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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.

Friday, June 25, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Produce More Food, Naturally
    With the world's population predicted to reach 9 billion by mid-century, the notion that a form of agriculture aimed at producing more from less can put food in everyone's mouth may appear Utopian. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the right to food, begs to diff ...
  • DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Selling Scrap Metal to Scrap ...
    Gugulethu Mkhwananzi is another one of the many unemployed women who have become features of everyday life in Bulawayo's poor working class suburbs as she moves from house to house, looking for "rusted gold", or scrap metal.
  • PAKISTAN: Prevalence of Hepatitis Infection Still ...
    Unable to afford treatment for his disease, Azizur Rehman, 29, has been suffering from hepatitis C for the past one year. "My elder sister died of the same killer ailment one year ago for lack of treatment," he laments.
  • LAOS: Water Headaches Follow Growth of Cities
    At 63, Kingkham Duoangsavanh has it made. Now retired after decades of working as a nurse, she lives happily with her grown-up children in a well- appointed home with all the amenities. But up until recently, a constant shortage of water has marred her comfortable existence.
  • U.S. Congress Approves Strong Unilateral Sanctions ...
    Escalating Washington's growing confrontation with Iran, both houses of Congress Thursday approved a sweeping unilateral sanctions package designed to pressure Tehran into curbing its nuclear programme.

Scoop - NZ

  • Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis
    Despite President Barack Obama's denial that his decision to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan and replace him with Gen. David Petraeus signified any differences with McChrystal over war strategy, the decision obviously reflects a desire by Obama to find a way out of a deep ...
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • i2eye with Rick Hansen
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Child protection agency blames its own errors in d ...
    A searing internal review of Sacramento County's Child Protective Services has concluded that judgment errors and bias among agency workers were factors in the 2008 death of a 4 1/2-year-old foster child. For the first time since Amariana Crenshaw died in January 2008, top agency officials acknowle ...
  • 'Official' Sarah Palin legal defense fund deemed ' ...
    Thousands of donors who contributed to a $390,000 legal defense fund for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will get their money back after an investigator said Thursday the fund was illegal because it was misleadingly described on a website. State Personnel Board investigator Timothy Petumenos said th ...
  • Bristol Palin acting debut panned: 'Pencil shaving ...
    The reviews are in for Sarah Palin's daughter's acting review. "Oh LAWD is this bad," declared Gawker, the popular New York gossip blog. "Fresh off the press, here's Bristol Palin, making her acting debut on Secret Life of an American Teenager. Palin plays - shocker! - a teen mom, so you'd think sh ...
  • Biologist: Ocean pollution 'threatening the human ...
    Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood. A report released ...
  • Illinois, US: Lightning Strike Injures Four People
    Four leaders of a Rockford, Illinois Boy Scout group may be wishing they had taken their own advice, after being struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon in Rock Island. "The sirens went off. The radio with us, it went off. So we sent the boys up for protection and it just happened real quick," said ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • I smell a stainless steel rat
    That $1.1 billion had to be going somewhere and now we know where a chunk of it is going -- to a security firm that isn't even licenced in Ontario and is offering about double the going rate for its glorified bouncers. I'm sure the firm in question - Contemporary Security Canada - has absolutely no ...
  • Lest we forget . . .
    ACCORDING TO A POST IN CANNABIS CULTURE written by Jodie Emery, "Send Marc Emery Mail or Money in US Federal Prison", you can mail him a letter. And that would be a good thing to do for a victim of US legal imperialism in solitary confinement.  Click on the link above to get the address and rules. M ...
  • 198 new deepwater leases in the Gulf
    . So how's that six month moratorium on granting new permits for offshore wells deeper than 500 feet in the Gulf doing? .While waiting for the ban to be lifted, the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Services, these guys , have approved five new offshore drilling projects since June 2 . A ...
  • As much as I was attempting to avoid the FIFA Worl ...
    ... I can't. Gawd... I can't stand soccer, or football, or whatever you call it these days. But that's just me. I fully understand the passion that overtakes fans. Anyway, this little bit came out of the recent loss of Spain to Switzerland. (My emphasis) Some have pointed to their lack of cutting ...
  • A very simple question
    Me and my old combat medic are going to bugger off for the weekend. We do that. I pay; he holds up an index finger and says, "Your external carotid artery." I'll pay. Happily. So... I have an unrelated question. Well... sort of related, in my warped little mind. If your cable provider or satellit ...

Media Matters for America

  • Glenn Beck defends McCarthy's legacy with show de ...
    Glenn Beck -- who has said that Sen. Joseph McCarthy was "absolutely right" -- devoted his Fox News show to purportedly helping his viewers decide "was McCarthy right." During the show, Beck renewed his extended campaign of red-baiting President Obama, his family, and progressives, at one poin ...
  • Conservative media falsely accuse Obama of "excor ...
    Conservative media figures have distorted comments President Obama made during Senate hearings in 2007 to accuse him of "chastising" and "excoriating" Gen. David Petraeus, who he recently tapped as the top commander in Afghanistan. In fact, during the hearing, Obama specifically said his critic ...
  • Memo to right-wing media: Petraeus has spoken favo ...
    Following the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the right-wing media have falsely suggested that Gen. David Petraeus, who will replace McChrystal, does not support the rules of engagement being used in conducting the war. In fact, Petraeus has re ...
  • Fox News is BP oil spill misinformation clearingho ...
    Media Matters for America has compiled a list of myths and falsehoods about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, all of which have been pushed by Fox News. Fox News' staunch defense of BP Myth: Obama waited weeks before responding to the oil spill Myth: Moratorium is not needed because oil c ...
  • Rove propagates public misconception about job los ...
    In his Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove forwarded the falsehood that President Obama's economic policies have not slowed job losses, citing it as one of his "failures." In fact, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data show several months of positive job growth, and independent analysts predicted ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Republicans are Undercutting National Economic Rec ...
    The same old story happens again and again. Dems in the House pass reasonable legislation, and Senate Dems dicker with centrists and Republicans over "compromises," weakening the legislation step by step over many weeks, only to find zero Republican support in the end. The public has no idea ...
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  • Etzioni: Time To Bomb Iran's Civilian Infrastruct ...
    This piece speaks for itself. It can be summed up like this. Bombing Iran's nuclear sites won't succeed in stopping Iranian nuclear development so the US and or Israel should bomb Iran itself, what Etzioni calls its "infrastructure". Obviously, I think this recommendation is insane, immoral a ...
  • McChrystal's Master-Stroke?
    An interesting theory about Stanley McChrystal's motives and strategy -- and about what Obama may have lost by dismissing him -- popped up in the thread below my post yesterday , and I urged David Seaton to make the comment into a post of his own. He's done it, and I'd like to know what others thin ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Media, Access and McChrystal
    There's been a discussion (some of it neatly summarized on the Daily Show) of elite journalists' reaction to the explosive comments made by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staffers to Rolling Stone freelancer Michael Hastings. One admission came via a Politico story, captured by NYU's Jay Rosen (6/2 ...
  • Deb Weinstein | Immigration Reform Hits Milestone
    Washington - It was a bilingual event with a common cause: pass immigration reform this year. Leading the call was Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois), who, speaking in both English and Spanish, gathered immigrant families, members of the community group Casa de Maryland, members of the activis ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ruth Marcus | Who Is the Activist Judge Here?
    Washington - The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are about to get under way -- and with them the inevitable denunciations of activist liberal judges substituting their policy preferences for those of elected officials. Spare me. If you're worried about judicial activism ...
  • Supreme Court: Washington Can Release Names of Bal ...
    Washington - A near unanimous Supreme Court today ruled Washington state can release the names of the roughly 138,000 people who signed ballot petitions to overturn a same-sex domestic partnership law. read more

Planetsave

  • Endangered Sea Turtles Being Burned Alive by BP in ...
    Yes, you read that title correctly, endangered sea turtles are being burned alive as part of BP’s “oil spill clean-up” efforts. Furthermore, a boat captain that was hired by BP and the Coast Guard to rescue these sea turtles reports that he and his workers are being purposefully blocked from doing ...
  • The Mercy Project Update (1st Listening of Pauli C ...
    Last week I wrote about a new project to help respond to the BP oil spill disaster: The Mercy Project . As a quick update to that, The Mercy Project Listening Session (a full recording of Pauli Carman’s remake of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy, Mercy Me”) is now posted on The Pauli Carman Show (available fo ...
  • Setting Ourselves Up for a Nuclear Disaster Like t ...
    Just as deregulation of the oil industry was a key factor leading to the BP oil spill, energy experts are warning that we may be setting ourselves up for a disaster in the nuclear energy field by deregulating it. “Even as tens of thousands of gallons of oil continue to erupt each day from BPâs b ...
  • [video] Evidence of “Oil Rain” Begins ...
    Today Zach posted an overview of the potential for widespread toxic rain as a result of the Gulf disaster. But now, Drudge has just posted what appears to be video evidence of oil-infused rain dropping in Louisiana. This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post . Note: the YT ...
  • Toxic Rain & Biggest Environmental Disaster in Hum ...
    Toxic oil dispersants may result in “total destruction” of the Eastern United States and the biggest environmental disaster in human history, Russian report says. I’ve seen this mentioned a few places now, including by Important Media’s founder & publisher David Anderson , but it is something I cou ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Dead Peasants Insurance - Civil Rights/Human Right ...
    Received via e-mail at Axis of Logic. Anonymous writes (with�a bit of sarcasm): I'd think Dead Peasant insurance would be especially popular with coal mining and other resource companies, but it seems to be used pretty well across the board. Perhaps banks and other seemingly low death-risk comp ...
  • Beyond "Against Chomsky" - Hypocrisy on Israel - C ...
    In two recent articles [1][2] I exposed Noam Chomsky�as a service intellectual who serves to neutralize his readers by advancing intellectualization instead of concrete opposition to institutional controls. Beyond this, especially Ghali Hassan has argued [3] [4]�that the intellectualization ...
  • Over 10,000 March in Detroit to Open US Social For ...
    Thousands of people from across the country marched through Detroit Tuesday afternoon to kick off the opening ceremony of the US Social Forum. The colorful, joyous, and sometimes raucous procession down Detroit’s Woodward Avenue included social movements and community organizati ...
  • Google Wins Key Copyright Ruling - World News
    A federal judge in New York ruled in favor of Google Inc.'s YouTube unit Wednesday, in a closely watched copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by Viacom Inc. The judge granted Google's motion for summary judgment in a three-year-old lawsuit in which Viacom claimed that the video-sharing Web si ...
  • American Power Act Fails to Reduce Emissions Enoug ...
    As the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history devastates the Gulf of Mexico, clarifying the urgent need for bold, effective climate legislation, a new Center for Biological Diversity analysis of the American Power Act demonstrates the bill’s gross inadequacies. The Center’s anal ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    You have to admit that this is precisely why the damned thing was set up in the first place "The legal defense fund set up for Sarah Palin when she was governor of Alaska was illegal, an investigator for the state's personnel board announced today. ... Investigator Timothy Petumenos found that Palin ...
  • The Vulgar Pigboy Lives Up To His Name_As usual.
    No matter what happens you can count on the country's most famous blobular corporate thug, well known racist pig and noted Dominican child sex connoisseur just keeps on spewing whatever that is that dribbles down his chin onto his $100 shirts for three hours every weekday. � I don't know what the ga ...
  • Of pots, kettles and degrees of blackness thereof
    I wanted to get back to something from last night's roundup that didn't shock me nearloy as much as you would think...the fellow from Raytown, MO - just a few miles from me - who put the semi-trailer out in his field with the "Democrats - party of parasites" message painted on the side for oncoming ...
  • Welcome to America, Land of Make-believe
    Last night, as Andrew Sullivan reported, the North Korean soccer team succumbed 7-0 in its match against Portugal. �The result appears nowhere in the North Korean press. Instead, the lead headlines for the day out of the official North Korean news agency include: �"Revenge-vowing Meetings Held," "Ru ...
  • There will be (more) blood
    That is the undeniable conclusion when the "Tea Bagger" rhetoric is looked at closely. You have Glenn Beck talking about being headed for another civil war , Sister Sarah talking about reloading and using gunsights to mark Democratic House districts she wants to see flip to republican. Now the Tea P ...

Care 2

  • Why Sarah Palin Will Never Lead the Religious Righ ...
    Despite her claim to a conservative form of feminism, Sarah Palin will never lead the religious right for one simple reason: She's a woman. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pets are not patriotic
    Your pets can be upset by Independence Day celebrations, especially fireworks. Keep them safe and happy with these tips. Submitted by Andrea Tackett to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Cox Recycles 500 Tons of Waste
    Cox Enterprises succeeded in recycling 500 tons of waste last year, according to a company press release. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • I Work With Animals! Horse Acupuncturist Eases Pai ...
    What animal lover hasn't daydreamed about ditching their desk job and applying for a job at a zoo? Or at a doogy daycare? Or tracking gorillas in Africa? We sure have, but since we may never actually get to work wtih animals we brought a few who do. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Animals �|� ...
  • Take Action: It's Time to Modernize Our Privacy La ...
    Today, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which should safeguard electronic communications records (like your email or chat logs) and the information you share with companies, is in serious need of an update. The government sho Submitted by Daf Yanez to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • AUSTRALIAN PM RUDD’S FAREWELL
    Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd steps down in favour of his deputy Julia Gillard after his Labor government turned on him, as voters desert Rudd ahead of expected October polls.
  • In the drama of the runaway general, don’t f ...
    The departure of General Stanley McChrystal is unlikely to change the fundamental drivers of policy in Pakistan - arguably a far bigger strategic worry for Washington than its "runaway general".
  • 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.

Booman Tribune

  • Tornado Thread
    I think we got hit by a tornado here about three hours ago. Trees are down everywhere and CabinGirl and I just removed two that were blocking our driveway. Another clipped the house. Obviously, we have no power and it could be days before we do. I'm using an iPhone to post this. The FinnMan too ...
  • Don't Stop With McChrystal
    I agree with the New York Times editorial board and Thomas Ricks. The president should not limit himself to sacking Gen. McChrystal. He should fire Ambassador Eikenberry and Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke, too. Eikenberry probably gave the president the correct advice but when that advice became ...
  • Your Lousy Congress
    As Steve Benen says, "Democrats appear to have lined up 58 votes, but in the Senate, 42 is greater than 58, even when our economic health is on the line." He's referring to the failed effort to pass the 'tax extenders' bill. Democratic leaders in the Senate have apparently failed to win enough ...
  • Death Penalty: Troy Davis' Innocence Hearing
    "Better One Innocent Man Should Die ...than we should ever get rid of the death penalty." I know that's a crude reversal of the standard catchphrase death penalty opponents make. Yet, isn't it in truth the mantra of those who favor the death penalty? That if mistakes are made, so what? Gotta b ...
  • Thoughts on the Future GOP
    I know we are all concerned, to varying degrees, about the Republicans making large gains in the midterm elections, but demographers will tell you that, in the long term, the GOP is in really bad shape. The age and race demographics are working against them. And, so, thoughtful people on both the ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Read this story: The Exterminator’s Want-Ad by Bru ...
    As I seem to be having a “recommend stuff elsewhere” kind of day here at Futurismic, here’s another suggestion for you. In between its non-fiction material (focussed, as its name might suggest, on building future communities based on sharing and mutual cooperation) Shareable.net is running science f ...
  • Watch this movie: We Live In Public
    A couple of nights ago, I sat down and watched We Live In Public, Ondi Timoner’s award-winning documentary about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, the Quiet experiment, and the eponymous project that involved Harris streaming every mundane moment of his life onto the web for anyone to watch. I was particular ...
  • Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes i ...
    … is no longer science fiction [via @dresdencodak]. Early days yet, natch (and the focus here is on medical applications), but the proof-of-concept work is getting done. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes itself on dem ...
  • Watch this movie: We Live In Public
    A couple of nights ago, I sat down and watched We Live In Public, Ondi Timoner’s award-winning documentary about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, the Quiet experiment, and the eponymous project that involved Harris streaming every mundane moment of his life onto the web for anyone to watch. I was particular ...
  • Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes i ...
    … is no longer science fiction [via @dresdencodak]. Early days yet, natch (and the focus here is on medical applications), but the proof-of-concept work is getting done. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes itself on d ...

Therapy News

  • Not Dealing With Anger Leads To Increased Violence ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Anger management therapy has benefits beyond the emotional state of the person in therapy, says a new study published in the journal Addiction. According to the report, people who suppress anger rather than learning how to deal with it are more likely to become physic ...
  • Depression and Physical Pain
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research, led by Dr. Chantal Berna of the University of Oxford, sheds light on the common co-occurrence of depression and pain. Because part of our pain experience is emotional, people who feel depressed experience changes in brain function that cause their brains ...
  • You Can’t Heal What You Don’t Feel
    By Nicole S. Urdang, M.S., NCC, DHM, Holistic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Nicole and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. Can you imagine a life without one of your five senses? Maybe, but it certainly isn’t something you would joyfully embrace. Even if having all fiv ...
  • It May SEEM Unlikely… But Are You Sure?
    By Sherry L. Osadchey, MA, LMFT, SEP, Somatic Experiencing Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sherry and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. I would like to begin this, my second entry, with a statement that I believe is an important one for me to make. I don’t consider myself an expert ...
  • The Psychology of Vacation: Not All Time Off is Re ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A recent article in the Boston Globe looks at the psychology of vacation: what we want from vacation and what we actually get from it. Drawing on the research of psychologists, behavioral economists, and social psychologists, the article concludes that in many cases, w ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Appalachia Rising: Mountaintop Removal Abolition M ...
    Appalachia Rising: Mountaintop Removal Abolition Mass Mobilization to ... It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) These divergent trends are partly the cause of mountaintop removal , which, despite its massive footprint, kills jobs. Solutions exist. ... and more��
  • Blog: Ashley Judd “The rape of Appalachia” - WYMT
    Blog: Ashley Judd “The rape of Appalachia” WYMT She questions whether mountain top removal would be allowed in any other historic mountain ranges. "I am here to tell you, mountaintop removal coal mining ...
  • Stella Parton shows her support for coal - WYMT
    Stella Parton shows her support for coal WYMT “We're just trying to get the word out that we need more mountaintop removal . Without mountaintop we would nothing in eastern Kentucky,” Haven King said. ... and more��
  • Big Coal: damaging communities from Appalachia to ...
    People's World Big Coal: damaging communities from Appalachia to Colombia People's World Mountaintop removal replaced deep mining across Appalachia, resulting in huge reductions in mining-related employment, devastation of the United Mineworkers ...
  • Mountaintop removal: Army Corps deals another blow ...
    Mountaintop removal : Army Corps deals another blow to regio Bluefield Daily Telegraph The controversial decision by the Army Corps is the latest move by the Obama administration to curb mountaintop removal coal mining. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • In Afghanistan, Petraeus will have difficulty repl ...
    Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post : In Afghanistan, Petraeus will have difficulty replicating his Iraq success   —  This week's confrontation between a senior Army general and the president of the United States may have signaled the beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan.  In a year or two, ...
  • WaPo's Weigel Lets Loose With Scathing E-mails on ...
    Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC : WaPo's Weigel Lets Loose With Scathing E-mails on Liberal Listserv   —  FishbowlDC has obtained e-mails written by WaPo's conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel, that the scribe sent to JournoList, a listserv for liberal journalists.  (Read up on JournoList with Yahoo ...
  • I like Obama... and he's right to have a go at us ...
    Jacqui Swift / The Sun : I like Obama... and he's right to have a go at us for polluting his country   —  THE shocking images of oil-covered wildlife and ruined beaches across the Gulf of Mexico have horrified millions.  —  But passionate green campaigner Sir Paul McCartney believes the environmen ...
  • An apology to my readers (David Weigel/Right Now)
    David Weigel / Right Now : An apology to my readers   —  I'm a member of an off-the-record list-serv called “Journolist,” founded by my colleague Ezra Klein.  Last Monday, I was deluged with angry e-mail after posting a story about Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) that was linked by the Drudge Report wi ...
  • Senate Dems fail to advance tax extenders bill for ...
    Jay Heflin / The Hill : Senate Dems fail to advance tax extenders bill for the third time   —  Senate Democrats on Thursday failed for a third time to advance legislation to extend unemployment benefits through November.  —  In a 57-41 vote, the Senate failed to end debate on the legislation.

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Let’s talk about biotech
    Scientists need to better engage with public concerns over food safety, says Jia Hepeng, who believes communication is the key to resolving China’s conflict over genetically modified crops. The heated debate over genetically modified (GM) crops that has been raging in China in recent months has high ...
  • Slow-motion tragedy for sea life
    In the aftermath of the BP oil leak, the wildlife haven Grand Isle is at the heart of the environmental catastrophe engulfing the US coast of Louisiana, writes Suzanne Goldenberg. Out on the water, it starts as a slight rainbow shimmer, then turns to wide orange streamers of oil, whipping through ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Accused Hacker Who Balked at 2-Year Prison Deal No ...
    An alleged hacker who declined a 2-year plea deal is facing decades behind bars after federal authorities Thursday added multiple charges, including possession and distribution of child pornography. Barry Ardolf, 45, of Blaine, Minnesota, had rejected a plea deal in connection to charges accusing hi ...
  • Twitter Settles with FTC Over ‘Happiness’ Breach
    Twitter has agreed to implement a new security program and submit to a security audit from a third party as part of a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission over breaches the micro-blogging service experienced in 2009 that put its customers’ privacy at risk. One of the breaches allo ...
  • Judge: DMCA Protects YouTube in Viacom Lawsuit
    Google-owned YouTube won a major copyright victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled the video-sharing site was protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Viacom, which vowed an appeal, was seeking $1 billion in damages in a case testing the depths of immunities under the DMCA, adopted in ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • BP shares down as spill-related legal battles rage
    VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The Gulf of Mexico oil spill entered its 67th day on Friday with BP's New York share price at year lows and bad weather looming that could hamper clean-up and containment efforts.
  • Soccer upstages strike as Les Bleus return
    PARIS (Reuters) - France's humiliating first round exit from the World Cup took center stage in French politics on Thursday, overshadowing protests against pension reforms and preparations for a G20 summit.
  • Illegal Sarah Palin defense fund must give back do ...
    ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - A legal defense fund for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was illegal and must repay nearly $400,000 to donors, according to a settlement with a state-appointed lawyer announced on Thursday.
  • Lawmakers reaching deal on Wall Street bill
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Friday were close to finalizing a historic overhaul of financial regulations as they reached a preliminary deal on derivatives, the most contentious sticking point of the bill.
  • UPDATE 1-US judge denies stay on drill ban ruling
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Thursday to put on hold his decision blocking the federal government from enforcing its six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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.
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PDA AMERICA

  • More Than Two Sides
    By Tina Richards | WarIsACrime.org Often I reflect back to the time I spent on Capitol Hill fighting for my son’s life. I went there as a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. Yes with a big D. I had ...
  • $33 billion for war while communities can’t ...
    Please share this video with your friends and suggest they join us at http://facebook.com/RethinkAfghanistan. Communities all over the country can’t afford to pay teachers or educate our kids. Now the Pentagon wants $33 billion for more ...
  • 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

Marler Blog

  • Some Salmonella good news for Subway
    From the Illinois Department of Health: Confirmed cases of Salmonella serotype Hvittingfoss – 97 (case total unchanged from June 21) 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, ...
  • The Last Topp's Brand Hamburger E. coli O157:H7 Ou ...
    I am heading to what appears to be the last case (this one a hemolytic uremic syndrome case) mediation stemming from the 2007 Topp’s Brand Hamburger E. coli O157:H7 outbreak (assuming that my flight to Los Angeles and then to Miami actually leaves). According to the CDC, in the Fall of 2007 health ...
  • If I were a CEO of a food manufacturing company at ...
    Imagine that the phone call comes or an email pops into your inbox--"Sir, we have been contacted by (you pick: CDC, FDA, USDA, or a state or local health department), and they say your product (lettuce, raw milk, or a frozen dinner) has been linked to illnesses. What do we do?" So, what do you do ...
  • Recalls do not mean much IMHO
    Really, I do not mean to beat up on Con Agra just because they are in the middle of yet another product outbreak and recall, however, Con Agra's past recalls raise some interesting issues with respect to the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of recalls.� Here are some interesting examples: Peter Pan ...
  • ConAgra - Is the issue really that your customers ...
    Please remember, Salmonella is a fecal bacterium, and seriously, do any of us really expect to have a fecal bacterium in a product like this? Also, remember, it is not like I do not know ConAgra, or respect some of the people that run the organization. Two years ago I spent a good part of a day ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 06.25.10
    Study: Fuel cell vehicles to reach 670,000 in annual sales by 2020 It's a very specific prediction: the U.S. will lead the way with 134,049 FCVs. Spy Shots: next-gen Aveo RS unmasked Looks m ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.24.10
    2011 Hyundai Sonata: 1,065 miles on 16.07 gallons = 66.285 mpg! Take that, EPA. POLL: Tesla's IPO is upon us, and there's no consensus on what to do - what's your plan? Mad Money says watch ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET Showcase Live streams tonight
    Don't miss the live stream of CNET's 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 ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: What to get after E3
    Josh is back from E3, with buying advice--including a laughable plastic laptop pad. Plus: we answer your questions on old and busted iPhones and iPods. And we get all networky. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe: � iTunes (MP3) |� iTunes (320x180) |� iTunes (640x360) |� RSS ( ...
  • 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: ...

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!

  • Democracy Now! in Toronto For G20 Meeting & Protes ...
    Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! will be broadcasting from Toronto on Friday to cover the G20 summit and the protests. Send story ideas to stories@democracynow.org.
  • Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happ ...
    Forty-seven years later, thousands of people, of every hue, religion, class and age, might not have used those words exactly, but they marched down that same avenue here in Detroit in the same spirit, opening the U.S. Social Forum. More than 10,000 citizens, activists and organizers have come from ...
  • 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

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

  • After the McChrystal Affair, Let’s Talk Abou ...
    The tabloid drama between the White House and McChrystal should give way to some sober assessments about Afghanistan. AterNet / By Malou Innocent June 24, 2010 | After the media firestorm ignited by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff criticizing officials in the Obama administration, it’s high ti ...
  • Why the BP Disaster Threatens to Expose Fox News&# ...
    Media Matters for America / By Eric Boehlert “I’m wondering if Fox News isn’t pressing up very closely to its tipping point; to the moment where Fox News reveals how certifiably insane it is by rushing to BP’s defense.” June 24, 2010 | Eight-two percent. That’s the number you need to keep in mind as ...
  • Three Things You Missed in Rolling Stone’s McChrys ...
    by Tom Andrews, CommonDreams.org, June 23, 2010 Unfortunately, President Obama missed an opportunity today to not only replace an out-of-control general but an out-of-control and failing strategy in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, mainstream media continue to miss the most serious story contained in the now ...
  • Move Over, Sarah Palin, There’s A Bigger Idi ...
    I never thought I’d write this, but I think we’ve discovered a new level of stupid below the heretofore impenetrable Sarah Palin floor. It’s not unlike the discovery of a previously unknown species of protohuman deep within a cave somewhere, revealing some new twist in the constantly expanding canon ...
  • General McChrystal Out – General Petraeus In
    General McChrystal Relieved Of Command: Obama Takes General Off Top Afghan Post JENNIFER LOVEN and ANNE GEARAN | 06/23/10 01:59 PM | Via: Huff Post WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying his scathing published ...

Solari

  • Are You Ready for the Quantum Computer?
    For the first time, researchers have been able to control the remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once and that too in the most common electronic material, silicon-a feat that could mark a big leap towards affordable “quantum computer”. Scientists in the UK-Dutch team from t ...
  • How HFT Quote Stuffing Caused The Market Crash
    …our friends at Nanex have conducted an exhaustive analysis (must read for everybody concerned about market structure), in which they identify the various parties responsible for the market crash, and, drumroll please, High Frequency Trading stands at the pinnacle of culprits for the 1,000 point Do ...
  • New House Sales Lower
    By Shobhana Chandra and Timothy R. Homan Purchases of U.S. new homes fell in May to the lowest level on record after a tax credit expired, showing the market remains dependent on government support. Sales collapsed an unprecedented 33 percent from April to an annual pace of 300,000, less than the m ...
  • Build America Bonds May Push Cities Into Bankruptc ...
    By Joe Mysak The bonds designed by the U.S. government to help municipalities recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression may cost them millions of dollars in unforeseen borrowing costs instead of saving them money. Build America Bonds were part of the American Recovery and Reinvest ...
  • Methane In Gulf Astonishingly High
    As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday. Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day ...

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��

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Sideways News

  • Mills & Boon ebook sales soar
    Grabbing the USB connector with expert hands, Troy ran his fingers over the keyboard. He knew what he wanted and he could wait no longer. Sound familiar? Hundreds of thousands of readers of the romantic novels published by Mills & Boon know what I’m talking about. Last year, the company sold more th ...
  • Yoga 'prevents age-related illness'
    Yoga is more than just a way to get fit, according to new research which suggests it can help prevent a number of age-related illnesses. Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered that yoga helps reduce cytokine levels in the body which lead to the inflammation linked with arthritis, osteo ...
  • 'Mood beauty' a top 2010 trend
    New types of beauty products launched in 2010 will make people feel as well as look good, it has been claimed.
  • 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Do we overpay the members of our armed services?
    Mackenzie Eaglen’s paper for the Heritage Foundation recommends ways to fix the US military’s “mismatch between plans and resources” (PDF, 7 June 2010).  One recommendation is “align military compensation with 21st century workforce demands”, which means changing the mix of compensation and “refor ...
  • FM newswire for June 24, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Psychologies explain why people assume that McChrystal’s Rolling Stone profile resulted from personality quirks (e.g., stupid, rash) rather than his rational intent:  Fundamental at ...
  • A look back at our time from the 2100 A.D. edition ...
    Summary:  Today we have an exercise in future history (see Wikipedia), a look at my forecast of medium-term geopolitical trends.  The interesting predictions are at the end (starting with #4), our responses to the obvious trends. History moves in leaps.  Punctuated equilibrium it’s called in evol ...
  • 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 easily predictable. We again see revealed the bitter infighting in Washington about the Af-Pak war.  Don’t confused cause an ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • GASLAND Trailer 2010
    It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well – rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from a multinational energy conglomerate wanting to lease their property. The Reason? In America, the company hopes to tap into a huge natural gas reservoir dubbed th ...
  • US raises objections over ICQ sale plans
    Financial Times – Senior US law enforcement officials have objected to AOLâs pending sale of one of the largest instant-messaging services to a Russian investment firm, fearing it will put some of the worldâs top criminals further from their reach. Investigators at federal agencies charged w ...
  • Brain stimulation technique boosts language abilit ...
    PhysOrg.com – A brain stimulation technique, known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, boosts the language ability of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, suggests preliminary research, published online in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Read article
  • Nanotubes Give Batteries a Jolt
    A lithium-ion battery with a positive electrode made of carbon nanotubes delivers 10 times more power than a conventional battery and can store five times more energy than a conventional ultracapacitor. The nanotube battery technology, developed by researchers at MIT and licensed to an undisclosed b ...
  • Germany could cause euro collapse: Soros
    Globe and Mail – Germanâs 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. âGerman policy is a danger for Europe, it could destroy the European projec ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • The legacy of imperialism: child mortality up in A ...
    The legacy of imperialism: child mortality up in Africa (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A new report was released this week stating that child mortality increased in six sub-Saharan countries despite the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals. Even though several countries have reported increased w ...
  • Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Greek)
    For HD-mp4 copy of this video, search torrents for the title: Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Greek)
  • Book review part 2 of 2 of Teresa Hayter’s The Cre ...
    Book review part 2 of 2 of Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty was first published in 1981 as a response to the World Bank’s Brandt Report. Even today, decades after it was first published, Ha ...
  • Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Chinese)
    For HD-mp3 copy of this video search torrents for the title: Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Chinese)
  • Nie będzie trok pluł nam w twarz – czyli dyskusja
    Nie będzie trok pluł nam w twarz – czyli dyskusja (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Panowie trockiści z portalu Władza Rad, który wielokrotnie krytykowaliśmy zamiast zaproponowanej przez nas debaty wybrali obelgi, pomieszane z odrobiną fantazjowania o ekonomii politycznej. Widać troszeczkę się podszkolili ...

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

  • Wide Variety of Vehicles Makes Up the X-Prize Fiel ...
    The variety of vehicles in competition for the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize is amazing. There are 21 teams still in competition, spread across three categories. But rather than converging on one particular general design style, as the solar car competitions have tended to ...
  • Government Mandates New Labels for Light Bulbs
    The US Federal Trade Commission has announced a final ruling on new labels for light bulbs.  The labels will break down the "lighting facts" of bulbs much like a nutrition label on food products.  With CFLs , LEDs and other lighting technologies filling the shelves alongside incandescents , the lab ...
  • Efficient X Prize Cars Racing in Knockout Stage
    A number of unusual vehicles are on the track at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in Brooklyn MI this week. The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize competition is now in the knockout stages , and the competitors have come to MIS to participate in a series of trials . Wednesday and Thur ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • The Myth of a Liberal Break from Obama
    Body For some time now the media have treated us to the melodramatic plot of a major rupture on the left -- a rather lopsided rupture, that is, between America's liberals and the presidential personage of Barack Obama. The former are most unhappy with the latter, goes the story line, ...
  • GOP's Emmer Takes States Rights to the Extreme
    GOP's Emmer: 'The State Certainly Does Have The Right' To Overturn Federal Laws .� At any other time, it would be pertinent�to point out how crazy the Repuglicans have become---but given the current political climate, the current Supreme Court, and the number of truly crazies in this country, it ...
  • Helpful 411 Regarding The Latest Republican Fiasco
    Helpful 411 Regarding The Latest Republican Fiasco by Tony Peyser � Joe Barton apologized to Tony Hayward; Startling and odd and creepy. Why? Well, Joe once worked for ARCO, Which was later bought by BP. � read more
  • Hallmark Should Make Cards For Those In The GOP W ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH � “Sorry Obama shook you down for $20 billion; I hate to see him taunt you! You can pollute my state’s natural resources Any time you want to.” � http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/17/2010-06-17_texas_rep_joe_barton_apologizes_to_bp_ceo_tony_hayward_over_white ...
  • The Hard Truth of Obama's 'Fix'
    Body One of the more fascinating predicaments in which President Obama finds himself is that among his thoughtful, fair-minded and genuinely concerned critics -- that is, the ones most worthy of the administration's serious notice -- their criticisms tend to drift to the self-negating ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Right-wing self-delusion
    (updated below) National Review 's Jay�Nordlinger cites a truly repellent (and false )�comment made this week by�Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Defense Secretary Robert Gates: "A million and a half people are living in Gaza, but only one of them is really in need of humanitarian ...
  • 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 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

  • 700 "Hands Across the Sand" Events Opposing Offsho ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 Sierra Club Thousands of citizens from every state in the U.S., Puerto Rico and D.C., and 20 countries WHAT: Citizens will gather on beaches and inland communities and join hands to recognize the tragedy in the Gulf and call for clean energy, no more offshore ...
  • Feingold Statement on President Obama Accepting th ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 Senator Russ Feingold “The comments of General McChrystal and his aides were very troubling, and the president’s decision to accept his resignation is appropriate.  But I continue to have strong concerns about our misguided policy in Afghanistan.  The massive, ...
  • Massimino Statement on Appointment of Petraeus to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 Human Rights First Following President Barack Obama's announcement that Gen. David Petraeus has been named the new top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Human Rights First President and CEO Elisa Massimino issued the following statement: read more
  • ACLU Intervenes In Lawsuit To Protect Amazon Users ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 ACLU Requests by the North Carolina Department of Revenue (NCDOR) for detailed information about Amazon.com customers are unconstitutional because they violate Internet users' rights to free speech, anonymity and privacy, according to a complaint filed today by ...
  • On Afghan Strategy
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after President Obama replaced NATO and U.S. Commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal with General David Petraeus: read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Three Things You Missed in Rolling Stone's McChrys ...
    by Tom Andrews Unfortunately, President Obama missed an opportunity today to not only replace an out-of-control general but an out-of-control and failing strategy in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, mainstream media continue to miss the most serious story contained in the now famous Rolling Stone profile. re ...
  • Witness Against Torture Trial: Broken Promises, B ...
    by Joy First When I talk about my work in nonviolent civil resistance, working for peace and social justice, I always tell people that we are never acquitted by a judge at a bench trial.  No matter what the facts are, judges will always find us guilty. read more
  • Enter, Real Populists
    by Jim Hightower Few people today call themselves populists, but I think most are. I'm not talking about the recent political outbursts by confused, used and abused tea-bag ranters who've been organized by corporate front groups to spread a hatred of government. read more
  • America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company- ...
    by Glen Ford The United States can no longer engage effectively in "nation-building" in the one place on Earth it has a right and duty to do so: at home. These are the lessons of the 2010 Gulf oil catastrophe, the 2008 financial meltdown and the 2005 Katrina horror -- disasters that history will ri ...
  • Too Many Think BP Should Get a Pass
    by Pat LaMarche Seven long weeks ago I wrote my column “Oil Spill or Smiting of the Sea.” I, like you, had no idea that this disaster would still be the most crucial environmental and economic policy issue more than two full months after the explosion. My column recommended religious extremists jo ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Qatar firm 'broke contract' after Charles interven ...
    Prince Charles caused Qatari royal family's property company to withdraw planning application, partner company argued The high court ruled today that the Qatari royal family's property company breached its contract with a partner company when it withdrew a planning application for the £3bn Chelsea b ...
  • Man convicted for Graff jewel heist
    Aman Kassaye held 'petrified' woman at gunpoint during Britain's biggest jewellery robbery A man who held a "petrified" shop assistant at gunpoint during Britain's biggest jewellery robbery last summer was today convicted for his part in the £40m raid. Aman Kassaye, 25, of no fixed address, was foun ...
  • Activist wins 'partial victory' court
    Peace activist Maya Evans says UK policy of transferring captured Taliban suspects to the Afghan authorities led to abuse An anti-war activist today won a "partial victory" in her high court challenge against Britain's policy of transferring captured Taliban suspects to the Afghan authorities. Maya ...
  • BP shares slide as oil spill bill climbs
    Shares in BP hit a 14-year low this morning after the oil giant revealed that its bill for containing and cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had climbed to $2.35bn Shares in BP hit a 14-year low this morning after the oil giant revealed that its bill for containing and cleaning up the o ...
  • Foetus 'feels no pain before 24 weeks'
    Finding in major review of scientific evidence strikes blow to those seeking to reduce upper time limit for abortion The human foetus feels no pain before 24 weeks, according to a major review of scientific evidence published today. The connections in the foetal brain are not fully formed in that ti ...

McClatchey

  • Palin agrees to refund defense fund money after pr ...
    An investigator has determined former Gov. Sarah Palin's legal defense fund broke state ethics law and said Palin has agreed to settle the matter by having the trust return more than $386,000 to donors.
  • Nicaragua's Sandinistas accused of paying to stay ...
    MANAGUA — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is allegedly dipping into hefty Venezuela-funded coffers to bribe, buy and scatter the weakened opposition as part of his push for a second term, lawmakers and analysts say.
  • Jury: Kansas couple guilty in deadly 'pill mill' c ...
    WICHITA, Kansas — Robin G. went to the Schneider Medical Clinic with migraine headaches and received lollipops filled with fentanyl, a drug many times stronger than morphine.
  • Commentary: Iraq reverting to its former freedom-l ...
    As American troops withdraw from Iraq this summer, expect the democratic freedoms Iraqis have enjoyed in recent years to recede as well. Already, the Iraqi government is restricting freedom of the press, expression and assembly. It's toying with Web censorship, torturing political prisoners and kill ...
  • Lawmakers move to curb risky trading by commercial ...
    WASHINGTON — Rushing to deliver the broad strokes of an overhaul of the financial regulatory system before leaders of the world's major economies meet in Toronto over the weekend, lawmakers readied late Thursday to partially reinstate a ban on risky betting by commercial banks.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Food for thought from Japan's accused
    From the International Whaling Commission annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco: One of the people I wasn't expecting to see here was Junichi Sato, whaling campaigner for Greenpeace in Japan. He's one of the activists facing jail time for taking whalemeat from a warehouse back in 2008 - an action inte ...
  • Whale deal falls: but who wins?
    From the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco: It had always seemed unlikely that a bridge could be built across this particular stretch of troubled water; and so it has transpired . In the end, after two years of formal talks and almost 30 private sessions crammed ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • SCOTUS Rules Anti-Gay Petition May Be Public, Acce ...
    In April, I observed how opponents of marriage equality were trying to use the courts to paint themselves as victims of violence and discrimination. In Washington state, Protect Marriage Washington (PMW) — a group opposing marriage equality — successfully put to a vote a law that granted âsame-sex ...
  • Grassley Supports Lincoln’s Derivatives Spin ...
    Today, the conference committee that is reconciling the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform is supposed to deal with one of the most contentious aspects of the legislation: reform of the derivatives market. The Senate’s text, which is being used as the base for negotiations, inc ...
  • Rubio Breaks With Pledge To Repeal Health Law, Say ...
    Florida senatorial candidate Marco Rubio, once a strong advocate for repealing the entire health care law and replacing it with “real reforms,” is now telling reporters that he would not repeal the law’s pre-existing conditions exclusions and the provisions that allow children to stay on their paren ...
  • Despite Huge Cuts — And Weak Fed Economic In ...
    Today, Senate Democrats expect to hold yet another vote on their tax extenders package — which extends unemployment benefits and various tax credits — and by all accounts they will not be able to drum up enough votes to invoke cloture. During this process, the bill has been whittled from $200 billio ...
  • Do The ‘Gay’ Comments In The McChrysta ...
    Marc Ambinder has some interesting observations about the military’s level of tolerance towards gay soldiers. I was arguing here that McChrystal’s aide should be fired for describing something as “gay,” but Ambinder suggests that this kind of language does not necessarily denote homophobia; it simpl ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • What is the Connection Between Retrograde Values a ...
    I thought I'd ask the googlebots and porn-spammers who visit my site; Why is there such a good fit between voters who are inspired by religious delusion, homophobia, prudery, racism, and law-and-order hypocrisy, and political parties that are the political shills for corporate scum-bags who want to ...
  • Prog-Blog Liberals Don't Like Coalition????
    [Don't read this. In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna, "Never mind." Apparently some weirdos are floating the idea of an actual Liberal-NDP merger. That's crazy talk.] It made perfect sense to me . But a number of Liberal bloggers appear to positively hate the idea. Which strikes me as perfect ...
  • There Was NO EXCUSE For Israel's Attack on Aid Flo ...
    In the comments section of a news story reporting the Israeli attack on the aid flotilla trying to break the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, some anti-Arab racists posted links to YouTube videos showing the activists on board the ship Mavi Marara attacking the Israeli commandos as they drop down ...
  • CSIS Chief Richard Fadden Under Sway of US Governm ...
    Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, fresh from whining about how mean everybody is to his agency of drooling idiots who torture Canadian citizens by proxy, has decided to embarrass himself further by babbling the following to the Canadian news media: Canada's ...
  • Moscow Victory Celebration - 1945
    I didn't really have anything to say today, or the time to think of anything. I've been reading about the Second World War recently (also, Montefiore's Court of the Red Tsar ) and for the heck of it, I look for films of the various actors. While looking for footage of Marshall Zhukov, I saw this vic ...

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

  • Treasury Secretary Talks TARP Before Congressional ...
    In a hearing held Tuesday by the Congressional Oversight Panel, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he remained optimistic about taxpayers recovering their colossal investment in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a major component of the economic stimulus package, but...
  • Head of Revamped Offshore Drilling Regulator Creat ...
    Michael Bromwich, the recently appointed director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOE)—formerly the Minerals Management Service (MMS)—has already demonstrated how fresh eyes on the problems confronting the offshore development oversight agency could lead to effe ...
  • Interior Secretary Wants a Revolving Door Ban
    Numerous congressional hearings have addressed a myriad of topics trying to assign responsibility and accountability for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but one of the common themes has been Members and Senators asking various Department of the Interior officials what else...
  • Hey, Justice Department!
    Just wondering about that public calendar for the Attorney General that we read about in your Open Government Plan. Any updates? -- Bryan Rahija
  • Morning Smoke: Senate Energy and Natural Resources ...
    FULL COMMITTEE HEARING: to hear testimony on the following bills [Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources]: S. 3497, a bill to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require leases entered into under that Act to include a...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Homeless New York Teen Finally Allowed To Graduate ...
    The stubborn and short-sighted tendencies of some bureaucracies never cease to amaze me.  As if graduating from high school wasn't enough pressure for a teenager to face, try throwing homelessness and an inflexible set of state regulations into the mix, and imagine how you might fare.  Thankfull ...
  • New Research on LGBTQ Youth Homelessness — and How ...
    Ah, June.  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month , pride parades and now new research into why LGBTQ youth become homeless at alarming rates. This June has been especially tough for homeless LGBTQ youth . As we recently wrote, New York's proposing that funding for LGBTQ homeless shelter ...
  • Police Tear Up Tent City, Get the Axe
    It takes a special form of intolerance to destroy a person's only possession, particularly when that possession is the tent in which he or she lives. But that's what three Colorado police officers did recently in the name of crime-fighting. Reporter Paul Shockley attempts to get the bottom of it all ...
  • A Critique of Timelines to End Homelessness
    The long, arduous task of creating the first  Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness is over, and now the long, arduous task of implementing it begins for the the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. From what I've read, leaders in the nonprofit sector applaud the plan' ...
  • The Homeless Aren't Hopeless Cases
    In social work practice, substance abuse treatment and other disciplines, many progressives adopt a philosophy called the Strengths Perspective . This way of thinking simply states that all people possess potential and real strengths. People need not be judged solely on their past negative behavior ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Stay in Afghanistan: Senate committee
    The Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence has recommended that Canada remain in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the mission in Kandahar (”Senate committee endorses continued military training mission in Afghanistan,” Canadian Press, 22 June 2010). The committee, chai ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Where kindness is a crime
    Max Blumenthal reports: In a May 7 article, Haaretz reporter Ilana Hammerman described in dramatic detail a crime she had methodically planned and committed. In defiance of laws supposedly related to Israel’s security, Hammerman picked up three teenage Palestinian girls in their village in the West ...
  • Let the flotillas through
    In the Jerusalem Post, Larry Derfner writes: The Iranians say the ship Infants of Gaza is due to sail on Sunday, carrying humanitarian aid and 10 pro- Palestinian activists to the Gazan shore. The Lebanese say two more relief ships, one of them carrying just women passengers, will leave soon for C ...
  • Was McChrystal ready to get pushed out?
    The problem with owning a military strategy the way Gen Stanley McChrystal owned the counterinsurgency strategy at the center of the war in Afghanistan, is that it’s hard to admit it’s not working. It might be easier just to get fired. Are we really supposed to believe that McChrystal knew so littl ...
  • McChrystal gets the boot
    I guess they just couldn’t figure out the seating chart for this morning’s meeting of the national security team in the Situation Room. Have McChrystal sit between Gen “Clown” Jones and Richard “Wounded Animal” Holbrooke? Instead, after meeting President Obama for 30 minutes, McChrystal returned t ...
  • America’s war and its illusive heroes
    The Russian mystic, Gurdjieff, is said to have advised that if a spiritual seeker wants to guard his faith, he should avoid getting too close to a saint. Perfection can rarely withstand close scrutiny. The same can be said of war heroes. The legend of General Stanley McChrystal has been years in t ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Trend
    By Steven Goddard No matter what happens with the summer Arctic ice minimum, NSIDC will report that the long-term trend is downwards. Why? Because of mathematics. In order to reverse the 30 year downwards linear trend, this summer’s minimum would … Continue reading →
  • Global warming’s Stephen Schneider: The Ligh ...
    Reposted from examiner.com By Tom Fuller The publication this week of a paper titled ‘Expert Credibility in Climate Change’ in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences will certainly do nothing to raise the credibility of the authors, those … Continue reading →
  • Green Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor ...
    The author of a damning study about the failure of Spain’s “green jobs” program â a story broken here at PJM â received the threatening package on Tuesday from solar energy company Thermotechnic. From Pajamas Media June 24, 2010 - by Christopher Horner … Continue reading →
  • The EPA has gone mad cow disease
    EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers Monica Scott The Grand Rapids Press Update: State Senate calls for EPA to change rule classifying cow’s milk as oil GRAND RAPIDS — Having watched the oil gushing in the … Continue reading →
  • Before One Has Data
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony Watts has posted up an interesting article on the temperature at Laverton Airport (Laverton Aero), Australia. Unfortunately, he was moving too fast, plus he’s on the other side of the world, with his head … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Deir Yassin, Gilad Atzmon and All This Jazz: Love, ...
    by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 25, 2010 INTRODUCTION on You Tube: Love, Truth and Jihad The first mention of Israel in the Hebrew Scriptures is i Genesis 32:22, when Jacob was renamed Israel for having struggled, wrestled and then clung to the Divine. The word jihÄd is a nou ...
  • Israel Is Spying In and On The U.S.? (2001)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ www.informationclearinghouse.info (transcript) Dec. 12, 2001 BRIT HUME, HOST: It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is se ...
  • West’s Afghan Debacle: Commander Dismissed As War ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism June 24, 2010 On June 23 President Barack Obama announced the dismissal of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of all foreign troops in Afghanistan, and within hours Associated Press reported that th ...
  • BP is burning sea-turtles in the Gulf of Mexico&#8 ...
    by Roxanne Amico Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Spirit Morph Studio June 24, 2010 [PREFACE: This is (another) *short* post with a mere 11 short excerpts with accompanying links. I've decided I need to do more frequent and more brief posts now. Partly because the longer ones always take a long time- ...
  • Danger Deep In The Gulf
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Alex Smith http://www.ecoshock.org/ June 23, 2010 Listen: Coast to Coast AM covers the Gulf: RICHARD C. HOAGLAND: “Gas explosion, 50 miles off Louisiana, that you can imagine.  Think Mount St. Helens, underwater.  What that would do is create a cloud of incr ...

Your New Reality

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    Infamous Australian Murdoch Columnist Demands : "Free Gaza!" Even Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt, who gets free trips to Israel and then 'forgets' to mention so in a Daily Telegraph column where he recited IDF propaganda about the Gaza Flotilla slaughter without question, apparently has had enoug ...
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    Attempted Coup Unfolds In Australia By Darryl Mason A dramatic night in Australian politics, as the right wing of the Rudd Labor government staged an early evening, non-military coup against the prime minister. This is how ABC News Online broke the story just before 7pm Sydney time : Prime Minist ...
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Wired - Science

  • Baby Red Panda Born at National Zoo
    A baby red panda was born at the National Zoo in Washington, DC on June 16. The newborn is the first red panda to be born at the zoo in 15 years. The proud parents, two-year-old Shama and three-year-old Tate, first met in February 2009, and got busy immediately. But because red pandas mate only onc ...
  • New Form of Gene Regulation Hints at Hidden Dimens ...
    An entire class of seemingly useless genetic components may actually regulate gene activity, suggests a study that — though preliminary — has potentially transformative implications for biology. The findings involve non-protein-coding copies of functional genes, called “pseudogenes,” and RNA molecu ...
  • Fishy Gene Hints at How Limbs Evolved From Fins
    Two genes found only in fish may be a key piece in the puzzling evolution of limbs. The genes’ removal from zebra-fish embryos resulted in the loss of actinotrichia — a basic fin component — and made their proto-fins resemble appendages seen in ancient fossils of the first four-legged creatures. “T ...
  • Citizen Science: Count the Gulf’s Ghost Crabs
    While the oil disaster’s terrible toll on birds and turtles will at least be measured, less charismatic creatures tend to be ignored. That’s why conservationists are organizing a citizen science project to count the Gulf Coast’s ghost crabs. Also known as sand crabs, they’re not classically cute, b ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Haaretz: The silent expulsion
    Citizens of Israel can leave the country for any length of time, and their citizenship and all their rights are theirs in perpetuity. But when it comes to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Gordon Duff: Israel’s Planned Attack on Iran from ...
    Turkey had allowed Israel to use their air space for training because their terrain closely resembled areas of Iran that Israel planned to attack. However, Turkey was unaware that planes involved in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Report: IAF helicopters unload equipment ‘meant fo ...
    A semi-official Iranian news agency reported Wednesday that Israel Air Force helicopters recently landed at a Saudi Arabia airport and unloaded equipment intended for attacking targets in a Muslim... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • European MPs to Israel: Lift Gaza blockade complet ...
    The Council of Europe parliamentarians Thursday called on Israel to completely end its siege of the Gaza Strip, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an ease of the land blockade. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • PCHR: Continued Ethnic Cleansing and Measures Aime ...
    The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns aggressive measures taken by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in East Jerusalem, which are part of a series of measures aimed at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Middle-Aged Spread Raises Risk Of Diabetes
    “Middle-aged spread” poses a real danger to health as people age, research has found. A study determined the regardless of a person's weight at age 50, if they gained 20 pounds or more they were three times more likely to develop diabetes. Those who were already classed as obese at age 50 and then ...
  • Clean-Up Workers Risk Health Problems From Oil Spi ...
    Workers struggling to clean up oil from the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico risk short-term lung, liver, and kidney damage from fumes. Protective gear helps, but workers have often been taking it off in the summer heat. Studies of health effects after seven supertanker spills showed that cle ...
  • Toxins Found in Sunscreens
    New research shows that the ingredients in many sunscreens can damage your body. The Environmental Working Group has released its annual Sunscreen Study, which reviewed efficacy and safety of over 500 sunscreens currently on the market.� They could only recommend 39. The chemicals that caused most ...
  • Neurological Diseases on the Rise -- 50 Million Pe ...
    Diseases of the nervous system and the brain now occur more frequently than cancer. According to Professor Gérard Said, newly elected president of the European Neurological Society (ENS), they represent a burden of 386 billion euros a year on European economies. Around 50 million people in the EU s ...
  • McDonald's Faces Lawsuit Over Happy Meals
    Shortly after a California county became the first in the nation to ban toys from McDonald's Happy Meals, the Center for Science in the Public Interest called on the fast food company to remove the playthings from all its meal packages. CSPI said that the promotional toys lure children into McDonal ...

Antemedius

  • Help Create Conflict-Free Green Technology
    The Second Congo War, also called Africa's World War, killed 5 million people between 1998 and 2003. It was the largest war in Africa's history; it involved eight African nations and more than twenty armed militias. Although there was an agreement between the warring parties in 2003, the conflict co ...
  • Mega Rich (Top 1%) Should Pay 36 Percent Fed Incom ...
    The table below is mostly from an October 4, 2007 News Release from the conservative Tax Foundation. They point out that the richest 1% of the tax payers pay more in total taxes than the poorer 90 percent - those that make less than $103,912 a year. (These data are for tax year 2005 and were orig ...
  • EPA will hold 4 meetings on hydraulic fracturing ( ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting four public information meetings on the proposed study of the relationship between hydraulic fracturing and its potential impacts on drinking water...The meetings will provide public information about the proposed study scope and design. EPA ...
  • Oil Rain In Louisiana?
    Posted to youtube June 22, 2010 by user HistoryTours this looked exactly like what we saw yesterday under the Bay Saint Louis Miss Bridge On Our Way Out To Cat Island In The Gulf. Thick Brown Gooey Foam .............................. Oil in the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects (2003) , Ocean ...
  • Using Digital Technology to Empower and Connect Yo ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . At the Rural Development Foundation’s (RDF) primary school in Kalleda, a small village in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, India, students carry gardening tools, along with their notebooks and pencils. All of the students work ...

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 further adventures of Cy O’Nism
    Not to be confused with Sin O’Cism, but they are related. Jonathan Turley has picked up on a Salon article that alleges that the Israeli lobby leaned on the L.A. Times to kill a story about the Armenian genocide to curry favor with Turkey. Sick stuff? Just the first link. Zionists are calling for th ...
  • Life in the Gulf of Oil
    Lifted from ATR: Brought to you by British Petroleum, the same people who just did an end-around on Obama’s offshore moratorium by having their newest Alaska rig declared an island. Meanwhile, in Florida, Pensacola resident Gary Deshazo says, “I jumped in my car this morning, drove out here and imme ...
  • Schultz for County Attorney?
    David Schultz is running for Susan Gaertner’s job as County Attorney, as are others. Unlike those others, Schultz has written a blog post about Koua Fong Lee. No, he doesn’t really say a lot, but he clearly opens the door for a reexamination of Lee’s case if Schultz is elected. Not much else going o ...
  • Tear down Wall Street
    Sheldon Whitehouse says that cutting people off unemployment to make them find jobs “is just plain nuts.” It sounds like Whitehouse is in possession of an actual clue. When I worked at Firestone’s Des Moines plant in the ’70s, I had just enough seniority to ensure that by the time I got laid off, ev ...
  • Well then, moving on….
    Obama has taken William Kristol’s advice and has replaced Gen. Stanley “Bud Light Lime” McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus who will be leading the Afghanistan surge. That should go well. Since we no longer have to worry about Afghanistan (Petraeus, after all, has already fixed Iraq) we can instead ...

Public News Service

  • Oil Disaster Pushes Florida Event to Arizona and W ...
    Oil Disaster Pushes Florida Event to Arizona and Worldwide Phoenix, AZ – An event that started in Florida aimed at warning of the dangers of offshore oil drilling has been pushed into the international spotlight, after the drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The first "Hands Across the Sand" e ...
  • Turmoil Over Texas Textbooks in Arizona?
    Turmoil Over Texas Textbooks in Arizona? Phoenix, AZ - Just who should call the shots when it comes to writing textbooks will be on the agenda when Arizona educators meet thousands of their counterparts in New Orleans at next week's National Education Association Representative Assembly. Comments fr ...
  • Arizona’s “Food Stamp” Rolls Hit ...
    Arizona’s “Food Stamp” Rolls Hit One Million for First Time Phoenix, AZ – The number of Arizonans enrolled in what formerly was known as the food stamp program has passed the one-million mark. Officials say the number enrolled has grown every month since 2007. Comments from Katie Kahle (KAYL), progr ...
  • Keeping AZ Kids Off the Obesity Track
    Keeping AZ Kids Off the Obesity Track Phoenix, AZ – Recent guidelines from the Childhood Obesity Task Force offer up an action plan to help save another generation of kids in Arizona and across the country from the prospect, and the problems, of obesity. Comments from Tonya Chang, advocacy director, ...
  • Tax Hike Passes yet AZ Program Cuts Remain
    Tax Hike Passes yet AZ Program Cuts Remain Phoenix, AZ – The sales tax hike approved by Arizona voters has taken effect, but does nothing to remedy cuts made to state programs benefiting the working poor. The ban on new enrollments in KidsCare is one cutback hitting low-income families hard, accordi ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Reason#4: What we have here is a failure to commun ...
    Communication in any form means: the giving and receiving of accurate information. "Accurate" is the operative word here. Submitted by Tammy T. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • All For One and One For All
    We have to deal with Gulf Coast Toxicity Syndrome which could kill and/or disable millions.Many different gases from hydrogen sulfate to benzene are being released into the air at around 4000 times what it considered safe to humans. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • China Dwarfs U.S. in Clean Energy Investment
    China has joined the U.S. as the most attractive place to invest in renewables after pumping US$34.6 billion into green projects last year, double the amount invested in the United States. Submitted by Nathanael B. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Iceland creates haven for investigative reporting
    From Scoopit : Iceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism. Iincreases protection for anonymous sources, creates new protections from 'libel tourism' Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cultur ...
  • THINGS CHANGE- PART 2 AND A HALF. REBEL WITHOUT A ...
    My second play at Twin Falls High School was Rebel Without a Cause.I asked the boys in the cast if any of them had switch blades. All but one reached instantly into pockets and pulled out a switch blade. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Israel Accused of Unlawfully Treating Jailed Nucle ...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for June 24, 2010Israel Accused of Unlawfully Treating Jailed Nuclear WhistleblowerThe Israeli government is being accused of unlawfully treating the jailed Israeli nuclear... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Toxic Chemicals: CDC advises “Everyone, including ...
    Toxic Chemicals: CDC advises “Everyone, including pregnant women” to avoid areas affected by spill Health Data Gaps, BP Suspicions Worry U.S. Panelists, Bloomberg, June 22, 2010: The Centers for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Oil-coated baby dolphin carried to shore by touris ...
    Oil-coated baby dolphin carried to shore by tourist dies (VIDEO); “Dolphin was crying” as “people scraped oil off”, Coast Guard unclear on cause of death | Florida Oil Spill Law: "Christy Travis... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Ampatuan massacre witness killed, probe urged
    Ampatuan massacre witness killed, probe urged – PinoyPress – Philippines news, breaking news, reports, blogs, opinion, multimedia: MANILA — On the seventh month of the Ampatuan massacre, New... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sarawak Forestry Corporation To Probe Alleged Encr ...
    Sarawak Forestry Corporation To Probe Alleged Encroachment On Indigenous Lands - Indigenous Peoples Issues and ResourcesSarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) has given its assurance that they will... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Rescue ALL Sea Turtles from Burning Oil
    ShareThis Quick action! Rescue ALL Sea Turtles from Burning Oil ( Sea Turtle Restoration Project ) 24 Jun 2010 Multiple eye-witness accounts have established that endangered sea turtles are being burned alive in BP's cleanup efforts . Immediate change must occur so that ALL sea turtles are rescued f ...
  • Swine flu risk 'was vastly over-rated' by World He ...
    ShareThis Swine flu risk 'was vastly over-rated' by World Health Organisation 25 Jun 2010 Threats of a swine flu pandemic were 'vastly over-rated' by the World Health Organisation, an inquiry has concluded. The Council of Europe last night also accused the UN's health arm of 'grave shortcomings' in ...
  • Council of Europe calls for WHO flu handling probe
    ShareThis Council of Europe calls for WHO flu handling probe 24 Jun 2010 The Council of Europe called Thursday for a probe into the World Health Organisation's handling of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, which it said led to unjustified scares and waste of public money. A council parliamentary assembly ...
  • Source: N.Korea set no-sail zones off west coast
    ShareThis Source: N.Korea set no-sail zones off west coast 25 Jun 2010 A South Korean official says North Korea banned boats off its west coast though no unusual military movement has been detected. The official with the Joint Chiefs of Staff also said Friday that South Korea is closely monitoring t ...
  • Vast amounts of methane in Gulf spill pose threat
    ShareThis Vast amounts of methane in Gulf spill pose threat 18 Jun 2010 Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives... At least 4.5 bi ...

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

  • Israel lobby group FLAME says black Ethiopian Jews ...
    Is the Israel lobby out of touch with America today? Or is this just the charm offensive for President Obama? Here's an ad that the lobby group FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East) is running in at least one Jewish newspaper and that is on the group's website, too: an answer to the [...]
  • Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
    Learn more and order the book on the OR Books website.
  • The ‘one state’ conversation continues
    I was pleasantly surprised to read Ben Zakkai’s one-state formula for Palestine/Israel. Our thinking on the issue is closer to one another than I thought it would be. There are some big things I disagree with, but the fact that an Israeli (Jewish-Israeli?) has undertaken to grapple with the one-st ...
  • Where Kindness Is A Crime
    In a May 7 article, Haaretz reporter Ilana Hammerman described in dramatic detail a crime she had methodically planned and committed. In defiance of laws supposedly related to Israel's security, Hammerman picked up three teenage Palestinian girls in their village in the West Bank, took them through ...
  • The brand is tanking, in the East River
    The Conference of Presidents, a lead group in the Israel lobby, is as we speak leading some kind of flotilla in the East River near the United Nations to demand the release of Gilad Shalit by Hamas, according to twitter feeds from Dan Sieradski (congrats on your marriage, Dan) and Gal Beckerman. Si ...

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

  • Warthog
    Kandahar, Afghanistan 23 March 2010 The mission required crossing a bridge that had been blown up a couple hours earlier by a suicide car bomber.  The attacker hit a convoy from the 82nd Airborne, killing American soldier Ian Gelig.  Now with a hole in the bridge and recovery operations underway, ...
  • Be Not Afraid
      Be Not Afraid You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face of God and live. Be not afraid. I go before you always; ...
  • Michael Yon invited by Brits and US to embed again
    Published in The US Report at theusreport.com Published on June 24, 2010 by Kay B. Day Michael Yon has been invited to embed again by both Great Britain and the US.Michael Yon isn’t a correspondent who sparks a neutral reaction in the reader. You either love him or you don’t. There’s not much of an ...
  • Two big military scalps for Michael Yon
    Published in the Daily Telegraph at telegraph.co.uk Published on June 24th, 2010 By Toby Harnden Well, I wouldn’t cross Michael Yon, the intrepid independent war reporter and photographer who has covered the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan with distinction and dogged intensity. For weeks, he was ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Listen Up Senate: Majority of Americans Want Clean ...
    Photo via the DCist Yet another poll has rolled in, revealing in clear terms -- and by wide margins -- that US citizens want comprehensive clean energy reform. Even if they have to pay more in energy costs . The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll , conducted by McCain pollster Bill McInturff (R), alo ...
  • 10 Unbelievable, Unlikely Animal Friendships (Slid ...
    Photo via The Daily Mail Friendship is good for your health -- whether you're human or animal. Take this baby macaque, abandoned by its mother and close to death until it became best friends with a pigeon. The macaque is thriving and the pair are inseparable. But they aren't the only tear-jerk ...
  • Gorgeous Woodsy Finnish Entry in Solar Decathlon W ...
    Team Finland hails from Aalto University, and Alvar Aalto would be proud of this of this stunning little pile of lumber. It's passively heated and designed for the cold and dark Finnish climate, with solar hot water collectors and photovoltaics on the roof. Given the importance of wood in Finnis ...
  • Light Bulbs To Get Nutrition-Style Labels Next Yea ...
    Image via FTC Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which would make the brightness of CFLs, LEDs an ...
  • Hydropower Without Dams: Alaskan Village Powered E ...
    photo: Business Wire A couple weeks back when writing about whether hydropower really should be considered a clean power source , there were a couple varieties that were left out. Thanks to the remote town of Eagle, Alaska we can highlight one of them. It's there that Alaska Power & Telephone h ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Food aid cut to Thailand refugee camps
    Thailand-based aid group suffering $2.5m shortfall in funding and forced to cut supplies of yellow bean to refugee camps along the Burma border
  • Burma synthetic drug output soaring
    UN report warns production and seizures of methamphetamine produced in Burma has soared in the past year while opium cultivation falls
  • Wa army switch ‘inevitable’
    Burmese army delegation tells the country's largest armed ethnic group that sooner or later it will have to become part of the country's 'one army'
  • Relief groups map Burma flooding
    Graphical map shows extent of damage in Burma's western Arakan state after heavy flooding destroyed thousands of houses and left 63 dead
  • PM’s party enticing Muslims
    Muslim minority in Burma being lured by promises of unrestricted travel and identification cards by the Union Solidarity and Development Party

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Sharks Carrying Drug-Resistant "Bacterial Monsters ...
    Our leftover medicines are spawning drug-resistant "bacterial monsters" that thrive inside sharks, scientists say. Drug resistance - Health - Drugs - War on Drugs - World Health Organization
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Sri Lanka to refuse UN panel entry
    [JURIST] Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris [official website] said Thursday that members of a recently-appointed UN panel [JURIST report] will not be permitted to enter the country to investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the last months of the Sri Lankan ci ...
  • Canada PM apologizes for 1985 Air India bombing
    [JURIST] Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [official website; BBC profile] on Wednesday formally apologized to the families of the victims of the 1985 Air India bombing [CBC backgrounder] for the government's failure to prevent the attack. The apology comes one week after the Air India Commiss ...
  • Supreme Court rules no cause of action for foreign ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-0 in Morrison v. National Australia Bank [Cornell LII backgrounder] that the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (SEA) [text, PDF] does not provide a cause of action to foreign plaintiffs suing f ...
  • Supreme Court limits scope of 'honest service' doc ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] in Skilling v. United States [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the "honest services" doctrine [18 USC § 1346 text] is not unconstitutionally vague under a limited construction of the s ...
  • Supreme Court rules release of names on petition d ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-1 in Doe #1 v. Reed [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the First Amendment [text] does not bar a state from releasing identifying information about petitioner signers where there is a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Night Beat: What Will Obama Talk About With Hu ...
    Good evening. ON TO TORONTO: The ramp freeze at Andrews has ended and Air Force One is wheels up to Toronto for the G-20 summit. On President Obama's schedule there: a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. A senior administration official said that Obama plans to ask Hu for details on ...
  • Military Tribunals and Article Trials: A Panel
    On Saturday, I had the privilege of hosting an all-star panel of interesting and well-versed experts on national security law at the American Constitution Society's annual convention. (Note to Federalist Society organizers: I am happy to perform the same duties for the same low (non-existent) price) ...
  • Mr. Stone's Massage
    Hotel Lucia. Mr. Stone. A 54-year-old therapist. A "molest-proof" bra. Abdominal massage. Condoms in the "treat box." Lunges. Grasps. Kisses. Moans. Anger at the mention of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Anti-George W. Bush music in the background. The� 73-page police report �filed by a woman who accuses ...
  • McChrystal's Social Liberalism and the Integr ...
    The fact, revealed in Rolling Stone, that Gen. Stanley McChrystal voted for President Obama may well have been a planted nugget designed to show how receptive McChrystal was to Obama's worldview. But several people who worked for, and continue to work for, Gen. McChrystal say that it's true. McChrys ...
  • The Night Beat: Obama Borrows the Military Back
    Good evening. THE PRESIDENT'S POINT : Beginning in the early afternoon, a cadre of military and civilian soldiers loyal to Gen. Stanley McChrystal began to spread rumors throughout the capital city: that ground commanders in Afghanistan were threatening to resign ... that the CIA's chief of statio ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Mysterious Soviet-Israeli Double Agent Unmasked–So ...
    Israel’s News1 site reveals that some years back Israeli intelligence apprehended an Israeli who was an agent of the former Soviet Union (which would imply that he was unmasked sometime on or before 1989).  They made a deal.  Instead of prosecuting him, they “turned” him and he became a double age ...
  • Uzi Arad: Israel’s Dr. Strangelove
    Uzi Arad is one of those Darth Vader-like figures so common in the Israeli intelligence netherworld. He reminds me of Michael Ledeen, except that he’s a great deal more powerful within Israeli policy circles than Ledeen is within the U.S.  Perhaps Dick Cheney would be an even better analogy.  If y ...
  • Seattle Conference: Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis and ...
    I am organizing a conference this week here in Seattle that will focus on all the issues surrounding the Gaza flotilla attack and siege, as they relate to U.S. policy and its magnificent failure (so far).  I’ve joined together with SABEEL of Puget Sound to produce the event.  We’ll have Prof. Stev ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • 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.  ...

Ode Magazine

  • Harmful chemicals we can do without
    Companies need to start caring as much about human health as they do about profits. When I was a child, my parents gave me a “science kit” that contained samples of rocks, minerals and metals. It was wonderful. I’d pull out a sample of quartz and memorize what it looked l ...
  • Kick it around for a while
    Four Harvard University students are bringing portable, sustainable power to off-grid areas in developing countries—through soccer balls that store energy. While in an engineering science class, Jessica Lin, Julia Silverman, Jessica Matthews and Hemali Thakkar created th ...
  • Video: Watts House Project
    The Watts House Project combines art with architecture. Here's how. Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading In pursuit of peace Power couple Mariko: an Irish harper The wake of peace
  • Surviving (and thriving) this summer without air c ...
    By: VictoriaKlein The scientific community continues to announce that, each month, we have reached new heat records. Thankfully, humans have learned how to control their hot environments with air conditioning (AC) – at least, the wealthier humans. Surprisi ...
  • Juneteenth kicks off African-American history cele ...
    By: Laura_Silver It’s not just for hipsters. Brooklyn, New York, is also home to cultural movements and institutions that highlight local history beyond night spots and fixed gear bikes. For example, 227 Abolitionists Place , which was the home of abolit ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news fr ...
  • "Building Solar India": Phase I Guidelines
    Ramping up India’s Solar Mission at the Asia Clean Energy Forum this week, Minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah urged the Asian Development Bank and others to increase investment in solar energy in India.  India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy released a set of Guidelines for Phase I of ...
  • Hydraulic fracturing suspected in two more cases o ...
    Earlier today I spoke on the phone to a family in Bradford County, Pennsylvania (not to be confused with Bradford Township). They told me that their water became black after hydraulic fracturing of wells near their home last year, and that their water has flammable methane in it.�Their ...
  • Fisherman's wife still making waves in Venice
    Kindra Arnesen was livid when she read the email this week from her local government  in Plaquemines Parish, LA. “Although our Health Department continues to work with the EPA who monitors the air quality, we have experienced some people getting nauseous with the heat and smell of t ...
  • Frances Beinecke is an independent member of the O ...
    We at NRDC were honored that President Obama chose NRDC’s President, Frances Beinecke, to serve on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. NRDC was one of many voices calling for establishment of the Commission.  By the time Frances wa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Hacktacular!
    Obviously, you expect some shift in conceptions of executive power based on partisan shifts in control of the White House.   But for apologists for arbitrary executive torture to suddenly discover creeping Hitlerism in fairly ordinary voluntary legal agreements really is a bit much. Related posts: ...
  • Convicting Bad People Under Bad Law Is No Virtue
    It’s a good thing that the Supreme Court limited the application of the notoriously abuse-inviting “honest services” anti-fraud provision today. Skilling and Black aren’t sympathetic claimants, and the ruling will be good news for a variety of other assholes, but that’s the same trap that leads to ...
  • Now You Have A Reason To Whine And Cry!
    I think I feel the way about Italy being eliminated the way most people feel about France. The really weird thing is how attractive I find most of the cultural products of these countries otherwise. Lots of people hate France on principle, but for me the puzzle is how two countries [...] Relat ...
  • The Accountability Problem
    This is a really crucial point: Pat Garofalo has more on the policy substance here, noting that about 200,000 jobs could plausibly be lost as a result of the minority’s obstructionism here. And do note that if conditions do worsen many, many, many more Americans will blame Barack Obama for the bad s ...
  • Beach Book Blegging
    At the invitation of an old friend, my daughter and I will be traveling to Thailand the first two weeks of July, and I’ve been commanded to bring only vacation reading. It’s been awhile since I did any of that and I could use suggestions for humorous, smart, non-war-crimes related non-fiction or oth ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • WINNING
    Profiles of successful litigators and their strategies.
  • In the Weeds
    A collision of federal policy, state statutes, local ordinances and old-fashioned politics means more clients for defense lawyers and more uncertainty.
  • Toyota class plots route past obstacle
    As plaintiffs' lawyers prepare to file their consolidated class action on behalf of Toyota consumers, they face an obstacle that has prevented similar claims from advancing in the past: Class members didn't actually suffer physical injuries.
  • CHAMPIONS & VISIONARIES
    Every year some members of the Washington legal community go the extra mile to enhance the business and ensure justice is done. Here we honor 20 lawyers who set an example for others in private practice and public service.
  • Justices limit reach of fraud statutes
    In four high-impact decisions Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly limited the scope of federal laws used by prosecutors and plaintiffs in pursuing alleged corporate fraud.

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

  • California Initiative Targets Toxic Chemicals in E ...
    California officials have proposed strict new rules to reduce the toxic chemicals used in everyday products, including children’s toys, plastic bottles and furniture. A draft of the regulations , released by the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), prioritizes a list of “chemicals ...
  • Compromise on Whale Hunting Fails to Win Approval ...
    A proposal to curb whale hunts hit an impasse during international talks as whaling nations and anti-whaling delegates failed to reach a compromise over just how many whales could be killed annually. At a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Morocco, delegates from whaling nation ...
  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Dirty Gold
    The gold industry is responsible for releasing toxins and adversely affecting communities and workers around the world. When the Canadian mining company Manhattan Minerals wanted to open a gold mine in the town of Tambogrande in northwestern Peru, they promised to provide jobs and tax revenue, to bu ...
  • The Curse of Inca Gold - Corruption and Poisonous ...
    High in the Andean mountains of Peru is a gold mine, Yanacocha, run by Newmont Mining Corporation of Denver, Colorado, the largest gold mining company in the world. Once part of the Incan Empire, this land was conquered by the Spanish, who came in search of gold and silver. Descendants of the Incas ...
  • Is There Gold in Fort Knox?
    Protected by a 109,000-acre U.S. Army post in Kentucky sits one of the Federal Reserve’s most secure assets and its only gold depository: the 73-year-old Fort Knox vault. Its glittering gold bricks, totaling 147.3 million ounces (that’s about $168 billion at current prices), are stacked inside massi ...
  • All That Glitters
    For thousands of years, gold has played civilization's ultimate Siren, luring explorers, sparking wars and building empires. So what is our enduring fascination with gold? The romance and allure of this glittering precious metal stretches across the centuries. People move mountains to extract it; th ...
  • Judge lifts offshore drilling ban as 'overbearing'
    A federal judge struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too.

Russia Today

  • Obama and Medvedev hang out at burger joint
    Barack Obama has treated Dmitry Medvedev to lunch at a common burger place, surprising its staff and patrons in the process. The presidents signed cards, shook hands and posed in pictures for those who dared to ask.
  • Korean peninsula still divided 60 years on from wa ...
    The 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War is being commemorated in South Koreal. It was a devastating conflict which claimed more than four million lives.
  • Medvedev, Obama meet in Washington
    US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met in Washington June 23rd to discuss everything from economic cooperation to arms reduction.
  • Summits to hit Canada
    Next stop for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is Canada - and the small town of Muskoka, where world leaders are gathering to take part in the G8 summit, followed by the G20 summit in Toronto.
  • Preparations for G-20 underway in Toronto
    Canada is preparing to host two meetings of world leaders to top all others...in security that is.

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

  • Ancient Astronaut Theory, Roswell and Planting Evi ...
    Joe Capp of UFO Media Matters has an interesting theory about the 1947 Roswell Incident. He postulates that the crashed ship and dead ‘aliens’ were “planted”: Could the famous Roswell crash be a modern day Ancient Astronaut intervention? Could alien beings have decided after the Second World War to ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Delta Loses 8-Week-Old Puppy Sends Dog to Californ ...
    Just a week after Delta Airlines made news for putting 2 children on wrong flights, and a month after the airline lost a dog a vacationing couple had rescued, Delta misplaced another passenger; an 8-week-old puppy. The pooch was sent to CA. not Maine. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Animals � ...
  • BP CEO Tony Hayward's Yacht Outing Infuriates Gulf ...
    EMPIRE, La. (June 20)--It could've been a turnaround week in BP's campaign to convince the public that it's doing everything possible to contain the damage from the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Miniture Schnauzers 101 - Paw Nation -
    According to the AKS breed standard miniture schaunzer is "alert and spirited, yet obdient to command. He/she is friendly, intelligent, and willing to please." (Not to mention so cute!!) Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Flying With Your Dog? Four Ways to Prepare While Y ...
    Going on a trip can be stressful enough without adding your dog to the mix. Some orginaztions including the Humane Society of the United States recommend against flying with your dog at all because of numerous cases where the animals didn't arrive safely. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Offbea ...
  • I Spent $3,000 to Save My Dog - and I'd Do It Agai ...
    "It could've been worse. We could be headed home with an empty carrier." That's how I talked my husband down off the cliff after we learned that our 9-month-old dachsund,Balthazar needed stomach surgery and it was going cost over $3,000. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...

The Freeman

  • The Function of The Freeman
    Our function is to expound and apply the principles of traditional liberalism and individual freedom, and to expose the errors of collectivism of all shades.
  • New Home Sales Collapse After Credit Expires
    “A report Wednesday that new home sales plummeted to a record low after the federal housing tax credit expired added to worries that the broader economy could relapse after a spurt of growth in the last year.” (Washington Times, Wednesday) Broken Record Alert: There’s no such thing as a free lunch. ...
  • BP to Drill in Alaska
    ” … about three miles off the coast of Alaska, BP is moving ahead with a controversial and potentially record-setting project to drill two miles under the sea and then six to eight miles horizontally to reach what is believed to be a 100-million-barrel reservoir of oil under federal waters.” (New Yo ...
  • Condoms for Kids?
    “A new policy in a Massachusetts public school district that makes condoms available to all students, even those in elementary school, is drawing criticism from some who say it goes too far.” (AP, Thursday) Add it to the list of things we wouldn’t have to worry about if government weren’t running th ...
  • What a World We Live In
    In the long run private property, markets, sound money, and the rule of law make all of us fabulously richer.

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

  • GULF DISPATCH: Spilled oil 'burning' fragile coast ...
    Photos of oil-drenched pelicans are heart-breaking, but one of the biggest long-term environmental threats of the BP oil spill may be the destruction of fragile coastal land. As Rick Guidry of the Louisiana Shrimp Association told me in a 5-hour boat tour of Barataria Bay off the coast of Lo ...
  • 'There will be damage'
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Twenty billion dollars. The amount BP agreed to put in escrow is more than 250 times the company's maximum obligation under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. It is a remarkable sum to get a corporation to disgorge before there has been any formal finding of guil ...
  • Nikki Haley: Is she Sikh enough?
    By Viji Sundaram, New America Media Nikki Haley won the Republican nomination for governor of the state of South Carolina Tuesday. She now has to start thinking about the general elections in November. A dyed-in-the-wool conservative, Haley stands a very good chance of beating back the challenge ...
  • GULF DISPATCH: Offshore drilling debate reveals la ...
    Here in New Orleans, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman issued a sharply-worded ruling overturning the Obama administration's 6-month moratorium on deep water drilling. Nationally, the decision provoked a wave of triumphalism among drilling advocates and frustration for environmentalists. Yet here ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I get rid of slugs reusing/recycling stuff ...
    I asked a similar question on Twitter the other day but since I’ve lost more leaves to the blighters over the weekend, I thought I’d asked for more suggestions – I want to belt & braces it! In response to my Twitter question, @KakeLover replied: “beer traps! gets the slugs everytime!” and @maryhores ...
  • Repair This: at what point is it better to buy som ...
    Here’s a question that’s been I’ve been wondering about for a while: at what point is it better to buy something new than keep repairing something old? On this site, we’re all about reducing & repairing – not buying things new for the sake of it or because they’re a bit scuffed & dirty – but [...]
  • How can I make “chickens from plastic bags&# ...
    (I hope everyone had a lovely long weekend btw – and for those who didn’t get yesterday as a holiday, sorry for rubbing it in that we all did!) Linzi email us with a rather specific question: I would love to know how to make those chickens made from plastic bags? I desperately want to to know [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle jerry cans?
    We’ve had an email from Lieze: how can i recycle an old jerry can in a creative way ? Lieze doesn’t say whether it’s an old school pressed steel one or a newfangled plastic one – or whether it’s been used as a fuel container or a water one. My first thought for anything container shaped [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old pushchair/stroll ...
    Walking down the road the other day – on the way to lunch, I spotted the wheels of a pushchair sticking out of a skip. The next time I walked past, the skip had gone so I couldn’t grab it – but it got me thinking all the same. I’d like to think that if [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Israel lobby group FLAME says black Ethiopian Jews ...
    Is the Israel lobby out of touch with America today? Or is this just the charm offensive for President Obama? Here's an ad that the lobby group FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East) is running in at least one Jewish newspaper and that is on the group's website, too: an answer to the [...]
  • Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
    Learn more and order the book on the OR Books website.
  • The ‘one state’ conversation continues
    I was pleasantly surprised to read Ben Zakkai’s one-state formula for Palestine/Israel. Our thinking on the issue is closer to one another than I thought it would be. There are some big things I disagree with, but the fact that an Israeli (Jewish-Israeli?) has undertaken to grapple with the one-st ...
  • Where Kindness Is A Crime
    In a May 7 article, Haaretz reporter Ilana Hammerman described in dramatic detail a crime she had methodically planned and committed. In defiance of laws supposedly related to Israel's security, Hammerman picked up three teenage Palestinian girls in their village in the West Bank, took them through ...
  • The brand is tanking, in the East River
    The Conference of Presidents, a lead group in the Israel lobby, is as we speak leading some kind of flotilla in the East River near the United Nations to demand the release of Gilad Shalit by Hamas, according to twitter feeds from Dan Sieradski (congrats on your marriage, Dan) and Gal Beckerman. Si ...

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

  • IS OBAMA WEDDED TO A DOOMED STRATEGY - and why are ...
    The firing of General Stanley McChrystal by President Obama should give Americans, Canadians and the people of other NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan a moment to reflect on why their daughters and sons are dying and killing there. Not because of McChrystal's departure, but for President Obam ...
  • 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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • UK loses Atlantic seabed bid
    Britain’s attempts to claim thousands of square kilometres of seabed around a remote Atlantic island have been thrown out by the United Nations. The UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf ruled that the UK had not successfully shown that the area around Ascension Island met the crit ...
  • NIH director formalizes rejection of diseased stem ...
    Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, approved eight more human embryonic stem cell lines for federal funding earlier this week. His decision brings to 75 those lines now available to NIH-supported researchers under President Barack Obama's liberalized, 2009 policy. ...
  • Greed is good: 10,000 more human genomes on the wa ...
    1,000 genomes just weren’t enough. The Wellcome Trust is going to sequence another 10,000 human genomes in the next three years, the UK-based charity announced today . The aim is to identify rare sequence variations that are linked to disease. (For more on the advantages of rare variants see ‘ H ...
  • Hanny's Voorwerp demystified
    It's becoming clearer and clearer that the spooky mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp -- the glowing green blob discovered in 2007 by Dutch schoolteacher Hanny van Arkel -- is no longer. Last fall, Hayden Rampadarath of the University of Manchester, U.K. and his colleagues said they had figured out the pr ...
  • How to store a light beam
    Who doesn't love a quantum computer? The idea of using fuzzy quantum states instead of ones and zeros is freaking cool, and it could be pretty useful. So it's no surprise Nature 's cover paper is getting a healthy dose of press coverage this week. Researchers at the Australian National Universit ...

new geography

  • Despite Transit's 2008 Peak, Longer Term Market Tr ...
    In 2008, US transit posted its highest ridership since 1950, a development widely noted and celebrated in the media. Ridership had been increasing for about a decade, however, 2008 coincided with the highest gasoline prices in history, which gave transit a boost. Less reported was the fact that de ...
  • Immigrant Entrepreneurs Can Turbocharge Cleveland’ ...
    In seeking to lure a Chinese lightbulb-maker to town, Cleveland leaders revealed both a vision and a blind spot. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and his team should be given credit for recognizing the tremendous opportunity in attracting foreign direct investment, or “FDI,” and the new jobs that it p ...
  • 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?
    On a recent whirlwind through Pennsylvania, I thought of James Carville, who popularized the notion that “It's Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Alabama in the middle.” It’s a clever line, but between the Ohio and Delaware rivers he is missing a great American tapestry: the wrec ...
  • China’s Urban Challenge: Balancing Sustainable Eco ...
    Today, Beijing seeks to balance strong economic growth and soaring prices amidst a severe global crisis and debt turmoil in advanced economies. The challenge is colossal – to provide urban space for more than 600 million people in the coming decades. For months, the famous hedge fund wizard, James ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • Matt Damon is making the planet better for us (GTV ...
    Matt Damon Is Making The Planet Better For Us (Global TV) Since the making of All The Pretty Horses, you’ve become one of the Sexiest Men Alive, one of Hollywood’s highest paid actors and a household name across the globe. Your celebrity status has afforded you the ability to focus attention on envi ...
  • Pipe dreams come true (Hindu Bus. Line)
    Pipe dreams come true (The Hindu Business Line) – Trekking long distances for water forms part of the daily grind for women at the bottom of the pyramid â be it in the slums of Tiruchi or the shantytowns of Nairobi. And there is no guarantee for the quality of the water or the safety [...]
  • Ante Up For Africa gives $50,000 to Water.org (ET)
    Ante Up For Africa Announces $100,000 in Grants to the Eastern Congo Initiative and Water.org (Earth Times) LOS ANGELES, CA – Ante Up For Africa today announced two grants of $50,000 each to support the Eastern Congo Initiative and Water.org, organizations focused on supporting local, community-base ...
  • Yvonne Kean named finalist for CFO of the Year (KC ...
    Kansas City Business Journal announces CFO of the Year award finalists (Kansas City Business Journal) – The Kansas City Business Journal is pleased to announce the finalists in this yearâs CFO of the Year awards program. The program honors financial executives for their strategic vision and fiscal ...
  • Shepard Fairey SHFT bottles for Water.org (BDTN)
    Environmental Entourage at the Continental (Blogdowntown) LOS ANGELES – During this week’s Art Walk, the first floor gallery in the Continental Building at 4th & Spring will be abuzz with a pop-up gallery set up by Adrian Grenier and Peter Glatzer. It’s not an art gallery per se, but a ‘curation of ...

Before It's News

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Stimulus Waste
    Back in February 2009, the U.S. Congress passed an $862 billion "economic stimulus" bill to help the struggling American economy recover from the horrible financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.  Right now, federal agencies are spending this stimulus money at the rate of approximately 196 million dollars ...
  • What Do You Believe Is America’s Biggest Eco ...
    Today there are literally dozens of major threats to the U.S. economy.  Each one of these threats alone could cause a major economic implosion.  The Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the derivatives bubble, the housing crisis, the exploding U.S. national debt and the burgeoning European debt crisis all thre ...
  • The Declining Value Of Work
    One of the great joys that men in free societies have long enjoyed is the ability to earn an honest wage for an honest day of work.  In particular, the amazing capitalist engine that powered the U.S. economy for decade after decade greatly rewarded the incredible hard work and industriousness of the ...
  • The Coming U.S. Real Estate Crash
    This week headlines across the United States screamed that new home sales in the U.S. had declined to the lowest level since the U.S. government began keeping track in 1963.  But in the news stories covering this data in the mainstream media, they were always very careful to give their readers lots ...
  • Fed Up
    Do you ever get to the point where you are just fed up with the way that things are headed?  There are times when it seems as if we are all stuck in some kind of horrific nightmare that we can't wake up from.  Day after day we get the privilege of watching our esteemed leaders down in Washington [.. ...

WASH Research News

  • Combining sanitation and women’s participati ...
    O’Reilly, K. (2009). Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply : an example from Rajasthan. Development in practice ; vol. 20, no. 1 ; p. 45-56. DOI: 10.1080/09614520903436976 (Pay-per view: GBP 23) Free pre-print version Abstract Water supply and sanitation provision are key el ...
  • Menstrual hygiene: keeping girls in school in Ghan ...
    When boys and girls reach puberty, their bodies go through many physical changes. But for girls in Africa, the onset of menstruation can bring with it discrimination, unwanted sexual advances and the end of their education. Now a pilot study in Ghana says it doesn’t have to be that way. The study sa ...
  • Lasting impacts: IDRC-funded research on access to ...
    To mark its 40th anniversary, the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is looking back at examples of how its research has had lasting impacts. Each month in 2010, IDRC will launch a new Lasting Impacts minisite on a new theme. The chosen theme for December 2010 is Access to Wat ...
  • Education on hand-washing and water treatment can ...
    Education on Hand-Washing and Water Treatment to Improve Safety of Water Can Reduce Absenteeism Amongst Students in Developing World at Risk for Devastating Diseases Inadequate access to safe water and poor sanitation infrastructure contribute to an estimated 1.87 million deaths per year from devast ...
  • Free access to over 100 research articles on water ...
    In support of World Water Day 2010, publisher Routledge is offering free access to over 100 research articles related to sustaining healthy ecosystems, increasing water quality, access to clean water and contemporary challenges in water management. These articles are available free until the 23rd Ap ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Israeli killing leaves Jerusalem children fatherle ...
    rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rRAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – “Where is my daddy? Why is he not coming home? I want my daddy,” sobs seven-year-old Yasmin, her big blue eyes filling with tears. She wakes up crying every night. “My life only began when I met him. I will never meet such a won ...
  • Nottingham responds to budget
    On Tuesday June 22nd, ConDem Chancellor George Osborne revealed the contents of the “emergency budget.” As expected, this included a pay freeze for public sector workers (except the lowest paid) along with cuts in housing benefit and an increase in VAT.The SWP-initiated Right to Work campaign called ...
  • Fidel Castro warns of possible clash between Israe ...
    Summary: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he believes a clash between Israel and Iran is looming and that the United Nations and the United States would “have no way to change the course of events.” source: China Viewread more
  • Iran is ready for planned U.S. sanctions targeting ...
    Summary: As Congress prepares to target Iran’s vital fuel imports as part of its most far-reaching sanctions package yet, observers say the Tehran government has already done much to deflect the impact of the new U.S. measures. source: The Washington Post read more
  • Iran-US-Israel drama goes into Act II
    Summary: A major military exercise took place off the Mediterranean coast on June 6-10, involving US aircraft carrier Truman and associated strike group and German and Israeli ships. The exercise Juniper Stallion 10 involved practice bombing runs by US and Israeli aircraft, as well as Israeli anti ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Fidel Castro warns of possible clash between Israe ...
    Summary: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he believes a clash between Israel and Iran is looming and that the United Nations and the United States would "have no way to change the course of events." source: China View read more
  • Iran is ready for planned U.S. sanctions targeting ...
    Summary: As Congress prepares to target Iran's vital fuel imports as part of its most far-reaching sanctions package yet, observers say the Tehran government has already done much to deflect the impact of the new U.S. measures. source: The Washington Post read more
  • Iran-US-Israel drama goes into Act II
    Summary: A major military exercise took place off the Mediterranean coast on June 6-10, involving US aircraft carrier Truman and associated strike group and German and Israeli ships. The exercise Juniper Stallion 10 involved practice bombing runs by US and Israeli aircraft, as well as Israeli a ...
  • Regime Change in Iran: The Fantasy That Will Not D ...
    Summary: Beeman The American political establishment will not give up the fantasy that they can somehow bring about regime change in Iran—that the United States can somehow topple the Iranian leadership just like it supposedly toppled the Soviet Union. source: New America Media read more
  • UK says Iran gas pipeline Pakistan’s internal matt ...
    Summary: iran and pakistan Iran continued to dominate the political and diplomatic scene on Wednesday as Pakistan cautioned British Foreign Secretary William Hague that sanctions against the Gulf country beyond the ones mandated by the United Nations could have serious repercussions for Afghanis ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • WOOT! Galaxy Fans: Join the IDG Tech Panel for Fre ...
    Major companies around the world value the opinion of thought leaders like you! Join the IDGTechPanel to be invited to a variety of interesting and rewarding survey opportunities. In exchange for your valuable time and insight, you will have exclusive...
  • WOOT! Galaxy Fans -Join the IDG Tech Panel for Fre ...
    Major companies around the world value the opinion of thought leaders like you! Join the IDGTechPanel to be invited to a variety of interesting and rewarding survey opportunities. In exchange for your valuable time and insight, you will have exclusive...
  • 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...

Natural News

  • BP is burning rare sea turtles alive, blocking eff ...
    (NaturalNews) By now, almost everyone is aware of the out-of-control oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico that seems to be getting exponentially worse with each passing day. But what people may not know is that BP's efforts to control the oil by burning it are actually burning alive a certain rare a ...
  • New research: probiotic found in breast milk benef ...
    (NaturalNews) Probiotics are beneficial microorganisms similar to the "friendly" bacteria found naturally in the body's digestive system. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), there's evidence from a variety of studies that probiotic formulations can he ...
  • Eating meat may cause severe allergic reactions in ...
    (NaturalNews) Meat allergies may be much more common than previously thought and may even induce potentially fatal anaphylaxis in some people, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Virginia and presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma ...
  • WHO to tax your internet usage to fund vaccines in ...
    (NaturalNews) The United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing hard to impose global consumer taxes to help fund its various programs, including a new proposal that would tax the internet in order to pay for vaccines and other pharmaceutical medicines for third-world countries. Yes, yo ...
  • Suzy Cohen joins NaturalNews Talk Hour to reveal s ...
    (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour presents "Drug FREE Living - Natural Solutions without Medications". Get advice, options, and amazing cures from America's most trusted pharmacist. Discover the natural secrets for total body health from behind the counter. Look younger, feel healthier ...

Threat Level

  • Accused Hacker Who Balked at 2-Year Prison Deal No ...
    An alleged hacker who declined a 2-year plea deal is facing decades behind bars after federal authorities Thursday added multiple charges, including possession and distribution of child pornography. Barry Ardolf, 45, of Blaine, Minnesota, had rejected a plea deal in connection to charges accusing hi ...
  • Twitter Settles with FTC Over ‘Happiness’ Breach
    Twitter has agreed to implement a new security program and submit to a security audit from a third party as part of a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission over breaches the micro-blogging service experienced in 2009 that put its customers’ privacy at risk. One of the breaches allo ...
  • Judge: DMCA Protects YouTube in Viacom Lawsuit
    Google-owned YouTube won a major copyright victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled the video-sharing site was protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Viacom, which vowed an appeal, was seeking $1 billion in damages in a case testing the depths of immunities under the DMCA, adopted in ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • U.S. Health Care Still Badly Lags Competitors
    The past week has brought a lot of heat if not light to the ongoing battle over health care reform in the United States. On Tuesday, President Obama unveiled a " Patients Bill of Rights " touting new consumer protections. Meanwhile, even as polls show the Affordable Care Act is becoming more popul ...
  • Senator Whitehouse Blames Deficit on GOP "Debt Org ...
    In one of the most disingenuous claims yet by the Republican born-again deficit virgins , House Minority Leader John Boehner claimed two weeks ago that the Bush tax cuts were not to blame for the massive deficits now plaguing the federal government. On Wednesday, Rhode Island Democratic Senator She ...
  • 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 ...

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

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 24, 2010
    White House Cancellation Frustrates Backers of Senate Climate Bill (Greenwire) A White House decision to punt a pivotal energy and climate meeting slated for this week has supporters of a global warming bill concerned that it could be even tougher to clear legislation this year.  C li ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architec ...
    Attempts to call to accountability any of the architects of the Bush administration's torture program have so far been depressingly unsuccessful. First, any hopes that President Obama would lead the way were dashed when, even before taking office, the President-Elect declared "a belief that we need ...
  • It's the War, Stupid!
    Following the tidal wave of media buzz over General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone, you quickly notice the story succumbing to the gravity of our media-circus culture, to the point it has become a story about celebrity and score keeping. Would Obama fire McChrystal? How will the scandal tarnish ...
  • America "Speaks" on Saturday, but There's an Anti- ...
    This Saturday an organization called America Speaks is sponsoring a "National Town Meeting" on the budget deficit in twenty cities. Although organizers claim to be non-partisan, a review of their materials reveals an ideological bias in some key sections -- a bias that's likely to manipulate attend ...
  • The F Word: Drone Attacks to Stimulate Economy?
    What's worse: backstabbing a president or bombing lots of civilians? The answers pretty obvious to judge by the stink over General Stanley McChrystal. The man's in trouble; the policies he embraced may not be. Ironically, one policy he raised concerns about -- the use of drones -- goes on, to barely ...
  • Beyond Petroleum
    You couldn't call it a dialogue. It was more like a momentary rip in the global power continuum, a spill of outrage on the stage of a major oil conference in London. On Tuesday, two Greenpeace activists interrupted a speech by British Petroleum chief of staff Steve Westwell -- sandwiched him at his ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “Is BP burning sea turtles alive?”
    YES, there are both civil and criminal penalties for BP’s monstrous actions. But don’t you agree with me that further punishment is warranted? GOT ANY SUGGESTIONS? I’m thinking that since this is a British corporation, the Tower of London’s torture chambers could be re-opened … first, here’s the ...
  • Do women really need a stiffy pill?
    Sex and money have always been …er… bedfellows. So because the little blue pills that assist with the launching of male plumbing have been such a financial success, the search in on for something to enhance female sexual satisfaction among those who (and yes, of course we have a name for it) have ...
  • McChrystal on Mars
      No Billet.   McChrystal is relieved of duty and will likely choose to retire pronto. Bill Roggio tells me, “No billet for a four-star, he retires.” The politics of the McChrystal firing (and it will be turned into a firing, no matter the detail of the resignation letter) will expand a ...
  • Now Mexico Is Suing Arizona?
    Okay, I am just shaking my head in disbelief at this, but it is, in fact, true. Yes, now Mexico is suing Arizona for having the audacity to try and protect its borders from illegal aliens. Oh, that’s not how they phrase it – they just don’t want their citizens to be asked [...]
  • Survive
    Editor’s Note: Published June 23rd a.m. at the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule; podcasts). ___________________________________________ Who is writing the script?  Fabulous, but too fantastic, pell-mell, illogical, climactic.  Just because it is US imperial history — that’s no excuse ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Deadliest Insects On Earth
    Don’t risk the wrath of the world's insects, as they will have no issue with showing you who's boss... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Incredible Light Graffiti by Jadikan Lightning Pro ...
    The Jadikan Lighning Project uses special photographic techniques to transform a picture. Magical and wild effects appear depending of the artist's inspiration. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Natural Sights To See Before You Die
    There are places around the world where natural wonders can take your breath away. Here are some amazing sights that nature would love you to see! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Giant Chocolate Hills of the Philippines
    These giant limestone mounds in the Philippines make for a charming but formidable landscape. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Haunted Places on Earth
    Have you ever visited a place that gave you goosebumps and made you shiver, even on a warm day? If you think ghosts are just so much baloney, think again... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • In Whaling Wars, Resources vs. 'Beings'
    For many foes of whaling, the legitimacy of the practice hinges not on whether populations are sustainable enough to allow selective hunting, but on whether whales, like higher primates including chimpanzees or gorillas, are too intelligent and evolved to be hunted at all.
  • Are Antarctic Crustaceans in Peril?
    The Marine Stewardship Council has come under fire for certifying as ''sustainable'' the Antarctic krill of AkerBiomarine, a Norwegian company that turns the tiny crustaceans into omega-3 dietary supplements and feed for farmed fish such as salmon.
  • Order and Chaos in a Bustling Cleanup
    For all of the declarations that the Coast Guard is in charge of the gulf cleanup and that BP and federal officials want to be transparent with the news media, there are signs that the spill response command is not a clear top-down hierarchy.
  • On Our Radar: BP's New Face
    Robert Dudley, BP's new face for the oil spill cleanup effort in the gulf, dives right into controversy, calling criticism of BP a "rush to justice" on his first day on the job.
  • An LED That Mimics an Old Standby
    In August, Osram Sylvania will introduce an LED lamp that it hopes will take a share of the market for incandescent bulbs.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Diamond Dave & Direct Democracy in Detroit: Crib n ...
    A decade after the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, more than ten thousand activists have arrived from around the world in Detroit for the 2010 US Social Forum , the first since 2007's Atlanta conference. Over four days USSF is hosting a huge program with more than a thousand work ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Zimbabwe, Liberation and Justice
    www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please join us this episode (Thursday June 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST) for an exclusive interview with Obi Egbuna, US Correspondent for the Zimbabwe Herald. The Western Media has continuously lied to the world regarding issues throughout the African Nation of Zimba ...
  • The Joke’s On YOU
    I guess my critics are right.  There are some things that I do not understand.  I mean, I just read that Australia has raised its birth rate to 1.77 by paying a $3,000 baby bonus to mothers upon the successful birth of their child.  While Australia’s birth rate is lower than the US, their population ...
  • FIDEL ADVISES OBAMA? OJALA!
    Almost two months after the spill President Obama addressed the nation (June 15). He said he would “fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes.” Not in my lifetime, I thought. Maybe not even in his. “We will make BP pay for the damages their company has caused,” he swore. [.. ...
  • The ‘gruel’ of law
    Graduating ignorance: law school, grade inflation and the currency of ‘toxic derivative diplomas’ I remember my enthusiasm when I first hit law school in 1980.  I had been practicing without a license for years in Sonoma County, California.  Tenant organizing had led me and a friend to author the fi ...
  • BAMN: AFT and NEA we must win at the conventions
    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! ...

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Pine River World News

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  • GORDON DUFF: Mid-East Sitrep: Time To Walk Away An ...
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  • 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. ...

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Grist - News

  • BP reattaches cap, but oil closes Florida beaches
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- BP resumed full siphoning operations from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well Thursday, but Florida was forced to close down popular tourist beaches at the height of the summer season as more crude washed ashore. The vast slick has already soiled t ...
  • Senate Dems plan last-minute push on climate and e ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Exciting news from Senate Democrats today: They're going to try one more time for a climate bill. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he's making one last push to put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. He'll do it by combining a cap with offshore drilling safeguards, in ...
  • Yet another major poll finds strong public support ...
    by Joseph Romm. The drumbeat of public support for comprehensive clean energy and global warming policies beats louder every day. The latest Wall Street Journal -NBC Poll [PDF] found overwhelming support for comprehensive clean energy legislation that includes carbon pollution reductions. It a ...
  • The GOP has forgiven Joe Barton, but here are six ...
    by Randy Rieland. Rep. Joe Barton's latest apology paid off big-time.� Wednesday, the Texas Republican groveled before House GOP leaders behind closed doors, telling them that his impassioned act of contrition to BP CEO Tony Hayward last week was a mistake.� All was forgiven and Sorry Joe was a ...
  • G20 may punt on fossil-fuel subsidies in Toronto
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Among the highlights of last fall's G20 summit in Pittsburgh was a joint pledge to phase out wasteful fossil-fuel subsidies (which amount to a dizzying $550 billion worldwide ). Now ClimateWire reports that change may not come as fast as greens would like: Presid ...

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Washington Independent

  • Strategic Default Penalties Threaten Struggling Ho ...
    Some families, like the Mueller-Holdens of Newark, Del., feel they have no choice but to default on their mortgages.
  • Cloture Motion on Jobs Bill Fails, 57-41
    This evening, 57 senators said they supported the jobs bill, also known as the extenders package or H.R. 4213, which would extend unemployment benefits and Medicaid payments to states, among other provisions. Just 41 said they did not. But in the strange logic of Congress, that is enough to prevent ...
  • Snowe Wants Jobs Bill Broken Up, Moved in Pieces
    There are signs of capitulation — or at least there is some clarification — coming from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the GOP member Democrats believe to be most likely to vote for the jobs bill, also known as the tax extenders package or H.R. 4213. Nothing is certain. But today, she explained that ...
  • Former Fannie Exec Batters HAMP as a Failure
    Today, Edward Pinto, Fannie Maeâs chief credit officer from 1987 to 1989 and a prominent housing consultant, testified before the House Oversight Committee on the question of whether loan servicers are doing enough to prevent foreclosure and preserve homeownership. His bottom line: The Treasury De ...
  • Stabenow: Republicans in ‘Cynical Game&#8217 ...
    "If they can stop the recovery from occurring, if they can create as much pain as possible, people will be angry and will not vote at all or will vote against those in the majority," Stabenow said. "This is a very cynical political strategy."

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Invisible Opportunity

  • I Forget what it is that I can’t Remember An ...
    By Les Visible Let’s see… Germany is now demanding that MagogkeNazi Nation/ The Rothschild Crime Syndicate Home Office, remove the blockade of Gaza and allow humanitarian aid in. Yes, that’s right, Germany, where Zionist Soviet operatives murdered millions of Germans after the war. Some other things ...
  • BP, Illusion of a False Spill
    By wyleecoyote The ‘disaster’ in the Gulf of Mexico is beyond a false flag; it’s an illusion. What I’m about to reveal will more than likely go by the wayside, and the charade will continue. The reason for writing this is not for attention, games, or folly, but to expose the biggest scam in the [... ...
  • The History of the House of Rothschild Part I
    by Anonymous Andy and Daryl Bradford Smith, updated Feb 2006 The Rothschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, and I produce my evidence for this below in a timeline. The Rothschilds have, with their founding of Zionism, betrayed the principles of the Torah and as you will see ...
  • WHO to tax your internet usage to fund vaccines in ...
    By Mike Adams The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing hard to impose global consumer taxes to help fund its various programs, including a new proposal that would tax the internet in order to pay for vaccines and other pharmaceutical medicines for third-world countries. Yes, yo ...
  • 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 Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Federal Judge Overturns Obama Drilling Ban
    U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman overturned the Obama Administrations deepwater drilling ban. Related posts: President Obama Gives Federal Agencies 90 Days to set Greenhouse Reduction Goals Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon) Judge Blocks BLM From Leasing Contested Utah Wilderne ...
  • 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
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  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Sun-Powered Armadillo Box House Closes in on Solar ...
    As the Solar Decathlon competition comes to a head in Madrid, the leaders of the pack have emerged! The amazing Armadillo Box by the French team from École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble has been holding steady as a top competitor for the entire week. Right now the adorably-named Ar ...
  • Dwell on Design: Inhabitat Teams up With Touch for ...
    Conference goers at this year’s Dwell on Design event will have ample opportunities to do some shopping, and thanks to a unique collaboration with Touch in Culver City (who helped curate our booth this year), Inhabitat will also be setting up shop at our Spring Greening Pop-up Gallery at booth 2004! ...
  • California Study Finds Huge Savings in Smart Growt ...
    A new study conducted by the influential urban desig firm Calthorpe Associates to help California guide implementation of its strategic growth law weighed 10 years of the status quo against "urban infill and compact growth" geared toward public transit and found huge benefits in number of important ...
  • The Best of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Design ...
    Read the rest of The Best of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennialhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Cooper Hewitt, cooper ...
  • World’s First Solar-Powered Blimp Set to Cross the ...
    Can a blimp propelled entirely by solar power cross the English Channel? We’re about to find out! Nephelios, the world’s first solar blimp, was built by Projet Sol’r — a collaboration between students at engineering and technical schools in France. Now, almost a year after its debut (and a year afte ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Baby Red Panda Born at National Zoo
    A baby red panda was born at the National Zoo in Washington, DC on June 16. The newborn is the first red panda to be born at the zoo in 15 years. The proud parents, two-year-old Shama and three-year-old Tate, first met in February 2009, and got busy immediately. But because red pandas mate only onc ...
  • New Form of Gene Regulation Hints at Hidden Dimens ...
    An entire class of seemingly useless genetic components may actually regulate gene activity, suggests a study that — though preliminary — has potentially transformative implications for biology. The findings involve non-protein-coding copies of functional genes, called “pseudogenes,” and RNA molecu ...
  • Fishy Gene Hints at How Limbs Evolved From Fins
    Two genes found only in fish may be a key piece in the puzzling evolution of limbs. The genes’ removal from zebra-fish embryos resulted in the loss of actinotrichia — a basic fin component — and made their proto-fins resemble appendages seen in ancient fossils of the first four-legged creatures. “T ...
  • Citizen Science: Count the Gulf’s Ghost Crabs
    While the oil disaster’s terrible toll on birds and turtles will at least be measured, less charismatic creatures tend to be ignored. That’s why conservationists are organizing a citizen science project to count the Gulf Coast’s ghost crabs. Also known as sand crabs, they’re not classically cute, b ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Of Jews, Muslims and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theor ...
    A while ago I wrote that Andy McCarthy 's theory of a grand conspiracy between terrorists and civil-liberties lawyers to destroy the United States was complicated by the fact that many of those lawyers were observant, even Zionist Jews. This is by no means the only hole in McCarthy's reasoning -- w ...
  • Likud Votes to Restart West Bank Settlements
    The flotilla disaster has already chewed up a month or so of the four months earmarked for Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks . And the Likud party delivered a reminder today that the window for talks is unlikely to be extended: The party's central committee voted in favor of resuming settlement ...
  • US Foreign Military Financing in Central Asia
    Refugees flocking into Uzbekistan after fleeing ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan have arrived with a surprising story.  The first ethnic Uzbeks to arrive cited marauding bands of ethnic Kyrgyz as their persecutors, but those that followed later recount coming under fire by mutinous soldiers m ...
  • Starting Up START Treaty Politics
    When groups start buying full page ads in Politico or any of the other leading political papers like The Hill or Roll Call , it's a sure sign that folks see a policy battle ahead. The bipartisan Partnership for a Secure America has today purchased a page in Politico calling for the Senate to ratify ...
  • Turkey's Nuclear Ambitions
    Turkey's civil nuclear program has recently gained momentum with a signed deal with Russia to build the country's first nuclear power plant and talks of a possible $20 billion contract with South Korea for the construction of up to four nuclear energy reactors . In an e-mail interview, Henri Barkey, ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Profiles in Courage, U.S. Senate ...
    Great. The U.S. Senate fails to help the poor, elderly, and unemployed with 58 aye votes but votes� unanimously �to impose sanctions on Iran. Decisive! The toughest member of the esteemed body, Joseph Lieberman , added that he hopes "our combined sanctions will change the calculus of the Iranian re ...
  • Hey, Obama, Are the Votes There?
    With the increasing likelihood of an incredibly depressing defeat for the jobs bill in the Senate -- which would reinforce the social safety net; cut taxes; and provide funding for small business, infrastructure investment, and research and development -- it's worth thinking about how it failed. ...
  • Justice for Oscar Grant.
    Julianne Ong Hing is providing some fantastic reporting �of the trial of Johannes Mehserle , the BART police officer who shot Oscar Grant dead on a transit platform in San Francisco even though he was handcuffed and lying face down on the ground with a knee to his back. Here she is recounting the cr ...
  • Hard Labor in the Heat.
    It's worth remembering the people who can't retreat to their air-conditioned havens on a day like today. In that spirit comes an invitation from United Farm Workers for legal residents and citizens looking for work to apply for agricultural jobs. As Wonk Room points out, there will likely be few tak ...
  • Court Limits the Reach of the "Honest Services" Pr ...
    Disgraced Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling and the reactionary Canadian media magnate Conrad Black are, to put it mildly, unsympathetic defendants. But whether or not a defendant is sympathetic should not determine the validity of a legal claim (after all, Ernesto Miranda �of "Miranda rights" fam ...

Andy Worthington

  • Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architec ...
    Attempts to call to accountability any of the architects of the Bush administration’s torture program have so far been depressingly unsuccessful. First, any hopes that President Obama would lead the way were dashed when, even before taking office, the President-Elect declared “a belief that we need ...
  • Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo
    Sometimes the idea for a campaign arrives out of the blue, and this is the case with a project to write to all the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo, which was launched last week by Shahrina Ahmed-Amatullah, a friend on Facebook. Shahrina had a list of 24 prisoners provided by Amnesty International ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Sharks Carrying Drug-Resistant "Bacterial Monsters ...
    Our leftover medicines are spawning drug-resistant "bacterial monsters" that thrive inside sharks, scientists say. Drug resistance - Health - Drugs - War on Drugs - World Health Organization
  • 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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Not sure that Rob Simmons' Wife and Chris Healy's ...
    The bigger news is that Connecticut Republican's have mastered the science of cloning AstroTurf garbage... "SIMMONS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES WOMEN FOR SIMMONS COALITION" IOW: This ain't news at all. Same old same old. When reality tells you that only 28% of Republican women support your candidacy , neve ...
  • Let's Take a Shot at the Media
    How can I possibly top that introduction? I'm so happy - I'm tearing up! Actually, if I can add just a dash of local flavor to this bubbling cauldron of intellectual give and take, Connecticut Man1 can add a micro-brew to his menu of libations. Cheers! Let's Take a Shot at the Media While I'd l ...
  • Welcome News on Ramping up Blog Production in New ...
    As the next big election season starts to heat up... I just wanted to note that this place will start getting a little more interesting. There a lot of great races on the radar, with the Governor's race, a Senate seat and the endless campaign campaigns on the House side, of course. But, even better ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Strange Twists Reported in Idaho Murder-for-Hire C ...
    The twists and turns in the murder-for-hire case of one-time Aryan Nations attorney Edgar J. Steele could come right out of a novel by Danielle Steel. Since his arrest last Friday, when he was charged with soliciting the murder of his wife and her mother , there have been the following developments ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • Whatever Became of Bubbles?
    Back when Michael Jackson, who died a year ago today, was earning the tabloid nickname “Wacko Jacko,” bizarre stories circulated about him. He slept in a hyperbaric chamber to slow the aging process; he wanted to buy the skeleton of “Elephant Man” John Merrick, whose life fascinated him. Most of the ...
  • Saving Animals, One Condom at a Time
    When I tell you there are condoms out there that can help animals, I'm not talking about an alternative to spaying and neutering. This is protection for you that can protect other species, from cows to spotted owls. Your average latex condom isn't vegan. Casein, a milk protein, is often used by manu ...
  • Piggy Bank-Inspired Reform in Pennsylvania
    Budget crises rarely result in productive policy reforms, but criminal justice may be the exception that proves the rule. Pennsylvania is now jumping on the bandwagon of states pursuing ways to balance their budgets by trimming over-inflated incarceration expenses. "Pennsylvania is still in the ston ...
  • LGBT Presidential Appointees: Necessary But Not Su ...
    President Obama has appointed over 100 openly LGBT people to posts in his administration, more than Presidents Clinton and Bush combined. But is that really a factor in the progress of LGBT rights? Yes and no. Obama’s appointees reflect not only his personal acceptance of LGBT people, but also the p ...
  • Stanford University First to Adopt Policy on Confl ...
    Student activism tends to drop off in the summertime as college campuses clear out. But students at Stanford University just claimed a major victory, convincing their school to be the first to adopt a policy combating the trade in conflict minerals from Congo. The trade in minerals from eastern Cong ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Private Security in Afghanistan "Pay Off Warlor ...
    by Pratap Chatterjee WASHINGTON - 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. read more
  • Report: Toxins Found in Whales Bode Ill for Humans
    by Arthur Max AGADIR, Morocco - Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend ...
  • Firms in Gulf Drilling are Working to Limit Liabil ...
    by David S. Hilzenrath and Kimberly Kindy As BP opens its checkbook to pay damages related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill , it is beginning to do battle over a high-stakes question: Who else bears liability? Some of the companies involved in the drilling operation are laying the groundwork to a ...
  • Hands Across The Sand:In Opposition to Offshore Dr ...
    by Nathan Ehrlich On February 13, 2010, thousands of people synchronously gathered on numerous Florida beaches in order to join hands. The reason for this unification of 10,000 Floridians from over 60 towns and cities was a message: “No to offshore drilling. Yes to clean energy.” This Saturday, ...
  • ‘Gasland’ Documentary Fuels Debate over Natural Ga ...
    by Andrew Maykuth John Hanger might think twice the next time a documentary filmmaker knocks on his door in the state capital. In a documentary about natural gas development that premiered this week on HBO, Pennsylvania's secretary of the environment receives a decidedly unflattering portrayal at th ...

Lifehacker

  • Build a DIY Electronic Sunburn Alarm [Friday Fun]
    It's hard to be responsible when you're having fun in the sun. That's why a tireless piece of science, like this realtime UV exposure alarm, is a better companion at the beach than a great book. More��
  • Shutdown Timer Triggers Windows Lockdown, Shutdown ...
    Windows: If you're looking for a way to shut down your Windows machine—or lock it, hibernate it, and more—when certain triggers are activated such as CPU and memory usage, bandwidth saturation, or at a specified time, Shutdown Timer can help. ...
  • Seven Myths About Grilling a Steak [Grilling]
    Cooking instructor and author of Planet Barbecue Steven Raichlen knows a thing or two about grilling a steak, and today he's debunking a few grilling myths that'll help make your weekend barbecue that much better. More�� ...
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    Want to add a bit of green-toned Lifehacker love to your Facebook feeds? See just our best posts in one place? Go ahead and Like our site on Facebook—we'll give you some good stuff to share with your friends, too. More » Facebook - Social network - Online Com ...
  • Digitize and Clean Your Analog Audio Collection wi ...
    We've discussed a number of steps to digitize your audio , but if you're looking to delve a bit deeper into ripping all that analog media, technology weblog Tested takes you through the process start to finish. More�� A ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The Beginning of the End
    Commentary By Ron Beasley I am once again going to disagree with my partners here at Newshoggers. I may not like General Petraeus but I do think he is a very smart man. Smart enough to realize that Afghanistan is a no win war. I believe his mission is to find a face saving exit from the graveyard of ...
  • Mullen's Metric For Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Chair of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen, has just revealed the key metric being used by the White House and Pentagon to claim that there's slow progress being made in Afghanistan. "The indicators are moving in the right direction," he said. "It gets darkest right before the dawn in t ...
  • Medals Of Gold
    Commentary By Ron Beasley I grew up on anti war songs in the 60s and we've had dammed few of them when we've needed them recently. They don't get the play they got in the 60s and early 70's but they are out there and here is a good one. Of course the anti war songs of the 60's may have be ...
  • The Rest Of The Story
    Commentary By Ron Beasley Now we're off to bombing these people. We're over that hurdle. I don't think anything is going to be as bad as losing, and I don't see anyway of winning. ~LBJ to Robert McNamara, February 26, 1965 Reaching For Glory by Michael Beschloss McChrystal is out and Petraeus is in ...
  • Meet The New COIN Boss, Same As The Old COIN Boss
    By Steve Hynd Wow. News sources are reporting that President Obama has canned General Stanley McChrystal and designated General David Petraeus as his replacement, after a Rolling Stone article that quoted McChrystal and his staff making disparaging remarks about Obama and other senior officials. Pre ...

Water Wars

  • It's hypnotic, in a way. You can watch the numbers ...
    It's hypnotic, in a way. You can watch the numbers on the screen, and you can think about the numbers and the people each digit represents. Also, it has an everything-you-know-is-wrong aspect that is quite alarming. It's called the World Clock, from a Web-... World Clock - Recreation - Television - ...
  • Religion News
    BRIDGETON -- The fourth annual Conference of the Good Shepherd International Fellowship will conclude on Saturday at the New Life Outreach Church, 528 Landis Ave.
  • Downtown conway
    Anyone raring to race in a river raft can go rollin' down the Waccamaw at Conway's annual Riverfest.
  • It's hypnotic, in a way. You can watch the numbers ...
    It's hypnotic, in a way. You can watch the numbers on the screen, and you can think about the numbers and the people each digit represents. Also, it has an everything-you-know-is-wrong aspect that is quite alarming. It's called the World Clock, from a Web-... World Clock - Recreation - Television - ...
  • 4th Fest offers more ways to celebrate Independenc ...
    Pasadenas 4th Fest is always a day brimming with free games, fireworks and other fun, family-friendly activities designed to help the community celebrate Independence Day together.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Read this story: The Exterminator’s Want-Ad by Bru ...
    As I seem to be having a “recommend stuff elsewhere” kind of day here at Futurismic, here’s another suggestion for you. In between its non-fiction material (focussed, as its name might suggest, on building future communities based on sharing and mutual cooperation) Shareable.net is running science f ...
  • Watch this movie: We Live In Public
    A couple of nights ago, I sat down and watched We Live In Public, Ondi Timoner’s award-winning documentary about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, the Quiet experiment, and the eponymous project that involved Harris streaming every mundane moment of his life onto the web for anyone to watch. I was particular ...
  • Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes i ...
    … is no longer science fiction [via @dresdencodak]. Early days yet, natch (and the focus here is on medical applications), but the proof-of-concept work is getting done. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes itself on dem ...
  • Watch this movie: We Live In Public
    A couple of nights ago, I sat down and watched We Live In Public, Ondi Timoner’s award-winning documentary about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, the Quiet experiment, and the eponymous project that involved Harris streaming every mundane moment of his life onto the web for anyone to watch. I was particular ...
  • Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes i ...
    … is no longer science fiction [via @dresdencodak]. Early days yet, natch (and the focus here is on medical applications), but the proof-of-concept work is getting done. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Self-assembling nanotech that moves and reshapes itself on d ...

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

  • Now That Booz Allen Scared The Gov't Into Hundreds ...
    Earlier this year, we noted that government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton had been making the rounds ringing up the moral panic over "cyberterrorism," without any significant evidence of it actually existing in any real form. The key to all of this was the hiring of former director of national int ...
  • Down Goes Another One: Spanish Appeals Court Rules ...
    These days it seems like we're hearing about these sorts of rulings every other week or so. Once again, in Spain, a court has made it clear that under the law, it does not make sense to blame a file sharing site for the actions of its users . The entertainment industry and its supporters keep tryi ...
  • Kickstarter Conundrum: Money Changes Everything... ...
    This post is part of the Entrepreneurship series - sponsored by AcceptPay from American Express, a new online solution that lets you electronically invoice customers and accept online payments-all in one place. Offer more payment options, manage your cash flow and get paid faster with AcceptPay. ...
  • Yet Another Person, Upset With Search Result Snipp ...
    This is certainly not the first time we've seen cases like this, but reader LM alerts us to a case down in Australia, where a guy is upset that the Yahoo search results on his name make him look like a criminal . So, he's now suing the company for defamation. Similar cases in the US and the UK hav ...
  • Mick Jagger: Artists Really Only Made Money Sellin ...
    A bunch of people submitted this a while back, but I'm just getting around to writing it up. In an interview with the BBC, Mick Jagger is asked about things like file sharing, and he notes that, realistically, artists only made money selling music directly for a very short time : But I have a ta ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I don’t know how I never heard about Spot.us.  I love that. Also loving that India plans to seek extradition of the former chairman of Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.  What amazing things could happen if states no longer gave protection to businesses. This article Against School that has be ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Listen Up Senate: Majority of Americans Want Clean ...
    Photo via the DCist Yet another poll has rolled in, revealing in clear terms -- and by wide margins -- that US citizens want comprehensive clean energy reform. Even if they have to pay more in energy costs . The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll , conducted by McCain pollster Bill McInturff (R), alo ...
  • 10 Unbelievable, Unlikely Animal Friendships (Slid ...
    Photo via The Daily Mail Friendship is good for your health -- whether you're human or animal. Take this baby macaque, abandoned by its mother and close to death until it became best friends with a pigeon. The macaque is thriving and the pair are inseparable. But they aren't the only tear-jerk ...
  • Gorgeous Woodsy Finnish Entry in Solar Decathlon W ...
    Team Finland hails from Aalto University, and Alvar Aalto would be proud of this of this stunning little pile of lumber. It's passively heated and designed for the cold and dark Finnish climate, with solar hot water collectors and photovoltaics on the roof. Given the importance of wood in Finnis ...
  • Light Bulbs To Get Nutrition-Style Labels Next Yea ...
    Image via FTC Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which would make the brightness of CFLs, LEDs an ...
  • Hydropower Without Dams: Alaskan Village Powered E ...
    photo: Business Wire A couple weeks back when writing about whether hydropower really should be considered a clean power source , there were a couple varieties that were left out. Thanks to the remote town of Eagle, Alaska we can highlight one of them. It's there that Alaska Power & Telephone h ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • BP and the unmitigated disaster
    The Gulf of Mexico could turn into a giant dead zone if some means cannot be found to staunch the flow of oil and toxic gases emerging from beneath the Deepwater Horizon. Industry insiders are beginning to speak openly among themselves of an unmitigated disaster.
  • Oil addiction lies
    The biggest lie being told to Americans these days is that we are “addictedâ€Â to oil. The real “addictionâ€Â that threatens the United States is a Congress that will not stop borrowing and spending an unsustainable amount of money on programs that should have been abandoned or adjusted ye ...
  • Making good science decisions
    We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically-modified food grains
  • Sinking climate change: Cal Thomas points to Clim ...
    Watch for the hard-core "global warming" cultists to continue clinging to their beliefs; but also watch increasing numbers of scientists and eventually politicians to abandon this once "certain" faith.
  • Fortune, glory drive global warming bandwagon
    Clearly, too much money is being spent on one-sided global warming advocacy cloaked as “research,â€Â not enough on natural causes and adaptation. Despite the best of intentions, too much money can corrupt, or at least skew the science.

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

  • Still Recovering
    From the fabulous trip to southern California.� No post this week.
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Strawberries Can Give You Cancer? Poison Gases Bei ...
    Mmm, fresh, red, plump, juicy strawberries. You know what tastes really great with them? It's a secret I learned as a kid. Dip them in sour cream and then dip them in brown sugar. Delish. Or dip them in homemade whipped cream, or chocolate, or both. Or, if they are fresh picked, just eat them plain. ...
  • "Agroecology Outperforms Large-Scale Industrial Fa ...
    "Governments and international agencies urgently need to boost ecological farming techniques to increase food production and save the climate," said UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, while presenting the findings at an international meeting on agroecology held in Bruss ...
  • Video - GMOs: Hidden Ingredient
    A recent poll shows that 53 percent of Americans say they won't purchase foods that have been genetically modified. But, as Armen Keteyian reports, many Americans are unaware that they already do. Click here to read this article
  • Group Seeks Endangered Listing for Bumblebee
    GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A conservation group filed a petition Wednesday to add a bumblebee from Southern Oregon and Northern California to the endangered species list. Click here to read this article
  • Fake Organic Foods Proliferate from China
    The organic label is meant to signify that a food is relatively environmentally friendly: Organic producers are forbidden from using many synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. When that organic food comes from China, that label may not mean much. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Fotografías de Canadá
    Ya les presenté las colecciones especiales de fotografías sobre México , Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y ahora, les tengo en excusiva 6 bonitas fotografías de Canadá . Verdaderos paraísos, escenarios y paisajes naturales. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografía ...
  • Fotografías de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
    A través de 6 bonitas fotografías, le invito a conocer las costas de California, El cañon de Colorado, Oklahoma, el valle de Texas y algo más... Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCION ...
  • Fotografías de México
    En esta ocasión, le ofrezco 6 hermosas fotografías de México. Admira en esta bella colección la pirámide de Chichen Itzá, La Selva Lacandona en Chiapas, Las costas de Baja California, Tulum en Cancún y el calendario Azteca. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografí ...
  • Las fotos que tomé ayer... I
    EL DÍA DE HOY, EMPEZARÉ UNA SERIE LLAMADA ' Las fotos que tomé ayer '. Un breve repertorio fotográfico donde estaré incluyendo algunas de las mejores instantáneas que voy tomando a mi paso por la vida. Espero que les gusten y no olviden hacer click sobre ellas para ampliar su tamaño. Si alguien des ...
  • Encuentro con las flores en el mercado central (19 ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Is the “Mosquito” Teenager-Repellent Device “Degra ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I don’t know what to make of this report about a controversial device used to repel teenagers and children by using a high-pitched frequency only young people can hear. The mosquito works by emitting a pulse at 16-18.5 kilohertz that switches on and off four times a seco ...
  • Joan Donoghue to Fill Vacancy at the ICJ
    by Roger Alford Joan Donoghue, the Principal Deputy Legal Adviser in the Department of State, has been selected to be the next United States Judge for the International Court of Justice, according to reliable sources. Donoghue will replace Thomas Buergenthal, who has ably served as a judge on the ...
  • Just Call him Antonin Scalia: Anti-Imperialist (in ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku U.S. courts have long struggled with questions about the extraterritorial scope of U.S. federal law.  Many U.S. laws regulating business activities, most notoriously antitrust law, have been interpreted to apply to conduct outside U.S. territory, even by foreign national ...
  • Padania Beats Kurdistan in World Cup Final!
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Padania’s victory was not in the football (American translation: “soccer”) World Cup being played in South Africa but in the one that was just played in Gozo. You know, the Viva World Cup, the tournament among the unrecognized states of the world. The World Cup ...
  • Intelligence Activities and International Law
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Peyton Cooke has an interesting paper on the status of “intelligence” activities in international and domestic law.  It doesn’t seem to be on SSRN, but it is “Bringing the Spies in from the Cold: Legal Cosmopolitanism and Intelligence under the Laws of Wa ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Breaking news: Chinese security attack NZ politici ...
    Chinese security forces have attacked and injured a New Zealand politician in the grounds of the New Zealand parliament buildings, because the MP had the temerity to be holding a Tibetan flag at a ceremony to Welcome the Chinese Vice-Premier...
  • The environmentalist who doubts global warming the ...
    Meet Peter Taylor, author of "Chill": The science around climate change is not as settled as it’s presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the remedies being proposed for climate...
  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...
  • The Israeli attack - a video perspective
    I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli territory. Having said that, everyone -...

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

  • A Pressing Issue: David and Goliath Battle on GM A ...
    by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D. The media got it wrong and let the public down when it erroneously reported Monsantoâs wholesale victory in its Supreme Court appeal of the GM alfalfa case — the first-ever Supreme Court case on GMOs (Monsanto Co. v Geertson Seed Farms).  Despite claims and headlines to th ...
  • 56 Members of House and Senate Ask USDA to Keep Ba ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), joined by 49 other representatives and five other senators, sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking USDA to retain the regulated status of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa. Their letter comes in r ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Epidemic of Hating Black Women
    Epidemic of Hating Black Women — theFreshXpress.com — The PULSE of Young Black America I’ve noticed a trend, maybe others have noticed it too and maybe others have written about it. There is an overabundance of hatred towards Black women. Someone, somewhere began using “hating” as an indicator of je ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Rescue ALL Sea Turtles from Burning Oil
    ShareThis Quick action! Rescue ALL Sea Turtles from Burning Oil ( Sea Turtle Restoration Project ) 24 Jun 2010 Multiple eye-witness accounts have established that endangered sea turtles are being burned alive in BP's cleanup efforts . Immediate change must occur so that ALL sea turtles are rescued f ...
  • Swine flu risk 'was vastly over-rated' by World He ...
    ShareThis Swine flu risk 'was vastly over-rated' by World Health Organisation 25 Jun 2010 Threats of a swine flu pandemic were 'vastly over-rated' by the World Health Organisation, an inquiry has concluded. The Council of Europe last night also accused the UN's health arm of 'grave shortcomings' in ...
  • Council of Europe calls for WHO flu handling probe
    ShareThis Council of Europe calls for WHO flu handling probe 24 Jun 2010 The Council of Europe called Thursday for a probe into the World Health Organisation's handling of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, which it said led to unjustified scares and waste of public money. A council parliamentary assembly ...
  • Source: N.Korea set no-sail zones off west coast
    ShareThis Source: N.Korea set no-sail zones off west coast 25 Jun 2010 A South Korean official says North Korea banned boats off its west coast though no unusual military movement has been detected. The official with the Joint Chiefs of Staff also said Friday that South Korea is closely monitoring t ...
  • Vast amounts of methane in Gulf spill pose threat
    ShareThis Vast amounts of methane in Gulf spill pose threat 18 Jun 2010 Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives... At least 4.5 bi ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Stop the Bullets! Activism in the Buffer Zone
    By Abu Waleed, Popular Campaign for Security in the Buffer Zone  and Ellen Stark, International Solidarity Movement Stop the bullets! A call to stop the use of live ammunition by Israel against unarmed citizens in the Gaza ‘buffer zone’ The catastrophic Israeli attack on the ...
  • Civil Disobedience Is….A Fun Day Out in Tel ...
    By the Coalition of Women for Peace The trip to the Betar crossing point passed in almost complete silence. When we approached the checkpoint, the red sign, the metal tower, the speed bumps, the concrete barriers, the soldiers’ position, I felt my legs shaking – and not because of the bumpy road. I ...
  • The Minister of Education rides again
    By Rela Mazali The ongoing militarization of state (read: Jewish, non-orthodox) education in Israel has been among the major civic issues addressed by New Profile from the outset. Israel’s current minister of education, Gideon Sa’ar, provides an extremely blatant example of this ongoing process. Not ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • We have an important anti-Perkypants announcement
    Deutsche Bank: U.S. financial conditions just collapsed back to crisis levels Just so there’s no irrational exuberance…
  • Coal Country. The Movie
    While looking at at schedule for this weekend’s Groovefest, a free two-day Americana / roots music festival here in Cedar City, I discovered Great American Taxi, who linked to Coal Country. “Coal Country” is a film by Mary-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller that tells of the dramatic struggle around the u ...
  • Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Vuvuzela
    The horror
  • McChrystal’s revenge: Everyone hates Karl Eikenber ...
    In the wake of General McChrystal's firing, supporters of his counterinsurgency strategy have shifted to the blame game. Their target? US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry. But is Eikenberry really at fault, or has he been right all along?
  • Solar power from Sahara to Europe within 5 years
    If just one percent of the Saharan Desert were covered in concentrating solar panels it would create enough energy to power the entire world. That’s a powerful number, and the European Union has decided to jump on their proximity to the Sahara in order to reap some benefits from the untapped solar e ...

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

  • This Day In History – June 25
    1876 – Custer’s Last Stand during the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Six hundred men of The U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by George Armstrong Custer, were attacked by 3,000 native American Indians consisting mostly of Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse, within one hour of the attack every last one of t ...
  • ACTION: Please Order Pizza (6.25.10) from new Abra ...
    Abramoff, From Prison to a Pizzeria Job BALTIMORE — Like any new employee, Jack Abramoff is trying to keep a low profile — or as low a profile as a cause célèbre disgraced lobbyist and convicted felon can keep when news cameramen keep staking out his new workplace. Mr. Abramoff started his new gig t ...
  • FALSE FLAG ALERT! 17 “AFGHANI PAPERCLIP MEMB ...
    THIS IS HOW IS STARTS! google Op Iraqi paperclip and the Oklahoma City Bombing (for fun) It’s been largely redacted, but its widely known that “Poppy” Bush hired many left over and defaeted Iraqi’s from the war, and they were EVERYWHERE during the OKC bombing – blamed on Tim McVeigh. The gig was dou ...
  • Of Course Obama Knew about Blogo quid Pro Quo
    Harris: Obama knew of Blagojevich plot BLAGO TRIAL | Price of Senate appointment of president-elect’s friend June 24, 2010 BY NATASHA KORECKI AND SARAH OSTMAN Staff Reporters A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich’s plot to win himself a president ...
  • Meat the Elite: Al Gore A “Crazed Sex Poodle ...
    Masseuse’s claims read like R-rated vice presidential fan fiction JUNE 24–In a bizarre statement to police, the Oregon woman who claims that Al Gore fondled and groped her during a massage session described the former Vice President as a giggling “crazed sex poodle” who gave a “come hither” look bef ...

The Air Vent

  • Pajama’s Media Reports Bomb Threat to Skepti ...
    Christopher Horner of Pajama’s media reports today that an economist who reported on the true effects of converting to a green economy in Spain. Spainâs Dr. Gabriel Calzada â the author of a damning study concluding that Spainâs âgreen jobsâ energy program has been a catastrophic economic ...
  • Wheeerrre’s Climate Waldo
    Ok, Steve M is back at it today with a cool post on another blog’s criticism of  Steve Mosher and somewhat collaterally, Climate Audit. In this post,  Steve describes how Arthur Smith has mischaracterized what has been said at CA about hide the decline.  Now I’m not here to defend CA -cause Steve ...
  • IPCC Chief mellows for bail out package
    Guest post  – M I Bhat âI am not deaf to those who do not agree with the scientific consensus on man-made climate change.” Ladies and Gentlemen: These are the words of the completely undressed IPCC Chief, Dr. R. K. Pauchauri to BBC (15 June 2010). He has been undressed for quite some time but [.. ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Sharron Angle's Fringe Party Accused "Sodomites" o ...
    Sharron Angle is running for U.S. Senate in Nevada on the GOP ticket, but the Tea Party darling wasn't always a Republican. Angle's political career began in the far-right fringe American Independent Party. Talking Points Memo Muckraker obtained a virulently anti-gay flier that the AIP paid to inse ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • ComScore: Facebook Grew to Be Tenth-Largest US Vid ...
    Facebook’s online video traffic is continuing to grow in the US, according to web measurement firm ComScore, rising from 41.3 million unique viewers in April to 45.5 million last month. The average number of videos viewed per Facebook user stayed about the same, falling slightly from 5.6  to 5.4. T ...
  • Ads API Profile: Alchemy’s Cascading Ad Creation, ...
    Facebook’s performance advertising system provides buyers with a wealth of targeting options, but not the depth of control or analytics to effectively take advantage of the opportunity. To allow companies to build more powerful tools for managing Facebook ads, the company began allowing a select few ...
  • Facebook Hires White House Staffer for Global Poli ...
    Facebook’s rapid growth and regular product changes — especially around privacy — have brought new attention from politicians and regulators in the US and around the world. So the company, which as been gradually filling out a team of public service veterans over the years, has good reason for its l ...
  • Inside the Numbers: Facebook’s Third-Largest Count ...
    [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.] In this month’s language stats, we’re focusing in on Indonesia, which ...
  • Facebook Hires This Week: Oracle, Microsoft UT-Aus ...
    Here’s our latest look at people who Facebook has hired in the last week, as shown by LinkedIn. The new employees come from a range of backgrounds in the public and private sector including a few well-known technology companies. David Baser: Now a Monetization Analyst at Facebook and previously work ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Knesset comes to Westminster: Britain’s Conservati ...
    Stuart Littlewood demonstrates the depth to which Israel’s stooges in the British parliament, the Conservative Friends of Israel, are prepared to stoop while whoring for Israel. He quotes extracts of their speeches in a recent parliamentary “debate” in which the Zionist fifth columnists defend Israe ...
  • 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.

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

  • The Sanitized Gulen Coverage Continues…
    …and the Real Dots Remain Unconnected In my last update I covered the recent multi-agenda driven, censored and sanitized media coverage of the Gulen movement. He seems to be back in the news (mainly Turkish media) again with the Flotilla Incident, and again, with unconnected dots, and unmentioned po ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • Hands Across The Sand: A New Low In Symbolic Prote ...
    “I dreamed early on in the BP crime-event that The Gulf Gusher could NOT be stopped. I woke up shaking, sweating, my heart pounding. I knew this was information more than merely a dream…I think we have a hole in our heads when we talk about effective action, and we’ve got to think more seriously [. ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • The Fate of the Internet, Decided in a Back Room
    By Tim Karr The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Federal Communications Commission is holding closed-door meetings with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality - the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience
  • Palestinian Authority Undermined Turkeys Push For ...
    By Asa Winstanley A document sent to Ibrahim Khraishi, Palestinian Authority representative at the UN in Geneva, proves that the PA attempted to undermine Turkeys push for a UN Human Rights Council investigation in to Israels attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
  • US Commander Recalled From Afghanistan After Mocki ...
    By Bill Van Auken Following the appearance of an article in which he and his aides disparaged President Barack Obama and other top civilian officials, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, has been ordered to return to Washington for a White House meeting with the Obama adminis ...
  • McChrystal Sideshow Masks Murderous Reality
    By Chris Floyd Some people seem to think that the question of which uniformed goober is in charge of the imperial bloodbath in Afghanistan is a vitally important issue, worthy of endless exegesis. It is not. It is a meaningless sideshow. What does matter, vitally, deeply, urgently, is the imperial ...
  • The Coming Era of Energy Disasters
    By Michael T. Klare BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come. Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Day 7: How to Deal
    Day 7: Josh, OKC Our visit to Oklahoma City seems like a good time to gush about my girlfriend Margo. After a long, sweltering ride through New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma without air conditioning, having Margo waiting at the church where we spoke was a refreshing sight. Her and some friends made th ...
  • 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 [...]

Yid With Lid

  • White House Announcement on Gaza Shows the Missing ...
    By Barry Rubin "As a general rule, you should assume that the more unlikely the action I lay upon this stage for you, the more likely it is that I have evidence of its having happened." --Clive Barker, Galilee . Everyone will probably view the just-released official document, "White Ho ...
  • Despite New Hank Johnson Gaffe, Congress Passes As ...
    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances- US Constitution, First Amen ...
  • Rand Paul The Myth vs. Reality
    As you know, Rand is Ron Paul's son and he's also the GOP nominee in Kentucky. Right Wing News did a far ranging interview that covered a large variety of topics including: The BP Oil Spill, his foreign policy views, the North American Union, the Arizona Immigration law, citizenship for the children ...
  • Blago Trial Shocker: Testimony Obama KNEW About Bl ...
    As Rod Blagojevich's Chief of Staff, John Harris was Blago's right hand man and privy to his most intimate of Political thoughts. Yesterday Harris testified at the Blago trial, saying the ex-governor told Harris he was convinced Barack Obama knew of the quid quo pro Blagojevich expected for a Senat ...
  • EMERGENCY HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CAMPAIGN We Are Almost ...
    As mentioned the other day, this site badly in need of some new hardware and software including a new computer. During the past month because of computer problems, it has taken twice as long to deliver the best common sense conservative political, and Middle East News. To Put it Bluntly without th ...

The Real Agenda

  • BP is burning rare sea turtles alive
    NaturalNews.com By now, almost everyone is aware of the out-of-control oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico that seems to be getting exponentiallyworse with each passing day. But what people may not know is that BP’s efforts to control the oil by burning it are actually burning alive a certain rare ...
  • Petrobrás não pertence mais ao Brasil. O Pre-Sal t ...
    Antes da compra de ações que o George Soros fez, já existiam duas outras empresas que possuíam partes do mais novo projeto da Petrobrás, o pre-sal. Segundo o diário Financial Times da Inglaterra, British Gas ou BG é dona de quase um terço do pre-sal e mais uma empresa Canadense possui aproximadamen ...
  • Petrobras is Brazilian No More
    The tentacles of the globalists who caused the current economic crisis are now reaching somehow stable countries and taking over their resources. Bloomberg Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-co ...
  • Peak Oil no More
    The medium-term outlook for fossil fuel markets is a dazzling contrast with last year’s warnings that a combination of break-neck industrialisation in China and lack of investment in new oil fields (thanks to the credit freeze) would exhaust global spare capacity by 2013.
  • $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives Market Dwarfs World G ...
    One of the biggest risks to the world’s financial health is the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market. It’s complex, it’s unregulated, and it ought to be of concern to world leaders that its notional value is 20 times the size of the world economy.

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

  • Faulkner is crazy, the people who encourage such a ...
    And just why does an idiot like that get to own guns unsupervised? His “friends” are encouraging others to have a hand at it.
  • just when things couldn’t possibly get worse ...
    McChrystal replaced by… Generally Betrays Us. Yep, “king” David Petraeus, the one whose staff leaked a protocol statement he had made sometime last year, announced on the Memorial Day weekend, of a military version of an Executive Order giving himself the power to decide which wars to start. Open en ...
  • Soccer offsides rule is about not scoring behind y ...
    It was a hard fought game, admittedly team USA displayed an offensive edge. Rooting for the Americans didn’t automatically make you a Nazi, but I’ll be curious to hear accounts of the hostility our compatriots faced from the stands. The silver lining to a US victory is that eventually the sportscast ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • More exploded bone fragments found...
    More 9/11 Human Remains Found At Ground Zero ABC News Just two or so dump trucks filled with never-before sifted debris from Ground Zero have yielded 72 new fragments of human remains in an almost three-month operation that could bring closure to more families of victims of the September 11, 2001 W ...
  • Distorted Tilt Confirmed
    To explain the constant acceleration of the upper block of WTC 1 , Ryan Mackey insists that the initial tilt of the Tower misaligned the columns to a point where the impacts were not square enough to produce sufficient deceleration. He demonstrated this in a Hardfire debate with Tony Szamboti , usin ...
  • Hypothesis Trailer
    Steven Jones says: "I appreciate when people react and they say, well... scientifically, how about (insert) somebody elses explanation for freefall speed. But if you just say you're a nutty heretic... then I say, well, no I'm not." Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog says : "I'm sorry to sa ...
  • Because it can Never be Repeated Enough: 9/11 Expe ...
    Any theory that does not match experiment is wrong. It doesn't matter what the computer models predict, how much funding is behind it, what the experts say, or what everyone "thinks". Nothing can fool the laws of physics. http://www.sott.net/articles/show/210712-Because-it-can-never-be-repeated- ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Marie Callender’s Frozen Meals. Recall or not, a S ...
    Last week, ConAgra, a huge food conglomerate, recalled 800,000 units of Marie Callender’s Cheesy Chicken and Rice Frozen Entrées. The fear – a salmonella infection that has spread to 14 states. Recalls happen every once in a while, and we’ve written about them in the past. In today’s post we won’t ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mining applications ‘frozen’ after protest in Phil ...
    A Palawan climbing an aerial bridge made of rattan canes to reach a ginuqu tree canopy. © Dario Novellino Six hundred indigenous people and farmers took to the streets on Palawan Island in the Philippines on June 7, to protest against plans to mine nickel on their land. The demonstrators call ...
  • 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 ...

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 Anythin ...
    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

  • Don't Kid a Kidder: Autism Speaks, Insurance Lobby ...
    By Chris Petrosino One of my favorite episodes of the Rockford Files was when Jim Rockford (James Garner) told the con man, Angel Martin (Stuart Margolin), "Don't kid a kidder." I would venture to say the autism community would make...
  • Murder Ballad: Autism, Infanticide and the Pharma ...
    By Adriana Gamondes If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst ~ In Tenebris II, Thomas Hardy On the night of May 31st, another parent killed another child (HERE), this time only on...
  • 18 Year Old With Autism Salutatorian in Smithfield ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Don't you love when the doctors, the "experts" who told a parent to get ready for an institution are proven DEAD WRONG? Eric Duquette's Mom used education, behavioral therapy and a Mother's determination to get him this...
  • Happy Father's Day
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to our friends at Autism File Magazine for allowing us to post this article. Please, click into the PDF HERE to see the complete article. Mel took the gorgeous photos of his boys. Happy Father's...
  • Science is the New Politics: Evan Harris the bigge ...
    By Martin Walker PART ONE: THE NEAR PAST On May 24th 2010, Dr Andrew Wakefield, together with co-defendant Professor John Walker-Smith, was struck off the British Medical Register. The decision came at the end of a three-year GMC 'trial' that...

Global BDS Movement

  • Co-Author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...
    Stéphane Hessel [ Huffington Post ] 15 June 2010 - Israel's illegal and immoral attack on the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid convoy, which left at least nine dead and dozens injured, has rightfully stunned the world. � read more
  • Folk musician Devendra Banhart cancels Tel Aviv sh ...
    [ Jerusalem Post ] 15 June 2010 - Folk artist Devendra Banhart on Monday night cancelled two shows he had been set to play in Tel Aviv on June 16 and 17, saying left-wing Israeli groups had urged him not to perform. � read more
  • Oslo borough votes to boycott Israel
    [ Palestine Note ] 14 June 2010 - The old Grorud borough district of Oslo, Norway's capital, voted last week to boycott Israel, Norwegian news service NRK reported Friday. � read more
  • British firm RedRat cuts ties with Israeli company
    Meirav Crystal [ YNet ] 11 June 2010 - British company RedRat announced to Israeli company Disk-In Pro that despite years of cooperation, it would no longer work with the Israeli company because of Israel's policy in the Gaza Strip. � read more
  • Swedish Dockworkers Union blockade of Israeli good ...
    By midnight on the 23rd June the Swedish Dock-workers union week-long blockade of goods to and from Israel started. The ongoing nation-wide blockade in Swedish harbors, that is based on the request of the united Palestinian union-movement, is The Swedish Dockworkers Union's attempt to contribute to ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Hackers Aren’t Only Threat to Privacy
    Wall Street Journal – Sophisticated hackers aren’t the only ones gaining access to sensitive data on the Internet. A large amount of personal information is being left exposed or poorly protected by companies and governments. The number of identity-theft victims in the U.S. jumped 12% to 11.1 millio ...
  • Gut Bacteria Could Be Key Indicator of Colon Cance ...
    ScienceDaily — The human body contains more bacteria than it does cells. These bacterial communities can have a positive effect on our health, by training our immune systems and helping to metabolize the foods we eat. But they can also set us up to develop digestive disorders, skin diseases, and obe ...
  • GASLAND Trailer 2010
    It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well – rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from a multinational energy conglomerate wanting to lease their property. The Reason? In America, the company hopes to tap into a huge natural gas reservoir dubbed th ...
  • US raises objections over ICQ sale plans
    Financial Times – Senior US law enforcement officials have objected to AOLâs pending sale of one of the largest instant-messaging services to a Russian investment firm, fearing it will put some of the worldâs top criminals further from their reach. Investigators at federal agencies charged w ...
  • Brain stimulation technique boosts language abilit ...
    PhysOrg.com – A brain stimulation technique, known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, boosts the language ability of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, suggests preliminary research, published online in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Legislators react to lifting of dr ...
    In Washington, a federal district court's decision to throw out President Obama's six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling drew cheers from lawmakers from the energy-producing Gulf Coast and jeers from those from other parts of the country. The reaction underscores reality:...
  • Gulf oil spill: Leak at New Jersey test facility i ...
    As if the Gulf oil spill wasn’t enough, now there's a leak in New Jersey that’s drawing congressional ire. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is angry that a test tank at an oil spill research facility in his state isn't operating...
  • Gulf oil spill: Many sea turtles drowned since gus ...
    It has been an exhausting and depressing detective enterprise, trying to establish how hundreds of sea turtles died before washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now it appears that oil...
  • Gulf oil spill: New face for BP disaster works Was ...
    BP’s new public face, Bob Dudley, was in Washington on Thursday to meet with Obama administration officials to reassure them of the company’s "long-term commitment" to cleaning up and restoring the Gulf Coast. "I’m in the process now of listening...
  • Gulf oil spill: New Orleans judge held energy-rela ...
    U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman, who abruptly halted President Obama's deep-water drilling moratorium Tuesday, held stock in the company that owned the Deepwater Horizon rig, according to his 2008 disclosure form, the latest available. His holdings in Transocean Ltd.,...

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 ...

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  • Oppressive Occupation Also Harms Israelis, America ...
    "It is time to wake up to the reality that a succession of Israeli governments have imposed an oppressive occupation that harms not only Palestinians but Israelis and Americans; and that this occupation is a major catalyst for anger in the Muslim world.." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Quartet of Mideast negotiators: Situation in Gaza ...
    "The new policy toward Gaza just announced by the government of Israel is a welcome development," read a statement agreed after the call, which involved Quartet envoy Tony Blair, U.S. special envoy George Mitchell and EU foreign affairs representative..." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • UNRWA: Israel's Gaza blockade became a blockade ag ...
    Nothing short of the full lifting of Israel's blockade on Gaza would allow the territory to be rebuilt, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees said on Monday, a day after Israel said it would ease its siege. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S.: East Jerusalem demolitions undermine trust v ...
    "We've had a number of conversations with the government of Israel about it," Crowley said. "This is expressly the kind of step that we think undermines trust that is fundamental to making progress in the proximity talks," Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Grandpa Bibi's responsibility - Haaretz Daily New ...
    An Israeli leader who gives up on progress in the negotiations toward a two-state solution is dooming his grandchildren, and perhaps his children too, to a bi-national, one-state solution. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Desertification

  • The DESIRE project: Sustainable Land Management en ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List World Day to Combat Desertification – a message from the DESIRE Project Sustainable Land Management enhances our living soils Today is the World Day to Combat Desertification, a day to focus on … Continue reading →
  • TACKLING LAND DEGRADATION CRUCIAL FOR HUMAN WELL-B ...
    Read at : UNNews TACKLING LAND DEGRADATION CRUCIAL FOR HUMAN WELL-BEING, UN OFFICIALS STRESS New York, Jun 17 2010 10:05AM United Nations officials today stressed the need to look after the worldâs drylands, which are home to more than one … Continue reading →
  • Drought Early Warning System (ACTED / NGO NEWS AFR ...
    Read at : NGO News Africa Uganda: Drought Early Warning System ACTED has supported the development, in close cooperation with the Office of the Prime Minister and the local government, of a drought Early Warning System for Karamoja. The system … Continue reading →
  • Drought-displaced pastoralists (IRIN / IFAD)
    Read at : IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89559 SOMALIA: Help for drought-displaced pastoralists HARGEISA, 21 June 2010 (IRIN) – With more and more drought-affected pastoralists in the self-declared republic of Somaliland seeking alternative livelihoods in urban areas, aid organiza ...
  • RESTORING DAMAGED ECOSYSTEMS CAN GENERATE WEALTH A ...
    Read at : UNNews RESTORING DAMAGED ECOSYSTEMS CAN GENERATE WEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT â UN REPORT New York, Jun  3 2010  3:05PM Repairing forests, lakes and other types of nature reserves that have been damaged or depleted can generate wealth, create … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • FINANCE: Car Dealers Take Victory Lap, But Will Fa ...
    Car dealers are close to winning their battle to avoid oversight by a new federal consumer financial protection bureau but elation over the victory may be tempered by Democrats’ plan to give more rulemaking horsepower to their current regulator, the Federal Trade Commission.
  • INTERNATIONAL: Investigations from Around the Worl ...
    Here is this week's round up of Investigations from Around the World by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists :
  • MONEY & POLITICS: House Considers Proposal to ...
    After months of false starts and compromises, the House today was set to begin debating a Democratic bill that would make it clear how much companies, unions, and other groups spend on independent campaign ads made legal by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruli ...
  • House Ethics Office Asks for DoJ Probe of Earmarks
    The House Office of Congressional Ethics has asked the Justice Department to probe the relationship between campaign contributions and earmarks based on evidence the ethics office collected while examining the now-defunct PMA Group.
  • INTERNATIONAL: Investigations from Around the Worl ...
    Here is this week's round up of Investigations from Around the World by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists :

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California renewable power bill passes first test
Los Angeles Times
- Jun 24, 2010
- 13 hours ago
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times Legislation aimed at requiring California electric utilities to meet the nation's toughest renewable power quotas easily ...
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Pass renewable energy standards
Kansas.com
- Jun 24, 2010
- 8 hours ago
Now what's needed is for Congress to boost the market for wind energy by approving federal renewable energy standards. Though Kansas recently was ranked ...
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Amyris, M+G Collaborate to Develop Renewable Fuels and Chemicals
Azom.com
- Jun 25, 2010
- 1 hour ago
By providing a renewable ingredient for a portion of their PET products, we are collaborating to improve the environmental profile of their business. ...
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Autodesk Inventor Helps West Hills Construction Deliver Renewable Energy Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 24, 2010
- Jun 24, 2010
... West Hills Construction helps customers not only reduce their energy use, but also generate energy onsite from renewable resources. ...
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Wild food and ecology tour Sunday
Danbury News Times
- Jun 24, 2010
- 16 hours ago
NEWTOWN -- Naturalist author "Wildman" Steve Brill will lead one of his popular wild food and ecology tours, "The Hunt for Wild Mulberries," at Sticks and ...
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TransAlta mercury deal
Seattle Times
- Jun 24, 2010
- 15 hours ago
It has come to my attention that the Department of Ecology has announced that they have finalized a mercury pollution agreement with the TransAlta coal ...
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Water conflict flares anew in Kittitas County
Yakima Herald-Republic
- Jun 24, 2010
- 9 hours ago
The move, announced in a letter last week to the Department of Ecology, ratchets up the political war between the county and the state and could send the ...
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- Jun 21, 2010
- Jun 21, 2010
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Operation Dry Water cracks down on drunken boating
WNDU-TV
- Jun 25, 2010
- 6 hours ago
Operation Dry Water gets underway Friday, as the Indiana DNR works to crack down on drunken boating. This weekend, the state will increase enforcement by ...
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State increases water allotment after storms
San Jose Mercury News
- Jun 24, 2010
- 23 hours ago
AP SACRAMENTO — California officials plan to increase the amount of water they supply to farms and cities after a series of late spring storms boosted the ...
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Mars once covered in water, space agency says
CNN International
- Jun 25, 2010
- 17 minutes ago
Two spacecraft have found evidence that liquid water was widespread over the red planet. The ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have ...
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Can we really be short of water?
Telegraph.co.uk
- Jun 25, 2010
- 7 hours ago
By Geoffrey Lean How on earth do we manage so regularly to run short of water? Here we are, living on a damp collection of islands, surrounded by sea, ...
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