- Recalled children's Tylenol products were knowingl ...
(NaturalNews) The other day I wrote a story about the massive recall by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, of its infants' and children's line of Tylenol products. An FDA inspection report found these drugs to be contaminated with dangerous bacteria (they did not disclo ...
- New research shows grapes reduce risk for heart di ...
(NaturalNews) The millions of Americans with heart disease and type 2 diabetes didn't develop these diseases out of the blue. Their disorders are the result of a cascade of problems including high blood pressure, insulin resistance, abdominal fat and other symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Now Univers ...
- Drug side effects "neglected, restricted, distorte ...
(NaturalNews) New research shows that information on potentially lethal side effects of the blockbuster painkiller Vioxx was "neglected, restricted, distorted and silenced" by pharmaceutical giant Merck, writes London-based physician and author John Briffa in The Epoch Times .Vioxx was first approve ...
- Why Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt is so much better ...
(NaturalNews) If you've been reading NaturalNews for long, you've heard me talk about the importance of switching from processed table salt to a "full spectrum" salt. Table salt -- or "white salt" -- is to real salt as table sugar is to dehydrated cane juice. Both white table salt and white sugar ar ...
- Vitamin and calcium supplements slash breast cance ...
(NaturalNews) It's common for mainstream medical doctors to declare there's no reason to take nutritional supplements. After all, this line of reasoning goes, you are supposedly getting all the nutrition you need from a typical American diet. However, evidence continues to mount disproving this idea ...
- Wired Urges Judge to Unseal Gizmodo Search
Wired.com and other news outlets are asking a California judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit that led to a police raid on the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone. Under California law, the public has a right to see the documents that led San Mateo Co ...
- Bombing Arrest Followed Law Enforcement Slip-Ups a ...
“I was expecting you,” suspected bomber Faisal Shahzad reportedly told the border agents who seized him from his Dubai-bound flight Monday evening. And clearly the suspect should have been expecting agents, given the trail of clues he allegedly left behind and the steps investigators were taking t ...
- Judge Rules Post on Cop-Rating Site is Protected S ...
A federal judge has struck down a Florida law prohibiting the publication of a police officer’s name, phone number or address, calling the statute an unconstitutional restraint on speech. The decision leaves Arizona, Colorado and Washington state with similar laws on the books. Florida authoritie ...
- Craigslist Adult Ads Under Scrutiny — Again
Connecticut’s top law enforcement officer is subpoenaing Craigslist records to determine whether the site is complying with a year-old deal with attorneys general to censor the online bulletin board’s erotic ads. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, is seeking evidence to determine ...
- Groups Call ‘Privacy’ Legislation Orwellian
Privacy groups gave an overwhelming thumbs down Tuesday to proposed legislation by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) that for the first time would mandate the length of time online consumer information could be kept. The proposal would require websites to discard data collected from their users after 1 ...
- History Shows Democrats the Party to Trust on Wall ...
In just a matter of days, the Republican effort to protect predatory Wall Street bankers has gone from the ridiculous to the sublime. Last week, Mitch McConnell endlessly parroted Frank Luntz' " permanent bailout " talking point - the day after meeting with financial executives in New York. Then o ...
- Judge Cornyn's War on the Rule of Law
That Texas Senator John Cornyn joined John McCain in the Republican chorus denouncing the Obama administration for reading Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights is unsurprising. Unsurprising and sadly ironic. After all, from detainee torture and illicit domestic surveillance ...
- Shahzad or Rudolph, U.S Citizens Have Miranda Righ ...
It's official: John McCain is now more addled than Glenn Beck . While the Fox News host insisted to the dismay of his colleagues that Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad "has all the rights under the Constitution," McCain declared that reading Miranda rights to an American citizen is a "seriou ...
- 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 ...
- Did Kent State Have to Happen?
In 1968, Richard Nixon's campaign sabotaged LBJ's peace talks, leading to more Vietnam carnage and Kent State, writes Robert Parry. May 4, 2010
- Fraud: America's New Watchword
Early Christianity was a diverse, dynamic religion, but then evolved into rigid authoritarianism, writes Rev. Howard Bess. April 25, 2010
- Explaining the Plunder and the Crime
Wall Street's financial meltdown inflicted terrible pain on Main Street, but few victims understand the crime, writes Danny Schecter. May 3, 2010
- The Death of a Cynical WPost Editor
Eulogies for ex-Washington Post editorialist Stephen Rosenfeld ignore his readiness to defend pro-U.S. slaughters, says Robert Parry. May 3, 2010
- Does Obama Know the War He's In?
President Obama calls again for political civility in Washington, but there's no reason to think his appeal will work, says Robert Parry. May 2, 2010
- When the regime puts the security apparatus in the ...
Editor's Comment: There appears to be something afoot in Egypt that is unprecedented - something the world should be watching. In the first place, opinion articles like that of Hassan Nafaa (below) in a major Egyptian newspaper like Al Masry Al Youm has never been permitted by the Mubarak regime. ...
- Chilean Author Isabel Allende on Her New Novel “Is ...
// // 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 f ...
- We believe US media are controlled by single unit ...
On his trip to New York to attend the UN nuclear summit Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to RT about nuclear non-proliferation, the Obama Administration, Iran’s representation in the US and other hot issues. [Q] Mr. President, thank you very much for taking the time for sitting with ...
- Corn Syrup Linked to Bee Colony Catastrophe - Worl ...
High-fructose corn syrup is a hot topic in the national debate on diet, with opponents attacking it, as Daniel Engber has suggested, as unhealthy, unnatural and unappetizing, while corn refiners have volleyed back that it’s safe, natural and tasty. Now the food additive has been impli ...
- Paraguay: Controversy Over Troop Deployment - Wor ...
Military troops and extra police are being deployed in northern Paraguay after a state of emergency was declared to crack down on an armed rebel group that calls itself the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP). As part of Operation Py’a Guapy -- "tranquility" in the Guaraní indigenous language -- 3 ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
"Help with his baggage?" So that's what the kids are calling it these days, eh? George Rekers, the evangelical leader and co-founder of the Family Research Council who was caught on camera in the Miami airport traveling with a real, honest-to-Pete male escort is saying that is all it was, he needed ...
- Expose the Trillion-Dollar Secret Giveaway to Bank ...
If Congress does pass a financial reform bill, the surrenders to big-money interests required to get it through are likely to be as vomit-inducing as the ones that distort the health reform bill, if not more so. But not just because the desperately-needed consumer financial protection act is likely ...
- Teabaggers in America: tell us something about the ...
The Washington Post and ABC News conducted a poll April 22nd through the 25th of 1001 adults nationwide on the subject of teabagger sheeple. The margin of error was 3%. Among the results - 2% (yes, that's two percent) of all adults consider themselves "active participants" as teabaggers. And that t ...
- Genuine Liberal Activist Taking On Biggest Freakaz ...
Remember Tom Riner? OK, I admit that the herd of repug freakazoids in the Kentucky General Assembly are hard to tell apart. �But the Baptist Minister from Louisville is a special case. Two years ago he was the one who inserted language into Kentucky's Homeland Security legislation requiring - requir ...
- Is it wrong to feel schadenfreude over this?
Defense contractors have long been thought recessionproof. The economy may suck everywhere else, but there are certain people in the mid-Atlantic who never go wanting. Defense contractors go to the mid-Atlantic for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks - that's where the money is. That is how i ...
- 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 ...
- The Terror Hysteria Continues
Listening to some of the breathless news coverage today on the arrest of Faisal Shahzad you might have thought we had caught Osama Bin Laden and that Shahzad and killed thousands. Only Shepherd Smith of Fox News had the integrity to blow the bullshit whistle: Watch the latest video at FOXNews.com> ...
- Bet Obama And The DNC Didn’t See THIS Coming
I know, that could be any number of different things when it comes to Obama and Co. But in this case, I am referring to this NY Times article, Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races. Holy canoli, I didn’t see it coming, either, though there were some signs. Take for [...]
- More Oil, The Gulf Stream, Liability Caps and Envi ...
Have we created a perfect storm? Don’t get me wrong, I’m an optimist by nature and a firm believer that ingenuity and determination can overcome almost any thing. And as someone geeky enough to enjoy watching the Robot Wars (though I’m not nearly geeky enough to build one), it is hard not to get cau ...
- Bill Maher Thinks the President “Should Get More S ...
One year 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 a Republican [...]
- Women, Education, And Baseball
There is much going on in the US right now, from the oil spill in Louisiana (horrible, devastating, especially to such a sensitive area that has been fighting to come back), the floods in Tennessee, which damaged the Grand Ole Opry, and more importantly, took lives, as well as floods in Kentucky, to ...
- The Origins of Zeus
The myth behind the birth of Zeus, and the mysterious caverns and ancient creatures sworn to protect the divine child against the evil Kronos who devoured his children. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
- The World's Creepiest Taxidermy Art
Welcome to the world of creative taxidermy, where wild creatures are turned into the weirdest forms of art you could ever imagine. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Sikhism: The World's Youngest Major Religion
A short excerpt on the youngest religion in the world! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Three Basic Human Rights
Have you ever considered how different cultures around the world are? What one culture considers a Universal Human right can be very different from another. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- The Mockingbird: Nature's Joker
The Mockingbird is quite an interesting character... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Leonard J. Martin for State Superintendent of Publ ...
There is an alternative to the corporate candidates in the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the upcoming California primary elections. Not just a candidate who isn’t entirely beholden to corporate interests, including the lucrative charter-voucher industry, but a candidate with ...
- Newsweek Axed — The Fruits of Nepotism
Claim: Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham tells Newsweek Staff he’s putting the company up for sale. Donald Graham is the son of former Chairman, the late Katherine Graham. Likely: Graham is shutting it down in 4-5 months unless they find a buyer. (How often do companies just announce ...
- Nativo Lopez: Legalization or No Reelection
Nativo Lopez is the National Director or Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana and the National President Mexican American Political Association (MAPA). He prepared the following English and Spanish versions of this speech for the massive May Day march and rally in Los Angeles. Sadly, the conservatism ...
- US, UK, France, Italy walk out of UN nuclear confe ...
videos live at source. The “emperor has no clothes” fact is that the new face of unlawful global imperialism is the old face of 20th Century imperialists. As critical mass of public recognition builds, this time, the public will reject their loveless and mass-murderous empire-building. The two pap ...
- How many more times do we need to shoot down REAL- ...
At least one more time. Provisions for a national ID card are included in the new Democratic Immigration bill. Not satisfied that we fought against REAL-ID as the answer to terrorism, it’s now being pushed as an answer to illegal immigration. The proposal is called the Real Enforcement with Pract ...
- F. William Engdahl: The "Evil Guys List"? "Free Jo ...
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The "Evil Guys List"? "Free Journalism" in the Service of U.S. Foreign Policy � �F. William Engdahl Source: � Global Research May 5, 2010 An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters san ...
- 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 ...
- "I'm Proud of Torture. It's the American Way!"
By Leslie Harris Despite the wind, rain, and cold in Dallas, dedicated peace and justice activists rallied to hold Karl Rove accountable on Monday for his part in crimes committed by the Bush administration. Without accountability, what will prevent the same things from happening over and over ag ...
- Our Journey to Smile! Join In!
Afghan & international youth peace volunteers say that “Love is How We'll Ask for Peace.” With love, we ask the 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate President Obama to answer the Afghan youth peace message ‘Reconciliation of Civil Hearts’ We are a group of Afghan youth and college students who, together with ...
- Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America
Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America By Ray McGovern The omnipresent World War II-era posters with the words “Loose Lips Sink Ships” served as a warning to members of the U.S. military to take heed lest they divulge information that could tip off the enemy and result in defeat in battle. I believe w ...
- No One Cares
No One Cares By Chris Hedges | Truthdig There are 18 U.S. intelligence agencies on the military and civilian side and 70 percent of their combined budget is outsourced to for-profit corporations who simultaneously work the United States government as well as multinational corporations and foreign g ...
- To the Tea Party: War and Liberty Aren’t Fellow Tr ...
To the Tea Party: War and Liberty Aren’t Fellow Travelers By Ivan Eland | Independent Institute And of course, we have George W. Bush, a big-government conservative, who curiously wins, as Bovard notes, a 57 percent approval rating from the “small government” Tea Partiers. Yet in parallel with hi ...
- Betting site sets odds on BP containment dome
by Jonathan Hiskes From our sports department a press release, we learn that at least one online gambling site is taking bets on whether BP's underwater mega-dome will be successful. BP is attempting an unprecedented engineering feat to deal with the Gulf oil spill: a 100-ton, 40-foot-tall, ...
- Palin bashes ‘foreign’ oil companies w ...
by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - Right-wing darling Sarah Palin, who championed offshore oil drilling in Alaska and then around the county, bashed "foreign" companies Wednesday as the culprits behind the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a message sent via Twitter on Wednesday ...
- Has coal’s strongest defender had a change o ...
by Jonathan Hiskes The elders of the U.S. Senate usually aren't good people to look to for signs of hope and change. But Robert Byrd, the 92-year-old senator from West Virginia, is making some surprising statements lately. After a career as a loyal coal-industry d ...
- BP’s donations to Congress are more worrying ...
by Jonathan Hiskes The Sunlight Foundation reports on the slick of BP money that's already spread far and wide through the American political system. The oil and gas giant is a major campaign contributor, giving more than $6 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years. President O ...
- Gulf oil slick poses danger to springtime animal b ...
by Agence France-Presse NEW ORLEANS, La. -- As spring in the southern United States heralds the arrival of fledgling animal life, conservationists are anxiously watching the spread of a giant oil slick off the coast. More than 600 animal species are threatened by the slick, officials say. "The ...
- Financial Damage Beginning to Seep from Gulf Disas ...
The region's fishing catch is expected to fall by hundreds of millions of pounds, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Freddie Mac Reports Q1 Loss of $6.7 Billion
Today, Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages on the secondary market, and is currently under a Federal Housing Finance Agency conservatorship — reported losses of $6.7 billion in the first quarter. It isn’t quite as bad as it sounds, but it is bad, and a sign of a hou ...
- Jim DeMint Wants to Finish Mexican Border Fence &# ...
The South Carolina Republican announced today that he’s hoping to amend the finance reform bill working its way (slowly) across the Senate floor with a provision requiring the Department of Homeland Security to erect 700 miles of border fence within a year. A similar amendment, also offered by DeMin ...
- Republicans Flesh Out Plan to Dissolve Fannie, Fre ...
For months, Republicans have insisted that Congress should deal with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored enterprises backstopping 90 percent of mortgages, which have received around $125 billion in taxpayer aid — in financial regulatory reform. But their financial regulatory reform ...
- ‘Interrogator #1′ to Testify for Khadr ...
GUANTANAMO BAY — Now that former Army interrogator Damien “The Monster” Corsetti has testified on Omar Khadr’s behalf, he’ll be followed tomorrow morning by the long-awaited testimony of “Interrogator #1,” who apparently will testify to threatening the then-15-year-old detainee with sending him to a ...
- 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
Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
- Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
- Republicans and Teabaggers Finally Embrace Big Gov ...
For more than a year now, we’ve been hearing from Republicans, tea party people and Glenn Beck’s chalkboard about how big government is destroying American liberty and freedom. Much of the shrieking is literally accompanied by the yellow Revolutionary War “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. Every tea party la ...
- Pakistani FM: Attempted NY bombing is reaction to ...
The Nation, May 6, 2010 Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi believes the attempted New York’s Times Square bombing is a reaction to US drones targeting Taliban followers along the Pak-Afghan border. “This is a blow back. This is a reaction. This is retaliation. And you could expect that. Let’s not ...
- High-Tech Death from Above: U.S. Drone Wars Fuel W ...
by Tom Burghardt, Dissident Voice, May 3rd, 2010 As America continues its uncontrolled flight towards disaster, Israeli-style “targeted killings” (assassinations) of alleged militants and unarmed civilians in the “Afpak theatre” are on the rise. With indiscriminate attacks by armed drones soaring si ...
- Hedges: No One Cares
Chris Hedges, TruthDig.com, May 3, 2010 We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee c ...
- 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 [...]
- Thumbing Down on Blankfein
The Wall Street Journal speculated today on the possibility that Blankfein will not make it as Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. See “What-Ifs for Goldman Sachs: Behind Stiff Upper Lip, Some Executives, Alumni Consider Life After Blankfein.” The article runs several trial ballons, one being that L ...
- Swiss Meeting to Debate Global Reform
Switzerland will host a forum of bankers and policymakers next month to discuss strengthening the global monetary system after the financial crisis, the Swiss central bank said on Tuesday. The Swiss National Bank announced in a statement that it would “jointly host a High-Level Conference on the In ...
- Building a New Investment Strategy Model, Comment ...
During recent Congressional testimony, the CEO of Goldman Sachs was asked about how this current charges against Goldman had altered their internal risk management. In essence, how could the situation inform the firm’s “best practices.” Indeed, this is important question for investors who bought the ...
- Building a New Investment Strategy, Comment #2
In 2008, I posted on the blog a description I wrote in 2002 of the Solari model that I developed in 1997, after years and billions of dollars of prototyping described in the story, “Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.” Here it is: “The Solari Model - Total Economic Return”
- Quote du Jour
“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.” ~ Dee Hock Special thanks to Larry Hoffenberg Editor & Publisher of www.bearmarketcentral.com for putting us on to this gem.
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- Wildlife conservation network 'a must'
More space needs to be set aside for wildlife to prosper across the whole countryside and not just in isolated nature reserves, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The charity said protecting endangered wildlife in fragmented "islands" of habitat is not enough to reverse loss ...
- Falconer to do 45-mile charity ride
GMTV presenter Jenni Falconer and her fiance James Midgley will take part in a 45-mile charity bike ride in London in September, it has been revealed. The pair will be taking part in the Palace to Palace fundraise for the Prince's Trust on September 26 along with a number of other celebrities includ ...
- You didn't think the health care crisis was over, ...
Change is in the air, but Americans are still flocking to free health clinics and flying overseas to avail themselves of needed health care. When President Obama signed the Patient’s Affordable Health Care Act into law last march, it ushered in a new era in the U.S. health care system. Critics on th ...
- Plan unveiled for space sector expansion
Industry chiefs have laid out plans to help the next government boost Britain's economy through an expansion of the space sector. A number of policies were laid out in the "space manifesto", published by the ADS, the trade organisation for the aerospace, defence and security sectors. And key industr ...
- Channel 4 reveals film budget boost
Channel 4 is set to increase its film budget as new films involving Danny Boyle, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan edge nearer to completion. Film4, the broadcaster's film financing arm, will enjoy a 20% budget boost from this year, as the amount spent rises to £10 million. Oscar-winning Slumdog Mi ...
- Looking in the mirror tells our future. How has Am ...
Civilization results from the creation of an economic surplus beyond that needed to survive. A society grows stronger by its ability to generate larger surpluses (save rather than consume) and wisely invest that surplus. America handsomely demonstrated that after WII. For example, Eisenhower sta ...
- FM newswire for May 5, interesting articles about ...
Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “The Euro Trap“, Paul Krugman, op-ed in the New York Times, 29 April 2010 — Until they understand the problem, there can be no cure. A look in the mirror:Â “Cases in Plutarchy? The U. ...
- An expert speaks to us about torture
Excerpt from an Interview with Malcolm Nance (an Arabic-speaking counterterrorism expert and a combat veteran with 28 years of operational experience in the Middle East), by Scott Horton, blog of Harper’s, 30 April 2010: Question #5: You previously served as a master instructor in the SERE program, ...
- We know what happened at the Deepwater Horizon rig ...
A follow-up to Sources of reliable information about the Gulf Oil Spill, going from what happened to why it happened. Slowly pieces of the puzzle come to light, as the following excerpts show. (A)  An update on the situation. “On defensive, BP readies dome to contain spill“, New York Times, 3 ...
- Rare earths – a hidden but strategic battleground ...
While the trillion-dollar US military and intelligence apparatus dissipates our wealth fighting lightly armed men in the Middle East, China makes wise and large moves to become a great power. Here we see the modern form of interstate conflict — and insights about the characters America and China. ...
- U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses
Reuters – The United States still has 71 million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine that have not been used, but it is not yet time to throw them out, the federal government said on Monday. States and other providers should hang on to the vaccine and continue to offer them to people until [...]
- Afghan militants attack government buildings
BBC – Nine suicide bombers have been killed along with four bystanders in an attack on government buildings in the Afghan city of Zaranj, officials say. They say the bombers blew themselves up outside the governor’s compound and a gun battle between insurgents and security forces lasted much of the ...
- Repaying Taxpayers With Their Own Cash
New York Times – As we inch closer to a clearer understanding of the products and practices that unleashed the credit crisis of 2008, itâs becoming apparent that those seeking the whole truth are still outnumbered by those aiming to obscure it. This is the case not only on Wall Street [...]
- Study suggests decline in UK fish stocks more seve ...
The Guardian-The UK’s modern fishing fleet must work 17 times harder for the same catch as their sail-powered Victorian counterparts, a study has claimed, suggesting the decline in fish stocks is more profound than previously thought. Records of fish landings dating back to the 1880s showed UK trawl ...
- Barofsky Says Criminal Charges Possible in Alleged ...
Bloomberg – Neil Barofsky was unpacking boxes in December 2008 when the stench of sewage wafted through the hallways at the 168-year-old Main Treasury Building. The space assigned to him as head of the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or SIGTARP, was sho ...
- Isang mabilisang tingin sa ilang pagkakamali ni Ma ...
Isang mabilisang tingin sa ilang pagkakamali ni Mao (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Tagalog) (English) Si Mao Zedong ang pinakadakilang rebolusyonaryo ng nakaraang siglo. Pinangunahan ni Mao ang sangkapat ng daigdig sa pagtatapon ng mga kadena ng imperyalismo, pyudalismo at kapitalismo. “Ang Ts ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- NASA's Robot Diver is Fueled by Ocean Temps
NASA's newest robot can dive and swim for indefinite periods of time because it's powered by an unlimited resource: the ocean's temperatures. The robotic buoy utilizes thermal energy each time it moves from cold deep waters to warm surface waters. The SOLO-TREC diver has been taking 500-meter di ...
- Solar Aero's Bladeless Wind Turbine
A research company in New Hampshire recently announced the patent of their bladeless wind turbine, which is based on a patent issued to Nikola Tesla in 1913. The Fuller Wind Turbine developed by Solar Aero has only one rotating part, the turbine-driveshaft. The entire assembly is contained insid ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Bookmarks for May 4th from 07:56 to 15:23
These are my links for May 4th from 07:56 to 15:23: Interview with Michael Mueller aka @eurogene aka @nutrigenomics – The pros and cons of being a scientist WolframTones ringtones with a scientific twist – Create your own mobile phone ringtones using Wolfram's audio perspective on the computationa ...
- 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 ...
- Hearings Begin in Historic Trial to Erode DOMA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Freedom to Marry Today in Boston, eight married same-sex couples and three widowers, represented by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), will appear in Federal District Court to challenge Section 3 of the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" that imposes ...
- EFF Seeks to Protect Innovation for Social Network ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook's claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of soc ...
- San Diego Butterfly Closer to Endangered Species P ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity As a result of a legal settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that one of Southern California’s rarest butterflies, the Hermes copper , warrants consideration as a ...
- EPA Proposes National Regulations on Coal Ash
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Earthjustice The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans today to regulate coal ash dumps across the country. The announcement comes after months of delay and misleading statements by the power and coal industries and nearly 17 months after a billion ...
- MMS Understated Scale and Impact of Oil Spills in ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Project On Government Oversight More evidence casting doubt on whether the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) has been overseeing offshore drilling with the best interest of taxpayers in mind. In a 2009 response to MMS' proposed five-year plan for oil and gas ...
- The Price of Courage: On Goldstone’s Bar Mitzvah a ...
by Ramzy Baroud In his report on Gaza issued late last year, prominent South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. His language also showed awareness of the fact that the former is an occupying power with most sophisticated weapon arsenal (as reflecting ...
- Loose Lips on Iran Could Sink America
by Ray McGovern The omnipresent World War II-era posters with the words "Loose Lips Sink Ships" served as a warning to members of the U.S. military to take heed lest they divulge information that could tip off the enemy and result in defeat in battle. I believe we need a new poster, because loos ...
- Sweet Athens, Georgia
by Robert C. Koehler “Sing it out, y’all!” read more
- We Need a Road Map to a Coal Free Future
by Stephanie Pistello, Ben Evans, and Jeff Biggers In the wake of the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years, compromise and political machinations this spring have resulted in a regulatory crisis of failure; workplace safety in the mines, including the black lung scandal, has emerged as a national ...
- Fearing Fear Itself
by Robert Dreyfuss Faisal Shahzad, it should be noted, is not a member of the Tea Party. Nor, it appears, is he a "white man in his 40s," as early reports described a possible suspect. What he is, it seems, is a manifestation of the reality that the threat of terrorism has fallen far below the magni ...
- Deep reflections on the ozone story
There'll be a party in the chemistry labs at Cambridge University this Friday. But no-one will turn up with hugely coiffured hair, the champagne will be served warm, and if a fire should break out, there'll be nothing to use on it but old-fashioned water, CO2 and sand. Well... that's how life migh ...
- 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 ...
- Small Problem For States Challenging Health Reform ...
File this one under two more reasons why the constitutional challenges to health care reform are frivolous. Over at Slate, Simon Lazarus and Alan Marrison argue that Virginia, Florida, and the 20 other states that have joined the lawsuits lack standing and can’t get around the Tax Injunction Act, wh ...
- Burr ‘Couldn’t Imagine’ Supporti ...
One of the many devastating results of the Great Recession has been the damage wrought on state budgets, which have led to dramatic cuts in education, including plenty of teacher layoffs. Part of this pain was alleviated by the economic stimulus package passed last year, but the depth and length of ...
- Military Establishes Quasi Anonymous Website To So ...
When the co-chairs of the Pentagon’s DADT âWorking Groupâ testified before Congress, they promised to develop a system of consulting with gay members without inadvertently outing them. âWe envision outreach through social media so that a wide variety of individuals both within the Department o ...
- Sen. Leahy Proposes Amendment To Repeal Anti-Trust ...
en. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a long time supporter of ending the anti-trust exemption enjoyed by insurers, has filed an open amendment “to the pending Wall Street reform legislation” that would bar health insurance issuers or issuers of medical malpractice insurance from engaging in “any form of price ...
- Lee Smith: ‘Linkage’ Is False Because ...
Recent statements from Vice-President Joe Biden, General David Petraeus, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on how how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the perception of U.S. favoritism toward Israel, negatively affect U.S. interests in the Middle East have generated a number of frantic and str ...
- 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 ...
- Do Homelessness Simulations Do Any Good?
I imagine that people who are or have been homeless are somewhat baffled by the idea of a homelessness simulation, in which middle class individuals spend a night on the streets. I've never been homeless, and I still don't get it. The only purpose I can see is reassuring your ego that it's empatheti ...
- Well, Is Homeless Camping Illegal or Not?
Maybe it's the spring thaw, but there have been an awful lot of tent stories lately, both good and bad. First, after an ordinance banning tents in public parks was instituted in Honolulu, homeless campers outsmarted authorities by simply moving their setups to local sidewalks, which is perfectly le ...
- "Injustice Anywhere": The Parallels Between Homele ...
I live in Arizona, which these days is like saying one is from Germany circa 1939 or Mississippi in the 1960s. You're probably familiar with our draconian immigration laws , including the implications for racial profiling, expanded police powers and a general attitude of exclusion and intolerance. W ...
- The Homeless, In Their Own Poetic Words
How many of us who work on the issue of homeless, or who work with homeless people directly, truly know them as well as we would like? If our understanding of their situation is only cursory, how can we be as effective as we need to be? And how can our efforts at getting better acquainted not feel o ...
- The Way to End Homelessness Is So Obvious
According to Arthritis Care & Research, most women who wear high heels suffer from foot pain. Really? I had no idea. As obvious as this finding seems, I find that whenever I hear solutions from homeless advocates about how to prevent and end homelessness, they seem equally obvious. The advocates are ...
- TVO’s The Agenda - After Afghanistan: Peacekeeper ...
TVO's The Agenda - After Afghanistan: Peacekeepers or War makers? Recorded Thursday, April 29 2010. Canada's military role After Afghanistan. Live from the Munk School of Global Affairs.
- Where have all the Blue Berets gone?
A recent discussion on the future role of Canada’s military forces demonstrated once again that some of Canada’s most well known defence and foreign policy experts don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to UN peacekeeping. Four years ago, David Bercuson, Director of the DND-funded Cent ...
- Cannon fires a dud at NPT RevCon
“Canada has managed the extraordinary feat of presenting its opening statement to the NPT Review Conference without any substantive reference to ‘disarmament’ â one of the three foundational pillars of the Treaty,” reports arms control expert Ernie Regehr (”Canadaâs opening statement at NPT: pro ...
- 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 ...
- Blake Sawyer – Royal Velvet
Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Blake Sawyer of Royal Velvet and click here to find out why professional athletes are buying his product in bulk! Blake Sawyer on The Kevin Trudeau Show 05/05/10
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-5-10
Today, Kevin explains why the government is STILL after him and why discrimination laws only apply to certain groups of people. Plus, Blake Sawyer of Royal Velvet stops by to explain exactly how Deer Antler Velvet can act as the fountain of youth and turn back the hands of time! Click here to find o ...
- Ahmadinejad Says Osama Bin Laden is Living in Wash ...
May 5, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk “Rest assured that he’s in Washington. I think there’s a high chance he’s there,” the Iranian leader told ABC television in an interview. Without backing up the claim, the Iranian leader said he had “heard” that bin Laden was in the US capital. “Yes, I did. He’s there. ...
- Big Brother Is Watching You, New York
May 5, 2010 Google.com by Sebastian Smith New York officials say they could stop attacks like the attempted Times Square car bomb by expanding a controversial surveillance system so sensitive that it will pick up even suspicious behavior. New York is already a heavily policed city, with 35,000 offic ...
- Stocks Slide Worldwide
May 5, 2010 Bloomberg.com by Lynn Thomasson and David Merritt The MSCI World Index of stocks erased its 2010 gain, the euro weakened to a 14-month low and Treasuries rallied on concern Europe’s debt crisis is worsening. U.S. equities pared losses on signs of an improving economy. The MSCI gauge of e ...
- 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...
- The Israeli exception
At Foreign Policy in Focus, John Feffer draws attention to the contradiction between Israel’s behavior as a rogue state and the fact that it is about to be granted the privileged status of membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — unless that is, a country such as Tur ...
- Afghanistan: is it time to talk to the Taliban?
In The Guardian, Jonathan Steele writes: Eight years after they were overthrown by US air power, a drumbeat is starting to sound across Afghanistan in favour of talking to the Taliban, the country’s once-hated former rulers. An idea that used to seem absurd, if not defeatist, is coming to be seen a ...
- The myth of Talibanistan
Pepe Escobar’s analysis is interesting as always — though one note of warning: In writing about Baitullah Mehsud I think Escobar is actually referring to Hakimullah Mehsud. Reports that Baitullah was killed last August, have, as far as I’m aware, not been disputed. It was Hakimullah who reemerged th ...
- Drone strikes like “canon fire”
CNN reports: Drone-launched missiles are now hitting lower-level al Qaeda and Taliban personnel, camps, training areas, bomb makers, buildings and other targets in the remote region. “You’ve had an expanded target set for time now, and given the danger these groups pose and their relative inaccess ...
- Drone attacks provoke calls for revenge
In a report on the CIA’s campaign of drone warfare in Pakistan, the Los Angeles Times recounts the stories of some of the civilian victims of the attacks. Many of the boys that Zaman Khan grew up with in the South Waziristan town of Shakai eventually joined the Taliban. He knew they had become mili ...
- Gavin’s sensitive side
Sensitive side (from the NASA Global Climate Change Website) By Rosemary Sullivant, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory A little extra carbon dioxide in the air may, unfortunately, go further towards warming Earth than previously thought. A team of British and U.S. … Continue reading →
- UAH global temperature anomaly, a bit cooler in Ap ...
APRIL 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.50 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global-average lower tropospheric temperature continues warm: +0.50 deg. C for April, 2010, although it is 0.15 deg. C cooler than last month. The linear trend since … Continue reading →
- New paper: Tropical cyclone response to solar UV
Daily tropical cyclone intensity response to solar ultraviolet radiation J. B. Elsner, T. H. Jagger, and R. E. Hodges GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 37, L09701, doi:10.1029/2010GL043091, 2010 Abstract: An inverse relationship between hurricane activity over the Caribbean and the number … Continu ...
- Sun’s magnetics coming alive again
When I last looked at the Ap geomagnetic index back in January, it looked pretty grim. Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low â only âzeroâ could be lower â in a month when sunspots became more active Now with the release … Continue reading →
- AGW to reach…”The Edge of Wetness̶ ...
Johnny Carson of the Tonight Show used to do a schtick called “The Edge of Wetness” which was a parody of a soap opera called “The Edge of Night“ It was he first thing that went through my mind after … Continue reading →
- Here Come Those Chickens Again by Cindy Sheehan
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox May 6, 2010 “Chickens Coming Home to Roost:” Proverb: When one has to face the consequences of mistakes or bad deeds. As soon as I heard that Pakistani-American, Faisal Shahzad, was arrested for the ...
- Greg Palast: How The IMF Set-Up Iceland & Greece + ...
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1093202 with Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 6 May, 2010 TheAlexJonesChannel May 04, 2010 — Alex talks with New York Times-bestselling author and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspape ...
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Speech at the United N ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Updated: added full transcript below the videos by President Ahmadinejad United Nations May 3, 2010 President Ahmadinejad’s speech at the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons conference [...] Wars, aggressions and above all the shadow of threat and stockpiling of ...
- The Lady Doth Protest Too Much By Ed Ciaccio
by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer May 3, 2010 This week, the UN is meeting in New York City to review the progress of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. A Telegraph/UK article titled “US to Unveil Size of Nuclear Stockpile” and posted today on CommonDreams.org states: Arms-control gr ...
- The Drone Bomber by Cindy Sheehan
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox May 3, 2010 Jeez—hasn’t the world suffered enough at the “antics” of the Robber Class at the annual White House Correspondent’s dinner? I mean, crap, we have been “treated” to George Bush looking fo ...
- Toxic Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Despite Better A ...
British Petroleum and government disaster-relief agencies are using a toxic chemical to disperse oil in the Gulf of Mexico, even though a better alternative appears to be available. As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spreads, BP and the U.S. Coast Guard have conducted tests with Corexit 9500, a ch ...
- Brain Scan Evidence Rejected by Brooklyn Court
A judge in Brooklyn ruled to exclude fMRI evidence in an employer-retaliation case, delivering another blow to proponents of lie detection by brain scan. The scans didn’t even make it to the hearing that normally is used to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence in New York state court. ...
- Linux vs. Genome in Network Challenge
A comparison of the networks formed by genetic code and the Linux operating system has given insight into the fundamental differences between biological and computational programming. The shapes are very dissimilar, reflecting the evolutionary parameters of each process. Biology is driven by random ...
- Gulf Coast May Be Permanently Changed by Oil Spill
If a desperate, last-ditch attempt to cap the Deepwater Horizon wellhead succeeds in coming days, environmental damage to the Gulf of Mexico will still be severe but probably not long-lasting. But if the cap fails, and months pass before a diversionary well can be drilled, the Gulf may be profoundl ...
- Designers Want to Improve Your Health With These S ...
> SAN FRANCISCO — Most people see health as the output of a few different inputs like food, exercise and medicine. But how good your body and mind feel is mediated by the objects that surround you, too. In a new design studio at the California College of the Arts, inst ...
- Huge International BBC Poll has Israel 19% Favorab ...
Survey conducted in 28 countries on 29,000 respondents reveals that only Iran, Pakistan, North Korea have more negative perception than Israel. Most ‘loved’ country is Germany. ‘Obama effect’ has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
- Gideon Levy: The friend
There are not many Jews like Wiesel, to whom the White House door is open and the president lends an ear. And what does Wiesel do with this golden opportunity? He talks to Obama about postponing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
- 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, ...
- Amira Hass: Like a plane without a pilot
Even if not one more Jewish home is built in the occupied territories (including East Jerusalem), the enormous apparatus of domination continues to operate there with an inner logic of many years’... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- [Israeli] Islamic Movement: Boycott settler goods
The northern branch of the Islamic Movement [in Israel-Palestine] on Wednesday joined Arab states and the Palestinian Authority and called for a boycott of settlement goods. The call was directed at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- 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 ...
- Nuestra fauna (19 fotos de animales muy lindos)
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. En este paquete que pretende rendir un pequeño tributo a nuestra fauna, usted encontrará los siguientes elementos; Osos, Perros, Gatos, Búhos, Zorros, Águilas, Ardillas, Leones, Tigres, Ocelotes, Venados y algo más. Ha ...
- La foto de tu mamita y la tuya en estas imágenes P ...
Estamos a sólo 5 días de celebrar en México, Guatemala, El Salvador y en otros países el Día de las Madres. Por eso mismo, hoy tengo para todos ustedes una carpeta que contiene 6 versiones diferentes de una imagen PNG decorada con hermosos tulipanes, donde usted podrá colocar la foto de su mamita y. ...
- 15 fotografías de motocicletas (varias marcas y mo ...
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Este paquete, contiene 15 fotografías de motocicletas en alta resolución. Usted podrá ver motos Yamaha, Honda, BMW, Victory, Kawasaki, Ducati, Honda, Etc. Son motocicletas en varios colores y modelos. Deportivas,... ...
- Nuevas imágenes fantásticas (37 elementos increíbl ...
Me congratulo al poder ofrecerle a usted una excelente colección con 37 nuevas imágenes fantásticas. Sea testigo de la alta creatividad y descubra esta serie de paisajes increíbles. Un acercamiento directo a la fusión entre la realidad y la ficción.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar. ...
- Los insectos de mi jardín (40 fotos tipo macro)
Si a usted como yo, le gustan las fotografías macro de insectos, le tengo una excelente noticia. El día de hoy, deseo ofrecerle sin ningún costo, un paquete que incluye 40 fotografías de pequeños insectos. Mariposas, Arañas, Libélulas, Catarinas, Caballitos de mar, Hormigas, Escarabajos, Etc. Es... ...
- Can the ICC Prosecutor Investigate Gaza? ICC Pros ...
by Julian Ku Last year, the Palestinian National Authority filed a declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. This declaration is controversial, to say the least, because it could potentially give the ICC jurisdiction over Israeli military forces operating in Gaza ...
- DeGirolami on Banning the Burqa
by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen My colleague Marc DeGirolami has a guest post over at PrawfsBlawg reacting to an op-ed in today’s New York Times by Jean-François Copé, the the majority leader of the French National Assembly, in which Copé defends banning the burqa and the niqab. While Marc se ...
- Trivia Question of the Day
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller What’s the only modern international or internationalized criminal tribunal that either has or had universal jurisdiction?
- Looking for New and Innovative Ways to Implement U ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I hadn’t been aware of this group, Human Rights at Home, which is seeking to “create a national political culture that supports and advocates for human rights.”  In fact, they have some interesting ideas of how to reform U.S. legal infrastructure to implement U.S. inte ...
- Does the Arizona Immigration Law Violate the Inter ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Yes, says Human Rights Watch in this press release. According to HRW, the new (and hotly controversial Arizona law) is in conflict with ICERD. I am troubled by the AZ law and think it is likely preempted by other federal law, but I am baffled as to how the AZ law [.. ...
- A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Rel ...
A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Relief Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is in the top half of states for food hardship — the lack of money to buy food that families need — according to the Food Research and Action Center. Thousands of Arizona letter carriers will try to fix that with their annual one-day fo ...
- Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law
Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law Phoenix, AZ – A delegation of Arizona political, faith, human rights, business and labor leaders travels to the nation’s capital today (Tuesday) for a meeting with Justice Department officials, urging them to invalidate Arizona’s tough new immigration ...
- 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 ...
- Conspiracy Theory
Here's the conspiracy, and it's no theory: years of conscious attempts to break the machine of government in order to ensure a more impediment-free profit process has precipitated this, along with many of the other newsworthy woes which now face this admi Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
- Climate Change in The Gulf of Mexico from the oil ...
Look, at the recent NASA photos. There is a hole in the cloud cover above the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. No clouds mean no evaporation has occurred, which equals no future rain, which means a coming drought. Submitted by Just Carole to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Remember or You Might Choke On It - Global Defores ...
We must remember about global deforestation as an environmental disaster. Find out some of the latest information about the state of our world's forests. Submitted by Emerald Monde to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 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 ...
- Get Smart goes to GTMO
At least one of the videotapes showing Omar's conversations with CSIS agents at GTMO in 2003 was played for the court. Evidence derived from the direct participation of representatives of Canada : Harper government formally requested the U.S. not do so. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
- More than 80 Groups Urge FDA and USDA to Change U. ...
For Immediate release Naomi Starkman Consumers Union nstarkman@gmail.com 917.539.3924-c Position Will Create Problems for American Producers to Label Products GM/GE-Free Upcoming International Codex Meeting to Discuss Food Labeling, May 3 Yonkers, NY—Consumers Union, the nonprofit publishe ...
- 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.
- Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanis ...
ShareThis The Taliban�stimulus, funded by US taxpayers: Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanistan peace plan --Karzai to discuss proposal that also offers reinsertion and jobs to former militants with Obama on US visit 05 May 2010 Top Taliban leaders could be offered exile outside Afghan ...
- Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of ...
ShareThis 'There were clues in Connecticut -- but only to the paranoid.' Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of air force chief 06 May 2010 There were clues in Pakistan but only to the tight handful of [ CIA ] minders who knew what Faisal Shahzad was planning.�What is beyond doubt is tha ...
- CIA to expand drone raids in Pakistan
ShareThis Times Square false flag conveniently provides cover for Obusha's war expansion: CIA to expand drone raids in Pakistan 06 May 2010 The CIA has received authorization to target a wider range of targets in Pakistan with its drone-guided missiles, despite national discontent on growing civilia ...
- Emirates Denies Negligence Over Terror Suspect's D ...
ShareThis Emirates Denies Negligence Over Terror Suspect's Dubai Flight 06 May 2010 Emirates denied negligence over its failure to update a U.S. no-fly list, allowing the suspect in the attempted May 1 car bombing in New York’s Times Square to board a flight to Dubai... Faisal Shahzad was put on the ...
- Countries are risking cyber terrorism, security ex ...
ShareThis Countries are risking cyber terrorism, security expert tells first world summit --Governments that fail to protect computer networks could face devastating attack, says former Pentagon director 05 May 2010 The spectre of crashing power grids, stalled air control towers... and defences left ...
- Olympia mural uses Corrie tragedy to strengthen bo ...
The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural This Saturday there will be a celebration in Rachel Corrie's hometown of Olympia, WA marking the completion of the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural. The project has been a collective effort of Olympia locals, as well as over 150 artists, activists and organization ...
- A ‘historic opportunity at hand’ tonig ...
Anfal Awwad, Benjamin Balthaser, Oliver Burchill, Amal Dalmar and Aaron Dimsdale write in the UCSD newspaper The Guardian about the UCSD divestment resolution that will be voted on tonight: We have a historic opportunity to stop our university from contributing to the violation of human rights. T ...
- Look into the terrifying face of the enemy
Scary, huh? This is Izzet Sahin, founder of a human rights office in the West Bank, arrested by Israel last week as he was passing through the Bethlehem checkpoint--and then taken into Israel. Oh, and he's a Hebrew student. Who's reporting on this in the U.S., beside JVP and Sahin's group IHH, w ...
- Pot calls kettle apartheid
I understand the latest attacks on Richard Goldstone will involve his service as a judge in apartheid days. The Jerusalem Post has picked up an investigation by Yedioth, an assertion that Goldstone condemned blacks to their deaths in Apartheid South Africa. They're desperate. Hasbara folks are on th ...
- Maker of ‘Budrus’ set his sights on ...
I keep saying that the Israel lobby, whose power the lobby itself poo-poos, is a giant tower of Jewish history whose chronicles will fill library shelves one day when it's no longer controversial. Dershowitz, Philip Roth and John Mearsheimer have all written about it. The day approaches. The Jewish ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Sparkling Chair Made of PET and Air, Just Like a W ...
The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don't use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)... so what about air? We have featured a series of inflatable items, such as inflatable solar panels , an inflatable house or glowing inflatable furniture , because ...
- All Bets are Off on the UK Election But Fun and Ga ...
Image from Policy Diffusion Today is Election Day in the U.K. and the race is on. Betting on the election is legal here and the bookies are giving the best odds on the Conservatives winning. No one else is sure what is happening; it will be a dash to the finish, with the great undecided voter ...
- Aqua: Terrific Looking Sustainable + Low-Cost Home ...
Photos: Casa Aqua via TuVerde. Even if green architecture is usually 'good architecture' that can be applied to any construction, it seems the household projects that carry some sort of certification are usually aimed at the high income segment. Perhaps because people with lower income have oth ...
- BP Says 1 of 3 Oil Leaks Is Plugged, 100-Ton Metal ...
Image: Unified command releases new overflight map updated 5 p.m. May 3, 2010. CC. Not Out of the Woods Yet... Late Tuesday night, BP succeeded in plugging one of the three leaks that are spewing vast quantities of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. This was done with the help of underwater remotely o ...
- Lovelock Tells BBC That Mankind Cannot Save Gaia
Image: BBC Lovelock Interview James Lovelock, the scientist who put forth the Gaia Theory, has told the BBC it is too late for us to save the planet. According to Gaia Theory, the entire earth is a single organism, connected and interactive. Only just over a month ago, Lovelock called for autho ...
- France court refuses to extradite Iranian engineer ...
[JURIST] A French appeals court on Monday refused a US extradition request for Iranian engineer Majid Kakavand, accused of illegally exporting electronic equipment to Iran for military use. Kakavand was detained in France in March 2009 after the US government issued a warrant for his arrest. Kakavan ...
- Bosnia war crimes court acquits genocide suspect
[JURIST] The appellate division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website] on Wednesday acquitted [press release; case materials] Serb wartime commander Milos Stupar of genocide [BiH Criminal Code Article 171, PDF] charges in connection with his alleged involvement in killings committ ...
- Argentina lower house passes same-sex marriage bil ...
[JURIST] The Argentine Chamber of Deputies [official website, in Spanish] voted 126-109 Wednesday in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive] in the country. The bill would also give gay couples the right to adopt children [Pagina 12 report, in Spanish], one of the bill's ...
- Sri Lanka parliament eases state of emergency rest ...
[JURIST] The Sri Lankan Parliament [official website] on Wednesday eased certain restrictions under the country's state of emergency laws, which have been in place for most of the last 27 years. Lawmakers voted to extend the state of emergency [Colombo Page report] for another month but reduced some ...
- Dutch prosecutor to appeal Holocaust cartoon rulin ...
[JURIST] The Dutch Public Prosecution Service [official website, in Dutch] announced Tuesday that the public prosecutor for the Utrecht District Court filed an appeal [press release, in Dutch] against the April 22 ruling [JURIST report] acquitting the Arab European League (AEL) of hate speech charge ...
- The Night Beat: Democratic Terror Talking Points, ...
Sen. Joe Lieberman's citizenship stripping bill for terrorists will be dropped tomorrow. His Republican co-sponsor: Scott Brown .� To clarify, that's citizenship-hyphen-stripping. The State Department would decide who gets thrown out of the circle. Breath on this : according to the agency that mon ...
- The Night Beat: And Then There Were 4 in Florida
What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. Read it here first: Then there were FOUR. Billionaire Jeff Greene � will enter FL SEN race tomorrow as a Democrat ... expect a paper statement. Life story: he came from nothing. Self-made man. Created jobs. Made a difference. (He also shorted � ...
- The Night Beat: Tick Tock
What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. Republican Dan Coats , nominated, U.S. Senate from Indiana. (3 of every 5 voters in his primary chose another candidate, though.) Democrat Brad Ellsworth , nominated, U.S. Senate from Indiana. Democrat Lee Fisher , nominated, U.S. Senate from Oh ...
- How Rockefeller's Selling His Cyber Bill
There are six cyber security bills in Congress now, but the one with the biggest chance of making it to the floor first is the Senate Commerce Committee's, authored by Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe. The two want to trademark the developing arena of cyber law in the name of �commerce and industry ...
- Historical Document: The Case Against Shahzad
Here's the criminal complaint, unsealed moments ago. crimcomplaint.pdf
- Shin Bet Nabs Spanish Clown Intent on Damaging Nat ...
Boy, am I glad there’s a Shin Bet around to protect Israel. First, they nab that bitch traitor Anat Kamm who sold the nation’s secrets to Hamas. Then, they send that other spy Uri Blau packing off the London where he belongs. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ll close down that nest of vipers at the ...
- Israeli Secrets Behind Gaza Siege
Several years ago, when Ariel Sharon was prime minister, his main advisor, Dov Weisglass “jokingly” said that Israel’s siege was intended to put Gazans on a diet: âItâs like a meeting with a dietitian. We need to make the Palestinians lose weight, but not to starve to death.â Yes, it was maca ...
- Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner 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 column...
- Dershowitz’ Lies: There He Goes Again
I bet you didn’t know I accused Alan Dershowitz of trying to kill Michael Lerner. Neither did I. But hell, that’s what the Dersh would have you believe in his latest ripping lie-filled yarn at HuffPo. He’s back there for the second time in six days, this time claiming Michael Lerner is trying ...
- ‘Yonatan Shapira, Make Me Babies’
Enough doom and gloom.� Forget about useless proximity talks, hooligan uber-Zionists, rabid settlers, the Israel lobby foaming at the mouth over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.� Instead enjoy some good old-fashioned foot-stomping Israeli pop music.� Oh, damn.� Here I thought I was going to give you some unal ...
- Working proof that art can bring aid
By: VictoriaKlein The world of art has often dabbled in the realm of charitable fundraising. A fresh round-up of modern, visually-creative minds have embraced the power of the internet to make a conscious difference. Seeking to promote “art and social responsi ...
- Where science and religion meet
By: Marco Visscher “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” This is a quote by the 20th-Century anthropologist Ashley Montague, which I saw at the bottom of an email from a friend who’s a scientist. I’ve always ...
- Hope therapy will get us through tough times
How hope therapy can help banish mild mood disorders and boost happiness. Photo: Dusanzidar/ Dreamstime.com Things were going pretty well for Melanie. After struggling with being overweight, she had recently dropped a significant number of pounds. She felt great and looked ...
- Add more good to life
By: humanebeings To many, making choices that do the most good and least harm for all - what we at the Institute for Humane Education call MOGO - “most good” - might seem like “giving up” a lot of things: certain foods and clothes, transportation options, stuff, pe ...
- Changing the story of wealth
By: Selma Normally I wouldn’t be interested in what economists say, but ecomist David Korten has a great story to tell. Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World , recently visited the Netherlands and I found myself inspired by the points he made. Korten s ...
- Oil Found, Anger Fueled, Action For Sure
Today as I sat in a boat in the Gulf, surrounded on all sides by oil-tainted seas, its hard to say what hit me the hardest. Was it the graceful and enigmatic dolphins surfacing through the slick? Or Captain O’Neill pointing out the spots where he fishes for speckled trout, redfish, flounde ...
- Climate change endangers whitebark pine in western ...
Yesterday the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) announced that it has determined whitebark pine – a high elevation pine found throughout much of the western US and Canada – is endangered throughout its Canadian range due to a combination of factors including ...
- The Oil Spill Demonstrates National Security Imper ...
As the oil spreads in the Gulf threatening livelihoods , wildlife and coastal ecosystems , political leaders are recognizing that this event will have major implications for America’s energy future. The stark difference between the Cape Wind project and the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico ar ...
- Q&A PART 2: Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Your Health – ...
I continue today with Part 2 of my Q&A about oil spill health concerns with a look at different groups of people who are at a particular risk to health impacts associated with the oil spill. In my next post, I’ll address health tips for people working on the clean-up. And you can find answe ...
- Arguing the Case: Climate, Energy Independence and ...
Yesterday I spoke on two panels at the annual ITS America conference in Houston. This big event brings together industry and government experts interested in technology and its applications in transportation, meaning everything from toll booths to electronic signage along roads and rails sto ...
- Welcome To My Life, Taboo
Although Brian Leiter beat me to it, this David Bernstein post is such a remarkable piece of work that I can’t resist piling on. Â Â Angry about the possibility that someone might be criticized (with, properly in my view, no other consequences as far as I can tell) for expressing racist views, he p ...
- Authoritarian Who Despises American Constitutional ...
Holy Joe Lieberman, America’s last honest man and second most important arbiter of National Integritude after Bill Bennett. Â (See also here and here and here.) Related posts:Worst American Birthdays, vol. 23 Worst American Birthdays, vol. III The Objectively Great Mitt Romney’s Objectively Great ...
- He’s No Lewis Sorley, But…
Congratulations to George Herring! Vietnam War historian George C. Herring, Alumni Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky, is the 2010 recipient of the Medallion for Intellectual Achievement. The UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement recognizes high intellectual a ...
- Robert Gates Gave a Speech…
I have some thoughts on Gates’ Navy speech over at ID. Related posts:Is Robert Gates the War Nerd? Gates Smacks Down Air Force, Again Gates Foundation Related posts: Is Robert Gates the War Nerd? Gates Smacks Down Air Force, Again Gates Foundation
- The Would-Be Facebook Refugee’s Dilemma
Dan Yoder is leaving Facebook, and implores us to “join him.” He has almost a dozen reasons why. Some of them are even good reasons. He’s not alone. And more and more of us, disenchanted, disenfranchised Facebookers know it. But here’s the rub, Dan. A lot of us can’t just decide to “leave” without ...
- Under Threat in the Gulf, A Refuge Created by Roos ...
Among the natural treasures at risk from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created by Theodore Roosevelt to halt a grave threat to birds in his era — the lucrative trade in plumage. Now, oil from the BP spill is starting to wash up on beaches where Roosevelt ...
- Dozens of Critical Bird Sites in Path of Massive G ...
The American Bird Conservancy says the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will affect bird populations from Canada to South America, with important nesting and migratory stopover sites along the Gulf Coast directly in the path of the spill. The Gulf Coast is a critical region for hundreds of species o ...
- Laser Used to Create Clouds in European Laboratory
Swiss researchers have successfully used laser pulses to create small clouds in the laboratory , a technology they say could possibly be used to create rain on demand. After firing short pulses of infrared laser light into a chamber filled with water-saturated air at -24 degrees C, scientists observ ...
- EU Electric Car Strategy Calls for Charging Statio ...
The European Union has unveiled a strategy to become a world leader in the green vehicle market, including a framework for common standards for electric cars across Europe by 2011 and the development of a network of charging stations continent-wide. Calling this a defining stage for the automotive i ...
- 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 ...
- CGI Tour of Mars: Proof of Life?
Below is a YouTube presentation of a “Google Mars” type tour of the planet Mars depicting vegetation and ancient city blocks. I couldn’t tell anything, but the overhead effects were pretty good. Who ever set this up knew what they were doing, but I’m no expert in CGI or Photoshop. Enjoy. … Intellige ...
- 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…
All week long we’ve looked at different articles with conflicting viewpoints on Hawking’s statements that we should take care in broadcasting our presence to the Universe, because we might attract a powerful interstellar nomadic species that could very well steal our planet and kill us all. Of cours ...
- 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?
Possible proof of another ‘intelligent’ civilization in the Universe? A refutation of the Fermi Paradox? Maybe. There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen an ...
- Cannibal Goths sentenced
Two 20-year-old men, who killed and partially ate a girl, have received long jail sentences. Submitted by Anu S. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Care 2 Member Has Passed Away Lynne (Charlotte) Ka ...
Lynne (Charlotte) Kaiser, 58, of 107 Twin Lakes Drive, North Fond du Lac, died Monday, May 3, 2010, at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital. Submitted by Kristi K. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Blind dog gets a guide dog!
A labrador collie cross called Paris was born without any eyes and handed into a rescue centre as a baby. She was given a home with new owner Lesley, who has another rescue dog called Madison. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Put a Stop to Bear Bile Farming - TAKE ACTION!
Bear bile farming is an alarming practice taking place in China, whereby Asiatic black bears are captured and used to provide bile from their gall bladders. The bile is an found in popular ancient Chinese medicine. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Pitbull attacks reignite debate on Turkish ban aga ...
Two recent cases in which abandoned Pitbulls attacked children have reignited debate about the reason people raise such dogs in Turkey. While some say the law banning the sale of the dog should be stricter, others suggest such dangerous animals should Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
- The Three Hats of the Economist
Observing a local store going bankrupt has made me aware of the three different “hats” an economist wears.
- Interventionism, Immigration, and Nationalism
I was born and raised in Arizona, so I’ve been following with particular interest that state’s recently passed immigration legislation as well as the ensuing public uproar.
- FDA Vetoes Treatment for Fatal Disease
“The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declined to approve a drug from InterMune that would have been the first treatment for a fatal lung disease that afflicts about 100,000 Americans…. The data on the drugâs effectiveness posed a dilemma for both the advisory committee and the F.D.A. itsel ...
- Government to Pay Employers to Cover Early Retiree ...
“Trying to entice employers to keep early retirees on their medical plans, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it will make $5 billion available until the safety net of the new health-care law is in place.” (Washington Post, Wednesday) He sure is free with other people’s money. FEE Timel ...
- Treasury Chief Defends Bank Tax
“Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, urged Congress on Tuesday to impose a 10-year, $90 billion tax on the largest financial institutions to recoup the costs of the 2008 bailouts. But he faced skeptical questions from lawmakers on the structure and purpose of the fee.” (New York Times, Wedn ...
- UGANDA: New Version of Anti-Counterfeiting Bill St ...
KAMPALA, May 6 (IPS) - The Ugandan government’s controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Bill has been amended after civil society organisations campaigned against provisions in the bill that may restrict access to generic medicines, which form the bulk of medicines used in the East African countr ...
- POLITICS: East Timor-Australia Urged to Dialogue O ...
DILI, May 6 (IPS) - The prickly issue of where to pipe and process gas from the Timor Sea between Australia and East Timor must be resolved through open dialogue, say members of civil society in East Timor.
- MIDEAST: West Bankers Made Refugees in Their Own C ...
RAMALLAH, May 6 (IPS) - Several Palestinians have set up a protest tent in no-man’s land in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing into Israel, as they protest their deportation from the Israeli occupied West Bank into Gaza where Hamas authorities have refused them entry.
- AUSTRALIA: For Some Refugees, Not Yet the Land of ...
MELBOURNE, Australia, May 6 (IPS) - After nearly 10 years of living in Australia, Sri Lanka-born Ramesh Fernandez is convinced nothing much has changed for refugees in the land of the ‘fair go’.
- MALAYSIA: Demand Rises for Independent Body to Che ...
KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 (IPS) - Aminulrasyid Amzah was just a normal 15-year-old schoolboy who hung out with friends, watched football and occasionally took his sister’s car for a spin.
- A symphony of science
Words such as “laboratory” and “experiment” conjure up white-coated scientists mixing chemicals to better understand diseases like cancer or environmental challenges like energy consumption. We don’t usually picture a pianist, a playwright, a dancer or an acoustical engineer. When artists experiment ...
- The amazing ‘sensorium suite’ of Dr. Houston
“All the world’s a stage,” William Shakespeare famously wrote. And while Shakespeare’s plays are still performed in premier concert halls and on festival stages, Andrew Houston, an associate professor of drama at the University of Waterloo, is taking his theatre of sound out into the world. “Often, ...
- Butterflies in the boreal
When biologist Jeremy Kerr needs a sentinel to demonstrate the effects of climate change, he looks no further than the eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas). That’s because the eastern tailed blue, like other butterfly species Kerr and his students at the University of Ottawa track, has be ...
- 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 ...
- Facebook Glitch Brings New Privacy Worries
For many users of Facebook, the world's largest social network, it was just the latest in a string of frustrations. On Wednesday, users discovered a glitch that gave them access to supposedly private information in the accounts of their Facebook friends, like chat conversations. Not long before, F ...
- The Surveillance State will not be beaten at the b ...
Polling day has finally arrived in the UK and like the 2008 US elections the favoured buzz word is "change". But when it comes to the surveillance state is anything really likely to change? The media would have us believe that the three main political parties offer us a choice but upon closer inspec ...
- Sickening: Teenage pitch invader is Tasered in fro ...
A teenage prank ended in terror as a police officer pulled a Taser gun and fired 12,000 volts into a pitch invader at a baseball match. Steve Consalvi, 17, had leaped over a fence and ran around the outfield at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, towards the end of the Phillies' game against St Louis ...
- US data-collection bill gets chilly reception
A proposed US congressional bill to regulate the collection of personal data is being almost universally panned, with privacy advocates arguing it's inadequate and pro-business groups saying it goes too far. The draft legislation (PDF) would for the first time impose national standards on how comp ...
- FLASHBACK: "Mind That Hole" - London Bombing Victi ...
"The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's where the bomb was'. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag," he said. Cambridge dancer Bruce Lait has spoken o ...
- Sea of oil
NOAA sums of the efforts to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil carnage: Oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated to 5000 barrels (210,000 gallons) per day from three leaks in damaged piping on the sea floor. This afternoon NOAA tested a new technique to apply dispersants to o ...
- Maple Syrup Revolution podcast 2
- Tell it like it is . . .
APRIL WINCHELL is a bright young woman. Her site has a wonderful piece, "Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit" . No shit, so to speak — and that's the heart of the matter. April explains: If you’ve ever read President Obama’s Dreams From My Father, good for you. I couldn’t get past the f ...
- Omar Khadr's show trial
Skdadl reminds us that Harper sent a wee tepid request to the US government asking that the Khadr kangaroo show trial : "not use as evidence in legal proceedings there any evidence collected at GTMO by Canadian agents and representatives, which the Supreme Court of Canada has said (2008) was collect ...
- Imagine...
... if you will : Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of t ...
- O'Reilly falsely claims Cavuto "stuck up" for Oba ...
Bill O'Reilly falsely claimed that "[Neil] Cavuto actually stuck up for the president during the interview" with former FEMA Director Michael Brown and concluded that the White House's objections to the interview were therefore "phony." In fact, Cavuto made no effort to challenge Brown's conspi ...
- Beck distorts Rogers' comments to suggest he want ...
Glenn Beck distorted remarks by Apollo Alliance co-founder Joel Rogers to suggest that Rogers' "definition of the green economy" is to bring "the economy to a complete halt" by eliminating "every power plant" and stopping "every car in America." In fact, nowhere in the remarks that Beck played ...
- "Los Suns = LOSERS": Conservative media attack Ph ...
Since the NBA's Phoenix Suns announced that they would wear their "Los Suns" jerseys during a May 5 game as a way to honor the Latino community and take a stand against Arizona's newly passed immigration law, conservative media have suggested they are "protesting the American dream" and are "re ...
- Drudge, Fox Nation dubiously suggest DHS is to bla ...
Conservative media have suggested that the Department of Homeland Security is to blame for alleged Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad boarding a plane. However, administration officials have stated the airline failed to review the updated no-fly list after Shahzad's addition, and that sending t ...
- EXCLUSIVE: Claim that alleged bomber is a registe ...
Right-wing media have falsely claimed -- citing no evidence -- that alleged Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat. Media Matters for America has contacted the offices of the registrar in Shahzad's hometowns and confirmed that he is in fact not a registered voter in those t ...
- Rep. Obey to Retire After 41 Years
Washington - Rep. David Obey, the chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he wouldn't seek re-election this year because he was "bone tired" after a 41-year congressional career. "There is a time to stay and a time to go," the sometimes-gruff ...
- Senate Unanimously Approves Legislation Aimed at C ...
The Senate unanimously passed a bill Wednesday aimed at cutting through the bureaucratic red tape that has lead to long delays and backlogs associated with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The bipartisan legislation, "The Faster FOIA�Act,"� was sponsored by Senate Judiciary Charman Patri ...
- The Rules of the Nuclear Game Today
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed in 1968 and came into force in 1970. In May 2010, both diplomats and nongovernmental leaders are gathering at the United Nations in New York for the 40-Year NPT Review Conference - as mandated by the treaty itself - to assess how the various parti ...
- Red State Road Trip 2: Jump Off The World (Video - ...
Mullinville Kansas, a mere speck on the map, is home to the great M.T. Liggett - Kansas' most celebrated outcast. His metal sculptures stretch for miles into the prairie. Free thinking and foul mouthed, M.T. provokes the local inhabitants. "If you can't think for yourself, then jump off the world!". ...
- Primary Season Begins With First Returns
Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina announced the results of their primaries Wednesday, heralding the start of a long and difficult road to Congressional seats in November. read more
- Fishing 17 Times Harder Than 1880s
The UK fishing fleet has to work 17 times harder today than it did in the 1880s to catch the same amount of fish. Researchers from the University of York and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) looked back through UK Government data to analyse the change in fish stocks since 1889. What they found ...
- Countries Ranked on Environmental Impact in New St ...
Many of Earth’s countries have been ranked for their environmental impact in a new study. Led by the University of Adelaide’s Environmental Institute, the study ranks over 170 countries in terms of their environmental impact measured against their total available resources as well as in terms of t ...
- Future Temperatures Could Exceed Human Livability
All the focus on reducing climate change is based on what will happen this century, but what happens the century after if we fail? According to new research findings, reasonable worse-cast scenarios for global warming if rising greenhouse gas emissions are not stamped out immediately could see Eart ...
- 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 ...
- Green Fund Campaign Goes 5-0
Green Fund 5-0 Posted by Trevor Lovell From a ReEnergize Texas press release issued April 26th Earth Week in Texas brought a major victory for student environmentalists. Student bodies at 5 state universities voted in favor of campus “green funds.” The institutions are among some of the state’s ...
- Is the Sky Falling? Fossil Fuel Disaster Strikes S ...
What is happening? Black blood continues to ooze, pump, and explode into the Gulf. B.P., the Coast Guard, and the U.S. military are powerless to stop its wave of utter, incomprehensible destruction. Bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill. 100,000 or 200,000 or 500,000 gallons a day for going-on three we ...
- Texans Don’t Want Texas to Become a Dumping Ground ...
A new poll shows 80% of Texans oppose importing radioactive waste to Texas for storage in Andrews County. Yet a crucial vote on a new rule by non-elected members of a commission could make Texas into the radioactive waste dump for the nation, and perhaps the world. Originally only Texas and two othe ...
- 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 ...
- May 6, 2010
Senate Cap-And-Trade Bill Coming Out Next Week: Boxer (Greenwire) Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are planning to release their climate and energy bill as soon as next week even if they cannot win back their longtime GOP partner, according to a top Senate Democrat. ...
- May 5, 2010
Lieberman: Pushing Climate Bill without Sen. Graham is 'an Open Question' (The Hill) Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he is "open" to advancing the legislation without co-sponsor Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has suspended his support. Execs: 60,000 Barrels is Worst-Case Gulf Scenario ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Vote To Deny A Working Tory Majority
It’s rearguard action time and at best all we get is the lesser of neoliberal evil but as Greece is showing corporate capital plans to attack and refusing to go quietly might mitigate their ambitions. Tory target seats, Grauniad Tactical voting guide, if you are in one, vote for the appropriate part ...
- People Worth Voting For: Caroline Lucas
We need reform of the electoral system and a clean-up of Parliament. But we need to elect MPs who will change Parliament for good now. We need voices of dissent in Parliament – not âYes- men’ (and women) who are âon-message’ the whole time and controlled by party whips. We need voices that are p ...
- Save Bita Ghaedi From Deportation
NB. This is not an endorsement of the PMOI/MEK/MKO who I find reprehensible, but there is no doubt Bita Ghaedi if returned to Iran would be at severe risk of human rights abuse (which makes this attempted deportation against the stated policy of the government, try and act surprised). URGENT: THE UK ...
- 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 ...
- Casual Observation
Some guy named Carlos snapped out of a horrible slump and absolutely crushed a game-winning home run to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks. I think, perhaps, he had a little extra motivation and focus.
- When Did We Become Iraq?
In Iraq what you see on the following video was (and I imagine still is) a common occurrence. But this is not a video from Iraq. Its from the good old heartland of America: This was the work of a Columbia, Missouri SWAT team. They did this all this (pointed automatic weapons at children an ...
- Paid for Pro-Drilling Pieces
I wonder who bankrolls the Washington Examiner? Oh wait, I can answer that. Philip Frederick Anschutz (pronounced ANN-shoots, born 28 December 1939 in Russell, Kansas) is an American entrepreneur. Anschutz bought out his father's drilling company in 1961, and earned large returns in Wyoming. H ...
- Casual Observation
Maybe it's a good thing that no one expects anything from the Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks. When has optimism ever worked out there? Could it be that the breakthrough comes at a totally unsuspected time?
- On Terrorists and U.S. Citizens
I take it personally when people try to kill New Yorkers because I grew up in the Big Apple metro area. It's my city. So, it's a very emotional matter for me when someone tries to light off a car bomb in Times Square. After 9/11, I was really fearful that the follow-up would be a series of very ha ...
- Zombiesat!
The undead really are everywhere at the moment – even up in orbit. Zombiesat is the delightful (and, one assumes, largely unofficial) term for the state of defunct communications satellite Galaxy 15, which has recently stopped responding to control commands, and is now shambling toward the orbits of ...
- An Old Enemy: Fighting Cancer
So how did I go from last month’s topic about geoengineering to cancer treatment? Well, for one, keeping the Earth healthy is a bit like doing the same for humans: harder than you’d think. Systems engineering on a fairly complex level that we don’t entirely understand. This is also a personal [. ...
- The transhuman victory is assured!
Well, possibly not – but Michael Anissimov has a post provocatively titled “Transhumanism Has Already Won”, which argues that most of the central tenets of the movement (if such a fractious meme can fairly be called a movement at all) are already accepted – and in some cases actively desired – by a ...
- Zombiesat!
The undead really are everywhere at the moment – even up in orbit. Zombiesat is the delightful (and, one assumes, largely unofficial) term for the state of defunct communications satellite Galaxy 15, which has recently stopped responding to control commands, and is now shambling toward the orbits of ...
- An Old Enemy: Fighting Cancer
So how did I go from last month’s topic about geoengineering to cancer treatment? Well, for one, keeping the Earth healthy is a bit like doing the same for humans: harder than you’d think. Systems engineering on a fairly complex level that we don’t entirely understand. This is also a personal [. ...
- Psychiatrist Speaks Out on Clinical Rifts
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Professionals in any field are bound to have a host of issues in mind if asked to speak about the ways in which their profession could improve. In some instances, however, such improvements may be especially pressing, and a prominent psychiatrist has proposed that the ...
- EDMR Discussed as Joint Therapy Treatment for PTSD ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, along with obsessive-compulsive disorder, commonly referred to as OCD, are psychological concerns that affect a large number of people around the world, and long-term therapy is often used to address these issues. Emerging as a ...
- Sexual Starvation
By Jill Denton, LMFT, CSAT, CSE, CCS, Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jill and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When is not enough sex too little by far? When we talk about sex addiction, most of us think of someone who is unable to stop being sexual. And mos ...
- Geneen Roth at Spirit Rock on Her Latest Book
By Ondina Nandine Hatvany, MFT, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ondina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The title of Geneen’s latest book, Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, is big and bold. I had to finally meet this woman whose ...
- If You Cope With Emotional Abuse Silently, Irritab ...
By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Body-Mind Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Irritable Bowel Disease makes Penny want to stay home. Penny woke up often through the night with abdominal pain and cramping. During the day she often ...
- Declaration of Clean Energy Independence: We Need ...
Declaration of Clean Energy Independence: We Need a Road Map to a Coal Free Future Huffington Post (blog) Nothing has motivated our commitment for clean energy more than the tragedy of mountaintop-removal and nationwide strip mining in 24 states. ...
- EPA sets May 18 W.Va. hearing on mountaintop remov ...
EPA sets May 18 W.Va. hearing on mountaintop removal permit for planned Spruce ... FOX2now.com EPA has said it plans to veto a previously granted permit for the mountaintop removal operation because valley fills would bury 7 miles of intermittent ... Spruce Mine Veto Hearing Scheduled West Virginia ...
- Time to Step up the Comparisons: Solar and Wind vs ...
RenewableEnergyWorld.com (blog) Time to Step up the Comparisons: Solar and Wind vs. Coal and Oil RenewableEnergyWorld.com (blog) The raw materials involved with creating solar PV panels do not require mountain top removal or drilling into the ocean. Most solar companies responsibly ... and more�� ...
- The swagger behind a mining tragedy - Atlanta Jour ...
WTRF The swagger behind a mining tragedy Atlanta Journal Constitution Mountaintop removal was destroying much of the last wild landscape in the eastern US “ Mountaintop removal ,” by the way, is a terrible misnomer, ... Byrd Rips Into Mining Industry for Putting Coal Above People The Washington Ind ...
- Faith leaders talk climate change - Knoxville News ...
Faith leaders talk climate change Knoxville News Sentinel They talked about issues such as coal, carbon emissions, energy efficiency, mountaintop-removal mining and the possibilities for renewable energy, ... and more��
- M 5.5, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
Thursday, May 6, 2010 11:35:31 UTC Thursday, May 6, 2010 02:35:31 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- M 5.0, Vanuatu
Thursday, May 6, 2010 11:24:29 UTC Thursday, May 6, 2010 10:24:29 PM at epicenter Depth : 66.60 km (41.38 mi)
- M 5.4, Kepulauan Mentawai region, Indonesia
Thursday, May 6, 2010 09:13:09 UTC Thursday, May 6, 2010 04:13:09 PM at epicenter Depth : 31.50 km (19.57 mi)
- M 6.2, offshore Tarapaca, Chile
Thursday, May 6, 2010 02:42:47 UTC Wednesday, May 5, 2010 10:42:47 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.3, near the east coast of the Kamchatka Penins ...
Sunday, May 2, 2010 06:23:23 UTC Sunday, May 2, 2010 07:23:23 PM at epicenter Depth : 33.10 km (20.57 mi)
- A deadly white dust (2)
As western countries have outlawed asbestos, the industry has turned its focus to the developing world. Melody Kemp looks at the challenges facing campaigners for change. In a grainy black and white Chinese-government film, shown to me by a labour activist in Hong Kong, a man walks unsteadily toward ...
- A deadly white dust (1)
Asbestos causes 100,000 deaths each year but its trade in Asia – overseen by a powerful lobby – is still flourishing. Melody Kemp reports. In parts of Asia, carrying 500 grams of one lethal white powder – heroin – can draw a death sentence. But importing 1,000 tonnes of another is both legal and pro ...
- “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 ...
- Wired Urges Judge to Unseal Gizmodo Search
Wired.com and other news outlets are asking a California judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit that led to a police raid on the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone. Under California law, the public has a right to see the documents that led San Mateo Co ...
- Bombing Arrest Followed Law Enforcement Slip-Ups a ...
“I was expecting you,” suspected bomber Faisal Shahzad reportedly told the border agents who seized him from his Dubai-bound flight Monday evening. And clearly the suspect should have been expecting agents, given the trail of clues he allegedly left behind and the steps investigators were taking t ...
- Judge Rules Post on Cop-Rating Site is Protected S ...
A federal judge has struck down a Florida law prohibiting the publication of a police officer’s name, phone number or address, calling the statute an unconstitutional restraint on speech. The decision leaves Arizona, Colorado and Washington state with similar laws on the books. Florida authoritie ...
- Craigslist Adult Ads Under Scrutiny — Again
Connecticut’s top law enforcement officer is subpoenaing Craigslist records to determine whether the site is complying with a year-old deal with attorneys general to censor the online bulletin board’s erotic ads. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, is seeking evidence to determine ...
- Groups Call ‘Privacy’ Legislation Orwellian
Privacy groups gave an overwhelming thumbs down Tuesday to proposed legislation by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) that for the first time would mandate the length of time online consumer information could be kept. The proposal would require websites to discard data collected from their users after 1 ...
- So, what is it about raw milk that makes some peop ...
I received this email bright and early this morning: Hey you scum bag lier and thief (lawyer). Obviously you are funded by the commercial milk industry. You are clueless about raw milk! How many cases of contaminated commercially prepared milk vs raw milk are there? All your "wins" are from com ...
- Listeria Lawsuit Filed in Milk Post Pasteurization ...
A. News of the Outbreak On November 27, 2007, a health department officer in central Massachusetts contacted the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) to report a Listeria infection in an 87-year-old man, later identified as John Powers. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) performed ...
- 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 ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.06.10
Report: Nissan Leaf battery pack costs only �6,000 ($9,000) or $375/kWh! So that's the secret. Japan: still the future - Daihatsu unveiled Chevy Volt-like concept 17 years ago Back to the now ...
- AutoblogGreen for 05.05.10
Environmental group says supporting electric vehicles purchases is a waste of government money Money should go into research, not rebates. Video: Automotive X Prize "moose" tests show Aptera hitting cones ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- BP: Billionaire Polluter
Less than a week after British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and unleashing what could be the worst industrial environmental disaster in U.S. history, the company announced more than $6 billion in profits for the first quarter of ...
- Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Producers File Laws ...
Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman along with producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar are filing a federal lawsuit today that challenges the police crackdown on journalists at the Republican National Convention in 2008. The suit is filed against the Minneapolis and ...
- "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 ...
- 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, [...]
- Full Video: Ahmadinejad speech at UN nuclear confe ...
Here is Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN this week. You can judge for yourself what you think…
- US, with 5,113 Nuclear Warheads, Claims Iran Peace ...
By HANAN AWAREKEH - US nuclear arsenal: A TOTAL OF 5,113 WARHEADS - Israel: SOLE NUCLEAR POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH OVER 200 NUCLEAR HEADS The United States disclosed for the first time on Monday the overall size of its nuclear arsenal, saying it had a total of 5,113 warheads operationally deploy ...
- Al-Qaeda Terror Tape Proven Fraudulent Once Again
Paul Joseph Watson Monday, May 3, 2010 The announcement by New York authorities that there is no evidence to support an apparent claim of responsibility for Saturday’s attempted car bombing by a Pakistani based Taliban group underscores once again how Pentagon front groups are releasing fake and mis ...
- GMO alert: U.S. attempting global censorship of GM ...
By Mike Adams Please understand that the U.S. is attempting to outlaw non-GMO labeling of foods, thereby making it illegal for a non-GMO food product to even claim “non-GMO” on the label. If the U.S. succeeds in this global GMO cover-up, the FDA could seize any products in the USA that make “non-GMO ...
- Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico
Warning: this is a spoof, but it is perfectly believable given how blatantly the Wall Street bankers have been behaving… NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In what is looming as another public relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made “a substantial financi ...
- 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 ...
- US Embassy in Beijing Showcases Energy Efficient D ...
The US Embassy in Beijing, China, designed by Craig Hartman of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, is the State Department’s second largest project in its history. Like the newly unveiled embassy in London, it is intended to respect the host country, American democratic ideals, security, and environmental ...
- Holyoke Cabin is a Beautiful Shipping Container Ho ...
Holyoke Cabin is an excellent example of an elegant, efficient use of shipping containers to create a cozy cabin off the grid. Two used shipping containers, obtained for $800 apiece, serve as the starting point for this quaint prefab residence located outside of Duluth, Minnesota. Read the rest of ...
- Chainless Bike is One Sweet Green Ride
Look Ma – no chain! Christian Vollmer, an industrial designer from Germany, has created an urban electric bike utilizing a pedelec system, meaning it has no need for a chain. Instead, it has a toothed belt which transfers clean power from the engine to the rear wheel. And it looks pretty darn snazzy ...
- Tiny Proba-V Satellite Will Track Global Vegetatio ...
Ever wonder what the shift to a global agricultural system has done to vegetation levels? The European Space Agency plans to find out with Proba-V, a laboratory table-sized microsatellite that can provide an overview of the planet’s vegetation growth on a daily basis. Read the rest of Tiny Proba-V ...
- Sweeping Eco Bridge Provides Access to World-Class ...
Trestles is a famous surf break and beach in Southern California that been threatened by development in recent years. Luckily, the beach has been saved, but it’s still difficult to access — the trail crosses active train tracks and has caused some damage to the local ecosystem. Seeking to provide a ...
- Toxic Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Despite Better A ...
British Petroleum and government disaster-relief agencies are using a toxic chemical to disperse oil in the Gulf of Mexico, even though a better alternative appears to be available. As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spreads, BP and the U.S. Coast Guard have conducted tests with Corexit 9500, a ch ...
- Brain Scan Evidence Rejected by Brooklyn Court
A judge in Brooklyn ruled to exclude fMRI evidence in an employer-retaliation case, delivering another blow to proponents of lie detection by brain scan. The scans didn’t even make it to the hearing that normally is used to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence in New York state court. ...
- Linux vs. Genome in Network Challenge
A comparison of the networks formed by genetic code and the Linux operating system has given insight into the fundamental differences between biological and computational programming. The shapes are very dissimilar, reflecting the evolutionary parameters of each process. Biology is driven by random ...
- Gulf Coast May Be Permanently Changed by Oil Spill
If a desperate, last-ditch attempt to cap the Deepwater Horizon wellhead succeeds in coming days, environmental damage to the Gulf of Mexico will still be severe but probably not long-lasting. But if the cap fails, and months pass before a diversionary well can be drilled, the Gulf may be profoundl ...
- Designers Want to Improve Your Health With These S ...
> SAN FRANCISCO — Most people see health as the output of a few different inputs like food, exercise and medicine. But how good your body and mind feel is mediated by the objects that surround you, too. In a new design studio at the California College of the Arts, inst ...
- Smith: "Linkage" Is False Because Arabs Can’t Be T ...
Recent statements from Vice-President Joe Biden, General David Petraeus , and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on how how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the perception of U.S. favoritism toward Israel, negatively affect U.S. interests in the Middle East have generated a number of frantic and st ...
- Obama Renews Syria Sanctions: Policy on Autopilot?
It didn't come as much of a surprise yesterday when the White House announced it was renewing economic sanctions against Syria. Syria's "continuing support for terrorist organisations and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile programmes, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinar ...
- Eric Cantor and the Death of "Conservative" Republ ...
The vital signs have been ominous for a long while. Hard-line, Cold War-era realist hawks, who once dominated the conservative Republican foreign policy establishment, have been seeing their influence over conservative political leadersrapidly fade in recent years. After Congressman Eric Cantorâs ...
- Off-the-Radar News Roundup
- Taiwan's vice defense minister emphasized that Taiwan will maintain defense capabilities against a potential Chinese attack, after controversial remarks by Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou raised questions about a fundamental shift in Taiwan's defense posture. In an interview with CNN, Ma said," W ...
- Thinking About Terrorism After the Times Square At ...
The most recent terrorist attempt to attack New York on Saturday has got me thinking in the last few days, especially if it turns out to be true that the would-be-car bomber may have been acting in reaction to American drone strikes in Pakistan. This just reinforces for me how serious our lack of st ...
- Lightning Round: Tax Cuts, So Help Me God.
I don't think the conservative movement is quite ready to accept Kevin Williamson 's article in National Review that challenges the wisdom of supply-side economics. The only response to the piece at The Corner was from Veronique de Rugy , who offers the libertarian endorsement ; otherwise, silence ...
- Washington Stands Up to Wall Street.
Tim Fernholz on how financial reform seems to be proceeding apace without undue influence from the banks. Last year, in a landmark essay, economist Simon Johnson observed that the dynamics of the financial crisis made the United States look more like an emerging market economy, with all the rampant ...
- The Magical Miranda Warning.
Following up on Adam's discussion of Joe Lieberman 's proposal to strip American terrorism suspects of their citizenship so as to avoid having to Mirandize them, there's something odd about this -- and I'm not talking about how profoundly un-American it is (sadly, we've gotten used to that). Conserv ...
- Why Corker Is Different.
Ezra Klein caught this amazing Kinsley gaffe from South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune , who is talking about his fellow Republican Sen. Bob Corker : "I think he’s a guy who’s willing to get down into the weeds," said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, who is No. 4 in GOP leadership. "Because he imme ...
- The Little Picture: Tennessee Flood.
The streets of Nashville, Tennessee, are flooded with water following a huge storm over the weekend that flooded parts of Mississippi and Kentucky as well. At least 29 have been reported dead. (Flickr/ presidentraygun )
- UK Election: The MPs Who Care About Human Rights
For anyone wondering how to vote in the General Election today, who may have noticed the resounding silence on the election trail regarding Britain’s commitment to human rights since the 9/11 attacks, I’ve compiled the following list of 149 MPs (out of 650 in total), who have signed up to two import ...
- UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Sec ...
In the Court of Appeal yesterday morning, six former Guantánamo prisoners — Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil El-Banna, Richard Belmar, Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Martin Mubanga — won a resounding victory against the government, when three senior judges, including Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls ...
- How Binyam Mohammed’s Torture Was Revealed in a US ...
Note: This article is one of the last two articles published as part of “Guantánamo Habeas Week” (introduced here, and also see the articles here, here, here and here), which I extended to become “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight.” This project also includes an interactive list of all 47 rulings to date ...
- 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 ...
- Connecticut State Capitol Police Dumps Cold Water ...
The Connecticut State Capitol Police reverses their previous decision and revokes the Tea Party's flag raising ceremony when they figured out it was nothing more than a political pity party stunt from a bunch of fringe wingnuts: Tea Party activists won't be permitted to fly the Gadsden Flag over th ...
- Dudchik: News Aggregator or the Big CON?
Most "news aggregators" are meant to misinform. This is even truer when they are run by ideologues and propagandists more interested in hyper-partisan talking points than reality. In order to be shocked by this I would need to be licking the inside of a light-bulb socket. If anyone else is shocked ...
- "Fashion Show"
A little something from Lauren Greenfield, whose documentary looks at an ad and money driven culture and its effects on adults, kids and especially women and girls, have been noted by myself at ePluribus Media before: Greenfield's video "Fashion Show" mixes filmed footage with still photography fro ...
- Image of a word bomb
If a picture is worth a thousand words than this one speaks volumes about where a pretty darn liberal America is right now: Though I embrace many of the progressive ideas that those who have embraced the name "progressive" espouse, I have always preferred to stick to the name liberal. For the mos ...
- 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 ...
- Border Watch Group to Form ‘Private Military ...
Bill Davis, the founder of an Arizona border vigilante group called the Cochise County Militia [motto: “Doing the job our Government refuses to do!”] has taken pride in recent years over what he says is the group’s responsible and safe surveillance of Mexicans coming illegally into the United States ...
- A Discussion of Today’s Washington Rallies
I hosted an online chat this afternoon for the Washington Post about the gun rallies around Washington, D.C., and the growing radical right. I thought there were some excellent questions and urge readers to take a look .
- Arizona Debate Unleashes New ‘Reconquista’ Accusat ...
As the debate intensifies over Arizona’s harsh new law aimed at undocumented immigrants, nativist groups are claiming that opponents of the measure support nothing less than the reconquest of the Southwest by Mexicans. Though the myth of “la reconquista” — a purported secret Mexican conspiracy to ta ...
- Soldiers Among Skinheads Charged in Brutal Beating ...
Three soldiers are among a group of skinheads accused of severely beating a homeless man with baseball bats and pipes in Cincinnati. Police have charged two Iraq war veterans, Pvt. Riley Feller, 24, and Spc. Travis Condor, 25, with the felony assault of 52-year-old John Johnson at a homeless encampm ...
- Nine Members of the Hutaree Militia Indicted in Pl ...
Nine members of the Hutaree Militia were indicted today in what federal authorities are describing as a plot to murder a law enforcement officer in Michigan and then attack other officials who gathered for the funeral. The five-count indictment followed a series of raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indian ...
- Do Homelessness Simulations Do Any Good?
I imagine that people who are or have been homeless are somewhat baffled by the idea of a homelessness simulation, in which middle class individuals spend a night on the streets. I've never been homeless, and I still don't get it. The only purpose I can see is reassuring your ego that it's empatheti ...
- Story of an Illegal Abortion
Around the world, in countries where abortion is illegal, women get them anyway. They get them despite the law, despite the expense, despite the severe health risks of a back-alley procedure. They get them, nonetheless, because if a woman decides now is not the right time to have a child, she makes ...
- Public Housing: Easy to Get In, Hard to Get Out
Public housing was built to make up for what the market didn't provide: decent housing for working class people. It was designed with the idea that if you give working families a safe place to live where the rent isn't their whole paycheck, they'll use that housing like a stepping stone into the mid ...
- Iraq's Prime Minister Thinks He's the Victim of Hi ...
The Los Angeles Times reported last month that approximately 430 Sunni Iraqi men were detained for months and tortured in an off-the-grid prison facility at the al-Muthanna Baghdad airport on the mere suspicion of being involved in the Sunni insurgency. The torture-fueled interrogations were reporte ...
- Bita Ghaedi Deportation Cancelled
After nature intervened to stop the deportation of Bita Ghaedi to certain death in Iran, she was re-scheduled to be deported today. However, earlier this morning, the British High Court granted Ghaedi interim relief pending a renewed application to apply for judicial review, while the European Court ...
- Greece Urged to Step Back From Brink
Greek president Carolos Papoulias today urged his country to step back from "the brink of an abyss" following the deaths of three bank workers yesterday during protests against the government's new harsh austerity measures. Yesterday's deaths - the first such fatalities in protests in nearly 20 yea ...
- General Election 2010: Polling Stations Report Hig ...
by Matthew Weaver and agencies David Cameron was the first of the main party leaders to cast his vote today amid early signs that turnout in one of the most closely contested elections for decades will be high. As the final polls showed the Conservatives on the brink of regaining power, the Tory lea ...
- Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan for Gulf Rig
by Michael Kunzelman and Richard T. Pienciak NEW ORLEANS - Petrochemical giant BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exemp ...
- Arrests in Pakistan over NY Attempt
Five men are reported to have been arrested by security officials in Pakistan, in connection with Saturday's attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square. "Intelligence officials arrested two in the city of Karachi in the southern city of Punjab and three more in Faisalabad," Kamal Hyder ...
- States Prepare to Rise to CO2 Challenge as Senate ...
by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent The collapse of an energy reform proposal in Congress last week could return power to north America's historic actors on climate change : the regions. In Washington, even Barack Obama's fellow Democrats are reluctant to take up
- 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 ...
- Zombiesat!
The undead really are everywhere at the moment – even up in orbit. Zombiesat is the delightful (and, one assumes, largely unofficial) term for the state of defunct communications satellite Galaxy 15, which has recently stopped responding to control commands, and is now shambling toward the orbits of ...
- An Old Enemy: Fighting Cancer
So how did I go from last month’s topic about geoengineering to cancer treatment? Well, for one, keeping the Earth healthy is a bit like doing the same for humans: harder than you’d think. Systems engineering on a fairly complex level that we don’t entirely understand. This is also a personal [. ...
- The transhuman victory is assured!
Well, possibly not – but Michael Anissimov has a post provocatively titled “Transhumanism Has Already Won”, which argues that most of the central tenets of the movement (if such a fractious meme can fairly be called a movement at all) are already accepted – and in some cases actively desired – by a ...
- Zombiesat!
The undead really are everywhere at the moment – even up in orbit. Zombiesat is the delightful (and, one assumes, largely unofficial) term for the state of defunct communications satellite Galaxy 15, which has recently stopped responding to control commands, and is now shambling toward the orbits of ...
- An Old Enemy: Fighting Cancer
So how did I go from last month’s topic about geoengineering to cancer treatment? Well, for one, keeping the Earth healthy is a bit like doing the same for humans: harder than you’d think. Systems engineering on a fairly complex level that we don’t entirely understand. This is also a personal [. ...
- Free Seminar on OSHA Whistleblower Program
Professionals for the Public Interest will host the event “Whistleblowers and OSHA: Strengthening Professional Integrity” on May 11th from 11:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). The event is free and open to the public with advance registration. ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- Should Doctors Google Patients?
We recently had a story about an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics that recommended doctors avoid using social networks entirely , because of potential ethical issues related to patient information. That seems a bit extreme. It seems like there would be ways to use social networks without c ...
- If A Site Uses Third-Party Moderators Who Do Somet ...
Last year, we wrote about a rather straightforward case where a nutritional supplement company had sued the operators of the forum bodybuilding.com, because of some unflattering comments posted in the forum. The court quickly tossed out the case on Section 230 grounds, noting that a site is not lia ...
- US Agency Pushing For Open Government... Almost La ...
The White House tasked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with spreading "open government" efforts throughout the US government -- but a recent analysis of what agencies in the government are most open shows that OMB is near the back of the pack . The rankings put the different agencies into ...
- Sirius XM Not Happy With The FCC, Again
Satellite-radio company Sirius XM has never been the best of friends with the FCC, thanks largely to the molasses-like speed with which the Commission moved to approve the Sirius-XM merger and the silly restrictions it attached to its approval -- measures which helped push the company into bankruptc ...
- Does Storing Your Documents In 'The Cloud' Mean Th ...
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. One of the mo ...
- Responding to Anarchy in the News
I keep an eye out for mentions of anarchy or anarchists in the news. More often than not, when we are mentioned, it relates to some act of destruction that is being condemned. Anarchist responses to these reports, if there are any responses at all, are usually confined to internal discussions on a ...
- 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 ...
- السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
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- Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
- Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...
- Alwaki Tribe Denies Statement
The Sheik of the Awlaki tribe in Yemen denied that tribal leaders held a meeting or threatened Yemeni citizens as is being widely reported in the Western media. Reuters reported receiving a faxed statement last week from the Awalki tribe that said, “We warn against cooperating with America to kill S ...
- Yemen National Dialog Coalition Seeks Reform, Broa ...
Yemen’s National Dialog Committee published an English language summary of its National Salvation Plan yesterday. The document is available at http://yemenvision.wordpress.com/ The National Dialog Committee (NDC) is an important Yemeni civil society coalition dedicated to creating a forum and consen ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...
- USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
- Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
- Farm to School Needs More Support
It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
- Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
- USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...
- Sparkling Chair Made of PET and Air, Just Like a W ...
The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don't use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)... so what about air? We have featured a series of inflatable items, such as inflatable solar panels , an inflatable house or glowing inflatable furniture , because ...
- All Bets are Off on the UK Election But Fun and Ga ...
Image from Policy Diffusion Today is Election Day in the U.K. and the race is on. Betting on the election is legal here and the bookies are giving the best odds on the Conservatives winning. No one else is sure what is happening; it will be a dash to the finish, with the great undecided voter ...
- Aqua: Terrific Looking Sustainable + Low-Cost Home ...
Photos: Casa Aqua via TuVerde. Even if green architecture is usually 'good architecture' that can be applied to any construction, it seems the household projects that carry some sort of certification are usually aimed at the high income segment. Perhaps because people with lower income have oth ...
- BP Says 1 of 3 Oil Leaks Is Plugged, 100-Ton Metal ...
Image: Unified command releases new overflight map updated 5 p.m. May 3, 2010. CC. Not Out of the Woods Yet... Late Tuesday night, BP succeeded in plugging one of the three leaks that are spewing vast quantities of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. This was done with the help of underwater remotely o ...
- Lovelock Tells BBC That Mankind Cannot Save Gaia
Image: BBC Lovelock Interview James Lovelock, the scientist who put forth the Gaia Theory, has told the BBC it is too late for us to save the planet. According to Gaia Theory, the entire earth is a single organism, connected and interactive. Only just over a month ago, Lovelock called for autho ...
- Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
- Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
- Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...
- To starve a tumor
Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the “Warburg effect” after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto Warburg. However, the field of cancer-cell metabolism has been largely ignored since the 1970s, when researche ...
- Smart Pill Reports Back
The medicine cabinet of the future could help make sure patients take their medications on time via a myriad of smart technologies. There are already pill bottles that wirelessly report to a computer when a cap has been opened, and devices for automatically dispensing medicine at the right time, and ...
- Republican Right Poisons Well of Patriotism
In the manner of lacing well water with poison, the Republican right has sought to use patriotism as a deadly sword against progressive Democrats. The propaganda maneuver is based on a simple principle. Only the Republican right can define patriotism. As a result, the most reactionary Republicans ...
- Animation: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Growth and Mov ...
By Dan Swenson, New Orleans Times-Picayune This animation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was created using actual overflight information and forecast models from the NOAA and Unified Command. The red dot is the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil well, which exploded on April 20, releas ...
- Interview: Deepwater Horizon Explosion Survivor Ex ...
"James", which is not the oil rig survivor's real name, gives a first-hand witness account from his perspective as to what caused the accident and what happened to the missing 11 men. Find more videos like this on Drilling Ahead All Antemedius stories about BP's Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico s ...
- BP Had Other Problems in Years Leading to Gulf Spi ...
from Abrahm Lustgarten , ProPublica April 29, 2010 ( view source ) BP, the global oil giant responsible for the fast-spreading spill in the Gulf of Mexico that will soon make landfall, is no stranger to major accidents. In fact, the company has found itself at the center of several of the nation's ...
- 1,000 Words About Tanzania
Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Kigoma, Tanzania We arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania excited to catch a flight to Kigoma, a region in the northwestern part of the country to visit a Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania pr ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Twaddle, race races, & Goldman Sucks
Nice start to the morning reading more racist twaddle from Charles “Bell Curve” Murray in the NYTimes. Well disguised racism, for a change. Now he’s trashing charter schools to gain more leverage in his fight for vouchers so as to provide a subsidy to private schools. If we cannot fix our public sch ...
- Comcast profits up, subscribers down
Media Matters Jamison Foser shows how Newsbusters totally distorted a news story on Al Gore to smear America’s most smeared lefty. [more] We can’t move forward when half the debate is coming from known liars who are rooting for America to fail and who hate everyone who isn’t them. - No sooner do I t ...
- Whole lotta links
Worse than 1789: your latest update from Clusterfuck Nation. But I kinda like his take on the Hamptons. - Pass this one along to wingnuts of your acquaintance: James Fallows on If the TSA were running New York. I will never forget my TSA client who, despite excellent management experience, couldn’t ...
- 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.
- Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
- Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
- Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
- Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
- Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.
- At least we are not Dubai
We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
- 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
- Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation âRah-e-Rastâ. Before the operation âRah-e-Rastâ, an NGO financed preparation of f ...
- Constitutional Game to Undo Pakistan from the Back ...
Written By :- Dr Shahid Qureshi Pakistan is unfortunately one of those countries where traitors masquerade as politicians and treachery is deemed to be âlegitimate politicsâ. There is no prize for guessing how did the desire the revoke the 17th Amendment got transformed into a full fledg ...
- Palestinians urge global action against Israel
The Palestinian Authority has called on international bodies and the Arab League summit in Libya to protect East Jerusalem al-Quds against Israeli settlement activities. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the opening of a two-day Arab League summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, called on int ...
- 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 ...
- Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell-Collapse of ne ...
By Brenda Norrell for Photo by James Fortier There is no better place to document the collapse of the news industry than with the coverage of what happened when military helicopters attempted to land on sacred burial ground at Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge in South Dakota on Saturday. The worst cov ...
- Dept. of Corrections and Other Matters Concerning ...
The Intelligent Aboriginal News Service has received a flurry of angry responses to our coverage of the ‘Wounded Knee Crisis - 05.01.2001’ (mostly by one individual) and now that more information has come forward, we are submitting a ‘Dept. of Corrections’ report as well as our thoughts about this p ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanis ...
ShareThis The Taliban�stimulus, funded by US taxpayers: Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanistan peace plan --Karzai to discuss proposal that also offers reinsertion and jobs to former militants with Obama on US visit 05 May 2010 Top Taliban leaders could be offered exile outside Afghan ...
- Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of ...
ShareThis 'There were clues in Connecticut -- but only to the paranoid.' Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of air force chief 06 May 2010 There were clues in Pakistan but only to the tight handful of [ CIA ] minders who knew what Faisal Shahzad was planning.�What is beyond doubt is tha ...
- CIA to expand drone raids in Pakistan
ShareThis Times Square false flag conveniently provides cover for Obusha's war expansion: CIA to expand drone raids in Pakistan 06 May 2010 The CIA has received authorization to target a wider range of targets in Pakistan with its drone-guided missiles, despite national discontent on growing civilia ...
- Emirates Denies Negligence Over Terror Suspect's D ...
ShareThis Emirates Denies Negligence Over Terror Suspect's Dubai Flight 06 May 2010 Emirates denied negligence over its failure to update a U.S. no-fly list, allowing the suspect in the attempted May 1 car bombing in New York’s Times Square to board a flight to Dubai... Faisal Shahzad was put on the ...
- Countries are risking cyber terrorism, security ex ...
ShareThis Countries are risking cyber terrorism, security expert tells first world summit --Governments that fail to protect computer networks could face devastating attack, says former Pentagon director 05 May 2010 The spectre of crashing power grids, stalled air control towers... and defences left ...
- Music, wine, and Guitar Hero: A fun few minutes wi ...
Bryan Bassett “We play for free and get paid to travel. But we’ve all got more than 20 years out on tour buses, so we don’t actually do that anymore. We fly everywhere and we don’t go out for weeks on end now. We go out for a couple of days or a week at most. We mostly play the shows we want. ”
- Movie Review: Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2, starring R ...
The summer movie season kicks off this weekend with the release of Iron Man 2 . Does the Robert Downey Jr. superhero sequel live up to the original? Joe Bardi has the CL review …
- On the Radar: Helen Hill’s Animated Wonderland and ...
Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming arts events to mark your calendars for. You may not have heard of DIY filmmaker Helen Hill, but you can get to know her a little better this Sunday when The Studio@620 screens Animated Wonderland, a retrospective of 10 shorts, in honor of [...]
- CL’s Lost Podcast: Season 6, Ep. 13 “The Candidate ...
Welcome back fans of the CL's Lost podcast! After a week off, ABC's island mystery returned last night and laid waste to the emotions of the audience. For this week's podcast, Host Joe returns to weep openly into the mic, as fellow mourners London, Ham Gravy, Fat Jesus and Leilani sit shiva on the ...
- Tampa salon accepting donations of hair and nylons ...
Locally, one Tampa hair stylist has taken the initiative to help out the oil spill cleanup efforts by starting a campaign to gather donations of hair and used laundered nylons to be made into hair booms and mats to absorb the oil.
- Another Day, Another Arrest of Human Rights Worker
From The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. Israeli authorities have taken Izzet Sahin, the representative and founder of IHH (The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief)’s Office in West Bank, into custody on the 27th of April. Izzet Sah ...
- Villages Group: First Biodigester Unit at Work in ...
(crossposted from the Villages Group Blog) Following the success of the Villages Group’s first environmental initiative – the renewable energy project, which has been now running independently for about a year under the banner Comet-ME – the Villages Group is now launching a second environmental in ...
- Rethink This Veto! Ibrahim Shikaki at Berkeley Di ...
Please note: corrections and amendments to this post are in italics below. Our apologies for the errors! 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 Ramallah and an visiting scholar at Berkel ...
- Another Palestinian Protest Leader Jailed But Not ...
From Friends of Freedom and Justice – Bil’in. Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 Iyad Burnat, a leader in the popular struggle against the Israeli wall, was banned by Israelâs military from crossing the West Bank borders into Jordan on Saturday. Burnat is head of the local committee against the wall and settle ...
- 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 ...
- The top recipient of money from BP, Goldman, defen ...
… Barack Obama. Why am I not surprised? Goldman should be happy. They had hundreds of billions shoveled towards them via bailouts, bogus accounting rule changes, being able to borrow at .25% and then buy Treasuries risk-free that yield 3%, and so on. All compliments of DC and the ever-compliant Obam ...
- FCC to support net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission plans to announce tomorrow that it will seek to reclassify broadband as a transport service, opening up a way for the agency to enforce network neutrality recommendations and implement some aspects of the National Broadband Plan. This is a huge move in the righ ...
- Superweeds now resistant to Monsanto Roundup
This makes Monsanto’s GMO Roundup Ready crops virtually useless. Monsanto has, in effect, created monsters. And dented their own business badly as well. Why should farmers spend money on expensive GMO seeds that allow the crops to be sprayed with Roundup when weeds are now resistant. Obviously weeds ...
- Enviro links. 05/05
Dirty adult diapers into clean energy. In 24 hours Five charities that accept old electronics Those fighting Democrats wimp out on climate change bill Reagan’s Shultz protecting California’s clean energy law from Texas oil companies Zero landfill Subaru plant
- Just so you realize that Obama still hearts the ba ...
Rahm is working extra hard to defeat the Audit the Fed measure. Makes you wonder what they’re hiding, doesn’t it?
- Sheizaf: A tale of two charters
Cross posted from Promised Land as the first installment of the series “Deconstructing right-wing arguments.” Every now and than you get to hear Israelis argue that we cannot have peace with the Palestinians or even withdraw from the West Bank because Hamas still opposes the idea of a Jewish state a ...
- 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 ...
- This Day In History – May 6
1527 â Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant’Angelo. 1536 â King Henry VIII orders English language Bible ...
- Freddie Mac seeks $US10.6b in govt aid
Freddie Mac is asking for $US10.6 billion ($A11.6 billion) in additional US federal aid after posting a big loss in the first three months of the year. It’s another sign that the taxpayer bill for stabilising the housing market will keep mounting. The McLean, Virginia-based mortgage finance compa ...
- DMV stops issuing Real ID licenses
CARSON CITY — High security driver’s licenses won’t be issued by the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles for now or anytime in the near future. A proposed DMV regulation to give citizens the option of securing the Real ID-compliant driver’s licenses was not placed on the agenda of Friday’s Legis ...
- NYC Mayor Takes Aim at ‘Terror Gap’ in ...
WASHINGTON (May 5) — New York’s mayor and police commissioner both urged Congress today to close a “terror gap” in federal gun laws that they said permitted the suspect in the failed Times Square bombing to purchase a handgun in March. Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmen ...
- Could the BP Oil “Spill” be an attempt ...
By Jack Blood May 5th, 2010 www.deadlinelive.info Is it possible that in order to save all these rigs, one had to be destroyed? Sorry, I don’t buy incompetence theories, coincidence theories, or that convenient timing of world events is not somehow pointing to a hidden agenda. So I have been workin ...
- Uncertainty be damned. When in doubt – GO B ...
I’m glad that climate science doesn’t let things like physics, common sense or reason get in the way of their models. They have taken the ridiculous uncertainty of modeling climate in the future and expanded the range all the way to 25F. Imagine Canada with Florida temperatures, ice hockey gone ...
- CUCCINELLI THREAD PART TWO
Guest post Ryan O —- The first thread was fun. Assuming Jeff is willing to entertain me, I think a second part is in order. My position is best explained with a little story. The problem with climate science is not the individual scientists or even the work being performed. The problem with clim ...
- Draconian and dumb climate law to face referendum.
Business groups seek to suspend Calif. climate law By SAMANTHA YOUNG (AP) â 13 hours ago SACRAMENTO, Calif. â A coalition of business groups turned in signature petitions Monday for a ballot initiative that would unravel Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s top environmental priority. If the California ...
- 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 ...
- "Think Tanked" Rolls Out
� The D.C. think tank archipelago constitutes a kind of shadow government. These organizations house policy shops, lobbying and advocacy campaigns, media production, education and training programs, and much more. They even provide a sort of social safety net for the political operatives, a warm ...
- If You Oppose Equal Marriage, You Are a Bigot
When you cover a beat, you get to know the good guys and the bad guys. If you don't have strong opinions about who's who, you're probably not doing your job. Dave Weigel covers birthers, Birchers, teabaggers, and other movement conservatives for the Washington Post . Nobody knows this beat bette ...
- 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 ...
- Facebook Asks Some Users to Set Its Site as Their ...
Facebook has begun to ask some users if they’d like to make the site their browser home page, via a note that is appearing above their news feeds. When a user logs into the site, a dialog box appears asking you to make Facebook your home page. “Come here often? We’ve noticed you use Facebook regular ...
- Facebook Makes Small Developer Roadmap Updates — W ...
Now that Facebook’s big launches at f8 are done, the company is starting to move forward with its broader development plans — or at least the timeline for them is getting a little clearer The company  updated its developer roadmap on Monday to indicate that the removal of profile boxes will be happ ...
- Facebook Plans Seattle Expansion, Looks to Hire En ...
Facebook is expanding in the Pacific Northwest beyond its new data center in central Oregon. It’s opening up an engineering office in Seattle, Wash. with the intention of doing some local hiring. All big technology companies have offices around the US and the world. Facebook, more than many companie ...
- Some Early Data Shows Facebook Plugins Increasing ...
More data is starting to come out about how Facebook’s new social plugins are impacting other sites around the web. The buttons, as intended, appear to be sending more Facebook users to other parts of the web, especially media sites. IGN.com, a News Corp.-owned web site that covers media, digital di ...
- Mobile Rises Further on This Week’s List of Fast-G ...
The iPhone has been on a tear of late, at least on Facebook. This week’s list of the most quickly growing Facebook apps by daily active users is led off by Facebook for iPhone, which now has 17.5 million users that log onto Facebook every day. Conveniently, the rest of the list [...]
- Not much time remains for Israel – film review
Gilad Atzmon reviews Elia Suleiman’s film, “The time that remains”, which depicts the struggle in Palestine between the Jewish colonial settler population and the indigenous Palestinians, contrasting the alienness of the colonists with the harmony between the indigenous population and the land.
- UK general election: Shhh... don’t mention the Isr ...
Stuart Littlewood views the conspicuous absence of any mention of the Israeli occupation in the British general election campaign, against the background of the paralysing influence of the Israel lobby on the three main political parties and the silent complicity of the mainstream media, including t ...
- Israel’s Stasi watch over imams: Islamic posts fil ...
Jonathan Cook reports on a case which revealed that job interviews for the position of imam at mosques in Israel are conducted not by senior clerics but by Israel’s secret police, and that the Israeli government uses spies to report on the political opinions of Muslim clerics and relay gossip about ...
- 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.
- Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
- Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
- Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
- Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
- Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
- Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
- Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
In April SENÂ published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...
- Earth Day 2010
Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...
- 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!Â
- 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 ...
- Oil Rig in Gulf pictures, Last moments
Everyone now knows of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which caught fire, burned for two days, and then sank in 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. There are still 11 men missing, and they are not expected to be found. Here are some details that you may not have seen or heard [...]
- 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 ...
- Sustainable Brands 2010 (from The Good Human)
David at The Good Human got in touch to let me know about his brilliant article on yet another “Hey guys, aren’t we green!” PR back-slapping shindig. Of course I had to repost it, and couldn’t resist a little subvertising (see above)… What do you get when a bunch of unsustainable companies pay a lo ...
- We Are The Hollow Men
The difference is stark and intense – from a vision of the sub-American suburban Utopia ringed with shopping malls and trunk roads, to a house on the edge of a Scottish village within earshot of the River Tweed, surrounded by the kind of garden that would tempt the most driven individual to pack up ...
- Taking A Break, So Here’s Someone Else’ ...
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)
- Aliou Kumbaya
My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day. He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
- Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
- Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq. There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens. In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...
- Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery. The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps. While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...
- 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 ...
- Freedom Fone Answers Questions on Zimbabwe Constit ...
Two weeks ago the latest version of Freedom Fone , affectionately known to his handlers as "Fred," was set loose. Inspired by the cockney rhyming slang "dog and bone" (meaning phone), the Freedom Fone dog logo and quirky character of Fred was born a few years ago. Fred is still young, but after a ...
- Programming Language for Kids Banned from Apple Ap ...
The MIT News Office recently interviewed one of our colleagues at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Mitch Resnick. Resnick is a long-time Media Lab professor best known for helping develop and deploy Scratch, a programming language for kids. But this month Apple rejected an app that would al ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- A Letter To The American People From The Heart Of ...
By Nahida I am writing this letter to you because of the devastation that is caused by your government in our lands, and because of the immanent threat to world peace that I see your government pushing for, again
- New York Car Bomb Incident: Another False Flag?
By Stephen Lendman Good luck or something else? We have seen this too often not to be suspicious. This one, like others, has all the earmarks of a false flag, more likely given its coverage and location in Times Square on Saturday night, followed by a May 2 video saying the Pakistani Taliban claime ...
- Saffron Brigade Disturbs Chhattisgarh Peace March
By Nachiketa Desai A mob of about 100 slogan shouting supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party barged into the public meeting of eminent citizens, including space scientist Yash Pal, veteran Gandhian Narayan Desai and former UGC chairman Ramji Singh, a day before they embarked upon a peace ...
- We Are Not Anti-US, We Are Anti-Imperialist
Hugo Chavez Interviewed by Cindy Sheehan The Empire is afraid. The Empire is afraid that the people of the US will find out the truth and something could erupt in their own territory -- a Bolivarian movement, a Lincoln-esque movement. A movement of citizens, conscious citizens that seek to transfo ...
- All-Volunteer Wars
By Tom Engelhardt The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, already the size of the state of Delaware, may end up larger than the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, and could prove more devastating than Hurricane Katrina. Anyway, take my word for it, returning to our world from a few days offline ...
- 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!
- Our UN Ambassador Thinks She Has a No-Show Job
Despite the horrible treatment of women in the thugocracy of Iran, last week the United Nations chose that country to have a leadership role�on the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women.�This was just another example of a U.N. body following an Orwellian strategy of stating their purpose as one t ...
- Who Stole the People's Money? The "People" Did, So ...
By Barry Rubin During violent demonstrations that killed three people in Athens, rioters shouted, “Thieves! Thieves!” as they protested new taxes and government spending cuts. Greece is near bankruptcy and other European countries, before bailing out the country with the ...
- OMG ! Black Republican Candidates? The Dems Must B ...
This must be the Democratic Party's worst nightmare. The Democratic party likes to claim that the GOP is a racist party, and while the party has been void of African-Americans, it has been �a matter of �issues not racism. �With President Obama's disregard for a budget and his move toward a governmen ...
- No One Understands The Real Miranda Argument
The arrest of Faisal Shahzad in the failed car bombing attempt in Times Square has reignited the debate over reading Miranda rights to terrorism suspects, only this time the issue is much different because Faisal Shahzad is a American citizen. The debate on how to treat him has been passionate and i ...
- Never Let The Terrorists See You Sweat
They say that predatory animals can smell fear, and that is what helps them select their victims. Terrorists are the same way. As the very definition of terrorism is to inspire fear. Except for maybe the period from 2001-2006, the United States has had a policy of appeasing Islamist terrorism. From ...
- Care to Know How to End Government Tyranny? Ask R ...
If you know there is a New World Order out there formed by corrupt government officials and their handlers, but do not know where or how to start the fight against them, here are 11 minutes of great ideas. This is not limited to a country or a state within a country. It can be [...]
- A Brain scanner that tells if you are lying. Now, ...
No evidence needed anymore. No innocence until proven guilty. Pseudo-science now decides if a person is guilty or not. WIRED A Brooklyn attorney hopes to break new ground this week when he offers a brain scan as evidence that a key witness in a civil trial is telling the truth, Wired.com has learn ...
- Why is Rahm Emanuel Defending the Federal Reserve?
RT President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge was to defend the little guy. So why is Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff,against auditing the Federal Reserve Bank? Long before the financial crisis of 2007 crashed across the planet, a soft-spoken Congressman from Texas was leading a one-man c ...
- The Navy’s, Air Force’s and Darpa̵ ...
Through the Use of Electromagnetic Waves, a Town, a City or a Whole Country Can Be Controlled to Be Pacified or Exacerbated Just like a few years ago computer and information technology companies started working on microchip technology, just like DARPA created the Intranet and later the Internet, no ...
- North American Union 101
Call it What You Want. If Everything Goes Business as Usual, Mexico, Canada and the United States Will Become One Rome was not built in one day. In order to become the Empire it was, Rome went through years and years of progress until it became the structure we know today. Democracy did not appear [ ...
- Lecture addresses wind turbine danger
Steve Slater watches the future of U.S. energy like a hawk, and he doesn’t like what he sees. Slater is the conservation director of HawkWatch, an international organization that monitors scientific research on the raptor class of birds—or birds of prey—and the larger ecosystem they inhabit. Keeping ...
- Proposed turbine projects put damper on residentia ...
Sales records show that Cape Vincent has had a steeper decline in residential property sales than its neighbors and real estate professionals are starting to blame proposed wind power developments. “People do not want to buy near windmills,” said Amanda J. Miller, owner of Lake Ontario Realty, Dexte ...
- Wind project generates heat; Opposition mounts
A federal agency and Audubon Pennsylvania are among about 40 conservation groups from around the world critical of a wind turbine project that’s been approved for Turkey Hill along the Susquehanna River. All the concerns except one revolve around perceived threats 120-foot-long blades on twin turbin ...
- Neighbors raise warning flags
Keuka Park, N.Y. — Speakers from Cohocton, Italy and Prattsburgh came to neighboring Jerusalem March 30 to share their experiences from encounters with wind turbine companies in the area. About 70 people, including people from Geneva, Wayne County, Barrington, Benton and Jerusalem, attended the sess ...
- Couple sue for £380k after being driven out of hom ...
The 150-acre farm was the answer to Julian and Jane Davis’s dreams of a quiet life in the country. He would grow crops while she planned to build a wooden chalet to run reflexology, therapy and counselling sessions. Their rural peace was shattered, however, when eight giant wind turbines were erecte ...
- UCSD divestment hearing tweeted
The University of California San Diego student council decided to postpone its resolution to address the suffering of Palestine, but let public comments play out. UCSD Divest For Peace chronicled the proceeding in Tweets which we retweet below so future student discussions don’t have to rehash the b ...
- 2-word punchline for President Obama: Predator Dro ...
A protective father warns off potential first suitors with the specter of Predator Drones. Nothing outré about gallows humor, but people are put off when it comes from the mouth of the hangman. Of course, what have the Jonas Brothers really to fear — US drone strikes hit very few of their intended ...
- Apartheid haunts Israel Innovation Wk
BDS activists take heart. Anti-Apartheid Bostonites targeted their Museum of Science for hosting Israeli Innovation Weekend, a propaganda event to solicit investment in Zionist high tech industry. Protesters disrupted the speakers, provoking venomous outcry from the audience, all lovingly captured o ...
- Gaza Freedom Flotilla building steam
The Free Gaza Movement’s FREEDOM FLOTILLA III is assembling itself ship by ship at European ports. Departure is set for later this month. You can already track the passenger ship MS Mavi Marmara and cargo ships Gazze and MV Rachel Corrie on Google Earth. Will this humanitarian relief convoy succumb ...
- Amateurish Bomb fails to go off, DHS to the rescue ...
So, let’s see, A “Major Break” in terrorist infiltrators involving somebody with Pakistan ties “confessing” to buying large amounts of a solvent used as PVC cement that you can buy in 55 gallon drums without raising any suspicion, Methyl Ether Ketone, in a weaker formulation used for nail polish rem ...
- WTC Free Fall Rebuttal to dprjones
StooBradley YouTube.com May 04, 2010 In a recent video dprjones challenged "Truthers" to address his 5 points about the collapse of the WTC towers on 9/11. Contrary to his advice to avoid facts and evidence, here is my rebuttal that offers a more accurate way to measure collapse speeds and a closer ...
- More Discrediting by Association
Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asks the question " How Indeed Could We Think of the Truthers As Kooks and Weirdos ;" pointing to these articles posted on 911blogger.com yesterday. An anonymous commenter on Pat's blog first made note that above the 911blogger post in question it is clea ...
- Bin Laden "Living Comfortably in Iran"
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- 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 ...
- Stocks, Euro Slide on Debt Concern; MSCI World Era ...
The MSCI World Index of stocks erased its 2010 gain, the euro slid to a 14-month low and Treasuries rose as concern European nations will need to restructure debt outweighed growth in U.S. jobs and service industries.
- BP Oil Spill Highlights Poor Safety Record, the Wo ...
- New York Car Bomb Incident: Another False Flag?
- Times Square bomb used non-explosive fertilizer
Well well!
- Americans Are Ratting Out Their Neighbors to the I ...
Americans seeking reward money are turning in neighbors, clients and employers they suspect of cheating on taxes to the IRS at a rate of nearly eight per day, the director of the agency’s whistleblower program said.
- Recalled children's Tylenol products were knowingl ...
(NaturalNews) The other day I wrote a story about the massive recall by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, of its infants' and children's line of Tylenol products. An FDA inspection report found these drugs to be contaminated with dangerous bacteria (they did not disclo ...
- New research shows grapes reduce risk for heart di ...
(NaturalNews) The millions of Americans with heart disease and type 2 diabetes didn't develop these diseases out of the blue. Their disorders are the result of a cascade of problems including high blood pressure, insulin resistance, abdominal fat and other symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Now Univers ...
- Drug side effects "neglected, restricted, distorte ...
(NaturalNews) New research shows that information on potentially lethal side effects of the blockbuster painkiller Vioxx was "neglected, restricted, distorted and silenced" by pharmaceutical giant Merck, writes London-based physician and author John Briffa in The Epoch Times .Vioxx was first approve ...
- Why Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt is so much better ...
(NaturalNews) If you've been reading NaturalNews for long, you've heard me talk about the importance of switching from processed table salt to a "full spectrum" salt. Table salt -- or "white salt" -- is to real salt as table sugar is to dehydrated cane juice. Both white table salt and white sugar ar ...
- Vitamin and calcium supplements slash breast cance ...
(NaturalNews) It's common for mainstream medical doctors to declare there's no reason to take nutritional supplements. After all, this line of reasoning goes, you are supposedly getting all the nutrition you need from a typical American diet. However, evidence continues to mount disproving this idea ...
- Wired Urges Judge to Unseal Gizmodo Search
Wired.com and other news outlets are asking a California judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit that led to a police raid on the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone. Under California law, the public has a right to see the documents that led San Mateo Co ...
- Bombing Arrest Followed Law Enforcement Slip-Ups a ...
“I was expecting you,” suspected bomber Faisal Shahzad reportedly told the border agents who seized him from his Dubai-bound flight Monday evening. And clearly the suspect should have been expecting agents, given the trail of clues he allegedly left behind and the steps investigators were taking t ...
- Judge Rules Post on Cop-Rating Site is Protected S ...
A federal judge has struck down a Florida law prohibiting the publication of a police officer’s name, phone number or address, calling the statute an unconstitutional restraint on speech. The decision leaves Arizona, Colorado and Washington state with similar laws on the books. Florida authoritie ...
- Craigslist Adult Ads Under Scrutiny — Again
Connecticut’s top law enforcement officer is subpoenaing Craigslist records to determine whether the site is complying with a year-old deal with attorneys general to censor the online bulletin board’s erotic ads. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, is seeking evidence to determine ...
- Groups Call ‘Privacy’ Legislation Orwellian
Privacy groups gave an overwhelming thumbs down Tuesday to proposed legislation by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) that for the first time would mandate the length of time online consumer information could be kept. The proposal would require websites to discard data collected from their users after 1 ...
- History Shows Democrats the Party to Trust on Wall ...
In just a matter of days, the Republican effort to protect predatory Wall Street bankers has gone from the ridiculous to the sublime. Last week, Mitch McConnell endlessly parroted Frank Luntz' " permanent bailout " talking point - the day after meeting with financial executives in New York. Then o ...
- Judge Cornyn's War on the Rule of Law
That Texas Senator John Cornyn joined John McCain in the Republican chorus denouncing the Obama administration for reading Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights is unsurprising. Unsurprising and sadly ironic. After all, from detainee torture and illicit domestic surveillance ...
- Shahzad or Rudolph, U.S Citizens Have Miranda Righ ...
It's official: John McCain is now more addled than Glenn Beck . While the Fox News host insisted to the dismay of his colleagues that Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad "has all the rights under the Constitution," McCain declared that reading Miranda rights to an American citizen is a "seriou ...
- 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 ...
- Did Kent State Have to Happen?
In 1968, Richard Nixon's campaign sabotaged LBJ's peace talks, leading to more Vietnam carnage and Kent State, writes Robert Parry. May 4, 2010
- Fraud: America's New Watchword
Early Christianity was a diverse, dynamic religion, but then evolved into rigid authoritarianism, writes Rev. Howard Bess. April 25, 2010
- Explaining the Plunder and the Crime
Wall Street's financial meltdown inflicted terrible pain on Main Street, but few victims understand the crime, writes Danny Schecter. May 3, 2010
- The Death of a Cynical WPost Editor
Eulogies for ex-Washington Post editorialist Stephen Rosenfeld ignore his readiness to defend pro-U.S. slaughters, says Robert Parry. May 3, 2010
- Does Obama Know the War He's In?
President Obama calls again for political civility in Washington, but there's no reason to think his appeal will work, says Robert Parry. May 2, 2010
- When the regime puts the security apparatus in the ...
Editor's Comment: There appears to be something afoot in Egypt that is unprecedented - something the world should be watching. In the first place, opinion articles like that of Hassan Nafaa (below) in a major Egyptian newspaper like Al Masry Al Youm has never been permitted by the Mubarak regime. ...
- Chilean Author Isabel Allende on Her New Novel “Is ...
// // 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 f ...
- We believe US media are controlled by single unit ...
On his trip to New York to attend the UN nuclear summit Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to RT about nuclear non-proliferation, the Obama Administration, Iran’s representation in the US and other hot issues. [Q] Mr. President, thank you very much for taking the time for sitting with ...
- Corn Syrup Linked to Bee Colony Catastrophe - Worl ...
High-fructose corn syrup is a hot topic in the national debate on diet, with opponents attacking it, as Daniel Engber has suggested, as unhealthy, unnatural and unappetizing, while corn refiners have volleyed back that it’s safe, natural and tasty. Now the food additive has been impli ...
- Paraguay: Controversy Over Troop Deployment - Wor ...
Military troops and extra police are being deployed in northern Paraguay after a state of emergency was declared to crack down on an armed rebel group that calls itself the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP). As part of Operation Py’a Guapy -- "tranquility" in the Guaraní indigenous language -- 3 ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
"Help with his baggage?" So that's what the kids are calling it these days, eh? George Rekers, the evangelical leader and co-founder of the Family Research Council who was caught on camera in the Miami airport traveling with a real, honest-to-Pete male escort is saying that is all it was, he needed ...
- Expose the Trillion-Dollar Secret Giveaway to Bank ...
If Congress does pass a financial reform bill, the surrenders to big-money interests required to get it through are likely to be as vomit-inducing as the ones that distort the health reform bill, if not more so. But not just because the desperately-needed consumer financial protection act is likely ...
- Teabaggers in America: tell us something about the ...
The Washington Post and ABC News conducted a poll April 22nd through the 25th of 1001 adults nationwide on the subject of teabagger sheeple. The margin of error was 3%. Among the results - 2% (yes, that's two percent) of all adults consider themselves "active participants" as teabaggers. And that t ...
- Genuine Liberal Activist Taking On Biggest Freakaz ...
Remember Tom Riner? OK, I admit that the herd of repug freakazoids in the Kentucky General Assembly are hard to tell apart. �But the Baptist Minister from Louisville is a special case. Two years ago he was the one who inserted language into Kentucky's Homeland Security legislation requiring - requir ...
- Is it wrong to feel schadenfreude over this?
Defense contractors have long been thought recessionproof. The economy may suck everywhere else, but there are certain people in the mid-Atlantic who never go wanting. Defense contractors go to the mid-Atlantic for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks - that's where the money is. That is how i ...
- 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 ...
- The Terror Hysteria Continues
Listening to some of the breathless news coverage today on the arrest of Faisal Shahzad you might have thought we had caught Osama Bin Laden and that Shahzad and killed thousands. Only Shepherd Smith of Fox News had the integrity to blow the bullshit whistle: Watch the latest video at FOXNews.com> ...
- Bet Obama And The DNC Didn’t See THIS Coming
I know, that could be any number of different things when it comes to Obama and Co. But in this case, I am referring to this NY Times article, Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races. Holy canoli, I didn’t see it coming, either, though there were some signs. Take for [...]
- More Oil, The Gulf Stream, Liability Caps and Envi ...
Have we created a perfect storm? Don’t get me wrong, I’m an optimist by nature and a firm believer that ingenuity and determination can overcome almost any thing. And as someone geeky enough to enjoy watching the Robot Wars (though I’m not nearly geeky enough to build one), it is hard not to get cau ...
- Bill Maher Thinks the President “Should Get More S ...
One year 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 a Republican [...]
- Women, Education, And Baseball
There is much going on in the US right now, from the oil spill in Louisiana (horrible, devastating, especially to such a sensitive area that has been fighting to come back), the floods in Tennessee, which damaged the Grand Ole Opry, and more importantly, took lives, as well as floods in Kentucky, to ...
- The Origins of Zeus
The myth behind the birth of Zeus, and the mysterious caverns and ancient creatures sworn to protect the divine child against the evil Kronos who devoured his children. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
- The World's Creepiest Taxidermy Art
Welcome to the world of creative taxidermy, where wild creatures are turned into the weirdest forms of art you could ever imagine. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Sikhism: The World's Youngest Major Religion
A short excerpt on the youngest religion in the world! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Three Basic Human Rights
Have you ever considered how different cultures around the world are? What one culture considers a Universal Human right can be very different from another. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- The Mockingbird: Nature's Joker
The Mockingbird is quite an interesting character... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Leonard J. Martin for State Superintendent of Publ ...
There is an alternative to the corporate candidates in the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the upcoming California primary elections. Not just a candidate who isn’t entirely beholden to corporate interests, including the lucrative charter-voucher industry, but a candidate with ...
- Newsweek Axed — The Fruits of Nepotism
Claim: Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham tells Newsweek Staff he’s putting the company up for sale. Donald Graham is the son of former Chairman, the late Katherine Graham. Likely: Graham is shutting it down in 4-5 months unless they find a buyer. (How often do companies just announce ...
- Nativo Lopez: Legalization or No Reelection
Nativo Lopez is the National Director or Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana and the National President Mexican American Political Association (MAPA). He prepared the following English and Spanish versions of this speech for the massive May Day march and rally in Los Angeles. Sadly, the conservatism ...
- US, UK, France, Italy walk out of UN nuclear confe ...
videos live at source. The “emperor has no clothes” fact is that the new face of unlawful global imperialism is the old face of 20th Century imperialists. As critical mass of public recognition builds, this time, the public will reject their loveless and mass-murderous empire-building. The two pap ...
- How many more times do we need to shoot down REAL- ...
At least one more time. Provisions for a national ID card are included in the new Democratic Immigration bill. Not satisfied that we fought against REAL-ID as the answer to terrorism, it’s now being pushed as an answer to illegal immigration. The proposal is called the Real Enforcement with Pract ...
- F. William Engdahl: The "Evil Guys List"? "Free Jo ...
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The "Evil Guys List"? "Free Journalism" in the Service of U.S. Foreign Policy � �F. William Engdahl Source: � Global Research May 5, 2010 An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters san ...
- 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 ...
- "I'm Proud of Torture. It's the American Way!"
By Leslie Harris Despite the wind, rain, and cold in Dallas, dedicated peace and justice activists rallied to hold Karl Rove accountable on Monday for his part in crimes committed by the Bush administration. Without accountability, what will prevent the same things from happening over and over ag ...
- Our Journey to Smile! Join In!
Afghan & international youth peace volunteers say that “Love is How We'll Ask for Peace.” With love, we ask the 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate President Obama to answer the Afghan youth peace message ‘Reconciliation of Civil Hearts’ We are a group of Afghan youth and college students who, together with ...
- Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America
Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America By Ray McGovern The omnipresent World War II-era posters with the words “Loose Lips Sink Ships” served as a warning to members of the U.S. military to take heed lest they divulge information that could tip off the enemy and result in defeat in battle. I believe w ...
- No One Cares
No One Cares By Chris Hedges | Truthdig There are 18 U.S. intelligence agencies on the military and civilian side and 70 percent of their combined budget is outsourced to for-profit corporations who simultaneously work the United States government as well as multinational corporations and foreign g ...
- To the Tea Party: War and Liberty Aren’t Fellow Tr ...
To the Tea Party: War and Liberty Aren’t Fellow Travelers By Ivan Eland | Independent Institute And of course, we have George W. Bush, a big-government conservative, who curiously wins, as Bovard notes, a 57 percent approval rating from the “small government” Tea Partiers. Yet in parallel with hi ...
- Betting site sets odds on BP containment dome
by Jonathan Hiskes From our sports department a press release, we learn that at least one online gambling site is taking bets on whether BP's underwater mega-dome will be successful. BP is attempting an unprecedented engineering feat to deal with the Gulf oil spill: a 100-ton, 40-foot-tall, ...
- Palin bashes ‘foreign’ oil companies w ...
by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - Right-wing darling Sarah Palin, who championed offshore oil drilling in Alaska and then around the county, bashed "foreign" companies Wednesday as the culprits behind the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a message sent via Twitter on Wednesday ...
- Has coal’s strongest defender had a change o ...
by Jonathan Hiskes The elders of the U.S. Senate usually aren't good people to look to for signs of hope and change. But Robert Byrd, the 92-year-old senator from West Virginia, is making some surprising statements lately. After a career as a loyal coal-industry d ...
- BP’s donations to Congress are more worrying ...
by Jonathan Hiskes The Sunlight Foundation reports on the slick of BP money that's already spread far and wide through the American political system. The oil and gas giant is a major campaign contributor, giving more than $6 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years. President O ...
- Gulf oil slick poses danger to springtime animal b ...
by Agence France-Presse NEW ORLEANS, La. -- As spring in the southern United States heralds the arrival of fledgling animal life, conservationists are anxiously watching the spread of a giant oil slick off the coast. More than 600 animal species are threatened by the slick, officials say. "The ...
- Financial Damage Beginning to Seep from Gulf Disas ...
The region's fishing catch is expected to fall by hundreds of millions of pounds, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Freddie Mac Reports Q1 Loss of $6.7 Billion
Today, Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages on the secondary market, and is currently under a Federal Housing Finance Agency conservatorship — reported losses of $6.7 billion in the first quarter. It isn’t quite as bad as it sounds, but it is bad, and a sign of a hou ...
- Jim DeMint Wants to Finish Mexican Border Fence &# ...
The South Carolina Republican announced today that he’s hoping to amend the finance reform bill working its way (slowly) across the Senate floor with a provision requiring the Department of Homeland Security to erect 700 miles of border fence within a year. A similar amendment, also offered by DeMin ...
- Republicans Flesh Out Plan to Dissolve Fannie, Fre ...
For months, Republicans have insisted that Congress should deal with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored enterprises backstopping 90 percent of mortgages, which have received around $125 billion in taxpayer aid — in financial regulatory reform. But their financial regulatory reform ...
- ‘Interrogator #1′ to Testify for Khadr ...
GUANTANAMO BAY — Now that former Army interrogator Damien “The Monster” Corsetti has testified on Omar Khadr’s behalf, he’ll be followed tomorrow morning by the long-awaited testimony of “Interrogator #1,” who apparently will testify to threatening the then-15-year-old detainee with sending him to a ...
- 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
Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
- Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
- Republicans and Teabaggers Finally Embrace Big Gov ...
For more than a year now, we’ve been hearing from Republicans, tea party people and Glenn Beck’s chalkboard about how big government is destroying American liberty and freedom. Much of the shrieking is literally accompanied by the yellow Revolutionary War “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. Every tea party la ...
- Pakistani FM: Attempted NY bombing is reaction to ...
The Nation, May 6, 2010 Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi believes the attempted New York’s Times Square bombing is a reaction to US drones targeting Taliban followers along the Pak-Afghan border. “This is a blow back. This is a reaction. This is retaliation. And you could expect that. Let’s not ...
- High-Tech Death from Above: U.S. Drone Wars Fuel W ...
by Tom Burghardt, Dissident Voice, May 3rd, 2010 As America continues its uncontrolled flight towards disaster, Israeli-style “targeted killings” (assassinations) of alleged militants and unarmed civilians in the “Afpak theatre” are on the rise. With indiscriminate attacks by armed drones soaring si ...
- Hedges: No One Cares
Chris Hedges, TruthDig.com, May 3, 2010 We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee c ...
- 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 [...]
- Thumbing Down on Blankfein
The Wall Street Journal speculated today on the possibility that Blankfein will not make it as Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. See “What-Ifs for Goldman Sachs: Behind Stiff Upper Lip, Some Executives, Alumni Consider Life After Blankfein.” The article runs several trial ballons, one being that L ...
- Swiss Meeting to Debate Global Reform
Switzerland will host a forum of bankers and policymakers next month to discuss strengthening the global monetary system after the financial crisis, the Swiss central bank said on Tuesday. The Swiss National Bank announced in a statement that it would “jointly host a High-Level Conference on the In ...
- Building a New Investment Strategy Model, Comment ...
During recent Congressional testimony, the CEO of Goldman Sachs was asked about how this current charges against Goldman had altered their internal risk management. In essence, how could the situation inform the firm’s “best practices.” Indeed, this is important question for investors who bought the ...
- Building a New Investment Strategy, Comment #2
In 2008, I posted on the blog a description I wrote in 2002 of the Solari model that I developed in 1997, after years and billions of dollars of prototyping described in the story, “Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.” Here it is: “The Solari Model - Total Economic Return”
- Quote du Jour
“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.” ~ Dee Hock Special thanks to Larry Hoffenberg Editor & Publisher of www.bearmarketcentral.com for putting us on to this gem.
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- Wildlife conservation network 'a must'
More space needs to be set aside for wildlife to prosper across the whole countryside and not just in isolated nature reserves, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The charity said protecting endangered wildlife in fragmented "islands" of habitat is not enough to reverse loss ...
- Falconer to do 45-mile charity ride
GMTV presenter Jenni Falconer and her fiance James Midgley will take part in a 45-mile charity bike ride in London in September, it has been revealed. The pair will be taking part in the Palace to Palace fundraise for the Prince's Trust on September 26 along with a number of other celebrities includ ...
- You didn't think the health care crisis was over, ...
Change is in the air, but Americans are still flocking to free health clinics and flying overseas to avail themselves of needed health care. When President Obama signed the Patient’s Affordable Health Care Act into law last march, it ushered in a new era in the U.S. health care system. Critics on th ...
- Plan unveiled for space sector expansion
Industry chiefs have laid out plans to help the next government boost Britain's economy through an expansion of the space sector. A number of policies were laid out in the "space manifesto", published by the ADS, the trade organisation for the aerospace, defence and security sectors. And key industr ...
- Channel 4 reveals film budget boost
Channel 4 is set to increase its film budget as new films involving Danny Boyle, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan edge nearer to completion. Film4, the broadcaster's film financing arm, will enjoy a 20% budget boost from this year, as the amount spent rises to £10 million. Oscar-winning Slumdog Mi ...
- Looking in the mirror tells our future. How has Am ...
Civilization results from the creation of an economic surplus beyond that needed to survive. A society grows stronger by its ability to generate larger surpluses (save rather than consume) and wisely invest that surplus. America handsomely demonstrated that after WII. For example, Eisenhower sta ...
- FM newswire for May 5, interesting articles about ...
Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “The Euro Trap“, Paul Krugman, op-ed in the New York Times, 29 April 2010 — Until they understand the problem, there can be no cure. A look in the mirror:Â “Cases in Plutarchy? The U. ...
- An expert speaks to us about torture
Excerpt from an Interview with Malcolm Nance (an Arabic-speaking counterterrorism expert and a combat veteran with 28 years of operational experience in the Middle East), by Scott Horton, blog of Harper’s, 30 April 2010: Question #5: You previously served as a master instructor in the SERE program, ...
- We know what happened at the Deepwater Horizon rig ...
A follow-up to Sources of reliable information about the Gulf Oil Spill, going from what happened to why it happened. Slowly pieces of the puzzle come to light, as the following excerpts show. (A)  An update on the situation. “On defensive, BP readies dome to contain spill“, New York Times, 3 ...
- Rare earths – a hidden but strategic battleground ...
While the trillion-dollar US military and intelligence apparatus dissipates our wealth fighting lightly armed men in the Middle East, China makes wise and large moves to become a great power. Here we see the modern form of interstate conflict — and insights about the characters America and China. ...
- U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses
Reuters – The United States still has 71 million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine that have not been used, but it is not yet time to throw them out, the federal government said on Monday. States and other providers should hang on to the vaccine and continue to offer them to people until [...]
- Afghan militants attack government buildings
BBC – Nine suicide bombers have been killed along with four bystanders in an attack on government buildings in the Afghan city of Zaranj, officials say. They say the bombers blew themselves up outside the governor’s compound and a gun battle between insurgents and security forces lasted much of the ...
- Repaying Taxpayers With Their Own Cash
New York Times – As we inch closer to a clearer understanding of the products and practices that unleashed the credit crisis of 2008, itâs becoming apparent that those seeking the whole truth are still outnumbered by those aiming to obscure it. This is the case not only on Wall Street [...]
- Study suggests decline in UK fish stocks more seve ...
The Guardian-The UK’s modern fishing fleet must work 17 times harder for the same catch as their sail-powered Victorian counterparts, a study has claimed, suggesting the decline in fish stocks is more profound than previously thought. Records of fish landings dating back to the 1880s showed UK trawl ...
- Barofsky Says Criminal Charges Possible in Alleged ...
Bloomberg – Neil Barofsky was unpacking boxes in December 2008 when the stench of sewage wafted through the hallways at the 168-year-old Main Treasury Building. The space assigned to him as head of the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or SIGTARP, was sho ...
- Isang mabilisang tingin sa ilang pagkakamali ni Ma ...
Isang mabilisang tingin sa ilang pagkakamali ni Mao (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Tagalog) (English) Si Mao Zedong ang pinakadakilang rebolusyonaryo ng nakaraang siglo. Pinangunahan ni Mao ang sangkapat ng daigdig sa pagtatapon ng mga kadena ng imperyalismo, pyudalismo at kapitalismo. “Ang Ts ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- NASA's Robot Diver is Fueled by Ocean Temps
NASA's newest robot can dive and swim for indefinite periods of time because it's powered by an unlimited resource: the ocean's temperatures. The robotic buoy utilizes thermal energy each time it moves from cold deep waters to warm surface waters. The SOLO-TREC diver has been taking 500-meter di ...
- Solar Aero's Bladeless Wind Turbine
A research company in New Hampshire recently announced the patent of their bladeless wind turbine, which is based on a patent issued to Nikola Tesla in 1913. The Fuller Wind Turbine developed by Solar Aero has only one rotating part, the turbine-driveshaft. The entire assembly is contained insid ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Bookmarks for May 4th from 07:56 to 15:23
These are my links for May 4th from 07:56 to 15:23: Interview with Michael Mueller aka @eurogene aka @nutrigenomics – The pros and cons of being a scientist WolframTones ringtones with a scientific twist – Create your own mobile phone ringtones using Wolfram's audio perspective on the computationa ...
- 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 ...
- Hearings Begin in Historic Trial to Erode DOMA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Freedom to Marry Today in Boston, eight married same-sex couples and three widowers, represented by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), will appear in Federal District Court to challenge Section 3 of the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" that imposes ...
- EFF Seeks to Protect Innovation for Social Network ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook's claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of soc ...
- San Diego Butterfly Closer to Endangered Species P ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity As a result of a legal settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that one of Southern California’s rarest butterflies, the Hermes copper , warrants consideration as a ...
- EPA Proposes National Regulations on Coal Ash
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Earthjustice The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans today to regulate coal ash dumps across the country. The announcement comes after months of delay and misleading statements by the power and coal industries and nearly 17 months after a billion ...
- MMS Understated Scale and Impact of Oil Spills in ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2010 Project On Government Oversight More evidence casting doubt on whether the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) has been overseeing offshore drilling with the best interest of taxpayers in mind. In a 2009 response to MMS' proposed five-year plan for oil and gas ...
- The Price of Courage: On Goldstone’s Bar Mitzvah a ...
by Ramzy Baroud In his report on Gaza issued late last year, prominent South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. His language also showed awareness of the fact that the former is an occupying power with most sophisticated weapon arsenal (as reflecting ...
- Loose Lips on Iran Could Sink America
by Ray McGovern The omnipresent World War II-era posters with the words "Loose Lips Sink Ships" served as a warning to members of the U.S. military to take heed lest they divulge information that could tip off the enemy and result in defeat in battle. I believe we need a new poster, because loos ...
- Sweet Athens, Georgia
by Robert C. Koehler “Sing it out, y’all!” read more
- We Need a Road Map to a Coal Free Future
by Stephanie Pistello, Ben Evans, and Jeff Biggers In the wake of the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years, compromise and political machinations this spring have resulted in a regulatory crisis of failure; workplace safety in the mines, including the black lung scandal, has emerged as a national ...
- Fearing Fear Itself
by Robert Dreyfuss Faisal Shahzad, it should be noted, is not a member of the Tea Party. Nor, it appears, is he a "white man in his 40s," as early reports described a possible suspect. What he is, it seems, is a manifestation of the reality that the threat of terrorism has fallen far below the magni ...
- Deep reflections on the ozone story
There'll be a party in the chemistry labs at Cambridge University this Friday. But no-one will turn up with hugely coiffured hair, the champagne will be served warm, and if a fire should break out, there'll be nothing to use on it but old-fashioned water, CO2 and sand. Well... that's how life migh ...
- 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 ...
- Small Problem For States Challenging Health Reform ...
File this one under two more reasons why the constitutional challenges to health care reform are frivolous. Over at Slate, Simon Lazarus and Alan Marrison argue that Virginia, Florida, and the 20 other states that have joined the lawsuits lack standing and can’t get around the Tax Injunction Act, wh ...
- Burr ‘Couldn’t Imagine’ Supporti ...
One of the many devastating results of the Great Recession has been the damage wrought on state budgets, which have led to dramatic cuts in education, including plenty of teacher layoffs. Part of this pain was alleviated by the economic stimulus package passed last year, but the depth and length of ...
- Military Establishes Quasi Anonymous Website To So ...
When the co-chairs of the Pentagon’s DADT âWorking Groupâ testified before Congress, they promised to develop a system of consulting with gay members without inadvertently outing them. âWe envision outreach through social media so that a wide variety of individuals both within the Department o ...
- Sen. Leahy Proposes Amendment To Repeal Anti-Trust ...
en. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a long time supporter of ending the anti-trust exemption enjoyed by insurers, has filed an open amendment “to the pending Wall Street reform legislation” that would bar health insurance issuers or issuers of medical malpractice insurance from engaging in “any form of price ...
- Lee Smith: ‘Linkage’ Is False Because ...
Recent statements from Vice-President Joe Biden, General David Petraeus, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on how how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the perception of U.S. favoritism toward Israel, negatively affect U.S. interests in the Middle East have generated a number of frantic and str ...
- 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 ...
- Do Homelessness Simulations Do Any Good?
I imagine that people who are or have been homeless are somewhat baffled by the idea of a homelessness simulation, in which middle class individuals spend a night on the streets. I've never been homeless, and I still don't get it. The only purpose I can see is reassuring your ego that it's empatheti ...
- Well, Is Homeless Camping Illegal or Not?
Maybe it's the spring thaw, but there have been an awful lot of tent stories lately, both good and bad. First, after an ordinance banning tents in public parks was instituted in Honolulu, homeless campers outsmarted authorities by simply moving their setups to local sidewalks, which is perfectly le ...
- "Injustice Anywhere": The Parallels Between Homele ...
I live in Arizona, which these days is like saying one is from Germany circa 1939 or Mississippi in the 1960s. You're probably familiar with our draconian immigration laws , including the implications for racial profiling, expanded police powers and a general attitude of exclusion and intolerance. W ...
- The Homeless, In Their Own Poetic Words
How many of us who work on the issue of homeless, or who work with homeless people directly, truly know them as well as we would like? If our understanding of their situation is only cursory, how can we be as effective as we need to be? And how can our efforts at getting better acquainted not feel o ...
- The Way to End Homelessness Is So Obvious
According to Arthritis Care & Research, most women who wear high heels suffer from foot pain. Really? I had no idea. As obvious as this finding seems, I find that whenever I hear solutions from homeless advocates about how to prevent and end homelessness, they seem equally obvious. The advocates are ...
- TVO’s The Agenda - After Afghanistan: Peacekeeper ...
TVO's The Agenda - After Afghanistan: Peacekeepers or War makers? Recorded Thursday, April 29 2010. Canada's military role After Afghanistan. Live from the Munk School of Global Affairs.
- Where have all the Blue Berets gone?
A recent discussion on the future role of Canada’s military forces demonstrated once again that some of Canada’s most well known defence and foreign policy experts don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to UN peacekeeping. Four years ago, David Bercuson, Director of the DND-funded Cent ...
- Cannon fires a dud at NPT RevCon
“Canada has managed the extraordinary feat of presenting its opening statement to the NPT Review Conference without any substantive reference to ‘disarmament’ â one of the three foundational pillars of the Treaty,” reports arms control expert Ernie Regehr (”Canadaâs opening statement at NPT: pro ...
- 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 ...
- Blake Sawyer – Royal Velvet
Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Blake Sawyer of Royal Velvet and click here to find out why professional athletes are buying his product in bulk! Blake Sawyer on The Kevin Trudeau Show 05/05/10
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-5-10
Today, Kevin explains why the government is STILL after him and why discrimination laws only apply to certain groups of people. Plus, Blake Sawyer of Royal Velvet stops by to explain exactly how Deer Antler Velvet can act as the fountain of youth and turn back the hands of time! Click here to find o ...
- Ahmadinejad Says Osama Bin Laden is Living in Wash ...
May 5, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk “Rest assured that he’s in Washington. I think there’s a high chance he’s there,” the Iranian leader told ABC television in an interview. Without backing up the claim, the Iranian leader said he had “heard” that bin Laden was in the US capital. “Yes, I did. He’s there. ...
- Big Brother Is Watching You, New York
May 5, 2010 Google.com by Sebastian Smith New York officials say they could stop attacks like the attempted Times Square car bomb by expanding a controversial surveillance system so sensitive that it will pick up even suspicious behavior. New York is already a heavily policed city, with 35,000 offic ...
- Stocks Slide Worldwide
May 5, 2010 Bloomberg.com by Lynn Thomasson and David Merritt The MSCI World Index of stocks erased its 2010 gain, the euro weakened to a 14-month low and Treasuries rallied on concern Europe’s debt crisis is worsening. U.S. equities pared losses on signs of an improving economy. The MSCI gauge of e ...
- 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...
- The Israeli exception
At Foreign Policy in Focus, John Feffer draws attention to the contradiction between Israel’s behavior as a rogue state and the fact that it is about to be granted the privileged status of membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — unless that is, a country such as Tur ...
- Afghanistan: is it time to talk to the Taliban?
In The Guardian, Jonathan Steele writes: Eight years after they were overthrown by US air power, a drumbeat is starting to sound across Afghanistan in favour of talking to the Taliban, the country’s once-hated former rulers. An idea that used to seem absurd, if not defeatist, is coming to be seen a ...
- The myth of Talibanistan
Pepe Escobar’s analysis is interesting as always — though one note of warning: In writing about Baitullah Mehsud I think Escobar is actually referring to Hakimullah Mehsud. Reports that Baitullah was killed last August, have, as far as I’m aware, not been disputed. It was Hakimullah who reemerged th ...
- Drone strikes like “canon fire”
CNN reports: Drone-launched missiles are now hitting lower-level al Qaeda and Taliban personnel, camps, training areas, bomb makers, buildings and other targets in the remote region. “You’ve had an expanded target set for time now, and given the danger these groups pose and their relative inaccess ...
- Drone attacks provoke calls for revenge
In a report on the CIA’s campaign of drone warfare in Pakistan, the Los Angeles Times recounts the stories of some of the civilian victims of the attacks. Many of the boys that Zaman Khan grew up with in the South Waziristan town of Shakai eventually joined the Taliban. He knew they had become mili ...
- Gavin’s sensitive side
Sensitive side (from the NASA Global Climate Change Website) By Rosemary Sullivant, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory A little extra carbon dioxide in the air may, unfortunately, go further towards warming Earth than previously thought. A team of British and U.S. … Continue reading →
- UAH global temperature anomaly, a bit cooler in Ap ...
APRIL 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.50 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global-average lower tropospheric temperature continues warm: +0.50 deg. C for April, 2010, although it is 0.15 deg. C cooler than last month. The linear trend since … Continue reading →
- New paper: Tropical cyclone response to solar UV
Daily tropical cyclone intensity response to solar ultraviolet radiation J. B. Elsner, T. H. Jagger, and R. E. Hodges GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 37, L09701, doi:10.1029/2010GL043091, 2010 Abstract: An inverse relationship between hurricane activity over the Caribbean and the number … Continu ...
- Sun’s magnetics coming alive again
When I last looked at the Ap geomagnetic index back in January, it looked pretty grim. Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low â only âzeroâ could be lower â in a month when sunspots became more active Now with the release … Continue reading →
- AGW to reach…”The Edge of Wetness̶ ...
Johnny Carson of the Tonight Show used to do a schtick called “The Edge of Wetness” which was a parody of a soap opera called “The Edge of Night“ It was he first thing that went through my mind after … Continue reading →
- Here Come Those Chickens Again by Cindy Sheehan
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox May 6, 2010 “Chickens Coming Home to Roost:” Proverb: When one has to face the consequences of mistakes or bad deeds. As soon as I heard that Pakistani-American, Faisal Shahzad, was arrested for the ...
- Greg Palast: How The IMF Set-Up Iceland & Greece + ...
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1093202 with Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 6 May, 2010 TheAlexJonesChannel May 04, 2010 — Alex talks with New York Times-bestselling author and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspape ...
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Speech at the United N ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Updated: added full transcript below the videos by President Ahmadinejad United Nations May 3, 2010 President Ahmadinejad’s speech at the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons conference [...] Wars, aggressions and above all the shadow of threat and stockpiling of ...
- The Lady Doth Protest Too Much By Ed Ciaccio
by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer May 3, 2010 This week, the UN is meeting in New York City to review the progress of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. A Telegraph/UK article titled “US to Unveil Size of Nuclear Stockpile” and posted today on CommonDreams.org states: Arms-control gr ...
- The Drone Bomber by Cindy Sheehan
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox May 3, 2010 Jeez—hasn’t the world suffered enough at the “antics” of the Robber Class at the annual White House Correspondent’s dinner? I mean, crap, we have been “treated” to George Bush looking fo ...
- Toxic Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Despite Better A ...
British Petroleum and government disaster-relief agencies are using a toxic chemical to disperse oil in the Gulf of Mexico, even though a better alternative appears to be available. As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spreads, BP and the U.S. Coast Guard have conducted tests with Corexit 9500, a ch ...
- Brain Scan Evidence Rejected by Brooklyn Court
A judge in Brooklyn ruled to exclude fMRI evidence in an employer-retaliation case, delivering another blow to proponents of lie detection by brain scan. The scans didn’t even make it to the hearing that normally is used to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence in New York state court. ...
- Linux vs. Genome in Network Challenge
A comparison of the networks formed by genetic code and the Linux operating system has given insight into the fundamental differences between biological and computational programming. The shapes are very dissimilar, reflecting the evolutionary parameters of each process. Biology is driven by random ...
- Gulf Coast May Be Permanently Changed by Oil Spill
If a desperate, last-ditch attempt to cap the Deepwater Horizon wellhead succeeds in coming days, environmental damage to the Gulf of Mexico will still be severe but probably not long-lasting. But if the cap fails, and months pass before a diversionary well can be drilled, the Gulf may be profoundl ...
- Designers Want to Improve Your Health With These S ...
> SAN FRANCISCO — Most people see health as the output of a few different inputs like food, exercise and medicine. But how good your body and mind feel is mediated by the objects that surround you, too. In a new design studio at the California College of the Arts, inst ...
- Huge International BBC Poll has Israel 19% Favorab ...
Survey conducted in 28 countries on 29,000 respondents reveals that only Iran, Pakistan, North Korea have more negative perception than Israel. Most ‘loved’ country is Germany. ‘Obama effect’ has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
- Gideon Levy: The friend
There are not many Jews like Wiesel, to whom the White House door is open and the president lends an ear. And what does Wiesel do with this golden opportunity? He talks to Obama about postponing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
- 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, ...
- Amira Hass: Like a plane without a pilot
Even if not one more Jewish home is built in the occupied territories (including East Jerusalem), the enormous apparatus of domination continues to operate there with an inner logic of many years’... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- [Israeli] Islamic Movement: Boycott settler goods
The northern branch of the Islamic Movement [in Israel-Palestine] on Wednesday joined Arab states and the Palestinian Authority and called for a boycott of settlement goods. The call was directed at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- 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 ...
- Nuestra fauna (19 fotos de animales muy lindos)
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. En este paquete que pretende rendir un pequeño tributo a nuestra fauna, usted encontrará los siguientes elementos; Osos, Perros, Gatos, Búhos, Zorros, Águilas, Ardillas, Leones, Tigres, Ocelotes, Venados y algo más. Ha ...
- La foto de tu mamita y la tuya en estas imágenes P ...
Estamos a sólo 5 días de celebrar en México, Guatemala, El Salvador y en otros países el Día de las Madres. Por eso mismo, hoy tengo para todos ustedes una carpeta que contiene 6 versiones diferentes de una imagen PNG decorada con hermosos tulipanes, donde usted podrá colocar la foto de su mamita y. ...
- 15 fotografías de motocicletas (varias marcas y mo ...
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Este paquete, contiene 15 fotografías de motocicletas en alta resolución. Usted podrá ver motos Yamaha, Honda, BMW, Victory, Kawasaki, Ducati, Honda, Etc. Son motocicletas en varios colores y modelos. Deportivas,... ...
- Nuevas imágenes fantásticas (37 elementos increíbl ...
Me congratulo al poder ofrecerle a usted una excelente colección con 37 nuevas imágenes fantásticas. Sea testigo de la alta creatividad y descubra esta serie de paisajes increíbles. Un acercamiento directo a la fusión entre la realidad y la ficción.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar. ...
- Los insectos de mi jardín (40 fotos tipo macro)
Si a usted como yo, le gustan las fotografías macro de insectos, le tengo una excelente noticia. El día de hoy, deseo ofrecerle sin ningún costo, un paquete que incluye 40 fotografías de pequeños insectos. Mariposas, Arañas, Libélulas, Catarinas, Caballitos de mar, Hormigas, Escarabajos, Etc. Es... ...
- Can the ICC Prosecutor Investigate Gaza? ICC Pros ...
by Julian Ku Last year, the Palestinian National Authority filed a declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. This declaration is controversial, to say the least, because it could potentially give the ICC jurisdiction over Israeli military forces operating in Gaza ...
- DeGirolami on Banning the Burqa
by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen My colleague Marc DeGirolami has a guest post over at PrawfsBlawg reacting to an op-ed in today’s New York Times by Jean-François Copé, the the majority leader of the French National Assembly, in which Copé defends banning the burqa and the niqab. While Marc se ...
- Trivia Question of the Day
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller What’s the only modern international or internationalized criminal tribunal that either has or had universal jurisdiction?
- Looking for New and Innovative Ways to Implement U ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I hadn’t been aware of this group, Human Rights at Home, which is seeking to “create a national political culture that supports and advocates for human rights.”  In fact, they have some interesting ideas of how to reform U.S. legal infrastructure to implement U.S. inte ...
- Does the Arizona Immigration Law Violate the Inter ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Yes, says Human Rights Watch in this press release. According to HRW, the new (and hotly controversial Arizona law) is in conflict with ICERD. I am troubled by the AZ law and think it is likely preempted by other federal law, but I am baffled as to how the AZ law [.. ...
- A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Rel ...
A “Special Delivery” for AZ Hunger Relief Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is in the top half of states for food hardship — the lack of money to buy food that families need — according to the Food Research and Action Center. Thousands of Arizona letter carriers will try to fix that with their annual one-day fo ...
- Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law
Immigrant Supporters Ask Feds to Void New AZ Law Phoenix, AZ – A delegation of Arizona political, faith, human rights, business and labor leaders travels to the nation’s capital today (Tuesday) for a meeting with Justice Department officials, urging them to invalidate Arizona’s tough new immigration ...
- 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 ...
- Conspiracy Theory
Here's the conspiracy, and it's no theory: years of conscious attempts to break the machine of government in order to ensure a more impediment-free profit process has precipitated this, along with many of the other newsworthy woes which now face this admi Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
- Climate Change in The Gulf of Mexico from the oil ...
Look, at the recent NASA photos. There is a hole in the cloud cover above the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. No clouds mean no evaporation has occurred, which equals no future rain, which means a coming drought. Submitted by Just Carole to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Remember or You Might Choke On It - Global Defores ...
We must remember about global deforestation as an environmental disaster. Find out some of the latest information about the state of our world's forests. Submitted by Emerald Monde to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 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 ...
- Get Smart goes to GTMO
At least one of the videotapes showing Omar's conversations with CSIS agents at GTMO in 2003 was played for the court. Evidence derived from the direct participation of representatives of Canada : Harper government formally requested the U.S. not do so. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
- More than 80 Groups Urge FDA and USDA to Change U. ...
For Immediate release Naomi Starkman Consumers Union nstarkman@gmail.com 917.539.3924-c Position Will Create Problems for American Producers to Label Products GM/GE-Free Upcoming International Codex Meeting to Discuss Food Labeling, May 3 Yonkers, NY—Consumers Union, the nonprofit publishe ...
- 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.
- Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanis ...
ShareThis The Taliban�stimulus, funded by US taxpayers: Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanistan peace plan --Karzai to discuss proposal that also offers reinsertion and jobs to former militants with Obama on US visit 05 May 2010 Top Taliban leaders could be offered exile outside Afghan ...
- Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of ...
ShareThis 'There were clues in Connecticut -- but only to the paranoid.' Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of air force chief 06 May 2010 There were clues in Pakistan but only to the tight handful of [ CIA ] minders who knew what Faisal Shahzad was planning.�What is beyond doubt is tha ...
- CIA to expand drone raids in Pakistan
ShareThis Times Square false flag conveniently provides cover for Obusha's war expansion: CIA to expand drone raids in Pakistan 06 May 2010 The CIA has received authorization to target a wider range of targets in Pakistan with its drone-guided missiles, despite national discontent on growing civilia ...
- Emirates Denies Negligence Over Terror Suspect's D ...
ShareThis Emirates Denies Negligence Over Terror Suspect's Dubai Flight 06 May 2010 Emirates denied negligence over its failure to update a U.S. no-fly list, allowing the suspect in the attempted May 1 car bombing in New York’s Times Square to board a flight to Dubai... Faisal Shahzad was put on the ...
- Countries are risking cyber terrorism, security ex ...
ShareThis Countries are risking cyber terrorism, security expert tells first world summit --Governments that fail to protect computer networks could face devastating attack, says former Pentagon director 05 May 2010 The spectre of crashing power grids, stalled air control towers... and defences left ...
- Olympia mural uses Corrie tragedy to strengthen bo ...
The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural This Saturday there will be a celebration in Rachel Corrie's hometown of Olympia, WA marking the completion of the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural. The project has been a collective effort of Olympia locals, as well as over 150 artists, activists and organization ...
- A ‘historic opportunity at hand’ tonig ...
Anfal Awwad, Benjamin Balthaser, Oliver Burchill, Amal Dalmar and Aaron Dimsdale write in the UCSD newspaper The Guardian about the UCSD divestment resolution that will be voted on tonight: We have a historic opportunity to stop our university from contributing to the violation of human rights. T ...
- Look into the terrifying face of the enemy
Scary, huh? This is Izzet Sahin, founder of a human rights office in the West Bank, arrested by Israel last week as he was passing through the Bethlehem checkpoint--and then taken into Israel. Oh, and he's a Hebrew student. Who's reporting on this in the U.S., beside JVP and Sahin's group IHH, w ...
- Pot calls kettle apartheid
I understand the latest attacks on Richard Goldstone will involve his service as a judge in apartheid days. The Jerusalem Post has picked up an investigation by Yedioth, an assertion that Goldstone condemned blacks to their deaths in Apartheid South Africa. They're desperate. Hasbara folks are on th ...
- Maker of ‘Budrus’ set his sights on ...
I keep saying that the Israel lobby, whose power the lobby itself poo-poos, is a giant tower of Jewish history whose chronicles will fill library shelves one day when it's no longer controversial. Dershowitz, Philip Roth and John Mearsheimer have all written about it. The day approaches. The Jewish ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Sparkling Chair Made of PET and Air, Just Like a W ...
The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don't use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)... so what about air? We have featured a series of inflatable items, such as inflatable solar panels , an inflatable house or glowing inflatable furniture , because ...
- All Bets are Off on the UK Election But Fun and Ga ...
Image from Policy Diffusion Today is Election Day in the U.K. and the race is on. Betting on the election is legal here and the bookies are giving the best odds on the Conservatives winning. No one else is sure what is happening; it will be a dash to the finish, with the great undecided voter ...
- Aqua: Terrific Looking Sustainable + Low-Cost Home ...
Photos: Casa Aqua via TuVerde. Even if green architecture is usually 'good architecture' that can be applied to any construction, it seems the household projects that carry some sort of certification are usually aimed at the high income segment. Perhaps because people with lower income have oth ...
- BP Says 1 of 3 Oil Leaks Is Plugged, 100-Ton Metal ...
Image: Unified command releases new overflight map updated 5 p.m. May 3, 2010. CC. Not Out of the Woods Yet... Late Tuesday night, BP succeeded in plugging one of the three leaks that are spewing vast quantities of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. This was done with the help of underwater remotely o ...
- Lovelock Tells BBC That Mankind Cannot Save Gaia
Image: BBC Lovelock Interview James Lovelock, the scientist who put forth the Gaia Theory, has told the BBC it is too late for us to save the planet. According to Gaia Theory, the entire earth is a single organism, connected and interactive. Only just over a month ago, Lovelock called for autho ...
- France court refuses to extradite Iranian engineer ...
[JURIST] A French appeals court on Monday refused a US extradition request for Iranian engineer Majid Kakavand, accused of illegally exporting electronic equipment to Iran for military use. Kakavand was detained in France in March 2009 after the US government issued a warrant for his arrest. Kakavan ...
- Bosnia war crimes court acquits genocide suspect
[JURIST] The appellate division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website] on Wednesday acquitted [press release; case materials] Serb wartime commander Milos Stupar of genocide [BiH Criminal Code Article 171, PDF] charges in connection with his alleged involvement in killings committ ...
- Argentina lower house passes same-sex marriage bil ...
[JURIST] The Argentine Chamber of Deputies [official website, in Spanish] voted 126-109 Wednesday in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive] in the country. The bill would also give gay couples the right to adopt children [Pagina 12 report, in Spanish], one of the bill's ...
- Sri Lanka parliament eases state of emergency rest ...
[JURIST] The Sri Lankan Parliament [official website] on Wednesday eased certain restrictions under the country's state of emergency laws, which have been in place for most of the last 27 years. Lawmakers voted to extend the state of emergency [Colombo Page report] for another month but reduced some ...
- Dutch prosecutor to appeal Holocaust cartoon rulin ...
[JURIST] The Dutch Public Prosecution Service [official website, in Dutch] announced Tuesday that the public prosecutor for the Utrecht District Court filed an appeal [press release, in Dutch] against the April 22 ruling [JURIST report] acquitting the Arab European League (AEL) of hate speech charge ...
- The Night Beat: Democratic Terror Talking Points, ...
Sen. Joe Lieberman's citizenship stripping bill for terrorists will be dropped tomorrow. His Republican co-sponsor: Scott Brown .� To clarify, that's citizenship-hyphen-stripping. The State Department would decide who gets thrown out of the circle. Breath on this : according to the agency that mon ...
- The Night Beat: And Then There Were 4 in Florida
What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. Read it here first: Then there were FOUR. Billionaire Jeff Greene � will enter FL SEN race tomorrow as a Democrat ... expect a paper statement. Life story: he came from nothing. Self-made man. Created jobs. Made a difference. (He also shorted � ...
- The Night Beat: Tick Tock
What matters tomorrow ... tonight. Read it and sleep. Republican Dan Coats , nominated, U.S. Senate from Indiana. (3 of every 5 voters in his primary chose another candidate, though.) Democrat Brad Ellsworth , nominated, U.S. Senate from Indiana. Democrat Lee Fisher , nominated, U.S. Senate from Oh ...
- How Rockefeller's Selling His Cyber Bill
There are six cyber security bills in Congress now, but the one with the biggest chance of making it to the floor first is the Senate Commerce Committee's, authored by Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe. The two want to trademark the developing arena of cyber law in the name of �commerce and industry ...
- Historical Document: The Case Against Shahzad
Here's the criminal complaint, unsealed moments ago. crimcomplaint.pdf
- Shin Bet Nabs Spanish Clown Intent on Damaging Nat ...
Boy, am I glad there’s a Shin Bet around to protect Israel. First, they nab that bitch traitor Anat Kamm who sold the nation’s secrets to Hamas. Then, they send that other spy Uri Blau packing off the London where he belongs. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ll close down that nest of vipers at the ...
- Israeli Secrets Behind Gaza Siege
Several years ago, when Ariel Sharon was prime minister, his main advisor, Dov Weisglass “jokingly” said that Israel’s siege was intended to put Gazans on a diet: âItâs like a meeting with a dietitian. We need to make the Palestinians lose weight, but not to starve to death.â Yes, it was maca ...
- Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner 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 column...
- Dershowitz’ Lies: There He Goes Again
I bet you didn’t know I accused Alan Dershowitz of trying to kill Michael Lerner. Neither did I. But hell, that’s what the Dersh would have you believe in his latest ripping lie-filled yarn at HuffPo. He’s back there for the second time in six days, this time claiming Michael Lerner is trying ...
- ‘Yonatan Shapira, Make Me Babies’
Enough doom and gloom.� Forget about useless proximity talks, hooligan uber-Zionists, rabid settlers, the Israel lobby foaming at the mouth over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.� Instead enjoy some good old-fashioned foot-stomping Israeli pop music.� Oh, damn.� Here I thought I was going to give you some unal ...
- Working proof that art can bring aid
By: VictoriaKlein The world of art has often dabbled in the realm of charitable fundraising. A fresh round-up of modern, visually-creative minds have embraced the power of the internet to make a conscious difference. Seeking to promote “art and social responsi ...
- Where science and religion meet
By: Marco Visscher “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” This is a quote by the 20th-Century anthropologist Ashley Montague, which I saw at the bottom of an email from a friend who’s a scientist. I’ve always ...
- Hope therapy will get us through tough times
How hope therapy can help banish mild mood disorders and boost happiness. Photo: Dusanzidar/ Dreamstime.com Things were going pretty well for Melanie. After struggling with being overweight, she had recently dropped a significant number of pounds. She felt great and looked ...
- Add more good to life
By: humanebeings To many, making choices that do the most good and least harm for all - what we at the Institute for Humane Education call MOGO - “most good” - might seem like “giving up” a lot of things: certain foods and clothes, transportation options, stuff, pe ...
- Changing the story of wealth
By: Selma Normally I wouldn’t be interested in what economists say, but ecomist David Korten has a great story to tell. Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World , recently visited the Netherlands and I found myself inspired by the points he made. Korten s ...
- Oil Found, Anger Fueled, Action For Sure
Today as I sat in a boat in the Gulf, surrounded on all sides by oil-tainted seas, its hard to say what hit me the hardest. Was it the graceful and enigmatic dolphins surfacing through the slick? Or Captain O’Neill pointing out the spots where he fishes for speckled trout, redfish, flounde ...
- Climate change endangers whitebark pine in western ...
Yesterday the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) announced that it has determined whitebark pine – a high elevation pine found throughout much of the western US and Canada – is endangered throughout its Canadian range due to a combination of factors including ...
- The Oil Spill Demonstrates National Security Imper ...
As the oil spreads in the Gulf threatening livelihoods , wildlife and coastal ecosystems , political leaders are recognizing that this event will have major implications for America’s energy future. The stark difference between the Cape Wind project and the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico ar ...
- Q&A PART 2: Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Your Health – ...
I continue today with Part 2 of my Q&A about oil spill health concerns with a look at different groups of people who are at a particular risk to health impacts associated with the oil spill. In my next post, I’ll address health tips for people working on the clean-up. And you can find answe ...
- Arguing the Case: Climate, Energy Independence and ...
Yesterday I spoke on two panels at the annual ITS America conference in Houston. This big event brings together industry and government experts interested in technology and its applications in transportation, meaning everything from toll booths to electronic signage along roads and rails sto ...
- Welcome To My Life, Taboo
Although Brian Leiter beat me to it, this David Bernstein post is such a remarkable piece of work that I can’t resist piling on. Â Â Angry about the possibility that someone might be criticized (with, properly in my view, no other consequences as far as I can tell) for expressing racist views, he p ...
- Authoritarian Who Despises American Constitutional ...
Holy Joe Lieberman, America’s last honest man and second most important arbiter of National Integritude after Bill Bennett. Â (See also here and here and here.) Related posts:Worst American Birthdays, vol. 23 Worst American Birthdays, vol. III The Objectively Great Mitt Romney’s Objectively Great ...
- He’s No Lewis Sorley, But…
Congratulations to George Herring! Vietnam War historian George C. Herring, Alumni Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky, is the 2010 recipient of the Medallion for Intellectual Achievement. The UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement recognizes high intellectual a ...
- Robert Gates Gave a Speech…
I have some thoughts on Gates’ Navy speech over at ID. Related posts:Is Robert Gates the War Nerd? Gates Smacks Down Air Force, Again Gates Foundation Related posts: Is Robert Gates the War Nerd? Gates Smacks Down Air Force, Again Gates Foundation
- The Would-Be Facebook Refugee’s Dilemma
Dan Yoder is leaving Facebook, and implores us to “join him.” He has almost a dozen reasons why. Some of them are even good reasons. He’s not alone. And more and more of us, disenchanted, disenfranchised Facebookers know it. But here’s the rub, Dan. A lot of us can’t just decide to “leave” without ...
- Under Threat in the Gulf, A Refuge Created by Roos ...
Among the natural treasures at risk from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created by Theodore Roosevelt to halt a grave threat to birds in his era — the lucrative trade in plumage. Now, oil from the BP spill is starting to wash up on beaches where Roosevelt ...
- Dozens of Critical Bird Sites in Path of Massive G ...
The American Bird Conservancy says the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will affect bird populations from Canada to South America, with important nesting and migratory stopover sites along the Gulf Coast directly in the path of the spill. The Gulf Coast is a critical region for hundreds of species o ...
- Laser Used to Create Clouds in European Laboratory
Swiss researchers have successfully used laser pulses to create small clouds in the laboratory , a technology they say could possibly be used to create rain on demand. After firing short pulses of infrared laser light into a chamber filled with water-saturated air at -24 degrees C, scientists observ ...
- EU Electric Car Strategy Calls for Charging Statio ...
The European Union has unveiled a strategy to become a world leader in the green vehicle market, including a framework for common standards for electric cars across Europe by 2011 and the development of a network of charging stations continent-wide. Calling this a defining stage for the automotive i ...
- 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 ...
- CGI Tour of Mars: Proof of Life?
Below is a YouTube presentation of a “Google Mars” type tour of the planet Mars depicting vegetation and ancient city blocks. I couldn’t tell anything, but the overhead effects were pretty good. Who ever set this up knew what they were doing, but I’m no expert in CGI or Photoshop. Enjoy. … Intellige ...
- 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…
All week long we’ve looked at different articles with conflicting viewpoints on Hawking’s statements that we should take care in broadcasting our presence to the Universe, because we might attract a powerful interstellar nomadic species that could very well steal our planet and kill us all. Of cours ...
- 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?
Possible proof of another ‘intelligent’ civilization in the Universe? A refutation of the Fermi Paradox? Maybe. There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen an ...
- Cannibal Goths sentenced
Two 20-year-old men, who killed and partially ate a girl, have received long jail sentences. Submitted by Anu S. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Care 2 Member Has Passed Away Lynne (Charlotte) Ka ...
Lynne (Charlotte) Kaiser, 58, of 107 Twin Lakes Drive, North Fond du Lac, died Monday, May 3, 2010, at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital. Submitted by Kristi K. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Blind dog gets a guide dog!
A labrador collie cross called Paris was born without any eyes and handed into a rescue centre as a baby. She was given a home with new owner Lesley, who has another rescue dog called Madison. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Put a Stop to Bear Bile Farming - TAKE ACTION!
Bear bile farming is an alarming practice taking place in China, whereby Asiatic black bears are captured and used to provide bile from their gall bladders. The bile is an found in popular ancient Chinese medicine. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Pitbull attacks reignite debate on Turkish ban aga ...
Two recent cases in which abandoned Pitbulls attacked children have reignited debate about the reason people raise such dogs in Turkey. While some say the law banning the sale of the dog should be stricter, others suggest such dangerous animals should Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
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