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IPS - Inter Press Services

• MALAYSIA: Counsel Hold Out Hope for Youth on Death ...
  KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 (IPS) - A Malaysian youth is languishing in death row awaiting hanging after Singapore’s judiciary found him guilty of possessing heroin weighing 47 grams, lawyers fighting to save him tell IPS.
• Upstream States Challenge Egypt Over Nile Waters
  CAIRO, Jun 15 (IPS) - A water-sharing treaty among five upstream Nile Basin countries - to the exclusion of Egypt and Sudan - has reignited the longstanding dispute over water distribution. Local experts, however, say the agreement will not jeopardise Egypt's historical share of Nile water.
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Maldives Inches Closer to HCFC Pha ...
  MALÃ, June 15 (IPS) - The Maldives Islands, fast gaining a reputation for ‘walking the talk’ as it raises its tiny island voice in the climate change discourse, has launched an action plan to phase out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) by 2020, or 10 years ahead of other countries and the ...
• AFRICA: Renewing the Promise of Education for All
  JOHANNESBURG, Jun 14 (IPS) - The World Cup is wreaking havoc with a key millennium development goal in South Africa: as the football tournament hit its stride, not a single child across the nation attended school.
• US-CHINA: Spring Thaw to Summer Squall
  WASHINGTON, Jun 14 (IPS) - Earlier this spring, many here in Washington were hopeful that Chinese president Hu Jintao's attendance at the Nuclear Security Summit, the U.S. Treasury Department's decision to hold off on naming China as a "currency manipulator", and China's support of U.N. ...

Scoop - NZ

• Lloyds warns of energy crunch, climate change
  The Chief Executive Officer of insurance giants Lloyds is warning that the world is facing a "period of deep uncertainty" over the decline of fossil fuels - and may soon be coping with $200-a-barrel oil. It may be hard to believe now, writes Dr Richard Ward in his introduction to a " ...
• ROV films oil leaking from seafloor cracks
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• US identifies mineral riches in Aghanistan
  The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown ...
• Mossad agent arrested for Dubai hit
  Authorities in Europe have arrested the first suspect over the assassination of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel room last January. Nearly 30 suspects linked to the hit on top Hamas man Mahmoud al Mabhouh were found to be travelling on false passports from Australia, Britain, Ireland, France and ...
• McChrystal confronts collapse of political support
  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. On Thursday, McChrystal's message that his strategy will weaken the Taliban in its heartland took it ...

Independent ( London )

• 178 held in swoops on Spain based crime gang
  Police have arrested 178 people in 12 countries in swoops on those suspected of forming part of an international crime gang with a large base in Spain, the Interior Ministry said today.
• Dozens killed in Mexican prison riot
  At least 29 inmates were killed as rival gangs clashed inside a prison in a cartel-plagued Mexican state, authorities said. Three policemen guarding the prison were wounded.
• Matador arrested and fined for running away
  A matador was fined after running away from a bull and leaping over the arena wall.
• Armed suspects arrested at US Air Force base
  The US military said two heavily armed people were in custody after trying to enter MacDill Air Force Base outside Tampa.
• UN bid to end Sudan conflicts
  The UN Security Council strongly backed efforts to achieve a peace agreement in Darfur by the end of this year and called for Sudan's Arab-dominated north and black African south to settle their disputes ahead of January's referendum on independence for the south.

Rogue Government.com

• Boldly going nowhere: Nasa ends plan to put man b ...
  Nasa has begun to wind down construction of the rockets and spacecraft that were to have taken astronauts back to the Moon — effectively dismantling the US human spaceflight programme despite a congressional ban on its doing so.
• 2012 Fearmongering: The end of the world as we kn ...
  Forget man-made threats – the catalyst for the apocalypse will come from outer space, warns astronomer Chris Impey.
• Don't Go West [V2.0/HR] Part 1
  The second release of the Celtic Rebel's Don't Go West documentary. Fleshing out the skeleton, the version paints a fairly grim picture of what the Priests of Holy Wood are up to.
• EPA Takes a Giant Leap Into Tyranny
  Yesterday, the EPA won a victory over the American people and took a giant leap toward tyranny, in a Senate vote 47- 53 against blocking action by the corrupt EPA.
• Kyrgyz riot police authorized to kill
  Kyrgyzstan’s interim government has given police and military forces shoot-to-kill orders in an extreme measure taken to halt the ethnic unrest in the south of the country.

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

• PIMCO Flip-Flops -- Stops Warning About Inflation ...
  Pimco has increased its holdings of U.S. treasuries to the highest level in five months according to the Wall Street Journal. Note this is something that David Rosenberg had insinuated was happening a few days ago. More importantly, the latest Pimco move represents a substantial about-face for the ...
• US: Earthquake Magnitude 5.7 - Southern California
  Date-Time: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 04:26:58 UTC Monday, June 14, 2010 at 09:26:58 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 32.698°N, 115.924°W Depth: 6.9 km (4.3 miles) Region: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Distances: 8 km (5 miles) SE (124°) from Ocotillo, CA 24 km (15 m ...
• Citi: BP Is So Huge It Could Survive Multiple Deep ...
  While it's impossible to make a definitive calculation of BP's total spill costs, given that the leaking Macondo well hasn't been fixed yet, Citi analyst Mark Fletcher believes that the market is pricing in 'the worst case rather than most likely outcome.' Citi's Mark Fletcher: At this stage it is ...
• Bankers warn of Basel III hit to GDP
  Economic growth in the eurozone, the US and Japan would be cut by 3 per cent between now and 2015 if current proposals to force banks to hold more capital and liquid assets go forward unchanged, the world's leading banking industry group warned Thursday. As a result, 9.7m fewer jobs would be create ...
• Canada investigating US officials over torture
  Canada's Mounties have been quietly running an investigation into US and Syrian officials linked to the arrest and deportation of a Canadian citizen who was tortured in a Syrian prison, and could lay criminal charges in the matter, sources report. The news comes the same day that the US Supreme C ...

The Galloping Beaver

• G8/G20 The gift of spin that just keeps on giving
  The problem with starting something spinning is that it will occasionally go out of control. Anyone who has tried to maintain a perfect heading on a gyro-compass knows this. Interrupt the source of energy and the damn things topple. Don't correct for latitude and you get a phenomenon known as "Eart ...
• New! Improved!
• Sit by the (fake) lake, sip on a free beer, watch ...
  ... Regurgitate the Harper press releases for the hometown crowd. Great life if you can get it. Summit organizers are building the pool inside Toronto's Direct Energy Centre to showcase the site of the G8 summit hundreds of kilometres to the north in Huntsville, Ont., from June 25-26. The tempora ...
• Dissolving insurgencies
  I don't envy the job of any commander, at any level from section to task force, in Afghanistan. They are caught trying to manage an impossible mess, following orders from the suit wearing cowards who keep them there. That said, these commanders are not above saying really stupid things. Brigadier Ge ...
• Dr. Laura advises . . . .
  YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THIS GEM BEFORE, but what the hell, so to speak. Dr. Laura Schlesinger is a staunch conservative, with some crunchy comments about homosexuality and the Bible's take on it, according to Snopes .  Anyway, some clever individual came up with these theological questions. I wonder how ...

Media Matters for America

• O'Reilly mischaracterized Pelosi interview to port ...
  Bill O'Reilly cropped an interview with Nancy Pelosi to falsely claim that she said she "hasn't heard the Democrats blaming Bush" for the Gulf oil spill, comments O'Reilly suggested showed Pelosi as out of touch or dishonest. In fact, Pelosi said that she hadn't heard the "critique" that that ...
• Glenn Beck: I deserve to be fired
  Glenn Beck stated that if he "get[s] out of control and start[s] leveling baseless charges that can't be backed up," then he would be "fired." This cannot possibly be the case, as Beck routinely levels "baseless charges that can't be backed up" on his Fox News show. Beck: "If I get out of con ...
• Beck distorts Obama's comments to accuse him of " ...
  Glenn Beck misrepresented comments President Obama made during a 1995 interview to claim Obama did not want to meet with BP CEO Tony Hayward because he is a "white CEO" and that those comments were "code language" that "sounds like racism," "stereotyping," and "profiling." However, as Obama's ...
• Right-wing media disregards experts on national se ...
  The right-wing media have mocked Sen. Barbara Boxer's comments about the threat of global warming to national security. However, national security experts -- including those in the Bush administration -- have highlighted the "significant geopolitical consequences" of climate change.� Boxer cites " ...
• Beck's mutually beneficial partnership with Freed ...
  Glenn Beck has accepted the corporate-backed right-wing organization FreedomWorks as a sponsor of his radio show and has urged his listeners to "link arms" with the group. FreedomWorks has responded by highlighting Beck's praise and using that praise to raise funds from Beck's listeners. Beck t ...

Global Research.ca

• One Trillion Dollars in Mineral Deposits Discovere ...
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• 50,000 Kyrgyz Refugees Left Without Living Conditi ...
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• US “Surge” in Afghanistan in Disarray
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Jamaica's Shower Posse: How The CIA Created "The M ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Futility of UN Security Council Resolutions
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Ike Skelton: The "Helen Thomas" in Congress on Do ...
  Maybe in this comparison I'm being way too unkind to Helen Thomas whose racially charged comments that Israel's Israelis should go back to Germany, Poland and the United States were indefensible -- but House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton 's bigotry as the decade younger, much more in ...
• BP: It's Not a Contest Between the US and Britain; ...
  This from today's Wall Street Journal: In a letter sent Sunday to U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral James Watson, BP said it expects to have the capacity to capture between 40,000 and 53,000 barrels of oil a day by the end of June. That compares with 15,000 barrels a day now, out of a flow of 20,0 ...
• Afghan Riches
  The revelation this morning that geologists have discovered vast deposits of rare minerals in Afghanistan changes the dynamic of the country's future. An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium," a key raw material in the manufacture of ...
• Obama, Employee of Empire
  Luther and the Pope are like two whores debating chastity. -- Philip Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, a.k.a. Paracelsus (from Phillip Ball's The Devil's Doctor ) If you become president of Ford, your job is to build cars. Exxon, sell gasoline. President of the U.S., preside over Empire . N ...
• National Security (Political) Strategy
  With an eye toward how national security and foreign policy issues will play in the mid-terms, we have interesting new polling results from Third Way and Democracy Corps. It's definitely worth reading the whole accompanying memo, Toward Renewal and Leadership . Meanwhile, I'll offer some reactions. ...

TruthOut

• "Lure People Into That Calm and Then Just Totally ...
  Derivatives are a hotbed of abuses and bailouts. So why are taxpayers footing the bill? For the Wall Street reform package currently making its way through Congress to work, it has to accomplish two broad goals: It must take a huge bite out of banking profits read more
• Private Contractors and Covert Wars in Latin Ameri ...
  U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) threatened to issue subpoenas against the U.S. Defense and State Departments last month if they continue to refuse to accurately account for billions of dollars spent on private contractors assisting Washington in the 'war on drugs' in Latin America. But McCaski ...
• James Howard Kunstler | Fierce Urgency
  The exquisite morbidity of the BP oil spill has concentrated the collective national mind like few other events in this ongoing long emergency. How many times a day does it occur to you -- perhaps while sitting in traffic, or oogling some girl in a nearby cubicle, or cruising the freezer stacks in t ...
• Palestine Donor Conference Lost Amid Flotilla Fall ...
  Amid the days of turmoil surrounding the Israeli raid on the aid flotilla headed for Gaza in which nine died, thousands of corporate investors and international donors, including US Middle East envoy George Mitchell, gathered at the Palestine Investment Conference (PIC) to bolster the Palestinian ec ...
• Uptick in Afghan Attacks Tests US Forces
  Camp Wilderness, Paktia Province, Afghanistan - With the first high-pitched cracks of AK-47 fire, the Afghan National Army soldiers jumped out of their unarmored Ford Ranger pick-up truck and disappeared behind a small hill. The gunner on the American armored truck behind them, Sgt. E. Daniel Withe ...

Planetsave

• Apple iPad versus 4 Blowtorches
  Ever wondered what it would look like to see an iPad melted by four blowtorches to spread an environmental message? Look no further! Video after the jump. Read more of this story �
• U.S. Endangered Species Listing Proposed for Flori ...
  The smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, is protected, unlike its larger relative the largetooth sawfish, P. microdon (photo: David illif) So-named for it’s elongated, saw-like snout, the largetooth sawfish faces a dire threat to its Florida habitat from the Gulf oil spill. The spreading oi ...
• 10 Friday Photos: Waterfalls
  In my opinion, here are 10 of the best waterfall pictures on the web. Have more? Include a link in the comments. I think a critical part of care for the environment is experiencing the beauty of nature. Although doing so by looking at pictures on your computer screen may not be the best way, I thi ...
• Should the Birds Affected by the BP Oil Disaster ...
  Environmental groups debate whether it’s more humane to euthanize or save the wildlife impacted by the BP oil disaster in Louisiana. The great debate is on as environmental groups and other agencies around the world attempt to find the best way to manage wildlife, specifically birds, that have been ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Camp Pendleton Mud Run
  Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:00 a.m. start Lake O’Neill Camp Pendleton | COURSE | RULES | REGISTE
• Noelle's Links - Bay Area Edition
  Interesting tidbits from my web travels… The SF Chronicle’s Chip Johnson weighs in on a
• The First Thing About Boulder Is
  Everybody has gardens. The terraces of all the apartment buildings are covered in potted plants, han
• Water News Roundup – June 14, 2010
  Back from vacation and very well rested.  Moab was awesome and St. George even more beautiful than I
• If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill
  If It Was My Home – Visualizing the BP Oil Spill.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Big Problems, Small President By Robert S. Becker
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• Exclusive: Christophobia is as bad as Homophobia b ...
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• Shedding light on the dark hole in the Gulf By Jer ...
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• A ‘Prophecy’ Worth Watching by Chris Hedges
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• The American "Pirate" Nation By Timothy V. Gatto
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Axis of Logic

• Gulf Oil Emergency Summit: Extraordinary Crisis De ...
  Call for an Emergency Summit AN EXTRAORDINARY CRISIS REQUIRES AN EXTRAORDINARY RESPONSE THE PEOPLE MUST ACT TO STOP THE GULF CATASTROPHE The BP oil blowout is an environmental catastrophe, bringing great peril to marine and wildlife in the Gulf and threatening ecosystems of the planet. T ...
• The Best-Known Afghan Business - World News
  � The parts of the world hit hardest by the best-known Afghan business – the drug business - are Europe, Russia, and Iran, which absorb some 80% of the drugs produced in Afghanistan. Currently the country is responsible for 90% of the global narcotics output. Russia's drug control agency chief ...
• Turkish autopsies reveal aid activists shot from b ...
  Turkey released its autopsy results for the nine people killed aboard the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships that was part of the Gaza Aid Flotilla. There were six ships in the flotilla. Loaded with humanitarian aid supplies, aid activists under the banner of the international organization, Free ...
• The case of Jared Malsin – expelled by Israel. - M ...
  THE TRUTH IS HARMLESS IF IT IS�CENSORED January 22, 2010 at 08:29 - Look at the photo of the man below…. does he look dangerous? Well, he is! He is a Jewish journalist that dares to speak the truth about Israel. That is FORBIDDEN according to the 11th Commandment….’Thou Shalt...
• Grand Projects Versus the People! - Haiti
  "Meanwhile, more than one and half million human beings stay beneath tents that are already worn by the sun and the torrential rains that pour nearly every day.� And the occupation forces continue to mount, to prepare for all possibilities. The United Nations Security Council recently approved ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Which is the Bigger Liar: Rand Paul or the Courier ...
  How to tell when a political campaign or a once-great newspaper is swirling the drain: The dying newspaper runs as a "print exclusive" old news that a local blogger broke weeks ago. And the failing political campaign tries to hide its hypocrisy by scrubbing its website of no-longer-operative positio ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  We double-checked. The headline is really from The Onion - but it says a lot about the state of American politics today that we even briefly thought it could be real... Candidate May Have Lied About Heroic Death In Vietnam screams the headline, above a picture of a Garden of Stone that leads the art ...
• The Stupids and the Dishonests
  Twin clusterfucks in the Gulf of Mexico and Afghanistan and an economy in dire need of massive stimulus notwithstanding, we still have a Supreme Court nominee to confirm before October. That Bizarro-World version of a "hearing" will be defined by what KeninNY calls the Stupids and the Dishonests: It ...
• Scott Brown, Post-Turtle
  Poor Scott Brown. Every day he spends in the Senate, he looks more and more like a turtle on a post. When you see a turtle on a post you know that he didn't get up there by himself, he can't get anything done while he's up there and you just want to help him down. Now we all know that Cosmo isn't e ...
• The Pentagon thinks you're stupid
  The big "news" this morning is about so-called huge new finds of mineral deposits in Afghanistan. The Russians will be amused to learn that the mineral deposits are newly discovered, since they knew about them before they ever invaded the country in the 70s, especially the lithium that has some (ext ...

Care 2

• BP Is Destroying Evidence and Censoring Journalist ...
  BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability and is actually disappearing oiled wildlife. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• US turned down Britains offer to help clean up BP ...
  A high-level British offer of help to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was rebuffed by America shortly after the accident, fuelling fresh fears of political tension between the two countries over the disaster. Submitted by Maria V. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Hemp For Victory 1942 USA Government Showing The M ...
  The film was made by the USA government in 1942, to encourage farmers to grow hemp for food, paper, fuel, amino acids, curing diseases, cement, rope, cloth, cordage, and thousands of other Nature friendly products. Submitted by Mike Tedesco to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 10 Moving Tips for Packing and Unpacking
  Here is a list of 10 moving tips for packing and unpacking that make things easier for all.... Submitted by Katie Miller to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• HUMAN TRAFFICKING: More than 12 million are moder ...
  A sobering new report from the State Department finds that more than 12 million people worldwide are victims of "trafficking in persons" trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution. But just 4,166 people were convicted of trafficking la Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Cul ...

GreenBiz

• Marks & Spencer's Plan A Update Highlights Profits ...
  �U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer has made significant strides on its energy, emissions and waste goals while falling behind on travel emissions, water tracking and organic food sales. �
• Pitney Bowes' Waste Recycling Climbs to 14.5M Poun ...
  Implementing a secure destruction program that recycles paper after being shredded helped the Stamford, Conn.-based company improve its recycled waste by 6 percent.
• Marks & Spencer: 2010 How We Do Business
  �Marks & Spencer's annual sustainability report gives a detailed update on the 100 commitments that are part of its Plan A program.
• Starwood Launches Green Meeting Guidelines for All ...
  Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has introduced green meeting guidelines at its North American properties and plans to roll out the practices globally next year.
• Sainsbury's Tests New Technology to Trim Food Wast ...
  Sainsbury's has invested in new technology that will allow the retailer to make real-time supply chain decisions to reduce food waste caused by unexpected weather.

Reuters Global

• Japan’s new “voluntary militia” ...
  When Japan’s new top government spokesman, Yoshito Sengoku, was asked -- as new Japanese leaders often are -- to characterise the government’s new cabinet line-up, he fumbled a bit and then awkwardly said something about it being “fresh and hardworking.”
• New report accuses Pakistan’s ISI of backing ...
  A new report based on interviews with Taliban commanders in Afghanistan suggests support for the movement by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) remains strong.
• 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.

Booman Tribune

• NY Mayors For Sensible Gun Control
  Today at Noon, a bi-partisan coalition of 100 Mayors along with 83 Law Enforcement Agencies and Police Departments all across the State of NY will kick off an ad campaign to request that the New York State Legislature pass one simple measure that infringes upon no one's 2nd Amendment rights. Wh ...
• The Western Iowa Strategy
  What is it with than name 'Steve King' and horror shows? Of course, it's the political Steve that I'm concerned with here. He's trying to develop what we might call the 'Western Iowa Strategy.' Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) leveled a somewhat startling charge against President Barack Obama on Monda ...
• Casual Observation
  I'm shocked that televising Conference Committees leads to grandstanding and bickering rather then real negotiation. No one could have predicted...
• Fight for Climate Change Legislation
  John Broder reports in the New York Times: Images of gushing oil and dying pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico have stirred anger and agony in Washington. But are they enough to prod the Senate to act on long-delayed clean energy and climate change legislation? Energy, maybe. Climate, probably not. ...
• Why So Cynical?
  To be clear, the reason I described the discovery of untold mineral wealth in Afghanistan as hopeful is because it has been the glaring lack of natural resources that has made the future look so hopeless for that country. Their level of need so exceeds the capacity of the international community t ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 15 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1927 Birth of...
• Monday Open Thread
  Monday's child...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 14 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1937 Jørgen Leth,...
• Sunday Open Thread
  Thread away....
• European Energy Strategy consultation
  Public consultation - Towards a new Energy Strategy for Europe 2011-2020 The overall goal of...

Futurismic

• Canuck filmmaker considers streaming live video fr ...
  Well, this sidesteps the clunky implementations of lifelogging that we’ve seen so far. Rob Spence lost the vision in his tright eye in a shooting accident, and decided to replace it with a small camera unit, making it onto Time Magazine’s best inventions list for 2009 (even though they’ve only had t ...
• This is sure to end well: Afghanistan’s vast untap ...
  Looks like my cynicism gland gets an early boost this week, as the New York Times reports that the US government has discovered Afghanistan holds an estimated US$1 trillion in previously untapped mineral deposits [via MetaFilter]. The previously unknown deposits â including huge veins of iron, cop ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Hypertension Linked with Mania in Bipolar Patients ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, or hypertension. This correlation itself is not new, but new work by Dale D’Mello from Michigan State University has linked hypertension not just with bipolar in general, but ...
• Reasons We Self-Attack
  By Cynthia W. Lubow, MS, MFT, Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Cynthia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile This is a continuation of last month’s article, “Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?” Here are seven reasons why people attack themselves: 1. Imitating Parents We all lea ...
• Study Finds That Young White Women “Aim Thin” For ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study from the University of Michigan, recently published in Psychology of Women Quarterly finds that young women’s perception of their own self-worth as tied to their weight varies between ethnic identities. The study surveyed over 900 college women, aged 17-24 ...
• Adult Bullies
  By Roni Weisberg-Ross, L.M.F.T., Abuse / Survivors of Abuse Topic Expert Contributor “All cruelty springs from weakness” (Seneca, 4BC-AD65) There are those who say that bullying is behind all forms of violence, conflict, persecution, abuse, harassment, discrimination and prejudice. The recent death ...
• Teens and Sex
  By Kelly Sanders, MFT, Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Teens are having sex. I do not know the percentage of teens having sex but they are. Teens are having sex for many reasons: need to be loved, everyone else is ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Judge blasts Hobet, DEP for selenium stonewalling ...
  Judge blasts Hobet, DEP for selenium stonewalling Charleston Gazette In 2003, a broad federal government study of mountaintop-removal mining found repeated violations of water-quality limits on selenium. ... Stopping selenium: Judge Chambers criticizes compliance delays by Arch Coal, WVDEP Charlest ...
• Rand Paul on Mountaintop Removal Mining: No One Wi ...
  Rand Paul on Mountaintop Removal Mining: No One Will Miss “a Hill or Two Here ... AlterNet (blog) To justify his hands-off approach to environmental regulation, Paul then went on to explain that mountaintop removal isn't that bad, anyway, saying, ...
• Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam is a renaissance man - ...
  Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam is a renaissance man Lexington Herald Leader The Charlotte Observer reports on Duke Energy's recent request from coal producers for the cost of coal mined by mountaintop removal . ... and more��
• Flooding hits southern counties - Charleston Gazet ...
  Flooding hits southern counties Charleston Gazette Silt runoff from mountaintop removal mining has filled the beds of the creeks and rivers in Logan and the surrounding counties, causing the waters to ... and more��
• Ashley Judd Speaks Out Against Mountain Top Remova ...
  Ashley Judd Speaks Out Against Mountain Top Removal At Washington D.C. Luncheon Ecorazzi On Wednesday, June 9, Judd will be discussing the controversial practice of mountain top removal coal mining at a National Press Club luncheon. ... Ashley Judd works for women Politico all 3 news articles�� ...

Memeorandum

• I admit it: I was wrong to have supported Barack O ...
  blogs.telegraph.co.uk : I admit it: I was wrong to have supported Barack Obama   —  In three and a half years of blogging, this has been my single most unpopular post.  There's little point, I know, in reminding readers that my support for Barack Obama was qualified; that I simultaneously endorsed ...
• Cameras role on 'Atlas' (Dave McNary/Variety)
  Dave McNary / Variety : Cameras role on ‘Atlas’   —  Production ends 30-year trek to bring pic to screen  —  The long-brewing feature version of author Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged” has begun shooting in Los Angeles as a $5 million indie produced by John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow.
• Meg Whitman Was Accused of Shoving eBay Employee ( ...
  Brad Stone / New York Times : Meg Whitman Was Accused of Shoving eBay Employee   —  SAN FRANCISCO — During her 10 years as chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor of California, was known as a demanding leader who did not hesitate to express displeasure with empl ...
• Bush's daughter Barbara 'glad' ... (Ben Armbruster ...
  Ben Armbruster / Think Progress : Bush's daughter Barbara ‘glad’ ObamaCare passed: Health care ‘should be a right for everyone.’   —  Yesterday, President Bush's 28-year old daughter Barbara was named Fox News Sunday's “Power Player of the Week” for her work as co-founder of Global Health Corps, a ...
• Congressman Loses Cool To Students With A Flip Cam ...
  Colby Hall / Mediaite : Congressman Loses Cool To Students With A Flip Cam, But Comes Out The Hero?   —  No he's not a hero.  He's a jerk.  But...as is always the case, there is more to the story.  —  The democratization of communications technology (flip cams, home editing suites and YouTube) …

Energy & Environment News

• Companies Cut Costs With Sustainable Policies
  From Wal-Mart to the World Cup, companies are incorporating sustainable practices not only to be responsible, but also to cut costs.
• Oil Revenue Bill Stirs Political Uproar in Brazil
  The country’s Senate passed a bill to redistribute royalties, but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he would veto it.
• Vintage Light Bulbs Are Hot, but Ignite a Debate
  The filament bulb has enjoyed a resurgence in New York, to the dismay of environmentalists.
• BP Pays Out Claims, but Satisfaction Is Not Includ ...
  Some who received payouts for lost income said the money was not enough, and others said they were having difficulty getting their claims paid.
• Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk
  What the oil spill and the financial crisis have in common.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Nicobar Islands, India region
  Sunday, June 13, 2010 04:01:07 UTC Sunday, June 13, 2010 09:31:07 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 6.1, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Sunday, June 13, 2010 03:32:54 UTC Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:32:54 PM at epicenter Depth : 7.70 km (4.78 mi)
• M 5.0, Cochabamba, Bolivia
  Sunday, June 13, 2010 02:20:24 UTC Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:20:24 PM at epicenter Depth : 271.10 km (168.45 mi)
• M 5.3, Nicobar Islands, India region
  Saturday, June 12, 2010 22:44:40 UTC Sunday, June 13, 2010 04:44:40 AM at epicenter Depth : 19.30 km (11.99 mi)
• M 5.4, Santa Cruz Islands
  Saturday, June 12, 2010 22:41:29 UTC Sunday, June 13, 2010 09:41:29 AM at epicenter Depth : 102.00 km (63.38 mi)

China Dialogue

• A rush to dubious projects
  Plans to intercept BP’s spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico by building a sand berm will inflict further damage and do little to protect the US coast, writes scientist Rob Young. [This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360 on June 3 and is used here with permission.] Oil con ...
• A perspective on doubts
  Chinese voices challenging the IPCC’s conclusions should not be taken too seriously, says Jia Hepeng, who argues that the evidence for man-made climate change is watertight. Extensive media interest in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has projected the voices of Chinese scholars ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• You’re Fired MMS: Why the EPA Should Take Ov ...
  Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. That’s how about how effective Bruce Babbitt, the former Interior Secretary, thinks Ken Salazar’s proposal for how he’d like the Minerals Management Service to oversee offshore drilling will be. Speaking with the program Platt’s Energy Week, Babbitt suggested ...
• Why the U.S. Still Can't Get BP to Do What's Neces ...
  Right now BP's first responsibility is to its creditors and shareholders, not to the American public: Here's a better idea.
• What if Helen Thomas Had Emulated Powerful Right-W ...
  Right-wingers constantly deny the existence of the Palestinian identity, and they get to keep their jobs.
• Wingnut Rep. Steve King: Obama ‘Favors the B ...
  There are maybe a dozen or so Reps in Congress whose views are as extreme as they come, and whose filters appear to be nonexistent. They give us a window, of sorts, on what the edge of the conservative mainstream looks like. Iowa’s Steve King is among the most reactionary: Rep. Steve King (R-IA) app ...
• The Sarah Palin Strategy: Right-Wingers Only Talki ...
  This post first appeared on No More Mister Nice Blog. Via Steve Benen, I see that Fox and Friends has done a fact-challenged softball interview with Sharron Angle, the fringy GOP Senate candidate who wants Harry Reid’s job. The interview, in which Angle’s advocacy of Social Security privatization ...

Threat Level

• Supreme Court Rejects Case of Tortured Canadian
  The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the government by a Canadian citizen who, under suspicion of being connected to Al Qaeda, was sent by U.S. authorities to be tortured in Syria. The rejection likely marks the end of Maher Arar’s chances of ge ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Solid demand at debt sales lifts euro and stocks
  LONDON (Reuters) - Stocks gained, commodity prices rose and the euro clambered higher on Tuesday as strong demand for debt from around Europe reassured investors about the state of the euro zone's finances.
• Magnitude 5.7 quake strikes southern California
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck a remote part of southern California, near the border with Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.
• FBI files reveal Ted Kennedy death threats
  WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Late Senator Edward Kennedy was subject to scores of death threats before and after the assassinations of his brothers, according to FBI files released on Monday that also revealed efforts by the Kennedy family to fight rumors that he had links to Communists.
• Cheap blood drug "could save 100,000 lives a year"
  LONDON (Reuters) - A cheap and easily administered medicine which helps to stem excessive bleeding could save the lives of many thousands of accident victims across the world, British scientists said on Tuesday.
• Armed couple detained at key military base
  MIAMI (Reuters) - A man and a woman in a vehicle carrying weapons and military-style gear were detained on Monday for attempting to gain unauthorized access to a key military base in Florida, authorities said.

Equality Trust

• LATEST* The Equality Trust in the News
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• 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.
• The Equality Trust in the news
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.

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

• The Perishable Pundit, Jim Prevor, is not as smart ...
  Last week when Jim went after Marion Nestle and Denis Stearns, I suggested that it best to ignore his ranting.  However, In reading Jim Prevor’s recent posting ( “No Matter What Growers, Shippers, or Retailers Do About Food Safety, ‘You Will Be Sued,” posted on June 11, 2010 ), I knew that I had to ...
• Separate Children from Raw Meat and Poultry in Sho ...
  Riding in shopping carts and exposure to raw meat and poultry products: prevalence of, and factors associated with, this risk factor for salmonella and campylobacter infection in children younger than 3 years Patrick ME, Mahon BE, Zansky SM, Hurd S, Scallan E. - Centers for Disease Control and Prev ...
• Rocori High School of Cold Spring Minnesota receiv ...
  Marler Clark has donated $25,000 to Rocori High School of Cold Spring Minnesota to start the Stephanie Smith Science Scholarship at the high school that Stephanie graduated from a few years ago. It is my hope to encourage and support students interested in science - especially food safety and the t ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 06.15.10
  Nissan pegs Leaf range between 47 and 138 miles Individual results will vary. Video: Ride along as a real-world battery swap takes place in less than two minutes Did you know there's an unde ...
• AutoblogGreen for 06.14.10
  Are hybrid and electric airplanes ready for commercial debut? As on land, so in the air. Nissan demonstrating speed-sensitive alert sounds for Leaf in Japan Bwoop-bwoop! ...
• 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? ...

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

• BP Is Destroying Evidence And Censoring Journalist ...
  AlterNet / By Riki Ott BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability and is actually disappearing oiled wildlife. June 12, 2010 | Marine Photo Bank / Flickr Creative Commons Photo Credit: Marine Photo Bank / Flickr Creative Commons Orange Beach, Alabama – While President O ...
• U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghani ...
  By JAMES RISEN | NYT | Published: June 13, 2010 WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to ...
• US Slams Mention of Israeli Nukes at IAEA Meeting
  Warns Mentioning Israel’s Arsenal Will Harm ‘Nuclear Free Mideast’ Push by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, June 10, 2010 US officials reacted angrily today at the inclusion of Israel’s nuclear arsenal as a topic of discussion for the IAEA meeting, insisting that it was “untimely and uncalled for.” The meet ...
• Democratic Party defends Israeli attack on aid flo ...
  By Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy In Focus, June 10, 2010 Tens of thousands of Israelis protested in the streets of Tel Aviv last weekend against their right-wing government’s attack on an unarmed humanitarian aid flotilla sailing in international waters. International condemnation of the raids conti ...
• Britain, Petroleum, and British Petroleum
  We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source, of at least a proportion of the supply (of oil) which we require….and obtain our oil supply, so far as possible, from sources under British control, or British influence.” (Winston S. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, 191 ...

Solari

• Quote du Jour
  “Life is a club where they won’t stand for squawks, where they deal you only one hand, and you must sit in. So even if the cards are cold and marked by the hand of fate, play up, play up like a gentleman and a sport.” ~Nathanael West Thanks to Roger Simon, POLITICO’s chief political columnist, for [ ...
• Owners Stop Paying Mortgages
  Larger Chart Continue reading Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting
• Quelle Surprise? Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanista ...
  [CAF Note: This is proof positive that US Treasury bills and bonds are not subject to 10b-5 and other basic rules of financial disclosure and forward projection!] By James Risen The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previousl ...
• Tell Me About It!
  Commander Adama: “…I need some serious “out-of-the-box” thinking” Kara Thrace aka Lieutenant Starbuck: “Out of the box is where I live.” From Battlestar Gallactica, The Hand of God
• The World in Flags
  Portugese magazine, Revista Grande Reportagem, ran a series of eight flag-related images in 2005 designed to provoke an awareness of life issues in different parts of the world. Brazil Green live with less than 10 dollars a month. Yellow live with less than 100 dollars a month. Blue live with less ...

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��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Arizona Immigration Law Creates Uncertain Role for ...
  At least one school district with a large Latino population saw a drop in enrollment right after Arizona enacted SB1070.
• Did Police Kill a Katrina Survivor and Torch His B ...
  Henry Glover's killing -- which involves a shooting and improvised cremation just a few hundred feet from a police station -- is one of many mysterious post-Katrina deaths.
• The Sneaky, Unexpected Ways Anti-Choice Right-Wing ...
  Since Roe v. Wade passed, anti-choice groups have been waging a war on abortion rights. This year it's been even worse.
• 5 Arizona Immigrant Women Tell of Terror, Civil Ri ...
  The Arizona women painted a picture of abuse during a special hearing before Congress.
• Why Police Don't Want to Enforce Immigration Law
  Police who are required to look for illegal immigrants are going to find fewer drug dealers, murderers and rapists. You do the math.

Sideways News

• Heard the joke about the infidel?
  Written and produced by comedian David Baddiel, the film Infidel addresses the issue of religious identity and society’s preconceptions about Muslims and Jews. When main character Mahmud, a 40-something Muslim Homer Simpson type, played by Omid Djalili, discovers he’s not only adopted but also Jewis ...
• Beetroot haters' soup
  Taken from the Riverford Farm Cook Book Serves 4 This soup is ideal for family members and friends who are sceptical about beetroot - serve them this and they'll be converted. It looks and tastes fantastic. � � Ingredients
• Avatar's Pandora possible within years?
  The concept of life on the moon may currently be limited to sci-fi blockbusters such as James Cameron's Avatar , but a leading astronomer has suggested it could become a reality in just a few years.
• The art of composting
  No garden is complete without a compost heap. A rich source of nutrients for everything from the flower bed to the vegetable patch, it is also a great way to recycle biodegradable household and outdoor waste.
• 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

• A look at Faux Economics, increasingly popular but ...
  There are many schools of economics, such as Classical, Keynesian, Austrian economics.  And now Faux Economics, against which economists struggle in vain — logic and data defeated by well-funded lies.   They are the foundation of Faux Economics, as shown in this enlightening exchange of salvos ...
• FM newswire for June 14, interesting articles abou ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Today’s antidote to faux economics, disproof of an often-repeated myth:  “Unemployment in the 1930s“, Eric Rauchway (Prof History, UC Davis), The Edge of the American West, 10 October ...
• New report says that Pakastan’s ISI supports ...
  Summary:  Another example of Anglo-American Imperial literature, this time by an American author at the London School of Economics.  Useful not only for what it says about Afghanistan Taliban and Pakistan’s ISI (their close ties have been known for years), but also for what it says about us.  ...
• Modern America seen in pictures. Graphs, not phot ...
  I strongly recommend taking the time to look at the graphics in todayâs links.  The story they tell is unpleasant, but important.  If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. “Sad truths about America“, Gus Lubin, Business Insider, 9 April 2010 “Three Charts to Break Your H ...
• “For many soldiers, mental trauma lingers at home”
  (1)  One cost of our wars — Summary:  “For many soldiers, mental trauma lingers at home“, Time, 7 June 2010 — “Roughly one in ten soldiers returning from Iraq faces ongoing struggles due to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and other conditions.”  The actual research:  “Prevalenc ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Brown government fudged UK growth figures
  ABC – Britain’s newly-created independent Office for Budget Responsibility has revealed the previous government had over-estimated the UK’s economic growth forecasts. The British economy is set to grow 2.6 per cent in 2011, not the 3.25 per cent predicted by the previous chancellor, Alistair Darling ...
• Australia: Economists predict 22pc house price ris ...
  ABC – Economic forecaster BIS Shrapnel is expecting house prices to rise between 11 and 22 per cent across the major cities over the next three years. Perth is expected to lead the trend, with house price growth of 22 per cent, in front of growth in Sydney and Adelaide of 20 per cent. House [...]
• Children born to non-US citizens could be barred f ...
  Daily Telegraph – Under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution any child born in the country has an automatic right to citizenship regardless of their parents’ legal status. But Republican State Senator Russell Pearce will introduce a bill later this year to target so-called “anchor babies,” whi ...
• Africa ‘good leader’ prize fails again to find win ...
  Telegraph – A £3.2 million award for “excellence in African leadership”, funded by a British telecoms billionaire, has failed to find a winner for a second year running. To win the Mo Ibrahim Prize, a head of state must have been democratically elected, avoided corruption allegations while in offic ...
• Swarm of quakes rattles region
  LA times-More than two dozen temblors are recorded Monday night, the largest a magnitude 5.7 that could be felt throughout L.A. County. Experts say they were aftershocks of the 7.2 quake on April 4. More than two dozen earthquakes struck Monday night near the U.S-Mexico border in San Diego County, r ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Shrinking glaciers caused by First World threaten ...
  Shrinking glaciers caused by First World threaten Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a group of Dutch researchers writing in the journal of Science, 60 million people living near and around the Himalayan mountains will suffer a shortage of food in the coming decades. The sh ...
• L’Afrique en crise… des centaines de millions n’on ...
  L’Afrique en crise… des centaines de millions n’ont pas accés à l’eau, souffrent de “l’eau malade” et les pénuries alimentaires (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (français) L’Afrique, en particular l’Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale, est en crise. Selon un rapport récent de l’UNICEF, plus ...
• 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 ...

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

• Wind Power Catching Up With Natural Gas in Europe
  The Europe Wind Energy Association is reporting that the amount of new power from wind turbines this year will be about the same as new power from natural gas plants, with wind possibly ranking as number one. Wind power has been steadily catching up with natural gas, the current leader in power ge ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• Whose Country is This Anyway?
  Body � There something otherworldly about our national condition. In the past year the Republican minority in the Senate has forced every major legislative exercise into a filibuster-threatened dead-end. And a public-relations feeding frenzy in the right-wing media and by irresponsibl ...
• President Obama's Boiling Point: A Preview
  Body In an extraordinary interview last week with Politico's Roger Simon, President Obama came close to unleashing the dogs of uncivil war: "I think it's fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lo ...
• GOP Senate Candidate in Nevada Embraces the Oath K ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH They feel the government will turn on its citizens They stash guns, run drills and have many fears But the thing that should terrify them the most is They’re going to give Harry Reid four more years .read more
• Misunderstanding His Position and Politics, Sean H ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph Some of President Barack Obama’s comments have elicited surprise and selective outrage from members on FOX who have complained� he had apparently shown too much emotion shortly after complaining he had not shown enough. Even so, few could have anticipated ...
• Corporations Have No Soul, No Beating Heart and No ...
  SCOTUS:� Corporations-Are-People, Election-Spending-Is-Speech Corporations are not people, nor all of the above.� Thus negating the Supreme Court Ruling that Corporations are people and spending money is speech!� You'd think those self�righteous,�holier than thou, pious prig conservatives servin ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people ...
  The�Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from�Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK�Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months ...
• Rep. Bob Etheridge should be arrested for assault
  (updated below - Update II) Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC) was walking on a public sidewalk last week when he was politely asked a question by someone holding a camera, and this is what happened:� That's a clear case of assault and batte ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Enzymes, chemicals, and metal vapours
  Latest science news from yours truly on SpectroscopyNOW.com Don’t get your kinases in a twist – New drugs that block kinase enzymes irreversibly could be used in cancer therapy as well as in studying how this class of enzymes functions. An informatics analysied has allowed molecular editing to pro ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Victory: Peace Groups Permanently Shut Down Army E ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2010 CODEPINK Franklin Mills Mall, Philadelphia, PA - A coalition of thirty peace groups has proven triumphant in their goal of forever shutting down the “Army Experience Center” in a suburban shopping mall in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today ...
• Colombia: Human Rights Abusers Must Not be Protect ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2010 Amnesty International The Colombian government must not protect military officers from prosecution for human rights violations, Amnesty International said today. President Álvaro Uribe and the military high command yesterday called for the armed forces to be ...
• EPA Challenged Over Global Warming Pollution From ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2010 Environmental Groups A day after the U.S. Senate voted to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, a coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit challenging the agency’s failure to address such pollution from o ...
• Frank, Task Force, Urge Pentagon Role in Deficit R ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2010 Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), along with a bipartisan task force that includes members of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information an ...
• Amnesty International Urges Egypt Government to In ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International is calling for an immediate, full and independent investigation into the brutal killing of a 28-year-old Egyptian man, Khaled Mohammed Said, while in the hands of Egyptian security forces in the city of Alexandria ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Born in the USA. Then Back to Work.
  by Sharon Lerner When it comes to paid maternity leave, the United States is in the postpartum dark ages. read more
• As Teachers Struggle with Obama’s Reform Agenda, ‘ ...
  by Michelle Chen More input = more output. Pay more, get a better product. Unfortunately, the rules of the market economy don't translate well in a classroom, where the input may be an overworked, underpaid teacher, and the output springs from an unpredictable mix of fickle young minds, multiple cul ...
• The Gift Exchange, Washington-Style
  by Tom Engelhardt On May 24th, a piece headlined "U.S. read more
• Sierra Club and Gang Green: Oil Spill Cleanup 'Jus ...
  by Jane Hamsher Josh Gerstein has an article in Politico on the massive silence coming out of the enviros on the BP oil catastrophe, which has been notable ever since the rig collapsed . This weekend the groups took out an ad in the Washington Post, not to criticize the administration for their ...
• A ‘Prophecy’ Worth Watching
  by Chris Hedges Orson Welles and John Houseman were preparing to mount a production in June 1937 in New York City called “The Cradle Will Rock,” a musical written by Marc Blitzstein and set in “Steeltown USA.” The musical followed the efforts of a worker, Larry Foreman, as he attempted to unioni ...

Karl Burkart

• Let the BP whistleblowing begin
  With increased resentment building against BP, some insiders turned whistleblowers are calling out the company's unethical behavior.
• Requiem for the Gulf
  A beautiful and heart-wrenching tribute to one of the most beautiful oceans in the world, and the devastation that one company can wreak upon it.
• Gulf 'media blackout' triggers journalist fury
  Why are government officials still blocking journalists from documenting the Gulf oil spill? What are they hiding, and why is Obama letting it happen?
• EPA launches website on oil spill
  The Deepwater Horizon incident is set to surpass the Exxon Valdez spill as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. The EPA, the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security are providing breaking updates and resources online.
• BP redirects the flow of information with Google A ...
  BP is coming under criticism for buying 'gulf oil spill' search advertising on Google. Will their attempt to redirect the flow of traffic backfire?

Water Privatization

• Lower 2010 budget deficit difficult says DoF
  MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Finance (DoF) said on Tuesday there is little room for the the government to lower the programmed P293.2 billion budget deficit despite the better-than-expected 7.3% gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the first quarter.
• Naked in the 'Sunshine'
  HONG KONG - China's power center in Beijing has in recent years encouraged regional authorities to introduce anti-corruption policies to combat official corruption and increase transparency. It's become known as the "Sunshine" policy.
• Cabinet putting final touches on the 2010 budget
  BEIRUT: Lebanon is expected this week to witness the birth of the 2010 budget after a long and sometimes heated debate on many of its articles.
• India's Revolving Door Of Regulation
  New legislation aims to simplify and balance the business climate, but overlap and conflicts of interest persist.
• Tax foes mission gains in recession
  Tax foes mission gains in recession

Guardian

• Families examine Bloody Sunday report
  • Full coverage as Lord Saville's inquiry publishes long-awaited report into killings of 14 people in Derry in 1972 • Read a summary of key events today so far 1.24pm: If Cameron apologises for Bloody Sunday today, he will be going further than Tony Blair did when he announced the Saville inquiry in ...
• BP credit rating slashed
  • Fitch ratings agency concerned about short-term costs • BP rating cut from AA to BBB • Head of BP America to appear before Congress today • Fitch thinks dividend could be cut BP's credit rating has been slashed by Fitch to just two notches above junk status, as the potential cost of the Gulf of Me ...
• LIVE: All the latest from World Cup
  • Follow Scott Murray's mbm report on Slovakia v New Zealand • Re-live all the action with our hypnotic Twitter replay • Download the latest edition of World Cup Daily • Get the latest reaction from our Fans' Network • Send all your World Cup emails to sean.ingle@guardian.co.uk 1.54pm: Breaking news ...
• Inflation drops to 3.4% in May
  • Food, drinks and petrol help ease inflation • Experts hopeful Bank of England can avoid interest rate hike • RPI also falls to 5.1% from 5.3% in April Inflation slowed more than expected last month as food prices slipped and the rise in petrol prices eased off, raising hopes that price pressures h ...
• Kyrgyzstan demands son extradition
  Maxim Bakiyev, who controlled the economics portfolio in his father's ousted government, was arrested in Britain on Sunday The younger son of the former leader of Kyrgyzstan has been arrested in Britain as a humanitarian crisis rages in his home country, with around 100,000 Uzbeks gathering on the U ...

McClatchey

• Report: More work needed to end human trafficking
  The United States stands with the world's top nations in its efforts to stop human trafficking but still could do a better job, according to a new report.
• Haitians brace for hurricane season in flood zone
  GONAIVES, Haiti — Two deadly storms in four years sent the Lafortune siblings fleeing from this flood-wrecked city for the safety of the Haitian capital. But then the quake-ruined capital forced them back home.
• Artist Thomas Kinkade faces DUI arrest, bankruptcy
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The painter of light is having a dark period.
• Commentary: 16-year-old sailor was already off cou ...
  Most parents worry if teenagers are an hour late. Just imagine if they were lost at sea.
• Commentary: Now you don't trust BP, but it's too l ...
  Every time a BP executive appears on television, I think of the garage scene from the movie "Animal House."

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Valuing nature, doing what with the numbers?
  Last week's decision to set up a global organisation to provide governments with advice on biodiversity wasn't entirely unexpected, but wasn't a shoe-in either. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IBPES) will be loosely modelled on the Intergovernme ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Global Boiling: Inhofe Calls Climate Threat A Hoax ...
  Last week, 47 senators launched a failed assault on science, supporting Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) resolution to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding that greenhouse gas pollution endangers the public health and welfare. The EPA finding was based on decades of science, ...
• Grandfathering Regs Help You Like The Coverage You ...
  Some news reports and conservative blogs have characterized the government’s new regulations about how insurers can preserve their so-called “grandfathered status” — under which they will be exempt from some of the law’s benefit standards and regulations — as a departure from President Obama’s prom ...
• Bachus Wants Derivatives To Be Transparent Without ...
  As the conference committee reconciling the House and Senate’s respective financial regulatory reform bills gets down to business this week, it will be starting with the Senate’s text as the base. When it comes to crafting a regulatory regime for derivatives — the risky instruments that played a lar ...
• Existing Insurance Plans Will Be Penalized If They ...
  The new health care law grandfathered health plans in existence before March 23, 2010 — the day reform became law — and exempted existing plans from many of the new regulations, benefits standards and consumer protections. But the exclusion comes with conditions. If the plans make changes that under ...
• Fiorina Brushes Off Concerns That Her Immigration ...
  This weekend, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, California senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina indicated that she’s not very worried about the effect that her support of Arizona’s immigration law, SB-1070, will have on her relationship with Latino voters. Fiorina instead pointed out that she ha ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Jay Currie's World (Satire)
  [Disclaimer: The following is a work of satirical fiction. Any similarity to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. To the author's knowledge, nobody sharing the names the characters in the story have done anything similar to the fictional events depicted therein.] Jay Currie is a se ...
• A Sadly Plausible Argument
  ... about the spinelessness of harper's opposition from Democracy Under Fire .
• What Motivates Canadians?
  Not the government violating the treaty rights of First Nations. Not the obscenities of greed at the Vancouver Olympics. Not the possibility that Canada is complicit in torture in Afghanistan. Not (really) Harper's serial assaults on parliamentary democracy. It seems that we're ALL really incensed ...
• 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 ...

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

• Morning Smoke: Lawmakers: BP Repeatedly Chose Risk ...
  Lawmakers accuse BP of 'shortcuts' by Steven Mufson and Anne E. Kornblut [The Washington Post] Obama's Treasury Dept Working To Defeat Derivatives Proposal 'Of Utmost Importance' To Reforming Wall Street by Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim [The Huffington Post] Presidential...
• Kudos to Commissioner Magwood: A Step Towards Open ...
  We are delighted to see that Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner William Magwood has followed the lead of NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko and started posting a “monthly calendar of his meetings and visits with external stakeholders such as utilities and...
• SEC Inspector General Uncovers Whistleblower Retal ...
  Senior officers at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Fort Worth Regional Office (FWRO) took retaliatory action against two employees who were trying to get the agency to pursue more complex cases like the Stanford Ponzi scheme, according to a...
• Morning Smoke: SEC May Been Slow to Investigate Le ...
  Bad Timing: Did SEC Wait Too Long Before Probing Lehman? by Charlie Gasparino [Fox Business] Getting the Best of Both Bills: A Conference Committee Report by Mike Konczal [Rortybomb] Drilling Rules Hit Alaska Pipeline by Brian Baskin and Cassandra Sweet...
• 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 ...

Digital Journal

• New study finds that Moon has 100 times more water
  According to a new study, the Moon has 100 times more water than previous estimates, which most likely was preserved from the hot magma when the Moon was forming 4.5 billion years ago.
• Canadian boy, 8, beats neighbor's dog to death
  A barbecue fork used for skewering and serving meat was the young boy's weapon of choice as he savagely beat Cuddles, a small dog.
• Toronto Maple Leafs unveil new Captain and new tea ...
  As expected, today the Toronto Maple Leafs unveiled a new look jersey and named Dion Phaneuf as their 18th Captain in Maple Leaf history.
• Toronto police bust 35 drug dealers
  A three week investigation by Toronto Police's 14 Division Major Crime Vice Unit has resulted in 35 people being charged with 106 charges. During the investigation a loaded semi-automatic pistol was seized.
• Toronto man knocked out during fight
  A man was knocked unconscious last Thursday in Toronto during a loud early morning fight. He was found by a Good Samaritan who called the police.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Fresno Puts Ending Homelessness on the Dollar Menu
  The mayor of Fresno, California is calling on residents to  donate one dollar a month to help the city end homelessness. The donated funds will be directed to  Fresno First Steps Home , a non-profit organization that plans to allocate the donations to agencies implementing the city's 10 Year Plan to ...
• Gooooooooooal! Brazil to Host This Year's Homeless ...
  While South Africa is trying to hide the homeless from World Cup tourists, sparing them contact with the usual street clutter of homeless people and their debris, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil is getting ready to host the 8th  Homeless World Cup . The week-long event will take place September 19-26, 2010. ...
• A Homeless Person with a Camera Phone Is Worth a T ...
  Why do people assume that the poor and the homeless can't have (and don't deserve) items of any value ? As the conservative Heritage Foundation continues to rail about the relative state of poverty in America versus the rest of the world — "89 percent [of households classified as poor by the U.S. Ce ...
• 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 ...

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

• Obama’s contempt for international standards
  The National Security Strategy of the Obama administration says: “if nations challenge or undermine an international order that is based upon rights and responsibilities, they must find themselves isolated.” Israel is currently resisting international pressure to accept an international investigati ...
• What happens when a country has no borders?
  In the hours leading up to the Mavi Marmara massacre, Israel extended like a cloud whose shadow spread deep into the Mediterranean. The Turkish ship’s captain took evasive action but it’s hard to escape the reach of a nation whose borders are so elastic. Anyone who reads the Israeli press will soon ...
• German parliamentarians file war crimes complaints ...
  Der Spiegel reports: Public prosecutors in Germany are looking into a war crimes complaint filed against Israel by two members of parliament with the far-left Left Party and a human rights activist who were on board the Mavi Marmara when Israeli troops stormed it 11 days ago. Eleven days ago, the ...
• Turkey is the new Palestinian champion
  Noting a historic shift in the regional balance of power, Alastair Crooke says: The cause of the Palestinians is gradually passing out of the hands of Mubarak and King Abdullah bin Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. It is the leaders of Iran and Turkey, together with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, ...
• 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

• WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #9
  By Steven Goddard The topic this week is verification of data sources. NSIDC reports : At the end of the month, extent fell near the level recorded in 2006, the lowest in the satellite record for the end of May … Continue reading →
• Book Review – Climatism
  I’ve been tardy in reviewing a number of books people have sent to me. Especially this one. So I’m happy to say that William Gray reviews the book Climatism! by Steve Goreham while busy with other things down under. – … Continue reading →
• Bizzarothink in Goreville
  Here’s a bizzare juxtaposition. Thanks to Tom Nelson for spotting this. Al Gore writes: Al’s Journal : Stop Censoring News From The Gulf This behavior is completely unacceptable. Access by reporters should be as unfettered as possible. This de facto … Continue reading →
• McIntyre and McKitrick to receive award
  Thursday night, Steve and Ross will be presented with the Julian Simon Memorial Award at CEIâs annual dinner. The dinner will be held on Thursday, June 17, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Let … Continue reading →
• The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, s ...
  From the National Post The UNâs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider.  … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• A ‘Prophecy’ Worth Watching by Chris Hedges
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1104375 by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 14, 2010 Orson Welles and John Houseman were preparing to mount a production in June 1937 in New York City called “The Cradle Will Rock,” a musical written by Marc Blitzstein and set in “Steel ...
• The Stimulator: Foreclose this
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ subMedia This week: 1. Tape a pig go to jail 2. Cross dressers shame the Peru Po Po 3. Israeli pirates beat down 4. Bad cop no donut 5. Our iPod your LRAD 6. Crash the Meeting 7. Foreclose this! Foreclose this see Resist the G8 G20 G8 G20 CRASH THE MEETING TORONT ...
• U.S. Seeks to Punish Iran with New Sanctions Resol ...
  by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal 10 June, 2010 The United Nations Security Council yesterday passed a fourth sanctions resolution against Iran for its insistence on enriching its own uranium under its nuclear program and for what the resolution described as ...
• Noam Chomsky: US role in Haiti destruction
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1103449 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ run time: 1:27:45 joefriendly June 09, 2010 — Noam Chomsky shares his insights regarding the ongoing problems confronting the beleaguered nation of Haiti, particularly the US role minimizing and undermining their econ ...
• Thanks, Helen, for telling it like it is! By Jerry ...
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com June 9, 2010 Thanks and hugs from all, Helen Thomas, 89-year old, oft-referred to “dean of the White House press corps,” who retired today, Monday, moments after the parroting White House Correspondents Association said it was conside ...

Your New Reality

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  President Obama points out the fundamental hypocris y of conservatives and Tea Partiers who demand an end to 'Big Government' : “I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companie ...
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  Dear Future Robots, I Was Only Joking When I Said We Should Destroy You All Before It's Too Late By Darryl Mason I'm not saying anything negative about flying killer robots that can find each other and group into a mother ship to maximize their slaughter capacity. I love robots. All robots. P ...
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  US Media Terrified Of Mentioning USS Liberty Never heard of the USS Liberty ? Do you know that an American naval vessel was attacked by Israel in international waters, 43 years ago today, resulting in the deaths of dozens of American sailors, seriously wounding more than 170? If you haven't, don' ...
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  What If Your Friends Like Your Digital Avatar More Than The Real You? Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist : Central to our identity is how we judge our own looks and how other people perceive us. Jose Bentham, a 39-year-old banker, and Susan Golton, a 22-year-old design student...were scann ...
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  The Beginning Of The End Of The War On Afghanistan 'Reformed' Taliban will include 'reformed' Al Qaeda, and whoever else has to paid off to stop killing NATO troops : Backing Afghan President Hamid Karzai's efforts to 'reach out' to the Taliban through the peace jirga, President Obama's Spec ...

Wired - Science

• Why Travelers Go South: North Seems Uphill
  People making travel plans may unwittingly heed a strange rule of thumb — southern routes rule. In a new experiment, volunteers chose paths that dipped south over routes of the same distance that arched northward, perhaps because northern routes intuitively seem uphill and thus more difficult, rese ...
• New U.S. Map Could Stop Species From Becoming Enda ...
  A new national map of the ecosystems of America could help keep healthy species from ending up endangered. Through ground and satellite surveys of land cover, the U. S. Geological Survey’s Gap Analysis Program has generated data that conservationists may be able to use to create and sustain habitat ...
• Butterfly Wing Colors Come From Space-Age Structur ...
  Some butterflies get their fabulous colors from light refracted through membrane shapes that were first discovered by mathematicians and applied in space-age material science. Using microscopes with three-dimensional nanoscale resolution, Yale University researchers found that shades of green in th ...
• Japanese Spacecraft Returns From Asteroid Sampling ...
  The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returned from its seven-year trek to the asteroid Itokawa on Sunday, and a capsule that hopefully contains pieces of the asteroid was recovered in the Australian outback Monday morning. The mission was the first round trip to a planetary body beyond the moon, and — ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• International Human Rights Volunteers Needed in Pa ...
  IWPS is currently inviting applications from women who would like to join our team of long-term volunteers. Successful applicants will be invited to a 9 day training program in Portugal (Sept 11-19,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Activists disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting
  While pro-Palestinian activists and supporters of Israel lined opposite sides of South LaSalle Street outside the Northern Trust Building in Chicago on 9 June, James Owens, the outgoing CEO and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Major Israeli supermarket chains boycott Turkish g ...
  A number of local supermarket chains are taking a political stand: They have decided to boycott products manufactured in Turkey. IOA Editor: Israel can boycott the world, but won't tolerate the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Red Cross: Gaza closure – not another year!
  The dire situation in Gaza cannot be resolved by providing humanitarian aid. The closure imposed on the Gaza Strip is about to enter its fourth year, choking off any real possibility of economic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Henry Siegman: Israel’s Greatest Loss – Its Moral ...
  If a people who so recently experienced such unspeakable inhumanities cannot understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions are inflicting, what hope is there for the rest of us? The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia to float out new nuclear submarine after de ...
  Russia on Tuesday launches a new nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine after a short delay caused by technical reasons, the Sevmash shipyard said
• France hands over night vision technology to Russi ...
  Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said Tuesday it had signed several contracts with the French defense firm Thales on the transfer of technology and delivery of communications equipment for Russian armored vehicles
• Russia to buy 10 billion euros in foreign arms by ...
  The Russian Defense Ministry may spend up to 10 billion euros on European and Israeli weaponry in the next five or six years, Russian daily Vedomosti reported on Tuesday
• Russia says single conflict settlement principles ...
  Russia speaks for developing unified standards of conflict prevention and settlement, a deputy foreign minister said Monday.
• French defense minister calls Russia strategic mil ...
  Russia and France are strategic military partners, the French defense minister said Monday

NewsWise

• ENDO 2010 News Conference Live Webcast Schedule
  The Endocrine Society Annual Meeting and Expo will take place on June 19-22, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Breaking news on diabetes, combating obesity, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, menopause and weight-loss surgery will be presented in a series of news briefings.
• Higher Stress Disorders in Women May Have Biologic ...
  There may be a biological reason why depression and stress-related disorders are more common among women than men. Neuroscientists have found that female animals are more sensitive to an important stress hormone.
• How Bacteria Boost the Immune System
  Scientists have long known that certain types of bacteria boost the immune system. A new study is showing how bacteria perform this essential task.
• For Better Health - Please Don't Stop the Music!
  CIHR experts discuss the impact of music on people's health.
• Vitamin D May Protect Against Influenza and Other ...
  Vitamin D may help reduce the incidence and severity of viral respiratory tract infections including influenza, according to a new study conducted by investigators at Greenwich Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine.

Organic Consumers.org

• Lactation Breaks, Always Commendable, Are Now Law
  Working Mother magazine's "Best Companies for Hourly Workers" all support employees who want to pump breast milk on the job, something health reform will start requiring of companies with more than 50 employees. Click here to read this article
• U.S. Lawns Getting an Eco-Makeover
  A radical, underground movement is growing in the suburbs of the United States. Click here to read this article
• Connell Organic Farmer Touts 'Beetle Banks' to Pro ...
  Strips of blooming plants in a maze of colors -- from blue bachelor buttons to white yarrow -- dot his 600-acre farm north of Connell. They border fields of potatoes, onions, shallots, primitive heritage wheat varieties spelt and einkorn, and camelina. In each strip, insects, from wasps to flies and ...
• Girls Now Begin Puberty at Age Nine
  Growing numbers of girls are reaching puberty before the age of 10... Scientists believe the phenomenon could be linked to obesity or exposure to chemicals in the food chain, and is putting girls at greater long-term risk of breast cancer. Click here to read this article
• Monsanto's Glyphosate Problems: Scientist Warns of ...
  The widespread use of glyphosate is causing negative impacts on soil and plants as well as possibly animal and human health. These are key findings of Don Huber, emeritus professor of plant pathology, Purdue University. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Festival de la cerveza en la ciudad de Montreal (3 ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
• Fotografías de Canadá
  Ya les presenté las colecciones especiales de fotografías sobre México , Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y ahora, les tengo en excusiva 6 bonitas fotografías de Canadá . Verdaderos paraísos, escenarios y paisajes naturales. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografía ...
• Fotografías de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
  A través de 6 bonitas fotografías, le invito a conocer las costas de California, El cañon de Colorado, Oklahoma, el valle de Texas y algo más... 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 OPCION ...
• Fotografías de México
  En esta ocasión, le ofrezco 6 hermosas fotografías de México. Admira en esta bella colección la pirámide de Chichen Itzá, La Selva Lacandona en Chiapas, Las costas de Baja California, Tulum en Cancún y el calendario Azteca. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografí ...
• Las fotos que tomé ayer... I
  EL DÍA DE HOY, EMPEZARÉ UNA SERIE LLAMADA ' Las fotos que tomé ayer '. Un breve repertorio fotográfico donde estaré incluyendo algunas de las mejores instantáneas que voy tomando a mi paso por la vida. Espero que les gusten y no olviden hacer click sobre ellas para ampliar su tamaño. Si alguien des ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Brett Schaefer’s Critical (from the Right) T ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It is worth also considering the views of those critical of the entire ICC effort to the define aggression and bring it within the ICC Statute.  Brett Schaefer at Heritage offers this final take, which he calls the U.S. effort a qualified success due to its ability to de ...
• Harrington’s Final Take on the Kampala Revie ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Having called her out a few hours ago not knowing she was on her way back from Uganda, I thought I should excerpt Joanna Harrington’s final post on the Review Conference, where she offers another great account of the final negotiations.  She also offers this final tak ...
• Brett Schaefer’s Critical (from the Right) Take on ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It is worth also considering the views of those critical of the entire ICC effort to the define aggression and bring it within the ICC Statute.  Brett Schaefer at Heritage offers this final take, which he calls the U.S. effort a qualified success due to its ability to de ...
• Harrington’s Final Take on the Kampala Review Conf ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Having called her out a few hours ago not knowing she was on her way back from Uganda, I thought I should excerpt Joanna Harrington’s final post on the Review Conference, where she offers another great account of the final negotiations.  She also offers this final tak ...
• Judge Goldstone Removed from Hebrew University’s B ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Despite the increasingly desperate nature of the attacks on Judge Goldstone, I never thought an academic institution would give in to the hysteria: In response to an enquiry by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) about its reported removal of Judge Ri ...

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

• Keeping AZ Kids Off the Obesity Track
  Keeping AZ Kids Off the Obesity Track Phoenix, AZ – Recent guidelines from the Childhood Obesity Task Force offer up an action plan to help save another generation of kids in Arizona and across the country from the prospect, and the problems, of obesity. Comments from Tonya Chang, advocacy director, ...
• Tax Hike Passes yet AZ Program Cuts Remain
  Tax Hike Passes yet AZ Program Cuts Remain Phoenix, AZ – The sales tax hike approved by Arizona voters has taken effect, but does nothing to remedy cuts made to state programs benefiting the working poor. The ban on new enrollments in KidsCare is one cutback hitting low-income families hard, accordi ...
• Heat Relief for Low-Income Arizonans
  Heat Relief for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – With summer’s heat now upon us, utilities and Community Action Agencies have help available for low-income Arizonans who are having trouble paying their cooling bills. Assistance ranges from one-time catch-up payments to weatherization and replaceme ...
• Tempe Children’s Theatre Troupe Goes Interna ...
  Tempe Children’s Theatre Troupe Goes International Tempe, AZ – After 33 years of performing at schools across Arizona and two recent national tours, the nonprofit Childsplay theatre company is going international for the first time. Childsplay actors will be touring this fall in Europe. Comments fro ...
• Congress Leaves Doctors Hanging On Medicare Paymen ...
  Congress Leaves Doctors Hanging On Medicare Payments Phoenix, AZ – Arizona doctors who treat Medicare patients have just taken a major cut in payment for their services. A payment plan called the Medicare “doc fix,” was left unfinished by Congress before the Memorial Day break. Comments from Dr. Len ...

My Care2 Picks

• VIDEO: Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Atakapa-Ishak Trib ...
  Fishing and shrimping is at a standstill, and the oil keeps creeping into the marshes. We make our living from the harvest of the waterways and our food.Native American tribe - like others - is not recognized and exists on subsistance. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• How To Wash Pesticides Off Fruit & Vegetables: Eas ...
  Some interesting tips. Submitted by Orsola CK to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family
  Outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon.GMO has saturated American farmlands. Our water is polluted, containing over 60,000 chemicals, most of which have never been tested for safety.(2) Our air is toxic, Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
• Rig Survivors: BP Ordered Shortcut On Day Of Blast
  he morning the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, a BP executive and a Transocean official argued over how to proceed with the drilling... Submitted by Josh Townsend to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Watchdog Calls on USDA to Boost Transparency in Or ...
  In a move to protect the growing organic industry from undue corporate influence, a leading organic watchdog group released a letter, dated June 7, calling on the USDA to collaborate with the organic community on pending appointments to the NOSB. Submitted by Will - Cornucopia Inst to US Politics & ...

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

• Barry Soetoro, Imposter in Chief, Implements CODEX ...
  We knew that CODEX was right around the corner, and here it is, live and in color. Barry Soetoro, AKA Barack Hussein Obama, Imposter in Chief, on June 10, 2010, issued an Executive Order – Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. In short, the CODEX council. ...
• Gulf Oil Spill ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With
  Environmental non-profit groups that have accepted donations from or joined in projects with BP include Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Audubon. That could explain why the political outcry to date for decisive action in the Gulf has been so ...
• 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Federal officials considering whether to ban peanu ...
  Noted by Kim O'Donnel on June 14, 2010 5:06 PM
• Top Chef: DC Joins Let's Move! Campaign With Speci ...
  Noted by Kim O'Donnel on June 14, 2010 5:06 PM
• Judge rules Dr. Conrad Murray can treat patients ( ...
  Noted by Turi McNamee on June 14, 2010 5:06 PM
• How Much Is a Facebook Fan Really Worth? (gigaom.c ...
  Noted by Courtney Boyd Myers on June 14, 2010 5:06 PM
• The future of cloud computing (pewinternet.org)
  Noted by Kashmir Hill on June 14, 2010 4:06 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• U.S. backs ban on 3 reporters at Guantanamo
  ShareThis U.S. backs ban on 3 reporters at Guantanamo 15 Jun 2010 The Department of Defense said Monday it acted correctly when it barred three journalists, including Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, from covering military hearings at Guantánamo Bay. But it left open the door to reinstating th ...
• American hunting Osama bin Laden with a gun and sw ...
  ShareThis American hunting Osama bin Laden with a gun and sword detained in northern Pakistan 15 Jun 2010 An American armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden, a police officer said Tuesday. The ...
• Alaskan NORAD region to participate in exercise
  ShareThis Alaskan NORAD region to participate in exercise 14 Jun 2010 The Alaskan U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, along with its Continental United States and Canadian counterparts, will participate in Exercise Amalgam Dart from Tuesday through Thursday off the coasts of Alaska ...
• Meg Whitman reportedly shoved EBay employee in 200 ...
  ShareThis Meg Whitman reportedly shoved EBay employee in 2007 15 Jun 2010 While she was the chief executive of EBay, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman shoved a subordinate who later received a confidential six-figure settlement, according to a report published by the New York Times on M ...
• Gaza crossing points opened as Israel bows to inte ...
  ShareThis Gaza crossing points opened as Israel bows to international pressure 15 Jun 2010 Israel bowed to international pressure yesterday when it agreed to reopen crossing points into Gaza for everyday goods. The decision was prompted by criticism of its bloody interception of an aid flotilla two ...

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

• Who knew that the Israeli blockade is ‘econo ...
  When the corporate media explain the logic behind Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, they turn to what Israel says officially and publicly. For example, today's New York Times, in an article on an Israeli government–backed investigation into the deadly Israeli raid on a flotilla heading to Gaza, s ...
• North American Jews meet to ‘confront racism ...
  � You can learn about this historic gathering at www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org. And here's more from the Electronic Intifada article "Jewish challenges to Zionism on the rise in the US":Accountability of Israeli, US government and international Zionist support for Israel will not come from a shift ...
• Muslim Student Union threatened with suspension fo ...
  More on the suppression of Muslim and Arab-American speech. From the LA Times:The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine should be suspended for one year for its involvement in repeated disruptions of a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, according to a disciplinary report released by the ...
• From birthright to boycott
  A recent post by Adam Horowitz asked what it will take for liberal Zionists to come around and support a boycott. My mind was changed by going to Israel on a Birthright trip and seeing firsthand the effects of the wall and checkpoints. However, I doubt that a full scale boycott of Israel will catch ...
• Fair and balanced, the inquiry commission is
  Those who have criticized Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara and thought Israel was unable to investigate its own conduct have some ‘splainin’ to do. As the New York Times reports today, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cabinet has unanimously (!!) appointed a crack commission of experts to perform this ...

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

• The Preservation/Environmentalism Connection: Step ...
  I was saddened when Richard Moe announced his retirement as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; he was a huge influence, a strong and early voice delivering a message that the greenest building is the one already standing, that our urban, walkable and existing communities ...
• Connecticut Becomes 24th State to Put e-Waste Recy ...
  Photo by cjb Thankfully, we've seen a rush of states adding new e-waste regulations and laws to their books, most recently with New York and hot on the heals of that news comes word that Connecticut will be the 24th US state to put enact an electronics recycling law, starting this fall. Gadget ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Healthy and Delicious Lentil P ...
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband and I were out of town the past weekend. He spent his days at a conference working, and I was lying around a beautiful house on Lake Erie with old friends, essentially spending the weekend overindulging. We were in a big farming community, but he got an unappeti ...
• Crackdown on Copper in California to Save Marine L ...
  Photo by audreyjm569 When we think of copper and water, we usually think of long-lasting pipes. However, copper and water have a more intertwined relationship than that. Each time drivers hit their breaks, or boaters put a new coat of paint on their vessel's hull, they're contributing to the le ...
• Foraging Gets Trendy: But Is Trendy Sustainable?
  Image credit: Channel 4 Only last month we heard, via Food and Wine , about eating dirt as the latest weird restaurant trend . And it seems this magazine, which is usually a champion of unbridled luxury, and even excess, is on somewhat of a sustainability kick these days. Sure, there are still ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Military defectors reject accusations
  Two former army majors who revealed information about Burma's nuclear ambitions defend accusations by Burmese media of fraud and slander
• S Korea ups stake in Burma gas
  Seoul buys into first onshore gas block in Burma as Korean minister hails 'new era' in relations with a country 'trying to change into a free democracy'
• Mass hunger strike in Malaysian camp
  Hunger strike by Burmese migrants coincides with reports from Amnesty International and the US state department that refugees in Malaysia remain subject to abuses
• US warns of ‘unrealistic’ refugee resettlement
  Despite likely influx of more Karen refugees to Thailand as Burmese elections near, US official says that third-country resettlement 'isn't the solution'
• Pro-junta group to guard ballots
  Union Solidarity and Development Association members to take on the role of ballot box 'guards' in a move that mirrors the controversial 2008 referendum

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Households to get green makeover
  Households will be able to get a free 'green makeover' from M&S or B&Q under new plans to make all homes more energy efficient.
• Nasa's first ever 'field trip' to study effects of ...
  Space agency to study how climate change is affecting the Arctic's ice.
• Home, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the aerial p ...
  Home, a film by renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
• Royal Society 'to re-examine climate message'
  Britain's national academy of science is to review its messages on climate change after complaints from its Fellows that the publicised views were oversimplified, according to reports.
• Global warming is 'making Mount Everest more dange ...
  Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to a Nepalese Sherpa who has conquered the world's highest summit 20 times.

National Geographic | Environment

• Trucks Could Be Next Electric Power Frontier
  With fuel costs a driving factor, analysts predict a surge of hybrid electric trucks and buses on the road in coming years. Electricity - Electric vehicle - Hybrid vehicle - Energy - Technology
• Inventor Turned Up Energy Savings by Dimming the L ...
  Joel Spira was aiming for mood lighting when he invented the solid-state light dimmer switch. More than 50 years later, his company, Lutron, is recognized as an energy efficiency pioneer. Lutron Electronics Company - Dimmer - Technology - Efficient energy use - Energy
• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
  Thirty years after Mount St. Helens blew its top, the peak is still the second most dangerous volcano in the United States, according to government estimates. United States - Mount St. Helens - Volcano - Washington - England
• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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Jurist - Legal Research

• Switzerland parliament votes to send US banking tr ...
  [JURIST] The Swiss Federal Assembly [official website] on Tuesday approved an agreement [text, PDF] with the US that will allow Swiss bank UBS [corporate website; JURIST news archive] to disclose account information of clients suspected by the US government of tax evasion, but also voted to send it ...
• Israel Cabinet approves internal probe of flotilla ...
  [JURIST] The Israeli cabinet on Monday unanimously approved plans for an internal probe into the May 31 Israeli raid on several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder]. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [official website; BBC profile] expressed his hope that the p ...
• US mayors pass resolution opposing Arizona immigra ...
  [JURIST] The US Conference of Mayors [official website] on Monday passed two resolutions [text, PDF] opposing Arizona's immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive] and supporting federal immigration reform at their annual conference in Oklahoma City. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon (D) [offic ...
• Human trafficking a 'serious problem' in US: State ...
  [JURIST] The US State Department (DOS) [official website] on Monday released its annual report [text, PDF] on human trafficking conditions across the globe, finding that the US adequately complies with international regulations but still has a "'serious problem with human trafficking, both for labor ...
• Palestinian rights advanced in 2009, still need im ...
  [JURIST] Israeli human rights group B'Tselem [advocacy website] on Monday released its annual report [text, PDF; press release], noting an advancement in the rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories [UNICEF backgrounder] but calling for greater improvement. The report, examining the human ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama May Go 'Middle Big' in BP Address
  I'm pulling this out of last night's Night Beat with a bit of augmentation. Aside from regulation, a strong confrontational tone against BP, and an acknowledgment of reality, the White House is remaining mum on whether the President will use the 20 minutes the networks have given him to call for ...
• The Night Beat: What to Expect From Obama Tomorrow
  Good evening. On the Night Beat: 1. A surprise: According to a POLITICO News Alert which, two hours after it was sent out, had not been turned into a website story, the new commandant of the Marine Corps will be a Marine aviator by trade, Gen. James F. Amos , currently the assistant commandant.� ...
• After Arar, What Now?
  If justice for the wrongs of the Bush administration entails a separation of the past from the present and future, and the creation of a national security legal framework that is bolstered by consensus, then perhaps the denial of cert for Maher Arar's suit against John Ashcroft for allegedly orderin ...
• Will Obama Go Big?
  Tomorrow night, in his 20 minute address to the nation, will President Obama go big? Or will he go small? Will he use the auspicious moment to argue for the imperative of carbon pricing, or will he greet the nation by announcing new regulations on part of the energy sector? The President ha ...
• Theft Ring Targets Government Offices
  As anyone who works at an office building with badge or fob access controls know, most people tend to let anyone follow them in who wears an identification tag and looks respectable -- even if they don't know the person. A psychologist could do experiments as to why people do this, even in the face ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Israel’s Mysterious Mr. X, Prisoner With No Name i ...
  Yesterday, I reported that Yediot Achronot published a story about an Israeli prisoner who, according to informants in the prison service, had no name, no identity, no contact with the outside world or fellow prisoners.  He seemed truly to be a disappeared person in the midst of a country that like ...
• Israeli Chair of Gaza Flotilla Attack Investigatio ...
  This is getting damned strange. The Obama administration and Israel have been haggling for a week over the nature and composition of the supposedly independent commission which will investigate the Gaza flotilla disaster. We hear that the U.S. demanded that someone of judicial “stature” like a Sup ...
• The Strange Case of Israel’s Mr. X, the Prisoner W ...
  When I first started writing about the Anat Kamm case it felt like a cross between Kafka’s The Trial, a carnival Hall of Mirrors, and Chelm.  Now comes a story possibly even stranger. Earlier today, Yediot Achronot published a story about a Mr. X imprisoned in an Israeli jail.  The man was in sol ...
• Links for 2010-03-15 [Digg]
  TV interview: Mossad Assassination in Dubai A 30 minute interview for ScanTV's "Moral Politics" show dealing with the Israeli Mossad's assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabouh and the repurcussions for Israel from this act.
• 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 ...

Ode Magazine

• We the people and peace
  By: PeaceCorso For many years I have kept a file in my computer called "Peace Quotes." Anything I read, anything I find, things people send me. At this point, it’s over forty pages long in nine-point type! Here’s one from a 2005 Congressional Letter of S ...
• 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 ...

OpEd News

• The Real Question is Why an Alvin Greene
  Democrats, political pundits, and much of the media have snooped, pried, pecked and nosed around trying to get the goods on Alvin Greene, and then boot him from the South Carolina US senatorial general election ballot. The right question is not who is and who put up Greene. The question is why an Al ...
• U.S. Social Forum: Storytelling for Real and Lasti ...
  Karlos Guana Schmieder, communications director for the Center for Media Justice, discusses the Centerapos;s plans for the U.S. Social Forum and why movements need to tell a good story to be successful and ultimately create real and lasting change in America and the world.
• Urge U.S. Navy to Show Mercy for Timorese Heart Pa ...
  Those needing heart surgery in East Timor have little chance of surviving. Urge the U.S. Navy to allow heart surgeons to use its hospital ship while in the East Timor
• Two Disasters, One Story (Part 2)
  Stopping the Oil - An Interactive Guide. This week, weapos;re assessing the impact of the Louisiana oil spill. Correspondents in the US, the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and London will be reporting.
• Israeli Raid Coverage: American Media Fail Again
  In the US media, the blinding of an American protestor in Israel simply didnapos;t happen. Nor was American 19-year old Furkan Dogan shot by the IDF in back of the head.

Switchboard

• Old is the new green: renovating for sustainabilit ...
  In Ann Arbor, Michigan, Matt Grocoff and his family are restoring a 110 year old ‘Folk-Victorian’ home to make it green and energy-neutral.  This isn’t necessarily unique (and we don’t want it to be), but it is unusual because we have it captured on video .  In particular, the interes ...
• Electric Delivery Truck Hauls Fish without Oil
  Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting Edward Taylor, a local pioneer for cleaner, less oil-dependent transportation. Ed owns Down East Seafood supply company here in New York City. As a seller of fish, Ed relies on healthy, oil-free seas around the world to produce his products. As ...
• Legislative Watch June 15, 2010
  Congress returned from the Memorial Day recess on 6/7 to an eventful week considering climate and energy-related legislation. Climate and Energy On 6/10, the Senate rejected, 47-53, a procedural motion on Sen. Murkowski’s (R-AK) resolution ( S.J. Res. 26 ), effectively killing the leg ...
• Gulf Coast Disaster: Afternoon News Roundup, June ...
  Highlights in this issue: - BP steps up to the plate with plans to increase oil collection - BP’s command center learns the American way - Oil spill gives Energy bill a boost - U.S. turns to foreign help in Gulf spill - Obama calls for clean energy - Waxman letter: BP took a number of ...
• The More Things Change At MMS . . . .
  The federal Minerals Management Service (MMS), which is supposed to supervise oil companies’ drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), has come into a lot of criticism for the laxness of its own safety inspections and for its practices of allowing self-certification by oil compani ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Droning On…
  Are you ready for this? The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act. Officials are worried that they might plow into airliners, cargo planes and corporate je ...
• Getcher Hot Links!
  Manohla Dargis suggests that SATC II has been subject to what I call the Phantom Menace effect — that is, a sequel subject to especially and in some sense unfairly harsh criticism because critics were far too easy on a previous iteration.   I can’t judge for sure, but I can say that unless the ho ...
• Now This I Can Support
  I suppose I could get into the obvious silliness of this op-ed — particularly the stuff about his silence during oral arguments signifying boredom — but the bottom line is that I strongly, strongly support Clarence Thomas stepping down from the bench to run for president.   And, frankly, I can’t ev ...
• 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 ...

Desert Research Institute

• Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
  The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.
• Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
  Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.
• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
• The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
  The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.
• Mercury Depletion Events at the Dead Sea
  Researchers characterize atmospheric mercury depletion events at the Dead Sea in Israel and the atmospheric chemistry responsible for these events.

Earth Techling

• Government Lab Creates Super-Efficient AC For All ...
• Sunflower Concept Provides Solar Power and Tunes
• mPhase Secures Tech Patent Related To 20 Year Batt ...
• Handcrafting Bamboo iPhone Cases The Craftsman Way
• Kinetic Pinwheel Concept Lights Up For Good, Green ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• OPINION: An oil spill liability primer
  Various commentators, public officials and BP representatives have stated repeatedly that there is a $75 million damages cap for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Nothing could be further from the truth.
• LITIGATION BOUTIQUES
  A certain type of law firm showed remarkable strength during the recession: the boutique. We profile five firms that have thrived by identifying strong niche practices.
• 9th Circuit reinstates criminal charges against Pi ...
  A federal appeals court has reinstated criminal charges against plaintiffs' attorney Pierce O'Donnell after concluding that the section of the Federal Election Campaign Act on which he was charged applied to conduit, or indirect, campaign contributions, not just to contributions made under false nam ...
• Federal Circuit ruling could stem tide of patent f ...
  Lawyers expect a recent Federal Circuit ruling to staunch the outpouring of whistleblower lawsuits accusing companies of falsely labeling their products as covered by patents. The December 2009 ruling called for up to $500 in fines for each offending product sold, not up to $500 in total.
• Imprisoned ex-Mayer Brown partner settles SEC char ...
  Former Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins, already sentenced to seven years in prison, has settled final charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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

• Examining Key Priorities in Africa
  Good afternoon. I would like to thank the Bureau of Public Affairs for organizing the Diplomacy Briefing Series and for inviting me to join all of you today to examine our key priorities in Africa.
• 2010 Heroes in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
  2010 Heroes in the Fight Against Modern Slavery Represent Uzbekistan, Hungary, Jordan, Mauritania, Brazil, Burundi, and the United States
• World Cup: New Zealand 1-1 Slovakia, Shock As Outs ...
  Day 5 of the World Cup began with a subdued affair between New Zealand and Slovakia in Rustenburg.
• Failure to Protect Wetlands Puts Migratory Waterbi ...
  One third of the critical wetlands, the world's most vulnerable ecosystems, are entirely unprotected and as a result, an alarming 42 per cent of the migratory waterbird species are in decline, according to the website.
• Constellation Program Managers Appointed by NASA
  Lawrence D. Thomas has been appointed manager of NASA's Constellation Program, which manages the effort to take humans beyond low-Earth orbit and develop the next generation launch vehicle and spacecraft

environment 360

• Global Biodiversity Panel to Close Gulf Between Sc ...
  International delegates have endorsed the creation of a science policy panel on biodiversity and ecosystem preservation , which proponents hope will serve as a bridge between scientists and governments in reversing biodiversity loss. The Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and ...
• Obama Administration Moves to Ban Use of Controver ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban endosulfan , one of the last organochlorine pesticides still used in the U.S., saying it poses unacceptable risks to agricultural workers and wildlife and has a tendency to persist in the environment. A chlorinated insecticide used primarily ...
• Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy o ...
  For years, free-market fundamentalists opposed to government regulation have sought to create doubt in the public’s mind about the dangers of smoking, acid rain, and ozone depletion. Now they have turned those same tactics on the issue of global warming and on climate scientists, with significant su ...
• Interview: The Oil Spill’s Growing Toll On Marine ...
  Marine biologist Thomas Shirley of Texas A&M University has spent most of his career studying the aquatic life of the Gulf of Mexico. Indeed, shortly before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Shirley was part of a team of 140 scientists from 15 countries that completed an all-species inventory of the ...
• The Oil Spill’s Growing Toll On Sea Life in the Gu ...
  A prominent marine biologist says the impacts of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico will persist for years, no matter when the flow finally stops. What’s more, scientist Thomas Shirley says that most of the damage remains out of sight below the surface, as creatures succumb to the toxic effects ...

Red Ice Creations

• US Military Finds Mineral Riches in Afghanistan - ...
  A team of U.S. geologists and Pentagon officials has discovered vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan, conceivably enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world's most lucrative mining centers, The New York Times reports. "There is stunning potential here," Gen. David H. Pet ...
• Israel Defense Force Video Of Siege Of 'Mavi Marma ...
  The unraveling of this tall tale on the high seas began on the morning of Friday, June the 4th when the poster known as Shadow made the following remark to another forum poster known as JayRodney: "I had a close look at web pics of the Mavi Marmara and the ship in the vid that shows the Turks attack ...
• From Britain To Brazil - Owning The Dystopian Dayd ...
  Since the end of World War II, the United Kingdom has steadily and perceptibly regressed into a psychotic quagmire of officialdom. This has been implemented according to an explicit strategy to remove the personal privacy, self empowerment and spiritual alignment from the people of Britain. The curr ...
• Ebola Cured in Monkeys - Hope for Humans?
  According to a new study, a team of scientists used special gene-silencing drugs to selectively "knock out" viral proteins in Chinese rhesus macaques infected with a lethal dose of the Zaire Ebola virus. Zaire is the most virulent strain of Ebola—90 percent of infected people die during outbreaks.
• Radio ghost mystery at former RAF station
  World War Two radio continues to pick up vintage broadcasts despite not having any power. A 70-year-old radio at a Scottish heritage centre has been picking up vintage broadcasts featuring Winston Churchill and the music of Glen Miller.

Russia Today

• New generation nuclear submarine successfully laun ...
  Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev traveled to the northwest of the country on Tuesday to join in the launch of a new generation nuclear submarine.
• Buffon to be fit for New Zealand
  Italian all-time goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is confident he can recover in time for his team's next match in South Africa despite suffering a back injury in the 1-1 draw against Paraguay in Group F.
• US has no debt if you think about it - American ec ...
  The US is experiencing a fundamental shift in the economy and is literally handing over the mantle of economic leadership to China, believes Chief Market Economist Michael Norman, of John Thomas Financial.
• Moscow’s Uzbeks rally fearing for their families l ...
  The Uzbek community in Moscow has been rallying outside Russia's Foreign Ministry. They fear for the lives of their relatives suffering from ethnic violence back in Kyrgyzstan and are calling for help.
• Abusive US parents face charges for Russian boy’s ...
  The adoptive American parents of a 7-year-old Russian boy have officially been charged with causing his death.

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

• Bigelow’s “S.H.A.D.O.”
  There was a TV show back in the late 1960s, early 1970s called “UFO.” Ubiquitous enough, eh? It was produced by Gary Anderson, better known for making puppet shows, but this program had actual live actors. A game-changer for Anderson. The premise of the show was that Earth was being attacked by UFO ...
• Richard Dolan and the Secret Space Program
  It’s been quite a while since I posted my thoughts about the US secret space program. In fact, it’s been covered up even more by the ongoing fight over the puny mainstream NASA budget in Congress, which is only $19 billion. Hard to believe isn’t it? NASA’s budget over the past 30 years have averaged ...
• 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?

Tippers News

• Unplugged: Organic and Affordable Solar Power
  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 absorbs sunlight... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Why We Should All Be Paying More at the Pump
  This is doomed to be an unpopular post, I'm afraid. So let's just come right out with it: You should be paying more for gasoline. And you should be paying more for a number of other goods and services as well, like electricity generated from coal-fired... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Environment � ...
• 50 Healthy Reasons to Have More Sex
  The article has gathered 50 healthy reasons to have more sex including physical and mental benefits. This content is intended for adults only who fully understand the responsibilities and consequences along with the benefits of sex. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
• Save Some Trees ~ Opting Out of Junk Mail Just Got ...
  yes, Save some Trees. An online service that allows users to opt out of receiving unwanted catalogs. Submitted by DC Bass to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• U.S. and Canada Destroyed More Forest Than Brazil ...
  A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) concludes that over a million square kilometers of forest were lost around the world between 2000 and 2005, and that both the U.S. and Canada had higher percentages of forest losses Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Environment �| ...

The Freeman

• Health Plans that Weren’t Supposed to Change Will ...
  “If you like your health plan, you can keep it. That’s what President Obama promised during the long months of debate over health-care reform. On Monday, the administration issued new rules to fulfill that promise. But your plan might not be quite the same — it could offer more benefits, and it coul ...
• Agency Looks to Experts to Prevent Next Crisis
  “Although lawyers fill most of the SEC’s ranks, the agency has been hiring experts with specialized quantitative skills and those who have worked on Wall Street who are hip to its tricks. The SEC, like many federal regulators, failed to anticipate the economic crisis, and postmortems have revealed t ...
• Filmmakers Find Conditions on Their Subsidies
  “Among the states that began underwriting film and television production with heavy subsidies over the past half-decade â 44 states had some sort of incentives by last year, 28 of them involving tax credits â at least a handful are giving new scrutiny to a question that was politely overlooked i ...
• Obama Wants Billions More for Medicare
  “President Obama is asking Republican lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in new spending to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.” (Washington Times, Monday) The promised cost savings from Obamacare assumed this cut wouldnât be canceled. FEE Tim ...
• Bailed-Out Community Banks Aren’t Paying Governmen ...
  “The Treasury Department’s financial bailout has a growing problem on its hands, and this time, it has nothing to do with Wall Street. A new report from the agency shows that community banks continue to plague the program. A total of 101 bailed-out banks — nearly all are small — have missed paying t ...

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

• Send me and Sue to investigate the Gulf next week
  Dear Facing South reader -- I'm writing to ask for your help today. As you know, the BP oil spill is one of our country's biggest disasters ever -- and for many on the Gulf Coast, the situation is only getting worse. But do you feel like you're getting the whole story about the BP disaster? Ov ...
• The rise of "multi-racials" could change U.S. poli ...
  By Marisa Trevino LatinaLista The U.S. Census released a report last week that showed something that everyone has known to be on the horizon for a while now -- the growth in numbers of people of color. According to the U.S. Census' figures, which are still based on the 2000 Census and updated by ...
• 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 ...

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 ?

• How can I reuse or recycle scraps of chicken wire?
  We’ve had an email from Bruce: I’ve got a large amount of chicken wire leftover after conducting some work in my garden. The biggest 1ft by 2ft, the rest smaller. Can I recycle them in my can bin? While it certainly could be recycled as scrap metal, it might cause problems further down the can recy ...
• How can I reuse or recycle crisp/chip tubes (eg, P ...
  We’ve had an email from Julia, who work for the British High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. She explained “I hate throwing away those clear plastic tops from crisp tubes… so started thinking” – and she came up with some reuses for her regional recycling newsletter: - Use to cover a glass to prevent i ...
• How can I repair my bent garden fork?
  I bent the prongs on my garden fork the other day. Not just a little bit, so the prong line was a little wobbly, but really quite substantially – one prong was about 60° back, the next one about 30°. Oh the fun of having a stone-filled garden. We tried to realign it with [...]
• This week’s reducing, reusing & recycling li ...
  We get a lot of tutorials on making random old textiles into bags or aprons – but this is the other way around: use a cute old apron as an instant cafe-style kitchen curtain. I also love Ki’s use of an old paint roller as a kitchen roll holder. Courtney of the Greenists linked to [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle 3D glasses?
  The Guardian’s Leo Hickman wrote an article yesterday about 3D glasses – how the current trend for jumping-out-at-you big screen action is causing a lot of waste: even with reusing and reconditioning schemes in place, around 7million pairs will be recycled into “plastic pellets” this year – and that ...

Mondoweiss

• Who knew that the Israeli blockade is ‘econo ...
  When the corporate media explain the logic behind Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, they turn to what Israel says officially and publicly. For example, today's New York Times, in an article on an Israeli government–backed investigation into the deadly Israeli raid on a flotilla heading to Gaza, s ...
• North American Jews meet to ‘confront racism ...
  � You can learn about this historic gathering at www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org. And here's more from the Electronic Intifada article "Jewish challenges to Zionism on the rise in the US":Accountability of Israeli, US government and international Zionist support for Israel will not come from a shift ...
• Muslim Student Union threatened with suspension fo ...
  More on the suppression of Muslim and Arab-American speech. From the LA Times:The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine should be suspended for one year for its involvement in repeated disruptions of a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, according to a disciplinary report released by the ...
• From birthright to boycott
  A recent post by Adam Horowitz asked what it will take for liberal Zionists to come around and support a boycott. My mind was changed by going to Israel on a Birthright trip and seeing firsthand the effects of the wall and checkpoints. However, I doubt that a full scale boycott of Israel will catch ...
• Fair and balanced, the inquiry commission is
  Those who have criticized Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara and thought Israel was unable to investigate its own conduct have some ‘splainin’ to do. As the New York Times reports today, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cabinet has unanimously (!!) appointed a crack commission of experts to perform this ...

Media Consortium

• Public Media Joins Forces for One Big Platform | E ...
  It's The Media Consortium's MediaWire program on steroids with tech, apps, citizen engagement integrated. The collaboration is the Public Media Platform, a partnership bw American Public Media, NPR, PBS, Public Radio International, and Public Radio Exchange. "The country’s five silos of public radi ...
• 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 ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• U.S. KNEW ABOUT AFGHAN MINERAL BONANZA IN 2007
  Did a 2007 report of massive mineral deposits in Afghanistan affect President Obama's 2009 decision to widen the scope of the Afghan war? Is a recent New York Times article covering up that possibility? A U.S. Geological Survey has shown that Afghanistan is one of the worlds' biggest depositories ...
• 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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Human Genome Sciences suffers setback
  Maryland-based Human Genome Sciences said yesterday it did not expect its hepatitis C drug Zalbin to be approved by the FDA. Feedback from the Food and Drug Administration on its current Biologics License Application for the treatment “expressed concerns regarding the risk benefit” of the propose ...
• The Moon’s wet interior
  Click for larger image. Earlier this year a researcher from the University of Tennessee ate a chocolate cake representing his boxer shorts. This week some of the research that prompted that underwear themed gateau was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . In a new paper F ...
• ‘One of the cheapest ways to save a life’
  Thousands of lives a year could be saved worldwide if a cheap drug was given to accident victims, according to a major new study. The study of over 20,000 patients published today in The Lance t shows that tranexamic acid, which is already given in surgery to reduce bleeding, significantly lowers ...
• Experiments find "weird" differences between neutr ...
  Neutrinos, the chargeless particles that course through your body every moment by the billion, should essentially behave the same way as their anti-particle, the anti-neutrino. But two experiments today presented evidence that, maybe, the cousins might behave quite differently. The difference could ...
• Deepwater Horizon shorts
  “In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.” US President Barack Obama says the Gulf of Mexico oil spill “echoes 9/11” ( USA ...

new geography

• The Politics of Risk
  Barack Obama has reached for the mantle of a transformative presidency, aspiring to recast our national social contract in the interest of greater equality and fairness. In cooperation with a Democratic-controlled Congress, he has pursued this goal by expanding Federal authority in response to econo ...
• Florida: Amendment 4 Pushes the Reset Button on D ...
  by Richard Reep Like a heroin addict going cold turkey, Florida appears poised to get off the growth drug this coming fall. If massive overbuilding, unemployment, depopulation, and a tourist-chasing oil slick weren’t enough, Florida’s voters are in the mood to vote yes on a referendum called Amendm ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Families want GM-free guarantee on food
• Organic cotton farming beats GM in India - report
• Consumers don't like GM animal feed
• WEEKLY WATCH number 293
• Minister up to her neck in conflicting interests

• Blacklisted News

• Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillio ...
  The cost of fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , the mortgage companies that last year bought or guaranteed three-quarters of all U.S. home loans, will be at least $160 billion and could grow to as much as $1 trillion after the biggest bailout in American history.
• US emboldens Israel to kill Americans
  A recent Israeli attack on a convoy of ships in the Mediterranean Sea is another indication that Israel kills Americans with a sense of immunity from prosecution.
• Oil Spill Estimates Go Higher and Higher …up to an ...
  Days after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sunk, the first official estimate of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was 200 barrels a day. It then changed to 1,000 barrels, and then 5,000. Now, scientists are talking about 20,000 barrels a day, or 30,000, or 40,000, or even 50,000.
• Rent a White Guy: Confessions of a fake businessma ...
• Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Mo ...
  A Chicago-based company called Tanagram Partners is currently developing military-grade augmented reality technology that - if developed to the full potential of its prototypes - would completely change the face of military combat as we know it.

The Intelligence Daily

• More Than 1 In 5 American Children Are Now Living ...
  By Michael Snyder Perhaps the greatest victims of the economic nightmare that is unfolding right in...
• Human Terrain System Program Manager Dismissed: Ge ...
  By John Stanton Steve Fondacaro is now the former program manager of the US Army’s Human...
• Repost: George Bush is a genius (Video and Transcr ...
  Related: What is Peak Oil? ; US opens $700 million complex – the world’s largest U.S....
• Military Watershed: Longest War In U.S. And Afghan ...
  By Rick Rozoff This week news about the U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization armed conflict...
• The Death Of Las Vegas
  By Michael Snyder There are quite a few U.S. cities that are complete and utter economic disaster...

My AntiWar

• Brazil, Turkey and Iran must stay on the moral hig ...
  Summary: Tehran AgreementBrazil and Turkey are facing a historic opportunity that requires courage and decision to be taken. Losing it will mean a defeat whose consequences will go far beyond the mere loss of political prestige, both domestically and internationally, and which will forever mark th ...
• Ahmadinejad: Israel, U.S. trying to sabotage Iran& ...
  Summary: On Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, denied that his country had practiced standing down its anti-aircraft systems to allow Israeli warplanes passage on their way to attack Iran’s nuclear installations, the London-based Arabic language paper Alsharq ...
• Gulf states not to back attack against Iran
  Summary: GCC Map“Saudi Arabia will not cooperate with Israel or any other country to attack Iran. We have always advocated a peaceful solution to the Iran crisis,” Dr Abdul Aziz Hamad of King Saud University told Gulf News. source: Gulf Newsread more
• Iranians Take to Streets One Year After Election
• Bush Admin Lawyer Urges Court to Toss Torture Suit

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran to cut mineral exports to sanction supporters ...
  Summary: Security Council TEHRAN June 15 (Reuters) - Iran will curb its mineral exports to countries that supported a new round of United Nations sanctions over Tehran's nuclear programme, an official was quoted as saying on Tuesday. source: Reuters read more
• Iran To Continue Peaceful Nuclear Programme Based ...
  Summary: TEHRAN, June 15 (Bernama) -- Iran will continue its peaceful nuclear activities within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rules and regulations, its news agency IRNA reported Tuesday quoting Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast as saying. source: ...
• Iran to send letter of protest to UNSC
  Summary: Mehmanparast After the imposition of fresh sanctions on Iran, Tehran says it will send letters to UN Security Council states to protest the "illegal" approach by the UN body. source: Press TV read more
• Brazil, Turkey and Iran must stay on the moral hig ...
  Summary: Tehran Agreement Brazil and Turkey are facing a historic opportunity that requires courage and decision to be taken. Losing it will mean a defeat whose consequences will go far beyond the mere loss of political prestige, both domestically and internationally, and which will forever mar ...
• Ahmadinejad: Israel, U.S. trying to sabotage Iran' ...
  Summary: On Saturday, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, denied that his country had practiced standing down its anti-aircraft systems to allow Israeli warplanes passage on their way to attack Iran's nuclear installations, the London-based Arabic language paper Alsh ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Possibility of Life Predicted on Jupiter's Io -Th ...
  Io, the innermost of Jupiter's large satellites and the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with plumes of matter rising up to 186 miles (300 km) above the surface is considered a prime candidate as a hotspot for...
• Saturn's Rings: Giant Structures 4 Kilometers High ...
  Saturn's rings have been studied for the last six years by a school bus–sized spacecraft named Cassini that has been sending back astonishing pictures of the rings and the moons that help shape them. In August 2009, the rings were...
• A New Look at the Universe: Dark Epoch Followed th ...
  USC College’s Elena Pierpaoli and 200 other physicists are trying to find out what went on during the dark epoch after the Big Bang for the next 380,000 years as photons and particles clung to each other in a high-energy...
• Galaxy-Mass Black Holes or God? The Science vs Rel ...
  Science vs. Religion seems to be a running theme for the 21st century. Yet, the two sides of the debate have much in common. Not being willing to consider other's perspective is a common occurrence in both worlds. If we...
• Image of the Day -The Mysterious Beauty of a Super ...
  Eta Carinae is a mysterious, extremely bright and unstable star located a mere stone's throw - astronomically speaking - from Earth at a distance of only about 7,500 light years. The star is thought to be consuming its nuclear fuel...

Natural News

• Why Organic Palm Sugar is the next big thing in na ...
  (NaturalNews) The search for healthy, natural sweeteners sometimes seems to involve a whirlwind of information. I've been writing about stevia since 1997 -- back in the day when the FDA was actually seizing stevia products and threatening to arrest the owners of stevia companies. But today, stevia i ...
• Sugar industry acting more and more like Big Tobac ...
  (NaturalNews) It is likely a no-brainer to many in natural health world that processed, refined sweeteners like white sugar and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are unhealthy. Studies continue to show that these toxic sweeteners lead to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other serious illn ...
• U.S. Hospitals Secretly Promote Black Market Tradi ...
  (NaturalNews) Many hospitals in the United States are tacitly participating in the illegal organ transplant industry by not scrutinizing potential donors too closely, experts worry. The purchase or sale of organs is illegal in most countries, including the United States, but a chronic shortage of or ...
• Big Pharma lies about statin drugs finally exposed ...
  (NaturalNews) To hear Big Pharma tell it, statin drugs are "miracle" medicines that have prevented millions of heart attacks and strokes. But a recent study published in the British Medical Journal tells a completely different story: For every heart attack prevented by the drug, two or more people s ...
• Few Women Truly Understand the Risks of Mammograms
  (NaturalNews) One in three breast cancers detected by mammograms would never have posed a threat to the patient's life, making all the treatments that follow unnecessary, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, and published in the Britis ...

Threat Level

• Supreme Court Rejects Case of Tortured Canadian
  The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the government by a Canadian citizen who, under suspicion of being connected to Al Qaeda, was sent by U.S. authorities to be tortured in Syria. The rejection likely marks the end of Maher Arar’s chances of ge ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Obama Targets States' Drag on Economic Recovery
  Over the weekend, President Obama wrote Congressional leaders urging action on a $50 billion aid package for the states designed in part to avert "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters." Which is exactly right. Because while the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has wor ...
• 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 ...

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

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Arab Israeli the most hated person in Israel (Pat ...
  Two weeks ago, she was virtually unknown. But after travelling aboard the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara, on which nine Turkish citizens were killed when Israeli commandos stormed the boat, Hani ...
• Ongoing land theft by Israel in Al-Walaja (aic )
• Israel's flotilla probe criticised (Al Jazeera)
  Turkey and Palestinians have attacked Israel's announcement that it is creating an internal committee to probe its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month, saying it did not c ...
• EU Council says Gaza siege 'unacceptable' (Ma'an ...
  The EU Council said Israel's Gaza blockade is "is unacceptable and politically counterproductive" and called on Israel to immediately lift the siege in accordance with UN resolutions dema ...
• Did Abbas ask for siege of Gaza to be kept in plac ...
  As Israel promises to ease its blockade on Gaza, intra-Palestinian rivalry again came to the fore on Sunday with a report in an Israeli daily that the Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, had ask ...

Water - AlterNet

• Why the U.S. Still Can't Get BP to Do What's Neces ...
  Right now BP's first responsibility is to its creditors and shareholders, not to the American public: Here's a better idea.
• Does BP Plan to Rip Off the Families of Killed Rig ...
  The Deepwater rig is legally considered an ocean-going vessel, as a result BP could get away with shelling out sums as paltry as $1,000 to families of workers killed in the blast.
• BP Is Destroying Evidence and Censoring Journalist ...
  BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability and is actually disappearing oiled wildlife.
• Radioactive Surprise: Desert Oasis Water Traced Ba ...
  The oasis, located near Death Valley, is home to 24 species that are found nowhere else on earth.
• How Long Will the Natural Gas Industry Run Amok in ...
  From Pennsylvania to Ohio, natural gas drilling is wreaking havoc on communities and landowners. What will it take to get stronger regulatory oversight?

Public Citizen in Texas

• Resolution Undermining Clean Air Act Faces Senate ...
  Tomorrow, Thursday June 10, Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) “Disapproval Resolution” will be voted on in the Senate. If passed, it would overturn the EPA’s “endangerment finding”, undermining the Clean Air Act- which by the way is the most successful piece of environmental legislation- and strippin ...
• Cap Metro’s debut at the Sunset Commission
  Cap Metro’s hearing at the Sunset Advisory Commission on Tuesday wasn’t the public flogging many might have expected, given the mass transit authority’s myriad problems over the past several years. It came as a shock to no one as Sunset staff delivered testimony that centered on the financial crisis ...
• More natural gas pipeline explosions in Texas
  After Monday’s deadly explosion of a pipeline in Johnson County, there was another explosion in the Panhandle today.  From the Austin-American Statesman: The blast near Darrouzett, just south of the Oklahoma border, was the second fatal natural gas explosion in Texas in as many days. On Monday, a w ...
• Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• EPA taking over permitting of Texas facilities: TC ...
  The other shoe has finally dropped. Back in September 2009, we let you know how the EPA had issued rulings that condemned TCEQ’s air quality permitting practices. And today, the EPA stopped asking nicely and took some action. From the Houston Chronicle: Objecting to how Texas regulates air pollution ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Virgin space tourists could launch from Scotland
  Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism flights could launch from an RAF base in Scotland. The company is hoping to begin flights by 2015 and ...
• 'Much more water' found in lunar rocks
  A new study of rocks returned by the Apollo missions has revealed that the moon has far more water on it than thought. Scientists found 100 times more...
• Prehistoric mammal hairs found in amber
  Palaeontologists have discovered two 100-million year-old hairs perfectly preserved inside amber. The hairs are remarkably similar to those found on m...
• Can our brains handle the theory of everything?
  A top scientist has warned that the limits of the human brain may prevent us from learning the secrets of the universe. President of the Royal Society...
• Scientists change fish brain to that of another fi ...
  In an intriguing new experiment scientists have altered the brain of a fish so that it resembles that of another. The research has helped scientists t...

Grassroots

• Grassroots International Supporter Shares One Hour ...
  Today Iara Lee, a Grassroots International supporter and an independent documentary filmmaker and activist, posted online more than one hour of unedited video taken aboard the Mavi Marmara.� The video, recorded in high definition, shows clear uninterrupted footage of the events that occurred before, ...
• 'So That Everyone Can Eat, Produce It Here'
  Subheadline:� Food Sovereignty and Land Reform in Haiti Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Doudou Pierre is a Grassroots International partner and a member of the National Peasant Movemen ...
• Grassroots International funds another great partn ...
• Only days until big Grassroots event!
• Grassroots give $30,000 grant to XYZ organization

Climate

• June 15, 2010
  Texas Asks Court to Intervene in Fight with EPA (AP) Texas asked a federal court on Monday to intervene in its fight with the EPA over how the state regulates emissions from oil refineries and other petrochemicals plants. BP Faces Grilling in Congress (Reuters) BP's U.S. chief fac ...
• June 14, 2010
  Obama Plans First Oval Office Speech to Put Pressure on BP (New York Times) Pres. Obama will use his first Oval Office speech Tuesday night to outline a plan to legally compel BP to create an escrow account to compensate businesses and individuals for their losses from the oil spill, adminis ...
• 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 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 ...

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

• Big Problems, Small President
  In 2004, John Kerry, a genuine war hero with a surprisingly consistent voting record, was mercilessly (and unfairly) ridiculed for his gaffe, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion [Iraq war supplement] before I voted against it." Though entirely about Senate procedure, not war support, this cele ...
• Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer
  First run at thenation.com Every World Cup, it arrives like clockwork. As sure as the ultimate soccer spectacle brings guaranteed adrenaline and agony to fans across the United States, it also drives the right-wing noise machine utterly insane. "It doesn't matter how you try to sell it to us," yippe ...
• Born In Offshore Drilling, Tea Party Protest Silen ...
  By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine Why are the hoppin’-mad Teabaggers so oddly quiet these days, ever since the BP oil disaster? That’s what Thomas Frank, author of What’s The Matter With Kansas ? asked last week in his column, “ Laissez-faire Meets The Oil Spill .” Ideologically, it’s painfully obvious ...
• Let's Name the Bankers and Make Them Famous
  John McCain said during the campaign that he would stop wasteful spending in government by naming names and making people famous. Well, that's a pretty good idea. So, we've adopted it (call us bipartisan). Except we're going to apply it to the bankers who took our money. Last week we led a protest a ...
• McChrystal Faces "Iraq 2006 Moment" in Coming Mont ...
  WASHINGTON, Jun 12, 2010 (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. On Thursday, McChrystal's message that his strategy will weaken the ...

Paul Krugman

• Antipathy To Low Rates
  The liquidationist mindset lives on.
• The Bad Logic Of Fiscal Austerity
  What passes for respectable policy analysis.
• Does Fiscal Austerity Reassure Markets?
  Ireland, Spain, and the markets.
• The RMB And The WTO
  Two wrongs, combined into a single policy, don't make a right.
• Strange Arguments For Higher Rates
  What's natural about too-high rates?

No Quarter

• Victories in the First War on Oil
  Editor’s Note: From the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule; podcasts). Shock Army Advances on BP. The US-launched War on Oil continues with the destruction of BP value and the bullying of Big Oil worldwide. Faced with the prospect of curing America from its addled dependen ...
• The Myth of Energy Independence (Revisited)
  On the eve of Barack Obama’s expected demonization of oil, let’s blow the whistle on the ridiculous idea that there is such a thing as “ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.”   Robert Bryce, author of Gusher of Lies, is must-read on this issue.  Here is a piece published four years ago in Counter Punch.   Idiotic ...
• Look What We Found Under the Poppies!
  So, it appears that opium wonât remain as Afghanistanâs most profitable export. Up until now, the rugged, desolate country appeared to have been left out of the region’s underground treasures. It now looks like Afghanistan was keeping a huge secret , until yesterday. Writing for the New York ...
• Flag Day **Open Thread**
  June 14th is Flag Day, a day to celebrate the US Flag, its history, and its importance to us as a country, as a people. I learned something new about the first post-Revolutionary flag today from this clip below. You may have already known this, but it wasn’t Betsy Ross who created it. She [...]
• Fannie and Freddie: The Legacy of Washington’s Fin ...
  When the day of reckoning comes, the record will show that those misguided, incompetent and reckless legislators who supported and were supported by the house of cards known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have cost our nation untold hundreds of billions of dollars. In fact, the losses attributed ...

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

• An Iran-U.S. Grand Bargain
  Iran and the United States, beneath their surface conflicts, have important interests in common.
• Reader Challenge: Is Afghan Mineral Find a Game-Ch ...
  Is Afghan mineral find a game-changer or just a wild card?
• Stealth Superpower
  How Turkey is chasing China to become the next big thing.
• A Bad Week for the Monroe Doctrine
  Supporting the Colossus of the North can be a lonely business
• Hostility to Plans for New Mosques
  Some New Yorkers are expressing increasing hostility to plans for new mosques.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Iran to send aid ships to Gaza
  Two ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip will try to breach Israel's blockade in coming week.
• Bangladesh landslides kill dozens
  People killed in southeastern Bangladesh after heavy rains bring landslides.
• Voluntary refugee returns 'plunge'
  Few of world's refugees opt to go home in 2009 due to ongoing conflicts, says UNHCR.
• Dozens killed in China floods
  Scores more reported missing as landslides and flash floods hit southwestern provinces.
• Marine jailed for war crimes freed
  Sergent convicted of killing unarmed Iraqi man released from prison pending appeal.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Oil Executives and the Spill: A House Hearing
  Our colleagues at The Lede will offer updates as executives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and the American arms of BP and Royal Dutch Shell testify at a hearing of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee in Washington.
• On Our Radar: The White House and Climate Change
  Climate-change policy jousting is reported at the White House.
• Just How British Is BP?
  So, who exactly are BP's American owners? A partial list.
• New Wind Power Is Neck and Neck With Gas
  The amount of power generated by new wind turbines in the European Union this year will be about the same as the amount from new gas plants, according to an industry group.
• On Our Radar: Whaling Payoffs?
  A newspaper reports assertions that cash was exchanged for pro-whaling votes on the International Whaling Commission.

Dot Earth News

• BP's 'Nightmare Well' is Now Everybody's
  A sheaf of documents reveals a push to save money and time in the days preceding the gulf well blowout.
• From Climate Conflict to Energy Consensus
  Americans are enthused by policies aimed at a clean, efficient energy future, but not by a top-down approach.
• A Boy and his Kalashnikov
  Life on "Planet Teen": Boy soldiers armed by the Somalia government with American help.
• Downpours + Steep Hills + Sleeping Campers = Horro ...
  Potent rain and steep terrain led to devastating flash floods in Arkansas.
• Here's to Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  An homage to a departed, but not forgotten, champion of the seas.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Geological spread of Gulf Disaster, Secret Corexit ...
  Get Cooked: Americans get most radiation from medical scans ( cryptogon ) Followups to Gaza Flotilla video: subMedia -Foreclose this , Editorial by Iara Lee What happened to us is happening in Gaza , U.S. Filmmaker Recorded Flotilla Massacre Video - Salem-News.Com , New Footage Emerges From the Isra ...
• Late Nite Assange email: Wikileaks "may be under a ...
  WikiLeaks via SunshinePress.org just sent out a curiously ambiguous call, signed by the elusive Julian Assange, for emergency funds, with subject "WikiLeaks may be under attack", also calling for people to set up local "Friends of Wikileaks" chapters. Also: Save Bradley! The Wikileaks guy Bradley ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• 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 ...
• Political fictions and Obama’s failure
  Numerian just posted an exceptional review explaining What went wrong with Obama. “One of the fictions propagated in American history courses â of the order of Washington throwing a dollar coin across the Potomac â is the theory that America always comes up with brilliant leaders at a time of c ...
• Israel video of soldiers attacked on Gaza flotilla ...
  source, with videos. The Israeli government’s video showing their soldiers being attacked as they descended from helicopters is a forgery; proven irrefutably from the ship’s structural features in the video being visibly different from the actual vessel, the Mavi Marmara. The proof is explained in t ...
• REALM charter school approved in ’secret parliamen ...
  Yvette Felarca is running for the presidency of the American Federation of Teachers and she better win!  For the stinking politics of Randi Weingarten, current AFT president, mirror the rancid policies of Arne Duncan in the battle to privatize education.  The REALM charter schools (the subject of mu ...
• Detroit, BAMN, mayoral control and the fight again ...
  Readers: ‘By Any Means Necessary’  (www.bamn.com) is no doubt the most vibrant and militant mobilization of teacher, youth and community in the United States. Today, Sunday the 13th, De’Von Burt, the courageous high school student who I have interviewed and written about for Daily Censored was on A ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• North Korea completely cuts off state rations, aid ...
• Obama hasn't given up on energy bill just yet
• BP hires private security contractors to guard &ac ...
• Drug Violence Marks Bloody Day In Mexico
• Foreclosures in Phoenix may jump because of Arizon ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• New Thinking on Cutting the Deficit
  We could cut $1 trillion over the next decade in the defense budget, without compromising national security. It's time to trim the fat on this sacred cow.
• The Afghan Opium War
  IPS Drug Policy Director Sanho Tree says that the worst thing the U.S. military could do in Afghanistan right now is forced eradication, because the farmers will turn to illicit crops to feed their families.
• Stealth Superpower
  How Turkey is chasing China to become the next big thing.
• Fresh Thinking on National Security
  In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we need to make sure that every penny of our tax dollars is spent wisely.
• Immigrants Head to the Hill
  A firsthand account of an immigration hearing, and the devastating effects punitive immigration laws have had on women and children.

Pine River World News

• U.S. "surge" in Afghanistan in disarray
  The following commentary is reprinted with permisson from World Socialist Web Site. U.S. "surge" in Afghanistan in disarray � � World Socialist Web Site By Barry Grey June 14, 2010 In the midst of one of the bloodiest weeks for U.S. and NATO forces in the nearly nine-year war in Afghanistan, Gen. ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #374
  South Korean general arrested for spying for North. A shared glimpse of CIA officer's secret life.
• Alleged Mossad agent arrested in Poland
  Authorities in Poland have detained an alleged Israeli agent who may be connected with the assassination of a senior Hamas operative last January.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• War Criminals Yoo and Card to participate in a Bos ...
  Yoo and Card will be appearing in a Panel Discussion at 5pm, June 15 about Shakespeaer's Henry V in a free event at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theater.The panel will be preceded by a reading of excerpts from Henry V by numerous Republican figures. For more information go to: http://warcriminalswatch.o ...
• Join DC Activists To Confront BP and Big Oil: A We ...
  To mark the second month of the BP disaster, please join us at one or more of the following actions—and pass this on to your friends. The media is asking, “Where is the outrage?” Let’s show them! These actions are organized by many groups, including CODEPINK, Greenpeace, Public Citizen, and Rainfore ...
• Best of the Blogs
  Canadian RCMP Conducting Criminal Investigation of U.S. and Syrian Officials for Maher Arar's Rendition to Torture Clumsy US disinfo on Saudi Arabia? Washington abandons Gaza tunnel-blocking system? Maher Arar Needs Your Help Death by Schumer Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues Human Exper ...
• Israeli Raid Coverage: American Media Fail Again
  By Linn Washington Jr. An American art student loses an eye when struck in the face by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) personnel breaking up a demonstration in the occupied West Bank which itself is a protest against the deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza flotilla. No, yo ...
• Activists aim to revamp county government
  By BENNETT HALL Gazette-Times A group of local political activists, citing what they say is a widespread feeling of disenfranchisement with Benton County government, are holding a public meeting at the library this Friday to discuss ways to make it more responsive. “We’re not prescribing anything, ...

Grist - News

• Oil execs lined up for Washington grilling
  by Randy Rieland. Big Banking, Big Auto, and Big Coal have all been to the woodshed in the last little while. Tomorrow it's Big Oil's turn. Capitol Hill Summer Theater kicks off in style when the top execs of the world's five largest oil companies report for their very own congressional beatdo ...
• 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 ...

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• Top 10 Weight Loss Tips to Burn Fat
  Top 10 weight loss tips fuel reduction in abdominal fat and reduce the risk of heart attack, diabetes and stroke.
• Google Graduates Docs Features
  Google ups the ante with new features to Google Docs
• Jersey Shore's "The Situation" Releases Rap Song
  Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino from MTV's Jersey Shore has released a single. Of course he has.

Time - Top Stories

• Obama's Challenge: Use the Spill to Get Beyond Pet ...
  Though you wouldn't know it from the words chosen by angry American politicians -- who can't stop talking about the company's Englishness -- BP's name doesn't actually stand for British Petroleum anymore
• Soda Sales Up as Consumers Switch from Health Drin ...
  Fancy health drinks are giving way to that old standby thirst quencher, soda, as consumers pay more attention to costs of everyday purchases
• The Tribulations Of Alvin Greene Continue
  At his home Monday, Alvin Greene spent the day fielding phone calls, dozens of them from fans and reporters and bookers all across the country
• Great Wedding Food: Tips from a Newly Betrothed Cr ...
  There are restaurants all around New York City that are objects of my special passion; why wouldn't I want their best stuff at my wedding?
• Why the Military May Not Be the Best Bet to Solve ...
  Calls for a military solution to the Gulf oil spill tend to overlook the services' own questionable record of working in the deep and of plugging leaks

Washington Independent

• Some Takeaways From the Pentagon’s Afghanist ...
  I wasn’t able to join yesterday’s briefing with two U.S. officials who commented on James Risen’s big story about geologists’ estimate that Afghanistan possesses about a trillion dollars worth of mineral wealth. But here’s the condensed version of what Paul Brinkley of the Defense Department’s Task ...
• Amid Unemployment Crisis, Senate Gridlock Leaves J ...
  If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their unemployment benefits and Medicare doctors will take a 21 percent rate cut.
• Road to Best-Sellerdom: F.A. Hayek’s American Edit ...
  For the past week, “The Road to Serfdom” has been the number-one selling book on Amazon.com. Authored by the Austrian émigré economist F.A. Hayek and first published in 1944, the book has long held iconic status on the Transatlantic right. Most recently, the book has acquired fashionable currency ...
• NRA Shows Who’s Boss
  Two weeks ago, we ran a piece on lobbying efforts to derail the DISCLOSE Act, which would roll back the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision by forcing companies that finance campaign ads to issue disclosure messages. One of the main opponents of the measure was the National Rifle Association, w ...
• The State of the Nation’s Housing Market
  Today, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its 2010 report on the state of the American housing market. The verdict? Not good, if stable. The bottom line: The nation has not faced housing problems of this magnitude since the Great Depression. Heavy job losses and lingering high unemp ...

Digg Green

• NAS: 'Strong action' needed to cut greenhouse gase ...
  The academy, calling it 'the most comprehensive report ever on climate change,' suggests taxing carbon emissions. The papers also raise the possibility that global warming might make it necessary to shift vulnerable populations away from coasts.
• BP before the oil spill: Environmentally friendly?
  The short answer: Not so much.
• Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico - The Big Picture
  Based on recently revised estimates, BP's ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. The new figures suggest that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could still be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 ...
• BP is Using Paper Towels to Clean Up Oil Spill
  BP's crappy, low-tech cleanup job. Photos from an unauthorized trip to a cleanup area.
• More cold and snowy winters to come.
  A warmer Arctic climate is influencing the air pressure at the North Pole and shifting wind patterns on our planet. We can expect more cold and snowy winters in Europe, eastern Asia and eastern North America, climate scientists say. Change in arctic environment may be irreversible.

Invisible Opportunity

• BP FALSE FLAG
  Halliburton bought an oil cleanup company days before BP explosion. A BP report refers to tampering with well sealing equipment. (False Flag) Important people sold BP shares just before the explosion The Obama regime may use the BP disaster to push for a Carbon Tax and to change the ownership of BP. ...
• Shocking Testimonials from the Mavi Marmara surviv ...
  By Gilad Atzmon 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 ...
• IHH head says Zionists brazenly lie. He confirms I ...
  Bulent Yildirim, head of the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), promised to continue to send ships to the Gaza Strip until lifting of the siege, despite the fact that the Jews staged a bloody massacre on the Mavi Marmara ferry. He confirmed that the Jews ...
• 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 ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Why Marijuana Is Central to Life, Liberty and the ...
  Inspired by the founders' Federalist Papers, a group of reformers have penned a series of essays exploring the role of cannabinoids in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Leading UK Drug Reform Groups Push Ahead with Blue ...
  Two UK based organizations are charting a course through the miasma of international drug policy by publishing detailed road maps for comprehensive legalization.
• Medical Marijuana Madness in Montana
  Fire bombs. Graffiti attacks. Anonymous anti-medical marijuana flyers handed out to school children. "Ganja-preneurs" are pushing the envelope in the Big Sky State.
• Conservative Hollywood Website and Bill O' Reilly ...
  Andrew Breitbart's popular right-wing website is on the unpopular side of the battle of ideas over the war on drugs.
• Gulf Clean Up Workers Subjected to Drug Tests and ...
  Is this new disaster response protocol?

Twilight Earth

• Photo Sunday – Tahiti and Polynesia
  Tahiti is a beautiful paradise of lush jungles, sandy beaches, ancient culture and wonderful festivals. Related posts: Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Coral Seas Photo Sunday – The Great Barrier Reef
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• Univerisity of Nottingham Unveils Sleek Solar-Powe ...
  The University of Nottingham recently unveiled their H.O.U.S.E, a stunning sun-powered home that will be heating up the competition at the European Solar Decathlon, which kicks off this Friday in Madrid. The Brits are feverishly working on the construction of their two-story prefabricated modular ho ...
• Toyota Officially Announces It Will Build An Elect ...
  Last month, Toyota shocked us with a triple whammy of an announcement: an investment of $50 million in Tesla Motors, an information-sharing partnership with the startup automaker, and a plan for Tesla to purchase the recently shuttered NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing) GM/Toyota plant in Fremon ...
• Pop Up House is Affordable Prefabulous Green Housi ...
  Photography by Avery Meyers The Pop-Up House offers an affordable, eco-friendly, pre-fabricated kit that comes to the building site ready to be built. Unlike other pre-fabricated houses, the Pop-Up House is customizable allowing home owners to add their own style and personal touch to it – they ca ...
• Awesome Area Rug Woven from Recycled Bicycle Tires
  Danish designer Annemette Beck takes a creative new approach to textile design by utilizing an extremely inventive array of recycled materials. Her line of woven products include rugs, upholstery, fabrics, runners, blinds and even room dividers made from materials such as rubber, paper and metal. B ...
• Tacoma’s Center for Urban Waters Adapts to Environ ...
  Talk about a smart building! The new Tacoma Center for Urban Waters goes beyond clever design and construction techniques. The recently opened research center and environmental laboratory actually has the capacity to react to its environmental conditions and alter itself in order to minimize its ene ...

Pogue's Posts

• New iPhone Creates Familiar Dilemma for Existing C ...
  The release of a new iPhone always comes with a wave of rage from people who bought last year's model, furious that they won't get the $200 new-customer price from AT&T.
• User Accounts on Apple Devices
  Considering a reader's comment that the absence of a multiple-accounts feature on the iPhone and iPad is a "major flaw."
• AT&T Seems a Little Greedy
  The AT&T data plans caps could save you money. AT&T's tethering plan, though, seems like something a big monolithic corporation might do.
• AT&T's Capped Data Plan Could Save You Money
  I'm the first guy to lead the charge against cell-carrier greed. But AT&T's plan to end its unlimited data plan for smartphones is different. This time, I think you'll wind up coming out ahead.
• The Magic Behind Rating Apps
  Magic in the technology age is a weird beast, as a recent episode on the iPhone app store shows.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Why Travelers Go South: North Seems Uphill
  People making travel plans may unwittingly heed a strange rule of thumb — southern routes rule. In a new experiment, volunteers chose paths that dipped south over routes of the same distance that arched northward, perhaps because northern routes intuitively seem uphill and thus more difficult, rese ...
• New U.S. Map Could Stop Species From Becoming Enda ...
  A new national map of the ecosystems of America could help keep healthy species from ending up endangered. Through ground and satellite surveys of land cover, the U. S. Geological Survey’s Gap Analysis Program has generated data that conservationists may be able to use to create and sustain habitat ...
• Butterfly Wing Colors Come From Space-Age Structur ...
  Some butterflies get their fabulous colors from light refracted through membrane shapes that were first discovered by mathematicians and applied in space-age material science. Using microscopes with three-dimensional nanoscale resolution, Yale University researchers found that shades of green in th ...
• Japanese Spacecraft Returns From Asteroid Sampling ...
  The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returned from its seven-year trek to the asteroid Itokawa on Sunday, and a capsule that hopefully contains pieces of the asteroid was recovered in the Australian outback Monday morning. The mission was the first round trip to a planetary body beyond the moon, and — ...
• 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Polish PM Pressing for End to Afghanistan Mission
  Poland is one of the more self-consciously America-aligned European countries for various historical and cultural reasons, so the news that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to wrap things up in Afghanistan is telling: Poland has 2,600 soldiers in Afghanistan as part of a U.S.-led NATO missio ...
• Pakistan: Friend or Foe?
  One longstanding question is which side the Pakistan military -- particularly the ISI -- is on in our war with the Taliban.   A new report gives strong credence to the long-held suspicion that they are not only tacitly backing the enemy but actively supporting them "as clear as the sun in the sky." ...
• Real Security for Israel
  The Israeli raid of the ship the Mavi Marmara, which ended with the deaths of nine protestors, is a potent symbol of why Israel’s current policy toward the Gaza Strip is unsustainable. Right now Iranian ships are on their way to attempt to break the blockade, forcing what could be an ugly confrontat ...
• The $1 Trillion War?
  Blake Hounshell has a must-read piece in Foreign Policy that raises some serious questions about the timing and accuracy of today's article by James Risen in the New York Times , which claims that the United States has discovered $1 trillion worth of precious metals in Afghanistan. From his piece: ...
• McCain and Washington Post Call for Foreign Policy ...
  On Saturday, the Washington Post editorial board echoed the sentiments of speech given by John McCain that called on Obama to essentially say meaner things to the Iranians. The Post’s editorial headline leadingly asked the question: “ What if the Obama administration fully sided with Iran’s Green Mo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Debt Default, Something Every Ame ...
  Bruce Bartlett �fleshes out the one scenario in which the U.S. could default on its debt: Congress fails to extend the debt ceiling. Since Republicans will certainly gain seats in the Senate in the fall, there will be that many more votes against doing so (this from a party that's shown no interest ...
• Bad Lawyers and the Death Penalty.
  The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (EDPA), among other restrictions on civil liberties, imposed a one-year statute of limitations on federal habeas corpus filings for those convicted under state law, subject to a few very narrow exceptions. In order for this provision to not p ...
• Iowa Rep. Steve King: Obama "favors the black pers ...
  From Oliver Willis Walid Zafar comes this from Rep. Steve King of Iowa: King: When you look at this administration, I'm offended by Eric Holder and the President also, their posture. It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race. And I ...
• Spencer's (Still) Tenuous Evidence.
  Robert Spencer , the professional anti-Muslim activist who has been working to oppose the construction of an Islamic center near Ground Zero and a Mosque in Staten Island, takes issue with several of the claims I made in my post last week. I'll just start with the easiest claim Spencer disputes, t ...
• Women on Sunday Talk Shows.
  After� Politico � noted �that only 13.5 percent of talk show guests are women, Jezebel analyzes �why so few make the talk-show rounds. The author notes that there are many fewer women in positions of power; with only 17 percent of seats in Congress are occupied by women, there just aren't a lot of ...

Andy Worthington

• UN Human Rights Council Discusses Secret Detention ...
  On June 3, largely unnoticed in the Western media, the UN Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue to discuss the “Joint Study on Global Practices in Relation to Secret Detention in the Context of Counter-Terrorism,” prepared by Martin Scheinin, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and p ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Trucks Could Be Next Electric Power Frontier
  With fuel costs a driving factor, analysts predict a surge of hybrid electric trucks and buses on the road in coming years. Electricity - Electric vehicle - Hybrid vehicle - Energy - Technology
• Inventor Turned Up Energy Savings by Dimming the L ...
  Joel Spira was aiming for mood lighting when he invented the solid-state light dimmer switch. More than 50 years later, his company, Lutron, is recognized as an energy efficiency pioneer. Lutron Electronics Company - Dimmer - Technology - Efficient energy use - Energy
• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
  Thirty years after Mount St. Helens blew its top, the peak is still the second most dangerous volcano in the United States, according to government estimates. United States - Mount St. Helens - Volcano - Washington - England
• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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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 ...

SPL Center

• TeaParty.org Founder Labels Obama With Racial Term ...
  Dale Robertson, the vitriolic founder and president of TeaParty.org, blasted out a mass E-mail today that seemed meant to convince doubters that his movement is, after all, racist at its core. Attacking President Obama for traveling home to Chicago for the Memorial Day weekend — rather than staying ...
• Man With Napalm Bomb is Latest Oath Keeper to Face ...
  This is getting embarrassing. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes keeps insisting his year-old organization is composed of nothing more than patriotic, Constitution-loving Americans who aren’t a threat to anybody. Then his members prove otherwise. The latest is Matthew Fairfield, a suburban Clevelan ...
• IKA Boss’ Latest Travail: Drug Trafficking Charges
  The founder of a once-thriving Klan group has recently battled a major lawsuit, money woes and, now, federal drug charges. Ron Edwards , the 50-year-old former leader of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), appeared in U.S. District Court in Owensboro, Ky., today on charges of possession with intent ...
• Minuteman Co-Founder Accused of Threatening Family
  Chris Simcox, co-founder of the Minuteman movement and a principal nativist leader, threatened to kill his wife and family last year, according to a petition filed in Maricopa County Court in mid-April by his estranged spouse, Alena Simcox. According to Phoenix New Timesâ Steve Lemons, who broke t ...
• The FAIR Files: ‘Criminals, Homosexuals and Defect ...
  The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is an immigration restriction organization that insists that it does not “discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, or creed.” But many have questioned that claim since revelations that FAIR’s legal arm essentially wrote the hi ...

change: org.

• Robeson County Threatens to Close Shelter, Blames ...
  Jeff Bass is not a popular guy among animal activists. As the director of Robeson County Animal Shelter in North Carolina, Bass and his staff have been  accused of mistreating animals, not providing vet care, and using inhumane methods of euthanasia. Bass was also accused of euthanizing animals afte ...
• Glee's Missing Gay Dads, and Other Burning Questio ...
  All right, Glee is over for the season. Aside from reliving the whole thing as it’s rerun on Thursdays this summer, we have nothing to console us but our memories and a bazillion iTunes downloads. Glee did not end on a cliffhanger, so there are no mysteries to agonize over — no Hatch, no Who Shot so ...
• 10 Reasons Why America's Social Safety Net Needs F ...
  The safety net, the social contract — whatever you want to call it, the network of programs and services provided by the public and charitable sectors to help the country's most vulnerable individuals in times of need is in dire straits these days. Even the most die-hard social conservative would ne ...
• Toxic Soup: Oil Moves into Wildlife-Rich Barataria ...
  "Toxic Soup" is a Change.org series focusing on how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts the Gulf's seafood industry and marine life. For more posts on this issue, see here , here , here , here , and here . Barataria Bay used to serve as a fishermen's paradise. You couldn't throw a hook in ...
• Cleaning Up the Bloody Guts of our Modern Machine ...
  While the war and subsequent disease, famine, and lawlessness in the Congo remains off the radar of most Americans, a group of students at Stanford is trying to use the influence of their university as a major financial institution to take on the problem of conflict minerals. If war once had the pow ...

Common Dreams -News

• Hunger Strikers' American Dreams
  by Joseph Huff-Hannon I asked Sonia, a student from Harlem who was born in Ecuador, how it is that she looked so energetic and, for all appearances, normal, given that it was her 10th day without eating. She laughed a little, and this is what she had to say: read more
• Global Protest Planned over BP's Handling of Oil D ...
  New Orleans, Louisiana  - Environmentalists plan to stage a worldwide protest against BP on Saturday as the petroleum giant takes hits from politicians and Gulf residents. Worldwide BP Protest Day claims demonstrations will take place in more than 50 cities across five continents from Pensacola, Flo ...
• The Spill, The Scandal and the President
  by Tim Dickinson On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For weeks, the administration had been insisting that BP alone was to blame for the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf - and ...
• Goal to Eliminate Child Labor Running out of Steam
  by Lisa Schlein GENEVA - The International Labor Organization says progress toward eliminating the worst forms of child labor is slowing down.  To mark the World Day Against Child Labor, the ILO is urging countries to do more to end this abhorrent practice.  This year's World Day Against Child Labor ...
• Maher Arar Loses ‘Last Hope’ in US Court Ruling
  by Mitch Potter WASHINGTON—Canadian torture victim Maher Arar’s rendition ordeal is now a closed file in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision to end judicial review of the U.S. role in sending him to Syria eight years ago. The U.S. High Court on Monday declined review of Arar’s case – a develop ...

Lifehacker

• Back Up Your Entire Android Phone to the Cloud [Ba ...
  Android phones already keep their contacts, settings, and app choices synced and backed up, but what about your SMS and call records, your application data, and other Android essentials? There are ways, and the Tested blog runs down the best o ...
• Send Money to Effective Oil Spill Charities and Av ...
  As oil continues to flow in the Gulf of Mexico, organizations helping to heal, assist, and rescue need regular help. Here are trusted, checked-out charities you can donate to, and tips on avoiding less helpful groups and outright scams. Mor ...
• Starbucks to Offer Free Internet to All Customers ...
  Starbucks has teamed up with Yahoo to bring free Wi-Fi to all customers starting July 1. The free Wi-Fi will be available at all U.S. locations according to the official Starbucks Twitter account , no registration required. It's cliche to joke about how there's a Starbucks on every ...
• Leave Me Alone! Disables Windows Update Nagging [D ...
  Windows: If you like the convenience of automatic updates but not the irritation of Windows nagging you to reboot your machine, Leave Me Alone! is a simple workaround that requires no registry editing or disabling of Windows update. More�� ...
• Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free ...
  Looking to beef up your Mac with a few great—and free—apps that cover a whole lot of your productivity and computing needs? Our annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac rounds up the best free downloads for OS X. More » Lifehacke ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Afghanistan's Mineral Riches: A Conveniently Timed ...
  By Steve Hynd Last night, the New York Times' James Risen "broke" what the mainstream media are insisting is a blockbuster story about Afghanistan's untapped mineral wealth - not just iron and copper but strategically significant minerals like lithium and all told valued at around $1 trillion. Wow! ...
• Report: Pakistani Intelligence (Still) Supporting ...
  By Steve Hynd The shocking thing is that this shocks some people: Pakistan's main spy agency continues to arm and train the Taliban and is even represented on the group's leadership council despite U.S. pressure to sever ties and billions in aid to combat the militants, said a research report releas ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• 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?
• Tensions Rise Over Access to the Nile River
  Five African countries assert claim to Nile waters, but Egypt does not want to share by Tristan McConnell, GlobalPost NAIROBI, Kenya and ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia A war of words of is threatening to erupt into real fighting as African countries face off against one another in a battle for access to the ...
• 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?
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• Two mid-C20 theories of knowledge
  Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, American Economic Review, September
• The Gulf Of Mexico Catastrophe: When Toxins Intoxi ...
  Photo by Eric Grigorian/Polaris I’ve been asked about why I’ve made no comments on the G
• Set You TV on Spin!
  I’m so glad I will be working hard to pay liberals need to spend and tax tonight instead of ha
• The Silent Bailouts
  The other day, Bloomberg News reported that the 20 largest, publicly traded banks in the U.S. may ha
• Myths about the teacher layoff crisis: Excellent a ...
  Myths about the teacher layoff crisis By now, you’ve probably heard about the urgent teacher layoff

Electronic Intifada

• Israel plans more construction on historic Muslim ...
  Israeli authorities are pressing ahead with plans to build a courthouse complex on a large historic Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem that is already at the center of protest over plans ...
• Palestinian boycott coordinator: "The movement has ...
  Hind Awwad, national coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), recently toured Europe to support the growing worldwide campaign. Th ...
• Jewish challenges to Zionism on the rise in the US
  In June 2010, two opposite ends of the Jewish political spectrum will vie for one historical moment. As Israel and the Zionist movement struggle to maintain their century-long pull ...
• Activists disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting
  While pro-Palestinian activists and supporters of Israel lined opposite sides of South LaSalle Street outside the Northern Trust Building in Chicago on 9 June, James Owens, ...
• Will Flotilla tragedy bring change in Israel?
  Is it possible to be shocked and yet not be surprised? Israel's stupidity and disregard for human life is nothing new. It is a recurring theme in the life of the Jewish sta ...

Afghanistan Sun

• One trillion dollar mineral wealth could net each ...
  A New York Times report revelation of Afghanistan having at least a trillion dollars worth of unearthed mineral deposits has led some Afghan reporters to excitedly calculate how much each Afghan would theoretically get if this treasure is divided equally.
• NATO Predicts Decades-Long Battle Against Corrupti ...
  Afghan President Appeals for Support in Southern Afghanistan NATO and U.S. officials are pushing hard to reverse a culture of deeply embedded corruption that permeates all aspects of Afghan society, c...
• 12 police, 6 civilians killed
  Former Taliban militants in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, lay their arms on the ground during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government on Sunday, June 13, 2010. About 30 former Taliban milit...
• Prepare for tough summer in Afghanistan, Canadian ...
  Canada's final summer of combat in Kandahar will be marked by intense fighting, the commander of Canadian Forces overseas said Tuesday, striking a markedly different tone from the one he gave just ove...
• Funeral today for St. Louis County Marine killed i ...
  Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning for a Marine from St. Louis County who was killed in Afghanistan. Corporal Donald Marler, 22, was killed in a rollover vehicle accident while conducting ...

Futurismic

• Canuck filmmaker considers streaming live video fr ...
  Well, this sidesteps the clunky implementations of lifelogging that we’ve seen so far. Rob Spence lost the vision in his tright eye in a shooting accident, and decided to replace it with a small camera unit, making it onto Time Magazine’s best inventions list for 2009 (even though they’ve only had t ...
• This is sure to end well: Afghanistan’s vast untap ...
  Looks like my cynicism gland gets an early boost this week, as the New York Times reports that the US government has discovered Afghanistan holds an estimated US$1 trillion in previously untapped mineral deposits [via MetaFilter]. The previously unknown deposits â including huge veins of iron, cop ...
• 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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• The Role of Federal Employee Whistleblowers in Pro ...
  Professional Engineer (PE) licensure + strengthened federal whistleblower protection = prevention of future offshore drilling disasters Guest Blogger: Joe Carson , PE, Chairman OSC Watch Steering Committee, multiple  time “prevailing” whistleblower in Department of Energy As a Professional ...
• Pentagon searches for WikiLeaks founder Julian Ass ...
  Several news sources are reporting on efforts by the U.S. Department of Defense to find Julian Assange, a founder of WikiLeaks. I reported here last week about the government's detention of Army Specialist Bradley Manning (and how Manning could have blown the whistle with legal protections). Phil Sh ...
• Jamaican Senate debating whistleblower law
  The Jamaican Senate is scheduled to debate a comprehensive whistleblower bill this Friday. Justice Minister Senator Dorothy Lightbourne released the proposed text of the Protected Disclosure Act (Whistle-blower Law) 2010, according to Jamaica Observer . The bill fulfills a 2007 election promise of t ...
• Ricky Lee Campbell wins temporary reinstatement to ...
  National Public Radio (NPR) is reporting that a federal administrative judge has ordered that the Massey Coal Company temporarily reinstate whistleblower Ricky Lee Campbell while his retaliation case is pending.� Campbell drove coal shuttle cars and bolted mine roofs at the Upper Big Branch and Mass ...
• 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 ...

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

• ISP Tries To Charge Users To Block File Sharing... ...
  Jaime Novoa was the first of a few of you to point us to a series of links about how French ISP Orange has started offering a service to let subscribers pay 2 euros to "block" file sharing services on their connection. The theory, of course, is that this service "protects" you from getting any stri ...
• Blaming Users When You Screw Up
  We're always amazed when we see companies blame their users for their own screwups. The latest company to do this, as reported on TechCrunch, is Zynga, who gave out some codes to certain users for $120 worth of in-game currency in one of its games if those users moved off of one social networking p ...
• Twins In Legal Fight After Making Disparaging Comm ...
  We've bee seeing more and more stories like this, and it's pretty disturbing that people still freak out so much over a minor negative comment. Apparently, two twin brothers at the University of Calgary made some disparaging remarks about a professor, setting up a page that read "I no longer fear H ...
• Will Offshoring Patent Apps Come Back To Haunt Bof ...
  theodp writes "Reuters reports that workers for Bank of America, one of the nation's largest employers, have sued the company for allegedly failing to pay OT and other wages . 'Bank of America enjoys millions of dollars in ill-gained profits at the expense of its hourly employees,' the complaint sai ...
• Should Data Just Fade Away?
  Michael Scott points us to a report suggesting that one way to deal with the privacy issues of data stored online is to set up databases that automatically have plans to let data "fade away" over a certain period of time . Of course, I'm not sure what's particularly new or unique about this. Lots ...

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

• Learning to Listen
  To all my anarchist, libertarian, or other other friends who sincerely want to convince other people to change their way of viewing things. Sometimes, we really need to just shut up and listen. We spend way too much time making elaborate philosophical arguments, talking about theory, interpreting hu ...
• 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.  ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche Supports Russian Drive for Afghanistan Op ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 11, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 23
• Netanyahu Must Go Now, If Israel Is To Survive Lat ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 11, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 23
• What Is Synarchism?
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 11, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 23
• An Appeal for a Two-Tier Banking System: Europe Wi ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 11, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 23
• LPAC Weekly Report: LaRouche Offers a Vision for t ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 11, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 23

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

• The Preservation/Environmentalism Connection: Step ...
  I was saddened when Richard Moe announced his retirement as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; he was a huge influence, a strong and early voice delivering a message that the greenest building is the one already standing, that our urban, walkable and existing communities ...
• Connecticut Becomes 24th State to Put e-Waste Recy ...
  Photo by cjb Thankfully, we've seen a rush of states adding new e-waste regulations and laws to their books, most recently with New York and hot on the heals of that news comes word that Connecticut will be the 24th US state to put enact an electronics recycling law, starting this fall. Gadget ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Healthy and Delicious Lentil P ...
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband and I were out of town the past weekend. He spent his days at a conference working, and I was lying around a beautiful house on Lake Erie with old friends, essentially spending the weekend overindulging. We were in a big farming community, but he got an unappeti ...
• Crackdown on Copper in California to Save Marine L ...
  Photo by audreyjm569 When we think of copper and water, we usually think of long-lasting pipes. However, copper and water have a more intertwined relationship than that. Each time drivers hit their breaks, or boaters put a new coat of paint on their vessel's hull, they're contributing to the le ...
• Foraging Gets Trendy: But Is Trendy Sustainable?
  Image credit: Channel 4 Only last month we heard, via Food and Wine , about eating dirt as the latest weird restaurant trend . And it seems this magazine, which is usually a champion of unbridled luxury, and even excess, is on somewhat of a sustainability kick these days. Sure, there are still ...

Biosingularity

• Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
  IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
• Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
  Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...
• Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as ...
  Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel g ...
• RNA-Loaded Nanoparticles Fight Cancer
  specialized nanoparticle filled with an RNA-based cancer therapy can successfully target human cancer cells and silence the target gene, according to results from an early clinical trial. The research, published today in the journal Nature, is the first to demonstrate this type of tissue targeting a ...
• Gene flaw found in induced stem cells
  Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed i ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool
  Now that BP̢۪s oil rig has caused the biggest environmental disaster in American history, the Left is pulling the same bogus trick it did with Enron and AIG: Whenever a company earns universal ire, declare it the poster boy for the free market.
• CFACT update from Bonn climate talks
  Discord, blame and profiteering at UN Bonn climate conference as UN scrambles to get climate treaty back on track; calls for developed nations to repay 'climate debt' and an 'international court of climate and environmental justice' to prosecute developed world.
• Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics
  There is simply no room in science, academia or public policy for manipulation, falsification or fraud. Academic freedom does not confer a right to engage in such practices, and both attorneys general and research institutions have a duty to root them out, especially in the case of climate change re ...
• Presidential chemo-phobia?
  Don̢۪t look for any new science in this new President̢۪s Report. There isn̢۪t any. It̢۪s just the same old fears and alarms that have circulated since Rachel Carson.
• BP Oil Spill Resources
  Who is helping to contain the Gulf oil spill disaster?

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian policeman jailed for 9 months over basebal ...
• Student falls asleep during Obama's speech
  Last week U.S. President gave a speech at Kalamazoo Central high school in Michigan. The school had won a contest that brought the president to its town to speak at the graduation ceremony. One of the students, sitting directly behind the president, fell asleep.
• Kyrgyzstan to seek extradition of ex-president's s ...
  Kyrgyz provisional government will ask Britain to extradite the former president's son on suspicion of financing the recent deadly interethnic clashes in the south of the country, the interim first deputy prime minister said on Tuesday
• Riots in Southern Kyrgyzstan
• Armed patrols stepped up in Kyrgyzstan's capital
  Patrols by both armed security services and unarmed civilian volunteers have been stepped up in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, which remained calm on Monday.The patrols grouped outside a mosque in Mahalla, a mostly ethnic Uzbek neighbourhood in what is a mostly ethnic Kyrgyz city. Volunteers wearing ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• First project approved for Russian 'Silicon Valley ...
  The first innovation project for Russia's new high-tech research hub near Moscow has been approved by Skolkovo's modernization committee, a Russian business daily quoted a presidential aide as saying on Tuesday
• Russian 'Silicon Valley'
• Next ISS crew confirmed for June 16 launch
  Russian cosmonaut Yury Yurchihin and U.S. astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker were confirmed on Monday as the crew for the next half-year mission on the International Space Station.
• Next ISS crew confirmed for June 16 launch
  Russian cosmonaut Yury Yurchihin and U.S. astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker were confirmed on Monday as the crew for the next half-year mission on the International Space Station.
• Russian space programs

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU is trying to find out more “about the implementation of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), an unconstitutional spying law that gives the executive branch virtually unchecked power to collect Americans’ international e-ma ...
• 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 ...

Natural Health News

• Chocolate Toddler Formula Pulled After Sugar Uproa ...
  Parents and nutritionists are protesting a line of designer toddler drinks containing mostly milk and sugar. They are aimed at children as young as 1 year old. Mead Johnson's Enfagrow Premium contain more than 25 additives supposedly intended to boost growth, brain development and immunity for the ...
• Polyphenols Halt Prostate Cancer Growth
  Scientists believe they now know exactly why polyphenols, such as those found in red wine and green tea, inhibit cancer growth. The antioxidants produce a combined effect to disrupt an important cell signaling pathway necessary for prostate cancer growth. The SphK1/S1P signaling pathway plays a rol ...
• Pecans Provide Neurological Protection
  Eating a handful of pecans every day could protect your nervous system. A study suggests that adding pecans to your diet may delay the progression of age-related motor neuron degeneration. Vitamin E is a natural antioxidant found in pecans, and it may provide a key element to the neurological prote ...
• Is Adult Stem Cell Therapy a Practical Option for ...
  Every year, hundreds Americans head overseas to get stem-cell therapies unavailable in the U.S. Many of these treatments use stem cells harvested from the patient’s own blood or bone marrow. The FDA requires all stem-cell procedures to undergo clinical trials for safety and efficacy before companie ...
• George Carlin -- Modern Man
  George Carlin explains what it means to be a modern man.

Antemedius

• No Accountability For Rendition In US, But Maybe I ...
  There is nothing about torture that is good or positive. The act itself is one of the most brutal and heinous that humans have ever committed. The affect on a society that condones torture is one of rising fear and brutality. The information (if it can be called that) gained under torture is so susp ...
• USA: United States of Assassinations?
  What the United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings would like is for countries that employ surprise drone attacks to first prove they have attempted to capture or incapacitate suspects. The investigator, Philip Alston, issued a 29-page report Wednesday that the New York Times ...
• The Abooman Women’s Group: Working Together to Imp ...
  This is the fourth in a five-part series of my visit with the Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development and the projects they support in southern Ghana. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . The Abooman Women’s Group in southern Ghana, “sta ...
• Romney, Palin Fight for Republican Party Control
  When Mitt Romney sought to help embattled senators in Utah and Arizona the issue went well beyond those preferences. What was at stake and continues to be the major issue that Romney confronts as a Republican presidential aspirant in a party where a major ideological confrontation is in vigorous pro ...
• Will Jerry Brown Make the Case for Campaign Financ ...
  Political reporters have delighted in covering Jerry Brown’s political campaigns through the years. The reason for reportorial delight is that they do not have to strain for a story. Brown supplies interesting copy by just listening to him and reporting what he has to say. Brown, who launched a pol ...

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

• Transforming and Rewriting Baltimore: How the cit ...
  Baltimore is currently in the process of revising its zoning code for the first time since 1971. Since this process only happens once every 30-40 years, this is your once in a lifetime chance to influence what development in this city is going to look like for the next 40 years. Here’s a little info ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• [insert Iowa cheerleader joke here]
  I’m somewhat surprised that TBogg’s replacement bloggers haven’t really had much to say about the blogger they’re replacing. TBogg, or Tom Boggs as he’s known to the real world, was born to wealth and privilege in Louisiana, the youngest son of former House Majority Leader Thomas Hale Boggs who died ...
• Lithium of the Gods
  By now you’ve heard that they’ve found vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan: iron, copper, cobalt, gold, lithium, pearls, diamonds, rubies, unobtainium . . the wealth of gods buried under a few meters of rock. Too good to be true? No, actually it’s quite true (except for the pearls, diamonds, rubies a ...
• As the Wege shrinks
  Switched the format template again for technical reasons. This one should look familiar as I’ve used it quite a bit in the past. In other changes I continue to lose weight and am now lighter than I’ve been at any time in this century. While weight loss is a commendable thing, the process itself is [ ...
• Well, that settles that
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of Monday’s cabinet meeting that the main goal of the Gaza flotilla probe is to prove to the world that the Israel Navy operation on the Gaza-bound aid ship was appropriate and met international standards. “The government decision will make it clea ...
• A Buttery double
  I suppose there are worse things for 83-year-olds to do than to play soccer. In honor of the Vakhegula Vakhegula: Guy Buttery is South African, btw. A remarkable young man who grew up being influenced by Zulu drummers and Indian sitars. Playing by Israeli rules he should have had to leave in 1994 bu ...

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

• Movie Review: Colony
  Dramatically declining bee colonies and dark implications for the future in a beautifully photographed movie: read our review
• Environmental News -11/06/10
  Environmental News World at risk of "red card" over climate: de Boer Climate negotiators gave a standing ovation to the outgoing head of the U.N. climate change secretariat Wednesday even after he told them they would be at risk of a red card in a soccer match for wasting time. Dutchman ...
• Environmental Sculpture on Show
  Reflecting on one of the most pressing global issues of this century – it will be a showcase of art with a message: artsCape 2010
• 10 Ways to Celebrate World Environment Day
  Celebrate World Environment Day on 5 June 2010 - Many Species. One Planet. One Future… Join in and make a difference!
• Environmental News -04/06/10
  Environmental News ‘Citizen scientists’ can aid biodiversity research Getting a true picture of biodiversity changes in the future may depend on scientists gaining access to the records of ‘citizen scientists’ around the world, according to a paper in the scientific journal PLoS Biology ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• U.S. backs ban on 3 reporters at Guantanamo
  ShareThis U.S. backs ban on 3 reporters at Guantanamo 15 Jun 2010 The Department of Defense said Monday it acted correctly when it barred three journalists, including Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, from covering military hearings at Guantánamo Bay. But it left open the door to reinstating th ...
• American hunting Osama bin Laden with a gun and sw ...
  ShareThis American hunting Osama bin Laden with a gun and sword detained in northern Pakistan 15 Jun 2010 An American armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden, a police officer said Tuesday. The ...
• Alaskan NORAD region to participate in exercise
  ShareThis Alaskan NORAD region to participate in exercise 14 Jun 2010 The Alaskan U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, along with its Continental United States and Canadian counterparts, will participate in Exercise Amalgam Dart from Tuesday through Thursday off the coasts of Alaska ...
• Meg Whitman reportedly shoved EBay employee in 200 ...
  ShareThis Meg Whitman reportedly shoved EBay employee in 2007 15 Jun 2010 While she was the chief executive of EBay, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman shoved a subordinate who later received a confidential six-figure settlement, according to a report published by the New York Times on M ...
• Gaza crossing points opened as Israel bows to inte ...
  ShareThis Gaza crossing points opened as Israel bows to international pressure 15 Jun 2010 Israel bowed to international pressure yesterday when it agreed to reopen crossing points into Gaza for everyday goods. The decision was prompted by criticism of its bloody interception of an aid flotilla two ...

Daily Loaf

• FSU Oceanographer who refused to believe BP’s init ...
  Then there is the disturbing story of what happened on Capitol Hill yesterday, where documents unveiled at a Congressional hearing showed that BP made several "cost-cutting" decisions that went against the advice of contractors right before the explosion of the oil well on April 20.
• NBA Finals grow into a riveting series. World Cup ...
  nd then when one wants to watch and enjoy the World Cup, you have to content with that obnoxious noise from an instrument called a vuvuzela (which I swore I heard while watching the World Cup in 2006 in Germany, but seems to be a new phenomenon).
• Senator Nelson says Florida needs hundreds more sk ...
  He told the reporters that the rest of the state has time to get ready before the oil reaches their shores and they should get ready. If you are reading this and you live beyond the Panhandle, then please make your local government take action. Also, keep letting Governor Crist and DEP Sec. Mike So ...
• Increase your productivity by creating a clutter-f ...
  An organized office will invite you in, give you control of your space and motivate you to get to work. And don't forget to recycle the things you are getting rid of.
• CL Feature: Viernes, a Winter Park psyche pop two- ...
  Viernes becomes the latest Kanine acquisition, joining the ranks of Surfer Blood and Blind Man's Colour

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Our 2 Op-Eds in the Israeli Press about Israel&#82 ...
  My last diary was my translation of an op-ed Ofer Neiman, a fellow Israeli activist, and myself wrote together back in April at Ynet, a mainstream Israeli news site. That article argued that the self-reinforcing siege mentality is gradually taking the taste and meaning out of collective life in Isra ...
• Exclusive Interview with Lubna Masarwa, Mavi Marma ...
  By Jesse Bacon Lubna Masarwa has written about her experience aboard the Mavi Marmara, the Gaza Flotilla ship where 9 people were killed by the Israeli navy. But this is the first time she has spoken extensively about it. Listen to her story here. Part I, preparations for the voyage Part 2, the Is ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• People outside Arizona may not really understand w ...
  Yes, racist loonies are using Arizona border problems to justify their madness and must be opposed. The new immigration law is repressive, targets the wrong people, and will solve little if anything. However, the problems in Arizona are extremely serious. Areas inside of Arizona now are now war zone ...
• Will the smart grid have open standards?
  Some start-ups hope so. Me too.
• A solution to California’s problems?
  Pavement – Two States – Coachella 2010 Two states! We want two states North and south Two, two states Forty million daggers Two states We want two states There’s no culture There’s no spies But could California split into just two states? Would the Central Valley join together with the cheese-eat ...
• Shipping container art school in Korea
  Made from eight shipping containers, it will house a gallery and art school.
• Fresh talking point: Poor Afghanistan, They’re ric ...
  Part of understanding propaganda is knowing its intended audience. The recent Pentagon leak on Afghanistan's mineral wealth is no different. While it appears desperate and comical, it is highly effective and specifically targeted propaganda.

Coteret

• The end of Israeli exceptionalism: Germany (German ...
  According to Maariv, Israeli officialdom is shocked that it’s “great friend” Germany actually requested that Poland arrest and extradite a Mossad agent suspected of involvement in forging its passports (full translated text at bottom): Israel may have a problem with public opinion in Germany and w ...
• US to Israel: Tel-Aviv hotel development endangers ...
  Renovation of Tel Aviv hotel upsets Americans Itamar Eichner and Ofer Petersburg, Yediot, June 13 2010 [page 16; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] As if Israel did not have enough tension with the United States, a new front has opened. Recently, the Americans asked the Foreign Ministry to ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• California man, Gary Brooks Faulkner, was on missi ...
  Armed with a sword and pistol, authorities in Pakistan say a California man aimed to do what governments have failed – to kill Osama bin Laden. Gary Brooks Faulkner, a 52-year-old construction worker, was detained by Pakistani authorities while attempting to complete his quest to assassinate the ...
• B.P. Suppressing Evidence! Riki Ott Amazing Interv ...
  June 14, 2010 MSNBC Keith Olbermann Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Cop Punches Teen Girl In The Face Over Jaywalking ...
  June 14, 2010 KING 5 News Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Israel used Mavi Marmara sister ship in all Gaza f ...
  Israel used Mavi Marmara sister ship in all Gaza flotilla FOOTAGE !!. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | [...]
• Israeli pirates steal $3 million from Gaza Flotill ...
  They have also been using passengers credit cards to buy alcohol in Tel-Aviv. An investigation by Press TV has revealed that up to 3.5 million dollars worth of money, electrical equipment and other items may have been stolen by the Israeli military from the Gaza flotilla survivors. Hundreds of survi ...

The Air Vent

• Oil and water
  Of all that ticks me off lately, the handling of and then the proposed action in the gulf drive me nuts.  First, we have a leak which was horribly underestimated,  – um.. except for at Climate Audit. Followed by the fed’s not wanting to approve the proposals of Bobby Jindal of Louisiana’s proposal ...
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• Extreme Makeover: Poodle Topiary
  Toddlers in tiaras are so passe. Poodle pageants are this season's hot new reality phenom. Extreme Poodles premiered on TLC yesterday. This is no ordinary dog show. We're talking poodle topiary. Groomers use clippers, dye, and even glue to sculpt the poor creatures into living "art." Meet boa const ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Expands Free Credits Promotion in CrowdSt ...
  Facebook introduced a new promotion of its Credits virtual currency last week: users could get five free credits in exchange for installing CrowdStar’s new Hello City simulation game. Those who have earned those points may have seen a followup email from CrowdStar since then. The email contains a li ...
• Apple’s iOS 4 Includes Option to Upload Videos to ...
  Apple did not mention the word “Facebook” once when it announced its new iPhone 4 device and iOS 4 operating system last week — but it did say that there would be 1,500 new features coming with the latest version of its operating system. And one of those features appears to be the ability for [...]
• Where are the Peanut Labs/RockYou Offers in Facebo ...
  Two months ago, Facebook announced that it was integrating offers as a payment option for its universal virtual currency, Credits, for the first time. At the time of the announcement, the company said it was integrating offers from two partners: TrialPay and Peanut Labs/RockYou. However, since then, ...
• Note to Facebook Page Owners: Any Page Admin Is No ...
  In a small tweak to the ownership rules of Facebook Pages that is likely to come as welcome news to many Page administrators, Facebook is now allowing any Page administrator to be removed. Previously, the Page’s original administrator was unable to be removed – creating a headache for agencies and c ...
• Quiz Monster and City Games Lead Off This Week’s L ...
  Quiz Monster has proved, over the past week, that it really is a monster. The quiz-creation app wolfed down a whopping four million new users to lead off our weekly list of Facebook’s fastest gainers by monthly active users. The question is why Quiz Monster is growing so quickly. What has [...]

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Uptick in Afghan Attacks Tests US Forces ...
  truthout: Uptick in Afghan Attacks Tests US Forces: Camp Wilderness, Paktia Province, Afghanistan - With the fi... http://bit.ly/bc90Hq #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Palestine Aid Conference Lost Amid Floti ...
  truthout: Palestine Aid Conference Lost Amid Flotilla Fallout: Amid the days of turmoil surrounding the Israeli... http://bit.ly/b6CaSE #Truthout #p2
• truthout: "Lure People Into That Calm and Then Jus ...
  truthout: "Lure People Into That Calm and Then Just Totally F--k 'Em": How All of Us Pay for the Derivatives Ma... http://bit.ly/c9tLUH #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Private Contractors and Covert Wars in L ...
  truthout: Private Contractors and Covert Wars in Latin America: U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) threatene... http://bit.ly/aIsfuT #Truthout #p2
• truthout: News in Brief: President Obama Demands A ...
  truthout: News in Brief: President Obama Demands Accountability From BP, and More ...: BP continues to dominate... http://bit.ly/cOLa62 #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Israel’s “friends” still shamelessly swinging from ...
  Stuart Littlewood views the continuing activities of Israel lobbyists in the UK Parliament, at least one of whom – Ulster Orangeman David Trimble – has recently joined forces with US neo-conservative John Bolton and former far-right Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, to protect Israel’s intern ...
• US wants South Korean boat’s sinking as they tell ...
  Christopher King questions the US-South Korean accusation that North Korea sank the South Korean corvette the Cheonan in March this year. He says the lack of evidence linking Pyongyang to the sinking, coupled with the history of US deceptions in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, makes it more likely th ...
• Israel plans dig at burial place of Prophet Muhamm ...
  Jonathan Cook reports on plans by the Israeli authorities and the charlatan Simon Wiesenthal Centre to desecrate a historic Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem where the Prophet Muhammad’s companions and tens of thousands of Saladin’s warriors are buried in order to build a courthouse and an ironically nam ...
• 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 ...

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
• 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 ...

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 [.. ...
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  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 Confer ...
  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 ( ...
• The Civic Media World Turns its Eyes This Week to ...
  This week, all past and present Knight News Challenge winners descend here upon the MIT campus as Knight Foundation and the MIT Center for Future Civic Media co-host the 2010 Future of News and Civic Media conference . There has been an interesting evolution in the conference's -- and the News Ch ...
• 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 ...

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

• Health studies gas up
  A small western Colorado town will be the subject of a study looking at the health impacts of natural gas.
• Drilling on the green
  Residents of Battlement Mesa react to gas drilling in their community.
• 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.

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

• MSM Reporting of Congressman Etheridge Video Shows ...
  The Etheridge incident shows that the liberal media is still more concerned with telling their story — advancing the “narrative” — than with telling the truth. Any time a Democrat is criticized it is assumed that the source of the criticism is some evil right wing cabal.� We do not know the poli ...
• Speaking Out to Support Israel The Leadership Pe ...
  Congressman Peter King (R-NY) continues to lead the congressional charge against President Obama's Anti-Israel policies. That "charge" is being made on only one side of the the political aisle. Rep. Pete King says President Obama's weak Mideast policy is forcing House Democrats to make the diffic ...
• Obama's Foreign Policy is so "Great" That He's Bet ...
  By Barry Rubin James P. Rubin writes in the Wall Street Journal: "Nothing Mr. Obama has done or not done in the last 18 months even remotely compares to the damage wrought by his predecessor to America's international standing and deterrent power. On the contrary, the Obama administra ...
• Cong. Etheridge Assaults College Student, Implies ...
  Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC) needs to switch to decaff, when leaving a Nancy Pelosi Fundraiser last week he was asked by a couple of college students about his feelings regarding the Obama Agenda. The Congressman's reaction was to grab the student first by the wrist and then by the back of his n ...
• Israel-Iran CONFRONTATION? Iranian "Aid" Ships On ...
  Taking advantage of the weak leadership of US President Barack Obama, Iran is getting involved with the flotillas toward Gaza.� According to Iranian state radio, the terror supporting nation has decided to stop working through intermediaries, it is sending its aid ships to Gaza, state radio said on ...

The Real Agenda

• Breaking News: Documents say BP cut corners before ...
  In an e-mail on April 16, a BP official involved in the decision explained: "It will take 10 hours to install them. I do not like this." Later that day, another official recognized the risks of proceeding with insufficient centralizers but commented: "Who cares, it's done, end of story, will probabl ...
• Death, Sweet Death: The Dangers of Aspartame
  Sovereign Independent Aspartame is a sugar substitute frequently used in products like diet sodas. It has been linked to brain cancer, memory loss, impaired vision, hearing loss, joint pain, asthma and the list continues. For 16 years, the FDA refused to approve this best-selling sweetener aspartame ...
• British Petroleum Disaster: An Insider’s Acc ...
  Millions of gallons of abiotic oil along with highly toxic chemicals are making their way out from the batholith well BP drilled into 25,000 feet below the sea bed in the Gulf of Mexico. Abiotic oil is different from fossil derived crude in that it is not made of dead plants and animals, but it is ...
• Brazil is getting hot. Too hot, too fast
  If there is one thing proven beyond doubt during this crisis is that government interventionism in the free market is nefarious. Developing countries are again and again the victims of globalist inspired management. Argentina was one notorious case, Iceland and Greece have followed; and now Brazil ...
• 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.

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

• “mineral wealth bonanza” found in Afgh ...
  So the scanning of the substrate rocks actually looking for a 6-and-a-half foot tall Arab attached to a portable dialysis machine or were they Taxpayer Funded Corporate Welfare, wherein the U.S. military was prospecting for Massey Energy, BP, ALCOA, etc? Will this mean that the corporations, mostly ...
• 12 credit cards, 12 different names, delivered to ...
  Which I witnessed, there’s this relative of mine who, for lack of a better word, is a Thief. To be fair to MasterCharge and whatever Visa’s old name was (I’ll look it up) they DID reject half the applications. He put in 25. He only stayed at our house for a week and a half [...]
• “Par ce-que c’est vous etes beaucoup Putains”
  My original title was going te be “Survival Show teaches non-survival”, we’ve been watching Discovery Channel nature shows, today there was a show about swarms of various animals. One of the segments showed these flies that every 28.3 days (lunar cycle) float up from Lake Victoria in Africa. Showed ...
• Down to sports, empires are tribal
  American World Cup viewers tuning in to watch their team face England on Saturday might be excused confusion about their adversary’s flag. Instead of the British Union Jack, English fans waved a red and white standard usually only glimpsed in movies where knights fight dragons, crusades, or Bravehe ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• NORAD and NORTHCOM proudly display their token
  This is so sickening ... NORAD, U.S. NORTHCOM dedicate 9/11 memorial http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123206005 The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commemorated a new 9/11 memorial during a ceremony at the commands' headquarters May 18. The memorial, f ...
• 9/11 - Ground Zero Molten Metal Confirmed
  Jeff Hill - shure911 YouTube.com May 27, 2010 Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog says : "Here's a clue for Jeff: Molten metal does not equal molten steel." Here's a clue for Pat: This does equal molten steel : In what The New York Times dubbed as " perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered ...
• Why James Randi, Michael Shermer and other Pseudos ...
  SCEPCOP YouTube.com June 10, 2010 To learn more about why James Randi, Michael Shermer, the CSICOP crowd, and other Pseudoskeptics are NOT real skeptics, visit my website and treatise at: http://www.debunkingskeptics.com Related Info: Debunking PseudoSkeptics - CSICOP, James Randi, Michael Sh ...
• Debunking JayBlack12100
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently posted the following two videos from " JayBlack12100 ": As to the first video, here is much more in-depth review of Ryan's presentation , which debunks the notion that he is the one guilty of dishonesty. Here is a video putting the 9/11 fires ...
• The Physics of WTC 7
  About a month ago I had a debate with several debunkers at once about the collapse of WTC 7. In particular, we debated about the period of free fall that occured during the collapse. Here are some of the more memorable responses I got from them: "I'm still gonna say wiping out 30 meters of supp ...

Fooducate

• What’s New at the American Dietetic Association?
  The American Dietetic Association is the country’s largest organization of nutrition professionals. At a time when its voice and plans need to be heard loud and clear, we wanted to get up to date on the ADA’s activities. We interviewed Karen Ansel, MS, RD, CDN  a New York based Dietitian, Contribu ...
• When Fat-Free Makes No Sense
  Raise your hand if you’re a sour cream fan! Whether dolloped with chives onto a baked potato, cooling a hot soup, or sweetened with freshly picked berries, there’s nothing quite like it. Traditional sour cream is a dairy product rich in fats (12-17%). It is made by fermenting cream with certain typ ...
• 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 ...

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

• Protest targets Italian government over Ethiopian ...
  The Mursi are one of the tribes that will be affected by the Gibe III dam. © © Magda Rakita/ Survival Demonstrators outside the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome today will urge the government to deny Ethiopia â¬250 million for construction of the controversial Gibe III dam The da ...
• ‘50,000 tons of material’ heli-transported into re ...
  Crossed spears left by uncontacted Indians in the region where Perenco is working. © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP Anglo-French oil company Perenco has revealed it has transported, by helicopter, ‘more than 50,000 tons of material and consumables’ into the remote Peruvian Amazon. Perenco described t ...
• Tupinambá Indians imprisoned after return to ances ...
  Tupinambá man shot by police in a previous attack in 2008 © CIMI Babau, a Tupinambá Indian leader in Bahia state, Brazil, and his brother, sister and nephew, have been imprisoned after a group of Tupinambá returned to live on their ancestral land. Police violently beat Babau at his home, in th ...
• 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 ...

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, ...

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  The Prime Minister has come under increasing pressure to stand up to the president in defence of the oil giant.
• Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill: Nick Clegg accuses 't ...
  Nick Clegg suggested that Barack Obama was engaged in a "tit for tat diplomatic spat" by employing anti-British rhetoric.
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill: The gun-slingers have BP ...
  An enforced break-up of the company is a real possibility, says Jeremy Warner.
• Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill: Sub-prime slick is fa ...
  Mr Obama seems happy to sacrifice his relationship with Britain for electoral reasons, writes Simon Heffer.
• Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill: Nick Clegg warns Bara ...
  In a thinly veiled attack on the US President the Deputy Prime Minister argued that a "tit for tat" attitude was not helpful.

Ian Welsh

• Corruption for All: Afghan Minerals and Anbar Oil
  As Steve Hynd noted earlier today, the big story about new-found Afghan mineral wealth is really not a new story.  It is an information operation, or a propaganda piece aimed at the US public and portions of the Washington D.C. think-tank universe. Afghanistan’s mineral riches were well known t ...
• Enough with the Sanctimony over Israel, Jews, Pale ...
  Look, enough. Let me lay it out really simply for the dense. The Palestinians did not deserve to be colonized, displaced and turned into 2nd class citizens in their own land because Europeans tried to kill off the Jewish people. The morality here is the same as the morality of Iraq and 9/11.  “Well ...
• 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 ...

Age of Autism

• Dr. Mayer Eisenstein's New Book Merits Close Atten ...
  By Anne Dachel I never thought I'd ever personally know a lot of real authors-people with actual books that I could find on Amazon. Incredibly, I currently do. Here's my ever-expanding list of names: David Kirby, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Bob...
• What Does Your Extended School Year Program Look L ...
  Extended School Year, or ESY is a hot topic in special education. Programs vary dramatically from state to state and school district to school district. Use the comments section to share your ESY experiences - good, bad or ugly. In...
• Canada Knocks Out Flu, U.S. Public Kept In The Dar ...
  By David M. Burd, June 2, 2010 Canada the last four years totaled sixteen "flu-associated" fatalities for their paediatric age category, defined as everybody under 18, and this included all H1N1 and seasonal cases. Three-quarters of these deaths had severe...
• Listen To Dr. Andrew Wakefield on Coast to Coast
  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. Dr. Wakefield will be on Coast to Coast Wednesday, June 9. The...
• Lyn Redwood Appointed Executive Director at The Co ...
  The SafeMinds Board of Directors is excited to announce the appointment of Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN as Executive Director. Lyn is a co-founder of SafeMinds. She currently serves on the Department of Defense Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program and the...

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 ...
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• Barry Soetoro, Imposter in Chief, Implements CODEX ...
  We knew that CODEX was right around the corner, and here it is, live and in color. Barry Soetoro, AKA Barack Hussein Obama, Imposter in Chief, on June 10, 2010, issued an Executive Order – Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. In short, the CODEX council. ...
• Gulf Oil Spill ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With
  Environmental non-profit groups that have accepted donations from or joined in projects with BP include Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Audubon. That could explain why the political outcry to date for decisive action in the Gulf has been so ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Children born to non-US citizens could be barred f ...
  Daily Telegraph – Under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution any child born in the country has an automatic right to citizenship regardless of their parents’ legal status. But Republican State Senator Russell Pearce will introduce a bill later this year to target so-called “anchor babies,” whi ...
• Africa ‘good leader’ prize fails again ...
  Telegraph – A £3.2 million award for “excellence in African leadership”, funded by a British telecoms billionaire, has failed to find a winner for a second year running. To win the Mo Ibrahim Prize, a head of state must have been democratically elected, avoided corruption allegations while in offic ...
• Swarm of quakes rattles region
  LA times-More than two dozen temblors are recorded Monday night, the largest a magnitude 5.7 that could be felt throughout L.A. County. Experts say they were aftershocks of the 7.2 quake on April 4. More than two dozen earthquakes struck Monday night near the U.S-Mexico border in San Diego County, r ...
• Israel sets up inquiry into deadly Gaza ship raid
  Reuters – Israel’s cabinet approved on Monday an Israeli inquiry into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, responding to international demands for impartiality by putting two foreign observers on the panel. The decision coincided with growing signs that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was poised, ...
• US experiment hints at ‘multiple God particl ...
  BBC – There may be multiple versions of the elusive “God particle” – or Higgs boson – according to a new study. Finding the Higgs is the primary aim of the £6bn ($10bn) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment near Geneva. But recent results from the LHC’s US rival suggest physicists could be hunting ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Gulf oil spill: Obama names investigation panel
  President Obama named five panelists to a commission tasked with finding ways to avoid a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 men and started the nation's worst oil spill. They will be led by a former Florida...
• Gulf oil spill: Time, money concerns led to BP's w ...
  Documents released Monday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee offer the first direct evidence that saving money was on BP’s mind when the company changed its mind about the design of the well that is spewing oil into the...
• Gulf oil spill: Urged on to greater speed, BP ramp ...
  Responding to federal demands to speed up efforts to contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials have submitted a revised plan that will allow the company to collect more than 50,000 barrels of oil a day...
• Gulf oil spill: Cap boosts oil collection to 10,00 ...
  The commander of the federal government’s response to the gulf oil spill said Sunday that the containment cap collected 10,000 barrels of oil gushing from the sea floor in its second day of operation, up from 6,000 barrels. U.S. Coast...
• Gulf oil spill: National seashore islands hit by o ...
  National Park Service officials are responding to tar balls and mats of oil washing up along the shoreline in parts of Gulf Islands National Seashore, a string of barrier islands off the coasts of Mississippi and Florida. Joan Anzelmo of...
  
  
  
  

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• ( 1,000 deaths ? In a place where scarce resources are to be found and a large neighbour whom the U.S. owes  ridiculous amounts will want to control the wealth rather than allow the U.S. to steal it ? Dig out the backhoes. You'll need a state to find enough room for corpses. )
• U.S. Discovers Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan (nytimes.com)
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