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IPS - Inter Press Services

• DEVELOPMENT: Cambodia Struggles to Reduce Maternal ...
  For Chan Theary, a remote, mountainous stretch of land in western Cambodia encapsulates the uphill struggle this South-east Asian nation faces in reducing the alarming number of women who die during pregnancy.
• At 100 Days, Chilean President Hard to Pin Down Po ...
  He describes himself as centre-right, but several of his policies have been classified as "progressive". As he completes his first 100 days in office, telegenic Chilean President Sebasti�n Pi�era is surprising both allies and opponents, while social organisations are keeping a careful watch.
• HONDURAS: Miskito Women Fight on Nature's Side
  Seven years ago, in the isolated Honduran region of Mosquitia, on the Caribbean coast, a group of women, mostly single mothers, elderly or widowed, overcame their fear and timidity -- thanks in part to a waste recycling project.
• Arab-Israeli Parliamentarian Fights Death Threats
  "I stopped counting after I had received 50 death threats. I told my secretary not to tell me about them any more," Arab-Israeli Knesset (parliament) member, Hanan Zoabi told IPS.
• Surge of Think Tanks Blurs U.S. Policy Lines &#821 ...
  There has been a growing tendency in recent years for think tanks and military brass to jointly pursue policy objectives, some of which are opposed by the public or the White House.

Scoop - NZ

• US Money Supply Contracting at 1929 Rate
  The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history. The M3 figures - which include a broad range of bank accounts and are tracked by Brit ...
• GEAB46: Four systemic points of failure
  Each day the news confirm the extent to which the global systemic crisis has now entered into the phase of global geopolitical dislocation, even if the media only timidly begin to interpret the historic upheavals which unfold before our own eyes. For LEAP/E2020, the second half of 2010 will thus cor ...
• YouTube: Simmons - Nuclear Device Only Option
  Matt Simmons says relief well won't work, nuclear device only option Thinks underwater lake of oil now encompasses 40% 0f Gulf ((As per data from the Thomas Jefferson research vessel in the Gulf). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb2u4_QSblo...player_embedded But, according to Dr. Samantha Joye, Pr ...
• Gulf Oil Blog: Hide and seek
  Why can't they implode the well like they did during the Gulf War? That is not really an option in this situation. This reservoir is extremely methane rich and detonating a blast would lead to major destruction and destabilization of a significant area of the slope in the vicinity of MC252. In my ...
• US Afghan surge in disarray
  In the midst of one of the bloodiest weeks for US and NATO forces in the nearly nine-year war in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the overall commander, announced Thursday that major military operations around Kandahar would be delayed until September. The offensive had been slated to begin th ...

Independent ( London )

• Security in Afghanistan has not improved, says UN ...
  A UN report today painted a grim picture of the security situation in Afghanistan, saying roadside bombings and assassinations have soared in the first four months of the year amid ramped up military operations in the Taliban-dominated south.
• Eight Turkish soldiers killed in clashes near bord ...
  Kurdish rebels attacked a military outpost near the Iraqi border early today, sparking clashes in which at least eight soldiers and 12 Kurdish rebel fighters were killed, Turkey's military said. Fourteen other soldiers were wounded in the fighting.
• Eight Turkish soldiers killed in clashes
  Kurdish rebels attacked a military outpost near the Iraqi border early today, sparking clashes in which at least eight soldiers and 12 Kurdish rebel fighters were killed, Turkey's military said. Fourteen other soldiers were wounded in the fighting.
• US missile strike kills 12 in north west Pakistan
  A US drone aircraft fired two missiles in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border today, killing 12 militants, intelligence officials said.
• Partner puts blame on BP as spill costs grow
  BP Plc's costs for the worst oil spill in US history appeared set to rise as a partner in the out-of-control well laid the blame at BP's feet and the new federal tsar overseeing damage claims said BP would pay more if $20 billion (£13.5m) was not enough.

Rogue Government.com

• Nasa warns new meteor storm 'could damage Hubble ...
  Astronomers believe the seven-hour bombardment from the comet debris, due later next year, could strike orbiting spacecraft and wreck their electronics.
• BP Tells Cleanup Workers They'll Be Fired If They ...
  More egregious still, sources on the ground say that BP is telling cleanup workers that they will be fired if they wear respirators.
• BP's Largest Shareholder says Oil Spill Good for ...
  JP Morgan says that the Gulf oil spill will help the economy.
• Medvedev Pushes Ruble Reserve Currency to Cut Dol ...
  Russia wants the ruble to be one of the world’s reserve currencies as President Dmitry Medvedev renews his push to reduce the dollar’s dominance and make Moscow a global financial hub.
• ECB Must Buy 'Hundred Of Billions' In Bonds To Sa ...
  Fitch Ratings has warned that it may take massive asset purchases by the European Central Bank to prevent Europe's sovereign debt crisis escalating out of control.

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

• Pathocrats turning on each other: Partner in dama ...
  BP's three-front oil spill war -- on the seafloor, on the Gulf Coast and in Congress -- turned into a four-front battle Friday when its main partner in the damaged exploration well blamed the oil giant's "reckless decisions and actions" for causing a disaster that was "preventable." It was the firs ...
• US: Man & Son See Multicolored Aerial Object Move ...
  Date of Sighting: June 13, 2010 Time of Sighting: 9 PM MST Location of Sighting: Gilbert, Arizona (Gilbert is a Suburb About 10 Miles SE of Phoenix) Description: Listen to Witness Report (MP3) The witness called about 24 hours after his sighting. He was fishing with his son and noticed a bright ...
• US: Man Takes IR Video of 5 Objects in V Formation
  Date of Sighting: June 11, 2010 Time of Sighting: 10 PM PDT Location of Sighting: Oakland, California Description: William, once again the UFO Squadron flies over Oakland on Friday night at 10:00 PM. See Youtube video below.
• US: Couple See 2 Erratic Moving Orange Lights in N ...
  Date of Sighting: June 11, 2010 Time of Sighting: 10:05 PM PDT Location of Sighting: Newberg, Oregon (See Map) Description: We were watching TV with the blinds open. My wife saw two orange lights in the sky approaching from the west and asked what they were. Both of us were unable to identify the ...
• US: Man Sees "V" Shaped Object Moving Rapidly East ...
  Date of Sighting: June 10, 2010 Time of Sighting: 11:45 PM PDT Location of Sighting: Woodinville, Washington (See Map) Description: Listen to Witness Report (MP3) The witness called and reported his sighting 3 days after it occurred. He was looking at the Constellatin Orion and noticed "extra st ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Good news from the underground . . .
  THE INDEPENDENT newsandviews site reports that in the UK, "Mole numbers soar as strychnine ban checks pest control" . And there are traditions to follow with the The British Traditional Molecatchers Register reporting increased request for mole-removal. Looks like a conservative fundamentalist, IMHO ...
• Dissolving insurgencies
  I don't envy the job of any commander, at any level from section to task force, in Afghanistan. They are caught trying to manage an impossible mess, following orders from the suit wearing cowards who keep them there. That said, these commanders are not above saying really stupid things. Brigadier Ge ...
• As much as I was attempting to avoid the FIFA Worl ...
  ... I can't. Gawd... I can't stand soccer, or football, or whatever you call it these days. But that's just me. I fully understand the passion that overtakes fans. Anyway, this little bit came out of the recent loss of Spain to Switzerland. (My emphasis) Some have pointed to their lack of cutting ...
• A very simple question
  Me and my old combat medic are going to bugger off for the weekend. We do that. I pay; he holds up an index finger and says, "Your external carotid artery." I'll pay. Happily. So... I have an unrelated question. Well... sort of related, in my warped little mind. If your cable provider or satellit ...
• They let these people have firearms...
  The take over of the Republican Party by the teabaggers seems to be nearing completion. Here are two separate examples. Ever heard of Sharron Angle? No? Here, let Greg Sargent at the Washington Post tell you about her. She's the newly anointed Republican candidate running for senator from the stat ...

Media Matters for America

• Right-wing media disappear Bush in assigning oil s ...
  Right-wing media figures have repeatedly claimed that it's "time we stopped blaming Bush" in discussions of the Gulf oil spill.�However, under the Bush administration, federal offshore drilling regulators relaxed regulatory standards and were plagued by ethics scandals. Conservatives say it's "a ...
• Fox continues its attack on election of first Lati ...
  Fox News continued its attack on a judicial decision to remedy a Voting Rights Act violation in Port Chester, NY that led to the election of the first Latino member of that village's legislature. During the segment, conservative activist Jay Alan Sekulow distorted the judge's decision in the case. ...
• Conservative media: BP was "persecuted" at "Stali ...
  Right-wing media have complained that BP was "persecuted" at a congressional hearing on the company's role in the Gulf oil spill and compared the hearing to a "Stalinist show trial," "Inca ritual slaughter," the Salem witch trials, the McCarthy hearings, and the Romans feeding Christians to lio ...
• National Review Online falsely claims Kagan "appar ...
  National Review Online's Robert VerBruggen falsely claimed that in a document she wrote as a Clinton administration official, Elena Kagan "apparently tied the NRA to the KKK." In fact, Kagan did no such thing. From a June 18 National Review Online blog post headlined "Did Kagan Compare the NRA wit ...
• NY Post uses irrelevant data to falsely ...
  The New York Post falsely suggested that the Congressional Budget Office found that congressional climate change legislation would result in a "loss in after-tax income" for the poorest Americans. In fact, CBO found that the lowest quintile of Americans would gain income under the House bill, t ...

Global Research.ca

• What do BP and the Banks Have In Common? The Era o ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: The Economic Crisis: "Major Currencies Ca ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Middle East is Changing, and Ankara Knows It
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The 2010 Bush-Cheney Gulf Coast Oil Spill
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• NOW ON GLOBAL RESEARCH TV: War Promises, The Batt ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Joe Barton And The Big Big Debate
  Representative Joe Barton's apology to Tony Hayward for what he termed a "shakedown" of BP by the White House in order to get BP's agreement to a $20 billion escrow fund, was the best thing to happen to BP since April 20, and the best boost for the White House in months. What possessed Barton, the r ...
• AIPAC Burns Bridges -- Sends Out Racist Anti-Turk ...
  This video, second in a series of racist videos put out by Jerusalem Post writers, was today sent out to journalists by AIPAC, my favorite lobby. That's it, folks. The lobby has written off Turkey which means Israel has, too. Man, this stuff is right out of 1930's Central Europe! ...
• Bigness Debate
  The spectacle of Rep. Joe Barton, Texas Corporate Bag Man (not just the oil companies, but AT&T as well) furiously backpedaling from his accusation that the White House pressure on BP to put $20 billion in escrow for Gulf repair was a "shakedown", is a window into one of the central debates of our t ...
• The Obama Plot for a Carbon Tax
  Teachable moments are rare in America. George Bush missed the chance right after 9/11 to call for a new era of service to the nation; he asked instead that Americans do more shopping. Tuesday night, President Obama did not call for a tax on carbon. He didn't even ask the Senate to pass the cap-an ...
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TruthOut

• Michael Winship | Miley, We Hardly Knew Ye
  Amid all the news of petrochemical malfeasance in the Gulf - and thank you Rep. Joe Barton, pride of Texas, for your apology to BP, demonstrating everything that's wrong with a Congress jammed too snugly in the pocket of big business - I watched teen sensation Miley Cyrus on "David Letterman" Thursd ...
• Obey's Afghanistan: At Long Last, It's Guns vs. Bu ...
  One of the many destructive legacies of the Reagan Era was the effective Washington consensus that wars and other military spending exist on their own fiscal planet. Reagan got a Dixiecrat Congress to double military spending at a time when the U.S. was not at war (unless you were a poor person in C ...
• Witness: US Agent Aimed at Mexican
  An eyewitness to the June 7 shooting death of a 14-year-old Mexican youth said a U.S. Border Patrol agent took aim at the boy for several seconds after the boy emerged from behind a pillar of a bridge on the Juarez side of the border near El Paso, Texas. The witness, Juan Raul Flores Cadena, told a ...
• Why Wall Street's Generous to New Democrats in Hou ...
  Washington - Members of the powerful New Democrat Coalition in the House of Representatives are among the top Democratic recipients of Wall Street campaign money this election cycle — and also among the most vocal advocates for weakening a plan to regulate complex financial instruments called "deriv ...
• G-20 Summit: Financial Reform Is Needed. But How F ...
  The heads of state for the Group of 20 (G-20) – a body that seeks to coordinate financial regulation and standards across some of the world's largest economies – will hold a two-day summit in Canada starting June 26 at which almost all participants are expected to call for more banking regulation bu ...

Planetsave

• Are Current Oil Spill Doomsday Scenarios Still Mis ...
  As the BP Oil Spill Disaster continues to drag on, most people who are paying close attention to the details are sure that the ordeal will end up as the worst environmental catastrophe in modern industrial history. But signs are surfacing that the eventual impact may be worse than even Keith Olberm ...
• New Insights into Ocean Floor Volcanic Activity
  New research has shown that massive volcanic eruptions are not always commonplace when the Earthâs crust breaks apart. Published in the journal Nature , the study reveals that when continental plates break apart there is not always a corresponding volcanic eruption on the ocean floor. This discov ...
• World’s Biodiversity Loss Not Slowing, Major ...
  In this International Year of Biodiversity, a multinational group of zoologists, biologists and ecologists has assessed 24 biodiversity indicators and found that global declines in these key indicators are either fluctuating or continuing. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), adopted in 20 ...
• NOAA: Hottest May, Spring, & January-May on Record
  Almost every month this year is setting a new record as the hottest, according to the NOAA. Yes, it wasn’t long ago I was writing about April being the hottest April and Jan-April being the hottest Jan-April on record. Now, the NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has published its next monthly â ...
• BP Response to Oil Spill Video [Humor]
  Following Obama’s BP oil spill speech and 3 ways you can take action in response to the BP oil spill , I thought I’d add one more post on the BP oil spill today. This is a hilarious, if not still very sad, video mocking BP’s response to its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Although it is a very se ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• America's Topsoil Loss Disaster
  Most consequences of our Industrial agriculture and food production system can be restored if we cha
• Choose green renovation to achieve substantial env ...
  Have you ever wondered what the benefits were to eco friendly home remodeling? In recent years, the
• Green reconstruction is best for your homes
  Eco friendly home remodeling in Delaware in recent months has become extremely popular. Green renova
• Conceptual Model of Water Resources in the Kabul B ...
  USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5262 http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5262/ Abstract excerpt
• U.S. Rallies for 2-2 tie with Slovenia
  U.S. rallies for 2-2 tie with Slovenia Donovan and Bradley score in second half as Americans overcom

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

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Axis of Logic

• License To Drill - World News
  Why did the Obama administration just approve more than 400 new leases for oil companies to operate in the Gulf of Mexico? June 17, 2010 At his long-awaited press conference on the Gulf oil disaster last month, President Obama announced a moratorium on new oil drilling and exploration ...
• Gulf of Mexico: ROV films oil leak coming from roc ...
  Editor's Note: We are not scientists and cannot know that petroleum is coming up through the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. However, "A grim technical view on the BP Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico", written by "Doug R.", republished on Axis of Logic, seems to indicate that...
• Flotilla flap at the UN - World News
  Israel has engaged in a war of words with the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) which hosted an event during which a passenger on board the Mavi Marmara was allowed to show a video that was shot as Israeli commandoes raided the aid ship. The Israeli mission to th ...
• IARA LEE at The UN on Mavi Marmara - Crime and Pun ...
  Iara Lee, a dual U.S.-Brazilian citizen works with Cultures of Resistance. She was on the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the Freedom Flotilla bringing aid to Gaza when it was attacked on 31 May 2010 by Israeli commandos. In this UN News conference on 10 June, she tells...
• נועם חומסקי בריאיון מיוחד Noam Chomsky interviewed ...
  May 23, 2010 You Tube...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Rand Paul: Plenty of Jobs Out There If You're Not ...
  Somebody tell Rand Paul that unemployed people vote. And there are enough of them in Kentucky to swing an election. So shit like this will cook his goose. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on Friday urged Americans who have been unemployed for many months to consider returning to the workfo ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  We told you $20 billion was too little by a factor of 10. "BP remains a "strong company" despite the "setback" it has suffered as a result of the oil spill in the US Gulf of Mexico, its chairman says. In an interview with Sky News, Carl-Henric Svanberg dismissed comments by Russia's president that t ...
• The MMS Still Doesn't Get It.
  How's this for... well, I don't know whether to call it arrogance or simple buffoonery but it hasn't changed my opinion that the whole damned agency should be abolished and every bureaucrat in it kicked to the curb with no severance or pension. Obama Administration Still Approving Flawed Gulf Drilli ...
• Write About Your College Costs and Win $1,000
  The Nation has a new essay contest for college students: PENCILS UP: For our fifth annual student writing contest, we're looking for thoughtful student voices to answer this question in 800 words: how has your education been compromised by budget cuts and tuition hikes? We'll select five finalists ...
• Twenty-four hours later
  Heh . What Blue Girl said: ...If the DNC had competent leadership instead of the one man the Democrats have that makes Micheal Steele look like a friggin' genius in comparison, the ads would already by running tying Barton and BP to every republican candidate and incumbent in the entire country... T ...

Care 2

• Oil spill cleanup aid from overseas comes with a p ...
  At least 22 nations -- including Britain, where BP is based -- have offered oil-collecting skimmers, boom, technical experts and more to help the U.S. cope with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But their generosity comes with a price tag Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• Charitable Ignorance
  In 2007, the International Finance Corporation discovered that only half of its aid-funded projects in Africa succeeded. When we consider that in 2009 the net bilateral Overseas Development Aid (ODA) to Africa was $27 billion and that pledges stood at Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Israel's ease of blockade Gaza dismissed as a cyni ...
  Are we surprised by this and from a government by terrorists and war criminals? Everything that is proposed comes under the title of "easing" the siege, which in practice means keeping it but in a "softened" form. Submitted by Atw Orld to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• More Dirty Details From My BP Mole
  I had a date with Elmer, my mole inside BP's cleanup operation, and he painted a grim picture of the conditions for both workers and wildlife at Louisiana's Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Signal like you mean it: Orangutan Gestures Carry ...
  Well, we humans are finally, finally starting to get it.Great ape gestures have intentional meaning& are made with expectations of specific behavioral responses. Scientists have observed& filmed bonobos shaking their heads to say no Submitted by DC Bass to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...

GreenBiz

• Starbucks' Cup Competition Rewards Innovations for ...
  The winner of a competition sponsored by Starbucks to gather ideas for reducing paper cup use isn't a cup at all, but a concept for encouraging customers to bring their own cups for possible free drinks. �
• Coca-Cola Sips Less Water and Energy, Boosts Recyc ...
  A variety of cost- and energy-saving measures in its fleets, equipment, and buildings are paying off for Coca-Cola Enterprises, helping the company reduce its carbon footprint by 10 percent between 2008 and 2009. It has also reduced packaging and water use, while boosting the amount of waste it re ...
• Unlocking Energy Efficiency in China: A Guide to P ...
  This new report from BSR provides a clear outline for how leading companies can launch supply chain energy-efficiency programs in China, building upon its experience helping Walmart launch its initiative to improve the energy efficiency of its top 200 China-based suppliers by 20 percent by 2012.
• 10 Tips for Operating Buildings More Efficiently
  Here are 10 ways to make your buildings operate more efficiently and more cost effectively.
• 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 ...

Reuters Global

• The party’s over in Ciudad Juarez
  The drug war in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, is crippling the tourist economy.
• N.Korean succession leads to occupation…of t ...
  A gaming firm has drawn inspiration from North Korea's succession question to conjure an alarming scenario for an upcoming shooter release.
• 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 ...

Booman Tribune

• Wanker of the Day: Charles Blow
  I want to like Charles Blow but it's becoming increasingly apparent that he's the left's version of Peggy Noonan, earning a reputation for meandering stream-of-consciousness opinion pieces based on the most conventional of beltway wisdom that never quite get to the point. Take this for starters ...
• Obama Caused the Oil Spill? Seriously?
  Yes, the latest Republican to throw his hat in the conspiracy ring in order to tar Obama (pun intended) with BP's gross negligence in managing the Deep Horizon Well in the Gulf is Bill Randall, a candidate for Congress in north Carolina who wants a "thorough investigation" into the possibility Obama ...
• Saturday Morning Roundup
  Not that he'll remember it, but I can always tell my son that at his first baseball game Ryan Howard hit two homers, a triple, and a double, and that Chase Utley homered, too. Once he got used to all the loud noises he warmed up to experience and spent the last few innings entertaining people in th ...
• Awful Music Videos
  I'm headed to the Phillies-Twins game, so I thought I'd post a truly awful music video and see if any of you can find one that is worse.
• Stupid Punditry
  This David Sanger piece in the New York Times just pisses me off. God forbid that Obama should fire the CEO of General Motors when the company had gone bankrupt and needed the government to save it. I can't believe he limited CEO pay for banksters who needed a federal bailout. How could he critic ...

European Tribune

• Saturday Open Thread
  Afternoon tea-talk...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 19 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1854 Birth of...
• Friday Open Thread
  Time to go on a news diet for the weekend, I think. The wilful exacerbation...
• Mad even in their world
  Paul Krugman is getting worried at the growing belief, endorsed yesterday by the ECB, that...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 18 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1950 Jackie Leven,...

Futurismic

• Catherine Asaro interview at BigThink
  Here’s one from the Futurismic digital post-bag: science fiction author Catherine Asaro does a short video interview with BigThink (which appears to be a sort of smaller and less self-congratulatory TED-type global-ideas-forum affair) about the hard science that informs her stories. Off we go: Pr ...
• Shock: re-engineering science fiction, socially, a ...
  Damien G Walter has discovered something that sounds very interesting indeed: Shock, a ’social science fiction’ roleplaying game. Go to the linked site for the full low-down, but for now, Walter explains: Shock is a framework that has its players improvise science fiction scenarios based on the inte ...
• The summit of security: fortifying Toronto for the ...
  Regardless of your personal politics, it’s hard to look at the extensive preparations for summits like the G8 and G20 groups – both of which are meeting near Toronto in Canada at the end of the month – and not be dumbfounded by the huge amount of money that gets pissed away on “preparing” for [...] ...
• Iceland’s Modern Media Initiative
  Remember that law that was intended to enshrine Iceland as a ‘haven’ for journalistic free speech? Well, it passed unanimously last night. As mentioned before, a law being passed in one small country doesn’t change certain basic facts about how international law operates (nor the politics pulling t ...
• How can a computer win at Jeapordy? Elementary, my ...
  This is not only an interesting story, but an engaging piece of journalism, and I heartily recommend you go read it: it’s an NYT magazine piece about Watson, an IBM artificial intelligence project headed by one David Ferucci that does something that artificial intelligences have heretofore been unab ...

Therapy News

• Which Comes First: Weight Gain or Depression?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research indicates that symptoms of depression in young people are a strong indicator for weight gain over the next 15 years. But obesity is not an indicator that depression will develop. The research comes from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was cond ...
• Is The Cup Half Full or Half Empty?
  By Yael Schweitzer, LCSW, BC-DMT, Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yael and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile A client sat with me, talking about the difficulties and challenges of his life. He lost his job and had hard time find ...
• Can Gay Families Teach us About Gender Identity?
  By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile For years in our culture, most of us have defined family in a particular way. We assume that when we say “family” we mean a group of people who are related ...
• The Body as Battleground
  By Deborah Klinger, MA, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Deborah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Clients often tell me that they hate their bodies. Sometimes I reply, “Really? You hate your spleen and your liver and your kidneys?” And they look baffled and s ...
• Aspirin May Lesson Schizophrenia Symptoms and Poin ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Inflammation has been a popular suspect as a cause for many diseases, and a new study finds that it may be a contributing factor to schizophrenia. In the past, patients with schizophrenia had noticeably improved symptoms when being treated with anti-inflammatories for ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Duke should give up non-sustainable coal - Charlot ...
  Charlotte Observer Duke should give up non-sustainable coal Charlotte Observer These symptoms of mountaintop removal are why the Sierra Club's Molly Diggins has called the practice "barbaric." But Duke may not drop MTR coal even though ...
• Sen. Berke on Forcing a 'Mountaintop Removal' Vote ...
  Sen. Berke on Forcing a ' Mountaintop Removal ' Vote Knoxville News Sentinel (blog) Andy Berke (D-Chattanooga) will attempt this week to revive a proposed ban on coal mining mountaintop removal in Tennessee after Republican lawmakers tried ... and more��
• Corps Stops Rubber Stamping of Mountaintop Removal ...
  Environment News Service Corps Stops Rubber Stamping of Mountaintop Removal Permits unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Yesterday the Army Corps of Engineers announced that it is suspending the use of nationwide permits for mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Obama administration ends fast-trackin ...
• Another selenium suit targets Patriot Coal - Charl ...
  Another selenium suit targets Patriot Coal Charleston Gazette (blog) And more to the point where mountaintop removal is concerned, we know that one of the world's top experts on selenium has concluded that mining pollution ... New lawsuits target selenium pollution Trading Markets (press release) ...
• Wall Street's Best Unknown Stocks - Motley Fool
  Wall Street's Best Unknown Stocks Motley Fool The Army Corps of Engineers just suspended a fast-track permitting program for mountaintop removal of the coal beneath, and the Environmental Protection ... and more��

Memeorandum

• Donations Create a Tricky Balance for Oil-State Po ...
  New York Times : Donations Create a Tricky Balance for Oil-State Politicians   —  WASHINGTON — The outburst by Representative Joe L. Barton of Texas in support of BP underscored the potential peril for lawmakers forced to respond to crises involving industries vital to their regions, and whose bou ...
• Obama Jokes About Biden's "Big F-ing Deal" Comment ...
  Mark Knoller / CBS News : Obama Jokes About Biden's “Big F-ing Deal” Comment   —  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Trumpeting the 10,000th road project funded by his Recovery Act, President Obama borrowed two of three words made famous in March by Vice President Biden.  —  This is a “big....deal,” said Mr. Obama … ...
• Sharron Angle Goes on the Attack (John Gizzi/Human ...
  John Gizzi / Human Events : Sharron Angle Goes on the Attack   —  Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee to face Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, told HUMAN EVENTS in an interview that attacks against her are unfounded.  —  Responding to the charge that she wants to eliminate several fed ...
• More Incompetence... Crude-Sucking Barges Ordered ...
  Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit : More Incompetence... Crude-Sucking Barges Ordered By Gov. Jindal Shut Down By Feds   —  Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal looks on as barges loaded with vacuums to clean oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill depart a marina in Empire, Louisiana June 17, 2010.  (REUTERS/Lee ...
• Franken launches full-throated attack on 'conserva ...
  Michael O'Brien / The Hill : Franken launches full-throated attack on ‘conservative activism’ on courts   —  Republican senators and conservative jurists found themselves on the defensive after Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) blasted “conservative activism” on federal courts.  —  Franken, in a major spee ...

Energy & Environment News

• BP’s Chief Executive Apologizes for Gulf Sp ...
  BP’s embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, prepared to tell Congress on Thursday that he was “deeply sorry” for the oil disaster in the gulf.
• BP Opens Second Containment System
  The company began siphoning oil through a series of pipes and hoses to a ship, where the crude will be cleaned and burned.
• Net Benefits of Biomass Power Under Scrutiny
  Doubts about biomass power threaten its viability as a renewable energy source as the nation seeks to diversify its energy portfolio.
• China Has Indirect Stake in U.S. Reactor Fuel Make ...
  The Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund is a minority owner in the Noble Group, which bought a stake in America’s only provider of enriched fuel uranium.
• Companies Bet on Market for Enriched Uranium
  Changes in technology and vagaries like future arms control agreements can affect companies like Urenco and USEC.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, Java, Indonesia
  Friday, June 18, 2010 14:42:48 UTC Friday, June 18, 2010 09:42:48 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.1, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  Thursday, June 17, 2010 16:35:34 UTC Friday, June 18, 2010 12:35:34 AM at epicenter Depth : 44.90 km (27.90 mi)
• M 5.7, Southern California
  Tuesday, June 15, 2010 04:26:58 UTC Monday, June 14, 2010 09:26:58 PM at epicenter Depth : 5.40 km (3.36 mi)
• M 5.2, Taiwan
  Tuesday, June 15, 2010 00:31:19 UTC Tuesday, June 15, 2010 08:31:19 AM at epicenter Depth : 32.00 km (19.88 mi)
• M 5.2, Nicobar Islands, India region
  Saturday, June 12, 2010 22:44:41 UTC Sunday, June 13, 2010 04:44:41 AM at epicenter Depth : 28.30 km (17.58 mi)

China Dialogue

• Time to save the sharks?
  In China, campaigns to protect the fish and stop the practice of finning face an uphill struggle. Views are old and fixed, and there is a lot of money to be made, writes Huo Weiya. A three-metre, 200-kilogramme nurse shark lay half dead in a tank in a Guangzhou restaurant. The restaurant owners spen ...
• Corn conundrums in Latin America
  Mexico’s first crop of genetically modified maize – due to be harvested later this month – is stoking anxiety about the risks of biotechnology. Jan McGirk reports. “Poor Mexico – so far from God and so close to the United States!” Porfirio Diaz , the iron-fisted Mexican general, famously quipped. To ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Angle Aide Calls Reporter an ‘Idiot’ f ...
  Cross-posted from Think Progress. After winning the GOP nomination for the California U.S. Senate race last week, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has been quick to tout her chief executive credentials in her race against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). While claiming to fight for “millions o ...
• Do You Care Whether the Religious Ideas You Believ ...
  Here's what I'd like to say to people who are less interested in what's really true about the universe than they are about their personal interpretation of it.
• Your Money or Your Life: Why Work Yourself to Deat ...
  Our affluent life-styles are having an increasingly devastating effect on our planet. We need to start answering for them.
• Owe Money? Be Careful, or You Might End Up in Jail
  Owing money is not a criminal offense in the USA. But big business has found a way to end-run this process.
• Why Fearmongering About a White Minority in Americ ...
  Those obsessed with Northern European "racial purity" will be in the minority, but they already are.

Threat Level

• Utah Attorney General Announces Execution on Twitt ...
  Today marked an evolution of sorts for Twitter. It’s no longer just for following your favorite celebrity rants or for informing your followers you’re having a ham sandwich or just took a shower. And self-promotion on Twitter seems so yesterday. Consider Friday’s tweets from Utah Attorney General Ma ...
• Supreme Court: Officer’s Texting Not Private
  The Supreme Court said Thursday a California police officer’s privacy was not breached when his superiors read transcripts of hundreds of his text messages. The Ontario Police Department was looking at the transcripts as part of an effort to determine whether it was providing an adequate quota of mo ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Peg is dead as China vows yuan flexibility
  BEIJING (Reuters) - China will gradually make the yuan's exchange rate more flexible, the central bank said on Saturday a week before a G20 summit, strongly suggesting that it was ready to break the currency's 23-month-old dollar peg.
• Deposed Kyrgyz leader blamed over ethnic violence
  BISHKEK (Reuters) - The U.S. envoy for Central Asia visited Kyrgyzstan on Saturday after the State Department suggested the country's deposed president may be responsible for last week's outburst of ethnic violence.
• WRAPUP 1-Partner puts blame on BP as spill costs g ...
  GRAND ISLE, La., June 19 (Reuters) - BP Plc's costs for the worst spill in U.S. history appeared set to rise as a partner in the out-of-control well laid the blame at BP's feet and the new federal czar overseeing damage claims said BP would pay more if $20 billion was not enough.
• Americans left fuming over disallowed "winner"
  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - United States players and their coach were left fuming after a last-gasp effort against Slovenia was disallowed, denying them a remarkable comeback victory before the thrilling game finished 2-2 on Friday.
• Partner puts blame on BP as spill costs grow
  GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (Reuters) - BP Plc's costs for the worst spill in U.S. history appeared set to rise as a partner in the out-of-control well laid the blame at BP's feet and the new federal czar overseeing damage claims said BP would pay more if $20 billion was not enough.

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

• Salmonella Chester Outbreak in California, Colorad ...
  CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella serotype Chester infections. As of June 18, info ...
• Minnesota and Oregon are two of 14 States and acco ...
  Last night ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods of Council Bluffs, Iowa, recalled Marie Callender’s Cheesy Chicken and Rice frozen meals that were sold to retail outlets nationwide. At least 29 people have been sickened in the outbreak, including two people in Oregon and two people in Minnesota. Oregon - ...
• Do recalls really work for frozen meals? For a few ...
  I was directed this morning to reread the CDC’s report on the “Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Associated with Frozen Pot Pies --- United States, 2007,” involving ConAgra pot pies and Salmonella I 4,5,12:i:-*. Although we represented dozens of those sickened from that outbreak, I was f ...
• Oh Oh SpaghettiOs - Under-processing risk is Botul ...
  Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC, a Paris, Texas, establishment is recalling approximately 15,000,000 pounds of "SpaghettiOs with Meatballs" canned products due to possible under-processing, which creates a Botulism risk. The following products are subject to recall: • 14.75-ounce cans of "Spaghe ...
• Salmonella Chester Outbreak Linked to ConAgra's Ma ...
  ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods, LLC, a Council Bluffs, Iowa establishment is recalling Marie Callender's brand Cheesy Chicken and Rice frozen meals, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The company is recalling all Marie Callender's brand Che ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 06.18.10
  Predictably Irrational author says Toyota Prius succeeds on quirky looks alone Cd says what? From Plum Crazy to Key Lime, the color of the Nissan Leaf is up to you Hot pink, anyone? ...
• First 4,400 Chevrolet Volt owners could get free h ...
  Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Government/Legal , Technology , Chevrolet , GM , Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery When the Chevrolet Volt finally hits the market late this year, the U.S. Department of Energy will help out by providing free 240-volt home chargers ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Showcase Live update: Tablets, slates, Netbooks
  Don't miss CNET's hands-on event and discussion on the newest in small and slim computing, featuring products from Apple, Archos, Asus, Nvidia, Panasonic, Samsung, and Toshiba. Originally posted at CNET Showcas ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: Wireless device security (p ...
  In light of the hack on the iPad 3G that matched device identifier codes to e-mail addresses of users, today we're focusing on wireless device security and cellular network safety. Our guests: John Hering of the mobile security firm Lookout Security and CNET News security reporter Elinor Mills. ...
• 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 ...

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!

• Part II: Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of Wa ...
  We discuss the latest in the ongoing US war in Afghanistanâthe longest running war in American historyâwith Tom Engelhardt, creator and editor of the website Tomdispatch and author of "The American Way of War: How Bushâs Wars Became Obama’s." Engelhardt says the U.S. war in Afghanistan has tr ...
• Part II: Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Owner Erik P ...
  The Justice Department has told a federal appeals court there was more than enough untainted evidence to justify a trial for the five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad. In court papers seeking to reinstate criminal charges that were dismissed last ye ...
• 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

• Influenza’s Historical Present
  I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
• The Alan Greenspan Strain
  First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
• King Leopold’s Pandemic
  The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
• The Expulsion
  In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
• Do Pathogens Time Travel?
  Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...

Suzie-Q

• BP Video: Oil Leaking Through Cracks In Floor Of G ...
  FDL- By: Jim White Friday June 18, 2010 8:41 am Commenter cbl2 just alerted us to this video: Videos Of Oil Leaking Thru Cracks In The Sea Floor Uploaded by rashachadash. – Watch the latest news videos. If oil is indeed leaking from the sea floor near the well, this suggests that the well casing [.. ...
• Afternoon Jukebox- So Alive
  Love & Rockets- So Alive
• Senators Introduce Bill That Would Allow US To Dis ...
  Senators introduce bill that would allow US to disconnect the Internet RAW STORY- By John Byrne Friday, June 18th, 2010 — 8:02 am Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), along with one Republican and Democratic senator, introduced a bill late last week that would allow the President to effectively disconnect the ...
• 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 [...]

Solari

• Congressman Paul Kanjorski on C-Span - Bailout
  Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA 11th District) responds to a caller on C-Span, who, struggling to support her family while earning fewer than ten dollars an hour, was questioning the unaccounted recent federal bailouts. She was polite, but angry. Kanjorski: And I understand that frustration, quit ...
• Solari Report on Gulf Oil Spill
  If there is something growing faster than the plumes of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico, it is the unanswered questions about what is happening and what it means to all concerned: Was the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig an accident or is there a deeper story? What will the im ...
• Latest Coverage of Gulf Oil Spill
  Scientists in Florida are concerned that large plumes of oil floating beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico originated from the Deepwater Horizon spill, and want to test their samples against oil collected by BP. But the oil corporation is refusing to cooperate. University of South Florida scie ...
• Simmons & Co. Has the Good Sense to Fire Matt Simm ...
  By Static Chaos After busy making several outrageous comments regarding BP and the Gulf oil spill as recent as last evening, Matt Simmons abruptly announced today that he would retire from the board of Simmons & Co.–the company he founded in 1974–effective June 30. Meanwhile, Simmons & Co. also iss ...
• Quote du Jour
  You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. George Ber ...

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

• Owe Money? Be Careful, or You Might End Up in Jail
  Owing money is not a criminal offense in the USA. But big business has found a way to end-run this process.
• The 17th Amendment is Good for America
  There's a right-wing movement afoot to repeal the 17th Amendment, which established direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote. Here's why its intentions are misplaced.
• Arizona's Immigration Law: a Modern Expression of ...
  These Arizona laws are part of a spasmodic reaction to the "browning of America."
• Imagine What Father's Day Is Like for All the Dads ...
  We can only celebrate Father's Day correctly if we include all fathers -- black, white, brown, rich and poor.
• American Businesses Kill 14 Workers Every Day as t ...
  Now -- in the wake of a slew of highly publicized and preventable disasters -- is the time to demand action, before more workers die.

Sideways News

• 10 year old’s divorce challenges traditions in Yem ...
  They say divorce is hardest on the children, but they have no idea. Nujood Ali’s ordeal began as a nine year old when her family in her native Yemen arranged her marriage to a man in his thirties. While Yemeni law states no minimum age for wedlock, sexual relations with new brides are forbidden be ...
• Ban junk food advertising, doctors urge
  More than 100 diabetes experts have urged the Government to introduce a complete ban on advertising junk food to children. The group said current restrictions on television adverts should be extended to include newspapers, magazines and billboards. Organisers believe the move would cut the number of ...
• The importance of giving revealed
  Giving to charity can enhance your reputation and help you reap rewards in the future, according to a study. Scientists found that those who donated enjoyed benefits at a later date, as their reputation was improved and others became more likely to want to work with them or to help them. In the stud ...
• 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.

Fabius Maximus

• The wounded warrior debate
  Summary:   As our long war concludes its 9th year the stress builds on our men and women in the armed services.  And on the people who care for them.  Largely hidden from view, on rare occasions these issues come into view. (1)  “Former Pentagon personnel official: The warrior units are holdin ...
• FM newswire for June 18, interesting articles abou ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Recommended, an important new report:  “The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market“, David Autor (Prof Economics, MIT), Center for American Progress and the Hamil ...
• FM newswire for June 18, interesting articles abou ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Recommended, an important new report:  “The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market“, David Autor (Prof Economics, MIT), Center for American Progress and the Hamil ...
• No matter how skilled the author, US geopolitical ...
  Summary:  The professional literature of our military frequently displays both skillful analysis and unlikely assumptions.  This article exhibits both traits, giving it that Oz-like character. “Striving for Balance in Defense“, Thomas G. Mahnken (Commander, US Navy Reserve; Prof US Naval War Coll ...
• FM newswire for June 17, interesting articles abou ...
  It’s a big day for news and analysis.  If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. What happens to a political movement when the big lie becomes daily fare?  We’ll see; they’re doing fine so far with lies like this:  ”Health Care Law and W-2 Forms“, Fact Check, 26 May 2010 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Tea and coffee ‘protect against heart disease’
  BBC – Drinking several cups of tea or coffee a day appears to protect against heart disease, a 13-year-long study from the Netherlands has found. It adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting health benefits from the most popular hot drinks. Read article
• Deadly effect of arsenic in drinking water measure ...
  Physorg-The large 10-year study is the first to prospectively measure the relationship between individual exposure to arsenic and its associated mortality risk, the authors said. The data, collected by an international team from Chicago, New York, and Bangladesh, will be published early online Satur ...
• UK budget deficit lower than feared
  Guardian – Britain’s budget deficit came in lower than feared last month, the latest indication that the public finances are over the worst of the financial crisis. The government borrowed £16bn in May, below last year’s £17.4bn and less than the £18bn expected by City economists. Excluding bank ...
• Experts Explore Emerging Evidence Linking Diabetes ...
  ScienceDaily — A new consensus statement of experts assembled by the American Diabetes Association and the American Cancer Society reviews emerging evidence that suggests cancer incidence is associated with diabetes as well as certain diabetes risk factors and treatments. Read Article
• Low Calcium Intake Linked With Increased Risk of O ...
  ScienceDaily — Italian postmenopausal women who have a low calcium intake show a higher risk of developing both osteoporosis and hypertension (a chronic medical condition in which arterial blood pressure is elevated) than those who consume higher levels of calcium according to research presented at ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Part 2: Response to the Amerikan Party of Labor: M ...
  Part 2: Response to the Amerikan Party of Labor: More slop. (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The First Worldist, Hoxhaist Amerikan Party of Labor (APL) has recently tried to take on Maoism-Third Worldism. (1) Yet, it is no surprise that, like so many others, they’ve fallen flat on their faces. In ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• Flashpoints For Global War
  In this article, we will examine some of the regions around the world in which such a “shock and awe” campaign could begin, facilitating the escalation of global war. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
• 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 ...

ecogeek

• Better Place Stress-Testing Its Battery Swap Tech
  Better Place has set up shop in Tokyo to stress test their battery swapping equipment.  The pilot program will allow the start-up company to work out the kinks in the technology before opening their first battery swapping station in Israel. A test swapping station is located in the Roppongi Hills ...
• NREL Invents 90% More Efficient Air Conditioning U ...
  NREL is always discovering and creating amazing things .  This time, the team of scientists has invented an air conditioning process that is 90 percent more efficient than the top of the line units available today. Air conditioning is responsible for about five percent of the nation's annual energ ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• 10 Ways To Start Making Change: We are the Change ...
  PAUL ROGAT LOEB FOR BUZZFLASH Effective activism's a long-haul process, not "save the Earth in 30 days, ask me how." But there are some principles that seem to reoccur for people addressing every kind of challenge from the Gulf Oil spill to inadequate funding for urban schools to how to deal with A ...
• Tales of the Bizarre: Obama Admits He’s a Muslim, ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH Nile TV International and Israel Today Magazine are pushing a story that Obama admitted he is a Muslim to Egypt’s Foreign Minister, and U.S. conservatives – especially AtlasShrugs.com’s Pamela Geller -- are running with it You’ve heard the charges many times; Pre ...
• Glenn Beck Accuses the President of Racism…Again
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Jeffrey Joseph With the continually growing disaster of the BP oil spill in the Gulf, the ramifications have and will continue to affect a wide swathe of people. Accordingly, many have asked a lot of questions as to why the president and BP have not yet stemmed the flow ...
• Ancient Oceans
  ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH “Salt remnants of ancient oceans flow through our veins . . .” Now, along with endangered species, the Gulf spill has given us a new category: endangered oceans. The challenges presented by the disaster lay before us in their incomprehensible enormity. To what extent ...
• BP: Eco-Terrorism Inc. They Should be Prosecuted, ...
  MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG If you value this BuzzFlash Editor's Blog, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. For many years, as part of the right wing thuggish putsch in America -- and their great skills at "framing" public policy is ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The strange and consequential case of Bradley Mann ...
  On June 6, Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zitter of Wired reported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been detained after he "boasted" in an Internet chat -- with convicted computer hacker Adrian Lamo -- of leaking to WikiLeaks the now famous Apache Helicopter attack video, a ...
• Versailles sleaze
  As I finish up my lengthy piece on the detention of accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, which will be posted very shortly, I wanted to make certain you were up to date on the latest glamorous gatherings of White House officials and the aggressive, adversarial press corps which holds them accou ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 4 tips for a healthy barbecue
  The BBC weather team promise us a barbecue summer almost every year, and although we do get the occasional patch of warmth, it’s never quite as sunny and warm in the days and balmy and calm in the evenings as it is in the US or Australia where the BBQ expert is truly the culinary [...] 4 tips for a ...
• The push and pull of third world drugs
  Diseases can be classified as Type I (those that are incident in both rich and poor countries); Type II (those that are incident in both rich and poor countries but with a substantial proportion in poor countries, for example tuberculosis [and malaria]) and Type III (those that are overwhelmingl ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• House To Hear Testimony On Racial Profiling Today
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2010 ACLU The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will hear testimony today from civil rights groups, legal scholars and law enforcement officials at a hearing on racial profiling that will examine law enforcement’s use of ...
• Campaign Launched to Force 'BP Ten' and Others in ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2010 Friends of the Earth Today, as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, was set to testify about the devastating oil disaster his firm caused in the Gulf of Mexico, the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth launched a campaign to pressure members of Congress to unload ...
• Migrants in Detention: Lives on Hold
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2010 Doctors Without Borders Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released a report documenting the impact of detention on the wellbeing and mental health ...
• What if the BP Gusher in the Gulf is Unstoppable?
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement on the Floor of the House of Representatives about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: read more
• Human Rights First Commemorates World Refugee Day, ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2010 Human Rights First Ahead of this weekend's World Refugee Day, Human Rights First is urging passage of legislation to fix the flawed laws and policies that now undermine the United States' commitment to refugees. The group notes that passage of the Refugee Protecti ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Manufacturing a Border Crisis
  by Kent Paterson Unlike Mexican border states where drug-fueled violence has been on the upswing, violent crime rates in U.S. states bordering Mexico have been decreasing for the last several years. El Paso and San Diego are rated among the safest cities in the United States. Since 9-11, no terroris ...
• Day 59
  by Joyce Marcel The other evening in Bellows Falls, Vermont, Beausoleil sang "The Problem," a song JJ Cale wrote and recorded in 2004, long before the BP oil spill: "Have you heard the news that's going 'round here/The man in charge has got to go/Cause he dances 'round the problem, boy/And the p ...
• The Oil Spill in Bathroom
  by Ronnie Cummins There's an oil spill in US bathrooms that's roughly the same size as the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It's coming from the petrochemical-based cosmetics we're rubbing into our hair and skin and rinsing down the drain. US oil addiction isn't limited to the fuel in our car ...
• Memories and Misery in CNN Land While Homeowers Se ...
  by Danny Schechter ATLANTA -- Somehow, I can't escape CNN. Last Saturday I joined Ted Turner, Wolf Blitzer and more than 300 current and former CNN employees at a celebration of the network's 30th anniversary at the National Press Club in Washington. I was there as one of the  "CNN Originals," ...
• On Not Going Home Again
  by Joyce Zonana We'd been planning our trip for over a year: six first cousins, ranging in age from 50 to 70, who hadn't been together in one city (let alone one country or one continent) in at least forty years; a 93-year-old uncle who hadn't seen his nephews in more than twenty; second and third ...

Karl Burkart

• Rebranding incompetence: anti-BP art
  BP has been attacked from all sides, but it is the artist community that has provided its most thorough evisceration.
• SpongeBob and Aquaman on BP oil spill
  Two funny videos from two aquatic icons -- SpongeBob and Aquaman -- speaking out on their now destroyed habitats.
• GreenDig green news video blog goes live!
  Karl's green news video blog called the Daily Dig is officially launched.
• Organic 'from A to Z' video library
  Planet Green's Web video series features 26 tasty organic treats ... in alphabetical order.
• Algae oil: I'll drink to that!
  Breakthrough algae biofuel technology unveiled in Los Angeles. Sarah Backhouse gives you the scoop.

Water Privatization

• 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.
• Ontario asset sale could raise up to $12 billion
  A secret white paper recommends selling chunks of Ontarios liquor, lottery and electricity corporations, raising up to $12 billion.
• Water firm workers slam privatization plan
  THE Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) management and the more than 120 employees wanted the water district converted into a cooperative, instead of a plan for privatization. read more
• Turks cancel project to sell Israel water
  TEL AVIV, Israel, June 18 (UPI) -- Israel may be celebrating the discovery of giant offshore gas fields that are expected to transform its economy, but its hopes of overcoming its acute water problems have been set back by Turkey, its erstwhile ally.
• Tanigaki: DPJ ripped us off
  Liberal Democratic Party chief Sadakazu Tanigaki criticized the ruling Democratic Party of Japan on Friday for patronizing the LDP by referencing its plan to double the consumption tax to 10 percent. "The DPJ oscillates in a wide range," the president of the main opposition party said on a radio pro ...

Guardian

• I helped many patients die, says GP cleared of mur ...
  Howard Martin admits hastening deaths of patients in his care, including his son, out of 'Christian compassion' A GP cleared of murdering three patients has admitted hastening their deaths and those of dozens of others in his care, including his own son. Dr Howard Martin, 75, said he gave fatal dose ...
• Ghana v Australia – LIVE
  Click auto-refresh for regular updates. Listen to our World Cup Daily podcast and email rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk Half time: Australia 1-1 Ghana A phalanx of Australians give the referee the livelier end of their tongue on the way off. They've actually played very well since going to 10 men, aided by ...
• BP caused spill, says drilling partner
  Anadarko says BP should foot entire bill for cleanup as new estimates show spill could last for up to four more years BP has come under further pressure after one of its partners said the oil giant should foot the entire bill for the damage caused by the Gulf of Mexico spill. Anadarko Petroleum, whi ...
• I love her, but the sex has died
  Carole Jahme shines the cold light of evolutionary psychology on readers' problems. This week: Love, sex and masturbation From an anonymous male, aged 40+ I have been in several very loving, amorous, "serious" relationships as an adult, none frivolous and none (at least on a conscious level – who t ...
• Biomedical research facility unveiled
  The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation aims to break down the traditional barriers between research teams as it investigates stem cells and conditions such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and autism Plans for Europe's largest biomedical research facility, which will study everything from st ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Obama's mixed Afghanistan messages
  The news from Afghanistan has been bad lately. The military campaign to win control of Kandahar, the country's second-largest city, has slowed to a crawl. Taliban insurgents have filtered back into parts of southern Afghanistan that U.S. Marines had cleared in the spring. President Hamid Karzai, the ...
• Driver survives South Carolina beer truck crash, b ...
  A tractor-trailer carrying 47,000 pounds of bottled beer turned over late Thursday night on southbound Interstate 77 in Richburg near the bridge construction at Exit 62.
• South Carolina Democrats reject Senate primary los ...
  S.C. Democratic Party officials rejected a protest filed by its U.S. Senate primary loser during a packed, emotionally charged meeting Thursday night.
• Full flight? Embalmed heads miss Southwest connect ...
  "Bags fly free" on Southwest Airlines, but evidently human heads do not.
• After a day in the spotlight, Texas' Barton takes ...
  WASHINGTON — The day after Rep. Joe Barton became a household name — and a source of ridicule for late night comics — by first apologizing to BP and then retracting his apology, the Texas Republican appeared to go underground.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Celebrities draw blood on whaling
  Celebrities are joining the "fight against whaling" this week in rarely-seen numbers. In a video produced by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) , model Alice Dellal daubs and spatters a wall and herself with what I presume is intended to pass for whale blood, while intervening shots ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• BP’s Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors
  The true story of the BP disaster is how private contractors, not the government, are handling the response. Of the 25,000 people responding to the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of the nation, 21,000 are under contract to the foreign oil giant BP. This private army includes work ...
• Stabenow Calls Out LeMieux For Prioritizing Millio ...
  Yesterday, the Senate failed for a second time to advance its tax extenders bill, which extends unemployment benefits for laid off workers as well as various tax credits. The vote was 56-40 (four shy of the required sixty), with opponents from both parties once again citing the cost of the package a ...
• SB-1070 Pushes Cleveland Indians To Take Extra Pre ...
  Back in April, Cleveland Indians coach Sandy Alomar Jr. stated “[c]ertainly I am against profiling any race and having sterotypes, but at the same time my feeling is what does baseball have to do with politics? Let the politicians stay in politics and the baseball players play baseball.” Apparently, ...
• While Hewlett-Packard Benefits From The Stimulus, ...
  After winning the GOP nomination for the California U.S. Senate race last week, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has been quick to tout her chief executive credentials in her race against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). While claiming to fight for âmillions of Californians [that] are strugglin ...
• Here’s How You Lose A War Against Al Qaeda
  You want to lose the war against Al Qaeda? Then listen to National Review’s Andrew McCarthy: WILL CAIN: Right here, at the top, “Chapter Two: Islamism.”  The question for the house is what should we call the challenge that confronts the West? And your candid answer is, Islam.  Is that what our bat ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Ignatieff Makes Sense: Coalition Possible
  It's all over the "Prog-Blogs" site. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff says that a coalition is entirely legitimate, and he'll consider one after the next election. (There will be no talk of the parties merging or an electoral arrangement.) Fine. If another election produces another harpercon minori ...
• Is "Democracy" a Winning Campaign Issue?
  I was going to write something about capitalist imperialism, the Congo, Honduras, and the need for solidarity with the people of Greece. But in response to Alison's post about the harpercons' recent assault on parliamentary oversight, I commented: "I guess the opposition doesn't think that democrac ...
• No title
  One of the more chilling aspects of the harpercon government's recent challenge to supremacy over the Afghan detainee documents was the repeated resort of the anti-democratic, pro-war, "conservative" crowd to babble that they would stand up for "the honour of the Canadian military" against the MPs ...
• Parliament CHOOSES to transfer its power
  That's how Eugene Forsey Libera l sees it. And while I think he's fucked-up sometimes , I agree with him on the importance of Parliament. So this is a bad deal and it's bad for our democracy.
• 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 ...

Financial Sense Editorials

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

on Government Oversight

• A Win for Transparency in Financial Reform
  We’re happy to report that the financial reform conference committee has improved unacceptable secrecy measures in the legislation. This week, the conference committee tackled reforming the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and replaced a poison pill secrecy provision in that...
• This MMS We're In
  Yesterday POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian testified before the House Natural Resource Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources about the reorganization of the Minerals Management Service (MMS). Just about every reporter and every other person focusing on the Deepwater...
• Morning Smoke: Highly Anticipated Congressional He ...
  Apologies and anger dominate gulf oil-spill hearing as BP goes before Congress by Steven Mufson [The Washington Post] MONEY & POLITICS: BP’s $22,800 Apology [Center for Public Integrity] Bank Reform Loopholes Are Roadmap To Trouble by Chuck Jaffe [MarketWatch] Obama's...
• POGO Talks Private Security Contractors, Inherentl ...
  POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian is back on Capitol Hill this morning to deliver testimony before the Commission on Wartime Contracting. The Commission is holding a hearing probing the role of private security contractors (PSCs). You can read her testimony...
• CliffsNotes Version of POGO's Testimony Before Con ...
  POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian is testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources today. This will be the first hearing examining the proposed reorganization of the Minerals Management Service (MMS). At the end of the day, this...

Digital Journal

• Canadian government & Ambassador guilty of defamin ...
  Sometimes the little guy can take on big government -- and walk away a winner. That was the case for former student, Steven Schnoor, who took on the Canadian Government and former Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala, Kenneth Cook.
• Oxfam got an early start on G8 & G20 protests in T ...
  Oxfam and other organizations are calling for G8 and G20 to be dismantled. Oxfam was also asking for investments in clean energy, and for the wealthier nations to remember their commitments to reduce global poverty.
• Braidwood Inquiry leads to special prosecutor
  British Columbia has announced that a special prosecutor will be appointed to review discrepancies in testimony at the Braidwood inquiry.
• First Nations to not pay Ontario provincial tax
  First Nations in Ontario, Canada, will not pay the 8% provincial portion of the 13% HST. On Thursday Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse received letters from Federal Finance Minister Flaherty and Ontario Ministers Bentley and Wilkinson confirming this.
• Have you seen Terrance Clark?
  The Burnaby RCMP is asking for assistance by the public to help locate Terrance Clark. The 56-year-old man has been missing since June 8.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• We'll Tell 'Um Where to Stick Their "Don't Feed Ou ...
  You'd think they'd be a little more laid back in California. A beach shop called The Black on Ocean Beach in San Deigo is selling "Please Don't Feed Our Bums" stickers ( pictured here ) and t-shirts — and pissing a lot of people off in the process. Modeled after the parks department's "don't feed th ...
• How to Frame the Issue of Homelessness Politically
  Homeless advocates tried for years to increase public awareness of the issue of homelessness, to defeat stereotypes and to put the issue on the political agenda. Then Barack Obama won the presidency and many of us saw a ray of hope. So, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2009, dozens of homeless advo ...
• Shocker! More Families Are Homeless
  It won't be a surprise to anyone who reads this blog (or has brain activity), but the Department of Housing and Urban Development has released an annual report to Congress showing that more families sought shelter in 2009 than in 2008, so now it's definitely, officially, undeniably true. According t ...
• She's Talking but No One's Listening
  Poochie was recently laid off from her job passing out flyers, along with ten others, and is living in Chicago. She's now in a "border house" after living on the streets for two years. She's making progress — guarding and taking care of herself. But it's still hard. Sometimes she doesn't eat, and so ...
• Welcome to 19th Century England
  Commenter Beat On The Street pointed me toward a great post on the blog of the National Coalition for the Homeless last night. Discussing increasingly stringent regulations designed to curb panhandling, blogger Anna Mackiewicz writes, "These panhandling laws are quite similar to the 'no beggars allo ...

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

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

War in Context

• Interview with Ken O’Keefe
  Ken O’Keefe, an activist who was on board the Mavi Marmara, is interviewed by Mark Dankof on his podcast, The Ugly Truth. Powered by Podbean.com (During the first ten minutes of the broadcast, Phil Tourney, a survivor from the USS Liberty, describes the circumstances in which Israel attac ...
• Time for the West to shed its cultural arrogance
  “The westerly excrescence of the continent of Asia,” is how the British historian Barry Cunliffe describes Europe’s topographic form. It’s a useful image because it emphasizes what this nominal continent is anchored on to rather than what sets it apart. Seen in this way, the importance of Turkey — a ...
• Aboard the Mavi Marmara — an American eyewitness a ...
• Syria’s Bashar al-Assad warns of Middle East war
  The BBC’s Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who says Israel’s raid on the Gaza aid flotilla has increased the risk of war in the Middle East. A few days before the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, Charlie Rose did a full length interview with the Syr ...
• 100,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews rally in Jerusalem in ...
  “It’s like putting Americans and Africans together. They can’t study together with such huge mental differences,” an ultra-Orthodox Jewish parent said when explaining why he cannot allow his daughters to share a classroom with Sephardi Jewish girls. It’s hard to countenance the concept of a “demogr ...

Watts Up With That?

• Antarctic Agreements and Disagreements
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Steven Mosher has pointed out a Science Magazine article (subscription only) about Antarctica. It is a discussion of the temperature changes in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). And where might that be? Figure 1. Location … Continue reading →
• Omaha schools pull Laurie David’s AGW book c ...
  Omaha.com reports on the school board that made this decision here. This book has been around since 2007. Since she’s married to Seinfeld producer Larry David, so it fits right in with the rest of the Seinfeld saga. For example, … Continue reading →
• Hot Times in Antarctica
  From the “I told you Angry Penguins were the new icon” department From Time The world’s polar regions are warming up faster than the global average, but the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula is especially steamy. Over the past … Continue reading →
• Grave concerns by Pielke Senior: Nature duped with ...
  Image: NOAA USHCN COOP station at Hanksville, UT, sited over a grave. Click for larger image. Photo by surfacestations volunteer Juan Slayton First the article at issue: How best to log local temperatures? Peter A. Stott1 & Peter W. Thorne2 … Continue reading →
• Climate Craziness of the Week: lighting up your wi ...
  I was in Newcastle, NSW AU on Wednesday night to give another lecture as part of the Australian speaking tour I’m doing. I had the pleasure of following David Stockwell in a presentation, and David Archibald followed me. We were … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Deficit Terrorists Strike In The UK – USA Ne ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1105625 (no registration required) by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 17, 2010 Last week, England’s new government said it would abandon the previous government’s stimulus program and introduce the austerity measures required t ...
• NRA: Tanks for the Memories by Steven Jonas, MD, M ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com June 16, 2010 As some of my readers know, I am a public health physician.  I recently had the opportunity to offer some remarks at a conference at the Yale School of Public Health on gun violence and public health. ...
• The Daily Show: Respect My Authoritah
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ The Daily Show Barack Obama thinks he can be trusted with the power, but he’s being stalked by a strange and twisted creature who wants to take the precious away. The Daily Show: Respect My Authoritah videos Ore on Terror http://vodpod.com/dandelionsalad/tag/the% ...
• Ralph Nader: Obama So Far… New Strategies fo ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by pdxjustice Media Productions Run time: 01:38:51 Consumer advocate, former presidential candidate and author, Ralph Nader, provides an assessment of the Obama administration’s first sixteen months in office, and suggests new ways for progressives to succeed in ...
• A ‘Prophecy’ Worth Watching by Chris Hedges
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1104375 by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 14, 2010 Orson Welles and John Houseman were preparing to mount a production in June 1937 in New York City called “The Cradle Will Rock,” a musical written by Marc Blitzstein and set in “Steel ...

Your New Reality

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  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
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 :
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Wired - Science

• Goodbye, Wired Science
  Hey, Wired Science readers. I’ve got some news: this will be my final post for you. Today is my last day at the Wired mothership, and I just wanted to thank you for reading. I’ve been writing for this blog since September 2007, and it’s been a wonderful ride. The site’s community has grown by an [. ...
• Tricky Sea Ice Predictions Call For Scientists to ...
  With sea ice levels in the Arctic at record lows this month, a new report comparing scientists’ predictions calls for caution in over interpreting a few weeks worth of data from the North Pole. The Sea Ice Outlook, which will be released this week, brings together more than a dozen teams’ best gues ...
• Video: Testing Quantum Gravity With Bosons in an E ...
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience96880617001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Dropping ultra-cold quantum gas down an elevator shaft could help prove Einstein wrong. Scientists have shown that it’s possible to keep sufficiently close tabs ...
• Swine Flu Jumps Back to Pigs and Keeps Evolving
  A new strain of swine flu shows that the pandemic version has jumped from humans back to pigs, where it’s evolving in new and unpredictable ways. The new strain, identified in a Hong Kong slaughterhouse, isn’t especially virulent. But the findings emphasize the need for continued vigilance. Swine f ...
• Oil Spill on Track to Reach Atlantic No Later Than ...
  BOULDER, Colorado — Oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the Atlantic Ocean within six months, says oceanographer Synte Peacock. Exactly when is all down to an eddy that broke off of the infamous Loop Current southwest of Florida on June 12. Peacock, of the N ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Ahava campaign comes to court
  In France, the campaign to boycott Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics has entered a new phase with boycott, divestment and sanctions advocates taking legal action against the Sephora cosmetics retail chain's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• United Methodists Northern Illinois Conference vot ...
  Divestment is a nonviolent form of economic protest long-used... to encourage companies to end unjust practices. By selling its investments in Caterpillar, General Electric, and Terex, the NIC... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• A letter to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk from ...
  The internationally agreed means to ensure 'never again' are the Geneva Conventions and Universal Declaration on Human Rights. These are the principles built by survivors of crimes against humanity,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Israeli nuclear whistleblower returned to solitary ...
  Amnesty International has accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Jerome Slater: The Education of Peter Beinart – Tw ...
  Let’s give Barak himself the last word about what really happened during 2000; a few years later he wrote—boasted, actually—that he had given less to the Palestinians—in fact, “not a thing”—than did... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Post-Soviet bloc to 'advise' Kyrgyzstan on securit ...
• Russian military to buy 50 fifth-generation fighte ...
  Russia's Defense Ministry will order at least 50 fifth-generation fighters from 2016, a senior official said on Thursday.
• Russian 5th-generation fighter
• Russia's 5G fighter to be '3 times cheaper than fo ...
• Russia to offer Turkey advanced surface-to-air mis ...
  Russia is ready to participate in a tender to offer Turkey S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, the state-controlled arms exporter said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• Deadly Effect of Arsenic in Drinking Water Measure ...
  More than 20 percent of deaths in a study of 12,000 Bangladeshis were attributable to arsenic exposure from contaminated drinking water, new research reports. The large 10-year study is the first to prospectively measure the relationship between individual exposure to arsenic and its associated mort ...
• ASHP Urges Senate to Approve Berwick Nomination
  The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) communicated its strong support for the nomination of Donald M. Berwick, M.D., as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Researchers Discover Brain Circuits Enabling Heari ...
  Using a newly applied scientific technique, researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have reached surprising findings about the role of nature versus nurture in the development of the neural circuits in the auditory cortex, the area of the brain that ...
• Economics Expert Available to Discuss Oil Spill Fa ...
  A Texas Tech University expert says the economic impact is catastrophic and will have far-reaching effects that will likely transmit to the nation as a whole.
• City Tech to Host International Solar Sailing Symp ...
  Top scientists from 14 countries will convene at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) from July 20 through July 22 for the Second International Symposium on Solar Sailing. They will discuss recent advances in solar sailing technologies, near-term solar sailing missions and the physics of ...

Natural Health News

• Even More Reasons to Avoid Most Toothpastes
  You might be surprised by the ingredients in a tube of toothpaste.� Toothpaste’s white color alone has 10 or more ingredients, plus enhancers and binders.� First, it uses a mineral powder such as calcium carbonate or aluminum oxide -- which has been linked to Alzheimer’s . Then titanium oxide is add ...
• IBM Computer May Be New Jeopardy Champ
  For three years, IBM scientists have been developing Watson, the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine. It is designed to be able to understand a question posed in normal speech, and respond with a precise, factual answer. This is more than what search engines like Google and Bing do - ...
• Eating Eggs Doesn't Increase Diabetes Risk
  An egg a day most likely won't increase your likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Researchers did not see a significant association between an egg at breakfast and the development of type 2 diabetes in nearly 4,000 older men and women. According to Reuters: “While m ...
• Your Diet Could be More Important Than Your Genes
  A Mediterranean-style diet promotes heart function -- even in men who are normally genetically predisposed to poor heart health.� This means that the autonomic system controlling your heart rate works better if you eat Mediterranean diet or similar diet, no matter what your genes. In a study, resea ...
• Is Tea Healthier than Water?
  Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water -- and may be even better. New research dispels the common belief that tea dehydrates. Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect against heart disease and some cancers. According to ...

Antemedius

• Oil Leaks From Gulf Seabed Cracks Around BP's Well ...
  British Petroleum (BP) has a collection of 'bots' or ROV's, remotely operated vehicles, tethered underwater robots operating in the Gulf of Mexico near the blown out Macondo Well site, while they attempt to either plug the leak or at least find ways to recover and siphon off the leaking oil. Sitting ...
• Saudis Grant Israel Air Corridor To Attack Iran?
  Although according to a report by Israels Haaretz Service a member of the Saudi royal family - Saudi envoy to the U.K. Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf - has since issued a denial and reiterated Saudi Arabia's rejection of any violation of its territories or airspace, the UK Times Online reported saturday ...
• New Documents, Employees Reveal BP's Alaska Oilfie ...
  Originally published at truthout.org Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s north shore, according to internal BP documents and more than a doz ...
• Messages From One Rice Farmer to Another
  Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet blog. Some 80 percent of the world’s rice production is grown by smallholder farmers in developing countries, according to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). From Bangladesh to Benin, these farmers continue to develop diff ...
• Help Create Conflict-Free Green Technology
  The Second Congo War, also called Africa's World War, killed 5 million people between 1998 and 2003. It was the largest war in Africa's history; it involved eight African nations and more than twenty armed militias. Although there was an agreement between the warring parties in 2003, the conflict co ...

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

• What are these pyjamas things of which you speak?
  I don’t know who Jeff Bercovici or Michael David Smith are, or how they dress when they sit down to their keyboards, but I did not find James Risen’s remarks about pajamas-clad bloggers to be at all offensive. Someday I hope to own a pair of pajamas, but until then I’ll just keep doing what [...]
• B[lee]P cont.
  Roy Edroso notes that some of the media were trashing Obama’s oil spill speech for being, um, too smart. Seriously. Here’s a wordle of the top 100 non-common words in Obama’s speech. Raise your hand if you see any words you don’t know. I think what was tripping up CNN was the “e-word.” Environmental ...
• Rushian Literature 101
  Ebeneezer Scrooge vs. Rush Limbaugh Click to see text at full size. In other news, ACORN acquitted of financial mismanagement charges, spokesperson lashes out at Rush, Breitbart and the other lying liars. Enough racism for one day? Here’s some FGM that’s completely unrelated to anything to do with A ...
• Wordling The Overton Window
  Wordle lets you identify key repetitions in text, and sometimes gives you insights into what the author is going for. Here’s the first page from Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window: Somewhere Steve Forbes just got a hard on. TOW ripples with hard hitting themes that in fact literally crackle with all th ...
• Sports and the cult of weather
  Fuck me. We’ve got tornado alerts. Tonight’s Game 7 of the NBA playoff finals but it’s on ABC and the local ABC affiliate IS OBSESSED WITH INTERRUPTING LIVE SPORTS COVERAGE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT SOME DRUNK THINKS HE SAW A FUNNEL IN WARROAD. For weather dorks, interrupting live sports coverage is the ...

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

• From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High ...
  Phyllis Bennis: From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas Israel has decided that it is better to be perceived as savage than as weak. In its initial attack on the boats carrying human rights activists and humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel's commandos killed at least ...
• Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers -MSH
  Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers - (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Bnei Menashe claim to be a lost Jewish tribe currently living in a remote corner of India. They identify as Jews and are to be sent to Nepal for fast-track conversion to so-called Orthodoxy (in the “strict” Zion ...
• Polynesian Panthers visit Wellington
  �Source An event organised by the combined Schools of Pacific Studies, Te Kawa a Maaui, International Relations and Political Science saw a good crowd arrive at the New Kirk 303 lecture theatre around 5.30pm on Friday 14th May. The speakers and audience were welcomed by staff of Pacific Studies, ...
• 3 Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges in Wikileak ...
  3 Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges in Wikileaks Probe :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de] An Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to Wikileaks has still not been charged with any crime, three weeks aft ...
• 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 ...

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

• Environmental News -10/06/10
  Environmental News Snakes may be in decline worldwide Distinct populations of snake species on three continents have crashed over the past decade, raising fears that the reptiles might be in global decline. The pattern across the eight species monitored was alarmingly similar despite th ...
• What’s on 7 June 2010
  In the past few years a growing number of environmental films and documentaries has been produced and screened around the world, with sustainability, climate change, green living and environmental protection being increasingly hot topics. The 2010 Sydney Film Festival confirms this trend with the sc ...
• River Red Gums Triumph
  Home to one of the largest ecosystems in Australia, the River Red Gum forest in NSW has been a political battleground…
• The DOs and DON’Ts of Washing Organic Fabrics
  How to best take care of your eco-wardrobe – we dissect the washing DOs and DON’Ts for the top three organic fabrics…
• Environmental News -14/05/10
  Environmental News   Norway should limit Arctic soot to slow warming Norway should limit soot from emerging Arctic industries such as oil or shipping that risk accelerating a thaw of ice around the North Pole caused by global warming, a recent report said. The study also said climate change, ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Deadly bombings kill at least 6 in Iraq
  ShareThis Deadly bombings kill at least 6 in Iraq 19 Jun 2010 At least six people have been killed and more than 80 others have been wounded after two car bombs went off in northern parts of Iraq, police sources say. The first blast took place near the home of a provincial official from the Turkman ...
• US drone attack kills 11 in NW Pakistan
  ShareThis US drone attack kills 11 in NW Pakistan 19 Jun 2010 A new US drone attack in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, near the country's border with Afghanistan, has killed 11 people, intelligence officials say. A US drone aircraft fired two missiles targeting a house in Sokhel village in ...
• Afghanistan: 3 More Americans Killed
  ShareThis Afghanistan: 3 More Americans Killed 18 Jun 2010 Three more United States service members have died in southern Afghanistan, where militants have stepped up their attacks in response to greater security by NATO and Afghan forces in Taliban strongholds. NATO said Friday that two of the Amer ...
• Obama administration still approving flawed Gulf d ...
  ShareThis Obama administration still approving flawed Gulf drilling plans --MMS signed off on at least five new offshore drilling projects since June 2 18 Jun 2010 Despite President Barack Obama's promises of better safeguards for offshore drilling, federal regulators continue to approve plans for o ...
• Iraqi army confronted UK deportation officials on ...
  ShareThis Iraqi army confronted UK deportation officials on Baghdad plane --Army officer reportedly warned UK officials not to return Iraqis by force again, as UNHCR condemns removals to Baghdad 16 Jun 2010 An Iraqi army officer boarded a flight full of deported asylum seekers at Baghdad airport and ...

Daily Loaf

• The slide continues, Rays speared 7-4 by Marlins
  Attention Matt Garza: your wife called; she said you left your arm at home!
• Florida’s gay adoption ban: Who fought for it, who ...
  Florida is the only state in the U.S. that explicitly bans gays and lesbians from adopting children. But that dubious distinction could soon change.
• Concert review: 50 Cent at Jannus Live in St. Pete ...
  On Wednesday night, 50 Cent gave the 1,000-plus fans at Jannus Live a crash course in vapid consumerism; or at least, that’s all I got out of it...
• Concert review: Passion Pit with Tokyo Police Club ...
  We all had other shit going on in our lives, but for one night Passion Pit made us smile, and dance…and we all left happy
• Launching a Triple Bottom Line economy to see us t ...
  We are in, what could be called—the perfect storm. All the forces of a collapsing financial system, combined with an economic system in its final transition from a consumer/industrial economy to a knowledge/service economy.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Exclusive Interview with wrongfully arrested Israe ...
  By Jesse Bacon I called TOD? blogger Shy Halatzi after his recent unjustified  arrest about his experience and how he became an activist. . Here is the interview. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Video of the protest
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Andarko to BP
  Andarko says BP should foot entire bill due to their “negligence or misconduct”
• ‘Minuteman Project on steroids’ wants to be vigila ...
  Pinal County sheriff Paul Babeu recently said parts of Arizona are under control of drug cartels and that Arizona needs 3,000 federal troops. Jason Ready, who the SPLC describes as “nativist” and possibly neo-Nazi, just sent out an email encouraging private citizens to patrol the area in camo with “ ...
• Elmore James. Dust My Broom
  King of the Slide Guitar.
• WordPress 3.0 issues and problems support
  A few are having problems with the upgrade. WordPress has a sticky post detailing answers to most problems. As always, unruly plugins can be problematic.
• Afghanistan: Has Hamid Karzai Already Joined the T ...
  The real endgame Karzai is working toward is that of a nominal, Pashtun-nationalist government in Kabul overlaying a Taliban-dominated countryside. Together they function not only as a crime family capable of exploiting Afghanistan's resources but also as a highly effective proxy for Pakistan's inte ...

Coteret

• Uri Saguy tells all, ctd: Provides an insider&#821 ...
  Uri Saguy continues to to reveal details of Israel’s diplomatic history with Syria. In April, Maariv relayed an interview he had given to veterans’ publication, in which he described the role played by Ron Lauder in brokering Netanyahu-Assad negotiations in the ’90s. Last Friday in an extensive ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• The G-20 Song
  The Official Protest Song of the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
  June 18, 2010 BBC World News Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• US military asks law enforcement to watch for Afgh ...
  SAN ANTONIO – U.S. military investigators are asking U.S. law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for Afghan military members who went AWOL while training in Texas, though none is believed to be a national security threat, officials said Friday. Air Force spokesman Gary Emery said 17 Afghans d ...
• RCMP officer ‘not justified’ in taseri ...
  A B.C. judge on Friday slammed the “shameful conduct” of the four RCMP officers involved in the 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport. Thomas Braidwood, a retired justice of the B.C. Supreme Court, released his second and final report Friday from his inquiry into the ...
• 3 Reasons The FCC Shouldn’t “Touch&#82 ...
  The FCC has just taken initial steps to regulate the Internet service providers the same way it regulates telephone companies. Although Chairman Julius Genachowski has said he would use any regulatory powers with a “light touch,” having the FCC control any aspect of the Internet is a really bad idea ...

The Air Vent

• Children are the Future
  A global warming book was withdrawn from public schools for inaccuracy.  It almost sounds like a small bit of sanity is creeping into the global warming discussion.  After all, us skeptics all seem to have our nuanced opinions on the matter and not many of them are unreasonable.  As a father of two ...
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• Spooks Bemoan the Death of Newspapers
  We imagine spying in terms of cutting edge technology and clandestine intrigue, but a lot of important intelligence work involves more mundane strategies like reading newspapers. In recent years, cash-strapped news organizations have slashed their overseas bureaus and recalled foreign correspondents ...
• 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.

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Localeze, Videos, Virtual Goods, ...
  Like Button Boosts Blog Traffic - Six Apart’s blog platform, TypePad, reported this week that the installation of Facebook’s new Like Button boosted bloggersâ referral traffic by up to 50%. Adding the Like button for the post footer, which gave users the chance to Like and share on Facebook, ...
• CrowdStar Runs Its Own Virtual Goods Campaign to H ...
  As crude oil continues to poor from the hole in the earth down in the Gulf of Mexico, social developers have been launching various campaigns to help out. Just today, however, CrowdStar started their own efforts to raise funds within their popular Facebook application, Zoo Paradise, in a campaign d ...
• Compete Shows Entertainment Sites Sending More Tra ...
  Web measurement firm Compete has provided us with a closer look at the traffic Facebook received from other web sites in May. The data, which is broken down by category and by individual site, shows increases in referrals from entertainment sites, with small drops from email providers and other s ...
• Out of Zynga’s Confusing Deal Terms Come Big New F ...
  Zynga has been assembling a big cash hoard in the last year. Between the $180 million it said it raised in December from aconsortium led by Digital Sky Technologies, and $147 million that it has not confirmed it has raised from SoftBank, the company could have something like $327 million in new fun ...
• Report: Facebook Was Profitable in 2009, with Reve ...
  Facebook doesn’t publicly disclose its annual revenue and profit numbers. But the latest report, from Reuters, says it made up to $800 million in total revenue for 2009, with profit in the “tens of millions of dollars.” This number is higher than previous estimates, which have ranged as low as $500 ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: We Have Lost Our Way: I have been trying ...
  truthout: We Have Lost Our Way: I have been trying to get my head around what happened on the Gaza flotilla, wi... http://bit.ly/bvwHsg #Truthout #p2
• truthout: How Halliburton Is Profiting From the Gu ...
  truthout: How Halliburton Is Profiting From the Gulf Oil Spill: Shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, H... http://bit.ly/9f8rb4 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Obama, BP and the Gulf Oil Disaster: The ...
  truthout: Obama, BP and the Gulf Oil Disaster: The most pathetic images I have seen in the aftermath of the exp... http://bit.ly/dq6nNY #Truthout #p2
• truthout: News in Brief: Clinton Says Obama Admini ...
  truthout: News in Brief: Clinton Says Obama Administration to Sue Arizona for Anti-Immigrant Law, and More ...:... http://bit.ly/d62Qws #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Burnham From Mississippi to Arizona: For ...
  truthout: Burnham From Mississippi to Arizona: For Freedom and Human Rights: The room was small, but it was fil... http://bit.ly/diTLGc #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• What sort of Christians become Zionists?
  Stuart Littlewood views the role of an especially pernicious genre of Israel stooges – the Christian Zionists – in spreading Israel’s poisonous concoctions and in imposing “an aberrant expression of the Christian faith and an erroneous interpretation of the Bible” in the service of the rogue Jewish ...
• Israel/Palestine one-state solution sounds like a ...
  Roger Tucker outlines the case for a one-state solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict, arguing that this is the only formula that would provide peace, justice and security for Jews and Palestinians and avoid a possible catastrophe for the rest of the world.
• 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 ...

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

• “Juneteenth: A Time for Self-Assessment&#822 ...
  Commentary submission by Project 21 Juneteenth is the June 19 anniversary of the day in 1865 when the black residents of Galveston, Texas learned about the Emancipation Proclamation and their freedom. Today, its commemoration is a reason for parties and celebration nationwide. More importantly, howe ...
• sat’day riddymz
• 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

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

• CALL YOUR LOCAL WALMART, KMART
  BE SURE TO CALL YOUR LOCAL WALMART, KMART, OR WHATEVER STORE YOU SHOP AT, AND ASK THEM WHEN THEY WILL BE GETTING IN: JFK TO 911, Connecting the Dots!
• 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 [.. ...
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  It had to happen, couldn’t beat ‘em, so I joined ‘em, why don’t you too? Add our Facebook to your favorites.
• SANE VS INSANE

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

• GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
  Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
• 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” ...

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

• The oil spill's upshot
  The tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could help the environmental movement, if greens act wisely.
• Energy exporters: Stay out of the San Luis Valley
  Xcel and Tri-State have overly ambitious plans for massive solar energy development in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
• Why not fees on Fourteeners?
  A Forest Service proposal to charge fees at popular Fourteeners might result in fewer tourists -- who spend more.
• Let's not forget the hidden costs of uranium minin ...
  Uranium mining hasn't caused any massive cave-ins or oil spills, but it has resulted in a huge death toll all the same.
• Bloody Mystery Lingers in the Desert
  The unsolved murder of rancher Robert Krentz adds to the already-high tension along the Arizona-Mexico border.

CounterCurrents

• Iceland Becomes New Media Haven
  By Julian Assange The WikiLeaks advised proposal to build an international new media haven in Iceland, with the worlds strongest press and whistleblower protection laws, and a Nobel prize for for Freedom of Expression, has unaminously passed the Icelandic Parliament
• Death And The Maiden
  By S V Rajadurai and V Geetha A photograph featured in The Hindu, dated 17-06-2010 shows security personnel in West Bengal , carrying the body of a woman killed in a purported raid on a Maoist hideout. The womans body had been trussed up like the carcass of a dead animal. The photo speaks volumes ...
• Rights And Wrongs Of Armed Resistance
  By Gautam Navlakha A discussion on armed resistance in the context of the Maoist resistance in India
• Israels New Humanitarianism
  By Neve Gordon Last week, Israel permitted the transport of jam, halva and shaving razors into Gaza
• Middle East Is Changing, And Ankara Knows It
  By Ramzy Baroud According to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel doesnt adhere to the code of conduct embraced even by the vilest of criminals. The statement alone indicates the momentous political shift thats currently underway in the Middle East. While the shift isnt entirely new ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• Day 5: Dividing Walls and Welcoming Couches
  Day 4: Conor is working on Day 5: Tempe, AZ by Josh  A didgeridoo blew; drums clunked and thudded; guitars and mandolins strummed; in between, an assortment of other obscure instruments and their various noises vibrated around the crowded room. About ten people had gathered in a living room on a war ...
• 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 ...

Yid With Lid

• Federal Election Committee Rules-Its Cool To Say A ...
  � Alan Grayson, the village Idiot of Congress is known for being nasty to just about everyone who disagrees with him, whether it be a former Vice President (a Vampire) or a consultant in the treasury department (k street whore), so it wasn't surprising when, like most bullies, the freshman co ...
• The UN's war on Israel continues -- and the U.S. i ...
  Iran, Lebanon, and Turkey have announced new flotillas to break the Gaza blockade.� If they succeed, it will not stop with Gaza. The rest of Israel is the real target. At the same time, much of the world now has a common enemy in the European media, the U.N., and the Middle East, all of them again ...
• Obama's Plan Reduces Carbon By Destroying Economy: ...
  One forgotten part of the financial crisis that began in late 2008 was the "straw that broke the camel's back," the price of oil. Sure there were too many people who had mortgages beyond their means, and of course some mortgages with flexible interest rates jumped so high that once affordable home l ...
• Conneticut AG Blumenthal Caught Lying About Milita ...
  A little more than a month ago, Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General and odds-on favorite to succeed Chris Dodd as� Senator from Connecticut was caught lying about his military service. He claimed that he served in Vietnam when the closest he came to Vietnam was walking past a Vietname ...
• Birth of a Myth: Winning Over Syria's Dictator wit ...
  By Barry Rubin The dispatch of an official U.S. high-tech delegation to offer the Syrian dictatorship more Internet access and other gizmos--in exchange for him abandoning his alliance with Iran, Hamas, Hizballah, and now even Turkey!--reminds me of a little personal experience which shows ...

The Real Agenda

• Russian President: New World Order with new Global ...
  Talking in front of many businessmen from around the world, the Russia leader followed the steps of other governments and presidents as well as of non-governmental institutions. In the past, George H.W. Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Barack Obama, among others, have called ...
• IPCC Climate Scientist: Global Warming Consensus a ...
  National Post The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on man-made global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider.  The actual number of scientists who backed ...
• Cap and Trade: Polluting is allowed so long you pa ...
  Kerry and Lieberman want the industry to pay bankers a fee for emitting. In other words, they want to legalize unlimited pollution. The results will be an end to industry at the local and regional levels, with massive, worse than ever before emission for anyone who can pay the new tax (Transnation ...
• As Predicted, Spain on the Brink of Collapse
  "Spain is a country that is solvent, solid and strong, with international credibility," said its Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. The European Commission spokesman said: "I can firmly deny [that a Spanish rescue is under discussion]. I can say that that story is rubbish."
• Prince Charles calls for Eugenics in poor countrie ...
  “I fear there is little chance these sorts of schemes can help the plight of many millions of people unless we all face up to the fact more honestly than we do that one of the biggest causes of high birth rates remains cultural.”

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

• Life follows art, “99 Luft-Balluns” an ...
  This is what we’ve waited for, this is it Boys, this is WAR! The balloons weren’t released from North Korea, but from a Korean version of Elementary School. Do Chiang. Which is also the name of a Tae Kwon Do school. That’s the only way I know it. Apparently some folks witnessed what they thought w ...
• Indictment for Times Square Ham Actor.
  Gee, you would think that the people who make money off continued warfare, you know, would hire better talent. The dude allegedly graduated from an American university with an engineering degree and knows nothing about how to set a very large very quick fire using gasoline fumes and a spark. Alleged ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Scootle's Guide To Failing GCSE English!
  I just found out from a friend that 15 and 16 year olds in the UK are required in English class to write an essay about "What happened on 9/11?" as part of the curriculum. That's right, the British government is forcing the propaganda on poor unspecting teenagers. Now I'm currently being forced to ...
• 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

Fooducate

• US Dietary Guidelines 2010. Coming Soon.
  This is a guest blog post by Parke Wilde and was originally published on his blog US Food Policy. The obesity epidemic is the “single greatest threat to public health in this century,” according to a report yesterday from the expert panel advising the federal government on dietary guidelines. Fol ...
• The Politics of Gatorade in Schools
  By law, California schools prohibit the sale of sugary soft drinks in schools during school hours. The idea was to have kids drink water and juice. But overwhelmingly, the replacement has been “sports” drinks, which are nothing more than sugar water with artificial food colorings, and ,yes, a few e ...
• 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 ...

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 (second part)
  b. Lowering one’s defenses. This has been discussed over and over in this blog and it is essentially a rephrasing of “allowing one’s heart to break”. In connection to romantic love, we may see it is the more beneficial the more it relates to oneself, meaning that the benefits are ripped at the level ...
• 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 ...

Survival International

• Andaman tour company ends human safaris
  Jarawa, Andaman Islands © Salomé/Survival Following Survival International’s condemnation yesterday of human safaris to the Jarawa tribe on the Andaman Islands, the company Andaman Island Adventure has said it will stop promoting the tours. The company was one of four highlighted by Survival f ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bad, but BP's PR i ...
  The rich vein of anti-business sentiment in the US is being fuelled needlessly, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bad, but BP's PR i ...
  The rich vein of anti-business sentiment in the US is being fuelled needlessly, argues Jeremy Warner.
• Hayward's grilling is a small penance
  Telegraph View: The BP chief executive got off lightly. Not so the company.
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill: 'The Committee is ready ...
  They are the most feared words in corporate America, and BP's Tony Hayward is about to find out why. Alex Spillius reports.
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill: 'The Committee is ready ...
  They are the most feared words in corporate America, and BP's Tony Hayward is about to find out why. Alex Spillius reports.

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

• Gardasil Girl Courtney Tells Her Vaccine Injury St ...
  From The Truth About Gardasil group HERE. My name is Courtney. I had the first shot on Dec. 17, 2007. My mom is a cancer survivor and I was 22 and sexually active. Preventing cervical cancer sounded great. On Dec....
• IACC Head Dr. Tom Insel Talks about Autism at MIT- ...
  By Anne Dachel Dr. Thomas Insel, chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) and director of the National Institute of Mental Health can be found on several Internet sites talking about autism. Over the last few months, he's been...
• Dr Le Fanu Breaks Ranks to Condemn the GMC in Dr. ...
  (Managing Editor's Note: You can read Dr. Wakefield's complete analysis of the "Lancet 12" in his new book, Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing. Visit Dr. Wakefield's website HERE.) By John Stone A senior British doctor and journalist, James Le Fanu,...
• Dr. Mayer Eisenstein's New Book Merits Close Atten ...
  By Anne Dachel I never thought I'd ever personally know a lot of real authors-people with actual books that I could find on Amazon. Incredibly, I currently do. Here's my ever-expanding list of names: David Kirby, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Bob...
• What Does Your Extended School Year Program Look L ...
  Extended School Year, or ESY is a hot topic in special education. Programs vary dramatically from state to state and school district to school district. Use the comments section to share your ESY experiences - good, bad or ugly. In...

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

• Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment
  It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control.
• Watch Aggie the Traveling Agrobacterium – A GMO Pr ...
  Watch The Adventures of Aggie the Traveling Agrobacterium on Veoh!
• GULF OF MEXICO – One of two one-ton masses of tarb ...
  GULF OF MEXICO – One of two one-ton masses of tarball material recovered south of Perdido Pass, Fla., by the crew of the lift boat Sailfish, a Vessel of Opportunity working in the largest oil spill response in U.S. history, on Saturday, June 11, 2010. Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class John Walker, US ...
• BP is Spraying COREXIT over Populated Areas of the ...
  VIDEO
• Barry Soetoro, Imposter in Chief, Implements CODEX ...
  We knew that CODEX was right around the corner, and here it is, live and in color. Barry Soetoro, AKA Barack Hussein Obama, Imposter in Chief, on June 10, 2010, issued an Executive Order – Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. In short, the CODEX council. ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Deadly effect of arsenic in drinking water measure ...
  Physorg-The large 10-year study is the first to prospectively measure the relationship between individual exposure to arsenic and its associated mortality risk, the authors said. The data, collected by an international team from Chicago, New York, and Bangladesh, will be published early online Satur ...
• UK budget deficit lower than feared
  Guardian – Britain’s budget deficit came in lower than feared last month, the latest indication that the public finances are over the worst of the financial crisis. The government borrowed £16bn in May, below last year’s £17.4bn and less than the £18bn expected by City economists. Excluding bank ...
• Experts Explore Emerging Evidence Linking Diabetes ...
  ScienceDaily — A new consensus statement of experts assembled by the American Diabetes Association and the American Cancer Society reviews emerging evidence that suggests cancer incidence is associated with diabetes as well as certain diabetes risk factors and treatments. Read Article
• Low Calcium Intake Linked With Increased Risk of O ...
  ScienceDaily — Italian postmenopausal women who have a low calcium intake show a higher risk of developing both osteoporosis and hypertension (a chronic medical condition in which arterial blood pressure is elevated) than those who consume higher levels of calcium according to research presented at ...
• Gulf oil full of methane, adding new concerns
  AP-NEW ORLEANS â It is an overlooked danger in the oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile ecosystem. The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Gulf oil spill: U.S. government to collect royalti ...
  Oil trapped by BP from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico will generate revenue for the U.S. government, according to the Minerals Management Service spokesman Nicholas Pardi. The service will collect royalties on any petroleum BP recovers...
• Gulf oil spill: Flow rate now 35,000 to 60,000 bar ...
  As many as 60,000 barrels of oil per day may be flowing from the blown-out wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the newest government estimates. Basing their calculations partly on pressure readings from the wellhead and acoustic soundings,...
• Gulf oil spill: Escrow chief in BP fund promises s ...
  The man charged with distributing $20 billion or more to the victims of the gulf oil spill said Friday that he will establish a system of processing and paying claims with “speed, speed for people in need.” Kenneth Feinberg, a...
• Gulf oil spill: Swift reaction to BP's ouster of H ...
  BP’s decision to make Bob Dudley, a U.S.-born veteran oil industry executive, its public face for the company’s response to the gulf spill was welcomed Friday on Capitol Hill, where a day earlier the company’s Chief Executive Tony Hayward drew...
• Gulf oil spill: Tony Hayward replaced by BP as hea ...
  A day after its chief executive's widely panned appearance before Congress, BP said Friday that it would replace Tony Hayward as head of its oil-spill cleanup effort. In an interview with Britain's Sky News, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Hayward...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

• bpoilresponse: New information about: Kent Wells T ...
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Kent Wells Technical update for June 18, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/29puegk
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well ...
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well status as of June 18, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/26tes4y
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Updated grap ...
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Updated graphics of the long-term containment and disposal plans - http://tinyurl.com/2dq3a6o
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Recent activ ...
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Recent activities of the Overseas Cascade shuttle tanker - http://tinyurl.com/238hqm6
• bpoilresponse: New information about: June 17, 201 ...
  bpoilresponse: New information about: June 17, 2010 Press briefing and update for Deepwater BP oil spill response - http://tinyurl.com/276dsza

spiked

• Not 1966 and all that all over again
  The past weighs heavy on English football, and the current team will have to shake it off in order to succeed.
• Vuvuzelas: what’s wrong with a horny World C ...
  The sound of killjoys lecturing fans on how to support their team is far worse than that South African instrument.
• A brief history of edgy entertainment
  BBC4’s impressive Rude Britannia explored the tension between working-class fun and middle-class disapproval.
• Bloody Sunday: history reduced to psychodrama
  The inquiry report into the Derry massacre rips events from their historical context: the conflict between Irish nationalists and the British state.
• Why we need a limit on drink-drive laws
  Reducing how much we can legally drink before driving is an imposition on our freedom that makes little difference to safety.

Cryptogon

• Coast Guard Authorized to Burn Oil Off Florida, He ...
  “Don’t panic.” —The Management Via: NFW Daily News: The Florida Department of Environmental Protection authorized the Coast Guard to burn oil offshore, and the county is warning people of potential health issues. Particulate matter, an airborne mix of very small particles and liquid droplets, may r ...
• The Strange and Consequential Case of Bradley Mann ...
  This is a lengthy meditation on the Manning/Lamo/WikiLeaks situation. It’s very worth going through, but don’t expect to come away with any clear conclusions as to what actually happened here. Via: Salon: From the start, this whole story was quite strange for numerous reasons.
• Pentagon Zombie-Maker’s New Project: Suffoca ...
  Via: Wired: The scientist responsible for some of the Pentagon’s wildest research has devised a method that could one day save trauma patients, and even extend the shelf life of transplant organs. Step one: Suffocate the wounded. Step two: Put ‘em on ice. Mark Roth, a biochemist at the Fred Hutchins ...
• Damaged Well Billowing Methane Into Gulf of Mexico
  Maybe this one deserves a re-read: Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site⦠Might Produce a Bad Result. Via: AP: It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s fragil ...
• Call the Politburo, We’re in Trouble
  Via: Asia Times: As in the Soviet Union before its collapse, the exaltation and feeding of the military at the expense of the rest of society and the economy had by now become the new normal; so much so that hardly a serious word could be said – lest you not “support our troops” – when [...]

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

  Blacklisted News

• DEFICIT TERRORISTS STRIKE IN THE UK - USA NEXT?
  The financial sector has sometimes been accused of shrinking the money supply intentionally, in order to increase the demand for its own products. Bankers are in the debt business, and if governments are allowed to create enough money to keep themselves and their constituents out of debt, lend ...
• Imaging, Spy-Cams and Drones: The New Hi Tech Home ...
  New "Homeland Security" Toys Lower Boom on Privacy, Grease Usual Palms
• The Afghan puppet government is crumbling before o ...
  In the final part of this fascinating dispatch from Afghanistan, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE says that after nine years of war at a cost of �50bn, we must accept Afghanistan is unwinnable.
• Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL F ...
  A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned.�
• $7-a-gallon gas?
  President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.

The Intelligence Daily

• 9 Reasons Why Spain Is A Dead Economy Walking
  By Michael Snyder Barring an economic bailout of mammoth proportions, the economy of Spain is...
• The Sovereign State of BP – Down for the Count?
  By Michael Collins British Petroleum has operated as though it were a sovereign state since its...
• From 9/11 to 4/20: BP Gulf Oil Leak and a Planned ...
  By Justin O’Connell Evidence and September 11th fit well together, like puzzle pieces. The...
• Child Homelessness in America
  By Stephen Lendman The National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) studies and reports on the...
• The Nanny State is Using Children: EU Search Engin ...
  (EFF) — A controversial, surreptitious proposal to compel search engines to store everything...

My AntiWar

• Russia cancels the delivery of the S-300 missile s ...
  Summary: S-300 surface to air missileRussian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrey Denisov said Thursday that the country will continue to uphold its defense cooperation with Iran, but has no choice but to freeze the delivery of the S-300 air-defense missiles system to Iran ?as it runs counter ...
• An Iran-US Grand Bargain
  Summary: If Iran and the United States achieve a rapprochement, assuming Israel or others do not sabotage it, the resulting stability could help consolidate democratic movements, institutions, and values in the region. A great obstacle to democratization in the Middle East has been the relentless ...
• Russia blasts U.S., EU over additional Iran sancti ...
  Summary: MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sharply criticised the United States and European Union on Thursday for imposing additional sanctions against Iran beyond those approved by the U.N. Security Council last week with Moscow’s backing. source: Reutersread more
• Bern urges talks on Iran nuclear row
  Summary: Calmy-Rey Switzerland has ruled out any measure other than a negotiated solution to ending the West’s standoff with Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program. source: Press TVread more
• Why Lithium Can’t Save Afghanistan

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Russia cancels the delivery of the S-300 missile s ...
  Summary: S-300 surface to air missile Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrey Denisov said Thursday that the country will continue to uphold its defense cooperation with Iran, but has no choice but to freeze the delivery of the S-300 air-defense missiles system to Iran “as it runs coun ...
• An Iran-US Grand Bargain
  Summary: If Iran and the United States achieve a rapprochement, assuming Israel or others do not sabotage it, the resulting stability could help consolidate democratic movements, institutions, and values in the region. A great obstacle to democratization in the Middle East has been the relentle ...
• Russia blasts U.S., EU over additional Iran sancti ...
  Summary: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia sharply criticised the United States and European Union on Thursday for imposing additional sanctions against Iran beyond those approved by the U.N. Security Council last week with Moscow's backing. source: Reuters read more
• Bern urges talks on Iran nuclear row
  Summary: Calmy-Rey Switzerland has ruled out any measure other than a negotiated solution to ending the West's standoff with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program. source: Press TV read more
• Iran is ready to continue nuclear talks
  Summary: Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency: "I'm optimistic that the Tehran declaration will eventually open the way for a just and fair dialogue and negotiation with the Vienna Group. The three countries (Russia, the US and France) have raised nine questions in their letter and we will be wor ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Great Walls of the Universe -Do They Undermine the ...
  Our known, Hubble length universe, contains hundreds of millions of galaxies that have clumped together, forming super clusters and a series of massive walls of galaxies separated by vast voids of empty space. Some of these elongated super clusters have...
• 2014 - The "Next Global Crisis"?
  A cataclysmic "Great Event" is approaching which will occur in or around the year 2014 and determine the course of the rest of the 21st century, according to a startling new thesis by University of Cambridge academic, Professor Nicholas Boyle....
• Strange Spirals of Mars' Polar Cap Revealed
  NASA reports that almost 40 years ago, the Mariner 9 spacecraft relayed to Earth the first video images of Mars' northern polar ice cap, revealing a strange pattern of spiral swirls that has puzzled scientists ever since. Using new data...
• 'You Couldn't Make This Up' Dept.: "Could it be th ...
  "If every habitable world in the universe is unique, and the precise chemical conditions of a planet helps shape the life that evolves there, then avatars could allow aliens to visit other worlds from the safety of their spaceship. Could...
• Image of the Day: Red Monster of the Milky Way
  Yet another amazing cosmic object: The Wolf-Rayet star framed like a viper's eye inside the red ring, about 16,000 light-years from Earth, is one of the most massive stellar objects of the Milky Way galaxy. The star, named V385 Carinae,...

Natural News

• Corporate atrocities against nature may ultimately ...
  (NaturalNews) What's most striking about the present BP oil catastrophe is not that it is an aberration but rather part of a dangerous pattern of mankind's propensity to destroy nature. To destroy life in a large region of an ocean isn't even new: The world already has over two hundred "dead zones" ...
• Childhood cancer survivors have 10 times greater r ...
  (NaturalNews) Survivors of childhood cancers are nearly 10 times more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease as adults than people who did not have cancer as children, according to a study conducted by researchers from Emory University and published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarke ...
• Top whole food multivitamin supplements
  (NaturalNews) Multivitamin supplements can be a great way to get the extra vitamins and minerals that are lacking in everyday foods. Besides the fact that most prepared food is highly processed, cooked, pasteurized or otherwise depleted of its natural nutrient content, the overused soil in which mos ...
• 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 ...

Threat Level

• Utah Attorney General Announces Execution on Twitt ...
  Today marked an evolution of sorts for Twitter. It’s no longer just for following your favorite celebrity rants or for informing your followers you’re having a ham sandwich or just took a shower. And self-promotion on Twitter seems so yesterday. Consider Friday’s tweets from Utah Attorney General Ma ...
• Supreme Court: Officer’s Texting Not Private
  The Supreme Court said Thursday a California police officer’s privacy was not breached when his superiors read transcripts of hundreds of his text messages. The Ontario Police Department was looking at the transcripts as part of an effort to determine whether it was providing an adequate quota of mo ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Greenspan Fears Deficits - with a Democrat in the ...
  On Friday, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan penned dueling op-eds on the federal budget deficit. While Greenspan warned that the "urgency to rein in budget deficits" is "none too soon," Krugman countered "many self-described deficit hawks are hypocri ...
• Backing Polluters: Republicans Rush to Defend BP
  Over just the past few months , Republicans on Capitol Hill have defended predatory health insurers, corrupt Wall Street bankers and criminal coal mining companies. Now with word that President Obama has secured a $20 billion, independently administered escrow fund from BP to help pay for its devas ...
• 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 ...

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

• Witness: US Agent Aimed at Mexican
  A witness to the shooting of a Mexican teenager says a U.S. border agent took aim, report Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss. June 18, 2010
• The Challenge of Being Miley
  The confusions of teen-age years are made even more difficult for a talented child star like Miley Cyrus, writes Michael Winship. June 18, 2010
• The Tricky October Surprise Report
  A House task force deceived the American public in clearing Ronald Reagan of a treacherous scheme with Iran, reports Robert Parry. June 17, 2010
• How US Media Botched Iran's Election
  The U.S. news media is enflaming policy toward Iran with a bogus tale of a "stolen" election, say Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. June 17, 2010
• Prudhoe Bay: BP's Other Ticking Bomb
  BP's cost-cutting, a factor in the Gulf spill, is creating another risk of an oil disaster on Alaska's north shore, reports Jason Leopold. June 16, 2010

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...
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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?
• Alexander Cockburn : Marijuana, Boom and Bust
• Alexander Cockburn : The White House Egg Roll v. G ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe (Saleh Al-Naami, ...
  At a coffee shop in Al-Remal district in Gaza City, one young man sarcastically declared: "If it took them more than three and a half years to allow sewing thread and buttons through, it ...
• Palestinian land vandalized by Israeli settlers ( ...
• Abbas holds talks with US envoy (Al Jazeera)
  Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has told George Mitchell, the US-Middle East envoy, that the United States must press Israel to lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip. Mitchell arr ...
• Arab-Israeli Parliamentarian fights death threats ...
  "I stopped counting after I had received 50 death threats. I told my secretary not to tell me about them any more," Arab-Israeli Knesset (parliament) member, Haneen Zoabi told IPS. "As a ...
• Gaza convoy activists claim Israeli soldiers using ...
  Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used. In th ...

Water - AlterNet

• I Caused the Deepwater Horizon Spill
  Americans should view the BP spill as a reminder of overconsumption's devastating price. Instead, we're using more oil than before.
• 4 Ways BP and Officials Are Working to Suppress th ...
  From intimidating reporters to trying to enforce no-fly zones, there seems to be a concerted effort to block public access to information.
• Why Water May Be More of a Commodity in Iraq Than ...
  The government estimates that nearly two million people face severe drinking water shortages and extremely limited electricity due to hydropower shortage.
• The BP Speech: Obama Still Refuses to Lead
  Faced with the worst environmental disaster in history, Obama wants change. He just won't fight for it.
• How Drug Manufacturing Facilities Are Threatening ...
  A new study found that pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities are a "significant source" of the water pollution resulting from pharmaceuticals.

Public Citizen in Texas

• HEARING ON NUKE DUMP NOW SET FOR SATURDAY
  At a time when lax regulatory oversight has contributed to such catastrophic problems for our nation as the financial crisis and the BP oil spill, Texas may be in the process of setting itself up for a fiscally disastrous and environmentally catastrophic future – all because of a vote by an appointe ...
• White Stallion Town Hall Meeting
  This footage is of the town hall event that was held in Bay City in April. Though invited, White Stallion representatives refused to show up to answer questions from the public. Some Bay City officials, including Mr. Owen Bludau of the Matagorda Economic Development Corporation and Judge Nate McDona ...
• EPA Hearing in Dallas on New Ozone Standard
  Video footage of a public meeting back in March for the Dallas, TX region. EPA has proposed a new NOx attainment standard, and this meeting was held during the comment period. Though an official EPA meeting had been held in Houston, there was no official meeting for Dallas (where Region 6 offices of ...
• Texas’ Political Culture Protects ‘Economic’ Inter ...
  It was a bit surprising that the EPA finally has taken a stand against the TCEQ’s practices of giving “flexible permits.” Prominent Texas politicians including the governor criticized the action taken by the EPA and once again, Gov Perry used a very important local issue to launch his attacks on the ...
• False Claims by the TCEQ Meet Growing Support for ...
  The battle between the TCEQ and the EPA is still making headlines, and, at least according to the headlines at the Houston Chronicle, the environmentalists have gained the upper hand! With the looming possibility that Al Armendariz, regional EPA administrator, will take over all of Texas air quality ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Have scientists found proof of ghosts ?
  New research in to the acoustics of paranormal sounds may prove that they are neither natural nor human in origin. Conducted by Dr. Barrie Colvin the ...
• Human race 'will be extinct within 100 years'
  A microbiology professor who helped eradicate smallpox has claimed we will be extinct within only 100 years. Professor Frank Fenner of the Australian ...
• Zecharia Sitchin : looking for alien DNA
  Zecharia Sitchin has said he's willing to stake his life's writing on the outcome of DNA tests on Sumerian remains. Sitchin believes that the 4,500-ye...
• 'Killer space rock' hunt to begin
  A new observatory designed to search for objects that could pose a threat to the Earth has begun operations. The Pan-STARRS 1 telescope will map one s...
• Unexplained object spotted over Scotland
  A glowing orange object was sighted in the skies over West Lothian in Scotland on Wednesday night. The object moved slowly across the sky making no di...

Grassroots

• Has Gaza’s Blockade been eased?
  gaza_free.jpg Safa Joudeh, formerly Grassroots International’s consultant, who lives there, doesn’t think so. In her Al Jazeera op-ed , Safa explains the emotional and socio-economic trauma and stress of living under lockdown. The Israeli gove ...
• A Victory for Human Rights: Marlin Mine in Guatema ...
  marlin_mine.jpg After tireless campaigning by the indigenous people of Guatemala and international solidarity organizations, including Grassroots International, the Goldcorp Marlin Mine has been ordered to shut by the Inter-American Commission ...
• Grassroots International Supporter Shares One Hour ...
  Today Iara Lee, a Grassroots International supporter and an independent documentary filmmaker and activist, posted online more than one hour of unedited video taken aboard the Mavi Marmara.� The video, recorded in high definition, shows clear uninterrupted footage of the events that occurred before, ...
• 'So That Everyone Can Eat, Produce It Here'
  Subheadline:� Food Sovereignty and Land Reform in Haiti Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Doudou Pierre is a Grassroots International partner and a member of the National Peasant Movemen ...
• Grassroots International funds another great partn ...

Climate

• June 18, 2010
  BP Chief Says He Wasn't in Loop, Enraging Congress (AP) Lawmakers pilloried BP's boss in a withering day of judgment Thursday for the oil company at the center of the Gulf calamity. Unflinching, BP CEO Tony Hayward said he was out of the loop on decisions and asserted, "I'm not stonewalling. ...
• 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 ...

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

• Is There a 'Ronald Reagan Day' in Our Future? God ...
  Earlier this year, the brothers Reagan (Michael, the older one, a conservative radio talk show host, Ron, the younger, a progressive radio talk show host), had a spirited, civil, and public disagreement. They weren't facing off at a University of Oxford Debate nor did they spend some time with Oprah ...
• Present Obama Doesn't Strike Again
  I really didn't want to write another rant this week on the now yawn-inducing fact of Barack Obama's irrelevance and presidential impotence (when, that is, it isn't something far worse), but watching his first Oval Office address to the country the other night, I'm just amazed at the deterioration o ...
• All Republicans should apologize for the oil spill
  If Republicans were still in control, they would favor a BP bailout for the oil spill, as the last Republican president created the bailout for the banks. And the Tea Party people should demand a Republican apology, or they are simply Republican hacks wearing Tea Party costumes. Where President Obam ...
• Too Many Disturbances in the Force
  A couple of years ago I was chatting with a couple of Realtor acquaintances. I understand the real estate sales business well, having been a real estate broker myself back in the late 1970s. Realtor are natural-born optimists. They can find silver linings in even the darkest economic clouds. When p ...
• Buy It Now! Meg Whitman's California Campaign
  While California teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, the Golden State will feature the nation's most expensive gubernatorial race between former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and Attorney General Jerry Brown. Will desperate Californians be beguiled by Whitman's multi-million dollar advertising blitz? Califor ...

Paul Krugman

• The Facts Have A Well-Known Keynesian Bias
  So those facts are "regrettable", and must be ignored.
• Guilt-edged Bonds
  Linguistics and austerity.
• Fiscal Fantasies
  Taking comfort from irrelevant examples.
• Magical Thinking at the ECB
  Building a rationale for deflationary policies.
• I'm Mild And Soft-Spoken
  Of bonds and backward superstitions.

No Quarter

• Read My Lips – Healthcare Is Not A Tax!
  I suppose none of us should be surprised by this, not really. There have been so few things about which Obama HAS told the truth (like making our energy costs skyrocket was actually true), that many of us assume he is lying from the get-go. I should say, those of us in the Reality-based [...]
• Speaking of Clueless
  One picture. A thousand words. Here’s the picture. Let’s see if you have what it takes to tell me what is wrong with this picture? The story this picture accompanies is published at the Foreign Policy blog, The Cable: The Obama administration, led by National Security Advisor Jim Jones, was heav ...
• Barack Obama, Clueless with Authoritah
  Some folks have political tin ears. Texas Republican Congressman, Joe Barton, is a major example of this. That bozo’s apology to BP show a guy so out of touch with America’s sentiment toward BP that he ought to resign his position as the senior Republican overseeing energy matters. And then we ha ...
• While We Are Distracted…
  By the BP oil spill crisis, and it is certainly worthy of our attention, don’t think things have stopped going on in Washington, DC. Actually, come to think of it, there is a connection between the BP oil crisis and one major issue in DC, the Obamacare program. That connection is – wait for [...]
• End of the Beginning
    BP RIP?   BP is not a buy, not an investment, not a trustworthy vehicle. BP is now in the hands of traders and their bots, and that means they are trading on the volatility — the swings in price — that follow any news whatsoever. The company is reduced to a commodity that [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• Amazing Eco-Friendly Bathroom Accessories
  When beginning the switch to green living at home, start small and inexpensively, with green bathroom accessories read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Baby Animals That Can Fit in the Palm of Your H ...
  All babies are cute, but not all babies can fit in the palm of you hand. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How Beijing Cleaned Up its Stifling Air Pollution ...
  From the world’s 13th most polluted city to a breath of fresh air. What happened? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Vuvuzelas: The Buzz Enveloping the South African W ...
  Best-selling Summer Gadget: the VUVUZELA. Are you fed up of the incessant buzzing that lingers well on after the game? Well, here's the real story uncovered... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• The Baffling Legend of the Loch Ness Monster
  Existent or hoax, Nessie has become a worldwide tourist attraction – and even the most sceptical tourist secretly hopes for a glimpse of the mystical beast... 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

• Clapper: Managing the Intelligence Enterprise
  James Clapper, Obama's choice to head up national intelligence, has extensive ties to private intelligence outfits and the policies of the previous administration.
• Jeju and a Naval Arms Race in Asia
  A new naval base on Jeju Island will only make a bad maritime security situation in Northeast Asia worse.
• Poking a Stick Into the Honor Killing v. Domestic ...
  Many are leery of distinguishing honor killings from domestic violence for fear of victimizing Muslims.
• What Does Gary Brooks Farber's Quixotic Mission Sa ...
  Why have calls on the part of the American public for bin Laden's head been so muted?
• Lethal Force on the Border
  Two Border Patrol killings in two weeks have thrown U.S.-Mexican relations into a tailspin.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• UN launches Kyrgyzstan aid appeal
  Rapid response from donors urged amid allegations of outside involvement in unrest.
• Police building attacked in Yemen
  Armed men clash with guards a day after al-Qaeda threatens anti-government assault.
• Turkish troops killed in PKK attack
  At least 12 Kurdish fighters also killed in clashes in Hakkari province, army says.
• Pakistan deaths in drone attack
  At least 13 people killed by suspected US missile in village in North Waziristan area.
• Sweden celebrates royal wedding
  Crown Princess Victoria set to marry former personal trainer at ceremony in Stockholm.

Green Inc. - NYT

• As BP Staggers, Pension Funds Skid
  State and local retirement funds from California to New York are feeling the sting of BP's plunge in share price and dividend cut, as are pensioners on the gulf coast.
• Oil Workers Muse on Renewable Energy
  Oil workers on a deepwater rig idled by a federal moratorium on deepwater drilling share their thoughts on renewable energy.
• The Dead Gulf Whale
  A dead whale has been found in the Gulf of Mexico less than 100 miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak.
• On Our Radar: 20-Minute Neighborhoods
  Portland strives to cut driving and oil use by creating "20-minute neighborhoods."
• Q-and-A: A Pay Model for Ecosystems
  "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it": a United Nations research effort suggests applying this maxim to the earth's ecosystems by assessing the value of the services they perform. We interview the group's leader, Pavan Sukhdev.

Dot Earth News

• Japan's Hard Right Keeps Dolphin Film from Theater ...
  A tiny faction in Japan prevents a documentary on the dolphin slaughter in a town there from being shown.
• 25,000 Barrels of Oil Seen a New Way
  The volume of oil gushing in the gulf is revealed in a new way using gaming software.
• While Oil Gushes, Invisible Ocean Impacts Build
  Growing and long-lasting human impacts on the oceans are exacting harms, but incrementally.
• The Coal Age Continues
  An ongoing Asian boom in coal use threatens to render American debates over a climate bill a sideshow.
• Cameron's Deep-Sea Team Issues Ideas for Well
  James Cameron's deep-sea brain trust releases the recommendations it provided to federal officials overseeing BP and the gushing gulf well.

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

• Facing what could be the end of is career, Robert ...
  Facing the possible end of his career in DPS, Bobb will be on the stand again today (Friday) at 2:00 pm for the third day.   Judge Baxter’s courtroom is room 1421 of the Coleman A. Young Center (City County Building) in Detroit, Michigan. Open to the public! excerpt from www.detnews.com coverag ...
• Unionizing charter schools, bashing teacher unions ...
  Unionizing KIPP: a tale of two schools or is it four? Some recent history      It all started in January of 2009 when 16 of the 20 teachers at KIPP AMP Charter School (AMP means Always Mentally Prepared) in Crown Heights Brooklyn, New York, informed their co-principals that they were organizing them ...
• Big Oil – First Nigeria Then the World
  Big oil in Nigeria – executions, pollution and suffering (Image) Michael Collins The big oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is not the first to threaten a peoples’ way of life. Just ask the Ogoni people from Nigeria’s oil rich central Niger Delta. Their experience over decades offers a model of ...
• What’s going on in Australia?
  First, the country started moving towards internet filters and censorship on a scale only seen in China. Then, they wanted ISP data retention on all net activity. Now, they want to link passports to internet activity. While the government is denying it would capture individual browsing histories, ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Proving That Tea Partiers' Anti-Tax Extremism Isn' ...
  Taxing speculation could take us a long way toward reining in Wall Street.
• Taxing the Wall Street Casino
  Report looks at how speculation taxes might have changed the outcome of recent global financial fiascos
• Tax Wall Street to Pay for Jobs
  The Senate should be looking for ways to jumpstart the economy -- but not at the expense of those who suffered the most from the crisis.
• The IPS Annual Report 2009
  The Institute for Policy Studies entered 2009 determined to help transform the hope that surrounded Obama's historic victory into meaningful change.
• 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.

Pine River World News

• Ramzy Baroud: Turkey Accepts the Challenge
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Turkey Accepts the Challenge � �Ramzy Baroud June 17, 2010 'Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals.' The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan i ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• US intel wants to automate analysis of online vide ...
  A new project funded by the US intelligence community’s research unit aims to automate the collection and analysis of videos from YouTube and other popular online platforms, with the intent of unearthing “valuable intelligence”.
• News you may have missed #375 (analysis edition)
  Analysis: Israel worried by new Turkey spy chief's defense of Iran. Analysis: How the CIA bolstered radical Islam during Cold War.
• US agencies still lack basic language skills, says ...
  A major US government audit into the performance of national security departments and agencies has once again criticized the substantial absence of skilled foreign-language speakers.
• News you may have missed #374
  South Korean general arrested for spying for North. A shared glimpse of CIA officer's secret life.
• Alleged Mossad agent arrested in Poland
  Authorities in Poland have detained an alleged Israeli agent who may be connected with the assassination of a senior Hamas operative last January.

After Downing Street.org

• Under the Covers with Rush and Larry
  Okay, I can’t help it.  It is beyond my control.  I’m visual.  And, so, I make no apologies. Or is admitting that I can’t help it, because I’m visual, an apology?  Let’s pretend it doesn’t matter. It’s Rush Limbaugh.  And Larry King.   No, they aren’t the only men with much younger, sizzling-hot wiv ...
• Feinberg:
  AIR DATE: June 18, 2010 Feinberg: BP 'Trying to Do the Right Thing' But Claims Need Expedited � read more
• Call to Action! United National Antiwar Conference ...
  Join us in Albany, New York! July 23-25, 2010 The National Conference to Bring the Troops Home Now will take place against the backdrop of major developments in the U.S. and throughout the world. The globe is aflame with unending wars, threats of new wars and horrendous sanctions against Iran, atro ...
• Gunrunners {Drugs} in an Insane Society, Ours!
  The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, MN has been running another series of investigative journalism, this one on gun running from Minnesota to Mexico. I've been following it the last couple of days and posting the first two in the series, they've finally put up part three and four today. I'm combining a ...
• Obey's Afghanistan: At Long Last, It's Guns vs. Bu ...
  One of the many destructive legacies of the Reagan Era was the effective Washington consensus that wars and other military spending exist on their own fiscal planet. Reagan got a Dixiecrat Congress to double military spending at a time when the U.S. was not at war (unless you were a poor person in C ...

Grist - News

• Hottie bikers in Miami Beach, Complete Streets in ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Spend enough time watching the Senate dither on the climate threat/ energy quest /defining challenge of our time and it's easy to lose sight of the sanity and localized progress happening around the world. A few quick examples: Miami Beach added a bike-sharing program to le ...
• Republican infighting overshadows the Tony Hayward ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. BP America CEO Tony McGaffeypants Hayward made his first appearance before Congress today, facing questions from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. What did it accomplish? What new information did it unearth? Ha, ha. Maybe you haven't seen a Congressional hearing befor ...
• What we need here is a little R&D
  by Randy Rieland. Thank God for the small people. Or at least allusions to them. BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg's gaffe gave Barack Obama a brief reprieve from the pundit pummeling that mostly dismissed his first Oval Office speech as more slick than oil. But some columnists, Grist's David Rob ...
• Embattled BP chief faces angry U.S. lawmakers
  by Agence France-Presse. Watch Tony Hayward's live testimony: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy WASHINGTON -- Ringed in tight security as protesters waved blackened hands, BP boss Tony Hayward on Thursday faced his first public grilling by U.S. lawma ...
• Oil spill underscores need for Gulf-area economies ...
  by Tom Philpott. In the best of times, the three states most directly affected by the Gulf oil disaster have pretty fragile economies. Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi all rank among the bottom ten U.S. states in per-capita income. Obviously, the ever-growing oil spill isn't just wreaking eco ...

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Time - Top Stories

• Will the Oil Spill Spur Real Energy Reform?
  Without letting Hayward off the hook - though it's not even clear he's in charge any more - if the only long-term response to the oil spill is to bankrupt BP, we'll have utterly wasted this crisis
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• Does Exercise Treat Depression as Well as Drugs?
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• Betty White's Comeback and TV's Ageism
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• Culture of Cruelty: Bullfighting in Spain
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Washington Independent

• House Bill Penalizes Strategic Defaulters
  Last week, I noted that House Republicans had introduced a motion to penalize strategic defaulters — underwater homeowners who simply stop paying their mortgages and surrender their homes to the bank — by barring them from obtaining Federal Housing Administration-backed loans in the future. I had ...
• Senate Delays Medicare Reimbursement Cut Until Dec ...
  Pulling the Medicare provision out of the stalled jobs bill and voting on it separately, the Senate unanimously agreed this afternoon to delay a 21 percent cut to doctors’ Medicare reimbursement rates until December. Due to the weeks it has taken the Senate to get to voting on the jobs bill — also k ...
• Americans Want More Stimulus
  Via Matt Yglesias, the latest Gallup poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support more deficit-increasing stimulus to create new jobs and jump-start the economy. Interestingly, the poll also shows that more Americans favor carbon regulation than Wall Street regulation right now — perhaps as the ...
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  Ryan Reilly reports: Assistant United States Attorney John Durham is close to completing a preliminary review of whether there is evidence that CIA agents violated the law when they used brutal methods to interrogate terror detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder said in speech Thursday night. Holde ...
• Minority Whip Cantor Bets Against U.S. Bonds
  A great catch from The Wall Street Journal: [Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.)], the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, bought up to $15,000 in shares of ProShares Trust Ultrashort 20+ Year Treasury ETF last December, according to his 2009 financial disclosure statement. The exchange-traded ...

Digg Green

• 250,000 Oil Spills in U.S. Waters from 1971 to 200 ...
  Between 1971 and 2000, the U.S. Coast Guard identified more than 250,000 oil spills in U.S. waters. The total amount of oil spilled by these incidents was 6.18 million barrels, or 259,560,000 gallons.
• The IPCC "consensus" was phoney, says IPCC insider
  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.
• Diarrhea-Like Whale Waste Cleans the Environment
  Whale waste is rich in iron so it stimulates the growth of phytoplankton, which then serve as carbon traps that remove some 400,000 estimated tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year.
• Florida Keys Residents Plan Their Own Cleanup
  After watching BP monopolize -- and mismanage -- the oil spill cleanup, concerned citizens in the Florida Keys are organizing their own response
• U.S. hazardous waste being left in Iraq
  Hazardous materials at U.S. bases in Iraq are being dumped locally rather than being returned to America for disposal as required, observers say.

Invisible Opportunity

• The Whore of Babylon Parties in the Bathhouse of H ...
  By Les Visible In times of darkness, The Prince of Darkness is in full sway. Some don’t believe in such forces but I would then ask if they believed in the force of materialism, which they can see in front of their eyes or if they have difficulty seeing that the majority of world leaders [...]
• What has been Happening in Several Segments
  By Les Visible Good day, good readers; presently engaged in the longest comments thread so far, at these blogs over at S.M. This will be long, probably at least two entries and I will endeavor to make them happen quickly so you’ll have to come back on your own because the follow-up won’t be linked [ ...
• The ROTHSCHILD Petroleum Corporation, AKA British ...
  By Greg Bacon âGoldman Sachs is obviously an arm of their empire, whereas BP is among a host of companies in [the] Rothschildâs portfolio.” Despite the growing evidence against it, the theory of global warming has been the reason for large international summits in recent years, namely one that w ...
• Video – BP Spills Coffee
• Corporate atrocities against nature may ultimately ...
  By Mike Adams What’s most striking about the present BP oil catastrophe is not that it is an aberration but rather part of a dangerous pattern of mankind’s propensity to destroy nature. To destroy life in a large region of an ocean isn’t even new: The world already has over two hundred “dead zones” ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
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• 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
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• 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
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Imagine What Father's Day Is Like for All the Dads ...
  We can only celebrate Father's Day correctly if we include all fathers -- black, white, brown, rich and poor.
• The Red Bull Scam -- Why Are So Many People Buying ...
  Red Bull's claims that it improves performance, concentration, reaction time and emotional status are all BS.
• Why Marijuana Is Central to Life, Liberty and the ...
  Inspired by the founders' Federalist Papers, a group of reformers have penned a series of essays exploring the role of cannabinoids in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Leading UK Drug Reform Groups Push Ahead with Blue ...
  Two UK based organizations are charting a course through the miasma of international drug policy by publishing detailed road maps for comprehensive legalization.
• Medical Marijuana Madness in Montana
  Fire bombs. Graffiti attacks. Anonymous anti-medical marijuana flyers handed out to school children. "Ganja-preneurs" are pushing the envelope in the Big Sky State.

Twilight Earth

• Amazing Crystal Cave Video
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• BP Oil Spill Making People Sick – More Than 70 Peo ...
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• Dances with the Moon: Does Oil Clot?
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Inhabitat

• Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!
  HAVE YOU ENTERED OUR IPAD GIVEAWAY YET?! What better way to get some summer reading in than on a brand spanking new iPad?! We’re giving one away along with a rad sketchbook-style bamboo DODOcase and they could be all yours! Enter now for your chance to win this amazing package worth $549! ENTER TO ...
• Sun-Powered Bambu House Sprouts at Solar Decathlon ...
  Tonji University Shanghai’s Bambu House at the European Solar Decathlon is a beautiful sun-powered abode inspired by nature. It has two elegant sloping roofs and is almost entirely constructed from bamboo. Its impressive solar array generates 9 kilowatts of electricity which powers its one bedroom, ...
• The European Solar Decathlon Kicks Off Today – Exc ...
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• VIDEO: Architecture for Humanity is Helping Haiti ...
  Architecture for Humanity is network of over 40,000 design professionals around the world who donate their services to helping to improve lives of people in need. Every year they build buildings and create infrastructure for tens of thousands of people who can’t afford the assistance of a designer. ...
• “Creative Action for Forest” Bookcase by Greenpeac ...
  Greenpeace China already does a lot to fight for the environment, but did you know they design furniture too? Okay, not exactly, but they did enlist designer Jamy Yang to create this fetching tree-inspired bookshelf/book display for stores participating in their “Book Lovers for Forests” campaign, a ...

Pogue's Posts

• Another iPhone Mystery Explained
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• Is Verizon Wireless Making It Harder to Avoid Char ...
  A customer service representative said that the company had put a new policy in place to try to get more money from customers through data plans.
• IPhone 4 Ordering: What a Mess
  It's iPhone-ordering chaos once again.
• New iPhone Creates Familiar Dilemma for Existing C ...
  The release of a new iPhone always comes with a wave of rage from people who bought last year's model, furious that they won't get the $200 new-customer price from AT&T.
• User Accounts on Apple Devices
  Considering a reader's comment that the absence of a multiple-accounts feature on the iPhone and iPad is a "major flaw."

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Goodbye, Wired Science
  Hey, Wired Science readers. I’ve got some news: this will be my final post for you. Today is my last day at the Wired mothership, and I just wanted to thank you for reading. I’ve been writing for this blog since September 2007, and it’s been a wonderful ride. The site’s community has grown by an [. ...
• Tricky Sea Ice Predictions Call For Scientists to ...
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• Video: Testing Quantum Gravity With Bosons in an E ...
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• Swine Flu Jumps Back to Pigs and Keeps Evolving
  A new strain of swine flu shows that the pandemic version has jumped from humans back to pigs, where it’s evolving in new and unpredictable ways. The new strain, identified in a Hong Kong slaughterhouse, isn’t especially virulent. But the findings emphasize the need for continued vigilance. Swine f ...
• Oil Spill on Track to Reach Atlantic No Later Than ...
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The Progressive Realist

• Dr. Gates on Russia's "Schizophrenic" Iran Policy
  U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates testified yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington yesterday about what he described as Russia’s “schizophrenic” Iran policy, see here .  According to Gates—who started his career in government service during the 1960s as a Soviet analys ...
• UN: Security in Afghanistan "Has Not Improved" in ...
  The latest United Nations quarterly report on Afghanistan (pdf), released today, is a mix of bleak pronouncements about security and neutral-or-slightly improved news about governance. The "overall security situation has not improved" since the UN's previous report in March 2010. IED attacks incr ...
• Alternatives for Afghanistan: The Counter-Terroris ...
  Here's some weekend reading for Democracy Arsenal readers (well at least it's what I'll be reading) - Austin Grant Long's recent Orbis article [pdf]  on what a counter-terrorism strategy in Afghanistan might look like. (This is a longer version of the the short piece I sent around a few days ago). A ...
• Here’s How You Lose a War Against Al Qaeda
  You want to lose the war against Al Qaeda? Then listen to National Review’s Andrew McCarthy : WILL CAIN: Right here, at the top, “Chapter Two: Islamism.”  The question for the house is what should we call the challenge that confronts the West? And your candid answer is, Islam.  Is that what our ba ...
• About That Timeline for Withdrawal...
  Joe Klein picks up what seems to be a new meme about Afghanistan - that President Obama's 18-month timeline for withdrawal is hamstringing the military's efforts: There are increasing grumblings about the timetable set by Obama, which would begin troop withdrawals in July 2011. "It's like fighting ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: The Public Always Supports My Pol ...
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• Why Did the U.S. Get Robbed of a Win? Right-Wing A ...
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• The Little Picture: José Saramago.
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• Is McCarthy Secretly A Genius?
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• Outsider Art.
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Andy Worthington

• UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Det ...
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• Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 3 ...
  For the first two and a half years that the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo was open, the men held there had no recourse to justice if, as many of them claimed, they had been seized by mistake, as part of a largely indiscriminate dragnet involving substantial bounty payments to the Bush adminis ...
• Andy Worthington is in Technorati’s Top 100 Politi ...
  Thanks to you, my good friends who read my work, comment on it, share it on Facebook, Digg it, retweet it, and cross-post it (with links!), I’m not only in Technorati’s Top 30 World Politics Blogs, but have also made it into Technorati’s Top 100 Politics Blogs, in the company of Obsidian Wings, Libe ...
• BBC Broadcasts Bleak Insight into Life of Terror S ...
  On Wednesday, the BBCâs Newsnight broadcast an extraordinary insight into the bleak conditions under which Hussain Alsamamara, a Jordanian terror suspect held under a form of house arrest, is obliged to live. Like a few dozen other terror suspects — both British and foreign nationals — who are con ...
• Obama, the Supreme Court and Maher Arar: No Accoun ...
  I don’t have time to write about the US Supreme Court’s shameful refusal to hear the case of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen who was rendered to Syria by the US in 2002, where he endured brutal torture for 10 months, so instead I’m cross-posting a suitably acerbic article by David Cole (one of Arar ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Photos: Human Sacrifices Found at Ancient China Co ...
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• "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
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• Inventor Turned Up Energy Savings by Dimming the L ...
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• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
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• Premature Ejaculatory Praise Of Tiny Comical Rele ...
  I think TPM's Megan Carpentier may have captured the essence of this funny and tiny problem for teabagger redux - "Microman" - in her last paragraph: Wurzelbacher describes Microman as "frustrated" and "one of us" in the same press release. One wonders how many other Tea Party members, already frust ...
• 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 ...

SPL Center

• Idaho ‘Attorney for the Damned’ Arrested in Plot t ...
  Many people thought Edgar Steele went off the deep end in 2002, when, after unsuccessfully defending the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and its late leader in a lawsuit, he wrote the coming-out essay, “It’s the Jews, Stupid!” After all, the man had spent most of his life up to that point as an obscure corpo ...
• News Flash: Obama ‘Convicted’ of Fraud in Birther ...
  Maybe you didn’t catch the news last week: President Obama was convicted by an American jury of fraud and other charges. It was easy to miss, what with The New York Times, television and cable news networks and major Internet news sites — with the exception of Salon — ignoring what one far-right gro ...
• Religious Right Leader Says Gays in Military Bring ...
  It appears Congress is on the verge of repealing the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy for gays in the military. But that, according to the American Family Association ’s Bryan Fischer, would be a mistake of epic proportions: It could produce gay, goose-stepping Nazis in America. F ...
• Columnist on White Nationalist Website Appears on ...
  A columnist for the white nationalist website VDARE appeared as a guest on Fox News this week. As Media Matters reported, Allan Wall, a longtime VDARE contributor, spoke with Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy on Monday about immigration. Doocy introduced Wall as a U.S. citizen who lived in Mexico fo ...
• What’s in a Name? For Donna Lee Wray©, Millio ...
  Many people, seeing their immediate family members killed after allegedly murdering two police officers, might retreat into pained silence. Some might even find a way to express their condolences to the officers’ loved ones. Not Donna Lee Wray. On the contrary, the 50-year-old Floridian who describe ...

change: org.

• 2010 World Food Prize Recognizes Grassroots Hunger ...
  Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug created the World Food Prize in 1986 to recognize important contributions to improving the world's food supply. It's become the world's foremost honor for "the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantit ...
• Russell Pearce Returns With Crusade Against Immigr ...
  Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, the man behind Arizona Bill 1070 , just won't stop. After being heavily involved in the passage of one of the most stringent immigration laws in the country, Pearce has chosen to ignore all calls for sanity and embrace a new, more stringent (can you believe it?) ...
• We'll Tell 'Um Where to Stick Their "Don't Feed Ou ...
  You'd think they'd be a little more laid back in California. A beach shop called The Black on Ocean Beach in San Diego is selling "Please Don't Feed Our Bums" stickers ( pictured here ) and t-shirts — and pissing a lot of people off in the process. Modeled after the parks department's "don't feed th ...
• Estrogen Treatments May Cause Hormonal Disruption ...
  Pixie, a 15-month-old pug, was brought into a Florida veterinary practice with signs that she was in heat. Normally that may not be such a big deal, except Pixie had been spayed since she was 7-months-old. Pixie's vet, Dr. Terry Clekis, had seen similar symptoms in other patients. And he's not the o ...
• The Texas GOP Wants To Punish Straight People Who ...
  It might not be as hotly anticipated as one of the Twilight novels, but the Texas Republican Party has released its 2010 party platform. And the gays have at least the equivalent of a chapter dedicated to them. But consider this work of literature a tragedy. That's because the 2010 GOP platform in T ...

Common Dreams -News

• Tax the Wall Street Casino
  by Chuck Collins Angry about the greedy financial speculation that wrecked the economy? Got a deficit headache? Anxious about where the money will come from for long overdue investments in energy independence that will create good jobs in the new economy?  How do we spell relief? Try F.S.T., w ...
• Billions of New Nuke Giveaways in Kerry-Lieberman ...
  Statement by Friends of the Earth (FOE) The nuclear industry could end up facing no risk under massive tax break subsidies in the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill, according to an important new analysis conducted for Friends of the Earth by the research organization Earth Track. These tax breaks totalin ...
• Global Poll Shows Muslims Leery of US and Obama
  by Alan Fram WASHINGTON — Muslims around the globe remain uneasy about the U.S. and are increasingly disenchanted with President Barack Obama, according to a poll that suggests his drive to improve relations with the Muslim world has had little impact. Even so, the U.S. image is holding strong in ma ...
• "You Should Be in Prison!": Protester Interrupts B ...
  by Eric Zimmermann WASHINGTON - No sooner did BP CEO Tony Hayward begin the first sentence of his opening statement at a House hearing Thursday morning than a protester disrupted the hearing. A woman with oil covering her hands and spread on her face stood up and started shouting down Hayward before ...
• BP's $20 Billion Spill Fund Echoes in Bhopal Justi ...
  by Krittivas Mukherjee Indian activists seeking justice in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster, are accusing the United States of "double standards", saying it was punishing firms polluting American soil but ignoring their mistakes abroad. The Obama administration on Wednes ...

Lifehacker

• Use GIMP to Process Time Lapse Photography [Photos ...
  We've shown you how to create a time lapse video with your DSLR camera , but if you're looking for something a bit quicker and simpler, DIY web site Instructables shows us how to make an animated GIF from a series of photos. More�� ...
• Check Your Vuvuzelas at the Door in This Week's Op ...
  It's the cherry on top of your week: This week's open thread starts now. More�� Open Thread - Advice - Threaded discussion - Religion and Spirituality - Recreation
• GNag Removes Nags, Forced Intros, and Ads from PC ...
  Windows: Free application GNag removes annoying splash screens, forced introduction movies, pop-ups, and nag screens from any application on your desktop. Spurred by annoying but unavoidable nags in PC games, the GNag works with any applicatio ...
• Mark Your Calendars: Lifehacker's First LA Meetup ...
  If you're a Los Angeles local or just like to drive, join us for drinks at The Bigfoot Lodge (3172 Los Feliz Blvd.) this coming Wednesday, June 23rd, at 8:00 PM. More�� Meetup - Los Angeles - United States - California ...
• White Noise Is a Solid Power Nap Companion for And ...
  Android/iPhone: White Noise is an easy to use tool for generating ambient noise and taking timed naps—perfect for turning your iPhone or Android device into a power-nap companion, More » Power nap - Shopping - Business ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• General Petraeus, Concern Troll
  By Derrick Crowe Watch "Don't Let General Petraeus Move the Goalposts on Afghanistan" in HD on Facebook. Concern troll. In an argument (usually a political debate), a concern troll is someone who is on one side of the discussion, but pretends to be a supporter of the other side with "co ...
• If It Doesn't Have Dates On It, It's Not A Timetab ...
  By Steve Hynd At The WaPo, Eugene Robinson points out something we all already knew but that folk like McCain and Petraeus would rather we forgot: But wait a minute. Another way to describe a withdrawal deadline that is based not on the calendar but on an amorphous and elusive set of "conditions" wo ...
• Exum's Imperialist Hubris Goes Mainstream With VSP ...
  By Steve Hynd Back at the beginning of May, Andrew Exum of the CNAS thinktank wrote a paper calling for a coherent U.S. political strategy in Afghanistan. This report notes that America's counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan has focused more on waging war at the operational and tactical levels ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Student's peace essay earns him a trip to Washingt ...
  AMANDA -- It's not every day a student gets awarded a $1,000 scholarship and six-day trip to Washington, D.C., just for fulfilling a class assignment.
• Nuclear power's water problem
  According to current nuclear industry proposals, over two dozen new nuclear reactors would be constructed in the United States, the vast majority in the Southeast and Texas.
• 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?

WordPress | Economics

• How to end corruption in India
  Privatize all public infrastructure. Sell existing public infrastructure to highest bidders. This in
• Doesn't Make Sense to Me!
  The voiceofsandiego.org is reporting an interesting “job opportunity” at the San Diego Union: “junio
• RANT: Obama wants 7$ a galoon gas?
  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/gallon_gas_9GlF3o1xIcIBelOV3k0RsK#ixzz0rHq4mUET
• Essence Advertising Rebound May Signal Coming Upwa ...
  (Target Market News) — Just like their b-to-b counterparts, consumer magazine publishers have
• Market Sentiment?
  Jason Zweig’s column  Wall Street Journal column today suggests that wild market swings are th

Electronic Intifada

• Gaza students call on Tiesto to cancel Israel conc ...
  Dear Tiesto, we write to you to appeal to you to be on the just side of history, to have your voice with the oppressed. Like many other internationally renowned musicians a ...
• International organizations renew condemnation of ...
  Since the 31 May attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, during which Israeli naval commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara ship in international waters and killed nine unarm ...
• Ahava campaign comes to court
  In France, the campaign to boycott Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics has entered a new phase with boycott, divestment and sanctions advocates taking legal action against the Sephora cosmeti ...
• Independent journalists dismantling Israel's hold ...
  Within hours of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla being intercepted and besieged in international waters by Israeli commandos, news of the bloody attack had spread across the glo ...
• Cherien Dabis' journey to "Amreeka"
  Why migrate? What do you leave when you do? What's waiting for you? How do you bring the social construct of "home" with you? Or replace it? And in a collection of such heavy quest ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Three civilians among 17 killed in Afghan violence
  A roadside bomb killed two policemen and three civilians Saturday in southern Afghanistan, while soldiers killed 12 insurgents in the north, officials said.
• Taliban behead another man for spying
  Taliban militants have beheaded an Afghani man whom they had abducted early this week for being a government spy, less than a month after killing a seven-year-old boy over the same allegation.
• U.S. military criticized for purchase of Russian h ...
  The U.S. government's decision to spend 648 million dollars to buy or refurbish Russian helicopters for the Afghan National Army Air Corps has been drawing flak from some members of the US Congress.
• Taliban releases bodies of six Pak troops, search ...
  Bodies of six Frontier Corps (FC) officials have reportedly been retrieved from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas' Mohmand Agency by a tribal jirga, as the search for over 30 missing security personnel, who were held captive by the Taliban, continues.
• Reports present mixed picture on bombing deaths in ...
  Afghanistan so far this year, when compared to the same period in 2009.He said that coalition airstrikes caused some 82 per cent fewer civilian casualties, while 52 per cent fewer civilians were kille...

Futurismic

• Catherine Asaro interview at BigThink
  Here’s one from the Futurismic digital post-bag: science fiction author Catherine Asaro does a short video interview with BigThink (which appears to be a sort of smaller and less self-congratulatory TED-type global-ideas-forum affair) about the hard science that informs her stories. Off we go: Pr ...
• Shock: re-engineering science fiction, socially, a ...
  Damien G Walter has discovered something that sounds very interesting indeed: Shock, a ’social science fiction’ roleplaying game. Go to the linked site for the full low-down, but for now, Walter explains: Shock is a framework that has its players improvise science fiction scenarios based on the inte ...
• The summit of security: fortifying Toronto for the ...
  Regardless of your personal politics, it’s hard to look at the extensive preparations for summits like the G8 and G20 groups – both of which are meeting near Toronto in Canada at the end of the month – and not be dumbfounded by the huge amount of money that gets pissed away on “preparing” for [...] ...
• Iceland’s Modern Media Initiative
  Remember that law that was intended to enshrine Iceland as a ‘haven’ for journalistic free speech? Well, it passed unanimously last night. As mentioned before, a law being passed in one small country doesn’t change certain basic facts about how international law operates (nor the politics pulling t ...
• How can a computer win at Jeapordy? Elementary, my ...
  This is not only an interesting story, but an engaging piece of journalism, and I heartily recommend you go read it: it’s an NYT magazine piece about Watson, an IBM artificial intelligence project headed by one David Ferucci that does something that artificial intelligences have heretofore been unab ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Supreme Court allows government to read employee t ...
  The United States Supreme Court has today reversed a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that had protected a public employee's expectation of privacy in pager text messages. The case is City of Ontario, California v. Quon , No. 08-1332. The bottom line for whistleblowers is that they sho ...
• Whistleblower Disclosures Result in Historic Inter ...
  The Swiss parliament finally approved the deal made between UBS and the U.S. government that requires UBS to turn over the names of 4,450 U.S. citizens who held accounts at the Swiss bank. The NWC�issued the following release: � Washington D.C. June 17, 2010. In an unprecedented move the Swiss pa ...
• Sun Block for Whistleblowers?
  On the Daily Show last night, following President Obama’s Oval Office speech, Jon Stewart delivered a monologue addressing the president’s record on civil liberties and executive power. Stewart plays a number of clips of President Obama from the campaign trail, where he states his positions on Guant ...
• Egyptian police kill whistleblower at internet caf ...
  Khaled Said posted video to the internet that showed police officers in Egypt sharing profits from a drug deal. On Monday, Neal Ungerleider of True/Slant has posted a translation of Arabic-language article from Al-Shorouk . The article describes how two informants came to an internet cafe in Alexand ...
• NWC Demands Attorney General Hold the Offshore Oil ...
  Attorneys for the NWC submitted a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder calling for an investigation of BP and the entire oil industry, including contractors and subcontractors, for fraud committed against the U.S. government. The letter explains that the False Claims Act, the most powerful law ava ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Official Twilight T-Shirt Content Won't Let You Us ...
  David writes in to alert us to the rather hilarious situation where Cafe Press is running an official Twilight t-shirt design contest , where you can try to design a t-shirt for the upcoming release of the latest installment (didn't the last one come out like 3 weeks ago?) in the series, called Ecli ...
• Instead Of Bad Drivers, What If Speed Cameras 'Cau ...
  We've written at length here about the multitude of problems with speed cameras. What if, instead of focusing on punishing speeders, the speed cameras were used to reward good behavior ? Drivers who obey the speed limit are automatically entered into a lottery and then notified by mail if they've ...
• When Recording Everything We See Is Standard, What ...
  We've discussed in the past how technology can advance much faster than the law can handle. For example, we've recently had a few posts about the motorcyclist who was arrested for violating Maryland state wiretapping laws, after his helmet cam captured an off-duty cop jump out of his car with a gun ...
• Pakistani Lawyer Apparently Seeks Death Penalty Fo ...
  You may recall that last month, a Pakistani court ordered that the entire site of Facebook be blocked from the country because a German woman using the site had created an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" page, in response to the recent "threats" against South Park's writers, concerning a recent episo ...
• Michael Robertson's Crowdsourced List Of 1,400 Exa ...
  Want some free music from EMI? You may remember that EMI is in a legal battle with Michael Robertson and his current company MP3Tunes (well, one of his current companies). MP3Tunes is a music locker. It only lets you upload your own songs, but also does have a search engine, Sideload.com, that wi ...

VacTruth

• Rabies vaccine being sprayed from the sky
  Air drops of rabies vaccines begin today DAILY SUN STAFF azdailysun.com 06/15/2010 Get ready for “ketchup packets” falling from the sky. Today, an aircraft will begin dropping edible rabies vaccines aimed at gray foxes in a 1,433-square-mile area that includes forests and less populated areas outsid ...
• But I told you so
  Courtenay Bartholomew Trinidad and Tobago Express 06/16/10 Close to over two centuries ago, the poet Lord Byron wrote: ’Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe/ Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast/ Is that portentous phrase ’I told you so.’’ Look, to misquote the great bards is anathema to m ...
• Vaccines have destroyed lives for decades and the ...
  In 1973, the British Governments view was that the severe damage caused to some children by smallpox, polio, or measles vaccinations was a small price from freedom of disease, and those cases received little publicity.
• Spain Weighs In on HPV Vaccines
  SEO Press Releases 06/14/2010 AAVP (Association of Affected Young Women by HPV Vaccine) was created to support and assist young women adversely affected by HPV vaccines in response to lack of honest answers from Spanish Health Authorities and members of parliament who tried to convince families that ...
• New vaccination requirements
  Traci Capellman Fox28.com 06/14/2010 If you have a student entering 6th through 12th grade, they will need some need new vaccines this year. Indiana is now requiring a Tdap, Menactra, and a second Varicella (or chickenpox) vaccine before school this year. To try to help get people in, the St. Joseph ...

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  I don’t often get to say nice things about my home state of Florida.  Usually it is only in the news when somebody is stealing an election or trying to ban transpeople from bathrooms.  So I would just like to give props to my fellow Floridians who have decided to take matters into their own [...]
• 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

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Come On In, The Water's Fine -- Unless You're In I ...
  Photo via European Commission If you're planning to spend some time this summer lazing on the beach and taking refreshing dips in the sea, you might want to consider giving Italy a miss: The country had more coastal bathing sites banned due to poor water quality last year than any other Europea ...
• Technology Making Environmental Silence And Censor ...
  Last month, BP initially balked at congressional requests to live stream the Gulf oil gusher. Rep. Ed Markey persisted, using public pressure and shaming, and BP finally relented. Since then, the world has been able to watch in horror as now an estimated 60,000 barrels of oil spew into the Gulf ...
• Marine Debris is Turkey's Problem, and Everyone El ...
  Credit: NOAA . There's a conference for everything, including marine debris. The 5th Annual International Marine Debris Conference is planned for March 20-25 in Honolulu, Hawaii. That's one to put on the calendar. And to get ready for it, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is rol ...
• Massive Rubber Ducky Reminds Parents About the Dan ...
  photo: The Ecology Center A 25-foot rubber ducky in Ann Arbor served to remind parents about the dangers of toxins in toys . The ducky's appearance comes in the wake of Congress's debate on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The ducky, which made an appearance in an Ann Arbor park, is cur ...
• Fresh, New Fashion Label Launches with One Little ...
  One dress; Two different ways. Credit: Emma Grady From the Designer of The Uniform Project dress--Brooklynite Sheena Matheiken made it famous by wearing it 365 days, 365 different ways--comes a fresh new fashion label Bright Young Things . The catch: the label is comprised of one season-less LB ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Alaska Lawmakers Seek to Block New ANWR Wilderness ...
  Hoping to thwart yet another federal land grab in their state, the Alaska congressional delegation is asking the Interior Department to forego any new wilderness designations in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
• Offshore drilling: Policy reform vs political gran ...
  Obviously, there is a lot with off-shore drilling that has gone right. Just as obviously, the Deepwater Horizon spill is catastrophic and there are vital safety lessons to be learned. But those lessons will take some serious review, detailed analysis, and targeted investigation.
• 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 ...

Ria Novosti Online News

• France's Sarkozy supports Russian-European securit ...
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy believes the idea of Russia and Europe building up defenses against one another is something that should remain in the past.
• The 2010 St. Petersburg International Economic For ...
• France's Sarkozy welcomes Russia's support of new ...
  France has welcomed Russia's decision on new sanctions against Iran, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Saturday.
• Russia doesn't rule out possibility of trials with ...
  Russia does not rule out a possibility of trials with Belarus over gas transit issue, Deputy Premier Igor Sechin said on Saturday.
• Russia doesn't rule out possibility of trials with ...
  Russia does not rule out a possibility of trials with Belarus over gas transit issue, Deputy Premier Igor Sechin said on Saturday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Skolkovo research hub project organic for Russia - ...
  The Skolkovo project to establish a hi-tech research hub near Moscow is organic for Russia, the head of Russia's hi-tech government corporation Rosnano said Friday.
• Skolkovo hi-tech hub architectural concept tender ...
  The Skolkovo Fund providing money and support for the eponymous Russian hi-tech hub plans to hold a tender for developing its architectural concept in July, the fund head said Friday.
• Russian-built first stage unlikely to cause S.Kore ...
  An explosion of a South Korean rocket last week was not caused by Russian-built first stage of the spacecraft.
• Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft docks with ISS
  Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with three crewmembers on board docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday at 2.25 Moscow time (22.25 GMT, Thursday).
• Russian mini-subs begin 3rd stage of Lake Baikal e ...
  Russian Mir submersibles will start the third stage of an international research expedition of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest freshwater lake, on July 1, the government of Buryatia, a republic in south Siberia, said on its website Thursday.

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

• Sick Soil
  Soil - the outermost skin of our planet - is a living organ of interconnected tissue. When soil is damaged, the tissue loses connectivity and the intelligence of its ecosystem collapses. Soil in this state is in critical condition. Click here to read this article
• Worst Case Scenario: The Gulf Oil Spill May Be Per ...
  Sit down. Get ready. Your life has begun to change. It will never be the same again. This gulf disaster is changing everything. Call your legislators. Tell them that they are now on notice. There are the constituents and there are planet killing corporations, ready to wipe out life on the planet for ...
• 85% of Childrens' Drinks Contain Lead Exceeding Fe ...
  It's a little hard to swallow: more than 85 percent of kids' drinks contain so much lead they may exceed federal limits for young children. Click here to read this article
• Haitian peasants march against Monsanto Company fo ...
  On June 4th about ten thousand Haitian peasants marched to protest US-based Monsanto Company's 'deadly gift' of seed to the government of Haiti. The march was seven kilometers from Papaye to Hinche, in a rural area on the central plateau, and was organized by several Haitian rural social movements t ...
• TerraCycle: The Google of Garbage?
  Tom Szaky wants to be the rag-and-bone man to the world, collecting the rubbish no one else wants - cigarette butts, razors, expired pills and plastic food wrappers - and turning an enormous profit by finding new uses for it. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• 25 imágenes para cambiar el fondo o background de ...
  Desde hace algunos días, Google nos permite cambiar el clásico fondo blanco del buscador o Search Engine. Con el propósito de agregar nuevas funcionalidades, Google ha decidido que al igual que en Bing tengamos la posibilidad de personalizar nuestra página de inicio. Aunque Google incluye una extens ...
• Admira la colección fotográfica de Yuri Ovchinniko ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
• Un mirada a Vietnam y otros países by Atsjebosma e ...
  VIETNAM , es un país que personalmente me gustaría mucho conocer. Me atrae demasiado todo lo relacionado a este país tan lejano, que hoy con su permiso, les quiero presentar una interesantísima colección de fotografías que Atsjebosma tiene en Flickr . En ella, usted será testigo de esa magia que enc ...
• Portafolios creativo de Eric Gustafson en AntiLimi ...
  ANTILIMIT , es uno de esos sitios de fotografías que realmente impactan por la alta creatividad que representan en todas y cada una de sus imágenes. Si lo duda, le invito sinceramente a disfrutar el portafoilios de Eric Gustafson con una serie de obras que van más allá de las cosas cotidianas, rutin ...
• La grandeza de nuestro planeta by MapiCruz en Flic ...
  En mi búsqueda contínua de nuevos talentos, el día de hoy me permito presentarles a MapiCruz . Una extraordinaria mujer que ha viajado por muchos países conociendo de cerca la majestuosidad de nuestro planeta. Como legado, MapiCruz nos permite ver sus recuerdos fotográficos a través de Flickr con un ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Israel’s Idea of an “Independent” Inquiry into the ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Someone should tell Mr. Netanyahu that he is supposed to wait until after the inquiry to announce its predetermined findings: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of Monday’s cabinet meeting that the main goal of the Gaza flotilla probe is ...
• Greg Gordon on the Review Conference and Aggressio ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Greg Gordon, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies at the University of North Dakota.  He attended the Review Conference on behalf of the International League for Human Rights. A VIEW OF ...
• U.S. LawProf Erlinder Freed on Bail in Rwanda
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I kind of expected this would turn out this way, but it does the Rwandan government no credit that they finally released jailed U.S. law professor Peter Erlinder, albeit on bail and due to concerns about his health.  Needless to say, I doubt Professor Erlinder will be re ...
• Does the U.N. Believe in Rule of Law (for Its Empl ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Interesting story in the NYT about the U.N.’s difficulty in creating a fair and effective system to resolve internal disputes, especially employee disputes.  Last July, the U.N. created a new Dispute Tribunal composed of independent judges to remedy a much despised prev ...
• Brett Schaefer’s Critical (from the Right) Take on ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It is worth also considering the views of those critical of the entire ICC effort to the define aggression and bring it within the ICC Statute.  Brett Schaefer at Heritage offers this final take, which he calls the U.S. effort a qualified success due to its ability to de ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Breaking news: Chinese security attack NZ politici ...
  Chinese security forces have attacked and injured a New Zealand politician in the grounds of the New Zealand parliament buildings, because the MP had the temerity to be holding a Tibetan flag at a ceremony to Welcome the Chinese Vice-Premier...
• 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 -...

Public News Service

• AZ Pro-Education Group Builds on Prop-100 Success
  AZ Pro-Education Group Builds on Prop-100 Success Phoenix, AZ – Fresh off the passage of the Prop-100 sales tax increase, Arizona education advocates are now focused on electing pro-education candidates in the fall. A new poll, however, shows they have their work cut out for them. Comments from Nico ...
• National Men's Health Week: Encourage Dad to Get t ...
  National Men's Health Week: Encourage Dad to Get to the Doctor Phoenix, AZ – This is National Men’s Health Week, and with Father’s Day this weekend, the best gift for dad is encouraging him to get a cancer screening, according to Chuck Reed, regional spokesman for the American Cancer Society.
• First Prescription Drug Checks Going in Mail Today
  First Prescription Drug Checks Going in Mail Today Phoenix, AZ – Starting today (Thursday), the first checks to Arizonans in Medicare Part D who have reached the government’s so-called 'doughnut hole' will start going out. AARP has tips for people receiving those checks. Comments from regional AARP ...
• Foes of AZ Immigration Law Plan National March on ...
  Foes of AZ Immigration Law Plan National March on Phoenix Phoenix, AZ – Upwards of 50,000 opponents of Arizona’s new immigration law are expected to march through Phoenix to the state capitol Saturday. Organizers say it’s one part of a national effort to overturn the law, which they characterize as ...
• Facebook and Google Under Fire
  Facebook and Google Under Fire Washington, DC - Facebook is set to announce new simplified privacy settings as early as today (Wednesday). Anger over Facebook and Google has reached a new level, according to a privacy watchdog organization. Comments from Marc Rotenberg (WROTE-enberg), Executive Dire ...

My Care2 Picks

• Bush-connected Firm Involved In Opium Production I ...
  A one-time Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) source revealed to WMR that a Bush family-connected firm, the St. Joe Company, was heavily involved in an irrigation project that provided water to opium-producing fields in southern Afghanistan in the 1970 Submitted by Locan Sleeping-Squirrel to US P ...
• Patriot Act vs. Constitution
  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated : accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Gulf News; From Bad to Worse
  Sit down. Get ready. Your life has begun to change. It will never be the same again. This gulf disaster is changing everything. Face it . . . AND ACT! Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• UK drug addict tells of Taliban recruitment
  Just got to read to believe. Submitted by Kevin Miller to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Anti-trafficking measures 'not fit for purpose'
  Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group report, "Wrong kind of victim?", it accuses the government of breaching its obligations under the European Convention Against Trafficking.Emphasis should be victim protection not immigration offences hounding kidnapped. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note- ...

Angry Indian News

• Prince William's Corey Stewart wants Virginia to e ...
  Prince William's Corey Stewart wants Virginia to emulate Arizona-washingtonpost.com: "The chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors is calling on Virginia legislators to pass a law... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Dutch court jails Somali pirates - Europe
  Dutch court jails Somali pirates - Europe - Al Jazeera English: "A Dutch court has sentenced five Somali pirates to five years in jail for seeking to hijack a Dutch Antilles-flagged ship.Prosecutors... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Asia-Pacific - Kyrgyzstan aid due amid fears of in ...
  FT.com / Asia-Pacific - Kyrgyzstan aid due amid fears of instability: "The United Nations will begin airlifting aid to thousands of refugees in south Kyrgyzstan this weekend as fears grow that the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hopes dim of reaching trapped Colombia miners
  BBC News - Hopes dim of reaching trapped Colombia miners: "Rescuers are again struggling to reach dozens of coal miners trapped in north-western Colombia since a fireball tore through the shaft they... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Goldstone Commission II Es ...
  Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Goldstone Commission II Essential :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de]The Flotilla attack was a well-planned act... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment
  It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control.
• Watch Aggie the Traveling Agrobacterium – A GMO Pr ...
  Watch The Adventures of Aggie the Traveling Agrobacterium on Veoh!
• GULF OF MEXICO – One of two one-ton masses of tarb ...
  GULF OF MEXICO – One of two one-ton masses of tarball material recovered south of Perdido Pass, Fla., by the crew of the lift boat Sailfish, a Vessel of Opportunity working in the largest oil spill response in U.S. history, on Saturday, June 11, 2010. Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class John Walker, US ...
• BP is Spraying COREXIT over Populated Areas of the ...
  VIDEO
• Barry Soetoro, Imposter in Chief, Implements CODEX ...
  We knew that CODEX was right around the corner, and here it is, live and in color. Barry Soetoro, AKA Barack Hussein Obama, Imposter in Chief, on June 10, 2010, issued an Executive Order – Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. In short, the CODEX council. ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Manny's Return to Boston: It's Complicated (Yahoo! ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on June 19, 2010 8:06 AM
• After Title Time Comes Decision Time for Lakers (L ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on June 19, 2010 8:06 AM
• Justice Dept. Bails Out Bud Selig, Will Fight Ariz ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on June 19, 2010 8:06 AM
• Justice Dept. Bails Out Bud Selig, Will Fight Ariz ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on June 19, 2010 8:06 AM
• Chuck D takes aim at Arizona in new track - Yahoo! ...
  Noted by Michele Catalano on June 19, 2010 6:06 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Deadly bombings kill at least 6 in Iraq
  ShareThis Deadly bombings kill at least 6 in Iraq 19 Jun 2010 At least six people have been killed and more than 80 others have been wounded after two car bombs went off in northern parts of Iraq, police sources say. The first blast took place near the home of a provincial official from the Turkman ...
• US drone attack kills 11 in NW Pakistan
  ShareThis US drone attack kills 11 in NW Pakistan 19 Jun 2010 A new US drone attack in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, near the country's border with Afghanistan, has killed 11 people, intelligence officials say. A US drone aircraft fired two missiles targeting a house in Sokhel village in ...
• Afghanistan: 3 More Americans Killed
  ShareThis Afghanistan: 3 More Americans Killed 18 Jun 2010 Three more United States service members have died in southern Afghanistan, where militants have stepped up their attacks in response to greater security by NATO and Afghan forces in Taliban strongholds. NATO said Friday that two of the Amer ...
• Obama administration still approving flawed Gulf d ...
  ShareThis Obama administration still approving flawed Gulf drilling plans --MMS signed off on at least five new offshore drilling projects since June 2 18 Jun 2010 Despite President Barack Obama's promises of better safeguards for offshore drilling, federal regulators continue to approve plans for o ...
• Iraqi army confronted UK deportation officials on ...
  ShareThis Iraqi army confronted UK deportation officials on Baghdad plane --Army officer reportedly warned UK officials not to return Iraqis by force again, as UNHCR condemns removals to Baghdad 16 Jun 2010 An Iraqi army officer boarded a flight full of deported asylum seekers at Baghdad airport and ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Breaking news: Chinese security attack NZ politici ...
  Chinese security forces have attacked and injured a New Zealand politician in the grounds of the New Zealand parliament buildings, because the MP had the temerity to be holding a Tibetan flag at a ceremony to Welcome the Chinese Vice-Premier...
• 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 -...

Mondoweiss

• Our western privilege is the legacy of historical ...
  For the last week we've been running pieces responding to Matthew Taylor's statement that the Gaza flotilla should have been committed to nonviolent resistance. We're almost done. Max Ajl is at bat. David Bromwich has responded to my comment about non-violence and violence with a strong, textual cas ...
• When will Schumer and Engel decry this racism?
  The Times runs an AP report that tens of thousands of religious Jews staged a protest in Jerusalem over the court-ordered integration of religious schools, including schools on colonized land. This story feels like Little Rock, 60 years later, and with Palestinians having no rights at all:Parents of ...
• Why is this happening in a church basement?
  On Tuesday night in the basement of the Advent Lutheran Church on the Upper West Side in NY, an ad hoc group of Jews sponsored a forum about "Jewish perspectives" on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS), with a panel of four Jews, two for and two against, and about 200 people jammed ...
• The ‘Associated Press’ really ought to ...
  Pretty good piece on Israel's isolation by Aron Heller of AP, includes a lot about boycott, but includes this:A small French cinema chain postponed a showing of an Israeli comedy and replaced it with a documentary about an American student crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer during a 2003 ...
• 6/18/10: Today in Palestine
  Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansingPLO: New Settlers Homes In Jerusalem Is A Blow To Peace Efforts  Ramallah – PNN - Israel’s plans to construct  new settling homes in East Jerusalem, is a severe hit against the International and American  efforts to resume real Peace negotiations, the Pale ...

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

• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...
• 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 ...

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

• Come On In, The Water's Fine -- Unless You're In I ...
  Photo via European Commission If you're planning to spend some time this summer lazing on the beach and taking refreshing dips in the sea, you might want to consider giving Italy a miss: The country had more coastal bathing sites banned due to poor water quality last year than any other Europea ...
• Technology Making Environmental Silence And Censor ...
  Last month, BP initially balked at congressional requests to live stream the Gulf oil gusher. Rep. Ed Markey persisted, using public pressure and shaming, and BP finally relented. Since then, the world has been able to watch in horror as now an estimated 60,000 barrels of oil spew into the Gulf ...
• Marine Debris is Turkey's Problem, and Everyone El ...
  Credit: NOAA . There's a conference for everything, including marine debris. The 5th Annual International Marine Debris Conference is planned for March 20-25 in Honolulu, Hawaii. That's one to put on the calendar. And to get ready for it, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is rol ...
• Massive Rubber Ducky Reminds Parents About the Dan ...
  photo: The Ecology Center A 25-foot rubber ducky in Ann Arbor served to remind parents about the dangers of toxins in toys . The ducky's appearance comes in the wake of Congress's debate on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The ducky, which made an appearance in an Ann Arbor park, is cur ...
• Fresh, New Fashion Label Launches with One Little ...
  One dress; Two different ways. Credit: Emma Grady From the Designer of The Uniform Project dress--Brooklynite Sheena Matheiken made it famous by wearing it 365 days, 365 different ways--comes a fresh new fashion label Bright Young Things . The catch: the label is comprised of one season-less LB ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Aung San Suu Kyi, 65
  Aung San Suu Kyi, 65
• World unites to honour Suu Kyi
  Barack Obama, Desmond Tutu and eminent world leaders mark the Burmese opposition icon's 65th birthday as activists across the world urge her release
• Election ‘training’ given to hopefuls
  Politicians and journalists attend workshops on 'how to vote' by civil society group with suspected ties to the Burmese military government
• Unseen photos mark Suu Kyi’s birthday
  Images released by her family show the Burmese opposition icon as a newly-wed, doting on her children and traipsing the snowy mountains of Bhutan in the 1970s
• Top-level Iranian officials in Burma
  Iran's deputy foreign minister meets with Burmese foreign minister Nyan Win in Naypyidaw as international scrutiny of pariah state relations intensifies

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Lord Turner calls for cleaner gas power plants
  Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, has written to the Energy Secretary asking that the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) competition be extended to include gas as well as coal projects.
• Britain's smallest songbird decling
  Britain's smallest bird was almost wiped out by the cold weather this winter, according to a new survey that found the number of gardens in which goldcrests were spotted fell by half.
• Households to get green makeover
  Households will be able to get a free 'green makeover' from M&S or B&Q under new plans to make all homes more energy efficient.
• Nasa's first ever 'field trip' to study effects of ...
  Space agency to study how climate change is affecting the Arctic's ice.
• Home, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the aerial p ...
  Home, a film by renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

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

• Canada Supreme Court finds limited right to govern ...
  [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Canada [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ruled [judgment text] 7-0 that Canadians have a limited right to government information unless the information is necessary to the effective exercise of the freedom of expression and is not privileged. The court ...
• UN rights expert calls for release of Suu Kyi
  [JURIST] A UN independent human rights expert on Thursday called for the immediate release [press release] of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and other "prisoners of conscience" in order to create improved conditions for upcoming elections. Suu Kyi is ...
• Taiwan court extends sentence for ex-president Che ...
  [JURIST] The Taiwan High Court [official website, in Chinese] on Friday extended the jail sentence [press release, in Chinese] of former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for two months while the former leader prepares his appeal to a 20-year sentence for corrupti ...
• Federal judge orders ex-Guantanamo detainee subjec ...
  [JURIST] A ruling was released Thursday by Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) [official website] denying a request from former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news archive] to be exempt from prison strip sea ...
• Israel security cabinet agrees to ease blockade in ...
  [JURIST] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [official profile] on Thursday announced [text] that the Security Cabinet has agreed to ease the nation's land blockade of the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder]. The Israeli government has been under increasing international pressure to review its polic ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Congress Wins Expanded Oversight of Intelligence C ...
  After months of tough negotiations with the White House, members of Congress who monitor intelligence agencies believe they've won meaningful new oversight powers via a bill the President has promised to sign. Among these new powers: agency directors will have to certify, under penalty of law, that ...
• Friday Interview: Challenging Grassley
  Roxanne Conlin has known the type of extreme deprivation generally reserved for a Steinbeck novel, though you wouldn't know it by her current career: extremely successful lawyer (and prosecutor) and philanthropist and political facilitator to some of the most powerful Democrats in the country. Thoug ...
• The Night Beat: The Big Blimp
  Good evening. A DAY OFF : President Obama begins his summer Recovery Act tour with a stop in Columbus, Ohio tomorrow, the site of the 10,000th American Recovery and Reinvestment Act road project. The White House says the project is expected to create over 300 construction jobs and will contribute ...
• In 2012, Will Republicans Turn From Id to Ego?
  The Republican party is enjoying its "id" moment right now. In the schema of Sigmund Freud, the id is that part of your psychology that spontaneously reacts and craves emotional and physical fulfillment. Voters want candidates who make them feel good, who make them feel special, who convince them th ...
• Stop With the Fat Jokes, New York Daily News
  This column isn't taken to scolding very much, and aside from the occasional Tweet war, it doesn't have a temper. But having been steeped in the science of stigma , I've got to make an exception. This New York Daily News headline about a corrupt union boss , "PIGGY'S BANK," clearly, unambiguous ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• UN Secretrary General Decries Israeli Investigatio ...
  After a drumbeat of criticism against the Israeli investigation of the Gaza flotilla attack, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has joined in, noting the Israeli panel does not rise the level of a credible international inquiry.  Ban also reinforced the criticism of the Israel siege of Gaza, saying t ...
• Gaza Flotilla Panel Member Claimed Interference Wi ...
  In May, 1948, just after Israel declared itself a state, an American ship, the Marine Carp, steamed into the Mediterranean. Among its passengers were American Jews carrying American passports who were returning to their homes in Israel. The ship docked in Beirut. It’s next stop was Haifa. Howeve ...
• Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
  MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
• Shabtai Rosenne and the Qibya Coverup
  Shabtai Rosenne is the 93 year-old Israeli appointee to the panel investigating the IDF’s attack on the Gaza flotilla last month.  He has had a distinguished career as an scholar specializing in international law and in the diplomatic corps.  I’ve written here about the ludicrousness of placing a ...
• Amos Horev: Castrated Palestinian in Blood Vengean ...
  Amos Horev, the retired IDF general, former Technion president, and chief booster of the Israeli defense industry, has a rather sordid past that many might find akin to being a terrorist, Israel-style. He is one of three panel members of the Gaza flotilla investigation and this incident, described b ...

Ode Magazine

• Change the way you think about change
  If you are an executive looking to modify a process at work, you can turn to change management literature. If you need to transform your life, there are plenty of self-help books. If you want to change the world, there is advice for activists, too. With their new book, C ...
• Dance of life
  The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, as a “teach-in day” to raise awareness about environmental problems. Today, Earth Day mobilizes hundreds of millions of people around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to a cleaner planet. Last year, these schoolchildren ...
• An ode to libraries
  By: VictoriaKlein They say you can learn a lot about a country by the way it treats its poorest citizens . How about the way a country treats its knowledge? Already having emphasized the social and environmental impacts of borrowing , let’s narrow our f ...
• Video: Farm tours around the world
  A collection of videos from Polyface Farm and other farms mentioned in the "Beyond Organic" article. Polyface Farm Mac Arthur Foundation Fellow: Will Allen Ridge to Reef Program at VI Sustainable Farm Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading ...
• Get HIP with your money
  How to build a better world and make bigger profitsthrough investing. Capitalism used to be easy. Discover, acquire and defend a unique resource. Pay people the least you can get away with. Offload as many liabilities and risks to government as possible. And, of course, c ...

OpEd News

• Sorry, Trillions in Unmined Mineral Wealth Is Not ...
  Whereas it was previously considered uncouth for anyone to even suggest that economic hegemony might motivate U.S. military action, our leaders are now boldly selling wars as commendable instruments of such profit-focused imperialism.
• Al Franken Slams Supreme Court For Dismantling Leg ...
  In the Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court didnapos;t just abdicate its duty to subject efforts to impair our political process to strict scrutiny. It served as an accomplice to such an effort. Not satisfied with giving orporations a leg up on individuals under the law, the Roberts Court ...
• June 18, 2010: Amnesty International Regarding Mor ...
  In a 18 June 2010 report Amnesty International accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement.
• It Ainapos;t Me, Babe
  This is the dynamic in our government. The Carter administration plan was to use tax revenues to develop clean energy technologies. The Reagan administration plan was to cut taxes and let the energy companies develop clean technologies if they felt like it. This is the fundamental difference between ...
• The Obama Administration: June 1-15, 2010
  This article is the thirty-fourth in a continuing series chronicling the unfolding history of the Obama Administration. The writerapos;s opinions are not offered, leaving the readers to arrive at their own conclusions.

Switchboard

• The Peace-Athabasca Delta should not be a sacrific ...
  Bald Eagle credit David Hawkins I started to follow my executive director Peter Lehner across the river towards the shallows on the other side. Then I remembered the wide-jawed teeth of the pikes we had caught and released the evening before. I remembered how last year, when I was i ...
• Expedited MTR permits put on hold
  In another signal that the Obama administration is getting  serious about  mountaintop removal, the Army Corps of Engineers has decided to suspend a particular type of “fast track“ permit allowing coal companies to dump of mining waste in Appalachian waterways .  This is a short-term b ...
• Mr. Barton Has a Lot to Apologize For
  Representative Joe Barton has now famously “apologized” for his apology to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. If anything I've said this morning has been misconstrued I want to apologize for that misconstrued -- misconstruction. Misconstrued? Really? This is a Washington apology if I have ev ...
• What Could Go Wrong? "One-in-a-million events" pla ...
  Sadly, the ghastliness in the Gulf is not the only oil spill in America. Last weekend 33,000 gallons of oil leaked into a Salt Lake City creek , fouling the waterway and adjacent ponds. Quotes from the folks at Chevron who own the pipeline and a nearby refinery were meant to be reass ...
• Surfing Champ Laird Hamilton: "How can this be the ...
  One of the world's top surfers, Laird Hamilton is at home in the ocean. He routinely rides waves three stories tall and has surfed some twice that high. On Thursday, though, looking down on the Gulf of Mexico from the snug cockpit of a single engine plane, he saw something more monstr ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Deep Thought
  I strongly endorse Joe Girardi’s “using Chan Ho Park in high-leverage situations” strategy… Related posts:Deep Thought Deep Thought Deep Thought Related posts: Deep Thought Deep Thought Deep Thought
• Friday Puppy Blogging
  Apparently I’ve been remiss in posting puppy pictures for the past few months. Some of you might remember this little guy, Colbert (aka ‘Bert…): Actually not so little now: Related posts:Friday Puppy Blogging Fill in the Blank Friday Blogging Sunday Puppy Blogging Related posts: Friday Puppy ...
• Saramago
  Jose Saramago has passed.  I discovered Saramago around the turn of the century, but have somehow found time to read almost the entirety of his English translated work.  My favorites: All the Names The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis The History of the Siege of Lisbon Blindness The Cave Relate ...
• The Arar Disgrace
  The Supreme Court, to put it mildly, did not cover itself in glory this week when it refused to hear Maher Arar’s appeal.    (This is not to say that I necessarily blame the Court’s  four three more liberal members + Kennedy (?)* for not voting to grant cert: a Supreme Court decision affirming t ...
• The Fifth Amendment Does Not Enact Mr. William Jac ...
  William Jacobson provides us with the latest example of a Republican arguing that various random provisions of the Constitution should be read as nullifying the results of the 2008 elections and providing free-floating protection against policies unfavorable to powerful Republican interests: Under w ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Zero Race Contestants To Circle Globe Emissions-Fr ...
• Smart Switch Concept Retrofits Homes for Energy Ef ...
• New York Installer Organizes Solar Relief for Hait ...
• Solar Water Purifier Works Without Juice or Moving ...
• GM To Volt Owners: Hey Buddy, Need A Free Fast Cha ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• In the Weeds
  A collision of federal policy, state statutes, local ordinances and old-fashioned politics means more clients for defense lawyers and more uncertainty.
• Toyota class plots route past obstacle
  As plaintiffs' lawyers prepare to file their consolidated class action on behalf of Toyota consumers, they face an obstacle that has prevented similar claims from advancing in the past: Class members didn't actually suffer physical injuries.
• Texting case vexed justices
  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that employers can search the workplace devices of their employees. But under the Fourth Amendment, the Court also said, the searches have to be reasonable and driven by rational motivations.
• Health reform is wonder drug for D.C. firms
  Law firms with Washington regulatory practices and health care specialties see the new health care law as a potential 10-year moneymaker, and the work has already started. Holland & Knight, Patton Boggs and Covington & Burling say clients want them to help navigate and influence rulemaking going on ...
• WINNING
  Profiles of successful litigators and their strategies.

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

• World Cup: Holland 1-0 Japan, Dutch On Top Again
  Holland continued their wining streak in the World Cup today when they took three points from Japan.
• Wasteful Gridlock and Dysfunction in The Capitol
  Lt. Governor Maldonado Issues Statement on Vote Against CSU Undergraduate Student Fee Increase
• Happy 65th Birthday Aung San Suu Kyi
  The United States extends warmest wishes to Aung San Suu Kyi on the occasion of her 65th birthday on June 19. Her enduring struggle for the fundamental right of all people of Burma to live in freedom continues to inspire people the world over.
• Crisp to Opt for Mother Teresa Home on Father's Da ...
  The members of the organisation have been seriously effects from the Parental Alienation of children due to single parenting in divorce/separation.
• The Crazies DVD Review: Off Meds With George Romer ...
  Desperate to sort things out in a hurry, when not on the run from assassins themselves, are Sheriff Dutton (Timothy Olyphant), his nervous deputy sidekick Russell (Joe Anderson) and Dutton's pregnant wife Judy (Radha Mitchell).

environment 360

• Acidification and Other Ills Bring Oceans to Tippi ...
  Rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the world’s oceans, the spread of oxygen-free dead zones, and other human assaults on the seas are swiftly causing irreversible changes that have not occurred in several million years , according to a special issue of the journal Science . The review found tha ...
• Spring Thaw on the North Slope
  This false-color satellite image released by NASA shows the re-emergence of hundreds of ponds scattered across the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope after the winter snows disappeared in early June. The region depicted in the image is roughly 250 kilometers (155 miles) across and is located south of Ba ...
• The Nuclear Power Resurgence: How Safe Are the New ...
  As utilities seek to build new nuclear power plants in the U.S. and around the world, the latest generation of reactors feature improvements over older technologies. But even as attention focuses on nuclear as an alternative to fossil fuels, questions remain about whether the newer reactors are suff ...
• 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 ...
• Modern Farming Methods Have Slowed Global Warming, ...
  High-yield farming methods that use fertilizers, hybrid seeds, and pesticides have “ massively slowed” global warming by enabling farmers to grow more food per hectare and thus avoid far worse deforestation than has already occurred, according to a new study. Researchers from the Carnegie Institutio ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Netherlands one step from final 16, depleted Austr ...
  Twice World Cup runners-up, the Netherlands, has beaten Japan 1-0 in Durban to extend their lead at the top of Group E.
• Prompting deals worth $5 billion, St. Pete forum d ...
  Summing up the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Dmitry Medvedev and the event’s main guest, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, spoke on a new monetary system and the EU’s approach towards Russia.
• World Cup diary: Day Eight
  As the World Cup in South Africa gains momentum, the situation in Groups C and D gets more and more complicated. Both quartets are now wide open after England’s Friday blunder and Germany’s loss to Serbia.
• Capello hopeful about final group game
  England manager Fabio Capello has slammed his side after they were held to a goalless draw with Algeria on Friday.
• Poland to elect president with heavy hearts
  Poles are set to elect a new president on Sunday. The early vote was called after the tragic death of Lech Kaczynski in an air crash in April.

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

• Zecharia Sitchin and The Giants Upon The Earth
  For over thirty years Zecharia Sitchin has been trying to legitimize his theory the early Sumerian culture’s mythology are the real-life stories about human origins and the beings that were instrumental in our creation. Now Sitchin has a new work that has a new proposition, perform modern DNA testin ...
• Japanese UFO. Or Not
  Below is an UFO video from Japan I lifted from Phantoms and Monsters. … ] … The blog author thinks it might be a balloon. I’m leaning that way myself, but it could be CGI. The reason I believe that is because at the very beginning of the video, you see a whole cityscape on [...]
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• Urgent: Ask Yankton Mall to Cancel Exotic-Animal S ...
  G.W.'s use of baby tigers, lions, bears, and other animals in its traveling road show is a cruel and indefensible practice. Forcibly removed from their mothers and carted around the country to be used for public photo sessions, the cubs very quickly matur Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �No ...
• Dog shot and dumped in the desert finds angels wor ...
  Surely there will be anger at the individual that shot Monty, a young Pitbull. The cowardly person not only shot Monty, but they also left him to die in the desert. But there is a bigger story here. A story which involves the compassionate in Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
• The cure for Rover's ills? Stem cells
  At three years old, Justin, a German Shepherd-cross, seems too young to be afflicted with osteoarthritis. But his early life, marred by abuse, left Justin with arthritis, hip dysplasia, flesh-eating disease and a cracked molar. "He is a big mess Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Case of animal 'hoarding' results in arrest
  In a macabre scene that included skulls that had been hung in trees and remains of dogs -- at least a dozen -- left to rot on the metal roof of a small outbuilding on a heavily wooded piece of property on Wildwood Road in Maryville, 20 live animals were Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note ...
• 28 Cats Rescued From Columbia Motel 6
  The cats, mostly oriental shorthairs between seven and twelve months old, appeared to be healthy, if scrawny and dehydrated. But Animal Control also found four kittens in the motel room's freezer. They appeared to have died shortly after birth. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

• Government Interferes With Oil Clean Up
  “Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state’s oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor’s wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.” (ABC, Thursday) Can’t wait to see what they can do with Hea ...
• Greenspan Expresses Worry Over Growing Debt
  “Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. may soon face higher borrowing costs on its swelling debt and called for a ‘tectonic shift’ in fiscal policy to contain borrowing.” (Bloomberg, Thursday) Welcome to the party Mr. Greenspan. FEE Timely Classic: “The Greenspan Fed in Perspe ...
• It’s All State Capitalism
  David Brooks, the New York Times resident conservative op-ed writer, never misses an opportunity to miss the point.
• More Realizing It’s Government & Business versus U ...
  “[V]oters perceive both business and government as part of an interdependent system, and it is hard for them to separate out the culpability of either. Mr. Obama acknowledged as much in his speech Tuesday, when he asserted â in his lone criticism of governmentâs role in the crisis â that the b ...
• Expanded Audit of Fed Approved
  “Lawmakers on Wednesday reached a compromise to allow expanded audits of the Federal Reserve, part of an effort to shine light on the central bank’s emergency lending during the financial crisis while safeguarding its independence in setting monetary policy.” (Washington Post, Thursday) Shine the li ...

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

• The color of foreclosure: Blacks, Latinos still lo ...
  Thanks to a certain oil spill and other attention-grabbing events , the nation's home foreclosure crisis has drifted off the news headlines. But a new study by the Center for Responsible Lending shows that it's still a big and growing economic disaster -- and silently draining billions of dollars ...
• Obama administration ends fast-tracking of mountai ...
  In a decision being hailed by environmental advocates, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a program that streamlined the permitting process for mountaintop removal coal mining across Appalachia. The suspension of the Nationwide Permit 21 program is effective immediately and applies to K ...
• Love Your Coast Coalition gathers at Louisiana cap ...
  A grassroots network of people from across the Gulf Coast has assembled at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge to demand justice for the BP oil disaster and action to prevent such disasters in the future. The demonstration, which began yesterday, is organized by the Love Your Coast Coalition ...
• Sue and I have our tickets to New Orleans -- now w ...
  On Monday, I wrote about an exciting trip Sue Sturgis and I are taking to the Gulf Coast next week to investigate the BP oil disaster. Like many of you, we think BP and the media aren't telling the full story about the spill and its aftermath. So we're taking a week-long fact-finding trip to dig de ...
• TILT: The illness afflicting workers exposed to BP ...
  Workers cleaning up the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have reported suffering from flu-like symptoms that may be the consequence of exposure to chemicals in the oil as well as the petroleum-derived solvent being used to disperse the spill. The illness -- marked by headaches, fatig ...

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• 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 ...

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  While South Africa boasts understandable pride and excitement to be hosting the World Cup, its citizens are fearful. An already disordered country will see crime escalate substantially when the crowds arrive.
• 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

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• War of 1812
  On 18 June 1812, at the height of the Napoleonic conflict ( see NAPOLEONIC WARS ), the US declared war on Great Britain and struck at the only British possession on the continent: Canada. Most of the battles that followed
• Group of Seven
  The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.
• World War II
  Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such
• Winnipeg General Strike
  The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
• Mowat, Farley
  Farley Mowat, author (b at Belleville, Ont 12 May 1921). Mowat has been writing since his pre-teens. He recalls composing "mostly verse" while living with his family in Windsor (1930-33) and then publishing a regular

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Repair This: at what point is it better to buy som ...
  Here’s a question that’s been I’ve been wondering about for a while: at what point is it better to buy something new than keep repairing something old? On this site, we’re all about reducing & repairing – not buying things new for the sake of it or because they’re a bit scuffed & dirty – but [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle jerry cans?
  We’ve had an email from Lieze: how can i recycle an old jerry can in a creative way ? Lieze doesn’t say whether it’s an old school pressed steel one or a newfangled plastic one – or whether it’s been used as a fuel container or a water one. My first thought for anything container shaped [...]
• How can I make “chickens from plastic bags&# ...
  (I hope everyone had a lovely long weekend btw – and for those who didn’t get yesterday as a holiday, sorry for rubbing it in that we all did!) Linzi email us with a rather specific question: I would love to know how to make those chickens made from plastic bags? I desperately want to to know [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle old clock parts?
  We’ve had an email from David: I need to know how to recycle the inner brass parts of grandfather clock that no longer work? Brass, like nearly all metals, is in high demand in the recycling world and so if there is a good weight of it, most local scrap metal dealers would willingly take it off [... ...
• How can I reuse or recycle an old pushchair/stroll ...
  Walking down the road the other day – on the way to lunch, I spotted the wheels of a pushchair sticking out of a skip. The next time I walked past, the skip had gone so I couldn’t grab it – but it got me thinking all the same. I’d like to think that if [...]

Mondoweiss

• Our western privilege is the legacy of historical ...
  For the last week we've been running pieces responding to Matthew Taylor's statement that the Gaza flotilla should have been committed to nonviolent resistance. We're almost done. Max Ajl is at bat. David Bromwich has responded to my comment about non-violence and violence with a strong, textual cas ...
• When will Schumer and Engel decry this racism?
  The Times runs an AP report that tens of thousands of religious Jews staged a protest in Jerusalem over the court-ordered integration of religious schools, including schools on colonized land. This story feels like Little Rock, 60 years later, and with Palestinians having no rights at all:Parents of ...
• Why is this happening in a church basement?
  On Tuesday night in the basement of the Advent Lutheran Church on the Upper West Side in NY, an ad hoc group of Jews sponsored a forum about "Jewish perspectives" on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS), with a panel of four Jews, two for and two against, and about 200 people jammed ...
• The ‘Associated Press’ really ought to ...
  Pretty good piece on Israel's isolation by Aron Heller of AP, includes a lot about boycott, but includes this:A small French cinema chain postponed a showing of an Israeli comedy and replaced it with a documentary about an American student crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer during a 2003 ...
• 6/18/10: Today in Palestine
  Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansingPLO: New Settlers Homes In Jerusalem Is A Blow To Peace Efforts  Ramallah – PNN - Israel’s plans to construct  new settling homes in East Jerusalem, is a severe hit against the International and American  efforts to resume real Peace negotiations, the Pale ...

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

• CANADIAN GOLD COMPANY SUES EL SALVADOR FOR 100 MIL ...
  Canadian mining company, Pacific Rim, is in court suing the government of El Salvador for 100 million dollars. It claims that by not awarding the company an exploitation permit for its proposed gold mine, the tiny country is in breach of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (known as CAFTA). Ca ...
• 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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• FDA advisors give thumbs down to ‘pink Viagra’
  Two days after FDA staff expressed concern about flibanserin, a drug under consideration for the treatment of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in women, an advisory committee unanimously voted that the drug's benefits did not outweigh its side effects. The FDA has yet to make an official ruling ...
• The Bering Sea Project: Setting sail for climate c ...
  Posted on behalf of Wendee Holtcamp, blogging for Nature aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson. I’m flying in a 30-seater SAAB 340 turboprop to the international port of Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island, part of the Aleutian Island Chain, and the number one commercial fishing port in the U ...
• Deepwater Horizon: Hayward faces Congress
  BP’s Chief Executive Tony Hayward testified before a congressional hearing in Washington yesterday and faced furious attacks from politicians on both sides of the political spectrum. “BP’s corporate complacency is astonishing,” declared Henry Waxman, chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commer ...
• Swedes go nuclear
  It was a close call, but Sweden's parliament on Thursday approved by 174 votes to 172 (with three absentees) a government proposal to overturn a 30-year moratorium on nuclear power. ( AFP ) The moratorium, which dates back to 1980, had committed the government to shutting existing plants and bann ...
• Deforestation: it makes you sick, doesn't it?
  Posted on behalf of Emma Marris. If you were consoled by the news last year that the tropical rainforests are growing back, and that these new forests are “ almost as biodiverse as untouched forest ”, prepare to be unconsoled. Even as those secondary forests are growing back, forests both old ...

new geography

• Stimulus, Spending and Animal Spirits: How to Gro ...
  The most fanatical Keynesians are losing their composure. Brad DeLong, a prominent Berkeley economist and Keynesian, is virtually yelling that “We Need Bigger Deficits Now!” , emphasis his. Paul Krugman does DeLong one better, calling proponents of fiscal responsibility madmen . They are followi ...
• Time to Dismantle the American Dream?
  For some time, theorists have been suggesting that it is time to redefine the American Dream of home ownership. Households, we are told, should live in smaller houses, in more crowded neighborhoods and more should rent. This thinking has been heightened by the mortgage crisis in some parts of the co ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Luxembourg bans BASF's GM potato
  APPEAL: Please support GMWatch http://gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/12290-please-support-gmwatch EXTRACT: The political message is courageous and final: Luxembourg asserts loudly and clearly that it is not ready to accept a GMO menu dictated to it by the European Commission. Following Aus ...
• Lugar-Casey, GM and Gates
• Kenya's GM law prepares to go live
• GM crop battle in Latin America
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• 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 ...

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• US Sole Opponent of UN Anti-Nazi Resolution
  By Carla Stea / RCFP On December 18, 2009, The United Nations General Assembly, by an overwhelming majority, adopted Resolution 64/147, A/C.3/64/L.53 put forth by the Third Committee, entitled: “Inadmissability of Certain Practices that Contribute to Fuelling Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racia ...
• A Possible Cure for Multiple Sclerosis
  Italian Surgeon Claims High Success Rate Against MS By Sheila Casey / RCFP A former vascular surgeon from the University of Ferrara in northern Italy has apparently cured his wife and 65 other people of multiple sclerosis (MS) by using balloon angioplasty to open the narrowed veins in their neck ...
• The Infection Deception:
  Deep politics, global health policy, and the swine flu debacle By Byron Belitsos and Dr. Len Saputo “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.” — Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1988 Yes, the good P ...
• WH Press Corps Forbidden to Ask Certain Questions
  By Wayne Madsen / Wayne Madsen Report WMR has learned from a veteran member of the White House Press Corps that the Obama administration has made it known through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and other White House Communications officials that certain questions posed by the reporters wh ...
• Americans on Government Assassination List
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AT A GLANCE: APEC Ministers Discuss Oil Spill Impact, Renewable Energy Use

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- Jun 19, 2010

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They also stressed that increased efforts were needed to promote renewable energy and the nuclear power sector. Participants discussed national energy uses ...

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Walmart Files Gripe over Proposed Cape Wind Electricity Rates

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Massachusetts has passed a fairly aggressive renewable energy standard that requires utilities to get at least 15 percent of their power from renewable ...

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Net Benefits of Biomass Power Under Scrutiny

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In fact, power generated by burning wood, plants and other organic material, which makes up 50 percent of all renewable energy produced in the United States ...

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Oil Workers Muse on Renewable Energy

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Suffer our ecology....

Naples Daily News (blog)

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This is OK as far as it goes, but ultimately it's a selfish ecology. This kind of ecology begins with the human interest, but then moves on to a narrower ...

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State fines King County $46K for sewage overflows

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- Jun 17, 2010

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By SCOTT SUNDE The state's Ecology Department announced Thursday that it has fined the county $46000 for violating water-quality requirements at four ...

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Deadly violence erupts in Iraq over lack of electricity, water

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Frustrations run high in the summer when Iraqis in the capital struggle with less than six hours of electricity a day and water shortages as temperatures ...

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SoCal to launch rapid testing of beach water

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- Jun 19, 2010

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It normally takes up to four days for water samples to be analyzed for pathogens that can cause illness to swimmers and surfers. ...

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Bill seeks to strike clause from water bond

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- Jun 19, 2010

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Lawmakers backing November's $11 billion water bond proposition are seeking to strike a provision that would allow private corporations to own, ...

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