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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S. Private Security in Afghanistan "Pay Off Warl ...
    Every day, as many as 260 trucks filled with supplies for U.S. troops - from muffins to fuel to armoured tanks - are driven from the Pakistani port of Karachi across the Khyber pass into Afghanistan.
  • KENYA: PMTCT Means Rural Families Survive Another ...
    When Samuel Mwangi's one-year-old HIV-positive son died five years ago, he thought the death of his child also meant the death of his family's legacy. "I wept. And to the bottom of my heart, I knew that that was the end of my generation," said HIV-positive Mwangi.
  • U.N. Report Optimistic on Anti-Poverty Strides
    Despite the ongoing financial crisis, global poverty rates are expected to fall by half in the next five years compared to 1990, according to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report 2010 launched on Wednesday by Secretary-General Ban Ki- Moon.
  • Female Presence Growing in Brazil's Gangs
    They are no longer simply the girlfriends of gang members. Women have increasingly become members themselves of Brazil's youth gangs over the past decade -- though they have yet to reach the leadership positions of their male colleagues.
  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Leper Colonies on the Road to Ext ...
    The Culion island, in the western Philippines, is increasingly becoming a magnet for tourists drawn to its corals in the shallow waters close to its shore, its deep green hills and its ancient Spanish fort.

Scoop - NZ

  • Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario
    Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the latest official number: up to 60,000 barrels per day). Forecasts for how long it will take before the leak is finally plugged continue pluming tow ...
  • Doctors in The Employ Of The CIA Who Aid In Tortur ...
    Doctors, psychologists and other professionals gathered and collected data on the impact of the interrogations on the detainees in order to refine those techniques and ensure that they stayed within the limits (this is such nonsense, what limits could be set around torture when people have died) est ...
  • Afghanistan: The Longest Lost War
    Despite almost a decade of warfare, including an invasion and occupation, the US military and its allies and client state armed forces are losing the war in Afghanistan. Outside of the central districts of a few cities and the military fortresses, the Afghan national resistance forces, in all of th ...
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

  • Afghan leaders back under-fire general
    Firing General Stanley McChrystal would disrupt progress in the Afghan war and could jeopardise a pivotal security operation under way in Taliban strongholds, leaders in the country said today.
  • Ousted PM's lawyer calls for Thai elections
    Thailand's government must hold elections soon to prove it has a public mandate after protests that left 90 dead in the nation's capital, a lawyer for fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today.
  • New York man shoots 3 month old son
    A young father with a long criminal history, including assault charges, fatally shot his 3-month-old son in front of state troopers yesterday morning, then was shot and critically wounded by officers.
  • World Trade Centre search finds human remains
    New York City officials say a renewed search this year of debris in and around the World Trade Centre site has recovered 72 human remains.
  • Nine killed by Philippines tanker blast
    Police say nine people including two children have died after an out-of-control lorry carrying petrol tanks rammed into a row of roadside diners and its cargo exploded in the Philippines.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • i2eye with Stephen Hawking and Neil Turok
    It takes a special kind of communicator to make physics understandable to the average person. But more than 20 years ago, Stephen Hawking did just that with the publication of “A Brief History of Time,” a popular account of what was known about the origin and evolution of our universe. The book beca ...
  • Paleo art
    All that’s left of the most numerous, diverse and successful creatures that ever walked the face of the Earth are bones. Dinosaurs left behind on YouTube videos, photographs or even cave drawings. Yet we can get a glimpse into the natural existence of these “terrible lizards” through the work of Alb ...
  • Pollution solution
    The Walkerton disaster of May 2000 was a cautionary tale for all Canadians concerned about the safety of their drinking water. When a deadly strain of E. coli from farm runoff contaminated the Ontario community’s water supply, seven people died and nearly half the town’s residents became ill before ...
  • Chemical switch
    As a “green chemist,” Philip Jessop spends his days trying to help the chemical industry create products in a less expensive and more environmentally friendly way. That’s why the Queen’s University professor of inorganic chemistry has high hopes for an innovative solvent he’s developed that may yiel ...
  • Postpartum relief
    When Nicole Letourneau’s second child was born with cancer in 2001, she was, in theory, well equipped for such devastating news. As a nurse, her graduate studies had looked at aspects of family care, such as the impact of a mother staying overnight in hospital with her sick child. She had also worke ...

Signs of the times

  • Women's bodies 'choosy' about sperm: Australian st ...
    A woman's body may be unconsciously selective about sperm, allowing some men's to progress to pregnancy but killing off the chances of less suitable matches, an Australian researcher said Wednesday. University of Adelaide professor Sarah Robertson said her research suggested that sperm contains ...
  • Australian Government To Force Internet Users To I ...
    Australians would be forced to install anti-virus and firewall software on their computers before being allowed to connect to the internet under a new plan to fight cyber crime. And if their computer did get infected, internet service providers like Telstra and Optus could cut off their connection ...
  • Darpa Taking Fire for Its Cyberwar Range
    Two years ago, the White House and the Pentagon launched a massive, secretive $17 billion effort to shore up the nation's defenses, and assigned Darpa a crucial role: build a replica Internet - a "National Cyber Range" - that could not only be used to test out information attacks, but could "emu ...
  • ACLU: FBI used 'dragnet'-style warrantless cell tr ...
    To nab a pair of men accused of robbing banks in Connecticut, court documents show the FBI turned to a novel investigative technique last year: warrantless monitoring of the locations of about 180 different cell phones, court documents show. The FBI obtained a secret order--it has not been made pub ...
  • Women complain about TSA screeners at Philly airpo ...
    Are complaints about strange security screenings at the airport something you'll find across the country, or is there a particular problem here? I can't give you statistical certainty on this. But when you listen to frequent fliers like Quality Quinn, you have to wonder. "There is something wrong ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • In 2008 The House of Commons resolved....
    To withdraw all Canadian troops from Afghanistan by July 2011. Right? Wrong! The motion adopted by the House of Commons on 13 March, 2008 says no such thing. Having heard all the push-pull politics going on it is interesting to watch Harper yap on that there will be no turning back on the decisi ...
  • Leadership is the art of leaders and often involve ...
    Mouthing off about your boss is juvenile, water-cooler, office politics. And I, for one, would never follow such an individual into harms way. A general who is unable to abide the direction of his civilian superiors has but one option - resign. As POGGE made very clear, in past times a general who ...
  • Trees?
    deBeauxOs informs us the G8/20 security people may want to cut down all the trees because potential protestors might use them for battering rams or siege towers or fuel for mobile iron forges. Or perhaps summit security wants to augment the police with Uruk-hai.
  • Aim a little higher, Mr. Fadden
    CBC: Canada's spy agency suspects cabinet ministers in two provinces are under the control of foreign governments, CBC News has learned. Several members of B.C. municipal governments are also under suspicion, Richard Fadden, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told CBC Ne ...
  • Mr. Sensitivity . . .

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News' Crowley falsely suggests McChrystal cri ...
    Fox News' Monica Crowley falsely suggested that Gen. Stanley McChrystal criticized "the Afghan war strategy and the leadership coming out of this administration" in a recent profile in Rolling Stone . In fact, McChrystal offered no criticism of President Obama's war strategy, a strategy endors ...
  • Beck's attack on drilling moratorium rests on fa ...
    In stating that the Obama administration had "defied all logic" by setting a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that there had been no "major incidents" in offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. In fact, there was a ...
  • Ken Blackwell falsely claims Kagan supports human ...
    On BigGovernment.com, Ken Blackwell falsely claimed that Elena Kagan has shown "support for cloning human beings." In fact, Kagan recommended that former President Bill Clinton propose a bill that would ban cloning for the purpose of creating a human baby while still allowing important stem-cell re ...
  • Right wing discovers long-established Labor Dept. ...
    Right-wing media have denounced Labor Secretary Hilda Solis' campaign informing vulnerable workers, including the undocumented, about the wage standards to which they are entitled. However, the Labor Department's policy of enforcing labor laws without regard to immigration status long predates ...
  • Right-wing media vouch for Kyl's honesty despite h ...
    Right-wing media have vouched for Sen. Jon Kyl's (R-AZ) "integrity" in the wake of a video in which Kyl accused President Obama of refusing to "secure the border" in order to force the GOP to support immigration reform, a claim the White House has flatly denied. However, these media have ignored Ky ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Summits! Summits!! SUMMITS!!!
    On Thursday I head to Toronto to cover this week's G-8/20 world leader jamboree. But before I do, conventional wisdom seems to demand that I justify why even bother. Is it just me, or is anyone else struck by the pervasive cynicism that surrounds political processes of all kinds? (I suppose I'm gett ...
  • Shameless
    If you believe that corporations would be willing to make a little less money in order not to put the nation - their nation - at risk, you should read Richard Clarke's excellent, just-issued book, Cyber War . As Clarke reports, prior to the 1990s, the Pentagon made extensive use of specialized so ...
  • Conservatives See McChrystal's Folly; Neo-Cons Can ...
    My father learned about Gen. Stanley McChrystal's kind of contempt for the suits in Washington on the night of April 12, 1945, when he awakened his commanding officer with news that Franklin D. Roosevelt was dead. As the bulletin reached HQ at the 277th Battalion of the U.S. Army Combat Engineers in ...
  • McCrystal & MacArthur
    Rolling Stone Magazine dropped a bombshell on Washington this morning that will test Obama's strength as commander in chief. It could be a defining moment in the War in Afghanistan. I've known JannWenner, editor and proprietor of Rolling Stone Magazine for about forty years. For all that time, he ...
  • Power is Relative: Runaway General Stanley McChry ...
    Barack Obama has an easy choice to make: fire a general who has established a culture of insubordination and indifference toward civilian leaders and partners in government or defer yet again to a general who acquires power like medals every time he outwits or outmaneuvers the White House. Gener ...

TruthOut

  • William J. Astore | McChrystal Must Go
    In putting General Stanley McChrystal in charge of the Afghan war effort, President Obama knew he wasn't hiring a choirboy. Tough as nails, McChrystal was known as a "can-do" and "results driven" leader, definitely rough around the edges, but then again so too was General George S. Patton during Wor ...
  • BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come
    On June 15th, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America’s leading oil companies argued that BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was an aberration -- something that would not have occurred with proper corporate oversight read ...
  • Why Iran Versus Israel Rhetoric Could Escalate Int ...
    Tel Aviv, Israel; and Istanbul, Turkey - The Israeli drumbeat for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program grew louder this week as former intelligence chief Shabtai Shavit said the Jewish state must not “sit idly and wait until the enemy comes to attack you.” read more
  • Monsanto, Opponents Both Claim Victory in Historic ...
    In a landmark case on genetically modified (GM) crops, The US Supreme Court ruled � 7-1 on Monday in favor of agribusiness giant Monsanto and overturned a lower court's decision to ban the company's GM alfalfa until the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) fully analyzed the crop's potential dangers. ...
  • 1980s Time Warp: The Time Is Right, Again, for DoD ...
    There have been a series of events and reports in this past month that has sent my brain into a 1980s time warp. There is a recent report on wasteful spending on Department of Defense (DoD) spare parts, a very conservative senator is calling for a defense budget freeze, a task force is calling for t ...

Planetsave

  • When Did Your Mission to Protect the Environment S ...
    Seven leading green bloggers tell us a little bit about their lives and what influenced them to go green. Here is the second post in our new “ 7 Green Bloggers ” series. The question this week is: “ When would you say your concern for the natural environment (wanting to help protect, preserve or i ...
  • Antarctica Contribution to Sea Level Rise
    The Pine Island Glacier has been identified as a major contributor to Earth’s sea level rise. New results from an investigation by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the National Oceanography Centre published in the journal Nature Geoscience show tha ...
  • Texas Canyon Made in 3 Days
    The 2002 Texas floods created a 2.2 kilometre-long and 7 metre deep canyon, all within 3 days. A week of heavy rains in Central Texas in the summer of 2002 caused Canyon Lake, the reservoir of the Canyon Dam, to flood over its spillway and down the Guadalupe River Valley in what was a planned diver ...
  • Halting the Ocean Conveyor Belt Theory
    Oceanographer believes that it is time to look at what we know about the ocean and rethink the ocean conveyor belt model. For decades scientists have believed that Earthâs ocean currents worked like a giant conveyor belt, continuously transporting cold waters towards the equator and warmer waters ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Criminalizes Speech in M ...
    President Carter Could Be Prosecuted for Monitoring Fair Elections in Lebanon June 21, 2010, Washington and New York – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to criminalize speech in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge the Patriot Act before the highest court in the ...
  • Settlers target 'shared cities' - World News
    Jewish settlers storming the garden of an elderly Palestinian woman may seem like something you would expect to happen in Hebron, not cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. But that is exactly what happened to Zeinab Rachayel, an Arab resident of Tel Aviv's mixed suburb, Yafo. Rachayel was in her courtyar ...
  • Supreme Court Ruling in Monsanto Case is Victory f ...
    Editor's Note: While we are pleased to see the US Supreme Court rules against using this�crop in the "homeland", we note that Montsanto continues to freely push their similar genetically-engineered seeds on unwary countries. But many countries like Haiti and some African countries are aware and ...
  • Sharp rise in Army deaths from small arms fire pro ...
    Commanders in Afghanistan are examining whether a sharp rise in troops being killed by gunfire is a sign that a better trained or equipped Taliban is targeting soldiers with snipers. � More soldiers have been killed by small arms fire in the past four months than in the whole of...
  • Corporate Con Game. How the private prison industr ...
    Beside my brothers and my sisters, I’ll proudly take a stand. When liberty’s in jeopardy, I’ll always do what’s right. I’m out here on the frontline, sleep in peace tonight. American soldier, I’m an American soldier…” So goes the ringtone of Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce’s (R-Mesa) phone— ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The repugs are going to criticize whatever you do, Mr. President, so why not shoot the fucker? "US President Barack Obama was angered by a magazine profile in which the top military commander in Afghanistan criticised senior administration officials, the White House says. President Obama said Genera ...
  • GOP: It's Not About Oil; It's About "Values"
    It would be wrong to dismiss Texas Congressman Joe Barton's self-abasing obsequiousness before British Petroleum's CEO the other day as nothing more than the wages of sin for all those campaign contributions this former Atlantic Richfield consultant raked in from his former pals in the oil industry. ...
  • Anything For The Corporations Judicial System Stri ...
    In another smackdown for the administration a federal judge has tossed the moratorium on new drilling in the Gulf. �The moratorium was supposedly to allow the government and the industry to get a better handle on how to respond to emergencies such as the current and ongoing catastrophe for which the ...
  • Who will replace McChrystal?
    This post has been updated and reposted. The man's career is over. In fact, among my circle of people who have taken the oath, everyone is mortified at the insubordination and in fact, VoteVets is already circulating a petition calling for his firing and the officers in my circle are saying he will ...
  • No one who matters is going to bat for McChrystal
    The Three Amigos - McCain, Lieberman and Graham - have issued a joint statement condemning McChrystal's insubordination, and they did not defend his command. "We have the highest respect for General McChrystal and honor his brave service and sacrifice to our nation," Sens. John McCain , R-Ariz., Jo ...

Care 2

  • CONGO: Deforestation Threatens South With Famine
    The trees are falling in Pool, and there are plenty of people to hear the sound. In a painful irony, the end of armed conflict in 2003, has signaled the wholesale devastation of forests in this southern region of the Republic of Congo. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Gulf oil spill puts mental health at risk, too
    For humans, the psychological effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be as devastating as the physical, say experts who will speak at an Institute of Medicine workshop today in New Orleans. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • steve irwin banned from morocco
    I`m sure Steve would be amused and flattered that he is pothumously banned from entering Morocco because of pressure from Japanese whalers. Submitted by Bev B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • World's First Plastic Antibodies in Live Organisms ...
    UC Irvine researchers have developed the first "plastic antibodies" successfully employed in live organisms -- stopping the spread of bee venom through the bloodstream of mice. Submitted by Kristena W. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Swedish oil company under scrutiny after Sudan war ...
    An official investigation has been launched after a report alleging Sudan war crimes by Swedish firm Lundin Petroleum. The Swedish foreign minister was on Lundin's board at the time under investigation. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Starwood Sets 2020 Goals for Energy, Water Use
    Starwood Hotels and Resorts plans to slash energy use in each of its 1,000 hotels by 30 percent by 2020, in addition to a 20 percenty drop in water consumption.
  • Climate Corps 2010: Dialing Up Energy Savings at V ...
    At Verizon Communications, the challenge for the EDF Climate Corps fellow is to reach the next level of energy savings. Last year, efficiency efforts by Verizon saved almost 91 million kWh of electricity and avoided more than 65,300 metric tons of CO2 avoidance emissions.
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • India and Pakistan – yet again, past is prol ...
    The foreign secretaries and interior ministers of India and Pakistan meet this week to rebuild trust and find a way back into more substantive dialogue
  • Writing on the walls
    Israel may be easing its Gaza blockade, but the barriers that surround and divide this region have grown higher.
  • Work starts for Santos after Colombia election win
    Colombian voters overwhelmingly chose ex-finance and defense minister Juan Manuel Santos as their new president after he vowed to continue the security and pro-business policies of his former boss, President Alvaro Uribe. Now his work begins.
  • Unlocking the Yuan
    Check out Reuters' web site on the yuan and the debate over its revaluation.
  • U.S. should look at nuclear deal for Pakistan if m ...
    The United States needs to find a new mix of sanctions and incentives to convince Pakistan to act against all militant groups on its territory, a report by the RAND Corporation says.

Booman Tribune

  • Election Night Thread
    Well, it's election night again and another incumbent went down to defeat. South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis got thumped out of office with an exclamation point. He voted against the Iraqi troop surge of 2007, and supports a revenue-neutral carbon tax, has concerns about offshore drilling, warrantles ...
  • Judge Slaps Injunction on Moratorium
    Oy! The Obama administration will immediately appeal a federal judge's decision to strike down its six-month moratorium on offshore drilling. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration would appeal a decision by a district court judge granting an injunction against Presi ...
  • Climate Science: Who is More Credible?
    A new paper published published the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) re-confirmed that among scientists who actually publish peer reviewed research articles and studies on climate science more than 97% of them are convinced that Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) (i.e., climate ...
  • McChrystal is a Distraction
    All the focus on the Rolling Stone article seems to be focused on the disparaging comments of Stanley McChrystal and his senior staff. Clearly, McChrystal has set himself up to get cashiered. He'll meet the president tomorrow to attempt to explain himself. But the real meat of the article is that ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Richard Cohen
    I am actually reaching whatever the next stage is after impatience and exasperation with these Beltway pundits' efforts to psychoanalyze the president's 'maimed soul.' This morning it is Richard Cohen's turn. What these people were seeking was not an eruption of anger, not a tantrum and not a f ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Making a game of disruption politics
    More from John Robb: rewiring agitprop and non-violent protest movements as open-source games. … in modern western societies, this elite group and their specialists are able to dissociate themselves from jobs when it comes to their private lives.  They live unencumbered within our impersonal societ ...
  • Rudy Rucker’s Ware Tetralogy available as a free d ...
    Regular readers will be aware that I’m a Rudy Rucker fan, and hence will understand how stoked I am that his Ware Tetralogy – heretofore hard to find in decent condition – is being republished as a single (immense) volume. It’s now sat on my wishlist, awaiting a moment when I have the money spare [. ...
  • Making a game of disruption politics
    More from John Robb: rewiring agitprop and non-violent protest movements as open-source games. … in modern western societies, this elite group and their specialists are able to dissociate themselves from jobs when it comes to their private lives.  They live unencumbered within our impersonal societ ...
  • Rudy Rucker’s Ware Tetralogy available as a ...
    Regular readers will be aware that I’m a Rudy Rucker fan, and hence will understand how stoked I am that his Ware Tetralogy – heretofore hard to find in decent condition – is being republished as a single (immense) volume. It’s now sat on my wishlist, awaiting a moment when I have the money spare [. ...
  • California proposes car license plates with electr ...
    Well, things are pretty tight in California, money-wise, so you can’t fault them for looking to cut that deficit. But this proposal is bad news for anyone frustrated by the ubiquity of advertising on every surface of the world: electronic license plates which show the vehicle’s code number while in ...

Therapy News

  • Loneliness Based On Perception, Not Interaction; I ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Feelings of loneliness are based less on the number of friends and family one has around and more on how strong those connections are, according to an article entitled “Functions of Loneliness, Social Support, Health Behaviors, and Stress in Association with Poor ...
  • Men and Porn: Harmless Fun or Harmful Activity?
    By Janie Lacy, LMHC, NCC, CSAS, Sex Addiction Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Janie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. With the explosion of the online pornography industry, the use and abuse of it has increased in an alarming fashion. Did you know the following? • There are over ...
  • To Spank or Not to Spank
    By Jackie Pearson, LMFT, Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jackie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Previously, I defined discipline as meaning “to teach” or “to train,” the root being “to disciple.” I would like to expand on that because so often parents equate disciplin ...
  • For Depression, Exercise May Beat Medication in Co ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Precise recommendations as to how much exercise and which types of exercise are most effective have yet to be determined, but several preliminary studies suggest that exercise is superior to medications when it comes to fighting depression. Recently, TIME Magazine pro ...
  • Hypnotherapy Can Help Overcome Addiction, Beat Oth ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Legitimate hypnotherapy has become increasingly popular as a method of addressing and overcoming addictions, and is recognized as being most effective when combined with psychotherapy. According to a recent interview with hypnotherapist Wallace Lossing, two of the mo ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • W.Va. environment chief sees court clash with EPen ...
    W.Va. environment chief sees court clash with EPennsylvania WTKR Your NewsChannel 3 1, could curtail mountaintop removal mining, a highly efficient and destructive form of strip mining that blasts apart mountaintops to expose multiple seams ... and more��
  • New report claims coal costs W.Va. taxpayers money ...
    WOWK New report claims coal costs W.Va. taxpayers money BusinessWeek Lead author Rory McIlmoil once worked as a community organizer for Coal River Mountain Watch, a group hoping to stop a mountaintop removal mining operation ... West Virginia Day update: Another year older Charleston Gazette (blog) ...
  • The Ugliness of Extraction, from Appalachia to Alb ...
    The Ugliness of Extraction, from Appalachia to Alberta OnEarth Magazine For some years now my husband and I have been working hard to raise awareness of a practice called mountaintop removal . ... and more��
  • West Virginia Day update: Another year older - Cha ...
    West Virginia Day update: Another year older Charleston Gazette (blog) Through the climate crisis and the continued outrage over the damage caused by mountaintop removal , West Virginians are confronted with major challenges ... and more��
  • The drain of coal - News & Observer
    The drain of coal News & Observer We should all thank Duke Energy for seeking to buy coal free from the horrors of mountaintop removal . Another cost of coal is the transfer of wealth from ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Arizona Democrats urge Obama not to sue over contr ...
    Sean J. Miller / The Hill : Arizona Democrats urge Obama not to sue over controversial immigration law   —  Arizona Democrats facing tough reelection races are distancing themselves from the Obama administration as it prepares to file a lawsuit against the state over its controversial immigration l ...
  • Federal Gov't Halts Sand Berm Dredging (WDSU-TV)
    WDSU-TV : Federal Gov't Halts Sand Berm Dredging   —  Nungesser Pleads With President To Allow Work To Continue  —  NEW ORLEANS — The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.  —  The berms are meant to protect the Lo ...
  • McChrystal to Administration Official: 'I've Compr ...
    Jake Tapper / Political Punch : McChrystal to Administration Official: 'I've Compromised the Mission'   —  During his round of phone calls to top officials of the Obama administration whom he and his team disparaged to a Rolling Stone reporter, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said, “I've compromised the mi ...
  • For Jeb Bush, Life Defending the Family Name (Matt ...
    Matt Bai / New York Times : For Jeb Bush, Life Defending the Family Name   —  CORAL GABLES, Fla. — For months now, Jeb Bush has been listening as President Obama blasts his older brother's administration for the battered economy, budget deficits and even the lax oversight of oil wells.
  • Dems: We're not bound by president's tax vow (Alex ...
    Alexander Bolton / The Hill : Dems: We're not bound by president's tax vow   —  Democrats are looking at the possibility of raising taxes on families below the $250,000-a-year threshold promised by President Barack Obama during the election.  —  The majority party on Capitol Hill does not feel boun ...

Energy & Environment News

  • Bridging 2 Kinds of Reactors
    In the 1990's, Seth Grae set out to sell a reactor fueled with thorium, which is more plentiful than uranium yet unattractive to countries that want reactors that can make bombs. His idea has not caught on, at least not yet. But along the way, his company, now called Lightbridge, also designed a com ...
  • Money in the Greenhouse
    Oil companies succeed in pushing for a California ballot initiative that would suspend the state's climate law.
  • BP Executive Prepares to Take Over Spill Response
    Robert Dudley, who will take charge of BP’s spill response, has plenty of experience dealing with a hostile government, unhappy partners and angry citizens.
  • Is the Oil Dispersant Helping? Official Says Yes
    The rate that the BP well is spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico could be calculated easily if the well were capped and the flow were then controlled, said a senior Environmental Protection Agency official said on Tuesday. But if the well is killed by intercepting it near the bottom with a relief w ...
  • Judge Blocks Obama’s Moratorium on Deep-Wat ...
    The White House said it would appeal the decision of a federal judge in New Orleans, who blocked a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling projects.

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Nepal-India border region
    Tuesday, June 22, 2010 23:14:12 UTC Wednesday, June 23, 2010 04:44:12 AM at epicenter Depth : 30.10 km (18.70 mi)
  • M 5.5, Fiji region
    Tuesday, June 22, 2010 22:16:20 UTC Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:16:20 AM at epicenter Depth : 563.40 km (350.08 mi)
  • M 5.8, Fiji region
    Tuesday, June 22, 2010 22:16:21 UTC Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:16:21 AM at epicenter Depth : 570.00 km (354.18 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Monday, June 21, 2010 10:23:21 UTC Monday, June 21, 2010 09:23:21 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • 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)

China Dialogue

  • What would you tell the G20?
    As world leaders prepare to thrash out global issues in Toronto this weekend, a roundtable of experts and commentators explain what they believe should top the agenda. More entries will be added to chinadialogue’s G20 roundtable during the course of the week. Leave your thoughts on what the prioriti ...
  • Strength through adversity
    Joint efforts in climate-change security could help build greater trust and understanding between China and the United States, argues Michael Davidson. Last month, the United States commerce secretary, Gary Locke , went to China to promote US clean-energy technologies while treasury secretary Tim ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Packet-Sniffing Laws Murky as Open Wi-Fi Prolifera ...
    Starbucks is rolling out free, unsecured Wi-Fi access at about 7,000 coffee shops across the United States beginning July 1. But will there be packet-sniffing with your latte? The Seattle-based coffee concern’s move to lure customers with free internet comes amid a growing legal uncertainty about pr ...
  • Copyright Czar Backs IP Enforcement, ‘Fair Use’
    Copyright Czar Victoria Espinel unveiled Tuesday the Obama administration’s first “Joint Strategic Plan” concerning intellectual property enforcement — and she gave a big nod to fair use. The plan was required under the Pro-IP Act of 2008, which created Espinel’s post. The act was watered down to el ...
  • First RIAA File Sharing Trial Morphs Into Groundho ...
    The nation’s first file sharing copyright infringement trial has morphed into a legal Groundhog Day. In a bid two avoid a third trial — after two mistrials — the Minnesota federal judge presiding over the 4-year-old Jammie Thomas-Rasset case wants the Recording Industry Association of American and t ...
  • Feds Say Man E-mailed Biden ‘I’m Going to Kill You ...
    With neighbors like this, who needs enemies? A Minnesota man accused of hacking into his neighbor’s computer and sending a threatening e-mail to Vice President Joe Biden has turned down a two-year plea deal and is negotiating for less, the defendant’s attorney said Monday. Barry Ardolf, a Minnesota ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Soros says Germany could cause euro collapse
    BERLIN (Reuters) - German's budget savings policy risks destroying the European project and a collapse of the euro cannot be ruled out, billionaire investor George Soros said in a newspaper interview released on Wednesday.
  • World stocks retreat on growth fears
    LONDON (Reuters) - European and Asian stocks fell on Wednesday as fears about the global economic recovery dominated investors thinking and renewed concerns over Europe's banking system undermined flows into risky assets.
  • Obama to confront McChrystal at White House
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will confront his top Afghanistan commander on Wednesday before deciding whether to fire him over inflammatory comments that have angered the White House and threatened to undermine the war effort.
  • Now scientists read your mind better than you can
    * People were right about themselves just half the time
  • Auto dealers win while banks lose in Wall Street b ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers on Tuesday spared auto dealers from new scrutiny and neared agreement on trading limits for banks as they raced to complete the biggest overhaul of the financial rule book since the 1930s.

Equality Trust

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

  • IOT: Healthcare for All – June Call
    1) HNW co-chair, Donna Smith,upated us on the Declaration of Health Independence and talked about some upcoming events including the Washington, DC Brown Bag Lunch Vigil. 2) Katie Robbins from Healthcare-NOW! joined us to talk about plans for ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    The team welcomed Danna Moore from Future 500 to discuss the organization’s efforts to recruit businesses to join in the effort for sound climate legislation. In addition, we discussed the role of the EPA ...
  • Video: BBLV on the MOVE!
    CA-06 Brown Bag Lunch Vigil – Alice discusses need to pressure Congress after CA Dem Party Resolution
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Crown I Enterprises Recalls 3,700 Pound of E. coli ...
    Crown I Enterprises, Inc., a Bay Shore, N.Y., establishment, is recalling approximately 3,700 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall ...
  • E. coli O157:H7 Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Case Set ...
    A confidential settlement was reach yesterday in mediation between Nebraska Beef, Ltd., an Omaha-area beef processor, and a young child severely sickened with hemolytic uremic syndrome by E. coli O157:H7 . On June 30, 2008 recalled approximately 531,707 pounds of ground beef products because the me ...
  • First Salmonella Lawsuit Filed Against Illinois Su ...
    As of yesterday the number of confirmed cases of Salmonella serotype Hvittingfoss stands at 97.� Illnesses have reported eating at Subway restaurants located in 28 counties -- Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, Dekalb, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Henry, Knox, LaSalle, Livingston, Macon, Marshall, ...
  • Illinois Subway Salmonella Hvittingfoss Hit 97
    Confirmed cases of Salmonella serotype Hvittingfoss – 97. Age range of confirmed cases: 2 to 79. Cases have reported eating at Subway restaurants located in 28 counties -- Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, Dekalb, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Henry, Knox, LaSalle, Livingston, Macon, Marshall, Mc ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 06.23.10
    Report: Nissan considering ER-EVs in addition to battery electric vehicles Options, anyone? Autocar discovers the Mini E is long-haul capable, provided you aren't in a hurry Average speed: 8 ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.22.10
    Tesla shows future products, liquid cooled motor and electronics in IPO road show Who wouldn't want a Tesla panel van? RFA says the EPA delaying E15 decision is "a dereliction of duty" Spend ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Amy Goodman to appear on Al-Jazeera English with K ...
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will talk about the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit on Al Jazeera English with Kimberly Halkett on Tuesday, June 22nd at 9 pm Eastern Time. Watch live at 9pm EST: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/.
  • Democracy Now! in Detroit for U.S. Social Forum
    Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! will be broadcasting from Detroit at the U.S. Social Forum on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Send story ideas to stories@democracynow.org.
  • 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 ...

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

  • The WSJ defends Israel’s deadly apartheid po ...
    Wall Street Journal Launches Special Tel Aviv Operation Political Perspective by Tim King salem-news.com Jun-21-2010 23:08 (SALEM, Ore.) – Who should be surprised that the media group named for the biggest curse in America is decidedly pro-Israeli? Why would anyone fall over in shock that the Wall S ...
  • Gates: General McChrystal’s Rolling Stone In ...
    General McChrystal’s Rolling Stone Interview A ‘Significant Mistake,’ Gates Says ANNE GEARAN and JULIE PACE | 06/22/10 12:33 PM | – Via Huff Po WASHINGTON â Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the top U.S. general in Afghanistan made “a significant mistake” and used poor judgment in remarks to a m ...
  • Glenn Beck Suggests He Is Afraid George Soros Will ...
    Glenn Beck Is Afraid George Soros Will Kill Him. No, seriously. Crooks & Liars- By karoli Tuesday Jun 22, 2010 8:00am Alternative Title: Glenn Beck descends further into paranoid delusion. BECK: Gasoline Brazil. Now why am I telling you about this? Have you heard of another word? Soros. George Soros ...
  • Barack Obama considers sacking US general McChryst ...
    Barack Obama is considering whether to sack General Stanley McChrystal as military commander in Afghanistan after summoning him to the White House tomorrow to explain his derisive criticism of the President’s staff in a magazine article. Toby Harnden in Washington, Telegraph/UK, June 22, 2010 Genera ...
  • US Claims It Will Begin Pullout From Afghanistan N ...
    US claims it will begin pullout from Afghanistan next summer Via Raw Story: By The Associated Press Monday, June 21st, 2010 — 9:00 am The Obama administration reaffirmed Sunday that it will begin pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan next summer, despite reservations among top generals that absolut ...

Solari

  • California Counties Who Pays And Who Recieves
    By Denis C. Theriault A new report on who supplies â and who spends â California’s public dollars shows an interesting disparity between the givers and the takers: Continue reading Report: Bay Area Counties Give So Rural Counties Can Receive
  • How One Dog Sparked A Movement
    By Christie Keith Sido was a little tan-and-white dog, mixed-breed, pretty, charming and devoted to her owner. Not that different, maybe, from the dog lying at your feet while you read this. You may not recognize her name, but she more than earned her place in the book of canine history as the four ...
  • Help Clear the Air!
    Help us help the Carnicom Institute bring together experts to collaborate on research into global spraying programs. By Catherine Austin Fitts The response to our Solari Report series on global spraying programs has been very gratifying. Our subscribers are hungry to understand this phenomenon. Th ...
  • Alex Jones Calls for Criminal Investigation of BP
    YouTube Continue reading Criminal Investigation of BP Staged Oil Spill Vital to Gulf Recovery
  • US Supreme Court Lifts Ban on Sale of GM Crop
    The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops. A district court judge in California in May 2007 blocked the US biotech giant Monsanto from selling alfalfa seeds that it had genetically m ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Take action - be happier
    Politically active people are more likely to be happy and optimistic, according to new research. If true, this would disprove the common idea that affluence and comfort equal happiness. Psychologists Malte Klar of University of Göttingen, Germany, and Tim Kasser of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, ...
  • Charity of the month: Monkeys for Maddie
    Holly Lambert made her friend Maddie (who had cancer) a gift of a monkey made out of a sock. Maddie, post-chemotherapy, needed a wig. They started selling the monkeys, made enough money for two wigs and from there set up a charity. “With cancer you can’t work, so you can’t make money and there are s ...
  • 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.

Fabius Maximus

  • A look at US unemployment
    Summary:  a look at the US labor force.  The numbers tossed around in the news media give little perspective on the scale of the problem. These are the numbers from the Census Household Population survey for May released 4 June 2010.  All numbers are in millions. 237 is the civilian non-institutiona ...
  • Some overlooked facts in the McChrystal affair
    Some thoughts about the McChrystal affair: Dismiss any analysis assuming McChrystal is stupid.  A reporter from a leftist magazine was in the room with them; the result was obvious. We again see revealed the bitter infighting in Washington about the Af-Pak war.  Don’t confused cause and effect.  ...
  • We are following Japan’s path of decline. The real ...
    Summary:  a look at the US economy.  Richard Koo’s dark forecasts have proven right so far.  Now we test his last and most important prediction. Most Americans knew 4 great things at the start of this recession, confidently explained by our experts.  Richard Koo, economist for Nomura, said that ...
  • FM newswire for June 18, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Bad news for Europe.  Norway may have much less natural gas than previously estimated:  “European energy security: The future of Norwegian natural gas production“, B. Söderbergh et ...
  • How Obama failed in the Gulf of Mexico. Many of t ...
    Summary:  Obama has failed to adequately cope with several aspects of the Deepwater Horizon crisis, probably due to his inexperience as a leader and politician.  His knowledge of the law and campaigning ill-serve him as President. President Obama has made mistakes both of omission and commission in ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Cameron backs EU treaty deal in move that could bl ...
    Daily Mail – The Coalition Government will support a new European treaty to strengthen central control of EU economies in Brussels, David Cameron has announced. In a statement to MPs, the Prime Minister said Britain will not stand in the way of eurozone governments if they want to pass control over ...
  • China says “concerned” about South Korea-U.S. dril ...
    Reuters – China said on Tuesday it was concerned about reports that a U.S. aircraft carrier may join a military exercise with South Korea amid a tense standoff with North Korea over the sinking of a warship from the South. The South Korean corvette the Cheonan was sunk off the peninsula’s west coas ...
  • China punctures yuan hopes
    Reuters – China’s yuan eked out a tiny gain on Wednesday after its biggest swings since 2005 earlier this week, suggesting Beijing’s promise of currency flexibility will not produce the rapid gains its trading partners would like. Whatever its daily gyrations, analysts suspect the yuan will be allow ...
  • Strange lesions after stem-cell therapy
    Nature – In a stark reminder that stem-cell therapy is uncharted territory, a stem-cell transplant given to a patient in Thailand who had kidney disease resulted in the development of cellular masses not previously reported. The lesions, described in a paper published online on 17 June in the Journa ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but ...
    Guardian – The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not fear for his safety but is on permanent alert. Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the ele ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

  • Europe Will Be Powered By Saharan Sun in Five Year ...
    The super-sized solar projects being built in the Sahara desert will start generating and providing Europe with clean energy within the next five years, according to the European energy commissioner.  This is much sooner, than the initial 10-year time frame given to the project. The EU and many Eu ...
  • Astounding Phase-Change Windows
    A remarkable new glazing system has been available in Europe for several years and is now being brought to the North American market. The GlassX window is an insulated glass assembly that incorporates a phase-change material (PCM) between two of the glass panes in the window. At lower temperatur ...
  • Can Painting Mountains White Save Glaciers?
    We've all heard about painting roofs white to keep buildings cooler , but will the same idea work for a mountain?  The World Bank is funding an experiment in Peru to see if whitewashing mountains can slow glacial melt . The 15,600-foot Chalon Sombrero mountain near Licapa, Peru is the testing grou ...
  • LG's Solar Hybrid AC Is Great in Theory
    Solar-powered air conditioning -- it's a great idea.  On those days when the sun's rays are heating you up, a solar PV-outfitted AC unit would use those rays to cool you down.  It's a perfect match, in theory. LG has introduced a solar hybrid air conditioner that works on that theory, and it does ...
  • Carbon Nanotubes Could Be Secret to Greater EV Ran ...
    Scientists at MIT have developed a positive electrode made of carbon nanotubes that significantly boosts lithium ion battery performance and could lead to much greater range in electric vehicles and longer battery lives for gadgets. The carbon nanotube electrodes enable lithium ion batteries t ...

Buzzflash

  • Why is Dick Cheney So Quiet About the Current Disa ...
    What do Dick Cheney, Haliburton, and�a Cash Cow have in common and why is Dick so quiet about the current disaster in the Gulf? � Halliburton was working on the Deepwater Horizon rig just before it blew up, opening the well and sending oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Some experts have spec ...
  • When Congress Becomes a Subsidiary of Corporations ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG If you value this BuzzFlash Editor's Blog, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. There is no doubt that the biggest political disappointment this year for BuzzFlash is how a candidate who promised "chan ...
  • Free Markets for Whom?
    Body If you value this BuzzFlash exclusive commentary, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. Rational discourse is rarely the order of the day in our legislative bodies. Too much time and energy has been expended in trash-tal ...
  • Cheney-Bush Still Gushing Toxic History Into Our W ...
    DON WILLIAMS FOR BUZZFLASH In 2003 I wrote, "If George W. Bush had run for president on a platform of making the world uninhabitable for humankind, he could scarcely have done better at starting us down such a path." His first nail in the, um, platform was to allow Dick Cheney to select himsel ...
  • Gingrich Stages Assault To Finish What He Started
    Gingrich's "Contract with America" which was actually a "Contract on America" was the beginning of the Repuglican "Destruction of America" and now he's plotting another assault to finish what he started.� The final push to complete and utter destruction:� Gingrich Plots GOP Comeback Against 'Rad ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Follow-up on the weak, impotent, helpless presiden ...
    After I fulfilled Jonathan Chait's plea for a substantive response to his and Jonathan Bernstein's argument that the President is weak and impotent when it comes to influencing Congress and thus not to be blamed for what they do or don't do, he "replies" today by ignoring most of the arguments I mad ...
  • Cause and effect in the War on Terror
    American discussions about what causes Terrorists to do what they do are typically conducted by ignoring the Terrorist's explanation for why he does what he does.� Yesterday, Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to attempting to detonate a car bomb in Times�Square, and this Paki ...
  • The weak, helpess, impotent Presidency
    As I� noted earlier today , there is a newly minted Obama apologist meme that has been created and is being disseminated by Obama-defending pundits far and wide:� namely, liberals are blaming Obama for too much because the�Presidency is actually quite a weak and powerless office, and he's powerless ...
  • The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders
    Even in the context of America's wretched civil liberties abuses over the last decade, the case of Mohamed�Hassan Odaini stands out.� He was 17 years old in 2001 when his father sent him from Yemen to study at a religious university in Raiwand, Pakistan, and when a campus house in which he was stayi ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 10 Herbal remedies, cohosh or tosh?
    Is there any significant evidence that any of the following herbal remedies actually work in treating the conditions with which they’re associated? Aloe vera for treating minor burns, including sunburn – 2009 review concludes: “some promising results with the use of aloe vera for diverse dermatologi ...
  • Watery calendar girls draw chemical structures
    A few more science stories that caught my eye this week FieldView – Cresset Group – Free download release of FieldView, a new molecular viewer/editor that is designed to show molecules with their associated field patterns and physicochemical properties. Watery no-man’s land – Physical chemists know ...
  • Intute hot science for flaming June
    Delicious science links, including my latest news review for Intute Hot Topics: Low-temperature fraud detection – A low-temperature plasma probe can identify art fraud without damaging the artwork, which is important should the work turn out to be genuine. Flat-packed particles – Graphene is a mater ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Amnesty International Charges That Human Rights Su ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Human rights are suffering in Libya as it continues to stall on reform, Amnesty International has warned in a new report, despite the country's efforts to play a greater international role. The new report, ‘Libya of Tomorrow:' What Hop ...
  • Another World Is Possible: U.S. Social Forum in De ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 Drug Policy Alliance Thousands of activists, cultural workers and community changemakers from around the country will gather in Detroit this week to participate in the U.S. Social Forum. The Forum will bring together a broad spectrum of people, skills and vision f ...
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Two Bat Species Threat ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal notice of intent to sue Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for not acting quickly enough to give endangered species protections to two bat species hit hard by a fast-spreading, le ...
  • League of Women Voters Backs Patient Protection an ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2010 League of Women Voters The League of Women Voters of the United States today reinforced the organization’s strong support for the recently passed, comprehensive Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  “While we do support and have always supported a singl ...
  • California Legislature to Reconsider Renewable Ele ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists The California Legislature and Gov. Schwarzenegger are expected to redouble their efforts to enact renewable energy legislation this year that would require California utilities to acquire 33 percent of their electricity from renewabl ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • US Social Forum in Detroit: Activists Converge on ...
    by Donna Smith The summer sun was hot as marchers made their way down Woodward back to Cobo Hall in Detroit for the opening ceremonies of the US Social Forum. But spirits were high and the collective energy of so many activists devoted to social justice gathering in one place was more than enough t ...
  • Hail to the Whistleblowers
    by James Denselow James Madison (drafter of the US first amendment) once wrote that "government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both". This is certainly true of Afghanistan, where the US-led coalition has been able to ...
  • From Great Man to Great Screwup: Behind the McChry ...
    by Norman Solomon When the wheels are coming off, it doesn't do much good to change the driver. Whatever the name of the commanding general in Afghanistan, the U.S. war effort will continue its carnage and futility. read more
  • Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happ ...
    by Amy Goodman DETROIT—“I have a dream.” Ask anyone where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first proclaimed those words, and the response will most likely be at the March on Washington in August 1963. In fact, he delivered them two months earlier, on June 23, in Detroit, leading a march down Woodward ...
  • Obama & Insubordination: Is He Truman or Mr. Milqu ...
    by Ray McGovern Journalist Michael Hastings has given Rolling Stone magazine a graphic account of the arrogance, disarray and ineptitude that distinguish what passes for President Barack Obama’s policy on Afghanistan. For those of us with some gray in our hair, the fiasco is infuriatingly remini ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • LIVE: Westminster reacts to emergency budget
    All the news from Westminster including minute-by-minute coverage of PMQs and all the latest reaction to the budget 12.00pm: David Cameron is in the Commons chamber now for PMQs. 11.59am: Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem deputy leader, has just told the BBC's Daily Politics programme that he thinks Lib Dem ...
  • BoE minutes show interest rates split
    MPC member Andrew Sentance voted for a hike in interest rates to 0.75%, citing 'resilient' inflation An unexpected split has emerged on the Bank of England's rate-setting committee, with one member voting for a hike in borrowing costs this month. Economists had expected the monetary policy committee ...
  • Russia cuts gas supplies to Belarus
    Gazprom has warned Belarus it would eventually cut the deliveries by 85% if it refuses to pay off its debt Russia on Wednesday further reduced natural gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbour Belarus over what it claims is a debt of nearly $200m (£135m). Alexei Miller, the chief of Russia's state-control ...
  • What do fans in SA make of England?
    John Domokos asks international fans what they make of the English team and the English themselves John Domokos
  • BP Portrait award 2010
    Preview of an exhibition of the award including winner Daphne Todd's painting of her dead mother

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Elena Kagan an enigma as hearing appro ...
    Hey, remember Elena Kagan? President Obama's latest pick for the U.S. Supreme Court? Her Senate confirmation hearing begins June 28, and normally the advance buzz for such an event would be deafening. High court nomination fights are typically billed as popcorn entertainment, the grown-ups' equivale ...
  • Nikki Haley wins in South Carolina; Rep. Bob Ingli ...
    Voters favored newcomers over veterans Tuesday in a trio of closely watched runoff elections in South Carolina, where Republicans elevated an Indian-American woman as their nominee for governor, ousted a six-term congressman and chose an African-American over a son of onetime segregationist Strom Th ...
  • Californians will vote on measure to overturn emis ...
    Californians heading to the polls in November will vote whether to derail the state's landmark greenhouse gas emission law.
  • Obama-McChrystal showdown may be pivotal moment
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will confront Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Wednesday in a high-stakes showdown that could be a pivotal moment in America's longest war and a defining point of Obama's presidency.
  • Mexican cartel deals drugs, violence with religiou ...
    APATZINGAN, Mexico — As the leader of one of Mexico's most ruthless criminal gangs, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez is the mastermind of hair-raising brutality in his native Michoacan state. He also would like the world to know that he has a pious, loving and huggy-kissy side, and so he's penned a booklet e ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Whaling: Interested parties
    From the International Whaling Commission meeting in Agadir, Morocco: Whenever governments come together to discuss issues such as whaling, climate change, international trade or whatever, you might be tempted to think that the priority would be the common good. You might assume, for example, that ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Pelosi To The Senate: ‘Show Us The Jobs!&#82 ...
    Senate negotiations over the upper chamber’s version of a tax extenders bill — which extends both unemployment benefits and several popular tax credits — are now in their third week, with a resolution seemingly not much closer than it was at the beginning of the process. Senate Democrats are now on ...
  • Florida Encourages Saltwater Fishing As Oil Looms ...
    The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission continues to keep state waters open to fishing despite contamination by the BP oil disaster, the Wonk Room has learned. On June 16, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) extended the federal fisheries closure to the federal waters seven m ...
  • Sebelius Says Cost Of Patients’ Bill Of Righ ...
    Earlier today, I expressed concern that the new ‘Patient Bill of Rights’ regulations would give insurers an excuse to raise premiums while leaving the federal government relatively powerless to rein in excessive and unreasonable increases. But this afternoon, during a conference call with reporters, ...
  • Sick Leave And LGBT Equality
    Tomorrow, the Labor Department will issue a new ruling clarifying that the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows “individuals who are the non-legal, non biological parents of their same-sex partner’s children” to take 12 weeks of unpaid leave to take care of a sick child. The move is one in a l ...
  • Following The Approval Of Anti-Immigrant Measure, ...
    Yesterday, voters in Fremont, NE approved a measure which imposes a ban on hiring or renting property to undocumented immigrants. Renters will be required to apply for a license from the city and businesses will have to use the controversial E-Verify database to verify the immigration status of emp ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Salute to Canadian Cynic
    Canadian Cynic is taking a break from it all . Can't say that I blame him. I get the sense that he's a dude with a lot of marketable skills and recently I've been thinking that he's been getting bored with going into the fetid swamp of the "Blogging Tories" and reporting back on the idiocy he finds ...
  • International Treaty on Poaching Health Care Worke ...
    It's about time : Last week, international health leaders meeting at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva made history by endorsing new guidelines to prevent health-worker brain drain from developing countries. What makes Canada's active theft of highly-skilled personnel from these countries ...
  • stephen harper is Evil
    Example Number 62,547: Three Canadian CITIZENS, identified as "terrorist suspects" by mouth-breathing CSIS cretins during the Liberal era, tortured by the Syrian government (whereupon the aforementioned mouth-breathing CSIS cretins passed along other questions for the Syrian torturers to ask them, ...
  • Lying Jason Kenney
    I'm joining a whole bunch of other blogs to spread the video of the extremely fucked-up Jason Kenney lying through his stupid teeth. (How can his teeth be stupid?? Ask him.) Kenney is lamely insisting that legislative oversight of the executive branch constitutes middle-aged partisan bullies ma ...
  • Thoughts on the Bryant/Sheppard Decision
    I don't really talk about things like this, but I'd read about the death of cyclist Darcy Allen Sheppard during his encounter with former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant last August. I read that Sheppard had been drinking, that he had anger-management issues, that he'd gotten in the face of ...

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

Digital Journal

  • Google allegedly intercepted private data from uns ...
    Google's recent issues of data collection have been mounting internationally. Australia recently launched their own investigation into the Internet search giant. Now it only seems that the data interception problem is increasing.
  • Inside phishing fraud masquerading as PayPal
    This morning as I took my morning coffee, I found an email from PayPal asking me to revise my account. Because I receive fees from PayPal I went to the site but something did not smell right.
  • Air traffic controllers pull 40,000-lb plane for c ...
    A team of ten air traffic controllers from the NAV CANADA Area Control Centre in Toronto raised almost $60,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society by pulling a 40,000-pound jet for a mile at Pearson International Airport.
  • RCMP officer dead after traffic accident in Albert ...
    Constable Chelsey Robinson, 25, of the RCMP Stony Plain Detachment, was patrolling for a reported impaired driver on Monday when her marked RCMP vehicle was struck by a semi-tractor trailer at Highway 16 and Range Road 15, near Stony Plain.
  • Four shots fired near Toronto's G20 summit securit ...
    In the middle of the night, RCMP officers witnessed four shots coming from a black vehicle near the G20 summit security-zone. The car immediately sped away but officers were able to get partial license plate numbers.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Stakeholders Applaud the Federal Strategic Plan .. ...
    The plan is in and the jury's out, but already stakeholders are offering reactions to the first ever  Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness that was released today by the White House. Everyone agrees that the fact that it was issued at all, after decades of inaction, is an immense a ...
  • America Finally Has a Plan to End Homelessness
    This morning, June 22, 2010, the country got its first ever comprehensive plan to end homelessness. It's hard to believe that an estimated 1,000 mayors and county executives have presented ten-year plans to end homelessness in their areas, but the federal government has been treating homelessness on ...
  • Homelessness (Finally!) Has Its Own Congressional ...
    It hasn't made news yet, but perhaps the formation of a Congressional Caucus on Homelessness earlier this year was news in itself. Knowing how caucus-happy Congresspeople can be (exhibit A: the Congressional Bike Caucus ), I was surprised to learn that homelessness did not yet have a dedicated worki ...
  • Summer Solstice Marks Longest Day of the Year to B ...
    For many people, the first day of summer brings a sense of relief: the sunny season is officially underway and it's time for a highly-anticipated, relaxing break from school or work. But for those struggling to survive without a home, the summer solstice provides no such solace, and in many cases th ...
  • The People vs. the Powerful: Who's Got the Answers ...
    Tomorrow, June 22, could be a big day on the evolutionary timeline of homelessness policy. Bright and early at 9 a.m., the Veterans Affairs secretary, the labor secretary, the health and human services secretary, the housing and urban development secretary and others will gather for the announcement ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Children continue to suffer as the war in Afghanis ...
    “Aerial attacks, land mines and forced suicide bombings are only a few of the devastating consequences of the war in Afghanistan increasingly affecting the country’s children,” says a new report conducted by Watchlist, a non-governmental organization that examines the status of children in war-torn ...
  • America’s “Other War” exceeds Vietnam conflict in ...
    The war in Afghanistan, dubbed America’s “Other War”, is now the longest war in U.S. history, “surpassing the conflict in Vietnam. 103 months passed between passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the withdrawal of the last American combat forces from Vietnam. As of [June 7th], the Afghanistan ...
  • Help stop “a summer of bloodshed”
    Dear Ceasefire.ca supporters - This is an urgent alert to inform you of new developments in Afghanistan, and to ask for your help to avert more innocent civilian casualties. Your action is required. This could be our most important campaign since our founding in 2003. We are asking our 20,000 sup ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Maverick McChrystal out of line again
    A Rolling Stone profile of Gen Stanely McChrystal due out of Friday “was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and it should have never happened,” the commander of US forces in Afghanistan now says. It was a mistake to say what he and his staff said, or it was a mistake to make these remarks in the [. ...
  • Syria’s new alliances
    At Foreign Policy, Helena Cobban writes: From 2003 to 2008, when the Bush White House was working hard to encircle and isolate Syria, with a definite view to overthrowing the Asad regime, Damascus’s strengthening tie to NATO member Turkey provided what regime insiders have described as “almost lite ...
  • US-Israeli relations improve — time to bulldoze Pa ...
    Since US-Israeli relations are so famously cozy, maybe it’s time to extend the familial metaphor a bit further: Washington is a victim of domestic violence. Every time the Obama administration reaches out to the Netanyahu government, it gets slapped in the face. Netanyahu has once again been invite ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • A Climate of Belief
    [note, footnote links will only work if you go to original article ~ ctm] Reposted from skeptic.com The following is Patrick Frankâs controversial article challenging data and climate models on global warming. Patrick Frank is a Ph.D. chemist with more … Continue reading →
  • Tasmania’s Devil of a Weather Station
    Today has been electrically charged, first my interview with Andrew Bolt and Steve Price on their radio show in Melbourne, then rush to the airport, trying to do a radio interview on a  cellphone while checking in, make a quick … Continue reading →
  • Spencer: The Inquisition
    Dr. Spencer’s essay below reminds me of this famous cartoon: Over at Lucia’s she wrote a post saying I had banged the Godwin’s Law “gong” by comparing the PNAS skeptic list paper as “stasi-esque”. For people that don’t know, the … Continue reading →
  • Andrew Bolt Radio Show Today
    I’m on at 8:20 AM the 23rd. About an hour from now. People in AU encouraged to tune in. More later. – A
  • A short note about the state of affairs
    It has been hard for me to keep up blogging, or even abreast of current news during my tour. With travel each day, and many days both a lunch and dinner meeting, it becomes an 18 hour grind. Mega kudos … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Voluntarism & Free Association + What is Anarchism ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ LeftLibetyAppendix June 23, 2010 â I just wanted to finally put away the myth that Libertarian Socialist don’t believe in voluntarism and free association, when in fact, we premise our entire philosophy on it. However, sometimes it’s not emphasized because we d ...
  • Having some serious computer problems (updated)
    Just a note to say that I’m having some serious computer problems so will have to take the computer into the shop tomorrow, or sometime this week. Have had too many crashes lately and also Firefox and Outlook Express (email program) keep locking up and I have to reboot. Of course, I won’t be able [. ...
  • Read the Internal Document that Contradicts BP’s C ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Sasha Chavkin ProPublica June 21, 2010 Rep. Ed Markey has been among BP’s toughest critics in Congress following the Deepwater Horizon blowout, accusing it, among other things, of lowballing its estimates of oil flow. On Sunday, Markey was at it again. As you ...
  • American Crusaders: The rise of Christian national ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ photo by Dandelion Salad RT A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra-rightwing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves arc ...
  • The Salad Needs Tossing by Lo
    by Lo Dandelion Salad 19 June, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Hi Everyone! At Ariel Ky‘s suggestion I thought I’d start an open post here for you, the readers to discuss whatever you’d like to discuss. Any thoughts or concerns about the environmental disaster? Suggestions for preparing for the futur ...

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 ...

Wired - Science

  • EPA Reverses Controversial ‘Human Guinea Pig’ Rule
    Under proposed changes to federal research ethics standards, the Environmental Protection Agency will no longer accept studies that use people as guinea pigs in chemical tests. In 2006, under chemical industry pressure, and over arguments that the studies were scientifically and ethically bankrupt ...
  • ‘Lucy’s Grandfather’ Fossil Makes Humanity’s Ances ...
    A 3.6 million-year-old fossil from one of humanity’s earliest ancestors is more human-like than expected — and much taller. The discovery makes Lucy, the best-known fossil of all, appear to be exceptionally short by comparison. Lucy and the new skeleton are both Australopithecus afarensis, the fir ...
  • Not for Public Display: Backstage at the American ...
    > NEW YORK CITY — You could spend three or four days in the American Museum of Natural History and still not see all the dinosaur fossils, meteorites, butterflies, lizards, diamonds and historical artifacts it has to offer. But even if you could, you would only have seen o ...
  • Cassini Skims Through Titan’s Upper Atmosphere
    The Cassini spacecraft made its deepest dip ever into the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, at 8:28 p.m. Eastern time on June 20. The data it collected will help determine whether the moon has its own magnetic field. “For Titan scientists, this is one of the most anticipated flybys of the ...
  • Video: How Leaping Fish Species Left the Water — F ...
               runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience97628466001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Using high-speed video, researchers have revealed the biomechanical tweaks that allow a little-known fish called the leaping blenny to thrive on land. Propelled by a twisting motion that tur ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: To Neutralize
    Israeli police ... are sent to the streets of East Jerusalem as enforcers of government and municipal policy. It is that same policy of intentional discrimination that has brought 65% of the 303,429... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Israel launches spy satellite
    Israel on Tuesday launched a spy satellite from a base in the south of the country, the defence ministry said, with the device reportedly capable of monitoring arch-foe Iran. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. ...
  • Israel gripped by identity of ‘Prisoner X’
    Dan Yakir, chief legal counsel for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel: "It is insupportable that, in a democratic country, authorities can arrest people in complete secrecy and disappear them... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Gisha releases Gaza-WB Safe-Passage educational co ...
    Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement launched the first computer game of its kind in Israel: “Safe Passage” allows the user to experience interactively the restrictions on movement between... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Turkish military delegation in Israel for shipment ...
    A Turkish military delegation arrived Tuesday in Tel Aviv to conclude test-runs in the delivery of four Israeli-made drones, the remaining lot in a 10-UAV deal between Turkey and Israel. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • High School Students Develop Applications for Goog ...
    High School Students are competing to develop applications for Google's Android Mobile Platform Program. This FAU program combines arts, computer science and business to rapidly develop high technology products and services with potential for commercialization.
  • First Five Months of 2010 Second Warmest on Record ...
    In the race to become the warmest year in the satellite temperature record, 2010 is running a close second to 1998 but might begin to falter as the El Ninao Pacific Ocean warming event continues to fade.
  • HealthGrades Evaluates Hospital Emergency Medicine ...
    The quality of emergency medical care at the nation's hospitals varies widely - both individually and by state - according to a new HealthGrades study released today that, for the first time, examines mortality rates for patients entering hospitals through emergency departments.
  • Heat Sprawl Study Suggests Sprawling Cities Experi ...
    The number of very hot days is increasing worldwide, but the rate of increase is more than double in the most sprawling metropolitan regions compared with more compact cities, according to a team of Atlanta-based scientists. This was true regardless of the urban regions' climate zone, population siz ...
  • Proven Diagnostics Signs Agreement with Highmark
    Proven Diagnostics, a clinical diagnostic laboratory located in Bethlehem, Pa., announced today that it has signed a contract with Highmark, the largest health insurer in Pennsylvania.

Natural Health News

  • Pfizer Pulls Leukemia Drug From U.S. Market
    Drugmaker Pfizer is pulling mylotarg, a decade-old leukemia medicine, off the U.S. market after a study found a higher death rate and no benefit for patients. Mylotarg won approval under an abbreviated process. Medicines cleared in that way have to pass follow-up tests to confirm they work.� The FD ...
  • Is Exercise the Best Drug for Depression?
    Psychologist Jasper Smits is working on an unorthodox treatment for anxiety and mood disorders. The treatment is free and has no side effects. What is it?� Exercise. Research has shown again and again that patients who follow aerobic-exercise regimens see improvement in their depression -- improvem ...
  • Battle of the Bugs Leaves Humans as Collateral Dam ...
    Researchers have found a possible explanation for why some bacteria become extremely dangerous to humans, even at great risk to their own survival. Deadly bacteria present a paradox -- why would it harm its host when this could result in the demise of the bacteria themselves? In a new study, scien ...
  • UK Experts Demand Trans Fat Ban
    The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), an influential British health cost watchdog, has called for major changes in food production and marketing. The Institute’s experts argued that trans fats, which do little more than prolong shelf life, should be banned from all food. ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Ban on Sale of GM Crop
    The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted a four-year ban on sales of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops. In 2007, a California district court judge blocked the company Monsanto from selling alfalfa seeds that it had genetically modified to resist its Roundup weed ki ...

Antemedius

  • What To Expect At The Prop 8 Closing Arguments Tod ...
    Today in California the closing arguments in the Proposition 8 trail will be heard. After nearly five months of reviewing the evidence presented in the case Judge Vaughn Walker is ready to hear the summation arguments of both sides. In a move that seems to indicate he has already produced a draft de ...
  • Gulf Oil Leak May Be Over 4 Million Gallons Per Da ...
    Last week on June 15 the US Department of Energy announced that a group of federal and independent scientists convened by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) Dr. Marcia McNutt (Director o ...
  • Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Coming Era of Energy D ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Isn’t it strange that, no matter how terrible the news from the Gulf, the media still can’t help offering a lurking, BP-influenced narrative of hope?� Here’s a recent headline from my hometown paper, for instance: “Signs of Hope as BP Captures Record Oil Amoun ...
  • Hoyer Can't Handle Questions
    House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer spoke Tuesday morning in a large private room (the Columbus Room) at Union Station in Washington, D.C. and took questions. He had no answers for the questions I put to him. Hoyer's topic was fiscal responsibility, and he said that his proposals -- which were all pur ...
  • BP Hiding Oiled Animal Carcasses Washing Up On Gul ...
    On MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night, Marine toxicologist Riki Ott alleged that British Petroleum (BP) is trying to discourage or disallow public and media from seeing some of the horrific results of their oil leak by removing oiled animal carcasses from Gulf beaches. "Turtle watc ...

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

  • International aquaculture course stresses natural ...
    Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 12th annual International Aquaponics and Tilapia Aquaculture Course in St. Croix at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). I was able to meet and learn from many wonderful people who traveled from about 21 U.S. states and 18 countries including Cana ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • The Mighty Vuvuzela
    One of Toles’ more inspired efforts.
  • Strib reprints Bush hack attack on Franken
    Remember that great speech Al Franken recently gave about the right’s judicial activists on the High Court? Former Bush speechwriter and “smoking gun/mushroom cloud” propagandist turned WaPost op-ed hack Michael “soft bigotry” Gerson did a Limbaugh on Franken today. You would never suspect from Fran ...
  • The humbling of Rove (no $ for losers)
    Once in a while you get lucky and while digging through the net you find something you want to write about, and then a few minutes later you find that someone’s already said pretty much what you were thinking. Thank you David Dayen: I said a couple weeks ago to a friend that, as a [...]
  • Fuck B[lee]P
    It speaks to the intellectual vacuity of the hard right that they rarely seem to get the point until you ridicule them into it. Fortunately, we’ve got Jon Stewart to summarize Michele Bachmann’s latest defense of BP idiocy. His best lines were you broke it you bought it isn’t extortion and circle je ...
  • Susan “FREE KOUA FONG LEE” Gaertner en ...
    Actually the headline says all I’ve got to say about this, but here’s the link if you want one. For more background just google “norwegianity + koua fong lee” or “norwegianity + Mr. Lois Quam.” As a blogger, life is good when my bete noires conspire to fellate promote one another. [Note: WordPress s ...

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

  • Update on Supreme Court Decision
    Many of you may have read press today reporting that the 7-1 decision announced by the Supreme Court this morning went entirely in Monsanto’s favor, and have asked us to clarify this decision. Not to our surprise, Monsantoâs PR machine is working hard to overpower the truth in today’s decision in ...
  • Supreme Court Ruling in Monsanto Case is Victory f ...
    High Court Delivers Ruling that Leaves Ban on Planting of Roundup Ready Alfalfa in Place in First-Ever Case on a Genetically-Engineered Crop The Center for Food Safety today celebrated the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Monsanto v. Geerston Farms, the first genetically modified crop case ...
  • 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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • LEONARD PELTIER: STATEMENT FOR THE OPENING CEREMON ...
    Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: Leonard Peltier at the USSF LEONARD PELTIER: STATEMENT FOR THE OPENING CEREMONY U.S. SOCIAL FORUM-DETROIT June 22, 2010 Welcome to the traditional lands of my people, the Anishinabe... Greetings, my brothers and sisters. Greetings also to my relations from the many d ...
  • Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz: The Empire and Lies
    Special Report by IIN Investigative blog-correspondent John John: The Empire and Lies-globalresearch.ca/ I was left with no alternative other than to write two "Reflections" on Iran and Korea, which explain the imminent danger of war with the use of nuclear weapons. I have also expressed the opini ...
  • Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders for "360 Rotation ...
    Ethan McCord, one of the soldiers seen in the now-famous Wikileaks video in which two American Apache helicopters fire upon a relaxed, unhurried gaggle of men in Baghdad, has stated in an interview with World Socialist Website that he witnessed numerous times the indiscriminate slaughter of civilian ...
  • Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders for "360 Rotation ...
    Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders for "360 Rotational Fire" Against Civilians in Iraq :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de] Ethan McCord, one of the soldiers seen in the now-famous Wikileaks video in which two American Apache helicopters ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • NORAD plans exercise flights over D.C., three stat ...
    ShareThis NORAD plans exercise flights over D.C., three states 22 Jun 2010 The North American Aerospace Defense Command is conducting exercise flights over Washington, Baltimore, Richmond, and northern West Virginia to test its response to air threats. NORAD will conduct multiple exercise flights Tu ...
  • Bombs Kill 2 American Troops in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Bombs Kill 2 American Troops in Afghanistan 23 Jun 2010 Two American service members died following bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday. June is on track to becoming one of the deadliest months for U.S. and international forces in the nearly nine-year Afghan w ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Monsanto's Bio ...
    ShareThis U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Monsanto's Biotech Alfalfa 22 Jun 2010 In the first Supreme Court ruling on genetically engineered crops, the high [wh*re] court Monday reversed a nationwide ban on the planting of Monsanto Inc.'s genetically modified alfalfa. The seeds are engineered to ...
  • NATO toll in Afghanistan rises to 14 in two days
    ShareThis NATO toll in Afghanistan rises to 14 in two days 23 Jun 2010 Four NATO soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan, bringing to 14 the number to have died in two days in the war-torn country, the military said. Two soldiers were killed in bomb attacks, another in a small arms attack and t ...
  • McChrystal's Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet ...
    ShareThis McChrystal's Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama 23 Jun 2010 President Obama plans to decide the fate of his top commander in Afghanistan Wednesday after a firestorm over remarks the general and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials. Gen ...

Daily Loaf

  • Sarasota County seeks ban on surfing despite its p ...
    The irony of the situation: the local surfing community assists in keeping the area clean and supports the ban on offshore drilling.
  • Restaurant Review: Island Seafood Market in St. Pe ...
    Serving plates of scallops and shrimp, big sandwiches loaded with whatever catch is available, and whole lobsters that are one of the few things they fly in from elsewhere. The food is just as humble as the location.
  • Sex toy review: let Club Vibe host the next party ...
    “Holy fuck!” Cheska yelped, gripping the arm rest in the theater. We hadn’t made it through the previews and she was already pulling my hand to her chest. She wasn’t blown away by the special effects or startled by the trailers for horror flicks; the surround sound explosions and the bass heavy mu ...
  • Same old story: Rays lose 2-1 to San Diego
    At what point do you consider pulling Davis from the starting rotation? Right about now, in my opinion. With whom do you replace him? Andy Sonnanstine.
  • On the Radar: Bjorn Again: The ABBA Experience
    Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Just the name alone lets you know Bjorn Again: The ABBA Experience has its tongue firmly in cheek. The satirical yet affectionate and musically faithful stage show about the 1970s hit machine (“Dancing [... ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • BDS in Hebrew
    Ofer Neiman (a regular contributor to The Only Democracy?) and Ayala Shani published this article in Hebrew in Haaretz. As is often the case, the most interesting, and cutting-edge discussions, don’t get translated into the English version of the paper, perhaps in fear of offending sensitive Jewish ...
  • Participant Citizen Repressed: Rela Mazali on Amee ...
    By Rela Mazali The letter from human rights defender, Ameer Makhoul, released and distributed by his family and friends, was written on May 30th, after Makhoul had spent 3 weeks in prison without access to even pen and paper, not to speak of lawyers, family visits, due process, humane and legal ...
  • Letter from Gilboa Jail
    Ameer Makhoul has been in an Israeli jail for about six weeks now.  Much of that time, he has been in solitary confinement and without access to a lawyer.  He, his laywers, and his family say that he has been tortured, as we  covered in a previous post.  His trial is expected to begin in the nex ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • On leaving PSL
    (Reader EnCee on why he left PSL. Promoted from the comments to my Abstaining from bad sects post yesterday. The image is of my choosing.) This is just a little blurb on my own departure from the PSL after 6+ years. There is so much to get into, but I promised Bob I would keep [...]
  • Offensively named marijuana wins pot award
    The medicinal, confounding, self-righteous, and needlessly macho world of ardent pot smoking had some sort of award ceremony this past weekend. The High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup held their first-ever competition on getting high, or whatnot, as Bay Area weed dispensaries competed for ...
  • Coercive games. Target fat cats and upset their pe ...
    Global Guerrillas says traditional non-violent protest is ineffective so instead, target the ultra-wealthy and disrupt their personal lives, perhaps even making it a Dark Net game with tactics like Anonymous used against Scientology. Use identity theft, physical and net harassment, etc. Career advan ...
  • Dog poo into methane to power park lights
    Park Spark explains how.
  • Judge overturns deep water drilling moratorium in ...
    The White House will appeal.

Coteret

  • Yediot: How an Israeli college succeeded in shutti ...
    In this morning’s (June 23 2010) Yediot, Uri Misgav reports on how the management of an academic college in northern Israel intervened in the student body elections in a successful effort to shut-out Palestinian-Israeli representatives. His conclusion: The Emek Yezreel College is currently holdi ...
  • Israeli NSA Arad on-record: Two states? That&#8217 ...
    Yesterday (June 22 2010), In a speech to the Jewish Agency, Israeli National Security Adviser Uzi Arad, asked Israelis to ‘curb their enthusiasm’ about a two state solution to the conflict, saying that legitimizing a Palestinian State is tantamount to de-legitimizing Israel: Arad also leveled veiled ...
  • Yediot’s legal affairs editor on “the ...
    Yediot’s legal affairs editor, Judge (ret.) Boaz Okon, lists a series of undemocratic events in the Israeli public sphere and urges his readers to come to contemplate what they mean when seen together: These dots are growing evidence of the lack of the spirit of freedom and the emergence of aparthei ...
  • [NOT satire] Maariv: Netanyahu aides say they&#821 ...
    [Teaser] Quartet’s Middle East envoy stands at the front of Israeli Hasbara] [Headline] Israel introduces: Spokesman Tony Blair [Sub-headline] Israel’s policy has a new media representative: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has enlisted his vast experience and international standing to ...
  • “Storm in pajamas”: Maariv reports US ...
    The makings of a farce: [Commission member Shabtai] Rosen’s long list of credentials did not help endear him to the Americans, who were embarrassed by the photograph of him reading material while wearing pajamas with his Filipino by his side. The photograph also got him trouble with the immigration ...

Deadline Live

  • Stephen Harper will say ‘sorry’ to Air India famil ...
    OTTAWA—At a national memorial Wednesday in Toronto for the 329 Air India victims, families still mourning their loved ones will finally hear the words they have waited 25 years for. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in an address marking the 25th anniversary of the bombing and his first public comments ...
  • Judge who nixed Gulf drilling ban has oil, gas inv ...
    NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He’s also a new member of a secret national security c ...
  • Deadline Live – June 22 2010
    Tuesday – Hour One: Jack’s Special Guest is Harley Schlanger Hour Two: Breaking news from DEADLINELIVE.INFO Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Conservative Sentencing Act to Cost Canadians Bill ...
    CBC NEWS: New act that limits credit given to prisoners for time served in custody before and during their trials will cost taxpayers billions to maintain says parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpo ...
  • Greenpeace activists (NWO controlled oppostion) he ...
    Greenpeace activists (NWO controlled oppostion) heckle BP speech at London oil conference Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList

The Air Vent

  • Obamacare
    Thank god for Obama and his supporters.  Without them, how would we know the way to prosperity. UPDATE 1-Individuals see health insurance costs jump-report Strange, now that we’ve regulated companies to take away profit and given everyone insurance wasn’t the cost supposed to drop? WASHINGTON, June ...
  • @#$%
    You knew it was coming. Dems-ready-for-big-push-on-global-warming Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., told CNN’s “State of the Union” he believes there are 50 senators who would vote for a compromise bill that would require the energy utilities to pay for carbon pollution and an additional 20 who are undec ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Quizzes and Twitter Appear on This Week’s List of ...
    This week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook apps by daily active users is still seeing follow-on effects from a fix Facebook made last week to app stat reporting. Dozens of apps are still showing what appear to be large one-day increases in DAU — although the “new” users were actually there all alo ...
  • Note for Developers: Mandatory Facebook User Permi ...
    Following Facebook’s announcement at f8 about its new data permissions model for web sites and applications, the company will be automatically upgrading its permissions interface for all developers on June 30th. Developers who want to access more than users’ publicly available “basic information” no ...
  • News Feed Design Test Places Large Popular Photos ...
    Facebook is testing a new design of the news feed that displays 3 popular photos above the stream of friend and page updates, as some users are spotting. These photos are sized much larger than any others on the home page and are accompanied by their album title, caption, author, and tallies of enga ...
  • Seven Languages Grow, Three Hold Steady in Latest ...
    [Editor's Note: The following stats are excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Click here to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] Today, we revisit growth and demographics stats for Facebook’s top la ...
  • Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns ...
    If 2009 is remembered as the year that casual gaming stormed social platforms, 2010 is quickly becoming the year that the industry started to mature. Facebook is getting more involved in the monetization ecosystem, last year’s hit games are fighting for their lives, and new developers and games are ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Why they hate America: “The kin of the dead can’t ...
    Paul J. Balles says the reason why so many people in the Arab and Muslim worlds hate the United States is not envy of American wealth or power but injustice and greed. And the solution is simple: "Stop occupying their countries. Stop controlling others' land, populations, governments and resources."
  • 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 ...

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

  • Just Some Handy Walmart Subvertising
    Someone sent me an email containing an article which, on first glance, appeared to be neatly undermining Walmart’s corporate line that the world’s biggest retailer is becoming “green”. It turns out that I read too much into the article, and they were actually praising Walmart and suggesting they wer ...
  • 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 ...

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

CounterCurrents

  • Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills
    By Real Climate Thats the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today. I know, its apples and oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the environment than it is as CO2 (although CO2 may be more damaging on geolo ...
  • Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario
    By Richard Heinberg We all want the least-bad outcome here. But what if events continue on the current trajectory that is, what if the situation keeps deteriorating? Just how awful could this get?
  • Stock Markets Will Lead To The Extinction Of Human ...
    By Devinder Sharma Growth economics is nothing but violent economics. While the economic benefits would be reaped by the rich and the crooked, you and me will have to live with the violence it unleashes. I am not sure how many of us will survive this violence
  • The Anguish Of The Age: Emotional Reactions To Col ...
    By Robert Jensen To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for ones own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse
  • The Coming Dark Age
    By Guy R McPherson From the day I predicted the new Dark Age would begin by the end of 2012, the criticism has been continuous. Most critics, citing no evidence and no understanding of peak oil and its economic consequences, claim well surely adjust and adapt and generally demonstrate our big-brai ...

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

  • George Soros, Obama's Brazilian Oil Man
    Last August there was much criticism over the fact that President Obama agreed to give Brazilian Owned Oil Company Petrobras up to $10 Billion Dollars to look for Oil off the Brazil Coast.� At the time it was especially disturbing because the Administration objected to the US Drilling off its ow ...
  • Mid-East Lies My Son's Social Studies Teacher Taug ...
    Last week my youngest child took his New York State High School regents exam in World History. I am proud to say that he earned a 95 on the state-wide test. What makes me particularly proud is the fact that my son had to do double the work and learn� two different versions of the curriculum, the one ...
  • I'm Looking and I Don't See Any Palestinian State- ...
    By Barry Rubin I read an article on Foreign Policy blog which, like many things I see on the Middle East, convinces me of the precise opposite conclusion to what the author wants me to think. The article, by Hussein Ibish, a Palestinian activist in the United States, is entitled: "While No One ...
  • New Yorker Editor David Remnick, A Racist in Journ ...
    There was a particularly disturbing segment during Howard Kurtz' Reliable Sources Program on CNN this weekend. Host Howard Kurtz was interviewing David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief of the New Yorker Magazine, who was "pimping" his new book "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama." Kurtz ask ...
  • McChrystal RIPS Obama Administration- Was it Suici ...
    I extend my sincerest apology for this profile. It was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened. Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity. What is reflected in this article falls far short of that standard. I ...

The Real Agenda

  • Zero Hora Newspaper Lies to Readers about Chem-tra ...
    Chem-trails do not decorate or adorn the sky. They are part of an experiment used globally called Geo-engineering that seeks to limit the amount of sunlight the planet receives in order to reduce the nonexistent global warming.
  • Checkmate on Obama’s Tax Care
    "no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person, whether or not such person is the person against whom such tax was assessed."
  • EU Dictators to Control National Budgets
    When a nation state is no longer in control of its own finances, which have been handed over to an unelected cabal of appointed lackeys, then the nation state no longer exists. This is exactly the position which Ireland and every nation in the EU face today.
  • Nobel Laureate: “Put virus genes in bacteria ...
    "For example, one project we are undertaking showed some early successes in animals. The project is that we can take the influenza virus genes, put them into the bacteria so the bacteria look a little bit like influenza, then feed the bacteria to somebody," he said.
  • The to be the new largest manufacturer, shortly
    FT The US remained the world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China– thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production. The figures are revealed in a league table being published on Monday by IHS Global Insi ...

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

  • Justice for sale, judge Martin Feldman shows just ...
    Bush appointee? Reagan? Nixon? Exxon? Wouldn’t matter. The so-called “Leaders” are the easily replaced Corporate Face. Nothing to see, citizen, keep moving, nothing to see here…
  • Puerto Rico Birth certificates cancelled, Citizens ...
    Is it any coincidence that this is aimed at the single largest concentration of non-Anglo CITIZENS in America? Yet the racist pricks in the Minutemen and other anti-”immigrant” Hate Groups, orchestrated by Fox News, deny any racist intent. Just like Joe Arpaio and Sarah Palin and John McCain deny th ...
  • McChrystal panders to “Obama as Age of Aquar ...
    To hear him tell it, even the Republicans aren’t right wing enough. The dude has some serious personality issues, easily disguised behind a uniform and a herd of similar uniformed attitudes. There’s a hippie parlor trick, you run some quotes by some of the “Get behind the troops or get in front of t ...
  • Oil spill sized profits in the other gulf
    We notice oil spills, not because oil comes up missing, but when the accumulation overflows our ability to excuse it. What can we say about the embarrassment of development in the United Arab Emirates? It’s oil profit, yes, but also reconstruction billions siphoned from Iraq and Afghanistan. On the ...
  • Israel reaffirms Freedom Flotilla raid – Acc ...
    The results of Israel’s self-investigation of the Mavi Marmara Massacre are in: surprise, the IDF commandos did no wrong, but suffered from a deficiency of intelligence. It’s what many of us were already thinking, but there’s another punchline which Israel invites by assessing the deadly raid and ID ...

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

  • McDonald’s Happy Meal – Like Candy from a Dirty O ...
    âMcDonaldâs is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children.” These harsh words are part of an ultimatum that CSPI, a consumer advocacy group, has sent to McDonald’s in a bid to stop the habit of pairing kiddie sized junk food meals with irresistible toys. And not just any toys ...
  • No Surprise: Kids Love Cartoon Character Foods
    Here’s a finding that should come as no surprise to parents who take their kids grocery shopping: Researchers found that the branding of American food product packaging with characters such as Dora the Explorer drives preschoolers to choose higher-calorie, less healthful foods over more nutritiou ...
  • Campbell’s Spaghetti-Oh Oh’s [Inside the Label]
    Campbell’s is recalling a large number of it’s signature Spaghettio’s canned spaghetti and meatballs products. Turns out somebody in the factory forgot to turn the oven on and the meatballs have been undercooked. If people just heat the product instead of thoroughly cooking the meat, they may get s ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • On koans
    The purpose of a koan is for the person who engages in it to realize the difference between the mind (which manifests itself as a flow of thoughts) and consciousness (which is the space that contains the flow of thoughts). Always the issue is to understand that it is identification with our thoughts ...
  • 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 ...

Survival International

  • Japanese company targets uncontacted tribes’ land
    Inpex bought its 25% stake off Brazilian company Petrobras. © Survival A Japanese company, Inpex Corporation, has bought a 25% stake in an oil and gas concession in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon. The concession, known as Lot 117, is in northern Peru and includes an area inhabited by unc ...
  • New wave of violence in West Papua
    A Korowai woman in West Papua, occupied by Indonesia since 1963. © Survival The Indonesian military and para-military police ( BRIMOB ) have launched a violent operation against Papuan tribal people in the Punkak Jaya region in the central highlands of West Papua. The notorious BRIMOB and Indo ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The bloody obviousness of most good predictions
    Back when I was in university, one day I found myself in a first year sociology class with a 150 odd other students.  The Prof, a wonderful teacher who went by Dr. Anderson, and to whose door I once tacked a list of 15 intellectual disagreements, asked the class a simple question. “How many of you ...
  • Warlord cash flow is a positive feedback loop
    It is a nasty positive feedback loop that won't be broken unless the United States, and more importantly Barrack Obama realizes he can take the short term domestic political hit of abandoning maximal goals and embracing a minimal and much cheaper goal set.
  • Helping “Terrorists” Engage In Anything Non-Terror ...
    You can’t make up bad decisions like this.  Note that this is a 6-3 decision, not a close one: The law barring material support was first adopted in 1996 and strengthened by the USA Patriot Act adopted by Congress right after the September 11 attacks. It was amended again in 2004. The law bars [ ...
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change
    By Barbara Loe Fisher This past spring, the FDA took a hands-off approach to Merck’s admission that DNA from a lethal pig virus is contaminating doses of RotaTeq vaccine being swallowed by millions of newborn babies. Now the agency responsible...
  • Osler's Web Update: Trine Tsouderos From Cupcake C ...
    Inside the Labyrinth: Osler's Web Updates WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE CHICAGO... Copyright (C) 2010, Hillary Johnson, All Rights Reserved; Permission to Excerpt Granted by Hillary Johnson June 8, 2010 Trine appears to have begun her transition to science reporter in 2008-2009....
  • June 26 Meet Callous Disregard Author Dr. Andrew W ...
    The Autism Society of Greater Phoenix and AZ ACT Today! present: A Parent's Day at the Ritz featuring Dr. Andrew Wakefield on June 26th at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 2401 East Camelback Road Phoenix, AZ 85016 (Learn more and register...
  • Olmsted on Autism: “Vaccinate, Baby, Vaccinate!”
    By Dan Olmsted Have the American people finally had it with “experts” telling them that things will be just fine? That oil wells won’t turn into gushers in the Gulf, that cars won’t suddenly become speeding bullets, that a deregulated...
  • If President Obama Had Been Talking About the Auti ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Ralph Toddre has put into a post what many of us were thinking as we listened to President Obama discuss the environmental catastrophe that now threatens our Gulf ecosystems, and the both the livelihoods and health of...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • China says “concerned” about South Kor ...
    Reuters – China said on Tuesday it was concerned about reports that a U.S. aircraft carrier may join a military exercise with South Korea amid a tense standoff with North Korea over the sinking of a warship from the South. The South Korean corvette the Cheonan was sunk off the peninsula’s west coas ...
  • China punctures yuan hopes
    Reuters – China’s yuan eked out a tiny gain on Wednesday after its biggest swings since 2005 earlier this week, suggesting Beijing’s promise of currency flexibility will not produce the rapid gains its trading partners would like. Whatever its daily gyrations, analysts suspect the yuan will be allow ...
  • Strange lesions after stem-cell therapy
    Nature – In a stark reminder that stem-cell therapy is uncharted territory, a stem-cell transplant given to a patient in Thailand who had kidney disease resulted in the development of cellular masses not previously reported. The lesions, described in a paper published online on 17 June in the Journa ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but ...
    Guardian – The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not fear for his safety but is on permanent alert. Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the ele ...
  • Firm once known as Blackwater gets Afghan contract
    Associated Press – Part of the company once known as Blackwater Worldwide has been awarded a more than $120 million contract to protect new U.S. consulates in the Afghan cities of Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif, the U.S. Embassy said Saturday. The United States Training Center, a business unit of the for ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Congressional frustration with BP ...
    A House investigative panel resumed its grilling of BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward on Thursday afternoon after a frustrating morning during which oil company chief spent much time avoiding tough questions. “I sincerely hope that you will reconsider your approach...
  • Gulf oil spill: Relief well is ahead of schedule
    Work on the relief well, the ultimate solution to stopping the gulf oil spill, is slightly ahead of schedule, and BP expects to be able to collect up to 80,000 barrels of oil a day by late July, Coast Guard...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP's Tony Hayward apologizes
    After sitting and listening to 90 minutes of attacks on his company, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward finally got his chance to apologize for the oil leak that has wracked the Gulf of Mexico. Speaking after a protester, smeared in...
  • Gulf oil spill: Partisan politics over $20-billion ...
    Even at a congressional hearing where a big oil company has already been targeted as the principal villain, partisan politics between Republicans and Democrats was never far from the surface. Though castigating BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward and his company’s...
  • Gulf oil spill: Congressional hearings begin with ...
    Greeted by signs that proclaimed “BP kills,” the company's chief executive, Tony Hayward, came to Congress on Thursday to apologize for his and the company’s role in the nation’s worst environmental disaster. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills), the House...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Telecom New Zealand Outage
    Really fast, while my connection is up: In the early morning hours yesterday, Telecom NZ “upgraded” the cell site that I use to connect to the mobile broadband service. The thing has been dead ever since. They confirmed that the site is dead and they’re working on getting it running again. I don’t k ...
  • Monsanto Wins as Supreme Court Backs Alfalfa Seed ...
    Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in favor of Monsanto Co., overturned a judge’s ban on the planting of alfalfa seeds engineered to be resistant to the company’s Roundup herbicide. The 7-1 ruling shifts the focus of the environmental dispute to the Agriculture Department, which under to ...
  • Chinese Manufacturers Looking to Replace Workers w ...
    Mmm hmm. New Sharp Flat Panel Factory: No Humans on Assembly Line Etc. etc. etc. Via: Bloomberg: New minimum wage laws, a looser yuan and worker strikes like those affecting Honda Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. are raising costs at plants in China’s Pearl River Delta, leading to increased automati ...
  • Next WikiLeaks Release May Involve ECHELON
    If they have information related to tasking the system, such as the words and phrases used, or the targets of the system, or actual intercepts, that would be pretty astonishing. It’s hard to believe that they would have stuff like this, but who knows… Look at that 9/11 pager data dump. Where did tha ...
  • McChrystal Called Back to Washington Over Comments ...
    Via: Washington Post: The top U.S. general in Afghanistan was headed to Washington early Tuesday for an impromptu White House meeting, after apologizing for an upcoming magazine article that portrays him and his staff as flippant and dismissive of top Obama administration officials involved in Afgha ...

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 ...

Margaret's News

  • Commit Yourself To The Truth -- Cutting Thr ...
    "I was a member of a group that put up a billboard criticizing Israels lethal use of force during Operation Cast Lead. A college student wrote to us to tell us that he disagreed with our assessment of Israels behavior. He asked that we remove..." Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • World is an accessory to Israel's Gaza crimes
    Rather than investigating Israel's deadly raid of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla, an international inquiry should look into how Israel managed to sell its destructive Gaza policies to the countries of the world. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Gideon Levy: The Patriot
    What does the Israeli patriot want? What state exactly does he dream of before falling asleep at night? What society does he hope for while immersed in his morning routine? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • While No One's Looking, the Palestinians Are Build ...
    Far away from the television cameras and breathless news reports, 2,000 Palestinian financiers also gathered recently at the second Palestine Investment Conference to quietly go about the business of building the economy of a viable Palestinian State. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note- ...
  • Of Semites and Semantics
    David Horowitz - "I am a Jew. The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn't have to hunt us down globally. For or against it?" Jumanah Imad Albahri (with the Muslim Student Assn.) - "For it." Submitted by Lindsey DTSW to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Housing Double Dip Accelerates As Existing Home Sa ...
  • Iran, BP and the CIA
    The offshore oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico brought to us by BP has overshadowed its central role over the past century in fostering some other disastrous events.
  • NY law would be 1st to take DNA from all criminals
    Gov. David Paterson has proposed roughly doubling New York's DNA database to include samples from even low-level offenders, making it the first in the nation to so broadly collect and use that evidence to solve crimes and exonerate people wrongly convicted.
  • Now scientists read your mind better than you can
    Brain scans may be able to predict what you will do better than you can yourself, and might offer a powerful tool for advertisers or health officials seeking to motivate consumers, researchers said on Tuesday.
  • JPMorgan to start a global corporate banking busin ...
    JPMorgan Chase emerged from the financial crisis as one of the strongest banks on American soil. Now it wants to make up lost ground overseas, Eric Dash reports in The New York Times.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Davutoglu says Brazil to be with Turkey to press f ...
    Summary: Davutoglu Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday that Turkey and Brazil would continue to press for a deal with Iran to swap its nuclear material, renewing his pledge to find a diplomatic solution for nuclear controversy between Iran and West after new U.N. sanctions. ...
  • Iran sanctions concern Pakistan
    Summary: Iran Pakistan Pakistan's foreign minister expressed hope the sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program would not affect his country's gas pipeline deal with Tehran. source: UPI read more
  • UN Security Council outdated, needs new members: B ...
    Summary: Amorim "The Security Council no longer reflects the political reality" but rather a reality "that was true 65 years ago," Amorim told journalists during a visit to Vienna where he met with his Austrian counterpart Michael Spindelegger. source: The Times of India read more
  • The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Mainta ...
    Summary: With so many problems in the USA, it's no easy job to single out a handful of the most important, priority issues. But the enormous pile of wasted money spent on wars and the military-industrial complex has to be right at the top. Not only is the money spent an enormous destructive wast ...
  • Obama 'failed' in diplomacy test
    Summary: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has criticized the stance adopted by US President Barack Obama regarding Iran's nuclear issue, saying the US president has failed in a diplomatic test. source: Press TV read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Earth's "ET" Atmosphere: What You're Breathing May ...
    Some scientists say that there really is something Kryptonian among us, brought to Earth by impacting objects from outer space – only it's the noble gas, not a noble hero, because there's nothing more Kryptonian than Krypton itself. A new...
  • Was the Universe Created by a Cyclical Trillion-Ye ...
    String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we see as the Big Bang was actually created by...
  • Did "X-Woman" Share Ancestry with Neanderthals and ...
    Scientists say a third hominin group may have co-existed with early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. A DNA sample taken from an ancient pinky bone that belonged to a child who died between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago, suggests that a...
  • Fossils from the Birth of the Milky Way Deciphered
    A team of astronomers has succeeded in decoding the earliest phases of the evolutionary history of the Milky Way. The scientists, from the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at Bonn University and the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, found that...
  • NexGen Space Travel: Uploading the Human Mind
    The idea of uploading out of these meatsacks has always appealed to certain people, and you can tell an awful lot about them by their use of the phrase "meatsacks." Athena Andreadis recently wrote an article on why we can't...

Natural News

  • Humans vs. the environment - A thought experiment
    (NaturalNews) Protecting the environment isn't a "liberal" idea; it's everybody's business. Liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, the environment provides life support for us all, and if we fail to recognize that, we are truly doomed as a civilization. To help explain this, I've put toget ...
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia breakthrough: green t ...
    (NaturalNews) According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a form of cancer that causes the number of white blood cells called B lymphocytes, or B cells, to increase abnormally. Eventually, the cancerous cells can move through the blood to the liver, sp ...
  • Prescription drug abuse exceeds heroin, cocaine an ...
    (NaturalNews) Rates of prescription drug abuse worldwide are higher than those for the use of cocaine, ecstasy and heroin, combined, according to a new report by the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Boards (INCB). "Abuse of such drugs has been spreading over the world in recent years, ...
  • Raw Organic Virgin Coconut Oil has a hundred uses ...
    (NaturalNews) People who really know about health know about virgin coconut oil . It's the oil of choice for health-conscious people, and it's used in everything from smoothies (delicious!) to personal care products. You can use coconut oil both inside and outside your body. It's even useful for coo ...
  • New doctors linked to unnecessary deaths, especial ...
    (NaturalNews) If you plan on going to a teaching hospital for a test or elective procedure, here's a warning that could save your life: Stay away from the hospital in July. The reason? According to a new study headed by Dr. David Phillips and Gwendolyn Barker from the University of California, San D ...

Threat Level

  • Packet-Sniffing Laws Murky as Open Wi-Fi Prolifera ...
    Starbucks is rolling out free, unsecured Wi-Fi access at about 7,000 coffee shops across the United States beginning July 1. But will there be packet-sniffing with your latte? The Seattle-based coffee concern’s move to lure customers with free internet comes amid a growing legal uncertainty about pr ...
  • Copyright Czar Backs IP Enforcement, ‘Fair Use’
    Copyright Czar Victoria Espinel unveiled Tuesday the Obama administration’s first “Joint Strategic Plan” concerning intellectual property enforcement — and she gave a big nod to fair use. The plan was required under the Pro-IP Act of 2008, which created Espinel’s post. The act was watered down to el ...
  • First RIAA File Sharing Trial Morphs Into Groundho ...
    The nation’s first file sharing copyright infringement trial has morphed into a legal Groundhog Day. In a bid two avoid a third trial — after two mistrials — the Minnesota federal judge presiding over the 4-year-old Jammie Thomas-Rasset case wants the Recording Industry Association of American and t ...
  • Feds Say Man E-mailed Biden ‘I’m Going to Kill You ...
    With neighbors like this, who needs enemies? A Minnesota man accused of hacking into his neighbor’s computer and sending a threatening e-mail to Vice President Joe Biden has turned down a two-year plea deal and is negotiating for less, the defendant’s attorney said Monday. Barry Ardolf, a Minnesota ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Estate Tax, the Giving Pledge and the Future o ...
    For America's ultra-rich, two stories this month have been dominating the news. Thanks to Republican obstructionism, the one-year lapse of the estate tax is producing a windfall for the heirs of the nation's most well-off, including, as we learned two weeks ago, the heirs of Texas billionaire Dan D ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

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 ...
  • Wishing BP a Happy World Oceans Day
    World Oceans Day has been celebrated unofficially since 1992, and officially since December 2008 when the UN formally recognized it. Organized by The Ocean Project and the World Ocean Network, this holiday celebrates our oceans which bring us clean air, clean food, and clean water- that is, until Ap ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • You Are What You Eat
    Subheadline:� The Food Sovereignty Struggle within the Global Justice Movement Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� John E. Peck is the executive director of Family Farm Defenders, a Grassr ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • June 23, 2010
    White House Postpones Senate Energy Meeting (Politico) The White House has postponed Pres. Obama's meeting Wednesday with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss energy legislation, sources said Wednesday night. Moratorium Judge Owned Offshore Drilling Shares (Financial Times) T ...
  • June 22, 2010
    Climate Bill Backers Enter Critical Week (Reuters) With time running out for the U.S. Senate to debate complicated and controversial climate legislation, key players will huddle this week to try to come up with a plan for passing an energy/environment bill this year.  White House, Lieberm ...
  • June 22, 2010
    � � � White House, Lieberman Considering Utility-Only Bill (ClimateWire) The Obama administration and a key player in Senate climate negotiations would consider a bill that caps greenhouse gas emissions from just the electric utility sector, which may face better politica ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why Our Nobles Betray Us
    I understand that it's a little goofy to draw lessons from a fictional movie, but I am going to proceed nonetheless. My wife and I were just watching Braveheart and there was one interesting element in there. In the movie, the nobles of Scotland keep betraying William Wallace who is fighting for the ...
  • Cartoon for June 21, 2010: Mix Up
    [click image to enlarge] Who can blame the gravekeepers at Arlington? All the victims of our leaders’ lies look the same. read more
  • Hillary raises the stakes on human trafficking
    Unfortunately, slavery is not a thing of the past. Human beings are still being bought and sold for sex and labor. Only these days it's called human trafficking. Fortunately, the Obama administration is aware of the problem and appears to be making a solid effort to address it. To that end, on June ...
  • Inspection- The New York State Stealway
    When I think of how some on the Right would run government, I think of the New State Thruway, or “the Stealway,” as I refer to it. Instead of some big “socialist give away;” where our taxes get used to build and maintain an interstate system, you do it on a state by state basis. And you pay for it w ...
  • Ridiculing hunger for fun and profit
    Connoisseurs of symbolism were delighted to see that Rush Limbaugh’s suggestion that hungry kids should resort to dumpster diving came at the same time as when progressive websites were struggling with fund raising efforts. Starving for food or money? Rush will laugh at either predicament and urge ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Something’s Wrong with the McChrystal Slam D ...
    I realize General McChrystal is already tried and convicted in the court of public opinion. The lazy fucking media reports, “GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL SAID . . .” but, if you take time to read the article, McChrystal is not quoted once saying anything disparaging about anyone up his chain of command. Sev ...
  • Obama Playing Politics With Borders, Gulf Spill, a ...
    Recently, Sec. Hillary Clinton made news by telling an Ecuadorean reporter that, sure enough, Obama plans to sue Arizona over its new law. Huh. That was news to Gov. Brewer. Nice way for her to find out for sure. But it begs the question, why. Why is Obama suing Arizona over its [...]
  • The End of Afghanistan UPDATE
    We’re done in Afghanistan and so is General Stan McChrystal. McChrystal, who has been on the frontlines of combatting Islamic extremists since 2003 when he was put in charge of the Joint Special Operations Command, has self-destructed with the help of Rolling Stone Magazine. McChrystal’s problem? ...
  • Narco-Jihad
    Editor’s Note: From the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule; podcasts). ___________________________________________   Great Game Surge. The failed state of Kyrgyzstan in remote Central Asia is the next target of the narco-jihad that has already taken control of AfPak and is aimi ...
  • The Barack and Toby Golf and Yachting Club
    Two images emerged over the weekend involving two CEOs who ostensibly are spending all of their time, effort and energy on containing the oil gushing from the wreck of the BP drilling rig, Deep Horizon–Barack playing golf and Toby Hayward sailing. WHAT THE FUCK!! Both men take the term “clueless” to ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Brilliantly Colored Palm Branch Art
    Natural palm fronds are being upcycled into unforgettable home decor. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Swarm of Paper Airplanes Invade Building
    Dawn Ng is a very talented artist who loves to stage enormous presentations that get people talking. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Alaska Bear Shooting Challenges National Park Gun ...
    A newly enacted federal law permits firearms in national parks. But a visitor to Alaska’s Denali Park has come under fire for illegally shooting and killing a grizzly. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • The Gulf Oil Spill Saga Continues...
    Mounting costs and failure after failure point to more trouble ahead for the Gulf region until BP contains its oil spill. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Universe's Youngest Star is Born
    A team of American and German astronomers have discovered the youngest known stellar object ever! 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

  • BP and Sado-Messochism
    Have the messes we've been making finally reached a point where they can't be cleaned up?
  • Reforming Asylum Policy
    President Obama has made some progress in making it easier for legitimate asylum-seekers to stay in the United States. But more can be done.
  • 60 Second Expert: Democratic Party Defends Israeli ...
    Instead of pinning the blame on Israel for flotilla tragedy, congressional Democrats are leaping to Israel's defense.
  • Seed of Destruction: Nuclear 'Pits'
    How can we achieve nuclear disarmament when the Obama administration seeks increased funding for the core of the weapon -- the nuclear pit?
  • Prolonging the Gaza Failure
    The blockade of Gaza has not achieved its goal of removing Hamas from power or moderating its positions. The power of Hamas has only become more entrenched.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Is the Oil Dispersant Helping? Official Says Yes
    The rate that the BP well is spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico could be calculated easily if the well were capped and the flow were then controlled, said a senior Environmental Protection Agency official said on Tuesday. But if the well is killed by intercepting it near the bottom wit ...
  • Dark Ecosystems Nurtured by Oil
    How much oil seeps up from the seabed, aside from oil spills? Quite a lot, and a fascinating group of sea creatures thrives on it.
  • Q-and-A: Woody Biomass, Pros and Cons
    John M. Hagan, president of the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, and Thomas Walker, a researcher at the center, answer a few questions about their recent study of biomass power.
  • On Our Radar: Victory for Biotech Industry
    A Supreme Court victory for Monsanto and the biotechnology industry; justices vote 7 to 1 to overturn an appellate court decision banning the planting of herbicide-resistant alfalfa.
  • A Tuna Escape Raises Hackles
    Environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd group took their defense of the bluefin tuna to a new level, using scuba divers to cut the nets on an undersea cage and releasing hundreds of the fish off the North African coast.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Assange == Auction the leaks? Lamo was a Honeypot ...
    Vatican Endorses "The Blues Brothers" - ABC News - nothing else matters too much. " The issue here is that Assange and Manning (the primary source of Wikileaks Iraq and Afghanistan leaks) hoped to jointly profit by selling some of the data by auction " -- Supposed "Wikileaks Insider" @ Cryptome ...
  • Daily Show: Obama == "Respect My Authoritah"
    Great stuff from tonight's Daily Show. It contrasts with the right-baiting on MSNBC right now nicely :) Update 15 mins later: - look what the photo host service I tweeted it from did! TAKEN OVER BY HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP advertising. Dark times. here: http://tweetphoto.com/27442324
  • Geological spread of Gulf Disaster, Secret Corexit ...
    Get Cooked: Americans get most radiation from medical scans ( cryptogon ) Followups to Gaza Flotilla video: subMedia -Foreclose this , Editorial by Iara Lee What happened to us is happening in Gaza , U.S. Filmmaker Recorded Flotilla Massacre Video - Salem-News.Com , New Footage Emerges From the Isra ...
  • Late Nite Assange email: Wikileaks "may be under a ...
    WikiLeaks via SunshinePress.org just sent out a curiously ambiguous call, signed by the elusive Julian Assange, for emergency funds, with subject "WikiLeaks may be under attack", also calling for people to set up local "Friends of Wikileaks" chapters. Also: Save Bradley! The Wikileaks guy Bradley ...
  • Under Attack: Mavi Marmara Attacked - Flotilla foo ...
    Crosspost from the root spot of mirrors: http://tc.indymedia.org/files/flotilla-footage/index.html

Daily Censored

  • “WE ARE WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS” WAS A LIE
    CENSORED IN 1993: “WE ARE WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS” WAS A LIE When President George Bush went before the nation on September 6, 1989, to give a special address about the seriousness of the drug problem in the United States, the media and the public responded with alarm. By the end of that month, 64 ...
  • Yvette Felarca for American Federation of Teachers ...
    Join the Equal Opportunity Now/BAMN Campaigns for National Leadership of the Teacher Unions! Build a United Student-Teacher Civil Rights Movement Fighting to Defend Public Education!    Yvette Felarca for AFT President!    Mark Airgood & Ceresta Smith for NEA Executive Committee! ...
  • Teacher pension funds face massive cuts and vampir ...
    Teachers pensions next:  Sorry, we can’t pay you!  Deficits too high! A recent study by the conservative Manhattan Institute and the right wing Foundation for Educational Choice (the right wing Milton and Rose Friedman foundation), was released by the Manhattan Institute on April 30, 2010.  It has c ...
  • No virus protection, no internet in Australia
    Following the latest news in Australia about internet filters and spying on its citizens, Australia has now gone one step further in their attempts at restricting the internet to the general population. A new government plan would make the internet inaccessible to anyone that did not have anti-viru ...
  • WINNING THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS
    When we dip our foot in the water, we take responsibility for how clean the water is.   This is an analogy for involving ourselves in the affairs of the Iraqis and Afghans.  We are now held responsible for their quality of life, as well we should, and it isn’t pretty. The military strategy we are pu ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • It's Time We Tax Financial Gambling
    A tiny tax would make purely speculative investment less profitable and encourage long-term, patient investment.
  • BP and Sado-Messochism
    Have the messes we've been making finally reached a point where they can't be cleaned up?
  • From the Frontlines: June 21, 2010
    The wrong class war, Earth's ocean problem, and action against the BP oil spill.
  • The Afghan Opium War
    The worst thing the U.S. military could do in Afghanistan right now is forced eradication of poppies, because it would alienate peasant farmers and drive them into the arms of the Taliban. The farmers will turn to illicit crops to feed their families.
  • Immigrants' American Dreams
    We need a system that responds to the realities of immigration in this country while rejecting the knee-jerk discrimination that the Arizona law represents.

Pine River World News

  • PINE RIVER BLOG DISCONTINUED...
    Pine River World News (blog) is being discontinued. Please read the notice posted at the top of the homepage . New material is now being posted on IntelTrends (WordPress) . There is a new RSS feed for IntelTrends. The existing newsfeed for Pine River World News will be discontinued shortly. [End. ...
  • GORDON DUFF: Mid-East Sitrep: Time To Walk Away An ...
    [ Blogmaster note : �Due to changes initiated by Blogger, I will no longer post articles and commentaries on Pine River World News (Blogger) - these will now be published on my IntelTrends (WordPress) site. RSS subscribers please update your news feed when you visit IntelTrends .] The following com ...
  • 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. ...

IntelNews

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Grist - News

  • California’s climate law in peril, Governato ...
    by Ashley Braun. California's pioneering cap-and-trade climate law, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 , is officially under threat in this November's election. The ballot initiative known as the California Jobs Initiative, which "would halt enforcement of the Global Warming Solutions Act ...
  • Celebrities tackle another tragedy with Larry King ...
    by Ashley Braun. When catastrophe strikes -- be it asteroids, aliens, or tornadoes -- it's always best to call in the heavyweights. Celebrities, that is. After all, Hollywood deals with epic disasters and explosions every day. After an initial drought , the devastating oil leak in the Gulf of Me ...
  • Presidents keep failing to get us off oil, but Ame ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Who's to blame for America's 40-some years of stagnation on energy policy -- cowardly politicians or a lazy public? Time 's Bryan Walsh finds some fault with both in a new post. The case against politicians: Energy is one of those bipartisan issues that any politician can du ...
  • Judge blocks Gulf deepwater drilling ban
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge Tuesday ruled against a six-month freeze imposed on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a blow to the White House. The Obama administration immediately said it would appeal. Judge Martin Feldman ruled in favor of 32 oil firms that cha ...
  • Big Oil plays jobs card as it fights offshore-dril ...
    by Randy Rieland. First we saw interview after interview with out-of-work fishermen and shrimpers.� Now we're hearing from oil-rig workers.� Jobs are the trump card of political debate in America these days and, not surprisingly, that card is now being deftly played by critics of the Obama admin ...

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Washington Independent

  • Carve-Outs, Carve-Outs Everywhere
    Two days from now, the conference committee reconciling the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform should be done and the bill will be set. That means there are only two days for conferees to push their exemptions and carve-outs, as well as bolstered measures, into the bill. The pr ...
  • Auto Dealer Exemption a Lock for FinReg
    Let’s say you are in the market for a new car, and you head down to view the stock at your local auto dealer. You pick out your car and decide to go ahead with the purchase. You make a decent salary, but do not have the funds to pay in full, in cash. In [...]
  • Feinstein’s Former Campaign Manager on How t ...
    In Florida politics, self-funded candidates are faring well in the polls, with the multi-millionaire political neophytes Jeff Greene, running as a Democrat for U.S. Senate, and Rick Scott, running as a Republican for Florida governor, now even with or ahead of their more established primary opponent ...
  • CIA Just Straight Throwing Money at Blackwater
    It’s like they’re in a strip club, according to Jeff Stein: The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source. The previously undisclosed CIA c ...
  • 1,295 Prisoners Claimed the First-Time Homebuyer T ...
    The Obama administration homebuyer tax credit program granted $9.1 million to 1,295 prisoners who were incarcerated when they said they purchased their home. Many such discrepancies are identified in a report by the Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration and Internal Revenue Se ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Snake Dancing like Sleepwalkers into Childhood&#82 ...
    By Les Visible Massive murder machines, driven by extra-terrestrial alien will, have crossed the Suez and are headed for Maynardville (Thunder Road). Atomic Israeli subs, courtesy of a duped German Republic, are in the mix. Across the world, enormous oil slicks are killing the wild life and rescuers ...
  • Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Continue t ...
    June 18th, 2010 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue their plunge as a predicted La Nina approaches. The following plot, updated through yesterday (June 17, 2010) shows that the cooling in the Nino34 region in t ...
  • Iran bars 2 IAEA inspectors from entry
    Iran says it has barred two UN nuclear inspectors from entering the country after they disclosed “false” information about the country’s nuclear energy program. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday that the two inspectors had leaked information about ...
  • Why, Really, Was The USS Liberty Attacked By Israe ...
    By politicaltheatrics I want to begin by saying that though I covered wars wherever they were taking place on Planet Earth in my television reporting days – it was in Vietnam as a very young correspondent that I first started to ask myself questions about why things are as they are in the world – [. ...
  • Flotilla Cover-up by the New York Times for Israel
    by David Morris on June 21, 2010 Prima facie evidence of the paper’s distortion and suppression of facts is so abundant we believe top management must have been involved. The Times’ complicity ranged from journalistic failure to follow leads that might (and did) contradict Israel’s version of the ma ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Photo Sunday – There Is Another Sky: Photos Poetry ...
    Emily Dickinson wrote a wonderful poem called "There Is Another Sky." Please enjoy the audio recording and the sky photos that accompany it. Related posts: Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Easter and Passover – Renewal and Rebirth Photo Sunday – Back to the F ...
  • Amazing Crystal Cave Video
    You may have seen the photos, but this video is truly amazing. Related posts: Amazing Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D (Video) Cop15 – On The Streets – Day One Video Cop15 Clip Real Video â Greening the Empire State Building
  • Photo Sunday – Tahiti and Polynesia
    Tahiti is a beautiful paradise of lush jungles, sandy beaches, ancient culture and wonderful festivals. Related posts: Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Coral Seas Photo Sunday – The Great Barrier Reef
  • BP Oil Spill Making People Sick – More Than 70 Peo ...
    More than seventy people in Louisiana have suffered health problems as a result of the BP Oil Spill. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data Gas Spill in Newburyport Poisons River and Sends EPA Scrambling High Altitude Photos of the Lost Horizon BP Oil Spi ...
  • Dances with the Moon: Does Oil Clot?
    Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow the Dances with the Moon series here. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon) Related posts: Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Da ...

Inhabitat

  • Artist Uses 3D Printer to Turn Human Ashes into Ob ...
    Photo by Designboom Dutch Designer Wieki Somers just might have found the next new renewable building material — human ashes. For the Grand Hornu Images gallery exhibit âIn Progress,â she used a 3D printer to turn human ashes into art. Somers created three pieces — a toaster, a mini vacuum clea ...
  • Wuhan’s Lily-Shaped Zero Carbon Energy Center Set ...
    A new Calla lily-shaped research center for Wuhan University is set to bloom in China as one of the most sustainable buildings the world. Netherlands-based firm Grontmij, in collaboration with Soeters Van Eldonk architects, recently won the award to design and construct the new research center which ...
  • Self-Sufficient Napevomo House Taps the Sun for Po ...
    As the European Solar Decathlon heats up in Madrid, the Napevomo House is turning heads for its very unique tack on design. The team, composed mainly of students from Arts et Métiers Paris Tech, has combined two powerful technologies into a single system that heats the house and provides electricity ...
  • Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Decreases Femin ...
    Colorado’s Boulder Wastewater Treatment Plant recently received a multimillion-dollar upgrade, which was executed to address a number of problems — one of which was the high amount of chemicals seeping into the water table. After the upgrade, researchers found that the rate of feminization of male f ...
  • Join Inhabitat at Dwell on Design THIS WEEKEND!
    Calling all California design fans! Our favorite West Coast design show, Dwell on Design, hits LA this weekend — and it is going to be a tour-de-force of green design goodness ranging from brand new furniture and product showcases to exciting green home tours in the LA area! The Inhabiteam is espe ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • EPA Reverses Controversial ‘Human Guinea Pig’ Rule
    Under proposed changes to federal research ethics standards, the Environmental Protection Agency will no longer accept studies that use people as guinea pigs in chemical tests. In 2006, under chemical industry pressure, and over arguments that the studies were scientifically and ethically bankrupt ...
  • ‘Lucy’s Grandfather’ Fossil Makes Humanity’s Ances ...
    A 3.6 million-year-old fossil from one of humanity’s earliest ancestors is more human-like than expected — and much taller. The discovery makes Lucy, the best-known fossil of all, appear to be exceptionally short by comparison. Lucy and the new skeleton are both Australopithecus afarensis, the fir ...
  • Not for Public Display: Backstage at the American ...
    > NEW YORK CITY — You could spend three or four days in the American Museum of Natural History and still not see all the dinosaur fossils, meteorites, butterflies, lizards, diamonds and historical artifacts it has to offer. But even if you could, you would only have seen o ...
  • Cassini Skims Through Titan’s Upper Atmosphere
    The Cassini spacecraft made its deepest dip ever into the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, at 8:28 p.m. Eastern time on June 20. The data it collected will help determine whether the moon has its own magnetic field. “For Titan scientists, this is one of the most anticipated flybys of the ...
  • Video: How Leaping Fish Species Left the Water — F ...
               runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience97628466001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Using high-speed video, researchers have revealed the biomechanical tweaks that allow a little-known fish called the leaping blenny to thrive on land. Propelled by a twisting motion that tur ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Should Obama Accept McChrystal’s Resignation?
    As of Tuesday evening, he is said to have offered it. According to Jon Western : This can not end well for McChrystal. He has a lot of support here, but this crossed so many lines– civil-military relations, leadership judgment, command authority, the raunchiness of his conduct, etc… Given the comple ...
  • There's Only One Reason to Keep McChrystal
    While it't true that no one is irreplacable, at this level no one is interchangeable either. Purely on the merits, the shocking displays of disrespect in the Rolling Stone article reveal an attitude that's hard to square with the leadership with which Gen. McChrystal's been entrusted. If he were in ...
  • Giustozzi on the Taliban
    On a non-McChrystal Afghanistan note, I wanted to draw attention to a newly-released report by Antonio Giustozzi published by The Century Foundation. The report, "Negotiating with the Taliban: Issues and Prospects," gives an updated description of various aspects of the Taliban’s organization with a ...
  • Faisal Shahzad Desperately Wants to Be a Soldier
    Yesterday, would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York City. He did so after waiving his Miranda rights, confessing in custody, and treating interrogators to what they claim are reams of "actionable intelligence." As with Umar Abdulmutallab , the would- ...
  • Iranian Hardliners Blame Green Movement for Sancti ...
    Kayhan, a pro-government newspaper with close ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused the leaders of the opposition Green Movement and their supporters abroad of having played a role in levying new sanctions against Iran. Kayhan’s June 22 “special news” section is dedicated to Secreta ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Great Moments In Andy McCarthyism.
    For some reason, when I was writing about the Supreme Court ruling outlawing juvenile life without parole for non-homicide offenses, I neglected to mention Andy McCarthy 's reaction. What was it? Well naturally, McCarthy asked , did Justice Anthony Kennedy "consult the Sharia?": The penalty for the ...
  • Hunting for Progressive Votes on Financial Reform.
    A few days ago, we checked in on negotiations over the Volcker rule, which would force federally insured banks to stop speculating with their own money and running hedge and private-equity funds. Democrats have been negotiating with Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown over weakening the rul ...
  • Troy Davis' Day in Court.
    Today, Troy Davis gets his day in court. Davis was convicted of the 1989 killing of a police officer, Mark MacPhail . Since his trial, seven of the nine witnesses have come forward and recanted , with several saying they were pressured by police into fingering Davis -- one now points to the ninth ...
  • Our Delicate Sensabilities.
    The Huffington Post has a good story today on just how difficult it will be to determine who has a legitimate claim against BP. The story discusses one woman who works with local hospitals to recruit new doctors and places about 12 doctors a year. One has backed out since the oil spill. Though it's ...
  • Lightning Round: A Republic, If You Can Keep It.
    It didn't take long for conservatives to identify the source of Gen. Stanley McChrystal 's reckless comments: his frustration with Obama , who's really at� fault in all this. Now, I haven't heard anyone outright� defending McChrystal's remarks, but it is reflexive of the American right to empathize ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Obama’s Fai ...
    On Saturday, I was delighted to be interviewed by Chuck Mertz for This is Hell! in Chicago. Chuck was one of the first radio hosts to pick up on my work, back in July 2007, and it was great to talk again after our last interview, which, if I recall correctly, was way back in [...]
  • An open letter to David Cameron demanding the retu ...
    Yesterday, I wrote about how the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, based in the home borough of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, had handed in an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday, asking the PM and foreign secretary William Hague “to make the strongest representa ...
  • Obama Thinks About Releasing Innocent Yemenis from ...
    Three weeks ago, I wrote a bitter commentary about the repeated failures of the US government to release an innocent Yemeni prisoner in Guantánamo — a student, Mohammed Hassan Odaini, now aged 26, but just 18 when he was seized — even though he was cleared for release by a military review board und ...
  • Stonehenge Summer Solstice 2010: Remembering the B ...
    On a fine morning at Stonehenge, an estimated 20,000 people turned up to watch the midsummer sun shine into the heart of Britain’s most celebrated ancient monument. Numbers were down on last year, when the solstice took place on a weekend, presumably because so many revellers had to be at work this ...
  • Campaigners Ask David Cameron to Secure Return to ...
    On Friday, unnoticed by the mainstream media, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, established by concerned citizens from the borough of Wandsworth, where Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, has his home, and where his wife and children still live, handed in an open letter to Prime Min ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Fungi, Feces Show Comet Didn't Kill Ice Age Mammal ...
    Tiny balls of fungus and feces may disprove the theory that a space rock exploded over North America, triggering an ancient cooling event. Feces - Business - Earth Sciences - Mammals - Paleontology
  • 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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • 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

  • As Gulf Oil Spreads, So Do Slippery Conspiracy The ...
    Pelicans and dolphins in the oil-polluted waters of the Gulf of Mexico: Dead. Conspiracy theories about the disastrous BP oil rig explosion: Very much alive. As BP and federal officials struggle to deal with the eruption of millions of gallons of oil from the ocean floor following an April 20 explos ...
  • Strange Bedfellows See Affirmative Action in Beaut ...
    Does an ardent Jewish neo-conservative ever agree with an anti-Semite who despises neo-conservatives? We didn’t think so, until the Miss USA contest showed that Muslim-bashing author Daniel Pipes and racist radio host James Edwards do indeed share some common ground. The men suggested on their respe ...
  • Racists See ‘Set-Up’ in Arrest of Idaho Lawy ...
    Onetime Aryan Nations attorney Edgar J. Steele was denied bail today in a case that has many of his fellow bigots suggesting in postings to white nationalist websites that the Idaho attorney must be an innocent victim of a conspiracy because of his racist views — not a man who plotted to have his wi ...
  • The FAIR Files: Founder Proposed ‘European-America ...
    Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has fiercely defended the groupâs founder and current board member, John Tanton, despite his long history of racism. Just this past September, Stein told The Washington Post that Tanton is a âRenaissance manâ of wid ...
  • The FAIR Files: Is Race Destiny? Group’s TV Show A ...
    In 1996, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) undertook an experiment, creating its own TV talk show about immigration called “Borderline.” The program ran for one year on NET, a satellite TV station put together by archconservative Paul Weyrich , an anti-gay bigot who has also been ...

change: org.

  • A Doodle By Any Other Name
    Recently, the creator of the so-called Labradoodle came out and said he wishes he could “turn the clock back.” Eighty-one-year-old Wally Conran of Australia received a letter in the early 1980s from a lady who needed a “hypoallergenic” guide dog, due to her husband’s allergies. As Conran knew, and a ...
  • Group Wants Elena Kagan to "Come Out" as Ex-Gay
    There are a lot of things to scrutinize about any potential Supreme Court nominee: their view of Roe v. Wade , their judicial record, their understanding of the Constitution, and their stance on protection of privacy, among other things. Of course, it is also absolutely vital to determine who the no ...
  • Immigration Fees Go Up, Penalizing Legal Applicant ...
    When I talk to people about poverty in the America, they often forget that immigrants are part of the equation. Why? Well, built-in bias from the media about undocumented workers deserving their fate of toiling in endless job cycles of dish washing, farm work and domestic labor is certainly part of ...
  • How the Insurance Industry Cost an AIDS Doc His Pr ...
    If you’d spent the last three decades of a nearly 50-year medical career on the forefront of HIV treatment, running a San Francisco clinic and acting as a figurehead for the AIDS research community, you might be looking forward to a comfortable retirement right about now. Dr. Marcus Conant wasn’t. A ...
  • The Problem With Calling Ourselves a “Nation of Im ...
    The United States is a nation of immigrants, right? In the wake of xenophobic laws like  Arizona's SB 1070 , a number of voices — including President Barack Obama — have evoked this phrase, as John F. Kennedy  did years ago. After all, it's ironic that we should see such fiercely anti-immigrant se ...

Common Dreams -News

  • FCC Source: 'We F*cked Up' Secret Internet Meeting ...
    by Sam Gustin The Federal Communications Commission "f*cked up" by holding closed-door meetings with industry giants aimed at striking a deal over Internet regulation , a government source told DailyFinance on Tuesday, even as the agency's chief of staff defended a process that has effectively shut ...
  • Judge Who Overturned Drilling Bans had Shares in t ...
    by Matthew Weaver and agencies The judge who overturned deepwater drilling bans allowing BP to resume oil extraction in the Gulf of Mexico, had shares in Transocean and other firms in the industry, it was revealed today. read more
  • CIA Gives Blackwater Firm New $100 Million Contrac ...
    by Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services , the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source. The previously undisclosed CIA contract is worth about $100 m ...
  • Obama Gets Heat to Lead on Climate
    by Darren Samuelsohn and Manu Raju WASHINGTON - With the climate change bill edging closer to the Senate floor, President Barack Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are resuming their well-worn roles as reluctant dance partners. It's an awkward thing to watch, especially as the duo gain o ...
  • Whale Cull Plan Sunk as National Delegates Fail to ...
    Talks on replacing a moratorium on whaling with a controlled cull have hit an impasse and will be suspended for a year, delegates at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) said today. Negotiators in the Moroccan city of Agadir said the proposal, aimed at breaking the long-running de ...

Lifehacker

  • LastPass Brings its Secure and Easy Password Syste ...
    Safari 5 (Windows/Mac): It's still early in Safari's extension era, but a very nice addition to the ecosystem has just landed. LastPass , the any browser, any OS password system , has an early extension out for Apple's browser. More�� ...
  • Plan Your Summer Travel Using Climate Statistics [ ...
    Summer's a great time to get away, but taking a vacation in sweltering heat isn't anyone's idea of relaxing. Learn how to use climate statistics to plan a reliably cool trip. More�� Climate change - Environment - Activi ...
  • Opt Out of Targeted iPhone iAds (But Not Location ...
    With all the new shortcuts, features, and settings in iOS4 , there's also the debut of iAds, a targeted ad network rolling out on iPhones. If you're an iPhone 3Gs or (future) iPhone 4 owner, you can opt out of Apple's targeted ads, as explaine ...
  • CintaNotes is a Tiny, Portable Note Manager with B ...
    Windows only: Freeware note manager CintaNotes clips text from anywhere with a hotkey, finds notes as you type, and now the portable version synchronizes between PCs using Dropbox—without closing the application. More » ...
  • Keep the Temperature Down by Generating Less Heat ...
    Generating less heat will not only keep your home cooler—it'll also keep your energy bills down all summer long. Here are a few tricks for doing just that. More » Business - Industrial Goods and Services - Temperature - ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • And It's One-Two-Three What Are We Fightening For. ...
    Commentary By Ron Beasley It's going to be difficult for us ...prosecute...a war far away from home with the divisions we have here....I'm very depressed about it. Because I see no program from either Defense or State that gives me much hope of doing anything, except just praying and gasp ...
  • McChrystal: Once A Petulant Jerk...
    By Steve Hynd By now, there's a good chance you've already heard about or read Rolling Stone's profile of General Stanley McChrystal and his staff, The Runaway General. It's certainly burning up the Memeorandum aggregator right now. If you haven't read it, you should. In the piece, McChrytal's staff ...
  • Embracing the Clauswitzian disconnect in Afghanist ...
    By Dave Anderson: After reading the Rolling Stone article that should shit-can General McCrystal, there was one paragraph on the last page that leapt out at me. The only way that there has not been a mass revulsion at US operations in Afghanistan from the United States is due to tightly controlled i ...
  • Funding the other guys
    This is not surprising. for months now.   have been pointing out the logic and incentive structure of warlordism and decentralized armed groups cutting deals for local interests instead of American interests for even longer.  The same basic set-up occurred in Iraq as local reconstruction funds we ...
  • Agency and self interest
    By Dave Anderson: The people that the US practices COIN on actually have their own interests past that of being passive receivers of US wisdom, electricity and lollipops. Whocoodaknown. Joe Klein at Time Magazine makes that stunning discovery as he discusses the problems that the US strategy in Afgh ...

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Names of Taliban figures to be taken off UN list
    Members of the Taliban who renounce ties to al Qaeda may have their names taken off a UN enemies list after representations by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
  • Australia may begin Afghanistan pullout in 2012
    Australia Wednesday signalled it could start bringing some troops home from Afghanistan in two years.
  • US Senators demand 'terror outfit' Pak T ...
    US Senators have demanded from the Obama administration to include the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the list of proscribed militant outfits following Faisal Shahzad, the failed Times Square bomber, pleading guilty and admiting to having received funds and training from the TTP.
  • 43 more Taliban killed as Pak forces continue to p ...
    Continuing its offensive in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas' (FATA) Orakzai agency, Pakistani security forces have reportedly killed 43 more Taliban militants in the region.
  • Taliban demands release of militants in return for ...
    The Taliban has demanded from the Pakistan government the release of an unspecified number of militants currently locked in jails across the country in return for the 33 Frontier Corps soldiers, who were taken captive by the extremists near the Afghan border a week ago.

Futurismic

  • Making a game of disruption politics
    More from John Robb: rewiring agitprop and non-violent protest movements as open-source games. … in modern western societies, this elite group and their specialists are able to dissociate themselves from jobs when it comes to their private lives.  They live unencumbered within our impersonal societ ...
  • Rudy Rucker’s Ware Tetralogy available as a free d ...
    Regular readers will be aware that I’m a Rudy Rucker fan, and hence will understand how stoked I am that his Ware Tetralogy – heretofore hard to find in decent condition – is being republished as a single (immense) volume. It’s now sat on my wishlist, awaiting a moment when I have the money spare [. ...
  • Making a game of disruption politics
    More from John Robb: rewiring agitprop and non-violent protest movements as open-source games. … in modern western societies, this elite group and their specialists are able to dissociate themselves from jobs when it comes to their private lives.  They live unencumbered within our impersonal societ ...
  • Rudy Rucker’s Ware Tetralogy available as a ...
    Regular readers will be aware that I’m a Rudy Rucker fan, and hence will understand how stoked I am that his Ware Tetralogy – heretofore hard to find in decent condition – is being republished as a single (immense) volume. It’s now sat on my wishlist, awaiting a moment when I have the money spare [. ...
  • California proposes car license plates with electr ...
    Well, things are pretty tight in California, money-wise, so you can’t fault them for looking to cut that deficit. But this proposal is bad news for anyone frustrated by the ubiquity of advertising on every surface of the world: electronic license plates which show the vehicle’s code number while in ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • ARB conducts stakeholders' meeting on proposed rul ...
    The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) held a public meeting today to hear from stakeholders about the how it might craft rules of practice. Last Friday, the ARB released a preliminary draft of its proposed Rules of Practice and Procedure. All three ARB members attended to hear ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • New Zealand Politicians Convinced By Lobbyists To ...
    There was widespread happiness among software developers a few months back, when it was announced that New Zealand had decided to explicitly ban software patents . Of course, it didn't take long for a lobbying campaign to kick off from those opposed to this provision, and it appears the lobbying wa ...
  • Help Has Arrived For Australians Worried About 'Sp ...
    We recently wrote about how Australian Minister for Broadband, Stephen Conroy, lover of government censorship and surveillance over the internet, had his "series of tubes" moment when he declared that 20,000 people were "getting infected by these spams, or scams, that come through, the portal." Not ...
  • Tons Of Companies Sued Over Broad Patent On Contro ...
    As we keep waiting for a Supreme Court ruling in the Bilski case (any day now...), Glyn Moody points us to the news of a lawsuit that has been filed against 26 different software companies for violating an incredibly broad patent ( 5,832,511 ) on "Workgroup network manager for controlling the operat ...
  • Schools & Governments Blocking Google Because It W ...
    So various governments around the world remain furious with Google for its accidental Street View wifi data collection . However, at the same time, governments are also getting annoyed and using filters to block government employees from using Google products because Google is now increasingly runn ...
  • Indian Politicians Caught Watching Unauthorized Co ...
    Apparently there's a popular political thriller movie that recently was released in India, called Politics (or Raajneeti ). It's doing quite well, but apparently a group of actual politicians from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted to watch the movie and didn't want to go to a theater to do so ...

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

  • Growing up Jewish – Kosher Edition
    I’ve shared with you all the tortures of Sabbath and Passover.  But I have not yet shared with you the biggest torture of all. My mother keeps kosher. Being kosher means no shellfish and no pork.  Shellfish and pork are, as you may have heard, an abomination! The food that you can eat is classifie ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • United Kingdom Launches Projects to Study Ocean Ac ...
    Image: NOAA Ocean Explorer, Flickr The Evil Twin of Global Warming Ocean acidification naturally results from elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. The oceans absorb CO2, which becomes carbonic acid as it dissolves into the sea water. Ocean acidification picked up the mo ...
  • Lake Tahoe Treatment Techniques Could Save Guatema ...
    Photo by Ellen Levy Lake Atitlan is nestled in the tropical highlands of Guatemala but even with such an exotic location and history of breath-taking beauty, the lake is earning awards not as "most desired retreat" but as the Global Nature Fund's "Threatened Lake of the Year." The water is cont ...
  • Good-bye, Polar Bears, Hello, Oil-drenched Pelican ...
    illustrations from New York Magazine Climate change was always a tough sell. But as an important article by Jason Zengerie in New York Magazine points out, it mostly seems to happen in another place, and another time. He quotes a pollster: "People overwhelmingly say melting ice is a very bad th ...
  • Why This Planet Needs a Woman's Touch
    Women around the world possess crucial knowledge about agriculture and biodiversity. Photos by Find Your Feet (L) and Paul Stevenson (R) via Flickr. When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human inhabitants out of the discussion, but that's exa ...
  • City Bees Go to Church in London and Get Saved
    Image from the Times The plight of the bumblebee is a matter of great concern. Their numbers are declining, some species are on the brink of extinction and colony collapse disorder has spread in the U.S. Albert Einstein may (or may not) have said that "If the bee disappears from the surface o ...

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 ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Bakiyev blames Kyrgyz riots on drug gangs, religio ...
    Drug dealers and religious extremists could be behind the deadly interethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan earlier this month, former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Wednesday.
  • Iphones that ring bells
    Church bells that for centuries depended on the tolling of a rope by hand, can now be triggered with a single stroke from an iPhone, Blackberry or touchpad. This new system called RC-Touchbell was created by Rubagotti Campane, a company of bell artisans from northern Italy.
  • iPhonesthat ring bells
    Church bells that for centuries depended on the tolling of a rope by hand, can now be triggered with a single stroke from an iPhone, Blackberry or touchpad. This new system called RC-Touchbell was created by Rubagotti Campane, a company of bell artisans from northern Italy.
  • Russia plans to send 215 athletes to 2014 Winter O ...
    Russia intends to have 215 athletes on its national team when it hosts the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, the country's sports minister said on Wednesday.
  • OSCE proposes to send international police force t ...
    The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) proposed on Wednesday sending international police to stabilize the situation in Kyrgyzstan.

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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

fotoFrontera

  • Fotografías de México
    En esta ocasión, le ofrezco 6 hermosas fotografías de México. Admira en esta bella colección la pirámide de Chichen Itzá, La Selva Lacandona en Chiapas, Las costas de Baja California, Tulum en Cancún y el calendario Azteca. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografí ...
  • Las fotos que tomé ayer... I
    EL DÍA DE HOY, EMPEZARÉ UNA SERIE LLAMADA ' Las fotos que tomé ayer '. Un breve repertorio fotográfico donde estaré incluyendo algunas de las mejores instantáneas que voy tomando a mi paso por la vida. Espero que les gusten y no olviden hacer click sobre ellas para ampliar su tamaño. Si alguien des ...
  • Encuentro con las flores en el mercado central (19 ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
  • Cita con la naturaleza. (23 fotografías de paisaje ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
  • Barichara, Santander. (El pueblito más lindo de Co ...
    CIERTAMENTE ES BIEN SABIDO QUE Colombia , tiene toda una serie de hermosos paisajes , grandes ciudades y pueblos muy lindos . Como ejemplo, les mostraré hoy a través de Google , una bellísima colección de fotos sobre Barichara en Santander . Si algún día voy a Colombia, yo quiero estar ahí. Nota: H ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • The ICJ Remains a Sophisticated Political Environm ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I tread warily into ICJ blogging after my last bizarre brain cramp, but I can’t resist commenting on Roger’s posts (and the comments to his posts by very knowledgeable folks like Paul Stephan and David Kaye) on the new U.S. nominee Joan Donoghue.  Unlike Roger, I don’t ...
  • U.S. LawProf Erlinder Freed on Bail in Rwanda
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I kind of expected this would turn out this way, but it does the Rwandan government no credit that they finally released jailed U.S. law professor Peter Erlinder, albeit on bail and due to concerns about his health.  Needless to say, I doubt Professor Erlinder will be re ...
  • Does the U.N. Believe in Rule of Law (for Its Empl ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Interesting story in the NYT about the U.N.’s difficulty in creating a fair and effective system to resolve internal disputes, especially employee disputes.  Last July, the U.N. created a new Dispute Tribunal composed of independent judges to remedy a much despised prev ...
  • Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Ban on Teaching Int ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford That’s a remarkable statement, but it actually is true. Yesterday the Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project addressed the question of whether a federal statute criminalizing the provision of “material support” to terrorist organizations was constitut ...
  • Naval War College Conference
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I’m on radio silence, as I’m at the Naval War College conference on international law, which is where all the cool people are this week … odd, though, I seem to be the only OJ blogger here!  Could it be that I am the only cool OJ … no, no! Seriously, thoug ...

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

  • Advocate: Financial Reform Will Protect AZ Consume ...
    Advocate: Financial Reform Will Protect AZ Consumers Phoenix, AZ – Arizona consumers will benefit from more information and stronger regulation of financial products such as mortgages and credit cards with passage of the financial reform package currently before Congress. That’s the stance of the wa ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • After Heatstroke, When Is It Safe to Exercise?
    It was 90 degrees in Buffalo when Douglas Casa stood on the starting line of a track, ready to run 25 laps in a race that was part of the Empire Games, a championship event for high school students. Submitted by Kristena W. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chile's Failed Economic Laboratory
    Series of extended excerpts of an independent Wall Street financial economist. After working as a balance-of-payments economist for the Chase Manhattan Bank and Arthur Anderson in the 1960s, he taught international finance at the New School in New York. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note- ...
  • PROOF THAT FEMA IS AN EXTERMINATION AGENCY
    Are you aware of the camps FEMA has build all over the country, and the comprehensive plan to round up dissident citizens, ship them first to warehouses and sports arenas, then onto trains into rurally located work camps Submitted by Samantha B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • The Final End of the Hydrocarbon Fuel Paradigm
    These are the realities on the ground (undersea floor), in the water (Gulf of Mexico & Seven Seas), and in the air (atmosphere) in the wake of the Oil & Gas Industry operations around the globe, as it has operated for well over 100 years. Submitted by Truth S. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • ROV films oil leak coming from rock cracks on seaf ...
    People don't see the rock formations below the seafloor surface, held together by frozen gas held together like cement until it hist 60F temps at 2240psi. The BIG picture - this is Godzilla bursting out and worse. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • United States Health Care System Ranks Last
    United States Health Care System Ranks Last-emaxhealth.comMoney can’t buy you love, nor quality health care. When compared with six other industrialized countries, the United States ranks last... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • APTN National News: Ontario First Nations chiefs f ...
    APTN National News: Ontario First Nations chiefs face-off with Ontario Metis Nation | FacebookNEWS RELEASESERPENT RIVERFIRST NATION*************************Métis Nation of Ontario will not acquire... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Toby Harnden: Breaking: General Stanley McChrystal ...
    Breaking: General Stanley McChrystal tenders his resignation – Telegraph Blogs: "A senior Capitol Hill source tells me that General Stanley McChrystal had tendered his resignation to President Barack... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Evidentiary Hearing Begins in Troy Anthony Davis C ...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for June 23, 2010Evidentiary Hearing Begins in Troy Anthony Davis CaseThe Georgia death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis is appearing in a Savannah courtroom today nearly... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 60 Second Expert: Democratic Party Defends Israeli ...
    Foreign Policy In Focus | 60 Second Expert: Democratic Party Defends Israeli AttackIn Congress, Democratic leaders find common ground with their Republican counterparts in their effort to defend the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • NORAD plans exercise flights over D.C., three stat ...
    ShareThis NORAD plans exercise flights over D.C., three states 22 Jun 2010 The North American Aerospace Defense Command is conducting exercise flights over Washington, Baltimore, Richmond, and northern West Virginia to test its response to air threats. NORAD will conduct multiple exercise flights Tu ...
  • Bombs Kill 2 American Troops in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Bombs Kill 2 American Troops in Afghanistan 23 Jun 2010 Two American service members died following bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday. June is on track to becoming one of the deadliest months for U.S. and international forces in the nearly nine-year Afghan w ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Monsanto's Bio ...
    ShareThis U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Monsanto's Biotech Alfalfa 22 Jun 2010 In the first Supreme Court ruling on genetically engineered crops, the high [wh*re] court Monday reversed a nationwide ban on the planting of Monsanto Inc.'s genetically modified alfalfa. The seeds are engineered to ...
  • NATO toll in Afghanistan rises to 14 in two days
    ShareThis NATO toll in Afghanistan rises to 14 in two days 23 Jun 2010 Four NATO soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan, bringing to 14 the number to have died in two days in the war-torn country, the military said. Two soldiers were killed in bomb attacks, another in a small arms attack and t ...
  • McChrystal's Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet ...
    ShareThis McChrystal's Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama 23 Jun 2010 President Obama plans to decide the fate of his top commander in Afghanistan Wednesday after a firestorm over remarks the general and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials. Gen ...

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

  • ‘Fresh Air’ gets Gaza’s history ...
    Besides the comments Phil has already posted, there are lots more things that could be said about Terry Gross's interview with Lawrence Wright about Gaza on NPR's Fresh Air today. Here's the comment I sent today to Fresh Air and NPR's ombudsman, Alicia Shepard: On Fresh Air on June 22, 2010, guest L ...
  • Ghetto Israel
    Are you watching the World Cup? It is amazing how many different "races," whatever races are, are mingled in the action, in former apartheid South Africa. There is a piece on Yahoo about the diversity of the American team, all the different backgrounds. The German chancellor has praised the diversit ...
  • ‘Haaretz’ runs piece saying only boyco ...
    Gosh this piece should be in the New York Times: Ayala Shani and Ofer Neiman, in Haaretz in Hebrew, (translation at JSF), say that only boycott will persuade Israel to change its behavior:Is Israel being singled out? As was true about white South Africa, the world is justly sensitive to situations w ...
  • Lawrence Wright: ‘most ideal outcome of enti ...
    The New Yorker's expert on human rights in Gaza is interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air, alongside Ali Abunimah and John Mearsheimer. I'm sorry, that was a joke: the Abunimah and Mearsheimer. When it comes to Israel, the adventurous Gross can't leave her comfort zone. Notice how much play Fresh A ...
  • ‘Commentary’ attacks labor (because Is ...
    I remember when people dismissed Walt and Mearsheimer as purveying "monocausal" political science. Well they weren't monocausal, but the Israel lobby really is monocausal in its thinking. Commentary now dismisses the entire American labor movement because, huh, portions of it seem to be siding with ...

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

  • Man Dogs
    Kandahar, Afghanistan 15 March 2010 In David Galula’s 1964 book, Counterinsurgency Warfare, THEORY AND PRACTICE , he states: “The ideal situation for the insurgent would be a large, land-locked country, shaped like a blunt-tipped star, with jungle-covered mountains along the borders and scattere ...
  • Michael Yon’s criticism of McChrystal deemed proph ...
    Published on TheUSReport.com Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 09:06AM by Kay B. Day Rolling Stone’s advance of an article with controversial remarks by Gen. Stanley McChrystal about President Barack Obama’s prosecution of the war will be on the screen for days to come. Apparently the general opened up to ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • United Kingdom Launches Projects to Study Ocean Ac ...
    Image: NOAA Ocean Explorer, Flickr The Evil Twin of Global Warming Ocean acidification naturally results from elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. The oceans absorb CO2, which becomes carbonic acid as it dissolves into the sea water. Ocean acidification picked up the mo ...
  • Lake Tahoe Treatment Techniques Could Save Guatema ...
    Photo by Ellen Levy Lake Atitlan is nestled in the tropical highlands of Guatemala but even with such an exotic location and history of breath-taking beauty, the lake is earning awards not as "most desired retreat" but as the Global Nature Fund's "Threatened Lake of the Year." The water is cont ...
  • Good-bye, Polar Bears, Hello, Oil-drenched Pelican ...
    illustrations from New York Magazine Climate change was always a tough sell. But as an important article by Jason Zengerie in New York Magazine points out, it mostly seems to happen in another place, and another time. He quotes a pollster: "People overwhelmingly say melting ice is a very bad th ...
  • Why This Planet Needs a Woman's Touch
    Women around the world possess crucial knowledge about agriculture and biodiversity. Photos by Find Your Feet (L) and Paul Stevenson (R) via Flickr. When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human inhabitants out of the discussion, but that's exa ...
  • City Bees Go to Church in London and Get Saved
    Image from the Times The plight of the bumblebee is a matter of great concern. Their numbers are declining, some species are on the brink of extinction and colony collapse disorder has spread in the U.S. Albert Einstein may (or may not) have said that "If the bee disappears from the surface o ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • NDF says election boycott ‘meaningless’
    New Burmese opposition party likely to anger old guard of the pro-democracy movement after saying that a boycott will play into the hands of the military
  • Thailand launches mass migrant crackdown
    Police targeting migrant workers who failed to register for legal status in Thailand but rights groups warn of indiscriminate arrests and extortion
  • Burma unveils campaigning laws
    Government bans party marches and chanting of slogans in what observers and candidates say is an attempt to restrict publicity and stifle debate
  • Amnesty battles a media blackout
    Human rights group aims to send up to 4,000 radio sets into Burma as attempts to counter the junta's domination of media in the election build-up intensify
  • Suu Kyi receives Benazir Bhutto award
    Suu Kyi becomes first recipient of Bhutto award, but allegations of a murkier link between the slain Pakistani icon and Burma have emerged

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Fungi, Feces Show Comet Didn't Kill Ice Age Mammal ...
    Tiny balls of fungus and feces may disprove the theory that a space rock exploded over North America, triggering an ancient cooling event. Feces - Business - Earth Sciences - Mammals - Paleontology
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Mexico government asks judge to strike down Arizon ...
    [JURIST] The Mexican government on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief [text, PDF] with the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] asking that the recently passed Arizona immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive] be declared unconstitutional. The brief was f ...
  • State failure a 'chronic condition': report
    [JURIST] The 2010 Failed States Index [index; FP special report] was released Monday, describing state failure as a "chronic condition" after finding that the same group of countries have occupied the top 10 spots as failed states for the last six years. The index is published by Foreign Policy Maga ...
  • Lawyer freed from Rwanda returns to US
    [JURIST] US lawyer and JURIST Forum [website] contributor Peter Erlinder [professional profile; JURIST news archive] returned to the US Tuesday after spending 21 days in a Rwandan prison. Upon his return, Erlinder stated his belief that had he not requested to contact the US embassy shortly before h ...
  • Federal judge blocks deepwater drilling ban in Gul ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] on Tuesday ordered a preliminary injunction [opinion, PDF] against a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling [JURIST report] issued last month by the Obama administration in response to the BP Deep ...
  • UN SG appoints panel to investigate Sri Lanka civi ...
    [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Tuesday appointed a three-member panel [press release] to investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the last months of the Sri Lankan civil war [JURIST news archive]. The panel will be investigating alleged wartime abuses of ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Night Beat: McChrystal's Terrible, Horrib ...
    Good evening. The Night Beat starts with Gen. Stanley "M4'" McChrystal's timeline: arrival Andrews, 23:40 hours. Tomorrow, arrival, Pentagon: 9:00 am ET for meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates.� At this point, McChrystal does not know when he is going to meet with President Obama. He will ...
  • Obama Should Decide, Now, What to do About McChrys ...
    President Obama will probably speak about Gen. Stanley McChrystal's Rolling Stone article later in the day, and I expect him to signal two things: 1) that McChrystal's judgment was poor and that Obama is disappointed in him. And 2) what's most important is winning the war, and that question will ove ...
  • What's a Journalist To Do? Jay Rosen Replies
    Responding to my question: If the ideologies he identifies -- the pathologies, actually -- are the sum total of the media, what would Jay Rosen, if he were running the world, have us do? Is there a distinction between journalism and ideological argument? Is it methodological? Are there times when, g ...
  • What Will Determine McChrystal's Fate?
    It's already being described as President Obama's "MacArthur" moment -- the commander in chief calls his top general to the carpet for rank insubordination. Though McChrystal himself did not disregard any order or publicly differ about strategy, the optics are certainly similar: the White House is ...
  • The Rolling Stone Article's Juiciest Bits
    Read the full Rolling Stone article here . Here are the most interesting paragraphs:� Who's he going to dinner with?" I ask�one of his aides.�"Some French minister," the aide tells�me. "It's fucking gay." Even though he had voted for Obama,�McChrystal and his new commander in�chief failed from the o ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Ben Gurion University President Defends Neve Gordo ...
    In a moment of supreme irony, Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi, who only a few months ago was facing a revolt among donors and Israelis aghast at Prof. Neve Gordon‘s support of the global BDS movement, has now released a strong statement of support for him in the face of a death threat.  ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Daily Telegraph Breaks Case of Mr. X
    A week ago or so I wrote about a story in Yediot Achronot reporting on the sad fate of Mr. X in Israel’s Ayalon prison.  I broke the news that Yediot had disappeared its story after a gag order was imposed by the Shin Bet.  An Israeli source of mine explained through an Israeli prison [...] Rela ...
  • Israeli State War Against Ameer Makhoul
    Ameer Makhoul was scheduled to have his first court hearing today but it appears to have been delayed by at least a few days.  But I wanted to bring to my readers’ attention some wonderful resources which help tell Ameer’s story.  Nadia Hijab just recorded an interview with his wife, Janan which I ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...

Ode Magazine

  • Overlooked communities use mobile phones to map th ...
    By: Laura_Silver How do you get disenfranchised populations to share—and amplify—their voices in the public realm? Mobile phones and the web. That’s according to Barcelona-based artist Antoni Abad, whose megafone.net project has spanned four continents ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Obama Should Have Seized Power in the Gulf Tragedy ...
    Executive action was justified in the midst of the Gulf tragedy.
  • North Koreaapos;s apos;secret planapos; to defeat ...
    America is extremely vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse attack. An air burst by a nuclear missile can create an EMP. Such an attack would be much worse than 911. The economy would be thrown into a severe depression within 24 hours. Food riots would break out and national martial law declared. Po ...
  • NASA Flight Director Confirms 9/11 Aircraft Speed ...
    Recently Pilots For 9/11 Truth have analyzed the speeds reported for the aircraft utilized on 9/11. Numerous aviation experts have voiced their concerns regarding the extremely excessive speeds reported above Maximum Operating for the 757 and 767...
  • Too Small To Matter
    After watching our corrupt government decide that the biggest baddest banks on the planet were too big to fail over the last two years and giving my childrenapos;s and their childrenapos;s money to these behemoth criminal enterprises, I was not surprised to see poor working class Americans treated l ...
  • Message to Obama on the Sixteen barges in the Gulf
    The BP Oil spill has the makings of a perfect storm because one can visibly see the cracks in the ocean floor when reviewing tapes of the live BP feeds. In the tape dated 6/13/2010 you can see oil spewing up from visible fissions.

Switchboard

  • Response to the spill must include smarter land us ...
        The nation's immediate priority for the Gulf Spill has to be addressing the spill itself and providing whatever redress is possible for the families and communities affected, followed by an aggressive approach to ensuring the safety of future extraction in the Gulf and elsewher ...
  • Open Season On Risk For Gulf Residents
    Today, in a decision that increases the risk of another uncontrollable oil well blowout, U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman of New Orleans, Louisiana, issued an injunction that halts enforcement of the Obama Administration’s six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the G ...
  • California's Subprime Water Problem
    Recently, the Bureau of Reclamation increased its water supply allocation for agricultural contractors south of the Delta to 45% of their maximum contract amounts.  Although 2010 is classified as a “below normal” water year type, and reservoirs started the year with low storage after 3 ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster: Morning News Roundup, June 22
    Day 64 Highlights in this issue: - Judge blocks 6-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling - Allen: Progress with a better cap - BP collects record amount of oil - Transocean criticizes Obama on oil drill moratorium - Swiss firm says its fabric can clean up oil spill This afternoo ...
  • Where's there's a will...
    Remember the headlines just four months ago? “Sen. James M. Inhofe (R, OK) builds an igloo on Capitol Hill, dubbing it ‘Al Gore's New Home’ ."  “Critics say snowstorms cast doubt about global warming,” a web ad by Virginia republicans titled “12 Inches of Global Warming” — criticizes ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “I’ve Just Made a Deal That’ll K ...
    Due to recurrent server issues, we have decided to shift providers. The transition will not involve any visual change to the site, or any change in address. However, service may be intermittent early tomorrow morning. Hopefully by tomorrow afternoon all of our server issues will be behind us. Th ...
  • Should Obama Accept McChrystal’s Resignation ...
    As of 2 hours ago, he is said to have offered it. According to Jon Western: This can not end well for McChrystal. He has a lot of support here, but this crossed so many lines– civil-military relations, leadership judgment, command authority, the raunchiness of his conduct, etc… Given the complexity ...
  • Willful Naivete
    I can’t believe that conservatives really think that there’s something unusual about the state using leverage to extract agreements without a full trial, but that really does seem to be the core of their most recent line of defense for BP. Obviously, comparing such agreements to genocide really do ...
  • Bureaucratic Resilience
    This is simply wrong: One of the principal aspects that make the “weak presidency” claim so laughable is that the post-World-War II presidency has done virtually nothing but expand in power. The President controls virtually the entire Pentagon and intelligence industry, and all administrative agenc ...
  • De-composingconstructing the Zombie Menace
    Daniel Drezner has expounded on his seminal “Zombies and IR” blog post with a full spread on the topic in the July/August Foreign Policy: The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses… poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they use to understand ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Scuba divers bring oil-spill suit; lawyers gush in ...
    Plaintiffs' lawyers are converging on New Orleans Wednesday for another Gulf Coast oil spill gathering to discuss everything from the parallels with the Exxon Valdez disaster to the best trial techniques to nail an oil giant. Among the lawsuits gushing from the disaster is one filed on behalf of a s ...
  • GAO says new courthouses built too big
    New federal courthouses are too big and too expensive, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
  • Panel sets ethics rules for judicial candidates at ...
    The Florida Supreme Court?s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee said in an opinion issued on Friday that candidates for the bench may attend functions hosted by groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement, as long as they abide by the same rules that govern candidate attendance at other political p ...
  • State Department gives money for environmental law ...
    The U.S. State Department has given $1.5 million to Vermont Law School's U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law to launch what it believes will be the first public interest environmental law firm in China.
  • AstraZeneca settlement expected to yield higher pa ...
    AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals is likely to pay a higher share of the $103 million settlement it agreed to in the long-running average wholesale pricing multidistrict litigation than did previous settling companies, thanks to an innovative settlement clause.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Interactive Atlas Documents North America’s Marine ...
    The latest version of the online North American Environmental Atlas , published this month, provides an interactive documentation of the continent’s marine ecosystems, including the first comprehensive map of the marine protected areas and the ranges for the continent’s most threatened marine specie ...
  • Aurora Australis from Space
    This NASA image, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, captures the shifting colors of the Aurora Australis during a recent magnetic storm near the South Pole. The image, taken about 220 miles (350 kilometers) above the Southern Indian Ocean, shows the aurora, also known as th ...
  • Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Boost Power in Lithium ...
    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have developed a positive electrode made of carbon nanotubes that enables lithium-ion batteries to deliver ten times more power than a conventional battery . If produced on an industrial scale, these carbon nanotube electrodes could s ...
  • A Grim Outlook for Emissions As Climate Talks Limp ...
    In the wake of the failed Copenhagen summit, prospects for cutting global CO2 emissions are worse than they’ve been in years. With talk of mandated cuts now fading and with countries exploiting loopholes, the world appears headed toward a flawed agreement based not on science but on politics. BY F ...
  • Despite Rough Ride on Climate, Yvo de Boer Departs ...
    Even after the failure to reach agreement on binding CO2 cuts in Copenhagen last December, the United Nations’ outgoing chief climate negotiator is confident that the world is making progress on global warming. The key, he says, is convincing all nations, particularly developing ones, that tackling ...

Red Ice Creations

  • BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before E ...
    BP was aware of cracks appearing in the Macondo well as far back as February, right around the time Goldman Sachs and BP Chairman Tony Hayward were busy dumping their stocks in the company on the eve of the explosion that led to the oil spill, according to information uncovered by congressional inve ...
  • Explosion at California water fuel research compan ...
    On Thursday afternoon, 28-year-old inventor, Tyson Larson was killed in an explosion that ripped a hole in the roof and blew out the back doors to a Simi Valley building of the family member's company, Realm Industries, which was seeking to develop his water fuel technology. Realm Industries in Vent ...
  • How the Catholic Church Created the Black Death by ...
    This is a shocking account of how the ignorance of the catholic church created the conditions that lead up to the black death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, by simply associating the common house cat with satan. The black death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's po ...
  • How The BP Disaster Could Kill Millions
    Disturbing evidence is mounting that something frightening is happening deep under the waters of the Gulf of Mexico-something far worse than theBP oil gusher. Warnings were raised as long as a year before the Deepwater Horizondisaster that the area of seabed chosen by the BP geologists might be unst ...
  • Psychiatry Almost Drove Me Crazy
    In its initial stage, a spiritual awakening can look like a nervous breakdown. My experience was so off psychiatry’s map that it wasn’t even remotely recognized. I was immediately labeled as sick.

Russia Today

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

  • The Great Filter vs the ETH
    Via Sentient Developments: ] Bostrum has an interesting take on the Paradox which is inimical to the UFO phenomenon, especially to the ETH (Extraterrestrial Hypothesis). These opposing views themselves are conundrums that won’t be solved until humans expand out into the Universe(s) to see where the ...
  • Space Shuttle Extended into 2011?
    This just in from Alan Boyle’s Cosmic Log: Technicians work on the space shuttle Discovery inside Orbiter Processing Facility 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for a flight that is due for launch this fall. Discovery’s flight is the next shuttle mission on NASA’s schedule. ...
  • 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 [...]

Tippers News

  • Wearing Fur doesn't Turn Heads, It Turns Stomachs ...
    Chinese fur factories are a hot issue right now with animal activist because of the sickening facts about their business. In Chinese fur factories they use some of the cruelest killing methods such as anal or vaginal electrocution, skinning alive, when Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • NEW: MUST SEE VIEO: making the case for whale righ ...
    Scientists speak about the level of intelligence, language and culture of whales. 2:48 video. Submitted by Bev B. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Leucistic Hairy woodpecker in Massachusetts
    These images were taken by a reader, P Bessette, in Massachusetts. The Hairy woodpecker is widespread and common in North America. It is a medium-sized woodpecker similar to the Greater spotted woodpecker in Europe. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Fears mount for survival of UKs most famed osprey
    Fears are mounting survival of the UK's oldest breeding female osprey, which astounded wildlife experts when it returned to the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes wildlife reserve for the 20th consecutive year in March Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 18-Year-Old Launches Animal Freedom Day
    Nadia Masoudi is an animal rights activist who directed and produced a film called Don't Eat Me which is sponsored by PETA. She is hosting the first worldwide Animal Freedom Day on July, 24, 2010. She has received support from celebrities such as Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...

The Freeman

  • Do We Need “Alternative Energy” Because of the Oil ...
    Government intervention played an important role in the spill’s happening in the first place.
  • Germany Pressures U.S. on Debt
    “The congressional battle over adding more government stimulus spending versus deficit reduction spilled overseas Monday as the German government publicly rebuked the Obama administration over its red ink and said countries must now focus on controlling debt.” (Washington Times, Monday) European soc ...
  • Health Insurance Premiums Rise for Individual Cons ...
    “People who buy their own health insurance have been hit lately with premium hikes that far exceed increases in premiums for employer-sponsored coverage, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.” (ABC, Monday) No such thing as a free lunch, right? FEE Timely Classic: “Rising Heal ...
  • New York Will Raise Cigarette Taxes Again
    “New Yorkers who like to smoke will have to dig a little deeper to light up next month, after the Legislature passed a bill on Monday that will give the state the highest cigarette taxes in the country.” (New York Times, Monday) Cause that worked last time … umm. FEE Timely Classic: “Cigarette Taxes ...
  • Urban Mass Transit Out of Suburban Sprawl
    The great subway systems of the world were not originally intended to carry people from one part of the city to another but rather to enable the working poor and middle class to move out of the central city.

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

  • What's next for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3?
    By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, Mother Jones Albert Woodfox has spent nearly all of the last 38 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. His case has brought protests from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who argue that Woodfox's decades in lockd ...
  • GULF DISPATCH: Fishing for fairness in Mississippi
    Raymond Ryan is a seventh-generation commercial fisherman from coastal Jackson County, Miss. He spent most of his 54 years making a hardscrabble living from the Gulf of Mexico until the BP oil catastrophe shut down his fishing grounds. "They've taken everything from us," says Ryan. "You can't crab. ...
  • 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 ...

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 tuna cans?
    While we’ve covered food cans in general before, Danielle emailed asking tuna cans in particular: i have so many, what can i do with them? There’s a wide variety of uses for tuna cans: I know some people use them to make “buddy burner” candles and you can use them as candle holders too – but make su ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle scraps of chicken wire?
    We’ve had an email from Bruce: I’ve got a large amount of chicken wire leftover after conducting some work in my garden. The biggest 1ft by 2ft, the rest smaller. Can I recycle them in my can bin? While it certainly could be recycled as scrap metal, it might cause problems further down the can recy ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle crisp/chip tubes (eg, P ...
    We’ve had an email from Julia, who work for the British High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. She explained “I hate throwing away those clear plastic tops from crisp tubes… so started thinking” – and she came up with some reuses for her regional recycling newsletter: - Use to cover a glass to prevent i ...
  • This week’s reducing, reusing & recycling li ...
    We get a lot of tutorials on making random old textiles into bags or aprons – but this is the other way around: use a cute old apron as an instant cafe-style kitchen curtain. I also love Ki’s use of an old paint roller as a kitchen roll holder. Courtney of the Greenists linked to [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle 3D glasses?
    The Guardian’s Leo Hickman wrote an article yesterday about 3D glasses – how the current trend for jumping-out-at-you big screen action is causing a lot of waste: even with reusing and reconditioning schemes in place, around 7million pairs will be recycled into “plastic pellets” this year – and that ...

Mondoweiss

  • ‘Fresh Air’ gets Gaza’s history ...
    Besides the comments Phil has already posted, there are lots more things that could be said about Terry Gross's interview with Lawrence Wright about Gaza on NPR's Fresh Air today. Here's the comment I sent today to Fresh Air and NPR's ombudsman, Alicia Shepard: On Fresh Air on June 22, 2010, guest L ...
  • Ghetto Israel
    Are you watching the World Cup? It is amazing how many different "races," whatever races are, are mingled in the action, in former apartheid South Africa. There is a piece on Yahoo about the diversity of the American team, all the different backgrounds. The German chancellor has praised the diversit ...
  • ‘Haaretz’ runs piece saying only boyco ...
    Gosh this piece should be in the New York Times: Ayala Shani and Ofer Neiman, in Haaretz in Hebrew, (translation at JSF), say that only boycott will persuade Israel to change its behavior:Is Israel being singled out? As was true about white South Africa, the world is justly sensitive to situations w ...
  • Lawrence Wright: ‘most ideal outcome of enti ...
    The New Yorker's expert on human rights in Gaza is interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air, alongside Ali Abunimah and John Mearsheimer. I'm sorry, that was a joke: the Abunimah and Mearsheimer. When it comes to Israel, the adventurous Gross can't leave her comfort zone. Notice how much play Fresh A ...
  • ‘Commentary’ attacks labor (because Is ...
    I remember when people dismissed Walt and Mearsheimer as purveying "monocausal" political science. Well they weren't monocausal, but the Israel lobby really is monocausal in its thinking. Commentary now dismisses the entire American labor movement because, huh, portions of it seem to be siding with ...

Media Consortium

  • Hacks/Hackers, Mozilla team up for Peer-to-Peer co ...
    This is the group that I'm looking for TMC members to work with on a hack-a-thon. I'm SO EXCITED.
  • From Your Mouth to a Thousand Ears, New Apps Make ...
    Interesting to think about mobile made podcasting from two perspectives. 1) To continue to encourage new forms of citizen reporting, ranging from getting the user's perspective/opinion, their observation of an event and or their interviews. This can all then be compressed, shared, packaged on soci ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • America frets over foreign clinical trials
    The majority of clinical trials used to support drug approvals in America are being conducted outside of the US, where inspection is rare and standards may be lax. A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General reveals that, for drugs approved in 2008, 8 ...
  • Ban overturned on genetically modified alfalfa
    The US Supreme Court has rendered a decision on its first case involving genetically modified crops, and both proponents and opponents of biotech crops are declaring victory. Yesterday, the court decided 7-1 to overturn a San Francisco district court decision banning genetically modified, her ...
  • Homicide: Chimpanzee Turf Wars
    A decade of vicious, internecine battles between chimps has been documented in a new paper in Current Biology . Twenty-one chimps were killed or fatally wounded in Kibale National Park, Uganda, over this time period by a group of male chimps from a large community in a region of the park called ...
  • Deepwater Horizon: BP financial hit could have bee ...
    BP’s declaration that it would set up a $20 billion fund to pay for the damage arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster was widely seen as concession forced by a tough talking White House. However, an article in today’s Wall Street Journal says the oil company may have dodged an even bi ...
  • Britain's budget bloodshed
    The axe is out. Today the UK's coalition government unveiled their " emergency budget ", which is designed to reduce the country's structural deficit through a combination of tax increases and deep cuts to public sector spending. Appearing in the House of Commons, George Osborne, the Conservative ...

new geography

  • Millennial Surprise
    The boomer's long domination of American politics, culture and economics will one day come to an end. A new generation--the so-called millennials--will be shaping the outlines of our society, but the shape of their coming reign could prove more complex than many have imagined. Conventional wisdom, ...
  • Is Pennsylvania History?
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    It is incredibly hard to put into words the absolute horror that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now.  The millions of gallons of oil that have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico and BP's efforts to fight the massive leak are turning the Gulf into a lifeless toxic stew of oil and chemicals.  [. ...
  • Europe’s Coming Summer Of Discontent
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  • Does The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Mean That The U. ...
    As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis enters a third month, the economic impact of this environmental nightmare is starting to become clearer.  The truth is that the "oil volcano" spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf has absolutely decimated the seafood, tourism and real estate industries a ...
  • U.S. National Debt 2010
    So just how big is the U.S. national debt in 2010?  Well, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, on June 1st the U.S. National Debt was $13,050,826,460,886.97.  For those not used to seeing such big numbers, that is over 13 trillion dollars.  To give you an idea of just how much a trillion dolla ...

 


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