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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • McChrystal Faces "Iraq 2006 Moment" in Coming Mont ...
    WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal confronts the spectre of a collapse of U.S. political support for the war in Afghanistan in coming months comparable to the one that occurred in the Iraq War in late 2006.
  • /UPDATE/CUBA: Variety of Viewpoints Expected at Ch ...
    HAVANA, Jun 12 (IPS) - Cuban intellectuals, religious and non-religious, including three who live and teach in the United States, will take part in a four-day conference organised by the Catholic Church next week in the midst of a relaxed climate of dialogue between the Church leadership and ...
  • U.S. Bill Would Outlaw FGM "Holidays"
    NEW YORK, Jun 12 (IPS) - The U.S. currently lags behind several Western European countries in closing a legislative loophole banning the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) beyond its borders to protect U.S. citizens and residents. But this may soon change.
  • INDIA: Experts Rue Untold Damage to Marine, Coasta ...
    NEW DELHI, June 12 (IPS) - In mid-April this year, MV Malavika, a cargo ship of the Essar Shipping Corporation, a major sea logistics firm in India, leaked an estimated eight tonnes of furnace oil after being struck by a barge near the Gopalpur port on the eastern Indian coast of Orissa.
  • CUBA: Variety of Viewpoints Expected at Church Con ...
    HAVANA, Jun 11 (IPS) - Cuban intellectuals, religious and non-religious, including three who live and teach in the United States, will take part in a four-day conference organised by the Catholic Church next week in the midst of a relaxed climate of dialogue between the Church leadership and ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Fisk: Canada, Hitler, and 'Joan of Arc'
    The date: 10 February 1937. The city: Ottawa. The man: William Lyon Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada, soon to be the trusted wartime friend and confidant of Winston Churchill. That frozen day in the Canadian capital, King recorded in his diary a friendly encounter with an old man on Wilbrod ...
  • The Stunning Crash And Burn Of Las Vegas
    There are quite a few U.S. cities that are complete and utter economic disaster zones in 2010 (Detroit for example), but there is something about the demise of Las Vegas that is absolutely stunning. In recent decades, Las Vegas has become a symbol for the over-the-top affluence and decadence of Ame ...
  • Instant kiwi character pledges to protect NZ parks ...
    Mad Dancer & Instant Kiwi Winner 'Dancing Daniel' lists as personal interests: Dancing Madly, Singing out of key, exploding parking meters, moonwalking and keeping national parks free of mining. Should the need arise, I'm sure Dancing Daniel would be up for a trip to Paparoa to dance in front o ...
  • Peak Oil and Apocalypse Then
    Based on the past experience of Japan, North Korea and Cuba, an Oxford researcher identifies three possible responses to peak oil: Predatory militarism, totalitarian retrenchment and socioeconomic adaptation. Oil is the backbone resource of industrial society, but the Oil Age will come to an end, s ...
  • Noam Chomsky on the Threat Posed By Elites
    As America's economy and politics continue to unravel, it is clear that the elite mentality and the system it has created will produce more and more victims in the years to come. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Paleo art
    All that’s left of the most numerous, diverse and successful creatures that ever walked the face of the Earth are bones. Dinosaurs left behind on YouTube videos, photographs or even cave drawings. Yet we can get a glimpse into the natural existence of these “terrible lizards” through the work of Alb ...
  • Pollution solution
    The Walkerton disaster of May 2000 was a cautionary tale for all Canadians concerned about the safety of their drinking water. When a deadly strain of E. coli from farm runoff contaminated the Ontario community’s water supply, seven people died and nearly half the town’s residents became ill before ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Israel Profits From Gaza Blockade
  • Disease Mongering and Big Pharma: Enough Already!
    You may think there is enough disease in the world already, and that no one would want to add to the diseases that we humans must deal with. But there is a powerful industry in our society that is working overtime to invent illnesses and to convince us we are suffering from them. This effort is kn ...
  • US: Salt Lake City officials, Chevron crews managi ...
    Site of oil leak capped; All water access points along Red Butte Creek, Liberty Park and the Jordan River should be avoided by humans and animals at this time. Utah - Salt Lake City officials and Chevron crews have been working since early morning Saturday, June 12 to stop a severe oil spill disc ...
  • Kamchatka Volcano Waking Up
    In the Russian Far East, Kamchatka's Gorely volcano is spewing steam and ash again after decades in dormancy. The plume has stretched to over a hundred kilometers, compromising regional air travel and threatening disruption at a local geothermal power plant. Volcanologists say that population ce ...
  • Magnitude 7.5 - Nicobar Islands, India Region
    Date-Time: Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 19:26:50 UTC Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 01:26:50 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 7.702°N, 91.975°E Depth: 35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program Region: NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION Distances: 150 km (95 miles) W o ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Flathead speaks . . .
  • At the going down of the sun...
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Sergeant Martin Goudreault, 1 Combat Engineer Regiment. Killed due to enemy action. Quo fas et gloria ducunt Ubique
  • The man who has never been right about anything...
    Is wrong again . "I'm familiar with the budget for security," Flaherty told reporters in Toronto. Well, good. You were also familiar with a global economy swirling the drain and denied it was ever happening. Until it took the final plunge. "Canada's playing an important role and it's one worth pla ...
  • I sure hope not . . .
    THE LONDON TIMES has a scary report: "Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites" . Oh boy, a big, steaming bowl of Not Good, as it appears that the Sunnis have decided . . .  Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a ...
  • Timing is everything . . .
    A crusty old Marine Sergeant-Major found himself at a gala event hosted by a local liberal arts college. There was no shortage of young, idealistic ladies in attendance, one of whom approached the Sergeant- Major and asked, "Excuse me, Sergeant-Major, but you seem to be a very serious man. Is some ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News withholds half the story on Kagan docs
    Bret Baier reported that the Clinton Presidential Library recently released documents relating to Elena Kagan's work in the Clinton administration but that "[t]he library is withholding some of those documents." Baier did not mention that the documents have reportedly been made available to th ...
  • As the World Cup starts, conservative media d ...
    As the 2010 World Cup begins in South Africa, conservative�media figures�have seized the opportunity to attack the tournament and the sport of soccer. They have also used soccer as a proxy to attack President Obama and progressives. Conservatives: "Obama's policies are the World Cup," soccer is "a ...
  • Wall Street Journal falsely accuses ...
    A� Wall Street Journal �editorial falsely claimed that President Obama was misinforming seniors when he said the health care law does not change the "guaranteed Medicare benefits" for Medicare Advantage participants. In fact, the law explicitly states that "nothing in this Act shall result in the r ...
  • Fox & Friends misleads on internatio ...
    While discussing the Jones Act, Fox & Friends ' Brian Kilmeade � misleadingly referenced "our inability or decision not to use the rest of the world's offers to help us skim up the sludge."�In fact, the U.S. has used cleanup equipment from other nations "and will continue to do that," accordi ...
  • Napolitano falsely claims Obama halted "all drill ...
    On Fox & Friends , Fox News contributor Andrew Napolitano falsely claimed that the Obama administration imposed a moratorium on all oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, the administration's moratorium halted only new deepwater Gulf drilling; indeed, more than 5,000 Gulf oil wells reporte ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • All Israel, All the Time?
    No institution or movement is so wise and effective that it doesn't need scrutiny and self-criticism, and, returning from a month in Tel Aviv, I feel an irrepressible need to offer a bit of both by noting that of the past 200 posts here in TPMCafe -- which take us back to April -- 43 of them (three ...
  • Why The United States Still Can't Get BP To Do Wha ...
    Here's what Coast Guard Rear Adm. James A. Watson wrote to BP's chief operating officer on Friday: "Recognizing the complexity of this challenge, every effort must be expended to speed up the process." BP's plans don't "go far enough to mobilize redundant resources" in the event of an equipment fai ...
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  • Cheney, Come Clean
    Since early 2008, I've been writing about Dick Cheney's secret Energy Policy Task Force. But given the role of all the Task Force players (BP, Halliburton and probably TransOcean) in the Gulf Oil Disaster, I think it's time for President Obama to release the notes of those meetings. We will conti ...
  • Young Palestinian: "End The Siege on Israel"
    The author of this piece in Ha'aretz today, a 25 year old (I think) Palestinian named Fadi Elsalameen has been my friend since he was in high school. He is founder and editor of the Palestine Note, which has become essential reading for those of us who need to know what is going on with an issue to ...

TruthOut

  • Ten Things That Terrify Right-Wingers
    These are some of the things that keep American conservatives awake at night. Modern American conservatism is based on an almost endless series of grievances. Author Thomas Frank coined a term for it: the conservative "plenty-plaint" -- a long and ever-evolving list of personal and cultural gripes ...
  • Obama Overlooked Key Points in Giving OK to Offsho ...
    Washington - Weeks before the world had ever heard of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, President Barack Obama stood in the Roosevelt Room of the White House poring over maps of oil drilling sites in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and elsewhere. Satisfied that he knew all he needed to know and confident t ...
  • "We Are at the Crossroads": Yannick Etienne on Swe ...
    The U.S. and U.N. have based their plan for Haiti's redevelopment on the expansion of the assembly industry. Toward this end, the U.S. Congress passed legislation last month which would expand benefits and income for U.S. investors yet again. Haitian workers will continue to earn $3.09 a day. rea ...
  • Living in District 9
    South Africans abolished apartheid and is hosting the World Cup. So where's the glow? read more
  • Arizona: Rushing Toward the Wrong Side of History
    Before the Dream students made their historic stance in Tucson, Arizona last week - to stage a sit-in in Sen. John McCain's office, and thereby subjecting themselves to deportation proceedings - this sun city had already been in the eye of the storm. The perfect storm. read more

Planetsave

  • New High Resolution Video of BP Oil Spill
    New high resolution video of BP oil spill released after pressure from Congress. BP has released a new high resolution video of the BP oil. It took about a month before BP finally released a live video of the oil spill in the Gulf, and now it turns out what they released is not even their best qua ...
  • Senate Votes No, Rejects Dirty Air Act
    Senate rejects “Dirty Air Act”, votes “no”. Reportedly, the Senate has just made one of the biggest environmental or climate change decisions of the year and voted against Senator Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) infamous “Dirty Air Act” (53-47). Read more of this story »
  • Cars and People Compete for Grain
    Following up on a post in April by Josh, “ Productive Farmland Should Grow Food not Fuel ,” and a post this week by Beth, “ Is Biofuel Always a Green Option? EU Regulations Indicate Not ,” in this guest post below, Lester R. Brown of the Earth Policy Institute discusses how cars and people compete ...
  • What the Oil Spill Could Have Powered
    Based on the estimate of 19,000 barrels of oil a day, if the oil lost in the Gulf of Mexico had been refined it could have powered 38,000 cars and more. The Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been the focus around the world, and many have wondered what the impact on the price of oil ...
  • Is Biofuel Always a Green Option? EU Regulations I ...
    Palm plantations that produce the oil used in biofuel, like this one in Malaysia, aren’t as “green” as some may think. A Natural fuel source doesn’t always mean positive environmental effects. A debate currently happening in the European Union raises a question that has many people asking if biof ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The BP Oil Spill May Be Bad, But This Cover Up is ...
    What really happened to cause the devastating oil leak in the gulf of Mexico? And what is BP doing to fix the problem? For an answer to the first question, watch this 60 Minutes story. As for the answer to the second question, read my special report on the devastating...
  • Venezuelan Government Deepens Investigation of Cor ...
    Editor's Comment: The findings reported by James Suggett below smell to us, very much like�corruption and infiltration�by the opposition into the very heart of the revolution in Venezuela. - Les Blough, Editor Mérida, June 11th 2010 – The Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office arrested the ...
  • American Slang - Music and Entertainment
    A note from Axis of Logic: Like a lot of other people, we're waiting for the release of Gaslight Anthem's�new album titled, "American Slang", but we pulled an advance�copy from Rolling Stone.�No, it's not political - nothing like that but if you still get into�straight-ahead Rock & Roll, we think ...
  • Bilderberg Meets in Spain. Global Cabal Weakened, ...
    (2 related articles) Bilderberg boys were so depressed as they gathered at the Dolce luxury hotel in Sitges, Spain June 3 that “many important people are not showing up,” because “they always find out and we get into trouble at home,” said one, echoing the sentiments of all. Still, they...
  • Parents of rescued teenage sailor Abby Sunderland ...
    Editor's Note: There's a lot of humming on the Internet about whether Abby Sunderland's parents were being responsible when they allowed her to attempt a solo attempt to sail around the world. But people don't seem to have much of a problem with the cost of the attempt. Long distance...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Right to Rent
    From Greg Kaufmann at The Nation, a simple, no-cost way to stop the tsunami of foreclosures that are undermining the economy: RIGHT TO RENT: The Obama administration's attempt to bribe, cajole or beg the banks to modify mortgages isn't working. There were 367,056 foreclosure filings in March, a mon ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    A lesson we should have learned at Kent State: the government that kills its own protesting citizens proves itself illegitimate. "Kyrgyzstan's interim government has given security forces shoot-to-kill powers in a bid to stop ethnic fighting which has taken nearly 80 lives. It also declared a partia ...
  • The New Golden Rule
    As Michael Bersin puts it so succinctly here, the Supreme Court's recent rulings have now made it crystal clear, if it weren't before, that those who have the gold get to rule. Kevin Drum reveals the pro-corporate bias of the Roberts Court: During his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court in 2 ...
  • Boehner Has the Right Idea
    "I think the people responsible in the oil spill -- BP and the federal government -- should take full responsibility for what's happening there." -- John Boehner I agree. �Wait! �Hear me out. The federal government is not a people. �(Neither is BP, of course, so the same following argument applies.) ...
  • If BP is shopping around for a new logo...
    ...I think I've found one that would be absolutely perfect. *Thanks to John, the very nice young man who was wearing this tee-shirt and graciously allowed me to take the picture. �

Care 2

  • State Terrorism and the New World Order. "Man's St ...
    "On board (the Marvi Marmara) was a consignment of marbles, for the children of the tiny twenty five miles long, by seven mile wide, besieged territory. One could be forgiven for thinking there are some in high places in Israel, who have lost theirs. . ." Submitted by Dave C. to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • West Africans rue rising seas as climate talks sta ...
    When the ocean swallowed up their homes, it also divided the people of this sleepy Ivorian fishing village -- half of them moved inland, the other half stayed to brave the waves. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Revisiting George Orwell's
    Early in the novel, Winston undertakes to commit a subversive act: he begins writing a personal diary. He wistfully addresses it To the future or the past, to a time when thought is free. Orwell has elsewhere been credited with In a time of universal Submitted by Pastor Tim Redfern to Society & C ...
  • International sensitivities: What if BP oil spill ...
    The BP oil spill has begun to have international repercussions. Cuba is the country most likely to be the first non-US victim if the oil slick advances beyond Florida into the Caribbean. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ban Aerial Wolf Hunting in Alaska ! TAKE ACTION !
    When Sarah Palin was placed as the head of state in Alaska, she brought back an illegal sport: Aerial Wolf Hunting. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Potential allies: Karzai, Pakistan and the Taliban ...
    If you still thought things hadn't dramatically changed on the Afghan chessboard ever since U.S. President Barack Obama announced plans to begin pulling out from mid-2011, you only need to look at President Hamid Karzai's recent utterances, or more accurately the lack of it, on the Taliban and the P ...
  • AUSTRALIAN PM RUDD A BAD BET?
    Australians love to gamble, infact they say Ausssies would bet on two flies crawling up a hotel wall. But even the most hardened Aussie gambler would be shocked at Prime Minister Kevin's odds plunge. Rudd's voter support has nosedived and he risks beoming the first, one-term prime minister since 1 ...
  • An Indian in Kabul
    India and Pakistan are both competing for influence in Afghanistan in a modern-day version of the Great Game that has complicated the search for a settlement, but on the streets of Kabul the Indians still seem to evoke greater goodwill.
  • Pakistan’s Ahmadi killings and the conscienc ...
    A discussion about the killings of Ahmadis in Lahore last month is widening into a broader debate about the nature of Pakistani society and, whether secular liberals have any voice left to stem a rising tide of religious conservatism
  • Taliban talks and the lobster quadrille
    "The Americans are signalling rather loudly that they want to talk to the Taliban. But will the Taliban talk?"

Booman Tribune

  • Stupid Punditry
    The first clue that he had no idea what he was talking about was when he called John McCain 'affable.' Poor, poor Britain. Their pensions are losing value because they're all invested in BP. You want to know what's repellent, Mr. Wheatcroft? The stinking sludge your favorite megacorporation is s ...
  • World Cup Thread
    The US soccer team just tied England 1-1. And they actually had more possession time and outplayed England in the first half. I didn't think the US had the same crisp passing in the second half, playing in a bit of defensive crouch. It wasn't until the second half that England looked like a super ...
  • Your Lousy Congress
    I agree with everything that Steve Benen has to say about the political stalemate on energy policy. Everything, that is, except his assessment that politicians who oppose doing anything about carbon are taking that position because they think the public wants them to. That might be narrowly true i ...
  • Bad Propaganda
    I am often amazed at what the British press produces, and this article from Rupert Murdoch's Times of London is no exception. I don't really put much stock in the substance of the article, which explains that the Saudis have conducted tests to assure that Israeli bombers can pass through their airs ...
  • Karzai Should Step Down
    It's ironic. I don't have any confidence in Karzai and he has no confidence in us. Since the feelings are mutual, why don't we go our separate ways. It is not possible to prop up a government that doesn't have confidence in itself or in you. Frankly, I think running the government in Kabul has d ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Gestural interface: like a Wacom tablet, just with ...
    Via SlashDot, here’s a project from Potsdam University in which the clever boffins have built a user interface that requires only hand gestures as input: We present Imaginary Interfaces, screen-less devices that allow users to perform spatial interaction with empty hands and without visual feedback. ...
  • Did the Iranian “Twitter Revolution” actually happ ...
    You know, I’m always advising people not to believe everything they read, but I’m just as bad at doing it as anyone else – we all give credence to the stories we want to believe, I guess (and hell knows that media companies know how to exploit that). So, remember the Twitter Revolution in Iran? That ...
  • Personality back-ups: immortality through avatars?
    The possibility of digitising the human mind is one of those questions that will only be closed by its successful achievement, I think; there’ll always be an argument for its possibility, because the only way to disprove it would be to quantify how personality and mind actually work, and if we could ...
  • Physical gender not determined by XY chromosomes a ...
    Via Cheryl Morgan, news of recent research that’s blown holes in a lot of our preconceptions about how the physical sex of a mammal is determined by genetics. I’ll quote Cheryl rather than the article, because she uses less sciencespeak: We have known for a long time that physical sex is much more c ...
  • The multiphrenic world: Stowe Boyd strikes back on ...
    … which is really a neologism for its own sake (a favourite gambit of Boyd’s, as far as I can tell). But let’s not distract from his radical (and lengthy) counterblast to a New York Times piece about “gadget addiction”, which chimes with Nick Carr’s Eeyore-ish handwringing over attention spans, as m ...

Therapy News

  • New Program Fights Bowel Disease With Psychologica ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A program by the University of Georgia found that providing a sense of community and emotional coping strategies improved both the psychological and physical state of teenage girls dealing with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis, Chron’s dise ...
  • Severity of Schizophrenia Linked To Siblings’ Stre ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A new study has found a correlation between the level of severity of positive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and the level of stress and stress sensitivity that those patients’ mentally healthy siblings experience on a day-to-day basis. The study was published ...
  • Anger Evokes Both Psychological and Physiological ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In a recent study published in the journal “Hormones and Behavior,” researchers were able to show that in addition to altering a person’s mental state, anger alters their physical state as well. Thirty men were tested both before and after being made angry through inf ...
  • Therapy Dogs Comfort Tornado-Ravaged Ohio Town
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Survivors of the spring tornados that have been devastating Midwest towns have turned to friends, family, faith, and now animals for comfort. In Toledo, Ohio, community members gathered earlier this week to grieve together, and several therapy dogs were in attendance ...
  • Six Ways to Power Up Your Creativity
    By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “I don’t have a creative bone in my body.” “I’d like to learn how to draw, but it’s probably impossible.” “I want to write, but I just can’t find the time right ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal Free Future Project's 'Across the Stones of F ...
    Coal Free Future Project's 'Across the Stones of Fire' Ends 6/13 Broadway World ... to come to grips with their conflicting fates, when their family's 150-year-old homestead is threatened by a planned mountaintop removal operation. ...
  • We can no longer ignore our energy crisis - Ashevi ...
    Charlotte Observer We can no longer ignore our energy crisis Asheville Citizen-Times Duke Energy last week asked its suppliers for estimates of the costs of coal that doesn't include coal mined via mountaintop removal . ... Duke rethinking options on use of mountaintop coal Charlotte Observer Duke ...
  • Taking Mountaintop Mining Opposition to Capitol Hi ...
    Taking Mountaintop Mining Opposition to Capitol Hill WHSV Mountaintop removal mining opponents say they're planning to take their demonstrations to the nation's capital. Organizers says the aim of planned September ...
  • Gauley River: Endangered by Mountaintop Removal - ...
    IndyPosted Gauley River: Endangered by Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) West Virginia's famed Gauley River ranks #3 on this year's list -- the threat is mountaintop removal coal mining, which could spell the end to the clean ... Mountaintop removal lands Gauley River in ...
  • Duke looks at costs to avoid mining issue - Bizjou ...
    Charlotte Observer Duke looks at costs to avoid mining issue Bizjournals.com (blog) Duke Energy wants to find out how much more it would cost to buy coal that is not mined by the controversial “ mountain top removal ” process. ... Mountain mining of coal examined News & Observer Duke seeks costs of ...

Memeorandum

  • "I am a Muslim," Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Mini ...
    Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs : “I am a Muslim,” Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister Gheit Islamic Coup on the White House … Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim f ...
  • Days After BP Denies Blocking The Media From Cover ...
    Amanda Terkel / Think Progress : Days After BP Denies Blocking The Media From Covering The Spill, Reporter Is Harrassed On A Public Beach   —  In response to numerous media reports that BP has been blocking journalists from covering the oil spill and speaking with clean-up workers, BP CEO Doug Sut ...
  • Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul? Probably No ...
    Investor's Business Daily : Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul?  Probably Not, Gov't Analysis Concludes   —  Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.  —  Small firms will be even likelier ...
  • Paypal Cuts Off Atlas: Truth is the New Hate Speec ...
    Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs : Paypal Cuts Off Atlas: Truth is the New Hate Speech   —  The little money that Atlas generates (I have no large donors) is about to be cut off.  Apparently the jihad is hard at work trying to kill free speech (and the bus ads and the 9111 no mosque movement) from maki ...
  • Enviros give Obama a pass on spill (Josh Gerstein/ ...
    Josh Gerstein / The Politico : Enviros give Obama a pass on spill   —  Last week, it seemed, environmentalists were finally ready to let loose on President Barack Obama over the Gulf oil spill.  —  Actress Q'orianka Kilcher chained herself to the White House fence while her mother slathered the “P ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Lessons from controversy (2)
    In the conclusion of their two-part analysis of the clean development mechanism, He Gang  and Richard Morse reject assertions that China has manipulated tariffs to secure funding and call for reform. Is the Chinese government manipulating power tariffs in order to obtain CDM funding? This is hard t ...
  • Lessons from controversy (1)
    The United Nations’ decision to deny a clutch of Chinese wind farms Clean Development Mechanism status has exposed structural failures in this carbon-cutting device, argue He Gang and Richard Morse. China’s wind-power has expanded rapidly in recent years, almost doubling in size every 12 months sinc ...
  • Second chance summit
    The 1992 Rio Conference inspired hopes for a fairer future – before two decades of unequal, unsustainable development ruined the dream. Now, another meeting must revive the ambition, says the Green Economy Coalition. In 1992, the first Rio Summit – a United Nations-led meeting also known as the Eart ...
  • Giving up the ghost fleet
    In California, rusting US navy ships that were poisoning bay waters for decades are being cleaned up, moved and recycled – thanks to a legal victory by local environmental groups. Jan McGirk reports. It’s clear that the health risks from a fleet of decrepit US navy troop ships and tankers, moored fo ...
  • From muck to riches
    A growing group of green entrepreneurs is turning elephant dung into a valuable resource. Anna da Costa went to meet an Indian businessman making paper – and profits – from animal waste. "Do you have something to wrap around your face?” asked Vijendra Singh Shekawat, my host for the afternoon, as he ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Is there a Global War between Financial Theocracy ...
    Senate and House conferees are about to reconcile a financial reform bill that is virtually designed to institutionalize “too big to fail.” And when they do we’ll lose another battle in the ongoing war between global financial markets and democratic nation-states. This war has been going on for deca ...
  • Is there a Global War between Financial Theocracy ...
    Senate and House conferees are about to reconcile a financial reform bill that is virtually designed to institutionalize “too big to fail.” And when they do we’ll lose another battle in the ongoing war between global financial markets and democratic nation-states. This war has been going on for deca ...
  • BP Oil Disaster Stalls Climate Bill
    “There’s a dead dolphin on this beach,” Mother Jones‘ Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It’s one snapshot of the harm visited on the Gulf Coast by the BP oil spill. Back in Washington, the Senate climate bill, which would put the country on a path to cleaner energy consumption, is on ...
  • BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence
    BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability and is actually disappearing oiled wildlife.
  • More Than Half the Members of the GOP’s ‘You ...
    Cross-posted from Think Progress. The National Republican Congressional Committee often touts its “Young Guns” program, an initiative “dedicated to identifying, recruiting, and mobilizing a new generation of conservative leaders.” But as the Daily Beast points out, this fresh-faced group really ...

Threat Level

  • Wikileaks to Ex-Hacker: Manning’s Not a ‘Spy’
    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wants a copy of the chat logs in which a U.S. intelligence analyst discussed providing classified materials to the whistle-blower site, according to an e-mail shown to Wired.com by the ex-hacker who turned the analyst in. Assange says he’s arranging the legal defens ...
  • Privacy in Peril: Lawyers, Nations Clamor for Goog ...
    A hard drive with perhaps several hundred gigabytes of internet surfers’ private data resides under lock and key in a Portland, Oregon, federal courthouse. Regulators and private lawyers across Europe and the United States are demanding, and in some cases obtaining, access to data that Google sniffe ...
  • ‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The ...
    On May 21, 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning initiated a series of online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo after a story on Lamo was published at Wired.com. The chats continued over several days, during which Manning claimed that he was responsible for leaking classified mate ...
  • Suspected Wikileaks Source Described Crisis of Con ...
    On his last full day of freedom before Army CID investigators took him into custody, 22-year-old Bradley Manning pondered what would happen if his secret life as a self-described Wikileaks “hacktivist” were ever exposed. “What would you do if your role [with] Wikileaks seemed in danger of being blo ...
  • New York AG Suing Social Network Tagged.com for Ch ...
    New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo accused the social networking site Tagged.com on Thursday of not responding to user reports of child pornography and sexual solicitation of minors, which has allowed the popular site to become a place where sexual predators can exploit children. Cuomo sent a ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Stricken teenage U.S. sailor rescued
    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Teenage U.S. sailor Abby Sunderland was rescued safely from her stricken yacht Wild Eyes in the remote southern Indian Ocean on Saturday.
  • Accounts of 500 UBS clients already sent to U.S.: ...
    ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities have already handed over 500 accounts of UBS clients to the United States under an agreement to end a tax dispute that has threatened the bank's existence, a paper reported on Sunday.
  • Heat on BP to improve oil spill response
    BURAS, La./LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc faced renewed U.S. pressure on Sunday to do more to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as the United States and Britain tried to avert a potentially damaging row over the crisis.
  • No damage reported from Japanese quake
    TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 jolted northern Japan on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological agency said, though there were no reports of damage and nuclear facilities in the area were unaffected.
  • Green blunder hands U.S. draw with England
    RUSTENBURG (Reuters) - A shocking howler from England goalkeeper Robert Green gifted the United States a goal as the two sides tipped to qualify from Group C battled to a 1-1 stalemate at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Saturday.

Equality Trust

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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
  • Splendid: government targets second homes
    As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.
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PDA AMERICA

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 8 with Chuck P ...
    Now that health insurance reform has become law, PDA is taking the fight for Medicare for All single-payer health insurance to the states. In this episode, Tim Carpenter interviews Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare4AllPA Director and ...
  • Winograd Supporters Greet Harman at Mar Vista Farm ...
    y the time Jane Harman arrived, Winograd for Congress supporters were everywhere at the Mar Vista Farmers Market on the West side of Los Angeles. Holding signs that read “Jobs, Not Wars” and “Stop ...
  • Suspend to Amend Corporate Personhood Call
    On the May 26 Suspend to Amend Corporate Personhood call, participants heard from David Cobb of Movetoamend.org and John Bonifaz of freespeechforpeople.org as each made their case for amending the constitution to limit corporate personhood. ...
  • PDA Special “KitchenTable” Call
    On this call with began work on finalizing the agenda for the national conference in Ohio.
  • 72 Congressional Candidates Join Coalition Against ...
    72 Congressional Candidates Join Coalition Against War Spending in First Week, Teabaggers Have 79 After a Year Seventy-two congressional candidates and 24 national organizations are opposing any more funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...

Marler Blog

  • Pane d'Amore, Raw Milk and Dungeness Valley Creame ...
    Pane d’Amore is a new little specialty shop (one of many) on Bainbridge Island that sells wine, cheese, fresh bread, but here, yes, they sell raw milk. You would have thought that the owners of Pane d’ Amore would have checked the White Pages on Bainbridge Island, or at least “googled” - raw milk l ...
  • Subway Confirmed cases of Salmonella serotype Hvit ...
    Ill people have reported eating at Subway restaurants located in 23 Illinois counties -- Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, LaSalle, Macon, Marshall, Mclean, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Sangamon, Schuyler, Shelby, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, Winnebago and Will.� Age range ...
  • To Hartmann Dairy Farm on Your E. coli Outbreak - ...
    Not quite sure why I thought about Jim Croce, " Don't Mess Around With Jim ," when I saw the Minnesota Department of Health press release, “Three more E. coli cases linked to raw milk from farm â¨Additional testing of environmental, animal samples finds outbreak strain,” but I did. State health of ...
  • Salmonella Radio
    For more information generally about Salmonella, visit www.about-salmonella.com .� To hear the mellow tones of me talking Salmonella, click below:
  • Subway Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Fresh Produce ...
    That would mean actual illnesses are now 2741 (as I was told this morning that "the right number is 38.6 cases of Salmonella infection for each culture-confirmed case, and not 38.5, see, http://www.cdc.gov/enterics/publications/374-voetscha1.pdf ").  According to Andy Nelson of The Packer: The numb ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 06.11.10
    250 Smart EDs coming to U.S. this fall with $599/month leases attached The numbers don't bode well for this one. Ask ABG: Why are electric vehicles so expensive? We know you don't want to he ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.10.10
    Video: Jay Leno's EcoJet visits All GM Show in California Lucky. Report: Renault shoots for annual target of 200,000 EVs by 2016 Optimism is contagious. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.09.10
    Michelin expects electric car to make up 5% of the market in 2020 Is the middle of the road right? How much does software add to the cost of today's vehicles? How about tomorrow's electric cars? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.08.10
    Alan Mulally explains why most people won't be driving electric cars soon Three reasons: cost, cost and infrastructure. Utility Review: 2010 Honda Fit Sport actually does "fit" it all in Pac ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.07.10
    Nissan says majority of Leaf hand-raisers are current Prius owners Nissan thinks people "are interested in going to the next level." Dutch study claims that 50 mph speed limit would cut CO2 by 30% ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: E3 preview and the future o ...
    E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is coming up next week, and CNET News is sending Josh Lowensohn and Daniel Terdiman to the show to report on it. We've got them both in the house today to tell us what to expect. We're going to cover the future of platforms, why Farmville is such a success, w ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Flip that phone
    Josh is going to tell us how to get out of a mobile phone contract, what to do with an old phone, and how to connect an XBox to a PC with a crossover cable. Plus, road tests (iOS, a new iPad case, and yellow, sticky, gross keyboard cleaning goo) and your questions answered! Listen now: Dow ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: What is artificial life? (p ...
    This week, artificial life! Last month, of course, Craig Venter announced that he had modified a living organism by replacing its DNA with a synthetically-created genome . The J. Craig Venter Institute project took Mycoplasma capricolum bacteria and completely rewrote its genetic code of more than ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Reminders and to-do lists
    This time, Rafe and Josh's favorite apps for keeping track of stuff. Also, we answer questions on Synergy, domain names, waking up snoozing Macs, calendar apps for Thunderbird, and more. Thanks to Tales (from the chat room) for saving our bacon! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subsc ...
  • 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 ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The Images Israel Didn't Want Seen: Video and Phot ...
    In the wake of the commando raid that left nine dead, the Israeli government confiscated every recording and communication device it could find–thus allowing the state to control what the world learned about the assault. Democracy Now! has interviewed some of the reporters, filmmakers, and photogr ...
  • The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative
    They called it “Operation Sea Breeze.” Despite the pleasant-sounding name, Israel’s violent commando raid on a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships, which left nine civilians dead, has sparked international outrage. The raid occurred in the early-morning hours of May 31, as the six vessels laden with ...
  • The Future of Turkish-Israeli Relations in the Wak ...
    Following the Israeli commando attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla and the death of nine Turkish citizens, popular outrage has swept the streets of Turkey. The Turkish government has demanded accountability and an apology from Israel for its deadly assault on the Mavi Marmara. Israel has refu ...
  • Inspired by Gaza Blockade, Roger Waters Records Ne ...
    British musician Roger Waters of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd sings a new version of "We Shall Overcome" in a music video cut to footage from the upcoming documentary, "Roadmap to Apartheid." Watch the full video
  • The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and "Deca ...
    The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is an environmentally friendly theatre festival playing shows from June 3 until June 29. Located in NYC, this festival strives to produce 'Theatre for a cause,' as it is committed to showing thought-provoking plays while giving back to the community. A por ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Influenza’s Historical Present
    I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
  • 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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • Bill Maher On BP Oil Spill: ‘I Feel Oily &#8 ...
    Bill Maher On BP Oil Spill: ‘I Feel Oily … I Feel Their Sh*t On Me’ (VIDEO) Huff Post- First Posted: 06-12-10 01:06 AM   |   Updated: 06-12-10 09:09 AM Friday marked Bill Maher’s last show of the season, and while the BP oil spill has been a subject on “Real Time” from week to week, this time ...
  • Sarah Palin Demands Hardball Regulations and a Tak ...
    On her Facebook page this week, Sarah Palin outlined a pretty solid case for tough government regulations against corporations. (By the way, none of the sentences ended with the word “also,” nor did the entry read like a really bad local newspaper letter to the editor, so I assume it was ghost-writt ...
  • Pilger: The master illusionists of war
    John Pilger, Morning Star Online, June 6, 2010 How do wars begin? With a “master illusion,” according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda” – known today as “news management.” In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive proo ...
  • Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS
    Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS: Gulf Of Mexico Leak Reaches Land Huff Post- First Posted: 06- 1-10 01:24 PM   |   Updated: 06- 8-10 09:47 AM The catastrophic explosion that caused an oil spill from a BP offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico has reached the shoreline. Efforts to manage the spi ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox- Rock The Casbah
    The Clash – Rock The Casbah

Solari

  • U.S. Fury at BP Stirs Backlash Among British
    By Sarah Lyall and Julia Werdigier Spewing oil and alienating Americans with its chief executive’s impolitic remarks, BP may be Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States. But in Britain, where the company is a mainstay of the stock market and a favorite of pension funds, investors and politicians are ...
  • Precious Metals Market Report
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Paul Ferguson is a founder and Treasurer of the First Ever Solari Circle, my circle that has been meeting every Monday by phone since 2005. Paul is a very astute entrepreneur and investor. He will be coming this week to Tennessee to spend several days with David Liechty an ...
  • Queen’s Official Birthday
    The Queen’s Official Birthday (sometimes known as “the Queen’s Birthday”) is celebrated as a public holiday in several Commonwealth countries, usually Commonwealth realms, although it is also celebrated in Fiji, now a republic. The word Queen in the name of the celebration is replaced by King wh ...
  • BP Oil Disaster Could Hit Europe Via the Powerful ...
    By: F William Engdahl Market Oracle
Jun 10, 2010 The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil ...
  • Social Security to Negative Cash Flow
    By Bruce Krasting Continue reading Social Security Payouts Are Already Crippling The Government This Year

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

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Sideways News

  • Ancient lizard threatened by climate change
    Climate change is threatening a 200-million-year old reptile which outlived the dinosaurs, scientists have said. Research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society journal claims the three-eyed Tuatara could be wiped out because global warming is turning the whole species in to males. Soarin ...
  • London Eye – a revolution
    It’s 10 years since the London Eye opened, offering visitors unparalleled views of the UK capital from a monument which quickly became a landmark.� The structure, first dubbed the Millennium Wheel and opened by Tony Blair on the eve of the 21st century, did not start accepting passengers until March ...
  • Forget coffee, tea is the new it-drink
    Although tea is usually seen as a homely drink which can be used to cure all that ails, it appears the world's second most popular drink is getting a makeover. Where coffee was once seen as the fashionista's hot drink of choice, the rise of trendy tea rooms and bars have helped modernise the trusty ...
  • Scientists uncover bat echo evolution
    New research has shown bats have developed a sophisticated way to avoid interference with their echo signals. When bats fly in packs or chase prey in thick foliage there is a danger the high-pitched sounds they make may bounce off objects and cause interference. But scientists based in the US found ...
  • Space, man
    As overpopulation becomes a real problem for mankind in some parts of the globe, and the space which we need to cater for our resource needs becomes smaller and smaller, it might not come as a surprise that outer space has been mooted as a potential solution for some years.

Fabius Maximus

  • Why has wild man Mark Williams become a top leader ...
    Summary:  How has Mark Williams become one of the top leaders of the Tea Party movement while being despised by many of its leaders?  My guess:  because many or most of the TP supporters share his views.  “Tea Party Hates Tea Party Leader“, Alex Brant-Zawadzki, Huffington Post, 5 May 2010 “Take ...
  • Obama, a disciple of Reagan’s foreign policy
    An antidote to conservatives’ faux history:  “Think Again: Ronald Reagan“, Peter Beinart, Foreign Policy, July /August 2010 — “The Gipper wasn’t the warhound his conservative followers would have you think.”  I recommend reading this in full.  Some excerpts follow, sketching out the real story. ...
  • FM newswire for June 12, interesting articles abou ...
    We have unusually great links today to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Breaking news:  ”Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites“, The Times, 12 June 2010 — True or disinformation? More ugly news about s ...
  • About the Oath Keepers: boon or bane for the Repu ...
    Summary:  this posts looks at the Oath Keepers.  Potentially valuable (perhaps even critical support).  Potentially dangerous (perhaps disastrous).  Their goal is commendable; their actions sometimes worrisome.  It’s too soon to tell.  What are the Oath Keepers?  From their website: Oath Kee ...
  • FM newswire for June 11, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis, much of which is catch-up from the past week. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague.  Everyone but us smells the stench of hypocrisy in US foreign policy:  “U.S. demands civilian trials — except in the U.S.“, Glenn Greenw ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Small genetic variant can predict response to hepa ...
    PhysOrg.com – A small genetic change can predict how people infected with hepatitis C react to treatment, paving the way to personalised therapy for this difficult to treat disease, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear today. Dr. Zoltan Kutalik, from the Departme ...
  • US Retail sales drop is first in 8 months
    CNN Money – Retail sales fell for the first time in eight months in May, the government said Friday, widely missing analyst expectations. Total retail sales fell 1.2% to $362.5 billion last month, compared with April’s upwardly revised 0.6% increase, the Commerce Department said. It was first declin ...
  • BP Oil Spill to Prompt Global Standards for Offsho ...
    Bloomberg-BP Plc’s oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will prompt crude-producing nations to adopt international standards amid “an increased concern about the planet,” Mexico’s environment minister said. Global standards “must be a very important topic when nations issue permits for oil production,” Me ...
  • Exposed: UK schools inflating their GCSE league re ...
    The Times – SCHOOLS are inflating their league table scores by entering pupils for âeasierâ vocational qualifications, previously secret government data have shown. For the first time, the figures show separately the proportion of children gaining good grades at GCSEs and those gaining the grad ...
  • Canada Oil Sands Production Grew 14% In 2009 Despi ...
    Wall Street Journal – Production from Canada’s oil sands region grew 14% to 1.49 million barrels a day last year despite the drop in oil prices, according to a report from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board. The report also forecasts that oil sands production will more than double durin ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Επανεξετάζοντας την αξία και την εκμετάλλευση
    Επανεξετάζοντας  την αξία και την εκμετάλλευση Από Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Greek) (English) Όταν ο πατέρας της πέθανε το 1883, η Ελεονόρα Μαρξ έγραψε ένα άρθρο για να τιμήσει τα επιτεύγματά του. Στο επίκεντρο αυτών ήταν, «η θεωρία της αξίας, με την οποία ο Μαρξ εξηγεί την π ...
  • C. K. Norwid – Do obywatela Johna Brown
    C. K. Norwid – Do obywatela Johna Brown (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) W XIX wiecznym USA niewielu ludzi miało odwagę przeciwstawić się uciskowi i niewolnictwu, sankcjonowanemu przez oficjalną władzę. Na czele tych zbuntowanych stał właśnie John Brown. Na uwagę zasługuje fakt, że był on człowiekiem cał ...
  • 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 ...
  • “Lud a rewolucja”, Tkaczowa
    âLud a rewolucjaâ, Tkaczowa – Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) âNatychmiast potem [tj. po rewolucji] dana klasa rewolucyjna staje siÄ konserwatywnÄ…â â Karol Marks, âNÄdza filozofiiâ. I zasadniczo tym wÅaÅnie cytatem zajmuje siÄ w swojej pracy Piotr Tkaczow. Ten cytat może st ...
  • Teoría del MIM no. 1: “¿Los Proletarios Blan ...
    Teoría del MIM no. 1: “¿Los Proletarios Blancos?” Teoría Maoista en español PDF.

PakAlert

  • Bells tolling for humanity: BP oil catastrophe, Ti ...
    Apocalypse Now:”This is the end, my friend…” What we are seeing now could be small compared to what may yet unfold if things break apart, as they can do under such circumstances. If this thing blew, it could be like the Yellowstone Caldera, except from below a mile of sea, with a 1/4-mile opening, w ...
  • New BP Corporate Logos
    Gulf Coast Oil Devastation After The Next Hurricane? Evidence Points To BP Oil Spill False Flag Latest on BP Disaster Doomsday? – Did ‘Top Kill’ Cause Undersea Blowouts? – Vid Pensacola Closes Marina As Oil Breaches Bay Scientists Find Dead Large Zones In Gulf With New Look, Oil Flow Numbers Look W ...
  • Shocking Testimonials From Flotilla Survivors
    One of the most striking trends following the flotilla attack has been how quickly Israeli hasbara is being exposed by internet journalists. The doctored IOF audio clips, where amateurs with mock Arab accents hiss ‘Go back to Aushwitz’ to Israeli naval officers. Well they didn’t take long to pull ap ...
  • Warning Signs Of Full Spectrum Collapse Are Everyw ...
    n this article we will look at some of the latest and most disturbing moves by governments and financial institutions, as well as tell-tale signs in our own local cities, which signal that a full-spectrum collapse of world markets and possibly our own currency is not only in progress, but nearing co ...
  • Alert: Russia Orders Troops To Prepare For War Wit ...
    Reports circulating in the Kremlin today state that Prime Minister Putin [photo top left] has ordered Russian military forces to prepare to confront American military forces in Afghanistan over what Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov warns is the “greatest threat to International peace and security ...

ecogeek

  • Appropriate Technology Solar Powered Refrigerator ...
    The distribution of vaccines through the developing world is sometimes limited by a lack of available refrigeration for the storage of the vaccines. In some parts of the world, more than half of the vaccines spoil before they can be administered. Millions of lives and billions of dollars are los ...
  • New World's Largest Airship 'Stratellite'
    In a further sign that airships are making a comeback , the first model of what is now the world's largest airship has been recently launched. The Bullet 580 measures 235 feet (more than 71 meters) in length, more than 40 feet longer than the Goodyear blimp (though not nearly as large as airships ...
  • Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga Thinks Nuclear Pow ...
    The king of Tonga has told the nation's parliament that he believes the country should pursue nuclear power in order to meet its energy needs. The king is quoted as saying, "nature is dictating that we must look to nuclear energy." A nuclear power station would also aid the country by providing ...
  • NREL Says Power Grid Can Handle Large Increase in ...
    One of the major issues facing the growth of renewable energy is figuring out how it will be transmitted and what kind of infrastructure changes will have to be made to accomodate it.  NREL has good news for us.  It turns out that the existing grid is ready to take on lots more wind and solar energ ...
  • Students Build an EV in 10 Weeks
    Graduate students at Stanford University designed and built an EV in 10 weeks as their master's thesis.  They're calling the vehicle, which can hit 35 mph and has a range of around 20 miles, the WENG, which stands for "Where Everyone Needs to Go." The WENG's motors are located in its rear wheels, ...

Buzzflash

  • The Supreme Court Rules That Corporations Have the ...
    Move to Amend, The Project to Legalize Democracy If you feel that the dice are loaded against democracy by big money interests, they are. read more
  • Condé Nast Portfolio listed Carly Fiorina as one o ...
    "Carly" Fiorina Carly Fiorina is the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator in California, a position that requires consummate executive and political skills. Fiorina regularly tells voters in the Bear State that she is a seasoned business executive who knows how to be an effective decision maker. ...
  • Greed Outweighs Common Sense in Colorado Springs
    Ahh yes, "the best laid plans of mice, men ( and Repuglicans) often go awry" and so it seems in Colorado Springs where greed outweighed common sense :The city of Colorado Springs has long persisted as an ultra-conservative, anti-tax bastion. When voters rejected the latest proposal to raise taxes to ...
  • Obama Needs to Decide Which Side He's On: Corporat ...
    STEPHEN CROCKETT FOR BUZZFLASH It is time to purge the corporatists from the Democratic power structure. The real work of the Democratic Party is done by grassroots activists. These activists are the Democratic Party. They should run it at every level. This conclusion has become clear in the a ...
  • FOX and a Flip-Flop Mentality
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph Laura Ingraham� has recently shown how her vigor for criticizing President Obama and his policies has grown so strong that in her complaints, she ends up disagreeing with herself. If Ingraham worked as a sole “ blind ideologue ” on the network, FOX News ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • John McCain on the Evil, Barbaric Iranians
    John McCain has a new article in The New Republic -- which is exactly where it should be -- calling for regime change in Iran.  The whole article contains one paragraph after the next of the favorite pastime of America's political and media class:  self-righteously condemning other nations for what ...
  • Chuck Schumer: Mainstream Democrat
    (updated below) Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate, spoke to an event of Orthodox Jewish leaders on Wednesday and made comments that can only be described as bigoted and disgusting.  Kudos to Zaid Jilani who, despite working for the Democratic Party-serving Cen ...
  • Journalistic balance at the expense of truth
    (updated below - Update II - Update III) In a new post about the just-declassified decision of a federal judge ordering the release of a Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo, The Atlantic 's Marc Ambinder writes : If you're interested at all in the future of detention policy, you mi ...
  • Don't forget about Beltway cowardice
    (updated below) Corruption and dishonesty are among the Washington vices which receive substantial attention, but cowardice is often overlooked, despite how pervasive it is.� The news cycle of the last two days has been driven by an attack on organized labor from a "senior White House o ...
  • The Democratic Party and Blanche Lincoln
    (updated below) The run-off between Democratic Senate incumbent Blanche Lincoln and�challenger Bill Halter, which culminated on Tuesday night in Lincoln's narrow victory, brightly illuminates what the Democratic Party establishment is. �Lincoln is supposedly one of those "centrist"/cons ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Three decades of major oil spills
    How does the ongoing saga of the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster compare with three decades of major oil spills. An infographic from the oil spill timeline page of Iglu Cruises provides a visual comparison using data apparently sourced from the BBC. Unfor ...
  • Materials, nanotechnology, iPhone app
    Science news links for June 3rd through June 8th, including my latest contributions to Materials Today magazine: Nanotechnology fights cancer – Functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes, rather than being a health risk, cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body's nat ...
  • Testing tests
    Teaching is meant to help students learn, usually about a specific subject, but more broadly about social interactions, working in a team, under duress, about life in general. They say that your schooldays are the best days of your lives, but perish the thought I’ve never been one for clichés and ...
  • My latest SpectroscopyNOW science news
    These are my links for June 1st from 19:03 to 19:09: Therapeutic science – X-ray crystallography has been used to determine the structure of a new, improved protein that could be employed in the purification of therapeutic antibodies and to reveal details of its complexes with antibodies. The work ...
  • Mumps, vax, quacks #science
    A few science news snippets: Mumps vaccination and teenage swelling – Clinical evidence suggests that we should best avoid mumps in teenagers, could a booster vaccine at age 12 or thereabouts be the answer? Martin Gardner RIP – Debunker of quacks and pseudoscientists and an unequalled mathematical ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Senate’s Rejection of Murkowski Attack on Clean Ai ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2010 Friends of the Earth The Senate voted by a margin of 47 to 53 today to reject a resolution sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that sought to roll back the Clean Air Act's protections against pollution that destabilizes our climate. Friends of the Earth ...
  • Senate Rejects Republican Move to Gut Clean Air Ac ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following statement today from Executive Director Kierán Suckling in response to Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski's failed attempt to block the Environmental Protection Agency from cur ...
  • Task Force Commends State Department for New Passp ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force commends the State Department for a new policy change that allows transgender people to adjust their passports to reflect their new gender upon certification from their medical doctor that ...
  • Iran: Crisis Deepening One Year After Disputed Ele ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Iran’s government is tightening its grip, harassing, imprisoning, and using violence against its own people one year after the disputed 2009 presidential election and the start of its brutal crackdown, Human Rights Watch said today. read m ...
  • Lawsuit Targets Harmful Public-lands Livestock Sub ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2010 Environmental Justice Groups Today the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, and Oregon Natural Desert Association sued the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to compel them to ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Putting the ‘I’ in Environment
    by David Sirota For those who are not (yet) heartless cynics or emotionless Ayn Rand acolytes, the now-famous photographs of sludge-soaked pelicans on the Gulf Coast are painful to behold. It’s those hollow pupils peeking out of the brown death, screaming in silence. They are an avian version of the ...
  • From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Ev ...
    by Riki Ott Orange Beach, Alabama -- While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's spill in the Gulf, people in coastal communities where I visited last week in Louisiana and Alabama know an inconvenient truth: BP -- not our president -- c ...
  • Remembering Jacques Cousteau: Carrying on the Lega ...
    by Jean-Michel Cousteau My father, Captain Jacques Cousteau, would have been 100 years old today. He was a man of undeniable charisma, a man who always achieved his objectives, a man of such single-minded determination that he would not give up on a goal until he had achieved it. His lifelong vis ...
  • Prison Education Cuts Hurt More Than Just Inmates
    by Malik Alayube I'm an inmate at High Desert State Prison who was on track in pursuing my associate's degree until the prison college programs were recently reduced. State's budget cuts have taken away educational opportunities in prisons. Teachers were laid off. College correspondence courses ...
  • Racism and Recession in Europe
    by Jayati Ghosh Of the many undesirable effects of the ongoing — and increasingly policy-induced — recession in Europe, has received relatively less public attention: the resurgence of racist and xenophobic attitudes. This was already something of a problem, especially in Western Europe in the past ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Quick techno-fixes for climate change?
    Geoengineering to save the planet from climate change is a hot topic among climate scientists, governments, policy makers, industry and the media. But according to Canadian scientist, broadcaster and activist David Suzuki , "We know what is creating our problem with climate, and we know the best sol ...
  • Hutt Network Backs Water Protest
    VAN is expressing opposition to both the Local Government Act Amendment Bill and to water meters, and is simultaneously launching its election campaign for Hutt City Council.
  • Palmer's radio spot for water deal draws fire; uni ...
    TRENTON A familiar voice is taking to the airwaves to rally voters during the countdown to Tuesdays referendum and runoff election. Outgoing Mayor Douglas Palmer is banking on the popularity that handily won him five previous elections to get the Trenton Water Works deal approved.
  • Jan Drago v. Water Taxi Naysayers: Brawl of the We ...
    As any West Seattle-dweller can tell you, the Water Taxi is the best public transit commute leg in the region. You sit on the deck and watch the skyline recede as you speed home across Ellio...
  • Seniors hear budget briefing
    WESTFIELD - A municipal budget briefing for senior citizens earlier this week was enlightening to some, while changing the opinions of others concerning downtown tree removal and the possible privatization of trash collections.

Guardian

  • Kyrgyz police get shoot-to-kill powers
    Interim government gives police shoot-to-kill powers as at least 83 people die overnight in ongoing Uzbek-Kyrgyz clashes Mobs of Kyrgyz men rampaged through southern Kyrgyzstan today, slaughtering ethnic Uzbeks and burning down houses in a third day of ethnic bloodshed. The country's interim governm ...
  • Pakistan spies accused over Taliban
    Inter-Services Intelligence agency denies LSE report saying it is 'arming and funding' Afghan Taliban Pakistani intelligence is so deeply involved in the arming and funding of the Afghan Taliban that it holds a seat on the militant leadership council and has sent the president, Asif Ali Zardari, to ...
  • Sir Jock Stirrup to resign early
    British armed forces chief to step down earlier than planned, defence secretary Liam Fox says Sir Jock Stirrup is to step down as the chief of the defence staff several months earlier than planned following criticism of his stint as head of the armed forces. The defence secretary, Liam Fox, said Sti ...
  • Green's clanger leaves Capello with much to ponde ...
    Last night proved that the World Cup will be a much less forgiving environment for England's many imperfections Fabio Capello yearns to impose his will but the draw with the United States was confirmation that he has to endure erratic defending that he cannot cure. At the World Cup finals there will ...
  • Cuts 'threaten huge slump' in affordable new homes
    • Changes to planning system will hit social housing • Crisis could create a rift in Conservative-Lib Dem coalition Housebuilding in Britain will "fall off a cliff" this year due to a "catastrophic" combination of financial cutbacks and changes to the planning system, the government was warned last ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Boycotting BP stations only hurts smal ...
    RALEIGH — Pulling up to a gas station these days is like pulling up to a whorehouse — or what I imagine that experience would be like. For the right price, you'll get what you want, but you can forget about purity.
  • Commentary: Will Gulf oil spill strengthen U.S.-Cu ...
    Here's an interesting theory: the disastrous British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will help increase U.S.-Cuba ties.
  • Ixtoc: The Gulf's other massive oil spill no longe ...
    MALAQUITE BEACH, Texas ... The oil was everywhere, long black sheets of it, 15 inches thick in some places. Even if you stepped in what looked like a clean patch of sand, it quickly and gooily puddled around your feet. And Wes Tunnell, as he surveyed the mess, had only one bleak thought: "Oh, ...
  • Coast Guard rejects BP oil leak response plan as t ...
    WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard has told oil giant BP that its proposed plan for containing the runaway Deepwater Horizon well does not take into account new higher estimates of how much oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and demanded that the company provide a more aggressive plan within 48 hours.
  • Commentary: Gaza flotilla hijacked by radicals
    AMSTERDAM — Whatever one thinks about Israel's raid on the so-called Freedom Flotilla, one point should stand beyond dispute: The term "peace activist" does not apply to some of the key organizers and participants in the pro-Palestinian sea voyage to challenge Israel's Gaza blockade. The evidence mo ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate talks eye level playing field
    From the UN climate talks in Bonn: On the final day of this two-week session, a new text [304KB PDF] emerges - which is likely to form the basis of the most difficult negotiations between now and the end of this year's UN climate summit, in Cancun, Mexico, in December. If you want the official tit ...
  • Bonn's obscured climate vision
    From the UN climate talks in Bonn : Halfway along the temporal road from Copenhagen to Cancun: is the glass half-full or half-empty? There's been lots of chat of that kind in the corridors here. The incoming head of the UN climate convention, Christiana Figueres, reckoned it is less than half ...
  • Snakes, seascapes, and the value of nature
    It's called an "enigmatic" decline: animal species and populations dying away for no reason that anyone can discern. When there's a trend without an apparent cause, the questions come thick and fast. One senses that herpetologists all around the world will be asking some of those questions now, in ...
  • Bridging the energy gulf
    The Deepwater Horizon rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is causing questions to be asked further afield about the place of oil and oil exploration. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has just released its demand for a global moratorium on exploration in any "ecologically ...
  • Profiting from nature's portfolio
    We've had a fair bit of chat here in recent months about diversity in the natural world, and why it matters - with some regular posters asking whether in fact it matters at all. I've tried to lay out some of the evidence - there is quite a lot - showing that diverse ecosystems tend to be more robus ...

The Wonk Room

  • Obama Administration Takes First Steps To Address ...
    In September of 2009, President Obama responded to the Republican criticism that health care reform was not doing enough to address malpractice reform by directing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to form the Patient Safety and Medical Liability Initiative, dedicated to exploring different initiative ...
  • Crist’s Veto Of Restrictive Ultrasound Measu ...
    Earlier today, Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a bill requiring women to view an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion. “This bill places an inappropriate burden on a woman seeking to terminate a pregnancy,” Crist said in his veto message. “[P]ersonal vies should not result in laws that unwisely expand ...
  • Corker Bucks GOP START Talking Point, Thanks Kerry ...
    A new Senate GOP argument against the New START treaty is not really an argument at all — it is merely a call for delaying ratification. Sen. John Thune (R-SD) who heads the Senate Republican Policy Committee put out a document that pointed out that previous arms control treaties took a while to get ...
  • Obama, Iraq, And ‘The Left’
    In a new article on progressives and Afghanistan, Michael Cohen quotes my colleague Brian Katulis saying that progressives “were caught flat-footed in the face of the COIN public relations campaign” around the Iraq surge, “which came from the military, some civilians, and an echo chamber of think ta ...
  • Immigrants Cleaning Up The BP Oil Spill Is Nothing ...
    Earlier this week, the Colorlines blog reported that Louisiana St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens set up checkpoints and called federal agents to BPâs cleanup sites because “illegal aliens” are building “criminal enterprises”âjust like they did after Katrina. It’s unclear exactly what sor ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Glenn Greenwald on Obama & Right-Wing Democrats
    From: " The Democratic Party and Blanche Lincoln ": In light of all this, the next time some "conservative" Democrat such as Lincoln plays the Villain Rotation game and opposes some Good, Progressive Bill which the White House pretends to support -- but, gosh darn it, just can't get the 60 votes ...
  • Oh! There Goes That Violence Again!
    Just like the terrifying smashing of an HBC store window , the casualty-free torching of an empty RBC branch signals the end of the world for some people . I've said it before , I'll say it again, I'm not advocating violence. I'm just not condemning violence for the sake of it, and thereby enablin ...
  • Self-Defeating Turn to Austerity
    Read it and weep. From Progressive Economics Forum : In line with a major shift in thinking at the OECD and the IMF on the most appropriate timing for “exit strategies” from fiscal stimulus, the G20 finance ministers dropped the usual call for continued stimulus through 2010 from their June 5 com ...
  • Stupid Pierre Poilievre
    While I'm on a roll today . Via Impolitical , I saw YouTube action of John Baird getting a deserved smack-down from the Liberal Operations Committee member Siobhan Coady. That video led me to this one from the May 25th Ethics Committee hearing. In it, Bloc Quebois committee member Carole Freeman ...
  • Forgotten Haiti
    A couple of links about Haiti: Haiti: A 'Forgotten' Country Port-au-Prince, Haiti – It is 2 p.m. in what used to be the neighborhood of Croix des Prez in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After the “catastrophe” of Jan. 12, it became Camp Croix des Prez, only one of the many camps in which more than 600,000 H ...

Financial Sense Editorials

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

on Government Oversight

  • Groups Urge Congressional Leaders to Open Up Contr ...
    Unfortunately the amendment makes an exception for "past performance reviews"—those reports would remain off-limits to the public—but its passage would nonetheless be a big step forward. As we wrote in the letter, which was sent to leaders of the Appropriations Committees in the House and ...
  • Oil Drilling Trade Group Slips the F-Word into Its ...
    Today we noticed that the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA)—the trade group representing offshore oil drilling corporations like BP—has tweaked a key word in its mission statement. The change happened sometime after we cited NOIA's mission statement upon discovering the...
  • Morning Smoke: Internal Documents Show BP Repeated ...
    Reporter: Documents Show Years of BP Neglect [Fresh Air] SEC's regional offices present managerial problems, become an obstacle to reform by Zachary Goldfarb [The Washington Post] Scientists offer varied estimates, all high, on size of BP oil leak by Joel...
  • Feast Your Eyes on FAPIIS
    If you’ve been wondering what the government’s new contractor integrity and performance database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), looks like—wonder no more. FAPIIS is off-limits to the public, but POGO obtained some screen shots of the...
  • Over Half of Financial Reform Lobbyists Worked in ...
    The Center for Public Integrity reports today that 52 percent of financial reform lobbyists are former employees of the government. The Center was able to identify 1,556 former members of Congress, Capitol Hill staffers and executive branch employees among the...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Stopping the Homeless-to-Prison Cycle for Veterans
    According to the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs, about 200,000 veterans experience homelessness every year. Another 140,000 veterans are in prison . Whoa — 340,000 veterans spending time without a home or in prison every year? That's just disgraceful. Especially considering that nearly half of ...
  • We Need Some New IDeas
    So my buddy EarlyTimes (ET) comes into my little office cubicle the other day, waving an official-looking letter from the great state of Florida, home of the very sweaty newly-wed and almost dead. "Can you believe this shit?"  ET asks. I reviewed the letter, which basically stated that although ET h ...
  • Why We Rally for LGBT Homeless Youth
    On Monday night, thousands of LGBT advocates, homeless advocates and LGBT homeless advocates will come together at a rally in New York's Union Square to show solidarity with LGBT homeless youth and to push for government funding for supportive housing. The rally is co-sponsored by the Ali Forney Cen ...
  • Released From the Hospital, He Says He's Stranded, ...
    Paul is homeless in Hollywood. We met in front of the CNN building where a group of homeless people gather outside to watch TV. The TVs play audio outside and people watch the news, of course CNN. I think it's awesome and I was happy to hear the security guards are cool. Paul is a cancer survivor, y ...
  • NIMBYism Is Alive and Well
    On Wednesday, the cities of Tulsa and Dallas both held hearings on proposed permanent supportive housing units for the homeless. And in both cities, residents with a serious case of "not in my backyard" syndrome worked themselves into a frenzy protesting them. In Dallas, residents are furious about ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • New Navy mascot needs name
    The Canadian Navy is said to face serious recruiting, morale, and (according to its commander, although not the Minister of National Defence) budgetary problems. And what better way to respond than to create a new furry mascot for the embattled element? Officially, the Navy describes the new “recru ...
  • Joint Strike Fighter purchase could cost $16 billi ...
    The Globe and Mail is reporting that the estimated full cost of the government’s plan to buy 65 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters is $16 billion (Daniel Leblanc, “Harper bending to U.S. on sole-source fighter purchase, documents reveal,” Globe and Mail, 11 June 2010): Officials at National Defence and Pu ...
  • Interview with Radio Canada International on Joint ...
    Steven Staples on Radio Canada International - The Link by rideauinstitute
  • Canada ranked 14th in world in peacefulness
    New Zealand was the country most at peace last year according to the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. Canada ranks 14th on the index’s assessment of 149 countries, while the United States ranks 85th, roughly on par with Angola, and Iraq ranks last: ...
  • DND wants to skip competition, buy Joint Strike Fi ...
    Le Devoir reports that the Department of National Defence wants to skip a competition to choose a replacement for the CF-18 Hornet and quickly sign a deal to buy the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Alec Castonguay, “Avions de chasse: l’armée a fait son choix,” Le Devoir, 7 June 2010). A ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-9-10
    Today, Kevin reveals the secrets of surviving the looming economic catastrophe that they don’t want you to know about!   Self Help: Nontoxic Make Up   Pure Beauty Products   Heal Yourself   Information Is Key   Natural Solutions   Health: Cleaning Products Cause Asthma   Dangers of Artificial Sweete ...
  • FDA Wants More Money To Actually Do Their Job
    ABCNews.go.com As Dr. Richard Besser reported today on “Good Morning America, ” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs more authority, money and efficiency in order to help protect the public from food-borne illness outbreaks, according to a report released Tuesday by the Institute of Medicine ...
  • Pain Relievers Can Raise Heart Risks
    BusinessWeek.com by Ed Edelson Healthy people who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to relieve minor aches and pains may raise their risk of dying from heart-related problems, a Danish study finds. The American Heart Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration already warn people w ...
  • Radiation Causes Breast Cancer
    NaturalNews.com by S.L. Baker It’s well-established that exposure to ionizing radiation can trigger mutations and other genetic damage and cause normal cells to become malignant. So it seems amazing how mainstream medicine frequently dismisses the idea that medical imaging tests from mammograms to C ...
  • 8 Foods That Pack On Muscle
    AOLHealth.com If muscles were made from chips and beer, we’d look huge. But they aren’t, and we don’t — unless you count that sack o’ fat up front and dead center. If not Doritos and double bock, then what? We decided to delve deep into the human anatomy to find the secret spot on every muscle where ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...

War in Context

  • Israel’s greatest loss: its moral imagination
    Henry Siegman writes: Following Israel’s bloody interdiction of the Gaza Flotilla, I called a life-long friend in Israel to inquire about the mood of the country. My friend, an intellectual and a kind and generous man, has nevertheless long sided with Israeli hardliners. Still, I was entirely unpre ...
  • Are Israel’s battles costing the country its soul?
    Ehud Eiran, a major in the IDF reserves, sees Israel on a spiral of descent down which it is rapidly losing its sense of humanity. In addition to that, the ruthless defense of a Jewish state — conceived as a safe haven for Jews — has resulted in the creation of a place where Jews [...]
  • Poland arrests alleged Mossad agent in connection ...
    For almost six months, at least 32 Mossad agents wanted in connection with the murder of the Hamas commander, Mahmoud Mabhouh, have managed to avoid arrest. Now that Uri Brodsky (or whatever his real name might be) has been caught, the Israeli government is going to be forced to break its silence on ...
  • European Jewish solidarity with Gazans
    Richard Hall reports: A Jewish European peace group is to launch a boat to break the blockade of Gaza in the coming months, organizers said, almost a week after nine activists were killed making the same trip. European Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP) – an umbrella organization of Jewish groups from 1 ...
  • Newly-released unedited video of the Israeli Attac ...
    This afternoon, Cultures of Resistance released a one-hour video of unedited footage recorded before and during the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara: On the night of Sunday, May 30, showing a terrifying disregard for human life, Israeli naval forces surrounded and boarded ships sailing to bring h ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Storm elves and sprites recorded on video
    From Eurka Alert: FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology A team of Spanish researchers has made a high-speed recording of elves and sprites in storms, fleeting and luminous electric phenomena produced in the upper layers of the atmosphere. … Continue reading →
  • Art Horn: a remarkable statement from NOAA
    I’m In Sydney at the moment, on tour. My first stop out of the airport was to visit the Sydney observatory, where BoM maintains an official weather station. Here it is: Click thumbnails for larger images – quite a nice … Continue reading →
  • Scientists Rescue Voyager 2 Probe on Edge of Solar ...
    From Daily Tech: Reset of memory turns out to be just what the computer doctor ordered Voyager 2 was launched 33 years ago and currently remains on course, traveling out of the solar system.  It is currently 8.6 billion miles (13.8 … Continue reading →
  • What is PIPS?
    By Steven Goddard There have been a number of inaccurate claims made by commentors about Navy PIPS2 ice thickness maps. These claims have been along the lines of : PIPS isnât used by the Navy any more, because it isnât accurate … Continue reading →
  • Zooming In on an Infant Solar System
    From UA news By Daniel Stolte, University Communications June 10, 2010 For the first time, astronomers have observed solar systems in the making in great detail. Like a raindrop forming in a cloud, a star forms in a diffuse gas … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Gua ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 12 June, 2010 The recently released Final Report of President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force (PDF) was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining 181 prisoners, given that it ...
  • Ellen Brown: The Financial Hijacking of America
    Ellen Brown: The Financial Hijacking of America by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 12, 2010 Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter www.kpfa.org June 9, 2010 Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; th ...
  • Ralph Nader says reinstate Helen Thomas
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1104073 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Nader: Helen Thomas apologized – she was attacked with such ferocity because she always asked ‘why’ Named by The Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, and ...
  • There’s Nothing Christian about Zionism by E ...
    by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 12 June, 2010 A quick introduction quoting Dr. Ilan Pappé: There’s Nothing Christian about Zionism eileenfleming â June 11, 2010 Compassion VS Antichrists On March 20, 2006, I traveled from the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory to the M ...
  • New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmara of Israel ...
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1103592 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. Democracy Now! June 10, 2010 In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we bring you a sneak p ...

Your New Reality

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    It's Only A Lie If We Get Caught, And By Then It's Too Late An (IDF) Israel Defence Forces' official press release, before media scrutiny : The same IDF press release after media scrutiny , which amounted to two phone calls and a request for the evidence backing the claim to be provided to journ ...
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    For those of you not following on Twitter , a round-up of my recent comments and links : Just call it "Green's Despair", easily one of the best sports photos of 2010 . http://tinyurl.com/22t7njz #worldcup Americans discovering that #worldcup drinking games based around goal scoring makes for a d ...
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    I've run this vid before, but it's still fascinating to see, even more so in the age of the iPad as a news-reading device. But then, this news story is almost 30 years old, and while the graphics and speed have obviously increased dramatically, the concept has not really changed all that much (with ...
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    The Dead Zone The grim, appalling reality of the Louisiana coastline that BP is hiding from you , and President Obama : "When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at. "There is a lot of coverup for BP. They specifica ...

Wired - Science

  • Random Guy Allegedly Steals Astronaut Sally Ride’s ...
    A Texas man was indicted for stealing one of famed astronaut Sally Ride’s flight suits. Calvin Dale Smith kept the one-piece garment in a suitcase for an unknown number of years, federal investigators allege. He is believed to have obtained the suit during a stint working for the Boeing division th ...
  • Oil Disaster Shows Need for Endangered Species Act ...
    Of the many regulatory problems that helped make the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster possible, the Endangered Species Act’s shortcomings have received little attention — but fixing its flaws and loopholes could help prevent future catastrophes. Oil companies never considered the impacts of a massive sp ...
  • Exoplanet Hunters Finally Catch One in a Star’s De ...
    A giant planet lurks in the dust and debris surrounding a young, nearby star — and astronomers have finally seen it in action. Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers took infrared images of the planet in two different positions around its star in 2003 and late 2009. “It’s so exciting ...
  • No Progress on Better Chemicals for Oil Disaster C ...
    Almost three weeks after federal orders to find less toxic chemicals to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico, no progress has been made. The same dispersant chemicals are still being used. British Petroleum barely tried to test an alternative, and the EPA’s own testing results on the toxicity and eff ...
  • Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First-Ever Solar Sail
    The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According toJAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place. It’s a big step in its attempt to travel driven only by ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Advocate of war crimes to head IDF enquiry
    IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has appointed Maj-Gen (ret.) Giora Eiland to head “external inquest into deadly raid of Gaza flotilla”. Gen. Eiland is the main author of the Dahiya... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Israeli MKs offer response to PA boycott
    Will Palestinian soon pay price for boycott? A new bill submitted by 25 Knesset members Wednesday would see money slated for transfer to the Palestinian Authority used to compensate Israelis hurt by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jamal Zahalka, Haneen Zoabi: an Appeal to Parliame ...
    MK Haneen Zoabi (BALAD) faces death threats as the Israeli Knesset House Committee votes to revoke her parliamentary privileges for participating in the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom F ...
    Like other states, Israel has the right of self-defense. But did Israel have the right to use force in Gaza in the name of self-defense? International law, including the U.N. Charter, is unambiguous:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • At CICA summit, Israel faces further isolation
    As [Istanbul] hosted the third summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), it was clear that Israel, at the receiving end of global condemnation for last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Is Infrainguinal Bypass Better Than Amputation for ...
    Major amputation is often selected over infrainguinal bypass in patients with severe systemic comorbidities because of a presumed decrease in risk of perioperative morbidity and mortality. To investigate this presumption, researchers from the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Brig ...
  • Endovascular Treatments of Small and Large Aneurys ...
    Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) of less than 5.5 cm have no significant differences in clinical outcomes after endovascular repair (EVAR) than those with larger AAAs according to data from a five-year prospective clinical trial setting. The researchers maintain their recommendation t ...
  • Non-Operative Safety, Healing of Aortic Injuries S ...
    Select patients with blunt aortic injury (BAI) can be safely managed non-operatively with beta-blockade to lower the heart rate and blood pressure, according to a new study from the 64th Vascular Annual Meeting presented by the Society for Vascular Surgery(r).
  • Increased Use of Preoperative Beta-Blockers Studie ...
    A regional quality improvement effort aimed at increasing the use of preoperative beta-blocker (BB) usage to help prevent postoperative myocardial infarction (POMI) was revealed today at the 64th Vascular Annual Meeting(r) presented by the Society for Vascular Surgery(r).
  • Asymptomatic Perioperative Arrhythmias Associated ...
    Vascular surgery may be accompanied by cardiovascular complications, like ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VT). Though, these arrhythmias initially might be asymptomatic, they can lead to increased risk for late sudden cardiac death after surgery. Researchers from the Netherlands believe that cardiac h ...

Intel Trends

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • The Inside Story of How Obama Let the World’s Most ...
    An extensive new investigation into the Obama administration’s handling of the BP oil spill disaster reveals that it was government mismanagement, delays and absence of oversight that allowed the crisis to spiral out of control. Click here to read this article
  • Obama's Greenhouse Gas Rules Survive Senate Vote
    In a boost for the president on global warming, the Senate on Thursday rejected a challenge to Obama administration rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big polluters. Click here to read this article
  • 'Soul Of A Citizen': Does Protecting Our Children ...
    Particularly in these difficult times, we often use our children as reasons to avoid getting involved in critical issues. We've got all we can handle holding on to our jobs and spending a little time with them. We fear political commitments will make their lives more insecure. Especially when they'r ...
  • Stop Organic Fraud in the Health & Beauty Aisle!
    WFM's action will greatly improve organic integrity in the health & beauty sector, especially if distributors like United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) and Tree of Life (TOL), trade associations like the Organic Trade Association (OTA), and the mislabeled organic brands themselves, quickly follow Whol ...
  • The BP Disaster Marks the End of the Age of Arroga ...
    We dreamed we were living in a fabulous mansion but we wake up in a greasy gutter. The ecological and economic catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico makes our most infamous oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, look minuscule by comparison. This time we have fouled our nest on an epic scale. Click here to read ...

fotoFrontera

  • Fotografías de museos. (25 imágenes gigantes)
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  • Mirando muy de cerca los insectos de mi jardín (24 ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog of ...
  • Poquitas, pero bonitas. (17 imágenes variadas)
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Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • The Transnationalist Obama Administration, Except ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku John Bellinger has a nice op-ed today pointing out that the 112th Congress is on course to set a record for the fewest treaties ratified during a single session of Congress. Despite the presence of 59 Democrats, the Senate has approved only one treaty (a tax agreement wi ...
  • IDF: Okay, So Maybe They Weren’t Al-Qaeda After Al ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This would be amusing, were the Obama administration not backing Israel’s insistence that any investigation into the attack on the flotilla be conducted (read: whitewashed) by Israel itself: When placed under journalistic scrutiny, the IDF is being forced ...
  • Will the Gaza Flotilla Dispute Go to the ICJ?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Jerusalem Post reports that the Turkish government, in collaboration with Hamas, is considering applying to the International Court of Justice over the Gaza Flotilla incident. The agreement to work together against Israel reportedly came in a Thursday telephone conve ...
  • Life Sentences for Two Genocide Convictions at ICT ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness The news out of The Hague today is the genocide convictions of Popovic and Beara, both of whom the ICTY trial chamber found to be key leaders of the Srbrenica massacre of 1995.  Each was sentenced to life imprisonment, the longest sentences yet for the ICTY ...
  • Horton and Alston Talk Drones (and Murder and Expe ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I haven’t had enough time to blog about Philip Alston’s excellent report on drone warfare, but interested readers should check out today’s conversation between Scott Horton and Alston at Harpers.com.  Here’s a taste of one of Alston’s answers: Of course, c ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • The environmentalist who doubts global warming the ...
    Meet Peter Taylor, author of "Chill": The science around climate change is not as settled as it’s presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the remedies being proposed for climate...
  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Fun ...
    Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Funded Candidates Phoenix, AZ – The U-S Supreme Court has blocked the matching-funds part of Arizona’s publicly-funded Clean Elections system. The move puts incumbent Governor Jan Brewer at a major disadvantage to a wealthy businessman challenging her in the ...
  • Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim o ...
    Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim of Cartel Border Violence Phoenix, AZ – In their campaigns, several Arizona politicians are claiming that Mexico’s drug wars have spilled over into Arizona. But border city law enforcement officials say there’s been no increase in violence. Comments from Do ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Gulf oil spill: 'Kevin Costner solution' has green ...
    Kevin has spent 15 years and $24 million of his own money on this technology, and we have spent over $1 million more than that on adjusting the machines and preparing them for testing .We havent gotten a check yet from BP. Submitted by Michael H. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wheres the Beef?
    An elderly lady ordered the Big Bun hamburger and was greatly disappointed with what she was presented with. As she looked over the sandwich that was all bun and no burger, she yelled out the famous phrase Wheres the beef?. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Award for outstanding work on behalf of the planet ...
    "...for his effective and creative advocacy and initiatives over two decades to further peace education and to rid the world of nuclear weapons." Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Canada Prevents Mohawks from Returning from Bolivi ...
    Sidebar note from a non lawyer : Mohawk nation is a founding member of Canada - not a conquered people Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Will massive solar storm cause blackouts on Earth?
    It's like a nightmare scenario from a science fiction movie: GPS navigation knocked out, mobile phones, TV and radio unusbale and blackouts in the power grid, plus a worldwide collapse of supply chains. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Activists dare Congressman to arrest them
    Activists dare Congressman to arrest them - CNN.comWashington (CNN) -- Activists with several free Gaza groups will symbolically surrender Thursday at a Congressman's office, after the lawmaker... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Okanagan Nation mourns loss of prominent young lea ...
    BCLocalNews.com - Okanagan Nation mourns loss of prominent young leaderEthan Baptiste, a man described as being one of the Okanagan nation’s prominent young leaders and intellectuals, is being... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BNP members plan and glorify racist murders
    Lancaster Unity: BNP members plan and glorify racist murders“I wish Derrick Bird could have come down to London and shot dead some illegal immigrants, rather than killing his fellow British people.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Riki Ott: From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Des ...
    Riki Ott: From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence: "Orange Beach, Alabama -- While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • White Settlers Celebrate "Two Cultures, One People ...
    Cooktown gears up for annual settlers festival - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)The annual re-enactment of the first European settlers landing on the east coast of Australia will be... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Secret highly toxic ingredients of chemical disper ...
    On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic ...
  • BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil ...
    The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
  • Obama Smiles While the Gulf Dies
    BP executives and governmental regulators had to have known just how deadly their dispersant Corexit would turn the Gulf waters, by creating monstrously large, oily, rushing underwater plumes. These plumes are hundreds of square miles of poisonous, oily micro-particles that go unseen by satellite ...
  • Are You Supporting a Hellish CAFO?
    The irony is, if a single person treats an animal like this, he/she is charged with animal cruelty, fined, and faces possible jail time if the situation is severe enough. Why then, do the big money-making corporations get to treat their animals in an intensely inhumane way and get away with it? In f ...
  • WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks f ...
    This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Tali ...
    ShareThis Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban' 13 Jun 2010 Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says. Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested that ISI intell ...
  • Israel looted Flotilla, activists say
    ShareThis Israel looted Flotilla, activists say 12 Jun 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla activists say they were robbed of their cash and equipment by the Israeli military after their ships came under a deadly attack on May 31. According to Gaza flotilla survivors speaking to Press TV, activists on board t ...
  • Arab League head calls for end of Gaza blockade
    ShareThis Arab League head calls for end of Gaza blockade 13 Jun 2010 The blockade on the Gaza Strip "must be broken", the head of the Arab League Amr Moussa has said. The Arab world's most senior diplomat spoke at the beginning of his first trip to the Palestinian territory.
  • Karzai: Americans attacked peace conference, not T ...
    ShareThis Karzai: Americans attacked peace conference, not Taliban 11 Jun 2010 Two senior Afghan officials were showing President Hamid Karzai the evidence of the spectacular rocket attack on a nationwide peace conference earlier this month when Mr. Karzai told them that he believed the Taliban were ...
  • North Korea Threatens 'All-Out Military Strike' on ...
    ShareThis North Korea Threatens 'All-Out Military Strike' on South's Loudspeakers 12 Jun 2010 North Korea warned of an "all-out military strike” to destroy South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda tools along their fortified border, according to the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • The environmentalist who doubts global warming the ...
    Meet Peter Taylor, author of "Chill": The science around climate change is not as settled as it’s presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the remedies being proposed for climate...
  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...
  • 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 ...

Mondoweiss

  • A father, 38, is killed at a Jerusalem checkpoint. ...
    Haaretz reports in their article "Palestinian killed in suspected East Jerusalem terror attack":A Palestinian driver was shot and killed in Jerusalem Friday after running over two Israeli border patrolmen, with an apparent intent to kill. The man reportedly hit two the two policemen in East Jerusale ...
  • Nader: ‘Anti-semitism against Arabs is rife& ...
    Washington Post poll says that 91 percent of people are opposed to Helen Thomas's removal. Talk about the American street. And here is Ralph Nader on the Thomas resignation. Calls it a "professional execution." More:She's a courageous journalist... blazed the way for women like no one did.... She se ...
  • US position on flotilla is compromised by its love ...
    I wonder if this is an Aquino moment for Israel. In 1983, Filipino strongman Ferdinand Marcos ordered opposition leader Nino Aquino dragged from the plane and executed upon his return from exile. It was illustrative of how Marcos, forever coddled by his U.S. protectors, was so insulated from any mea ...
  • Solidarity with Palestinians, yes– but why n ...
    I'm struck by the hysterical tone of Hirsh Goodman's piece saying that Israel must go to war against critical information. You'd think Goodman would be more worldly. He grew up in South Africa, was a reporter for many years, and is married to a New York Times correspondent. Yet he defends the murder ...
  • We need Roger Cohen to stand up for his opposition ...
    The other day the New York Times went out of its way to bash Shlomo Sand for his book, The Invention of the Jewish People. The Times reported on new genetic studies suggesting a close DNA relation among Jews of the world and hastened to add:They refute the suggestion made last year by the historian ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Vanishing Sperm Count
    There has been an alarming drop in the male sperm count over the past few decades; as much as a 50% reduction in most studies. As vaccine uptake continues, the systemic exposure to Bisphenal A Plastics, Sodium Fluoride, toxic chemicals & pesticides, GMO foods coupled with the widespread elimination ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization & Vaccine Manufactu ...
    A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ...
  • VRM: Lupus Disease – Natural Cure Succeeds W ...
    Lupus Disease is a chronic degenerative disease caused by systemic auto-immune breakdown in the body; where-by the immune system of the body attacks its own cells and tissues. Specifically, the joints, skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, nervous system, and other organs of the body are affected. While beli ...
  • 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 [...]

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies: Book Re ...
    I love the Dummies series of books.� They're quick reads packed with info that's presented in a clear and organized way. Plus I love the fact that most of them are available in Kindle versions for much less than the paper version. With the popularity of the Dummies books though, there are oft ...
  • Still think Organic Lawn Care Doesn't Work?
    Wonder if they still think I'm nuts for planting clover, not mowing my lawn as short as possible and not using "weed and feed"? Sure mine still has some brown but it's a lot less than the other yards.� Now that we've had a couple days of rain my yard is completely green while the others are ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Yon

  • The Bridge
    Shah Wali Kot, Afghanistan 11 March 2009 The military axiom that “amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics” has special meaning in Afghanistan. During the Soviet war, though the Bear comprised Afghanistan’s entire northern border, the Afghan resistance was frequently able to bloc ...
  • Gobar Gas
    (Abridged version 1) Brunei, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Published: 08 June 2010 Michael Yon A Gurkha Idea Among the more interesting coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan are the legendary Nepalese Gurkhas. Trained and fielded by the British, as they have been since colonia ...
  • Michael Yon in Squidge Magazine
    This Article was written by ED and published in Squidge Magazine on 03 June 2010 . Michael Yon Where are you now and what’s happening with your embeds since your last one was cut off? Today in Singapore but recently was covering the serious fighting in downtown Bangkok in which about 86 p ...
  • Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Re ...
    Published: 3 June 2010 Sami Kovanen Senior Information Analyst Indicium Consulting Afghanistan 0700-645294 Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Regarding the Convening of the So-called Consultative Jirga in Kabul Jamadi-us-Sani 17, 1431 A.H, Tuesday, June 01, 2010 In the Name ...
  • Spitting Cobra
    15 January 2010 Cobra Battery at FOB Frontenac Arghandab, Afghanistan Artillery is called “The King of Battle.”  When it comes to the delivery of force, probably nothing outside of nuclear weapons can outmatch the sustained delivery of extreme brutality.  Cannons also can deliver small atomic we ...

The Killing Train

  • Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People"
    I just read Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People". It could easily be in my top 20 books. It is really awesome - historically rich, beautifully written, clearly looks at the past, and has a beautiful vision for the future, even though the author is pessimistic (realistic) about the pros ...
  • Dan Freeman-Maloy on Israel's Flotilla Raid
    Dan discusses the international aspects of the raid. His website is notesonhypocrisy.com
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • A 'Mosaic' of Green Features at New Prague Hotel
    Photo via Mosaic House Count Prague in on the trend toward green hostels and hotels: The opening late last week of a cool new central-city accommodation not only provides a fresh option for eco-conscious travelers, it also marks a green "first" or two for the entire Czech Republic.... Read the ...
  • Adopt a Neglected Farm Animal Through the Farm Ani ...
    photo: Farm Sanctuary Back in March Farm Sanctuary rescued six calves that had almost starved to death from a farm in Pennsylvania. After much hard work and round the clock care the SPCA and Farm Sanctuary were able to nurse Sasha, Jasper, Filipe, Teddy, Vito, Clancy, Poncho, and Amigo back to ...
  • Hit the Trails Running in Timberland's Green Runni ...
    Courtesy photo. While Terra Plana's VivoBarefoots are on one end of the low-impact running shoe spectrum, for those of us not ready to forgo the conventional sneaker, there is the "Mountain Athletic Route Racer", Timberland 's new high performance outdoor running shoe with outsoles made with Gr ...
  • World Cup: What to Wear When Watching It
    Image from Philosophers Football Sic transit. We asked this important question in 2006 when the World Cup for football (soccer) was held in Germany and here we are again still pondering the universe, as the championship moves to South Africa. We know that the teams will be sporting jerseys b ...
  • Unplugged: Organic and Affordable Solar Power
    The Millennium Technology Prize trophy, named "Peak," features a silicon tip. Back in 1991, Professor Michael Graetzel from the Lausanne Polytechnic invented what's now called the Graetzel Cell , a non-photovoltaic solar cell made of a layer of titanium dioxide, glass and a dye from fruit that ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Sri Lanka cabinet votes to remove presidential ter ...
    [JURIST] The Sri Lankan government announced Friday that the country's Cabinet has voted to remove presidential term limits [press release] that restricted presidents from serving more than two terms in office. The Cabinet also approved changes to the Sri Lankan Constitution [text] to give the presi ...
  • ICC prosecutor seeks UN support for arrest of susp ...
    [JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Friday called on the UN Security Council [official website] to support the arrest [statement, PDF; press release] of two Sudanese men indicted for war crimes. The suspects, Ahmad Harun and Ali Kusha ...
  • Google tells Congress data collection was lawful m ...
    [JURIST] Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] claims that its collection of private information over Wi-Fi networks for its Street View maps was inadvertent and did not violate any laws, according to a letter [text, PDF] released Friday by the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House ...
  • ICC nations adopt crime of aggression
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Friday adopted an amendment [press release] to the Rome Statute [text, PDF] including a definition for the crime of aggression and creating jurisdictional conditions for prosecution. The amendment was adopted after ICC nations rea ...
  • Iceland parliament approves same-sex marriage legi ...
    [JURIST] The Icelandic Althingi [official website, in Icelandic] on Friday unanimously passed legislation [text, in Icelandic] legalizing same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive]. The legislation would end the system of registered partnerships that has been in place in Iceland since 1996, replacing i ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Noble Readers, Lend Us Your Idea-rs
    The Atlantic's guide to the best and biggest ideas of the year is now online, but we're not ones to endorse the concept of epistemic closure. So we invite our readers to submit your nominees for the best and most innovative or simply the most interesting idea you've encountered. ...
  • The Mystery Of The Suspended L-3 Contract
    The Air Force suspended a highly lucrative contract with L-3 Communucations because it believes that the company used its access to extremely sensitive and classified information to help its international business interests, according to two Pentagon sources briefed on the investigation. L-3, which ...
  • U.S. Worries About Looming Habaes Wins For Gitmo&# ...
    If you're interested at all in the future of detention policy, you might to make time to read a� scathing and now declassified opinion of Judge Kennedy on the case of the Yemeni detainee (Odaini), available on line.� If the re-engagement rate cracks the myth of the left that all detainees are inn ...
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Contemplates His Legacy
    "No, not at all." Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not thinking about his future.�There's his legacy to cement, or at least to cast in stone, because, with a 35% approval rating and one legislative term left, he is not going to leave office to the acclaim he came in with. "Our administration is not fi ...
  • The Night Beat: A Meeting Is Set
    Good evening. 1.� President Obama meets next Wednesday with the senior leadership of BP at the White House. The meeting will likely include discussion of BP's June 21 dividend payout; administration lawyers and members of Congress are trying to figure out if there's a way to make sure that the money ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Barak Cancels French Visit for Fear of Arrest Invo ...
    Ehud Barak’s office announced tonight that he had cancelled a planned trip to France, where he was to take part in the dedication of the Israeli pavillion at the Eurosatory International Defense Week there and have consultations with the French foreign and defense ministers.  The purported reason ...
  • Eli Lake Calls for ‘Regime Change’ in Gaza, ‘Strat ...
    The NY Times features excerpted conversations with political bloggers on various topics via an agreement with BloggingheadsTV.  Very infrequently, they will host a discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  My friend, Helena Cobban has been a guest I know. Today, the Times features a rat ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • Israel Plans Prosecution of Ameer Makhoul, Uri Bla ...
    The Israeli prosecutor has set a June 21st trial date for Ameer Makhoul, the director of an Israeli Palestinian NGO, who is accused of plotting espionage against Israel.  I have joined an international group of human rights activists organizing on his behalf.  I’ll make public our plans in the com ...
  • Haaretz Claims Gaza Investigation Agreement Betwee ...
    The fix is in, or almost in.  Haaretz writes that Israel and the Obama administration have come up with a satisfactory (to them) formula for an Israeli investigation into the Mavi Marmara incident,.  If the report is to be believed, approval of the plan was held up by a U.S. demand that the panel ...

Ode Magazine

  • A new legacy for Watts
    The wiry spires of the Watts Towers seem almost obtrusive on the working-class skyline of South Los Angeles. While the historic landmarks remind some of the artistic innovation of Italian architect Simon Rodia, who built the sculptures out of steel; mortar; and a mosaic of re ...
  • Beyond organic
    Made famous by The Omnivoreâs Dilemma , Polyface Farm is the destination of choice for discerning tourists with a passion for great foodand sustainable agriculture. “I’m from a long line of out-of-the-box thinkers, and we’ve been on this lunatic train for a long, long time ...
  • How red squirrels exemplify the evolution of altru ...
    By: Jeremy Mercer Once considered, in those memorable words of Tennyson, “red in tooth and claw,” the supposedly ruthless natural world is proving far more altruistic than ever thought possible. In the most recent example of animal compassion, a study publ ...
  • Hoe een sloppenwijk weer leuk wordt
    By: Marco Visscher De grauwe, mistroostige sloppenwijken in het hart van Rio de Janeiro worden misschien gezien als broeinesten van geweld en criminaliteit, maar Dre Urhahn (links op de foto) ziet ze als ‘een bron van inspiratie en creativiteit’. Tijdens z ...
  • Religious support for environmental preservation
    By: VictoriaKlein Whether direct or indirect, religion has a subtle yet significant impact on our daily lives: clothes, food choices, conflict resolution, government, education, job opportunities … etc. Religious groups are often known for their difference ...

OpEd News

  • The world as crack house
    Apocalypse Now
  • What is 60,000 cubic miles? Itapos;s the volume o ...
    Some simple calculations identify how many cubic MILES have been polluted by the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Even the high estimate of 65,000 CUBIC MILES may be far lower than the actual amount of ocean that will be potentially polluted.
  • Gates Of Hell Are Opening In The Gulf
    Now we know why the the gulf coast is not only drenched with the stench of a poisonous runaway oil gusher but the scent of a major deception perpetrated by BP and protected by the Obama administration ~ who are both terrified of the very real possibility of a major doomsday catastrophe in the making ...
  • Photo-Essay: Haiti After the Earthquake, Part 7: a ...
    HUEH is similar to a public general hospital in an American city. Imagine if every private hospital in Los Angeles was destroyed or shut down in a massive earthquake, and the only thing left halfway standing was the general hospital, with thousands of citizens to treat while some of its own personne ...
  • BP bailout proposal coming soon
    There should be NO bailout of BP paid for by ANY taxpayer, period, end of discussion, over and out. If necessary there should be a fund paid for by all of the oil companies doing offshore drilling, as the price of their doing business off our shores and as the incentive to make sure this does not ha ...

Switchboard

  • Jindal: "We're In a war to keep the oil out of our ...
    � Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gazed at the giant twin-rotor helicopters working the skies above Buras, a low-lying delta town several miles from where the Mississippi River begins to give itself up to the Gulf of Mexico. One after another the big choppers flew past, each one hauling ...
  • Innovative Plan to Fund California's State Parks Q ...
    On Thursday, an initiative that would create a reliable and adequate funding source for California’s world-renowned state park system qualified for the November ballot.  I’m excited about this plan to create a new State Parks Access Pass, and encourage all Californians to support it. ...
  • Hall of Shame
    On June 10, 2010, the following United States Senators voted to overturn the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific determination that global warming pollution is dangerous to public health and the environment. History will be their judge. Alabama             Jef ...
  • Fighting for our "right" to a clean energy future
    A new proposed initiative for the California ballot purports to defend the people of California’s unalienable right to air, water, energy, and natural resources by prohibiting the government from regulating the industries that exploit these common resources.   This referendum is eith ...
  • Strengthening Environmental Compliance in India: B ...
    Just returning from Delhi, NRDC’s India initiative had the fascinating opportunity to engage with Indian NGOs, industry, and government officials to learn about their views on strengthening environmental compliance and enforcement.  The Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Morbidly Comic Soccer Nationalism at Fever Pitch
    This video was shot by an LGM field correspondent at the US-Czech Republic warm-up match in Hartford on the 25th. Unfortunately these members of the American Outlaws were too drunk to muster a sentence when the Daily Show’s John Oliver showed up to interview them, so the scene that followed did not ...
  • England v USA
    19:30 (BST), 14:30 (EDT), 11:30 (PDT).  The Guardian predicts the lineups. First, welcome back to me.  Things here at my institution of higher education have been, well, interesting over the past month or so.  We’ve experienced an at once smaller yet larger version of what SEK wrote about regard ...
  • The Chamber of Commerce Court
    Very useful data here. Again, I’ll have more about this when I get home, but it’s worth noting that once again that Roberts and Alito, not Scalia and Thomas, are the most reliable pro-business votes.   The latter two have some broader theoretical commitments that, while obviously broadly congenial ...
  • Charlie Crist Superstar
    Good for him, even though the passage of whatever hare-brained regulation the arbitrary impediment to abortion lobby can cook up merely awaits a Republican governor seeking future elective office as a Republican. Related posts:Charlie Crist’s prayers repel hurricanes Palin speaks! (Hard-hitting jo ...
  • More Thoughts on Whistle-Blowing and National Secu ...
    The outing of Army Specialist Bradley Manning for his alleged role in leaking classified documents to Wikileaks raises a number of questions in my mind about the relationship between whistle-blowing, human rights and national security. I don’t have a lot of answers, so this post is mostly food for c ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: Do 'foreign tribunals' ...
    The proponents of American exceptionalism may well delight in an increasingly popular provision of U.S. federal law: 28 U.S.C. 1782, which allows parties to seek discovery in federal court for use in legal proceedings before "foreign or international tribunal[s]." Provisions like this do not abound ...
  • Lawsuits mount over greenhouse gas rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is no stranger to the courtroom — practically every regulation the agency issues faces some kind of legal challenge. But the depth, breadth and sheer number of suits triggered by the agency's new rules for greenhouse gas emissions are all but unprecedented, a ...
  • Showdown looms for arbitration
    Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court appear headed for collision over mandatory arbitration in consumer and employment contracts. Two actions over the last month moved the branches closer to impact: The justices agreed to decide next term whether a class action ban in a cellphone arbitration agreemen ...
  • Toyota litigation hits roadblocks
    Shareholder lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. face several obstacles. A judge has questioned why several motions for lead counsel status were filed on behalf of large groups of investors rather than individual investors. And foreign investors face a potentially adverse Supreme Court ruling.
  • Judge approves $110 million settlement in baby dea ...
    A federal judge in Texas said on Friday that he would give sign a $110 million settlement on Monday in a class action involving the death of scores of premature babies who received a vitamin E supplement during the 1980s.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Clean Water Action-June 22nd!
    On Tuesday, June 22nd all Pennsylvania Clean Water Action offices will converge on Harrisburg to demand better regulation and oversight of natural gas drilling. We need your help and support to pressure our state legislators. Join us as we meet with elected officials to discuss HB 2213 and the Safer ...
  • Basic Waterdog Training in June
    This training is for anyone interested in knowing what to look for in the way of problems caused by the natural gas industry’s activities. Waterdog training also teaches you how to discriminate real problems from non-problems, how and where to report these, and how to do it all safely and legally. H ...
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Volume of Oil Not Key Factor In Damage Done by Spi ...
    The Deepwater Horizon disaster is the largest oil spill in U.S. history, but it may not cause the most ecological damage if the oil can be kept out of the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile marshes , scientists say. While a projected 24 million to 52 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf since the ...
  • Prominent U.S. Executives Call For Major Increase ...
    A group of powerful U.S. business leaders has called on the government to sharply increase funding of renewable energy research or risk falling far behind other nations in the race to replace fossil fuels with green technologies. The group, which includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, General Ele ...
  • Scientists Urge Creation Of Extensive Marine Reser ...
    Scientists from 35 nations are urging the creation of large marine reserves , similar to the protected area encompassing Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, to preserve the planet’s oceans and halt overfishing. While existing small reserves already provide conservation benefits at local levels worldwide ...
  • U.S. Public Strongly Supports CO2 Regulation and C ...
    In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, 71 percent of Americans say President Obama and Congress should make developing clean sources of energy a high priority , an 11 percent increase since January, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by Yale University and George Mason University, al ...
  • Union Carbide Officials Convicted In 1984 Bhopal G ...
    Eight former executives of the Indian subsidiary of the U.S. chemical giant, Union Carbide, have been found guilty of negligence for failure to prevent a toxic gas leak that killed thousands of people in the city of Bhopal in 1984. The eight senior officials received two-year prison sentences and we ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Hunted by Pentago ...
    Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government ...
  • "The Rig's on Fire! I Told You This Was Gonna Happ ...
    A prominent Houston attorney with a long record of winning settlements from oil companies says he has new evidence suggesting that the Deepwater Horizon's top managers knew of problems with the rig before it exploded last month, causing the worst oil spill in US history. Tony Buzbee, a lawyer repres ...
  • Didn't the White House Press Secretary Say the Gul ...
    I came across this video the other day that showed a White House spokes person saying that the oil in the Gulf was "leaked on purpose" and that "the well had been purposefully set off". The entire clip is interesting, but I'm particularly interested in the first 40 seconds or so. Who is this White H ...
  • Sinkholes, sinkholes, everywhere you look in China
    Tropical storm Agatha swept through Central America, killing 178 people and creating a giant sinkhole in Guatemala City that was so big that it swallowed an entire three-story building. Now that is some skill. Not to be outdone though, Chinese netizens have posted the country's own crazy sinkholes. ...
  • Aussies Face 10 Year Browsing Lock-Up
    Anything Europe does, Australia would like to think it can do better – and when it comes to snooping on individual internet usage, Australia is determined to lead the way. A report in ZDNet Australia this week reveals that the attorney-general's department has been holding discussions with industry ...

Russia Today

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

  • Lester Holt does real-life Syfy Channel show
    Lester Holt, mainstream media broadcast host, does some “core story” meme dispersion on Sunday July 11th: In an interesting case of cross-network synergy, Syfy has recruited NBC News anchor Lester Holt to host a documentary special, “Inside Secret Government Warehouses: Shocking Revelations.” The s ...
  • Interview with John Alexander
    The US military has been involved with Fortean studies for many decades, despite many proclamations to the contrary. The testing and utilization of PK abilities such as remote viewing, bending metal and mind control have had many names such as MK-ULTRA and STARGATE and paperwork for them can be obta ...
  • UFO Flies Into Jet Contrail
    Slow day today. Plus I’m running late. So I checked out my ol’ pal Rick Philips at Barf Stew and he had this neat little YouTube video up. … Rotating UFO Flyby Airliner Netherlands 7th March 2010 ] … Hmm..must be checking out the content of the jet exhaust. Why?
  • Ancient Bracewell Probe in Solar System
    A Bracewell probe is an interstellar probe theorized by Ronald Bracewell in 1960 that is sent to prospective nearby solar systems to study for life, or primitive civilizations. If the probe finds either, they (it) sends a message back to its parent civilization. Are we being scanned by a Bracewell p ...
  • Australian UFOs and Falcon 9
    It seems that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 not only provides political controversy in the States, it also gives a little entertainment on the other side of the world. Observers in Australia spotted a little “spiral”, like what happened in Scandinavia last fall, giving the Aussies a little light show and specu ...

Tippers News

  • Notable Quotable: BP: We dont know why our stock ...
    BP notes the fall in its share price in US trading last night. The company is not aware of any reason which justifies this share price movement." --June 10 company statement on its falling stock value. Submitted by Roseann D. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Murkowski resolution goes down to defeat in stupid ...
    The Murkowski "Resolution of Disapproval" to overturn the EPA's endangerment finding on carbon pollution was defeated in the Senate today by a vote of 53-47 Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. doubles Gulf oil flow estimate
    The United States on Thursday more than doubled the estimated size of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. Read all about it. And see this chart to find out how the flow estimates have changed since the beginning. Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • "SpongeBob" Helps Boy Save Friend From Drowning
    Looks like TV can sometimes be very good for kids: An 8-year-old New Jersey boy saved his 5-year-old neighbor from drowning last weekend with a technique he says he learned from the Nickelodeon cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants." Submitted by Dawn D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Teen sailor Abby Sunderland found, but are quests ...
    Rescue boats are on their way to the 16-year-old who was attempting to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo. Sports and child development experts see red flags in stories like hers. Submitted by Dawn D. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Home-Buyer Tax Credit May Be Extended
    “Home buyers hoping to take advantage of a lucrative federal tax credit would get three extra months to complete their purchases under a proposal introduced in the Senate on Thursday.” (Washington Post, Friday) Still playing favorites. FEE Timely Classic “Can the Feds Save the Housing Market?” by Ro ...
  • AIG Rescue Might Have Been Avoided, Study Says
    “A watchdog panel says it’s still not clear whether U.S. taxpayers will ever fully recoup the $182 billion they plowed into American International Group Inc. and the government should have used up all its options before bailing out the crippled insurance titan.” (Washington Times , Friday) But then ...
  • You Really Want Government Drilling for Oil?
    You’ve got to hand it to the people who really dislike free markets. They see markets everywhere, and especially wherever any serious problem arises. That no free market exists within a thousand miles makes no difference whatsoever.
  • Mexican Teenager Killed by U.S. Border Agent
    “Mexican leaders on Wednesday condemned the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager by the U.S. Border Patrol at the border in El Paso, as U.S. officials scrambled to investigate the circumstances surrounding the second killing of a Mexican by a U.S. agent in two weeks. According to preliminary reports ...
  • Beware Unsustainable Debt, Bernanke Says
    “The U.S. economy continues a slow, painful recovery, but Congress must prepare to address an âunsustainableâ level of debt in the federal budget, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke cautioned Wednesday.” (Washington Post, Thursday) The accomplice issues a warning. FEE Timely Classic “Whatâ ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Online video still growing, gaining viewers
    Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
  • Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
    @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Will it really work to boycott BP?
    In the eight weeks since oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico's from BP's ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig, growing numbers have come to the conclusion that the only response is to stop buying BP gas -- a boycott. According to one national poll, 51% are ready to boycott BP gas , and websites a ...
  • BP hires company to handle oil spill claims whose ...
    Publicly, BP has said it intends to be generous in compensating those affected by the Gulf oil spill: CEO Tony Hayward has pledged to pay all "legitimate" claims resulting from the disaster, even offering to waive the $ 75 million cap on liability for economic damages. But to handle claims from the ...
  • Justice in Mississippi: Curtis Flowers starts reco ...
    An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to ever go on trial for murder six times for the same crime. Mr. Flowers has been in jail in Mississippi since 1996, accused of the murder of four people at a furniture store. Jury selec ...
  • ANALYSIS: 3 lessons from the Halter campaign
    Labor unions are taking a beating from political pundits today in the wake of Tuesday's Arkansas primary, which saw incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln eking out a 4-point victory over labor-backed Bill Halter. Of course, one can question what, if any, deep lessons about labor and U.S. politics can� be ...
  • In Arkansas, labor gambles big against Democratic ...
    In a year when political protest has been defined by the Tea Party and challenges from the political right, tomorrow's Democratic run-off between Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter has become 2010's marquee battle for progressives. And progressives -- mostly in the form of labor, but als ...

CowBoss' Inconvenient Truths - Food

  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    Zimbabwean diamonds mined with complete disregard for basic human rights are currently being sold in jewelry stores with
  • South Africans Remember Mandela's Release
    Twenty years after his release form prison, Nelson Mandela remains an important and symbolic figure for South Africans. Many still remember his release.
  • Guinea Making Steps toward Democracy
    In a country that has seen a succession of brutal military leaders, the sudden prospect of fair elections forthcoming gives the people of Guinea new hope.
  • The Real Evils
    While the world
  • Global Hunger
    When food is treated as simply a commodity, a huge chunk of the population cannot afford it. People in the South die every day from hunger and related diseases, while an equal number in the North consume in excess.

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Physiographic Regions
    Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here
  • Cartier, Jacques
    Jacques Cartier, navigator (b at St-Malo, France, between 7 June and 23 Dec 1491; d there 1 Sept 1557). Cartier led 3 voyages of exploration to the St Lawrence region in 1534, 1535-36 and 1541-42. He is usually credited with
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the LIBERAL PARTY 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a trug?
    I’ve been getting more and more interested in wild food lately – we’ve been trying different things while walking the dog in the woods behind our house and on Sunday, we went on a wonderful Wild Food Foray organised by Slow Food West Yorkshire. Led by medical herbalist Jesper Launder, we spent just ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle over 1000 mugs?
    We’ve had an email from Andy: I work for an Events company based in Newmarket, Suffolk, and I have got over 1000 mugs, which as come back from an event and we need to recycle. Do you know where I can do this? We’ve got plenty of home & garden reuses for old/broken crockery but I suspect most [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic deli counter wr ...
    We’ve had an email from Iona: The deli counter at Sainsburys insists on wrapping every item in its own yards of plastic wrap including multiple plastic sheets and then the plastic bag. Can they be recycled with carrier bags? Plastic bags are usually made from polyethylene – which can be high-density ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle cleaning product &#8220 ...
    We’ve had an email from Jan C: Is there anything I can do with carpet freshener bottles? The ones with the holes in the top for shaking. It’s too chemical perfumed for anything I want to shake out (like flour.) There is a strong Reduce angle here – like many strongly perfumed items, you’re just intr ...
  • How can I get rid of slugs reusing/recycling stuff ...
    I asked a similar question on Twitter the other day but since I’ve lost more leaves to the blighters over the weekend, I thought I’d asked for more suggestions – I want to belt & braces it! In response to my Twitter question, @KakeLover replied: “beer traps! gets the slugs everytime!” and @maryhores ...

Mondoweiss

  • A father, 38, is killed at a Jerusalem checkpoint. ...
    Haaretz reports in their article "Palestinian killed in suspected East Jerusalem terror attack":A Palestinian driver was shot and killed in Jerusalem Friday after running over two Israeli border patrolmen, with an apparent intent to kill. The man reportedly hit two the two policemen in East Jerusale ...
  • Nader: ‘Anti-semitism against Arabs is rife& ...
    Washington Post poll says that 91 percent of people are opposed to Helen Thomas's removal. Talk about the American street. And here is Ralph Nader on the Thomas resignation. Calls it a "professional execution." More:She's a courageous journalist... blazed the way for women like no one did.... She se ...
  • US position on flotilla is compromised by its love ...
    I wonder if this is an Aquino moment for Israel. In 1983, Filipino strongman Ferdinand Marcos ordered opposition leader Nino Aquino dragged from the plane and executed upon his return from exile. It was illustrative of how Marcos, forever coddled by his U.S. protectors, was so insulated from any mea ...
  • Solidarity with Palestinians, yes– but why n ...
    I'm struck by the hysterical tone of Hirsh Goodman's piece saying that Israel must go to war against critical information. You'd think Goodman would be more worldly. He grew up in South Africa, was a reporter for many years, and is married to a New York Times correspondent. Yet he defends the murder ...
  • We need Roger Cohen to stand up for his opposition ...
    The other day the New York Times went out of its way to bash Shlomo Sand for his book, The Invention of the Jewish People. The Times reported on new genetic studies suggesting a close DNA relation among Jews of the world and hastened to add:They refute the suggestion made last year by the historian ...

Media Consortium

  • MinnPost, The UpTake try Spot.us to raise funds fo ...
    More on the MinnPost, Uptake, Spot.Us fundraising collaboration--with the unique advertising survey revenue model added in as another layer... "..Barnett and his staff had been working with MinnPost, supplying livestreamed video for, among other things, the long saga that was the Al Franken/Norm Co ...
  • MinnPost - Give us two minutes, and MinnPost and T ...
    A collaborative, crowd-sourced fundraising effort bw/ spot.us, MinnPost and The Uptake. Goal is $40k. "The partnership will combine MinnPost reporting and analysis with The Uptake’s high-quality video coverage, including livestream video." "It’s hard to raise $40,000 five dollars at a time, but ...
  • Making connections: How major news organizations t ...
    Wikipedia has a 5,000 word linking style guide. That might be excessive, but at least it’s thorough. I wondered what professional newsrooms thought of linking, so I contacted a number of them and asked how they were directing their reporters to use links. I got answers — but sometimes vague answers.
  • Behind The Atlantic's Brand Reinvention - Consumer ...
    A dramatic multi-platform overhaul of the brand starting in 2007 has put it back on track to profitability. In his keynote address today at the Folio: Show, Atlantic Media president Justin Smith said The Atlantic is projected to have a profitable fourth quarter and a "multi-million dollar" profit in ...
  • Mag Industry JV Next Issue Media’s More-Than-Teeth ...
    Next Issue Media, the magazine industry JV meant to develop content and formats for the next generation platform devices, is having a lot of teething troubles, though a late course correction may help, according to multiple sources we have spoken to over the last few weeks.

Reality Asserts Itself

  • On reality and bitter truths
    I'm often asked what I mean by "real news" or "reality". I receive a decidedly skeptical "Do you think you have the 'real' truth?" I don't think there's an absolute truth. But I do think there's an objective world and there are facts. I know we will always have a partial understanding of things. Bu ...
  • A SHOE HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD – My interview with ...
    Muntadhar al-Zaidi is the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush at a Baghdad press conference on December 14th, 2008. I recently interviewed him in Beirut. I asked him why he did it. He said "I was exposing the occupation with my pen, however I didn't think my pen was reaching the ...
  • A billion for G20 security "is worth it" - just wh ...
    According to AP, Canada's Conservative government said Thursday the nearly $1 billion it plans to spend on security at the G8 and G20 summits next month is "worth it". The Canadian government has budgeted up to $930 Canadian (US$885 million) for the summits. By comparison, the stated amount spent ...
  • ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA AID SHIP VIOLATES INTERNATI ...
    Last night, Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship on its way to Gaza. It is reported that they killed ten to fifteen activists and injured thirty more. The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.� Organizers said the flotilla was carrying 10,000 tones of huma ...
  • BEYOND THE PALE - The murder of Furkan Dogan
    Not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism. But some is. All one has to do is read some of the comments on this blog that were not published, to know that Judenhass ("Jew-hatred") is alive and well. It cannot be overestimated how thousands of years of hatred and Nazi genocide weighs with a n ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • FDA to regulate genetic tests
    Just days after a lab mix-up at personal genomics company 23andMe, the US Food and Drug Administration is demanding federal regulation for genetic tests marketed directly to consumers. According to the agency, the tests are medical devices, and should be evaluated as such. The FDA sent letters t ...
  • Deepwater Horizon round up: it’s worse than you th ...
    The official estimates for the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico were dramatically increased yesterday. At the start of the incident, shortly after the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, it was officially estimated that around 1,000 barrels of oil a day were leaking from t ...
  • Smooth sailing
    Posted for David Cyranoski On 9 June, 20 days after being launched, Japan’s Ikaros spacecraft unfurled its ultrathin (0.0075 mm) sail and started its journey through deep space. Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), who had been worried about a slight deviation between t ...
  • Effort to block climate regulations fails in US Se ...
    In its most significant vote on global warming in two years, the United States Senate on Thursday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s right to regulate greenhouse gases ( Christian Science Monitor ). Which is to say that senators who have been unable to find their way forward on global warm ...
  • NIH director acknowledges Nemeroff's end-run on co ...
    Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, spoke for the first time publicly today in reaction to this article that ran in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Monday, revealing a new twist in the saga of Charles Nemeroff. Nemeroff lost his position heading the psychiatry departme ...

new geography

  • An Awakening: The Beginning of the Great Deconstru ...
    The federal debt climbed above $13 trillion this month. An easier way to define the national debt is to comprehend that we each owe more than $39,000 to the Chinese, Japanese, and Arabs of the Persian Gulf. The budget deficit will exceed $1.5 trillion this year and forty-seven states are running def ...
  • Currency Crisis: Fool's Gold, The Euro, The Poun ...
    Lost in the obituaries of the Euro — the European currency — is the extent to which the continent remains a fractured reservoir of national monies. To be sure, the Euro circulates in the larger economies of Western Europe, notably France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. But as a traveli ...
  • Twenty-first Century Electorate’s Heart is in the ...
    Even as the nation conducts its critically important decennial census, a demographic picture of the rapidly changing population of the United States is emerging. It underlines how suburban living has become the dominant experience for all key groups in America’s 21st Century Electorate. While su ...
  • Racing China: The Australia Housing Bubble
    "The writing is on the wall for the Australian dream," according to Professor Joe Flood at the Flinders University Institute for Housing, Urban and Regional Research . That was before recent predictions that Australia's overheated housing market may be headed for even higher prices. Real estate expe ...
  • The Hong Kong Model for National Identity Cards
    “May I see some identification, please?” asked a retail clerk in my home town Seattle taking my check. I said certainly and handed the sales woman my Hong Kong identity card. She looked at it blankly for a moment then said, “Can I see some other kind of identification?” Sometimes when I’m feeling c ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Decorative eggs prompt Atlanta federal building ev ...
    A harmless package of decorative eggs prompted a grenade scare and the evacuation of an Atlanta federal building on Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.
  • New Health law could ban low-cost plans
    Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms.
  • U.S. Confirms Underwater Oil Plumes
    The government said water tests have confirmed underwater oil plumes dozens of miles from the broken wellhead off Louisiana
  • Reports at BP over years find systemic history of ...
    Allegations that BP or its contractors falsified safety and inspection reports are a recurring theme. Similar allegations were attributed to workers in 2001 and 2004 internal reports on Alaska, but the internal auditors did not confirm that fraud had occurred.
  • NORAD leader pledges support for G8, G20
    Gen. Walt Natynczyk welcomed the new NORAD commander, U.S. Admiral James Winnefeld, who pledged the Americans’ full military support during the upcoming G8 and G20 summits in Toronto.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • UN "green light" for a pre-emptive US-Israel attac ...
    Summary: Israel's war plan (The Times, 13 July 2008) The UN Security Council resolution grants a de facto "green light"; to wage a pre-emptive war against Iran, which has been on the Pentagon's drawing board since 2004. It prevents Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons ...
  • Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Ir ...
    Summary: The Times Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal. source: The Times, UK read more
  • With Iran, All U.S. Options Are Not On the Table
    Summary: The Iranian side did suspend enrichment from November, 2004 to June 2005 under former president Mohammad Khatami while France, Britain, and Germany negotiated with Iran on behalf of the European Union and the United States. The humiliation the Iranian side felt when, in the end, the Wes ...
  • Obama Goes with Neocon Flow on Iran
    Summary: Whether wittingly or witlessly, President Barack Obama is pursuing a neocon-charted path on Iran that parallels the one that George W. Bush took to war with Iraq – ratcheting up sanctions against the “enemy,” refusing to tolerate more peaceful options, and swaggering along with the prop ...
  • Iran and the Latest UNSC Sanctions: The US Game Pl ...
    Summary: The entire nuclear issue is pretextual, just as "WMDs in Iraq" was pretextual, and the US needs to keep this pretext alive rather than resolve it. source: Monthly Review read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Discoveries of Mars' Ancient Oceans (VIDEO)
    NASA has discovered new evidence that Mars was mostly covered by vast oceans, according to a series of sedimentary deposits found, a crater located in the Martian southern hemisphere, as reported by Planetary Science Institute U.S. space agency. NASA Mars...
  • Mount Thor -The Greatest Vertical Drop on Earth! ( ...
    Mount Thor is a mountain in Auyuittuq National Park, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada with thr greatest vertical drop on the earth, with a sheer 4,100 foot drop! Rappel, anyone? The mountain is located 46 km (29 mi) northeast of...
  • Image of the Day: Where on Earth is This?
  • 'You Couldn't Make This Up' Dept: "Intelligent Bei ...
    Recent discoveries in genetics, microbiology, astrobiology, and astrophysics indicates that life in the Milky Way galaxy began n nebular clouds over 10 billion years ago. Given the trillions upon trillions of galaxies which exist in the Hubble length (observable) universe,...
  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (6/10)
    World Oceans Day: Marine Wildlife Threatened Globally More than 245 marine scientists from 35 countries say the world needs a system of large, protected marine reserves, the Global Ocean Legacy, a project of the Pew Environment Group, said today. In...

Natural News

  • New research: flavonoid quercetin fights viral inf ...
    (NaturalNews) Asthma, cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are serious and even life-threatening conditions. However, these health problems share something with a usually minor infection -- the common cold. The connection? Rhinovirus (RV), a single-stranded RNA virus ...
  • NY hospitals agree to stop flushing pharmaceutical ...
    (NaturalNews) Five health care facilities have signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General's Office to settle charges that they polluted the state's watersheds by dumping pharmaceutical products down sinks and toilets. In 2008, and Associated Press investigation revealed that the drinking ...
  • Nature's Baby Organics, an industry leader in orga ...
    (NaturalNews) Finding safe, natural personal care products is something for which every parent should be conscious. But in a world full of products claiming to be safe and natural, how does one figure out which brands deliver on their claims and which ones are merely peddling marketing hype? One com ...
  • Toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained secret ...
    (NaturalNews) After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit , the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcemen ...
  • Swedish girl grows her face back after side effect ...
    (NaturalNews) Four years after a rare drug reaction caused her face to turn black and fall off, 19-year-old Eva Uhlin has beaten the odds and made a nearly full recovery. In September 2005, Uhlin took a capsule of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol and marketed in the United States as Tylenol) ...

Threat Level

  • Wikileaks to Ex-Hacker: Manning’s Not a ‘Spy’
    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wants a copy of the chat logs in which a U.S. intelligence analyst discussed providing classified materials to the whistle-blower site, according to an e-mail shown to Wired.com by the ex-hacker who turned the analyst in. Assange says he’s arranging the legal defens ...
  • Privacy in Peril: Lawyers, Nations Clamor for Goog ...
    A hard drive with perhaps several hundred gigabytes of internet surfers’ private data resides under lock and key in a Portland, Oregon, federal courthouse. Regulators and private lawyers across Europe and the United States are demanding, and in some cases obtaining, access to data that Google sniffe ...
  • ‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The ...
    On May 21, 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning initiated a series of online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo after a story on Lamo was published at Wired.com. The chats continued over several days, during which Manning claimed that he was responsible for leaking classified mate ...
  • Suspected Wikileaks Source Described Crisis of Con ...
    On his last full day of freedom before Army CID investigators took him into custody, 22-year-old Bradley Manning pondered what would happen if his secret life as a self-described Wikileaks “hacktivist” were ever exposed. “What would you do if your role [with] Wikileaks seemed in danger of being blo ...
  • New York AG Suing Social Network Tagged.com for Ch ...
    New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo accused the social networking site Tagged.com on Thursday of not responding to user reports of child pornography and sexual solicitation of minors, which has allowed the popular site to become a place where sexual predators can exploit children. Cuomo sent a ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Boehner Lies About Bush Tax Cuts and Deficits
    "Reagan," Dick Cheney famously said in 2002, "proved deficits don't matter." Until, that is, a Democrat is in the White House. And it so was on Friday, when House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) insisted the Bush tax cuts did not help produce a hemorrhage of red ink from the U.S. Treasury. Of ...
  • Obama Needs JFK Playbook for BP Meeting
    From almost the moment he was elected, Barack Obama has been counseled to channel the spirit of FDR in confronting both war and economic calamity. But with for the still unfolding oil spill disaster , President Obama needs a different role model. When CEO Tony Hayward and other BP executives come ...
  • Fiorina's Pro-Choice Views are So Yesterday
    Just a day after winning the Republican nomination for Senate in California, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina lost a contest with an open microphone. She inadvertently told the world that fellow Republican Meg Whitman's appearance on the Sean Hannity show was "bizarre" and that Democratic opponent Barba ...
  • Palin to Obama: Call Me on Oil Disaster
    On Tuesday, half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin weighed in again on the BP disaster, urging President Obama to " call me ." Given her shocking ignorance about the subject, President Obama could be forgiven for calling her uninformed, a poser, a fraud or even a pathological liar. After all, the w ...
  • Heirs of Texas Billionaire Reap Windfall from Laps ...
    Thanks to obstructionist Republicans in Congress and their perpetual campaign to kill the estate tax , the United States Treasury stands to lose billions in revenue in 2010. And as the New York Times reported this week, a large chunk of it won't be coming from a single family. The heirs of Texas p ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • A Loser White House, Guilty by Association By Robe ...
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net May 20, 2010 Long before Year One ended, progressives understood President Obamas focus was routine wheeling and dealing, not regrowing the New Deal. Between victory and governance, Obama reform switched from promises to make govern ...
  • Root Cause of Voters’ Revolt: Congress, Obama, GOP ...
    The revolt across the political landscape on Tuesday against incumbents wasn’t just an attack against the Washington establishment, but an outpouring of rage against political elites of all stripes who haven’t realized the economic crisis still gripping American workers. As Katrina vanden Heuvel, ed ...
  • Capping the devils cauldron By Jerry Mazza
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com May 20, 2010 If I were a religious man, I would take the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the spilling of millions of gallons of oil and gas, their engulfing of the Gulf of Mexico waters and de ...
  • Buyer Beware: Over the Counter DNA Tests Can Cause ...
    There's a huge push to market over-the-counter genetic tests. But the faulty tests can cause more harm than good.
  • Six Myths About Immigration That Just Won't Die
    We need to straighten out our thinking about some of the basic issues in order to have a useful and serious policy argument.

Consortium News

  • Obama Goes with the Neocon Flow on Iran
    In confronting Iran, President Obama is retracing many of George W. Bush's steps that led to war with Iraq, notes Robert Parry. June 10, 2010
  • The Troubling Mystery of 'Revelation'
    To understand why Christian fundamentalists embrace violence requires addressing the Book of Revelation, says Rev. Howard Bess. June 11, 2010
  • Imagining Courage and Sanity
    As hypocrisy and lies dominate U.S. debates, one has to turn to dreams for moments of courage and sanity, says William Blum. June 10, 2010
  • Obama Shies from Real Intel Reform
    President Obama has picked another ex-military officer to be "intelligence czar," assuring no real change, writes Melvin A. Goodman. June 9, 2010
  • Standing Up for Helen Thomas
    Iconic White House reporter Helen Thomas made a dumb remark on Israel, but her independence will be missed, says Robert Parry. June 8, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Corrie and Dogan: Murdered, American Heroes (Rann ...
    They were not idealists, they were realists . They operated under simple, practical, honest principles: people's homes should not be demolished by an occupying power; a besieged population has a fundamental right to food, medicine, clean water and shelter; collective punishment is inhumane and illeg ...
  • Alleged Mossad agent arrested in Poland (Ma'an Ne ...
    Polish authorities have arrested a suspected Israeli intelligence agent thought to have played a role in the Dubai assassination of a senior Hamas official, German prosecutors said Saturd ...
  • Poland holds alleged Israeli spy (Al Jazeera)
    Polish authorities have arrested a suspected Mossad agent wanted by Germany over the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai, German prosecuters say. Germany is now seeking the extrad ...
  • Gaza plight a crisis with a difference (Edmund Sa ...
    Don't ask Hatem Hajaj whether there's a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Four months ago, the unemployed salesclerk's son was born with a heart blockage. Doctors told Hajaj that the ...
  • Pressure on Israel to lift Gaza blockade (Donald ...
    Israel's cabinet meets today under the heaviest international pressure yet - in the aftermath of its lethal naval commando assault on a pro-Palestinian flotilla a fortnight ago - to relax ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Are domestic dogs too reliant on humans?
    A new study has suggested that pet dogs are so reliant on humans that they can no longer think for themselves. Years of domestication are thought to h...
  • Cause of death of Italian saint uncovered
    Italian saint Santa Rosa who died 700 years ago is thought to have suffered a fatal blood clot in the heart. One of the most important and revered of ...
  • Biotechnology could grow plastic on trees
    Advances in biotechnology and engineering could one day produce plastic that can grow on trees. Companies are already finding ways to improve upon cro...
  • UFOs filmed over Vatican by guards
    On June 7th three security guards filmed a strange formation of lights over the Vatican using a cell phone. The sighting comes at a time when UFO repo...
  • Long lost Soviet robot found on Moon
    NASA have discovered the whereabouts of the long lost Lunokhod 1 that landed on the moon 40 years ago. The Soviet robot landed on the lunar surface in...

Grassroots

Climate

  • June 12-13, 2010
    Coast Guard to BP: Speed It Up, Stop the Spill (AP) The Coast Guard has demanded that BP step up its efforts to contain the oil spill, telling the oil giant that its slow pace in stopping the spill is becoming increasingly alarming as the disaster fouled the coastline in ugly new ways Saturday. ...
  • June 11, 2010
    New U.N. Climate Text Omits Deepest 2050 Carbon Cuts (Reuters ) Negotiators from 185 nations will end two weeks of talks on a new climate treaty on Friday, with a new blueprint for a pact that omits the most draconian options for greenhouse gas cuts by 2050.  Legally Binding Climate Deal Likely ...
  • June 10, 2010
    Senate Votes on Blocking EPA Greenhouse Gas Regs (AP)  In the absence of congressional action on climate change, the Senate is heading toward a much-watched vote on whether the Obama administration should be allowed to go ahead with regulations curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. Energy Secre ...
  • June 9, 2010
    BP Spill Response Plans Severely Flawed (AP) BP's 582-page regional spill plan for the Gulf and its 52-page site plan for the Deepwater Horizon rig are riddled with omissions and glaring errors, according to an AP analysis that details how BP officials have pretty much been making it up as they ...
  • June 8, 2010
    Reid, Pelosi Head for Climate Clash (The Hill) Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are headed for a clash over climate legislation, as Reid is poised to move an energy bill to the Senate floor that would not include a cap-and-trade program. Obama Wants ...

TomDispatch

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

Smirking Chimp

  • Barack Obama: The Birth and Death of Cool
    I'm part of an American demographic that values cool , the mystical self-confidence that sends the message "I have it handled." Since he burst upon the national political scene in 2004, Barack Obama has seemed the epitome of cool. But after the BP gulf oil disaster, pundits accused Obama of being ...
  • The Do-Nothing 44th President
    What do nine dead Gaza activists in the Mediterranean, nine-plus percent unemployment, and ninety years of oil catastrophe clean-up have in common? How about one astonishingly tepid president? How about one guy in the White House who squirms in his chair anytime someone uses the word "bold" and actu ...
  • Our Fault, Too
    � from Truthout There were hearings on Capitol Hill this week regarding the Gulf oil disaster, and virtually everyone involved - from witnesses to experts to government officials - had a grand old time throwing rocks at British Petroleum. The Obama administration and various government agencies hav ...
  • Covert Operations Are Now Targeting Our Minds
    Why We Barely Know What's Going On Defending America covertly has become an ongoing theme for one more TV series. Salute the flag and praise NBC (GE) for its latest effort to persuade the population to accept the kind of secret operations that now drive the war in Afghanistan. Their latest show is ...
  • Why Don't We Have a National Narrative of Empathy?
    � from Truthout George Lakoff has many talents. But he cannot read hearts and minds. When he wrote recently that Barack Obama "knows in his heart" that acting on empathy "is the main business of government," it was sheer guesswork. As a trained scientist, Lakoff should know better than to make claim ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • No title
    Editor’s Note: From the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule; podcasts). …………………………………………………………………………….. & anbsp; “Dave” the PM. Spoke Edward Luce, FT Washington bureau chief, re the sharp sudden breakdown of relations between the Obama administration and the new Cameron/Clegg governmen ...
  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle ...
    The wizards in Washington and on Wall Street will prop the market and talk up the economy because they can. Where can you go to get independent, unbiased insights and analysis of the economy, markets, Wall Street, Washington, and the global financial landscape? You have come to the right place as th ...
  • It’s 3am, the Phone is Ringing and Obama’s Asleep
    Hillary was right. Obama was not and is not ready to answer the 3am call. The evidence, especially with respect to his failure to properly manage the response to the blow out of B.P.’s Deep Horizon well, is damning. Tim Dickinson’s lays out the evidence methodically and in depth in his recent [.. ...
  • Changing Colors
    Itâs a simple illustration of a simple fact, but one that shows the mighty shift drawing near. The colors, they are a’blending. Americans of Western European decent (i.e., âWhitesâ) are on the verge of becoming a minority (less than 50% of the U.S. population), perhaps as soon as next year ...
  • Truth Will Out Even With Nuts!
    That should be your big hint that this is about ACORN. Yep – you know the one. Our tax supported, partisan organization that participates in voting irregularities on a regular basis, which has now allegedly disbanded (but hasn’t really, the ones who are more than willing to bend tax law, “register ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Emperor Shennong and the Origin of Tea
    Tea has a somewhat simple history, was created by chance and has grown since those ancient times into a universally consumed beverage. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Healing Properties of German Chamomile
    Some reasons old and new to grow the extraordinary German Chamomile which can alleviate stomach upsets and insomnia. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Lion vs Zebra
    By the law of the wild, lions were made to be 'the king of the jungle'. But sometimes their prey puts up a fight... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Lake Tahoe: The Serene Beauty of the California Al ...
    People flock to Lake Tahoe's pristine waters from around the world - it's fitting to say that California really does have it all! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Most Incredible Aquariums on Earth
    Aquariums might come in all shapes and sizes, but every single one has the power to be amazing. Here are some of the world's most incredible aquariums! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • 60-Second Expert: Kwangju Uprising
    New documents reveal larger U.S. role in suppressing the popular uprising in South Korea in 1980.
  • Part 3-The Futility of Trying to Debate Our Way to ...
    In the end, disarmament won't spring from a fruitless quest for ironclad rationales. Its establishment will be the result of a groundswell of reactions ranging from disgust with to bewilderment at a national security policy that puts the lives of tens of millions at risk.
  • Manufacturing a Border Crisis
    Unlike Mexican border states where drug-fueled violence has been on the upswing, violent crime rates in U.S. states bordering Mexico have been decreasing for the last several years.
  • The Oil Spills You Never Heard Of
    Spills, leaks and deliberate discharges are happening in oilfields all over the world and very few people seem to care.
  • South Africa: The Return of State Repression
    South Africans appear to have had their constitutional right to protest suspended during the 2010 World Cup, following a directive from the country's police service (SAPS) to municipalities hosting matches.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • The Day the Shucking Stopped
    The P&J Oyster Company, the oldest oyster processor and distributor in New Orleans, has stopped shucking oysters because of the oil spill.
  • Lament for a Once-Lovely Waterway
    That sense of an irretrievable past is what makes the environmental and economic disaster facing the Shatt al Arab waterway all the more poignant.
  • Grim Resolve on an Oil-Soaked Isle
    On a normal summer, the town and barrier island Grand Isle, home to 1,500 people, would have been teeming with 10 times that many vacationers from elsewhere in Louisiana looking to fish and swim. But there's nothing normal about this season.
  • Ask the White House
    Carol Browner, President Obama's assistant on energy and climate change, is answering questions about the gulf oil spill live on the Web starting at 12:30 p.m.
  • For Oil's Cousin, Good Luck and Bad
    Some experts say that oil's recent bad luck could translate into good luck for gas, which is plentifully available in the United States, is cleaner-burning than oil and can be used as a transportation fuel - either directly, through compressed natural gas, or indirectly as a utility source for power ...

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Under Attack: Mavi Marmara Attacked - Flotilla foo ...
    Crosspost from the root spot of mirrors: http://tc.indymedia.org/files/flotilla-footage/index.html
  • Video inside lethal Israeli Gaza flotilla raid on ...
    Journalists aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part of the Gaza humanitarian flotilla, documented Israel's lethal military attack, and were able to smuggle out an hour of footage. The video is being released presently at a United Nations press conference by Iara Lee, a filmmaker from Cultures ...
  • Fort Snelling Undercover Fail; Ollie's 1985 Gander ...
    Special greetings to Rule of Law Radio / Axxiom for Liberty listeners! We had a great time chatting last Friday for moar than an hour about every cutting edge dimension of the military-industrial police state, hosted by Kaye Beach and her friend (nickname Matrix? I forget). Get the live recording of ...
  • 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 ...

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  • It Is Time To Reconsider Our “Wars”
    There was a great article in the N Y Times about our future in Afghanistan and our “War on Terror.”  I have extrapolated data from that article as I believe it relates to us.  Since this war is taking our resources that we badly need at home, we need to take a closer look.  At [...]
  • Time for law abiding American citizens to stop pay ...
    source with better formatting and video. 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 justic ...
  • THE NEW RIGHT HISTORY
    The Texas State Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum to reflect American History as it should have happened. Board member Cynthia Dunbar (R) elucidated the core of the Boardâs premise: America was and should be âa Christian land governed by Christian principles.â After r ...
  • Is the Media Being Vigilant Enough in Covering the ...
    By Guest Blogger Anthony DiMaggio A new Pew Research Center poll finds strong public support for media in its coverage of the gulf oil crisis.  Sixty-seven percent of respondents report having “a lot” or “some” confidence in “news organizations” in their reporting on the oil crisis.  This is signifi ...
  • Oregon legislator reads CAFR, finds billions, ends ...
    source with video. The below 2-minute video shows an Oregon legislator appropriately outraged to discover the Orwellian lie of omission that his state has available assets valued over ten times the budget deficit. This is true in every state; documented in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report ( ...

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  • The Moral Failure of American Liberals: A Defence ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research . The Moral Failure of American Liberals: �A Defence of Helen Thomas � � Jonathan Cook June 11, 2010 The ostracism of Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, over her comment that Jews should "get the hell ...
  • Fidel Castro: On the threshold of tragedy
    This English translation of Fidel Castro's latest article is courtesy of Granma Internacional news agency, Havana, citing Cubadebate as the source. Reflections of Fidel: On the threshold of tragedy � �Fidel Castro Ruz Translated by Granma Internacional Post date: �June 9, 2010 SINCE the day of Mar ...
  • Afghanistan: Funding both sides
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Eric Walberg. Afghanistan: �Funding both sides � � Eric Walberg June 8, 2010 Delegates in Shangra-La pledge eternal war in Afghanistan, as the U.S. creates new and very dangerous allies there, reports Eric Walberg War junkies popped their cha ...
  • BP and the Gulf of Mexico: America's Chernobyl
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. America's Chernobyl � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina June 6, 2010 The similarities between the Fall of the Soviet Union and the upcoming Fall of the United States ar ...
  • Spanish activists for Gaza say Israel 'targeted' M ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus Emirate news agency. Underlined emphasis added. Spanish activists for Gaza say Israel 'targeted' Muslims in boat Source: � Kavkaz Center June 5, 2010 Three Spanish citizens, who survived the "Israeli" operation on Gaza ...

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Israel Suffers Strategic Blowback in Flo ...
    Speaking before a parliamentary committee about last month’s Israeli raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which killed nine and injured over 60 international volunteers, a senior Israeli intelligence official warned that “[e]vents [like this] are likely to go out of control and the situation could de ...
  • News you may have missed #373 (CIA edition)
    CIA forerunner's sabotage manual released. CIA misread South Korea signs, documents show. Ex-CIA top official's op-ed supports Miranda rights.
  • News you may have missed #372
    Afghan interior minister and spy chief removed. Analysis: Fight looms over new US intelligence chief. Analysis: The dangers of turning spies into generals.
  • Israeli Navy insiders deplore Gaza flotilla raid
    A day after a former Mossad officer described last week’s Israeli raid on a fleet of Gaza-bound aid ships as “stupid”, former and current Israeli Navy insiders have strongly criticized the bloody operation.
  • US Army intel analyst arrested over Wikileaks prob ...
    Speaking last Thursday at the annual Personal Democracy Conference in New York, Daniel Ellsberg said he was amazed that the US National Security Agency “can’t crack” Wikileaks. The former Pentagon employee, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, was referring to the activist website that anonymous ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Torture Research and Experimentation: Official Pol ...
    Torture Research and Experimentation: Official Policy under Bush and Obama By Stephen Lendman Nazi and imperial Japanese doctors performed horrific human experiments on unwilling subjects. At Auschwitz and other death camps, Josef Mengele, Carl Clauberg, Herta Oberheuser, Karl Brandt, Aribert Hei ...
  • Saudi Arabia Gives Israel Clear Skies To Attack Ir ...
    Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites By Hugh Tomlinson | Times Online Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal. In the week that the UN Security C ...
  • Commentary: Israel And International Law
    Commentary: Israel And International Law By Curtis Doebbler | Al Ahram The siege on Gaza is a violation of norms of international humanitarian law. No state can justify the use of force to perpetuate an illegal situation, writes Curtis Doebbler, a professor of law at An-Najah National University in ...
  • US Peace Memorial Provides First Podcast
    Michael D. Knox of the US Peace Memorial Foundation recently wrote: My first radio interview about the US Peace Memorial is now our first Podcast. Several weeks ago I gave an 18 minute interview for the The Peace & Justice Report on Community Radio Station WSLR in Sarasota, FL. I laid out our mi ...
  • BP, Halliburton and Transocean Have Unleashed Arma ...
    At 2:40 in the video clip, Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida says there are now reports of oil coming through the sea floor. BP, Halliburton and Transocean Have Unleashed Armageddon And Now There Is No Stopping It By Chris Landau | Op Ed News B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Armageddon and ...

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  • Brits mad, and worried, about BP bashing
    by Ben Tuxworth. While it's definitely not a diplomatic incident, and of course Americans don't just think of BP as a British company, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has the British media transfixed. The Daily Mail has in recent days cranked up the anti-American sentiment, lambasting wha ...
  • U.S. doubles Gulf oil flow estimate
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The United States on Thursday more than doubled the estimated size of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. Data suggesting the oil's flow could be upwards of 40,000 barrels a day -- some 1.68 million gallons -- rounded off a miserable day for BP in which i ...
  • Rolling Stone piece oils up Obama
    by Randy Rieland. Barack Obama is doing his darnedest to show his world now revolves around the BP oil spill -- he'll make his fourth trip to the Gulf next week -- but it's hard to shake the feeling that while it may not be too little, it's definitely too late. This week's investigative piece ...
  • Libertarian answer to oil spill: Privatize the oce ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. If there's one thing the leaking gash in the Gulf of Mexico seems to make clear, it's that private companies shouldn't be left unwatched to meddle with the messy innards of our planet. They shouldn't be allowed to open a hole they can't close , as William Saletan ...
  • Backstreet Boys and KORN boycott BP. Oil problem s ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Press release of the week : The Backstreet Boys join popular hard rock band KORN to boycott the purchase of BP oil. Currently on a 35+ North American tour in support of their new album, THIS IS US, BSB promises to embark on a BP free tour. "I'm devastated by wha ...

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  • Getting the Best of Both FinReg Bills
    Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institution fellow and the blogger known as Rortybomb, tells us how to get the best out of the House and Senate FinReg bills, focusing on a few crucial provisions: And, The Wall Street Journal has an excellent comprehensive description of the differences between the two bill ...
  • A Tennessee Valley Authority for the Gulf Coast?
    Via Crooks and Liars, Doug Brinkley, the historian, author and Washington-type, told Anderson Cooper on CNN that administration sources told him there would be a Gulf recovery bill, possibly one including the redirection of the Mississippi River to restore coastal wetlands, in the wake of the Deepwa ...
  • Chance of a Double-Dip ‘Essentially Nil&#821 ...
    At least Macroeconomic Advisers says so. Ben Herzon explains: Early in the recovery many forecasters, concerned that the nascent expansion was fueled only by temporary inventory dynamics and short-lived fiscal stimulus, fretted over the possibility of a double-dip recession. Now, with the emerge ...
  • No Recession for Millionaires as Income Inequality ...
    Via Kevin Drum, Nathaniel Popper at the Los Angeles Times reports that the number and earnings of millionaires have bounced back strongly, though real wages, on aggregate, continue to decline as the hangover from the Great Recession lingers on. No group was immune to the downturn. In 2008, as the fi ...
  • Plurality of Americans Now Oppose Offshore Drillin ...
    Just 44 percent of Americans support an expansion of offshore oil drilling, according to a new Fox News poll — down from 54 percent three weeks ago and 70 percent in early April, before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sent 25,000 barrels of oil a day gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Likew ...

Digg Green

  • Japan Bribed "With Cash, Prostitutes" To Keep Whal ...
    A SUNDAY TIMES investigation has exposed Japan for bribing small nations with cash and prostitutes to gain their support for the mass slaughter of whales. The undercover investigation found officials from six countries were willing to consider selling their votes on the International Whaling Commiss ...
  • Yours Truly, BP
    Some quotes from BP CEO Tony Hayward about the disaster in the gulf.
  • Exxon Valdez Lawyer Offers Dire Warning for Gulf F ...
    Brian O'Neill, an attorney with the enormous law firm Faegre & Benson who represented numerous Alaskans after the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, spoke to the Huffington Post's Sam Stein about the prospects for Gulf Coast fisherman and other would-be plaintiffs harmed by the colossal BP oil spill in the ...
  • Obama's Oil Spill Emotions (VIDEO)
    If you've spent any time at all watching the heroes of cable news grapple with the ongoing oil spill crisis, it should be pretty clear that what they need to get them through the day is for President Obama to stand in front of their cameras and wage a frenzied campaign of emotional warfare against B ...
  • Less Than 1% of Oil-Soaked Birds Survive
    "According to serious studies, the middle-term survival rate of oil-soaked birds is under 1 percent," says Silvia Gaus, a biologist at the Wattenmeer National Park along the North Sea in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Movie Clip – Defending Your Life – Big ...
  • You Couldn’t Make This Up Dept.: “Ther ...
    U.S. astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, alluded to a monolith detected on Mars’ moon Phobos. Speaking on a U.S. cable television channel he said: “We should visit the moons of Mars. There’s a monolith there – a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that ...
  • Study shows how radiation causes breast cancer
    By S. L. Baker It’s well-established that exposure to ionizing radiation can trigger mutations and other genetic damage and cause normal cells to become malignant. So it seems amazing how mainstream medicine frequently dismisses the idea that medical imaging tests from mammograms to CT scans could p ...
  • New British Medical Journal Report Questions Legit ...
    This Friday will mark the one year anniversary of the start of the H1N1 pandemic. But a new joint report from the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism questions the pandemic and alleged conflicts of interest between confidential World Health Organization advisors and th ...
  • New research: Electropollution can cause diabetes ...
    By Mike Adams Most people are familiar with type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes, but did you know researchers have discovered a third type of diabetes? Type-3 diabetes, as they are calling it, affects people who are extra sensitive to electrical devices that emit “dirty” electricity. Type-3 diabetic ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • BP Oil Spill Making People Sick – More Than 70 Peo ...
    More than seventy people in Louisiana have suffered health problems as a result of the BP Oil Spill. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data Gas Spill in Newburyport Poisons River and Sends EPA Scrambling High Altitude Photos of the Lost Horizon BP Oil Spi ...
  • Dances with the Moon: Does Oil Clot?
    Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow the Dances with the Moon series here. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon) Related posts: Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Da ...
  • New Report: What Americans Think of the Smart Grid
    “Separating Smart Grid from Smart Meters? Consumer Perceptions and Expectations of Smart Grid” is the eighth in EcoAlign's EcoPinion series of surveys on energy sector consumer perceptions. Related posts: Living Off-Grid: Micro Hydro Electric Alternative Energy System Americans at Bottom of ...
  • Eco Art Exhibit – Millions of Pieces: Only One Puz ...
    Online exhibition for UN World Environment Day Reveals Rwandaâs Triumphs and Challenges Related posts: Spains Exhibit in Copenhagen Invites Citizens to Record Messages About Climate Change Documentary: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning The Largest Green Plan To Date – The “Gree ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Win a MoMA Modern Play House and Family Set For Yo ...
    Hey Archimamas & Designer Dads (and anyone who has a creative child in your life) Looking for a great gift for that mini aspiring Charles or Ray Eames in your life? Look no further than this adorable modern MoMA playhouse, complete with modern family, from Chronicle Books. No stuffy Victorian d ...
  • Inhabitat Announces 2010 Spring Greening Contest W ...
    AND WE HAVE A WINNER! We’ve got our 2010 Spring Greening Contest winners and boy are they doozies! This year we invited designers and enterprising crafters alike to see if they could turn some drab trash into some amazing treasures. What resulted was a stellar collection of creative DIY projects th ...
  • PostCarden Mini Greeting Card Soccer Field Debuts ...
    Just in time for the World Cup, PostCarden has released this clever mini-garden greeting card to pay homage to the beautiful game of “Football” (apparently what they call it in the rest of the world). Combining gift and greeting card, PostCarden’s Football design is a fun way to share your passion a ...
  • Artist Melts Czech President’s Head as Global Warm ...
    It appears that Czech president Vaclav Klaus is having a bit of a meltdown! Despite the government’s objections, Marketa Jachimova â a sculpture student at Pragueâs Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (AAAD) – has followed through with one of her controversial final projects: an ice bust sh ...
  • PostCarden Mini Greeting Card Soccer Field Debuts ...
    Just in time for the World Cup, PostCarden has released this clever mini-garden greeting card to pay homage to the beautiful game of “Football” (apparently what they call it in the rest of the world). Combining gift and greeting card, PostCarden’s Football design is a fun way to share your passion a ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Random Guy Allegedly Steals Astronaut Sally Ride’s ...
    A Texas man was indicted for stealing one of famed astronaut Sally Ride’s flight suits. Calvin Dale Smith kept the one-piece garment in a suitcase for an unknown number of years, federal investigators allege. He is believed to have obtained the suit during a stint working for the Boeing division th ...
  • Oil Disaster Shows Need for Endangered Species Act ...
    Of the many regulatory problems that helped make the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster possible, the Endangered Species Act’s shortcomings have received little attention — but fixing its flaws and loopholes could help prevent future catastrophes. Oil companies never considered the impacts of a massive sp ...
  • Exoplanet Hunters Finally Catch One in a Star’s De ...
    A giant planet lurks in the dust and debris surrounding a young, nearby star — and astronomers have finally seen it in action. Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers took infrared images of the planet in two different positions around its star in 2003 and late 2009. “It’s so exciting ...
  • No Progress on Better Chemicals for Oil Disaster C ...
    Almost three weeks after federal orders to find less toxic chemicals to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico, no progress has been made. The same dispersant chemicals are still being used. British Petroleum barely tried to test an alternative, and the EPA’s own testing results on the toxicity and eff ...
  • Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First-Ever Solar Sail
    The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According toJAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place. It’s a big step in its attempt to travel driven only by ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Iraq's Shi'ite Coalition, Still Searching for a PM
    Iraqiyya TV (no relation to the Iraqiyya list!) ran a "breaking news" headline on Thursday night announcing an official merger between Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition and the Iraqi National Alliance Shi'ite bloc. Not too exciting, right? The State of Law-INA merger was unofficially annou ...
  • Joint Left-Right Task Force Proposes Defense Cuts
    Yesterday a coalition of thinkers from different progressive and libertarian organizations (including CAP’s Larry Korb) released their Sustainable Defense Task Force report ( PDF ) calling for steep cuts in defense spending as a key element of creating a long-term sustainable fiscal situation. Some ...
  • Nuclear Myanmar
    A recent credible report by the Democratic Voice of Burma that North Korea may have assisted Myanmar's junta to acquire nuclear weapons technology has raised concerns at the international and regional levels. Myanmar is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but it is technically ...
  • Persistence, Not Protest, Marks Election Anniversa ...
    Anyone expecting massive demonstrations in the streets of Tehran today, on the one year anniversary of the controversial election that brought millions of Iranians into the streets to protest in numbers unseen since 1979, will be sorely disappointed. Tehranâs streets, by all accounts, are largely ...
  • Deeper European Integration Needed, But Unlikely
    Via Maria Farrell, wise words from Jurgen Habermas on Germany: After Helmut Kohl, our political elites underwent a sweeping change in mentalities. With the exception of a too-quickly exhausted Joschka Fisher, since Gerhard Schröder took office a normatively unambitious generation has been in power. ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The TAP Five.
    The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. "On Helen Thomas " " It's Not the End of Men " " POTUS Descends Into B-Movie Parody " " How We Talk About Energy " " Learning About the Left From Glenn Beck "
  • Lightning Round: A Reasonably Magical Public Polic ...
    It's impossible to take Republicans seriously on clean energy when they simultaneously propose fleets of electric cars and deny that wind power has "anything to do with reducing America's dependence on oil." At least proposing electric cars is kinda-sorta a plan, but it's not a whole lot better tha ...
  • Declining Support for Offshore Drilling?
    In an outbreak of what seems like sanity, a Fox News poll (via The Washington Independent ) shows that less than half of Americans now support expanding offshore drilling now that they've seen what it can do. As Aaron Wiener points out, this comes at the same time that Sen. Lindsey Graham , a key vo ...
  • More On Caring Less
    Yesterday, I weighed in on a mini-debate about the way people say "I could care less" when what they actually mean is "I couldn't care less." I even suggested that if you encounter someone using this phrase, you should politely explain to him that he's an idiot. This no doubt struck some people as u ...
  • The Little Picture: Chancellor Angela Merkel.
    Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel this week proposed 80 billion euros in spending cuts and new fees in order to reduce her country's budget deficit. It's just one instance of a growing trend of fiscal tightening amongst countries around the world: If their timing is right, the leaders ...

Andy Worthington

  • Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues
    Sometimes the truth is so sickening that no one in a position of authority — senior government officials, lawmakers, the mainstream media — wants to go anywhere near it. This appears to be the case with the deaths of three men at Guantánamo on June 9, 2006. According to the official version of even ...
  • Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Gua ...
    The recently released Final Report of President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force (PDF) was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining 181 prisoners, given that it took eleven months to complete, and involved “more than 60 career professionals, including i ...
  • A Voice from Iraq: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Spea ...
    In a fascinating interview with Mohammed Furat, the Iraqi editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), an Iraqi and former Guantánamo prisoner (one of the three Iraqis released from Guantánamo in January 2009), told his story. His account is fascinating on his own terms, as it provides ...
  • Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask U ...
    As I have explained in two recent articles, a global scramble by the Obama administration to find new homes for 17 Uighurs (Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province) who were, or are held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, has had mixed results. The men won their habeas corpus petitions in a US court ...
  • Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?
    On June 2 last year, the Pentagon announced that a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, Mohammed al-Hanashi (also known as Muhammad Salih) had died, reportedly by committing suicide. He was the fifth reported suicide at Guantánamo, following three deaths on June 9, 2006 and another on May 30, 2007, and he ...

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  • Two Polls and Two Really Bad Jokes
    Poll 1. Research 2000 just pretty much confirmed the state of the Connecticut Senate race between Blumenthal and McMahon: Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/24-26. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 1/11-13 results) Dick Blumenthal (D) 52 (56) Linda McMahon (R) 33 (34) It'd been a while since we polled Co ...
  • Movin' On!
    Just to the other side of town. :) I am at the point where I can choose to live in a half empty house with only a computer and a lot of furniture (minus the drawers of "stuff" that are already moved) or live in a house with a TV and no furniture inside (though we do have our patio furniture moved ...
  • McMahon Gushes Over Deregulating Oil
    McMahon Campaign Literature From TheDay.com According to The Day and at the same time that we are witnessing the results of the typical Republican deregulation-run-amok of anything that moves money to these Multinational Oil Corporations wash in ashore as tar balls and dead dolphins on American shor ...
  • An Arizona Minutemen Group Folds
    Apparently, either they were shocked that people answered their calls to violence or they are broke from their profiteering leaderships' greed. The only question in my mind is "how will they reincarnate their particular brand of crazy?" Because as long as there are crazy people around there wil ...
  • Support The Troops - Pay Your Taxes
    Connecticut Man1 It is the tax deadline and this stuff is pretty self explanatory. You pay taxes and they get beans, bullets and valuable training that might just save their lives. When you want tax cut after tax cut? The active duty soldiers serving overseas, in training here or elsewhere and the ...

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  • What’s in a Name? For Donna Lee Wray©, Millio ...
    Many people, seeing their immediate family members killed after allegedly murdering two police officers, might retreat into pained silence. Some might even find a way to express their condolences to the officers’ loved ones. Not Donna Lee Wray. On the contrary, the 50-year-old Floridian who describe ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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  • More Deaths at SeaWorld Challenge Breeding Program
    This time, the casualties are Taima, a 20-year-old orca, and her stillborn calf. Last week, Annie Hartnett  wrote about SeaWorld’s announcement that two of its orcas were pregnant, and that Tilikum, the whale involved in the drowning of trainer Dawn Brancheau three months ago, was the father. This w ...
  • Developing World Diseases To Hit Rich Countries So ...
    Kenyan health officials have enough on their mind without having to think about climate change. But already, they are facing the direct and practical consequences of a global rise in temperatures. For the first time, malaria is spreading from the humid coastal lowlands to the cooler mountain regions ...
  • Dolphin Uses iPad to Communicate With Humans
    A bottlenose dolphin named Merlin is being trained to communicate with humans — by using his beak to tap symbols on an Apple iPad touch screen. Two-year-old Merlin is shown real objects like a ball and a plastic duck, and then asked to touch photos of the same objects on the iPad. The app was create ...
  • FDA to Review More Effective Emergency Contracepti ...
    There is exciting news in the world of emergency contraception: Next week, a Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee will meet to discuss whether to approve a new pregnancy prevention pill that is effective up to five days after sex. This new pill, known commercially as ellaOne ...
  • "Exporting Hate" Exposes Role of U.S. Evangelical ...
    The climate toward gay people in Uganda is terrifying. Gay Ugandans can already face up to 14 years in prison for homosexual acts. And now, with the Parliament considering legislation proposed by David Bahati that would impose the death penalty or life imprisonment on offenders of "homosexual act ...

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  • Fear of 'Secret Cables' Fuels Pentagon Manhunt for ...
    by Philip Shenon Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national secu ...
  • Ordinary Gazans, Not Hamas, Hurt Most by 3-Year Bl ...
    by Karin Laub and Diaa Hadid GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Three out of four factories in Gaza have closed because they can't import or export. Legitimate businesses have been replaced by a Hamas-controlled black market economy. Millions of gallons of sewage are pumped into the sea every day because a lac ...
  • Hope for Two-State Solution 'Beginning to Erode': ...
    WASHINGTON – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned that lack of progress toward Middle East peace was eroding faith that a two-state solution could end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A day after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, Abbas said the stagnation of the pea ...
  • Volley of US Missiles Hits NW Pakistan in Two Sepa ...
    by Rasool Dawar DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A volley of U.S. missiles killed 15 alleged militants in an extremist stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the second such strike in less than 12 hours, officials said. The Obama administration regards missile attacks from drone aircraft as a ke ...
  • Obama's Afghanistan Strategy: The News is Bad
    by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - While U.S. officials insist they are making progress in reversing the momentum built up by the Taliban insurgency over the last several years, the latest news from Afghanistan suggests the opposite may be closer to the truth. read more

Lifehacker

  • Skobbler Brings Free Turn-by-Turn Navigation to Yo ...
    If you've been stricken with Android-envy thanks to Google's fantastic and free turn-by-turn Maps Navigation—well, Skobbler isn't the cure. But it is a decent free option for directionally-challenged iPhone users. More » ...
  • Turn Old Silverware into Beautiful Garden Markers ...
    Marking your garden and herb pots is a handy practice for easy identification but garden markers can detract from the beauty of your garden. These DIY markers have a vintage look that's right at home in a garden. More�� ...
  • Top 10 Strategies for Surviving Airports and Airpl ...
    You've packed your things and made it to the airport—now the real fun begins. Want a better way of protecting your stuff, getting online, and cutting through red tape? Try these 10 tips for a better air travel experience. More » ...
  • Make Your Own DIY Projector Out of Cereal Boxes [D ...
    If you're thinking about adding a projector to your home, DIY site Instructables has a step-by-step guide on how to create your own functional projector for much less than you would ever pay retail. More�� Recreation - ...
  • Use a Cat Door to Turn a Closet into a Hidden Cat ...
    When you think of cat doors you probably think of a way for cats to go in and out of a house with ease. This hack uses a cat door to give your cat access to a hidden litter box. More�� Cat - Pets - Recreation - Shopping ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Dead Pelicans = Outrage, Dead Afghans = Meh
    Perhaps a productive avenue would be to resurrect the debate over the success of the Iraqi surge by explicitly tying it to the Afghan one.
  • Stasis is losing
    Local actors and local interests will dominate unless the US and NATO are able to achieve smashing victories in the next six months.  Those types of victories are highly improbable, so we should expect to see local deals being cut or a CIA sponsored coup to allow the US public to be sold a need to ...
  • Secretary Gates, Backpedaling
    By Derrick Crowe Defense Secretary Gates wants to extricate himself and the president from the impending P.R. disaster shaping up around the flailing Kandahar operation set for this Summer Fall. "I think it's important to remember that Kandahar is not Afghanistan," Gates said in comments that appear ...
  • The Peace Jirga: A Pretense At Sovereignty
    By Steve Hynd Well, Hamid Karzai has had his peace jirga and like any political conference packed with yes-men it delivered exactly what he wanted it to. But how much use will it be? Well, Karzai will use the jirga as a reason to ask for one heck of a lot of money at the upcoming Kabul Conference, t ...
  • 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. ...

Water Wars

  • See the Phoenix Zoo in a whole new light
    The Phoenix Zoo is opening its doors after dark Saturday night so you can experience the zoo at night.
  • New column lets you know what's going on this summ ...
    As a recent college graduate, managing my money is more important to me than ever, but I still want to a memorable and fantastic summer. I cant help but wonder: Is it possible to have a fun summer without sinking deeper into debt?
  • Lets Stop the Expansion of Nuclear Power
    According to current nuclear industry proposals, over two dozen new nuclear reactors would be constructed in the United States, the vast majority in the Southeast and Texas.
  • Lets Stop the Expansion of Nuclear Power
    According to current nuclear industry proposals, over two dozen new nuclear reactors would be constructed in the United States, the vast majority in the Southeast and Texas.
  • New column lets you know what's going on this summ ...
    As a recent college graduate, managing my money is more important to me than ever, but I still want to a memorable and fantastic summer. I cant help but wonder: Is it possible to have a fun summer without sinking deeper into debt?

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Gestural interface: like a Wacom tablet, just with ...
    Via SlashDot, here’s a project from Potsdam University in which the clever boffins have built a user interface that requires only hand gestures as input: We present Imaginary Interfaces, screen-less devices that allow users to perform spatial interaction with empty hands and without visual feedback. ...
  • Did the Iranian “Twitter Revolution” actually happ ...
    You know, I’m always advising people not to believe everything they read, but I’m just as bad at doing it as anyone else – we all give credence to the stories we want to believe, I guess (and hell knows that media companies know how to exploit that). So, remember the Twitter Revolution in Iran? That ...
  • Personality back-ups: immortality through avatars?
    The possibility of digitising the human mind is one of those questions that will only be closed by its successful achievement, I think; there’ll always be an argument for its possibility, because the only way to disprove it would be to quantify how personality and mind actually work, and if we could ...
  • Physical gender not determined by XY chromosomes a ...
    Via Cheryl Morgan, news of recent research that’s blown holes in a lot of our preconceptions about how the physical sex of a mammal is determined by genetics. I’ll quote Cheryl rather than the article, because she uses less sciencespeak: We have known for a long time that physical sex is much more c ...
  • The multiphrenic world: Stowe Boyd strikes back on ...
    … which is really a neologism for its own sake (a favourite gambit of Boyd’s, as far as I can tell). But let’s not distract from his radical (and lengthy) counterblast to a New York Times piece about “gadget addiction”, which chimes with Nick Carr’s Eeyore-ish handwringing over attention spans, as m ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • False Claims Act Seminar CLE Credit Approved for P ...
    Our upcoming seminar titled “Integrating the False Claims Act into Your Law Practice” is now approved for CLE credit in Pennsylvania and Ohio for attorneys who choose to attend the seminar in our offices in Washington, D.C. Attorneys also have the option to attend via teleconference, but not for CLE ...
  • Ellsberg ciriticizes Obama for prosecution of whis ...
    Speigel Online is today releasing an interview with Daniel Ellsberg in which Ellsberg criticizes the Obama administration for increasing the use of criminal prosecutions against whistleblowers.� Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to reveal how numerous previous administrations had resorted to lyi ...
  • Senator Grassley Backs UBS Whistleblower, Swiss Pa ...
    *This post was drafted by Meryl Grenadier (NWC fellow) In the past 24 hours there have been significant developments in the case of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld . Three years ago, the former UBS banker provided the U.S. government with detailed information on how to identify the names o ...
  • US government arrests another whistleblower
    The U.S. government has arrested another whistleblower. Wired.com reports that the government is holding Specialist Bradley Manning in detention in Kuwait pending charges that he supplied a classified video to WikiLeaks.org.� I reported here in April that this video depicts US armed forces killing a ...
  • ALI proposes a duty of loyalty threatening to whis ...
    The American Law Institute (ALI) is a private organization of establishment lawyers and law professors that seeks to influence the law by publishing “restatements” of the law. In its noblest work, it seeks to make the law of the 50 united states more uniform by “restating” the law in a cogent organ ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Is Intellectual Property Itself Unethical?
    For many years I've argued that the economics of abundance is not a moral issue . This is in response to the typical moral and ethical arguments in favor of things like excessive copyright or patent law, with normative claims about how we must protect artists' or inventors' creations for moral reas ...
  • Red Flags Suggest Potential E-Voting Issues In Biz ...
    Earlier this week, Pickle Monger pointed us to the very, very bizarre story of Alvin Greene winning the South Carolina Democratic primary despite being broke, unemployed, holding no campaign appearances or rallies, and having raised no money. No one knew who the guy was, basically, until after the ...
  • More People Realizing That ASCAP And BMI Are Killi ...
    The Guardian recently had an article wondering if "the internet" was killing the idea of the local music scene with a "local sound." In discussing that article, Glyn Moody says it's much more likely that it's absurd licensing regimes that are killing local scenes. Indeed. This is something we've ...
  • Let's Face Facts: Google Isn't So Open At Times Ei ...
    There's a new battle brewing between Google and Apple over where the internet is headed next. At recent developer conferences for both companies, execs took very clear potshots at each other, and now they're directly sniping at each other over openness. Google recently purchased AdMob, a mobil ...
  • Finland Plans To Decriminalize Open WiFi
    Different countries have taken different approaches to the legality of "open WiFi." We've often heard about police going around and trying to shut down open WiFi networks, but that seemed silly: what if you actually wanted to offer open WiFi? Back in 2005, Finland freaked out about the concept of ...

VacTruth

  • HPV vaccine comes under spotlight in S. Korea
    People’s Daily Online 06/08/2010 The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, though a bit of a tongue-twister, has been one of the latest buzzwords for South Korean obstetricians and gynecologists. Many of them have lately jumped on the global bandwagon of promoting the HPV vaccines designed to protect ...
  • Only one third of young girls get HPV vaccine
    Jim Dryden Washington University in St. Louis 06/01/2010 Only about one in three young women has received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to help prevent cervical cancer, according to a new report from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings are pub ...
  • Free vaccine against AH1N1 now available – D ...
    Joy Hernandez Philippine Information Agency 06/04/2010 (Editor’s note: Pay special attention to the language for words such as “erradicate, safe, efficacious, proven, etc.” as they are all propaganda language “triggers.”) San Fernando City, Pampanga (4 June) — In a bid to totally eradicate A(H1N1), ...
  • Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Imm ...
    Cynthia A. Janak Renew America 06/06/2010 This report just makes my blood boil because of all the misinformation that they provide to make these vaccines appear to be safe. The recommendations in this portion of the document prove that the health and wellbeing of our children come in second to prof ...
  • Top 10 vaccine stories of the year (so far)
    There are many stories concerning vaccines. We took the liberty of taking the top 10 stories of the year for the first six months of 2010. Enjoy!

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really wish I wrote this article on marriage. Here is an inside look at boot camp.  Seem to be quite a few people out there who became anarchists because of their military experience.  Perhaps we should station ourselves outside forts and hand out copies of anarchist texts? Just kidding.  Prett ...
  • Anarchy, Disability, Purity, and Doubt
    I’ve been thinking about the Americans with Disabilities Act and about a conversation I recently had about social security.  You would think that, as an anarchist who wants a stateless society, I would be against both.  That would be the ideologically pure position, no?  To be honest, I’ve had a ...
  • Vilifying Palestinians, Erasing Movements
    There is no justification for the actions that the Israeli government took this week.  There is no justification for the blockade on Gaza.  There is no defense for allowing settlers to invade Palestinian land, eating it up piece by piece.  The apartheid in Israel/Palestine is immoral, unjust, inh ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Issue number 5 of the ALLiance journal is out.  This issue focuses on radical labor, especially the IWW.  Some good stuff in there (and I’m not just saying that because they included one of my articles). I wanted to stand up and cheer when I read this article about misogyny in radical movements.  ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • A 'Mosaic' of Green Features at New Prague Hotel
    Photo via Mosaic House Count Prague in on the trend toward green hostels and hotels: The opening late last week of a cool new central-city accommodation not only provides a fresh option for eco-conscious travelers, it also marks a green "first" or two for the entire Czech Republic.... Read the ...
  • Adopt a Neglected Farm Animal Through the Farm Ani ...
    photo: Farm Sanctuary Back in March Farm Sanctuary rescued six calves that had almost starved to death from a farm in Pennsylvania. After much hard work and round the clock care the SPCA and Farm Sanctuary were able to nurse Sasha, Jasper, Filipe, Teddy, Vito, Clancy, Poncho, and Amigo back to ...
  • Hit the Trails Running in Timberland's Green Runni ...
    Courtesy photo. While Terra Plana's VivoBarefoots are on one end of the low-impact running shoe spectrum, for those of us not ready to forgo the conventional sneaker, there is the "Mountain Athletic Route Racer", Timberland 's new high performance outdoor running shoe with outsoles made with Gr ...
  • World Cup: What to Wear When Watching It
    Image from Philosophers Football Sic transit. We asked this important question in 2006 when the World Cup for football (soccer) was held in Germany and here we are again still pondering the universe, as the championship moves to South Africa. We know that the teams will be sporting jerseys b ...
  • Unplugged: Organic and Affordable Solar Power
    The Millennium Technology Prize trophy, named "Peak," features a silicon tip. Back in 1991, Professor Michael Graetzel from the Lausanne Polytechnic invented what's now called the Graetzel Cell , a non-photovoltaic solar cell made of a layer of titanium dioxide, glass and a dye from fruit that ...

Biosingularity

  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
  • Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
    People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...
  • Examining Individual Tumor Cells
    Despite decades of research into cancer biology, researchers still dont fully understand what happens to the malignant cells DNA as they mutate. Its not an idle question: The better biologists appreciate how DNA changes, the better they can create therapies that specifically target the disease. Now ...
  • Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
    Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • New Congressional initiative to create 'wildlife c ...
    Policies contained in this bill would empower bureaucrats at the FWS to wield their already considerable administrative power even more relentlessly.
  • CFACT Bonn press conference: Flawed process must ...
    CFACT spokesmen: "We must resolve to ensure adequate and affordable energy to every person on earth. Renewables may soothe western anxieties, but they are not currently able to meet the needs of humanity in a truly meaningful way."
  • Oil Spill puts BP in troubled water
    Of the parties involved in the spill, none has garnered more attention than BP. The giant British oil company has been criticized for its apparent lack of contingency plans to deal with the kind of leaks that can occur when drilling nearly a mile below the gulf's surface.
  • Sinking climate change: Cal Thomas points to Clim ...
    Watch for the hard-core "global warming" cultists to continue clinging to their beliefs; but also watch increasing numbers of scientists and eventually politicians to abandon this once "certain" faith.
  • Fortune, glory drive global warming bandwagon
    Clearly, too much money is being spent on one-sided global warming advocacy cloaked as “research,â€Â not enough on natural causes and adaptation. Despite the best of intentions, too much money can corrupt, or at least skew the science.

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Pruning Shears

  • Will public anxiety on the oil spill be harnessed ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post One of the striking features of contemporary Washington is the unwillingness to appeal to a sense of common purpose or shared sacrifice (except in the perennially favored Beltway project to shred what’s left of the safety net). Mayb ...
  • Maybe They're Planning a Coast-To-Coast Spending S ...
    Ben Bernanke (emph. added): “Right now I don’t think is the time — this very moment is not the time — to radically reduce our spending or raise our taxes because the economy is still in recovery mode and needs that support.” Could he explain how Dan Duncan’s descendants will provide a superior macr ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Abbreviated “power outage during usual blogging time” edition. To the extent that Barack Obama is expanding the nature and scope of America’s use of violence he is a much, much more lawless and bellicose president than his predecesso ...
  • Miscellany
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’m on semi-vacation this week, so here’s a semi-post. The worst case is not leaking until Christmas . The worst case is leaking until all the oil is gone. We ought to make that our default assumption and only adjust it in the face ...
  • 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 ...

Natural Health News

  • A Simple Solution to World Health Issues: Toilets
    According to statistics from the World Health Organization and UNICEF, 2.6 billion people worldwide engage in open defecation. The lack of toilets is the cause of 2 million preventable deaths a year, mostly from a variety of dysentery-like ailments that result from ingesting human fecal matter. Wit ...
  • Nocturnal Alertness Improves After Bright Light Fl ...
    Exposure to millisecond flashes of bright light improves alertness at night, according to research. The results indicate that subjective sleepiness decreased and objective alertness improved after participants received a two-millisecond pulse of bright light once per minute for 60 minutes. Eurekal ...
  • Hip Exercises Reduce Knee Pain
    New research shows that a twice weekly hip strengthening regimen proved effective at reducing or eliminating the kind of knee pain referred to as patellofemoral pain (PFP) in female runners.� Stronger hips may correct running form errors that contribute to PFP. The study used a pain scale of 0 to 1 ...
  • Early Consumption of Soda Indicator of Unhealthy D ...
    Young girls who drink soda have less healthy diets throughout their adolescence, according to new research. The ten-year study showed that girls who were already soda drinkers at age five had diets that were less likely to meet nutritional standards. Girls who did not drink soda at age five had hea ...
  • Vigorous Exercise Strengthens Hip Bones
    Vigorous physical activity in young children results in stronger hip bones. More than 200 six-year olds participated in a study. Researchers measured bone mass and analyzed the structure of the hip and thigh bone. Physical activity was assessed for seven days. According to Science Daily: “The res ...

Antemedius

  • Saudis Grant Israel Air Corridor To Attack Iran
    � Image: Laura Canali, Heartland Eurasian Review of Geopolitics �Click image to enlarge The UK Times Online reported today that "In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narro ...
  • 54 Tips on Things You Must Do While in South Afric ...
    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the world are headed to South Africa to watch the World Cup, descending on Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, and six other cities across the country for the biggest sporting event t ...
  • American Denial: Living in a Can’t-Do Nation
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com 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. I graduated in 1966 on a gloriously sunny day; then again, it was a sunnier moment in this country.� We were, after all, still surfing the cres ...
  • Prophecies Are for Violating
    By David Swanson I wrote a review of Karen Malpede's new play " Prophecy " when I had only read but not yet seen it. Karen read the review and invited me to lead the first in a series of talk-back discussions following performances in New York, and I did so on Wednesday. For that incredible privil ...
  • The BS About The Loss Of Oil Industry Jobs
    There is a meme that I am starting to hear from the Republicans and the Democrats that have become wholly owned subsidiaries of the oil industry. It is the idea that there will be massive job losses from the suspension of deep water drilling in the Gulf and elsewhere. Rule one in any Republicans pla ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Push for More School Food Production Gardens c ...
    On Saturday, June 5th, DC Prep Academy Charter School and Rails to Trails Conservancy teamed up to add another urban/school garden into the growing rolls of urban agriculture taking place around the country. The 1000 square foot garden set in Northeast D.C.’s Edgewood community will combine an edibl ...
  • Oil disaster may not affect seafood prices drastic ...
    The Deepwater Horizon/ BP oil rig has been leaking for seven weeks and counting, and is already responsible for one of the worst environmental disasters in our nation’s history. The spill, among other things, highlights our intimate connection to aquatic ecosystems. Last week, the National Oceanog ...
  • AVMA Member Hopeful Association Will Revisit Antim ...
    U.S. industrial animal agriculture routinely incorporates low-dose concentrations of antimicrobials into the feed or water of healthy production animals for the purposes of growth promotion and feed efficiency, an application approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This practice sel ...
  • Eat Less Meat, Eat Better Meat
    The list of Meatless Monday supporters continues to grow across the globe, and surprisingly to some, many of the latest enthusiasts make their living either cooking meat, such as chef Mario Batali or producing it, like rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman. What makes Meatless Monday so successful is its sim ...
  • Nearly 1,000 Chefs Answer First Lady ‘s Call to Ad ...
    History was made Friday in Washington, DC as hundreds of chefs from more than 37 states descended on the South Lawn of the White House in hopes of accomplishing one thing — bringing an end to childhood obesity. Each of these gastronomical experts answered the call of First Lady Michelle Obama to ado ...

Norwegianity

  • Pop’s fickle flirtations with femme fatales
    Just a hunch, but I’m guessing you haven’t thought about Imelda Marcos in a while. In fact, I’m guessing you haven’t thought of any of the people in that video for a while. Carter I think about now and then, Kissinger less often and in a very different way. I used to think about Nixon [...]
  • B[lee]P
    Avedon Carol sums up the week in BP: Dan of Pruning Shears noted in my comments that any day now we’d be hearing bleatings about how BP has to be protected because hurting them will hurt the pensions of all those Britons whose pension funds have been invested in BP, and sure enough I saw [...]
  • Talking trash
    Trash talkers: Warren Sapp Michelle Bachmann Pete Peterson There are, of course, those who take out the trash. Steve Benen the Iowa Republican Party The Hague
  • It makes sense to strangle Chuck Schumer, literall ...
    When a Democratic senator loses Hullabaloo co-poster Tristero’s vote, I think that senator has a problem with his base. Chuck Schumer should not have said this, even if we knew he was already thinking it: [T]o me, since the Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas, while certainly there should be humanit ...
  • Giving C&L a colonoscopy
    An accidental but very scary juxtapositioning of posts at Crooks & Liars yesterday. At 3 pm David Friday posted “Pelosi: We’ll stop blaming Bush when his problems go away.” An hour later Susie Madrak posted “Rolling Stone: Dept. of Interior Employees Say It’s The Third Bush Term. Drill, Baby, Drill! ...

The Seferm Post

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

The World We Live In

  • 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Leahy and DeFazio Circulate “Dear Colleague& ...
    ACTION ALERT: Senator Leahy and Representative DeFazio are circulating a Congressional sign-on letter in the House and Senate “Asking USDA to Maintain the Ban on Genetically Engineered Alfalfa.”   Contact your Senators and Representative today and ask them to sign on!  Filed under: GE Crops, GE Fo ...
  • Update: CFS Fighting Monsanto in the Supreme Court ...
    On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Watch a short message from CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell, an ...
  • Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
        Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
  • CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
    High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
  • Happy Earth Day!
    This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • WHO’S KNOCKING ON EASTERN DOOR?
    MNN. Nov. 7, 2009. Are we Mohawks unwitting pawns in a power struggle between colonial thugs? We are the Keepers of the Eastern Door of Great Turtle Island. Agents are hanging around us all the time trying to gather information. Why? How to disrupt a Mohawk community. Kanehsatake was declared as hav ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmar ...
    EXCLUSIVE: New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmara of Israel's Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla-Democracy Now! : "In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we bring you a sneak preview of previously unseen raw footage from the Mavi Marmara that will be formally released at a press conference at the United ...
  • Arizona: For Whites Only?
    Arizona: For Whites Only? | The Atlanta Post by R. L’Heureux Lewis Recently, I penned a piece discussing the need for Black folks to join in with the fight against Arizona’s racist immigration bill SB 1070. My goal was to challenge Black folks, to think beyond the immediate immigration bill to the ...
  • Justice: Policing the innocent, domestically and a ...
    altmuslim - Justice: Policing the innocent, domestically and abroad By Muneera Shariff Gardezi, June 9, 2010 Oscar could be you Los Angeles, California “You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.” - Ho Chi Minh We’ ...
  • Young Sid: "I did it for my city".
    �By Omar Hamed Source South Auckland rapper Young Sid has just released his second album What Doesn’t Kill Me. The songs provide a gritty sequel to Smashproof’s The Weekend and provide the listener with new maps of the south Auckland underworld. In this review Omar Hamed argues that Young ...

Pensieve

  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Smart Eco-friendly Hotel Rooms
    The future looks bright – and green – for hotel rooms. New technology will allow guests and hotel managers to control energy usage.
  • Environmental News -09/06/10
    Environmental News Underground green economy employing millions The major driver of growth in the the twenty-first century will be 'restoration economy' that is redeveloping nations, revitalising cities, and expanding ecosystems.There's a new economy springing up around the country -- b ...
  • Landcare Hero in Your Hands
    Recognise the volunteers who rebuild the Australian landscape – it’s time to vote for your favourite Landcare Hero!
  • Environmental News -08/06/10
    Environmental News We need more green areas on our blue planet If it's true that bad news sells newspapers, our oceans have been contributing to a fair share of sales in recent months. With the passing of World Ocean's Day today, it is appropriate to reflect on how critical oceans are t ...
  • Parabens – An In-depth Review
    What do you really know about the products you apply everyday? Are there unknown effects that might add up over the years?

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Tali ...
    ShareThis Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban' 13 Jun 2010 Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says. Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested that ISI intell ...
  • Israel looted Flotilla, activists say
    ShareThis Israel looted Flotilla, activists say 12 Jun 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla activists say they were robbed of their cash and equipment by the Israeli military after their ships came under a deadly attack on May 31. According to Gaza flotilla survivors speaking to Press TV, activists on board t ...
  • Arab League head calls for end of Gaza blockade
    ShareThis Arab League head calls for end of Gaza blockade 13 Jun 2010 The blockade on the Gaza Strip "must be broken", the head of the Arab League Amr Moussa has said. The Arab world's most senior diplomat spoke at the beginning of his first trip to the Palestinian territory.
  • Karzai: Americans attacked peace conference, not T ...
    ShareThis Karzai: Americans attacked peace conference, not Taliban 11 Jun 2010 Two senior Afghan officials were showing President Hamid Karzai the evidence of the spectacular rocket attack on a nationwide peace conference earlier this month when Mr. Karzai told them that he believed the Taliban were ...
  • North Korea Threatens 'All-Out Military Strike' on ...
    ShareThis North Korea Threatens 'All-Out Military Strike' on South's Loudspeakers 12 Jun 2010 North Korea warned of an "all-out military strike” to destroy South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda tools along their fortified border, according to the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Commandos be ashamed! Why did you kill so ...
    By Amir Terkel That’s the banner this bus driver  decided to adorn his bus with. Speaking of signs and the commandos, I’ve seen quite a few large banners along the highway that read: “Commando Soldiers, Israel is proud of you!” Public rage against opposing views has reached a boiling point. Las ...
  • 13 Year Old Arrested in Bil’in–Update
    A few days ago, I posted a video of a young child in Bil’in being arrested while working in his olive groves with his family.  In the follow up video below, the child, Fadi Al-Khatib,  talks about what happened after the last video left off, including being left blindfolded with his hands tied beh ...
  • Villages Group: Some Creative Ways to Counter the ...
    (crossposted from the Villages Group blog, where more pics can be found) The text below, beautifully written by David, can be seen embedded in the images by clicking on this sentence (pdf) The desire for a permanent house is a most conventional desire in our society. A house is usually conceived as ...
  • Israel about to criminalize BDS
    What is Israel’s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course! We just learned new bill has been introduced in the Israeli Knesset by 25 Knesset members, that would criminalize all BDS activities or even BDS advocacy inside or outs ...
  • Helen Thomas response, hypocrisy here and there
    By Cecilie Surasky, crossposted from Muzzlewatch.com It’s impossible to defend White House Grande Dame of journalism Helen Thomas’ recent off the cuff statement that Israeli Jews should go back to Germany…..or Poland. (She said Israel should get out of Palestine, but it wasn’t clear if she mea ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • BP official admits to damage beneath the sea floor
    Naked Capitalism cites WaPo, Bloomberg, and WSJ stories quoting reliable sources that the well casing under the sea floor is broken and damaged. The evidence is growing stronger and stronger that there is substantial damage beneath the sea floor. Indeed, it appears that BP officials themselves hav ...
  • Old ink cartridges create bike path in Australia
    West MacDonnell National Park in Australia created a 17km bike path and viewing platform for $130,000 from old ink cartridges, which is both a great example of recycling and it will save them money in the long run because the material is so durable.
  • About the relief wells
    Cringely What about the safety wells and their drilling platforms? Are they in better shape than the platform that exploded and sank? No. According to people who should know what they are talking about, BP’s rig currently drilling the first relief well has worse safety violations than did the BP ri ...
  • Abby Sunderland
    Was it crazy to allow a 16 year old girl to try to sail around the world alone? Maybe. But in 50 foot seas, with her boat capsizing and then losing its mast, she did everything right. This shows she’s an accomplished sailor who doesn’t panic. Because she’d probably be dead if she wasn’t. Their [... ...
  • Hugo sings
    Marc Cooper This is so stupid, I am not going to bother to translate this little ditty from Hugo Chavez. The gist of it is that he expresses sorrow for all of the poor people condemned to live in the U.S. and then he sings a song about how he doesn’t love Hillary Clinton. It’s [...]

Coteret

  • Fellini in Bilin
    Watch this video from the suppression Friday’s  (June 4 2010) anti-Barrier protest at the West Bank village of Bilin. From 01:40 begins a scene which could have come straight from Satyricon: A group of helmeted, visored, and armored soldiers with long rectangular shields assaults a parade float o ...
  • Hasbara Derangement Syndrome
    Watching yesterday’s (June 6 2010) Israeli Channel Ten TV evening news, I had the dubious pleasure of watching a Caroline Glick and her merry band of Hasbaristas celebrate. They were sitting around Glick’s kitchen table, clinking champagne glasses. At one point, the hostess banged on the table and a ...
  • Caroline Glick’s “We Con the World&#82 ...
    On Friday (June 4 2010,) uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic published a post entitled Israel Derangement Syndrome III. It linked to We Con the World, a remarkable video clip produced by Latma, the right-wing satire project lead by Caroline Glick, who doubles as The Jerusalem Post’s De ...
  • Elliott Abrams to Maariv: Obama’s policies b ...
    Last weekend, Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom featured Newt Gingrinch warning Israelis that Obama’s policies could lead to “a second Holocaust.” Now, Elliott Abrams is in Israel for an event organized by Dore Gold’s neoconservative institute, the JCPA, and the competition, Maariv, interviews him o ...
  • Maariv and Yediot: Erdogan landed military planes ...
    This appears to be an extraordinary story, from this morning’s Yediot (June 2 2010, full translated text below, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post): Yesterday, the Turkish authorities demanded that Israel release all 350 of the Turkish citizens who were among the 600 foreign detainees.  For ...

Deadline Live

  • Poland Arrest Israeli Mossad Agent In Connection W ...
    June 12, 2010 MSNBC Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Saudi Arabia Gives Israel Clear Skies to Attack Ir ...
    LONDON — Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defenses to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iranâs nuclear facilities, The Times of London reported Saturday. In the week that the U.N. Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defense sources in the ...
  • Governor: National Guard staging for “effort to ev ...
    Governor Jindal Sends Letters to Dept. of Defense and Dept. of Homeland Security Requesting National Guard to Support Oil Spill Response Efforts Baton Rouge: Governor Bobby Jindal sent the following letters to the Secretaries of the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security r ...
  • UK PM says Twin Towers were BLOWN UP !!!
    This morning on BBC news as David Cameron gave a speech to the troops in Afghanistan he said “In/on 9-11 when the twin towers were Blown up” … Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | [...]
  • “Arrest Me, I am a Terrorist”
    Americans who supported, organized, or were on the flotilla headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid stormed the office of U.S. Congressmen Brad Sherman and turned themselves in for their “crimes.” The stunt was in response to Sherman’s call for Americans on the flotilla be arrested for helping “ter ...

The Air Vent

  • TEEB Part II
    Aother guest post from Sam at Climatequotes, as before click the title for the main article.  The UN seems incapable of factual work these days. ————– Yesterday I posted about how the UN TEEB report had an error in the very first chapter relating to forest cover. There are two more errors I’ll cove ...
  • More UN alarmism exposed by Climatequotes blog
    Reposted from Climatequotes blog, click the headline for the original. TEEB report has multiple errors in first chapter alone, Part #1 It’s been quiet here for over a month. This has been a busy time for me, I am now a college graduate (and looking for a job, know of any?). I intend to continue [... ...
  • Pollarizing the discussion
    Sorry folks, no time to play today — again.  Has anyone paid any attention to the idiotic climate poles lately? Stanford survey finds more doubt global warming And from more leftists at Grist. New poll shows (again) that public likes clean energy, doesnât like taxes
  • Natural Warming
    Roy Spencer has another interesting post where he uses PDO, AMO and SOI to predict the warming post 1978. He used the 3 factors and temperature to calculate a weighting factor in pre-1960 and it resulted in a prediction of warming in the post 1978 timeframe.  Recently Eric Steig challenged us to be ...
  • No more free speech, Obama thinks it should cost
    We have to get these corrupt liberals out of office asap.  This is as evil as anything any government can do, and is nothing less than a full takeover of the media. A link to the official documents is here. new-staff-discussion[1] It’s bad enough that our extremist in chief doesn’t need to answer d ...

Focal Point

  • Review: "The Beauty Bias" by Deborah Rhode
    Today I review Deborah Rhode's excellent book, " The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Work " ( Oxford University Press , 2010) for Working In These Times. Here are a few additional thoughts I had on "The Beauty Bias": Rhode, a Stanford law professor, argues that appearance-base ...
  • BP Spills Coffee (Video)
    UCB Comedy shows what happens when someone upends a cup of joe at BP HQ. Photo credit: Flickr user TN Something Special Cakes , licensed under Creative Commons.
  • U.S. Intel Analyst Arrested Over Release of Combat ...
    A 22-year-old U.S. intelligence analyst has been arrested for allegedly giving classified combat footage of a U.S. helicopter crew killing civilians to Wikileaks , an online repository of leaked documents. The footage made international headlines because it appeared to show a helicopter crew deliber ...
  • The Capitalist Conspiracy Against Glenn Beck
    As a shock jock radio DJ, Glenn Beck he called his rival's wife to make fun of her recent miscarriage on the air. It's that humanistic spirit that has suffuses Beck's broadcasting career to this day--whether he's ridiculing 11-year-old Malia Obama , stoking paranoia about "czars", shilling for gold ...
  • Caught on Tape: NYPD Cooking the Books and Cocking ...
    God bless whistleblowers. Graham Rayman and the Village Voice obtained hundreds of hours of covertly recorded audio from one disgruntled Bed-Stuy cop: Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, ...

Inside Facebook

  • Thanks to Our Sponsors
    Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! Offerpal Media is a managed offer network for social applications and online merchants. Zong is a provider of mobile payments serving the digital content ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Flickr, China, Foursquare, Bangl ...
    Flickr Turns On Facebook Sync - Flickr users may now sync their Facebook and Flickr accounts so every time they upload a public photo to Flickr it appears in their Facebook news stream. The integration is powered by the Yahoo! Updates platform, coming on the heels of other recent Yahoo! [...]
  • Note: Facebook Working on Fixing Fan Count Bug for ...
    Over the last couple days, some Page administrators have been noticing incorrect counts for the number of people who like their Facebook Page. Facebook has confirmed that this is a bug, and is working to fix it today. According to a Facebook spokesperson, “There was a bug that caused an accounting e ...
  • Facebook Tests Free Credits Promotion in Games Das ...
    Social game developer CrowdStar’s new city-builder, Hello City, is getting a special promotion today from Facebook, that features Credits. Users who go to their Games Dashboard will see a gray box at the top of the page, that says “Earn 5 free Facebook Credits.” If the user clicks “Continue” they’ll ...
  • Former PayPal Leaders Debate: Can Facebook Credits ...
    [Editor's Note: Facebook has been experimenting with Credits, its in-house virtual currency, for years. But now the company is looking at ways to get all developers on its platform using Credits (while it takes a 30% fee for the service). And given Facebook's ambitions for the currency already, many ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel: strategic ally or liability for the USA?
    Stephen Sniegoski debunks the arguments that Israel is a strategic US asset, advanced by Israel lobbyists such as billionaire chief editor of US News & World Report Mort Zuckerman, and argues that Israel is in fact a significant political, military and strategic liability for the United States.
  • Israel's Gaza blockade: letting the chips fall whe ...
    Alan Sabrosky argues that Israel's withholding of food items such as potato chips from Gaza indicates that its strategy is “designed to hurt Palestinians and not to protect Israelis", and that although the Palestinians are now the victims of Israel's "affinity for dominance and inflicting deaths of ...
  • Open letter to the Israeli Jewish Public: support ...
    Jeff Halper exhorts Israelis to shun the “victim” mentality that blinds them to Palestinian suffering. In an open letter specifically to the Israeli Jewish public before the attack on the Freedom Flotilla, published in Hebrew on the popular website "Ha'oketz", he says Israelis must embrace the campa ...
  • Moral failure of American liberals. A defence of H ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that the overreaction of the US political and media elite to Helen Thomas’s unguarded comments that Jews ought to leave Palestine and return to the countries whence they came highlights the moral failure of American liberals and a blindness to the relations of power in the US, a ...
  • Pro-peace lobbying in US Congress conspicuous by i ...
    Sama Adnan argues that the failure of American pro-peace organizations to extend their work to lobbying in Congress has allowed the Israel lobby to control the US legislature as well as the state and defence departments because the Senate “through confirmation hearings for the president’s appointees ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
    Here is a great toon from Paul Jamiol, originally posted here: http://jamiolsworld.com/ ; I recommend bookmarking his website, and of course check it out daily!  
  • Podcast Show #29
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Phillips   Peter Phillips describes Project Censored, its mission, operational style and funding, then talks about what he has coined as ‘Truth Emergency,’ and provides examples such as the intentional misreporting of the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war, ...
  • Updates & Multi-Week Round Up for May 31
    Still Alive & Kicking, A Scholar For All Seasons Or Agendas?, Terrorization & De-Terrorization Flip This is going to come as a relief to some and as a major disappointment to others: I am alive and almost back! As my long-term readers know I almost never share personal details here, and I am not abo ...
  • Thinking the Unthinkable in the Aftermath of Kanda ...
    The Battle for Kandahar & The “Perceptions” of American Victory The upcoming campaign for the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar will be the crucial test for the United States’ military and the Obama administration’s AfPak strategy. It will clearly be an epic military battle and a test of the intellectu ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • Is God Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
     I had an interesting conversation with my Brother Carey at Carry Me Home blog.  He posed a question: Why is it that most people who have a strong desire to accomplish something, such as weight loss, or overcome a drug addiction will most likely fail at it?  He concluded that even though they have t ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • The Beautiful Game
    This is a repost. Btw… I’m home with today from work with a sore throat… who knew… [;o) Every four years the world becomes captivated by the most anticipated and exciting international sporting event. No it’s not the Summer or Winter Olympics. It’s World Cup Football! Next year, starting on 11th J ...
  • Should Black Women Stop Getting Abortions?
    Excellent article at The Black Love Speak Column. Although I am sharing it here, I encourage comments to be made also at the original article. If you live in Atlanta, Macon, or Augusta GA, you may have come across one of these signs. Black & Unwanted billboards are springing up in various areas of G ...
  • Why is AU doing Bashir’s dirty laundry?
    This is none than African Union (AU) Chief Jean Ping. This gentleman originates from Gabon, the country that suffered a great deal more thanks to be manned and ruined by one dictator, that was succeeded by his son after his death. Thus, he’s suffering from this experience of being timid and an inst ...

Expose the BNP

  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • 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 ...

Sen4Earth

  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
    The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
    In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...

If Americans Knew

  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

David J. Gregory

  • Why he has not been indicted for war crimes?
    Dick Cheney June 6 at 10:18am Report Enjoyed your message on George. Have you ever read or seen anything explaining why he has not been indicted for war crimes? I have e-mailed the Hague, contacted senators & reps & have never had a reply. David Gregory June 6 at 1:43pm Let’s face it, the United [.. ...
  • JOIN OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!
    It had to happen, couldn’t beat ‘em, so I joined ‘em, why don’t you too? Add our Facebook to your favorites.
  • SANE VS INSANE
  • Neo-Cons decades of deceit
    The neo-cons unbridled success with the JFK coup, led them to the 911, who knows what else they have in store for us, do you want your children to pay the consequences?
  • Government should not abdicate RESPONIBILITIES
    reliance on greedy and shameless entities magnifies both the human and monetary cost of war

Unsuitable Blog

  • Monthly Undermining Task, June 2010: It’s Th ...
    “The only ‘honest’ living available to the homeless in general is scavenging – and in general they’re quite content to make that living. It’s work they can do without having an address, submitting to supervision, punching a clock, or maintaining a wardrobe of socially approved clothing – and it’s fl ...
  • What On Earth Are Timberland Talking About?
    What is it we make better? It is our boots. Our shoes. Our clothing. Our gear. Out communities. Our environment. And our business practices. But once you put on our gear, it is the journey. It is getting from point A to point B. And onto point C. And D. and E. And on to wherever [...]
  • It’s a Gusher: Outrage Erupts at D.C. Green Groups ...
    This had to be republished, for it reinforces many of the things The Unsuitablog has been going on about for years now. As I said a short while ago, the reason I keep raising the hypocrisy of so-called “environmental” NGOs is because organisations like The Nature Conservancy, Conservation Internati ...
  • 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 ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
  • Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
    In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.  Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
  • Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
    Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq.  There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens.  In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...
  • Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
    University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery.  The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps.  While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Social Media and Corporates -- the#Promise Confere ...
    A few days ago Vince Stehle from the Knight Foundation invited me to the Think Social's The #Promise conference in New York, and so i organized babysitting for my new son and came for the day. The conference was about how companies are using social media to advance their goals, and many people ( ...
  • Pew: 27% of Americans Use Digital Tools to Talk to ...
    Special Invite - Join the Pew Internet and American Life report author in a special Q and A discussion on the Locals Online community of practice now ! Cross-posted at blog.e-democracy.org (with additional links). According to the just released Neighbors Online report from Pew Internet an ...
  • Pondering Online Communities and Fluid Social Grou ...
    A friend once told me that if I were a superhero I would be called "The Includer." She was right, I'm usually the one trying to get more people involved in whatever is about to happen. Superhero or not, my crowd-mongering has taught me one thing: Groups are complicated. I'm sure you know what I mea ...
  • Community Centered Ads Boost Engagement, Funding a ...
    The beauty of starting something from scratch is the iterative and agile process I've talked about since before "Spot.Us":http://www.spot.us began. In this post I'm going to discuss two new developments at Spot.Us. One is an exciting feature and revenue stream. The other is in relation to our expans ...
  • Freedom Fone Adopted by Bulawayo's Pioneering Voic ...
    I had visions of Bulawayo , Zimbabwe being a sleepy little hollow, and perhaps in some ways it is. But last week, after arriving at Radio Dialogue offices in Pioneer House in Bulawayo's central business district, I was very pleasantly surprised. We were in the City of Skies to run a practical two-da ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Inside Iraq - Iraq Heads toward a Unity Government ...
    Eleven weeks after the March 7, 2010, elections, Iraq appears to be headed toward a sprawling "unity" government that values stability and inclusiveness over efficiency or decisiveness. Despite being an arguably safer bet for Iraq at a delicate and dangerous moment, this approach will pose several c ...
  • Edge on Narco-trafficking - Drug Policy and Violen ...
    Two prevailing narratives have emerged in the American discourse over Mexico’s plague of drug violence. On the one hand, there are those who laud President Calderón’s hard-line anti-drug crusade while blaming Mexico’s plight entirely on Mexicans – on their “record of corrupt, weak and incompetent go ...
  • The Hamas Flotilla - Video Shows Gaza Flotilla Att ...
    A� YouTube video shows members of the crew and activists on board the Turkish vessel "Mavi Marmara" repelling Israeli boarders before Israeli troops rappelled onto the ship that was attempting to take supplies to the Gaza Strip, in violation of the blockade imposed by both Israel and Egypt. The vid ...
  • National Security on the Edge - Where is the Obama ...
    I had originally planned on writing an article about the National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair’s resignation on May 20th after only 16 months in that position, which came reportedly at President Barack Obama's request. Then, like any good plan following its agenda, only six days later the Assi ...
  • The Hamas Flotilla - The Gaza Flotilla Prepared Fo ...
    At first glance, the takeover by the Israeli Navy of the “humanitarian flotilla” heading toward Gaza is just one more of the disputed crises between Israel and its foes. As in all previous incidents, the spiral of accusations will eventually reach bottom. While media attention will highlight the tac ...

High Country News

  • Fighting fire and memories
    A seasoned Forest Service firefighter remembers Colorado's South Canyon Fire and the lives lost in it 16 years ago.
  • Springtime in the Rockies
    The beautiful spring in Colorado's San Luis Valley is a bitter contrast to the tragedy unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Boots on the trail ought to pay up
    The hikers who are loving Colorado’s fourteeners to death need to repair the damage they’re doing and help out either physically or financially.
  • One Tough Sucker
    Human beings are the greatest threat -- and the only hope -- for the Colorado River's razorback sucker.
  • A boring diagram
    An extraordinary 1,500-ton machine will create a new water intake from drought-stricken Lake Mead to thirsty Las Vegas

CounterCurrents

  • 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

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Day 3: San Diego: Limitations, Celebrations, and F ...
    Day 2: in the works Day 3: San Diego, by Josh… Though only ten or twenty miles from the glamor and commotion of LA, the mountainside bungalow that we awoke in seemed a remote corner of civilization. The sunlight illuminating through it’s wide windows showed the surrounding beauty that the darkness h ...
  • Day 1: The People’s Journey Begins where The ...
    As the wheels of the airplane met the Californian ground, memories of the last time I was in San Francisco came to mind. The last time, Conor and I had reached the coastal city by the power of our own two feet on the walking/biking trip we completed in Novemeber. It seemed like more than [...]
  • 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 ...

Yid With Lid

  • New York Times Needs My Help to Find Flotilla Plan ...
    By Barry Rubin The New York Times is a vast and wealthy organization with highly paid reporters and news bureaus around the world. Unfortunately, however, it seems to need a little help in gathering the news. In an editorial, the newspaper has held forth with the following sentence: " ...
  • WHEN LIBERALS ATTACK: Lessons Learned From The Hel ...
    Much has happened since Rabbi Nesenoff emailed me his video interview of Helen Thomas containing her now-famous declaration that Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go back to their homes in Germany and Poland. Upon first watching the interview, I saw it a big story and was determined to ...
  • Obama's Latest Theory on The Gulf Oil Spill: BLAME ...
    After blaming the policies of the previous administration and BP for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the President has found a new "A** to Kick" Congress. In an interview with Roger Simon of Politico, The-Finger-Pointer-in-Chief has decided to point his blame digit toward congress, telling ...
  • Breaking News: Obama Set To Abandon Israel At UN
    For long time Obama watchers this comes as no surprise. Bill Kristol is reporting that the United States plans to abandon Israel at the UN Security Councel next week. According to the Weekly Standard Editor, the Obama administration has been informing foreign governments that it will support a ...
  • Goat Attacks Congressman Anthony Weiner
    Some days it just doesn't pay to do "show and tell." Yesterday Congressmen Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), had a press conference to give an example of what they consider government waste, federal subsidies given to goat farmers. Last year the federal government sent nearly ...

The Real Agenda

  • Greece may Collapse in August, Economist
    A restructuring of Greek debt could happen as soon as August, when the Balkan country is due to receive another tranche of funds from its lending agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union, according to Weinberg.
  • U.S. asset managers: Obama could confiscate gold
    Mineweb.com Speaking at the FT Silver conference in London yesterday, lead-off speaker John Levin, HSBC Bank’s Managing Director, Global Metals and Trading (HSBC is one of the world’s top precious metals traders and its vaults in the U.S. and Europe hold huge holdings of gold and silver bullion) rec ...
  • Breaking News: Japan May Default says Japanese Pri ...
    Business Insider When he was Japan’s finance minister, Naoto Kan advocated loose monetary policy to end two decades of deflation. But since his sudden promotion to prime minister, Kan has been crying out about public debt levels. Today, he even used the signal word for austerity: Greece. “Our countr ...
  • Electropollution causes Type 3 Diabetes
    Most people are familiar with type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes, but did you know researchers have discovered a third type of diabetes? Type-3 diabetes, as they are calling it, affects people who are extra sensitive to electrical devices that emit "dirty" electricity.
  • The Footprint of the Establishment
    In 1871 in the book called "Descent of Men" Darwin said 95% of the people were inferior and only 5 % were evolving. From this way of thinking came the teachings of Sr. Francis Galton, the father of Eugenics, from whom men like H.G Wells and William Huxley took off to write their famous "scholarly" w ...

Wind Watch

  • Windfarm turbines deadly for birds, bats
    “Shockingly high” numbers of bird and bat deaths caused by one of Canada’s biggest wind farms should serve as a warning to planners of other projects that may be built in crucial wildlife zones, one of the country’s key conservation groups says. The 86 huge turbines on Wolfe Island, just outside Kin ...
  • Wind farms vs. doppler radar
    LINCOLN — Last year a weak tornado touch-downed near Holder in eastern McLean county. That’s near the Twin Groves wind farm, one of the largest in the state. Chris Miller, Warning Coordinating Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Lincoln explains what happened next. “When that stor ...
  • 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, ...

Not My Tribe

  • The Governors of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Al ...
    Are taking sides with the Oil industry above all others. What a surprise. The Oil companies can afford to eat the loss from a moratorium. Far better than WE can afford to eat oil. If they’re so damned worried about “their” workers they should have compensated them better, provided them with better w ...
  • Ouachita Valley, Arkansas
    Where they put a campground at the convergence of two rivers. Of course it’s all over the news now. They don’t know for certain how many people were in the camps, The Campground Registry was wiped out with the flood. No political overtones to this, it’s just me saying DAMN. Don’t know if any of the ...
  • S. Africa wipes Apartheid from the map
    A unique subtext of the pre-game coverage of the 2010 World Cup is that South Africa was once banned from soccer competition because of its policy of Apartheid. Reporters ask how the host nation is faring post BDS. In the wake of Apartheid, South Africa has been trying to revert its place names to a ...
  • Louvre knows art from food from rot
    A little birdie traveler confirms the recently reported outrage about a McDonalds franchise in the Louvre. The good news: McDs was not permitted to adjoin the international food court where concessioners serve varieties of real meals. Instead the Happy Meals are consigned to the end of a long hallwa ...
  • A year later, Briseña Flores Still Dead, Minutemen ...
    That would include the three trigger pullers, and also their accomplices, including their Fellow Travellers in the Ku Klux Klan, the American National Socialist White Person’s Party, the Tea Party and the Republican Party. The listed groups have common leadership and even at the Astroturf Roots leve ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Excuses
    But the government couldn't track the location of the planes because the terrorists on 9/11 turned off the transponders ! But NORAD only had 14 fighters on alert and none were at Andrews Air Force Base located 15 miles from the Pentagon ! But NORAD didn't know about Flight 93 until one minute af ...
  • The Military Mindset
    One response that comes up time and time again from people who are suffering from cognitive dissonance with regards to 9/11 is the disbelief that the US military would be so evil as to attack thousands of innocent civilians. Most people who give this response obviously don't put much thought into ...
  • Debunk This! 009 ( False Flags )
    ChangeDaChannel YouTube.com May 18, 2010 Related Info: Debunk This! 008 ( 911 Conspiracy ) Debunk This! Series
  • Debunker Response Fail
    Related Info: Debunkers = Fish in a Barrel
  • Another 'Lone-Nut' Gives the UK Government a Reaso ...
    Gun laws in the UK are among the toughest in the world. Largely due to two major massacres. In 1987, a man named Michael Robert Ryan killed sixteen people in Hungerford , and then shot himself. The massacre led to the banning of semi-automatic rifles. In 1996, a man named Thomas Watt Hamilton (i ...

Fooducate

  • Oh Boy! Now they’ve Found Lead in Kids’ Fruit Juic ...
    A California non-profit, Environmental Law Foundation, sent some baby and kids’ fruit juice and products to a government approved lab for toxic substance testing. Guess what they found? A surprisingly large number of samples, from both from national and store brands, contained lead above a maximum a ...
  • A Visual of Twinkie’s 37 Ingredients
    You’re looking at the 37 ingredients that make up a Twinkie, photographed by Dwight Eschliman, who grew up in a vegan home but has since loosened up a bit. Try to match the ingredient list to the individual images! Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Flour, Reduced Iron, B Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamine Mo ...
  • Did You Know? The FDA Hasn’t Got the Right to Reca ...
    That’s right! The FDA doesn’t have the legal power to require companies to recall their tainted products. How’s that for a food safety loophole? Companies that discover a food safety issue in their products may voluntarily recall them and issue a notification to the FDA, but they don’t have to. Whil ...
  • Chocolate Cheerios, Corporate Growth, and Obesity
    Once upon a time there was “Cheerios”. For almost 40 years, up until the late 1970’s, consumers had only one Cheerios flavor to choose from. And then General Mills, corporate owner of the Cheerios brand, introduced Honey Nut Cheerios. It was an instant success. Sweeter (mostly due to sugar, not hon ...
  • Olive Oil Labeling
    Olive oil is growing in popularity in the United States. Sourced from the Mediterranean and part of that famous diet, it has been shown to be a healthy source of fat when compared to fats from animal sources. It is also more expensive to manufacture compared to canola and soy oils. Like wine, compl ...

Traffikd

  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 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 ...

Clearreaching

  • Love
    The discussion on communication gave me the impulse to reflect a little on the concept of romantic love between two people. What is this love? Let’s explore. When we tell someone “I love you”, we are in fact stating that we feel the chemistry between us, which is mutually based on acceptance and ad ...
  • Communication
    As I surf around the blogs of my newly acquired Opera friends, I see how their posts reflect ideas, beliefs, maxims, thoughts, emotions etc. drawn either from a more philosophical or a more real-life context, depending on each person’s composure. That’s normal – even typical. At the same time, tha ...
  • 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 ...

Survival International

  • China’s largest bank to fund devastating Ethiopian ...
    The Karo (or Kara), with a population of about 1000 - 1500 live on the east banks of the Omo River in south Ethiopia. Here, a Karo mother sits with her children. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival China’s largest bank, the Industrial and Commercial bank of China , is to give a loan of around $400 millio ...
  • Bushmen face agonizing wait for right to water
    The Bushmen will have to wait to hear the result of their court case. © 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival A High Court judge today reserved judgement on the Kalahari Bushmenâs bid to gain access to a borehole which they rely on for water. The Bushmen were at the Botswana High Court to hear their ...
  • Survival urges Malaysia to uphold tribes’ rights
    Penan man, Malaysia. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Survival’s director Stephen Corry has written to the Malaysian government, urging it to uphold the rights of the Penan and other tribes of Sarawak . Malaysia’s Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said last mo ...
  • Botswana Bushmen appeal to Prince William
    The Bushmen have appealed to Prince William for help. © Survival The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have appealed to Prince William ahead of his visit to Botswana this month. In a letter to the prince, the Bushmenâs organization, First People of the Kalahari , said, âLast ...
  • Indian fishing ritual recognized as cultural herit ...
    Enawene Nawe men preserve fish. © Fiona Watson/Survival Yãkwa , one of the most important rituals practiced by the Enawene Nawe Indians , has been officially recognized as part of Brazilâs historic and cultural heritage by Brazilâs Ministry of Culture. Yãkwa lasts four months and is the ...

Greg Palast

  • 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, ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Not Fighting Alito and Roberts Mean the End of You ...
    The NYTimes: In a burst of judicial activism, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upended the gubernatorial race in Arizona, cutting off matching funds to candidates participating in the state’s public campaign finance system. Suddenly, three candidates, including Gov. Jan Brewer, can no longer receive ...
  • Holy Sweet Lord, Turkey has announced they will se ...
    If they actually do this, it is the very definition of throwing down. Wow. Does Israel want a war with Turkey?  They can’t win it, short of using nukes, and Turkey is a NATO member, if Israel attacks NATO ships, Turkey can invoke Article V (in fact, they can invoke it already, since the ships were ...
  • A Gaffe: saying the truth in the worst way possibl ...
    As with Helen Thomas when asked what she thought about Israel.  “I think they should get the hell out of Palestine.” Israel is a colonial power occupying a land whose population was, prior to their getting rid of many of them, majority non-Jewish.  This is why “right of return” is a non-starter, b ...
  • America’s Future Now: We have to get the public to ...
    The interesting thing about the conference so far is the message: if only we organize, we can change what the public thinks and with the public behind us make the President and Congress do what we want. This was epitomized by a “debate” between Darcy Burner and Deepak Bhargava, where they both agree ...
  • Reality, red lines and minimalism
    The most important facts in Afghanistan right now is that we are approaching Peak Foreign Fighters (PFF) within the next couple of weeks.  US forces are still flowing in-country for McChrystal’s attempt at a Surge ™ and NATO forces are not leaving yet.  PFF is aimed at creating a temporary bubb ...

Age of Autism

  • Meet Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Author of Callous Disre ...
    (Managing Editor's Note: You can read Dr. Wakefield's complete analysis of the "Lancet 12" in his new book, Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing. Visit Dr. Wakefield's website HERE.) Exclusive from the Autism File Magazine An Audience with Dr Andrew Wakefield...
  • Autism and Siblings: "I’m Here too, Mom!"
    By Remy Nirschl During one heated moment with tears in her eyes, the look my neuro typical daughter gave me, said it all, “I’m here too, mom”. Nicole, my twelve year old daughter, is considered neurotypical compared to her brother....
  • Now Available "Bling Me" Age of Autism T-Shirt and ...
    By Kim Stagliano Ah the power of Twitter! I saw an interesting Tweet two weeks ago, about a bedazzled line of custom T-shirts. (My God, did I really just use the word "bedazzled" in a sentence?) The nice folks at...
  • Scherer of Nature Autism Gene Study Fails to Discl ...
    Senior author in Nature autism-gene study fails to disclose funding by MMR manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline as a competing interest. By John Stone Prof Stephen Scherer who is the senior author of the autism gene study launched in Nature last week holds...
  • FREE Tickets to the 7th Annual Talk About Curing A ...
    Our friends at TACA are offering free tickets to their picnic this weekend to a limited number of Age of Autism families. No more than six tickets per family. Please RSVP today, June 10, 2010, by 5pm (PDT) or until...

Global BDS Movement

  • Labor for Palestine Condemns Gaza Freedom Flotilla ...
    http://www.laborforpalestine.net/wp/2010/06/07/gaza-flotilla-massacre/ To endorse this statement, click here: http://www.laborforpalestine.net/wp/2010/06/07/gaza-flotilla-massacre/#s... To donate to Labor for Palestine, click here: http://laborforpalestine.net/wp/2009/12/trumka-letter/#donate ...
  • Australia: Israeli diplomat expelled over fake pas ...
    Emma Rodgers [ ABC News ] 24 May 2010 - The Federal Government is expelling an Israeli diplomat after it found Israel faked Australian passports that were used in a hit on a top Hamas leader in Dubai. � read more
  • PACBI Applaudes UCU's Historic BDS Resolution
    30 May 2010 - The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel ( PACBI ) expresses its profound appreciation for the courageous positions in support of Palestinian rights taken by the membership of the University and College Union (UCU) at its Congress today in Manchester. ...
  • UCU Passes important BDS Resolution
    ( link to full text of resolution below ) - 31 May 2010 [BRICUP] - The University and College Union, representing approximately 120,000 teaching and related staff in colleges and universities in the UK, has passed new policies supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The ...
  • Violent attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - Isra ...
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Farm Wars

  • Secret highly toxic ingredients of chemical disper ...
    On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic ...
  • BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil ...
    The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
  • Obama Smiles While the Gulf Dies
    BP executives and governmental regulators had to have known just how deadly their dispersant Corexit would turn the Gulf waters, by creating monstrously large, oily, rushing underwater plumes. These plumes are hundreds of square miles of poisonous, oily micro-particles that go unseen by satellite ...
  • Are You Supporting a Hellish CAFO?
    The irony is, if a single person treats an animal like this, he/she is charged with animal cruelty, fined, and faces possible jail time if the situation is severe enough. Why then, do the big money-making corporations get to treat their animals in an intensely inhumane way and get away with it? In f ...
  • WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks f ...
    This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.

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