- MIDEAST: Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli ...
RAMALLAH, May 20 (IPS) - Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank.
- AFRICA: Better Data Key to Supporting Women Farmer ...
MBABANE, May 20 (IPS) - An accomplished farmer who won the coveted Woman Farmer of the Year Award in 2008, Thabile Dlamini-Gooday wants to uplift the standard of other women in agriculture. She believes that if women farmers were to work together they could fight hunger and significantly red ...
- EGYPT: Hopes Fade for US Help to Restore Civil Lib ...
CAIRO, May 20 (IPS) - Egypt's decision to extend its oppressive Emergency Law for two more years drew a tepid response from Washington, prompting criticism that U.S. administrations - including that of President Barack Obama - only push for political reform in Egypt when it suits their geos ...
- POLITICS: Rising Border Tension Threatens China-Bu ...
BEIJING, May 20 (IPS) - When the military regime in Burma launched a campaign last August to disarm the ethnic rebels in the Kokang region, made up mostly of ethnic Chinese and where a two-decade-long ceasefire had been in place, the push triggered an exodus of more than 37,000 refugees i ...
- Jamaicans Fear Mayhem Over Coke Extradition
KINGSTON, May 19 (IPS) - Classrooms emptied and business owners pulled down their shutters this week as the word spread that the Jamaican government had finally signed an extradition request from the United States for alleged gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke.
- UK proposes 50% Capital Gains Tax
The Chancellor is to increase duty on capital gains even though the plan was not included in the Conservatives' election manifesto. CGT on "non-business assets", including second homes, buy-to-let properties and shares, could rise from the current 18 per cent flat rate to a top rate of 40 or even 5 ...
- Nissan rolls out electric vehicles in Europe
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- How the Euro Rescue Package Came Together
FRIDAY, MAY 7 Berlin, Chancellery, 9:30 a.m. By all indications, it promises to be a quiet day. In the morning the German parliament, the Bundestag, is scheduled to ratify a bill approving Germany's share of the Greek bailout package, which will provide the battered countries with loan guarantees, ...
- Reminding Fonterra about the alternatives to coal
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- Boycotting Israel - Its Working
The global boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel's apartheid system in Palestine has achieved many victories since it was launched by a broad coalition of Palestinian civil society in 2005. BDS victories seem to have flowed thick and fast in recent times, particularly since ...
- Gay couple sentenced to 14 years in Malawi
A judge today sentenced a couple to the maximum 14 years in prison for unnatural acts and gross indecency under Malawi's anti-gay legislation.
- S. Korea pledges firm measures over 'torpedoed' sh ...
South Korea accused the reclusive North today of torpedoing one of its warships, heightening tension in the economically powerful region and testing the international position of China, Pyongyang's only major backer.
- Crete death boyfriend to hear charge details
A British man due in court in Crete in connection with the death of his girlfriend will find out today if he is to be charged with murder, his lawyer said.
- Eyewitness report: Dodging bullets in Thailand
There was nothing for us to do but take cover, as the incoming fire sprayed and hissed. People lay flat, terrified, crouched behind cars, tried to squeeze themselvesinto the meagre protection offered by the wheel hubs. They took cover frantically, diving behind not just cars, but trucks, trees and ...
- Eyewitness: Under fire in Thailand
There was nothing for us to do but take cover, as the incoming fire sprayed and hissed. People lay flat, terrified, crouched behind cars, tried to squeeze themselvesinto the meagre protection offered by the wheel hubs. They took cover frantically, diving behind not just cars, but trucks, trees and ...
- Postpartum relief
When Nicole Letourneau’s second child was born with cancer in 2001, she was, in theory, well equipped for such devastating news. As a nurse, her graduate studies had looked at aspects of family care, such as the impact of a mother staying overnight in hospital with her sick child. She had also worke ...
- Project waste water
Last fall, they were just four guys with an assignment to complete as part of their final year of chemical engineering studies at Toronto’s Ryerson University. This spring, they are the award-winning designers of a new process for treating waste water that could be used to remove a number of hazardo ...
- A symphony of science
Words such as “laboratory” and “experiment” conjure up white-coated scientists mixing chemicals to better understand diseases like cancer or environmental challenges like energy consumption. We don’t usually picture a pianist, a playwright, a dancer or an acoustical engineer. When artists experiment ...
- The amazing ‘sensorium suite’ of Dr. Houston
“All the world’s a stage,” William Shakespeare famously wrote. And while Shakespeare’s plays are still performed in premier concert halls and on festival stages, Andrew Houston, an associate professor of drama at the University of Waterloo, is taking his theatre of sound out into the world. “Often, ...
- Butterflies in the boreal
When biologist Jeremy Kerr needs a sentinel to demonstrate the effects of climate change, he looks no further than the eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas). That’s because the eastern tailed blue, like other butterfly species Kerr and his students at the University of Ottawa track, has be ...
- New York: 18-Year-Old Stabbed Outside Boys & Girls ...
Troy Police are investigating a robbery and stabbing outside of a Boys and Girls Club Tuesday night. Police say an 18-year-old old man was outside of this Boys and Girls Club on Seventh Avenue and State Street waiting for a ride when two to three people robbed and stabbed him. The victim was taken ...
- Kansas: Man Accused of Stabbing Woman with Steak K ...
A Salina man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the leg with a steak knife three times and poured a bottle of vodka on her head. Jeffrey A. Arredondo, 45, 605 N. 11th, is accused of kicking in the door at a north Salina residence at 7 p.m. Monday and stabbing the woman once ...
- California: Flirting Accusations Lead to Stabbing ...
A 15-year-old Watsonville High School girl is facing felony charges after she allegedly stabbed another girl Tuesday afternoon over a dispute involving her boyfriend, police said Wednesday. According to Sgt. Tony Magdayao, the incident began when the suspect accused another 15-year-old girl of flir ...
- Spicing the Meat Also Cuts the Cancer Risk
Spices will do more than just enhance the taste of ground beef. They'll also cut down on the risk of compounds that can cause cancer. J. Scott Smith, a Kansas State University food chemistry professor, has pursued different projects in recent years seeking ways to reduce heterocyclic amines (HCAs). ...
- Processed Meat Raises Risk of Diabetes, Heart Dise ...
A new study published in the journal Circulation reveals that eating processed meat products significantly raises the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Previous research has linked processed meats to cancer as well. The new paper involved a meta-analysis of 20 different studies covering more than ...
- Stephen Harper was a "professional student"
Harper was hatched sometime in 1959. He finally finished a degree in 1993. The arithmetic is simple to anyone who can add or subtract.... Harper was still a student at age 34. According to the box of doughnuts and double-double crowd at Stephen Taylor's fatuous moron corral that would make Harper ...
- Russian incursions...
Heh. Don't tell "Airshow" or "Red Dawn" - it'll give them the vapours. A Russian Federation aircraft will conduct an aerial observation mission over Canada under the authority of the Treaty on Open Skies on May 18-20, 2010. A Tupolev TU-154M aircraft, which arrived at 8 Wing Trenton yesterda ...
- Uh, Liberals (and...Conservatives)...
This might explain your non-majority polling numbers. Leadership remains a challenge for the Liberal Party, as Mr. Ignatieff’s favourability remains virtually unchanged from March. Today, 26% have a favourable view of Mr. Ignatieff, while twice that number (52%) hold an unfavourable view. In March, ...
- Toxic things
These are bottlenose dolphins swimming through globules of crude from the Deepwater Horizon. More here . I'm again reminded of the way an Aboriginal elder I met described oil as a substance toxic to life that was meant to remain buried deep, describing it as part of the Earth's processes, but never ...
- Mediawatch - Bartending the Inquisition
The Ottawa Citizen recently ran an item under "News" entitled " End the Inquisition " in which the author equated the parliamentary committee on the Canadian mission in Afghanistan with Senator Joe McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunt. "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left ...
- Beck distorts FEMA facts to claim Obama is "destr ...
Glenn Beck claimed that a FEMA videographer asking volunteers to remove their Salvation Army T-shirts at a disaster cleanup site indicates that the Obama administration is "destroying charity and our faith." But the day before, FEMA's administrator said the videographer was "absolutely wrong" a ...
- Beck mixes up his talking points, runs with disto ...
Glenn Beck falsely claimed that "this new cap-and-trade bill" extends unemployment insurance by three years and encourages workers to move overseas. In fact, the energy bill most recently considered in Congress, sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, has no such provisions, and Beck' ...
- Wash. Times falsely suggests past warm pe ...
A Washington Times editorial falsely suggested global warming science is undermined by studies indicating that the planet, at least in some regions, saw exceptional warmth thousands of years ago. But climate experts don't dispute that certain regions have experienced natural warm and cool peri ...
- Wash. Times op-ed falsely claims Kagan wo ...
A Washington Times op-ed baselessly claimed that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan promoted an "anti-military campaign" while dean of Harvard Law, citing the false claim that Kagan "den[ied] JAG officers and willing Harvard law students the opportunity to meet and talk about opportunities to ser ...
- Sunstein Internet control falsehood migrates to Fo ...
Fox Business host David Asman falsely claimed that Cass Sunstein "wants to mandate websites" to offer links to opposing views, an idea Asman compared to a "Ministry of Truth" and suggested would "add up to fascism." In fact, in 2008 Sunstein stated that he had renounced that idea. Asman: Suns ...
- Zionist Children Losing Their Minds! ++ An Israel ...
This story in the Forward today reminds me of something my older son wrote to us in a letter from Jewish summer camp when he was 14. He told us the kids were terrific but that some of them were so paranoid about Israel that he thought they were "crazy." After all, these were all pretty well-off J ...
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- The Wall Street-Washington Axis of See No Evil Str ...
The Wall Street-Washington Axis of See-No-Evil is close to axing Blanche Lincoln's important proposal for ending the taxpayer subsidy of derivative trading. For years the big banks have relied on taxpayer-funded deposit insurance to backstop their lucrative derivative businesses. Obviously they w ...
- Think Twice on Iran
The conventional wisdom in Washington seems to be that the Iran-Brazil-Turkey deal to take about half of Tehran's enriched uranium out of the country in exchange for access to fuel for a medical isotope reactor was merely a ploy to head off sanctions. But in an essay in the Washington Note, Middle E ...
- Peter Beinart Unbound?
Anyone who actually writes anything about Israel that perfect strangers are likely to read had better believe he's got the wisdom, pointillist clarity and courage to unmask others' astigmatism, myopia and bad faith in the matter. Too often, though, the would-be Truth-teller, no matter where he stand ...
- Prime Mortgages Going Bust at an Alarming Rate
Washington — Aftershocks from the nation's financial crisis continue rumbling through the housing sector as fixed-rate mortgages held by the safest borrowers accounted for nearly 37 percent of new foreclosures during the first three months of this year, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wedn ...
- Froma Harrop | Superb Tuesday: The Right People Wo ...
Guess Mitch McConnell's charm wasn't enough. The Senate minority leader's anointed man lost the Kentucky Republican Senate primary to Rand Paul, son of tea party toastmaster Texas Rep. Ron Paul. The Tuesday races went well for Democrats, less well for Republicans and still less well for McConnell. ...
- US Says Only Reason for Talks with Iran Is Enrich ...
Washington - The agreement on draft Security Council resolution sanctions against Iran has grabbed the headlines on the Barack Obama administration's response to Iran's nuclear swap proposal brokered by Turkey and Brazil. But the more consequential response is the acknowledgement by the U.S. State D ...
- Robert Scheer | Who's Afraid of Rand Paul?
Tuesday's election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of that windbag chameleon Sen. Arlen Specter is long overdue, and pro-labor forces were able to push Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff in Arkansas. Even the big tea party win in Kentucky has its bright side. read more
- E.J. Dionne, Jr. | A Smorgasbord, Not a Tea Party
Pittsburgh - Almost all the shibboleths of Washington conventional wisdom took a hit in Tuesday's voting. Yet advocates of a single national political narrative clung to the difficulties of two incumbent Democratic senators to keep spinning the same old tale. It's true that the idea of incumbents a ...
- Unlike Jupiter, Earth’s Mountains and Oceans Effec ...
Unlike the storms swirling around the gas giant of Jupiter, Earth’s storms are affected by the oceans and mountains. Science will often, in an effort to simplify and provide a reference point, compare findings here on Earth with disparate examples elsewhere, either on the planet or off. A group of ...
- America’s Climate Choices #1 – Advancing the Scien ...
The National Research Council has released three reports focusing on why the US should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and form a coherent plan to deal with the changing climate. “These reports show that the state of climate change science is strong,” said Ralph J. Cicerone, president o ...
- America’s Climate Choices #2 – Limiting the Magnit ...
The National Research Council has released three reports focusing on why the US should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and form a coherent plan to deal with the changing climate. “These reports show that the state of climate change science is strong,” said Ralph J. Cicerone, president of ...
- America’s Climate Choices #3 – Adapting to the Imp ...
The National Research Council has released three reports focusing on why the US should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and form a coherent plan to deal with the changing climate. “These reports show that the state of climate change science is strong,” said Ralph J. Cicerone, president of ...
- Sun Glinting off Oil Spill
NASA’s Aqua satellite has caught imagery of the sun glinting off the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. As it swept over the Gulf of Mexico the Aqua, using the onboard Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument, the satellite took the above image showing three big bright sunglints. According t ...
- Tar Sands May be Coming to Texas
The U.S. Department of State will be hosting public hearings this week, May 17-20th in Beaumont, Liberty, Livingston, and Tyler on the proposed tar sands pipeline. Canadian oil and gas giant TransCanada needs U.S. Department of State approval in order to expand the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada t ...
- Arkansas Supreme Court Rules Against Turk Coal Pla ...
Upholding a state court ruling made last year that found the hearing process was not conducted propery, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against the Turk coal-fired power plant in Southwest Arkansas. This is great news for the People of Arkansas, surrounding states, and the planet in general. Perha ...
- Webinar on Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compa ...
The day after our radioactive waste importation webinar, the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission announced that it would delay consideration of the rule that would have allowed the import of low level nuclear waste from the entire nation into Texas. The rule will not be considered ...
- Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
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- Participate in the Texas Sunset Advisory Commissio ...
In 1977, the Texas Legislature created the Sunset Advisory Commission to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies. The 12-member Commission is a legislative body that reviews the policies and programs of more than 150 government agencies every 12 years. The ...
- Water Rights for Arab Citizens of Israel
ahali-water.jpg Among the many challenges facing Arab citizens living in Israel, access to water is perhaps the worst. Grassroots International partner the Ahali Center for Community Development is organizing to secure the human right to water ...
- Tell Congress: Haiti Can't Wait
Micheline Fleuron lives with her two boys in the median on the road in Carrefour, Haiti.� Her home, the pile of rubble across the street from where she is now, collapsed during the earthquake and killed her seven-year-old daughter. Before the earthquake Micheline had a small business selling food it ...
- “System Change, Not Climate Change”
cocha-morales_edited-1.jpg Last month, I traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia for a number of reasons. The main one was to attend the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth . Many of Grassroots International’s pa ...
- Individual Giving and e-Advocacy Coordinator – ful ...
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- Biotechnology: A False Sense of Food Security
Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Timi Gerson is Director of Advocacy for American Jewish World Service. Gerson started her career organizing legislative campaigns for fair U.S. trade policy as field director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. ...
- May 20, 2010
U.S. Science Body Urges Action on Climate (New York Times) In its most comprehensive study so far, the National Research Council, the nation's leading scientific body, declared on Wednesday that climate change is a reality and is driven mostly by human activity, chiefly the burning of fossil ...
- May 19, 2010
U.S. Doubts Global Emission Targets in Climate Deal (AFP) U.S climate negotiator Todd Stern said Tuesday it was politically unrealistic for the next treaty to impose global targets on emission cuts, amid deep divisions between rich and developing nations. UN Climate Chief Faces Wideni ...
- May 18, 2010
New UN Climate Chief Says Rich Must Act for Global Deal (Reuters) The world can salvage a new deal to combat global warming but rich countries must first fulfill their pledges on climate aid, the UN's new climate chief, Costa Rica's Christiana Figueres, said. Obama to Create Independ ...
- May 17, 2010
UN to Pick Costa Rican as New Climate Chief: Sources (Reuters) Veteran Costa Rican climate diplomat Christiana Figueres is set to be appointed as the new UN climate chief, sources said on Monday. Worry that Gulf Oil Spreading into Major Current (AP) Engineers finally figured out h ...
- May 15-16, 2010
BP's Own Probe Finds Safety Issues on Atlantis Rig (AP) The company whose drilling triggered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," records and int ...
- 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 ...
- Who’s Afraid of Rand Paul?
� from Truthdig Tuesday’s election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of that windbag chameleon Sen. Arlen Specter is long overdue, and pro-labor forces were able to push Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff in Arkansas. Even the big tea party win in Kentucky has its bright side ...
- Fear Comes Of Age
Elena Kagan is the perfect Supreme Court pick for Barack Obama. In fact, in so many ways, she is Barack Obama. Moreover, they both represent their generation well. They are the leading edge of Generation X, and they embody its character fully. You don't need a fancy degree in sociology to figure th ...
- John Hagee Said God Sent Hitler to Hunt the Jews. ...
If, sometime in the future, a conservative Israeli politician was able to get legislation passed through the Knesset establishing a Christian Zionist Hall of Fame in Israel, you can bet your bottom shekel that Pastor John Hagee would be among those voted into the Hall's first class. Since being shun ...
- Kill the illegals: Crack-brained Michigan bill wou ...
That's right. Harass the bastards first, of course. Illegal immigrants have ruined this country. They took all our jobs and wrecked the auto industry and are why I have bad teeth. No doubt about it. Now, while I agree heartily with those sentiments, they aren't originally mine; they are based on som ...
- Killing Our World
� from Truthout "I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have," wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his novel,"'Fight Club." "Burn the Amazon rain forest. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all ...
- This Blog Has Moved
As of Monday May 17th 2010 this blog (tenpercent.wordpress.com) has moved to tenpercent.org.uk This wordpress.com site will remain in place but new posts will appear at:-
- MV Rachel Corrie Sets Sail
FreeGaza- 14 May 2010 – At 22:45 local time tonight, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom Flotilla, set sail from Ireland on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. There, ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza. This past week reports from Is ...
- Friday! Theme From TenPercent
It’s the last Friday on wordpress.com before the move on Monday to tenpercent.org.uk and just in the nick of time the decision as to the theme of the blog has been reached. It was not easy, there were some long nights, vinyl rummaging and acts of terror. It’s been a hard fought battle and the [...]
- ConDems Show Vicious Neoliberal Principles In Atta ...
Given they both agree cuts which will entail more unemployment they are then further victimising the people they make unemployed, a searingly middle and upper class attitude that is based in the ‘scrounger’ idea that is demonstrably dishonest, they know full well their ideology depends on and create ...
- Mr. David Eton-Murdoch is Prime Minister
Here comes the 32nd year of neoliberalism, this time in toff(ee?) flavour. Surprisingly I have a Tory acquaintance, one Mister Degby Reardon who when he has sobered up I shall invite for his views on the Blue Reich, last I heard from him he was chanting ‘Cameroooooonnnnnnssss Komandos!’ and urinatin ...
- Corporatist Democrats and Blanche Lincoln
Financial law is very complicated. I understand that. There are all kinds of interlocking pieces, and small changes in law can have big unintended consequences. Something might seem like a good idea but actually would create all kinds of perverse incentives. But Sheldon Whitehouse's amendment wa ...
- The Sky is Blue
Rand Paul is against segregation in public spaces but has no problem with discrimination in hiring or the workplace. At least he's honest. And Stormfront deserves representation, too. I've been warning progressives that the Paulists are racists and just because you might agree with them on a few ...
- Your Dysfunctional Senate
Meanwhile, the Senate just failed to invoke cloture on the Wall Street reforms bill in a 57-42 vote. That's fine with me, but it proves once again that the Senate can't do anything. Maybe they will lose their Memorial Day vacation now, but I don't give a crap. It's more important to improve the b ...
- Feeling a Bit Bullish
Now that Ken Lewis has endorsed her, I think Elaine Marshall is in a solid position to win her run-off election against DSCC-backed Cal Cunningham in the North Carolina senate race. That will be further proof that the Washington Establishment has no clue what's going on in this election cycle. Whe ...
- Wall Street -- Real Organized Crime
The Mafia, the Drug Cartels, The Russian Mobsters - mere lightweights. You want to know who are the biggest organized crime lords on the planet? Look no further than Wall Street and your friendly neighborhood Mega-Banks: A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trade ...
- The Lighter Side of Genetic Manipulation Nightmare ...
After Alba the fluorescent art rabbit was artificially engineered, and genetically modified zebra fish were cleared for sale to the general public, I began imagining various ways in which playing Frankenstein could bite us all in the collective ass. Vivid as it may be, my layman’s imagination has b ...
- Performative storytelling? Author writes and edits ...
There are lots of interesting new business models for musicians in our new digital world, because music is a performance art – if you can’t sell the sounds, you can potentially sell the experience of seeing (and hearing) the sounds being made. Writers – acolytes of that traditionally most solitary o ...
- Dumb futurism: telecommuter robot reaches staggeri ...
Every time I see someone ask the (usually rhetorical) question “why don’t we have the world full of robots that science fiction promised us?“, I’m always tempted to reply with a swing of the clue-by-four: “because anyone with any sense can see that a human worker is always going to be cheaper and mo ...
- California’s marijuana problem
… is that a lot of the people growing weed are suddenly finding they can’t sell it, even at bargain-basement bulk rates, thanks to the easing of access provided by medical marijuana laws in the state [via MetaFilter]. “Outdoor growers are having a hard time unloading their fall harvest,” Custer says ...
- Technothriller threat of the week: insect-borne bi ...
Via Bruce Schneier, still tirelessly cataloguing the monetization and manipulation of movie-plot threats: a workshop to “address the threat of insect-based terrorism”. How real is the threat? Many of the worldâs most dangerous pathogens already are transmitted by arthropods, the animal phylum that ...
- The Two-Faith Marriage
By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile For thousands of years, people have expected their children to marry within their family faith and culture. Family life, in its largest sense, is easier th ...
- For the Partners of Unemployed People…
By Laura HS Collins, LCSW Click here to contact Laura and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Unemployment is a downright monster. Most often, we see a lot of support for the unemployed person – building the resume, interviewing, networking, staying busy and being positive. I certainly hope and pray ...
- The Art of Letting Go
By Yael Schweitzer, LCSW, BC-DMT, Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yael and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect any praise or reward. If you let go a little, you will have a li ...
- Buddhist Mindfulness Gaining Ground in Psychothera ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As people around the world grapple with the consequences of the global economic downturn, stress is likely becoming a more prevalent and pressing experience for many. Dealing with stress is a key component of achieving a high quality of life, and while mindfulness in ...
- Dishwasher Diaries
By Kelly Chicas, LPCC, NCC, CRS, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Oh, how the humble little dishwasher can demolish a relationship- who would suspect that a machine that was invented simply to make life a little easi ...
- Country musicians gather for Music Saves Mountains ...
Paste Magazine (blog) Country musicians gather for Music Saves Mountains The Tennessean Opponents of mountaintop removal are backed by the NRDC, which cites scientists' claims that the practice leads to disease, pollution and a permanent ... Emmylou Harris Mines Music for Mountains Great American C ...
- Coal makes a stealth comeback - Chicago Tribune
Coal makes a stealth comeback Chicago Tribune ... spotlights a dangerous business, responsible for deadly air pollution and deeply unpopular practices such as strip mining and mountaintop removal . ... and more��
- Jim James, Ben Sollee, and Daniel Martin Moore Hel ...
Paste Magazine (blog) Jim James, Ben Sollee, and Daniel Martin Moore Help Save the Mountains Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock The people and the land of Appalachia are too important to us as a nation to be sacrificed for something as short-sighted as Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal ... Emmylou Harris ...
- Dimon survives early heckles at AGM - Financial Ne ...
Financial News Dimon survives early heckles at AGM Financial News A number of shareholder groups and an individual from Appalachia bought up the issue of mountaintop removal for coal mining in the region, which they said ... and more��
- Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activists Held on $100000 ...
Anti- Mountaintop Removal Activists Held on $100000 Bail Democracy Now And in West Virginia, two activists are being held on $100000 dollars bail each following their arrests protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. ...
Rand Paul: 'The Hard Part Of Believing In Freedom' ... Ian M. / Think Progress : Rand Paul: ‘The Hard Part Of Believing In Freedom’ Is Opposing Ban On Whites-Only Lunch Counters — The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is one of the greatest
accomplishments of the 20th century, banning whites-only lunch counters and similar discrimination in hiring, promotio ...
- Kagan Criticized the Warren Court in Thesis (Wall ...
Wall Street Journal : Kagan Criticized the Warren Court in Thesis — In her 1983 masters thesis, Elena Kagan criticized the Supreme Court under liberal icon Earl Warren for what she described as poorly argued rulings, a view that may help her defend herself from any claim by Republican senators ...
- Scandals in the House Republican Class of 1994 (Da ...
Dana Milbank / Washington Post : Scandals in the House Republican Class of 1994 — When was it, exactly, that the Republican revolution merged with the sexual revolution? — With each passing year, the class notes for the famous House Republicans Class of '94 get more lurid. The latest entry wa ...
- Is Rand Ron's Son? Or the Most Powerful Republican ...
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online : Is Rand Ron's Son? Or the Most Powerful Republican in the Woooorld? — Rand Paul is in the spotlight tonight. He's enjoying Scott Brown-like status as the Most Powerful Republican In The World. And look: he says he represents the Tea Party movement. So th ...
- HOUSE PASSES BEER RESOLUTION (Patrick Gavin/The Po ...
Patrick Gavin / The Politico : HOUSE PASSES BEER RESOLUTION — While most of Washington was focused on Tuesday's election results, the House was busy doing something else: Passing a resolution about beer. — House Resolution 1297, sponsored by Rep. Betsy Markey, supports “the goals and ideals o ...
- M 5.7, southeast of Easter Island
Thursday, May 20, 2010 08:06:29 UTC Thursday, May 20, 2010 02:06:29 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- M 5.0, Banda Sea
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:42:10 UTC Wednesday, May 19, 2010 09:42:10 PM at epicenter Depth : 312.00 km (193.87 mi)
- M 5.4, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:51:04 UTC Wednesday, May 19, 2010 01:51:04 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- M 5.4, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
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- Exploring the inner lives of animals
Baboons show grief and chickens can spot beauty, says Jonathan Balcombe, who is saddened by how humans treat animals. The animal-behaviour scientist tells James Randerson a bit about how they feel. Chickens recognise human beauty, starlings can be pessimistic and elephants grieve for their fallen co ...
- Networks of trust
Social media is changing the way businesses and consumers talk to each other, not least on issues of corporate sustainability, say John Elkington and Alex Hammer. “Open is good, closed is bad.” It isn't exactly the sentiment you expect to hear from a former top Shell executive, but when Björn Edlund ...
- Chemical reactions on the Yangtze
Plans to boost production of hazardous substances at the head of the Three Gorges reservoir threaten the sensitive surroundings, says Yang Chuanmin, winner of the “in-depth reporting” category in the China Environmental Press Awards. In the rolling hills alongside the Three Gorges reservoir , on a T ...
- The fire-starters
Forceful academics – dubbed the “incinerationists” – are promoting waste-to-energy plants in China. But, says Meng Dengke, winner of the “investigative journalism” category in the China Environmental Press Awards, these experts’ corporate links are raising doubts about their motives. This article wa ...
- Hot wind in the desert
Vast wind farms have sprung up in the Gobi Desert, born of China’s latest investment frenzy. But in the bid to hit renewable targets, financial risks have been ignored, says Lu Zhenhua, winner of the “biggest impact” category in the China Environmental Press Awards. China's first Environmental Press ...
- Pennsylvania Attorney General Tries to Unmask Twit ...
An anonymous blogger critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett plans to challenge a grand jury subpoena ordering Twitter to reveal the blogger’s identity. “It doesn’t really matter why we are criticizing him,” said “Signor Ferrari,” one of the two Twitter user’s targeted in the subpoe ...
- Vigilantes Hack Criminal Carding Forum and Expose ...
A German cybercrime forum was hacked by attackers who have exposed the underground dealings of the criminal denizens. The hackers snagged the database containing what appears to be all the private correspondence of the forum members, and posted it to the web. The hackers also posted information on ...
- LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times
Apparently, when you publish your Social Security number prominently on your website and billboards, people take it as an invitation to steal your identity. LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, whose number is displayed in the company’s ubiquitous advertisements, has by now learned that lesson. He’s been a vic ...
- Copyright Lawsuits Plummet in Aftermath of RIAA Ca ...
New federal copyright infringement lawsuits plummeted to a six-year low in 2009, the year after the Recording Industry Association of America abandoned its litigation campaign against file sharers, court records show. Copyright lawsuits numbered 2,192 in 2009, down almost a third from the previo ...
- Students, Parents Allowed to View Webcam Scandal P ...
Suburban Philadelphia parents and their high school-age children soon will learn the extent of a potentially criminal webcam scandal. A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the Lower Merion School District to start sending notification letters to any student covertly spied on through their school-is ...
- UPDATE 1-Crystal to battle Lee for "American Idol" ...
LOS ANGELES, May 19 (Reuters) - Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze will battle each other for the "American Idol" title next week after guitarist Casey James was voted off by viewers on Wednesday.
- Stocks rebound but euro zone fears weigh
LONDON (Reuters) - European stocks rebounded on Thursday as investors sought bargains after the previous day's sharp sell-off but gains were limited by persistent euro zone fears, with the euro remaining under pressure.
- U.S. backs Seoul's charge that North Korea sank sh ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to help South Korea defend itself against any further "acts of aggression," the White House said on Wednesday as it backed Seoul in its accusation that North Korea sank one of its navy ships.
- Louisiana shore sees heavy oil as BP prepares plug
VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Heavy oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill threatened Louisiana marshlands on Thursday after washing ashore for the first time since a BP-operated rig exploded a month ago, sparking ecological disaster.
- Obama, Calderon push for immigration law changes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pushed for sweeping changes in U.S. immigration policy on Wednesday, as Mexican President Felipe Calderon complained that a harsh new Arizona law discriminates against foreign-born workers.
- VAT rise would hit the poorest
Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
- Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
- Splendid: government targets second homes
As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.
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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."
- Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle sees the raw milk gla ...
AP’s Scott Bauer and I caught up with each other this morning shortly after Governor Jim Doyle vetoed a bill that would have allowed limited sales of raw milk in Wisconsin, saying he was protecting citizens' health and safety. He also expressed concerns about how a possible outbreak of disease from ...
- Campylobacter outbreak hits Saratoga Springs Utah ...
The Utah County Health Department (UCHD) is continuing to work with the City of Saratoga Springs, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, the Utah Department of Health, and other public and private organizations to determine the cause of this campylobacter outbreak. Since May 11th, 15 lab con ...
- Is Twitter the New FDA? Should it be? - UPDATE
Last night I posted “Romaine Lettuce E. coli O145 Outbreak - The FDA to us – ‘You can't handle the truth!’” In a not too subtle way I kept asking the question, why is the FDA not disclosing who “The Yuma Farm” is? I mean, seriously, Freshway disclosed that they received romaine lettuce from Andrew ...
- Campylobacter and Salmonella Illnesses Linked to R ...
According to a Utah Public Health Press Release, officials are investigating two separate clusters of illness linked to the consumption of raw milk. To date, the first cluster includes nine reported cases of Campylobacter infection among residents in Weber, Davis and Cache Counties. The second clust ...
- BPA and S. 510 - "The perfect is the enemy of the ...
I personally do not think BPA should be in cans nor in containers. But, I also think that its ban should not be in S. 510 - "The Food Safety Modernization Act." If it is worth it, stand it alone. But, in and of itself, it should not stand in the way of the first real move for comprehensive food s ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.17.10
Nissan Leaf profitable by year three; battery cost closer to $18,000 This isn't what we heard last time. AFVI 2010: CNG-powered Gasser hugs trees and hauls ass Oh, the things you can do with ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.14.10
Climate Bill details unveiled: emissions, clean coal, transportation and much more at stake It's the American Power Act (read it in PDF ). Say what? Plug-in Prius can't charge additional battery packs on ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.13.10
AFVI 2010: Technology parade includes propane lawn mowners, CNG hydraulic hybrids, more Now that's an alternative powertrain. FEV shows off RE-EV Fiat 500 with Wankel in Vienna We kind of wa ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.12.10
Can the Nissan Leaf really run 0-60 mph in 5 seconds? Not likely We're told CBS got this one wrong. AFVI 2010: T. Boone Pickens believes God gave the U.S. our natural gas supplies God was unav ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.11.10
Video: Fox News reportedly refusing to air ad denouncing dependence on foreign oil We're not confused. AFVI 2010: T. Boone Pickens says V-Vehicles will someday add natural gas to high-mpg model ...
- CNET to the Rescue 1: Josh joins the fray (podcast ...
Welcome to CNET to the Rescue, formerly known as Real Deal, in our new weekly slot, Wednesday at noon PT, with new host Josh Lowensohn . Everything about this podcast has changed, except our mission: to help dispel the fear, uncertainly, and doubt in tech, and help you get the most out of the t ...
- Video directory Clicker gets a set-top version
Clicker, a good site for finding mainstream video content, gets a "10-foot" site for TVs to complement its computer-friendly site.
- Reporters' Roundtable: The patent mess (podcast)
This week our topic is: the patent mess. Are patents stifling innovation or helping it? Or put another way, do patents just take money out of the technology world and funnel it to lawyers, or is there a benefit to the system? There's been a lot of patent news lately. In a typical story, Apple cl ...
- Reporters' Roundtable: Ethics in online journalism ...
The linchpin of the topic of ethics on online journalism is, of course, " Gizmodogate ," in which tech blog Gizmodo paid to acquire a prototype iPhone that an Apple employee left behind in a bar and picked up by someone else. But the iPhone story isn't the only time that the ethics of tech blo ...
- Reporters' Roundtable: Facebook and privacy (podca ...
Our topic this week: Facebook and privacy. At the F8 conference on April 21, Facebook rolled out privacy changes and new data sharing features. As usually happens when Facebook makes a privacy change, there was a swift and mighty backlash against them. But this time, even the federal government ...
- 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 ...
- Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
Democracy Now! âs award-winning host Amy Goodman discusses the results of yesterday’s primary races on CNNâs John King, USA , on Wednesday, May 19 at 7pm EST.
- Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit
"Manslaughter," reads the United States Code, "is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice." It goes on, "Whoever is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both." In the disasters at the Massey coal mine in West Virg ...
- Audio From 1998: Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) Hangs Up ...
Earlier today Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) resigned his House seat after acknowledging he had an affair with a female staffer. Long an advocate for "family values," Souder called for former President Bill Clinton to resign over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. On Sept. 17, 1998 Democracy Now! invited Rep. S ...
- Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, May 17th at 7pm Eastern Time.
- India's Most Famous Political Prisoner Dr. Binayak ...
Just under a year ago Dr. Binayak Sen, Indiaâs most famous political prisoner, was released on bail after 2 years of imprisonment. Dr. Sen is a world-renowned "physician of the poor," winner of the 2008 Jonathan Mann award for global health and human rights, and Vice President of Indiaâs oldest ...
- 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, [...]
- Why did the octopus grow a shell?
The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle had a theory about why female argonaut octopuses have a shell: he suggested that they used it as a boat to float on the ocean surface. New research disproves this theory, but sheds new light on their actual purpose
- Pool Bombarded by Incredible Hail Storm (Video)
The amazing power of nature is really on display around the one minute mark when hail the size of softballs drop out of the sky like bombs into this pool.
- What killed the fish?
Ancient mass extinction of fish may have paved way for modern species. A report looks at a 360-million-year-old gap in the fossil record and finds that marine vertebrates were recovering from an extinction event on par with the one that killed the dinosaurs. What happened is unclear.
- Deliberately flood farms? Birds and plants will be ...
Early results from a test to flood farmland show benefits for both birds and farmers, and offers a possible approach for other areas balancing conservation with farm production.
- Oceans' Fish Could Disappear In 40 Years: UN
The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned Monday.
- CBS News: Copy Machines, a Security Risk?
Whose brilliant idea was it to build copiers which retain every image ever copied on it?
- Iran’s Uranium Deal a Serious Blow to War Party
By Jason Ditz In a move that will likely drive a stake into the heart of the near-term prospects for the US-backed “crippling sanctions” against Iran, Turkey and Brazil have managed to come up with a compromise deal that provides everything the Western nations claimed to have wanted from the third-p ...
- Purposely Killing The Gulf?
By J. Speer-Williams The private, foreign International Monetary/Banking Cartel controls its puppets in Washington as it controls its oil company executives. And everything the Cartel does is anti-life, there are absolutely no exceptions; and their pretended Gulf oil clean-up is a glaring case in po ...
- Most idiotic global warming headline ever
By Anthony Watts I may just divert to Toronto from Chicago and pay this writer a visit so I can tell him to his face what an idiot he is, or have my two new Canadian friends, Guy and Stuart, do it for me. He deserves it. How do the publishers of this newspaper reconcile [...]
- Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid ...
by Bev Bell “A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP ...
- 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 ...
- About Climate Change, this I Believe
I believe that most people want what's best for their families first, whats best for themselves second and whats best for others, last. Related posts: Technology Transfer and Climate Change (Video) Health Care Practices and Climate Change – Dr Bertollini Explains the Connection White House Fo ...
- Will Obama Dam Salmon to Extinction?
On the heels of the catastrophic oil spill that is crushing wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration is poised to make a decision this week that could change the fate of endangered species in this country. On May 20, the Administration will release a federal salmon plan that wi ...
- Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas!
Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane The rest of the “Dances with the Moon” series Follow Joe Mohr (Mean Joe Green) on Twitter@GreenCartoons Related posts:Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon) Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon) ...
- Photo Sunday – The Appalachian Trail
The Appalachian Trail, or simply The A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the eastern United States extending between Georgia and Maine and is approximately 2,178 miles long. Related posts: Photo Sunday-The Appalachian Trails 100 Mile Wilderness Climbing Mt. Katahdin – Notes From My Appalachian T ...
- BP Oil Spill Gushing 10 Times More Oil Than Offici ...
The BP Gulf Oil Spill has surpassed the Exxon Valdez in the amount of oil spilled and gushing 10 times more oil than official estimates. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data High Altitude Photos of the Lost Horizon BP Oil Spill Gas Spill in Newburyport P ...
- Beautiful Bamboo Living Houses Take Two Days to Bu ...
Our fascination with prefab buildings knows no bounds — but add bamboo to the mix and you’ve really got our attention. These two beautiful houses in Hawaii were recently built using bamboo as the main building material. The total construction time? Two days. Read the rest of Beautiful Bamboo Living ...
- Bike Powered Mobile Coffee Bar Hits the Streets of ...
A lot of us run on coffee, and what better way to run your coffee shop than with bikes? Kickstand Coffee is a new mobile java shop in New York that is inspired by, transported by and powered completely by bicycles. They set up shop for the first time this past Saturday at McCarren Park [...]
- Monacca’s Sustainable Wood Calculator Multiplies G ...
In a world filled with plastic, designer Takumi Shimamura of Monacca differentiates his handmade calculators by using beautiful, sustainably harvested wood. We spotted the sleek computation devices on the floor of this week’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair and thought that their pleasing ...
- Blu Homes Releases New Unfolding Balance Home
Blu Homes is making waves in the modular housing world and just today released yet another spectacular energy efficient prefab home. The Blu |Balance home is a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 16′ foot ceilinged residence with many customizable options and tons of green features. Most interestingly though, is ...
- The Best Green Designs from Model Citizens 2010
Read the rest of The Best Green Designs from Model Citizens 2010http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", green design, g ...
- Video: An Artificial Butterfly Takes Flight
A tiny artificial butterfly takes flight in a new high-speed video. Engineers Hiroto Tanaka and Isao Shimoyama of Harvard University and University of Tokyo, respectively, created the tiny butterfly to try to understand the biomechanics of butterfly flight. But the tiny machine may not teach us to ...
- Argonaut Octopus Mystery Solved
After centuries of speculation, biologists have documented one way a strange group of octopus-like creatures use their seashell-shaped cases. Female argonauts, a group of four species that are close cousins of octopuses, grow delicate white shell-like cases. Biologists have found argonauts with air ...
- 30-Year Time-Lapse: Mount St. Helens Recovery From ...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 has a special place in the evolution of our scientific understanding of volcanoes. Though it won’t go down in the record books as the biggest, longest or deadliest eruption, it is one of the best-studied eruptions in history and the only major volcan ...
- Foucault’s Pendulum Dented in Museum Mishap
The cable holding a model of Foucault’s pendulum snapped last month at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, sending the 60-pound ball crashing to the ground. It was permanently dented in the fall. Léon Foucault’s 1851 experiment remains a mesmerizing evidence that the Earth does, in fact, rotate ...
- Dementia Caregivers More Likely to Also Get the Di ...
Elderly people who care for a spouse who has dementia are at increased risk of developing dementia themselves, a study finds. The stress of attending to a mentally incapacitated spouse may somehow contribute to the added risk, scientists report in the May Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. ...
- Off-the-Radar News Roundup
- Taiwan's president said that the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement being negotiated with the mainland represents only the beginning of a process of reconciliation between the two. He also said that closer ties will gradually remove China's justification for its massive missile buildup targe ...
- When the Kremlin Smiles, Beware the Teeth
"The face of modern Russia is a smiling face,” Russian President Medvedev said on April 26 . “But other countries must smile back at us.” Lately news about Russia’s relations with the West has led to all sorts of speculation and comments. I am thinking of the news relating to the Russian leader ...
- As Bangkok Burns, Thailand’s Political Conflict De ...
The Thai name for Bangkok, Krung Thep, roughly translates as “city of angels.” Rarely has this moniker seemed more of a misnomer than the past week, with its climatic battle between the Red Shirt protestors encamped in downtown Bangkok and the Thai government. Early Wednesday morning, the Thai army ...
- Missile Defense Grandstanding in the Senate
The United States Senate was meant to be the measured, deliberative, rational body of American legislature - the ego to the House's demagogic id. The Times this morning provides yet more evidence that the modern Senate plays no such role. In a brief analytical piece , Peter Baker recounts how South ...
- Has the Administration’s Response to the Iran-Braz ...
The Washington Post has a good summary of the measures contained in the new UN sanctions package announced yesterday by Secretary of State Clinton: Among other measures, the resolution would expand an asset freeze and travel ban against individuals and entities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard C ...
- Good Economic News From The Fed.
Despite crises abroad, the U.S. economy is starting -- if barely -- to pick up speed, with the Federal Reserve forecasting growth of over three percent of GDP and unemployment dropping to just over 9 percent by the end of the year. While neither of these are stellar numbers, or match what we've s ...
- Lightning Round: All the Narratives that are Fit t ...
Allow me to let you in on the real meaning behind yesterday's elections: The political press has no idea how to process and report on the mundane and predictable. You say a Democrat beat a Republican-turned-Democrat in a primary? Incumbents watch out! You say a well-connected established pol with n ...
- Why Is This Failed Cloture Vote Unlike Any Other?
Earlier this evening, the Senate attempted to end debate on the financial reform legislation that it has been considering for the past several weeks; the vote failed, 57-42. Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted along with the Democrats to end debate; Democrats Russ Feingold and Ma ...
- This Is News?
At my other place , I had (like many people) a very harsh reaction to the stories that Richard Blumenthal had falsely implied and in at least one case directly lied about having served in Vietnam. And certainly, if true, I don't think the behavior can be defended. Jamison Foser , however, raises ...
- The Little Picture: Marja.
In Marja, Afghanistan, Marine Col. Randy Newman provides a brief to the Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. George W. Casey Jr . Insurgents remain months after an offensive took place in the region. (U.S. Army)
- Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Veracity ...
Last week I was interviewed by Chris Sampson of CheneyWatch for his new project, Veracity Radio. The show, which aired on Saturday, is available here, and my interview is in “Segment 1,” and starts about 37 minutes in, after a discussion about the BP disaster with a representative of the Seize BP ca ...
- Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Ca ...
On Thursday, a group of US citizens in Massachusetts were thrilled to hear that, in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. had granted the habeas corpus petition of Ravil Mingazov, the last Russian prisoner in Guantánamo, who was seized in Pakistan in March 2002. Few peopl ...
- UK Terror Ruling Provides Urgent Test for New Gove ...
Today, the new coalition government faces its first major test regarding the confusing legacy of anti-terror laws inherited from the Labour government, after Mr. Justice Mitting, the judge in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), the body charged with handling terror cases involving dep ...
- Send a letter to William Hague calling for the ret ...
Over the last few months of the Labour government, at screenings of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” former prisoner Omar Deghayes and myself handed out copies of a letter to foreign secretary David Miliband requesting the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, ...
- Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulg ...
On May 4, two prisoners were released from Guantánamo — one to Spain and one to Bulgaria. Spanish media revealed that the former prisoner offered a new life in Spain (following the arrival of Walid Hijazi, a Palestinian, in February) was a Yemeni, but no further information has yet been revealed re ...
- McMahon Gushes Over Deregulating Oil
McMahon Campaign Literature From TheDay.com According to The Day and at the same time that we are witnessing the results of the typical Republican deregulation-run-amok of anything that moves money to these Multinational Oil Corporations wash in ashore as tar balls and dead dolphins on American shor ...
- An Arizona Minutemen Group Folds
Apparently, either they were shocked that people answered their calls to violence or they are broke from their profiteering leaderships' greed. The only question in my mind is "how will they reincarnate their particular brand of crazy?" Because as long as there are crazy people around there wil ...
- Support The Troops - Pay Your Taxes
Connecticut Man1 It is the tax deadline and this stuff is pretty self explanatory. You pay taxes and they get beans, bullets and valuable training that might just save their lives. When you want tax cut after tax cut? The active duty soldiers serving overseas, in training here or elsewhere and the ...
- The Root Of The Problem: Education
From former New Milford raised a glass and brewed Todd Umbarger and without further comment since it says enough on its own (and I could add an essay to this BUT...) : click on this for larger With previous permission from Todd Umbarger . Todd is a New York-based illustrator and draws the politi ...
- Welcome Back To The New and Improved New Milford B ...
This is just a switch over to the new Blogger In Draft Templates ... But I plan on overhauling the place more, installing some better vats, dusting off the mugs and shot glasses. Be careful as you wander around and try not to knock over the cases of empties over on the side bar because recycling bro ...
- Fifteen Years Later: A Grim Anniversary in Oklahom ...
Next Monday, Americans will mark the 15 th anniversary of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City — the worst single act of domestic terrorism in our nation’s history and a grim reminder of the fruits of right-wing radicalism. Although Timothy McVeigh and confederates Terry Nichols and Mi ...
- Georgia Oath Keeper Charged After Attempting ‘Citi ...
When Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball” last October, he argued that the newly formed, rapidly growing “Patriot” group was no threat to anybody – just a collection of police officers and military types who pledge to defend the Constitution and to disobey unconstitutio ...
- 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 ...
- White Supremacist Linked to Mail Bombing Imprisone ...
A firearms and explosives expert suspected of involvement with two white supremacist brothers in the sending of a bomb to the office of a municipal diversity officer was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in Missouri on Tuesday. Robert Joos Jr., an antigovernment zealot and pastor of a church of “apoca ...
- Remembering Law Enforcement Victims of Right-Wing ...
More law enforcement officers were killed last year by right-wing extremists than in any other year since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Six officers were slain in 2009 by those subscribing to far-right views, making the first year of Obama’s presidency the deadliest since 1995 for extremist attack ...
- Fight Club and Flip Charts: A Social Entrepreneurs ...
It is true to say that if you stick around in the social entrepreneurship world for any length of time, you will go to your fair share of conferences and events. Like me, therefore, you may find the words “final plenary” strikes fear into your heart; that you find yourself lost amidst a maze of exhi ...
- Fight club and flip charts: a social entrepreneurs ...
It is true to say that if you stick around in the social entrepreneurship world for any length of time, you will go to your fair share of conferences and events. Like me, therefore, you may find the words “final plenary” strikes fear into your heart; that you find yourself lost amidst a maze of exhi ...
- Hey Bill O'Reilly: Transgender People Are Not Ewok ...
Ever wonder what Bill O'Reilly thinks about transgender people? Well, if you tuned into his show this week, you would have found out. Chances are you'd classify what he had to say somewhere between "lewd" and "insane." O'Reilly ran a segment this week to discuss a settlement reached by the American ...
- Leave Veterans Out of the War on Drugs
There's a clash between two of President Obama's policies, and he has to determine which one is more important: giving our veterans the best care possible, or continuing prosecution of the war on drugs . In our ninth year in Afghanistan, and our seventh in Iraq, the administration seems poised to l ...
- DNA May Solve Dog Mess Mysteries
Dog DNA testing can do a lot of cool things. It can help solve cruelty cases , reveal potential breed-based health hazards , and further debunk the validity of dog bite studies and breed specific legislation. And, of course, the tests can satisfy curiosity about your adopted dog's heritage (I know, ...
- Nightmare Scene of Oil Unfolding in Wetlands
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Crude oil spread through fragile US marshlands Thursday, a month after a drilling rig blast released a devastating spill that now threatens Florida, Cuba and even beyond. Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico since the massive April 20 explosion on the BP-leased Deepw ...
- BP's Moby Dick?
by Nick Spicer "Call me Ishmael." So begins Herman Melville epic seafaring novel, ostensibly about whaling, an American Odyssey recounting Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of a great oil-carrying sperm whale, Moby Dick. It ends in disaster. I write this in a sand barrier motel in Grand Isle Louisian ...
- Oil Sands Riskier than Gulf Spill, Say Investor Gr ...
by Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON - As the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico destroys habitat and livelihoods, the extraction of oil from Canadian oil sands deposits is having a similar impact on fragile ecosystems and communities deep in the North American interior. The dramatic impact of oil sands ...
- GOP Running Out Clock on Wall Street Reform
by Ryan Grim Senate Republicans are running out the clock on Wall Street reform, reaping dividends from the long-term strategy of delaying Senate action on issues big and small since President Obama took office. From the routine nominations that have been filibustered to the months of useless bi ...
- Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures Break Records
by Alan Zibel WASHINGTON - The number of homeowners who missed at least one mortgage payment surged to a record in the first quarter of the year, a sign that the foreclosure crisis is far from over. More than 10 percent of homeowners had missed at least one mortgage payment in the January-March peri ...
- Google Apps Mail Gets Third-Party Gadgets [Google ...
If you're a Google Apps user, the Google Apps Marketplace has some new goodies well worth checking out. As of yesterday, productivity apps like previously mentioned urgent person-finder AwayFind , contact summary service Gist , and other apps ...
- Let Pizza Dough Rise Overnight for Better Thin Cru ...
You can get close to the kind of heat a pizza shop uses for their pies with backyard projects , bricks , and even charcoal grills . To get the actual dough right, though, you should plan ahead and let your dough rise. More�� ...
- PillBox Identifies Medication by Shape, Color, and ...
If you've been looking for a way to easily identify medication using physical characteristics PillBox is a National Institute of Health created medication catalog that searches medication by variables like size, color, shape, and more. More ...
- Qwotebook Collects and Stores the Quotes that Insp ...
A great quote, the kind that changes your mood or frame of mind, can come from a famous figure or your friend holding a beer. Qwotebook, a web quotation sharing project, lets you compile quotes and see and favorite others' quotables. More�� ...
- Check Your Local Library for Free Museum, Concert, ...
It turns out that you can check out more than books and DVDs at your local library: Many libraries also have programs for you to "check out" passes to zoos, museums, theater productions, and civic events for free or at a discount. More�� ...
- Afghanistan Where A Thousand Corpses Lie
By Derrick Crowe Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the Battle-God, great, and his Kingdom - A field where a thousand corpses lie. --Stephen Crane, Do not weep, maiden for wa ...
- Can We Call It A Quagmire Yet?
By Steve Hynd As Gareth Porter pointed out yesterday in his inaugural post as part of the Newshoggers team, there are compelling reasons to believe that the ground in Afghanistan is far like a quagmire than the Obama administration and the military want to admit. The coin cost of what even the COINd ...
- Obama and the Bunkum of “Negotiating from Strength ...
By Gareth Porter In his press conference with President Karzai last week, President Obama suggested publicly for the first time that he will not negotiate with the Taliban until the U.S. military has demonstrated "effectiveness in breaking their momentum”. Obama seemed to be embracing the shibboleth ...
- President Obama, Bringing the Truthiness on Afghan ...
By Derrick Crowe President Obama told reporters on May 12, 2010, that "we're beginning to reverse the momentum of the insurgency" in Afghanistan. According to his administration's own report given to Congress last week, that's not true . The insurgency is growing in size and capabil ...
- So close and yet so far
By BJ Bjornson According to McClatchy, the Pentagon is rethinking the whole counterinsurgency doctrine that they have been playing with for the last decade. The article did get my hopes up with the way it began. Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipme ...
- Between the Lines
Reading between the lines has often proved to yield the most useful information, especially in today
- Chart of the day
Share of world GDP, 1 AD to 2003, from Ken Henry’s address to the Australian Business Economis
- Buffett Quote
Image by Getty Images via Daylife "You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the
- Geography and social justice
This is the first of two posts on ‘shrinking cities’, or as civil servants might put it,
- Saving America's Economy
The picture above shows what the current crop of Republicans in Congress have to run on in elections
- International orgs call on Israel to immediately r ...
On 6 May 2010, at 03:10am, 16 members of the Israeli General Security Services (GSS) and the Israeli police force raided the family home of Mr. Ameer Makhoul. After meeting ...
- The return of the colonial: Laor's "The Myths of L ...
Israeli new mandarins have to try to sell settler-colonialism to Western states with populations that increasingly regard Zionism's spiritual core and physical reality as s ...
- Gaza crisis "far beyond humanitarian"
DUBAI (IRIN) - With a failing economy, rising unemployment and deteriorating power, sanitation and health facilities, the health of Gaza's population continues to worsen, according ...
- Chomsky denied entry as Goldstone remains under at ...
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - When internationally renowned linguist, philosopher and political analyst Noam Chomsky was barred from entering the occupied West Bank, he join ...
- Persecution of Palestinian citizens recalls S. Afr ...
Two weeks after Israel imposed a travel ban on him, Ameer Makhoul, a well-respected Palestinian leader holding Israeli citizenship, was kidnapped from his home on 6 May in the midd ...
- Crashed passenger plane found in Afghanistan
The wreckage of a commercial airliner that disappeared in Afghanistan with 43 people on board has been located by NATO forces, an official said Thursday.
- Pak agrees 'in principle' for North Wazi ...
After intense pressure from the United States, Pakistan has reportedly agreed to launch a full-scale offensive against the Taliban and other extremist organisations in their stronghold North Waziristan, but has also clarified to the Obama administration that the timing of the military offensive woul ...
- U.S. aims to protect innocent Afghan civilians fir ...
By Robert Burns and Anne Flaherty ASSOCIATED PRESS A key to the U.S. approach to fighting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is this seemingly backward logic: The more aggressively you protect you...
- Crashed passenger plane found in Afghanistan
Kabul, May 20 : The wreckage of a commercial airliner that disappeared in Afghanistan with 43 people on board has been located by NATO forces, an official said Thursday.
- tail of missing plane spotted
An Afghan military helicopter looks for the Afghan plane that crashed with 44 on board over Salang Pass, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 18, 2010. The plane, operated by Pamir Airways, a private Afghan airl...
- The Lighter Side of Genetic Manipulation Nightmare ...
After Alba the fluorescent art rabbit was artificially engineered, and genetically modified zebra fish were cleared for sale to the general public, I began imagining various ways in which playing Frankenstein could bite us all in the collective ass. Vivid as it may be, my layman’s imagination has b ...
- Performative storytelling? Author writes and edits ...
There are lots of interesting new business models for musicians in our new digital world, because music is a performance art – if you can’t sell the sounds, you can potentially sell the experience of seeing (and hearing) the sounds being made. Writers – acolytes of that traditionally most solitary o ...
- Dumb futurism: telecommuter robot reaches staggeri ...
Every time I see someone ask the (usually rhetorical) question “why don’t we have the world full of robots that science fiction promised us?“, I’m always tempted to reply with a swing of the clue-by-four: “because anyone with any sense can see that a human worker is always going to be cheaper and mo ...
- California’s marijuana problem
… is that a lot of the people growing weed are suddenly finding they can’t sell it, even at bargain-basement bulk rates, thanks to the easing of access provided by medical marijuana laws in the state [via MetaFilter]. “Outdoor growers are having a hard time unloading their fall harvest,” Custer says ...
- Technothriller threat of the week: insect-borne bi ...
Via Bruce Schneier, still tirelessly cataloguing the monetization and manipulation of movie-plot threats: a workshop to “address the threat of insect-based terrorism”. How real is the threat? Many of the worldâs most dangerous pathogens already are transmitted by arthropods, the animal phylum that ...
- ARB says Iqbal applies to OSHA complaints
I can hardly believe I am writing this. The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has just issued a decision applying Aschroft v. Iqbal to whistleblower complaints filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). As it happened to one of my clients, Dougla ...
- MSPB Fails to Protect Robert MacLean
An administrative judge at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) upheld the illegal termination of former federal air marshal Robert MacLean. Mr. MacLean blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) plan to improperly remove U.S. air marshals f ...
- European Parliament votes to protect whistleblower ...
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly has adopted a resolution to protect whistleblowers . Drafted by the Assembly's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, the resolution expresses appreciation for whistleblowers who "stop wrongdoings that place fellow human beings at risk, ... ...
- Swiss Banker Turned Whistleblower Ended Up With a ...
This Sunday's Washington Post featured an article that details Bradley Birkenfeld's actions as a whistleblower, and how those actions landed him in federal prison. The article discusses the contradictory messages sent to potential whistleblowers by the U.S. government: Birkenfeld's story turned in ...
- New Article Offers In-Depth Coverage of Stroupe Ca ...
Richard Renner recently posted discussion of BB&T's refusal to reinstate whistleblower Amy Stroupe. An article, appearing today on Thebigmoney.com gives us a more in-depth look at the case. While working at BB&T bank, Stroupe was an investigator who uncovered a $20 million ponzi scheme. Discovering ...
- 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 ...
- And Now Pakistan Bans YouTube Again... Let's Hope ...
So, just yesterday we wrote about Pakistan's decision to block all of Facebook , because some users had set up a page for "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" (in response to the threats made to Comedy Central concerning an episode of South Park ). Originally, just that one page had been banned, but appa ...
- Now That We're All Afraid Of A Cyberwar, The Gov't ...
We've discussed the overhyped moral panic around the concept of a cyberwar , and how the term is abused -- potentially just as a way for government contractors to get hundreds of millions in easy government contracts. And, it looks like that process has only just begun. Senator Joe Lieberman is ap ...
- Some Final Stats On The Humble Indie Bundle
This post is part of the Entrepreneurship series - sponsored by AcceptPay from American Express, a new online solution that lets you electronically invoice customers and accept online payments-all in one place. Offer more payment options, manage your cash flow and get paid faster with AcceptPay. ...
- Instead Of Better Defining Fair Use... Should We D ...
Copycense kicked off an interesting thought exercise, in questioning if, instead of trying to carefully define what qualifies as "fair use," we might be better off trying to define what constitutes "unfair use." Of course, some copyright system supporters might note that copyright itself defines wh ...
- 48 Hours (TV Show) Gets Upset At 48 HR (Magazine)
I have to admit that I followed the entire 48 HR Magazine event last weekend with lots of interest, just from a "fun/funky idea for publishing a magazine" standpoint -- and not once did I think about the CBS TV magazine show 48 Hours . The 48 HR magazine was an idea put together by some of San Fran ...
- 3-Part Investigative Series on Merck’s Garda ...
PRNewswire.com 05/19/2010 The Coalition for Vaccine Safety (CVS) calls for independent vaccine safety agency and Congressional hearings on government’s lax record on safety issues WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A three-part investigative series on Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine, ...
- Vaccines are Not Just for Kids Anymore
Dara Rees ABC 24 News 05/19/2010 Who says vaccinations are only for children? Doctors recommend a variety for adults, too! The Pennsylvania Department of Health has launched a new campaign to save lives. Roberto Morales tells his friends and family to keep up to date on their vaccines, and with a ...
- Govt plans vaccination bank
News24.com 05/20/2010 Cape Town – The department of agriculture is planning to build a vaccine bank after being caught off-guard by a recent outbreak of the mosquito-spread Rift Valley Fever. Peter Thabethe, the acting director general of the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries told M ...
- Free vaccination shots offered by McDonald’s
Armarillo.com 05/19/2010 The city of Amarillo’s Department of Public Health and the Caring for Children Foundation of Texas will offer free vaccinations for children from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at McDonald’s restaurant, 1815 S. Grand St. The vaccinations will include meningococcal vaccine, which ...
- Plenty of swine flu vaccines, not one volunteer to ...
Jinal Shah Indian Express 05/19/2010 On Day One of the swine flu vaccination drive for healthcare professionals, the BMC found the vaccine had no takers. Over 2,000 city-based professionals, who had worked in isolation wards and screening centres when the virus had first struck, had consented to ta ...
- Putting “I” Back Into Your Vocabulary
Considering the amount of people who seem to do nothing but talk about themselves on their blog, Facebook or Twitter accounts, you may think I’m crazy for suggesting that we don’t have enough “I” in our lives. But hear me out. How many times have you heard people bitch about the anonymous “they” tha ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
There is a new project being kicked off to try and get anarchist texts to people in places where they are not so easily available. Check out Books for Anarchists. The session I attended at the NY anarchist book fair on women in prison is online. Polycentric Order has an interesting article In Defen ...
- What if the North Had Seceded?
Here in the United States, the idea of secession is inextricably tied to slavery. And there is damn good reason for that. Despite what some putrid politicians may claim, the civil war was very much about slavery. But the Confederacy didn’t invent the idea of secession. They aren’t the only p ...
- Responding to Anarchy in the News
I keep an eye out for mentions of anarchy or anarchists in the news. More often than not, when we are mentioned, it relates to some act of destruction that is being condemned. Anarchist responses to these reports, if there are any responses at all, are usually confined to internal discussions on a ...
- Does Culture Disappear?
I often hear people express fear of losing their culture. Sometimes, I sympathize with them. I sympathize with indigenous people who are fighting for their dying languages. I sympathize with the French farmer who led a revolt against McDonalds. And I sympathize with Jews who – after survivin ...
- The LaRouche Show, May 15, 2010
Battle Update: Restoring Glass-Steagall—The Principle, the Strategy
- Documentation: Cantwell-McCain on Glass-Steagall
Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
- Brutish Bastards Are At It Again! LaRouche Demands ...
By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
- Cantwell Expects Glass-Steagall Amendment To Becom ...
EIR News Service press release.
- `Firewall' Video Refeatured on LPAC Website, To Fi ...
EIR News Service press release.
- السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Soil Is Not Dirt. Why Words Matter in Protecting O ...
Image credit: Global Development Commons I realized yesterday that I may have been in the USA too long. I should note that ever since my post on 5 things I hate about America caught the attention of the good denizens of GlockTalk.com , I have been careful about being too critical about my adopt ...
- Slime Mold Shows Smartest Way to Get from New York ...
Image via Popular Science Back in January, we showed you a project that highlighted the intelligence of mold - er, it's efficiency at finding food, at least. This efficiency was used in an experiment to figure out the best routes for transportation in Tokyo . Turns out, the way slime moved acro ...
- Where's the Beef? It's Heating Swedish Homes
Chart showing turning a cow into fuel via Biomal . Biomal, which is defined as a "renewable" fuel created from crushing and grinding animal wastes and burning them together with wood chips or peat, is quietly used by Swedes (and initially funded by the EU) as a more environmentally friendly way ...
- Pricey, But Nook's Baby Mattress Boasts Natural La ...
Nook's Pebble Mattress for infants in Lawn. Photo via nooksleep.com . Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Choosing the right crib for your baby can be a bit daunting. And then there's the sheets and bumper pads and mobile. But when it comes to ...
- TOMS Shoes and Charity:Water Team Up on Limited-Ed ...
Credit: TOMS Shoes via Ecouterre TOMS Shoes , known for their one for one mission: with every pair of shoes purchased they give a pair to a child in need, and Charity:Water are a match made in philanthropic, eco-fashion heaven; In the footwear collaboration TOMS provides the canvas for a water ...
- You Are Your Bacteria
Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
- Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
- Multiple personal genomes await
Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
- Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
- Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. More Afghanistan horrors. There’s a second prison at Bagram, there are abuses going on, and detainees are being handled according to Appendi ...
- Consumers Get Businesslike; Business Gets Nervous
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday Shahien Nasiripour wrote about the growing problem of strategic defaults, where homeowners who are able to pay their mortgages instead let them go into foreclosure. Generally the homes are worth substantially less than th ...
- The Bonuses Clearly Worked
Goldman Sachs appears to be retaining its talent a little too well.
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. CBS reported that secret military aircraft was used to help track down the would-be Times Square bomber, then almost immediately flushed it d ...
- ACTA and the Overblown Threat of Piracy
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been largely negotiated behind closed doors, and only recently was an official draft made public . The Obama administration even declared an early draft classified in refusing to co ...
- GM Crop Use Makes Minor Pests a Major Problem
Cotton that has been genetically modified to poison an insect pest can cause a massive increase in the numbers of other insects. “Bt cotton” is genetically modified to produce a toxin from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that is deadly to the bollworm. More than 4 million hectares of Bt co ...
- American Heart Association Sells Out With Video Ga ...
You may recognize the American Heart Association Healthy Check logo from packaging in the grocery store. But soon, the American Heart Association's name will appear on the Nintendo Wii video game system. The reason Nintendo Wii is getting the nod, rather than any of the many other exercise-linked p ...
- Processed Meat is a Real Health Risk
Eating processed meat such as bacon, sausage, and hot dogs can raise your risk of heart disease and diabetes. Eating unprocessed meats did not appear to raise the risk, suggesting that salt and chemical preservatives may be the real cause of these two health problems which have sometimes been assoc ...
- Faster, Stronger, and Deadlier -- the MRSA Superbu ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is very hard to kill once you become infected. It is resistant to most antibiotics. For years, vancomycin was used -- an old, rarely used medicine with significant side effects. But MRSA has now developed resistance to vancomycin, too. Reuters ...
- Fantastic Example of Positive Affirmations That Wi ...
Jessica is feeling really good about her life!
- CBS 60 Minutes - Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Di ...
Deepwater Horizon's Blowout, Part 1: 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley speaks to BP's Chief Electronics Technician Mike Williams, one of the survivors of the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil rig blast who was in a position to know what caused the disaster. Williams was in charge of the rig's computers and electr ...
- Coast Guard & BP Contractors Block Journalists Fro ...
Confrontational incident calls into question just how much of BP's oil leak catastrophe journalists will be able to report on without facing censorship in one form or another. Huffington Post today: When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP con ...
- Could Anita Hill "Feminist Payback" Have Been a Fa ...
Yes, it happened almost twenty years ago, with the controversial and sharply acrimonious Anita Hill hearings beginning October 11, 1991, but the memories of many Pennsylvania feminists along with other Democratic Party activists are long. It was one thing for President Obama and Pennsylvania Governo ...
- All-Volunteer Wars: Yawn… How Many Times Have You ...
Originally published at TomDispatch.com After a week away, here’s my advice: in news terms, you can afford to take a vacation.� When I came back last Sunday, New Orleans was bracing for tough times (again).� BP, a drill-baby-drill oil company that made $6.1 billion in the first quarter of this year ...
- The American Taliban Are Coming
Originally published at Asia Times Intricate shadowplay surrounds the (failed) smoking sports utility vehicle Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. Earlier in 2010, the Central Intelligence Agency warned al-Qaeda might try an attack inside the US "within the next six months". It did happen - like cloc ...
- 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 ...
- When Famous Meat Eaters Adopt Meatless Monday, “Yo ...
When super-chef and restaurateur Mario Batali, self proclaimed lover of all forms of pork, decided to join the Meatless Monday movement, Washington Post food writer Jane Black took notice. In an article published today, she wrote, “when Mario Batali starts to push people to eat their vegetables, you ...
- Taking the Meat We Eat Out of the Factory and Putt ...
On Tuesday, Animal Welfare Approved and the Pew Environment Group presented a public panel discussion about raising pasture-based animals, and reclaiming these sustainable farming systems as the source of our meat and dairy. The star-studded panel included Nicolette Hahn Niman, attorney and author ...
- Locally grown, Locally shared: A new model for giv ...
Over a hundred Baltimore residents gathered on Saturday night for the 4th edition of an innovative fundraising event called STEW. STEW is a joint project of Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, where attendees pay $10/person for the opportunity to share a multi-cou ...
- Food Access Solutions: Panel Discussion in Anacos ...
On Friday, April 12th, Food Access Solutions: Urban Agriculture, Local Food, & Community Development, a panel discussion between leaders in the food movement on a regional level and leaders on the local level took place in southeast Washington D.C. in Anacostia. My interest in Urban Agriculture com ...
- Meatless Monday: A Campaign Rooted in Public Healt ...
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health embraced the Meatless Monday campaign back in 2003, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has proudly served as the national campaign’s scientific advisor ever since. Today I welcome and laud The Johns Hopkins Hospital for launching its ...
- Still
I wasn’t too impressed by Richard Blumenthal’s trip of the tongue regarding his Vietnam era service, but the more I read of the NYTimes coverage, the more I feel like asking, WHAT THE BLUE BLAZES FUCKING HELL IS YOUR ISSUE WITH VIETNAM SERVICE NOW? 90% of the Bush-Cheney warmongering freaks were Vie ...
- Where have all the good times gone?
Boston won in basketball and baseball, Blanche Lincoln failed to avoid a run-off while Tom Critz held on to Jack Murtha’s seat despite Fox News openly endorsing the Republican. Sestak won (because it rained in Philly and because Specter ran a boneheaded campaign). It’s Jack Conway vs Rand Paul in Ke ...
- Sloppy Souders
It’s primary election day in some places. Here in Minnesota we just got done kicking our problems down the road courtesy of Gov. BridgeFail’s daylight come and lege wan’ go home veto session. Yesterday was national Use Vent in an Editorial Day. From coast to coast corporate news media sowed the seed ...
- In the valley of the shadow of the sisters
If it wasn’t so hot in my apartment (sun hits it just right in late spring) I wouldn’t have noticed. I almost put on some music then realized I had a great soundtrack playing right outside my window. Between a jet overhead, high speed train going by, traffic and occasional industrial sounds, I feel ...
- Overthrowing the shackles of Swedish oppression
It’s Syttende Mai and all across the country Norwegian Americans greeted their day of liberation from the evil Swedes by blowing their noses repeatedly. There but for the grace of nasal irrigation went I. Syttende Mai is technically just four years shy of its bicentennial, but the “real” Syttende Ma ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Update: CFS Fighting Monsanto in the Supreme Court ...
On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Watch a short message from CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell, an ...
- Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
- CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
- Happy Earth Day!
This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...
- Diverse Interests Back Center for Food Safety, Opp ...
STATES, SCIENTISTS, ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FARMERS, FOOD COMPANIES, EXPORTERS, FORMER GOVT. OFFICIALS, AND LEGAL SCHOLARS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT. SEVEN AMICUS BRIEFS FILED IN ALL. A myriad of interests – ranging from food companies to farmers unions to scientific experts and legal scholars – have ...
- J. B.Gerald: Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulak ...
Another excellent and thoughfully researched editorial from J.B. Gerald: Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulakqi & others Do yourself a favour, visit this site: http://www.nightslantern.ca/ -- Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi & others by J. B.Gerald You delight in laying down laws Yet you d ...
- Gil Scott Heron Boycott Israel Campaign (incl stat ...
Backlash against Hip Hop trailblazer’s proposed gig in Israel Fans across the globe have expressed outrage at poet, campaigner and musician Gil Scott Heron’s decision to play in Tel Aviv in May of this year. Gil Scott Heron, known as the “godfather of rap”, started his career as a spoken ...
- Viola Wilkins: Song samples for this Camp Eureka w ...
THE INTERNATIONALE - Alistair Hulett (found this "lost" verse; thanks to Max Watts in Sydney for reminding me) No more deluded by reaction, On tyrants only we'll make war! The soldiers too will take strike action, They'll break ranks and fight no more! And if those cannibals keep trying, To sacrif ...
- Viola Wilkins: Mother Earth: Bolivian President Bl ...
Pablo and Taegen “We are gathered here because the so-called developed countries didn’t meet their obligation of establishing substantial commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen. If those countries had respected the Kyoto Protocol and had agreed to substantially reduce the emi ...
- Leonard Peltier on the Bolivian Climate Conference
April 20, 2010 My warmest regards to our host, Bolivian President Evo Morales. To Presidents Rafael Correa, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and other esteemed Heads of State; national representatives; and all concerned citizens in attendance at the People’s Conference on Climate Change: I send warm ...
- Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
- False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
- Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...
- Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...
- Footage of Meteor in Wisconsin
An impressive video capture of last night’s massive meteor fireball reported in Wisconsin. Related posts:Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics Related posts: Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics
- Just Add Water!
Breathing life back into some of the wetlands in the great Murray-Darling Basin is as simple as Just Adding Water…
- Environmental News -20/05/10
Environmental News Greenies and business unite on climate action Businesses are planning an unlikely alliance with the Australian Conservation Foundation to prod the nation's leaders into fundamental action on climate change. The federal government's decision to shelve its carbon e ...
- Organic Beer
Drinking a beer is something many of us like to do, and we all have our favourite. We take a look at thirst-quenching organic beers…
- Meet Kirstie Morris – Emerging Green Fashion Desig ...
Kirstie Morris is one of Australia’s emerging green fashion designers – at 19 she has already featured in 3 Fashion Weeks around the globe…
- Environmental News -12/05/10
Environmental News Connie Hedegaard seeks 30% carbon cuts target for Europe European climate commissioner says stronger target would help push up the price of carbon and kick-start green investment. The European commission is to formally propose stricter carbon cuts across Europe over the n ...
- Most Americans Endorse Terrorist Expatriation Act
ShareThis Most Americans Endorse Terrorist Expatriation Act 20 May 2010 A large proportion of people in the United States would support a proposed law that would strip all Americans with links to terrorist organizations of their U.S. citizenship, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 77 ...
- American Citizen Sent Money to Al Qaeda
ShareThis American Citizen Sent Money to Al Qaeda [So? *Every* American citizen funds al-Qaeda! The entire organization -- literally, 'the database' --� is�a CIA offshoot.] 19 May 2010 A Moroccan-born naturalized United States citizen pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he sent money to Al Qaed ...
- TSA's Program to Spot Terrorists a $200M Sham?
ShareThis TSA's Program to Spot Terrorists a $200M Sham? --Gov't Accountability Office Finds Army of Specially Trained "Behavior Detection" Agents Failed to Stop Terrorists 19 May 2010 There's a hidden layer of airport security called "behavior detection," and it involves specially trained Transport ...
- Afghan Taliban launch brazen attack on NATO base
ShareThis Afghan Taliban launch brazen attack on NATO base 19 May 2010 Suicide bombers carrying rockets and grenades launched a brazen pre-dawn attack on one of the biggest military bases of NATO in Afghanistan on Tuesday, leaving at least seven militants dead and six foreign troops wounded. The att ...
- Rigi: US, Israel paid for assassination
ShareThis Rigi: US, Israel paid for assassination 19 May 2010 Captured Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi has said that while in Morocco, suspected Israeli or US agents had given him a list of people to assassinate in Tehran. In a recent interview, Rigi told Press TV that before his arrest Jundallah h ...
- Do It Today: Mary Poppins‘ practically perfect mus ...
Not getting enough wholesome family fare in your diet? Hope you’ve worked up an appetite, because this week you get to feast on two servings of Disney-approved entertainment. The supercalifragilistic Broadway musical Mary Poppins lands on the stage at the Straz’s Morsani Hall. A Tony award win ...
- On the Radar: Soul Food, a 12-hour art, fashion an ...
Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. This weekend, it’s time to dust off your dancing shoes and grab the shiny spandex and leg warmers. Wait, itâs 2010 and people donât dance in shiny spandex and leg warmers anymore? Okay. Then grab your prefer ...
- Megan Fox won’t return for Michael Bay’s Transform ...
Transformers hottie Megan Fox is not being picked up for Transformers 3 . Find out who I think she replace her — if that's even possible.
- CL’s Lost Podcast: Season 6, Ep. 15 “What They Die ...
Welcome back fans of the CL's Lost podcast! For this week's episode, Host Joe was joined by London, Ham Gravy, Fat Jesus and Producer Stephen as we discussed the penultimate episode of Lost , "What They Died For." We hope you'll make it a part of your own " Lost weekend." If you missed "What They D ...
- Michael Savage savages fellow conservative talk sh ...
Savage on Beck: "Glenn Beck is a laughingstock. The mark of the uneducated man? He has a blackboard: he plays professor half the time. What's with the chalk? He didn't go to college, so he's making up for it by playing professor on television?"
- Who’s Who of Banned Israeli Visitors
From Right To Enter: At this point, you could have quite the dinner party with the folks Israel leaves out! How do I get on that guest list? UPDATE: Eitan Bronner has an article on the dustup inside Israel over whether it was such a great idea to ban Noam Chomsky, after doing likewise to Jewish Ame ...
- What’s So Funny ‘Bout Boycott, Divestm ...
By Jesse Bacon By Jesse Bacon Unlike the Pixies, I was a little young to get Elvis Costello. He was well on is way to the iconic status, vaguely sterotypical rabbi look, dorky glasses and angst that made him a kind of hipster patriarch and unfortuantely led to a cameo in the hideous would-be 80’s e ...
- The Only Democracy Wishes You Knowledge and Power ...
By Jesse Bacon The Jewish Holiday Shavuot, which begins tonight, commemorates the giving of Torah at Mt. Sinai. It is the very epitome of revelation from on high. But this holiday, revelation is not from a mountaintop. It is cumulative, from a thousand different places.. It is cumulative, dare I sa ...
- Bereaved Families for Peace Shut Out of Israeli Hi ...
by Jesse Bacon One of the most inspiring groups working to end the conflict is the Bereaved Families for Peace, which as their name implies is made up of Israelis and Palestinians who have lost their children to violence and who work together to end the conflict. As a parent, their work hits me ex ...
- Chomsky Denied Entry
Well, it seems  the fact that it was Noam Chomsky (who is on JVP’s advisory board)  who  got denied entry to the West Bank because of his politics, the story has broken through to the mainstream media (though not to the New York Times). Yet again, we have to say: “the only democracy in the Middle ...
- Salmon Water Now
Salmon Water Now! was founded to raise public awareness of the plight of wild Pacific salmon, fishermen, and coastal communities dependent on healthy freshwater delta flows. Salmon Water Now! will shed light on the inadequacies of the current water allocation regime and champion the restoration of ...
- Heavy oil hits Louisiana shores
Obama plans to create a commission to investigate the cause of the spill, evaluate industry practices and study government oversight. Gosh, that’ll certainly help the situation now. The response of the Obama Administration to the leak has been underwhelming, overly protective of big business, secr ...
- Wave power. Oyster 2
The Oyster 2 wave energy converter will output 800kW and generates power from the motion of ocean waves. This version is more powerful, modular, has few moving parts. Twenty of them could power 12,000 homes. Here’s how it works Tip: Inhabitat
- Arizona to Los Angeles. Rescind the boycott or we ...
A substantial amount of electricity for the City of Los Angeles comes from coal plants in northern Arizona, so this is not an idle threat.
- Oil from Deepwater Horizon spill enters Loop Curre ...
So far, it’s a “small portion” of the oil and could eventually hit Florida.
- Maariv: Did Rahm Emanuel cancel his son’s Ko ...
Analogies with the Richard Goldstone Bar Mitzvah fiasco would probably upset both men. Rahm’s Jerusalem furor Eli Bardenstein and Amihai Attali, Maariv May 17 2010 [page 7 with front-page teaser; Hebrew original here and bottom of post] It is not easy to hold a bar mitzvah ceremony for one’s son, ce ...
- Maariv: ‘Senior official denied Chomsky entr ...
Other Coteret posts on the Chomsky affair: Sheizaf: Chomsky affair demonstrates that the West Bank, not just Gaza, is under siege | Yediot legal editor: Chomsky affair part of trend that âcould mark the end of Israel as a freedom-loving state of lawâ | —- For anyone who was wondering what “sy ...
- Yediot legal editor: Chomsky affair part of trend ...
In the generally sensationalist tabloid Yediot, Israel’s most popular newspaper, the legal affairs editor, Judge (ret.) Boaz Okon, is a breath of fresh air. He is one of the few mainstream Israeli journalists who dare use the “A word” to describe segregation policies. —– Afraid of the other Comme ...
- Sheizaf: Chomsky affair demonstrates that the West ...
Cross posted from Promised Land. Much has been written on Israelâs decision not to allow entry to left-wing linguist Noam Chomsky today, and I guess even more will be written. From the official Israeli response, it is not clear who made the decision in this case — a top government official or a l ...
- Ameer Makhoul’s defense team threatens to boycott ...
Eleven days have passed since he was arrested by the General Security Services (GSS aka Shin Bet aka Shabak), but Amir Makhoul has still not been allowed to see a lawyer. With his remand hearing scheduled for tomorrow, both the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and the Palestinian-Israel ...
- RAND SLIDE in KY! Congrats Kentucky Patriots
Last night Liberty took a big step forward as Rand Paul won the GOP nomination for US Senate. We at deadlinelive.info wish to congratulate both Kentucky and the Paul family for their “Rand-Slide” Victory! Its going to be a tough race going forward. The Democrats have a near stranglehold on the state ...
- Simulated anti-terror exercise planned in Natick
Natick’s Fire and Police departments will be participating in an anti-terrorism exercise on Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, and the event will mean increased traffic from first responders in the area of Kansas Street. In addition to the town’s public s ...
- ACLU files suit to stop Arizona immigration law
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a host of different labor and social justice organizations, which includes the Obama affiliated SEIU. President Obama is also connected to MALDEF, which filed suit along with the ACLU also representing SEIU. Andrew Stern, leader of SEIU has enjoyed frequent acce ...
- More Drones to Border? New FAA Ruling
Texas lawmakers have won a small victory to increase military style security along the Texas – Mexico border. Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, both Texas Republicans, have been pushing for the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are also called predator drones. Now the Fede ...
- Bill Would Make Guns In Airports Illegal
ATLANTA — A political battle is brewing that pits a Georgia congressman against state lawmakers.Congressman Hank Johnson has proposed a bill in Congress that would make carrying a gun in all airports a crime. If passed, it would put a muzzle on legislation recently passed in the State Capitol. ...
- Proxy Methods
I was lucky enough to get some time to spend at the ICCC today. Realizing I’m president, I simply left work and drove to Chicago, turns out nobody fired me. I had an amazing conversation with Lucia about her PhD work, which surprisingly enough I had some background in, I met Craig Loehle for the ...
- Supply and Demand in Journalism
A few days ago I had a little fun with Grist.Keith Kloor took a bit of exception to it. Keith wrote the following article, which includes your humble host in an unflattering grouping with Romm. Why Climate Journalism is a Rotting Carcass Some quotes for entertainment. So, are you ignoramuses still w ...
- Krugman V Jones
Oh come on, tAV has been far to boring lately. Today I was fortunate enough to receive an email which pointed out an interesting, yet short article from Paul Krugman, who writes at the ever shrinking New York Times Pay-Blog. Paul Krugman – New York Times Blog May 16, 2010, 6:12 pm How Will They [. ...
- SST has dropped below zero anomaly.
From Bob Tisdale’s blog. He also has some other posts showing the current SST pattern. ————— NINO3.4 SST Anomalies Are Now Negative I just took a quick look at NINO3.4 SST Anomalies, and for the week centered on Wednesday May 12th, theyâve dropped into negative numbers: -0.075 deg C. NINO3.4 SST A ...
- Big Oil at Stefani’s
Well last night was interesting to say the least, Lucia, Steve, Anthony and I were planning a dinner together when Pajamas Media invited us to join them. There were a lot of sharp people in the room, including PJ media and Heartland guys. All were very serious about climate science and far more r ...
- Former Food Network Star Allegedly Ordered Hit on ...
An apostate pastry chef who swore off sweets to become a Food Network diet guru has been charged attempting to bribe homeless men to murder his wife with a box cutter. Sources close to Juan-Carlos Cruz � and his wife Jennifer Campbell speculate that he was trying to do her a favor. Campbell supposed ...
- Regulators Let BP Skip Required Permits
Federal regulators apparently allowed BP and dozens of other oil companies to begin drilling without obtaining mandatory environmental permits, according to the New York Times. By law, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) needs to get the OK of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
- Video: Octopus vs. Subcompact Shark
Octopus and hidden cameras go together like chocolate and peanut butter. You never know what those crazy cephalopods will get up to . Today, Boing Boing dug up some neat old National Geographic hidden camera footage that solved a marine murder mystery : Why were so many spiny dogfish t ...
- BP to Deploy "Top Hat" to Staunch Gulf Geyser; Nex ...
Oil giant BP announced a new plan to staunch the high-pressure oil geyser befouling the Gulf of Mexico, they call it the Top Hat . The Top Hat is a slightly smaller version of 100-ton steel and concrete box BP tried to lower onto the ruined, gushing wellhead. Unfortunately, buoyant methane crystals ...
- AAP on Female Genital Mutilation: Let's Not and Sa ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics is under fire for revising its guidelines on female genital mutilation (FGM). U.S. federal law bans all forms of female genital cutting for minors. However, the bioethics division of the AAP wants the law changed to allow doctors to ceremonially nick the clitoris ...
- Will Facebook Become This Year’s Political Footbal ...
[Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Inside Facebook Gold, our new data and analysis membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth. Inside Facebook Gold presents weekly in-depth analysis articles exploring the most critical developments impacting the future of the Facebook ...
- Are Facebook’s New In-Game Contact Importers the O ...
90 days ago today, Facebook confirmed the acquisition of Malaysia-based Octazen, a small team that had created one of the most sophisticated contact importer systems used by many consumer Internet companies these days. At the time, many considered the acquisition odd, but it was actually a very stra ...
- Facebook Employees Debate Privacy Changes, “Simpli ...
Following public criticism over a number of recent privacy changes, Facebook executives and employees have been “hunkered down” at its Palo Alto headquarters lately, according to the Wall Street Journal. And yesterday, some results of those discussions appear to be coming out. âNow weâve heard ...
- Contact Importer Now Facilitating Mass App and Gam ...
Facebook has updated its multi-friend selector invite tool for applications and games, now allowing users to import and choose from their email contacts when asking those not on Facebook to join them on an app or game. This contact importer replaces the previous option to manually input email addres ...
- Visa Gives FIFA World Cup Fans The Ability To Trac ...
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup happening in South Africa this summer, we’re starting to see more promotions come to Facebook. Now, an official sponsor of the event, Visa is teaming with developer AKQA to help fans of the beautiful game follow their favorite teams through Facebook and plan viewing part ...
- Who murdered UK weapons inspector Dr David Kelly?
Christopher King examines the death of UK weapons inspector Dr David Kelly in 2003 and argues that, in the light of fresh analyses of the circumstances of his death, it is vital that the new British government make public Dr Kelly’s post mortem report and other documentation relating to his death. ...
- US funds Israel’s apartheid roads plan
Jonathan Cook reports that a US government aid agency is financing the construction of Jews-only apartheid roads in the illegally-occupied West Bank, contrary to Washington’s pledge not to assist in implementing Israel’s “apartheid road” plan and its oft-stated goal to establish a viable Palestinian ...
- Netanyahu will be pleased. Now UK has an upper-cla ...
Stuart Littlewood views the Zionist roots of Britain’s senior coalition party, the Conservatives, especially its leader David Cameron and the foreign secretary, William Hague, both self-confessed Israel stooges. He asks whether Nick Clegg, leader of the junior coalition partner, the Liberal Democrat ...
- Israel’s red line – real democracy: secret police ...
Jonathan Cook reports on the growing persecution of Israeli Arab civil society leaders by the Israeli secret police as part of a strategy designed to castrate the country’s Arab community politically and to prevent it from helping to expose Israeli racism and apartheid internationally.
- Are the bombers in Iraq Al-Qaeda, the CIA or Israe ...
Christopher King argues that it is likely that the American CIA – or Israel acting on its behalf – is responsible for recent atrocities in Iraq, in order to extend and consolidate the occupation, just as it is probable that the Times Square bomber was, wittingly or otherwise, acting for the CIA or I ...
- Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
- Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
- Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
- Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
- Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...
- Jamiol Presents
- The Ill-Logic of the U.S. Predator Drone Campaign
A Bad Omen for America William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of the law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last [...]
- The Brazen Turkish Lobby
Leading Law Firm Hires Accused Criminal to Head Up New Office in Turkey DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest international law firms, is opening for business in Turkey. According to The Lawyer magazine,”DLA Piper has been targeting Turkey after bringing on board (former Under Secretary of State) Ma ...
- Jamiol Presents
- Crossing Zero
The Vanishing Point for the American Empire The region today delineated as both Afghanistan and Pakistan has known many borders over the millennia, yet none have been more artificial or contentious than the one today separating Pakistan from Afghanistan known as the Durand line but referred to by th ...
- Project Prevention: Is this a form of eugenics?
I saw an interview with Barbara Harris of Project Prevention on BBC HARDtalk. Her organization offers cash incentives to women that are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol to use long-term or permanent birth control. See part of that interview here. Controversial issue no doubt. Also see her interview ...
- Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed
During Hillary Clinton‘s campaign for president of the United States, many asked the question, Is America ready for a woman president? Well, the question was already asked, and by a bold, confident, beautiful black woman! Back in the day, before the Obama era, Sister Shirley Chisholm dared to run ...
- “Debunking the Myth of a Color-Blind France& ...
Previous generations of African Americans sought greater freedom in France – and some thought they found it. But for Frances growing African and Muslim minority, “applying for a job with Arab-sounding name such as Mustafa, Mohammed, Nadia or Fatima remains a challenge.” In the early 1930’s m ...
- Family Thoughts
Preserving the Black man, woman & CHILD does not seem as simple as it sounds.
- Are Marriage Relationships to be Built?
There is a lot of talk these days about marriage and how difficult it can be. Everywhere you turn, someone is talking about how many marriages are failing. How divorce is soaring, even in the “church”.  Some folk even believe that the marriage covenant isn’t necessary in this day and age. ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
- Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...
- Journalists expose ‘murky world’ of far right
Leading anti-fascist journalists last week gave a fascinating insight into the “murky and disturbing world of far right politics”. Nick Griffin’s biographer Dominic Carman and photojournalist Marc Vallée shed light on the violent and antidemocratic core of the BNP and the English Defence League. A s ...
- Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
- Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
- Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
In April SENÂ 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!Â
- An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
- NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
- The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
- A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
- Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
- Time is short…
"It doesn't take DNA to make a dad," she said. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease.
- I need your help….
This a contest that Advance America is running, they are a payday advance business, which unfortunately, I’v been dealing with since the beginning of the year. I had anticipated ending our relationship when my income tax return. Social Security confiscated that money because they said they had overp ...
- Rate the link within this post, thanks
Please consider rating this page to help me out, thanks Dave Please rate the page below and forward it to your friends… There is also a link on this page to enter a daily contest for $100.00 prize. http://www.americadeservesaraise.com/nomination/rebekahs_dad Most people have a future while others on ...
- Regaining our Rights, one step at a time..
When good people do nothing, they get something, but it’s not good! The people in government who are out of the pockets of Corporate America are demonstrating their steps to take away our freedoms, so they will have an easier time engaging in WAR. They create an atmosphere of fear in order to have a ...
- Oil Rig in Gulf pictures, Last moments
Everyone now knows of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which caught fire, burned for two days, and then sank in 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. There are still 11 men missing, and they are not expected to be found. Here are some details that you may not have seen or heard [...]
- Joss Garman Shows The Tragedy of Going Mainstream
Take a look at the video above. On the right is a person who has the guts to appear on the BBC and say, without embarrassment or political correctness, that people just need to stop flying so much. The Plane Stupid representative’s comments are brilliantly amplified by Jeremy Paxman’s priceless que ...
- Green Youth Movement: The Frightening Face of Youn ...
An impending sense of dispair tends to fall over me when I open my mailbox in the morning. Alongside the genuine spam comes a pile of cut-and-paste guff that spews from the keyboards of public relations firms who have been paid a few bucks to send out sycophantic press releases on behalf of their c ...
- Monthly Undermining Task, May 2010: Mind Your Lang ...
Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free But what price now for a shallow piece of dignity - A Design for Life, Manic Street Preachers Could these be the most ironic lines ever written, or just a dumb piece of worthy lyricism? Take them apart and any scholar of European history will ...
- Sustainable Brands 2010 (from The Good Human)
David at The Good Human got in touch to let me know about his brilliant article on yet another “Hey guys, aren’t we green!” PR back-slapping shindig. Of course I had to repost it, and couldn’t resist a little subvertising (see above)… What do you get when a bunch of unsustainable companies pay a lo ...
- We Are The Hollow Men
The difference is stark and intense – from a vision of the sub-American suburban Utopia ringed with shopping malls and trunk roads, to a house on the edge of a Scottish village within earshot of the River Tweed, surrounded by the kind of garden that would tempt the most driven individual to pack up ...
- Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
- Aliou Kumbaya
My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day. He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
- Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
- Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq. There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens. In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...
- Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery. The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps. While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...
- Balloon Mapping the Oil Spill Proves Responsive, O ...
In a recent Idea Lab post from the Center for Future Civic Media, Jeff Warren wrote about using inexpensive balloons and cheap cameras to make pseudo-satellite imagery of a given area. He had been using it to help people in poor areas establish title to their land (Google Maps satellites don't map p ...
- DIY Mappers Offer Remarkable Images of Gulf Coast ...
Last week, as the mainstream press reported on the worsening environmental and economic crisis that is the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf Coast, I and a small group of DIY mappers flew down to New Orleans to coordinate a grassroots, citizen effort to map the spill. Instead of helicopters an ...
- Freedom Fone Answers Questions on Zimbabwe Constit ...
Two weeks ago the latest version of Freedom Fone , affectionately known to his handlers as "Fred," was set loose. Inspired by the cockney rhyming slang "dog and bone" (meaning phone), the Freedom Fone dog logo and quirky character of Fred was born a few years ago. Fred is still young, but after a ...
- Programming Language for Kids Banned from Apple Ap ...
The MIT News Office recently interviewed one of our colleagues at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Mitch Resnick. Resnick is a long-time Media Lab professor best known for helping develop and deploy Scratch, a programming language for kids. But this month Apple rejected an app that would al ...
- In Need of a DocumentCloud for Video, Data
Brainstorming the next brilliant News Challenge project? I've got two for you, and you've got until fall to noodle over them. As the program director for DocumentCloud I spend a lot of time talking to journalists, writers and researchers about what DocumentCloud is and, often, what it isn't. Do ...
- The BP Spill - Training Exercises Showed Gaps in G ...
Over the last eight years, the U.S. government has conducted four major drills to prepare for a massive oil spill, the results of which foreshadowed many of the weaknesses in coordination, communication, expertise, and technology that have plagued the federal response to the BP disaster in the Gulf ...
- The Edge of Oil - OSHA Says 97% of Worst Industry ...
Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Most of BP’s citations were classified as “egregious willful” by the Occupati ...
- The BP Spill - Congress Probes Federal Role in a D ...
Congress turns its focus to the federal role in the ongoing Gulf oil leak this week after an initial round of hearings probed the culpability of oil companies tied to the ongoing spill. Three Senate committees will hold hearings on the Gulf spill on May 18, to be followed by the House Transportation ...
- The Edge of Oil Interruption - The World's Naval P ...
At the end of April 2010, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Navy conducted three days of “Great Prophet V” exercises in the Persian Gulf.�Hundreds of fast boats were deployed in what appears to be a rehearsal for Iran’s first wave of attackers against ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz where 40 ...
- The Weapon's Edge - Aerial Drones Bring Stealthy D ...
The United States has come under significant criticism for the harm to civilians caused by unmanned drones operating in Afghanistan and occasionally across the border into Pakistan. Steps are being taken to alleviate the collateral damage and public relations concerns, steps which will also enhance ...
- Last rites in salmon country?
Salmon fishermen gear up for a risky season despite California’s ongoing water wars.
- Clean air, hazy politics
A new Colorado air quality law pits coal against natural gas -- and rural environmentalists against urban ones.
- Going to extremes
Determined ideologues are hijacking Western politics, but some reformers are trying to change that.
- For wilderness, look to a wasteland
A map shows some of the largest sites managed by the departments of Defense and Energy in the West, and their ecological value.
- Accidental Wilderness
Washington's Hanford Site and New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range both hold deadly nuclear contamination – along with unspoiled landscapes rich in wildlife.
- Conspiracy Against Non-Violent Resistance Movement ...
By Nachiketa Desai A macabre drama is unfolding in the poverty-stricken Indian state of Orissa where a democratically-elected government has begun to crush over a dozen peoples peaceful resistance movements against their forceful eviction from their forest, farm, water bodies and source oflivelihoo ...
- D Rajas Letter To Prime Minister Of India
I am writing in the context of the brutal attack of the Orissa police on the peaceful protesters of the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa. More than 100 people, including many women, have been injured; those seriously injured are receiving no medical care; the police ...
- Can Civilised People Show Such Disrespec For The L ...
By Felix Padel This state violence perpetrated by police and goondas contains the seeds of future atrocities, and acts as the surest recruiting ground for Maoist insurgency
- Orissa: Miners Paradise
By Nachiketa Desai Mining Happiness is the catch-line of the recent multi-million-rupee multi-media advertisement campaign of the Vedanta Aluminum Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange listed mining giant Vedanta Resources PLC. Vedantas advertisement campaign claims the c ...
- Massacre In Thailand: Obamas Bloody Hands
By Shamus Cooke When the White House is quiet as protestors are butchered in the streets of Bangkok Thailand, suspicions are raised. Silence often equals complicacy. One can only imagine what the U.S. response would be to a Venezuelan government slaughter: the U.S. media and Obama would loudly con ...
- 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!
- Counterterrorism in the US vs. Israel Its a Questi ...
The last twelve months have seen a record number of terrorist plots targeted toward the US mainland. Several succeeded in their deadly plots, others got past government counterterrorism efforts and failed only because of divine providence, and the terrorists own incompetence. Since the near-tr ...
- Getting Rid of "The Schm--k With The Sign" The Rea ...
After multiple (unsuccessful) attempts by the White House to silence Glenn Beck by leading advertiser boycotts, the President has decided to change tactics by taking his Weiner dog off the leash so he could go after the Commentators advertisers criminally. So yesterday, the NY Congressman, wh ...
- 10:30 Watch Live Rep Mike Pence Hosts Forum of Lea ...
Beginning at 10:30 AM Eastern | May 19, 2010 Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, along with additional Members of Congress, will host: "End the Bailouts: A Greek Forum" inviting leading economic experts to discuss the current situation in Greece and Eur ...
- Shavuot --My Favorite Jewish Holiday
Tonight begins Shavuot, the most meaningful (to me) and favorite of Jewish holidays.� It commemorates, that incredible day when God gave us the Ten Commandments and the Torah. People living in the US, might think that Chanukah is the major Jewish holiday, actually it is a very minor holiday.� S ...
- Iran/Brazil Deal Makes Israeli Attack Much More Li ...
Yesterday, American diplomats got caught with their pants down when Iran signed an agreement with Turkey and Brazil to send� about half of its nuclear fuel, 1,200 kilograms of low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for higher-enriched nuclear reactor fuel to be used in a medical research react ...
- In the U.S., the Establishment is on the Run
The waking of the United States of America has begun. All over the country, incumbents traditionally in bed with corporations have been voted out of office again and again and again. Kentucky, Florida, Pennsylvania and other states saw the break of dawn with different eyes as grassroots supported ...
- Independent thinkers are considered diseased by ps ...
Natural News Psychiatrists have been working on the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and, in it, they hope to add a whole slew of new psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, many of these disorders are merely differences in personality and behavior amo ...
- …E agora por um Banco e uma Moeda Mundial
Desde a infância tenho ouvido sobre a possibilidade de uma moeda global.�Naquele tempo, ninguém por perto conseguia me explicar como iria surgir e quem a controlaria.�A resposta a estas questões já estão claras.�Dominic Strauss-Kahn respondeu às minhas questões de infância.�Uma moeda global gerida p ...
- Informe: Política Económica ‘verde’ en ...
Pajamas Media ha recibido una evaluación filtrada interna producida por la administración de Jose Luis Zapatero. La evaluación confirma loscargos previamente realizados por expertos españoles no gubernamentales en un informe escalofriante que expone la falla económica catastrófica de la “econ ...
- Green Policies in Spain are a Total Failure
Pajamas Media has received a leaked internal assessment produced by Spain’s Zapatero administration. The assessment confirms the key charges previously made by non-governmental Spanish experts in a damning report exposing the catastrophic economic failure of Spain’s “green economy” initiatives. On e ...
- The Sisters wind farm blow
A contentious wind farm proposal for The Sisters has been rejected by Victoria’s planning tribunal, leaving deep divisions in the small dairying community. In a rare ruling against the burgeoning green energy sector the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal upheld Moyne Shire Council’s refusal ...
- Windmill down, fences up: Safety measures implemen ...
FENNER — Enel Energy officials announced in March that heightened safety measures would be taken in light of the collapse of a windmill in the Fenner Wind Farm on Buyea Road Dec. 27. âWhen the incident occurred, we fenced it off and set up security,â said Hank Sennott, director of corporate affa ...
- Researcher concerned about wind tower impact on bi ...
On a real clear day, the mountains of Pennsylvania are the only thing besides water that can be seen when looking south over Lake Erie from Long Point’s beach. That could change. An offshore wind development of 500 to 800 turbines is in the early planning stages for the waters off Long Point accordi ...
- Wind proposal blows away neighbor unity
The idea of making electricity from the wind seems, well, friendly. But in Allegan County’s Monterey Township, “people are not speaking to other people already,” because commercial wind turbines may be coming there, said Heather Ludlam, a local veterinarian. It’s a downside of the heightened interes ...
- Harwich turns its back on wind turbines
HARWICH â In a big showdown over wind power, neighbors of two proposed 400-foot tall industrial wind turbines drew enough voters to town meeting to kill the town’s eight-year-long push for the clean energy project. “When this matter came up eight years ago, everybody thought wind energy was a good ...
- Freedom Flotilla video streaming so far
Freedom Flotilla organizers have released video of the Rachel Corrie’s setting sail from Ireland, presaging I hope, improved visual coverage of the blockade running expedition. The Israel navy’s past successful repulsions have been executed in darkness to elude video evidence, so the Corrie’s nightt ...
- Semite v. East Jerusalem anti-Semites
Our Zionist critics can accuse us of highlighting virulent anti-Semitic caricatures, but these aren’t artists’ archetypes. This photo was taken last week in East Jerusalem, of young Jewish settlers mocking a Palestinian woman whose home is occupied by Israelis. They came to the Arab neighborhood of ...
- Oil in Gulf Stream, Industry Response: “Kill ...
Spokesfreak for increased drilling, our favorite ex-Governor, not able to actually DEFEND her corporate sponsored “Drill, Baby, Drill” mantra (for now) in the face of BP announcing that the oil “might” be spreading into major ocean currents (like the Gulf Stream, which goes to among other places, En ...
- Americans upset by Single Ladies viral video don&# ...
You thought ours was an oversexed culture obsessed with youth, but the recent furor over a viral video shows Americans don’t know their ass from their T & A. Obviously everyone is aghast about too-young dancers gyrating to Beyonce’s SINGLE LADIES, but I think it says something hilarious about our ...
- Is Walmart Price “Rollback” trademark ...
What are Walmart “price ROLLBACKS” but a way to take credit for sale pricing present and past? You generate buyer goodwill for what you’re advertizing, and reap customer loyalty for good deals you supposedly offered in times bygone. Do “rollbacks” recall fond bargain-hunting nostalgia or are they ma ...
- Debunk This! 009 ( False Flags )
ChangeDaChannel YouTube.com May 18, 2010 Related Info: Debunk This! 008 ( 911 Conspiracy ) Debunk This! Series
- An enemy within
By FaithRMichaels Residues of ceramic molds for thermite welding like these, left by railway workers, can be found along tracks. I repeat: Two buckets of thermite residues left by railway workers after welding tracks. Oh look red and gray chips. Maybe it's not the same type of thermite as the red ...
- "Hansen: Official 9/11 story is hooey, critic main ...
In an editorial yesterday, Marc Hansen , a columnist for the Des Moines Register, wrote the following : "David Ray Griffin comes to Drake University on April 23 to tell us why the official explanation for the 9/11 attack on the United States doesn't hold water. A theologian, philosopher of religio ...
- LOWKEY - OBAMA NATION (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - BANNED FR ...
GlobalFaction YouTube.com March 24, 2010 Follow Lowkey on http://www.blogger.com/www.twitter.com/lowkeyuk http://www.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/lowkeyuk The new single Obama Nation (produced by Red Skull) taken from Lowkey's forthcoming album Soundtrack To The Struggle... Lowkey - Obama Nation ...
- Put up or Shut up: A Year in Review
So it's been a little bit over a year since physicist Steven Jones told us "what we need to know about peer-review" while also essentially telling 9/11 " debunkers " to put up or shut up . Let's see if they have stopped just being loud and have gotten loud and clear ... In October 2008, long time 9 ...
- BPA (Toxin) Found in 92% of Canned Food
BPA (Bisphenol-A) is dangerous, especially to pregnant women, and intake of canned food during gestation should be limited. This is the main conclusion of a recent study on the chemical compound that is used to line the inside of cans and bottles. From USA Today: Researchers found that BPA levels v ...
- Big Food pledge placates White House – Who needs p ...
This is a guest post by Michele Simon, and originally appeared on her blog Appetite for Profit. You’ve got to hand it to the food industry. They certainly know how to get the attention of the White House just when they need it most. As announced today by Michelle Obama herself, the nation’s [.. ...
- What Do Strawberries Have to Do with ADHD Kids?
A new study by US and Canadian scientists is linking ADHD to pesticide. Researchers found that kids with high levels of pesticide residue in their urine were more likely to suffer from the challenging attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Unfortunately some of childrens’ favorite fruit are the ...
- Dr Pepper vs. Coke [Inside the Label]
With a particular flavor you either love or you hate, Dr Pepper has been around for as long as Coca Cola. Actually, one year longer – since 1885. Although it never reached the heights of Coke’s success, Dr Pepper is a very popular soft drink, mostly in the US. At 7 teaspoons of sugar per cup, [...]
- School Lunch Meat Safety Improved to … Fast Food S ...
The USDA is enacting more stringent safety regulations for ground meats provided to school lunch programs. This will bring the safety programs up to the safety levels of no less than … hold your breath … fast food burgers. The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Friday that it will require all gr ...
- Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
- 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...
- Blog Design Showcase
The typical post topics covered here involve topics related to social media marketing or blogging . One way to increase traffic to your site is to use an attractive design that will draw a lot of attention. Web design galleries and showcase blog posts like this one send considerable amounts of visit ...
- 10 Reasons to Be a Freelance Blogger
I talk to a lot of people on a regular basis who want to make money with the internet, and blogging is often the preferred method. While it is certainly possible to earn a living with your own blog, it's a lot more work than most people anticipate, and the percentage of bloggers who stick with it lo ...
- Using Social Media as Part of a Balanced Plan for ...
When it comes to social media marketing you'll hear some people say that it is best opportunity out there for bloggers and website owners, and others will tell you that it's a complete waste of time. In my opinion, and from my experience, social media brings a lot of potential for getting exposure t ...
- The myth of one and only truth
The more one thinks about it, the more difficult it becomes to believe in the existence of one and only truth. From an early age, however, we learn that there is an all-elusive transcendental truth, to which we have no access. Only, this is a myth. I think that this myth was created by the various ...
- The "green meme"
In his version of Spiral Dynamics, Ken Wilber takes up the notion of meme, which was first introduced by Richard Dawkins. Memes, in his context, correspond to levels of consciousness and every level builds on the adoptations of previous ones. Therefore, each level transcends its predecessors, encomp ...
- Mirror wisdom and other kinds
Let's pay attention to the internal process that leads to the adoptation of the green meme or the discarding of the myth of one and only truth. We'll do it through a well-known symbol: the mirror. To begin with, one could say: "the mirror is vacant". True, the mirror is vacant, it includes nothing ...
- The point of no return
"My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all of the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum. I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of th ...
- Love and fear
“ When I love, I belong. When I belong, I feel the need to produce. I produce objects, meanings, life. I grow. I love and at the same time I fear. I fear who I am. I fear that others will reject me for who I am so I fear to be as I really want to. I stop growing. I have to protect myself. I have t ...
- UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA
UC Berkeley is adding something a little different this year in its welcome package — cotton swabs for a DNA sample.
- The Global Economy Is Now Out Of Control
- Rigi: US, Israel paid for assassination
In a recent interview, Rigi told Press TV that before his arrest Jundallah had held a series of meetings in Casablanca with a group who had claimed to be NATO contacts.
- 11 Signs That The U.S. Government Has Become An Ov ...
- ‘Naked’ scanners may increase cancer risk
US scientists are warning that radiation from controversial full-body airport scanners has been dangerously underestimated and could lead to an increased risk of skin cancer – particularly in children.
- Iran uranium deal and other missed opportunities
Summary: News reports and oped in the US media insist that the recent Iranian-Turkish-Brazilian uranium swap offer is a cause for concern, that Iran is marching forward in obtaining the capability to make nukes, and that the only options in dealing with Iran are either ineffective sanctions or a ...
- Security Council draft resolution on Iran overshad ...
Summary: Pugwash President Amb Jayantha Dhanapala told a side-event during the Review Conference that the tabling of the draft resolution - only a day after Brazil and Turkey struck a deal with Iran over a fuel swap - could be a "game changer" at the NPT. "It will create a lot of ferment within ...
- Iran sanctions snarl global nuclear talks
Summary: Non-Aligned Movement The brisk rejection of a last minute compromise on Iran proposed by Brazil and Turkey has snarled broader UN talks on disarmament and non-proliferation source: The Guardian read more
- "The US just slapped Turkey and Brazil in the face ...
Summary: Now that Tehran has accepted the main elements of the Baradei proposal—the transfer of 1,200 kilos of low-enriched uranium out of Iran in exchange for new fuel for the TRR—the United States has unilaterally changed the game. source: Race for Iran read more
- Brazil, Turkey try to stymie UN sanctions on Iran
Summary: Brazil and Turkey on Wednesday urged their fellow UN Security Council members to heed a deal they struck with Iran over its nuclear program, in a last-minute bid to block a sanctions vote against Tehran. source: Daily Star read more
- Does Newly Discovered Supernova Point to Unknown L ...
In the past decade, robotic telescopes have turned astronomers' attention to strange exploding stars that may point to new and unusual physics. An international team of astronomers has uncovered a supernova whose origin cannot be explained by any previously known...
- A New 'Hitchhiker's Guide' to the Milky Way
They should have just asked Ford Prefect. U.S. astronomers have discovered the Milky Way has just two major arms of stars, not the four arms of the current model. Led by Robert Benjamin of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, using the...
- Did Winter Kill the Mars Lander? NASA listens One ...
Experts hold out slim hopes that hard-working NASA robot didn't freeze to death during Martian winter, but NASA is making one final effort to detect signs of life in the dormant Phoenix Mars Lander. This week marks NASA's fourth attempt...
- Image of the Day: Saturn's Enigmatic Moon, Encelad ...
This mysterious image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was taken on May 18, 2010 and received on Earth May 18,The camera was pointing toward ENCELADUS at approximately 41,676 kilometers away. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawimagedetails/index.cfm?imageID=216997
- You Create the Caption
- Pig virus contaminates rotavirus vaccines, but FDA ...
(NaturalNews) Rotavirus vaccines are commonly given to children, and this year's batch of vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are contaminated with a pig virus, the FDA recently discovered. So the FDA called a meeting to determine whether injecting a pig virus into the bodies of young childre ...
- Natural health news gets nuttier: research shows e ...
(NaturalNews) NaturalNews has covered how eating pistachios lowers the risk of lung cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/027732_pistachios_cancer.html) and how a diet rich in nuts may help prevent age-related blindness (http://www.naturalnews.com/026369_risk_olive_oil_nuts.html). Walnuts appear to hav ...
- Pomegranates reduce the risk of breast cancer
(NaturalNews) Regular consumption of pomegranate may help prevent breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from the City of Hope and published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research .Researchers tested 10 different naturally occurring pomegranate compounds, all of them in the ...
- Processed meat raises risk of diabetes, heart dise ...
(NaturalNews) A new study published in the journal Circulation reveals that eating processed meat products significantly raises the risk of heart disease and diabetes . Previous research has linked processed meats to cancer as well. The new paper involved a meta-analysis of 20 different studies cove ...
- Gaia Herbs achieves industry breakthrough in herb ...
(NaturalNews) I'm a big fan of herbal products, but have you ever wondered whether the ingredients that are supposed to be in those products are actually present in their correct potency? Did you ever wonder where the herbs really came from? As you'll discover here, one company has suddenly and dram ...
- Pennsylvania Attorney General Tries to Unmask Twit ...
An anonymous blogger critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett plans to challenge a grand jury subpoena ordering Twitter to reveal the blogger’s identity. “It doesn’t really matter why we are criticizing him,” said “Signor Ferrari,” one of the two Twitter user’s targeted in the subpoe ...
- Vigilantes Hack Criminal Carding Forum and Expose ...
A German cybercrime forum was hacked by attackers who have exposed the underground dealings of the criminal denizens. The hackers snagged the database containing what appears to be all the private correspondence of the forum members, and posted it to the web. The hackers also posted information on ...
- LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times
Apparently, when you publish your Social Security number prominently on your website and billboards, people take it as an invitation to steal your identity. LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, whose number is displayed in the company’s ubiquitous advertisements, has by now learned that lesson. He’s been a vic ...
- Copyright Lawsuits Plummet in Aftermath of RIAA Ca ...
New federal copyright infringement lawsuits plummeted to a six-year low in 2009, the year after the Recording Industry Association of America abandoned its litigation campaign against file sharers, court records show. Copyright lawsuits numbered 2,192 in 2009, down almost a third from the previo ...
- Students, Parents Allowed to View Webcam Scandal P ...
Suburban Philadelphia parents and their high school-age children soon will learn the extent of a potentially criminal webcam scandal. A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the Lower Merion School District to start sending notification letters to any student covertly spied on through their school-is ...
- Robin Hood and the Estate Tax
In 2009, only 1 in 500 American estates paid taxes. But thanks to the obstructionism of Senate Republicans led by Arizona's Jon Kyl, the estate tax temporarily lapsed for 2010, a hiatus that could portend massive windfalls this year for the heirs of the largest fortunes in the United States. Now a ...
- Tea Party Woodstock Slated for 9/11 Anniversary
This September 11th, Tea Party organizers will commemorate that American tragedy not with a plea for shared sacrifice and national unity, but with a partisan shindig. But what they are calling the " Woodstock of tea parties " has only one thing in common with the legendary 1969 gathering in upstate ...
- Souder Exception Proves Rule of GOP Adultery
No boy, no problem . For the adulterers of the Republican Party, that has long been the rule. Which makes the resignation of Indiana GOP Congressman and family values merchant Mark Souder over an affair with staffer Tracy Jackson all the more exceptional. While Eliot Spitzer, Gary Hart, Jim McGre ...
- Palin Brings Confused Immigration Stance to Arizon ...
As she left office 10 months ago to earn $12 million , half-term Governor Sarah Palin declared, "It's all for Alaska." Now, joining Arizona Governor Jan Brewer in Phoenix t defend that state's draconian immigration law, Palin announced, " We're all Arizonans now ." But while the latest roar from t ...
- Intensity vs. Propensity in the 2010 Campaign
This week has brought a mixed bag for Democrats anxious about the party's prospects for the 2010 midterm elections. Gallup reported a marked shrinkage in the " enthusiasm gap ," as the GOP's edge in "very enthusiastic" voters dropped by half since early April/ But as Hotline reported, Democratic ...
- A Loser White House, Guilty by Association By Robe ...
by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net May 20, 2010 Long before Year One ended, progressives understood President Obamas focus was routine wheeling and dealing, not regrowing the New Deal. Between victory and governance, Obama reform switched from promises to make govern ...
- Root Cause of Voters’ Revolt: Congress, Obama, GOP ...
The revolt across the political landscape on Tuesday against incumbents wasn’t just an attack against the Washington establishment, but an outpouring of rage against political elites of all stripes who haven’t realized the economic crisis still gripping American workers. As Katrina vanden Heuvel, ed ...
- Capping the devils cauldron By Jerry Mazza
By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com May 20, 2010 If I were a religious man, I would take the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the spilling of millions of gallons of oil and gas, their engulfing of the Gulf of Mexico waters and de ...
- Buyer Beware: Over the Counter DNA Tests Can Cause ...
There's a huge push to market over-the-counter genetic tests. But the faulty tests can cause more harm than good.
- Six Myths About Immigration That Just Won't Die
We need to straighten out our thinking about some of the basic issues in order to have a useful and serious policy argument.
- Itching to Fight Anoter Muslim Enemy
The anti-Iran propaganda in the U.S. media suggests another Iraq-like confrontation and possible war, writes Robert Parry. May 17, 2010
- Is Obama Making Terror Risk Worse?
By escalating conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Obama risks the spread of anti-Americanism, says Ivan Eland. May 18, 2010
- Kagan's Dubious Stand on Civil Rights
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan appears to have a tepid commitment to civil rights, observes Marjorie Cohn. May 15, 2010
- Chevron's 'Crude' War on Free Speech
Chevron has won a court order to pry into a documentary critical of its damage to Ecuador, note Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. May 15, 2010
- The Return of Madcap Capitalism
After the Right's three-decade war on government regulations, madcap capitalism is again wreaking havoc, writes Robert Parry. May 14, 2010
- Palestinian agro-resistance (Vivien Sansour, This ...
Abu Adnan does not talk about a global movement to save the earth. He doesn't know much about Greenpeace or the Kyoto Protocol; but he does know everything about keeping his soil healthy and fertile, and the terraces he builds to protect his soil make his mountainous piece of land a visual paradise. ...
- After Chomsky affair, Gush Shalom considers high c ...
Following the Israeli Interior Ministry's decision to bar prominent US academic Noam Chomsky from entering the West Bank, Israel peace group Gush Shalom is considering filing a Supreme Co ...
- Bank cornered over financing Israeli settlements ...
New evidence has been uncovered to show that Dexia, a major Belgian-French bank, is still financing Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories despite official assurances ...
- West Bank health and economy up a bit, Gaza down ...
With a failing economy, rising unemployment and deteriorating power, sanitation and health facilities, the health of Gaza's population continues to worsen, according to a recent World Hea ...
- Witness - Paradise Lost (Al Jazeera)
- TruthHugger is on indefinite vacation.
Zzzzzzzz Time is not on my side. Although I continue to observe and analyze current events and political shenanigans with critical eyes. I am setting aside the venting of opinion and observation to attend to personal priorities. TruthHugger may be resurrected during the next political disaster, but ...
- Note to readers
I’m om a hiatus again. Check back now and then, I may surprise you. Tagged: Personal Note
- Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...
Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
- Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...
Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
- Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...
How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation
- Germany's Merkel Pushes Trading, Debt Crackdowns - ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for tougher regulation aimed at stock and bond traders along with a crackdown on government debt to contain the continent's financial crisis, warning Wednesday that the future of the euro itself was at stake. Urging lawmakers to pass Germany's share of a ne ...
- The Yudof Doctrine of Berkely: No divestment from ...
UC President Mark Yudof — who the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has called “an unabashed Israel supporter” and who has previously compared the UC to a cemetery — has weighed in against UC Berkeley’s divestment initiative, laying out a bizarre formula for UC investments that sets the bar so low it ...
- Gaza: These Virtual Connections Are for Real - Pal ...
"I've learned most of what I know about photo editing and graphic design via the Internet," says Emad, 27-year-old film-maker and editor. In Gaza, this sort of thing has become usual in a different way. "This programme isn't available here," he says, smiling triumphantly as he finishes downlo ...
- Albanians Press Democracy With Hunger Strike - Wo ...
BUCHAREST- Since May 1 over 200 people have been on hunger strike in a tent in the centre of the Albanian capital of Tirana supported by rallies of 200,000 protestors and road blocks across the country to press for a recount of last year’s parliamentary vote. Of the hunger strikers...
- Yo Soy El Army: US Military Targets Latinos with E ...
In addition to the racial profiling encouraged by Arizona’s controversial anti-immigrant law, the Hispanic community in this country is the target of a different kind of profiling, as well: the military’s targeting of Latino recruits. We get a report from independent media activist and community or ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Civil war avoided - or just postponed? "Thailand's authorities have put Bangkok and about a third of the country under curfew after street protest leaders surrendered. At least 27 buildings were set ablaze after the red-shirt leaders' surrender and pockets of resistance remained despite pleas from l ...
- BP's Leak Estimates May Be A Tad Low
Looks like BP's estimate of 5000 barrels a day spewing from their broken wellhead may just possibly turn out to be a teensy tiny bit low. �By about 90 thousand or so barrels. Gulf oil spill leak now pegged at 95,000 barrels a day Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201... WASHINGTON - The latest ...
- Conway Falling Into Repug Trap Already
Not even 24 hours after liberal donors around the country and liberal voters around Kentucky handed him a from-20-points-down victory in the Senate primary, Jack Conway is running away from the Real Democratic positions that are his only hope of beating Rand Paul in November. From at Evan McMorris-S ...
- Dr. Gingrich Rewrites History in New Book
Newt Gingrich apparently believes having a Ph.D. in history means he gets to rewrite it. �Because that's what the Master Fabulist has done in his newest book, To Save America , which preposterously claims President Obama presides over a "secular-socialist machine" that "represents as great a threat ...
- Glenn Beck's Hawking Gold for Shady Company?
I've called Glenn Beck a lot of things in the last year... clown, buffoon, drama queen, finder of Nazis behind every tree he thinks is standing a bit too far to his left and... oh, just lots of others. But since I get my admittedly small doses of Beck at sites like this one and at Comedy Central and ...
- Tell President Obama to lead the way on clean ener ...
Send President Obama a message asking him to take the lead on ensuring that comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation is passed into law this year. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Help Save Animals from Chemical Testing ! TAKE ACT ...
Please take a minute to let your senator know that you support protection of the environment and animals. Ask him or her to give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to require the use of nonanimal test methods. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
- DUO (Doesn't Use Oil) Car
Your wait is nearly over. The Duo will race you along with Myers Motors proven electric drive system. You can keep your driving dollars here and break the oil habit with the 2-passenger Duo. .. Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- CPAWS welcomes new national park for Nova Scotia
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) welcomes todays announcement by the Government of Canada and the Nova Scotia government of the intention to establish a new national park in Nova Scotia for Sable Island. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Speak up! President Obama must save the Arctic fro ...
If this national crisis has taught us one thing, it's this: Drilling is a dirty and dangerous business. It was not safe in the Gulf of Mexico and it is certainly not safe amid the treacherous swells and sea-ice of America's Arctic Ocean, where help is Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note- ...
- Is the surge failing in Afghanistan?
Six months into the surge in Afghanistan, Americans and Afghans alike are asking the question whether it has worked and the ugly reality is that it has failed to make a difference, writes Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post.
- Sarkozy says Muslims should not feel singled out b ...
France attempted the arguably impossible on Wednesday by presenting a bill to ban Muslim face veils and asking Muslims not to feel it was singling them out in the process.
- In Pakistan, making sense of the “do more ...
With two senior U.S. officials visiting Pakistan to follow up on the failed car-bombing on Times Square, it remains far from clear exactly what they want.
- So long, sardines? Lake Tanganyika hasn’t be ...
East Africa's Lake Tanganyika might be getting too hot for sardines, with water temperatures rising to their highest levels in the last millennium and a half.
- Germany’s euro-zone bind
Germany has broadly done well out of euro zone membership -- until the Greek debt crisis that is. But now, can Germany really expect the most profligate members of the euro zone to remodel their economies to look more like Germany's?
- What An Illegal Immigrant Hating Law
I feel compelled to share with you the actual text of this illegal immigrant hating law brought to my attention recently(h/t to HARP for providing this). I think you will be surprised when you read the extent of it. Just for fun, I am taking out the name of the state that crafted, [...]
- Oh dear. Our chief plutocrat isn’t feelin’ the lov ...
I get a kick out of Facebook for a lot of reasons, including fascinating info about Pluto Obama that FB friends post to my FB “wall.” By the way, many NQ writers and readers have Facebook accounts, and it’s intriguing to learn more about their interests. For example, you’d never know that Reverend ...
- Oh dear. Our chief plutocrat isn’t feelin’ the lov ...
I get a kick out of Facebook for a lot of reasons, including fascinating info about Pluto Obama that FB friends post to my FB “wall.” By the way, many NQ writers and readers have Facebook accounts, and it’s intriguing to learn more about their interests. For example, you’d never know that Reverend ...
- The Official Election Returns Open Thread at NoQua ...
Okay, political junkies. Tonight’s a special night for you. Admit it. You’re excited. Election returns are for us what Atlantic City or Vegas are for addicted gamblers. We are watching: Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Senate Primary: Sen. Arlen Specter or Rep. Joe Sestak Pennsylvania Special E ...
- Oil Spill Meets Loop Current
Strange how everyone’s worse case scenarios seems to be turning into the most likely case scenarios. Â It’s hard not to feel like a captive audience forced to watch a slow motion perfect storm develop and unfold, but have no way of stopping it. Â Only left to wonder when and where it will end. The M ...
- New York City's Sky Park
What is an urban center to do when inhabitants are demanding an increase in usable outdoor space, but horizontal spacial resources are in limited supply? You look vertica read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
- Il Palio: Siena's Electrifying Horse Race
Twice each summer, the Piazza del Campo in the medieval city of Siena, in Tuscany, floods with locals and tourists alike to witness one of sport's unique events. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Life in a Communal Rubbish Dump in India
Working as an intern for an NGO in India, I was shown some things that definitely won't make it into travel guides. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Balancing on a Giant Rubber Band 1000 ft in the Ai ...
With the wind in your ears, a breathtaking view before your eyes, and a yawning gulf beneath your feet, would it matter that your steps over the abyss were so elastic? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
- The Glory of Thunder and Lightning
Lightning: beautiful yet deadly. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
- President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...
- A Battery That Stores Wind Juice
Mountaintop wind turbines produce most of their energy at night, when electricity demand and prices are low. That limits revenue. But batteries that store bulk amounts of energy during those hours could solve the problem.
- If You Build It ...
The actor Kevin Costner helped finance a oil cleanup solution that could be deployed in the gulf.
- Organic Feed? Birds Say No Thanks
Birds tend to prefer conventional feed over the organic sort, a new study shows.
- 'Exercise Caution,' the Drilling Permit Said
The permit issued to BP by the Minerals Management Service for the Gulf of Mexico well that blew out on April 20 carried a notation: "Exercise caution while drilling due to indications of shallow gas and possible water flow.'' But natural gas was one element of the blowout, experts say.
- On Our Radar: An Age of Hard-to-Reach Oil?
The gulf oil disaster is seen as a harbinger of an "age of tough oil."
- New videos: Mayday Immigrant Rights March, Keith E ...
Oh hai, thanks for visiting... A lot of things going on and thus little time (if any) for posts. I got some neat events taped around MayDay weekend in Minneapolis, including the Immigrant Rights March around downtown & Loring Park. Also had my video of US Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN5) describing th ...
- The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! UPDATE: Hi to everyone from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leo_Wanta/ - keep it up :) This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the big ...
- 2010 Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Notes for Ap ...
Jesse Trentadue : …who’s testifying about Howe had reported that the plan to bomb the Murrah building four months in advance, had gone with Strassmeir and others to scout the target – the first thing the U.S. Attorney does when Graham stops testifying is ask the judge to seal the transcript, and the ...
- BlackListedNews: BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes ...
I can only apologize for not pushing the breakdown of the gold market story out more. It is finally coming loose it seems, & when this occurs it will be another giant 'discontinuity' that'll get filled up with more inflationary ripoffs. A huge basis of the system is gonna croak sometime soon... ...
- Palin Bachmann: 2010 GOP Convention Center Rally H ...
Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...
- By Any Means Necessary and Detroit
By Any Means Necessary “By Any Means Necessary’ or BAMN, www.bamn.com is by far the most progressive voice in the fight for public education, students, parents, teachers, student integration, desegregation, an end to racist school policies, and murderous privatization plans by the ruling class. I ha ...
- Arizona, Institutional Racism & Assimilation
Arizona, Institutional Racism & Assimilation By: Solomon Comissiong The Southwestern US state of Arizona has recently garnered a lot of public attention for its blatantly racist legislation. In April (2010) the closet racist governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, signed into law SB-1070. SB-1070 was para ...
- Chomsky, the Gate Keepers and the Left Forum
By guest Blogger Terry Morrone I feel guilty and inferior about my unconventional views and about my affliction. I’ll tell you about it later. But I’m reminded of the history of Christianity. There were different versions during the first few centuries of the Christian era. The early church argued a ...
- Too Big to Exist (TBE) – Big Oil
Michael Collins There is no viable solution insight for the out of control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The stunning failure of British Petroleum (BP) raises the question – are these oil giants too big to exist? Are they too dangerous to function in our presence? BP has four permanent deep ...
- WORKING?
Working, they said it is working. “It appears that the application of the subsea dispersant is actually working,” Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer for exploration and production, said Saturday. “The oil in the immediate vicinity of the well and the ships and rigs working in the area is dim ...
- Saint Lieberman, Patron Saint of Death Camps
The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Saint Lieberman, Patron Saint of Death Camps � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina May 18, 2010 America, wake up. This is it, your oh so righteous man of neither branch b ...
- Ramzy Baroud: Can the agony get worse?
The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Can the agony get worse? � �Ramzy Baroud May 18, 2010 Clad in his usual attire of a colourful, striped robe, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared more like an emperor as he began his fourth day in Washington. Accompanying him ...
- Cell phone usage, cancer and brain tumors
Pine River World News By Steve in Wisconsin May 17, 2010 I can't seem to find the article on the internet, but back in the 70s or early 80s several U.S. police officers claimed to have developed brain tumors as a result of the "new 800 megahertz radios" purchased by their departments. At the time, ...
- Gordon Duff: The Mojave Fraud
The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . The Mojave Fraud � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today May 14, 2010 Click. There it goes again. I got another email about the stolen Mojave Cross, the war memorial few could find ...
- Jeff Gates: Is the "Times Square Terrorist" more F ...
The following article is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today. Is the "Times Square Terrorist" more Field-based Warfare? � �Jeff Gates Source: � Veterans Today May 12, 2010 In March 2001, Indonesian Intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat asked American James M. ("Mel") Rockefeller to assess the T ...
- News you may have missed #355
Jones, Panetta, brief Pakistanis on Times Square bomb plot. Partial history of NSA computers released. Rio Tinto employees lose espionage appeal.
- Analysis: A detailed look into Taiwanese espionage ...
Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun has published the first part of a captivating two-part examination into Taiwanese espionage activities in China, authored by Tsuyoshi Nojima, the paper’s former Taipei bureau chief.
- News you may have missed #354
Germany arrests Libyans on spy charges. Israeli handler discusses relationship with Hamas spy. Analysis: Iran's murky link to al Qaeda confounds CIA.
- Former CIA couple in effort to ‘un-demonize’ agenc ...
A husband-and-wife CIA team, who married after retiring from the agency, after a collective career spanning over half a century, are speaking around the country in an effort to “humanize [and] un-demonize the CIA”.
- News you may have missed #353
Name of British Mossad agent handed to Interpol. Russia jails man for spying for the US. Bulgarian government wants to copy CIA.
- Today Is the Day Obama Swore He'd Have Iraq Withdr ...
Candidate Obama said innumerable times that ending the war in Iraq would be the first thing he would do: And he said many, many times that he would do so by beginning immediately to pull out one to two brigades per month and be done in 16 months, in other words: now: When President Bush failed to ...
- US/Israel Challenged on Iran
US/Israel Challenged on Iran By Ray McGovern The times may be a-changin’ – at least a bit – with the United States and Israel no longer able to dictate to the rest of the world how crises in the Middle East must be handled, though the new reality has been slow to dawn on Secretary of State Hillary ...
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- Obama, Calderon Push For Immigration Law Changes
Obama, Calderon push for immigration law changes | Reuters Excerpts: Obama said the Arizona law underscored the need for comprehensive immigration reform and reflects U.S. frustrations, which he shares, with current law. "In the United States of America, no law-abiding person -- be they an American ...
- American Heart: Wisconsin Man Starts 'Good Food' R ...
American Heart: Wisconsin Man Starts 'Good Food' Revolution One Man's Passion for Urban Farming Has the White House Taking Note By Chris Bury and Jessica Hopper | ABC News Will Allen is a towering figure in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin, field. Working as a farmer, missionary and coach, he preaches th ...
- Oil companies fund initiative to repeal California ...
by Jonathan Hiskes Texas oil companies are funding an attack on Gov. Schwarzenegger's signature environmental accomplishment, the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act.Gov. Schwarzenegger's OfficeBig Oil is nothing if not brazen, so while BP works to protect its tattered reputation in the Gulf, t ...
- Obama admin overhauls MMS, the agency in charge of ...
by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The U.S. agency that regulates offshore drilling was broken up into three separate agencies Wednesday as part of a move to end cozy industry relationships exposed by the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, officials said. The shake-up came a day after Interio ...
- Rand Paul’s Copenhagen rant and other electi ...
by Jonathan Hiskes Climate and energy issues barely registered in this month's primary coverage, but Rand Paul (son of Ron ) saw fit to take on the Copenhagen climate talks after becoming the Republican Senate candidate in Kentucky last night. "We have a president ...
- Robert Redford and green groups tell Obama to step ...
by Jonathan Hiskes Whither Obama? There's a growing chorus calling for the president to show leadership on the BP oil disaster by connecting it to America's fossil-fuel dependence and the potential of clean-energy investment. "The silence from the White House is deafening," a Clinton-era W ...
- Friedman nails Obama for his timid response to the ...
by David Roberts As I've written before, one of the most baffling things about the BP Gulf oil disaster has been the Obama administration's flaccid response. They're doing everything they can to contain the spill, but they also seem to be doing everything they can to contain the American people ...
- ‘Unlawful Deaths’ in Afghanistan?
The U.S. military "will ensure any crimes are investigated fully," a spokesman says
- Interior Dept. Divides Offshore Drilling Agency
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he’ll be splitting the Mineral Management Service into three pieces in response to charges that officials there dropped the ball leading up to the current oil spill disaster in the Gulf. The move is designed to eliminate conflicts of int ...
- Senate Votes to Continue Debate on FinReg
During health care reform, senators strengthened and hammered out the bill in committee before it hit the floor. This go-around, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) decided to pass the bill through the Banking Committee on a party-line vote (the vote took all of 20 minutes) and to allow a substantive amendm ...
- Dems Moving on the Doc-Fix?
It appears that way. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) summoned members of the doctors lobby to Capitol Hill Wednesday evening for an update on the Democrats’ plans to prevent Medicare doctors from receiving a 21 percent pay cut at the end of this month. She doesn’t have an easy sell. The Americ ...
- FinReg Cloture Vote On
In a surprise, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) decided to call today’s vote to end debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. It is ongoing now, and will likely fail. Update shortly.
- 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 ...
- American Drones and Democracy
by Kathy Kelly and Josh Brollier, Voices For Creative Democracy, May 18, 2010 Islamabad—On May 12th, the day after a U.S. drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, two men from the area agreed to tell us their perspective as eyewitnesses of previous drone strikes. One is a journa ...
- Mike Gravel Voice of Reason in Troubled Times
Mike Gravel in his political campaign for President gave us a message, about philosophy, art, religion, & politics, that I haven’t forgotton. In our modern society,whether proposing marriage, seeking employment, applying for a loan, or seeking political office, we promise the Moon & stars without th ...
- Investigation Into Glenn Beck’s Hawking Gold ...
Congressman Calls for Investigation into Glenn Beck’s Hawking Gold for Shady Company Beck works with gold companies to create anxiety, fear and gimmicky solutions that enriches both him and the companies. Media Matters for America / By Will Bunch May 19, 2010 | Throughout Glenn Beck’s meteoric rise ...
- How Many US Progressives Please the Right-Wing Isr ...
Professor Ira Chernus, CommonDreams.org, May 17, 2010 I was rather baffled by many of the comments to a column I posted last week. I offered what I thought was a modest and quite harmless suggestion: You should urge your representative in Congress to sign the Kind-Delahunt letter, which calls on the ...
- Glenn Beck Ratings Tank
Glenn Beck Hits 2010 Ratings LOW Huffington Post |Â Â Danny Shea First Posted: 05-18-10 02:00 PMÂ Â Â |Â Â Â Updated: 05-18-10 02:00 PM Glenn Beck has hit a new low for the year — literally. Beck’s Fox News program saw its worst ratings of 2010 Friday, averaging just 1.776 million total viewers. Of ...
- Quote du Jour
So I look into financing a vehicle. The lowest offer (4.82%) came from JP Morgan Chase. Every local bank was a point higher. So they are taking my bailout money and loaning it back to me cheap - stealing the business from the local banks who didn’t get bailed out. - From a Reader
- US Coast Guard Works for BP
Kelly Cobiella reports that a CBS News team was threatened with arrest by Coast Guard officials in the Gulf of Mexico who said they were acting under the authority of British Petroleum. US Coast Guard Works for BP
- Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks
Formal German Central Bank Head Pöhl: It [Greek Bailout] was about protecting German banks, but especially the French banks, from debt write offs. On the day that the rescue package was agreed on, shares of French banks rose by up to 24 percent. Looking at that, you can see what this was really ab ...
- Alea Iacta Est (The Die is Cast)
By Egon von Greyerz, Matterhorn Asset Management Already back in 2007 we warned about the very high risk of the CDS (credit default swap) market. This is now one of the primary instruments used by the Wolfpack (expression coined by the Swedish Finance Minister Borg). The Wolfpack, speculators with e ...
- Goldman Sachs’ Big Round Trip
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- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- Pulled ad raises oil pollution profile
Amnesty International has been thwarted in a campaign against oil pollution in Nigeria by the Financial Times this week. The advertisement had been due to run on Monday, the day of the London AGM of Royal Dutch Shell, but the paper pulled it at the last moment over fears it would have exposed it to ...
- Fish extinction 'paved way for humanity'
US scientists believe that a mass extinction of fish 360 million years ago allowed humans to take their place on the planet. The seismic event reset the evolutionary starting point for all vertebrates that exist today, according to scientists. Without it, humans and their ancestors may not have evol ...
- Scientists unearth ancient tomb
Archaeologists have found a 2,700-year-old tomb and the remains of a dignitary inside a pyramid in southern Mexico. The inhabitant, who died at around the age of 50, was buried with jade collars, pyrite and obsidian artefacts and ceramic vessels, suggesting he was a priest or of noble birth. The fin ...
- How sustainable are petrol companies?
Sustainability and petrol are not two words which sit comfortably alongside one another and it can be argued that any of the extractive industries is, by definition, unsustainable. With the current focus upon carbon emissions and climate change, petrol companies have come under increased sustainabil ...
- Routemaster buses get green makeover
London's famous Routemaster buses have been given a makeover and will be relaunched in the capital in 2012, offering passengers a "greener and lighter" experience. The design for the new buses was unveiled by London mayor Boris Johnson. Part of his campaign to be elected as mayor in 2008 included a ...
- Science: “Oil Peak or Panic?”
This book review nicely expresses messages often discussed on the FM website: “Oil Peak or Panic?“, David Lloyd Greene, Science, 14 May 2010 — A review of Oil Panic and the Global Crisis – Predictions and Myths by Steven M. Gorelick. Excerpt: Peak oil, a serious issue, is not about running ou ...
- Former Central Bank Head Karl Otto Pöhl says bailo ...
From “Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks’“, Der Spiegel, 18 May 2010 — Red emphasis added. SPIEGEL: What do you think will happen? Pöhl: The euro has already sunk in value against a whole list of other currencies. This trend could continue, because what we have basically don ...
- FM newswire for May 19, interesting articles about ...
A long newswire, loaded with interesting material. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. About the Naxalites (another in the century long series of love notes to violent insurgents): “Gandhi, but with guns“, Arundhati Roy, The Guardian, 27 March 2010 – ”The Booker pri ...
- We paid the insurgents in Iraq; it looked good in ...
Slowly the truth comes out about our awesome counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, as in this excerpt from “Aiding the Insurgency“, Luke Mogelson, The Nation, 12 May 2010 — Worth reading in full. Last summer the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) closed one of its largest pro ...
- Might the current eruptions in Iceland become wors ...
Summary: The volcanic eruptions in Iceland reminds how geological events can make the works of man look insignificant. Fortunately this happens seldom, as we reckon time. This post discusses the possibility that the current eruption cycle in Iceland might become larger and more destructive. Muc ...
- Researchers To Send Bacteria Into Orbit Aboard Spa ...
Innvoations Report -A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will send an army of microorganisms into space this week, to investigate new ways of preventing the formation and spread of biofilms, or clusters of bacteria, that could pose a threat to the health of astronauts. The Mi ...
- Pakistan forces “kill 40″; U.S. officials in talks
Reuters – More than 200 Pakistani Taliban attacked a security post in the northwestern region of Orakzai on Wednesday, triggering a clash in which at least 40 militants and two soldiers were killed, officials said. Read article
- Canada campaigns against global bank tax
Breitbart – Canada will “resist” a bank tax, Industry Minister Tony Clement said Tuesday as ministers fanned out across the world to raise opposition to the proposal for avoiding another financial crisis. “Canada is, and will remain, opposed to a tax that would penalize financial institutions that r ...
- ‘Naked’ scanners may increase cancer risk
News – US scientists are warning that radiation from controversial full-body airport scanners has been dangerously underestimated and could lead to an increased risk of skin cancer – particularly in children. University of California biochemist David Agard said that unlike other scanners, the radiat ...
- Neglected diseases: Teach or treat?
The Scientist – Scientists are taking the debate over how to address neglected tropical diseases to the pages of PLoS Medicine, with one camp arguing in favor of more drug development, and another pushing for more funding and research on public health strategies such as sanitation and education. In ...
- Noam Chomsky “denied entry” by Israel
Noam Chomsky “denied entry” by Israel (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Noam Chomsky has been described as one of the most influential living intellectuals. His work revolutionized the field of linguistics in the 1960s. Even today, his contributions in linguistics still play an important role. H ...
- Czy ludzie należący do najbogatszego 1% ludzkości ...
Czy ludzie należący do najbogatszego 1% ludzkości to proletariat? (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Jak podali współcześni breżniewiści z tzw. “Komunistycznej” Partii Polski w Ameryce Łamane są prawa człowieka. Powołują się raport chińskich rewizjonistów, opracowany w ramach rewanżu za analogiczne raporty ...
- What about the RIM?
What about the RIM? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) was an attempt to regroup various parties under various versions of First Worldist “Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.” The more well-known signatories to early RIM statements included Communist Party of ...
- The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006)
The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) reviewed by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Passion of the Mao (Lee Feigon, 2006) follows the life of Mao from his humble beginnings to, as one interviewee in the film describes, “the greatest Chinese [person] of the twentieth century.” ...
- Big Majority of Amerikkkans support racist law in ...
Big Majority of Amerikkkans support racist law in Arizona (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a new Pew Research Poll, a big majority of Amerikans support the racist Arizona law. 73% approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status when police demand it. 67% ...
- The Evil Doer and the Times Square Fizzler
Were Muslim Evil Doers again at work in New York? Is that the lesson to be learned from a May 1st “car bomb” that fizzled while parked alongside the Marriott Hotel in Manhattan’s busy Times Square? Why now? The clues are there if only investigators will follow the facts. With reports of thi ...
- A Wedding To Start A War
How the wedlock between a Pakistani sportsman and an Indian tennis player is a PR disaster for India and holds implications for relations with Pakistan. A sign of Pakistan-India peace? Hardly. Read how the celebrity wedding was loaded with the kind of symbolism that rattled India and sent the wrong ...
- Alert: Pakistan, Iran set to face hot July
—JULY 2010 appears to be a crucial month in American plan —After July 2010, the components would be in place to start a proper war against Iran and do an amputation surgery on Pakistan —A network of Patriot Defence System (PAC-3) has been established in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia ...
- India’s ‘Kyrgyz plan’ for Pakistan
RAW was created in the late sixties with one purpose, to destabilize Pakistan. Its first target was East Pakistan. Its second target was Bangladesh. In 1971 RAW was successful in creating the Mukti Bahni, recruiting 80,000 Hindus and then sending them into Muslim Bengal disguised as Pakistani soldie ...
- Who REALLY Owns The Media In 2010?
“NOT A SINGLE NEWS ITEM will reach the public without our control,” states the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. “Even now this is attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies whose offices are entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to th ...
- Unexpected Consequence: Increased CO2 Could Affec ...
A new study published in the journal Science states that rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere aren't just affecting climate, but could affect the nutrition contained in the world's food crops too. Scientists at the University of California, Davis found that increased CO2 could reduce the protein co ...
- Forget Wave Power, Google and Others May Use Poo P ...
Google has been tinkering with the idea of a floating, wave-powered data center for a while, but it looks like a better solution could come from a more basic power source: manure. Hewlett Packard has released a research paper that states that tech companies like themselves, Google and Microsoft c ...
- Affordable, High-Performance LED Bulbs Finally Hit ...
Major lighting companies are working tirelessly towards becoming the first to own the LED market. The super-effiicient light source is the future of lighting, but so far, for most consumers the available LED bulbs have been too expensive and dimmer than the incandescent bulbs we're used to. But t ...
- China's Telecom Sector Credits Telecommuting with ...
China's telecom sector released a report this week claiming that it had slashed emissions by 48.5 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2008 by increasing telecommuting, a greater reliance on electronic data storage and more efficient logistics. This savings is comparable to the amount of emissions Swe ...
- Japanese Town Testing Solar-Powered EVs
Right now, electric cars may not emit greenhouse gases themselves, but the coal-fired power plants that provide the electricity that fuels those cars do. That may be the ugly reality now, but ideally in the not too far future, EVs will juice up with clean, renewable energy. One Japanese town is ...
- Rep. Anthony Weiner Wants FTC and SEC Action for G ...
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph Critics� have reprimanded Glenn Beck before for his advertising-turned-conservative-talking-point shilling for Goldline in the past, but never quite on the level that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) demands now. Beck has long held a close relationship with th ...
- Let's Be Clear - - Sort Of
Body “Let’s be clear.” You hear it all the time, in Congress, from media pundits, corporate apologists and the president. But when all is said and done, things remain as muddled as ever. Attempts to clarify issues are awash in partisan rancor, and too often the goal seems simply to ma ...
- Lone Star Taxpayers Pick Up $10,000 a Month Rent T ...
TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH First all that crazy Talk of secession Now this wild spending During a recession. While most Texans are facing cutbacks At home, not expansion, This man of the people has the people Paying for his mansion. read more
- As Congress Berates BP and MMS on the Hill, is the ...
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White� There's a time-honored tradition of lawmakers reacting to a tragedy by hauling responsible parties before C-SPAN, telling them how naughty they've been and making them promise this will never happen again. Such is the case with the�Deepwater�Horizon rig explosio ...
- British Petroleum's American Division Should be Na ...
BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION Oil is a substance that is owned by the residents of the earth.� It is not a corporate product, something produced in a factory.� Yet, oil companies run a good part of the world and are responsible for many of our wars because they have seized, been given, bought for a pittance ...
- Equating sexual orientation with "sex life"
(updated below) Perhaps it's na�vet�, but�I've been amazed by the outraged objections of many Good�Liberals to the mere discussion of Elena�Kagan's sexual orientation.� Without realizing it, they've completely internalized one of the most pernicious myths long used to demand that gay pe ...
- WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated
This is a reminder that one can't run around exposing the secrets of the most powerful governments, militaries and corporations in the world without consequences ( h/t ): The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in ...
- What explains the anti-establishment sentiment?
After last night's election results , there's no doubt that the electorate has contempt for Washington incumbents and the political establishment.� Virtually every media account dutifully recites the same storyline -- that these results reflect an "anti-incumbent" mood -- but virtually none of these ...
- Obama and the myth of the public opinion excuse
(updated below - Update II - Update III) Writing about my post from last week on the diversion of civil liberties erosions from non-citizens to citizens, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst's Charli Carpenter asks what (if anything)�can be done to combat this trend : [I]s i ...
- Appearing on ABC's "This Week"
I�was on ABC's This Week roundtable this morning -- along with George Will, Greg Craig, Ed Gillespie, and The New York Times ' Helene Cooper -- discussing the Kagan nomination, Obama's civil liberties record, and the various primary challenges taking place around the country.� I have several observa ...
- Draw chemical structures
Chemical structure drawing is one of the most consistently popular search terms on Sciencebase and gets a lot of search engine traffic for those pages, so it seems worth revisiting the topic from a different perspective. Of course, with the likes of PubChem and ChemSpider now available one might wo ...
- Getting wood
Wood is the focus of new research into biofuels, while removing toxins from other crops is important for biofuels and food supply. Forest fires and phosphorus are analysed while the route discovered to taken by aluminium through the aquatic foodchain might quell some pollutant fears. This week’s co ...
- Tellura, angiogenesis, favourites
Tellurium steroids, angiogenesis against cancer, favourite chemical things and more… My name is tellura – Drugs based on tellurium catch the eye of Derek Lowe Antiangiogenic "anticancer" foods – Can eating these foods help prevent pin-head sized cancers that grow in people from gaining the blood v ...
- My favourite chemistry things
Skeptical Chymist tells me (via Twitter) that they were enjoying the favourite things about chemistry meme started by ChemJobber and continued by Azmanam (known to Sciencebase readers for his chemical spelling dictionary and the C+EN team. As is the wont of meme creators, you pay it forward and hav ...
- Submarine eruptions, hybrid materials, and quarks
The first three links are to my latest column on Intute is now online: Scrubbing up knowledge of submarine volcanoes – Consider the simple pumice stone next time you're having a bathtime scrub… Metallic liquid crystals – A new class of materials formed by combining liquid crystals and metal cluste ...
- Zimbabwe: 700,000 Forcibly Evicted Still Ignored F ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2010 Amnesty International The government of Zimbabwe must take action to protect hundreds of thousands of people left to survive in substandard settlements five years after a program of mass forced evictions, Amnesty International Zimbabwe and a coalition of partners s ...
- Mexico/US: Obama-Calderón Meeting Questions and An ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2010 Human Rights Watch When President Barack Obama meets with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico at the White House on May 19, 2010, he is expected to reaffirm the United States' support for Mexico's struggle against its violent drug cartels. Calderón began an aggres ...
- Montana "Firearms Freedom Act" Would Arm Criminals ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2010 Brady Campaign The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, joined by a coalition of Montana and national gun violence prevention, law enforcement, and domestic violence groups, filed a “friend of the court” brief today in the U.S. District Court for Montana urging th ...
- Senators and Representatives Support Ban on Landmi ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2010 United States Campaign to Ban Landmines A letter signed by 68 senators, asking the administration to join the 1997 Landmine Ban Treaty, was delivered to President Obama on Tuesday. The signers include 10 Republicans and two Independents and constitute more than the ...
- Big Bank Lobbyists Fighting Financial Reform Outnu ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2010 Public Citizen Wall Street is pulling out the stops to get a financial reform bill that changes as little as possible. Since the beginning of 2009, nearly 1,000 lobbyists have worked on at least one of nine key bills designed to rewrite the rules governing derivati ...
- The Financial Crisis as Three Card Monte
by Danny Schechter We live in a three card monte world. Follow the money as it moves from one shell to another. Now guess where it is. Most of us don't know the hand can be quicker than the eye. That's why mostly everyone who has ever been suckered into playing ends up losing except those who a ...
- Why Ethnic Studies is Good For All Americans, Incl ...
by Sally Kohn There’s a proverb that says, “Until the lion tells his own story of being hunted, history will always glorify the hunter.” This, in essence, is the reason for ethnic studies. read more
- Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrd S ...
by Beverly Bell "A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. Th ...
- US/Israel Challenged on Iran
by Ray McGovern The times may be a-changin' - at least a bit - with the United States and Israel no longer able to dictate to the rest of the world how crises in the Middle East must be handled, though the new reality has been slow to dawn on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her neocon fri ...
- The Learning Curve of Peace
by Robert C. Koehler “Why are we violent, but not illiterate?” This question, originally posed by writer Colman McCarthy, was asked at the Midwest Regional Department of Peace conference, which was held last weekend outside Detroit. It cuts to the core of our troubles. The answer is agonizingly obvi ...
- John Leguizamo in 'Klass Klown' in Berkeley
'Klass Klown' at Rep no joke John Leguizamo is promising a recession-blues cure: His new stand-up show "Klass Klown," which comes to Berkeley Repertory Theatre on June 1 as part of the theater's Fireworks Festival. Leguizamo has done plenty of time on Bay... Theatre - Berkeley California - Arts - Be ...
- Hexavalent chromium suit against KBR by Oregon Nat ...
The 21 Oregon veterans suing Kellogg, Brown and Root include a postal clerk, a security guard and a soldier just back from a second tour to Iraq where he guarded KBR convoys. The men say they suffer breathing, stomach and other health problems from being exposed to hexavalent chromium at the Qarmat ...
- John Leguizamo in 'Klass Klown' in Berkeley
'Klass Klown' at Rep no joke John Leguizamo is promising a recession-blues cure: His new stand-up show "Klass Klown," which comes to Berkeley Repertory Theatre on June 1 as part of the theater's Fireworks Festival. Leguizamo has done plenty of time on Bay...
- Walkerton: 10 years later
Long may Kody Hammell run. Ten years after Walkerton's E.[...]
- SC asked to stop privatization of Angat hydroelect ...
THE Freedom from Debt Coalition and other cause-oriented groups yesterday petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the privatization of the 246-megawatt hydroelectric power plant component (HEPP) of Angat Dam in Bulacan for lack of transparency in the bidding and awarding of the contract.
- Tension rises as N Korea denies sinking naval ship
Pyongyang dismisses finding that it torpedoed navy ship and says it will wage 'all-out war of justice' if punished Tensions between North and South Korea escalated dramatically today following the publication of an international report which concluded that a South Korean warship was sunk by a torped ...
- Cameron-Clegg outline coalition deal
Hélène Mulholland with all the latest as David Cameron and Nick Clegg unveil the full details of their historic coalition deal today 9.55am: Outlining welfare reforms, he says those who can work will, and those who can't will be looked after. 9.52am: The line up is Lib Dem, Tory, Lib Dem, Tory. So n ...
- Diane Abbott joins Labour race
Leftwing MP Diane Abbott becomes first woman to enter contest to succeed Gordon Brown Leftwing Labour MP Diane Abbott announced today she was running for the party leadership, becoming the first woman to enter the race. In a surprise move, the Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington said she ...
- BA strike: appeal court ruling
British Airways cabin crew will hear today if they can start a series of strikes, as the court of appeal rules on whether to lift an injunction against their action. Follow live updates on the ruling and reaction to it 9.35am: Still waiting for a verdict. At the court Helen Pidd has spotted both of ...
- Inventor of the cash machine dies
John Shepherd-Barron came up with the idea while in the bath – but had less success with his offshore seal deterrent In pictures: The history of the cash machine The man credited with inventing the world's first hole-in-the-wall cash dispenser after a "eureka" moment in the bath has died, aged 84, ...
- Gulf oil spill may be 19 times bigger than origina ...
WASHINGTON — The latest glimpse of video footage of the oil spill deep under the Gulf of Mexico indicates that around 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons, a day of crude oil may be spewing from the leaking wellhead, 19 times the previous estimate, an engineering professor told Congress Wednesday.
- Arizona immigration boycott fails, but Tacoma will ...
In an unusual procedural maneuver, the Tacoma City Council late Tuesday purposely voted down a resolution to oppose Arizona�s controversial law cracking down on illegal immigrants when a majority of members belatedly realized they were one vote shy of passing the symbolic proposal.
- In graffiti crackdown, Wichita police seek limits ...
Graffiti is increasing across Wichita. The number of incidents worked by police jumped from 374 in 2006 to 607 last year. Backed by those figures, plus the nearly $300,000 it cost for the city's Public Works Department to remove graffiti in 2009, police asked the City Council to expand Wichita's gra ...
- Obama's state dinner guest list includes bank exec ...
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan was on the guest list for Wednesday's state dinner, along with a smorgasbord of other financial heavy-hitters.
- Auto parts dealer pleads guilty to giving money to ...
A Kansas City used car and auto parts dealer admitted in Kansas City federal court Wednesday that he provided "material support" to al Qaida.
- IPCC review: friend or foe?
"Now that we're in the kitchen, we have to take the heat," said Rajendra Pachauri. "And we have to recognise that the stakes are very high. So we have to prepare ourselves for criticism, and this is not something we have done in the past." Indeed not. The worlds of climate science and politics wer ...
- Much-drilled bill signals climate endgame
And then there were two... Republican Senator Lindsey Graham having departed the group , it was left to Democrat John Kerry and Independent (Democrat-attached) Joe Lieberman to unveil the latest version of the US climate bill , which now sports the distinctly Stars-and-Stripes title of the American ...
- Will and equity - does climate alternative offer e ...
No-one I know who survived the two-week incarceration in Copenhagen's Bella Center in December believes everything is tight and rosy with the UN climate process. The yawning chasm between the rhetoric of "the most serious problem facing humanity" and the reality that governments are nowhere near ag ...
- A financial trick in the familiar biodiversity tal ...
Often when I've written about biodiversity down the years, I've been assailed by a strong sense of deja vu. While "we're screwing up life on Earth" still sounds like big news to me, it isn't always to news editors, whose reaction is often along the lines of "but we know that". And in truth, the de ...
- Deep reflections on the ozone story
There'll be a party in the chemistry labs at Cambridge University this Friday. But no-one will turn up with hugely coiffured hair, the champagne will be served warm, and if a fire should break out, there'll be nothing to use on it but old-fashioned water, CO2 and sand. Well... that's how life migh ...
- Phoenix Police Officer: Arizona Law ‘Will Ma ...
Today, Cuentame — a project of Brave New Films — posted a video interview with Pheonix police officer Paul Dobson’s reaction to Arizona’s new immigration law, SB-1070. Though the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association (the union representing Phoenix officers) “lobbied aggressively for the law,” not al ...
- Tax My Soda, Please
David Leonhardt makes a compelling case for the soda tax in the New York Times today, noting that as the price of sugary drinks has fallen relative to the price of healthy foods, consumption of the bad-for-you soda skyrocketed. Indeed, the inflation-adjusted price of fruits and vegetables rose 17% b ...
- Senate Progressives Finally Push Back Against Linc ...
a href=”http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/05/12/estate-tax-offsets/”>I’ve been complaining that Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Jon Kyl’s (R-AZ) quest to cut the estate tax — spending up to $80 billion to reduce tax bills for the richest of the rich — has suffered from a severe lack of perspec ...
- Lieberman To Introduce Bill Extending Benefits To ...
The Washington Post’s Ed O’keefe reports that aides to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are suggesting that the senator may introduce legislation extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees “‘within weeks’ and well before July 4th.” The legislation was voted out of the Senate Homeland Secu ...
- Sen. Pat Roberts Suggests Obama’s CMS Nomine ...
Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) took to the Senate floor today to continue the GOP’s ’second opinion’ campaign against the new health care law and Donald Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). During a rather meandering speech about health care rat ...
- Canadian Forces Says They'll Investigate Allegatio ...
Um, that's okay boys. We'll take it from here. A parliamentary committee has heard stunning allegations from a former translator who claims the Canadian military tried to cover up the fatal shooting of an Afghan man in October 2007. Responding to the allegations late Wednesday, the chief of defen ...
- Return to Recession?
A great CounterPunch article by Mike Whitney about how the reactionary policies of international "investors" and governments in the USA, Europe, and China, might be bringing back the Great Recession of 2008-09.
- Livid about this ...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/liberals-lay-down-your-arms/article1572110/ Blahhr!!! I'm trying to contain my rage! Perhaps a critique tomorrow.
- Margaret Wente replies to "The Lomborg Deception"
When hell freezes over. The imbecile refers to Lomborg the fraud as an "iconoclast." She (like other stupid people) jumped to conclusions about those CRU e-mails . How has she dealt with the fact that someone went through every single footnote in Lomborg's book Cool It and found out that they eithe ...
- Ronnie James Dio
I always thought his lyrics were a little hokey, but his voice was amazing. (I'm too busy to type anything else today.) Here's Dio with Black Sabbath doing "Neon Knights": And here he is solo, doing "The Last in Line":
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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 ...
- Salazar Untangles Conflicted Functions of Minerals ...
Looks like Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been reading POGO's blog. From the Department of the Interior: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today signed a Secretarial Order that will lead to the fundamental restructuring of the Minerals Management Service...
- Rep. Issa Issues Report on Systemic Problems at th ...
As the Senate continues debating legislation to reform the financial regulatory system, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) has issued a new report examining a wide range of regulatory and management failures at the Securities...
- Morning Smoke: Investigation into Osprey Crash Con ...
CV-22 Lost Due to Pilot Error by Jamie McIntyre [DoD Buzz] New Oversight Report Criticizes the S.E.C. by Daniel Indiviglio [The Atlantic] Salazar: Government didn't ensure offshore safety by Alan Levin [USA Today] Missourians in Congress outline new C-17 effort...
- Salazar Testifies Before Senate on Gulf Oil Spill ...
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar appeared before the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources this morning, testifying to Congress for the first time since the Gulf oil spill disaster occurred. Salazar was frank with the Committee about some...
- Breaking: Grassley and McCaskill Introduce Amendme ...
Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) just went to the Senate floor to introduce a combined amendment that will strengthen the independence of certain Inspectors General (IGs), including those that serve as watchdogs within many financial regulatory agencies....
- World Wildlife Fund says Canadians would give up s ...
The World Wildlife Fund released poll results that show Canadians would rather give up pretty much anything -- as long as it is not their car.
- Toronto man survives gunshot, now crusades against ...
Imagine having the world at your feet and it all being taken away in an instant. For Leo Barbe that is reality. As a recent grad Leo had quickly gotten a great job. He was in the best shape of his life, everything was going perfectly.
- mesh 2010: How social media are transforming newsr ...
Are blogs and Twitter positively influencing journalism? How can niche reporters take advantage of social media? These are some of the questions answered by a panel of media experts at Toronto's mesh conference.
- Tamil youth stand in solidarity to make a differen ...
The eyes of children sometimes bear all the history of violence, oppression and death, which prompts them to make a difference and this is why the Tamil youth are participating in various organizations to inform and to protest international war crimes.
- Toronto Tamils remember the fallen on one-year ann ...
Canadian Tamils took part in a remembrance memorial around the world to commemorate the one-year civil war anniversary, which saw 40,000 of Tamil civilians killed. In Toronto, thousands of Tamils united at Queen's Park for justice and peace.
- One Very Bad Apple Threatens to Close Down a Tent ...
People who care about homelessness issues surely let out a collective groan whenever a homeless person commits, or is even accused of, a crime. One bad apple, as they say, has the potential to ruin the whole batch. Last week a man named Matthew Painter who was living in an encampment on the riverban ...
- An Open Letter to the Mother of the Boy Who Eats B ...
Every once in a while, a boy, your son, comes into the shelter where I work and eats a very tiny lunch. Once, I convinced him to change his clothes. On another occasion, a skilled mental health worker engaged him in conversation and found out that part of the reason that he is so emaciated is becaus ...
- "I Was An Average American"
I met Mark at a soup kitchen in Anchorage, Alaska. He described himself as an average American with six to eight credit cards, a home, boat and truck. But one day he came home to a basement full of sewage. He ended up keeping his debt but losing everything else. He lived in a tent in the Alaskan col ...
- Homeless Alcoholics Need a Bed Or They'll Get a Co ...
If alcoholics have no place to go, they'll die outdoors. This is simple. But Alaska, lacking resources for homeless people with alcohol addictions, continues to lead the way in outdoor homeless deaths. Shouldn't local government be embarrassed enough to do something about it by now? Contributor Mark ...
- Motel Kids Learn the ABCs of Homelessness
It took me a while to understand why my church youth group was having a special holiday party for "motel kids." Come to think of it, I don't even know if I even understood what homelessness was at that age. Unfortunately, while I was busy and privileged, learning long division and conveniently not h ...
- Steven Staples comments on submarines still in pie ...
- DND: There really is a free lunch!
In an unusual move, Canadaâs top soldier and the Defence Department’s Deputy Minister have given DND staff permission to accept free meals from contractors at this year’s CANSEC arms trade show (David Pugliese, “Changes to DND hospitality rules at military trade show raising eyebrows,” Ottawa Cit ...
- Small steps toward Arctic cooperation
The Canadian government took a couple of small but potentially helpful steps towards greater cooperation in the Arctic last week. On Wednesday, Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon called on the United States to work with Canada to resolve the two countries’ border dispute in the Beaufort Sea. ...
- Navy faces budget crunch?
Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, the commander of the Canadian Navy, are contradicting each other on the state of the Navy’s budget (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped navy being cut to bone, analysts say,” Montreal Gazette, 12 May 2010; see also David Pugliese, “MacKay says ...
- Navy faces budget crunch?
Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, the commander of the Canadian Navy, are contradicting each other on the state of the Navy’s budget (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped navy being cut to bone, analysts say,” Montreal Gazette, 12 May 2010; see also David Pugliese, “MacKay says ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-19-10
Today, Kevin pulls out all the stops in his quest to expose government corruption and waste! Guests: Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Representative (R-TX) Leslie Paige, Citizens Against Government Waste  Self Help: Safe Water Today Depression Cure Health: Bottled Water Scam Doctors Arenât Gods ...
- Olive Oil Can Prevent Ulcerative Colitis
May 19, 2010 Natural News By S. L. Baker Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that brings untold pain and misery to about 120,000 people of all ages in the UK and over a million in the US. It produces inflammation and sores in the lining of the rectum and colon that bleed ...
- Farmers Look To Ban Genetically Modified Sugar Bee ...
May 19, 2010 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff A group of Oregon farmers are seeking an injunction against this year’s planting of Monsanto’s genetically engineered sugar beets. The groups of organic farmers, food safety advocates and conservationists, is seeking to persuade a judge to ban the crop unti ...
- Placebo A Healthier Alternative to Anti-Depressant ...
May 19, 2010 Natural News By David Gutierrez In many cases of depression, antidepressant drugs provide little or no benefit over the effect of a placebo, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a meta-analysis of six prior studies on both the older tricy ...
- Broccoli May Cure Risk Of Tumor Growth
May 19, 2010 Natural News By S. L. Baker University of Michigan (U-M) Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists say they’ve found a compound that could help prevent and potentially treat breast cancer. It’s not a drug or a new radiation treatment but a natural component of broccoli and broccoli sprouts ...
- Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
- African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
- USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
- Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
- Global: It takes a Villager
Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
- The fate of Israel
The fate of Israel will be decided in New York — at least that’s what quite a few people in New York seem to think. From this vantage point, the American Jewish community is the umbilical chord that keeps baby Zionism alive. And for Peter Beinart, this life-support system is in jeopardy of raising ...
- Washington stuck on the sanctions track
As if to demonstrate that Washington refuses to be upstaged by lesser powers, Hillary Clinton blazed away in the campaign to impose not-quite crippling sanctions on Iran, after winning Russia and China’s agreement today on a draft resolution that will go to the Security Council. The Wall Street Jou ...
- Lula’s new world order
In a world long dominated by Western powers, the global order has been one shaped by coercion. Although the twentieth century saw the end of formal colonialism — the most overt coercive system — the perpetuation of economic colonialism has meant that the United States and its allies still expect to ...
- Floundering in Afghanistan
Last fall, President Obama faced criticism in the early months of his presidency during his exhaustive strategic review of the war in Afghanistan. The review had become so drawn out that his detractors claimed it presented an image of indecisiveness. Obama’s defenders responded by saying this was a ...
- After denied entry to West Bank, Chomsky likens Is ...
Haaretz reports: The Interior Ministry refused to let linguist Noam Chomsky into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday. Chomsky, who aligns himself with the radical left, had been scheduled to lecture at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, and visit Bil’in and Hebron, as well as meet with Palestinian P ...
- GISS Arctic Trends Disagree with Satellite Data
By Steven Goddard GISS has explained their steeper temperature slope since 1998 vs. Had-Crut, as being due to the fact that they are willing to extrapolate 1200 km across the Arctic into regions where they may have no data – … Continue reading →
- Tanganyika Revisited
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The new Nature Magazine article on Lake Tanganyika, “Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500″, discussed a couple days ago by Anthony Watts here, was quite interesting to me. In 2003 I had contributed … Continue reading →
- Founder of Oregon Petition wins house primary race
First stage win for science in US House of Representatives Guest post by Russ Steele There has been a lot of discussion of the election results in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas by the talking head on TV and talk … Continue reading →
- Tom Karl’s GHCN3 Trends Are Wrong – At Least ...
Tom Karlâs Trends Are Wrong – At Least in Slide 21 Guest post by Bob Tisdale A number of bloggers on the WattsUpWithThat thread âTom Karlâs Senate Dog & Pony Show â itâs worse than we thought, againâ noted the … Continue reading →
- America’s Climate Choices: missing an option
I’m providing these links for publications “America’s Climate Choices” issued today by the National Resource Council of the National Academy of Sciences without any comments other than this one: The option to “do nothing” is missing. We’ll give everyone a … Continue reading →
- A Loser White House, Guilty by Association By Robe ...
by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net May 20, 2010 Long before Year One ended, progressives understood President Obama’s focus was routine wheeling and dealing, not regrowing the New Deal. Between victory and governance, Obama “reform” switched from promises to make go ...
- Capping the devil’s cauldron By Jerry Mazza
By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com May 20, 2010 If I were a religious man, I would take the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the spilling of millions of gallons of oil and gas, their engulfing of the Gulf of Mexico waters and de ...
- Stephen Hawking is Wrong by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com May 19, 2010 The world-famous cosmologist Prof. Stephen Hawking recently declared: that he believes we would be well-advised to keep the volume down on our intergalactic chatter and do all we can to prevent any “no ...
- Nuclear fuel swap deal: US sabotages ‘unique oppor ...
by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Finian.cunningham@gmail.com 19 May, 2010 In his inaugural speech in January 2009, US president Barack Obama promised a new beginning in foreign policy towards Iran, saying “we will extend a hand if you are willing to un-clench your fist”. He didn’ ...
- The Heresy Of The Greeks Offers Hope By John Pilge ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger Information Clearing House www.johnpilger.com May 19, 2010 As Britain’s political class pretends that its arranged marriage of Tweedledee to Tweedledum is democracy, the inspiration for the rest of us is Greece. It is hardly surprising that Greece ...
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The New Republic takes note of the changing tone of The Weekly Standard, the NeoCons' propaganda central, towards Obama in the wake of his victory in establishing his health care priorities. With more legislative victories on the horizon. Last August, was a cartoon joke : Not anymore, now The We ...
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The Battle Of Bangkok Urban warfare 2010, Thailand. Fireworks, slingshots and homemade RPGs : A stunning gallery of weeks of street fighting in Bangkok from Life : A map of Bangkok's CBD. The green and red highlighted blocks are the areas held for six weeks by Red Shirt protesters, locked in ...
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Like something out of an alternate universe, one where Star Wars director George Lucas was not a brilliantly original creator of some of the most influential science fiction movies ever made, but was instead a big budget director of remakes of cheap movies he loved as a child :
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The Pirate Bay mocks the entire movie, TV and music industries and their lawyers repeated attempts to close the file-sharing torrent site : PLZ LEARN: TPB CANT BE SHUT DOWN LOL! AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL. OURS RLY NICE WEBHOS ...
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A rare look inside the extraordinary JP Morgan library here . The library holds a 16th century tapestry called 'The Triumph Of Avarice'. A basic Google search brings up no results for this impressive work : Avarice is, of course, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, one of the more destructive for comm ...
- Video: An Artificial Butterfly Takes Flight
A tiny artificial butterfly takes flight in a new high-speed video. Engineers Hiroto Tanaka and Isao Shimoyama of Harvard University and University of Tokyo, respectively, created the tiny butterfly to try to understand the biomechanics of butterfly flight. But the tiny machine may not teach us to ...
- Argonaut Octopus Mystery Solved
After centuries of speculation, biologists have documented one way a strange group of octopus-like creatures use their seashell-shaped cases. Female argonauts, a group of four species that are close cousins of octopuses, grow delicate white shell-like cases. Biologists have found argonauts with air ...
- 30-Year Time-Lapse: Mount St. Helens Recovery From ...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 has a special place in the evolution of our scientific understanding of volcanoes. Though it won’t go down in the record books as the biggest, longest or deadliest eruption, it is one of the best-studied eruptions in history and the only major volcan ...
- Foucault’s Pendulum Dented in Museum Mishap
The cable holding a model of Foucault’s pendulum snapped last month at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, sending the 60-pound ball crashing to the ground. It was permanently dented in the fall. Léon Foucault’s 1851 experiment remains a mesmerizing evidence that the Earth does, in fact, rotate ...
- Dementia Caregivers More Likely to Also Get the Di ...
Elderly people who care for a spouse who has dementia are at increased risk of developing dementia themselves, a study finds. The stress of attending to a mentally incapacitated spouse may somehow contribute to the added risk, scientists report in the May Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. ...
- Israel rejected Qatar’s Gaza offer following Egypt ...
According to Egyptian sources, Israel provided Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with an outline of Qatar's proposal, which would allow it to bring construction materials and other goods into the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
- Declaring war on the intellect – Israel and Noam C ...
"Israel," Chomsky was informed, "doesn't like what you say." Is this a reasonable pretext for a democratic state to detain someone for questioning or hold him up at the border? And who is this... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
- Jonathan Cook: Arrest of Palestinian leaders in Is ...
Mohammed Zeidan, head of the Human Rights Association in Nazareth: "We are used to our political leaders being persecuted but now the Shin Bet is turning its sights on the leaders of Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
- Jerusalem’s Mamilla Cemetery Special Report:Part I ...
Haaretz: Skeletons, High Court rulings, bigwigs embroiled in other scandals, a world-famous architect and some Hollywood panache − all are part of the story of the Museum of Tolerance, slated for one... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Jerusalem’s Mamilla Cemetery Special Report:Part V ...
Haaretz: Skeletons, High Court rulings, bigwigs embroiled in other scandals, a world-famous architect and some Hollywood panache − all are part of the story of the Museum of Tolerance, slated for one... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Biology "Boot Camp" to Help Incoming Students Thro ...
Incoming biology students at University of Wisconsin-Madison will get extensive new help navigating the tricky transition from high school to a university that has 31 different majors related to biology, funded by a $1.4 million undergraduate science education grant announced today by the Howard Hug ...
- Without Alternatives, Atrazine Elimination Would S ...
Sweet corn growers will lose their principal method of weed control and be faced with increased expenses if use of the herbicide atrazine is eliminated as a result of a comprehensive re-evaluation being carried out by the Environmental Protection Agency.
- NIH Awards UAMS and Partners $14.7 Million Extensi ...
Biomedical research in Arkansas has received a $14.7 million boost over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue expanding and improving biomedical research in the state. The five-year grant is an extension of nine years of continuous funding already worth $26 million t ...
- Litter Study Shows Chicago Misses 75 Percent of Ci ...
A random sample of littered cigarette packs reveals that 75 percent of the cigarettes used in Chicago bring no tax revenue to the city, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Enigma of Malaria Vaccine Failures Solved
A suppressive immune response to live malaria parasites in the skin is the unavoidable result of a malaria-infected mosquito bite. People who have already had live parasites in the skin have a ready-made suppressive response to a vaccine antigen.
- 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 ...
- What the Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill Means for Fa ...
The bill provides unprecedented programs for agriculture and food systems in the U.S. and internationally. Unfortunately, while the bill contains strong language promoting sustainable agriculture, it also offers support for troubling agricultural practices that have yet to significantly prove their ...
- Monsanto Plant Shut Down by Activists in Europe
Since 6 o'clock this morning, 50 persons of the action group 'Roundup Monsanto' are blocking both gates of the Monsanto seed company near Rotterdam. 'Roundup Monsanto' wants Monsanto to back out of the seed market, and demands an end to patents on seeds and living organisms. Click here to read this ...
- Nestle Announces it Will Stop Using Ingredients li ...
Today, Nestle, the world's biggest food and drinks company, announced that it will cease using products that drive the tropical rainforest destruction. Click here to read this article
- Response to "Is Free Range Meat Making Us Sick?"
McWilliams tries to claim that sustainably raised foods are "making people sick," but the studies he cites simply don't support that conclusion. Click here to read this article
- EPA will Limit Pesticides Near Salmon Streams
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will impose restrictions on spraying three agricultural pesticides to keep them out of salmon streams after manufacturers refused to adopt the limits voluntarily. Click here to read this article
- Coloca la foto de tu mami en este porta retratos d ...
Estamos en la recta final para celebrar en México, Guatemala y el Salvador a nuestras madrecitas. Por eso mismo, hoy tengo para ti un hermoso portaretratos para que coloques la foto de tu mami. Luego, la puedes imprimir o mandársela por correo si está lejos de ti. Es un archivo PSD que podrás... ...
- Flores de primavera (33 fotos gratis de Montreal, ...
Nuestra sección de Foto Reportajes, trae hasta usted un excelente relato sobre la llegada de la primavera en Canadá. Descubra en 33 fotografías gratuitas, el cambio entre estaciones y sea testigo de la belleza de las flores, los parques, jardines y algunos otros elementos que seguramente le harán... ...
- Imágenes fantásticas con movimiento (34 archivos . ...
Luego de algunos días de intenso trabajo, ya tenemos lista la nueva colección de imágenes fantásticas con movimiento. Son 34 elementos que usted podrá utilizar para colocar en sus blogs, como firma en su correo o simplemente para compartir un bonito detalle en Facebook o en alguna otra red social... ...
- Fotos increíbles en blanco y negro (34 elementos)
Bonita colección de 34 imágenes en blanco y negro. En este paquete, usted será testigo de cómo a veces, la creatividad va más allá de nuestra imaginación. Descubra entonces la magia que un grupo de buenos fotógrafos ha logrado implementar en esta interesante colección de monocromos.Nota: Haz click.. ...
- 17 Wallpapers muy creativos para fans de Apple Mac
Hace poco, les proporcioné una serie de imágenes bien bonitas para su iPhone y iPod touch. Posteriormente, les ofrecí en directo una súper colección de imágenes para su iPad. Y hoy, deseo compartir con todos ustedes 17 wallpapers muy creativos para todos los fans de Apple. Nota: Haz click aquí o... ...
- Can Richard Goldstone Be Barred from U.S.?
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I seriously doubt it, but Richard Sher, a former Department of Justice official in the Office of Special Investigations, thinks Goldstone’s apartheid-era past justifies denying Goldstone a visa to the U.S. In a letter sent to US officials, Neal Sher, a former executive d ...
- The Los Angeles Times on Garzon’s Suspension
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A good editorial, one that provides important context. Here’s a snippet: From the beginning, the case against Garzon has seemed to be motivated by political and personal vendettas, and the timing of these decisions is no exception. Early in the week, Ga ...
- Keitner Takes on Bradley/Goldsmith on Government O ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Prof. Chimene Keitner at UC-Hastings has posted a short essay in the online version of the Yale Journal of International Law criticizing the novel and influential interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act proposed by Profs. Curtis Bradley and Jack Goldsmith. ...
- Peter Schuck Responds to My Post
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Professor Schuck has graciously permitted me to post his response. Here it is: I am grateful for the comments that have been posted about my op-ed, and believe that John correctly captures my position. It is common for the law to permit finders of fact to ...
- Security Contractors and Coast Guard Use “BP’s Rul ...
by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen John Robb notes the following on his excellent Global Guerillas blog: Coast Guard and BP’s private military contractors team up to enforce media and scientific blackout (part of BP’s information operations campaign) on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Here, they ar ...
- Air Con: Climategate 2010 Edition goes on sale
The book that went to #1 on the climate bestseller list for Amazon US and UK last year has been updated with the latest science, plus full coverage of the Climategate and IPCC scandal fallout. The book is now 20%...
- John Key says kneecapping economy over ETS not val ...
You may find this comment from John Key, Sept 2, 2007, interesting: "At the moment there are certain rules around Kyoto which just don’t seem to be in the best interests of the New Zealand economy. Because I think when...
- Questions for IPCC Vice Chair David Wratt as new I ...
NIWA's David Wratt was the Vice Chair of the UN IPCC's Working Group 1 (WG-1), the prestigious "science" report on climate change. Wratt and others have previously talked of how impeccable the WG-1 process was, so I'd be interested in...
- Watching the deniers can be entertaining
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that global warming website Watching the Deniers is in a spot of difficulty on this thread (read right through for the context)? I'm not sure whether WTD simply doesn't understand, or...
- Open letter to Nick Smith
Nick, I’ve listened with increasing interest to your disingenuous attempts to disown your comments from 2005 when you said this: “The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world...
- DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in ...
DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in AZ and Elsewhere Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-gender (LGBT) community will be closely watching a Capitol Hill demonstration demanding Congress vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The bill would stop employers o ...
- ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing?
ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing? President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon (fuh-LEE-pay call-der-OWN) yesterday (Wednesday) criticized Arizona's law that makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime. But in contrast to Arizona, a growing number of cities around the ...
- Environmental Health Risks: Not Just Cancer
Environmental Health Risks: Not Just Cancer Washington, DC – A report delivered (May 6) to President Obama says environmentally-caused cancers are “grossly under-estimated.” But it's not just cancer, say health professionals. Comments from from Dr. Kristen Welker-Hood, director, Environment and Heal ...
- SBA and Google Help AZ Small Business Owners Creat ...
SBA and Google Help AZ Small Business Owners Create Jobs The U.S. Small Business Administration is teaming up with Google to help Arizonans grow their businesses by increasing their presence on the Web. The free “Tools for Online Success” program offers advice on technology to help small businesses ...
- Not All Recycling is Good for the Environment
Not All Recycling is Good for the Environment Arizonans who want to recycle old electronics have a new way to find out if their recycler does its job responsibly. The Basel (BASS-el) Action Networks e-Steward Certification is the world’s first global e-waste recycler certification, and the first su ...
- 2 Arrested Disrupting Massey Shareholders Meeting
The Brushy Fork Coal Sludge Impoundment is the tallest earthen dam in the Western Hemisphere, permitted to hold 9 billion gallons of sludge. Masseys sunny day casualty estimation is that if the dam were to break, the flood would kill 998 Coal River Val Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �| ...
- Lakoto Sioux Prayer Plea - Gulf Oil Spill
We are standing at the edge of destruction or evolution. Here is a video prayer relative to my own expression of Spirit. Following it is the plea for prayer from our Lakota Sioux Brothers & Sisters that has been sent out. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
- Are Anti-Bacterial Soaps Poisoning Our Water?
An ingredient that is common in antibacterial soaps frequently ends up in lakes and streams, where it breaks down into a suite of potentially toxic chemicals that could harm wildlife and human health, according to new research. Submitted by Kristena W. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
- Asias Rice Culture Threatened by Development Proj ...
It has been alleged~Bayer BioScience has illegally planted GM rice in India, and rice seeds in the USA, leading to contamination of US rice. Export consignments were Destroyed in Europe and Japan and rice exporters lost credibility internationally Submitted by Tippers A. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- Dutch newspaper reports Trifigura bribed toxic tru ...
Nine truck drivers involved in the environmental scandal say the company bribed them to say that the waste they dumped did no damage to their health. Now they claim nothing could be further from the truth. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Pat Buchanan suggests: Too many Jews on U.S. Supre ...
Pat Buchanan suggests: Too many Jews on U.S. Supreme Court bench - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "American conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote a column titled 'Are liberals... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Kansas senator reads non- apology to Colonialised ...
Local News | Kansas senator reads apology to American Indians | Seattle Times Newspaper: With the leaders of five tribes in attendance, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas read a congressional resolution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- New Mexico Environmental Law Center
New Mexico Environmental Law Center: "SANTA FE, N.M. – In a four sentence order yesterday, the 10th Circuit refused to review a panel decision in community members’ appeal of the Nuclear Regulatory... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Haiti According to Haiti: International Aid as Col ...
Haiti According to Haiti: International Aid as Colonialism: "Brazilian anthropologist Omar Ribeiro Thomaz has spent long periods of time in Port-au-Prince as a teacher over the last ten years.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- What does Malcolm X have to do with Canada?
What does Malcolm X have to do with Canada? - Research & RescueThe third Sunday in May is Malcolm X Day. In the 1960s, Malcolm X was one of the most candid and admired leaders of the black... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Chemtrails and Monsanto’s New Aluminum Resistance ...
Coincidence that Monsanto will “come to the rescue” with aluminum resistance genes because normal plants die off in the presence of excess aluminum being sprayed via chemtrails?
- Gulf Oil SPILL: What a Lie!
How long will the Monetary Cartel’s media insist on calling a continuous gusher a mere spill or a leak? Will people have to convulse and hemorrhage from their internal organs and lungs before the corporate media will show at least a modicum of truthfulness?
- Purposely Killing The Gulf?
President Obama went on to say many parties, including the federal government should accept blame for the disaster, he stopped short of saying he, himself, should be imprisoned for his part in so destroying life in the Gulf.
- The Gulf oil catastrophe . . . an appeal to all!
This is a grass-roots effort to bring a non-toxic oil clean-up system to the attention of 'those in charge' of the Gulf oil catastrophe. Dr. Mike Castle presents a simply amazing solution to cleaning up oil and other contaminants on land and in water.
- Marti Oakley Talks about Food Safety and Attacks o ...
Marti Oakley on the John Wallace show May 14th discussing food safety legislation and government attacks on family farms.
- Most Americans Endorse Terrorist Expatriation Act
ShareThis Most Americans Endorse Terrorist Expatriation Act 20 May 2010 A large proportion of people in the United States would support a proposed law that would strip all Americans with links to terrorist organizations of their U.S. citizenship, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 77 ...
- American Citizen Sent Money to Al Qaeda
ShareThis American Citizen Sent Money to Al Qaeda [So? *Every* American citizen funds al-Qaeda! The entire organization -- literally, 'the database' --� is�a CIA offshoot.] 19 May 2010 A Moroccan-born naturalized United States citizen pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he sent money to Al Qaed ...
- TSA's Program to Spot Terrorists a $200M Sham?
ShareThis TSA's Program to Spot Terrorists a $200M Sham? --Gov't Accountability Office Finds Army of Specially Trained "Behavior Detection" Agents Failed to Stop Terrorists 19 May 2010 There's a hidden layer of airport security called "behavior detection," and it involves specially trained Transport ...
- Afghan Taliban launch brazen attack on NATO base
ShareThis Afghan Taliban launch brazen attack on NATO base 19 May 2010 Suicide bombers carrying rockets and grenades launched a brazen pre-dawn attack on one of the biggest military bases of NATO in Afghanistan on Tuesday, leaving at least seven militants dead and six foreign troops wounded. The att ...
- Rigi: US, Israel paid for assassination
ShareThis Rigi: US, Israel paid for assassination 19 May 2010 Captured Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi has said that while in Morocco, suspected Israeli or US agents had given him a list of people to assassinate in Tehran. In a recent interview, Rigi told Press TV that before his arrest Jundallah h ...
- Air Con: Climategate 2010 Edition goes on sale
The book that went to #1 on the climate bestseller list for Amazon US and UK last year has been updated with the latest science, plus full coverage of the Climategate and IPCC scandal fallout. The book is now 20%...
- John Key says kneecapping economy over ETS not val ...
You may find this comment from John Key, Sept 2, 2007, interesting: � "At the moment there are certain rules around Kyoto which just don’t seem to be in the best interests of the New Zealand economy. Because I think when you look at climate change you have to put it in perspective . Yes it’s a gl ...
- Questions for IPCC Vice Chair David Wratt as new I ...
NIWA's David Wratt was the Vice Chair of the UN IPCC's Working Group 1 (WG-1), the prestigious "science" report on climate change. Wratt and others have previously talked of how impeccable the WG-1 process was, so I'd be interested in...
- Watching the deniers can be entertaining
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that global warming website Watching the Deniers is in a spot of difficulty on this thread (read right through for the context)? I'm not sure whether WTD simply doesn't understand, or...
- Open letter to Nick Smith
Nick, I’ve listened with increasing interest to your disingenuous attempts to disown your comments from 2005 when you said this: � “ The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the costs of living and under ...
- What’s Hebrew for ‘Sun City’?
Elvis Costello's decision earlier this week to cancel his shows in Israel was notable for several reasons, but perhaps most of all for his public statement announcing it. Most artists are not taking that step yet, but that doesn't mean that the boycott isn't spreading. Here is an interesting tidbit ...
- When it comes to war with Iran, says Perle, Netany ...
What’s the smoothest path to get the United States into a war with Iran— the nightmare scenario for most people in the military and foreign policy establishment? Iraq war impresario Richard Perle gave an answer while on a panel at the Nixon Center early this week. Perle was debating Flynt Leve ...
- Anti-establishment fever? Not on Israel.
The narrative of yesterday’s primaries was that both Democratic and Republican incumbents are going to be in trouble this November and that anti-establishment candidates are favored. Representative Joe Sestak ended Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s political career, Democrat Bill Halter forced A ...
- Speaking to Israelis about the Nakba
- Which side are you on? Which side were you on?
Above, Jerusalem 2010, photo by Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images, from the Wall Street Journal. Below, Little Rock Central High School, 1957
- VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]
- VRM: Massive Recall Of Children’s Tylenol Pr ...
MASSIVE RECALL OF CHILDREN’S TYLENOL, MOTRIN, ZYRTEC & BENADRYL PRODUCTS UNDERWAY Raw materials used to make over-the-counter infant’s and children’s medications, which are subject to a massive recall, tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspe ...
- VRM: Australian Vaccine Scandal
THE REAL REASON SO MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT PANVAX? CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT W ...
- VRM: Pregnancy Tips
I was recently alerted by a newly pregnant mother of a child with Autism for tips on minerals & vitamins to help strengthen her immune system during the coming months. She believes vaccines were the cause of her child’s Autism and has begun a shift away from her GP. Based on all my research thus far ...
- VRM: Family Charts The Gradual Decline Of Daughter ...
VACCINE CRIME: Family charts the gradual decline of daughter (b. 6-3-95) attributed to vaccine trauma: Hepatitis B/6-19-95 (rash), HBPV, OPV, DPT & Hepatitis B/7-27-95 (floppy limbs noted), DPT, HBPV & OPV/9-27-95 (floppiness persisted, outbreak of Eczema, dissociative autistic behavior), DPT & ...
- 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 ...
- Penguins of Afghanistan
Penguins of Afghanistan and A few Words on Charlie Company Published: 13 May 2010 There are no birth certificates in these villages. No death certificates. No driver’s licenses or addresses or phonebooks, and if there were, few people would be able to read them. In this mostly illiterate c ...
- An Afghan Story
Published: 9 May 2010 If normal life were a river, most days would likely be a slow-moving, meandering passage. But when a life squeezes into the gorge of war, there can be a deafening whitewater, falls and yet bigger falls, slams against stones, falls again and underwater no air and over the fa ...
- Big Guns
28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly. Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...
- Battle for Kandahar
Battle for Kandahar Baghtu Valley 25 April 2010 Afghanistan The counteroffensive has begun. More accurately, it might be called a counter-counteroffensive. Close to a decade ago, we beat the Taliban and al Qaeda here. The Taliban regrew and waged an increasingly successful counteroffensive. ...
- War above McChrystal's Head
Published: 17 April 2010 Originally posted on Facebook {loadposition user8}
- 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
- Soil Is Not Dirt. Why Words Matter in Protecting O ...
Image credit: Global Development Commons I realized yesterday that I may have been in the USA too long. I should note that ever since my post on 5 things I hate about America caught the attention of the good denizens of GlockTalk.com , I have been careful about being too critical about my adopt ...
- Slime Mold Shows Smartest Way to Get from New York ...
Image via Popular Science Back in January, we showed you a project that highlighted the intelligence of mold - er, it's efficiency at finding food, at least. This efficiency was used in an experiment to figure out the best routes for transportation in Tokyo . Turns out, the way slime moved acro ...
- Where's the Beef? It's Heating Swedish Homes
Chart showing turning a cow into fuel via Biomal . Biomal, which is defined as a "renewable" fuel created from crushing and grinding animal wastes and burning them together with wood chips or peat, is quietly used by Swedes (and initially funded by the EU) as a more environmentally friendly way ...
- Pricey, But Nook's Baby Mattress Boasts Natural La ...
Nook's Pebble Mattress for infants in Lawn. Photo via nooksleep.com . Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Choosing the right crib for your baby can be a bit daunting. And then there's the sheets and bumper pads and mobile. But when it comes to ...
- TOMS Shoes and Charity:Water Team Up on Limited-Ed ...
Credit: TOMS Shoes via Ecouterre TOMS Shoes , known for their one for one mission: with every pair of shoes purchased they give a pair to a child in need, and Charity:Water are a match made in philanthropic, eco-fashion heaven; In the footwear collaboration TOMS provides the canvas for a water ...
- Chinese premier to visit Burma
Wen Jiabao due in Burma next month as two countries sign additional trade 'corridor' deal that will further cement bilateral economic ties
- Heatwave kills 230 in Mandalay
Deaths continue to rise as Burma experiences hottest summer temperatures in 40 years, with problems exacerbated by severe water shortage
- Fetching water
View Photo Album A water crisis has struck across the bredth of Burma, from Sagaing division in the north to the southern Irrawaddy delta. The shortage has been compounded by one of the country’s most severe recorded heat waves, with temperatures in parts reaching 47C. Reuters photographer Soe Zeya ...
- HIV rates among Asian men ‘alarming’
Punitive laws against homosexuality across Asia ‘pushing the problem underground’, with 30 percent of gay and bisexual men in Rangoon infected
- US media law ‘won’t affect’ Burma
Burmese journalists claim that US bill that requires state department to single out governments guilty of media restriction will have little impact on the pariah state
- Thailand government imposes curfew as protesters s ...
[JURIST] The government of Thailand on Wednesday imposed a curfew on Bangkok and other areas of the country in response to violence that erupted when the leader of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship [party website, in Thai], also known as the red shirts [BBC backgrounder], announced ...
- ICTY upholds contempt conviction of Serb nationali ...
[JURIST] The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Wednesday affirmed the contempt conviction [press release] of Vojislav Seselj [case materials; JURIST news archive], a Serbian politician and former president of the Serbian Rad ...
- Khodorkovsky ends hunger strike in Russia prison
[JURIST] Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday ended his two-day hunger strike after a spokesperson for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [official website] indicated that Medvedev was familiar with a complaint Khodorkovsky made regardi ...
- Pakistan government blocks Facebook over Muhammad ...
[JURIST] The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority [official website] on Wednesday ordered Internet service providers to block [press release] social networking site Facebook [website] in response to a competition created by a group of the website's members entitled "Draw Muhammad Day." The PTA issu ...
- Obama reaffirms support for federal immigration re ...
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Wednesday reaffirmed his commitment to comprehensive federal immigration reform, calling the recently passed Arizona immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive] "misguided." Obama held a joint press conference with Mexican Preside ...
- Night Beat: Specter Comes Back; Paul Comes Down To ...
DeMint's Not Running For Leader White House supports ROK's Defense Specter Expected Back In DC Rand Paul Falls To Earth Sen. Arlen Specter is expected back in Washington, D.C. tomorrow. At 2:30pm, the Senate will proceed to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Dodd-Lincoln substitute ame ...
- Which Type of Incumbent Is Truly in Danger?
Yes, it stinks to be an incumbent this year, but the truth is 90% of congressional incumbents will probably be reelected. Our system can only tolerate a bum turnover rate of about 10 percent a cycle, even when the "Throw The Bums Out" mentality is driving voter preferences. How is Arlen Specter like ...
- The Intelligence Community Had 14 Chances to Conne ...
The most difficult passage to read in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's unclassified executive summary of its report into the Christmas Day bombing failures has to be this: it is the official position of the National Counterterrorism Center that "no entity within the IC has sole responsi ...
- Have Some Tea, but Don't Throw a Party Yet
The Tea Partiers, as John Judis points out , are a particular breed of conservative populists. It is easiest to define them by their media consumption habits and how they express their rage against the establishment. Their sacred texts are a particular and�circumscribed�view of the Constitution, is ...
- Super Tuesday Winners and Losers
Very briefly, my take on the victors and the vanquished ... aside from the, uh, actual winners and losers. Winners : � Organized labor and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka , which identified Blanche Lincoln's vulnerabilities early on and stuck by its collective decision to hold Democrats accountable ...
- Makhoul’s Lawyers Accuse Shin Bet of Possible Tort ...
The Israeli court and Shin Bet acquiesced to a demand by Ameer Makhoul’s lawyers to consult with him after they’d been denied access to him for 12 days after his arrest. They’d threatened to refuse to continue cooperating with the legal process in protest. It appears that Israeli authorities onl ...
- Israel’s Attack on Goldstone Belies Its Own Suppor ...
Sasha Polakow-Suransky writes tellingly in Foreign Policy and Huffington Post about the current smear campaign against Judge Goldstone mounted by the Israeli government with the help of willing collaborating journalists like Tehiya Barak, Jeffrey Goldberg and Jonathan Chait. It was Barak who opene ...
- Chomsky to Deliver Bir Zeit Lecture on Al Jazeera
Well, maybe this will teach the petty bureaucrats at the Israeli Interior Ministry a lesson. After lecturing him for four hours on the errors of his ways in criticizing Israel and telling him what he could or should do to be allowed admittance, they sent Prof. Noam Chomsky packing back to Amman. ...
- Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
- Bibi on Barring Chomsky: ‘I Read it in the News To ...
Well, one thing we know…Bibi reads the papers (Bibiton-Yisrael HaYom at least): that’s apparently how he learns of major decisions made by his own Interior Ministry to bar one of the most distinguished linguists in the world from entering the West Bank to lecture at Bir Zeit University. You wouldn ...
- Save our sisters
By: PaulaW Since the beginning of time men have ruled the world. Women, to be sure, have carried their fair share of the load, some would argue more than their fair share (with child birth alone!). Yet it has not been until the last few hundred years that women rea ...
- Ex-guerilla trades gun for microphone
By: tracybarnett It’s been 14 years since the brutal civil war that gripped this country for over three decades finally came to an end, and the former combatants that once manned guerilla posts in the mountains have all gone back to civilian life. For many of them, ...
- Getting vaccines where they're needed the most
VillageReach helps to deliver essential vaccines to remote areas in developing countries. Photo: VillageReach It is widely known that vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives in poor countries. In some areas, in fact, living conditions are so dire tha ...
- Malaria Consortium saves lives one net at a time
Photographer William Daniels documents an organization that is saving lives by providing free mosquito nets to those in the developing world where malaria has become a widespread. Malaria kills one person every 30 seconds. Nine out of 10 times, the victim is a young African child. The An ...
- Partners in Health continue to help people of Hait ...
Beyond mountains, there are mountains. ...so goes the Haitian proverb, and those words can resonate and pull at you like a perfect bass line. Head and heart become joined. Your feet begin to move not toward any one destination, but to all destinations. Climbing a mountain is ...
- New U.S. Climate Legislation is Released. Could C ...
May 12 was a potentially history-making day in the United States, and the events that were set in motion have implications for all nations across the world that are trying to address the problem of climate change. Ending a long wait, Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman released the t ...
- If Not Now, When?
This morning, Thomas Friedman published “ Obama and the Oil Spill ,” a challenge to President Obama to rise above the temptation to think small and instead reach for the big picture of how the US gets its energy and what our energy future is. As Friedman says: Why is Obama playing d ...
- Report from the China-US Building Energy Labeling ...
I recently returned from Beijing, where NRDC and the Energy Foundation sponsored the “China US Building Energy Efficiency Evaluation and Labeling Summit” to talk about lessons learned in energy labeling of buildings in the US and China. The Summit featured the Chinese Ministry of Hous ...
- Sexual Perversion Kills Energy Efficiency and Ener ...
On May 6, by a vote of 246-161, the House passed a severely diluted “Cash for Caulkers” bill engineered by the House Republican minority using sexual perversion as a hook to force votes and continue our dependence on oil. The Home Star program will provide rebates to homeowners who re ...
- In the bayou, health concerns grow
People in the Louisiana bayou have questions. Lots of them. They want answers about what’s in the water and the air that surrounds them. They want more protective gear for the local fishermen who are sent out daily as marine hazmat workers in a valiant—yet seemingly impossible—job to ...
- Superficial Invocation of Feminism to Mask Misogyn ...
MoDo. Well, granted, she already has a lifetime achievement award, but… Related posts:Shallow Misogynist of the Day Great Moments In Projection Chivalry: The Thin Mask For Sexism Related posts: Shallow Misogynist of the Day Great Moments In Projection Chivalry: The Thin Mask For Sexism
- Blumenthal
The more information that emerges, the more that the Times pieces on Richard Blumenthal look like a shoddy hatchet job. Particularly given that this is far from unprecedented, it was foolish of me to take the original story at face value. See also this, which adds more credence [...] Relate ...
- The Internet occasionally reminds me of how differ ...
I noted on Facebook that, from a statistical perspective, what makes baseball such an amazing sport is that you can watch it your entire life and still see, on a daily basis, something youâve never seen before. (Itâs a truism, I know, but it has the benefit of actually being true.) [...] ...
- Shameless Self Promotion
My new book Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond is finally out from Columbia University Press. Basically, it’s all you never wanted to know about why children born of wartime rape have been overlooked by the human rights movement for the last two de ...
- An incidental apocalypse?
The typical apocalyptic narrative either focuses on the grand events that brought about the end of civilization—nuclear war, global pandemic, sentient machines—or describes life after the shock of those events. The number of narratives in which the global social body declines into the incorpore ...
- Justices rule on prison time for juveniles, sex of ...
In a pair of major criminal law decisions on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment does not allow sentences of life in prison without parole for juveniles who committed nonhomicide crimes and upheld a federal law permitting sexually dangerous inmates to be confined beyond th ...
- Justices say treaty trumps parental rights
An order prohibiting the removal of a child from a country without the noncustodial parent's consent is enforceable under an international child abduction treaty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
- Supreme Court won't stop suit filed by dismissed j ...
The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to hear a case in Washington where a federal prosecutor is being sued for his alleged role in improperly removing a grand juror from D.C. Superior Court.
- 1st Circuit affirms dismissal of psychologist's ch ...
The 1st Circuit recently rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a state professional board's decision to discipline a psychologist. The ruling affirmed the District of Massachusetts' dismissal of the case against the board, primarily because the psychologist had brought a state proceeding ...
- Kagan had a strong year financially in 2009
Elena Kagan's estimated net worth grew 74 percent during her year as solicitor general, records show, despite taking a hefty paycut when she left her position as dean of Harvard Law School to become solicitor general.
- A Couple of Editorials….
1. The gas companies that want to drill in the Marcellus Shale all know, just like other businesses, that they must spend money in order to make money. In 2008 they contributed a total of $36 million to candidates in national elections, and spent $133 million on lobbying. In 2009 they spent a whoppi ...
- CHESAPEAKE BAY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
If you live in PA and are not aware of it…most of Eastern PA all the way up to New York is part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary______________________________________________ For Immediate Release            May 12, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER- – - ...
- Frack Country Blues
Because sometime all you can do is laugh……Thanks! http://frackcountryblues.com/2010/04/23/outdoor-recreation/
- What has Matt Baker done to protect Pennsylvania f ...
Below is a letter written to the Wellsboro Gazette. Voting day is coming up quickly and here is an opportunity for those of us who are unhappy with the decisions Matt Baker has been making in regards to the gas rush. The fact that Matt Baker has not had, and will not otherwise, have anyone [...]
- Stunned at Shuster’s Words
Here are a few letters to the editor from a paper out of Bedford, PA area. This was sent to me by a farmer who lives in that are whose livestock and water has been polluted. She does not have a lease with any gas company but lives near a large compressor station and gas [...]
- Energy Sleuths in Pursuit Of the Truly Green Build ...
The practice of “commissioning,” in which an engineer monitors the efficiency of a building from its design through its initial operation, just may be the most effective strategy for reducing long-term energy usage, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. So why is it so seldom used? B ...
- Increased Levels of CO2 Threaten Quality of Food C ...
Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could reduce the protein content of crop plants by as much as 20 percent , according to a new study. Researchers at the University of California, Davis say high CO2 levels interfere with the ability of plants to convert nitrate into proteins, and ...
- New Smart Phone Applications Revolutionizing the S ...
The revolutionary advances in the study of bird populations and migrations made possible by the Internet have now found their way into birders’ hands. BirdsEye, a new iPhone app , gives birders instant access to the National Audubon Society’s and Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird, the largest open- ...
- Market for LED Bulbs to Boom in the Next Decade, S ...
The market for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) should grow dramatically over the next decade , passing compact flourescent lightbulbs as the biggest emerging lighting product, according to a new report. LEDs — a light source made from semiconductors — will account for 46 percent of the $4.6 million com ...
- Large Number of Bird Species Facing Rapid Decline ...
Nearly 150 of the 882 land bird species in North America are in sharp decline, especially in Mexico , according to a new report. The report, issued by Partners in Flight — a consortium of academics, Greg Lawatay A resplendent quetzal conservationists, government agencies, and philanthropists — said ...
- Contact Consciousness
Steve Hammons of the Joint Recon Study Group is thinking about ways an extraterrestrial, non-human intelligence would possibly interact with us humans on a daily basis and how modern science is bringing our own awareness to bear on studying the “unconventional intelligence.” The apparent growing awa ...
- Pacific Rim NWO
Singapore is a city-state in the Pacific Rim near Malaysia. It is an economic power-house nearly on par with Hong Kong and is touted as the consummate 21st Century State. Below is a video from an anniversary celebration last August. Notice all the Big Brother symbolism and the happy sheeple. Is this ...
- Dio, the last Neon Knight falls
Ronnie James Dio (born Ronald James Padavona in 1942) was a local hero here in these parts in Upstate NY. When he passed away this past Sunday on May 16th, it represented in a way a passing of an era here, that he was the last of the Old Industry that comprised Wickwire’s, Brockway, Smith-Corona [.. ...
- Blimp Shaped UFO Meme, Thirty Years Apart
From the “you gotta be sh*ttin’ me” department: Somerville police were flooded with phone calls this morning after residents reported seeing a large tube-like object fluttering through the sky. Police said they were swamped with phone calls after a flurry of callers reported to radio station NJ 101. ...
- Final Mission of Shuttle Atlantis
The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from KSC at 2:20 p.m. Friday May 14th for it’s 32nd and last mission. The space shuttle program is now down to it’s last two launches, to be completed in November. Like most folks who keep track of space goings-on, even us old tin-foilers who cut our eye-teeth o ...
- 'World's biggest' forest protection deal for Cana ...
Timber companies and environment groups have unveiled an agreement aimed at protecting two-thirds of Canada's vast forests from unsustainable logging. Submitted by Shaktiva I. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Greenland Rising Rapidly as Ice Melts
The ice is melting so fast in Greenland that the giant island is rising noticeably as the weight is lifted. In some spots, the land is rising 1 inch per year. Submitted by Shaktiva I. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- We're Taking 100 Million Tons of Sea Creatures Fro ...
People don't know the real cost of the shrimp that are on their plates. Trawling for shrimp is like bulldozing a forest to catch songbirds and squirrels. You throw away the forest and all the other creatures and shake out a few pounds of protein. Submitted by Shaktiva I. to Environment �|� �Note-it ...
- Denmark: pig farm standards "unacceptable"
Food and agriculture minister Henrik Høegh is calling for the Veterinary and Food Administration to investigate conditions at the nations pig farms after a television documentary revealed that up to 25,000 piglets are dying each day. Submitted by Sinikka D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
- Audubon Meets the Challenge to Protect Birds, Wild ...
As a slow-motion environmental catastrophe emerges in the Gulf of Mexico due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Audubon has mobilized to respond. More than 12,000 people have registered as volunteers through Audubons national website Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
- Conspiracy-Theory Socialism
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- Texas History Curriculum Battle Nears End
“Is Texas on the verge of rewriting history, or just correcting it? The answer depends on whom you listen to on the stateâs Board of Education , which is poised to vote this week on new social-studies curriculum standards that could significantly shape what Texas children â and perhaps those out ...
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American political classes tell us we are addicted to oil. Whether such admonishments came from former President George W. Bush or the present administration, Americans are admonished to break the oil habit and use alternative fuels meeting Washington’s approval. An online dictionary defines “addict ...
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State of Fear is a didactic novel, teaching while telling a story. Author Michael Crichton is attempting here to do more than just to make a general statement to the reader, such as Upton Sinclair did in The Jungle (“capitalism is bad”) or Ayn Rand did in Atlas Shrugged (“capitalism is vital”). He ...
- Video for HTML5: The latest update
On2’s VP8 video codec “is now fully open and completely royalty-free,” thanks to Google (source: DZone ). This is a big deal not only because Apple — in its full-out war against Adobe — has declared Flash video to be a non-starter and crowned H.264 the online-video heir apparent, but also because H ...
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If you teach online journalism, you’ve probably been hearing questions from students about the validity of what they are learning today. If you’re teaching Web design for current standards and current browsers, they are asking, “What about HTML5 and CSS3?” If you’re teaching Flash, they are aski ...
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John Wathen, the Hurricane Creekkeeper based in Alabama, flew over the BP oil slick yesterday on a flight provided by SouthWings and videotaped what he saw. "The enormity of this slick began to sink in to me," Wathen says on the video. "It seems as if the thing was spreading out over the enti ...
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