr. Jackson gave a slide show talk at the hugely popular, annual TED (Technolo ...
• Lake Tanganyika Experiencing Unprecedented Warming
  Lake Tanganyika, the world’s second oldest and second deepest lake, is in the midst of unprecedented warming. Geologists led by Brown University have determined that the massive freshwater lake has warmed significantly during the last century, leading to its warmest surface temperatures on record. ...
• Four Fishery Stocks Healthy Again
  Four fishery stocks have been rebuilt to healthy levels. The Atlantic scup, Atlantic black sea bass, and St. Matthew’s Island, Alaska, blue king crab and Atlantic swordfish, have all been rebuilt to healthy levels, and the report shows a continuing year-over-year improvement across the US. A lot of ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• A Torrent of Advice
  If you thought the Gulf spill was bad, just wait for the next Arctic disaster. Failure is inevitable
• Spokane River TMDL -- It is not fair, not perfect, ...
  After 12 long years of talking about it, the Clean Water Act might start having an impact on Spokane
• Water Quality Improvement Projects
  I know, that previous post was a bit of a tease.  All these plant purchases and no follow through on
• Mr. President- Appreciate Your Concern But?
  I do not question your sincerity in paying a lot of attention to the oil spill in the Gulf and conce
• WaterAlert -- Instant, Customized Updates on Water ...
  US Geological Survey subscribe at http://water.usgs.gov/wateralert [From press release] Whether you

Public Citizen in Texas

• Green Fund Campaign Goes 5-0
    Green Fund 5-0   Posted by Trevor Lovell From a ReEnergize Texas press release issued April 26th Earth Week in Texas brought a major victory for student environmentalists. Student bodies at 5 state universities voted in favor of campus “green funds.” The institutions are among some of the state’s ...
• Is the Sky Falling? Fossil Fuel Disaster Strikes S ...
  What is happening? Black blood continues to ooze, pump, and explode into the Gulf. B.P., the Coast Guard, and the U.S. military are powerless to stop its wave of utter, incomprehensible destruction. Bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill. 100,000 or 200,000 or 500,000 gallons a day for going-on three we ...
• Texans Don’t Want Texas to Become a Dumping Ground ...
  A new poll shows 70% of Texans oppose importing radioactive waste to Texas for storage in Andrews County. Yet a crucial vote on a new rule by non-elected members of a commission could make Texas into the radioactive waste dump for the nation, and perhaps the world. Originally only Texas and two othe ...
• Old Settler’s Music Festival
  If you love and appreciate one or more of the following items, I’ve got a great idea for how to spend your weekend: Bluegrass Americana Camping Barbeque the Texas Hill Country Public Citizen One out of six? Four, five, six? Excellent! Join us this weekend, April 15-18, at the Old Settler’s Music Fes ...
• Tar Sands May be Coming to Texas
  The U.S. Department of State will be hosting public hearings this week, May 17-20th in Beaumont, Liberty, Livingston, and Tyler on the proposed tar sands pipeline. Canadian oil and gas giant TransCanada needs U.S. Department of State approval in order to expand the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Royal Navy 'does not keep sea monster records'
  The Navy's policies on recording sea monster sightings have been released as part of the FOIA. The policy was revealed when a marine biologist asked i...
• Why did dinosaurs have such long necks ?
  Scientists believe some dinosaurs developed long necks to gulp down their food without having to chew it. It is thought that if the giant herbivores o...
• Relatives to exhume and freeze man's head
  An Iowa court has ordered the remains of an 81-year-old man to be exhumed so his head can be cut off and frozen. The man had signed a contract in whic...
• Yogi observed consuming nothing for 2 weeks
  The Indian man who claims to have ingested nothing for 70 years has been observed for two weeks by doctors. During his stint at an Indian hospital mil...
• Prehistoric bird species could not flap wings
  Scientists believe some of the earliest species of prehistoric birds wouldn't have been able to flap their wings. Early types of birds such as the Arc...

Grassroots

• “System Change, Not Climate Change”
  cocha-morales_edited-1.jpg Last month, I traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia for a number of reasons. The main one was to attend the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth . Many of Grassroots International’s pa ...
• 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 ...

Climate

• May 18, 2010
  New UN Climate Chief Says Rich Must Act for Global Deal (Reuters) The world can salvage a new deal to combat global warming but rich countries must first fulfill their pledges on climate aid, the UN's new climate chief, Costa Rica's Christiana Figueres, said.  Obama to Create Independ ...
• May 17, 2010
  UN to Pick Costa Rican as New Climate Chief: Sources (Reuters)  Veteran Costa Rican climate diplomat Christiana Figueres is set to be appointed as the new UN climate chief, sources said on Monday. Worry that Gulf Oil Spreading into Major Current (AP) Engineers finally figured out h ...
• 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 ...

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

• Only God Knows God's Will - Thus, Faux Prophets Hi ...
  Faux is in: the Tea Party fraud against socialism, filibuster farces by senators, staged Congressional hearings, and absurd renditions of the Civil War - banishing secession, open rebellion and slavery on southern breezes. Plus, there remain phantom insurgents behind fabricated wars; and we endure ...
• Will There Be A Criminal Case Against Goldman Sach ...
  Will Goldman survive the assault? Will the threat of criminal charges being pursued against the world's leading investment bank spill over onto others on Wall Street? Is the criminalization of the crisis underway, or is all this just a maneuver? For the last two years, I have felt lonely and isolate ...
• Obama's Flailing Wars: A Study in BP-Style "Pragma ...
  from TomDispatch On stage, it would be farce. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, it’s bound to play out as tragedy. Less than two months ago, Barack Obama flew into Afghanistan for six hours -- essentially to read the riot act to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom his ambassador had only months before ...
• Getting Smart About Stupid Communication
  Reducing political discourse to advertising slogans loses almost everything of value. Without lengthy books that develop complex ideas, we'd be so lost we'd never produce a worthwhile bumper sticker. The notion that facts don't matter because only emotional appeals to "values" sway anyone is an ab ...
• What’s Behind The Yellow Ribbon In Ohio? Ask Ohio’ ...
  Cross posted at Veterans Today The telephone rings just before dinner and you reluctantly interrupt what you're doing to answer. "This is so and so and I'd like to ask you for a moment of your time for our veterans," says the voice on the phone. If you are at all like me, and I expect that you may b ...

Ten Percent

• This Blog Has Moved
  As of Monday May 17th 2010 this blog (tenpercent.wordpress.com) has moved to tenpercent.org.uk This wordpress.com site will remain in place but new posts will appear at:-
• 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 ...

Booman Tribune

• We Will Learn Something
  Andrew Romano has very little imagination. He tells us that the results of today's elections won't teach us anything we don't already know. Well, obviously, we don't know who will win several of these elections. Will Sestak pull off an upset? Will the Dems hold John Murtha's seat? Will Blanche ...
• Dissension in the Club
  Next year the U.S. Senate will be different. Specifically, it will be about 15% different. That's because regardless of who wins, we'll have new senators from Utah, Kansas, North Dakota, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Delaware, and Florida. That's twelve ...
• Casual Observation
  Oh noes!! We can't put juveniles in prison for life (without parole) anymore unless they actually kill someone. And only five Justices were decent enough to agree to the ban. Let's see if you can guess which four Justices didn't have a problem with giving a kid life in prison for committing a cou ...
• AR-Sen: A Preview
  I hadn't thought about it, but I guess it is not all that surprising that Arkansas has had only one Republican senator since Reconstruction. Of course, they haven't had many Democratic senators who history will be kind to. For most of that time the Democrats dominated because they were unapologeti ...
• What Didn't Change with HCR
  This is a personal story. Don't read any further if you don't want to hear it. I do promise you it has a great ending, though, if you appreciate black comedy. As many of you know I have an autoimmune disorder that is quite rare (and shall remain unnamed for the present because that's not really ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 18 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1949 Rick Wakeman,...
• Monday Open Thread
  Run riot with it...
• EU Banks Played Against The Euro
  Jean Quatremer's blog yesterday examines the question of why some European countries' sovereign debt suffers...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 17 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1946 Udo Lindenberg,...
• Sunday Open Thread - Jukebox edition
  Sunday talk...

Futurismic

• Interesting stuff happens in the cracks: interstit ...
  The Lost Horizon Night Market sounds like the sort of thing I’d love to see roll into my town: like some mad mash-up of the travelling free-party sound-system crews of nineties Europe with a half-squatted house full of installation art students, it’s a peripatetic mobile art festival housed in renta ...
• Interesting stuff happens at the edges: cyberpunk’ ...
  Jonathan Dotse of Ghana has managed to make a modest splash in the sf blogowhatsit, and deservedly so – he’s stated with admirable clarity that the “lawless frontier” aspects of cyberpunk fiction which now seem tired or implausible to readers in the jaded Western world are becoming more pertinent th ...
• Personal Information: episode 13
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 13 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• Personal Information: episode 13
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 13 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
• 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: ...

Therapy News

• Study Recruiting Adolescents with Excessive Worry
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Concern over a typically high-stress school event such as a test is common among adolescents, but excessive worrying about many ultimately trivial aspects of everyday life, along with an intense search for reassurance, are often markers of Generalized Anxiety Disorder ...
• The Perfect Match: An Oncologist Who Gave the Gift ...
  Written by Kathleen Rohan, Provided by KnowCancer.com From our first appointment with my husband’s oncologist, hours after a CT scan showed large tumors throughout his abdomen, Nolan told me he was sure she was the doctor who was meant to treat him. I didn’t think much of it at the time. I thought h ...
• Can We Make Our Children Happy?
  By Jackie Pearson, LMFT, Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jackie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Recently, an elementary school principal discussed with me an important issue in parenting. The context was her concern with parents who ask their children each year who th ...
• Anger Tools: Part I
  By Stuart A. Kaplowitz, MFT, Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Stuart and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile I would like to take these next few little articles to focus on some of the wonderful tools and techniques that we as therapist use to help clients with their anger. Please ...
• Working Through Resentment
  By Carmen Sample, MSW, LSW, CAC I, Adoption / Foster Care Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Carmen and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The dreams we have for our families and for our children are full of deep expectations, some stated and many unspoken. This is true for famili ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Pressure builds against mountaintop removal coal m ...
  Pressure builds against mountaintop removal coal mining Natural News.com In mountaintop removal , miners use dynamite and earth movers to blow up entire mountain peaks in order to remove the coal beneath. ... Hearing: Vital Tuesday session Charleston Gazette EPA To Take Public Comments On Large Sur ...
• RAN Sees Progress On Campaign Against JPMorgan Cha ...
  RAN Sees Progress On Campaign Against JPMorgan Chase Over Coal Treehugger JPMorgan scored an F because it directly funds MTR projects and its environmental policy does not even mention mountaintop removal coal mining. ...
• 2 Mountaintop Mining Foes Arrested At Massey Site ...
  2 Mountaintop Mining Foes Arrested At Massey Site WJZ (AP) ― Two mountaintop removal mining activists have been arrested for blocking a road leading to a Massey Energy office in Julian. ...
• 2 mountaintop mining foes held on $100000 bail - T ...
  2 mountaintop mining foes held on $100000 bail The Associated Press Two mountaintop removal mining activists charged with blocking a road to a Massey Energy office are being held in the Southwestern Regional Jail on $100000 ... Court Sets Bail for Mountaintop Mining Protestors at $100000 The Washin ...
• Mining Permit Hearing Set For Tuesday - WOWK
  Mining Permit Hearing Set For Tuesday WOWK CHARLESTON -- The EPA wants to block the mountaintop removal mining permit at Arch Coal's Spruce Number One Mine in Logan County. ... EPA To Take Public Comments On Large Surface Mine Project West Virginia MetroNews On The Spruce Mine Permit West Virginia ...

Memeorandum

• Bombshell: Democratic Senate candidate lied about ...
  Allahpundit / Hot Air : Bombshell: Democratic Senate candidate lied about serving in Vietnam; Update: Blumenthal responds, sort of   —  Not just any Democratic Senate candidate, either.  It's Richard Blumenthal, current attorney general of Connecticut, whom Chris Dodd made way for by retiring earli ...
• Press Freedom, Sure. But No Questions. (Chip Reid/ ...
  Chip Reid / CBS News : Press Freedom, Sure.  But No Questions.   —  There was some rich irony at the White House today — President Obama signed the Press Freedom Act, and then promptly refused to take any questions.  —  The new law expands the State Department's annual human rights reports to inclu ...
• Supreme Court Upholds Commitment of Sex Offenders ...
  Adam Liptak / New York Times : Supreme Court Upholds Commitment of Sex Offenders   —  WASHINGTON — In a broad endorsement of federal power, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Congress has the authority under the Constitution to allow the continued civil commitment of sex offenders after they h ...
• Saudi woman beats up virtue cop (Benjamin Joffe-Wa ...
  Benjamin Joffe-Walt / Jerusalem Post : Saudi woman beats up virtue cop   —  Incident follows a wave of challenges to religious authorities.  —  Talkbacks (16)  —  Make JPOST.COM your Home Page  —  Iranian Threat  —  Jewish World  —  Local Israel  —  Arts & Culture  —  Français  —  Classifieds  —  ...
• Blumenthal's Words Differ From His History (Raymon ...
  Raymond Hernandez / New York Times : Blumenthal's Words Differ From His History   —  At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.  —  Multimedia  —  Enla ...

Energy & Environment News

• 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.
• BP Sees Hope for Solution in Capping Spill in the ...
  Officials said Wednesday that new plans involving work on a safety device called a blowout preventer could move them closer to halting the oil spill.
• California's Solar Scorecard
  Why have so few of the state's 7.7 million households gone solar?
• National Briefing | New England: Massachusetts: F. ...
  The Federal Aviation Administration said the farm’s developer, Cape Wind, had agreed to fix the air traffic control radar system at nearby Otis Air Force Base.
• Obama Attacks Finger-Pointing by Firms Involved in ...
  President Obama called the finger-pointing among the companies tied to the spill a “ridiculous spectacle,” and vowed to end the “cozy relationship” between regulators and companies.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, Kuril Islands
  Monday, May 17, 2010 22:03:45 UTC Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:03:45 AM at epicenter Depth : 54.00 km (33.55 mi)
• M 5.1, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  Monday, May 17, 2010 20:05:41 UTC Monday, May 17, 2010 07:05:41 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Flores Sea
  Monday, May 17, 2010 09:51:19 UTC Monday, May 17, 2010 05:51:19 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.40 km (22.00 mi)
• M 5.3, Tristan da Cunha region
  Sunday, May 16, 2010 19:06:38 UTC Sunday, May 16, 2010 06:06:38 PM at epicenter Depth : 13.00 km (8.08 mi)
• M 5.2, Greenland Sea
  Sunday, May 16, 2010 16:39:33 UTC Sunday, May 16, 2010 04:39:33 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.20 km (6.34 mi)

China Dialogue

• Chemical reactions on the Yangtze
  Plans to boost production of hazardous substances at the head of the Three Gorges reservoir threaten the sensitive surroundings, says Yang Chuanmin, winner of the “in-depth reporting” category in the China Environmental Press Awards. In the rolling hills alongside the Three Gorges reservoir , on a T ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Ex-Cop Goes Rogue on the Drug War, Tells Pot Smoke ...
  Police admired Barry Cooper when he lied to put drug dealers in prison. Then he flipped the game on them.
• Nouriel Roubini: How to Break Up the Banks, Stop M ...
  The prominent economist explains why the model of the financial supermarket is a disaster, and why it's so dangerous that Wall Street is back to business as usual.
• PG&E's Audacious Attempt to Enshrine Its Energ ...
  The rich and corporate are abusing CA's initiative process to enforce their profits through the state's constitution.
• Major Supreme Court Ruling: Kids Who Didn't Kill A ...
  The Supreme Court has given a second chance to juveniles serving life without parole for non-homicide crimes.
• Orrin Hatch Sucks Up to Tea Partiers After Bashing ...
  This post originally appeared on Washington Monthly. Matt Yglesias and Matt Corley flag this very amusing exchange between Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and far-right media personality Laura Ingraham. Hatch was asked whether he understands the rage from Tea Partiers who helped drive his colleague, Sen. ...

Threat Level

• Students, Parents Allowed to View Webcam Scandal P ...
  Suburban Philadelphia parents and their high school-age children soon will learn the extent of a potentially criminal webcam scandal. A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the Lower Merion School District to start sending notification letters to any student covertly spied on through their school-is ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• UPDATE 1-BP siphoning off 40 pct of Gulf of Mexico ...
  * Oil spill costs it $625 million so far, vs $450 mln May 13
• U.S. to probe spill as BP says more oil contained
  HOUSTON/COCODRIE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP said on Tuesday it was now able to siphon off about 40 percent of the oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico but has not been able to stop the leak, as President Barack Obama is to create a commission to probe the spill.
• Thai protesters agree to talks to end violence
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai anti-government protesters agreed on Tuesday to talks brokered by a Senate leader to end Thailand's deadliest political crisis in 18 years, but analysts doubted the negotiations would halt the spiraling violence.
• Euro dips on persistent debt fears, stocks shaky
  TOKYO (Reuters) - The euro dipped on Tuesday after bouncing from four-year lows, weighed down by persistent worries about the euro area's fiscal health that also kept investors in Asia on edge.
• Study suggests processed meat a real health risk
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eating bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats can raise the risk of heart disease and diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that identifies the real bad boys of the meat counter.

Equality Trust

• Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
  Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
• Splendid: government targets second homes
  As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.
• 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 ...

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

• Campylobacter and Salmonella Illnesses Linked to R ...
  According to a Utah Public Health Press Release, officials are investigating two separate clusters of illness linked to the consumption of raw milk. To date, the first cluster includes nine reported cases of Campylobacter infection among residents in Weber, Davis and Cache Counties. The second clust ...
• BPA and S. 510 - "The perfect is the enemy of the ...
  I personally do not think BPA should be in cans nor in containers.  But, I also think that its ban should not be in S. 510 - "The Food Safety Modernization Act."  If it is worth it, stand it alone.  But, in and of itself, it should not stand in the way of the first real move for comprehensive food s ...
• Is Twitter the New FDA? Should it be?
  Last night I posted “Romaine Lettuce E. coli O145 Outbreak - The FDA to us – ‘You can't handle the truth!’” In a not too subtle way I kept asking the question, why is the FDA not disclosing who “The Yuma Farm” is? I mean, seriously, Freshway disclosed that they received romaine lettuce from Andrew ...
• Romaine Lettuce E. coli O145 Outbreak - The FDA to ...
  What we know to date: There are 23 confirmed and 7 probable E. coli O145 cases related to eating romaine lettuce in Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee manufactured by Freshway Foods and grown by “the Yuma farm.” Investigators in New York obtained an E. coli O145 isolate from an unop ...
• Montclair Meat Co., Inc., Recalls Ground Beef Prod ...
  According to an FSIS announcement, Montclair Meat Co., Inc., a Montclair, Calif., establishment is recalling approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced tod ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 05.17.10
  Nissan Leaf profitable by year three; battery cost closer to $18,000 This isn't what we heard last time. AFVI 2010: CNG-powered Gasser hugs trees and hauls ass Oh, the things you can do with ...
• 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 ...

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!

• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, May 17th at 7pm Eastern Time.
• India's Most Famous Political Prisoner Dr. Binayak ...
  Just under a year ago Dr. Binayak Sen, Indiaâs 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 Indiaâs oldest ...
• 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. ...

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

• Hay BP! The answer to the oil spill is right here. ...
  Oil removal technique as demonstrated by Otis Goodson.
• 5 Creative Uses of Toilet Paper
  Half of the world will agree with me on this, that we get the most creative ideas while sitting on our potty seats. These creative art pieces made from toilet rolls are the reflection of such ideas. Some guy was once sitting toilet had an idea to make sure that the empty toilet paper roll doesn’t go ...
• Eco-Friendly Automotive Tech We Don’t Have To Wait ...
  There are countless new cars grabbing headlines for their advanced, fuel-saving technology. The only catch is that these cars are not here right now. Luckily, there are some technologies available to us all right now.
• 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.
• Should Oil Execs Be Treated Like Terrorists?
  Bayou fisherman certainly seem to think so.

Invisible Opportunity

• Considering your Desire for a Group Conscious Game ...
  By Les Visible There’s an old story about a Sorcerer and his apprentice. The sorcerer has been taking his pupil through different degrees of teaching and testing as well as demonstrating practical aspects of magic. So… the student was some ways along with his studies but like most students, had litt ...
• The Saturday Night – Out of Line Dancing at ...
  By Les Visible For a long time, a particular gang has run the show at Gilley’s. They call themselves, The NATO Cowboys. That’s an acronym for, Nasty Aggressive Terror Orcs. They’ve been in a long standing alliance with the Bankeraelis who are also not human and who exist on a diet of money and blood ...
• Ed Grimsley 2009 Delta – Secret Space Fleet ...
  Ever Heard of Ed Grimsley? He is a very interesting character that discovered alot of action up in his nightly skies. Using is INFRARED PV7 Military Spec Binoculars, he spotted UFO’s in the sky every single night. He would report that he can see them battling in the skies and even made an apperance ...
• Obama’s latest Monsanto pick, Elena Kagan
  By Rady Ananda 16 May, 2010 Countercurrents.org First, we spit out our coffee over President Obama’s appointments of former Monsanto goon Michael Taylor as Food Safety [ sic ] Czar and â biotech governor of the year ‘ Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture. Then we choked on our grits when he mad ...
• Who is bombing in Iraq?
  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 ...

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

• Ex-Cop Goes Rogue on the Drug War, Tells Pot Smoke ...
  Police admired Barry Cooper when he lied to put drug dealers in prison. Then he flipped the game on them.
• Sting, Soros, Montel and More: We Are the Drug Pol ...
  It's time now for DPA to launch a new organizational identity that fully expresses each of our roles as agents of change.
• 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.

Twilight Earth

• Photo Sunday – The Appalachian Trail
  The Appalachian Trail, or simply The A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the eastern United States extending between Georgia and Maine and is approximately 2,178 miles long. Related posts: Photo Sunday-The Appalachian Trails 100 Mile Wilderness Climbing Mt. Katahdin – Notes From My Appalachian T ...
• 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

Inhabitat

• Persian Gulf Harnessing Microbes to Transform Dese ...
  The United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait are in the midst of a massive project to re-landscape their deserts and transform them into fertile farmland, providing food security for their future. The countries are utilizing a mixture of microbes and soil — called mycorrhiza — that allows plants to ab ...
• First Certified Passive House Ever in the Western ...
  (photo credit: Amanda Nelson Photography) The first certified Passive House in Salt Lake City also happens to be the first certified Passive House in the Western US. The Breezeway House, designed by Brach Design Architecture and Illinois-based Passive House Institute was recently completed in Dece ...
• Lexon Rolls Out Eco Office Supplies Made from Bamb ...
  For all of you who get giddy over purchasing new office supplies, weâve found the perfect eco-friendly line thatâs about to top your desk – and your design loving hearts – off with joy! Powered by the sun or simply by a twist of the wrist, Lexonâs new line of handheld appliances is filled with ...
• DuPont’s New Ink Can Quickly Print Cheap OLED Disp ...
  Want an ultra energy-efficient OLED television? You’ll have to pay — LG’s 15-inch display, for example, will cost a scathing $2,725 when it is released later this year. But OLED displays may not always be so pricey. DuPont has developed a new manufacturing process that can reportedly print a 50-inch ...
• London’s Hybrid Double-Decker Bus Officially Unvei ...
  Transport for London has been working on a new, more efficient, double-decker bus for London to replace the classic Routemaster. Today, London Mayor Boris Johnson and Transport for London officially unveiled the new bus co-designed by The Wright Group and Thomas Heatherwick. The new design uses the ...

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

• Judge Issues Legal Opinion in Brooklyn fMRI Case
  The judge in a recent Brooklyn case in which brain scan evidence was offered has delivered an opinion on why he ultimately excluded the fMRI data. In Judge Robert H. Miller’s written opinion, obtained by Wired.com, he decided that under the Frye test, which is slightly different from the Daubert st ...
• Eyewitness Account of ‘Watershed’ Brain Scan Legal ...
  The very first federal admissibility hearing for fMRI lie-detection evidence wrapped up May 14 in a Tennessee court room. The decision, expected in a couple weeks, could have a significant influence on the direction that brain scan evidence takes in the courtroom. A special session was held to dete ...
• Ravens Console Each Other After Fights
  After ravens see a friend get a beat down, they approach the victim and appear to console it, according to new research. Orlaith Fraser and her co-author Thomas Bugnyar watched the aftermath of 152 fights over a two year period between 13 hand-reared young adult ravens housed at the Konrad Lorenz R ...
• 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Iran's Setbacks: Buying Time?
  According to Gary Samore, Iran's nuclear enrichment program has had some important recent setbacks. The AP, last week: Setbacks in Iran's uranium enrichment program have significantly delayed its progress toward building a nuclear weapon, President Barack Obama's top nuclear adviser said Tuesday. . ...
• On "Radical Islam" as a Root Cause of Terrorism
  This recent New York Times story on attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad’s path to violence doesn’t provide any kind of grand unified theory of radicalization, but it does present a familiar story of displacement and alienation that we’ve seen in the stories of many other terrorists, Muslim ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - The foreign ministers of Japan, South Korea and China held a trilateral meeting in South Korea on Saturday , where they agreed to continue working toward greater cooperation, including a permanent secretariat for regional cooperation that could be finalized at a trilateral heads of state summit la ...
• Outlook Bleak in Afghanistan
  An alarming article from Fred Kaplan summarizes a recent Pentagon report on Afghanistan that’s full of bad news: Things in that unhappy country are going badlyâmuch worse, of course, than Team Obama had to pretend this week but quite a bit worse than even a sensible skeptic might think . And unle ...
• Keeping Cairo’s Commitments: Reform Charitable Giv ...
  President Obama is trying to bridge the divide that persists between the United States and Muslim communities here and abroad. During his groundbreaking speech in Cairo last June, Obama made an important commitment to American Muslims: reform charitable giving: OBAMA: “Freedom of religion is centra ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: May 18 = Judgment Day.
  The primary season is upon us, so that means it's time for wild pronouncements about the "meaning" of it all. According to a Hoover scholar , this is a "tectonic moment in American politics," birthing an "insurrection" against Barack Obama 's "revolution." The NY Times Caucus blog asserts that " Ra ...
• Three Weird Things in Barack Obama's Financial Dis ...
  $1600 worth of belly rubs. The White House has disclosed the president's financial situation, which has not really changed since the campaign. Short story: He's made a ton of money off of his books. But there were three pretty funny disclosures in the document [PDF]: The Nobel Prize : The presi ...
• Haiti, International Adoption and the New Yorker.
  Before commenting on John Seabrook 's personal essay about adopting a child from Haiti, I just want to acknowledge that writing about adoption is difficult, and writing about one's own adoption is, I imagine, even more so. That said, Seabrook's overall message is pretty problematic. Seabrook's tale ...
• Torturous Punishment, But Not Torture.
  There's a brief John Yoo moment in Clarence Thomas ' dissent on the juvenile life without parole case that I can't help but highlight (his italics): It is by now well established that the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause was originally understood as prohibiting torturous “‘ method s of punishmen ...
• The Little Picture: The March to the Sea.
  A member of the Louisiana State Wildlife Response Team cleans oil off of a pelican Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana on May 15. The Clean Gulf Associates Mobile Wildlife Rehabilitation Station continues it work rescuing animals affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. (U.S. Navy and Deepwat ...

Andy Worthington

• Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulg ...
  On May 4, two prisoners were released from Guantánamo — one to Spain and one to Bulgaria. Spanish media revealed that the former prisoner offered a new life in Spain (following the arrival of Walid Hijazi, a Palestinian, in February) was a Yemeni, but no further information has yet been revealed re ...
• Five new UK screenings of “Outside the Law: Storie ...
  â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American conspiracy.â Joe Burnham, Time Out Now that we have a new government — involving an unprecedented coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats — the ongoing UK tour of ...
• 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 ...

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

• Arizona Debate Unleashes New ‘Reconquista’ Accusat ...
  As the debate intensifies over Arizona’s harsh new law aimed at undocumented immigrants, nativist groups are claiming that opponents of the measure support nothing less than the reconquest of the Southwest by Mexicans. Though the myth of “la reconquista” — a purported secret Mexican conspiracy to ta ...
• Soldiers Among Skinheads Charged in Brutal Beating ...
  Three soldiers are among a group of skinheads accused of severely beating a homeless man with baseball bats and pipes in Cincinnati. Police have charged two Iraq war veterans, Pvt. Riley Feller, 24, and Spc. Travis Condor, 25, with the felony assault of 52-year-old John Johnson at a homeless encampm ...
• The FAIR Files: Is Race Destiny? Group’s TV Show A ...
  In 1996, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) undertook an experiment, creating its own TV talk show about immigration called “Borderline.” The program ran for one year on NET, a satellite TV station put together by archconservative Paul Weyrich , an anti-gay bigot who has also been ...
• 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 ...

change: org.

• The Pit Bull Who Can't Live Without Viagra
  I'm sure there are many people out there who feel like they couldn't live without the little blue pill, but for Ingrid, a six-year-old pit bull in New York, it might actually be true. Ingrid spent most of her life tied to a fence before she was rescued by the Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoptio ...
• Laura Bush Supports a Woman's Right to Choose
  While the Democratic Party is biting its thumb at a woman's right to choose by backing anti-choice male politicians over pro-choice women, a well-known member of the Republican Party is speaking up for reproductive rights: Mrs. Laura Bush . Yes, the wife of our former president George W. Bush thinks ...
• OMG! There's Cocaine on Everything!
  A new forensic test devised by a British student can detect extremely tiny traces of cocaine — and will probably further corroborate what we already knew: cocaine is everywhere. But are ultra-sensitive lab tests helping us find evidence or making that evidence harder to decipher? Sonica Devi, a 22-y ...
• Worst Case War Scenarios from a Washington Insider
  What if the worst case scenarios that could happen actually do happen? How would we respond? Are we ready? The President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments , Andrew Krepinevich has seven such scenarios likely to raise hairs on even the thickest and most savvy skins. In thriller-li ...
• Don't Let Congress Put Off Providing Healthy Meals ...
  There's a proven correlation between eating healthy food and earning good grades. So why are Senate leaders considering delaying the Child Nutrition Act, an essential bill that will dramatically improve students' access to fresh, healthy food, for another one or two years? Take action today — ask yo ...

Common Dreams -News

• Campaigners Believe War on Climate Change Will Be ...
  by Mark Leftly, Jonathan Owen, Jane Merrick and Mark Jewsbury Fears that the UK's fight against climate change will be lost in the confusion of the Liberal-Conservative coalition were underlined yesterday when divisions between the two parties were exposed over nuclear power, renewable energy, airpo ...
• BP Accused of Using Gulf of Mexico as 'Toxic Testi ...
  by Jacqui Goddard State officials are angry that federal regulators gave the company permission to try out new chemical techniques to break up and hold back the growing tide of oil. Despite registering concerns about the potential implications for the environment, marine life and human health, Gover ...
• 'Nobody is Winning,' Admits McChrystal
  by Patrick Cockburn Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in London yesterday as US generals express doubts that the fight against the Taliban is having any success. The US and Nato commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, who was boasting of military progress only three months ago, con ...
• Obama Administration Presses BP for Formal Positio ...
  by Jake Tapper In a letter to Dr. Anthony Hayward, the group chief executive of BP, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar note the many public statements from BP officials dismissing the $75 million-per-incident statutory liabilit ...
• Oil Sands Riskier than Gulf Spill, Say Investor Gr ...
  by Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON - As the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico destroys habitat and livelihoods, the extraction of oil from Canadian oil sands deposits is having a similar impact on fragile ecosystems and communities deep in the North American interior. The dramatic impact of oil sands ...

Lifehacker

• uTorrent for Mac Upgrades to Beta, Gets Interface ...
  Mac only: uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client on Windows, has moved from alpha to beta for OS X, boasting a completely native Mac client with a brand new interface. Most Mac users are probably happy with Transmission, but the lightwei ...
• Ditch Forgotten Items to Purge Hidden Clutter [Clu ...
  We've all had the experience of cleaning out a desk drawer, closet, or other graveyard for wayward items, and finding something we'd totally forgotten we even owned. Make it a habit to purge those items when you find them. More�� ...
• A Savvy Traveler's Guide to Vacationing Abroad [Va ...
  So you've bought tickets with our awesome airfare guide , and you're ready to vacay. Here's how to hit the ground running in any country, whether you're trekking through the jungles of Southeast Asia or taking advantage of the declining euro ...
• Capture Full Page Screenshots Entire Web Pages as ...
  Snapping a screenshot of a web page is simple enough, but capturing the entire page if it extends beyond the borders of a single screen is a hassle. Capture Full Page screenshots entire pages, no manual editing required. More�� ...
• A Smart Spreadsheet Template for Car Shopping [Buy ...
  Buying a car can feel like having to make 2,000 decisions in the space of a week. Reader and commenter xdeliriumx suggests a methodical process, and a spreadsheet template, for finding your perfect car at a very nice price. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Obama and the Bunkum of “Negotiating from Strength ...
  By Gareth Porter In his press conference with President Karzai last week, President Obama suggested publicly for the first time that he will not negotiate with the Taliban until the U.S. military has demonstrated "effectiveness in breaking their momentum”. Obama seemed to be embracing the shibboleth ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Bridging the water divide: It's not only about tas ...
  For months now, my husband and I have been fighting about water. Water - Environment - Water Resources - Drinking water - Business
• Shelnutt eyes District 111 post
  Ask Timmy Shelnutt why he his running for the District 111 state House seat and hell tell you its for several reasons. On April 3, my oldest daughter got married, Shelnutt wrote in a campaign document.
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• The great Obama/Pelosi/Reid-Keynesian government s ...
  Historically weak: The U.S. economy may return to its pre-crisis peak next quarter after a recovery
• Can of Soup
  A physicist, a chemist and an economist are stranded on an island with nothing to eat. A can of soup
• defining austerity down
  market ticker does it right: http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/2326-Pump-Monkey-.vs.-Reali
• Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon Economies, Ctd.
  After completing my older post on the subject – in which I argued that Anglo-Saxon economies d
• Foreclosing on your college degree
  Ryan Avent does not share the skepticism of the value of a four year college degree that was express

Electronic Intifada

• USAID funding Israel's apartheid road construction
  The construction of sections of a controversial segregated road network in the West Bank planned by Israel for Palestinians -- leaving the main roads for exclusive use by settlers ...
• A force more powerful
  Later this month, ships from all over the world will converge in the Mediterranean and set sail for the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. This international coalition is called the ...
• 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

• US and foreign troops ambushed in Afghanistan
  A suicide bomber has caused many casualties after an attack on a NATO convoy in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul.
• Noted Pak TV journalist, Hamid Mir, Taliban, rubbi ...
  Noted Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has rubbished media reports that he had a telephonic conversation with a Taliban spokesperson during which he described former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khwaja as a Central Investigation Agency (CIA) collaborator.
• 20 die in Afghanistan suicide blast
  At least 20 deaths were reported Tuesday in a suicide bombing that was carried out in front of the US-founded Counterinsurgency Academy in Kabul, security officials said.
• Fresh Kandahar offensive may be delayed until fall
  A fresh offensive against a regrouping Taliban in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar could be delayed until the fall, American commanders and policy makers have revealed.
• Afghan peace cleric Rahman Gul shot dead in Kunar
  A prominent Afghan Muslim cleric was shot dead along with two of his family members in the country's restive Kunar province on Sunday.

Futurismic

• Interesting stuff happens in the cracks: interstit ...
  The Lost Horizon Night Market sounds like the sort of thing I’d love to see roll into my town: like some mad mash-up of the travelling free-party sound-system crews of nineties Europe with a half-squatted house full of installation art students, it’s a peripatetic mobile art festival housed in renta ...
• Interesting stuff happens at the edges: cyberpunk’ ...
  Jonathan Dotse of Ghana has managed to make a modest splash in the sf blogowhatsit, and deservedly so – he’s stated with admirable clarity that the “lawless frontier” aspects of cyberpunk fiction which now seem tired or implausible to readers in the jaded Western world are becoming more pertinent th ...
• Personal Information: episode 13
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 13 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• Personal Information: episode 13
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 13 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
• 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: ...

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

• Swiss Banker Turned Whistleblower Ended Up With a ...
  This Sunday's Washington Post featured an article that details Bradley Birkenfeld's actions as a whistleblower, and how those actions landed him in federal prison. The article discusses the contradictory messages sent to potential whistleblowers by the U.S. government: Birkenfeld's story turned in ...
• 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 ...

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

• MPAA And Its Priorities: Asks US Gov't To Stop Sol ...
  Apparently, it's difficult for US soldiers in places like Iraq to get access to Hollywood movies legitimately, so it should come as little surprise that they might pick up bootleg DVDs to keep up with what they're missing back at home. Rather than actually supplying content for the military, it app ...
• And Here Comes The Media Campaign About How Spain ...
  We figured that the pressure on the Spanish gov't to change copyright laws would be ratcheting up, so it should be no surprise to see a NY Times article suggesting that there's "growing pressure" on Spain to change its copyright law . As you may recall, Spain actually has quite reasonable copyright ...
• Is The Great Firewall Of China A Trade Barrier? A ...
  Neelie Kroes, currently VP of the European Commission (and previously EU Commissioner of competition), is apparently claiming that China's Great Firewall of internet censorship is really a trade issue , that should be reviewed by the WTO for trade violations. This isn't the first time this has been ...
• Intel Refiles Questionable Trademark Lawsuit Again ...
  Late last year, we wrote about the latest in an unfortunately long line of overreaching trademark lawsuits filed by Intel. Intel tends to act as if no one else can use the word Intel at all, leading it to get involved in legal disputes with companies in industries about as far away from Intel's bus ...
• Princeton Demands Website Remove Elena Kagan's The ...
  Obviously, there's been lots of talk about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in numerous areas. There have been various reports concerning Kagan's supposed views on copyright , but those seem pretty blown out of proportion from what I've seen and in talking to folks who know Kagan. She was a big s ...

VacTruth

• Men, Women May Respond Differently to Vaccines
  Alan Mozes Bloomberg Businessweek 05/17/2010 Gender can trigger different immune responses and different side effects to particular vaccines, a new analysis suggests. The finding, reported in the May issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, stems from a review of prior research concerning vaccines ...
• China fines Simcere Pharmaceutical unit $3.7 milli ...
  Canadianbusiness.com 05/17/2010 Simcere Pharmaceutical Group said Monday it is being fined 25.6 million yuan ($3.7 million) by Chinese authorities due to the production of substandard rabies vaccines. The company, based in China, said Changzhou Food and Drug Administration imposed the fine on its J ...
• Editor in China sacked for expose on authorities n ...
  One India 05/12/2010 In yet another case of Chinese authorities muzzling the media, an intrepid Chinese editor has been sacked after his paper ran a story exposing the careless handling of health vaccines that may have caused the deaths and serious illnesses of children in Shanxi Province. Bao Yueh ...
• Smallpox demise linked to spread of HIV infection
  BBC Health 05/17/2010 The worldwide eradication of smallpox may, inadvertently, have helped spread HIV infection, scientists believe. Experts say the vaccine used to wipe out smallpox offered some protection against the Aids virus and, now it is no longer used, HIV has flourished. The US investigat ...
• Polio eradication campaign uncovers 89,999 cases o ...
  Norma Erickson Examiner 05/15/2010 There were 1,606 cases of polio caused by wild poliovirus in 2009, according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued yesterday by the CDC. This number is down from the 1988 estimate of 350,000 polio cases. This reduction is indeed a remarkable acco ...

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

• Documentation: Cantwell-McCain on Glass-Steagall
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• Brutish Bastards Are At It Again! LaRouche Demands ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• Cantwell Expects Glass-Steagall Amendment To Becom ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• `Firewall' Video Refeatured on LPAC Website, To Fi ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche: Obama Out To Kill Glass-Steagall, While ...
  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

• Ask Pablo: Am I An Eco-Hypocrite For Using Roundup ...
  Image Source: Will Fuller Dear Pablo: Am I an eco-hypocrite for using Roundup to control weeds? Are there any good alternatives? My answer might surprise you, but the most commonly used herbicidal spray, Glyphosate (commonly known as Roundup), may actually not be that bad. After all the bad ...
• Super Sleek, Green Surrounded New Museum for Monte ...
  The Papalote Kids Museum in Monterrey, Mexico, is getting a new extension for green education, and the building that will hold it is, of course, environmentally conscious (and beautiful!). ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Environment by Heather Heron Salvages Army Textile ...
  Environment by Heather Heron. Credit: David Heron Environment by Heather Heron , a collaboration of California-based designer Heather Heron and Environment Furniture . The lifestyle collection is comprised of travel bags, organic throws, hand knotted beach blankets, and organic hand-dyed scarve ...
• New Double-Decker Buses and Rental Bicycles Coming ...
  Image from the Guardian One of Mayor Boris Johnson's election promises when he got elected two years ago was to re-introduce the much loved double decker bus. There was a competition and two designs were chosen. The virtual prototype for the winning bus has now been unveiled. The physical pr ...
• Deforestation Victory! Nestlé Will Stop Using Rain ...
  photo: Windell H. Oskay /Creative Commons Concerned about forest-destroying palm oil ? You can now rest a little easier. The world's largest food and drinks conglomerate, Nestlé has pledged to stop using palm oil linked to rainforest destruction. Monitoring the commitment, The Forest Trust will ...

Biosingularity

• You Are Your Bacteria
  Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
• Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
  In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
• Multiple personal genomes await
  Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
• Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
  Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
• Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
  Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• BP Oil Spill Resources
  Who is helping to contain the Gulf oil spill disaster?
• 'How the mighty have fallen!'
  Top UN scientist complains about YouTube video, claims defamation. Marc Morano argues that everything in the video about Mann's unscientific methods is true.
• Take back our environment for Earth Day!
  How did we let the big government crowd make our environment their ruse de guerre? This Earth Day we call on all people of good sense to retake our environment.
• Lord Monckton at Bonn climate talks
  Monckton: "Nobody here in Bonn seriously imagines that this or any treaty brokered by a UN, which is still reeling from blows to its credibility from the Climategate scandal and revelations of errors in its reports, will ever make any difference to the climate that could be measured even by the most ...
• CFACT carbon credits distributed at Bonn conferenc ...

Ria Novosti Online News

• Strategic aspects of the Reset Policy
  What can we say about the development of relations between Russia and the United States? At first sight, there are only positive processes. The Reset Policy, declared by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in February 2009, is officially regarded as successful.
• Russia allows charter flights from Georgia until N ...
  Airzena Georgian Airways said on Tuesday it had received permission from Russia to carry out direct charter flights between Moscow and Tbilisi until the beginning of November
• Power outage during space walk
  A partial power outage at the International Space Station briefly interrupted Monday's spacewalk, knocking out robotic camera views of the two astronauts as they worked to install a spare antenna. The outage happened two hours into the spacewalk by Atlantis crewmen Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen. ...
• Medvedev’s Ineffectual Foreign Policy Lacks Putin’ ...
  The meager results gained in Turkey do not bode well for Medvedev’s visit to Kyiv, which is intended to signify a breakthrough in the new “brotherly” pattern of bilateral relations.
• Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov's offi ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Kremlin eyes Superjet 100 aircraft for presidentia ...
  Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company's Superjet 100 airliner will be used for the country's presidential needs as soon as it is rolls of the factory, a Kremlin official said.
• Atlantis astronauts carry out first scheduled spac ...
  U.S. astronauts Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen have successfully carried out their first scheduled spacewalk on routine maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA said.
• 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.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. More Afghanistan horrors. There’s a second prison at Bagram, there are abuses going on, and detainees are being handled according to Appendi ...
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• Childhood Obesity is Everyone's Problem
  The United States is experiencing an epidemic of obesity. Two thirds of American adults are either overweight or obese -- and the epidemic also affects children. Today, one third of all children ages 2-19 are overweight or obese. Most of these children will become diabetic. Even now, the costs of ...
• Lack of Vitamin D Boosts Depression Risk
  People over the age of 65 have increased risk of depressive symptoms if they have low vitamin D levels. The link is stronger in women than men. The World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that by 2030 more people will be affected by depression than any other health problem. Currently, 120 millio ...
• Warning: Gadgets Like the iPad Can RUIN Your Sleep
  Consumer electronics such as laptops, smartphones and iPads are shining bright light into people’s eyes until just moments before they try to go to sleep. There is concern that these devices may actually fool your brain into believing it's still daytime. Exposure to bright gadgets can disturb sleep ...
• Peanut Allergy Cases Triple in Just One Decade
  Cases of peanut allergy in children more than tripled between 1997 and 2008, and more than 3 million Americans currently suffer from some form of nut allergy. Researchers surveyed 5,300 households in 2008 -- a total of more than 13,500 individuals -- and compared the numbers with those from the ...
• 11 Reasons to be Cheerful
  Lifehack suggests the following way to count your blessings: Life .  Give yourself one point for being alive. Health .  If you are healthy, add another point. Relationship. If you are in a stable relationship, add a point (if you can honestly say that you love them and they love you ...

Antemedius

• Finding Ways to Put Innovations into Practice
  Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet . Madagascar, like many other African nations, “is based on rice,” says Xavier Rakontonjanahary, the Rice Breeding Coordinator at the Centre National de la Recherche Apliquee au Developpement Rural/FOFIFA or the National Center for Ru ...
• AG Cuomo Brings Suit Against Bank That Recommended ...
  My Dad used to say that greed knows no boundaries. It was one of the reasons that he loved to sue big companies, to put the screws to them for the little guy who had been hurt by corporate greed. The other thing about greed is that it is rarely fully engaged by a single person, the amount of damage ...
• How We Wrecked The Oceans, with Jeremy Jackson
  Over the past few weeks since the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe has put the oceans and the environment at the center of our consciousness again, we've been hearing a lot about what the oil leak is doing to the Gulf of Mexico. Juan Cole put it rather eloquently earlier this month in I want My Co ...
• "Not The End of the Gulf": Gulf of Mexico Foundati ...
  The� Gulf of Mexico Foundation 's website says it�was "founded in 1990 by citizens concerned with the health and productivity of the Gulf of Mexico." Its site shows it has sponsored conservation and educational programs and partnered with the likes of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nati ...
• BP Hearing - What The Traditional Media Did Not Re ...
  The coverage of the Senate Energy and Work Place Committee hearing yesterday has been rather predictable; the three witnesses from the three companies that are involved in the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion were always going to point at each other when the question of who is at fault for t ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Taking the Meat We Eat Out of the Factory and Putt ...
  On Tuesday, Animal Welfare Approved and the Pew Environment Group presented a public panel discussion about raising pasture-based animals, and reclaiming these sustainable farming systems as the source of our meat and dairy.  The star-studded panel included Nicolette Hahn Niman, attorney and author ...
• Locally grown, Locally shared: A new model for giv ...
  Over a hundred Baltimore residents gathered on Saturday night for the 4th edition of an innovative fundraising event called STEW. STEW is a joint project of Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, where attendees pay $10/person for the opportunity to share a multi-cou ...
• Food Access Solutions: Panel Discussion in Anacos ...
  On Friday, April 12th, Food Access Solutions: Urban Agriculture, Local Food, & Community Development, a panel discussion between leaders in the food movement on a regional level and leaders on the local level took place in southeast Washington D.C. in Anacostia. My interest in Urban Agriculture com ...
• Meatless Monday: A Campaign Rooted in Public Healt ...
  The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health embraced the Meatless Monday campaign back in 2003, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has proudly served as the national campaign’s scientific advisor ever since. Today I welcome and laud The Johns Hopkins Hospital for launching its ...
• Response to Professor Mitloehner
  Dear Professor Mitloehner, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post.  What you wrote was informative, but your response also raised additional questions for me.  I will lay them out here and you are welcome to respond again. From your response: “I did not write the press releases ...

Norwegianity

• In the valley of the shadow of the sisters
  If it wasn’t so hot in my apartment (sun hits it just right in late spring) I wouldn’t have noticed. I almost put on some music then realized I had a great soundtrack playing right outside my window. Between a jet overhead, high speed train going by, traffic and occasional industrial sounds, I feel ...
• Overthrowing the shackles of Swedish oppression
  It’s Syttende Mai and all across the country Norwegian Americans greeted their day of liberation from the evil Swedes by blowing their noses repeatedly. There but for the grace of nasal irrigation went I. Syttende Mai is technically just four years shy of its bicentennial, but the “real” Syttende Ma ...
• The rest of the links
  Newspaper stuff: Rich on Rekers (brutally comprehensive) Times cynically does its best to convince their readers that Blanche Lincoln really wants derivatives reform, and isn’t just posturing for the gullible in an attempt to keep her phony baloney job Update on King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the jazz sax ...
• Postus accidentalis
  Incomprehensible twaddle from Katherine Kersten today as she meticulously takes some of the Republican-induced limitations of healthcare reform, looks at the real world repercussions, and blames the shortcomings on Obama. Her column is a literal embodiment of every Yiddish definition of chutzpah. Ho ...
• 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 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

• The DOs and DON’Ts of Washing Organic Fabrics
  How to best take care of your eco-wardrobe – we dissect the washing DOs and DON’Ts for the top three organic fabrics…
• Environmental News -18/05/10
  Environmental News   Oil lease threat for Margaret River Conservation groups have condemned a federal government decision to allow oil and gas exploration off the coast of one of Australia's best-known tourism and environmental regions. Margaret River in Western Australia's southwest is inter ...
• Environmental News -14/05/10
  Environmental News   Norway should limit Arctic soot to slow warming Norway should limit soot from emerging Arctic industries such as oil or shipping that risk accelerating a thaw of ice around the North Pole caused by global warming, a recent report said. The study also said climate change, ...
• Environmental News -13/05/10
  Environmental News   Australia left behind by US emission trading bill The unveiling of a long-awaited US Senate bill to establish an American emissions trading scheme shows Australia is being left behind in terms of action on climate change, say environmentalists. The bill would establish a ...
• Environmental News -08/05/10
  Environmental News   Hair sausages to the rescue As an orange slick of oil washed onto Louisiana's sandy barrier islands, prized as a historic wildlife refuge, crews worked to lower a containment vessel over a leak 1500 metres below the Gulf of Mexico surface and US officials extended a tempo ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Two U.S. senators in jeopardy on big day of voting
  ShareThis Two U.S. senators in jeopardy on big day of voting 18 May 2010 With voter anger running high, two veteran U.S. senators face potential career-ending challenges on Tuesday in primary contests that could measure the anti-Washington mood before November's midterm elections. Democrats Arlen Sp ...
• Secret Prison Discovered At Bagram Air Force Base
  ShareThis Secret Prison Discovered At Bagram Air Force Base 15 May 2010 A secret prison has recently been discovered at Bagram Air Force Base located in Afghanistan. The Red Cross has recently confirmed this information and released a statement saying a "Black Jail" is hidden within the air force ba ...
• West to continue working on sanctions
  ShareThis West to continue working on sanctions --Diplomats in Washington and New York unimpressed by Iranian fuel swap deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil, tell Ynet that Security Council discussions will go on . 18 May 2010 Western powers unimpressed by Iranian gesture: Although Iran has agreed to ...
• Afghan Car Bomb Kills 20 Civilians, Army Doctor Sa ...
  ShareThis Afghan Car Bomb Kills 20 Civilians, Army Doctor Says 18 May 2010 A suicide car bomber struck in the Afghan capital today, killing as many as 20 civilians in an attack that witnesses and police officials said targeted a U.S. military convoy. A military doctor, Nesar Ahmad, said in an interv ...
• Despite Pentagon Claims, U.S. Antimissile Intercep ...
  ShareThis Despite Pentagon Claims, U.S. Antimissile Intercepts Have�Low Success Rate 17 May 2010 ...A new analysis being published by two antimissile critics, at M.I.T. and Cornell, casts doubt on the reliability of the new weapon. President Obama’s announcement of his new antimissile plan in Septem ...

Daily Loaf

• Laser guitars, handbells, Les Mis and confetti by ...
  I love it when a show lives up to my expectations, especially when those expectations are high. It's even better when those expectations are not only met, but taken to that unexpected level where live entertainment, visual bedazzlement, audio quality, and ample dancing opportunities all collide to ...
• On the Radar: Jobsite’s tick, tick … BOOM!, by REN ...
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Everyone and their mother has seen the Broadway smash hit RENT, so seeing Jobsite’s production of the musical tick, tick … BOOM! this weekend should be a no-brainer for theater lovers. This autobiographical story ...
• Do It Today: a tribute to military heroes with Cli ...
  If (like me) you always tear up during Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, be sure to bring an entire box of tissues for tonight’s live broadcast of Sons of the Fallen: A Live Tribute to Our Military Heroes. Created by Extreme Makeover executive producer Conrad Ricketts, it follows a group of 25 young ...
• USF Marine Scientist: We don’t see in the near fut ...
  When asked about the controversial use of two dispersants BP has been using to break up the oil before it hits shore - which could damage marine life, Hogarth said using them was probably the best option for a horrific situation. "You do have a lot of oil being gushed out and so, what do you?" he ...
• #Musicmonday (formerly The Sounds of CL), Vol. V: ...
  Ever wonder what the Creative Loafing music team listens to on Mondays to get us through the day? Here's this week's selections.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Bereaved Families for Peace Shut Out of Israeli Hi ...
  by Jesse Bacon One of the most inspiring groups working to end the conflict is the Bereaved Families for Peace, which as their name implies is made up of Israelis and Palestinians who have lost their children to violence and who work together to end the conflict.  As a parent, their work hits me ex ...
• Chomsky Denied Entry
  Well, it seems  the fact that it was Noam Chomsky (who is on JVP’s advisory board)  who  got denied entry to the West Bank because of his politics, the story has broken through to the mainstream media (though not to the New York Times). Yet again, we have to say: “the only democracy in the Middle ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• First certified passive house in western US
  The Breezeway House outside Salt Lake City is so energy efficient that it provides about 75% of its energy via solar passive design, solar on the roof, exceptional insulation, and mechanical ventilation The architect David Brach says “We need to start relying on smart design and low-energy passive ...
• MIT unveils plane that uses 70 percent less fuel
  Their D-series plane, nicknamed the “double bubble”, is a possible replacement for the 737. They designed it for NASA, who wants much higher efficiency airplanes by 2035. Conventional airplanes utilize a single fuselage design, while the D-series uses two partial tubular shapes placed beside each ...
• Rules of Utah, Idaho, and the Wild West
  (From reader Jean. Promoted from the comments to On Moving to Cedar City. Here’s the first 7. Read them all.) 1. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap right, your head ainât crooked. 3. Letâs get this straight: itâs called a “gravel road.” I drive a pickup truck because ...
• The financial becomes political
  James Kunstler Everybody in the world is broke, except for maybe Lloyd Blankfein, and he may not end up broke so much as broken — by a political meat-grinder that is revving up to turn the world’s woes and swindles into a new kind of Long Emergency sausage, to be distributed among the roiling, angr ...
• L.A. to axe successful gang prevention program but ...
  Marc Cooper and LA Times columnist Tim Rutten ponder the myopic idiocy of Los Angles axing all funding for the highly successful gang prevention program Homeboy Industries but trumpeting how it will never close an animal shelter. Apparently the city values the lives of stray kittens above that of p ...

Coteret

• Maariv: Did Rahm Emanuel cancel his son’s Ko ...
  Analogies with the Richard Goldstone Bar Mitzvah fiasco would probably upset both men. Rahm’s Jerusalem furor Eli Bardenstein and Amihai Attali, Maariv May 17 2010 [page 7 with front-page teaser; Hebrew original here and bottom of post] It is not easy to hold a bar mitzvah ceremony for one’s son, ce ...
• Maariv: ‘Senior official denied Chomsky entr ...
  Other Coteret posts on the Chomsky affair: Sheizaf: Chomsky affair demonstrates that the West Bank, not just Gaza, is under siege | Yediot legal editor: Chomsky affair part of trend that âcould mark the end of Israel as a freedom-loving state of lawâ | —- For anyone who was wondering what “sy ...
• Yediot legal editor: Chomsky affair part of trend ...
  In the generally sensationalist tabloid Yediot, Israel’s most popular newspaper, the legal affairs editor, Judge (ret.) Boaz Okon, is a breath of fresh air. He is one of the few mainstream Israeli journalists who dare use the “A word” to describe segregation policies. —– Afraid of the other Comme ...
• Sheizaf: Chomsky affair demonstrates that the West ...
  Cross posted from Promised Land. Much has been written on Israelâs decision not to allow entry to left-wing linguist Noam Chomsky today, and I guess even more will be written. From the official Israeli response, it is not clear who made the decision in this case — a top government official or a l ...
• Ameer Makhoul’s defense team threatens to boycott ...
  Eleven days have passed since he was arrested by the General Security Services (GSS aka Shin Bet aka Shabak), but Amir Makhoul has still not been allowed to see a lawyer. With his remand hearing scheduled for tomorrow, both the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and the Palestinian-Israel ...

Deadline Live

• The Rachel Corrie ship and crew sail to Gaza
  The more people in the world who know the less likely any harm will come to them as Israel is going try and stop this ship at all costs. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | [...]
• A Local News Station Covers KopBusters
  A Local News Station Covers KopBusters Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Texas GOP refuses Debra Medina (WE Texans) a booth ...
  RPT Cutting Off Its Nose to Spite Its Face, Rejects We Texans (Wharton, Tx) Debra Medina reported today that the Republican Party of Texas seems intent on cutting its nose to spite its face. In the wake of the Texas Tribune’s report that the party is $556,000 in debt, Medina announced that she has ...
• Obama to sign law to aid worldwide press freedoms
  WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama plans to sign a law Monday intended to provide more protections for a free press around the world. The law, known as the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act, expands efforts to identify countries where press freedom is being violated. The law is named after Pearl, ...
• Ex-NYC top cop Bernard Kerik to start federal pris ...
  WHITE PLAINS (AP) â Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is due to report to federal prison today to begin his four-year term for tax fraud, lying to the White House and other felonies. The federal Bureau of Prisons said last week it would not identify Kerik’s prison until after ...

The Air Vent

• Krugman V Jones
  Oh come on, tAV has been far to boring lately.  Today I was fortunate enough to receive an email which pointed out an interesting, yet short article from Paul Krugman, who writes at the ever shrinking New York Times Pay-Blog. Paul Krugman – New York Times Blog May 16, 2010, 6:12 pm How Will They [. ...
• SST has dropped below zero anomaly.
  From Bob Tisdale’s blog. He also has some other posts showing the current SST pattern. ————— NINO3.4 SST Anomalies Are Now Negative I just took a quick look at NINO3.4 SST Anomalies, and for the week centered on Wednesday May 12th, theyâve dropped into negative numbers: -0.075 deg C. NINO3.4 SST A ...
• Big Oil at Stefani’s
  Well last night was interesting to say the least, Lucia, Steve, Anthony and I were planning a dinner together when Pajamas Media invited us to join them.   There were a lot of sharp people in the room, including PJ media and Heartland guys.  All were very serious about climate science and far more r ...
• 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 ...

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

• New Apple Patent Also Points to Tighter Facebook C ...
  Apple is looking to integrate social networking data from Facebook into its iPhone operating system software, as a wide range of clues have been pointing to over the last couple of months. Now we have another one. The site Patently Apple has found a patent that the company filed in late 2008, and pu ...
• Does Facebook Traffic Data Show Any Fallout from P ...
  Facebook is headed towards 500 million monthly active users, judging by where its long-term growth trends are taking it now. Yet recent privacy changes have sparked what appears to be a bigger outcry than ever before. Some users have very publicly said that they’re going to deactivate, delete or ...
• Facebook Increasingly Grouping News Feed Stories f ...
  In a minor news feed design change that appears intended to make stories more diverse and Facebook-focused, the company has begun grouping news feed stories from other apps and sites together. For example, instead of seeing five tweets from friend who import their messages via the Twitter app to you ...
• Reminder for Developers: New Permissions Migration ...
  Last month at F8, Facebook noted they were updating the way data-read permissions are granted to applications. Up until this point, when a user authorizes an application on Facebook, that application would automatically get access to all of the data that user had permission to read on Facebook.com. ...
• Daily Messages and Profile Mods Top This Week’s Li ...
  This week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook apps by monthly active users is led by Frases Diarias, provided that you except (and we always do) the in-house Facebook app Static FBML. Frases’ growth is quite impressive, since it’s a Spanish-language app. It’s also quite simple, being at its hear ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: People are Taking Back Homes From the Ba ...
  truthout: People are Taking Back Homes From the Banks!: http://digg.com/d31RLkl?t -- please #Digg #p2 #topprogs #truthout
• truthout: Ezra Klein | Elena Kagan Must Talk: With ...
  truthout: Ezra Klein | Elena Kagan Must Talk: With Great Supremacy Comes Great Responsibility: Ever wonder why ... http://bit.ly/cSlthZ #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Connie Schultz | Why Didn't Coach Tell M ...
  truthout: Connie Schultz | Why Didn't Coach Tell Me Only Lesbians Play Softball?: Several questions are burning... http://bit.ly/cmBcoN #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Dispatches From the Road: A Travelogue o ...
  truthout: Dispatches From the Road: A Travelogue of True Stories: Two decades ago, an encounter with a now-famo... http://bit.ly/cj0VCv #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Republicans and the Tea Party of No: htt ...
  truthout: Republicans and the Tea Party of No: http://digg.com/d31RLmO?t -- Please #digg #p2 #topprogs #truthout

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

• “Debunking the Myth of a Color-Blind France& ...
  Previous generations of African Americans sought greater freedom in France – and some thought they found it. But for Frances growing African and Muslim minority, “applying for a job with Arab-sounding name such as Mustafa, Mohammed, Nadia or Fatima remains a challenge.”         In the early 1930’s m ...
• Family Thoughts
  Preserving the Black man, woman & CHILD does not seem as simple as it sounds.
• 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 ...

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 BP Spill - Training Exercises Showed Gaps in G ...
  Over the last eight years, the U.S. government has conducted four major drills to prepare for a massive oil spill, the results of which foreshadowed many of the weaknesses in coordination, communication, expertise, and technology that have plagued the federal response to the BP disaster in the Gulf ...
• The Edge of Oil - OSHA Says 97% of Worst Industry ...
  Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Most of BP’s citations were classified as “egregious willful” by the Occupati ...
• The BP Spill - Congress Probes Federal Role in a D ...
  Congress turns its focus to the federal role in the ongoing Gulf oil leak this week after an initial round of hearings probed the culpability of oil companies tied to the ongoing spill. Three Senate committees will hold hearings on the Gulf spill on May 18, to be followed by the House Transportation ...
• The Edge of Oil Interruption - The World's Naval P ...
  At the end of April 2010, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Navy conducted three days of “Great Prophet V” exercises in the Persian Gulf.�Hundreds of fast boats were deployed in what appears to be a rehearsal for Iran’s first wave of attackers against ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz where 40 ...
• The Weapon's Edge - Aerial Drones Bring Stealthy D ...
  The United States has come under significant criticism for the harm to civilians caused by unmanned drones operating in Afghanistan and occasionally across the border into Pakistan. Steps are being taken to alleviate the collateral damage and public relations concerns, steps which will also enhance ...

High Country News

• For wilderness, look to a wasteland
  A map shows some of the largest sites managed by the departments of Defense and Energy in the West, and their ecological value.
• Accidental Wilderness
  Washington's Hanford Site and New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range both hold deadly nuclear contamination – along with unspoiled landscapes rich in wildlife.
• 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.

CounterCurrents

• Conspiracy Against Non-Violent Resistance Movement ...
  By Nachiketa Desai A macabre drama is unfolding in the poverty-stricken Indian state of Orissa where a democratically-elected government has begun to crush over a dozen peoples peaceful resistance movements against their forceful eviction from their forest, farm, water bodies and source oflivelihoo ...
• D Rajas Letter To Prime Minister Of India
  I am writing in the context of the brutal attack of the Orissa police on the peaceful protesters of the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa. More than 100 people, including many women, have been injured; those seriously injured are receiving no medical care; the police ...
• Can Civilised People Show Such Disrespec For The L ...
  By Felix Padel This state violence perpetrated by police and goondas contains the seeds of future atrocities, and acts as the surest recruiting ground for Maoist insurgency
• Orissa: Miners Paradise
  By Nachiketa Desai Mining Happiness is the catch-line of the recent multi-million-rupee multi-media advertisement campaign of the Vedanta Aluminum Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange listed mining giant Vedanta Resources PLC. Vedantas advertisement campaign claims the c ...
• Massacre In Thailand: Obamas Bloody Hands
  By Shamus Cooke When the White House is quiet as protestors are butchered in the streets of Bangkok Thailand, suspicions are raised. Silence often equals complicacy. One can only imagine what the U.S. response would be to a Venezuelan government slaughter: the U.S. media and Obama would loudly con ...

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

• Chris Dodd's Heir Apparent Richard Blumenthal LIED ...
  It seems that Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General and odds-on favorite to succeed Chris Dodd as the next Senator from Connecticut, is already experienced enough to hold the position, according to the NY Times , Blumenthal has been embellishing his biography (as in misleading and lying). ...
• Another Humiliation for the Obama Administration: ...
  By Barry Rubin Sigh! It’s just one humiliation after another for the Obama Administration. If the American mass media really added them all up the resulting list would be devastating. And now: Brazil. Just think: Obama invited Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the White ...
• Florida Comes Around, Rubio Leaps Ahead in 3-Way R ...
  There is new hope for the Sunshine State, now that the dust has settled from Charlie Crist's abandonment of the Republican party, because the GOP voters wanted to go a different way in the Primary, voters are now seeing Crist for what he is, a political opportunist who doesn't care about the voters, ...
• The Lid's Sixth Blogiversary And the DaVinci Code
  May 17th 2004, This Blog was opened for Readership. Then it was called "Yid With Lid" and I wrote mostly on Jewish Issues, today its called "The Lid" to reflect is broader editorial content. Back then I wrote using a Pseudonym, Sammy Benoit, now I use my real name. The Blog looked very di ...
• The U.S. Can--And Must--Learn From Israeli Counter ...
  Folks, after a few month break, I have returned to Pajamas Media. Today's article looks at how Israel handles Counter-terrorism differently than the United States, and why we must adopt one key tool in order to survive. Please Click HERE , and go read the article, and please leave a comment and ...

The Real Agenda

• Where’s Jimmy? Just Google His Bar Code
  Fox News Scientists currently tag animals to study their behavior and protect the endangered, but some futurists wonder whether all humans should be tagged too. Scientists tag animals to monitor their behavior and keep track of endangered species. Now some futurists are asking whether all of mankind ...
• Airport Scanners Pose a Radiation Risk
  popsci.com A group of scientists from the University of California-San Francisco is worried that a new generation of airport security scanners could present a cancer risk, NPR reports. But skeptics say people flying at 30,000 feet are already bombarded by cosmic rays, so a brief trip through an X-ra ...
• The Perfume Industry’s stinky reality
  GreenBiz Britney Spears lends her name to a perfume called Britney Spears Curious Eau de Parfum. But if you are curious about what goes into Britney’s eau, don’t ask Elizabeth Arden, the cosmetics giant that makes the fragrance. Sure, some ingredients are identified on the label. They include Alpha ...
• Cellphone use, brain Cancer link: “We can&#8 ...
  The largest study performed to determine the existence of a link between the use of cellphones and the risk of radiation-induced cancers has found out nothing new.  The head researcher of the study, Elisabeth Cardis, told AFP that although the study did not find an increased risk of getting cancer, ...
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Volcano gushes 3.4 million gall ...
  NaturalNews.com The situation is actually much worse than we’re being led to believe, there could be worldwide catastrophic consequences. If it’s true that millions upon millions of gallons of crude oil are flooding the Gulf with no end in sight, the massive oil slicks being created could make their ...

Wind Watch

• Lincolnshire wind farm rejected to help autistic b ...
  A North Lincolnshire wind farm plan has been rejected because of the “serious effect” it would have on eight-year-old autistic twin boys living nearby. Anita and Trevor Glathorne, whose Burton upon Stather home is already overlooked by one wind farm, said the rotating blades affected their sons. The ...
• Caribou threatened by wind farms, expert says
  The wind-farm industry is putting threatened woodland caribou herds at increased risk by seeking to put their projects on the same windswept alpine ridges that represent critical wintering habitat, a provincial caribou expert warns. Dale Seip, a wildlife ecologist with the Ministry of Forests and Ra ...
• Cape May Historic Preservation Commission urges Ci ...
  CAPE MAY – Modern windmills could detract from the historic character of this Victorian seaside resort that uses its history to attract tourists. Modern windmills also could save huge amounts of money on energy. Those are the two sides of a debate here as Cape May’s Historic Preservation Commission ...
• Wind farm noise report ‘indicates’ com ...
  The boss of a Manawatu wind farm says he is not accountable to the public concerning doubt the farm is complying with its resource consent. Despite hundreds of noise complaints about the Te Rere Hau wind farm near Palmerston North, New Zealand Windfarms chief executive Steve Cross said he wouldn’t ...
• Japanese conference against big wind
  The Japanese Conference against Big Wind was held on April 30 in Tokyo. Victims of low frequency noise from wind turbines and protesters against additional wind turbines gathered from all over Japan. More than 100 people came and 6 people gave speeches. 1. OKAWA, Tsuyoshi (Tahara-city, Aichi-prefec ...

Not My Tribe

• Oil in Gulf Stream, Industry Response: “Kill ...
  Spokesfreak for increased drilling, our favorite ex-Governor, not able to actually DEFEND her corporate sponsored “Drill, Baby, Drill” mantra (for now) in the face of BP announcing that the oil “might” be spreading into major ocean currents (like the Gulf Stream, which goes to among other places, En ...
• Americans upset by Single Ladies viral video don&# ...
  You thought ours was an oversexed culture obsessed with youth, but the recent furor over a viral video shows Americans don’t know their ass from their T & A.   Obviously everyone is aghast about too-young dancers gyrating to Beyonce’s SINGLE LADIES, but I think it says something hilarious about our ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• An enemy within
  By FaithRMichaels Residues of ceramic molds for thermite welding like these, left by railway workers, can be found along tracks. I repeat: Two buckets of thermite residues left by railway workers after welding tracks. Oh look red and gray chips. Maybe it's not the same type of thermite as the red ...
• "Hansen: Official 9/11 story is hooey, critic main ...
  In an editorial yesterday, Marc Hansen , a columnist for the Des Moines Register, wrote the following : "David Ray Griffin comes to Drake University on April 23 to tell us why the official explanation for the 9/11 attack on the United States doesn't hold water. A theologian, philosopher of religio ...
• LOWKEY - OBAMA NATION (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - BANNED FR ...
  GlobalFaction YouTube.com March 24, 2010 Follow Lowkey on http://www.blogger.com/www.twitter.com/lowkeyuk http://www.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/lowkeyuk The new single Obama Nation (produced by Red Skull) taken from Lowkey's forthcoming album Soundtrack To The Struggle... Lowkey - Obama Nation ...
• Put up or Shut up: A Year in Review
  So it's been a little bit over a year since physicist Steven Jones told us "what we need to know about peer-review" while also essentially telling 9/11 " debunkers " to put up or shut up . Let's see if they have stopped just being loud and have gotten loud and clear ... In October 2008, long time 9 ...
• STRATEGY FOR TOASTING PUBLIC BROADCASTERS ON 911 H ...
  BACKGROUND INFO: I saw this story by John Bursill about an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio program dealing with 911. It was a short 7 minute 911 hit piece: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2010/2870592.htm Bursill and other 911 activists left comments as did I. I also ...

Fooducate

• Dr Pepper vs. Coke [Inside the Label]
  With a particular flavor you either love or you hate, Dr Pepper has been around for as long as Coca Cola. Actually, one year longer – since 1885. Although it never reached the heights of Coke’s success, Dr Pepper is a very popular soft drink, mostly in the US. At 7 teaspoons of sugar per cup, [...]
• 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’ ...

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

• Virtual reality used to transfer men's minds into ...
  Researchers projected men's sense of self into a virtual reality woman, changing the way they behaved and thought
• Virtual reality used to transfer men's minds into ...
  Researchers projected men's sense of self into a virtual reality woman, changing the way they behaved and thought
• Sony's energy saving TVs watch you while you sleep
  New facial recognition and motion sensor technology to roll out across more models, saving energy in the process
• Ray Guns Near Crossroads to the Battlefield
  The Pentagon ramps up efforts to field directed-energy beam weapons for land, air and sea
• Gates Foundation Suggests Sterilizing Males with U ...
  Bill Gates wants to zap your balls!

The Intelligence Daily

• The Extreme Frustration Of Unemployed Americans
  By Michael Snyder When Barack Obama visited Buffalo recently, he was greeted by a billboard...
• Economic Power: Avoid Arizona and Boycott BP
  By Joel Hirschhorn Money is power.  Each of us has it to varying degrees.  Our challenge is to use...
• Too Big to Exist (TBE) – Big Oil
  By Michael Collins There is no viable solution insight for the out of control oil gusher in the...
• Imprisoning Children for Life
  By Stephen Lendman The University of San Francisco School of Law Center for Law and Global Justice...
• Mexico: Narcos declare open season on politicians
  (WW4 Report) — A former presidential candidate in Mexico and prominent member of President...

My AntiWar

• Nuking Washington’s Iran sanctions
  Summary: Meanwhile, it’s hard to see how the US and its European allies could pass any new resolution in light of this week’s developments. Brazil and Turkey are working in a new international climate where the West can no longer dictate sanctions. And they know it. With the US heavy military depl ...
• The revenge of the middle powers
  Summary: Brazil and Turkey’s announcement of a nuclear fuel deal with Iran has done more than complicate U.S. plans for a U.N. sanctions resolution. It also threatens, or promises, to upend the political order that has held sway in the Security Council for decades—one in which the five permanent m ...
• Iran: Nuclear deal leaves no pretext for West to p ...
  Summary: Iran's atomic energy chief says the nuclear fuel swap deal with Turkey and Brazil leaves no excuse for world powers to impose pressure on Tehran. source: Press TVread more
• Bloomberg Says Ny Shortchanged on Terror Funding
• Israeli Military Concerned Settler Violence Could ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Nuking Washington's Iran sanctions
  Summary: Meanwhile, it's hard to see how the US and its European allies could pass any new resolution in light of this week's developments. Brazil and Turkey are working in a new international climate where the West can no longer dictate sanctions. And they know it. With the US heavy military d ...
• The revenge of the middle powers
  Summary: Brazil and Turkey's announcement of a nuclear fuel deal with Iran has done more than complicate U.S. plans for a U.N. sanctions resolution. It also threatens, or promises, to upend the political order that has held sway in the Security Council for decades -- one in which the five perma ...
• Iran: Nuclear deal leaves no pretext for West to p ...
  Summary: Iran's atomic energy chief says the nuclear fuel swap deal with Turkey and Brazil leaves no excuse for world powers to impose pressure on Tehran. source: Press TV read more
• Tehran promises exit from labyrinth
  Summary: Iran’s offer to deposit enriched uranium in Turkey, brokered by that country and Brazil, may just prove to be a way out of the labyrinth of dead ends that is the nuclear negotiating game with Tehran. source: FT Editorial Comment read more
• Russia welcomes Iran nuclear swap deal
  Summary: Medvedev Medvedev, who is on a two-day visit to Ukraine, also said the international community needs "a short break" after Monday's signing of a declaration in Tehran on the terms for enriching uranium in Iran. source: China Daily read more

The Daily Galaxy

• The Dalai Lama & the Science of Happiness
  After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in exile in India in 1992 to ask him if he would devote his research to discover...
• The Neanderthal in Your DNA
  A remarkable finding could answer the question whether our human ancestors and the Neanderthals interbred some time after both species left Africa many thousands of years ago. Only 10 years after scientists triumphantly decoded the human genome, an international research...
• A Robot Hitler? Scientists Show Robots Evolving to ...
  A group of Swiss scientists have been using scattered LEDs, neural circuity, and an army of miniature robots to explore the very basis of good and evil. No, you aren't reading the back cover of a DVD in the "one...
• Image of the Day: The Tragic Reality of the Gulf S ...
  Gulf of Mexico's once blue surface off the coast of Louisiana now shown covered with thick black oil splashes up in brown-stained whitecaps. Credit: Boston.com...AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
• You Couldn't Make This Up: Robot Conducts Wedding ...
  "Please lift the bride's veil," said .I-Fairy, a four-foot tall seated robot with flashing eyes and plastic pigtails, wearing a wreath of flowers, in a tinny voice, waving its arms in the air as the newlyweds kissed in front of...

Natural News

• Diet soda now promoted as medicine to stop kidney ...
  (NaturalNews) The "most retarded science journal of the year" award goes to the Journal of Urology which has published an article suggesting that diet soda is actually an effective type of medicine for preventing kidney stones (April 19, 2010 issue). The research was led by Dr Brian H. Eisner, a uro ...
• New research: olive oil can prevent ulcerative col ...
  (NaturalNews) Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that brings untold pain and misery to about 120,000 people of all ages in the UK and over a million in the US. It produces inflammation and sores in the lining of the rectum and colon that bleed, produce pus and cause fre ...
• Prostate cancer screenings have huge rate of false ...
  (NaturalNews) One in eight men screened for prostate cancer will be falsely diagnosed with the disease, according to a study reported in the British Journal of Cancer .Routing screening for levels of the prostate specific antigen (PSA), a marker of prostate inflammation and a presumed prostate cance ...
• Massive underwater oil cloud may destroy life in G ...
  (NaturalNews) Over a week ago, I published an article here on NaturalNews questioning the media spin on the massive oil spill in the Gulf. That story, entitled Is Gulf oil rig disaster far worse than we're being told? (http://www.naturalnews.com/028749_Gulf_of_Mexico_oil_spill.html), stated the foll ...
• Think eating "organic" meat is okay? Think again
  (NaturalNews) An undercover investigation into an organic slaughterhouse has challenged the assumption that ethically certified meat is any better than the regular kind. The British animal welfare organization Animal Aid secretly planted cameras inside a slaughterhouse operated by Tom Lang, whose fa ...

Threat Level

• Students, Parents Allowed to View Webcam Scandal P ...
  Suburban Philadelphia parents and their high school-age children soon will learn the extent of a potentially criminal webcam scandal. A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the Lower Merion School District to start sending notification letters to any student covertly spied on through their school-is ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Palin Brings Confused Immigration Stance to Arizon ...
  As she left office 10 months ago to earn $12 million , half-term Governor Sarah Palin declared, "It's all for Alaska." Now, joining Arizona Governor Jan Brewer in Phoenix t defend that state's draconian immigration law, Palin announced, " We're all Arizonans now ." But while the latest roar from t ...
• 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 ...

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

• Nakba Day is a reminder that Mitchell can't ignor ...
  On this Nakba day, as Special Envoy George Mitchell prepares to shuttle back and forth between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, it is critical to keep in mind that until the human rig ...
• The MV Rachel Corrie sets sail, the first ship i ...
• Israel warns against Gaza flotilla (Al Jazeera)
  A senior Israeli official has warned activists planning to break a naval blockade of Gaza later this month that their flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats will be stopped. An inter ...
• Chomsky: Latest Jewish thinker savaged by Israel ...
  When internationally renowned linguist, philosopher and political analyst Noam Chomsky was barred from entering the West Bank, he joined a chorus of Jewish intellectuals savaged by the Is ...
• Israel's apartheid road (Rachel Shabi, The Guardi ...
  And so, once again, the Israeli military - the real authority in the West Bank - has shown that, unless absolutely compelled to do so, it cannot be trusted to do the right thing in the oc ...

Water - AlterNet

• Brace Yourself: This Is the Tip of the Iceberg for ...
  The blame-game theory is still a red herring distracting us from the environmental disaster's prime suspect: All of us.
• 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.

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

• Andrew Gavin Marshall: Economic crisis spreads unr ...
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• Peace Heroes: Albert Einstein by Cindy Sheehan
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• Britain’s New Regime: The Oligarchy’s Coup Moves I ...
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Axis of Logic

• Mankh reads "Free Haiku" at Inside/Out - Poetry of ...
  Editor's Note: Here's something a little different for Axis readers, especially those who are poets or have an interest in poetry. Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), a poet and essayist is a long time friend and regular contributor to Axis of Logic. In the video below, he reads "Free Haiku"...
• Turkey, Iran, Brazil sign deal on nuclear fuel swa ...
  Iran inked a nuclear fuel swap deal Monday which commits it to ship 1,200 kilograms of low enriched uranium to Turkey, potentially ending a standoff with world powers gearing for new sanctions against the Islamic republic. Under the agreement, Iran will deposit 1,200 kilograms (2,640 pounds) ...
• U.S.: Vermont Farmer Draws a Line at US Bid to Bol ...
  FRANKLIN, Vt. - The red brick house sits unassumingly on a sleepy back road where the lush farmlands of northern Vermont roll quietly into Canada. This is the Morses Line border crossing, a point of entry into the United States where more than three cars an hour constitute heavy traffic....
• ‘There is a Narrative that’s Missing’ Laura Flande ...
  Television and radio host Laura Flanders ripped into what she called "the all-about the-money media" and encouraged 150 radio enthusiasts to work harder at storytelling in a keynote address to the Grassroots Radio Conference May 14. Calling the Obama administration "a veneer of new backed up by ...
• Greenpeace Claims Sweet Victory Over Nestle - Worl ...
  Environment group Greenpeace has claimed social media led to its success in a campaign that linked global food giant Nestle's chocolate bar KitKat to deforestation in Indonesian rainforests and the destruction of orangutan habitats. Today in Malaysia, Nestle announced a partnership with not ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  But who backs down first? "Thailand must step back from the brink and begin talks to end clashes between protesters and troops, the UN says. UN rights chief Navi Pillay said Bangkok was in danger of spiralling out of control, after five days of violence which has seen 37 people killed. She spoke a d ...
• Primary Predictions
  Polls open in Kentucky at 6 a.m. �Weather prediction is for rain on and off throughout the day. For what it's worth, here are my predictions for Republican and Democratic primaries for Jim Bunning's U.S. Senate seat: Ayn Rand Paul crushing Trey Grayson isn't a prediction; it's a cliche. �But I'll ve ...
• Friends don't let friends drunk dial right wingnut ...
  D.C. Douglas public service announcement on the consequences of drunk dialing the friends of the Mighty Wurlitzer : We are not worthy.
• Fasting for a DREAM
  Their parents work the worst jobs in the country, their classmates go home to nice suburban houses and on to college and comfortable careers. But the undocumented children in Kentucky and the nation deserve better than to be discarded, and in Lexington they have support. From the Herald: Embracing t ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Translation: We've already dumped five or six times the Exxon Vladez leak, so who cares? "The oil company BP says it has successfully started to siphon oil from its leaking Gulf of Mexico well to a tanker on the surface. BP executive Kent Wells would not say how much oil was being siphoned but said ...

Care 2

• Failure to Yield; Evaluating the Performance of Ge ...
  For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields.That promise has Proven to be Empty. Failed to significantly increase U.S. crop yields. Says UCS Submitted by Tippers A. to Environment �|� �Not ...
• 56 Google Search Tricks for Students
  Here are 56 Google search tricks for all types of students, whether you're in high school, pursuing an online degree, or are just trying to brush up on your own research skills. Submitted by Katie Miller to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Diet of mud and despair in Indian village
  We live on a day-to-day basis," Suraj says, as the faint sound of hammering echoes across the village. "What we earn is what we spend on our families in a day." Submitted by Lone Wolf to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The GM war in Europe Starts Here !
  Brussels bureaucrats want to spread GM crops throughout Europe, against the will of most of its people. Likely to prove a very hot political potato indeed, European Commission to give Green Light to GMO Potato across the Continent. First time in 13 yrs. Submitted by Tippers A. to World �|� �Note-it ...
• Support International Guidelines for Humane Animal ...
  The nations of the world must unite and create international guidelines for the treatment of animals Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• This Stinks: What Perfume Makers Won’t Tell You
  A new report reveals a slew of popular perfumes on the market include secret ingredients not disclosed on the label. Is it a reason for alarm?
• This Stinks: What Perfume Makers Won’t Tell You
  A new report reveals a slew of popular perfumes on the market include secret ingredients not disclosed on the label. Is it a reason for alarm?
• 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 ...

Reuters Global

• Who do you call to speak to Europe?
  Who do you call when you want to speak to Europe? The question, long attributed to Henry Kissinger, has yet to be answered convincingly by the 27-country bloc. Other countries would like to know.
• In line of fire at Bangkok protests
  Covering Bangkok's spiralling violence has become increasingly problematic for journalists, as front lines quickly shift and fighting descends into chaotic urban warfare.
• 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.

Paul Krugman

• Et Tu, Wolfgang?
  If the euro isn't workable without highly flexible nominal wages, well, it isn't workable.
• An Upward Trend
  Lately, the Democrats have started exceeding expectations.
• How Will They Spin This?
  I'm sure that the climate deniers will find a way to ignore the latest facts. But I'm not sure what that way will be.
• Will 2010 be 1948?
  What if the GOP doesn't win the House?
• MisIMFormation?
  Hiding the real story in the fine print.

No Quarter

• Arizona Is Not Chinese for Human Rights
  This is beyond the pale. Michael Posner, an Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, offers up Arizona as an example of Human Rights abuses to the fucking Chinese. Are you kidding me? What planet is this moron from? Anyone who has ever traveled to a foreign country kno ...
• One Immigrant’s Story
  (Bumped up from Sunday.) In light of recent events in Arizona to strengthen Federal law regarding illegal immigration and the subsequent brouhaha over that law, I asked a friend about her own immigration story. She immigrated from the Pacific Islands some years ago. I wondered what the process was ...
• In 1/2 Hour, Tune In to NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of ...
  Do we all have the right to a painless death? At 9:00 p.m., tune in to No Quarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie Abeles for her interview of author Dr. Lewis Mitchell Cohen about his new book, No Good Deed: A Story Of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate Over How We Die No Good Deed ...
• A Tale Of Resurrection
  In the midst of so much political wrangling right now, the tremendous devastation in Tennessee and the far-reaching effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (thank heavens they have finally found something that is working), something seems to happens to remind us of the magic, the beauty, the ...
• The Plutocrat’s Decree of the Day … a True Jaw Dro ...
  Obama doesn’t take questions at Freedom of Press Act signing Washington (CNN) – After the signing of the Freedom of Press Act on Monday, President Obama declined to take any questions from the press. During a pooled press event in the Oval Office, President Obama was asked if he would take a couple ...

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Allergic to Dissent: Khartoum and Washington
  To effectively advocate for the people of Sudan, we must first understand that Bashir's open disdain for democracy in the region is amply matched by Washington's.
• Reader Challenge: Is the Middle-East Peace Process ...
  Is the quest for Israel-Palestine peace not only impossible but obsolete?
• Allied to Race? The U.S.-Korea Alliance and Arms R ...
  South Korea has continuously increased its military spending since 2000 at a rate higher than conventional explanations would expect. Its spending grew 200 percent for the past ten years, higher than would be warranted by the growth of its economy or government budget over the same period.
• Fortress Guam: Resistance to US Military Mega-Buil ...
  The Department of Defense plans to relocate 8,600 Marines from Okinawa (Japan) to Guam, provide additional live-fire training sites, expand Andersen Air Force Base, create berthing for a nuclear aircraft carrier, and erect a missile defense system on the island.
• Bolivia Climate Conference: Indigenous Peoples Des ...
  Indigenous peoples from around the world, including Maori from New Zealand and Gwich'in from the far north in Alaska, came to the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth to share their wisdom and set new ground rules to ensure the protection of Mother Earth and the ...

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

• Thai crisis continues as talks fail
  UN urges both sides to "step back from the brink" as tension persists in Bangkok.
• Deadly suicide blast hits Kabul
  Car bomb attack targeting a Nato convoy in the Afghan capital kills at least 17 civilians.
• US commission to probe oil spill
  Panel to investigate BP disaster and review industry practices and government oversight.
• Blast hits Pakistani city
  Police targeted in suicide attack in country's northwest, killing at least 12 people.
• China positive on Iran deal
  Victor Gao tells Al Jazeera that China welcomes the Iran deal.

Green Inc. - NYT

• The Oil and the Loop Current
  Satellite images indicate that oil could reach the Gulf Current, flowing north along the Atlantic coast.
• Q. and A.: Tending to His Bayou Constituents
  Representative Charlie Melancon, Democrat of Louisiana, says it's probably dawning on his constituents that the spill is "worse than any of the stuff that they thought was so horrible before."
• A Eureka for Hardy Biologists
  Biologists discovered at least nine new species on an expedition to the island of New Guinea in Indonesia.
• Costa Rican Named to U.N. Climate Post
  Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica has been appointed to succeed Yvo de Boer as the head of the United Nations climate secretariat.
• Spotlight on Climate Science Panel
  After months of controversy, a review of the workings of the United Nations' main scientific body on climate change has just gotten under way in Amsterdam.

Dot Earth News

• World Warm, Chicago Cooling
  The planet is warming, but not in Chicago.
• Is Japan Seeing Internal Shift on Whaling?
  There are signs that Japan's appetite for whale hunts may be fading a bit.
• Dot Shot: Ferns in Spring
  The ferns are bursting forth in the Hudson Valley. What's on display outdoors where you live?
• '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.

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

• Too Big to Exist (TBE) – Big Oil
  Michael Collins There is no viable solution insight for the out of control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The stunning failure of British Petroleum (BP) raises the question – are these oil giants too big to exist? Are they too dangerous to function in our presence? BP has four permanent deep ...
• WORKING?
  Working, they said it is working. “It appears that the application of the subsea dispersant is actually working,” Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer for exploration and production, said Saturday. “The oil in the immediate vicinity of the well and the ships and rigs working in the area is dim ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Mexican police find blood matching missing former ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Trillion-Dollar War Tab
  The Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts are nearing a big milestone.
• Main Street Protests Wall Street and K Street
  A firsthand account of the showdown.
• From the Frontlines: May 17th, 2010
  Showdown on K Street, unheard voices from the Gulf, and finreg loopholes.
• In Afghan Negotiations, Who's at the Table?
  Behind Karzai's visit to Washington: A real path to peace will involve a lot more players (and fewer soldiers).
• Times Square Bomber Popped a Bubble
  Not surprisingly, since we are conducting a virtual war inside their country, 64 percent of Pakistanis view the United States as an enemy.

Pine River World News

• Ramzy Baroud: Can the agony get worse?
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Can the agony get worse? � �Ramzy Baroud May 18, 2010 Clad in his usual attire of a colourful, striped robe, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared more like an emperor as he began his fourth day in Washington. Accompanying him ...
• Cell phone usage, cancer and brain tumors
  Pine River World News By Steve in Wisconsin May 17, 2010 I can't seem to find the article on the internet, but back in the 70s or early 80s several U.S. police officers claimed to have developed brain tumors as a result of the "new 800 megahertz radios" purchased by their departments. At the time, ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• Was release of French ‘spy’ part of Iranian-French ...
  This blog has closely monitored the case of Clotilde Reiss, a French language assistant who was arrested in Iran last year on accusations of being a ‘nuclear spy’. Last weekend, her ten-year prison sentence was suddenly commuted to a fine of $285,000, and she was able to return home to France on S ...
• Private US spy network still operating in Pakistan
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Senior US Pentagon officials continue to rely almost daily on reports from a network of contracted spies operating deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to The New York Times. Last March, when the paper revealed the existence of the network, several senior US ...
• News you may have missed #352
  CIA rewarded extraordinary rendition supervisor. US Pentagon picks contractors for intel IT. Alleged spy's lawyers threaten trial boycott in Israel.
• CIA ‘used fake British passports’ in k ...
  British authorities are looking into allegations that a team of CIA agents made use of forged British passports during an abduction operation in 2003.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• BP's Nuke-Powered Liability Cap
  BP's nuke-powered liability cap By Harvey Wasserman | Solartopia | May 17, 2010 As BP destroys our priceless planet, its lawyers gear up to save the company from paying for the damage. The same will happen---only worse---with the next atomic reactor disaster. By law, BP may be liable for only $7 ...
• US Aid Hurts Afghans
  US Aid Hurts Afghans By James A. Lucas | CounterCurrents The White House tells us that we are releasing funds to rebuild Afghanistan. The reality, however, is that very little of the money actually will benefit the Afghan people. We are told that our nation is being very generous, mostly as a bal ...
• Death Tolls Set To Spiral As Allied Forces Face 4 ...
  Death tolls set to spiral as allied forces face 40 attacks every day By Jonathan Owen | Independent.co.UK 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 ...
• Iran To Resume Uranium Enrichment Despite Turkey D ...
  Iran to resume uranium enrichment despite Turkey deal By the CNN Wire Staff | CNN Iran appeared to make a concession in its long-running dispute with the international community Monday, only to throw a potential spoiler into the mix soon after. Tehran said it had agreed to send thousands of pounds ...
• Does Your Country Display 14 Points of Fascism?
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Grist - News

• Obama and Dem senators call for spill inquiries; h ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will establish an independent presidential commission to probe the huge oil spill from a wrecked BP-leased rig in the Gulf of Mexico, an official said Monday. The commission, similar to other presidential-ordered probes into civil ...
• The real trouble from the oil spill is brewing dee ...
  by Randy Rieland It’s been almost a month since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.  But it’s not your typical oil spill; because of its depth and distance from shore, it has so far brought no images of fouled beaches or blackened, dead sea birds. What ...
• MMS goes under the spotlight
  by Randy Rieland Last week, execs from BP, Transocean, and Halliburton took their Capitol Hill beatdown.  This week, federal regulators will be led into the ring.  With Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar at the front of the line, they’ll appear before three Senate committees tomorrow and the ...
• Tube is suctioning one-fifth of spewing oil, says ...
  by Agence France-Presse NEW ORLEANS, La. - The tube inserted by BP into a ruptured oil pipe is sucking up about one-fifth of the crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, a top company official said Monday. BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told CNN that about 1,000 barrels of oil per day ...
• BP has numerous safety violations at refineries, s ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - British energy giant BP, which is battling a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, also has a record of flagrant safety violations at its U.S. refineries, according to a Washington-based investigative group. The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit ...

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Time - Top Stories

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Washington Independent

• Massey Miners Tell of Neglect at Doomed Upper Big ...
  NPR’s Howard Berkes and Frank Langfitt have spent weeks on the ground in southern West Virginia, the site of last month’s deadly blast at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine. And today they’re reporting that “most” of the 10 UBB miners they’ve interviewed over that span noted “continuing problems” with t ...
• Coal Country Republicans Charge EPA With ‘To ...
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• Is the Army Shortchanging National Guardsmen on He ...
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• Obama Reveals 2009 Financials, Bo the Dog Worth $1 ...
  Today, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their financial disclosure forms from 2009. In them, you can learn that Obama made $1 million in royalties from each of his books, and donated his Nobel Peace Prize winnings. But the most interesting point? Bo the Portuguese Water D ...
• FinReg Endgame to Start Tonight
  The amendment-athon on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill is coming to a close, with staffers saying only five or so more amendments will receive votes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that he plans to file cloture on the bill — ending debate and le ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
  Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
  Move over CO2youve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of greenhouse gases are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
  Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
  Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• We love Butchers
  Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleishers Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

• Noam Chomsky denied entry into Israel and West Ban ...
  Interior Ministry seeking IDF approval to let American professor just into West Bank; rights group: Decision characteristic of totalitarian regime. By Amira Hass, Haaretz/Israel, May 16, 2010 American linguist and political activist  Noam Chomsky was denied entry into Israel on May 16, 2010 Photo by ...
• Poll: Restless Voters Prefer Democrats Again
  New Poll: Restless Voters Prefer Democrats Again, But Still Hate Incumbents ALAN FRAM | 05/15/10 08:14 PM | WASHINGTON â People want Democrats to control Congress after this fall’s elections, a shift from April, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released Saturday. But the margin is thin an ...
• Evening Jukebox- November Rain
• 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 ...

Solari

• More Questions About Chemtrails
  By Catherine Austin Fitts What amazing conversations I have had with some of you since last month’s Solari Report on Chemtrails. As a network, we have a deep thirst to understand this phenomenon and to do something about it. On this week’s Solari Report, I will interview computer engineer Clifford ...
• Did you see what Facebook is trying to do?
  Facebook recently made a number of changes to its privacy policy that make your profile information public - even if you thought it wasn’t. Many people aren’t even aware of these changes. So we (MoveOn.org) put together a chart to show you what these changes mean for protecting your information. If ...
• Fresh Water
  I watched two documentaries this weekend about the growing challenges of our fresh water supply. This is a very important topic, one that is hidden behind many of the squabbles going on in communities and between countries. Documentaries: For Love of Water and Blue Gold World Water Wars
• Wall Street Auto Pilot
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• Hundreds Protest Outside Bankers’ Houses In ...
  Huge raucous crowds converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform. “Bank of America: bad for America!” shouted community leaders outside the house of Bank of America general counsel Gregory Baer. The Chicago-based grassroots or ...

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

• Routemaster buses get green makeover
  London's famous Routemaster buses have been given a makeover and will be relaunched in the capital in 2012, offering passengers a "greener and lighter" experience. The design for the new buses was unveiled by London mayor Boris Johnson. Part of his campaign to be elected as mayor in 2008 included a ...
• Ban junk food advertising, doctors urge
  More than 100 diabetes experts have urged the Government to introduce a complete ban on advertising junk food to children. The group said current restrictions on television adverts should be extended to include newspapers, magazines and billboards. Organisers believe the move would cut the number of ...
• Fair transportation for fair trade goods
  An ambitious plan has been launched by the Dutch company Atlantis Zeilende Handelsvaart (Atlantis Merchant Sailing Company) to introduce fair transportation as a fair trade alternative to shipping. The company hopes to be able to provide a fully sustainable means of transporting freight around the w ...
• DIY stores lack sustainability
  After banks and supermarkets, the next quick survey of companies’ CSR / sustainability is DIY stores. This is slightly different to the banks and supermarkets because three of the four most well known DIY chains are owned by larger trading groups: B & Q is owned by Kingfisher, Homebase by Home Retai ...
• Tibetans 'adapted' to life in the clouds
  Thousands of years of natural selection have fine-tuned the genetic make-up of Tibetans living on the so-called "roof of the world" so they don't succumb to potentially fatal altitude sickness, a study has found. Villagers living some 15,000ft above sea level in the shadow of the Himalayas were foun ...

Fabius Maximus

• Macgregor sketches out the global geopolitical pic ...
  For years I’ve written the primary geopolitical dynamics shaping 21st century world:   the rise of East Asia (doing things right) and the decline of the West (serial mistakes) — but never expressed as well as Macgregor does in this brief note.  These two processes are now accelerating. Recess ...
• FM newswire for May 18, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Powerful evidence, to be ignored by our geopolitical experts:  “Operation Moshtarak: Lessons Learned“, International Council on Security and Development (ICOS), 3 May 2010 Recommended ...
• About the long-term effect of giant oil spills
  Summary:    How will be the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill?  We cannot yet say.  We don’t know the oil flow rate from the leaks.  We don’t know when BP will plug the leak.  But we can look at past leaks to help us forecast its effects.  In general, large spills cause much damage but ...
• FM newswire for May 16, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “Training Exercises Showed Gaps in Government Preparedness Before BP Oil Spill – Inexperience, Poor Communications, Conflicting Roles Cited“, John Solomon and Aaron Mehta”, Center for ...
• Quote of the day
  This is worth reading in full; here are two interesting excerpts from  “Jeff Sessionsâs Constitution“, Scott Horton, blog of Harper’s, 14 May 2010: “With the Citizens United decision, America stands alone in the world as a country which grants human rights to corporations, just as it is curtailin ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Pesticides tied to ADHD in children in U.S. study
  Reuters – Children exposed to pesticides known as organophosphates could have a higher risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a U.S. study that urges parents to always wash produce thoroughly. Researchers tracked the pesticides’ breakdown products in children’ urine a ...
• Israel denies US academic Chomsky West Bank entry
  BBC – Renowned US scholar Noam Chomsky has been denied entry to the West Bank by Israeli immigration officials. Prof Chomsky, renowned for his work on linguistics and philosophy, was planning to deliver a lecture at Birzeit University. Read article
• Deforestation increases capital’s temperature
  Daily Times-Deforestation is the main cause of rising temperature in the Capital. Deforestation at a fast pace has eroded the old cliche that it would rain in the Capital after some hot days. The average temperature during these days of year is around 40 Degree Celsius, which is five to six degrees ...
• UK Treasury ‘skeletons’ give sterling a fright
  Financial Times – Financial market fears about the state of Britainâs public finances were highlighted on Monday when sterling briefly tumbled after the new coalition government accused its Labour predecessors of âfixingâ fiscal forecasts. Read Article
• Outrage at secret probe into 47,000 innocent flyer ...
  Mail Online – Police secretly investigated the travel habits, family, friends and backgrounds of 47,000 innocent people last year after they bought plane tickets to fly into and out of Britain. Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Czy ludzie należący do najbogatszego 1% ludzkości ...
  Czy ludzie należący do najbogatszego 1% ludzkości to proletariat? (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Jak podali współcześni breżniewiści z tzw. “Komunistycznej” Partii Polski w Ameryce Łamane są prawa człowieka. Powołują się raport chińskich rewizjonistów, opracowany w ramach rewanżu za analogiczne raporty ...
• 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 ...

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

• AP Story: Oil Blowout Shows Unsettling RealityThat ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Phew! We pinpointed where the one problem is And by doing this kind of precise defining We know regulation is OK with cars, Wall Street And other hazardous things like mining. read more
• Voters Chart a Dangerous Path
  Body � � What a predictable society we have become. Not only are we guilty of expecting instant gratification of our every wish and quick solutions for problems years in the making, we are delusional about the reasons for our failure. Conservatives deluge call-in programs with partisa ...
• The Democratic Party Comes Clean With its Misogyny ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White� You'd think I'd have already learned my lesson during the healthcare debate . You know, the lesson that the Democratic Party will throw women's rights overboard at every opportunity ?Meet Connie Saltonstall, the woman who broke the camel's back for me. Or perhap ...
• Sacrificing the Children
  MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON Thou, straggler into loving arms,� Young climber up of knees, When I forget thy thousand ways, Then life and all shall cease. -- Mary Lamb," Parental Recollections," 1809 � BuzzFlash, Hard to believe that this incident happened in Massachusetts, after that state took the ...
• Brit Hume’s Reaction to BP’s Massive Oil Spill: “W ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph Oil� continues to leak out into the Gulf of Mexico in massive amounts, tainting the waters and affecting life throughout the larger ecosystem to an extent difficult to quantify at this juncture. Still, FOX contributors have maintained their disingenuous ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Appearing on ABC's "This Week"
  I�was on ABC's This Week roundtable this morning -- along with George Will, Greg Craig, Ed Gillespie, and The New York Times ' Helene Cooper -- discussing the Kagan nomination, Obama's civil liberties record, and the various primary challenges taking place around the country.� I have several observa ...
• 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 ...

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

• BP Cited for Worst OSHA Safety Violations Among U. ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2010 Center for Public Integrity (CPI) Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Most ...
• Raw Milk Advocates Call on Attorney General Coakle ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2010 Organic Consumers Association The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) blocked scores of citizens from participating in a public hearing held on Monday, May 10, 2010, to examine controversial proposed regulations restricting public access to ra ...
• Public Citizen Urges Boycott of BP
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010 Public Citizen If you drive a car, boycott BP. That’s what Public Citizen is calling on the public to do in the wake of an April 20 explosion on a BP-leased rig that is causing 210,000 gallons of oil to gush into the Gulf of Mexico every day. Already, more than 5,0 ...
• Delaying Withdrawal in Iraq? * Extending Repressi ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)   RAED JARRAR read more
• POGO Urges Senate to Strengthen Inspector General ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010 Project On Government Oversight In a letter sent yesterday , the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) urged the Senate to pass an amendment to the financial regulatory legislation that will strengthen the independence of certain Inspectors General (IGs), includin ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Will They Get Fooled Again?
  by Dean Baker While it may not be the job of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to deceive Congress to advance the interests of the big banks, apparently no one has informed Ben Bernanke of this fact. Some people may recall the role that Mr. Bernanke played in helping to get the TARP through ...
• War Crimes against Women: A Private Hell
  by Laura Carlsen Gender justice is an unfamiliar term to most people. Many assume it is merely a feminine (and therefore diminutive) form of justice, created by adding an awkward adjective to an abstract ideal. read more
• Al Nakba: Expelled from Home and Native Land but N ...
  by Bahija Réghaï 'Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken shadows, We do what prisoners do, And what the jobless do: We cultivate hope' - Mahmoud Darwish read more
• A Way Forward in Afghanistan
  by Haroon Siddiqui Legally and morally, we cannot shrug off the controversy over whether Canadians were complicit in the torture of Afghan detainees. Still, it's only one issue in the bigger Afghan quagmire. Afghanistan cannot be pacified without Pakistan. But Pakistan won't fully cooperate unless i ...
• The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impact
  by Elizabeth Kolbert The Holocene - or "wholly recent" epoch - is what geologists call the 11,000 years or so since the end of the last ice age. As epochs go, the Holocene is barely out of diapers; its immediate predecessor, the Pleistocene, lasted more than two million years, while many earlier epo ...

Karl Burkart

• Weak water regulations cause ‘blue baby syndrome’
  With California's weakening environmental regulations, millions are affected by toxic nitrate contaminates in the water table.
• Top 10 green video blogs
  Go green YouTube-style with these great green video blogs (UPDATED).
• 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?

Water Privatization

• The vicious circle of debt and depression -- it is ...
  Never before has so much debt been imposed on so many people by so few financial operatives -- operatives who work from Wall Street, the largest casino in history, and a handful of its junior counterparts around the world, especially Europe.
• 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.
• The largest private equity MENA deal of the year t ...
  Dubai - 18 th May 2010: With its latest deal, MerchantBridge MerchantBridge , a direct investment and private equity company focused on Middle East investments, has now invested and managed in excess of US$1.5bn in debt and equity in Iraq.
• Grand Jury: Point Arena needs to hire city manager ...
  Finding a lack of "authority, coordination and communication" in its operations, the Mendocino County Grand Jury City recommends that the City of Point Arena hire a city manager.
• Eliminating Saturday deliveries only one move USPS ...
  Many Americans are upset by the U.S. Postal Service's request to discontinue Saturday deliveries. But unless we want taxpayers to finance its growing operating deficit, discontinuing Saturday delivery and other changes are necessary for the Postal Service to continue to meet its mandate to provide m ...

Guardian

• Inflation hits 3.7% in April
  • CPI now at 17-month high • RPI hits 5.3% • Dear Mervyn ... (pdf) • Dear Chancellor ... (pdf) • 'UK economy like Wile E. Coyote,' said one economist UK inflation rose to 3.7% in April, prompting Mervyn King to write his first letter to George Osborne today. The governor of the Bank of England had ...
• BA union challenges strike ruling
  Passengers are still facing delays and cancelled flights despite another relaxation of volcanic ash cloud restrictions and a high court's decision to block a strike by BA's cabin crew. Follow live updates 11.19am: Michael White backs the cabin crew's right to strike . He is worried about the conseq ...
• Redshirts in talks to end standoff
  Scattered violence continues in Thai capital as demonstration leader speaks to government's chief negotiator by telephone Hopes rose today for an end to the deadly standoff in Thailand's capital as leaders of a protest movement occupying central Bangkok said they would unconditionally accept an offe ...
• Seoul 'to blame N Korea' for sinking
  North Korea denies involvement in sinking that claimed 46 lives in March ahead of publication of full report South Korean investigators have found "decisive evidence" that a North Korean torpedo sank one of its naval ships , a Seoul news agency claimed today, citing an unnamed senior military offici ...
• Greece gets first bailout cash
  • Combined €20bn from EU and IMF will prevent default • Tourism minister resigns over husband's €5m unpaid tax bill • Government getting tough on tax evasion Greece will receive the first slice of its €110bn (£94bn) rescue package later today, just in time to prevent the eurozone's weakest member de ...

McClatchey

• Suicide bomber hits NATO convoy in Afghanistan; 20 ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan — A powerful car bomb believed driven by a suicide bomber hit a NATO convoy on a busy Kabul road close to the Afghan parliament early Tuesday morning, killing at least eight foreigners and a dozen Afghans, according to preliminary assessments from police and military officials inv ...
• Miss USA Rima Fakih: Hezbollah babe or just a girl ...
  To win the title of Miss USA, Rima Fakih paraded across a Las Vegas stage in a nearly microscopic bikini. She skirted disaster when she almost tripped in her glittery white evening gown. Finally, she told the judges that health insurance should cover birth control pills.
• Top U.S. offshore drilling official abruptly retir ...
  WASHINGTON — The top federal official in charge of overseeing offshore drilling retired abruptly on Monday as BP's chief operating officer pledged that his company would never pump oil from the runaway Deepwater Horizon well that exploded, killed 11 workers and began spewing millions of gallons of c ...
• Napolitano: Feds lack expertise to deal with deepw ...
  WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledged Monday that the federal government doesn't have the resources or expertise to deal with an oil spill 5,000 feet below the sea, and must largely depend on oil companies to deal with an incident of such magnitude.
• Iraqi baseball team checks out America's pastime o ...
  WASHINGTON — The players on Iraq's premier national baseball team saw a baseball stadium for the first time on a recent 10-day visit to the United States, courtesy of the State Department.

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

• Obama Embraces CAP’s Idea To Create Presiden ...
  Our guest blogger is Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This post was originally published on Climate Progress. On May 4, Weiss wrote “We need an independent commission to investigate the BP disaster.” As millions of g ...
• SCOTUS’ Sex Offender Decision Eviscerates An ...
  State-funded lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have always been a waste of taxpayer money.  Even if the states are allowed to bring these lawsuits in the first place–itself a dubious proposition–the law’s opponents will have a tough time assembling the five ...
• The Four Major Legal Challenges The ACLU Has Broug ...
  Today, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of civil rights groups which include the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and others, file ...
• Brownback Fires Back At Pentagon In Defense Of Aut ...
  This week, the Senate will likely vote on Sen. Sam Brownback’s (R-KS) amendment to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-CT) financial regulatory reform legislation, which would exempt auto dealers from regulations set by the proposed Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The amendment has some outspoken opponent ...
• Global Boiling: The Past Twelve Months Were The Ho ...
  APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot The past twelve months were the hottest in recorded history. According to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the global mean surface tempera ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Margaret Wente replies to "The Lomborg Deception"
  When hell freezes over. The imbecile refers to Lomborg the fraud as an "iconoclast." She (like other stupid people) jumped to conclusions about those CRU e-mails . How has she dealt with the fact that someone went through every single footnote in Lomborg's book Cool It and found out that they eithe ...
• Ronnie James Dio
  I always thought his lyrics were a little hokey, but his voice was amazing. (I'm too busy to type anything else today.) Here's Dio with Black Sabbath doing "Neon Knights": And here he is solo, doing "The Last in Line":
• 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 ...

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

• Council of Europe Unanimously Adopts Whistleblower ...
  Transparency International brings hopeful tidings for would-be whistleblowers from across the pond: the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly has unanimously adopted a whistleblower protection resolution. The resolution acknowledges the importance of whistleblowers in stopping wrongdoing an ...
• Ethics Pledge Should Help Put Some Distance Betwee ...
  As Congress and the White House consider reforms to the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill disaster, it's worth acknowledging that the executive branch has already taken one important step towards curbing one...
• Top Offshore Drilling Regulator Resigns
  Juliet Eilperin at The Washington Post reports that Chris Oynes, the Minerals Management Service's (MMS's) Associate Director for Offshore Energy and Minerals Management (OEMM), announced he would retire at the end of the month. He was promoted to the position...
• Grassley FinReg Amendment Would Expose and Limit E ...
  Here's another key amendment to the financial regulatory reform bill that we're rooting for: Charles Grassley's (R-IA) SA-3966. This amendment introduces several measures that would expose and limit the harmful effects of the revolving door on financial regulatory agencies, including:...
• Morning Smoke: Major Loophole Could Undermine FinR ...
  Major Loophole In Senate Financial Reform Bill, Derivatives Reform May Be Illusory by Shahien Nasiripour [The Huffington Post] BP installs insertion tube, begins siphoning oil from leaking pipe by Steven Mufson and Joel Achenbach [Washington Post] 8 probes into Deepwater...

Digital Journal

• Toronto teen latest murder victim
  A knock on the door in the middle of the night was the start of a chain of events that lead to the death of a 15-year-old boy in Toronto. The 16th murder took place in an area where gang activity is common.
• Eating like an officer-19th Century Style
  Officers in the Canadian forces in 1832 at Fort York ate like kings with three courses at dinner every night. Today Fort York is a living museum with a trained kitchen staff that prepare meals just as they would have in the day.
• RCMP's Musical Ride Enchants Historic Fort York Au ...
  The famed Musical Ride performed by Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police made its one and only stop in Toronto today and enchanted audiences at downtown's historic Fort York.
• Toronto's mesh conference of Web start-ups, media ...
  On May 18 and 19, Toronto will host the annual Web conference mesh, featuring speakers representing companies such as LinkedIn, PayPal, the Guardian, CBC, and more. This year, prominent media analysts will also discuss social media and real-time content.
• Rat brains help scientists solve the eureka proble ...
  Archimedes is said to have shouted Eureka! after he stepped into his bathtub, noticed that the water in the tub rose as he went in, and realized that he could use this displacement of water to calculate the volume of irregular objects.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Funding for Shelters Down, Funding for Supportive ...
  The most interesting presentation at last week's bimonthly D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness meeting was given by Sue Marshall, director of the Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness , which is contracted under DHS to manage most of the city's homeless services. She read the ...
• TV Chef Allegedly Hires Homeless Men to Kill His W ...
  In short, the best reason not to hire the homeless to kill your wife is that very few people, housed or not, are depraved enough to do it. This is the lesson that former TV chef Juan-Carlos Cruz, who allegedly  offered three homeless men $1,000 to kill his wife , needs to learn. It seems that he had ...
• California Drought Causes Widespread Homelessness ...
  It's ironic, saddening and pathetic that our nation allows the very people who help feed and nourish us to raid the garbage to find any sort of nourishment for themselves. Homeless farm workers are among the newly visible homeless population in California. This is the first time they haven't been ab ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• DND: There really is a free lunch!
  In an unusual move, Canadaâs top soldier and the Defence Department’s Deputy Minister have given DND staff permission to accept free meals from contractors at this year’s CANSEC arms trade show (David Pugliese, “Changes to DND hospitality rules at military trade show raising eyebrows,” Ottawa Cit ...
• Small steps toward Arctic cooperation
  The Canadian government took a couple of small but potentially helpful steps towards greater cooperation in the Arctic last week. On Wednesday, Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon called on the United States to work with Canada to resolve the two countries’ border dispute in the Beaufort Sea. ...
• 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Greece Considering Legal Action Against U.S. Banks
  May 17, 2010 Bloomberg.com By Timothy R. Homan Greece is considering taking legal action against U.S. investment banks that might have contributed to the country’s debt crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou said. “I wouldn’t rule out that this may be a recourse,” Papandreou said, in response to q ...
• Fed Inspections on Oil Rig Not As Accurate As Repo ...
  May 17, 2010 Yahoo! News By Justin Pritchard, AP The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the rig be inspected at least once per month, an Associated Press investigation shows. In ...
• Study Shows More Cell Use Linked With Higher Risk ...
  May 17, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk By Richard Alleyne The biggest investigation of its kind to date found that people who regularly held long daily conversations over many years may have a slight increase in the risks of developing a tumour. But the researchers said that the results were not conclusive an ...
• New Genes Linked to a 100 Years of Life
  May 17, 2010 TimesOnline.co.uk By Jonathan Leake SCIENTISTS have discovered the “Methuselah” genes whose lucky carriers have a much improved chance of living to 100 even if they indulge in an unhealthy lifestyle. The genes appear to protect people against the effects of smoking and bad diet and can ...
• Vaccine Labeled ‘Safe’ Despite Pig Vir ...
  May 17, 2010 Reuters.com Rotavirus vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Merck & Co Inc are safe to use despite being contaminated with a pig virus, U.S. health regulators ruled on Friday. The Food and Drug administration, in a statement, said it was safe for doctors to resume giving patients Gla ...

Pambazuka News

• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• 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 ...

War in Context

• Floundering in Afghanistan
  Last fall, President Obama faced criticism in the early months of his presidency during his exhaustive strategic review of the war in Afghanistan. The review had become so drawn out that his detractors claimed it presented an image of indecisiveness. Obama’s defenders responded by saying this was a ...
• After denied entry to West Bank, Chomsky likens Is ...
  Haaretz reports: The Interior Ministry refused to let linguist Noam Chomsky into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday. Chomsky, who aligns himself with the radical left, had been scheduled to lecture at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, and visit Bil’in and Hebron, as well as meet with Palestinian P ...
• Lula and Erdogan demonstrate their diplomatic clou ...
  If President Obama had accomplished what Brazil and Turkey are about to pull off — a deal through which Iran will exchange its stockpile of enriched uranium in return for fuel rods for a medical research reactor — then the US media would be hailing this as a diplomatic breakthrough. Instead, this is ...
• Biological warfare in Afghanistan?
  Agence France Presse reports: A mystery disease infecting opium poppies in Afghanistan could cut this year’s illicit crop in some areas by up to 70 percent, an official said Sunday. The disease has led authorities to expect a “significant” reduction in opium production this year, with the UN Offic ...
• U.S. is still using private spy ring, despite doub ...
  The New York Times reports on a secret network of private spies who have produced hundreds of reports from deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, despite concerns among some in the military about the legality of the operation. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Pentagon has used broad interpreta ...

Watts Up With That?

• Most idiotic global warming headline ever
  I may just divert to Toronto from Chicago and pay this writer a visit so I can tell him to his face what an idiot he is, or have my two new Canadian friends, Guy and Stuart, do it for … Continue reading →
• GISTEMP is High
  By Steve Goddard Satellite data vs. normalised surface data during the 1998 El Niño A few days ago I discussed the amplification of satellite temperatures relative to surface data. And Dr. Roy Spencer posted a very helpful description of the … Continue reading →
• Livetooning the ICCC
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I’m at the International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, where I’m one of the speakers. Since I’m a cartoonist, rather than liveblogging the conferenceI figured I’d livetoon it instead … these are my … Continue reading →
• ICCC Conference day 1 – Chicken of the Sea a ...
  Sunday was speaker orientation and the evening reception/dinner. I met up with Willis Eschencbach, watched and listened to him play the piano in the lobby. I took some photos with my cellphone camera, but they turned out badly. Willis and … Continue reading →
• Volcano Update
  By Steve Goddard Eyjafjallajokull continues to erupt and is again shutting down British airspace: A statement on the Nats website said the no-fly zone will be extended between 1pm and 7pm today to include Manchester, Liverpool, Carlisle, Doncaster, Humberside and … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Andrew Gavin Marshall: Economic crisis spreads unr ...
  with Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 18, 2010 RT Top Stories In Thailand, unrest continues with no end in sight. The effects are spreading as unrest continues in Greece and is now beginning in Spain. Are these economic protests the beginning of social revolutions? In Southe ...
• Peace Heroes: Albert Einstein by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox crossposted at (Islam Times) May 18, 2010 This new series and blog is about people (living or dead; famous, infamous, or behind the scenes) that have inspired my work for peace. “I am not only a pac ...
• Chris Hedges: The working class feel betrayed by t ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095845 with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 16, 2010 with Scott Horton Antiwar Radio by Helen Cox, used with permission © All rights reserved. Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, discusses the antiwar movement’s many m ...
• Noam Chomsky detained in Israel, denied entry to t ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095839 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Israel stops US academic at border Al Jazeera English May 16, 2010 Noam Chomsky, a renowned Jewish-American scholar and political activist, has been barred from entering the West Bank. Chomsky was denied entry by Isra ...
• Criticizing Venezuela from the outside By William ...
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 14 May, 2010 Now ‘real’ lefties are probably going to call me a wuss, you know the kind of thing, ‘defend the revolution no matter what’, or label me a counter-revolutionary, but hey, it’s not for me to tell Venezuela how to do things whil ...

Your New Reality

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  A rare look inside the extraordinary JP Morgan library here . The library holds a 16th century tapestry called 'The Triumph Of Avarice'. A basic Google search brings up no results for this impressive work : Avarice is, of course, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, one of the more destructive for comm ...
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  "It Was All Free, I Tell You Kids! Movies, Music, TV, We Didn't Pay For Anything!" A songwriting association, or lawyers representing publishers who own the rights to musicians' songs, are now making the utterly absurd claim that online music piracy is worse than bankrobberies. The Songwriters' Gui ...
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  It may not be possible to make a more American political campaign ad than this one, it has it all - guns, God, constitution, dog tags, farm, horse. (via Reddit )
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  Proof The BBC Has Been Using Time Travelers As Fact Checkers For Their Documentaries About The Future A production sketch for a BBC doco made in 1967 : A fantastic piece by Nigell Calder on how the age of the internet was foreseen, dramatically accurately so, way back in the 1960s : (the) “a to ...
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  This was more entertaining, and involving, than most of the action scenes I've seen recently in mega-million dollar movies. Made for almost nothing inside a video game :

Wired - Science

• Judge Issues Legal Opinion in Brooklyn fMRI Case
  The judge in a recent Brooklyn case in which brain scan evidence was offered has delivered an opinion on why he ultimately excluded the fMRI data. In Judge Robert H. Miller’s written opinion, obtained by Wired.com, he decided that under the Frye test, which is slightly different from the Daubert st ...
• Eyewitness Account of ‘Watershed’ Brain Scan Legal ...
  The very first federal admissibility hearing for fMRI lie-detection evidence wrapped up May 14 in a Tennessee court room. The decision, expected in a couple weeks, could have a significant influence on the direction that brain scan evidence takes in the courtroom. A special session was held to dete ...
• Ravens Console Each Other After Fights
  After ravens see a friend get a beat down, they approach the victim and appear to console it, according to new research. Orlaith Fraser and her co-author Thomas Bugnyar watched the aftermath of 152 fights over a two year period between 13 hand-reared young adult ravens housed at the Konrad Lorenz R ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• After banned by Israel, Chomsky to give Bir Zeit l ...
  Chomsky spoke yesterday to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, whom he was supposed to meet in Ramallah. Fayyad's office released a statement saying the two men "discussed the political... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• ADC Commemorates al-Nakba: 62 Years of Palestinian ...
  On May 15, Palestinians across the world mourn al-Nakba, the destruction of historic Palestine and the massive displacement of Palestinians by Israeli forces in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Al-Nakba... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Israel to Europe: Stop your citizens from sailing ...
  Israel warned a number of European states that it would not permit leftist-organizations planning to sail to the Gaza Strip with international aid to complete their mission. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. G ...
• Mustafa Barghouthi and Noam Chomsky Deliver Condem ...
  Noam Chomsky: "The first point was that they don't like my opinions about Israeli policies, which is true of every other country but has never stopped me coming and giving lectures before. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Carlo Strenger: Israel is encouraging academic boy ...
  I have never heard of a democratic state denying entry to thinkers... who neither call for violence or break local or international law. So what on earth is happening to Israel? ... If anything,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• French warship visits Russia for Victory Day celeb ...
  A French missile frigate has arrived in the port of Severomorsk in northern Russia to take part in the celebrations dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe during World War II.
• Russian warships hold nuclear defense drills in In ...
  Two Russian warships conducted an exercise against a simulated nuclear attack with elements of chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) warfare in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, a Navy officer said.
• Russia to help Ukraine finish construction of miss ...
  Russia has agreed to help Ukraine finish construction on a missile cruiser, which has been stalled for almost 15 years, the Ukrainian president said on Monday.
• Russia, India plan to hold peacekeeping drills in ...
  Up to 150 Russian troops will take part in joint peacekeeping exercises with India scheduled for autumn this year, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
• 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.

NewsWise

• Experts Forecast 2010 and Future Space Law and Pol ...
  Leading authorities attending Space Law and Policy 2010 explored varied uses of outer space, as well as present-day and future legal and policy challenges - to international institutions, commercial enterprises, and the U.S. government.
• Trying to Stop the Pump: One Way to Prevent Campyl ...
  Qijing Zhang of Iowa State University is working on a project supported by the Food Safety Consortium aimed at stopping the effectiveness of efflux pumps, which can push antibiotics out of cells in swine and turkeys.
• Spicing the Meat Also Cuts the Cancer Risk
  Spices will do more than just enhance the taste of ground beef. They'll also cut down on the risk of compounds that can cause cancer.
• New Study Characterizes Cognitive and Anatomic Dif ...
  APOEε4 gene carriers with alzheimer's disease have more memory problems; non-carriers troubled with attention, language and executive function.
• Kidney Function and Damage Markers Predict Mortali ...
  Tests of kidney function and damage predict the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases and all causes.

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

• What Does Goldman Sachs Have to Do With Factory Fa ...
  The firm is helping to export the environmental catastrophe of factory farming to China. Click here to read this article
• Healthy Breakfasts Buy Lunch in Berkeley Schools
  “With current federal funding for the School Breakfast Program ranging from $1.16 to $1.74 for every breakfast served to students eligible for free and reduced meals, a Breakfast in the Classroom program -- in which every child is served breakfast every day -- can be a financial goldmine for severe- ...
• Geoengineering Doesn't Work as Well as Natural Pro ...
  Blooms of algae created by pumping nutrients into the ocean can suck up at least ten times more carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere than was previously thought. But the findings lend no support to controversial schemes to encourage such blooms in order to reduce global warming, the authors warn ...
• Agribiz Giant ADM Gets Taste of Hugo Chavez's Wrat ...
  Readers might recall reading about a Mexico-based transnational company called Gruma. After Mexico's privatization bonanza in the early '90s, this well-connected company managed to industrialize one of the world's greatest foodstuffs, the tortilla, strip it of its flavor and much of its nutrition, a ...
• Intense Battle Over Banning Coke and Junk Sodas fr ...
  Congress should ban sugary sodas from the $58 billion-a-year U.S. food stamp program as a step to combat the obesity crisis, the House Agriculture Committee was told on Thursday. Click here to read this article

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

• African Cyberpunk, DNA Hacking, and the Problems o ...
  by Chris Borgen There's a post that's been making the rounds in the science fiction blogosphere that warrants note by those interested in international law, especially in regards to issues of international trade, development, and regulation. The piece is by Ghanaian writer Jonathan Dotse and it co ...
• Thoughts on Peter Schuck’s Wall Street Journal Edi ...
  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 ...
• ILA Biennial Conference in The Hague, August 15-20 ...
  by Peggy McGuinness The International Law Association's 2010 Biennial Conference , “ De Iure Humanitatis : Peace, Justice, and International Law” takes place August 15-20 in The Hague.  Early reduced-fee registration ends tomorrow, May 15. It looks to be great a program, hosted by the Dutch B ...
• Peter Schuck on Revoking Citizenship in Terrorism ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson As I’ve noted before, I am not an expert in the case law on revocation or renunciation of US citizenship, but I wanted to flag Professor Peter Schuck in the Wall Street Journal today arguing that it is indeed possible to revoke Faisal Shahzad’s citizenship. ...
• The NYT Belatedly Notices Targeted Killing Debate
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The NYT’s Scott Shane notes that “The Obama administrationâs 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….”  U ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• 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...
• 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...

Public News Service

• 3 of 4 Arizona 4th Graders Not Proficient in Readi ...
  3 of 4 Arizona 4th Graders Not Proficient in Reading Phoenix, AZ – The latest scores from the Nation's Report Card show 75-percent of Arizona’s fourth-graders reading below grade level. A leading children’s advocate calls the results “both dismal and frightening.” Comments from Dana Naimark (DAY-na ...
• AZ Docs Get Innovative Training in End-Of-Life Car ...
  AZ Docs Get Innovative Training in End-Of-Life Care Phoenix, AZ – A typical medical school education teaches little about the special skills involved in pain management and end-of-life care. Arizona’s largest hospice has stepped in to provide that training not only for doctors, but other professiona ...
• Cancer Society: Time for AZ Women to Put Themselve ...
  Cancer Society: Time for AZ Women to Put Themselves First Phoenix, AZ – The American Cancer Society is launching a new campaign this week to encourage women statewide to put their health first - with the “Choose You” campaign. Comments from ACS spokesman Chuck Reed.
• NY Governor Parts Ways with AZ, Works to Reduce Un ...
  NY Governor Parts Ways with AZ, Works to Reduce Unfair Deportations Albany, NY - In contrast to Arizona's illegal immigrant crackdown, New York Governor David Paterson has moved to make it harder for harsh federal laws to be used to deport legal immigrants who have been rehabilitated after serving ...
• After 34 Years, Congress Reconsiders Kids' Exposur ...
  After 34 Years, Congress Reconsiders Kids' Exposure to Toxics Phoenix, AZ - Federal lawmakers are considering major changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act for the first time since 1976. The law has not been updated, despite mounting evidence that even low-level exposure to some chemicals can ca ...

My Care2 Picks

• Over 3,000 Iraqi Refugee Cases Submitted for Revie ...
  For weeks Swedish and Assyrian churches have had their facilities open for Iraqi refugees hiding from the Swedish police.Reports from the US State Department that are highlighting the persecution of minorities in Iraq are not being taking seriously Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
• National ID Card - Everyone Controlled Except The ...
  It's like a plot from a bad movie -- you know the ones where Americans wake up to find themselves electronically tagged like wild animals, while the terrorists are allowed to run free buying and stealing explosives to kill patriotic Americans. Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to US Politics & ...
• Outrageously Homophobic Politicians and Pundits Th ...
  I have been a lesbian all my life. I've been in a Loving, committed relationship for over 14 years, but can't get married because we aren't allowed our Constitutional rights to Equality. How can anyone say that's correct in our country? I don't hurt you! Submitted by CJ Stanley to US Politics & Gov ...
• CBS 60 Minutes - Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Di ...
  The destruction of the Deepwater Horizon had been building for weeks in a series of mishaps. The night of the disaster, he was in his workshop when he heard the rig's engines suddenly run wild. That was the moment that explosive gas was shooting across Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� � ...
• Obama's Gulf Eco-Catastrophe, Far Worse Than Katri ...
  History will view Obama's response as too little, too late, too passive. New findings by a research vessel with a grant that ran out today show walls of oil-saturated death, miles long and wide, depleting oxygen from ocean water. Submitted by Pastor Tim Redfern to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Angry Indian News

• Volcanic ash grounds 1,000 European flights | Reut ...
  Volcanic ash grounds 1,000 European flights | Reuters: "(Reuters) - Volcanic ash from Iceland grounded 1,000 flights and delayed hundreds of thousands of passengers in parts of northern Europe on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Coast Guard says oil plume may hit south Florida | ...
  Coast Guard says oil plume may hit south Florida | Reuters: "(Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing for the possibility that tar balls from underwater oil plumes resulting from the Gulf oil... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hamas destroys dozens of homes in southern Gaza
  Hamas destroys dozens of homes in southern Gaza :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de]: "RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas police wielding clubs... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Detroit Police Kill 7-Year-Old Girl in Her Own Hom ...
  Democracy Now! | Headlines for May 17, 2010: "In Detroit, a candlelight vigil was held last night following the death of a seven-year-old girl who was shot by police in her own home. The girl, Aiyana... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• China's Web firewall should be WTO issue: EU's Kro ...
  China's Web firewall should be WTO issue: EU's Kroes | Reuters: "(Reuters) - China's Internet 'firewall' is a trade barrier and needs to be tackled within the framework of the World Trade... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• The Gulf oil catastrophe . . . an appeal to all!
  This is a grass-roots effort to bring a non-toxic oil clean-up system to the attention of 'those in charge' of the Gulf oil catastrophe. Dr. Mike Castle presents a simply amazing solution to cleaning up oil and other contaminants on land and in water.
• 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Illegal Immigrant Students Protest at McCain Offic ...
  Noted by Osha Gray Davidson on May 18, 2010 1:05 AM
• Study: Does Industry Lose Money By Ignoring Aging ...
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on May 18, 2010 1:05 AM
• 7-Eleven and Farmville team up in an upcoming Prom ...
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on May 18, 2010 1:05 AM
• Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Search Ends : Discovery Ne ...
  Noted by Marcelo Ballve on May 18, 2010 1:05 AM
• High school rower confronts class barriers with sp ...
  Noted by Michael Salmonowicz on May 18, 2010 1:05 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Two U.S. senators in jeopardy on big day of voting
  ShareThis Two U.S. senators in jeopardy on big day of voting 18 May 2010 With voter anger running high, two veteran U.S. senators face potential career-ending challenges on Tuesday in primary contests that could measure the anti-Washington mood before November's midterm elections. Democrats Arlen Sp ...
• Secret Prison Discovered At Bagram Air Force Base
  ShareThis Secret Prison Discovered At Bagram Air Force Base 15 May 2010 A secret prison has recently been discovered at Bagram Air Force Base located in Afghanistan. The Red Cross has recently confirmed this information and released a statement saying a "Black Jail" is hidden within the air force ba ...
• West to continue working on sanctions
  ShareThis West to continue working on sanctions --Diplomats in Washington and New York unimpressed by Iranian fuel swap deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil, tell Ynet that Security Council discussions will go on . 18 May 2010 Western powers unimpressed by Iranian gesture: Although Iran has agreed to ...
• Afghan Car Bomb Kills 20 Civilians, Army Doctor Sa ...
  ShareThis Afghan Car Bomb Kills 20 Civilians, Army Doctor Says 18 May 2010 A suicide car bomber struck in the Afghan capital today, killing as many as 20 civilians in an attack that witnesses and police officials said targeted a U.S. military convoy. A military doctor, Nesar Ahmad, said in an interv ...
• Despite Pentagon Claims, U.S. Antimissile Intercep ...
  ShareThis Despite Pentagon Claims, U.S. Antimissile Intercepts Have�Low Success Rate 17 May 2010 ...A new analysis being published by two antimissile critics, at M.I.T. and Cornell, casts doubt on the reliability of the new weapon. President Obama’s announcement of his new antimissile plan in Septem ...

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

• Elvis Costello cancels Israel concerts: sometimes ...
  Following a campaign by BDS organizers, Elvis Costello has announced that he will be canceling his upcoming shows in Israel. It doesn't sound like it was an easy decision for him, and he has posted a thoughtful statement about the decision on his website: Then there are occasions when merely ha ...
• Nakba Day is a reminder that George Mitchell can&# ...
  Proximity talks signaling the restart of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, which have been on hold for years, are beginning amidst an important reminder of the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Saturday, May 15, marked Nakba Day. The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” was the depopul ...
• Why can’t ‘NYT’ get on the horn ...
  Ethan Bronner rushes to assure readers of the New York Times that Israel goofed on the Chomsky denial: Government spokesmen were mortified at the development and issued statements saying that the decision was made by an Interior Ministry official at the Jordan-West Bank border and did not represe ...
• Kattan: Truman administration threatened sanctions ...
  I am reading From Coexistence to Conquest, by Victor Kattan, an English journalist-scholar (or "hackademic," as Ilan Pappe once put it), an amazing work of archival archaeology, uncovering the trail of broken promises that is the history of international law and consensus on the Arab-Israeli conflic ...
• ‘NY Review of Books’ goes after the Is ...
  The NY Review of Books has an important piece in its forthcoming issue on the idea that the American Jewish establishment has rigidly sided with Israeli leadership and abandoned liberal American values and endangered the Zionist project. I.e., the New York Review is slamming the Israel lobby from a ...

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

• Ask Pablo: Am I An Eco-Hypocrite For Using Roundup ...
  Image Source: Will Fuller Dear Pablo: Am I an eco-hypocrite for using Roundup to control weeds? Are there any good alternatives? My answer might surprise you, but the most commonly used herbicidal spray, Glyphosate (commonly known as Roundup), may actually not be that bad. After all the bad ...
• Super Sleek, Green Surrounded New Museum for Monte ...
  The Papalote Kids Museum in Monterrey, Mexico, is getting a new extension for green education, and the building that will hold it is, of course, environmentally conscious (and beautiful!). ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Environment by Heather Heron Salvages Army Textile ...
  Environment by Heather Heron. Credit: David Heron Environment by Heather Heron , a collaboration of California-based designer Heather Heron and Environment Furniture . The lifestyle collection is comprised of travel bags, organic throws, hand knotted beach blankets, and organic hand-dyed scarve ...
• New Double-Decker Buses and Rental Bicycles Coming ...
  Image from the Guardian One of Mayor Boris Johnson's election promises when he got elected two years ago was to re-introduce the much loved double decker bus. There was a competition and two designs were chosen. The virtual prototype for the winning bus has now been unveiled. The physical pr ...
• Deforestation Victory! Nestlé Will Stop Using Rain ...
  photo: Windell H. Oskay /Creative Commons Concerned about forest-destroying palm oil ? You can now rest a little easier. The world's largest food and drinks conglomerate, Nestlé has pledged to stop using palm oil linked to rainforest destruction. Monitoring the commitment, The Forest Trust will ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Ban Ki-moon must stand tall
  The UN's terminal frustration with Burma is not enough, and repeated attempts to inject legitimacy into the elections are misdirected
• Scores die in relentless heatwave
  Temperatures reach 47C as effects of heatwave are exacerbated by major water shortage and frequent power cuts across Burma
• Obama extends Burma sanctions
  Decision comes after US envoy Kurt Campbell expressed 'profound disappointment' at the lack of progress made by the Burmese junta since engagement began
• 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

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

• Obama signs bill aimed at improving worldwide pres ...
  [JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] on Monday signed into law the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act [HR 3714 materials], aimed at promoting worldwide press freedom and drawing attention to countries where journalists are threatened, harmed, or censored. The law requires the sec ...
• Iraq court overturns ban of nine new parliament me ...
  [JURIST] The appeals court for Iraq's Justice and Accountability Commission on Monday overturned a ban on nine newly elected members of parliament accused of having ties to the banned Baath Party [BBC backgrounder].The ad hoc commission was created to eliminate Iraqi officials with potential connect ...
• ACLU files lawsuit seeking injunction against Ariz ...
  [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Monday filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] in the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] seeking an injunction against the implementation of the recently passed Arizona immigra ...
• Supreme Court strikes down life sentences for juve ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday held [opinion, PDF] in Graham v. Florida [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the Eighth Amendment [text] ban on cruel and unusual punishments prohibits the imprisonment of a juvenile for life without the possi ...
• Supreme Court rules on parental rights in internat ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] in Abbott v. Abbott [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a ne exeat clause, which prohibits one parent from removing a child from the country without the other parent's consent, confers a " ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Blumenthal Responds To Vietnam Allegations
  Connecticut Attorney General Dick Blumenthal is denying a New York Times report that he routinely lied about his service in Vietnam. "The New York Times story is an outrageous distortion of Dick Blumenthal's record of service," Blumenthal's campaign manager, Mindy Myers, said in a statement. ...
• The Night Beat: START It Up
  Also: what you need to know about the elections Tuesday. And a rare fumble for FLOTUS's obesity initiative? This one will sting: " Richard Blumenthal , a Democrat who is running for the United States Senate from Connecticut, never served in Vietnam, despite statements to the contrary. The Times has ...
• Palin Calls Huntsman Out
  Even though Jon Huntsman, Jr. stopped pretending not to run for president to become President Obama's ambassador to China, associates of the former Utah Governor say that he will return to the U.S. as a proud Republican and will probably try to position himself for a 2016 run.�The thinking is that t ...
• Cutting 1.5 Trillion ... Calories
  How does the food industry, which is under heavy criticism for its marketing practices to kids, for juicing the chemicals in its products to make them addictive, and for various and sundry alleged misdeeds, demonstrate its�commitment�to kids�maintaining�a healthy weight? Why, by establishing a group ...
• The Teachers Get to Keep Their Jobs After All
  Last month, a school district in Rhode Island laid off 90 teachers because their students were consistently performing poorly on standardized tests. "Boo!!!" said the teachers unions. "Yay!!!" said the "standards" movement. President Obama weighed in with an 'attaboy. His education secretary praised ...

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

• Bibi on Barring Chomsky: ‘I Read it in the News To ...
  Well, one thing we know…Bibi reads the papers (Bibiton-Yisrael HaYom at least): that’s apparently how he learns of major decisions made by his own Interior Ministry to bar one of the most distinguished linguists in the world from entering the West Bank to lecture at Bir Zeit University.  You wouldn ...
• Dershowitz: Arabs’ ‘Dead Baby Strategy’
  Shorter Dershowitz: the Arabs make us kill their babies and then use them as propaganda against us. A remarkable video offered by settler affiliated Arutz Sheva provides a peek into the jumbled mind of Israel’s foremost hasbarist fantasist.  Dersh was speaking at a conference organized by Tel Aviv ...
• Im Tirtzu is NOT, Repeat NOT a Bunch of Jack-Boote ...
  Got that? You better. ‘Cause if you don’t or if you have any other opinion on the matter Ronen Shoval, founder of the Israeli hasbara outfit will set you straight; or else sue your ass off. I don’t know if Ronen has considered how he can do that to those outside Israel, [...] Related posts: Im ...
• Makhoul’s Attorneys Refuse to Appear in Court, Pro ...
  Lawyers for Ameer Makhoul, director of the Israeli Palestinian NGO Ittijah, who was arrested two weeks ago in the dead of night on the vague, but grave espionage charge of meeting with a Hezbollah agent, have protested their inability to meet with him by refusing to appear at future court proceeding ...
• Israeli Interior Ministry Denies Chomsky West Bank ...
  Oops, it was all a big misunderstanding claims Eli Yishai’s Interior Ministry.  That’s what Al Jazeera claims the goons who denied Prof. Noam Chomsky entry into the West Bank at the Allenby crossing are now saying.  As Chomsky says in this interview, what could they have misunderstood?  Who he was ...

Ode Magazine

• Don't forget to breathe
  Breathetext.com reminds you to take a deep breath, via text. Photo: istockphoto.com/martinedoucet Do you sometimes feel a little over-whelmed by life’s pace and uncertainties? Steve St. Clair has an answer: Pause and take a few deep breaths. And because that can be easy to ...
• Transforming sewage waste to biofuel with the Q Mi ...
  A microbe has been found that can break down anything that contains cellulose and turn it into ethanol. Photo: Susan Leschine/University of Massachusetts In 1996, Thomas Warnick was exploring the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown, Massachusetts, when he came across a tiny ...
• Being happy dissolves racial bias
  By: mmlarsen Being happy has been credited with many things: improved physical health, longer life, and better mental health to name a few. Recent research shows that feeling joyful can also improve race relations by erasing some effects of racial bias. A stud ...
• What's your tree
  By: karinahowell “People came up to me and say 'I’m so inspired. I never could have done that.' Then I say, 'Neither could I! But when we find something we fall in love with, it’s like we fall in love with our lives, and we become bigger than we could imagine.'” ...
• Peace at heart
  By: PeaceCorso Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is always an inspiration. Consider these words: If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greates ...

OpEd News

• Washington-Industry Complicity Behind the Gulf Dis ...
  Blame a Washington-industry cabal for the Gulf disaster
• Washington-Industry Complicity Behind the Gulf Dis ...
  Blame a Washington-industry cabal for the Gulf disaster
• Voting News: Voting machines burn in Rt 22 PA fire ...
  Watch Yuma AZ vote count live via webcam...Use iPad to register to vote in Santa Clara Co CA..."Too much" voter assistance in Forsyth Co NC?..90 Kentucky counties debut paper ballot systems in Tues Primary..Absentee/Early Voting Method: Raise Questions and Risks...No Voting Rights in Indian Country ...
• Photo-Essay: Haiti After the Earthquake, Part 2: C ...
  What are conditions like in many of the earthquake refugee camps that have been set up in Haiti, especially the ones that have little government or NGO support? Come take a tour with us and you will see.
• Itching to Fight Another Muslim Enemy
  If you read the major American newspapers or watch the propaganda on cable TV, itapos;s pretty clear that the U.S. foreign policy Establishment is again spoiling for a fight, this time in Iran.

Switchboard

• Moving NYC Trash From Trucks to Rails in New Jerse ...
  Today, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to move forward with plans to buy the 27-acre Greenville Yards in Jersey City, New Jersey, and convert it to a new barge-to-rail facility that will carry New York City’s trash in sealed containers en ro ...
• The American Power Act and California
  The fight over America’s energy future kicked into high gear last week with the release of Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman’s “ American Power Act .” The long awaited bill kicks off an enormous effort to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation in the Senate this summer. My NRDC collea ...
• May rolls in with Bike to Work Week
  May 17th marks the beginning of Bike to Work Week, when people from all over the country are encouraged to step out of their cars and onto a bike.  And as Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, declared in March , we are at a turning point in the US’s transportation policy: “This is the end of fav ...
• Mountaintop Removal: Reclamation FAIL
  "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.  Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land."   (Leviticus 25:23-24) "In another hundred years, God knows what this will look like.  But it will be used b ...
• Crown Square poised to showcase restoration progre ...
        The aptly-named Crown Square redevelopment is the central jewel in the remarkable comeback of its once-downtrodden city neighborhood, and it is now nearing completion, much to the delight of the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group , which has been a guiding partner in the project. Frequent ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Saudi Women Beats Up Virtue Cop
  The Saudi Gazette reports: Al-Mubarraz police are investigating a complaint that a Saudi woman in her twenties allegedly punched and beat up a staffer of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Haiâa). The staffer had to be taken to a medical center because of the br ...
• QOTD
  Edroso: “[Racist nuts who think that the Miss America pagent was a DhimmoIslamoCommieNazi conspiracy] are just mad they’re not old enough to have protested Jackie Robinson signing with the Dodgers.” Nearly as amusing is La Althouse speculating that it was also an anti-federalist conspiracy. D ...
• Giving Away the Show
  Shorter Daniel Pipes: the only explanation I can come up with for why some Muslim women win beauty pageants is that there’s some nefarious affirmative action conspiracy; after all, who could consider women of color or non-Chirstian women attractive? I am not a racist crackpot. …I wish I could ...
• Civil Confinement And Federalism
  The Court’s holding today in U.S. v. Comstock presents a real dilemma. The federal “civil confinement” law at issue in the case — which permits the federal government to detain an sex offender after their sentence expires — raises some obvious civil liberties concerns. In a couple recent cases ...
• Court Holds Life-Without-Parole For Juveniles Unco ...
  Deciding an appalling case in which a 17-year old was given life without parole for a violating parole, the Supreme Court held today that life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders violate the Eight Amendment to the Constitution. And while I had feared a “minimalist” opinion that would ...

Desert Research Institute

• Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
  Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.
• 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.

Earth Techling

• Motion Power Captures Energy in Prius style
  One of the nation's largest and busiest industrial parks has teamed up with New Energy Technologies, Inc. to capture energy normally lost by heavy-duty vehicles and turn it into electricity Prius-style.
• Simple Toy Illustrates Electricity Generation
  A simple wind-up toy featuring an LED light bulb illustrates the way kinetic energy can translate directly into electricity.
• Trik.E’s Quest to Perfect the Electric Bike
  Trik.E combines electric-assist pedal-power with a striking, enclosed tricycle design (with two wheels in the front) for intelligent commuting via city bike lanes.
• New Solar Backpack Charges Portable Gadgets
  Infinit's newest Solar Bag charges your plethora of portable gizmos and gadgets including laptops, iPhones, and iPods.
• Futuristic Biofuel Airship Gobbles Algae For Power
  Is this aviation's future? Or a science fiction writer's fantasy? Meet the Hydrogenase, a revolutionary, zero-emissions, biofuel-powered aircraft that relies on organic algae for power.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• New trial lawyers' CEO talks priorities
  In an interview, Linda Lipsen talks about her priorities, the impact the civil justice system has had on your car, and how she's been connecting with members since she was named chief executive officer of The American Association for Justice.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Treaty obligations may have ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have jurisdiction over works not registered with Copyright office.
• 'Twombly' and 'Iqbal' trip up dentists' class acti ...
  A federal appeals court has scotched a multibillion-dollar RICO class action launched by the American Dental Association and its members against major insurance companies for their alleged failure to pay providers. An 11th Circuit panel threw out that the purported class action, finding that the com ...
• Patent litigator talks about what rehearing in 'Ti ...
  Jeffrey Lewis, an intellectual property litigation partner at New York's Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler discusses TiVo v. EchoStar and why it's important for the Federal Circuit to clarify how courts should evaluate product workarounds and contempt in patent infringement cases involving injunctions.
• A pretty face bolsters the defense, Cornell study ...
  Winning over jurors is tough enough for criminal defendants. Being ugly may make it tougher. A new study found that unattractive defendants are 22% more likely to be convicted and are likely to receive sentences that average 22 months longer than their better-looking counterparts.

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

• Police Open Fire At Tibetans Protesting Cement Fac ...
  Police opened fire on Tibetans at a cement factory in the Tibetan area of Amdo on Saturday May 15 after local villagers, worried about pollution from the factory, started to rebuild a road that had been closed by the expansion of the factory.
• President Obama Speaks Out About Ongoing Oil Spill ...
  Good afternoon, everybody. I just finished meeting with some of my Cabinet and administration officials about the ongoing efforts to stop the BP oil spill.
• Pro Wrestling Mega Spectacular: One Show - One Nig ...
  Already spewing disparaging remarks about his June 12th foe, Mr. Anderson had this to say, 'It shouldn't be called 'TNA Stars Collide!' It should be called 'TNA superstar, Misterrrrr Annnn...derrrrrr...ssssson versus that loser, Pope D'Angelo!
• 2010 Summer Movie Preview
  Once again, the Hollywood studio execs, ever conscious of the bottom-line, have adopted a cautious approach to this summer's fare, investing primarily in blockbusters with a proven pedigree.
• US Realizes Goal of Establishing a Series of Youth ...
  'This spring there will be an exchange between young people as part of our sports program where young Russians will come to the United States for the purpose of playing basketball.

environment 360

• Success of Canada Tar Sands Prompts Oil Sands Expa ...
  The successful development of the controversial oil sands in Canada has prompted oil companies to invest in similar operations elswhere , including Russia, Venezuela, the Congo, and Madagascar, according to a new report. With the price of crude oil rising, companies — including BP and Shell — are in ...
• Rising Water Temperatures Have Ill Effect on Fish, ...
  Two studies, one in Lake Tanganyika in Africa and the other in the River Wye in Wales, indicate that rising water temperatures are causing fish populations to decline. Researchers from Brown University and the University of Arizona, said core samples from Lake Tanganyika — the second-deepest lake in ...
• The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impac ...
  Is human activity altering the planet on a scale comparable to major geological events of the past? Scientists are now considering whether to officially designate a new geological epoch to reflect the changes that homo sapiens have wrought: the Anthropocene. BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT
• UN Report Predicts Shortage of Rare Metals Without ...
  Failure to advance metal recycling, especially of rare metals used in high-tech products, could produce a global shortage of many metals within two decades , according to a series of reports by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). With few exceptions, recycling rates have been modest or ...
• 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 ...

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

• Martial arts cup brings four karate disciplines to ...
  Moscow has played host to the first ever Russian Martial Arts Cup. Four different karate disciplines found their national champions at what is hoped to become a mainstay in the country's martial arts calendar.
• Greece’s struggle against capitalism: the untold t ...
  As Greece descends into further financial turmoil, stock exchange profiteers are attempting to portray the Greeks as rich loafers sponging off the rest of Europe, but is this truly the case?
• CSKA and Unics first to reach Superleague playoff ...
  CSKA Moscow and Unics are the first sides to reach the semi-finals of the Russian basketball Superleague play-offs after getting the better of Krasnye Krylya and Triumph respectively.
• “I’ll be back to World No.1” – Safina
  Russian tennis star Dinara Safina says she will do everything to regain the No. 1 spot in the WTA Rankings she had last year.
• “As a community we were frozen in a bipolar world” ...
  As the documentary "Countdown to Zero" on non-proliferation is screened at the Cannes Film Festival, RT talked to the consultant behind the movie on the global will to stop the spread of nuclear arms.

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

• Dio, the last Neon Knight falls
  Ronnie James Dio (born Ronald James Padavona in 1942) was a local hero here in these parts in Upstate NY. When he passed away this past Sunday on May 16th, it represented in a way a passing of an era here, that he was the last of the Old Industry that comprised Wickwire’s, Brockway, Smith-Corona [.. ...
• Blimp Shaped UFO Meme, Thirty Years Apart
  From the “you gotta be sh*ttin’ me” department: Somerville police were flooded with phone calls this morning after residents reported seeing a large tube-like object fluttering through the sky. Police said they were swamped with phone calls after a flurry of callers reported to radio station NJ 101. ...
• Final Mission of Shuttle Atlantis
  The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from KSC at 2:20 p.m. Friday May 14th for it’s 32nd and last mission. The space shuttle program is now down to it’s last two launches, to be completed in November. Like most folks who keep track of space goings-on, even us old tin-foilers who cut our eye-teeth o ...
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• Using Underwater Kites to Generate Power
  Swedish automaker Saab, is developing what it calls it's "Deep Green" technology, underwater kites tethered to the ocean floor that could produce continuous energy from tidal flows. A single Deep Green turbine could produce up to 500 kilowatts... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Science & Tech �|� �No ...
• Kevin Costner Helps Fight Oil Spill
  In this case, diesel fuel and water enter the machine together and are jettisoned separately, with water on one side and diesel on the other. The machine will clean the water up to 97 percent, officials with Ocean Therapy Solutions said. Submitted by Shaktiva I. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• Greenpeace to use peaceful tactics to try stoppi ...
  The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will set sail from Malta today to take action against what the international campaigning organisation described as one of the most irresponsible and destructive fishing operations in the world. Submitted by Shaktiva I. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
• Coral snake antivenin supply in danger of running ...
  The good news is that there is antivenin for coral snake bites. The bad news is that the one manufacturer that made the stuff is no longer making it. Come October, the last batch of coral snake antivenin hits its expiration date. Submitted by Shaktiva I. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Minnesota Chippewa rally for rights under 1855 tre ...
  On the eve of the Minnesota fishing opener, a high-profile Chippewa treaty rights forum and protest unfolds today in Bemidji with both sides hoping the event doesn't escalate beyond speeches and misdemeanor fishing tickets. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• On Being Critical
  Self-criticism is the sine qua non of one pillar of a free society: radical tolerance.
• Health-Insurance Law Enters Interpretation Phase
  “If you were a regulator interpreting the new requirement that health insurers use at least 80 or 85 percent of their premium dollars to pay medical bills or otherwise improve consumers’ health, which of the following expenses would you count toward the quota:” (Washington Post, Monday) The inevitab ...
• Despite Skepticism about Fed, Its Powers Won’t Shr ...
  “As the debate over how to overhaul financial regulation heated up last year, there was one thing Democrats and Republicans seemed to agree on: that the Federal Reserve had made major mistakes that contributed to the financial crisis and needed to have its wings clipped. Yet as the legislation has m ...
• Consumer Spending Doesn’t Drive the Economy
  The truth is that consumer spending does not account for 70 percent of economic activity and is not the mainstay of the U. S. economy.
• The Tax Burden’s at a 60-Year Low?
  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.

Teaching Online Journalism

• 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 ...

Facing South

• Flight over BP oil slick shows disaster's enormity ...
  John Wathen, the Hurricane Creekkeeper based in Alabama, flew over the BP oil slick yesterday on a flight provided by SouthWings and videotaped what he saw. "The enormity of this slick began to sink in to me," Wathen says on the video. "It seems as if the thing was spreading out over the enti ...
• STILL, BABY, STILL? Some Southern leaders rethink ...
  With oil still gushing from the site of BP's failed Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf -- a disaster that's now likely to eclipse the scale of the Exxon Valdez -- some politicians are rethinking the "drill, baby, drill" push for expanded offshore drilling. But for others -- including many lea ...
• Obama administration postpones offshore drilling p ...
  The Interior Department has decided to suspend plans for an oil and gas lease sale off Virginia's coast in the wake of the BP oil spill disaster in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Interior's Minerals Management Service announced today that it would indefinitely postpone the public comment period and publi ...
• Advocates tell Gulf communities: Know your rights
  In the take of the Gulf oil disaster, news reports have continued to surface of company representatives encouraging -- some would say coercing -- affected individuals to sign agreements limiting their legal rights and ability to file future claims. Days after the spill, Facing South reported that B ...
• Oil industry subsidies: A gusher of another kind
  Amount of public funds spent worldwide subsidizing the oil and gas industry from 2000 to 2007: at least $61.3 billion Rank of the U.S. among providers of aid to the global oil industry during that time: 1 Amount of subsidies the U.S. provided to the industry worldwide: $15.6 billion ...

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ProLogis Renewable Energy Unveils Rooftop Photovoltaic Test Site in Denver

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- May 17, 2010

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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Nobao Renewable Energy Holdings Ltd. is seeking to raise up to US$207 million, including the over-allotment option, ...

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Texas Meets Renewable Energy Goals 15 Years Early

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By BC Upham | May 18th, 2010 View Comments Texas has reached its goal of having 10000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity this year, 15 years earlier ...

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• Of the 32 species of small mammals thought to be living near Mount St. Helens only 14 were known to have survived the blast. • Areas within a five-mile ...

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Mount St. Helens Still Recovering 30 Years Later

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Among the reasons the ecology rebounded are some surprising factors, including the early morning timing of the eruption, the fact that spring had been late ...

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Feds say WA plant deal not enough to reduce smog

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Feature: Hopes sink with rising water in Pakistan's Hunza lake

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- May 18, 2010

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... arrived on Tuesday with an alarming rise in the water level in the Attabad lake and continuing landsliding in the scenic northern areas of Pakistan. ...

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Sampler: Bay to Breakers and Nitrates in Drinking Water

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- May 17, 2010

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[The San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune] Nitrates Contaminate California's Water | Harmful levels of nitrates have been found in the wells that ...

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Water Adds New Constraints to Power

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- May 17, 2010

They are bumping up against water scarcity. A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. In the United States, thermoelectric power generation ...

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California Budget Drought Threatens Water Archive

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