- BOLIVIA: Guaraní, Tapieté Peoples Fight Gas Explor ...
LA PAZ, Jun 1 (IPS) - The explosive charges utilised in fossil fuel exploration in Bolivia's Chaco region divert underground water flows, scare off wildlife and harm the environment, charge the leaders of local indigenous Guaraní communities, which have been blocking access routes to keep ...
- AFRICA: Climate Change Assistance so Near and Yet ...
GENEVA, Jun 1 (IPS) - Technology transfer and aid for trade could assist least developed countries (LDCs) suffering the effects of climate change. But negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are not helping to make this a reality, while aid for trade lands up at the wrong institu ...
- INDIA: Mangroves Face Severe Threat from Human Act ...
BHUBANESWAR, Orissa, India, June 1 (IPS) - When a super cyclone devastated the coastal districts of Orissa state in 1999, the government pledged to regenerate 3,000 hectares of mangrove. Or so forest official Chandra Sekhar Kar thought.
- ISRAEL: Censure Follows Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla
RAMALLAH, Jun 1 (IPS) - The Israeli government’s spin machine has launched into full-throttle as the country faces yet another diplomatic crisis and harsh international criticism for Monday’s raid on the Free Gaza (FG) humanitarian aid flotilla that left 19 people dead and about 50 injure ...
- EGYPT: Extension of Law Becomes an Emergency
CAIRO, Jun 1 (IPS) - The government's decision to renew Egypt's longstanding Emergency Law has drawn furious reactions from opposition figures and rights advocates. While government spokesmen say the law will only be used against terrorism and drug trafficking, critics say it is aimed p ...
- Oil Spill set to become US' biggest environmental ...
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- Heated Argument on Rig Before Blast
More details emerged Wednesday about a disagreement between employees of rig operator Transocean Ltd. and oil giant BP PLC over how to begin shutting down the well just hours before it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last month. Testimony on Wednesday about the disagreement, in a hearing held by the ...
- National Cycleway stuck in traffic
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- Another vast oil plume found in Gulf
A day after scientists reported finding a huge "plume" of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. James H. Cowan Jr., a professor at Louisiana State University, said ...
- BP: Little Headway to Halt Oil Leak
The technician said that despite all the injections, at various pressure levels, engineers had been able to keep less than 10 percent of the injection fluids inside the stack of pipes above the well. He said that was barely an improvement on the results Wednesday, when the operation began and was su ...
- Chemical switch
As a “green chemist,” Philip Jessop spends his days trying to help the chemical industry create products in a less expensive and more environmentally friendly way. That’s why the Queen’s University professor of inorganic chemistry has high hopes for an innovative solvent he’s developed that may yiel ...
- Postpartum relief
When Nicole Letourneau’s second child was born with cancer in 2001, she was, in theory, well equipped for such devastating news. As a nurse, her graduate studies had looked at aspects of family care, such as the impact of a mother staying overnight in hospital with her sick child. She had also worke ...
- Project waste water
Last fall, they were just four guys with an assignment to complete as part of their final year of chemical engineering studies at Toronto’s Ryerson University. This spring, they are the award-winning designers of a new process for treating waste water that could be used to remove a number of hazardo ...
- A symphony of science
Words such as “laboratory” and “experiment” conjure up white-coated scientists mixing chemicals to better understand diseases like cancer or environmental challenges like energy consumption. We don’t usually picture a pianist, a playwright, a dancer or an acoustical engineer. When artists experiment ...
- The amazing ‘sensorium suite’ of Dr. Houston
“All the world’s a stage,” William Shakespeare famously wrote. And while Shakespeare’s plays are still performed in premier concert halls and on festival stages, Andrew Houston, an associate professor of drama at the University of Waterloo, is taking his theatre of sound out into the world. “Often, ...
- Ryanair's Michael O'Leary says ash cloud 'was myth ...
Michael O'Leary has refused to soften his stance on compensation as he admitted the volcanic ash cloud cost the airline around €50m. Ryanair's chief executive said his airline was gearing up for a legal challenge against "unfair" EU regulations, which forced carriers to cover the costs of refreshme ...
- Irish foreign minister Michael Martin demands entr ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Martin has demanded that Israel allows Irish humanitarian ship the MV Rachel Corrie through its military blockade of Gaza. Mr Martin also called for authorities to free any Irish citizen detained during a deadly commando attack in which at least 10 activists were ki ...
- Airborne telescope makes its first observations
A jet with a large telescope built into its side has snapped its first in-flight images of the night sky. The flight begins a new phase for the infrared observatory, called SOFIA, which was once in danger of cancellation due to cost overruns. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SO ...
- Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Gaza
The Israeli military has killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli commandos killed 20 activists aboard six aid ships in international waters. Medics in Gaza announced that the Palestinians were killed in northern parts of the strip on Tuesday, AFP reported. The hea ...
- Eyewitness accounts demolish Israeli lies: Command ...
First eyewitness accounts of raid contradict version put out by Israeli officials Survivors of the Israeli assault on a flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza returned to Greece and Turkey today, giving the first eyewitness accounts of the raid in which at least 10 people died. Arriving at Ista ...
- Never go hunting...
...with Calgary MP Rob Anders . In fact, if he's got them, confiscate his firearms and revoke his PAL. He is a danger to himself and his fellow shooters. Calgary MP Rob Anders is raising eyebrows for signing a card in support of Canadian troops with the handwritten message: "When in doubt, pull ...
- "the cowardly Communications Director..."
It isn't there when you click it, but see the first search result (wiki ):
- Vive la revolution de sirop d'erable!
The latest edition of the Maple Syrup Revolution - in which Canadian Cynic's Lindsay Stewart returns to discuss copyright, lying Conservative Party of Canada MPs, the Harper government's fear of open government and the insane amount of money being spent on security for the G8 and G20 summits -- is r ...
- So BP,
... what just exploded down there in the deep? And why haven't you mentioned it ? I like what this guy (remember him?) has to say about things : The government should immediately freeze BP's assets and start to charge the corporation -- say $100 million -- each day the oil flows. The money could ...
- Our banks are better....
So says Stephen Harper and his so-called finance minister, Jim Flaherty. Better than what? Canadian banks were a constrained bunch of animals which, had they gotten past the finance minister know as Paul Martin , would have created three Canadian mega-banks and would have failed as spectacularly a ...
- Memo to media: Do not trust Andrew Breitbart and ...
Andrew Breitbart and convicted criminal James O'Keefe are promising to unveil another video. In assessing Breitbart and O'Keefe's claims, media should keep in mind their record of dishonest and illegal practices and their failed attempt to show that ACORN was engaging in criminal behavior. Spe ...
- Hannity devotes show to discredited claim that Ses ...
In a show devoted entirely to a White House offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) of a position on a presidential panel, Sean Hannity joined several guests in portraying that offer as violation of the law. In fact, and numerous legal experts have stated that no crime was committed. Guests join Hannity i ...
- Krauthammer falsely claims Romanoff "has said exp ...
Charles Krauthammer falsely claimed that Democratic Senate primary candidate Andrew Romanoff "has said explicitly" that he was offered "an administration job" to cease his campaign. In fact, the claim was made by anonymous sources, not Romanoff, and the Obama White House has denied making any ...
- Baier, Hayes push Sestak crime falsehood based on ...
Fox News' Bret Baier and Stephen Hayes falsely suggested that a White House offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) of a position on a presidential panel violated the "plain language" of a federal statute. But President Bush's chief ethics lawyer has reportedly called this interpretation of the statute ...
- Media's White House "bribe" falsehood driven by di ...
Media conservatives have relied on discredited sources to push the false allegation that the White House broke the law and "bribed" Rep. Joe Sestak with an administration job in exchange for staying out of the Senate race. These sources have a history of promoting falsehoods and have signific ...
- Representative Jason Altmire: Job Killing Deficit ...
Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was the object of considerable ridicule for his support of the infamous $400 million "Bridge to Nowhere." This played a big role in his defeat in the last election. It is appropriate that members of Congress pay a price for their support of wasteful projects tha ...
- George W. Bush, One-Term President
When people try to argue that Obama's grand strategy is the same as his predecessor's , there's serious selective memory at work. I'm happy to stipulate that Bush 43 tacked back toward foreign policy reasonableness in his second term. So sure, there are similarities between the new National Security ...
- Are Israel's Friends Going To Destroy It?
The timing of the flotilla massacre could not have been worse for the United States government. Apparently (press reports in Israel and the United States are consistent on this) the administration had decided to kiss-and-makeup with Prime Minister Netanyahu. There was to be a White House meeting o ...
- Traffic Patterns
I published this on my personal blog on Sunday, just before the fatal action of Israeli forces at sea. I did not intend this, and cannot elaborate (in transit), but perhaps this post can help shed light on things beyond Israeli highways. Saturday night, driving home from a dinner with some forme ...
- Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary Receiversh ...
It's time for the federal government to put BP under temporary receivership, which gives the government authority to take over BP's operations in the Gulf of Mexico until the gusher is stopped. This is the only way the public will know what's going on, be confident enough resources are being put to ...
- Rep. Jason Altmire: Job Killing Deficit Hawk
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was the object of considerable ridicule for his support of the infamous $400 million "Bridge to Nowhere." This played a big role in his defeat in the last election. It is appropriate that members of Congress pay a price for their support of wasteful projects that serv ...
- Weekly Audit: Why Democrats Must Focus on Jobs Now ...
The job market in its worst state since the Great Depression and is putting tremendous strain on millions of Americans. Without action from Washington, D.C., the unemployment rate will remain elevated for years to come, and almost certainly above 9 percent through the end of 2010. Public esteem for ...
- Eugene Robinson | Admiral Cool in a Very Hot Seat
Washington -- Adm. Thad Allen is an expert on thankless jobs. After the initial response to Hurricane Katrina had been botched, President Bush assigned him to clean up the mess. Now President Obama has put him in charge of handling the worst oil spill in the nation's history. Oh, and the assignment ...
- Robert Parry | Time to Turn to Jeb?
It was as if the mainstream journalists were following an unwritten rule: that is, whatever the relevance, the former President was not to be mentioned as a culprit in these catastrophes. Even when there were references to how the problems had been getting worse for 10 years at the Mineral Manageme ...
- Froma Harrop | Ban the Burqa
Belgium has banned the burqa, the head-to-toe veil worn in parts of the Muslim world. French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants his country to follow suit. What's an open-minded person to think? The answer is, you have every right to regulate your world. Burqa-wearing is often forced upon women by men ...
- Are GreenButts Environmental Cigarettes Going Too ...
Cigarette butts make up nearly 25% of collected garbage which degrade and allow chemicals like cellulose acetate to enter the earth and groundwater. It’s rare that we come across an environmentally-friendly alternative to a common item that just isn’t beneficial. More often than not, anything that ...
- Oil Spill in the Gulf Live Cam Posted by the US Se ...
Just in case you are wondering what is happening right this moment in the Gulf of Mexico, here is a live video feed of the BP Oil Spill from the ocean floor, 5000 feet below the surface. This live video was made possible following a demand from Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) for a live ...
- Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities
In the guest post below, Lester R. Brown of the Earth Policy Institute discusses transforming our cities into more sustainable and more livable places. (Subheadings and pictures added.) by Lester R. Brown As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could n ...
- Oil Spill Renews American Fervour for Environment
The most recent poll from USA Today and Gallup has shown a dramatic increase in America’s desire to protect the environment. This comes only a few months after the last such poll which saw a desire for energy production to take priority over environmental conservation by 7 percentage points. Now th ...
- ‘Millennium Goal’ to End World Hunger ...
Currently, the developing world (what used to be called “The Third World”) is experiencing the effects of higher commodity prices and declining agricultural production. Chronic undernourishment now affects an estimated one billion people, most of whom reside in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. At ...
- Israelis Opened Fire Before Boarding Gaza Flotilla ...
Survivors of the Israeli assault on a flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza returned to Greece and Turkey today, giving the first eyewitness accounts of the raid in which at least 10 people died. Arriving at Istanbul's Ataturk airport with her one-year-old baby, Turkish activist Nilufer Ceti ...
- A Proud Spirit of defiance in Arizona - United Sta ...
FROM EVERY corner of the U.S., people streamed into Phoenix this past weekend to be part of a May 29 national day of action to protest the passage of Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070, which enshrines racial profiling into state law. As the 8 a.m. gathering time for the march approached,...
- Israeli deadly assault on aid ships sparks worldwi ...
��� ��� Strong condemnation is growing around the world after the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, thus violating international maritime law. Media reports say at least 9 pro-Palestinian activists were killed and about 40 injured as Israelis ...
- US activist loses eye after being shot in face wit ...
Updated June 1,�2010 � 31 May 2010: An American solidarity activist was shot in the face with a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Qalandiya, today. Emily Henochowicz is currently in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem undergoing surgery to remove her left eye, following ...
- Turkey strongly urges Israel to free Gaza ships, p ...
Turkey protested Israel and requested release of six ships carrying humanitarian aid for Gazan people after Israeli killed up to 19 aid activists, most of them reportedly Turkish nationals. Israel's Channel 10 TV said 19 passengers were killed and 36 wounded in the raid. A Turkish charity ...
- Heller, Kafka and Orwell walk into a bar...*
* title taken from a comment at Balloon Juice A 5-4 decision in Berghuis v. Thompkins [pdf] was released by the U.S. Supreme Court today, apparently narrowing Miranda . Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the dissent: ....JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE STEVENS, JUSTICE GINSBURG, and JUSTICE BREYER j ...
- Is Right Wing Conservatism a Personality Disorder?
Provided the incentive was right, I feel sure Charles Krauthammer could even find a way to blame the Holocaust on the Jews. That obscenity is not exponentially more offensive that the argument Krauthammer actually did float in his Washington Post column last week when he blamed the BP oil spill, not ...
- How's that "repeal and replace" thing workin' out ...
I seem to recall saying something along the lines of "bring it, bitches!" when the republicans started jumping up and down and yelling about repealing the landmark legislation and replacing it with whatever double-secret plan they kept under wraps all those years they had the majorities in both cham ...
- We've seen this movie before
You can be forgiven a sense of d?j? vu this morning, since the headlines are screaming, once again, that we have "killed al Qaeda's number three guy." If this sounds familiar, it is because it has happened before. Nine times, to be exact. If these fuckers were coffee drinks or sub sandwiches, we wo ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Next: Cut off all U.S. aid to Israel. Do it now. "Members of the UN Security Council have condemned Israel ahead of an emergency session over Israel's deadly raid on a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza. At least nine pro-Palestinian activists, some Turkish, were killed when Israeli commandos st ...
- Eco-LCA Adds Ecosystem Services to Life Cycle Asse ...
A new life cycle assessment (LCA) tool developed by the Ohio State University Center for Resilience brings a new dimension to LCA by taking into account ecosystem services like soil erosion, pollination, flood prevention and cropland. �
- MIT Taps Local Utility for 'Bold' Energy Efficienc ...
With the help of its local utility, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will launch a three-year energy efficiency project that will trim electricity use 15 percent and save the university $50 million.
- How 'Energy Sleuths' Pursue the Ideal Green Buildi ...
The practice of commissioning, in which an engineer monitors the efficiency of a structure from its design through its initial operation, may be the most effective strategy for reducing long-term energy usage, costs and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. So why is it so seldom used?
- Green Report Card on Cruise Ships Sets Off Storm o ...
Despite efforts to improve operations, cruise ships that ply North American waters must go a lot further to become environmentally responsible, says Friends of the Earth, whose latest report card on the industry gives 11 major cruise lines green grades ranging from B- to F.
- Green Report Card on Cruise Ships Sets Off Storm o ...
Despite efforts to improve operations, cruise ships that ply North American waters must go a lot further to become environmentally responsible, says Friends of the Earth, whose latest report card on the industry gives 11 major cruise lines green grades ranging from B- to F.
- Two Ways to Pass a Bill
Under the current rules of the Senate, if you don't have 60 votes you can't pass anything. There are two main avenues for obtaining 60 votes. The first is to compromise. You let a few individual lawmakers have a major role in constructing the legislation, which normally entails the watering down ...
- The Benefits of Israel's Friendship
There's been a lot of bashing of Israel over its attack which resulted in the deaths of the Gaza aid activists. Many here rightly question the value of America's continued unmitigated support for an ally that bombs civilians in the Gaza strip, starves them, denies them essential medical supplies an ...
- I Want to Change the Subject
I woke up this morning and looked at the news. You know what? I don't want to write about Israel. I've already said what needs to be said. Whether you oppose Israel's policies or you support them, you need to step out of the American conversation and look at things clearly. Try looking at thing ...
- Froggy Bottom Cafe
- Weak Tea
Right, even though this rash action by Israel endangers our relationship with Turkey and potentially our troops in Iraq, we should bend over backwards not to alienate Israel. The situation is difficult for the United States, which has close relations with both countries and is now in the awkwar ...
- Crop-mobs, seedbombs and mall-farms
The Zeitgeist seems to have developed an obsession with agriculture. Observe: Crop-mobbing – collective and collaborative action on small farms; community-building through sharing of labour [via Howard Rheingold] Guerrilla gardening, a.k.a. urban agricultural action-at-a-distance – buy flower grena ...
- Personal Information: episode 15
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 15 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
- Alastair Reynolds on writing an optimistic future
The Borders Sci-Fi blog is currently hosting Alastair Reynolds as guest blogger, and it’s interesting seeing him talk about optimism in science fiction, and his personal quest to avoid melodrama in his plotting; evidently writing a piece for the Shine anthology got him thinking about the idea pretty ...
- We can misremember it for you wholesale: historica ...
Via Bruce Sterling, one of the more obvious augmented reality applications, done elegantly: historical archive images overlaid onto the real (present/baseline?) world. The older I get, the more I become fascinated with history; if someone did up layers like this for the whole country, I’d probably n ...
- Personal Information: episode 15
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 15 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
- Empathy for Sociopaths?
By Noah Rubinstein, LMFT, Executive Director GoodTherapy.org There is no debate about the fact that sociopathy is a real condition which interferes with or precludes the capacity for empathy and remorse. However, there is debate about how sociopathy should be viewed, and I take a unique and unpopula ...
- Specific Personality Traits Linked to Shoplifting ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While investigations of personality traits that correspond with violent behavior are fairly frequent, inquiries about the personalities of people who commit minor offenses are less common. Hoping to shed light on aspects that may lead people to shoplift, a recent stud ...
- One-Sided Conversations Shown to Decrease Cognitiv ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary People who experience difficulty with concentration and focus may feel that some inherent aspect of their personality or make-up is responsible for the concern, but there are certain psychological elements involved that typically hold the keys to greater focus–and tha ...
- Study Probes Phenomenon of “Sticky Songs”
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A fun occurrence for some and an annoying one for others, the experience of having a song stuck in one’s head is common. While this issue has rarely been addressed in psychological research, a team at the University of Montreal has recently uncovered some clues about ...
- Can Anger Really Stop You From Feeling Other Scary ...
By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Wesley was angry about everything including being angry. Although not entirely unexpected the call at 5:00a.m. informing Wesley of his brother’s death was startling. The s ...
- Pelosi Says She Has a Duty to Pursue Policies in K ...
Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews : Pelosi Says She Has a Duty to Pursue Policies in Keeping With The Values of Jesus, ‘The Word Made Flesh’ — (CNSNews.com) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she believes she must pursue public policies “in keeping with the values” of Jesus Christ, “The Word ...
- Poll: Plurality say GOP should not push to repeal ...
Michael O'Brien / The Hill : Poll: Plurality say GOP should not push to repeal any part of healthcare reform — A plurality of Americans said they would prefer Republicans to leave the new healthcare law alone and not repeal any parts of it, a new poll found Tuesday. — Given the option to name ...
- Al and Tipper Gore to separate (Mike Allen/Reuters ...
Mike Allen / Reuters : Al and Tipper Gore to separate — Al and Tipper Gore, whose playful romance enlivened Washington and the campaign trail for a quarter century, have decided to separate after 40 years of marriage, the couple told friends Tuesday. — In an “Email from Al and Tipper Gore,” t ...
- The Oil Plume - The failure of the top-kill techni ...
David Brooks / New York Times : The Oil Plume — The failure of the top-kill technique in the Gulf of Mexico represents an interesting turning point on the Obama presidency. It symbolizes the end of the period of lightning advance and the beginning of the period of nasty stasis. — President Ob ...
- Did liberals get it wrong on crime? (Richard Cohen ...
Richard Cohen / Washington Post : Did liberals get it wrong on crime? — This is a good news, bad news column. The good news is that crime is again down across the nation — in big cities, small cities, flourishing cities and cities that are not for the timid. Surprisingly, this has happened in ...
- M 5.4, Vanuatu
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 16:47:32 UTC Wednesday, June 2, 2010 03:47:32 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 6.1, Costa Rica
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 03:26:18 UTC Monday, May 31, 2010 09:26:18 PM at epicenter Depth : 29.30 km (18.21 mi)
- M 6.4, Andaman Islands, India region
Monday, May 31, 2010 19:51:48 UTC Tuesday, June 1, 2010 01:21:48 AM at epicenter Depth : 127.70 km (79.35 mi)
- M 6.0, Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines
Monday, May 31, 2010 10:16:02 UTC Monday, May 31, 2010 06:16:02 PM at epicenter Depth : 33.00 km (20.51 mi)
- M 5.2, Guam region
Sunday, May 30, 2010 21:25:29 UTC Monday, May 31, 2010 07:25:29 AM at epicenter Depth : 75.80 km (47.10 mi)
- Boiling point
Friction over shared – and shrinking – water resources is escalating in south Asia, where India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over river rights. Joydeep Gupta reports. If Pakistani householders look carefully at their electricity bills, they will find they have been charged an extra amount for NJP ...
- In defence of dams
Building river barrages remains environmentally controversial, but Australian expert Graeme Kelleher tells Isabel Hilton what matters is how you do it. Engineer and water-resource expert Graeme Kelleher is the former chairman and chief executive of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and a ...
- A mistrustful neighbourhood
BG Verghese is an Indian water expert, political commentator and professor at New Delhi’s Centre for Policy Research. Here, he talks to Isabel Hilton about the trans-boundary rivers of the Third Pole. Isabel Hilton: How would you assess the state of cooperation in the Himalayan watershed? ...
- Smartening up global infrastructure
On Monday, John Briscoe praised China for its development role in poor countries. Here, Peter Bosshard argues that a more sophisticated approach to energy development is possible – at home and abroad. Investment in agriculture, infrastructure and industrialisation is an essential pillar of economic ...
- Bankrolling change
China’s investment in developing-world infrastructure is a good thing, since it liberates many poor countries from unreasonable requirements set by western financing agencies, argues John Briscoe, kicking off a week-long series on dam construction. China, India, Brazil and other middle-income countr ...
- Obama Must Join Global Condemnation of Israeli Flo ...
Just one day after Israeli commandos stormed civilian boats that were bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, leaving nine dead, a group of Nobel Peace prize winners put out a statement condemning the attack. South African president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose lives have been indeli ...
- 6 Reasons Not to Trust BP
For the sake of the Gulf Coast, we hope this next fix-it option, a new kind of cap, works. But it's getting harder to pull for BP. Here's why.
- Neocons Dismayed That Obama Doesn’t Offer Me ...
Last week, Fred Hiatt, head of the Washington Post editorial page, got all choked up because politicians weren’t spending enough time talking about how great the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan really are. Yesterday, the WaPo’s Jackson Diehl, who sees the world much in the same way as his boss, ...
- BP Hires Former Cheney Aide to Head P.R./Lying Eff ...
This post first appeared on Think Progress. Under threat of receivership and criminal investigation for its destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, foreign oil giant BP has hired a former top aide for Vice President Dick Cheney to be their new spokeswoman. Anne Womack-Kolton has been hired to be “head of ...
- Glenn Greenwald: Why Is 100%, Totally Blameless Is ...
Reuters reported today that Israel has barred journalists from access to the hundreds of activists arrested on the aid flotilla attacked Sunday, prompting Glenn Greenwald to ask: if Israel is, as always, the completely blameless victim of aggression, why detain the ships’ passengers and deny them ...
- Five Alleged Money Mules Indicted in Bank Theft
Five alleged money mules have been indicted in a bank heist that netted the thieves almost $450,000 from a local-government bank account in California. John L. Quinn II and Anthony Bobbitt, both of North Carolina, were indicted with three others on criminal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and cons ...
- Supreme Court Gets RIAA Copyright Case
A case testing the meaning of the so-called “innocent infringer’s” defense to the Copyright Act’s minimum $750-per-music-track fine has landed at the U.S. Supreme Court. The case the justices were asked to review this week concerns a federal appeals court’s February decision ordering a university st ...
- Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the ‘ ...
Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the “wild” internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday. ...
- Time Warner Cable Resists Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit
A consortium of independent film producers is hitting a stumbling block in its plan to simultaneously sue thousands of BitTorrent users for allegedly downloading pirated movies. Time Warner Cable is refusing to look up and turn over the identities of about a thousand of its customers targeted in the ...
- Lawsuits Pour in Over Google’s Wi-Fi Data Collecti ...
At least three lawsuits have been filed against search engine giant Google for collecting Wi-Fi user data through its Street View cameras. The lawsuits have been filed in California, Massachusetts and Oregon. They allege that Google violated federal and state privacy laws in collecting fragments of ...
- What has Changed Since Upton Sinclair? A Contempor ...
The office is closed for Memorial Day, but I am here working on my speech (title above) to be given at the NEHA conference next week. I am supposed to cover: What’s behind the shiny abattoir walls of contemporary slaughterhouses? After all the regulation, safety protocols, worker initiatives, an ...
- CDC - non-O157 E. coli STECs (like O26, O45, 0103, ...
The CDC estimates that "non-O157 STECs (like O26, O45, 0103, O111, O121, and O145) cause 36,700 illnesses, 1,100 hospitalizations and 30 deaths in America each year." In speaking about the recent E. coli O145 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, Patricia M. Griffin, chief of CDC's Enteric Diseases E ...
- E. coli O157:H7 costs $478,381,766 per year in ill ...
I love Economists. Actually, one of my three BA's was in Economics. When you look at the cost of just two bugs that the Economic Research Service (ERS) looked at, you have to wonder why we do not demand more from the corporations who feed us and the government that is supposed to regulate them? ...
- Real Raw Milk Facts
With raw milk in the news nearly everyday, I thought supporting a website that offered unbiased facts on the pros and cons of consuming raw milk products would be useful in the raw milk debate. More than anything, I wanted to be able to have a place where parents could “find out the answers to comm ...
- Non-O157 STECs (O26, O45, 0103, O111, O121, O145) ...
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand last week introduced new legislation to require the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to regulate the six currently unregulated strains of E. coli proven to cause food-borne illnesses. In addition to the most common form of E. coli that is already regulated, the C ...
- Reporters' Roundtable: App stores are good for sof ...
The working title for this show was, "How app stores are killing software." But the conversation, with Evernote CEO Phil Libin and SoftTech venture capitalist Jeff Clavier , painted exactly the opposite picture. These two execs, both of whom are making money from software in the current economy, s ...
- Coming June 24: CNET Showcase on tablets, slates, ...
Don't miss our hands-on event and discussion on the newest in small and slim computing. Originally posted at CNET Showcase
- CNET to the Rescue: Androidpalooza
This week on CNET to the Rescue: it's all Android, all the time. Pretty much, anyway. Tons of questions from listeners on how to make Android work better, and if you should bother at all. Plus, the Mystery of the Silent Pre--solved! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe: � iTu ...
- Reporters' Roundtable: Our perilous infrastructure ...
This week, a bit of an inconvenient truth in our show: We're talking about our national infrastructure--power, water, transportation, and the like--and how it's kind of a mess from a security perspective thanks in no small part to the growth of the Internet. If you're a fan of reliable electricity ...
- CNET to the Rescue 1: Josh joins the fray (podcast ...
Welcome to CNET to the Rescue, formerly known as Real Deal, in our new weekly slot, Wednesday at noon PT, with new host Josh Lowensohn . Everything about this podcast has changed, except our mission: to help dispel the fear, uncertainly, and doubt in tech, and help you get the most out of the t ...
- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
- Dangerous spaces: Safe.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...
- Interview: At Least 15 Dead After Israel Attacks G ...
Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza strip. Dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, the ships were aiming to break Israel’s 3-year blockade of Gaza. At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when Israeli troops attacked the lead ship in the co ...
- Alleged Chicago Torturer’s Overdue Day in Court
Burge rose in the ranks to become a commander in Chicago’s South Side, called Area 2. Electric shocks to the genitals, mock executions, suffocation with bags over the head, beatings and painful stress positions are among the torture techniques that Burge and police officers under his command are ac ...
- Part II: "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret R ...
See Part II of our interview with Sasha Polakow-Suransky, author of the new book "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa." Click here for Part I
- Full Interview With Activists Resisting U.S. Milit ...
Watch the full version of our interview with activists from Japan, Guam and Hawai’i who are resisting the expansion of US military bases in the Pacific.
- Amy Goodman Questions Dalai Lama About Iraq and Af ...
The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, has wrapped up a series public lectures in New York. For the past four days, thousands have gathered at Radio City Music Hall to hear the Dalai Lama’s Buddhist teachings. On Sunday, the 74-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner spoke at the Cathedral ...
- The Alan Greenspan Strain
First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
- King Leopold’s Pandemic
The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
- The Expulsion
In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
- Do Pathogens Time Travel?
Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
- We Are All Astronauts Now
Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
- BP Has Hired Former Cheney Spokesperson For PR
BP Hires Former Dick Cheney Spox To Run PR Ops TPM MUCKRAKER Rachel Slajda | June 1, 2010, 11:03AM BP, struggling to maintain its image while taking responsibility for the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, has hired someone new to head its American public relations operation: Anne Womack-Kolton, t ...
- Afternoon Jukebox- Sultans of Swing
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- Not in My Jewish Name!
Rob Kall | OpEdNews | June 1, 2010 I am a Jew and I am outraged and ashamed by the acts Israel has perpetrated. I am not a self hating Jew, not an anti-semite, as some religious extremist Jews have accused me and other Jews who criticize Israel. I am a Jew who knows right [...]
- Cohn: Israel Murders Human Rights Workers Deliveri ...
by Marjorie Cohn, CommonDreams.org, May 31, 2010 On Sunday, Israel murdered human rights workers who were attempting to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, because Gaza has been virtually cut off from the outside world by Israel. At least 19 people were reportedly killed a ...
- Health Care Reform Will Help Everybody
Many Americans assume the new health care reform act will benefit mostly the poor and uninsured and hurt everyone else, according to polls. As Matt Yglesias wrote, “Basically, people see this as a bill that will take resources from people who have health insurance and give it to people who don’t hav ...
- 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��
- Stratfor: “Flotillas and the Wars of Public ...
Summary: As I wrote 3 years ago, America has made many geopolitical mistakes, some very serious. Nothing critical for a superpower, so long as we do not make too many. But Israel operates far closer to the edge. Small, geographically and economically vulnerable, surrounded by enemies, and heir ...
- About the increasing number of hurricanes
About the oft-mentioned increase in hurricanes, of which we heard so many warnings after Katrina (global warming, you know). It’s probably false (another doomster fable shot to hell). Here’s one look at the evidence: “Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Back to 1900“, Christopher W. Landsea ( ...
- Another step towards fascism: “Silencing the Lawye ...
Worth reading in full: “Silencing the Lawyers“, Scott Horton, blog of Harper’s, 23 May 2010 — Excerpt: A total of 779 prisoners have been held in Guantánamo in connection with the war on terror. Five hundred seventy-nine were released, most by the Bush Administration, a quiet recognition of error ...
- FM newswire for May 30, interesting articles about ...
Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. History repeats itself at the Deepwater Horizon, but its not humor:Â “Fighting the World’s Worst Oil Spill“, Popular Mechanics, May 1980, page 106 A look at the future:Â Video of Agg ...
- A view of the world from Russia
Valuable insights from a non-American perspective (an expat living in Russia): “(Back) Under the Volcano” (1.3 MB PDF), Eric Kraus, Truth and Beauty, 24 May 2010 — Posted with permission. Excerpt: The frankly self-serving free-market orthodoxy, still taken as axiomatic by many in the financial i ...
- US: TV food advertisements promote imbalanced diet ...
PhysOrg.com – Making food choices based on television advertising results in a very imbalanced diet according to a new study comparing the nutritional content of food choices influenced by television to nutritional guidelines published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Associ ...
- International Criminal Court ‘altered behaviour’ – ...
BBC – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has forced governments to alter their behaviour in the eight years of its existence, the UN chief has said. Ban Ki-moon told a summit in Uganda discussing the Hague-based court that it had curtailed impunity and had broken new ground on victims’ rights. R ...
- India’s economy grows at fastest pace in 2 years
Associated Press – A rebound in manufacturing and recovering farm output drove India’s quarterly economic growth to 8.6 percent, the best in two years as Asia’s third-largest economy returns to pre-crisis levels of expansion. Growth for the financial year ended March was 7.4 percent, beating a gover ...
- China economy slows on tightening and seasonal fac ...
Reuters – The pace of China’s factory output eased last month as gradual policy tightening took a toll on new orders, suggesting to some economists that Beijing will take its time before nudging interest rates higher. But a pair of surveys of manufacturing executives pointed to a loss of momentum, n ...
- Binge-drinking teenagers ‘doing lasting harm to th ...
Daily Telegraph – Research suggests that drinking large amounts over a short period of time can damage a crucial part of adolescents’ brains. This area, the hippocampus, controls how the mind recalls events and forms mental images. Such damage could leave youngsters in danger of becoming forgetful a ...
- O klasowej przynależności jednostek
O klasowej przynależności jednostek -Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) „Aby mieć pewność, że nie poprowadzimy rewolucji nieprawidłową drogą i że niezawodnie osiągniemy sukces, musimy starać się o skupienie wokół siebie naszych prawdziwych przyjaciół, ażeby zadać cios naszym prawdziwym wrogom. Dla ...
- Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio
Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Magpie is a folk music trio made up of Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner. In 2000, Magpie released a folk opera that follows the exploits of John Brown and those around him at Harpers Ferry. In other words, all the songs on the ...
- Revisiting value and exploitation
Revisiting value and exploitation by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) When her father died in 1883, Eleanor Marx wrote an article celebrating her father’s achievements. At the heart of these was “his theory of value, by which Marx explains the origin and the continued accumulation of ...
- Priemerný americký „Joe“
Priemerný americký „Joe“ (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Greek) (Polish) (English) (Slovak) „Priemerný Joe“ má špeciálne miesto v americkom povedomí. Populárna literárna postava , „hrdina robotníckej triedy“, vystupuje vo filmoch, v televízii, v divadle. Je obľúbeným cieľom politikov. A pre ...
- On the TOPF and Hate Amerikkka part 2 in Chinese
Golden Oldies. Shubel Morgan movies in Chinese: 憎恨美国，至死不休: 论唯生产力论:
- Christians- Zionism’s Useful Idiots
You know the imagery-- millions of Christians around the world have spontaneously disappeared - where did they go? Some say aliens, others terrorists. Now airplanes are plummeting to destruction, trains derailing, cars crashing, nuclear power plants are melting down and dumbfounded people staggering ...
- Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass ...
Mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and defines what is normal and acceptable. This article looks at the workings of mass media through the theories of its major thinkers, its power structure and the techn ...
- Obama Calls for Global Government: “A New Internat ...
On Saturday, President Obama showed his true NWO colors even though he avoided the popular catch phrase “New WORLD Order” by replacing “world” with “International.” Both words are synonymous with each other. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
- The Evil Doer and the Times Square Fizzler
Were Muslim Evil Doers again at work in New York? Is that the lesson to be learned from a May 1st “car bomb” that fizzled while parked alongside the Marriott Hotel in Manhattan’s busy Times Square? Why now? The clues are there if only investigators will follow the facts. With reports of thi ...
- A Wedding To Start A War
How the wedlock between a Pakistani sportsman and an Indian tennis player is a PR disaster for India and holds implications for relations with Pakistan. A sign of Pakistan-India peace? Hardly. Read how the celebrity wedding was loaded with the kind of symbolism that rattled India and sent the wrong ...
- Nissan LEAF Is Sold Out for 2010
Great news for Nissan and the electric car: the company has received 19,000 preorders for the LEAF all-electric vehicle , making it sold out for this year. The demand has exceeded expectations and the company may have to temporarily stop taking reservations. Preorders for the LEAF began in April ...
- EV Makes Record-Breaking 624-Mile Trip on One Char ...
The Japan EV Club has broken their own record by converting an electric car to make the longest trip without recharging, covering a whopping 623.76 miles! The Daihatsu Mira EV was outfitted with Sanyo batteries and converted from a gas car to an electric one. The EV set the record on a track in I ...
- Nation's First Freshwater Offshore Wind Farm Plann ...
It's an exciting time in wind energy these days. The U.S. will be getting its first offshore wind farm thanks to Cape Wind's long-awaited approval , and now plans for the first freshwater offshore wind farm in the U.S. have been announced as well. The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp has sig ...
- Climate Change Research Gets Its Own Supercomputer
Some of the world's most powerful supercomputers have been working on climate change research and solutions, but their time is split among many of the globe's major issues. That is changing now that one supercomputer is dedicated solely to running algorithms and calculations in the name of climate ...
- Tesla and Toyota Join Forces
Toyota and Tesla Motors are embarking on a joint electric-car-building project, the companies announced yesterday . The two automakers will form a specialist team that will concentrate on developing electric vehicles, parts, production systems and coordinate engineering support. To really seal t ...
- Can We Live with the Bomb?
LAWRENCE S. WITTNER FOR BUZZFLASH For some time now, it has been clear that nuclear weapons threaten the existence not only of humanity, but of all life on Earth. Thus, Barack Obama's pledge to work for a nuclear weapons-free world — made during his 2008 presidential campaign and subsequently in pub ...
- Letting Republicans Off Their Own Filibuster Hook, ...
Body CQ Politics had a remarkable piece on Sunday which required the false security of stiff drink before, during, and after. Its title was " Lawmakers Armed With Recess Rhetoric ," a sure tip-off to more asymmetrical political warfare. The lede -- a brief overview of the actually arm ...
- Inner Beauty: The Enterprising Kitchen Cooks up Em ...
GREEN IS GOOD by Meg White Walking into the production facility in a small warehouse on the north side of Chicago, cold words like "factory" and "mill" are the last things that come to mind.� What would you call this place? �I wonder. A studio? A workshop? As the perfect flood of pear, citrus and la ...
- Tomato Lovers Unite! NPR Spot Disgracefully Caters ...
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White� My garden started a little late this year, but my five varieties of heirloom tomato plants (plus a�tomatillo) are really looking promising already. I can almost taste the fresh burst of flavor that's been missing from my diet for months on end. Every sorry winte ...
- Smart Pig: BP's OTHER Spill this Week
GREG PALAST FOR BUZZFLASH Oil spill residue, Chenega, Alaska©1997James Macalpine-PIF read more
- What does Israel fear from media coverage?
The New York Times , today : A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held hundreds of activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday . . . .Reuters reported that Israel was holding hundreds of activists incommunicado in and around ...
- Israel attacks aid ship, kills at least 10 civilia ...
(updated below - Update II) Late last night, Israel attacked a flotilla of ships in international waters carrying food, medicine and other aid to Gaza, killing at least 10 civilians on board and injuring at least 30 more (many reports now put the numbers at 19 dead and 60 injured). The ...
- Pure Kafka
The first paragraph of today's New York Times article by Charlie Savage : The 48 Guantánamo Bay detainees whom the Obama administration has decided to keep holding without trial include several for whom there is no evidence of involvement in any specific terrorist plot, according to a repor ...
- Who are the real "crazies" in our political cultur ...
One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics.� That serves to bolster the two political parties as the sole arbiters of what is acceptable:� anyone who meaning ...
- A disgrace of historic proportions
(updated below) The Miami Herald 's Carol�Rosenberg reports that, this week, yet another federal judge has ordered the Obama administration to release yet another Guantanamo detainee on the ground that there is no persuasive evidence to justify his detention.��The latest detainee to win ...
- ChemistryViews, Alchemist, espresso
ChemistryViews just launched, so here’s my first link to my stuff on there together with the regular Alchemist round-up and a surprising finding about espresso. Small molecules for fighting cancer – My first short feature article in the all-new ChemistryViews magazine from Wiley covers research in ...
- Wheels within wheels – the scientific lifecycle
An oft-repeated message from scientists involved with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), mapping the human genome, the search for extraterrestrial life and other vast scientific projects, such as supercomputing experiments is that the tera-bytes, peta-bytes, perhaps even the yotta-bytes of data gener ...
- Chemical structure drawing poll
Yesterday’s blog feature quoted my various contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and elsewhere on what program they use to draw chemical structures. There were some interesting answers, including mentions of sites like ChemSpider and PubChem that are no drawing packages per se but do allow you to retrieve ...
- Draw chemical structures
Chemical structure drawing is one of the most consistently popular search terms on Sciencebase and gets a lot of search engine traffic for those pages, so it seems worth revisiting the topic from a different perspective. Of course, with the likes of PubChem and ChemSpider now available one might wo ...
- Getting wood
Wood is the focus of new research into biofuels, while removing toxins from other crops is important for biofuels and food supply. Forest fires and phosphorus are analysed while the route discovered to taken by aluminium through the aquatic foodchain might quell some pollutant fears. This week’s co ...
- Update on Israeli Attack on Humanitarian Boats
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 Free Gaza Movement The UN Security Council Calls for Impartial, Credible Investigation of Israeli Boat Raid. The raid in international waters, on the aid convoy headed to Gaza left at least 16 civilians dead. After an emergency session wrapped up in the early hours ...
- ACLU Renews Call For Accountability At Start Of To ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today renewed its call for the Obama administration to hold Bush-era government officials accountable for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. Despite disavowing torture, the current administration continue ...
- Climate Cash Must Not Increase Developing Countrie ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 Oxfam International Oxfam has today warned that the $100 billion a year pledged by rich nations to help fight climate change could fail the poorest people, if recent moves to deliver climate cash as loans continue. Oxfam’s report, Climate Finance Post-Copenhagen: ...
- Palestine Center Condemns Attack on Aid Boats
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 Palestine Center The Palestine Center condemns in the strongest terms the killing of civilian activists aboard aid boats destined for blockaded Gaza at the hands of Israeli commandos which took place Sunday evening. read more
- US Falls Short of Compliance with International Co ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 International Labor Rights Forum The US has failed to meet its obligations to implement International Labor Organization Convention (ILO) 182 related to the Worst Forms of Child Labor according to a new report released today by the International Labor Rights Forum ...
- American Denial: Living in a Can’t-Do Nation
by Tom Engelhardt Graduates of the class of 2010, I'm honored to have been asked to address you today, but I would not want to be you. read more
- ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’
by Sean Gonsalves It 's not easy being green It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things... When green is all there is to be It could make you wonder why But why wonder why wonder I am green, and it'll do fine It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be read more
- Obama Must Join Global Condemnation of Israeli Flo ...
by Medea Benjamin Just one day after Israeli commandos stormed civilian boats that were bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, leaving nine dead, a group of Nobel Peace prize winners put out a statement condemning the attack. South African president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose ...
- 'YouTube Is UsTube': Creators Step in to Defend Yo ...
by Corynne McSherry Plenty of folks, from copyright lawyers to Internet entrepreneurs to investment bankers, have been watching the long-running legal battle between Viacom and Google/YouTube carefully, well aware that a decision in the case could have a profound effect on the future of the Inter ...
- The Remarkable Resilience of This Socialism Thing
by Tom Gallagher The timing was perfect -- on May 1, President Obama would tell the University of Michigan graduates they ought to be able to discuss politics civilly, without fearing that people would start "Throwing around phrases like ‘socialist' and ‘Soviet-style takeover,' ‘fascist' and ...
- World reacts to Israeli raid on Gaza aid flotilla
• UN calls for inquiry into Israel's assault on Gaza flotilla • Free Gaza Movement says it will send two more ships • Erdogan warns Israel not to "test Turkey's patience" • Egypt opens border crossing with Gaza • Follow all the latest news here 3.53pm: More reaction from those caught up in the flo ...
- Capello to announce 23-man World Cup squad
• Manchester City confirm Shaun Wright-Phillips will travel • Squad expected to be announced at 4pm today • Have your say on Walcott's axing from final squad Theo Walcott has been left shell-shocked after the England manager Fabio Capello axed him from his 23-man World Cup squad. The Arsenal winger ...
- Soldier facing jail can return to duty
Judge says postponing sentence on soldier is in the public interest A soldier who admitted assault and unlawful wounding has had his sentencing delayed so that he can return to his regiment in Afghanistan. Gunner Christopher Barnsley, 24, who attacked two stable hands in a brawl in the North Yorkshi ...
- Ashdown proposed as Balkans envoy
Former Liberal Democrat leader's appointment to be considered on Thursday by foreign secretary William Hague Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats and international overseer of Bosnia, is in the frame to become a European special envoy for the Balkans, according to senior sources ...
- Livingstone bids to be mayor again
Former mayor pledges to protect Londoners from recession and cuts and attacks Boris Johnson over public transport prices Ken Livingstone today launched his bid to return to the office of mayor of London by attacking his successor, Boris Johnson, over steep rises in public transport fares. The Labour ...
- Obama's remarks after meeting with oil spill study ...
Obama met with former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., and former EPA administrator Bill Reilly on Tuesday. They are the co-chairs of a presidential commission investigating the cause of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the official transcript of the president's remarks.
- Commentary: Havel on democracy, 'We haven't left t ...
Vaclav Havel, former Czech president, playwright, and most revered of Eastern European dissidents during the Cold War, came to Philadelphia last week for the U.S. premiere of his new play, "Leaving," at the Wilma Theater.
- Idaho governor candidate Allred courts moderates i ...
Keith Allred has had a pretty good couple of months leading up to his 80-plus percent win in the Democratic primary.
- Commentary: Lack of justice at Guantanamo
It's always instructive to see the difference between what an administration says and what it does. Upon taking office, President Obama declared, "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency." It hasn't worked out that way at Guantanamo.
- Iraq's Supreme Court ratifies election, but impass ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's top court on Tuesday approved the results of the March parliamentary elections, a move that cements the narrow lead of a secular-led coalition but does little to end the impasse over forming a new government.
- Climate funds lack clarity
The international development charity Oxfam has a new report out asking some fundamental questions about climate finance. If you recall, two different financial pledges emerged at the Copenhagen summit : "fast-start" money to the tune of $30bn over the three-year period 2010-2012, and the much larg ...
- Europe debates climate 'ambition'
Connie Hedegaard , the EU's Climate Commissioner, is seeking to open a debate on whether the bloc should adopt a tougher target than it already has for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Back in the early months of last year, EU leaders signed off a target of 20% cuts from 1990 levels by 2020, risi ...
- Wildlife - a good bet?
Definitely the oddest take I've yet seen on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak passed across my desk today, in the form of a notification from bookmakers Paddy Power that they're taking bets on the first species to go extinct as a result of the pollution . Kemp's Ridley turtle garners the shortest odds at ...
- 'Playing God' with the climate?
Biotech supremo Craig Venter's latest foray into "synthetic life" is raising all sorts of questions within the domain of medical and scientific ethics. One of the potential uses which he's looking at for synthetic bacteria - sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - potentially also breaks new g ...
- IPCC review: friend or foe?
"Now that we're in the kitchen, we have to take the heat," said Rajendra Pachauri. "And we have to recognise that the stakes are very high. So we have to prepare ourselves for criticism, and this is not something we have done in the past." Indeed not. The worlds of climate science and politics wer ...
- Will Congress Let Deficit Hysteria Undermine Suppo ...
hen the Senate comes back from its Memorial Day recess next Monday, one of the most pressing issues that it needs to address is the current expiration of extended unemployment benefits and other social safety net programs for laid off workers. On Friday, the House passed an extension (which did not ...
- Arizona BUYcott Supporter Says ‘Illegal Crim ...
This weekend, tea party activists gathered in Arizona to express support for the stateâs new immigration law, SB-1070, by launching a “buycott” campaign to support state businesses. Tony Venuti, publisher of AZ Tourist News, has spearheaded the “Arizona Buycott” webpage which lists the businesses ...
- The Long And Winding Road: Military Leaders Reluct ...
The effort to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) law cleared two major hurdles in Congress last week, but the battle to end the policy is far from over. The Defense Authorization Bill — which passed the House and the Senate Armed Services Committee last week — still faces an uphill battle in th ...
- McDonnell Falsely Claims That Race To The Top Woul ...
Last week, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-GA) pulled his state out of the Race to the Top competition, a $4 billion initiative that provides states with grants for implementing education reforms. In March, Delaware and Tennessee won the first round of the competition — receiving a total of $600 million — and ...
- BP Hires Dick Cheney’s Press Secretary, Anne ...
Under threat of receivership and criminal investigation for its destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, foreign oil giant BP has hired a former top aide for Vice President Dick Cheney to be their new spokeswoman. Anne Womack-Kolton has been hired to be “head of U.S. media relations.” A rising star in the ...
- Morning Smoke: Army of Former Lawmakers Now Workin ...
SHADOW CONGRESS: More Than 170 Former Lawmakers Ply The Corridors Of Power As Lobbyists by Justin Elliott and Zachary Roth [TPMMuckraker] Deadline for reviewing oil drilling proposal's impact may be flexible by Juliet Eilperin [The Washington Post] Obama to get...
- Tips for Whistleblowers Working with the Media
Earlier this week I attended a panel at the National Whistleblower Assembly entitled “How to Work Effectively with the Media.” Members of the panel included: Barry Nolan, an Emmy Award-winning television journalist and commentator; Christopher Scholl, an investigative producer for...
- Is "Resolving" DCAA Findings the Same Thing As Lis ...
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) isn't the only agency that struggles to ensure that it's oversight officials have the independence they need to effectively root out waste, fraud, and misconduct. When not blogging obsessively about the Deepwater Horizon disaster (I've...
- Senate Moves to Lift Veil of Secrecy from Contract ...
Last night, the Senate approved by unanimous consent an amendment sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to the 2010 Supplemental Appropriations Act to require the General Services Administration (GSA) to publicly disclose data contained in the Federal Awardee Performance and...
- A Victory for Oversight: House Passes Eshoo Amendm ...
Late yesterday, the House passed an amendment allowing the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the intelligence community. This is a great victory for government oversight. POGO thanks Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) for her leadership on this issue, and also...
- HUD Aims to Streamline Public Housing Programs, No ...
Being low-income is hard. Facing homelessness is harder. Applying for affordable housing is damn near impossible. Recognizing the unnecessary complexity and bureaucratic vastness of its affordable housing programs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a bill to Congress that ...
- Searching for the Soul of Atlantic City
Picture it — a long stretch of boardwalk running along a narrow beach with crashing waves. Lining the boardwalk are miles of souvenir shops, massage parlors, pizza places, tourist traps and massive casinos towering over the skyline like mountains of gold and marble. The boardwalk is practically drip ...
- What's Holding Up the End Veteran Homelessness Act ...
Veterans make up about 12 percent of the population in general, but 25 percent of homeless individuals were once in the military. This disparity has caught the collective eye of Congress. There are more than a dozen bills before Congress regarding significant changes in aid to homeless veterans. S ...
- How to Help the Homeless Beat the Heat
The temperature inside my van in Denver in the summer often topped 100 degrees — too hot to sleep, too hot to sit. But like many of the homeless and those without air-conditioning, I found other ways to beat the heat. I parked in underground parking garages at shopping centers, or found refuge in th ...
- Why You Shouldn't Give Money to Panhandlers
The most frequently asked question I get when people find out I work with the homeless is, "Should I give money to beggars?" Some people contend that they are kind because they do give to the needy while others have strong negative opinions about the homeless and thus don't give often. My answer is ...
- NPT Review Conference ends with consensus
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference wrapped up on Friday, May 28th with agreement on a set of “conclusions and recommendations for follow-on actions” in support of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. NPT Review Conferences operate on the basis of consensus among the treaty ...
- $1,000,000,000,000 and counting
According to the National Priorities Project, the total direct cost to the United States of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed one trillion dollars on Sunday, May 30th. Estimates of the direct and indirect costs of the wars, including future health care for wounded soldiers, interest paymen ...
- CF-18 replacement to cost $9 billion or more
The government is expected to give the go-ahead to a project to replace Canada’s CF-18 fighter-bombers with a new generation of aircraft later this year (David Pugliese, “$9B pricetag likely for Canada’s next-generation fighter aircraft,” CanWest News Service, 29 May 2010). The U.S. F-35 Joint Stri ...
- Two hundred and twenty-five
The United Kingdom became the latest nuclear weapon state to join the movement towards greater nuclear transparency on Wednesday when Foreign Secretary William Hague informed the British House of Commons that the U.K.’s âoverall stockpile of nuclear warheads will not exceed 225 warheadsâ (”Brit ...
- U.S. and global military spending
The U.S. military budget comprises over 44 percent of the entire world’s military spending, reports the Washington-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (Laicie Olson, “U.S. vs. Global Defense Spending,” 21 May 2010). The Center calculates that worldwide military spending totalled US$ ...
- Exposing Obama & Government Lies!
This week on the Kevin Trudeau Show… Author, Aaron Klein, stops by to bring up questions and inconsistances with the presidency of Barack Obama. Much like KT, Aaron is being persecuted in the mainstream media just for using his 1st Amendment right to question our country’s leader. Aaron also serves ...
- ‘Death Panels’ Were An Overblown Claim ...
June 1, 2010 The Daily Caller By Michael Tanner During the debate over ObamaCare, the bill’s opponents were excoriated for talk of rationing and “death panels.” And in fairness, with a few minor exceptions governing Medicare reimbursements, the law does not directly ration care or allow the governme ...
- Preparing For The World’s End
June 1, 2010 Asylum By Wendy Rose Gould If the proverbial you-know-what hit the global fan, would you be prepared? The answer to that question is most likely a big, fat no. After all, it’s hard to develop life skills (e.g., growing/storing your own food, filtering water) while playing myriad video g ...
- Comparing Income To Others Causes Unhappiness
June 1, 2010 BBC News By Emma Wilkinson Researchers analysing data from a Europe-wide survey found three-quarters of those asked thought it important to compare their incomes with others. But those who compared salaries seem less content, especially if they looked at those of friends and family rath ...
- FIFA Gives Up A Goal For Advertising Unhealthy Foo ...
June 1, 2010 BBC News The World Cancer Research Fund criticised the governing body for partnering with the likes of Coca Cola, McDonald’s and Budweiser. It said the tournament should be an opportunity to promote active lifestyles. Advertisers denied the deals would negatively impact children’s diets ...
- 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...
- It’s up to Obama whether the siege of Gaza continu ...
After the flotilla massacre committed by Israeli forces, Turkey’s call for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council yesterday was to be expected. Turks are assumed to be among the dead — whose names and nationalities have still not been released. There are now hundreds of Turks being held in ...
- Israel apologists and the Israeli national will
Depending on ones view of Israel, the deaths that occurred on the decks of the Mavi Marmara early today are either reprehensible, tragic, regrettable, or — a cause for celebration. Someone just wrote to me: “Too bad you weren’t on that ship with the rest of the terror supporters. Anyone touching an ...
- Facing armed attack in international waters
When a civilian passenger ship comes under military attack in international waters, should we be surprised — or even critical — when some of the passengers mount a defense? According to CNN, which has made itself into a mouthpiece for the Israeli Defense Forces, the flotilla massacre was a “skirmis ...
- After reports of serious injury, Raed Salah’s stat ...
Haaretz says that in Israel: Reports in the Arabic-language press on Monday that Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Israeli-Arab Islamic Movement, had been seriously wounded sparked widespread anger among the country’s Arab minority – some 20 per cent of the population. IDF officials, ...
- Where is Israel’s self-respect?
Watch this video and pay attention to the victims — one an old man with a long gray beard. Are we supposed to believe that these men “ambushed” Israel’s elite navy commandos? The narrative here is a familiar one: the plight of a people whose self-image as victims is so deeply internalized that they ...
- Hot Air in Washington DC- More ASOS Failures?
WUWT readers may recall last summer when the ASOS weather station at the Honolulu Airport malfunctioned, giving a whole series of shonky readings that resulted in a string of new record high temperatures being set. What was even worse, is … Continue reading →
- The Ice Who Came In From The Cold
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach A few days ago, Steve Goddard put up a post called “Does PIOMAS Verify?” In it, he compared the PIOMAS computer model estimate of the Arctic ice volume with the SIDADS satellite measured Arctic ice … Continue reading →
- GISS Deletes Arctic And Southern Ocean Sea Surface ...
Guest post by Bob Tisdale There are numerous blog posts and discussions about how the GISS global temperature anomaly product GISTEMP differs from the Hadley Centre and NCDC datasets. The repeated reasons presented for this are, GISS uses 1200km radius … Continue reading →
- SST update
Steve Goddard writes: Below are animations for the entire year (150 days) so far, based on NOAA SST maps. The videos are presented with minimal commentary. As they say, “150 pictures are worth 150,000 words.” El Niño has faded and … Continue reading →
- Americans: Fly your flag
I’ve been proverbially “sick as a dog” this weekend either from stomach flu, or some food poisoning, not sure which. Spending so much time in bed, I almost forgot to put up my flag today. My neighbors must have wondered … Continue reading →
- Confirmed report: Israeli Forces Have Killed 16 Pa ...
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1100480 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Latest updates are below; scroll down please. Updated below. Unfortunately this report is true. My heartfelt condolences to all the families and friends of those who were killed. OMG, I do hope this is not true. ~ ...
- Two Gaza Freedom Flotilla ships have been contacte ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ From Facebook: Sarah Irving May 30 at 3:23pm In the last few minutes, at least two of the FreeGaza flotilla boats (the Turkish IHH boat and FreeGaza’s Challenger 2) have been contacted and/or approached by IDF boats in international waters. If you haven’t already ...
- Michel Chossudovsky: The Homeland Security State a ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter KPFA May 26, 2010 The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the Twenty-First Century” with economist and author, Michel Chossudovsky. Michel Chossudovsky: The Homeland Security State and the Economical Crisis *** [DS adde ...
- Smart Pig: BP’s OTHER Spill this Week by Gre ...
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1099808 by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com for Buzzflash.com 28 May, 2010 With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill, just this week: over 100,000 gallons, at its ...
- Mr. President: Any Moneyback Refunds – on Cash or ...
by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net May 28, 2010 I’m all in favor of knowingly jousting at windmills, so good luck to Cenk Uygur for arm-twisting Goldman Sachs to repay (only) $12.9 billion via loans guaranteed by our “reform” government. Problem is, where’s the publ ...
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It's been a long time since I've seen Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but I don't remember the Evil Queen being quite so Xena : Art by J Scott Campbell Campbell reimagines other 'Disney Princesses' here
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Take a wild guess who convinced George W. Bush that starting wars in the Middle East would be "good for the economy"? Oliver Stone interviews former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner :
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It's 2021, you've been flagged as a lawbreaker and you're being pursued by dozens of these baby robodogs armed with tasers, where do you run?
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Call It What It Is : Foxoganda For the United States - after 5000 lives lost, 50,000 + seriously wounded and more than $1 trillion spent - the Iraq Was is over, so Fox News celebrates by censoring the applause of American soldiers when President Obama discusses the end of the war at West Point Mi ...
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Just Another Massacre Of Unarmed Civilians By Israel Spiegel : Israeli commandos killed at least 10 people when they stormed an activist flotilla carrying aid to the Gaza Strip on Monday. The European Union has called for an inquiry into the incident, while German Foreign Minister Guido Weste ...
- The Tragic Race to Be First to the South Pole
> NEW YORK CITY — In 1910, two men set out to be the first to reach the South Pole in a race that would be both heroic and tragic. The men had different reasons for their journeys, took different routes and made different decisions that would ultimately seal their [...]
- Congress, Obama Take Sudden Interest in Synthetic ...
Congress explicitly took up the subject of synthetic biology for the first time Thursday during a hastily convened hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Wired crowd has been talking about how to engineer biological machines for years, but Craig Venter’s announcement last week that ...
- Video: Designing Bridges to Be Drivable After Quak ...
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience88281115001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); RICHMOND, California â Sure, earthquake engineers can now make bridges safe during even the biggest earthquakes, but they’re still rendered unusable in the key ...
- The Science of Horror-Flick Screams
As horror-flick titles go, Night of the Living Chaos and Rosemaryâs Nonlinearity arenât the catchiest. But filmmakers know that chaos — the mathematical kind — is scary. Now scientists know it too. Filmmakers use chaotic, unpredictable sounds to evoke particular emotions, say researchers who ha ...
- Origin of Milky Way Clouds Revealed
Mysterious clouds of gas hovering above the plane of the Milky Way may be the fractured remnants of superbubbles blown by stellar winds and exploding stars. “There’s a fundamental, interesting connection between gas far away from the Milky Way and the amount of star formation below it in the galact ...
- Israelis opened fire before boarding Gaza flotilla ...
"The operation started immediately with firing. First it was warning shots, but when the Mavi Marmara wouldn't stop these warnings turned into an attack"... "We continuously told them we did not... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- Women in Black vigil: Jerusalem, 4 June 2010
June 5, 2010 marks 43 years since the Six-Day War and the beginning of the occupation. Three and a half million Palestinians live under Israeli occupation which denies their most basic freedoms. Gaza... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- FT: Israel is lost at sea
Israel’s government has been pretending it is ready to negotiate for peace, but that there is no one to negotiate with on the other side. The attack on the blockade-busters lays bare the country’s... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- MK Hanin Zoabi: Israel wanted highest number of fa ...
Arab Knesset member who participated in Gaza aid flotilla holds press conference says, 'It was clear from size of force that boarded ship that purpose was not to stop sail, but to cause largest... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
- Free Gaza Calls for ‘Open, Independent’ Investigat ...
Adam Shapiro: It is utterly absurd to think that we could face down a military with the strength and the kind of technology and weapons that Israel possesses. To even think for a second that we could... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius to Vi ...
News conference to discuss tour of Mayo Clinic and discussion about Mayo's patient-centered, high-value care approach and health information technology efforts. Media access to Sebelius is limited to the news conference. Pool footage and still photography from the tour will be available.
- Link Established Between Erectile Dysfunction and ...
In the largest study to date evaluating erectile dysfunction (ED) and coronary artery calcification, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have determined that men with ED are at a significantly increased risk of high coronary artery calcification scores (CACS), a known predictor of future ...
- Sluggish Cell Division May Explain Genital Defects
Scientists have learned how a gene controls cell division, a finding that could be useful for understanding why increasing numbers of children are being born with genital malformations.
- Developer Preview of the Kamra AR Browser at ARE20 ...
The Georgia Institute of Technology announces the release of the developer preview of Kamra, the first mobile augmented reality (AR) browser for the KHARMA (KML/HTML Augmented Reality Mobile Architecture) development platform based on open Web standards. The developer preview will be released at ARE ...
- Cancer Information on Wikipedia Is Accurate, but N ...
It is a commonly held that information on Wikipedia should not be trusted, since it is written and edited by non-experts without professional oversight. But researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found differently, according to data being presented at the 2010 ASCO Annual Meetin ...
- NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
* * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
- Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism © Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
- IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...
- Fútbol Sudáfrica 2010 (21 fotografías gigantes)
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
- Estrenando mi nueva cámara de fotos Nikon D90
Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ANTES QUE TODO, les presento mi nuevo juguete y más abajito podrán ver la colección de fotografías que tengo para todos ustedes. Si no me conocían, ahí está mi foto. ¡Más feo, imposible! Ahora sí todas las fotos... CLI ...
- Inundación en Nashville Tennessee, Kentucky y Miss ...
Al igual que otras ciudades en los Estados de Kentucky and Mississippi, la hermosa ciudad de Nashville, Tennessee se vio gravemente afectada por tormentas que ocasionaron desastres en varios puntos de la ciudad. Viví en Nashvillle durante un año y las fotografías que usted verá sobre esta catástrofe ...
- Animales en las noticias (40 fotografías by The Bi ...
De una manera o de otra, la especie animal en cualquiera de sus variantes, terminan siendo parte de las noticias que a diario se generan en la radio, la televisión, los medios digitales y medios impresos. No sólo por asuntos como el reciente accidente en el Golfo de México, sino por varias razones d ...
- El desastre se desarrolla lentamente en el Golfo d ...
Hace algunos días, le comentaba a usted sobre el terrible una lamentable explosión de una plataforma petrolera en el Golfo de México propiedad de British Petroleum (BP) . Con la finalidad de dar seguimiento a este terrible suceso, le tengo en esta ocasión 40 nuevas fotografías que nos permiten ver l ...
- An Open Letter Regarding Judge Garzon and “C ...
by Kevin Jon Heller My friend and colleague Gerry Simpson has, along with other international-law luminaries, just published an open letter in The Guardian defending Judge Garzon's actions. Here it is (emphasis mine): As teachers and practitioners of international law we note that the vali ...
- Negligent Attack in Afghanistan Kills 20+
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Winning Afghani hearts and minds, one dead civilian at a time: In the civilian deaths case, attack helicopters fired missiles and rockets into the convoy on a main road near Khod village, where U.S. Special Forces and Afghan troops were battling militant ...
- U.S. Law Professor Arrested by Rwandan Government
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Rwandan government has arrested a U.S. law professor, Peter Erlinder, who represented key opposition figures. The NYT reports: Rwandan authorities on Friday arrested an American lawyer who is representing a leading Rwandan opposition figure, the latest sign of an inc ...
- Whale Wars Are Now “The Whale Cases”: ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This is a bit of a surprise, at least its timing. Â Stories I had read suggested any action would be delayed until after upcoming International Whaling Commission meetings, or even later. But here goes: Australia says it will take Japan to the International Court of Just ...
- A Question for Ken
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I do have a question for Ken. As his post indicates, he believes that the US’s right to “self-defense” justifies drone strikes against designated terrorists outside of armed conflict — strikes that are governed by human-rights law, not international human ...
- The Israeli attack - a video perspective
I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli territory. Having said that, everyone -...
- Seismic cracks appear in global warming camp
This from the Times of London: Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to...
- Trufflehunter takes another hit
Funniest put down of Trufflehunter since my last one: Don Easterbrook hides the incline Category: Global Warming Posted on: May 21, 2010 2:43 PM, by Tim Lambert By Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Professor of Geology Western Washington University Bellingham, WA...
- NEWS RELEASE: PM's statement conflicts with Review ...
Prime Minister John Key has been warned he could take a serious credibility hit if he continues to endorse the Latta Review on smacking before he's seen the Investigate magazine article published today. Responding to the PM's comments to NZPA...
- BREAKING NEWS: Investigate magazine news release
NEWS RELEASE FROM INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE Government’s smacking review misunderstood its Terms of Reference, got crucial facts wrong Investigate magazine has blown open the smacking debate by publishing documents that show the review headed by Nigel Latta was effectively a farce,...
- AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields
AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s disturbed public lands should be priority sites for generating wind and solar power. That’s the position of the state’s Democratic members of Congress, who are urging federal land managers to steer green energy projects to places ...
- AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Ove ...
AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Over Jail Phoenix, AZ - President Obama recently announced a new national policy to treat drug abuse more as a public-health issue, increasing the emphasis on prevention and treatment. Arizona public health advocates have a long record of pushing for su ...
- AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone
AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone Phoenix, AZ – A cell phone can be a handy reminder for better maternal and child health. That's the goal of the "Text4Baby" program, a new joint effort between health providers, corporations and local governments. It sends short, health and safety-relat ...
- DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in ...
DC Protest Urges End to LGBT Job Discrimination in AZ and Elsewhere Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-gender (LGBT) community will be closely watching a Capitol Hill demonstration demanding Congress vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The bill would stop employers o ...
- ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing?
ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing? President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon (fuh-LEE-pay call-der-OWN) yesterday (Wednesday) criticized Arizona's law that makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime. But in contrast to Arizona, a growing number of cities around the ...
- Iran And The Rogue Nuclear States' Proliferation N ...
Israel's concern that Iran should conform to "the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.N." is ironic : in 70's formation of a Paris-Tehran-Pretoria-Tel Aviv axis in the nuclear field Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Lexicon of most misleading terms in Israeli-Palest ...
They are right also about the "humanitarian" aspect, if what they mean is that hundreds of thousands are not dying of thirst or hunger. There is no humanitarian crisis, if you think that all a person needs is a set number of daily calories. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
- History Repeating Itself in the Gulf of Mexico?
Shocking similarities exist between the current oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the Ixtoc I disaster that happened in 1979. An explosion on an oil rig, a faulty blowout preventer, chemical dispersants, junk shots and top kills. The solution? Submitted by Billy T. to Environment �|� �N ...
- The Sinking of the South Korean Warship Cheonan
Who Sank the South Korean Warship Cheonan? Destabilization of the Korean Peninsula When military secrets were exposed by the sinking of the Cheonan, the military started to take measures N.Koreas reinvestigation proposal alters Cheonan situation Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- British MPs Accuse US Military of Human Rights Atr ...
Sign of growing disquiet, response to SkyNews/Guardian reports of humanitarian/health crisis in Iraqi city Fallujah, UK reps've submitted parliamentary motion accusing US military. News outlets worldwide picked up BBCWorldAffairsEditor's report- details.. Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to Healt ...
- Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Af ...
ShareThis Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Afghanistan war zone 31 May 2010 Millions of dollars of Saudi Arabian money have flowed into Afghanistan over the past four years, the country’s intelligence officials say, with the sponsorship of terrorism its most likely use. According to m ...
- EU demands inquiry into Israeli raid
ShareThis EU demands inquiry into Israeli raid 31 May 2010 Hours after the Israeli military attacked a Gaza-bound aid convoy, the European Union Foreign Policy chief calls for a full inquiry into the deaths of those on board the flotilla. A spokesperson for the EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Asht ...
- NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan
ShareThis NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan 31 May 2010 US-led forces in Afghanistan have confirmed that one of their helicopters has crashed in the southeastern province of Paktia. A statement released Monday by NATO says the helicopter crashed in the Jaji Meydan district, but refrains from revea ...
- Obama gives Israel all-out support
ShareThis Obama gives Israel all-out support 31 May 2010 After the United Nations ratified a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, the US president gives Israel "concrete guarantees" to prevent the decision from harming Israeli interests. Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post quoted ...
- Turkey: Israel attack on Gaza aid convoy violated ...
ShareThis Turkey: Israel attack on Gaza aid convoy violated international law --Turkey summons Israeli ambassador over IDF attack on Gaza aid flotilla, which killed at least 10 left-wing activists . 31 May 2010 Turkey's foreign ministry on Monday denounced as "unacceptable" an Israeli attack on an a ...
- The Israeli attack - a video perspective
I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli territory. Having said that, everyone -...
- Seismic cracks appear in global warming camp
This from the Times of London : Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old instit ...
- Trufflehunter takes another hit
Funniest put down of Trufflehunter since my last one: Don Easterbrook hides the incline Category: Global Warming Posted on: May 21, 2010 2:43 PM, by Tim Lambert By Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Professor of Geology Western Washington University Bellingham, WA...
- NEWS RELEASE: PM's statement conflicts with Review ...
Prime Minister John Key has been warned he could take a serious credibility hit if he continues to endorse the Latta Review on smacking before he's seen the Investigate magazine article published today. Responding to the PM's comments to NZPA...
- BREAKING NEWS: Investigate magazine news release
NEWS RELEASE FROM INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE Government’s smacking review misunderstood its Terms of Reference, got crucial facts wrong � Investigate magazine has blown open the smacking debate by publishing documents that show the review headed by Nigel Latta was effectively a farce, and that paren ...
- Ynet: 75 percent of flotilla passengers had a R ...
This is the latest and "greatest" Israeli version of events. It has been on the Hebrew site at YNet for hours. Funny, the English version makes it more clear that the captain is referring to all of the hundreds on board when he says "each one with a knife in his hand." How does he [...]
- Seham’s ‘Today in Palestine’ new ...
Below is my "Today in Palestine" news list. Unrelated to my Flotilla list. Flotilla or not, Israelis are still killing Palestinian men, women and children. In fact another baby died from the siege today. Nobody will hear about that.Land Theft/Destruction and Ethnic Cleansing Sheikh Jarrah: Time to a ...
- Israel’s flotilla actions vindicate Goldston ...
The flotilla is completely vindicating Goldstone. Note that the Israeli defense of its actions on the boat is exactly the same as its defense of its actions in Gaza: we had a right to inderdict their movements across international lines, we got severe provocation, we were being attacked by so-called ...
- ‘Washington Post’ relies on Israel lob ...
Our media are broken, corrupted. Look at these Washington Post graphics on the blockade of Gaza. For info, the Post credits the Israel Project, the Israel Defense Forces, and Gisha: Legal Center for freedom of Movement. That's nuts. The IDF is a foreign army, and the Israel Project is an Israel lobb ...
- Now US wants to be pariah state
Change you can believe in. Ben Smith at Politico says the U.S. is emulating Israel's isolation:For while much about the incident remains unclear, a day of carefully parsed statements from the White House and State Department left at least one irrefutable aftershock: With much of the world expressing ...
- VRM: Meningitis Vaccine To Be Forced On 7th Grader ...
A substantial new Bill to require meningitis vaccine for 7th graders and ALL college students is gaining momentum in Albany, New York http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5472 Bill S7156 passed the Senate Health Committee and is due for a floor vote. Bill A10313 will be voted on the Assembly Health ...
- VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]
- VRM: Massive Recall Of Children’s Tylenol Pr ...
MASSIVE RECALL OF CHILDREN’S TYLENOL, MOTRIN, ZYRTEC & BENADRYL PRODUCTS UNDERWAY Raw materials used to make over-the-counter infant’s and children’s medications, which are subject to a massive recall, tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspe ...
- VRM: Australian Vaccine Scandal
THE REAL REASON SO MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT PANVAX? CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT W ...
- VRM: Pregnancy Tips
I was recently alerted by a newly pregnant mother of a child with Autism for tips on minerals & vitamins to help strengthen her immune system during the coming months. She believes vaccines were the cause of her child’s Autism and has begun a shift away from her GP. Based on all my research thus far ...
- Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...
- Simple Living: CDs and DVDs
If like me, you were a teen in the 90's, you probably have a huge stack of CDs like I do. I would also bet that, like me, you rarely listen to any of those CDs. Over the last few years I've also noticed the same thing with my DVDs. I had a whole shelf of CDs and DVD but never touched 99% of ...
- The Newest Excitement In My Life: Dual-Flush Toile ...
Last week I got my quarterly municipal water bill: $ 240 ! That's about $1000 a year I'm paying for water which dries out my skin and reeks of chlorine. This was ample motivation for me to finally get around to installing a dual-flush adapter to our existing toilets. I picked this thing ...
- My Quick and Easy Square Foot Garden
Here's my little garden that I did last week. �It's a modified square foot garden where instead of a 4 x 4 bed this is 1 x 28. I have a small 50x 50 lot so there isn't room for anything much larger. The walls of the bed are plastic fake stones. �They're $15 for 9 feet at Walmart and Cana ...
- Simple Living: Getting Rid of "Stuff"
"The stuff you own, owns you." I know that saying sounds bizarre and maybe a little paranoid but in many ways it's true. In my the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "I have to clean up and organize; my house is too cluttered.". �It's a little thing but it's one more stress in my life an ...
- Court Decisions on Bagram Detainees
25 May 2010 We all are aware that war leads to difficult situations. In regard to detainees, we've seen terrorists released only to strike again. Yet in the interest of justice we are concerned about detaining potentially innocent people. Difficult times, difficult answers. In summary, some deta ...
- Court Martial Of Brigadier General Daniel Menard
Heavy fighting erupted in Thailand and I was slightly set back from Afghanistan dispatches. Am back to work on a series of major Afghanistan dispatches. Meanwhile, 33,000 people have signed up for my Facebook feed and about 10,000 at Twitter . Please see the interesting string on Facebook re BG Men ...
- Penguins of Afghanistan
Penguins of Afghanistan and A few Words on Charlie Company Published: 13 May 2010 There are no birth certificates in these villages. No death certificates. No driver’s licenses or addresses or phonebooks, and if there were, few people would be able to read them. In this mostly illiterate c ...
- An Afghan Story
Published: 9 May 2010 If normal life were a river, most days would likely be a slow-moving, meandering passage. But when a life squeezes into the gorge of war, there can be a deafening whitewater, falls and yet bigger falls, slams against stones, falls again and underwater no air and over the fa ...
- Big Guns
28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly. Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...
- Israel's Flotilla Massacre
Overnight, Israeli commandos attacked an aid flotilla in the high seas, some 65km from Israel. The commandos killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, mostly Turkish nonviolent activists bound for Gaza who were aiming to break Israel's siege with humanitarian supplies. Israel attacked ...
- Contested spaces worth defending
Introductory Note: The Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Graduate Student Conference this year took place on April 3, 2010. It had the theme “Contested Spaces: The (Re)Organization of Schooling Under Neoliberalism”. From the con ...
- Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto
The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...
- Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chav ...
On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans ...
- Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails
A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual .
- Vancouver's EcoDensity Program Produces an Explosi ...
It takes guts to make change happen, and some cities have them, others don't. In Vancouver, they changed the regulations to permit housing in back lanes, calling it EcoDensity; it is a carefully crafted bit of legislation that protects views and privacy but gets rid of the NIMBY factor that has ...
- BP Denies Existence of Giant Underwater Oil Plumes
Image: NASA , public domain. Contradicting the Findings of Many Scientists It already has been a few weeks since scientists have detected large underwater oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico, but BP is still denying that they even exist. Maybe they're saying that in good faith and truly haven't f ...
- PepsiCo Using Potatoes to Run UK Chip Factories
Image via The Guardian What are potato chips? They're slices of potatoes with the majority of the water taken out (and in most cases, a lot of oil added in). What happens to all the water - around 80% of a potato? Well, for four potato chip factories in the UK where water is an increasingly sig ...
- LEED or Not, Parking Garages Are Not Green
In Leiden, the Netherlands, Paul de Ruiter Architects are building a parking structure. It is made of "recyclable" materials so that it can be taken down in ten or twenty years when the land is redeveloped. The architect writes at Designboom: "given that our current way of life is largely depend ...
- Biodynamic Wine: One California Vineyard Doing it ...
Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Biodynamic is a relatively new buzz word in the wine industry. DeLoach Vineyard in Santa Rosa, California isn't just growing grapes to make some stellar wine: This winery is growing them in a way few others are, and because of their unique methods, they're setting the b ...
- Supreme Court rules in interstate radioactive wast ...
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday decided [opinion, PDF] in Alabama v. North Carolina [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] to adopt the recommendations of the Special Master in an interstate dispute over the disposal of radioactive waste. The court ...
- UN SG hails 'age of accountability' at ICC review ...
[JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Monday hailed [statement] the dawning of an "age of accountability" during the opening day of the review session of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. Ban described the first Review Conference of the Rome Statute ...
- China judicial authority bans use of evidence obta ...
[JURIST] China's Supreme People's Court [official website, in Chinese] announced Sunday that evidence obtained through violence or intimidation will be barred [China Daily report] from use in criminal trials and death penalty cases. The new regulations require prosecutors to provide the court with r ...
- Iraq Supreme Court ratifies March election results
[JURIST] The Iraqi Supreme Court on Tuesday ratified the final results of the nation's March 7 parliamentary elections [CEIP backgrounder; JURIST news archive], officially confirming a narrow victory for the secular Iraqiya alliance. The court's chief judge, Madhat al-Mahmoud, announced the ratifica ...
- Pakistan court lifts Facebook ban
[JURIST] The Lahore High Court (LHC) Monday ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) [official websites] to restore access to the Facebook [corporate website] social networking website. The LHC had blocked access [JURIST report] to the website earlier this month, in response to a page ...
- There Go the Gores
In an ideal world, the separation of Al and Tipper Gore would be noted in a court circular on the top of page 20 of the New York Times. "The First Lady has no engagements today. From Carthage House, the former Vice President and Mrs. Gore announce their separation." Alas, a broken marriage is now br ...
- 3 Political Casualties of the Flotilla Raid
For years, Israeli soldiers had top cover for just about anything that happened to occur. That cover extended all the way to the White House, but it expressed itself most often in the form of a reflexive defensiveness from the Israeli political establishment. This is normal and rational, but it serv ...
- Text, Context, Subtext Of A Washington Post Scoop
Greg Miller, the Washington Post's ace intelligence and national security reporter, poured a bucket of ice down the backs of American officials with his publication last night of a story about how U.S. special operations forces are hamstrung from pursuing high value targets in Afghanistan, even as t ...
- A Few Steps Forward on Non-Proliferation
In 2005, the Nonproliferation Treaty Review conference produced little but hand-wringing and frustration when it ended. The story was about the Bush Administration and its alleged failures to advance the non-proliferation regime, which conveniently gave other states an excuse to hide behind. Bush ac ...
- On James Clapper And Stephen Cambone
In yesterday's Night Beat, I wrote that the five words that folks are using to encapsulate why Congress and others are uncomfortable with Gen. James Clapper Jr. (Ret.)'s potential ascension to the post of Director of National Intelligence are: "He Was Stephen Cambone's deputy." This requires a bi ...
- U.S. Officials ‘Dismayed’ at Gaza Flotilla Attack
Right now, they’ll only admit it hiding behind anonymity: While the administrationâs public response was restrained, American officials expressed dismay in private over not only the flotilla raid, with its attendant deepening of Israelâs isolation around the world, but also over the timing of ...
- Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
- When Jews Broke a Blockade and Violently Resisted…
This is the Hebrew Wikipedia entry about the ship Exodus, which attempted to break the British blockade of Palestinians while filled with Holocaust survivors and others seeking a new life in freedom after suffering under the boot of Nazi tyranny: At 2:30AM on July 18, 1947, a half day before the Exo ...
- Senior IDF Officers Opposed Gaza Flotilla Attack, ...
Thanks to Oren Persico of the extraordinary Israeli media watchdog NGO, 7th Eye, who reported that Yediot Achronot columnist Sever Plotzker revealed that senior IDF officers vocally opposed the Israeli Navy’s attack on the Gaza flotilla. Yet no one in the Israeli media could report this: Yediot Ach ...
- Facebook Group Calls for End of Gaza Siege, Intern ...
I have just created a new Facebook group protesting the Gaza flotilla massacre. I hope you will consider joining and circulate word to everyone you know to ask that they do so. We must rally to demand justice and accountability for the events of last night. Here are the demands I’ve included ...
- Bigger, better, faster ... blah!
By: Chintana How do we become bigger, better and faster to future-proof our company and clients? This is a central theme for the company I used to work for. And while it seems like quite a natural question for a “growth company” to ask, it also seemed to ...
- Spiritual crisis
By: Anne Thomas Recently a friend sent a generic e-mail to her many acquaintances. She was wondering if any of us might read a book that a friend of hers had written. She wanted to see what we thought, of course, and also if we might introduce it to a wide ...
- At MSU, graduation means beds for sale
By: Laura_Silver Ahh, graduation season. Departing seniors leave the relative security of the college campus, juniors, sophomores and freshmen move up a grade and the dorm furniture? Well, it often stays put. That's not the case at Michigan State Univers ...
- TOMS shoes and charity: water join forces for Ethi ...
By: VictoriaKlein Four years ago, TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie began his business with an exceptionally simple concept: one for one. For every pair of shoes that he sold, a pair would be given away to a child in need. In this short time, 600,000 pairs ...
- Zen howl
By: Chintana I resent the old joke, “when the going gets tough, the tough goes shopping.” I hate it because it’s what I do when I don’t want to write. It’s awful but I’ll admit it. This is what happened a few months ago. I had barely walked into Starbuck ...
- Watershed benefits of smart growth duplicate trans ...
Research findings published last year in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association confirm earlier studies by the federal Environmental Protection Agency showing that, for a given increment of development, compact neighborhoods built to a walkable scale reduce stormwate ...
- A cry for help from those battling the oil in the ...
On Memorial Day, Louisiana Shrimp Association Vice President Acy Cooper wasn’t thinking about those who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. He was focused on his colleagues engaged in a different kind of battle. And he was madder than a swamp gator yanked out of his muddy hom ...
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News
Needless to say, it’s been a terrible month for wildlife in the Gulf coast, so it’s worth remembering that, despite the grim headlines, there is good news to report elsewhere: India’s Gir National Park reports that its population of Asiatic lions grew by 13% last year. Over 400 l ...
- BP: PR FAIL
Wikipedia defines public relations (or PR ) as "the art and social science of analyzing trends, predicting their consequences, counseling organizational leaders, and implementing planned programs of action, which will serve both the organization and the public interest." It's not just ...
- This day has a purpose
Honor them: � � � Move your cursor over the images for credit information. Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily�about community, development, and the environment.� For more posts, see his blog's home page .� �
- Layering Disaster Upon Disaster
I have just learned that our main RSS feed ceased to update on Friday. If you read the site through RSS you’re probably not getting this, but nevertheless be patient… Related posts:Archive and Forwarding Issues Russian Conscripts: Still a Disaster Ground Shifting Related posts: Archive and For ...
- “Must”
It’s interesting to me that “must” is so big in the tag clouds of both the Bush and Obama NSS. “Must” implies a lack of freedom; it’s much different than “may” or “can.” It seems odd that the world’s sole superpower, hegemon, unipolar state etc. thinks strategically in terms of “must” rather than ...
- “Superpower?”
I don’t want to interrupt Jeffrey Goldberg’s hand-wringing, but this really stood out: Israel may face, in the coming year, a threat to its existence the likes of which it has not experienced before: A theologically-motivated regional superpower with a nuclear arsenal. Really? We’re calling Iran ...
- Brief Thoughts on the Oil Spill
Haven’t been blogging on the spill, because I know next to nothing about deep sea oil drilling or cleanup. I do want to echo a bit what John Cole wrote here; the situation that we’ve produced for ourselves is one in which, unfortunately, we have to depend on BP to handle the problem. [...] Relat ...
- Oh, My.
Israeli Defense Forces seem to have fired on a flotilla of humanitarian shipments, killing nine ten aid workers (or militant blockade runners, depending on where you sit). Netanyahu has defended his troops who claim to have fired in self-defense, and has canceled his visit to the White House. Al-Jaz ...
- Gasland in Elmira
The film “Gasland” about the Marcellus Shale drilling will play one night only at the Elmira Heights Theater on Wednesday, June 9th, with a Q&A with the writer/director Josh Fox. Admission fee: $5.00.
- Increased Gas Drilling Activities Bringing New Cha ...
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Counties and municipalities across Pennsylvania where natural gas drilling is taking place â particularly in the Northern Tier region â are also struggling to meet a number of additional challenges associated with the industry’s increas ...
- HB 2213 Proposal
On May 25th the Pennsylvania House environmental committee passed crucial legislation to protect our rivers and streams from dangerous gas drilling. This proposal, HB 2213, does several important things, including: • Prohibiting gas drilling near rivers, lakes and drinking water sources; • Requiri ...
- A Couple of Editorials….
1. The gas companies that want to drill in the Marcellus Shale all know, just like other businesses, that they must spend money in order to make money. In 2008 they contributed a total of $36 million to candidates in national elections, and spent $133 million on lobbying. In 2009 they spent a whoppi ...
- CHESAPEAKE BAY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
If you live in PA and are not aware of it…most of Eastern PA all the way up to New York is part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary______________________________________________ For Immediate Release            May 12, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER- – - ...
- China Provides Subsidies for Electric and Hybrid V ...
The Chinese government is providing consumer incentives for the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles in five cities in a bid to boost the green vehicle industry and cut greenhouse gas emissions. During the trial project, buyers are eligible for subsidies as large as 50,000 yuan ($7,320) for plug ...
- Process Converts C02 into BPA-free Plastics, Study ...
Researchers say they have identified several classes of organic chemicals that can capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then be used to make more environmentally benign plastics . Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore used chemicals called imidazoli ...
- Indonesia Okays Moratorium On New Logging Concessi ...
Indonesia, which has allowed widespread destruction of its tropical forests in recent decades, has announced it will impose a two-year moratorium on new forestry concessions beginning in 2011. In exchange, the Norwegian government — which has played a key role in trying to slow deforestation worldwi ...
- Certification of Krill Fishery Draws Protest From ...
The decision by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to certify an Antarctic krill fishery as environmentally sustainable has drawn a sharp protest from the Pew Environmental Group. The MSC, which has certified 67 fisheries worldwide as sustainable , decided this week to put its seal of approval on ...
- Will REDD Preserve Forests Or Merely Provide a Fig ...
The tropical forest conservation plan, known as REDD, has the potential to significantly reduce deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. But unless projects are carefully designed and monitored, the program could be undercut by shady dealings at all levels, from the forests to global ca ...
- Possible Alien Beacon?
SETI has been looking for radio signals from ETI for over 50 years with no results yet. Many have argued the SETI search paradigm is wrong for various reasons and that they should broaden their operations somewhat. Looking for interstellar optical beacons is one of them. Below is a photo of a possib ...
- More Moon Anomalies
Most folks believe since Mr. Obama’s FY11 Budget for NASA cancels the Constellation Program leaves Moon exploration out in the cold. It could be no further than the truth. Johnson Space Center’s Project M, which utilizes robotic and telerobotic technologies, forcasts a return to the Moon is feasibl ...
- Disclosure and Avatars?
*Sigh* Here we go again. More disclosure stuff. But this site has piqued my interest lately in that it’s not the ” in your face ” type of disclosure meme. This seems to have some synchronicity on its side. Well, see for yourselves: After more than 210,000 page views of the April 26, 2010, article “ ...
- Who Does MUFON Represent?
MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) is one of the various UFO researching organizations still in operation. It has membership in many states and actually has some funding by a mainstream aerospace company (Bigelow Aerospace). Unfortunately as my previous post indicated, the field of UFO (and paranormal) stud ...
- Is There a Ufology “Hate Meme?”
It has recently come to my poor addled mind that David Biedny is no longer on the Paracast. I don’t listen to the show much anymore, for reasons I don’t particularly know why, but I have listened to a couple more recently. And I’ve wondered why Gene Steinberg has had guest hosts on. Now, I [...]
- Appalling scenes of animal cruelty from AlhaurÃn ...
Drunken youngsters tortured a young bull to death on the last day of the village feria Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Tell China to entact animal proptection law
In September 2009, legislation was drafted to address deliberate cruelty to animals in China. If passed, the legislation would offer some protection to pets, captive wildlife and animals used in laboratories, as well as... Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Origin of a name: Blackhawks name founded in histo ...
As Chicago's American Indians see it, the Blackhawks fever gripping the city is accompanied by symptoms of historical amnesia. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Huge "Peace Jirga" set to take place in Afghanista ...
A huge "peace jirga" set to take place in Kabul this week marks a critical moment in bringing an end to decades of conflict that have blighted Afghanistan, The National Consultative Peace Jirga, or assembly, aims to bring together Afghan leaders Submitted by Tigerman King to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- 2nd leak containing 13 different radioactive subst ...
Vapor and water containing 13 different radioactive substances was found late Friday coming from a pipe in a hole workers dug to find the source of an earlier leak."This was a new leak," Vermont Yankee spokesman Larry Smith said in an e-mail Saturday. Submitted by Tigerman King to World �|� �Note-i ...
- Amtrak Misled Public About Financial Condition
“When Amtrak assured Congress it was on a “glide path” to free itself of federal subsidies early last decade, a handful of top executives secretly had reason to know better. In fact, the rail service was on the verge of bankruptcy.” (Monday, Washington Times) Surprise, surprise, surprise FEE Timely ...
- Soldiers Recognize Memorial Day
“Inside the ornate palace of the late dictator Saddam Hussein, now the main headquarters of U.S. forces in Iraq, dozens of U.S. service members bowed their heads in prayer at a Memorial Day commemoration.” (Washington Post, Monday) Hats off to all those who’ve paid the ultimate price for liberty. Bu ...
- States “Race to the Top” for Education ...
“Louisiana, Oklahoma and New York also approved bills modifying their tenure and evaluation rules in the last week, just in time to meet Tuesdayâs application deadline for Round 2 of the competition, known as Race to the Top.” (New York Times, Monday) Why not a race to liberty? FEE Timely Classic: ...
- Are Cameras the New Guns?
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record an on-duty police officer even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense.
- Top Oil-Drilling Regulation Quits
“Elizabeth Birnbaum, head of Minerals Management Service, which issues permits for offshore drilling, resigned.” (Washington Post, Friday) Government sure is good at managing public property. FEE Timely Classic “Regulation” by John A. Pugsley
- Top Teaching Online Journalism posts: Past 6 month ...
According to Google Analytics, this is what you’ve been reading here (Dec. 1, 2009, up to today): 21 examples of Flash journalism A few words about digital audio recorders Now printable! Reporterâs Guide to Multimedia Proficiency Recording phone calls: For reporters Why does anyone major in ...
- Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3
Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not taught, I’m going to assume that all those Luddites are working on bringing their design and presentation curriculum into the 21st century. CSS is essential to design and presentation for the Internet. In this post I’m just g ...
- Two good books for learning JavaScript, jQuery
Since about March this year, I’ve been searching for a few good, clear books to recommend to journalists and students who are interested in learning to use jQuery — with an eye toward getting ready for HTML5. You could just leap straight into jQuery, but I think it would make more sense to get a ha ...
- Tips for HTML5, part 5: A closer look at selected ...
Most journalism students need to know only the bare minimum about HTML and how it works. For years I have been saying they need to know about 10 basic tags and not much more. That’s probably going to change with HTML5. This elegant illustration by Derek Bender (from his presentation The Future o ...
- Feedly puts the magic back into RSS and blogs
Have you been neglecting your RSS feeds? Has it been weeks or months since you opened your RSS feed reader? Yeah. Me too. I blame Twitter. I get so many links and news updates via TweetDeck on my desktop, and via Twitterific on my iPhone, I just don’t feel the need to open Google Reader anymore. I ...
- WHAT'S NEXT FOR COAL ASH?
Disaster has pushed Washington to call for new standards for handling waste from coal-fired power plants. It's invited citizens to weigh in, but will their voices carry above lobbyists fighting tough regulations? A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis NOTE: This is the final installme ...
- VOICES: Obama sends in the border troops
By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer While conservatives have already started blaming President Obama for not allowing the National Guard to construct gun turrets on top of the 18-foot border wall and start blazing away, it's actually those sissies at the Pentagon that want to make sure the ...
- 'DUMPSITES IN DISGUISE'
Coal ash isn't just dumped; it's increasingly being recycled into building materials and other uses. But in states like North Carolina, the failure to adequately regulate one so-called "beneficial use" of the toxic-filled waste is putting communities at risk. A special Facing South investigation by ...
- POWER POLITICS
After years of inaction, federal officials are mulling new regulations to confront the growing problem of coal ash. But energy companies have fought off regulation before, and they're fighting the new rules every step of the way. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis When the catastr ...
- DISASTER IN EAST TENNESSEE
In December 2008, one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history unfolded at the TVA's Kingston coal plant when a massive coal ash holding pond burst. A year and a half later, communities are still feeling the impact -- and there are fears that without federal action a similar disaster c ...
- So Baby Jesus says - Don't shop at supermarkets fo ...
A distinctly British story, BUT maybe you could "just substitute the name of your BIG box store" in place of "Tesco" and it will "ring true." cowboss� If you like Christmas, you probably fancy a good old-fashioned one (the good old postmodern Christmas is so over). Mince pies, wassail, rosy cheeks ...
- FDA Petitioned to Ban Arsenic from Animal Feed
Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs You, my regular readers know this is an important issue to cowboss.� I am�pleased to see that action is being taken in the US, I do hope that the FDA will do the responsible thing and Ban this ridiculous prac ...
- The Mouse In The House ~ Author unknown
A compelling story! �I Bet You Never Thought About It That Way Before - But "Hopefully" You Will Now! .... cowboss A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a m ...
- Missouri government plots undercover sting operati ...
"To you, it's just a gallon of milk. But to these farmers, it's their livelihood. Think about that for a minute before you go slapping handcuffs on the very same people who put food on your mama's table." Imagine being watched by two undercover cops as you engage in an illicit deal in a deserted p ...
- "Marketing 101 to the Max" or Meaningful Change at ...
Yes, Yes and Yes, BUT the Fundamental Question remains -- What have you (Maple Leaf Foods) done about�complying with CFIA's warnings and stopping�the�use of US Feces (Shit) Fed Beef in the manufacturing of your "Processed Meats"? "CANADA - Maple Leaf Foods yesterday announced the establishment of i ...
- Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
- Great Depression
Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
- Riel, Louis
Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
- Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
- Confederation
Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
- How can I reuse or recycle jerry cans?
We’ve had an email from Lieze: how can i recycle an old jerry can in a creative way ? Lieze doesn’t say whether it’s an old school pressed steel one or a newfangled plastic one – or whether it’s been used as a fuel container or a water one. My first thought for anything container shaped [...]
- How can I make “chickens from plastic bags&# ...
(I hope everyone had a lovely long weekend btw – and for those who didn’t get yesterday as a holiday, sorry for rubbing it in that we all did!) Linzi email us with a rather specific question: I would love to know how to make those chickens made from plastic bags? I desperately want to to know [...]
- Interesting reducing, reusing and recycling links
Make wipe-clean bibs out of old plastic bags As part of Dollar Store Crafts‘ Stashbusting April, Heather has put together a great collection of reusing and upcycling links A number of recycling professionals are standing the upcoming UK General Election – supporting green issues and the green econ ...
- How can I reuse or recycle breathing machine parts ...
We’ve had an email from Dee, who first asked if it’s ok for people from the US to ask questions (it sure is!), then explained: I currently use a CPAP machine and Medicare replaces the parts fairly frequently and I am unsure what to do with the “old” parts. I mean, I know some people may [...]
- How can I clean a smelly vintage dress?
We’ve had an email from Su: Although is not strictly a recycle or indeed repair, I nonetheless need help! I bought a lovely dress in a second hand shop which I just know I would get loads of wear from if only I could remove the smell! It seems to have been washed in a very [...]
- China Bans Court Evidence Gained Through Torture
The top judicial and law enforcement bodies in China have issued new guidelines that seek to halt the use of torture in obtaining confessions or witness testimony, especially in death penalty cases.
- World leaders could face prosecution for ‘state ag ...
World leaders could face prosecution for acts of state aggression — potentially including the invasion of Iraq — under calls for the International Criminal Court to extend its powers.
- Free trade zone for China, S.Korea, Japan to produ ...
- ‘UN should be strengthened’
- FCC asked to monitor "hate speech," "misinformatio ...
Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on "hate speech" and "misinformation" in media. "Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as 'news'," they wrote to the FCC earlier this month.
- “No other options:” Gaza’s tunne ...
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rGAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – Life can be hard working in these tunnels, and it is always at risk. But many have no choice but to work in them, particularly since mid-2007, when Israel and Egypt, with the help of the international community, imposed a sieg ...
- Besieged Palestinians outraged over Israel’s ...
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rAs news was released of Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla and rising casualties among the passengers, the mood at Gaza’s modest seaport grew somber. Hundreds of civilians including governmental and non-governmental representatives, activists, and ordinary Pal ...
- Thousands rally for Freedom Flotilla in Stockholm
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rThe central Sergels Torg square in Stockholm is not the place you would normally expect to hear the words “stop the blockade,” or “boycott Israel,” or even “In our souls and with our blood we support you Palestine,” in Arabic no less. Sami Halabi and Assaad Thebian ...
- Colin Powell Says Sanctions Won?t End Iran?s Nucle ...
Summary: Powell Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that proposed stricter United Nations sanctions won?t bring an end to Iran?s nuclear program. source: Bloomberg Businessweek read more
- US Activist Loses Eye After Being Shot in Face Wit ...
- The best organic pet food brands revealed
(NaturalNews) A stroll down the pet food aisle at the local pet store can be overwhelming. The shelves are full of countless brands all claiming to have the best formulations for your furry friend. Many brands are now selling "natural" and organic lines in order to attract discerning shoppers who ar ...
- U.S. culture of greed is threat to world
(NaturalNews) The world is doomed to environmental catastrophe unless the threat posed by U.S. consumption culture is directly addressed, warns the Worldwatch Institute's annual report. "Until we recognise that our environmental problems, from climate change to deforestation to species loss, are dri ...
- Diet Drug Alli Linked to Severe Liver Damage
(NaturalNews) The FDA has started an investigation into whether the diet drug orlistat, marketed as both Alli and Xenical, has been causing serious liver damage in some patients. Prescription-strength Xenical was approved by the FDA in 1999. Half-strength Alli was approved as the first (and to date, ...
- Is BP trying to cap the Gulf oil well, or keep it ...
(NaturalNews) Today, I spent my time interviewing people on the Gulf Coast from Mississippi to Louisiana. Several of those interviews were conducted on camera, and you'll be seeing those videos as early as tomorrow here on NaturalNews. Interestingly, it turns out that a lot of the people living on t ...
- Azukar Organics' amazing organic coconut sugar
(NaturalNews) The coconut is a highly versatile food that is loaded with an array of diverse nutrients that result in amazing health benefits. Coconut milk, cream, oil and flour are some of the most common coconut superfoods available on the market. But did you know that a healthy, superior form of ...
- Five Alleged Money Mules Indicted in Bank Theft
Five alleged money mules have been indicted in a bank heist that netted the thieves almost $450,000 from a local-government bank account in California. John L. Quinn II and Anthony Bobbitt, both of North Carolina, were indicted with three others on criminal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and cons ...
- Supreme Court Gets RIAA Copyright Case
A case testing the meaning of the so-called “innocent infringer’s” defense to the Copyright Act’s minimum $750-per-music-track fine has landed at the U.S. Supreme Court. The case the justices were asked to review this week concerns a federal appeals court’s February decision ordering a university st ...
- Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the ‘ ...
Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the “wild” internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday. ...
- Time Warner Cable Resists Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit
A consortium of independent film producers is hitting a stumbling block in its plan to simultaneously sue thousands of BitTorrent users for allegedly downloading pirated movies. Time Warner Cable is refusing to look up and turn over the identities of about a thousand of its customers targeted in the ...
- Lawsuits Pour in Over Google’s Wi-Fi Data Collecti ...
At least three lawsuits have been filed against search engine giant Google for collecting Wi-Fi user data through its Street View cameras. The lawsuits have been filed in California, Massachusetts and Oregon. They allege that Google violated federal and state privacy laws in collecting fragments of ...
- Issa: Tim Russert Died So That We Might Drill
California Republican Darrell Issa appeared on Fox News Sunday to continue his crusade against President Obama over the Sestak no-pay-for-no-play non-scandal , this time calling for an FBI investigation. But over the past several weeks, Issa has also been the GOP's chief messenger in criticizing Ob ...
- Republicans Criminalizing Politics over Sestak Aff ...
While Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has deemed the Sestak no-pay-for-no-play non-scandal an "illegal quid pro quo" and " Obama's Watergate ," the overwhelming consensus of legal opinion had concluded otherwise. While Bush White House ethics officer Richard Painter told his fellow Republicans to "move on ...
- Will Issa Cry Again Over Sestak Non-Scandal?
With today's release of statements by the White House Counsel and Congressman Joe Sestak regarding the no-pay for no-play Pennsylvania Senate contest, Sestakgate is emerging as a non-scandal. After all, in 1982 President Ronald Reagan offered Senator S.I. Hayakawa a job if he dropped out of the Cal ...
- Sadly for Republicans, the Stimulus Stimulated
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that's our target market." Judging from the rhetoric of House Minority Leader John Boehner , that's the Republican mantra when it comes to the Obama recovery package. Nine months after Boehner wrongly decried a "stimulus bill that didn't creat ...
- Robin Hood and the Estate Tax
In 2009, only 1 in 500 American estates paid taxes. But thanks to the obstructionism of Senate Republicans led by Arizona's Jon Kyl, the estate tax temporarily lapsed for 2010, a hiatus that could portend massive windfalls this year for the heirs of the largest fortunes in the United States. Now a ...
- A Loser White House, Guilty by Association By Robe ...
by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net May 20, 2010 Long before Year One ended, progressives understood President Obamas focus was routine wheeling and dealing, not regrowing the New Deal. Between victory and governance, Obama reform switched from promises to make govern ...
- Root Cause of Voters’ Revolt: Congress, Obama, GOP ...
The revolt across the political landscape on Tuesday against incumbents wasn’t just an attack against the Washington establishment, but an outpouring of rage against political elites of all stripes who haven’t realized the economic crisis still gripping American workers. As Katrina vanden Heuvel, ed ...
- Capping the devils cauldron By Jerry Mazza
By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com May 20, 2010 If I were a religious man, I would take the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the spilling of millions of gallons of oil and gas, their engulfing of the Gulf of Mexico waters and de ...
- Buyer Beware: Over the Counter DNA Tests Can Cause ...
There's a huge push to market over-the-counter genetic tests. But the faulty tests can cause more harm than good.
- Six Myths About Immigration That Just Won't Die
We need to straighten out our thinking about some of the basic issues in order to have a useful and serious policy argument.
- Thanks for your donations to EarthShare of Texas t ...
PUBLIC CITIZEN’s TEXAS OFFICE is a Public Citizen’s Texas office would like to thank all those who made donations to Earth Share of Texas through HEB’s in-store coupon promotion for April. Your donations will go toward supporting environmental work in Texas including the Texas office of Public Citiz ...
- Tar Sands May be Coming to Texas
The U.S. Department of State will be hosting public hearings this week, May 17-20th in Beaumont, Liberty, Livingston, and Tyler on the proposed tar sands pipeline. Canadian oil and gas giant TransCanada needs U.S. Department of State approval in order to expand the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada t ...
- Arkansas Supreme Court Rules Against Turk Coal Pla ...
Upholding a state court ruling made last year that found the hearing process was not conducted propery, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against the Turk coal-fired power plant in Southwest Arkansas. This is great news for the People of Arkansas, surrounding states, and the planet in general. Perha ...
- Webinar on Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compa ...
The day after our radioactive waste importation webinar, the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission announced that it would delay consideration of the rule that would have allowed the import of low level nuclear waste from the entire nation into Texas. The rule will not be considered ...
- Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
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- Insights - Spring 2010
Global Justice Takes Global Movements People attending the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001 declared,� “Another World is Possible.” Since then, the critical question is: how do we get there? The roadmap that Grassroots International and our global partners follow starts with ...
- Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy -part ...
Overview: � Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy works with the Executive Director and the Director of Development and Communications (DDC) to recruit, develop, solicit and coordinate major individual contributors. The ADSP has specific responsibilities as detailed below. The ADSP may also ...
- Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid ...
Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell is the founder and Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator of Other Worlds, which is a Grassroots International ally. She has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. Grassr ...
- Water Rights for Arab Citizens of Israel
ahali-water.jpg Among the many challenges facing Arab citizens living in Israel, access to water is perhaps the worst. Grassroots International partner the Ahali Center for Community Development is organizing to secure the human right to water ...
- Tell Congress: Haiti Can't Wait
Micheline Fleuron lives with her two boys in the median on the road in Carrefour, Haiti.� Her home, the pile of rubble across the street from where she is now, collapsed during the earthquake and killed her seven-year-old daughter. Before the earthquake Micheline had a small business selling food it ...
- June 1, 2010
U.N. Climate Talks Resume, Negotiations Stalled (Reuters) U.N. climate talks resumed on Monday exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor nations, which delegates said would delay the start of formal negotiations. Forest Plan by Australia, Europe Faces Climate Veto (Bloomberg) ...
- May 31, 2010
Gulf Coast Warned Oil May Leak Until August (Reuters) U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude ...
- May 29-30, 2010
BP's Top Kill Effort Fails to Plug Gulf Oil Leak (AP) The most ambitious bid yet to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history ended in failure Saturday after BP was unable to overwhelm the gusher of crude with heavy fluids and junk. Pres. Obama called the setback "as enraging as it is heartbr ...
- May 28, 2010
U.S. Climate Bill Seen Unlikely in 2010 (Reuters) Senators are unlikely to pass legislation to tackle global warming this year as the time remaining to do so runs out, a panel of experts said on Friday at a carbon conference. China May Start State-Guided Carbon Market by 2014, Feng Says (Bloo ...
- May 27, 2010
BP Spokesman Says 'Top Kill' Continues, Amidst Reports Leak Plugged (Reuters) BP is continuing with its "top kill" operation to try to plug its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well but has no immediate update to give on whether it has succeeded, a BP spokesman said on Thursday. Scientists: Gulf Spi ...
- 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 ...
- The Common Culture of Turkey, the United States, a ...
I'd guess roughly 3% of the Americans who watch the new Disney movie Prince of Persia have any idea that Persia and Iran are the same place. A similar number are probably aware of Iranians' demonstrations of sympathy following 9-11 and of Iran's assistance to the United States in Afghanistan in 200 ...
- Israel and Harman in Tandem: From High Seas to Air ...
When Israel attacked the Gaza aid flotilla, Congresswoman Jane Harman was engaged in a parallel assault. Israel's government relied on the efficacy of violence; Harman's campaign was counting on the power of paid media. In both cases, the targets were advocates of human rights for Palestinian people ...
- Israel Murders Human Rights Workers Delivering Hum ...
On Sunday, Israel murdered human rights workers who were attempting to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, because Gaza has been virtually cut off from the outside world by Israel. At least 19 people were reportedly killed and dozens injured when Israeli troops boarded the ...
- Remembering Memorial Day
It's a bit silly to look back on a simpler -- or at least less cluttered -- time and long to recreate those moments. But as the days grow longer and warmer perhaps longings such as these are to be expected. The neighborhood picnic, the block party, the community parade, barbequed burgers and brats ...
- Cartoon for Memorial Day: Thank God
[click image to enlarge] It seems appropriate this Memorial Day to think about all the gays and lesbians who died for their country, which insisted that they lie about who they were. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � read more
- California’s Republican Cannibals
If you are a television watcher in California right now, you know where I am going with this. It’s enough to drive anyone screaming out of the family room until after the June 8th election next week. You can’t go 10 minutes on any channel without the Republican gubernatorial candidates portraying ...
- Israel, Palestinians–Stupid Pills for All
Let me give you a different take on today’s battle between the Israeli Navy and so-called “peace activists,” which left at least 10 of the peaceniks resting in permanent peace and Israel with a big old black eye. Here are the key facts: 1. Activists favoring the Palestinians loaded up a ship and s ...
- Gov. Brewer Suspends State AG For Not Doing His Jo ...
Oh, things are heating up down in Arizona. Like they weren’t already hot enough. Governor Brewer is demonstrating in no uncertain terms that she is a force to be reckoned with, as this article highlights, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Abruptly Suspends State’s Attorney General From Illegal Immigrant Law ...
- The Gaza Flotilla Assault
Weigh in. More key updates below the fold. UPDATE (a POV via Hot Air): The preferred media headline so far this morning has been “Israelis kill 10 peace activists in Gaza flotilla,” but that’s not quite what happened. The IDF attempted to head off a number of boats attempting to run the blockade ...
- Memorial Day, A Day Of Remembrance
On this Memorial Day, we remember those who have died in service to our country. Their sacrifice the ultimate price, but one they paid willingly. To them, and to their families, who have also made tremendous sacrifices, we thank you. I would add, “and girls” who have sacrificed as well. As a ...
- The Legal Plants of Amsterdam
Close your eyes and picture 7, 000, 000 bulbs planted in neat, patterned layouts, imagine the scent of millions of blooming flowers, hear the sound of birds and crickets read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
- Beautiful Bees Nest Made out of Flower Petals
We all assume that bees mean hives and swarms and honey, but the reality is that most bees lead very solitary lives.One recently discovered species is positively artful i read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
- The Philippines: Where 4 of the World's Smallest T ...
Smallest creations that are found in the Philippines. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Destructive Power of Giant Hailstone Blizzards
Nothing on earth demonstrates more destructive power than the weather. When black thunderclouds are overhead, you just might experience the force of giant hailstones. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Exploring London's Biggest Concrete Nightmare
A journey into deprivation, isolation and 'Broken Britain'. Gritty inner-city London takes no prisoners. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
- President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...
- New videos: Mayday Immigrant Rights March, Keith E ...
Oh hai, thanks for visiting... A lot of things going on and thus little time (if any) for posts. I got some neat events taped around MayDay weekend in Minneapolis, including the Immigrant Rights March around downtown & Loring Park. Also had my video of US Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN5) describing th ...
- The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! UPDATE: Hi to everyone from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leo_Wanta/ - keep it up :) This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the big ...
- 2010 Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Notes for Ap ...
Jesse Trentadue : …who’s testifying about Howe had reported that the plan to bomb the Murrah building four months in advance, had gone with Strassmeir and others to scout the target – the first thing the U.S. Attorney does when Graham stops testifying is ask the judge to seal the transcript, and the ...
- BlackListedNews: BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes ...
I can only apologize for not pushing the breakdown of the gold market story out more. It is finally coming loose it seems, & when this occurs it will be another giant 'discontinuity' that'll get filled up with more inflationary ripoffs. A huge basis of the system is gonna croak sometime soon... ...
- Palin Bachmann: 2010 GOP Convention Center Rally H ...
Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...
- Who needs terrorists?
For years Americans have purchased pharmaceuticals from Mexico and Canada because they are so much cheaper there. Their governments provide Universal Health Care and their governments bargain for the best prices. We have been repeatedly warned not to buy medications from these countries because t ...
- The Death of Capitalism
The Death of Capitalism: Birth of a New Society By: Solomon Comissiong One does not have to be a doctor, or play one on TV, to understand that in order to have a chance at eradicating any malady from the body you must find its root cause. The physician must figure out what is causing the sickness [ ...
- Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not Just
Part 1 of 2- U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not Just: Eastern and Western Ethics of War Applied to the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan This article is the first part of a two part analysis which will discuss various aspects of the causes and conduct of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
- Memorializing Freedom Fighters & Liberation Strugg ...
www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please join us for an important and electric discussion around freedom, liberation, self determination and resistance. We will be paying memorial honor to various freedom fighters and activists! Naturally this show will also delve into imperialism, colonization ...
- Time for law abiding American citizens to stop pay ...
source, with video and better formatting. David Degraw has written an outstanding comprehensive explanation of whatâs really happening in the US economy. Heâs given me permission to reprint it here. I also recommend his site ”For Our Economy“ for citizen grass-roots activism for economic justi ...
- Pravda: Israel Butchering Peace Activists in Inter ...
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Israel Butchering Peace Activists in International Waters � � Pravda.ru By Lisa Karpova and Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey May 31, 2010 � � Israel Butchering Peace Activists in International Waters � �Israel Imposes Blackout on ...
- USA Foreign Policy Failure: Development, not Deplo ...
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. USA Foreign Policy Failure: Development, not Deployment � � Pravda.ru By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey May 24, 2010 The United States of America has done little or nothing to curb drug trafficking in Afghanistan, where opium pro ...
- Gordon Duff: "Flintstone" Weapons And "Custer" Tac ...
The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . "Flintstone" Weapons And "Custer" Tactics Rake In Billions For War Profiteers � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today May 22, 2010 * �How the Dimmest and Dumbest Give us their Wors ...
- Saint Lieberman, Patron Saint of Death Camps
The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Saint Lieberman, Patron Saint of Death Camps � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina May 18, 2010 America, wake up. This is it, your oh so righteous man of neither branch b ...
- Ramzy Baroud: Can the agony get worse?
The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Can the agony get worse? � �Ramzy Baroud May 18, 2010 Clad in his usual attire of a colourful, striped robe, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared more like an emperor as he began his fourth day in Washington. Accompanying him ...
- Frustration grows as BP warns of long effort to ca ...
by Agence France-Presse. GALLIANO, La. - BP officials warned Monday they may not be able to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak until August, as Louisiana scientists and residents warned the spill could wipe out dozens of fish species. Drilling relief wells is still seen as the best solution, but ...
- ‘You will not be abandoned,’ Obama tel ...
by Agence France-Presse. GRAND ISLE, La. -- President Barack Obama told the people of the Gulf Coast Friday they would not be "abandoned," in his most impassioned remarks yet on the United States' worst-ever oil spill. He spoke from the Louisiana coast during his second tour of the region since ...
- Success of oil capping bid won’t be clear fo ...
by Grist. BP’s latest one-two punch —pumping “heavy drilling fluid” with a junk-shot chaser—seems to be slowing the leaking Gulf oil well. But don’t uncross those fingers yet. “It’s going pretty well, according to plan,” BP chief Tony Hayward told ABC television Friday morning. “We will go bac ...
- Finally: Obama halts new offshore leases and stump ...
by Jonathan Hiskes. Now we're getting somewhere on the offshore drilling problem. Some progress from the top: Mr. Obama ordered a further six-month moratorium on new permits for new deepwater oil and gas wells; suspended the planned exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off the coast o ...
- ‘Top kill’ seems to be halting oil gus ...
by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- BP's risky "top kill" of its ruptured Deepwater Horizon well appeared to stop the oil flow Thursday, even as new data showed the Gulf of Mexico leak had already become the worst in U.S. history. Moving to ensure the United States is never hit with such a d ...
- Pivotal Climate Change Test Case Dismissed — ...
A test case for climate change litigation was dismissed by a federal appeals court on Friday in a little-noticed afternoon ruling, leaving the door open for a Supreme Court appeal by plaintiffs who aim to link major industrial emitters with the environmental consequences of the greenhouse gases they ...
- Manufacturing Grows in May — But Coal and Pe ...
For the tenth successive month, manufacturing activity grew in the United States, the Institute for Supply Management said this morning. The pace of growth declined, with the index tracking down from 60.4 to 59.7. But anything above 50 indicates an increase in activity, and economists expected the i ...
- Massey Miner: ‘I Stayed Scared to Death̵ ...
Add Randy Dingus to the growing list of Massey miners who have come forward in recent weeks with allegations that the Virginia-based company prioritized coal production above miner safety in Appalachia. Dingus, a longtime Appalachian coal miner, told West Virginia Public Broadcasting that Massey’s s ...
- Obama Meets With Deepwater Horizon Commission
President Barack Obama just gave a brief address after his first meeting with his bipartisan commission to investigate the Deepwater Horizon disaster — the “greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history.” The commission is headed by Bob Graham, the former Florida governor and senator, a ...
- Lunchtime Links
The Supreme Court rules suspects must explicitly say they want to remain silent in order to invoke Miranda protections. Alabama Democrats could nominate their first black gubernatorial candidate in today’s primary election. Elizabeth Edwards does not want her estranged husband to raise their childre ...
- 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 ...
- A Memorial Day Tribute to My Fallen Comrade David
Some know, others may be surprised to learn that I spent over a decade serving in the Army. Related posts: This Soldier Remembers a Fallen Comrade on Veterans Day-2008 A Twilight Earth Tribute to David Suzuki – Eco Warrior Photo Sunday – What do the Vietnam Memorial and Environmental Devastat ...
- Water Website Spotlight – Blue Living Ideas
Blue Living Ideas is the ultimate Web resource for information, tips, news, and events related to Earthâs most precious resource â Water. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Eco Child Website Spotlight – Eco Childs ...
- A Rainforest Chernobyl: The Other Oil Disaster
I donât know about you, but my mental health has been teetering on a cliff of depression thanks to BPâs catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil rig mishap. Related posts: Activist Invites 6,000 Chevron Employees to Watch CRUDE Documentary World’s Largest Oil-Related Environmental Catastrophe: ...
- Photo Sunday – The Moab Desert
The Moab Desert is host to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. It has welcomed countless tourists and nature lovers. Enjoy the photos. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Hiking the Mojave Desert and Red Rock Canyon Outside Las Vegas Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday ...
- Rush Limbaugh: #1 Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissio ...
Limbaugh: ‘When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?’ Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane Follow Joe Mohr (Mean Joe Green) on Twitter @GreenCartoons and at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is ...
- Spring Greening Deadline Extended – Vote for your ...
Spring Greening Contest voting deadline extended until this Friday! Our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest has been a tremendous success so far, with thousands of votes pouring in from around the world! The competition is still fierce – so due to popular demand we are extending the voting deadline ...
- The Unicab EV Could be New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow
Think it’s time for New York City to update its cab design? The New York Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has been hunting for the so-called “taxi of tomorrow” — a cab that integrates safety, comfort, energy efficiency, and superior design — for the past two years. The TLC hasn’t chosen a new tax ...
- Sticky Rice is 1,500 Year Old Secret to Super-Stro ...
Photo by Bridgette Meinhold Sticky rice, which has been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries, also played a huge role in the construction of their ultra-durable cities and walls. The glutinous side dish has been used since the Ming Dynasty to create a super-strong mortar that has helped keep ...
- Genetically Modified Foods May Cause Sterility in ...
These days most of what is on grocery store shelves has been engineered to taste and look a certain way. Countless researchers are currently at work trying to figure out what effects these modified “foods” could have on our bodies — they’ve already found that genetically modified foods (GMO’s) can a ...
- Toronto’s City Hall Podium Sprouts a Green Rooftop ...
Photo by Lloyd Alter Over Memorial Day weekend the City of Toronto unveiled a stunning green roof on top of City Hall, and it is getting glowing praise from all who have seen it. Lloyd Alter was on hand for the opening and got some good shots of the sedum-covered and artfully landscaped roof garden ...
- The Tragic Race to Be First to the South Pole
> NEW YORK CITY — In 1910, two men set out to be the first to reach the South Pole in a race that would be both heroic and tragic. The men had different reasons for their journeys, took different routes and made different decisions that would ultimately seal their [...]
- Congress, Obama Take Sudden Interest in Synthetic ...
Congress explicitly took up the subject of synthetic biology for the first time Thursday during a hastily convened hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Wired crowd has been talking about how to engineer biological machines for years, but Craig Venter’s announcement last week that ...
- Video: Designing Bridges to Be Drivable After Quak ...
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience88281115001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); RICHMOND, California â Sure, earthquake engineers can now make bridges safe during even the biggest earthquakes, but they’re still rendered unusable in the key ...
- The Science of Horror-Flick Screams
As horror-flick titles go, Night of the Living Chaos and Rosemaryâs Nonlinearity arenât the catchiest. But filmmakers know that chaos — the mathematical kind — is scary. Now scientists know it too. Filmmakers use chaotic, unpredictable sounds to evoke particular emotions, say researchers who ha ...
- Origin of Milky Way Clouds Revealed
Mysterious clouds of gas hovering above the plane of the Milky Way may be the fractured remnants of superbubbles blown by stellar winds and exploding stars. “There’s a fundamental, interesting connection between gas far away from the Milky Way and the amount of star formation below it in the galact ...
- RAND Report: Iraq Unlikely to Unravel Anytime Soon
In February 2010 the RAND Corporation released a report on potential threats to Iraq as the U.S. withdrew its forces. The study was entitled “Security in Iraq; A Framework for Analyzing Emerging Threats as U.S. Forces Leave.” It noted that there were still Sunni and Shiite extremists, but that they ...
- What Professional Militaries Do
There's a strong cultural difference between the US Army leadership and British military leadership, despite our linked relationship and similar military customs. The British military has a better understanding of the need to begin with strong political objectives prior to developing military strate ...
- On the Israeli Convoy Raid, Briefly
I wanted to write/post something about the Israeli-Turkish ship incident but this post here on Information Dissemination pretty much sums up everything I wanted to say: the attack was legal… but this doesn’t mean it was in any way intelligent or a clever thing to do. (Hat tip to LGM's Robert Farley' ...
- The National Security Strategy and the German Pres ...
So Horst Köhler resigned Germany’s (largely symbolic) presidency in the wake of a bit of an uproar over the way he recently characterized his country’s military presence in Afghanistan . The Times explains: Usually, German leaders justify their soldiersâ presence in the American-led coalition by ...
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Iran
On May 26, Charlie Rose taped an hour-long interview in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, view here , which is well worth viewing in its entirety. The interview offers a rich tour d’horizon of the region, including Arab-Israeli issues, Iraq, Lebanon, America’s regional role, and the ...
- Guilt By Association.
Jessica Weisberg on how the most influential anti-immigration network in America is trying to convert liberals to its cause. A few years ago, anti-immigration ads began popping up in a number of progressive magazines, including this one. The ads displayed an environmental wasteland and suggested t ...
- The Luxury Of Cellphones.
Cell phone dealers in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, a country where poverty has obviously been eradicated. Jamelle Bouie responds to Robert Samuelson 's bizarre conclusion that owning a cellphone means you're not poor: So in Samuelson’s column, what you have is another attempt to minimize the actu ...
- No Disrespect.
Jon Stewart has a riff about how some people think that adding "No disrespect" to something they say can make even the most offensive statements acceptable. "Your mother's a whore -- no disrespect." That's essentially the position Newt Gingrich is taking. On one hand, he has a new book out, which is ...
- The Final DADT Battle.
Paul Waldman considers the end of the ban on gays in the military: It's been 17 years since Bill Clinton tried unsuccessfully to remove the ban on gay Americans serving in the armed forces, which resulted in the disastrous policy known as "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT). Last week saw the latest dev ...
- Americans Want to Give Health Care Reform a Chance ...
Democrats are pumped up about this AP story on public opinion about the Affordable Care Act : But when asked if they would be more likely to vote for a congressional candidate willing to give the law a chance to work and make changes as needed, or one who would repeal it entirely and start over, r ...
- Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantán ...
On April 30, 2010, The UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas organized an event to mark the fifth anniversary of its excellent Guantánamo Testimonials Project. Entitled “Guantánamo: A conversation this side of the wire,” the event enabled, for the first time, a discussion to ...
- The Battle of the Beanfield 25th Anniversary: An I ...
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, a notoriously violent, one-sided confrontation between 450 unarmed travellers and green activists, and a quasi-military police force of over 1,300 police and MoD personnel, which crippled the New traveller movement in the UK, brought to a ...
- The Third Anniversary of a Death in Guantánamo
Exactly three years ago, having recently finished the manuscript for my book The Guantánamo Files, I began working on a full-time basis as a freelance journalist. My inspiration was the death in Guantánamo of a 34-year old Saudi prisoner, Abdul Rahman al-Amri, who died, reportedly by committing suic ...
- An interview with Andy Worthington for Labour Brie ...
The following interview, conducted by Louise Whittle, is published in the June 2010 issue of Labour Briefing (see here for subscription details, and/or a free copy of the current issue), and was cross-posted yesterday on Louise’s site, Harpymarx. Labour Briefing: What made you (and Polly Nash) make ...
- The Battle of the Beanfield: 25th Anniversary Even ...
Tuesday June 1 is the 25th anniversary of a brutal and pivotal event that signalled the start of a serious assault on civil liberties in the UK, leading to the passage of two horrendous pieces of legislation — the Public Order Act of 1986 and the Criminal Justice Act of 1994 — and paving the [...]
- AFA’s Fischer Proposes a Promiscuity Solution
The American Family Associationâs Bryan Fischer seems to have come up with a solution to what he perceives to be sexual immorality in America: Kill the promiscuous offenders. On his radio program last Friday, Fischer read a passage from Numbers 25 in the Bible â pointed out to him by his wife, h ...
- Fringe Nativist Sees Conspiracy in Murder Charge
Laine Lawless, the Mexican flag-burning leader of the vigilante group Border Guardians, has been one of the few anti-immigration leaders to support accused nativist killer Shawna Forde. Soon, those who can’t get enough of justiceforshawnaforde.com, Lawless’ unabashedly pro-Forde website , will be ab ...
- Racist Skins Renounce Busted IKA Leader
Poor Ron Edwards. Even racist skinheads donât want to hang out with the former Klan leader. Edwards â the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) founder who defended himself against a successful lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center â was arrested last week on federal drug charges, includi ...
- Stung by Racism Charges, Nativist Leader Pulls Out ...
William Gheen, the obstreperous head of the nativist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC, has pulled his group out of all June Arizona rallies backing that state’s controversial new illegal immigration law. Gheen said he is doing so because former Colorado Republican congressman Tom ...
- White Supremacist Linked to Mail Bombing Imprisone ...
A firearms and explosives expert suspected of involvement with two white supremacist brothers in the sending of a bomb to the office of a municipal diversity officer was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in Missouri on Tuesday. Robert Joos Jr., an antigovernment zealot and pastor of a church of “apoca ...
- All Families Are LGBT Families
My husband and I spent Memorial Day Weekend in the Pacific Northwest, attending my niece’s college graduation. This was a Family Event of the first order. She’s my parents’ only grandchild, so they were there along with my sister and her husband. On the other side, my niece’s father came with his si ...
- The Real Life Oliver Twist Is a Slave
If you went to high school, then someone probably made you read at least one Charles Dickens book. If you're lucky, it was Oliver Twist , the famous story of an orphaned boy who meets and becomes part of a gang of child pickpockets in 19th century London. Almost 200 years after Dickens wrote Oliver ...
- Tea Partiers Bid to Keep Climate Change Out of the ...
First, South Dakota put forth a measure to teach public school students that climate change wasn't real. Now, residents in Mesa County, Colorado have presented a petition to their school board asking that science teachers remove climate change lessons from their curriculum. The petition, which garne ...
- Texas Cops Mistake Mint Plants for Weed
No need to panic, folks. The people of Corpus Christi are safe from invasive mint plants — for now, at least. Confused cops in the Texas city recently took a break from patrol to do a bit of yard work. Thinking they were onto the largest pot seizure city history, several officers feverishly worked u ...
- Senate Votes to Repeal Ban on Abortions for Milita ...
If you are a woman in uniform, get ready for a breath of fresh air. RH Reality Check reports that Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would repeal the ban on abortion services for servicemembers (and presumably dependents, although that ...
- The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Mutilated Our Econom ...
By Derrick Crowe $1,000,000,000,000.00 As of today, that's how much we've spent just in direct costs so far on the stupid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . One trillion dollars, gone. And we're just getting warmed up...there are trillions more in future direct and indirect costs coming. ...
- One Trillion Bucks For War
By Steve Hynd This Sunday, May 30, at a little after 10 a.m., the National Priorities Project's Cost of War counter will hit the $1 trillion dollar mark for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What would you do with $1 trillion dollars, the amount that's been spent on America's invasions and long occu ...
- Marjah A "Bleeding Ulcer": McChrystal
By Steve Hynd When McChrystal was bulldozing his surge through the White House, some people - notably Karl�Eikenberry - forecast it would be a disaster. Eikenberry is looking increasingly prescient : a tour last week of Marjah and the nearby Nad Ali district, during which McClatchy had rare acc ...
- After Fixing Election, Karzai Tries To Fix Peace J ...
By Steve Hynd I'm a bit conflicted about this one. One one hand, it shows that Karzai is as venal and casually corrupt a politician as any who walk The Hill, on the other I'm leary of making Karzai the Judas Goat for a misconceived occupation that the US got itself into and should find its own reaso ...
- Obama Goes To West Point Again With The Same Old C ...
By Steve Hynd Last time President Obama spoke to a West Point graduating class, it was to announce his decision to back General McChrystal's hard-pushed surge, despite the - now seen as all too accurate - misgivings of the likes of Karl Eikenberry. The consensus of opinion then was that Obama's spee ...
- UN agency seeks $18 million to assist Afghan refug ...
The United Nations refugee agency is seeking $18 million to meet an anticipated shortfall in funding for its operation in Iran, which is hosting more than one million Afghans who fled their homeland. ...
- Afghan insurgents dismiss Karzai peace "jirga ...
KABUL (Reuters) - A traditional gathering of Afghan elders and notables called to discuss prospects for peace in the country was dismissed on its eve on Tuesday by the insurgents it was trying to appr...
- Afghan leaders gather in quest for peace
President Hamid Karzai will Wednesday gather up to 1,600 leaders from across Afghanistan, seeking a national consensus on how to end nearly nine years of war and ultimately allow U.S.-led troops to wi...
- Old Ammunition Poses Problem in Afghanistan
By Ian GrahamEmerging Media, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, June 1, 2010 Â Some homes have attics, basements or garages full of extra things that simply don’t get thrown away. Internationa...
- What are prospects for Afghanistan's long-awa ...
After several delays, some 1,600 delegates from across Afghanistan are to meet Wednesday for a three-day peace jirga, or meeting. But no government opponents or insurgents will be at the gathering, wh...
- Crop-mobs, seedbombs and mall-farms
The Zeitgeist seems to have developed an obsession with agriculture. Observe: Crop-mobbing – collective and collaborative action on small farms; community-building through sharing of labour [via Howard Rheingold] Guerrilla gardening, a.k.a. urban agricultural action-at-a-distance – buy flower grena ...
- Personal Information: episode 15
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 15 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
- Alastair Reynolds on writing an optimistic future
The Borders Sci-Fi blog is currently hosting Alastair Reynolds as guest blogger, and it’s interesting seeing him talk about optimism in science fiction, and his personal quest to avoid melodrama in his plotting; evidently writing a piece for the Shine anthology got him thinking about the idea pretty ...
- We can misremember it for you wholesale: historica ...
Via Bruce Sterling, one of the more obvious augmented reality applications, done elegantly: historical archive images overlaid onto the real (present/baseline?) world. The older I get, the more I become fascinated with history; if someone did up layers like this for the whole country, I’d probably n ...
- Personal Information: episode 15
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 15 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
- Something You Can Do To Help One Soldier This Memo ...
You can take a few minutes to send a letter of support on behalf of Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld . Lt. Col. Vandeveld is a highly decorated member of the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps who served in Bosnia, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan, as both a solder in combat and a prosec ...
- 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly
Yesterday concluded the 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly. Staff from the National Whistleblowers Center participated in a number of panels on major issues facing the whistleblower community. Richard Renner provided practice tips as part of the know your rights panel, Stephen M. Kohn discussed fi ...
- WikiLeaks provokes DoD threat against whistleblowe ...
A front page story in today's Washington Post looks at the growth and effects of the popular anonymous whistleblower website, WikiLeaks . Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks director, told Post writer Joby Warrrick that, "The message of WikiLeaks to the controllers of information is this: You can either be ...
- ARB says Iqbal applies to OSHA complaints
I can hardly believe I am writing this. The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has just issued a decision applying Aschroft v. Iqbal to whistleblower complaints filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). As it happened to one of my clients, Dougla ...
- MSPB Fails to Protect Robert MacLean
An administrative judge at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) upheld the illegal termination of former federal air marshal Robert MacLean. Mr. MacLean blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) plan to improperly remove U.S. air marshals f ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...
- Verizon Handing Over Names For US Copyright Group' ...
We've already discussed how the so-called US Copyright Group (which seems like a bit of a front for DC-based law firm Dunlap Grubb Weaver -- tag line: "Lawyers with a Higher Standard" -- since the first named partner in the operation, Thomas Dunlap, also happens to appear to run US Copyright Group) ...
- Woman Sues Google After She Follows Google Maps Di ...
There have been plenty of stories over the years of drivers blindly following their GPS over a cliff or onto railroad tracks . After doing such things, it may be natural for the driver to blame the technology, though it's unlikely to help you out much in court. However, it appears that one pedestr ...
- Michigan Politician Proposes Bill To Regulate Jour ...
Romenesko points us to the news of a Michigan state senator, who has proposed a bill that would regulate the press . The bill would require people who want to be considered the press to pay a registration fee and submit writing samples to get registered. Also, you would need to have a journalism d ...
- Facebook Trying To Get Canadian Spammer To Pay Up
Facebook has been somewhat aggressive in going after folks who try to use Facebook for spam, winning various high dollar judgments . Of course, you never expect the spammers who lose those lawsuits to ever actually pay up, but apparently in the case of one Canadian spammer, Facebook is upset enough ...
- How Depressing Must Your Job Be If It's Focus Is O ...
Rob Pegoraro has a column up about the latest in the very long line of back and forth attempts of companies making browsers for television sets to get around silly blocks from Hulu . Despite the fact that these systems are really just browsers legitimately connecting to a webpage, Hulu's corporate ...
- The lies the Government tell when it comes to vacc ...
He explained about how shocked he had been about the attitudes of the Department of Health, the Joint Committee of Vaccine and Immunization and the Committee on the Safety of Medicines, when he presented them with his evidence and how they chose the ignore the facts in favour of mass vaccination.
- Vaccines at birth could result in Ritalin for brea ...
Christina England American Chronicle 05/30/2010 Big Pharma’s only interest in society today is profit. Healthy people are of no use to them whatsoever, after all a healthy person does not need a cure. So bearing this in mind a few adverse reactions here and there do not worry the likes of Glaxo Smi ...
- From rabbit virus to cancer vaccine?
John Gibb Otago Daily Times 05/05/2010 A powerful new vaccine therapy for colorectal cancer is likely to emerge from “highly promising” University of Otago research, which is moving closer to human clinical trials. This smart form of therapy uses harmless viral shells derived from rabbit haemorrhag ...
- Split-Virus Vaccine Better of Two H1N1 Shots
Todd Neale MedPage Today 05/30/2010 Of the two vaccines used in the U.K. to protect against pandemic H1N1 influenza, the adjuvanted split-virus vaccine offered better protection for children than the non-adjuvanted whole-virus vaccine, but caused more side effects, a phase II study showed. After tw ...
- Pfizer sells China swine vaccine unit to Harbin Ph ...
Donny Kwok Reuters 05/31/2010 Pfizer Inc, the world’s biggest drugmaker, is selling its swine vaccine business in China to Harbin Pharmaceutical Group for $50 million, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said on Monday. A spokeswoman from Pfizer’s Singapore office confirmed the divestment of ...
- Neruda on Memorials
Nothing I could say today that Neruda didn’t say better. (My crap English translation is below.) Sangrienta fue toda tierra del hombre. Tiempo, edificaciones, rutas, lluvia, borran las constelaciones del crimen, lo cierto es que un planeta tan pequeño fue mil veces cubierto por la sangre, guerra o ...
- Trusting Your Government
So here is a fascinating chart from Pew. It shows trust in government by administration, starting with Kennedy and Johnson. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, most democrats and republicans trusted the government. After Tricky Dick, trust in government plunged and never really came b ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello all. Sorry I’m in and out of the internet tubes lately. In addition to work being busy, I’m juggling a bunch of projects. One of them is called Anarchy in the News. It’s a new website for news reports about anarchy or anarchists. You can check it out here. You [...]
- Liberalism and Disempowerment
By now you have surely heard about Rand Paul’s interview with Rachel Maddow. Paul slimed around for twenty minutes trying not to admit that he does not support the provisions in the 1964 Civil Rights Act that made it illegal for a private business to discriminate. On Rachel’s next show, she had a ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
The whole Rand Paul brouhaha has started some great convos on the internets, like at Alas! and Womanist Musings. This New Yorker article is one of the most reasonable things I have read on Cuba in …well…ever. Hilarity of the week goes to the 5,200 Mexicans who registered their cell phones under the ...
- السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØØ±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصØÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت ÙÙ Øرب Ù…Ù ØرÙب صعدة ...
- Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
- Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...
- Alwaki Tribe Denies Statement
The Sheik of the Awlaki tribe in Yemen denied that tribal leaders held a meeting or threatened Yemeni citizens as is being widely reported in the Western media. Reuters reported receiving a faxed statement last week from the Awalki tribe that said, “We warn against cooperating with America to kill S ...
- Yemen National Dialog Coalition Seeks Reform, Broa ...
Yemen’s National Dialog Committee published an English language summary of its National Salvation Plan yesterday. The document is available at http://yemenvision.wordpress.com/ The National Dialog Committee (NDC) is an important Yemeni civil society coalition dedicated to creating a forum and consen ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...
- USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
- Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
- Farm to School Needs More Support
It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
- Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
- USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...
- Vancouver's EcoDensity Program Produces an Explosi ...
It takes guts to make change happen, and some cities have them, others don't. In Vancouver, they changed the regulations to permit housing in back lanes, calling it EcoDensity; it is a carefully crafted bit of legislation that protects views and privacy but gets rid of the NIMBY factor that has ...
- BP Denies Existence of Giant Underwater Oil Plumes
Image: NASA , public domain. Contradicting the Findings of Many Scientists It already has been a few weeks since scientists have detected large underwater oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico, but BP is still denying that they even exist. Maybe they're saying that in good faith and truly haven't f ...
- PepsiCo Using Potatoes to Run UK Chip Factories
Image via The Guardian What are potato chips? They're slices of potatoes with the majority of the water taken out (and in most cases, a lot of oil added in). What happens to all the water - around 80% of a potato? Well, for four potato chip factories in the UK where water is an increasingly sig ...
- LEED or Not, Parking Garages Are Not Green
In Leiden, the Netherlands, Paul de Ruiter Architects are building a parking structure. It is made of "recyclable" materials so that it can be taken down in ten or twenty years when the land is redeveloped. The architect writes at Designboom: "given that our current way of life is largely depend ...
- Biodynamic Wine: One California Vineyard Doing it ...
Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Biodynamic is a relatively new buzz word in the wine industry. DeLoach Vineyard in Santa Rosa, California isn't just growing grapes to make some stellar wine: This winery is growing them in a way few others are, and because of their unique methods, they're setting the b ...
- New Drug Cures Hard-to-Treat Hepatitis C
Patients who fail current hepatitis C virus HCV treatments have few other options except trying the same drugs again, but an experimental antiviral drug is poised to change that.When the drug telaprevir was added to standard treatment with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin, which are also antivirals, ...
- Cell bio, automation merge to screen every human g ...
Every now and then, there’s a bit of science that’s a combination of brute force and tour de force. Examples that spring to mind mostly come from the world of small, manageable experimental animals, like the mapping of every single cell division of the worm C. elegans, a feat that won John Sulston a ...
- A Two-Pronged Attack on Cancer
Last year marked a first for engineered antibodies–the European Commission approved a new cancer drug called Removab catumaxomab, an antibody specially designed to grab both cancer cells and immune cells in such a way that the immune cell can kill the cancer cell. The drug is undergoing testing for ...
- Lesser-known C-diff a bigger hospital threat than ...
Theres good and bad news on the “superbug” front. In community hospitals in the Southeast, an easily spread bacterium appears to have overtaken the widely feared MRSA as the most common hospital-acquired infection. But a pilot project in Ohio found that pushing hard on simple things such as hand was ...
- Light Switches for Neurons
Just five years ago, scientists at Stanford University discovered that neurons injected with a photo-sensitive gene from algae could be turned on or off with the flip of a light switch. This discovery has since turned hundreds of labs onto the young field of optogenetics. Today researchers around th ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Remember the Cato institute’s “I have little to worry about , of course, because I’m not an illegal immigrant”? I wonder if Eduardo Caraballo has the same placid view of the situation. This is an era of nativism, and supposedly res ...
- Some Suggestions For Our Inert President
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post We are in the midst of what is probably the worst environmental catastrophe in our nation’s history, and it looks like the damage will continue to worsen for the next few months . Barack Obama may not know this yet, but his credibil ...
- Today's example of how profoundly fucked up our pr ...
Could someone plant some chicken nuggets on Tony Hayward ?
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I missed this last week, but Marcy looked at the implications of Elena Kagan getting confirmed to the Supreme Court. There are a number of issues on which she would have to recuse herself, and it looks like in most cases doing so wi ...
- The Midterms Are All About the 'Stills'
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post It was probably inevitable that the Tuesday election post mortems would focus on process and conventional wisdom. An outfit like Politico can pump out a feature length article on it almost by rote: There is a great deal of populist ...
- Spices Play Role in Reduced Cancer Risk
Adding certain spices to your meat before tossing it on the grill can also cut the risk of cancer long associated with beef cooked at high temperatures. Three spices in particular -- fingerroot, rosemary and turmeric -- are the most effective in preventing the formation of heterocyclic amines (HCAs ...
- FDA Warns Ulcer Drugs Can Cause Osteoporosis
The FDA has mandated that proton pump inhibitor heartburn medications must carry a label warning of increased fracture risk. This group of drugs include Prevacid, Prilosec, and Nexium. The FDA suggests those taking these drugs should consult with their doctors, and those using such drugs over-the- ...
- Better Diet and Exercise Prevent Diabetes
Dieting alone might not be enough to stave off type 2 diabetes, but combining a good diet with exercise could very well do just that. Sarcopenia is a condition marked by low skeletal muscle mass and strength. New research shows that sarcopenia puts individuals at risk for developing type 2 diabetes ...
- Is Milk From Grass-Fed Cows More Heart Healthy?
Milk may be more heart healthy if it comes from dairy cows grazed on grass instead of on feedlots. Cows on a diet of fresh grass produce milk with five times as much of an unsaturated fat called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which animal studies have suggested can protect your heart and aid in we ...
- Men's Skin Cancer Death Rate Doubles
The rate of men dying from melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer has doubled over the past three decades. In the late 1970s, fewer than 1.5 per 100,000 men died from melanoma; that figure has now risen to over 3.1 per 100,000. The death rates for women have also risen, from 1.5 per 100,000 to ...
- BP, Bad Processes And Profit Equal Disaster
While all the facts are yet to be disclosed or discovered in about what led up to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, and the subsequent sinking shows that there was a shocking lack of quality control or even process control. Even though there was a fractured structure with BP contracting wi ...
- Predictions re BP and the Gulf
I'm going to hazard a few predictions here. I hope I'm wrong. If I am you can crucify me later. Neither BP nor anyone else has any workable idea how to stop the leak. If they did it would have been stopped by now. The leak will continue to flow into the ocean for the foreseeable future, until the re ...
- Petraeus Announces for President After All
My name is General David Petraeus and I want to be your Commander in Chief because I admire everything about you, especially that amazing and unique way you have about you. Here's a little background on who I am, just a few highlights that I know you will be able to appreciate. In 2007, Gareth Porte ...
- The Wonders of the American Way of War
By David Swanson If a person could approach you on the street, gently caress your cheek, and walk away leaving you with the feeling of having been violently slapped and dowsed with a bucket of ice water, they would approximate Tom Engelhardt's writing, including that in his newest book "The American ...
- James Carville's shameful hypocrisy on the oil spi ...
James Carville has been all over the news lashing out at Obama for not being strong enough in his response to the BP oil disaster. And with the news that the oil geyser will continue spewing its stuff until August , I don't blame the man. He is, after all, from Louisiana. But for some reason I'm n ...
- 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 ...
- Aquaculture Bill to Protect Ocean Ecosystem
A new aquaculture bill entitled the “Research and Aquaculture Opportunity and Responsibility Act” introduced last week by Senator by David Vitter (Louisiana) is worthy of support. As described in the press release, the bill calls for a 3.5 year delay on new offshore aquaculture permitting. The bill ...
- Gaining a Better Understanding of ‘Food Deserts’
Lawyer Andy Weisbecker recently posted an opinion piece in Food Safety News in which he discusses the problem of limited access to healthy food and its contribution to the burden of obesity and diet-related disease. The term “food desert” refers to a location-generally, a low-income neighborhood-fr ...
- When Famous Meat Eaters Adopt Meatless Monday, “Yo ...
When super-chef and restaurateur Mario Batali, self proclaimed lover of all forms of pork, decided to join the Meatless Monday movement, Washington Post food writer Jane Black took notice. In an article published today, she wrote, “when Mario Batali starts to push people to eat their vegetables, you ...
- Taking the Meat We Eat Out of the Factory and Putt ...
On Tuesday, Animal Welfare Approved and the Pew Environment Group presented a public panel discussion about raising pasture-based animals, and reclaiming these sustainable farming systems as the source of our meat and dairy. The star-studded panel included Nicolette Hahn Niman, attorney and author ...
- Locally grown, Locally shared: A new model for giv ...
Over a hundred Baltimore residents gathered on Saturday night for the 4th edition of an innovative fundraising event called STEW. STEW is a joint project of Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, where attendees pay $10/person for the opportunity to share a multi-cou ...
- Israel defiant, U.S. lapdog compliant
To recap, Israeli commandos dropped from the sky in the dead of night to seize flotilla ships that had already altered course to avoid making landfall in Gaza, and now the America press is busting their collective ass to make sure we all know Israel’s side of the story. L.A. Times: Israel defended i ...
- A final thought on Memorial Day (& links, of cours ...
Too much posting I know, but I had to upload another one so I could share today’s Mr. Fish in real time. Best Memorial Day cartoon ever. Smedley Butler would have approved. - More on Israel’s murderous attack on the humanitarian aid ships from : Glenn Greenwald (heavily updated including Turkey’s de ...
- Never again: stop Zionism now!
Today, everything that’s not Gaza is beside the point. Q. What do you get when Nazis fuck the spread-legged hatred of Apartheid? A. ISRAEL. Only two nations on earth send money to Israel. Germany sends reparations, the United States sends encouragement. Fuck the Zionist lobby in Congress. The same m ...
- Fuck Israel
Fuck Israel. Fuck their racist, Arab-hating, religiously encrusted asses for yet another unprovoked terrorist attack on people trying to provide humanitarian aid. ISRAEL IS THE SOUTH AFRICA OF THIS GENERATION. What are you doing to fight their racism and hatred? Judaism is one of the world’s great r ...
- If Tom Clancy wrote about Wall Street
The clear and present danger: Who wins the war between states and corporations? Despite insane copyright/patent laws, we still face a general glut Time elapsed war casualties China still unencumbered by the mega-rich - Never mind what we should try, who knew that the Soviet Union nuked five undergro ...
- 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.
- One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
- New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
- 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 ...
- Leahy and DeFazio Circulate “Dear Colleague& ...
ACTION ALERT: Senator Leahy and Representative DeFazio are circulating a Congressional sign-on letter in the House and Senate “Asking USDA to Maintain the Ban on Genetically Engineered Alfalfa.”  Contact your Senators and Representative today and ask them to sign on! Filed under: GE Crops, GE Fo ...
- Update: CFS Fighting Monsanto in the Supreme Court ...
On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Watch a short message from CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell, an ...
- Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
- CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
- Happy Earth Day!
This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...
- From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High ...
Phyllis Bennis: From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas Israel has decided that it is better to be perceived as savage than as weak. In its initial attack on the boats carrying human rights activists and humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel's commandos killed at least ...
- Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers -MSH
Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers - (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Bnei Menashe claim to be a lost Jewish tribe currently living in a remote corner of India. They identify as Jews and are to be sent to Nepal for fast-track conversion to so-called Orthodoxy (in the “strict” Zion ...
- Polynesian Panthers visit Wellington
�Source An event organised by the combined Schools of Pacific Studies, Te Kawa a Maaui, International Relations and Political Science saw a good crowd arrive at the New Kirk 303 lecture theatre around 5.30pm on Friday 14th May. The speakers and audience were welcomed by staff of Pacific Studies, ...
- J. B.Gerald: Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulak ...
Another excellent and thoughfully researched editorial from J.B. Gerald: Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulakqi & others Do yourself a favour, visit this site: http://www.nightslantern.ca/ -- Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi & others by J. B.Gerald You delight in laying down laws Yet you d ...
- Gil Scott Heron Boycott Israel Campaign (incl stat ...
Backlash against Hip Hop trailblazer’s proposed gig in Israel Fans across the globe have expressed outrage at poet, campaigner and musician Gil Scott Heron’s decision to play in Tel Aviv in May of this year. Gil Scott Heron, known as the “godfather of rap”, started his career as a spoken ...
- Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...
- Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
- False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
- Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...
- Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...
- Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Af ...
ShareThis Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Afghanistan war zone 31 May 2010 Millions of dollars of Saudi Arabian money have flowed into Afghanistan over the past four years, the country’s intelligence officials say, with the sponsorship of terrorism its most likely use. According to m ...
- EU demands inquiry into Israeli raid
ShareThis EU demands inquiry into Israeli raid 31 May 2010 Hours after the Israeli military attacked a Gaza-bound aid convoy, the European Union Foreign Policy chief calls for a full inquiry into the deaths of those on board the flotilla. A spokesperson for the EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Asht ...
- NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan
ShareThis NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan 31 May 2010 US-led forces in Afghanistan have confirmed that one of their helicopters has crashed in the southeastern province of Paktia. A statement released Monday by NATO says the helicopter crashed in the Jaji Meydan district, but refrains from revea ...
- Obama gives Israel all-out support
ShareThis Obama gives Israel all-out support 31 May 2010 After the United Nations ratified a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, the US president gives Israel "concrete guarantees" to prevent the decision from harming Israeli interests. Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post quoted ...
- Turkey: Israel attack on Gaza aid convoy violated ...
ShareThis Turkey: Israel attack on Gaza aid convoy violated international law --Turkey summons Israeli ambassador over IDF attack on Gaza aid flotilla, which killed at least 10 left-wing activists . 31 May 2010 Turkey's foreign ministry on Monday denounced as "unacceptable" an Israeli attack on an a ...
- Give BP a more fitting logo in Greenpeace’s rebran ...
Greenpeace is asking for submissions in their "Beyond the Logo" competition, asking artists (and art novices alike) to come up with a logo "that's more suitable for their dirty business".
- Federal govt. and BP to continue use potentially t ...
Last week we interviewed Holly Benson, one of three candidates running for the GOP nomination for Attorney General this year. Our story can be accessed here, and entire transcript of our interview here; Plenty of news on the oil spill, after BP’s “Top Kill” failed Saturday afternoon; And for co ...
- Pinellas County says it needs at least 2,000 peopl ...
Although there are no immediate concerns about the massive oil spill in the Gulf invading the west coast of Florida, Pinellas County officials are taking no chances in preparing for the worst case scenario. The local anti-litter group Keep Pinellas Beautiful is looking for at least 2,000 volunteer ...
- Florida Dems sure to pounce on WUSF radio report o ...
Readers will remember how Cannon and incoming Senate president Mike Haridopolos were gung-ho to begin drilling for oil and natural gas in state waters, potentially as close as three miles off of Florida's beach shores. Since the massive oil spill in the Gulf, both men have backed off any intention ...
- Diary of a cheater
A few months ago Curtis emailed me with questions about dating while being married. His dilemma went much deeper than these initial questions. Here is his story. Curtis and Meg have been married for several years. The relationship began on a high note: two people very much in love and looking fo ...
- Amidst Furor Over Gaza, Israel Shoots Out the Eye ...
From the International Solidarity Movement Warning: Graphic Photos. 31 May 2010: An 21-year old American solidarity activist was shot in the face with a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Qalandiya, today. Emily Henochowicz is currently in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem undergoing surger ...
- Contact Obama to Cancel Tuesday’s Israeli PM ...
I wrote here some 40 hours ago, that Israel is determined to act as brutally and stupidly the UK did in 1947 when its troops stormed a Palestine-bound ship called “Exodus” and killed 3 passengers. But even I didn’t dream they would be this stupid, this brutal. As I write this, the IDF keeps changing ...
- An Open Letter by Jeff Halper to the Israeli Jewis ...
By Jeff Halper If we were not Israeli Jews, if the nine ships bringing 800 peace-makers from 40 countries would be sailing with humanitarian aid to an imprisoned population of a million and a half to, say, Haiti, the flotilla now on its way to Gaza would be hailed as a monumental event. The go ...
- Israel to World: Screw You, We will Continue to Bl ...
It all happened before. A ship sailing to Palestine. Its organizers care not so much about the ship’s arrival. They want to bring world attention to the injustices in Palestine. Live broadcasts from aboard the ship excite and inspire supporters on the shores. The power controlling Palestine in a non ...
- Gourmet in Gaza
By Jesse Bacon As a food snob, I immediately think what restaurants are nearby when planning any excursion. Even if its to a beseiged war zone that Israel forbids from rebuilding. So it’s good to hear that if the Israeli government were by some chance let me into Gaza there would be a gourmet resta ...
- Nuke the oil blowout? The worst idea in the histor ...
As the latest effort to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico meets with failure, the idea of nuking the immediate area to seal the oil underground is gaining steam among some energy experts and researchers. One prominent energy expert known for predicting the oil price spike of 2008 says sending ...
- Turkey says will send another flotilla to Gaza, ba ...
Among Israel’s consequences in attacking the flotilla in international waters, killing a few Turks in the process, is the destruction of their alliance with Turkey, one of the few friends they had left in the area.
- Everyone says relief wells are the magic bullet
But can they stop the Gulf floor blowout? It’s not nearly as simple as it sounds. And when they did it with the massive underwater Ixtoc I blowout in 1979, it took months longer to complete than originally thought. Plus it was in shallower water. But relief wells are something that, fortunately, eng ...
- Gulf Coast Americans: At the end of our ropes
Still, I have never seen the anger down here as what we’ve seen since the Gulf Oil Spill. If there ever was a reason to use the phrase ’straw that broke the camel’s back’, I would say this is it. It has caused both Donna Brazille and James Carville to openly criticize the President. They [...]
- Solar thermal power in Spain
It’s just 10MW now and the power is expensive. But it’s basically a prototype. Presumably prices for solar thermal will drop as the technology improves and economies of scale take effect.
- The day after: Noam Sheizaf live blogging on the i ...
Coteret contributor Noam Sheizaf is continuing his live blogging on the immediate aftermath of the Gaza flotilla affair at Promised Land Blog.
- Time to act
Louis Frankenthaler moved to Israel in 1995 and lives, with his family, in West Jerusalem. He has an MA in Jewish Education, is a doctoral student and works for the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. His political writings have appeared in Zeek, Global Dialogue, the Electronic Intifada an ...
- Death at Sea: Noam Sheizaf live blogging as the Ga ...
Coteret contributor Noam Sheizaf is live blogging on the Gaza flotilla affair at Promised Land Blog.
- Yediot runs full page ad for a tourism package in ...
The back page of Yediot’s daily magazine supplement, “24 Hours,” sports a mysterious full page advertisement for a tourism package to Syria. You can view the orginal here and bottom of post. Here is a translation of the text: A captivating journey to the antiquities of the ancient city of Tadmor. ...
- Gingrich on cover of Adelson’s Israeli daily ...
Sheldon Adelson’s tabloid freebie, Israel Hayom (cynically called by many the “Bibiton” — “Netanyahu paper”) provided a platform for someone who has until now was almost unknow  in the Israeli public debate: Newt Gingrich. The cover of this weekend’s (May 28 2010) Friday political supplement, Israe ...
- Israeli Advance Target Assassination List Found on ...
Turkish sources and media revealed a document which shows that a death list had been prepared in advance by the Israelis, showing names and pictures of people on board of the ships to be murdered, who, according to Israel, were “involved in the International humanitarian aid for Gaza”. According to ...
- Nanny of The Month, May 2010: Anti-Raw-Milk Crusad ...
Got milk? Only if Uncle Sam allows it.Runners-up for Reason.tv’s Nanny of the Month for May 2010 features a proposed ban on drive-through restaurants in the hometown of In-And-Out Burgers, one of America’s most beloved drive-through restaurants, and the mayor of Kure Beach, North Carolina, whose go ...
- Outrage spills onto US streets over Israeli raid o ...
Besides sparking an international outcry, Israel’s assault on the aid ships to Gaza has also stirred anger in the country that’s usually its closest ally. Protesters in the U.S. capital have taken to the streets to denounce the Israeli government’s actions. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit ...
- BP Plunges After Attempt to Plug Gulf Oil Leak Fai ...
June 1 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc fell the most in 18 years in London after abandoning an attempt to plug a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst spill in U.S. history. BP plunged as much as 15 percent to 420 pence, the steepest one-day drop since June 1992. The company said on [...]
- Right On Queue After The Gaza Massacre – Al ...
Al-Qaeda Says a Top Leader Is Killed (According to the Zionist SITE Intelligence Group) By James Rupert Bloomber Businessweek June 1 (Bloomberg) — Al-Qaeda announced on Islamic militant websites that one of its top leaders, Mustafa Abu al- Yazid, was killed in Pakistan, a Washington-based monitorin ...
- Oil Spill Cleanup Concepts
Dr. Weinstein sent me an email on oil spill cleanup which has some interesting history. I don’t think he will mind if I publish the email he sent which contains some clues as to the history of these concepts. I remember seeing similar things on TV and in print way back when the Exxon Valdez [... ...
- Reader Opinion day from Climate Skeptic
I read an article on climate skeptic this morning which was interesting. It’s an interview of Climate Skeptic proprietor Warren Meyer on his views on climate change. He did a great job with his answers (really it was good reading) but I would suggest making your own before reading his.  The f ...
- Much Ado
Some have written that skeptics don’t cover sea ice in summer, that’s not how it works here.  Lately, we’ve seen a bit of consternation in the news and on blogs over the rate of drop in Arctic sea ice. As usual it’s nothing scary to me, but if it continues, the headlines are going [...]
- Weather or not
I’ve spent an entire week away from blogging now, for the first time since tAV began. It’s been rather nice this week, quiet, no outbursts, nobody to tell me how I’m a lunatic equal to Romm for my views (that I’m aware of). Honestly, I’ve been completely uninspired, spent a weekend with the fa ...
- Simple Question
We see from the past post us technical guys like reader kdk33, can pick up on the more obvious flaws of paleoclimate pretty quickly. Honestly there are times when I feel sorry for Mann, his role in history will not be a good one in the long term but it was brought about by an [...]
- West Bank Rabbi Bans Female Candidates From Local ...
The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement decreed that women are ineligible to run for municipal office because women should only be heard through their husbands : The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement has prohibited women from standing in a local community election. Rabbi Elyakim Levanon o ...
- 2-Tentacled Ancestor of Squid ID'd By Canucks
A pair of Canadian paleontologists say that anigmatic fossilized organism called Nectocaris pteryx (literally "swimming crab with wings") was the great-grandmammy of the modern-day squid, octopus, and cuttlefish: In the Canadian Rockies, a horde of 91 squid-like animals have risen from the dep ...
- Autism/Vaccine Doc Andrew Wakefield Gets the Boot
A doctor who touched off a worldwide panic over an alleged link between the MMR vaccine and autism has been barred from practicing medicine over unethical research practices. Britain's General Medical Council struck Wakefield from the medical register on Monday, a sanction analogous to disbarring ...
- New Yorker Repeats False Claim that James O ...
Rebecca Mead's New Yorker profile of conservative online media mogul Andrew Breitbart repeats the false claim that his protege, provocateur videographer James O'Keefe, impersonated a pimp to infiltrate the offices of the anti-poverty, pro-voter registration group ACORN. Here's how Mead describes th ...
- Book Review: 'The Golden Spruce'
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed By John Valliant Knopf Canada (2005) � I picked up a copy of John Valliant's "The Golden Spruce" in a gift shop on BC ferry last week, the woman next to me said "It's wonderful, you have to get it." I'd never heard of the book, but I ...
- Facebook’s High Expectations for Credits Revenue I ...
In case you thought Facebook wasn’t interested in the social gaming ecosystem on its platform, the company is actually hoping to make a large amount of money from it. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference last week, former Facebook president Sean Parker said that he thinks that Credits, Facebook’s ...
- Top 25 Facebook Games for June 2010: Big Titles Co ...
More than half of the 25 largest games on Facebook lost users in April, but the trend picked up last month. Is the Facebook platform collapsing? That’s not what the data is showing. Social game developers of all sizes continue to see growth (check out our weekly top 20 lists for more on that). Why, ...
- The Facebook Marketing Bible – June 2010 Edition ...
Purchase The Guide The Facebook Marketing Bible – Current Edition Download PDF: $95 USD OR Download PDF + Get 1 Year of Monthly Updates: $295 USD The Facebook Marketing Bible: 50+ Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook has enabled thousands of market ...
- Facebook Restored in Pakistan, Still Banned in Ban ...
Facebook access was restored in Pakistan over the weekend, slightly less than two weeks after the service was banned following outcry over a Page showing illustrations the Islamic prophet Mohammed. The Page was called “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” and featured a variety of user-submitted cartoons ...
- TV Shows and Music Continue Topping This Week’s To ...
Television shows and musicians once again dominate this weekâs list of Top 20 Facebook Pages, compiled by Inside Facebookâs PageData tool, which counts the number of fans added to a Page daily. Top Gainers This Week Name Fans Gain Gain, % 1. Family Guy 7,898,348 +716,007 +9.97 2. La ...
- Israeli butchery at sea
Gilad Atzmon argues that Israel’s murder in international waters of aid workers bound for Gaza was a premeditated act of savagery and that the international community, foremost NATO and the European Union, must respond decisively by cutting all relations with the rogue Jewish state.
- Criminal pirate Israel makes a fool of the OECD on ...
Stuart Littlewood argues that the West, which has traditionally rewarded Israel for its crimes against Palestinians, most recently by admitting it as a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, must be held directly responsible for the latest Israeli outrage – the murder i ...
- The concentration camp that is Gaza: only a one-st ...
Christopher King looks beyond Israel’s latest crime against humanity, its murder in international waters of aid workers bound for Gaza. He argues that it is high time to accept the fact that Israel is a fundamentally illegitimate entity and that the only chance for peace lies in a one-state Palestin ...
- Islamophobia and hate crimes
Paul J. Balles views the correlation between bilge put out by extremist provokers of hate crimes like Daniel Pipes and other Islamophobic peddlers of hate speech and the growth of violence and discrimination against Muslims in the US.
- Will Barack Obama face up to Israel lobby blackmai ...
Uri Avnery considers how Israel, through its lobby in the USA, is blackmailing Barack Obama – so far successfully – and wonders whether the US president will finally summon the courage to stand up to it.
- Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
- Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
- Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
- Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
- Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
- Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...
- Journalists expose ‘murky world’ of far right
Leading anti-fascist journalists last week gave a fascinating insight into the “murky and disturbing world of far right politics”. Nick Griffin’s biographer Dominic Carman and photojournalist Marc Vallée shed light on the violent and antidemocratic core of the BNP and the English Defence League. A s ...
- Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
- Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
- Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
- Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
In April SENÂ published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...
- Earth Day 2010
Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...
- An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
- NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
- The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
- A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
- Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
- A Church Full of Underminers, and George Monbiot
At 10.28 on Saturday 28th May 2010, there were three people sitting on chairs in the small church of St John’s, Llangollen…I wasn’t too worried, as the Dark Mountain Journal was being launched in the large hall up the street, and was running over by about 10 minutes – maybe I would get the 20 [...]
- Climbing The Dark Mountain
At the crack of dawn tomorrow (Friday 28th May) I leave for Wales; taking a bus into Edinburgh, a train to Crewe, another train to Chester, yet another train to Ruabon, and finally a bus to Llangollen. More civilised people might consider this to be a slightly excessive response to not wishing to d ...
- How To Sue An Oil Company (from The Washington Pos ...
I have very little faith in any of the instruments of civilised society; but when you are faced with something like the BP Deepwater Oil Tide⢠then a combination of both civilised and uncivilised activities may well be the best course of action – if only to allow one to mask the other… How to sue ...
- Joss Garman Shows The Tragedy of Going Mainstream
Take a look at the video above. On the right is a person who has the guts to appear on the BBC and say, without embarrassment or political correctness, that people just need to stop flying so much. The Plane Stupid representative’s comments are brilliantly amplified by Jeremy Paxman’s priceless que ...
- Green Youth Movement: The Frightening Face of Youn ...
An impending sense of dispair tends to fall over me when I open my mailbox in the morning. Alongside the genuine spam comes a pile of cut-and-paste guff that spews from the keyboards of public relations firms who have been paid a few bucks to send out sycophantic press releases on behalf of their c ...
- Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
- Aliou Kumbaya
My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day. He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
- Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
- Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq. There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens. In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...
- Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery. The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps. While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...
- Hacks and Hackers: The Time Was Right
"Hacks and Hackers," our young organization focused on bringing journalism and technology closer together, seems to have struck a chord. Over the weekend of May 21-23, 80 journalists and technologists in San Francisco participated in the group's first " Hacks/Hackers Unite " gathering, where ...
- Contrasting Boston Neighborhoods for Virtual Stree ...
Things have started to kick into gear for Virtual Street Corners , my project that will connect the Boston towns of Brookline and Roxbury by live 24-hour video connection. At this point the most time-consuming task is community organizing as we create excitement for the project and identify groups w ...
- Sourcemap Makes Data Visualizations Transparent
Yesterday colleagues of mine at MIT were brainstorming plenaries for an upcoming media conference. Data visualization came up, but each of us grumbled. "Overdone," one of us said, to nodding heads. We'd done a session on that at every one of our conferences and forums, as had others at theirs. Data ...
- Our Friends Become Curators of Twitter-Based News
I like to listen before I talk. Which means that during my morning routine I read before I write. But where to turn and what to read? One of the most oft-repeated statements I heard at conferences last year: "our problem isn't information overload, it's crappy filters." In other words, we shouldn ...
- SochiReporter Helps Transform Sochi in Preparation ...
I recently spoke with a friend of mine here in Sochi, Russia. She is a specialist in modernizing the technological infrastructure of sanatoriums, which were the places where lucky Soviet working class heroes would be sent to rest and relax. (Think of them as health spas.) It's a challenge to tran ...
- Gaza on the Edge - Israeli Interdiction of Palesti ...
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon held a press briefing on May 31, several hours after Israel Defense Forces seized a flotilla of ships organized by pro-Palestine sympathizers that was headed to to the Gaza Strip. In the fray, at least 11 people were killed, with numbers climbing. Ayalon ...
- Inside Africa - International Criminal Court begin ...
On May 31, a two-week ICC (International Criminal Court) conference opened in Kampala, Uganda, the first formal review conference since the ICC was set up by world leaders gathered in Rome in 1998. In March of this year, Bangladesh became the 111th party to the Rome Statute, while 37 others have sig ...
- Edge on Domestic Security - Response to Illegal Im ...
Section IV of Article IV of the US Constitution states: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened ...
- Child Rearing on the Edge - Spare the Rod, and Spa ...
Discipline—whether it's spanking, yelling or giving time-outs—may sometimes do little to reduce children's behavior problems, a new study indicates. Researchers at the University of Michigan and five other universities looked at practices and perceptions of discipline in six countries. They found th ...
- Inside Islam - Religious Minorities Fearful in Pak ...
On May 28, Taliban extremists killed at least 93 members of the Ahmadi religious sect and injured around 100 others in attacks on two Ahmadi mosques during Friday prayer services in Lahore, Pakistan’s second biggest city. According to local police, more than 10 terrorists attacked the Ahmadis, who M ...
- Americas Space Fighter: New Threat To Humanity
By Zhengyan Fang People have too much reason to worry about the U.S, its pursuit of absolute superiority in space, and its attempt to build up an absolute dominance at a height from which it can threaten the globe
- Gulf Oil Slick Worst In US History
By Matthew Wild Early reports are indicating that BPs risky bid to plug its Gulf of Mexico well appear to be working but the subsequent oil slick may be far greater than anyone dared fear. US officials have reportedly confirmed that the well appears to be no longer leaking but at the same time its ...
- Ecological Denial On The Gulf Oil Disaster: U.S. P ...
By Jan Lundberg The impact of the Gulf oil disaster on the national psyche and the economy have barely begun. When Florida, a more substantial state than Louisiana, is hit by the unprecedented pollution assured to have lasting effects, the quickened erosion of confidence in government, industry an ...
- Have You Looked At Barsa Lakhmas Face?
By Nirmalangshu Mukherji The Hindu, 25 May, posted the above photograph of a person on its frontpage under the head Six Naxals held for Dantewada massacre. The person, Barsa Lakhma, is alleged to be a Naxal leader, a commander who is said to be involved in the gunning down of 76 security personnel ...
- Rape And Murder At Shopian, One Year Later
By Concerned Citizens Open letter to the Chief Justice of India , Chairperson, National Commission for Women and Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission demanding ustice in the case of rape and murder of Aasiya Jan and Neelofer Jan in Shopian, J&K, 29 May 2009
- The Next Step: Responsibility and Reconciliation
Last week was filled with interviews where myself and, at times, another member of the company I deployed with, talked to as many people as we could about the Collateral Murder video, focusing on three points. 1. The video, in context, is not a case of soldiers breaking from the system 2. With the t ...
- OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OUR FRIENDS IN AFGHANISTAN
An amazing opportunity is available for communities across the country: The videos from Our Journey to Smile which I’ve been posting on here have been compiled into one long film. On 3/27 at 9pm (est), we will be showing the film along with others groups across the US. Additionally, we will be live ...
- The Ink People
Last week, my friend from Eureka, CA, Dave Berman informed me that the community organization where Conor and I spoke on Halloween night was hit by a 6.5 earthquake. The Ink People are, as Dave said, ” limping along”: They are “only able to find temporary space for some admin work and a few of its ...
- You might just find that you get what you need
Throughout these intense past few years, there have been times when I have nearly lost any kind of faith. Sometimes what I was seeing on a day to day basis looked far to ugly for there to be a God. Though questions still abound, I understand that sometimes it takes the worst kind of suffering to [.. ...
- Dangerous gatherings in Afghanistan!
- Andrew Sullivan is Entitled to His Opinion, But He ...
Look, I get it, Andrew Sullivan is not a huge fan of Israel, he is very much entitled to his opinion, but in his column about the incident in the waters outside of Gaza he makes up his own facts. Actually in the case of most of the posts Sullivan writes about the Middle East, Andrew is living in his ...
- Memorial Day-->Remembering Those Who Kept us Free
Let us not forget that today is much more than Hot Dogs and Parades: T he Original Order Creating the Memorial Day Holiday: I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country ...
- Being a Political Conservative: Is it Good For the ...
Please take a look at my latest contribution to Big Government, Being a Political Conservative, Is It Good For the Jews? Some of you may remember something similar running here last month, the Big Government post is rewritten, expanded and� better than the first version. Please click here and give i ...
- Was Israel's Boarding Of the Gaza Flotilla a Viola ...
A friend of mine (who I respect) called to tell me that he is done with Israel. He said the IDF violated international law by attempting to board the boat in international waters and the IHH terrorists were justified because they were defending themselves in international waters. Which to be honest, ...
- AMBUSH! Gaza Bound Flotilla Attack Israeli Navy T ...
It was a set up. This time the flotila organizers wanted violence and they were going to attack the IDF to make sure they go it. Every few months, a flotila of boats head toward Gaza with the purpose of convincing the world press that Israel is the evil empire. Usually what happens is Isr ...
- Don’t Tread On Me
From the Tea Party Movement to State Legislators, the American people are drawing a line in the sand. On what side of it will youstand? Has the government our Founders created been forgotten by Washington DC? Is a Patriot Uprising ready to capture the spirit of 1776? “Don’t Tread On Me: Rise of the ...
- Daniel Estulin Revela Agenda Bilderberg para Junio ...
La conferencia de este año marca un nuevo nivel de exposición y la oposición al grupo Bilderberg. Daniel Estulin hará un histórico discurso ante el Parlamento Europeo el 01 de junio, junto con Mario Borghezio, Nigel Farage, y otros diputados clave.
- Israel Commandos Murder 16 people in attack to Aid ...
A spokeswoman for the flotilla, Greta Berlin, said she had been told ten people had been killed and dozens wounded, accusing Israeli troops of indiscriminately shooting at "unarmed civilians". But an Israeli radio station said that between 14 and 16 were dead in a continuing operation.
- España pierde rating AAA y deberá pagar más interé ...
Aunque Fitch admite que el proceso de estabilización económica está en curso, advierte que el mercado laboral "inflexible" y el proceso de reestructuración de las cajas de ahorros dificultarán la mejora económica.
- Rothchild Engineer Giving Away UK Infrastructure t ...
The Rothschild banking family is pushing for the privatization of the UK’s motorway network that would force Brits, who already pay road tax, to enrich the coffers of private corporations intimately tied in with the Rothschilds by means of road tolls and pay-by-mile schemes enforced with spy cameras ...
- Wind power not easy win for birders; Ridgetop turb ...
Birders tend to be sympathetic to whatever protects the ecosystem. For that reason, “clean” energy schemes that provide power without pollution should be an easy win with the birding community. Ridgetop wind turbines, however, have many birders worried. Tall structures are known to kill birds during ...
- Wind farm flunked
A three-turbine wind farm planned for the Água de Tábuas area of Tavira has been rejected by the government after protests from local residents and environmental organizations such as the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, and ‘Probaal’. Tavira Mayor Jorge Botelho said he has not yet read th ...
- Over €340,000 for bogslide damage caused by constr ...
A woman whose farm was damaged by a massive bogslide which occurred during the construction of the Republic’s largest wind farm has secured €341,830 damages at the High Court. Mr Justice Eamon de Valera made the award yesterday to Mary Curley, whose family have farmed 16 acres at Derrybrien, Gort, ...
- Wind turbines will harm health according to doctor
MONTPELIER â A doctor who has studied the health effects of a commercial wind power project in northern Maine brought his conclusion to the State House Friday morning, May 7. “There is absolutely no doubt that people living within 3,500 feet of a ridge line arrangement of 1.5 megawatts or larger t ...
- Dismal post construction monitoring report for Wol ...
Correcting seasonally for searcher efficiency, scavenger and other removal rates, and the percent area searched, the 12 raptor/vulture and 88 other bird carcasses recovered represent approximately 602 bird fatalities over the course of this [six month] Reporting Period. This is from the post constru ...
- Is the US chain of command fair game?
The jokes always fly when US drone attacks claim to dispatch an al-Qaedan of supposed rank. “How many 3rd in command does al-Qaeda have?” -asks the too-clever saw. As Mohammad approaches infinity, I believe, is the inconvenient answer. When a sports competitor disqualifies from the rankings, anothe ...
- Looking for a parallel colonial failure? French Al ...
Not “US-Israel” as in an alliance, but U.S. Israel, protectorate. L’audace of the savage Arabs to assassinate the white settlers one by one, or by means of uncivilized cafe bombs, defying France’s brutal measures to wall the terrorists off and impoverish them.
- Protest Israeli state piracy against peace convoy
IMPROMPTU PROTEST OF MILITARIZED REPRESSION OF HUMANITARIAN ACTIVISM. Protest Israel’s deadly raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Join Coloradans For Peace, Colorado Springs, Acacia Park, NOON. Pro-Palestinian, Free-Gaza, and all antiwar voices welcome. This Memorial Day, remember the USS Liberty!
- If you really don’t want to kill civilians, ...
I tell you what, if Bibi actually gets away with this shit, based on the defense he’s mounting, then Death Row inmates across America will be rejoicing. What’s the difference between Armed Robbery and Capital Murder? A twitch of the finger. Israel and the U.S. have this habit of (AFTER killing usual ...
- Israeli pirates commandeer Freedom Flotilla, kills ...
Although it had turned away from the coast, Israeli commandos boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at 4am. Turkish TV is reporting two dead, thirty injured on the 600 passenger ship Mavi Marmara. � UPDATE: Israeli media reports 10 deaths, ships to be hauled to Israeli port instead of Egypt where report ...
- Dusting-off Corley: Is this the official response ...
Comments have been added throughout the article and noted in red . Dusting-off Corley: Is this the official response to the discovery of energetic materials in the WTC dust? Kevin Ryan 911blogger.com 5/31/10 It has been over a year since the most recent peer-reviewed scientific article was publi ...
- Bill Hicks on JFK: Two Critical lessons for the Ci ...
[Language warning] The two points being made here are vital ones: 1.) Think for yourselves- believe in scientific facts and common sense, 2.) Don't get brainwashed by trivial entertainment and miss out on what's really going on out there. The country has been taken way from you, and it's time to ...
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Yesterday, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asserted that David Ray Griffin omits testimonial evidence from the FDNY indicating that they knew WTC 7 was going to collapse due to structural damage. Oh really? "Extracts from a recent Peter B Collins' interview with Professor David Ray Griffi ...
- The LIHOP Case against Cheney and Bush
After more than a year of researching and editing together short clips, I have finished an hour long presentation reviewing the best evidence that key members of the Bush Administration were, at the very least, aware of the coming 9/11 attack and allowed it to happen for political reasons. Topics i ...
- Possible Confirmation of "Pull It" - In A Hitpiece ...
By: John-Michael P. Talboo and ScootleRoyale First, a little background: A writer for FOX News has just inadvertently exposed some key WTC 7 evidence... while writing a hitpiece ! In an article entitled Shame On Jesse Ventura !, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro writes: "Governor Ventura and many 9/11 “ T ...
- What’s in a Pickle?
Who doesn’t love the taste of a crunchy dill pickle? Whether sliced in a sandwich or whole as an accompaniment to a meat dish, the combination of salty, sour and sweet in each crunchy bite adds excitement and zest to the meal. And it counts as a veggie serving, right? Not so fast. True, pickles are ...
- Salt Industry Shaking Away Criticism
A lengthy piece by Michael Moss of the New York Times this weekend, covers the decades long history of salt wars. The bottom line: The salt industry is working overtly and behind the scenes to fend off public-health attacks on salt, using a shifting set of tactics that have defeated similar effor ...
- Candy Expo Showcases Healthy Snacks. Indeed?
In a sign of the times, the Sweets & Snacks Expo earlier this week in Chicago focused on healthier treats. Saleswomen for Hershey Co. handed out Reese’s Minis, chocolate-peanut butter cups the size of marbles, which they touted as ideal for portion control. Nearby, staff members for candy behemot ...
- Snack Bar Smackdown: Clif vs. Lara
Yesterday we compared Kellogg’s Fiber Pus to Larabar. Despite the high amount of fiber in Kellogg’s bars, the clear nutrition winner was Larabar, with a short, understandable ingredient list and no added sugar. Many readers asked about Clif bars, so here today is a comparison between Clif Banana Nu ...
- Comparing Kellogg’s Fiber Plus Bar to LaraBar [Ins ...
The healthy snackbar segment is huge and growing. It seems that manufacturers have figured out a way to dress up candy bars as healthy, and fill our craving for an anytime, anywhere treat. To be fair, there are many decent products out there, but some are not much more than glorified Snickers or Tw ...
- 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
- Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
- 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...
- Blog Design Showcase
The typical post topics covered here involve topics related to social media marketing or blogging . One way to increase traffic to your site is to use an attractive design that will draw a lot of attention. Web design galleries and showcase blog posts like this one send considerable amounts of visit ...
- 10 Reasons to Be a Freelance Blogger
I talk to a lot of people on a regular basis who want to make money with the internet, and blogging is often the preferred method. While it is certainly possible to earn a living with your own blog, it's a lot more work than most people anticipate, and the percentage of bloggers who stick with it lo ...
- A conversation (cont.)
Do you think it matters who the person is you go into that deep commitment with? No. Just that both are willing. Not even both. One is enough. Even if you both say you want commitment, each will have a different idea of what commitment means. You talk about staying, right? I talk about not movi ...
- A conversation
To E. I have lots of questions about relationships. We all have. One of the questions I have is about how I often feel that I want to give more affection to other people than they want to receive. Do you want something from the other? Yes. So what do you want when you give more affection than ...
- Science - no fiction
During the past two years or so, I’ve been reading in parallel two kinds of books. One was rather metaphysical (mainly Florian Tathagata’s trilogy, “Being”, “Given” and “Space”) and the other one popular medicine (e.g. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s “My stroke of insight” and Norman Doidge’s “The brain tha ...
- The myth of one and only truth
The more one thinks about it, the more difficult it becomes to believe in the existence of one and only truth. From an early age, however, we learn that there is an all-elusive transcendental truth, to which we have no access. Only, this is a myth. I think that this myth was created by the various ...
- The "green meme"
In his version of Spiral Dynamics, Ken Wilber takes up the notion of meme, which was first introduced by Richard Dawkins. Memes, in his context, correspond to levels of consciousness and every level builds on the adoptations of previous ones. Therefore, each level transcends its predecessors, encomp ...
- Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...
- Stop Feeding the Vultures
by Greg Palast for In These Times I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in. I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture ...
- Vulture Financier AttacksBanned in Britain
by Greg Palast April 8 - London - Update for In These Times We've stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the British Isles. The law, merely awaits the expected touch of the Queen's scepter. "Vulture funds" are int ...
- Heart of Coal
by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse We've seen this dreadful movie before. In 2005, another coal mine in West Virginia imploded. We wrote about it then .... War is hell, especially class war. Just ask the Sago mine workers. Billionaire Wilbur Ross purchased Sago of West Virginia in November 200 ...
- Behind the Arizona Immigration Law:GOP Game to Swi ...
Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law. by Greg Palast for Truthout.org [Phoenix, AZ.] Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, ...
- What would Turkey’s NATO allies do in the case of ...
The general assumption has been that if push comes to shove between Israel and Turkey, that NATO allies will not support Turkey, and that the US will supply Israel, but not supply Turkey. I wonder if those two things are both true. It’s interesting to note that Britain, normally a staunch Israeli al ...
- What Left?
David Sirota nails it: Behold, for instance, major environmental groups’ attitude toward the Gulf oil spill. We know that before the disaster, President Obama recklessly pushed to expand offshore drilling. We also know that his Interior Department gave British Petroleum’s rig a “categorical exclu ...
- The Gulf Oil Spill Shows What America Has Become
Peter Daou wants to know if this is the best the US can do (h/t Digby): A calamity is unfolding before our eyes - the greatest oil spill in history - and America’s response is little more than a big yawn. The vast, sprawling coastal marshes of Louisiana, where the Mississippi River [...]
- Embracing an illusion in Somalia
Illusions are fun for kids and at fundraisers. They are deadly for international policy makers. The United Nations and the trading powers of the world are heavily invested in an illusion in Somalia. The Western elite believes, or is acting as if they believe that the Transitional Federal Governme ...
- As the Euro and the Pound come under pressure bend ...
The catch-22 continues. First, the Euro under pressure: Global Markets Overview: A sudden drop in the single currency reverses an early tentative advance for stocks as traders once again frett about the fragility of the eurozone economy Second, the Pound under pressure: Speculators extended their s ...
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