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IPS - Inter Press Services

• NGOs Call on Obama to Move Swiftly Against LRA
  WASHINGTON, May 25 (IPS) - A coalition of nearly 50 Western and African human rights and humanitarian groups is calling on President Barack Obama to "move swiftly" in implementing a law he signed Monday committing Washington to step up U.S. and regional efforts to defeat Uganda's Lord's Resi ...
• Historic Conservation Pact a Decade in the Making
  YELLOWKNIFE, Canada , May 25 (IPS/IFEJ) - It was here in Yellowknife, on an inlet of the Great Slave Lake, that Stephen Kakfwi, then a minister of wildlife and economic development who would go on to become premier of the Northwest Territories, brought together in 1996 a group that would dec ...
• First Woman PM Takes the Helm in Trinidad
  PORT OF SPAIN, May 25 (IPS) - When she is sworn in as prime minister later this week, Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she will bring the same kind of care and attention to governing Trinidad and Tobago that she has devoted to her own family.
• NICARAGUA: Nature as a Sword of Damocles
  MANAGUA, May 25 (IPS) - More than 1.8 million Nicaraguans are at high risk due to the various natural disasters that strike this Central American country, according to Civil Defence authorities.
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America, EU Set Sights on Ca ...
  MADRID, May 25 (Tierramérica) - Governments from the European Union and from Latin America and the Caribbean are confident that at year's end the international climate conference will produce a concrete legal mandate to truly protect the environment.

Scoop - NZ

• Whipple: Peak Oil and Deepwater Horizon
  It has been nearly a month since the tragic events aboard BP's drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, which suffered a blowout, caught fire, and sank in the Gulf of Mexico releasing prodigious amounts of oil into the sea. So far there has been little damage to the coastline; however, this could change qui ...
• Has the BP spill got even worse
  About 5pm last night, we all started taking note of gas bubbling out of the seabed floor. Yet-to-be-confirmed rumors are that the casing wall has finally worn through, about 300 feet below seabed, at an annulus (coupling), and the gas and oil are now finding a new way out to the seabed. ��� PLIGG_ ...
• Human Rights Commission slams 'Future Focus'
  Remember the bad old days when Jenny Shipley was Minister of Social Welfare and there were beneficiary bashing measures in every Budget (including the benefit cuts in the 1991 Mother of All Budgets that have never been restored)? Surprised there is nothing similar in this year's Budget? That's bec ...
• Oram: Budget won't revive the economy
  Finance Minister Bill English's second Budget is popular with many people. But will it work? Getting a step-change in economic performance was the big ambition the National-led government set itself. To do so, English said, the Budget was about "tilting" the economy away from debt and consumption t ...
• Market tremors hit China, Europe and the US
  "It is the perfect storm," said Andrew Roberts, credit strategist at RBS. "People have been too complacent about risky assets. This is a global deflation scare and people need to get ready for falls in US and European bond yields to 2pc." Wall Street shares plunged 3pc after new jobless claims in t ...

Independent ( London )

• Gun battles rage as Jamaican drug lord resists arr ...
  More than 1,000 police and soldiers have raided a public housing complex occupied by heavily armed gangsters defending an alleged drug lord wanted by the US.
• 'Amityville Horror' house put up for sale
  The house made famous in the 1979 film The Amityville Horror is up for sale in New York - ghosts not included.
• FTSE falls another 2.5% over euro debt crisis
  The FTSE 100 Index tumbled more than 2.5% today after Asian stock markets fell heavily on renewed fears about Europe's debt crisis.
• FTSE falls another 2.5% over eurozone debt crisis
  The FTSE 100 Index tumbled more than 2.5% today after Asian stock markets fell heavily on renewed fears about Europe's debt crisis.
• Black box flight recorder found after India plane ...
  The black box recorder from an Air India plane which crashed in south India has been found by investigators.

Rogue Government.com

• Geithner Urges Europe To Repeat US Stress Test Fr ...
  A few days ago we wondered if Tim Geithner was a pathological liar, an idiot or just confused.
• Pushy fliers may show up on TSA's radar
  Airline passengers who get frustrated and kick a wall, throw a suitcase or make a pithy comment to a screener could find themselves in a little-known Homeland Security database.
• UK: Radical plan to privatise motorway network wh ...
• 25 Questions To Ask Anyone Who Is Delusional Enou ...
  If you listen to the mainstream media long enough, you�just might�be tempted to believe that the United States has emerged from the recession and is now in the middle of a�full-fledged economic recovery.
• Deepwater Horizon Survivors Kept in Seclusion Aft ...
  According to two surviving crew members of the Deepwater Horizon, oil workers from the rig were held in seclusion on the open water for up to two days after the April 20 explosion, while attorneys attempted to convince them to sign legal documents stating that they were unharmed by the inci ...

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

• SOTT FOCUS: Poisoned Water
  Arthur Miller wrote, "An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted." It's becoming increasingly clear that we are living through such a time. The information age is dissolving many of the lies of corporate capitalism. The rapid exchange of knowledge on the Internet has made the e ...
• England: Witness watched a light in the sky which ...
  Posted: May 24, 2010 Location of Sighting: Mawsley, Kettering Date of Sighting: 23rd May Time: 10pm Witness Statement: Went out to look at Venus in the western dusk at around 10pm. Saw an orange light which we immediately took to be an aircraft approaching from the south. As it got closer we saw ...
• Scotland: Witness saw two amber lights that looked ...
  Posted: May 24, 2010 Location of Sighting: Alexandria, Dunbartonshire Date of Sighting: 16 5 10 Time: 2400 Witness Statement: Saw two rectangular amber lights each about 30 ft x20ft, hovering about 300ft. There was no noise. I estimate the object was about 250 ft. As it moved upwards, the lights ...
• Three sightings of a round object flying through t ...
  Posted: May 24, 2010 Location of Sighting: Radcliffe, Lancashire, England Date of Sighting: 22nd May 2010 Time: 10:45 Witness Statement: We were in the back garden (east facing) at around 10.40-10.50pm and saw a really bright orange light zig-zagging very tightly in the clouds coming from the ea ...
• Study Finds High Level of Bacteria in Bottled Wate ...
  A Montreal study finds heterotrophic bacteria counts, in more than 70 percent of bottled water samples, exceed the recommended limits specified by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). Researchers from Ccrest laboratories report their results today at the 110th General Meeting of the American Societ ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Boom school epic fail
  Nicked from CC , who nicked it from Mind of Dan : My tuppence: that poorly laid boom might be a result the fact that BP and the US government had to mobilise just about every available boat to contain the spill. It's understandable that shrimp boat crews are not trained in boom laying because the ...
• Read "Far and Wide" lately?
  No? Here's a reason to read every new post.
• Happy International Day Against Homophobia
  This has been known about for a few years now but here, courtesy of Rabble , is a reminder of the speech that Darrell Reid, former president of Focus On The Family Canada and now Harper's deputy chief of staff , gave in Singapore at a 2003 Focus On The Family seminar . Speaking as a historian, Darre ...
• High Velocity
  DEFENCETECH has a report, "Killer Drone Builder General Atomics Builds Killer Electromagnetic Rail Cannon" , by Greg Grant, that is worthy of your attention, with a, pardon the expression, killer video that shows what this piece of ordnance, built by General Atomics, who make the Predator, can do.  ...
• A significant anniversary in Canadian Naval histor ...
  While this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy as a national institution in this country, today, 24 May, marks the 60th anniversary of an event which changed the RCN and gave that service a permanent set of legs. In the spring of 1940 Hitler's Germany began the now famous blitzkr ...

Media Matters for America

• Wash. Times tries and fails to paint Kag ...
  The Washington Times baselessly claimed that Elena Kagan's views on free speech put her " 'outside the mainstream' of the public." To make its case, the Times relied on distortions, out-of-context quotes, and recycled falsehoods. Wash. Times distorts Kagan's article to claim she believes gov ...
• Morris fabricates "impeachable offense" out of al ...
  Fox News' Dick Morris' baselessly claimed that an alleged job offer by the Obama administration to Rep. Joe Sestak would constitute an "impeachable offense." However, the Reagan administration reportedly made a similar offer to a candidate, and legal experts have rejected the claims that such o ...
• Right-wing media attack Obama over Memorial Day p ...
  Conservative media have attacked President Obama, claiming that his plans to attend a Memorial Day ceremony in Chicago while allowing Vice President Joe Biden to lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery are disrespectful to the military. However, previous presidents -- including Ronald Reaga ...
• Meltdown: The intricate conspiracy to "destroy" G ...
  In the past week, Glenn Beck has detailed an intricate web of conspiracies involving SEIU, AFL-CIO, Van Jones, Jim Wallis, the White House, Rep. Anthony Weiner, and Media Matters . Beck has warned that these Alinskyite plots seek to "destroy" him, his family, Fox News, Christianity and the Foundin ...
• Beck's war on Obama targets the president's famil ...
  Glenn Beck has made his crusade against President Obama personal, connecting the Obama daughters to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, attacking Michelle Obama's physical appearance at a state dinner, and asserting that Obama was scarred because his parents "abandoned" him "for Marxism." Beck links Obama da ...

Global Research.ca

• The European Ship Sails for Gaza
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Korean Stand-off: US Soft Power Play To Maintain A ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• South Kyrgyzstan: An Epicenter of Coming Conflicts ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• It’s Called ‘War Porn’
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US Funds Israel's Apartheid Road in the Palestinia ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Obama's Regulatory Brain
  The most important thing to know about the 1,500-page financial reform bill passed by the Senate last week -- now on he way to being reconciled with the House bill -- is that it's regulatory. If does nothing to change the structure of Wall Street. The bill omits two critical ideas for changing th ...
• Blogging & The Brain
  There are two serious critiques of Internet culture circulating in the academy these days. The Internet is shortening your attention span, making it harder for you to do deep thinking. The Internet is turning us all into tribal denizens, only listening to voices that reinforce our existing ...
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• The Cold Water in Face Award
  ...goes to Les Gelb , for pointing out how US nonproliferation priorities have little resonance with the rest of the world. According to his reading of Brazil and Turkey's recent mediation initiative, "the good old days of most nations automatically supporting U.S. non-proliferation efforts is over. ...
• 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 ...

TruthOut

• Meditations on Hip-Hop: Of Disposability, Death, a ...
  Destiny A learning process might appear … for the crushed, the forbidden-to-be, the rejected, that would teach them that, through serious, just, determined, untiring struggle, it is possible to remake the world. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: The ...
• A "New World Order" Is Possible – And Needed
  This article was published in Fohla de S�o Paulo, Brazil's largest circulation newspaper, on May 25, 2010. The English version appears below; the Portuguese version is here� Em Portugu�s . read more
• Anti-Choice Woman-Hating Goes Mainstream
  With this brief quote, the speaker, the Rev. John Ehrich, medical ethics director for the Diocese of Phoenix, deserves credit for achieving a twofer in a recently revived (if not formally declared) misogyny competition that is now sweeping the anti-choice world. read more
• Making Latin America's Cities Women-Friendly
  Rosario, Argentina - "Violence against women is not only domestic, it also happens in the streets. Not having the right to feel safe in a city square or at a bus stop without someone bothering us, that's also violence." This "discovery," as she called it, was described to IPS by Ofelia Retamoso, wh ...
• Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Educa ...
  As the Obama administration's educational reform movement increasingly adopts the interests and values of a "free-market" culture, many students graduate public schooling and higher education with an impoverished political imagination, unable to recognize injustice and unfairness. They often find th ...

Planetsave

• Mega-Earthquake is Coming and Oregon is Preparing
  Scientists have estimated that there is a one-in-three chance that a mega-earthquake will hit the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 years. However residents of the small town of Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast are well aware theyâre in the firing line of an earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, and ...
• Tony Blair Joins Silicon Valley
  Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair has joined a Silicon Valley business as a senior environmental adviser. Blair will be joining Khosla Ventures, a firm started by Sun Microsystems Inc., co-founder Vinod Khosla. The company has been investing in companies that are themselves pursuing altern ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• How clean is your water?
  Well water testing by the U.S. Geological Survey shows widespread groundwater pollution. Contaminant
• Water Awareness Month Makes Headlines
• "The experts' take on tap water safety"
  The experts’ take on tap water safety By Lori Bongiorno Posted Tue May 18, 2010 9:57am PDT Related t
• Environmental Trends and Perspectives in the Weste ...
  European Environment Agency http://tinyurl.com/39djeh5 This report looks at the forces shaping the f
• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) : Selected Regulato ...
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/RL34201/ [Summary] Much progress has been

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Korean Stand-off: US Soft Power Play To Maintain A ...
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• Oceans of Oil by Roxanne Amico
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• House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
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• The Simplicity of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ...
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• The Mysterious CAFRs: How Stagnant Pools of Govern ...
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Axis of Logic

• A Day to Remember: Resistance and Liberation Day 2 ...
  Anniversaries measure time.� In one respect, they are an artificial concept.� We decide, for instance, that twenty-five years of marriage should be celebrated, but we ignore the subsequent days as merely marking the path to twenty-six years.� And reaching twenty-six years, though obviously a grea ...
• Zbigniew Brzezinski on Global Awakening - Global E ...
  Zbigniew Brzezinski giving the Council on Foreign Relations a presentation discussing world government and the mass global awakening that is taking place. "For the first time in all of human history, mankind is politically awakened. That's a total new reality.� It has not been so fo ...
• More Than Just an Oil Spill, it's the bitter reali ...
  The warm, soft winds coming in off the gulf have lost their power to soothe. Anxiety is king now — all along the coast. “You can’t sleep no more; that’s how bad it is,” said John Blanchard, an oyster fisherman whose life has been upended by the monstrous oil spill...
• Uncertain Education for the Bedouin Children - Pal ...
  Since September 2009, seventy children of the Bedouin community Jahalin in al-Khan al-Ahmar have been going to school close to their homes, between Jericho and Jerusalem. But it is unclear whether these children will be able to attend their necessary lessons next year. By the end of the current s ...
• Petraeus Secret Directive: US to Expand Covert Ope ...
  The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents. The s ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• More Martian Policy from Rand Paul
  Jake at Page One is still beating the big boys to Rand Paul's real record. Here he has videos of Rand Paul saying - on two separate occasions - that he opposed legislation that defines morality. As Jake says: To rehash, Rand Paul believes non-violent crime should not be criminalized. Things like: En ...
• Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at Blue Valley N ...
  On Sunday night Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was the guest speaker at Blue Valley Northwest High School's commencement ceremony at Kemper Arena in Kansas City. His presence was a result of the school's finalist status in the White House's "Race to the Top High School Comencement Challenge" prog ...
• That's just wrong
  Everyone is pissed at BP - they own the gas stations that we can drive on by. They are a presence on streetcorners throughout the land, and they were the ones reaping the benefit of the oil. Transocean, meanwhile, is not only not getting the negative press they deserve over this fiasco - the bastar ...
• "If You're Not For This Bill, You're Not For Jobs, ...
  There is one way and one way only to save the economy and incidentally maintain strong Democratic majorities in Congress this November: massive federal spending on jobs, jobs and more jobs. David Dayen explains: We have a $180 billion dollar jobs bill likely to get a vote this week. Very few people ...
• The Greeks Get It
  Today's Chris Hedges column on Truthdig, The Greeks Get It kind of makes me wonder where and when Americans lost the capacity to get really pissed at things that need to be gotten pissed off about. �And then do something �about the situation. � We're in the same boat being sunk by the same people th ...

Care 2

• Hungary: Appeal For Donations to Flooded Animal Sh ...
  SOS help is needed! Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Oil companies have a rich history of U.S. subsidie ...
  Some say the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe can be linked to Congress' policy of oil-friendly tax breaks and financial benefits. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Puppies Behind Bars: how dogs are helping inmates
  Inmates are training service dogs, and everyone wins. Not only do inmates have unlimited time to spend with the puppies, they benefit from the responsibility of being puppy raisers in ways that are especially important to their rehabilitation. Submitted by Michele Hollow to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
• Stock Market Catastrophic Down Wave, Coming Econom ...
  Big picture: We believe stocks have entered catastrophic wave (C ) down, which should be the third and most devastating phase of the Grand Supercycle degree wave {IV} Bear Market. This decline has the potential to be a nation changing economic meltdown Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please to Busin ...
• Romania: Brigitte Bardot in Protest Over Bucharest ...
  The French actress Brigitte Bardot has said that Romania will not be able to evolve as a country if it introduces a law to cull thousands of stray dogs in Bucharest. Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please to Animals �|� �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

• EU squabbles feed market frenzy
  The European Union can rarely have been more in need of a show of unity than now, as it tries to tackle the euro zone's debt crisis, but public disagreements among its leaders are hindering efforts to convince financial markets that it is up to the task. What can the EU leaders do now to reassure t ...
• Deal or no deal for Iran?
  In broad terms Iran seems to have done what world powers urged it to do months ago and accepted a plan to part with some of its nuclear material. So what’s the problem?
• The Fire Next Time in Thailand
  After the unprecedented riots in Bangkok last Wednesday, the city was locked down under curfew. Not a creature was stirring ...Except for the rats. Bangkok went back to business, more or less as normal on Monday. How long can it last?
• 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.

Booman Tribune

• Quotes of the Day
  President Obama went to Capitol Hill and talked with the Senate Republicans and, of course, got nowhere: "The more he talked, the more he got upset," Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said. He needs to take a valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans and just calm down, and dont take anything ...
• Alarmed Observation
  Things are getting pretty dicey on the Korean Peninsula. I have no idea how the president can juggle some many crises at the same time. It's insane what's going on right now.
• Serious Question
  I will be interested to see how many Republicans ultimately choose to vote to eliminate the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. CNN reports that 78% of the populace, and 85% of women, support ending the discriminatory policy. That is a very healthy number and there is clearly no political benefit to opp ...
• Troubling News in the War on Terror
  I believe Dick Cheney earned the nickname 'Darth' from his September 16, 2001 appearance on Meet the Press when he had the following exchange with host Tim Russert: [In this piece, all emphasis is mine] MR. RUSSERT: When Osama bin Laden took responsibility for blowing up the embassies in Kenya ...
• Breakthrough on DADT?
  It looks like the White House and Congress have struck a deal between the Pentagon and the gay community to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell in this year's Defense authorization bill. I'm very impressed with the lead role that Rep. Patrick Murphy has taken in pushing this through. LGBT groups met ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 ...
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• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 25 ...
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• Late Open Thread
  It's open (finally)...
• I wish I was serious, then I'd understand.
  Paul Krugman says that wages in the eurozone periphery are a bit high: WAGES IN...

Futurismic

• The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009, f ...
  I’m a day late on this one (damn my interminable email inbox), but better late than never. The genre blogging scene is full of people whose energy and devotion to their projects consistently puts me to shame, and there can be no greater exemplar of that than the tireless Charles Tan – who, in additi ...
• Cyborg walk-assist legs in action
  Does what it says on the tin; you can find words and pictures of Odelia Lee’s encounter with Honda’s new walk-assist machines (or “cyborg legs”, if you want to be kinda blunt and cyberpulp about it) at Gizmodo, but here’s a short video clip that neatly captures the mix of “man, that looks weird as [ ...
• The Cyclenet: Bangladeshi InfoLadies bring web ben ...
  Here’s another story that’s all over the shop (I got it via both MeFi and Chairman Bruce), that reminded me a fair bit of Geoff Ryman’s Air: a report at The Guardian about “InfoLadies” in Bangladesh, young women who saddle up on a bicycle with a netbook, a mobile phone and a bunch of medical [...] ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Tai Chi Study Suggests Hopeful Well-Being Links, b ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Through examining the traditions and practices of a wide variety of cultures and ways of life, today’s psychotherapists and researchers are incorporating a number of helpful artifacts from around the world and throughout time into the treatment of modern clients. Many ...
• Depression in Children Highlighted for Awareness b ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When people imagine the symptoms and experience of depression, they’re likely to think about many aspects of the adult world that can contribute to sadness, stress, and worry. Yet a significant number of children also experience depression, an issue recently underscor ...
• Reducing Stress with Proper Sleep Urged for Weary ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The difficulty of separating a stressful work life from one’s life at home leads to problems with sleeping for many people, an issue which can easily become compounded by the additional stress of being tired and physically fatigued. Hoping to help people overcome this ...
• It Might Not Be What You THINK
  By Sherry L. Osadchey, MA, LMFT, SEP, Somatic Experiencing Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sherry and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. “Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself. They arise when residual energy from the experience is not discharged from the body. This ...
• Women and Porn: Not Just a Guy Issue!
  By Janie Lacy, LMHC, NCC, CSAS, Sex Addiction Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Janie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. When most people in our culture think about pornography and who is accessing it online, their thoughts automatically go to the male population. Would it surprise ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Coming Soon: Mountaintop Removal TV Ad - Natural R ...
  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Coming Soon: Mountaintop Removal TV Ad Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal , an extreme strip mining practice, has leveled hundreds of Appalachian peaks, clearcut forests, destroyed thousands of miles of streams ...
• Music Saves Mountains: Concert Recap, Photos, and ...
  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Music Saves Mountains: Concert Recap, Photos, and More Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal coal mining is essentially strip mining on a massive scale that does exactly what its name implies. The peaks of mountains are blasted ... ...
• JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America Called Out For Fi ...
  Fast Company JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America Called Out For Financing Mountaintop Removal Fast Company Mountaintop removal is one of those instinctively gut-wrenching things--it's never pretty to see natural habitats blown ...
• From City Paper editor Stephen George, who has bee ...
  Pitchfork Media From City Paper editor Stephen George, who has been tracking the issue of ... Nashville Scene King Coal has long pulled a two-fisted argument on detractors of mountaintop removal mining, a form of surface mining that has partially or completely ... Report criticizes post-mining deve ...
• 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 ...

Memeorandum

• Guard ordered to Mexican border (Jonathan Allen/Th ...
  Jonathan Allen / The Politico : Guard ordered to Mexican border   —  President Barack Obama is preparing to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, amid growing concern about cross-border criminal activity and a simmering debate over illegal immigration.  —  Obama pl ...
• Durbin: Sestak needs to explain job offer (Meredit ...
  Meredith Shiner / Glenn Thrush's Blog : Durbin: Sestak needs to explain job offer   —  Majority Whip Dick Durbin says Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) should come clean about exactly what he was offered to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary.  —  “At some point, I think Congressman Sestak needs to m ...
• Brown to vote 'no' on repeal of Don't Ask, Don't T ...
  Bryan Bender / Boston Globe : Brown to vote ‘no’ on repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell pending Pentagon study   —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Scott Brown will vote against repealing 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' when it comes up for a vote Thursday in the Senate Armed Services Committee, dealing a blow to gay rights ...
• N Korea 'severs ties' with South (BBC)
  BBC : N Korea ‘severs ties’ with South   —  North Korea is to cut all relations with South Korea, Pyongyang's official news agency reports.  —  KCNA said the North was also expelling all South Korean workers from a jointly-run factory north of the border.  —  The move comes after an international … ...
• Obama administration conflicted about relying on B ...
  Washington Post : Obama administration conflicted about relying on BP to stop gulf oil spill   —  The tenuous alliance among the Obama administration, the oil firm BP and Gulf Coast officials was visibly fraying on Monday, with exasperation on all sides mounting as oil from a deep-water gusher beg ...

Energy & Environment News

• A Gulf Spill Team in ... New Jersey?
  Officials in the state by creating a special "gulf spill team."
• Bush on Wind, Oil and a Happy Retirement
  In a jocular address at a wind energy conference, George W. Bush reflected broadly on his presidency and said the nation was in a period of energy transition.
• 7 Seized in Anti-Drilling Protest
  Seven members of Greenpeace face charges after a protest that involved boarding an offshore drilling support ship and painting anti-drilling slogans on the side.
• Zoos and Aquariums on Oil Spill Alert
  Zoos and aquariums around the country are mobilizing to help with oil spill rehabilitation efforts.
• Do Humans Need a Golden Rule 2.0?
  Weighing the climate challenge, a popular novelist proposes that humans need a new Golden Rule.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, Bio-Bio, Chile
  Tuesday, May 25, 2010 13:09:26 UTC Tuesday, May 25, 2010 09:09:26 AM at epicenter Depth : 27.70 km (17.21 mi)
• M 6.3, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:09:06 UTC Tuesday, May 25, 2010 08:09:06 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.0, eastern Sichuan, China
  Tuesday, May 25, 2010 06:11:54 UTC Tuesday, May 25, 2010 02:11:54 PM at epicenter Depth : 22.80 km (14.17 mi)
• M 5.0, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
  Monday, May 24, 2010 23:57:35 UTC Monday, May 24, 2010 07:57:35 PM at epicenter Depth : 22.00 km (13.67 mi)
• 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)

China Dialogue

• Smartening up global infrastructure
  On Monday, John Briscoe praised China for its development role in poor countries. Here, Peter Bosshard argues that a more sophisticated approach to energy development is possible – at home and abroad. Investment in agriculture, infrastructure and industrialisation is an essential pillar of economic ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Peak Hypocrisy: Republican Party Vies for Tax-Paye ...
  Four years ago, I asked Dean Baker why he didn’t like the term “free-market fundamentalism” to describe conservative economic thinking. Joshua Holland: You say that conservatives are not, in fact, self-reliant fans of free-markets. Lay out your thesis in a nutshell. Dean Baker: Well that’s the stere ...
• The Police Murder of 7-Year-Old Aiyana Jones Is Ev ...
  Aiyana Jones wasn't the only victim that day. 17-year-old Jerean Blake was also killed in a senseless act of violence.
• Sorry, But the 'Restoring American Financial Stabi ...
  The financial reform bill passed by the Senate last weekis notable for what it has left to still be done.
• Obama the Aggressive, Militaristic Interventionist ...
  If Obama knew about Petraeus order to expand Special Ops last Sept. then he is a dangerous militarist. If he didn't know, he's a feckless incompetent. Take your pick.
• Common Security Clubs Offer the Jobless a Lifeline
  The jobless in the United States lose far more than their paychecks; they also lose precious social support.

Threat Level

• House GOP Launches a Republican Reddit
  House GOP members unveiled a Reddit-like website Tuesday that lets users submit and  rank policy ideas in categories ranging from national security to “American values”. “It gives Americans a voice in changing the way Washington works and the policy it pursues,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California), ...
• Google Offers Choice to Opt Out of Web Analytics
  Google is offering a way for web users to opt out of being tracked around the web by its popular Google Analytics tool used by publishers to track traffic and trends on their websites. Publishers like Wired.com insert a simple line of Google Analytics Javascript on their site and then can see on a d ...
• Spyware Installed on Student Laptops Has More Secu ...
  A remote administration program installed on student laptops by a Pennsylvania school district and used by numerous companies to manage their computers is even more vulnerable than previously reported. The LANrev program can be exploited from anywhere on the internet, not just from an attacker on ...
• LimeWire Begs Music Industry for Second Chance
  Shattered by a piracy lawsuit that may leave it insolvent, the company behind the file sharing software LimeWire is hoping to strike a deal with the music industry in which it would aggressively filter out pirated content, and be permitted to live on as a for-pay music download service, a company e ...
• Student Sues School for Damages in Sexting Case
  A former Pennsylvania high school student has sued school and county officials for damages in a controversial sexting case. The student alleges a violation of her constitutional rights, in a civil suit filed last week that could serve as a cautionary tale to other officials considering punishing st ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Text from North Korea statement
  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced on Tuesday it was cutting all ties with South Korea in retaliation for Seoul imposing sanctions on Pyongyang after torpedoing one of the South's warships.
• BP exploring new option to siphon off spill oil
  LONDON (Reuters) - Oil major BP is exploring a new way to siphon off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico should current plans to plug the leak this week fail.
• U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms tr ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.
• Dow slides below 10,000 on euro-zone woes
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks dropped in a broad global sell-off on Tuesday as investors worried that Europe's banking problems could derail the economic recovery.
• Euro seen heading for parity with dollar
  LONDON (Reuters) - The euro's downward momentum is gathering strength, raising the risk that the single currency overshoots estimates of fair value and hits parity with the U.S. dollar within the next year.

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

• Voices of Arizona
  Dear PDA and Progressive Allies Not even the massive oil slick growing in the Gulf of Mexico has been able to divert attention from SB 1070, the outrageous new law signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer ...
• 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 ...

Marler Blog

• Food Safety in the Era of Transparency
  Transparency – Really? In the last month the FDA has been investigating an E. coli O145 outbreak that has sickened some 30 people in Michigan (11 confirmed and 2 probable), New York (5 confirmed and 2 probable), Ohio (8 confirmed and 3 probable), Pennsylvania (1 confirmed), and Tennessee (1 confirm ...
• Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Fores ...
  The below dropped into my inbox. It looks like after a 19-month vacancy Food Safety Inspection Services (USDA) is possibly going to finally get a person to run the place. To: All Committee Members Title: Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Elizabeth Hagen for Positions with the USDA Date: W ...
• Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Fores ...
  The below dropped into my inbox. It looks like after a 19-month vacancy Food Safety Inspection Services (USDA) is possibly going to finally get a person to run the place. To: All Committee Members Title: Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Elizabeth Hagen for Positions with the USDA Date: W ...
• Fresh Express Recalls Romaine-based Salads With Us ...
  From a Fresh Express Press Release: Fresh Express, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chiquita Brands International, is voluntarily recalling a specific selection of Fresh Express Romaine-based ready-to-eat salads with the expired Use-by Dates of May 13th through May 16th and an "S" in the Product Code b ...
• Honored to Help in Memory of Abby
  There are few cases that have impacted me more than Abby's.� We were honored to donate to set-up a scholarship in Abby's name: Helping on a scholarship in Abby's memory is one thing, getting our government to do something would be even better.� Perhaps this is a post they should pay attention to: ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 05.25.10
  Milburn unveiled $1,000 EV with 100-mile range, swappable batteries back in 1920 [w/video] You've come a long way, maybe. Japan EV Club drives 623 miles on a single charge It's not what we c ...
• 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 ...

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!

• Part II: "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret R ...
  See Part II of our interview with Sasha Polakow-Suransky, author of the new book "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa." Click here for Part I
• Full Interview With Activists Resisting U.S. Milit ...
  Watch the full version of our interview with activists from Japan, Guam and Hawai’i who are resisting the expansion of US military bases in the Pacific.
• Amy Goodman Questions Dalai Lama About Iraq and Af ...
  The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, has wrapped up a series public lectures in New York. For the past four days, thousands have gathered at Radio City Music Hall to hear the Dalai Lama’s Buddhist teachings. On Sunday, the 74-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner spoke at the Cathedral ...
• 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.

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

• FBI Files Show More Threats On Members Of Congress
  FBI Files Show More Threats On Members Of Congress TPM MUCKRAKER Justin Elliott | May 25, 2010, 8:31AM Politico adds several more names to the growing list of members of Congress who have recently received death threats over political positions. FBI documents from closed cases show members of both p ...
• Gulf Oil Spill: Frustration Mounts As Congress Can ...
  Gulf Oil Spill: Frustration Mounts As Congress Can’t Even Get BP’s Liability Cap Raised Huff Post- Sam Stein- First Posted: 05-25-10 10:25 AM   |   Updated: 05-25-10 10:25 AM It’s been more than three weeks since Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) unveiled a proposal to raise the liability cap to $ ...
• Arpaio Slams Mexican Tourism Ad
  Arpaio Slams Mexican Tourism Ad That Appears To Reference Immigration Law TPM MUCKRAKER Zachary Roth | May 24, 2010, 2:04PM Sheriff Joe Arpaio is up-in-arms about an unusual newspaper ad placed by the Mexican Tourist Board, which appears to reference Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• HUD Mortgage Fraud
  Want to understand HUD mortgage fraud?- - It may be time to watch the Soprano episodes 46-50.- - Watching Too Much Television (Episode 46) After four months of incarceration, Paulie is released, and the family throws him a party at Bada Bing. Tony and Ralph express interest in a plan to scam a gov ...
• Connecting Vaccines with Autism Costs Doctor Licen ...
  By Jeanne Whalen A U.K. medical regulator revoked the license of the doctor who first suggested a link between vaccines and autism and spurred a long-running, heated debate over the safety of vaccines. Ending a nearly three-year hearing, Britain’s General Medical Council found Andrew Wakefield guil ...
• Launch of Secret US Space Ship (Keeping the US Dol ...
  Michael Evans, Pentagon Correspondent 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 a ...
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• “What in the World are They Spraying?”
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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

• The Police Murder of 7-Year-Old Aiyana Jones Is Ev ...
  Aiyana Jones wasn't the only victim that day. 17-year-old Jerean Blake was also killed in a senseless act of violence.
• Reggae Stars Denied Visas to U.S.
  The apparent visa revocations are hitting the Jamaican music scene in Southern California and elsewhere in the U.S.
• Trial Begins for Ex-Chicago Police Lt. Accused of ...
  Jon Burge oversaw a brutal interrogation program that sent countless innocent men to prison after they were tortured into confessing to crimes they didn't commit.
• 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."

Sideways News

• Man swims 1km across Everest lake
  A man dubbed the "human polar bear" has completed a 1km swim across a lake on Mount Everest to draw attention to climate change issues. Lewis Gordon Pugh has become the first person to accomplish a long distance swim on the world's highest mountain, taking on extremely low temperatures in only a pai ...
• Honeybee survival rate 'improving'
  The number of honeybee colonies surviving the winter increased this year, the British Beekeepers' Association (BBA) has announced. A spokesman said the figures were "encouraging" given harsh conditions, but warned that the insects were "still not healthy enough". BBA president Martin Smith said 17.3 ...
• New aspirations for education
  About a month ago we put together an “under the skin” report on the various parties’ manifestos, leaving aside the big policy stuff such as finance, crime and defence and looking at other more social issues. One of these concerned the Third Sector and it was one of the few areas in which there was n ...
• Captive pandas to be given wild training
  Pandas born into captivity will get a fighting chance at being reintroduced into the wild when a training centre is built in China. News of the planned centre, set to open in five years, was announced by Zhang Zhihe, the head of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Zoo keepers will tra ...
• Competitive sports 'boost grades'
  Two-thirds of parents believe playing team sports like cricket can help improve a child's educational performance, a poll has revealed. Research by The Cricket Foundation found that 66% of participants thought competitive games were connected to academic success. Over a third (35%) said sports boost ...

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for May 24, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Doesn’t everybody already know this?  “The end of the world as we know it?“, Stephen M. Walt, blog of Foreign Policy, 13 May 2010 — About the end of the “Atlantic Era”. You probably b ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• The history of ice on Earth
  New Scientist-Primitive humans, clad in animal skins, trekking across vast expanses of ice in a desperate search to find food. That’s the image that comes to mind when most of us think about an ice age. But in fact there have been many ice ages, most of them long before humans made their first appea ...
• Most Patients Survive Common Thyroid Cancer Regard ...
  ScienceDaily — Individuals with papillary [nipple-shaped] thyroid cancer that has not spread beyond the thyroid gland appear to have favorable outcomes regardless of whether they receive treatment within the first year after diagnosis, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Otolaryngo ...
• Gordon Brown ‘First Choice’ for Top Job at IMF
  Express – GORDON Brown wants one of the worldâs most important economic jobs as head of the International Monetary Fund, according to his closest school friend. Tom Brown said that his 59-year-old pal believes he has âone big job left in himâ. Read article
• Gulf oil spill: White House orders BP to cut use o ...
  The White House directed BP to cut its use of chemical dispersants to break up the Louisiana oil slick by as much as 50% yesterday, reflecting concerns that the clean-up of the spill could be worsening the economic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protectio ...
• UK Chancellor’s £6.25bn savings plan hits baby bon ...
  Guardian – The government scrapped child trust funds today, making the first of several surgical strikes at Labour schemes as part of its £6.25bn programme of immediate spending cuts. Children and parents’ groups criticised the loss of the so-called “baby bonds”, introduced by Gordon Brown to give ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• On the TOPF and Hate Amerikkka part 2 in Chinese
  Golden Oldies. Shubel Morgan movies in Chinese: 憎恨美国，至死不休: 论唯生产力论:
• Przeciwo Liberalizmowi
  Przeciwo Liberalizmowi – Mao Zedong, 7 wrzeÅnia 1937 roku (monkeysmaashesheaven.wordpress.com) Opowiadamy siÄ za aktywna walkÄ… ideologicznÄ…, stanowi ona bowiem narzÄdzie, za pomocÄ… którego osiÄ…ga siÄ wewnÄtrzne zespolenie partii i innych rewolucyjnych organizacji, gwarantujÄ…ce ich zdolnoÅ ...
• 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 ...

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

• Sarah Palin and Dick Armey Perform Damage Control ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph Last week, Tea Party candidate Rand Paul took a major victory for the Tea Party movement in beating out the candidate� chosen by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the race to become the Republican candidate for U.S. senator of Kentucky. �Almost immediate ...
• The Oil Belongs to Us, Not British Petroleum: Let ...
  MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG In tar balls, oil slicks and sludge, the oil is returning to the Americans to whom it belongs. Catastrophically it makes its way across the Gulf of Mexico waters, killing sea life as it spreads and rolling onto and despoiling the beaches, marshes, wetlands, b ...
• It Takes More Than Just Waving a Flag to be an Ame ...
  MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH The Tea Party is actually desecrating the flag rather than honoring it by using it as a tool of hatred. It's no different than the way the Ku Klux Klan used the flag to try to define themselves as the "Real Americans" when their message is that the rest of us are not as ...
• "Congress Gets a Kick in the... Pants" By Michael ...
  MICHAEL WINSHIP FOR BUZZFLASH There's a story about a member of the British House of Commons who was stopped in the halls of Parliament by a constituent, an elderly pensioner. The little old man had a specific concern about his fellow senior citizens that he hoped the politician could solve. He ...
• Obama Seeks Expanded Rescission Authority While GO ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White� The media is all abuzz about the new deal on the suggested repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy . Finally, after years of whining that the president -- who has no authority to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military -- hasn't done any ...

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

• Wheels within wheels – the scientific lifecycle
  An oft-repeated message from scientists involved with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), mapping the human genome, the search for extraterrestrial life and other vast scientific projects, such as supercomputing experiments is that the tera-bytes, peta-bytes, perhaps even the yotta-bytes of data gener ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Free Press Urges Public Hearings on Media Ownershi ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 2010 Free Press Today, the Federal Communications Commission released its Notice of Inquiry as part of its congressionally mandated requirement to periodically review its media ownership rules. This is the FCC’s fourth media ownership review, and one that comes at a ...
• NDLON Reaction to President's Announcement on Troo ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 2010 National Day Laborers Organizing Network The following is a statement by Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing in reaction to reports of the President's plan to send National Guard troops to the Arizona border: read more
• Corporations Do Not Have Personal Privacy Rights i ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 2010 CREW Corporations should not be able to claim a personal privacy right to try to shield government documents about them from public view, six public interest organizations told the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday. In a friend-of-the-court brief, the groups urged t ...
• Oily Apocalypse or Green Wave?
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement on the Floor of the House of Representatives about the ongoing ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: read more
• Wildlife Advocates File Suit to Protect World's Mo ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity Litigation filed today in federal court seeks to expand habitat protections for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale to include the whale’s nursery, breeding and feeding grounds. read more

Common Dreams-Views

• One Year Later: Honoring Dr. George Tiller
  by Nancy Keenan We are days away from marking the one-year anniversary of the Sunday morning Scott Roeder walked into Dr. George Tiller's church in Kansas and shot him at close range . read more
• Obama’s Regulatory Brain
  by Robert Reich The most important thing to know about the 1,500-page financial reform bill passed by the Senate last week -- now on he way to being reconciled with the House bill -- is that it's regulatory. If does nothing to change the structure of Wall Street. The bill omits two critical ideas ...
• Even Picnics in Israel are Political
  by Neve Gordon Picnics, like almost everything else in Israel, are often political. Oz Shelach underscores this point in his collection of short stories, Picnic Grounds , where he describes how a history professor takes his family on a picnic in the pine forest near Givat Shaul, a Jerusalem neighbou ...
• Pressure Builds on Bud Selig to Move 2011 All-Star ...
  by Dave Zirin A steady thrum is increasing in volume outside Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig's door to move the 2011 All Star Game out of Phoenix. Recent laws passed in Arizona-from banning ethnic studies in the Tucson public schools to mandating that the police demand the papers of "su ...
• Is the Urban Farming Movement Here to Stay?
  by Vanessa Barrington Urban farming has the potential to help us take charge of the foods we eat, green our cities, build community, and increase food security for urban residents. read more

Karl Burkart

• U.S., China announce climate cooperation plan
  Obama and Jintao announce sweeping clean energy 'cooperation plan' that could significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
• Offshore Oil vs. Offshore Wind.. who wins?
  How many offshore wind turbines could have been bought for the cost of 1 Deepwater Horizon? The answer is enlightening.
• Wind power rekindles Maine economy
  One small town in Maine has suddenly become prosperous with $500,000 in tax revenues from wind power generation.
• Willie Smits reconstructs the 'rain machine' of Bo ...
  One biologist turns a hopeless wasteland into a thriving rainforest.
• Why won't GM innovate?
  One mechanic retrofits a Hummer to get 60 mpg, while GM sits on its hands.

Water Privatization

• Corona stops Angat privatization
  Invoking a rarely exercised power, Chief Justice Renato Corona yesterday stopped the privatization of the Angat hydroelectric plant to a Korean company allegedly for lack of transparency in the bidding.
• MIWD privatization to ease water woes Tre�as
  The privatization of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) will eventually ease the water woes among local residents, according to Mayor Jerry Tre�as.
• Playing to the noisy fringe
  This is the kind of judicial activism a struggling economy like ours can do without. IN an apparent bid to win public acceptance of his controversial appointment, Chief Justice Renato Corona stopped the privatization of the Angat hydroelectric plant all by his lonesome.
• Illness postpones BC Rail trial
  The corruption trial of three former B.C. government staffers was postponed on Tuesday because one of the accused, Aneal Basi, fell ill. Judge Anne MacKenzie announced the trial would take a break until May 31.
• Supreme Court stops sale of Angat power plant
  MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court on Tuesday stopped the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) from proceeding with the privatization of the 246-megawatt hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) component of the Angat multipurpose dam in Bulacan.

Guardian

• Dozens killed as Jamaican police storm suburb
  Violent clashes in Kingston as heavily armed troops and police search for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke Dozens of people were killed in fierce street battles today when Jamaican security forces stormed the stronghold of an alleged drug lord wanted for extradition to the United States. In the third day of ...
• North Korea cuts all ties with South
  Pyongyang expels South Koreans in shared industrial zone as tit-for-tat row unravels last remnants of engagement policy North Korea today hit back at Seoul by announcing it would sever all links, escalating the standoff over accusations that the North sank a South's warship. North Korea's state news ...
• Lib Dems push for 2011 AV poll
  • Party wants a referendum on AV next May • Tory hostility to reform could disrupt coalition Liberal Democrat cabinet members are pressing for a referendum on voting reform for the election of MPs to be held next May, seeing it as the best chance of winning public backing for one of Nick Clegg's ma ...
• US expands covert missions
  Pentagon confirms expansion of undercover operations in Middle East, central Asia and Horn of Africa The US military is expanding covert operations in the Middle East, central Asia and the Horn of Africa, sending troops on undercover operations that were previously left mainly to the CIA and other c ...
• FTSE crashes through 5,000 mark
  • FTSE 100 loses 2.5% to nine-month low • Bank shares hard hit by euro debt worries • Market fears over North and South Korea Shares in London closed at their lowest level in almost nine months today after fears of a fresh phase of the three-year global financial crisis prompted a global sell-off in ...

McClatchey

• Hurricane season could be affected by oil spill
  This time last year, most South Floridians wouldn't have known the difference between the Loop Current and Fruit Loops.
• Unusually persistant cold weather in Sacramento br ...
  Keep your sweater � and umbrella � within reach.
• Anchorage 7th-grader competes in National Geograph ...
  WASHINGTON — Seventh-grader Nathan Swan of Anchorage admits he loves to stare at maps and atlases. That passion paid off Tuesday as Swan competed in the National Geographic Bee in Washington.
• Gulf oil spill plus hurricane possibly equals oil ...
  BILOXI — If a storm passes through an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, it could spray oil on the beach and inland when it makes landfall, weather experts said.
• Stock volatility overshadows, threatens economic r ...
  WASHINGTON — You wouldn't know it from watching the stock market, but the U.S. economic recovery has gathered steam, with gains in employment, consumer confidence and a host of other indicators. The return of volatility in financial markets, however, threatens these gains.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Wildlife - a good bet?
  Definitely the oddest take I've yet seen on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak passed across my desk today, in the form of a notification from bookmakers Paddy Power that they're taking bets on the first species to go extinct as a result of the pollution . Kemp's Ridley turtle garners the shortest odds at ...
• '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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Republican Slams Fox News: ‘I Don’t Kn ...
  This morning, Fox & Friends characterized Sen. Bob Casey’s (D-PA) Create Jobs & Save Benefits Act as a “$165 billion bailout” of union pensions. “It has been decades since you’ve seen an administration so prone to the influence of unions as this one is. I’m not going to say this is owned by the unio ...
• CNBC’s Talking Heads Go Nuts Over Congress&# ...
  The House of Representatives is currently working its way through a bill that extends several popular business tax credits as well as important social safety net provisions like unemployment insurance. But of course, these things cost money, and the bill’s authors — led by Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) an ...
• Shocker: Senate GOP Wants To Slow Down START
  Yesterday on the Senate floor, GOP Minority Whip and leading nuclear weapons advocate, Sen. Jon Kyl went to the GOP’s go to play when they are losing the argument. Kyl called for the Senate to slow down: some have seemed intent on rushing the treaty that’s been sent to us. According to Congressiona ...
• It’s Time For The EPA To Shut Down BP’ ...
  The Obama administration is considering whether to bar oil disaster giant BP from federal contracts. Because of BP’s record of criminal misconduct and environmental disasters, the Environmental Protection Agency has been weighing whether to impose discretionary debarment, which would prohibit BP fro ...
• Despite Pundit Claims, Offshore Drilling Support i ...
  Our guest blogger is Josh Nelson, publisher of EnviroKnow.com. Seizing on a recent NBC/WSJ poll (PDF) showing 60% of Americans continue to support offshore drilling, several journalists and pundits have implied that support for offshore drilling has not declined sharply in recent weeks. This is ab ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Screw This Bullshit
  In the light of this latest example of the harpercons' utter contempt for Canada's system of parliamentary democracy , it seems pertinent to mention this : Although they can send for certain persons, standing committees do not have the power to punish a failure to comply with their orders in this r ...
• Neil Reynolds of the Globe & Mail
  I've mentioned from time to time that my partner, for reasons of her own, has subscribed to the Globe & Mail. I tend to get up before everyone else these days, so I get it and read it with my morning calories and caffeine. I must say that it's surreal to once again submerge myself in the blinkered, ...
• Random Crap
  One would think that the dearth of terrorist outrages in Canada (before and after 9-11 in the UNITED STATES) would have calmed down all the precious darlings hiding under their beds sucking their thumbs. But, sadly no. According to Alison at Creekside , the harpercons are still shitting themselves ...
• Is "Democracy" a Winning Campaign Issue?
  I was going to write something about capitalist imperialism, the Congo, Honduras, and the need for solidarity with the people of Greece. But in response to Alison's post about the harpercons' recent assault on parliamentary oversight, I commented: "I guess the opposition doesn't think that democrac ...
• 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 ...

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

• MMS Inspector and ConocoPhillips Employee Discuss ...
  Another gem from the report on the Minerals Management Service (MMS) released this morning by the Department of the Interior inspector general: "We showed this former MMS inspector an e-mail dated April 6, 2006, in which he told an employee...
• MMS District Manager to IG: "Obviously, We're All ...
  This morning the Interior Department Inspector General released a report on the investigation into the Lake Charles District office of the Minerals Management Service (MMS). Ian Urbina's New York Times story covers the essentials about how regulators did crystal meth,...
• Small Business Advocate Scores Another Victory for ...
  Every once in a while, POGO likes to remind everyone that the American Small Business League (ASBL) is still out there fighting the good government fight, kicking butt and taking names—or, in this particular case, FOIA-ing names. The small business...
• Morning Smoke: Inspectors at Minerals Management S ...
  Inspector General’s Inquiry Faults Regulators by Ian Urbina [The New York Times] U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks by Juliet Eilperin [The Washington Post] To Prepay for a Crisis, or Not by Andrew Ross Sorkin...
• A Reminder Not to Blow the Whistle from Your Work ...
  Our friends from Government Attic tipped us off to the fact that last year, then-Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner Dale Klein asked the NRC Inspector General (IG) to find out if POGO’s source of information about last year’s Commission vote...

Digital Journal

• So, how fast is your lawnmower? UK man reaches 87 ...
  A man set a new world speed record for a lawnmower, a record set on a sandy beach. The sport - lawnmower racing. The one hard and fast rule is that the turbo-charged racing mower really has to cut grass.
• Organized crime linked to body found in Lake Ontar ...
  Quang Lu, 47, was known to the police and speculated to be connected to organized crime. His life ended in 2007. His body was located this weekend at the bottom of Lake Ontario in a cement encased barrel.
• Toronto welcomes unofficial start to summer on Vic ...
  Between May 22 and 24, Canadians celebrated the Victoria Day holiday weekend. Even though Saturday's weather was gloomy, Sunday and Monday allowed Torontonians to welcome the unofficial start of summer 2010.
• Lung group asks smokers to quit for World No Tobac ...
  The annual World No Tobacco Day is a week away. On May 31 the Canadian Lung Association is asking the five million Canadians who smoke to kick the habit. They are also encouraging loved ones to use social media get their families to stop smoking.
• Study asks if patients are paying the price for m ...
  The high cost of Canadian medical school may have a negative effect on the health of Canadians according to a study conducted by The Canadian Federation of Medical Students.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Empty Luxury Apartments Would Make Great Homeless ...
  Ask anyone under the age of 10 and they'll tell you that it doesn't make sense for some people to be homeless while luxury apartments sit empty. Bless their hearts, they haven't yet learned about capitalism and fair market rents and adulthood and "personal responsibility." A lot of adults are coming ...
• Do Sex Offenders Choose Homelessness to Hide from ...
  Are some sex offenders feigning homelessness to get out of registering with authorities? Michigan law enforcement and lawmakers seem to think so. In Michigan, homeless sex offenders, by law , do not have to report their residences because of the transient nature of homelessness. Since February, when ...
• 87 Years Old and Homeless for the First Time
  As a homeless advocate, I've seen dozens of elderly homeless people living in shelters and on the streets. While I wish that they could all be housed, there are a few hard luck cases that really stand out to me. I'll describe two such cases here — that of a woman who became homeless at the age of 87 ...
• Hiding the Homeless from World Cup Tourists
  It's that time of year again. A major sporting event, this time the  World Cup , will bring the attention of millions to its host nation, in this case South Africa. Once the souvenir t-shirts are printed and Cape Town's restaurants come up with special soccer-themed entrées, there's only one thing l ...
• 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 ...

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

• Google Street View ‘Single Biggest Breach of ...
  May 25, 2010 Telegraph By Bonnie Malkin Earlier this month, Google announced it had discovered that the roving cars it uses to create its online mapping services were inadvertently gathering data on people’s website use over unsecured wireless networks. Google apologised, but the admission caused al ...
• Dow Plunges Over 200 Points In First 2 Minutes
  May 25, 2010 CNBC The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell almost 150 points, led by Kraft [KFT  28.0481    -0.8819  (-3.05%)    ], Caterpillar [CAT  57.4111    -1.8089  (-3.05%)    ] and Alcoa [AA  10.87    -0.22  (-1.98%)    ]. Home Depot [HD  33.23    0.01  (+0.03%)    ] was the only gainer on the D ...
• Private Sector Pay Plummets To Historic Low
  May 25, 2010 USA Today By Dennis Cauchon Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unem ...
• UK Government Encouraging Teenagers to Stockpile M ...
  May 25, 2010 Telegraph By Kate Devlin Free condoms should also be available to young people in schools and youth clubs, according to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which wants all young people to have access to confidential contraceptive advice. The organisation ar ...
• Fizzy Drinks Can Increase Chance of Stroke
  May 25, 2010 Telegraph Drinking two fewer glasses of soft drinks could reduce the risk of dying of a stroke by eight per cent and coronary heart disease by five per cent, an American study revealed. Drinks laced with sugars has long been linked to a greater risk of obesity and diabetes but the effec ...

Pambazuka News

• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
• Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
  Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
• How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
  It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...

War in Context

• Freedom Flotilla carrying 10,000 tonnes of aid to ...
  “We recommend the world send ships to the shores of Gaza, and we believe that Israel would not stop these vessels because the sea is open, and many human rights organizations have been successful in previous similar steps, and proved that breaking the siege on Gaza is possible.” John Ging, Head of ...
• How the Israel lobby defended Israel’s military ti ...
  In a review of Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s new book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, Glenn Frankel describes how spokesmen for American Jewish organizations acted as apologists or dupes for Israel’s arms sales to the apartheid state. In the early days o ...
• Sasha Polakow-Suransky on Al Jazeera
• Noam Chomsky interviewed on Israeli TV
  “Leading sectors, including the government, are in a mood of paranoia and irrationality which is harming [Israel] very seriously.”
• Israel and apartheid: a marriage of convenience an ...
  Chris McGreal, in a series of reports triggered by the publication of Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s new book, The Unspoken Alliance, writes: For years after its birth, Israel was publicly critical of apartheid and sought to build alliances with the newly independent African states through the 1960s. Bu ...

Watts Up With That?

• Romm’s Mosquito Bomb
  Most of us just ignore Joe Romm. Because, well, even the fresh prince of Wikipedia, William Connolley, described him once as “foaming”. When members of his shared climate viewpoint say this, you know some days Joe’s writing could put out … Continue reading →
• Modeling the Polar Bear Tipping Point
  After reading this BBC article on modeling the “tipping point” of polar bear populations, it seemed this photo summed it up well, especially since modeling was substituted in lieu of “nearly non-existent data”. I wonder how the bears survived the … Continue reading →
• Climate alarmism in Britain: “…the pol ...
  Excerpts from the New York Times article. Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL LONDON â Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on … Continue reading →
• Lord Monckton wins global warming debate at Oxford ...
  I’m waiting for actual photos of the event from the official photographer, but for now I’ll make do with what can be found on the Internet. For those who don’t know, the Oxford Union is the top of the food … Continue reading →
• New radar sees tornadic details like never before
  From a University of Oklahoma press release, a view of a hook echo like never before. Norman, Okla.âAt the University of Oklahoma, researchers captured unprecedented high-resolution radar data during the May 10, 2010, tornadoes using one of the most advanced … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• 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 ...
• Chris Hedges: Is America Yearning for Fascism?
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1097416 with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Mary 21, 2010 golefttv May 20, 2010 — The similarities between the former Bush Administration and those of a fascist government were overwhelming. And when a recent billboard popped up with a photo of W a ...
• Are the People Really Seizing Power? By Timothy V. ...
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com May 20, 2010 I’ve waited until the dust settled from last Tuesday, and for the first time in decades, I have a smidgen of hope for the American people. I want to get some things straight, right off the bat. While the politic ...

Your New Reality

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  Twittocracy This is how Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez promotes Twitter throughout the country : Chavez on Twitter : "It's a form of contact with the world." "(Twitter is) a weapon that also needs to be used by the revolution." With an average of about 20,000 people per day signing up to follow ...
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  As a British politician journalist, Adam Boulton has endured more than 15 years of Alistair "Master Of Spin" Campbell's infuriating bullshit. The UK election is over, the Labour Party lost, the era of Tony Blair's New Labour is in ruins. Adam Boulton no longer has to put with Campbell's rejigging ...
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  It's been a long time since I've seen Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but I don't remember the Evil Queen being quite so Xena : Art by J Scott Campbell Campbell reimagines other 'Disney Princesses' here
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  A very young Jon Stewart, in some sort of Fonzie getup, interviews George Carlin on cannabis and creativity :
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  You Sir, Just Might Be A Superhero The first time I watched this I thought, for a second, that there was some kind of bubble around this father and his child, protecting them both, from an instant of destruction. But that would be some kind of crazy : The father and child survived. On the fourt ...

Wired - Science

• Video: Kamikaze Comet Dives Into Sun’s Lower Atmos ...
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience87745700001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); NASA’s twin sun-observing spacecraft tracked a comet further than ever before as it dove into the sun. The video above is a compilation of images from the two ST ...
• Planetary Bullies Make Astronomers Rethink the Hab ...
  Exoplanet orbits that seem just right for life could be bent out of shape by pushy neighbors. New simulations of extrasolar planetary systems may mean the definition of “habitable” planets needs to be completely overhauled. When astronomers talk about the “habitable zone,” they mean the shell aroun ...
• Testosterone Makes People Suspicious of One Anothe ...
  A dose of testosterone might be enough to save gullible types from being ripped off, a new study reveals. Testosterone is linked to aggression, competition and social status. Now scientists have found that the hormone also reduces naive individuals’ confidence in others. “Testosterone reduces trust ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Akiva Eldar: Who says Jews and racism don’t go tog ...
  Defense Minister Peres, 1974: "This cooperation [Israel - South-Africa] is based not only on common interests and on the determination to resist equally our enemies, but also on the unshakable... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Tough Love: Israeli civil rights lawyer Emily Scha ...
  "I guess most Israelis would view me as a traitor... They would ask what right does someone who wasn't born in Israel and who didn't serve in the army have to criticize the state? But I came here out... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Fraying Jewish-Arab ties could shatter calm in Isr ...
  Sixty-five percent of Arab citizens believe in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, compared to 90 percent seven years ago. Forty percent said they don't believe in Israel's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Neve Gordon: Even picnics in Israel are political
  Nawi's conviction points to a relatively recent development regarding the restriction of resistance, to extremely passive modes of protest. And, in some cases, even these kinds of protests are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Avi Issacharoff: Why is Israel torturing the Pales ...
  The Palestinian village of Sheikh Sa'ad has been essentially disconnected from the outside world by the Israeli defense establishment. This is one of those stories that make me, as an Israeli, feel... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia set to adopt new arms procurement program i ...
  A new state arms procurement program for 2011-2020 will be adopted by the Russian government and signed by the president this fall, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday.
• Russian missile cruisers complete joint exercises
  The Russian heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky and guided-missile cruiser Moskva have completed joint exercises and held a traditional farewell ceremony in the South China Sea
• Venezuela plant to make 50 million Kalashnikov rou ...
  An ammunition plant being built by Russia in Venezuela will have the capacity to produce over 50 million rounds for Kalashnikov assault rifles per year, a Russian defense industry official said on Tuesday.
• Bulava probe results ready for Russian government ...
  The official results of a probe into the latest failure of Russia's ill-fated Bulava ballistic missile are ready and have been sent to the government for review
• Russia to test new model of Kalashnikov assault ri ...
  State tests of the new model of Kalashnikov automatic rifles will be held in Russia next year

NewsWise

• IUPUI Student Learns on the Job with Indy Lights T ...
  For Tate Wagers, the big race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this month comes two days before the scheduled 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.
• 'Obese' BMI Does Not Harm Current Health of Young ...
  A study examining the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and illness suggests that a BMI of 30 or above, a signal of obesity according to federal health standards, does not translate into current illness among adults under age 40.
• Rensselaer President's Commencement Colloquy To In ...
  The director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a Nobel-winning cancer researcher, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, and a renowned biotechnology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will join Rensselaer President Shirley ...
• Favorite College Classes: Comparative American Imm ...
  As it plays out on cable television news shows and newspaper opinion pages, the question of immigration can seem like an enormous problem that appeared overnight from nowhere. Among the things Williams College Professor Scott Wong wants his students to understand is that there is much more to the co ...
• Engineer Goes from Race Track to Classroom
  Moving from the inner circles of professional automotive racing to the halls of academia has given Andrew Borme the second life he's wanted - teaching a new generation of motorsports engineers .

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

• Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto's Hybri ...
  "A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committ ...
• Genetically Modified Foods Could Cause Long-Term S ...
  In this interview, Jeffrey Smith, author of the bestseller Seeds of Deception, and Genetic Roulette, discusses the latest GMO research findings coming out of Russia, which adds fuel to previous concerns about long-term sterility and other highly bizarre physiological side effects. Click here to read ...
• Building a Sky-High Farm in New York City
  Five farmers in Brooklyn are out to set a record: to plant the largest commercial rooftop farm in New York City. Click here to read this article
• Vermont Bans Plastic Bottles Containing 'BPA'
  Vermont's upcoming ban of baby bottles and sports bottles that contain the chemical Bisphenol A - more commonly known as BPA - is matched only by a law passed in recent years by the state of Connecticut. Click here to read this article
• New Poll: Slim Majority of Californians Think Taxi ...
  The primaries last night are a reminder of how close we are to the mid-term elections in November. And as a wave of anti-establishment fervor is knocking old-timers out - see ya never, Arlen! - one wonders whether voters will also be looking for innovative ways to solve old problems. Click here to r ...

fotoFrontera

• Las cascadas más famosas del mundo (Parte II - 50 ...
  Hace no mucho, le presenté a usted aquí mismo 50 hermosas fotografías sobre las cascadas más famosas del mundo. Como se lo dije en su momento, la colección consta de 100 elementos y aquí tengo para usted el día de hoy la segunda parte con otras 50 fotografías maravillosas de las caídas de agua que.. ...
• Maestros del Photoshop (Especial de Fotomontajes)
  Como un tributo especial a todos los grandes creativos, diseñadores gráficos, artistas y aficionados a la manipulación digital, le ofrecemos el día de hoy 36 imágenes preciosas donde la imaginación no conoce límites. Admira de cerca estas maravillas y nutra su mente con nuevas ideas.Nota: Haz click. ...
• Imágenes para tu blog (21 headers en alta resoluci ...
  Este paquete, incluye 21 imágenes en formato horizontal ideales para usarlas en tu blog como headers o encabezados. Por supuesto que puedes darle cualquier uso, pero en realidad han sido diseñadas de esa forma para adaptarse a cualquier plantilla en Blogger, WordPress, Joomla, Typepad, Etc. No... ...
• Perros, gatitos, aves, ositos, ranas y patos (39 i ...
  En este paquete, usted podrá disfrutar de una excelente colección de animales. Desde una rana, hasta ositos muy tiernos. Gatos y jaguares comparten un espacio con las aves de colores. Los perros y elefantes juegan por el campo y creo que usted se está tardando para descargar todas las imágenes que.. ...
• Presentación de mi Fotoblog 'www.1m4g3n3s.com'
  De entrada, sé que el nombre que he elegido es un tanto extraño. Por eso mismo, pensé en anunciarlo aquí para dejar en claro el concepto sobre este juego de números y letras que forman la palabra 'I M Á G E N E S'. Note usted que se han sustituído las vocales por números. Así de simple, así de... ...

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

• The Death of the Secondary Boycott Against Israel
  by Roger Alford At the recent Northwestern Law School conference on the Israeli-Arab Dispute and International Law I had the good fortune to address one of the few bright spots in current Arab-Israeli relations. Most international law scholars of the Arab-Israeli conflict seem to know little ab ...
• R.I.P. Professor Gabriel Wilner
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Sad news from the University of Georgia: Gabriel Michael Wilner, a University law professor and executive director of International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies, died unexpectedly at his home Friday. A native of Beirut, Lebanon, Wilner has been with UGA since ...
• Spanish Domestic Law of Universal Jurisdiction
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In the extensive and sometimes heated arguments over universal jurisdiction, Judge Baltasar Garzon, and national courts such as those of Spain, often missing is much scholarly information on the actual evolution and state of Spanish domestic law on universa ...
• A Deeply Unpersuasive Argument Against Elena Kagan
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Washington Times has an editorial that seems to argue that because Elena Kagan supports the teaching of international and comparative law, she actually believes that “foreign law trumps the Constitution.” It was under Ms. Kagan’s leadership while dean of Harvard Law ...
• A Word on Maqaleh
  by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Following my co-blogger Ken Anderson’s lead, I wanted to add a few additional notes on the D.C. Circuit’s holding today that a group of detainees held at the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, do not have a constitu ...

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

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

My Care2 Picks

• Oil Spill Clean-Up Workers Getting Sick
  Many of the fishermen who signed up to work for BP cleaning up the oil signed contracts that forbid them from talking to the press.The wives of some of the fishermen spoke out publicly about the symptoms their husbands were experiencing. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! ...
• Experts testify on grim ecological fallout from Gu ...
  Effects will be felt all the way to Europe and the Arctic.This is not just a regional issue for the wildlife, multiple forms of marine life from across the Atlantic Ocean "come into the Gulf to breed." We don't know effects of dispersants. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Congressional report prompts fear and anger over l ...
  House investigative subcommittee report : the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention knowingly used flawed data when telling D.C. residents that their health hadn't been harmed by spikes in lead in the drinking water in 2004 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it ...
• Europe in Default? A lesson for America and v.v.!
  What is the matter with the debts ? What is the solution ? I believe most of us are looking in the wrong direction. Haven't we allowed the creation of a world where money created envy, greased greed and elected governments that made dreamlike promises ? Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note- ...
• Project Waste Water
  Four Ryerson students turn a school assignment into an innovative method for keeping chemicals out of our water Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Detroit girl's death triggers scrutiny of A&E cop ...
  Detroit girl's death triggers scrutiny of A&E cop reality show 'The First 48'-washingtonpost.com: "'The First 48' crew had been following Detroit homicide detectives for months; the episode would... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Arizona’s Immigration Law Spurs Copycat Legislatio ...
  Arizona’s Immigration Law Spurs Copycat Legislation - NAM:Arizona’s new get-tough immigration law has emboldened other state capitols to follow suit.Legislators in at least 10 states— Utah, Oklahoma,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• U.S. Crime Rates Fell in ’09 Despite Sour Economy
  U.S. Crime Rates Fell in ’09 Despite Sour Economy - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — Despite turmoil in the economy and high unemployment, crime rates fell significantly across the United States in 2009,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• 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...]]

Farm Wars

• “What in the World are They Spraying?” – Official ...
  Important film regarding Chemtrails and the Geo-Engineering project that is being deployed against us. Monsanto's aluminum resistant gene is discussed also.
• 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Gulf Coast chefs, fishermen fight tide of misinfor ...
  Noted by Kim O'Donnel on May 25, 2010 4:05 PM
• ABC Family acquires rights to 'Friday Night Lights ...
  Noted by Matthew Greenberg on May 25, 2010 3:05 PM
• SF, NYC & London: The Best Art Museum Restaurants ...
  Noted by Rachel King on May 25, 2010 3:05 PM
• One-Hundred Unanswered 'Lost' Questions (New York ...
  Noted by Matthew Greenberg on May 25, 2010 2:05 PM
• Gulf Oil and Bluefin Tuna; The Double Whammy | Car ...
  Noted by Osha Gray Davidson on May 25, 2010 2:05 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Obama to inspect Gulf Coast oil spill Friday
  ShareThis Useless is as useless does: Obama to inspect Gulf Coast oil spill Friday 25 May 2010 President Obama will travel to Louisiana's Gulf Coast on Friday to inspect damage from the oil spill gusher. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirms that Obama will take a break from a Memorial D ...
• Obama set to send 1,200 troops to US-Mexico border
  ShareThis Obama set to send 1,200 troops to US-Mexico border 25 May 2010 President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, an administration official and an Arizona congresswoman said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on suc ...
• IG report: Meth, porn use by drilling agency staff
  ShareThis IG report: Meth, porn use by drilling agency staff 25 May 2010 Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Depart ...
• North Korea tells military to prepare for war
  ShareThis North Korea tells military to prepare for war --North Korea cuts all ties with the South 25 May 2010 North Korea today hit back at Seoul by announcing it would sever all links, escalating the standoff over accusations that the North sank a South's warship. North Korea's state news agency K ...
• BP to Kill Oil Gusher Feed
  ShareThis Breaking: BP to Kill Oil Gusher Feed 25 May 2010 BP has decided that the public should not be able to view its work on trying to stop its gusher, and will soon kill the feed of its oil gusher. (MSNBC)

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

• Teaneck harassment trial involves pro-Palestinian ...
  Bernie Thau is on the board of the Hebron Fund, which raises money for settlers in the West Bank. Rich Siegel is on the board of Deir Yassin Remembered. Tomorrow morning Thau goes on trial in Teaneck Municipal Court for allegedly harassing Siegel a month back over Free Palestine bumperstickers on Si ...
• More on the Gaza flotilla– and a call to dem ...
  Here is the latest news on the progress of the flotilla, with pictures of some of the boats, and a call to friends of Gaza to act now to try and mount political pressure to get the flotilla in. Israel has threatened to block the ships, or worse, and a demonstration has been called for [...]
• Could Flotilla bring sea change in Washington atti ...
  The giant freedom flotilla is under way to Gaza this week from several countries, nine boats. They're due in Gaza on Thursday. Breaking the US blackout on the story, The Hill is covering the flotilla, a piece by Iara Lee, who is on board.Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.), who has visited Gaza on repeated o ...
• ‘Commentary’ calls Walt an ‘inte ...
  This is whack. The June issue of Commentary, not yet on line, has a symposium on "Obama, Israel & American Jews: The Challenge," in which Robert Satloff, the head of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, calls Stephen Walt an "intellectual terrorist" and Norman Podhoretz, pater familias of ...
• The Twilight Zone on Capitol Hill
  The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has boiled down last week's House "debate" on authorizing another $205 million in military aid to Israel into a three-minute video entitled The Twilight Zone on Capitol Hill. They call it a "spoof." I don't find it the least bit amusing, but if you wan ...

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 Decisions on Bagram Detainees
  25 May 2010 We all are aware that war leads to difficult situations.  In regard to detainees, we've seen terrorists released only to strike again. Yet in the interest of justice we are concerned about detaining potentially innocent people.  Difficult times, difficult answers.  In summary, some deta ...
• 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 ...

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

• Must-See Video Shows BP Gulf Spill & Toxic Dispers ...
  I've been wondering recently whether we'll see the worst of the BP gulf oil spill at all; whether the combined use of toxic chemical dispersants and media corralling would prevent the public from ever fully grasping the extent of the disaster. While those principles are still very much in play, ...
• 7 Greenpeace Activists Charged With Felonies in An ...
  Yesterday, Greenpeace activists staged a protest to highlight the fact that even now, as federal authorities are helpless to stop millions of gallons oil from gushing out of the Gulf of Mexico , offshore drilling is scheduled to continue in Alaskan waters. Seven Greenpeace members boarded the ve ...
• US Petitioned to Place Bluefin Tuna on Endangered ...
  photo: Stewart Butterfield via flickr With the Gulf oil spill threatening Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning grounds , and rampant and ongoing overfishing wiping them out with abandon, the Center for Biological Diversity has filed a formal petition to the US government to place the species on the E ...
• Kids Make It Better, Children Find Creative Soluti ...
  Image credit: Suzy Becker This post was written by Suzy Becker , an artist, educator, entrepreneur, and the author of Kids Make it Better. There's a freaky back-story to this post. The day I signed on as a guest blogger, this site's homepage featured a photo of a duck whose feathers had bee ...
• In the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, On ...
  Image courtesy of Asher Dunn American designer, Asher Dunn has recently launched his own line of furniture which takes a contemporary approach to locally manufactured and designed furniture. All of the items have been made using FSC-certified materials and low-VOC finishes, but even more intere ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• UN slams ‘persistent’ child soldier use
  Report by UN expert criticises use of child soldiers by both armed ethnic groups and the Burmese army but falls short on wider state-sanctioned crimes
• Wa army operations ‘worry junta’
  United Wa State Army boosting troop recruitment and digging trenches but denies that it is preparing for conflict with the Burmese junta
• Yawd Serk: ‘Ethnic armies are closer’
  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 the government ...
• 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

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Global warming is 'making Mount Everest more dange ...
  Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to a Nepalese Sherpa who has conquered the world's highest summit 20 times.
• Middle classes in suburbs 'bearing brunt of libera ...
  Middle class people living in the suburbs are bearing the brunt of an obsession with tackling climate change forced on them by a liberal elite, according to a new report.
• 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.

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

• Thailand court charges ousted PM with terrorism
  [JURIST] A criminal court in Thailand issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for ousted [JURIST report] prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on charges of terrorism. Thaksin is accused of involvement in the the recent political violence [JURIST news archive] in Bangkok, ...
• White House backs amendment to 'Don't Ask Don't Te ...
  [JURIST] The Obama administration on Monday backed a proposal that would prevent a repeal of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy [10 USC s. 654; JURIST news archive] from taking effect until the completion of a comprehensive review of the repeal's effects. The amendment to the Military Read ...
• Dutch court begins Europe's first Somali pirate tr ...
  [JURIST] The Netherlands District Court of Rotterdam [official website, in Dutch] on Tuesday commenced [press release, in Danish] the first European trial of Somali pirates [JURIST news archive] under charges of "sea robbery" for hijacking a cargo ship registered in the Netherlands Antilles. The fiv ...
• Russia ex-PM testifies Khodorkovsky arrest politic ...
  [JURIST] Former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov [BBC profile] on Monday testified that former president Vladimir Putin [official website; JURIST news archive] ordered the arrest of former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] for political reasons. Testify ...
• Rights groups petition UN on behalf of Spain judge ...
  [JURIST] Several international human rights and jurist organizations on Monday petitioned the UN [text, PDF] to support Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] in his inquiry into human rights violations during the Spanish Civil War [LOC backgrounder] and to ask Spain to end ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• When the Future Chief of Staff ...
  Today, the wick burned out. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a friend of the President and his Chicago entourage, said that Rep. Joe Sestak, the new Democratic Senate nominee from Pennsylvania, should provide a fuller accounting of his conversation with Rahm Emanuel , the chief of staff, ahead of the primar ...
• Don't Ask About Repeal Anymore
  Here's why the White House and the Pentagon so quickly accepted the Don't Ask, Don't Tell compromise: it provides comfort to a political ally and doesn't really change the process or calendar for its repeal. The compromise that emerged is due directly to lobbying efforts by the Servicemembers Lea ...
• Who Gets Fired First?
  Washington likes its scalps, and Paul Krugman is salivating for one. He blogged last night that the Department of the Interior had woefully mishandled the response to the BP oil disaster: Every day there's another news story with Ken Salazar firmly declaring that he's losing patience with BP, and ...
• Nikki Haley's Palin-Approved Family Values Ad
  I don't think this is a coincidence. The morning after blogger Will Folks revealed (or alleged) an extramarital affair with gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley (R-SC), Haley's up with a bright red family values advertisement. It mentions God, grace and Sarah Palin. The script: Nikki Hale ...
• Obama Gives Commanders Wide Berth for Secret Warfa ...
  Last summer, the White House authorized a massive expansion of clandestine military and intelligence operations worldwide, sanctioning activities in more than a dozen countries and giving the military's combatant commanders significant new authority to conduct unconventional warfare. The New York ...

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

• Zeek Suspends Hagee Coverage Under Political, Lega ...
  Rachel Tabachnick, until last month, reported on Christian Zionism twice a month as a contributor to Zeek, the Forward’s companion site. This week, she brought me the troubling news that Zeek’s editor, Jo Ellen Kaiser had forbidden her from writing on this subject or on John Hagee.  This happened ...
• My Quarrel With Sam Norich
  Sam Norich, the publisher of the Jewish Forward, disappointed me today.  After e mailing him twice and leaving an office voice mail message asking him to answer questions I had about Ari Morgenstern’s threats against the Forward and Zeek and related matters, all he could muster was the feeble virtu ...
• Israeli Intelligence: Welcome to Chelm
  From the realm of Chelm: I’m displaying a copy of a gag order sent to an Israeli media outlet.  The document appears precisely as it was received.  For those who don’t read Hebrew, it was sent by the Israeli police and originates in the Nazareth district court: …Our division is conducting an inve ...
• Links for 2010-03-15 [Digg]
  TV interview: Mossad Assassination in Dubai A 30 minute interview for ScanTV's "Moral Politics" show dealing with the Israeli Mossad's assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabouh and the repurcussions for Israel from this act.
• Links for 2010-03-14 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Detains Israeli Reporter for Leaking Top-Secret Mem We're going to be getting into deep territory tonight regarding Israeli military intelligence, the Shin Bet, and their ability to make a mockery of alleged Israeli democracy and free press.

Ode Magazine

• Spiritual crisis
  By: Anne Thomas Recently a friend sent a generic e-mail to her many acquaintances. She was wondering if any of us might read a book that a friend of hers had written. She wanted to see what we thought, of course, and also if we might introduce it to a wider audienc ...
• At MSU, graduation means beds for sale
  By: Laura_Silver Ahh, graduation season. Departing seniors leave the relative security of the college campus, juniors, sophomores and freshmen move up a grade and the dorm furniture? Well, it often stays put. That's not the case at Michigan State University wh ...
• TOMS shoes and charity: water join forces for Ethi ...
  By: VictoriaKlein Four years ago, TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie began his business with an exceptionally simple concept: one for one. For every pair of shoes that he sold, a pair would be given away to a child in need. In this short time, 600,000 pairs of shoes ...
• Zen howl
  By: Chintana I resent the old joke, “when the going gets tough, the tough goes shopping.” I hate it because it’s what I do when I don’t want to write. It’s awful but I’ll admit it. This is what happened a few months ago. I had barely walked into Starbucks befo ...
• Living with Alzheimer's
  By: JulieKay "Where am I? And why am I pooping all over the place?" asks my 87-year-old mom, sitting on the edge of her bed after awakening from her afternoon "rest." A fresh trail of watery excrement, like breadcrumbs dropped in the woods, brown-stains the beige c ...

OpEd News

• Oily Apocalypse or Green Wave?
  The gulf oil spill is a morality play writ large as environmental collapse becomes the new normal.
• Time for a BP Summit
  The president must get us out of the mess the gulf oil spill has caused. He needs to confront BP, hold them accountable & he needs to do it now.
• European Debt Crisis Deepens / Class War Accelerat ...
  The European debt crisis is, in reality, a rapidly accelerating world wide class war and shell game where the rich and powerful want the people to repay their worthless debts as they did in the United States: Allen L Roland
• Jim Deanapos;s Sorta Kinda Support for Marcy Winog ...
  Progressive organizations set up to promote and fund progressive congressional candidates tend, as a rule, not to do so.
• Theories of Change ... and Now Paralysis
  An extension of David Brooksapos;s thoughtful column today on Change. We hate it and we love it. We obviously need it. There are many who have already given up, saying that we are incapable of orderly change.

Switchboard

• Coming Soon: Mountaintop Removal TV Ad
  It's time for a national television commercial about mountaintop removal coal mining.� Fortunately, there is a commercial�ready to�roll out -- all that is needed is the money to�purchase air time.� You can help.� First, watch the ad: This �TV commerci ...
• You don't really need growth to generate sprawl
  � One of the most fundamental observations about sprawling land use is that the late 20th century was marked by huge increases in developed land even in regions that had relatively small increases in population.� In our 1999 book Once There Were Greenfields , for example, Matt Raimi, ...
• Governor Paterson's Latest Attack on the Environme ...
  With Memorial Day around the corner, New Yorkers (hardly quiet about most things) are visibly upset with Gov. Paterson’s closing of several state parks in hard economic times.  Paterson, to deflect the blowback, proposed today to keep the parks open, but with a catch: he wants to safe ...
• Monitoring Mexico's Vaquita Conservation Plan
  The key to any well-intentioned conservation plan often comes down to the monitoring and enforcement of it.  Mexico’s plan to save the highly endangered vaquita marina porpoise in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico is no exception.  In 2008, under pressure from national and internati ...
• Music Saves Mountains: Concert Recap, Photos, and ...
  Was it all a dream?� That's what I keep wondering about NRDC's Music Saves Mountains benefit councert last week,�the biggest gathering of�singers and songwriters to raise awareness of -- and to fight against --� mountaintop removal coal mining.� Fortunately, I returned from Nashville w ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• A Minor Correction
  While I can’t disagree that Ross Douthat seems to have dedicated his career to proving his thesis about the inadequacy of his education correct, this particular example of reducing serious arguments into silly “Patio Man drives like this, but Grill Man drives like this” categories is in fact a Bobo ...
• The Ressentiment of the Reactionary Elite
  Zev Chafets has padded his fawning, puddle-deep New York Times Magazine profile of Rush Limbaugh into a book, with results that are apparently so bad that World’s Nicest Reviewer Janet Maslin delivers a merciless pan.   The WaPo, meanwhile, has enlisted the Good Frum to review it, with entertainin ...
• Hacktacular!
  Fresh off his…not entirely convincing defense of libertarianism, Matt Welch tabs uberhack Michael Barone’s argument “that [government] spending is not popular this year.”   The obvious problem with this argument is that public opinion surveys continue to indiciate that all federal government spend ...
• Sexist Nonsense About Trivia
  Christ, Givhan is awful.    (See also the point made in limerick form.) Related posts:Liveblogging the Nonsense…. Limerick : That Guy From Extreme Literal Symbolism: The Commonsense Conservative History of American Idiocy, from Reagan to the Politics of Nonsense Related posts: Liveblogging t ...
• Showing the Way
  Sarah to Rand: When you say something stupid, horrible, and indefensible in public, always blame the questioner. It never fails; the morons just lap up the “liberal-media-coastal-elite-hate-America-bias” bullshit. Try it yourself! Related posts:Do you think I’ve gone insane? Hitting Back on the ...

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 Meets Solar In Off-Grid Portable Charger for ...
• Tesla Hits The Roadster Tour Circuit In North Amer ...
• Solar Powered Chopper E-Bike A Cool DIY Eco Projec ...
• Survey Finds Many Americans In Dark Over Smart Gri ...
• Green Tech Gifts For Dad: A Father’s Day Gift Guid ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• WEST COAST REPORT
  The clouds may be beginning to break over the West Coast. That's the forecast of our special report on the state of the legal market in California, Oregon and Washington. Silicon Valley seems to be leading the rebound, but other regions — including Los Angeles and San Diego — are also catching a sec ...
• Louisiana bar gathers to talk oil spill litigation
  The Louisiana State Bar Association on May 25 is hosting an oil spill symposium, where an estimated 200-plus lawyers will gather to hear legal and environmental experts discuss issues surrounding the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Among the goals of the event will be to prevent another Exxon Valdez situat ...
• Law scholars propose to starve 'U.S. News' of LSAT ...
  An organization of law professors want LSAT scores dropped from U.S. News & World Report's ranking formula, and it hopes deans and law schools will be the ones to pull the plug. The Society of American Law Teachers has urged law schools to stop providing their incoming students' LSAT scores on the t ...
• LITIGATION BOUTIQUES
  A certain type of law firm showed remarkable strength during the recession: the boutique. We profile five firms that have thrived by identifying strong niche practices.
• THE PRACTICE: E.C. issues 'best practices' antitru ...
  Because the competition agency has such sweeping powers, all parties need to understand its procedures.

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

• Congratulations, Class of 2010!
  Thank you, President Adams, for your kind introduction. I also want to thank the Board of Trustees, the faculty, and the class of 2010 for inviting me to join you here today.
• Lack of Women in Sri Lanka Politics
  'She is ninety years old and feeble, my mother. But she insists on casting her vote, as she has done at every election for so many decades....'
• Mademoiselle Chambon Movie Review
  Among the many elements that never seem to be quite resolved in movies, is what might be conveyed on screen to convince that two characters are compelled to fall in love more with one another, than anyone else.
• Lost Series Finale Extended Play By Play Review
  The final of Lost is here and after six years the story is over. Relive the last ever episode with the finale play by play.
• Secretary Clinton Speaks at the Event Celebrating ...
  I am delighted to join State Councilor Liu and Vice Minister Hao Ping at this magnificent national center for the performing arts.

environment 360

• Wireless Sensor Technology Can Slash Energy Use fr ...
  A San Francisco company has developed a wireless light-monitoring network that it says can cut the energy use of office buildings by roughly 40 percent. The technology, developed by Adura Technologies, can dim or switch off lights to coincide with changes in the hours of daylight and enables employe ...
• Interview: David Orr on the Path to a Sustainable ...
  David W. Orr, professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College, says the easy part of helping the United States live within its ecological limits may be passing laws, such as one that puts a price on carbon. The hard part, he maintains, is reining in a culture of consumption that causes extensi ...
• Eyeing the Difficult Path To a Sustainable Future
  Environmentalist David Orr says the easy part of helping the United States live within its ecological limits may be passing laws, such as one that puts a price on carbon. The hard part, he maintains in an interview with Yale Environment 360 , is changing a culture of consumption that causes extensiv ...
• `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 ...

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

• “Gas for fleet” deal has no negative effect on Gaz ...
  Gazprom will not lose anything from the Russian-Ukrainian “gas for fleet” deal, according to Gazprom company spokesperson Sergey Kupriyanov.
• Mr. Trololo invites fans to write lyrics for his s ...
  The famous Soviet singer Eduard Khil, better known as “Mr. Trololo” after his lyric-less song became a hit on the Internet, plans to top the charts again. This time he is calling for the help of his audience.
• Soviet Russia had two chances to kill Hitler
  The Soviet Union had at least two opportunities to eliminate Adolf Hitler, but Joseph Stalin did not give the go ahead, fearing the signing of a separate peace treaty between Germany and the Allies.
• Berlusconi may sell AC Milan majority share to Gaz ...
  AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi is preparing to sell his 25–30% stake of the football club to Russian gas giants Gazprom.
• “Last Bell” rings out for Russian school students
  Today more than 800,000 Russian teenagers are celebrating the end of their studies in a traditional ceremony called the “Last Bell” that has rung out across the country.

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

• thunderbolts.info: The Cosmic Thunderbolt
  The Electric Universe Theory has had many supporters and detractors. The detractors are mainly mainstream cosmologists and astrophysicists and have for many years tried to debunk the theory, but not usually to any satisfaction and ends with the typical name calling. As for myself, I find the theory ...
• 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 [.. ...

Tippers News

• Troubleshoot a Faulty Internet Connection - PCWorl ...
  Basically, your connected one minute, then getting Page Not Found errors the next. Submitted by Pam W. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• China puts the eco back in economy
  A degree of scepticism is warranted. China has some of the world's most enlightened environmental laws and policies, but all too often they are ignored by local officials and businessmen who won't let anything get in the way of making a fast yuan Submitted by Pam W. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• 7 Greenpeace Activists Charged With Felonies in An ...
  The man has a point -- to me, these arrests illustrate an absurd contrast: a negligent, reckless company has done untold damage to the environment, wrecked numerous livelihoods and is responsible for the deaths of 11 people. Submitted by Pam W. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Gulf Spill Exclusive: Shocking Marine Life Destruc ...
  Just over one month ago, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig was rocked by a massive explosion that lead to the U.S.'s biggest environmental disaster in decades. After it became clear that the oil wasn't going to stop gushing from the undersea leak anytime Submitted by Pam W. to Environment �|� �Note- ...
• Must-See Video Shows BP Gulf Spill & Toxic Dispers ...
  I've been wondering recently whether we'll see the worst of the BP gulf oil spill at all; whether the combined use of toxic chemical dispersants and media corralling would prevent the public from ever fully grasping the extent of the disaster. Submitted by Pam W. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...

The Freeman

• Obama Wants $30 Billion Job Spur
  “President Barack Obama is to renew a push on Tuesday to persuade the U.S. Congress to approve a $30 billion plan to spur lending to small businesses and trigger job creation.” (ABC News, Tuesday) Just get out of the way! FEE Timely Classic “Creating Jobs vs. Creating Wealth” by Dwight R. Lee
• Fed Is Winner in Senate Financial Overhaul
  “The Federal Reserve, a target of bipartisan bashing during the past two years, has emerged a big winner in the financial overhaul passed by the Senate, but the broader powers granted by the legislation expose the central bank to new risks.” (Washington Post, Tuesday) The ways of Washington: Failure ...
• Less Crime Despite Recession
  “Despite turmoil in the economy and high unemployment, crime rates fell significantly across the United States in 2009, according to a report released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday.” (New York Times, Tuesday) Did they count what goes on in government buildings? FEE Timely Classic ...
• How to Create the Illusion of Low Taxes
  To the surprise of opponents of big government, the U.S Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates that taxes at all levels of government take only 9.2 percent of our income, the lowest rate since Harry Truman was president.
• 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 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Tips for HTML5, part 5: A closer look at selected ...
  Most journalism students need to know only the bare minimum about HTML and how it works. For years I have been saying they need to know about 10 basic tags and not much more. That’s probably going to change with HTML5. This elegant illustration by Derek Bender (from his presentation The Future o ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• DISASTER IN EAST TENNESSEE
  In December 2008, one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history unfolded at the TVA's Kingston coal plant when a massive coal ash holding pond burst. A year and a half later, communities are still feeling the impact -- and there are fears that without federal action a similar disaster c ...
• 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 ...

  Blacklisted News

• UK: Radical plan to privatise motorway network whi ...
• Deepwater Horizon Survivors Kept in Seclusion Afte ...
• Australia: John Clarke and Bryan Dawe Calculate th ...
• Geithner Urges Europe To Repeat US Stress Test Fra ...
  A few days ago we wondered if Tim Geithner was a pathological liar, an idiot or just confused. Today we may be one step closer to getting the answer.
• The Toronto G20 Police State Crackdown

The Intelligence Daily

• Stock Market: Getting Away With Murder
  Video: Courtesy of YouTube Related: Pentagon holds war game simulating world financial crisis;...
• Market Analysis: May 26, 2010 (Dow 8,150 support w ...
  On May 4th, I suggested the March 2009 bear market rally had ended. DOW daily chart shows the...
• U.S. CyberCom launches with first commander (4 Sta ...
  Related: Who is Keith Alexander? Intelligence Officer With Army Gen. Keith Alexander named as its...
• 25 Questions To Ask Anyone Who Is Delusional Enoug ...
  By Michael Snyder If you listen to the mainstream media long enough, you just might be tempted to...
• Alert: North Korea spokesman says cutting all ties ...
  North Korea has announced it will sever all ties with South Korea, the country’s official...

My AntiWar

• US, Iraqi Forces Detain 30 Policemen Near Baghdad
• Tuesday: 17 Iraqis Killed, 20 Wounded
• Najaf Cemetery Witness to Iraq’s Tragic Hist ...
• CIA Mulled Saddam Gay Sex Vid, Made Osama Tape Ins ...
• Thailand Issues Terrorism Warrant for Thaksin

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Confidence Building: Prelude to Possible Iran-US D ...
  Summary: Political relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States were severed more than 30 years ago. In the meantime, both sides have been testing various approaches with no apparent avail. The slightest negative reaction on one side was enough to convince the other sid ...
• Washington Just Lost the Middle East in a Big Way
  Summary: Narwani It's official. There is no longer any serious "cost" for defying the United States in the global arena. Unable to win wars or deliver diplomatic coups - and struggling to maintain our economic equilibrium - Washington has lost the fundamental tools for global leadership. And no ...
• Former CIA: Obstacles against Sanctions on Iran
  Summary: If Washington thinks it now faces complications on getting United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran, that’s not the half of it. A greater obstacle is the subtle change introduced into international power relationships by the actions of Brazil and Turkey that has accompanie ...
• 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

• 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...
• Image of the Day: Saturn & Its Moons
  Saturn's moons Rhea orbits near Epimetheus in this Cassini image with the planet and its rings in the background. The two moons aren't actually close to each other. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.2 million km...
• The Daily "140" Insight
  Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" Robin Williams
• The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (5/24)
  Surveillance Is Suspected as Spacecraft’s Main Role A team of amateur sky watchers has pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the debut flight of the nation’s first robotic spaceplane, finding clues that suggest the military craft is engaged in the...

Natural News

• Human dispersants: Let's try tossing BP executives ...
  (NaturalNews) The Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe, now in its 35th day, has struck land, coating tourist beaches, marshes and shorelines with a greasy black filth that metaphorically represents the corporate greed that now dominates the U.S. economy. We are all awash in the dark slime of corporations ...
• Vitamin E is effective treatment for "silent" live ...
  (NaturalNews) Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a common, "silent" liver disease. Although it occurs in people who drink little or no alcohol, it causes damage that resembles alcoholic liver disease, including inflammation. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidne ...
• Heinz blasted over outrageous claims in infant for ...
  (NaturalNews) The H.J. Heinz company, most famous for producing Heinz brand ketchup, has been reprimanded by the United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an ad for its Nurture-brand infant formula. According to the ASA, Heinz made "unsubstantiated" and "unacceptable" claims that i ...
• 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 ...

Threat Level

• House GOP Launches a Republican Reddit
  House GOP members unveiled a Reddit-like website Tuesday that lets users submit and  rank policy ideas in categories ranging from national security to “American values”. “It gives Americans a voice in changing the way Washington works and the policy it pursues,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California), ...
• Google Offers Choice to Opt Out of Web Analytics
  Google is offering a way for web users to opt out of being tracked around the web by its popular Google Analytics tool used by publishers to track traffic and trends on their websites. Publishers like Wired.com insert a simple line of Google Analytics Javascript on their site and then can see on a d ...
• Spyware Installed on Student Laptops Has More Secu ...
  A remote administration program installed on student laptops by a Pennsylvania school district and used by numerous companies to manage their computers is even more vulnerable than previously reported. The LANrev program can be exploited from anywhere on the internet, not just from an attacker on ...
• LimeWire Begs Music Industry for Second Chance
  Shattered by a piracy lawsuit that may leave it insolvent, the company behind the file sharing software LimeWire is hoping to strike a deal with the music industry in which it would aggressively filter out pirated content, and be permitted to live on as a for-pay music download service, a company e ...
• Student Sues School for Damages in Sexting Case
  A former Pennsylvania high school student has sued school and county officials for damages in a controversial sexting case. The student alleges a violation of her constitutional rights, in a civil suit filed last week that could serve as a cautionary tale to other officials considering punishing st ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP Uses Rationing Ploy to Block Obama Medicare No ...
  Back in February, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) rolled out his Republican "Roadmap for America's Future." When confronted about the certainty that his drastic privatization scheme would inevitably lead to rationing of Medicare , Ryan departed from the GOP health care script to protest, "Rationing happens t ...
• Sarah Palin's Supposed Energy Expertise Backfires. ...
  During the 2008 campaign, John McCain said of his running mate Sarah Palin, "She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America." As it turns out, not so much. The half-term Alaska Governor literally had no idea how much energy her state produced and suffered fro ...
• 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. ...

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

• End the blockade in Gaza (Iara Lee, The Hill)
  This week, I will be boarding one of several ships that are part of a flotilla sailing to Gaza. The Israeli government's recent decision to deny internationally renowned scholar Noam Chomsky entrance into the occupied territories suggests we, too, might be refused entry. Nevertheless, we will set sa ...
• Susan Abulhawa: Novelist and Humanitarian (IMEU)
  By day, award-winning author and Palestinian American Susan Abulhawa is a science writer for medical journals. Her real passion, however, is literature. After spending four years writin ...
• Israeli 'nuclear offer' explained by investigator ...
• 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 ...
• Tough love (Coby Ben-Simhon, Haaretz)
  Emily Schaeffer can easily point to the happiest time of her life. "It started at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem," she says, sitting on the tiny balcony off the bedroom of her apa ...

Water - AlterNet

• Could You Live in a 12' x 12' Cabin With No Water ...
  Returning to the U.S. after a decade of aid work, William Powers finds himself in the heart of the world's richest nation, but living a subsistence life.
• Is Your Faucet Making You Sick?
  Your drinking water may be contaminated with lead, even if you're using faucets claiming to be 'lead-free.' Here's what we can do about it.
• Will BP Be Held Responsible? Not if Senator Lisa M ...
  Lisa Murkowski gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from the industry she's now charged with interrogating. What will this mean for the BP cleanup?
• 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.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Portland, TX Asks TCEQ to Deny Las Brisas Permit
  Portland, Texas’ City Council members voted yesterday on a resolution to unanimously to support a State Office of Administrative Hearings’ judicial recommendation that an air permit sought for Las Brisas petroleum-coke fired power plant be denied or reviewed further. Portland’s council has long-stan ...
• New Report on Carbon Capture and Sequestration Say ...
  According to a new study published in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) by Michael Economides of the University of Houston and Christine Ehlig-Economides of Texas A&M University, clean coal is unlikely to prove a real solution to carbon emissi ...
• Week in Review
  As we round out an especially celebratory Earth Day Week, work at Public Citizen Texas is as fast-paced as ever. Though, today, our staff is pausing to celebrate a huge victory for all Austinites: yesterday, city council approved the Austin Energy Generation Plan. Our staff worked their tails off to ...
• Sarah McDonald dancing at Public Citizen Texas' 25 ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Ramming Nuclear Power Subsidies Into War Appropria ...
  A Deal is Struck to Add $9 Billion in Risky Nuclear Loan Guarantees for Failing South Texas Nuclear Project.    In a deal between the Obama administration and House of Representatives leadership, struck last week behind closed doors, taxpayers would be on the hook for lending $9 billion to build two ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• 57 tombs with mummies found in Egypt
  A total of 57 tombs dating back to 2750 BC have been uncovered by archaeologists in Egypt, each with a mummy inside. The find sheds new light on the r...
• Bigfoot society records numerous sightings in Minn ...
  Evidence for the legendary Bigfoot in the state of Minnesota is on the increase with over 75 reported sightings. The Northern Minnesota Bigfoot Societ...
• Man pulls plane with his eyelids
  A chinese martial arts expert has astronished crowds by pulling a plane via a rope attached to his eyelids. 50 year-old Dong Changsheng has been pract...
• 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...

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 25, 2010
  U.S. Declares Fishery Disaster in 3 Gulf States (Reuters) The U.S. government has declared a "fishery disaster" in the seafood-producing states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama due to an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, making them eligible for federal funds, Commerce Secretary Gary L ...
• 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)  ...

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

• When The Truth Is Found To Be Lies
  We Americans are not very good at telling or hearing the truth, although we’d like to think that we are. We tell our schoolchildren that George Washington could not tell a lie about chopping down the cherry tree, even though, ironies of ironies, the story likely isn’t true. We fall all over ourselv ...
• EXITS: "Let Me Outa Here!!!" (Fade to Black???) Re ...
  I’ve been thinking about exits. Actually I’ve been thinking about theatre, our current situations, governments, and corporations. Why does an entity ever want to get out? How does it leave? How does one exit and not be missed? What are implications of the departures – both the good and the bad? You ...
• Experts Propose Plugging Oil Leak with BP Executiv ...
  WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – At a conference of oil leak experts in Washington today, attendees proposed plugging the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico with executives of BP, the company responsible for the catastrophic spill. “We’ve tried containment domes, rubber tires, and even golf ba ...
• No Sunshine on Sunstein's Dark Spots
  Recently a New York Times Magazine article profiled Cass Sunstein, the most powerful man in government you never heard of. And it absolutely buried the lead -- the main reason to take an interest in this fellow. Under the decidedly benign headline "Cass Sunstein Wants to Nudge Us," we learn that Sun ...
• Financial Reform Is Here, But So Is The Problem: B ...
  I was among those raving about the passage of the financial reform bill. And now I am just raving. "Unbelievable," said one advocate who hoped for the best, but expected the worst. He was amazed it even passed. The wise men in the media immediately began making comparisons with the New Deal. The pun ...

Paul Krugman

• Interest Rates: A Self-Serving Observation
  Where's the crowding out?
• Inflation, Deflation, Japan
  Studying Japan remains very useful for understanding where all of us are these days.
• Did The Postwar System Fail?
  We could have gone on with a more progressive tax system and a stronger labor movement.
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Growth
  Yes, the US economy was a success with high taxes and regulation.
• Oy, Macro
  Didn't we already have this debate?

No Quarter

• SEIU Thugs Take On A 14 Year Old Boy – UPDATED x2
  I have often mentioned SEIU, the union co-founded by ACORN’s founder, Wade Rathke. That really should tell people as much as they need to know. Of course, there is more, though. SEIU’s recently resigned director, Andy Stern, has been a frequent visitor at the White House. And yes, SEIU helped to ...
• Resistance and Romance
  Editor’s Note: Originally posted at the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule and podcasts). _________________________________________________ If I were constructing a dystopian romance re an alien and vastly superior tech army invasion and subjugation of Planet Earth that focused on t ...
• Mexican Illiteracy?
  / bumped up / Is Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon illiterate? Nah, but he does have the same reading comprehension disability that afflicts Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and othes in the Obama Administration. I’ve been looking all weekend for this clip. For some reason (hmmmmm?) CNN has not hu ...
• Childhood Obesity: A National Security Problem?
  I always thought it a strange disconnect that kids under 17 were not allowed into a movie theater if the film included nude bodies or human sexuality but had easy access to violent video games wherein players can maim and slaughter enemies so realistic-looking that they have been used for military ...
• Follow Up On Rep. Joe Sestak’s Job Offer
  Well, this was an interesting weekend for spinning news, especially if you watched Robert Spokesweasel Gibbs at all. But one person, a politician, no less, who has been consistent in his comments on one subject, did so again this Sunday. That would be Joe Sestak, who continues to affirm he was of ...

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

• Extreme Energy
  Noted author and Hampshire College professor Michael Klare, whose latest book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet describes the geopolitics of the energy crisis, will talk about the causes behind the Gulf oil spill.
• Kyrgyzstan: Tinderboxes and Tangled Webs
  Kyrgyzstan has little in the way of wealth or natural resources, but it has what every real estate agent looks for: location, location, location.
• The Battle for Thailand
  A state of civil war exists in Thailand, reports columnist Walden Bello, and it has much to do with class.
• Worst Fears May be Realized In Iraq
  Are we really leaving Iraq at the end of 2011?
• Salon Event: Making Its Mark - South Africa and th ...
  A dynamic discussion about the relationship between international politics and sports.

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

• N Korea 'cuts all ties' with South
  Tension soars as North puts troops on alert in response to sanctions over warship's sinking.
• Court upholds Jamaat head's release
  Pakistani bench says evidence lacking against Hafiz Saeed, linked by India to Mumbai attacks.
• Family seeks to declare Mladic dead
  Relatives of ex-Bosnian Serb army leader wanted on genocide charges to make legal bid.
• EU monitors slam Ethiopia polls
  Observers say weekend elections favoured the ruling party of Prime Minister Zenawi.
• Queen sets out UK government plans
  Britain's Queen opens parliament, seting out new coalition's legislative programme.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Bush on Wind, Oil and a Happy Retirement
  In a jocular address at a wind energy conference, George W. Bush reflected broadly on his presidency and said the nation was in a period of energy transition.
• 7 Seized in Anti-Drilling Protest
  Seven members of Greenpeace face charges after a protest that involved boarding an offshore drilling support ship and painting anti-drilling slogans on the side.
• Zoos and Aquariums on Oil Spill Alert
  Zoos and aquariums around the country are mobilizing to help with oil spill rehabilitation efforts.
• Transocean Chief's Bollywood Safety Dance
  An online publication from Transocean provides one of the few public glimpses into happier times into the offshore oil driller at the center of the Deepwater Horizon accident.
• A Last-Gasp Airlift for Oily Birds
  In an unusual and no doubt bewildering migration, a handful of birds oiled by the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have been transported by military aircraft from coastal Louisiana to Florida and released at coastal wildlife refuges there.

Dot Earth News

• Do Humans Need a Golden Rule 2.0?
  Weighing the climate challenge, a popular novelist proposes that humans need a new Golden Rule.
• BP Rejects Blasts as Oil Well Response
  BP all but rules out closing its gushing oil well with explosives.
• More on Malaria in a Warming World
  More on the intersection of climate change and malaria risk.
• 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.

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

• Police Murder in Detroit! (Your World News Radio)‏
  www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please join us for an in-depth dialogue with journalist, activist, editor of the Pan-African Newswire, and historian Abayomi Azikiwe. However, if you cannot catch the show LIVE, it will be available on ARCHIVE simply by visiting: www.blogtalkradio.com/your-wo ...
• I AINT IN IT: The Rhetoric of Domination
  Language is important in conveying the ideas and attitudes that shape our worldviews and influence our perspectives. And the specificity of the words we use as language is critical to conveying certain ideas influencing those attitudes. With this understanding, I must take issue with the language of ...
• Big Oil and the “American Power Act”
  Michael Collins 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. It focuses on the current administration. That in no way implies that the problem originated in [...]
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Obama backs Catholic church immunity claim on sexu ...
• ‘We’ll sue y ...
• Congressman: BP to cut off live feed of oil spill
• Why Is BP Controlling Louisianaâ€&trade ...
• Massey Miner: ‘I Felt Like I Wa ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Low-Key Weekend Faceoff
  A demonstration you didn't see in the news.
• Kim Jong-Il: Right-Wing Mole?
  It's almost as if Pyongyang has ties to the Heritage Foundation.
• Pundits Cheered Drilling Shortly Before BP Oil Dis ...
  Many of America's prominent commentators ran on fumes when they opined about oil.
• Our Latest: Calderon, Thailand, and the Myth of Ov ...
  What IPS says about the world today.
• Extreme Energy
  Noted author and Hampshire College professor Michael Klare, whose latest book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet describes the geopolitics of the energy crisis, will talk about the causes behind the Gulf oil spill.

Pine River World News

• USA Foreign Policy Failure: Development, not Deplo ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. USA Foreign Policy Failure: Development, not Deployment � � Pravda.ru By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey May 24, 2010 The United States of America has done little or nothing to curb drug trafficking in Afghanistan, where opium pro ...
• 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, ...

IntelNews

• Israeli envoy ‘in alarm’ after Australia expels Mo ...
  The Israeli ambassador to Australia, who was in Israel on business, expedited his return to Canberra yesterday, immediately after Australia announced the expulsion of Israel's senior Mossad representative in the country.
• News you may have missed #358
  Ex-CIA analyst to lead US declassification center. Hamas expels Egyptian spy from Gaza. Israeli nuclear whistleblower back in prison.
• Saudis scramble to contain leak pointing to al-Qae ...
  A series of unconfirmed reports from Iraq indicate that the Saudi monarchy has initiated a frantic probe into the leak of a secret document allegedly pointing to close links between Saudi intelligence and al-Qaeda activities in Iraq.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• Christian Groups: Biblical Armaggedon Must Be Taug ...
  Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming Christian Groups: Biblical Armaggedon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming | The Onion read more
• Why Winograd Matters
  Why Winograd Matters By Brad Parker | May 2010 Marcy Winograd is more relevant than most of us, today, right here, and right now. Through six years of campaigning to win a seat in the House of Representatives, she has revealed the true inner workings of the Democratic Party, both in California an ...
• Judge Acquits Franklin Mills Antiwar Protesters
  Judge acquits Franklin Mills antiwar protesters A Philadelphia judge on Monday acquitted six New York City antiwar protesters charged criminally Sept. 12 in a demonstration outside the U.S. Army's high-tech Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall. Read more . read more
• Writer Says Torture Still Practised By US Military
  Writer says torture still practised by US military By Mark Colvin | ABC News MARK COLVIN: On the campaign trail back in 2007, Barack Obama promised that if he became President, America would once again be the country that stood up against torture. But in the last few weeks more evidence has emerged ...
• Obama Officials Pushed, But Failed, For New Rules ...
  Obama Officials Pushed, But Failed, For New Rules In Khadr Tribunal By Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service | Canada.com The pretext for demanding the draft-rule edit centered on concern about defending the legitimacy of Central Intelligence Agency drone attacks on terror suspects in Pakistan, one ...

Grist - News

• The 7 dumbest things in BP’s spill response ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes We do not live in the Gulf of Mexico, you stupid oil company.Oil companies are supposed to have spill-response plans prepared before they begin drilling in American offshore waters. Minerals Management Service safety regulators are supposed to scrutinize those plans before ...
• BP gears up for ‘top kill’ to plug oil ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - British oil giant BP scrambled Tuesday to test the use of a "top kill" to plug up an undersea well spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but admitted it was uncertain the method would work or even be used at all. The top-kill method involves pumping heavy dr ...
• Is the Gulf oil spill spinning out of control?
  by Randy Rieland Photo: The White House Top Hat, Top Kill, Junk Shot, Enough Already. I don't know about you but it sure feels like nobody's going to stop this leak. Even BP CEO and chief spinmeister Tony Hayward is lowering expectations. This mess is officially out ...
• In wake of Gulf spill, should this be the summer o ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert tells how the 1968 Unocal oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., spurred public outrage that prompted Congress and President Nixon to pass the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Air Act-co ...
• U.N. study calls for economic changes to save biod ...
  by Agence France-Presse The Silvereye of Australia. Photo courtesy MichelDignand via FlickrLONDON -- A key U.N. report on biodiversity will recommend massive economic changes like company fines to help save species and protect the natural world, the Guardian reports . The study, which is du ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• "Bullycide" is Out of Control
  A recent suicide by a fifth grader who kept a diary about being abused by peers at school.
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  Why the sinking of their warship is an act of war South Korea should ignore
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  Will a smart grid really solve our energy problems?
• Airlines Impose New Summer Surcharge Fees
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• Former Shell Oil President Blames Government for O ...
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Time - Top Stories

• Hollywood's VFX Sweatshops: Boom Times, Troubled B ...
  The industry behind the block-busters is reeling from cheap competition and low profits
• Queen Opens Parliament, and Reform Meets Royal Tra ...
  With the opening of its first session, Britain's new Parliament proposed wide-ranging reforms meant to restore faith in government. But the symbolic ceremonies suggest change may not be easy
• The Euro's Fall: How Far Can Currency Drop?
  As the markets continue to knock the euro around, European leaders are scrambling to stabilize the currency. But maybe a weak euro isn't such a bad thing after all
• Why South Korea Has to Live in Denial
  In spite of a virtual act of war by Kim Jong Il, Seoul will produce lots of sound and fury, ultimately signifying very little
• Pediatricians OK Swimming Lessons for Babies
  The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) loosened its position on swimming lessons for toddlers younger than 4 years old.

Washington Independent

• Environmentalists Roll Out National Ad Targeting M ...
  When most of us flip on the lights (or type into our computers, for that matter), we aren’t thinking about how those simple acts might affect those living in coal country. Yet nearly half of the country’s electricity is generated by coal, and increasingly that coal is being extracted not by removing ...
• Senate Intel Committee: No Clapper; Yea Panetta
  In a statement she put out yesterday afternoon, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sure sounded like she didn’t want defense intelligence chief James Clapper to take over for the departing Dennis Blair as the next director of national int ...
• Having Attacked a South Korean Ship, North Korea B ...
  Via The New Yorker’s twitter feed, North Korea, fresh from an unprovoked naval attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors, accuses South Korean President Lee Myung-bak of being a “wicked warmonger.” This call for “all-out counterattack” is from North Korea’s official news service: “The Committee for ...
• Local Governments Warn of Devastating Job Cuts
  The National League of Cities, a nonprofit that represents 19,000 towns and cities with a combined population of 220 million, released a report indicating devastating local-government job and service cuts. In the 2010 State of Americaâs Cities survey, 63 percent of city officials say poverty has w ...
• Lunchtime Links
  The FBI details an upswing in threats against members of Congress last year. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) will serve up to five years in jail for violating his probation. The White House party crashers say they were not trying to crash the Mexico state dinner. Former Rep. Rob Simmons bo ...

Digg Green

• Great Big Wind Turbines Set to Float on Great Lake ...
  Lake Erie will soon be dotted with five massive wind turbines making it the first offshore freshwater wind farm in the continent.
• No joke: you can bet on next species extinction in ...
  I don't really know what to say about this, but I'm sure that their altruistic stated goal of "highlighting the environmental catastrophe" of the BP oil spill in the Gulf is not 100% complete. 50 bets in the first six hours shows that they'll be making some, shall we say, crude money off of this as ...
• 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
  Researchers claim space-age design could cut aviation industry fuel use by up to 70 per cent. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this week took the wraps off two new aircraft designs, which they claim could cut aviation fuel use by 70 per cent and deliver similarly deep c ...
• Put Homeless in Vacant NYC Luxury Apts, Advocates ...
  264 luxury residential developments are sitting vacant around the city. Rather than wasting useful space, the coalition is advocating that these places be taken over by the city and used for housing the homeless.

Invisible Opportunity

• Musing on the Times as Lord Apocalypse Appears.
  By Les Visible You got to love The Apocalypse. Elie the Weasel is getting brilliantly stripped and hammered by a talented practitioner and someone else wants you to ‘find Eli’s tattoo’ and win valuable prizes. It appears that Elie was never in a concentration camp and stole the identity of someone w ...
• The Unbelievably Rampant Corruption On Wall Street
  In order for a financial system to be able to function properly, it is absolutely essential that the general population has faith in it. After all, who is going to want to invest in the stock market or entrust their money to big financial institutions if there is not at least the perception of hones ...
• U.S. Government Stopped Research After Finding Tha ...
  By Scott Norman NORML’s Paul Armentano has a disturbing account of the history of government research regarding the benefits of THC as a potential cancer treatment: Not familiar with this scientific research? Your government is. In fact, the first experiment documenting pot’s potent anti-cancer effe ...
• US State Department Says ‘Conspiracy Theorie ...
  By Mac Slavo The US State Department’s America.gov web site, which purports to engage international audiences on issues of foreign policy, society and values, has dedicated a special section to conspiracy theories and misinformation, claiming: “Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where i ...
• Pyramids in Bosnia?
  Perhaps you will find this video as fascinating as did I. As usual there is the establishment opposition to new discoveries – I wonder why that is the case? Is it vested interests? Is it selfishness? Is it “just business? “ One would think it a simple matter to focus everyone’s energy on getting to ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• 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.
• How LSD Destroyed God's (and Dad's) Rigid Authorit ...
  One can make a non-ludicrous case that the most important event in the cultural history of America since the 1860s was the introduction of LSD.
• World Hepatitis Day: Will CA Allow Pharmacists to ...
  California is one of only three states in the U.S. that still prohibits pharmacists from selling a syringe without a prescription from a physician.
• Ex-Cop Goes Rogue on the Drug War, Tells Pot Smoke ...
  Police admired Barry Cooper when he lied to put drug dealers in prison. Then he flipped the game on them.
• Sting, Soros, Montel and More: We Are the Drug Pol ...
  It's time now for DPA to launch a new organizational identity that fully expresses each of our roles as agents of change.

Twilight Earth

• A Rainforest Chernobyl: The Other Oil Disaster
  I donât know about you, but my mental health has been teetering on a cliff of depression thanks to BPâs catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil rig mishap. Related posts: Activist Invites 6,000 Chevron Employees to Watch CRUDE Documentary World’s Largest Oil-Related Environmental Catastrophe: ...
• Photo Sunday – The Moab Desert
  The Moab Desert is host to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. It has welcomed countless tourists and nature lovers. Enjoy the photos. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Hiking the Mojave Desert and Red Rock Canyon Outside Las Vegas Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday ...
• Rush Limbaugh: #1 Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissio ...
  Limbaugh: ‘When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?’ Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane Follow Joe Mohr (Mean Joe Green) on Twitter @GreenCartoons and at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is ...
• About Climate Change, this I Believe
  I believe that most people want what's best for their families first, whats best for themselves second and whats best for others, last. Related posts: Technology Transfer and Climate Change (Video) Health Care Practices and Climate Change – Dr Bertollini Explains the Connection White House Fo ...
• Will Obama Dam Salmon to Extinction?
  On the heels of the catastrophic oil spill that is crushing wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration is poised to make a decision this week that could change the fate of endangered species in this country. On May 20, the Administration will release a federal salmon plan that wi ...

Inhabitat

• P-Tree Urinal: A Natural Solution to an “Urgent” P ...
  Dutch designer Sam van Veluw has developed a new way to answer the call of nature at outdoor events and venues. After a long search for a public restroom at a music concert one evening, he came up with the concept of strapping a waterless urinal onto a tree. These would be simple to install [...]
• “Cool Water, Hot Island” Winning Design for Times ...
  With Times Square now officially a pedestrian-only zone, the NYC Department of Transportation is looking to implement a massive overhaul to the area. But before that can happen in 2012, they wanted a semi-temporary installation to “refresh and revive” the streetscape. Molly Dilworth, known for her r ...
• Epyon Opens Europe’s First Commercial Fast-Chargin ...
  Good news for European electric vehicle fans–a company called Epyon recently opened Europe’s first commercial fast-charging station in the Netherlands. The system can reportedly pump out 50 kilowatts of power–enough to charge a nine-person taxi van–in just 30 minutes. Read the rest of Epyon Opens E ...
• VOTE NOW On Inhabitat’s 2010 Spring Greening Final ...
  Drumroll please! And now the moment that you’ve all been waiting for! After weeks of deliberation on an incredible array of creative reuse projects we’re thrilled to announce the finalists of our 2010 Spring Greening Design Competition…. This year’s competition turned up an amazing crop of over 35 ...
• Customizable Paper Tube Eco-Furniture Grows with Y ...
  Kids grow like weeds and it seems like they get too big for their desks and chairs in just a blink of the eye! That’s why we are grateful that Japanese furniture designers, Sankei Co., unveiled their HECMEC folding chairs and tables this year at ICFF 2010. These little furniture pieces are made from ...

Pogue's Posts

• A European Voice Mail Innovation
  A reader provides another example of how much better cellphones are in Europe.
• Online, How Much Security Is Too Much?
  Online security measures aren't worth it if they ruin a user's experience or make it impossible to be productive.
• A Plea for Honesty in Photo Specs
  What if photo magazines told you when the photographer used Auto or Program mode?
• The Making of the Distracted Driving Video
  The behind the scenes look at the making of the most recent David Pogue video.
• Text-Blocking Apps Only Work if You Use Them
  Skeptics of apps intended to keep you from texting while driving have some good points to make.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Video: Kamikaze Comet Dives Into Sun’s Lower Atmos ...
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience87745700001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); NASA’s twin sun-observing spacecraft tracked a comet further than ever before as it dove into the sun. The video above is a compilation of images from the two ST ...
• Planetary Bullies Make Astronomers Rethink the Hab ...
  Exoplanet orbits that seem just right for life could be bent out of shape by pushy neighbors. New simulations of extrasolar planetary systems may mean the definition of “habitable” planets needs to be completely overhauled. When astronomers talk about the “habitable zone,” they mean the shell aroun ...
• Testosterone Makes People Suspicious of One Anothe ...
  A dose of testosterone might be enough to save gullible types from being ripped off, a new study reveals. Testosterone is linked to aggression, competition and social status. Now scientists have found that the hormone also reduces naive individuals’ confidence in others. “Testosterone reduces trust ...
• 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Remembering Our End Goals in Iran
  Last week's controversial uranium enrichment agreement among Iran, Turkey and Brazil, along with the subsequent decision from the P5+1 countries to push forward with sanctions, throws into stark relief the tendency for the U.S. and Iran to talk past each other, as the possibility for constructive d ...
• The Cold Water in Face Award
  ...goes to Les Gelb , for pointing out how US nonproliferation priorities have little resonance with the rest of the world. According to his reading of Brazil and Turkey's recent mediation initiative, "the good old days of most nations automatically supporting U.S. non-proliferation efforts is over. ...
• Transparency in Development Assistance
  Over at Bill Easterly’s blog, Till Bruckner writes about how hard it is to track foreign aid once the money leaves the hands of governments and/or multilateral organizations. He writes: [I]nternational development organizations have been advocating for greater transparency for years, teaching citiz ...
• Davutoglu Lays Out Turkey's Foreign Policy Princip ...
  In an article published in Foreign Policy last week, Turkey Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, widely considered the architect of Turkey's foreign policy under the Justice and Development (AK) Party government, lays out the principles of Ankara's "zero-problems" foreign policy. The entire article is ...
• Iran Sends Declaration to IAEA While Rifts Widen B ...
  Now that Iran has formally sent a letter of declaration to the IAEA regarding the Tehran Declaration brokered by Turkey and Brazil, the negative reactions from Western states have intensified. The letter, from Ali Akbar Salehi, a vice president of the Islamic Republic as well as its nuclear chief, o ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Crime Rates And The Economy.
  The New York Times reports : Despite turmoil in the economy and high unemployment, crime rates fell significantly across the United States in 2009, according to a report released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday. Compared with 2008, violent crimes declined by 5.5 percent last year, ...
• Sing-Alongs Won't Help Your Racist Bill.
  Via RaceWire , Gov. Jan Brewer released the above video to address the pseudo-controversy over the officials who hadn't read the law but nevertheless criticized it, like Eric Holder and former Arizona governor and current head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano . On the one hand, I'm sympathe ...
• The Little Picture: Clean-Up Continues.
  The Discoverer Enterprise burns gas from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak on May 17, 2010, in a process known as flaring. (U.S. Coast Guard/ Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley. )
• The Deep Thoughts of Newt Gingrich.
  Over at 538, Tom Schaller has an interesting interview with Newt Gingrich about both politics and policy. As you may know, Gingrich is currently promoting his latest book, entitled To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine , and Tom gets him on record making some very positive nois ...
• The 14th Amendment And Ouija Board Originalism.
  Ideally, Constitutional Originalism is a legal philosophy that is meant to ensure that judges interpret the text of the Constitution faithfully without inserting their own personal thoughts about what the text should mean. In practice this often means obtuse, superficial readings of the text in an a ...

Andy Worthington

• The Black Hole of Bagram
  On Friday, the Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. delivered a genuinely disturbing ruling (PDF) regarding prisoners in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, which has turned the clock back to the darkest days of the Bush administration, before prisoners seized in the “War on Terror” had a ...
• House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
  Please support my work! President Obama’s hopes of closing Guantánamo, which were already gravely wounded by his inability to meet his self-imposed deadline of a year for the prison’s closure, now appear to have been killed off by lawmakers in Congress. Although the House Armed Services Commi ...
• 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 ...

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

• Stung by Racism Charges, Nativist Leader Pulls Out ...
  William Gheen, the obstreperous head of the nativist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC, has pulled his group out of all June Arizona rallies backing that state’s controversial new illegal immigration law. Gheen said he is doing so because former Colorado Republican congressman Tom ...
• Racist Skins Renounce Busted IKA Leader
  Poor Ron Edwards. Even racist skinheads donât want to hang out with the former Klan leader. Edwards â the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) founder who defended himself against a successful lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center â was arrested last week on federal drug charges, includi ...
• 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 ...

change: org.

• U.S. Catholic Bishops Embrace Workplace Discrimina ...
  Survey after survey shows that most Americans don't want to see LGBT people fired from their jobs, solely on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. We don't want to see hotel workers fired because they're gay — like what happened at a Tennessee hotel last year . Nobody wants to se ...
• Why Parents Need to Talk to Their Kids About Race
  What do your kids think about race? If you think that children are too young to have racial biases — that racism is a problem that affects just adults — think again. Psychologists say that children as young as three have attitudes (both positive and negative) about different racial groups. That was ...
• Greenpeace Ranks Supermarkets on Seafood Sustainab ...
  Smart shopping is one of the key obstacles every green foodie faces. Consumers are constantly presented with choices on where to buy, what to buy, and what items to avoid altogether. Choosing the right seafood can be an especially murky area when factoring in health and environmental concerns. Lucki ...
• Pro-Lifers Might Support Abortion Rights
  When polling is done on the number of Americans who identify as "pro-life" versus "pro-choice," I'm bothered by the phrasing of the question. After all, pro-life and anti-choice are not synonyms , and pro-life and anti-choice are not mutually exclusive. People often identify as both "pro-life," but ...
• Can You Help Oil Spill Wildlife Rescue Efforts?
  In the face of mounting frustration over the month-old BP oil spill that continues to gush oil into the Gulf of Mexico, it's understandable that you might want to load up the car and head for the coast to help out. We feel the burn. Without HAZMAT certifications, professional wildlife care experienc ...

Common Dreams -News

• Government Workers Tasked With Gulf Oil Industry O ...
  WASHINGTON, DC - Staffers in the the Lake Charles, Louisiana district office of the Minerals Management Service accepted sport event tickets, lunches, and other gifts from oil and gas production companies and used government computers to view pornography, finds a report by the Department of the ...
• Strontium-90 Discovered in Soil Surrounding Vermon ...
  by Terri Hallenbeck 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 fro ...
• Colombia Set to Elect the World's First Green Lead ...
  by Esmé McAvoy 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 be ...
• Perks Unchecked for Some Wall Street CEOs
  by Tomoeh Murakami Tse NEW YORK -- Some of the nation's biggest financial firms have increased the perks and benefits they pay their chief executives, despite the glaring spotlight from a public fed up with handsome bonuses at bailed-out Wall Street banks. The lavish fringe benefits included country ...
• Senate Showdown Over EPA Climate Rules Scheduled f ...
  by Ben Geman The Senate is slated to vote June 10 on Sen. Murkowski's resolution to strip EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gases. The Senate is slated to vote June 10 on Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alaska) resolution that strips EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, according to Murko ...

Lifehacker

• How Can I De-Troll My Internet? [Ask Lifehacker]
  Dear Lifehacker, I really like reading your site and others around the net, but I'm really sick and tired of all the trolls and baiting comments. Is there any way around all the offensive comments that seem to swarm blogs these days? More�� ...
• Best Personal Web Host: DreamHost [Hive Five Follo ...
  Last week we asked you to share your favorite personal web host , then we rounded up the five most popular nominations for you to vote on. Now we're back with the results and a discount code for DreamHost! More�� DreamH ...
• Apply Black Tea To Effectively Treat A Sunburn [Cl ...
  While aloe vera gel with lidocaine is the gold standard of sunburn treatment, this home remedy is cheaper, fairly effective, and doesn't involve smearing goo on yourself. In other words, it's a good stand-in when you're out of the green stuff. ...
• Rooms With Great Views Catalogs Hotels with Scenic ...
  If the view from your hotel window is an important part of your travel planning you'll want to check out Rooms With Great Views, a web site devoted to cataloging the impressive views from hotel windows around the world. More�� ...
• Whitson Talks Facebook Security on NBC Detroit [An ...
  It's no secret that Facebook's huge maze of privacy options have been problematic for the social networking site, and we've tried to help you reclaim that privacy or just retool your relationship with Facebook altogether. Today our own Whitson ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Marjah A "Bleeding Ulcer": McChrystal
  By Steve Hynd When McChrystal was bulldozing his surge through the White House, some people - notably Karl�Eikenberry - forecast it would be a disaster. Eikenberry is looking increasingly prescient : a tour last week of Marjah and the nearby Nad Ali district, during which McClatchy had rare acc ...
• After Fixing Election, Karzai Tries To Fix Peace J ...
  By Steve Hynd I'm a bit conflicted about this one. One one hand, it shows that Karzai is as venal and casually corrupt a politician as any who walk The Hill, on the other I'm leary of making Karzai the Judas Goat for a misconceived occupation that the US got itself into and should find its own reaso ...
• 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 ...
• Marjah A "Bleeding Ulcer": McChrystal
  By Steve Hynd When McChrystal was bulldozing his surge through the White House, some people - notably Karl Eikenberry - forecast it would be a disaster. Eikenberry is looking increasingly prescient: a tour last week of Marjah and the nearby Nad Ali district, during which McClatchy had rare access to ...
• After Fixing Election, Karzai Tries To Fix Peace J ...
  By Steve Hynd I'm a bit conflicted about this one. One one hand, it shows that Karzai is as venal and casually corrupt a politician as any who walk The Hill, on the other I'm leary of making Karzai the Judas Goat for a misconceived occupation that the US got itself into and should find its own reaso ...

Water Wars

• Payson signs off on sale of wells to Star Valley
  The Payson Town Council has approved an agreement to sell two deep-water wells to neighboring Star Valley for $100,000 and to limit its future use of the controversial Tower Well.
• Our View: Tough water issues need a compromise
  California's water wars took a significant turn, with a federal court offering a major farm-pum
• Gwynne Dyer: Is a water war on the horizon over th ...
  The Egyptian government takes a dim view of anything that will diminish the flow of its primary source of water.
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• Interview with Lamido Sanusi - "all the indicators ...
  http://www.africa-confidential.com/special-report/id/22/What%27s-next-for-Nigeria%27s-banks%3f Afric
• On Becoming A Poor Nation
  Let’s face the facts.  Our local governments are in a financial crises.   With the loss of job
• Wow, we spend a lot on food here
  Speaking of food prices… The Kitchn just linked to a very interesting graphic on Bundle.com de
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• 10,000 pounds a year...
  After sitting back with a steaming cup of orange pekoe tea (it’s from Sri Lanka, did you know?

Electronic Intifada

• The PA's disingenuous boycott campaign
  The Palestinian Authority (PA) has lately made a show of calling on Palestinians to boycott goods manufactured in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Despite the rhetoric ...
• Interview: ethnic cleansing inside the green line
  Rawia Abu Rabia, a social activist and human rights lawyer with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, represents her community and advocates for their human and civil rights ...
• Long-separated family reunites in Gaza through tun ...
  Naima Akkawi, a 40-year-old Moroccan native, is finally back home in Gaza with her husband Mahmoud Jouda and her two young children, Riwan (5) and Rimas (3) after an enforc ...
• Art, theory and action: Udi Aloni interviewed
  On 10 May, Udi Aloni spoke at a public debate on the Palestinians and Israel in Bern, Switzerland about his support for the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment a ...
• Protest the extended detention of rights defender ...
  In a hearing at Petach Tikva Magistrates' Court on Thursday, 20 May 2010, a judge extended Ameer Makhoul's detention for a third time until Tuesday, 25 May 2010. Mr. Makhou ...

Afghanistan Sun

• White House may cancel Karzai visit
  View results WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says it is considering canceling a visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai if his remarks continue to be troubling. White House spokesman Robert Gibb...
• Forces Kill Key Terrorist in Afghanistan Firefight
  Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON, May 25, 2010 A combined Afghan-international security force killed a key al-Qaida leader and sever...
• More U.S. troops in Afghanistan than Iraq — ...
  WASHINGTON — More U.S. forces are serving in Afghanistan than in Iraq, the Pentagon said Monday, a first since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and a reflection of the new primacy of the nine-year...
• More US troops in Afghanistan than Iraq, a first
  By ANNE GEARANAP NATIONAL SECURITY WRITER WASHINGTON -- More U.S. forces are serving in Afghanistan than in Iraq, the Pentagon said Monday, a first since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and a reflec...
• Court martial for top soldier in Afghanistan
  Canada's top soldier in Afghanistan will face a court martial on Tuesday after his rifle went off unexpectedly at Kandahar Airfield. Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard is charged with one count of "neglect to ...

Futurismic

• The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009, f ...
  I’m a day late on this one (damn my interminable email inbox), but better late than never. The genre blogging scene is full of people whose energy and devotion to their projects consistently puts me to shame, and there can be no greater exemplar of that than the tireless Charles Tan – who, in additi ...
• Cyborg walk-assist legs in action
  Does what it says on the tin; you can find words and pictures of Odelia Lee’s encounter with Honda’s new walk-assist machines (or “cyborg legs”, if you want to be kinda blunt and cyberpulp about it) at Gizmodo, but here’s a short video clip that neatly captures the mix of “man, that looks weird as [ ...
• The Cyclenet: Bangladeshi InfoLadies bring web ben ...
  Here’s another story that’s all over the shop (I got it via both MeFi and Chairman Bruce), that reminded me a fair bit of Geoff Ryman’s Air: a report at The Guardian about “InfoLadies” in Bangladesh, young women who saddle up on a bicycle with a netbook, a mobile phone and a bunch of medical [...] ...
• 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 ...

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

• Smart: Graduating As Valedictorian Of An Ivy Leagu ...
  As a bunch of folks have been sending in, it appears that the valedictorian of Columbia University's General Studies program, Brian Corman, thought that no one would notice if he copied -- verbatim -- a joke from popular comedian Patton Oswalt . First, here's Oswalt's joke in two parts: ...
• Why Do Politicians Keep Using Unlicensed Music In ...
  Why is it that politicians keep using music in commercials without getting permission first? No matter what you think of the copyright issue (and we'll get to that), it's amazing to me that any politician doesn't recognize that if he or she uses a song without permission, and the musician doesn't h ...
• Judge Tells Newspapers They Can't Report On News A ...
  Via Romenesko we learn that a judge in Wyoming has issued a temporary restraining order against two local newspapers , barring them from reporting about a trip by the local community college's president to Costa Rica, saying that the report was stolen... and that publishing the info could cause the ...
• Reminder: 'What IT Needs To Know About The Law' We ...
  This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Oracle & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com . Visit the Resource Center for the latest in whitepapers, tools and webcasts. Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the author. A reminder fo ...
• Patents Now Getting In The Way Of Important Brain ...
  Slashdot points us to yet another in a very long line of stories about patents holding back key, potentially life-saving, research. This story involves a biotech firm, StemCells, that is making a legal threat to a hospital doing research on brain diseases in children. Because of the threats, the r ...

VacTruth

• Part I: Saying ‘No’ to Vaccines Says & ...
  History books proclaim with absolute certainty that the pinnacle of public health is defined by the polio vaccine program. However, hidden to most Americans was an elaborate Public Relations scheme being carefully applied by Rockefeller interests intended for social control.
• Parents, Teens Question Safety of HPV Vaccine
  Scott Friedman NBCDFW 05/24/2010 She was only 18 years old, but Ainsley Bailey suddenly found herself struggling just to get out of bed. The Plano teenager said her medical troubles started the day after she received a first dose of Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine designed to prevent cer ...
• Wakefield vows to continue vaccine-autism research
  Lylah M. Alphonse Boston.com 05/24/2010 Stripped today of his license to practice medicine, Dr. Andrew Wakefield — whose 1998 study on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine and autism led millions of parents to stop vaccinating their children — insists that he will continue with his research into vacci ...
• New vaccine requirements next school year
  Chicago Tribune 05/25/2010 State health officials say it’s time for parents to get their children’s immunizations for next school year. The Indiana State Department of Health says students entering grades 6 to 12 will need to have received two spaced chickenpox vaccinations and one each for bacteri ...
• British Doctor Denied License for Linking Autism a ...
  Kristina Skorbach Epoch Times 05/24/2010 Britain’s General Medical Council stripped Doctor Andrew Wakefield of his license to practice medicine for linking autism to vaccines for measles and other diseases. Doctor Andrew Wakefield was born into a family of doctors, after receiving his doctoral lice ...

BroadSnark

• Liberalism and Disempowerment
  By now you have surely heard about Rand Paul’s interview with Rachel Maddow.  Paul slimed around for twenty minutes trying not to admit that he does not support the provisions in the 1964 Civil Rights Act that made it illegal for a private business to discriminate. On Rachel’s next show, she had a ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche PAC Calls for Cities, States To Demand Gl ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• The Mass Strike Is Taking Scalps
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 21, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 20
• No to a New Versailles Dictatorship! The EU as a F ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 21, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 20
• Glass-Steagall Showdown Will Decide Your Future
  By Jeffrey Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 21, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 20
• LaRouche Webcast: The Greatest Crisis in Modern Hi ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 21, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 20

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

• Must-See Video Shows BP Gulf Spill & Toxic Dispers ...
  I've been wondering recently whether we'll see the worst of the BP gulf oil spill at all; whether the combined use of toxic chemical dispersants and media corralling would prevent the public from ever fully grasping the extent of the disaster. While those principles are still very much in play, ...
• 7 Greenpeace Activists Charged With Felonies in An ...
  Yesterday, Greenpeace activists staged a protest to highlight the fact that even now, as federal authorities are helpless to stop millions of gallons oil from gushing out of the Gulf of Mexico , offshore drilling is scheduled to continue in Alaskan waters. Seven Greenpeace members boarded the ve ...
• US Petitioned to Place Bluefin Tuna on Endangered ...
  photo: Stewart Butterfield via flickr With the Gulf oil spill threatening Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning grounds , and rampant and ongoing overfishing wiping them out with abandon, the Center for Biological Diversity has filed a formal petition to the US government to place the species on the E ...
• Kids Make It Better, Children Find Creative Soluti ...
  Image credit: Suzy Becker This post was written by Suzy Becker , an artist, educator, entrepreneur, and the author of Kids Make it Better. There's a freaky back-story to this post. The day I signed on as a guest blogger, this site's homepage featured a photo of a duck whose feathers had bee ...
• In the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, On ...
  Image courtesy of Asher Dunn American designer, Asher Dunn has recently launched his own line of furniture which takes a contemporary approach to locally manufactured and designed furniture. All of the items have been made using FSC-certified materials and low-VOC finishes, but even more intere ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Main news of May 25
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Top stories of the day
• Plane possibly crashes on Turkey-Georgia border - ...
  Turkish authorities have not ruled out a plane may have crashed on the border between Turkey and Georgia, CNN-Turk television reported on Tuesday.
• United Russia urges strict measures against truant ...
  The pro-Kremlin United Russia party on Tuesday moved to introduce severe measures against deputies who "skip" parliament sessions.
• Russia seeks to assemble Italian armored vehicles
  Russia plans to set up production of Italian armored vehicles, a Russian daily quoted Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as saying on Tuesday.

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

• Contaminants Lurk in the Groundwater Used for Publ ...
  More than 20 percent of untreated water samples from public wells across the U.S. contained at least one contaminant at levels of potential health concern. About 105 million people in the United States receive their drinking water from public water systems that rely on groundwater pumped from publi ...
• Why is Tuberculosis On the Rise Again?
  According to experts, global efforts to control tuberculosis have failed and new approaches are needed. More than 9 million people became infected with the disease last year, leading to 2 million deaths. There is more tuberculosis now than at any other time in history. According to USA Today: “Fo ...
• Breast Milk Does DNA Good
  Breast milk may beneficial for your child’s genes. A new study shows that breast milk, but not formula, may improve the functioning of a baby's genes in a way that protects the infant from illness. Scientists have long known that breast milk-fed babies have stronger immune systems, fewer allergies ...
• Cincinnati Hospital Fined $100 Million for Doctor ...
  The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati will pay a $108 million civil settlement to resolve claims that they violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act. They were accused of engaging in a scheme in which unlawful payments were made to doctors in exchange for referring cardiac patients to ...
• Diet Tricks That Really Work
  According to Live Science, these diet tricks will actually help you keep off the pounds: Avoid corn syrup Science shows that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is bad news. One study showed that rats who drank HFCS-sweetened beverages gained significantly more weight than rats consuming the same amou ...

Antemedius

• Acting It Out for Advocacy
  This is the final blog in a three-part series about FANRPAN’s work. It was co-written by Sithembile Ndema, FANRPAN’s Natural Resources and Environment Programme Manager and Danielle Nierenberg. Crossposted from Nourishing the Planet . The Food and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network’s (FANRPA ...
• Unpacking Republican Lies In Colorado
  They say all politics is local (well Tip O’Neil said that) so I thought I would take this post to talk about the governors race here is the great state of Colorado. For those of you who don’t live in the Centennial State we have a mildly interesting state of affairs. Our Democratic Governor decided ...
• David Lobell on Finding Food Security in a Changin ...
  Crossposted from BorderJumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature David Lobell, Assistant Professor in Environmental Earth System Science, and a Center Fellow with the Program on Food Secur ...
• BP's Gulf Oil Leak 19 Times Larger Than BP & Gov't ...
  The Real News Network's Jesse Freeston interviews journalists at McClatchy's DC bureau to for their latest on the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Journalists believe that BP and the Government may be hiding information on the severity of the leak. Those who fish for a living in the Gulf of Mexico are af ...
• Improving Farmer Livelihoods and Wildlife Conserva ...
  Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. Earlier this week, we highlighted Nicholas Kristof’s OP-ED in the New York Times about Gabon, a country in West-Central Africa where the rights of farmers are frequently in conflict with wildlife conservation efforts. One young village ...

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

• Oily to rise
  NYTimes: Federal regulators responsible for oversight of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico allowed industry officials several years ago to fill in their own inspection reports in pencil — and then turned them over to the regulators, who traced over them in pen before submitting the reports to the agenc ...
• Fresh Hell from the Daily Handbasket
  There’s a huge gay mega-bar complex in downtown Minneapolis. The Gay ’90s has a main bar and apparently other smaller bars catering to various aspects of GLBT culture. I understand why that is, but I’ve often thought it must be disconcerting to uptight white collar closeted types to find themselves ...
• 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 ...

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

• Leahy and DeFazio Circulate “Dear Colleague& ...
  ACTION ALERT: Senator Leahy and Representative DeFazio are circulating a Congressional sign-on letter in the House and Senate “Asking USDA to Maintain the Ban on Genetically Engineered Alfalfa.”   Contact your Senators and Representative today and ask them to sign on!  Filed under: GE Crops, GE Fo ...
• 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 ...

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 -25/05/10
  Environmental News Green entrepreneurs show business is blooming As consumer demand for eco-friendly gardening products grows, many green-fingered entrepreneurs are finding their inventions are starting to bear fruit. His friends have nicknamed him "the slug man", because he has become ...
• 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…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Obama to inspect Gulf Coast oil spill Friday
  ShareThis Useless is as useless does: Obama to inspect Gulf Coast oil spill Friday 25 May 2010 President Obama will travel to Louisiana's Gulf Coast on Friday to inspect damage from the oil spill gusher. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirms that Obama will take a break from a Memorial D ...
• Obama set to send 1,200 troops to US-Mexico border
  ShareThis Obama set to send 1,200 troops to US-Mexico border 25 May 2010 President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, an administration official and an Arizona congresswoman said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on suc ...
• IG report: Meth, porn use by drilling agency staff
  ShareThis IG report: Meth, porn use by drilling agency staff 25 May 2010 Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Depart ...
• North Korea tells military to prepare for war
  ShareThis North Korea tells military to prepare for war --North Korea cuts all ties with the South 25 May 2010 North Korea today hit back at Seoul by announcing it would sever all links, escalating the standoff over accusations that the North sank a South's warship. North Korea's state news agency K ...
• BP to Kill Oil Gusher Feed
  ShareThis Breaking: BP to Kill Oil Gusher Feed 25 May 2010 BP has decided that the public should not be able to view its work on trying to stop its gusher, and will soon kill the feed of its oil gusher. (MSNBC)

Daily Loaf

• Volunteer for Reverb’s summer music concert Eco-Vi ...
  Reverb, the non-profit organization that "greens" music tours, is looking for eco-conscious volunteers to man their Eco-Villages during some big name concerts this summer.
• Obama to request $500 million for border security ...
  The Washington Post is reporting this afternoon that President Obama plans to announce that he wants to add 1,200 National Guard troops to the southern border and request $500 million in extra money for border security.  It’s in direct response to Republican criticism that he needs to do more abou ...
• The CIA planned to make a gay sex video of Saddam ...
  As reported by The Washington Post, before the 2003 Iraq invasion, the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group considered creating a sex tape featuring a Saddam lookalike having sex with a teenage boy. Two former CIA officials claimed they planned to make the video very grainy to give it the appearance of bein ...
• CD Review: The National High Violet (with video)
  The National's High Violet is the rare follow-up album which not only delivers on the promise of the release before it, but also pushes the band to an entirely different level, challenges their abilities, and comes out ahead.
• Previously on Lost: “The End”
  Ah, the end. The tears weren't flowing as freely as CL Contributor Michelle Stark thought they would during Sunday night's hours-long Lost extravaganza. Despite that, she is truly saddened that such an entertaining piece of culture has come to an end. Read her final take on one of TV's most interes ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Bigges ...
  Everyone is at least a little hypocritical — that’s human nature. But fundamental contradictions are hard to let slide, especially when they are ostensibly made in the name of some moral superiority. And this is exactly what Gideon Levy so eloquently pointed out in his opinion piece in Haaretz, “Boy ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Monkeyfister updates coverage of apparent new leak ...
  I am sorry. This is not simple Bot Fan churn. This one came out of the riser end, along with an all-around Ker-BOOM action. Everything went up. One noticed the pipe-end exploding, but then there was gack flying everywhere, all around, too. Impact-directional– not” going with the flow.” More as I can ...
• Why does US need to go to war against North Korea
  Because that looks like what might happen. Both Kim Jong Il and Obama have told their militaries to prepare for war. Why is this a fight the US must get involved in? Financial markets are tanking because of war fears and the euro zone crisis.
• Insurrection in Jamaica
  Supporters of a local alleged drug lord in Kingston, Jamaica have blockaded streets and fought back against US attempts to extradite him. two police officers have been killed, others wounded. CNN calls it “unrest” but really, it’s insurrection. The people in that area apparently owe alliegance to th ...
• Things you find on Facebook
  A friend sent this photo of us probably at a party in Laurel Canyon some years back. That’s me in the red shirt.
• Explosions may have collapsed seafloor at Deepwate ...
  FDL A series of explosions appears to have collapsed the seafloor and blown up the BOP at the well head. Oil and gas are billowing out of a depression in the seafloor where the BOP used to be at an exponentially greater rate than anything seen before. Monkeyfister, who first reported something maj ...

Coteret

• The new frontiers of Israeli (public) diplomacy, c ...
  Be mean to tourists A travel agent from Finland was humiliated at the Eilat airport. She was stripped, her bra was taken for x-ray by a man and her personal effects were corrupted. She claims the reason for the nightmare is that she has an Egyptian fiancé. The Israel Airport Authority: the case will ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Israel building concentration camp for Freedom Flo ...
  I quote from this article- ” The vessels will be diverted to an Israeli port, if necessary by Israeli naval units boarding them, and the people aboard detained at a “special camp” thrown up to house them”- http://www.debka.com/article/8805/ and http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2… Book Mark it ...
• Home sales are down 14%, foreclosures are up 4.6%, ...
  By Kathleen M. Howley Bloomberg Businessweek U.S. home prices fell 3.1 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier as record foreclosures added to the inventory of houses on the market. The annual drop was double the 1.5 percent decline in the fourth quarter, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ...
• 23 percent of April layoffs were from manufacturin ...
  When the Wall Street ‘experts’ say that the U.S. is going through a ‘jobless economic recovery,’ they are at least right about the ‘jobless’ part. The ‘economic recovery’ part is yet to be seen. by Donna Smith ABC News The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers rose in April led by manufacturers w ...
• FBI fails to entrap Muslim store owner; now he&#82 ...
  By Jamie Satterfield knoxnews.com The good news for a Northwest Knoxville convenience store operator? He has convinced the FBI he’s not a terrorist. The bad news? He’s going to prison anyway. What started four years ago as a probe into Hazam Ali Ahmed’s boast of ties to al-Qaida and talk of blowing ...
• Your tax dollars at work – Federal ‘re ...
  Daniel Indiviglio theatlantic.com - Did Porn Cause the Oil Spill in the Gulf? No. But regulators looking at pornography, doing illegal drugs and other bad behavior explains part of the reason why the government failed to do its part to prevent the disaster. A new report (.pdf) from the Interior Depa ...

The Air Vent

• Weather or not
  I’ve spent an entire week away from blogging now,  for the first time since tAV began.  It’s been rather nice this week, quiet, no outbursts, nobody to tell me how I’m a lunatic equal to Romm for my views (that I’m aware of).  Honestly, I’ve been completely uninspired, spent a weekend with the fa ...
• 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 [. ...

Focal Point

• Autism/Vaccine Doc Andrew Wakefield Gets the Boot
  A doctor who touched off a worldwide panic over an alleged link between the MMR vaccine and autism has been barred from practicing medicine over unethical research practices. Britain's General Medical Council struck Wakefield from the medical register on Monday, a sanction analogous to disbarring ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook to Give Users “An Easy Way to Turn Off Al ...
  In an otherwise bland response to the company’s privacy critics, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberk’s op-ed in The Washington Post yesterday briefly mentioned a change that could significantly impact users and anyone building on the platform. Beyond repeating that Facebook will soon launch sim ...
• Entertainment Leads in This Week’s Top 20 Facebook ...
  This week’s list of the 20 Facebook Pages that gained the most new fans in the past week shows ongoing trends, according to our PageData analytics service – entertainment Pages continue to get more popular, fast. The numerous television shows weâve been seeing are present, along with some popul ...
• Appbistro Wants to Help Page Owners Find Useful Fa ...
  Appbistro launched at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference Monday with the goal of providing brands a one-stop destination for the applications for Page administrators to enhance their Facebook Pages. Some of the apps are free and others cost money; Appbistro can either suggest apps for Page admins or ...
• “Facebook Questions” Tapping Into Friends’ Opinion ...
  Facebook has been working on a new service called “Questions,” that will will users ask and answer each others’ questions — similar to a few other services that are out already, but maybe more interesting to the average person. Now, a few more details have emerged, though, via a Facebook user who ha ...
• As Facebook Developers Move Beyond Notifications, ...
  Facebook has made email a primary way for developers to communicate with users in the past months, especially following the removal of third-party notifications at the beginning of March. Now, developers are responsible for obtaining permission from users in order to email them, and for subseque ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Anti-Choice Woman-Hating Goes Mainstream ...
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• truthout: Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking College ...
  truthout: Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform: As the Obama administra... http://bit.ly/cmGbeL #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Haitian Farmers Resist GM Crops, Environ ...
  truthout: Haitian Farmers Resist GM Crops, Environmental Destruction: http://digg.com/d31S5ER?t please #digg and RT #p2 #topprogs
• truthout: A "New World Order" Is Possible – ...
  truthout: A "New World Order" Is Possible РAnd Needed: This article was published in Fohla de Ṣo Paulo, Brazi... http://bit.ly/aI4wh8 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Anti-Choice Woman-Hating Goes Mainstream ...
  truthout: Anti-Choice Woman-Hating Goes Mainstream: With this brief quote, the speaker, the Rev. John Ehrich, m... http://bit.ly/9LWG0j #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

• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
  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 ...
• 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 ...

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

• 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 ...
• Inside the Eurozone - Leaving the Euro: An Exit St ...
  Rumors of the imminent collapse of the eurozone continue to swirl despite the Europeans’ best efforts to hold the currency union together. Some accounts in the financial world have even suggested that Germany’s frustration with the crisis could cause Berlin to quit the eurozone — as soon as this pas ...
• After the Holocaust - Brown Defends Right to Seek ...
  California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on May 17 in support of a Connecticut woman who seeks the return of a pair of nearly 500-year-old paintings looted by the Nazis during World War II, kept for a time in the estate of Nazi leader Hermann Göring, an ...
• Inside Islam - How Much Female Genital Mutilation ...
  Take two of the most combustible issues of our time, feminism and Islam. Mix. Shake. Pour. Duck. This is more or less what happened last week when the bioethics committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics revised its long-standing opposition to female genital mutilation. Up to now, the AAP’s pos ...

High Country News

• Here's to a water czar with the unlikely name of C ...
  The late "Chips" Barry, executive director of Denver Water Board, changed that formidable institution for the best.
• 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.

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

• CRASH! Obama Approval Sinks to All-Time-Low
  America continues to reject the Obama agenda and voters disapproval of the agenda continues to grow. The latest Rasmussen study show that Obama's Presidential approval has sunk to an all time low. Only 42% of American's approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President, 56% disapprove which ties ...
• Bill Clinton (Unintentionally) Explains to Us How ...
  More Wisdom from my Friend and Teacher,� Barry Rubin Bill Clinton, former U.S. president, spoke at Yale University and said some interesting things. There is a positive side to his remarks about international affairs—especially in terms of good intentions (a very American characteristic)—but ...
• Sorry Richard Blumenthal, An E-Mail From A Staffe ...
  Yesterday� Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has issued a formal apology for his continual lies� his military service during the Vietnam War, sort of : After nearly a week of criticism following revelations that he misrepresented his military record and five days after a press con ...
• Joe Sestak, "When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?"
  The cover-up continues. Yesterday Congressman Joe Sestak appeared on Meet the Press and continued to tap dance around the charge he made that he was offered a government job to drop out of the campaign. Here’s the exchange between Sestak and NBC’s David Gregory: MR. GREGORY: Yes or no, strai ...
• More Americans Than EVER Want Obamacare Repealed
  Nancy Pelosi was correct, America didn't completely understand what was in the Obamacare bill until it was passed.� Unfortunately for Nancy and her progressive lemmings, now that voters better understand what is in Obamacare, they hate it even more. Rasmussen has been following Amercan voter's ...

The Real Agenda

• United States Postal Service Building Detention Ro ...
  PrisonPlanet.com Military source fears “criminal investigative units” will be used as black sites for detainment of Americans in the event of a national emergency and a declaration of martial law. We have received documents from a military source indicating that U.S. Postal Service facilities across ...
• Después de todo, Estados Unidos Sí negocia con Ter ...
  ¿Ha escuchado usted los rumores de que los EE.UU. son el principal comerciante de drogas en todo el mundo? ¿Qué tal el rumor que cuenta cómo el ex jefe de New York Stock Exchange se fue a Colombia para pedir a los narcos que invirtieran en la Bolsa de Nueva York? Que rumores, ¿verdad? Nope. Hay prue ...
• Pentagon Controlled Propaganda Placement on CSI NY
  Infowars.com A primetime CBS show that aired last week featured a notable example of so called “propaganda placement”, where a talking point is inserted into the plot in order to shape public perception, often at the behest of the government. CSI NY’s episode entitled “Point of View” featured a char ...
• As it turns out, the U.S. does negotiate with Terr ...
  Have you heard the rumors that the U.S. is the main carrier of drugs around the world?  How about the one that tells how the former New York Stock Exchange boss went to Colombia to ask the Narcos to invest in the NYSE?  All rumors, right?  Nope.  There are enough trails to know that indeed [...]
• France to Seize Pensions by Raising Retiring Age
  Financial Times Expectations are growing that France is set to remove the right to retire at 60, as it embarks on a contentious reform of its debt-laden pension system and brings public finances back into line. Christian Estrosi, industry minister, said on Sunday the government was “leaning towards ...

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

• Colo. Springs finds jobs for homeless
  COLORADO SPRINGS- Any development on the local homeless front as funds dry up to hide them in roach motels? Sure: we’ve harnessed the destitute with bigger burdens to pull across public sidewalks. Not only do they have nowhere to put their bags, thanks to the no-camping ordinance, they have to haul ...
• Wasn’t the Recession simply TERRIBLE?
  From the infamous 1931 sign above a bread-and-soup line showing a happy smiling family smartly dressed in their new car… Dow Jones doesn’t “slide” below 10k… it “plunges”. OOPS. The accompanying picture on AP shows a bunch of floor traders looking up like baby turkeys drowning in the rain, with thei ...
• West Bank purge of settlement goods: boycotting yo ...
  The Palestinian Authority’s issuing stickers to West Bank houses who’ve destroyed their goods from Israeli settlements reminds me of wingnut hate-mite Michelle Malkin in 2007 instructing her viewers to scour their homes for products to “boycott.” The technique brims with spirit, but misses the point ...
• Hubris, thy name is Gazette
  Maybe it’s because the American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is in fact born American, but his statement that there should be Retaliatory killings of American Civilians fits so very well with the American killings of Afghan, Pakistani, VietNamese, Korean, … Mexican, Native American, Guatemalan ...
• Gaza Freedom Flotilla live webcam on Turkish passe ...
  GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA- DAY TWO. You can follow events from a live webcam on the Turkish passenger ship MAVI MARMARA, with camera pointing over bow. The Swedish/Greek cargo ship SOFIA is still livestreaming her loading in Athens. We await details of Algerian cargo AL-JAZAIR, Turkish cargos GAZZE and ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Debunking JayBlack12100
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently posted the following two videos from " JayBlack12100 ": As to the first video, here is much more in-depth review of Ryan's presentation , which debunks the notion that he is the one guilty of dishonesty. Here is a video putting the 9/11 fires ...
• 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

Fooducate

• Study: Organic Not More Nutritious. So What!
  The organic and conventional food camps have another new study to argue over. This one is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: A “disappointingly small” number of well-designed studies have looked at whether organic foods may have health benefits beyond their conventional coun ...
• 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 ...

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

• Science - no fiction
  During the past two years or so, I’ve been reading in parallel two kinds of books. One was rather metaphysical (mainly Florian Tathagata’s trilogy, “Being”, “Given” and “Space”) and the other one popular medicine (e.g. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s “My stroke of insight” and Norman Doidge’s “The brain tha ...
• 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 ...
  
  
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  George W. Bush promotes use of renewable energy at Dallas convention

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  - May 25, 2010

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  First Reserve Seeks More Renewable Energy Deals Following SunEdison

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  - May 25, 2010

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  "We think that renewables, in particular solar, will be a huge part of that," he said, adding that even as energy demand rises there is aging infrastructure ...

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  Renewable Fuels Association Challenges Enviro Lawsuit

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  The Clean Air Task Force, on behalf of the Friends of the Earth, is challenging the expanded Renewable Fuels Standard - called RFS2. ...

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  Kansas' potential for new energy is getting lost in the wind

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  US Ecology Affirms Dividend Policy

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  Hanford needs more funding from DOE to meet obligations, Ecology reports

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  ... than the Department of Energy has projected in its five-year spending plan, according to Washington State Department of Ecology calculations. ...

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  American Ecology: The Trend Continues Lower (ECOL)

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  - May 25, 2010

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  By Chip Brian SmarTrend identified a Downtrend for American Ecology (NASDAQ:ECOL) on May 05, 2010 at $15.04. In approximately 3 weeks, American Ecology has ...

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  Nikiya Harris wins Milwaukee County Board seat

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  By Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel Nikiya Harris, a 35-year-old fund-raiser and membership recruiter for Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center, ...

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  Judge orders Calif water pumping limits lifted

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  Central California farmers won more water for their parched fields Tuesday when a federal judge temporarily loosened pumping limits meant to protect native ...

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  Shale Gas Costing 2/3 Less Than OPEC Oil Incites Water Concern

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  Environmentalists say fracking, a process in which drillers blast water into a well to shatter rock and unleash the gas, threatens pristine watersheds. ...

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  Teachers Assault Atheist With Holy Water

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  She claims that her Christian colleagues attacked her with holy water at Blanche Ely High School in Broward County, Florida. Rainer and Robinson have been ...

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  Life jacket warnings issued as water season begins

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  ... have been posted by county parks officials alerting people that during this holiday weekend no alcohol is allowed on the beaches or parks or on the water.

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