- Taking Stock of the International Criminal Court
KAMPALA, May 30 (IPS) - The first Review Conference of the International Criminal Court will open in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on May 31. The conference is the first opportunity to propose amendments to the treaty that established the ICC, the Rome Statute, and to assess the implementati ...
- Difficult Times Call for Dangerous Jobs
GAZA CITY, May 30 (IPS) - Life can be hard working in these tunnels, and it is always at risk. But many have no choice but to work in them, particularly since mid-2007, when Israel and Egypt, with the help of the international community, imposed a siege of staggering severity on the 1.5 m ...
- MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Netizens Argue for the Right to De ...
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 30 (IPS/Asia Media Forum) - While there was no question that the visual depictions of the Prophet Mohammad on Facebook hit a raw nerve among devout Muslims all over the world, the debate here in Pakistan has been all about whether the government should be the one ma ...
- SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Local Communities Tapped to Count ...
BANGKOK, May 30 (IPS) - With monsoon rains beginning to sweep across mainland south-east Asia, mobile phones are being put to further use as part of a plan to protect communities living on the banks of the Mekong River from flash floods.
- SOUTHERN AFRICA: Developing a Pristine River: The ...
GABORONE, May 29 (IPS) - The welcome end to wars in the upper reaches of the Okavango River brings new pressures for development and the risk of unwelcome changes to the health of the river. A joint commission to manage the basin is developing tools to avoid this.
- Chemical switch
As a “green chemist,” Philip Jessop spends his days trying to help the chemical industry create products in a less expensive and more environmentally friendly way. That’s why the Queen’s University professor of inorganic chemistry has high hopes for an innovative solvent he’s developed that may yiel ...
- 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, ...
- Why the guy who wrote this song is better than Ste ...
Stephen Harper never had to be evacuated from his house because it was hit by a V1 flying bomb. The difference between co-author Keith Richards and Stephen Harper is that Harper will, without hesitation, tell you all about flying bombs hitting houses.
- Meanwhile, under the security blanket . . .
- Experiential learning
New York Times. In the beginning of May, a few weeks after the rig explosion, the Pew Research Center asked 994 Americans about the oil spill: 55 percent saw it as a major environmental disaster, and 37 percent as a serious problem. But at that time, at least, 51 percent also believed that efforts t ...
- Billion dollar theatres
$1100 million gets you a year of Canadian Forces operations in Afghanistan (annualised over 2001-2011). That's how much it costs to support the combat operations of ~2500 Canadian troops in war-addled Khandahar province, population 913 000. $1100 million gets you ne arly a week of US operations in ...
- Inoperable and malignant
So the top-kill/junk-shot operation failed . Before that, the tried an insertion pipe and, before that, we saw the failures of greater and lesser coffer dams. The next attempt will try to shear off the damaged pipe/riser contraption and install a capping valve. Should that fail, what then?
- Hannity devotes show to discredited claim that Ses ...
In a show devoted entirely to a White House offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) of a position on a presidential panel, Sean Hannity joined several guests in portraying that offer as violation of the law. In fact, and numerous legal experts have stated that no crime was committed. Guests join Hannity i ...
- Krauthammer falsely claims Romanoff "has said exp ...
Charles Krauthammer falsely claimed that Democratic Senate primary candidate Andrew Romanoff "has said explicitly" that he was offered "an administration job" to cease his campaign. In fact, the claim was made by anonymous sources, not Romanoff, and the Obama White House has denied making any ...
- Baier, Hayes push Sestak crime falsehood based on ...
Fox News' Bret Baier and Stephen Hayes falsely suggested that a White House offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) of a position on a presidential panel violated the "plain language" of a federal statute. But President Bush's chief ethics lawyer has reportedly called this interpretation of the statute ...
- Media's White House "bribe" falsehood driven by di ...
Media conservatives have relied on discredited sources to push the false allegation that the White House broke the law and "bribed" Rep. Joe Sestak with an administration job in exchange for staying out of the Senate race. These sources have a history of promoting falsehoods and have signific ...
- Media conservatives attack critics of Arizona imm ...
Right-wing media figures -- including Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh -- have attacked critics of the Arizona immigration law by invoking the idea of a civil war. For example, Beck suggested President Obama is "trying to destroy the country" and pushing America toward civil war. Conservative me ...
- The National Security Strategy -- A Biased Content ...
The central strategic idea of the NSS can be found at the end of the preamble graf -- the need for the US to take leadership in shaping "an international order capable of overcoming the challenges of the 21st century." The importance of a strong international system is amplified by its inclusion as ...
- The Lobby's Push For Bombing Iran
It's happening again. The same forces -- with a few new additions and minus a few smart defectors -- who pushed the United States into a needless and deadly war with Iraq are now organizing for the next war. This time the target is Iran, which, just like Iraq, is said to be on the verge of cre ...
- MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCES
Whether you commemorate Memorial Day somberly or celebrate the arrival of summer with barbecues, beaches, and beer, your thoughts are probably drawn back to a particular person who died in uniform. For me, that person is my second cousin, Patrick Kelly Connor . He was the navigator aboard a Navy ...
- "The Gravest Danger"
The early reactions are in on the Obama administration's National Security Strategy , released yesterday. Writing on the web site of the Nation, Robert Dreyfuss questions whether Obama's policy , as opposed to his rhetoric, is dramatically different from the Bush approach. Brian Katulis and his coll ...
- Memorial Day: One Holiday, Two Countries
For most Americans, Memorial Day weekend marks the triumphant return of summer: a trip to the beach and a day off of work - barbecues, beers and bargains. Yet, as most Americans head to the beach or the mall, many veterans and military families will travel to a cemetery. For veterans, there is no da ...
- "Dumpsites in Disguise:" Reuse of Coal Ash Largely ...
Coal ash isn't just dumped; it's increasingly being recycled into building materials and other uses. But in states like North Carolina, the failure to adequately regulate one so-called "beneficial use" of the toxic-filled waste is putting communities at risk. A special Facing South investigation by ...
- Oil Spill's Scope Threatens Gulf's Endangered Mari ...
Washington - As the magnitude of BP's oil spill becomes clearer, scientists fear that the volume of oil, the depth of the leak and the chemical dispersants the company is using will combine to threaten a vast array of undersea life for years. read more
- Rwandan Arrest of US Lawyer Motivated by Politics
Professor Peter Erlinder, noted criminal defense lawyer and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, was arrested Friday morning in Rwanda for "genocide ideology." Erlinder's representation of high-profile defendants before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has incurred the ...
- Defense Spending the Top Priority, Critics Fear
As the United States retains its place as the world's largest defense spender for another year, and the Cost of War counter inches toward the $1 trillion mark, community activists bemoan the priorities of the Obama administration. "On the front lines in public schools and places like Chicago wh ...
- BP Oil Spill: "Top Kill" Failure Means Well May Gu ...
After the failure of "top kill," BP said it will concentrate on containing, not stopping the leak. As failures to stop the BP oil spill mount, the federal government is careful not to promise too much. With the failure of the BP “top kill” maneuver, the effort to combat the BP oil spill is increasi ...
- Are GreenButts Environmental Cigarettes Going Too ...
Cigarette butts make up nearly 25% of collected garbage which degrade and allow chemicals like cellulose acetate to enter the earth and groundwater. It’s rare that we come across an environmentally-friendly alternative to a common item that just isn’t beneficial. More often than not, anything that ...
- Oil Spill in the Gulf Live Cam Posted by the US Se ...
Just in case you are wondering what is happening right this moment in the Gulf of Mexico, here is a live video feed of the BP Oil Spill from the ocean floor, 5000 feet below the surface. This live video was made possible following a demand from Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) for a live ...
- Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities
In the guest post below, Lester R. Brown of the Earth Policy Institute discusses transforming our cities into more sustainable and more livable places. (Subheadings and pictures added.) by Lester R. Brown As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could n ...
- Oil Spill Renews American Fervour for Environment
The most recent poll from USA Today and Gallup has shown a dramatic increase in America’s desire to protect the environment. This comes only a few months after the last such poll which saw a desire for energy production to take priority over environmental conservation by 7 percentage points. Now th ...
- ‘Millennium Goal’ to End World Hunger ...
Currently, the developing world (what used to be called “The Third World”) is experiencing the effects of higher commodity prices and declining agricultural production. Chronic undernourishment now affects an estimated one billion people, most of whom reside in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. At ...
- Full Interview With Activists Resisting U.S. Milit ...
Watch the full version of the Democracy Now! interview with activists from Japan, Guam and Hawai’i who are resisting the expansion of US military bases in the Pacific. // // Democracy Now!...
- Mossad Agent Kicked Out Of Australia - World News
As an Australian journalist based in the West Bank city of Ramallah, it is not often that I hear the names of Australian politicians on the lips of local Palestinians. But news of Australia’s expulsion of an Israeli secret service agent over the forging of passports used in the assassination...
- Freedom Flotilla Update: Passenger Ship Will Be At ...
As the Freedom Flotilla steams toward the exclusion zone, the 800 passengers are guaranteed a hot reception. The nine boats carrying 10,000 tonnes of emergency aid will arrive in Gaza tomorrow, but statements from Israeli officials indicate the EU’s stated desire for a “constructive resolution” ...
- Media claim access to spill site has been "strangl ...
Media organizations say they are being allowed only limited access to areas impacted by the Gulf oil spill through restrictions on plane and boat traffic that are making it difficult to document the worst spill in U.S. history. In at least two cases, a media organization and a seaplane pilot...
- Venezuela and Italy Jumpstart Stalled Railway Cons ...
Venezuela and Italy gave a jumpstart to joint railway construction projects in the South American country on Thursday with the signing of a series of cooperation accords. During an official meeting in the Miraflores presidential palace, the Venezuelan Ministry for Housing and Public Works and th ...
- Why Blaming the Sluts Doesn't Prevent Teen Pregnan ...
Adolescent sexuality has always been more complicated than the just-say-no-until-marriage crowd pretends. �And now we have an explanation of why blaming the girls for pregnancy doesn't work. From The Nation: Two new studies have quantified what advocates for young women's health have observed for ye ...
- Denying Gravity
I call the reality-refuseniks "gravity-deniers" because their refusal to accept the facts of any given scientific truth - evolution, global warming, Barack Obama's birth certificate - is just as ridiculous as claiming gravity is "just a theory." � Now PZ Myers brings us an explanation of how anti-sc ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
We are officially old. And desperately need to get high. "Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 following a battle with prostate cancer. Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied the image of the Hollywood icon. Hopper died on Satur ...
- Back To The Drawing Board
Sorry to toss another BP rant into the mix when it seems that's all I've been doing lately but... BP announces 'top kill' has failed to stop Gulf oil leak Another three days of dicking around with oil gushing into the gulf, and they didn't accomplish a damned thing. �Who the hell decided to allow t ...
- From Hero to Un-Person
If you're looking for a role model to teach your children that good citizenship means protest and dissent rather than obedience; that one person can make a difference, and that you don't have to be born white, male or middle-class to become a genuine hero, you'd be hard put to find a better one tha ...
- What Harm Can They Do? The Chemicals Quiz
Quizzical about chemicals? Dont know your hormone disruptors from your respiratory irritants? Take our quiz and learn to limit your exposures! Submitted by Jamie Clemons to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Hidden health costs of transportation
Our dependence on automobiles and roadways has profound negative impacts on human health. Submitted by Judy C. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Horror in the Heartland: Update on Ohio Dairy Farm ...
Earlier this week, national news broke of an undercover investigation at Conklin Dairy farm in Union County, Ohio, near Columbus. The undercover footage, obtained over the past several weeks by the animal protection group Mercy For Animals, shows workers Submitted by Chris V. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
- Mumbai Women Push for Change One Bag at a Time
If you thought environmentalism was for those who have too much time on their hands, here's proof of what "desperate housewives" can accomplish. Lasr year in June, six young working mothers banded together to implement at home the essence of a sustainable Submitted by Naoko I. to Green Lifestyle �| ...
- Case of Angel, emaciated dog that died of diabetes ...
The veterinarian who cared for Angel after she was pulled by Take Me Home, who has seen numerous abuse and neglect animal cases, told Parker that she'd never seen such a starved and emaciated animal still alive. Angel had lost 30 pounds -- over half her Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note ...
- Eco-LCA Adds Ecosystem Services to Life Cycle Asse ...
A new life cycle assessment (LCA) tool developed by the Ohio State University Center for Resilience brings a new dimension to LCA by taking into account ecosystem services like soil erosion, pollination, flood prevention and cropland. �
- MIT Taps Local Utility for 'Bold' Energy Efficienc ...
With the help of its local utility, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will launch a three-year energy efficiency project that will trim electricity use 15 percent and save the university $50 million.
- How 'Energy Sleuths' Pursue the Ideal Green Buildi ...
The practice of commissioning, in which an engineer monitors the efficiency of a structure from its design through its initial operation, may be the most effective strategy for reducing long-term energy usage, costs and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. So why is it so seldom used?
- 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.
- Yes, It Is About Race
One way to understand the divisions in the Republican Party is to note that they have none. They are an almost wholly united Party of No. But, that didn't used to be the case, as Jacob Weisberg points out: One way to understand the divisions in the Republican Party is as a clash of regional phi ...
- Open Thread
The attention of Philadelphians turns to the Stanley Cup sporting competition. What's on your mind?
- NPT Conference Calls for Nuclear-Free Middle East
Still, just getting stuff done. Of course, here's how the Israeli press sees it: Sources in Jerusalem on Saturday criticized as "hypocritical" the Nuclear Non-Proliferation conference that ended with a declaration placing Israel under obligation to have its nuclear facilities inspected by the UN ...
- Fantasy Revenge Thread
I suppose it could make us feel better: Concocting revenge fantasies has become a popular sport. A Louisiana resident suggested in a letter to the Times Picayune newspaper that BP executives be tarred in spilled oil, rolled in blackened pelican feathers and sent to the guillotine so their seve ...
- An Era of Crisis
Something went funky about twelve years ago. It seems like we entered an era where the American people were confronted with the need to educate themselves about something new every few years. In 1998, we all had to learn about the history and use of impeachment, including its use by the British go ...
- Alastair Reynolds on writing an optimistic future
The Borders Sci-Fi blog is currently hosting Alastair Reynolds as guest blogger, and it’s interesting seeing him talk about optimism in science fiction, and his personal quest to avoid melodrama in his plotting; evidently writing a piece for the Shine anthology got him thinking about the idea pretty ...
- We can misremember it for you wholesale: historica ...
Via Bruce Sterling, one of the more obvious augmented reality applications, done elegantly: historical archive images overlaid onto the real (present/baseline?) world. The older I get, the more I become fascinated with history; if someone did up layers like this for the whole country, I’d probably n ...
- Neural interfaces: the state of the art
Some heavy but fascinating reading over at h+ Magazine, in the form of James Kent’s round-up of where we are with technologies for interfacing the human brain with technological hardware, and where we’re going with it. The big take-away point for me is that the more fidelity you want from the interf ...
- Neural interfaces: the state of the art
Some heavy but fascinating reading over at h+ Magazine, in the form of James Kent’s round-up of where we are with technologies for interfacing the human brain with technological hardware, and where we’re going with it. The big take-away point for me is that the more fidelity you want from the interf ...
- The Diamond Age
Move over, old-school semiconductors; COSMOS Magazine reports on the coming ubiquity of diamond in small-scale high-tech. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 The Diamond Age Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, fo ...
- Empathy for Sociopaths?
By Noah Rubinstein, LMFT, Executive Director GoodTherapy.org There is no debate about the fact that sociopathy is a real condition which interferes with or precludes the capacity for empathy and remorse. However, there is debate about how sociopathy should be viewed, and I take a unique and unpopula ...
- Specific Personality Traits Linked to Shoplifting ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While investigations of personality traits that correspond with violent behavior are fairly frequent, inquiries about the personalities of people who commit minor offenses are less common. Hoping to shed light on aspects that may lead people to shoplift, a recent stud ...
- One-Sided Conversations Shown to Decrease Cognitiv ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary People who experience difficulty with concentration and focus may feel that some inherent aspect of their personality or make-up is responsible for the concern, but there are certain psychological elements involved that typically hold the keys to greater focus–and tha ...
- Study Probes Phenomenon of “Sticky Songs”
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A fun occurrence for some and an annoying one for others, the experience of having a song stuck in one’s head is common. While this issue has rarely been addressed in psychological research, a team at the University of Montreal has recently uncovered some clues about ...
- Can Anger Really Stop You From Feeling Other Scary ...
By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Wesley was angry about everything including being angry. Although not entirely unexpected the call at 5:00a.m. informing Wesley of his brother’s death was startling. The s ...
- Obama's Katrina? Maybe Worse (Frank Rich/New York ...
Frank Rich / New York Times : Obama's Katrina? Maybe Worse — FOR Barack Obama's knee-jerk foes, of course it was his Katrina. But for the rest of us, there's the nagging fear that the largest oil spill in our history could yet prove worse if it drags on much longer. It might not only wreck t ...
- Weakening America: Mitch McConnell Shows How (Jame ...
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online : Weakening America: Mitch McConnell Shows How — Depressed about how hard it is to get first-rate people into federal jobs, so they're ready to handle emergencies like the BP oil disaster? Wondering if our systems of self-government really are up to the chal ...
- As 'top kill' effort fails, BP must fall back on o ...
Washington Post : As ‘top kill’ effort fails, BP must fall back on oil spill containment strategy — It is the well that will not die. — BP's three-day effort to throttle the leaking gulf oil well with multiple blasts of heavy mud has failed. The attempted “top kill” of the well was abandoned ...
- Illinois Senate candidate admits claim about milit ...
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post : Illinois Senate candidate admits claim about military award was inaccurate — The Republican candidate for President Obama's old Senate seat has admitted to inaccurately claiming he received the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award for his servic ...
- BP bused in 100s of temp workers for Obama visit, ...
Yahoo! News : BP bused in 100s of temp workers for Obama visit, state official says — Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn't look all that bad. Well, there may have been a reason for that: The town was evidently swarmed by an army ...
- M 5.0, Vanuatu
Saturday, May 29, 2010 18:02:35 UTC Sunday, May 30, 2010 05:02:35 AM at epicenter Depth : 167.50 km (104.08 mi)
- M 5.0, Vanuatu
Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:47:42 UTC Saturday, May 29, 2010 10:47:42 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.0, Vanuatu
Saturday, May 29, 2010 09:10:30 UTC Saturday, May 29, 2010 08:10:30 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.4, southern Qinghai, China
Saturday, May 29, 2010 02:29:54 UTC Saturday, May 29, 2010 10:29:54 AM at epicenter Depth : 50.70 km (31.50 mi)
- M 5.2, Solomon Islands
Friday, May 28, 2010 19:26:52 UTC Saturday, May 29, 2010 06:26:52 AM at epicenter Depth : 83.30 km (51.76 mi)
- Boiling point
Friction over shared – and shrinking – water resources is escalating in south Asia, where India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over river rights. Joydeep Gupta reports. If Pakistani householders look carefully at their electricity bills, they will find they have been charged an extra amount for NJP ...
- In defence of dams
Building river barrages remains environmentally controversial, but Australian expert Graeme Kelleher tells Isabel Hilton what matters is how you do it. Engineer and water-resource expert Graeme Kelleher is the former chairman and chief executive of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and a ...
- A mistrustful neighbourhood
BG Verghese is an Indian water expert, political commentator and professor at New Delhi’s Centre for Policy Research. Here, he talks to Isabel Hilton about the trans-boundary rivers of the Third Pole. Isabel Hilton: How would you assess the state of cooperation in the Himalayan watershed? ...
- 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 ...
- AlterNet Reader Utterly Destroys Rand Paul’s ...
We’re a big website, so naturally we get our share of unhinged wannabe demagogues and barking, semi-literate lunatics in the comments. But, thankfully, we also have a lot of very sharp and insightful readers who contribute so much to our little community here at AlterNet. Darklady is one such commen ...
- The Persistence of the Colorline: Of Pain, Sufferi ...
What we have here is a tale of two empathy studies. The first story has gotten much more attention in the mainstream media. The second story has been more of an inside baseball piece circulated among specialists in their respective fields. I wonder why? Study number one finds that both black and whi ...
- Falling Off the $1 Trillion Cliff
We’re headed for an ugly cliff this Sunday. At 10 a.m. on May 30, all of those little cost of war counters that have been furiously spinning away on countless websites will cross the $1 trillion mark. No alarm will sound. No bell will ring. But, on the day before Memorial Day, the cost of [...] ...
- Are Lazy Reporters Responsible for More Americans ...
At about this time last year, the folks at Gallup informed us that more Americans identified themselves as “pro-life” than “pro-choice” for the first time (at least since they began tracking the question in 1995). If you can frame the terms of a debate, you’ve gone a long way towards winning it, eve ...
- Obama’s Responsibility for the BP Oil Spill
President Barack Obama is in Louisiana today, and BP is saying it will know in 48 hours if its attempt to “top kill” the leaking oil well in the Gulf Coast by pouring mud and cement over it has worked. If the scramble to stop the leak has ended, the slog to clean up [...]
- Five Alleged Money Mules Indicted in Bank Theft
Five alleged money mules have been indicted in a bank heist that netted the thieves almost $450,000 from a local-government bank account in California. John L. Quinn II and Anthony Bobbitt, both of North Carolina, were indicted with three others on criminal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and cons ...
- Supreme Court Gets RIAA Copyright Case
A case testing the meaning of the so-called “innocent infringer’s” defense to the Copyright Act’s minimum $750-per-music-track fine has landed at the U.S. Supreme Court. The case the justices were asked to review this week concerns a federal appeals court’s February decision ordering a university st ...
- Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the ‘ ...
Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the “wild” internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday. ...
- Time Warner Cable Resists Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit
A consortium of independent film producers is hitting a stumbling block in its plan to simultaneously sue thousands of BitTorrent users for allegedly downloading pirated movies. Time Warner Cable is refusing to look up and turn over the identities of about a thousand of its customers targeted in the ...
- Lawsuits Pour in Over Google’s Wi-Fi Data Collecti ...
At least three lawsuits have been filed against search engine giant Google for collecting Wi-Fi user data through its Street View cameras. The lawsuits have been filed in California, Massachusetts and Oregon. They allege that Google violated federal and state privacy laws in collecting fragments of ...
- Raw Milk, a potentially risky elixir
There seems to be no middle ground in the debate over raw milk. On the one side, you have farmers happy to sell a product for $10 to $18 a gallon, and consumers who believe that they are purchasing a product that is not only more healthful but will also cure everything from allergies to autism. On ...
- Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database Nearing Comple ...
The Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database is up and running and we continue to add to it (frankly, hard to keep up with all the reported outbreaks and recalls) and improve it with your comments.� Thanks.
- Clostridium Perfringens tainted Chicken Salad link ...
David Dinsmore of the Town Talk of Alexandria and Pineville Louisiana continues to report on the tragedy surrounding an outbreak of illnesses that sickened more than 40 people and killed three patients at Central Louisiana State Hospital . Mr. Dinsmore reports that test results found the third most ...
- The Tea Party, Socialists and Safe Food
I have decided this week that the “Tea Party” movement is “right” – business and government in the U.S.A. are “a bunch of damn socialists” – at least they are when poisoning consumers and investigating outbreaks. First, full disclosure. When I am not channeling Rupert Murdoch in my role as publish ...
- J.H. Caldwell and Sons Inc. Salmonella Newport Spr ...
The CDC reports a total of 28 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Newport have been reported from 10 states since March 1, 2010. The number of ill people identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AZ (2), CA (14), CO (1), ID (3), IL (1), MO (1), NM (1), NV (2), OR ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.28.10
eBay Find of the Day: Hydrogen-powered 1972 AMC Gremlin by George Barris What else is hiding out there? Royal Academy of Engineering: Coal-powered electric vehicles not enough to cut CO2 Well ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.27.10
Study: highly-efficient semi-trucks lead to 120,000 new jobs by 2030 Say what? Report: Toyota and Daimler planning "extensive cooperation" on fuel cell development H2, here they come. ...
- Mahindra, Reva announce partnership leading future ...
Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Earnings/Financials , India , Electric Turns out, that so-called " person with direct knowledge " was right. Mahindra and Reva have announced a collaboration to form a new company called Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicle Company that will see Reva's electric po ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.26.10
Carlos Ghosn: 2011 Nissan Leaf sold out That didn't take long. Not all bad: Honda CR-Z called "one of the most desirable cars on the planet" Surprised us, too. ...
- 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 ...
- Reporters' Roundtable: App stores are good for sof ...
The working title for this show was, "How app stores are killing software." But the conversation, with Evernote CEO Phil Libin and SoftTech venture capitalist Jeff Clavier , painted exactly the opposite picture. These two execs, both of whom are making money from software in the current economy, s ...
- Coming June 24: CNET Showcase on tablets, slates, ...
Don't miss our hands-on event and discussion on the newest in small and slim computing. Originally posted at CNET Showcase
- CNET to the Rescue: Androidpalooza
This week on CNET to the Rescue: it's all Android, all the time. Pretty much, anyway. Tons of questions from listeners on how to make Android work better, and if you should bother at all. Plus, the Mystery of the Silent Pre--solved! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe: � iTu ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Alleged Chicago Torturer’s Overdue Day in Court
Burge rose in the ranks to become a commander in Chicago’s South Side, called Area 2. Electric shocks to the genitals, mock executions, suffocation with bags over the head, beatings and painful stress positions are among the torture techniques that Burge and police officers under his command are ac ...
- 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 ...
- 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, [...]
- BP’s ‘Top Kill’ Effort Fails to ...
The New York Times Sat, May 29, 2010 — 6:37 PM ET BP said Saturday that its latest attempt to stop the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was unsuccessful, and the effort, known as a “top kill,” was being scrapped in favor of yet another maneuver to stem the flow spreading into [...]
- Barbara O’Brien Is New Author On Suzie-Q Blo ...
Good afternoon Justice Bloggers, Please welcome Barbara O’Brien to the Suzie-Q blog! Barbara will be writing on a regular basis and we welcome her interesting articles. Barbara blogs at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere. ...
- Dennis Hopper, Actor and Iconoclast, Has Died
May 29, 2010, 2:56 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMES Dennis Hopper, whose portrayals of drug-addled, often deranged misfits in the landmark films “Easy Rider,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Blue Velvet” drew on his early out-of-control experiences as part of a new generation of Hollywood rebel, died at his home in V ...
- Lawsuit Over Arizona Immigration Law?
DOJ, Arizona officials meet over immigration law Huff Post- PAUL DAVENPORT and PETE YOST | May 29, 2010 02:08 AM EST | PHOENIX â Justice Department officials told Arizona’s attorney general and aides to the governor Friday that the federal government has serious reservations about the state’s new ...
- Chernus: Neocon Vampires Sink Their Fangs Into the ...
Like vampires, the neocons never die. They constantly revive themselves, going where the vein is richest, eager to feed upon new blood. By Ira Chernus, AlterNet, May 27, 2010 Remember the neoconservatives? Maybe you don’t. Their death was announced on the cover of Time magazine long before George W. ...
- Honoring Memorial Day
Executive Mansion Washington, Nov. 21, 1864 To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and f ...
- A Solari Report Special with Clifford Carnicom
By Catherine Austin Fitts Last month we presented our Solari Report Unanswered Questions About Chemtrails. Two weeks ago our Solari Report followed up with More Questions About Chemtrails, interviewing Clifford Carnicom, the leading researcher on global spraying and founder of the Carnicom Insti ...
- The Bond Market Has Completely Given Up On Bernank ...
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova View Larger Chart Continue reading The Bond Market Has Completely Given Up On Bernanke Exiting From Stimulus
- Rappoport Interviews Fitts
Jon interviews economic expert and insider, Catherine Fitts, on the financial meltdown, its causes, and cure. Continue reading Jon Rappoport’s Blog Related reading Patrons of the Imagination Gift Hub (27 May 10)
- Kyrgyzstan as a Geopolitical Pivot in Great Power ...
By F.William Engdahl The remote Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is what Britain’s Halford Mackinder might call a geopolitical ‘pivot’—a land that, owing to its geographical characteristics, holds a pivotal position in Great Power rivalries. Today the tiny remote country is being shaken by what ...
- 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��
- 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 ...
- Obama’s press conference says much about him – and ...
Summary: This is another post about the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which vividly illustrates Americaâs dysfunctional OODA loop â increasingly contaminated by ignorance and hysteria. At the end are links to previous chapters of this saga. This is sad, that the President of the world’s most ...
- Let’s seal the Gulf oil well by using atomic ...
Summary: Now that BP’s third and fourth attempts appear to have failed (the “top kill” and “junk shots”), discussion turns to darker methods of sealing the Deepwater Horizon well. Most of our journalists and Internet experts get the story wrong. Often grossly so. But the truth is available ...
- Science: “Gulf Spill Big But Not Enormous, Yet”
Summary: Coverage of the Deepwater Horizon has moved beyond exaggeration into outright lies, fed by the hysteria of special interest groups and the media.  But the truth is out there.  The truth is so bad enough. It’s unprecedented! See this compilation of “unprecedenteds”. But it’s not ( ...
- Matt Taibbi helps us see ourselves, and the leader ...
I strongly recommend reading this in full: âWall Streetâs Warâ, Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2010 â âCongress looked serious about finance reform â until Americaâs biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyistsâ Excerpt: It’s early May in Washington, and something ...
- FM newswire for May 28, interesting articles about ...
Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. The flaws in the Euro were obvious from the start:Â “Fantasy land“, Mark Steyn, The Telegraph, 30 December 2001 “A Roadmap to Folly in Afghanistan – The Arrogance of Ignorance“, Frank ...
- O klasowej przynależności jednostek
O klasowej przynależności jednostek -Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) „Aby mieć pewność, że nie poprowadzimy rewolucji nieprawidłową drogą i że niezawodnie osiągniemy sukces, musimy starać się o skupienie wokół siebie naszych prawdziwych przyjaciół, ażeby zadać cios naszym prawdziwym wrogom. Dla ...
- Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio
Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Magpie is a folk music trio made up of Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner. In 2000, Magpie released a folk opera that follows the exploits of John Brown and those around him at Harpers Ferry. In other words, all the songs on the ...
- Revisiting value and exploitation
Revisiting value and exploitation by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) When her father died in 1883, Eleanor Marx wrote an article celebrating her father’s achievements. At the heart of these was “his theory of value, by which Marx explains the origin and the continued accumulation of ...
- Priemerný americký „Joe“
Priemerný americký „Joe“ (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Greek) (Polish) (English) (Slovak) „Priemerný Joe“ má špeciálne miesto v americkom povedomí. Populárna literárna postava , „hrdina robotníckej triedy“, vystupuje vo filmoch, v televízii, v divadle. Je obľúbeným cieľom politikov. A pre ...
- 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:
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- But When the Articles Go Away About BP, So will ou ...
MARY KIM FOR BUZZFLASH If you ever wondered what it would take to thaw out the U.S. attitude toward Cuba, we might be getting the answer in this article:� http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2620368920100526?type=marketsNews � A U.S. company was denied permits to travel to Cuba to discuss off-shore ...
- Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 144: The GOP's Rand Pau ...
STEVE JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH ������������� In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited one of the first post-Abolitionism, post Civil War, post-Reconstruction African-Americans, Booker T. Washington, to visit him in the White House. To southern whites this was going too far . One editor wrote: "With ...
- Protest Big Oil and Get Arrested; BP Pollutes the ...
MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG I read with growing outrage that several Greenpeace protesters were arrested the other day in Louisiana. What was their crime? They painted an anti-offshore drilling message on the side of an oil exploration ship.� The parish sheriff threw the book at them, c ...
- Vaughn Ward Wins GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award f ...
Vaughn Ward Welcome back to GOP Hypocrite of the Week. You may think it unfair or counterproductive to award GOP Hypocrite of the Week to a candidate who just lost his bid for the GOP nomination to the U.S. House . However, as a Sarah Palin tea-cruit and GOP favorite, we're pretty sure that Vaughn W ...
- The One Thing Cheney Was Right About: Governing Ba ...
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White� One of the most popular rallying cries of Republicans and tea partiers alike this election year is that Democrats are not listening to the will of the American people. They can point to polls on many hot-button issues, from immigration to the environment to tryi ...
- Pure Kafka
The first paragraph of today's New York Times article by Charlie Savage : The 48 Guantánamo Bay detainees whom the Obama administration has decided to keep holding without trial include several for whom there is no evidence of involvement in any specific terrorist plot, according to a repor ...
- Who are the real "crazies" in our political cultur ...
One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics.� That serves to bolster the two political parties as the sole arbiters of what is acceptable:� anyone who meaning ...
- A disgrace of historic proportions
(updated below) The Miami Herald 's Carol�Rosenberg reports that, this week, yet another federal judge has ordered the Obama administration to release yet another Guantanamo detainee on the ground that there is no persuasive evidence to justify his detention.��The latest detainee to win ...
- The unasked question
(updated below) From CNN : The article notes that a new classified Department of Homeland�Security report documents that "the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts dur ...
- Democrats and the McCarthyite attack on detainee l ...
(updated below) Over at Balkinization , Law Professor Steve Vladeck has done a superb job highlighting a truly vile provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2011, which directs the Pentagon's Inspector General to "conduct an investigation of the conduct and practices of ...
- ChemistryViews, Alchemist, espresso
ChemistryViews just launched, so here’s my first link to my stuff on there together with the regular Alchemist round-up and a surprising finding about espresso. Small molecules for fighting cancer – My first short feature article in the all-new ChemistryViews magazine from Wiley covers research in ...
- 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 ...
- Senate Committee Approves 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2010 ACLU The Senate Armed Services Committee today voted to repeal the controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, bringing an end to years of LGBT discrimination in the military. The amendment setting the repeal into action was attached to the Senate version of the ...
- ACLU Advocates for Abolition of Mandatory Minimums ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union testified today before the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) that mandatory minimums should be abolished or reformed because they generate unnecessarily harsh sentences, tie judges' hands in considering individual circums ...
- Farm Sanctuary Offers Rescue and Refuge for Animal ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2010 Farm Sanctuary Today, as the nation continues to express outrage over the vicious and malicious animal cruelty documented by undercover video inside the Conklin Dairy Farm in Union County, Ohio, Farm Sanctuary , the nation's leading farm animal protection organi ...
- President Obama Misses Opportunity to Shut Door on ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2010 Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth's president, Erich Pica, had the following response to President Obama's remarks at this afternoon's press conference: "President Obama missed an opportunity to lead the nation toward an oil-free future today. His decision ...
- Center for Biological Diversity Response to Presid ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity In response to President Barack Obama's press conference on actions he will take in response to the Gulf oil disaster, Center for Biological Diversity Senior Counsel Brendan Cummings said: "While the decision to suspend Shell's plann ...
- Leading the World's Green Industrial Revolution
by Tom Weis A gaping gulf exists today between America's economic collapse, our melting globe, and the lackluster response of top leaders in the U.S. wind, solar and geothermal industries. You wouldn't know it, but these three industries, along with the energy efficiency sector, hold the key to ...
- Free Gaza Flotilla Subject to Coordinated Israeli ...
by James Marc Leas According to an article in the Jerusalem Post [1] on May 25, 2010, the Israeli "Navy is preparing an operational plan to stop the flotilla of nine ships-loaded with hundreds of international activists and thousands of tons of supplies-- which are scheduled to try and break ...
- For Texas Ed Board: Ignorance is Bliss
by Linn Washington Jr. Let's give credit where credit is due. The Texas Board of Education, in a press release announcing its revision of the public school history curriculum, states that those revisions include explaining "instances of institutional racism in American society." So are critics rea ...
- Is The President The Kind of Leader Chairman Mao W ...
by Danny Schechter We now know that it was the Obama Administration led by the President himself who used techniques well understood and denounced decades earlier by none other than Mao TseTung. Mao had no use for those who talked left to move right. In several high profile speeches, Obama lashed ...
- Getting Naked to Expose BP
by Medea Benjamin Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper from the Texas Gulf and a founder of CODEPINK , has been watching the BP spill and the botched clean-up with a mixture of dread and anger. After all, it's her livelihood and that of her community that's at stake. "I've lived all my li ...
- Laws will bounce back from resignation, say Tories
Iain Duncan Smith and Alan Duncan predict return for Liberal Democrat MP forced to quit cabinet over expenses revelations Senior Tory ministers predicted today that the Liberal Democrat David Laws would one day return to the cabinet, after he was forced to resign last night due to revelations about ...
- BP top kill fails to plug Gulf oil spill
BP turns to next approach to tackle worst oil spill in US history, as documents reveal safety concerns dating back to last June BP has failed to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico using so-called top kill and junk shot techniques, prompting an exasperated response from Barack Obama. After three ...
- Tests on tools in Bradford inquiry
Forensic specialists are checking equipment found in river where Suzanne Blamires's body parts were dumped Forensic specialists in Bradford are checking a large black suitcase containing tools which was found by police divers yesterday in the river Aire, close to the weir where the body parts of mur ...
- Hamilton edges out Button in Turkey
• Red Bull pair Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber collide • Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button take advantage Lewis Hamilton grabbed his first victory of the season in stunning fashion as Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber broke the cardinal rule of Formula One at the Turkish grand prix. After 39 laps We ...
- BA crew start new five-day strike
Action comes at start of school half-term holidays, with Unite union threatening another walkout in June British Airways cabin crew today began another five-day strike, with the airline claiming the action was increasingly ineffective and the Unite union accusing management of failing to settle the ...
- Europe debates climate 'ambition'
Connie Hedegaard , the EU's Climate Commissioner, is seeking to open a debate on whether the bloc should adopt a tougher target than it already has for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Back in the early months of last year, EU leaders signed off a target of 20% cuts from 1990 levels by 2020, risi ...
- 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 ...
- Yes, We Can Take Charge Of BP’s Disaster
TOP KILL = FAIL The latest attempt by BP to shut down its apocalyptic oil gusher — the “top kill” maneuver — has failed, despite BP CEO Tony Hayward’s assurance yesterday that it had a 70 percent chance of success. There’s no question that the federal government, if the president so decides, can tak ...
- Unified Security Budget A Necessary Step
Our guest bloggers are Laura Conley, research assistant, and Sean Duggan, research associate at the Center for American Progress. The House Armed Services Committee voted the FY 2011 Defense Authorization Bill out of committee last week at a whopping $567 billion. By contrast, the FY11 State Departm ...
- ‘Unprecedented’ Oil Catastrophe Repeat ...
Numerous politicians and oil industry officials have claimed the BP oil catastrophe growing in the Gulf of Mexico is “unprecedented.” From BP CEO Tony Hayward, who called his company’s environmental crime an “unprecedented accident,” to Admiral Thad Allen, U.S. Coast Guard, who called it an “unprece ...
- GOP Leadership Introduces Its Own ‘Repeal An ...
In a move that will certainly upset all-or-nothing repeal advocate Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the Republican leadership in the House has finally introduced a 9-page “bill” (read: press release in legislative language) to repeal the health care law and replace it with the Republican alternative already ...
- Clinton: Considering Our Unemployment Rate, ‘ ...
According to a USA Today analysis that came out earlier this month, Americans paid their lowest share in taxes in nearly sixty years in 2009. At the same time, as this year’s annual Economic Report of the President pointed out, âin recent years nearly half of all income â including both wages an ...
- International Treaty on Poaching Health Care Worke ...
It's about time : Last week, international health leaders meeting at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva made history by endorsing new guidelines to prevent health-worker brain drain from developing countries. What makes Canada's active theft of highly-skilled personnel from these countries ...
- Federal MPs Unable to Account For Their Spending
How else to explain the revolting refusal to allow public scrutiny into their spending? All parties except the Bloc Quebecois apparently imagine that the Canadian public trusts them to not rip us off when they ask for compensation for "other" expenses. Either that, or (more likely) they know that w ...
- Lying Jason Kenney
I'm joining a whole bunch of other blogs to spread the video of the extremely fucked-up Jason Kenney lying through his stupid teeth. (How can his teeth be stupid?? Ask him.) Kenney is lamely insisting that legislative oversight of the executive branch constitutes middle-aged partisan bullies ma ...
- Thoughts on the Bryant/Sheppard Decision
I don't really talk about things like this, but I'd read about the death of cyclist Darcy Allen Sheppard during his encounter with former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant last August. I read that Sheppard had been drinking, that he had anger-management issues, that he'd gotten in the face of ...
- The Right to Secrecy and Trust Has Expired
Via HarperBizarro , Don Martin on today's expected announcement about the rights of Parliament to see detainee documents from the Afghanistan conflict: The problem with this government is how it's become secrecy personifi ed -- witness the backlog of information access requests, it's document-star ...
- Tips for Whistleblowers Working with the Media
Earlier this week I attended a panel at the National Whistleblower Assembly entitled “How to Work Effectively with the Media.” Members of the panel included: Barry Nolan, an Emmy Award-winning television journalist and commentator; Christopher Scholl, an investigative producer for...
- Is "Resolving" DCAA Findings the Same Thing As Lis ...
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) isn't the only agency that struggles to ensure that it's oversight officials have the independence they need to effectively root out waste, fraud, and misconduct. When not blogging obsessively about the Deepwater Horizon disaster (I've...
- Senate Moves to Lift Veil of Secrecy from Contract ...
Last night, the Senate approved by unanimous consent an amendment sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to the 2010 Supplemental Appropriations Act to require the General Services Administration (GSA) to publicly disclose data contained in the Federal Awardee Performance and...
- A Victory for Oversight: House Passes Eshoo Amendm ...
Late yesterday, the House passed an amendment allowing the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the intelligence community. This is a great victory for government oversight. POGO thanks Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) for her leadership on this issue, and also...
- Morning Smoke: Everything You'd Want to Know about ...
Oil Spill Hearing Updates by David Hammer [Times-Picayune] (also nicely summarized at emptywheel) BP Decisions Set Stage for Disaster by Ben Casselman and Russell Gold [Wall Street Journal] BP wants Houston judge with oil ties to hear spill cases by...
- 18 Reasons Why the Homeless Stay Homeless
Keeping people out of homelessness — and thereby preventing the ailments that only going unhoused can cause — is far preferable to asking people to pull themselves out of it. Once people become homeless, the transition back to housing, and sometimes work and society in general, is almost impossibly ...
- New Yorkers Say They'll Pay Higher Taxes to End Ho ...
New Yorkers care about homelessness. Want proof? They say they're even willing to pay higher taxes for better homeless care. That was among the findings in a new report (pdf) from the Institute for Children & Poverty . The public opinion poll of 1,000 random New York City residents was conducted v ...
- A Shelter for Alcoholics Is Only Part of the Solut ...
Luke is homeless and panhandling in Anchorage, Alaska. In Alaska, he is often referred to as a " chronic public inebriate " an individual who drinks too much, too often. Last night, Luke slept at the "sleep-off," a center in Alaska where alcoholics can sleep in safety and recover from drunkenness. ...
- Tips for Living in Your Car
There's no good way to live in a car, but a commenter on the website Reddit offers some valuable tips on doing just that in response to a fellow user who has found himself with only a vehicle to call home. The user, named xenophone, says that when his relationship and an attempt to flip a house went ...
- The Homeless Commit Suicide Twice as Often as the ...
Not many people feel comfortable enough to ask about how I wound up at a mental health clinic for the homeless, or the feelings of suicide that got me there. But last week someone did and I've been thinking about it ever since. I've been thinking about how we as a society feel about suicide. For one ...
- Georgia Welcomes The Kevin Trudeau Show!
May 28, 2010 – CHICAGO, IL – The Kevin Trudeau show is proud to announce that starting May 29th, it will be airing on WRWH 1350AM in Cleveland, GA! You can find Kevin on WRWH on Saturdays from 3:00am – 6:00am Listeners have compared Kevin Trudeauâs radio show to the best parts of Michael Savage, H ...
- Bill Gates Funds Covert Vaccine Nanotechnology
May 28, 2010 May 28, 2010 By Mike Adams (NaturalNews) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization pro ...
- Mexico Takes A Healthier Route In School, US Does ...
May 28, 2010 Guardian By Jo Tuckman The Mexican government is to ban junk food and fry-ups in primary and secondary schools in an effort to combat one of the worst obesity problems in the world. From the beginning of the next school year, school shops will no longer be allowed to stock fizzy drinks, ...
- 2-Year-Old Boy Addicted To Cigarettes
May 28, 2010 Boston Herald By Laura Crimaldi Anti-tobacco advocates worldwide are stunned, but the dad of a chain-smoking Indonesian toddler doesn’t see what the big deal is. And, mom adds, don’t even think about taking the coffin nails away from their little stovepipe terror of a tyke. “He’s totall ...
- Norman Human Problems Spiking Healthcare Costs
May 28, 2010 Natural News By Sherry Baker (NaturalNews) Mainstream medicine has a huge new growth industry underway — the “medicalization” of the human condition. That’s the conclusion of a study headed by Brandeis University sociologist Peter Conrad that was just published in the journal Social Sci ...
- 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 ...
- You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done! I ...
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yesterday, I discussed the Shepherd et al. paper, “Recent loss of floating ice and the consequent sea level contribution” (which I will call S2010). I also posted up a spreadsheet of their Table 1, showing … Continue reading →
- Leif Svalgaard on the experience of peer review
I’m remiss in getting this up until now, as Leif sent it back on May 12th. Prep, travel and recovery for ICCC4 took up quite a bit of my time, but I’m pleased to be able to offer this from … Continue reading →
- Arctic Ice Volume Has Increased 25% Since May, 200 ...
By Steve Goddard and Anthony Watts The Navy requires accurate sea ice information for their operations, and has spent a lot of effort over the years studying, measuring, and operating in Arctic ice both above and below, such as they … Continue reading →
- Throwing the polar bears under the bus
From a Eurekalert press release, it seems the polar bears just aren’t doing the job anymore: “Communicators need to move away from the traditional images of polar bears or fear-laden imagery to find new, inspirational motifs to engage people with … Continue reading →
- Where’s the ice for my drink?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I don’t know what to make of this one. I was wandering the web when I came across a Reuters article about a scientific study called “Global Floating Ice In “Constant Retreat”: Study“. The Reuters … Continue reading →
- Oily Politics Led to Environmental Disaster by Wal ...
by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com May 30, 2010 Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) had a good idea to slow or stop the Gulf Coast oil spill from reaching shore. Build artificial barrier islands, he told the federal government. He wanted the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge ...
- Peace Heroes: Casey Sheehan by Cindy Sheehan
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox crossposted at (Islam Times) May 30, 2010 Memorial Day and the “holiday” weekend lay a double-whammy claim on my emotions every year. Thirty-one years ago today—May 29—my first child was born—a son. ...
- The English Defence League uncovered
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Formed less than a year ago, the English Defence League has become the most significant far-right street movement since the National Front. The Guardian spent four months undercover with the movement, and found them growing in strength and ...
- BP announces ‘top kill’ has failed to ...
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1100328 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Erika Bolstad McClatchy Newspapers May 29, 2010 BP has abandoned its most recent “top kill” effort to contain its runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, a company official announced Saturday evening. “After three ...
- The GOP’s Rand Paul Problem by Steven Jonas, ...
by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com May 29, 2010 In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited one of the first post-Abolitionism, post Civil War, post-Reconstruction African-Americans, Booker T. Washington, to visit him in the White House. To southe ...
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Obama Official - "I've Ended The War On Drugs" There's plenty more to be said on this, later, but for now the main details from the Irish Examiner : The United States has "ended its war on drugs" and is now moving its focus to prevention and treatment, the US drugs chief has told top Irish drug o ...
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Hopped Up On Hopper Dennis Hopper, before the alcoholism and LSD abuse took hold in the late 1960s, was regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation. Anyone under 50 knows Hopper better as one of the great portrayers of the unhinged and psychotic. His role as the disturbing gas huffer ...
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The buildings are modeled, the 3D animations are created to fit the model, then blown up to life size and projected back onto the real buildings. Our future cities will be filled with incredible animations.
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Officially, 1000 American soldiers have now been killed in the War On Afghanistan . The toll of Afghans is in the tens of thousands.
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Sebastian Jungler on what war does to the human body : "...an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well. Complex motor skills start to diminish at 145 beats per minute, which wouldn't matter much in a swordfight ...
- The Tragic Race to Be First to the South Pole
> NEW YORK CITY — In 1910, two men set out to be the first to reach the South Pole in a race that would be both heroic and tragic. The men had different reasons for their journeys, took different routes and made different decisions that would ultimately seal their [...]
- Congress, Obama Take Sudden Interest in Synthetic ...
Congress explicitly took up the subject of synthetic biology for the first time Thursday during a hastily convened hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Wired crowd has been talking about how to engineer biological machines for years, but Craig Venter’s announcement last week that ...
- Video: Designing Bridges to Be Drivable After Quak ...
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience88281115001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); RICHMOND, California â Sure, earthquake engineers can now make bridges safe during even the biggest earthquakes, but they’re still rendered unusable in the key ...
- The Science of Horror-Flick Screams
As horror-flick titles go, Night of the Living Chaos and Rosemaryâs Nonlinearity arenât the catchiest. But filmmakers know that chaos — the mathematical kind — is scary. Now scientists know it too. Filmmakers use chaotic, unpredictable sounds to evoke particular emotions, say researchers who ha ...
- Origin of Milky Way Clouds Revealed
Mysterious clouds of gas hovering above the plane of the Milky Way may be the fractured remnants of superbubbles blown by stellar winds and exploding stars. “There’s a fundamental, interesting connection between gas far away from the Milky Way and the amount of star formation below it in the galact ...
- UN aid group: Israel deliberately hampering West B ...
A United Nations humanitarian relief agency is accusing Israel of deliberately disrupting the international community's aid efforts for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- Nehemia Shtrasler: Our bleeding-heart prime minist ...
How can we rely on those Palestinians? For 43 years, they have been building the settlers' homes with the sweat of their brows, paving roads for them and building their fences, and then suddenly, out... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- East Jerusalem eviction orders threaten new embarr ...
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington in a much-feted effort to restore damaged ties with the United States, new tensions in East Jerusalem threaten to rekindle a diplomatic row... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- Adam Shatz: Mubarak’s Last Breath
[Mubarak] has developed a partnership with Israel on trade and ‘security’ that is far more extensive than Sadat could have imagined. Their intelligence services work closely together, and Mubarak has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Jonathan Cook: Israel’s Nukes Out of the Shadows
Israel faces unprecedented pressure to abandon its official policy of “ambiguity” on its possession of nuclear weapons as the international community meets at the UN in New York this week to consider... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- 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 ...
- Fútbol Sudáfrica 2010 (21 fotografías gigantes)
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
- Estrenando mi nueva cámara de fotos Nikon D90
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ANTES QUE TODO, les presento mi nuevo juguete y más abajito podrán ver la colección de fotografías que tengo para todos ustedes. Si no me conocían, ahí está mi foto. ¡Más feo, imposible! Ahora sí todas las fotos... CLI ...
- Inundación en Nashville Tennessee, Kentucky y Miss ...
Al igual que otras ciudades en los Estados de Kentucky and Mississippi, la hermosa ciudad de Nashville, Tennessee se vio gravemente afectada por tormentas que ocasionaron desastres en varios puntos de la ciudad. Viví en Nashvillle durante un año y las fotografías que usted verá sobre esta catástrofe ...
- Animales en las noticias (40 fotografías by The Bi ...
De una manera o de otra, la especie animal en cualquiera de sus variantes, terminan siendo parte de las noticias que a diario se generan en la radio, la televisión, los medios digitales y medios impresos. No sólo por asuntos como el reciente accidente en el Golfo de México, sino por varias razones d ...
- El desastre se desarrolla lentamente en el Golfo d ...
Hace algunos días, le comentaba a usted sobre el terrible una lamentable explosión de una plataforma petrolera en el Golfo de México propiedad de British Petroleum (BP) . Con la finalidad de dar seguimiento a este terrible suceso, le tengo en esta ocasión 40 nuevas fotografías que nos permiten ver l ...
- The Non-Existent “Murder in Violation of the Law o ...
by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of years ago, I blogged about how Salim Hamdan was prosecuted in a military commission for conspiring to commit the non-existent war crime "murder in violation of the law of war." Hamdan was acquitted on that count, but the crime is starring again in the unconscio ...
- Negligent Attack in Afghanistan Kills 20+
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Winning Afghani hearts and minds, one dead civilian at a time: In the civilian deaths case, attack helicopters fired missiles and rockets into the convoy on a main road near Khod village, where U.S. Special Forces and Afghan troops were battling militant ...
- U.S. Law Professor Arrested by Rwandan Government
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Rwandan government has arrested a U.S. law professor, Peter Erlinder, who represented key opposition figures. The NYT reports: Rwandan authorities on Friday arrested an American lawyer who is representing a leading Rwandan opposition figure, the latest sign of an inc ...
- Is the Land Mine Treaty Just “International Politi ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I have always thought the Ottawa Convention banning landmines was a nice idea, but somewhat unrealistic. Case in point: the U.S. and South Korea rely on landmines to prevent a North Korean attack on South Korea. It is hard to imagine a cheaper more effective deterrent th ...
- Whale Wars Are Now “The Whale Cases”: Australia An ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This is a bit of a surprise, at least its timing. Â Stories I had read suggested any action would be delayed until after upcoming International Whaling Commission meetings, or even later. But here goes: Australia says it will take Japan to the International Court of Just ...
- AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields
AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s disturbed public lands should be priority sites for generating wind and solar power. That’s the position of the state’s Democratic members of Congress, who are urging federal land managers to steer green energy projects to places ...
- AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Ove ...
AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Over Jail Phoenix, AZ - President Obama recently announced a new national policy to treat drug abuse more as a public-health issue, increasing the emphasis on prevention and treatment. Arizona public health advocates have a long record of pushing for su ...
- AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone
AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone Phoenix, AZ – A cell phone can be a handy reminder for better maternal and child health. That's the goal of the "Text4Baby" program, a new joint effort between health providers, corporations and local governments. It sends short, health and safety-relat ...
- DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in ...
DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in AZ and Elsewhere Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-gender (LGBT) community will be closely watching a Capitol Hill demonstration demanding Congress vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The bill would stop employers o ...
- ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing?
ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing? President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon (fuh-LEE-pay call-der-OWN) yesterday (Wednesday) criticized Arizona's law that makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime. But in contrast to Arizona, a growing number of cities around the ...
- British Iraq war probe quizzes Bremer, Crocker on ...
ShareThis British Iraq war probe quizzes Bremer, Crocker on US trip 28 May 2010 Britain's Iraq war inquiry questioned US diplomats Paul Bremer and Ryan Crocker among other officials during a visit to the United States last week, it said Friday. Members of the five-strong panel, which is investigatin ...
- U.S. Senate Approves $60 Billion War-funding Bill
ShareThis U.S. Senate Approves�$60 Billion War-funding Bill --War Bill Approved as Afghan Conflict Tops Iraq in Cost, Troops 28 May 2010 The U.S. Senate approved a $60 billion war-funding bill last night as the conflict in Afghanistan has exceeded the Iraq war in annual cost and number of troops. Se ...
- US Senate passes $349 million economic stimulus fo ...
ShareThis US Senate passes $349 million economic stimulus for Pakistan 29 May 2010 The US Senate has passed $349 million in economic and security aid for Pakistan, as part of a $60 billion war supplemental bill to fund Afghan operations and some other projects requested by the Obama administration. ...
- CITGO Refineries Recognized with 7 Meritorious Saf ...
ShareThis CITGO Refineries Recognized with 7 Meritorious Safety and Environmental Awards 27 May 2010 CITGO Petroleum Corporation refineries were recognized by the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) with seven awards for their safe operations during 2009. The awards were presented ...
- Navy's Drone Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea
ShareThis Navy's Drone Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea By Nathan Hodge 28 May 2010 For years, the U.S. Navy has been pursuing a workable ray gun that could provide a leap ahead in ship self-defenses. Now, with a series of tests of a system called the Laser Weapon System, or LaWS ), it may be one ...
- The trap
Is one state in Palestine/Israel your fallback position? I know what my priorities are. I want all people to be free, I believe in equal opportunity and one man one vote. My ideals were formed early on by concepts such as melting pot, equal rights, and principles set forth in our Constitution. Truth ...
- Global flotilla hits NY chocolate shop
As the “Freedom Flotilla” steams toward Gaza City in an attempt to break Israel’s crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip, activists in New York City continue to stage protests calling attention to the fleet of ships and the situation in Gaza. In New York, six Palestine solidarity activists dropped a b ...
- EU calls for immediate end to Israel’s siege of Ga ...
AFP reports:EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday called for an immediate end to Israel’s Gaza blockade, as an aid flotilla prepared to set sail for the enclave despite the embargo. “The continued policy of closure is unacceptable and politically counterproductive,” she said in a statem ...
- Eviction notices for two more Palestinian families ...
As Netanyahu heads to Washington, as reported in Haaretz. Oh and as Rahm Emanuel cavorts in the occupied territories.
- Live stream of the flotilla–
Here it is, with the wine-dark sea sparkling on the world's hopes of freeing the people of Gaza.
- VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]
- VRM: Massive Recall Of Children’s Tylenol Pr ...
MASSIVE RECALL OF CHILDREN’S TYLENOL, MOTRIN, ZYRTEC & BENADRYL PRODUCTS UNDERWAY Raw materials used to make over-the-counter infant’s and children’s medications, which are subject to a massive recall, tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspe ...
- VRM: Australian Vaccine Scandal
THE REAL REASON SO MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT PANVAX? CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT W ...
- VRM: Pregnancy Tips
I was recently alerted by a newly pregnant mother of a child with Autism for tips on minerals & vitamins to help strengthen her immune system during the coming months. She believes vaccines were the cause of her child’s Autism and has begun a shift away from her GP. Based on all my research thus far ...
- VRM: Family Charts The Gradual Decline Of Daughter ...
VACCINE CRIME: Family charts the gradual decline of daughter (b. 6-3-95) attributed to vaccine trauma: Hepatitis B/6-19-95 (rash), HBPV, OPV, DPT & Hepatitis B/7-27-95 (floppy limbs noted), DPT, HBPV & OPV/9-27-95 (floppiness persisted, outbreak of Eczema, dissociative autistic behavior), DPT & ...
- Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...
- Simple Living: CDs and DVDs
If like me, you were a teen in the 90's, you probably have a huge stack of CDs like I do. I would also bet that, like me, you rarely listen to any of those CDs. Over the last few years I've also noticed the same thing with my DVDs. I had a whole shelf of CDs and DVD but never touched 99% of ...
- The Newest Excitement In My Life: Dual-Flush Toile ...
Last week I got my quarterly municipal water bill: $ 240 ! That's about $1000 a year I'm paying for water which dries out my skin and reeks of chlorine. This was ample motivation for me to finally get around to installing a dual-flush adapter to our existing toilets. I picked this thing ...
- My Quick and Easy Square Foot Garden
Here's my little garden that I did last week. �It's a modified square foot garden where instead of a 4 x 4 bed this is 1 x 28. I have a small 50x 50 lot so there isn't room for anything much larger. The walls of the bed are plastic fake stones. �They're $15 for 9 feet at Walmart and Cana ...
- Simple Living: Getting Rid of "Stuff"
"The stuff you own, owns you." I know that saying sounds bizarre and maybe a little paranoid but in many ways it's true. In my the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "I have to clean up and organize; my house is too cluttered.". �It's a little thing but it's one more stress in my life an ...
- 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 ...
- Bugatti Developing 800 HP All-Electric Supercar
Bugatti, maker of the world's fastest and most expensive production vehicle, is experimenting with an electric powertrain that delivers 597 kW of power. That's roughly 800 horsepower! Auto Express reports that engineers from the Volkswagen-owned comp... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
- Which is Worse? Washing Laundry or Spraying Corexi ...
Image: Flickr, Deepwater Horizon Response A lot of the questions surrounding the response to the gulf oil spill address the chemicals being sprayed onto the gulf and pumped out underwater to disperse the spilled oil. These dispersants are intended to break the oil up into smaller bits, which ca ...
- Underwater Robot Scans for Submerged Oil in Gulf o ...
Photo credit iRobot Scientists are already rushing to determine the environmental impact of the Gulf oil spill, and iRobot is helping with the Seaglider, an unmanned underwater vehicle that has been sent to the ocean floor to prowl for submerged oil. iRobot is known for the Roomba and consumer ...
- Australia Makes Good on Threat to Take Japan to Co ...
Whale meat on sale at the Tsukiji fish market in Japan, photo: Stefan Powell . Threatened for some time now , Australia has begun legal action against Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean . Formal proceedings will begin in The Hague next week and would lead to a provisional order for Jap ...
- Outdoor Bacteria Can Make You Smarter, and Happier
Getting some outdoor time is not only good for the soul, it's probably good for the mind. Research from The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, suggests that exposure to a natural soil bacterium called Mycobacterium vaccae can increase learning behavior. Another reason to enjoy, and protect, the gr ...
- US lawyer arrested in Rwanda for genocide denial
[JURIST] Rwandan police on Friday arrested American lawyer Paul Erlinder [professional profile; JURIST news archive] in Kigali on charges that he denied the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. Erlinder, a defense lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (IC ...
- Supreme Court denies Blagojevich trial delay reque ...
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Friday denied a request by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich [JURIST news archive] to delay the start of his corruption trial by 30 days. Blagojevich had sought to postpone the start of his trial in the US District Court for the Northern Dis ...
- Nepal extends parliament term to develop new const ...
[JURIST] The Nepalese government on Friday extended the term of parliament by one year in order to develop a new democratic constitution. The agreement between Nepal's main political parties occurred just after midnight, when the Constituent Assembly [official website, in Nepalese] was due to dissol ...
- ICTY prosecutor urges greater Croatia cooperation ...
[JURIST] Chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] Serge Brammertz [official profile] said Friday that Croatia must make additional efforts to assist in investigations of war crimes during the 1991-1995 Balkan war [JURIST news archiv ...
- India court charges ex-MP in connection with anti- ...
[JURIST] An Indian court on Friday charged Sajjan Kumar [official profile], a former member of the Parliament of India in the ruling Congress Party [official websites], in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots [TOI backgrounder]. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta of the Northeast District of ...
- Text, Context, Subtext Of A Washington Post Scoop
Greg Miller, the Washington Post's ace intelligence and national security reporter, poured a bucket of ice down the backs of American officials with his publication last night of a story about how U.S. special operations forces are hamstrung from pursuing high value targets in Afghanistan, even as t ...
- A Few Steps Forward on Non-Proliferation
In 2005, the Nonproliferation Treaty Review conference produced little but hand-wringing and frustration when it ended. The story was about the Bush Administration and its alleged failures to advance the non-proliferation regime, which conveniently gave other states an excuse to hide behind. Bush ac ...
- On James Clapper And Stephen Cambone
In yesterday's Night Beat, I wrote that the five words that folks are using to encapsulate why Congress and others are uncomfortable with Gen. James Clapper Jr. (Ret.)'s potential ascension to the post of Director of National Intelligence are: "He Was Stephen Cambone's deputy." This requires a bi ...
- Has the Tea Party Done Anything for the GOP?
With the exception of Scott Brown's miraculous Senate race victory in Massachusetts -- and even there, one can question the premise -- has the Tea Party movement really done anything to help the Republican Party this cycle? I'll grant that the TP seems to have focused attention on the problem of ...
- White House: Bill Clinton Was the Go-Between for S ...
Sestak Memorandum.pdf Basically: the notion that the White House offered Rep. Joe Sestak the job of Secretary of the Navy is false. The President had already nominated Ray Mabus for the job BEFORE Arlen Specter switched parties. The White House, legitimately seeking to avoid a divisive primary, as ...
- Shin Bet Claims Makhoul’s Hezbollah Spying Began i ...
I’m delighted to report that human rights activists around the world are beginning to understand the gravity of the Makhoul-Said case and rallying to their defense. I expect in the coming week or so that more specific plans will be announced regarding international activism on behalf of these two ...
- Makhoul Indicted for Grave Espionage Offenses, Sai ...
Yesterday night, the Israeli secret police and their judicial subordinates announced the indictments of Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said. And I’m sorry to say both for the victims and the State of Israel that the bill of particulars is a laughingstock. Nevertheless, the Shin Bet, with these lurid, ba ...
- Im Tirtzu Launches $600,000 Libel Suit Against Isr ...
Ronen Shoval, the rightist leader of the uber-Zionist Im Tirtzu (“If You Want It”), has had enough of leftists making fun of him. A Facebook group called Im Tirtzu–Fascist Movement arose to skewer I.T. Then, horrors, a full-blown spoof website was created to lampoon the entire Im Tirtzu enterpri ...
- Knesset Debates Bill to Limit Gag Orders, Cites Da ...
A Knesset member introduced a bill today to limit the length and uses of gag orders and to provide for the right of appeal: A bill being put forward by Nahman Shai, a Knesset member for the opposition Kadima party, would limit gag orders to a week. “Gagging injunctions harm freedom of information ...
- Knesset Debates Bill to Limit Gag Orders, Cites Da ...
A Knesset member introduced a bill today to limit the length and uses of gag orders and to provide for the right of appeal: A bill being put forward by Nahman Shai, a Knesset member for the opposition Kadima party, would limit gag orders to a week. “Gagging injunctions harm freedom of information ...
- Bigger, better, faster ... blah!
By: Chintana How do we become bigger, better and faster to future-proof our company and clients? This is a central theme for the company I used to work for. And while it seems like quite a natural question for a “growth company” to ask, it also seemed to produ ...
- Hope therapy will get us through tough times
How hope therapy can help banish mild mood disorders and boost happiness. Photo: Dusanzidar/ Dreamstime.com Things were going pretty well for Melanie. After struggling with being overweight, she had recently dropped a significant number of pounds. She felt great and looked ...
- 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 ...
- NYS Passes Cutting Edge E-Waste Law
NY's Legislature passed what is arguably the most progressive electronics recycling law in the country yesterday, finally ensuring that all of the state's residents will have access to free and convenient recycling for their old and unwanted TVs, computers and other electronics. Passa ...
- India Releases Draft of Ambitious Green Mission
On May 24, India unveiled the draft of its National Green Mission , one of the eight missions under its National Action Plan on Climate Change . This is exciting news, especially for NRDC’s India team which is currently in New Delhi discussing climate change with Indian officials and ...
- Making Connections: Energy Security and Mobility C ...
This past Tuesday at the D.C. Convention Center NRDC and the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security �convened a roundtable conference on mobility choice . I opened up the forum along with my friend, fellow coalition-member and former Admiral Dennis McGinn, with our panel moderat ...
- Memorial Day message: corn ethanol tax credit is b ...
Heading into Memorial Day weekend and the traditional beginning of the driving season, my colleague Sasha Lyutse and I did a little digging into a recent study of corn ethanol policies and what would happen if the main corn ethanol tax credit was allowed to expire. The headline results ...
- A picture that says we import too much oil
Is the United States importing too much oil?� This Reuters picture , that appeared in the New York Times and the Vancouver Sun seems to say so.� A clear sign we need to move away from our oil addiction.
- The Finals
It’s good that I didn’t get around to picks for the conference finals, because I would have been wrong on both. I thought that the Sharks would be very tough once they got out of the first round, but watching them against the Hawks makes you realize that they’re no so much [...] Related posts: ...
- “We Can’t Even Get Into a Second-rate ...
R.I.P. While a better end-of-career choice would have been preferable, I’m sure he was the best thing about An American Carol… Related posts:The Former AG As Fourth-Rate Wingnut Blogger On the "Cancer Survival Rate" Factoid Clash of the Third-Rate Related posts: The Former AG As Fourth-Rate Win ...
- The Arbitrary Anti-abortion Obstacle Course
Continues to grow more burdensome. Which reminds me that this post can never be linked to enough. …see also. Related posts:Operation Meth Merchant, Arbitrary Enforcement, and Abortion Law More on Abortion and Public Opinion Paul and Abortion Related posts: Operation Meth Merchant, Arb ...
- Although the Fact That a Thriller Contains Scenes ...
As Doug says, it doesn’t get much more embarrassing than this. And as of now the howler remains uncorrected. And Clive Crook still finds this transparently idiotic analysis very compelling. Related posts:Sure, She Hate Me Sucked, But It’s Not Like He Wrote Scenes From A Mall Or Anything I’ ...
- Open Thread on Obama’s National Security Str ...
Full pdf here. Related posts:Open Thread The Second National Security and Democratic Electoral Chances Mad Men Open Thread Related posts: Open Thread The Second National Security and Democratic Electoral Chances Mad Men Open Thread
- Gasland in Elmira
The film “Gasland” about the Marcellus Shale drilling will play one night only at the Elmira Heights Theater on Wednesday, June 9th, with a Q&A with the writer/director Josh Fox. Admission fee: $5.00.
- Increased Gas Drilling Activities Bringing New Cha ...
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Counties and municipalities across Pennsylvania where natural gas drilling is taking place â particularly in the Northern Tier region â are also struggling to meet a number of additional challenges associated with the industry’s increas ...
- HB 2213 Proposal
On May 25th the Pennsylvania House environmental committee passed crucial legislation to protect our rivers and streams from dangerous gas drilling. This proposal, HB 2213, does several important things, including: • Prohibiting gas drilling near rivers, lakes and drinking water sources; • Requiri ...
- 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- – - ...
- Huge CO2 `Burps’ from Oceans May Have Contributed ...
Analyzing sediment cores from the Southern Ocean, scientists believe that large, periodic releases of deep-ocean carbon dioxide into the atmosphere may have played a role in climate swings in earlier eras, including the ending of the last Ice Age 18,000 years ago. Using radiocarbon dating techniques ...
- Indonesia Okays Moratorium On New Logging Concessi ...
Indonesia, which has allowed widespread destruction of its tropical forests in recent decades, has announced it will impose a two-year moratorium on new forestry concessions beginning in 2011. In exchange, the Norwegian government — which has played a key role in trying to slow deforestation worldwi ...
- Progress on Stopping Oil Leak As U.S. Proposes Two ...
A Coast Guard admiral said that the effort to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be working, while other U.S. officials said the government is proposing or extending drilling moratoriums in the Arctic and in the deep seas. Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of the oil spill respon ...
- Certification of Krill Fishery Draws Protest From ...
The decision by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to certify an Antarctic krill fishery as environmentally sustainable has drawn a sharp protest from the Pew Environmental Group. The MSC, which has certified 67 fisheries worldwide as sustainable , decided this week to put its seal of approval on ...
- Will REDD Preserve Forests Or Merely Provide a Fig ...
The tropical forest conservation plan, known as REDD, has the potential to significantly reduce deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. But unless projects are carefully designed and monitored, the program could be undercut by shady dealings at all levels, from the forests to global ca ...
- Disclosure and Avatars?
*Sigh* Here we go again. More disclosure stuff. But this site has piqued my interest lately in that it’s not the ” in your face ” type of disclosure meme. This seems to have some synchronicity on its side. Well, see for yourselves: After more than 210,000 page views of the April 26, 2010, article “ ...
- Who Does MUFON Represent?
MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) is one of the various UFO researching organizations still in operation. It has membership in many states and actually has some funding by a mainstream aerospace company (Bigelow Aerospace). Unfortunately as my previous post indicated, the field of UFO (and paranormal) stud ...
- Is There a Ufology “Hate Meme?”
It has recently come to my poor addled mind that David Biedny is no longer on the Paracast. I don’t listen to the show much anymore, for reasons I don’t particularly know why, but I have listened to a couple more recently. And I’ve wondered why Gene Steinberg has had guest hosts on. Now, I [...]
- 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 ...
- Humane Society International Update!! 3 New Action ...
The 2010 slaughter is over, but you can still help seals. Horrific cruelty prompts calls for animal protection in Mexico. Ask stores to take whale meat off the shelves. Submitted by Borg Drone to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Take Action: Save Wild Tigers with the Stamp Act
Wild tigers are near extinction decimated by illegal poaching, habitat loss and conflict with humans. Within the last century, their population has dropped from 100,000 to just 3,200. Submitted by Borg Drone to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Oppose Roundup Of More Than 2,000 Wild Horses and ...
Despite strong opposition from thousands of Americans, the BLM's Eagle Lake Field Office is proceeding with, and accepting public comments on, their proposal to remove 1,855 wild horses and 210 burros from the Twin Peaks HMA, northeast of Susanville, Ca. Submitted by Chris V. to Animals �|� �Note- ...
- Kung Fu Bear - World's Most Deadly Bear? (The One) ...
Cloud, the Kung Fu Bear makes other animals look downright weak,with his mighty claws and impressive martial art skills. He can spin a staff more gracefully than most humans and if that doesn't work he can just maul you. Cloud is a resident of the Hiroshi Submitted by BarbCat Kay to Animals �|� �No ...
- Alert! Army and police enter Bushman reserve
Trucks of soldiers and police entered the Central Kalahari Game Reserve today. Survival believes this is to intimidate the Bushmen, and perhaps even force them out Submitted by Shaktiva I. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Top Oil-Drilling Regulation Quits
“Elizabeth Birnbaum, head of Minerals Management Service, which issues permits for offshore drilling, resigned.” (Washington Post, Friday) Government sure is good at managing public property. FEE Timely Classic “Regulation” by John A. Pugsley
- Arizona’s Latinos Worried about New Law
“When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizonaâs new immigration enforcement law, giving police departments broad power to make immigration checks, she sought to allay concerns from Hispanic citizens and legal residents that they would be singled out for scrutiny. Those words ring hollow to many Latinosâ¦. ...
- Libertarianism = Anti-racism
Rand Paul’s comments regarding the federal ban on racial discrimination in public accommodations has brought the libertarian position on civil rights to public attention.
- Obama Promises to Wean Country from Fossil Fuels
“President Barack Obama reaffirmed Wednesday his commitment to containing and cleaning up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and pledged to wean the country off its dependence on fossil fuels.” (Miami Herald, Thursday) The promise to âweanâ us is either idle political blather or a hint ...
- BP Spill Prompts Look at Regulatory Agency
“The Gulf oil spill has given fresh urgency to calls to reform the MMS [Minerals Management Service], which has long been accused of having too cozy a relationship with Big Oil. But as the process of reform starts, new reports are revealing just how intertwined the MMS and Big Oil are â and how di ...
- Two good books for learning JavaScript, jQuery
Since about March this year, I’ve been searching for a few good, clear books to recommend to journalists and students who are interested in learning to use jQuery — with an eye toward getting ready for HTML5. You could just leap straight into jQuery, but I think it would make more sense to get a ha ...
- 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 ...
- WHAT'S NEXT FOR COAL ASH?
Disaster has pushed Washington to call for new standards for handling waste from coal-fired power plants. It's invited citizens to weigh in, but will their voices carry above lobbyists fighting tough regulations? A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis NOTE: This is the final installme ...
- VOICES: Obama sends in the border troops
By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer While conservatives have already started blaming President Obama for not allowing the National Guard to construct gun turrets on top of the 18-foot border wall and start blazing away, it's actually those sissies at the Pentagon that want to make sure the ...
- 'DUMPSITES IN DISGUISE'
Coal ash isn't just dumped; it's increasingly being recycled into building materials and other uses. But in states like North Carolina, the failure to adequately regulate one so-called "beneficial use" of the toxic-filled waste is putting communities at risk. A special Facing South investigation by ...
- POWER POLITICS
After years of inaction, federal officials are mulling new regulations to confront the growing problem of coal ash. But energy companies have fought off regulation before, and they're fighting the new rules every step of the way. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis When the catastr ...
- 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 ...
- So Baby Jesus says - Don't shop at supermarkets fo ...
A distinctly British story, BUT maybe you could "just substitute the name of your BIG box store" in place of "Tesco" and it will "ring true." cowboss� If you like Christmas, you probably fancy a good old-fashioned one (the good old postmodern Christmas is so over). Mince pies, wassail, rosy cheeks ...
- FDA Petitioned to Ban Arsenic from Animal Feed
Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs You, my regular readers know this is an important issue to cowboss.� I am�pleased to see that action is being taken in the US, I do hope that the FDA will do the responsible thing and Ban this ridiculous prac ...
- The Mouse In The House ~ Author unknown
A compelling story! �I Bet You Never Thought About It That Way Before - But "Hopefully" You Will Now! .... cowboss A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a m ...
- Missouri government plots undercover sting operati ...
"To you, it's just a gallon of milk. But to these farmers, it's their livelihood. Think about that for a minute before you go slapping handcuffs on the very same people who put food on your mama's table." Imagine being watched by two undercover cops as you engage in an illicit deal in a deserted p ...
- "Marketing 101 to the Max" or Meaningful Change at ...
Yes, Yes and Yes, BUT the Fundamental Question remains -- What have you (Maple Leaf Foods) done about�complying with CFIA's warnings and stopping�the�use of US Feces (Shit) Fed Beef in the manufacturing of your "Processed Meats"? "CANADA - Maple Leaf Foods yesterday announced the establishment of i ...
- War of 1812
On 18 June 1812, at the height of the Napoleonic conflict ( see NAPOLEONIC WARS ), the US declared war on Great Britain and struck at the only British possession on the continent: Canada. Most of the battles that followed
- Group of Seven
The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.
- Winnipeg General Strike
The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
- World War II
Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such
- Mowat, Farley
Farley Mowat, author (b at Belleville, Ont 12 May 1921). Mowat has been writing since his pre-teens. He recalls composing "mostly verse" while living with his family in Windsor (1930-33) and then publishing a r
- Bilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked
Veteran Bilderberg researcher and bestselling author Daniel Estulin has once again acquired a copy of the agenda for the annual meeting of the world's power elite. In an exclusive interview with The Corbett Report earlier today, Estulin revealed what the Bilderbergers will be discussing at this ...
- Agenda 21 Alert: Science and Sewage
There is evidence of financial ties to the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation , who are cohorts in depopulation of the planet, as evidenced by the support of Rockefeller's Population Council .
- Psychopaths United For Israel
- U.S. Department of Defense Wants Autonomous Robot ...
“It will save lives”, or so the argument goes. Sending a robot warrior onto the battlefield instead of humans seems like the logical next step in a world moving toward greater efficiency and automation.
- China Government Requests Censorship On Foxconn Ne ...
According to one of the Hong Kong English newspaper report , the Chinese Government and authorities request all press media in China to use the official news from Xinhua when they report Foxconn suicide case. All news website have to remove all special reports on Foxconn and major forums are req ...
- The Gaza flotilla and the ironies of history
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rNo one can accuse history of not having a sense of irony. Sixty-three years ago in July 1947 a passenger ship destined for Palestine and named The Exodus was stopped and boarded by the British Navy. The ship was crowded with Holocaust survivors determined to make a ...
- REBALANCING THE WORLD
Summary: Richard FalkMay 17th was the day that the Brazilian/Turkish initiative bore fruit in Tehran, with Iran agreeing to a ten-point arrangement designed to defuse the mounting confrontation with the United States and Israel with regard to its enrichment facilities. source: Counter Currentsrea ...
- Fuel Swap Shakes Sanctions Draft, Prods U.S. on Ne ...
Summary: WASHINGTON, May 29, 2010 (IPS) – Although the Barack Obama administration continued to dismiss the May 17 Iranian fuel swap agreement Friday, there are indications that Iran’s move has shaken the agreement among U.N. Security Council members on sanctions, and is bringing Russian diplomatic ...
- Iran’s Mottaki to meet Okada
Summary: japan’s flag Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will visit Tokyo and meet with counterpart Katsuya Okada on Monday to discuss Tehran’s nuclear programs, diplomatic sources said Thursday. source: Japan Times online read more
- Turkish PM says West unfair, insincere in Iran row ...
Summary: ErdoganANKARA ? Turkey’s prime minister Saturday accused Western powers of lacking a “fair and sincere” approach on Iran in a mounting row over a nuclear swap deal with Tehran, Anatolia news agency reported. source: AFPread more
- US Slams Turkey, Brazil Over Iran
Summary: Dreyfuss When the Obama administration decided to move aggressively down the path of more sanctions on Iran, it was not because they thought it would work – they don’t – but because they had no idea what to do when U.S.-Iran talks broke down in late 2009. According to U.S. officials, th ...
- The U.S., Brazil and Turkey: how to lose friends a ...
Summary: Richard Falk’s article Rebalancing the World in Tomas Rosa Bueno CounterCurrents gives a fair and balanced view of the far-reaching consequences of the May 17 Tehran Declaration. However, when addressing the possible reasons for the U.S. negative response to the deal brokered by Brazil ...
- Iran's Mottaki to meet Okada
Summary: japan's flag Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will visit Tokyo and meet with counterpart Katsuya Okada on Monday to discuss Tehran's nuclear programs, diplomatic sources said Thursday. source: Japan Times online read more
- REBALANCING THE WORLD
Summary: Richard Falk May 17th was the day that the Brazilian/Turkish initiative bore fruit in Tehran, with Iran agreeing to a ten-point arrangement designed to defuse the mounting confrontation with the United States and Israel with regard to its enrichment facilities. source: Counter Current ...
- Fuel Swap Shakes Sanctions Draft, Prods U.S. on Ne ...
Summary: WASHINGTON, May 29, 2010 (IPS) - Although the Barack Obama administration continued to dismiss the May 17 Iranian fuel swap agreement Friday, there are indications that Iran's move has shaken the agreement among U.N. Security Council members on sanctions, and is bringing Russian diploma ...
- BP top kill method fails as cleanup workers are ho ...
(NaturalNews) BP officials have announced today that the "top kill" effort to stop the Gulf oil leak has failed. Unanticipated problems doomed the project, which involved trying to pump tens of thousands of gallons of mud, shredded rubber tires and other "junk" into the hole to try to halt the outfl ...
- BP's oil gusher in the Gulf: Spin terminology expl ...
(NaturalNews Satire) What exactly is a "junk shot?" How about "top kill" or an "undersea plume?" The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is introducing the world to all sorts of fascinating words and phrases from the world of Big Oil. Some of them can be a bit confusing, so as a public service to Nat ...
- McDonald's attacks teen named "McClusky" over trad ...
(NaturalNews) McDonald's has initiated a legal battle against 19-year-old Lauren McClusky over her attempt to trademark the name of a charity festival. McClusky, whose father is radio promoter Jeff McClusky, has held three annual fundraisers for the Chicago chapter of the Special Olympics. The first ...
- Two of the best and greenest reusable food contain ...
(NaturalNews) Many health-conscious individuals understand the value in preparing healthy food at home for both themselves and their children. Not only is this practice economical, but it provides a superior option to fast food and school lunchroom fare. In response to this growing trend, many compa ...
- Bill Gates funds covert vaccine nanotechnology
(NaturalNews) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultr ...
- Five Alleged Money Mules Indicted in Bank Theft
Five alleged money mules have been indicted in a bank heist that netted the thieves almost $450,000 from a local-government bank account in California. John L. Quinn II and Anthony Bobbitt, both of North Carolina, were indicted with three others on criminal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and cons ...
- Supreme Court Gets RIAA Copyright Case
A case testing the meaning of the so-called “innocent infringer’s” defense to the Copyright Act’s minimum $750-per-music-track fine has landed at the U.S. Supreme Court. The case the justices were asked to review this week concerns a federal appeals court’s February decision ordering a university st ...
- Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the ‘ ...
Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the “wild” internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday. ...
- Time Warner Cable Resists Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit
A consortium of independent film producers is hitting a stumbling block in its plan to simultaneously sue thousands of BitTorrent users for allegedly downloading pirated movies. Time Warner Cable is refusing to look up and turn over the identities of about a thousand of its customers targeted in the ...
- Lawsuits Pour in Over Google’s Wi-Fi Data Collecti ...
At least three lawsuits have been filed against search engine giant Google for collecting Wi-Fi user data through its Street View cameras. The lawsuits have been filed in California, Massachusetts and Oregon. They allege that Google violated federal and state privacy laws in collecting fragments of ...
- Republicans Criminalizing Politics over Sestak Aff ...
While Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has deemed the Sestak no-pay-for-no-play non-scandal an "illegal quid pro quo" and " Obama's Watergate ," the overwhelming consensus of legal opinion had concluded otherwise. While Bush White House ethics officer Richard Painter told his fellow Republicans to "move on ...
- Will Issa Cry Again Over Sestak Non-Scandal?
With today's release of statements by the White House Counsel and Congressman Joe Sestak regarding the no-pay for no-play Pennsylvania Senate contest, Sestakgate is emerging as a non-scandal. After all, in 1982 President Ronald Reagan offered Senator S.I. Hayakawa a job if he dropped out of the Cal ...
- Sadly for Republicans, the Stimulus Stimulated
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that's our target market." Judging from the rhetoric of House Minority Leader John Boehner , that's the Republican mantra when it comes to the Obama recovery package. Nine months after Boehner wrongly decried a "stimulus bill that didn't creat ...
- Robin Hood and the Estate Tax
In 2009, only 1 in 500 American estates paid taxes. But thanks to the obstructionism of Senate Republicans led by Arizona's Jon Kyl, the estate tax temporarily lapsed for 2010, a hiatus that could portend massive windfalls this year for the heirs of the largest fortunes in the United States. Now a ...
- Souder Exception Proves Rule of GOP Adultery
No boy, no problem . For the adulterers of the Republican Party , that has long been the rule. Which makes the resignation of Indiana GOP Congressman and family values merchant Mark Souder over an affair with staffer Tracy Jackson all the more exceptional. While Eliot Spitzer, Gary Hart, Jim McGr ...
- 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.
- NYT's Friedman Rejects Iran Nuke Deal
New York Times neocon pundit Thomas L. Friedman wants "regime change" in Iran, not a nuclear agreement, reports Robert Parry. May 27, 2010
- Memorial Daze: Quandary of Empire
In honoring U.S. soldiers, should Americans distinguish between veterans of defensive and imperial wars, asks Philip A Ferruggio. May 29, 2010
- Even Kissinger Finally 'Gets It'
After decades at the center of the American Empire, Henry Kissinger admits that war has its limits, observes Winslow Myers. May 29, 2010
- The Ethnic Mix that Launched America
Amid anti-immigrant fervor, some Americans forget that patriots of many backgrounds defeated the British, says William Loren Katz. May 28, 2010
- Memorial Day's Troubling Message
A holiday to honor past American soldiers has a different, more troubling purpose in an era of endless war, writes Gary G. Kohls. May 27, 2010
- Thanks for your donations to EarthShare of Texas t ...
PUBLIC CITIZEN’s TEXAS OFFICE is a Public Citizen’s Texas office would like to thank all those who made donations to Earth Share of Texas through HEB’s in-store coupon promotion for April. Your donations will go toward supporting environmental work in Texas including the Texas office of Public Citiz ...
- Tar Sands May be Coming to Texas
The U.S. Department of State will be hosting public hearings this week, May 17-20th in Beaumont, Liberty, Livingston, and Tyler on the proposed tar sands pipeline. Canadian oil and gas giant TransCanada needs U.S. Department of State approval in order to expand the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada t ...
- Arkansas Supreme Court Rules Against Turk Coal Pla ...
Upholding a state court ruling made last year that found the hearing process was not conducted propery, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against the Turk coal-fired power plant in Southwest Arkansas. This is great news for the People of Arkansas, surrounding states, and the planet in general. Perha ...
- Webinar on Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compa ...
The day after our radioactive waste importation webinar, the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission announced that it would delay consideration of the rule that would have allowed the import of low level nuclear waste from the entire nation into Texas. The rule will not be considered ...
- Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
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- Insights - Spring 2010
Global Justice Takes Global Movements People attending the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001 declared,� “Another World is Possible.” Since then, the critical question is: how do we get there? The roadmap that Grassroots International and our global partners follow starts with ...
- 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 ...
- May 29-30, 2010
BP's Top Kill Effort Fails to Plug Gulf Oil Leak (AP) The most ambitious bid yet to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history ended in failure Saturday after BP was unable to overwhelm the gusher of crude with heavy fluids and junk. Pres. Obama called the setback "as enraging as it is heartbr ...
- May 28, 2010
U.S. Climate Bill Seen Unlikely in 2010 (Reuters) Senators are unlikely to pass legislation to tackle global warming this year as the time remaining to do so runs out, a panel of experts said on Friday at a carbon conference. China May Start State-Guided Carbon Market by 2014, Feng Says (Bloo ...
- May 27, 2010
BP Spokesman Says 'Top Kill' Continues, Amidst Reports Leak Plugged (Reuters) BP is continuing with its "top kill" operation to try to plug its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well but has no immediate update to give on whether it has succeeded, a BP spokesman said on Thursday. Scientists: Gulf Spi ...
- May 26, 2010
China All But Dashes Hope of Climate Deal This Year (Reuters) A senior Chinese climate official said on Tuesday that negotiators aim to seal a binding global warming pact by the end of 2011, a blow to any lingering hopes the world could reach a deal at talks this year in Mexico. De Boer Confi ...
- 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 Locke ...
- 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 ...
- Top Kill, Indeed
� from Truthout "Top kill." That has been the phrase on the lips of every network news talking head, and in the lead paragraph of every news report, all throughout this last week. British Petroleum (BP) describes the process this way: "The primary objective of the top kill process is to put heavy ki ...
- Bin Laden Says He's 'Professionally Envious' of BP
THE BOROWITZ REPORT - In a new video that is light on his usual threats but heavy on admiration, Osama bin Laden admits that he is "professionally envious" of oil giant BP's massive oil spill, saying that it puts his efforts to create destruction and chaos to shame. "There are times in an evildoer's ...
- Is The President The Kind of Leader Chairman Mao W ...
We now know that it was the Obama Administration led by the President himself who used techniques well understood and denounced decades earlier by none other than Mao TseTung. Mao had no use for those who talked left to move right. In several high profile speeches, Obama lashed out at Wall Street fo ...
- Moving and Moving On: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
"You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast..." — Bob Dylan Go ahead, call me a Sixties retread - others have - but in times of stress or especially when seeking inspiration, I often find myself turn, turn, turning to the music ...
- Rwandan Arrest of U.S. Lawyer Motivated by Politic ...
Professor Peter Erlinder, noted criminal defense lawyer and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, was arrested Friday morning in Rwanda for "genocide ideology." Erlinder's representation of high-profile defendants before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has incurred the ...
- The Continuing Oil Spill Is Taking Its Toll
Hope remains that the Top Kill method currently employed by BP will finally, finally cap this horrible, devastating oil spill in the Gulf, though it is still uncertain. It is with that effort underway that President Obama made his second trip to the Gulf on Friday since the oil spill began April 20t ...
- Conflict IPhones
From the blog for the syndicated John Batchelor Show, aired nightly from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. ET. Spoke Hugo Restall, WSJ, and Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re the 11 suicides and many other cases of self-abuse at the vast Foxconn electronic facility on Mainland China across from Hong Kong. The ...
- Pitting Citizen Against Citizen
That would be President Obama in his recent press conference. Now I understand why this “eloquent” “brilliant” “orator” does not do more of these things. Wow. We thought Bush was bad. But eve Bush never pitted one American citizen against another like this: Watch the latest news video at video.f ...
- Possible New Border Czar?
/ Bumped up / So much going on recently, like: DADT may be coming up for a vote in the House, but its repeal is far from guaranteed, especially with the Chiefs of the Four branches speaking out against repeal; The LA Times reported the hole was finally closed using the Top Kill method of [...]
- BP (Accumulate); Democracts (Underweight)
From the blog for the syndicated John Batchelor Show, aired nightly from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. ET. � Humpty-Dumpty POTUS. � The disaster in the Gulf is now the exogenous event that was always possible that could take the Obama administration plans off course for the mid-terms. The spill cont ...
- The Philippines: Where 4 of the World's Smallest T ...
Smallest creations that are found in the Philippines. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Destructive Power of Giant Hailstone Blizzards
Nothing on earth demonstrates more destructive power than the weather. When black thunderclouds are overhead, you just might experience the force of giant hailstones. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Exploring London's Biggest Concrete Nightmare
A journey into deprivation, isolation and 'Broken Britain'. Gritty inner-city London takes no prisoners. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- You Know Times are Tough When Your Turf is a Trash ...
As less people can afford drugs and electronics to steal, times are getting hard for the small gangs, and some have been reduced to garbage territories. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- When Geese Attack!
In Springtime all creatures great and small start to sense the love that hangs in the air. Breeding season has arrived, and the danger of predators in nature makes all p read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Texas: Patriot Group and Denis Calabrese
Patriot Group and the Destruction of Teacher Unions: Denis Calabrese I wanted to include this bit of right-wing rabid fascism and racism for all readers to see what we are up against in corporate America. What follows is the raving of a semi-literate, anti-humanist who seeks to control children and ...
- Time for law abiding American citizens to stop pay ...
source. David Degraw has written an outstanding comprehensive explanation of whatâs really happening in the US economy. Heâs given me permission to reprint it here. I also recommend his site ”For Our Economy“ for citizen grass-roots activism for economic justice. Regarding the title of Americ ...
- Haiti Converting to Charter Schools: More Disaster ...
The success of the New Orleans “disaster capitalism” project in which the public school system was taken over by charter schools during the re-building after Katrina, has led to similar developments in other destitute places of the world. Haiti, is a prime example. International philanthropy  is p ...
- Breaking the Blockade of Silence – L.A. Art and A ...
By Diana Block, International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five How do you break through the twelve-year blockade of silence that has kept five Cuban political prisoners invisible to the American public? How can art transcend U.S. prison walls and present the truth about these men, locked ...
- Northern Arizona University to tag its students
Northern Arizona University are set to start using RFID tags to monitor the attendance of its students. Students are protesting the use of RFID tags, which are embedded in their student IDs. A university spokesman told Government Technology magazine that the intent is to encourage professors to inc ...
- 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, ...
- ‘You will not be abandoned,’ Obama tel ...
by Agence France-Presse. GRAND ISLE, La. -- President Barack Obama told the people of the Gulf Coast Friday they would not be "abandoned," in his most impassioned remarks yet on the United States' worst-ever oil spill. He spoke from the Louisiana coast during his second tour of the region since ...
- Success of oil capping bid won’t be clear fo ...
by Grist. BP’s latest one-two punch —pumping “heavy drilling fluid” with a junk-shot chaser—seems to be slowing the leaking Gulf oil well. But don’t uncross those fingers yet. “It’s going pretty well, according to plan,” BP chief Tony Hayward told ABC television Friday morning. “We will go bac ...
- Finally: Obama halts new offshore leases and stump ...
by Jonathan Hiskes. Now we're getting somewhere on the offshore drilling problem. Some progress from the top: Mr. Obama ordered a further six-month moratorium on new permits for new deepwater oil and gas wells; suspended the planned exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off the coast o ...
- ‘Top kill’ seems to be halting oil gus ...
by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- BP's risky "top kill" of its ruptured Deepwater Horizon well appeared to stop the oil flow Thursday, even as new data showed the Gulf of Mexico leak had already become the worst in U.S. history. Moving to ensure the United States is never hit with such a d ...
- Obama’s finally connecting the Gulf spill an ...
by Jonathan Hiskes. My request for President Obama is simple, really: Dust off the secret presidential SCUBA suit, invite the Senate's biggest oil-industry shills on a "fact-finding mission" to the Gulf (promise shrimp cocktails if necessary), and use them to plug up BP's hole. Failing that, Oba ...
- Gates Solicits Military Input on ‘Don’ ...
As the House passed the 2011 defense authorization bill this afternoon containing a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Defense Secretary Gates issued a video statement to the military encouraging servicemembers to tell his Working Group how to “minimize any disruption” to the force when repeal happe ...
- Unemployment Benefits Are Stimulus
Robert Reich has a good column on”why deficit hawks are killing the recovery.” Consumer spending is 70 percent of the American economy, so if consumers canât or wonât spend weâre back in the soup. Yet the government just reported that consumer spending stalled in April â the first month c ...
- The Subprime Student Loan Crisis
The New York Times’ Ron Lieber has an excellent column on the severe hangover left by the cocktail of cheap credit and spiraling college tuitions: the tens of thousands of young people saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of what is, effectively, subprime student loan debt. In some cases, that ...
- The Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment
This week, Jesse Rothstein, the chief economist at the Labor Department, spoke at the Economic Policy Institute, and the organization just posted the slides. Congress is losing its stomach for funding extended benefits. But, as the slides show, long-term unemployment remains a major problem. The ch ...
- House Passes Unemployment Benefits Extension
The House on Friday approved legislation to extend the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits through November. It does not create new benefits. The vote was 215 to 204. The bill — which also extends a number of tax breaks set to expire shortly — now moves to the Senate, which will take ...
- Newly discovered Gulf Scientists: Oil plume is 22- ...
Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama. The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine ...
- The Solution, Schaeffer Cox Speaks on the Future o ...
Schaeffer talks about forming competing governments and establishing common law courts with home grown militias. He focuses on creating local communities that seek to promote and live out the positive ideals of Liberty and Freedom instead of working with or against current government structures or p ...
- Ron Paul: Inside Sources Told Me Fed Is Panicking ...
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, May 27, 2010 Appearing on The Alex Jones Show yesterday, Congressman Ron Paul revealed that through his inside sources he had learned that the people who control the Federal Reserve are panicking about the fact that Americans are waking up to the fact t ...
- Was America The “Golden Goose?”
By Gordon Duff We couldn’t have done anything about it anyway, even if we weren’t being manipulated to blame each other. I love it when I hear about conspiracies. Our entire financial system is a conspiracy, always has been. Conspirators wrote our Constitution. Federalists were nothing but agents of ...
- Why Man-Made Global Warming is a load of cobblers
By James Delingpole Just been reading Climate: The Counter Consensus (Stacey International) the new book by Bob Carter – that’s New Zealand’s Professor Robert M Carter to you, mate: he’s one of the world’s leading palaeoclimatologists – and it’s a cracker. By the end, you’re left feeling rather as I ...
- 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 ...
- Water Website Spotlight – Blue Living Ideas
Blue Living Ideas is the ultimate Web resource for information, tips, news, and events related to Earthâs most precious resource â Water. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Eco Child Website Spotlight – Eco Childs ...
- 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 ...
- 2 Days Left to Vote for Your Favorite Spring Green ...
Vote for your Favorite Spring Greening Design TODAY! Heads up green design fans! There’s just two days of voting left before we crown the grand prize winner of this year’s Spring Greening DIY Design Contest, and the competition is fierce! We’ve selected 23 stunning examples of recycled design, and ...
- Project H Design Launches Education Initiative, Wa ...
One our favorite design organizations Project H just launched their latest initiative which focuses on transforming the educational landscape through design. An organization founded by former Inhabitat Managing Editor Emily Pilloton, Project H seeks to help designers use their unique skills to tackl ...
- A New Study Finds Only 8% of Sunscreens are Effect ...
You may have already started stocking up on sunscreen for the summer, but you might want to wait a second before slathering it onto your delicate skin. A recent study conducted by the Environmental Working Group found that only 39 of 500 sunscreens on the market— a dismal 8%—made the grade for safet ...
- The ‘Land Art Generator Initiative’ Combines Art w ...
The power of art is often described as being emotional, healing, ethereal, and inspirational. But in the context of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), art’s power is as literal as that: power. An international design competition launched this January, the LAGI calls for artists around the wor ...
- 4 Days Left to Vote for Your Favorite Spring Green ...
Vote for your Favorite Spring Greening Design TODAY! Heads up green design fans! There’s just four days of voting left before we crown the grand prize winner of this year’s Spring Greening DIY Design Contest, and the competition is incredible! We’ve selected 23 stunning examples of recycled design, ...
- The Tragic Race to Be First to the South Pole
> NEW YORK CITY — In 1910, two men set out to be the first to reach the South Pole in a race that would be both heroic and tragic. The men had different reasons for their journeys, took different routes and made different decisions that would ultimately seal their [...]
- Congress, Obama Take Sudden Interest in Synthetic ...
Congress explicitly took up the subject of synthetic biology for the first time Thursday during a hastily convened hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Wired crowd has been talking about how to engineer biological machines for years, but Craig Venter’s announcement last week that ...
- Video: Designing Bridges to Be Drivable After Quak ...
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience88281115001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); RICHMOND, California â Sure, earthquake engineers can now make bridges safe during even the biggest earthquakes, but they’re still rendered unusable in the key ...
- The Science of Horror-Flick Screams
As horror-flick titles go, Night of the Living Chaos and Rosemaryâs Nonlinearity arenât the catchiest. But filmmakers know that chaos — the mathematical kind — is scary. Now scientists know it too. Filmmakers use chaotic, unpredictable sounds to evoke particular emotions, say researchers who ha ...
- Origin of Milky Way Clouds Revealed
Mysterious clouds of gas hovering above the plane of the Milky Way may be the fractured remnants of superbubbles blown by stellar winds and exploding stars. “There’s a fundamental, interesting connection between gas far away from the Milky Way and the amount of star formation below it in the galact ...
- A Bold New Policy Proposal: Bombing Iran Into Subm ...
The headline is sarcastic, of course. But Amitai Etzioni, an Israeli-American professor at George Washington University, is quite serious: He wants the U.S. to threaten a massive bombing campaign (pdf) against Iran in order to derail its nuclear weapons program. Etzioni's article was published in ...
- Beinart Sees the Light: The Challenges of Zionism
Peter Beinart, former editor of the New Republic, former Iraq hawk , has made a splash by noticing that the leading institutions of American Jewry have refused to fosterâindeed, have actively opposedâa Zionism that challenges Israelâs behavior in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and toward its own ...
- Chinese Power Projection and Obama's Brave New Str ...
From the Huffington Post , by Stephen Goldsmith and Daniel Wagner. Apart from the issues of Taiwan and the Spratly Islands, China lays claim to much of India's state of Arunachal Pradesh, and caused major jitters in 2009 with incursions into the territory combined with strident rhetoric. It has blo ...
- Drones and the Rule-Based Global Order
Trouble in droneland : The American military released a scathing report on Saturday on the deaths of 23 Afghan civilians , saying that âinaccurate and unprofessionalâ reporting by a team of Predator drone operators helped lead to an inadvertent airstrike this year on a group of innocent men, wom ...
- Unified Security Budget a Necessary Step
The House Armed Services Committee voted the FY 2011 Defense Authorization Bill out of committee last week at a whopping $567 billion. By contrast, the FY11 State Department and USAID budget request is a meager $52.8 billion, or about 9% of the money the administration expects to spend next year fo ...
- Lightning Round: More Than Words.
Stephanie Mencimer : "When it comes to employing Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other social-media sites, Republicans are whipping their opponents across the aisle, creating a growing tech gulf that threatens important implications for the 2010 mid-term elections " (emphasis mine). Really? In gene ...
- The Little Picture: Tension on the Korean Peninsul ...
The South Korean naval vessel Cheonan , shown above in dry dock, was attacked on March 26 -- 46 sailors were killed. North Korea has denied any involvement, although an internationally coordinated investigation concluded that there was "overwhelming evidence" that the DPRK was responsible. (AFP/ ...
- Why Deficit Hawks are Killing the Recovery.
Consumer spending is 70 percent of the American economy, so if consumers can’t or won’t spend we’re back in the soup. Yet the government just reported that consumer spending stalled in April – the first month consumers didn’t up their spending since last September. Instead, consumers boosted their s ...
- Reproductive Care for Servicewomen.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved an amendment that would repeal a ban on abortions for servicewomen even when those women paid with their own money. The amendment was introduced by Sen. Roland Burris and is now attached to the National Defense Authorization Act. The previous rule, which ...
- The Television Justice System.
Adam Serwer talks with Law and Order producer René Balcer about the show's 20-year run: What inspired you to do the torture episode? These are issues I've been thinking about since I was 16. I lived in Canada, and I lived through a terrorist crisis [the Front de Libération du Qué in the 1960s], an ...
- An interview with Andy Worthington for Labour Brie ...
The following interview, conducted by Louise Whittle, is published in the June 2010 issue of Labour Briefing (see here for subscription details, and/or a free copy of the current issue), and was cross-posted yesterday on Louise’s site, Harpymarx. Labour Briefing: What made you (and Polly Nash) make ...
- The Battle of the Beanfield: 25th Anniversary Even ...
Tuesday June 1 is the 25th anniversary of a brutal and pivotal event that signalled the start of a serious assault on civil liberties in the UK, leading to the passage of two horrendous pieces of legislation — the Public Order Act of 1986 and the Criminal Justice Act of 1994 — and paving the [...]
- More “Congressional Depravity” on Guantánamo
On Monday, in an article entitled, “House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo,” I described my despair at the House Armed Services Committee’s unanimous refusal to provide $350 million (out of a war budget of $726 billion) so that President Obama can close Guantánamo by moving prisoners to a facility in ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Why You Shouldn't Give Money to Panhandlers
The most frequently asked question I get when people find out I work with the homeless is, "Should I give money to beggars?" Some people contend that they are kind because they do give to the needy while others have strong negative opinions about the homeless and thus don't give often. My answer is ...
- There are No Gay Actors, Only Gay Parts
Heath Ledger, Sean Penn, Al Pacino, Hillary Swank, Charlize Theron, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Javier Bardim, Felicity Huffman, William Hurt, Salma Hayek. What do all these great actors have in common? No, they're not all secretly gay. But they have all been nominated for or won an Academy A ...
- Tell Mayor Bloomberg to Stop Fighting Living Wage ...
Readers, I need your assistance. Please help me understand why a proposed bill that would guarantee a living wage for New Yorkers working on city-subsidized projects is controversial. Because I really don't understand. The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act would ensure that any developer receiving city ...
- Using Hamsters to Save Ferrets?
Marc Bekoff, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, is a columnist for Change.org. To prepare endangered captive-bred ferrets to hunt when released, people working in the black-footed ferret recovery/reintroduction program , headquartered in Wellington, ...
- Why Is President Obama Still Supporting Whale Slau ...
It’s great that President Obama is finally starting to acknowledge the severity of the situation in the Gulf of Mexico. Now he needs to get real about another serious threat to marine life: the return of commercial whaling. So far the United States is supporting the proposal before the International ...
- BP's 'Top Kill' Mission Halts the Oil Gush – but I ...
by Andrew Clark in New York and Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent A delicate "top kill" operation by BP tentatively halted the gush of oil and gas from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico today, although experts warned that the underwater leak was still far from being per ...
- 5 Protesters Arrested at Chevron Annual Meeting
Five protesters were arrested in Houston on Wednesday at the annual shareholders meeting of the oil giant Chevron. The True Cost of Chevron Network says it organized the protest to call attention to Chevron's human rights and environmental record. One of the five arrested, author Antonia Juhasz, was ...
- Cleanup Boats Sent to Shore After More Workers Get ...
by Ryan Knutson All 125 commercial vessels working to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been ordered back to shore temporarily after four workers on three separate vessels became ill, according to a Deepwater Horizon Response press release. It's unclear whether the crew member ...
- BP: 'Top kill' has Failed to Stop Gulf oil Leak
by Erika Bolstad BP has abandoned its most recent "top kill" effort to contain its well, a company official announced Saturday evening. "After three full days, we have been unable to overcome the flow," said the company's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles. In its next effort to halt what its off ...
- Rage Against the Machine Lead Arizona Boycott
by Sean Michaels Hot on the heels of Shakira , Rage Against the Machine are leading a fresh charge against Arizona 's controversial new immigration law. read more
- How to Give Wood that Distressed, Aged Look [DIY]
While there's definitely something nice about smooth, brand new wood furnishings, sometimes it just doesn't fit in. If you'd rather have that old, distressed look, you can fake it at home yourself, and save money in the process. More�� ...
- Top 10 Creative Ways to Store Your Stuff [Lifehack ...
Figuring out the smartest places to store your stuff is time well spent—mostly because it results in time you don't spend cleaning. Here's are 10 smart storage solutions for your excess cords, shoes, spices, and all kinds of computer stuff. ...
- DIY Rustic Outdoor Retreat [DIY]
The sun and the heat have finally arrived, and even if you don't have a summer getaway spot by the lake, you can make your own rustic, shaded relaxation spot with some pretty common household or easy-to-find objects. More�� ...
- Customize Your Google Chrome Application Icons by ...
Google Chrome's application shortcuts turn any web site into a separate item on your Windows 7 taskbar, but unfortunately many sites have low-res icons that make your taskbar ugly. Here's the simple trick to make your taskbar beautiful again. ...
- The Surprising Realities Behind What Motivates Us ...
Money can be a powerful motivator, but as studies performed by universities around the country (and this video) explain, rewarding people financially only works to a point. Beyond that, you need autonomy and purpose. More�� ...
- One Trillion Bucks For War
By Steve Hynd This Sunday, May 30, at a little after 10 a.m., the National Priorities Project's Cost of War counter will hit the $1 trillion dollar mark for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What would you do with $1 trillion dollars, the amount that's been spent on America's invasions and long occu ...
- 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 ...
- Alastair Reynolds on writing an optimistic future
The Borders Sci-Fi blog is currently hosting Alastair Reynolds as guest blogger, and it’s interesting seeing him talk about optimism in science fiction, and his personal quest to avoid melodrama in his plotting; evidently writing a piece for the Shine anthology got him thinking about the idea pretty ...
- We can misremember it for you wholesale: historica ...
Via Bruce Sterling, one of the more obvious augmented reality applications, done elegantly: historical archive images overlaid onto the real (present/baseline?) world. The older I get, the more I become fascinated with history; if someone did up layers like this for the whole country, I’d probably n ...
- Neural interfaces: the state of the art
Some heavy but fascinating reading over at h+ Magazine, in the form of James Kent’s round-up of where we are with technologies for interfacing the human brain with technological hardware, and where we’re going with it. The big take-away point for me is that the more fidelity you want from the interf ...
- Neural interfaces: the state of the art
Some heavy but fascinating reading over at h+ Magazine, in the form of James Kent’s round-up of where we are with technologies for interfacing the human brain with technological hardware, and where we’re going with it. The big take-away point for me is that the more fidelity you want from the interf ...
- The Diamond Age
Move over, old-school semiconductors; COSMOS Magazine reports on the coming ubiquity of diamond in small-scale high-tech. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 The Diamond Age Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, fo ...
- Something You Can Do To Help One Soldier This Memo ...
You can take a few minutes to send a letter of support on behalf of Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld . Lt. Col. Vandeveld is a highly decorated member of the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps who served in Bosnia, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan, as both a solder in combat and a prosec ...
- 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly
Yesterday concluded the 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly. Staff from the National Whistleblowers Center participated in a number of panels on major issues facing the whistleblower community. Richard Renner provided practice tips as part of the know your rights panel, Stephen M. Kohn discussed fi ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Joe Konrath Explains Why Authors Shouldn't Fear Fi ...
Simon was the first of a few of you to send over a blog post by author Joe Konrath discussing why he doesn't worry much about his books being available online via unauthorized file sharing avenues. The whole blog post is so reasonable and well argued that you really should just go read the whole th ...
- ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is T ...
Michael Scott points us to one of the best summaries I've seen of the state of the music business today -- published in the ABA Journal. It's an incredibly balanced piece, that really does carefully present both sides of the story on a variety of issues, and presents actual evidence, which suggests ...
- Australian Artists Upset That Australian Tourism C ...
Reader mick writes in to alert us to a group of photographers in Australia who seem absolutely livid that the government's latest toursim campaign sought to crowdsource photographs that could be used as part of the campaign . To me, that seems like a perfectly reasonable idea -- in fact, a good ide ...
- House Increases Taxes On Venture Capital At A Time ...
For a little while now, we've noted various plans among politicians to change tax laws for private equity fund managers -- which is supposed to close some loopholes that allowed some bad investment decision making to happen. But one of the serious problems with those efforts are that they lump toge ...
- Another Lawsuit Questions Who Owns The Copyright O ...
Last summer, we wrote about a lawsuit in the US where a lawyer was suing LexisNexis and Westlaw for their services offering access to legal filings. At issue was who owned the copyright on those legal filings. Historically, that issue has rarely come up, because there's little commercial interest ...
- Trusting Your Government
So here is a fascinating chart from Pew. It shows trust in government by administration, starting with Kennedy and Johnson. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, most democrats and republicans trusted the government. After Tricky Dick, trust in government plunged and never really came b ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello all. Sorry I’m in and out of the internet tubes lately. In addition to work being busy, I’m juggling a bunch of projects. One of them is called Anarchy in the News. It’s a new website for news reports about anarchy or anarchists. You can check it out here. You [...]
- 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 ...
- السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØØ±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصØÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت ÙÙ Øرب Ù…Ù ØرÙب 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 ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...
- USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
- Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
- Farm to School Needs More Support
It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
- Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
- USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...
- Bugatti Developing 800 HP All-Electric Supercar
Bugatti, maker of the world's fastest and most expensive production vehicle, is experimenting with an electric powertrain that delivers 597 kW of power. That's roughly 800 horsepower! Auto Express reports that engineers from the Volkswagen-owned comp... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
- Which is Worse? Washing Laundry or Spraying Corexi ...
Image: Flickr, Deepwater Horizon Response A lot of the questions surrounding the response to the gulf oil spill address the chemicals being sprayed onto the gulf and pumped out underwater to disperse the spilled oil. These dispersants are intended to break the oil up into smaller bits, which ca ...
- Underwater Robot Scans for Submerged Oil in Gulf o ...
Photo credit iRobot Scientists are already rushing to determine the environmental impact of the Gulf oil spill, and iRobot is helping with the Seaglider, an unmanned underwater vehicle that has been sent to the ocean floor to prowl for submerged oil. iRobot is known for the Roomba and consumer ...
- Australia Makes Good on Threat to Take Japan to Co ...
Whale meat on sale at the Tsukiji fish market in Japan, photo: Stefan Powell . Threatened for some time now , Australia has begun legal action against Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean . Formal proceedings will begin in The Hague next week and would lead to a provisional order for Jap ...
- Outdoor Bacteria Can Make You Smarter, and Happier
Getting some outdoor time is not only good for the soul, it's probably good for the mind. Research from The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, suggests that exposure to a natural soil bacterium called Mycobacterium vaccae can increase learning behavior. Another reason to enjoy, and protect, the gr ...
- New Drug Cures Hard-to-Treat Hepatitis C
Patients who fail current hepatitis C virus HCV treatments have few other options except trying the same drugs again, but an experimental antiviral drug is poised to change that.When the drug telaprevir was added to standard treatment with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin, which are also antivirals, ...
- Cell bio, automation merge to screen every human g ...
Every now and then, there’s a bit of science that’s a combination of brute force and tour de force. Examples that spring to mind mostly come from the world of small, manageable experimental animals, like the mapping of every single cell division of the worm C. elegans, a feat that won John Sulston a ...
- A Two-Pronged Attack on Cancer
Last year marked a first for engineered antibodies–the European Commission approved a new cancer drug called Removab catumaxomab, an antibody specially designed to grab both cancer cells and immune cells in such a way that the immune cell can kill the cancer cell. The drug is undergoing testing for ...
- Lesser-known C-diff a bigger hospital threat than ...
Theres good and bad news on the “superbug” front. In community hospitals in the Southeast, an easily spread bacterium appears to have overtaken the widely feared MRSA as the most common hospital-acquired infection. But a pilot project in Ohio found that pushing hard on simple things such as hand was ...
- Light Switches for Neurons
Just five years ago, scientists at Stanford University discovered that neurons injected with a photo-sensitive gene from algae could be turned on or off with the flip of a light switch. This discovery has since turned hundreds of labs onto the young field of optogenetics. Today researchers around th ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Remember the Cato institute’s “I have little to worry about , of course, because I’m not an illegal immigrant”? I wonder if Eduardo Caraballo has the same placid view of the situation. This is an era of nativism, and supposedly res ...
- Some Suggestions For Our Inert President
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post We are in the midst of what is probably the worst environmental catastrophe in our nation’s history, and it looks like the damage will continue to worsen for the next few months . Barack Obama may not know this yet, but his credibil ...
- Today's example of how profoundly fucked up our pr ...
Could someone plant some chicken nuggets on Tony Hayward ?
- 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 ...
- Household Detergents and Shampoos Form Harmful Sub ...
Certain ingredients in shampoo, detergents and other cleaning agents may help form a suspected cancer-causing contaminant in water. The poorly understood water contaminant, called NDMA, is of ongoing concern to health officials. NDMA and other nitrosamines can form during water disinfection with ch ...
- Are All Fats Really the Same for Stopping Hunger P ...
A new study finds that it does not matter what form fat is consumed in -- saturated, mono- or poly-unsaturated; all of them perform poorly when it comes to producing a feeling of fullness. Previous studies have suggested that polyunsaturated fats may be more effective at suppressing appetite, but ...
- Rheumatoid Arthritis on the Rise in Women
Rheumatoid arthritis is on the rise among women in the U.S. Cases rose 2.5 percent between 1995 and 2007, even as they fell among men. Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when your body's immune system attacks its own joints. This causes pain and swelling. According to BBC News: “Previous studies have ...
- Toxic Glue Used in Supermarket Food Packaging
The food you buy at the supermarket may be contaminated by a highly toxic chemical found in the glue of packaging labels. The chemical is in the same class of toxicity as mercury, asbestos and hydrochloric acid. It could cause organ failure and even death in high doses. The Daily Mail reports: “. ...
- Liver Damage Tied to Popular Weight-Loss Drug
U.S. health officials announced revised labels for the widely used weight-loss drug orlistat, available by prescription under the trade name Xenical and over-the-counter as Alli. Thirteen cases of severe liver injury have been associated with taking orlistat. Reuters reports: “At this time, FDA o ...
- 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 ...
- Naomi Klein: "A Strange Corporate Oil State"
Author and activist Naomi Klein has been visiting Louisiana, and conducted a short on camera interview with Al Jazeera about her impressions of the disaster response to BP's oil leak catastrophe... Senator Dick Durbin once described Capitol Hill as being owned by the banks. He said the banks 'own th ...
- Ex-EPA Officials: Why Isn't BP Under Criminal Inve ...
Originally published at Truthout.org Why hasn't the government launched a criminal investigation into BP? That's the question several former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have been asking in the aftermath of the catastrophic explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig l ...
- John Jeavons and Jake Blehm on Building a Truly Su ...
In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature John Jeavons, Executive Director of Ecology Action and Jake Blehm, Assistant Executive Director at Ecology Action in Willits, California. Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- The friends of Sarah Palin
Mea culpa. Apparently Sarah Palin never had an opportunity to buy that crib next door where Joe McGinnis is busily spying on the Palin wimminfolk. Turns out the owner hates Sarah Palin. Something to do with that other people’s kids went to juvie court while Willow skanked off scot free after doing t ...
- If you build a fence….
I was just starting to wonder if Los Suns had another big run left in them when the power went out last night. I only spent forty minutes sitting in the dark listening to my iPod before the juice came back but that was just long enough for me to miss Los Suns’ rally and [...]
- Oil’s well now that well’s capped
The BP oil spill crisis has gone on so long that Sen. Amy Klobuchar has finally weighed in on it . . . just hours before BP finally stopped the leak . . . just in time to re-focus on the clean up. One of their workers, a Gulf fisherman, fainted after working with BP’s [...]
- Following up
Pretty much everything in the link pile is a follow up to something I’ve written about or linked to in recent days, the America Speaking Out site being a major exception. That turd was one I was quite content to wait on, hoping someone else would polish it for me. Well, ThinkProgress and PZ Myers [. ...
- Skip the rant, click the links
I usually save the copyright stuff for deep in the post, but this is some pretty sick shit. The government is going after Apple for their “tactics in the market for digital music.” OK, I can live with that, but not with the reasoning behind this talk. In March, Billboard magazine reported that Amazo ...
- Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
- Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
- Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
- Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
- Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.
- At least we are not Dubai
We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
- 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
- Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation âRah-e-Rastâ. Before the operation âRah-e-Rastâ, an NGO financed preparation of f ...
- Constitutional Game to Undo Pakistan from the Back ...
Written By :- Dr Shahid Qureshi Pakistan is unfortunately one of those countries where traitors masquerade as politicians and treachery is deemed to be âlegitimate politicsâ. There is no prize for guessing how did the desire the revoke the 17th Amendment got transformed into a full fledg ...
- Palestinians urge global action against Israel
The Palestinian Authority has called on international bodies and the Arab League summit in Libya to protect East Jerusalem al-Quds against Israeli settlement activities. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the opening of a two-day Arab League summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, called on int ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- British Iraq war probe quizzes Bremer, Crocker on ...
ShareThis British Iraq war probe quizzes Bremer, Crocker on US trip 28 May 2010 Britain's Iraq war inquiry questioned US diplomats Paul Bremer and Ryan Crocker among other officials during a visit to the United States last week, it said Friday. Members of the five-strong panel, which is investigatin ...
- U.S. Senate Approves $60 Billion War-funding Bill
ShareThis U.S. Senate Approves�$60 Billion War-funding Bill --War Bill Approved as Afghan Conflict Tops Iraq in Cost, Troops 28 May 2010 The U.S. Senate approved a $60 billion war-funding bill last night as the conflict in Afghanistan has exceeded the Iraq war in annual cost and number of troops. Se ...
- US Senate passes $349 million economic stimulus fo ...
ShareThis US Senate passes $349 million economic stimulus for Pakistan 29 May 2010 The US Senate has passed $349 million in economic and security aid for Pakistan, as part of a $60 billion war supplemental bill to fund Afghan operations and some other projects requested by the Obama administration. ...
- CITGO Refineries Recognized with 7 Meritorious Saf ...
ShareThis CITGO Refineries Recognized with 7 Meritorious Safety and Environmental Awards 27 May 2010 CITGO Petroleum Corporation refineries were recognized by the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) with seven awards for their safe operations during 2009. The awards were presented ...
- Navy's Drone Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea
ShareThis Navy's Drone Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea By Nathan Hodge 28 May 2010 For years, the U.S. Navy has been pursuing a workable ray gun that could provide a leap ahead in ship self-defenses. Now, with a series of tests of a system called the Laser Weapon System, or LaWS ), it may be one ...
- Q&A with Academy Award winning costume designer Co ...
From the grit and glamor of Chicago, to the might and majesty of Memoirs of a Geisha , Academy Award winning costume designer Colleen Atwood has added depth and character to many of Hollywood's most recent hits with her inspired costume choices. When the iconic blue dress adorned by the title heroi ...
- On the Radar: Gorilla Theatre’s Young Dramatists P ...
Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. When Gorilla Theatre began its Young Dramatists Project 10 years ago, this year’s winners were probably just learning to put pen to paper, much less composing full-fledged works of art. Here’s the gist: Gori ...
- CD review: Eli “Paperboy” Reed, Come and Get It
Stir Marvin Gaye with two cups of Otis Redding, two teaspoons of Little Richard, a dash of vanilla, and all of the excess energy you have left in your pantry. Bake for one hour and out pops Eli “Paperboy” Reed, the pompadour-sporting Jewish kid from Massachusetts who, surprisingly, rocks and jives ...
- Kevin’s Korner: Victoria’s Secret model cast in Tr ...
Kevin's Korner, the one stop for all the movie news you ever needed is back with news of Victoria's Secret models cast in Transformers 3 , Megan Fox, Hitman 2 , Time Warner VOD, Orlando Bloom and much more. Also, don't forget to check out the Trailer of the Week!
- On the Radar: Jobsite stages Dead Man’s Cell Phone ...
Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. When it comes to quirky, thought-provoking theater, the folks at Jobsite rarely disappoint, and their latest production looks to be right in their aesthetic wheelhouse. Written by Sarah Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize f ...
- Israel to World: Screw You, We will Continue to Bl ...
It all happened before. A ship sailing to Palestine. Its organizers care not so much about the ship’s arrival. They want to bring world attention to the injustices in Palestine. Live broadcasts from aboard the ship excite and inspire supporters on the shores. The power controlling Palestine in a non ...
- Gourmet in Gaza
By Jesse Bacon As a food snob, I immediately think what restaurants are nearby when planning any excursion. Even if its to a beseiged war zone that Israel forbids from rebuilding. So it’s good to hear that if the Israeli government were by some chance let me into Gaza there would be a gourmet resta ...
- Harrowing Update from Family of Ameer Makhoul
Ameer Makhoul, Director of Ittijah, a coalition of Palestinian Israeli Community Organizations, was arrested three weeks ago from his home in Haifa.  Makhoul was unable to see his lawyer for the first weeks of his arrest  and now his lawyers and his family, having seen him, assert that he has bee ...
- 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 ...
- Wave-powered desalination pump
It will desalinate 3,000 gallons a day at first, but is capable of doing 60,000 gallons.
- How can you tell when BP is lying
Their lips are moving. Old joke, true. But quite accurate when it comes to BP Let’s see. First it was 1,000 barrels a day, then 3,000, then 5,000, even as others said the real number was much higher. They chased away reporters and one of their weasels actually said the spill was minuscule. Then they ...
- Phoenix protest against immigration law
The crowd was estimated at over 10,000, less than hopes of 50,000 but still sizable. It was about 100 degrees too, so that may have kept some away. This sign should be a wake up call for Obama. As for why do so many try to cross over from Nogales into Arizona? There’s no fence. The [...]
- Emma Goldman
This excellent two-part series gives an overview of firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman. She was a national figure, attacked by Teddy Roosevelt and a young J. Edgar Hoover, and was jailed for opposing the draft in WW I. Deported to Russia, she initially supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks but after two ...
- Matt Simmons claims much bigger gulf leak in progr ...
Simmons says remove BP and send in the military and supertankers as maybe use bombs to seal the leaks, something Russia has successfully done. Also, the plumes are far from the wellhead leak. This implies that there are other, much larger leaks. Truth be told, I’m not certain whether this is alarmi ...
- Yediot runs full page ad for a tourism package in ...
The back page of Yediot’s daily magazine supplement, “24 Hours,” sports a mysterious full page advertisement for a tourism package to Syria. You can view the orginal here and bottom of post. Here is a translation of the text: A captivating journey to the antiquities of the ancient city of Tadmor. ...
- Gingrich on cover of Adelson’s Israeli daily ...
Sheldon Adelson’s tabloid freebie, Israel Hayom (cynically called by many the “Bibiton” — “Netanyahu paper”) provided a platform for someone who has until now was almost unknow  in the Israeli public debate: Newt Gingrich. The cover of this weekend’s (May 28 2010) Friday political supplement, Israe ...
- Sheizaf: Two more families face eviction in Sheikh ...
Two more Palestinian families from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood received this week eviction orders. According to Haaretz’s report, the families were ordered to leave their houses within 45 days. No alternative residency was offered to them. “Failure to comply [with the order] will for ...
- Yediot: Shift in US-Israel policy result of Jewish ...
This morning’s Yediot expands on the PMO’s description of how ‘Netanyahu defeated Obama.’ The headline is a little misleading because the article itself describes Democratic fears of losing Jewish funding, not votes, ahead of the November mid-terms. Explanation: Obama needs the Jewish Vote Itamar Ei ...
- Maariv: Netanyahu says Obama folded
This morning’s (May 27 2010) Maariv runs an extravaganza on a purported change in US-Israel policy, which begins with a huge headline on the front-page — “Netanyahu: I won.” Note emphasis in the translated text below: The shift in policy is explained by Democratic fundraising fears ahead of the Nove ...
- Who are the real “crazies” in our poli ...
By – Glenn Greenwald (concerned Liberal media prince) (updated below – Update II) One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics. That serves to bolster the t ...
- Census workers can enter your apartment in your ab ...
May 26, 2010, by Bob Barr Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America to gather information on the citizenry. This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of ...
- Census Worker Charged With Rape, Burglary
Barely three months after I advised Americans to Think Twice Before Opening Door to Census Worker, two Indiana women were allegedly attacked by 39-year-old Daniel Miller, a U.S. Census worker who had been on the job for two weeks and now faces rape and burglary charges, according to a news report (b ...
- Toronto police prepare for G20 urban warfare
As Toronto prepares for next month’s G20 summit, the city is embracing new technology to combat sometimes unruly protestors. Toronto police have purchased four long-range acoustic devices (LRADs), often called sound cannons, to help disperse crowds, although some research has shown that the weapons ...
- Cat Bleish Sets Austin City Hall Straight on Fusio ...
From the May 27th 2010 Austin City Council Meeting. The Austin City council voted after this speech to move forward with the Austin Regional Intelligence Center, with changes to the privacy policy that removed the “All Hazards” approach. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | ...
- Reader Opinion day from Climate Skeptic
I read an article on climate skeptic this morning which was interesting. It’s an interview of Climate Skeptic proprietor Warren Meyer on his views on climate change. He did a great job with his answers (really it was good reading) but I would suggest making your own before reading his.  The f ...
- Much Ado
Some have written that skeptics don’t cover sea ice in summer, that’s not how it works here.  Lately, we’ve seen a bit of consternation in the news and on blogs over the rate of drop in Arctic sea ice. As usual it’s nothing scary to me, but if it continues, the headlines are going [...]
- 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 ...
- West Bank Rabbi Bans Female Candidates From Local ...
The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement decreed that women are ineligible to run for municipal office because women should only be heard through their husbands : The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement has prohibited women from standing in a local community election. Rabbi Elyakim Levanon o ...
- 2-Tentacled Ancestor of Squid ID'd By Canucks
A pair of Canadian paleontologists say that anigmatic fossilized organism called Nectocaris pteryx (literally "swimming crab with wings") was the great-grandmammy of the modern-day squid, octopus, and cuttlefish: In the Canadian Rockies, a horde of 91 squid-like animals have risen from the dep ...
- 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 his protege, provocateur videographer James O'Keefe, impersonated a pimp 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 ...
- Facebook Roundup: Canada, Privacy, Yahoo, Ads, Law ...
Canada Gets New Facebook Manager - Facebook has hired Jordan Banks to serve as the new managing director for Canada, overseeing the business side of Facebook in that country. Banks previously helped launch eBay Canada, chief executive of Internet sports/entertainment broadcaster IPTV and co-fou ...
- Facebook’s New Privacy Controls Give Users More Ch ...
Facebook is rolling out a new set of privacy options over the next few weeks — the company’s response to confusion and criticism that it has received following a number of privacy changes, product launches and security issues from late April. Key Points The most important aspect of the options is a ...
- What Makes Games Succeed on Facebook? Insights fro ...
Social gaming is shaping up to contribute $835 million to the $1.6 billion US virtual goods market this year. At the same time, social games have redefined social platforms like Facebook itself, boosting the site’s advertising revenues and helping it to blossom into a true, vibrant ecosystem. This y ...
- Microsoft’s KIN Social Phone Makes Pitch Using Mus ...
Microsoft’s new social media phone, KIN, seems to be aiming at a decidedly younger consumer by emphasizing its social media value, as well as promoting free concerts for fans with cryptic clues via Facebook and Twitter. The KIN Page launched in April and began promoting itself both with Facebook ...
- Facebook Tests “Related Photos,” Shows Users Excer ...
Facebook is experimenting with a new feature that appears in the right sidebar while a user browses the in-house Photos application. Called “Related Photos”, it displays two types of shots: photos from other albums by the person who uploaded the shot you’re currently looking at, and additional photo ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 SENÂ published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...
- Earth Day 2010
Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...
- 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.
- Government should not abdicate it’s Responsibiliti ...
Blackwater is just the tip of the iceberg. Tuesday deadline to stop reckless outsourcing. Submit a public comment by noon EDT on Tuesday, June 1. Submit a public comment to move us away from the Bush-era practice of dismantling our government and giving free rein to Blackwater and companies li ...
- 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 ...
- Climbing The Dark Mountain
At the crack of dawn tomorrow (Friday 28th May) I leave for Wales; taking a bus into Edinburgh, a train to Crewe, another train to Chester, yet another train to Ruabon, and finally a bus to Llangollen. More civilised people might consider this to be a slightly excessive response to not wishing to d ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Contrasting Boston Neighborhoods for Virtual Stree ...
Things have started to kick into gear for Virtual Street Corners , my project that will connect the Boston towns of Brookline and Roxbury by live 24-hour video connection. At this point the most time-consuming task is community organizing as we create excitement for the project and identify groups w ...
- Sourcemap Makes Data Visualizations Transparent
Yesterday colleagues of mine at MIT were brainstorming plenaries for an upcoming media conference. Data visualization came up, but each of us grumbled. "Overdone," one of us said, to nodding heads. We'd done a session on that at every one of our conferences and forums, as had others at theirs. Data ...
- Our Friends Become Curators of Twitter-Based News
I like to listen before I talk. Which means that during my morning routine I read before I write. But where to turn and what to read? One of the most oft-repeated statements I heard at conferences last year: "our problem isn't information overload, it's crappy filters." In other words, we shouldn ...
- SochiReporter Helps Transform Sochi in Preparation ...
I recently spoke with a friend of mine here in Sochi, Russia. She is a specialist in modernizing the technological infrastructure of sanatoriums, which were the places where lucky Soviet working class heroes would be sent to rest and relax. (Think of them as health spas.) It's a challenge to tran ...
- 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 ...
- Destination Africa - Be Prepared for Spontaneity w ...
Travel in Africa has always been precarious; but somehow, and often miraculously, one usually gets from point A to point B, and often on time too.�Instead of modern, efficient and congested subway systems –too difficult and costly to construct- urban Africa moves above ground. Although the wheel was ...
- The Philippines on The Edge - Election of Benigno ...
The expected victory of leading candidate Benigno Simeon Cojuangco "Noynoy" Aquino III has raised the hopes and expectations of the people of the Philippines. The people judged him to be the most worthy of trust and the best one able to realize their hopes and most likely to fulfill campaign promise ...
- Thailand on the Edge - Attack on Thailand’s Red Sh ...
On May 19 th , the Thai armed forces stormed the barricades of Limpini Park, the Red Shirt holdout and gathering place for protest in the business district of Bangkok. Charging through bamboo pikes and pillars of gasoline-filled tires lit aflame, Thai armored personnel carriers struck at the heart o ...
- World's Oil Addiction Hurts in Many Ways
By now it must be perfectly clear to all Americans that our addiction to oil hurts us in so many ways. We have seen how foreign oil can squeeze our economy. Our troops are bogged down through the Middle East and in other Islamic countries essentially because of oil and what our involvement with fore ...
- The BP Spill - Training Exercises Showed Gaps in G ...
Over the last eight years, the U.S. government has conducted four major drills to prepare for a massive oil spill, the results of which foreshadowed many of the weaknesses in coordination, communication, expertise, and technology that have plagued the federal response to the BP disaster in the Gulf ...
- Americas Space Fighter: New Threat To Humanity
By Zhengyan Fang People have too much reason to worry about the U.S, its pursuit of absolute superiority in space, and its attempt to build up an absolute dominance at a height from which it can threaten the globe
- Gulf Oil Slick Worst In US History
By Matthew Wild Early reports are indicating that BPs risky bid to plug its Gulf of Mexico well appear to be working but the subsequent oil slick may be far greater than anyone dared fear. US officials have reportedly confirmed that the well appears to be no longer leaking but at the same time its ...
- Ecological Denial On The Gulf Oil Disaster: U.S. P ...
By Jan Lundberg The impact of the Gulf oil disaster on the national psyche and the economy have barely begun. When Florida, a more substantial state than Louisiana, is hit by the unprecedented pollution assured to have lasting effects, the quickened erosion of confidence in government, industry an ...
- Have You Looked At Barsa Lakhmas Face?
By Nirmalangshu Mukherji The Hindu, 25 May, posted the above photograph of a person on its frontpage under the head Six Naxals held for Dantewada massacre. The person, Barsa Lakhma, is alleged to be a Naxal leader, a commander who is said to be involved in the gunning down of 76 security personnel ...
- Rape And Murder At Shopian, One Year Later
By Concerned Citizens Open letter to the Chief Justice of India , Chairperson, National Commission for Women and Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission demanding ustice in the case of rape and murder of Aasiya Jan and Neelofer Jan in Shopian, J&K, 29 May 2009
- 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!
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Obama's Nation ...
By Barry Rubin Yes, children, there is an Obama Doctrine. The administration has now produced a National Security Strategy. I’m tempted to say that in this document the Obama Administration does a Dr. Kevorkian on U.S. power. The White House wants to prove most of all that it isn ’t t ...
- Don't Forget That Andrew Romanoff Was the First " ...
There is a host of reasons to believe the tale told by the White House and Joe Sestak today was nothing but fantasy , the inconsistencies from previous statements as well as the contradictions within the story itself.� There is one other piece of evidence that hasn't received much play in the press ...
- The Sestak "Explanation" Time To Press The Bull S ...
One would think that the President of the United States would have enough respect for the people who put him in office to offer an explanation that was remotely believable. The White House released an explanation of the Job offer. The claim is that Rahm Emanuel sent Bill Clinton to meet with Co ...
- COVER UP? Sestak's Brother/Political Adviser Talke ...
At today's presser, President Obama refused to say Thursday whether his White House offered a job to Representative Joe Sestak: “There will be an official response shortly on the Sestak issue, which I hope will answer your questions,” Mr. Obama told reporters at a White House news conference. “I c ...
- Once Again Charlie Christ Leaves His Scruples At t ...
Charlie Crist has no scruples. The Florida Governor who pulled an Arlen Specter and left the GOP when it it was apparent that he would lose his party's nomination, once again shows that his politics are based on which way the wind blows. As recently as Monday, Crist told reporters that the cur ...
- Europeans are fed up with the elites and get to th ...
The 1930s-style pay squeeze was effectively imposed upon Spain by Brussels as a quid pro quo for the EU's €750bn "shield" for eurozone debtors. It is a bitter climb-down for a workers party that vowed to resist salary cuts. Public sector unions have called a strike on June 8 to protest an act of "ul ...
- Gobierno de Obama gastó $10 millones para abortos ...
Un congresista de EE.UU. que investiga gastos posiblemente ilegales hacia la promoción del aborto en Kenia dice que ha recibido información que indica que la administración Obama puede tener canalizado más de $ 10 millones en fondos de los contribuyentes para el proyecto.
- Why Medical Authorities Went to Such Extreme to Si ...
The smearing campaign against doctor Andrew Wakefield has resulted in two events. One, he received great exposure on the alternative and main stream media, which in turn allowed for more people to learn about his important work and how vaccines poison people, especially children. Two, it replicate ...
- Cultura del siglo 21: Libre Empresa vs Control Gub ...
Las élites en Estados Unidos y el resto del mundo han estado en el poder por muchos años. Esta no es la guerra cultural de la década de 1990. No es una lucha por armas de fuego, homosexuales o el aborto. Esas batallas han sido eclipsadas por una nueva lucha entre dos visiones para el futuro.
- MSNBC labels outspoken people as ‘right wing ...
MSNBC has begun airing trailers for an upcoming documentary, which the network has titled “Rise Of The New Right”, thatprominently features interview footage with radio talk show host Alex Jones. The show, to be broadcast on June 16th, is presented by Hardball host Chris Matthews and will include se ...
- Residents upset over wind farm approval
BONNEVILLE COUNTY, Idaho — Idaho is known for its wind, and the potential for energy-producing wind farms in the Gem State has been well documented. For some though, the sentiment among some locals is âNot in my backyard!â Thatâs exactly whatâs happening in one rural area of Eastern Idaho. H ...
- An ill wind blows in
It’s a cold night in a quiet town, a wide black sky cut by the warm yellow of a lit building. Thick jackets are worn by most of those inside Penshurst’s Senior Citizens clubrooms, who pull chairs together and wait for the meeting to start. For all of the benefits linked to wind farms — jobs, clean e ...
- Japanese conference against big wind
The Japanese Conference against Big Wind was held on April 30 in Tokyo. Victims of low frequency noise from wind turbines and protesters against additional wind turbines gathered from all over Japan. More than 100 people came and 6 people gave speeches. 1. OKAWA, Tsuyoshi (Tahara-city, Aichi-prefec ...
- Wind Wars: Parts 1-3
Part 1: Wind proposal dividing communities, May 4, 2010 MORRISON – Imagine dozens of wind turbines, standing 400 feet tall, stretching across the farm fields of southern Brown County. They’d be spinning, day and night, for at least the next 30 years. Some believe it’s a picture of progress. “Of cou ...
- Homeowners file lawsuit over wind turbines
At least two members of the Planning Commission responsible for addressing a number of complaints about noise have contracts to install turbines on their own property.
- As navy stalks Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israeli meas ...
First among the Israeli navy’s expressed strategies to confront the international relief convoy approaching Gaza was to “pick off the participants before they could join the convoy.” Today only five of intended nine ships have made it to the rendezvous. Sailing from Ireland, the MV Rachel Corrie ha ...
- U.S. War Expenses outstrip rest of the world, comb ...
NATO countries only a tip of that. Russia, China, all of Africa and South America combined, that’s a monstrous amount of money being spent on weapons. Our Really Good Friends on the Right Wing insist that the reason Africa is so impoverished with regards to feeding and providing health care for the ...
- BP, Meet Agatha
As in, the first named storm of the season. So far, 12 killed in Guatemala. Oh, and we were duly informed that the Top Kill maneuver failed. If it’s any consolation to us they didn’t wait two weeks to tell us that. A bit of further consolation, such as it is, this poisoning of the [...]
- Unusual mechanical failures delay, but fail to scu ...
First the MV Rachel Corrie suffered a breakdown shortly after leaving port. Then the Challenger I lost its steering mechanism and another Greek ship has to return to port. Though derided by Israeli critics as “tin buckets,” the ships had been certified sea-worthy before the convoy set sail. Suspicio ...
- “hysteria” International special, R ...
“FBI Interrogator getting Saddam to give the truth about his WMDs without the use of torture” !. The PIGS never ask any questions without violence or the threat of violence. It’s their Coward Way. 2.The first wave of troops over the border would have found the WMDs the hard way if they had even exis ...
- The LIHOP Case against Cheney and Bush
After more than a year of researching and editing together short clips, I have finished an hour long presentation reviewing the best evidence that key members of the Bush Administration were, at the very least, aware of the coming 9/11 attack and allowed it to happen for political reasons. Topics i ...
- Possible Confirmation of "Pull It" - In A Hitpiece ...
By: John-Michael P. Talboo and ScootleRoyale First, a little background: A writer for FOX News has just inadvertently exposed some key WTC 7 evidence... while writing a hitpiece ! In an article entitled Shame On Jesse Ventura !, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro writes: "Governor Ventura and many 9/11 “ T ...
- The UK Election Puppet Show [Updated]
In the US, when a party is in power, the other party at least pretends to be opposed to the globalist agenda that the party in power is carrying out. Here in the UK they don't even give us that! The leaders of all three of the major parties (Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat) are blatantly ...
- History Repeats Itself
So I've just finished watching a repeat of the History Channel's documentary "The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction?" And I basically felt the same thing I usually feel when I watch this particular piece: disgust. This documentary has always had a special significance with me, because it was this v ...
- LIHOP and MIHOP are not mutually exclusive!
Pat Curley has claimed in a recent post that LIHOP and MIHOP are mutually exclusive . This is not true, as it assumes a black and white world. As we have said many times on this blog, the world is not black or white . What debunkers never seem to understand is that 9/11 truth does not claim any spec ...
- Candy Expo Showcases Healthy Snacks. Indeed?
In a sign of the times, the Sweets & Snacks Expo earlier this week in Chicago focused on healthier treats. Saleswomen for Hershey Co. handed out Reese’s Minis, chocolate-peanut butter cups the size of marbles, which they touted as ideal for portion control. Nearby, staff members for candy behemot ...
- Snack Bar Smackdown: Clif vs. Lara
Yesterday we compared Kellogg’s Fiber Pus to Larabar. Despite the high amount of fiber in Kellogg’s bars, the clear nutrition winner was Larabar, with a short, understandable ingredient list and no added sugar. Many readers asked about Clif bars, so here today is a comparison between Clif Banana Nu ...
- Comparing Kellogg’s Fiber Plus Bar to LaraBar [Ins ...
The healthy snackbar segment is huge and growing. It seems that manufacturers have figured out a way to dress up candy bars as healthy, and fill our craving for an anytime, anywhere treat. To be fair, there are many decent products out there, but some are not much more than glorified Snickers or Tw ...
- Eating Healthy. But Only Half the Time
Did you know that for every dollar we Americans spend on food, about 50 cents go to grub consumed outside the home? That’s right, half of our eating money is spent in restaurants, fast food chains, coffee shops, airport and mall food courts, etc… So even if you are vigilant at the supermarket about ...
- 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 ...
- 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
- 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 ...
- A conversation
To E. I have lots of questions about relationships. We all have. One of the questions I have is about how I often feel that I want to give more affection to other people than they want to receive. Do you want something from the other? Yes. So what do you want when you give more affection than ...
- 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 ...
- Perenco moves one step closer to building pipeline
Spears left by an uncontacted tribe in the region where Perenco is working. © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP Anglo-French company Perenco has moved one step closer to building an oil pipeline through uncontacted tribes’ land in a remote Amazon region. Peru’s Energy Ministry has approved the ‘Exec ...
- Obama urged to protect uncontacted tribes from oil ...
Crossed spears left by uncontacted Indians threatened by an oil pipeline © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP President Obama has been urged to help protect Peru’s uncontacted tribes when he meets with Peruvian president Alan Garcia on 1 June. Survival has written to President Obama highlighting the ...
- Vedanta Resources' head abandons talk after Surviv ...
Survival has been demonstrating against Vedanta Resources for several years © Survival FTSE 100 mining company Vedanta Resources’ billionaire owner Anil Agarwal has pulled out of a London conference, where he was due to speak, after Survival announced plans to demonstrate outside. According t ...
- Indians warn of war against Amazon mega-dam
Kayapó dance at an anti-dam protest in 2006 © T Turner Kayapó Indian leader Raoni Metuktire arrived in Europe last week and has appealed for support for his tribe, which is campaigning against the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu river in the Brazilian Amazon. Raoni said, ‘I have always prevented ...
- Amazon mega-dams endanger uncontacted Indians
The Pirahã tribe will be affected by the Madeira river dams. © Clive W. Dennis/Survival Two mega-dams being constructed in the Brazilian Amazon threaten to devastate several groups of uncontacted Indians. The Santo Antônio and Jirau dams are being built on the Madeira River, next to the territo ...
- Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...
- Stop Feeding the Vultures
by Greg Palast for In These Times I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in. I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture ...
- Vulture Financier AttacksBanned in Britain
by Greg Palast April 8 - London - Update for In These Times We've stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the British Isles. The law, merely awaits the expected touch of the Queen's scepter. "Vulture funds" are int ...
- Heart of Coal
by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse We've seen this dreadful movie before. In 2005, another coal mine in West Virginia imploded. We wrote about it then .... War is hell, especially class war. Just ask the Sago mine workers. Billionaire Wilbur Ross purchased Sago of West Virginia in November 200 ...
- Behind the Arizona Immigration Law:GOP Game to Swi ...
Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law. by Greg Palast for Truthout.org [Phoenix, AZ.] Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, ...
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