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IPS - Inter Press Services

• BIODIVERSITY: Not Just About Tigers and Pandas
  ROME, May 22 (IPS) - When people talk about biodiversity loss, discussion often centres on the tragedy of animals like the tiger and the panda being in danger of extinction.
• CUBA: Castro, Church Discuss Political Prisoners
  HAVANA, May 21 (IPS) - Talks between the government of President Raúl Castro and leaders of the Catholic Church in Cuba may alleviate internal tensions and lead to the release of political prisoners, although the dialogue should be extended to include other social sectors in the country, rel ...
• MEXICO: Murders Strengthen Resolve of Autonomous I ...
  MEXICO CITY, May 21 (IPS) - "We feel defenceless, but we're going to return to San Juan Copala and accompany the family of our dead friend and colleague," Jorge Albino, spokesperson for his autonomous village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, told IPS Friday.
• Agrobiodiversity Key to Adaptation
  NAIROBI, May 21 (IPS) - Mechanisation, increased use of fertilisers, and the planting of hybrid seeds have underpinned huge increases in the world's agricultural output over the past 40 years.
• HONDURAS: Inter-American Human Rights Report Riles ...
  TEGUCIGALPA, May 21 (IPS) - On a fact-finding mission to Honduras this week, an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) delegation took aim at the dismissal of several judges who expressed their opposition to the Jun. 28 ouster of president Manuel Zelaya.

Scoop - NZ

• Bikeways: Guerrilla Improvements and DIY Signage
  If you've driven through Los Angeles in recent months, there's a good chance that you've seen some unusual bike signage. Black and white posters with a bike lane icon and the phrase "Caution! Please Pass With Care" (or sometimes "Precaución! Por Favor Pase con Cuidado") have been springing up all o ...
• UK: Use of local food boosts hospital funds
  Hospital food cooked with fresh local ingredients could put hundreds of millions of pounds back into the NHS, one hospital trust has said. Catering managers at Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre have switched to such a menu. The trust says the daily plate saving is £2.50 per ...
• Warning: Chinese growth can't last forever
  Some economists are predicting the pace cannot be sustained and fallout is inevitable unless China can pull off major shifts in its economy. Demand from places like the massive Waigaoqiao Shipyard on the outskirts of Shanghai have dragged China and Australia through the world economic crisis. The ...
• 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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Independent ( London )

• Iran 'to go ahead' with Turkey atom fuel swap
  Iran intends to go ahead with a deal reached with Turkey and Brazil for a nuclear fuel swap despite a new sanctions resolution against Tehran pending at the United Nations, an Iranian parliamentarian said today.
• Iran opposition figure lashes out at regime
  A senior opposition figure accused Iran's hardline judiciary and conservative lawmakers of being instruments in the intimidation of pro-reform activists and the trampling of constitutional rights.
• Obama unveils commission to probe oil spill
  US President Barack Obama said today that offshore oil drilling could only go forward if there were assurances that a disaster like the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill would not happen again.
• Thai government shows protesters' arsenal
  Thai officials today revealed a large cache of weapons confiscated from the stronghold of protesters cleared from the heart of Bangkok in a military operation that ended a two-month standoff that left at least 85 dead.
• Plane crash in India leaves 158 feared dead
  An Air India Express plane trying to land in the rain at a tricky hilltop airport in southern India overshot the runway, crashed and burst into flames at dawn today, killing nearly 160 people, officials said. At least eight survived.

Rogue Government.com

• BP Admits They Underestimated The Amount Of Oil L ...
  BP conceded Thursday that more oil than it estimated is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as heavy crude washed into Louisiana's wetlands for the first time, feeding worries and uncertainty about the massive monthlong spill.
• MSNBC anchor: Glenn Beck and Goldline are â ...
• Senate Passes Financial Overhaul Bill
  The Senate on Thursday approved a far-reaching financial regulatory bill, putting Congress on the brink of approving a broad expansion of government oversight of the increasingly complex banking system and financial markets.
• â��All out warâ�� threatened over Nor ...
  North Korea has threatened “all-out war” if there Seoul retaliates for the torpedo attack that sank the South Korean warship Cheonan in March.
• Greek strikers march on parliament against cuts
  Thousands of striking Greeks marched peacefully to parliament on Thursday in a protest against government austerity measures that was much smaller than a huge rally that led to rioting on May 5.

Innovation Canada

• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• Largest Airship in the World Ready to Fly
  The Bullet 580 vehicle, the largest inflatable airship in the world, has just finished inflating inside the Garrett Coliseum, of Montgomery, Alabama. The impressive ship, which is 72 meters (235 feet) in length, is planned to function as a high stratosphere satellite, the people managing it say. As ...
• The IBEX Ribbon: Are We in for a New Era in the Su ...
  Is the Sun going to enter soon a million-degree galactic cloud of interstellar gas? Scientists from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, and Boston University suggest that the ribbon of enhanced emissions of energ ...
• "Anti-speculation" measures sharpen euro crisis
  On Tuesday May 18, the euro dropped to a 4-year low of 1.21 US dollars in Asia as markets gave a negative verdict on measures taken by the European Union and Germany aimed at reining in particular forms of finance speculation. On the same day, EU finance ministers had agreed to guidelines aimed at r ...
• Facing record loss of revenue, US states gutting e ...
  The governors of California, New York and dozens of other US states have submitted drastic budget-cutting proposals for fiscal year 2011, which begins on July 1, 2010. Reeling from the economic recession, high rates of unemployment and the sharpest decline in tax revenue on record, states are elimin ...
• Stocks Rout Halts, Euro Advances as Risk Demand St ...
  U.S. stocks jumped, halting a weeklong global slide, while the euro rose for a third day and Treasuries erased an early gain on speculation the rout in risky assets overshot the potential damage from Europe's debt crisis. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed 1.5 percent to 1,087.69 at 4 p.m. i ...

The Galloping Beaver

• I'm off to see the Izzard
  the wonderful Izzard of .. not Oz, but Yemen apparently. I'm dressed to kill, dahling. With a tray.
• Papers please!
  a very very short podcast , in which the Rev.Paperboy and the Not Ready For Real Life Players address Arizona's new Juan Crow law.
• what don't we know about the Afghan detainees and ...
  The latest edition of the Maple Syrup Revolution , in which Boris and the Rev.Paperboy discuss the Afghan detainee issue,�is ready now for your listening endurance forebearance pleasure.
• The graphic depiction of Milton Friedman's failure
  You can sit there and believe that, according to Miltie, BP is going to have to go to the wall for their abysmal disregard for anything but the piles of dollars they could accumulate.... or You could read what the flyingrodent has to say. Yeah. Me too.
• Iceland
  THE BOSTON GLOBE has some astounding pictures of the volcano in Iceland. Check them out.

Media Matters for America

• Fox falsely claims Obama has held "no press confer ...
  Linking to conservative website Newsmax, Fox falsely claimed President Obama has held "no press conference[s] since July" and suggested he is "hiding." In fact, Obama has held two full press conferences this year and held numerous other press availabilities. Fox Nation: "Obama Hiding? No Press Conf ...
• Gingrich slams Obama admin over Blair resignation ...
  Newt Gingrich has appeared on Fox News to attack President Obama over the resignation of Dennis Blair as the director of National Intelligence without disclosing that Gingrich and Blair were both members of a nonprofit defense group that reportedly benefited from a $2.4 million federal contract ...
• Bossie's Post op-ed distorts Kagan on fre ...
  Citizens United president David Bossie took his false attacks on Elena Kagan to the pages of The Washington Post , writing an op-ed that distorted the Citizens United Supreme Court case to falsely paint Kagan as anti-free-speech. � Bossie falsely suggested individuals' "right to speak" was at ...
• Special Report fails to address Stossel's ...
  Despite reporting on the controversy surrounding Rand Paul's criticism of portions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Fox News' Special Report did not address the fact that Fox News' John Stossel called for the repeal of the portion of the act that prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodat ...
• Fox falsely suggests financial reform to ...
  Fox & Friends �repeatedly falsely suggested the stock market declines in the U.S. and Asia were solely in response to the Senate passing financial reform, despite the fact that guest Stuart Varney said the drops were "not about" the legislation. Indeed, the declines are�largely blamed on�economic i ...

Global Research.ca

• The Greek People are the Victims of a Carefully En ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The North Korea-China Summit and the Denuclearizat ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Putting A Lid on the Truth: Underwater Oil Plumes. ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Russia-America Relations: Rediscovering Realpoliti ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Israel's nuclear weapons capabilities: Secret Repo ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Class in America
  John Williams runs a site called Shadow Government Statistics , based on the premise that the Federal government has been lying to you since the mid 1990's about some crucial statistics. His most critical calculation is on unemployment. I have regularly been using the U-6 measure that counts discour ...
• I Didn't Serve In Vietnam....And I'm Glad
  What is it with these liberal politicians who have to pretend they wanted to serve in Vietnam? If they did, there were plenty of ways to do so. In my case, I could have called my draft board in Poughkeepsie. New York and said "I want in." But I didn't. Like all my friends -- but unlike some ...
• 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 ...

TruthOut

• Confronting Blame-the-Worker Safety Programs
  In a Missouri food warehouse, 150 workers load and unload trucks, lift boxes, drive fork trucks, and move endless pallets. Each month that no one reports an injury, all workers receive prizes, such as $50 gift certificates. If someone reports an injury, no prizes are given that month. read more
• In Texas, Social Studies Textbooks Get a Conservat ...
  In a move that has potential national impact, the Texas State Board of Education has approved controversial changes to social studies textbooks – pushing high school teaching in a more conservative direction. The Dallas Morning news reports that the curriculum standards adopted Friday by a 9-5 vote ...
• Trucking Toward Climate Change
  The tar sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is possibly the largest industrial project in human history and critics claim it could also be the most destructive. The mining procedure for extracting oil from a region referred to as the "tar sands," located north of Edmonton, releases at least thr ...
• Universities Work to Push Cleantech Discoveries Ou ...
  There has always been a gap between university lab breakthroughs and marketplace reality. But whereas that gap has largely been closed in the biological sciences by technology transfer programs, scientists researching the chemical and physical sciences related to cleantech still struggle to commerci ...
• Travel to Cuba Legislation Mired by Scandal, Fierc ...
  In 1963, following heightened tensions in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy imposed the first travel restrictions on American citizens desiring to travel to Cuba. After years of gridlock regarding the subject courtesy of Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and her id ...

Planetsave

• Breaking: Taxpayer Bailout for BP?
  Take action below and tell your Senators that you don’t want to pay for BP’s oil spill. This is hard to believe, to be honest, even considering who it is coming from. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska wants taxpayers to foot the bill for BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill . She has proposed that BP pay ...
• Put Homeless in Vacant NYC Luxury Apts, Advocates ...
  Homeless advocates are trying to get New York City to take over long-vacant luxury apartments to help house the homeless. Leaders in the real estate market are saying ‘no way’, but this is generating some movement forward. A coalition of community organizations in NYC, Right to the City Coalition ...
• Kenya’s Mau Forest in Dire Straights
  The fight is on to save one of East Africa’s most treasured national resources. “If the Mau Forest is destroyed, Kenya will die,” said scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai of the University of Nairobi. Together with scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the gr ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• WaterAlert -- Instant, Customized Updates on Water ...
  US Geological Survey subscribe at http://water.usgs.gov/wateralert [From press release] Whether you
• Water News Roundup – May 17, 2010
  Happy Monday!� Loads of water news today.� When it rains it pours? Provo Daily Herald:
• USDA Abdicates Regulatory Responsibility
  Farming and food regulators are ignoring short cuts in corn and animal production that are destroyin
• SolarBees have mixed effect on water quality at Bl ...
  By Matthew Preusch, The Oregonian May 14, 2010, 7:33PM Water clarity has improved at Blue Lake three
• Organic Label Value Increased For Food Animals
  There are some very important changes being made to organic labeled meat and dairy products. With re

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Rocket Kirchner: Black Horse Blues
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• The Age of Space-Solar Energy: Innovation in the P ...
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• BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’ by Chris Hedges
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• Oceans of Oil by Roxanne Amico
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• Economic Power: Avoid Arizona and Boycott BP by Jo ...
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Axis of Logic

• Washington's Reaction to the Iran Nuclear Deal Bro ...
  The compromise agreement on refueling the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) mediated by Brazil and Turkey is a truly big deal.� From a "macro" perspective, this is a watershed event: two rising economic powers from what we condescendingly used to call the "Third World" have asserted consequential polit ...
• HUD is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of ...
  The Obama Administration's move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation called PETRA to Congress that would result in the privatization of all public housing in America. The new owne ...
• Border Officials Seek to Expand Texas Drone's Rang ...
  U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said Thursday that border officials have broadened their request to fly an unmanned aircraft in Texas to allow the drone to cruise along the Gulf of Mexico as well as the Rio Grande. Cuellar, a Democrat from Laredo , also said that Federal Aviation Administration chief... ...
• Gulf Oil Spill: Vast Majority of Pollution Could L ...
  As little as 1/60th of the oil belching from a blown-out deep-sea BP well could be making it all the way up to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico right away, judging from the results of a field test of a similar scenario conducted in 2000 by a consortium...
• Turkey, Iran, Brazil sign deal on nuclear fuel swa ...
  Iran inked a nuclear fuel swap deal Monday which commits it to ship 1,200 kilograms of low enriched uranium to Turkey, potentially ending a standoff with world powers gearing for new sanctions against the Islamic republic. Under the agreement, Iran will deposit 1,200 kilogra ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Time to Raise Your Game, Kentucky Media
  So Kentucky repugs think Rand Paul can escape opproprium by avoiding the national media? Then it's up to you, Kentucky media: Sic him! Senate candidate Rand Paul's Republican colleagues have tried to put into context his controversial comments about anti-discrimination laws and the Obama administrat ...
• The Midterms Are All About the 'Stills'
  Analysis of Tuesday's results has largely skewed towards nuts-and-bolts electoral minutiae and lazy repetition of talking points. �Not much has focused on the actual policies leaders have put in place, though. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press conten ...
• Obama's Social Security "Death Panel"?
  Has Obama created a Social Security 'death panel'? Susie Madrak at C&L had the above link tonight. �This is very akin to what I've been trying to say here for months now as our fearless leaders toiled diligently to provide us with all this "reform" that in actuality reforms diddly squat. To further ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Iraq's back to normal alright - yet another car bomb. A car bomb has exploded at a market in Iraq's northern Diyala province, killing at least 23 people and wounding another 53, police say. The blast took place in the mainly Shia town of Khalis, about 80km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, at about 1630 ...
• Bureaucratic WIN of the Year
  Don't ever let anyone tell you bureaucrats are stupid, lazy or humorless. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has just raised the bar on timely, witty, devastating take-downs. From Wonkette: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power general manager Austin Beutner just delivered a very quic ...

Care 2

• URGENT APPEAL - UPDATE--Horse Refuge facing evicti ...
  These horses need this land, they feel safe and have experienced true human kindness, probably for the first time in their lives, they are looked after with so much dedication and passion, please don't let them down. Submitted by Brenda H. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• WWF URGES TUNA FISHERS TO HONOR CITES
  CITES agreement calls for allowing bluefin stocks time to recover Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• RISKY OIL DRILL PLANS REMAIN FOR ARCTIC
  Despite the recent and ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico there are plans to allow three equally hazardous oil drill sites to go ahead in the environmentally sensitive Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Northern Cheyenne Tribe wins ruling in methane dri ...
  HELENA A unanimous Montana Supreme Court has voided water-discharge permits for the states largest coalbed methane producer, saying the state must require the company to treat salty water from the wells before it flows into the Tongue River or other Submitted by Lone Wolf to Offbeat �|� �Note-it ...
• An uncivilised society
  A mob mentality towards the rights of 'terrorists' has resurfaced while we ignore the incivility of using secret evidence and charging them without trial.. Submitted by Eleanor B. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Green Report Card on Cruise Ships Sets Off Storm o ...
  Despite efforts to improve operations, cruise ships that ply North American waters must go a lot further to become environmentally responsible, says Friends of the Earth, whose latest report card on the industry gives 11 major cruise lines green grades ranging from B- to F.
• $100K for Winning Startup that Cracks the 'Water-E ...
  The "Imagine H2O Prize: The Water-Energy Nexus" offers $100,000 in cash and services to the most promising startup company with ideas that can help to reduce the amount of energy it takes to move and treat water and wastewater.
• $100K for Winning Startup that Cracks the 'Water-E ...
  The "Imagine H2O Prize: The Water-Energy Nexus" offers $100,000 in cash and services to the most promising startup company with ideas that can help to reduce the amount of energy it takes to move and treat water and wastewater.
• LEDs Poised to Outshine All Others in $4.4B Lighti ...
  Philips, Osram Sylvania, and GlacialTech Inc. are among the firms recently introducing products for an LED market that's expected soar in the next decade. New research forecasts that LEDs will account for almost half of a $4.4 billion market for lamps in the commercial, industrial and outdoor stati ...
• Walmart Yanks Miley Cyrus Jewelry After Report of ...
  Walmart agreed to pull a line of toxic cadmium-laced jewelry from its shelves on Wednesday within hours of a press report suggesting the company sold the wares despite knowing they were tainted as early as February.

Reuters Global

• Tax evasion becomes extreme sport in Greece
  In Greece, hiding a little from the taxman is considered good sport, so the government, struggling with a debt crisis is shaking international markets, is firing every weapon in its arsenal to crack down on rampant tax evasion.
• MP’s nosedive mirrors Japan leader’s s ...
  Sympathy for Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is in short supply, as support for his Democratic Party of Japan nosedives.
• What’s Merkel doing with her lonely war on s ...
  Chancellor Merkel surprises the world -- and financial markets --with Germany's unilateral battle against speculators. She has been a safe pair of hands for Germany until now, usually erring on the side of caution and inaction. Why the sudden change?
• Deficit-obsessed Czechs grapple ahead of vote
  If one were to believe the noise coming from right-of-centre politicians in Prague, the Czechs are on the brink of a Greece-style budget meltdown, and victory by the leftist Social Democrats in a May 28-29 election would plunge them into economic collapse.
• China and the Cheonan
  It’s a difficult scenario that leaves China with no easy response. If it supports the investigation findings it risks alienating always-touchy Pyongyang, even as it wages economic and political stakes on shaping the country's shaky future. If it rejects the findings, it will be isolated both in Asia ...

Booman Tribune

• My Life in Politics
  Presidential elections in my lifetime: 1972: I was three years old on election day and living in Princeton, New Jersey. I had almost no awareness that an election was happening, but I did enjoy one of my older brother's McGovern/Shriver '72 t-shirts, because he wore it until it was in rags. ...
• YouTube Thread
  Just because I needed to hear it for some reason. What's in your iPod?
• I Can't Take Much More of This
  You know, what's going on in the Republican Party is just heartbreaking: BOISE -- Sarah Palin is in Boise to campaign for Republican Vaughn Ward -- who is vying for a seat in congress. Ward admits that in recent weeks -- he has experienced what he calls mis-steps. But Wednesday night, he says h ...
• Casual Suggestion
  I think we should make a deal with the Republicans. We won't nominate anyone from Massachusetts if they won't nominate anyone from Texas. Nothing against the good people of the Bay State, but they can just take one for the team.
• A Scarred Past
  I can't believe that we're really debating the Civil Right Act of 1964, but that's what we're forced to do now that Kentucky Republicans nominated a Paulist as their U.S. Senate candidate. Now, Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz is correct to note that the vote on the Civil Rights Act basi ...

European Tribune

• Saturday Open Thread
  Hi there...
• Deregulation = "moderation"
  Good to see the FT suggesting that lobbying efforts by the banking sector to make...
• Reasons for Despair/Hope
  A list of stories in the "Reasons for Despair" series. This diary is editable only...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 22 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1925 Birth of...
• Friday Open Thread
  It's that time of day again...

Futurismic

• The spoiler-police: spoiling it for the rest of us ...
  Mary Elizabeth Williams takes to the pages of Salon.com to decry one of my own pet hates: the spoiler-police, those people who get angry at you for discussing a book, film or TV show that they haven’t seen yet [via Martin Lewis]. As a reviewer and critic, this is a particular bugbear for me. First a ...
• How not to get published: cash prizes for readers
  The rise of the internet has seen many frustrated aspiring authors turn to forms of self-publication and showy promotional gambits in the hope of catching the eye of someone with a cheque-book and a pile of blank contracts, but this is probably the most spectacularly desperate-sounding tactic I’ve h ...
• Storming heaven: Craig Venter and team create synt ...
  Unless you’ve been underneath that oft-mentioned hypothetical internet-proof rock for the last twelve hours or so, you’ll already have an idea of what today’s (and probably this year’s) big science story is. It is, of course, the announcement by Craig Venter and his team that they’ve successfully cr ...
• The evolution of addiction and the fetishisation o ...
  Not-entirely-unsurprising news from the world of evolutionary psychiatry: human use of psychoactive compounds found in plants and animals is thousands of years old, and evolutionary selection may actually have favoured those of our ancestors who were wired to get a kick from certain substances: Acco ...
• Marine animals join “War on Terror”
  It might help curb your concerns about terrorist attacks channeled through nature to learn that some of God’s creatures are fighting on the side of righteousness: the US Navy has a Marine Mammals unit that trains sea lions and dolphins to detect and apprehend terrorists trying to sabotage or disrupt ...

Therapy News

• Therapist Underscores importance of Including Psyc ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When disaster strikes, professionals in a wide variety of fields are typically deployed to affected areas in an attempt to help victims work through trauma. Yet in many instances, psychotherapists may not be present, an issue that may lead to higher rates of the devel ...
• Care and Treatment of Children and Adolescents Eng ...
  By Jeffrey S. Gallup, MA, LPC, Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeffrey and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Bullying is aggressive behavior that is intended to cause harm or distress, occurs repeatedly over time, and occurs in a relationship in which there ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy Reading! ⢠Comic Looks at Mental Illness ⢠Air Force Prevention Program Reduces Suicide Rates Significantl ...
• Behavior in Elementary School Children Influenced ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In ongoing quests to improve academic performance and opportunities among schoolchildren, those involved in education as well as child counseling and related fields have been placing a strong emphasis on parental involvement in scholastic life. A highlighted issue for ...
• Plane Crash Survivor Offers Open Letter to Boy in ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The emotional and psychological impacts of being involved in a plane crash are issues about which many may feel anxious, but few experience first-hand. Compounded by the experience of the loss of one’s parents, the potential trauma of such a crash has been discussed b ...

Mountaintop Removal

• New Release by Jenifer Garlitz Tells Story of Moun ...
  New Release by Jenifer Garlitz Tells Story of Mountaintop Removal Coal ... Earthtimes (press release) Mountaintop removal coal mining, which began in the 1970s, happens when coal company workers blast mountaintops with explosives to mine coal below the ... and more��
• Highlands festival raises money to fight mountaint ...
  Highlands festival raises money to fight mountaintop removal mining Louisville Courier-Journal The map was designed to show the vastness of mountaintop removal in Eastern Kentucky, while the festival itself was a reminder to Louisville that people in ... and more��
• Friday roundup, May 21, 2010 - Charleston Gazette ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Friday roundup, May 21, 2010 Charleston Gazette (blog) But if you missed it, the Gazette had a strong editorial that took a bit of a different look at the whole mountaintop removal issue: The work of Appalachian ... A new documentary blows the top off a hazardous coal-mini ...
• Ben Sollee And Daniel Martin Moore: Folk Out Of Ap ...
  Ben Sollee And Daniel Martin Moore: Folk Out Of Appalachia KUAR Cellist Ben Sollee and guitarist/banjo player Daniel Martin Moore started writing songs together to protest mountaintop-removal coal mining in their beloved ...
• 2 Arrested Disrupting Massey Shareholders Meeting ...
  Seattle Post Intelligencer 2 Arrested Disrupting Massey Shareholders Meeting It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) Protesters loudly read an open letter to Massey (below) demanding they cease mountaintop removal coal mining, a practice that is destroying central ... Protesters Assemble at Massey Energy A ...

Memeorandum

• Key senator thinks derivatives language could be s ...
  Jordan Fabian / The Hill : Key senator thinks derivatives language could be stripped in conference   —  A key member of the Senate banking panel said Friday he believes controversial language on derivatives trading could be eliminated from Wall Street reform legislation during conference.
• Blumenthal allies turn tables on NYT (Kenneth P. V ...
  Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico : Blumenthal allies turn tables on NYT   —  What at first appeared to be a potentially career-ending New York Times exposé of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has generated a messy fight between the newspaper, Blumenthal's liberal supporters, and his ...
• Cato Scholar Scolds Rand Paul, Gives OK to Soup Na ...
  AOL News : Cato Scholar Scolds Rand Paul, Gives OK to Soup Nazi   —  Politico reporter Shira Toeplitz tweeted it well: “You know it's a rough day on campaign trail when you have to issue a statement that says you will not repeal Civil Rights Act of '64.”  —  She was referring, of course …
• Paul Backs Out Of Meet The Press Appearance (Chris ...
  Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC : Paul Backs Out Of Meet The Press Appearance   —  At the end of a rocky week, newly chosen Senate nominee Rand Paul (R-KY) has canceled a planned interview on NBC's “Meet the Press” citing exhaustion.  It's only the third cancellation from a major guest in 62 years, t ...
• Holy Cow! We're going to have financial reform. (E ...
  Edmund L. Andrews / Capital Gains and Games blogs : Holy Cow!  We're going to have financial reform.   —  A few hours ago, the Senate did something truly amazing: it clobbered Wall Street and the banking industry, defying armies of overpaid lobbyists and passing genuine reforms for our run-amok fi ...

Energy & Environment News

• BP Describes Race to Fix Well as Obama Warns of Oi ...
  BP prepared to install a shutoff valve on one of three leaks gushing from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• The Spill vs. a Need to Drill
  In the furor over the Gulf disaster, a hard-to-overlook fact: America needs the oil.
• Tax on Oil May Help Pay for Gulf Spill Cleanup
  The government can turn to a rainy-day fund, paid for by a tax on oil companies, to help with spills like that in the gulf.
• Gulf Coast Towns Brace as Huge Oil Slick Nears Mar ...
  With oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico unabated and officials offering little hope that the flow could be contained soon, towns prepared for an imminent environmental disaster.
• Edwin E. Kintner, Nuclear Power Pioneer, Dies at 9 ...
  Mr. Kintner played an early role in efforts to harness nuclear power and oversaw the cleanup at Three Mile Island.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
  Saturday, May 22, 2010 09:58:57 UTC Saturday, May 22, 2010 08:58:57 PM at epicenter Depth : 36.20 km (22.49 mi)
• M 5.5, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
  Saturday, May 22, 2010 06:15:19 UTC Friday, May 21, 2010 09:15:19 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.7, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chil ...
  Friday, May 21, 2010 18:52:08 UTC Friday, May 21, 2010 02:52:08 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.6, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
  Thursday, May 20, 2010 00:44:55 UTC Wednesday, May 19, 2010 02:44:55 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.0, Tonga
  Friday, May 21, 2010 01:05:47 UTC Friday, May 21, 2010 02:05:47 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• Seeds of doubt in Delhi
  Caught in the middle of a fierce domestic debate, the Indian government is wavering over the introduction of GM aubergines – and the rest of the world is watching closely. Joydeep Gupta reports. The thought of genetically modified aubergines on the menu is making some Indians drool, but many more ar ...
• All the tees in China
  With its 1,000-year-old trees, Hainan was a rare conservation success. But now golf fairways stretch as far as the eye can see, in a boom that threatens the island’s rain forest. Jonathan Watts reports. The jungles of the Diaoluo mountain region do not, at first sight, appear a very inviting locatio ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Can Small Farms Survive?
  Cross-posted from Food Politics. Many of us have been heartened to learn that the number of small farms in the U.S. is increasing for the first time in a century.  The latest Census of Agriculture reports more small farms in 2007 than in 2002. But the USDA, which tracks such things in reports suc ...
• Sarah Palin’s Candidate in Idaho House Race ...
  This profile in ignorance is from yesterday, but I just caught it and I don’t think we’ve highlighted it yet. From The Hill, via Booman: Idaho House candidate Vaughn Ward (R) is under a microscope of media attention because of some recent misteps and another that came last night, when he misidentif ...
• Rand Paul Cancels His ‘Meet the Press’ ...
  Cross-posted from Think Progress. Kentucky Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul has been lampooned in recent days for his radical anti-government views. First, he expressed opposition to parts of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act. Today, he attacked President Obama’s cr ...
• Fox News' Stossel Calls For Repeal of Part of Civi ...
  The Fox News commentator called for the repeal of the public accommodation section of the Civil Rights act, saying "private businesses ought to get to discriminate."
• Massive Race Divide: Blacks Will Never Gain Wealth ...
  A new study shows African Americans are tumbling out of the nation's economic orbit on a tragic trajectory that will never let them achieve parity with whites.

Threat Level

• No Contempt, No Jail for Spamming a Judge
  A federal appeals court has overturned a criminal contempt citation and 30-day sentence issued to a civil litigant who urged his followers to e-mail the judge presiding over the case. The case tested the reach of judicial contempt authority (.pdf) in the digital age. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap ...
• Google Launches Encrypted Search
  Google users can now run encrypted searches using the company’s flagship search site simply by navigating to https://www.google.com. UPDATE: Many users are being redirected to the non-encrypted main site — a function of Google rolling this out to all its servers. Also it is necessary to include WWW. ...
• Pennsylvania AG Dropping Twitter Subpoena
  Pennsylvania prosecutors are dropping their grand jury subpoena to Twitter demanding the identity of two account holders who used the microblogging service to criticize Attorney General Tom Corbett, a spokesman said Friday. Corbett, the Republican candidate for governor, was seeking to unmask the ac ...
• Appeals Court Halts ‘Hot News’ Publishing Order
  A federal appeals court on Thursday lifted a lower court’s order that a well-known financial news aggregator delay publication of prominent financial analysts’ buy and sell recommendations — stock picks that allowed the well-to-do the first crack at capitalizing on that trading research. The 2nd U.S ...
• Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperg ...
  Last month Adrian Lamo, a man once hunted by the FBI, did something contrary to his nature. He picked up a payphone outside a Northern California supermarket and called the cops. Someone had grabbed Lamo’s backpack containing the prescription anti-depressants he’d been on since 2004, the year he pl ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Banker knives out for House-Senate reform panel
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street will brandish its loophole-carving knives next week as the Congress moves to a House-Senate conference on merging the two chambers' sweeping bills to tighten financial regulation.
• UPDATE 4-Plane crashes in south India, at least 16 ...
  * Flight from Dubai was landing, skidded in rain - witness
• Plane crash in south India kills at least 160 peop ...
  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Air India Express passenger plane from Dubai crashed outside an airport in southern India on Saturday, killing at least 160 people when it burst into flames after overshooting the runway and plowing into a forest.
• Troops patrol Bangkok as PM talks reconciliation
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Troops searched for explosives while firefighters doused the embers of a torched luxury mall in central Bangkok on Saturday as the capital tried to pick up the pieces after the worst political riots in modern Thai history.
• Logitech Google TV Box Embarrasses Apple TV
  Google TV, the new Android based OS for the big-screen, will power Logitech’s new set-top box, the still not-properly-named Google TV companion box. The sleek black Apple TV-sized box will run on a 1.2GHz Atom processor with 4GB memory, 802.11n Wi-Fi, dual HDMI-out ports, Dolby 5.1 surround sound a ...

Equality Trust

• 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.
• The Equality Trust in the news
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• Inequality: a threat to social cohesion
  As Edmund Conway comments in today's Daily Telegraph : "It is not merely, as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in their book The Spirit Level, that this damages health and encourages crime; in times of austerity, inequality can tear apart the social fabric."

PDA AMERICA

• Kucinich Addresses the Nurses
  On May 12, 2010 Congressman Kucinich addressed a rally of National Nurses United in Washington D.C.
• Tim Carpenter on the Thom Hartman Program
  PDA National Director Tim Carpenter on the Thom Hartman Program
• The Age of Space-Solar Energy: Innovation in the P ...
  The Age of Space-Solar Energy: Innovation in the Public Interest By PDA Contributor, William John Cox � The industrial revolution has been driven for the past two centuries by the burning of hydrocarbons, first by coal in the ...
• Don’t Link War Funding to Social Spending &# ...
  TasiniForCongress — May 18, 2010 — In a crass attempt to wrestle votes for the escalated Afghanistan War, the Obama Administration is trying to combine the war funding with funding for urgently ...
• Video: David Swanson – 33 billion for Afgha ...
  Real News Network David Swanson: Congress set to pass emergency funding for war

Marler Blog

• Another Sprout Outbreak - Time to use www.outbreak ...
  The Outbreak CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella serotype Newport infections linked to the consumption of raw alfalfa sprouts. Investigators are using DNA analysis of Salm ...
• E. coli O145 Tainted Romaine Lettuce linked to 33 ...
  A total of 26 confirmed and 7 probable cases related to this outbreak have been reported by the CDC from 5 states since March 1, 2010. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is: MI (11 confirmed and 2 probable), NY (5 confirmed and 2 probable), OH (8 confirmed and 3 prob ...
• One year since being hit by E. coli, Linda Rivera ...
  Since being infected with E. coli O157:H7 over one year ago, Linda Rivera has struggled with brain injury, kidney and liver failure, months on a ventilator, loss of her large intestine and other complications too numerous to mention.� She continues to fight every day to recover. She has received ...
• Caldwell Fresh Foods Salmonella Sprouts Stricken 2 ...
  Oregon Public Health officials today are warning consumers about a nationwide recall of alfalfa sprouts produced by Caldwell Fresh Foods of Maywood, Calif., and sold under several label names in Oregon. The sprouts are being sold in at least 17 other states in the West, Midwest and the South. The sp ...
• AAJ weighs in on Non-O157:H7
  By Allison Torres Burtka Seattle lawyer Bill Marler has taken food safety into his own hands: A year and a half ago, Marler, who represents plaintiffs in tainted-food cases, hired a lab to test 5,000 samples of ground beef from grocery stores in six states for (non-O157:H7) E. coli, and the testin ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 05.17.10
  Nissan Leaf profitable by year three; battery cost closer to $18,000 This isn't what we heard last time. AFVI 2010: CNG-powered Gasser hugs trees and hauls ass Oh, the things you can do with ...
• AutoblogGreen for 05.14.10
  Climate Bill details unveiled: emissions, clean coal, transportation and much more at stake It's the American Power Act (read it in PDF ). Say what? Plug-in Prius can't charge additional battery packs on ...
• AutoblogGreen for 05.13.10
  AFVI 2010: Technology parade includes propane lawn mowners, CNG hydraulic hybrids, more Now that's an alternative powertrain. FEV shows off RE-EV Fiat 500 with Wankel in Vienna We kind of wa ...
• AutoblogGreen for 05.12.10
  Can the Nissan Leaf really run 0-60 mph in 5 seconds? Not likely We're told CBS got this one wrong. AFVI 2010: T. Boone Pickens believes God gave the U.S. our natural gas supplies God was unav ...
• AutoblogGreen for 05.11.10
  Video: Fox News reportedly refusing to air ad denouncing dependence on foreign oil We're not confused. AFVI 2010: T. Boone Pickens says V-Vehicles will someday add natural gas to high-mpg model ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: Our perilous infrastructure ...
  This week, a bit of an inconvenient truth in our show: We're talking about our national infrastructure--power, water, transportation, and the like--and how it's kind of a mess from a security perspective thanks in no small part to the growth of the Internet. If you're a fan of reliable electricity ...
• 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 ...

Camera Obscura

• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
• Dangerous spaces: Safe.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

• WATCH: Live Feed of the Gulf Oil Spill
  A live video feed that shows the oil gushing from the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico is now available online. Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts pushed BP to make the video public. If you do not see the video here, try going to the US House of Representatives web site for instructions ...
• 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.

Farming Pathogens

• The Alan Greenspan Strain
  First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
• King Leopold’s Pandemic
  The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
• The Expulsion
  In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
• Do Pathogens Time Travel?
  Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
• We Are All Astronauts Now
  Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]

Suzie-Q

• Rand Paul Underscores The Tea Party’s Connec ...
  I’ll take Rand Paul at his word. He’s opposed to racial discrimination. However, he obviously supports allowing businesses to engage in racial discrimination with impunity. Evidently, if the government says it’s against the law to run a whites-only business, this is a bridge too far for Rand Paul. C ...
• Rand Paul On ‘Maddow’ Defends Criticis ...
  Rachel Maddow Corners Rand Paul On His Extremist Views Of Civil Rights Crooks and Liars- By Nicole Belle Thursday May 20, 2010 6:00am Normally, I’d cut this video down from its full 19 minutes, but truly, to appreciate the wonderfulness of Maddow’s approach and the sidestepping Rand Paul attempts to ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• The Wall Street ICEcapade
  By Lucy Komisar As I write this, the U.S. Senate is debating a major financial reform bill in which the credit default swap, a kind of derivative, plays a significant part. An amendment to that bill, proposed by Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), would ban banks from proprietary tr ...
• Global Stock Markets Priced in Gold: Brazil +, Bom ...
  View Larger Chart View Larger Chart View Larger Chart Continue reading 10 Gold Charts Commercial Investment Firms Never Want Clients to See
• Gold Dinar A Trade Instrument
  By Amer Hamzah Md Sap Members of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) have been asked to support former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s call to consider gold dinar as a trade instrument among member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). In making the call, ...
• The Stock Market Glitch
  YouTube View parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Max Keiser On The Alex Jones Show May 10th 2010 at YouTube
• Quote du Jour
  The bigger the breakdown, the bigger the breakthrough. ~Thomas Hupp

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Fox News' Stossel Calls For Repeal of Part of Civi ...
  The Fox News commentator called for the repeal of the public accommodation section of the Civil Rights act, saying "private businesses ought to get to discriminate."
• Supreme Court Says Feds Can Detain Sex Offenders I ...
  The U.S. government can now keep prisoners in custody who have not necessarily been convicted of a crime, based on suspicions of "future dangerousness."
• Suit Against Arizona Immigration Law Reveals Threa ...
  The lawsuit offers a small sampling of the broad cross-section of people and organizations that will be affected by the law.
• Rethinking Stripping: So Why Are So Many Men Payin ...
  We need to talk about gender, sexuality, safety, pleasure, earning power, and choice when we discuss sex work.
• An America for Whites Only?
  Is "white racial anxiety" gripping the American heartland?

Sideways News

• Free year for poorer students urged
  Students from poorer backgrounds should be offered a free year at university to encourage them into higher education, a social mobility charity has claimed. The Sutton Trust said plans for a "moderate" increase in tuition fees should be counterbalanced with initiatives to attract more pupils from di ...
• Famous landscapes get £17m protection
  Some of the most famous landscapes in the country are in line to receive a share of £17 million for protection projects, meaning future generations will be able to enjoy them for years to come. Included among the 10 locations receiving grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund are the white cliffs of Do ...
• Concrete jungles can help wildlife
  Schoolchildren have been asked to create their own "concrete jungles" in a bid to protect Britain's wildlife. A new scheme will see the creation of more than 300,000 square metres of new habitats for British species at 26,000 schools across the UK. The Concrete Jungle campaign is being run by Cool i ...
• Computer course 'may restore sight'
  A computer-based training course designed to restore sight ability could be used to help people who have suffered strokes or brain injuries. Researchers from Durham University, who developed the course, hope it could eventually be delivered to people in their homes via games consoles or mobile phone ...
• 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

• Mining the oil sands is safer than deep offshore d ...
  Summary:  Canada’s oil sands are becoming one of America’s major sources of oil, and our dependence on it can only grow.  This new report tells the story, with some eye-opening graphics:  âCanadaâs Oil Sands: Shrinking Window of Opportunityâ, by RiskMetrics Group for Ceres, May 2010. Conten ...
• FM newswire for May 21, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “Background on the US Housing Market“, T2 Partners, May 2010 California can no longer afford to be the State it once was:  “Overview of the 2010-11 May Revision“, Legislative Analyst’ ...
• Nixon declared war on drugs, a major investment of ...
  This is the next in a series began with Looking in the mirror tells our future.  How has American invested in its future?   What are the major investments the government has made in America, following the long tradition of canals, railroads, the Civil War, highways, and Apollo?  This series looks at ...
• FM newswire for May 20, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. The tyranny of denial“, Edward Skidelsky, Prospect, 27 January 2010 — Another in the series “Words that think for us” Divorce, one of the great but ignored US social problems:  “Famil ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Britain ready to hand over detainees to United Sta ...
  Times – Britain is taking the first steps towards resuming co-operation with the US military over the arrest, interrogation and detention of suspected insurgents captured in Afghanistan. Despite Americaâs tarnished record – with allegations of torture and abuse at the Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and B ...
• New Podcast: War in Pakistan; Gulf Oil Disaster; a ...
  On Saturday 15 May, the editor of www.OpenYourEyesNews.com, James Fairbairn, made another guest appearance on 720 ABC Radio in Perth, Western Australia to discuss with host, James Lush, some of the key news events of recent weeks. The interview covered the following: Reports on the undeclared war i ...
• Taliban’s Heroin Inc
  The Australian – IN May last year, Afghan national army commandos backed by coalition forces made an eye-popping find when they raided an insurgent stronghold in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. Along with a large stash of bomb-making materials, they stumbled on the big ...
• China Suggests Yuan Won’t Rise Until Europe Is Sta ...
  Wall Street Journal – A senior Chinese finance official called on major reserve-currency nations to keep their exchange rates stable amid the euro-zone debt crisis, suggesting that China will wait for more clarity in Europe before allowing its own currency to fluctuate in value. Read Article
• Euro Climbs As Traders Reconsider Short Bets
  Wall Street Journal – The euro rose Friday, capping its first weekly gain in six weeks as investors who had bet heavily against the common currency unwound their positions. Investors had been sitting on record bets against the euro in recent weeks and many pared those positions this week, forcing ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers
  Zionism Recruits Indian âJewsâ as Settlers (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Bnei Menashe claim to be a lost Jewish tribe currently living in a remote corner of India.  They identify as Jews and are to be sent to Nepal for fast-track conversion to so-called Orthodoxy (in the “strict” Zion ...
• Maoistowskie recenzje: Wyspa (2005) reż. Micheal B ...
  Maoistowskie recenzje: Wyspa (2005) reż. Micheal Bay (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Film “Wyspa” (reż. Micheal Bay) jest doskonałym filmem-alegorią dzisiejszej sytuacji na świecie. Amerykanie są narodem pasożytniczym, lecz tym razem nie pasożytują na pracy innych ludzi, lecz na samych ludziach. Jest ro ...
• Drodzy Trzecioświatowi Maoiści… Założenie gry o su ...
  Drodzy TrzecioÅwiatowi MaoiÅci⦠ZaÅożenie gry o sumie zerowej (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polish) (English) Drodzy TrzecioÅwiatowi MaoiÅci, “1. Robotnicy na caÅym Åwiecie kupujÄ… dobra stworzone dziÄki pracy innych robotników o różnych poziomach pÅac. Jak fakt, że ârobotni ...
• Noam Chomsky : „Vstup zakázaný“ Izraelom
  Noam Chomsky „Vstup zakázaný“ Izraelom (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Slovak) (English) Noam Chomsky je vykresľovaný ako jeden z najvplyvnejších žijúcich intelektuálov. Jeho práca zrevolučnila pole lingvistiky v 60tych rokoch. Aj dnes ,jeho príspevky v lingvistike stále hrajú dôležitú rolu. Av ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• The Evil Doer and the Times Square Fizzler
  Were Muslim Evil Doers again at work in New York? Is that the lesson to be learned from a May 1st “car bomb” that fizzled while parked alongside the Marriott Hotel in Manhattan’s busy Times Square? Why now? The clues are there if only investigators will follow the facts. With reports of thi ...
• A Wedding To Start A War
  How the wedlock between a Pakistani sportsman and an Indian tennis player is a PR disaster for India and holds implications for relations with Pakistan. A sign of Pakistan-India peace? Hardly. Read how the celebrity wedding was loaded with the kind of symbolism that rattled India and sent the wrong ...
• Alert: Pakistan, Iran set to face hot July
  —JULY 2010 appears to be a crucial month in American plan —After July 2010, the components would be in place to start a proper war against Iran and do an amputation surgery on Pakistan —A network of Patriot Defence System (PAC-3) has been established in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia ...
• India’s ‘Kyrgyz plan’ for Pakistan
  RAW was created in the late sixties with one purpose, to destabilize Pakistan. Its first target was East Pakistan. Its second target was Bangladesh. In 1971 RAW was successful in creating the Mukti Bahni, recruiting 80,000 Hindus and then sending them into Muslim Bengal disguised as Pakistani soldie ...
• Who REALLY Owns The Media In 2010?
  “NOT A SINGLE NEWS ITEM will reach the public without our control,” states the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. “Even now this is attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies whose offices are entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to th ...

ecogeek

• Tesla and Toyota Join Forces
  Toyota and Tesla Motors are embarking on a joint electric-car-building project, the companies announced yesterday .  The two automakers will form a specialist team that will concentrate on developing electric vehicles, parts, production systems and coordinate engineering support. To really seal t ...
• Gravel Batteries Offer a Solution for Renewable En ...
  One of the most frequent objections to renewable energy systems is that their production is too variable. But technologies continue to be developed that will allow storage of power generated from wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable sources. The latest development comes from researchers ...
• Oyster Offshore Wave Generator Is 2.5x Better Than ...
  Power generation from waves continues to develop as Aquamarine Power has unveiled its new, second-generation Oyster 2 wave power generator. According to the company, "The new 800kW device will measure 26 metres by 16 metres and will deliver 250 per cent more power than the original Oyster 1 which ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• Doctors Learn How to Immunize Themselves Against B ...
  MARTHA ROSENBERG FOR BUZZFLASH "We need to be holding their hand and whispering in their ear, 'Neurontin for pain, Neurontin for monotherapy, Neurontin for bipolar, Neurontin�for everything,'" sales reps at Park-Davis, now Pfizer, were told in 1996 by senior executive John Ford. "I don’t want to hea ...
• Lincoln Fails to Get Fifty Percent in Arkansas Pri ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH She’s way out on a limb On a very shaky branch. Will she win? I wouldn’t Bet the ranch on Blanche .� In that upcoming fall runoff May lurk even more dangers. This Blanche shouldn’t depend On the kindness of strangers .read more
• How Obama Can Capitalize on the Anti-DC Sentiment ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH “I’m not your typical White House guy; Instead of a burger, give me a kielbasa. How can I be an American insider when (As you know) I was born in Mombasa?” read more
• The Learning Curve of Peace
  ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH “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 agoni ...
• The Country Club Crowd Wants to 'Reclaim Governmen ...
  BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Get a load of what the Repuglican Party sold their souls for: From the Bowling Green Country Club, Dr. Rand Paul :“I have a message, a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words,” Mr. Paul said in his victory speech in Bowli ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Obama wins the right to detain people with no habe ...
  (updated below) Few issues highlight Barack Obama's extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. As everyone knows, one of George Bush’s most extreme policies was abducting people from all over the world -- far away from any battlefield -- and then detaining them at Guantanamo with no le ...
• The Tory/Lib-Dem Government endorses actual change
  (updated below -�Update II) Over the past couple years, I've written numerous times about the serious left-right coalition that had emerged in Britain -- between the Tories and Liberal Democrats -- in opposition to the Labour Government's civil liberties abuses, many (thought not all) o ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Chemical structure drawing poll
  Yesterday’s blog feature quoted my various contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and elsewhere on what program they use to draw chemical structures. There were some interesting answers, including mentions of sites like ChemSpider and PubChem that are no drawing packages per se but do allow you to retrieve ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Can a Bad Economy Finally Discipline the Pentagon?
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) CHRIS HELLMAN read more
• One Month Later: Five Things We Know About the BP ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 2010 Public Citizen A month has passed since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and still, oil is gushing from a broken well at a rate that is still being debated but is likely far higher than BP, the company responsible for the disaste ...
• Thailand: Ensure Rights of Detained Protesters
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) The Thai government should ensure that people detained under emergency regulations during the recent political violence are not held in secret detention or mistreated, Human Rights Watch said today. This week Thai security forces forcibl ...
• Venter Takes Genetic Engineering to 'Extreme New L ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 2010 Friends of the Earth Today, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced the creation of the first living organism with an entirely synthetic genome. Friends of the Earth's genetic technology policy campaigner, Eric Hoffman, responded: "Craig Venter's lab has taken gene ...
• Center Calls for Firing of MMS Alaska Director Joh ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity In response to a New York Times story revealing that the Alaska office of the Minerals Management Service systematically suppressed scientists and scientific reports, violated environmental policies, and served a cake topped with the ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Human Health Tragedy in the Making: Gulf Response ...
  by Riki Ott Grand Bayou, Louisiana -- The federal agencies delegated with protecting the environment, worker safety, and public health are in hot water in the small coastal communities across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. read more
• Challenging the Bailout Economy
  by Anna White The inherent instability of the current financial system, largely to blame for the recent credit crisis, has raised its ugly head once again. What began in October last year with Greece admitting to a budget deficit exceeding 12 percent of its gross domestic product  (well beyond the E ...
• Equating Sexual Orientation with 'Sex Life'
  by Glenn Greenwald Perhaps it's naïveté, 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 people remai ...
• Putting the Pentagon on a Diet
  by Christopher Hellman Is that the wake-up smell of coffee wafting through the halls of the Pentagon? After a decade and a half of unparalleled budget growth, top Defense Department officials are finally talking about the possible end of their spending spree. And they're not alone. In ...
• Can a Security Council 'Coalition of the Unwilling ...
  by Phyllis Bennis The U.S. crusade for new UN sanctions against Iran has been underway for a long time. But the new intensity, the new scurrying around to make sure China and Russia are on board, and the new scramble for an immediate public announcement all reflect Washington's frustration with the ...

Karl Burkart

• Jindal's photo album of wetlands oil
  Louisiana Gov. Jindal puts up Flickr album of gruesome oil creeping into Louisiana wetlands.
• 3 solar-powered gifts for a Burner dad
  Jenn Breckenridge of the Burn Clean blog recommends 3 fun, funky & functional gifts for Father's Day.
• Coast Guard and BP threaten journalists with arres ...
  Oil washes up on shore today, but journalists beware. If you are caught photographing you will be arrested.
• Can carbon nanotubes solve a looming water crisis?
  Porifera, a Silicon Valley start-up, will greatly reduce energy needed to purify saltwater.
• 10 unbelievable cars of the future
  TrendHunter's top 10 list -- flying cars, ultracapacitors, solar panels and one sexy hydrogen Jaguar.

Water Privatization

• DoF admits it wont be able to raise P30-billion fr ...
  The Department of Finance (DoF) said the national government will be hard-pressed to attain its P30 billion revenue target from the sale of three state-assets this year. With the current pace of government's privatization program, Finance Secretary Margarito B. Teves, said it will be extremely diffi ...
• Wonkbook: FinReg passes; Conference committee loom ...
  In a 59-39 vote that took place just after 8:30 p.m., the Senate passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley, and Scott Brown all crossed the aisle to vote for it. Maria Cantwell voted against it. Arlen Specter and Robert Byrd did not v ...
• Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Mission to t ...
  A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited S�o Tom� and Pr�ncipe (STP) during May 7-20, 2010 to conduct the 2010 Article IV Consultation discussions 1 and the second review of performance under the three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement 2 approved by the IMFs Executive ...
• P30-B privatization revenue target difficult to ac ...
  MANILA, Philippines - It will be extremely difficult for the government to achieve its P30-billion revenue target from the sale of public assets this year, said Finance Secretary Margarito Teves.
• Taxes up by $84 in Randolph
  RANDOLPH TWP. State aid cuts of more than $531,000 have put a huge dent in the townships plan for the 2010 municipal budget and capital improvement program.

Guardian

• Indian plane crash kills 158
  Up to 158 people killed in southern India after plane overshoots runway and crashes in gorge Nearly 160 people were killed today when a plane overshot an airport runway and plunged into a gorge in southern India. Of the 166 people on board the Air India airliner, 158 died when it appeared to skid of ...
• Fox calls for faster troop withdrawal
  Defence secretary on trip to Afghanistan with cabinet colleagues says Britain is not a 'global policeman' The defence secretary, Liam Fox, wants to speed up the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan, saying that Britian is not a "global policeman". His comments came as he joined the foreign ...
• West Ham make Thierry Henry offer
  • 'I'd love to have Henry here,' says David Sullivan • Deal would make Henry highest-paid player in club's history West Ham have made a bid to sign Barcelona striker Thierry Henry in a move which would see the Frenchman become the highest-paid player in their history. West Ham joint chairman David S ...
• Blackpool v Cardiff City - live!
  Hammer F5 for the latest updates or just press the autorefresh button below. And feel free to email simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts for the day 45mins: GOAL! Blackpool 3 Cardiff 2! Astonishing stuff. A scrappy goal, really. DJ Campbell bumbles into the area, benefiting from a couple ...
• Mourinho's final a one-man show
  Internazionale manager will try to outwit his mentor Louis van Gaal, then reign in Spain on a permanent basis The press officer for Germany's champions was losing patience with the line of questioning and after half an hour the glad-to-be-here smile left his face. "Could we have one more question ab ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: What we can learn from the Golden Girl
  Oh, what Betty White can teach us all.
• Commentary: Venezuela's Chavez slights Colombia
  At a meeting of the Rio Group in February, a Group of Friends led by Dominican President Leonel Fernandez offered to mediate the conflict between two neighbors. Alvaro Uribe and Hugo Chavez accepted. When Colombia's constitutional court banned Uribe from seeking a third consecutive term, however, Ve ...
• BP not named to task force that will figure Gulf o ...
  WASHINGTON — An Obama administration task force formed this week to determine how much crude is surging into the Gulf of Mexico from a wrecked oil well includes an engineering professor who's told Congress he believes the spill is far larger than originally thought, but not a representative from BP, ...
• Kentucky GOP urges Rand Paul to avoid national spo ...
  WASHINGTON — In public, Senate candidate Rand Paul's Republican colleagues have tried to contextualize his controversial comments about anti-discrimination laws and the Obama administration's handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill, but privately they bemoan the political newcomer's gaffes and wish he' ...
• Gulf oil spill: Remembering Deepwater Horizon's de ...
  FORT WORTH — Jason Anderson was just a few hours away from heading to a new job.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• 'Playing God' with the climate?
  Biotech supremo Craig Venter's latest foray into "synthetic life" is raising all sorts of questions within the domain of medical and scientific ethics. One of the potential uses which he's looking at for synthetic bacteria - sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - potentially also breaks new g ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• What Does Rand Paul’s America Look Like?
  In three recorded interviews, anti-government extremist Rand Paul (R-KY) stated his opposition to the federal ban on whites-only lunch counters.  Although he has since attempted to distance himself from his consistently-expressed and well-documented views, it is clear from the fact that Paul repeate ...
• BP Is ‘Very Optimistic That The Gulf Will Fu ...
  BP is confident that the Gulf of Mexico will “fully recover” from its growing oil disaster, as vast oil plumes spread beneath the waves and toxic sludge chokes Louisiana’s fragile wetlands. Appearing on CBS’s Early Show Friday morning, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles expressed his confidenc ...
• Arizona Senator Who Pushed For SB-1070 Plans On Go ...
  An Arizona local news station (KPHO) is reporting that the state Senator behind Arizona’s new immigration law, Russell Pierce (R), does not intend on stopping at SB-1070. In e-mails obtained by CBS 5, Pearce said he intends to push for an “anchor baby” bill that would essentially overturn the 14th ...
• Nance: ‘Al Qaeda Needs To Be Shouted Down&#8 ...
  I first became aware of Malcolm Nance back in 2007, when he staged an intervention into the waterboarding/torture debate with an item at Small Wars Journal entitled “Waterboarding is Tortureâ¦Period“: With regards to the waterboard, I want to set the record straight so the apologists can finally em ...
• Rand Paul Falsely Accuses The EPA of Running &#821 ...
  In an interview notable for his claim that government pressure on BP is “un-American,” anti-government extremist Rand Paul (R-KY) attacks the EPA for preparing to use its power to regulate greenhouse gasses if Congress does not pass a comprehensive energy plan–falsely claiming that EPA is thwarting ...

thwap's schoolyard

• What Motivates Canadians?
  Not the government violating the treaty rights of First Nations. Not the obscenities of greed at the Vancouver Olympics. Not the possibility that Canada is complicit in torture in Afghanistan. Not (really) Harper's serial assaults on parliamentary democracy. It seems that we're ALL really incensed ...
• Still Alive ...
  Here's a video: I'll be typing more in about a week.
• Consequences
  Supposedly this big oil-rig explosion thing in the Gulf is a big deal. A major environmental catastrophe . The sane people are currently pointing the blame for it to the relaxation of safety regulations for the US oil industry as negotiated privately between oil-industry sleaze-ball, Vice-President ...
• Oh! There Goes That Violence Again!
  Just like the terrifying smashing of an HBC store window , the casualty-free torching of an empty RBC branch signals the end of the world for some people . I've said it before , I'll say it again, I'm not advocating violence. I'm just not condemning violence for the sake of it, and thereby enablin ...
• Murray Dobbin on the "National Security" Lie
  From rabble.ca : almost no one has commented on the totally absurd nature of the Harper government's basis for stonewalling. Indeed everyone seems to casually accept the framing of the issue that the government has relied on for months. That framing suggests that documents relating to the detai ...

Financial Sense Editorials

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• Market Observation: The Long and Short of It
  by Brian Pretti. "It has been a very long while since I’ve taken up a big chunk of a discussion to write about crude oil. The time is now for a multiplicity of reasons. You know the old market truism that after bear markets in equities, old leadership rarely emerges as new leadership. And of course ...
• Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud, Part 3
  by Elliott Wave Int. "With the market’s downtrend recently in abeyance, these transgressions failed to capture the imagination of the public or the scrutiny of law enforcement. But the extreme recriminatory power of the next leg down in social mood suggests that Goldman’s dealings will become a ligh ...
• A Short Philosophy of History
  by J. R. Nyquist. "The founder of analytic psychology, Carl Jung, proposed the existence of something he called the collective unconscious. He said it was the most misunderstood of his empirical concepts. Its reality could be inferred from the presence of archetypes, most readily discoverable in dr ...
• Market Observation: Fear Strikes Out
  by Martin Goldberg, CMT. "The markets are heading straight up without even taking a breather. As of Thursday after completing the January correction, there have been 34 days up and only 13 days down. Over that timeframe the S&P has gained about 16%. None of the down days were particularly scary and ...

on Government Oversight

• Can a Lab Paid by BP Assess the Environmental Dama ...
  The extent of penalties levied against BP for environmental damages will be based largely on analysis by a laboratory paid by BP, the New York Times reported yesterday. That lab, B&B Laboratories, is an affiliate of TDI-Brooks International, a Texas-based...
• Local OpenGov Group Releases Great Analysis of DC ...
  Last night, the DC Open Government Coalition, of which POGO is a member, hosted a valuable public forum to get open government issues on the agenda of candidates running for elected local office. The Coalition provided sample questions for the...
• POGO Neither Admits Nor Denies Any Errors in This ...
  However, to avoid the delay, uncertainty, inconvenience and expense of protracted editing, proofreading and fact-checking of this post, POGO reaches a full and final settlement of readers’ allegations of errors pursuant to the following terms and conditions. What if POGO...
• Morning Smoke: SecDef Wields Veto Threat over F-35 ...
  Robert Gates aims to kill F-35 jet engine by Jen DiMascio [Politico] What Happens Next to the FinReg Bill? by Annie Lowrey [The Washington Independent] Anadarko Wells Approved Hours After Fatal Rig Blast by Joe Carroll [Bloomberg] Dennis C. Blair...
• NIH Proposes Rule to Shine Light on Potential Conf ...
  The leaders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are finally giving serious consideration to an idea they have rejected for years: public disclosure of grantees' financial arrangements that may create conflicts of interest. At present these financial arrangements (for...

Digital Journal

• International groups call for war crimes inquiry a ...
  The Coalition to Stop the War in Sri Lanka (CTSWSL) has joined the Human Rights Watch (HRW), the International Crisis Group (ICG) and Amnesty International calling for an independent international inquiry into Sri Lanka's alleged war crimes.
• Police take loaded gun from Ontario 12-year-old
  An officer seized a loaded handgun from a 12-year-old who allegedly robbed a store this week in Ajax, Ontario. The boy has been was charged with 19 offenses.
• 'MacGyver' movie in the works, screenwriter hired ...
  As "MacGruber" hits theaters on Friday, New Line Cinema announced that its working on a "MacGyver" motion picture. The company said it has hired Jason Richman to pen the movie.
• Northern Ontario's lake monster, the Ugly One, fo ...
  Two nurses out for a walk alongside a lake in Northern Ontario at the beginning of May found a creature that is being called 'the Ugly One.'
• Canada's Foreign Minister on G8, G20 summits in On ...
  On Thursday, in an address given in front of the Montreal Council on International Relations (CORIM), the Canadian Foreign Minister Laurence Cannon outlined some of Ottawa's multilateral goals ahead of the G8 and G20 meetings in Ontario this June.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Shelters Take a Walk on the Wild Side By Serving W ...
  Shelter visitors on L.A.'s Skid Row are more accustomed to finding mystery meat on the menu than black bear. But last week, that's just what they got: tacos made from 250 lbs. of bear — and sheep, wild pig, antelope, elk and deer — courtesy of hunters in neighboring states and  Hunt.Fish.Feed. , an ...
• Meet a Mother Who Wants Something Better for Her B ...
  "It sucks being homeless. And I don't ever want to see my little girl homeless." This was the first thing Jessica said when I met her in Anchorage. She and her one-year-old daughter are currently living with Jessica's aunt, who sometimes kicks them out when she's angry. She's a young mother, obvious ...
• Victory! NYC Will Not Charge Shelter Residents Ren ...
  Common sense prevails. We discussed in a recent post that New York City was planning to charge homeless shelter residents rent in an effort to "motivate" them to change their circumstances. The Daily News has  just reported that new  Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond anounced ...
• Florida Becomes the Third State with Homeless Hate ...
  The Sunshine State is shining a spotlight on the violence inflicted on homeless individuals just because they're homeless. Starting October 1 , attacks on the homeless will be rightly categorized as hate crimes in Florida. Gov. Charlie Crist signed the bill into law last week, making Florida the fou ...
• Mental Illness Is a Disease, Not a Crime
  Many people ignorantly assume that all homeless are mentally ill, or that those with mental illness are violent. The media only pays attention when all these factors come together, as they did sadly for Andrew Goldstein when he pushed Kendra Webdale to her death in front of a subway car in New York ...

Ceasefire.ca

• 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Court Rules Advair Patent Invalid
  May 20, 2010 Telegraph By Rachel Cooper Advair, which is known as Seretide in Europe and Viani in Germany, made up 18pc of Glaxo’s sales last year with £5bn worth of the drug being sold across the world. Germany, which is Europe’s biggest pharmaceutical markets, accounted for £177m of Advair sales ...
• Canned Food Exposes You To BPA
  May 20, 2010 WebMD By Todd Zwillich A small study suggests people may be routinely exposed to the chemical bisphenol A through everyday consumption of canned goods. The study has food safety and consumer advocates calling for a crackdown on the chemical in a food safety bill expected to reach Senate ...
• Newborns Learn While Sleeping
  May 20, 2010 Fox News A study involving 26 one and two-day old newborns proved that babies take in the stimuli around them not only while they’re awake, but also while they’re asleep, the Telegraph reported. In the experiment by the University of Florida, scientists tested the babies’ abilities to r ...
• Viagra Decreases Hearing
  May 20, 2010 Reuters By Frederik Joelving A new US study suggests men who take Pfizer’s Viagra (sildenafil) or similar drugs for erectile dysfunction may double their chances of hearing impairment, bolstering a Food and Drug Administration warning from 2007 about this side effect. High doses of Viag ...
• Prescription Drug Use Increasing With Children
  May 20, 2010 Reuters By Bill Berkrot NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) – Children were the leading growth demographic for the pharmaceutical industry in 2009, with the increase of prescription drug use among youngsters nearly four times higher than in the overall population, according to a report by Medco ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• No one knows fascism better than Israelis
  Bradley Burston writes: No one knows fascism better than Israelis. They are schooled, drilled in the history, the mechanics, the horrendous potential of fascist regimes. Israelis know fascism when they see it. In others. They might well have expected when fascism began taking root here, it would a ...
• Freedom Flotilla heading for Gaza
  At Electronic Intifada, Ewa Jasiewicz writes: Later this month, ships from all over the world will converge in the Mediterranean and set sail for the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. This international coalition is called the Freedom Flotilla. The Free Gaza Movement has sailed eight missions to G ...
• Israel is falling out of the concert circuit
  This could mark a significant tipping point in the BDS movement — not just the support from big name artists such as Elvis Costello, but the fact that others who might not voice support are simply deciding that it is not in their commercial interests to perform in Israel. Costelloâs action [cance ...
• The curse of American support
  Yonatan Touval, one of the Israelis behind the Geneva Initiative, clearly articulates the degree and ways in which Israel has suffered as a result of its special relationship with the United States. His hope is that Obama might correct the imbalance in the relationship and make it one based on genui ...
• “For the world has changed, and we must change wit ...
  Back in the days when Barack Obama scored political points for setting the right tone and hitting the right notes, this was one of his best lines, it’s significance underlined by the fact that it came in his inauguration speech. … the world has changed, and we must change with it. From America the ...

Watts Up With That?

• Editorializing about the Editorial
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I just got my printed copy of the May 7th issue of Science Magazine, and I read their Editorial. This is the issue that contained the now-infamous Letter to the Editor with the Photoshopped image … Continue reading →
• Visualizing Arctic Coverage
  By Steve Goddard In recent articles, I have have been discussing GISS’ claim that their divergence from Had-Crut over the last decade is due to better Arctic coverage. They use the two images below to justify their claims. The GISS … Continue reading →
• Pew poll: 2 of 3 Americans think Congressional act ...
  From the Pew Research Center. I wonder if Senator Kerry has seen this. Once again, climate change is dead last. Since energy comes in second, watch now as “climate change” gets morphed into “energy needs” as the new target of … Continue reading →
• NOAA goes for National Press Club with hurricane o ...
  It looks like they aren’t monkeying around. After delaying the release this week, NOAA plans to showcase the news in a more “robust” setting. Contact:          Susan Buchanan, NOAA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 301-713-0622                                        ...
• A “warmist” scientist embraces the Hea ...
  As many know, I recently returned from ICCC4. It has taken me a couple of days to get back on track and I want to share over the next couple of days, some of the things I saw there. One … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Rocket Kirchner: Black Horse Blues
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) 8jimi8 — May 21, 2010 Rocket Kirchner: Black Horse Blues see Rocket Kirchner: Times Beach Filed under: Dandelion Salad Featured Writers, Dandelion Salad Posts News Politics and-or Videos 2, Da ...
• The man that “shoed” Bush
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com TheRealNews May 22, 2010 â Muntadhar Al-Zaidi from Beirut: I expected to be killed the day I threw my shoes at Bush. Muntadhar al-Zaidi (Arabic: Ù…Ùتظر اÙزÙدÙâ Muntaáºar az-ZaydÄ«) was an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served ...
• The Truth Shall Not be Spoken in Arizona by Glen F ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1097951 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Black Agenda Radio Commentaries 19 May 2010 As Arizona moves past the “tipping point” of non-white population, its government scrambles to safeguard historical white lies f ...
• Chossodovsky: Obama doesn’t want a nuclear f ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica May 21, 2010 â During the Cold War, both the United States and Russia placed tactical nuclear weapons in certain parts of Europe. It’s basically a small nuclear bomb that could demolish a major city, Russia took back to its own weapons stockpiles. How ...
• Chris Hedges: Is America Yearning for Fascism?
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1097416 with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Mary 21, 2010 golefttv May 20, 2010 — The similarities between the former Bush Administration and those of a fascist government were overwhelming. And when a recent billboard popped up with a photo of W a ...

Your New Reality

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  Riot Dog If you've been watching footage of the Greece Riots, and you keep seeing that a dog darting amongst protesters and squaring up to the police and you've been thinking, 'Weird, that dog looks so familiar', you're right. He is familiar. Because he's been out front of numerous protests and ma ...
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  Glenn Beck's Star Fading Fast As Advertisers Bail Don't let anybody ever tell you that boycotting corporations doesn't work. It does work. If you don't like how a corporation whose products and services you buy and use spend their avertising dollars, you can stop giving them money and tell them exa ...
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  The War On Nipples, Or The 2010 British Elections By Darryl Mason Brits have gone to the polls today to elect a new government. As you may already be aware, the rise of the Liberal Democrats party to almost equal pegging with prime minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party shows just what sort of chaos ...
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  Why NeoCons Hate Rand Paul From Agence Global : Rand Paul says, "I would have voted no on the Iraq War." He also says, in a video posted prominently on his campaign website, that he'll push for formal declarations, with House and Senate votes, before the launch even of wars he might favor. He sa ...
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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 ...

Wired - Science

• White-Light Solar Flares Finally Explained
  The flashes of white light accompanying some solar flares are caused by the sun’s acceleration of electrons to speeds greater than half the speed of light. The phenomenon’s new explanation derives from data recorded from a 2006 solar flare. The presence of high-energy X-rays in the same spot that ...
• Congress Opens Investigation into Genetic Testing ...
  A Congressional committee opened an investigation of three direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies this week. The House’s Committee on Energy and Commerce sent requests to the CEOs of 23andme, Navigenics, and Pathway Genomics for a wide array of information about the companies’ services. The ...
• First Hints of Comets Circling Other Stars
  A flying observatory has taken the first ultrasharp images of rings of cold debris around sunlike stars. The doughnut-shaped rings appear to be extrasolar analogues of the Kuiper belt, the outer solar system’s reservoir of comets and other frozen bodies. The newly observed rings are either left ove ...
• EPA Orders BP to Use Less Toxic Oil Dispersant
  The Environmental Protection Agency ordered British Petroleum to change the type of dispersant the company is using to keep oil from reaching American shores. The EPA gave the company 72 hours to switch to a less toxic chemical for use in breaking up oil slicks. Persistent questions about the toxic ...
• Lightning May Cause Hallucinations
  Talk about a flash of insight. Lightning strokes could stimulate people’s brains and cause them to hallucinate bright blobs of light the same way a medical procedure that applies magnetic fields to the brain does, two physicists propose. The findings could help explain some reports of “ball lightni ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Police interrogators tortured suspected Israeli Ar ...
  Yesterday the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court extended Makhoul's remand for another five days. It also extended the remand of the other suspect in the case, Dr. Omar Saeed, until Sunday, and extended... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• US Congress approves Obama funding for Iron Dome d ...
  The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of President Barack Obama's plans to help Israel fund the deployment of the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. Lawmakers, by a 410-4... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• US Congress approves Obama funding for Iron Dome d ...
  The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of President Barack Obama's plans to help Israel fund the deployment of the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. Lawmakers, by a 410-4... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Obama to Jewish lawmakers: No imposed peace plan
  [F]rom a military and intelligence-sharing perspective, the Obama administration is the best U.S. administration Israel has ever had. Administration critics were trying to distort that, he said, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Gideon Levy: Democracy according to Reichman
  Gideon Levy on Israeli-style democracy, one that is run by a military elite: "After we sent Prof. Noam Chomsky away, and there was no sharp rebuke by Israeli academics (who in their silence support a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian warship repels simulated air strike
  The heavy nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great) and the Guards guided missile cruiser Moskva conducted a tactical exercise in the eastern sector of the Indian Ocean and repelled a simulated air strike
• Russia postpones Bulava missile tests until Novemb ...
  Russia has postponed test launches of the troubled Bulava ballistic missile until November this year, the Russian defense minister said on Friday
• China to train Indonesian pilots for Su-family fig ...
• Russia to start licensed production of foreign mil ...
  Russia will launch in July the licensed production of thermal imagers developed by a French firm as part of efforts to gain access to advanced foreign technologies, a Russian daily said on Friday
• Russia set to keep Typhoon class nuclear subs unti ...
  Russia's Typhoon class strategic nuclear-powered submarines will remain in service with the Navy until 2019, the Navy commander said on Friday.

NewsWise

• Silica Cages Help Anti-Cancer Antibodies Kill Tumo ...
  Packaging anti-cancer drugs into particles of chemically modified silica improve the drugs' ability to fight skin cancer in mice, according to new research. Results published May 3 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society online show the honeycombed particles can help anti-cancer antibodies p ...
• Researchers Build Mathematical Models for Cancer T ...
  South Dakota State University mathematicians are helping doctors of the Mayo Clinic build mathematical models to fine-tune an innovative strategy to treat cancer.
• NIH Funds Multicenter "Glue Grant" to Study Enzyme ...
  A multi-institutional team of researchers, including scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has received a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) "Glue Grant" to develop a strategy for discovering the structure and function of unknown enzymes identified in ...
• Toyota's $50 Million Investment in Tesla a Good Mo ...
  The long-term viability of a Tesla plant is almost entirely dependent on legislation to force people to drive zero-emission vehicles. Art Wheaton, senior extension associate in workforce, industry and economic development in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on ...
• Scientists Make Important Step Toward Stopping Pla ...
  They might not be known for their big brains, but fruit flies are helping to make scientists and doctors smarter about what causes Huntington's disease and how to treat it. New research, published in the journal GENETICS describes a laboratory test that allows scientists to evaluate large numbers of ...

Intel Trends

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Senate Vote on Historic Financial Reform Critical ...
  The Senate's approval of an historic financial reform bill last night is a first step toward preventing the excessive financial speculation that has wreaked havoc in agricultural commodity futures contracts over the last several years, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Cli ...
• Is Obama Serious About Ending the War on Drugs?
  Obama has promised to do away with the war on drugs. So far, policy is lagging. Click here to read this article
• A New Source Of Dioxins: Anti-Bacterial Soap Combi ...
  Manufacturers have been adding the germ fighter triclosan to soaps, hand washes, and a range of other products for years. But here's a dirty little secret: Once it washes down the drain, that triclosan can spawn dioxins. Click here to read this article
• Santa Clara County (CA) Begins the Fast Food Toy R ...
  Any parent who has ever driven by a McDonald's with little ones in the back seat knows how hard it can be to resist the lobbying, often made even worse due to the marketing of toys with Happy Meals. And of course, other fast food chains also lure kids in with the latest installment of some toy serie ...
• FDA Argues Feds Can Deny Consumers the Right to Bu ...
  Attorneys for the federal government have argued in a lawsuit pending in federal court in Iowa that individuals have no "fundamental right" to obtain what food they choose. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Café de Colombia (21 fotografías de un elixir exót ...
  En este paquete, usted encontrará 21 fotografías sobre el Café de Colombia. Ese fruto de color rojo o amarillo que tras un largo proceso se convierte en granos de color café precisamente. Después se tritura finamente hasta conseguir un polvo el cual será la base para conseguir esa bebida arómatica.. ...
• Rostros de mujeres (29 fotografías de chicas muy l ...
  En este paquete, usted encontrará 29 fotografías de chicas muy hermosas. Citaré como ejemplo a la actriz Emma Watson de Harry Potter y esta chica guapa de Avatar que no me acuerdo cómo se llama, pero que me encanta. Por supuesto que hay otras lindas nenas que de igual forma son parte de esta... ...
• Viajando por el fondo del océano (Mundo Marino)
  Este paquete, incluye 14 fotografías en alta definición (HD) las cuales están plenamente relacionadas con algunos animales que viven en el fondo del océano. En esta sesión fotográfica, usted encontrará a Nemo y a otros lindos seres que comparten el mismo ecosistema.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la... ...
• Imágenes de flores para el Día de las Madres (reco ...
  He aquí nuestro especial de flores para el Día de las Madres. En algunos países como España se celebra el primer domingo de mayo y en México festejamos a nuestras madrecitas el día 10 de mayo. Con la intención de que usted tenga a su alcance las mejores imágenes de flores, he realizado esta... ...
• Increíble colección de fotografías en color sépia
  Como un reconocimiento especial a mi cámara Nikon D40X, hoy deseo compartir con ustedes 33 fotografías que seleccioné de mis contínuos viajes por algunos lugares preciosos de Canadá. Las imágenes han sido editadas en Corel Paint Shop Pro para darles ese toque de color sépia que tanto me gusta.... ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• A Word on Maqaleh
  by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Following my co-blogger Ken Anderson’s lead, I wanted to add a few additional notes on the D.C. Circuit’s holding today that a group of detainees held at the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, do not have a constitu ...
• Should We Expand the Duties of Defenders in the La ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku During a conference earlier this week at Northwestern on Israel and International law, NYU law professor Samuel Estreicher presented an interesting proposal to shift the focus of the law of armed conflict toward the duties of defenders.  Arguing that most of the law (or ...
• No Habeas Jurisdiction at Bagram
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I’m sure others here at OJ will have more detailed views, but … the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has handed down its opinion in Al Maqaleh v. Gates.  Chief Judge David Sentelle’s opinion (joined by Judge David Tatel and Senior Judge Harry Ed ...
• EJILTalk Discussion of ‘The Rise of Internat ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In the category of advertisements for myself … Julian was kind enough to mention that EJILTalk is hosting a discussion of an article of mine called The Rise of International Criminal Law, which appeared in EJIL last year as part of its 20th anniversary issu ...
• Naomi Campbell May Be Forced to Testify at Sierra ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This sounds like a bit of a publicity stunt by prosecutors at the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, but it could very well work. Prosecutors want to subpoena Miss Campbell to testify over claims she was given the “large” diamond by Taylor after a 1997 dinner hosted in ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• 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...

Public News Service

• Report: BP Can’t Be Singled Out
  Report: BP Can’t Be Singled Out A new report from Global Exchange, an environmental education and resource organization, sets the stage for a discussion about how the public may be misled… into thinking BP is the only oil production company with operations problems on its hands. The study gathered u ...
• A Whole Family Approach To Raising At-Risk Kids
  A Whole Family Approach To Raising At-Risk Kids Phoenix, AZ – It’s well-established that parents play a vital role in the education of their children. But some parents don’t have the needed literacy skills. A Phoenix-based foundation is focused on educating at-risk pre-school kids and their parents. ...
• Doctor Has Advice for Arizonans During American St ...
  Doctor Has Advice for Arizonans During American Stroke Month Phoenix, AZ - May is American Stroke Month, and the American Stroke Association wants people to recognize the risk factors for stroke and learn the warning signs. Only heart disease, cancer and accidents kill more people in Arizona than st ...
• A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Rel ...
  A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Relief Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is in the top half of states for food hardship — the lack of money to buy food that families need — according to the Food Research and Action Center. Thousands of Arizona letter carriers will try to fix that with their annual one-day fo ...
• Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law
  Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law Phoenix, AZ – A delegation of Arizona political, faith, human rights, business and labor leaders travels to the nation’s capital today (Tuesday) for a meeting with Justice Department officials, urging them to invalidate Arizona’s tough new immigration ...

My Care2 Picks

• Depleted Uranium in Iraq : Women Being Warned Not ...
  The curse of Fallujah: Women warned not to have babies because of rise in birth defects since U.S. assault. ( U.S.. vets have received no such warning - but may have been exposed to radiation on deployments regardless, affecting personal health also ) Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...
• Chemicals in Plastic Can Cause Weight Gain
  Bisphenol A has been in the news lately. But MSM has been obscuring it's link to childhood obesity. This would be a good time to review the studies that link the chemical to weight gain and metabolism disruption in humans. Submitted by Gravitas S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
• Treat Welfare System Like Criminal Justice System
  Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. The Blackstone ratio guides our criminal justice system. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Military-Industrial-Media-Government Complex
  Six days ago the Ottawa Citizen ran an article "End the Inquisition" by Paul Chapin but failed to mention he was also the author of the very detainee agreement he was defending.Bercuson advised Iggy to clamp down on Lib defence critic Ujjal Dosanjh Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� ...
• 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 �| ...

Angry Indian News

• These Streets Are Watching
  These Streets Are Watching | Documentary Heaven: "However, if nothing else, cop watch can and will and does inform citizens of their lefts as citizens. Informs citizens of what is proper police... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Rand Paul hedges on support for 1964 Civil Rights ...
  Rand Paul hedges on support for 1964 Civil Rights Act | Raw Story: Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul, fresh off his primary victory in Kentucky, defended his criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• NAACP president: Texas curriculum will turn world ...
  NAACP president: Texas curriculum will turn world ‘upside down’ for kids | Raw Story: "Previewing the tone of his testimony in Austin on Wednesday ahead of a crucial vote, NAACP president Ben Jealous... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Nightmare scene as oil smothers Louisiana wetlands
  Nightmare scene as oil smothers Louisiana wetlands | Raw Story: "Crude oil spread through fragile US marshlands Thursday, a month after a drilling rig blast released a devastating spill that now... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• 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...]]

Farm Wars

• Geese Recover from GMO Feed
  By Barbara H. Peterson For those who remember, I spoke some time ago about how I fed my geese GMO corn for a winter, and the following breeding season, they were aggressive, fighting all the time, and wouldn’t sit a nest for long. One female had 2 babies, but lost both. One was physically deformed. ...
• Flash Bulletin: Corexit is Killing the Gulf
  The very obvious point Mr. Obama, is you should have saved our Gulf of Mexico, by making sure Transocean, Halliburton, and British Petroleum had absolutely nothing to do with the clean-up efforts, rather than making them pay to turn the Gulf into a dead zone.
• Completely Synthetic Life Form – Synthia is Alive ...
  In a paper published today in the journal Science, the J. Craig Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics Inc announced the laboratory creation of the world's first self-reproducing organism whose entire genome was built from scratch by a machine.
• 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?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Did Harvard Faker Write Fake Comments on Article A ...
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on May 22, 2010 12:05 AM
• McNamee to meet with grand jury investigating Clem ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on May 22, 2010 12:05 AM
• Hockey Kid Mikey: Anatomy of a deception (outsport ...
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on May 22, 2010 12:05 AM
• A Call for a Facebook Users Bill of Rights (sfgate ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on May 21, 2010 9:05 PM
• In Baghdad Ruins, Remains of a Cultural Bridge (Th ...
  Noted by Nathan Deuel on May 21, 2010 9:05 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• BP oil spill reaches delicate wetlands of Louisian ...
  ShareThis BP oil spill reaches delicate wetlands of Louisiana --Local reports described heavy sheets of oil clogging marshes in Mississippi delta that provide haven for migratory birds 21 May 2010 Thick sheets of crude oil spread through the delicate wetlands of Louisiana today, as the BP oil spill ...
• Pakistan catering company may be linked to terrori ...
  ShareThis Pakistan catering company may be linked to terrorism, U.S. embassy says 22 May 2010 Pakistan has detained at least four people suspected of links with a failed bid to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, including one who worked for a catering company servicing embassies in Islam ...
• US vows punishment for North Korea over ship sinki ...
  ShareThis US vows punishment for North Korea over ship sinking 20 May 2010 The US state department says there "will definitely be consequences" for North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. The North is facing international condemnation after investigators blamed it for t ...
• Israeli planes attack Gaza Strip
  ShareThis Israeli planes attack Gaza Strip 20 May 2010 Israeli warplanes have launched several air strikes on the Gaza Strip, targeting different positions across the coastal enclave. Israeli warplanes bombed a training site in Al-Faraheen east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza strip, Press TV's corre ...
• Blast injures 3 Afghan children
  ShareThis Blast injures 3 Afghan children �21 May 2010�At least one Afghan civilian has been killed and three children wounded after a roadside bomb detonated in southern part of the country. The explosion occurred in Kandahar city on Friday morning, said Abdul Ali, an intelligence official who was ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• 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 ...

Mondoweiss

• Beinart has pushed the reset button on Israel
  The Beinart piece is huge. I have to admit it. I resisted; I didn’t see anything new in it, and it bugged me because it is the effort of a religious Jew to revive Zionism among young Jews, but it is huge. It has brought the news home to the Establishment that liberal Jews don’t [...]
• Did Specter’s blind support for Israel help ...
  This long political obit for Arlen Specter in the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia emphasizes that he always worked for Israel, sometimes "behind the scenes." Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America,�which has�helped destroy the two-state solution�by urging on the colonization of Jerusale ...
• Qumsiyeh: we’re reaching the ‘endgame& ...
  The view from the West Bank: "Looking out from my window," Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian professor and activist, said on a press call hosted by the Institute for Middle East Understanding yesterday, "I'm seeing the settlement of Har Homa, the largest Jewish settlement between Bethlehem and Jerusale ...
• It’s hard to blame your uncle when you&#8217 ...
  Yonatan Touval, one of the Israelis behind the Geneva Initiative, clearly articulates the degree and ways in which Israel has suffered as a result of its special relationship with the United States. His hope is that Obama might correct the imbalance in the relationship and make it one based on genui ...
• I drove four hours to hear about the Gaza flotilla
  Tuesday night, Sacramento-area activists Donna and Darlene Wallach spoke about their experiences working with the Free Gaza Movement at an event organized by Sacramento Area Peace Action. They traveled to Gaza by boat as part of FGM's first voyage in 2008, and stayed for several months while they wo ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
  A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]
• VRM: Massive Recall Of Children’s Tylenol Pr ...
  MASSIVE RECALL OF CHILDREN’S TYLENOL, MOTRIN, ZYRTEC & BENADRYL PRODUCTS UNDERWAY Raw materials used to make over-the-counter infant’s and children’s medications, which are subject to a massive recall, tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspe ...
• VRM: Australian Vaccine Scandal
  THE REAL REASON SO MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT PANVAX? CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT W ...
• VRM: Pregnancy Tips
  I was recently alerted by a newly pregnant mother of a child with Autism for tips on minerals & vitamins to help strengthen her immune system during the coming months. She believes vaccines were the cause of her child’s Autism and has begun a shift away from her GP. Based on all my research thus far ...
• VRM: Family Charts The Gradual Decline Of Daughter ...
  VACCINE CRIME: Family charts the gradual decline of daughter (b. 6-3-95) attributed to vaccine trauma: Hepatitis B/6-19-95 (rash), HBPV, OPV, DPT & Hepatitis B/7-27-95 (floppy limbs noted), DPT, HBPV & OPV/9-27-95 (floppiness persisted, outbreak of Eczema, dissociative autistic behavior), DPT & ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Don't Panic: New Study on Bisphenol A (BPA) in Can ...
  Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce All the blogs and newspapers are in a tizzy about a new study from the The National Work Group for Safe Markets, a coalition of public health and environmental health groups, that shows that BPA is in canned food. Inhabitat says "A disturbing study released t ...
• Gulf Spill Exclusive: Shocking Marine Life Destruc ...
  Photo by Brian Merchant It was just over one month ago that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig was rocked by a massive explosion that lead to the US's biggest environmental disaster in decades. After it became clear that the oil wasn't going to stop gushing from the undersea leak anytime soon ...
• Maybe Soil is Dirt After All: Words REALLY Do Matt ...
  Image credit: Slow Muse Wow. Clearly I am not the only one who spends too much time thinking about language. My post yesterday on why soil is not dirt garnered a whole bunch of responses —from those who agreed that "dirt" suggests a dead, inanimate substrate, to others who felt that "soil" is a ...
• How the World Might Look if Our Tech Writer Jaymi ...
  Joseph Ford and Antoine Mairot Photographer Joseph Ford and 3D Artist Antoine Mairot turn tech into buildings, dropping a PS3 into Berlin, a classic NES and our favourite: a solar powered, glass roofed Nintendo DS. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Six Bikers + 3,000 kilometers = One Huge Blow to G ...
  Riders from last year's Pacific Coast tour at the US-Mexico border. Photo credit: Global Agents for Change . Biking to make the world a better, greener place can mean commuting on two wheels instead of four. Or taking a ride for exercise and ditching the treadmill. Or it can mean biking 3,000 k ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Thai soldier shot dead by Burmese corporal
  Private based close to Thailand's northeastern Mae Sariang had reportedly refused to transport injured Burmese troops to hospital
• How to run a country like a business
  Cronies of the ruling junta in Burma have been richly rewarded by recent privatisation measures which look set to further blur the line between business and politics
• Veteran NLD politician dies
  Soe Myint, a member of the opposition party's central executive committee, has died from heart disease aged 87 at his house in Rangoon
• Burma flag ‘erases ethnic armies’
  Removal from post-election flag of 14 stars representing states and divisions in Burma symbolises 'the Burmanisation' of the country by the junta
• USDP begins election campaign
  Burmese prime minister Thein Sein's party allegedly coercring people to join as campaigning for the elections gets underway across the country

Telegraph - Climate Change

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

National Geographic | Environment

• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
  Thirty years after Mount St. Helens blew its top, the peak is still the second most dangerous volcano in the United States, according to government estimates. United States - Mount St. Helens - Volcano - Washington - England
• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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• Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill
  Evaporation, dilution, and oil-hungry bacteria are already combatting the Gulf slick, experts say.
• Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
  Twenty-five years later, the lingering "hole" over Antarctica is close to closing—but that may not be entirely a good thing. Antarctica - Antarctic - Polar Regions - Ozone depletion - Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

• Spain court convicts three Basque separatist group ...
  [JURIST] The Spanish National Court on Friday convicted [judgment, PDF; in Spanish] three members of the Basque separatist group ETA [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] on charges relating to a 2006 bombing in Madrid. Mattin Sarasola, Igor Portu, and Mikel San Sebastian were found gui ...
• Kyrgyzstan interim government approves draft const ...
  [JURIST] The interim government of Kyrgyzstan on Thursday approved a draft constitution [text, DOC; in Russian] that will shift power from the president to the prime minister. The draft constitution defines Kyrgyzstan as a secular state and limits the president to one six-year term in office. It als ...
• Thailand PM promises independent probe of violent ...
  [JURIST] Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Friday promised an independent investigation into recent clashes between anti-government protesters know as red shirts [BBC backgrounder] and security officials that left more than 80 dead. Abhisit discussed pl ...
• DC Circuit dismisses Bagram detainee habeas petiti ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday in Al Maqaleh v. Gates that detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base [official website; JURIST news archive] in Afghanistan cannot bring habeas corpus challenges in US courts. The circ ...
• Germany court rejects motion to dismiss charges ag ...
  [JURIST] A German court on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss charges against alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk [NNDB profile, JURIST news archive]. In a series of motions, Demjanjuk's lawyer asserted that the charges should be dismissed due to lack of credible evidence. The court rejected t ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Issa's Call For Special Prosecutor -- Does It ...
  Well, it depends on how you define merit. I looked at this issue a while ago, and here is what I concluded.� In essence, if this White House ascribes to a higher ethical standard, then it might want to agree to some investigation even if it believes there is no legal merit.� ...
• Great Writ Does Not Apply At Bagram
  A federal appeals court ruled this morning that detainees at the Bagram�Theater�Internment Facility are not entitled to challenge their status before a federal judge, handing the Justice Department a significant legal victory.� In a three-to-two opinion, the judges carefully reasoned their way thro ...
• Thought Of The Day: The Failure Of Post 9/11 Refor ...
  The Department of Homeland Security's growing pains are massive. The Senate report on the underpants fiasco is like a madlibs from the 9/11 commission report -- only this time we actually have a DNI and NCTC replacing the CIA and the FBI. We have neither fully embraced nor fully rejected tor ...
• Question Time w/ Marc Ambinder
  Ask me anything. Question Time - Ask an Expert - Politics - Technical Services - Metadata
• The Admiral's Listless Ship: The Demise Of De ...
  The outline of the story arc is familiar: Adm. Dennis Blair (ret) slowly lost confidence of the White House.� But it's also true that the White House was never able to provide Blair the support a DNI needs. The office doesn't have full budget and targeting authority, so it needs legitimacy, an ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
  Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
• Dershowitz for President…of Israel
  Yes, I kid you not. President of Israel.  The guy is a pure megalomaniac. On a related subject, this is the first news that Dershowitz may be considering Bibi’s urgent offer to become Israel’s chief UN flack otherwise known as ambassador: Last Saturday night, Dershowitz told Channel 1 (Israel Tele ...
• BP: British Polluters
  Related articles by Zemanta Greenpeace activists scale BP’s London headquarters in oil protest (guardian.co.uk) Related posts:Israeli Extreme-Right Threatens British Boycott I think these dudes are taking the David and Goliath... Israel Notified British Intelligence Before Hit, Dubai Threatens ...
• Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
  Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
• 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 ...

Ode Magazine

• The power of quotes
  By: VictoriaKlein “Don’t quote me on that.” Why not? A few choices words have the power to enamor, enrage, inspire, and inform. We quote people in articles, books, and on posters. Websites are abounding with the words of geniuses past . The knowledge of ...
• Seniors share songs of heart, soul and experience
  By: Laura_Silver They want to take it higher. And they do. During their first full-fledged appearance in New York City, members of the Northampton, Massachusetts-based Young @ Heart Chorus — belted out a medley of pop songs from Blondie’s “Dreaming” to the Traveling Wilburys’ ...
• The three hearts of a Japanese man
  By: Charlie_Badenhop It's Friday night and I'm pretty certain my friend Tabata-san will be hanging out at the usual place, so I decide to go have a talk and perhaps a beer as well. Sure enough, I find him sitting with a couple of young men telling them what Judo us ...
• 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, ...

OpEd News

• The "Black Jail": Obamaapos;s Afghan Torture Cent ...
  A recent pair of articles by Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic has shed new light upon the secret "black jail" on the Bagram Air Base. Among other aspects, these new revelations suggest that psychologists may be playing a major role inside the facility, raising questions about the reasons for American P ...
• BP and Administration Lies, Deceit and Coverup in ...
  The Gulf is a crime scene, the Obama administration, BP and its conspiratorial partners sharing equal blame.
• Joe Libertelli on 9th Annual Human Rights Program, ...
  Our 9th Annual Human Rights program, is coordinated by Joshua Cooper, Ph D from the International Human and Peoplesapos; Rights Law Program based in Hawaii. The Human Rights course, which is non-credit-bearing and open to the public, features guest lectures from a wide variety of activists and huma ...
• Americans Must Share The Blame For Enabling B.P.
  Until Americans are willing to take a hard look at themselves, and take seriously their responsibilities to send honest men and women to Congress Corporate vultures will continue destroying what still remains of Democracy
• Americans Must Share The Blame For Enabling B.P.
  Until Americans are willing to take a hard look at themselves, and take seriously their responsibilities to send honest men and women to Congress Corporate vultures will continue destroying what still remains of Democracy

Switchboard

• President Obama's Clean Car and Truck Announcement ...
  Today, I joined NRDC’s David Doniger, Annie Notthoff, and Pete Altman at the White House Rose Garden, where President Obama announced the next step in his administration’s efforts to reduce vehicle pollution that contributes to global warming and health impacts.   You can read David’s ...
• The United States calls for an Earth Summit for Yo ...
  While attending the preparatory meetings for the 2012 Earth Summit this week in NY, I had the opportunity to learn how countries around the world view the next summit on sustainable development. The United States provided a point of interest in the meeting, highlighting the role of yo ...
• Biking to Work in D.C.
  As usual I took the Metro and walked to work this week, but a lot of others took their bikes to the streets of D.C. to make the trek to and from work. Yesterday we filmed a brief video about biking in D.C. for the Mobility Choice coalition. Check it out: ...
• Gulf Coast Disaster: Afternoon News Round-Up, May ...
  Highlights -Are lab tests objective for oil spill? - BP collecting less oil from oil spill - Rand Paul scorches Obama for criticizing BP - Obama: Gulf spill underscores need for alternative energy sources Quotable quote: "And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in th ...
• White House Announces New Clean Car and Truck Peac ...
  Almost exactly a year after the historic clean car peace treaty of last May, President Obama today announced two major new steps to reduce America’s carbon pollution and oil dependence.    The president instructed the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Sa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Is Kagan Anti-Military?
  What Robert Merrill said. HT to Tom Ricks. Related posts:One More Kagan Point Military Affairs Reading List And a Brief Military Assessment… Related posts: One More Kagan Point Military Affairs Reading List And a Brief Military Assessment…
• Zombie Henry Clay: Rand Paul is an Embarrassment t ...
  If Luke Russert continues to score points off the state of Kentucky’s leading Senate candidate, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Clay get up, leave his tomb, and appear himself on this week’s Meet the Press: Twitter is abuzz with word that Rand Paul is trying to cancel his appearance this Sund ...
• Gender, Militarization and Pac-Man
  As Google reminded us today with its first interactive doodle (yes, you can actually play it), today is the 30th anniversary of Pacman’s release in Japan. Originally “Puck-Man,” the game was released in the US in 1980 and along with it its successor, Ms. Pac-Man, became an icon of 80s pop culture, s ...
• Kagan and Privacy
  On the narrow point at issue, I agree with Yglesias and Greenwald that the conflation of sexual identity with someone’s “sex life” is silly. I’m reminded of my favorite example of this, opponents of gay and lesbian rights attacking John Kerry for mentioning things about Mary Cheney that were alleg ...
• Hitting Back on the Libertarian Nonsense
  Nice, from Jack Conway: Less than 48 hours after Tuesday’s primary election and it’s already become painfully clear: Rand Paul’s narrow and rigid ideology would have dangerous consequences for Kentucky’s working families, veterans, students, disabled citizens, and anyone without a voice in the halls ...

Desert Research Institute

• Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
  Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.
• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
• The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
  The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.
• Mercury Depletion Events at the Dead Sea
  Researchers characterize atmospheric mercury depletion events at the Dead Sea in Israel and the atmospheric chemistry responsible for these events.
• Storm Peak Lab Contributes Data to Microbe Researc ...
  Using data collected at DRI's Storm Peak Lab, researchers have found that airborne microbial diversity is much greater than expected.

Earth Techling

• Greenhouse Gas Converted into Fuel?
• High-Capacity Solar Charger Juices Up Your Portabl ...
• Smart Grid Enables Pay-As-You-Go Electricity
• When the Wind Stops, Tennessee Buys It
• Electric Vehicles Merge Intro Maryland’s Fastlane

National Law Journal | U.S.

• 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 ...
• WEST COAST REPORT
  The clouds may be beginning to break over the West Coast. That's the forecast of our special report on the state of the legal market in California, Oregon and Washington. Silicon Valley seems to be leading the rebound, but other regions — including Los Angeles and San Diego — are also catching a sec ...
• Chadbourne continues its raids on corporate law de ...
  Chadbourne & Parke has brought in executives from The Walt Disney Co. and General Electric Co., the latest in a series of hires from in-house legal departments to augment its growing intellectual property department.
• Interior Department sued over BP oil spill
  As lawsuits over the BP oil spill mount, a group of conservationists and fishermen have a new target: the U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service. A suit filed in federal court Tuesday charges that the agency violated federal law by exempting oil companies that drill in the Gulf of ...
• Before nomination, Skadden lawyers interviewed Kag ...
  Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan submitted her answers Tuesday to a background questionnaire from the Senate Judiciary Committee — opening windows into her year as solicitor general, her finances, and the nominating process. Her 202 pages of answers, along with boxes of supporting documents, will f ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• 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 [...]

News Blaze

• Sports Book Gambling: Making the Most of Your Las ...
  Before placing a sports book bet, decide which sport you know the most about and which one you feel confident placing a bet on.
• Exchange Hosting Brings Your Business Up to Speed
  Imagine trying to find an IT expert on the weekend or late at night to fix a bug in your internet server system.
• U.S. Delegation to the World Telecommunication Dev ...
  Ambassador Verveer will be joined by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and other State Department, FCC, DHS and NTIA officials.
• Strategic Dialogue Between The United States and I ...
  Senior delegations from across both governments will come together to discuss a range of issues critical to our shared future, including agriculture, energy, education, trade, and counterterrorism.
• Counterterrorism and al-Qa'ida: The US Strategic R ...
  Counterterrorism: Confronting a Resilient al-Qa'ida: The United States Strategic Response

environment 360

• ‘Significant’ Warming Has Occurred In World’s Ocea ...
  The upper layer of the world’s oceans has warmed significantly since 1993 , a strong indicator of how the planet is heating up, according to a new study of the heat contained in the seas. After analyzing numerous estimates of heat in the upper ocean — from the surface to a depth of about 2,000 feet ...
• Large Area of Canadian Forest To Be Protected Unde ...
  Canadian timber companies, environmental organizations, and indigenous “first nations” groups have reached a landmark compromise that will suspend logging in an area of boreal forest the size of Montana and implement more sustainable logging practices in an even larger region. Under the Canadian Bor ...
• Google Directly Invests In Wind Power Project in N ...
  Google has invested $39 million in a 160-megawatt wind farm in North Dakota, marking the first time that the search engine giant has made a direct investment in a wind energy project . Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has previously invested in renewable energy startups, such as the solar the ...
• Interview: Unlocking Secrets from the Ice in a Rap ...
  Earlier this year, climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson led an expedition to drill into glacial ice on the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the world’s fastest-warming regions. Working for 42 days in frigid temperatures at 6,500 feet, Mosley-Thompson and her six-person team encountered numerous hardships ...
• Unlocking Secrets from the Ice In a Rapidly Warmin ...
  Earlier this year, climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson led an expedition to drill into glacial ice on the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the world’s fastest-warming regions. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , Mosley-Thompson explains what the Antarctic ice cores may reveal and describes what i ...

Red Ice Creations

• Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick - Worse Than BP Ad ...
• Lucifer Rising
• Rajendra Pachauri says glaciers mistake in IPCC re ...
• Power vs. Privacy: Smart grid could turn appliance ...
• The Mysterious ’Miami Circle’

Russia Today

• Drivers protest against flashing blue lights of Mo ...
  Car owners in the Russian capital are holding protests over the use of flashing blue lights on the cars of Moscow's top officials.
• Dyslexia – changing perceptions from idleness to i ...
  When Russian schoolchildren struggle with reading and writing, parents and teachers often assume they are either lazy or just slow to learn, while in many other countries they would be checked for dyslexia.
• Battlefields contaminated with depleted uranium br ...
  Depleted uranium has been used for nearly 20 years as sub-ammunition of artillery shells in international conflicts like the two Iraq Wars and the NATO conflict with Serbia, but the long-term effects of it are unknown.
• Village sliced by Ukraine-Russia border calls for ...
  The community of a village located on the Ukrainian-Russian border has been divided into two parts for almost 20 years. With no gas or water supplies on the Ukrainian side, they are desperately trying to reunify.
• Corporations fight over oil leak as spill continue ...
  A month after a BP oil rig explosion led to crude oil being pumped directly into the Gulf of Mexico, the scandal over who is to blame for it is only gathering momentum.

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

• Venter’s Artificial Lifeforms
  Craig Venter finally accomplished his goal of creating an artificial lifeform. Yesterday, his company posted a paper on how they did it, and it’s implications: The first microbe to live entirely by genetic code synthesized by humans has started proliferating at a lab in the J. Craig Venter Institut ...
• 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. ...

Tippers News

• Humpback whales embark on 13,000km round trip
  Wildlife officers at the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) are preparing for another busy whale season as the annual migration of whales from Antarctica to warmer waters off Western Australia's northern coast gets underway. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Dedicated Scot Debbie Banks has spent 14 years bat ...
  IT is one of the world's most awe-inspiring, deadly and magnificent beasts. But when it has been slaughtered and chopped up to be sold on the black market, the mighty tiger is also the most vulnerable and endangered animal on Earth. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Earth Picture Galleries
  Animal pictures of the week: 21 May 2010 Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The week in wildlife (18 pictures)
  The world's smallest lily saved by Kew Gardens, the world's smallest wallaby - all creatures, flora and fauna great and small are celebrated this week to mark the the International Day for Biological Diversity Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 6 BLACK RHINO RETURN HOME TO TANZANIA
  A project to reintroduce rhinos back into Tanzania will begin this Friday when the first 6 will be relocated from South Africa in what will be one of the largest ever translocations. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Me on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Comstock Case
  My old friend Gard Goldsmith interviews me on some hot topics at Liberty Conspiracy. Listen here.
• Obama to Impose Fuel Rules by Exec Order
  “President Obama has decided to use his executive power to order tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, accelerating the fight against climate change without waiting for Congress, administration officials said Thursday.” (New York Times, Friday) Why wait for Congress to commit the st ...
• Financial Regulation Overhaul Gets through Senate
  “The Senate on Thursday approved a far-reaching financial regulatory bill, putting Congress on the brink of approving a broad expansion of government oversight of the increasingly complex banking system and financial markets.” (New York Times, Friday) Let the âunintended consequencesâ watch comm ...
• Antifederalists Vindicated
  If the Antifederalists were still on the scene today, they might be saying -- as they would have been saying right along -- "Told you so."
• Hello? Ever Hear of Regulatory Capture?
  Throughout the BP oil spill catastrophe it’s been tedious witnessing government officials’ expressing surprise on learning that the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service has for years held the roles of both watchdog over and business partner with the oil companies in their drilling opera ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Tips for HTML5, part 3: Tags we won’t see anymore
  Continuing with this series of brief posts about the future of HTML (and what our students will need to know about it), I’m going to mention a few of the HTML tags that will be going away — no longer supported — with HTML5. For a very attractive and clearly organized “cheat sheet” for HTML5 tags, s ...
• 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 ...
• Book review: Getting Started with Audacity 1.3
  For multimedia reporting, I use only a few software applications in teaching: Audacity, Photoshop, Soundslides, and Windows Movie Maker or iMovie. These are entry level, and mostly free. (The reason we teach Photoshop instead of a free app is because Photoshop is the industry standard in journalism. ...
• What you should know about HTML5 today
  If you teach online journalism, you’ve probably been hearing questions from students about the validity of what they are learning today. If you’re teaching Web design for current standards and current browsers, they are asking, “What about HTML5 and CSS3?” If you’re teaching Flash, they are aski ...
• HTML5 demystified
  This slideshow provides a really clear overview of what HTML5 includes, why it’s exciting, and when browser support can be expected. The slideshow was produced by Derek Bender.

Facing South

• Black clouds over the Gulf: Is burning the BP oil ...
  Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama flew over the Gulf of Mexico this week with pilot Tom Hutchings of SouthWings to continue documenting the unfolding ecological catastrophe from the BP oil spill. Leaving the coast of Alabama and looking toward Florida, they saw clear seas. But they ...
• VOICES: Why everyone should know about Kamau March ...
  Who is Kamau Marcharia a.k.a. Robert John Lewis and why should anyone care about him? And, how did he get tangled up in sex offender punishment and politics, voting rights litigation and school board representation, nuclear energy, race politics and black versus white representation, name-calling ...
• Why Rand Paul's views on civil rights are no surpr ...
  How fast things can change. Just two days ago, Tea Party favorite Rand Paul was celebrating his stunning victory in Kentucky's primary to run as the GOP's candidate for U.S. Senate. Now Rand is fending off questions about why, in two successive media interviews, he suggested that the Civil Rig ...
• State Policy Watch: Alabama and Kentucky close tou ...
  NOTE: With state legislative sessions coming to a close, in the coming weeks Facing South will be offering reports on key policy decisions in Southern states. The following comes from the excellent weekly dispatch published by the Progressive States Network . Session Roundup: ALABAMA Alabama's thr ...
• Primary Watch: What happened in Arkansas?
  As The Four Seasons said , "Oh, What a Night!" Yesterday's primary elections were marked by big anti-incumbent upsets, and one of the most interesting was the Democratic U.S. Senate contest in Arkansas, where incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln received only 45% of the vote, forcing a run-off with upst ...

  Blacklisted News

• US vows punishment for North Korea over ship sinki ...
  The US state department says there "will definitely be consequences" for North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
• Wealth gap spurs revolts across Asia
  Peasants left out of region's economic miracle are rising up against their rulers, creating widespread security threats
• Brazil-Turkey Deal with Iran Undermines Big Power ...
  When Brazil and Turkey clinched a deal with Iran over its disputed nuclear program last weekend, the two non-permanent members of the Security Council not only challenged the unbridled political power exercised by the five big powers but also jeopardized U.S. plans for a unanimous resolution imposin ...
• FDIC: 'Problem' Banks at 775
  A total of 775 banks, or one-tenth of all U.S. banks, were on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s list of "problem" institutions in the first quarter, as bad loans in the commercial real-estate market weighed on bank balance sheets.
• TD Ameritrade Clients Unable to Log In, Trade
  Still believe that ‘fatfinger’ nonsense from May 6 ?

The Intelligence Daily

• IMF chief says eurozone loan could force CONCESSIO ...
  European nations might need to surrender some control over public spending and other policies to...
• UK, The Golden Years: Two-thirds work past retirem ...
  More than two-thirds of adults plan to work on past the state pension age in a bid to improve their...
• Pfizer to cut 6000 more jobs and close factories
  Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Tuesday that it will reduce its staff by another 6,000 jobs and...
• Germany moves against short sellers
  German authorities on Tuesday night cracked down on what Berlin views as destablising speculation...
• Garlic, Chainsaws, and Victory Gardens
  By John Michael Greer The uncontrolled simplification of a complex system is rarely a welcome event...

My AntiWar

• America is unwise to dismiss the Tehran deal
  Summary: UN Security Council If the U.N. Security Council indeed goes for sanctions on Iran, the Iranian leaders will probably say, ?Well, we did agree to their plan, but they are interested only in shaking fists, not hands.? source: Hurriyet Daily Newsread more
• Iran letter to inform IAEA on declaration
  Summary: SoltaniyehIran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh Iran has formally announced its willingness to brief the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Islamic Republic’s tripartite nuclear deceleration. source: Press TVread more
• US Rifles Not Suited to Warfare in Afghan Hills
• Friday: 37 Iraqis Killed, 106 Wounded
• US Slams Blasphemous Facebook Images

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• America is unwise to dismiss the Tehran deal
  Summary: UN Security Council If the U.N. Security Council indeed goes for sanctions on Iran, the Iranian leaders will probably say, “Well, we did agree to their plan, but they are interested only in shaking fists, not hands.” source: Hurriyet Daily News read more
• Iran letter to inform IAEA on declaration
  Summary: Soltaniyeh Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh Iran has formally announced its willingness to brief the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Islamic Republic's tripartite nuclear deceleration. source: Press TV read more
• UN's Ban hopes Iran deal may bring atom settlement
  Summary: Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday he hoped Iran's deal to send some of its enriched uranium abroad may open the door to a negotiated settlement in a row with the West over its nuclear programme. source: Reuters, Istanbul read more
• India's course correction on Iran
  Summary: India should openly join hands with Turkey and Brazil in opposing the need for a continued push for UN sanctions against Iran. No doubt, the diplomatic initiative by Turkey and Brazil creates an altogether new situation and Indian diplomacy should grasp its importance and seize its pote ...
• China Plans to Keep Iran Oil Projects Moving Ahead
  Summary: BEIJING—China's biggest oil company is pressing ahead with oil-and-gas projects in Iran valued at billions of dollars, its top executive said, highlighting Beijing's strong economic ties to Tehran. source: The Wall Street Journal read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Striking New NASA Image of Gulf Spill Moving Towar ...
  A striking new image released by NASA today shows a massive column of oil extending out Southeast towards the open ocean. This column has not been visible in any satellite photos taken so far and will change the estimated extent...
• Massive Ancient Galaxy Stirs Mystery: Is the Unive ...
  Could the Universe be much older than we think? Early on its life it appears that our Universe was a place of puzzling extremes and seeming contradictions. That’s the conclusion scientists are drawing from new infrared observations of a very...
• Searching for Signs of the Dark Side of the Univer ...
  While the microwave background presumably originated 380,000 years after the Big Bang, gravitational wave background purportedly come directly from events in the first minute after the Big Bang. The cataclysmic Big Bang is believed to have created a flood of...
• Image of the Day: A View from 10 Billion B.C.
  The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the homesteaders of our Milky Way galaxy. The stars in Omega...
• Will Google Leapfrog Apple? Yes, History is Repeat ...
  Way back when, Internet search was dominated by Yahoo and Excite. Oh, yeah, and there was this tiny no-revenue startup called Google. Everyone thought search was about content; Google thought is was about technology. Guess who won? Fast forward to...

Natural News

• The best, and worst, laundry detergents with 1,4-d ...
  (NaturalNews) One of the major issues being tackled by consumer watchdog groups this year is the presence of 1,4-dioxane, a synthetic petrochemical carcinogen, in consumer products. Since hair care products, cleaning formulas and laundry detergents are all susceptible to containing this toxic chemic ...
• U.S. senate votes to maintain big pharma's monopol ...
  (NaturalNews) The United States Senate recently rejected two separate proposals that would have allowed the importation of cheaper medication from other countries, apparently in order to preserve a deal between the pharmaceutical industry and the White House. The proposals were part of a wider effor ...
• Coca-Cola's murderous record of anti-union activit ...
  (NaturalNews) Coca-Cola: to many, it is simply the all-American cola that everyone grew up drinking. Originally created in the late 1800s as a medicine, Coca-Cola eventually evolved into one of the world's most popular soft drinks. Besides being a very unhealthy beverage, Coca-Cola has another dirty ...
• Wild foods on camera: Saguaro cactus fruit picking ...
  (NaturalNews) If you've never seen a band of raw foodists picking wild saguaro cactus fruit, you're in for a real treat. When I used to live in Tucson, I went out with David Wolfe, Raw CEO and several other wild foods enthusiasts to pick raw saguaro cactus fruit from the Sonoran desert. It's one of ...
• Two-year-old toddlers being dosed up with antipsyc ...
  (NaturalNews) Children between the ages of two and five are being treated with antipsychotics at twice the rate they were ten years ago, according to a study conducted by researchers from Columbia University and published in the journal Health Affairs ."It is a worrisome trend, partly because very l ...

Threat Level

• No Contempt, No Jail for Spamming a Judge
  A federal appeals court has overturned a criminal contempt citation and 30-day sentence issued to a civil litigant who urged his followers to e-mail the judge presiding over the case. The case tested the reach of judicial contempt authority (.pdf) in the digital age. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap ...
• Google Launches Encrypted Search
  Google users can now run encrypted searches using the company’s flagship search site simply by navigating to https://www.google.com. UPDATE: Many users are being redirected to the non-encrypted main site — a function of Google rolling this out to all its servers. Also it is necessary to include WWW. ...
• Pennsylvania AG Dropping Twitter Subpoena
  Pennsylvania prosecutors are dropping their grand jury subpoena to Twitter demanding the identity of two account holders who used the microblogging service to criticize Attorney General Tom Corbett, a spokesman said Friday. Corbett, the Republican candidate for governor, was seeking to unmask the ac ...
• Appeals Court Halts ‘Hot News’ Publishing Order
  A federal appeals court on Thursday lifted a lower court’s order that a well-known financial news aggregator delay publication of prominent financial analysts’ buy and sell recommendations — stock picks that allowed the well-to-do the first crack at capitalizing on that trading research. The 2nd U.S ...
• Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperg ...
  Last month Adrian Lamo, a man once hunted by the FBI, did something contrary to his nature. He picked up a payphone outside a Northern California supermarket and called the cops. Someone had grabbed Lamo’s backpack containing the prescription anti-depressants he’d been on since 2004, the year he pl ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Pat Buchanan's Jewish Quota for the Supreme Court
  With President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan, some conservatives are lamenting the prospect of a United States Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice . But for Pat Buchanan , the corollary is that one religious group is being dangerously overrepresented on the nation's highest court. ...
• GOP's "Second Opinion" on Health Care Same as Firs ...
  Back in March, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his party's fall campaign to undo health care reform, declaring, "I think the slogan will be 'repeal and replace', 'repeal and replace.'" But a funny thing happened on the way to November. Surveys from Kaiser and Deloitte showed Ameri ...
• Rand Paul in Hot Oil over Un-American Comment
  Presidential bashing of corporate crime, corruption and greed is as American as apple pie. While Republican Teddy Roosevelt decried "malefactors of great wealth," his distant Democratic cousin FDR announced, "I welcome their hatred." But now just days after insisting the federal government had no ...
• Rand Paul in Hot Oil over Un-American Comment
  Presidential bashing of corporate crime, corruption and greed is as American as apple pie. While Republican Teddy Roosevelt decried "malefactors of great wealth," his distant Democratic cousin FDR announced, "I welcome their hatred." But now just days after insisting the federal government had no ...
• YouCut Deficit Sham is Cantor's Latest Gimmick
  Just days after he acknowledged the collapse of his effort to rebrand the GOP , House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) is resorting to yet another gimmick to resuscitate his party. On Wednesday, Cantor debuted " YouCut ," a campaign which promises that House Republicans will call for spending cuts ...

Blackspot News Feed

• 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.

Consortium News

• 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

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Palestinian economic boycott hits Israeli settlers ...
  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 dottin ...
• Khan Younis: 2 teens dead, soldier injured (Ma'an ...
  Two teenage Gaza residents were killed by Israeli forces as they snuck out of the Strip allegedly looking for work, Palestinian medics said on Friday. An Israeli military spokeswoman said ...
• Music stars' boycott rocks Israel (Vita Bekker, T ...
  Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is again drawing international condemnation - this time from the music industry. In what activists for Palestinian rights say is a major ...
• Palestinian nonviolence relies on global non-silen ...
  When will there be a Palestinian Gandhi? I'm often asked this question by people who sympathise with Palestinian suffering but are uncomfortable associating themselves with resistance mov ...
• Palestinian nonviolence relies on global non-silen ...
  When will there be a Palestinian Gandhi? I'm often asked this question by people who sympathise with Palestinian suffering but are uncomfortable associating themselves with resistance mov ...

Water - AlterNet

• Water Conflict Mounts in Ecuador
  The South American country is trying to decide who has the rights to water, who will control it, how will it be developed, and who will benefit.
• Till, Baby, Till: Gulf Oil Spill Spawns Biofuels I ...
  The only problem is that the corn ethanol industry has contributed substantially to its own version of Gulf pollution.
• Why Aren't We Using the Safest and Most Effective ...
  We should seriously question why BP is being allowed to use dispersants that are neither the most effective nor the safest.
• Could the Largest Oil Drilling Catastrophe Also En ...
  In its repair efforts BP has remained inattentive to deepwater drilling's natural nemesis -- methane hydrate.
• Whistleblower Sues to Stop Another BP Rig From Ope ...
  BP allegedly ignored warnings about its enormous Atlantis rig, and instead emphasized saving money.

Public Citizen in Texas

• NEGATIVE COURT RULING IN GEORGIA THROWS DOE’S NUCL ...
  U.S. Nuclear Reactor Projects In Line for Loan Guarantees Pose Major Risks to U.S. Taxpayers. The only taxpayer-backed loan guarantee bailout to be offered for new nuclear reactors – $8.3 billion for two reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia was dealt a setback in a decision by a Georgia judge that st ...
• Public Citizen Deputy Director David Power, Meliss ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• New study shows jobs from Kerry-Lieberman mostly i ...
  One point we often forget when debating climate change strategies is the major economic case for changing our economy to new, clean technology.  A new study has been released on the impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman bill, which we’ve never been so hot on, but it shows that despite what the chicken lit ...
• Week in Review
  Busy, busy, busy. Public Citizen staff have been making the rounds this week, traveling all over Texas in order to educate, empower, and organize citizens. From Beaumont to Dallas. From tar sands to the Public Utility Commission, we are working to protect the economic and environmental well-being of ...
• The Nuclear Energy-Promoting, Oil Drilling-Champio ...
  After half a year of delay, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are set to release their nuclear energy/cap-and-trade bill today. Until we see legislative text, we can comment only on the broad outline made available yesterday and an additional summary being circulated among legis ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• NASA planning to send "robonaut" to the moon
  NASA have revealed plans to send a humanoid robot to walk on the surface of the moon within 3 years. The robot would travel to the moon in a small lan...
• Girl chased by black panther through forest
  A 15-year-old girl has been left terrifed after being stalked by a panther through the forest of Dean in England. She'd been walking through the woodl...
• British policeman wins UFO investigation award
  Gary Heseltine has won the 2010 Disclosures Award for his database of UFO sightings by British police officers. Heseltine's interest in the phenomenon...
• 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced
  Scientists in the US have announced the development of the world's first synthetic living cell. The team developed and then transplanted "genetic soft...
• Creature discovered in Canadian town
  A peculiar creature has been discovered by hikers in the small Canadian town of Kitchenuhmaykoosib. The creature's body is covered in hair but its fac...

Grassroots

• Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy -part ...
  Overview: � Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy works with the Executive Director and the Director of Development and Communications (DDC) to recruit, develop, solicit and coordinate major individual contributors. The ADSP has specific responsibilities as detailed below. The ADSP may also ...
• Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid ...
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell is the founder and Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator of Other Worlds, which is a Grassroots International ally. She has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. Grassr ...
• 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 ...

Climate

• May 21, 2010
  Obama to Mandate Rules to Raise Fuel Standards (New York Times)  Pres. Obama has decided to use his executive power to order tougher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, accelerating the fight against climate change without waiting for Congress, administration officials said Thursday. ...
• May 21, 2010
  Obama to Mandate Rules to Raise Fuel Standards (New York Times)  Pres. Obama has decided to use his executive power to order tougher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, accelerating the fight against climate change without waiting for Congress, administration officials said Thursda ...
• 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 fue ...
• 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 Widening Rich- ...
• 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 Independent Comm ...

TomDispatch

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

Smirking Chimp

• Nationalize BP and Other Criminal Corporations
  The Supreme Court says that corporations have the same rights as individuals. When they misbehave, shouldn't they face consequences as serious as those imposed upon an individual? It goes without saying that a person who commits a crime ought to face punishment proportional to the offense. Large and ...
• Obama Foreign Policy: The Return of Third Way
  It's fortunate for President Obama that domestic events swamp international concerns because most voters don't care about what happens in countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan. For those of us who do, Obama's foreign policy stances often bewilder both the left and right - they are the internati ...
• Short Tales From Election Day Bizarro World
  � from Truthout Voters in Arkansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania went to the polls on Tuesday in one of the first big events of the upcoming 2010 midterm election season, so of course, the "mainstream" news media absolutely lathered itself in The Stupid. Before we get into the freshet of gibberish that ...
• What Dems Don't Want Mentioned in the Rand Paul/Ci ...
  Obviously, I agree with all of today's criticism of Rand Paul about his extremist position on the Civil Rights Act. However, let's be very clear here: Many Democrats (and, of course, most Republicans) support our system of laws that lets employers and private businesses discriminate against employee ...
• Campaign 2010: Where to Put Blame
  Perhaps the biggest political question in 2010 is whether the American people will blame the nation’s mess on the long-term impact of Ronald Reagan’s “government is the problem” ideology (and on his successors from the Bush Family) – or on Barack Obama for not solving enough of the problems in l ...

Paul Krugman

• Parties Change
  Where did the Dixiecrats go?
• Sticky Goodness
  A better measure of core inflation.
• Why Libertarianism Doesn't Work, Part N+1
  Accidents happen.
• Crying Fire! Fire! In Noah's Flood
  The deficit-and-inflation types won't take no for an answer.
• Thank You, Lloyd Blankfein
  FinReg: a qualified win.

No Quarter

• Richard Blumenthal, Liar
  / bumped up / I love it when Cafferty goes after a weasel. This one just happens to be the Democrat’s candidate for Senator from Connecticut. What is it about jock sniffers like Blumenthal who like to pretend they were brave when in fact he was and is a fucking coward. Five deferments? He’s right ...
• Religious Cop Gets a BruiserBume
  Bumped up Besides not being allowed to drive, or inherit , or divorce or gain custody of their children, Saudi women make up only 5% of the workforce, the lowest known rate on the planet. They cannot socialize with members of the opposite sex unless they are their husbands. To do so is a crime. [. ...
• Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest: The Latest Breakdown of Log ...
  Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has now published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more background details about John Huey and his constructive critiques in his first post published at NoQuarterUSA.net on January 5, 201 ...
• DOJ Machinations Coming To Light In NBP Case
  You may recall that during the 2008 Election, three New Black Panthers were arrested for voter intimidation in Philadelphia. Below is a recap of the situation at the time: Well, good. They were arrested. Seemed to be the right thing to do. Until the Department of Justice decided to drop the charge ...
• Grim November Tales
  From the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule and podcasts). � Correction. � Am told by Joe Brusuelas, of Brusuelas Analytics, that the market sell-off worldwide these last days was the smart money deciding to cash out of the long-side bets on a worldwide recovery in order to prepare for ...

Environmental Graffiti

• ADHD in Kids Linked to Pesticides in Food
  Eating healthy is getting tougher these days. New research shows that pesticides commonly found in foods such as frozen blueberries, fresh strawberries and celery can inc read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
• Volunteer Travel: Vacations That Make a Difference
  Ever dream of just packing a bag and taking off to parts unknown? Have aspirations of doing good while traveling like celebrities often do? Here are a few ideas... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Protect Your Dog From Sunburn
  It might seem like fur would be a good sunscreen, but dogs need protection from the sun's UV rays, too. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Set Up a Community Garden In Your Hometown
  Many communities are using community gardens to combat hunger in recessionary times. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Japan's Bizarre Street Fashion Trends
  Latest fashion trend on the streets of Japan is kind of weird though this has been liked by people there and they have been carrying it too. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Radio, TV Marti Seen as Bust
  Despite spending more than half a billion dollars over the last quarter century, U.S. government broadcasts to Cuba have gained only a tiny audience and have had virtually no effect on the island's politics, according to a new report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
• Multinational Oil, The US and Nigeria: A Crude Con ...
  In the wake of the environmental disaster caused by the 20 April explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the oil multinational was immediately pressured into providing adequate compensation by the US government. This is an experience palpably not shared by Nigerian people in the face of another ...
• The Relentless Pursuit of Extreme Energy
  A New Oil Rush Endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the Planet.
• Congress Sends Wrong Message to Iraq
  By supporting the establishment of U.S. consulates in the Kurdish region, Congress is meddling in Iraqi affairs.
• Postcard From...Thailand
  The Thai government is cracking down on protesters, but don't expect much criticism from Washington.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Ethiopian ruling party under fire
  Opposition candidates allege violence and intimidation in build-up to Sunday's vote.
• Maldives Afghan talks inconclusive
  Statement issued after meeting says more discussions to be held to find way forward.
• Concerns over Thailand detainees
  Rights groups warn against secret detention of over 100 red-shirt protest leaders.
• Floods imperil Pakistani villages
  Thousands evacuated amid fears a sudden breach of an artificial lake could lead to massive flooding.
• Plane crashes in India
  All 169 on board feared dead after Air India plane overshoots runway in Mangalore.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Craving a Better Seat on the Seabed
  BP finally agrees to provide a live feed of the spill at its Web site, but a congressman wants more.
• On Our Radar: Video of the Rig's Collapse
  National Geographic has posted raw video of the Deepwater Horizon platform collapse.
• Averting a North Sea Blowout
  As BP struggles to control oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from a blowout at the Deepwater Horizon rig a month ago, another company is working to prevent a blowout in the North Sea.
• The Wildlife Conundrum
  Repeatedly federal officials have said they are very concerned about gulf wildlife; that they cannot predict how birds and fish and the like will be affected; and that they have no idea when they will know.
• It's Love-Hate: Plants and Carbon Dioxide
  A study shows that higher levels of carbon dioxide interfere with plants' ability to process nitrate, a vital soil nutrient, stunting the growth of key proteins.

Dot Earth News

• 'Fast' Federal Money Flows for Oil Study
  Money flows for gulf oil analysis from a federal money pot for urgent research.
• Adventures in Synthetic Biology
  With a human-made bacterium in the news, so is the ethics of synthetic life.
• Trucks, Oil and Leading for the Long Haul
  Obama displays a reality-based approach to energy and the environment.
• Burning, Baby, Burning
  A month after the well blowout, oil gushes unabated from the seabed while towering columns of black smoke rose into the sky.
• Synthetic Cells and the Energy Quest
  A step forward on the genetic path to an energy revolution.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• New videos: Mayday Immigrant Rights March, Keith E ...
  Oh hai, thanks for visiting... A lot of things going on and thus little time (if any) for posts. I got some neat events taped around MayDay weekend in Minneapolis, including the Immigrant Rights March around downtown & Loring Park. Also had my video of US Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN5) describing th ...
• The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
  Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! UPDATE: Hi to everyone from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leo_Wanta/ - keep it up :)       This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the big ...
• 2010 Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Notes for Ap ...
  Jesse Trentadue : …who’s testifying about Howe had reported that the plan to bomb the Murrah building four months in advance, had gone with Strassmeir and others to scout the target – the first thing the U.S. Attorney does when Graham stops testifying is ask the judge to seal the transcript, and the ...
• BlackListedNews: BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes ...
    I can only apologize for not pushing the breakdown of the gold market story out more. It is finally coming loose it seems, & when this occurs it will be another giant 'discontinuity' that'll get filled up with more inflationary ripoffs. A huge basis of the system is gonna croak sometime soon... ...
• Palin Bachmann: 2010 GOP Convention Center Rally H ...
  Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...

Daily Censored

• “A financial coup perpetrated against the American ...
  Stocks Freak Out Again: 130 Point Move In Dow In 15 Minutes On No Volume ZeroHedge Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/21/2010 15:08 -0500 Once again, we get to see just how broken our stock market is, one which takes no prisoners, and will trample over everyone and everything as the Primary Dealer ...
• Britain: Kids out of work without a compass
    England, where one in five companies provide lessons in the three Rs because thousands of school graduates are lacking in basic skills and a country where children cannot find their way home The survey by the Confederation of British Industry of almost 700 employers found half were ‘troubled’ by ...
• The ‘rot’ thickens: RFD identification for kids to ...
  Charging Students Bus Fare in Colorado: Fleecing working familes to pay the wake left by Reaganomics and ‘Free Trade’ The attack on public education is enough to make one sick.  Better put on a pair of huggies or lay down a rubber sheet to read this one, if you have not already done so. Douglas City ...
• Central Falls Used to Broadcast New Turnaround Mod ...
  by Jordan Doorwall The staff of Central Falls high school in Rhode Island has been given a new lease on life, or so it seems. And so much like Shylock in the Merchant of Venice, they’ve been given a new religion to go with it. The symbolism is unmistakeable: teachers come back with the understanding ...
• Crime on the High Seas – the “Deepwater Horizon” O ...
  An environmental disaster is spreading through the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. On April 20th, there was an explosion and then a fire on the deepwater oil drilling rig the “Deepwater Horizon” operated by Transocean Ltd. under contract from British Petroleum (BP). Eleven workers lost their lives in the ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

• From the Frontlines: May 21st, 2010
  Your wrapup before the weekend.
• Financial Reform Bill Could Stabilize Commodities
  New rules may rein in speculation that distorts the market for agricultural futures contracts.
• How to Top Off a Protest
  Audio highlights from a film event on the crime of our time.
• Cheonan: Retaliate with Diplomacy
  If we want to prevent any future Cheonans, we need to sit down with North Korea.
• The Latino Mob, Affirmative Action, Hezbollah Beau ...
  A non-white Miss America winner? Clearly something suspicious is going on.

Pine River World News

• 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 ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #357
  IDF colonel with intelligence duties 'commits suicide'. Australian Wikileak founder's passport confiscated.
• News you may have missed #356
  US intel failures facilitated Christmas bomb plot - Senate report. More alleged Korean double spies dispute charges. Israeli IDF soldiers fall prey to Facebook spy.
• Comment: Was Clotilde Reiss a French Spy in Iran?
  The case of Clotilde Reiss acquired new momentum earlier this week, after a former French intelligence official claimed she had collaborated with French secret services. Pierre Siramy, who until late last year was a senior official at DGSE, France’s external intelligence agency, said on Sunday that ...
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• SCIENCE SUMMARY (19-20 May 2010)
  Solar Power Manufacturing Makes Good Business Sense for Governments, Study Finds Nationwide Smoking Ban Would Help Reduce Heart Attack Admissions, Slash Costs Air Force Prevention Program Reduces Suicide Rates Significantly, According to New Data Diplopedia -- Wikipedia-Style Diplomacy -- A Success ...
• Social Responsibility and Walking the Talk
  Caterpillar, Inc. plays a lethal role in strengthening the Israeli Apartheid, perpetuating injustice against Palestinians, in addition to violating international law, the US Arms Export Control Act, and its own corporate code of conduct. Caterpillar supplies heavy equipment, militarized tractors use ...
• Vote on Military/War Bill (The Regular One, But Ma ...
  H.R. 5136 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Rep. Skelton – Armed Services) (Subject to a Rule) Scheduled for Tuesday by Hoyer.
• Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide Defined In Less Then 1 ...
  Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide Defined In Less Then 100 Words By Jim Prager | Facebook Of Gaza’s 640 schools, 18 were completely destroyed and 280 damaged in Israeli attacks. Two-hundred-and-fifty students and 15 teachers were killed. Of 122 health facilities assessed by the World Health Organizati ...
• Anybody Learning Lessons?
  What Canada can learn from Britain’s detainee scandal May 21 2010 Exactly why Canada’s Conservative government is so adamant about hiding information related to Afghan prisoner abuse has long been something of a mystery. The government stonewalled a public inquiry and did the same to opposition MP ...

Grist - News

• Four House Republicans give a nod to biking, walki ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes Are Congressional Republicans moving beyond blanket opposition to the Obama administration? Here's an interesting signal: Four GOP House members signed a letter praising Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood for putting bikers and walkers on equal footing with autos in trans ...
• Oil gusher forces State Dept. into awkward diploma ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes Add this to every other sort of headache the Gulf of Mexico spill has caused: It's now an international relations problem too. As Brendan DeMelle reports , the State Department has sent diplomatic notice about the spreading oil threat to Mexico, the Bahamas, the Marshall ...
• Safety ‘#1 priority,’ coal chief Blank ...
  by Randy Rieland Poor Don Blankenship. The Massey Energy CEO had to sit quietly through a Senate hearing yesterday while the head of the United Mine Workers called his company's safety performance "deplorable," and West Virginia's finger-wagging, Democratic senator, Robert Byrd cried "shame" ...
• Where are the oil protests? In New Orleans, they&# ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes A few days ago, Dave asked a question that seemed to strike a chord with readers. In the face of coal miner deaths , the Gulf oil leak , the corrupt regulators that enabled it, and freak weather such as the Nashville flood , he asked:����� And yet where are the protes ...
• Obama calls for better fuel economy for big trucks
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday mandated a new national policy on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and increasing fuel efficiency for pollution-spewing trucks. Obama signed a memorandum that also expanded his effort to make cars more environmentally f ...

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Time - Top Stories

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Washington Independent

• Justice Department to Purchase Thomson Prison?
  That’s what Robert Gibbs suggested in his press conference today when asked about the House Armed Services Committee’s move to block the Defense Department from purchasing the Illinois prison, a necessary step in President Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay. I will say that we have always maintain ...
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• Rand Paul on Deadly Mine Collapse: ‘Sometime ...
  Late last month, two young coal miners were killed in western Kentucky when a roof collapsed at the Dotiki coal mine, a non-union operation owned by Tulsa, Okla.-based Alliance Resource Partners. Today, Rand Paul, the GOP nominee to replace outgoing Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning (R), weighed in on the d ...
• Unemployment Falls in 34 States
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• The Holes in Massey’s Story
  Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine — which exploded tragically last month, killing 29 miners and all but killing a 30th – was among the worst safety violators in the country. Since the start of 2009, federal inspectors closed all or part of the mine 61 times due to immediate safety concerns; in ...

Digg Green

• 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.
• Fishing banned in 19 percent of Gulf of Mexico due ...
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has shut down fishing in a 45,728-square-mile section of the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said Tuesday.

Invisible Opportunity

• The Gathering Darkness and it’s Inescapable ...
  By Les Visible Here’s how it has to be and how it damn well better be. B.P. needs to be seized by The World Court or some body of influence and all of its assets commandeered. Its executives must be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity. Its stockholders must be placed last in line [...]
• 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. ” ...
• Goldman Sachs Hands Clients Losses in ‘Top Trades’
  By Ye Xie Goldman Sachs Group Inc. racked up trading profits for itself every day last quarter. Clients who followed the firm’s investment advice fared far worse. Seven of the investment bank’s nine “recommended top trades for 2010” have been money losers for investors who adopted the New York-based ...
• Coast Guard and BP threaten journalists with arres ...
  By Karl Burkhart I never thought I would say this, but for once I actually agree with Rush Limbaugh. The right-wing radio host is attributed with calling the Gulf Oil Spill “Obama’s Katrina.” It was an odd statement at the time, but now nearly four weeks later, Limbaugh’s brash statement is not at a ...
• WHILE WE WERE DISTRACTED BY OIL!.
  By Sol Hyperion URGENT: While we’re all watching the gulf: Hillary signs UN Small Arms Treaty While everyone was watching the oil spill, Hillary Clinton SIGNED the U.N. Small Arms Treaty, potentially leading to an effective ban on all privately held semi-automatic weapons in America. By way of treat ...

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  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 ...
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  One can make a non-ludicrous case that the most important event in the cultural history of America since the 1860s was the introduction of LSD.
• World Hepatitis Day: Will CA Allow Pharmacists to ...
  California is one of only three states in the U.S. that still prohibits pharmacists from selling a syringe without a prescription from a physician.
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  Police admired Barry Cooper when he lied to put drug dealers in prison. Then he flipped the game on them.
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• Researchers Develop First Paper Supercapacitor
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Pogue's Posts

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• A Plea for Honesty in Photo Specs
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• The Making of the Distracted Driving Video
  The behind the scenes look at the making of the most recent David Pogue video.
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  Skeptics of apps intended to keep you from texting while driving have some good points to make.
• A Mysterious Service From Cable, Part II
  Answers about why New York's cable companies are suddenly offering free access to each other's WiFi hot spots.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• White-Light Solar Flares Finally Explained
  The flashes of white light accompanying some solar flares are caused by the sun’s acceleration of electrons to speeds greater than half the speed of light. The phenomenon’s new explanation derives from data recorded from a 2006 solar flare. The presence of high-energy X-rays in the same spot that ...
• Congress Opens Investigation into Genetic Testing ...
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• First Hints of Comets Circling Other Stars
  A flying observatory has taken the first ultrasharp images of rings of cold debris around sunlike stars. The doughnut-shaped rings appear to be extrasolar analogues of the Kuiper belt, the outer solar system’s reservoir of comets and other frozen bodies. The newly observed rings are either left ove ...
• EPA Orders BP to Use Less Toxic Oil Dispersant
  The Environmental Protection Agency ordered British Petroleum to change the type of dispersant the company is using to keep oil from reaching American shores. The EPA gave the company 72 hours to switch to a less toxic chemical for use in breaking up oil slicks. Persistent questions about the toxic ...
• Lightning May Cause Hallucinations
  Talk about a flash of insight. Lightning strokes could stimulate people’s brains and cause them to hallucinate bright blobs of light the same way a medical procedure that applies magnetic fields to the brain does, two physicists propose. The findings could help explain some reports of “ball lightni ...

The Progressive Realist

• Sneak Preview of the New World Not-Quite Order
  Don’t look now, but a surge of pro-active diplomacy by Brazil and Turkey toward Iran may offer a glimpse of evolving new patterns in international affairs. This is the world of the G-20, where rising middle powers (and larger ones like China and India) will decide whether the period ahead is one mo ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf confirmed on Thursday that he planned to return to the country to re-enter politics, although he refused to set a firm timeframe for such a move. Musharrafy could face criminal charges over his detention of Pakistani judges in 2007 if he returns. - ...
• Iraq’s Politics Not Much Changed By 2010 Election
  Certification of Iraq’s final election results is hopefully coming soon after the manual recount of Baghdad province and the deBaathification of candidates are now over. Neither resulted in a major change in the number of seats won by each list. Iyad Allawi still came out the winner with 91 seats , ...
• China-India Border Disputes
  Recent statements by the Indian Army have shown a softened stance toward the ongoing dispute with China along the Line of Actual Control -- an area that has long been a source of tension for the two countries. In an e-mail interview, Douglas Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment ...
• Investing in Long-Term Diplomacy
  Imagine you have just acquired a new car – a flashy red Corvette.  Hopefully you would change the oil regularly and do preventive maintenance that doesn’t cost that much.  Or if you were shortsighted and had money to burn you could just skip that upkeep and several years down the road be faced with ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: The Politics of Principled Coward ...
  It's becoming increasingly clear that Rand Paul isn't just some not-ready-for-primetime candidate, but a man whose political beliefs have never been subjected to any real scrutiny. Hailing from a libertarian bubble where believing in things like NAFTA superhighways is commonplace, Paul has never ha ...
• The Hard Part Of Freedom.
  Fox News' John Stossel defends Rand Paul : Totally. I’m in total agreement with Rand Paul. You can call it public accommodation, and it is, but it’s a private business and if a private business wants to say we don’t want any blonde anchorwomen or mustached guys, it ought to be their right. I think ...
• Women Fight for the Gulf Coast.
  Monica Potts learns more about coastal clean-up efforts: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Sharon Hanshaw realized the women in her East Biloxi, Mississippi, community needed a political voice to counteract the big developers and casino owners who took the lead in reconstruction efforts. She h ...
• More On The Bagram Habeas Ruling.
  So in my last post on the latest Bagram habeas ruling, I wrote that "if this ruling stands all the government has to do to avoid court review for anyone it captures anywhere in the world outside the U.S. is to send them to Bagram, which really would make it Obama 's Gitmo." It's actually more compli ...
• The Little Picture: A State Dinner Without the Sal ...
  Barack and Michelle Obama joined Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala on a trolley ride to the State Dinner reception, held Wednesday. Beyoncé performed , sans Gaga . (White House/Pete Souza)

Andy Worthington

• William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into Briti ...
  Some horrors may await us on the economic front when George Osborne, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, finishes sharpening his scythe, but for those of us who care about human rights and civil liberties, and who have been aghast for the last 13 years at the Labour government’s paranoid, cruel and ...
• In the Guardian: Terror deportation debate misses ...
  For the Guardian’s Comment is free, “An uncivilized society” is an article I wrote analyzing the new coalition government’s first major test of its commitment to long-established legal principles, and to Britain’s human rights obligations. As I also explained in a previous article, these were tested ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
  Thirty years after Mount St. Helens blew its top, the peak is still the second most dangerous volcano in the United States, according to government estimates. United States - Mount St. Helens - Volcano - Washington - England
• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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• Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill
  Evaporation, dilution, and oil-hungry bacteria are already combatting the Gulf slick, experts say.
• Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
  Twenty-five years later, the lingering "hole" over Antarctica is close to closing—but that may not be entirely a good thing. Antarctica - Antarctic - Polar Regions - Ozone depletion - Environment

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• McMahon Gushes Over Deregulating Oil
  McMahon Campaign Literature From TheDay.com According to The Day and at the same time that we are witnessing the results of the typical Republican deregulation-run-amok of anything that moves money to these Multinational Oil Corporations wash in ashore as tar balls and dead dolphins on American shor ...
• An Arizona Minutemen Group Folds
  Apparently, either they were shocked that people answered their calls to violence or they are broke from their profiteering leaderships' greed. The only question in my mind is "how will they reincarnate their particular brand of crazy?" Because as long as there are crazy people around there wil ...
• Support The Troops - Pay Your Taxes
  Connecticut Man1 It is the tax deadline and this stuff is pretty self explanatory. You pay taxes and they get beans, bullets and valuable training that might just save their lives. When you want tax cut after tax cut? The active duty soldiers serving overseas, in training here or elsewhere and the ...
• The Root Of The Problem: Education
  From former New Milford raised a glass and brewed Todd Umbarger and without further comment since it says enough on its own (and I could add an essay to this BUT...) : click on this for larger With previous permission from Todd Umbarger . Todd is a New York-based illustrator and draws the politi ...
• Welcome Back To The New and Improved New Milford B ...
  This is just a switch over to the new Blogger In Draft Templates ... But I plan on overhauling the place more, installing some better vats, dusting off the mugs and shot glasses. Be careful as you wander around and try not to knock over the cases of empties over on the side bar because recycling bro ...

SPL Center

• Anti-Immigration ‘Labor’ Group Misleads on Job Los ...
  A front group for several nativist organizations is airing television ads in Arizona that link undocumented immigrants to high unemployment. The Coalition for the Future American Worker is trying to capitalize on momentum from the harsh new Arizona law targeting undocumented immigrants, according to ...
• An Irritated World Net Daily Denounces Terrible Re ...
  For an organization that loathes the mainstream media, World Net Daily sure craves their acceptance. The book publishing division of the far-right, Obama-obsessed organization released a new title about the president last week and it’s furious about the contempt with which major news organizations h ...
• Fox Uses Dubious Stats to Demonize Undocumented Im ...
  Fox News made the alarming claim this morning that 2,158 Americans are murdered every year by undocumented immigrants. Problem is, it’s almost certainly wrong . In response to our request for comment, a Fox News spokeswoman said she would look into precisely where that number came from. (We will upd ...
• Rachel Maddow Goes A-Steinin’
  On its website, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) bills itself as a âreliable source of informationâ on immigration. But FAIR President Dan Stein wasnât exactly reliable on facts concerning his own organization when he appeared last night on MSNBCâs âThe Rachel Maddow S ...
• Strange Bedfellows See Affirmative Action in Beaut ...
  Does an ardent Jewish neo-conservative ever agree with an anti-Semite who despises neo-conservatives? We didn’t think so, until the Miss USA contest showed that Muslim-bashing author Daniel Pipes and racist radio host James Edwards do indeed share some common ground. The men suggested on their respe ...

change: org.

• Kim Cattrall Refuses To Pose With Cougar And Loses ...
  Bravo to Kim Cattrall for calling out the insulting, demeaning concept of "cougars." There is, in my opinion, no better celeb to do it, since Cattrall's Sex and the City character Samantha is just the type who would scoff at such a term as derogatory and idiotic. Catrall lost a cover with a prominen ...
• New Sentencing Rules Still Don't Fix the System's ...
  Amir Efrati  wrote a blurb of an article for the  Wall Street Journal that indicated the U.S. Sentencing Commission  passed new rules on April 30 that will allow federal judges to consider military service, age, mental conditions, and emotional conditions of offenders before the judge imposes senten ...
• Is It Racist to Want Kids Who Look Like You?
  A friend of mine really wants to get married. He’s at the stage of life where he feels like he has to settle down, have children and do the whole domestic thing. The reasons that people feel this societal pressure could fill up blog posts for years, but I’m going to sidestep that rich vein to conce ...
• List Your Farmers' Market in the USDA's 2010 Direc ...
  The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is the entity that tells us good news like the number of farmers' markets increased by 13 percent from 2008 to 2009. The agency's National Farmers' Market Directory allows consumers to search all the markets around the country and find out their location ...
• McFadden Vineyard: Smooth With Notes of Animal Cru ...
  Guinness McFadden is a Mendocino County farmer and winemaker known for his organic winegrapes, herbs, rice and cattle. These days, he's also known for animal cruelty and neglect. Last week, McFadden shot his aged burro several times while trying to put the animal out of his misery. If he was well-in ...

Common Dreams -News

• Torpedo Parts Reveal North Sank South Korean Ship
  by Kirsty Needham THE South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, has called for ''resolute counteractions against North Korea'' as the North yesterday labelled a report finding it torpedoed a South Korean warship a ''fabrication''. North Korea threatened ''full-scale war'' if the international community ...
• Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life Form
  by Ian Sample Scientists have created the world's first synthetic life form in a landmark experiment that paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved. The controversial feat, which has occupied 20 scientists for more than 10 years at an estimated cost of $40m, was describ ...
• U.S. Launches Criminal Probe on Soldiers in Afghan ...
  KABUL - The United States has launched an investigation into allegations that a number of American soldiers were responsible for the "unlawful deaths" of at least three Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said on Thursday. "There are also allegations of illegal drug use, assault and conspiracy," the ...
• Texas State Board of Education Approves New Curric ...
  by Terrence Stutz AUSTIN - In a landmark vote that will shape the future education of millions of Texas schoolchildren, the State Board of Education on Friday approved new curriculum standards for U.S. history and other social studies courses that reflect a more conservative tone than in the past. S ...
• Why the Breakup of MMS Won't Work
  Washington, DC - The breakup of the U.S. Minerals Management Service announced yesterday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar only papers over deeper problems and impedes real solutions, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Independent review and presidential lead ...

Lifehacker

• Build a Beehive Out of a Bucket and PVC Pipe [Week ...
  While lots of us would do everything we can to stay away from a whole colony of bees, they are important to our agriculture. If you've found that bees are having trouble colonizing in your area, consider building your own inviting hive. Mor ...
• From the Tips Box: Firefox Printing, Bulletin Boar ...
  Readers offer their best tips for printing in Firefox quickly, holding pens near your bulletin board, and protecting your car from break-ins. More�� Firefox - Clients - WWW - Browsers - Bulletin board
• Cardpool Saves You Money with Discounted Gift Card ...
  We've all gotten a gift card or two that we wished had been to a different store or just been plain old cash. Cardpool is a web site for people selling—and to your benefit, people looking!—for discounted gift cards. More » ...
• Turn an Empty Corner into a Storage-Packed Corner ...
  You're tight on space and the only spot for a desk is a small corner. Compounding the problem you're renting and you can't drill holes in the walls for shelving. What to do? Check out this storage-packed solution. More�� ...
• Clean These Overlooked Places After Recovering fro ...
  The last thing you're probably thinking about after getting over a bout with the flu or other illness is cleaning your house. Cleaning these overlooked things will help keep you and the rest of your household healthy. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Fighting on the float
  The Pakistan supply route is only for non-lethal supplies (fuel, food, spare parts, construction supplies etc) as ammo, weapons and fighting vehicles are flown in (which does wonders for the US logistics bill). In 2009, the US estimated the insurgent groups that it was fighting in Afghanistan had p ...
• 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 capabili ...

Water Wars

• EDITORIAL: Compromise needed on tough water issues
  California's water wars took a significant turn, with a federal court offering a major farm-pumping decision and the release of two university studies that say sewage dumping is harming threatened species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
• Looking at a decade of Hrithik Roshan
  A look at Hrithik's work over the last ten years
• Egypt rails against new Nile treaty
  CAIRO, May 20 (UPI) -- Egypt, which takes the lion's share of water from the Nile River, is refusing to give up a drop to upstream African states that signed a treaty for more equitable sharing, escalating a long-running dispute over the river.
• CA Water Wars: Farmers Win Round
  Central Valley farmers are the winners of today's latest round in the Delta water wars. KGO's Scott Lettieri has the story.
• Shelnutt eyes District 111 post
  Ask Timmy Shelnutt why he his running for the District 111 state House seat and hell tell you its for several reasons. On April 3, my oldest daughter got married, Shelnutt wrote in a campaign document.

WordPress | Economics

• Go to work for the government, get higher pay than ...
    The Pension Tsunami John Steele Gordon – 05.21.2010 – 11:07 AM Well, itâs now official
• Love Monger Ministries--My God Can Beat Up Your Go ...
  HELLO GENTLE READERS, What if? Have you ever seen the TV show, Flash Forward?  It’s about an e
• Android 2.2 Annouced: faster speed, stronger featu ...
  Google had annouced Froyo Android 2.2 OS in its Google I/O conference. Compare it with Android 2.1,
• Libertarianism and Private Discrimination
  Prominent libertarian politician Rand Paul recently caused a stir by claiming that he didn’t s
• Peak Oil Doomer TV
  This video of Michael Ruppert speaking recently in Vermont is making the rounds on the net. Skip for

Electronic Intifada

• PACBI: UNICEF should quit Jerusalem conference
  The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is shocked and greatly concerned that UNICEF as well as one Palestinian and several interna ...
• Rampant employment discrimination against Palestin ...
  Unemployed computer engineer Morad Lashin would like to work in Israel's Electricity Company, a large state utility, but admits his chances of being recruited are slim. The ...
• PA to EI: No new roads being built with USAID fund ...
  In his article "USAID funding Israel's apartheid road construction" (17 May 2010) Jonathan Cook levels a number of serious accusations against the Palestinian National Auth ...
• Belgian-French bank cornered over Israeli settleme ...
  BRUSSELS (IPS) - New evidence has been uncovered to show that Dexia, a major Belgian-French bank, is still financing Israeli settlements in the OPT despite official assurances that ...
• Gaza's virtual connection to the rest of the world
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - "I've learned most of what I know about photo editing and graphic design via the Internet," says Emad, 27-year-old filmmaker and editor. In G ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Five British troops injured as Taliban shoots dow ...
  Five British troops were injured when their helicopter was forced to crash-land after being shot by a Taliban rocket.
• NYC bomb suspect claims Taliban support
  NEW YORK The Times Square bomb suspect claimed during his lengthy interrogation that he received financial support from the Pakistani Taliban for his failed one-man operation, two U.S. law enf...
• Musharraf endorses military campaign against Talib ...
  London, May 22 : Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that he fully supports the military campaign ordered by incumbent President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza...
• Rescuers search for bodies in Afghan plane crash
  Kabul - Rescuers searched Saturday for bodies from a plane crash outside Kabul, officials said."The area where the plane was located is having snow and rainfall, and it is taking time for the bodies t...
• British defence minister on Afghan visit calls for ...
  KABUL : Senior British officials, including new Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Afghanistan Saturday with a warning that Britain wants to withdraw its troops as soon as possible. Hague, Def...

Futurismic

• The spoiler-police: spoiling it for the rest of us ...
  Mary Elizabeth Williams takes to the pages of Salon.com to decry one of my own pet hates: the spoiler-police, those people who get angry at you for discussing a book, film or TV show that they haven’t seen yet [via Martin Lewis]. As a reviewer and critic, this is a particular bugbear for me. First a ...
• How not to get published: cash prizes for readers
  The rise of the internet has seen many frustrated aspiring authors turn to forms of self-publication and showy promotional gambits in the hope of catching the eye of someone with a cheque-book and a pile of blank contracts, but this is probably the most spectacularly desperate-sounding tactic I’ve h ...
• Storming heaven: Craig Venter and team create synt ...
  Unless you’ve been underneath that oft-mentioned hypothetical internet-proof rock for the last twelve hours or so, you’ll already have an idea of what today’s (and probably this year’s) big science story is. It is, of course, the announcement by Craig Venter and his team that they’ve successfully cr ...
• The evolution of addiction and the fetishisation o ...
  Not-entirely-unsurprising news from the world of evolutionary psychiatry: human use of psychoactive compounds found in plants and animals is thousands of years old, and evolutionary selection may actually have favoured those of our ancestors who were wired to get a kick from certain substances: Acco ...
• Marine animals join “War on Terror”
  It might help curb your concerns about terrorist attacks channeled through nature to learn that some of God’s creatures are fighting on the side of righteousness: the US Navy has a Marine Mammals unit that trains sea lions and dolphins to detect and apprehend terrorists trying to sabotage or disrupt ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• WikiLeaks provokes DoD threat against whistleblowe ...
  A front page story in today's Washington Post looks at the growth and effects of the popular anonymous whistleblower website, WikiLeaks . Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks director, told Post writer Joby Warrrick that, "The message of WikiLeaks to the controllers of information is this: You can either be ...
• 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 ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

• Progress And Innovation Cannot Be Stopped -- Merel ...
  A few years ago, after receiving an email from someone who was "upset" by all the "bad news" on Techdirt, I wrote up a post for New Year's on reasons to stay happy , pointing out that while we highlight all sorts of annoying stuff going on in the world, we shouldn't lose sight of the larger view: of ...
• Amanda Palmer Talks About Record Labels, Art, Comm ...
  We've discussed in the past some of Amanda Palmer's business model experiments , and she's guest posted on this site herself about connecting with her fans . Last month she finally was "freed" from her major record label deal and celebrated that fact. Anyway, she's in the San Francisco Bay Area th ...
• When Anti-Pirates Sue Each Other Over Pirating Eac ...
  Well, this is fun. A tech company in Germany is claiming that movie studio Warner Bros. has "pirated" its "anti-piracy" technology . No, seriously. You can read the full complaint (pdf) below: It's actually a patent infringement lawsuit, but unlike most patent infringement lawsuits, the co ...
• TeliaSonera Fighting IPRED Up To The Swedish Supre ...
  Last year, of course, Sweden passed a strict "anti-piracy" law called IPRED, following a ton of pressure from the US entertainment industry (and US diplomats repeating debunked industry talking points). While some have declared the law a "success," because music sales went up last year, there's lit ...
• Has Sony Finally Realized That Open Platforms Are ...
  Sony is pretty famous for creating closed platform after closed platform locked down with incredibly damaging DRM . Back in 2005, there was a surprise statement from Sony's Ken Kutaragi, where he admitted that the company made a mistake in focusing on proprietary consumer electronics... but it seem ...

VacTruth

• Hidden Government Papers on the Measles Vaccine Ex ...
  // Christina England vactruth.com 05/20/2010 How a mother is supposed to decide what vaccines are safe, when the governments change their minds so frequently, is anyone’s guess. One minute the government makes it categorically clear that the measles vaccine should never, under any circumstances, ...
• 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 ...

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  The whole Rand Paul brouhaha has started some great convos on the internets, like at Alas! and Womanist Musings. This New Yorker article is one of the most reasonable things I have read on Cuba in …well…ever. Hilarity of the week goes to the 5,200 Mexicans who registered their cell phones under the ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• 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.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Don't Panic: New Study on Bisphenol A (BPA) in Can ...
  Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce All the blogs and newspapers are in a tizzy about a new study from the The National Work Group for Safe Markets, a coalition of public health and environmental health groups, that shows that BPA is in canned food. Inhabitat says "A disturbing study released t ...
• Gulf Spill Exclusive: Shocking Marine Life Destruc ...
  Photo by Brian Merchant It was just over one month ago that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig was rocked by a massive explosion that lead to the US's biggest environmental disaster in decades. After it became clear that the oil wasn't going to stop gushing from the undersea leak anytime soon ...
• Maybe Soil is Dirt After All: Words REALLY Do Matt ...
  Image credit: Slow Muse Wow. Clearly I am not the only one who spends too much time thinking about language. My post yesterday on why soil is not dirt garnered a whole bunch of responses —from those who agreed that "dirt" suggests a dead, inanimate substrate, to others who felt that "soil" is a ...
• How the World Might Look if Our Tech Writer Jaymi ...
  Joseph Ford and Antoine Mairot Photographer Joseph Ford and 3D Artist Antoine Mairot turn tech into buildings, dropping a PS3 into Berlin, a classic NES and our favourite: a solar powered, glass roofed Nintendo DS. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Six Bikers + 3,000 kilometers = One Huge Blow to G ...
  Riders from last year's Pacific Coast tour at the US-Mexico border. Photo credit: Global Agents for Change . Biking to make the world a better, greener place can mean commuting on two wheels instead of four. Or taking a ride for exercise and ditching the treadmill. Or it can mean biking 3,000 k ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Almost 160 dead in India plane crash (WRAPUP)
  Some 160 people died on Saturday when an Air India Express plane crashed during landing in the southern Indian city of Mangalore.
• Mayor of Siberian mine blast town vows to prevent ...
  Authorities in the west Siberian town of Mezhdurechensk, where blasts killed at least 66 miners on May 8-9, have vowed to crack down hard on troublemakers at an unsanctioned protest due to take place on Saturday.
• Medvedev offers condolences after India plane cras ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences to India's leaders after a plane crash that left almost 160 people dead earlier on Saturday.
• Customs Union will not come into full force on sch ...
  The Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will not start work at full strength on schedule, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.
• Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Cameron wants to install 3-D cam on next NASA Mars ...
  The reigning king of 3-D cinema, U.S. filmmaker James Cameron, persuaded NASA to install a 3-D cam on the Curiosity rover to be launched to the Red Planet in 2011.
• Putin tags polar bear for Russian Arctic research ...
  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave Russian scientists a hand on Thursday, putting a satellite collar on a polar bear during a trip to Russia's Arctic.
• Russia to send freighter with candy, books to ISS
  Russia will launch a cargo module to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 28, mission control said on Tuesday.
• Russian 'Silicon Valley'
• Russia's Cosmos-3M space carrier orbits military s ...
  A Russian carrier rocket orbited a military satellite on Tuesday at 6:08 Moscow time (2:08 GMT), a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said.

Pruning Shears

• The Midterms Are All About the 'Stills'
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post It was probably inevitable that the Tuesday election post mortems would focus on process and conventional wisdom. An outfit like Politico can pump out a feature length article on it almost by rote: There is a great deal of populist ...
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• Codex Serves Up A Hearty Helping of Melamine!
  The main issue at a recent Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) meeting was the Committee’s general desire to adopt a standard of acceptable levels for the contaminant melamine in foods. However, melamine is not naturally found in soil, water, or air -- it is completely man-made.  The ac ...
• Prescription Drug Use by U.S. Children on the Rise
  In 2009, the increase of prescription drug use among children was nearly four times higher than in the overall population, making children were the leading growth demographic for the drug industry. One in four insured children, and nearly 30 percent of adolescents, took at least one prescription me ...
• Overuse of Antibiotics Spurs Vicious Cycle
  Patients who are over-prescribed antibiotics may develop drug resistance that lasts up to a year. This puts both them and the larger population at risk. The more antibiotics are prescribed for coughs and flu-like illnesses, the more bacteria become resistant in a vicious cycle. According to Reuter ...
• How the Telecom Industry Deceives You About Brain ...
  The Interphone Study Group did finally acknowledge the increased risk of brain cancer among long-term, heavy users of cell phones. However, the International EMF Collaborative argues that the study still seriously underestimated the brain cancer risk. They found 11 key design flaws -- for example, ...
• CDC Misled DC Residents About Lead Levels in Water
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agency knowingly used flawed data to claim that high lead levels in the Washington, D.C. drinking water did not pose a health risk. The agency has also not publicized internal research showing that the problem continues to endanger thousands of D.C ...

Antemedius

• Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak to Loop Current Forecas ...
  Video compiled from data produced by The College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Ocean Circulation Group http://ocgweb.marine.usf.edu/ OCG/CMS/USF maintains a coordinated program of coastal ocean observing and modeling for the West Florida Continental Shelf (WFS). The Deepwater Horiz ...
• Scientists outraged over the LACK of Science ...
  Science is one of those subjects I'm passionate about. Without Science, we'd still be casting spells, and coaxing The Fates. If we're not careful, we may be headed back to those "bad old days". Scientists Fault Lack of Studies Over Gulf Oil Spill Justin Gillis, NYTimes - 05/19/2010 “It seems baffli ...
• Government Censorship of the Eco-Catastrophe?
  Is the Obama government censoring the information about the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? WEAR ABC-3 in Pensacola, FL filed this report: Over the weekend, a research crew from the University of Southern Mississippi found evidence that there are 3 to 5 plumes... About 5 miles wide, 10 ...
• EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Op ...
  from Abrahm Lustgarten , ProPublica ( view source ) Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could end its drilling in federally controlled oil fields ...
• Something Happened
  Everybody in the world is broke, except for maybe Lloyd Blankfein, and he may not end up broke so much as broken -- by a political meat-grinder that is revving up to turn the world's woes and swindles into a new kind of Long Emergency sausage, to be distributed among the roiling, angry masses as a s ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Center for a Livable Future

• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Everything you knew now proven to be true
  I am beginning to appreciate the perks that come from living a virtuous life. I just had my fourth cup of coffee since New Year’s and its impact on my system was indistinguishable from that of the finest bathtub-manufactured meth. No nosebleeds as of yet, but maybe that’s because I drank the coffee ...
• Terrorists launch airstrikes against Gaza
  Leading off with a feel good story for a change, a Saudi woman has been arrested for beating up a religious cop. What happens to her next won’t be pretty, but it will inspire other women to stop putting up with the self-righteous Islamic version of the Moral Majority. Obama could become president fo ...
• Revenge of the Idiocracy
  Idiocracy, the links: Power company idiocrat warns Los Angeles that Arizona will cut off their power if L.A. persists in BOYCOTTING THE RACIST STATE OF ARIZONA (if Arizona wants a shooting war with California, I hope they get their wish — 6 million geezers v 37 million power-starved Californians?) S ...
• 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 ...

The Seferm Post

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

The World We Live In

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

Center for Food Safety

• Update: CFS Fighting Monsanto in the Supreme Court ...
  On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Watch a short message from CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell, an ...
• Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
      Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
• CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
  High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
• Happy Earth Day!
  This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...
• Diverse Interests Back Center for Food Safety, Opp ...
  STATES, SCIENTISTS, ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FARMERS, FOOD COMPANIES, EXPORTERS, FORMER GOVT. OFFICIALS, AND LEGAL SCHOLARS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT. SEVEN AMICUS BRIEFS FILED IN ALL. A myriad of interests – ranging from food companies to farmers unions to scientific experts and legal scholars – have ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Polynesian Panthers visit Wellington
  �Source An event organised by the combined Schools of Pacific Studies, Te Kawa a Maaui, International Relations and Political Science saw a good crowd arrive at the New Kirk 303 lecture theatre around 5.30pm on Friday 14th May. The speakers and audience were welcomed by staff of Pacific Studies, ...
• 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 ...

Pensieve

• Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
  The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
• False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
  To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
• Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
  Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...
• Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
  A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...
• Footage of Meteor in Wisconsin
  An impressive video capture of last night’s massive meteor fireball reported in Wisconsin. Related posts:Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics Related posts: Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics

Green Times

• Environmental News -19/05/10
  Environmental News   Prosperity cannot be paid forever by maxing out our green credit Ross Gittins says we need a new economic model which recognises the environment as a cost - or we risk disaster. The most thought-provoking comment I've seen on the budget came from Senator Christine Milne o ...
• The DOs and DON’Ts of Washing Organic Fabrics
  How to best take care of your eco-wardrobe – we dissect the washing DOs and DON’Ts for the top three organic fabrics…
• Environmental News -14/05/10
  Environmental News   Norway should limit Arctic soot to slow warming Norway should limit soot from emerging Arctic industries such as oil or shipping that risk accelerating a thaw of ice around the North Pole caused by global warming, a recent report said. The study also said climate change, ...
• Environmental News -13/05/10
  Environmental News   Australia left behind by US emission trading bill The unveiling of a long-awaited US Senate bill to establish an American emissions trading scheme shows Australia is being left behind in terms of action on climate change, say environmentalists. The bill would establish a ...
• Environmental News -08/05/10
  Environmental News   Hair sausages to the rescue As an orange slick of oil washed onto Louisiana's sandy barrier islands, prized as a historic wildlife refuge, crews worked to lower a containment vessel over a leak 1500 metres below the Gulf of Mexico surface and US officials extended a tempo ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• BP oil spill reaches delicate wetlands of Louisian ...
  ShareThis BP oil spill reaches delicate wetlands of Louisiana --Local reports described heavy sheets of oil clogging marshes in Mississippi delta that provide haven for migratory birds 21 May 2010 Thick sheets of crude oil spread through the delicate wetlands of Louisiana today, as the BP oil spill ...
• Pakistan catering company may be linked to terrori ...
  ShareThis Pakistan catering company may be linked to terrorism, U.S. embassy says 22 May 2010 Pakistan has detained at least four people suspected of links with a failed bid to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, including one who worked for a catering company servicing embassies in Islam ...
• US vows punishment for North Korea over ship sinki ...
  ShareThis US vows punishment for North Korea over ship sinking 20 May 2010 The US state department says there "will definitely be consequences" for North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. The North is facing international condemnation after investigators blamed it for t ...
• Israeli planes attack Gaza Strip
  ShareThis Israeli planes attack Gaza Strip 20 May 2010 Israeli warplanes have launched several air strikes on the Gaza Strip, targeting different positions across the coastal enclave. Israeli warplanes bombed a training site in Al-Faraheen east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza strip, Press TV's corre ...
• Blast injures 3 Afghan children
  ShareThis Blast injures 3 Afghan children �21 May 2010�At least one Afghan civilian has been killed and three children wounded after a roadside bomb detonated in southern part of the country. The explosion occurred in Kandahar city on Friday morning, said Abdul Ali, an intelligence official who was ...

Daily Loaf

• On the Radar: USF’s Honors Theater offers Adam Rap ...
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Seinfeld showed us that a show about nothing could actually be pretty darn entertaining, heck, even legendary. Animals and Plants, a play by the award-winning writer Adam Rapp being staged this weekend by USF ...
• CL’s Friday afternoon dance party: a playlist to k ...
  Celebrating the end of the week one jam at a time.
• Frozen Lemonade Pie recipe
  So simple. So cool.
• Reel Projections podcast: Racing Dreams, MacGruber ...
  We're back for another installment of the Reel Projections podcast. For this week's installment, I was joined by CL contributors Kevin Hopp and Rabid Nick Refer, who along with producer Stephen kicked around a bunch of film-related stuff this week, including the new films Racing Dreams and MacGrube ...
• Pappas Ranch: A glimpse of a community’s locally p ...
  The same entrepreneurship and cultural delicacies that Louis Pappas blends into Pappas Ranch could be an example to stir up a revival of artisan food in the community.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Gaza Border Opened after 72 days
  From  Gisha’s Gaza Gateway Amid rumors of tension between the Hamas government and Egypt, on Saturday, May 15, 2010, the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt was opened to the passage of people wishing to enter and exit the Gaza Strip. The border had been closed for 72 days prior to this la ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Aquanomics on boycotts, in a review of Jared Diamo ...
  The best way to get change is to hit the company in their PR. Want to end “Blood diamonds”? Boycott DeBeers, not Sierra Leone. Want to stop deforestation? Boycott Ikea, not Indonesia. DeBeers and Ikea have done a LOT more to protect market share than these corrupt governments (of corrupt people) wil ...
• Class of 2010 set to flood US job market as ‘09 gr ...
  This is exactly what happened in Japan in 90’s due to the pop in real estate bubble and resulting deflation and recession. They can’t get out of it. It’s called the lost decade(s).
• The fundamentals of radical, transnational counter ...
  Counterinsurgency doctrine is the symptom of an idea more primeval and dangerous: violence is the solution.
• Electric vehicles in 1910 had the same range as th ...
  Yes, the EVs of today go faster but are also heavier and use more electricity internally (like power mirrors, etc.) So the range is still about 100 miles. One hundred years ago, electric vehicle owners were hoping for a battery breakthrough that would increase range. We’re still waiting. LowtechMaga ...
• The left vs. the working class
  Red Star Times has a thoughtful rant about how the left too often shoots itself in the foot when not backstabbing the working class it claims to champion. In England, a country that is sometimes facetiously described as having a Trotskyist under ever rock, the trade unions and the Labour Party are c ...

Coteret

• Renowned Israeli playwright compares Ameer Makhoul ...
  The story of the arrest and detention Ameer Makhoul is an eerie glimpse into the willingness of Israel’s security establishment to go to incredible and undemocratic lengths as it attempts to fight perceived internal “enemies.”   Makhoul, an Israeli citizen, was finally permitted to meet with his ...
• Maariv: Foreign Ministry targeting Egyptian Consul ...
  The Foreign Ministry against the Egyptian consul The claim: He systematically rejects Israeli requests of visas to Egypt Eli Bardenstein, Maariv, May 18 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The Israeli Foreign Ministry has launched a diplomatic campaign against the Egyptian foreign mini ...
• The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy, ctd.: Czec ...
  The Czechs are furious: Diplomatic humiliation Itamar Eichner, Yediot, May 18 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Israel is embarrassed: This week the Czech Republic made an official protest of what it calls the humiliation of its foreign minister Jan Kohout at Ben Gurion airport. The ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Politicians Use Devious Mind Tricks to Protect the ...
  szandorblestman.com There is no issue in the world today more important, in my opinion, than the issue of the nature of the Federal Reserve and central banking and replacing this system with a fairer, more equitable, more accountable system. I believe that fiat money systems are at the root of most ...
• Brave New World? ‘Artificial life’ bre ...
  By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. The researchers constructed a bacterium’s “genetic software” and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and ...
• House votes to expand national DNA arrest database
  ED note: Yes if would be great to stop ALL violent crime – but to do so at the expense of our rights, and maybe our own lives… Is foolish! Freedom is ugly sometimes, utopia is impossible. ~ JB May 19, 2010 by Declan McCullagh Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will [... ...
• Failed State – Photo of kidnapped Mexican po ...
  Up until recently in the ever-growing Mexican crime wave, politicians were off limits to kidnappers and drug cartels. Will the kidnapping of Calderon’s National Action Party Leader, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos be the first step for Mexico to ‘officially become’ a failed state? By Mario Andrade Dead ...
• SNL – BP, Transocean, and Halliburton
  SNL – BP, Transocean, and Halliburton Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList

The Air Vent

• Simple Question
  We see from the past post us technical guys like reader kdk33, can pick up on the more obvious flaws of paleoclimate pretty quickly. Honestly there are times when I feel sorry for Mann, his role in history will not be a good one in the long term but it was brought about by an [...]
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• New Yorker Repeats False Claim that James O ...
  Rebecca Mead's New Yorker profile of conservative online media mogul Andrew Breitbart repeats the false claim that provocateur videographer James O'Keefe donned an outlandish pimp costume to infiltrate the offices of the anti-poverty, pro-voter registration group ACORN. Here's how Mead describes th ...
• Book Review: 'The Golden Spruce'
  The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed By John Valliant Knopf Canada (2005) � I picked up a copy of John Valliant's "The Golden Spruce" in a gift shop on BC ferry last week, the woman next to me said "It's wonderful, you have to get it." I'd never heard of the book, but I ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Privacy, Pakistan, FriendFeed, P ...
  Pakistani Developers React to Facebook Ban â Pakistan has blocked Facebook due to an offensive Page, as we covered earlier this week — it’s also busy banning other popular sites, like YouTube, for similar reasons. Local blog Green & White had an interesting interview with Pakistani Facebook socia ...
• Security Issues Could Force Facebook to Slow Down ...
  A rash of security bugs seem to have hit Facebook within the last several weeks, while a lot of debate continues over changes the company has made to user privacy features. So what’s going on? Is Facebook coincidentally just falling apart, all of a sudden? Most recently, the Wall Street Journal ...
• Facebook Impact Tracks Who You’ve Invited to Sign ...
  Facebook is looking to increase sign-ups by adding a competitive element to inviting friends to the site. By clicking “Who’s here because of you? Track your invites” in the bottom of the right home page sidebar, users can now access Facebook Impact, a leaderboard that shows which of your friends hav ...
• Police in Delhi, India Use Facebook Page to Addres ...
  The Delhi Traffic Police in India have launched a Facebook Page that is trying to help the city government better understand and address traffic problems, in part intended to help the city prepare for the Commonwealth Games in October. The Page has been active only a few days, already has about 2,50 ...
• Real-World Consumer Goods Come to FarmVille with G ...
  While Zynga has been running generic advertising offers in FarmVille for years, it has also been dabbling in other forms of incentivized purchasing. In a deal with Microsoft from a few months ago, for example, FarmVille users could get 3 Farm Cash (the game’s virtual currency) in exchange for becomi ...

Truthout - Tweets

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• truthout: Campaign 2010: Where to Put Blame: Perha ...
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• truthout: Six Key Fights for Wall Street Reform's ...
  truthout: Six Key Fights for Wall Street Reform's Next Phase: Thursday night's passage of Wall Street reform by... http://bit.ly/cHtKfn #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Court: Bagram Prisoners Don't Have Guant ...
  truthout: Court: Bagram Prisoners Don't Have Guantanamo Habeas Rights: Washington — A key appellate court on Fr... http://bit.ly/dyBFGm #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Meet Bill Clinton, the new "President" o ...
  truthout: Meet Bill Clinton, the new "President" of Haiti: http://digg.com/d31RiK5?t #Digg #Diggrt #Truthout

ReDress News

• Israeli public sector's door closed to Arab worker ...
  Jonathan Cook looks at how the discriminatory hiring policies of the apartheid state of Israel have left thousands of Israeli Arab graduates jobless, despite the fact that the government promised affirmative action a decade ago.
• Jews are eight times over-represented in UK parlia ...
  Stuart Littlewood considers the phenomenal over-representation of Jews and non-Jewish Zionists in the UK parliament which, in terms of support for Israel, is magnified even further when viewed alongside the Conservative and Labour party leaders’ umbilical ties to the Israel lobby.
• Israel’s rebranding strategy focuses on delegitimi ...
  Neve Gordon argues that personal smears and character assassinations of critics of Israeli policy are a central plank in Israel’s rebranding strategy, which also targets local and international NGOs and their donors, particularly the European Union, the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund.
• Coalition: another example of Britain’s sham democ ...
  Tim Coles considers how Britain’s fundamentally undemocratic government is continuing with its predecessors’ policies of sucking up to the United States and buying into Washington-inspired foreign policies, such as hostility towards Iran, that have little to do with the national interest.
• 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. ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
• The Ill-Logic of the U.S. Predator Drone Campaign
  A Bad Omen for America   William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of the law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last [...]
• The Brazen Turkish Lobby
  Leading Law Firm Hires Accused Criminal to Head Up New Office in Turkey DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest international law firms, is opening for business in Turkey. According to The Lawyer magazine,”DLA Piper has been targeting Turkey after bringing on board (former Under Secretary of State) Ma ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Crossing Zero
  The Vanishing Point for the American Empire The region today delineated as both Afghanistan and Pakistan has known many borders over the millennia, yet none have been more artificial or contentious than the one today separating Pakistan from Afghanistan known as the Durand line but referred to by th ...

Afro Spear

• 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. ...

Expose the BNP

• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
• Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
  The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...
• Journalists expose ‘murky world’ of far right
  Leading anti-fascist journalists last week gave a fascinating insight into the “murky and disturbing world of far right politics”. Nick Griffin’s biographer Dominic Carman and photojournalist Marc Vallée shed light on the violent and antidemocratic core of the BNP and the English Defence League. A s ...

Sen4Earth

• Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
  The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
  In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...
• Earth Day 2010
  Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...
• A Prayer Chain for Mother Earth
  Click Here for “Hug Spiritual Trees” on SEN You’ll find a Prayer for Mother Earth, a Prayer for All Life, and a Prayer Chain for Earth that’s just getting underway. Help it spread around the world! 

If Americans Knew

• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

David J. Gregory

• Time is short…
  "It doesn't take DNA to make a dad," she said. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease.
• I need your help….
  This a contest that Advance America is running, they are a payday advance business, which unfortunately, I’v been dealing with since the beginning of the year. I had anticipated ending our relationship when my income tax return. Social Security confiscated that money because they said they had overp ...
• Rate the link within this post, thanks
  Please consider rating this page to help me out, thanks Dave Please rate the page below and forward it to your friends… There is also a link on this page to enter a daily contest for $100.00 prize. http://www.americadeservesaraise.com/nomination/rebekahs_dad Most people have a future while others on ...
• Regaining our Rights, one step at a time..
  When good people do nothing, they get something, but it’s not good! The people in government who are out of the pockets of Corporate America are demonstrating their steps to take away our freedoms, so they will have an easier time engaging in WAR. They create an atmosphere of fear in order to have a ...
• Oil Rig in Gulf pictures, Last moments
  Everyone now knows of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which caught fire, burned for two days, and then sank in 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. There are still 11 men missing, and they are not expected to be found. Here are some details that you may not have seen or heard [...]

Unsuitable Blog

• 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 ...

Subalternate Reality

• 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 ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• The (Unrealized) Potential of Mobile Phones in Cit ...
  I had the pleasure of attending� the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Santiago, Chile �earlier this month. The summit brought together bloggers, activists, and thinkers working to advance citizen media all around the world. While the discussions that took place were informative, most presentati ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

• Inside the War on Drugs - A Binational War on Drug ...
  On March 23, 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael G. Mullen visited Mexico City in a massive and unprecedented display of support to President Felipe Cal ...
• Edge of Terrorism - Some Unsettling Truths about t ...
  Faisal Shahzad, the first suspect arrested for involvement in the failed May 1 Times Square bombing attempt, was detained just before midnight on May 3 as he was attempting to depart on a flight from Kennedy International Airport in New York. Authorities removed Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen o ...
• Inside Latin America - Latin America's Poor Provid ...
  After the April 4th start of the 2010 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, fans once again have been filling ballparks and clinging to the often passionate hope that this season will end with their favorite team ending up as World Series champions. However, beyond batting averages and home-run statis ...
• Latin American on the Edge - Migradollars and Econ ...
  Remittances, the funds sent by foreign-based Latin American workers to their families back home (also called migradollars in Mexico, where they constitute the third highest source of income after oil exports and tourism), represent one of the major economic trends shaping Latin America’s recent deve ...
• The Traveler's Edge - Volcanic Ash Again Disrupts ...
  Volcanic ash from Iceland's erupting volcano is again grounding flights in Europe as it continues to spread across the continent. Millions of travelers are being affected as flights are canceled and delayed. Civil aviation authorities say the disruption could last for several more days. The European ...

High Country News

• High Country Views, episode 6
  Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk about the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service.
• The rabbit course
  An Oakland chef teaches students how to butcher bunnies for dinner.
• The Arizona solution
• 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.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

• The Next Step: Responsibility and Reconciliation
  Last week was filled with interviews where myself and, at times, another member of the company I deployed with, talked to as many people as we could about the Collateral Murder video, focusing on three points. 1. The video, in context, is not a case of soldiers breaking from the system 2. With the t ...
• OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OUR FRIENDS IN AFGHANISTAN
  An amazing opportunity is available for communities across the country: The videos from Our Journey to Smile which I’ve been posting on here have been compiled into one long film. On 3/27 at 9pm (est), we will be showing the film along with others groups across the US. Additionally, we will be live ...
• The Ink People
  Last week, my friend from Eureka, CA, Dave Berman informed me that the community organization where Conor and I spoke on Halloween night was hit by a 6.5 earthquake. The Ink People are, as Dave said, ” limping along”: They are “only able to find temporary space for some admin work and a few of its ...
• You might just find that you get what you need
  Throughout these intense past few years, there have been times when I have nearly lost any kind of faith. Sometimes what I was seeing on a day to day basis looked far to ugly for there to be a God. Though questions still abound, I understand that sometimes it takes the worst kind of suffering to [.. ...
• Dangerous gatherings in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

• SCANDAL? NY Congressman Hinchey's Earmarks Reek o ...
  Congressman Maurice Hinchey, D-NY 22nd District, has a unique distinction, he is the regions number-one porker according to the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste which put Hinchey’s earmarks at $54.96 million. What makes Hinchey's earmarks especially interesting is that $800,000 of the e ...
• Congressman Weiner Should Be More Forthcoming Abo ...
  Anthony Weiner has wasted much of his constituent's time lately doing the bidding of President Obama by going after Glenn Beck and his advertisers . But perhaps Weiner would be doing a bigger service to his advertisers by trying to get his own house in order, and answering some questions about suspi ...
• Princeton Scientist Tells Congress: Warming Hocke ...
  William Happer Professor of Physics Princeton University spent much of his professional life studying the interactions of radiation with gases, which is one of the of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect, he has published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals on ...
• Times Square Bomber's Accomplice Was Illegal Alien
  Here's a little notice for the opponents of the new Arizona Illegal immigrant law, its not about Mexicans, nor is it about race, it is about the law. Illegal immigration is a Law and Order Issue and a anti-terrorism issue. Hence the word ILLEGAL immigration. There is no better example of why we need ...
• What's Actually in the U.S. Sanctions on Iran Prop ...
  By Barry Rubin The new sanctions proposed by the U.S. government, and reportedly accepted by the other permanent members of the UN Security Council—Britain, China, France, and Russia—will make it harder for Iran to get arms and slightly more difficult for it to get foreign investment. Yet at ...

The Real Agenda

• David Cameron: No More Power to Brussels
  Times Online David Cameron gave a blunt warning to Angela Merkel today that he would veto any attempt to reopen the Lisbon treaty to give the EU more power over national budgets. Standing alongside the German Chancellor, Mr Cameron insisted that he wanted to see a strong single European currency but ...
• Mexican President: Disarm Everyone. Obama Nods Yes
  Mexican President Felipe Calderón called upon the United States Congress to re-enact the assault weapons ban in a bid to disarm the American people as they are integrated into theNorth American Union system. Further, he placed blame for fueling drug cartels and gang violence squarely on the United S ...
• Diversity is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
  Jonathan I. Katz The air is full of talk of “diversity”, meaning the ethnic and racial composition of populations, workforces and (especially) student bodies at universities. This is shorthand for concern about how many members of various “racial” groups are present. Most biologists doubt that race ...
• Out of Fashion NATO continues to Expand its Wars
  Russia Today NATOâs blueprint for change mentions cooperation with Russia as a new priority, but Moscow is pushing for more than just words. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who leads the âwise menâ responsible for drafting NATOâs New Strategic Concept, stressed that “to saf ...
• Vaccines, Neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Dis ...
  It is also known that certain viruses powerfully suppress immunity, such as the measles virus.35 The MMR vaccine contains live measles viruses and recent studies have shown that immune suppression after vaccination with this virus suppresses immunity in a profound way that last as long as six months ...

Wind Watch

• Radar Ridge: PUD balks
  The Grays Harbor PUD will not move forward with the proposed Radar Ridge wind energy project in Pacific County and won’t fund additional environmental reviews that could delay or doom the effort, commissioners decided on Monday. Echoing earlier skepticism that the project’s permits will ever be iss ...
• Hood River County says no to wind farm
  A controversial plan to build a county owned wind farm near Hood River is dead. County officials came up with the idea as way to make up for falling revenues from timber sales. But many people in the area were opposed, saying it would ruin scenic views, lower property values, and cause problems for ...
• Manitowoc County Board concerned about wind turbin ...
  MANITOWOC â Wind turbines placed near emergency communication towers could disrupt exchanges, resulting in dropped 911 calls and other problems, supervisor Dave Korinek said Tuesday at the Manitowoc County Board’s monthly meeting at UW-Manitowoc. Korinek authored a resolution urging the Wisconsin ...
• State tightens wind turbine safety rules
  The state Public Service Commission will order all wind power developers to certify that emergency control systems will shut turbines down during loss of power as a result of a turbine collapse more than a year ago, according to a news release Thursday. A wind turbine collapsed March 6, 2009, at Nob ...
• Martinborough wind farm put on hold
  Meridian Energy is putting the brakes on the push for a massive wind farm in Martinborough, saying it needs more time to listen to the community. It has proposed putting up 45 turbines, 130 metres to 145m high, on a range behind the town known as Nga Waka a Kupe – the canoes of Kupe. The turbines w ...

Not My Tribe

• There is no problem, no matter how complex
  …that cannot be resolved through the strategic application of high explosives. Itâs been said (OK, by me, but I CAN quote myself, I gave me permission to do so) that Americans, if they canât resolve a problem by killing a whole buncha poor slobs in other countries or Blowing Shit Up, lose intere ...
• Why people shoot Cops, just in time for “Pol ...
  You know, if the cops want to convict you of something quick and dirty, without having to prove anything, they have a few tools. Like “disorderly conduct” or “public intoxication”. If you object, they can and often do have three PIGS hold you down while a fourth stomps on your head. Then charge you ...
• T -6 for humanitarian convoy to Gaza
  FREEDOM FLOTILLA UPDATE- As the MV Rachel Corrie steams past the Straits of Gibraltar, loading operations quicken in Istanbul and Athens and Gaza. Israel announces a counter-protest fleet to carry banners which finger Hamas and harangue Turkey for its Armenian genocide. The ships will not meet as Is ...
• Case of errant cellphone, bandana, and Chance Grey ...
  PT Barnum would have been a terror on Youtube –I’m certainly sobered to see what fools America every time. Is sudden-tween-throb Chance Greyson’s talent for real? Too soon to say. But the 6th grade sound man at Cheyenne School of Edmond, Oklahoma has unlikely genius. * What’s hard to believe about ...
• BDS movement should target USA too, for complicity ...
  As the US continues to subsidize the Israeli occupation, including the recent commitment to fund an anti-missile system, plus failure to demand a halt to Jewish settlements, termed “impediments to peace” and not “illegal,” it’s time the BDS movement against Israel recognized the US for its integral ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• The Military Mindset
  One response that comes up time and time again from people who are suffering from cognitive dissonance with regards to 9/11 is the disbelief that the US military would be so evil as to attack thousands of innocent civilians. Most people who give this response obviously don't put much thought into ...
• 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 ...

Fooducate

• The Real Reason Red Meat is Dangerous to your Heal ...
  Not all red meats are created equal. Better phrased – not all red meats affect our health equally. These are the findings published recently in Circulation, the scholarly journal of the American Heart Association. Turns out that processed meats are far more likely to increase your chances of diabe ...
• Mystery: Why Have Kids’ Peanut Allergies Tripled i ...
  A study published in the May 12 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, provides an alarming statistic: ...[a] research team surveyed 5,300 households in 2008 and discovered that 1.4% of children were thought to have peanut allergies, more than three times the 0.4% rate found wh ...
• 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 ...

Traffikd

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

Clearreaching

• 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 ...
  
  
  
  
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  US playing catch-up in the clean energy race

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  - May 22, 2010

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  For all of the political rhetoric in support of clean and renewable energy, the fact remains that the United States has no price on greenhouse gas emissions ...

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  Dallas wind energy conference will discuss ambitious Texas project

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  - May 21, 2010

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  By ERIC TORBENSON / The Dallas Morning News Texas gets to show off its national dominance in the area of renewable power when the world's largest wind ...

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  Spill's long-term effects on renewables unknown

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  - May 21, 2010

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  But on a smaller scale, the spill could help break down the cost barrier for renewable energy adoption. Getting people to accept solar in spite of its price ...

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  Huge Potential for British Offshore Energy

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  - May 21, 2010

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  By Nick Clark The offshore renewable energy industry could generate the same amount of electricity a year by 2050 as one billion barrels of oil, ...

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  Oil spills from boat in Port Gamble Bay

  Seattle Post Intelligencer

  - May 21, 2010

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  A 50- to 60-foot boat came loose from a mooring and drifted aground, causing the leak, the Washington Department of Ecology said Friday. ...

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  Dirty water warning issued for Yakima River

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  - May 22, 2010

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  The state Department of Ecology is warning potential swimmers, boaters and anglers about rising levels of fecal coliform bacteria in local waters during ...

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  Barge breaks loose from tug off WA coast

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  - May 20, 2010

  - May 20, 2010

  A Washington state Ecology Department spokeswoman says a cargo barge laden with construction equipment has broken loose from its tug in the Pacific Ocean ...

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  BP Oil Spill Feed Update 2010 - Gulf of Mexico Marine Life Endangered For ...

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  Pointing out to one of the most sensitive ecology in the sea, are the crabs and squids which live in deep waters. If the number of squids in the sea begins ...

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  Lead in DC's tap water -- another Bush-era legacy?

  Washington Post (blog)

  - May 21, 2010

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  The DC Water and Sewer Authority (WASA), apparently, has spent a good portion of the 2000s pumping its customers full of lead -- and others, it seems, ...

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  Northern Arizona water group seeks more input on snowmaking source

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  - May 21, 2010

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  By Felicia Fonseca AP Flagstaff, Ariz » A proposal to swap reclaimed wastewater for more expensive drinking-quality water for snowmaking at a northern ...

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  Must Facebook and Privacy Be Like Oil and Water?

  PC World

  - May 21, 2010

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  Sure, Facebook is a private site, and we all signed onto it — but the privacy policy has changed since we joined Facebook. I have been increasingly ...

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  Robert Pattinson Leads a Horse to Water, Remains Sexy Doing So (PHOTOS)

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  21, 2010 11:15 AM / 4 Comments All decked out in period wardrobe, the Twilight heartthrob began filming his upcoming movie Water for Elephants in Fillmore, ...

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