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IPS - Inter Press Services

• How to Spend Environmental Funds
  MONTEVIDEO, May 24 (Tierramérica) - The world's multilateral credit institutions have often faced the criticism that they cause more problems than they prevent. As the challenges increase, such as those posed by climate change, the debate is shifting to environmental financing.
• U.S. Towns Open Doors to Cleared Gitmo Prisoners
  NEW YORK, May 24 (IPS) - As Congress stiffens its resistance to moving any Guantánamo prisoners anywhere near the continental U.S., some communities are putting out the welcome mat.
• U.N. Body Urges Caution on Synthetic Bacteria, Geo ...
  NAIROBI, May 24 (IPS) - Scientists announced the creation of first self-replicating synthetic life form last Friday, and a few hours later, a United Nations science advisory body meeting here urged countries to take a strong precautionary approach to avoid release of such entities into the e ...
• BRAZIL: Report Challenges Rio Slum Evictions
  RIO DE JANEIRO, May 24 (IPS) - The debate surrounding the evacuation decree for eight "favelas" or slums in this Brazilian city, ordered by the Rio municipal government citing the danger of landslides, has taken a new course with the release of a study that undermines the official argumen ...
• Argentina's Dream of Equality Unfulfilled, 200 Yea ...
  BUENOS AIRES, May 24 (IPS) - As Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of the revolution that paved the way for independence from Spain, the promise of social progress remains unfulfilled for excluded and marginalised groups.

Scoop - NZ

• Kiwibank at top of Nats' sale list
  The National Government has given its strongest indication yet that it will sell state-owned assets should it get a second term. Finance Minister Bill English yesterday singled out Kiwibank as a particularly attractive asset for buyers. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• 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 ...

Independent ( London )

• Actress Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack fo ...
  The British-born husband of late actress Brittany Murphy has been found dead, just five months after he lost his wife.
• Grand Prix star charged over driving antics
  Lewis Hamilton has been charged over a boy racer stunt he allegedly performed on a public road in Australia.
• Oil spill clean-up cost soars to £523m
  Under-pressure oil group BP said the cost of cleaning up the mammoth spill in the Gulf of Mexico had hit around 760 million US dollars (£523 million) so far.
• Actress Brittany Murphy's husband found dead
  The husband of late actress Brittany Murphy has been found dead, a US newspaper reported today.
• US backs South Korea response to sinking of warshi ...
  The White House said today that President Barack Obama "fully supports" the South Korean president and his response to the torpedo attack by North Korea that killed 46 South Korean sailors.

Rogue Government.com

• Guy gets tired of complaining about Wall Street, ...
  RON GRASSI will admit that when he decided to sue the three major rating agencies in early 2009, he was too enraged to think about his odds.
• German mercenaries to fight UN-backed government ...
  A German security company has sealed a deal with a Somali warlord that politicians say violates UN sanctions. According to German TV, more than a 100 former Bundeswehr soldiers will fight as mercenaries in Somalia.
• Pentagon Contractor Profits Rise Along With Casua ...
  On the other side of the world from Afghanistan, in the lovely town of Broken Arrow, Okla., defense contractor L-3 opened a new facility last November because since 2001 it has “almost tripled annual bookings and annual sales,” according to local company vice president Greg Campbell.
• Japanese Prime Minister Accepts U.S. Base in Okin ...
• Drone attacks lead to 'rising hatred'
  On May 12, the day after a US 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.

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

• Reports Surfacing of Multi-State National Guard Mo ...
  Eye witness reports from Georgia, Minnesota, Alabama, Kansas, and perhaps Texas suggest large scale mobilizations and deployment in progress for National Guard Units. We were under the impression that National Guard in Georgia were being deployed to help evacuate Florida in the event of toxic fumes ...
• New Jersey: Son Found His Father Stabbed to Death ...
  A 68-year-old Jersey City man was found stabbed multiple times and lying dead in a pool of blood early Saturday, according to officials. The son of Robert Murphy, of 6 Bergen Ave., discovered his father's lifeless body when he entered the apartment, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said. T ...
• Connecticut: Bartender Stabbed to Death in North H ...
  A 45-year-old North Haven woman was arrested Monday for allegedly stabbing a bartender to death. Mary Ames is to be arraigned today at 2 p.m. in Superior Court in Meriden on one count of murder. Her son, Michael Ames, 24, is charged with hindering prosecution. The Ameses live at 42 Oakwood Drive. ...
• Canada: Man Stabbed to Death by Spouse in British ...
  The last thing Angela McLeod's uncle said to her was, "I love you." She then went away for the night and when she returned home the next morning his townhouse, right next door to her own, was cordoned off with police tape and forensics investigators were combing over his apartment. A 39-year-old M ...
• Illinois: 16-Year-Old Boy Stabbed to Death in Elgi ...
  Police are searching for two young men they believe were involved in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy early Saturday morning. Police did not immediately identify the victim but circulated sketches of the suspects in an effort to track them down. The incident leading to the murder does not a ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Stevie . . .
• Once again
  The Harper Regime has no interest in cooperating with Parliament . On anything. Also, what Chrystal said : To Iggy & Layton, neither of whom "want an election" (the Canadians that I know DO): How are you going to work your next climb-down? Without enabling more damage to our democracy?
• Sewing sailors 1896
  And more from the Shorpy archive .
• Oil Traps and Burning Questions
  Obama on oil . As Mr. Obama put in on March 31, “Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable homegrown ene ...
• Tea Party: tantrum?
  THE ATLANTIC has a fine article on the Tea Party, by Michael Kinsley, "My Country, Tis of Me" , which takes a look at what makes it tick, and doesn't like it: "There’s nothing patriotic about the Tea Party Patriots." The right-wing populist Tea Party movement has politicians of both parties spooked. ...

Media Matters for America

• Serwer falsely declares Blumenthal "lied" about be ...
  Fortune �managing editor Andy Serwer falsely claimed that Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal "lied about Harvard" by claiming "he was captain of the swim team." In fact, there is no evidence that Blumenthal�said�he�had been�captain, and a former Harvard team captain has statedthat�Blume ...
• Will advances false claim that Blumenthal fabric ...
  George Will falsely claimed that Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal "told the Hartford Courant that he was the captain of a Harvard swim team when he was never on the swim team." In fact, a former Harvard team captain has stated Blumenthal was on the team, and there is no evidence ...
• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• Evolving Financial Crisis: The World Banking Syste ...
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• Growing Assaults on US-NATO Military Installations ...
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• The Bank Call the Shots on Financial Reform: The ...
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• VIDEO: Battlefields Contaminated With Depleted Ura ...
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• Pentagon Contractor Profits Rise ---Along With Cas ...
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TPM Cafe

• Obama's West Point Speech Shows Signs of Smart "Na ...
  President Barack Obama's speech at West Point on Saturday may be among the most important he has yet made during his sixteen month old presidency. The speech intimates a number of the key themes likely to appear in the National Security Strategy report to be issued this next week. As one senior ...
• What's the Deal With Brazil, Turkey, and Iran?
  If it seems like there are a lot of issues embedded in the dueling diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program, it's because there are a lot of issues embedded in... Rising powers asserting their influence, the efficacy of sanctions, American fetishes and stubbornness; it's all here. So I want to draw on ...
• Beinart And 'The American Jewish Establishment'
  Peter Beinart's timely polemic on the "American Jewish Establishment" works as planned; and as a knowledgeable columnist-friend emailed me, it deserves to be something of an event, since Beinart is young, thoughtful, a former Marty Peretz mentee, a former booster of the Iraq War--in short, the kind ...
• Harvard Needs To Fire Dershowitz
  The media went into a frenzy this week over some kid who lied his way into Harvard. Big deal. Some 22 year old is incapable of doing the damage to Harvard done by a major law professor who uses his position (he's nobody without the name Harvard attached to it) to spout racism, defend torture, an ...
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TruthOut

• Robert Reich | The Challenge of Closing Tax Loopho ...
  Who could be opposed to closing a tax loophole that allows hedge-fund and private equity managers to treat their earnings as capital gains – and pay a rate of only 15 percent rather than the 35 percent applied to ordinary income? Answer: Some of the nation's most prominent and wealthiest private as ...
• Veterans With Brain Injuries Still Struggle to Get ...
  Washington - Improvised bombs rattled former Army Spc. Adam Pittman a dozen times in his three tours in Iraq, most severely when his Bradley fighting vehicle ran over one hidden in the dirt in 2005. Now, part of Pittman's brain has gone dormant, and on most days he can't think straight. read more
• E.J. Dionne Jr. | Casting Stones at Glass Houses
  Washington - A fall from grace of the sort experienced recently by Indiana's Mark Souder typically brings smiles to the faces of liberals weary of moralistic religious types who preach one thing and do another. read more
• Before the US Civil Rights Laws: Anti-Discriminati ...
  Rand Paul's criticism of the federal civil rights legislation of the 1960s can be better evaluated by looking at the workings of similar legislation that appeared on the state level two decades before. read more
• Whistleblowers Speak: Who's Protecting Them and Wh ...
  Over the past few decades, whistleblowers have changed the course of history.� Press play to listen to Your Call with Rose Aguilar: "Whistleblowers Speak: Who's Protecting Them and Who's Listening?": read more

Planetsave

• Geoegineering Ethics – Getting Serious & Hum ...
  Earlier this Spring, 200 climate science experts and policy makers gathered in Pacific Grove, California, for ‘Asilomar 2′ (named after the first conference on bio -engineering held there in 1975), a pivotal conference for the emerging science of geoegineering. It  was a meeting that many attende ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Gulf Oil Spill - How To Slow The BP Oil Slick
    This solution for stopping the Gulf oil spill is a plan for how to slow the BP oil slick growth
• View of a USDA Scientist
  I personally support a 25% reduction in fertilizer usage and a general reduction in chemical usage.
• Live Feed of the Gulf Oil Spill
  WKRG.com, Pensacola, Florida http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/ You can also try: http://
• 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 par
• 2010 Cruise Ship Environmental Report Card
  Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.org/cruisereportcard [GreenBiz.com] Despite efforts to improve o

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Greeks Get It by Chris Hedges
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• Chris Hedges: Is America Yearning for Fascism?
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• Are the People Really Seizing Power? By Timothy V. ...
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• U.S. And NATO Accelerate Military Build-Up In Blac ...
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• Gulf Oil Disaster: A Transatlantic Pollution Catas ...
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Axis of Logic

• US: Let’s Reform the American Community College (e ...
  What is the community college? Does much of daily community college behavior and practice mimic the secondary school experience? Do community colleges aspire to have equal reputations—and legacies—as four year colleges and universities? Should community colleges reconsider how they are perceived ...
• French Farmers Turn Champs-Elysees Into Huge Farm ...
  One of Paris's main thoroughfares, the Champs-Elysees, has been covered in earth and turned into a huge green space in an event staged by young French farmers. They want to highlight their financial problems, caused by falling prices for agricultural produce. Plants, trees and ...
• BP Refuses EPA Order to Switch to Less-Toxic Oil D ...
  Oil washes ashore on 50 miles of Louisiana shoreline as tensions mount over how to treat the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.BP has rebuffed demands from government officials and environmentalists to use a less-toxic dispersant to break up the oil from its massive offshore spill, saying that the ch ...
• Strontium-90 Discovered in Soil Surrounding Vermon ...
  MONTPELIER - Vermont Yankee reported Friday afternoon that the radioactive isotope strontium has been located in the soil near where tritium had been discovered leaking at the Vernon nuclear power plant in January. Strontium-90 was discovered in soil that had been excavated from the area of th ...
• Colombia Set to Elect the World's First Green Lead ...
  If Antanas Mockus wins the Colombian elections - and polls indicate that he will - he won't be your average president. Not only did he make his name when rector of the National University by dropping his pants and mooning a packed auditorium of rioting students, but he has recently...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at Blue Valley N ...
  On Sunday night Blue Girl and I attended the Blue Valley Northwest High School commencement held at Kemper Arena in Kansas City. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was the guest commencement speaker as a result of the school's finalist status in the White House's "Race to the Top High School Comencem ...
• The War Is Making You Poor
  I can't say it any better, so I'll just paste this email from Alan Grayson. (This) week, there is going to be a "debate" in Congress on yet another war funding bill. The bill is supposed to pass without debate, so no one will notice. What George Orwell wrote about in "1984" has come true. What Eisen ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  May? MAY?! How about too fucking late? "Oil firm BP may be "pushed out of the way" if it fails to perform in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster clean-up, a top US official has warned. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the British company had missed "deadline after deadline" in its efforts to seal a b ...
• We'll Never Get Them to Join Us, So Here's How to ...
  Tristero has a great post slapping down yet another "progressives can win over the teabaggers if only we ...." plea for appeasement. Berlet, like many people who make the argument that we should find ways to bring tea partiers to our cause,** never quite says how we are supposed to address issues li ...
• Bring back Howard Dean!
  So I am watching Jake Tapper look like a little boy in his daddy's suit pretending to do the news, and he is talking to Michael Steele and Tim Kaine, and I had me one of them-there epiphanies I've heard so much about. The reason Michael Steele still has a job is this: no matter how ridiculous, how p ...

Care 2

• UK's child mortality rate falls behind other count ...
  The UK is lagging behind other high income countries on cutting child mortality, international figures show. Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 25 Best True Crime Books
  Here are 25 standouts in the field that take a detailed look at some of the most notorious crimes in history. Submitted by Anna Smith to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Mother of four shot dead near Mattapan home
  A mother of four - a sweetheart known around her Mattapan neighborhood as Thunderbird because she moved so fast - was gunned down early yesterday morning, hit by a bullet meant for a man beside her, police said Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Non GMO Shopping Guide
  Tips avoiding GMO'S in your food--Brouse the site to educate yourself on how to avoid GMO's--If you are concerned about this issue this is a great site ! Submitted by Beba H. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Plain Talk about Nada :: Nada Prouty's Plight for ...
  Plain and simple! Submitted by True Patriot to US Politics & Gov't �|� �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.
• 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 ...

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

• Is the Senate GOP Moving Right?
  It's kind of interesting to read this profile of Lamar Alexander in CQ Politics because it both affirms my belief that he should have been made Minority Leader in the aftermath of two successive landslide election losses for the Republicans and it disabuses me of the idea that that that would be a g ...
• Palin Beats The Onion to Punchline
  I'm so sorry these days for The Onion, because satire in these times simply can't compete with reality. Case in point: read this headline from TPM about the "Drill, Baby, Drill" Woman. Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with Big Oil Seriously, have these people no shame? No sense of irony? ...
• Simply Gone Fishing
  I remember when Little Green Footballs was the most unhinged right-wing website on the Internets. But even they think Rand Paul is beyond the pale. The official Republican line is that Rand isn't ready for prime time because he's being honest about what he believes. If he can just focus on "debt ...
• A Philosophical Perspective
  RNC Chairman Michael Steele (a black man) is uncomfortable with Rand Paul's opposition to the desegregation of lunch counters. I should think so. The problem for Steele is that he doesn't have a vote in Congress, and Rand Paul would if he is elected in November. I don't see how both Rand Paul and ...
• Government to Blame for Cop Killing
  Nothing to add to that, except why isn't this national news? Of course, if these two nice white men forced to defend themselves against an evil totalitarian government had been Muslim extremists who couldn't figure out how to blow up a car in Times Square, well, that would be different, wouldn't it ...

European Tribune

• I wish I was serious, then I'd understand.
  Paul Krugman says that wages in the eurozone periphery are a bit high: WAGES IN...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 24 ...
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• Open Thread
  Spring has come to the Rhineland!...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 ...
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• Saturday Open Thread
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Futurismic

• The Mongoliad: collaborative shared-world fiction ...
  Well, this looks interesting, even if we’ve not got a whole lot of hard facts to go on: The Mongoliad. There’s nothing at that link but a splash image (at least for now), so like everyone else I’m going to clip from The Mongoliad’s Facebook page: The Mongoliad is a rip-roaring adventure tale set 124 ...
• Personal Information: episode 14
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 14 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Paper Urges Physicians to Help Clients Identify, D ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Depression is a psychological concern that affects a large number of people, yet many of these people are unaware of what the issue is, and still fewer people seek treatment. Though the ability of psychotherapy and other approaches to help clients understand and overco ...
• Swedish Study Finds Choir Singing Impacts Irritabl ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Known for its strong psychological component, Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS is often linked to stress and anxiety, and the clarity of its symptoms made it a target for a recent study performed with the help of numerous universities in Sweden, which tested the effect ...
• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Still Time To Comment On Spruce No. 1 - West Virgi ...
  Still Time To Comment On Spruce No. 1 West Virginia MetroNews You have just more than a week to weigh in on the permit for the largest mountaintop removal mining project in West Virginia. The fate of a water permit for ...
• Area coal protesters jailed in West Virginia - Lan ...
  Area coal protesters jailed in West Virginia Lancaster Newspapers The pair, who oppose mountaintop removal mining, are part of Climate Ground Zero, an environmental group that has targeted Massey Energy for its safety ... and more��
• 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 ...

Memeorandum

• In Congress, spending measures meet bipartisan res ...
  Washington Post : In Congress, spending measures meet bipartisan resistance   —  Congress is headed for a showdown this week over government spending, an issue that is dividing Democrats as lawmakers prepare to face voters still hurting from the recession but also angry about the huge cost of feder ...
• Clinton to DoD? - As DiMascio, Rozen and I report ...
  Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : Clinton to DoD?   —  As DiMascio, Rozen and I report this morning, some of Clinton's allies are talking her up as the next Secretary of Defense:  —  Gates, for his part, has saved Clinton from a different kind of marginalization by a powerful White House staff, which ...
• For Roaming Palin, Home Base Is Still in Alaska (W ...
  William Yardley / New York Times : For Roaming Palin, Home Base Is Still in Alaska   —  WASILLA, Alaska — Stepping quickly toward his big black Dodge Ram truck, Todd Palin offered a few highlights of the weekend ahead.  —  His youngest daughter, Piper, had a dance rehearsal.  His oldest son, Track ...
• Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus (Joh ...
  John Heilemann / New York Magazine : Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus   —  Psychoanalyzing one of America's most dysfunctional relationships.  —  Thirty-eight hours after Scott Brown's smack-upside-the-head victory in the race for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Barack Obama took th ...
• Eric Massa's Secret (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire)
  Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire : Eric Massa's Secret   —  Long before the Eric Massa scandal broke, the congressman carried the lonely burden of another secret that, if revealed, would turn his world upside down.  An extraordinary look inside the mind of a man in the crisis of his lifetime.

Energy & Environment News

• BP Delays New Attempt to Stop Oil Leak in Gulf
  With government officials hammering it for its response, BP delayed until Wednesday a procedure to shut off the leak.
• On Our Radar: The Delayed 'Top Kill'
  BP hopes to attempt a "top kill" to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by Wednesday.
• Solar Panels Advance on Camp Lejeune
  The military will have solar panels for hot water installed in 900 homes at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
• News Analysis: Obama Sketches Energy Plan in Oil
  A month after the gulf explosion, the president made clear that he was not going to waste the moment.
• A Data Center Power Supply That Moos
  A study by Hewlett-Packard shows how waste from cows on a dairy farm and heat from a data center nearby could be used profitably to produce electricity to run the data center.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.5, Acre, Brazil
  Monday, May 24, 2010 16:18:29 UTC Monday, May 24, 2010 11:18:29 AM at epicenter Depth : 580.50 km (360.71 mi)
• M 5.9, central Peru
  Sunday, May 23, 2010 22:46:53 UTC Sunday, May 23, 2010 05:46:53 PM at epicenter Depth : 109.60 km (68.10 mi)
• M 5.5, Vanuatu
  Sunday, May 23, 2010 20:19:40 UTC Monday, May 24, 2010 07:19:40 AM at epicenter Depth : 129.20 km (80.28 mi)
• M 5.0, Vanuatu
  Saturday, May 22, 2010 14:27:08 UTC Sunday, May 23, 2010 01:27:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 34.70 km (21.56 mi)
• 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)

China Dialogue

• Bankrolling change
  China’s investment in developing-world infrastructure is a good thing, since it liberates many poor countries from unreasonable requirements set by western financing agencies, argues John Briscoe, kicking off a week-long series on dam construction. China, India, Brazil and other middle-income countr ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The Courage of U.S. Muslims
  U.S. Muslims represent a socially responsible and engaged community like any other. Yet they are viewed with suspicion by many of their fellow citizens.
• Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the "War Is Maki ...
  The bill would cut the DoD's budget and use that money to make the first $35,000 each American earns tax-free.
• Where’s the Outrage Over the Catastrophic Gu ...
  This post originally appeared on Hullabaloo. Peter Daou writes the piece we should all be writing: A calamity is unfolding before our eyes – the greatest oil spill in history – and America’s response is little more than a big yawn. The vast, sprawling coastal marshes of Louisiana, where the Mississ ...
• Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tr ...
  You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women's rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights.
• Alex Jones Says It, Rand Paul Agrees: He’s a ...
  Breathless speculation in the aftermath of a recent explosion that tore the South Korean warship Keonan in half posited the massive blast may have come from a North Korean “human torpedo” crew, an “elite squad of naval kamikazes”, as Wired Magazine put it. The existence of the alleged suicide squad ...

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

• Shares mostly lower on euro worries
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks mostly fell on Monday as a Spanish government bailout of a local bank refocused attention on Europe's debt crisis, although positive broker comments on some big-cap technology companies boosted the Nasdaq.
• BP hopes for oil well "top kill" success
  VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - BP Plc's planned attempt this week to shut off its blown Gulf of Mexico well has a 60-70 percent chance of success, a BP executive said on Monday, as efforts to reduce the gushing oil leak faltered.
• WRAPUP 7-Two Koreas snarl at each other, tensions ...
  * North Korea say it will shoot at South's equipment (Add comments by U.N. Secretary General)
• Obama tells military: prepare for North Korea aggr ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has directed the U.S. military to coordinate with South Korea to "ensure readiness" and deter future aggression from North Korea, the White House said on Monday.
• WRAPUP 2-Pressure piles on BP as Gulf spill widens
  * Louisiana governor blasts BP, federal govt for delays

Equality Trust

• LATEST* The Equality Trust in the News
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• 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
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PDA AMERICA

• IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
  A discussion of the Kerry-Lieberman climate legislation discussion draft took place as well as the politics of its passage. In addition, Kathy Callan and James Handley reported on their recent visits to the Hill where ...
• Rep. Raul Grijalva on MSNBC: SB1070 and Russel Pea ...
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
• The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 7 – Rep. ...
  Rep. Raul Grijalva called for a boycott of targeted economic sanctions aimed at conventions following the passage of SB 1070, the bill that has focused national attention on Arizona’s regressive immigration policies. “We’re on the wrong ...
• Grand Central Station
  It was like Grand Central Station in Washington, D.C., last week when PDA teams of citizen-lobbyists took to three different tracks on Capitol Hill. The Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team has been focusing most of ...
• Kucinich Addresses the Nurses
  On May 12, 2010 Congressman Kucinich addressed a rally of National Nurses United in Washington D.C.

Marler Blog

• Los Dos Amigos Family Mexican Restaurant Issues Ap ...
  Many restaurants or manufacturers of food seldom, if ever, issue an apology when their food poisons a customer.  So, when the owner of Los Dos Amigos Family Mexican Restaurant issues a written apology to its patrons for the recent salmonella outbreak at the Jackson Street, Roseburg, business, you ne ...
• DELAURO URGES SENATE ACTION ON FOOD SAFETY LEGISLA ...
  Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement today in response to the urgent recall of all alfalfa sprouts manufactured by J.H. Caldwell and Sons sold under three brand names: Caldwell Fresh Foods, Nature's Choice, and California Exotics brand. Alfalfa sprou ...
• Settlements reached in 2009 E. coli O157:H7 Hemoly ...
  In early April 2009, health officials from several states began investigating reports of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses associated with the consumption of ground beef products manufactured by the JBS Swift company. On June 24, 2009, JBS Swift announced a voluntary recall of approximately 41,280 pounds of ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 05.24.10
  Reuters: UAW pressuring Tesla/Toyota to hire union workers at former NUMMI plant Will the Model S be a union car? IIHS condemns use of mini trucks and low-speed vehicles on public roads Don' ...
• 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 ...

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

• Scientists Create Synthetic Organism
  By Robert Lee Hotz Heralding a potential new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday. “We call it the first synthetic cell,” said geno ...
• Either We Live In An Oligarchy Or A Democracy! I t ...
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• Europe: The Attack on People Continues
  By Steven Erlanger Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are suddenly in doubt. The deficit crisis that threatens the euro has also undermined the sustainability of the European standard of social welfare, built by left-leaning governments since t ...
• Leaked Machete Script Confirms Race War Plot
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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

• All of Us Use Drugs, But Only Some of Us Go to Jai ...
  Despite a $40 billion a year "war on drugs," our country is swimming in them. They aren't going anywhere.
• Fox News' John Stossel Calls For Repeal of Part of ...
  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.

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

• Fear or Fail: about the melting Greenland ice she ...
  Summary:  Climate scientists have, as a group, learned little or nothing from ClimageGate.  While the professional literature continues on track, many participate in gross exaggerations — often doomseter-like speculation that diminishes their credibility.  This post provides examples. Today’s sc ...
• Let’s play another round of “Name that ...
  Let’s play another round of name that Liberal!  They’re a lot easier to defeat once you have spotted them. Today, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals adopted the Bush/Obama position, holding that even detainees abducted outside of Afghanistan and then shipped to Bagram have no ...
• Two contrasting views of the Republican Party
  From the transcript of American Morning, CNN, 17 May 2010: CAROL COSTELLO: Sarah Palin is back in the spotlight taking the stage in Phoenix this weekend with Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer (R). Both women have a message for the man in the White House.  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PALIN: It’s time for America ...
• FM newswire for May 22, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague.  “BP must use less toxic dispersant“, EPA, 20 May 2010  For more on the effect of dispersants see About the invisible oil spill â and the chemicals that made it disappear “Afghani ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Indonesian volcano spews ash and lava: official
  AFP- An active volcano has erupted in Indonesia, spewing ash and lava at least 1,500 metres into the sky, damaging crops but not threatening villagers, an official said today. Mount Baru Jari on Lombok island, near Bali, has been active for several months but yesterday’s eruption was “big,” the isla ...
• Allergy sufferers ‘less prone to cancer’
  The Telegraph – Allergy sufferers are less likely to contract cancer because adverse reactions stimulate the immune system, according to two studies. Scientists found children with allergies to airborne substances were 40 per cent less likely to develop leukaemia than other youngsters while asthma s ...
• Taliban attack southern Afghan base
  ABC – Several NATO troops were wounded when Taliban militants fired rockets at Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, and there are fears insurgents may have entered the base, the alliance said. The rocket and mortar fire was followed by a ground attack on the massive base in the Tal ...
• A planet poisoned by plastic: From Hawaiian beache ...
  The Dailymail-Hawaii is generally considered to be the one place in the world where you should be able to guarantee finding paradise. The beautiful tropical islands have been used as the setting for countless TV series, ranging from Lost to Jurassic Park. Isolated in the middle of the vast Pacific O ...
• China-US talks: China vows more currency reform
  BBC – China has pledged to continue reforms to its exchange rate policies at the beginning of high level trade talks with the US. Speaking at the opening of the talks, President Hu Jintao said he would seek “gradual progress” on reforming the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan. Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• British Petroleum disaster, typical capitalism
  British Petroleum disaster, typical capitalism (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A month after the initial explosion on a British Petroleum oil rig, millions of barrels of oil continue to spill into the Gulf of Mexico. Both the Obama Administration and British Petroleum have dropped the ball on fi ...
• Policjanci zabili Czarnego imigranta
  Policjanci zabili Czarnego imigranta (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Polska coraz bardziej wkracza w orbitę wpływów Pierwszego Świata. 23 maja 2010 roku w rasistowskim ataku policji zginął Nigeryjczyk Max I., który od 8 lat handlował butami na Stadionie Dziesięciolecia. Oficjalna wersja policji mówi o t ...
• Drodzy Trzecioświatowi Maoiści… dlaczego Amerykkka ...
  Drodzy TrzecioÅwiatowi MaoiÅci⦠dlaczego Amerykkkanie sÄ… zatrudniani? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polish) (English) “Drodzy TrzecioÅwiatowi MaoiÅci, Skoro Amerykkkanie nie sÄ… wyzyskiwani, dlaczego wiÄc sÄ… zatrudniani przez kapitalistów? Co z pracÄ… produkcyjnÄ… w Pierwszym Åwiec ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• Christians- Zionism’s Useful Idiots
  You know the imagery-- millions of Christians around the world have spontaneously disappeared - where did they go? Some say aliens, others terrorists. Now airplanes are plummeting to destruction, trains derailing, cars crashing, nuclear power plants are melting down and dumbfounded people staggering ...
• Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass ...
  Mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and defines what is normal and acceptable. This article looks at the workings of mass media through the theories of its major thinkers, its power structure and the techn ...
• Obama Calls for Global Government: “A New Internat ...
  On Saturday, President Obama showed his true NWO colors even though he avoided the popular catch phrase “New WORLD Order” by replacing “world” with “International.” Both words are synonymous with each other. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
• 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 ...

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

• Sorry, Guys, But We Won't Do Right-wing Crazy Fore ...
  Body I know exactly how Frank Rich feels. "Yes, the Tea Party is radical, its membership is not enormous, and its race problem is real and troubling," concluded the Times columnist yesterday , but "if the Democrats can’t muster their own compelling response to the populist rage out th ...
• Michael Steele: The Gift that Keeps on Giving to t ...
  WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH The best news the Democrats have gotten all year long has little to do with early primary results, or regenerating their spine with health care reform. The best news the Democrats have gotten all year is the chair of the Republican National Committee is going to keep his job ...
• BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee
  NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH read more
• Arizona, Immigration, and a FOX Problem with Race
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph The incredibly controversial Arizona immigration bill has caused a stir across the nation and reawakened tensions over race and states’ rights. In turn, the blatantly biased coverage FOX has provided of the issue and ancillary issues has only further illu ...
• Mark Souder Wins GOP Hypocrite Award for Attacking ...
  Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) Welcome back to GOP Hypocrite of the Week. After years of fear mongering about condoms, we might finally figure out what exactly it was about rubbers that freaked out Rep. Mark�Souder�(R-IN). We haven't confirmed this, but it's beginning to look like they reminded him of all ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The absence of debate over war
  The�Washington Post 's�Fred Hiatt ponders how little attention our various wars received during the primary campaigns that were just conducted:��"You would hardly know, from following this year's election campaign or the extensive coverage of last week's primaries, that America is at war. . . . thos ...
• 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 ...

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

• Georgia’s Voter Registration Procedures Discrimina ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2010 ACLU A coalition of civil rights groups argued before a federal court in Atlanta today that Georgia’s citizenship voter-verification procedures discriminate against minorities and should be permanently blocked absent federal preclearance under Section 5 of the Voti ...
• Senator Cornyn Exposes Right’s Hypocrisy on Judici ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2010 People for the American Way Senator John Cornyn today accused Solicitor General Elena Kagan of displaying “disregard for the First Amendment and freedom of speech” by defending laws that limited corporate influence on elections. People For the American Way Presi ...
• Supreme Court Rules Machine Gun 30-Mandatory Minim ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2010 Families Against Mandatory Minimums In a victory for defendants and advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in United States v. O’Brien, et al. (No 08-1569) that a punitive 30-year mandatory minimum sentence for offenses involving a machine gun may not be im ...
• New Bi-Partisan Polling Shows Americans Want Natio ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2010 America's Voice As President Obama prepares to meet with Senate Republicans on Tuesday to discuss prospects for immigration reform and other legislation, new bi-partisan polling on immigration shows that Americans of all political persuasions overwhelmingly support ...
• New Report Finds Top Children’s Book Publishers Us ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2010 Rainforest Action Network America’s children’s books are contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Indonesia, according to a new report released today by Rainforest Action Network (RAN). read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Environment and Food and Haiti: Two Crises, One So ...
  by Beverly Bell In part II of an interview, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste discusses the role that agriculture can play in Haiti in addressing both th e environmental and food crises. read more
• Get a Grip: Austerity Does Not Produce Prosperity
  by Robert Kuttner Austerity has suddenly become the universally prescribed cure for the fallout from the financial collapse. If widely adopted, it will prove worse than the disease. The price of the rescues of Greece, Spain and Portugal will be brutal deflation. The International Monetary Fund, whi ...
• A Virtual ‘Act of Faith’
  by Sean Gonsalves The largest body of secrets are not contained at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia but about 30 miles up I-95 near Annapolis Junction, Maryland. read more
• Israel's Complicity in Apartheid Crimes Undermines ...
  by Gary Younge On 5 January 2009 the Israeli army rounded up around 65 Palestinians (including 11 women and 11 children under the age of 14) in Gaza, several of whom were waving white flags. After handcuffing the men and stripping them to their underwear, the soldiers marched their captives 2km nort ...
• The Absence of Debate over War
  by Glenn Greenwald The Washington Post 's Fred Hiatt ponders how little attention our various wars received during the primary campaigns that were just held:  "You would hardly know, from following this year's election campaign or the extensive coverage of last week's primaries, that America is at w ...

Karl Burkart

• Coast Guard captain takes blame for poor oil spil ...
  Something seems fishy.. in a surprising statement by Louisiana Coast Guard head when asked about poor response to the disaster: 'I'm just slow and dumb.'
• 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.

Water Privatization

• FLASHBACK - May 24, 2010
  Some 2,650 illegal workers in the Northern Marianas have come out of hiding and sought the limited amnesty offer by the government, but the number falls short of the projected 5,000 to 15,000 overstaying aliens on the island.
• Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
  Clean and consistent water supply is an essential service of modern living, so the industry remains untouched by economic fluctuations. According to IBISWorld, the industry should see steady 3.5 percent revenue growth per year until 2015. Although traditionally the industry has been dominated by mun ...
• Urban Poor Challenges New Administration
  By OFELIA EMPIAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY The Organisasyon ti Nakurapay nga Umili ti Syudad (ORNUS) and the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) challenged the newly-elected leaders of the country to fulfil their promises to the people. According to Santos Mero, Deputy Secretary of CPA, the elected ...
• 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 ...

Guardian

• George Osborne unveils £6.25bn spending cuts
  • Child trust funds scrapped • Whitehall travel cut • Freeze on recruitment to civil service The coalition government today outlined more than £6bn of immediate spending cuts, most of which will be used to reduce Britain's £156bn fiscal deficit, which is now the highest in the EU. George Osborne, th ...
• Boys found guilty of attempted rape
  Pair cleared of raping eight-year-old girl in Hayes, west London, last year Two boys aged 10 and 11 were today found guilty of attempting to rape an eight-year-old girl, but were cleared of raping her. The boys, who have sat next to their mothers in the well of a court at the Old Bailey for the last ...
• MMR row doctor struck off
  Doctor at centre of MMR scare struck off medical register by General Medical Council for serious professional misconduct Andrew Wakefield, the doctor at the centre of the MMR scare, has been struck off the medical register after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct. He was not at th ...
• Dumbbell attack teacher sentenced
  Peter Harvey hit 14-year-old boy after being goaded by other students, one of whom covertly filmed incident A teacher cleared of attempted murder after hitting a pupil with a dumbbell was today given a two-year community service order. Peter Harvey snapped and attacked the 14-year-old boy after bein ...
• Ventriloquist Ray Alan dies aged 79
  Creator of drunken toff Lord Charles and Tich and Quackers The snobbish, monocled and apparently perma-sloshed Lord Charles has uttered his final cry of "You silly arse!". Ray Alan, the ventriloquist who manipulated the incorrigible, aristocratic puppet for decades, died early this morning, his agen ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: A stock market trading pause is a good ...
  Regulators are proposing that trading in certain stocks should pause if the price within a five-minute period goes up or down 10 percent or more. It's a reasonable response to the "flash crash" of earlier this month, pending a comprehensive diagnosis.
• Mark Sanford has indirect influence on S.C. govern ...
  Gov. Mark Sanford has no plans to get involved in the race to follow the term-limited Republican, nor does he plan to use his $1.1 million campaign fund to support candidates or issues.
• Castro government to move Cuban political prisoner ...
  The Cuban government has promised to move sick political prisoners to hospitals, and other jailed dissidents closer to home, in a stunning concession to the recent avalanche of criticisms of its human rights record, an independent journalist said Sunday.
• AARP, AFL-CIO oppose Alaska's 'vague' anti-corrupt ...
  In Alaska, where prosecutors have sent a string of politicians and bribe-payers to federal prison in recent years, who could oppose what has been billed as an anti- corruption ballot measure?
• Kansas is blowing wind energy options, say advocat ...
  Just how serious is Kansas about promoting wind energy?

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

• Jeffrey Simpson Was Under the Weather Today
  Or something else was responsible for today's lame-ass column: " Cracks in the bedrock of U.S. - Israel relations? " (Note: He recently wrote something with the title " When the penny drops, denial over health care stops " that must have also been written while he had the sniffles, it's such a brain ...
• Down to the Wire on Detainee Documents in Parliame ...
  So, the parties are still trying to figure out the mechanics of complying with Speaker Milliken's ruling while respecting the harpercon government's bullshit "national security" concerns. In the Globe & Mail article link there's some speculation about whether the Liberals will attempt to cut a side ...
• Non-Political Video Post
  Sam and Dave: "Hold On, I'm Coming"
• "Investors," High Frequency Trading, and Market Me ...
  Okay. Even assuming that all of Greece's economic troubles were caused by a bloated, inefficient public sector and counter-productive social programs, I'd still get a real kick out of all these nameless "investors" who want to make sure that the Greeks endure a really, really punishing austerity pr ...
• General Natynczyk Clears His Organization
  Please, please General Natynczyk ! I already said not to bother investigating yourselves! (Sigh!) Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the chief of defence staff, said Friday that the Canadian Forces have reviewed the interpreter's testimony to a parliamentary committee and are convinced that their soldiers ac ...

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

• Two-Day National Whistlblower Assembly Begins Toda ...
  The 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly begins today! Government officials, Members of Congress, all-star whistleblowers, and NGO do-gooders will convene for discussions, workshops, and training sessions on Capitol Hill. Find out more information here. The conference is free and open to...
• Morning Smoke: Spill Exposes Lack of Preparedness
  U.S. Wasn't Ready for Major Spill by Jeffrey Ball, Stephen Power, and Neil King [Wall Street Journal] The Measure of a Disaster by Ian R. MacDonald, John Amos, Timothy Crone, and Steve Wereley [New York Times] Angry Salazar threatens to...
• Morning Smoke, FinReg Edition: Loopholes Abound in ...
  Financial Reform Bill Full of Loopholes by Michael Hirsh [Newsweek] Rules Grow, Banks Stay Same Size by Binyamin Appelbaum [The New York Times] 'Ratings Shopping' Lives as Congress Debates a Fix by Aaron Lucchetti and Serena Ng [The Wall Street...
• 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...

Digital Journal

• Canada to get more investments from China
  After an 8-day trip to China, Canadian minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway Stockwell Day returned home on Friday with confidence to attract more investments from China.
• Car going wrong way hits van of teens in Toronto
  Five young people have been injured when the van they were riding in was struck by a Camaro driving northbound in the southbound lanes of a Toronto road. The driver of the Camaro died at the scene.
• Ancient pyramid in Peru headquarters of a ’copper ...
  Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a pyramid used not to bury the dead, but for the living. The 1,400-year-old structure is near the country’s coast, and scholars speculate the inhabitants were master coppersmiths.
• Updated: Lake Ontario tomb for remains encased in ...
  Toronto Police are tight-lipped concerning a tip that lead the Marine Unit and homicide detectives to 125 Queen's Quay East to locate a body placed in Lake Ontario this morning.
• Barbecue season can be food-related illness season
  For Canadians Victoria Day weekend is often the signal to get the grill out for the summer. The Government of Canada is reminding folks to take steps to avoid foodborne illnesses that come along with the season.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Hope for the Homeless: The Key to Success
  We have written quite a bit about the struggles of homeless people. Today we wanted to take some time to write about a success story. The successes help provide much needed hope in this fight to end homelessness. Elizabeth has been working with a woman we'll call Gina who was released from prison ov ...
• Housing Is a Human Right
  The United Nations declared housing to be a human right in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights , adopted in 1948. However, the position of UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing wasn't created until 2000. Raquel Rolnik of Brazil became the second person to fill that position in 2008. She wa ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Canadians: Humanitarian role or stay home
  According to a Leger Marketing poll conducted for the QMI Agency, Canadians are divided on where they would like the Canadian Forces to go after Afghanistan, with many choosing humanitarian missions and 32% saying they should stay in Canada (Laura Payton, “One third of Canadians want troops home aft ...
• 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 ...

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

• How Israel offered nuclear weapons to apartheid So ...
  The Guardian reports: Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons. The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior officials from the t ...
• On national security, it’s the economy stupid!
  In a speech delivered at West Point on Saturday, President Obama previewed his new security doctrine. This was a key passage: Now even as we fight the wars in front of us, we also have to see the horizon beyond these wars — because unlike a terrorist whose goal is to destroy, our future will be [.. ...
• Hezbollah’s coalition partner meets Obama
  At the pro-Israeli Washington Institute for Near East Policy, David Schenker writes: On Monday, Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri will visit Washington for a meeting with President Obama. In announcing the meeting, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called it “a symbol of the close and hist ...
• Turkey’s “zero problems” foreign policy
  In a presentation of Turkey’s “zero-problems” foreign policy, Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, lays out five operational principles guide Turkey’s foreign policy-making process: The first principle is the balance between security and democracy. The legitimacy of any political regime come ...
• Israel’s emerging state of psychosis
  Gideon Levy writes: Let us imagine the dream-country of most Israelis – without criticism, neither from within nor from without. It speaks in one voice and is eternally united, with devotion and cohesion; all-Jewish, that goes without saying. It stands unanimously behind its government, every gover ...

Watts Up With That?

• Climate Craziness of the Week: Denmark evicting ci ...
  I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t read this message of a Danish group opposed to the plan. Greens clear-cutting trees in a national park and evicting people, whoda thunk?. Seems like a case of “we had to destroy … Continue reading →
• The Sea Ice Monster: it’s a scaly thing
  By Steve Goddard and Anthony Watts If you zoom in far enough, most anything looks scary, like this picture of a human head louse. But when you look at it in the scale of our normal experience, not so much. … Continue reading →
• Cause for alarm?
  Why do scientists and news stories blame everything on global warming? Fortune and glory. Guest post By Paul Driessen, Willie Soon, and David R. Legates Weâre often asked, What really causes all these alarms about global warming disasters? As scientists … Continue reading →
• WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #6
  By Steve Goddard The Arctic is still running well below freezing, and as a result there just isn’t much happening, except for an odd discrepancy that has developed between NSIDC and NORSEX related to the 2007 extent. Read on. The … Continue reading →
• On Being the Wrong Size
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This topic is a particular peeve of mine, so I hope I will be forgiven if I wax wroth. There is a most marvelous piece of technology called the GRACE satellites, which stands for the … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Exposed? ‘Official proof’ of Israel ha ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1098539 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday May 24, 2010 â The first official evidence of Israel possessing nuclear weapons may have been discovered by an US academic. Britain’s Guardian newspaper has published the declassified agreement, which su ...
• Oily Obama: Lousy Response to BP Oil Invasion by J ...
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org May 23, 2010 Thirty days into the BP oil spill one mile down into the Gulf of Mexico it should be clear to every objective person that President Obama has failed miserably.  This oil spill is more than a disaster or crisis; it is a ...
• END:CIV Premise 2 of Derrick Jensen’s Endgame
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ stimulator May 22, 2010 â http://submedia.tv/endciv/2010/05/21/… Last week the supposed defenders of the environment, A.K.A. the Environmental Non Governmental Organizations or E.N.G.O.s, cut a “deal” with timber industries to protect a large chunk of the borea ...
• 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 ...
• Oceans of Oil by Roxanne Amico
  by Roxanne Amico Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Spirit Morph Studio May 22, 2010 [Listen to Roxanne's powerful words: Spiritmorph Studio] This is a 3 minute 19 second Radio Roxanne experimental audio piece about the one-month-old oil hemorrhage in the Gulf of Mexico, for Friday, 21 May, 2010. It’s ...

Your New Reality

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  From the White House photo of the day for May 7 , West Wing image makers shoot for an 'Obama In Charge' public perception shift :
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  "Rupert Murdoch Is Poison" Sky News airs some uncensored comments from members of the public : Sky News was doing this interview in a public space, in a democracy. For now at least, shouting your opinions in public is not against the law. So if you get the opportunity to do so, feel free to ...
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  The buildings are modeled, the 3D animations are created to fit the model, then blown up to life size and projected back onto the real buildings. Our future cities will be filled with incredible animations.
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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 ...

Wired - Science

• Photo: WISE Telescope Captures Heart Nebula
  WISE, NASA’s newest infrared observatory, has heart. This new mosaic captures the Heart and Soul nebulas, so named because of their resemblance to hearts–both the Hallmark card and the blood-pumping variety. “One is a Valentine’s Day heart, and the other is a surgical heart that you have in your bo ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Chomsky visits villages in South Lebanon
  Gulf News accompanied Noam Chomsky in South Lebanon during a tour with Hezbollah official Nabeel Kaouk. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
• Amira Hass: Otherwise Occupied – The irrational st ...
  "Denying my entry to the West Bank was a minor event, but significant because it indicates irrational behavior on the part of Israel," the linguist Noam Chomsky said at the start of his lecture last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Omar Baddar: Missing the Nuance – Abunimah’s Criti ...
  [N]either Chomsky nor I are have any illusions about the limits of the aforementioned initiatives or their possible (if not probable) failure in the face of Israel's hubris and the power disparity... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa ...
  Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Israel and apartheid: a marriage of convenience an ...
  Alon Liel, former Israeli ambassador to Pretoria: "When we came to the crossroads in 86-87, in which the foreign ministry said we have to switch from white to black, the security establishment said,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian shipbuilders say ready to construct Mistra ...
  Russian shipyards are ready to build Mistral class helicopter carriers whenever they receive orders from the military, industry officials said on Monday.
• Share of modern weaponry in Russian military must ...
  The share of modern weaponry in the Russian Armed Forces must be brought up to at least 30% by 2015, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
• 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 ...

NewsWise

• Satishchandran to Lead NDSU Biopharma Center
  C. Satishchandran, formerly the chief technology officer of the Nucleic Acid-Based Therapeutics Division of the Biotherapeutics Division at Pfizer Inc., will direct the new Center for Biopharmaceutical Research and Production at North Dakota State University, Fargo.
• Engineer Explores Intersection of Engineering, Eco ...
  W. Ross Morrow, who's just finishing his first year at Iowa State University, believes engineers have a place in public policy debates. He's had some first-hand experience: A report he helped write as a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affa ...
• Museums Success Requires More Appeal to the Young ...
  To remain relevant to the public, museums need to become more welcoming to minorities and provide more opportunities to interact with younger people, according to a report from the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago. The Center for the Future of Museums, an initiative of the America ...
• White House Cites Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...
  The White House on Friday cited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for its leadership role in using the Web to promote government transparency. The announcement was made at an event in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the open government Web site, Data.gov.
• Delivering Art with No Strings Attached
  The blaze orange Honda Element car parks curbside midday in a rural community dotted with modest homes. An artist quietly approaches, placing a hand-thrown ceramic cup at each doorstep. The project carries the imprint of Michael J. Strand, head of the Visual Arts Department at North Dakota State Uni ...

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

• Dershowitz: “My job today is to delegitimize inter ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Jerusalem Post reports on a recent discussion discussion between Alan Dershowitz, Aharon Barak, and Amnon Rubinstein on Israel’s proper attitude toward international law.  Each represented a different perspective. Barak (former Israeli Supreme Court chief) suggests ...
• 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 International ...
  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 ...
• Dershowitz: “My job today is to delegitimize ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Jerusalem Post reports on a recent discussion discussion between Alan Dershowitz, Aharon Barak, and Amnon Rubinstein on Israel’s proper attitude toward international law.  Each represented a different perspective. Barak (former Israeli Supreme Court chief) suggests ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• NEWS RELEASE: PM's statement conflicts with Review ...
  Prime Minister John Key has been warned he could take a serious credibility hit if he continues to endorse the Latta Review on smacking before he's seen the Investigate magazine article published today. Responding to the PM's comments to NZPA...
• BREAKING NEWS: Investigate magazine news release
  NEWS RELEASE FROM INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE Government’s smacking review misunderstood its Terms of Reference, got crucial facts wrong Investigate magazine has blown open the smacking debate by publishing documents that show the review headed by Nigel Latta was effectively a farce,...
• 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...

Public News Service

• AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone
  AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone Phoenix, AZ – A cell phone can be a handy reminder for better maternal and child health. That's the goal of the "Text4Baby" program, a new joint effort between health providers, corporations and local governments. It sends short, health and safety-relat ...
• DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in ...
  DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in AZ and Elsewhere Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-gender (LGBT) community will be closely watching a Capitol Hill demonstration demanding Congress vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The bill would stop employers o ...
• ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing?
  ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing? President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon (fuh-LEE-pay call-der-OWN) yesterday (Wednesday) criticized Arizona's law that makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime. But in contrast to Arizona, a growing number of cities around the ...
• Environmental Health Risks: Not Just Cancer
  Environmental Health Risks: Not Just Cancer Washington, DC – A report delivered (May 6) to President Obama says environmentally-caused cancers are “grossly under-estimated.” But it's not just cancer, say health professionals. Comments from from Dr. Kristen Welker-Hood, director, Environment and Heal ...
• SBA and Google Help AZ Small Business Owners Creat ...
  SBA and Google Help AZ Small Business Owners Create Jobs The U.S. Small Business Administration is teaming up with Google to help Arizonans grow their businesses by increasing their presence on the Web. The free “Tools for Online Success” program offers advice on technology to help small businesses ...

My Care2 Picks

• Message from Matthew, May 19, 2010
  The following is discussed in this message: Gulf of Mexico oil spill; grassroots efforts for "green world"; truth disclosures speeding up; Earth's energy field of potential; Illuminati, clones; astrological influences; history, new direction of religions Submitted by Ellyn S. to Offbeat �|� �Note- ...
• 20 Best TED Talks on the Environment
  The article has listed 20 best TED talks on the environment loaded with experts, scientist, and well-known environmental activists. They are listed by current number of most favorite all time. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Asias Rice Culture Threatened by Development Proj ...
  It has been alleged~Bayer BioScience has illegally planted GM rice in India, and rice seeds in the USA, leading to contamination of US rice. Export consignments were Destroyed in Europe and Japan and rice exporters lost credibility internationally Submitted by Tippers A. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Dutch newspaper reports Trifigura bribed toxic tru ...
  Nine truck drivers involved in the environmental scandal say the company bribed them to say that the waste they dumped did no damage to their health. Now they claim nothing could be further from the truth. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• C's Gift
  Just Carole sent an email - and so starts a tale Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Three Strikes Bill passed to detriment of Maori
  Three Strikes Bill passed to detriment of Maori-waatea603am.co.nz: "The introduction of the Budget may have overshadowed the passing of the three strikes bill, but Greens co-leader Metiria Turei says... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Russian Workers In Altai End Hunger Strike
  Russian Workers In Altai End Hunger Strike - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty � 2010: "RUBTSOVSK, Russia -- Scores of protesters at a tractor-building plant in Russia's central Altai Krai region... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Turkish girl, 16, buried alive 'for talking to boy ...
  Turkish girl, 16, buried alive 'for talking to boys' | World news | The Guardian: "The article below reported the arrest of relatives on suspicion of killing a teenager for having friendships with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Who Really Killed Malcolm X? An Exclusive Intervie ...
  Who Really Killed Malcolm X? An Exclusive Interview with Khalil Islam Who Spent 22 Years in Prison for His Murder | American Gangster | Black Power: "Malcolm X, also known as El-Hajj Malik... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Obama Interrogation Official Linked to U.S. Mind C ...
  Obama Interrogation Official Linked to U.S. Mind Control Research | The Seminal: A new article at Truthout, by H.P. Albarelli and Jeffrey Kaye, describes how the CIA’s Artichoke Project* was the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• The Codex Poisoning Begins: Latest Codex Meeting T ...
  “It is truly bizarre that Codex delegates will trip all over themselves in their rush to establish low maximum acceptable levels for healthy vitamins and minerals, but when it comes to a true industrial contaminant [melamine], extremely harmful to health, they look the other way.”
• 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?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Billionaire Brothers End Feud - Forbes.com (forbes ...
  Noted by Devon Pendleton on May 24, 2010 2:05 PM
• Social Networks Capitalize on Facebook Privacy Fea ...
  Noted by Todd Essig on May 24, 2010 1:05 PM
• I-Fairy Robot Conducts Wedding Ceremony (The Huffi ...
  Noted by Courtney Boyd Myers on May 24, 2010 1:05 PM
• Survivor Producer Suspected in Wife's Murder Leave ...
  Noted by Lorraine Murphy on May 24, 2010 1:05 PM
• The man who punctured the Greenspan myth says the ...
  Noted by Nancy Miller on May 24, 2010 1:05 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Iran: US main root of Afghan extremism
  ShareThis Iran: US main root of Afghan extremism 23 May 2010 Iran's foreign minister calls US the main perpetrator of radicalism in Afghanistan reiterating that the country's difficulties can only be resolved through regional collaboration. Flawed policies imposed on Afghanistan (by Western forces) ...
• US appoints first cyber warfare general
  ShareThis US appoints first cyber warfare general --Pentagon creates specialist online unit to counter cyber attack amid growing fears of militarisation of the internet --Plans for Cyber Command were originally conceived under President [sic] George W Bush . 23 May 2010 The US military has appointed ...
• 6 people cited after protest at Border Patrol Head ...
  ShareThis 6 people cited after protest at Border Patrol Headquarters 21 May 2010(AZ) Six people who initially refused to leave the lobby of the Border Patrol headquarters at Davis-Monthan Airforce Base, have been cited and released by the Tucson Police Department. The demonstrators say they are prot ...
• Chicken costumes banned at Nevada polling places
  ShareThis Chicken costumes banned at Nevada polling places 22 May 2010 Nevada voters will not be able to go to the polls wearing a chicken costume this year. State election officials have added chicken suits to the list of banned items after Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden suggested bartering ...
• Rockets fired at NATO base in S. Afghanistan
  ShareThis Rockets fired at NATO base in S. Afghanistan 23 May 2010 Rockets were fired at the military base operated by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in southern Afghanistan's restive city of Kandahar late on Saturday, officials said. Afghan government officials, who ins ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• NEWS RELEASE: PM's statement conflicts with Review ...
  Prime Minister John Key has been warned he could take a serious credibility hit if he continues to endorse the Latta Review on smacking before he's seen the Investigate magazine article published today. Responding to the PM's comments to NZPA...
• BREAKING NEWS: Investigate magazine news release
  NEWS RELEASE FROM INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE Government’s smacking review misunderstood its Terms of Reference, got crucial facts wrong � Investigate magazine has blown open the smacking debate by publishing documents that show the review headed by Nigel Latta was effectively a farce, and that paren ...
• 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...

Mondoweiss

• Your Israel lobby at work: ZOA blasts Obama appoin ...
  The Chas Freeman treatment. Go after anyone who sounds like he thinks Arabs are people. I have to believe that this is a sign of unraveling. The Zionist Organization of American is going after a deputy Homeland Security adviser, John Brennan, for using the Arabic name of Jerusalem, al-Quds, in a spe ...
• Gaza extremists target children’s camp
  Yes I believe this has to do with occupation and siege, but still, there are intolerant elements inside Gazan society. The Times carries a report from Fares Akram of an attack on a UN children's camp in Sunday, apparently by Islamic militants, torching property. John Ging blamed extremists. Hamas co ...
• If Saban bought ‘LA Times,’ Americans ...
  The New Yorker’s profile of Haim Saban, the Israeli-American billionaire, quotes Saban as saying that he wanted to buy the Los Angeles Times (and still does) because he “thought it was time that it turn from a pro-Palestinian paper into a balanced paper. During the period of the second intifada, Jew ...
• Is Chomsky getting religion on the lobby?
  International Middle East Media Center report: American Professor Noam Chomsky held a meeting on Friday with a senior official of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party, and discussed several issues regarding the Middle East conflict, Israel and the United States policies. ...Chomsky met with Nabil ...
• Doorstop book by Texas scholar suggests New Histor ...
  Check out Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East (Penguin) by Prof.Geoffrey Wawro of No. Texas State, just released last month. It is 700 pages of the most comprehensive look at US policy in the region going back to the beginning of the last century in which he devotes considerable ...

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

• Court Martial Of Brigadier General Daniel Menard
  Heavy fighting erupted in Thailand and I was slightly set back from Afghanistan dispatches. Am back to work on a series of major Afghanistan dispatches. Meanwhile, 33,000 people have signed up for my Facebook feed and about 10,000 at Twitter . Please see the interesting string on Facebook re BG Men ...
• 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.  ...

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

• A Declaration of Cetacean Rights! All Should Be Gr ...
  photo: NOAA via flickr This isn't the first time the subject of rights for whales has come up and let's hope it's not the last: At a two-day meeting in Helsinki led by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society conservationists, philosophers and lawyers have come out saying that cetaceans shoul ...
• Top 5 Areas Where Nature-Inspired Innovation Works
  Photo by gleewaytee Biomimicry is a relatively new discipline in science and technology in which researchers look at the systems and organisms in the natural world to come up with solutions for problems. We've seen some incredible uses of biomimicry , from looking at how a birds' beak is shaped ...
• BP Fails F***ing Booming School: Oil Industry Insi ...
  Image credit: MrHereistruth "I have been in oil and gas production and exploration for over 30 years. My salary is bigger than God's. But that's OK, because I'm more useful than he is anyway." Thus begins an explosive and bitter commentary from an apparent oil industry insider who is angry, ...
• BP's Attempt to Plug Leaking Well With 'Top Kill' ...
  Photo: SkyTruth , CC How Long Until the Oil Leak is Fixed? It's been over a month since the $560-million oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and sunk and vast quantities of oil are still leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, causing an environmental catastrophe of epic proportions. Nobody knows how ...
• BP's Siphon is Sucking Up Just 2% of the Gusher & ...
  That's Nelson's Column, for anyone not up on their London landmarks. It's 169' tall. So pretty much all of Trafalgar Square to that height would've been filled with oil in the first two weeks of the spill. Graphic: Adam Nieman via flickr. A couple things that grabbed my attention this morning i ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Fire engulfs landmark Rangoon market
  Eye-witnesses say that up to five people are seen on the roof of Mingalar market as fire completely destroys the fourth floor
• What can gas transparency do for Burma?
  For the benefit of transitional justice, Burmese citizens and future governments have a right to know which foreign companies are propping up the junta
• Rangoon bomb suspect denied legal aid
  Lawyer for Phyo Wei Aung says that client has been held for over a month without charge and under Burmese law should have been freed yesterday
• Rangoon authorities quit en masse
  Low-level officials from 10 wards in Rangoon division cite lack of power and being 'hated by the people' as reasons for resigning from their posts
• Shan Resistance Day
  View Photo Album Thousands converged at the headquarters of the Shan State Army (South) in Doi Tai Leng on 21 May to celebrate the 52nd Shan Resistance Day and 10-year anniversary of Restoration Council for Shan State. The SSA-S is one of Burma’s largest armed ethnic groups, and has been fighting th ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Mammoths contributed to global warming with methan ...
  Mammoths helped to fill the atmosphere with methane and keep the Earth warm more than 13,000 years ago, scientists believe.
• Springwatch finds the BBC in cloud cuckoo land
  Sadly the flowers have refused to follow the BBC's climate change rules, says Christopher Booker.
• 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.

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

• Supreme Court rules on time limits for employment ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously in Lewis v. City of Chicago [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a plaintiff who fails to file a timely challenge against the adoption of a discriminatory employment practice ca ...
• Australia government announces new military court
  [JURIST] Australian Defense Minister John Faulkner and Attorney General Robert McClelland [official websites] announced Monday that the government will establish a new military court [press release] as part of a restructuring of the federal court system. The Military Court of Australia will be admin ...
• US violent crime rate drops for third straight yea ...
  [JURIST] The FBI on Monday released preliminary annual crime statistics for 2009, which indicated a drop in violent crime [press release] for the third year in a row. The FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report [text] disclosed that violent crime in the nation decreased 5.5 percent, and proper ...
• BP refusing to follow EPA dispersant directive
  [JURIST] BP [official website; JURIST news archive] is balking at an US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] order issued Thursday directing it to find an alternative dispersant [press release] to address the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [official website] in the Gulf of Mexico. T ...
• UN Haiti mission investigating prison shootings
  [JURIST] A spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti [official website] announced Saturday that the mission has launched an investigation into the shootings of dozens of prisoners in a jail riot following the January 12 earthquake [JURIST news archive] which killed over 200,000 people an ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Rand Paul's Views Aren't a Problem for H ...
  Republican strategists hope that Rand Paul's now evolving views on the role of government will have, at worst, a neutral effect on his standing with voters in Kentucky.� To varying degrees, they suggest that Republicans share the basic idea he articulated, even if they abhor racism and would have su ...
• The Night Beat: Admirals and Generals To Watch
  Charlie Crist Loses A Round Adm. Allen trusts BP, but Congress doesn't The Anti-Obama in Alabama The recent market volatility is scary, unsustainable and sure to further undermine confidence in consumer spending and the euro. How the financial regulatory reform conference plays into that is an inter ...
• 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 ...

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 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
• Australia Expels Israeli Diplomat Over Forged Pass ...
  Australia today informed Israel that it was expelling a diplomat as a penalty for Israel’s role in forging Australian passports used in the Dubai assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabouh. Though the government would not say who was expelled, Britain expelled Israel’s local Mossad station chief and one wo ...
• Kamm Trial to Begin
  Israeli reporters bring word that the Anat Kamm trial is to begin tomorrow.� This means that the Shin Bet was unwilling to compromise and to negotiate for a reduced sentence. It also means that they feel the need to make an example of her. For those who know Hebrew, here is a radio discussion about ...
• Don’t Like an Israel Palestinian MK? Burn Him
  One of my Israeli readers brings word of a truly ghoulish Israeli right-wing Facebook group, I Too Want to Burn MK Talib A-Sana. It seems that A-Sana, the Israeli Palestinian elected representative of the Raam-Tal Arab nationalist party has asked the officers of the Knesset for permission to travel ...
• Jewish Forward Helps Hagee Wash Away His Sins
  Many Jews know John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel and leading Christian Zionist zealot, as an anti-Semite who believes Hitler was sent by God to help create the State of Israel.   They may also know he supports an Israeli attack on Iran and that he likens Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hi ...

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 White House, Big Oil, and the "American Power ...
  This analysis looks behind the scenes at how the ban on offshore drilling was lifted and what that had to do with the ultimate prize for big oil, the American Power Act.
• Victim of Bush Justice Department Fights Back in M ...
  A former Mississippi judge is taking a Bush prosecutor to court.
• Constructive Criticism for Keith Olbermann, A Hero ...
  I will always be grateful to Keith Olbermann for being the only voice in America at his level prominence to denounce the Bushite regime in the plain language we needed to hear. But I also think he could make some improvements in what he does on his show.
• Arizona, My Personal Assessment of Some Obvious Fa ...
  People from poor oppressive countries wouldnapos;t come to this country if they had no reason to come.
• The Dubious Company Rand Paul May Keep
  Kentucky GOP senate nominee Rand Paul took withering heat for knocking the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Paulapos;s kind of, sort of recant further fueled fierce debate over whether he is a homegrown bigot or a principled libertarian.

Switchboard

• National Academy of Sciences Stress the Impacts of ...
  Last week the National Academies of Sciences released its most comprehensive report on climate science, declaring that: “ Strong Evidence on Climate Change Underscores Need For Actions to Reduce Emissions and Begin Adapting to Impacts ”.  The conclusions of the “Adaptation ” report str ...
• Scientists to Congress & Obama: count the carbon i ...
  Today a group of leading scientists from across the country sent a letter to congressional leaders and Obama officials urging them to carefully count the carbon from biomass burned for energy as part of a comprehensive climate bill or any other leg    islation or regulation.   The lett ...
• Gulf Oil Spill Air Quality Updates: Louisiana
  The oil spilling into the Gulf, and the dispersants being sprayed on the oil, contain some chemicals that evaporate into the air and could be carried in the wind toward shore. Residents in some of the onshore areas closest to the oil spill have reported odors and symptoms such as heada ...
• Are shop windows endangered as a species?
    Two weeks ago, I wrote a post ( ‘Walkability 101-A’ ) drawing from Washington architect and author Roger Lewis’s succinct summary of the key elements that make a street, neighborhood or city inviting to pedestrians.  One of those elements is exceptionally simple: windows, especiall ...
• The Coast Guard Is In Charge In The Gulf
  In the last week or so, I’ve been getting calls asking whether the U.S. Government has the legal authority to take control of the Gulf oil spill away from clueless British Petroleum (BP).  It does.  The background for this authority starts, as many oil spill-related laws seem to, with the Exxon Vald ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Israel Offered to Sell Nukes to South Africa?
  Seems like rather a big deal: Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons. The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior officials from ...
• Behavior Detectors?
  One of my former students now working at the GAO helped produce this report. Nice to know there’s some point to it all… Watch CBS News Videos Online Related posts:60 Minutes Expose on Haiti’s Children Jeebus The Czechs are Scaring Me Related posts: 60 Minutes Expose on Haiti’s Children Jeebus ...
• Goldwater And Modern Constitutional Conservatism
  Matt makes a good point here about how the founding hero of modern American conservatism was wrong about the most important issue of his time.  It’s worth noting as well, as you’ll see from this passage from Perlstein’s Before the Storm, that two of the people who persuaded Goldwater to stick up f ...
• 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 ...

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

• Wind Farm Driven By GE Turbines Coming To Lake Eri ...
• New Uber Thin Intel Processors Boast Greater Energ ...
• Fancy Fake Bonsai Recharges Your Portables Via Sol ...
• ViewSonic Showcases New 22-Inch Green LED Display
• Greenhouse Gas Converted into Fuel?

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Looking at 'love letters' from both sides: Panelis ...
  Intellectual property lawyers and corporate and university licensing executives traded ideas at a Licensing Executives Society conference about how to handle what they jokingly call "love letters" —patent holders' demands for license fees.
• Supreme Court decisions survive financial reform
  Three key Supreme Court decisions, including one rejecting liability for lawyers, accountants and bankers who aid and abet in the violation of securities laws, survived attempts to overturn them during the Senate's consideration of landmark financial reform legislation.
• WASHINGTON: DOJ wants pardon data under wraps
  The Obama Justice Department is fighting to keep secret the names of more than 9,200 people whose applications for pardons and commutations were denied by President George W. Bush.
• WASHINGTON: Kagan vetted for views on business, ab ...
  Researchers are combing through sources as varied as policy memos Kagan wrote while part of the Clinton administration, her student theses, and documents related to her job as solicitor general to glean her views on a host of hot-button issues.
• WASHINGTON: Hearing set, paper trail assembled
  Elena Kagan is making steady progress building support among senators as she heads into her third week as a U.S. Supreme Court nominee.

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

• Golden Halo Awards presented at SCMC Founder's Day ...
  Carmelita Pittman, the founder of The Rose Breast Cancer Society, was honored with the Golden Halo Humanitarian of the Year Award by the Southern California Motion Picture Council.
• Two in The Wave French Film Review
  Jean-Luc Godard (born in 1930) and Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) were at the forefront of the group of emerging film directors who founded the New Wave Movement in Paris back in the Fifties.
• Secretary Clinton Highlights The Importance of Ame ...
  Secretary Clinton Highlights Importance of American Exports to Overseas Markets During Visit to Boeing Maintenance Facility in Shanghai, China
• Consulate Shanghai Employees Meet and Greet Secret ...
  Meet and Greet with Consulate Shanghai Employees and Secretary Hillary Clinton
• Remarks at the Pavilion Expo Commercial Diplomacy ...
  Remarks at the Pavilion Expo Commercial Diplomacy Event With Secretary Clinton regarding big business.

environment 360

• `Human Rights’ for Whales?
  A group of conservationists and experts in law and ethics is arguing that whales and dolphins should received “human rights” and be protected from hunting because of growing evidence of the mammals’ intelligence. Meeting in Helsinki, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society issued a declaration st ...
• Oil Washes Into Wetlands As Obama Administration P ...
  Oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig blowout is spreading across a 150-mile stretch of wetlands in Louisiana and Alabama, threatening vital marsh grasses and the shellfish and fish nurseries they harbor. In an effort to flush as much oil as possible from the wetlands, government officials have now ope ...
• Illegal Logging in Indonesia Undermines Sustainabl ...
  Rampant illegal logging in Indonesia is undermining the sustainability and strength of the forest products industry in Indonesia and the United States and thwarting efforts to preserve forests to slow global warming, according to a new report . The report by the BlueGreen Alliance and several U.S. C ...
• British Fish Stocks Fell Precipitously in Last Cen ...
  Fish stocks in the United Kingdom virtually collapsed in the 20th century, with the amount of fish in British waters falling by 94 percent since 1889, according to a new study. So few fish remain in British waters that fishermen today would have to work 17 times harder than 118 years ago to catch th ...
• Dozens of Critical Bird Sites in Path of Massive G ...
  The American Bird Conservancy says the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will affect bird populations Click to enlarge American Bird Conservancy Critical bird sites threatened by the oil spill from Canada to South America, with important nesting and migratory stopover sites along the Gulf Coast direc ...

Red Ice Creations

• Keyhole & Arrow (Pyramid & Eye) Crop Circle Decode ...
• Woman offered ’£200 to be sterilized’
• Soul Catcher: The strange deathbed experiment of D ...
• Bulgarian Scientist Claims Alien Contact, Falls Si ...
• US Gov’t Threatens to Boot BP

Russia Today

• The US should force Israel into nuclear disarmamen ...
  Israeli human rights and peace activist Gideon Spiro does not doubt the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons. However, according to Spiro, the US has the power to make Israel get rid of its nuclear arsenal.
• Poll reveals face of Russian adulterer
  Russian men seek affairs for new experience and due to lack of sex. Women do it for revenge and to shake off problems in the family. More than half Russia does not see cheating on spouses as a reason for divorce.
• Emelianenko Jr. collects another knockout win
  Russian MMA fighter Aleksandr Emelianenko has grabbed another victory in the ring, getting the better of Miodrag "Pele" Petkovic of Serbia in the main event of the Pankration Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• Protesting against official’s flashing lights, man ...
  Angry at VIP's abusing the blue flashing lights allowing them to skip through traffic in Russia, one activist group has sent a poignant message.
• “Any medal except gold leaves bitter taste” – Byko ...
  Russia’s hockey coach Vyacheslav Bykov says he and his players are disappointed with the silver medals they received after losing to the Czech Republic 2-1 in the World Championship finals.

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

• Save The Dolphins! - TAKE ACTION!
  Well it seems as though the town of Taiji is responding to the world community, asking that this dolphin slaughter stop and today they implemented a no-dolphin-slaughter policy. Not only for dolphins and whales but for Japanese people who are being contam Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �No ...
• Matador escapes death by the skin of his teeth aft ...
  The half-ton bull, called Opiparo, struck after Julio Aparicio lost his footing and stumbled while carrying out a pass with is red cape in a packed Las Ventas bullring. One of the animal's horns tore into his throat and punched through the bo Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
• Over 100,000 Pigs and Cows to be slaughtered in Ja ...
  Plans are in place for the slaughter of over 100,000 pigs and cows following an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in Japan. If veterinary advice is that the animals should be slaughtered, we must ensure that the cull is carried out humanely, Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
• Update on Sweetie - Pit bull that was attacked by ...
  Sweetie was not involved in a dog-fighting ring. She was not a bait dog, nor dog forced to fight others. Sweetie is a 3 yr-old Pit Bull that was savagely attacked by 4 other dogs earlier this week. Sweetie was the victim in this attack and Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Dog drags bizarre creature from creek
  The omagimaakos is said to be about one foot-long with a large head, a warthog-like mouth, and a tail like a rat. According to the Toronto Sun, a pair of walkers were in the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug area of Hudson Bay when their dog made the find. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-i ...

The Freeman

• Health-Insurance Regulators Control Fate of Existi ...
  “Now that Congress has imposed new requirements on health insurance plans, regulators are trying to resolve another big question: Which plans must comply with the requirements? In keeping with President Obama’s promise that you can hold on to your insurance if you like it, the new law exempts existi ...
• Obama Asks for Spending-Cut Measure
  “President Barack Obama on Monday is sending legislation to Congress that would allow him to force lawmakers to vote on cutting wasteful programs from spending bills.” (MSNBC, Monday) Beware election-year gimmicks. FEE Timely Classic “What Spending and Deficits Do” by Henry Hazlitt
• Due Process in Jeopardy
  The Comstock decision expands federal power in significant ways. Use of the new civil commitment power is likely to become widespread.
• Speechless
  Wisdom from the New York Times editorial board: It was only government power that ended slavery and abolished Jim Crow, neither of which would have been eliminated by a purely free market. Did an intelligent, educated person actually type those words? Did an editor actually approve them for publicat ...
• Why? Why? Why?
  Why is it not enough to oppose racial discrimination and support peaceful social movements against it? Why must one also endorse using government force against what is, after all, nonviolent behavior? (Not all loathsome behavior is violent.) Is endorsement of State force necessary to show one’s ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Feedly puts the magic back into RSS and blogs
  Have you been neglecting your RSS feeds? Has it been weeks or months since you opened your RSS feed reader? Yeah. Me too. I blame Twitter. I get so many links and news updates via TweetDeck on my desktop, and via Twitterific on my iPhone, I just don’t feel the need to open Google Reader anymore. I ...
• Tips for HTML5, part 4: New tags
  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 list the HTML tags that are new in HTML5. These are subject to change, of course, because the specification isn’t finished yet. For short definitions of all valid tag ...
• 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. ...

Facing South

• COAL'S DIRTY SECRET
  Coal ash is one of the country's biggest waste streams and is full of toxic substances, yet it remains virtually unregulated. Can Washington overcome the fierce opposition of energy interests to protect communities and the environment? A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis When a bil ...
• 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 ...

Blacklisted News

• U.S. military told to get ready in Korea standoff
  The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama "fully supports" the South Korean president and his response to the torpedo attack by North Korea that sank a South Korean naval ship.
• Doctor Documenting Vaccines and Autism Struck from ...
  The doctor who first suggested a link between MMR vaccinations and autism is to be struck off the medical register.
• Dysfunctional Markets That Change Every Hour
  The focus is on Europe, but we all should remember trillions of dollars have been injected into the US financial system since mid-2007
• Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa ...
  Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons .
• Ex-CounterTerrorism Czar: Next terrorist threat wi ...

The Intelligence Daily

• What Will They Think of Next? DARPA’s “Malintent” ...
  By Tom Burghardt As America’s War On Terror morphs into an endless assault on civil and human...
• Gun Running, Drugs and Flamenco: US Army Human Ter ...
  By John Stanton Reader’s Note: Due to the gravity of the allegations/information below, I...
• Pentagon Contractor Profits Rise —Along With Casua ...
  By Sherwood Ross The fighting in Afghanistan this week has resulted in the deaths of Canadian...
• Destroying Public Education in America: Part II
  By Stephen Lendman This writer’s April 2008 article addressed the topic, accessed through the...
• Oily Obama: Lousy Response to BP Oil Invasion
  By Joel Hirschhorn Thirty days into the BP oil spill one mile down into the Gulf of Mexico it...

My AntiWar

• Israel’s nuclear whistleblower in jail again
  Summary: Vanunu Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who exposed Israel’s nuclear arsenal to the world and paid for it with 18 years in jail, mostly in solitary confinement, was sent back to prison today for a new three-month sentence. source: The Guardianread more
• Israel strived to sell nuclear weapons to South Af ...
  Summary: Shimon PeresSecret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons. source: The Guardianread more
• Obama’s rejection of Brazil-Turkey-Iran deal ...
  Summary: The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) is disappointed with US President Barack Obama for rejecting outright the Brazil-Turkey initiative on Iran?s nuclear programme. Obama could have welcomed it as an important first step towards building trust between Western powers and Iran ...
• Gaza Children’s Camp Run by UN Destroyed by ...
• Sunday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 5 Wounded

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Obama Continues to Bully Iran
  Summary: No policy of the Obama administration better illustrates its fundamental mendacity than its policy of bullying Iran. In this the administration is Bush/Cheney Regime, Part II. The Post-9/11 Geopolitical Power Grab, Continued. The March of Folly: the sequel. source: Dissident Voice rea ...
• US miscalculates on Iran-Turkey-Brazil agreement
  Summary: Tehran Agreement The U.S. stance on the Brazil-brokered Turkey-Iran nuclear-fuel-swap agreement may look and feel like a windsock in a Spring day, but in fact it is the result of a simple miscalculation: when they strongly and repeatedly encouraged Brazil and Turkey to engage Iran in co ...
• Israel's nuclear whistleblower in jail again
  Summary: Vanunu Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who exposed Israel's nuclear arsenal to the world and paid for it with 18 years in jail, mostly in solitary confinement, was sent back to prison today for a new three-month sentence. source: The Guardian read more
• Israel strived to sell nuclear weapons to South Af ...
  Summary: Shimon Peres Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons. source: The Guardian read more
• Obama's rejection of Brazil-Turkey-Iran deal is di ...
  Summary: The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) is disappointed with US President Barack Obama for rejecting outright the Brazil-Turkey initiative on Iran’s nuclear programme. Obama could have welcomed it as an important first step towards building trust between Western powers and I ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Did DNA-Based Life Begin in Nebula & Interstellar ...
  Stellar debris, nebulae such as the Bubble (image above) and Orion Nebula, and interstellar clouds contain hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, water vapour, methanol, ethanol, cyanide, ammonia, formaldehyde, and complex organic molecules. A spectral line survey of Orion nebular.. ...
• New Research Spotlights Great Mystery: Why Did Mat ...
  If matter and antimatter had come out even in those first moments, they would have instantly destroyed each other, leaving nothing but energy behind. There would be no galaxies, stars, planets, or skeptical Monday morning pundits reading this post. The...
• BP Gulf Spill Now Equaling Exxon Valdez Every 3.5 ...
  Initially, BP reported a 1,000 barrels per day leak, then 5,000 after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) estimate, while independent analysis of company supplied video and satellite imagery suggest somewhere between 50 - 100,000 barrels, the consensus settling...
• The Eridanus Void: Is It a Monster Black Hole One- ...
  The apparent development of a large void of some billion light-years in diameter in the Constellation Eridanus appears to be improbable given current cosmological models. A radical and controversial theory proposes that it is a "universe-in-mass black hole" rather than...
• Did Earth Once Have Multiple Moons?
  The history of planet Earth is a fascinating story, involving catastrophic collisions with other small planets and a veritable plethora of asteroid impacts. The prevailing theory about the formation of the moon is called the giant impact hypothesis: the theory...

Natural News

• Small businesses threatened with 1099 tax form tyr ...
  (NaturalNews) According to a recent report from CNNMoney.com , the massive U.S. health care system overhaul includes more than just a transition to government-run medicine. A small section hidden away in the 2,409-page bill requires all businesses to send 1099 tax forms to every company or individua ...
• If ultrasound destroys sperm, why is it safe for a ...
  (NaturalNews) Ultrasound is extremely damaging to the health of any unborn child (fetus). The natural health community has been warning about ultrasound for years, but mainstream medicine, which consistently fails to recognize the harm it causes, insists ultrasound is perfectly safe and can't possib ...
• Hemp History Week, a look back at America's hemp h ...
  (NaturalNews) Let U.S. farmers grow hemp! This is the battle cry of those who recognize the value and history of hemp and lament the fact that domestic farmers have been unable to legally grow it for over 50 years. In an effort to change this, Vote Hemp and the Hemp Industries Association have annou ...
• High-intensity interval training is twice as effec ...
  (NaturalNews) Recent research is indicating that traditional approaches to exercise that involve spending hours in the gym every day may not be the best way to stay strong and healthy. Interval training, a high-intensity type of workout that was originally created for Olympic athletes, may actually ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Great Republican Rollback
  For years, retail giant Wal-Mart and its smiley face logo have lured American shoppers to its stores with a campaign to " rollback " prices. Now, as Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul was just the latest to make clear this week, the Republican Party is waging a rollback campaign of its own. F ...
• Glenn Beck on FDR: In 1945, Americans Were "Glad H ...
  Desperate to change their miserable present, Republicans are traveling back in time to rewrite the past. And so it is with President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal . Hoping to block President Obama's stimulus program designed to prevent the next Great Depression, right-wing authors , pundits ...
• 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 ...

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

• 'Walking in the path of fascism' (Khaled Amayreh, ...
  Israel, called the only democracy in the Middle East, seems to be drifting towards fascism: "Denying Noam Chomsky entry to Israel puts an end to the myth that Israel is a democracy. It is ...
• CrossTalk: Finkelstein vs Morris (RussiaToday)
• UN says damage caused by Israel still un-repaired ...
  Nearly sixteen months after an Israeli offensive caused widespread destruction to the Gaza Strip, approximately three quarters of the coastal enclave's buildings and infrastructure have y ...
• On being an Arab lawmaker in Israel (Edmund Sande ...
  Ahmad Tibi, a member of Israel's parliament, talks about why he thinks democracy in Israel applies only to Jewish citizens, why he'll never accept Israel as a Jewish state and why he'll n ...
• May is about memories (Eva Bartlett, Inter Press ...
  This is the month for Palestinians to remember their Nakba, or "catastrophe", in which more than 700,000 women, men and children were pushed off their land and rendered homeless refugees ...

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

• Ryan Rittenhouse and Nikisha Nathan dance at Publi ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Ken Flippen, Eric Bremer, Melissa Sanchez, and Dav ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Week in Review
  It’s a bitter sweet day here at Public Citizen. We’ve had another successful week despite the gulf catastrophe. But, we’re all a little sad because Andrew Sauls just finished the last day of his internship. Melissa “Mami” Sanchez is both proud of her fledgling for flying off and also dismayed to see ...
• 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:

Unexplained Mysteries

• Amateur sky watchers solve X-37B mystery
  Sky watchers have determined that the secretive X-37B which launched last month went up to test a new spy satellite. The exact nature of its first eve...
• Massive Maya city revealed by lasers
  Lasers have been used to peer through the rain forests and reveal an ancient Maya metropolis in western Belize. The airborne lasers allowed researcher...
• Son, father and grandfather all born on same day
  The odds are 272,910 to one yet this family has had a son, father and grandfather all born on the same day. All three generations were born on May 8th...
• "Little ice age" to begin in 2014 ?
  A prominent scientist in Russia has predicted that we could enter another ice age as soon as in four years time. Habibullo Abdussamatov who heads spac...
• Scientist accused of playing God
  The scientist who recently announced the creation of the world's first synthetic life has been accused of playing God. While the feat is being hailed ...

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 24, 2010
  BP Prepares 'Top Kill' to Halt Oil Leak as Costs Accelerate (Bloomberg) BP will try to plug an underwater oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by pumping heavy drilling fluids into a damaged well in the next few days, as the cleanup costs of the month-long spill accelerate. BP Capturing Less Oil t ...
• May 22-23, 2010
  U.S. Could Fall Behind China in Clean Energy: Locke (Reuters) The U.S. could fall behind China and other countries in clean energy technology unless Congress passes energy legislation, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on Saturday. Michigan Rejects Permit for Proposed Coal Plant (AP)  Michi ...
• May 24, 2010
  BP Prepares 'Top Kill' to Halt Oil Leak as Costs Accelerate (Bloomberg) BP will try to plug an underwater oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by pumping heavy drilling fluids into a damaged well in the next few days, as the cleanup costs of the month-long spill accelerate. BP Capturing Les ...
• May 22-23, 2010
  U.S. Could Fall Behind China in Clean Energy: Locke (Reuters) The U.S. could fall behind China and other countries in clean energy technology unless Congress passes energy legislation, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on Saturday. Michigan Rejects Permit for Proposed Coal Plant (AP)  ...
• 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. ...

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

• Corporations Profit from Permanent War: Memorial D ...
  However, the US is much closer to permanent war than permanent peace. Corporations are profiting from wars and lobbying politicians for more. The US, and the rest of the world, cannot afford the rising personal and financial costs of permanent war. Number One in War No doubt, the USA is number one i ...
• Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury Explains Why Being Musl ...
  from TomDispatch How convenient that there are Muslims in America. How much harder it would be for the government to increase its power, while abridging more general liberties, if they didn’t exist. A radical Islamic preacher, who also happens to be an American citizen, is now hiding out somewhere ...
• What if Gen. George Washington was gay?
  As Congress at last debates the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, we might ask ourselves: "What if George Washington was gay?" The question is posed by "Thomas Paine's" shocking new PASSIONS OF THE POTSMOKING PATRIOTS . The answer, of course, is that -- under today's laws -- he would have ...
• Cartoon for May 24, 2010: When I Served in Vietnam
  [click image to enlarge] Once again, a politician who should be bragging about successfully avoiding service in Vietnam is lying about his lack of military service. Militarism in the United States is a cult. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � read more
• Pope condemns gay marriage but covers up pedophili ...
  During a recent visit to Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI called same-sex marriage one of the most "insidious and dangerous" threats facing the world today, reported the Associated Press . Two consenting adults of the same sex having their love legally recognized is, to this pontiff, apparently a greater ...

Paul Krugman

• On Blaming Bush
  Yes, it's still appropriate.
• The Bestest Generation
  About that graph.
• Things I Didn't Say
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• Why Does Regulation Work?
  A good word for bureaucrats.
• Down The Memory Hole
  Pretending that postwar prosperity never happened.

No Quarter

• Shall We Look Before We Leap?
  I’ve adopted fence-sitting, for now, as the careful position to quietly seat myself before the general elections in 2010 and 2012. As we search around for the chance to support badly needed new power brokers in Washington, D.C., it’s undeniably exhilarating to be thrilled by the values espoused by ...
• No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents Welcomes Back Jo ...
  May 23rd program concluded and promo bumped down. However, you can listen at any time via Blog Talk Radio or via iTunes (instructions in right column). What really happened in the markets on Thursday May 6th? Can regulators truly address the underlying issues that caused the ‘flash crash’ or are ...
• Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry ...
  What really happened in the markets on Thursday May 6th? Can regulators truly address the underlying issues that caused the ‘flash crash’ or are our equity exchanges fundamentally and structurally broken? How can you protect yourself in the face of such unbelievable volatility? Who benefits and who ...
• Redundancy
  Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show tonight at 9:05 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   “Small possibility for the break-up of Europe.”   Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Spoke to the Black Swan him ...
• Finally, A State Gets Help On Illegal Immigration
  Recently, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona went on Greta Van Susteren’s show and discussed the new enforcement law, Obama, and the numerous pleas from her state for help with illegal immigrants crossing over the border (among other things). Here she is: Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Af ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Testicl ...
  A brief look at Mother Nature's cruellest practical joke: Testicles. read more
• Ghostly Graffiti Visits Chernobyl 24 Years On
  Ghostly images haunt a deserted landscape to remind us of the destruction man can reek upon himself. read more
• Dionysus and the Origin of Wine
  Here I explore the relationship between Dionysus, the Greek God of wine and the similarities he has with Jesus. The result is the highly symbolic meaning of divine wine. read more
• South Korea's Psychedelic Rainbow Church
  The Rainbow Church of South Korea is not actually anything to do with worshipping god. At least not the god of religion. For art afficioados it is worship of a different read more
• Harrowing Graffiti That Haunts the Ruins of Cherno ...
  How the residents of a once thriving town had their futures altered forever in one blinding moment of holocaust and the images of pain and suffering they endured. read more

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Redshirts: To Thai Middle Class They're Terrorists
  Bangkok is still stunned by military assault on Redshirt encampment.
• Reader Challenge: Does Afghanistan Spell the End o ...
  Is NATO's Excellent Afghanistan Adventure a blessing in disguise?
• Calderon's Visit to Washington
  U.S.-Mexican relations might look at little different in the age of Obama, but the Bush-era priorities remain the same.
• 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 ...

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

• Iran executes Jundollah member
  Brother of armed Sunni group hanged for attacks in country's southeast.
• Icelandic volcano eruption 'ending'
  Activity that caused European airspace's costly shutdown may be over, experts say.
• IMF wants 'urgent' Spanish reforms
  Report calls for swift labour and banking reforms in bid to tackle budget deficit.
• 'Israeli nuclear offer to S Africa'
  UK daily says Israel offered to sell atomic weapons to South Africa in 1975.
• Australia expels Israeli diplomat
  Allies fall out over use of fake passports in Dubai killing of Hamas leader.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: The Delayed 'Top Kill'
  BP hopes to attempt a "top kill" to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by Wednesday.
• Solar Panels Advance on Camp Lejeune
  The military will have solar panels for hot water installed in 900 homes at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
• Biodiversity in Peril, the U.N. Warns
  Biological diversity is declining faster than previously estimated, and the trend will eventually threaten "the livelihoods and food security of hundreds of millions of people" unless swift action is taken, a United Nations report says.
• Could a Sand Barrier Do the Trick?
  For almost two weeks, Gov. Bobby Jindal has urged the Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers to sign off on a plan to build almost 80 miles of sand bems along Louisiana's southeast coast.
• Expert Head-Scratching on the Plumes
  The discovery that oil from the gulf leak is spreading beneath the sea in plumes has led to some energetic theorizing about exactly what might be going on a mile beneath the ocean's surface.

Dot Earth News

• If 'Top Kill' Fails, Obama Must Take Reins
  Federal law appears to require President Obama to take full control of the gulf oil gusher.
• Lives Lost in the Oil Age
  A pause to recall the lives lost when the oil rig burned and sank.
• Visualizing Earth's Shared Assets
  On the value of imagery in conveying the finite nature of Earth's assets.
• BP, the Oil Flow and the Public Trust
  Researchers say BP's worst-case oil flow has been the case all along.
• 'Fast' Federal Money Flows for Oil Study
  Money flows for gulf oil analysis from a federal money pot for urgent research.

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

• CAFR: UC budget fully funded with one-fifth of one ...
  source. The UC system had a budget deficit for this ending school year of $0.65 billion. The policy response was to deny 2,300 students enrollment, lay-off over 2,000 faculty and staff, furlough teaching days and cut 10% salaries, and raise tuition by 32%. For less than one-fifth of one percent of t ...
• Redefining “special interests”
  The news in the Times this a.m. was chilling… Europeans have boasted about their social model, with its generous vacations and early retirements, its national health care systems and extensive welfare benefits, contrasting it with the comparative harshness of American capitalism. But all over Europe ...
• CAFR: US agencies have billions, trillions in inve ...
  source. Gerald Klatt and Walter Burien are unrecognized heroes. These individuals are national leaders who have communicated how government agencies conceal American taxpayers’ money in surplus accounts that collectively total trillions of our dollars. The data is found in government agencies’ Compr ...
• AMERICA’S SECRET POLICE NETWORK
  CENSORED IN 1978: AMERICA’S SECRET POLICE NETWORK J. Edgar Hoover knew that power lies between the manila covers of a personal dossier and he used that knowledge to build and maintain his empire for almost half a century. The FBI, the CIA and virtually every other agency given the authority to spy ...
• “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 ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Resurrect the Estate Tax
  How can a civilized nation afford to hand the heirs of the super-rich billions of dollars tax-free and not afford to keep teachers in classrooms?
• 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.

Pine River World News

• Gordon Duff: "Flintstone" Weapons And "Custer" Tac ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . "Flintstone" Weapons And "Custer" Tactics Rake In Billions For War Profiteers � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today May 22, 2010 * �How the Dimmest and Dumbest Give us their Wors ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• Analysis: Axing of US DNI points to structural iss ...
  Although few American intelligence observers were astonished by last week’s involuntary resignation of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the silence by the White House on the subject has raised quite a few eyebrows in Washington.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• See "Prophecy" in New York
  I'll be leading the discussion following the play on June 2nd.� Hope to see you there. --David Swanson Get tickets! read more
• “I Want to Live with my Family”
  By Kathy Kelly and Josh Brollier Islamabad--Abir Mohammed, a refugee from Bajaur, says that the battles which raged in his home province since 2008 have dramatically changed his life. �We met him in a crowded Islamabad café where he politely approached customers, offering to shine their shoes. He ...
• 46 Congressional Candidates Oppose War Spending
  Forty-six congressional candidates and 17 activist organizations released a statement on Monday opposing any more funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and inviting more candidates, incumbents, and organizations to sign on.� The 46 candidates include 16 Libertarians, 15 Democrats, 14 Greens, ...
• Screw the Environment: BP and the Audacity of Gree ...
  By Dave Lindorff Even as BP’s blown well a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush forth an estimated 70,000 barrels of oil a day into the sea, and the fragile wetlands along the Gulf begin to get coated with crude, which is also headed into the Gulf Stream for a trip pa ...
• Raw Story Exclusive Audio: Brothers Embark On Walk ...
  Exclusive Audio: Brothers embark on walk across America to fight corporate personhood By Gavin Dahl | Raw Story The Monahans are documenting their travels on Facebook and Twitter , as well as on their own blog, which included a note about their toe-dipping visit to the Pacific Ocean on day one of ...

Grist - News

• 10 ways to kick the offshore-oil habit
  by Jonathan Hiskes One of the most depressing aspects of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is the idea that we've got no choice but to rely on offshore drilling and the stomach-turning dangers it carries. We know all the problems with importing oil from petro-dictatorships. Electric cars aren't r ...
• Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with Big Oil
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - Right-wing darling Sarah Palin accused President Barack Obama on Sunday of being lax in his response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and suggested this was because he is too close to Big Oil. The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor ...
• 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" ...

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Time - Top Stories

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Digg Green

• Anatomy of the Gulf Oil Spill (Infographic)
  Graphic of how the Deepwater Horizon collapse led to an oil spill and what's being done to stem the spreading oil.
• MIT debuts fuel-saving "double bubble" aircraft
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• EPA Demands Less Toxic Dispersant - Imediately !- ...
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Invisible Opportunity

• Prominent Princeton Scientist Dr. Happer Testifies ...
  By sakerfa Dr. Will Happer’s Testimony Before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming – May 20, 2010 My name is William Happer, and I am the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics at Princeton University. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of vi ...
• BP to Test Kevin Costner’s Oil-Separation Te ...
  By Michelle Ruiz The “Waterworld” references are already flowing, but actor Kevin Costner’s commitment to the BP oil spill cleanup is more than just a celebrity photo op. After investing 15 years and millions of his own money in new oil-separation technology, Costner hopes to help clean the oil from ...
• $200m ‘behaviour detection’ officers f ...
  A team of more than 3,000 “behaviour detection” officers hired to spot terrorists at US airports have failed to catch a single person despite costing the taxpayer $200 million (£140 million) last year. The specially-trained officers patrol terminals monitoring passengers for suspicious body languag ...
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• Statins: The side effects ‘are worse than fe ...
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  Despite a $40 billion a year "war on drugs," our country is swimming in them. They aren't going anywhere.
• How LSD Destroyed God's (and Dad's) Rigid Authorit ...
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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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  To no one's surprise, least of all the European Union, Britain's new foreign secretary, William Hague, opted to visit Washington before setting foot in Brussels. There were several reasons why the Washington trip had priority. One was to reassure the Obama administration on the coalition's continued ...
• Obama's West Point Speech Shows Signs of Smart "Na ...
  President Barack Obama's speech at West Point on Saturday may be among the most important he has yet made during his sixteen month old presidency. The speech intimates a number of the key themes likely to appear in the National Security Strategy report to be issued this next week. As one senior of ...
• Letter to the West: Seeing Iran from Inside Out
  Editorâs Note: InsideIRAN.org requested an analytical or research-based article from the author, rather than the letter-to-the-editor format that appears below. However, in order to provide readers further insight into the views of Iranians who support the current government, I have decided to pub ...
• What's the Deal With Brazil, Turkey and Iran?
  If it seems like there are a lot of issues embedded in the dueling diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program, it’s because there are a lot of issues embedded in...   Rising powers asserting their influence, the efficacy of sanctions, American fetishes and stubbornness; it’s all here. So I want to draw ...
• Israel Offered to Sell Nukes to South Africa?
  Seems like rather a big deal: Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons. The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior officials from ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Marketing Health.
  The Fooducate Blog breaks down one of the ways in which food companies try to market a product that is fundamentally unhealthy, or at least neutral, with dubious health claims. The product they highlight is vitamin water, usually found in the same refrigerated bins as the power drinks people associa ...
• Why Rand Paul is Calling Obama's BP Comments "un-A ...
  Amidst his disastrous general election launch, including a canceled appearance on Meet the Press , Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul called President Barack Obama's criticism of BP for its failure to prevent or control the gigantic undersea oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico " un-American . ...
• Making Bank.
  Tim Fernholz asks if simple savings plans the first step to combating poverty: The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs is housed on some rented floors near Wall Street, amid great banks that profited as millions of American consumers bought toxic loans and catalyzed a recession that drove ...
• Understanding Lincoln's Derivatives Dilemma.
  One of the controversies in crafting financial reform is what will happen to a provision in Blanche Lincoln's derivatives reform legislation that would ban the largest banks from operating derivatives swaps desks. It is vehemently opposed by the industry and the Federal Reserve, but also by reformer ...
• Icons.
  Conor Friedersdorf argues that Matthew Yglesias is wrong to criticize conservatives for making Barry Goldwater their icon, because liberal heroes have been wrong on race as well, citing Franklin Roosevelt 's internment of Japanese Americans, Lyndon Johnson 's opposition to anti-lynching legislation, ...

Andy Worthington

• New letter to MPs asking them to oppose the use of ...
  Just ten days ago, I drafted a letter for readers to send to their MPs, asking for their opinions on four particular topics: the closure of Guantánamo and the return to the UK of British resident Shaker Aamer; the use of secret evidence in UK courts; the continued existence of control orders for Bri ...
• Bring Shaker Aamer Home from Guantánamo! Protest a ...
  From 10 am onwards on Tuesday May 25, to coincide with the State Opening of Parliament, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign (with the support of the London Guantánamo Campaign) has organized a protest in Parliament Square calling for the immediate return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British ...
• New letter to William Hague, asking him to secure ...
  With the welcome news that foreign secretary William Hague has ordered a judicial inquiry into allegations of British complicity in torture, I’ve amended the letter to him that I drafted just four days ago, which, in addition to calling for the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last Britis ...
• 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 ...

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

• White Supremacist Linked to Mail Bombing Imprisone ...
  A firearms and explosives expert suspected of involvement with two white supremacist brothers in the sending of a bomb to the office of a municipal diversity officer was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in Missouri on Tuesday. Robert Joos Jr., an antigovernment zealot and pastor of a church of “apoca ...
• Georgia Oath Keeper Charged After Attempting ‘Citi ...
  When Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball” last October, he argued that the newly formed, rapidly growing “Patriot” group was no threat to anybody – just a collection of police officers and military types who pledge to defend the Constitution and to disobey unconstitutio ...
• Remembering Law Enforcement Victims of Right-Wing ...
  More law enforcement officers were killed last year by right-wing extremists than in any other year since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Six officers were slain in 2009 by those subscribing to far-right views, making the first year of Obama’s presidency the deadliest since 1995 for extremist attack ...
• The FAIR Files: Working With the Pioneer Fund
  During the heated debate leading up to the 1994 vote on California’s Proposition 187, a punishing anti-immigrant ordinance that would have denied social services to undocumented immigrants had it not been rejected by the courts, an embarrassing truth about the Federation for American Immigration Ref ...
• Nativist Leader Suspects GOP Senator Being Blackma ...
  Nativist leader William Gheen routinely demonizes undocumented immigrants, whom he portrays as violent, disease-ridden criminals. Now he’s targeting Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), saying the longtime Washington politician should acknowledge that he’s gay. “The national border security organization kn ...

change: org.

• Beijing Zoo Visitors Taste the Animals on Display
  I've always thought seafood restaurants at aquariums were an awkward arrangement, but the  Beijing Zoo  takes that lunch-on-display concept to a new level. The Bin Feng Tang restaurant in the zoo has an eclectic menu that features hippopotamus foot, kangaroo tail, deer penis, ostrich egg, scorpion, ...
• Urge Rand Paul to Join the NAACP in a Debate Over ...
  Last week, when U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's backward views of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 emerged, the media and blogosphere  erupted . And rightfully so. By assaulting the right of the federal government to compel private businesses to serve people of all races, as Paul did on the R ...
• Mail Order Brides 101: Enroll Today!
  Eager to find true love? Desperate perhaps? Or are you looking for a young, exotic bride to show off to all your friends and make them drool? Maybe you just want someone to clean up after you, cook for you, and voice no objections? Enroll today in a special class hosted by A Foreign Affair, an inter ...
• Destroying the Naval Fraternity One Woman at a Tim ...
  The first group of female Midshipmen are set to head off for training at submarine school this summer . This seemingly tiny detail is a major step in equality for women in uniform if anyone is keeping up on scorecards at home. This officially means that as soon as 2012 all vessels under United State ...
• What Carla Bruni Wants You to Do for Global Health
  Perhaps you already know? In the past week, the French model/singer-turned-First Lady has been trying to reach you with a key message about global health. Yes, you. In partnership with the  Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Bruni's been spreading the word online about the Global Fu ...

Common Dreams -News

• US Towns Open Doors to Cleared Gitmo Prisoners
  by William Fisher NEW YORK - As Congress stiffens its resistance to moving any Guantánamo prisoners anywhere near the continental U.S., some communities are putting out the welcome mat. Through an organisation called No More Guantánamos, two New England towns have voted to welcome detainees who have ...
• Obama Tells Military: Prepare for North Korea Aggr ...
  by Jeff Mason WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has directed the U.S. military to coordinate with South Korea to "ensure readiness" and deter future aggression from North Korea, the White House said on Monday. The United States gave strong backing to plans by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak ...
• Fighting 'Nature Deficit Disorder': Preschools in ...
  by Manuel Valdes VASHON ISLAND, Wash. - When they're outside, the children in Erin Kenny's class don't head for cover if it rains or snows. They stay right where they are - in a private five-acre forest. It's their classroom. They spend three hours a day, four days a week here, a free-flowing romp t ...
• Forces of Fear: US as Bad as Taliban, Refugees Cla ...
  by Mohammad Ilyas Dayee in Helmand, Afghanistan Sayed Mohammad is ­preparing to leave his home in Marja with his children, wife and brother. All of them are piled into a ­tractor alongside some ­furniture and three chickens. Mohammad's dirty turban signals his poverty, and his four children, covered ...
• Flotilla Aims to Break Israel's Grip on Gaza
  by Paul McGeough AGIOS NIKOLAOS, Greece - A global coalition of Palestinian support groups is taking protest to a dangerous new point of brinkmanship this week, with an attempt to crash through Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in a flotilla of cargo and passenger boats now assembling in the ...

Lifehacker

• Trick.ly Shares URLs Semi-Privately [Url Shortener ...
  Trick.ly is a clever URL shortener that adds a small layer of privacy to your shared links by setting up a question-and-answer challenge system that needs to be correctly answered before the link redirects. More�� Secur ...
• uTorrent Falcon Remote Controls Your BitTorrent Do ...
  Windows: The popular BitTorrent client uTorrent released a beta build of uTorrent Web Beta, a no-configuration tool that allows you to remotely access and control uTorrent from any web browser. More�� BitTorrent - ΜTorr ...
• Use Dish Soap to Make an Ultra Cheap and Streak Fr ...
  If you like to keep your cleaning supplies cheap and effective it's tough to beat repurposing dish soap for more than dishes. More�� SOAP - Cleaning - Shopping - Home and Garden - Business
• Better Gmail 2 and Better Flickr Updated [Updates]
  Released a few fix-it updates to the Better Gmail 2 and Better Flickr Firefox extensions, which you can get by pressing the "Find Updates" button in your extensions dialog box. More�� Gmail - Browser - Clients - WWW - F ...
• Join Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and Jezebel for Drinks T ...
  If you live in the area and can carve a little extra time into your calendar, join Lifehacker, Gizmodo , and Jezebel at Sweet and Vicious in New York City ( on Spring Street between Elizabeth and Bowery ) later tonight. We'll be heading that w ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Obama Goes To West Point Again With The Same Old C ...
  By Steve Hynd Last time President Obama spoke to a West Point graduating class, it was to announce his decision to back General McChrystal's hard-pushed surge, despite the - now seen as all too accurate - misgivings of the likes of Karl Eikenberry. The consensus of opinion then was that Obama's spee ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Bard graduates prepared to handle tough times - Fr ...
  ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON With the pomp of mortarboard caps and flowing gowns relieved by spirited choruses of whoops and hollers, more than 550 collegians Saturday trooped up to snatch their diplomas under a tent on a rugby field.
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• World Cup Watch: Why are American goalkeepers supe ...
  From the NYT: In England, American goalkeepers have become as reliable as tea time. The theories for
• Surfing the global credit channel - Why the AUD is ...
  But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell. “c `est la vie”, say the
• How to beggar thy neighbour
  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard summarizes Michael Schlecht’s argument that “German wage-dumping
• what would be the political or social character o ...
  [...] “If Europeâs ultra-Left has so far reaped little dividend from the great “Crisis o
• Video: James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. Deb ...
  Date and Location: October 26, 1965, hosted by the Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge University The

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

• Top UK soldier resigns from Afghanistan position
  Pressures on British troops in Afghanistan have been cited by the British army's top bomb disposal expert, who has quit the services.
• Beckham visits British troops in Afghanistan
  British soccer ace David Beckham risked his safety by jetting into Afghanistan to raise the morale of troops fighting in the war-torn country.
• Russia shares information on Afghan drug trafficki ...
  Afghan men harvest a poppy field as unseen US soldiers from 4th platoon Alpha company 5/2 ID Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) 1-17 infantry batallion walk past during a patrol in Shahwali Kot distri...
• Seven suspected terrorists detained in Afghan capi ...
  Kabul - The Afghan intelligence department said Monday it has arrested seven persons in Kabul suspected in a number of terrorist suicide car bombings in the city."We detained a dangerous terrorist gro...
• 101st 'Currahee' Brigade Prepares for Af ...
  By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service FORT POLK, La., May 24, 2010 Â FORT POLK, La., May 24, 2010—For troops seeking the most realistic training experience possible before deploying to A...

Futurismic

• The Mongoliad: collaborative shared-world fiction ...
  Well, this looks interesting, even if we’ve not got a whole lot of hard facts to go on: The Mongoliad. There’s nothing at that link but a splash image (at least for now), so like everyone else I’m going to clip from The Mongoliad’s Facebook page: The Mongoliad is a rip-roaring adventure tale set 124 ...
• Personal Information: episode 14
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 14 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• 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 ...

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

• Zappos Admits Pricing Mistake Cost It $1.6 Million ...
  For many years we've seen stories of companies making pricing mistakes at e-commerce stores. The news of those mistakes tends to spread very quickly, with lots of people piling on to order something for way less than it cost. Inevitably, the company realizes the mistake, and usually contacts ever ...
• Could You Replace Copyrights And Patents With A Fa ...
  Last year, I recommended the book No Law by David L. Lange & H. Jefferson Powell. I still keep meaning to get around to writing a full review, but the book makes a very compelling argument that copyright law is a clear violation of First Amendment principles. However, rather than wiping out copyr ...
• An Amusing Historical Look At Moral Panics And The ...
  PopeHilarius was the first of a few of you to send over the amusing Cracked story on "5 Insane File Sharing Panics from Before the Internet." If you're a regular reader of this site, none of these will be all that surprising to you. But, it does show that time and time again, the content industry ...
• Pennsylvania AG Drops Twitter Subpoena
  Last week, the news came out that Pennsylvania Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate), Tom Corbett, was so thin-skinned that he had subpoenaed Twitter to try to get at the identity of some anonymous online critics. Of course, all this really did was draw attention to (a) the criticism of Co ...
• 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 ...

VacTruth

• Many vaccines at once OK for kids’ brains
  Frederik Joelving Reuters 05/10/2010 Parents can rest assured that getting kids their vaccine shots on time will not hurt their mental skills later on, doctors said on Monday. “A lot of parents are concerned that children receive too many vaccines too soon,” said Dr. Michael J. Smith, of the Univer ...
• Breastfed babies less feverish after vaccination
  NDTV.com 05/10/2010 Breastfeeding protects babies from fever that is seen after routine immunisations. Its common for an infant to have some fever soon after immunisation. The immune system of the babies responds with local (pain, redness, swelling) and systemic (fever, decreased appetite) reactio ...
• 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 ...

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

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• A Declaration of Cetacean Rights! All Should Be Gr ...
  photo: NOAA via flickr This isn't the first time the subject of rights for whales has come up and let's hope it's not the last: At a two-day meeting in Helsinki led by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society conservationists, philosophers and lawyers have come out saying that cetaceans shoul ...
• Top 5 Areas Where Nature-Inspired Innovation Works
  Photo by gleewaytee Biomimicry is a relatively new discipline in science and technology in which researchers look at the systems and organisms in the natural world to come up with solutions for problems. We've seen some incredible uses of biomimicry , from looking at how a birds' beak is shaped ...
• BP Fails F***ing Booming School: Oil Industry Insi ...
  Image credit: MrHereistruth "I have been in oil and gas production and exploration for over 30 years. My salary is bigger than God's. But that's OK, because I'm more useful than he is anyway." Thus begins an explosive and bitter commentary from an apparent oil industry insider who is angry, ...
• BP's Attempt to Plug Leaking Well With 'Top Kill' ...
  Photo: SkyTruth , CC How Long Until the Oil Leak is Fixed? It's been over a month since the $560-million oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and sunk and vast quantities of oil are still leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, causing an environmental catastrophe of epic proportions. Nobody knows how ...
• BP's Siphon is Sucking Up Just 2% of the Gusher & ...
  That's Nelson's Column, for anyone not up on their London landmarks. It's 169' tall. So pretty much all of Trafalgar Square to that height would've been filled with oil in the first two weeks of the spill. Graphic: Adam Nieman via flickr. A couple things that grabbed my attention this morning i ...

Biosingularity

• First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
  Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
• Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
  People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...
• Examining Individual Tumor Cells
  Despite decades of research into cancer biology, researchers still dont fully understand what happens to the malignant cells DNA as they mutate. Its not an idle question: The better biologists appreciate how DNA changes, the better they can create therapies that specifically target the disease. Now ...
• Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
  Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...
• Gene flaw found in induced stem cells
  Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed i ...

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

• Free Homeland party leads count in Karabakh parlia ...
  According to preliminary results in Nagorny Karabakh's parliamentary polls, the Free Homeland party is leading in the ballot count, the breakaway republic's central elections committee said on Monday.
• Uranium swap may help solve Iranian nuclear proble ...
  A new Iranian uranium swap deal should raise confidence levels and could lead to a diplomatic solution to the controversial Iranian nuclear problem, the UN secretary general said on Monday.
• Moscow's Tsaritsyno palace hosts Museum of Insomni ...
  An artist can give shape to anything, and at the Tsaritsyno estate, one of the most exotic exhibition spots in Moscow, visitors are invited to surround themselves with insomnia.
• Russia’s endangered species
  On May 22, the world marked International Biodiversity Day, held to raise public and political awareness of the significance of ecosystems and biodiversity for human well-being.
• UN chief urges Security Council to take action aga ...
  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope on Monday that the Security Council would take prompt actions against Pyongyang in the wake of a probe that found North Korea had sunk a South Korean warship.

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

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I missed this last week, but Marcy looked at the implications of Elena Kagan getting confirmed to the Supreme Court. There are a number of issues on which she would have to recuse herself, and it looks like in most cases doing so wi ...
• 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.

Natural Health News

• 12 Strategies To Jumpstart Your Productivity
  1. Set productivity targets Be clear on what exactly you want to achieve. 2. Maintain a work environment conducive to productivity If you feel at home, you will be more inspired to get things done. 3. Have an organized workspace If you have a messy workspace, you will feel disorganized and slug ...
• Exercise Keeps Cancer Patients Healthier
  Breast and prostate cancer patients who regularly exercise, both during and after cancer treatment, report having a better quality of life and being less fatigued. To study how exercise impacts cancer patients, researchers have developed a program called ExCITE (Exercise and Cancer Integrative Ther ...
• NIH Proposes New Funding Rules to Prevent Conflict ...
  The U.S. National Institutes of Health have proposed new guidelines intended to prevent financial conflicts of interest among researchers who receive federal funding. This move has long been sought by those concerned about the influence of the drug industry.  The new guidelines will affect more tha ...
• Ginger Eases Muscle Pain
  Ginger root, long used as a folk remedy, can reduce muscle pain caused by exercise. Ginger had already been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects in rodents, but a recent study looked at its effect on experimentally-induced human muscle pain. Live Science reports: “The studies showed that dail ...
• 6 Serious Office Health Risks
  Yahoo Finance lists 6 problems anyone with a desk job should be on the lookout for: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Repeated motion can cause injury or pain. Stretching and other exercises may help release tension in your wrist. Lower-Back Pain Sitting for hours on end can be harmful to your body over ti ...

Antemedius

• The End Of The Beginning?
  In the nineteen sixties and seventies the western world was in the throes of a cultural and psychological revolution of awareness that at times threatened to bring down the governments and destroy the societies of some of the most powerful countries on earth, and terrified many who were unable to st ...
• Autism Fraud Wakefield Banned From Practicing Medi ...
  The practice of good science requires an open mind. Experiments and studies preformed may confirm what one suspects, or they may completely discredit an hypothesis. Further for any new theory to be valid it has to be reproducible by others in independent laboratories. All of this is by design. The p ...
• Could Anita Hill "Feminist Payback" Have Been a Fa ...
  Yes, it happened almost twenty years ago, with the controversial and sharply acrimonious Anita Hill hearings beginning October 11, 1991, but the memories of many Pennsylvania feminists along with other Democratic Party activists are long. It was one thing for President Obama and Pennsylvania Governo ...
• The Creative Math of BP's 20, no 40%, Containment
  Sounds good on the Morning News, but how did they get those numbers? I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out the cross-sectional area of a 4" Pipe vs the cross-sectional area of a 21" Riser Pipe (minus its reported .812" wall thickness ) And those calcs ended up: roughly 4.4% of the larg ...
• 46 Congressional Candidates Oppose War Spending
  Forty-six congressional candidates and 17 activist organizations released a statement on Monday opposing any more funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and inviting more candidates, incumbents, and organizations to sign on. The 46 candidates include 16 Libertarians, 15 Democrats, 14 Greens, ...

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

• Gaining a Better Understanding of ‘Food Deserts’
  Lawyer Andy Weisbecker recently posted an opinion piece in Food Safety News in which he discusses the problem of limited access to healthy food and its contribution to the burden of obesity and diet-related disease. The term “food desert” refers to a location-generally, a low-income neighborhood-fr ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Economic sanctions to punish the starving
  North Korea willfully sank a South Korean warship, killing over 40 South Koreans. For that act of war we’re slapping economic sanctions on the poorest country on earth. That should let starving peasants know they can’t live in a military dictatorship with impunity, there is a price to pay for being ...
• Super News
  Well, I was right about Hawaiian Democrats preferring Colleen Hanabusa over the DCCC-approved Ed Case, but the three-way race still resulted in Charles Djou grabbing that seat for the Republicans. Until fall when Ms. Hanabusa will, sans-Case, kick Djou’s ass out of that seat for so long as she wishe ...
• Pugs copied DFL in Utah?
  I found it next to impossible to read Alexander Zaitchik’s story on the Patrick Henry Caucus that ousted Bob Bennett without thinking about how this nascent movement’s power grab must be remarkably similar in passion, intensity and hard work to that of those now long passed Minnesota Democrats who c ...
• 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 ...

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

• Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers -MSH
  Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” 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 ...
• 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 ...

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 -24/05/10
  plant (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-origin-of-flowering-p) known as Nymphaea thermarum whose pads reach only one centimeter in diameter, disappeared from its only habitat, a few square meters near a hot spring in Mashyuza, Rwanda. Local agriculture had drained the spring of m ...
• Zero Emissions House
  An affordable low carbon house that produces enough clean, zero emission, renewable energy for a typical household…
• Environmental News -17/05/10
  oil (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/oil) companies to set up similar operations in Russia, Congo and even Madagascar, a new report reveals. Soaring crude prices and an growing shortage of drilling sites have encouraged the energy industry to look at a series of "unconventional" hydrocarbon depos ...
• Industrial Hemp
  Hemp has been unfairly relegated to illegality for most of this century – we expose the amazing eco-sustainable superiority of industrial hemp…
• Environmental News -29/04/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) The innovator: Anna Bullus (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/25/lucy-siegle-innovator-anna-bullus-chewing-gum-recycler)-The chewing-gum recycler, 25, on her groundbreaking pink bubbl ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Iran: US main root of Afghan extremism
  ShareThis Iran: US main root of Afghan extremism 23 May 2010 Iran's foreign minister calls US the main perpetrator of radicalism in Afghanistan reiterating that the country's difficulties can only be resolved through regional collaboration. Flawed policies imposed on Afghanistan (by Western forces) ...
• US appoints first cyber warfare general
  ShareThis US appoints first cyber warfare general --Pentagon creates specialist online unit to counter cyber attack amid growing fears of militarisation of the internet --Plans for Cyber Command were originally conceived under President [sic] George W Bush . 23 May 2010 The US military has appointed ...
• 6 people cited after protest at Border Patrol Head ...
  ShareThis 6 people cited after protest at Border Patrol Headquarters 21 May 2010(AZ) Six people who initially refused to leave the lobby of the Border Patrol headquarters at Davis-Monthan Airforce Base, have been cited and released by the Tucson Police Department. The demonstrators say they are prot ...
• Chicken costumes banned at Nevada polling places
  ShareThis Chicken costumes banned at Nevada polling places 22 May 2010 Nevada voters will not be able to go to the polls wearing a chicken costume this year. State election officials have added chicken suits to the list of banned items after Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden suggested bartering ...
• Rockets fired at NATO base in S. Afghanistan
  ShareThis Rockets fired at NATO base in S. Afghanistan 23 May 2010 Rockets were fired at the military base operated by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in southern Afghanistan's restive city of Kandahar late on Saturday, officials said. Afghan government officials, who ins ...

Daily Loaf

• FDA considers the ‘pink Viagra’ for women
  What are the risks of increasing female sexual arousal?
• Tampa Bay Lightning search for a new front office
  The search for the new Lightning management team continues, with no real clue who will be the guy to be the next G.M.
• Paula Dockery drops out of GOP race for governor i ...
  Lakeland Republican State Senator Paula Dockery dropped out of the Republican race for governor this morning. In a statement, Dockery said: “It is with mixed feelings that I end my campaign to be your next governor. People who know me know I’m a tenacious fighter unafraid of long odds, especial ...
• Using permaculture to grow a food forest in Tarpon ...
  The goal of this project has been to develop a self sustaining system that can provide food and fuel for the local community.
• Campaign to rid military of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ...
  Last night in Tampa, there was an event to rally people to persuade the military and the Obama administration to dump the “Don’t Ask,Don’t Tell” policy on gays in the military, as CL’s Alexis Chamberlain reports: Kendrick Meek took home one key endorsement over the weekend and shared another with ...

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

• Gulf oil leak. States losing patience. Feds huff a ...
  Louisiana officials threaten action if spill response proves inadequate Florida Gov. prepares legal action against Gulf oil spill US threatens BP with legal action Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said, “We are 33 days into this effort, and deadline after deadline has been missed. If we find ...
• Listen up. All those conspiracy theories are just ...
  Our government tells us so at America.gov. Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where imaginations run wild, fears trump facts, and evidence is ignored. As a superpower, the United States is often cast as a villain in these dramas. Among the foolish misconceptions they wish to dispel is ...
• More states may create public banks
  By 2011, only one state will have escaped the credit crunch that is pushing other states toward insolvency: North Dakota. North Dakota is also the only state that owns its own bank. The state has its own credit machine, making it independent of the Wall Street banking crisis that has infected the re ...
• Bloggers watching live BP oil leak report major er ...
  UPDATE 6:03pm CDT: The current eruption is way, way worse than the several that occured earlier. I think this might be a “Main Event” situation. UPDATE 6:45pm CDT: An hour after the start of this most recent eruption, and it is still just a wall of oil, methane crystals, and gack. WAY, WAAAY worse t ...
• Gulf oil leak
  Oil cleanup will last for months, maybe years Louisiana fisherman contemplating suicide This is so lame it sounds like an Onion parody Under increasing criticism for not moving more aggressively to halt the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama sent three cabinet members to the a ...

Coteret

• Nahum Barnea: Haim Ramon advised Dan Shapiro to wa ...
  A course in core studies Excerpt from column, Nahum Barnea, Yediot Friday Political Supplement, May 21 2010 [page 2; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] [...] This week, my Washington sources insist, special envoy George Mitchell is going to start talking about the core issues. Netanyahu is ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Revealed- How Israel offered to sell South Africa ...
  BREAKING Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons- Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapon- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/… First official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons- http://www.gua ...
• Austin, TX: America’s Largest Water Fluoridation F ...
  Water fluoridation is an institution in America. The American Dental Association (ADA) and World Health Organization (WHO) say it is a safe and cost-effective way to prevent cavities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hails it as one of the ten great public health achievem ...
• Taxpayer advocate exposes court corruption, then s ...
  By Abbie Boudreau, Emily Probst and Dana Rosenblatt cnn.com Once a dapper Beverly Hills attorney known for his bow tie, Richard Fine has been held in solitary confinement at Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail for 14 months, even though he’s never been charged with a crime. Fine, a 70-year- old ta ...
• Obama Open To Destroying Miranda Rights
  Obama Open To Destroying Miranda Rights Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• UFO Spiral Canada – Another Norway Spiral??? ...
  On Friday evening, May 21st, 2010, multiple witnesses filmed footage of an incredible UFO phenomenon reported in Western Canada. The phenomenon shows a type of light ship propelling across the sky opening up a form of aperture in a brilliant display of light triggering off sonic booms as the light f ...

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

• Email Marketer Constant Contact Acquires NutshellM ...
  Email marketing first Constant Contact announced today that it had acquired NutshellMail, an fbFund REV company, which created condensed email alerts from social networks for users. NutshellMail allows subscribers to receive customizable updates from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace on o ...
• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, May 17th, 2010 Family Feud Takes the Lead On This Week’s List of Fastest Facebook Gainers By MAU CrowdStar Takes On Former ...
• 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 ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Washington Food Fight Pits Big Producers ...
  truthout: Washington Food Fight Pits Big Producers Against Local Farms: Washington - There's a food fight under... http://bit.ly/99N6N4 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Saving Energy Means Getting the South on ...
  truthout: Saving Energy Means Getting the South on Board: Coal-fueled region uses more energy per capita and pa... http://bit.ly/dt9KkZ #Truthout #p2
• truthout: We Need to Dump the Word "Illegal Immigr ...
  truthout: We Need to Dump the Word "Illegal Immigrant": The owner of Mulligans, a watering hole popular with mi... http://bit.ly/b6LxPM #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Back to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us t ...
  truthout: Back to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us to Understand Modern Times?: The world economic crisis has end... http://bit.ly/dw5UKr #Truthout #p2
• truthout: EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP ...
  truthout: EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP’s US Operations: Officials at the Environmental Protection A... http://bit.ly/d0QMqR #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Time for Barack Obama to choose paranoia or sanity
  Paul J. Balles views the various doctrines that have guided US foreign policy since World War II, from the Truman to the Bush doctrine. He says that President Obama will have to decide to keep or scrap the Bush doctrine, which “Israel and its supporters in America desperately want it misused against ...
• 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.

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

• Protecting The Rights Of Racists
  I think HBO comedian, political commentator, and talk show host Bill Maher said it best. Mr. Maher said that conservative Libertarian candidate Rand Paul is the equivalent of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin if she could make it through medical school. In an interview on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show ...
• The Culture and Language of the Gullah-Geechee Bla ...
  It’s very interesting how some black folks in America are bi-lingual and don’t know it.  Many, if not most of us speak a second language that’s not classified as such, generally speaking.  For certain people, the way blacks in America speak is considered  sub-standard english, or just ignorance on d ...
• Musical Medicine From the D P
• 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 ...

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

• How To Sue An Oil Company (from The Washington Pos ...
  I have very little faith in any of the instruments of civilised society; but when you are faced with something like the BP Deepwater Oil Tide⢠then a combination of both civilised and uncivilised activities may well be the best course of action – if only to allow one to mask the other… How to sue ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Edge of Lobbying - Five Lobbyists for Each Mem ...
  More than 850 banks, hedge funds, companies, associations, and other organizations hired 3,000-plus lobbyists to work on the reform bills, according to an examination of lobbying disclosure data for all of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010. However, public outrage over Wall Street’s role in the 200 ...
• The BP Spill - Criminal Probe of BP Suggested
  A group of Senate Democrats is pressing the Obama administration to escalate its probe of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by launching a criminal investigation of BP. Eight members of the Environment and Public Works Committee in a letter Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder asked him to explore whet ...
• The Obama Edge - Hezbollah’s Coalition Partner Mee ...
  Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri is in Washington for a meeting with President Obama. In announcing the meeting, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called it "a symbol of the close and historic relationship between Lebanon and the United States." Indeed, between 2005 and 2009, bilateral tie ...
• Edge on International Finance - The Fabulous Life ...
  Since the mid-90s, the so-called vulture funds have been suing poor countries so that they would fully pay back their debts which they had purchased for pennies on the dollar. In this way, the vulture funds frequently manage to exacerbate the economic situation in the poor countries, most of which a ...
• Iran's Nukes - Turkey and Brazil: Iran Supporters ...
  At the time the “P 5 + 1” members of the United Nations Security Council were about to agree on sanctions against Iran, news of a a deal a 10-point deal reached between Brazil, Turkey, and Iran emerged. As the idea of sanctions against Iran aims precisely at preventing Iran from further enriching ur ...

High Country News

• In the belly of the whale
  Trash is filling up our oceans, even ending up inside whales.
• What lies beneath?
  The likable characters in the three novellas in Jim Harrison's The Farmer's Daughter are all confronted by loneliness and brutality.
• Birding, fast and slow
  If Pepper Trail's Birdathon team had a theme song, it would be "Bat out of Hell."
• Walking Woman
  The Owens River is flowing again -- and Mary Austin's Land of Little Rain is rejoicing.
• HCN wins awards
  High Country News wins Utne Independent Press Award for Environmental Coverage and Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism; thinking globally; corrections.

CounterCurrents

• We Will Not Leave Our Village
  Video By K.P Sasi This song describes the present day exploitation of tribal land and forests in the name of development in India
• Artificial Life Is Simply Not Another Breaking New ...
  By Devinder Sharma We cannot let this pass as yet another development in genetic engineering. It has grave and frightening implications. People must force the governments to wake up, and analyse the threat
• Hallelujah, The World Is Against Us!
  By Uri Avnery If there is a conspiracy, it is a conspiracy of ourselves against ourselves. We shall not rest until the world is anti-Semitic again, and we know how to behave
• Its Time To Rid The World Of Nuclear Weapons
  By Desmond Tutu Skeptics may say a nuclear-free world is an impossible dream, but they said that about slavery and apartheid too
• Nuclear Energy: The Brazil-Turkey-Iran Initiative
  By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar Irans agreement with Brazil and Turkey is significant because Iran is willing to ship most of its low enriched uranium out of the country in exchange for higher enriched non-weapon grade fuel rods used for research in cancer treatment. The US and its allies have all along in ...

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

• MADNESS: Scientists Demand Give Whales and Dolphin ...
  If you listen closely you can hear them. Somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there is a group of whales holding fins, and singing "We Shall Overcome," and as you read this, flipper is filming a commercial where he squeaks, "I am not an Animal, I am a human being."� Why the ruckus?� Because ...
• Why Should We Be Surprised that Intellectuals have ...
  By Barry Rubin Something's missing. Or at least it seems to be missing. Today when liberty is at threat from Western left-wing ideologues, revolutionary Islamists , and sometimes from governments themselves, we--or I, at least--keep expecting some mass protest, some upsurge of criticism and ex ...
• BUSTED! The Myth That Illegal Aliens Pay Their Sha ...
  One part of the illegal immigrant debate is whether Illegal Immigrants are a drain on the public coffers, in other words, do they pay taxes? Pro-Amnesty pundits will tell you that absolutely, undocumented aliens (their politically correct way of describing people who entered the US Illegally) are no ...
• Alan Grayson, I'm Not a Jerk I am a Comedian
  Alan Grayson (D-Fla) the village idiot has a message for all of you upset at the nasty things he has said during his first year in Congress he is not a Jerk he is a comedian. Grayson appeared on this weekend's Central Florida Spotlight show on WFTV . Host Craig Patrick began the show by asking ...
• 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 ...

The Real Agenda

• 63% Now Agree to Repeal Obama Healthcare Law
  If one did not know the real numbers, this report would come as a surprise.  However, the opposition to Obamacare has been this high since before it was actually approved. Rassmusen Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports ...
• U.S. 30ft Spaceship is Loaded and Ready in Orbit
  Times Online Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build. The mysterious X37B, launched successfully by the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, using an Atlas V rocket, looks li ...
• 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 ...

Wind Watch

• As wind power booms, so do the challenges
  CENTERVILLE, Klickitat County â Along the ridge-top flanks of the Columbia River, hundreds upon hundreds of wind turbines rise from wheat fields and sagebrush. On a blustery spring day, these turbines can crank out more than twice the power of the Northwest’s sole nuclear power plant. Then, on hot ...
• Wind turbines not silent
  Ka-thump. Ka-thump. Ka-thump. That’s how it sounds in Ed and Gail Kenney’s home when the wind is blowing on Wolfe Island where they have 86 turbines as neighbours. Completed last summer, the Wolfe Island EcoPower Centre can generate 198 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 75,000 homes pe ...
• 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 ...

Not My Tribe

• Mondovino: globalization and terroir, Robert Parke ...
  For those with a curiosity for how wine terroir is holding up against the onslaught of wine factory farming, the 10-hour miniseries version of MONDOVINO is finally available on DVD. For viewers curious about viniculture globalization under Californian colonial domination, the original feature length ...
• We live among gods and demigods
  I know a someone who’s studying Greek mythology. He isn’t very impressed and told me so, probably baiting me. He fixed me in the eye and said “Put it this way, I’m not going to care about it in college.” It was all I could muster to reply “Maybe.” I feigned not being sure myself, [...]
• Rock papers scissors blunderbuss
  It appears as if America’s gun makers are lobbying for another US standard issue. The stories are creeping into the newswires that US soldiers need bigger guns. Our 5.56mm isn’t enough stopping power anymore, which explains the relentless insurgencies, they’re not stopping. Well, making historical c ...
• Colorado Springs is belly of space beast
  What’s that up in the sky? It’s a mini-me space shuttle with no windows, a former NASA project now entirely USAF. Amateur space object trackers have located the X-37B, the US military’s super secret unmanned space shuttle. What’s so secret about an unarmed, ostensibly inoffensive piece of space hard ...
• Now the US Coast Guard will know you know how oil ...
  As icky sneaky toxic crude permeates Louisiana marches, now experts tell us the eco-stain won’t ever come out. No really. The oil assault has been mounting steadily, BP poised dutifully with “booms” and it isn’t working. Exasperated oil spill cleanup professionals are not a bit surprised, one has e ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• The Physics of WTC 7
  About a month ago I had a debate with several debunkers at once about the collapse of WTC 7. In particular, we debated about the period of free fall that occured during the collapse. Here are some of the more memorable responses I got from them: "I'm still gonna say wiping out 30 meters of supp ...
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Excuses
  But the government couldn't track the location of the planes because the terrorists on 9/11 turned off the transponders ! But NORAD only had 14 fighters on alert and none were at Andrews Air Force Base located 15 miles from the Pentagon ! But NORAD didn't know about Flight 93 until one minute af ...
• 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 ...

Fooducate

• How VitaminWater XXX Uses its Ingredient List to M ...
  Ever enterprising beverage marketers will persuade normally rational people to buy colored sugar water for personal consumption, convincing them that said liquid is gloriously rich in health benefits and in some cases also uber-hip. Vitamin Water XXX is a classic example. Named for its “triple antio ...
• The Beverage Industry Against Soda Taxes – Mom n’ ...
  It seems like soda tax propositions are popping up like mushrooms after spring showers across the country. And everywhere they do, the beverage industry is there, like a wild boar, ready to stomp them down. Last week, Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter wanted to raise $77 million annually from a tax ...
• 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 ...

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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  Federal standard for renewable energy sought

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  The standard aims for 25 percent of electricity to come from renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass by 2025. "Congress, by not acting ...

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  mPhase's Smart NanoBattery to Be Spotlighted at Third Annual Nano Renewable ...

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  The Nano Renewable Energy Summit is a gathering of world-renowned experts at the intersection of renewable energy and nanotechnology, with a specific focus ...

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  Governor frustrated with lack of action on national renewable energy standard

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  - May 24, 2010

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  by Pat Curtis on May 24, 2010 Governor Chet Culver says he's frustrated with the lack of action on a national renewable electricity standard (RES) that ...

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  Pathfinder Selects GE as Technology Partner in Wyoming

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  - May 24, 2010

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  Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, LLC John J. Reed, +1-888-491-0002 or GE Power & Water Milissa Rocker, +1-518-385-2381 Milissa.rocker@ge.com.

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  Years Of Pain Ahead For Gulf Coast Ecology, Residents

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  - May 24, 2010

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  As the massive oil slick makes landfall, blowing past barrier islands and toward the bays and estuaries along the Louisiana coast, the enormity of the ...

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  Sterling County Brush and Ecology Program slated for June 24

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  - May 24, 2010

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  STERLING CITY - The Texas AgriLife Extension Service office in Sterling County will conduct the Sterling County Brush and Ecology Program beginning 6 pm on ...

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  American Ecology Earnings In Retrospect: Down 8.03% In Last 24 Days (ECOL)

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  By Chip Brian When American Ecology (NASDAQ:ECOL) reported earnings 24 days ago on April 27, 2010, analysts, on average, expected the company to report ...

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  Ecology Minister: Araz and Kur Rivers may divide in Azerbaijan

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  Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Huseyngulu Bagirov said there are proposals to divide the Araz and Kur rivers in the Azerbaijani ...

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