Fair Use Note

WARNING for European visitors: European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent. As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities.

Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

17 June - RSS SnapShot!

Update of RSS demonstration personalized feeds : Opit's LinkFest! hosted by  Opera Community


IPS - Inter Press Services

  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Human Trafficking Exposes ASEAN&# ...
    BANGKOK, June 17 (IPS) - In the wake of a new U.S. government report on human trafficking, human rights and migrant rights activists are calling on a South-east Asian regional bloc to review its polices toward this scourge to protect the group’s most vulnerable citizens – its women and ch ...
  • JAPAN: Women’s Increased Buying Power a Boos ...
    TOKYO, June 17 (IPS) - Asako Nakano, 52, a company employee, invested in a condominium two summers ago, settling the deal with a down payment of around 155,000 U.S. dollars from her savings.
  • EAST EUROPE: Healthcare Ails as Doctors, Nurses Em ...
    PRAGUE, Jun 17 (IPS) - Senior medical figures in Eastern Europe have issued stark warnings that the region's healthcare sector is both unstable and unsustainable as health workers continue to leave in droves for jobs abroad.
  • INDIA: Muslim Women Explore Opportunity in Non-Tra ...
    KOLKATA, India, June 17 (IPS) - In a small, dingy and humid room in Metiabruz, a poor Muslim-dominated locality in Kolkata in eastern India, at least 20 Muslim women are talking with excitement about their aspirations and why they decided to study information technology (IT), a short-term ...
  • US-VIETNAM: 300 Million Dollars to Clean Up Agent ...
    WASHINGTON, Jun 16 (IPS) - Thirty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, a joint U.S.-Vietnamese panel endorsed a 10-year, 300-million-dollar "plan of action" to deal with the deadly health and environmental legacy of the U.S. military's widespread use of "Agent Orange" during th ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Irish Central Bank Hid Housing Market Crash
    New revelations concerning how the Irish Central Bank hid data in a 2006 report indicating that a housing market crash was imminent underscores once again how financial elites covered-up signs of the coming economic turmoil in order to exploit the crisis at the expense of the people. Months before ...
  • BP: oil pressure too strong for containment ?
    It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control. What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf What you are about to read, is what the ...
  • 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
    ROV films oil leak coming from rock cracks on seafloor ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

  • Caught on camera: Burma's political prisoners
    A ground breaking photography project by award-winning documentary journalist James Mackay calls for the unconditional release of all Burmese political prisoners, of whom human rights groups estimate there are over 2,000 currently languishing in jail.
  • Israel says it will ease Gaza land blockade
    Israel's security cabinet decided today to ease a Gaza land blockade following an international outcry over a deadly raid on an aid flotilla.
  • BP chief faces grilling from angry US senators
    BP chief executive Tony Hayward awaited the fury of US senators in Washington today over the Gulf of Mexico spill despite scrapping dividends and setting up a $20bn (£13.5 billion) compensation fund.
  • Britain to play positive role in Europe, vows Came ...
    David Cameron promised today that Britain will play a positive role in Europe - while defending the national interest and Britain's "red lines" when necessary.
  • BP chiefs face grilling at US Congress
    BP bosses face a further mauling in Washington today despite bowing to US pressure to scrap dividends and set up a 20 billion dollar compensation scheme.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • i2eye with Stephen Hawking and Neil Turok
    It takes a special kind of communicator to make physics understandable to the average person. But more than 20 years ago, Stephen Hawking did just that with the publication of “A Brief History of Time,” a popular account of what was known about the origin and evolution of our universe. The book beca ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Australia: Woman dies as storms and snow hit Victo ...
    A woman has died after she was hit by a falling tree at Woori Yallock, east of Melbourne, as heavy storms swept across the state. An Ambulance Victoria spokesman says the woman was hit by a tree around 11:00am (AEST) and died at the scene. The wild weather has brought down trees and cut power to s ...
  • Radiation warning labels for deadly mobes!
    San Francisco supervisors get all overheated The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed an ordinance that will require warning labels on mobile phones, indicating their radiative output especially for the scientifically-illiterate and paranoid. The ordinance, which was passed with an overwh ...
  • Privacy watchdog pack demands Facebook close the ' ...
    'Nuclear option' not enough A small mob of privacy advocacy groups have called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to do more to protect user privacy by giving users more control over the way their personal information is turned over to third parties. In a letter sent Wednesday, the groups - which i ...
  • Aerotoxic Syndrome - Toxic Airline Cabin Air Could ...
    Have you ever flown on an airplane and later become mysteriously ill? Maybe you developed a headache, had trouble breathing or experienced severe brain fog? These symptoms (and many others) just might be the result of breathing toxic fumes that regularly circulate throughout many commercial airline ...
  • US: Lights over Manhattan, New York
    Posted: June 13, 2010 Date: June 12, 2010 Time: Approx: 2:20 a.m. Hi, I recently saw amber lights in the sky, please check my Facebook for more info. I do have a somewhat decent clear pictures of the lights. If you have trouble finding it on Facebook, I'll just send you a picture. Additional Inf ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Early sign of an ugly season
    That... is Invest 92L. (click to enlarge) Luckily it weakened by late afternoon due to increasing wind shear. However, this is early in the season - very early. This little storm came close to reaching tropical depression status and both its formation and location have set off alarms in hurricane a ...
  • In 2008 The House of Commons resolved....
    To withdraw all Canadian troops from Afghanistan by July 2011. Right? Wrong! The motion adopted by the House of Commons on 13 March, 2008 says no such thing. Having heard all the push-pull politics going on it is interesting to watch Harper yap on that there will be no turning back on the decisi ...
  • Nurse blog plug: Those Emergency Blues
    Last year I spent a little time in the hospital due to complications from a very routine minor surgery that should have had me out of the hospital within a day or two. Instead said complications kept me there for half a month while my three surgeons tried to figure out what went wrong. I never got a ...
  • Trees?
    deBeauxOs informs us the G8/20 security people may want to cut down all the trees because potential protestors might use them for battering rams or siege towers or fuel for mobile iron forges. Or perhaps summit security wants to augment the police with Uruk-hai.
  • BP to the rescue . . .
    THERE'S AN OUTFIT BY NAME OF UCBcomedy.com , ( wedgie warning: site not politically-correct) and they have this hilarious video of how BP handles a spill. In this case, coffee. BP Spills Coffee

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News' evening shows still pushing falsehoods a ...
    Fox News' programming on the evening of June 16 was littered with falsehoods about the BP oil leak, including the false claim that the federal government forced BP to drill in deep water and the myth that the Obama administration has refused foreign assistance. In fact, deep-water drilling is tied ...
  • Right-wing harmony: BP escrow account is "a slush ...
    Right-wing media figures have responded to the decision by BP and the Obama administration to establish an escrow account funded by BP to pay claims arising from the Gulf oil spill by calling the account a "slush fund." Conservative commentators have habitually labeled progressive initiatives " ...
  • Conservative media defend BP by claiming Obama is ...
    Media conservatives are rushing to BP's defense, attacking the Obama administration for "demonizing" the company after the Gulf oil spill. Conservative chorus: Administration is "demonizing" BP Varney: The federal government has "demonized" and "looted" BP. Appearing on Glenn Beck , Fox Busin ...
  • Fox News distorts facts to attack election of fir ...
    Fox News' Gregg Jarrett suggested that an election "scheme" which resulted in the election of the first Latino member of the Board of Trustees of Port Chester, NY is unconstitutional. In fact, the system used in Port Chester is in use elsewhere and was mandated in this case by a judge appointed ...
  • As oil execs admit their spill plans are "embarras ...
    Conservative media figures have attacked President Obama's moratorium on new offshore drilling in the aftermath of the BP oil spill. However, the oil spill response plans for all five major oil companies drilling in the Gulf were written by the same consulting firm, and oil executives have admitted ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Boycott and Divestment?
    Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Actually, that is just scientific irrationality. In human affairs, alas, insanity is doing the same thing and expecting the same result. A case in point is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, whi ...
  • ACORN's Kick-Ass Activism - New Book Reveals the W ...
    Six weeks after the first oil spewed out of BP's wells in the Gulf Coast, President Obama said he was ready to "kick ass" to pressure the company to fix the damage. We don't usually associate presidents with kicking ass. That's the job of social movements. Indeed, the evidence so far shows that Oba ...
  • Mandate? What Mandate?
    Jonathan Alter's book is fascinating to read and raises lots of questions. One that I have stems from his prelude of sorts, where he looks at how Obama responded to the market collapse of September 2008 and suggests that Obama's coolness and gravitas during the crisis assured his election. In ...
  • Presented By:
  • Liberals and Obama on the Oil Spill -- continued
    My most recent entry ended up with the extension cut off. Here is more of what I have to say, provoked by the senseless hysteria among liberal commentators, led by MSNBC and HuffPost. Many liberal pundits are making absolute fools of themselves bashing Obama over the Gulf spill. They a ...

TruthOut

  • Puerto Rico: Statehood and Strike
    The Spanish American War ended in 1898, but one aspect of the conflict remains unresolved: the status of Puerto Rico. Despite the importance of the issue, it is rarely an agenda priority in the continental United States. Recently, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2499 (“The Puerto Rico Democ ...
  • McChrystal Faces "Iraq 2006 Moment" in Coming Mont ...
    Washington - 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. read more
  • Getting Clear on the Oil Spill Response Failures
  • Report Finds ACORN Did Not Support Voter Fraud; O' ...
    A new government report debunks claims made by right-wing politicians and media that the now defunct community advocacy group ACORN violated elections law and supported voter fraud. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Monday also confirms that two former ACORN employees ...
  • Eyewitness to the Israeli Assault on the Mavi Marm ...
    Kevin Neish of Victoria, British Columbia, didn’t know he was a celebrity until he was about to board a flight from Istanbul to Ottawa. “This Arab woman wearing a beautiful outfit suddenly ran up to me crying, ‘It’s you! From Arab TV! You’re famous!’” he recalls with a laugh. “I didn’t know what sh ...

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Amy Goodman on Gaza attack, BP oil spill catastrop ...
    RT's Anastasia Churkina sits down for an exclusive interview with award-winning journalist, TV/radio host and author Amy Goodman to talk about all the latest stories the mainstream media has not been too truthful about. RTAmerica...
  • The BP Oil Spill May Be Bad, But This Cover Up is ...
    Editor's Note: As dramatic and damning as is this indictment of BP, Transocean and Halliburton, in our view, it in no way relieves the responsibility of the Obama Administration for the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. - Les Blough, Editor What really happened to cause the d ...
  • Cuba prepares for BP oil spill - World News
    HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — Cuba is making preparations to protect its coast as the BP oil spill continues spreading through the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban officials said on Tuesday. They offered few specifics about the preparations, but said Venezuela, Cuba’s oil-rich ally, has sent a team of spill-fig ...
  • Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne ...
    Anguished Suicide Note Cites ‘Deluge of Doublethink’ In Driving Kind-Hearted Shrink to Despair Moshe Yatom, a prominent Israeli psychiatrist who successfully cured the most extreme forms of mental illness throughout a distinguished career, was found dead at his home in Tel Aviv yesterday from an ...
  • Afghanistan: The Longest Lost War - Afghanistan
    Introduction Despite almost a decade of warfare, including an invasion and occupation, the US military and its allies and client state armed forces are losing the war in Afghanistan.� Outside of the central districts of a few cities and the military fortresses, the Afghan national resistance for ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • BP Loves Itself Some "Small People".
    This just in... Apparently, this particular Swedish born aristocrat thinks all Americans are dwarves or maybe Munchkins... or if he's met (House Minority Leader) Boner, Oompa Loompas. From Huffpo: BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg gave a press conference after BP's four hour meeting with Obama at th ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Too little by a factor of ten Oil giant BP is to put $20bn (?13.5bn) in a compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill and will not pay shareholders a dividend this year. Barack Obama announced the compensation deal after talks at the White House with senior BP executives. Shortly afterwards, ...
  • This Election Hasn't Even Started
    More than five months out, election speculation is just political masturbation. �Nobody who votes actually pays attention to the November election until after Labor Day. The dem/repug divide can swing 20 points a good dozen times over the summer, all over issues people won't even remember come Hallo ...
  • "This is not my America"
    Hearing my husband say those words in that soft, deliberate tone of his that connotes seriousness of purpose sent a chill through my very soul. That is because he is, quite literally, the best person I know and has lived every day of the nearly thirty years I have been priveledged to be his partner ...
  • Of the GOP, the "Awl Bidness" and being hooked on ...
    Finally there is a messaging war that the GOP can't seem to come up with a winning strategy for, no matter how hard Frank Luntz might try . Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) called for BP America chief Lamar McKay's resignation. Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) suggested hara kiri for oil executives. Texas Repub ...

Care 2

  • We are not criminals, homeless New Yorkers tell co ...
    "The police use disorderly conduct charges as a pretext to arrest homeless people, even when they're not breaking any laws," says Brandon King, head of Picture the Homeless, a Bronx-based advocacy group. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • City of Viejo issues another permit to shoot rabbi ...
    Mission Viejo officials have given the go ahead to homeowners association in a gated retirement community here to control its rabbit population by shooting the animals with pellet guns to preserve their petunias and plants. Submitted by Jan g. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Young girl (8) raped in school toilet
    The horror crime happened in Bochum-Wattenscheid, with the offender aged between 18 and 20 still missing. Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Archaeology: Central Europes Oldest Cave Drawings ...
    According to the speleology experts, the newly discovered drawings portray a variety of animals, including a bison, a horse, a bears head, two rhinoceroses and members of the cat family. An image of a female torso was also found Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Tell Utah to Stop Shooting Homeless Pets! | Change ...
    This extraordinarily cruel and inhumane treatment is how homeless pets are handled in Hinckley and other towns like Blanding and Monticello in Utah. Cats and dogs are held for only 72 hours in the local "shelter" and then taken to a nearby open sewer pit Submitted by Gaby F. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...

GreenBiz

  • Energy Efficiency Forum 2010: Finding the Formula ...
    On the heels of President Obama’s Oval Office speech marrying the BP oil spill with American’s fossil fuel dependency, energy cognoscenti gathered in Washington Wednesday to discuss the state of play on the most near-term, cost-effective step the country can take to cut that dependence -- energy eff ...
  • Climate Corps 2010: Searching for Energy Savings a ...
    The EDF Climate Corps fellow assigned to News Corporation in New York begins his hunt for energy savings at the facility that prints almost 1 million copies a day of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
  • Climate Corps 2010: Out of 'Boot Camp' and into th ...
    Fresh from their training, the EDF Climate Corps fellows head out to their summer assignments, and the fellow sent to CSX Corporation finds himself in a meeting with the company's environmental and facilities teams soon after reporting for duty.�
  • U.S. Mayors Tell Manufacturers to Pay Up for Produ ...
    �The U.S. Conference of Mayors has thrown its weight behind the concept of expended producer responsibility, calling on Congress to support state governments in making the producers and consumers of certain products responsible for the products' disposal.
  • 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. �

Reuters Global

  • Defiant North Korea takes case to UN press corps
    Officials working for the government of communist North Korea seldom appear in public -- especially in front of reporters from countries they view as hostile. But Pyongyang's ambassador to the United Nations, Sin Son-ho, turned to the U.N. press corps on Tuesday to defend his nation...
  • Blair hopes Israel will present softer Gaza blocka ...
    Middle East Envoy Tony Blair hopes Israel will present measures within "a couple of days" that will allow goods for normal daily life into Gaza, but stop weapons from entering the coastal Palestinian territory.
  • Afghanistan’s treasure trove : a reality che ...
    A team of U.S. geologists and Pentagon officials have concluded that Afghanistan is sitting on untapped mineral deposits worth more than $1 trillion, officials said. The previously unknown deposits of iron, copper, cobalt and critical industrial elements such as lithium are enough to fundamentally ...
  • 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.

Booman Tribune

  • Serious Question
    Anyone remember Elena Kagan?
  • Why Mr. President? Why Support Wall Street?
    No this is not a post to bash President Obama. This is a blog post which raises an honest question about the financial reform bill. That legislation will do nothing to prevent another financial derivatives bubble like the one that cratered our economy in 2008 unless tough measures are taken to e ...
  • Rough Day for McKay
    BP President Lamar McKay had a fun time in front of Congress today. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) today called for McKay to resign. But during today's hearing before a subpanel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, the Vietnamese-American Republican who represents New O ...
  • Your Lousy Congress
    Now everyone is a budget hawk. The American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010 just went down in the Senate by a 45-52 vote, with Democratic Sens. Bayh, Begich, Feingold, Kohl, Landrieu, Lieberman, McCaskill, Menendez, both Nelsons, Pryor, and Webb voting 'no.' Blanche Lincoln didn't ...
  • Chronic Unemployment: Crisis or Correction?
    Like any parents, we want the best possible future for our children, and we're doing all we can to prepare them to attain it as our parents did for us. Being the grandson of sharecroppers and the son of 1st generation Polish immigrants, to us that means getting an education, being able to land a "go ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Juggling Reality: An interview with Keith Brooke
    [ This interview was done for Futurismic by Mike Revell, and sent in literally about three months ago; thanks to the chaotic events of my personal life around that time, it never got added to the publication schedule when it should have been. I present it now with my thanks - and profound apologies ...
  • John “Global Guerrillas” Robb interviewed
    Regular readers will know I follow John Robb’s Global Guerrillas blog quite closely; Robb cropped up yesterday as an interviewee on Boing Boing, restating his case for turning our backs on our governments (who have, in many ways, turned their backs on us) and building grass-roots “resilient communit ...
  • Go read (or listen to) Brenda Cooper’s story at Cl ...
    Hey, it’s hump day – you should probably reward yourself for surviving to the half-way point of the week. So why not celebrate with some new fiction to read? Brenda Cooper, who writes the Today’s Tomorrows column here at Futurismic, has a story in the latest issue of the excellent Clarkesworld onlin ...
  • Ken MacLeod goes head to head with Annalee Newitz
    No, not some sort of sci-fi celebrity blogosphere death-match scenario (though that might be kind of cool – we could clone Andy Remic and see how soon he could dismember himself with oddly-named axes!): BloggingHeads.tv publish video-conference interviews between notable figures in certain spheres o ...
  • Computerising the music critics
    Keeping with today’s vague (and completely unplanned) theme of critical assessments of cultural product, here’s a piece at New Scientist that looks at attempts to create a kind of expert system for music criticism and taxonomy. Well, OK – they’re actually trying to build recommendation engines, but ...

Therapy News

  • Superstitions Have Real Outcome, At Least In Sport ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Interested in the prevalence of good-luck rituals enacted by athletes, social psychologist Lysann Damisch of Germany decided to pit superstition against science to see if it made any difference. The conclusion? Yes, in fact, superstitious rituals, whether self-imposed ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy Reading! ⢠Oil Spill Stress Therapy for Louisiana Fishermen ⢠Stress Intervention Therapy Shown To Increas ...
  • Expectations Are Risky In Relationships
    By Jim Hutt, Ph.D., Family Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile What would you think if I told you there is no place in a healthy relationship for expectations? Well, that’s exactly what I’m telling you. You may, or may not, have heard t ...
  • Depression Prevalence In Women May Have Biological ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Both anecdotally and statistically, we know that women are more likely to suffer from depression and other psychiatric conditions related to stress and anxiety, even post-traumatic stress disorder. But thanks to a recent study undertaken by The Children’s Hospital of ...
  • Journal Therapy – Letting Go of the Past
    By Aqsa Zareen Farooqui, MS, LPC, Journal Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Zareen and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Journal therapy is an experiential process of discovery. The more you do it, the more you learn about yourself. However, for some people journal therapy appe ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Lights, Camera, Action: Ashley Judd vs. Mountainto ...
    Digital Spy Lights, Camera, Action: Ashley Judd vs. Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Then she lowered the boom: "I am here to tell you, mountaintop removal coal mining simply would not happen in any other mountain range in the United States. ... Ashley Judd criticizes fe ...
  • Opponents taking mountaintop fight to nation's cap ...
    Opponents taking mountaintop fight to nation's capital Williamson Daily News by JOHN RABY AP CHARLESTON — Opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining are taking their cause to the nation's capital with plans for a Sept. ...
  • Americans Simply Don't Do Sacrifice Anymore - Huff ...
    Americans Simply Don't Do Sacrifice Anymore Huffington Post (blog) This week, when asked about the horrible mining process known as mountaintop removal , Rand Paul said, "I don't think anybody's going to be missing a hill or ... and more��
  • Quarry expansion plan fuels residents' complaints ...
    Quarry expansion plan fuels residents' complaints Waynesville Smoky Mountain News Residents liken the plan to a miniature version of mountaintop removal . “I don't want them to tear the mountain off. They have done enough damage,” said ...
  • Berke Disappointed On Mountaintop Removal Vote - T ...
    Nashville Scene Berke Disappointed On Mountaintop Removal Vote The Chattanoogan State Senator Andy Berke (D-Chattanooga) expressed disappointment that a vote to consider banning mountaintop removal coal mining failed in the state Senate ... Senate votes down effort to revive ' mountaintop removal ' ...

Memeorandum

  • BRIAN TAMANAHA: Wake Up, Fellow Law Professors, to ...
    Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit : BRIAN TAMANAHA: Wake Up , Fellow Law Professors, to the Casualties of Our Enterprise. … Just casualties of the recession?  Or more signs of a bursting bubble?  The only positive angle I can contribute is this: With a college degree now functioning, essentially, the wa ...
  • In Illinois Race, a Teaching Career Is Questioned ...
    Jeff Zeleny / New York Times : In Illinois Race, a Teaching Career Is Questioned   —  WASHINGTON — Representative Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, a Republican candidate for the United States Senate, has often reminisced about his time as a teacher.  —  On the floor of the House, in campaign commercials ...
  • Armey: Avoid 'tea party' label, MSNBC (Kenneth P. ...
    Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico : Armey: Avoid ‘tea party’ label, MSNBC   —  Republican candidates popular with tea party activists should refrain from self-identifying as tea party candidates - and also should stay off MSNBC, Dick Armey said Wednesday.  —  The former House majority leader, who has ...
  • All about Sharron Angle (Robert Costa/National Rev ...
    Robert Costa / National Review : All about Sharron Angle   —  When Sharron Angle stepped into National Review's boardroom on Monday, she wasn't flanked by a phalanx of aides.  It was just her; her husband, Ted; and a friend.  They sat down, cracked open Diet Cokes, and began to chat.  Sen. Harry Re ...
  • BP: 'Small People' Matter To Us, Chairman Carl-Hen ...
    The Huffington Post : BP: ‘Small People’ Matter To Us, Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg Says (VIDEO)   —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg gave a press conference after BP's four hour meeting with Obama at the White House.  During his statement, he disputed the claim the the ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • America’s coal-fired debate
    Washington is pumping money into carbon capture and storage in a bid to soothe both green campaigners and industrialists. But battle lines between the two remain firmly in place, says Xie Yanmei. Coal supplies the United States with almost half of its electricity and provides some 174,000 full-time ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Three Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges In Wiki ...
    An Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to Wikileaks has still not been charged with any crime, three weeks after being arrested and put in pre-trial confinement. PFC Bradley Manning, 22, is being held at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and has been assigned a military defens ...
  • iPhone Jailbreak Videos: A Legal Primer and a How- ...
                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience96618190001', 'anId'); The U.S. Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress are due to rule any day whether iPhone jailbreaking should be exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Electronic Frontier Foundation as ...
  • Isohunt Not Dead Yet, Attorney Says
    The attorney for search engine Isohunt said Tuesday he would urge a federal appeals court to block a lower court ruling that might lead to the collapse of the site. Isohunt, which has 30 million unique monthly visitors, is expected to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to blo ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

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

  • IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Ju ...
    1) On this call we had a DC Update: The supplemental war spending vote is expected at any time. Featured guest: Mike Darner, United States Congress Legislative Director for Rep. John Conyers, Jr. 2) We Introduced ...
  • ‘Security’ from War?
    … or from Social Security and Medicare? Norman Solomon, PDA’s Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign co-chair, appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Sunday, highlighting how the Obama administration has not met and has even undermined our ability ...
  • 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. ...

Marler Blog

  • Subway issues an apology for Illinois Salmonella O ...
    In a move that more restaurants can learn from, according to news reports, the Subway restaurant chain issued an apology Wednesday in connection with a salmonella outbreak that has affected 80 people across 26 Illinois counties. As state health investigators continue working to pinpoint the cause o ...
  • Food Safety moves forward one step at a time, slow ...
    Sitting in the private conference room of U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank yesterday with Stephanie and her mom Sharon as the judge carefully considered the settlement with Cargill, brought home again to me the reality of Stephanie’s struggle – all because she ate a hamburger. As AP reported , “Sm ...
  • Illinois Subway Salmonella Hvittingfoss cases now ...
    According to the Illinois Department of Health: Age range of confirmed cases: 2 to 79. Cases have reported eating at Subway restaurants located in 26 counties -- Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, Dekalb, DeWitt, Fulton, Henry, Knox, LaSalle, Livingston, Macon, Marshall, McLean, Moultrie, ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 06.17.10
    Nissan Leaf unexpectedly drawing in the oldies; 84% are over 40 What's causing this trend? Electric buggy to ascend Pike's Peak on orange-oil-infused tires The tires are called Super Nano-Po ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.16.10
    Retrofit your vehicle with hybrid power in less than six hours Ummm, what? Wheego now accepting pre-orders for $32,995 LiFe electric car First come, first serve. ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET to the Rescue: Atomic clocks and hybrid stora ...
    Josh is in Los Angeles at E3 getting attacked in his taxicab , so we've got CNET Download's Seth Rosenblatt to help us make sense of Android to-do list managers, hybrid storage, kid-proofed PCs, and moving 10-year-old Outlook files. Also: how to never set another clock again. Listen now: ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
    Federal authorities are investigating whether officials of the government south of the border participated in a citizen’s kidnapping and torture—Canadian authorities, that is, investigating the possible role of U.S. officials in the “extraordinary rendition” of Canadian citizen Maher Arar. “Extraor ...
  • 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

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

  • Americans Simply Don’t Do Sacrifice Anymore
    The president wrapped up his address Tuesday night by asking Americans to pray for the victims — both human and environmental — of the BP oil spill. I thought it was a strange way to end his first Oval Office address during a national emergency insofar as praying makes the situation appear too big f ...
  • Dollar$ & $en$e: Senator Bernie Sanders takes on B ...
    …zzzZZZ* …Woke up early this morning, to  find that I left my radio on. Seems like the most interesting news is usually in the wee hours, as I listen to Bill Press on Air America KPOJ AM. Bill is interviewing Bernie Sanders, a kindly old Liberal who is known for laying out the truth, that [...]
  • Time to bring out the riot police for Glenn Beck & ...
    This, like, sorry excuse for a human being has an ego bigger than the national deficit. His plans for a teabagger happening by the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC , IMO, should be dealt with in the same way, as the Demonstrators in Saint Paul Minnesota were, by the Bu$h administration. We haven’t ...
  • Obama’s Gulf Oil Spill Speech (FULL TEXT & V ...
    Huff Post- First Posted: 06-15-10 08:15 PM   |   Updated: 06-15-10 11:31 PM Video and full text of President Obama’s Gulf oil spill address, as prepared for delivery, appears below. * * * * * Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to ...
  • American drone strike killed 15 in Pakistan
    Irish Sun, Friday 11th June, 2010 (IANS) The toll in the US drone strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area has risen to 15 while 10 were wounded in the incident Friday, media reports said. The drone fired four missiles at a house in Datta Khel area, killing four people on the spot, Xinhua q ...

Solari

  • The Divisibility of US 90% Silver
    By David Liechty One of the many considerations to make in purchasing gold and silver is the divisibility of the coins you buy. With today’s gold prices at over $1,200 per ounce, a 1-ounce gold coin will fetch you a good price if you sell it, but what if you only want to sell part [...]
  • The Essence of Solari
    In the summer of 2006, Harry Blazer invited me to discuss the Solari investment model with him. We recorded our conversation, calling it The Essence of Solari. When I worked in the first Bush Administration one of my deputies often said “in the destruction, let there be the creation of the new.” Gi ...
  • Planning For The Unthinkable
    By Daisy Maxey Here’s something most teens overlook as they get ready to head off for college: a last will and testament. That’s the last thing, of course, any parent wants to think about. But some experts say a will should be drawn up as soon as a child turns 18, the age at which someone typically ...
  • Community Call to Prayer
    Giverny By Claude Monet After ten wonderful months of faithfully meeting each week, this Thursday, June 17, will be our last public Community Call to Prayer. The Solari Team is extremely grateful for your participation in our weekly prayer time, by phone conference or from wherever you are. Please ...
  • IMF on International Monetary Stability
    HOW DOES TODAY’S INTERNATIONAL MONETARY STABILITY COMPARE TO PREVIOUS ERAS AND SYSTEMS? Overview 1. Gold standard. The modern history of the IMS starts with the shift from a bimetallic system to the Gold Standard in the 1870s and 1880s (Ghosh and others, 2002, McKinnon, 1996). Under the Gold S ...

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

Sideways News

  • British Library to offer free downloads
    More than 65,000 rare first editions of 19th century fiction are to be made available for free public download by the British Library . Owners of the e-reader Amazon Kindle will be able to view works by both obscure and well-known authors including Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy.
  • Virus could hold 'cancer cure' key
    A so-called "tame" virus could one day play an important role in fighting cancer, research has suggested. Tests on volunteer patients found that the respiratory "reovirus" killed cancer cells while leaving healthy tissue undamaged, with few or minimal side effects compared with the benefit gained.
  • Pop-up books brought into 21st century
    Once seen as a filler for children's Christmas stockings, pop-up books have been propelled into the 21st century, thanks to the creation of Electronic Popables .
  • Pet pregnancies 'compared to humans'
    A new study claims that pregnant pets have the same needs as expectant women. German veterinarian Thomas Steidl maintains that animals suffer from morning sickness and symptoms experienced by pregnant women. He advises owners to ensure that their pets get similar medical treatment, including ultraso ...
  • 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Who can we trust to defend our liberty? Will our c ...
    Summary:  Many of the articles on this website discuss the protection of our freedoms.  More specifically, the unwarranted confidence that we place in our institutions.  Is this rot spreading to our armed forces, as centuries-old laws of war are thrown away? Introduction  The Constitution is just pa ...
  • FM newswire for June 16, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Rankings of power in the coming post-peak oil world: “The Role of National Oil Companies in the International Oil Market“, Congressional Research Service, 21 August 2007 — Western oil ...
  • “The Almanac of Al Qaeda” – our ...
    Summary:  A silly bit of propaganda, oddly addressed to a sophisticated audience.  Perhaps after years of this we’ve become gullible and foolish. “The Almanac of Al Qaeda“, Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, Foreign Policy, May/June 2010 — “FP’s definitive guide to what’s left of the terroris ...
  • FM newswire for June 15, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. One of America’s largest public investments.  What’s do we get in return?  “High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration“, John Schmitt et al. Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2 ...
  • An unusually clear view of the Afghanistan War
    Summary:  It’s possible to see the true condition of the Af-Pak War, if one puts together the pieces.  The resulting picture is not pretty. (1)  Facts:  “‘Still a long way to go’ for U.S. operation in Marja, Afghanistan“, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post, 10 June 2010 — The opening tells th ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Some Baffled by Human Trafficking Report
    Newsy – The U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report stirs debate and indignation among the countries listed. Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com
  • EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam
    AP-Federal regulators are concerned that a dam built by Monsanto Co. earlier this year to trap phosphate mine runoff may be stopping more than just pollution. They say the dam has also halted millions of gallons of water in Sheep Creek that would otherwise help fill the Blackfoot River.The Environme ...
  • Five US soldiers charged with murder of Afghan civ ...
    Telegraph – The three separate killings happened between January and May near Forward Operating Base Ramrod in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, said Fort Lewis spokesman Lt Col Tamara Parker. She said she did not have information yet on the circumstances of the civilian deaths. Read Article ...
  • Former boss of US lender accused of $1.9bn fraud
    BBC – The former boss of the now bankrupt US lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) has been charged with 16 counts of fraud, worth more than $1.9bn (£1.3bn). Lee Farkas, who was chief executive and then chairman of TBW, was accused of trying to misappropriate money from banks and federal institution ...
  • Legionnaire’s Disease linked to driving, screenwas ...
    The Register – The Health Protection Agency is calling for more research to see if Legionnaire’s Disease is connected to not using screenwash in your windscreen water reservoir. An HPA spokeswoman said: “This preliminary HPA study suggests a strong association between a lack of screen wash in wiper ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • O marksistowskiej teorii wartości
    O marksistowskiej teorii wartości (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Motto:
“Dziś nawet ateizm uważany jest za culpa levis (lekki grzech) w porównaniu z krytyką tradycyjnych stosunków własności.”
Karol Marks Jedną z podstaw marksistowskiej ekonomii jest teoria wartości oparta na pracy. Don Ernsberger, skra ...
  • Maoism-Third Worldism on the environment
    Maoism-Third Worldism on the environment (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The oil spill is yet another example of how the First World is killing the planet. Even though several Third World countries will suffer tremendous damage from the spill, one can bet that the focus of the clean up efforts w ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • World War 3: Mountains Of Israel To Be Major Battl ...
    This is a good article explaining Hebrew prophecies of the great war that the human race was warned about by every prophet of almost all religions since the very beginning. But the writer of the article completely ignores the role of Gog (USA or in other words Pentagon and allies) who will fight in ...
  • 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 ...

ecogeek

  • Zero-Energy Fridge Uses Gel to Preserve Food
    This one's a weird one, kids, but still cool.  A new concept for a zero-energy refrigerator uses an odor-free, gel-like substance to cool and preserve food items. The Bio Robot Refrigerator was designed by Yuriy Dmitriev and is currently a semifinalist in Electrolux's Design Lab competition.  The ...
  • Pocket-Sized Fuel Cell Charges Gadgets Away From H ...
    Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a maker of cool fuel cell gadgets, like hydrogen-powered toy cars for kids , has introduced their coolest gadget yet:  a pocket-sized portable fuel cell power plant that can charge your cell phones, MP3 players and other devices. The MiniPAK , as it's called, comes ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Karl Roving from One Attack to Another, All for th ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph No matter how many times FOX continues to repeat its “fair and balanced” slogan, its continued choice to hire unabashedly conservative contributors like Sean Hannity, who wanted to know if he could now physically threaten the president , and infamous GOP ope ...
  • BP’s Top 10 (OK, Top 8) List Of Major Mistakes -- ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH It never had a realistic plan To deal with the spill. The blowout preventer Wasn’t installed with skill. Critical plumbing was shoddy And of a poor design. They misread each and Every warning sign. Concerns about well cementers by A “company man” were overridden. The full e ...
  • Has Psychiatry Become Unhinged?
    MARTHA ROSENBERG FOR BUZZFLASH At a press briefing at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in May in which new research about olfactory reference syndrome (people who think they smell) and links between depression and allergens was presented, a reporter's pointed question took many aback: "H ...
  • Sanders Amendment Would End Big Oil Tax Breaks
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT The following is a press release from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today urged the Senate to repeal $35 billion in oil and gas industry tax breaks. In a letter to colleagues, Sanders made the case for his amendment to a tax bill now before the Senate. ...
  • Communications Act Redux – Hooray!
    SUE WILSON FOR BUZZFLASH Four Democratic leaders, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry , West Virginia Sen. John D. Rockefeller , Virginia Rep. Rick Boucher , and California Rep. Henry Waxman are taking aim this month at what I like to call Public Enemy Number One: �the 1996 Telecommunications Act. �It too ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Jon Stewart on Obama's executive power record
    (updated below) When ACLU�Executive Director Anthony�Romero last week addressed the progressive conference America's Future Now, he began by saying :��"I'm going to start provocatively . . . I'm disgusted with this president." �Last night, after Obama's Oval Office speech, Jon Stewart b ...
  • The media's understanding of its role
    (updated below - Update II) Over the weekend, NPR's Brooke Gladstone conducted quite a good interview with CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry concerning Henry's defense of frivolous fraternization between some in the White House press corps and the politicians they cover.� It ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

  • Environmental Groups Intervene to Block Industry C ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity, in a coalition of conservation organizations, today stepped in on behalf of the U.S. government to oppose a lawsuit aimed at prematurely canceling the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling. On ...
  • EPA Analysis Makes Case for Senate Action on Clima ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) analysis of the American Power Act discussion draft, which the agency released today, shows the legislation would dramatically cut global warming pollution, lower household energy bills t ...
  • Opt Out System Risks Undermining ICC
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2010 Amnesty International Allowing states to protect their leaders from prosecution for the crime of aggression risks undermining the credibility of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Amnesty International said today, following the Review Conference in Kampala ...
  • Masako Usui, The Wife of Detained ICTR defense att ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2010 Masako Usui, the wife of the U.S. Professor and Attorney Peter Erlinder, is traveling to New York City this week on a mission to visit United Nations Security Council members. Her husband, Peter Erlinder was arrested by Rwanda Police in Kigali on May 28, 2010. ...
  • New SavetheInternet.com Video Showcases Internet C ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2010 Free Press In a new video released today, a group of Internet celebrities with millions of online viewers and followers added their voices to the fight for the free and open Internet. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Battle the Corporatocracy by Demanding Sustainabil ...
    by John Perkins " As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." (Thoreau) Being a father has been one of the seminal events in my life and to have the joy of being a grandparent has just do ...
  • Witnesses of Border Killing Dispersed
    by Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss At dusk on June 7, Bobbie McDow and her husband were heading south across the busy Paso Del Norte foot-bridge, which connects El Paso, Texas, to Juarez, Mexico. In the sweltering heat, McDow asked her husband if they could pause for a moment so she could ...
  • Closing BP's Escape Routes
    by Robert Weissman BP generates enough cash to absorb its liabilities from the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But that doesn't mean it will. One of the benefits of the corporate form is that it gives giant corporations the ability to escape liability. BP may or may not choose to capitalize on s ...
  • Cashiering Helen Thomas
    by Ralph Nader The termination of Helen Thomas' 62-year long career as a pioneering, no-nonsense newswoman was swift and intriguingly merciless. read more
  • Internet Stars for Internet Freedom
    by Megan Tady Nobody knew who Greyson Chance was a few weeks ago. But when a video of Chance singing a Lady Gaga song at a school talent show began circulating on the Internet, it became an instant sensation, with more than 25 million people getting to hear a voice that otherwise might never have ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Daniel Howes: Top Bing aide: Run city like a busin ...
    Bob Buckler, the retired Detroit Edison chief, sounds like a man on a mission. His vision for Detroit's operations could be boiled down to three words: faster, cheaper and smarter.
  • Village considers options for water treatment plan ...
    Dexter Village officials have been given the go ahead to investigate the potential pros and cons of hiring a private sector firm to staff the villages wastewater treatment plant.
  • City manager Michael Stampfler sent to help ailing ...
    A second former city manager from the Kalamazoo area has been chosen to rescue a community on the east side of the state from a financial crisis. Following behind Robert Bobb, Michael Stampfler was tapped to be the emergency financial manager for the city of Pontiac, state officials announced this w ...
  • High school juniors strive to help change the worl ...
    SOUTHWICK -- Two juniors at Southwick-Tolland Regional High School are trying to save the world one cause, one donation, and one step at a time.
  • Stop Angat Dam privatization: Presidentiables dare ...
    Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) today challenged presidential candidates to prove that they are not beholden to big business interests and issue a categorical statement that they will not allow the privatization of the Angat Dam and undermine peoples access to water.

Guardian

  • A quarter of children 'victims of crime'
    Experimental children's British Crime Survey shows 2.1m incidents but includes many playground and family spats Nearly one in four children in England and Wales aged 10 to 15 were the victims of crime last year, according to a Home Office survey of the experiences of under 16s. But the first results ...
  • Israel to ease Gaza blockade
    • Human rights groups say measures do not go far enough • Construction materials among products to be allowed in Israel will ease much of its land blockade of the Gaza Strip, it was revealed today. The Israeli government is hoping to silence growing international criticism following the assault on a ...
  • CCTV plan for Muslim areas halted
    Project halted after Guardian exposed use of 200-plus cameras in predominantly Muslim areas for counterterrorism A project to spy on two Muslim areas in Birmingham using more than 200 CCTV cameras has been dramatically halted after an investigation by the Guardian revealed it was a counterterrorism ...
  • Network Rail boss resigns
    Announcement comes as rail infrastructure firm faces criticism over staff bonuses Iain Coucher is to resign as chief executive of Network Rail after three years in the job. The rail infrastructure firm has been criticised recently over bonuses. It is due to announce bonuses at the end of the month a ...
  • Live: Treasury lists cut projects
    • Danny Alexander announces £10.5bn cuts • 12 projects worth £2bn axed • 12 others worth £8.5bn suspended 1.44pm: Ed Miliband, one of the five Labour leadership contenders and the shadow climate change and energy secretary, appeared braced for the announcement when he took part in a webchat over at ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Oil spill muddies green political waters
    Since it first emerged that the disaster on the Deepwater Horizons oil rig would produce an oil tide of serious proportions, prescriptions for the future from people concerned about it has fallen into two main camps: • those who see it as a wake-up call on the need for the US to adopt a serious cle ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Congress Should Ask The Administration To Put Cuts ...
    Our guest blogger is Sima Gandhi, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The House Budget Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on a White House proposal to give the President authority to force reconsideration of items in spending bills that he concludes are not a ...
  • Maine Says It Will Save Millions Of Dollars Under ...
    In what could be a blow to ‘no’ votes Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, Maine has released a report showing that the health care law “will save the state tens of millions of dollars a year after it is fully implemented in 2014″: âThis is a far-reaching projection and it assumes what we know t ...
  • Obama To Nominate Marine Commandant Who Is Reporte ...
    en. James Conway — the Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps — has been the most outspoken military opponent of permitting gay men and women to serve openly in the U.S. military, going so far as to suggest that straight marines should not live alongside gay servicemembers. But with Conway’s term comi ...
  • Did Health Reform Death Panel The AMA?
    If there are any death panels in health care reform, then they may have very well killed the American Medical Association, which suffered another loss in the Senate this afternoon after Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) failed to secure enough votes to patch the 21% pay cut coming to physicians part ...
  • House Republicans: Steps To Rein In Wall Street Pa ...
    One of the more overlooked portions of the financial regulatory reform effort currently underway in Congress deals with corporate governance, in an effort to rein in some of the pay structures that led Wall Street bankers to take perverse risk and force their firms to the brink of destruction. The b ...

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

  • Feed has moved
    This feed has moved to .
  • 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

  • Environmental Protection Specialists in the Oil an ...
    It still remains to be seen what role the Minerals Management Service (MMS) had in the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, though there is significant evidence that its role as a regulator and overseer of offshore development was seriously undermined by an...
  • Watch FinReg Conference Proceedings Live
    Be sure to tune in to financial regulatory reform conference proceedings today—we expect some of POGO's policy recommendations to be considered, including those on whistleblower protections, unnecessary secrecy provisions, and auditing the Fed. It's encouraging that our first recommendation—that the ...
  • Morning Smoke: The First Time an Inspector General ...
    Watchdog, Not Partner by Tom Shoop [FedBlog] SEC 'Revolving Door' Under Review by Tom McGinty [The Wall Street Journal] Pentagon Threatens to Dock Lockheed for Flawed System by Tony Capaccio [Bloomberg] BP, Oil Industry Take Fire at Hearing by Stephen...
  • On the Joint Strike Fighter Alternate Engine
    Over the years, there's been a lot of mudslinging between Pratt & Whitney and General Electric/Rolls-Royce in the debate over the alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter. POGO has generally remained on the sidelines, but recently, we found ourselves...
  • Former DOJ Inspector General to Lead Minerals Mana ...
    The Washington Post reports that the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency responsible for overseeing the offshore drilling industry, has a new director: President Obama has selected Michael Bromwich, a partner in the law firm Fried Frank's Washington D.C. and...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • WTF: A Hotline to Hurt the Homeless
    What crazy upside down are we living in when a major city has a hotline not for the poor and homeless to call for assistance, but for local business owners to call when they want police to come and shoo some vagrant away? That's exactly the setup the police department had with business owners in Edm ...
  • Sick and Staying at the Salvation Army
    "It's not fun. It's scary." That's what Brian had to say of his last five years of homelessness. He comes from a good family who had no financial struggles. Everything was all right until he was diagnosed with diabetes. Despite good healthcare thanks to his Native American heritage, the disease is a ...
  • Gee, Thanks for Permission to Feed People, Las Veg ...
    Doesn't asking for permission to feed the needy feel a little off, like asking to go to the bathroom or to eat lunch? When communities tell adults they can't do things like hand out food in a public park, as Las Vegas did to activist Gail Sacco four years ago, it's pretty short-sighted. If municipal ...
  • The Language of Dehumanization: The Poor vs. the P ...
    The headline read " Homeless fight back against the city " — the story, from a local TV station, told the story of a group of homeless people and homeless advocates in Grand Junction, Colorado who protested a move by local government to declare a certain park a median so that it would be illegal to ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Happy talk watch: Afghan insurgency losing momentu ...
    âWe are heading in the right direction in Afghanistan,â U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy told the Senate Armed Services Committee on 15 June. âWe are regaining the initiative and the insurgency is beginning to lose momentum.” (Jared Allen & Roxana Tiron, “After setba ...
  • Canada should stay in Afghanistan: Ignatieff
    Canadian military personnel should remain in Afghanistan as military and police trainers following the 2011 end of the Kandahar mission, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has declared (Joan Bryden, “Ignatieff: Canadian trainers should stay in Afghanistan,” Globe and Mail, 15 June 2010). The new Libe ...
  • 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

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

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

War in Context

  • Entering the Soviet era in America
    As President Obama addressed the nation last night, he employed the impoverished language of a nation for which all things must supposedly be seen in terms of war. He spoke of “the battle weâre waging against an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens.” “We will fight this spill ...
  • Credibility, once shredded, is impossible to piece ...
    “The man who ordered the attack on the aid flotilla to Gaza, set up the inquiry, chose its members and determined its mandate, has announced its outcome even before it has started,” wrote Chris Doyle, noting Benjamin Netanyahu’s visible satisfaction, confident that he has mounted an effective respon ...
  • Did Israel target Raed Salah in the Mavi Marmara r ...
    In an Al Jazeera documentary on the Israeli assault on the Mavi Marmara, it is claimed that Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Israeli-Arab Islamic Movement, was the target of an attempted assassination during the raid. [In the adjacent clip, an activist on board the ship display ...
  • In a different voice: a letter from Israel
    Ronen Shamir, a professor of sociology and law who chairs the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, writes in Today’s Zaman: The truth must be said: The present-day Israeli regime is not interested in peace. The Israeli establishment has become prisoner to an ever growing ...
  • The UN and Red Cross agree: the siege of Gaza is u ...
    Although President Obama acknowledges that the situation in Gaza is “unsustainable”, he refuses to draw the obvious conclusion and insist that Israel’s siege must end. But if it can’t continue, it must end, right? The International Committee of the Red Cross and the UN are happy to adopt Obama’s te ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Nasa warns solar flares from ‘huge space storm’ wi ...
    From the Telegraph Video link here National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years. Senior space … Continue reading →
  • Peer reviewed whack a mozzie
    Via the SPPI Blog – Trying to Hit a Mosquito with a Sledgehammer Source:  World Climate Report One of the standard tenets of the global warming bible is that malaria will get worse as temperatures rise. Weâve addressed this many … Continue reading →
  • Margaret Thatcher: the world’s first climate reali ...
    Guest posting by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Anthony Wattsâ earlier posting about Margaret Thatcherâs sceptical approach to the climate question prompted some comments asking whether I could add anything to the story, since I gave her advice on science as … Continue reading →
  • Oz report – Footy at least has rules
    The Tuesday night meeting in Brisbane on the WUWT Australian tour had a bit of unexpected fireworks courtesy of Aussie reef scientist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. The meeting started off with some protestors outsides holding placards with the tired old messages claiming … Continue reading →
  • Whale poop fights global warming
    Click here to watch the video..NOT From the Sydney Herald Southern Ocean sperm whales are an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from 40,000 cars each year in their faeces, a study shows. … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz debate Israel and ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ No Brand Production http://vimeo.com/10646695 Kennedy School of Government, November 29, 2005 We bring you a debate between Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowtiz on the question, “Israel and Palestine After Disengagement: Where Do We Go From Here?” Dershowitz argued f ...
  • Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack By Stephen ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ 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. Internatio ...
  • Kucinich: Questions Shed Light on Manipulation, Ch ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Jun 14, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after information leaked out that earlier reports of a vast new mineral discovery that had been found in Afghanistan were not actually new discov ...
  • Jeremy Scahill: Minerals, WikiLeaks, and Blackwate ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ videonation June 15, 2010 â In the wake of a rumor that WikiLeaks may soon publish a number of secret State Department cables, some are saying that the Pentagon is on the hunt for the whistleblowing organization’s founder Julian Assange. On GRITtv with Laura Fl ...
  • U.S. Knew About Afghan Mineral Bonanza In 2007 by ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Paul Jay Reality Asserts Itself June 14, 2010 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. Geol ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Best. News. Story. Intro. Ever. The intro : A German student created a major traffic jam in Bavaria when he 'mooned' a group of Hell's Angels, hurled a puppy at them and then escaped on a bulldozer. The Full Story Is Here
  • No title
    Sarah Palin Knows How To Stop The BP Gulf Gusher : Call In The Dutch! (They Plug Holes In Dykes You Know) By Darryl Mason Seriously, The Tea Party should do everything it can to distance itself from Sarah Palin. She sucks away at their credibility every time she appears on Fox News. Don't believe ...
  • No title
    The Gaza Blockade : Why Trade Embargoes Don't Work Chris Berg : Restrictions on trade with Iraq failed to topple Saddam Hussein. They were some of the toughest sanctions in history. Yet before 2003, the only major destabilisation of the Iraq government came from the bombing in 1998. Trade embar ...
  • No title
    Australian Conservative Politician Debates Sex With Pets On Live TV : "I Have Two Beautiful Golden Retrievers...." Professor Peter Singer discovers, unlike American TV, just about anything is up for debate on Australian panel discussion show Q & A :
  • No title
    Oh fuck :

Wired - Science

  • Amazing Starling Flocks Are Flying Avalanches
    To watch the uncanny synchronization of a starling flock in flight is to wonder if the birds aren’t actually a single entity, governed by something beyond the usual rules of biology. New research suggests that’s true. Mathematical analysis of flock dynamics show how each starling’s movement is infl ...
  • Rare Gene Glitch a Clue to Genomics Mystery
    The discovery of links between rare gene mutations and autoimmune disease could help solve one of modern medicine’s major dilemmas. Common diseases have largely resisted genomic analysis, leaving scientists unable to explain genetic underpinnings of diseases that clearly have a hereditary component ...
  • Hubble Finds Jupiter’s Missing Stripe
    New Hubble images reveal what happened to one of Jupiter’s main cloud belts: It’s hiding behind ammonia clouds. âWeather forecast for Jupiterâs Southern Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia,â planetary scientist Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado said ...
  • Exoplanet Hunter’s First Data Withholds the Good S ...
    The planet-hunting space telescope, Kepler, released its first big batch of data today. That should be exciting, but the team held back the good stuff until February 2011, wanting to analyze and follow up on the early observations themselves. Kepler is trying to find Earth-like planets that exist a ...
  • Swine Flu Lacks Killer Molecule
    BOSTON — The H1N1 swine flu just doesn’t have what it takes to be a real killer, a new study of the 1918 Spanish flu suggests. Scientists have been studying the 1918 Spanish flu virus to find out what made it so deadly. The virus caused a pandemic that killed 20 million to 40 million people [...]

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Mark Arax: Suddenly, the Israel lobby discovers a ...
    What to make of the rush of Jewish leaders -- from AIPAC to a Los Angeles city councilman -- coming forward in the past few weeks to divulge their role in genocide denial? ... How to account for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • International lawmakers may probe Israeli decision ...
    The Inter-Parliamentary Union is set to discuss recommendation to strip Balad MK Hanin Zuabi of privileges over Gaza flotilla participation. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much mor ...
  • Jewish Organizations to co-Sponsor Jewish Boat to ...
    AJJP joins the "Jüdische Stimme" ('Jewish Voice' for a Just Peace in the Near East, and Jews for Justice For Palestinians (UK) in sending the boat as a call to the leaders of the world to help Israel... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Stéphane Hessel: Gaza Flotilla – Global Citizens M ...
    BDS initiative is a moral strategy which has demonstrated its potential for success. Most recently, German Deutsche Bank became the latest of several European institutions to divest from Israeli arms... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Avirama Golan: In a side room at the airport
    At this time it is hard to convince the Jewish public in Israel that what happens at Ben-Gurion International Airport is a systematic injustice, if not worse. The ethnocentric panic undermines the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Probiotic Therapy Cuts Risk of VAP in Half for Som ...
    Daily use of probiotics reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in critically ill patients by almost half, according to new research from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska.
  • Advance Directives Evolve to Ensure Better End-of- ...
    Advance directives need to be more clinically relevant and the growing statewide use of a new protocol is one step, says the author of an article in The Milbank Quarterly.
  • Maternal, Infant Antiretrovirals Both Effective in ...
    The largest study to date to examine methods to prevent HIV infection among breastfeeding infants concludes that giving antiretroviral drugs to HIV-infected breastfeeding mothers in sub-Saharan Africa or giving an HIV-fighting syrup to their babies are both effective.
  • Geometry Affects Drift and Diffusion Across Entrop ...
    An understanding of particle diffusion in the presence of constrictions is essential in fields as diverse as drug delivery, cellular biology, nanotechnology, materials engineering, and spread of pollutants in the soil. When a driving force is applied, displacement of particles occurs as well as diff ...
  • The Secret Life of Water at Very Low Temperatures
    The secret life of water just got weirder. For years water has been known to exist in 15 phases -- not just the merry threesome of solid, liquid and gas from grade school science. Now, University of Utah chemists have confirmed the coexistence of ice and liquid after water crystallizes at very low t ...

Natural Health News

  • City Passes First Cell Phone Radiation Law
    San Francisco has voted to require all retailers to display the amount of radiation cell phones emit.� The law is the first of its kind in the U.S. The administration of mayor Gavin Newsom called the vote a major victory for cell phone shoppers’ right to know. According to the New York Times: “ ...
  • Drug-Resistant Disease on the Rise Globally
    The World Health Organization, governments and nonprofit groups may actually be driving drug resistance and endangering lives by failing to pay enough attention to the dangers of drug-resistant diseases. Millions of children around the world die every year from drug-resistant strains of malaria, tu ...
  • New Study Show Vitamin D to be Highly Effective fo ...
    Vitamin D may help reduce the spread of viral respiratory tract infections. including influenza. A new study followed close to 200 adults during fall and winter. Participants had blood samples drawn monthly, and a 25-hydroxyvitamin D test was used to measure vitamin D levels. All participants were ...
  • Vitamin B6 Linked to Lower Lung Cancer Risk
    Higher blood levels of vitamin B6 and the amino acid methionine appear to reduce lung cancer risk in smokers and nonsmokers alike. Researchers evaluated levels of B6 and methionine in blood samples from participants in a study, which enrolled more than 519,000 participants from 10 European countrie ...
  • Controversial Treatment Creating Bitterness in MS ...
    The Multiple Sclerosis Society’s national board election in the UK may become a battleground as members attempt to shut out supporters of a controversial treatment. An e-mail has been sent out seeking new members and asking them to use their votes to effectively closing out candidates who want reso ...

Antemedius

  • Traditional Food Crops Provide Community Resilienc ...
    Thanks to Dr. Soul Shava, Training Manager at the Aurecon Training Academy, in Pretoria, South Africa for sharing a recent study , by researchers from Rhodes and Cornell Universities and the Sebakwe Black Rhino Conservation Trust , on indigenous crops with the Nourishing the Planet project. We encou ...
  • Obama Was Created By Our Failure to Impeach Bush
    By David Swanson Remarks at the Rutherford Institute, June 16, 2010 Video of these remarks and the following Q&A posted at http://afterdowningstreet.org/rutherford I want to save most of the time we have for your questions, so I'll be brief and I'll start with a couple of questions for you. And t ...
  • Nourishing the Planet in USA Today: In a world of ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . Check out the op-ed on preventing food waste that Nourishing the Planet has in this mornings USA Today . We describe how both the United States and sub-Saharan Africa waste enormous amounts of food. In the U.S. we waste food often by ...
  • Brain Injuries Remain Undiagnosed in Thousands of ...
    from T. Christian Miller , ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling , NPR June 07, 2010 ( view source ) WASHINGTON, D.C.--The military medical system is failing to diagnose brain injuries in troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom receive little or no treatment for lingering health problem ...
  • What To Expect At The Prop 8 Closing Arguments Tod ...
    Today in California the closing arguments in the Proposition 8 trail will be heard. After nearly five months of reviewing the evidence presented in the case Judge Vaughn Walker is ready to hear the summation arguments of both sides. In a move that seems to indicate he has already produced a draft de ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Hidden Hazard of Poultry Litter Pelletization
    The following letter to the editor was submitted by the Center for a Livable Future to The Baltimore Sun following an article published in Sunday’s edition on Perdue’s efforts to recycle poultry litter. The article was also discussed in a blog post on B’MoreGreen yesterday. We were disappointed to ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Things I learned today
    If you blow off paying your Xcel bill and need to make an in-person payment you have your choice of just about any check-cashing rip-off joint in town, or Bill Cooper’s TCF Banks â but I repeat myself. Interesting how the big utilities use the most predatory outfits to partner with on collecting p ...
  • Women’s flights
    This is interesting. I wonder how this would have worked out had the airlines stuck with their abominable policies of firing flight attendants when they got older. Somehow I have to think this wouldn’t have worked out quite so well with a twenty-something hired for her legs and dress size. Two thing ...
  • Diarrhea of a Madwoman
    Dave Weigel posted this last night and it speaks for itself. Bachmann to BP: Don’t ‘be chumps’ Speaking at a Heritage Foundation luncheon today, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) lit into President Obama, accusing him of “voting present” on the Gulf Coast disaster and serving up an “infantile” politic ...
  • Bill Brasky
    I’d forgotten that as recently as the mid-’90s Saturday Night Live was occasionally still funny. Here’s the page of Bill Brasky jokes that inspired me to track down that video. For me best honors are a tie between He’s a ten-foot tall beast man, who showers in vodka, and feeds his baby shrimp scampi ...
  • Things that are not what they seem to be
    Scott Horton writes about the Bogside victims of Bloody Sunday finally getting some justice, but the whole time I was reading his post I kept thinking it was really about Israel taking it upon themselves to investigate the assault on the Mavi Marmara. Sadly, there is no reason to think that thirty-e ...

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: Waste Land
    Can garbage really be transformed into art? Can art change lives? This film is has an answer – read our review…
  • Environmental News -16/06/10
    Environmental News European wind industry predicts bumper 2010 Europe is set to see its installed wind energy capacity increase by 13 per cent as the sector continues to defy the economic downturn, according to new figures from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). The latest upd ...
  • What's On June 15
    Around the world, a range of celebrations are occurring each month to raise more awareness of particular environmental issues and mobilize people to contribute to the protection of our environment. Following World Environment Day, this month don’t miss Global Wind Day on 15 June, and World Day to Co ...
  • Environmental News -15/06/10
    Environmental News Drought edict turns farmers against Thai government Farmers in Thailand's drought-stricken north have been told by the government they cannot plant any more rice, further fuelling anti-Bangkok sentiment in the Red Shirt-loyal region. Thailand is the world's largest ri ...
  • Smart Eco-friendly Hotel Rooms
    The future looks bright – and green – for hotel rooms. New technology will allow guests and hotel managers to control energy usage.

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel to allow more goods into Gaza
    ShareThis Israel to allow more goods into Gaza --Cabinet decides to ease siege imposed on Strip by Olmert government. Method of blockade to be changed, inflow of civilian goods and material for civilian projects to be expanded 17 Jun 2010 International pressure works: The National Security Cabinet o ...
  • 'US conduct can elicit public revolt'
    ShareThis 'US conduct can elicit public revolt' 17 Jun 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says if US politicians allowed the American nation free access to government conduct, US citizens would rise against their outrageous policies. President Ahmadinejad, who is in Iran's western province o ...
  • New York library users read authorities riot act
    ShareThis New York library users read authorities riot act --24-hour read-in on steps of Brooklyn library attracts 1,200 people to protest against cuts and expected closures �16 Jun 2010 Library campaigners in New York failed to keep the noise down this weekend as they hosted a 24-hour "read-in" on ...
  • Israeli Flotilla Attack May Violate International, ...
    ShareThis Israeli Flotilla Attack May Violate International, Maritime Laws 15 Jun 2010 When two widely-divergent investigative panels launch their probes on the recent Israeli attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, one of the disputed issues under scrutiny would be the lega ...
  • US aid to Somali military 'illegal'
    ShareThis US aid to Somali military 'illegal' 17 Jun 2010 A US lawmaker says Washington may be in violation of the law by providing military assistance to the Somali government, which employs children as soldiers. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he noted that such assistance might ...

Daily Loaf

  • Do It Today: World Refugee Day events, shake it up ...
    According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are over 69,000 refugees in the U.S. seeking asylum, and over 279,000 settled refugees in our country currently. Tampa Bay hosts several events celebrating and recognizing the courage and experiences of local refugees for World R ...
  • On the Radar: double your theater fun with Jobsite ...
    Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Take your pick, theater lovers â or see emâ both, because the month of June is in bloom on stage. Two Jesuit grads return to Tampa to co-direct Giggy, a play about ’30s Broadway and film [...]
  • Chef’s Choice – NoHo Bistro: Jessica Raia-Long’s p ...
    Jessica Raia-Long of NoHo Bistro takes the flavors and dramatic presentation of that now-classic dessert and injects them into a decadent bread pudding.
  • Jeff Greene says the Obama administration needs to ...
    Greene said that "there's been a huge attack on Israel in the media," and called it effective propaganda. Greene said that Israel has been put in an untenable situation because he says Hezbollah in Lebanon has been completely rearmed by Syria. "We need to wake up and realize that the Middle East ...
  • A preview of the next month for Steve Yzerman and ...
    Over the course of the next several days, we will look at a separate challenge the Lightning has facing them, as well as what some of their options may be -- a state of the Lightning, if you will.

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

  • Jerry Lee Lewis – Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On (19 ...
    The original wild man of rock and roll, raging full on
  • First citywide car sharing launched in Hoboken
    Hertz Connect, launched in partnership with Hoboken, will start with 42 cars staged in 21 dropoff locations. Residents can rent cars as needed for as little as $5 an hour, gas included. Instead of spending millions of dollars building structured parking, the first phase of the car-sharing program i ...
  • Osmotic power. Where fresh water and salt water me ...
    Osmotic power puts salt water and fresh water in adjoining chambers separated by a membrane that can create a pressure buildup, which can in turn be used to create power. The fresh water seeps into the salt water chamber by osmosis, increasing its volume and pressure which then drives the turbines ...
  • Does an Afghanistan exit strategy hurt our allies?
    Senate Republicans criticized President Obama's decision to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011, claiming it sends the wrong message to our allies. But is this really accurate?
  • BP CEO grins upon leaving White House meeting
    Here’s why. The $20 billion fund will be overseen by Kenneth Feinberg who has done such a wonderfully effective job of overseeing bankster salaries under TARP. Yeah, I bet BP is just shaking in their boots over this. (At last report Feinberg was still “reviewing” Wall Street salaries.) It gets wors ...

Coteret

  • Yediot report on escalating boycott actions by Tur ...
    A couple of points to note: The headline is a pun — Turkey is known to Israelis as a popular destination for “all-inclusive” holiday packages. Someone on the editorial desk inserted a stab at Deputy FM Danny Ayalon by illustrating the report with the infamous humiliation photo of the Turkish Ambas ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • G20 officer will not be disciplined
    A police officer cleared of assault after being filmed hitting a G20 protester with a metal baton will not be disciplined. Sergeant Delroy Smellie, 47, was reinstated by the Metropolitan Police within hours of walking free from court in March. A district judge found he was justified in hitting a ...
  • Iceland begins talks to enter EU
    European Union leaders are holding opening negotiations today on bringing Iceland into the EU – but only if it settles a â¬3.8bn dispute with Britain and The Netherlands after the 2008 meltdown of Icelandic banks. A draft statement, to be firmed up at the close of the one-day summit, said “acce ...
  • Flashback: BP gets OK to dump mercury into Lake Mi ...
    A BP (BP) refinery in Indiana will be allowed to continue to dump mercury into Lake Michigan under a permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The permit exempts the BP plant at Whiting, Ind., 3 miles southeast of Chicago, from a 1995 federal regulation limiting mercur ...
  • G20 activists jailed for poster
    LONDON, Ont. – About 200 kilometres from where world leaders will soon gather, two London political activists spent the night in city police cells over posters inviting people to Toronto to protest the G8 and G20 summits. Darius Mirshahi, 25, and Andrew Cadotte, 19, flashed a peace sign and stoo ...
  • Deadline Live – June 16 2010
    Wednesday – Hour One: Breaking news from DEADLINELIVE.INFO Hour Two: Bruno Bruhwiler of We are Change LA – WeAreChangeLA’s lead organizer Bruno Bruhwiler is being targeted asa terrorist threat. They are calling him a potential cop killer. Two felony charges so far. The mention of WeAreChangeLA made ...

The Air Vent

  • The Golfer
    The BP spill will be a memory someday, and not  a good one.   In the face of a disaster far greater than any global warming crap will ever replace, we have to wonder why the United States Government, run by the allegedly ‘greenest’ administration in history, DIDN’T ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL HELP!!.  ...
  • The Bottom Line
    Sam at Climatequotes has another guest post here which expands on the motives behind the exaggerated claims of the UN.   As with all government, the motive is the key. ————————– TEEB pushes fear and new taxes The past two days I’ve looked at the UN’s interim TEEB report and found several errors in ...
  • 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 [... ...

Focal Point

  • Is Sarah Palin a Feminist?
    Arguing about whether Sarah Palin is a feminist is like arguing about whether a framed pile of cat puke is art. It's a pointless semantic dispute. Why not save time and concede the premise? Okay, it's art, but it's the worst art I've ever seen. In other news, Amanda Marcotte might be onto something ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • RockYou Apps Win a Reprieve on This Week’s List of ...
    This week’s list of fastest-gaining apps on Facebook by daily active users doesn’t contain any big surprises. Most of the significant entries are new games, a category that is having a particularly booming week. As usual, mobile apps also figure prominently, with Facebook (for iPhone) leading the ...
  • Performance Advertising’s Future on Social Platfor ...
    Performance advertising, and the offer walls that are familiar pitstops for many social game users, have been central to the discussion on monetization of social platforms since last fall. When criticism of low-quality and less-than-transparent offers came to light in that season’s offers controver ...
  • Facebook Tests Using Profile Picture Thumbnails in ...
    Users are seeing more faces than ever in their feeds as Facebook complements more stories with multiple profile picture thumbnails. Friendship confirmation stories now display thumbnails of your friendâs new friends, and rows of thumbnails (we’ve seen as many as 17 at once) accompany profile pic c ...
  • Facebook Adds Likes to Comments
    Liking other people’s comments — it’s a feature that people have been asking for since back when FriendFeed came out with the “Like” button, years ago. Now it’s finally going to happen, on Facebook. In a post today, company engineer Tom Whitnah says that it is rolling the product out gradually, so ...
  • Nielsen, Compete Show Normal US Traffic Gains for ...
    Did May’s very public backlash against Facebookâs April privacy changes and product launches actually affect traffic? The web measurement results are coming in now. ComScore was the first web measurement firm to weigh in, and it showed that Facebook gained 8.6 million monthly unique visitors to r ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Fox in the henhouse: can we trust Israeli security ...
    Gordon Duff argues that recent evidence proving that Israel fabricated video scenes from the Freedom Flotilla attack should serve as a wake-up call to alert the world to the activities of Israeli agents worldwide – many of whom work in companies contracted to “guard” international airports – and the ...
  • 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.

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

  • Imaginary Racism in La-La Land
    Racism, or ”White Supremacy Ideology” as I like to refer to it as, is a syndrome that will never go away. Not in my lifetime at least… and I doubt very much in my son’s. It’s difficult enough combating the numerous legitimate cases of racism we face individually or as a community, whether blatan ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • Lockheed Martin’s Violent Definition of &#82 ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOCKHEED MARTIN ANNOUNCES NEW GREEN INITIATIVES FOR 140,000 EMPLOYEES, THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES BETHESDA, Md. – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced new green initiatives to reach its 140,000 employees, their families and communities. The orchestrated effort is ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Four More "Programmer-Journalists" Reach Halfway P ...
    Ever since the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholars enrolled in the journalism master's program at the Medill School , I have checked in with them around the midway point -- and taken the opportunity to introduce them to the Idealab audience. As we mark the end of Medill's spring quarter, ...
  • Fifth "Programmer-Journalist" Helps Develop Visual ...
    There is probably no government data used more by journalists -- and non-journalists -- than the trove of population and demographic information collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. But while the bureau has kept improving its tools for online data access, it's still a challenge for someone not wel ...
  • Teaching Ushahidi 101 in Kenya
    This post is written by Melissa Tully and Rebecca Wanjiku. Melissa Tully is a PhD student at UW-Madison who is researching the use of social/new media in social justice work in Kenya. She has been volunteering with Ushahidi for the past two-and-a-half years. Rebecca Wanjiku is a project assistant ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

  • BAD NEWS For Global Warming Moonbats Thickest Ice ...
    Oh Boy, poor Al Gore! He has had such an awful few weeks.� First it was the announcement that he is separating from his wife of 40+ years. Then the revelation of his affair with friend Larry David's ex-wife, and today the biggest blow of all. A new observational study shows that the arctic ice is th ...
  • What Will the Western Strategy Toward Gaza Produce ...
    By Barry Rubin A reader asks: What is the West's strategy regarding the Gaza Strip. Good question. The strategy is to relieve the alleged "humanitarian" issue as soon as possible and quiet everything down. Without thinking through the consequences, the idea is to return the Gaza Strip ...
  • That Stench of Rotting Bull is Just Obama's Oval O ...
    Putting aside for a second the fact that this speech was given about 50 days late, tonight's oval office speech proved that the President is not ready to be honest with the American people. For the first 30 days of this crisis, President Obama was ignoring the fact that the crisis existed, an ...
  • Obama's Drilling Freeze Will Cost Over 120,000 Job ...
    President Obama's freeze on off shore drilling defies all logic, its like getting into a car accident and proposing a ban on all auto manufacturing. What makes the matter worse, the ban is harming the economies of the Gulf States who are already being harmed by the spill itself. According to t ...
  • Why Israel Cannot Solve Its PR Challenge (or, It’s ...
    By Glenn Jasper I spend my days helping clients develop and implement PR campaigns designed to promote the company in such a compelling way that its key audience will respond positively to what the company is communicating. Ultimately, the goal is always to build momentum and help the company ...

The Real Agenda

  • NASA: Solar flares from ‘huge space storm&#8 ...
    National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years. Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of ...
  • Some Big Lies of Science
    The maintenance of the hierarchical structures that control our lives depends on Pinter’s “vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed.” “[T]he majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that powe ...
  • Dr. Obama Mandates Lifestyle Behaviour Modificatio ...
    Claiming the “authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,” President Obama has truly gone off the deep end this time in his most atrocious attempt to date to control every aspect of Americans’ lives. According to the Executive Order that d ...
  • 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 ...

Wind Watch

  • Bird of prey harries massive €74m wind farm out of ...
    A landmark ruling protecting a rare bird of prey has stopped construction of a giant â¬74m wind farm and could scupper plans for hundreds of similar developments nationwide. Bord Pleanala, in the first ruling of its kind, shot down a massive wind farm with 29 turbines planned for Co Cork because it ...
  • Falmouth wind-turbine noise has local residents wh ...
    Mark Cool is an air traffic controller whose job requires clear thinking and plenty of confidence. But ever since March, when the town of Falmouth’s 1.65-megawatt wind turbine started spinning less than 1,200 feet from his home, the whirring, banging and clanking has meant sleepless nights and fraye ...
  • Wind farms could interfere with flight patterns, r ...
    The Department of Defense says six large-scale wind farms proposed in the Mojave Desert near Barstow would interfere with military operations and should not be built. The military opposition prompted Houston, Texas-based Horizon Wind Energy last week to withdraw applications for three of the wind f ...
  • Residents sue wind companies
    HURON COUNTY — Citing a loss of property value and quality of life as a result of the Ubly area Michigan Wind I development, 16 Huron County residents filed a lawsuit earlier this month against the wind project’s various companies. According to the lawsuit, which was filed May 11 in Huron County Cir ...
  • Board of Health advises against wind farms in sout ...
    Wind turbines pose groundwater, health issues, panel says The Brown County Board of Health, citing the threat to groundwater contamination as its chief reason, has recommended that no wind turbines be built in the county’s southern region where a 100-turbine wind farm has been proposed. Board Chairw ...

Not My Tribe

  • Funding of Dubai assassin Uri Brodsky tied to Tagl ...
    One of the 33 operatives which UAE investigators have tied to the January assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai was apprehended in Poland. Suspected Mossad agent Uri Brodsky awaits extradition to Germany to account for a fake German passport issued to a “Michael Bodenheimer.” Isr ...
  • Jane Norton, Republican, Tea Bag, Warmonger Pig, L ...
    Stated in her campaign commercial that Obamacare, not even implemented, is the cause of the Trillion Dollar Federal Deficit. Not, of course, anything to do with the Police State budget, some of which is “classified”, nor with the Extended Police State Imperial Storm Troopers with their hi-tech Murde ...
  • E-Coli Testing to increase, according to regulator ...
    Or, to be more precise, they’re “considering” broadening the testing. Yeah, wonderful dichotomy in the previous sentence, being more precise by stating the vague phrases. “Regulators” is kind of a nonsense job description too. Since their powers have steadily declined from the last two years of the ...
  • Wikileaks has video of Granai Massacre
    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is officially a wanted man. After the arrest of whistle blower Bradley Manning for leaking the Collateral Murder video, the Pentagon announced it is hunting Assange to “talk to him” about 260,000 diplomatic cables which Army Specialist Manning is purported to have pa ...
  • How Dumb is Too Dumb to Solo-Circumnavigate? With ...
    Or fly a plane across the continent solo.The Everest kids, they’re in a somewhat different class, nobody tries that Solo. The 16 year old Child displaying childish petulance about people who think that a)she’s a spoiled Princess whose mommy and daddy gave her a boat to play with and b) her parents a ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • I'm Not a Prophet
    But I do predict that the so-called debunkers will once again try to use the antics of David Shayler against us. My vision came to me in the form of this National Geographic program I watched tonight: "The Second Coming Meet three men who believe the Second Coming has already occurred and that the ...
  • Molten Steel in the Rubble of the World Trade Cent ...
    The picture here shows superheated Molten Steel being pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Centre buildings weeks after the collapses. We know this is steel because other materials such as copper or aluminium exhibiting a yellow or near white colour would be completely liquid. The melting poi ...
  • Predictable Duh-bunkers Strike Again
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted this video today: Pat writes: "John Farmer said in an interview: John Farmer- Well, let me just say that I think the [9-11 Commission] report is, uh, extremely accurate, and- and sets forth the facts of 9/11. And we actually did point out in the ...
  • The Sovereign - NEWSPAPER OF THE RESISTANCE!
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/19892527/RefuseAndResist http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111131338919981&ref=ts
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • And Now: More Opportunities to Get Fat
    Once upon a time you’d drive to a gas station to get your car filled up, and maybe serviced. Today, it’s another opportunity to get fat. In an aptly titled article, Service stations are filling bellies as well as tanks, the LA Times describes the evolution of food sales at a once-upon-a-time seemin ...
  • How healthy are Healthy Choices Frozen Meals?
    Even families that cook dinner from scratch have those days when there’s nothing to eat. The fridge is close to empty, and the physical and emotional resources required to cook up something from scratch are totally depleted. We turn to the freezer in hope of a microwavable miracle. But when even the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Human safaris threaten Andaman tribe
    A Jarawa man and boy by the side of the Andamans Trunk Road © Salomé The survival of the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands is being threatened by human safaris run by local tour operators. Survival announced today that it has written to eight travel companies that promote visits to, or sig ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
    Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...
  • Stop Feeding the Vultures
    by Greg Palast for In These Times I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in. I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture ...
  • Vulture Financier AttacksBanned in Britain
    by Greg Palast April 8 - London - Update for In These Times We've stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the British Isles. The law, merely awaits the expected touch of the Queen's scepter. "Vulture funds" are int ...
  • Heart of Coal
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse We've seen this dreadful movie before. In 2005, another coal mine in West Virginia imploded. We wrote about it then .... War is hell, especially class war. Just ask the Sago mine workers. Billionaire Wilbur Ross purchased Sago of West Virginia in November 200 ...
  • Behind the Arizona Immigration Law:GOP Game to Swi ...
    Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law. by Greg Palast for Truthout.org [Phoenix, AZ.] Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • 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

  • Olmsted on Autism: “Vaccinate, Baby, Vaccinate!”
    By Dan Olmsted Have the American people finally had it with “experts” telling them that things will be just fine? That oil wells won’t turn into gushers in the Gulf, that cars won’t suddenly become speeding bullets, that a deregulated...
  • If President Obama Had Been Talking About the Auti ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Ralph Toddre has put into a post what many of us were thinking as we listened to President Obama discuss the environmental catastrophe that now threatens our Gulf ecosystems, and the both the livelihoods and health of...
  • Autism File to Livestream Callous Disregard Author ...
    THURSDAY, June 17 at 6:00pm* in London, at 1:00pm EDT, 10:00am PDT, go to www.autismfile.com to register and log in so you can post comments and view this live streamed event: Dr Wakefield will be signing copies of his bestselling...
  • Johnson & Johnson Recall Raises Ire
    Read the full artilcle on how Johnson & Johnson has reacted during the recall of its children's OTC medications in New York Times HERE. Why is it that The Times sees so clearly and puts out hard hitting journalism when...
  • Ask Why Autism Speaks' NY Health Insurance Bill Is ...
    We understand that A1037a/S70000b, the Autism Speaks endorsed insurance bill for autism, is likely to pass in New York. It's verbiage requires that any approved therapies must be "evidence-based, clinically-proven, and peer-reviewed,” a standard used in no other state and...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Five US soldiers charged with murder of Afghan civ ...
    Telegraph – The three separate killings happened between January and May near Forward Operating Base Ramrod in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, said Fort Lewis spokesman Lt Col Tamara Parker. She said she did not have information yet on the circumstances of the civilian deaths. Read Article ...
  • Former boss of US lender accused of $1.9bn fraud
    BBC – The former boss of the now bankrupt US lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) has been charged with 16 counts of fraud, worth more than $1.9bn (£1.3bn). Lee Farkas, who was chief executive and then chairman of TBW, was accused of trying to misappropriate money from banks and federal institution ...
  • Legionnaire’s Disease linked to driving, scr ...
    The Register – The Health Protection Agency is calling for more research to see if Legionnaire’s Disease is connected to not using screenwash in your windscreen water reservoir. An HPA spokeswoman said: “This preliminary HPA study suggests a strong association between a lack of screen wash in wiper ...
  • Steve Connor: We need a global debate on populatio ...
    The Independent – A growing number of scientists are going where politicians fear to tread by calling for a wider public debate on the sensitive issue of the global human population, which is set to rise from the present 6.8 billion to perhaps 9 billion by 2050. Lord Rees, the president of the Royal ...
  • Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore
    Yahoo News– Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again. Marine scientists studying the ef ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: BP's Tony Hayward testifies Thursd ...
    The grilling is expected to be intense Thursday when BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward appears before the House Energy and Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee, which is looking into the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Here's a...
  • Gulf oil spill: New siphon system increases oil co ...
    BP introduced a new system Wednesday for sucking up some of the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, bringing the total daily containment capacity to a maximum 28,000 barrels a day -- a fraction of the estimated 35,000...
  • Gulf oil spill: Lawmakers push drilling in deep wa ...
    As President Obama met with BP officials, Gulf Coast lawmakers Wednesday stepped up their efforts on Capitol Hill to lift the administration’s six-month deep-water drilling moratorium, which they contend is threatening their region’s fragile economy. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) went...
  • One of the world's largest concentrated solar powe ...
    Something major is about to arrive in Abu Dhabi, and it’s not the ladies from "Sex and the City 2." A massive concentrating solar power plant – featuring 768 parabolic mirrors spread across 741 acres of desert in nearby Madinat...
  • Gulf oil spill: Experts weigh in on how to break t ...
    In his Oval Office speech President Obama urged Americans to "seize control of our own destiny" and break the nation's oil addiction. He suggested several approaches he'd consider, but otherwise went light on specifics. Here, several energy and environmental experts...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

spiked

  • What the Israel-bashers learned from Bush
    The international campaign to brand Israel a ‘pariah state’ is a shrill echo of what President George W Bush tried to do with Iraq.
  • Rage Against The Zionist Machine
    PHOTO ESSAY: A demo called ‘Rage Against Israel’ captured the apolitical, visceral nature of anti-Israel sentiment.
  • Is there a Derrick Bird inside us all?
    Some have responded to the Cumbria massacre by calling for the kind of gun controls beloved of the Stasi.
  • Gospels for the Godless
    Pullman’s evil-twin version of the Gospels is an intelligent investigation of an age-old question: are Jesus and Christ two separate entities?
  • The World Cup: we believe we can flop
    Behind the cheerful St George flag-waving, England fans are haunted by broken metatarsals and penalty screw-ups.

    Blacklisted News

  • The Federal Reserve Warns About The Dangers Of The ...
  • More Than 90 Banks Miss TARP Payments
    More than 90 U.S. banks and thrifts missed making a May 17 payment to the U.S. government under its main bank bailout program, signaling a rising number of lenders are struggling to meet their obligations
  • Suddenly, the Israel lobby discovers a genocide
    And what about the Armenians and their lobby? Aren’t they guilty of their own cynicism for watching the flotilla feud and now thinking that the winds of geopolitics have finally blown their way? Will they cozy up to Jewish leaders suddenly eager to embrace their genocide? Or will they tell them "tha ...
  • Kyrgyz riot police authorized to kill
    Russia says it won't send troops to Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Defense Ministry calls up reservists to fight riots Kyrgyzstan's second largest city Osh destroyed, thousands of Uzbeks flee as massacres continue Deadly ethnic rioting spreads in Kyrgyzstan as death toll rises over 80 with over 1,100 Woun ...
  • EPA Takes a Giant Leap Into Tyranny
    Predictably, the Gulf oil spill is also being used as a tool to promote not only the EPA regulations, based on fraudulent science, but also the new federal 'Cap and Trade' bill, the American Power Act.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran says has conditions to resume nuclear talks - ...
    Summary: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday the Islamic state was ready to resume talks with major powers over its nuclear work, but had conditions, state television reported. source: Reuters read more
  • Former Pakistani Foreign Minister downplays effect ...
    Summary: Khurshid Kasuri Pakistan's former Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri reiterated on Monday that UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran can never hinder the Iranian nations' progress. source: Fars News Agency read more
  • Pakistan Islamic parties condemn UN sanctions on I ...
    Summary: Six main Islamic parties of Pakistan strongly condemned Sunday the UN new sanction on Iran describing it as discriminatory. source: IRNA read more
  • America's Future Partners: Turkey and Iran?
    Summary: Kinzer Kinzer said US policy reminds him of a well-known quote about Katharine Hepburn: “she runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.” Oftentimes in the US, it seems that is also the limit of Iran policy options. US policy makers need to break out of their narrow consensus, Kinzer says, ...
  • Brazilian Minister Defends Presence Of IAEA Inspe ...
    Summary: Celso Amorim RIO DE JANEIRO, June 16 (Bernama) -- The presence of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in Iran's nuclear power plants could assuage fears of the international community and prove the Iranian nuclear programme has only peaceful purposes, Xinhua news agency ...

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

  • Aerotoxic syndrome - Toxic airline cabin air could ...
    (NaturalNews) Have you ever flown on an airplane and later become mysteriously ill? Maybe you developed a headache, had trouble breathing or experienced severe brain fog? These symptoms (and many others) just might be the result of breathing toxic fumes that regularly circulate throughout many comme ...
  • New research: chocolate milk beats sports drinks f ...
    (NaturalNews) After an intense workout, instead of downing a commercial sports drink loaded with artificial colors and sugar, you'd be better off just having a glass of chocolate milk. That's the conclusion of two studies presented at the recent American College of Sports Medicine's 57th Annual Meet ...
  • AstraZeneca Denied Drug's Link to Diabetes for Yea ...
    (NaturalNews) Drug giant AstraZeneca attempted to obscure the connection between one of its blockbuster drugs and diabetes risk for years after it knew of the problem, according to documents recently unsealed as part of lawsuits against the company. More than 15,000 patients have sought damages from ...
  • Chemical in antibacterial soaps produces toxic dio ...
    (NaturalNews) Dioxins are a group of highly toxic compounds that are persistent environmental pollutants. People are exposed to dioxins through the environment and the food chain -- the highest levels of these compounds are found in soils, sediments and food such as dairy products, meat, fish and sh ...
  • Top ten things to love about Vilcabamba Ecuador, t ...
    (NaturalNews) If you love perfect year-round weather and enjoying your own locally-grown foods, you'll love Vilcabamba, Ecuador. I lived there, on and off, for over two years, and in that time I came to know many of the people, places and cultural highlights of Vilcabamba. In this story, I'll share ...

Threat Level

  • Three Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges In Wiki ...
    An Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to Wikileaks has still not been charged with any crime, three weeks after being arrested and put in pre-trial confinement. PFC Bradley Manning, 22, is being held at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and has been assigned a military defens ...
  • iPhone Jailbreak Videos: A Legal Primer and a How- ...
                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience96618190001', 'anId'); The U.S. Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress are due to rule any day whether iPhone jailbreaking should be exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Electronic Frontier Foundation as ...
  • Isohunt Not Dead Yet, Attorney Says
    The attorney for search engine Isohunt said Tuesday he would urge a federal appeals court to block a lower court ruling that might lead to the collapse of the site. Isohunt, which has 30 million unique monthly visitors, is expected to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to blo ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Whitman a Chip of the Old McCain Block
    If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Meg Whitman and John McCain have quite the mutual admiration society. During the 2008 campaign, McCain parroted her claim that "1.3 million people in the world make a living off eBay" as the basis for his recession-fighting strategy. And now wit ...
  • Feminist Sarah Palin and Journalist Glenn Beck
    A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and so it is with the foul stench emanating from Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin . After years of proclaiming "I am not a journalist," Beck told USA Today he is in fact a journalist , albeit one without "formal training." And after grappling with whether t ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Is New Environmentalism the Answer or the Problem?
    Is "New Environmentalism" really forward-looking, or will it simply reinforce and accelerate the forces that got us into the climate crisis in the first place?
  • This is Only a Test
    If this had been an actual post, you would have been instructed to tune to twitter, facebook, or your feed reader for news and official information.
  • An Exclusive (Somewhat Apocryphal) Interview With ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 15, 2010 All this nambypambyism about the Gulf Oil Spill has got me down, so I figured Id go to the smartest guy on the planet to get his whats what. I met Stephen Hawking at his perch at the Mt. Palomar observ ...
  • President Outlines Plan for the Gulf; Congress Mem ...
    Back from his latest trip to the Gulf, President Obama outlined his plan for handling the recent oil spill, as well as his goals for the country's energy ambitions, in an address to the nation Tuesday evening. The complexity of stanching the flow into the Gulf waters aside, the president's plan for ...
  • Barack Obamas Oval Office Address on BP Oil Spill ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Propaganda Alert! The White House June 15, 2010 The President addresses the American people from the Oval Office for the first time on the ongoing Administration-wide response to the BP oil spill and Americas clean energy future. Public Domain President Obamas Ov ...

Consortium News

  • Wikileak Case Echoes Pentagon Papers
    Army specialist Bradley Manning's arrest over Iraq War secrets recalls the Dan Ellsberg case, say Coleen Rowley and Robert Parry. June 15, 2010
  • Witnesses of Border Killing Dispersed
    Witnesses of a U.S. border agent shooting a Mexican teenager were scattered, report Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss. June 15, 2010
  • The Gaza Ghetto
    More than a year after an Israeli military offensive, the embargo has prevented Gaza from rebuilding, says Alvaro Vargas Llosa. June 15, 2010
  • WPost, NYT Show Tough-Guy Swagger
    "Tough-guy-ism" on Mideast wars is back big-time with the Washington Post and New York Times editorialists, notes Robert Parry. June 14, 2010
  • Eyewitness Contests Israeli Account
    A survivor of Israel's Gaza relief ship raid says video clips hid the worst of the massacre, report Jesse Strauss and Dennis Bernstein. June 13, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • What Kevin Neish saw (Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch ...
    Kevin Neish of Victoria, British Columbia, didn't know he was a celebrity until he was about to board a flight from Istanbul to Ottawa. "This Arab woman wearing a beautiful outfit suddenly ran up to me crying, 'It's you! From Arab TV! You're famous!'" he recalls with a laugh. "I didn't know what she ...
  • UK charity to sue Israel over flotilla raid (Ma'a ...
    A UK-registered charity said on Tuesday it will file suit in Britain on behalf of activists detained by Israel two weeks ago after a fatal Israeli raid in May on an aid convoy en route to ...
  • Israel delays Gaza embargo decision (Al Jazeera)
    Israel's security cabinet has adjourned making a decision on whether to ease the three year blockade of the Gaza Strip. Ministers had been expected to approve expanding a list of about 80 ...
  • Soldier may face charges over Gaza killings (Dona ...
    The Israeli military is considering indicting a soldier for killing two Palestinian women in what would be the first prosecution in connection with hundreds of civilian deaths during its ...
  • Turkey set to freeze ties with Israel - report (T ...
    A Turkish newspaper reported on Wednesday that Turkey would halt military cooperation with Israel and not send back the ambassador it withdrew after a deadly Israeli commando operation to ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • TransCanada to Build a Tar-Sand Pipeline in East T ...
    While the Department of Energy took a step towards cutting the emissions of the state by approving a Carbon Capture and Storage project for Texas which will start early next year, a nasty tar-sand Pipeline is set to penetrate through Texas land and be completed by late 2011. The first segment of the ...
  • Texans Written Out of the Process by Supreme Court ...
    Take a look at this op-ed submitted by Public Citizen, EDF, and Sierra Club as commented upon by Burnt Orange Report File under “hugely important issue to everyday Texans that most of us know nothing about.” Three prominent pro-citizen activists have been working hard to draw attention to a proposed ...
  • Things to know about the TCEQ air-permitting contr ...
    Background: What the controversy is all about On May 25, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) barred the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi. EPA said that the process used to justify that permit violated the Clean Air ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Giant hailstones - how big can they get ?
    Gigantic hailstones are one of the most unusual and destructive forms of weather. Causing damage to roofs, cars and posing a risk to anyone caught wal...
  • Sci-fi weapons from tomorrow, today
    A run down of seven futuristic weapons that have passed squarely in to the realms of reality. From rail guns to automated robots, these weapon systems...
  • Man reports encounter with Bigfoot
    Cleveland County resident Tim Peeler has reported an encounter with Bigfoot on his rural property. The creature was described as 10 feet tall with a l...
  • Nasa warns over upcoming 'solar storm'
    Nasa has warned that solar flare activity in 2013 could cause widespread disruptions and devastation. Described as a "once in a generation solar storm...
  • 'Blood' runs from image of Christ
    Thousands have flocked to a church in Argentina where an image of Christ is said to be oozing blood. A mysterious red substance has been witnessed run...

Grassroots

Climate

  • June 17, 2010
    Obama's Call on Energy Bill Fails to Sway Congress (Reuters)  U.S. Pres. Obama's muted call for comprehensive energy legislation failed to sway a hesitant Congress on Wednesday, with hopes for approval before November elections fading fast. Federal Government Opposes Attempt To Stop Dril ...
  • June 16, 2010
    EPA: Climate Bill Costs Less Than Postage Stamp (AP)  A climate and energy bill being pushed in the Senate would cost American households 22 to 40 cents a day — less than the cost of a first-class postage stamp, the Obama administration said Tuesday. Climate Bill Lacks Momentum Even Afte ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • Call the Politburo, We're in Trouble: Entering the ...
    from TomDispatch Mark it on your calendar.  It seems we’ve finally entered the Soviet era in America. You remember the Soviet Union, now almost 20 years in its grave.  But who gives it a second thought today?  Even in its glory years that “evil empire” was sometimes referred to as “the second supe ...
  • How the U.S. Corporate Media Got the Israel Flotil ...
    Amid the continuing fallout over the deadly confrontation aboard the Gaza aid ship, Mavi Marmara , there is a critical historical lesson: There is only one real victim, and that is Israel. Sure, the “ small, isolated ” nation may appear to have been the aggressor, having surrounded a humanitarian co ...
  • Obama's Conservative Call to War Against Oil
    For people who live along the Gulf Coast, it's a matter of life or death. For the rest of us -- c'mon now, let's be honest -- the oil spewing from the Gulf floor and the effort to control it is mostly a television show. American politics, too, is mostly a television show. Last night Barack Obama tri ...
  • Ethnic Cleansing in Kyrgyzstan: More American Chic ...
    Believe it or not, I don't scour the headlines looking for tragedies and atrocities to blame on the United States. But that's how it often works out. When the big earthquake ravaged Haiti earlier this year, it would have been a relief to look at the resulting pain and despair and see nothing more th ...
  • Rape and Spillage
    � from Truthdig What's with the president's war analogy on the oil spill? It's as if some alien force, "The Invasion of the Slippery Sludge," suddenly attacked us. "Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al-Qaida," President Barack Obama said Tuesday in his White House sp ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Save the Gulf Walruses!
    Oil companies really do care. Why, they even laid out plans to make sure to protect walruses in case of a spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and, according to one report, two companies even offer contact information for a Florida marine researcher. Two problems: There are no walruses in the Gulf of [. ...
  • At the Corner of Wall Street and the Gulf of Mexic ...
    The distance from the canyons of lower Manhattan to the now soiled beaches of the Gulf Coast runs about 1300 miles. A long way and decidedly different lifestyles, you may think? I do not think so. In very real terms, the economic disasters centered in each of these locales are virtually contiguous. ...
  • Has The BP Oil Spill Broken Through…
    The Hopium Haze of Obama’s followers? Well, if Jon Stewart is an example, I’d have to say yes. Larry Johnson finally got me to start watching Stewart again after a long hiatus. The hiatus began when Stewart jumped on the Obama Sycophant Bandwagon. I was very disappointed that Stewart went that [ ...
  • SEC’s Senior Staff/Inmates Are Running the Asylum
    Any employee in any organization knows that an internal disciplinary double standard is the quickest way to kill morale. Happens all the time, right? Likely even worse in organizations with lots of bureaucracy? Uncle Sam would not know how to operate otherwise, you say? The answers to all those ques ...
  • Now, Laugh Your Ass Off
    Obama’s speech was awful. He wants to throw billions of dollars against the wall, hope something sticks and call it a solution. Rather than beat that drum let me offer you an alternative–Jon Stewart. (And after that, a rich desert of “ARE YOU SHITTING ME?” from Olby, Tingles and Fineman.) This se ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Seafood Stinks in the Wake of the Gulf Oil Spill
    NOAA’s inspectors are employing their noses to smell for contaminants as part of their safety assessment of Gulf seafood in response to the ongoing BP oil spill. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • BP Oblivious to Oil Spill’s Impact on Stock
    Amazingly, BP has yet to make the connection between the company's falling stock prices and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It recently sent out a press release dubb read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • The Secret History of Starbucks
    Starbucks claims they adopted their name from a character in the novel Moby Dick. But, the history of Nantucket Island suggests otherwise. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Vietnam's Wondrous Ha Long Bay
    If you find yourself in Vietnam you should make an effort to see the amazing peaks of Ha Long bay! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Incredible Seed Cathedral of Shanghai
    Britain's innovative contribution to the "Better City - Better Life" Shanghai Expo theme is the Seed Cathedral. 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

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Europe Sounds Alarm on Minerals Shortage
    The European Commission warns of looming shortage of minerals that are critical to cutting-edge technologies.
  • It's Raining Lawyers in the Gulf
    A cavalcade of lawyers are homing in on what is shaping up as one of the worst environmental disasters in the nation's history.
  • On Our Radar: A New Minerals Chief
    A former federal prosecutor and Iran-contra investigator is named to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service.
  • Slide Rule Cedes to 'the Traveling Wave'
    Every reactor now running in the United States was designed in the era of the slide rule, according to Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer at Microsoft, who says new ones should be designed with computers.
  • Debating Dawn's Drop in the Bucket
    Procter & Gamble is calling attention to the use of Dawn, its dishwashing detergent, to clean oil-soaked birds in the gulf. While some see this as simply a marketing opportunity, others describe it as an important symbolic expression of concern about the effects of the oil spill.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Assange == Auction the leaks? Lamo was a Honeypot ...
    Vatican Endorses "The Blues Brothers" - ABC News - nothing else matters too much. " The issue here is that Assange and Manning (the primary source of Wikileaks Iraq and Afghanistan leaks) hoped to jointly profit by selling some of the data by auction " -- Supposed "Wikileaks Insider" @ Cryptome ...
  • Daily Show: Obama == "Respect My Authoritah"
    Great stuff from tonight's Daily Show. It contrasts with the right-baiting on MSNBC right now nicely :) Update 15 mins later: - look what the photo host service I tweeted it from did! TAKEN OVER BY HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP advertising. Dark times. here: http://tweetphoto.com/27442324
  • 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

Daily Censored

  • Is President Obama a puppet on the left arm of one ...
    source with video. Jon Stewart exposes the criminal acts of President Obama in contrast to the presidential candidate who campaigned as a constitutional scholar committed to the rule of US law. Washington’s Blog also artfully communicates this hypocrisy:   Here is a complete and comprehensive list ...
  • Here is an easy one for you…
    Want to know how you can let BP off the hook for this catastrophe?  It is so simple.  Especially with everyone blaming Obama for not waving his magic wand, all you have to do is VOTE REPUBLICAN in the mid-term elections.  That is all you gotta do!  Get those Republicans back in there and they [...]
  • Wikileaks inspires new media haven in Iceland
    Reykjavik, Iceland; 4:00 UTC, June 16th 2010. The WikiLeaks advised proposal to build an international “new media haven” in Iceland, with the world’s strongest press and whistleblower protection laws, and a “Nobel” prize for for Freedom of Expression, has unaminously passed the Icelandic Parliament. ...
  • An Israeli “Refusenik” Speaks
    Note: Or Ben David is a young Israeli woman who ecently served jail time for refusing to serve in the Israeli army. Recently she visited London, and while there she met with a group of mainly Muslim youth, to talk about her experiences. After the meeting, one young man commented that he had only com ...
  • The Other “GULF” In This Country
    This is a reply to a reply to one of my blogs.  I made it a blog because it is a response to a number of selfish people in this country.  I hate to think of the world they would wreak if they actually ever get the reins of power.  They would make Brave New [...]

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Taxing the Wall Street Casino
    In the United States and many countries around the world, there is growing momentum behind proposals to place a very small tax on trades of stock, currency, derivatives, and other financial assets.
  • The Talented Tenth
    When will we wean ourselves of the delusion that a talented tenth -- be they entrepreneurs or technocrats or pundits -- will deliver us from poverty and the other ills of the world?
  • The Chase for the World Cup Has Begun
    Amidst the celebrations there are some real questions about how the people of South Africa will benefit from the World Cup.
  • Obama BP Speak Should Signal Shift in Energy Futur ...
    Obama has a golden opportunity to show that his administration is about changing politics as usual - if he and his advisors have the political courage to seize the moment.
  • 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.

Pine River World News

  • Washington "discovers" Afghanistan's mineral wealt ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Washington "discovers" Afghanistan's mineral wealth � � World Socialist Web Site By Alex Lantier June 15, 2010 For anyone who was still undecided, the New York Times has made it official: the war in Afghanistan is ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

After Downing Street.org

  • Corporate Apocalypse vs. Solartopian Survival
    Corporate Apocalypse vs. Solartopian Survival By Harvey Wasserman BP’s apocalyptic Gulf gusher has put our ability to survive in serious doubt. We have no reason to believe the end is near---or even in sight. Nor can we begin to calculate the damage to our Mother Earth…to her oceans, to the core o ...
  • If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing!
  • Child Homelessness in America
    Child Homelessness in America By Stephen Lendman The National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) studies and reports on the phenomenon, including its causes and consequences. On March 10, 2009, it launched a Campaign to End Child Homelessness, and on the same day released "America's Youngest Ou ...
  • Syria: Israel raid on Gaza flotilla raises risk of ...
    Syria: Israel raid on Gaza flotilla raises risk of Mideast war | Haaretz In interview with BBC, Assad says Israel being run by a 'pyromaniac government' that makes peace impossible Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that Israel is being run by a "pyromaniac government", warning that its ra ...
  • Israel To Ease Gaza Land Blockade
    Israel to ease Gaza land blockade Security cabinet votes to 'liberalize' system by which goods enter Hamas territory, and expand flow of materials for civilian projects under international supervision By Barak Ravid | Haaretz Israel's security cabinet voted Thursday to ease its land blockade of th ...

Grist - News

  • BP chairman ‘cares about the small people.&# ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg must still be learning the finer points of crisis relations -- here's his explanation (before the White House press corps) of why President Obama is so frustrated with his company: [He's] frustrated because he cares about the smal ...
  • Daily terror: We’re learning nothing from Gu ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. The New Republic 's Bradford Plumer has a post today -- Why our reaction to the oil spill absolutely terrifies me -- that's, well, sorta terrifying. It's about how the body politic seems just plain unable to deal with the Gulf oil leak in any sane way: What's esp ...
  • EPA: Without American Power Act, one percent chanc ...
    by Brad Johnson. Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . The American Power Act may be President Obama’s last chance to pass comprehensive climate legislation and prevent catastrophe this year. The legislation, drafted by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) ...
  • BP relief ship struck by lightning, bum luck
    by Ashley Braun. There have been many, many striking things about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: the carelessness of BP CEO Tony Hayward's comments , the ridiculousness of BP's spill-response plan , the scope and scale of the spill itself, the list of failed attempts to plug the leak whos ...
  • Oil execs turn against BP in Congress hearing
    by Jonathan Hiskes. The planet's most powerful oil executives found their well-tailored behinds planted in the Congressional hot seat today, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee grilled the chiefs of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Shell, and, of course, BP America about the Gulf oi ...

Popular Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Petraeus: ‘Double Digits’ of al-Qaeda ...
    Something that couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday but bears mentioning: Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, told a Senate panel that al-Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan numbered in the “double digits.” In a somewhat heated exchange with Sen. Lindsey ...
  • ‘Too Young Not to Work but Too Old to Work&# ...
    Experts say that age discrimination is severely compounding the jobs crisis for older workers in the recession, although the phenomenon is difficult to quantify or to prove.
  • Conference Committee Waters Down Ratings Agency Pr ...
    Today, the conference committee merging the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform agreed to water down a provision randomizing the assignment of deals to credit ratings agencies — overhauling the business by stopping companies from shopping for favorable ratings. The reform, propo ...
  • To GOP Senators’ Dismay, Petraeus and Flourn ...
    Over objections from Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Gen. David Petraeus said that the administration's July 2011 target date was "etched in stone."
  • Video: Can There Be a Populist Conservatism?
    Today, the Hudson Institute and the Bradley Symposium hosted a number of leading conservative thinkers, who weighed in on the question: Can there be a populist conservatism? Here’s what Jonah Goldberg, Dick Armey, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Michael Barone had to say:

Digg Green

  • The Big Spill: Update and Outlook
    As oil continues to leak in the ocean, the question becomes whether the largest spill in history will be the impetus to revive the otherwise grim status of climate and energy reforms, aimed at reducing dependence on oil and coal.
  • 12 Cool Ways US Cities Are Helping The Environment ...
    As conventional wisdom would have it, city governments are usually too calcified by stubbornness and bureaucracy to really change the world. But, together with nonprofits and activists, many American cities have imagined novel ways to reduce pollution and help make society more sustainable.
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, s ...
    Lawrence Solomon June 13, 2010 – 8:50 am The UN’s 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. The actual number ...
  • FOX IN THE HENHOUSE, CAN WE TRUST ISRAELI SECURITY ...
    By Gordon Duff “Would you go to a doctor who worked in a germ warfare lab? Would you hire a check forger to work in a bank? Would you hire a child molester to watch your kids? Well, we have hired Israel to watch our ports, our nuclear facilities, our airports and much more, a [...]
  • SEC: Government Destroyed Documents Regarding Pre- ...
    On September 19, 2001, CBS reported: Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market. An extraordinary number of trades were betting that American Airlines stock price would fall. The trades are called “puts” ...
  • Afghanistan Mineral Riches: Beware the Hype
    News that “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” should be taken with several doses of salt. But, as Foreign Policy ...
  • Helen Thomas’ Resolution
    By Gilad Atzmon Those who are engaged in the Palestinian solidarity discourse are familiar with two visions of conflict resolution: the ‘Two State Solution’ and the ‘One State Solution’. This week we have learned about a third possible resolution that seems to me the most reasonable and ethical cons ...

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

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

  • Sweeping Alcala Da Guadaria Stadium Blends in With ...
    We have been looking at a lot of stadiums lately because of the World Cup, but this unique re-envisioning of what a sports venue can be caught our eye. By bringing the fans closer to the action and lowering the visual impact of structure the design creates an open public plaza rather than a monolith ...
  • KINETICOMPOST: A Wind Powered Composter
    KinetiCompost is a wind powered rotating composter made of 100% recycled material. Designed by Ben Bangser, an industrial design and sculpture double major at Syracuse University, KinetiCompost works by using a geared down wind turbine to slowly turn the compost barrel. Just put your compostable mat ...
  • Inhabitat’s Favorite Green Products from Neocon 20 ...
    Read the rest of Inhabitat’s Favorite Green Products from Neocon 2010http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "sustainab ...
  • Eco Friendly Kids Glass from Skyline Design
    Skyline Design unveiled its ultra-fun line of graphic illustrated glass at NeoCon this week and it’s a hit – especially with young designers. The material’s brightly hued shapes provide the perfect accent for kid’s rooms, healthcare centers, libraries or anywhere that needs a little cheeriness. ...
  • Gorgeous Belgian Eco Office is Green Outside and I ...
    The Belgian utility provider Infrax has built an innovative office space that is every bit as green as its brilliantly-hued facade. Designed by Crepain-Binst Architecture, Infrax West is focused on reducing its energy consumption with a powerful mix of technologies and design. Located in Torhout, B ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Amazing Starling Flocks Are Flying Avalanches
    To watch the uncanny synchronization of a starling flock in flight is to wonder if the birds aren’t actually a single entity, governed by something beyond the usual rules of biology. New research suggests that’s true. Mathematical analysis of flock dynamics show how each starling’s movement is infl ...
  • Rare Gene Glitch a Clue to Genomics Mystery
    The discovery of links between rare gene mutations and autoimmune disease could help solve one of modern medicine’s major dilemmas. Common diseases have largely resisted genomic analysis, leaving scientists unable to explain genetic underpinnings of diseases that clearly have a hereditary component ...
  • Hubble Finds Jupiter’s Missing Stripe
    New Hubble images reveal what happened to one of Jupiter’s main cloud belts: It’s hiding behind ammonia clouds. âWeather forecast for Jupiterâs Southern Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia,â planetary scientist Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado said ...
  • Exoplanet Hunter’s First Data Withholds the Good S ...
    The planet-hunting space telescope, Kepler, released its first big batch of data today. That should be exciting, but the team held back the good stuff until February 2011, wanting to analyze and follow up on the early observations themselves. Kepler is trying to find Earth-like planets that exist a ...
  • Swine Flu Lacks Killer Molecule
    BOSTON — The H1N1 swine flu just doesn’t have what it takes to be a real killer, a new study of the 1918 Spanish flu suggests. Scientists have been studying the 1918 Spanish flu virus to find out what made it so deadly. The virus caused a pandemic that killed 20 million to 40 million people [...]

The Progressive Realist

  • The Iranian Green Movement One Year Later
    Daniel Larison , riffing on a Hooman Majd post commemorating the one year anniversary of the controversial Iranian election that helped spawn the Green movement, says much of what I was saying at the time, and would like to reiterate now – only he does it better.  In particular, Larison discusses so ...
  • Iran’s Democrats and Those Who Exploit Them
    A year after the Green movement took to the streets in protest of Iran’s controversial presidential election, former presidential candidate and nominal Green movement leader Mir Hossein Moussavi has issued a set of demands for specific political reforms. While sounding many of the key points that Mo ...
  • Regaining a Sustainable Defense Posture
    I I don't think it's an overstatement to say that everyone anticipates a significant adjustment to the defense budget - no one in Congress or the DOD is exactly rushing forward to propose how, or more importantly, when the defense budget should be downscoped to a more appropriate level of spending i ...
  • Correcting Misinformation on START
    The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) deserves the full support of the United States Senate. Strategic arms control treaties have historically had strong, bipartisan support. There is nothing in this treaty should prevent the Senate from following that tradition. Thatâs why the recent ...
  • Afghanistan Effort Falling on Its Face
    In the midst of testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee defending the progress of the mission in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus fainted.  Thankfully, he appears to be fine.  Alas, the symbolism was powerful. The 57-year-old chief of Central Command apparently was suffering from ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Our Endless Capacity for Failure.
    Obama 's Oval Office speech will not move his poll numbers or magically compel Congress to support climate change legislation. But it should have been a chance to express his position on energy policy, and on that score, Obama failed . If you want to tackle climate change , you actually have to ack ...
  • Real Presidents Don't Eat Quiche.
    So, you say in zis dream your mother is chasing you vith a giant cucumber, and you have no cucumber of your own vith vich to strike her down? Very interesting... You may not recall (it was a relatively short-lived campaign kerfuffle), but in August 2008, John McCain attacked Barack Obama for ment ...
  • The Little Picture: Looming Teacher Layoffs.
    A protest against teacher layoffs in Washington, D.C. The White House called for increasing aid to the states to ward off such layoffs, which has� touched off �a spat over where to find the money: An annoyed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a White House liaison to her office, House Education and ...
  • Rand Paul's Ophthalmology Board Isn't Just About P ...
    Ben Smith has written a run-down on the underlying ideology that contributes to Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul 's crusade against the organization that certifies�ophthalmologists�like him as proficient in their field. When the American Board of Ophthalmologists began periodically re-certifying ...
  • Dept. of Rhetorical Insincerity.
    Marc Lamont Hill hates the almost studiously bland rapper Drake , but it has nothing to do with race or class. Really. In addition to his lyrical deficiencies, there is something naggingly inauthentic about Drake. And nope, it’s not because he’s a half-white Canadian named Aubrey whose original cla ...

Andy Worthington

  • UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons ...
    To complement my recent article, âUN Human Rights Council Discusses Secret Detention Report,â in which I explained how, two weeks ago, the UN Human Rights Council had — after some delays — finally discussed the findings of the âJoint Study on Global Practices in Relation to Secret Detention in ...
  • UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “ ...
    To complement my recent article, âUN Human Rights Council Discusses Secret Detention Report,â in which I explained how, two weeks ago, the UN Human Rights Council had — after some delays — finally discussed the findings of the âJoint Study on Global Practices in Relation to Secret Detention in ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Photos: Human Sacrifices Found at Ancient China Co ...
    NoneHow better to say "bless this house" than by sacrificing horse or human? A new dig in China sheds light on the ancient practice's beginnings. China - Asia - Social Sciences - Archaeology - Maps and Views
  • "Ominous" Pre-Katrina Conditions Now in Atlantic
    Ocean conditions this spring resemble those of 2005, the most active and destructive Atlantic hurricane season on record, meteorologists say. Atlantic Ocean - Meteorology - North Atlantic tropical cyclone - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences
  • 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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • 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

  • IFI’s Laurie Higgins Goes Off the Deep End, Again
    So you thought McDonald’s was a huge fast-food restaurant chain making huge profits and reaping some criticism in the process over the healthiness of its food? Well, think again. The company whose 31,000 outlets serve nearly 47 million people a day actually is a full-fledged font of evil. It is “hel ...
  • Georgia Oath Keeper Charged After Attempting ‘Citi ...
    When Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball” last October, he argued that the newly formed, rapidly growing “Patriot” group was no threat to anybody – just a collection of police officers and military types who pledge to defend the Constitution and to disobey unconstitutio ...
  • Anti-Immigration ‘Labor’ Group Misleads on Job Los ...
    A front group for several nativist organizations is airing television ads in Arizona that link undocumented immigrants to high unemployment. The Coalition for the Future American Worker is trying to capitalize on momentum from the harsh new Arizona law targeting undocumented immigrants, according to ...
  • The FAIR Files: Working With the Pioneer Fund
    During the heated debate leading up to the 1994 vote on California’s Proposition 187, a punishing anti-immigrant ordinance that would have denied social services to undocumented immigrants had it not been rejected by the courts, an embarrassing truth about the Federation for American Immigration Ref ...
  • An Irritated World Net Daily Denounces Terrible Re ...
    For an organization that loathes the mainstream media, World Net Daily sure craves their acceptance. The book publishing division of the far-right, Obama-obsessed organization released a new title about the president last week and it’s furious about the contempt with which major news organizations h ...

change: org.

  • The Road to 18,000 California Same-Sex Couples: Da ...
    My three-year old twin boys had the following conversation the other day: Brunette: Bert and Ernie are married? Blond: Yeah. They are married. Brunette: They are married because they are happy and love each other? Blond: Yeah. Man, I love them. The idea that marriage is simply being happy and loving ...
  • Karate Kid Remake a Mixed Bag of Stereotype ...
    The 1984 film  Karate Kid was a classic. If you were born in the 80s, you can probably remember spending hours practicing crane kicks and "wax on-wax off" technique as a child — all while fantasizing about beating up the evil Cobra Kai. So it's no wonder that the Karate Kid films are being remade fo ...
  • Jane Lynch Kept Animal Cruelty Out of Glee
    Remember that line in Glee where Sue Sylvester threatened Will Schuester that she was going to get a cat from the shelter, let him fall in love with it, and then kill it? No? That's because Jane Lynch, the actress who plays Sue Sylvester, nixed the animal cruelty in the original script. The line you ...
  • An Elephant Never Forgets (But Apparently India Do ...
    Back in November 2009, the Central Zoo Authority , under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, made a promise to India's captive elephants to set them free, rehoming them to safari parks and sanctuaries where these normally free-roaming animals could graze openly. The move, which followed a long ...
  • "Lucky" Warren Buffett Urges Fellow Billionaires t ...
    As third richest person on the planet, Warren Buffett's no stranger to making headlines. In 2006, he pledged to give away 99 percent of his money to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008, he became, for a brief time, the world's richest man , dethroning the illustrious Gates himself. Now, wit ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Human Rights Groups say Israel's 'Easing of Blocka ...
    by Harriet Sherwood and agencies Israel will ease much of its land blockade on the Gaza Strip, hoping to silence growing international criticism following the assault on a flotilla of aid ships in which nine activists were killed. A statement from prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office said that ...
  • Beneath the Surface: What Obama Is Overlooking in ...
    by Dan Froomkin When it comes to mitigating the effects of the oil spill, President Obama, like his administration's federal response, has focused on the country's coastlines. read more
  • A State Democratic Party Tells Congress: Reject Mo ...
    by John Nichols Working with Progressive Democrats of America , anti-war delegates to the state convention of the Wisconsin Democratic Party passed a floor resolution urging Congress to block Obama's  "emergency" proposal to spend an addition $33 billion to maintain the pay for the U.S. military ...
  • Do Armed Contractors Belong in War Zones?
    by Pratap Chatterjee WASHINGTON - Should private contractors like Blackwater be allowed to continue to provide armed security for convoys, diplomatic and other personnel, and military bases and other facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq? A bipartisan U.S. Congressional commission will spend tw ...
  • WikiLeaks to Release Video of Deadly US Afghan Att ...
    by Chris McGreal The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it plans to release a secret military video of one of the deadliest US air strikes in Afghanistan in which scores of children are believed to have been killed. read more

Lifehacker

  • Opera 10.6 Beta Speeds Up Even More, Adds HTML5 Ca ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera's updated its early 10.6 browser builds to beta, giving early adopters a taste of many more HTML5 capabilities, supposedly ramping up JavaScript and page load speed further, and adding some helpful default search engin ...
  • ToRead Sends Article Text Straight to Your Inbox [ ...
    If you put nearly everything in your Gmail or other inbox, why not send long articles there for later reading? Free text-stripping and mailing service toread offers a bookmarklet that sends whatever you click right to your email. More�� ...
  • ShootMe Is a Simple Shake-Activated Screenshot Too ...
    Android: If you're looking for a good reason to root your Android phone , ShootMe is the easiest Android screenshot and screencasting software available. All you need is a rooted phone—or, for now, HTC EVO 4G—to take advantage of it. More » ...
  • YouTube Video Editor Cuts Uploaded Clips Together ...
    YouTube has quietly made a new web-based video editor available to signed-in users, one that can trim and paste together uploaded clips into new works. If you need a backing soundtrack, YouTube's got free audio tracks for that, too. More�� ...
  • Try Out Microsoft Office 2010 Free for 60 Days (an ...
    Office 2010 hit the shelves yesterday, and Office remains a not-cheap money maker for Microsoft. Here's a reminder of how you can try out any version of Office 2010 free for 60 days—and then, with software, maybe more. More » ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • What Makes Karzai Tick
    Commentary By Ron Beasley The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cOre on Terrorwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party As Steve pointed out Afghanistan's not so newly discovered mineral wealth will probably lead to even more corruption and the vast majority ...
  • Did NYT's Risen Get Played On Afghan Mineral Wealt ...
    By Steve Hynd James Risen, author of the New York Times report about $1 trillion worth of mineral wealth "just discovered" in Afghanistan, has hit back in an interview at pundits and bloggers who have called the piece a shill job for the Pentagon. Talking to John Cook of Yahoo! Newsroom, he said: "B ...
  • 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.

Water Wars

  • Apalachicola Riverkeeper has been helping with oil ...
    Andrew "Andy" Smith began protecting the 107-mile-long Apalachicola River and the 40 miles of coastal bays and estuaries that it flows into since 1998.
  • Ravalli County facing extreme drought
    HAMILTON- There are three Montana counties facing severe dronght, including Ravalli County, following a pretty mild winter in Western Montana.
  • 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?
  • Ravalli County faces extreme drought
    HAMILTON- After a pretty mild winter in Western Montana, there are three counties facing severe drought. One is Ravalli county. In Hamilton the complex irrigation systems which are designed to give farmers and ranchers their summer long moisture are trying to plan how they will survive the drought.
  • 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?

WordPress | Economics

  • Lots Of Scare Quotes In This Blog Post
    Steve Benen: In his Oval Office address last night, President Obama explained that he would meet tod
  • Brilliant Frugal Living's "Frugalista Diet" - Menu ...
    www.BrilliantFrugalLiving.com Hey everybody! Happy Thursday – Hope your week is going GREAT. Mention
  • GM Adds Some New Steps to the "Chicken Dance"
    In September 2009, I posted a blog entitled “Is the Chicken Dance Continuing or Is It High Sta
  • More Pensions Go Poof
    In Chapter 1 of Operation SERF I wrote that many pensions have disappeared by 2023. Even payment of
  • When having an MBA is Important
    //
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Prince Charles Gets in Trouble with Architects Aga ...
    Image from the Guardian Prince Charles has a habit of getting in trouble with architects. HRH likes buildings in the traditional style so that they look like they are from a quieter, gentler... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Relaja, a Locally Produced Bench Made from Recycle ...
    Using marble is generally not very eco-friendly; you have to dig it out, leaving a dead hole in the landscape, it takes plenty of water and energy to cut it, and, is very heavy to transport. Moreover, the marble industry creates tonnes of waste when cutting and processing the stones. Nutcreative ...
  • 2010 So Far Has Been Hottest Year on Record: NOAA
    photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr. Continuing the trend from the previous month, NOAA reports that May, the period from March to May, and from January to May all have had the hottest combined global land and ocean surface temperatures since records began in 1880. ... Read the full story on T ...
  • Just What We Needed Dept.: Tourist Lanes
    TreeHugger loves ideas that make things smoother for non-motorized transportation. Here is one that would be a big help in cities that attract a lot of tourists: dedicated lanes. This would be particularly effective in New York, where the locals move really fast. As noted in Popup City , then th ...
  • Video Conferencing Can Save $19 Billion, 5.5 Milli ...
    Photo by Scottfeldstein A new report by by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and sponsored by AT&T has revealed that videoconferencing can mean huge savings for companies, both in money and carbon footprints. According to the report, adding a telepresence to their repertoire can mean U.S. and ...

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

  • Russia needs to develop new types of industrial ac ...
    Russia is very rich in raw materials and so it’s concentrated on heavy industry, but the future lies in the field of high technology, and the transformation of that technology into products that consumers can use.
  • Who "Finlandises" Whom?
    We don`t have enough future if unconscious past drags us back. It`s impossible to look serious while reading in foreign press about Russian "finlandisation" of its neighbors. The period of severe "finlandisation" of Russia ("canadisation" in the American variant) in the nineties comes to our minds a ...
  • Russia received no notifications from Bulgaria on ...
    Russia has received no notifications from Bulgaria on its plans to abandon the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Thursday.
  • Special forces storm militant hide-out in Dagestan ...
    Six militants have been killed in a security operation mounted in the Khasavyurt District, Dagestan, one of the republic’s federal security service spokesmen told RIA Novosti.
  • Russia's top court says Baikal pulp plant reopenin ...
    Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the government's decision to reopen Baikal pulp plant despite the large-scale public protests was legal

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • The Unfortunate Necessity of Wikileaks
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The whistleblower site WikiLeaks has been on the periphery of the news lately because of the arrest of Bradley Manning. Manning was the source for April’s video of a US military attack in Baghdad that killed civilians, and he was ar ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Whole Foods Market Imposes One-Year Deadline on Br ...
    The new standard announced by Whole Foods is a milestone achievement for OCA campaigners who recently began escalating tactics with boycotts of organic cheaters, protests at trade shows and forging strong alliances with groups such as Consumers Union. Click here to read this article
  • Arctic Bird Poop Loaded with Environmental Poisons ...
    High Arctic seabirds carry a ``cocktail'' of contaminants, confirms new research, which analyzed the excrement of Arctic terns and eiders nesting on a small island north of Resolute Bay. Click here to read this article
  • Genetically Modified DNA Does Jump Species
    Horizontal gene transfer - DNA being taken up and integrating into the genome of cells - came under scrutiny by the European food Safety Authority (EFSA) in relation the safety of antibiotic resistance marker genes in genetically modified (GM) crops grown commercially or entering the market. EFSA ...
  • Sugar Industry Acting Like Big Tobacco in its Defe ...
    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 illness. But in th ...
  • Mosquito Spray "Environmentally Friendly" Pesticid ...
    A widely used microbicide may not be as environmentally friendly as previously thought. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Apertura oficial de la Copa del Mundo Sudáfrica 20 ...
    Para todos aquéllos que viven la intensidad del Fútbol Soccer , les tengo en exclusiva el acceso directo a 40 fotografías gigantes sobre la apertura oficial de la Copa del Mundo en Sudáfrica 2010 . Conocida también como FIFA World Cup 2010 , este evento multitudinario atrae a millones de turistas de ...
  • Volcán de Pacaya y desastres naturales en Guatemal ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Origen de las fotogrías y artículo (en Inglés) 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g ...
  • Castillos de verano or Summer castles (21 fotos)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficia ...
  • Recordando el Día D o D-Day hace 66 años..
    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 El pasado 6 de junio, fue el aniversario número 66 de la exitosa invasión aliada de Francia de 1944. Varias operaciones se combinaron para llevar a cabo la mayor ...
  • 36 fotografías gratuitas para ver y compartir...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Scott Paul on Compensating the Victims of Armed Co ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Scott Paul, the Making Amends Campaign Fellow with the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict .  I'm delighted to welcome Scott to OJ; in his previous life, he was was one of my favorite bloggers -- a regular contributor to The Washingto ...
  • The Sadly Neutered Crime of Aggression
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve long supported providing the ICC with jurisdiction over the crime of aggression.  Call me old-fashioned, but I believe there is a great deal of truth to the IMT’s insistence that “[t]o initiate a war of aggression… is not only an international crime; ...
  • ICC Review Conference: Early Reports of an Ingenio ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It looks like the ICC Review Conference has reached consensus on a definition of the “crime of aggression” and the mechanisms governing the ICC Prosecutor’s jurisdiction over such a crime.  According to the AFP, the new amendment to the Rome Statute provides: [T]hat the ...
  • Joan Donoghue to Fill Vacancy at the ICJ
    by Roger Alford Joan Donoghue, the Principal Deputy Legal Adviser in the Department of State, has been selected to be the next United States Judge for the International Court of Justice, according to reliable sources. Donoghue will replace Thomas Buergenthal, who has ably served as a judge on the ...
  • Universities and Development in Poor Countries
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Over at AidWatch (William Easterly’s blog), guest blogger Moussa P. Blimpo puts up a post on the role of universities in development in poor countries, in Africa and elsewhere.  There are a lot of tradeoffs, explicit and implied - should universal primary ...

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

  • Congress May Take a Bite Out of COBRA – Ariz ...
    Congress May Take a Bite Out of COBRA – Arizonans in Limbo Phoenix, AZ – A bill to extend fiscal relief for Arizonans relying on programs like unemployment, Medicaid and COBRA failed to pass a procedural hurdle Wednesday. The bill is being revised for another try, but it could be leaner than before, ...
  • National HIV Testing Day Coming Soon
    National HIV Testing Day Coming Soon Phoenix, AZ – National HIV Testing Day is June 27. State and local health departments are teaming with community-based organizations and businesses to promote early diagnosis and testing for HIV. Comments from Ann Gardner, HIV testing and referral coordinator, A ...
  • Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Fun ...
    Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Funded Candidates Phoenix, AZ – The U-S Supreme Court has blocked the matching-funds part of Arizona’s publicly-funded Clean Elections system. The move puts incumbent Governor Jan Brewer at a major disadvantage to a wealthy businessman challenging her in the ...
  • Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim o ...
    Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim of Cartel Border Violence Phoenix, AZ – In their campaigns, several Arizona politicians are claiming that Mexico’s drug wars have spilled over into Arizona. But border city law enforcement officials say there’s been no increase in violence. Comments from Do ...
  • AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields
    AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s disturbed public lands should be priority sites for generating wind and solar power. That’s the position of the state’s Democratic members of Congress, who are urging federal land managers to steer green energy projects to places ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Why, really, was the USS Liberty attacked by Israe ...
    I want to begin by saying that though I covered wars wherever they were taking place on Planet Earth in my television reporting days it was in Vietnam as a very young correspondent that I first started to ask myself questions about why things are as the Submitted by Nadia S. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Is Making A Lot Of Pe ...
    It is becoming increasingly clear that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and/or the chemical dispersants being used are making a lot of people sick. So far most of the reports have been about breathing difficulties, vomiting and various flu-like sympto Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �| ...
  • The 'Denial' Frame | False Choices
    I couldn't comment today...no connectivity...so I blogged my thoughts. Frame is a reference to the Overton Window - a way to make one's perception of what is reasonable...move. That's Perception Alteration in Topical Index. Science... isn't simple yes/no Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �| ...
  • Meet the green who doubts The Science
    The author of Chill explains why hes sceptical about manmade global warming and why greens are so intolerant.You have only to produce less cloud over the oceans and they will release heat to space.Dynamics of cloud cover is incredibly uncertain. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� � ...
  • Mandatory H1N1 Swine Flu Forced Vaccinations - NWO ...
    The authorities are going forward with some very bold, very disturbing assumptions: 1) The "H1N1 swine flu" (which actually has elements of H5N1 avian flu Submitted by Samantha B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel to allow more goods into Gaza
    ShareThis Israel to allow more goods into Gaza --Cabinet decides to ease siege imposed on Strip by Olmert government. Method of blockade to be changed, inflow of civilian goods and material for civilian projects to be expanded 17 Jun 2010 International pressure works: The National Security Cabinet o ...
  • 'US conduct can elicit public revolt'
    ShareThis 'US conduct can elicit public revolt' 17 Jun 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says if US politicians allowed the American nation free access to government conduct, US citizens would rise against their outrageous policies. President Ahmadinejad, who is in Iran's western province o ...
  • New York library users read authorities riot act
    ShareThis New York library users read authorities riot act --24-hour read-in on steps of Brooklyn library attracts 1,200 people to protest against cuts and expected closures �16 Jun 2010 Library campaigners in New York failed to keep the noise down this weekend as they hosted a 24-hour "read-in" on ...
  • Israeli Flotilla Attack May Violate International, ...
    ShareThis Israeli Flotilla Attack May Violate International, Maritime Laws 15 Jun 2010 When two widely-divergent investigative panels launch their probes on the recent Israeli attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, one of the disputed issues under scrutiny would be the lega ...
  • US aid to Somali military 'illegal'
    ShareThis US aid to Somali military 'illegal' 17 Jun 2010 A US lawmaker says Washington may be in violation of the law by providing military assistance to the Somali government, which employs children as soldiers. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he noted that such assistance might ...

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

  • Chomsky in Lebanon
    After being denied entry to the West Bank by Israel, Noam Chomsky spent some time in Amman and then made his way to Lebanon. He took a tour of the south which coincided with the 10-year anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from most of occupied Lebanon. A few days later I was one [...]
  • Terry Gross has no empathy for Palestinians
    Tomorrow night, Terry Gross, the longtime host of Fresh Air on National Public Radio, will submit to questions in an event at Town Hall in New York, hosted by Brian Lehrer, a talk-show host at WNYC. Both radio personalities bend over backwards for Israel. Maybe someone will ask Gross to speak sincer ...
  • ‘Democracy’ Means the U.S. and Israel ...
    Thomas Friedman sure knows how to flip reality on its head. In his New York Times op-ed column today, Friedman hops on the bandwagon of bashing Turkey for "joining the Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran resistance front against Israel." Friedman accuses Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan of no longer pr ...
  • Brits say 13 ‘Bloody Sunday’ victims w ...
    And other news from Today in PalestineLand theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Harassment and crop destruction in Hebron The Israeli army conducted a night raid the on the mosque Othman Ibn Afan in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, 14 June 2010. At 9.30 pm local residents and mosque visitors witnessed appr ...
  • Henochowicz posts photo of her face
    Emily Henochowicz will be dealing artistically for the rest of her life with the fact that the Israelis shot out her left eye on May 31. She begins that process with some musings here, and the post is accompanied by a photo of her stitched socket.

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

  • Gobar Gas II
    (Unabridged) Michael Yon Published 15 June 2010 Brunei, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam 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 colonial days, Gurkhas are a f ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Prince Charles Gets in Trouble with Architects Aga ...
    Image from the Guardian Prince Charles has a habit of getting in trouble with architects. HRH likes buildings in the traditional style so that they look like they are from a quieter, gentler... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Relaja, a Locally Produced Bench Made from Recycle ...
    Using marble is generally not very eco-friendly; you have to dig it out, leaving a dead hole in the landscape, it takes plenty of water and energy to cut it, and, is very heavy to transport. Moreover, the marble industry creates tonnes of waste when cutting and processing the stones. Nutcreative ...
  • 2010 So Far Has Been Hottest Year on Record: NOAA
    photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr. Continuing the trend from the previous month, NOAA reports that May, the period from March to May, and from January to May all have had the hottest combined global land and ocean surface temperatures since records began in 1880. ... Read the full story on T ...
  • Just What We Needed Dept.: Tourist Lanes
    TreeHugger loves ideas that make things smoother for non-motorized transportation. Here is one that would be a big help in cities that attract a lot of tourists: dedicated lanes. This would be particularly effective in New York, where the locals move really fast. As noted in Popup City , then th ...
  • Video Conferencing Can Save $19 Billion, 5.5 Milli ...
    Photo by Scottfeldstein A new report by by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and sponsored by AT&T has revealed that videoconferencing can mean huge savings for companies, both in money and carbon footprints. According to the report, adding a telepresence to their repertoire can mean U.S. and ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Rangoon photographer sent to Insein
    Father joins son in Burma's notorious Insein prison and will face trial on 22 June after being arrested for photographing the Rangoon bombings in April
  • Flooded Rohingya
    View Photo Album The Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh’s eastern Cox’s Bazaar is home to thousands of ethnic Rohingya refugees who have fled persecution by the ruling junta in Burma. From 13 to 15 June heavy rains swept across Bangladesh and western Burma, causing heavy flooding and landslides a ...
  • Burma flood death toll at 46
    Fatalities from flooding and landslides rise in western Burma as Bangladesh confirms that nearly 60 have been killed following days of heavy rain
  • UN slams Suu Kyi’s ‘unlawful’ detention
    UN body reaffirms stance that Burmese opposition icon's house arrest is in violation of international law and is 'because of her political views'
  • Four die in helicopter crash
    Military helicopter crashes in eastern Burma during bad weather, killing four and seruiously injuring one

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Photos: Human Sacrifices Found at Ancient China Co ...
    NoneHow better to say "bless this house" than by sacrificing horse or human? A new dig in China sheds light on the ancient practice's beginnings. China - Asia - Social Sciences - Archaeology - Maps and Views
  • "Ominous" Pre-Katrina Conditions Now in Atlantic
    Ocean conditions this spring resemble those of 2005, the most active and destructive Atlantic hurricane season on record, meteorologists say. Atlantic Ocean - Meteorology - North Atlantic tropical cyclone - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • BP to set aside $20 billion in escrow to pay oil s ...
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] announced Wednesday that BP will subsidize a $20 billion compensation fund [transcript] to indemnify the workers and business owners harmed as a result of the BP oil spill [BBC backgrounder, JURIST news archive] in the Gulf of Mexico. The announc ...
  • UK Supreme Court rules control order violated appe ...
    [JURIST] The UK Supreme Court [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF; press summary, PDF] Wednesday that a control order [Guardian backgrounder; JURIST news archive] imposing a 16-hour curfew and requiring the appellant to live 150 miles from his family was a violation of his rights. The appellant, ...
  • Rwanda genocide tribunal hears appeal of convicted ...
    [JURIST] The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] heard arguments Wednesday in an appeal filed on behalf of former Rwandan Armed Forces Colonel Tharcisse Renzaho [case materials; Trial Watch profile]. Renzaho was sentenced to life in prison [jud ...
  • Former mortgage company CEO indicted on TARP fraud ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Wednesday announced that a grand jury has indicted [press release] the former CEO of mortgage company Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TWB) [corporate website] on charges of fraud related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) [materials ...
  • Two Sudan war crimes suspects voluntarily surrende ...
    [JURIST] Two Sudanese men suspected of committing war crimes related to the ongoing violence in the Darfur [JURIST news archive] region of Sudan surrendered [press release] Wednesday to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (Banda) and Saleh Mohamm ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Night Beat: 70 Nominees Being Held Up by ... L ...
    Good evening. A DEAL WITH A HITCH : Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have reached a deal that would allow as many as 70 stalled Obama administration nominees to be confirmed by voice, along with one Democrat and one Republican each appointed to the National Labo ...
  • Intelligence Oversight Holds Up Clapper's Nom ...
    Last night, I reported that the White House would consider a recess appointment of its national intelligence director nominee, James Clapper, if the Senate couldn't get him confirmed before the next recess. Here, I want to explain the situation as I understand it. There's a bit of Stendhalian triang ...
  • Dickensian Moment of the Day
    BP's Chairman,� Carl-Henric Svanberg,� explaining to the press why President Obama is frustrated with his company: �He is frustrated because he cares about the small people, and we care about the small people...we care about the small people."� Unless the discussion veered off into a direction that ...
  • Carbon Pricing as the Public Option Redux?
    Should progressives be skeptical about the White House's strategy to pass comprehensive climate change legislation? That strategy, as sketched out by senior administration officials, is to delay the debate about putting a price on carbon production until both the House and Senate have passed legisla ...
  • The Night Beat: Clapper to Get a Recess Appointmen ...
    Good evening. 1. Be aware: the White House has a strategy here for getting climate change legislation passed. It's called "getting to conference." That is, the Senate needs to pass a bill this year. And then the House and Senate will (in theory) put in some sort of carbon pricing mechanism when th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Human Rights NGO Demands Accounting of Mr. ...
    A few days ago I reported about the sad fate of a prisoner in the Ayalon jail, kept in solitary confinement with no contact with anyone outside or inside the prison (except presumably his interrogators).  The story was originally reported by Ynet.  The article was then “disappeared” from the site ...
  • Shin Bet Abuses Secret Gag Order in Yet Another Ar ...
    Haaretz and other Israeli sites announced that a 20 year-old Israeli Palestinian, Mohhamad Namarna, was arrested under suspicion of membership in a banned organization.  Given that he’s from northern Israel, the organization would likely be Hezbollah.  The Haaretz report noted that the story had b ...
  • Israeli Border Police Summarily Execute Palestinia ...
    How’s this for “driving while Arab?”  Now, keep in mind that for the first day or so that this story was reported in Israel, the driver was a terrorist attempting to kill police officers: A motorist from East Jerusalem who ran over and wounded several Border Police officers Friday was shot twice i ...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • Israel’s Geriatric Gaza Flotilla Investigation: th ...
    Dvorit Shargel has collected some damning information from the Israeli media about the biased views of the commission chair, 75 year-old Justice Yaakov Tirkel and the lucidity of a 93 year-old member, Shabbtai Rozen. Yediot Achronot writes: The judge heading up the Gaza flotilla investigation is kno ...

Ode Magazine

  • Your brain is a rain forest
    People with conditions like ADHD, dyslexia and mood disorders are routinely labeled "ÂÂdisabled". But differences among brains are as enrichingâand essentialâas differences among plants and animals. Welcome to the new field of neurodiversity. Imagine for a moment t ...
  • The startling joy of jogging
    By: VictoriaKlein Staying fit is easy: eat less; move more – easier said than done, no? Despite literally thousands of books on the subject, getting most humans to break a sweat is worse than pulling teeth. Many say that working out with another person c ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Estimate of crude flowing into Gulf jumps again
    Check live feeds of leaking BP oil well below.   It's the well from hell. Every time a new figure is attached to the volcano of oil rocketing from the depths of the Gulf, the numbers only get grimmer. On the day that President Obama addressed the nation and proposed a battle plan to ...
  • Does EPA mean business when it comes to cleaning u ...
    I have heard EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson speak impressively about refocusing EPA on clean water in the U.S.  She organized a summit in Washington, D.C. this spring to seek input from a range of stakeholders.  She reacted forthrightly when the New York Times published an expose on a ...
  • Some International Findings from EPA Analysis of t ...
    The Obama Administration has just released the US EPA analysis of the American Power Act and it shows that US action coupled with reasonable actions by other countries will put us on a path to preventing the worst impacts of global warming.  It also shows that a lengthy delay in the de ...
  • New York Ballast Water Victory Brings Added Hope F ...
    Today, we received word of a final victory upholding New York’s tough new ballast water standard against a legal challenge from the ports and shipping industries!  The New York Court of Appeals, which is New York’s highest court, declined the industry parties’ request for leave to appe ...
  • My Appointment to the National Commission on the G ...
    I am writing to share some big news:  I have been appointed by President Obama to serve on the commission he has created to examine the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  The panel, formally known as the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Dr ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • When Wingnuts Belatedly Recognize the Insanity of ...
    All of this about Debbie Schlussel is just spectacularly entertaining… Related posts:All About the Horses Total Insanity The Definition of Insanity is Putting Jesus Colome Into A High-Leverage Situation Related posts: All About the Horses Total Insanity The Definition of Insanity is Putting Jes ...
  • Today in 1904
    At 8 a.m. on the morning of 16 June 1904, two men woke up.  One shaved for class and breakfasted with his usurper and an anti-Semite.  The other, a Jew, purchased a pork kidney and serves it to his wife in the same bed in which she cuckolded him.  He left [...] Related posts: B-Day Addend ...
  • On Presidential Power, Foreign and Domestic
    To briefly note some blogospheric discussion that happened while I was away, I essentially agree with Johnathan Bernstein about the power over domestic policy.   In particular, people arguing that a robust public option could have been had if Obama had really wanted it need to be concrete: what spec ...
  • They hate soccer and are racist.
    Jonah Goldberg wrote something stupid. It feels like I never left. So what was it this time? I am willing to concede that some conservatives get carried away in their anti-soccer tirades, usually just for fun, but I’d very much like to see a few more liberals admit that at least some of the [...] ...
  • No shit.
    12 years after commencing work, and 38 years after the event, the Saville Inquiry finds that those killed murdered or injured in the “Bloody Sunday” massacre in Derry were innocent civil rights marchers / protesters, and the shootings by soldiers of the Parachute Regiment of the British Army were un ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Clean Water Action-June 22nd!
    On Tuesday, June 22nd all Pennsylvania Clean Water Action offices will converge on Harrisburg to demand better regulation and oversight of natural gas drilling. We need your help and support to pressure our state legislators. Join us as we meet with elected officials to discuss HB 2213 and the Safer ...
  • Basic Waterdog Training in June
    This training is for anyone interested in knowing what to look for in the way of problems caused by the natural gas industry’s activities. Waterdog training also teaches you how to discriminate real problems from non-problems, how and where to report these, and how to do it all safely and legally. H ...
  • Gasland in Elmira
    The film “Gasland” about the Marcellus Shale drilling will play one night only at the Elmira Heights Theater on Wednesday, June 9th, with a  Q&A with the writer/director Josh Fox.  Admission fee: $5.00.
  • Increased Gas Drilling Activities Bringing New Cha ...
    HARRISBURG, Pa., May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Counties and municipalities across Pennsylvania where natural gas drilling is taking place â particularly in the Northern Tier region â are also struggling to meet a number of additional challenges associated with the industry’s increas ...
  • HB 2213 Proposal
    On May 25th the Pennsylvania House environmental committee passed crucial legislation to protect our rivers and streams from dangerous gas drilling.  This proposal, HB 2213, does several important things, including: • Prohibiting gas drilling near rivers, lakes and drinking water sources;  • Requiri ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Zero-Carbon Economy in UK Possible Within 20 Years ...
    Britain can become a zero-carbon economy within two decades by shifting to renewable power generation, overhauling public transportation, and relying more on locally produced food, according to a new study. That shift does not have to drastically alter lifestyles, said Rob Hopkins, founder of Britai ...
  • As the Far North Melts, Calls Grow for Arctic Trea ...
    The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a warning, conservationists say, of what could happen in the Arctic as melting sea ice opens the Arctic Ocean to oil and gas drilling. Many experts argue that the time has come to adopt an Arctic Treaty similar to the one that has safeguarded Antarctica ...
  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • What's Wrong With the Sun?
    Sunspots come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months. Thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb and flow in cycles l ...
  • May Levels of Toxic Gases in Gulf Back Up Claim Ma ...
    Appearing on the Alex Jones Show earlier in the week, pastor Lindsey Williams said that gases - Hydrogen Sulfide, Benzene, Methylene Chloride, and other toxic gases - pose a greater risk to human health than the presence of oil washing up on Gulf of Mexico beaches. Williams said the EPA is not repor ...
  • Will the Gulf Oil Disaster Lead to an Explosion of ...
    Richard C. Hoagland gives his take on the Gulf Oil Disaster. What is the worst case scenario when it comes to the Gulf Oil spill? What could it lead to? Did someone intentionally wanted to create a global environmental problem? An ROV has already filmed oil leaks coming from rock cracks on the sea f ...
  • Are the Days and Nights Getting Longer?
    Fossilized corals, lasers beamed at a receding moon, Chinese artifacts, and other evidence have revealed that over the ages the length of time it takes Earth to spin once on its axis has increased significantly. The summer solstice that falls this year on June 21 marks the longest day of the year in ...
  • NASA Prepares for Potentially Damaging 2011 Meteor ...
    NASA is assessing the risk to spacecraft posed by the upcoming 2011 Draconid meteor shower, a seven-hour storm of tiny space rocks that has the potential to ding major Earth-orbiting spacecraft like the crewed International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope. The meteor shower risk assessment ...

Russia Today

  • World Cup diary: Day Six
    Day Six of the competition saw the biggest disappointment so far, as Switzerland outplayed clear favorites Spain. There was also the Latin American clash between Honduras and Chile, and Uruguay thrashing the hosts.
  • Strasbourg court condemns deportation of ill 82-ye ...
    The European Court of Human Rights has denied Finland’s right to deport an 82 year-old Russian woman on Wednesday, Johan Backman, a human rights campaigner defending Antonova and her family, told Interfax.
  • Kyrgyz violence – allegations of genocide
    Mourning for those killed in ethnic violence in the south of Kyrgyzstan continues, while the country’s authorities have admitted the real number of dead is much greater than the official toll of 191.
  • Russian – US talks on adoption at the final stage
    Next week Moscow and Washington will hold another round of talks to work out new measures to regulate the process of adoption of Russian children by Americans.
  • Russia’s South might have become aliens’ favorite ...
    Mysterious circles have appeared on fields in Southern Russia’s Krasnodar region. Carefully bent wheat spikes with no apparent human interference make observers believe the signs are aliens’ business.

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

  • Speak out against slaughter:Whales need you! - TAK ...
    Norway is one of just three countries defying the international ban on commercial whaling, undermining its reputation as a progressive nation concerned with animal welfare. Dont stand by. Speak out against slaughter! Please stop Whaling! Submitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • PETITION !! Stop the humpback whale slaughter
    The Japanese government is on a humpback whale hunting trip and say they are doing this for research purposes ?? TAKE ACTION !! Submitted by Tippers A. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ~ To Obama, Say no to Commercial Whaling
    President Obama has been backing away from his promise to save the whales and instead moving towards a deal that would benefit corrupt Japanese business ventures. TAKE ACTION !! Submitted by Tippers A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • !! PETITION !! Stop Japan's Whaling for Scientifi ...
    Since 1987, Japan has conducted an annual whale hunt in the Antarctic under the guise of "scientific" whaling. TAKE ACTION !! Submitted by Tippers A. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • !! PETITION !! Surinamers say 'NO' to Whaling
    This is a crucial moment in the history of humanity: Take a standpoint for preservation and protection TO: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SURINAME...!! TAKE ACTION !! Submitted by Tippers A. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Making a Calling Succeed
    It has never been more important for libertarians to recognize our calling and to understand how to make it succeed. Rush’s story serves as an inspiration.
  • Debate Over 1964 Civil Rights Act
    I will be participating in an online discussion about the appropriate libertarian position on the 1964 Civil Rights Act as part of the Cato Unbound series. David Bernstein of George Mason University Law School has kicked it off with his essay here. My response will be posted Friday, followed by othe ...
  • Obama Uses Oil Spill to Promote Energy Policy
    “President Obama summoned Americans on Tuesday to a ânational missionâ to move away from reliance on oil and develop alternative sources of energy, casting the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an imperative for Congress to act quickly to overcome âa lack of political courage and cand ...
  • Tougher Federal Oversight of Private College Recru ...
    “The Obama administration proposed to tighten oversight of the booming for-profit sector of higher education on Tuesday, with rules that aim to curtail aggressive recruiting practices and that require schools to disclose graduation and job-placement rates to prospective students.” (Washington Post, ...
  • Mexican President Vows to Fight as Drug Violence E ...
    “An explosion of drug violence in Mexico has killed hundreds of people in the past five days and prompted the country’s president to issue a 5,000-word manifesto warning that the fight against organized crime must continue âor we will always live in fear.â” (Washington Post, Wednesday) What was ...

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

  • Should you boycott BP? Today on Sirius/XM Radio at ...
    Here at Facing South last week I took an in-depth look at the question of whether a boycott against BP made sense. I also posted my piece at Huffington Post , and its generated a lot of good discussion at both places. Today I'll be on " Make it Plain" with Mark Thompson (Matsimela Mapfumo) on Siriu ...
  • A mildly contrarian take on Obama's Oval Office sp ...
    By David Roberts, Grist Reaction to Obama's Tuesday evening speech was swift and brutal. "JUNK SHOT," blared Huffington Post's homepage. " What was the point? " asked Jason Linkins. " What a terrible speech ...
  • Tennessee fines TVA $11.5 million for coal ash spi ...
    The state of Tennessee has assessed an $11.5 million penalty against the Tennessee Valley Authority for the December 2008 coal ash spill from a holding pond at its Kingston power plant in Roane County. The fine is the largest ever imposed by the state's environmental regulators -- but some affected ...
  • Fears of cultural extinction on Louisiana's Gulf C ...
    By Jordan Flaherty As BP's deepwater well continues to discharge oil into the Gulf, the economic and public health effects are already being felt across coastal communities. But it's likely this is only the beginning. From the bayous of southern Louisiana to the city of New Orleans, many fear this ...
  • 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 ...

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.

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse, upcycle or recycle synthetic Engl ...
    Our good friend Tim posted this question on Twitter yesterday: Anyone have good craft ideas for a synthetic England Flag? There may be lots of them on the streets or landfills soon There certainly will be! A4-ish size car ones, towel sized ones, super-sized ones… a whole lot of squeaky synthetic wh ...
  • How can I make recycling easier at home?
    You guys, I have a confession – I’ve been creating more to-landfill waste than normal over the last few months and I don’t really know why. In our old house, it was rare that the landfill bin was even a quarter full when it was emptied but here, it’s always over half full, two-thirds full by [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle pre-packed sliced meat ...
    After writing Wednesday’s post about deli counter plastic wrapping, I got thinking about pre-packaged cooked meat packaging and what a pain they are to reuse or recycle. The ones I’m thinking of are used in the UK for sliced meats such as ham or roast beef/chicken, “continental sausages” (ie chorizo ...
  • This week’s interesting reducing, reusing & ...
    Craftzine linked to Christopher Paul’s painted plates – giving chintzy old plates a new lease of life (presumably just as artwork but still). A very fun idea! The Greenists ran a tutorial by Mudnessa on turning wide leg jeans into skinny ones – perfect if you fancy a change. Alison pointed us in ...
  • How can I pass on quality new clothing for reuse?
    We talk a lot about upcycling, reusing or recycling old clothes and textiles but Louis wants help passing them on: A couple of years ago our company produced some clothing (hooded sweatshirts and t-shirts for men and women). We still have quite a substantial amount of this clothing, which we plan to ...

Mondoweiss

  • Chomsky in Lebanon
    After being denied entry to the West Bank by Israel, Noam Chomsky spent some time in Amman and then made his way to Lebanon. He took a tour of the south which coincided with the 10-year anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from most of occupied Lebanon. A few days later I was one [...]
  • Terry Gross has no empathy for Palestinians
    Tomorrow night, Terry Gross, the longtime host of Fresh Air on National Public Radio, will submit to questions in an event at Town Hall in New York, hosted by Brian Lehrer, a talk-show host at WNYC. Both radio personalities bend over backwards for Israel. Maybe someone will ask Gross to speak sincer ...
  • ‘Democracy’ Means the U.S. and Israel ...
    Thomas Friedman sure knows how to flip reality on its head. In his New York Times op-ed column today, Friedman hops on the bandwagon of bashing Turkey for "joining the Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran resistance front against Israel." Friedman accuses Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan of no longer pr ...
  • Brits say 13 ‘Bloody Sunday’ victims w ...
    And other news from Today in PalestineLand theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Harassment and crop destruction in Hebron The Israeli army conducted a night raid the on the mosque Othman Ibn Afan in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, 14 June 2010. At 9.30 pm local residents and mosque visitors witnessed appr ...
  • Henochowicz posts photo of her face
    Emily Henochowicz will be dealing artistically for the rest of her life with the fact that the Israelis shot out her left eye on May 31. She begins that process with some musings here, and the post is accompanied by a photo of her stitched socket.

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 )

  • BP spills oil research cash
    Posted on behalf of Amanda Leigh Mascarelli BP announced on Tuesday that it would be doling out the first US$25 million of its pledged half-billion dollar Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) to three US institutions. The company will be fast-tracking $5 million to Louisiana State University, ...
  • Exoplanets: Show me the data!
    Kepler has finally opened up its first big treasure chest of exoplanet data since the telescope launched in March 2009. There are 306 planet candidates in the dataset , many of them Neptune sized, though as many as 50% could turn out to be false positives. But as the mission gets closer to discoveri ...
  • FDA: ‘female Viagra’ doesn’t boost desire
    The latest attempt at a drug to rev up the female sex drive may have failed, according to a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report released this morning. Flibanserin , made by Boehringer Ingelheim , is under evaluation for the treatment of low sex drive in women who have not yet reached me ...
  • Head of controversial military social science prog ...
    The US military’s troubled social sciences programme has lost its programme manager, according to media reports. Steve Fondacaro led the Human Terrain System programme as it saw social scientists embedded with active military units in Iraq and Afghanistan. A number of high profile incidents shook ...
  • Picture Post: solar sail unfurled
    Japan’s space agency has released the first complete images of the ‘solar sail’ it deployed earlier this month. The images were taken by a ‘separation camera’ that was ejected from the Ikaros spacecraft by means of a spring. After taking its images and transmitting them back to Ikaros, the camera ...

new geography

  • The Downside of Brit-Bashing
    Obama may be spanking BP’s brass today. But the other crisis—Europe’s economic mess—reminds us why it’s important that the U.S. and U.K. stick together. The controversy over the BP spill threatens to drive US-UK relations to a historic low point. When recently in London, several people worried tha ...
  • L.A.'s Economy Is Not Dead Yet
    "This is the city," ran the famous introduction to the popular crime drama Dragnet . "Los Angeles, Calif. I work here." Of course, unlike Det. Sgt. Joe Friday, who spoke those words every episode, I am not a cop, but Los Angeles has been my home for over 35 years. To Sgt. Friday, L.A. was a place f ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • Ante Up For Africa gives $50,000 to Water.org (ET)
    Ante Up For Africa Announces $100,000 in Grants to the Eastern Congo Initiative and Water.org (Earth Times) LOS ANGELES, CA – Ante Up For Africa today announced two grants of $50,000 each to support the Eastern Congo Initiative and Water.org, organizations focused on supporting local, community-base ...
  • Yvonne Kean named finalist for CFO of the Year (KC ...
    Kansas City Business Journal announces CFO of the Year award finalists (Kansas City Business Journal) – The Kansas City Business Journal is pleased to announce the finalists in this yearâs CFO of the Year awards program. The program honors financial executives for their strategic vision and fiscal ...
  • Shepard Fairey SHFT bottles for Water.org (BDTN)
    Environmental Entourage at the Continental (Blogdowntown) LOS ANGELES – During this week’s Art Walk, the first floor gallery in the Continental Building at 4th & Spring will be abuzz with a pop-up gallery set up by Adrian Grenier and Peter Glatzer. It’s not an art gallery per se, but a ‘curation of ...
  • Water.org finds success with FishVille (BizRep)
    Product placement in social games proving fruitful (BizReport) – Non-profit brands are also finding success with in-game product placement. Water.org raised $13,000 in under a week through FishVille players purchasing a specially designed fish. Not only that, traffic to their website increased ten-f ...
  • Adrian Grenier’s SHFT helping Water.org (Huf ...
    Adrian Grenier’s SHFT Gallery Pops-Up In LA (Huffington Post) – Water is an alarming issue. Almost on the level of Carbon Dioxide. We are really in a bad place even in this area. We should be talking about water in the same terms that we talk about taxing carbon, treating these elements as a commodi ...

Before It's News


Sidebar Search Spiders for Water Related News

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Wal-Mart challenges Cape Wind's high prices
Boston Globe
- Jun 17, 2010
- 1 hour ago
The Legislature crafted laws and regulations requiring that by 2020, Massachusetts utilities buy at least 15 percent of their power from renewable energy ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
Wind power group seeks reasonable tariff scheme
GMA news.tv
- Jun 17, 2010
- 5 hours ago
There should be reasonable rates to compensate for the upfront investment in building a wind farm, said WEDAP, a group of 14 renewable energy firms that ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
New Energy Coalition Calls for Passage of Clean Energy Bill
REVE
- Jun 17, 2010
- 4 hours ago
On the heels of President Obama's June 15 speech calling for clean energy legislation, a new coalition of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and biofuels ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
Senators call for Big Oil to fund renewable energy grants program
BrighterEnergy.org
- Jun 17, 2010
- 51 minutes ago
By James Cartledge A group of US senators is proposing measures to extend a federal grant program for renewable energy projects, which is due to expire at ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
powered by

Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Ecology and Environment, Inc. Reports Third Quarter Earnings Improved ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 16, 2010
- Jun 16, 2010
Ecology and Environment, Inc. has completed more than 45000 projects for a wide variety of clients in 84 countries, providing environmental solutions in ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
Four UCSC professors win honors
San Jose Mercury News
- Jun 15, 2010
- Jun 15, 2010
Gilbert studies plant ecology and is the director of the Santa Cruz-Watsonville Inquiry-Based Learning in Environmental Sciences program, ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
Obama vows 90% cleanup of oil this summer
Seattle Times
- Jun 15, 2010
- Jun 15, 2010
President Obama vowed Tuesday in a prime-time address that the oil would be cleaned up and the Gulf's ecology restored, and that oil company BP would ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
Seal pups a common sight on Whatcom County shorelines in summer
Bellingham Herald
- Jun 16, 2010
- 12 hours ago
The mother nurses the pup with rich milk for three to six weeks, according to Ecology. Harbor seals, which are small, earless and have spots, can grow to be ...
clipped from Google - 6/2010
powered by

Water Power

water floods pollution
Film challenges safety of US shale gas drilling
Reuters
- Jun 17, 2010
- 12 minutes ago
In Colorado, Fox shows families setting tap water alight due to what they say is gas that entered the water during the drilling process. ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
BP oil spill: The sums just don't add up for Kevin Costner's clean machine
The Guardian (blog)
- Jun 17, 2010
- 5 minutes ago
The machines come in different sizes, the largest of which, the V20, can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute. Depending on the oil to water ...
Related Articles »
clipped from Google - 6/2010
EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam
The Associated Press
- Jun 16, 2010
- 12 hours ago
They say the dam has also halted millions of gallons of water in Sheep Creek that would otherwise help fill the Blackfoot River. ...
clipped from Google - 6/2010
A.O. Smith forms water heating joint venture
BusinessWeek
- Jun 16, 2010
- 13 hours ago
Ltd. to market and build tankless water heaters in North America. Under the terms of the deal, AO Smith will take over management of privately held Takagi's ...
clipped from Google - 6/2010
powered by
Posted by opit at 7:56 AM
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)