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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Zarqa Lives Up to al-Zarqawi’s Ideals
  ZARQA, Jordan, May 4 (IPS) - Infamous for being the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late al-Qaeda’s leader, Zarqa is dominated by Islamic parties.
• THAILAND: Government Cracks Down on Websites in Ce ...
  BANGKOK, May 4 (IPS) - In her newspaper-strewn office on the ground floor of a quiet apartment complex, Chiranuch Premchaiporn surveys the options before her in case the government’s censors come calling again.
• AUSTRALIA: Hijab-Wearing Footballers Oppose FIFA B ...
  MELBOURNE, May 4 (IPS) - Sara Aboueid, 15, and Jamillah Noordin, 16, wear uniforms similar to countless numbers of footballers around the world. Every week during Australia’s football season, the young women don shirts and shorts in their club’s colours. Like several of their teammates, b ...
• Pope Rewrites Epitaph for Legion of Christ Founder
  MEXICO CITY, May 3 (IPS) - The Vatican's decision to appoint a special delegate to run the Legion of Christ and to set up a commission to look into the order after more than a decade of allegations of sexual abuse by its founder has shaken the powerful ultraconservative Catholic order establ ...
• Kinshasa Rejects Report of Congolese Army Atrociti ...
  MBANDAKA, DR Congo, May 3 (IPS) - A report alleging that government troops summarily executed fifty civilians in early April in fighting around Mbandaka, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's northwestern Équateur Province has been rejected by the government.

Scoop - NZ

• US fears well could become unchecked gusher
  Secretary Janet Napolitano uses a map of the Gulf of Mexico during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 29, 2010. A leaked memorandum obtained by the Press-Register on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the Deepwater H ...
• The peak of oil production is passed
  Dr Michael Lardelli from the University of Adelaide looks at how the bulk of the world's oil production comes from a relatively small number of very large fields discovered decades ago. The rate of world oil production has been maintained at current levels only by finding and bringing on line an inc ...
• Drill, Baby...Oops !
  The news from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is not good. If the NOAA estimates are right about the size of the spill it could dwarf Exxon Valdez: Over the last few days, estimates had held that the Gulf of Mexico oil spilling was leaking about 1,000 barrels, or 42,000 gallons, into the water each da ...
• Chomsky: A peace that could happen (but won't).
  The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its basic contours: ...
• Oxfam: Climate problem is real and urgent
  I am grateful to the fantastic audience who welcomed me warmly to Gisborne last Friday. I would like to respond to the questions raised subsequently about the reality of climate change. When we are faced with difficult decisions, it is easy to try to wish away the problem. It is like that with clim ...

Independent ( London )

• Greek economy protesters target Acropolis
  Greek protesters unfurled banners over the defensive walls of the ancient Acropolis today in protest at harsh new austerity measures as strikes began across the country.
• Campaigners fight on for death row grandmother
  Campaigners are today planning their next step after the US Supreme Court decided not to review the case of a British grandmother on death row in Texas for killing a young mother.
• Times Square bomb suspect taken into custody
  A Pakistani man believed to be the driver of a sport utility vehicle used as a car bomb in a failed terror attack on Times Square was taken into custody late yesterday by FBI agents and local police detectives while trying to leave the country, US officials said.
• Court considers verdict over holiday deaths
  A Greek court will today consider a verdict in the case of two tour firm employees charged over the deaths of a brother and sister who were poisoned by carbon monoxide.
• Japan PM seeks compromise on US base deal
  Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama today urged residents of Okinawa island to accept a compromise involving partial relocation of a US Marine base before a self-imposed end-of-May deadline.

Rogue Government.com

• The Rise Of The Robo-Fighters: Britain's New Pilo ...
• Police: Failed NYC car bomber may be white male i ...
• Fears for crops as shock figures from America sho ...
  Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.
• â��Back from deadâ�� Pakistan Taliban ...
• DynCorp Running â��Counter-Narcoticsâ ...
  A recently released State Department Inspector General report , however, gave an unusually detailed look at the size and scope of these operations. The report fills in more details about America’s growing and undeclared war in Pakistan .

Innovation Canada

• The amazing ‘sensorium suite’ of Dr. Houston
  “All the world’s a stage,” William Shakespeare famously wrote. And while Shakespeare’s plays are still performed in premier concert halls and on festival stages, Andrew Houston, an associate professor of drama at the University of Waterloo, is taking his theatre of sound out into the world. “Often, ...
• Butterflies in the boreal
  When biologist Jeremy Kerr needs a sentinel to demonstrate the effects of climate change, he looks no further than the eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas). That’s because the eastern tailed blue, like other butterfly species Kerr and his students at the University of Ottawa track, has be ...
• Hip-hop storytellers
• Trapping an invader
  (Courtesy of the University of Windsor) The first time she saw a group of male round gobies in their nests, pumping out billows of pheromones to attract females to lay their eggs, Lynda Corkum couldn’t help but think of an old boy’s club. “It reminded me of a bunch of men, sitting in a crowded room ...
• Beefing up
  When a deadly virus spreads through California after being transported from the African rainforest in the 1995 movie Outbreak, most viewers reacted in horror. But not David Asper. He watched with fascination as the main character, an army medical researcher played by Dustin Hoffman, investigated the ...

Signs of the times

• Warning for Britain as financial chaos spreads to ...
  Spain's economy was thrown into chaos on Thursday when its credit rating was cut, sharpening fears that Britain may suffer a similar fate. The turmoil came just a day after Greece's rating was cut, increasing concerns of a . The euro fell sharply and the interest rates European governments pay to ...
• Timeline: 20 Years Of Major Oil Spills
  March 24, 1989 - The oil tanker Exxon Valdez hits Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef in Alaska, spilling 40.9 million litres of crude oil. It is thought to be one of the worst man made environmental disasters ever. 1991 - The Gulf War oil spill is estimated to be the largest oil spill in history. In ...
• Magnitude 6.1 - Izu Islands, Japan Region
  Date-Time: Monday May 03, 2010 at 10:27:45 UTC Monday, May 03, 2010 at 07:27:45 PM at epicenter Location: 29.614°N, 141.064°E Depth: 82.3 km (51.1 miles) set by location program Distances: 300 km (190 miles) NNW of Chichi-shima, Bonin Islands, Japan 405 km (250 miles) SSE of Hachijo-jima, ...
• Tennesse Congressional Candidates: Gays Were 'Take ...
  Republican candidates in the 8th Congressional District made candid comments about gays during a recent Tea Party forum that included discussion about the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy. Physicians Ron Kirkland of Jackson and George Flinn of Memphis were among the candidates Thursday nigh ...
• US: Oregon witnesses report multiple UFOs interact ...
  A group of Oregon witnesses are reporting up to 7 UFOs in the sky that appeared to interact with "fighter jets" on May 1, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database. The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind t ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Harper Hillbillies . . .
  BRAD FRASER has a Facebook Wall picture he'd like to share with you, and of which he says: Ladies and gentleman, I give you the true image of our current government. Featuring Stephen Harper as Jed, Jason Kenney as Miss Jane, Ramir Jaffer as Mr Drysdale, Vic Toews as Granny, John Baird as Jethro and ...
• Sweetness and light . . .
  THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT has an interesting review by Bee Wilson of "SUGAR A bittersweet history" by Elizabeth Abbott. It details the sad history from its beginnings to today's industry. Starting in 1791, Toussaint L’Ouverture led a successful slave revolt against French rule in Saint-Domingue, ...
• conflict resolution
  Not quite yer average peace doves:
• A wise old senator....
  Brings the focus not on herself but on her words . “We’ve got five weeks or whatever left until G-8 starts. Shut the f--- up on this issue,” Coming from a Harper sycophant this would be typical conservative authoritarianism. But Senator Nancy Ruth isn't really a Harper sycophant. In fact, she may ...
• Laws and troops
  Stephen Harper : "Of course the fact of the matter is, Mr. Speaker, the government cannot break the law and cannot order public servants to break the law, nor can it do anything that would unnecessarily jeopardize the safety of Canadian troops." What? You mean laws like the Geneva Conventions an ...

Media Matters for America

• Quick Fact: Krauthammer falsely claims that under ...
  Charles Krauthammer falsely claimed that "the Bush administration had seven years after 9-11, no successful attacks in the United States." In fact, there were repeated terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under President Bush after the 9-11 attacks. Krauthammer repeats falsehood that there were "no ...
• Mediaite admits Matt Drudge is its  ...
  Even after Mediaite retracted its claim that�a link to a news story from The Drudge Report gives a story "credibility,"�it continued to claim that such a link conveys "significance" and makes�the linked story�worthy of further discussion.�But�many of the stories promoted by Drudge are entirely fabr ...
• Fox lets Kobach misrepresent Arizona immigration l ...
  On May 3 Fox & Friends allowed Kris Kobach, the Republican law professor who helped draft Arizona's new immigration law, to falsely claim that the law "only comes into play after another crime is being investigated." In fact, the law directs police to check the immigration status of those stopped ...
• "Sabotage!" Right-wing media respond to oil spill ...
  In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, right-wing media figures have suggested that the oil rig explosion which predicated the spill was an act of "sabotage" in order to halt offshore drilling. Right-wing media sees "sabotage" in oil spill Limbaugh: "Environmental whacko ...
• Fox rushes to politicize attempted NYC car bombin ...
  Fox & Friends rushed to politicize the recent attempted car bombing in New York City by falsely claiming the Obama administration "refuses to say the word terror," by citing the incident to demand that the administration hold Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's trial outside of the city, and by asking wh ...

Global Research.ca

• What You Need to Know About May Day
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• Celebrating and Struggling This May Day: The Long, ...
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• Award Winning Movie: "SUPERPOWER":
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• Understanding Deep Politics Conference: May 14 - 1 ...
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TPM Cafe

• Obsession: What's Wrong With Jeffrey Goldberg?
  Jeff Goldberg of the Atlantic is a little young for the "oy, the goyim are coming to kill us" disease. Marty Peretz didn't contract the disease until his late 50's while Ed Koch and Alan Dershowitz didn't become afflicted until fairly recently. None of those guys would have dreamed of enlisting ...
• Arizona: Failed State, Failed Immigration Policies
  While t he Arizona legislature and Governor's decisions to pass a punitive, anti-immigrant bill - SB1070 -� is grabbing headlines, what's gotten less attention is how Arizona is an isolated case with increasingly anti-immigrant laws and policies advanced over the last few years.� A handful of stat ...
• Is Bill Maher A Bigot?
  I don't watch Bill Maher so I didn't see this clip until Andrew Sullivan cited it in a positive way. I like Sullivan so I checked it out. And, frankly, it's appalling. In the excerpt Maher says that all religions have their fanatics, but, when it comes to Muslims, they are all fanatics. ...
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• Why Public Education is More Important Than Wall S ...
  All over America right now, public education is in crisis. Teachers are being fired as next year's school budgets shrink. Next fall's classrooms will be far more crowded. Some districts are going to four-day weeks. And the nation's public universities are in deep trouble. The answer is for the ...

TruthOut

• The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters
  As oil threatens the Gulf Coast, a list of 10 other disasters both forgotten and infamous, from the Dust Bowl to Bhopal. New York - The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now about the size of Puerto Rico. It's already reached the marshes of Louisiana. Oil-covered wildlife are starting to show up a ...
• Worse Than 1789?
  Sen. Carl Levin pretty much had Goldman Sach's (GS) Lloyd Blankfein dead in a casket with that now-notorious email from GS's head of sales and trading, Tom Montag, describing one of their billion-dollar investment "products" as "one shitty deal." Levin seemed to delight in crossing the boundary into ...
• Taking On Disgusting Politics
  In his 1993 treatise "Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do," Paul Cameron, the firebrand founder of the anti-gay Family Research Institute, revealed the "horror story" of "fecal sex." Cameron claimed that "80 percent of gays" ingest "medically significant amounts of feces" on a regular basis, ...
• Campaign Contribution Records Are Open, but Hardly ...
  In January, the United States Supreme Court overturned limits on corporate election spending (PDF), basing its decision, in part, on the assertion that campaign finance records are more open and accessible than ever before. read more
• E.J. Dionne Jr. | Tory Lessons for Republicans
  Washington - "There's something else you need to know about me," declared the earnest young politician, "which is I believe the test of a good and strong society is how we look after the most vulnerable, the most frail and the poorest." read more

Planetsave

• Curbing Greenhouse Emissions Will Be A Challenge
  Since the monumental failure of the Copenhagen summit in December, one must wonder how we’ll ever avert catastrophe. Instead of coming out of the climate change conference in Copenhagen with a new international climate treaty we found that countries are more divisive than ever, with industrialized ...
• Pierce Brosnan Pleads US to Help End the killing o ...
  âThe Obama Administration is backing a deadly deal that would make it legal once again to kill whales for profit. Please call on the President to reverse course.â Explains Pierce Brosnan. Help OO7! To the rescue James Bond! Brosnan is saving the whales and needs our collective help. Assist Pier ...
• What’s a Snowballed Earth’s Chance in Hell?
  What happens when Earth’s carbon cycle is altered? Looking back 720 million years might give us a clue. A new study led by researchers from Princeton University suggests that a “snowball Earth” period created a significant change in the planet’s carbon cycle which in turn may have produced even mor ...
• Antarctica’s Past Revealing Earth’s Future
  New sediment cores taken from the seabed in Antarctica may give us clues as to our planet’s future climate. Scientists participating in the Wilkes Land Glacial History expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program have recently returned home with 2,000 metres of sediment core from Wilkes Land ...
• Jordan River Expected to Run Dry by 2011
  The Jordan River, once a beautiful river with rapids and waterfalls and sacred to the religions of Judaism and Christianity, could run dry by 2011. Environmentalists from Friends of the Earth, Middle East (FoEME) said that the river “has been reduced to a trickle south of the Sea of Galilee, devast ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• At the Cutting Edge of the Aquarian Age (Copyright ...
  The arrival of the Age of Aquarius is like the incoming tide.  Typically this can be measured by wat
• Why the Run on Bottled Water in Boston?
  For those of you who haven’t heard, people in the Boston area have been told to boil their tap
• Political Science
  Can one river change the world? With the science and political skill behind the Charles River Waters
• Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon Incident : Mult ...
  US Coast Guard, DHS, NOAA, DOI, BP http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/ [Website] T
• EPA Response to BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
  US EPA http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/ [From Press Release] As part of the ongoing federal response to t

Public Citizen in Texas

• Old Settler’s Music Festival
  If you love and appreciate one or more of the following items, I’ve got a great idea for how to spend your weekend: Bluegrass Americana Camping Barbeque the Texas Hill Country Public Citizen One out of six? Four, five, six? Excellent! Join us this weekend, April 15-18, at the Old Settler’s Music Fes ...
• Week in Review
  This week’s string of fossil fuel disasters–a Chinese coal carrier striking the Great Barrier Reef and dumping tons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, an oil pipeline spilling into the Louisiana Delta National Wildlife Refuge at the same time an Exxon Mobil barge was dredging off coast for oil explorati ...
• Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Get to Know an Activist: Carol Geiger
  Say hello to Carol Geiger. Carol is a Public Citizen stalwart and our Office Manager and EarthShare representative. She’s seen our Austin office grow from three to eight people and move into our current location right across from the Capitol building. Carol is a self-proclaimed “non-profit junkie” a ...
• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
  Here are the weekly highlights from the Texas Progressive Alliance. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants to know why Republicans like Victoria’s DA Steve Tyler, Nueces County’s DA Anna Jimenez and (who could forget) Alberto Gonzales abuse their offices? The Texas Cloverleaf thinks Rick Perry is e ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• NASA plays down "life on Mars" tabloid claims
  NASA has stated that recent tabloid headlines claiming life has been found on Mars are "positively false". NASA had previously announced that the Mars...
• Postman marries his cat
  A postman from Germany has hit the headlines this week after holding a ceremony in which he married his pet cat. 39-year-old Uwe Mitzscherlich married...
• Japan to put humanoid robot on moon by 2015 ?
  A new proposal by several Japanese companies is aiming to put an android on the moon within just 5 years. The robot named Maido-kun is hoping to hitch...
• How did mammoths survive the extreme cold ?
  For the first time scientists have recreated a blood protein that could explain how mammoths survived the ice age. The feat represents a breakthrough ...
• Is recent Noah's Ark claim a hoax ?
  A former member of the expedition who recently claimed to have found Noah's Ark in Turkey has stated that it was a hoax. Randall Price has claimed tha...

Grassroots

• Indigenous Women take on a big fight in Guatemala
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• Grassroots International Signs on to STOP LAND GRA ...
  Grassroots International, along with scores of organizations and global activists, endorses the call of the Via Campesina to "Stop�Land Grabbing Now!" and say no to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank. read more
• An Open Letter to Oxfam Regarding Biotechnology
  Subheadline:� Grassroots International Among the List of Signers Image:� oxfam-biotech.jpg Grassroots International recently joined a growing list of colleagues and food sove ...
• The Joy of Justice: Marching with the Coalition of ...
  CIW-march4-10.jpg Below is a blog from our colleague Stephen Bartlett of Agricultural Missions entitled “Praying with our Feet Journal.” Along with 1,000 others, he participated in the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) Farmworker Freedom Ma ...
• Dispatches from World People's Conference on Clima ...
  A World People's Conference on Climate Change has been called by Bolivia as a response to the failure of COP15 . As one of the few countries that openly criticized the negotiations in Copenhagen and has refused to sign the Copenhagen Accord, Bolivia has invited governments, organizations, and pe ...

Climate

• March 4, 2010
  Schwarzenegger Ends Support for Offshore Drilling (AP) Gov. Schwarzenegger says he will find another way to help close the state's $20 billion budget deficit after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused him to withdraw his support for a plan to expand oil drilling off the Califor ...
• May 3, 2010
  Obama Seeks to Reassure as Oil Slick Nears Coast (AP) Pres. Obama is trying to reassure fishermen and others on the Gulf Coast that the government is doing all it can as masses of oil from a pipeline rupture endanger fisheries, oyster beds and beaches. U.S. Presses BP to Stop Gushing ...
• May 1-2, 2010
  Obama to Visit Gulf Coast, Oil Slick Approaches (Reuters) Pres. Obama will visit the U.S. Gulf Coast on Sunday as his administration aims to deflect criticism that it could have responded more quickly to a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  Climate Bill Could Be Harmed by Gulf Sp ...
• April 30, 2010
  Climate Bill Analysis to Take Up to 8 Weeks: EIA (Reuters)  The U.S. Energy Information Administration will take up to eight weeks to analyze the stalled Senate climate bill after receiving most of its details from the office of Sen. John Kerry, a spokesman said on Thursday. Gulf Spill S ...
• April 29, 2010
  Massachusetts' Cape Wind Gets Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down (AP) With federal approval now behind them, developers of what could be the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod still have a tough journey ahead, as opponents vowed to kill the project in the courts. Reid: Despite Activist ...

TomDispatch

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

Smirking Chimp

• Confessions Of A Wall St. Nihilist: Forget About G ...
  There was a strange moment last week during President Obama's speech at Cooper Union. There he was, groveling before a cast of Wall Street villains including Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein, begging them to "Look into your heart!" like John Turturro's character in Miller's Crossing...when out of ...
• Death Squads: Capital punishment should not be lef ...
  More often than not, politicians get to decide who lives and who dies. You see their scythes and black hoods in the current "debate" over whether to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a hot issue in this year's governor's race (see "A Time to Kill," April 14). But, of course, you see them in ...
• Unfree Markets: The Last Gasp of a (Literally) Ban ...
  What we've been witnessing in Washington isn't just political positioning by one party looking to deny the other a victory, although it's certainly that. We're also seeing the death struggle of a dying ideology. This ideology provided intellectual cover to business and political elites for decades, ...
• It's the Derivatives, Stupid
  Free market fundamentalists say the real problem with our financial sector is that they are over-regulated. If we just let the banks regulate themselves that we wouldn't have any problems. Rush Limbaugh says Goldman Sachs is the victim . The government caused the problems with all of their rules and ...
• VIDEO: In 2001, McInnis Publicly Endorsed Racial P ...
  As a follow up to the news this morning that GOP gubernatorial frontrunner Scott McInnis wants to implement an Arizona-style racial profiling law in Colorado, I want to point out that McInnis in 2001 already went on record explicitly supporting overt racial profiling. Though this has (somehow) not ...

Ten Percent

• People Worth Voting For: John McDonnell
  A consensus checklist of what constitutes real change is emerging from many sources. Securing jobs by intervening in manufacturing and restoring trade union rights; securing homes by a mass local authority house-building programme; stopping the squandering of public resources by ending the privatisa ...
• Shaker Aamer’s 3000th Day in Guantánamo
  Andy Worthington reports that Shaker Aamer (who I think remains detained largely because he is a witness to the murder of three detainees, we already know the Whitehouse knows the vast majority are innocent and keeps them shut up to cover its ass) is today spending his 3000th day in Gitmo. An articl ...
• ICG On Thailand
  Not infallible or without biases perhaps, however the International Crisis Group’s alert on Thailand is worth reading. Jotman has also featured it, I was reading around about the current situation and then today in conversation with my mother she reported how a cousin was worried because their daugh ...
• Friday! The Jesus & Mary Chain- April Skies
  So say goodbye to April, maybe the last month for years we do not live under a spite filled, hateful Tory administration attacking migrants, the poor & those on welfare on behalf of the ruling class & corporate state. Or as it is otherwise known another stretch of neoliberalism this time under Conse ...
• If You Only Read One Article This Week About Israe ...
  Via Pulse (who have a video of the speech)- The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners This is the transcript of the Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial Lecture delivered by John J. Mearsheimer at the The Palestine Center today. It is a great honor to be here at the Palestine Center to gi ...

Booman Tribune

• Alleged Pakistani-American Bomber Arrested
  Here's the link to Oui's diary with the details of the suspect's arrest at JFK airport. Kudos to Homeland Security's Joint Terrorist Task Force and local law enforcement for finding this guy before he left the country. I admit my initial skepticism that it was an attack with foreign connections ...
• Open Thread
  In honor of the fishermen on the Gulf Coast:
• No Time for Friendly Talk
  Setting aside how our government would work in an ideal world, the reason that conciliatory language and efforts at bipartisanship are dangerous in our current political climate is that it creates the unwarranted assumption that the other side is offering a viable alternative. In other words, it wo ...
• IN-Sen: Not Much to Choose From
  Returning to my concern about the direction of the Republican Party, Indiana will select their GOP nominee to challenge for Evan Bayh's seat tomorrow. Let's see if you can match the man to his biography. 1) John Hostettler 2) Dan Coats 3) Marlin Stutzman A) A member of the Fellowshi ...
• Corporate Failure & Conservative Failure in the De ...
  The only things more astounding than conservatives' record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disasters, and their attempts to blame somebody anybody else. Their response to the growing ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is taken straight from Bart ...

European Tribune

• UK Election Grand Finale Open Thread
  Are we there yet?...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 4 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1929 Audrey Hepburn,...
• Monday Open Thread
• Habermas: Europe Is Doomed (probably not)
  The FT has an interview with Jürgen Habermas by Stuart Jeffries. FT.com - A rare...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 3 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1896 Birth of...

Futurismic

• Mayday, Mayday…
  No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
• Mayday, Mayday…
  No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
• Somalia: failed state, economic success?
  Via the Anarcho-Transhumanism blog, here’s an interesting article that examines Somalia’s fate since the fall of Siad Barre’s dictatorship in 1991, and which points out that – despite a lack of central governance – Somalia’s economy has actually improved somewhat: It is hard to call any country mire ...
• Snow Crash ‘dentata’ is a (harsh) reality in South ...
  (Trigger warning: discussion of rape and aftermath) Chalk another one up on the list of sf-nal gadgets that have graduated from printed page to reality… but at the same time deplore the need for it, because the gadget in question is something like the dentata anti-rape device featured in Neal Stephe ...
• First remote-controlled robot heart surgery succes ...
  A reminder (if such were needed) that technology is a double-edged sword: while remote-controlled tech can be used to kill, it can also be used to save lives, as demonstrated by the first successful remote-controlled robot heart surgery procedure, performed earlier this week in London [via SlashDot] ...

Therapy News

• Signs of Psychosis Found in Children
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Discovering how and why psychosis develops in some individuals is a major preoccupation of modern psychology, and typical treatment of the issue suggests that symptoms of impending psychosis are only detectable later in life. Recently, however, a group of researchers ...
• Doing the Best We Can
  By Darla Sedlacek, Ph.D., Sport / Fitness Psychology Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darla and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Get the ball, Buddy. Get the ball, Buddy, get the ball, Buddy. Go after it, Buddy. Go, go, go. Go, go, go. Get the ball, Buddy.” Imagine hearing this ever ...
• Springtime in the Gardens of Our Minds
  By Ker Cleary, MA, Contemplative Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ker and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; The habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its way ...
• How to Change Defensive Anger Into a Strategy For ...
  By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Ursula was irritated with her three year old daughter who wouldn’t stop pulling the cat’s tail. She was about ready to tear her hair out when Millie just squealed and pull ...
• “Why Don’t You Just Leave?” – What Keeps People in ...
  By Leslie Larson, LPC-S, Domestic Violence Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Leslie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile It’s probably the most misunderstood aspect of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): why some victims stay, or perhaps more confusing, why they escape only to go back a ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Deadly storms, flooding hit US mid-South - World S ...
  Deadly storms, flooding hit US mid-South World Socialist Web Site The area has repeatedly been hit by devastating flooding, which has been made worse by a poor flood-control system, mountain top removal and other ... and more��
• Drop Chase Bank, Win a Badge of Honor & Stop Mount ...
  Drop Chase Bank, Win a Badge of Honor & Stop Mountain Top Removal Huffington Post (blog) Mountain top removal (MTR) is also a win, win for Chase Bank, who continues to lend trillions (that's not a typo) of dollars to the coal companies that blow ...
• The New Environmental Activists - E/The Environmen ...
  E/The Environmental Magazine The New Environmental Activists E/The Environmental Magazine ... assaults and YouTube attacks for her stance against the mountaintop removal coal mining that is laying waste to her community's iconic landscape. ...
• Mountaintop Removal: Farewell to Forests - Natural ...
  Mountaintop Removal : Farewell to Forests Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) One of the biggest concerns about mountaintop removal coal mining has to do with its impacts on water. That's understandable, of course, because this ...
• Stop Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining! - unE ...
  Veterans Today Network Stop Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining! unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Taking a step in the right direction, the Environmental Protection Agency has moved to veto the permit for the largest proposed mountaintop removal mine in ... Momentum Builds Against Mountaintop ...

Memeorandum

• If the TSA Were Running New York (James Fallows/Th ...
  James Fallows / The Atlantic Online : If the TSA Were Running New York   —  How would it respond to this weekend's Times Square bomb threat?  Well, by extrapolation from its response to the 9/11 attacks and subsequent threats, the policy would be:  — All vans or SUVs headed into Midtown Manhattan ...
• American Who Recently Visited Pakistan Eyed in Tim ...
  Fox News : American Who Recently Visited Pakistan Eyed in Times Square Bomb Plot   —  The person is a naturalized American citizen who was in Pakistan for several months and returned to the United States recently, investigative sources told Fox News
• Pelosi: Bush Admin Barred Officials From Briefing ...
  Brian Beutler / TPMDC : Pelosi: Bush Admin Barred Officials From Briefing Congress On Impending Financial Crisis in Fall 2008   —  Nearly two years after the Wall Street meltdown drove the U.S. economy to the brink of collapse, and forced the U.S. government to prop up major financial institutions ...
• Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed (Jeremy ...
  Jeremy Scahill / RebelReports : Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed   —  The reclusive Blackwater founder tries to ban journalists and recorders from his speeches in front of friendly audiences.  This time he failed.  —  [Note: This post, written for TheNation.com, will be posted on The Nati ...
• Authorities Have Identified Person of Interest in ...
  ABCNEWS : Authorities Have Identified Person of Interest in Times Square Bomb Attempt   —  Investigation Pointing to Coordinated Effort, Foreign Links in Foiled Times Square Attack  —  Federal authorities are closing in on the man they say is a person of interest in the Times Square car bomb attemp ...

Energy & Environment News

• BP Describes Race to Fix Well as Obama Warns of Oi ...
  BP prepared to install a shutoff valve on one of three leaks gushing from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Chevron Profit Doubles, Beating Expectations
  Chevron’s quarterly earnings were $4.55 billion on revenue of $46.7 billion, despite lower earnings in its refinery business.
• Scrap Metal Radiation Raises Concerns in India
  Experts say there is inadequate health protection in place against dangerous materials coming from abroad.
• About New York: Atop the Ocean, a Sea of Untapped ...
  Producing wind power for New York might be expensive, but each power source has its costs, like the lives lost in coal mine or oil rig accidents.
• Sempra Energy Agrees to Settle Claims
  The company admitted no wrongdoing regarding accusations that it bilked Californians during an energy crisis last decade.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
  Thursday, April 29, 2010 07:56:34 UTC Thursday, April 29, 2010 03:56:34 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.1, Vanuatu
  Thursday, April 29, 2010 00:40:30 UTC Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:40:30 AM at epicenter Depth : 200.40 km (124.52 mi)
• M 5.5, Myanmar
  Wednesday, April 28, 2010 18:01:21 UTC Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:31:21 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.10 km (21.81 mi)
• M 5.0, Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia
  Wednesday, April 28, 2010 14:05:06 UTC Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:06 PM at epicenter Depth : 143.00 km (88.86 mi)
• M 5.2, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  Monday, May 3, 2010 23:30:04 UTC Tuesday, May 4, 2010 07:30:04 AM at epicenter Depth : 19.30 km (11.99 mi)

China Dialogue

• “Land-grabbing” in Africa (2)
  Even Sudan, emerging from civil war, is not off-limits to investors seeking land and profits, John Vidal writes. Ethiopia, too, is a land-rush centre where many deals are condemned as “new colonialism”. Nowhere is now out of bounds. Sudan , emerging from civil war and mostly bereft of development fo ...
• “Land-grabbing” in Africa (1)
  In what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era, rich countries are farming land on the continent for their own citizens while Africans go hungry, John Vidal reports. We turned off the main road to Awassa , talked our way past security guards and drove nearly two kilometres ac ...
• A big fight for small farms
  Battles over forcible acquisition of India’s agricultural land for industry are raging – particularly in the country’s tribal belt, where indigenous groups have upset corporate plans to tap mineral riches. Amy Kazmin reports. First, the land surveyors came. Then the rumours spread through the villag ...
• Activism makes us happy
  Political engagement may not be a barrel of laughs, but US-German research shows there is a link between well-being and taking action on issues that affect our lives, writes Aditya Chakrabortty. Marching in the drizzle against wars in far-off countries, writing letters protesting the government’s la ...
• Resisting the urban dinosaurs
  Naive utopian development projects, such as those in drought-stricken Kunming, only exacerbate social and environmental problems, writes Zhu Xiaoyang. The document now facing me, from the Kunming City Planning Commission Office, in the south-west Chinese province of Yunnan, is certainly worth a read ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Crazy? Stupid? Tea Party Supporters Are Neither
  Never before in our lifetimes has the Right taken to the streets. Combine that with the astroturfing and the megaphone of Fox News, and you have the recipe for a powerful force.
• Man Arrested Pver NY Bomb Attempt: Reports
  MSNBC said the 30-year-old man had been linked to a sports utility vehicle seized with explosives late Saturday in the busy New York district.
• Obama, FCC Poised to Cave to Telecoms and Turn Bac ...
  Among the young, forward-thinking demographics with whom Obama, the presidential candidate, was incredibly popular were the digital rights crowd. Obamaâs campaign platform promised to ensure net neutrality — the principle that all Internet content must be treated equally by internet service ...
• As Oil Disaster Spreads, Right-Wing Media Promote ...
  From Limbaugh to Fox News, right wingers spread the idea that BP's oil disaster is possibly deliberate.
• Is Fox News destroying the GOP?
  In the last year, a very interesting thing has happened. We have watched folks like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin become instant millionaires (Beck earned $32 million and Sarah Palin $12 million since leaving office in July). We have watched CNN and MSNBC struggle for viability as Fox News ratings soar ...

Threat Level

• Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent
  The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent in 2009 over 2008, according to a report released Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Courts authorized 2,376 criminal wiretap orders in 2009, with 96 percent targeting mob ...
• Court OKs Unmasking Identities of Copyright Scoffl ...
  A federal appeals court is blessing the legal process by which the recording industry and other content owners unmask the identities of alleged peer-to-peer copyright infringers. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is believed to be the first appellate court to sanction a process t ...
• Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Found Guilty of Coverup
  A Tennessee jury on Friday convicted David Kernell of obstruction of justice and misdemeanor computer intrusion in connection with his hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account in 2008, according to local news reports. The jury acquitted the 22-year-old Kernell of wire fraud, and deadlocked on a four ...
• Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
  Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars. The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called ...
• iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
  The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says althou ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• WRAPUP 2-Ash closes Irish, UK airports; summer cha ...
  * Authorities warn of periodic disruptions throughout summer
• Voting begins in Senate on Wall Street reform
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will cast its first votes on Tuesday on a sweeping Wall Street reform bill, with passage of a handful of uncontroversial amendments expected and a key procedural question still unsettled.
• U.S. arrests Pakistani-American over failed car bo ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen has been arrested in connection with the failed car bombing in New York's Times Square last weekend but investigators continue to pursue leads, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.
• U.S. reveals size of nuclear arsenal
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States disclosed for the first time on Monday the current size of its nuclear arsenal, lifting the veil on once top-secret numbers in an effort to bolster non-proliferation efforts.
• Man arrested in New York failed car bomb: source
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man has been detained in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing in New York, the FBI said early on Tuesday.

Equality Trust

• The Equality Trust in the news
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• Inequality: a threat to social cohesion
  As Edmund Conway comments in today's Daily Telegraph : "It is not merely, as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in their book The Spirit Level, that this damages health and encourages crime; in times of austerity, inequality can tear apart the social fabric."
• Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle in ...
  Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest. How much has it got to show for it? Read Michael White's ...
• The five-star lifestyle: "horrible, soulless and w ...
  Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more here...
• Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...
  Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...

PDA AMERICA

• Video: Vote No on Funding Escalation
  Video: Vote No on Funding Escalation http://vimeo.com/11346739 On Thursday, April 29, 2010, a "Teach-In on Capitol Hill," was held in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Building, in Washington, D.C., dealing with the question of what the ...
• Slideshow: Rally against SB1070 with Congressman ...
• Rep. Kucinich town hall meeting on wars
  Filmed in Milwaukee, WI 4/2010 | by On the Earth Productions
• Dear Fiscal Conservative War Supporter
  By David Swanson Is it that you don’t know what war costs, or that you don’t know that it makes us less safe? We’ve spent $268 billion on making war on Afghanistan, and using Linda Bilmes ...
• Harman vs Winograd : the Democratic Party at war, ...
  by Rosalea Barker | werewolf Somewhere in the United States is a company called Wallpaper From Hell in which I’d like to invest, because it seems to have a monopoly on the convention hotel market. Everywhere ...

Marler Blog

• I am standing on the shoulders of giants in the fi ...
  It is not surprising that something I am doing today is something that was done before, but honestly, when it come to public safety, this is a bit ridiculous. “We cannot let ourselves be complacent in thinking that E. coli O157:H7 is the only Shiga toxin-producing microorganism that can cause probl ...
• How did the Oregonian know it was my birthday toda ...
  I doubt they did when Lynne Terry wrote - “Failure to test for six strains of E. coli leaves gaps in nation's food safety network” - this morning. Here is the full story: Two years ago, Bill Marler was contacted by the family of a 13-year-old girl killed by E. coli. They wanted to sue, and the S ...
• John Strike, grandfather of Abby Fenstermaker E. c ...
  I never get used to the phone calls about the death of a client. Last night’s was especially hard because it came from the mother of Abby Fenstermaker who died of E. coli O157:H7 complications nearly one year ago. Now, her father John Strike lost his battle - perhaps not completely due to the E. c ...
• Salmonella found in Nestle morsels - again
  Michael Burke of the Journal Times report that for the second time this year, Nestle's local plant has shut down a production line after a positive salmonella test. Workers reported, and the company confirmed, that a batch of chocolate chips tested positive for salmonella on Wednesday. Nestle spoke ...
• Beta Testers Still Needed - Foodborne Illness Outb ...
  We have continued to upgrade and improve www.outbreakdatabase.com and nearly are ready for launch.� We have a few "bugs" to work out and we are going to link to the CDC and CSPI databases too.� We would still love any input, advise or criticism.

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 05.04.10
  Discussion fodder: Could there be an environmental disaster like the Gulf spill if we got off oil? What might be on the horizon. Tesla IPO could go decently, or worse, depending on CEO's divorce trial ...
• AutoblogGreen for 05.03.10
  Nissan reports 8,000 plus orders for Leaf, easily expects 25,000 by year end It pays to be first. Aptera 2e needed 40 attempts to clear Automotive X-Prize's accident avoidance test It's call ...
• Is it better to recharge your gadgets while drivin ...
  Filed under: Technology Once a standard internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle gets up to operating speeds, it produces more energy than can go to the wheels thanks to losses from heat and friction. And, since it's the engine that sends energy to the power outlet in the car (via the battery), d ...
• Automotive X Prize revs up for Michigan events, Kn ...
  Filed under: Hybrid , Electric , Diesel Governor Granholm and X-Prize CEO Peter Diamandis in the Amp'd Sky - Click above for high-res image gallery At the official kick-off event for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize in Lansing, MI today, the same cars, most of the same people and the s ...
• AutoblogGreen for 04.30.10
  Sunk Gulf oil rig spilling up to 5,000 barrels of crude every day Going from "not bad" to worse. James Cameron attempts to terminate the oil and coal lobbies (on CNN) First Pandora, now Eart ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: Facebook and privacy (podca ...
  Our topic this week: Facebook and privacy. At the F8 conference on April 21, Facebook rolled out privacy changes and new data sharing features. As usually happens when Facebook makes a privacy change, there was a swift and mighty backlash against them. But this time, even the federal government ...
• Do not pay for security software
  PC makers should be offering free antivirus apps. They're not, and here's why. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• Likebutton.me shows Facebook's new 'like' button i ...
  Check out this little news aggregator that's aware of your social network. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
• Reporters' Roundtable: Twitter's business model (p ...
  Today: Twitter's business model. Yes, there is one. Finally. To talk about what Twitter is going to do--and if they really need to do it--we have two great guests with us here in the studio. First, from CNET, author of our social-networking blog The Social , Caroline McCarthy ( @caro on Twitter). ...
• How to save money with refurb laptops
  You can get a nearly new, nicely restored laptop at a bargain, if you shop carefully. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• "The Curse of Abundance": Alberto Acosta on the Fa ...
  The government of Ecuador is pioneering a new strategy to promote development in poor countries while also minimizing environmental damage caused by extraction of natural resources. Under Ecuador’s proposal known as “ITT Yasuni,” Ecuador will refrain from exploiting an oil field under the Amazon r ...
• Boycotting Arizona’s Racism
  Arizona was the only territory west of Texas to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War. A century later, it fought recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. This week, an anti-immigrant bill was signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Arizona Sen ...
• Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change
  Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from El Alto International, the world’s highest commercial ...
• Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal
  Massey Energy runs the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine in Montcoal, W.Va., where 29 miners were killed last week. The loss of life is tragic, but the UBB explosion is more than tragic; it is criminal. When corporations are guilty of crimes, however, they don’t go to prison, they don’t forfeit their fre ...
• Poet and Author Alice Walker Speaking in Gaza
  Following the Israeli siege, Alice Walker visited Gaza in March 2009 along with a 60-member international delegation led by Code Pink. Walking among the ruins, she spoke to Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat.

Farming Pathogens

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

Digg Green

• 50 Years of Selling America Oil
  The film When Midnight Comes by Jeff Burns so compelling becasue it showcases 50 years of oil industry propaganda sliced and diced for your viewing pleasure. The movie is part of the When History Attacks series which outlines how we keep making the same mistakes over and over.
• Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico Dead Turtles Wildlife ...
  Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico Dead Turtles Wildlife Oil Slick. Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico 2010 and Atrocious Discoveries: Dead Turtles Are Washed Ashore. Over 20 dead sea turtles.
• Tokyo's goal: Be the greenest
  City gets very serious about recycling, emissions, plant life and solar power. On a man-made island in Tokyo Bay, garbage is getting a makeover.
• Gulf Oil Spill Pictures: Aerial Views Show Leak's ...
  The spread of oil on the water&surface is a main clue being used to determine the size of the leak from the Gulf of Mexico rig disaster. National Geographic
• Satellite Returns High-Resolution Photos of Oil Sl ...
  The Macondo oil well is leaking almost 5,000 barrels per day into the Gulf of Mexico, five times more than originally thought.

Invisible Opportunity

• The Priceless Value of the Qualities of God.
  By Les Visible Concentration; focus, determination, Mercy, humility, faith, steadfastness and a host of other qualities are essential to successfully walking the spiritual path. Despite the possession of these valuable tools you are still going to get knocked down and routinely lost in the woods as ...
• Cold fusion experimentally confirmed
  By R. Colin Johnson U.S. Navy researchers claimed to have experimentally confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting. “We have compelling evidence that fusion reactions are occurring” at room temperature, said Pamela Mosier-Boss, a scientist with the Spa ...
• Teen girls bribed to get Gardasil vaccine with sho ...
  By Ethan Huff The British National Health Service (NHS) has begun bribing teenage girls between the ages of 16 and 18 to get Gardasil vaccines. Officials are giving shopping vouchers worth the equivalent of roughly $70 to girls who agree to get jabbed with the vaccine, which has been implicated in n ...
• Health Ministry Finds that Fluoridation Does Not R ...
  Statistics from a study conducted by the New Zealand Ministry of Health suggest that there are no advantages derived from fluoridation. These statistics actually match similar arguments set forth by the American Dental Association. The latter organization conducted a large study on some 39000 Americ ...
• UNDERSTANDING DERIVATIVES IN LAYMAN TERMS
  Refresher course for investors. An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets. Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she come ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Taking a Stand for Political Prisoners in the U.S.
  A former Black Panther’s new book explores American politics and the fight for justice.
• Moms Unite to End the War on Drugs
  An appeal to mothers who have seen first hand the devastation of the drug war.
• Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?
  Kept on hold for close to half a century, especially in the U.S., psychedelic science is now coming back to life.
• Dismantling the 5 Big Talking Points of Marijuana ...
  Opposition to this reform has crystallized within the drug war establishment, and so has their spin.
• An American Phenomenon: The Widespread Psychiatric ...
  The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world, medicating children at a younger and younger age.

Twilight Earth

• Documentary: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Wa ...
  Canadian explorer and environmental filmmaker Mark Terry will present his award-winning documentary The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning during the International Polar Year Science Conference and the PolarCINEMA Film Festival June 8 to 12. Related posts: Warning: This Soup is Inedible a ...
• Social Media Marketing Panel at GMU on 13 May
  I'm excited to announce that I will be a panelist at the Social Media Marketing: How to Make It Work for You, event on May 13th, 2010. Related posts: Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Information 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media 10 Ways to Change the World Through Soc ...
• Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Hea ...
  Add soil depletion to RoundUp’s (and Monsanto’s) ever-growing list of negative effects. More (much more) in and below the cartoon. Apologies for the excess text–it’s taken over this cartoon like RoundUp resistant superweeds are taking over farms across the nation… Related info: USDA downplays ow ...
• Earth Day Climate Rally Concert 2010 – Exclusive V ...
  Earth Day Climate Rally 2010 Exclusive Videos and Photos by Adam Shake Related posts: Verizon Apologizes for Sponsoring Big Coal Rally and Concert Twilight Earth Exclusive: The Bigger Picture – Documenting Cop15 White House Farmers Market a Success. Photos and Story by Twilight Earth.
• Earth Music – Earth Day 2010
  Happy Earth Day. Enjoy. Related posts: Happy 40th- Earth Day! Earth Day 2010 – History and Events Earth Day 2010 is Almost Upon Us – 7 Ways to Get Involved Simple Earth Media Website and Social Media Information

Inhabitat

• Latticed French Pavilion Shades a Green-Walled Int ...
  Drawing on classic French style, Jacques Ferrier Architectures designed the gorgeous French Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo, which welcomes visitors inside a green-walled “Sensual City”. Dezeen recently showcased a set of photos of the recently completed pavilion, which is covered in a concrete ...
• 13 Smart, Green ECOnomical Gifts for Mother’s Day!
  Read the rest of 13 Smart, Green ECOnomical Gifts for Mother’s Day!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco gift guide, fai ...
• Ingenious Cardboard Packaging Folds to Fit Parcels ...
  Excessive packaging is one of our top pet peeves here at Inhabitat, so we were really inspired by this flat cardboard sheet that is capable of conforming to the shape of any object, saving a bundle on wasteful filler. Designed by Patrick Sung, the packaging design concept features triangulated perfo ...
• Ark House: Sustainable Citadel in the Montana Plai ...
  Whether for a future flood or a remnant of one from long ago, the Ark House is a provocative residential design that is, ironically, land-locked in the middle of Montana. The design calls for two huge cathedral roofs- one protecting a substantial deck that leads to the next roof over the main house. ...
• Students Transform Salad Spinner Into Life-Saving ...
  When’s the last time you heard of a salad spinner that saves lives? Two Rice University students have transformed a simple salad spinner into an electricity-free centrifuge that can be used to diagnose diseases on the cheap. Created by Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr, the ingenious DIY centrifuge is cobb ...

Pogue's Posts

• The Making of the Distracted Driving Video
  The behind the scenes look at the making of the most recent David Pogue video.
• Text-Blocking Apps Only Work if You Use Them
  Skeptics of apps intended to keep you from texting while driving have some good points to make.
• A Mysterious Service From Cable, Part II
  Answers about why New York's cable companies are suddenly offering free access to each other's WiFi hot spots.
• A Convenient, Mysterious Service From Cable Compan ...
  Big cable companies have been installing free Wi-Fi networks for their own customers. It's a fantastic development. But it's not clear why they're doing it.
• Android Tries Harder
  Google is trying very hard to get developers to build apps for Android app phones.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in ...
  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder by three whole pounds. But Einstein probably won’t hold his place in the Guinness Book of World Records forever, because there ...
• Making Rainclouds With Lasers
  Shooting lasers at the sky can make the germ of a raincloud, a new study shows. In an experiment that smacks of science fiction, scientists used a high-powered laser to squeeze water from air, both indoors and out. The study is among the first to propose a direct test of how quantum entanglement, a ...
• DEET Mosquito Repellent Could Lose Its Bite
  More than half a century after DEET’s invention, scientists still don’t know how the popular mosquito repellent works. Now, using a combination of artificially accelerated evolution and painstaking anatomical observation, researchers have answered a fundamental question about DEET’s mechanisms – a ...
• Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass
  If the weird rules of atomic physics do help birds find their way around the globe — as some scientists suspect — a new study has identified ways of finding out how. The study is among the first to propose a direct test of how quantum entanglement, an effect that inexorably links two electrons in a ...
• Tracked From Space: Gulf Oil Slick Approaches Land
  > The oil slick that resulted from the rig explosion on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico is heading toward the Mississippi Delta and nearby coastline. Some experts are predicting the impact of the oil reaching the marshlands in the area could be bigger than that of the 1989 [...]

The Progressive Realist

• Iran Sanctions: What Are They Good For?
  As Congress moves ahead on sanctions that would punish countries who supply refined petroleum to Iran, Patrick Barry of the National Security Network (NSN) makes the case that new sanctions may be counterproductive. The Iranian regime, he says, is imploding as a result of its own poorly-considered p ...
• U.S. Responses to Terrorism: You Wouldn’t Like Us ...
  Dabbling in the conservative tactic of hailing failed terrorist attacks (under Democratic administrations) as “successes,” Max Boot writes “ Terrorism has always been designed to make more of a psychological than a physical impact. By that standard, the Times Square bomber, whoever he is, has succee ...
• Pakistan's Homegrown Extremists
  Pakistan is still producing an estimated 10,000 potential jihadis a year out of 500,000 graduates from Pakistan's 11,000 madrassas —  young gung-ho boys, mostly 16-year-olds, who finish 10 years of Koranic cramming and who can then recite the holy book by heart in Arabic. That means 114 suras (chap ...
• Off-the-Radar News Roundup
  - The long-rumored visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to China is reportedly underway . If the reports are true, the trip comes in the immediate aftermath of a Friday meeting between China's president and his South Korean counterpart to discuss, among other things, the ongoing investigation in ...
• Ratings Agencies and WMD Intelligence
  According to Jacob Weisberg no one could have predicted that subprime mortgage-backed securities would go under: The assumption that the rating agencies knew their business, a key enabler of the subprime meltdown, is analogous to the view before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had WMD. There are a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Was ...
  John Sides has seven questions for political reporters who are covering 2010 midterms. In response , Jonathan Bernstein asks how this works down the slate, particularly the districts across the country with Republican primary challenges. The implication of Sides and Berstein's questions is that rep ...
• What the FCC Is Giving Up.
  Advocates for net neutrality are, to use a technical term, freaking out today, and it's justified, if this report in today's Washington Post is to be believed. The gist is that FCC chair Julius Genachowski is on the cusp of announcing that he won't seek to reclassify broadband Internet as a common c ...
• Airplanes and Terrorism.
  Matthew Yglesias asks : I've been feeling like I should say something about the failed terrorist attack this weekend in New York but can't come up with much beyond the observation that I don't quite get why this is prompting so much less freaking-out than the Christmas underpants bomber did. Both s ...
• The Little Picture: Change Takes Courage.
  Immigration March, May 1, 2010, Chicago. (Flickr/ Carrie Sloan )
• Courting Diversity.
  Ann Friedman asks if we can insist that diversity matters and still express disappointment when the conversation is overly focused on a nominee's identity. Obviously a justice's race or gender does not always play a large role in his or her decision-making process. But Supreme Court justices, like ...

Andy Worthington

• Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantánamo L ...
  Since coming to power 15 months ago, promising to close Guantánamo within a year, and suspending the much-criticized Military Commission trial system for terror suspects, President Obama’s zeal for repudiating the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” detention policies has ground to a halt. The rot ...
• David Frakt’s Damning Verdict on the New Military ...
  Lt. Col. David Frakt, Associate Professor of Law at Western State University College of Law and a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force Reserve JAG Corps, served as lead defense counsel with the Office of Military Commissions, and has long distinguished himself as a particularly intelligent and kno ...
• Great feedback from screening of “Outside the Law: ...
  Last week, I had an email out of the blue from Jeremy Varon, a Professor of History at the New School for Social Research in NYC and a member of Witness Against Torture, the campaigning organization that screened the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly ...
• Shaker Aamer’s 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Moazzam Be ...
  All week, the journalist Paul Cahalan has been writing articles about Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay, for the Wandsworth Guardian (in Shaker’s home borough). Shaker, who has a British wife and four British children, continues to be held at Guantánamo, despite being cleared ...
• Mustapha Labsi’s Story, In His Own Words
  In a previous article, I wrote about Mustapha Labsi, an Algerian terror suspect, shuttled between various European prisons for the last nine years, who was deported from Slovakia last week “in clear violation of Slovakia’s international obligations,” as Amnesty International explained. Mustapha Labs ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Bald Eagles May Have to Eat Toxic Seals, Study Say ...
  Eagles on California's Channel Islands are finding fewer of their traditional prey, which may force them to scavenge DDT-laced blubber. California - Channel Island - Bald Eagle - California's Channel Islands - Channel Islands National Park
• Huge Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered Off California
  Seven ancient underwater giants lurk off the Santa Barbara coast, and the biggest is as tall as a six-story building, scientists say.
• New Deadly Fungus Found in U.S., Has Already Kille ...
  The new, hypervirulent fungus strain has already killed six and is spreading in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, a new study says.
• Earth Day at 40: What Good Is It Now?
  After 40 years, outsourced activism is replacing traditional Earth Day activities, and green's gone mainstream, experts say. So what's the point?
• Earth Day at 40: How it Began, Where It's Going
  On its 40th anniversary, the once grassroots Earth Day is now taking root on the Web. But some critics don't like it in any medium.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Medicare spending rose an OUTRAGEOUS 5% !eleventy! ...
  That is according to the CBO : Adjusted for timing shifts, Medicare spending rose by $7 billion (or 5 percent). Of course this is reason to be outraged at all that government spending coming out of our pockets, right? Right? Thankfully those fiscally responsible Republicans have come up with the gre ...
• Not that we should Wonder about McMahon's 5$ bount ...
  But it kind of has to make ya wonder what McMahons' real intentions were when she put a bounty on college students' registration : DA to team with Secretary of State on voter registration probe A Register investigation published Friday online and in Sunday’s newspaper exposed how signature gather ...
• Is Our Children Learned Yet?
  Clearly our town is hellbent on turning out thousands of uneducated kids in the future as New Milford has frozen the school budget for the second year straight. This is from an email that is circulating around and was forwarded to myself by more than one person: Dear Friends, Below is a letter I s ...
• Offshore Drilling? WTF OBAMA???
  And before any negotiations on a bill for the milk starts some dumbasses have already given away the entire cow . Good luck with that. We have already seen what your administration's extraordinary leadership skill got us in enhancement of health insurance for profit reform . A little reading l ...
• When we have a fire...
  The flames are going about twenty five feet in the air right now. If there is one thing every Boy Scout knows how to do? Start a really BIG FIRE.

SPL Center

• White Nationalist Website VDARE in Trouble, Loses ...
  The white nationalist website VDARE.com is in financial trouble — and its founder says that more mainstream anti-immigration groups may be responsible. “If VDARE.com is to survive [the] latest threat, it must have your help now,” writes the website’s founder, Peter Brimelow , in a lengthy letter pub ...
• After Call to Arms, Nativist Extremist Leader Call ...
  A major nativist group known for its armed border patrols is disbanding. In a Monday E-mail to supporters, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Carmen Mercer said the MCDC will no longer exist as an organization, though she encouraged supporters to continue its work independently. âI predict Am ...
• Dobbs to Nativist Leader: ‘Dump the Hate’
  Talk radio host Lou Dobbs excoriated nativist leader William Gheen on air today for making comments about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sexual orientation. “I cannot even imagine why you would do such a thing,” Dobbs told Gheen, who appeared as a guest on Dobbs’ nationally syndicated show. Gheen, who heads ...
• Vicious Kansas Gay-Bashers Finally Find a Friend
  Westboro Baptist Church , a Kansas-based group notorious for turning tragedies into gay-bashing opportunities, is pretty much universally reviled. Even an Arizona-based Ku Klux Klan group forcefully (if ungrammatically) rejected the group in a “disclaimer” published on its website. “The Ku Klux Klan ...
• April 19: A Schedule
  April 19 is the most significant date on the antigovernment âPatriotâ movementâs calendar. It marks the day that the first shots were fired against the British in 1775 at Lexington and Concord, but itâs also the anniversary of the end of the 1993 FBI siege at Waco, Texas, as well as the 1995 ...

change: org.

• Five Reasons Why ENDA Must Pass
  I sat in on a panel discussion this weekend at the Equality Forum entitled "After ENDA. What next?" Turns out that title was submitted many moons ago, on the optimistic whim of the panel members who figured that by the time May rolled around the fight to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act wo ...
• LexisNexis Fights Trafficking
  Those of you who have written a lot of research papers are probably familiar with LexisNexis. It's a great resource for tracking down articles that are hard to find elsewhere. But what does this self-described "leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions" have to do with traffickin ...
• Massive Flood Displaces Displaced Residents of Nas ...
  Starting in the early hours of May 1st, 2010, Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding areas received the first drops of rain that would soon turn into a storm for the record books. After two days of torrential rains (each day's total surpassed what the region normally receives in rainfall for an en ...
• Top Suspect in Rancher Murder Is ... an American?
  While we've been a-buzzin' about Arizona's new anti-immigrant law , nativists have been using the killing of an Arizona rancher, Robert Krentz to justify both this bit of legislation and a general freak-out about border security. The murder might have helped pass SB 1070; it also led AZ Governor Jan ...
• Taking the Harlem Children's Zone Out of Harlem
  On Friday, the Department of Education officially launched its Promise Neighborhoods program, which will give out more than $200 million for "cradle-to-career" services to improve educational outcomes and, ultimately, combat poverty among young people in distressed neighborhoods around the country. ...

Common Dreams -News

• Obama Calls for Reforms in Election Funding
  WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama called on Congress on Saturday to pass reforms limiting the influence of special interest groups on US elections, saying the integrity of US democracy needed to be protected. "What we are facing is no less than a potential corporate takeover of our elections," ...
• BP Enjoys Lobbying Strength, Close Ties to Lawmake ...
  by Cassandra LaRussa On Thursday, oil giant BP asked for U.S. government assistance in cleaning up massive amounts of crude oil ominously approaching the coast of Louisiana -- the messy results of a recent oil rig explosion 40 miles off-shore. In response, the Obama administration promised suppo ...
• Pentagon Map Shows Wide Taliban Zone in the South
  by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - The Pentagon was still trying to spin its report on the war in Afghanistan issued this week as holding out hope because the instability had leveled off, even as some news outlets were noting that it documents the continued expansion of Taliban capabilities and operation ...
• Israel, Iran Targeted at Nuke Non-Proliferation Me ...
  by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - A month-long Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) began Monday with a predictable target: Israel. As the only Middle Eastern country armed with nuclear weapons, Israel has been treated as a political sacred cow, one whose weapons programs ha ...
• NPT Meet Draws Thousands of Anti-Nukes Activists
  by Anna Shen UNITED NATIONS - Japanese women in kimonos carrying signs urging "No More Hiroshima", an 80-year-old grandmother, and 18 mayors from around the world were just some of the almost 15,000 people who marched in New York City Sunday to rally for the abolition of nuclear weapons. read more

Lifehacker

• Mint.com Android App Puts All Your Finances on You ...
  Android: Personal finance uber-aggregator Mint.com just released a free Android application, and it's a must-have for Mint fans. Besides the usual glances at your accounts, spending, and budgets you'd expect, Mint brings Quick Search integrati ...
• Free Getting Started with Ubuntu Manual Helps Out ...
  Numerous commenters and emailers have written in to recommend that both newcomers to Ubuntu and those looking for a particular fix check out Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 , the first in a planned series of community-edited manuals that wil ...
• Deep Fry at Home Without a Deep Fryer [Cooking]
  Clever tricks for oven-baked versions of fried foods abound, but some things just taste better fried. If you'd like an occasional treat without having to buy a deep fryer you'll hardly ever touch, these tips on deep frying at home are essentia ...
• CyanogenMod 5.07 Brings Android 2.1 to G1 and myTo ...
  If you're an early adopter of Android feeling left in the cold with your phone stuck on a 1.6 build, the hacker community offers an alternative—bust your warranty wide open and install CyanogenMod 5.07, a nearly complete 2.1 upgrade. More » ...
• Five Best Password Managers [Hive Five]
  As more of our work, play, and business is conducted online it becomes increasingly important to use a diverse set of strong passwords. This week we take a look at the five best password managers to keep your passwords organized. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• The Black Prince Tape
  By Steve Hynd The ever-excellent Jeremy Scahill has yet another Blackwater exclusive, having procured a tape of an Erik Prince speech "delivered January 14 at the University of Michigan in front of an audience of entrepreneurs, ROTC commanders and cadets, businesspeople and military veterans". Princ ...
• Friday Night AFPAK
  Commentary By Ron Beasley The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cAfghanistan Stability Chartwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party The fact that the most intelligent pundit is on The Comedy Channel........
• Drone Pilots Are War Criminals: Law Profs
  By Steve Hynd I've thought for some time now that there was a good case to be made that drone attacks on the sovereign territory of nations which the U.S. hadn't declared war against were probably war crimes by virtue of the Nuremberg decision about aggressive warfare - just like Iraq. I also believ ...
• Taliban Stronger Than Ever, Pentagon Says
  By Steve Hynd Some of us warned that an escalation, or "surge" in COINspeak, would lead to more violence in Afghanistan and actually strengthen the Taliban there. A new Pentagon report suggests we were right. A Pentagon report presented a sobering new assessment Wednesday of the Taliban-led insurgen ...
• 800 troops in excess of McChrystal's "surge" to he ...
  By Steve Hynd NPR today has a story notable for two reasons. The Pentagon is sending 800 more American soldiers to Afghanistan in the coming weeks to work as trainers for the Afghan security forces. The contingent is needed because other NATO countries still haven't fulfilled their pledges to send t ...

Water Wars

• Irving's, Hugo's request for water denied by Kansa ...
  The city was seeking a deal with Hugo, Okla., for 22 million gallons a day.
• Another chapter in epic Carmel Valley water war
  Fighting over Carmel River water dates back to the era of the Spanish missions, and it's been a continuous conflict since, said Carmel Valley resident and attorney Keith Vandevere.
• Harry Reid delivers when it comes to federal aid
  The heart of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reids argument for re-election is that he is a powerhouse who delivers for Nevada like no one else. Reid brings home more money than the states other four Washington lawmakers combined.
• Getting their feet wet
  Jody Iguess slipped into his wet suit and checked his mask, preparing for a dive into Lake Lanier. While others were out on the lake that April day enjoying the water and the afternoon sun, Iguess and a half-dozen divers were there for more than a day of snorkeling.
• FLIGHT OF SHADOWS
  We had agreed --- the woman I loved and I --- that as soon as you were born, we would perform an act of mercy and decency and wrap you in a towel to drown you in a nearby sink of water, like a kitten in a sack dropped into a river.

WordPress | Economics

• Bernanke Admits Printing $1.3 Trillion Out Of Thin ...
  Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted the central bank created $1.3 trillion out of thin air to buy mor
• American Meat Is Even Grosser Than You Thought
  In the focus on E. coli and salmonella, meat contaminated by heavy metals, veterinary drugs and pest
• Greene County Citizens Sound Off on Budget
    Greene County Board of Supervisors Meeting April 27, 2010 By Teresa Gulyas, Greene County Field Of
• In The Papers: The Euro's Effect On Financial Int ...
  Given all of the hubbub regarding the PIIGS countries and the Eurozone, I thought it would be a good
• Antitrust in Apple
  This story from the New York Post reports that Apple Computers will face an inquiry from the Departm

Electronic Intifada

• At Berkeley, moral victory despite divestment vote ...
  On 28 April, University of California, Berkeley's Student Senate narrowly missed an historic opportunity to divest its funds from United Technologies and General Electric w ...
• Under siege, Gaza organizes its own World Cup
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Football is the world's most popular sport, boasting more than an estimated 2 billion fans. And despite its isolation from the world ...
• Will Obama adopt a dangerously simplistic peace pl ...
  A new conventional wisdom is rapidly taking shape that the United States can resolve the 130-year-old conflict in Palestine by advancing its own peace plan. Former US Natio ...
• Book review: a different sort of journey in "Touch ...
  From the very first page it is evident Palestinian author Adania Shibli's new book Touch will be a different sort of journey, one that cannot be immediately defined, if at ...
• Pro-Israel group monitoring, intimidating Columbia ...
  A student group at Columbia called Campus Media Watch, backed by the pro-Israeli media monitor the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), rece ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Pakistan Taliban deny New York car bomb claim
  Pakistani Taliban Monday said they were not aware of a video attributed to them claiming responsibility for the failed car bomb in New York late Saturday.
• Six militants killed in US drone attack in Pakista ...
  At least six militants were killed Monday in a airstrike from a pilotless US aircraft in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.
• Kandahar mayor refuses to back down against Taliba ...
  He's a career accountant who spent most of his life crunching numbers in a sleepy suburb of Washington, D.C. The only time he ever fired a gun – once, back in military college – he flinche...
• Afghan, NATO operation kills 5 militants
  KABUL A joint operation between Afghan and NATO forces killed five militants in central Afghanistan, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Several militants also were arrested in Monday's op...
• Three NATO soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan ...
  Kabul - NATO said Tuesday that a soldier died in a vehicle accident in southern Afghanistan, where two others, including a Canadian soldier, were killed by separate roadside bombs.The three died in se...

Futurismic

• Mayday, Mayday…
  No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
• Mayday, Mayday…
  No need for alarm; just thought I should mention that, as I’m at the SciFi London Film Festival all weekend and moving into my new home on Monday (with broadband being installed on the Tuesday), it’s going to be something of a quiet long weekend here at Futurismic. That said, next month’s fiction of ...
• Somalia: failed state, economic success?
  Via the Anarcho-Transhumanism blog, here’s an interesting article that examines Somalia’s fate since the fall of Siad Barre’s dictatorship in 1991, and which points out that – despite a lack of central governance – Somalia’s economy has actually improved somewhat: It is hard to call any country mire ...
• Snow Crash ‘dentata’ is a (harsh) reality in South ...
  (Trigger warning: discussion of rape and aftermath) Chalk another one up on the list of sf-nal gadgets that have graduated from printed page to reality… but at the same time deplore the need for it, because the gadget in question is something like the dentata anti-rape device featured in Neal Stephe ...
• First remote-controlled robot heart surgery succes ...
  A reminder (if such were needed) that technology is a double-edged sword: while remote-controlled tech can be used to kill, it can also be used to save lives, as demonstrated by the first successful remote-controlled robot heart surgery procedure, performed earlier this week in London [via SlashDot] ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Financial reform bill could increase detection of ...
  Business Ethics magazine is reporting on the anticipation of corporate lawyers for more work in defending corruption cases.� In an article yesterday, Michael Connor writes about a whistleblower reward provision in the current draft of the financial reform bill. The bill would guarantee a reward of u ...
• Sixth Circuit finds waivers in employment contract ...
  The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has issued a remarkable non-published decision reinstating retaliation claims by Alan and Kimberly Alonso against Huron Valley Ambulance (HVA) of Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The decision is remarkable no so much for what it holds as for its break from the p ...
• House Holds Hearing on Protecting America's Worker ...
  On Workers Memorial Day and the 40 th anniversary of the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on pending legislation, the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), H.R. 2067. ...
• House Holds Hearing on Protecting America's Worker ...
  On Workers Memorial Day and the 40 th anniversary of the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on pending legislation, the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), H.R. 2067. ...
• Vote on whistleblower protection becomes a campaig ...
  Richie Robb was West Virginia's longest serving mayor (of South Charleston) when he left that office in 2007. He was a chair of the state's Republican Party and criticized President Bush for the war in Iraq. He has now switched parties and is challenging State Senator Erik Wells in the Democratic pr ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Now That The Exaflood's Debunked, Fear The Exaclou ...
  This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Oracle & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com . Visit the Resource Center for the latest in whitepapers, tools and webcasts. Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the author. Cable and pho ...
• The Economist Warns That Newspapers Putting Up Pay ...
  The Economist has become really sharp on the sorts of issues we talk about here these days lately. Just this year alone, it's published articles on how the patent system is broken and hindering innovation, and how copyright law is broken , and has little to do with its intended purpose. Recently, ...
• Could Cybercrime Treaty Already Push Through Some ...
  One of the important aspect of the leaked copy of the ACTA draft a little while back was that it also included what each of the different parties was pushing for in terms of language choices. This part of the draft was conveniently missing from the "official" draft that was released recently. But, ...
• Costa Rican Money Might Infringe On Artist's Copyr ...
  We've pointed out in the past the oddity that some countries copyright the design of their currency, though we can't quite figure out why. There are already anti-counterfeiting laws for copying money, so why add copyright on top of that? However, down in Costa Rica, there may be a slightly differe ...
• Startup Still Clamoring For Free Spectrum To Build ...
  Back in 2006, a startup called M2Z Networks asked the FCC to give it a sizable chunk of valuable spectrum for free , and in exchange, it would set up a nationwide wireless broadband network to offer free (and slow) "family-friendly" service and pay the government 5% of the revenues from a paid premi ...

VacTruth

• ‘Holy grail’ of cancer vaccines one st ...
  Michael Dickison NZHerald 05/03/2010 A cancer vaccine has been approved in the United States, boosting New Zealand trials already underway for the “holy grail” of treatments. The US Food and Drug Administration last week approved Provenge – the world’s first approved therapeutic cancer vaccine – wh ...
• Surat: Infant dies after consuming polio drops
  IndiaOne 05/02/2010 Surat, May 2: Parents of a two-month old baby said that their daughter died after 48 hours of being given polio vaccine on by local civic authorities in Surat. “After giving drops, health workers gave us tablets and asked us to give it to Khusbhu if she catches fever. We gave h ...
• In Ads, Plea for Asians to Get Tests for Hepatitis
  Jesse Mckinley NYTimes 05/02/2010 SAN FRANCISCO — It is an image both shocking and strangely serene: 10 beauty queens, each with a broad smile, sparkling earrings and a beautiful gown. And written across the bottom of the photograph is a simple, stark question. “Which one,” it reads, “deserves t ...
• Tajikistan: UN agencies help to roll out polio vac ...
  UN News Centre 04/30/2010 Nearly 1.1 million young children in Tajikistan will start receiving vaccines next week against polio, the sometimes deadly disease which has returned to the Central Asian country where it was thought to have been eradicated 13 years ago, United Nations agencies reported t ...
• Polio re-introduced in Central Asia
  Kounteya Sinha The Times of India 05/01/2010 NEW DELHI: India has exported a polio virus to Tajikistan, re-infecting the region for the first time since it was certified polio-free in 2002. In what is the first outbreak of the crippling disease in a Central Asian country, the virus till April 22 ha ...

BroadSnark

• Does Culture Disappear?
  I often hear people express fear of losing their culture.  Sometimes, I sympathize with them.  I sympathize with indigenous people who are fighting for their dying languages.  I sympathize with the French farmer who led a revolt against McDonalds.  And I sympathize with Jews who – after survivin ...
• 4/20 Quick Hit
  Not my regular posting day, but I can’t let 4/20 go by without posting something on the drug war.  Here’s a little debate with Ethan Nadelmann followed by links to some orgs that you should know about. Drug Policy Alliance Norml Marijuana Policy Project Stop the Drug War
• What I’m Up To
  Just got back from the anarchist book fair in New York.  I attended a couple sessions – one on women in prison, one on anarchism and intersectionality.  I’ll give you the lowdown on those soon.  Best part was definitely having a chance to meet people I only knew in cyberspace. Before I went up to ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Just got back from seeing Alice Walker at Busboys and Poets.  She spoke a lot about Israel, about finding your voice in the face of unspeakable horror, about starting where you are at and not always seeing change in terms of the big thing (policy…). Can’t wait to read her new book. She also answere ...
• Does the Supreme Court Lead or Follow?
  Everyone is talking about Supreme Court nominations again.  I agree with those people who think that the court is going to be more conservative with the loss of Stevens.  But I’m looking at that a different way these days. I’ve always paid close attention to Supreme Court picks.  Partly that was ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Goldman Sachs Scandal Could Play a Positive role i ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• For Civilization To Be Saved
  EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16
• Will Singh Preside Over New Indian Famine?
  By Ramtanu Maitra Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16
• Will the Financial Crisis Trigger World War III?
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16
• Towards a New Periodic Table of Cosmic Radiation
  By Peter Martinson Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 23, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 16

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Bicycling Month in Santa Barbara Commences with Cy ...
  Santa Barbara's month-long bicycle celebration, called Cyclemaynia will commence in style with Cycle Chic Fashion Show , this Thursday, May 6. The show will feature bicycles , accessories, and attire appropriate for a bevy of events occurring in the coastal California city, from riding to the fa ...
• Ecotricity's Zero Carbon HQ: If They Can Force the ...
  Image credit: Ecotricity Those lovable trouble makers at wind-energy developer Ecotricity are at it again. Having battled with French nuclear giant EDF over the green Union Jack , and having started an open feud with fellow renewable energy supplier Good Energy , the company is ruffling feather ...
• A Watershed Year for Green Aftercare Business, Nik ...
  Photos: Nikwax Nikwax is an outdoor company who understand it would be silly to soil their own nest. Nikwax make cleaning and proofing products for outdoor clothing and equipment, but who would buy them if the mountains, moors and meadows were degraded and polluted? Nikwax recently released ...
• Pitch a Hemp Tent in the Green Outdoors
  Hemp tent and inner vent. Photos: Green Outdoor There is a enduring urban myth that Levi Strauss made his first jeans from hemp sail cloth, that he'd originally intended to sell as tent fabric to Californian Gold Rush prospectors. Although the company's records were destroyed in the 1906 earthq ...
• Art + Fashion = ISSI's Recycled Handbags
  Image from issiworld : Lothar Gotz Handbags made out of old recycled fire hoses are nothing new at TreeHugger. We have admired Elvis and Kresse's bags for a year now. And the fact that half of their profits go to the Fire Fighters Charity makes them even nicer. But now they have joined u ...

Biosingularity

• Multiple personal genomes await
  Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
• Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
  IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
• Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as ...
  Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel g ...
• RNA-Loaded Nanoparticles Fight Cancer
  specialized nanoparticle filled with an RNA-based cancer therapy can successfully target human cancer cells and silence the target gene, according to results from an early clinical trial. The research, published today in the journal Nature, is the first to demonstrate this type of tissue targeting a ...
• Gene flaw found in induced stem cells
  Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed i ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• What's the cost if Congress fails?
  If Congress fails, America wins. CFACT's response to Connie Hedegaard the European Union̢۪s Commissioner for Climate Action.
• Climate summit hangover
  No substantial progress towards a global warming treaty. Obama's strategy leaked. Delegate's minds opening. UN plans new treaty push.
• Energy Secretary admits we don’t und ...
  The Energy Secretary is at a loss to explain the cooling trend of the past decade. How then can he support Obama's proposed energy taxes?
• Plastic bags withstand the test of time ... and po ...
  The notion that plastic bags pose a threat to waterborne wildlife is as fashionable as it is false.
• Health scare surrounding BPA still lacks scientifi ...
  Well-orchestrated health scares against beneficial products and technologies have become all too common.

Ria Novosti Online News

• The Yalta Conference
  The Yalta Conference was held in the Crimea on February 4–11, 1945. The leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, gathered to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization.
• Most beautiful fountains of the world
  On April 30, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov inaugurated the fountain season. This ceremony is held at the Poklonnaya Hill annually. RIA Novosti presents photos of the world’s most beautiful fountains.
• Government to withdraw 6 air carriers from state-r ...
  The government will withdraw six air carriers from the state-owned hi-tech corporation Russian Technologies (Rostekhnologii) to invest in the leading Russian air carrier Aeroflot aiming to increase its capitalization, a business daily on Tuesday quoted a Russian Economy Ministry official as saying
• Eleven police injured in grenade attack on S. Russ ...
  Eleven police officers were injured in a grenade attack on a police station in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, investigators said on Tuesday
• First steps: gorillas, giraffes and cheetahs
  World zoos are experiencing a a spring baby boom. The weather has become warm, so mothers start proudly walking with their babies now that they have grown up a bit

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Use of Chemicals in U.S. oil spill endangering wil ...
  The use of huge quantities of chemical dispersant to break up an oil spill from a BP drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico could seriously endanger local wildlife, WWF Russia's Oil and Gas Environmental Policy Officer said
• Russia to build submarine-detecting satellite
  Russia could build a satellite for the detection and tracking of submarines from space, a defense industry spokesman said on Thursday.
• India's GSLV rocket launch fails
  India has failed to launch its indigenous GSLV rocket due to engine trouble, the head of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said.
• Russia concerned by impact of climate change on Ar ...
  Arctic peoples and their cultural inheritance are vulnerable to rising global temperatures, the Russian president's adviser on climate change said at the Fifth Arctic Leaders' Summit in Moscow on Wednesday.
• Russian Progress freighter docks manually with ISS
  Russia's Progress M-05M space freighter docked with the International Space Station (ISS) manually late on Saturday night.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Spencer Ackerman is at Guatánamo reporting on Obama’s first Military Commissions trial. What happens with Omar Khadr in the course of this proceeding could have enormous implications for detainee policy. Think about it: If the in ...
• Peter G. Peterson Foundation: What About Military ...
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Wednesday the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held a conference to “bring together hundreds of stakeholders from across the political spectrum with diverse ideas on how to address critical fiscal issues while continuing to meet the p ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing Muslims .There may have been a second set of torture recordings. It’s hard to imagine them seeing the light of day if they still exist, or any consequences s ...
• Off the Grid
  Largely offline this week; work-related, nothing serious.� Regular posting resumes this weekend (I think).
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Dear Attorney General Holder, Since Washington is wired for Republican control, liberals’ proposals and goals are usually treated with disdai ...

Natural Health News

• Green Tea Could Reduce Glaucoma Risk
  Catechins in green tea could help protect you against glaucoma and other eye diseases. New research finds that the ingredients travel from your digestive system into the tissues of your eyes. Scientists analyzed eye tissue from rats that drank green tea. They found that eye tissues such as the len ...
• Health Risks of Excess Weight are Ignored by Most
  Most people are ignorant of the fact that their extra weight puts them at increased risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease, according to a poll. A whopping 97 percent of people were unaware of a link -- even though 71 percent of responders said they could stand to lose some weight. BBC News r ...
• Pennsylvania Makes Inroads Into Reducing Child Obe ...
  Pennsylvania school districts have improved food offerings to meet federal standards for reducing childhood obesity. However, physical activity did not improve in most schools. The Child Nutrition and Women, Infants, and Children Reauthorization Act of 2004 required that local education agencies d ...
• Will Lack of Sleep Increase Your Weight?
  Scientists have long known that lack of sleep is associated with weight gain. One study found that after a night of abbreviated sleep, subjects consumed more than 500 extra calories. Another study also found that subjects ate significantly more snacks and carbohydrates after a night of only five an ...
• Small Organic Farmers Fret Over FDA Regulation
  Small farmers in California are facing a food safety crackdown that will make it harder for them to survive. The small growers that their sensitivity to extra costs is being ignored. A bill before the Senate seeks to prevent further incidents such as the recent outbreaks of E. coli, salmonella and ...

Antemedius

• American Tragedy, American Shame, and "Drill, baby ...
  We heard them at the last Republican National Convention emerge as big oil shills. One by one like so many white rabbits John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Rudolph Guiliani were trotted out to deliver the major pitch of the moment: “Drill, baby, drill!” That simple three word declaration rocked the conv ...
• Michael Moore: "Deport Wall Street"
  " ... any illegal immigrant they catch in Arizona, they should let him keep doing his job because he's adding to the economy. For every one they catch, they should send one Goldman Sachs guy to Mexico. " - Michael Moore on Larry King Live, Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Read all Antemedius posts abo ...
• Zambia Leads Way in Empowering Farmers with Market ...
  Check out Danielle Nierenberg's Op-Ed, based on research for the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project, featured on the front page of the Zambia Daily Mail . Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In the United States, it seems like we only hear ab ...
• Sen. David Vitter - Bodine-ism Victim Of The Week
  A quick hit from the Republican Bodine-ism files. The Hill newspaper is reporting on their blog that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is insisting the White House continue to allow new oil leases in the Gulf, even though his state is about to be ravaged by millions of gallons of crude oil. Sen. Vitter (inf ...
• Peanut Butter and Progress
  Crossposted from BorderJumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Originally featured in the North Carolina News Observer . It's not every day you meet someone from Raleigh while traveling in Lusaka, Zambia. Dale Lewis might not have intended to spend decades in the landlocked African countr ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Locally grown, Locally shared: A new model for giv ...
  Over a hundred Baltimore residents gathered on Saturday night for the 4th edition of an innovative fundraising event called STEW. STEW is a joint project of Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, where attendees pay $10/person for the opportunity to share a multi-cou ...
• Food Access Solutions: Panel Discussion in Anacos ...
  On Friday, April 12th, Food Access Solutions: Urban Agriculture, Local Food, & Community Development, a panel discussion between leaders in the food movement on a regional level and leaders on the local level took place in southeast Washington D.C. in Anacostia. My interest in Urban Agriculture com ...
• Meatless Monday: A Campaign Rooted in Public Healt ...
  The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health embraced the Meatless Monday campaign back in 2003, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has proudly served as the national campaign’s scientific advisor ever since. Today I welcome and laud The Johns Hopkins Hospital for launching its ...
• Response to Professor Mitloehner
  Dear Professor Mitloehner, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post.  What you wrote was informative, but your response also raised additional questions for me.  I will lay them out here and you are welcome to respond again. From your response: “I did not write the press releases ...
• A leader for a livable Future – Happy Cesar Chavez ...
  It wasn’t until I moved to San Francisco after college that I found out who Cesar Chavez was. Being from Pennsylvania, where his birthday is not celebrated as a state holiday, perhaps I knew his name, but certainly not his legacy as a leader and organizer for farm workers rights.  But in California ...

Norwegianity

• Universally available, intensely graphic Katherine ...
  I wasn’t all that fired up to do a post this morning, so I jump-started myself by checking to see if Katherine Kersten had written anything while I was gone. That always works. [T]oday, America faces an epidemic of pornography that differs radically from everything that’s gone before. And that is ab ...
• Catch and release
  I didn’t know we were going fishing on this trip. Please note that I’m holding this one next to me, unlike certain governors I could mention who rely on perspective to make their fish look bigger. After my brother took this picture we tossed this one back into the lake.
• Corn that’s been through the cow
  McClatchy: Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, culminated more than 10 hours of often-contentious testimony by telling Goldman’s top officer, chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, that the firm had “a fundamental conflict” with its clients’ interests as it exited the home mortgage market in 2006 and 20 ...
• Fillibuttsterers and SD42 pollspeak
  Goldman facts: Today’s Times’ story “I promoted the guys who filed complaint against you” The Fillibuttsters Did Dems prefer fillibuttsters to passage? (i.e., is this another example of oh nos, Republicans won’t let us do what we really didn’t want to do in the first place?) Fillibuttstering keeps t ...
• Grand Old, Old Party
  Republicans, I think it’s time we take another look at what they’ve got going for them this year. In Arizona, frequent Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano thinks the Republican party will be bankrupted by their foolishly passed and signed bill authorizing police state measures to deal with ...

The Seferm Post

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

The World We Live In

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

Center for Food Safety

• Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
      Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
• CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
  High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
• Happy Earth Day!
  This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...
• Diverse Interests Back Center for Food Safety, Opp ...
  STATES, SCIENTISTS, ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FARMERS, FOOD COMPANIES, EXPORTERS, FORMER GOVT. OFFICIALS, AND LEGAL SCHOLARS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT. SEVEN AMICUS BRIEFS FILED IN ALL. A myriad of interests – ranging from food companies to farmers unions to scientific experts and legal scholars – have ...
• “Food, Inc.” Broadcast Premier on POV, ...
  The Academy Award nominated documentary, Food, Inc. premiers on PBS’s POV April 21st! Watch the trailer and tell you friends. Check your local listings for the broadcast schedule, and visit the POV website to download materials and posters to host a viewing party and potluck. You can also check out ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010
  Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010 Sane Reading Material for Smart Aboriginals This Issue : Aboriginal News Group: Brief Thoughts About a "Random American Bombardment" J. B.Gerald: Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulakqi & others Frantz Fanon: Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight ...
• Omahkohkiaaiipooyii: Republic of Lakotah • View tT ...
  Republic of Lakotah • View topic - 7th Cavalry defile Lakota Burial Ground @ Wounded Knee, S.Da The U.S. 7th Cavalry, the unit of George Custer, a vain and brutal genocidal maniac responsible for the slaughter of many innocents among Indians, had a prized (by them) reputation for brutal violence. t ...
• KEN KNABB: A Little College Scores a Big Victory
  Sent to us via the good folks at: The BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS - A Little College Scores a Big Victory : Shimer College , the “Great Books College of Chicago,” has just thwarted a hostile takeover attempt and fired its president. The small liberal arts school has weathered numerous crises ...
• David Sugar-blackhawks down and 7th cavalry retrea ...
  Guest Editorial by David Sugar of guerrillaunderground.ning.com Three blackhawks down and 7th cavalry retreats defeated once again - The Guerrilla Underground Network : Earlier today 3 blackhawk army helicopters from 7th cavalry tried landing on the killing fields at Wounded Knee. The community on ...
• Arizona's Apartheid Immigration Law SB1070 and May ...
  By� CP Norris (Hacha) a revolutionary Indigenous perspective of my heart and mind. Human Beings defined means what to you-- Today we continue our fight... Today I will speak for me, I will speak for you...I include you because we are tied together as human beings. As we celebrate May Day, ...

Pensieve

• Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
  A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...
• Footage of Meteor in Wisconsin
  An impressive video capture of last night’s massive meteor fireball reported in Wisconsin. Related posts:Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics Related posts: Stargazing Dove Onslaught Aaron on US Politics
• Guanajuato’s Tunnels
  As we were wandering Guanajuato looking for a the San Gabriel de Barrera museum and gardens, I stuck my hand out the window of our van and shot these three videos of Guanajuato’s tunnels. Guanajuato is unique in the network of bewildering tunnels that crisscross it. The narrow streets of Guanajuato ...
• Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende
  I spent a wonderful weekend in Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende. I took over 1,300 pictures, and several videos. All that has taken much of the energy for blogging about it, but I’ll let these few pictures speak for themselves. Related posts:So much to blog about!!! Miguel Torres: Doña Esper ...
• Inside Costa Rica Features my Article
  After being disappointed by two articles in a row that presented Honduras in the unfavorable light the news wires shine on Honduras, I complained to the editor of Inside Costa Rica with a accusation of severe bias. He responded, and graciously invited me to write an article for them. I thank him, an ...

Green Times

• Last Call for UNAA Awards Nominations
  undefinedTime is running out! Only days left until nominations close for the national United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Awards 2010.
• Going Green Expo 2010
  Want to know how to do simple things and embrace amazing new green products and technology?  Then this expo is for you…
• Environmental News -30/04/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Climate backflip under fire (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-backflip-under-fire-20100429-twm6.html)-Australia is the only government to backtrack on climate-change policy since the disa ...
• Triple Dipping allowed with Solar Hot Water
  Multiple rebates are on offer for converting to solar hot water. We take the mystery out of what rebates you can access…
• Environmental News -28/04/10
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Peak Oil crunch (http://abcasiapacificnews.com/stories/201004/2883729.htm)-The world may be basking in the warm glow of economic recovery, but some observers are warning of an unseen spectre, lurk ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Times Square bomb suspect arrested 'at last second ...
  ShareThis Times Square bomb suspect arrested 'at last second' 04 May 2010 A naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested overnight in the Times Square bombing investigation will appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom Tuesday morning to face formal charges. Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested at JFK ...
• FBI searches NYC car bomb suspect's Conn. home
  ShareThis FBI searches NYC car bomb suspect's Conn. home 04 May 2010 The FBI says it has searched the Connecticut home of a man accused of a driving a car bomb into New York's Times Square over the weekend. FBI special agent in charge Kimberly Mertz said Tuesday that her team executed a search warra ...
• NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan
  ShareThis NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan 04 May 2010 A NATO helicopter has crashed in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan, but the military alliance has denied that anyone was killed in the mishap. The military helicopter went down Monday afternoon, wounding several people onboard. NATO ...
• U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested in Times Squar ...
  ShareThis U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested in Times Square bomb case 04 May 2010 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced early Tuesday that an arrest had been made in the failed Times Square car bombing, saying that Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old American, was taken into custody at John F. K ...
• Obama: 'Massive and potentially unprecedented disa ...
  ShareThis Obama: 'Massive and potentially unprecedented disaster' 02 May 2010 President Obama said today his administration is confronting a "massive and potentially unprecedented disaster" as a major oil slick flows toward five states on the Gulf Coast. After visiting a Coast Guard station in south ...

Daily Loaf

• Blaming the wrong dog: All that barking could be a ...
  No one likes a tattletale. Even so, I owe Jana, a golden retriever, an apology, so I am making a very public one in the hope of sparing other dogs the pain of being unfairly accused. In multi-dog households, I am sure that this happens often. Here’s the story. Deni and I had taken our dogs to [... ...
• Cell phone hell: The battery cover that wouldn’t b ...
  I am not, by any definition, a technology geek. I can work with cars, appliances, carpentry and most bathroom cleaning supplies. My computer, on the other hand, only really gets used as a word processor/photo organizer/window to look at Facebook and YouTube. But phones always get me excited. I hav ...
• Concert review: Ben Harper and Relentless 7 at The ...
  This past Saturday, Harper and his current band, Relentless7, kicked off the first day of May at the Ritz Ybor, rocking his fans and melting our faces with a completely evolved sound.
• It Happened This Week-ish: A Chelsea Handler sex t ...
  Robert Downey Jr. presents Gwyneth Paltrow, sporting what I like to call the mullet of lady-suits: Business on the top, beach blanket bingo on the bottom. (Photo on the left) Radar Online started off the week with a bang (heehee) and exposed a Chelsea Handler sex tape that may or may not ...
• Do It Today: LOST is back, Sons of Bill and Americ ...
  After a week’s hiatus, the cruel, cruel folks at ABC give us another new episode of LOST this week — and with only four new episodes left in the final season, you can bet I’ll be watching and re-watching my DVR’d episode in the hopes that I haven’t wasted the last six years of my [...]

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Rethink This Veto! Ibrahim Shakiki at Berkeley Di ...
  By Ibrahim Shikaki Speech of Ibrahim Shikaki, the last speaker at the hearing on the Berkeley divestment bill on March 28th.  Ibrahim is a resident of Gaza and an exchange student at Berkeley. Dear Senators, my name is Ibrahim Shikaki.   I’m a visiting student from Palestine. I want to talk to you ...
• Israeli Democracy: Bubble about to Burst?
  By Inna Michaeli,  Coalition of Women for Peace (Israel) âUh-oh, we’re in trouble Something’s come along and it’s burst our bubbleâ - Shampoo, âTroubleâ Just last Wednesday a new poll was published, solicited by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, indicating that a vast majority o ...
• Gil Scott-Heron boycotts Tel Aviv, sends powerful ...
  By Noam Sheizaf, reprinted from his Promised Land blog This is a translation of my article regarding the cancellation of spoken words artist Gil-Scott Heron’s gig in Tel Aviv. His show was scheduled for late May, but it was later removed from Scot-Heron’s site and though there was no official st ...
• Demonstrators Stop the Wall, Teenager Pepper-spray ...
  from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Demonstrators managed to disrupt the construction of the Wall in al-Walaje for the second time in a week . A 15 year old demonstrator was beaten, pepper-sprayed and arrested. Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators managed to stop the con ...
• Strengthening Those Who Belong to the Land: Mahmud ...
  (crossposted from The Villages Group Blog, where more pics can be found) Mahmud from Susya got up one day from his depression, and built a very basic green house. With simple tools and techniques he succeeded to surprise us with excellent organic vegetables. The vegetables are an essential addition ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Eat the Revolution
  This is the second in a series of posts examining avenues available for creating change. How do we vote with our dollars?  Let’s take an example: buying food.  Choosing a loaf of bread can be a revolutionary act.  Consider: Wal-Mart has the largest  grocery store in my nearest major town.  The ...
• We’re in Cedar City now
  We were up until almost midnight Sunday packing and loading. Then up at 4 am for final loading then 11 hour drive with 26 ft. Penske truck and two cars. We’re moved 4 times in 5 years, three times doing it ourselves. Sue drives the truck, I bring the cats. This time a friend drove [...]
• Capitalism isn’t sustainable
  However China and USSR haven’t exactly been beacons of sustainability.
• North Dakota’s state-owned bank: would it work els ...
  Stuart Bramhall Here in New Zealand we have had a government-owned bank – Kiwibank – since 2002. It has been a fantastic resource in helping this country weather the global recession. I also find it fascinating that in the US, it is mainly Ron Paul and various Tea Party members and supporters who b ...
• There is no Lex Luther
  An editorial said the panel’s assault obscures some of the complexities of the crisis. “The broader implication raised by senators at Tuesday’s hearing â that Goldman somehow rigged the market in subprime mortgages, and that this led to the meltdown â does not strike us as a terribly useful or e ...

Coteret

• Yediot: Dershowitz rejected Bibi’s offer to ...
  Note that a Israel Hayom report from April 22 2010 favored Dore Gold for the position. UN Ambassador?  No, thank you Netanyahu offered Dershowitz the UN ambassador position; he and Lieberman tried to convince, but the famous Jewish-American lawyer decided to decline Itamar Eichner, Yediot, May 4 201 ...
• Weissglas in Yediot: By fighting with US over sett ...
  Bitter or sour Op-ed, Dov Weissglas, Yediot, May 4 2010 A lot has been said and written that the growing sourness in Israel-US relations—the main cause of which is the dispute on the matter of settlement in Judea and Samaria and in East Jerusalem—is liable to erode vital areas of Israel’s security.T ...
• Maariv: Italian support for Israel wavering
  No longer friends Eli Bardenstein, Maariv, May 4 2010 [page 7] Is Israel about to lose its best friend — maybe its only friend — in western Europe, Italy? Political officials in Jerusalem say that Rome recently relayed a message that it would not be able to continue to defend sweepingly Israelâs c ...
• Camped out in Erez Crossing
  Cross-posted from Gaza Gateway, an analytical blog recently launched by the Israeli human rights group Gisha â The legal Center for Freedom of Movement. Gaza Gateway provides up to date data and analysis on access to the Gaza Strip and is an essential tool for for fact-checking and contextualizi ...
• Maariv: Ron Lauder now acting as go between Netany ...
  Related recent developments Abdullah delivers withering criticism of Israeli polices in April 6 2010 Wall Street Journal interview. J Street leadership meets Abdullah in Amman on May 1 2010. Major General (Res.) Uri Saguy chronicles the results of Lauder’s efforts at brokering talks between Neta ...

Deadline Live

• The Kent State Massacre
  The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. Four students were killed and nine others wounded, one o ...
• This Day In History – May 4
  1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. 1886 – A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd. 1904 – The United States begins c ...
• The Kent State Shootings: Dealing With Dissent
  The Kent State Shootings: Dealing With Dissent Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• The Kent State Protest: Standing Up Against the Vi ...
  The Kent State Protest: Standing Up Against the Vietnam War Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | [...]
• Drug War-Related Kidnappings in South Texas Nearly ...
  themonitor.com   McALLEN — Kidnapping cases in Hidalgo and Starr counties nearly quadrupled in 2009 from the year before, FBI officials said Friday. In all, 42 people were abducted from the area during the fiscal year that ended September — 31 more than in 2008 and 15 more than the FBI investigated ...

The Air Vent

• CUCCINELLI v. MANN
  I first read about this at Tom Fullers blog and later at Climate Audit.  Regulars here already know my opinion of Mannian hockeystickizatoin, and that won’t change.  Ryan left this response in my email with a request to post here.  Despite my dislike of the Mannian work and the shock at seeing it ...
• Poll on Real Climate Blog Effectiveness
  This post is a bit long winded, but sometimes the passion to write comes in waves. Words have immense power in our human world.  It’s really not opposed thumbs (or fear of vacuums) which set us apart from animals, it’s actually words, language, communication of complex ideas.  Imagine writing to b ...
• Oil Slick Post at WUWT
  The recent oil rig disaster in the gulf has everyone’s attention.  There are so many safeties and backups, it’s hard to imagine which accident would cause something like this.  Currently oil is flowing rapidly into the gulf from very deep locations both through the well head and at least two fissu ...
• Decaramelisation
  My least favorite aspect of AGW is the political one, however, Tom is completely fearless, imagine if Real Climate gave me an opportunity to guest post on the politics of global warming. The odds are exactly equal to rolling 23,000 sixes in a row.  Be nice. ———————————————- By Tom Fuller of the San ...
• Open Thread #2 – AGW Smackdown? Defend your ...
  It’s not really time for another open thread but this topic was suggested on the Reader Background thread by Robert E Phelan. Everyone knows my opinions on global warming, so that’s not very interesting. CO2, capturing of warmth is real. The magnitude of the warmth captured is not known, the dangers ...

Focal Point

• FBI Probes Owners of Upper Big Branch Mine
  The FBI has opened a criminal probe of Massey Energy in connection with the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine that killed 29 miners in West Virginia last month. Federal agents are looking into potential bribery of federal mine safety officials, unnamed sources told NPR. The Upper Big Br ...
• Study: Canadians Live Longer, Healthier Lives Than ...
  Canadians live not only longer, but healthier lives than their American counterparts, according to a study in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal Population Health Metrics . Canadians and Americans share a common border, our standards of living are very similar, and our health care provi ...
• Boycott Arizona Over Racial Profiling Law
  Rachel Maddow discusses the snowballing campaign to boycott the State of Arizona over its radical new racial profiling law. The law, which takes effect this summer, would allow a police officers to pull people over and demand proof that they are in the county legally. In order to legally do such a t ...
• Chickens, Cross-Stitch, Burlesque and Women's Libe ...
  Don't look now, but " femivores " are back in the news. Femivores, if you recall, are women who embrace ultra-local food production as feminist statement. Usually this involves some kind of light farming or heavy gardening, possibly some chickens. It's only a matter of time before the New York Times ...
• World Cup Ad or James Nachtwey's Greatest Hits?
  This FIFA World Cup ad looks like a psychedelic collaboration between Adbusters and James Nachtwey . Way to bum out the entire species, FIFA. Photo credit: flickr user Dr. Motte , licensed under Creative Commons . Topics:

Inside Facebook

• Facebook’s April 2010 US Traffic by Age and Sex: A ...
  Following up on what appeared to be a slow March, Facebook traffic boomed again in April across demographic groups in the United States. Young adult age groups contributed the most, with women ages 18 to 25 leading in numeric growth. Overall, the site grew from 113 million to 120 million monthly act ...
• Facebook Credits Will Impact Marketers, Developers ...
  [Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Inside Facebook Gold, our new data and analysis membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth. Inside Facebook Gold presents weekly in-depth analysis articles exploring the most critical developments impacting the future of the Facebook e ...
• Unofficial Facebook Page Owners Can Appeal Communi ...
  Facebook intends its Pages product to serve as public-facing profiles for brands, celebrities and other official entities. But because anyone has been able to create Pages in the past few years, many thousands of Pages have been created by fans themselves, not official representatives. Meanwhile ...
• Top 25 Facebook Games for May 2010
  14 of the top 25 Facebook games lost monthly active users over the course of March, as we covered at the beginning of April. This was, more than anything else, the result of Facebook removing third-party notifications early that month — a communication channel that many developers relied on to keep ...
• Plan Facebook Events From Your Home Page
  Facebook slightly changed its home page interface Saturday, allowing users to plan smaller, less formal events right from their home page with the addition of a new Events function. The changes was announce in a blog Saturday by Facebook engineer Devin Naquin. The intention is to help users and fri ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Taking On Disgusting Politics: In his 19 ...
  truthout: Taking On Disgusting Politics: In his 1993 treatise "Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do," Pa... http://bit.ly/9n344k #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Worse Than 1789?: Sen. Carl Levin pretty ...
  truthout: Worse Than 1789?: Sen. Carl Levin pretty much had Goldman Sach's (GS) Lloyd Blankfein dead in a caske... http://bit.ly/apWf5Z #Truthout #p2
• truthout: The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Dis ...
  truthout: The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters: As oil threatens the Gulf Coast, a list of 10 other d... http://bit.ly/beDRda #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Why Iran Won't Attack Israel: Palestinia ...
  truthout: Why Iran Won't Attack Israel: Palestinians are in Israel today because they managed to survive the de... http://bit.ly/bkdcEy #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Financial Reform: Will We Feel Better th ...
  truthout: Financial Reform: Will We Feel Better the Morning After?: The financial reform bills being considered... http://bit.ly/btI9te #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• In Israel's pockets: the shame of Britain's politi ...
  As British voters head for the ballot box to elect the government that will run them for the next five years, one key question is conspicuous by its absence from the election campaign and the party leaders' televised debates: to what extent are the two main parties, the Conservative Party and the in ...
• Archbishop of Canterbury’s deafening silence over ...
  Stuart Littlewood considers Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s feeble acceptance of, and silence over, Israel’s humiliation of him – and the Anglican Church which he leads – during his visit to Gaza.
• The next 9/11 – made in Israel?
  Maidhc Ó Cathail views the evidence indicating that dual loyalty officials in the US administration are funnelling American nuclear secrets not only to Israel, but also to terrorist organizations in order to facilitate a “nuclear 9/11” and a massive US attack against Iran or Pakistan. ”If, as Israe ...
• UK politicians fail the Afghanistan, economics and ...
  Christopher King argues that Britain’s leading politicians lack the courage to acknowledge the only moral conclusion to the Afghan fiasco – withdrawal – and lack the vision, integrity and competence to tackle the country’s economic and banking crises.
• When will Israel attack the USA – again?
  Jeff Gates looks at how the dual loyalists at the heart of the US government – Israel’s stooges in the Congress and elsewhere in the US government – are preparing to hoodwink the American public into another war on Israel’s behalf and against the interests of the United States.

Amazon Rainforest

• 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 ...
• Repsol applied for a permission to cut more of Ama ...
  Repsol YPF has applied to Peruâs government to cut 454 kilometres of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribesâ land- Workers advised: ‘If peaceful contact and (Tribes) understanding (of their Land being stolen and devastated) canât be reached and ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #28
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Professor Francis Boyle Professor Francis Boyle discusses the October 2001 anthrax attack, the technology behind the letter to Senator Daschle, and assesses the case based on his years of expertise with America’s bio-weapons programs, and as an expert who was responsibl ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Boiling Frogs Video Presents Colonel Larry Wilkers ...
  Exclusive Interview: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more: As a card carry ...
• Russ Baker on President Obama… & His Pack of Wolve ...
  “A SWISS BANK, A PRESIDENT, AND THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT”   Here is a recent damning piece by Russ Baker on President Obama, his cozy relationship with Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO, UBS Group Americas, and a stench and implications that go way beyond this relationship: Last August, the presidential ...
• Podcast Show #27
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf discusses the fascist shift in the United States, how the state of our liberties has been getting worse under the Obama administration, and how President Obama has assumed the same position as Bush on States Secrets Privilege, unlawful detention an ...

Afro Spear

• Jonah’s Gourd Vine
  I love the Book of Jonah in the Bible. I love how Jonah was so self indulgent, yet God was so patient with him. As we know, Jonah did not want to prophesy to the people Nineveh as God had commanded him, so he rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the [...]
• At The Museum: Carrie Mae Weems
  Last weekend (4/24/10), I visited New York’s Museum of Modern Art & fell in love in the photography gallery. I always fall in love in their portrait gallery so this is really no new news! What made me fall during my most recent visit was Carrie Mae Weems’ “From Here I Saw What Happened and [...]
• sat’day riddymz
  Remember when Ice Cube was hard!?
• Black men in the hands of white women: the mytholo ...
  A powerful article by Terence Blackett at Barbados Underground In George Lamming’s debut novel – In the Castle of My Skin (1953), this famous Bajan son of the soil describe the psychic scars of racism in direct and powerful terms. In The Castle of My Skin he wrote, “No Black boy wanted to be white, ...
• Black Magic
  Black Magic: Her Hands Black Magic: Her Smile Black Magic: Her Skin Black Magic: Her Being Black Magic: Her Promise Black Magic: Her Love Art Credits: 2010 Tafari Stevenson-Howard Muse: Tamara Rasberry Tagged: black women, Women of the African Diaspora

Expose the BNP

• 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 ...
• Exposing the Irish National Party
  In February, the Irish Sunday Tribune ran a piece on the emergent Irish National Party, giving undue attention to a group that was little more than one Dublin based paediatric nurse and a couple of impressionable hangers on. The group identified as a moderate party in favour of immigration reform an ...

Sen4Earth

• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
  In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...
• Earth Day 2010
  Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...
• A Prayer Chain for Mother Earth
  Click Here for “Hug Spiritual Trees” on SEN You’ll find a Prayer for Mother Earth, a Prayer for All Life, and a Prayer Chain for Earth that’s just getting underway. Help it spread around the world! 
• World Wildlife Fund & Palin Alaska Boycott
  SEN is in the process of developing an article about WWF that indirectly bears upon the Palin Alaska Boycott. For just a few moments we posted the initial draft, as a step in the process of developing a major article bearing many photos and links. A reader happened to see it for the few moments the ...

If Americans Knew

• 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.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first week to ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... i ...
  In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandh ...

David J. Gregory

• Gulf Catastrophe or Drill, Baby, Drill
  The depth of this catastrophe will have worldwide ramifications and note who it is that covers this story with in-depth analysis; it is not the American media, but rather the BBC. The tentacles of Corporate America will soon discover even their manipulation of the news will not hide these facts. (DR ...
• The Odd World of Right Wing Rage
• Very Busy
  We have been busy working on a new site, EYEONCITRUS.COM, which will be a news site with an emphasis on Citrus County and the surrounding areas. In addition to the local news we will offer National and International news along with sporting news. Along with this we are continually working on our DVD ...
• REMINDER: The Vast Majority Of The Government Defi ...
  Many people right now are making a scare story out of the U.S. government’s future deficit projections. Many of these same people are also blaming our government’s horrific projected deficits on the current administration. Problem is, as shown in the chart below (via The Economist), America’s defic ...
• Nearly Too Late
  Corporate Takeover 95% Complete Time to wake up!! You’ll be late for the END.

Unsuitable Blog

• Taking A Break, So Here’s Someone Else&#8217 ...
  We’ve been enjoying the sunshine (yes, wonderful sunshine) of North Wales for the past week and now we’re moving house, so The Unsuitablog has had to take a back seat for the time being. Don’t worry, we will be back soon, but to tide you over is the latest from the RANVideo YouTube channel, which [ ...
• Jan Lundberg Attacks Sierra Club’s Support f ...
  Our good friends The Sierra Club are at it again – this time with regards to motor transport. The Sierra Club believe you can have “clean cars” as demonstrated by this press release, emanating from the new radical Executive Director, Michael Brune (didn’t take long for him to become a member of the ...
• Greenwash of the Week: Chevron’s Solar Proje ...
  Yes, I’m being lazy: we’re packing to move house so The Unsuitablog will be a bit sporadic for a while. Thank goodness there’s so much greenwash to choose from out there. (That was a joke)
• The Chagos Archipelago – Where “Conservation ...
  No need for comment, straight repost with thanks to Fred. How do you greenwash a large airforce base? A base that is responsible for bombing nearby countries, and which was built on an island you confiscated from residents who are now living in exile on the other side of the world? Easy. You announ ...
• RecycleBank Is Worse Than Doing Nothing
  We’re moving house soon, which means discovering untold secrets in the rarely visited corners of our current place of abode. After 16 years in the same place, much of that with an attitude that could possibly be described as “hoarder”, it’s no surprise that our domestic recycling bin is being kept ...

Subalternate Reality

• 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 ...
• Evo Morales Scores Again
  Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has secured reelection by a landslide. In fact, the victory gives him an even greater mandate than the one he previously enjoyed.  Unofficial results show that Morales received 63 percent of the vote, an increase of almost 10 percentage points from ...
• Lingering Corruption in Afghanistan
  Corruption is one of the main factors behind the increasingly dire situation in Afghanistan.  Since 2001, billions of dollars have poured in and yet, there is little to show for it.  To a large extent, much of what hinders the present Afghan government is its inability to tackle systemic cronyism a ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• Programming Language for Kids Banned from Apple Ap ...
  The MIT News Office recently interviewed one of our colleagues at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Mitch Resnick. Resnick is a long-time Media Lab professor best known for helping develop and deploy Scratch, a programming language for kids. But this month Apple rejected an app that would al ...
• In Need of a DocumentCloud for Video, Data
  Brainstorming the next brilliant News Challenge project? I've got two for you, and you've got until fall to noodle over them. As the program director for DocumentCloud I spend a lot of time talking to journalists, writers and researchers about what DocumentCloud is and, often, what it isn't. Do ...
• Programmer-Journalist? Hacker-Journalist? Our Iden ...
  Jacqui Maher is the most recent addition to my Interactive News team at the New York Times, and although she started almost six months ago, I have yet to get her business cards -- an embarrassing fact she (rightly) points out at regular intervals. I'm not raising this to highlight my shortcomings as ...
• A Real Watershed Moment for Citizen Journalism in ...
  Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...
• A real watershed moment
  Ever heard of load shedding? It's one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or in this case the government-owned electricity company ESKOM ) has ever cooked up. It means, in plain English, power cuts -- as in cutting off electricity to whole areas. Not beca ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Edge of Justice - Gamut of Legal Experts Quest ...
  Several former U.S. attorneys general, a former deputy attorney general, more than half-a-dozen former U.S. attorneys and a former federal judge have authored and signed letters to the judge in the Sholom Rubashkin case , criticizing the prosecutors’ recommendation that Rubashkin receive life in pri ...
• Wikipedia Promotes Mob Rule in Information
  I quite agree with your author that Wikipedia is a vast threat to mankind's reservoir of knowledge (see “Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge” , Page One, April 12, 2010). This threat increases each day as more and more students consult Wikipedia, even though teachers and scholars continue ...
• Wikipedia on the Edge - Wikipedia Struggles with H ...
  Wikipedia posters continued to struggle with the campaign to delete information about IBM’s involvement in the Holocaust as contributors posted and reposted conflicting theories of what should and should not be allowed to appear in the Internet encyclopedia. Wikipedia is the massive online project a ...
• Edge of Recovery - Goldman Sachs E-mails Suggest F ...
  A Senate panel has released e-mails from Goldman Sachs executives that suggest the investment bank profited from the mortgage crisis. The e-mails released Saturday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations show Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein saying the bank initially los ...
• The Obama Edge - A Wrong Turn in Obama’s Mideast P ...
  Nothing illustrates more how off-track the Obama Administration policy has gone as its expressions that a solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is critical to winning over Arab support for America’s policy to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. This is a lazy and ultimately futile way ...

High Country News

• The Secret Lives of River Guides
  Every spring, Grand Canyon boatmen meet for an educational seminar -- and a rousing good time.
• Walking through the din of a coastal maelstrom
  A family hike along the Pacific Coast Trail becomes an exhilarating encounter with the fierce storm gods of Washington's wild Olympic Peninsula.
• Removing four dams is worth some compromise
  It's not perfect, but the settlement that removes four dams in Oregon and California's Klamath River Basin is the right thing to do.
• Viva la Archives!
  Budget cuts have endangered California's Water Resources Center Archives, which serves as the state's institutional water memory.
• Grasshoppered!
  With grasshoppers expected to swarm the West this summer, High Country News looks back at some of the region's most dramatic historic hopper outbreaks.

CounterCurrents

• Am I A Maoist?
  By Gladson Dungdung I am neither a Maoist nor a Gandhian but I am an Adivasi who is determined to fight for its own people, whom the Indian State has alienated, displaced and dispossessed from their resources and is continually doing it in the name of development, national security and national int ...
• Searching For Jake Sully In Indias Heartland
  By Harsha Walia It behooves us, however, to ask why the Maoist insurgency persists, why Adivasis would choose a life that inevitably leads to confrontation with the worlds third largest military, why the depths of the jungles holds a greater promise than the heavenly slogan of economic development ...
• Swami And Friends
  By Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association Jamia Teachers Solidarity Associations rejoinder to Praveen Swamys reply to JTSAs article Praveen Swamis Not So Fabulous Fables
• The Peak Of Oil Production Is Passed
  By Dr Michael Lardelli Dr Michael Lardelli from the University of Adelaide looks at how the bulk of the worlds oil production comes from a relatively small number of very large fields discovered decades ago. The rate of world oil production has been maintained at current levels only by finding and ...
• Living In The U.X.A
  By John Curl At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasnt working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exc ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Girly-M ...
  This is very disappointing but I can't protect him any more. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Girly-Man. Yes the man who was� the Terminator three times. who killed as the Commando and who beat down the predator way before the Alien, is a big bad pansy. Last year the former action hero p ...
• On the Verge of Israel-Palestinian Authority Talks ...
  By Barry Rubin Gradually, the U.S. government is constructing the basis for indirect Israel-Palestinian talks which will be simultaneously meaningless and hailed--at least by the U.S. government--as a great achievement. The latest two developments are the Arab states' approval of the talks and ...
• Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is Losing All ...
  One would think that fourteen years in the House of Representatives would prepare a person for the pressures of being part of a Presidential Administration, but sadly in the case of Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood the pressure seems to be getting to him. It isn't obvious looking at him, its n ...
• Fed's New Thinking Times Square "Bombing" is Inter ...
  Make no mistake about it, when all is said and done we will be told that Sunday's Time Square almost bombing was an international terror attack. The feds are already leaning that way. In all probability we dodged another al Qaeda attack. The latest indication that an al �Qaeda related organization w ...
• Congressional Research Service Report:Obamacare Ma ...
  Every member of congress and every senator should have this Pogo cartoon framed and hung in their office, cause Pogo is correct the biggest enemy of congress, is congress. Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) asked the non-partisan�research�service to look into how Obamacare obligated federal, state an ...

The Real Agenda

• Obama Threatens to Nuclear Bomb Iran
  Global Research “This confrontation [between the forces of the Apocalypse and Israel] is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his peopleâs enemies before a New Age begins”. U.S. President George W. Bush (in a 2003 conversation with French President Jacques Chirac) “Preventive war ...
• How Wars are Born
  Global Research Those of us making the “radical” claim that wars are the result of economic/corporate interests pushed abroad, were recently given a nod of approval from a typically unfriendly source, The New York Times. The corporate controlled New York Times published a revealing article about how ...
• Judge orders release of 9 Hutaree militia
  Freep.com A federal judge in Detroit today ordered the release of nine members of a Lenawee County Christian militia group freed on bond over the objections of federal prosecutors. “The United States is correct that it need not wait until people are killed before it arrests conspirators,” U.S. Distr ...
• A Financial Conflagration of Immense Proportions
  Fiat money buckling, an inflationary depression, years of reckless spending, Greek debt unpayable, Euro zone in jeopardy, a loss of integrity in US markets, criminal charges for Goldman Sachs, side pockets a new hedge fun trick, Banks on subprime offensive, Fed works the printing presses overtime… I ...
• Dems’ immigration proposal creates national ID car ...
  Raw Story Democrat: Public more comfortable with idea of national ID card Civil liberties groups and even some die-hard supporters of the Democratic Party are raising the alarm over the Democrats’ proposed immigration overhaul, which would see the creation of a national biometric ID card. “If the bi ...

Wind Watch

• Wind farm still hasn’t paid PILOT; Lewis Cou ...
  LOWVILLE â Nearly a month after the Maple Ridge Wind Farm regained Empire Zone certification, local taxing jurisdictions are still awaiting the balance of last year’s annual payment. And the municipalities plan to resume legal action against Flat Rock Windpower, the company under which Maple Ridge ...
• Are wind farms a health risk?
  A study of families living near wind farms found nature’s energy might not be so healthy. Wind energy is blowing hot right now. Nationwide, wind farms are bringing in renewable energy and jobs, such as in Montana, as detailed in “Propelling Growth.” Overall, wind turbines in the United States genera ...
• DOE e-mails to wind energy lobbyists cast cloud ov ...
  The Energy Department worked closely with the wind industry lobby to discredit a Spanish report that criticized wind power as a job killer, internal DOE e-mails reveal. The e-mails obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request show how, starting last April, lobbyists at the American Wind Energy ...
• Fish & Wildlife opposes wind farm
  A proposed wind farm in Ira could face opposition from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, according to a state official. In a letter dated Dec. 22 [click here], Fish and Wildlife community ecologist Eric Sorenson told Vermont Community Wind Farm that the company’s plan to put up as many as ...
• Legislature affirms opposition to wind farm projec ...
  OSWEGO, NY – The Oswego County Legislature voted Thursday to oppose a New York Power Authority project that would locate dozens of huge wind turbines in Lake Ontario. The plan also calls for erecting power lines throughout parts of the county to deliver the power downstate. The legislators stressed ...

Not My Tribe

• Transoceans 911
  Something familiar about this image, oddly singular. Behind the massive column of smoke, a vanished structure. Eleven oil rig workers missing, an unfathomable denouement and cover-up, this found tweet was inevitable. Not a Katrina raging against us, but a terrorism attack on man and nature coordinat ...
• The water on the Westside is brown today, again.
  Part of it being the antiquated water system here, the one that was last upgraded when Truman was president.Every time there’s excavation done anywhere near the mains, some of the increasingly toxic dirt gets in. Dirt, though, is a Farmer type word, and it’s a living organism. I’m about half farmer ...
• Gulf oil spill is so Obama’s Katrina
  Which parallel is not analogous? Off New Orleans, massive devastation to environment and human health, predictable failure of flawed technology, inadequate official response which broadens tragedy. Leaving BP to shoulder cleanup is like tasking arsonists to extinguish their fire. BP is responsible, ...
• AIPAC student DC junkets paying off
  This year’s AIPAC conference targeted university student body officers in an effort to fend off BDS campaigns at campuses nationwide. Did the controversial strategy just pay off at UC Berkeley? When the student council voted 16 to 4 to divest, student body president Will Smelko vetoed the measure. I ...
• Sky is falling you commerce Pollyanas
  “If you talk about the sky falling too early, then people stop buying Louisiana oysters, blue crabs, and shrimp,” says LSU environmental scientist. We’re expected to believe the rate of the BP oil spill has only been deduced by hobbyists looking at foreign satellite images. They calculate the Exxon ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Bin Laden "Living Comfortably in Iran"
  Is there a country you want to invade? Can't get those pesky free-thinking citizens to agree? No problem, we've got just the thing to you! It's called Feathered Cocaine - The Bogeyman Reviver! Guaranteed to resurrect your favourite long-dead, face-changing, ex-CIA asset ... or your money back!
• 9/11 Un-debunked Version 2.0
  A new version of my "9/11 Un -debunked" series. I will be uploading new videos to the playlist from time to time. To view the videos separately , please go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/citizenfor911truth1
• My New Blog [Renamed]
  As people may have noticed, I haven't exactly been staying on topic in recent months in my blog posts. So to avoid discrediting this blog any further, I've created my own personal blog to talk about general stuff that's beyond the scope of this blog. It's called "Scootle The Anti-Skeptic" (I need to ...
• Thermite Denial - A Year in Review
  ScootleRoyale Skeptic Denialism Debunkers, man-made global warming advocates and skeptics in general like to call their opponents "deniers". This word has of course been deliberately chosen because of its holocaust connotations. It's interesting though because in many ways it is they who are the ...
• Pat Curley's Shooting Blanks
  ScootleRoyale Skeptic Denialism Pat Curley has recently posted another piece of thermite denial ... on April Fools day fittingly enough. It's the usual debunker drivel about chain of custody, which I keep pointing out is irrelevant in this case due to the nature of the material that we're dealing w ...

  Blacklisted News

• Sen. Mike Bennett Caught Looking at Porn on Senate ...
  No one will argue that sitting on the Senate floor during session can get a little boring, but looking at porn is probably not the best way to pass the time.
• EU agrees $146bn bailout for Greece
  The European Union�and�the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have�agreed a $146.2bn bailout package over three years to rescue Greece's indebted economy.
• Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon ...
  A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.
• Sophisticated Counterfeiting Operation Run Out of ...
• New government pay-for-performance policies punish ...
  Pay-for-performance reimbursement of surgeons, intended to reward doctors and hospitals for good patient outcomes, may instead be creating financial incentives for discriminating against obese patients, who are much more likely to suffer expensive complications after even the most routine surgeries, ...

The Intelligence Daily

• Faithless: Mass Destruction
  Video: Courtesy of YouTube Fear is a weapon of mass destruction: Breaking News — Car bomb...
• 20 Things You Will Need To Survive When The Econom ...
  By Michael T Snyder (The Intelligence Daily) — Today, millions of Americans say that they...
• U.S. Consolidates Military Network In Asia-Pacific ...
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — The United States has six naval fleets and eleven...
• The Costs of Complexity
  By John Michael Greer (The Intelligence Daily) — Itâs a bit ironic, given the events now in...
• US Army Generals Not Informed HTS was Spy/Intel Pr ...
  Casualty Rate Excessive by John Stanton (The Intelligence Daily) — âLet me tell you what HTT...

My AntiWar

• Chilean Author Isabel Allende on Her New Novel &#8 ...
  Renowned Chilean novelist Isabel Allende joins us in our studio to talk about her new book, “Island Beneath the Sea” – her first novel in four years. The story takes readers back 200 years in time to the slave uprising that led to the creation of the world’s first independent Black republic – Haiti. ...
• BP Oil Spill Worsens With No Solution in Sight, 21 ...
  Federal authorities have banned commercial and recreational fishing in a large stretch of water in the Gulf of Mexico due to the massive oil spill caused by a BP-operated rig that exploded nearly two weeks ago. An estimated 210,000 gallons of oil a day is pouring into the Gulf in what might turn out ...
• Headlines for May 3, 2010
  May Day Rallies Held To Protest Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law, Major League Baseball Union Urges Arizona to Repeal Law, Fishing Banned in Gulf Due to Massive Oil Spill, Halliburton’s Role in Oil Rig Explosion Probed, Obama Vows to Help Gulf Region, EU and IMF Agree to $146 Billion Bailout of Greece, ...
• A-Bomb Survivors, Mayors Hold NY March
• UN Chief, Hiroshima Mayor Unite on Disarmament

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Chomsky: What's At Stake in the Issue of Iran
  Summary: In an interview with the German publication, Freitag, Noam Chomsky talks about U.S. pressure on Israel and Iran and its geopolitical significance. "Iran is perceived as a threat because they did not obey the orders of the United States. Militarily this threat is irrelevant. This country ...
• Iran´s full statement at Non-Proliferation Treaty ...
  Summary: It is now clear that the production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons and policies practiced by some nuclear weapon States, along with the weakness of and the imbalance in the NPT provisions have been the main causes of insecurity and served as an incentive for the development of such ...
• Iran calls on nuclear states to join NPT: spokesma ...
  Summary: NPT (non-)Participation Map "Countries which possess nuclear arsenals but pay no heed to non-proliferation of (nuclear) weapons should immediately join the NPT," Mehmanparast said on Sunday in an interview without specifying the countries. source: Xinhua read more
• Papering the War Against Iran
  Summary: Giraldi Currently, the search for a piece of paper that will seal the fate of Iran is underway, with considerable pressure from the White House to come up with a document that can be used to justify war. The battle is being fought out within the intelligence community, not unlike the ...
• No US visas for Iran press
  Summary: The US government has refused to issue visas for the Iranian press delegation that was scheduled to cover the president's trip to New York and his participation in a nuclear conference. source: Press TV read more

The Daily Galaxy

• The Human Species: "Recycling the Big Bang"
  John C. Mather, a Senior Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and a Nobel Laureate, explained the creation of the universe and the re-cycling of star matter to create the human species to a packed house at Princeton University's...
• Mars Rover's 'Drone Eyes' Spot Distant Impact Crat ...
  NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured a new view of the rim of Endeavour crater, the rover's destination in a multi-year traverse along the rock-strewn desert landscape. A portion of the rim about 13 kilometers (8 miles) away appears...
• Aboriginal Green: Ancient Hunting and Burning Enh ...
  A Stanford research team is exploring what makes aboriginal hunting grounds molded by fire more biologically diverse than lands untouched by humans. Aboriginal Martu hunter-gatherers light fires to smoke out giant monitor lizards called goanna that can grow up to...
• Image of the Day: The Mysterious Beauty of Hydra G ...
  A stunningly beautiful galaxy cluster 840 million light years from Earth gets its name from the strong radio source, Hydra A, that originates in a galaxy near the center of the cluster. Optical observations show a few hundred galaxies in...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
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Natural News

• GMO alert: U.S. attempting global censorship of GM ...
  (NaturalNews) I received an urgent alert from Jeffrey Smith today about a dangerous situation taking place right now at the international CODEX conference. The U.S. is attempting to push its agenda to censor all GMO labeling of foods everywhere around the world. This would result in a global GMO cov ...
• Pennsylvania threatens citizens with Big Brother t ...
  (NaturalNews) Just when you thought the truth couldn't get any stranger than fiction, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue decides to launch a creepy new Big Brother "Tax Amnesty" program aimed at getting delinquent taxpayers to pay up on their back taxes. But the state agency has stooped to using ...
• Women given useless and dangerous HRT drugs to pre ...
  (NaturalNews) Despite lack of evidence that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs could reduce the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women, potentially millions of women were given the drugs to reduce these risks during the 1990s, according to a study conducted by researchers from Columbia P ...
• AIDS fraud: The Marketing of an Epidemic exposed i ...
  (NaturalNews) The global AIDS epidemic being pushed by the AIDS industry is a fraud. Key pioneers from the industry now speak out against "the false marketing of the AIDS epidemic" in an exclusive video clip from the highly controversial documentary House of Numbers (www.HouseOfNumber.com). Watch th ...
• Eco-labels on products are often just lies
  (NaturalNews) In a recent feature, Mother Jones Magazine calls attention to the fact that many "green" or "socially responsible" claims made on product labels are meaningless or deceptive, even when accompanied by a certification seal. Meaningless claims are those that allude to weak or nonexistent ...

Threat Level

• Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent
  The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent in 2009 over 2008, according to a report released Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Courts authorized 2,376 criminal wiretap orders in 2009, with 96 percent targeting mob ...
• Court OKs Unmasking Identities of Copyright Scoffl ...
  A federal appeals court is blessing the legal process by which the recording industry and other content owners unmask the identities of alleged peer-to-peer copyright infringers. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is believed to be the first appellate court to sanction a process t ...
• Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Found Guilty of Coverup
  A Tennessee jury on Friday convicted David Kernell of obstruction of justice and misdemeanor computer intrusion in connection with his hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account in 2008, according to local news reports. The jury acquitted the 22-year-old Kernell of wire fraud, and deadlocked on a four ...
• Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
  Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars. The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called ...
• iPhone Finder Regrets His ‘Mistake’
  The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says althou ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• A Year Later, Politico Says Tea Party Importance E ...
  From the beginning, the so-called Tea Party movement has merely been a continuation of the failed 2008 Republican presidential campaign by other means. In April 2009, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show highlighted that truth when he told furious Tea Baggers, "I think you might be confusing tyranny with ...
• Believing, Not Knowing: The Sarah Palin Story
  Believing, not knowing. For her fiercest critics and most fervent supporters alike, that is the hallmark of Sarah Palin . And on no issue does Palin's belief trump her knowledge more than energy. After all, the woman John McCain declared "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the U ...
• The Tax Cheating Crisis in Greece - and the U.S.
  Even as the European Union and the IMF unveiled a $160 billion bailout package to avert a fiscal disaster in Greece , the New York Times documented one culprit behind that nation's fiscal woes: tax cheating . But while the $30 billion Athens loses annually to tax fraud and evasion proportionately f ...
• Republican Party Animals
  While Arizona Governor Jan Brewer suggested Friday that her state's illegal immigrants were terrorists, other Republicans have deemed them another kind of animal altogether. Make that animal or insect. As it turns out, the same GOP that likens same-sex marriage to the union of one man and one dog, ...
• A Perfect Storm for Regulatory Reform
  For conservative free-market ideologues, April has been the cruelest month, indeed. In a perfect storm washing over Republican foes of government regulation, the last several days alone featured unbridled Wall Street greed , corporate mismanagement of a devastating oil spill , and corruption and cr ...

Blackspot News Feed

• McConnell Tries To Dodge Repeated Questions About ...
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been blasting the Senate’s financial regulatory reform bill in recent days, falsely arguing that it “institutionalizes” bailouts for Wall Street. read more
• Arizona Legislature Makes Being Undocumented a Cri ...
  Arizona is on track to become the first state in the nation to make it a misdemeanor for a person to be there without legal immigration documents.
• Welcome to “Abortion Recovery Awareness Month”
  We are halfway through April, which you may not have realized has been dubbed “Abortion Recovery Awareness Month” for the second year in a row by Texas Governor, Rick Perry and Minnesota Governor, Tim Pawlenty. Just for the record: Abortion Recovery Awareness Month is not designed to offer comfort t ...
• Tax Grousing Tells Half The Story
  It’s tax time again, the time of year when Americans grouse about forking over part of their hard-earned cash to the dear old government. These days, there’s a whole movement dedicated to grumbling about taxes full time — I’m talking, of course, about the Right’s latest incarnation — tea partiers, w ...
• Turkish Mayor Acquitted on Misconduct Charges ... ...
  The charges related to his decision to provide up to 10 tons of water free of charge to district residents in a stand against water privatization.

Consortium News

• Is Iran Really a Threat?
  The Obama administration ratchets up the rhetoric about Iran, but Ray McGovern wonders if this is just another dangerous hype. April 26, 2010
• The Risks in Obama's Mideast Policy
  By pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, President Obama may expose U.S. impotence on the issue, warns Ivan Eland. April 27, 2010
• How Authoritarianism Hurts Religion
  Early Christianity was a diverse, dynamic religion, but then evolved into rigid authoritarianism, writes Rev. Howard Bess. April 25, 2010
• Gaming Wall Street's Roulette Wheel
  Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street giants thought they had the game rigged so they could never lose, says Michael Winship. April 24, 2010
• The Mad Hatter's Tea Party Movement
  Today's Tea Party movement is less like the Boston variety than the Mad Hatter's Alice in Wonderland kind, writes William John Cox. April 22, 2010

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• At Berkeley, moral victory despite divestment vote ...
  On 28 April, University of California, Berkeley's Student Senate narrowly missed an historic opportunity to divest its funds from United Technologies and General Electric which manufacture F-16 jets and Apache helicopters -- weapons sold to the Israeli military and used against civilians in the Occu ...
• Riz Khan - The Story of Budrus (Al Jazeera)
• Four years after eviction, Amona settlers are buil ...
  Evacuating the outposts does not appear to be high on the national agenda. Next Independence Day it would be appropriate to award the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement and exceptional contribution to the nation to the State Prosecutor's Office. The creativity its people have shown for the sake o ...
• European Jews decry Israel policies (Bilal Rander ...
  A group of over 3,000 European Jews, known as JCall, have signed a petition, speaking out against Israel, that was presented to the European Parliament in Brussels. "As friends, as Jews, we want to tell you that you are going down a wrong path," said Chemla, who moved to France after living in Israe ...
• US envoy visits Israel for 'indirect' negotiations ...
  President Barack Obama's Middle East peace envoy arrived in Tel Aviv yesterday for expected indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks but Israel voiced doubt about any breakthrough without direct negotiations. Hours before the US envoy, George Mitchell, flew into Israel, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netany ...

Water - AlterNet

• The 7 Stupidest Statements Made About the BP Gulf ...
  Environmentalists probably blew up the oil rig (courtesy of Rush Limbaugh) and other idiotic conservative ideas.
• Oil Disaster 5X Worse Than Estimated, 'Churning Sl ...
  The catastrophe continues, as Federal authorities have banned commercial and recreational fishing in a large stretch of water off four states.
• Here's How Exxon Tried to Avoid Paying for Its Mas ...
  Penalties that British Petroleum will pay are based on spill volume -- Exxon saved billions by scuttling the true amount.
• How the Disaster in the Gulf Could Have Been Preve ...
  The company has found itself at the center of several of the nation's worst oil and gas–related disasters in the last five years.
• Oil from Leaking Well Washes Ashore in Louisiana, ...
  Oil's landing marks the beginning of what environmentalists fear could be one of the worst US ecological disasters in years.

TruthHugger

• TruthHugger is on indefinite vacation.
  Zzzzzzzz Time is not on my side.  Although I continue to observe and analyze current events and political shenanigans with critical eyes. I am setting aside the venting of opinion and observation to attend to personal priorities. TruthHugger may be resurrected during the next political disaster, but ...
• Note to readers
  I’m om a hiatus again.  Check back now and then, I may surprise you. Tagged: Personal Note
• Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...
  Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
• Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...
  Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
• Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...
  How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Lady Doth Protest Too Much By Ed Ciaccio
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• Inside Junior's War Room by Philip A. Faruggio (20 ...
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• The Drone Bomber by Cindy Sheehan
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• "Teabaggish?" by Cindy Sheehan
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• Will Hollywood Go The Way Of Enron? Derivatives Co ...
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Axis of Logic

• Discrimination is flourishing in East Jerusalem - ...
  If everything goes as expected next week, with the beginning of proximity talks, thousands of Jews will be marking 43 years since the "unification of Jerusalem." The politicians will certainly not miss the festive opportunity to express their great love for "our united capital for all eternity." ...
• Reuters busted for indecent exposure: The automobi ...
  In their report, ANALYSIS-Venezuela car industry gridlock as dollars run out, Reuters pays another shill to tell another half-story about Venezuelan affairs. In this "analysis” they shamelessly expose their indecency as a major news broker in western media. I'm writing this critique for Axis of L ...
• Corporations and governments violating your privac ...
  ...
• Letter from the family of Bety Cariño, murdered by ...
  May 3, 2010 To our friends and brothers and sisters To those who share the pain and anguish To the public opinion, saddened and full of rage The the indigenous peoples of Mexico and the world To those whose solidarity envelops us with their deepest condolences To all of you ...
• Honduras News in Review—April 2010 - Honduras
  Editor's note: The Honduran Human Rights Platform, an association of major human rights organizations in Honduras, was scheduled to give a press conference on the alternate truth commission this morning. Details will be published at May I Speak Freely�once they are available. - Roz Dzelzitis, E ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Four Dead in Ohio, 40 Years Later
  The letters were direct and to the point: Mrs. Schroeder, I heard you on TV and if I were a policeman I would kill a lot more of these kids. �Keep your kids at home then they do not get in trouble. �My boys and girls do not get in trouble. Hope the police and Army kill a lot more kids. It has to be ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  We totally saw this coming A neo-Nazi hate group, the "National Socialist Movement," has designated Wednesday, Cinco de Mayo, "Report an Illegal Day" in a flyer they sent to Arizona television station ABC15. The flyer also encourages Americans to call their Representatives and Senators on the fifth ...
• Editorial Cartoon of the Day
  The Kansas City Star's Lee Judge nails it once again... �
• We Won't See His Like Again
  They said that about Edward R. Murrow 45 years ago, when Bill Moyers was still LBJ's press secretary. Yet less than a decade later Moyers had taken up Murrow's mantle with Bill Moyers' Journal. The last broadcast was Friday night. I don't see a replacement anywhere on the horizon, but I hope I'm wro ...
• She said WHAT? WHERE?
  Sarah Palin came to my neck of the woods over the weekend. She was the headline attraction for a 6-hour rally organized by a group calling itself "Preserving American Liberty" that was held at the Independence Events Center. Organizers refused to confirm how many people were in attendance, but the K ...

Care 2

• 'Gay dog' banned from Australian restaurant
  An Australian restaurant has been ordered to apologise and pay compensation after they barred a blind man because a waiter thought his guide dog was gay. Submitted by Marta Martinez to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Yemeni Child Brides Start Revolution Against Force ...
  What began with one 10-year-old bride's brave trek to the courthouse to get a judge to release her from a marriage has turned into a cultural revolution. And it's proving the power of girls to demand justice for themselves. Submitted by Damaris C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 50 Weirdest Jobs That Actually Exist
  The article has listed a sample of some of the worlds most unusual and overlooked careers. Most of them admirable, some of them questionable, but all of them intriguing in some way. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• How China Holds the American Economy by the Balls
  America stays afloat selling billions of American dollars and Treasuries to our Chinese sugar daddy to keep our faltering consumer economy alive. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Alarming biodiversity decline as 2010 biodiversity ...
  World leaders have failed to deliver commitments made in 2002 to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen alarming biodiversity declines. These findings are the result of a new paper published in the leading journal Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

GreenBiz

• U.S. Office Buildings Need to Get Smart, New Study ...
  Despite rapidly developing technology to support and manage facilities, office buildings in the U.S. are falling behind the curve when it comes to adopting smart solutions that can ramp up energy efficiency and other aspects that affect costs, occupants' comfort and productivity, according to new r ...
• Global Water Scarcity: Risks and Challenges for Bu ...
  This new Lloyd's 360 Risk Insight report says businesses must act now in the face of diminishing water supplies. The report, produced in conjunction with the WWF, looks at the issue of water scarcity and its impact on business.
• EPA Contest Seeks the Biggest (Kilowatt) Loser
  Looking to tap into the popularity of contest-based reality shows, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is staging its version of "The Biggest Loser" -- a competition to see which commercial building can shed the most energy waste and be declared the most efficient in the country.
• Why PepsiCo is Building Dams in India
  Not so long ago, environmental activists in India targeted PepsiCo and other beverage companies for consuming excessive groundwater in local communities. PepsiCo is striving to make a difference by reducing its water use and helping communities secure clean water.
• U.S. Office Buildings Need to Get Smart, New Study ...
  Despite rapidly developing technology to support and manage facilities, office buildings in the U.S. are falling behind the curve when it comes to adopting smart solutions that can ramp up energy efficiency and other aspects that affect costs, occupants' comfort and productivity, according to new re ...

Reuters Global

• U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan set to overtake ...
  At some point this month or early June, the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan will outnumber those in Iraq. It's an artificial milestone but it is worth noting because it tells you a good deal about the two wars and where the United States stands in each.
• Is Baluchistan more strategically significant than ...
  Given China's reputation for long-term planning, it's well time to pay attention to its focus on Baluchistan and ask the question: Is Pakistan's Baluchistan province strategically more important than Afghanistan?
• Expo diplomacy and the Greek rescue
  Greece's Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos chides his European neighbours as they mull a bailout plan, while cosying up to China during his trip to open the Greek pavilion at Shanghai's World Expo.
• Does Prime Minister Erdogan want to be President E ...
  Will Turkey move to a presidential system giving more power to former Islamist Tayyip Erdogan?
• Greeks on the grill
  When Greece's former economy ministers took to the stage to face a partisan crowd at a public panel discussion in London this week, they got some hoots of derision.

Paul Krugman

• Is It The Economy, Stupid?
  Is economic optimism arriving just in time to save Democrats from a midterm disaster?
• Bubble Denial
  Can't have outsiders joining in on the debate, can we?
• Bond Vigilantes: Where Are They Now?
  About that interest rate spike ...
• The Augustine Economy
  For now, it's actually a good thing that consumers are behaving irresponsibly.
• Where The Debt Is Coming From
  It's the slump, not the stimulus.

No Quarter

• 13 Bankers and an American Oligarchy
  The Weekly Standard has a very interesting article about reform in the banking industry. And despite the common perception that Republicans are the party of big money, the author, Christopher Caldwell, argues otherwise in a discussion of the new book 13 Bankers, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. So ...
• Bill Maher Thinks the President “Should Get More S ...
  One year and one week ago, I wrote an open letter to Bill Maher taking him to task for his horrid insults to the Tea Party movement, then in its infancy. He self-righteously, and wrongly, claimed that what was at the root of this movement was racism. He also claimed that this was strictly [...]
• Things Get Hot, And “Do As We Say, Not As We Do,” ...
  Well, the protests against Arizona and any immigration reform have come and gone from the weekend. Despite the sheer volume of the cries, the number of people were not what was expected. LA had about half the numbers they expected, and Chicago only had about 8,000. I’m sure you’ll appreciate this: ...
• More Terrorism Bullshit
  Let the turf battle begin. FBI is going full monty to seize control of the investigation into the failed car fire in NYC and is busy leaking info that there is an international angle. Mind you I write, “failed car fire.” If you want to believe in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, [...]
• Where is the N-word Video?
  Remember those US representatives who claimed the “n-word” was hurled at them by nasty, racist tea partiers while those representatives were innocently walking from the Capitol? You may also remember that Andrew Breitbart has offered $10,000 to anyone with digital evidence of this. So far, nothing ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Making Your Camping Trip a Success with the Right ...
  Are you planning your next camping adventure? Read here on how to make your trip a success. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Rise of Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables
  Grow Your Own is making a come back! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Great Barrier Reef: The Largest Living Organis ...
  The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organism on the planet! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Propolis: The Incredible Natural Medicine Produced ...
  Hippocrates swore by the healing powers of this incredible natural product, and it is freely available. Why do more folk not take advantage? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Aye-ayes: Bizarre Primates of the Madagascan Rainf ...
  The Aye Aye is a primate native to Madagascar. Once a magical creature, shrouded in myth, today an endangered species. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Review: 'What's That? A Human Hell'
  U Win Tin spent 19 years in Rangoon's notorious Insein prison. The chief strategist of the National League for Democracy managed to keep organizing even behind bars.
• Starting Where North Korea Is
  A new approach needs to be taken if we're going to achieve progress in Northeast Asia.
• What is Democracy?
  Artist Oliver Ressler wants to hear what we think.
• Coverups in Afghanistan
  The Pentagon's slow response to civilian deaths and subsequent cover-ups points to a much deeper problem in U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
• Postcard From...Kogelo
  Barack Obama's grandmother, full of hope, is working for change in west Kenya.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Man held over New York bomb attempt
  Faisal Shahzad, believed to have bought vehicle found in Times Square, was trying to board Dubai-bound flight.
• Mumbai sentence hearing to begin
  Kasab, convicted for his role in the November 2008 assault, could face the death penalty.
• Fire damages West Bank mosque
  Witnesses blame Jewish settlers for "arson" as Israelis and Palestinians launch inquiry.
• Japan PM backtracks on US base
  Hatoyama says it is "impossible" to relocate US military base off Okinawa.
• Red shirts consider Thai PM's offer
  Protesters given until end of Tuesday to respond to early polls for ending siege offer.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Green Jobs Slowly Ticking Upward
  The green economy is growing, but slowly, a report suggests.
• The Buzz Is All About BP at Oil Drillers' Conferen ...
  At the offshore oil industry's annual gathering, the talk was about new limits on offshore drilling -- and new opportunities for companies that provide equipment and services -- in the wake of the BP disaster.
• Burning the Oil Off? Weather Is the Hitch
  While a controlled burnhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/us/28spill.html of petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico was judged successful last week, wind and rain have hampered efforts to conduct additional ones to contain the spill.
• For Tire Recyclers, a Holy Grail
  A company says it has found a way to recycle tires affordably through pyrolysis - a process in which tires are subjected to heat in an oxygen-starved environment and converted to gas, oil and carbon char.
• Anxiety Over Seafood
  Fears are growing that the oil spill will devastate the seafood industry.

Dot Earth News

• A Valdez Reporter on Gushing Gulf Oil
  An Alaskan environmental writer ponders Arctic lessons from the unfolding Gulf oil disaster.
• Review of U.N. Climate Panel Begins
  Some questions for the committee examining the past and future of the U.N. climate panel.
• In Gulf, 'Sheen Forecast' Along With Weather
  An "oil sheen forecast" joins the weather report in at least one newspaper.
• Celebrating Trees, Wood and Making Stuff
  Honoring trees, both alive and repurposed.
• A Dumb Question About Stanching Deep Oil
  Can explosions be used to seal the leaking pinprick in the seafloor?

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• 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 ...
• Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
  Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...

Daily Censored

• SPECTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM
  CENSORED IN 1991: THE SPECTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM No one segment of society should have a monopoly on clean air, clean water, or a clean workplace; nor should any one segment be targeted for society’s wastes. Nevertheless, some individuals, neighborhoods, and communities are forced to bear the ...
• Stanley Greenspan: Inspiration for a Revolution
  Dr. Stanley Greenspan died this week; he was a great man. His official web page described him as: “Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learnin ...
• Little College wins big Victory against Right Wing ...
  New advertisement for Shimer shown above along with Ayn Rand faculty and devotee Marsah Enright Shimer College  I just read an interesting e-mail sent to me by Kenneth Knabb, of the Bureau of Public Secrets (Ken Knabb, April 30, 2010, http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/shimer.htm).  I have long been a ...
• Jobs, jobs, jobs: A fireside chat
  Jobs, jobs, jobs: A fireside chat By Will Shonbrun Estimates of jobs lost since the beginning of the recession in 2007 range between 8 to 11 million depending on the source. Whatever the actual number there is no doubt that the cause for the most massive unemployment since the Great Depression can d ...
• Billionaire boyz club plans to buy D.C. teachers h ...
  Things not going well for billionaire plan to take over Washington, D.C. Schools As history indicates, it has taken less than a year to cobble together the naked takeover of public education and the merit pay ruse in Washington D.C.  Chancellor of Schools in D. C. Michelle Rhee is implacable, beyond ...

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• The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters
• US, Iran clash at UN nuclear meet

Institute for Policy Studies

• Starting Where North Korea Is
  A new approach needs to be taken if we're going to achieve progress in Northeast Asia.
• Hunger Strike in Defense of Work Begins in Mexico
  The struggle of Mexican electricians, now converted into a hunger strike, is against the historic injustice that is worsening daily in the country, particularly under the present government.
• Massacres Expose another Reason to End Iraq and Af ...
  The bylaws and directives of this war allow our Army helicopter gunners to shoot at unarmed Reuters photographers, and military convoys to fire on busloads of civilians in Afghanistan, and U.S. Special Forces to murder pregnant women and teenage girls in Iraq.
• Mothers Should't Have to Fear for their Lives
  It's possible to reduce the risks to women of dying in childbirth.
• Cochabamba's Message: Let the People Speak
  The World People's Conference on Climate Change held last week in Bolivia was an experiment in replacing the less-than-democratic UN process with one that invites public participation. But what's the difference between Copenhagen and Cochabamba?

Pine River World News

• Gordon Duff: Times Square Bomb Hoax, Israeli Intel ...
  Blogmaster note : At first I wasn't going to republish the following commentary but in light of all the media hoopla about the "Pakistani Taliban" supposedly behind the car bomb found in New York City's Times Square it is necessary for my readers to start thinking along the lines of a "set up" - wit ...
• YEMEN TIMES: British ambassador's attacker trained ...
  The following article is reprinted with permission from Yemen Times, Sana'a. British ambassador's attacker trained in Marib for three years � � Yemen Times By Nadia Al-Sakkaf Published: �April 29, 2010 The 22 year-old from Taiz governorate responsible for the attack on the British ambassador's env ...
• Polish Military Prosecutor's Office: The video mad ...
  The following article is from Azeri Press Agency (APA), Baku, Azerbaijan. Polish Military Prosecutor's Office: The video made several minutes after the crash of Polish president's plane in Russia is true � � APA April 28, 2010 �14:14 Baku - APA. The video made several minutes after the crash of Po ...
• Jeff Gates: When Will Israel Attack the U.S. - Aga ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today . When Will Israel Attack the U.S. - Again? � �Jeff Gates Source: �Veterans Today April 26, 2010 Israel has long been waging war on the U.S. by way of deception. To date, its operatives have worked from the shadows hoping no ...
• The Suicide Of Multiethnic Sarajevo
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). The Suicide Of Multiethnic Sarajevo � � RFE/RL By Nenad Pejic April 25, 2010 Two events in Sarajevo this week illustrate the huge failures of the Bosnian Federation government. The funeral of Bos ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #341
  Russian court rejects 'spy' scientist's appeal. Ex-CIA agent's arrest in VA was eventful say sources. Documents show CIA thought Gary Powers had defected.
• Alleged Iranian spy cell busted in Kuwait
  A leading Kuwaiti newspaper has claimed that government agencies captured members of an alleged Iranian spy cell in the Gulf state.
• News you may have missed #340
  West Bank urged to drop Israeli cell phone companies. US police wiretaps up 26 percent in one year. Taliban group executes high-profile ex-ISI spy.
• Author gets subpoenaed to reveal CIA sources
  The US government has issued a subpoena against a journalist who authored a book on the CIA’s operations during the years of the Bush administration.
• News you may have missed #339
  US couple arrested for spying for Cuba cooperating, say authorities. Indian diplomat arrested for spying for Pakistan. Former CIA station chief arrested in Virginia.

After Downing Street.org

• Liz Holtzman for New York Attorney General (And Wa ...
  David Swanson Wall Street's gone wild and Congress seems disinclined to rein it in. The Justice Department may stray slightly from the president's goal of "looking forward, not backward." But there's a weakness in the master plan for Goldman Sachs' domination of the world: Wall Street is in New Yo ...
• Watchdog Group Offers $50,000 Reward For Informat ...
  Watchdog Group Offers $50,000 Reward For Information Leading to Conviction of Massey Energy Officials For Bribery Washington, DC—StopTheChamber, com, a national watchdog group dedicated to government and corporate accountability, today offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest ...
• An Actual Debate on Closing Foreign Bases with Rig ...
• Best of the Blogs
  No One Cares Our Unlawful Enemy Combat-Drones and Their Spooky Button-Pushers Who’s In Charge, General McChrystal? Does U.S. Policy on Israel and Palestine Uphold Our Values? Videos from the April 18th, 2010 Webcast of the Chicago Hearing Mearsheimer writes obituary for 'two-state' option Seven Da ...
• What War Looks Like

Grist - News

• Away from the oil spill, signs of local progress
  by Jonathan Hiskes The Gulf oil spill story is too big to ignore right now. It's a massive, toxic indictment of our dependency on fuels that fill our atmosphere with heat-trapping pollutants even when everything goes right. But there are other stories too big to ignore, including the story ...
• Burning oil sends heavy vapor toward Gulf resident ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes The EPA is warning that Gulf Coast residents are at risk of headaches, nausea, and other ill health effects; the culprit is air pollution from the oil burns that response teams are conducting to try to keep the big slick away from coastlines. "The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf ...
• White House keeps ‘boot’ on BP’s ...
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- The White House on Monday kept its "boot" on the throat of BP, despite the British energy giant's assurance that it is "absolutely" responsible for paying to cleanup the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Obama administration positioned itself as the "oversight ...
• Better weather spurs hope for oil-spill cleanup
  by Agence France-Presse VENICE, La. -- Kinder weather offered some respite Monday to Louisiana's coastal communities from a giant oil spill looming offshore, but it could still take months to cap the leaking well. Weekend storms grounded aerial sorties of dispersants and prevented skimming ...
• Waterkeepers question use of dispersant chemicals ...
  by Sue Sturgis The chief executive of BP says crews have been able to reduce the amount of oil reaching the Gulf's surface from a massive underwater leak by using chemicals at the gusher's source -- but environmental advocates are raising questions about the plan's safety. "We are adaman ...

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  "What the judge is intending to do is adjourn, basically stop the hearing for a four-week period after the government completes presenting its evidence," Khadr's attorney said.
• Berkshire Hathaway’s Derivatives Math
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• Personal Bankruptcies Remain High
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• What the Fed Did and Did Not Know in 2004
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CowBoss' Brain Food

• Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
  It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture ...
• Teacher breaks 4th graders arm for forgetting Iq ...
  LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
  Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglias Climatic R Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• We're expanding, while economy shrinks
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Suzie-Q

• Was Times Square Car Bomber A Fan Of Beck?
  It Would Be Irresponsible Not To Speculate. Was Bomber A Fan Of The Beckster? Crooks and Liars– By Susie Madrak Monday May 03, 2010 7:00am You know, I don’t want to jump to conclusions here, because that would make me too much like Matt Drudge. But if the car bomber was indeed a white guy [...]
• Not Just Arizona: States Eye Harsh Immigration Law ...
  Not Just Arizona: From Utah To Maryland, States Eye Harsh Immigration Laws TPM Muckraker Zachary Roth | May 3, 2010, 8:44AM Arizona isn’t the only state looking to take extreme measures to crack down on illegal immigration. At least 10 other states — many inspired by Arizona — are talking about enac ...
• ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Champions Silent ...
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• The Big Alienation
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  "Corporations are not people. Money is not speech." These are fundamental truths that our nation needs to remember -- and add to the Constitution.
• What Drives a Death Penalty Lawyer? A Conversation ...
  Mark Dow writes on the criminal justice system. David Dow tries to save his clients from execution. The two discuss the death penalty, kayaking, and the concept of evil.
• Taking a Stand for Political Prisoners in the U.S.
  A former Black Panther’s new book explores American politics and the fight for justice.
• Why Law Enforcement Officials Should Hate Arizona' ...
  Arizona's draconian anti-immigration law will create a chilling effect in the very communities police officers rely on to fight crime.

Sideways News

• Brit winners to display at Selfridges
  Brit winners Dizzee Rascal and Florence Welch are among 10 musicians to have been chosen to design a series of window displays at London store Selfridges. Also participating in Sounds Of The Mind are Hot Chip, Empire Of The Sun, Paloma Faith, The XX and Marina And The Diamonds. Each of the acts has ...
• Rare tropical butterflies bred
  An expert in Hertfordshire has managed to breed hundreds of rare tropical butterflies from seven abandoned pupae. The kaleidoscope of Heliconius chestertonii - originally from Colombia and the only ones of their kind in Europe - have been bred at Butterfly World. Expert Clive Farrell was given them ...
• Responsible investors tackle corruption
  A worldwide coalition of investment companies controlling over $1.7 trillion in assets has written this week to 21 major companies, asking them to explain their policies on bribery and corruption. The move follows a strict anti-bribery law coming into force in the UK which caused investors to reasse ...
• Cancer patient wins NHS drug appeal
  A woman with a rare form of cancer has won her appeal to be provided with a life-prolonging drug on the NHS. Mother-of-two Nikki Phelps, who suffers from a deadly glandular form of the disease, was initially denied state-funded Sunitinib by NHS West Kent despite a Government pledge to increase the a ...
• Brain therapy fuels Parkinson's hopes
  A device similar to a heart pacemaker that stimulates brain activity in Parkinson's sufferers could improve their overall quality of life, a charity has found. Parkinson's UK said that patients who were treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) required fewer drugs, experienced an improvement on the ...

Fabius Maximus

• Sources of reliable information about the Gulf Oil ...
  As usual with any important event, the Internet lights up with misinformation.  As if it were alive and trying to make us stupid.  No excerpt becomes famous and successful from a disaster by underplaying the threat!  Here are some websites providing valuable and reliable information about the Gulf o ...
• Today’s fear-mongering (they think we’ ...
  If we’re not trembling in fear, it’s not for lack of effort by elements of the US news media.  As in this editorial in NY Daily News:  “The threat keeps growing: List of terrorists in our midst gets longer and longer“, 1 May 2010 — Excerpt: The clear and present danger of homegrown Islamist terro ...
• FM newswire for May 3, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. A reminder not to take initial reports too seriously:  “CIA documents show US never believed Gary Powers was shot down“, The Times, 1 May 2010 “The Feds vs. Goldman“, Matt Taibbi, Rol ...
• Excerpts from the April 2010 DoD report on the Afg ...
  One of the odd aspects of our wars — often seen in the comments on the FM website — is that the critics tend to rely on official US documents (and history), while the pro-war folks tend to rely on their analysis (mostly confidence and hope) with little use of hard data.   This post continues tha ...
• Important background information about the oil spi ...
  “This is real journalism, providing valuable information:  “BP Fought Safety Measures at Deepwater Oil Rigs“, ABC News, 30 April 2010 — Excerpt: BP, the company that owned the Louisiana oil rig that exploded last week, spent years battling federal regulators over how many layers of safeguards would ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Breast MRI could reduce local breast cancer recurr ...
  PhysOrg.com – The use of preoperative breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to surgical intervention (for the treatment of breast cancer) can reduce the number of local (confined to the breast) cancer recurrences at follow-up, according to a study to be presented at the ARRS 2010 Annual Meet ...
• Pakistan Taliban leader alive, threatens U.S. atta ...
  Reuters – The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, reported killed in a CIA drone aircraft attack in January, has appeared alive in Internet videos, threatening revenge suicide strikes in the United States. Read article
• Catastrophe for Louisiana fishermen after Deepwate ...
  Timesonline-In the past ten years Roxanne Perez has been shot, stabbed, hit by a train and lost her home to Hurricane Katrina. She had hoped that her run of bad luck might be over — until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill claimed her livelihood. As the slick creeps through the shrimping grounds and oy ...
• Wal-Mart to pay $27.6 million over toxic waste cas ...
  Reuters – Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, will pay $27.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it improperly stored, handled and dumped hazardous waste at stores throughout California, state investigators said on Monday. The accord ends a five-year probe in which California investi ...
• Failed car bomb was not al-Qaeda plot, says NY may ...
  BBC – There is no evidence the failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in New York was the work of al-Qaeda or any other big terrorist group, the city’s mayor says. Michael Bloomberg spoke after police dismissed claims by a Pakistani Taliban group that it was responsible. Read article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Red Salute to Trzeci Świat (Third World), Polish j ...
  Red Salute to Trzeci Świat (Third World)! (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Monkey Smashes Heaven salutes Trzeci Świat (Third World) is a Maoist-Third Worldist journal of the Polish Maoist-Third Worldist Group. Their journal can be read at http://trzeciswiat.wordpress.co ...
• RAIMD: Code Pink: Pigs For More Pie
  Code Pink: Pigs For More Pie (raimd.wordpress.com) Times have been tough for the remnants of the antiwar movement in the United Snakes.  Liberals crossed over to Obama, a recession has driven down donations, and healthcare reform and Tea Party opposition became the focus in Amerika.  Code Pink, led ...
• Mao: Skąd pochodzą słuszne idee człowieka?
  Mao: Skąd pochodzą słuszne idee człowieka? (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) “Tekst Towarzysza Mao Tse-Tunga ‘Skąd pochodzą słuszne idee człowieka?’ to jeden z jego słynnych ‘Czterech esejów o filozofii’. Przewodniczący Mao wyjaśnia w niej istotę marksowskiej tezy ‘Byt określa świadomość’. Znajomość tego ...
• Celebrate May Day: Death to the First World; death ...
  Celebrate May Day: Death to the First World; Death to Amerikkka! (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) May Day, May First, or International Workers’ Day, originally was a day to commemorate the victims of the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886. Chicago workers had called a general strike for the ei ...
• The end is near, Amerikkka
  (politicsareover.wordpress.com) Filed under: ..Politics Are Over, Amerikkka, anti-fascism, Communism, Crackpots, fascism, First Nations, Idiot Amerikkkans, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, mass line or ass line, Mexican Liberation, Mexico, Migrant struggles, North America, Occupied M ...

PakAlert

• A Wedding To Start A War
  How the wedlock between a Pakistani sportsman and an Indian tennis player is a PR disaster for India and holds implications for relations with Pakistan. A sign of Pakistan-India peace? Hardly. Read how the celebrity wedding was loaded with the kind of symbolism that rattled India and sent the wrong ...
• Alert: Pakistan, Iran set to face hot July
  —JULY 2010 appears to be a crucial month in American plan —After July 2010, the components would be in place to start a proper war against Iran and do an amputation surgery on Pakistan —A network of Patriot Defence System (PAC-3) has been established in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia ...
• India’s ‘Kyrgyz plan’ for Pakistan
  RAW was created in the late sixties with one purpose, to destabilize Pakistan. Its first target was East Pakistan. Its second target was Bangladesh. In 1971 RAW was successful in creating the Mukti Bahni, recruiting 80,000 Hindus and then sending them into Muslim Bengal disguised as Pakistani soldie ...
• Who REALLY Owns The Media In 2010?
  “NOT A SINGLE NEWS ITEM will reach the public without our control,” states the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. “Even now this is attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies whose offices are entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to th ...
• Transhumanism, PsyWar and B.E.P.’s “Imma Be”
  The Black Eyed Peas “Imma Be / Rock that Body” video is a masterpiece of high tech computer-generated imagery and state of the art digital music production. It is also one of the most blatant examples of Psychological Warfare and deception that I have ever seen in modern mass media. This article wil ...

ecogeek

• U.S. Could Stop Coal Emissions in 20 Years
  A new study claims that the U.S. could be free of emissions from coal-fired power plants in 20 years using only technologies that currently exist or could be ready in the next decade.  The one thing holding us back, according to the authors, is political will. The study, published in the latest is ...
• Germany Wants 1 Million Electric Vehicles by 2020
  While Volkswagen hasn't been a name we've discussed much when talking about electric vehicles, the company today unveiled its Golf Blue-e-motion concept vehicle in conjunction with an announcement from the German government focusing on electric vehicles. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has launch ...
• Tent-Like Solar Fabric Could Charge Cars, Help wit ...
  Imagine being able to pitch solar tents in situations where you need both some protective cover and access to clean energy -- perhaps as a car port for a  plug-in EV or a disaster relief shelter.  A new tensile solar fabric from FTL Solar could be used in variety of ways and, as a bonus, it isn't ...
• Cape Wind Project Approved!
  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has approved the Cape Wind offshore wind farm project!  In additon to giving the go-ahead, Salazar outlined a few tweaks to incorporate the concerns of those who have opposed the project. The project will be reduced in scope from the original 170 turbines p ...
• Japan's Solar Spacecraft Ready to Launch
  Japan's solar sail-powered "space yacht" is all set to launch on May 18.  Ikaros (Interplanetary Kite-Craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun) will be the first spacecraft of its kind to attempt to reach deep space. The craft's 46-foot sails, outfitted with ultra-thin solar cells, will be steere ...

Buzzflash

• The GOP's Paradox, But Progressivism Has One Too
  Body An acquaintance of mine, who rarely discusses or any longer even thinks about politics, mostly out of resigned disgust with its accelerating stridency, asked me over the weekend: "Is he really that naive?" He, being Gov. Charlie Crist, and the matter of naivete being his string o ...
• Jim Hightower of George W. Bush: "If Ignorance eve ...
  MICHAEL WINSHIP FOR BUZZFLASH I first became aware of Jim Hightower more than 20 years ago, during the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. The Democrats were nominating Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis to run for president against Reagan's vice president, George H.W. Bush, and at the ...
• Racism in Disguise
  Body The rabid group-think that animates much of our current national discourse makes a mockery of the basic principles laid down by our founders. Wild-eyed protesters, irresponsible politicians and vituperative media militants hurl broadsides of destructive rhetoric that defy the spi ...
• If Deepwater Horizon is This Generation's Exxon Va ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Government officials have darkly predicted that the sunken Deepwater Horizon oil rig -- still spilling toxic fuel into the Gulf of Mexico as I write this -- may indeed surpass the Exxon Valdez disaster as the "most significant" oil spill in U.S. history .As ...
• Something Arizona Gov. Brewer Didn’t Consider When ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH There’s clearly going to be plenty of fallout ( This fact is undeniably clear ) The Grand Canyon’s so mad it just announced It’s moving to Colorado next year. read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Blog news
  I'm taking the next week off and will return here on Monday, May 10.� Sadly, I'm not taking a traveling/disappearing vacation, but mostly a working one:��to finish a long magazine article I've been working on for too long and also, hopefully, to finish my slightly overdue book.� As a result, if some ...
• Obama's criticisms of the Warren and Burger courts
  (updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV) Yesterday I wrote about what seemed to be President Obama's fairly stunning disparagement of the Warren and Burger Courts (expressed on the eve of naming Justice Stevens' replacement), as he echoed the classic, decades-old, right-wing ...
• More Obama DOJ attacks on whistle-blowers
  (updated below - Update II) In February, 2008, the Bush DOJ issued a subpoena to The New York Times ' James Risen, demanding the identity of his source(s) for one chapter in Risen's best-selling book, State of War .� The chapter in question described a painfully inept and counter-produc ...
• Obama speaks about the Supreme Court
  President Obama gave an interview last night aboard Air Force One in which he was asked about his views of the Supreme Court, and this is what he said: It used to be that the notion of an activist judge was somebody who ignored the will of Congress, ignored democratic processes, and tried t ...
• White House reporters afraid to criticize the Whit ...
  (updated below) Politico 's�Josh Gerstein and Patrick Gavin have a long article describing the growing anger of the White�House press corps towards the Obama White�House.� Many of the grievances are petty, though some are serious and substantive�(involving lack of transparency and media ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• April Alchemist Arrives
  The Alchemist travels back billions of years to the dawn of life this week to learn how aspartic acid may be the crystal Eve, the mother of all chirality while heading back to the future also discovers how biology and nanotechnology might be fused to produce new metamaterials for a range of medical ...
• Nuclear reactors and soft X-rays
  Science links for this week, including my latest news in Materials Today Self-powered sensors: Biomaterials – Piezoelectric arrays could provide the power for a lab-on-a-chip device Pushing droplets around: Surface science – Pushing droplets around a surface A safe reaction: Nuclear – Self-healing ...
• Lifelong learning online is about connecting peopl ...
  Individuals now have the autonomy to make their own learning choices and in recent years there has been an emphasis on the “self made learner”, especially in adult education and ongoing professional development. As such, online communities and other so-called web 2.0 tools have come to the fore as p ...
• Hubble enhanced, open science, and bogus research
  These are a few of the science stories that caught my eye this past week: Hubble’s 20th anniversary treat – A stupendous image of a distant region of space, colour enhanced (of course) but amazing nevertheless. Draft White Paper – Researcher identifiers – How about a "SciID", like OpenID or a DOI b ...
• Online students and virtual supervisors
  The numbers of international students taking on graduate degrees is on the increase, partly due to the advent of rapid communication and information tools and partly due to the recognition that globalisation is taking over the world. Hah! Supervisors I’ve spoken to over the years have always seen th ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Oil Spill * Nuclear Weapons Conference and Protest ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) TYSON SLOCUM Slocum is director of Public Citizen's Energy Program. He recently wrote the piece " The Oil Spill ... BP's $485 Million in Fines ." He also wrote the piece " Obama's Drill To Nowhere ." JOSEPH GERSO ...
• Lawsuit Launched to Protect Jaguars and Ocelots Fr ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity Today the Center for Biological Diversity formally notified the predator-control branch of the U.S. read more
• NAPF at the NPT
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is hosting an event at the United Nations in New York City during the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference on Monday, May 3, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. The panel discussion is entitled "From Omnic ...
• Oil Reaches Gulf State’s Shores
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 NRDC In the wake of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and reports that the oil has reached land, Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, issued the following statement: “The administration is correct to suspend any new ...
• EPA Cracks Down on Toxic Air Pollution
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2010 Earthjustice Three years after environmental groups blocked the Bush administration’s attempt to deregulate toxic emissions from industrial incinerators, boilers and process heaters, the Obama administration has proposed strong new replacement rules today. The ne ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Obama's FCC to Abandon Net Neutrality?
  by Megan Tady Is the Obama FCC siding with the largest cable and phone companies, and against Net Neutrality and universal Internet access? The Obama administration has long vowed to protect Net Neutrality and bridge the digital divide, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski picked up this baton wh ...
• The Lowdown from Hightower
  by Michael Winship I first became aware of Jim Hightower more than 20 years ago, during the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. The Democrats were nominating Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis to run for president against Reagan's vice president, George H.W. Bush, and at the time D ...
• Stop Robert Rubin Before He Kills Again
  by Dan Froomkin Robert Rubin is poisoning Washington again. The former Treasury Secretary who presided over the nearly-fatal deregulation of the financial industry -- then made $126 million nearly killing Citigroup -- had been keeping an appropriately low profile in the nation's capital ever sin ...
• The Softer Side of Hate Crime?
  by Michelle Chen When should a teenage killer be viewed with sympathy? The New York Times broached that issue yesterday with a long profile of Jeffrey Conroy, recently convicted in the case of the stabbing death of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero .read more
• The Winds of Change
  by Derrick Z. Jackson The federal approval of Cape Wind has Gregory Watson, the state's senior adviser for clean energy technology, hoping this is a sea change beyond renewable energy. He sees it as a bold attempt to democratize energy. read more

Karl Burkart

• The betacup challenge - eliminate paper cups
  58 billion cups are landfilled each year and Betacup wants to stop it through design.
• Touch-screen floors simulate frozen lake cracking
  The 2010 Haptics Symposium unveiled new virtual reality touch screens that can simulate the look, sound and even sensation of natural elements -- sand, cracking ice, water.
• EPA launches website on oil spill
  The Deepwater Horizon incident is set to surpass the Exxon Valdez spill as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. The EPA, the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security are providing breaking updates and resources online.
• EPA launches 'damage control' website on oil spill
  The Deepwater Horizon is set to surpass the Exxon Valdez spill as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. The EPA, the Coast Guard and Dept. of Homeland Security are now providing breaking updates and resources online.
• Winscape: virtual reality windows are here
  Who needs nature when you can have virtual reality windows that simulate any setting with the flick of an iPhone app.

Water Privatization

• Q & A with congressional District 4 candidates
  Editor's note: Tom McClintock, a Republican from Elk Grove, is running for re-election to his second term representing District 4 in the United States Congress. Running against him is Republican Michael Babich, Democrat Clint Curtis, and Green Party candidate Ben Emery. Michael Babich Why are you ru ...
• Rome New York Mayor James Brown will run for third ...
  ROME Rome Mayor James F. Brown presented his State of the City address at American Alloy Steel on Wednesday night, saying the company is a profound example of keeping both jobs and an industry alive in the city, stabilizing tax rates and being creative.
• Lobbyist quits as adviser to Alberta health panel
  EDMONTON An adviser to the Alberta government on health policy quit her post Monday after it was revealed she was also a lobbyist for a United States drug giant.
• Rome New York Mayor James Brown will run for third ...
  ROME Rome Mayor James F. Brown presented his State of the City address at American Alloy Steel on Wednesday night, saying the company is a profound example of keeping both jobs and an industry alive in the city, stabilizing tax rates and being creative.
• Nathaniel Loewentheil: Amidst the Rocky Andes, Sum ...
  "Aquí estámos," the campesina's voice rang out, more heart than tongue, "Bolivia, la esperanza del mundo." Here we are: Bolivia, the hope of the world....

Guardian

• Balls claims Brown support on tactical voting
  • Labour candidate says Gordon Brown is 'worst PM ever' • David Cameron gears up for all-night campaign • Welsh secretary Peter Hain urges tactical voting • Read Andrew Sparrow's mid-morning summary 11.44am: Republic, the pressure group campaiging for an elected head of state, has said that Nick Wat ...
• Government loses torture case ruling
  Government not allowed to use secret evidence to defend itself against claims by detainees it was complicit in their torture Secret evidence cannot be used in a civil damages claim being brought by six former Guantánamo Bay detainees, the court of appeal ruled today. Binyam Mohamed and other former ...
• Irish flights to reopen after ash alert
  Flights in and out of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland's Outer Hebrides have been suspended after a new volcanic ash plume drifted south. Follow live updates 11.39am: Flights to and from Ireland and Northern Ireland are due to resume at 1pm, but we'd better get used to more disruption in the ...
• NY car bomb suspect arrested
  Faisal Shahzad identified by US customs agents at New York airport is believed to have driven vehicle used in failed attack A US citizen of Pakistani descent who is believed to have driven the four-wheel drive vehicle used in the failed car bomb attack in Times Square, New York, was arrested overnig ...
• Turbine Hall: the artists' stories
  It started with Louise Bourgeois's giant sculpture. Since then, Tate Modern's Turbine Hall has been filled with a succession of spectacular slides, sunsets and visions of the apocalypse. As the gallery turns 10, we talk to the artists who took on the commission of a lifetime Since it began in 2000, ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Gulf oil spill may be a real tourism k ...
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• Commentary: Soft drink tax, like soft drinks, not ...
  It can't be easy being part of Big Beverage these days.
• Despite oil spill, Texas's Perry voices 'full conf ...
  WASHINGTON — Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry weighed in on the Gulf oil spill Monday, telling reporters that he had "full confidence" in British Petroleum and suggested the blowout that led to the spill was "an act of God."
• Change in weather gives crews more time to fight o ...
  GULFPORT, Miss. — Shifting and easing winds on Monday bought time for weather-beaten crews to bottle up and burn off a massive slick of rust-colored crude oil before it fouls fragile marshes and sugary beaches across four Gulf Coast states.
• Clinton, Ahmadinejad spar over Iran's nuclear enri ...
  UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday demanded strong U.N. sanctions against Iran for defying demands to halt its enrichment of uranium after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted there was no "credible proof" that his regime is seeking nuclear weapons.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• The bare facts of biodiversity
  We've known for a couple of years or so that one of the impressive-sounding environmental promises that governments are signed up to - the pledge to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss significantly by 2010 - isn't going to be met. Now, an analysis just published in the journal Science is giving u ...
• Climate party risks losing its guests
  When you're deciding whether to get dolled up and head off to the party, do you stop to ask who else might be going? Few want to risk being seen somewhere where the action is not; most will do what they can to avoid arriving so early as to give the impression that they need the party more than the ...
• Oil stirs troubled waters
  As anyone who's ever dressed a salad in vinaigrette will testify, oil and water just don't mix. That's especially true of crude oil and sea water that supports sea lifeforms from fish to birds to plankton to mammals. So when we discover that 42,000 gallons of oil are leaking daily from a stricken ...
• Ozone's joined-up climate
  Remember the unseemly rush to biofuels ? The sudden impetus from all kinds of bodies including UN institutions, the EU, and governments such as the UK that began about four years ago to ramp up the growing of fuel crops and to adopt liquids made from them as the low-carbon transport panacea? While ...
• Comeback for climate cautions and caveats
  There are many ways in which climate science has moved on since the mid-1990s, the period from date which the oldest e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and featured in the so-called "ClimateGate" affair - and there are quite a few in which many both insi ...

The Wonk Room

• Massachusetts Insurance Regulator Reflects On The ...
  With 21 states suing the federal government over the constitutionality of health care reform and another 15 refusing to participate in the high-risk insurance pools, there is little to suggest that implementation will be any easier than the 15 month battle to pass health care reform. Nobody understa ...
• Medical Interests Spent $876 Billion Lobbying Refo ...
  Roll Call is reporting that medical interests spent “more than $876 million in lobbying expenses during the 15 months beginning in January 2009 and ending in March, when Congress passed the sweeping overhaul” and were “responsible for one out of every five dollars doled out on lobbying during that p ...
• Bunning Calls For ‘Hard Limits’ On Ban ...
  Today, debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-CT) financial regulatory reform bill resumed in the Senate, with votes on amendments scheduled to begin tomorrow. The first amendment on the docket comes from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and strictly stipulates that taxpayer funds can not be used to prop up a fail ...
• Native American Suggests He Was Profiled By Arizon ...
  Since Arizona enacted a set of draconian immigration laws which many claim will “exacerbate racial-profiling,” much of the focus has been on the effect its implementation will have on the state’s Latino population. However, along with being home to almost two million Latinos, Arizona has the second ...
• By Embracing Lieberman’s Don’t Ask, Do ...
  Robert Gates’ strong resistance to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) before the Pentagon working group concludes its full assessment of how changing the policy would affect the military may be a set-back for repeal advocates, but it’s not insurmountable or surprising. Gates has slow-walked the ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Consequences
  Supposedly this big oil-rig explosion thing in the Gulf is a big deal. A major environmental catastrophe . The sane people are currently pointing the blame for it to the relaxation of safety regulations for the US oil industry as negotiated privately between oil-industry sleaze-ball, Vice-President ...
• MY Faith in Humanity Restored
  I've been thinking that the un-fixable stupidity of people like the Blogging Tories makes the idea that people can be reasoned with an utter falsehood. We're doomed by the electoral strength of this solid bloc of morons who can always be counted upon to vote against their own (and our) self-interest ...
• Murray Dobbin on the "National Security" Lie
  From rabble.ca : almost no one has commented on the totally absurd nature of the Harper government's basis for stonewalling. Indeed everyone seems to casually accept the framing of the issue that the government has relied on for months. That framing suggests that documents relating to the detai ...
• With Apologies To Any CF Friends Of Mine ...
  And I've got a few friends and acquaintances. But this Afghanistan nightmare is evidence that the Canadian military is one bent institution. I guess the real story here is that scum rises. That explains the rise and rise of complete imbeciles like Rick Hillier. A childish, stupid man, who believ ...
• Vatican Sex Scandals
  There's a lot happening today. From the rise of Christian-fascism in the USA , to the Obama Administration's simultaneous condemnation of Canada at the Arctic Conference and its request for further Canadian blood to be spilled in Afghanistan . However, I'd like to post a little something regarding ...

Financial Sense Editorials

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

on Government Oversight

• Tell Your Senators to Accept Nothing Less Than Ful ...
  The Senate could be voting as early as tomorrow on an amendment introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would provide a much-needed dose of transparency at the Federal Reserve. The amendment—which has been co-sponsored by over a dozen Senators...
• Would the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Have Been Pre ...
  Today lawmakers answered POGO's call to investigate the role of the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service's (MMS) in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon disaster. As more information surrounding the Deepwater disaster becomes available, POGO and others in the press have raised...
• Results of Independent Audit of Agency Open Govern ...
  Today, a coalition of good government groups (which included POGO) released the results of an independent audit of agency Open Government Plans, the third major milestone for executive branch agencies prescribed in the Open Government Directive. POGO, for its part,...
• Morning Smoke: Senate Investigators Provide Insigh ...
  Senate's Goldman Probe Shows Toxic Magnification by Carrick Mollenkamp and Serena Ng [The Wall Street Journal] Few like Blanche Lincoln's derivatives proposal by Ezra Klein [The Washington Post] JSF - Talking Real Money by Bill Sweetman [Ares] Safety Device Questioned...
• Congressional Oversight at Its Best
  We thought it was important to point out what an exemplary job the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) has been doing. For those who have read POGO's congressional oversight handbook, you may remember that we refer several times to...

Digital Journal

• The 2010 inductees of the Purina Animal Hall of Fa ...
  When we think of heroes, images of brave men and women come to mind but sometimes a hero walks on four paws. On Monday four pet heroes were inducted to the Purina Animal Hall of Fame in Toronto.
• Tamil Canadians vote in global transnational gover ...
  Thousands of Tamil Canadians took part in a worldwide election to choose members for a transnational government but it has been deemed by the Sri Lankan government as illegal.
• Are Toronto area schools going green?
  It is small, practical steps that prepare the children of today to become the environmentally conscious adults of tomorrow. How are Toronto area schools earning their green credibility?
• One in three Canadian moms want to be self-employe ...
  An eBay Canada survey found that 'having it all' is a struggle for Canadian moms with 63 per cent finding it difficult to maintain a work/family balance.
• One in nine Canadian adults have feared or have be ...
  A new report from the Salvation Army shows that about three million people in Canada have either worried about being homeless or lived without shelter.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Massive Flood Displaces Displaced Residents of Nas ...
  Starting in the early hours of May 1st, 2010, Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding areas received the first drops of rain that would soon turn into a storm for the record books. After two days of torrential rains (each day's total surpassed what the region normally receives in rainfall for an en ...
• Money-Hungry For-Profit Colleges Exploit Homeless ...
  For-profit colleges have always seemed a little sleazy to me. With good reason, apparently. In a scathing new  Bloomberg Businessweek exposé , it's revealed that these diploma mills are recruiting students from homeless shelters and welfare agencies. Because they care about the homeless and are comm ...
• HUD Homeless Definition a Work in Progress
  There are two steps to enacting public policy: the legislative formulation and the executive implementation. The polices that impact daily life, whether specifically affecting homelessness or otherwise, are shaped both at the point where a legislative body writes a particular law, and in how (and wh ...
• Homeless and OK With It
  Everyone in the homeless sector wants things to be better for the homeless: more resources, more funding, more help. There is a sub-section of homeless people, though, who don't want to be fixed or changed or mainstreamed. Sometimes they want some degree of support, sometimes they don't want any. T ...
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Formerly Homeless
  The term "homeless" or "homeless individual or homeless person," according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, includes: (1) an individual who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence; and (2) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is — (A) a supervi ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Five thousand one hundred and thirteen
  For the first time, the United States has formally disclosed the current size of its nuclear stockpile–5113 weapons as of 30 September 2009 (Anne Gearan, “U.S. comes clean on size of nuclear stockpile: 5,113,” Associated Press, 3 May 2010). U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed the numbe ...
• Cons, Libs talking about new Afghanistan role?
  The federal Liberals and Conservatives are informally discussing Canada’s role in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the combat mission in Kandahar, the Canadian Press reports (Steev Rennie, “Tories, Grits talking post-2011 role in Afghanistan; combat off the table,” Canadian Press, 2 May 20 ...
• Blackwater trained Canadian troops
  The National Post reported last week that the Department of National Defence has paid the notorious Blackwater security company, now called Xe Services, more than $6 million to train Canadian troops  (Tom Blackwell, “Blackwater trained our troops,” National Post, 27 April 2010): The department sen ...
• Staples on Canada and NATO
  Rideau Institute president Steven Staples discusses the future of NATO, interview published in the Globe and Mail, Monday, March 22, 2010, p. A4 (no online version): Leaving Afghanistan is the right move for Canada, says the president of the Rideau Institute, as he envisions what NATO’s future shou ...
• Byers: Time to resolve Arctic disputes
  Earlier this week, Russia and Norway resolved a 40-year dispute over their boundary in the Barents Sea. Canada should follow this positive Russian-Norwegian precedent, says UBC professor Michael Byers, stop its military posturing, and work to resolve the remaining disputes over Canada’s Arctic bound ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Truth About ClimateGate!
  Brian Sussman, author of the new book, ClimateGate, stops by the show to expose the biggest lie facing our world today – Global Warming. What information is the government hiding from you that proves “going green” isn’t really about the environment, but all about the other green….MONEY! Don’t miss ...
• Wall St Overhaul Bill May Give Internet Control to ...
  May 3, 2010 Reason.com By Nick Gillespie That’s the question Ed Morrissey asks at Hot Air. Commenting on an under-publicized portion of the House version of financial reg legislation that would, in the Wash Post’s summary, “allow the FTC to issue rules on a fast track and permit the agency to impose ...
• Inflation Up 2% In March
  May 3, 2010 Yahoo News By AFP US inflation rose two percent in March compared to the same month a year earlier, according to the consumer price index published on Monday. Click here for the full report.
• New FDA Regulations May Destroy Small Organic Farm ...
  May 3, 2010 SFGate.com By Carolyn Lochhead Small farmers in California who have led a national movement away from industrial agriculture face a looming crackdown on food safety that they say is geared to big corporate farms and will make it harder for them to survive. The small growers, many of whom ...
• States Look To Share Patient Prescription Drug Inf ...
  May 3, 2010 Yahoo News/Associated Press By Greg Risling On his night shift in a busy emergency room, Dr. Jacob Khushigian inevitably finds a few patients more likely to be hunting for drugs than medical attention. The guy who claims he has severe abdominal pain doesn’t grimace when sitting up. A wom ...

Pambazuka News

• Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
  On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
• Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
  The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
• Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
  Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
• Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
  On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
• Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
  Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...

War in Context

• “I call this a Rube Goldberg contraption”
  That’s a description of the Times Square incendiary devise provided by James M Cavanaugh. He spoke to the New York Times and is a former bomb expert with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who investigated car bombs and tracked the Unabomber, Theodore J Kaczynski, and Er ...
• The sadistic logic behind Israel’s siege of Gaza
  The Israeli human rights group, Gisha, has taken the Israeli government to court in an effort to force Israel to reveal information on the import controls through which Gaza is being held under siege. Rules that allow the importation of cinnamon but not coriander might seem arbitrary and it’s unlik ...
• A view of life in Gaza
  In a bloggingheads.tv interview, Robert Wright speaks to Bassam Nasser, who works for the Catholic Relief Services in Gaza. Though Wright’s questions tend to be somewhat uniformed and predictable, Nasser’s responses provide a much richer and more nuanced view of life under siege and Israeli occupati ...
• Is J Street, AIPAC’s Trojan horse for disarming th ...
  After meeting last week with J Street’s executive director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the Jerusalem Post’s Shmuel Rosner mused that J Street may have a complimentary role to the one performed by AIPAC. Maybe as a separate organization with more credibility on the left J Street can help Israel more by way of ...
• Tea partying through history
  At TomDispatch, Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman, put the Tea Party movement in a historical context. [T]he Tea Party movement reminds us that the moral self-righteousness, sense of dispossession, anti-elitism, revanchist patriotism, racial purity, and “Don’t Tread on Me” militancy that were alwa ...

Watts Up With That?

• Scripps plans for saving the planet
  From press release: Scripps researchers outline strategy to limit global warming Fulfilling Copenhagen Accord will require variety of efforts ranging from ‘Herculean’ to the readily actionable, scientists say Image: Fast-action climate change strategies advocated by Ramanathan and Xu that curb … Con ...
• WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #3
  Wikipedia : Traditional Santa Claus Arctic ice extent continues downwards on the trend line started at the end of March, having lost a little over 1,000,000 km2 during April.  If that linear rate continues, the Arctic will be ice free … Continue reading  →
• A multi question poll on Real Climate
  Jeff over at the Air Vent has made up a multi question reader poll that I think pretty well probes the effectiveness of Real Climate and the people who run it. Once the leader in the Climate Blogosphere, they have … Continue reading  →
• “Catastrophic” retreat of glaciers in ...
  I’ve been given a report on glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic that I want to share with readers. There’s some compelling evidence of glacier melting and open water in the Arctic sea in this report that I haven’t … Continue reading  →
• WUWT Radio
  NOTE: I’ve added some additional polls based on early input. I’ve been toying with this idea for a few months. As many of you know, I currently work in radio, having done TV for 25 years. Logically with that background, … Continue reading  →

Dandelion Salad

• “You’ll Pry My Car out of my Cold-Dead ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox May 2, 2010 The scope of the tragedy of the undersea oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is shocking. Please don’t call it a “spill” the gash in our Mother Earth is literally hemorrhaging oily death-bl ...
• Ralph Nader: We have a Corporate Government!
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ [Note: this the longer version of this post: Ralph Nader Rips Obama, Praises Ron Paul + Why Aren’t Corporate Crimes Prosecuted?] by William Hughes photo by Dandelion Salad On April 20, 2010, author and political gadfly Ralph Nader gave a lecture at the Maryland I ...
• Chris Hedges: Violence is our primary form of comm ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1092155 by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 2, 2010 [Note: The Q&A starts at 1 hour in.  Much of this speech is taken from a previous speech he gave, Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (2004; must-see; transcript)] photo by Dandel ...
• Report from the Inferno by Greg Palast
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1092032 by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 1 May, 2010 Palast on BP “The master of disaster”. Report from Anchorage Radio with Shannyn Moore – Listen: Photo of the deepwater horizon taken soon after the explosion in the Gulf. â¨Pr ...
• The death of an American hospital By Jerry Mazza
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com April 30, 2010 As I walk past St. Vincent’s hospital in Greenwich Village on 7th Avenue, it seems to be in its death throes. They are taking down the Emergency Room marquee whose red neon was a beacon to ...

Your New Reality

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  They won't miss us when we're gone. They'll just pick up the tools we leave behind, make use of those that are practical, and discard the rest of our cherished civilisation to be swallowed up, in time, by jungles, deserts and oceans.
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  This was more entertaining, and involving, than most of the action scenes I've seen recently in mega-million dollar movies. Made for almost nothing inside a video game :
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  We Are Told Animals Can't Comprehend Death, Or Mourn Their Own, But What Do You See? The Squirrel Who Stands Guard Over An Injured Friend : The Elephants That Grieve Over Their Dead : The Cat That Won't Leave His Dead Friend's Side : Why do we assume they have 'human emotions'? Why do w ...
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  James Cameron Declares War On "Climate Change Deniers, Ranters, Fearmongers" Extraordinary.
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  President Obama manages to get off a whole bunch of great lines, mostly written for him by staffers of the Daily Show, at the White House Correspondents Dinner : Though Obama's jokes about using Predator drones to protect his daughters from aspiring boyfriends - "you won't even hear them coming" ...

Wired - Science

• Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in ...
  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder by three whole pounds. But Einstein probably won’t hold his place in the Guinness Book of World Records forever, because there ...
• Making Rainclouds With Lasers
  Shooting lasers at the sky can make the germ of a raincloud, a new study shows. In an experiment that smacks of science fiction, scientists used a high-powered laser to squeeze water from air, both indoors and out. The study is among the first to propose a direct test of how quantum entanglement, a ...
• DEET Mosquito Repellent Could Lose Its Bite
  More than half a century after DEET’s invention, scientists still don’t know how the popular mosquito repellent works. Now, using a combination of artificially accelerated evolution and painstaking anatomical observation, researchers have answered a fundamental question about DEET’s mechanisms – a ...
• Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass
  If the weird rules of atomic physics do help birds find their way around the globe — as some scientists suspect — a new study has identified ways of finding out how. The study is among the first to propose a direct test of how quantum entanglement, an effect that inexorably links two electrons in a ...
• Tracked From Space: Gulf Oil Slick Approaches Land
  > The oil slick that resulted from the rig explosion on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico is heading toward the Mississippi Delta and nearby coastline. Some experts are predicting the impact of the oil reaching the marshlands in the area could be bigger than that of the 1989 [...]

Israeli Occupation Archive

• IOA Exclusive Interview – Rashid Khalidi: “Inform ...
  The IOA sat with Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, to discuss US-Israel relations, The Obama Administration's Middle East policies, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• The IOA’s First FUNDRAISER…
  DearIOA readers, We need your support, and we need it now. Your support will enable us to continue, expand, and improve coverage of the Occupation. Please help the IOA by clicking on the Donate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Noam Chomsky: Hopes and Prospects – Copies Signed ...
  Noam Chomsky's support of the IOA knows no bounds... In addition to being an active member of the IOA Advisory Board, Noam agreed to sign copies of his new book Hopes and Prospects which we are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• How Livni escaped arrest in London
  It happened in London last December: Police officers raided a hotel in the British capital to arrest Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes during Operation Cast Lead. Luckily for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• IOA Exclusive Interview – Rashid Khalidi: “Inform ...
  The IOA sat with Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, to discuss US-Israel relations, The Obama Administration's Middle East policies, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Medvedev ready to submit arms reduction pact to pa ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday he is ready to submit the new arms reduction treaty to parliament for ratification in the beginning of May should his counterpart Barack Obama do the same in the United States.
• Moscow Military District dumps all obsolete weapon ...
  All old weapons and military equipment have been removed from the Moscow Military District as part of Russia's transition to a "new-look" Armed Forces, the district commander said
• Indian Navy commissions first indigenous 'stealth' ...
  The Indian Navy on Thursday commissioned the INS Shivalik, the first of three new indigenous stealth frigates, the Defense Ministry said.
• Russian military looks to extend draft age
  A Russian General Staff official suggested on Thursday draft age should be extended to 30 years and remaining deferrals scrapped.
• Russian missile cruiser to make port call in India
  Russia's Moskva missile cruiser will make a port call in the southwestern Indian city of Kochi on Friday, a spokesman for the Russian Navy said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• New NAPHS Annual Survey Tracks Behavioral Treatmen ...
  Behavioral healthcare systems are playing a major role in responding to the needs of the millions of Americans of all ages who experience psychiatric and substance use conditions each year, according to the latest annual survey from the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS).
• Report: U.S. Terror Concentrated in N.Y. City; Bom ...
  Terrorist attacks in the United States, over the past four decades, have centered on New York City, the vast majority of them involving bombs or explosives, says a new report from the University of Maryland-based National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Mary ...
• Standard Heel-Stick Test Ineffective at Screening ...
  A national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center neonatologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist suggests that a screening test routinely performed in newborns is not very good at identifying cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children.
• Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AA ...
  Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), the nation's only family-founded patient education nonprofit organization, will team up with NFL linebacker Chris Draft to kick off the Great American Asthma Challenge - the first-ever national grassroots movement to change asthma care in the U ...
• $10M NIH Grant to Study Health Disparities in Brea ...
  The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $9.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study access to care and health disparities among underserved and minority women with breast cancer in Chicago.

Intel Trends

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Flame Retardants in Our Bodies: Prenatal Exposure ...
  A longitudinal cohort study of more than 150 U.S. children conducted over 7 years associates prenatal exposure to higher concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants with lower scores on tests of neurodevelopment. Click here to read this article
• Fears for Crops as Shock Figures Show Scale of Bee ...
  The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter Click here to read this article
• Gulf of Mexico: From Magnificent Resource to Indus ...
  It would be a wise policy to protect the Gulf, to nurture the health of its ecosytems, to leave it at least as productive as we found it for the next generations. As climate change proceeds apace and population grows, sources of cheap, low-input, top-quality food will be increasingly precious. Click ...
• Agribusiness and Human Rights Groups Pushing for L ...
  Reuters writer Doug Palmer reported yesterday that, "Business and human rights groups urged Congress on Thursday to ease the decades-old embargo on Cuba by passing a bipartisan bill to lift a ban on travel to the communist country and remove certain obstacles to legal farm sales. Click here to read ...
• Big Dairies and Massachusetts Officials Trying to ...
  I'd like to personally thank the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for articulating its food-rights policy. I know, I don't usually have nice things to say about the FDA, but I'm feeling appreciative because the agency has made it so much easier to explain the food-rights struggle to large numbers o ...

fotoFrontera

• Dibujos vectoriales o ilustraciones de amor (39 im ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿A usted le gustan los dibujos o ilustraciones? Si su respuesta ha sido un rotundo sí, le invito a disfrutar de la extraordinaria colección que hoy tenemos para todos ustedes. Son dibujos vectoriales realizados en Adobe ...
• La Guerra de Vietnam (23 imágenes en Blanco y Negr ...
  La Guerra de Vietnam o también conocida como Segunda Guerra de Indochina, terminó el 30 de Abril de 1975. Según datos de organismos internacionales y en conjunto con el gobierno de Hanoi, para 1975, la guerra habría causado la muerte de entre 3,8 y 5,7 millones de personas, la mayoría de ellas... ...
• Las cascadas más famosas del mundo (50 fotografías ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Para variar un poco, tengo para todos ustedes 50 fotografías de las cascadas más famosas del mundo. En el nombre de cada imagen he incluído los datos y la ubicación de las cascadas para que usted pueda obtener más... ...
• Increíble colección de automóviles (21 elementos)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Nuestra serie de imágenes bonitas de autos continúa y aquí tenemos para usted 21 fotografías de estos hermosos vólidos que despiertan suspiros cuando los vemos pasar por la autopista. Son autos de lujo, deportivos,... ...
• Derrama de petróleo Golfo de México Costa de Louis ...
  Desde hace algunos días, la explosión de una plataforma petrolera en el Golfo de México ha estado causando graves problemas al medio ambiente. La situación se considera muy grave y ya se pueden ver los estragos causados hasta en las costas de Louisiana dentro ya, de los Estados Unidos de... Haz ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Bashir’s Increasing International Isolation
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Julian entitled a post last week “The ICC Begins to Fade in Importance in Sudan.”  Julian might want to have a talk with Bashir about that: On the international summit circuit, no one can clear a room more quickly than Sudanâs president, Omar Hassan ...
• The New Republic’s Attack on Human Rights Watch
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein calls me out today for “blogging not a word” about The New Republic’s recent attack on Human Rights Watch’s coverage of Israel.  He also claims that “HRW has not responded” and that “itâs almost as if ‘headquarters’ has sent out word to i ...
• Dutch Navy Re-Take Ship Captured by Pirates
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Fascinating video  of a Dutch Navy strike team recapturing a German vessel that had been captured by Somali pirates. It shows just how dangerous, expensive, and difficult it is to combat piracy.  It looks cool, but frankly, the Somali pirates have the Dutch and everyon ...
• New International Organizations Blog: Eye on IOs
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Professor David Bosco has started a new blog focusing on international organizations, “Eye on IOs.” I like his subtitle — “A blog on the progress and pitfalls of international organizations.”  It reminds me of a chapter I wrote addressing “progress and par ...
• Foreign Law and the SCOTUS Front Door
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson My Volokh Co-Conspirator John Elwood notes the reference to foreign courts, if not precisely law, in Justice Breyer’s comment on closing the SCOTUS main front door to visitors.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Online petition to scrap Emissions Trading Schemes
  Send a signal to the NZ government, and in fact governments everywhere... "SUSPEND THE EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME" PETITION On July 1st National intends to inflict on New Zealand the world's most comprehensive and expensive emissions trading scheme. It will increase...
• Stoat bites Trufflehunter
  Not sure whether to feel good or recoil in horror at the realisation arch global-warmist William 'Stoat" Connolly and I agree on something. I nearly posted on yet more bad science from Hot Topic last week, but in the end...
• Why is Obama looking sheepish?
  CAPTION: "Go on, Barry, tell me you didn't you ol hounddog..." A Tiger, a Baker, a scandalstick maker.... You couldn't make it up...but then again maybe you could. Is the Obama cheating scandal with Vera Baker for real? Drudge frontpaged...
• Labour's $100K donation claim
  To read the story, click on the cover...
• NZ Prime Minister under pressure from coalition pa ...
  Act Party leader Rodney Hide has just released an open letter to Prime Minister John Key, calling on him to delay New Zealand's emissions trading scheme, due to start July 1. Hide argues the government's excuses about an obligation to...

Public News Service

• Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law
  Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law Phoenix, AZ – A delegation of Arizona political, faith, human rights, business and labor leaders travels to the nation’s capital today (Tuesday) for a meeting with Justice Department officials, urging them to invalidate Arizona’s tough new immigration ...
• Legal Challenge Announced to AZ Immigration Law
  Legal Challenge Announced to AZ Immigration Law Phoenix, AZ – Arizona's new immigration law is headed for a federal court challenge. The suit being planned will allege that the state law violates the U.S. Constitution. Comments from Thomas Saenz (SIGNS), president of the Mexican-American Legal Defen ...
• Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40 ...
  Founder Remembered as AZ Celebrates Earth Day's 40th Phoenix, AZ – Arizona joins the nation today (Thursday) in marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Former Wisconsin U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded the event as a national teach-in. Comments from Tia (TEE-ah) Nelson, the late senator's daug ...
• Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Fed ...
  Lawmakers Slow to Deal With Threatened Loss of Federal Health Dollars Phoenix, AZ – Arizona lawmakers have yet to restore funding for KidsCare health insurance. The new federal health care law requires the state to maintain its children’s health insurance program, or lose up to 7-billion dollars for ...
• AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challen ...
  AARP National Spelling Bee: Mental Fitness Challenge for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – Discussions about keeping the aging brain in tip-top shape are part of the focus at this year’s AARP National Spelling Bee. Spellers from Arizona and around the country will compete June 18-19 in Wyoming– with entries alr ...

My Care2 Picks

• U.S. and Other Countries Walk Out on Ahmadinejad
  First day of a month-long conference on nuclear proliferation at the UN. as the President began his rant attacking the nuclear powers, the U.S. and other allies got up and walked out. They lasted longer than the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ('rant') Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
• If only AZ was the REAL Problem
  The Arizona law expressing that anger is bigoted, and in a very particular way. The law dovetails seamlessly with the national Take Back America crusade that has attended the rise of Obama and the accelerating demographic shift our first African Pres. Submitted by Shey C. to Society & Culture �| ...
• The Monsanto Story ~ Part One ~ 1901 ~ 1994
  Monsanto from their early days to 1994. Subjects covered include: Agent Orange, PCBs, DDT, chemical accidents, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. Part 2 is in production. This will be centered around genetics. Submitted by Tippers A. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Omar Khadr - Day One in the kangaroo court
  Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights Watch is interviewed as she leaves the courtroom on Day 1 of Obama's first big pretrial for a military commission into the possible terrorist actions of a 15 year old; confessions under torture Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Spill, baby, spill
  Australia last year blowout caused a rig to catch fire spew thousands of gallons into sea ten weeks.Federal U.S. Minerals Management Service faulted work of Halliburton's cement workers | 39 blowouts in Gulf 18 from cementing Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada
  The evidence for Khadr's innocenceFor six years after Canadian Omar Khadr was captured by the American military, the public heard only one story about the events of July 27, 2002 in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ETHIOPIA: In search of "made-to-measure" HIV preve ...
  PlusNews Global | ETHIOPIA: In search of "made-to-measure" HIV prevention | Horn of Africa | Ethiopia | Economy HIV/AIDS (PlusNews) Migration Prevention - PlusNews Urban Risk | Breaking News: "ADDIS... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Arizona law draws widespread indigenous opposition
  Arizona law draws widespread indigenous opposition | Indian Country Today | Archive: "PHOENIX – A controversial new state anti-immigration law has many American Indians alarmed that tribal... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010
  Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010Sane Reading Material for Smart AboriginalsThis Issue:Aboriginal News Group:Brief Thoughts About a "Random American Bombardment"J. B.Gerald:Against the killing of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Shanghai Is Trying to Untangle the Mangled English ...
  Shanghai Is Trying to Untangle the Mangled English of Chinglish - NYTimes.com: SHANGHAI — For English speakers with subpar Chinese skills, daily life in China offers a confounding array of choices.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• S.3217 Restoring American Financial Stability Act: ...
  The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved ________________________ “I guess, Henry Waxman was the only person to discover this close tie between financial reform and dietary supplements.  Who would have imagined such a thing?  Guess that’s why he’s a Senator; he can divin ...
• A news flash for the District of Criminals: It is ...
  We can send troops all over the world to defend other people (only if they have assets we want), to bring democracy to people who don’t want it (after all, look at the example we have set) and appear out of no where when an earthquake occurs on an island. But we can’t defend America from an illegal ...
• What the MSM won’t tell you about about the ranche ...
  As you know, one of our local ranchers, Bob Krentz, an R-CALF member, was murdered in Douglas, AZ, two weeks ago. His funeral is tomorrow. I received three messages from different officers within the Rangers and law enforcement. Yesterday afternoon I talked to another rancher near us who is a friend ...
• GM Alfalfa vs World Health – Update and Judicial P ...
  As we approach what will be a landmark decision for those of us in an agricultural belt whose main crop is alfalfa, I offer this one plea on behalf of reason, before the final verdict is in.
• Food “Safety” Reform and the Covert Continuation o ...
  The take-away message is clear: the US can’t require foreign producers in less developed nations to have a system that is equal to ours; we have to accept their different or lower standards as equivalent to domestic standards. Nevertheless, the legislation will hold domestic producers to higher stan ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Arizona budget cuts hurting water and air agencies ...
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• Not Your Average Gamer: Women Play To Socialize (n ...
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• Rocky Mountaineer celebrates 20 years of Canadian ...
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• Challenges in Replicating Charter School Success ( ...
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• Chicago Sees Spike in Dognappings (msn.com)
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Times Square bomb suspect arrested 'at last second ...
  ShareThis Times Square bomb suspect arrested 'at last second' 04 May 2010 A naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested overnight in the Times Square bombing investigation will appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom Tuesday morning to face formal charges. Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested at JFK ...
• FBI searches NYC car bomb suspect's Conn. home
  ShareThis FBI searches NYC car bomb suspect's Conn. home 04 May 2010 The FBI says it has searched the Connecticut home of a man accused of a driving a car bomb into New York's Times Square over the weekend. FBI special agent in charge Kimberly Mertz said Tuesday that her team executed a search warra ...
• NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan
  ShareThis NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan 04 May 2010 A NATO helicopter has crashed in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan, but the military alliance has denied that anyone was killed in the mishap. The military helicopter went down Monday afternoon, wounding several people onboard. NATO ...
• U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested in Times Squar ...
  ShareThis U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested in Times Square bomb case 04 May 2010 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced early Tuesday that an arrest had been made in the failed Times Square car bombing, saying that Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old American, was taken into custody at John F. K ...
• Obama: 'Massive and potentially unprecedented disa ...
  ShareThis Obama: 'Massive and potentially unprecedented disaster' 02 May 2010 President Obama said today his administration is confronting a "massive and potentially unprecedented disaster" as a major oil slick flows toward five states on the Gulf Coast. After visiting a Coast Guard station in south ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Online petition to scrap Emissions Trading Schemes
  Send a signal to the NZ government, and in fact governments everywhere... � "SUSPEND THE EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME" PETITION On July 1st National intends to inflict on New Zealand the world's most comprehensive and expensive emissions trading scheme. It will increase the cost of power and petrol ...
• Stoat bites Trufflehunter
  Not sure whether to feel good or recoil in horror at the realisation arch global-warmist William 'Stoat" Connolly and I agree on something. I nearly posted on yet more bad science from Hot Topic last week, but in the end...
• Why is Obama looking sheepish?
  CAPTION: "Go on, Barry, tell me you didn't you ol hounddog..." A Tiger, a Baker, a scandalstick maker.... You couldn't make it up...but then again maybe you could. Is the Obama cheating scandal with Vera Baker for real? Drudge frontpaged...
• Labour's $100K donation claim
  To read the story, click on the cover...
• NZ Prime Minister under pressure from coalition pa ...
  Act Party leader Rodney Hide has just released an open letter to Prime Minister John Key, calling on him to delay New Zealand's emissions trading scheme, due to start July 1. Hide argues the government's excuses about an obligation to...

Mondoweiss

• Where Sullivan gets it wrong: there already is a n ...
  John Mearsheimer’s dynamic speech at the Palestine Center in Washington, D.C. continues to make waves on the blogosphere. Andrew Sullivan notes two responses from Jeffrey Goldberg and Noah Pollak. But I take issue with Sullivan’s critique of Mearsheimer’s speech. Sullivan is an influential writer ...
• The Palestine-Mexico border
  January's revelations about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assisting with the design and installation of yet another border wall around Palestine, this one placed under the ground, is just the latest development in a series of relationships between: North American neoliberalism, U.S. domestic and ...
• Mustafa Barghouti can go on Jon Stewart but he&#82 ...
  Mustafa Barghouti in conversation with Chris Lydon of Brown’s Watson Institute, April 29, 2010. (Remember that Barghouti was on The Daily Show last year). There isn't any place in the world where apartheid is so systematic as it is today in Palestine… You are talking about a situation where we th ...
• Imagine Jimmy Carter doing this
  Didi Remez picks up Ben Caspit from Maariv saying that Ron Lauder is serving as Netanyahu's emissary to Jordan's King Abdullah, who is angry about East Jerusalem's annexation and worried that Israeli rejectionism will lead to another war. Bear in mind, Ron Lauder is an American businessman (my theme ...
• On Berman and projection
  Re Paul Berman's 300-page book about Tariq Ramadan. From Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics: It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is on many counts the projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him. T ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• 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 & ...
• VRM: Autism – Steps To Take Toward Prevention & Re ...
  1) Vitamin D is highly recommended – According to Dr. John Cannell, âAutism is caused from a quantitative, not qualitative, variation in one of the enzymes that metabolize Vitamin D. That is, there are no structural differences in these enzymes in autism, only agenetically determined difference in ...
• VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
  “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Big Guns
  28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly.  Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...
• Battle for Kandahar
  Battle for Kandahar Baghtu Valley 25 April 2010 Afghanistan The counteroffensive has begun.  More accurately, it might be called a counter-counteroffensive.  Close to a decade ago, we beat the Taliban and al Qaeda here.  The Taliban regrew and waged an increasingly successful counteroffensive.  ...
• War above McChrystal's Head
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• A Whisper
  Published: 16 April 2010 By: MAJ JF Sucher, MD A singular sentence in reply to a common, simple question. A whisper from Afghanistan has returned a loud echo from Laconia, New Hampshire, a small town of 12,000 (40,000 in the summer) nestled amongst the glacial lakes in the center of the state. D ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Bicycling Month in Santa Barbara Commences with Cy ...
  Santa Barbara's month-long bicycle celebration, called Cyclemaynia will commence in style with Cycle Chic Fashion Show , this Thursday, May 6. The show will feature bicycles , accessories, and attire appropriate for a bevy of events occurring in the coastal California city, from riding to the fa ...
• Ecotricity's Zero Carbon HQ: If They Can Force the ...
  Image credit: Ecotricity Those lovable trouble makers at wind-energy developer Ecotricity are at it again. Having battled with French nuclear giant EDF over the green Union Jack , and having started an open feud with fellow renewable energy supplier Good Energy , the company is ruffling feather ...
• A Watershed Year for Green Aftercare Business, Nik ...
  Photos: Nikwax Nikwax is an outdoor company who understand it would be silly to soil their own nest. Nikwax make cleaning and proofing products for outdoor clothing and equipment, but who would buy them if the mountains, moors and meadows were degraded and polluted? Nikwax recently released ...
• Pitch a Hemp Tent in the Green Outdoors
  Hemp tent and inner vent. Photos: Green Outdoor There is a enduring urban myth that Levi Strauss made his first jeans from hemp sail cloth, that he'd originally intended to sell as tent fabric to Californian Gold Rush prospectors. Although the company's records were destroyed in the 1906 earthq ...
• Art + Fashion = ISSI's Recycled Handbags
  Image from issiworld : Lothar Gotz Handbags made out of old recycled fire hoses are nothing new at TreeHugger. We have admired Elvis and Kresse's bags for a year now. And the fact that half of their profits go to the Fire Fighters Charity makes them even nicer. But now they have joined u ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• China’s fears over Wa fighting grow
  Large deployment of Chinese troops close to Burma border heightens tension as analysts differ over Beijing's possible role in Burma's internal crisis
• Burma introduces visa on arrival
  Immigration officials warn that notorious blacklist remains in place despite attempts to attract more foreign visitors to the pariah state
• The courage of clandestine video journalists
  Underground reporters from North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe are following in the footsteps of their Burmese counterparts to broadcast state brutality to the world
• Pro-junta Karen militia ‘splits’
  Rumours circulate that Democratic Karen Buddhist Army has suffered a 'vertical split' as junta prepares to launch an offensive in eastern Burma
• $500m ‘still needed’ for cyclone victims
  Two-year anniversary of Burma's worst recorded natural disaster marked with calls by the UN for a massive increase in funding to victims

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Gulf oil slick is a disaster for world climate dea ...
  Offshore oil drilling could become unacceptable, eliminating Barack Obama's bargaining tool with the Republicans, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• General Election 2010: Political parties are green ...
  There is one party that fully endorses the rejectionist case on global warming, says Geoffrey Lean.
• World fails to stop extinction
  World leaders have failed to prevent the extinction of species despite pumping millions of pounds into nature conservation, according to a new study.
• Volcano crisis: Sense vanishes in a puff of ash
  The closure of our airspace casts a highly disturbing light on the way we are governed, says Christopher Booker.
• David Cameron defends his green credentials in lea ...
  Climate change finally made it into the election debate with David Cameron forced to defend his green policies.

National Geographic | Environment

• Bald Eagles May Have to Eat Toxic Seals, Study Say ...
  Eagles on California's Channel Islands are finding fewer of their traditional prey, which may force them to scavenge DDT-laced blubber. California - Channel Island - Bald Eagle - California's Channel Islands - Channel Islands National Park
• Huge Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered Off California
  Seven ancient underwater giants lurk off the Santa Barbara coast, and the biggest is as tall as a six-story building, scientists say.
• New Deadly Fungus Found in U.S., Has Already Kille ...
  The new, hypervirulent fungus strain has already killed six and is spreading in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, a new study says.
• Earth Day at 40: What Good Is It Now?
  After 40 years, outsourced activism is replacing traditional Earth Day activities, and green's gone mainstream, experts say. So what's the point?
• Earth Day at 40: How it Began, Where It's Going
  On its 40th anniversary, the once grassroots Earth Day is now taking root on the Web. But some critics don't like it in any medium.

Jurist - Legal Research

• US military high court hears Abu Ghraib appeal
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces [official website] on Monday heard arguments [Windows Media file; materials] in the appeal of Army Spc. Charles Graner [JURIST news archive], sentenced to 10 years in prison [JURIST report] for abuses committed at the Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST ne ...
• Federal judge grants bail for Michigan militia sus ...
  [JURIST] A federal judge on Monday granted bail for nine individuals accused of crimes committed as part of a "Christian warrior" militia called Hutaree [militia website; CNN backgrounder]. Judge Victoria Roberts of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan [official website] ruled ...
• Oklahoma AG agrees to court order blocking abortio ...
  [JURIST] Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson [official profile] agreed on Monday to delay the implementation of a new state law [HB 2780 text, RTF] requiring women seeking an abortion [JURIST news archive] to consent first to an ultrasound. The Center for Reproductive Rights [advocacy website] ...
• Iraq PM files procedural challenge as recount begi ...
  [JURIST] The coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [official profile, in Arabic; BBC profile] requested Monday that an election court delay a recount of votes from the March 7 parliamentary elections [CEIP backgrounder; JURIST news archive] that began Monday morning, claiming that th ...
• Supreme Court rejects Michigan inmate's habeas pet ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] 6-3 in Renico v. Lett [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that double jeopardy is not violated by a new trial after a state trial court declared a mistrial due to the jury's inability to reach ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• An Arrest In The Times Square Bombing
  NBC News first reported that members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a man named Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen of Pakistani descent, in connection with the bombing attempt in Times Square.� Faisal was arrested by Custom and Border Protection agents at J.F.K. airport, wher ...
• Beating Obesity: Taking The Toys Away; Incentivizi ...
  One of the reasons I'm fairly optimistic that childhood obesity rates can be reduced is that policy entrepreneurs of all types are overflowing with ideas. �Former beverage industry executive Hank Cardello, author of a new book about obesity wants to provide positive encouragement for industries to r ...
• Open Government at Its Finest: FEMA's Mobile App
  Here's the type of mobile application from the federal government that can actually make a difference: m.fema.gov , the new mobile disaster response site from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.� Craig Fugate, FEMA's director, asked the agency's in-house web team to develop it. It's spartan by ...
• Who Would Run Crist's Independent Campaign?
  And other questions come to mind. Gov. Charlie Crist will announce his decision tomorrow at 5:30 pm ET. All signs point to an independent bid, including the noises�emanating�from his inner circle. The location Crist chose -- his home city -- suggests an event that will try to cleanse the slate. If h ...
• The Night Beat: Clues From the VIN; Tuesday Primar ...
  What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. Get it first on Twitter: @marcambinder CBS News reports that investigators consider a Pakistani-American to be a "person of interest" in the Times Square incident. He was traced via forensics; his name is known to terrorism investigators. Here ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Help Oppose Canada's Top Weapons Bazaar! - ...
• [COAT] Haiti Protests! 100s of photos/videos/artic ...
• [COAT] James Bond vs CIDA in Haiti: Voodoo Power & ...
• [COAT] Making a Killing on War! Cancel CANSEC, Can ...
• [COAT] Canada's Arms Exports to Israel: Aiding & A ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Dershowitz’ Climate of Incitement: Pro-Israel Hool ...
  It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post columns and that local Bay Area Jewish pogromists decided shortly thereafter to “party” at Lerner’s home.  They defaced it with the slogans ...
• Reporters Without Borders: IDF ‘Predator of Press ...
  Reporters Without Borders recently announced its annual list of 40 most dangerous violators of the principles of a free press: 40 Predators of Press Freedom.  There were the usual suspects: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Mugabe, the Somali Shabab.  The list also included ...
• If J Street Wants the Political Center, Why Not Jo ...
  The first time I heard Alan Dershowitz lecture Hadar Susskind at the Aipac conference telling him that J Street should join Aipac, I thought it was typical grandstanding by the right-wing pro-Israel huckster (I still think that).  But the longer I think about what he said and J Street’s pronounced ...
• Jeremy Ben Ami: ‘What Does the Left Want from J St ...
  Jeremy Ben Ami did an interview with the Jerusalem Post in which he had the equivalent of Sigmund Freud’s “what does woman want” moment. The reporter also managed to use me as a foil for the whole rather sordid exercise: Some of the groupâs former supporters on the far-left of the American Jewish ...
• Gary Bauer Launches Keep Israel Safe, Attacks Obam ...
  With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scheduled to speak at the UN in the coming days, the pro-Israel warlocks are out in force. The Israel lobby yesterday took out a full page N.Y. Times ad saying that ending U.S. use of foreign oil would stop Iran from getting the bomb. Not to be outdone, the Republican [.. ...

Ode Magazine

• Ode Salon: An evening with Gunter Pauli
  By: EmilyAviles Oh, what a night! Last Tuesday over 130 people - hailing from the Bay Area and beyond - gathered in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center for the first Ode Salon. The event featured Gunter Pauli, author of The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 10 ...
• No Logo: Ten year anniversary
  By: Marco Visscher No Logo is one of the books that has made a big impact on me. I read it ten years ago when I was very excited about all the terrible consequences of globalization. Naomi Klein, a Canadian journalist, wrote a powerful book about how large companie ...
• Peacekeepers
  By: PeaceCorso Russell Simmons, the founder of GlobalGrind.com, wrote an essay in April 16th’s edition of The Huffington Post, where I am also a blogger. Here is the gist of it. “Two weeks ago, I went back to my old neighborhood of Hollis, Queens, to support t ...
• Keep your dreams alive
  By: yourfriends Recently I happened upon a poem that my 14-year-old daughter had written for a school assignment and left on the dining room table. The last line really grabbed me, enough so that I'd like to share it with you: "You need to do what it takes to ...
• Getting vaccines where they're needed the most
  VillageReach helps to deliver essential vaccines to remote areas in developing countries. Photo: VillageReach It is widely known that vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives in poor countries. In some areas, in fact, living conditions are so dire tha ...

OpEd News

• Cyber Racism on College Campuses
  Racism on college campuses these days often spreads through email or via popular social networking sites, such as Facebook. This new medium for racist expression is forcing universities to reconsider what it means to provide a safe space on campus for all students.
• American Tragedy, American Shame, and "Drill, Baby ...
  An acoustic switch system could have avoided the latest offshore drilling tragedy but the Cheney task force recommended against implementing it.
• Rabbi Lernerapos;s Home Attacked by Right-Wing Zio ...
  The attackers used a powerful form of glue to attach posters to his door and around the property of his home attacking Lerner personally, and attacking liberals and progressives as being supporters of terrorism and "Islamo-fascism."
• 33 Billion Dishonest Excuses for War
  If you were to call your congress memberapos;s office at 202-224-3121 and ask them to vote against spending $33 billion to escalate the war in Afghanistan, they would give you one of several common excuses.
• Soldier Committed Violence Against Palestinian Det ...
  Brutal treatment in custody is standard practice

Switchboard

• Illegal Logging in Indonesia: Environmental, Econo ...
  Illegal logging has a huge impact on the loss of tropical forests in the key countries that account for the vast majority of deforestation (as I discussed here ).  These forests are being lost at the rate of two football fields a minute and contribute the same amount of global warming pollut ...
• Tar sands oil undermines green jobs in U.S. and Ca ...
  Today, I’ll be speaking at the Green Jobs, Good Jobs conference in DC.  When we first envisioned the topic for the U.S.-Canada climate policy panel, we did not realize that we would be in the midst of a political impasse over climate legislation in the United States. At that time some months ...
• What BP Oil Catastrophe Legal Damages Could Look L ...
  News reports today state that British Petroleum (BP) is stepping up to the plate and agreeing to clean up the mess it made in the Gulf.  It’s not like BP had any choice. The federal Oil Pollution Act (OPA), enacted after the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, imposes strict liability on parties su ...
• Gotham Gazette: New York's Heating Oil Debate is H ...
  As I've written before here and here , heating oil is a serious pollution problem in New York City - one of the largest local contributors to our fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution problem, checking in at 14 percent of all local PM2.5 emissions. NRDC has been working closely with our ...
• The Other Oil Disaster: Cancer and Canada's Tar Sa ...
  Today I was privileged to be an invited guest�of the community of Fort Chipewyan, Canada. I can't blame you if you've never heard of "Ft. Chip" - after all, there are only 1000 residents, and it's only accessible by plane or boat. But you should hear about it, because what happens there will ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Patterson Summer Reading
  The Patterson School 2010 Summer Reading List has been released: Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek David Kilcullen, Accidental Guerrilla Paul Collier, The Plundered Planet Walter Laqueur, The Last Days of Europe Greg Mortenson, Stones into Schools Stephen Cohen and ...
• Daniel Clowes is not, per his insistence, one of t ...
  The title says “per his insistence,” but it would be more accurate to say “per his repeated insistence,” as he is incapable of writing a book in which he doesn’t distance himself from the poor sods who enjoy genre comics.  His dismissal of such readers almost reaches the point of fetish, as if he t ...
• The absence of blacks is more significant than the ...
  Dennis Prager confuses me.  In an attempt to mitigate the overwhelming whiteness of the tea partiers, Prager argues that “the virtual absence of blacks from tea party rallies cannot possibly reflect anything negative on the black and minority absence, only on the white tea partiers.”  Is he employ ...
• Yoo Tortures Logic Again
  Apparently having run out of human beings, the Philadelphia Inquirer has given a column to John Yoo.   And, if you’re a glass-one-twelfth-full kind of person, you could acknowledge that it’s much better to see Yoo lightly re-writing Manuel Miranda blast faxes than applying his specious arguments t ...
• There Is No Right to be Exempt From Criticism
  As part of her excellent take on the racist email send by a student at Harvard Law School, Jill identifies another excellent example of Sarah Palin’s theory of free speech, i.e. that the First Amendment means that your arguments can’t be criticized. In this case, the argument is that “we should be ...

Desert Research Institute

• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
• The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
  The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.
• Mercury Depletion Events at the Dead Sea
  Researchers characterize atmospheric mercury depletion events at the Dead Sea in Israel and the atmospheric chemistry responsible for these events.
• Storm Peak Lab Contributes Data to Microbe Researc ...
  Using data collected at DRI's Storm Peak Lab, researchers have found that airborne microbial diversity is much greater than expected.
• Cloud Seeding Program Receives Support from SNWA a ...
  Cloud seeding will continue this year in the Tahoe/Truckee River Basin, the Ruby Mountains and with one generator near Tuscarora, Nevada.

Earth Techling

• Home Air Purification Meets Living Plant: The Andr ...
  Not all home green technology takes traditional forms like energy efficient appliances. Andrea, a very unique home air purifier, is one such example as explained by the COO of the company behind it.
• Vodafone To Debut Low Cost Solar Powered Mobile
  Vodafone is preparing to launch a new low cost solar enabled mobile for the United Kingdom that, while lacking many features, offers 20 minutes of talk time for one hour of direct sunlight charging.
• Nifty tLight LED Desktop Lamp Sports Integrated iP ...
  M&C has debuted its new tLight desktop LED light, complete with long lasting light life and the ability to charge iPods, iPhones, notebook computers and a variety of other portable devices.
• Google Drops $38.8 Million To Fund North Dakota Wi ...
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• A Letter to the Editor…
  The following letter to the editor in today’s Williamsport Sun-Gazette has some interesting ideas. Whether or not you agree with any or all of these, it surely will get you considering ways to think out of the box in addressing gas drilling issues. A Gas Drilling Protection Plan-Posted April 29th-le ...
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• EU Electric Car Strategy Calls for Charging Statio ...
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• Soil Production of C02 May Decline As World Warms, ...
  Contradicting earlier studies showing that soil microbes will emit more carbon dioxide as global warming intensifies, new research suggests that these microbes become less efficient over time in a warmer environment and would actually emit less CO2. The research, published in the journal Nature Geos ...
• Whaling Commission Proposal Would Allow Hunting Wi ...
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• Concentrated Solar Technology Receives Major Backi ...
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• NASA Mars Life Disclaimer / But there’s proo ...
  On April 28th last Wednesday, The Sun of the UK, published an article about a NASA source claiming there was evidence for life on Mars (they have since taken it out). However, it didn’t take NASA long to print a disclaimer: A Wednesday article in the U.K.’s “The Sun” newspaper entitled, “NASA: Evide ...
• And now, from the Fortean perspective…
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• Post Obama Speech Meeting At KSC
  On April 15th just this past week, the Obamanator stopped by Kennedy Spaceflight Center to back up his FY2011 vision of changes for NASA. His plan includes an increase to NASA’s budget of $6 billion $omolian$ over a period of 5 years, but it cancels the beleaguered Constellation Program that is long ...
• Proof of Kardashev-Type 3 Civilization?
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Google Puts Millions in Wind Farms

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Investment in the wind farms, built by NextEra Energy Resources, a unit of FPL Group, marks Google's first direct foray into utility-scale renewable energy ...

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Nonprofits find ways to pay for renewable energy

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Using renewable energy grants and credits to defray its costs, it makes money selling power to customers over long-term contracts. ...

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America's first offshore wind farm approved

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- May 04, 2010

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The article focused on how General Electric, a company with a poor environmental record, was getting into the renewable energy business. ...

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PGE, PacifiCorp rank high in national survey of green-power programs

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- May 03, 2010

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By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian Jamie Francis/The OregonianThe mix of renewable-energy sources in PGE's portfolio is dominated by wind. ...

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- May 03, 2010

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The state Department of Ecology has fined Seattle City Light $11000 for spilling 150 gallons of oil to Diablo Lake from the Ross Dam powerhouse. ...

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US Ecology, Inc. Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript

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- May 03, 2010

- May 03, 2010

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Showcasing the beauty of good ecology

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"I always say that good ecology is beautiful," said Jack Pizzo, an ILCA member and landscape contractor based in Leland, Ill. Pizzo has been helping restore ...

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Ecology guides help explain how new water use rules apply in Quilcene-Snow ...

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- May 03, 2010

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OLYMPIA – New water use rules are now in effect for much of Jefferson County, which led the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) to write a series of ...

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Boil-water ban lifted for Boston area

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- May 04, 2010

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston tap water was safe to drink again on Tuesday, three days after a burst water main left 2 million people without drinking water. ...

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Join them in a toast to tap water

Boston Globe

- May 04, 2010

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By Lisa Wangsness In case you have been too busy fighting your neighbors for the last Poland Spring 24-pack to notice, May 2-10 is Drinking Water Week, ...

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How to flush dirty water from your pipes

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- May 04, 2010

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Residents are advised to "flush" their water to clear plumbing of potentially contaminated water. Flushing your household and building water lines includes ...

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Bottled water distributed to Newton residents

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By Caitlin Castello, Town Correspondent As the boil water order extended into its third day Monday, emergency workers gave out bottled water to Newton ...

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