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IPS - Inter Press Services

• HEALTH-NEPAL: Multiple Problems Mar Fight Against ...
  To women who have lost their husbands to the killer AIDS disease, learning a skill to earn a living could be a matter of life and death.
• BURMA: Public Education a Drain on Family Incomes
  Once again, parents in military-ruled Burma are counting the cost of a primary education for their children in public schools. It is an annual ritual that comes with the beginning of a new school year, which coincides with the onset of the monsoon rains in June.
• 'Nuclear-Free Middle East Not Easy'
  A meeting called for 2012 on a Middle East free of nuclear weapons is likely to run into difficulties, says Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Buddhist association Soka Gokkai International (SGI).
• Caribbean Under Fire for Pro-Whaling Stance
  The votes of six Caribbean countries could help decide whether or not the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will ease the 1986 global ban on commercial whaling and allow hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica.
• Finding Lessons of Solidarity in Auto Industry Sha ...
  As thousands of people from around the world prepare to converge in Detroit, where expectations are high for the Jun. 22-26 U.S. Social Forum, activists and auto workers hope the meet will be an opportunity to chart a sustainable future for an industry that provides 1.7 million U.S. jobs.

Scoop - NZ

• Goff: The Obama Nosedive
  As with the Bush administration, whose approval numbers went from the stratosphere after 9-11 into the shitter by the time it's authority expired, the Obama administration has ridden the rhetorical wave of hope-and-change that secured the presidency and smashed into the reef of historical unpredicta ...
• Iceland creates haven for investigative reporting
  Iceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism. The new package of legislation was passed unanimously at 4am yesterday in one of the final sessions of the Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, before ...
• 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 ...

Independent ( London )

• Afghan conflict claims 300th British victim
  A Royal Marine has died in hospital in the UK eight days after being wounded in Afghanistan, taking the British death toll in the conflict to 300, the Ministry of Defence said today.
• Afghan war claims 300th British victim
  A Royal Marine has died in hospital in the UK eight days after being wounded in Afghanistan, taking the British death toll in the conflict to 300, the Ministry of Defence said today.
• Rights group calls to halt Zimbabwe diamond trade
  A leading international human rights group called on the global diamond industry's oversight body today to remove Zimbabwe from its ranks because of alleged illicit trading and abuses in its diamond fields.
• Russian president cuts gas supplies to neighbour
  Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the state-controlled gas monopoly to cut gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbour Belarus over its debt for Russian natural gas supplies.
• China floods death toll rises to 175
  Widespread flooding in southern China has caused 175 deaths, with 107 people missing and more storms expected, the government said today.

Rogue Government.com

• Report: U.S., Israeli warships cross Suez Canal t ...
  More than twelve United States Naval warships and at least one Israeli ship crossed the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on Friday, British Arabic Language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday.
• Yemen militants kill 11 during attack on intellig ...
  Four suspected al-Qaida gunmen shot their way into the intelligence headquarters of Yemen 's second largest city and freed several detainees in the group's most spectacular operation since a US-backed government crackdown began late last year.
• Car Bombs Strike Second Major Iraq Bank
  A pair of car bombs detonated simultaneously outside Iraq’s Bank of Trade on Sunday morning, killing 26 people and wounding 52 others in the second attack on a major government financial institution in eight days.
• Fannie and Freddie Tab $146 Billion And Rising
• Dubai to have security cameras 'everywhere'
  Dubai, where a top Hamas commander was killed in January in an assassination blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency, is to have security cameras "everywhere," the police chief was quoted as saying on Sunday.

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

• 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 ...
• Google's Wi-Fi snoop nabbed passwords and emails
  French inspection The Wi-Fi traffic collected by Google's world-roving Street View cars included passwords and email, according to a report citing a preliminary study from the French data protection authority. IDG reports that the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) has exam ...
• Canada: Three Dead After Thunderous Explosion
  Three men are dead and three people injured after a massive explosion at a north Edmonton home Sunday. Four homes are destroyed and more than a dozen neighbouring homes damaged near 180A Avenue and 91 Street, said District Fire Chief Robert D'Aoust. Seventy nearby residents were evacuated, and p ...
• Busloads of cops arriving for G20
  Busloads of out-of-town police officers were being escorted by motorcycle cops Friday to downtown Toronto for the G20 Summit that they'll be patrolling for the next nine days. The newcomers were briefed by the RCMP and given bus tours of the Portlands area and G20 sites, including the Metro Toronto ...
• Radiation warning labels for deadly mobile phones
  The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed an ordinance that will require warning labels on mobile phones, indicating their radiative output especially for the scientifically-illiterate and paranoid. The ordinance, which was passed with an overwhelming majority (10 to 1), will require anyone ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Lest we forget . . .
  ACCORDING TO A POST IN CANNABIS CULTURE written by Jodie Emery, "Send Marc Emery Mail or Money in US Federal Prison", you can mail him a letter. And that would be a good thing to do for a victim of US legal imperialism in solitary confinement.  Click on the link above to get the address and rules. M ...
• 198 new deepwater leases in the Gulf
  . So how's that six month moratorium on granting new permits for offshore wells deeper than 500 feet in the Gulf doing? .While waiting for the ban to be lifted, the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Services, these guys , have approved five new offshore drilling projects since June 2 . A ...
• 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 ...

Media Matters for America

• Wallace asks if Dems are "getting religion" on def ...
  Chris Wallace asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell whether "some Democrats are getting religion when it comes to the deficit." Wallace made no mention of Republicans "getting religion" on the deficit, even though "virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years" is due to policies impl ...
• Conservatives falsely claim Kagan compared NRA to ...
  Conservative media have falsely claimed that in hand-written notes Elena Kagan took as a Clinton administration official in 1996, she compared the National Rifle Association to the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, Kagan wasn't comparing the NRA to the Klan; rather, she was reportedly taking notes that r ...
• NY Times falsely reports that Obama too ...
  The New York Times reported that "in the 2008 election cycle," Barack Obama "took in $77,000" from BP "executives and its political action committee." In fact, Obama received $71,051 in BP-linked donations in 2008, and all of that money came from BP employees, not from BP's PAC, according to t ...
• 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. ...

Global Research.ca

• Showdown in the Red Sea: U.S. Sends 11 Warships to ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US Drones Kill Hundreds in Pakistan
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Eleven American warships, one Israeli vessel, cros ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Brussels Tribunal Wants High-Seas Killers Charged
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Wall Street and BP: Can We "Fix" the Oil and Finan ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• ObamaLove. If you don't stop it you go blind.
  Isn't it annoying when people from on high declaim to the Left to "grow up" ? The President has charted an unambiguously rotten, centrist path. A genuine liberal committed to informing the public would elaborate the contrast between centrism and progressive policy. Apologists wag their fingers an ...
• The BP Shakeup That Isn't
  One day after he was blasted on Capitol Hill, BP CEO Tony Hayward has been removed from day-to-day management of the oil spill. BP's chairman has turned it over to a BP managing director, Bob Dudley. That makes sense from a PR standpoint. Before the congressional hearings, Hayward seemed merely o ...
• 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 ...

TruthOut

• We Won, Dad, But I’m Lost: Lessons From Tiger, Lan ...
  Here’s a story that gets me thinking every Father's Day. read more
• Turkey Bombs Kurds in Northern Iraq After PKK Atta ...
  After the PKK attacks killed 12 Turkish soldiers this weekend, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that his government will not rest until the Kurdish rebels are "annihilated."  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will not stop until the PKK is “annihilated” af ...
• Life Aboard the Drilling Rig That's the Gulf's Las ...
  Aboard the Development Driller II — The men who spend weeks at a time aboard these deepwater rigs are accustomed to drilling in relative solitude out in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But that's not how it is these days: Smoke billows and bursts of orange flames unfurl on the horizon, byproducts ...
• Not All Environmentalists Pleased with Climate Leg ...
  One would think that the environmental community would be united behind what is being hailed by some as the most significant and important piece of climate legislation to ever be introduced in the United States Senate. Yet the bill, introduced on May 12 by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, has ...
• First Signs of Strain in Kandahar Offensive
  Amid the confusion over the latest US-led mission, body bags provide a sobering certainty. Kandahar, Afghanistan – At Kandahar Airfield, medics in the trauma ward waited for a helicopter ferrying four soldiers read more

Planetsave

• A Solar Mystery: The Case of the Missing Sunspots ...
  Something unusual is not happening on the surface of our sun: dark patches, known as sunspots , seem to be missing. These variously sized sunspots –frequently occurring in pairs–that regularly appear on our Sun’s surface have been tracked and recorded for over four centuries (since the time of Gali ...
• Riding Transit Saves You $9,330 a Year
  Save thousands of dollars a year by riding transit. See a list of the cities with the highest average savings from riding transit below. On average, you can save $778 a month or $9,330 a year riding transit. Transit riders in New York City, however, save $1,159 a month ($13,906 a year) on average ...
• Lizard that Outlived Dinosaurs May Go Extinct from ...
  Ancient lizards from the time of dinosaurs may go extinct due to climate change in the coming decades. A 200-million-year-old lizard, the three-eyed Tuatara, may go extinct due to climate change, scientists warn. The problem is that climate change is reportedly turning the whole species into males ...
• Canada Says They Would Be Prepared to Handle an Oi ...
  The Canadian Coast Guard has been practicing oil recovery drills in case a spill, like that in the Gulf Coast, were to occur. BP has been criticized for not having a contingency plan in place in order to manage a spill, especially one of this magnitude. It might be too little too late in the Gulf a ...
• The Mercy Project
  One of our readers, Johnie Lewis Tidwell, passed on a link about a great-looking project in response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf. The video below from the The Pauli Carman Show is about the Mercy Project. The Mercy Project is a special music project focused on bringing awareness and the import ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• June 2010 monitoring
  It is definitely summer! Although it’s forecast to be in the mid 90s today, we were able to mo
• Rachel Folk, Upper Pecos Watershed Association
  Rachel Folk, UPWA Rachel works as a full-time volunteer for the Upper Pecos Watershed Association, a
• Arsenic exposure from drinking water, and all-caus ...
  Argos, M. … [et al.] (2010). Arsenic exposure from drinking water, and all-cause and chronic-d
• 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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• A Day in the Gulf by Cindy Sheehan
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• Activist Cindy Sheehan To Lead Protest Against Dee ...
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• The concept of Hell in the art work of Hieronymus ...
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• The Rising Tide of the American Left, Part 1 By Ti ...
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• The Salad Needs Tossing by Lo
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Axis of Logic

• Today's attack by Israeli forces and more - Letter ...
  June 20, 2010 Israeli occupation forces today in Beit Jala engaged in beatings, burning of fields, and attacking peaceful demonstrators, bystanders, and reporters. Two young Palestinians: Mohammed Masalma and Thaer Mahmoud were injured after severe beatings with hands and clubs (they were both ...
• The Lethal Dove and Cartographic Perfidy - World N ...
  This cartoon by Jeff Darcy�appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on June 3. This was clearly a breakthrough. The ADL�and CAMERA�immediately unleashed the Israel Lobby’s flak machine; they wouldn’t tolerate such favourable representation of what the American Jewish Committee calls ‘The Terror Flo ...
• ‘When governments refuse … we as individuals have ...
  Thank you, Julia Irwin, Australian federal parliamentarian who gave a fine statement in the House debateon Wednesday, 16 June 2010. The Member for Fowler (ALP) spoke up for citizen action and BDS, stating, “… like the Stalinists of old, some world leaders continue to deny the reality, or, worse, ...
• Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world - British Petr ...
  The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism Everyone gathered for the...
• World Cup Domination & Entertaining the Empire: On ...
  "Our situation is like a football match. The superpower countries are the players, and we are just the ball to be kicked around." � - A young Pakistani civilian, North Waziristan The Great Game is indeed alive and kicking. This summer's World Cup tournament is providing yet another way ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  File this under "D" - for "Duh" "Al Qaeda's American-born spokesman has repeated the terror group's conditions for peace with America in a video released Sunday. ... Adam Gadahn called on President Barack Obama to withdraw his troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, end support for Israel, stop interveni ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  And finally...
• Softening Up the Judicial Battleground
  I'll never understand how liberals got a reputation for running away from a fight. �In the Democratic Congress, liberals are the only ones who know how to play offense. Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars: I have high hopes for Sen. Al Franken, who never stops fighting for the things he believes in. Ho ...
• Ambassador John Bolton at Missouri Boys State: Q a ...
  Ambassador John Bolton addressed Missouri Boys State on Tuesday, June 15th. After his speech he took questions from the audience for almost an hour. This is the final part of the transcript of that question and answer session. Previously: Ambassador John Bolton at Missouri Boys State: photos Ambassa ...
• An apparent end to secret holds in the Senate
  Yesterday morning at about ten, while I as out in the garden puttering around and admiring the vine plants, my phone made the noise it makes when I get a text message. I looked at it and it as a tweet from Claire McCaskill. "First battle won!With Sens Bond and Brownbeck now have 67 Senators on my le ...

Care 2

• Fight over UFO photos pits family versus newspaper
  Two shots of a flying saucer over McMinnville are some of the most debated pieces of Oregon history. The family of the man who shot them wants the negatives, but others think they shouldbe on public display. Submitted by DancingDove Sings to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Highly Efficient Solar Cells Could Result from Qua ...
  Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin. Submitted by David Andrade to Science & Tech �| ...
• Flotilla activists credit cards stolen and Used
  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. The "peace-loving self-proclaimed democracy" and its army of thugs! Submitted by Atw Orld to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Canada's Economy is suddenly the envy of the world
  A Yahoonews article on the Canadian economy. Risk-averse banking? Healthcare for all? Canada's way of doing things seems to be taken for granted...but, perhaps, not anymore Submitted by Talathiel Tlogesi Goodheart to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• YouTube - Protesters Picket Israeli Cargo Ship
  boycott divest sanction israel israeli bds free palestine gaza siege occupation ship picket block brass liberation orchestra Submitted by Cheryl Benson to US Politics & Gov't �|� �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

• ACORN Vindicated
  Barack Obama led a successful Project Vote registration drive in Chicago in 1992. I led a successful Project Vote registration drive in the Philly suburbs in 2004. Only twelve years separated our efforts. I did my work through the North Philly ACORN office. Obama did not work with ACORN because ...
• Israel Relaxes Gazan Embargo
  Strictly from a humanitarian point of view, this is good news: Bowing to worldwide pressure and condemnation, Israel on Sunday formally announced an eased blockade of Gaza that could significantly expand the flow of goods overland into the coastal Palestinian enclave, which the Israelis have incr ...
• Happy Father's Day!
  What's on your grill today?
• Getting Stuff Done
  ...getting no credit for it. President Barack Obama hailed a decision by the Chinese government over the weekend to allow its currency to fluctuate more freely with market forces. Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both welcomed an announcement by China's central bank that it would allo ...
• All-In With the OFA
  The next intraparty controversy is going to be over the Democrats' decision to spend $50 million getting out the vote of those whose only vote ever was for Barack Obama in 2008. This is not what Rahm Emanuel would do. It is what David Plouffe is doing. Organizing for America, the grassroots, prog ...

European Tribune

• Bad money after bad
  I am missing something, or are the pro-austerity arguments some combination of: We had dumb...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 21 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1935 Françoise Sagan,...
• Sunday Open Thread
  Yikes, is it that late already?!...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 20 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1924 Birth of...
• Saturday Open Thread
  Afternoon tea-talk...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 17
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 17 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Enzyme Tied to Post Partum Depression
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary It may not be a factor faced by every couple undergoing marriage or family counseling, but postpartum depression is a part of many births, and for 13% of women, it doesn’t fade after the first few days. New research presents a compelling case as to the cause of postpar ...
• Brain Fitness Prevents Cognitive Deterioration in ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In addition to physical deterioration, one very common consequence of multiple sclerosis (MS) is brain damage, specifically in the form of brain atrophy that has marked impact on memory and learning abilities. In some patients, brain damage is documented early on in t ...
• Suicidal Tendencies May have Genetic Link, Accordi ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Currently there is no genetic or medical test to help predict whether a person may be more susceptible to suicidal impulses, but new work from Mount Sinai Hospital and Columbia University in New York have brought such a test one step closer. Researchers found that thr ...
• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Lexington Protest Shames PNC's Mountaintop Removal ...
  Lexington Protest Shames PNC's Mountaintop Removal Financing It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) LEXINGTON, KY – Concerned citizens rallied in downtown Lexington today to express their anger at PNC Bank for financing mountaintop removal (MTR) coal ... and more��
• Gauley River: Endangered by Mountaintop Removal - ...
  IndyPosted Gauley River: Endangered by Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) West Virginia's famed Gauley River ranks #3 on this year's list -- the threat is mountaintop removal coal mining, which could spell the end to the clean ... Mountaintop removal lands Gauley River in ...
• Press Release: The Green Party of Pennsylvania cal ...
  Press Release: The Green Party of Pennsylvania calls for an end to drilling ... Independent Political Report ... nearly two months of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and years of mountain top removal , the Green Party of Pennsylvania says “enough already. ... and more��
• 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��

Memeorandum

• Lieberman tells internet to 'relax' about 'kill sw ...
  David / Crooks and Liars : Lieberman tells internet to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’   —  Sen. Joe Lieberman is telling his critics to “relax” over a bill that would allow the president to disable parts of the internet as he deems necessary.  China has an internet “kill switch” and the U.S. should t ...
• Geert Wilders: Change Jordan's name to Palestine ( ...
  Ynetnews : Geert Wilders: Change Jordan's name to Palestine   —  Rightist Dutch leader wants to end Mideast conflict by finding Palestinians ‘alternate homeland’  —  Geert Wilders, who leads the right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in Holland, said last week he believes Jordan should be renamed Pales ...
• Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House (Alex Sp ...
  Alex Spillius / Telegraph : Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House   —  Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job later this year after growing tired of the “idealism” of Barack Obama's inner circle.  —  Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight m ...
• Obama tells Kyl in private Oval Office meeting: I ...
  ColdWarrior / RedState : Obama tells Kyl in private Oval Office meeting : I won't secure border b/c then Republicans will have no reason to support “comprehensive immigration reform.”  —  promoted from the diaries because duplicity should be publicized  —  On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Sena ...
• Women are the 'secret weapon' (Jerusalem Post)
  Jerusalem Post : Women are the ‘secret weapon’   —  Organizer of flotilla: “thieving enemy” won't use arms against women.  —  Talkbacks (113)  —  Make JPOST.COM your Home Page  —  Iranian Threat  —  Jewish World  —  Local Israel  —  Arts & Culture  —  Français  —  Classifieds  —  Israel

Energy & Environment News

• Failure of Rig’s Last Line of Defense Tied ...
  The federal agency charged with regulating offshore drilling repeatedly declined to act on advice on how it could minimize the risk of a failure of the device, an examination found.
• With Criminal Charges, Costs to BP Could Soar
  The civil fine alone could be $280 million a day, but criminal penalties could cause the costs to balloon.
• Climate Scientist Gets a Media Apology
  A scientist who says he was criticizing the United Nations climate panel for failing to cite proper sources -- not questioning the validity of its conclusions -- gets an apology from a British newspaper.
• Early BP Worst Case on Flow: '100,000 Barrels per ...
  An early BP estimate of the worst-case flow of oil in the gulf is far higher than the company's public statements implied.
• Smoke on the Water
  The expanse of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico is best perceived from above.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, southeast of Easter Island
  Sunday, June 20, 2010 21:08:50 UTC Sunday, June 20, 2010 02:08:50 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• 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)

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

• Are We Going Down Like the Soviets?
  The Soviets made a devastating miscalculation: they mistook military power for power on this planet. Sound familiar?
• Are U.S. Warships Gearing Up for a Confrontation W ...
  A U.S. Navy fleet is moving through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea, probably aiming to head off the Iranian flotilla headed toward Gaza.
• The Constitution Party: Delusional Religious Fanat ...
  The Constitution Party has 367,000 registered voters but is quickly gaining ground as part of the Tea Party movement.
• 6 Shocking Ways Conservatives Helped Cause the Eco ...
  The anti-government, pro-corporate-rule Reagan Revolution screwed a lot of things up for regular people and for the country.
• How Conservative Women Politicians Make Life Harde ...
  Conservative women politicians are profiting from the feminist movement while promoting policies that make the lives of everyday women much harder.

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

• Chinese yuan under scrutiny before G20 meeting
  BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Policymakers in the world's major economies will closely monitor the Chinese yuan this week for signs it is actually moving after Beijing announced it would make its exchange rate more flexible.
• Putin boasts new jet fighter better than U.S. plan ...
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia's newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, the F-22 Raptor.
• Mariana Klaveno sinks her teeth into "True Blood"
  LOS ANGELES (Back Stage) - The white-hot HBO series "True Blood" has exploded into the pop-culture arena over the past two years, fueling the international vampire obsession.
• China's yuan rises after flexibility pledge
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's yuan bolted to a 21-month high on Monday, suggesting authorities are unshackling the currency from its de facto 23-month-old peg to the dollar after vowing greater flexibility at the weekend.
• Miley Cyrus "no underwear" photo is fake, blogger ...
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton on Tuesday sought to defuse a media furor he created by posting a picture on his Twitter account that seemed to suggest teen pop star Miley Cyrus had been photographed without wearing underwear.

Equality Trust

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

• Chris Martin Raw Milk E. coli Victim Sports a www. ...
  Chris Martin, then age seven, developed an E. coli O157:H7 infection in September 2006 following consumption of raw milk. He was hospitalized beginning on September 8, suffering from severe gastrointestinal symptoms, including bloody diarrhea. Shortly thereafter, he developed hemolytic uremic synd ...
• First Salmonella Chester Lawsuit to be filed again ...
  To date, according to the CDC, a total of 30 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Chester have been reported from 15 states. The number of ill people identified in each state with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Chester are as follows: CA (4), CO (2), GA (6), IL (1), KY (1), M ...
• Stewart Parnell, happy damn Father's Day - You sho ...
  On January 29, 2009, the Untied States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implicated Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) of Blakely Georgia as the source of a massive Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that sickened over 700 and sent about a dozen to early graves. One can only imagine what thoughts are ...
• S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act - Santa ...
  I was reading Carl Hulse’s article “Legislative Hurdles in an Era of Conflict” in the New York Times this morning and had one of those moments like when I first learned that Santa Claus was in fact not real. Yes, perhaps I should have figured it out before I entered 7th grade, but I was a late bloo ...
• Illinois Subway Salmonella Hvittingfoss Outbreak H ...
  The 90 victims of the Salmonella outbreak, who range in age from two to 79, 25 who have been hospitalized, reported eating at Subway locations in 28 counties, including Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeKalb, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Henry, Knox, LaSalle, Livingston, Macon, Marshall, McLean, ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 06.21.10
  So, did you hear the one about American energy independence? Enough already. Report: Blind group displeased that Nissan Leaf sound can be turned off The National Federation for the Blind is ...
• 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. ...

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!

• Coming up: Oliver Stone on DN, live in studio, Mon ...
  Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning film director, will appear on Democracy Now! on Mon., June 21, 2010. Email questions for him to stories@democracynow.org. Access the live stream, and archived video at democracynow.org
• 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

• Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
  The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
• 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 ...

Suzie-Q

• Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Confli ...
  Jeremy R. Hammond, Foreign Policy Journal, June 17, 2010 Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region. Although Arabs were a majority in Palestine prior to the creation of the state of Israel, there had always been a Jewish population, as well. For the most part, Jewish Palest ...
• Ahoy There! “Bob” Comes in at Fourth i ...
  Well do I remember how my heart leapt for joy as I gazed out of the subway train that took me across the Charles River from Boston to Harvard Square and saw the yachts on the Charles plying joyously to and fro on the river below, their white sails gleaming in the summer sunshine. Brought up [...]
• Open letter to President Obama on behalf of citize ...
  AP From a protest in Calcutta ‘Reverse The Out-Of-Court Bhopal Settlement’ Activists write to the US President: ‘Whose ‘ass’ should the citizens of Bhopal kick if governments selectively shield their corporations and officials from legal accountability?’ Abdul Jabbar, et al, Outlook India, June 14, ...
• 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

Solari

• Money & Markets - Week of 6.20.10
  Medvedev Promotes Ruble as World Reserve Currency to Cut Dollar Dominance Bloomberg (19 June 10) California on ‘Verge of System Failureâ The Globe and Mail (18 June 10) German-Spanish Whispering Wars Hit Euro Zone Reuters (18 June 10) States Want Your Trust The Wall Street Journal (14 June 10)
• Mortgage Markets - Week of 6.20.10
  Fannie, Freddie Delisting Signals Firms Have No Value The Wall Street Journal (16 April 10) Citigroup (C) Suspends Foreclosures In Gulf Region Street Insider (16 June 10)
• Geopolitical - Week of 6.20.10
  YouTube (4 June 10) Gulf Oil Spill: A Hole in The World OpEdNews (19 June 10) Wikileaks Founder in Hiding, Fearful of Arrest The Washington Post (18 June 10) Fed Escaping Toughest Scrutiny as Audit Bill is Negotiated GATA (16 June 10) Sessions Fires Warning Shot Over Deferred Prosecutions Law.com ...
• Food & Health - Week of 6.20.10
  Bangladesh: 77m Poisoned by Arsenic in Drinking Water BBC News (19 June 10)
• Science & Technology - Week of 6.20.10
  Explosion at California Water Fuel Research Company Kills Inventor PES Network (18 June 10)

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

• Rep. Steve King Suggests Unauthorized Immigrants C ...
  King took to the House floor to say the Arizona law wouldn't lead to racial profiling.
• 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.

Sideways News

• Are mothers second class citizens?
  The child is king - but within a changing and progressive society, it’s ruining women’s lives. This is one of the arguments made by feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter in a new book entitled Le Conflit, la femme et la mère (Conflict, Woman and Mother) which says that women are being forced into ...
• Curves give men a natural high
  Ogling curvaceous women can give men a high similar to the sensation of taking drugs and alcohol. A study conducted at the Georgia Gwinnett College in the US and detailed in the journal PLoS One highlighted that staring at curvy women such as Beyonce and Mad Men star Christina Hendricks makes men's ...
• Acupuncture 'improves mood, kills pain'
  Acupuncture could be used as an effective treatment for alleviating depression and reducing pain, according to two new studies. In a paper published in the journal Brain Research , scientists say acupuncture works by making the brain, rather than the body, stop experiencing pain.
• 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

• Max Boot: history suggests we will win in Afghanis ...
  Summary:  Advocates for the Af-Pak war often make dubious statements about the past, attempting to rekindle America’s enthusiasm for a war in which we have no meaningful stake.  Today Max Boot provides another example. An excerpt from “Yes We Can ⦠Win in Afghanistan“, Max Boot, blog of Comment ...
• More people participating in politics: is this goo ...
  Summary:  I have often advocated increased public participation as cure for our increasingly dysfunctional politics.   It’s happening, and the result might reveal a terminal weakness in American’s political regime. The posts listed below chronicle the rise of the Tea Party movement, the first mas ...
• “Most scientific papers are probably wrong&# ...
  Summary:  Yes, those are conclusions from a remarkably large body of research.  Bad news for those who consider science a religion (at least when it agrees with their beliefs). One of the great oddities of the public (i.e., among lay people) discussion of global warming is the love-hate attitude of ...
• FM newswire for June 19, interesting articles abou ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. The 21st century will see new players at the great game of geopolitics:  IBM building the world’s greatest Jeopardy player, the next step to A.I., New York Times, 14 June 2010 Recomme ...
• Will people on the right help cut Federal spending ...
  Summary:  Will the people on the right, aflame with deficit-cutting fervor, cut the 25 – 30%  of the government’s budget spent on defense (DoD, nukes, vets, pensions, foreign intelligence)?  Without doing so it’s unlikely the budget can be balanced, esp when interest rates normalize (easily doubl ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Ridge clue to Antarctic ice loss
  BBC-The discovery of an underwater ridge in West Antarctica could help explain why there has been an acceleration in the ice flowing from a glacier in the area. Researchers suggest that the base of Pine Island Glacier once sat on the ridge, but recently became detached from the feature. The team mad ...
• B.C. reopens possibility of criminal charges in ‘s ...
  Gazette – B.C.âs attorney-general announced Friday that top Vancouver criminal lawyer Richard Peck has been named as a special prosecutor to take a second look at criminal charges against four RCMP officers after the Braidwood inquiry found that the Taser used on Robert Dziekanski in 2007 was an u ...
• Push to put unmanned planes to work in U.S
  San Francisco Chronicle – Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotle ...
• Aid agencies launch Niger appeal
  BBC – Two major aid agencies have launched $10m (£6.7m) appeals for drought-stricken Niger in West Africa. About seven million people – half of the country’s population – face food shortages after crop failures last year. Aid organisations Oxfam and Save The Children say the situation is growing mo ...
• In Brazil, rainforest logging increases malaria ra ...
  Independent-Logging of tropical forests can boost the incidence of malaria in the surrounding area by nearly 50 percent, according to new research tracking deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon. The study examined 2006 data tracking malaria rates in 54 Brazilian health districts and high-definition satel ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Maoismo-Third Worldismo, Tungkol sa Kapaligiran
  Para makakuha ng kopya ng bidyu, hanapin sa mga torrent ang: Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Tagalog)
• Book review part 1 of 2 of Teresa Hayter’s The Cre ...
  Book review part 1 of 2 of Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The most glaring fact about our world today is the tremendous gap between the wealthy countries and the poor countries. This division of global society is sometimes referred t ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• Obama to be given the right to shut down the inter ...
  President Obama will be given the power to shut down the Internet with a 'kill switch' in a new law being proposed in the US. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
• 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 ...

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

• Limbaugh Represents a Deep and Serious Pathology i ...
  RUSH LIMBAUGH If you value this BuzzFlash Weekly Edition of Our Media Putz Award, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. Basically, the entire Limbaugh “Satan is Insinuating Your Basest Thoughts in Your Ears” demagoguery is one big self-pitying " ...
• In 1977, Sirhan Sirhan Tried to Hire a Fellow Pris ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH In the sweep of 20th century history This footnote is but a passing blip .He offered $1 million --- and a car --- Which shows some salesmanship. � The vehicular inducement manages to make This anecdote more than a bit surreal But even foreign assassins know in America You a ...
• Angle Won't Be Ready to Face The Press For 'A Few ...
  Cornyn: Angle Won't Be Ready to Face The Press For 'A Few Weeks.' � And she'll never be ready for the Senate!��John Cornyn is as crazy as Angle if he�thinks she can be whipped into�Repuglican ideology shape in just a few weeks. Jesus statue destroyed by act of God :� Where is Pat Robertson and ...
• 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 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

• Washington: Theater of the Absurd
  by Ralph Nader The festering corporate government in Washington, DC, is a theater of the absurd. Some of the acts of this tragedy follow: 1. Start with the often hapless Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administers Medicare. Medicare pays $1,593 per injection of Lucen ...
• Unrest in Pakistan: Moving Beyond U.S. National I ...
  by Josh Brollier and Kathy Kelly "The military is the muscle that protects the ruling elite from the wrath of the people," says Pakistani political analyst Dr. Mubashir Hassan. "Right now, people are out on the street; blocking roads, attacking railway stations, etc. If you read the papers, it se ...
• 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 ...
• Top Republicans Offer BP Apologies, Tips to Avoid ...
  by John Nichols Just to be clear, it was BP that caused what is now generally recognized as the worst environmental disaster in American history. It was BP that provided unsound information about the crisis and its aftermath, creating a false sense that the spill could be more easily contained tha ...
• Want To Help? 10 Ways To Start Making Change
  by Paul Rogat Loeb 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 Afghanistan ...

Karl Burkart

• Climate movement gets a high fashion 'Akomplice'
  An unusual equation.. Hip-hop + haute couture + global warming + U.S. Department of Energy = white paint!
• 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.

Water Privatization

• Angat worries Europeans
  The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines has expressed concern over the decision of the Supreme Court to stop the awarding of the 218-megawatt Angat hydroelectric power plant to Korea Water Resources Corp., Koreas state utility company.
• Rand Paul has long history of controversial views
  He ignited a furor with his explosive remarks that private business should have the right to discriminate -- and that President Barack Obama's administration sounded "un-American" in criticizing BP too harshly for the Gulf oil spill.
• Kuwaiti MPs call for shorter working hours to save ...
  Kuwaiti MPs on Sunday approved a recommendation urging the government to shorten summer working hours to save electricity, as the emirate grappled with record heat and a major power crisis.
• PSALM seeks to complete privatization
  Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. is preparing to bid out two more independent power producer administrator contracts, as it strives to complete the privatization of all government-owned power assets within the year.
• Priority investment areas in 2010
  As the business community eagerly anticipates the inauguration of President-elect Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" C. Aquino III, there seems to be renewed energy for Filipinos to work together as a nation.

Guardian

• Royal Marine is 300th British death in Afghanistan
  British military death toll in Afghanistan hits 300 after nine years of war The death has been announced of the 300th British fatality in Afghanistan, a widely anticipated but still grim milestone in the nine-year war. The dead man's name is not being released yet at the request of his family, but h ...
• Oil rig 'leaking weeks before blast'
  Oil worker told the BBC's Panorama programme that both BP and Transocean, who owned the rig, were informed of the leak An oil worker who survived the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion has claimed that the oil rig's safety equipment was leaking several weeks before it exploded, triggering the huge spill ...
• Toddler in hospital after fox attack
  Incident in Brighton follows case of nine-month-old twins Isabella and Lola Koupparis, who were attacked in their upstairs bedroom in east London A toddler was taken to hospital in Brighton after reports that he had been injured by a fox, police confirmed today. The three-year-old boy was either bit ...
• Live blog: All the action on day one
  • Follow the latest scores with our interactive scoreboard • Today's order of play • Small Talk meets Elena Baltacha • Preview: Laura Robson v Jelena Jankovic 11.36am: Is Wimbledon the hardest thing to rhyme another word with? Here's the first effort of SW19's poet in residence :Excuse me. I'm sorry ...
• Overconsumption: Costing the earth
  Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard's new book examines the high price of the western world's obession with all things material If you really want to understand a country, a society, or even a civilization, don't turn to its national museums or government archives. Head to the tip. According to Ann ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: At last, Americans becoming soccer fan ...
  Good news for those of us who love soccer and want the game to keep growing: U.S. television ratings for the World Cup have been very good so far, and many sports analysts are predicting that the United States will soon become a major soccer power.
• Colombia's former defense minister wins presidenti ...
  BOGOTA — Colombians voted for continuity Sunday, electing former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos as the heir to the wildly popular President Alvaro Uribe. Santos, candidate of the U Party who promised to carry on Uribe's hard-line security policies, won 69 percent of the vote against 27.5 percen ...
• Why don't news outlets call BP's huge oil 'spill' ...
  BILOXI, Miss. — Media consumers want to know why news outlets call the gusher in the Gulf an oil spill.
• Feds: New Gulf waivers are for existing wells
  Three environmental waivers granted by federal regulators this month were for modifying existing oil projects in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. officials told McClatchy.
• New Afghan commission sets free Taliban suspects
  KABUL_ Afghanistan's controversial new commission formed to release suspected Taliban prisoners has set free 14 detainees already, primarily from U.S. custody, and over two dozen more releases are imminent, Afghan officials told McClatchy on Sunday.

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

• Texas Can’t Afford To Buy New Far-Right Text ...
  For the past year, far-right members of the Texas Board of Education have been overhauling the state’s textbook standards. The changes include “pushing for inclusion of more…Confederate glorification,” re-naming the Atlantic slave trade the “Atlantic Triangle Trade,” prioritizing “a suggestion that ...
• 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 ...

thwap's schoolyard

• $1.1 Billion - Because Canadians are S-O-O-O-O Vio ...
  Bull-fucking-shit. Goddamned "radical" Canadians line-up 98% to condemn a rock thrown through a department store window! It's a fucking joke. harper's turning Toronto into a ghost-town for the G-Whatever conference. Because in his authoritarian brain, only a city of the dead is safe enough for him ...
• Shooting Unarmed Humanitarian Volunteers In The He ...
  ... and saying that doesn't make you "anti-Semitic." How debased is our political culture that one even feels the need to say that?
• Screw This Bullshit
  In the light of this latest example of the harpercons' utter contempt for Canada's system of parliamentary democracy , it seems pertinent to mention this : Although they can send for certain persons, standing committees do not have the power to punish a failure to comply with their orders in this r ...
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  The Cheney Vase!! It's got Darren McGavin! Now I should start the dishes.
• 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 ...

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 Tamils to elect national council represen ...
  Tens of thousands of Canadian Tamils are taking part in June 20's National Council for Canadian Tamils (NCCT) nationwide election to elect national, provincial and regional representatives to speak for the Tamil community in Canada.
• Toronto's Luminato arts festival concludes with Wo ...
  The Toronto arts and creativity festival, Luminato, concluded its fourth annual event at Queen's Park in downtown Toronto. Luminato ended its event by commemorating World Refugee Day with music of immigrants who came to Canada.
• No Toronto school buses on Friday due to G20
  The Toronto District School Board has canceled school bus transportation in the city during the G20 Summit for Friday, June 25.
• Private security company will be working the G20/G ...
  A report on local media is stating that private security guards are taking the G20 off. There is some truth to the report but blanks need to be filled in.
• France in more disarray as director goes, players ...
  France, a football team already in disarray, have now had further problems with the team director resigning, the fitness coach storming off the training pitch and the team now refusing to train.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• NYC Throws Away Homeless LGBT Youth
  We wrote recently about runaway and "thrownaway" teens as a significant sub-population of the homeless. One of the most vulnerable groups within that population is LGBT youth . Many young people who come out to their parents, or who are "outed" against their will, are then forced from their homes. T ...
• The Bizarre Case of "Luxury Squatters" and What It ...
  Give them an inch, they'll take over a $3.2 million dollar mansion ? News coverage of a couple who moved into a nine-bathroom Kirkland mansion makes it sound like all empty 8,000-square foot houses are in danger of squatter invasion. What does this mean for squatters' rights groups and the millions ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Happy talk watch: Afghan insurgency losing momentu ...
  âWe are heading in the right direction in Afghanistan,â U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy told the Senate Armed Services Committee on 15 June. âWe are regaining the initiative and the insurgency is beginning to lose momentum.” (Jared Allen & Roxana Tiron, “After setba ...
• Canada should stay in Afghanistan: Ignatieff
  Canadian military personnel should remain in Afghanistan as military and police trainers following the 2011 end of the Kandahar mission, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has declared (Joan Bryden, “Ignatieff: Canadian trainers should stay in Afghanistan,” Globe and Mail, 15 June 2010). The new Libe ...
• New Navy mascot needs name
  The Canadian Navy is said to face serious recruiting, morale, and (according to its commander, although not the Minister of National Defence) budgetary problems. And what better way to respond than to create a new furry mascot for the embattled element? Officially, the Navy describes the new “recru ...
• Joint Strike Fighter purchase could cost $16 billi ...
  The Globe and Mail is reporting that the estimated full cost of the government’s plan to buy 65 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters is $16 billion (Daniel Leblanc, “Harper bending to U.S. on sole-source fighter purchase, documents reveal,” Globe and Mail, 11 June 2010): Officials at National Defence and Pu ...
• Interview with Radio Canada International on Joint ...
  Steven Staples on Radio Canada International - The Link by rideauinstitute

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
• Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
  Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
• How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
  It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...

War in Context

• White House welcomes empty promise from Israel on ...
  “Today, the United States welcomes the new policy towards Gaza announced by the Government of Israel, which responds to the calls of many in the international community. Once implemented, we believe these arrangements should significantly improve conditions for Palestinians in Gaza, while preventin ...
• Mordechai Vanunu: prisoner of conscience
  How many countries in the world are there where someone can be thrown in jail for talking to a foreigner? That was one of Mordechai Vanunu’s most recent “crimes” as a citizen in “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Having spent 18 years in prison — more than 11 of those in solitary confinement ...
• Israel’s Secret Weapon
  A BBC documentary, “Israel’s Secret Weapon,” which first aired in 2003 just weeks before the start of the war in Iraq, examines Israel’s nuclear weapons program, the secrecy in which it has always been shrouded, and the ruthless measures through which Israel’s “nuclear taboo” is enforced. The film r ...
• Reclaiming self-determination
  In a policy brief for Al-Shabaka, Ali Abunimah reviews the evolution of the concept of self-determination, its applicability to the Palestinian people, and its gradual erosion since 1991. He argues not only that self-determination must return to the center of the Palestinian struggle; he also shows ...
• 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

• Quote of the week #35 Nat Geo bangs the drum for t ...
  I’m having a free day today in Brisbane, after an intensive week of travel and presentations. I feel zorched, but I still hope to catch up on correspondences and posts. If you have not booked into the tour yet, there … Continue reading →
• Firms paid to shut down wind farms when the wind i ...
  Britain’s biggest wind farm companies are to be paid not to produce electricity when the wind is blowing. From The UK Telegraph. By Robert Mendick Published: 9:00PM BST 19 Jun 2010 Energy firms will receive thousands of pounds a day per … Continue reading →
• Cuccinelli tells court former U-Va. professor&#821 ...
  From the Washington Post Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has told a judge that his request for documents related to the work of former University of Virginia climate scientist Michael Mann should be granted because neither academic freedom nor the … Continue reading →
• Tricky Sea Ice Predictions Call for Scientists to ...
  From Wired Science With sea ice levels in the Arctic at record lows this month, a new report comparing scientistsâ predictions calls for caution in over-interpreting a few weeks worth of data from the North Pole. The Sea Ice Outlook, … Continue reading →
• The Electric Oceanic Acid Test
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’m a long-time ocean devotee. I’ve spent a good chunk of my life on and under the ocean as a commercial and sport fisherman, a surfer, a blue-water sailor, and a commercial and sport diver. … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• A Day in the Gulf by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox June 21, 2010 The man in charge of the government that both permitted and abetted the heinous corporate crime (“Drill, baby, drill!”) should, by all rights, be in terminal disgrace. Instead, much of ...
• The Bush-Cheney Gulf Coast Oil Spill of 2010 by Ro ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Rodrigue Tremblay www.thenewamericanempire.com 19 June, 2010 âIf ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will be in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” — Samuel Adams ( ...
• Michel Chossudovsky: Major currencies can simply c ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica June 18, 2010 â Obama is urging China to review its currency policy despite Chinese officials made it clear that they are not going to tolerate any interference from abroad to this issue. Is this going to become a major topic of the G-20 meeting in Ca ...
• Latest Ground Zero deal offers 9/11 workers $712.5 ...
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com June 18, 2010 Lawyers for the city and for 10,000 plus plaintiffs, i.e., the cleanup and rescue men and women who worked Ground zero, announced on June 10 that they had negotiated a new settlement, providing more compensation for heal ...
• An Exclusive (Somewhat Apocryphal) Interview With ...
  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 I’d go to the smartest guy on the planet to get his what’s what. I met Stephen Hawking at his perch at the Mt. Palomar observatory.  It took me a [...]

Your New Reality

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  This is a quite astounding glimpse of the computer interfaces of five years from now, if the tech catches on, when keyboards and handcontrols become redundant. If you've only got a few minutes, whip through to about 10:50 and marvel at what moviemakers could do, what game makers could bring to life ...
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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 ...

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

• Gideon Levy: The patriot
  No, he is not a villain, the Israeli patriot - he is merely brainwashed and blind. He would like to live in a democracy ... But it's a democracy without most of its mechanisms. He is satisfied with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Zvi Barel: Give them an inquiry
  An international inquiry should have a different mandate: to look into how Israel managed to sell its destructive policy to the countries of the world, how they agreed to the jailing of 1.5 million... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Ameer Makhoul: Letter from Israel’s Gilboa Prison
  My story is that the Israeli intelligence, "the Shabak", assumed something without knowing and without any evidence. I was requested and forced to explain to them in a very detailed way how exactly I... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Bernard Porter: Pariahs Can’t Be Choosers
  Both [South Africa and Israel] certainly needed friends. Settler colonies – which both these were, Israel no less than South Africa – invariably do. Usually their biggest friends are the colonial... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Made in Israel? Carmel-Agrexco Uner Accusation
  “The Coalition of Women for Peace declares its support for Italian supermarket chains COOP and Nordiconad’s decision to suspend sales of Agrexco produce in their stores, and hopes that more... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

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

• Soil Gives Away Soybean Pathogen's Presence
  Scientists identify soil pH as an indicator of the presence of soybean cyst nematodes
• Increasing Potato Production
  Using soil structure and chemistry to define yield influences.
• Compost Filter Socks Improve Runoff from Croplands
  Grassed waterways including compost filter socks reduce soil erosion and herbicide concentrations from fields.
• PBDE Flame Retardant Linked to Thyroid Hormone Lev ...
  The largest study yet to investigate exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and pregnant women's thyroid hormone levels correlates exposure to PBDEs with reduced levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and increased odds of subclinical hyperthyroidism.
• Early-Life Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls R ...
  Children exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) early in life later had a diminished immune response to diphtheria and tetanus vaccinations, according to a study published online June 20 ahead of print in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP).

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

• Will Jerry Brown Make the Case for Campaign Financ ...
  Political reporters have delighted in covering Jerry Brown’s political campaigns through the years. The reason for reportorial delight is that they do not have to strain for a story. Brown supplies interesting copy by just listening to him and reporting what he has to say. Brown, who launched a pol ...
• Maher's New Rule: Stuff Your Oil Industry Jobs
  "New Rule: Stop talking about "jobs" being lost in a murderous, hateful industry like it's a bad thing." "You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea?" "A splash. "
• Obama Compares Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill to 9/11
  While the Obama administration has fended off comparisons between its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina , the president is not averse to making comparisons with the worst terrorist attack on American soil. In an interview with Poli ...
• Making a Living Out of Conservation
  Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . The farmers of the Neleshi Grasscutter and Farmers Association (NAGRAFA) consider themselves not only farmers and businesswomen and men, but also conservationists. Grasscutters, or cane rats, are found throughout Western Africa and, as ...
• BP Admits Well Bore Damage Below The Gulf Seabed
  On May 31st, the Washington Post noted : Sources at two companies involved with the well said that BP also discovered new damage inside the well below the seafloor and that, as a result, some of the drilling mud that was successfully forced into the well was going off to the side into rock formation ...

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

• With links, you always got sumpthin’
  But I got nuthin’. Heading out the door shortly to visit the parental units in Iowa and I just don’t have time to build up a head of mad. Now I understand why so many other bloggers will sometimes post, “I got nuttin.’” With link blogging, I always had sumpthin’, if not sumpthin’ sumpthin’. And, [.. ...
• Manute Bol, R.I.P.
  I thought I’d skip the obits while doing this thing of TBogg’s, but I can’t let Manute Bol’s passing slip by without comment. I learned of his death from Bob Collins’ Bol obit, but you can learn more about him at Wikipedia, and  there’s a page with pictures and more stories at the Washington Post. ...
• Selective payback
  I think I’m going to rejoin the Nancy Pelosi fan club. Not only is she drawing a line in the sand and refusing to let the House move forward until the Senate jobs measures bill is voted on, she’s holding federal payments to doctors as her hostage. If Senate Republicans and corporate lapdog Democrats ...
• Father’s Day hypocrisy
  Colby King has a great Father’s Day column. Consider Obama: Raised by a single mother in a middle-class family where hard work and education were watchwords, Obama graduated from two of the top schools in the country, Columbia University and Harvard Law School. His legal scholarship was recognized w ...
• 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 [...]

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

• Justin Raimondo: Our Enemies, the Israelis
  Our Enemies, the Israelis : Information Clearing House -  ICH “Again I ask the question: What do the Israelis have on our politicians that makes them such whores? Dirty pictures? Threats of withholding campaign contributions? It’s really embarrassing as well as infuriating to see congress with its ...
• Layla Anwar: Acceptable Parameters or the Dialecti ...
  Editor's Note : As far as I am concerned, this commentary by sister Layla Anwar of An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle... should be required reading by those who consider themselves to be activists and especially by those who claim to be fellow-travellers of the "left" In this guest ...
• Viola Wilkins: "Muckaty Voices"
  "Muckaty Voices" is a short film capturing community resistance to an Australian government plan to dump radioactive waste at Muckaty Station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.� http://www.youtube.com/user/beyondnuclear#p/a/u/0/xcuNpT84Ovo The area is being assessed ...
• Climate interview with Fiu Mataese Elisara
  Fiu Mataese Elisara, the Executive Director of Ole Siosiomaga Society Incorporated (OLSSI) in Samoa was interviewed TODAY (in Brussels, Belgium) by Los Angeles’s KPFK Pacifica radio on the Sojourner Truth show hosted by Margaret Prescod. Earlier today Fiu chaired a meeting with Members of the ...
• Viola Wilkins: Indigenous Actor Q’orianka Kilcher ...
  President Obama met with Peruvian President Alan García at the White House on Tuesday amidst growing unrest in Peru over the Alan García government’s free market policies that open up indigenous lands to resource extraction. Outside the White House, Hollywood actor Q’orianka Kilcher chained herself ...

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

• BP Succeeds at Pushing Back Against U.S. Demands
  ShareThis 'After the high-profile meeting of administration and BP officials on Wednesday, it was in the interest of neither to discuss such details.' BP Succeeds at Pushing Back Against U.S. Demands 21 Jun 2010 BP PLC, despite being put under pressure by the U.S. government to pay for the oil-spill ...
• Bank failure is 83rd in '10; pace more than double ...
  ShareThis Bank failure is 83rd in '10; pace more than double last year's �19 Jun 2010 Regulators on Friday shut down a Nevada bank, raising to 83 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. The 83 closures so far this year is more than double the pace set in all of 2009, which was itself a brisk yea ...
• No major US drawdown in Afghanistan
  ShareThis No major US drawdown in Afghanistan 21 Jun 2010 The US says it will not pull out large numbers of its troops from Afghanistan in July 2011, contradicting a promise made earlier by President Barack Obama. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates brushed asi ...
• A Texas transfer for oiled pelicans
  ShareThis A Texas transfer for oiled pelicans --38 brown pelicans - rescued from the oil spill - gladdened their rescuers as they quickly took to their new home 20 Jun 2010 Tentative wing-flapping led to graceful soaring and convivial preening Sunday as 38 brown pelicans rescued from the worst oil m ...
• Bomb blast kills 8 in north Iraq
  ShareThis Bomb blast kills 8 in north Iraq 21 Jun 2010�A bomb explosion has targeted a market in a town in northern Iraq, claiming the lives of eight people and leaving at least 10 others wounded. The incident came late on Sunday when a bomber blew up his explosives belt in the town of Shirqat, some ...

Daily Loaf

• Rebecca Ammon & Creative Loafing’s lifestyles meet ...
  July 17th Creative Loafing and I are hosting our first meet and greet for the lifestyle community. CL Space will open its doors for heavy players and newbies interested in the alternative loving scene to flirt, connect, and cut loose with local like-minded adults. A wine tasting, raffle prizes, ...
• Do It Today: see the summer solstice and learn Leg ...
  In celebration of the summer solstice, MOSI hosts Legends of the Stars. If you know where to look, the skies are filled with the heroes and villains of myth. Storytellers reveal how they got stuck there with their tales of Greek heroes, fables told by Australian Aborigines, and a rich collection ...
• On the Radar: the Millennium Ballroom Dancesport C ...
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Whether you’re a fan of one of those dance competition shows or simply want to admire the spectacle, be sure to attend the Millennium Ballroom Dancesport Competition, which kicks off tomorrow. One of the lar ...
• Concert review: Silversun Pickups and Against Me! ...
  Silversun Pickups packed the Ritz Ybor with help from Florida's own Against Me!
• The Green Community week in review: Oil spill comm ...
  Read what you might have missed last week in CL's Green Community.

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

• Britannia oils the waves
  When Barack Obama referred to a major UK-based criminal organisation by its former name, British Petroleum, a storm of outrage followed in the UK’s corporate press and in the statements of Britain’s Liberal and Conservative politicians. They strenuously denied the US President’s outrageous implicati ...
• Janis Joplin. Cry baby
  Festival Express. 1970. Professional video. She was dead three months later. What a loss. This is an incredible performance. There’s so much pain in her voice it’s almost hard to listen to.
• Prefab modular housing for $100/sq ft
  ASUL Adaptable Systems is debuting their steel-framed prefab homes at Dwell on Design next week in L.A. Choose from ten room sizes, three ceiling heights, and pre-designed kitchens and bathrooms, and configure your own house. They ship the parts and you can build it yourself or have them do it
• Really Rotten Realty
  Via Bubbleinfo “Want your home advertised by a professional?” the site [ReallyRottenRealty] asks. “We believe in the three Pâs of real estate marketing: put, put and pray. Put a sign in the yard, put it on the multiple listing service, and then pray someone will come along and buy it.” Bill Petrey ...
• Proven method to stop Wall Street piggery
  While some are calling for delay of pay to force investment firm executive to act more rationally and for the greater good, Barry Ritholtz say such methods rarely work because what’s losing a few million to someone already worth hundreds of millions? A better alternative, he says, is partnerships be ...

Coteret

• AIPAC gets a bad case of Hasbara Derangement Syndr ...
  Hot on the heels of We Con the World, Caroline Glick’s US-funded operation has released another video, this time an anti-Tirkish screed. MJ Rosenberg points out that it has been endorsed by AIPAC and calls it “right out of 1930′s Central Europe.” Andrew Sullivan posts the full text of the AIPAC e- ...
• Maariv: Targeted boycott and divestment pushing co ...
  The cover story of this morning’s (June 21 2010) Maariv business section reports that targeted boycott and divestment actions — Israeli, Palestinian and international — are pushing an increasing number of Israeli companies out of the West Bank settlements and into Israeli proper: He [Yaakov Malach, ...
• NGO Monitor warns against wave of Ultra-Orthodox & ...
  The headline is, of course, sarcastic. Gerald Steinberg’s interest in “Lawfare” is instrumental and limited to his campaign to suppress the Israeli human rights community. Otherwise, why would reports on right-wing Israeli organizations whose activism is focused on legal activism be so conspicuousl ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Colorado town bans bicycles
  (GUARDIAN)   A town in the US has banned cyclists on most of its streets, punishing anyone who gets caught with a $68 (£46) fine. Black Hawk in Colorado, which has a population of just above 100, is thought to be the first town in the US to make cycling illegal after a change in civic law. [...]
• Napolitano: US must balance liberties, security
  WASHINGTON â Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday. As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to con ...
• Buddhist Leader Pushes for Nuclear Abolition Treat ...
  BERLIN/TOKYO (IDN) – An eminent Buddhist thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has called for an early start of negotiations for a global treaty to abolish nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction, to coincide — ideally — with the 70th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An ...
• Whaling Commission asked to probe bribery claims
  The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is being asked to investigate new allegations that Japan is picking up the hotel bill for one of the commission’s top officials. Representatives from more than 80 nations are gathering in Morocco for the annual IWC meeting, which is set to be the most contr ...
• This Day In History – June 21
  1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city. 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. 1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and parliament in a speech to the [...]

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

• Photos: Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2010
  CONEY ISLAND, BROOKLYN. See more photos from the 2010 Coney Island Mermaid Parade . The Mermaid Parade marks the beginning of summer in Brooklyn. The most popular theme for costumes and floats this year was rage at British Petroleum over the oil spill . Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson presided as K ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, June 14th, 2010 Cities and Soccer Add the Most New MAUs on our Weekly List of Facebook Gainers Austin-Based Social Developer S ...
• Facebook Engineer: Key Issue Slowing Down Graph AP ...
  Last week, we posted some data from developers who have been seeing very slow performance with basic parts of Facebook’s new Graph API with the latest version of Facebook’s PHP SDK. Since then, Facebook has let us know that they are working on resolving the problems, and yesterday Facebook Platform ...
• Facebook for iPhone 3.1.3 Brings Video Watching, E ...
  With nearly 55 million monthly active users, Facebook for iPhone has continued to grow as an increasingly primary way that people access Facebook. Now, Facebook has just released version 3.1.3, which adds a few new features that people have been asking for and that should further increase engagement ...
• 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 ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: We Won, Dad, But I’m Lost: Lessons ...
  truthout: We Won, Dad, But I’m Lost: Lessons From Tiger, Lance, and Andre: Here’s a story that gets me thinking... http://bit.ly/cRlhc0 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: The Intellectual Situation - Internet as ...
  truthout: The Intellectual Situation - Internet as a Social Movement: We love a parade. Up and down Fifth Avenu... http://bit.ly/9hVKbH #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Turkey Bombs Kurds in Northern Iraq Afte ...
  truthout: Turkey Bombs Kurds in Northern Iraq After PKK Attack: After the PKK attacks killed 12 Turkish soldier... http://bit.ly/93emcD #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Arab-Israeli Parliamentarian Fights Deat ...
  truthout: Arab-Israeli Parliamentarian Fights Death Threats: Ramallah, West Bank - "I stopped counting after I ... http://bit.ly/9f1AbI #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Life Aboard the Drilling Rig That's the ...
  truthout: Life Aboard the Drilling Rig That's the Gulf's Last Hope: Aboard the Development Driller II — The men... http://bit.ly/9hGntu #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Cutting through the confusion about Israel/Palesti ...
  Richard Forer, a former member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), exposes the deceitful and dishonest foundations on which support for Israel is built. In a detailed letter, he outlines a path which those interested in justice and genuine peace in the Middle East can take to re ...
• 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 ...

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

• Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of lithium?
  Transforming Afghanistan into a Central Asian Saudi Arabia   It seems that Afghanistan is a never ending font of surprises. For decades U.S. officials took the position that Afghanistan held nothing of value for the United States, especially in the form of vital strategic resources. That assumption ...
• 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 ...

Afro Spear

• Father’s Day Jazzuloo: Rebirth of a Cool Dad
  On this Father’s Day weekend, I’ve been thinking about what it takes to be a good father. This has caused me to once again reflect on my relationship with my deceased father and to question whether he a good father when he was alive? We weren’t close at all. In fact we never had much to say to ...
• “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 ...

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

• Your Life has begun to change
  did explosion rupture the entire casing?
• Republican Big Oil Love Affair
  You ain’t gonna believe this one. This week, Sarah Palin actually went on Fox News to defend Big Oil companies like British Petroleum against “demonizing” them! You can’t demonizing the devil, for your information, Sara, it’s their nature. They have been bilking us out of our monies and natural reso ...
• Plowshares not Warfare!
  “As Dennis explains below his reasons for finally supporting the healthcare legislation that was ultimately passed below, I find that they are almost identical to my own. As any intelligent individual can see this legislation is not perfect, is not socialism, is not complete and is was legally passe ...
• 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.

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 6: A Story of Connections
  Day 6, Josh, in Albuquerque, NM  New and Old Friends in New Mexico   The People’s Journey is a story of connections. A simple email from Hakim and the young people in Afghanistan (of www.ourjourneytosmile.com) came to me, as I was walking across the country, sparked people all over the world to le ...
• 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 ...

Yid With Lid

• Israel Revises Gaza Policy; World Gets What it Wan ...
  By Barry Rubin Israel has looked for a policy that preserves its security to the maximum extent, undermines Hamas as much as possible, and reduces international criticism, in that order of priority. Thus, the cabinet has approved an altered strategy on the Gaza Strip. The main princip ...
• Obama Told Senator Kyl He Refuses To Protect The B ...
  If Senator Kyl is telling the truth, this is a serious violation of his Presidential oath.� In an arizona town hall meeting this past Friday, Republican Senator Jon Kyl told his constituents that President Obama told him in a private meeting that he will not secure the border until amnesty for illeg ...
• The US DID Accept Foreign Help For the Oil Disaste ...
  Over the past few weeks the Administration has caught much grief for not accepting aid from all of the foreign nations that offered help. Maybe the grief given the White House is a bit rough, after all they did accept five offers of help, does it really matter that there are 23 offers still under co ...
• PLEASE, I NEED YOUR HELP to Continue !!!! The Lid ...
  While the tip Jar is always there, the last time we ran a drive for donations was September, nine months ago. The donations you send are used to help maintain the site, the equipment, and to send me to conferences (like CPAC) which enable me to bring you new and exclusive info. � The site badly ...
• US Terror Group CAIR Makes Excuses For Imam Who Mo ...
  There are few things more evil than a religious leader who molests children. Yasser Mohamed Shahade is that kind of evil. On Thursday, he was sentenced to ten years probation and designation as a sex offender after pleading guilty to molesting a boy in his mosque. US Terrorist group The Counci ...

The Real Agenda

• OPERATION GULF GREASE: Problem, Reaction, Solution ...
  newswithviews.com In the days prior to the Gulf drilling operation and ensuing environmental catastrophe, I remember thinking just how odd and out of character it was that Barack Obama had announced his approval for more offshore drilling. On April 1st, The Washington Post quoted Interior Secretary ...
• Alimentos y despoblación: La Familia Rockefeller ...
  Dado que la familia Rockefeller llegó al poder (sobre todo después de ganar un monopolio con la Standard Oil) y han manipulado gobiernos y arruinado nuestro sistema financiero a través de la Reserva Federal y los bancos centrales, dominan el sector energético a través de la dependencia del petróleo ...
• 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 ...

Wind Watch

• Noisy offshore wind park scares off porpoises
  They might produce renewable energy, but offshore wind farms are a scourge for porpoises. Researchers have found that construction noise at a turbine site off the German coast has scared away the marine mammals, who depend on their acute hearing. A “bubble curtain” could protect the sensitive cetace ...
• Wind Wars: Parts 1-3
  Part 1: Wind proposal dividing communities, May 4, 2010 MORRISON – Imagine dozens of wind turbines, standing 400 feet tall, stretching across the farm fields of southern Brown County. They’d be spinning, day and night, for at least the next 30 years. Some believe it’s a picture of progress. “Of cour ...
• Planners say wind farm is too noisy; Commission gi ...
  After hours of testimony and months of deliberation and delay, the Morrow County Planning Commission decided the Willow Creek wind farm is in violation of state noise standards at nearby homes. Like every development in the case so far, however, the commission’s vote was not simple. While first deli ...
• Wind turbines not silent
  Ka-thump. Ka-thump. Ka-thump. That’s how it sounds in Ed and Gail Kenney’s home when the wind is blowing on Wolfe Island where they have 86 turbines as neighbours. Completed last summer, the Wolfe Island EcoPower Centre can generate 198 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 75,000 homes pe ...
• As wind power booms, so do the challenges
  CENTERVILLE, Klickitat County â Along the ridge-top flanks of the Columbia River, hundreds upon hundreds of wind turbines rise from wheat fields and sagebrush. On a blustery spring day, these turbines can crank out more than twice the power of the Northwest’s sole nuclear power plant. Then, on hot ...

Not My Tribe

• Rehabilitating the Crusader Image, again.
  So there was this History Channel show about the Templars. (I try not to look at stupid stuff like this, really I do) and the Oak Island “treasure” pit, and this Viking Rune stone found in Illinois or somewhere nearby… All supposedly to hide the treasure of the Templars, all their stolen blood money ...
• Things to do on the last day of Spring.
  The sun rises in a few minutes, so I’ve got a short series of songs on my playlist, which I’ll accompany with my recorder (flute) Moonshadow and “Morning Has Broken” of course, Question and Wildest Dream by the Moody Blues, Elusive Butterfly by Bob Lind, Sunday Mornin’, Comin’ Down by Kris Kristoffe ...
• “Penny auctions” Quibids, Swipebids et ...
  Shell games tempt only the gullible, don’t they? So long as YOU don’t fall for them, what’s a little income redistribution among wretches? That’s an attitude shared only by the uninitiated. So-called internet “penny auctions” exploit human vulnerability like trust and avarice, leaving victims to bl ...
• Alyanna Jones still dead, cops who MURDERED her st ...
  Still armed, dangerous and with the full license to kill again without any fear of official reprisal. Then the Pig-loving “Back the Badge” pukes wonder why anybody would execute a cop in the streets, like local “heroes” Jensen and Jordan had their respective (but not respectful nor respectable) Fasc ...
• 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 ...

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

• Hey Dads – Are your kids eating healthy?
  Father’s day is usually associated with quirky he-gifts, a bar-b-cue, and the start of summer. It’s an overly commercialized holiday, on the heels of  mother’s day. (Ask any retailer about promotions for “moms and proms” / “dads and grads”). But at its core, the day signifies the importance of a f ...
• Adult Onset Food Allergies. Bummer Turned Opportun ...
  This is a guest blog post by Marisa McStravick. Up until the summer before my freshman year of college, I truly had what my dad calls, an “Irish stomach made of steel.” I always had a strong and healthy appetite. For example, after a hard swim practice, I’d have a grilled cheese sandwich, eat a ful ...
• 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 ...

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

• A koan
  A koan: “There is no time. What is memory?” If I knock the table with my hand twice, I have to accept that it’s time that separates the two knocks from each other. Therefore, time exists. But it only exists because I have memory of the first knock. Everything I build within me, I build using memor ...
• 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 ...

Survival International

• Leader returns from asylum to slam French oil comp ...
  AIDESEP's leader has condemned Perenco for denying the existence of uncontacted Indians. © AIDESEP Oil company Perenco has been slammed for denying the existence of uncontacted tribes by a Peruvian indigenous leader almost immediately after his return from 11 months in political exile. Alberto ...
• 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 ...

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

• Catching Up with the Obama Dilemma
  I haven’t had much to say the last bit, because the rest of the blogosphere and even mainstream pundits are catching up to where I was a while ago.  Let’s see where we are, and where we’re going. To recap: 1) the stimulus bill was neither big enough, nor well enough put together to do the job.  [. ...
• 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 ...

Age of Autism

• Murder Ballad: Autism, Infanticide and the Pharma ...
  By Adriana Gamondes If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst ~ In Tenebris II, Thomas Hardy On the night of May 31st, another parent killed another child (HERE), this time only on...
• Meet Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Author of Callous Disre ...
  (Managing Editor's Note: You can read Dr. Wakefield's complete analysis of the "Lancet 12" in his new book, Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing. Visit Dr. Wakefield's website HERE.) Exclusive from the Autism File Magazine An Audience with Dr Andrew Wakefield...
• Scherer of Nature Autism Gene Study Fails to Discl ...
  Senior author in Nature autism-gene study fails to disclose funding by MMR manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline as a competing interest. By John Stone Prof Stephen Scherer who is the senior author of the autism gene study launched in Nature last week holds...
• FREE Tickets to the 7th Annual Talk About Curing A ...
  Our friends at TACA are offering free tickets to their picnic this weekend to a limited number of Age of Autism families. No more than six tickets per family. Please RSVP today, June 10, 2010, by 5pm (PDT) or until...
• 18 Year Old With Autism Salutatorian in Smithfield ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Don't you love when the doctors, the "experts" who told a parent to get ready for an institution are proven DEAD WRONG? Eric Duquette's Mom used education, behavioral therapy and a Mother's determination to get him this...

Global BDS Movement

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

• 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 ...
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• Barry Soetoro, Imposter in Chief, Implements CODEX ...
  We knew that CODEX was right around the corner, and here it is, live and in color. Barry Soetoro, AKA Barack Hussein Obama, Imposter in Chief, on June 10, 2010, issued an Executive Order – Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. In short, the CODEX council. ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Push to put unmanned planes to work in U.S
  San Francisco Chronicle – Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotle ...
• Aid agencies launch Niger appeal
  BBC – Two major aid agencies have launched $10m (£6.7m) appeals for drought-stricken Niger in West Africa. About seven million people – half of the country’s population – face food shortages after crop failures last year. Aid organisations Oxfam and Save The Children say the situation is growing mo ...
• In Brazil, rainforest logging increases malaria ra ...
  Independent-Logging of tropical forests can boost the incidence of malaria in the surrounding area by nearly 50 percent, according to new research tracking deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon. The study examined 2006 data tracking malaria rates in 54 Brazilian health districts and high-definition satel ...
• Saudis hoard twice as much gold as thought
  Financial Times – Saudi Arabia, the worldâs fourth-largest holder of foreign exchange reserves, is sitting on more than twice as much gold as previously thought, according to new estimates that point to the revival of bullion as part of emerging economiesâ official reserves. The changes in Riyad ...
• Sunscreen scam? We spend millions on protection, s ...
  Daily Mail – Slathering on suncream at the first hint of sunshine has become commonplace – as a nation, we’re far more sun safety conscious than a decade ago and spend £259 million a year on products designed to ward off the sun’s rays. Despite this, cases of skin cancer are continuing to rise and ...

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: History and ...
  bpoilresponse: New information about: History and design of the Macondo well head and BOP - http://tinyurl.com/27ct9n2
• bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Shark ...
  bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Shark near BOP stack-up http://youtu.be/gVsZaTrE7Eo?a
• bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Tour ...
  bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Tour of Discovery Enterprise http://youtu.be/Nby_pzVvnAA?a
• bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Willi ...
  bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- William Allen explanation of a relief well http://youtu.be/tVIejCOpxVo?a
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well ...
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well status as of June 19, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/2cnd57m

spiked

• Smile, the EU is watching you
  EU officials are pushing through a directive that would give them unprecedented access to our online search histories.
• What we’ve learned from the World Cup phoney ...
  In the first of his World Cup columns, spiked’s editor-at-large tackles some truths behind the ceaseless chatter before the big kick-off.
• Holland versus the un-Enlightened hordes
  Guy Rundle reports from the Netherlands on how this small state has become bound up in a post-9/11 morality tale.
• Meet the green who doubts ‘The Science&#8217 ...
  The author of Chill explains why he’s sceptical about manmade global warming — and why greens are so intolerant.
• Learning the lessons of the Gulf oil-gusher
  Of course the BP oil spill is not merely metaphorical, but it does capture something about the un-governability of modern America.

Cryptogon

• Oil Spill: The Situation Off Bon Secour
  Via: Press Register:
• Pentagon “Revives” Rumsfeld-Era Domest ...
  The people at Raw Story should type MAIN CORE into a search engine and get back to us about how this is just now being revived. Via: Raw Story: The Pentagon’s spy unit has quietly begun to rebuild a database for tracking potential terrorist threats that was shut down after it emerged that it had [.. ...
• Jury Awards $2.4 Million in First Chinese Drywall ...
  Via: AP: A Florida couple who fled their dream home because of foul-smelling, ruinous Chinese drywall was awarded $2.4 million in damages Friday in the nation’s first jury trial over the defective wallboard that could have legal ramifications for thousands of similar cases. The six-person jury ruled ...
• Montana: Tornado Destroys Rimrock Auto Arena
  The only reason I’m posting this is because you have to see the video. Via: AP: A tornado that ripped the roof off a sports arena in Billings, Mont., Sunday evening also tore through businesses, damaging a bar and a casino and leaving just the walls of an auto glass shop standing. The tornado struck ...
• Los Angeles Lakers Post Game Riot and Vehicle Arso ...
  Ahhhh, Los Angeles. I can’t say I miss ye’. Maybe the tourism board should start up a new campaign: Headed Downtown? Don’t Forget Your Marshmallows!

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

• BP ‘burning sea turtles alive’
  A rare and endangered species of sea turtle is being burned alive in BP's controlled burns of the oil swirling around the Gulf of Mexico, and a boat captain tasked with saving them says the company has blocked rescue efforts.
• Corporate Entities as Modern-Day Street Gangs
  But what happens to a neighborhood where gangs dominate? Why, that’s quite simple
• VIDEO: The Bin Laden trades, Insider Trading of 91 ...
• The Fed's Purchase of US Sovereign Debt
  The US Treasury is under the Control of the Fed’s Owners".
• Gear up for another lost decade in real estate. Ho ...

The Intelligence Daily

• Iran hangs Sunni militant ‘spy’
  Iran hanged the Sunni militant leader Abdolmalek Rigi in Evin prison yesterday for “taking up arms...
• The police state goes viral as the economic/energy ...
  Dubai, where a top Hamas commander was killed in January in an assassination blamed on...
• 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...

My AntiWar

• Gates: Afghanistan a ‘Tough Pull,’ but ...
• Netanyahu: Security Blockade on Gaza Will Only Get ...
• US Officials Downplay July 2011 Withdrawal From Af ...
• Afghan Forces’ Apathy Starts to Wear on US P ...
• Japan Has ‘Priority’ on Rights to Mine ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran missiles for self-defense
  Summary: Vahidi Iran's defense minister says the country's missile capability is aimed at defending the nation against any military aggression, and poses no threat to any country. source: Press TV read more
• 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

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

• Consent form gobbledygook: Are medical research su ...
  (NaturalNews) When a person signs up to participate in medical research, he or she is given a form to sign that is supposed to state the goal of the study as well as all the known possible risks of the drug or procedure being tested. But a new report by researchers from the University of Pennsylvani ...
• Evidence mounts on links between cell phones and b ...
  (NaturalNews) A growing body of evidence, dating back to the 1960s, suggests that brain tumors may be only one of the many health problems produced by our new wireless society will produce. Cell-phone technology "could lead to a health crisis similar to those caused by asbestos, smoking, and lead in ...
• Australian courts rule that Vioxx should never hav ...
  (NaturalNews) Australian courts recently ruled that Vioxx, a popular prescription painkiller, should never have been approved and allowed on the market. The case represents the world's first successful class action lawsuit against a drug company for damage caused by its drugs. Merck, the drug giant ...
• 17 big questions about the handling of the Gulf of ...
  (NaturalNews) What's clear about the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is that the independent journalists are doing a better job of asking the really tough questions than the mainstream media. Sure, CNN, Fox and others are bringing some attention to the matter, and they've done some solid re ...
• U.S. govt. poisoned its own citizens during Prohib ...
  (NaturalNews) In a dark but little-known chapter of U.S. history, the federal government ordered the poisoning of alcohol supplies to deter and punish those who sought to flout Prohibition-era bans. Starting in 1906, the United States began requiring manufacturers of industrial ethanol to put the ch ...

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

• Bay Area picketers stop unloading of Israeli ship ...
  Somewhere between 700 and 1,000 demonstrators from all over the San Francisco Bay Area made their way at 5:30 on a Sunday morning deep into the Port of Oakland to stage a spirited communi ...
• Witness to State Terror: Aboard the Mavi Marmara ...
• Limited clarifications on new siege policy (Ma'an ...
  Israeli's cabinet confirmed a non-binding decision made earlier in the week by its security officials, to modify its terms of the siege on Gaza, with reports saying the new plan would all ...
• Hundreds in Oakland protest Gaza blockade (Victor ...
  Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at the Port of Oakland on Sunday and may have prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading for the da ...
• Daybreak outpouring of Bay Area picketers stops un ...
  Waving Palestinian and Turkish flags and chanting "Free, free Palestine - don't cross the picket line" and "An injury to one is an injury to all," the demonstrators blocked three gates to ...

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

• TransCanada to Build a Tar-Sand Pipeline in East T ...
  While the Department of Energy took a step towards cutting the emissions of the state by approving a Carbon Capture and Storage project for Texas which will start early next year, a nasty tar-sand Pipeline is set to penetrate through Texas land and be completed by late 2011. The first segment of the ...
• Things to know about the TCEQ air-permitting contr ...
  Background: What the controversy is all about On May 25, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) barred the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi. EPA said that the process used to justify that permit violated the Clean Air ...
• NRC ACCEPTS APPLICATION FOR EARLY SITE PERMIT AT V ...
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review the Exelon Nuclear Texas Holdings Early Site Permit (ESP) application for the Victoria County site near Victoria, Texas. The application and associated information were initially submitted on March 25 and is available, minus proprietary and s ...
• Texas: Natural Gas Blast in Johnson County, EPA Ap ...
  While the BP rig is still gushing oil out into the ocean, several events (positive and negative ones) have taken place in Texas without receiving the coverage they deserve. I wanted to shed some light on those events. One bright point to start your day is a Texas Tech researcher who has received EPA ...
• Week In Review
  It was a week of welcoming at 1303 San Antonio Street. Four summer interns were hired this week and everyone is excited to to have them on board, particularly me as it gets pretty quiet in this place when there aren’t interns running around and being told what to do, or is it just me [...]

Unexplained Mysteries

• Climate change affecting how oceans function
  Scientists have expressed concern over the way in which climate change is affecting how the world's oceans function. Warnings have been issued to emph...
• The children who really do see dead people
  Psychotherapist Caron Goode investigates whether some imaginary friends aren't quite so imaginary. Goode is convinced based on some of her own childho...
• Bigfoot prints found in Burke County
  Bigfoot researchers affiliated with Tom Biscardi have been investigating footprints found in Burke County. Researcher Robert Price has said that the f...
• 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 ...

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 21, 2010
  Lieberman Warns Against 'False' Energy Bill, Sees 20 Swing Votes on Carbon Caps (The Hill) Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Sunday that he sees 20 swing votes in play for including greenhouse gas limits in energy legislation that the White House and Senate Democratic leaders hope to advance ...
• June 19-20, 2010
  Court Freezes Bids to Return Greenhouse Gas 'Endangerment' Finding to EPA (Greenwire) A panel of federal judges in Washington, D.C., has set aside 17 challenges that seek to force U.S. EPA to review its scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. US Rig C ...
• 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 ...

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

• President Obama's Scandal That Wasn't, and Still I ...
  � from FindLaw Recently, White House Counsel Robert Bauer responded to Republican charges that Congressman Joe Sestak had been illegally promised a job in exchange for his promise not to run for the Senate against Democrat Arlen Specter -- the longtime Republican who had recently switched to the De ...
• We Need ACORN
  Much of this country believes that ACORN, the now defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, supported prostitution, engaged in voter fraud, and caused the subprime lending crisis. Some people are aware that these lies have been more solidly disproven than Saddam Hussein's friend ...
• Will It Go Round In Circles: Alan Simpson and the ...
  Social Security Works' Alex Lawson had a wonderful exchange with former Senator Alan Simpson, the co-chair of President Obama's deficit commission, about Social Security. Alex politely peppered the former senator with reasonable questions about his views on Social Security, which led Mr. Simpson to ...
• Drilling disaster is a corporate crime
  It's like watching "The Blob" in slow motion and without the Hollywood happy ending. The BP oil rig disaster that has been extending its tentacles into the fragile beaches and wetlands of the Gulf Coast for the past two months is already the worst environmental accident in this nation's history. On ...
• Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Fathers Playing Tough wit ...
  from TomDispatch Let me not be shy when it comes to sports. In my youth, I was a great shortstop with fantastic range. And if I do say so myself, I played a pretty spectacular outfield as well (when I wasn’t blasting homers out of the park). I’m talking, of course, about those night-time childhood ...

Paul Krugman

• Talking To A Dining Room Table
  I say whatever, you say fiscal discipline.
• 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.

No Quarter

• Edge of Rightness
  Wrong Direction. June 18, 2010 . Colleague John Fund, WSJ, speaks with Jason Riley, WSJ, re the strikingly positive prospects for the Republicans to win control. The polling by Stan Greenberg is overwhelmingly convincing: in the 70 battleground CDs, the dominant voters are enthusiastic conservati ...
• Economic Disconnect
  Do you remember Larry Doyle’s BlogTalk radio show guest from a couple of months past? Rick Davis, Consumer Metrics Institute, has developed a real time capability to track what is going on with consumer spending. Why is this important? Consumer spending accounts for 70% of our economy. If you ca ...
• Tonight on “Sins of Omission”
  IS FEMINISM DEAD? Please tune in TONIGHT, June 21, 2010 at 9pm (ET) to No Quarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie Abeles for an interview with author and University of Michigan professor Susan J. Douglas about her new book: Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminismâs Work Is D ...
• POTUS Gravity
  Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   Lower Point. The warning for the Obama administration was to move effectively so that publi ...
• Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with ...
  Join me tonight as I welcome back to the show noted author Phil Trupp. From Wall Street to the Gulf of Mexico, from Washington to points around the world, Phil and I will have a no holds barred conversation covering a wide range of issues of national and global interest. Listen to the show LIVE at t ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 5 Simple Ways to Go Green and Save the Planet
  Learn how you can help the environment following these five easy steps. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Mindblowing Dice Mosaics by Ari Krupnik
  Ari Krupnik's fantastic pixelated mosaics are a multi-layered feast for the eyes. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Environmental Impact of the e-Reader
  The mainstream is catching on to the technology trend of e-readers. Here are some of the environmental pros and cons of purchasing an e-reader! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Why We're All Responsible for the Gulf Oil Spill
  The oil spill in the gulf isn't just the fault of BP, I personally had a hand in it. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Bumpiest Roads on Earth
  Take advantage of the pleasures of riding on roller coaster roads before they're taken away for good! 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

• Russia to 'cut Belarus gas supply'
  Supply may be cut by 85 per cent in row over $192m unpaid debt.
• Whaling deal seeks to end hunt ban
  International body hopes legitimising hunting will lead to drop in number killed.
• Wen urges China reconstruction
  Prime minister visits flood-ravaged south as heavy rains and landslides leave 175 dead.
• Dozens trapped in China mine
  Twenty-six rescued after explosion rips through coal mine in Henan province.
• Old rate for new 'flexible' yuan
  China keeps official exchange rate unchanged after announcing "exchange rate flexibility".

Green Inc. - NYT

• A $100 Million Pool for Solar Financing
  PG&E Corporation, the California utility holding company, has created a $100 million tax equity fund to finance residential solar installations by SunRun, a San Francisco startup that leases photovoltaic arrays to homeowners.
• Climate Scientist Gets a Media Apology
  A scientist who says he was criticizing the United Nations climate panel for failing to cite proper sources -- not questioning the validity of its conclusions -- gets an apology from a British newspaper.
• 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.

Dot Earth News

• Early BP Worst Case on Flow: '100,000 Barrels per ...
  An early BP estimate of the worst-case flow of oil in the gulf is far higher than the company's public statements implied.
• Smoke on the Water
  The expanse of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico is best perceived from above.
• 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.

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 ...
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Daily Censored

• Cuckholded: public pension funds part two
  Cuckolded part two: Public pension plans to be decimated Unless working people follow the example of those hit in Greece with IMF austerity measures, current and coming generations of people in the United States will work longer for less.  Those who work for the public sector are seeing an all out r ...
• PG&E Disregards Precautionary Principle on Smart ...
  Two weeks ago we got our notice that Smart meters would be installed at our home in Occidential California. We immediately contacted PG&E saying we were opting out because of health concerns. We were told that that was not an option and that someone would get back to us. The following article [.. ...
• Moving like a cancer — ‘free schools’ and ‘free ma ...
  England ponders ‘free schools’  The mad dash to reform education is not limited to that which parades here in America as educational reform.  In England, plans are being made to allow schools to open in office buildings, or hospitals to be converted into schools.  In Sweden this is already the case ...
• The Facebook Danger Nobody Talks About
  There are things about your friends you don’t really want to know. If you’ve been thinking about signing up for Facebook, you have probably hesitated for one or more of several reasons. These might include: You’re concerned about Facebook privacy issues you’ve heard about; Social sites have the po ...
• US Marine Austin Moody: US military never learns U ...
  source. Austin Moody served four years as infantry in the US Marines. He gave me permission to reprint his e-mail and letter below describing the Orwellian condition of active-duty military men and women conditioned to follow orders without ever being educated about the US Constitution. All orders m ...

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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

• News you may have missed #376
  Dubai plans more cameras after Mossad operation. Iran hangs 'spy' with alleged US connections. Analysis: FBI use of Muslim informers now part of daily life.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• US Strike Kills Civilians in Khost, Bombings Rock ...
  US Strike Kills Civilians in Khost, Bombings Rock Helmand Capital, UN: Roadside Bombings Double By Juan Cole | Informed Comment Things are not going well for the Obama administration in Afghanistan, and the only good news for the White House is that almost no one in the United States seems to be pa ...
• Failure of Rig’s Last Line of Defense Tied to Myri ...
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• Remembering Fathers
  Sons and Daughters In Touch, a group of grown children who had a parent killed in the Vietnam War, gather at the Vietnam Wall to clean it before it opens for the day.
• Deep Horizon
  A poem by Gary Lindorff (This poem appeared first in ThisCantBeHappening ) Looking out across the gulf Of our mistakes, accidents and crimes I see a murky horizon Blurred by the brine of a tear That is taking its time Gaining enough weight To trail down my cheek. The deep horizon of this grie ...
• Double Suicide Car Bombing In Central Baghdad Kill ...
  Double suicide car bombing in central Baghdad kill 26 By Jim Muir | BBC At least 26 people have been killed in a twin suicide car bombing close to a state-owned bank in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials have said. More than 50 others were also hurt when the vehicles exploded simultaneously outs ...

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

• China's Yuan Reform: Back to the Future
  After months of debate, denial and conflict, China finally announced a new policy on its controversial currency, the yuan
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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 ...
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  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

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  Despite a lagging economy, global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textiles reached an estimated $4.3 billion—a 35 percent increase from 2008's $3.2 billion market. Correspondingly, ranks rose and fell. One big-box retailer can no longer claim top-dog status, for one, and a seasoned s ...
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• Potatoes May Power Battery Of The Future: Engergiz ...
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• 17 Ways To Clean Up The Gulf Oil Spill - Manually ...
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• 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.

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

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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 ...
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• 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

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Pogue's Posts

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• IPhone 4 Ordering: What a Mess
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• New iPhone Creates Familiar Dilemma for Existing C ...
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• User Accounts on Apple Devices
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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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• Swine Flu Jumps Back to Pigs and Keeps Evolving
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• Oil Spill on Track to Reach Atlantic No Later Than ...
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The Progressive Realist

• China’s Service Sector Challenge
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• Al Qaeda In Iraq Takes Responsibility for Central ...
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• What Afghanistan's Mineral Wealth Might Mean
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• China Giving Ground on Currency
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The TAP Five.
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• The Little Picture: José Saramago.
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• Is McCarthy Secretly A Genius?
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Andy Worthington

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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 ...
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• BBC Broadcasts Bleak Insight into Life of Terror S ...
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• 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
  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 ...
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• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
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• What subversive literature is that?
  My daughter is up to something today.... First step to conquering the world?
• 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 ...

SPL Center

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

change: org.

• Working for Peace and Reconciliation, One Frisbee ...
  The world's eyes are obviously on a certain sporting event going on in South Africa, where 32 of the globe's most elite soccer teams are duking it out for the chance to be number one. But while the World Cup and its accompanying vuvuzelas has everyone's attention, there's another sport thousands of ...
• Weekend Entrepreneur Links: Angel Investing, SEC, ...
  As much as it pains me to do this, I'm going to avoid posting about the World Cup this week. Instead, find below some of the best links for entrepreneurs from the last few weeks, including commencement speeches, super smart tips about what's happening with angel investment in the web world, and more ...
• It's Time to Save America's Farms and Ranches
  Every second of every day,  two acres of farmland in the United States are lost to development. This means that each year there are millions of acres of arable land that are no longer producing food, fiber, or energy, essential products that the nation's farmers provide to Americans. While the susta ...
• What Can We Do About Prescription Painkiller Abuse ...
  I’ll admit it: I don’t like prescribing narcotics. Don’t get me wrong, there are times when it’s clearly indicated. If you’ve got metastatic cancer or a fragment of femur poking out of your thigh, narcotics are probably right for you. It’s the less-obvious causes of pain for which patients request n ...
• The Good Ole Boys Club That Is Political Punditry
  With newspaper readership down and the attention span of the voting public decreasing, I think it's fair to say that the guys who host the cable news and political broadcasts are pretty powerful opinion-shapers. But the club of pundits, from Chris Matthews to Glen Beck, typically tend to all be much ...

Common Dreams -News

• Rahm Emanuel Expected to Quit White House
  by Alex Spillius in Washington Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration at their unwillingness to "bang heads together" to get policy pushed through. Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an unde ...
• New Jersey Battles Over Tax on Millionaires
  by Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA - New Jersey politicians are due to battle on Monday over whether to slap a tax on millionaires or cut services for low-income senior citizens and the disabled. The clash in the state legislature is part of a wider battle over how to erase a $10.7 billion budget deficit an ...
• Colombia Votes: The FARC Side of the Story
  by Teresa Bo In Cauca, Colombia is still at war. You find trenches in every corner, tanks, Blackhawk helicopters and lots of soldiers. Fighting takes place here almost every day and people have gotten used to it. More than that, they are certain that on election day there will be attacks. read more
• US, Israel Warships in Suez May Be Prelude to Face ...
  by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Egypt allowed at least one Israeli and 11 American warships to pass through the Suez Canal as an Iranian flotilla  approaches Gaza. Egypt closed the canal to protect the ships with thousands of soldiers, according to the British-based Arabic language newspaper Al Quds al-Ar ...
• That's All, Spokes: Colorado Town Bans Cyclists
  by Helen Pidd and Agencies A town in the US has banned cyclists on most of its streets, punishing anyone who gets caught with a $68 (£46) fine. Black Hawk in Colorado, which has a population of just above 100, is thought to be the first town in the US to make cycling illegal after a change in civic ...

Lifehacker

• Use Local Foliage to Dress Up Cheap Bouquets [Deco ...
  You get home from the store and put your inexpensive bouquet in your vase but it just doesn't look right. Somehow it seemed fuller and prettier in the store. Dress it up with local foliage. More�� Flower - Shopping - Ho ...
• Top 10 Mac Applications that Should Be on Windows ...
  We love what Microsoft's done with Windows 7, but when we boot into Windows after spending a good amount of time on a Mac, here are 10 applications we sorely miss. More�� Microsoft Windows - Operating system - Microsoft ...
• Top 10 Windows Applications that Should Be on Macs ...
  Macs are their own little universe of hardware, design, and software. It's an incomplete universe, like any other, but a nerd can dream. These are 10 applications we wish made the jump from Windows to Mac to make it a better place. More�� ...
• 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

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Before the COINdinistas Start Spinning the UN Repo ...
  By Derrick Crowe You're going to hear a lot of crowing about the reduction in NATO-caused civilian casualties in Afghanistan during the last few months compared to the same time last year. (Read the full report here in PDF format.) This reduction took place in the context of a massive spike in overa ...
• A Failure To Protect
  By Steve Hynd Today, the UN issued a report saying that violence in Afghanistan is sharply up: With an average of an assassination a day and a suicide bombing every second or third day, insurgents have greatly increased the level of violence in Afghanistan, and have become by far the biggest killers ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Chattahoochee brings life, conflict to 3 states
  GAINESVILLE Bending over the backs of the North Georgia mountains, before sinking down the eastern edge of Alabama through Florida's spring-fed swamps, the Chattahoochee River forms the spine of three Southern states.
• Chattahoochee River brings life, conflict to Alaba ...
  River buffeted by growing demands and only so much water
• Chattahoochee brings life, conflict to 3 states
  Bending over the backs of the North Georgia mountains, before sinking down the eastern edge of Alabama through Florida's spring-fed swamps, the Chattahoochee River forms the spine of three Southern states.Along its 550-mile path, the river's waters bind and bitterly divide the people who built their ...
• Summer abounds with celebrations
  The solstice makes it official Monday the day is the first of summer 2010. As always, summers entrance is followed in Mower County by a host of annual festivals. This listing of area summer celebrations details what happens when, what it's all about and where to find it.
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• "The rest of the world is making us look good"
  …Jack Welsh on the economic situation in the world today on Morning Joe. Erin Burnett is remin
• Golf lesson
  Yesterday Graeme McDowell from Portrush, Northern Ireland won the Unites States Open Golf Championsh
• China unleashes global rally with flexible yuan
  Global markets celebrated on Monday at the merest hint that China would let its currency appreciate,
• John Cochrane: How we get from here to inflation
  University of Chicago’s John Cochrane has a new NBER paper out that is sure to generate some d
• Engineers Without Borders Orange County receives $ ...
  The South Orange County Women's Networking Group assigned EWB-OC as one of three charities to b

Electronic Intifada

• Book review: Victor Kattan's legal history of the ...
  In order to understand how the law works, one needs to situate it in its political and historical context, otherwise it loses its relevance. That's what Victor Kattan's new ...
• 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

• UK confirms death of 300th soldier in Afghanistan
  The British Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of its 300th soldier in Afghanistan.
• Australians among six NATO soldiers killed in Afgh ...
  Six soldiers including three Australians were killed Monday in a helicopter crash and two roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
• British toll in Afghanistan reaches 300
  The British death toll in Afghanistan reached 300 Monday, a milestone that prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to repeat his pledge that British forces would leave the country as soon as Afghans were able to guarantee its security.
• NATO commanders, officers in Afghanistan battle we ...
  A senior military intelligence official who has served in Afghanistan and participates in daily briefings on the war has told The Washington Times that there is a "weariness" among officers as the war nears its ninth year in October.
• Afghan chopper crash kills four NATO soldiers
  Four NATO soldiers were killed Monday when their chopper crashed in southern Afghanistan, Xinhua reported.

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 17
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 17 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• 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 ...

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

• UK Libel Suit Tossed Because Any Actual Harm Would ...
  While there still are all sorts of problems with UK libel law, a recent ruling in the UK's High Court tossed out a lawsuit because the potential damages were way too small to merit a trial . Specifically, someone charged a blogger with defamation for a blog post, but most of the content in that blo ...
• 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 ...

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

• `The Awakening of a Great People'
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• There Is a Limit to a Tyrant's Power! The Global M ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• Get the Brits Out of Our Gulf: Send Obama to the Q ...
  By Laurence Hecht Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• On the Urgent Ouster of President Barack Obama: Ou ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• Israel Can't Get Away with the `Holocaust Victim' ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• "The Vertical Farm," the Movie by Sting
  Dr. Despommier on vertical farming. Photo by Kris Krug courtesy of Pop!Tech 2008 Since 1989, Sting has been involved in protecting the Amazon through the Rainforest Foundation which he co-founded with his wife Trudie Styler and last month played a
• Ask Pablo: Which Uses Less Energy - Using The Drye ...
  Image Source: Dave77459 Dear Pablo: I have been hanging my clothes on a clothesline, but this means some things need ironing. Which uses less energy - using the dryer to get out wrinkles or the iron? While washers have gotten drastically more efficient over the past several years, little has ...
• Sexy String Bikinis Made with Old Eighties T-Shirt ...
  Vin-T Bikini made with vintage t-shirts. Credit: Vin-T Bikini Suit up and hit the beach eco-style this summer in a rockin' sustainable bikini (don't worry guys there's one for you , too). New-York based Vin-T Bikini creates custom, one-of-a-kind swimwear made with salvaged vintage t-shirts from ...
• London Festival of Architecture Covers the City an ...
  Image by B. Alter The London Festival of Architecture 2010 is a huge two week extravaganza that spans the city. There is a big international element this year, with more than 30 embassies opening their doors to present new work by their country's architects. Private architects' studios will ...
• Block Party Bodes Well For Community Market on Bar ...
  Bartlett Street photo by Jeremy Shaw Bartlett Street in San Francisco's Mission district can feel underutilized and desolate, especially the block between 21st and 22nd streets where the west side holds a parking garage and the east side has only a few apartment buildings and a graffiti filled ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Sinking climate change: Cal Thomas points to Clim ...
  Watch for the hard-core "global warming" cultists to continue clinging to their beliefs; but also watch increasing numbers of scientists and eventually politicians to abandon this once "certain" faith.
• Fortune, glory drive global warming bandwagon
  Clearly, too much money is being spent on one-sided global warming advocacy cloaked as “research,â€Â not enough on natural causes and adaptation. Despite the best of intentions, too much money can corrupt, or at least skew the science.
• CFACT's Morano responds on ABC News hit story
  On ABC's May 23 "World News Sunday," a segment from anchor Dan Harris alleged that threatening e-mails Mann received were part of a "spike" in violence aimed at the global warming alarmist community.
• CFACT, Freedom Works protest GE Chair at Boston Co ...
  Groups contend GE's Immelt favors global warming policies which destroy jobs, increase subsidies for ideas that fail in the marketplace, and support politicians who try and expand government control over our lives.
• Collegians protest Gore honorary degree in Knoxvil ...
  CFACT students unite with local tea party organizers to stage a protest against the University of Tennessee's awarding of an honorary degree to Al Gore.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Conductor Gustavo Dudamel makes his dreams come tr ...
  Globally-renowned 29-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel gave a performance at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on June 17. Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra performed in Russia for the first time in its history.
• Gazprom starts cutting gas supplies to Belarus ove ...
  Belarus says it is still receiving full gas volumes from Russia, despite orders from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev earlier on Monday for state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom to begin cutting supplies.
• Iran bans entry for 2 IAEA experts
  Iran has prohibited two International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts from entering its territory, ISNA news agency quoted on Monday head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi as saying.
• Moscow dolphinarium fights back against corporate ...
  The animals in the Moscow dolphinarium have been returned to their rightful owners. The dolphinarium came under control of corporate raiders a year ago.
• Kazakhstan may re-impose export duties on raw mate ...
  Kazakhstan plans to re-impose export duties on a range of raw materials, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov said on Monday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Converted Russian ICBM takes German satellite into ...
• 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).

Pruning Shears

• For Father's Day
  I crossed “surfing in the Pacific” off my dad’s bucket list. We’re having a lovely time; wish you were here!
• 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 ...

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

• Donoghue Confirmed as Choice for ICJ Vacancy
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confirmed Joan Donoghue as the choice to fill the vacancy on the ICJ left by Judge Thomas Buergenthal. She describes Donoghue as “judicious, fair, an extraordinary international legal counsel, and an excellent choice for the C ...
• Is the “Mosquito” Teenager-Repellent Device “Degra ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I don’t know what to make of this report about a controversial device used to repel teenagers and children by using a high-pitched frequency only young people can hear. The mosquito works by emitting a pulse at 16-18.5 kilohertz that switches on and off four times a seco ...
• Joan Donoghue to Fill Vacancy at the ICJ
  by Roger Alford Joan Donoghue, the Principal Deputy Legal Adviser in the Department of State, has been selected to be the next United States Judge for the International Court of Justice, according to reliable sources. Donoghue will replace Thomas Buergenthal, who has ably served as a judge on the ...
• Padania Beats Kurdistan in World Cup Final!
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Padania’s victory was not in the football (American translation: “soccer”) World Cup being played in South Africa but in the one that was just played in Gozo. You know, the Viva World Cup, the tournament among the unrecognized states of the world. The World Cup ...
• Intelligence Activities and International Law
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Peyton Cooke has an interesting paper on the status of “intelligence” activities in international and domestic law.  It doesn’t seem to be on SSRN, but it is “Bringing the Spies in from the Cold: Legal Cosmopolitanism and Intelligence under the Laws of Wa ...

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

• America's Future: Energy & Climate Play Biggest Ro ...
  America's Future: Energy & Climate Play Biggest Role The president of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s largest organic yogurt producer, says America's future hangs in the balance and the U-S Senate must pass a comprehensive energy and climate policy bill to ensure that we create clean energy here - not ...
• 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

• Not All Environmentalists Pleased with Climate Leg ...
  "This is nuclear energy- promoting, oil drilling-championing, coal mining-boosting legislation with a weak carbon pricing mechanism thrown in." Submitted by Ellyn S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to t ...
  It's estimated that as many as a million people were exposed to the water from the 1950s to the 1980s. The water was laced with trichloroethylene, known as TCE; tetrachloroethylene, known as PCE; benzene and other volatile organic chemicals. Submitted by Judy C. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! ...
• U.S. carrier group intercepts Iranian aid for Gaza
  USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and one Israeli warship, crossed Suez Canal into Red Sea to seize humanitarian aid ships by force and commit acts of violence against civilians Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• nbGazette - Facts not Fiction » Why the US is usi ...
  Why has Saudi Arabia allowed Israel to use Saudi airspace to launch a US proxy attack against Iran? Why has the US been pushing so hard the last few weeks for more UN sanctions against Iran? The reason is the same reason why the US attacked Afghanistan an Submitted by Nadia S. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• Nuclear powers set for Pakistan showdown
  A row is looming between Beijing and Washington over China's proposed sale of two nuclear power-generating reactors to Pakistan. Submitted by Judy C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• First issue of “Mobareze Tabaqati” Published by Ir ...
  First issue of “Mobareze Tabaqati” Published by Iranian Marxists-marxist.comWe, a group of supporters of the International Marxist Tendency, are happy to declare that the first issue of our 16-page... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• CANADIAN GOLD COMPANY SUES EL SALVADOR FOR 100 MIL ...
  CANADIAN GOLD COMPANY SUES EL SALVADOR FOR 100 MILLION DOLLARS – after a people’s movement opposes mining operation - Reality Asserts ItselfSubmitted by IIN BC Bureau Chief correspondent John... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• US opposes ICC bid to make 'aggression' a crime un ...
  Special Report by IIN Investigative Blog-correspondent John John:--US opposes ICC bid to make 'aggression' a crime under international law - CSMonitor.com: The United States under the Obama... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• IRAQ: Forced repatriation puts minorities at risk
  IRAQ: Forced repatriation puts minorities at risk :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de]:MADRID, 20 June 2010 (IRIN) - Refugee officials... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Daily Kos: Three Gates Blocked to Israeli Ship NOW ...
  Daily Kos: Three Gates Blocked to Israeli Ship NOW @ Oakland Docks; Live Webcam Updates:This could be history; a first in the United States; joining actions in many countries. Just left the Oakland... [[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

• BP Makes Friends Near Gulf Oil Spill (The Daily Be ...
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on June 21, 2010 3:06 AM
• Original Trilogy concept art (io9.com)
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on June 21, 2010 3:06 AM
• The President May Get The Authority To Kick Us All ...
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on June 21, 2010 3:06 AM
• 10 of the best free games you should play today (t ...
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on June 21, 2010 2:06 AM
• New Radiohead Album Finished In A Matter Of Weeks, ...
  Noted by Kevin Mack on June 20, 2010 11:06 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• BP Succeeds at Pushing Back Against U.S. Demands
  ShareThis 'After the high-profile meeting of administration and BP officials on Wednesday, it was in the interest of neither to discuss such details.' BP Succeeds at Pushing Back Against U.S. Demands 21 Jun 2010 BP PLC, despite being put under pressure by the U.S. government to pay for the oil-spill ...
• Bank failure is 83rd in '10; pace more than double ...
  ShareThis Bank failure is 83rd in '10; pace more than double last year's �19 Jun 2010 Regulators on Friday shut down a Nevada bank, raising to 83 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. The 83 closures so far this year is more than double the pace set in all of 2009, which was itself a brisk yea ...
• No major US drawdown in Afghanistan
  ShareThis No major US drawdown in Afghanistan 21 Jun 2010 The US says it will not pull out large numbers of its troops from Afghanistan in July 2011, contradicting a promise made earlier by President Barack Obama. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates brushed asi ...
• A Texas transfer for oiled pelicans
  ShareThis A Texas transfer for oiled pelicans --38 brown pelicans - rescued from the oil spill - gladdened their rescuers as they quickly took to their new home 20 Jun 2010 Tentative wing-flapping led to graceful soaring and convivial preening Sunday as 38 brown pelicans rescued from the worst oil m ...
• Bomb blast kills 8 in north Iraq
  ShareThis Bomb blast kills 8 in north Iraq 21 Jun 2010�A bomb explosion has targeted a market in a town in northern Iraq, claiming the lives of eight people and leaving at least 10 others wounded. The incident came late on Sunday when a bomber blew up his explosives belt in the town of Shirqat, some ...

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

• Update from Oakland: Victory!
  Quick follow-up on today's action at the Oakland docks: we won!�Something like 400 or 500 people - many who had also been there at 5:30 in the morning, plus others who hadn't made the first shift - turned up to resume the picket line at 4 p.m. I was surprised there weren't more: I had [...]
• A year after Cairo, global poll on Obama’s I ...
  At a time when Obama gets pretty good grades from people around the world for his statesmanship (64 percent approval overall), Jim Lobe reports that the same Pew poll shows that people in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon disapprove of Obama's handling of the Israel/Palestine conflict by figures of 84 perc ...
• a tale of 3 headlines
  let some ketchup into Gaza...No Gaza optimism over easing blockade BBC: "I don't need ketchup or mayonnaise from Israel. I need my business back," says Nasser al-Helo standing on a busy street in Gaza City.�steal some more Palestinian land...Netanyahu drops opposition to Likud plan for renewed settl ...
• Turkish officials blow AIPAC claims out of the, uh ...
  This is a crosspost from Cobban's site, Just World News Several strongly pro-Israeli members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have stepped up their campaigns against NATO ally Turkey over the past week, in a campaign that has been quietly orchestrated by the big pro-Israel organizatio ...
• Huge outpouring of Oakland picketers stop unloadin ...
  If anyone had any doubts that the movement for justice in Palestine is growing by leaps and bounds, in numbers, breadth, and determination, check out what happened this morning in Oakland, CA: • somewhere between 700 and 1,000 demonstrators from all over the San Francisco Bay Area made their way at ...

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

• Even While the World Watched
  Part I Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to f ...
• 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 ...

The Killing Train

• Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People"
  I just read Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People". It could easily be in my top 20 books. It is really awesome - historically rich, beautifully written, clearly looks at the past, and has a beautiful vision for the future, even though the author is pessimistic (realistic) about the pros ...
• Dan Freeman-Maloy on Israel's Flotilla Raid
  Dan discusses the international aspects of the raid. His website is notesonhypocrisy.com
• Israel's Flotilla Massacre
  Overnight, Israeli commandos attacked an aid flotilla in the high seas, some 65km from Israel. The commandos killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, mostly Turkish nonviolent activists bound for Gaza who were aiming to break Israel's siege with humanitarian supplies. Israel attacked ...
• Contested spaces worth defending
  Introductory Note: The Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Graduate Student Conference this year took place on April 3, 2010. It had the theme “Contested Spaces: The (Re)Organization of Schooling Under Neoliberalism”. From the con ...
• Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto
  The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...

treehugger

• "The Vertical Farm," the Movie by Sting
  Dr. Despommier on vertical farming. Photo by Kris Krug courtesy of Pop!Tech 2008 Since 1989, Sting has been involved in protecting the Amazon through the Rainforest Foundation which he co-founded with his wife Trudie Styler and last month played a
• Ask Pablo: Which Uses Less Energy - Using The Drye ...
  Image Source: Dave77459 Dear Pablo: I have been hanging my clothes on a clothesline, but this means some things need ironing. Which uses less energy - using the dryer to get out wrinkles or the iron? While washers have gotten drastically more efficient over the past several years, little has ...
• Sexy String Bikinis Made with Old Eighties T-Shirt ...
  Vin-T Bikini made with vintage t-shirts. Credit: Vin-T Bikini Suit up and hit the beach eco-style this summer in a rockin' sustainable bikini (don't worry guys there's one for you , too). New-York based Vin-T Bikini creates custom, one-of-a-kind swimwear made with salvaged vintage t-shirts from ...
• London Festival of Architecture Covers the City an ...
  Image by B. Alter The London Festival of Architecture 2010 is a huge two week extravaganza that spans the city. There is a big international element this year, with more than 30 embassies opening their doors to present new work by their country's architects. Private architects' studios will ...
• Block Party Bodes Well For Community Market on Bar ...
  Bartlett Street photo by Jeremy Shaw Bartlett Street in San Francisco's Mission district can feel underutilized and desolate, especially the block between 21st and 22nd streets where the west side holds a parking garage and the east side has only a few apartment buildings and a graffiti filled ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• PM asked to sever junta ties
  Burmese PM Thein Sein told to ensure that his party holds no ties to Burma's military government as campaigning for elections continues
• 65
  View Photo Album Inside the dilapidated lakeside mansion where Aung San Suu Kyi has been held a prisoner of the Burmese regime for nearly 15 years, the Burmese opposition icon on Saturday celebrated her 65th birthday. World leaders including Barack Obama and Desmond Tutu marked the day with state ...
• Burmese ‘second highest’ asylum seekers
  Malaysia takes three-quarters of Burma's asylum claims but analysts warn that UN figures for Burmese refugees are conservative
• 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

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

• Saudi Arabia official reports 25 recidivism cases ...
  [JURIST] A senior Saudi official said Saturday that 25 former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees have rejoined Islamic extremist groups after going through a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia aimed at decreasing religious radicalism within the country. Abdulrahman al-Hadlaq, a top S ...
• Japan envoy backs UN war crimes probe into Sri Lan ...
  [JURIST] A diplomat with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs [official website] said Sunday that Japan supports UN efforts to address alleged war crimes committed during the final phase of Sri Lanka's 30-year ethnic civil war [JURIST news archive] that ended last year. Yasushi Akashi, the gove ...
• Kyrgyzstan interim government extends state of eme ...
  [JURIST] The Kyrgyzstan interim government Sunday extended a state of emergency in the southern city of Osh, as government forces began to pull down barricades erected during riots last week between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. The state of emergency, declared by interim President Roza Otunbayeva [Tel ...
• UN rights group urges Malaysia to amend security l ...
  [JURIST] The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [official website] recommended Friday that Malaysia repeal or amend its internal security laws, which allow indefinite detainment without trial. At the end of an official visit [press release], the group said amending the laws would allow Malaysi ...
• Federal judge dismisses lawsuits against bin Laden ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) [official website] Friday dismissed 49 terrorism lawsuits, including five cases against relatives of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden [JURIST news archives], citing lack of evidence. Judge George Daniels dismissed ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Night Beat: Moving On From Oil?
  Good evening. YUAN FLOAT : China's decision to allow its currency to rise against the United States will be scrutinized very closely by Obama Administration officials. If it turns out to be meaningful, it will be seen as an important validation of the administration's foreign policy (even though i ...
• 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 ...

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

• Im Tirtzu Widens Assault to Israeli Universities
  Im Tirtzu, the Israeli brass knuckles hasbara outfit, has expanded its campaign for mind control over the Israeli political debate by assaulting Israeli universities.  Until now, it had focussed much of its energy on attacking the New Israel Fund and other Israeli human rights NGOs for their allege ...
• 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 ...

Ode Magazine

• Capitalism to the rescue!
  Whatâs the best way to fight poverty in the developing world? Treat people like producers and consumers, argues Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir. Iqbal Quadir has nothing against low salaries. “That’s not a bad thing,” he says calmly, though his eyes are piercing. ...
• 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 ...

OpEd News

• Hey, Joe, What Does One More Betrayal Matter?
  Sen. Joe Lieberman-s history of betrayals now culminates in his betrayal of his former friend Dick Blumenthal, running for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. This article covers some of those betrayals.
• Nearly One Million US Workers Cut Off Unemployment ...
  A Congress that rushed through a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street in October 2008 in a matter of days, and authorized a further financial windfall to the banks and speculators five months later, cannot bring itself to support even the most meager subsistence for the unemployed workers who are the ...
• A Flash of Lightning
  For two generations, our foreign policy used the Holocaust as its main instrument. The bad conscience of the world determined its attitude towards Israel. The (justified) guilt feelings -" either for atrocities committed or for looking the other way -" caused Europe and America to treat Israel diffe ...
• Deep Horizon
  A new poem by the Vermont-based shaman, poet, musician and artist, Gary Lindorff
• Weapos;re All A Little BP
  We are all complicit in what is going on in the Gulf and around the world.

Switchboard

• Back to the oily front lines of the Louisiana bayo ...
  As I prepare to head back to the Louisiana bayou, I couldn't help but take one last look at the the monster from the deep still drowning the gulf in poisonous hydrocarbons. Like a hydrogen bomb, the live video feed is�as mesmerizing as it is revolting to watch. Tonight there is a part ...
• Urban density is good, says Mother Jones; we agree ...
  NIMBY opposition to smart growth is standing in the way of environmental progress, writes Josh Harkinson in Mother Jones .  As an example, he cites a proposed development in Alameda County, California , that would have added some 4,000 homes, none taller than three stories, on the 1,5 ...
• Gulf Coast Disaster: Morning News Roundup, June 17
  Day 59 Highlights in this issue: - Hayward pummeled at House hearing on oil spill - At hearing, Hayward passes the buck - Rep. Barton apologizes to Hayward for “shakedown” - Adm. Allen: Relief well ahead of schedule - Mabus to head Gulf Coast spill recovery effort - Poll: Americans m ...
• Ever seen a solar energy spill? We call it "a nice ...
  We’re now in the home stretch on moving the New York Solar Industry Development and Jobs Act of 2010 to a vote; creating over 22,000 jobs and generating $20 billion of new economic activity here in New York State.  Still wondering what the New York solar bill is all about?  The video b ...
• Collecting a million gallons of Gulf crude a day.. ...
  Check live feeds of leaking BP oil well below. The good news? After suffering a lightening strike, a small fire and an equipment malfunction on a containment vessel last the week, the Coast Guard says BP is now collecting or burning off a million gallons of oil from the gushing well a ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• One More Manute
  Nice tribute from Pierce. Related posts:More on Gygax If You Love Reagan, You’ll Like Field of Dreams. The Johnson Rule: An Application Related posts: More on Gygax If You Love Reagan, You’ll Like Field of Dreams. The Johnson Rule: An Application
• Beliefs Against Even Self-Interest
  Given the glaring factual howlers (which, needless to say. err on the Pain Caucus side the paper’s editors have long favored), none of the claims in this WaPo story can be taken at face value.   And yet, unlike the statements about public opinion, I find the assertions that the deficit is “resona ...
• And Dick Cheney’s black heart continues to g ...
  Manute Bol, unquestionably one of the most decent, humane people to have lived in the past half century, passed away today from complications of a horrific illness that he acquired while doing human rights work in Sudan. Sam Mellinger wrote a nice piece about him last month, when it looked as if he ...
• Group Dynamics
  First, it was a goal.  See here, for example; who is fouling whom? Clear in the picture, the world’s greatest referee[*] has a clear view of the action as an on side Edu scores the third goal for the US.  h/t Mark Devlin for the link. I have heard one plausible counter argument to this event, (se ...
• The Bear is Always Resurgent, Even When He’s ...
  An alternative title to this article might have been “Russia’s arms industry a pathetic shambles.” Russia is to embark on the biggest overseas arms shopping spree in its modern history with up to £8 billion earmarked for state-of-the art foreign military hardware, it has been claimed. The forecast ...

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

• Assistant Secretary Esther Brimmer to Travel to Ro ...
  Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Dr. Esther Brimmer, will travel to Rome and Geneva from June 21 to 25 for consultations with counterparts and international organizations.
• Knight and Day Film Review
  At first blush, Knight and Day's premise reads like that prototypical potboiler where a suave spy galavants around the globe fighting bad guys with a good-looking gun moll draped on his arm.
• Secretary Clinton's Phone Call with Russian Foreig ...
  Today, Secretary Clinton spoke by telephone with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. They discussed preparations for the upcoming June 24 summit between President Obama and President Medvedev.
• Israeli Cabinet Votes to Ease Land Blockade, Imple ...
  Today the Israeli Security Cabinet voted to further ease the land blockade on the Gaza Strip, changing it previous policy to allow all food items to be transferred into Gaza.
• Super Six Classic: Andre Ward Vs. Allan Green
  Andre Ward is defending his WBA Super Middleweight belt for the first time as *Allan Green* debuts in the Super Six World Boxing Classic, attempting to capture his first world championship. This marks the first opportunity for Green to obtain a worl

environment 360

• Interactive Resource Tracks Gulf Spill Response in ...
  The U.S. government this week launched an interactive resource that allows the public to follow developments in the BP oil spill and ongoing response efforts in “near-real-time.” Originally designed as a way to keep participants in the vast clean-up effort informed, the GeoPlatform uses the latest i ...
• Obama Urges Energy Reform But Makes No Mention of ...
  Arguing that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is “the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now,” President Obama called on the U.S. to end its “addiction” to fossil fuels and make the transition to a renewable energy economy . In an address from the Ov ...
• As the Far North Melts, Calls Grow for Arctic Trea ...
  The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a warning, conservationists say, of what could happen in the Arctic as melting sea ice opens the Arctic Ocean to oil and gas drilling. Many experts argue that the time has come to adopt an Arctic Treaty similar to the one that has safeguarded Antarctica ...
• Obama Administration Moves to Ban Use of Controver ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban endosulfan , one of the last organochlorine pesticides still used in the U.S., saying it poses unacceptable risks to agricultural workers and wildlife and has a tendency to persist in the environment. A chlorinated insecticide used primarily ...
• Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy o ...
  For years, free-market fundamentalists opposed to government regulation have sought to create doubt in the public’s mind about the dangers of smoking, acid rain, and ozone depletion. Now they have turned those same tactics on the issue of global warming and on climate scientists, with significant su ...

Red Ice Creations

• "Commoner" Daniel Westling Marrying Swedish Crown ...
  Just as I "predicted" early last year it turns out that the "Svensson" (commoner) Daniel Westling who yesterday married the "Swedish" (really French-German) Crown Princess Victoria actually has aristocratic blood. In the article A Svensson in the Swedish palace? Pass the smelling salts from February ...
• Ships’ Logs and Sea Monsters
  The MoD keeps no secret files, but Admiralty records detail encounters. The Ministry of Defence does not keep any secret files on sea monsters reported by Royal Navy personnel, but crews of ships and submarines who make unusual sightings can record their experiences in official logbooks that are pub ...
• Love hormone Oxytocin helps soldiers like each oth ...
  Soldiers form loyal "Bands of Brothers" fighting and dying for each other because they have the same instincts that cause mothers to ferociously protect their newborns, a study suggests. Researchers have found that in the heat of battle they have the same chemicals running through their bloodstreams ...
• Fugitive hid 40 years in plain sight
  The aging Frank Dryman, a notorious killer from Montana’s past, had hidden in plain sight for so long that he forgot he was a wanted man. That is, until the grandson of the man he shot six times in the back came looking.
• 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 ...

Russia Today

• Russians shine at home climbing World Cup
  The climbing World Cup 2010 was held in Moscow this weekend, where RT’s Konstantin Potapov caught the most eye-catching discipline - speed climbing.
• President suspects theft in “dancing bridge” case
  Dmitry Medvedev has launched a corruption probe into the construction of the “dancing bridge”. The structure made headlines in May, when it was closed due to terrifying vibrations shaking the road.
• World Cup diary: Day Ten
  France continues to make headlines at the World Cup. Unfortunately the news is nothing to do with action on the field, as the camp descends into chaos.
• Brazil joins Netherlands in last 16
  Brazil has the second team to qualify for the next stage of the World Cup in South Africa. The five-time champions clinching a play-off spot with a 3-1 win over the Ivory Coast.
• No spacesuits for future cosmonauts
  Crews of the spaceship Rus, which is now in development, may have standard space suits replaced with individual sealed capsules.

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

• Is the Star Child Skull the “Wedge” to ...
  Lloyd Pye, an independent researcher and another ancient alien supporter just might have the one thing Sitchin or Von Daniken doesn’t have. Physical evidence to back his claim. The Star Child skull supposedly is a human/alien hybrid whose remains were found in a Mexican cave, along with a human fema ...
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• Sheriff describes animal cruelty case as worst" he ...
  Woods claimed he had no knowledge a six year-old horse named "Blaze" was found nearly starved to death on the Woods family property. "It's the worst case of animal cruelty I've ever witnessed," Sheriff May said. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Siberian tiger threatened by mystery disease
  A mystery disease is driving the Siberian tiger to the edge of extinction and has led to the last animal tagged by conservationists being shot dead in the far east of Russia because of the danger it posed to people. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Malaysia's rescued baby pygmy elephant dies
  Pygmy elephants on Borneo form a sub-species of the Asian elephant. The creatures have a rounded appearance and are smaller than their mainland cousins. Authorities say there are around 1,500-2,000 left on Borneo island. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ! PETITION ! Help Protect Wildlife Habitat from Cl ...
  We need these federal land management agencies to make this a priority. TAKE ACTION Submitted by Tippers A. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ! PETITION ! Stop Offshore Drilling and Demand a C ...
  The Gulf Coast economy is suffering, and endangered sea turtles, dolphins and other marine mammals are turning up dead on beaches. TAKE ACTION Submitted by Tippers A. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• More Doctors Turn Away New Medicare Participants
  “The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program.” (USA Today, Monday) Well, Sam, this is another fine mess youâve gotten us int ...
• Superfund Making a Comeback
  “[T]he Obama administration will push to reinstate the âSuperfundâ tax. The Environmental Protection Agency, which rarely urges passage of specific bills, will send a letter to Congress as early as Monday calling for legislation to reimpose the tax.” (Washington Post, Monday) It was such a stell ...
• Police Misconduct and Public Accountability
  Why is it difficult to prosecute police officers for criminal misconduct even when the abuse is severe and unequivocal?
• 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 ...

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 ...

CowBoss' Inconvenient Truths - Food

• So Baby Jesus says - Don't shop at supermarkets fo ...
  A distinctly British story, BUT maybe you could "just substitute the name of your BIG box store" in place of "Tesco" and it will "ring true." cowboss� If you like Christmas, you probably fancy a good old-fashioned one (the good old postmodern Christmas is so over). Mince pies, wassail, rosy cheeks ...
• FDA Petitioned to Ban Arsenic from Animal Feed
  Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs You, my regular readers know this is an important issue to cowboss.� I am�pleased to see that action is being taken in the US, I do hope that the FDA will do the responsible thing and Ban this ridiculous prac ...
• The Mouse In The House ~ Author unknown
  A compelling story! �I Bet You Never Thought About It That Way Before - But "Hopefully" You Will Now! .... cowboss A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a m ...
• Missouri government plots undercover sting operati ...
  "To you, it's just a gallon of milk. But to these farmers, it's their livelihood. Think about that for a minute before you go slapping handcuffs on the very same people who put food on your mama's table." Imagine being watched by two undercover cops as you engage in an illicit deal in a deserted p ...
• "Marketing 101 to the Max" or Meaningful Change at ...
  Yes, Yes and Yes, BUT the Fundamental Question remains -- What have you (Maple Leaf Foods) done about�complying with CFIA's warnings and stopping�the�use of US Feces (Shit) Fed Beef in the manufacturing of your "Processed Meats"? "CANADA - Maple Leaf Foods yesterday announced the establishment of i ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.
• Re: Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
  I believe that the senators dont know the real issues on the ground and their well-intended legislation will be useless without knowledge of the actual situation.
• World Cup Crime in South Africa
  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.

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle “Swiffer” m ...
  We’ve had an email from Kelly, asking about reusing a “Swiffer” handle: I’m sick of having to buy Swiffer cloths so am swapping to a regular brush and mop instead. What can I do with an old Swiffer then? Disposable branded cloths aren’t the only option for using with Swiffers and the like – there ar ...
• How can I reuse or recycle carpet underlay?
  Not ones to rush, we’re finally getting some carpet fitted in the room we started renovating when we first bought this house last September. Now this might be carpet sales person nonsense but all the guides we’ve read about choosing a carpet say that the carpet will last a lot longer and wear better ...
• Reducing, reusing & recycling water – super ...
  Following on from yesterday’s watery post, green blogger Crunchy Chicken has proposed a “Dry Humps” (as in camels) challenge for one weekend next month. She states that the average American individual uses between 100 – 176 gallons of water a day, whereas an average *family* in an African country o ...
• What can I reuse or recycle to make a trug?
  I’ve been getting more and more interested in wild food lately – we’ve been trying different things while walking the dog in the woods behind our house and on Sunday, we went on a wonderful Wild Food Foray organised by Slow Food West Yorkshire. Led by medical herbalist Jesper Launder, we spent just ...
• How can I reuse or recycle over 1000 mugs?
  We’ve had an email from Andy: I work for an Events company based in Newmarket, Suffolk, and I have got over 1000 mugs, which as come back from an event and we need to recycle. Do you know where I can do this? We’ve got plenty of home & garden reuses for old/broken crockery but I suspect most [...]

Mondoweiss

• Update from Oakland: Victory!
  Quick follow-up on today's action at the Oakland docks: we won!�Something like 400 or 500 people - many who had also been there at 5:30 in the morning, plus others who hadn't made the first shift - turned up to resume the picket line at 4 p.m. I was surprised there weren't more: I had [...]
• A year after Cairo, global poll on Obama’s I ...
  At a time when Obama gets pretty good grades from people around the world for his statesmanship (64 percent approval overall), Jim Lobe reports that the same Pew poll shows that people in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon disapprove of Obama's handling of the Israel/Palestine conflict by figures of 84 perc ...
• a tale of 3 headlines
  let some ketchup into Gaza...No Gaza optimism over easing blockade BBC: "I don't need ketchup or mayonnaise from Israel. I need my business back," says Nasser al-Helo standing on a busy street in Gaza City.�steal some more Palestinian land...Netanyahu drops opposition to Likud plan for renewed settl ...
• Turkish officials blow AIPAC claims out of the, uh ...
  This is a crosspost from Cobban's site, Just World News Several strongly pro-Israeli members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have stepped up their campaigns against NATO ally Turkey over the past week, in a campaign that has been quietly orchestrated by the big pro-Israel organizatio ...
• Huge outpouring of Oakland picketers stop unloadin ...
  If anyone had any doubts that the movement for justice in Palestine is growing by leaps and bounds, in numbers, breadth, and determination, check out what happened this morning in Oakland, CA: • somewhere between 700 and 1,000 demonstrators from all over the San Francisco Bay Area made their way at ...

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

• DID DICK CHENEY HELP CAUSE THE BP DISASTER?
  A few weeks ago, I interviewed Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.� It was a rare insight into the Bush White House, and more so, the mind of Dick Cheney as seen through the eyes of someone who worked ne ...
• 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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Japan holds the key to whale conservation
  Posted on behalf of Anjali Nayar Next week nations will decide whether to allow commercial whaling for the first time in a quarter decade. At the meetings of the International Whaling Commission in Agadir, Morocco, delegations will discuss a new proposal that removes the international ban on ...
• 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 ...

new geography

• China’s Urban Challenge: Balancing Sustainable Eco ...
  Today, Beijing seeks to balance strong economic growth and soaring prices amidst a severe global crisis and debt turmoil in advanced economies. The challenge is colossal – to provide urban space for more than 600 million people in the coming decades. For months, the famous hedge fund wizard, James ...
• Planning’s Cultural Cringe?
  First it was Portland, Oregon, touted as a poster child for urban planning in Australia. Now, Vancouver, Canada, is the comparison, and are we seeing another incarnation of Australia’s infamous cultural cringe? Advocates of higher density and the “brawl against sprawl” in Australia frequently cite ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• WEEKLY WATCH number 294
• WEEKLY WATCH number 294
• Matt Ridley in denial about his book's mistakes
• Agitation launched against Bt maize in Punjab
• 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 ...

water.org

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

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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
  By Sherwood Ross Raising troubling comparisons to tactics employed by Josef Stalin and right-wing Latin American dictatorships, the US government has created a “hit list” of Americans abroad marked for murder. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told a House Intelligence Committee hear ...

The Economic Collapse

• Stimulus Waste
  Back in February 2009, the U.S. Congress passed an $862 billion "economic stimulus" bill to help the struggling American economy recover from the horrible financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.  Right now, federal agencies are spending this stimulus money at the rate of approximately 196 million dollars ...
• Will The U.K. Be The Next European Nation To Exper ...
  Now that the Greek debt crisis has been "fixed" by a gigantic pile of more debt, many are wondering which European nation will be next to experience a massive debt crisis.  Increasingly, all eyes are turning to the U.K. and their public debt that is spiralling out of control.  The U.K. government's ...
• Another Way That The Federal Reserve Makes Massive ...
  When most people discuss how the Federal Reserve benefits the big banks, they usually only focus on the ways that the Federal Reserve directly brings in income.  But there is so much more to it than that.  The truth is that the Federal Reserve is used in a whole variety of ways to indirectly assist ...
• Get Ready To Taste The Bitter Side Of Keynesian Ec ...
  Most Americans have no idea what the term "Keynesian economics" means, but the truth is that it has been deeply influencing U.S. economic policy for decades.  Essentially, it is an economic theory that originated with a 20th century British economist named John Maynard Keynes, and it advocates gover ...
• The Extreme Frustration Of Unemployed Americans
  When Barack Obama visited Buffalo recently, he was greeted by a billboard advertisement with a very pointed message about unemployment.  In just a few words it summarized the frustrations of an entire region.  The billboard along I-190 had this very simple message for Obama: "Dear Mr. President, I ...

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AT A GLANCE: APEC Ministers Discuss Oil Spill Impact, Renewable Energy Use

Wall Street Journal

- Jun 20, 2010

- 12 hours ago

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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UAE Masdar Said to Lose Research Chief in Year One

BusinessWeek

- Jun 21, 2010

- 3 hours ago

Resignations “might hint to some problems at the university, but a lot of the renewable energy projects will go ahead as planned,” Woertz said, referring to ...

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Abound Solar Names Key Equipment Finance as Vendor Financing Partner

MarketWatch (press release)

- Jun 21, 2010

- 59 minutes ago

Built upon 15 years of development at Colorado State University and with support from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Abound Solar is producing ...

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How Montana can maximize renewable resources

Great Falls Tribune

- Jun 21, 2010

- 2 hours ago

One important question now facing Montanans is how the state can leverage its renewable resources to cultivate a broader green economy that generates jobs, ...

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Ecology tours help visitors learn

Delmarva Daily Times

- Jun 21, 2010

- 4 hours ago

Those who take the two-hour excursion can participate in the same testing methods used by ecologists to measure the water's depth, oxygenation and salinity. ...

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State searches for solution for Pasco cleanup

Seattle Post Intelligencer

- Jun 20, 2010

- 18 hours ago

Cleanup started more than 15 years ago under the supervision of the state Department of Ecology, but a final solution has yet to be determined. ...

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Homeland Security Capital Corporation's Subsidiary Safety and Ecology ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Jun 21, 2010

- 10 minutes ago

Safety and Ecology Corporation (SEC) is a rapidly growing environmental services company in the US, providing services nationally, in Europe and the ...

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Ocean trip seeks insights about Pacific coast ecology

San Diego Union Tribune

- Jun 20, 2010

- 7 hours ago

By Gary Robbins, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Michael Landry of Scripps Institution of Oceanography is preparing for a trip on the research ship R/V Melville. ...

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The Costs of Natural Gas, Including Flaming Water

New York Times

- Jun 20, 2010

- 13 hours ago

Rather than take the money, he begins investigating stories he has heard of ruined water wells and sickened families in nearby Dimock Township. ...

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Puresafe Water System, Inc. Appoints Paul G. Goldenberg as a Board Member

MarketWatch (press release)

- Jun 21, 2010

- 59 minutes ago

Paul has extensive experience and we are certain that he will be a valuable asset to the PureSafe Water Systems Board of Directors. Paul G. Goldenberg built ...

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Civil grand jury accuses chairman of Santa Clara Valley Water...

San Jose Mercury News

- Jun 21, 2010

- 4 hours ago

By Brandon Bailey Santa Clara County's civil grand jury has accused the chairman of the countywide water district of flouting state ethics laws by promoting ...

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Tainted Biscayne Bay water warning unheeded

MiamiHerald.com

- Jun 20, 2010

- 10 hours ago

Crews stopped the leak by shutting off the valve and rerouting the flow, Water and Sewer spokeswoman Adriana Lamar said Sunday. ...

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