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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BURMA: Donors View Civil Society in New Light afte ...
    BANGKOK, May 2 (IPS) - Local civil society organisations and community groups who rushed to help victims after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore through military-ruled Burma two years ago are reaping rewards for their risky and tireless labour.
  • RIGHTS: Iceland Wakes Up to Trafficking for Sex Wo ...
    REYKJAVIK, May 1 (IPS) - It took the conviction of five Lithuanian men in March, on charges of bringing a 19-year-old girl into Iceland for sex work, before this country truly woke up to the reality of trafficking.
  • Indigenous Forum Closes on Note of Hope, and Cauti ...
    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) - Friday marked the last day of the two-week Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, with attendees expressing optimism but also concern about the ongoing encroachment of industrial and development projects into native lands.
  • Security Council Faulted for Gender Hypocrisy
    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) - Ten years after a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at re-evaluating women's roles in U.N.-brokered peacekeeping efforts, women are still underrepresented in the peacekeeping process.
  • SIERRA LEONE: Bold Plan for Maternal Health
    FREETOWN, Apr 30
 (IPS) - A woman alone: Josephine Bangali fetches water from the well to set to boil over a wood fire so she can sterilise her instruments.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent ( London )

  • Bombs kill one and injure a hundred in Iraq
    Two bombs killed one person and injured 100 others in northern Iraq today, police said, in what appeared to be an attack on the country's Christian minority.
  • New York police defuse Times Square car bomb
    Police in the US found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in New York's Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle it, authorities said today.
  • NY police defuse Times Square car bomb
    Police in the US found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in New York's Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle it, authorities said today.
  • Bali police round up the gigolos
    For years they have been a familiar sight: the bronzed young men who patrol Bali's main beach, offering friendship – and often more – to female foreign tourists. But now the "Kuta cowboys", as they are known, face an uncertain future, thanks to an uproar provoked by a warts-and-all documentary.
  • Hollywood at war over TV drama 'hatchet job' on JF ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion in No-Bid ...
    The Pentagon's main supply agency has acknowledged awarding $1.4 billion in no-bid contracts to two foreign companies whose ownership and management seem extremely mysterious.
  • ISI Behind Frenchmen Death?
    The assassination of 11 French engineers in a bomb blast in Karachi in 2002 may not be the work of Islamist terrorists, as alleged these past years, but an act of retaliation carried out by Pakistan's army and Inter-Services Intelligence in response to the French State's failure to pay Pakistani of ...
  • White House Says No New Offshore Drilling Until I ...
  • Gold Hits 2010 High
    Gold hit a 2010 high above $1,180 an ounce in Europe on Friday, fueled by euro strength and investors continuing to embrace the metal's safe-haven properties on unease over euro zone sovereign debt levels.
  • Spain's Jobless Rate Tops 20 Percent
    Spain's jobless rate topped 20 percent in the first quarter, national statistics institute INE said Friday, fueling fears over the country's public finances which have rattled global financial markets.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Britain's leaders debate on the economy: Evasion, ...
    The last of three televised debates between Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Conservative David Cameron and Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg was billed as the moment they would finally come clean and tell the electorate the truth: That whichever party, or combination of them, forms a new government after May ...
  • Fears for crops as shock figures from America show ...
    The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to ...
  • New York: Car Bomb Scares Times Square, But Fails ...
    Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, authorities said Sunday. Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours while the bomb was dismantled. "We avoided w ...
  • Secret Christian donors bankroll Tories
    Increasingly powerful Conservative grassroots organisation numbers 37 prospective candidates among its members Gordon Brown may be a son of the manse, but, when it comes to evangelical Christianity, David Cameron's Conservatives have been busily amassing powerful, wealthy and influential supporters ...
  • Arkansas twisters kill 3, injure 35
    At least three people have died and 35 others have been hurt as several tornadoes leveled homes, overturned vehicles and uprooted trees across central Arkansas. Spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management Renee Preslar said on Saturday that the deaths were reported in Van Buren ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Iceland
    Stromboli online is a site out of Switzerland. Marco Fulle took some amazing pictures on April 16th. Go check them out.
  • Boogity Boogity . . .
    A FEW DECADES AGO, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY opened up P.E.A.R. , Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research . It was closed in 2007, after completing its experimental agenda of studying the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes, and developing complemen ...
  • Imagine...
    ... if you will : Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of t ...
  • Watcha gonna do?
    Given that the CDS has , with a keen lancet, indicated that the Harper Regime is no longer permitted to use the Canadian Forces as a political shield, it's going to be interesting to observe how the Conservafans rationalise their fallacious ideological union of the CPC and the armed forces... Popc ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik...
    ...is still getting screwed by the inaction of the sick sack of sociopathic sadists currently constituted as the Harper regime. Now go read Dawg , for details and, most importantly, some of the things you can do to help your fellow citizen and human being.

Media Matters for America

  • Is Coulter accusing Fox News of "blatantly lying" ...
    On The O'Reilly Factor , Ann Coulter stated that "everyone is blatantly lying" when saying the new Arizona immigration law could lead to racial profiling. However, several Fox News personalities have said that the law may lead to racial profiling. Coulter: "[E]veryone is blatantly lying about what ...
  • Memo to media: Timeline contradicts "Obama's Katr ...
    A timeline of events following the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill belies the absurd media claim that the spill represents "Obama's Katrina." April 20 (10 p.m.): Oil rig explosion . An April 21 ABCNews.com article reported , "An overnight explosion in the Gulf of Mexico rocked the Deep ...
  • Limbaugh falsely claimed Obama waited eight days t ...
    Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that President Obama "waited eight days" to respond to the Gulf oil spill. In fact, the White House immediately dispatched federal officials and the Coast Guard to work on the response to the spill. Limbaugh falsely claims that "Obama didn't jump on thi ...
  • Oil spill is only the latest crisis media have du ...
    Media figures have absurdly declared that the Gulf Coast oil spill is "Obama's Katrina" and have compared President Obama's response to the spill with President Bush's botched response to Hurricane Katrina. But this is just the latest in a long line of ridiculous comparisons in which media fig ...
  • "Drill, baby, drill": Fox News' environmental cat ...
    In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill currently occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, Media Matters reviews Fox News' fervent advocacy for offshore drilling. Its activism has including promoting Sarah Palin's "drill, baby, drill" mantra and pushing myths suggesting that drilling is environmenta ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Audit the Fed: What Did They Do With Our Money?
    We're entering the final innings of the debate over financial reform. There are many important issues still up in the air including whether the law will do anything to break up the big banks and prevent them from engaging in risky trading. Remarkably, the place where the Obama administration has cho ...
  • Getting Out of Hock
    One of our correspondents sent me and article last week about University of Chicago Professor Raghuram Rajan and his thoughts about the financial crisis. He has a book coming out in early July called Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy . His main cause for the crisis i ...
  • Populist Dem Brad Sherman D-CA, Convenes Hill Hate ...
    Add Brad Sherman (D-CA) to the list of those supposedly liberal Democrats who, when it comes to Israel, are to the right of Rush Limbaugh and Bibi Netanyahu. Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, and Jerry Nadler are old news. They wear their hypocrisy on human rights issues as badges of pride. I ...
  • Neocons: Playing The Dual Loyalty Card
    The neocons AIPAC, its think-tank (the Washington Institute of Near East Policy), and the rest of the usual Israel-can-do-no-wrong crowd is now harping on the question of dual loyalty. Are American Jews being accused of being more loyal to Israel than America? The "dual loyalty card" is suddenl ...
  • Challenging the Roberts Court
    Everyone has joined issue on when, and how, the Democrats ought to challenge the Roberts Court. The assumption seems to be that criticizing judicial activism is fair game, but a path that politicians should walk with care given the esteem in which many Americans hold the Supreme Court. As befits t ...

TruthOut

  • Chemicals Meant To Break Up BP Oil Spill Present N ...
    The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of environmental problems. Even if the materials, called dispersants, are effective, BP has already bought up more than a third of the world’s supply. If the leak ...
  • Boycotts Against Arizona: An Effective Strategy fo ...
    On Your Call , we'll talk about the history and present use of boycotts as protest. Just last week, Arizona passed a set of new immigration laws that many argue erode the civil rights of immigrants and latinos. Some of those who are outraged by the legislation are calling for protest in the form of ...
  • On Climate, Energy, Oil Rigs: First, Do No Harm
    United States action on global warming is long overdue. But energy industry lobbyists and their Senate allies have thwarted the best efforts of three leading senators. The result: A weak bill with egregious flaws. Fortunately, it is temporarily derailed . This hiatus provides President Obama and the ...
  • Pressure Mounts on Energy Giant Chevron to Disclos ...
    Bangkok - When shareholders of the multinational company Chevron gather for their annual meeting in the U.S. city of Houston in late May, they will come face to face with Naing Htoo, whose community has suffered due to the exploits of the energy giant in military-ruled Burma. "I want to expose what ...
  • Music Transcends US-Mexico Border: The MtyMx Festi ...
    I was standing in the taco line when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned my head away from the sizzling meat and smoking tortillas and behind me was a man in his early twenties. He asked me what I was doing in Monterrey, why did I travel there, and wasn't I scared? I told him I came because I love ...

Planetsave

  • The Debate of Environmental Vs Cultural Right: Jap ...
    Conservation group leader may face legal ramifications for attempting to stop Japan’s sanctioned whale hunting. It’s been said that sometimes in order to have new policies created, laws need to be broken. It’s a long-standing ethical debate, and it’s not one that’s likely to be resolved anytime soo ...
  • Global Hawk: NASA Readies New ‘Robo Plane&#8 ...
    Global Hawk, NASA's New Remote-Controlled Plane, will monitor the Troposphere and Stratosphere, and image the Earth's surface. NASA Photograph by Carla Thomas NASA’s newest tool for climate science, Global Hawk, will probe the ozone layer from above and verify satellite data. Just 44 feet in leng ...
  • Did Earth’s Water Arrive on a Meteor?
    Scientists believe that the discovery of ice and organic molecules on an asteroid lingering in orbit between Mars and Jupiter hints at the origin of Earthâs oceans and life 4 billion years ago. “What we’ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet it ...
  • EPA’s “Climate Change Indicators in the US&# ...
    The last major section from the EPA’s new  Climate Change Indicators in the US report is society and ecosystems. Below are key summary points. Clear changes in growing seasons, bird migration leaf growth and blooming dates have occurred and the trends suggest that they will continue. Heat-related ...
  • Researchers Find Alaskan Megaflood Happened 17,000 ...
    New research from the University of Washington indicates that one of the planet’s largest fresh-water megafloods happened some 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska. The comedic value of this story comes from the location of the megaflood, which flooded areas down what is now the Ma ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Old Settler’s Music Festival
    If you love and appreciate one or more of the following items, I’ve got a great idea for how to spend your weekend: Bluegrass Americana Camping Barbeque the Texas Hill Country Public Citizen One out of six? Four, five, six? Excellent! Join us this weekend, April 15-18, at the Old Settler’s Music Fes ...
  • Week in Review
    This week’s string of fossil fuel disasters–a Chinese coal carrier striking the Great Barrier Reef and dumping tons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, an oil pipeline spilling into the Louisiana Delta National Wildlife Refuge at the same time an Exxon Mobil barge was dredging off coast for oil explorati ...
  • Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Get to Know an Activist: Carol Geiger
    Say hello to Carol Geiger. Carol is a Public Citizen stalwart and our Office Manager and EarthShare representative. She’s seen our Austin office grow from three to eight people and move into our current location right across from the Capitol building. Carol is a self-proclaimed “non-profit junkie” a ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    Here are the weekly highlights from the Texas Progressive Alliance. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants to know why Republicans like Victoria’s DA Steve Tyler, Nueces County’s DA Anna Jimenez and (who could forget) Alberto Gonzales abuse their offices? The Texas Cloverleaf thinks Rick Perry is e ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

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

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
  • Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
    It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
  • Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
    It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
  • Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
    Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
  • Tomgram: Droning On
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Confessions Of A Wall St. Nihilist: Forget About G ...
    There was a strange moment last week during President Obama's speech at Cooper Union. There he was, groveling before a cast of Wall Street villains including Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein, begging them to "Look into your heart!" like John Turturro's character in Miller's Crossing...when out of ...
  • Death Squads: Capital punishment should not be lef ...
    More often than not, politicians get to decide who lives and who dies. You see their scythes and black hoods in the current "debate" over whether to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a hot issue in this year's governor's race (see "A Time to Kill," April 14). But, of course, you see them in ...
  • Unfree Markets: The Last Gasp of a (Literally) Ban ...
    What we've been witnessing in Washington isn't just political positioning by one party looking to deny the other a victory, although it's certainly that. We're also seeing the death struggle of a dying ideology. This ideology provided intellectual cover to business and political elites for decades, ...
  • It's the Derivatives, Stupid
    Free market fundamentalists say the real problem with our financial sector is that they are over-regulated. If we just let the banks regulate themselves that we wouldn't have any problems. Rush Limbaugh says Goldman Sachs is the victim . The government caused the problems with all of their rules and ...
  • VIDEO: In 2001, McInnis Publicly Endorsed Racial P ...
    As a follow up to the news this morning that GOP gubernatorial frontrunner Scott McInnis wants to implement an Arizona-style racial profiling law in Colorado, I want to point out that McInnis in 2001 already went on record explicitly supporting overt racial profiling. Though this has (somehow) not ...

Ten Percent

  • ICG On Thailand
    Not infallible or without biases perhaps, however the International Crisis Group’s alert on Thailand is worth reading. Jotman has also featured it, I was reading around about the current situation and then today in conversation with my mother she reported how a cousin was worried because their daugh ...
  • Friday! The Jesus & Mary Chain- April Skies
    So say goodbye to April, maybe the last month for years we do not live under a spite filled, hateful Tory administration attacking migrants, the poor & those on welfare on behalf of the ruling class & corporate state. Or as it is otherwise known another stretch of neoliberalism this time under Conse ...
  • If You Only Read One Article This Week About Israe ...
    Via Pulse (who have a video of the speech)- The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners This is the transcript of the Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial Lecture delivered by John J. Mearsheimer at the The Palestine Center today. It is a great honor to be here at the Palestine Center to gi ...
  • Free Gaza Freedom Flotilla Announces Aid Mission F ...
    Buy Cement To Be Sent On The Freighters Or Donate Here (London, UK) On May 24, 2010, the Freedom Flotilla sets sail for Gaza determined to, once again, challenge Israel’s blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in an open-air prison. Under the coordination of the Free Gaza Movement, numerous hu ...
  • This IS Shock Doctrine
    “We now believe that the Spanish economy’s shift away from credit-fuelled economic growth is likely to result in a more protracted period of sluggish activity than we previously assumed,” Standard & Poor’scredit analyst Marko Mrsnik said. The credit ratings corporations are attacking a country for ...

Booman Tribune

  • We Should Own BP
    I don't understand the law all that well, but it appears that back in 1986 the oil companies bought Congress themselves a maximum liability of $75 million for damages related to any oil spill. They are responsible for cleaning up the mess, but who knows what that means when oil has destroyed 40% of ...
  • Still Rolling In it...
    Good to see that Larry Johnson is still wallowing in filth. At least he admits he got burned on the Whitey Tape. I'll never understand why he decided to become the Orly Taitz of ex-CIA officers.
  • Uh, the Spill Has Impact
    From the New York Times: Theres a world of difference between the impact of an oil spill and a deadly hurricane. And the White House hopes it stays that way. As President Obama, who will visit the Gulf region on Sunday morning, has stepped up his administrations response to the oil leak in t ...
  • Weekend Update
    Happy Mission Accomplished Day. It's been seven years!! Defense Secretary Gates has sent a letter to House Armed Services chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO), strongly opposing any effort to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) before the Pentagon has a chance to complete their review of the policy and ...
  • How Did We Get Here?
    In part, the new Brookings Institution report on party polarization by William Galston doesn't tell us anything we don't already know. The two parties haven't been this divided since Reconstruction. The current Congressthe 111this the most ideologically polarized in modern history. In both t ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Mayday, Mayday…
    No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
  • Mayday, Mayday…
    No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
  • Somalia: failed state, economic success?
    Via the Anarcho-Transhumanism blog, here’s an interesting article that examines Somalia’s fate since the fall of Siad Barre’s dictatorship in 1991, and which points out that – despite a lack of central governance – Somalia’s economy has actually improved somewhat: It is hard to call any country mire ...
  • Snow Crash ‘dentata’ is a (harsh) reality in South ...
    (Trigger warning: discussion of rape and aftermath) Chalk another one up on the list of sf-nal gadgets that have graduated from printed page to reality… but at the same time deplore the need for it, because the gadget in question is something like the dentata anti-rape device featured in Neal Stephe ...
  • First remote-controlled robot heart surgery succes ...
    A reminder (if such were needed) that technology is a double-edged sword: while remote-controlled tech can be used to kill, it can also be used to save lives, as demonstrated by the first successful remote-controlled robot heart surgery procedure, performed earlier this week in London [via SlashDot] ...

Therapy News

  • New York Artist Walks Offer New Perspectives with ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are many ways to enjoy the culture and vibrancy of the city of New York, and interested residents and visitors have been engaging in art walks and gallery hopping events for many years. Taking this idea to the outdoors, the group Elastic City has announced a new ...
  • UK Conference on Psychological Well-Being among th ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though psychological difficulties and personal challenges are not limited to any one group, those who are faced with homelessness may experience especially trying circumstances which can have a negative impact on overall mental health. In an effort to reach out to suc ...
  • Shame and Social Anxiety
    By Evelyn Goodman, Psy.D, LMFT, Anxiety Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Evelyn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile One of the consequences of being the social animals that humans are is the potential to be uncomfortable or anxious around other people. Sometimes we are born with thi ...
  • “Vibrant” Civic Communities Shown to have Lower Cr ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Working towards lowering the crime rates of cities and towns typically involves assessing the economic needs of residents, but in a pair of reports recently published by a scholar with Louisiana State University, the link between cities’ crime rates and the cities the ...
  • The Art of Communication
    By Lynne Foote, MA, LPC, Pre-Marital Counseling Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The single most consistent cause that brings couples into my office for counseling is that their communication has broken down and they are caught in a cycle of ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Companies should end mountaintop removal - The Ten ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Companies should end mountaintop removal The Tennessean As photos of mountaintop-removal sites show, building a mountain peak is a job for nature, not humankind. The loss is there for all to see. ... RHEIN: End mountaintop removal madness Attleboro Sun Chron ...
  • EPA guidelines on mountaintop removal offer hope f ...
    Environmental Data Interactive EPA guidelines on mountaintop removal offer hope for Appalachia's environment Facing South (blog) The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its promised guidelines for mountaintop removal coal mining last week, and they're getting praise from ... Mountaintop Remova ...
  • W.Va. Tea Party hopes to sway 1st District race - ...
    W.Va. Tea Party hopes to sway 1st District race phillyBurbs.com He also called the group "very anti-coal," referring to a February forum it held on the mountaintop removal method of mining. "I was also pleased to be the ... and more��
  • A better way - Rutland Herald
    A better way Rutland Herald The mining of coal has created vast despoliation in West Virginia as mining companies practice what is euphemistically called mountain-top removal . ... and more��
  • There's A Mountain In My Lobby! - NewsBlaze (press ...
    NewsBlaze (press release) There's A Mountain In My Lobby! NewsBlaze (press release) This is a call to bring the earth back to the bank that has financed 80% of the mountaintop removal strip-mining in Appalachia JP Morgan Chase. ...

Memeorandum

  • White House Correspondents: Birthers? (Mark Silva/ ...
    Mark Silva / The Swamp : White House Correspondents: Birthers?   —  President Barack Obama's approval ratings may be down among the American public.  At least, he said before a black-tie dinner crowd in Washington, he remains popular in “the country of my birth.”  —  That's the way the laugh-lines ...
  • BP Is Criticized Over Oil Spill, but U.S. Missed C ...
    New York Times : BP Is Criticized Over Oil Spill, but U.S. Missed Chances to Act   —  NEW ORLEANS — As oil edged toward the Louisiana coast and fears continued to grow that the leak from a seabed oil well could spiral out of control, officials in the Obama administration publicly chastised BP Amer ...
  • Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square (New York Tim ...
    New York Times : Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square   —  A crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night ...
  • Unification Church will put Washington Times up fo ...
    Ian Shapira / Washington Post : Unification Church will put Washington Times up for sale   —  Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has kept the Unification Church-backe ...
  • Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric ...
    Associated Press : Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric   —  ANN ARBOR, Mich. - In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to America's democra ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • “Land-grabbing” in Africa (2)
    Even Sudan, emerging from civil war, is not off-limits to investors seeking land and profits, John Vidal writes. Ethiopia, too, is a land-rush centre where many deals are condemned as “new colonialism”. Nowhere is now out of bounds. Sudan , emerging from civil war and mostly bereft of development fo ...
  • “Land-grabbing” in Africa (1)
    In what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era, rich countries are farming land on the continent for their own citizens while Africans go hungry, John Vidal reports. We turned off the main road to Awassa , talked our way past security guards and drove nearly two kilometres ac ...
  • A big fight for small farms
    Battles over forcible acquisition of India’s agricultural land for industry are raging – particularly in the country’s tribal belt, where indigenous groups have upset corporate plans to tap mineral riches. Amy Kazmin reports. First, the land surveyors came. Then the rumours spread through the villag ...
  • Activism makes us happy
    Political engagement may not be a barrel of laughs, but US-German research shows there is a link between well-being and taking action on issues that affect our lives, writes Aditya Chakrabortty. Marching in the drizzle against wars in far-off countries, writing letters protesting the government’s la ...
  • Resisting the urban dinosaurs
    Naive utopian development projects, such as those in drought-stricken Kunming, only exacerbate social and environmental problems, writes Zhu Xiaoyang. The document now facing me, from the Kunming City Planning Commission Office, in the south-west Chinese province of Yunnan, is certainly worth a read ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Commentary: On May 1, It's Mayday for Arizona
    It’s been May Day in Arizona for a long time. We are finally catching up to Phoenix
  • Agency Postpones Awards Ceremony Celebrating Offsh ...
    Cross-posted from Think Progress. Since the offshore oil rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico, federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service (MMS) have been coming under increasing scrutiny for whether they were negligent in overseeing the rigs owned by BP and others. At a press conference th ...
  • Oil Rig Sinks, As Does Senate Climate Bill
    Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil from a sunken rig is leaking as much as five times faster than scientists originally judged, and the spill reportedly reached land last night. And in Washington, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ...
  • Agnostic but Spiritual? This is what I believe, an ...
    By Dave Belden. Crossposted from Tikkun Daily. âAgnosticâ we understand as ânot knowingâ–usually referring to beliefs about God. âSpiritualâ is more problematic. If I say I am a âspiritual agnosticâ some people think I am claiming to be holier than thou, as if calling oneself a human ...
  • Chocolate Formula for Toddlers?
    Cross-posted from Food Politics. Mead-Johnson, the company that prides itself on its “decades-long patterning of infant formulas after breast milk,” now goes one better.  It sells chocolate- and vanilla-flavored formulas for toddlers, fortified with nutrients, omega-3s, and antioxidants. The company ...

Threat Level

  • Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent
    The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent in 2009 over 2008, according to a report released Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Courts authorized 2,376 criminal wiretap orders in 2009, with 96 percent targeting mob ...
  • Court OKs Unmasking Identities of Copyright Scoffl ...
    A federal appeals court is blessing the legal process by which the recording industry and other content owners unmask the identities of alleged peer-to-peer copyright infringers. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is believed to be the first appellate court to sanction a process t ...
  • Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Found Guilty of Coverup
    A Tennessee jury on Friday convicted David Kernell of obstruction of justice and misdemeanor computer intrusion in connection with his hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account in 2008, according to local news reports. The jury acquitted the 22-year-old Kernell of wire fraud, and deadlocked on a four ...
  • Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
    Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars. The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called ...
  • iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
    The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says althou ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NY police confirm car bomb caused Times Sq. evacua ...
    NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - The New York Police Department said on Saturday the incident that caused Times Square to be evacuated was what appeared to be a car bomb, which was being dismantled by officers on the scene.
  • NY governor calls failed car bomb act of terrorism
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police tipped off by a street vendor found and defused a car bomb inside a sport utility vehicle, thwarting an "act of terrorism" that forced the evacuation of New York's Times Square on Saturday and could have killed many people, authorities said early on Sunday.
  • Times Sq evacuation was for failed explosive devic ...
    NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - The dark-colored sports utility vehicle which triggered the evacuation of Times Square on Saturday night was found to contain explosives, gasoline, propane and burned wires, a New York Fire Department officer told Reuters.
  • Obama to visit Gulf as oil slick threatens
    VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will visit the U.S. Gulf Coast on Sunday as his administration seeks to deflect criticism it could have responded quicker to a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that threatens to become an economic and ecological catastrophe.
  • Mayweather survives onslaught to outclass Mosley
    LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Floyd Mayweather resisted a furious early onslaught by Shane Mosley to preserve his unbeaten professional record with an unanimous points victory in a welterweight bout on Saturday.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • Seven Deadly Sins in Afghanistan
    By David Swanson | http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/51869 Teach In on War Remarks By David Swanson, April 29, 2010 If we could establish that funding an escalation of war in Afghanistan was illegal, immoral, against the public will, economically catastrophic, ...
  • Its Time to Rethink the Cost of Wars
    By Tracy Emblem | PDA Blog Contributor The National Priorities Project estimates that it cost the U.S. taxpayers $1.05 trillion dollars to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through the end of Fiscal Year 2010. In ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All – April Call
    April’s Healthcare for All call focused more intensely than usual on the actions PDA members and all supporters of Medicare for All can take individually and as a group. Donna Smith, Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair, ...
  • Some Arizona History; A Context for SB 1070?
    By Gerry Straatemeier | From Salon.com As the Arizona anti-immigrant law SB 1070 is signed into law, I was thinking this morning that some Arizona History may begin to explain some of the very different ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 6 with Rep. Ji ...
    PDA national director Tim Carpenter interviews PDA advisory board member Rep. Jim McGovern from Massachusetts' third congressional district on the upcoming Afghanisatn supplemental appropriation bill, Medcare for all and state efforts to pass single-payer healthcare, ...

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella found in Nestle morsels - again
    Michael Burke of the Journal Times report that for the second time this year, Nestle's local plant has shut down a production line after a positive salmonella test. Workers reported, and the company confirmed, that a batch of chocolate chips tested positive for salmonella on Wednesday. Nestle spoke ...
  • Beta Testers Still Needed - Foodborne Illness Outb ...
    We have continued to upgrade and improve www.outbreakdatabase.com and nearly are ready for launch.� We have a few "bugs" to work out and we are going to link to the CDC and CSPI databases too.� We would still love any input, advise or criticism.
  • The USDA should declare that all illness causing s ...
    In 2010 there are still lethal strains of E. coli that some parts of our government do not regulate in the food supply. E. coli O157:H7 has been considered an adulterant in food since 1994 by USDA/FSIS, but non–O157 strains, which can be just as devastating, are not. As a result, non-O157 strains ...
  • For those interested in E. coli O145 like those in ...
    Here is a very interesting and recent article on E. coli O145 - including outbreaks:
  • New York now linked to E. coli O145 Outbreak in Mi ...
    Misti Crane of the Columbus Dispatch (she has covered her fair share of E. coli outbreaks) reported a few moments ago that Health officials in New York have linked a person's illness there to the E. coli outbreak in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and are looking into at least 12 more possib ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Is it better to recharge your gadgets while drivin ...
    Filed under: Technology Once a standard internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle gets up to operating speeds, it produces more energy than can go to the wheels thanks to losses from heat and friction. And, since it's the engine that sends energy to the power outlet in the car (via the battery), d ...
  • Automotive X Prize revs up for Michigan events, Kn ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Electric , Diesel Governor Granholm and X-Prize CEO Peter Diamandis in the Amp'd Sky - Click above for high-res image gallery At the official kick-off event for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize in Lansing, MI today, the same cars, most of the same people and the s ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.30.10
    Sunk Gulf oil rig spilling up to 5,000 barrels of crude every day Going from "not bad" to worse. James Cameron attempts to terminate the oil and coal lobbies (on CNN) First Pandora, now Eart ...
  • Report: Tesla's Elon Musk says new CUV model due i ...
    Filed under: Crossover , Tesla , Electric IED Tesla EYE concept - Click above for high-res image gallery The Tesla EYE design concept we saw in at the Geneva Motor Show was just an experiment some students at the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin did with the Tesla brand. But the idea that we wi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 04.29.10
    Know what you want and need, or you may not get to buy a Nissan Leaf "We may tell the customer, 'Look, you'd be better off buying an Altima or a Sentra because your driving patterns are not ideal for this car .'" ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Facebook and privacy (podca ...
    Our topic this week: Facebook and privacy. At the F8 conference on April 21, Facebook rolled out privacy changes and new data sharing features. As usually happens when Facebook makes a privacy change, there was a swift and mighty backlash against them. But this time, even the federal government ...
  • Do not pay for security software
    PC makers should be offering free antivirus apps. They're not, and here's why. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
  • Likebutton.me shows Facebook's new 'like' button i ...
    Check out this little news aggregator that's aware of your social network. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Twitter's business model (p ...
    Today: Twitter's business model. Yes, there is one. Finally. To talk about what Twitter is going to do--and if they really need to do it--we have two great guests with us here in the studio. First, from CNET, author of our social-networking blog The Social , Caroline McCarthy ( @caro on Twitter). ...
  • How to save money with refurb laptops
    You can get a nearly new, nicely restored laptop at a bargain, if you shop carefully. 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!

  • "The Curse of Abundance": Alberto Acosta on the Fa ...
    The government of Ecuador is pioneering a new strategy to promote development in poor countries while also minimizing environmental damage caused by extraction of natural resources. Under Ecuador’s proposal known as “ITT Yasuni,” Ecuador will refrain from exploiting an oil field under the Amazon r ...
  • Boycotting Arizona’s Racism
    Arizona was the only territory west of Texas to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War. A century later, it fought recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. This week, an anti-immigrant bill was signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Arizona Sen ...
  • Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
    Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from El Alto International, the world’s highest commercial ...
  • Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal
    Massey Energy runs the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine in Montcoal, W.Va., where 29 miners were killed last week. The loss of life is tragic, but the UBB explosion is more than tragic; it is criminal. When corporations are guilty of crimes, however, they don’t go to prison, they don’t forfeit their fre ...
  • Poet and Author Alice Walker Speaking in Gaza
    Following the Israeli siege, Alice Walker visited Gaza in March 2009 along with a 60-member international delegation led by Code Pink. Walking among the ruins, she spoke to Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat.

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

  • Gulf Oil Spill From Space [pics]
    The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is being tracked from outer space, where the sea's ugly slick takes on a strange kind of beauty.
  • The Gulf Oil Spill: 6 Worst-Case Scenarios
    The Gulf of Mexico oil spill, five times worse than originally thought, could easily surpass the Exxon Valdez disaster in both volume and ecological devastation. The slick has already hit the Louisiana coast and is headed for Mississippi, and the Obama administration is treating it as a national eme ...
  • Tracked From Space: Gulf Oil Slick Approaches Land
    The oil slick that resulted from the rig explosion on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico is heading toward the Mississippi Delta and nearby coastline.
  • Why Are Windmills Always White And Have Three Blad ...
    The federal government has green-lighted the nation's first offshore wind farm, to be built off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. Opponents claim that 130 white, three-bladed turbines will detract from the natural beauty of Nantucket Sound. Why do all modern windmills look the same?
  • US Approves First Offshore Wind Farm
    Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar traveled to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to announce that the 450 megawatt, 130 turbine, $900 million Cape Wind project is becoming a reality.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Lloyd Blankfein, Vampire at Large
    By Les Visible When historians look back on this time of the most pervasive corruptions at all levels of society, one name will stand as the icon above all the rest. That name will be Goldman Sachs. Lloyd Blankfein’s comment about doing God’s work will also be remembered as the ultimate in hubris an ...
  • How Ehud Barak Pulled Off 9-11
    By Christopher Bollyn “It is one hundred percent certain that 9-11 was a Mossad operation – period.” – Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, is currently in the United States for a week of meetings and speeches ...
  • Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 29th 20 ...
    Al Gore has a modest new home in California, because every eco-cult leader needs a mansion on each coast. Australia’s government dropped emissions trading like a hot rock because the ‘climate crisis’ can wait until after the pesky election, and CNN emulates ancient cultures and is fearful of a venge ...
  • The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud
    IBD Editorial While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House. Lost in the recent headlines was Al Gore’s appearance Monday in Denver at the annual meeti ...
  • Sea ice loss driving Arctic warming cycle???
    I guess I have a couple of questions for the authors of this study.  It appears that the sea ice extent has basically returned to the 1979-2000 average.  Does this mean that the warming cycle is over? Later in this article a statement is made that more water will evaporate as temperatures warm.  Doe ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Amazing Artwork Made by Insects!
    Believe it or not, this artwork is actually made from the movement of tiny insects! Straight from Eindhoven comes Debugged, Big Apple Bugs and Vernissage – a new exhibit from the enterprising experimental design team Edhv. ‘Art by Insects’ is a fascinating series based on a vision of organic and rea ...
  • ECO ART: New York Times’ Dot Earth and Ecoartspace ...
    As a means to target some of the most critical environmental and social issues of our time, non-profit organization ecoartspace recently joined forces with New York Times environmental journalist Andrew Revkin on his Dot Earth blog to ask leading experts, writers, and readers their opinions on the e ...
  • Scientist Produces Plastic From Natural Gas
    Peak oil signifies disaster for plastics producers — ethene, one of the raw materials used to make plastics, relies on abundant supplies of oil for production. But Dutch researcher Tymen Tiemersma thinks he has a solution: a reactor that can produce ethene from natural gas. Read the rest of Scienti ...
  • NYC: Join Inhabitat at the Hester Street Fair this ...
    HEY GREEN-MINDED NEW YORKERS! In case you missed it last weekend, the fabulous Hester Street Fair opened last Saturday at Seward Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan to huge crowds and much excitement. By all accounts, the fair’s opening weekend was a phenomenal success: bringing in over 11,000 ...
  • Hyper-Absorbant Peat Moss Could Clean Up Oil Spill ...
    A tiny Norwegian company has developed a super absorbent organic peat moss that is capable of cleaning up oil floating on water. The peat is scattered on the spill and absorbs the oil, and, because it doesn’t absorb water, it can then simply be scooped out — taking the toxic oil with it. Read the r ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass
    If the weird rules of atomic physics do help birds find their way around the globe — as some scientists suspect — a new study has identified ways of finding out how. The study is among the first to propose a direct test of how quantum entanglement, an effect that inexorably links two electrons in a ...
  • Tracked From Space: Gulf Oil Slick Approaches Land
    > The oil slick that resulted from the rig explosion on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico is heading toward the Mississippi Delta and nearby coastline. Some experts are predicting the impact of the oil reaching the marshlands in the area could be bigger than that of the 1989 [...]
  • Plan B: California Braces for Climate Change
    When it comes to environmental regulation, California doesn’t wait for the Feds to ride in and lay down the law. The Golden State led the way on mandating emissions-control equipment in motor vehicles in 1961. It pioneered tailpipe-emissions standards in 1967 and ratcheted them up into the 1990s, p ...
  • What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
    Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba – and Stanford University physician Paul Drain says it’s time for the United States to pay attention to our neighbor’s shoestring success. Despite a 50-year trade embargo by t ...
  • Gene Grows Worm Heads
    A worm named Schmidtea mediterranea has the unique ability to regenerate not only its limbs, but also its head and brain. Now, scientists studying the worm have discovered one of the genes that allows it to accomplish this amazing feat. The gene, called “smed-prep,” regulates the location and struc ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Political Developments in Ukraine: Sunset of the O ...
    I don’t always agree with the folks at Foreign Policy, but I think they nail this one : Ukrainians were absolutely correct to stand up and defend their democratic rights back in 2004. Yanukovych and his party were guilty of egregious election fraud. Moscow supported Yanukovych so openly, and so brut ...
  • Iraq Attempts to Meet Its Housing Shortage
    As noted before , in 2010 the Iraqi government initiated a massive building campaign. On April 4, the Housing Ministry announced that it wanted to solve the country’s housing crisis by 2014 through a mix of foreign and public investment. The Minister said that April and May would see 16 new projects ...
  • Off-the-Radar News Roundup
    - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is incredibly unpopular among Japanese voters , according to a Kyodo News survey from this week: 65 percent unfavorable, with only 20 percent approval rating. More than half of those surveyed believe Hatoyama should resign if he fails to resolve the Futenma b ...
  • Migrant Workers' Rights in the Spotlight
    The plight of migrant workers around the world got significant attention from rights advocates this week ahead of International Labor Day on May 1. Across the globe, according to advocates, migrant workers face a broad range of serious human rights abuses that range from unpaid wages and long workin ...
  • Searching for Cracks in the Great Firewall of Chin ...
    Just a few years ago, conventional wisdom held that Google would be the vanguard of Internet freedom in China, transforming the way information flows throughout the historically closed society. But while the rapid expansion of the Internet in China has indeed served as a vital medium for political ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The John McCain School of Getting ...
    There's a shared conceit among the business class and the wealthy who wish to enter politics that they bring some sort of independent, means-tested credibility to the field based on the fact that they've been successful in the private sector. Take "fed up" billionaire Jeff Greene , who is jumping i ...
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
    What a week! It's been fantastic to come out from behind my long-time pseudonym and post here at The Prospect . Under the supervision of really stellar editors Alexandra and Phoebe , I've had the opportunity to post about virginity, racism in law schools, abortion rights, and M.I.A.'s controversial ...
  • Arizona Is More Than Anti-Immigration.
    Arizona has already become the laughing-stock of the nation by passing an anti-immigration bill that would allow police to demand proof of citizenship of anyone who seems to be " breathing while Latino ," and now things have gotten even worse. The state's Department of Education has been telling sch ...
  • The Little Picture: The White House and the Oil Me ...
    Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met yesterday to discuss the Gulf Coast oil disaster. (White House/Pete Souza)
  • Why Stephanie Grace Should Lose Her Clerkship.
    Silvana tackles the basics of the Harvard e-mailer Stephanie Grace below, and highlights it as an example of the need for empathy in a law school system that prioritizes logic first. I'd go even further and say that Grace's statements are not logical at all. Grace assumes faulty science as underlyi ...

Andy Worthington

  • Mustapha Labsi’s Story, In His Own Words
    In a previous article, I wrote about Mustapha Labsi, an Algerian terror suspect, shuttled between various European prisons for the last nine years, who was deported from Slovakia last week “in clear violation of Slovakia’s international obligations,” as Amnesty International explained. Mustapha Labs ...
  • Slovakia Deports Mustapha Labsi to Algeria in Viol ...
    On April 19, Mustapha Labsi, an Algerian terror suspect shuttled around prisons in Europe since his arrest in the UK in February 2001, lost his struggle to resist being forcibly repatriated. Labsi was returned to Algeria from Slovakia, even though, as Amnesty International explained, this was “in cl ...
  • Seven Days for Seven Years: A Week-Long Vigil for ...
    One month ago, I addressed the disturbing case of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in an article marking “Aafia Siddiqui Day,” in which I ran through what I regarded as some of the particularly pertinent questions to ask regarding her disappearance for five years, the whereabouts of her t ...
  • Fahad Hashmi and Terrorist Hysteria in US Courts
    In America’s post-9/11 zeal for elevating terror suspects to the status of supermen, existentially threatening the very life of the United States in an unprecedented manner (rather than managing one massive attack on the US through the intelligence agencies’ inability to communicate with one another ...
  • Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over ...
    For the prisoners in Guantánamo, countless obstacles have been raised to prevent them from ever being freed. When the Supreme Court granted the prisoners habeas corpus rights in June 2004, for example, the Bush administration responded by convening, instead, military tribunals whose main purpose was ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Pentagon Tightens Ban on Supremacist Activity Afte ...
    Since the SPLC warned the U.S. military about extremist activity among active-duty personnel in 2006, the Pentagon brass has steadfastly denied that a problem existed and insisted that its “zero-tolerance” policy was sufficient to keep organized racists out of its ranks. That changed this past Novem ...
  • Gay-Bashing Church Could Lose Tax Exemption
    A Florida church known for its Muslim bashing is now taking aim at a gay mayoral candidate — and possibly endangering its tax exemption. Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville has been attacking City Commissioner Craig Lowe, one of two candidates vying for mayor in an April 13 run-off election. T ...
  • Militant Anti-Abortion Activist Appeared on White ...
    Militant anti-abortion activist Michael Bray is reaching out to Kenyans on a new website targeting abortion providers and gay rights activists with ties to the country. In his endorsement of ProjectSEE.com , he rejects the view of “racists” who thought Africa was “hopelessly backwards because it was ...
  • Nativist Leader Suspects GOP Senator Being Blackma ...
    Nativist leader William Gheen routinely demonizes undocumented immigrants, whom he portrays as violent, disease-ridden criminals. Now he’s targeting Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), saying the longtime Washington politician should acknowledge that he’s gay. “The national border security organization kn ...
  • Website Blames Whites for, Well, Just About Everyt ...
    The white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) is well known for showcasing stories on its website that present African Americans in a bad light. Examples this year: “Gonorrhea is now almost exclusively a black disease” and “Black thugs hold white teens captive while raping and torturi ...

change: org.

  • Mafia Wars and Video Game Violence Against Animals
    If you're on Facebook, you might have seen some of the recent uproar over the addition of animal weapons to the Mafia Wars game. In case you're not familiar with it, Mafia Wars is a game by Zynga (creators of the infamous Farmville ) where players rob, fight, kill people ... pretty much what you'd e ...
  • Take Action to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
    A few months ago I wrote about FGM (female genital mutilation). I focused on FGM abroad, but there was also a Salon piece about the growing problem of FGM here in the good ol' US of A. FGM is a truly heinous act, and lest you think that a few cuts aren't that bad, or that like a shot, the pain will ...
  • The Five Horseman of the Coming Conference Reckoni ...
    I don't use the word "hate" very often, but I hate mediocrity. I hate when things that are important are done just well enough; I hate it when people settle for "okay" when they could be achieving "great." The field of gatherings and conferences for social change agents today is resoundingly mediocr ...
  • Butler County Pays $100K Settlement to Mexican Imm ...
    A timely sign of what can happen when police violate federal immigration law and immigrants' constitutional rights: Butler County, Ohio, recently had to pay out a $100,000 settlement to an undocumented immigrant. The county sheriff's deputies seized Luis Rodriguez at the construction site where he ...
  • 99ers: Share Your Stories
    Through the week, we've been sharing stories of 99ers — people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and are still struggling to find work. With Louise , we learned that many 99ers can't even get the jobs they held as teenagers, flipping burgers at a fast food place. Yvonne shared with us h ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Deepwater Horizon: Conservationists Warn of 'True ...
    by Alok Jha Conservationists monitoring the spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig across the Gulf of Mexico say the situation is at risk of turning into a disaster for the biodiversity in the area. Coastal areas around Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida will all potentially be affec ...
  • Protests Mark May Day
    � Protesters across the world are taking to the streets to mark May Day, also known as Labour and International Workers' Day. In Greece, the atmosphere at Saturday's demonstrations was tense, with millions of people facing increased taxes and pay cuts as the government struggles to overcome its huge ...
  • Obama Calls for Reforms in Election Funding
    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama called on Congress on Saturday to pass reforms limiting the influence of special interest groups on US elections, saying the integrity of US democracy needed to be protected. "What we are facing is no less than a potential corporate takeover of our elections," ...
  • BP Enjoys Lobbying Strength, Close Ties to Lawmake ...
    by Cassandra LaRussa On Thursday, oil giant BP asked for U.S. government assistance in cleaning up massive amounts of crude oil ominously approaching the coast of Louisiana -- the messy results of a recent oil rig explosion 40 miles off-shore. In response, the Obama administration promised suppo ...
  • Protesters Enter NYC Bank Buildings Before Rally
    by Cristian Salazar NEW YORK — Noisy protesters with signs took over three bank building lobbies on Thursday in a prelude to a Wall Street rally by workers and union leaders angry over lost jobs, the taxpayer-funded bailout of financial institutions and questionable lending practices by big banks ...

Lifehacker

  • Thwart Antivirus-Crippling Malware by Changing Fil ...
    Certain annoying types of malware stop your antivirus program from running (stopping you from removing the malware). If it's of the less intelligent variety, you can outsmart the virus by changing your antivirus apps' file extension to somethi ...
  • UnknownDevices Recognizes Your Hardware When Devic ...
    Windows: When Windows' Device Manager just can't seem to give you information about a piece of hardware, free, open-source utility UnknownDevices will point you in the right direction, allowing you to find the necessary drivers to get it up an ...
  • The Beginner's 10-Minute Guide to Setting Up Ubunt ...
    Over at ITWorld, I wrote up a 10-minute Ubuntu setup guide that walks through three key areas: installing all the proprietary tools you're used to having, including MP3, AVI, Flash, and Microsoft-standard fonts; enabling DVD reading and playba ...
  • Pick the Best Remote Access Tool for Your Operatin ...
    With the plethora of remote access tools available, it's increasingly difficult to drill down through the heavily advertised and lesser noted features. Tech site InfoWorld's handy chart and analysis helps you determine the best remote access t ...
  • How to Autofill Numbers and Related Data in Google ...
    Google Spreadsheets can autofill cells with sequential numbers and other related data, like rivers and countries. It's still not an advanced Excel, but this feature can save you some time when you're numbering a column. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Friday Night AFPAK
    Commentary By Ron Beasley The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cAfghanistan Stability Chartwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party The fact that the most intelligent pundit is on The Comedy Channel........
  • Drone Pilots Are War Criminals: Law Profs
    By Steve Hynd I've thought for some time now that there was a good case to be made that drone attacks on the sovereign territory of nations which the U.S. hadn't declared war against were probably war crimes by virtue of the Nuremberg decision about aggressive warfare - just like Iraq. I also believ ...
  • Taliban Stronger Than Ever, Pentagon Says
    By Steve Hynd Some of us warned that an escalation, or "surge" in COINspeak, would lead to more violence in Afghanistan and actually strengthen the Taliban there. A new Pentagon report suggests we were right. A Pentagon report presented a sobering new assessment Wednesday of the Taliban-led insurgen ...
  • 800 troops in excess of McChrystal's "surge" to he ...
    By Steve Hynd NPR today has a story notable for two reasons. The Pentagon is sending 800 more American soldiers to Afghanistan in the coming weeks to work as trainers for the Afghan security forces. The contingent is needed because other NATO countries still haven't fulfilled their pledges to send t ...
  • The Next COIN Fail
    So the people of Afghanistan don't want us there and they are not alone the American people don't support the effort either and Congress is starting to listen.  If things go badly in Kandahar the pressure will only increase.  So could Kandahar be the beginning pf the end?

Water Wars

  • Harry Reid delivers when it comes to federal aid
    The heart of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reids argument for re-election is that he is a powerhouse who delivers for Nevada like no one else. Reid brings home more money than the states other four Washington lawmakers combined.
  • Getting their feet wet
    Jody Iguess slipped into his wet suit and checked his mask, preparing for a dive into Lake Lanier. While others were out on the lake that April day enjoying the water and the afternoon sun, Iguess and a half-dozen divers were there for more than a day of snorkeling.
  • FLIGHT OF SHADOWS
    We had agreed --- the woman I loved and I --- that as soon as you were born, we would perform an act of mercy and decency and wrap you in a towel to drown you in a nearby sink of water, like a kitten in a sack dropped into a river.
  • Water Conservation Model Borrows From Business Met ...
    Columbia business professor Peter Kolesars research on reservoir operations is improving the Delaware Rivers water allocation, protecting native fish populations and mitigating floods while providing drinking water to New York City. Kolesars research was the foundation of the Delaware River Basin Co ...
  • Water Wars, Chicago-Style
    It's your home, you pay your water bill on time. Yet, your neighbor can shut your water off when he gets mad at you. It's happening in Chicago, CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.

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Futurismic

  • Mayday, Mayday…
    No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
  • Mayday, Mayday…
    No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
  • Somalia: failed state, economic success?
    Via the Anarcho-Transhumanism blog, here’s an interesting article that examines Somalia’s fate since the fall of Siad Barre’s dictatorship in 1991, and which points out that – despite a lack of central governance – Somalia’s economy has actually improved somewhat: It is hard to call any country mire ...
  • Snow Crash ‘dentata’ is a (harsh) reality in South ...
    (Trigger warning: discussion of rape and aftermath) Chalk another one up on the list of sf-nal gadgets that have graduated from printed page to reality… but at the same time deplore the need for it, because the gadget in question is something like the dentata anti-rape device featured in Neal Stephe ...
  • First remote-controlled robot heart surgery succes ...
    A reminder (if such were needed) that technology is a double-edged sword: while remote-controlled tech can be used to kill, it can also be used to save lives, as demonstrated by the first successful remote-controlled robot heart surgery procedure, performed earlier this week in London [via SlashDot] ...

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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Sixth Circuit finds waivers in employment contract ...
    The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has issued a remarkable non-published decision reinstating retaliation claims by Alan and Kimberly Alonso against Huron Valley Ambulance (HVA) of Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The decision is remarkable no so much for what it holds as for its break from the p ...
  • House Holds Hearing on Protecting America's Worker ...
    On Workers Memorial Day and the 40 th anniversary of the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on pending legislation, the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), H.R. 2067. ...
  • House Holds Hearing on Protecting America's Worker ...
    On Workers Memorial Day and the 40 th anniversary of the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on pending legislation, the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), H.R. 2067. ...
  • Vote on whistleblower protection becomes a campaig ...
    Richie Robb was West Virginia's longest serving mayor (of South Charleston) when he left that office in 2007. He was a chair of the state's Republican Party and criticized President Bush for the war in Iraq. He has now switched parties and is challenging State Senator Erik Wells in the Democratic pr ...
  • Whistleblower Fired In Montegro For Participation ...
    Sandra Obradovic, leader of Trade Union of Aluminum Plant of Podgorica (KAP) in Montenegro, was fired for participating in a round table organized by anti-corruption organization MANS (The Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector).  Ms. Obradovic is a strong advocate of compliance with labor laws and “ ...

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

  • Judge Won't Dismiss Antitrust Charges Against Micr ...
    You may remember back in October of last year that Microsoft publicly warned Xbox users who were using 3rd party memory cards for their Xbox that it was about to break those cards , and that users should, instead, transfer data to Microsoft's own cards. Datel, a maker of third party cards apparentl ...
  • Washington Post Fails To Ask NBC's Rick Cotton Any ...
    Dark Helmet was the first of a few of you to send over this interview by the Washington Post's Cecilia Kang of NBC's Rick Cotton . Cotton, of course, is one of our favorite quote machines. He's the guy who famously claimed that movie downloading was hurting corn farmers of America , because people ...
  • Court Says File Sharers Have No Right To Anonymity ...
    Thomas O'Toole alerts us to a recent ruling highlighting the rather unsurprising fact that file sharers can't hide behind a First Amendment anonymity claim to prevent an ISP from handing over their info. While I'm a big supporter of US courts properly recognizing that the First Amendment protects s ...
  • German Court Says Google Image Search Doesn't Infr ...
    Over in Germany, a court has ruled that Google does not infringe on the copyright for images when it displays thumbnails of those images in its image search. This is, obviously, quite a good ruling. If it had gone the other way, it would have effectively killed Google's image search. While there ...
  • Apple Bought Lala To Shut It Down?
    I've been a pretty harsh critic of Lala over the years. The company was long on hype and short on substance with its ever changing business model. First it was a CD swapping service. Then it was a free streaming music service. Then it was an iTunes-in-the-cloud. Still, the final product was dec ...

VacTruth

  • Tajikistan: UN agencies help to roll out polio vac ...
    UN News Centre 04/30/2010 Nearly 1.1 million young children in Tajikistan will start receiving vaccines next week against polio, the sometimes deadly disease which has returned to the Central Asian country where it was thought to have been eradicated 13 years ago, United Nations agencies reported t ...
  • Polio re-introduced in Central Asia
    Kounteya Sinha The Times of India 05/01/2010 NEW DELHI: India has exported a polio virus to Tajikistan, re-infecting the region for the first time since it was certified polio-free in 2002. In what is the first outbreak of the crippling disease in a Central Asian country, the virus till April 22 ha ...
  • Doctors found guilty of getting rich vaccinating o ...
    Christina England Vactruth.com 04/30/2010 A staggering 1,992 Indian doctors were found guilty this week of yet again profiting from the pharmaceutical industries. The Medical Council of India have found that doctors have been violating professional ethics, by excepting gifts, hospitality and ...
  • Grassley Probe: Pharma Provides 81% of NAMI Income
    Vera Hassner Sharav AHRP 04/29/2010 The $$$ amounts–one might call them, “fees for services rendered”–reveal the truth about who wields the greatest influence on NAMI policies–and whose interests are being served by NAMI. For years NAMI (the National Alliance of Mental Illness) refused to dislcose ...
  • Ministry admits proper guidelines not followed in ...
    New Delhi: The Union Health ZeeNews.com 04/29/2010 Ministry has admitted that proper guidelines were not adhered to while carrying out trials of HPV vaccine among young girls in Andhra Pradesh. The admission was made by the Secretary Department of Health Research V M Katoch to the Parliamentary Sta ...

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Protect Endangered Species: Wear a Condom
    Story by Katie Levitt, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com. Since February, 350,000 free endangered species condoms have been distributed nationwide. The bulk of those were passed out at Earth Day events on Thursday. The condom campaign is the work of the Center for Biological Diversity. ...
  • April Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
    The historical ruins of Allianoi (left) got a reprieve from dam construction, while Lake Abant (right) remains threatened. Photos via DSİ (L) and Abant.info (R). As environmentalists celebrated Earth Day around the country, the holiday for treehuggers didn't see much to cheer in Turkey. April 2 ...
  • Students Hack Honda Engine to Run Entirely on Hydr ...
    Students from Hacienda Heights, California have built a vehicle with a hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) using a four-stroke engine from Honda. The three-wheeled vehicle runs entirely on hydrogen and uses absolutely no gasoline. After a successful test drive, the car is now ready ...
  • How Will Supply and Demand Effect Peak Oil?
    Image credit: SendAndReceive From IEA whistle-blowers to the US military warning of peak oil in a few years , there's plenty of reason to question the sustainability of our energy intensive ways. But when I wrote about the Dark Mountain Projects' rejection of enviro... Read the full story on Tr ...
  • More Expensive Water? Experts Say a Price Hike Is ...
    Photo via Ever Jean Water is one of the most undervalued resources we have. Especially in the developed world, we pay a fraction of the true cost of water in order to have the required resource run from our taps. But really, a barrel of water is more valuable than a barrel of oil at any price, ...

Biosingularity

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

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Pruning Shears

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

Natural Health News

  • Drug Company to Pay Half a Billion Dollar Fine for ...
    Drugmaker AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $520 million to settle federal investigations into marketing practices for its schizophrenia drug Seroquel. This makes AstraZeneca the fourth big drug company in the last three years to admit to federal charges of illegal marketing of antipsychotic drugs. The ...
  • Mercury in Tuna Sushi Higher at Restaurants
    Tuna sushi from a supermarket may be safer to eat than sushi from a high-end restaurant. A new study using fish DNA suggests shows that some species of tuna, particularly those used by restaurants, have higher mercury levels. However, Live Science reports: “Overall, however, all the tuna ha ...
  • Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility and I ...
    Researchers performing a “routine” study to determine wither Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) soy could cause problems in growth or reproduction found an answer that could bring down a multi-billion dollar industry. Three generations of hamsters who ate the soy suffered slower growth, and a hig ...
  • Foods With Artificial Trans Fats Should Be Conside ...
    Artificial trans fat is nothing more than an adulterant, and it has no place in the global food supply. In Europe, efforts to remove trans fats from the food supply have been effective, but many food manufacturers have not done so. Current trans fat bans only encompass about 20 percent of the U.S. ...
  • When Sleeplessness Kills
    People who suffer from a rare form of insomnia can die from lack of sleep. A genetic disease called fatal familial insomnia, or FFI, causes people to fall into a state in which they are neither asleep nor awake. Since they cannot fully sleep, they suffer from exhaustion, dementia and eventually dea ...

Antemedius

  • State Of The Climate - March 2010
    Global Analysis March 2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for March 2010 was the warmest on record at 13.5°C (56.3°F), which is 0.77°C (1.39°F) above the 20th century average of 12.7°C (54.9 ...
  • Chemicals Meant To Break Up BP Oil Spill Present N ...
    from Abrahm Lustgarten , ProPublica April 30, 2010 ( view source ) The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of environmental problems. Even if the materials, called dispersants, are effective, BP has alre ...
  • British Petroleum's Black Money Tide
    BP's Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill is becoming worse by the day, with over 200,000 gallons of crude oil a day leaking into the gulf. Environmental Attorney Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC's The Ed Show to discuss the disaster and the legal ramifications of it. Also see: Whistleblower: ...
  • Hans Herren of the Millennium Institute: High Time ...
    Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet . In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Hans Herren, President of the Millennium Institute. Name : Hans Herren Affiliation : The Millennium Institute Location : Arling ...
  • Obama's Warnings About a Looming Financial Crisis ...
    For those accustomed at looking into the memory hole, President Barack Obama's pitch to Wall Street bankers Thursday on backing a tough financial reform package currently winding its way through Congress shouldn't come as a surprise. Three years ago, then-Democratic presidential candidate Obama had ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

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

The Seferm Post

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

The World We Live In

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Arizona's Apartheid Immigration Law SB1070 and May ...
    By� CP Norris (Hacha) a revolutionary Indigenous perspective of my heart and mind. Human Beings defined means what to you-- Today we continue our fight... Today I will speak for me, I will speak for you...I include you because we are tied together as human beings. As we celebrate May Day, ...
  • Indigenous Crisis - US 7th Cavalry Continues to In ...
    Press Release Aboriginal News Group Press Statement 05.01.2010 “ The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe ...
  • 7th Cavalry defile Lakota Burial Ground @ Wounded ...
    7th Cavalry defile Lakota Burial Ground @ Wounded Knee, S.Dakota - CNN iReport : Today at just past Noon Central Time; Three US Army Helicopters attepted to land on Lakota Sacred Burial grounds at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The Helicopters were from the Seventh Cavalry which were Historically re ...
  • Viola Wilkins: Kent State Anniversary Blues
    T he Kent State Truth Tribunal will generate the only comprehensive historical record and live archive of the Kent State massacre. The tribunal will take place for four consecutive days, mirroring the events of 1970, and held at Franklin Square Deli Building, corner of Water & Main Streets, 110 S. ...
  • Food for Thought and Action: PANG Food Sovereignty ...
    The Pacific Food Summit, 21-23 April, Port Vila, Vanuatu, has brought together leaders from across the Pacific: from governments, industry, NGOs, development agencies, the media and community groups, in recognition that a radical rethink is necessary in order to improve food security for the Pa ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Green Fashion Designers
    Want to look trendy and modern but not at the expense of the planet? We check out some of the worlds leading eco-fashion designers…
  • Environmental News -27/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Eden feels the heat over wood-fired power plant (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/eden-feels-the-heat-over-woodfired-power-plant-20100425-tlny.html)-EDEN, on the state's south coast, is set to be ...
  • Appeal to End Commercial Kangaroo Industry
    The Voiceless team share their view of the commercial kangaroo industry and its innocent victims…
  • Environmental News -23/04/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Greens to push $40bn fast-rail link to Sydney (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/greens-to-push-40bn-fastrail-link-to-sydney-20100422-tfvj.html)-IT IS the dream that will not die: Melbourne to Syd ...
  • Happy Earth Day!
    Happy birthday Earth Day! This year Earth Day celebrates its 40th birthday – with more than a billion acts of green to inspire, how will you help celebrate?

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Times Square cleared as bomb found in parked SUV
    ShareThis Times Square cleared as bomb found in parked SUV 02 May 2010 Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle it, au ...
  • Police defuse 'car bomb' in New York's Times Squar ...
    ShareThis Times Square evacuated Saturday evening/Sunday morning Police defuse 'car bomb' in New York's Times Square --FBI agents have joined NYPD investigators at the scene . 02 May 2010 New York City police have defused a car bomb parked in Times Square, one of the city's busiest tourist attractio ...
  • NYC mayor: Vehicle contained explosive device
    ShareThis NYC mayor: Vehicle contained explosive device 02 May 2010 New York mayor Michael Bloomberg says a suspicious vehicle in Times Square "did indeed contain an explosive device." Police found the device in the smoking sport utility vehicle Saturday evening. They then cleared the streets of tho ...
  • Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found
    ShareThis Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found 02 May 2010 Police found a suspected car bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle the device... ...
  • NY police confirm car bomb caused Times Sq. evacua ...
    ShareThis Breaking: NY police confirm car bomb caused Times Sq. evacuation 01 May 2010 The New York Police Department said on Saturday the incident that caused Times Square to be evacuated was what appeared to be a car bomb, which was being dismantled by officers on the scene. "This appears to be a ...

Daily Loaf

  • Castor seeks over $147 million in earmarks; Meek o ...
    he issue of earmarks as a source of wasteful federal spending was brought to the forefront in 2008, when Republican Presidential nominee John McCain made it a key issue of his campaign.
  • Meek calls on Crist to veto measure that would req ...
    Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek this afternoon criticized the Florida Legislature’s passage Friday of a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to pay for an ultrasound and hear a doctor give a description of the fetus.  The bill also includes a prohibition against the use ...
  • CL’s new landlord? Church of Scientology in negoti ...
    CL may soon have a next-door-neighbor's view of the Tampa facilities of the one of the most controversial religious organizations in the world. And oh yeah -- they'd also be our landlord.
  • Your word is your bond
    The move to independent status is nothing more than Charlie playing the game of "If-I-Can't-Win-Nobody-Can". It demonstrates a lack of commitment to any set of values, and proves what everybody already suspected: Crist is nothing more than a superficial populist more concerned with his career prosp ...
  • Make your voice heard for clean energy legislation ...
    HeadCount and the NRDC Action Fund have teamed up with Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, Phish, Jack Johnson and many other top artists to offer you a free download of Bonnaroo. The issue: Clean Energy NOW! Send your voice to the press, Senators, and the President.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Gil Scott-Heron boycotts Tel Aviv, sends powerful ...
    By Noam Sheizaf, reprinted from his Promised Land blog This is a translation of my article regarding the cancellation of spoken words artist Gil-Scott Heron’s gig in Tel Aviv. His show was scheduled for late May, but it was later removed from Scot-Heron’s site and though there was no official st ...
  • Demonstrators Stop the Wall, Teenager Pepper-spray ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Demonstrators managed to disrupt the construction of the Wall in al-Walaje for the second time in a week . A 15 year old demonstrator was beaten, pepper-sprayed and arrested. Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators managed to stop the con ...
  • Strengthening Those Who Belong to the Land: Mahmud ...
    (crossposted from The Villages Group Blog, where more pics can be found) Mahmud from Susya got up one day from his depression, and built a very basic green house. With simple tools and techniques he succeeded to surprise us with excellent organic vegetables. The vegetables are an essential addition ...
  • The Global Movement Spreads: New Wave of Protests ...
    By Avital Aboody On April 24, 2010 at around 15:45 a group of approximately 50 Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists gathered in Hebron next to the checkpoint gate separating Shuhada Street from the Casbah. The protest was organized by a Palestinian group in Hebron called “Youth Against ...
  • What if Bil’in held a demo and the army didn ...
    By Emily Schaeffer Some of us have become so used to West Bank demonstrations meaning major Israeli army presence, and, typically, the use of weapons, that we have forgotten what demonstrations in a democracy look like. We’ve forgotten that a protest against oppressive working conditions in downtown ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Sue says the Vampire Medical Bill from Hell is nor ...
    I had a routine medical procedure done early last year. It was preventative and thus completely covered under my policy. However, the MD inadvertently originally put in a secondary diagnostic code that was non-preventative. Almost a year later, I started getting bills, first for $2,962, then $4,252, ...
  • DOJ antitrust division may launch investigation in ...
    Should an announcement of a full formal probe of manipulation by JPM follow, it would be tantamount to a confirmation of what numerous individuals have been claiming over the years, that JP Morgan, the LBMA, the CFTC, various banks, and even that kindly old grandpa who was so much against derivative ...
  • Sam’s Club first US retailer to install micro wind ...
    The Palmdale CA Sam’s Club gets 17 micro turbines in their parking lot
  • Teachers with foreign accents banned in Arizona sc ...
    I’m guessing they probably won’t be applying that rule to Brits. I can do nothing to change what the people and government of Arizona have done, but I will never forget what I am seeing, and I will never forgive Arizona for it. They have taken in my perception the dubious Blue Ribbon County Fair Pri ...
  • Maybe Goldman really is screwed
    So says Henry Blodget at Clusterstock, a dogged Vampire Squid defender, cites a WaPo article detailing how DOJ started a wide-ranging criminal probe of Goldman before the SEC filed their civil fraud suit. Goldman can’t make a criminal investigation go away by just settling and writing a massive che ...

Coteret

  • Shabak blocks participation of West Bank protest l ...
    Actually, Burnat got off lightly. Advocacy on behalf of the unarmed protest movement in the West Bank (termed “Popular Terror” by the IDF) is a crime punishable by incarceration. Here are a few recent examples: July 2009: Mohammad Srur, a Naalin activist, arrested after testifying before Golds ...
  • Israel Hayom: Israel concerned that Fayyad becomin ...
    Israel Concerned: Fayyad becoming more extreme, and weakening Abu Mazen Shlomo Cezana, Israel Hayom, April 30 2010 The political rivalry between Abu Mazen and Salam Fayyad is causing the latter to become more extreme in his positions against Israel — this is the concern that was recently raised amon ...
  • Administering corporal punishment to a young Popul ...
    At bottom is a set of photos is from page 8 of this morning’s (April 28 2010) Haaretz (Hebrew edition only; download as PDF here.) Caption reads: Pepper spray into the eyes of the Palestinian protester, at point-blank range A 15 year-old Palestinian was arrested yesterday by Border Policemen durin ...
  • Le Monde: A European J Street?
    Cross-posted from JNews. The Jewish peace camp’s attempt at rebirth in Europe Gilles Paris, Le Monde, April 23 2010 [translated by Idit Arad; French original here] The name J Street is already taken, so this is called J Call. On 3rd May, in Brussels, a new European Jewish movement for peace betwe ...
  • Ron Dermer signaling change of Israeli govt. postu ...
    Gov’t changing course; recruiting J-Street for the struggle against Iran Shlomo Cezana, Israel Hayom, April 27 2010 [page 11; Hebrew original here and bottom of post] The Israeli Government is changing its attitude towards J Street; it has decided to engage with the lobby — considered not friendly t ...

Deadline Live

  • Times SQ Car IED Contained Propane Tanks, Black Po ...
    May 01, 2010 MSNBC Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Congressman Gutierrez Arrested Outside White House ...
    May 01, 2010 News Corp Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • 17 caught in search for Ariz. deputy’s attac ...
    PHOENIX – Authorities have captured 17 suspected illegal immigrants in southern Arizona as they continued their manhunt Saturday for smugglers who they say shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy in a remote desert area 50 miles south of Phoenix. Three of those captured overnight Friday matched descr ...
  • Minn. officer killed in ambush, sets off manhunt
    ST. PAUL, Minn. — A suburban St. Paul police officer was killed during an ambush Saturday, setting off a massive manhunt that ended with one suspect dead and another in custody, authorities said. Maplewood Police Sgt. Joseph Bergeron, 49, was fatally shot while responding to a reported carjackin ...
  • 10 suspects, and motives as to why the Gulf oil sp ...
    By Jack Blood April 30, 2010 www.deadlinelive.info Yes I know… Not everything is a conspiracy, but I don’t let that stop me from theorizing, especially when a certain incident has so many beneficiaries. Sure, as Rhambo Emanuel is famous for saying… “Never waste a good crisis” – good enough, except ...

The Air Vent

  • Oil Slick Post at WUWT
    The recent oil rig disaster in the gulf has everyone’s attention.  There are so many safeties and backups, it’s hard to imagine which accident would cause something like this.  Currently oil is flowing rapidly into the gulf from very deep locations both through the well head and at least two fissu ...
  • Decaramelisation
    My least favorite aspect of AGW is the political one, however, Tom is completely fearless, imagine if Real Climate gave me an opportunity to guest post on the politics of global warming. The odds are exactly equal to rolling 23,000 sixes in a row.  Be nice. ———————————————- By Tom Fuller of the San ...
  • Open Thread #2 – AGW Smackdown? Defend your ...
    It’s not really time for another open thread but this topic was suggested on the Reader Background thread by Robert E Phelan. Everyone knows my opinions on global warming, so that’s not very interesting. CO2, capturing of warmth is real. The magnitude of the warmth captured is not known, the dangers ...
  • Global ‘Land temps’ CRU style.
    I did this work several weeks ago.  It’s the same as Roman’s hammer except that there is no offset.   Statistically this is inferior to the method that Roman presented, however this is the standard in climatology.  Nick Stokes pointed out several times that I needed to do the anomaly correctly f ...
  • Schizo Sea Ice
    Confusion about sea ice still reigns as some climate scientists still haven’t got the news about climategate.  Business as usual seems to be the mantra amongst most, while others have clearer vision of what science should be. The NSIDC released its report on sea ice which shows this plot. This plot ...

Focal Point

  • FBI Probes Owners of Upper Big Branch Mine
    The FBI has opened a criminal probe of Massey Energy in connection with the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine that killed 29 miners in West Virginia last month. Federal agents are looking into potential bribery of federal mine safety officials, unnamed sources told NPR. The Upper Big Br ...
  • Study: Canadians Live Longer, Healthier Lives Than ...
    Canadians live not only longer, but healthier lives than their American counterparts, according to a study in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal Population Health Metrics . Canadians and Americans share a common border, our standards of living are very similar, and our health care provi ...
  • Boycott Arizona Over Racial Profiling Law
    Rachel Maddow discusses the snowballing campaign to boycott the State of Arizona over its radical new racial profiling law. The law, which takes effect this summer, would allow a police officers to pull people over and demand proof that they are in the county legally. In order to legally do such a t ...
  • Chickens, Cross-Stitch, Burlesque and Women's Libe ...
    Don't look now, but " femivores " are back in the news. Femivores, if you recall, are women who embrace ultra-local food production as feminist statement. Usually this involves some kind of light farming or heavy gardening, possibly some chickens. It's only a matter of time before the New York Times ...
  • World Cup Ad or James Nachtwey's Greatest Hits?
    This FIFA World Cup ad looks like a psychedelic collaboration between Adbusters and James Nachtwey . Way to bum out the entire species, FIFA. Photo credit: flickr user Dr. Motte , licensed under Creative Commons . Topics:

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Privacy, HTML5, Amazon, AOL and ...
    Latest Facebook Changes Spark More Privacy Debate  â Recent product changes by Facebook have drawn a range of privacy critics… that phrase is timeless at this point. The company has, in one way or another, tried to be more open with user data in the past few years. Politicians, privacy groups and ...
  • CPM Advertisers on Facebook May Soon Receive Fewer ...
    Cost-per-impression (CPM) advertisers on Facebook have recently been told by the company that they may see fewer click-throughs on their ads due to pending changes in its performance advertising system. In a letter sent out to advertisers on the system earlier today, Facebook also said that advertis ...
  • Facebook Also Adds OAuth For Third-Party Mobile De ...
    Buried in Facebook’s many announcements and changes at its f8 developer conference last week was a couple slight modifications to its mobile documentation. The company added support for an open standard that allows secure data-sharing, called OAuth, and it changed some phrasing around the iPhone SDK ...
  • How Top Musicians Are Utilizing Their Facebook Pag ...
    Musical artists are now brands. Declining physical album sales have pushed artists and their teams to think more holistically. Smart musicians are moving away from making a quick buck off of piece-meal Mp3 sales, instead looking to foster institutional allegiance from their fans, facilitating the sa ...
  • Let’s Talk About Facebook on This Week’s List of E ...
    This week’s list of emerging Facebook apps still under a million monthly users is led off by Battle Punks, a game that’s unusual for its 3D graphics. But we’ll save talking about the games for our sister blog Inside Social Games. There’s actually a far more interesting app beneath Punks: f8 [... ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Archbishop of Canterbury’s deafening silence over ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s feeble acceptance of, and silence over, Israel’s humiliation of him – and the Anglican Church which he leads – during his visit to Gaza.
  • The next 9/11 – made in Israel?
    Maidhc Ó Cathail views the evidence indicating that dual loyalty officials in the US administration are funnelling American nuclear secrets not only to Israel, but also to terrorist organizations in order to facilitate a “nuclear 9/11” and a massive US attack against Iran or Pakistan. ”If, as Israe ...
  • UK politicians fail the Afghanistan, economics and ...
    Christopher King argues that Britain’s leading politicians lack the courage to acknowledge the only moral conclusion to the Afghan fiasco – withdrawal – and lack the vision, integrity and competence to tackle the country’s economic and banking crises.
  • When will Israel attack the USA – again?
    Jeff Gates looks at how the dual loyalists at the heart of the US government – Israel’s stooges in the Congress and elsewhere in the US government – are preparing to hoodwink the American public into another war on Israel’s behalf and against the interests of the United States.
  • Americans remaining ill-informed is inexcusable
    Paul J. Balles comments on the ironic misfortune that, despite having all the technology to be informed, Americans remain generally ignorant bystanders amid an increasingly antagonistic Congress and a biased, sloppy and uninformative media.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #28
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Professor Francis Boyle Professor Francis Boyle discusses the October 2001 anthrax attack, the technology behind the letter to Senator Daschle, and assesses the case based on his years of expertise with America’s bio-weapons programs, and as an expert who was responsibl ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Boiling Frogs Video Presents Colonel Larry Wilkers ...
    Exclusive Interview: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more: As a card carry ...
  • Russ Baker on President Obama… & His Pack of Wolve ...
    “A SWISS BANK, A PRESIDENT, AND THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT”   Here is a recent damning piece by Russ Baker on President Obama, his cozy relationship with Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO, UBS Group Americas, and a stench and implications that go way beyond this relationship: Last August, the presidential ...
  • Podcast Show #27
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf discusses the fascist shift in the United States, how the state of our liberties has been getting worse under the Obama administration, and how President Obama has assumed the same position as Bush on States Secrets Privilege, unlawful detention an ...

Afro Spear

  • Jonah’s Gourd Vine
    I love the Book of Jonah in the Bible. I love how Jonah was so self indulgent, yet God was so patient with him. As we know, Jonah did not want to prophesy to the people Nineveh as God had commanded him, so he rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the [...]
  • At The Museum: Carrie Mae Weems
    Last weekend (4/24/10), I visited New York’s Museum of Modern Art & fell in love in the photography gallery. I always fall in love in their portrait gallery so this is really no new news! What made me fall during my most recent visit was Carrie Mae Weems’ “From Here I Saw What Happened and [...]
  • sat’day riddymz
    Remember when Ice Cube was hard!?
  • Black men in the hands of white women: the mytholo ...
    A powerful article by Terence Blackett at Barbados Underground In George Lamming’s debut novel – In the Castle of My Skin (1953), this famous Bajan son of the soil describe the psychic scars of racism in direct and powerful terms. In The Castle of My Skin he wrote, “No Black boy wanted to be white, ...
  • Black Magic
    Black Magic: Her Hands Black Magic: Her Smile Black Magic: Her Skin Black Magic: Her Being Black Magic: Her Promise Black Magic: Her Love Art Credits: 2010 Tafari Stevenson-Howard Muse: Tamara Rasberry Tagged: black women, Women of the African Diaspora

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • In Need of a DocumentCloud for Video, Data
    Brainstorming the next brilliant News Challenge project? I've got two for you, and you've got until fall to noodle over them. As the program director for DocumentCloud I spend a lot of time talking to journalists, writers and researchers about what DocumentCloud is and, often, what it isn't. Do ...
  • Programmer-Journalist? Hacker-Journalist? Our Iden ...
    Jacqui Maher is the most recent addition to my Interactive News team at the New York Times, and although she started almost six months ago, I have yet to get her business cards -- an embarrassing fact she (rightly) points out at regular intervals. I'm not raising this to highlight my shortcomings as ...
  • A Real Watershed Moment for Citizen Journalism in ...
    Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...
  • A real watershed moment
    Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...
  • Printcasting Plans Mobile Expansion With FeedBrewe ...
    About two years ago, I wrote up an idea for how to leverage standardized web content to create locally-targeted publications with less time, money and software than ever before. The technology and content would be digital, but the output would be optimized for physical distribution as printable PDF ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Justice - Gamut of Legal Experts Quest ...
    Several former U.S. attorneys general, a former deputy attorney general, more than half-a-dozen former U.S. attorneys and a former federal judge have authored and signed letters to the judge in the Sholom Rubashkin case , criticizing the prosecutors’ recommendation that Rubashkin receive life in pri ...
  • The Edge of Justice - Does Rubashkin’s Sentence “S ...
    In our day-to-day lives, it is rare that the words of the Supreme Court touch us personally. While serving as the United States Attorney for the District of Utah, appointed by President Bush, I frequently read, however, the Supreme Court’s message to me: “The United States Attorney is the representa ...
  • Wikipedia and John Doe Lawsuits
    Thank you for your thorough investigation of Wikipedia (see “Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge” , Page One, April 12, 2010).�The best part was discovering that the individual hackers and malicious posters can be sued as John Does in any location where the false material appears. I know o ...
  • Making America and the Entire World Safer through ...
    Another day ... another 70 cents of every American dollar spent on gasoline benefitting, directly or indirectly, countries like Venezuela, which collaborate with America’s enemies and undermine American foreign policy in the Americas and the Caribbean. America consumes 25 percent of� world’s annual ...
  • Barack Obama Refuses to use the G Word on Armenian ...
    We see once more that Barack Obama has submitted to Turkish blackmail and refused to use the G word in commerorating the Armenian Genocide. The Turks do not mind admitting that they brutally masacred a million or so men defenseless civilian men, women and children; they just want to deny this organi ...

High Country News

  • Walking through the din of a coastal maelstrom
    A family hike along the Pacific Coast Trail becomes an exhilarating encounter with the fierce storm gods of Washington's wild Olympic Peninsula.
  • Removing four dams is worth some compromise
    It's not perfect, but the settlement that removes four dams in Oregon and California's Klamath River Basin is the right thing to do.
  • Viva la Archives!
    Budget cuts have endangered California's Water Resources Center Archives, which serves as the state's institutional water memory.
  • Grasshoppered!
    With grasshoppers expected to swarm the West this summer, High Country News looks back at some of the region's most dramatic historic hopper outbreaks.
  • Wilderness by committee
    Complicated deals are being made over wilderness protection in Colorado and in San Juan County, Utah.

CounterCurrents

  • Why Would Big Oil Ignore Its Own Demise?
    By John James Denial that there is a problem until the last moment ensures that a few corporations will exercise long-term political and financial control over the globe and everyone on it. Its not about money, its about hegemony and power!
  • God, Golem, UID: Singularity As An Object In The M ...
    By Binu Karunakaran With the advent of the UID, citizens will cease to be individuals and their relation with the state will be drastically altered forever. From individuals with power over our destinies we will turn into dividuals in perpetual cybernetic slave mode. Our databased selves acting as ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Economic, Environmental C ...
    By Shannon Jones Oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the well beneath where a British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig exploded at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, a rate five times greater than earlier estimates, the US government reported late Wednesday night. US Coast Guard officials said a ...
  • Warning Shots
    By Guy R. McPherson Here is a thought: How about starting to prepare for a world without ready access to cheap fossil fuels? That would entail securing a personal supply of water and food for you and your family. For the rest of your life, and theirs. If that is simply too daunting a task for your ...
  • Sea Ice Loss Driving Arctic Warming Cycle, Scienti ...
    By David Adam Study identifies cycle of ice loss and temperature rise that could see Arctics icy cover disappear sooner than expected

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

  • Middle East: Much Worse Off Than a Year Ago
    By Barry Rubin Let’s take a deep breath, clear our heads of any ideological or partisan preconceptions, and then ask a simple question: How has the Middle East changed in the last year? If one approaches this in a fair-minded, calm, and honest manner, the answers are quite shocking. Let’ ...
  • Exclusive Video of Florida Gov. Crist Leaving The ...
    � Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list. Feel free to reproduce any article but please link back to http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com
  • National Enquirer Says It Has The Goods On Barack ...
    About a month before the 2008 election, we reported the rumors of a Barack Obama affair with a former member of his campaign staff, Vera Baker : In London they are calling it a Smear, but smear is something that you put on a bagel. The real question is the times went with a front page story on McC ...
  • Stupid CAIR Lawsuit-A Victory For Common Sense An ...
    �The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tried to wage judicial jihad against a Michigan Circuit Court judge over the "modesty" of a Muslim woman but ended up losing the case and exposing the woman's immodesty. Not all terrorism is violent. The Islamofacists have found another way to ...
  • U.S. Official Explains (Reluctantly?) Why U.S. is ...
    By Barry Rubin Listen how the administration's best expert on Syria tries to defend U.S. policy of being nice to the regime there. Then listen to the Egyptian foreign minister interpreting this policy as meaning Syria and its friend Iran are winning so Egypt better start thinking of jumping on ...

The Real Agenda

  • Aquecimento Global Antropogênico: A Fraude, as Men ...
    Como Os Cientistas, Os Globalistas E a Mídia Foram Pegos Mentindo Se você ouviu falar sobre Climategate nas últimas duas ou três semanas, você está na sorte. Climategate, que é, em parte nomeada após Watergate, ou Bushgate devido ao nível de fraude e mentiras, é de acordo com muitos cientistas o mai ...
  • Aquecimento Global Antropogênico: A Fraude, as Men ...
    Como Os Cientistas, Os Globalistas E a Mídia Foram Pegos Mentindo Se você ouviu falar sobre Climategate nas últimas duas ou três semanas, você está na sorte. Climategate, que é, em parte nomeada após Watergate, ou Bushgate devido ao nível de fraude e mentiras, é de acordo com muitos cientistas o mai ...
  • Câncer de Mama: A Grande Farsa, o Grande Negócio
    Você provavelmente nunca leu nada parecido sobre o câncer da mama. É o relatório que a indústria médica prefere esconder, porque contém as verdades surpreendentes sobre como isso realmente alimenta a continuação desta doença, enquanto as estratégias de prevenção que poderia curar 90 por cento dos câ ...
  • Vacina contra H1N1 contém Virus Vivo, Esqualeno e ...
    Adjuvantes aceleram ação da vacina e causam reações imunológicas mortais.  Descrição da vacina diz que a mesma provoca efeitos neurológicos colaterais Como tem sido abundantemente comprovado, mercúrio e seus derivados são responsáveis pelo autismo em crianças e muitas outras doenças neurológicas, co ...
  • Creating Reality: The Western Media Promotes a Mis ...
    Global Research I am not good at flying kites. But during a recent visit to the Olympic Village of Beijing, I felt compelled to do so. Despite the cold and late hour, there were many kite runners around me. A salesman insisted that I try my hand before committing to any purchase, and I did. [...]

Wind Watch

  • DOE e-mails to wind energy lobbyists cast cloud ov ...
    The Energy Department worked closely with the wind industry lobby to discredit a Spanish report that criticized wind power as a job killer, internal DOE e-mails reveal. The e-mails obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request show how, starting last April, lobbyists at the American Wind Energy ...
  • Fish & Wildlife opposes wind farm
    A proposed wind farm in Ira could face opposition from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, according to a state official. In a letter dated Dec. 22 [click here], Fish and Wildlife community ecologist Eric Sorenson told Vermont Community Wind Farm that the company’s plan to put up as many as ...
  • Legislature affirms opposition to wind farm projec ...
    OSWEGO, NY – The Oswego County Legislature voted Thursday to oppose a New York Power Authority project that would locate dozens of huge wind turbines in Lake Ontario. The plan also calls for erecting power lines throughout parts of the county to deliver the power downstate. The legislators stressed ...
  • Bats and wind turbines
    Here’s a mystery, why would bats known for stealth flying skills, that allows them to sense something as small as a human hair have a problem avoiding huge wind turbines? New research reveals what’s happening. Reporter Jo Garrett talks with one of Wisconsin’s leading bat experts who is helping to ...
  • Wind power’s dirty secret: It has a carbon footpri ...
    PORTLAND, Ore. – In ten years Oregon has handed out $1.3 billion in tax credits for renewable energy and conservation projects like wind power, but questions about why the state is spending so much on something that may have a hidden environmental drawback have been raised by some. While wind power ...

Not My Tribe

  • ACLU defends Freedom of Speech: that of yours, min ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS- The local Springs ACLU chapter is challenging the national office’s position on the recent Citizens United victory and I’m torn. I am as anti-corporate as the next rabid class-war insurgent, but the longstanding corporate personhood abomination is a separate abuse than the oppressi ...
  • The Prophet Mohammad as a Croc
    Found on the web: My favorite artists’ conceptualization of a purported Prophet Mohammad, employing contemporary populist art mediums of Croc, some ghetto Croc bling, and post-modern irreverence.
  • Another Coal Mine, another accident…
    This time it’s “Only” two workers missing, if they’ve not yet been found. That makes a significant majority though, to the two Coal Miners who are missing. This one is in Kentucky.
  • Babykilling new Sport-du-jour. Update: No fataliti ...
    Actually in French it would be jeu du jour which is kind of a really bad pun. But, in China, a day care center/preschool was the scene of a knife attack. I didn’t read past the headline, sue me. 28 people stabbed, no word in the headline how many died, no word how many were kids. The motive [...]
  • Media disguise spill it’s 42 times larger
    Confused about how much oil is spilling from BP’s offshore Deepwater Horizon catastrophe? When British Petroleum was asked, there was no spill, then an admitted manageable leak which TV pundits assured would produce a “sheen.” Viewers who thought they heard that the Coast Guard discovered the flow h ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into Health Bill
    Most people know about the individual mandate in the new health care bill, but the bill contained another mandate that could be far more costly.
  • Scandal: Obama, Gore, Goldman, Joyce Foundation CC ...
    The Goldman suit is a put up job! • William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; was a partner and managing director at Goldman • Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; spent 18 years at Goldman • Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Tim Geithner ...
  • If We Broke Up Standard Oil, We Can Break Up the G ...
    We broke up Standard Oil, we broke up AT&T, we broke up the accountants, too . A lot of the changes we’re talking about, the mergers, are just new. When you look at the reasons these banks are so big — and you know how big they are — remember the reason JP Morgan Chase is so big is because they bou ...
  • Forget Viagra, scientists develop what women REALL ...
  • Parents recount flu jab nightmare
    Related: GlaxoSmithKline profits climb on healthy sales of swine flu vaccine

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Playing peace to target Iran
    Summary: At all points Obama has tried to keep attention focussed on the dangers posed by the small or potential nuclear arsenals of North Korea and Iran while keeping it away from the mammoth arsenals of the five declared nuclear weapon states and growing arsenals of the non-NPT nuclear weapon ...
  • Iran and the NPT Review Conference
    Summary: This year's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - as with previous years' - promises to be yet another battle between the developing and the nuclear-armed nations. The US insists that the Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to be rewritten so as to place greater limits on what it cal ...
  • Threatening Iran Is Wrong
    Summary: Joint Statement by Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran Tehran Peace Museum Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (Tehran) The antiwar movement everywhere should be extremely alarmed about the Obama Administration’s declaration in April that Washington ...
  • Iran to stand by Syria against Israel, says Vice-P ...
    Summary: Iran vows to stand by Syria against any threat posed by Israel, after Washington warned Tehran and Damascus against "making threats" to Tel Aviv's security. "Syria is ready to confront any threat and Iran will always stand alongside Syria," said Iran's First Vice-President Mohammad Rez ...
  • ElBaradei says sanctions on Iran will fail
    Summary: MEDFORD, Mass. — Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, believes it is likely the international community will move to impose tougher sanctions on Iran. But the genteel, bespectacled diplomat, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for his tire ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows disastrous legacy o ...
    (NaturalNews) Oil is a dirty business. It's not just the politics of oil, which are dirty enough by themselves -- it's also the environmental toll of the substance. Even when used correctly, its chemical byproducts cause air pollution and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But the real mess ...
  • Men remain oblivious to cancer risk of processed m ...
    (NaturalNews) Men eat much more processed meat than women and are less likely to know that processed meat consumption has been linked to bowel (colorectal) cancer, according to a poll conducted for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF). "The evidence that eating processed meat increases bowel cancer ...
  • Solar cell breakthrough achieves 90 percent effici ...
    (NaturalNews) Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (CIT) have developed a new solar cell technology that they say absorbs up to 96 percent of "incident" light. Experimental tests revealed that the new cells operate at around a 90 percent quantum efficiency rate. Because they are ma ...
  • Health freedom alert: Congressman Waxman sneaks an ...
    (NaturalNews) Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious: While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would ex ...
  • WHO issues warning about corruption of pharmaceuti ...
    (NaturalNews) The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a fact sheet warning about the corruption and unethical practices that are endemic to every step of the pharmaceuticals business. "Corruption in the pharmaceutical sector occurs throughout all stages of the medicine chain, from resear ...

Threat Level

  • Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent
    The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent in 2009 over 2008, according to a report released Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Courts authorized 2,376 criminal wiretap orders in 2009, with 96 percent targeting mob ...
  • Court OKs Unmasking Identities of Copyright Scoffl ...
    A federal appeals court is blessing the legal process by which the recording industry and other content owners unmask the identities of alleged peer-to-peer copyright infringers. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is believed to be the first appellate court to sanction a process t ...
  • Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Found Guilty of Coverup
    A Tennessee jury on Friday convicted David Kernell of obstruction of justice and misdemeanor computer intrusion in connection with his hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account in 2008, according to local news reports. The jury acquitted the 22-year-old Kernell of wire fraud, and deadlocked on a four ...
  • Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
    Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars. The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called ...
  • iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
    The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says althou ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republican Party Animals
    While Arizona Governor Jan Brewer suggested Friday that her state's illegal immigrants were terrorists, other Republicans have deemed them another kind of animal altogether. Make that animal or insect. As it turns out, the same GOP that likens same-sex marriage to the union of one man and one dog, ...
  • A Perfect Storm for Regulatory Reform
    For conservative free-market ideologues, April has been the cruelest month, indeed. In a perfect storm washing over Republican foes of government regulation, the last several days alone featured unbridled Wall Street greed , corporate mismanagement of a devastating oil spill , and corruption and cr ...
  • Like Bush, Obama Subpoenas New York Times Reporter
    In early 2008 , the Bush Justice Department subpoenaed New York Times reporter James Risen over his book, State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration. Now, just two weeks after taking action against an NSA whistle-blower who leaked information about contract corruptio ...
  • Sarah Palin Endorses "Pathway to Citizenship" for ...
    That Sarah Palin , the propagator-in-chief of the ever-evolving " death panels " fraud deemed the Lie of the Year by Politifact , would blast President Obama for "perpetuating this myth that racial profiling is part" of the draconian new immigration law in Arizona was pathetically predictable. But ...
  • Goldman Sachs, Enron and the Rape of Grandma Milli ...
    Historical events, it is said, occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. But not in the case of Goldman Sachs and the near-collapse of the American financial system. Six years before Congress released emails showing Goldman executives bragged about making "some serious money" betting against t ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Gaza gets a kick out of revived soccer (Edmund Sa ...
    Most days you'll find Hazim Enseo, 11, with a yellow soccer ball tucked under an arm, hanging out around Gaza City's Beach Club to watch his favorite soccer team practice kicks, blocks and headers. Enseo, born in the adjacent refugee camp, is one of Al Shate team's biggest fans. He boasts that he's ...
  • Gaza's Untold Story, by Ramzy Baroud part 2 (Al J ...
  • Jerusalem's colonization and western apathy (Dr. ...
    The Israelis are instigating a Jewish holy war staged in Jerusalem; and they are playing a superb game of propaganda painting the Palestinians as the "real" fundamentalists, despite the fact that the Knesset has more active right-wing political parties than any state in the civilized world. It’s a s ...
  • One Laptop Per Child reaches Gaza Strip (BBC)
    The UN in the Gaza Strip has begun distributing thousands of laptop computers to children in its schools. The rugged laptops are made by the non-profit organisation One Laptop Per Child, which aims to give a computer to every child in the developing world. One Laptop Per Child say computers are a go ...
  • A surgical strike on Israel's wallet could end the ...
    What on earth will it take to persuade Israel to leave the occupied territories? Sometimes it seems as if nothing will work. For eight years now, the Arab Peace Initiative, which early Zionist leaders would have seen as a dream-come-true, has been collecting dust. Its terms include two states based ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Down with 'Too Big to Fail': Angry Americans march ...
    Editor's Note: Okay, the video is just a little repetitive with the young lad's interview - but well worth watching. "Reform" or "more regulations" will not change Wall Street. The only thing that will change the crimes of the rich will be to jail them and change the system. In...
  • MLB players' union opposes Arizona immigration law ...
    NEW YORK—Given a chance to take part in the 2011 All-Star game at Arizona, Ozzie Guillen insists he won't go. "I wouldn't do it," the Chicago White Sox�manager said Friday. "As a Latin American, it's natural that I have to support our own." Guillen joined a growing chorus of opposition ...
  • 'We're on a Slippery Slope' - Will the Greek Bailo ...
    Original publication on April 26, 2010 � The Greek government's appeal for help is putting Chancellor Angela Merkel under pressure. With Germany required to provide billions over the coming years to pay for the Greek bailout, there are growing calls in the German government for Gr ...
  • Your Nose: An Odor Artist's Vision of a Smelly Fut ...
    Odor expert and smell artist Sissel Tolaas straddles the worlds of art, science and commerce. She believes that humans are not reaching their olfactory potential and that we need to get rid of the notions of good and bad smells. Sissel Tolaas is difficult to label. She's an artist, chemist, ...
  • The Euro Crisis: Greek Bailout Could Push German D ...
    Merkel Reaches Her Overdraft Limit When Chancellor Angela Merkel's current government came into power, Germany was just emerging from the economic crisis. But despite pledges to curb deficit spending, Merkel's administration has been running up debt at a record pace -- and bailing out Greece wil ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Representative Gutierez arrested during immigration reform rally outside White House "Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) was arrested outside the White House on Saturday during a May Day protest for immigration reform. ... Guiterrez had been speaking to a crowd of hundreds at Lafayette Square when he anno ...
  • Rats And Fleas And The Wall Street Disease
    I'd just like to add my $0.02 worth minus the 51% the financial sector gets to take off the top to BG's excellent "Spill Baby Spill" post. There are other BP rigs out there just as dangerous as Deepwater Horizon... just as there are other Massey mines out there just as dangerous as Upper Big Branch. ...
  • CNN Uses Up Last Great Reporter, Throws Him Away
    It doesn't take anything away from veterans of military combat to acknowledge that you don't have to be firing a weapon on the front lines, or even wearing a uniform, to suffer the effects of working in a combat zone. Nor to be exploited then discarded by a heartless employer, as we learn via Nicole ...
  • Spill, Baby, Spill
    It is apparent now that the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the big one that some of us (peak oil cranks who believe at the very core of our being that Hubbert was an optimist ) have been warning about for thirty years. Not only that, it is not going to get better any time soon . It is l ...
  • Give Government Back to the People
    President Obama discusses the threat to democracy posed by the Supreme Court's decision to allow corporations to buy elections.

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION - Urge Your Reps to Support a Timetabl ...
    We have a rare opportunity to fundamentally change the course of U.S. policy towards Afghanistan. Would you help build support for this important legislation by asking your Representative and Senators to co-sponsor the Feingold-McGovern-Jones bill? Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't � ...
  • Interesting Banana Facts and Uses
    Banana containing three natural sugars sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Is the Cape Wind Project for the Birds?
    But some groups are battling against the nation's first offshore wind farm. The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the Animal Welfare Institute, and the Industrial Wind Action Group are threatening to sue to stop construction. The opponents to the wind Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Not ...
  • Pictures: Ancient Egypt Crocodile Mummies Revealed
    cool pix Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Iceland Volcano Was Allahs Punishment of Infidels ...
    A Palestinian cleric preaching on Hamas TV said the volcano in Iceland and the volcanic ash that paralyzed European air travel were sent by Allah to punish Infidels and polytheists with fear and terror. Submitted by Sally G. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

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

Reuters Global

  • U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan set to overtake ...
    At some point this month or early June, the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan will outnumber those in Iraq. It's an artificial milestone but it is worth noting because it tells you a good deal about the two wars and where the United States stands in each.
  • Is Baluchistan more strategically significant than ...
    Given China's reputation for long-term planning, it's well time to pay attention to its focus on Baluchistan and ask the question: Is Pakistan's Baluchistan province strategically more important than Afghanistan?
  • Expo diplomacy and the Greek rescue
    Greece's Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos chides his European neighbours as they mull a bailout plan, while cosying up to China during his trip to open the Greek pavilion at Shanghai's World Expo.
  • Does Prime Minister Erdogan want to be President E ...
    Will Turkey move to a presidential system giving more power to former Islamist Tayyip Erdogan?
  • Greeks on the grill
    When Greece's former economy ministers took to the stage to face a partisan crowd at a public panel discussion in London this week, they got some hoots of derision.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Words Failed
    Growing up as a city girl in the midwest, my introduction to and early education about crude oil and its impact on our society came through watching reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies.  With every show, the opening spiel told the tale of the poor Clampetts’ discovery of oil on their land and the ensu ...
  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle ...
    Tomorrow evening, Sunday May 2nd from 8-9pm ET, No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle Welcomes Back Rick Davis of Consumer Metrics Institute. If you have even a passing interest in the economy and the markets, take the hour and listen to this show. You will not be disappointed. I first ...
  • Defense Secretary Gates To Gays, “Stay In The Clos ...
    The military policy, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” has been in the news a good bit of late, including a recent story that some Democrats do not want to wait for the study Obama proposed to conclude December 1, conveniently after the election. Well, they might as well stop trying. This story just out (h/t ...
  • “just to take away the silly arguments and the gam ...
    This is a follow up to my earlier post, arizona immigration law: what’s more inconvenient, showing i.d. or being kidnapped?. There have been some language revisions to the Law that are important to highlight. I also included an article by one of the lawyers who helped draft the bill, who explains ...
  • Vera Baker, A Blast From the Past?
    Well this is juicy. Looks like Barack Obama may have a John Edwards problem. Let’s hope there is no love child or videotape. So far the only parallel with the John Edwards sex scandal is that the National Enquirer is breaking the story. Given the Enquirer’s track record on taking out [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Making Your Camping Trip a Success with the Right ...
    Are you planning your next camping adventure? Read here on how to make your trip a success. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Rise of Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables
    Grow Your Own is making a come back! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Great Barrier Reef: The Largest Living Organis ...
    The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organism on the planet! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Propolis: The Incredible Natural Medicine Produced ...
    Hippocrates swore by the healing powers of this incredible natural product, and it is freely available. Why do more folk not take advantage? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Aye-ayes: Bizarre Primates of the Madagascan Rainf ...
    The Aye Aye is a primate native to Madagascar. Once a magical creature, shrouded in myth, today an endangered species. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Billionaire boyz club plans to buy D.C. teachers h ...
    Things not going well for billionaire plan to take over Washington, D.C. Schools As history indicates, it has taken less than a year to cobble together the naked takeover of public education and the merit pay ruse in Washington D.C.  Chancellor of Schools in D. C. Michelle Rhee is implacable, beyond ...
  • Open proposal to US higher education: expose gover ...
    source: Examiner.com US universities and colleges could end unlawful US wars and stop banksters’ rigged-casino fraud if they taught the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles is an open proposal for their action. Feel free to share it. This is my proposal for the Harvard Gr ...
  • 50 years later the struggle continues
    On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s. The white waitresses ignored them. They remained in their seats. Supervisors told them to leave. Woolworth’s in North Carolina didn’t serve colored people. The students refused to m ...
  • Open proposal to US higher education: end oligarch ...
    source. US universities and colleges could end unlawful US wars and stop banksters’ rigged-casino fraud if they taught the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles is an open proposal for their action. Feel free to share it. This is my proposal for the Harvard Graduate School ...
  • British Election Leaders’ Debate – The Grand Betra ...
    By Michael Collins The third and final debate between the British party leaders will play a critical role in selecting the next Prime Minister. The first debate altered the course of the election, for a few days anyway. The Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg passed Labour’s Gordon Brown and move ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Cochabamba's Message: Let the People Speak
    The World People's Conference on Climate Change held last week in Bolivia was an experiment in replacing the less-than-democratic UN process with one that invites public participation. But what's the difference between Copenhagen and Cochabamba?
  • Press Release: Mining for Profits
    Transnational corporations are increasingly turning to international arbitration tribunals to resolve disputes over natural resource rights, a new report reveals.
  • War Crimes Then and Now
    The only ones the Afghan war makes safer are the war profiteers pocketing billion-dollar contracts -- and the politicians pocketing campaign contributions in return.
  • Fifty Years Later, the Struggle Continues
    The civil rights movement unified millions of Americans behind one basic issue: getting the vote. They succeeded. What issue today could unify such a movement?
  • Mining for Profits in International Tribunals
    A new report documents increased lawsuits against governments by transnational corporations involved in the oil, mining, and gas industries.

Pine River World News

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

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #340
    West Bank urged to drop Israeli cell phone companies. US police wiretaps up 26 percent in one year. Taliban group executes high-profile ex-ISI spy.
  • Author gets subpoenaed to reveal CIA sources
    The US government has issued a subpoena against a journalist who authored a book on the CIA’s operations during the years of the Bush administration.
  • News you may have missed #339
    US couple arrested for spying for Cuba cooperating, say authorities. Indian diplomat arrested for spying for Pakistan. Former CIA station chief arrested in Virginia.
  • Political wiretap scandal erupts in India
    A major scandal has erupted in India, with the revelation last weekend that government intelligence services have monitored the telecommunications of senior political figures since at least 2006.
  • News you may have missed #338
    US intel on Iran suffering from information overload? Canada's ex-intel boss slams new anti-terrorism measures. Wiretapping scandals continue in Colombia.

After Downing Street.org

  • PBS Newshour: Book Examines Vietnam War from Viet ...
    On the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Ray Suarez talks to retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. James Zumwalt about his new book on the Vietnam War, as seen through the eyes of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong veterans. RAY SUAREZ: So, give us some examples of the kind of techniques and tactics the ...
  • Bill Black, Andy Stern, James Galbraith, Dean Bake ...
    Bill Black, Andy Stern, James Galbraith, Dean Baker Sign Letter of Support for Audit the Fed By Jane Hamsher | FireDogLake The Obama administration and Fed officials have said they “ would fight to stop it at all costs ” an amendment to the financial reform bill sponsored by Bernie Sanders that wou ...
  • Weissman: Congress Is Abdicating Its Authority on ...
    Weissman: Congress Is Abdicating Its Authority on Wars By Stephen R. Weissman | Special to Roll Call One reason for the current confusion over U.S. policy toward the Karzai government in Afghanistan is that U.S. decision-making has not been the result of a meaningful democratic process. The yearlon ...
  • What Did The Military Learn About Media In Vietnam ...
    Michael Munk shared a telling observation: A report on a journalists' reunion in Ho Chi Minh City on the 35th anniversary of the US defeat in Vietnam says it all: "This was the first foreign war the U.S. ever fought where the press challenged government thinking, challenged the decisions of general ...
  • Atlantic Council: Securing The 21st Century For NA ...
    Atlantic Council: Securing The 21st Century For NATO Rick Rozoff | Stop NATO | Blog site | April 30, 2010 On April 28 the Atlantic Council held its annual awards dinner at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. where the U.S. State Department is also situated. T ...

Grist - News

  • What’s being done to fight the Gulf oil spil ...
    by Agence France-Presse Photo: U.S. Coast GuardWASHINGTON -- Here's a summary of the resources being deployed in the wake of the huge oil spill from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 2,000 personnel are involved in the response effort with additional resources being mobilized as nee ...
  • Wake up, Obama. The Gulf spill is our big chance
    by Jonathan Hiskes President Barack Obama so far has said nothing about the screamingly obvious connection between the spoils of fossil-fuel dependency and the vision of a clean-energy economy that he's been sporadically promoting. Instead he had this tepid statement on the Gulf oil spill t ...
  • The worst week ever, brought to you by the fossil- ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes It's a week to remember -- or better yet, forget.  Who could have imagined such a confluence of terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad events, rounding up what has to be the most disheartening "Earth Month" ever?  In what may soon be the worst oil spill in U.S. history ...
  • Obama puts offshore drilling on hold as Gulf of Me ...
    by Agence France-Presse The White House said new domestic offshore oil drilling was on hold until the disaster had been fully investigated. VENICE, Louisiana -- Oil from a giant Gulf of Mexico slick washed onto Louisiana shores Friday, threatening an environmental calamity as President Barac ...
  • Gulf of Mexico: from magnificent resource to indus ...
    by Tom Philpott Fire and a vast oil spill, on top of one of the globe’s most productive fisheries. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard The Gulf of Mexico is a magnificent resource: a kind of natural engine for the production of wild, highly nutritious foodstuff. Here's how the EPA describes it : Gulf f ...

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Washington Independent

  • Khadr Lawyer Opens Door to a Plea Deal
    GUANTANAMO BAY — It’s been a persistent point of speculation since The Toronto Star’s Michelle Shephard broke the story Wednesday that the defense had turned down an offer to settle Omar Khadr’s case out of court: Will the defense ultimately take a deal or go to trial in July? The speculation was co ...
  • As Florida Takes on Redistricting, Illinois’ ...
    The Florida and Illinois state legislatures ended the week with a series of votes on redistricting reform, with Florida placing three measures on November’s ballot and Illinois failing to approve a comparable measure. The Florida legislature approved a state constitutional amendment yesterday that, ...
  • Landrieu: Dangers of Offshore Drilling ‘Far ...
    No, that wasn’t a statement from this week. But less than six months ago, at a hearing to examine offshore drilling, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said tersely, “The risks associated with offshore oil and gas drilling domestically are far outweighed by the benefits.” (The Huffington Post has a good sum ...
  • Nudging Holder on Prison Rape Reform
    It was a bill so uncontroversial that it sailed through both the House and Senate without a single objection before George W. Bush made it law with the stroke of his pen. But this year, a central provision of the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act — the establishment of national standards designed to ...
  • Reid Calls Graham’s Bluff on Climate/Immigra ...
    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has given Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) an ultimatum: Stop trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, or you’ll lose my support for climate legislation. Now, Reid has called Graham’s bluff. “I don’t know how my friend Lindsey Graham can say t ...

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

  • ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Champions Silent ...
    ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Champions Silent On Gulf Oil Spill [UPDATED] The Huffington Post |  Nico Pitney First Posted: 04-29-10 11:39 PM   |   Updated: 04-30-10 10:54 AM UPDATE: Palin has made her first comments on the spill, scroll down to see. More than a week has passed since the Deepwater Ho ...
  • FBI Investigating Fed Officials And Massey Energy ...
    FBI Investigating Fed Officials And Massey Energy Over Possibly Bribery AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 04-30-10 11:19 AM   |   Updated: 04-30-10 11:40 AM NPR News reports that the FBI is investigating the possible bribery of federal officials overseeing mining industry regulation by Massey Ene ...
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  • Phoenix Mayor To Sue Over Arizona’s Immigrat ...
    Phoenix mayor to sue over Arizona’s immigration bill, says kids and senior citizens are at risk of being arrested Crooks and Liars- By John Amato Thursday Apr 29, 2010 1:00pm The hits keep coming in for Arizona’s Tancredo/Buchanan bill. The Mayor of Phoenix is no fan of this legislation and said thi ...
  • British soldiers viewed all Iraqis as ‘scum’, Baha ...
    Intelligence officer says officers did not know rules on treatment of prisoners and one tried to mount ‘arse-covering exercise’ after Baha Mousa’s death Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian/UK, April 27, 2010 Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker, was beaten to death in 2003 while in the custody of 1 Batt ...

Solari

  • Early Strawberries
    The strawberries are ripening in the beds behind my kitchen. They are delicious. The birds think so too! “and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit...” - James 5:8
  • Pricing Goldman Allegations
    On April 15th, Goldman Sachs common equity closed at $184. On April 16th, after the SEC announced that it was bringing a civil complaint against the firm, Goldman stock closed down 13% at $160. That means Goldman’s attracting the SEC complaint cost shareholders approximately $12 billion. On April 2 ...
  • Genome Personalized Medicine Sequencing 
    By Emily Singer The select few who have had their genomes sequenced learn to use that information for health care. Several months after deciphering his genetic code last year, Stanford bioengineer Stephen Quake approached a cardiologist colleague. Early analysis of his DNA had flagged a rare geneti ...
  • Million’s May Lose Jobless Benefits
    By Brian Faler Since the U.S. recession began in December 2007, Congress has extended the length of unemployment benefits for the jobless three times. Now, the lawmakers may have reached their limit. They are quietly drawing the line at 99 weeks of aid, a mark that hundreds of thousands of American ...
  • Ross Perot warns Americans in 1992 re: NAFTA and G ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for May 2 – an especially good d ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Propaganda works.  Calling it “advertising” does not conceal that sad fact.  “Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?“, Edward Jay Epstein, The Atlantic, February 1982 Important advic ...
  • “Saudi Arabia Warns That Rocketing Domestic ...
    Relying on unreliable sources makes us dumber.  Here we see a chain of reports, from facts to fantasy.  Since we enjoy soaking up misinformation, the Internet works just fine for us. “Saudi Aramco and its Role in Saudi Arabia’s Present and Future“, Khalid A. Al-Falih (Chief Executive Officer of Sa ...
  • Stratfor asks “Jihadists in Iraq: Down For The Cou ...
    “Jihadists in Iraq: Down For The Count?“ By Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 29 April 2010 — This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. On April 25, The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) posted a statement on the Internet confirming that two of its top leaders, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Ma ...
  • FM newswire for April 30, interesting articles abo ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Seeing America as others see us:  âThe Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009â, Chinaâs Information Office of the State Council, 13 March 2010 — Fully documented using ...
  • Today’s portent of doom: peak phosphorus!
     Here we go again.  Is there a book telling scientists how to incite panic? Peak oil stems from oil’s special property.  The high quality reserves are a liquid, so there’s a discontinuity in the usual relationship between resource quantity and volume (lower quality, greater volume).  There is ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Somali blasts kill ‘at least 30 at militants mosqu ...
    BBC – At least 30 people have been killed by two bomb blasts in a mosque in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, reports say. More than 70 were injured in the explosions in the Bakara market. Read article
  • Critics: Oil Spill is Obama’s Katrina
    Newsy – The Obama administration faces criticism about the delay on sending federal aid to Gulf Coast oil spill.
  • National ID Card Included In Democratic Immigratio ...
    Huffington Post – Democrats pushed forward on an immigration overhaul on Thursday evening with no Republican support, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) continues to hold out, arguing that the divisive issue will make progress on climate change legislation impossible. Read Article
  • Objections to US Transport Security Administration ...
    Washington Post – Having second thoughts about those new full-body scanners being used at airports by the Transportation Security Administration? The federal agency charged with protecting the nation’s transportation systems may want to take a second look – at you. Read Article
  • 6.0 quakes rumble under Bering Sea off Alaska
    AP– Two strong earthquakes rumbled Friday under the Bering Sea off Alaska, but officials say they posed no tsunami risk and were too far from land to be felt. David Hale at the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer says a 6.0-magniitude quake struck at 3:12 p.m. and was followed min ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

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

ecogeek

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

Buzzflash

  • John Boehner Wins GOP Hypocrite Award for Making U ...
    John Boehner Welcome back to GOP Hypocrite of the Week. We knew this was coming. Way back in February, Republican strategist Frank Luntz penned a second memo (to go along with the nasty one on opposing healthcare by scaring the living daylights out of people) of how the GOP could oppose financial ...
  • Time to Ban Barbaric Tools of the Circus Trade
    DEBBIE LEAHY FOR BUZZFLASH The recent death of an animal groom at a Shrine-sponsored circus in Pennsylvania is a tragic end to an already tragic situation. Elephants have been beaten, battered and broken by the circus industry. Is it any wonder they snap from the stress? Bullhooks look like a firepl ...
  • Keeping Fear Alive
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH "The stark truth is that one single failure of nuclear deterrence could end human history." These words, from a recent essay by Dr. Helen Caldicott, are, you might say, my devotional text for the day. I sit with them reluctantly, of course. They trouble the soul more ...
  • Under New Arizona Education Teaching Requirements, ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT As you may know, the Arizona Department of Education is now requiring another dreadful bigoted anti-immigrant action: to prohibit teachers who don't speak perfect English from teaching in the state.� Well that would exclude George W. Bush, our past President, to be sure. This is ...
  • Message from the Bible to Arizona: You Flunked the ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT Leviticus 19:33-34 When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born.�Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. Thanks to Andew Sullivan for pointing out one of the many contradiction ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Blog news
    I'm taking the next week off and will return here on Monday, May 10.� Sadly, I'm not taking a traveling/disappearing vacation, but mostly a working one:��to finish a long magazine article I've been working on for too long and also, hopefully, to finish my slightly overdue book.� As a result, if some ...
  • Obama's criticisms of the Warren and Burger courts
    (updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV) Yesterday I wrote about what seemed to be President Obama's fairly stunning disparagement of the Warren and Burger Courts (expressed on the eve of naming Justice Stevens' replacement), as he echoed the classic, decades-old, right-wing ...
  • More Obama DOJ attacks on whistle-blowers
    (updated below - Update II) In February, 2008, the Bush DOJ issued a subpoena to The New York Times ' James Risen, demanding the identity of his source(s) for one chapter in Risen's best-selling book, State of War .� The chapter in question described a painfully inept and counter-produc ...
  • Obama speaks about the Supreme Court
    President Obama gave an interview last night aboard Air Force One in which he was asked about his views of the Supreme Court, and this is what he said: It used to be that the notion of an activist judge was somebody who ignored the will of Congress, ignored democratic processes, and tried t ...
  • White House reporters afraid to criticize the Whit ...
    (updated below) Politico 's�Josh Gerstein and Patrick Gavin have a long article describing the growing anger of the White�House press corps towards the Obama White�House.� Many of the grievances are petty, though some are serious and substantive�(involving lack of transparency and media ...

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Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Open Letter of Solidarity with Egyptian Workers
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 Campaign for Peace and Democracy The New York-based Campaign for Peace and Democracy sent an open letter today to workers in Egypt, who have been protesting in the streets over the past several months. For more details, see the text of the open letter below. ...
  • Statement from Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 Freedom to Marry Statement by Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry following the Hawaii State Legislature's passage of House Bill 444, which, when signed by Governor Linda Lingle, will establish civil unions in Hawaii. Wolfson is author of Why Mar ...
  • On Eve of UN NPT, Thousands March for Nuclear Weap ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 Peace Action On the eve of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the UN, more than ten thousand nuclear abolitionists from the U.S., Japan, Europe and other nations will rally, march and join a peace festival at the UN on Sunday May 2, u ...
  • Center for Biological Diversity Calls for Moratori ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity As experts once again increased the estimate of the oil spewing from the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster to as much as 25,000 barrels, or one million gallons, per day, the oil spill is poised to become perhaps the worst industrial env ...
  • Is There a Sweatshop in Your Home? Hundreds of Eve ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2010 Green America Is there a sweatshop in your home?   For millions of Americans, the answer is an unwitting yes.   Americans across the country can find out how to replace goods made in sweatshops with Fair Trade products at hundreds of events taking place across ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Oil Rig Sinks, as Does Senate Climate Bill
    by Sarah Laskow Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil from a sunken rig is leaking as much as five times faster than scientists originally judged, and the spill reportedly reached land last night. And in Washington, Sen. Lindse ...
  • A Baltic Future for Greece?
    by Mark Weisbrot As I have noted previously , Latvia has experienced the worst two-year economic downturn on record, losing more than 25% of GDP. read more
  • When Oil Spills, All Things Are Connected
    by Brenda Peterson As I watch the live coverage of the disastrous Gulf coast oil spill -- 5,000 barrels a day poisoning waters that are vital to people and wildlife -- I look past my television screen to my little waterfront studio window. I live on the shores of the spacious, but troubled Salis ...
  • On Retiring from the JOURNAL
    by Bill Moyers Thanks to all of you who wrote to express your disappointment and dismay at hearing me say last week that the JOURNAL will be coming to an end with the April 30th broadcast. My team and I were touched by your messages, but I want to disabuse those of you who fear that we are being pu ...
  • Obama's Criticisms of the Warren and Burger Courts
    by Glenn Greenwald Yesterday I wrote about what seemed to be President Obama's fairly stunning disparagement of the Warren and Burger Courts (expressed on the eve of naming Justice Stevens' replacement), as he echoed the classic, decades-old, right-wing claim that those courts were guilty of the ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Rome New York Mayor James Brown will run for third ...
    ROME Rome Mayor James F. Brown presented his State of the City address at American Alloy Steel on Wednesday night, saying the company is a profound example of keeping both jobs and an industry alive in the city, stabilizing tax rates and being creative.
  • Nathaniel Loewentheil: Amidst the Rocky Andes, Sum ...
    "Aquí estámos," the campesina's voice rang out, more heart than tongue, "Bolivia, la esperanza del mundo." Here we are: Bolivia, the hope of the world....
  • Rome New York Mayor James Brown will run for third ...
    ROME Rome Mayor James F. Brown presented his State of the City address at American Alloy Steel on Wednesday night, saying the company is a profound example of keeping both jobs and an industry alive in the city, stabilizing tax rates and being creative.
  • Green Light For Victoria "Mega-Yacht" Marina
    Environmental Assessment Rules Proposed Development "Safe"
  • PSALM defends Angat privatization
    The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) has said that the privatization of the 218 megawatt (MW) Angat hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) is above board, following criticism that the sale was not in the public interest.

Guardian

  • New York police defuse bomb on Times Square
    Thousands of tourists moved and streets closed after T-shirt vendor spots 'amateurish' device in smoking car New York police have defused a bomb in Times Square, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US. Officers found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking vehicle ...
  • Gillian Duffy: I won't vote for anyone
    Lifelong Labour supporter slighted by prime minister relives her experience in newspaper interview The lifelong Labour supporter branded a "bigot" by Gordon Brown said today she was more offended at being called "that woman". In an interview with the Mail on Sunday , Gillian Duffy revealed she would ...
  • Higgins suspended over bribe claim
    • Video shows Higgins allegedly agreeing to accept £261,000 • Allegations casts pall over today's World Championship final The world No1, John Higgins, has been suspended from the professional snooker tour pending an investigation following allegations he had agreed to deliberately lose frames in to ...
  • Greeks face 'big sacrifices' for bailout
    Greek PM warns of 'big trial ahead' as EU and IMF agree to multibillion-euro rescue package for Greek economy Greece today sealed a deal with the European Union and IMF that opens the door to a multibillion-euro bailout of its stricken economy. The country's prime minister, George Papandreou, said t ...
  • Obama flies in to meet BP chief
    BP analysis of environmental impact on Gulf coast had warned of risks to beaches but said oil spill was virtually impossible Barack Obama will fly to Louisiana today to assess the threat to large stretches of the Gulf of Mexico from millions of gallons of crude oil that has spilled from the remains ...

McClatchey

  • Obama's stimulus has yet to measure up to the New ...
    MERCED, Calif. — When President Barack Obama took office in early 2009, the nation's economy was on its knees. More than 11 million Americans were without work — and the number would only climb. The financial system was on the brink of collapse. The housing market was in turmoil. Banks were failing ...
  • Commentary: We're heading for an immigration stand ...
    It's a word that is often spoken these days as if it were a profanity. Many who utter it do so with a snarl. And the very mention of it can instigate intense debate, enormous outrage and visceral reactions that border on the insane.
  • Commentary: Obama's vision of immigration reform w ...
    WASHINGTON — If President Obama puts immigration reform at the top of his priority list, Congress should muster the courage to stop him.
  • Commentary: McCain needs to show leadership on imm ...
    Arizona has never needed Sen. John McCain more — the "maverick" version of years gone by, that is. The man who understood the inherent evil of demonizing groups of people. The McCain who stood up to strident voices, understanding that fearful, reactionary sentiments must never be codified into punit ...
  • Commentary: Legalization must be part of immigrati ...
    Opponents of comprehensive immigration reform argue that legalization rewards bad behavior. They contend that illegal immigration is a crime that merits punishment and expulsion, not amnesty. The logic is that if we respond with tough enforcement, illegal immigrants will finally get that they aren't ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Thad Allen: ‘It’s Logical To Assume&#8 ...
    USCG Cmdr. Adm. Thad Allen The new commander of the BP-Halliburton oil disaster response believes significant amounts of oil will soon be hitting the fragile beaches and wetlands of the Gulf Coast. Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, was named today the “national incident comman ...
  • Democrats Extend Immigration Framework As An Open ...
    Yesterday, Senate Democrats officially released a 26-page framework outlining the major components that a Democratic comprehensive immigration reform bill would contain. The framework, which has a strong emphasis on border security, was meant as a serious open invitation to Republicans that is mean ...
  • Coming Full Circle, Hawaii Legislature Passes Civi ...
    Last night, in a 31-20 vote, the Hawaii House unexpectedly passed legislation extending civil unions to same sex and opposite sex couples. If signed by the moderate Republican Governor Linda Lingle, Hawaii will become “one of six states giving all the rights of marriage to same-sex couples, but with ...
  • Summers: We Should Regulate Financial Products Lik ...
    Today, the Center for American Progress and the Hamilton Project held a conference examining challenges in the labor market, but since the topic du jour right now in Washington is financial regulatory reform, the discussion almost inevitably wound its way to that subject. The day’s final panel featu ...
  • Gates To Congress: Don’t Repeal Don’t ...
    As part of the Obama administration’s plan to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), the Pentagon has convened a “Working Group” that is meeting with servicemembers, chaplains, and others individuals about how to repeal the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military. The process is going ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • MY Faith in Humanity Restored
    I've been thinking that the un-fixable stupidity of people like the Blogging Tories makes the idea that people can be reasoned with an utter falsehood. We're doomed by the electoral strength of this solid bloc of morons who can always be counted upon to vote against their own (and our) self-interest ...
  • Murray Dobbin on the "National Security" Lie
    From rabble.ca : almost no one has commented on the totally absurd nature of the Harper government's basis for stonewalling. Indeed everyone seems to casually accept the framing of the issue that the government has relied on for months. That framing suggests that documents relating to the detai ...
  • With Apologies To Any CF Friends Of Mine ...
    And I've got a few friends and acquaintances. But this Afghanistan nightmare is evidence that the Canadian military is one bent institution. I guess the real story here is that scum rises. That explains the rise and rise of complete imbeciles like Rick Hillier. A childish, stupid man, who believ ...
  • Vatican Sex Scandals
    There's a lot happening today. From the rise of Christian-fascism in the USA , to the Obama Administration's simultaneous condemnation of Canada at the Arctic Conference and its request for further Canadian blood to be spilled in Afghanistan . However, I'd like to post a little something regarding ...
  • ezra levant wants to bring it!!!
    Ha! The pudgy stool is losing it ! I don't have a legal opinion on Speaker Peter Milliken's ruling yesterday, over the question of whether the Conservative government has to disclose every single national security document, military document and diplomatic document to MPs who want to see them. B ...

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

  • Congressional Oversight at Its Best
    We thought it was important to point out what an exemplary job the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) has been doing. For those who have read POGO's congressional oversight handbook, you may remember that we refer several times to...
  • MMS Scandal: Where Are They Now? Deepwater Horizon ...
    We don't know everyone's fate, but a recent quote by former Minerals Management Service (MMS) Director Randall Luthi (Director from July 2007 - January 2009—and oddly not identified as a former MMS Director in the article) shows that he is...
  • The Politics of Contracting: International Edition ...
    Back in February, POGO did a quick inventory of our Federal Contractor Misconduct Database to see how many of the top 100 contractors were foreign companies. At that time, the top 100 ranking included ten contractors, awarded a combined total...
  • Morning Smoke: Senators: Pentagon Needs Better Sys ...
    Senators call on Pentagon to better detect and prevent counterfeit parts by Roxana Tiron [The Hill] Is the Army Leaning Toward a Tracked Ground Combat Vehicle? by Paul McLeary [Ares] Financial Crisis Hearing Puts Former SEC Chiefs in Hot Seat...
  • MMS Thought Deepwater Horizon was Award-Winningly ...
    This afternoon Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bart Stupak (R-MI) sent letters to BP America and Transocean Ltd. requesting information as part of an investigation into the "companies' risk management...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Lifestyles of the Rich and Formerly Homeless
    The term "homeless" or "homeless individual or homeless person," according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, includes: (1) an individual who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence; and (2) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is — (A) a supervi ...
  • Should Passersby Be Arrested for Homeless Hero's D ...
    After the initial shock of reading the story of Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax , who was killed while trying to prevent a mugging in Queens, New York, I couldn't help but remember the last episode of that gloriously cynical sitcom  Seinfeld , where the four main characters were arrested and jailed for breaki ...
  • The Homeless Proclaim "I Am Here"
    A new advertising campaign from the social outreach ministry  Mobile Loaves & Fishes in Austin, Texas caught my eye — and the attention of city motorists as well. The billboard says "I am Danny. I am homeless. I am here." An arrow points to, well, to Danny, a chronically homeless man who has been st ...
  • Was Homeless Hero Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax Your Neigh ...
    Neil Donovan is part of Change.org's  Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Neil is the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Much has been reported on the tragic death of Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, a New Yorker who stopped to help a woman being at ...
  • Homeless Campers Outsmart the Cops
    Last week, Honolulu instituted a no-tents decree for public parks. It smacked of discrimination against those without a roof — who but the homeless is setting up tents? I couldn't help but laugh when I read today that it didn't take long for Honolulu's tent-dwellers to outsmart the authorities by se ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Staples on Canada and NATO
    Rideau Institute president Steven Staples discusses the future of NATO, interview published in the Globe and Mail, Monday, March 22, 2010, p. A4 (no online version): Leaving Afghanistan is the right move for Canada, says the president of the Rideau Institute, as he envisions what NATO’s future shou ...
  • Byers: Time to resolve Arctic disputes
    Earlier this week, Russia and Norway resolved a 40-year dispute over their boundary in the Barents Sea. Canada should follow this positive Russian-Norwegian precedent, says UBC professor Michael Byers, stop its military posturing, and work to resolve the remaining disputes over Canada’s Arctic bound ...
  • U.S. resists Euro-nuke removal
    The United States is reportedly resisting the efforts of several European members of NATO to remove U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told NATO foreign ministers meeting in Estonia last week that the Obama administration is not opposed to cuts in the ...
  • Support for Afghan mission drops
    Support for the mission in Afghanistan has fallen markedly among Canadians, a new Angus Reid poll shows. According to the polling firm, 39 percent of Canadians currently support the Afghanistan mission, while 56 percent oppose it. In February, the same question showed 47 percent support and 49 perce ...
  • 505 Order of Canada members call for treaty bannin ...
    In an unprecedented development, more than 500 recipients of the prestigious Order of Canada have come together to call on governments around the world, including Canada, to bring about the elimination of nuclear weapons. “This is the first time that so many recipients of the Order of Canada hav ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Former Nazi Bank To Rule The Global Economy
    April 30, 2010 Prison Planet By Paul Joseph Watson European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet’s announcement that the Bank for International Settlements is to become the primary engine for global governance is a shocking admission given the fact that this ultra-secretive menagerie of internatio ...
  • Top 10 US Cities With Worst Air Pollution
    April 30, 2010 AOL News By David Knowles If you’re looking for a U.S. city or town with clean air, you might want to avoid Los Angeles, Phoenix and Bakersfield, Calif., a new study concludes. The findings come from the American Lung Association in the form of its just-released ranking of U.S. cities ...
  • Roller Coasters May Cause Temporary Hearing Loss
    April 30, 2010 BBC News The twists and turns of a roller coaster ride can leave you breathless – but US doctors warn it could also cause temporary hearing loss. The Detroit team report a case where a man turned to speak to his girlfriend on a ride – exposing his ear to the full impact of acceleratio ...
  • NHS Bribing Teenage Girls to Get Gardasil Vaccines
    April 30, 2010 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff (NaturalNews) The British National Health Service (NHS) has begun bribing teenage girls between the ages of 16 and 18 to get Gardasil vaccines. Officials are giving shopping vouchers worth the equivalent of roughly $70 to girls who agree to get jabbed wit ...
  • Congress Considering Black-Box Requirement for All ...
    April 30, 2010 The Washington Post By Peter Whoriskey All new cars would have to be equipped with “black boxes” that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congre ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • The future of Palestine: righteous Jews vs. the ne ...
    Professor John Mearsheimer, in a speech delivered at The Palestine Center in Washington DC on Thursday said: As anyone who has spent time in the Occupied Territories knows, it is already an incipient apartheid state with separate laws, separate roads, and separate housing for Israelis and Palestini ...
  • Palestinian roads: cementing statehood, or Israeli ...
    At The Nation, Nadia Hijab and Jesse Rosenfeld write: Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has staked his political credibility on securing a Palestinian state by 2011 in the entire West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, a program enthusiastically embraced by the international community. ...
  • All Kayani’s men
    Anatol Lieven, in an article where he notes that Pakistan’s military is among the most democratic of institutions in what otherwise remains a largely feudal society, writes: American operations in South Asia… are threatening to upset [a] fragile balance between Islam and nationalism in the Pakistan ...
  • Pakistani intelligence officials say Taliban chief ...
    The Washington Post reports: Even by the standards of a bullet- and bomb-dodging Taliban commander, Hakimullah Mehsud has displayed notable survival skills. The Pakistani Taliban chief was thought to have died in a leadership duel last summer, only to stage a news conference a few days later. A U. ...
  • Iraq prime minister lashes out at rival
    The Los Angeles Times reports: Iraq’s prime minister dismissed his rival’s call for international help to resolve the country’s postelection political crisis as the dispute threatens to inflame rifts and undermine American plans for withdrawal. In a televised speech Friday, Prime Minister Nouri Ma ...

Watts Up With That?

  • History suggests: don’t bet on La Nina this ...
    Typical (Average) El Nino, Traditional El Nino, and El Nino Modoki Events Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Recently, there have been a number of posts around the blogosphere about the current El Nino or about Sea Surface Temperatures (SST). Accompanying … Continue reading  →
  • Climate idiocy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium &#8211 ...
    First let me say I’ve been there many times with my wife and children. When we go, we marvel at the sea otters, jellyfish, and the Mola they had for awhile. When we go to an aquarium, I don’t expect … Continue reading  →
  • If Sea Level Was Rising, Wouldn’t Someone Ha ...
    Images spanning 130 years show non-effects of sea level rise By Steve Goddard Above, imaginary alarmist imagery: London Drowning from the BBC One of my favorite CAGW climochondrias is worry about sea level.  From Wikipedia: Hypochondriasis (or hypochondria, often referred to … Continue reading  →
  • The Gulf oil rig explosion – on the scene ph ...
    Regular WUWT commenter Jimmy Haigh, a geologist by trade, sends along a PDF that is a compilation of on the scene photos taken right after the explosion and in the following two days. I’ve converted it to web format. These … Continue reading  →
  • NASA Satellite Tracking the Gulf Oil Spill
    From NASA news: See inset view below. On April 29, the MODIS image on the Terra satellite captured a wide-view natural-color image of the oil slick (outlined in white) just off the Louisiana coast. The oil slick appears as dull … Continue reading  →

Dandelion Salad

  • Bill Moyers Journal: Iowa Citizens + Jim Hightower ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Bill Moyers Journal April 30, 2010 The Journal also travels to Iowa where one group, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement CCI, has been helping ordinary citizens fight for change for more than three decades.. transcript: Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | ...
  • Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Di ...
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1092057 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ whitehouse May 01, 2010 â President Obama and Jay Leno trade jokes at the 2010 White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. President Obama and Jay Leno at White House Correspondents Dinner *** ...
  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 4th Installment ...
    by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on TPJmagazine May 2, 2010 2001: The Real Drug War Author’s Commentary The year 2000 marked the election of President Carnathon Pine, who came to be known as the Last Republican.  A former Republica ...
  • Parliamentary ‘democracy’ – a tr ...
    By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i crossposted at Strategic Culture Foundation 1 May, 2010 To understand what’s going on with Britain today we have to look back to the 19th century and the rise of industrial/mercantile capitalism, for it was during that period that the Vict ...
  • Atlantic Council: Securing The 21st Century For NA ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism May 1, 2010 On April 28 the Atlantic Council held its annual awards dinner at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. where the U.S. State Department is also situate ...

Your New Reality

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    The Death Of World Trade Centre 7 WTC7 was the third New York City skyscraper to fall on September 11, 2001. Reporter Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, writing for Fox News , was there that day, he remembers the collapse of WTC7 : "I remember watching all 47 stories of Building 7 suddenly and silently c ...
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    Stories I've Been Reading : Bernard Keane : Peter Garrett Is Exonerated, Nobody Notices Video Games Really Are Designed To Control Your Mind, Keep You Playing, Get You Addicted Why The iPad Won't Save Newspapers Our Sudden Chaotic New Volcanic Reality : More And Bigger Eruptions Richard Daw ...
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    Vultures feeding, amazing birds : They look pretty excited, whatever they're tearing to pieces must be mighty tasty. Gee, that kind of looks like.... Oh. The above photos are from this incredible series detailing , and I mean detailing, a Tibetan burial ritual. The basic belief is that y ...
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    I don't know about you, but I find the Google's logo for Earth Day just a bit creepy :
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    From the 1985 claymation film, The Adventures Of Mark Twain :

Wired - Science

  • Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass
    If the weird rules of atomic physics do help birds find their way around the globe — as some scientists suspect — a new study has identified ways of finding out how. The study is among the first to propose a direct test of how quantum entanglement, an effect that inexorably links two electrons in a ...
  • Tracked From Space: Gulf Oil Slick Approaches Land
    > The oil slick that resulted from the rig explosion on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico is heading toward the Mississippi Delta and nearby coastline. Some experts are predicting the impact of the oil reaching the marshlands in the area could be bigger than that of the 1989 [...]
  • Plan B: California Braces for Climate Change
    When it comes to environmental regulation, California doesn’t wait for the Feds to ride in and lay down the law. The Golden State led the way on mandating emissions-control equipment in motor vehicles in 1961. It pioneered tailpipe-emissions standards in 1967 and ratcheted them up into the 1990s, p ...
  • What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
    Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba – and Stanford University physician Paul Drain says it’s time for the United States to pay attention to our neighbor’s shoestring success. Despite a 50-year trade embargo by t ...
  • Gene Grows Worm Heads
    A worm named Schmidtea mediterranea has the unique ability to regenerate not only its limbs, but also its head and brain. Now, scientists studying the worm have discovered one of the genes that allows it to accomplish this amazing feat. The gene, called “smed-prep,” regulates the location and struc ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Stephen Maher: US hegemony, not “the lobby,” behin ...
    Many of Israel's critics blame an "Israel lobby" for the near-total complicity of the US in Israeli annexation, colonization and cleansing programs in the occupied West Bank... Years after Noam... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Israeli law proposal: Outlaw organisations reporti ...
    A new law tabled on Wednesday in the Israeli Knesset, seeks to forbid registration of Israeli organizations (NGOs) that are suspected of provision of information or involvement in law suits against... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Noam Sheizaf: Gil Scott-Heron boycotts Tel Aviv, s ...
    “The [Israeli] enlightened camp” is busy with the endless theatrical performance of their moral difficulties, whose real purpose is to create a barrier between them and all those actions for which... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • John Mearsheimer: “The Future of Palestine – Right ...
    The story I will tell is straightforward. Contrary to the wishes of the Obama administration and most Americans – to include many American Jews – Israel is not going to allow the Palestinians to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Noam Chomsky: A Middle East Peace That Could Happe ...
    The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Fasting May Not be Needed for Children's Cholester ...
    Physicians usually ask children to fast overnight before a cholesterol test. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine shows that this may not always be necessary.
  • Parents' Blood Pressure, Waist and Hip Circumferen ...
    Data suggest need for ambulatory monitoring for children and adolescents of hypertensives who appear to have normal blood pressure in the doctor's office
  • New Study Links Stroke and Short Sleep Cycle for E ...
    Presence of "silent strokes" and shorter sleep patterns in these patients suggest heightened stroke risk.
  • Oregon Based First Pacific Corporation Launches Ne ...
    First Pacific Corporation, one of this country's best kept secrets in dentistry, announced today it will be releasing the newestversion of their practice management software program as part of its current offering to existing and new clients. Version 8.01 includes real-time electronic claim status ...
  • Latest Research on Key Education Policies to be Pr ...
    The latest research on the nation's key K-12 and higher education issues, from No Child Left Behind to charter schools to higher education funding, will be presented by Vanderbilt University Peabody College researchers April 30-May 4 at the American Educational Research Foundation annual conference ...

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

  • Gulf of Mexico: From Magnificent Resource to Indus ...
    It would be a wise policy to protect the Gulf, to nurture the health of its ecosytems, to leave it at least as productive as we found it for the next generations. As climate change proceeds apace and population grows, sources of cheap, low-input, top-quality food will be increasingly precious. Click ...
  • Agribusiness and Human Rights Groups Pushing for L ...
    Reuters writer Doug Palmer reported yesterday that, "Business and human rights groups urged Congress on Thursday to ease the decades-old embargo on Cuba by passing a bipartisan bill to lift a ban on travel to the communist country and remove certain obstacles to legal farm sales. Click here to read ...
  • Big Dairies and Massachusetts Officials Trying to ...
    I'd like to personally thank the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for articulating its food-rights policy. I know, I don't usually have nice things to say about the FDA, but I'm feeling appreciative because the agency has made it so much easier to explain the food-rights struggle to large numbers o ...
  • Economics 101: Forget About Goldman Sachs, Our Ent ...
    There was a strange moment last week during President Obama's speech at Cooper Union. There he was, groveling before a cast of Wall Street villains including Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein, begging them to "Look into your heart!" like John Turturro's character in Miller's Crossing...when out of ...
  • Update on Climate Change Legislation in Congress
    The Chesapeake Climate Action Network has launched a weekly policy update about efforts to advance "cap and dividend" legislation in the U.S. Congress. The fight for this climate policy is currently being led on Capitol Hill by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME). Click here to r ...

fotoFrontera

  • Las cascadas más famosas del mundo (50 fotografías ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Para variar un poco, tengo para todos ustedes 50 fotografías de las cascadas más famosas del mundo. En el nombre de cada imagen he incluído los datos y la ubicación de las cascadas para que usted pueda obtener más... ...
  • Increíble colección de automóviles (21 elementos)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Nuestra serie de imágenes bonitas de autos continúa y aquí tenemos para usted 21 fotografías de estos hermosos vólidos que despiertan suspiros cuando los vemos pasar por la autopista. Son autos de lujo, deportivos,... ...
  • Derrama de petróleo Golfo de México Costa de Louis ...
    Desde hace algunos días, la explosión de una plataforma petrolera en el Golfo de México ha estado causando graves problemas al medio ambiente. La situación se considera muy grave y ya se pueden ver los estragos causados hasta en las costas de Louisiana dentro ya, de los Estados Unidos de... Haz ...
  • Expo Shanghai 2010 (37 fotografías en alta resoluc ...
    La ciudad de Shangai, se encuentra lista para celebrar su magna exposición 2010. Bajo el eslogan 'Mejor ciudad, mejor vida', el evento podría atraer a más de 100 millones de visitantes. De ellos, el 95% serán chinos. La administración de esta ciudad, ha gastado 400 billones de yuanes (58.6 billones. ...
  • Nuevas fotografías del volcán Eyjafjallajökull Isl ...
    Hace algunos días, le presenté a usted una colección de fotografías sobre la actividad del volcán Eyjafjallajökull en Islandia (si no la vio, haciendo click aquí podrá verla). El día de hoy, le tengo a usted 7 nuevas imágenes que demuestran con detalles pequeñas explosiones causando la derrama de... ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Arizona Will Knuckle Under to Mexico, Not the Fede ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Arizona’s already notorious anti-immigrant measure, enacted last week and making unauthorized presence in the U.S. a crime under state law, isn’t likely to last long.  But the courts may have nothing to do with its demise.  It’s the economic hit that Arizona is cle ...
  • Does the Arizona Immigration Law Violate the Inter ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Yes, says Human Rights Watch in this press release.   According to HRW, the new (and hotly controversial Arizona law) is in conflict  with ICERD.  I am troubled by the AZ law and think it is likely preempted by other federal law, but I am baffled as to how the AZ law [.. ...
  • Congress and the ACLU Begin Pushback on the Legali ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Our own Ken Anderson joined a number of other law profs, including Prof. David Glazier, in testimony today before the National Security and Foreign Affairs subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to discuss, what else, the legality of ...
  • One Big Wall Street Journal Lie
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Whoops, spoke too soon about the WSJ’s anti-ICC editorial.  It does indeed contain a lie — and its a doozy: Whatâs more, no amount of reform of the founding treaty will change the ICCâs inherent flaw. The ICC is a child of the doctrine of âuniversal ...
  • The ICC Begins to Fade in Importance in Sudan
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The reaction of key countries to the recent Sudan elections electing Sudan’s President al-Bashir are in.  The bottom line seems to be- the elections were deeply flawed, but not so much so that they should be denounced or set-aside.  In the meantime, start planning for ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Stoat bites Trufflehunter
    Not sure whether to feel good or recoil in horror at the realisation arch global-warmist William 'Stoat" Connolly and I agree on something. I nearly posted on yet more bad science from Hot Topic last week, but in the end...
  • Why is Obama looking sheepish?
    CAPTION: "Go on, Barry, tell me you didn't you ol hounddog..." A Tiger, a Baker, a scandalstick maker.... You couldn't make it up...but then again maybe you could. Is the Obama cheating scandal with Vera Baker for real? Drudge frontpaged...
  • Labour's $100K donation claim
    To read the story, click on the cover...
  • NZ Prime Minister under pressure from coalition pa ...
    Act Party leader Rodney Hide has just released an open letter to Prime Minister John Key, calling on him to delay New Zealand's emissions trading scheme, due to start July 1. Hide argues the government's excuses about an obligation to...
  • Fisking Ken Perrott, again
    I was reading Ken's 'my parachute won't open' site the other day and stumbled across some answers he gave to a sceptic that suggest Ken didn't have a clue what he was talking about. It's not the first time we've...

Public News Service

  • Report: Drivers Paying the Price for Road and Brid ...
    Report: Drivers Paying the Price for Road and Bridge Neglect Phoenix, AZ – Many of America’s roads and bridges are falling apart from a lack of proper maintenance. That’s the gist of a new report from the Public Interest Research Group, which says too much highway money is being diverted to new cons ...
  • Report on School Safety: Wakeup Call on Possible C ...
    Report on School Safety: Wakeup Call on Possible Cell Tower Danger Washington, DC – New research examines the practice of siting cell towers and antennas near schools and students’ risk of exposure to potentially dangerous radiation levels. The "BRAG Antenna Ranking of Schools" being unveiled today ...
  • Groups Call on Congress to End LGBT Job Discrimina ...
    Groups Call on Congress to End LGBT Job Discrimination Phoenix, AZ – Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups and their allies, including Equality Arizona, are calling on Congress to outlaw job discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank ...
  • 10,000 AZ Families to Lose Cash Assistance July 1s ...
    10,000 AZ Families to Lose Cash Assistance July 1st Phoenix, AZ – Some 10-thousand low-income Arizona families will lose their temporary cash assistance payments on July 1st as a result of state budget cuts. In many cases, the payments make it possible for low-income workers to stay employed, accord ...
  • Report Documents Allergy Woes for AZ Residents
    Report Documents Allergy Woes for AZ Residents Phoenix, AZ – Desert ragweed, Bermuda grass and several varieties of trees are common allergy triggers in Arizona. A new report from the National Wildlife Federation documents that seasonal allergies are on the rise, and so are the plant species that tr ...

My Care2 Picks

  • With Oil Spill (and Blame) Spreading, Obama Will V ...
    What is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from the sensitive shorelines of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, isn't a spill. It's an unchecked gush of crude oil - noone knows when or if it may stop Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • This IS Shock Doctrine
    Spain (and note a left wing-ish government) wants to run its economy in ways that interfere with the financiers business,thus credit ratings corporations pretend in some scientific objective empirical fashion the nation is downgraded :political campaign Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note ...
  • Merkel Abandons Aim of Binding Climate Agreement
    Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a binding agreement on limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius.(nb Bait & Switch of UN agenda at Conference blown ) Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Drone Pilots Are War Criminals: Law Profs
    Law professors giving testimony to a Congressional panel on Wednesday presented yet another case that drone attacks are war crimes - because they're not conducted by lawful combatants.United States seeks to prosecute members of its adversaries for same. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Help put an End to Dolphin Slaughter and Captivity ...
    A host of A-list celebrities have partnered up with the creators of The Cove to encourage people to support the end of dolphin slaughter and captivity. Submitted by Priscilla Lorenzo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada
    George Galloway speaks to rabble.ca | rabble.caBritish MP George Galloway was banned from entry to Canada in March 2009. Galloway and supporters have taken Minister of Citizenship and Immigration,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Soldiers suspected in brutal attack on homeless ma ...
    Soldiers suspected in brutal attack on homeless man | cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com: Four men described as skinheads, three of them Army members, concocted a plan after a night of drinking that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • George Will Thinks You Don't Know Any Latinos, Eit ...
    FAIR Blog � Blog Archive � George Will Thinks You Don't Know Any Latinos, Either: George Will, defending Arizona's draconian new immigration law, concludes his column (Washington Post, 4/28/10) with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • UN Urges DR Congo To Protect Of Civilians
    Scoop: UN Urges DR Congo To Protect Of Civilians: "New York, Apr 30 2010 6:10PMThe top United Nations humanitarian official today visited the province of South Kivu in the troubled east of the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Not for Absorbing Carbon, ...
    Reuters AlertNet - CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Not for Absorbing Carbon, Say Activists: "COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Apr 27 (IPS) - The UN-led global initiative to use forest conservation as a way to offset... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Times Square cleared as bomb found in parked SUV
    ShareThis Times Square cleared as bomb found in parked SUV 02 May 2010 Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle it, au ...
  • Police defuse 'car bomb' in New York's Times Squar ...
    ShareThis Times Square evacuated Saturday evening/Sunday morning Police defuse 'car bomb' in New York's Times Square --FBI agents have joined NYPD investigators at the scene . 02 May 2010 New York City police have defused a car bomb parked in Times Square, one of the city's busiest tourist attractio ...
  • NYC mayor: Vehicle contained explosive device
    ShareThis NYC mayor: Vehicle contained explosive device 02 May 2010 New York mayor Michael Bloomberg says a suspicious vehicle in Times Square "did indeed contain an explosive device." Police found the device in the smoking sport utility vehicle Saturday evening. They then cleared the streets of tho ...
  • Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found
    ShareThis Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found 02 May 2010 Police found a suspected car bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle the device... ...
  • NY police confirm car bomb caused Times Sq. evacua ...
    ShareThis Breaking: NY police confirm car bomb caused Times Sq. evacuation 01 May 2010 The New York Police Department said on Saturday the incident that caused Times Square to be evacuated was what appeared to be a car bomb, which was being dismantled by officers on the scene. "This appears to be a ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Stoat bites Trufflehunter
    Not sure whether to feel good or recoil in horror at the realisation arch global-warmist William 'Stoat" Connolly and I agree on something. I nearly posted on yet more bad science from Hot Topic last week, but in the end...
  • Why is Obama looking sheepish?
    CAPTION: "Go on, Barry, tell me you didn't you ol hounddog..." A Tiger, a Baker, a scandalstick maker.... You couldn't make it up...but then again maybe you could. Is the Obama cheating scandal with Vera Baker for real? Drudge frontpaged...
  • Labour's $100K donation claim
    To read the story, click on the cover...
  • NZ Prime Minister under pressure from coalition pa ...
    Act Party leader Rodney Hide has just released an open letter to Prime Minister John Key, calling on him to delay New Zealand's emissions trading scheme, due to start July 1. Hide argues the government's excuses about an obligation to...
  • Fisking Ken Perrott, again
    I was reading Ken's 'my parachute won't open' site the other day and stumbled across some answers he gave to a sceptic that suggest Ken didn't have a clue what he was talking about. It's not the first time we've...

Mondoweiss

  • US aid for Palestinian roads facilitates hateful I ...
    Great piece of investigative reporting by Nadia Hijab and Jesse Rosenfeld in the Nation showing that many new Palestinian roads in the West Bank paid for by our government (U.S. that is) and other international donors are only serving Israeli settlement expansion by consolidating an Israeli plan for ...
  • Which side are you on, J Street?
    A couple of news items relating to the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby J Street over the past few weeks have shown that it's siding with the wrong people if it is honestly interested in a just and lasting solution to the situation in Israel/Palestine. On one hand, you have Jeremy Ben-A ...
  • More Arizona contradictions, this time from an Is- ...
    Writer Peter Beinart worked for AIPAC during the last presidential cycle, doing private events AIPAC refused to allow me to attend. Well he was on Hardball tonight taking the side of Mexican-Americans in Arizona. They are, he said, emblematic of "politically vulnerable minorities historically in our ...
  • The Arab turf at Brookings
    Someone passed me an email from the Brookings Institution in Doha, Qatar, hiring for two jobs: Salaam all, Brookings-Doha, where I'm deputy director, is hiring for two positions, Research Assistant and Communications and Program Assistant. The job descriptions are below. Please pass along to anyo ...
  • Freeman: Israel is useless to US power projection
    The other day Stephen Maher published a piece on Electronic Intifada saying that American thirst for hegemony in the region, and not the Israel lobby, is the prime motivator of US policy in Israel and Palestine. What follows is an excerpt of a private email exchange responding to Maher's post, repri ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • Contested spaces worth defending
    Introductory Note: The Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Graduate Student Conference this year took place on April 3, 2010. It had the theme “Contested Spaces: The (Re)Organization of Schooling Under Neoliberalism”. From the con ...
  • Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto
    The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...
  • Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chav ...
    On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans ...
  • Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails
    A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual .
  • If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief ef ...
    If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations: The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or Partners in Health

treehugger

  • Protect Endangered Species: Wear a Condom
    Story by Katie Levitt, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com. Since February, 350,000 free endangered species condoms have been distributed nationwide. The bulk of those were passed out at Earth Day events on Thursday. The condom campaign is the work of the Center for Biological Diversity. ...
  • April Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
    The historical ruins of Allianoi (left) got a reprieve from dam construction, while Lake Abant (right) remains threatened. Photos via DSİ (L) and Abant.info (R). As environmentalists celebrated Earth Day around the country, the holiday for treehuggers didn't see much to cheer in Turkey. April 2 ...
  • Students Hack Honda Engine to Run Entirely on Hydr ...
    Students from Hacienda Heights, California have built a vehicle with a hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) using a four-stroke engine from Honda. The three-wheeled vehicle runs entirely on hydrogen and uses absolutely no gasoline. After a successful test drive, the car is now ready ...
  • How Will Supply and Demand Effect Peak Oil?
    Image credit: SendAndReceive From IEA whistle-blowers to the US military warning of peak oil in a few years , there's plenty of reason to question the sustainability of our energy intensive ways. But when I wrote about the Dark Mountain Projects' rejection of enviro... Read the full story on Tr ...
  • More Expensive Water? Experts Say a Price Hike Is ...
    Photo via Ever Jean Water is one of the most undervalued resources we have. Especially in the developed world, we pay a fraction of the true cost of water in order to have the required resource run from our taps. But really, a barrel of water is more valuable than a barrel of oil at any price, ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN SG urges Central African nations to adopt anti- ...
    [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Friday urged [statement] Central African nations to adopt a legally binding instrument to combat illicit arms trafficking. Ban noted that there is a strong correlation [UN News Centre report] between arms trafficking and illicit activit ...
  • Germany court orders release of secret Nazi files
    [JURIST] A German federal court [official website, in German] on Friday ruled that the government has no legal basis for keeping files on top Nazi [JURIST news archive] official Adolf Eichmann secret, ordering their release. Argentinian journalist Gabriele Weber filed suit in order to get the docume ...
  • US trade office names Canada, Russia, China as cou ...
    [JURIST] The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) [official website] on Friday placed Russia, China, and Canada [JURIST news archives] on its Priority Watch List [text, PDF] of 12 countries that are not adequately protecting intellectual property rights [press release]. The USTR stated that ...
  • Arizona governor signs bill amending controversial ...
    [JURIST] Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) [official website] on Friday signed into law a bill [HB 2162 materials] designed to clarify the recently passed immigration law [SB 1070 materials]. The original bill, signed into law [JURIST report] last week, makes it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant ...
  • Former Pennsylvania judge pleads guilty in juvenil ...
    [JURIST] Former Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan pleaded guilty Thursday on charges of accepting more than $2.6 million in kickbacks for sentencing teenagers to two private juvenile detention facilities in which he had a financial interest. The former president judge of the Luzerne County Court of ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Night Beat: Obama To Lousiana Coast?
    What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. President Obama plans to visit the catastrophe zone off Lousiana's coast within the next 48 hours as SecDef Gates mobilizes the Lousiana National Guard and WH convenes a principal-level homeland security response meeting. Republicans begin to qu ...
  • Why Republicans Are Stalling the Financial Bill
    "Will 41 Republicans Block the Wishes of 65% of Americans?" asks the Democratic National Committee. As of this writing, the answer is -- yes. For the time being, anyway. Republicans aren't stupid. So what's going on here? 1. Government is not popular . People tend to blame George W. Bush for the fi ...
  • 'This Is Alabama. We Speak English'
    In this advertisement , Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James speaks on the apparently incredible waste of government resources it takes to give driver's license examinations in twelve languages. "This is Alabama," he says. "We speak English. If you want to live here, learn it. ... Maybe it ...
  • Gen. Jones Apologizes for Jewish 'Joke'
    Gen. Jones: what words escaped the�barrier�of your teeth? "I wish that I had not made this off the cuff joke at the top of my remarks, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it. It also distracted from the larger message I carried that day: that the United States commitment to Israel's ...
  • The Night Beat: And Then There Were 4 in Florida
    What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. Read it here first: Then there were FOUR. Billionaire Jeff Greene � will enter FL SEN race tomorrow as a Democrat ... expect a paper statement. Life story: he came from nothing. Self-made man. Created jobs. Made a difference. (He also shorted � ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Jeremy Ben Ami: ‘What Does the Left Want from J St ...
    Jeremy Ben Ami did an interview with the Jerusalem Post in which he had the equivalent of Sigmund Freud’s “what does woman want” moment. The reporter also managed to use me as a foil for the whole rather sordid exercise: Some of the groupâs former supporters on the far-left of the American Jewish ...
  • Gary Bauer Launches Keep Israel Safe, Attacks Obam ...
    With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scheduled to speak at the UN in the coming days, the pro-Israel warlocks are out in force. The Israel lobby yesterday took out a full page N.Y. Times ad saying that ending U.S. use of foreign oil would stop Iran from getting the bomb. Not to be outdone, the Republican [.. ...
  • Israel Lobby: How to Stop Iran Nukes? Stop Using O ...
    I kid you not, the best that the brightest minds behind the Israel lobby could devise in preparation for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s upcoming appearance at the UN in New York is taking out this full-page ad in the N.Y. Times, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and saying the way to stop Iran’s ‘unq ...
  • Wanted: IDF Soldier for Gravely Wounding Unarmed P ...
    This is the type of political action I approve of heartily.  It has guts and imagination and takes the battle directly to the other side: WANTED The police request the public’s assistance The suspect is wanted for investigation of attempted murder.  On 04/23/2010 at 14.03, the suspect was random ...
  • Mark ‘Muntasir’ Halawa, Pimping the Pro-Israel Lec ...
    A few months ago I wrote an expose of a “Mark” Halawa, who’d been adopted by the far-right settler group, Aish Hatorah, as their pet Muslim Jew (more about this later).  I called him “Aish’s Manchurian Muslim.”  The profile about him contained elements so far fetched as to be almost laughable, esp ...

Ode Magazine

  • Book Excerpt: Power and Love by Adam Kahane
    Published by: Berrett-Koehler , San Francisco, 2010 Beyond War and Peace Our two most common ways of trying to address our toughest social challenges are the extreme ones: aggressive war and submissive peace. Neither of these ways works. We can try, using our gu ...
  • The joy of dirt
    Soil is as essential a natural resource as air and water. Yet weâre running out of healthy, fertile dirt at an alarming rate. One manâs odyssey to retrace and reduce his soil footprint. At his farm in Willits, California, John Jeavons teaches the next generation to grow soil. P ...
  • 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 ...
  • Five freedoms for all
    How the 2048 movement is helping âmeâ and âweâ to work together. Photo: istockphoto.com/arissanjay 2048 is a plan to prevent future wars, eliminate poverty and create the conditions necessary for a sustainable existence on our planet. These ends can be achieved th ...
  • Experiments in workplace autonomy
    Traditional employee management techniques are out of sync with human nature. Get ready for a renaissance of self-direction. Photo: Dusanzidar/ Dreamstime.com A little past noon on a rainy Friday in Charlottesville, Virginia, only a third of CEO Jeff Gunther’s employees ha ...

OpEd News

  • Fire on the Bayou: Non-Stop River of Oil Heads to ...
    "This isnapos;t a spill. This isnapos;t a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse," said Kerry St. Pe, the former head of the Louisiana oil spill response team. The Gulf spill is really a river of oil flowing out of the bottom of the Gulf a ...
  • THE DECLARATION OF WORLD 5.0
    World 5.0 uses the idea of an operating system to describe the need for our species to migrate to new, more aware and integrated level. There is no time outside this Moment, and itapos;s time we started living from this perspective.
  • How Rev. Moonapos;s apos;Snakesapos; Infested US
    Even the passing of Moonapos;s Washington Times will not mean that the snakes and other vermin that Moon let loose in the American political system will soon disappear. In fact, they may be more prevalent than ever.
  • Will Any Goldman Sach Execs Go To Jail? What Next ...
    There have been Hearings, an SEC complaint and now ,the possibility of criminal charges against Goldman Sachs. What does it mean? News Dissector Danny Schechter, director of Plunder The Crime of Our Time offers a perspective.
  • ARE WE SICK OF POLITICAL COMMERCIALS YET?
    With the deluge of corporate money into campaign finance already underway, we can now look forward to never-ending campaigns of endless radio and TV commercials polluting the airwaves. Trust me, we will soon be screaming for relief from this new form of Speech Terrorism. In fact, we will have t ...

Switchboard

  • On Oil Spill Disasters and the White House Corresp ...
    Tonight is the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. NRDC coordinated the greening of that dinner. But today it is impossible not to first think about the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and how it relates to everything we do, including fancy dinners. I recall bei ...
  • The Gulf Oil Spill: Human Health is Affected Too
    Oil spills destroy ecosystems and kill wildlife, but people's health is�directly�affected too. As the situation in the Gulf Coast unfolds, the local communities and workers�must be�protected. Oil is semi-volatile, which means that it can evaporate into the air and create a heavy vapor that ...
  • Deepwater Dispatches (Part 1)
    The first thing you forget when you leave the Gulf Coast, where I grew up, is the humidity. It is also, the first thing you are reminded of when you come home. When I got the call that I was to pack up and head out to New Orleans I loaded my bags with long sleeve shirts and ties, the uniform ...
  • Mayor Villaraigosa, Let’s Promote Biking and Walki ...
    LA Streetsblog today posted an article about Los Angeles’ Mayor Villaraigosa promoting more biking and walking.  This is very smart thinking for the Mayor of the city that ranks highest on the list for ozone pollution, traffic congestion, and fuel wasted from congestion.  We need to think ha ...
  • Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – BDCP
    In many ways, the state currently has two ambitious processes planning the future of the Delta -- the Delta Stewardship Council and the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan process.  The creation of the Council was the result of a high-profile debate in the legislature.  The BDCP, for those outside o ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Derby Day!
    So, there is a horse racing event of some note over in Louisville this afternoon. I would be remiss in failing to make some recommendations: 1. Conveyance 12-1 (a gray horse with a nice, practical name) 2. Mission Implazible 20-1 (unconventional spelling of “implausible” seals the place) 3. Jackson ...
  • Mildly Surprising
    The Guardian endorses the Liberal Democrats.  While endorsements do not have the power that The Sun believes, they can affect outcomes at the margins.  In my own work, endorsements have been shown to matter in low information contexts where most voting cues are unavailable, such as partisanship (t ...
  • Policy Success Reaps Few Rewards…
    John Styles, via Chris Blattman: About a week after the earthquake, economist Tyler Cowen wrote that Obama looked like the “Haiti president”: Obama will (and should) do something about this situation … Yet he will have a festering situation on his hands for the rest of his term … Obama now stand ...
  • Um…
    I hate to disagree with Charles Pierce — see here for one of many posts I can endorse entirely — but I really can’t agree that the technically correct but perhaps not consistent with de facto standards wave-off of the potential tying goal for the Caps in Game 7 constituted “the single most psychedel ...
  • Rule of Law!
    Shorter Duncan Hunter:  I believe that the 14th Amendment should be ignored while we’re on the process of trying to “overrule” it by statute. I wonder which Republican member of Congress will be the first one to call for a constitutional amendment reinstating Dred Scott as the law of the land? Re ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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