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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, June 27, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Activists Slam G8's Aid Shell Game
    The G8 bloc of wealthy nations promised five billion dollars Saturday for health and nutrition programmes that benefit women and children in developing countries.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Honduran Caribbean on a Tightrope
    The biodiversity of Capiro Calentura National Park, on the northern coast of Honduras, could disappear as a result of tourism, agricultural expansion and drug trafficking.
  • G20: China May Not Play Saviour
    Against a backdrop of rising expectations that it holds the key to global economic recovery, China has sent a subtle signal that its economic health is frail and that external pressure to revalue its currency will cause more damage than good.
  • THAILAND: Government Targets Red Shirts with Harsh ...
    With the force of an emergency law behind it, the Thai government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is tightening the screws on an opposition protest movement that, if mishandled, could extract a heavy political price.
  • LATIN AMERICA: Torturers Lurking Behind Uniforms
    "My daughter was brutally tortured, intimate parts of her body were beaten, her head was put in gas-filled bags and electric shocks were applied all over her body," Vidalina Vera, the mother of Wilmary Brizuela, told the Venezuelan Attorney General's Office.

Scoop - NZ

  • BP sub crashes into oil leak cap
    Oil gushed unchecked on Wednesday from the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico after BP's containment system was removed for repairs when a robotic submarine crashed into it, US officials said. "We had an incident earlier today, they noticed that there was some kind of a gas rising," said Admiral Th ...
  • BP: Best-Case and Most-Likely Scenarios
    Even in the best possible case, the consequences of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will be severe and ongoing (see the first paragraph of "Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario". What would make the difference between the worst and best cases? That difference would flow not just from a ...
  • Klare: BP-style horrors coming your way
    On June 15, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America's leading oil companies argued that BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was an aberration - something that would not have occurred with proper corporate oversight and will ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 'Zio-pressure' reportedly scotches anti-Zionist mu ...
    Hello Friends- I have just been informed that a concert and presentation that was scheduled to be given this coming Tuesday night at First Unitarian Church in Rochester, NY, by jazz saxophonist and noted Israeli Anti-Zionist Gilad Atzmon, and myself, is being canceled due to pressure from a local ...
  • Insufficient Vitamin D tied to Severe Asthma Attac ...
    Asthmatic children with relatively low vitamin D levels in their blood may have a greater risk of suffering severe asthma attacks than those with higher levels of the vitamin, a new study suggests. The study, which followed more than 1,000 children with asthma for four years, found those with vita ...
  • Profiles in Courage: Forget Sarah Palin. Run The G ...
    Kindra Arnesen has emerged in the public eye as quickly as Athena sprang from the head of Zeus, fully grown and ready for combat with the enemies of truth and justice. She is an exemplary example of an ordinary citizen daring to get involved when everyone around her is cowed into silence. Whether sh ...
  • Moose Goes Swimming On Maine Beach
    York, Maine (AP) ― A moose took a dip in the Maine surf on Friday, running past a surfer and delighting beachgoers. Beachgoers say the moose then ran into the bushes along a bluff at Long Sands Beach in southern Maine.
  • US: Flying Object Makes Fantastic Maneuvers over N ...
    Published: June 14, 2010 Date: 06-12-10 My friends and I were walking on New Dorp Beach, in Staten Island, New York, (one of the five boroughs), and we looked up to stargaze, and instead see strange lights in a clear night sky. The pattern of lights was consistent with a tail light (color purplei ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Over the top? Yeah. Somebody is over the top.
    The connection between Stephen Harper's department and the Hitlerian security being rammed down the throats of citizens supposedly protected by a Charter of Rights for a "summit" for which the final communique has already been written is becoming very apparent . That this whole thing has been plann ...
  • Stevie strikes again . . .
  • Jedi caricatures
    I have something of a fascination with people and their meltdowns. This week's nonsense with McChrystal and the Rolling Stone article reminded me of elements of some other situations I'm aware of. That article makes reference to a Newsweek piece referring to the discredited general as a Jedi. Appare ...
  • Bizarro weighs in . . .
  • Five metres of fascism
    A couple of law blogs have discussed the apparently legality of the move to embed a modification in the Public Works Protection Act 1939 to allow warrantless search and arrest within five metres of designated security perimeter. Law professor James Morton minimises the impact of the law and suggest ...

Media Matters for America

  • Do right-wing media still trust Jon Kyl " ...
    Many conservative media figures vouched for Sen. Jon Kyl's "integrity" after Kyl accused President Obama of having said he refuses to "secure the border" in order to force the GOP to support comprehensive immigration reform. Will these media figures report that Kyl now says his comments were "taken ...
  • Wash. Times compiles its distortions and ...
    In a June 25 editorial, The Washington Times compiled the numerous distortions and falsehoods that have run on its opinion pages into one editorial headlined "The Case Against Kagan." Times myth: Kagan is unqualified to be a justice Times claim: "Kagan is remarkably lacking in courtroom exp ...
  • Fox News revives falsehood that Kagan "ke[pt] mili ...
    Previewing Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing next week, Fox News repeated the conservative myth that she "ke[pt] military recruiters off Harvard Law's campus." In fact Harvard law students had access to military recruiters throughout Kagan's tenure as dean -- either through Harvard's Office of Ca ...
  • Fox absurdly claims ICE official doesn't "believe ...
    Fox News � falsely claimed that new ICE official Harold Hurtt is "a sanctuary city supporter" who doesn't "believe in immigration enforcement," since he has expressed concerns about local police "in the field" enforcing immigration law, concerns that are widely held among law enforcement leaders. I ...
  • Fox's "straight news" falsely reports federal agen ...
    Fox News'� America's Newsroom �falsely reported that "two federal agencies are joining the push to boycott Arizona"�by cancelling "conventions" there.�In fact, the Department of Education says it will be holding a conference in Arizona next week,�and the Border Patrol said they did not cancel any c ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Weigelgate: Jeff Goldberg's Jealousy
    I understand that the Dave Weigel story is pretty much only relevant here in the "village." I doubt interest in the story even crosses the district line. Nonetheless, it is significant because of what it says about the establishment media. The Washington Post fired the talented and brilliant blo ...
  • Post Flotilla--Congress Still In Thrall To Lobby
    It is becoming clearer every day that liberals in Congress, with a few exceptions, do not care a whole lot about Israel. (It's not news that they don't care a whit about the Palestinians.) Think about it. On other foreign policy issues they ask questions, try to discern whether a policy makes ...
  • Cognitive Dissonance
    Cognitive dissonance is defined as the "uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously." That would pretty much define the results of the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll . On the one hand you have the generic ballot favoring Republican 45-43. But then in the sam ...
  • 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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TruthOut

  • What to Expect at G20: Lots and Lots of Cops
    Toronto, Canada - If you want to see more police officers than you’ve probably ever seen in your life, come to Toronto this weekend. Downtown, particularly in the area around the iconic CN Tower, they’re everywhere. They hang out like gangs on practically every street corner. You might think they’r ...
  • North Dakota Farm Becomes Lab for Growing Food in ...
    I learned the important lessons about water very early in my life. My father and mother began their life on our family farm in North Dakota in 1930. Their years as beginning farmers were thus spent in the midst of the Dust Bowl. My father understood intuitively that the devastation was not solely ab ...
  • Maslow’s Pyramid Gets a Makeover
    What are the fundamental forces that drive human behavior? A group of evolutionary thinkers offer an answer by revising one of psychology’s most familiar images. read more
  • Hands Off Social Security: There Are Better Ways ...
    The Social Security Trustees' Annual Report on the program's finances comes out Wednesday, delayed from March by the health bill. It will be turned into a marketing tool by advocates of cutting Social Security to reduce the national debt. Among those, the president's newly appointed National Commis ...
  • Speaker Pelosi, More War Funding Next Week Is No " ...
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is committed to passing an emergency war supplemental before the July Fourth recess, Roll Call reports. Let us be perfectly clear, as President Obama might say. There is no "emergency" requiring the House to throw another $33 billion into our increasingly bloody ...

Planetsave

  • Paul McCartney Compares Global Warming Skeptics to ...
    Sir Paul McCartney said those who don’t believe in global warming are similar to those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust. I’m a huge Beatles fan. Not only were the band members amazing songwriters and musicians, but they were vocal activists as well. John Lennon is best known for promoting p ...
  • Study: 77 Million in Bangladesh Have Arsenic in Th ...
    Millions of people in Bangladesh have been poisoned with arsenic, due to well-meaning efforts of international development groups. Apparently, this is not a new problem or newly acknowledged problem, but a new report out by the British medical journal The Lancet finds that 77 million people in Ban ...
  • Jackpot of Minerals Discovered in Afghanistan Good ...
    Nearly $1 trillion in minerals were reportedly just “discovered” in Afghanistan. Will this huge discovery actually benefit the unstable country, though? The NYTimes recently reported that the US just “discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previou ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act - Civi ...
    Congress shall make no law… 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. � ������ -�U.S. Constitution�� Amendment I An old cliché says that anyone who has herself for a...
  • Running on Empty. Jackson Brown 1978 - Music and E ...
    Jackson Browne: guitar, piano, lead vocals David Lindley: fiddle, guitars, backing vocals Craig Doerge: keyboards Bob Glaub: bass Jim Gordon: drums Rosemary Butler & Doug Haywood: backing vocals...
  • 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 ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • No, There is No Crisis in Social Security
    Whether you attend the next round of Lies Are Us "America Speaks" sessions or just need facts to shut up your Dittohead brother-in-law, masaccio at Firedoglake has your talking points. Peter Peterson, billionaire Social Security hater, is opening a tiny door for actual Americans to explain to the ri ...
  • Are Democrats Finally Learning How to Ratfuck?
    Ratfucking �is an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks. It was first brought to public attention during the Watergate scandal investigation that during the 1972 presidential campaign the Nixon campaign committee maintained a "dirty tricks" unit focused on discrediting Nixon's s ...
  • The Failed States of America
    How do you define national failure? An economic crisis that lacks only political will to solve? A major political party deliberating sabotaging the nation to get back into power? Wasting trillions of dollars on losing wars that endanger national security? A media that deliberately traffics in lies? ...
  • The Crab Rant
    -- or -- "most of the crab used in this part of the country used to come from Louisiana." Every year in late Spring or Early Summer the Washington Post does an article on 'Maryland' Crab Cakes. Which ever broadcast network cover the Preakness at Pimlico in Baltimore likewise has to, for reasons unc ...
  • "Toughest Financial Reforms Since the Great Depres ...
    Sigh. �I was hoping for a little Economics 101 lesson on why deficit spending in a recession actually cuts the deficit in addition to growing the economy. You know, to prevent the Great Depression hurtling toward us right now. Full transcript here.

Care 2

  • Being smart about the green shift in your home
    Im often asked how to green an older home how to improve its efficiency and make it more sustainable. If you are building a new home and building from the ground up, you can pretty much do whatever you want within your budget. Submitted by Michael O. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Five of the most
    There are very few places left , so please see this information in order to know where even nature is not destroyed by man . All countries would be as clean as those that are described here. Submitted by Ida S. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Agreement reached on federal regulations to restra ...
    The toughest financial regulations since the Great Depression are headed for final votes in Congress next week, covering everything from debit card swipes at Starbucks to the most complex securities, in an election-year salve for public anger over the Wal Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & ...
  • Greenland wins back right to kill humpback whales
    Greenland has won back the right to hunt humpback whales for the first time in a quarter-century after it threatened to leave the world's top whaling body if other nations reject its ancestral traditions. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Researchers find 'shocking' levels of metal contam ...
    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 Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...

GreenBiz

  • Putting a Price on Nature's Services
    The apparent conflict between commerce and nature is a false one, because in the long run everything we buy, sell, eat, and produce is derived from nature. �If we destroy nature, we destroy our own livelihoods. �
  • Energy Star Helps Automakers Cut 750K Tons of CO2
    An Energy Star program aimed at increasing the energy efficiency of manufacturing plants has helped the auto industry cut the amount of electricity and fuel needed to make vehicles, slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 750,000 tons.
  • Energy Star Helps Automakers Cut 750K Tons of CO2
    An Energy Star program aimed at increasing the energy efficiency of manufacturing plants has helped the auto industry cut the amount of electricity and fuel needed to make vehicles, slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 750,000 tons.
  • Green Programs Gain Ground in College Sports Depar ...
    Like major league sports teams, college athletic departments are putting more muscle into energy efficiency, recycling and other environmental programs at their facilities, according to new research by ProGreenSports.
  • Climate Corps 2010: Exploring the Software Side of ...
    IT and a new wave of startups hold the promise for the next big thing in energy and environmental management systems, a Climate Corps fellow learns.

Reuters Global

  • If Guinea Can…
    If Guinea can pull off free and fair elections this weekend, it will lay the foundations for what could be one of Africa's most unexpected and significant good news stories.
  • 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.

Booman Tribune

  • What If There Were No Senate?
    It's true that Gail Collins laid a very sloppy kiss on Nancy Pelosi, but I can't say it wasn't well deserved. Pelosi seems to be able to work her will on the House of Representatives and get her priorities passed. She's powerful and effective, and she's the only Democratic leader who begins from a ...
  • Six Year Old Terrorist in OHIO, OH NO!
    I hate to link to Fox News but sometimes the story is more important than the source: WESTLAKE, Ohio - Alyssa Thomas, 6, is a little girl who is already under the spotlight of the federal government. Her family recently discovered that Alyssa is on the "no fly" list maintained by U.S. Homeland Se ...
  • Taser used on 86 year old Grandmother?
    Why do the police use tasers when there is no reason on God's green earth in many cases to electrify some poor helpless soul like this woman? Here's my answer: Because an instrument of torture is a terrible thing to waste: When Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma, called 911 to ask for medical ...
  • Travel Day
    I'm headed for NYC today to meet up with friends and eat cupcakes and pastrami and poached eggs and whatever else crosses my path. So, it will be a light posting day for me. Maybe we can have some fun by telling our favorite New York City stories. If you haven't been, you must know some who has. ...
  • Stupid Republicans
    Lindsey Graham is such a dick: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that he won't negotiate an energy bill between now and November because the politics of the oil spill does not "favor what [he] wants." Graham had been the Republican negotiator on an energy and climate bill with Sens. Joh ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Blindsight’s origins uncovered
    No, not the (excellent) Peter Watts novel… but the neurological phenomenon for which it is named. Ars Technica boils down a new paper published in Nature: The authors worked with two macaques that have small lesions in their primary visual cortexes, which leave them unable to respond to visual cues ...
  • Laboratory lungs are go
    Almost exactly a year back, we mentioned that biologists were looking into the possibility of growing simulated lungs to use instead of rats for toxicology testing procedures. Today, The Guardian reports that working prototypes of these cheap and ethical lung analogues are well in hand. (Warning: ar ...
  • Slush fatigue: the flip-side of easy self-publishi ...
    Via Eric Gregory (who got it from ElectricLit), here’s a counterpoint to Nathan Bransford’s prediction of the happy demise of the rejection letter: Laura Miller at Salon isn’t quite so sure that the imminent ‘golden age’ of self-publishing will be a great thing. For a start, she too has met the slus ...
  • Blindsight’s origins uncovered
    No, not the (excellent) Peter Watts novel… but the neurological phenomenon for which it is named. Ars Technica boils down a new paper published in Nature: The authors worked with two macaques that have small lesions in their primary visual cortexes, which leave them unable to respond to visual cues ...
  • Laboratory lungs are go
    Almost exactly a year back, we mentioned that biologists were looking into the possibility of growing simulated lungs to use instead of rats for toxicology testing procedures. Today, The Guardian reports that working prototypes of these cheap and ethical lung analogues are well in hand. (Warning: ar ...

Therapy News

  • Unaddressed Stress Causes Increased Cravings In Re ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For recovering addicts, the frequency and severity of cravings is a pretty good predictor of whether or not the person is more likely to relapse. A new study finds that how a person deals with stress correlates with how likely they are to experience strong cravings. T ...
  • Doting Mothers Cause Depressed Kids, Once Grown?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Perceived favoritism on the part of a mother can cause long-term psychological effects on all her children well into adulthood, according to new research. Gerontologist Karl Pillemer from Cornell University looked at 275 mothers and their 671 adult children and found ...
  • “This Isn’t Me – Really!” Dealing with Psychologic ...
    By Delyse Ledgard, MA, RCC, Family of Origin Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Delyse and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile A number of clients tell me how they sometimes experience a part of themselves that takes over and how it is not like them; they don’t feel themselves when ...
  • Child’s Play is More Than Play: It Teaches Toddler ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research looks at interactions between parents and children to see where gender roles may be learned from. The study compared how mothers and fathers acted in two types of situations: feeding a toddler and playing with a toddler. In feeding, parents acted similar ...
  • Overcoming Versus Integrating
    By Wendy Smith, MA, LMHCA, Disability Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Wendy and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Media accounts of individuals with disabilities who have achieved something will often refer to such people as having “overcome” their disabilities in order to become suc ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Ashley Judd and the Art of Removing Mountaintop Re ...
    Digital Spy Ashley Judd and the Art of Removing Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Also today, the Tennessee state legislature will be taking another crack at passing a bill to protect Rocky Top by banning mountaintop removal . ... Ashley Judd criticizes federal government ...
  • Judd mining criticism called off base by official ...
    Judd mining criticism called off base by official Lexington Herald Leader Ashley Judd has angered some eastern Kentucky officials with a speech to the White House Press Club denouncing mountaintop removal . ... Local leaders are upset by Ashley Judd's recent comments WKYT Stella Parton talks about ...
  • Corps Stops Rubber Stamping of Mountaintop Removal ...
    Environment News Service Corps Stops Rubber Stamping of Mountaintop Removal Permits unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Yesterday the Army Corps of Engineers announced that it is suspending the use of nationwide permits for mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Army Corps of Engineers Suspends Natio ...
  • Two Patriot Coal subsidaries sued by environmental ...
    Examiner.com Two Patriot Coal subsidaries sued by environmental groups Examiner.com The Hobet 21 mine in question is a sprawling mountaintop removal mine site at the Boone-Lincoln County line. Hobert's non-compliance with past WVDEP ...
  • Dolly's Sister Touting Eastern Kentucky Coal - WSA ...
    Dolly's Sister Touting Eastern Kentucky Coal WSAZ-TV “We're just trying to get the word out that we need more mountaintop removal . Without mountaintop we would have nothing in eastern Kentucky,” Haven King ...

Memeorandum

  • Statement Regarding Comments Overheard On FOX40.co ...
    KTXL FOX40 : Statement Regarding Comments Overheard On FOX40.com Stream Following Sarah Palin Speech   —  SACRAMENTO - Thousands of people from California and around the world tuned in to FOX40.com to listen to a speech prepared by Sarah Palin Friday evening from the campus of California State Univ ...
  • G8: Obama interested in Huntsville's golf courses: ...
    National Post : G8: Obama interested in Huntsville's golf courses: Clement   —  Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (top, R), Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (top, L), U.S. President Barack Obama (bottom, R), and French President Nicolas Sarkozy pose for a group picture after a working sess ...
  • G-20: Obama Gives Press the Slip (Elizabeth Willia ...
    Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Wire : G-20: Obama Gives Press the Slip   —  Holed up with seven other global leaders in the woods of Muskoka, Canada, President Barack Obama gave the White House press corps the slip last night.  —  The president is attending the G-8 and G-20 summits with his glob ...
  • Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP (Ya ...
    Yahoo! News : Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP   —  It was treated as an oddball twist in the otherwise wrenching saga of the BP oil spill when Kevin Costner stepped forward to promote a device he said could work wonders in containing the spill's damage.  But as Henry Fountain explai ...
  • News Analysis: The President Reasserts His Authori ...
    David E. Sanger / New York Times : News Analysis: The President Reasserts His Authority   —  After two months in which an oil gusher seemed to underscore the limits of his powers, President Obama spent the last week trying to reassert control over a triumvirate of forces that almost always test a ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Banda Sea
    Saturday, June 26, 2010 22:43:59 UTC Sunday, June 27, 2010 07:43:59 AM at epicenter Depth : 146.60 km (91.09 mi)
  • M 5.6, Tarapaca, Chile
    Saturday, June 26, 2010 19:01:15 UTC Saturday, June 26, 2010 03:01:15 PM at epicenter Depth : 81.10 km (50.39 mi)
  • M 5.1, northern Peru
    Saturday, June 26, 2010 18:40:14 UTC Saturday, June 26, 2010 01:40:14 PM at epicenter Depth : 112.90 km (70.15 mi)
  • M 5.8, Java, Indonesia
    Saturday, June 26, 2010 09:50:44 UTC Saturday, June 26, 2010 04:50:44 PM at epicenter Depth : 75.00 km (46.60 mi)
  • M 5.1, south of the Kermadec Islands
    Saturday, June 26, 2010 08:56:22 UTC Saturday, June 26, 2010 08:56:22 PM at epicenter Depth : 59.60 km (37.03 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Biosphere bookkeeping
    An economic transformation to rival the Industrial Revolution is on its way – and this time nature will be properly valued, predict John Elkington and Alejandro Litovsky.  Almost 200 years ago, Thomas Newcomen built the world’s first commercially successful steam engine in order to pump water out ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Learning to Please the “Customer”: The ...
    Student evaluations of their teachers are now a fixture in higher education. As colleges and universities have gone to a more customer serviced based model, where pleasing students (and their parents whom pay the bills) is now the ultimate goal, student evaluations have only received more emphasis. ...
  • Poll: Tea Partiers Want Gov’t to Protect Manufactu ...
    Cross-posted from Think Progress. One of the organizing principles of the conservative-led tea party movement is an “aversion to big government,” with tea party organizers turning their ire on comprehensive health reform, clean energy legislation, and even mandatory trash collection. Yet a new ...
  • BP Sends Fake Journalist to Cover the Gulf Spill
    Cross-posted from Treehugger. Is there no end to BP’s hypocrisies and ludicrous actions? Evidently not. Here’s the latest, in a long line of curious blunders and aggravating insensitivities: after being publicly chastised time and again for denying access to journalists, BP has evidently loosed ...
  • As Risks for Oil and Gas Grow, USSF Offers Change
    BP oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for more than two months, and while attention has focused there, deepwater oil drilling is just one of many risky methods of energy extraction that industry is pursuing. Gasland, Josh Fox’s documentary about the effects of hydrofracking, a new tec ...
  • Brian Kilmeade Provides Fox News Entertainment By ...
    Cross-posted from Think Progress. Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade has been embarrassing himself more than usual over the last few days on Fox &Friends. Yesterday, after news broke that the cap BP placed on its leaking oil well had to be removed because one of its robots bumped the well’s venting system, ...

Threat Level

  • ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups
    The association representing 380,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and others associated with the music industry has begun a fund-raising campaign to stifle groups that support free culture and digital rights. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is urging the membership to ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Miley Cyrus "no underwear" photo is fake, blogger ...
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton on Tuesday sought to defuse a media furor he created by posting a picture on his Twitter account that seemed to suggest teen pop star Miley Cyrus had been photographed without wearing underwear.
  • World's biggest gold coin fetches over 3 million e ...
    VIENNA (Reuters Life!) - A Spanish precious metals trading company bought the world's largest gold coin for 3.27 million euros ($4.02 million), its exact material worth, from the estate of an insolvent investment firm at a rare auction in Vienna on Friday.
  • Obama calls for bank tax as next step in reform
    TORONTO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, fresh from a win on a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations, on Saturday urged Congress to take up his proposal for a $90 billion, 10-year tax on banks as the next step in reform.
  • Leaders play down austerity split on eve of G20
    HUNTSVILLE, Ontario (Reuters) - The world's richest economies, saddled with huge debts after spending their way out of the credit crisis, papered over differences on Friday on how to clean up their finances with minimal damage to growth.
  • Henry, Evra make case for defense after "fiasco"
    PARIS (Reuters) - France's Thierry Henry and Patrice Evra admitted on Friday that Les Bleus' World Cup had been a "fiasco on the field" but insisted that the team stayed united off the field until the end of their disastrous campaign.

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After Downing Street.org

  • Speaker Pelosi, War Funding Next Week is No "Emerg ...
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is committed to passing an emergency war supplemental before the July Fourth recess, Roll Call reports. Let us be perfectly clear, as President Obama might say. There is no "emergency" requiring the House to throw another $33 billion into our increasingly bloody a ...
  • BP Gets an Earful from Baltimore Protesters
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  • No Shelter from the Storm
    No Shelter from the Storm by Missy Comley Beattie I was running through my sister's neighborhood in KY and saw that “Support the Troops They Want Victory You Should, Too” sign in a yard.  For a long time, after my nephew Chase was killed in Iraq,  my sister had a large board, propped against a tree ...
  • Iraq, Afghanistan: American Casualties Total 500,0 ...
    Iraq, Afghanistan: American casualties total 500,000, counting injury and disease, writer claims | LA Times Here's an eye-popping number: A blogger and writer claims American military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan now exceed 500,000. That's if you count certain injuries and diseases including ...
  • Should Judge Feldman Be Impeached
    Should Judge Feldman Be Impeached? Controversial decision to block deep water drilling moratorium marred by conflict-of-interest By Brad Friedman | Brad Blog U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman , a 1983 Reagan appointee to the federal bench, issued what, on its face, would have to be regarded ...

Grist - News

  • Nearly a fifth of American women skip childbearing
    by Lisa Hymas. Almost 20 percent of American women end up going childfree, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center .  In 2008, 18 percent of women reached ages 40 to 44 without having borne a child, compared to just 10 percent in 1976. "The fact that nearly one of five women does no ...
  • San Diego utility charges ahead with electric-car ...
    by Todd Woody. With the first mass-market electric cars set to hit California roads later this year, the state's utilities have been working to ensure that early adopters -- who tend to be clustered in places like Berkeley and Santa Monica -- don't overload neighborhood transformers and trigge ...
  • ‘Hands Across the Sand’ could be large ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Saturday could bring the biggest public demonstration yet about the Gulf oil gusher, when Hands Across the Sand gathers people on beaches around the world at noon to hold hands in support of coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife, and fishing industries. Organized by sur ...
  • Oil spill clean-up in Gulf of Mexico faces rough w ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- High seas and rough winds were forecast Friday for the Gulf of Mexico, posing a new threat as oil from the massive BP spill slopped ashore in Florida, closing down popular beaches at the height of the summer tourist season. "This will be the first t ...
  • MMS gets a makeover, smell lingers
    by Randy Rieland. It's a classic Washington paint job: new name, new leader, new promises about tossing bad apples. And so Minerals Management Services, the Interior Department agency that's become the poster child of government corruption and ineptitude has been disappeared. We now have the B ...

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Washington Independent

  • Stabenow, Brown Lash Out at Republicans for Killin ...
    Earlier today, I participated in a reportersâ call with Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), regarding the collapse of the jobs bill, also known as the extenders package or H.R. 4213, yesterday. They lashed out at Republicans and made the case for the stimulative effect of u ...
  • Texas GOP Unveils Brand New, Far-Right Platform
    The Texas Republican Party unveiled its new platform today and it contains some very far-right provisions, to say the least. Media Matters has the full details, but here are some of the more noteworthy measures: We oppose the legalization of sodomy. We demand that Congress exercise its authority gr ...
  • Will Scars of the Texas Republican Governor’ ...
    It has been close to four months since Gov. Rick Perry soundly defeated Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for renomination in the Texas Republican gubernatorial primary. When the two appeared together June 11 — the first time since the primary — The Dallas Morning News noted that “You could almost hear t ...
  • High Unemployment isn’t a Big Concern for Co ...
    Writing at Slate, Daniel Gross wonders why Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn’t seem to care much about high unemployment: In a speech earlier this month, Bernanke noted that “in all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly 8-1/2 million jobs that were lost natio ...
  • Snowe: Pass UI Extension Separately
    Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) today is pushing for the Senate to pass a separate provision authorizing the extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits: The hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans who are losing jobless benefits every week deserve our immediate attention, so I am writin ...

Digg Green

  • Burning Tap Water: GASLAND Exposes the Natural Gas ...
    In 2008, Josh Fox received a letter from a natural gas company. They were interested in leasing land owned by his family to do natural gas drilling. The offer was for $100,000, but instead of taking the money, Josh decided to do some research on the natural gas industry and ended up making a documen ...
  • 7 Green Things Our Grandparents Did on a Budget
    Their carbon footprint was uber-small — they used less water, less fuel, created less waste and imported fewer goods than we do. Our grandparents (or great-grandparents) — children of the Great Depression — could teach us a thing or two about going green on a budget.
  • Kids in Florida Play in Oil Covered Beach
    Little girl screams "Mommy get the oil off of me!". Thanks BP!
  • WTF?! Big Oil about to get $31 billion from US tax ...
    Everyone who thinks Big Oil should get $31 billion from U.S. taxpayers, please sign on the dotted line. That’s the message of a new ad running today in Congress Daily sponsored by NRDC, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Friends of the Earth and the Clean Air Task Force.
  • Hurricane? WTF? Tropical system could intensifyIn ...
    A tropical disturbance that has dumped heavy rain on parts of the Caribbean has a medium chance of forming into a much stronger storm and could head into the oil-tainted Gulf of Mexico by next week.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – If you want what visible ...
    If you want what visible reality can give, you’re an employee. If you want the unseen world, you’re not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. Rumi
  • Chain the Exit Doors, the Party is about to Begin
    By Les Visible Well, the party, hosted by Pinhead and the Cenobites begins today. Hereâs a lively dissertation from someone with some ‘interesting’ influences but⦠then again one should keep in mind this from Zaikis who says âFirst of all, can astrologers finally update themselves to where the ...
  • Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewal ...
  • The Real, Encased in Light, Encased in Light
    By Les Visible Let’s reduce everything to a single compelling fact. Even if it’s not a fact for you, it is a fact for me and those others who need no further convincing. The divine ineffable is real. It is more real than anything else. One might say it is a light of such brilliance [...]
  • Obama Administration Knew About Deepwater Horizon ...
    Wayne Madsen – Oil Price.com June 22, 2010 President Obama and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were informed that BP would drill an unprecedented 35,000 feet well bore at the Macondo site off the coast of Louisiana. In September 2 ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Dances with the Moon: Watch out Moon, They Might b ...
    Water Found on Moon, Researchers Say Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow the Dances with the Moon series here. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Does Oil Clot? Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Related posts: Dances with the ...
  • 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
  • Photo Sunday – Tahiti and Polynesia
    Tahiti is a beautiful paradise of lush jungles, sandy beaches, ancient culture and wonderful festivals. Related posts: Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Coral Seas Photo Sunday – The Great Barrier Reef

Inhabitat

  • GIVEAWAY: Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth ...
    WIN THIS AWESOME NEW IPAD! What better way to spend the summer than lounging poolside with a brand new iPad and an ice-cold drink? One lucky Inhabitant will soon be calling themselves the proud owner of a brand new iPad and awesome bamboo sketchbook-style DODOcase (worth $549)! One of the coolest a ...
  • 5 Great Tips on How to Win Over an Eco-Blogger
    In light of increased environmental, health and lifestyle awareness around the world, it’s not surprising that green cache can be a key factor in boosting a brand’s reputation and consumer reach. So how do you effectively market a green product in this day and age? Well, considering there are over 1 ...
  • Incredible Breathing “Necklace” Filters CO2 and St ...
    We’ve seen numerous endeavors undertaken by individuals, organizations and government bodies alike, each attempting to bring our world into a more sustainable state of being. But even with all these new initiatives, can we really trust that society is moving at a speed effectual enough to place us a ...
  • Protected: Materials SmackDown: What is Green Furn ...
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  • Week In Green Tech: Road to Tesla IPO, Brammo, & I ...
    And now, for the week in green technology from Earth2Tech! Will electric car company Tesla Motors see a powerhouse IPO when it debuts on the public markets next week or find itself as road kill? For the latest episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive, we test drive Brammo’s all-electric motorcycle ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Sperm Whale Voices Are Personal
    A new technique for deciphering the calls of sperm whales allows the magnificent, mysterious creatures to be studied in unprecedented detail. Researchers identified subtle variations caused by differences in the shape of individual whales’ heads. It’s the first time that sperm whale vocalizations h ...
  • Giant, Tilted Exoplanets Like It Hot
    Giant planets with wonky orbits mostly circle blistering-hot stars, two new studies find. This pattern could explain why some “hot Jupiters” — planets from a third to 12 times the mass of Jupiter that sit scorchingly close to their stars — orbit the way their star spins, while others tilt so far th ...
  • Sense of Touch Shapes Snap Judgments
    Sitting in a hard chair can literally turn someone into a hardass. Holding a heavy clipboard leads to weighty decisions. Rubbing rough surfaces makes us prickly. So found researchers studying the interaction between physical touch and social cognition. The experiments included would-be car buyers w ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Rearranging the Deck Chairs in Afghanistan
    The firing of McChrystal is worrying because it is symbolic rather than substantive: it symbolizes a change in military leadership but not a change in policy. For supporters of the move, Obama's decision to sack McChrystal -- in response to a now famous article in Rolling Stone magazine -- was an im ...
  • Maliki Forced To Respond To Public Protests Over L ...
    At the end of April 2010 Iraq’s Electricity Ministry announced that despite its plans to install new power plants across the country, there would be an electricity shortage this summer. The public finally grew tired of these types of statements, and took to the streets in several urban centers in Ir ...
  • Judging the Millennium Villages Project
    I attended a presentation on Capitol Hill yesterday on the Millennium Villages Project, which is an experiment in international development championed by the economist Jeffrey Sachs.  The idea was basically this: provide across the board health, education, economic development, and infrastructure s ...
  • Global Boiling: June Brings Climate Destruction Pr ...
    As the planet warms, the destructive changes predicted by scientists are coming to pass. As in previous months, this June has seen records fall, people die, and infrastructure destroyed from the terrible power of our planet’s climatic system, fueled by increasing heat trapped by invisible greenhouse ...
  • Scratching the Surface of Radicalism
    On Monday Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, announced the launch of a new counter-terrorism initiative , a hotline for members of radical Islamists groups to call where they can get advice for leaving the group. The idea, based on long ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Real Men Run for President.
    Bruce Bartlett takes us on a trip down memory lane, to a time when Republican presidents were capable of making budget deals that actually reduced the deficit. Of course, Bush �'41 paid a price for this apostasy: a new generation of Republicans who continue to subscribe to the idea that raising tax ...
  • Jobs Bill Killed Again.
    Even though the conference committee �passed a pretty decent financial reform bill this morning, which will likely be law by July 4, yesterday also had some bad news: The tax extenders bill failed , which means aid to state governments, unemployment benefits, and investments in small business and in ...
  • Toilet Training.
    Dave Weigel is leaving The Washington Post over private e-mails mocking conservative figures. I find it really extraordinary that a news organization would let such a talented reporter go not because of any kind of professional misconduct but because someone leaked private correspondence in a delibe ...
  • The Silver Lining Behind Immigration Reform's Fail ...
    Despite the outcry over Arizona's immigration-enforcement bill and mounting pressure from Hispanic groups, the lead immigration-reform advocate in the House, Rep. Luis Gutierrez , admitted yesterday that any immigration bill that includes a citizenship provision for the undocumented doesn't have the ...
  • Actively Wanting Parenthood.
    As my colleage Ann Friedman pointed out on Twitter, we see some version of this story every year. But the quest for male birth control is slow-moving and seems to not have the backing of men that would finally bring it to the United States. Encouraging men to think more actively about fertility wou ...

Andy Worthington

  • Amnesty International Blasts Obama for Delays and ...
    To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, I have an article published on Truthout (which I’ll be publishing here tomorrow) and have just posted an article featuring statements by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN experts, but in the meantime I thought this was a goo ...
  • UN Secretary-General and Torture Experts Issue Sta ...
    23 years ago, on June 26, 1987, the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment came into force, and since its 11th anniversary, on June 26, 1998, it has been commemorated as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. A long-cherished drea ...
  • The Torture of Abu Zubaydah: The Complaint Filed A ...
    To complement my recent article, “Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell,” analyzing the complaint filed with the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists regarding ethical violations by Dr. James Elmer Mitchell, one of the architects of the Bush administration’s t ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Pictures: Gulf Oil Coats Popular Florida Beach
    NoneThick pools of oil washed ashore on Pensacola Beach Wednesday, prompting officials to close a stretch of the famous white sands, according to news reports. Florida - Pensacola Beach Florida - United States - Metro Areas - Pensacola Metro
  • Pictures: Butterfly Wing Colors Imaged in 3-D
    NoneThe crystals that give butterfly wings their vibrant colors have been revealed in 3-D for the first time, a new study says. Shopping - Butterfly - Insect - Butterflies - Biology
  • Big Cats Wild for Calvin Klein Cologne?
    Bronx Zoo cheetahs are attracted to Calvin Klein's "Obsession for Men," which scientists have tested to lure wild big cats close to camera traps. Video. Calvin Klein - Bronx Zoo - Big cat - Cryptozoology - Anomalies and Alternative Science
  • 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

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  • 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.

  • Nashville Police Prioritize Traffic Tickets Over T ...
    Earlier this week, The Tennessean put out a piece on the massive number of domestic violence cases dismissed by the Nashville police department. The silver lining: the article demonstrates the important work of local journalists. Otherwise, it’s a pretty devastating report on how a police depart ...
  • Stephen Colbert and Immigrant Farm Workers Challen ...
    We all know from tuning into rabid screaming matches/informative programs like  Fox News that there is a huge influx of immigrants coming over for the sole purpose of stealing jobs, driving up unemployment rates, and eating the children of hardworking Americans. Luckily, immigrant workers who spend ...
  • Facebook Campaign Sparks Action in Memory of Buddy
    I'm sure we all know of a dog called "Buddy" — in fact it was the #1 name for a dog on Petfinder.com in 2009 — but there's one Buddy will be remembered for more than just a name. On December 30th 2009, a German Shepherd/Heeler mix named Buddy was dragged to his death at the Colorado National Monumen ...
  • Oil Spill's First Human Casualty Speaks to Broader ...
    An endless oil spill is not the way we should be creating jobs in this struggling economy. Yet for so many out-of-work Gulf fisherman, shrimpers and rig workers, this is what it's come down to. More and more, we're finding out what a dirty and hazardous job being a spill cleanup worker really is: i ...
  • Smaller Schools Could Close the Achievement Gap fo ...
    According to a new study from nonprofit research group MDRC, the key to improving education (and, one could infer, life outcomes) for disadvantage students may be to close all the large, failing public high schools in the country and replace them with a large number of smaller schools. The study is ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Massive Rally Calls on G20 to Put People Ahead of ...
    TORONTO - - Ten thousand people marched against the G20 summit Saturday to protest for jobs and social causes, in a largely peacefully rally that saw nevertheless saw outbreaks of violence on its fringes. While the main body of the march was a well-marshaled event, led by older activists and organiz ...
  • Tropical Storm Alex Threatens More U.S. Oil Spill ...
    by Ernest Scheyder GRAND ISLE, Louisiana - The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season threatened on Saturday to veer toward the Gulf of Mexico within days, posing a new threat to containment and cleanup of the worst U.S. oil spill in history. Tropical Storm Alex does not currently threat ...
  • Little Spent on Oil Spill Cleanup Technology
    by Phuong Le and John Flesher ON BARATARIA BAY, La. -- While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Me ...
  • Time to Give Wall Street the Axe, Say Progressive ...
    by Bankole Thompson DETROIT - As heads of state from the Group of 20 (G20) most developed and economically powerful emerging nations meet in Toronto, Canada this weekend, some activists at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit are urging a more realistic look at the roots of the global economic crisis - ...
  • Native Activist Takes Oil Sands Protest to Toronto
    by Antonia Zerbisias Clayton Thomas-Muller, a 34-year-old Cree activist who works for indigenous rights and environmental justice, says Alberta’s oil sands patch is killing native communities — culturally and literally. In town for Friday night’s G20-related Shout Out for Global Justice at Massey ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    VLC 1.1 Brings Hardware Acceleration and Lighter Operation to Media Playing (All Platforms) VLC, our favorite plays-it-all download, has rolled out its official 1.1 release, cementing the hardware video acceleration for smoother HD playing, bundling support for the open WebM video ...
  • 7LogonChanger Sets Picasa and Flickr Pictures as W ...
    Windows 7 only: 7LogonChanger browses and sets selected Flickr and Picasa photos as your wallpaper or Windows 7 login screen easily. More�� Windows 7 - Microsoft Windows - Operating system - Flickr - Utilities
  • ICANN Approves .XXX Porn Domain [Internet]
    A new top-level porn domain, XXX (e.g., http://pornexample.xxx), was approved today by ICANN, the non-profit organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and approval of new top-level domains like .com, .org, and so on. This doesn't mean that all porn sites w ...
  • Pack a Shower Curtain Liner for Clean and Dry Picn ...
    Even on a beautiful, sunny day the ground can be surprisingly wet. Pack a shower curtain liner in your basket for a dry time at your picnic, concert in the park, or anywhere you throw your picnic blanket. More�� Bathro ...
  • How to Downgrade Your iPhone 3G from iOS 4 to i ...
    A lot of iPhone 3G owners—myself included—have discovered that upgrading to iOS 4 has slowed their devices to a crawl . If you decide the new features and shortcuts just aren't worth the glacial performance, here's how to downgrade your iDevic ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • US Finally Wearies Of Afghan War
    By Steve Hynd The CSM says Americans are finally realising that Obama's occupation of Afghanistan is a quagmire. Most Americans agree with Obama that McChrystal had to go, polls show. But they’re far less supportive of the conflict itself, weary of what’s become the longest war in US history. A rece ...
  • America And Its Arrogant Generals
    By Steve Hynd Be sure to read Andrew Bacevich in the Washinton Post today. He claims, with good reason, that the kind of arrogance General McChrystal and his "Team America" exhibited in that Rolling Stone interview is endemic to the U.S. officer corps and that the American people's overall disengage ...
  • The Truth Is At Least Five More Years In Afghanist ...
    By Steve Hynd Following up on Dave's post yesterday in which he noted UK prime minister David Cameron's call for getting British troops out of Afghanistan by 2015, here's the G8 group of nations issuing a statement backing that timeline. Afghan government forces must make concrete progress towards a ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Forsyth Tea Party Wooed by Underdogs
    Only two of six Republican gubernatorial candidates took part in a debate organized by the Forsyth County Tea Party on Saturday morning.
  • Sanford speaks of wins, losses
    S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford spoke Friday about some of his legislative wins and losses, saying he'll be busy from now until January working on next year's budget, but also saying good-bye and thank you.
  • 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.
  • Bay City gearing up for busy weekend
    Bay City is gearing up for a busy weekend on the riverfront.
  • No fireworks is only rumor chairman says, but more ...
    ROGERSVILLE Its been a tough fundraising year for the Rogersville 4th of July Committee. While all the music, games, swimming, and other entertainment is free to the public, the event doesnt come without costs to planners.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Blindsight’s origins uncovered
    No, not the (excellent) Peter Watts novel… but the neurological phenomenon for which it is named. Ars Technica boils down a new paper published in Nature: The authors worked with two macaques that have small lesions in their primary visual cortexes, which leave them unable to respond to visual cues ...
  • Laboratory lungs are go
    Almost exactly a year back, we mentioned that biologists were looking into the possibility of growing simulated lungs to use instead of rats for toxicology testing procedures. Today, The Guardian reports that working prototypes of these cheap and ethical lung analogues are well in hand. (Warning: ar ...
  • Slush fatigue: the flip-side of easy self-publishi ...
    Via Eric Gregory (who got it from ElectricLit), here’s a counterpoint to Nathan Bransford’s prediction of the happy demise of the rejection letter: Laura Miller at Salon isn’t quite so sure that the imminent ‘golden age’ of self-publishing will be a great thing. For a start, she too has met the slus ...
  • Blindsight’s origins uncovered
    No, not the (excellent) Peter Watts novel… but the neurological phenomenon for which it is named. Ars Technica boils down a new paper published in Nature: The authors worked with two macaques that have small lesions in their primary visual cortexes, which leave them unable to respond to visual cues ...
  • Laboratory lungs are go
    Almost exactly a year back, we mentioned that biologists were looking into the possibility of growing simulated lungs to use instead of rats for toxicology testing procedures. Today, The Guardian reports that working prototypes of these cheap and ethical lung analogues are well in hand. (Warning: ar ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Solicitor of Labor Patricia Smith speaks about pol ...
    Patricia Smith (pictured at the podium) is now finally confirmed as the Solicitor of Labor, the official legal counsel for the U.S. Department of Labor. On June 25, 2010, she spoke to the annual convention of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). "Labor rights are civil rights," Smith ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Copyright And The First Amendment: Lack Of Satire ...
    As has been discussed many times in the past, the courts have dealt with the inherent conflict between copyright law and the First Amendment by saying that the two "safety valves" of "fair use" and "the idea/expression dichotomy" helped make sure that speech was not really stifled under copyright la ...
  • A Timeline Of How The Entertainment Industry Made ...
    A bunch of folks have sent over the various stories about how Paramount's COO, Fred Huntsberry, recently started claiming that the "new piracy threat" facing Hollywood is "digital lockers." The whole article is a bit silly in a variety of ways, not the least of which is that it's an implicit admiss ...
  • A Week After Feds Approve Movie Derivatives Market ...
    Over the last few years, a few companies have been trying to set up financial markets for buying and selling movie derivatives . Effectively, it was a way to financially bet on the performance of certain movies -- whether long or short. There are all sorts of markets like this, and it's difficult ...
  • Once Again, Bank ATMs Are Not Very Secure
    A few years ago, we discussed how bank ATM's just aren't very secure , despite the belief by many that they were. That discussion revolved around the fact that many people often compare bank ATMs to e-voting (in part because Diebold was a big player in both businesses). It looks like more and more ...
  • The Oscars vs. GoDaddy
    The Motion Picture Academy is somewhat infamous for its over-aggressive IP claims around the "Oscar" awards. It's even sued a blog that was helping to promote the event. Apparently, just suing one website wasn't enough, so back in May it sued domain registrar GoDaddy for allowing a bunch of domain ...

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

  • Amazing Little Ladybugs (PICS)
    Photo by little pixie Nature just continues to impress me. Here I thought ladybugs were only available in red but they come in an assortment of colors-- pink , yellow and white just to name a few!
  • Hands in the Sand: A Volunteer's (Silly yet Satisf ...
    Participants get painted for their debut in the sand. Image credit: Jess Root As Matt put it, today's Hands in the Sand event was a refreshing take action way of channeling all the BP hate and directing it toward something positive. A global cry for clean energy, clean beaches and a clean plane ...
  • A Picture Is Worth...Toronto Preparing For A Riot ...
    I find this picture in BlogTO by Ronnie Yip to be extraordinary; The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty , a well-known group of rabble-rousers is preparing to march, and the police are out in force. But unlike the Battle of Seattle , the police are out to meet them, not in head-to-t... Read the ...
  • New, Green Museum of Tomorrow in Rio Unveiled
    Image Credit: Inhabitat Rio has been going through a bit of a rough patch lately- it's been set on fire by a hot air balloon and hit hard by deadly torrential rains . But the city is far from beat: a key player in
  • Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Oil Spill Gaffes (Video ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • A few questions for President Obama
    President Obama sounds like an anti-business Community Organizer in Chief: pointing fingers, making baseless claims about ending our “addiction to oil,â€Â and leaving no crisis unexploited. His June 15 “visionâ€Â raised more questions than it answered.
  • 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.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

  • Gen-M "Generation Monsanto" - Why We Need Labels o ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Video: Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    CNN's news clip of 'Garbage Island', a floating garbage island that is twice the size of Texas. Watch this video and see why it matters to you. Click here to read this article
  • United Farm Workers Encourage Americans To 'Take O ...
    One of the most widely repeated claims against enacting immigration reform is the argument that immigrants take jobs from American workers. Today, in response, the United Farm Workers (UFW) launched a new “Take Our Jobs” campaign. The UFW is inviting American citizens and legal residents to fill the ...
  • Acid Rain is Back, and Thanks to Farming, Worse th ...
    Policy makers, environmentalists -- even Republicans -- like to congratulate themselves on the "victory" over acid rain. As this American success story is usually told, acid rain's effects were addressed by a 1990 update to the Clean Air Act that created a cap-and-trade system focused on sulfur diox ...
  • Scientists Try to Find Benefits, Risks of Nanopart ...
    Duluth, Minn. - Nanoparticles, the nearly invisible high-tech building blocks that could open new ways to generate energy, treat disease and clean up pollution, are also under laboratory scrutiny for a different reason - to find out whether they are novel pollutants in their own right. Click here t ...

fotoFrontera

  • 500 fotos lindas y románticas para tu Meme en Yaho ...
    Durante varios días me preguntaba a mi mismo dónde encontraban esas fotografías tan lindas y románticas los usuarios de Yahoo Meme . Y fue exactamente ayer que descubrí a FlickRiver . Un extraordinario almacén de imágenes que usted podrá compartir en su Meme de Yahoo o en cualquier otra red social c ...
  • Cada día, te muestro algo nuevo. ¿Lo sabías?
    Nuevamente y de la mano de Live Journal y el usuario ' Everyday I show ', traemos para ustedes una hermosa colección de fotografías en blanco y negro que seguramente le harán recordar viejos tiempos. Esa etapa que para algunos de nosotros, conserva un enorme valor artístico, cultural e histórico. No ...
  • Desde el Reino Unido, les presento a Nick Brandt.. ...
    Desde el Reino Unido, le traemos para usted en exclusiva la bellisísima colección fotográfica de Joseph Cartright . Un genio de la lente que gracias a su visita por África logró escribir su primer libro titulado ' On This Earth '. Descubra sus obras y viaje con él a través del arte, la magia y la cr ...
  • Joseph Cartright y su portafolio dedicado a la mod ...
    Joseph Cartright , es un excelente creativo que a través del tiempo, ha logrado conjugar diferentes temáticas para fusionarlas creando sin darse cuenta, una extensa colección de imágenes diferentes y muy bonitas. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte I (20 lugares sugeridos)
    Algunas personas ya están de vacaciones y otras empiezan a prepararse para descansar un poco de la rutina diaria. Para todos ellos, aquí les tengo 20 fotografías de playas paradisiacas que seguro le darán ideas más claras sobre qué lugar o lugares podrían visitar. Las aguas azules y cristalinas de e ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Reading a Couple of Books on Legal History, and a ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Flying around on various airplanes, I’ve been reading a couple of books on topics in legal history that I’ve found enjoyable and intellectually profitable.  One is Stephen Neff’s Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War. I have benefitted ...
  • Morrison and Extraterritoriality: More Thoughts
    by Austen Parrish by Austen Parrish [Austen Parrish is a Professor of Law and Vice Dean at Southwestern Law School.  His scholarship focuses on extraterritoriality and the uses of domestic law and courts to resolve transboundary challenges.] The decision is yet a day old, and already much has bee ...
  • Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Ban on Teaching Int ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford That’s a remarkable statement, but it actually is true. Yesterday the Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project addressed the question of whether a federal statute criminalizing the provision of “material support” to terrorist organizations was constitut ...
  • Justice Department Comings and Goings
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein The Times and others are reporting that current Acting Head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice, David Barron, will be leaving his post this summer to head back to his professorship at Harvard Law School. (OLC rose to nati ...
  • Naval War College Conference
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I’m on radio silence, as I’m at the Naval War College conference on international law, which is where all the cool people are this week … odd, though, I seem to be the only OJ blogger here!  Could it be that I am the only cool OJ … no, no! Seriously, thoug ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

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

  • 35th Anniversary of the Firefight: Statement by Le ...
    35th Anniversary of the Firefight: Statement by Leonard Peltier June 26, 2010 Greetings, I want to first say thank you—thank you for taking the time and making the commitment to come to this place—but thank you mostly for remembering. Sometimes I sit in this cage and I find myself wondering if ...
  • Indigenous Leader Art Manuel: "Indigenous People A ...
    Indigenous Leader Art Manuel: "Indigenous People Are the First Ones Impacted" by Western-Driven Resource Extraction -Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: I’m joined here in Toronto by Arthur Manuel. He is the former chief of the Neskonlith Band in British Columbia and spokesperson for the Indigenous Network ...
  • South Africa: Another Side to the World Cup
    allAfrica.com: South Africa: Another Side to the World Cup The World Cup has been touted as one of the greatest achievements in South Africa since the end of apartheid. In reality, it has brought into sharp focus glaring divisions. Let me make it clear that I am not against football or any form of ...
  • REST IN UHURU-MAMA NJHERI ALGHANEE (N'COBRA)
    REST IN UHURU-MAMA NJHERI ALGHANEE (N'COBRA) - FTP MOVEMENT : "WE RECEIVED THE SAD NEWS THAT OUR WARRIOR SISTER WAS KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT. WE SEND OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY. REST IN UHURU MAMA NJHERI-NATIONAL CO-CHAIR OF N'COBRA, ONE OF THE VOICES OF 'WHAT GOOD IS A SONG' ON WRFG ( ...
  • U.S. State Department pays Blackwater company thug ...
    U.S. State Department pays Blackwater company thugs millions in Afghanistan while Afghan teachers starve :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de] : $120 million security contract to guard 2 US consulates equals 133,000 teacher salaries in Afg ...

Pensieve

  • Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
    Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...
  • Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
    The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
  • False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
    To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
  • Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
    Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...
  • Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
    A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...

Green Times

  • Movie Review: Colony
    Dramatically declining bee colonies and dark implications for the future in a beautifully photographed movie: read our review
  • Environmental News -11/06/10
    Environmental News World at risk of "red card" over climate: de Boer Climate negotiators gave a standing ovation to the outgoing head of the U.N. climate change secretariat Wednesday even after he told them they would be at risk of a red card in a soccer match for wasting time. Dutchman ...
  • Environmental Sculpture on Show
    Reflecting on one of the most pressing global issues of this century – it will be a showcase of art with a message: artsCape 2010
  • 10 Ways to Celebrate World Environment Day
    Celebrate World Environment Day on 5 June 2010 - Many Species. One Planet. One Future… Join in and make a difference!
  • Environmental News -04/06/10
    Environmental News ‘Citizen scientists’ can aid biodiversity research Getting a true picture of biodiversity changes in the future may depend on scientists gaining access to the records of ‘citizen scientists’ around the world, according to a paper in the scientific journal PLoS Biology ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records
    ShareThis Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records 25 Jun 2010 Gov. Bobby Jindal [R-Dirtbag] rejected a bill Friday that would have required him to make public and to preserve all his office's documents involving the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. "This governor has opposed transparency for the th ...
  • G20 demonstrations turn violent
    ShareThis G20 demonstrations turn violent 26 Jun 2010 Demonstrations have turned violent at the G20 summit in Toronto, where world leaders are convening to discuss ways to end the global financial crisis. A number of demonstrators clashed with police while chanting 'resist, resist, raise up your fis ...
  • Report: Israel seizes oxygen machines donated to P ...
    ShareThis Report: Israel seizes oxygen machines donated to PA 26 Jun 2010 Israel confiscated seven oxygen machines en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza based on the claim that there was a chance the generators attached to the machines would not be used for medical purposes [?!?], Palestin ...
  • Iraq's Ancient Ruins Face New Looting
    ShareThis Iraq's Ancient Ruins Face New Looting 26 Jun 2010 The looting of Iraq’s ancient ruins is thriving again. This time it is not a result of the “stuff happens” chaos that followed the American invasion in 2003, but rather the bureaucratic indifference of Iraq’s newly sovereign government US-i ...
  • Hurricane season triggers planning to evacuate oil ...
    ShareThis Hurricane season triggers planning to evacuate oil spill site 27 Jun 2010 Meteorologists say Tropical Storm Alex, which is brewing in the western Caribbean, is not on pace to hit the oil well, but it has prompted the team overseeing the spill site to heighten emergency planning. If a storm ...

Daily Loaf

  • Price is right, Rays take advantage of free bases, ...
    David Proce strikes out 11 batters and the Rays score runs from walks and hit batters, defeating Arizona.
  • Gay after marriage: A bisexual woman figures out h ...
    What do you do when you discover you're gay after you're already married? I suppose a lot of spouses trip over themselves as they run to find a lawyer. I suppose others cry or yell or throw things. I suppose still more sprout feathers and thrust their heads into the sand. But not my husband. Actua ...
  • New iPhone 4! Now with reduced cell reception!
    Don't touch me that way, says iPhone 4 to new users.
  • St. Pete Pride: Hot day, warm vibe, cool families
    The weather was H-O-T, the vibe was warm and a tribe of very cool people greeted Creative Loafing as we marched and passed out papers during the St. Pete Pride Promenade (accompanied by the Chelsea Nightclub fire truck) and took family photos at our booth.
  • Hear Mastodon’s contribution to the Jonah Hex soun ...
    Head over to Stereogum to get a listen of Mastodon’s “Indian Theme” from the score to Jonah Hex.  It’s a great, doomy, Mastodon-y Mastodon instrumental number, but I can’t help but think the recording sounds a little flat and reserved. Maybe this was intentional? So as not to drown out all the h ...

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

  • Belgium police raid Catholic offices on sex crimes
    The Vatican is deeply distressedby those in their Belgium offices being treated like common criminals. Oh, wait…
  • Who is left-wing, and who just thinks they are?
    A University of Leicester study in 84 countries of 280,000 individuals concluded “the more educated on average believe themselves to be more left wing than their actual beliefs on a substantive issue might suggest.” The report didn’t mention this, but is the corollary true? Do the less-educated see ...
  • Good morning!
    Three banks failed yesterday Romania is having a full-tilt financial crisis The financial reform bill isn’t. And the Gulf might get a hurricane. (What’s that you say, you’re going back to bed…)
  • Green Party National Meeting
    The Green Party has come through a serious bad patch and may be poised to become a major third party force again. I was Co-coordinator of the Green Party of Los Angeles County from 2001-2002. It was an extremely dysfunctional time for the GP, now apparently over and ancient history. Good. Their Nati ...
  • How Facebook works
    Pingdom has a fascinating, detailed article on the software Facebook uses to run what is now the world’s largest website, much of which is open source. How big is Facebook? They have half a billion active users, serve 570 billion page views a month, and over 1.2 million images a second.

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

  • Ireland’s Holocaust
    Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Obama Strategy for G-20 in Ottawa: Push Euro Down, ...
    Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • ‘Israel to take over Lebanon gas by force&#8 ...
    Israel has threatened to use military force to take the full control of a newly-discovered gas field partly in Lebanese waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Israel’s Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau made the remarks after Beirut announced that parts of the giant reserves actually belong to Lebanon and ...
  • G-20: Obama Gives Press the Slip
    Just as he has done before when sneaking into the backdoor of Bilderberg 2008, Cousin Barry skirts off to meet the shadow masters.. By Elizabeth Williamson Holed up with seven other global leaders in the woods of Muskoka, Canada, President Barack Obama gave the White House press corps the slip last ...
  • Protesters Confront Toronto Riot Police Ahead of G ...
    Jim Randle | Toronto A protester with a bandana over her face confronts a riot police line-up on Bay Street during demonstrations at the G8 and G20 Summits, Saturday, June 26, 2010 in Toronto. Protesters in Toronto set fire to some police cars during a noisy march near the site of the G-20 summit Sa ...

The Air Vent

  • 2010 American Solar Challenge
    The 2010 American solar challenge just drove past my house.  A 2500 mile, multi-leg race for solar powered cars.  Back in college my alma-mater, WMU, was participating in this race.  It’s good to see them still at it.   The race is a 100% solar powered car, our school as usual is far less funde ...
  • Real Science
    One of the biggest problems with my personality is that once I’ve figured something out, it’s no longer fun.  I don’t really care after that and begin looking for something new. Still though, the fact that the uninformed can claim to have informed opinions with little supporting knowledge drives me ...
  • 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 [.. ...

Focal Point

  • Familiarity Breeds Contempt: WaPo's Dave Weigel Re ...
    My friend and former colleague Dave Weigel resigned from the Washington Post after someone leaked emails he sent to a private listserv. Until today, Weigel wrote a popular and well-respected blog about conservative movement. It all came crashing down because some hater leaked a few curmudgeonly rema ...
  • Boat Captain: BP Burning Sea Turtles Alive
    Captain Mike Ellis of Venice, Louisana describes how BP is incinerating endangered sea turtles in its attempt to burn off spilled oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico near the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon. The turtles are getting trapped by boats towing huge flame-resistant booms. Ellis says that B ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Foursquare, Development, Buddy M ...
    Foursquareâs $80M Funding Deal, No Facebook Deal – Along with previous reports in a similar vein, AllThingsD reports that Facebook was very close to buying location-based check-in game Foursquare; instead, the startup is about to close an $80 million round from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Zu ...
  • Facebook Graphs Show Relative Frequency of World C ...
    Graphs displaying the prevalence of World Cup-related keywords in status updates have been posted by Facebook’s own Page to a photo album called Heartbeat of the World Cup. While the charts are entertaining, the lack of a Y-axis detailing the actual volume of status messages featuring a keyword limi ...
  • Statistics Update Reveals that More Than One Milli ...
    Facebook recently updated its official company Statistics page with some new data points about how people are using the service. The single biggest update is that the company now says that more than one million web sites have integrated with its developer platform, whether via its new social plugins ...
  • Facebook Jersey Personalization App Scores Million ...
    Big squads of social game developers are battling for World Cup fans on Facebook, but we’ve seen less action among non-gaming developers. 4bit Social Solution out of Istanbul, Turkey is the exception. It has created a very simple app, fittingly called 2010 World Cup Jersey, that lets users pick digi ...
  • Facebook Turns on PayPal for Ad Payments
    Back in February, as speculation built over how Facebook was going to work with PayPal (or compete with it), the two companies announced a formal partnership. Facebook would provide PayPal as a payment option in its Credits virtual currency, and it would do the same for its performance advertising s ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Demolishing Israel's lies about Gaza Freedom Floti ...
    Please spare a few minutes to watch this three-part video – a recording of an interview with former US Marine Kenneth O'Keefe, to be broadcast on the BBC's "HARDtalk" programme on Monday 28 June 2010. Kenneth O'Keefe was one of the peace activists abroad the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship, Mavi Marma ...
  • Blockade “eased” as Gaza starves more slowly
    Jonathan Cook explains why Israel’s recent “easing” of the siege of Gaza – hailed by Israeli agent of influence and former British Prime Minister Anthony Blair as a sensible path to peace – is a ruse that will change virtually nothing for the ordinary people of Gaza.
  • Cultural roots of Zionist domination of UK and the ...
    Gilad Atzmon views the historical and cultural roots of Zionist domination of Western politics, especially in Britain and the United States, tracing the Israel stooges’ tools of choice – political donations, think tanks and media control – to the tales of the Book of Esther and Purim. ”If our media ...
  • 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."

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

  • BOCC JUNE 22, 2010 MEETING
    exclusive neighborhood of Citrus County - when it comes to how this neighborhood drives - the sky is the limit. when it come to the children of Citrus County in the public school system, their shelter does not seem to matter
  • 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!

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

  • Dave Weigel "Resignation" Aftermath, What the Wash ...
    The title of the latest blog post from the WAPO's Ombudsman Andrew Alexander reads; " Blogger loses job; Post loses standing among conservatives." Alexander makes an incorrect assumption that the Weigel incident caused the Post to lose standing among conservatives. He doesn't realize it ha ...
  • FNC's Cavuto Sends Another Progressive Into the Lo ...
    Here's a little secret, while most progressives will yell about Glenn Beck or Bill O' Reilly, the toughest interviewer on Fox News is Neil Cavuto. When a guest tries to give Cavuto a load of bull, he is expert showing them the flaws in their logic, making them look so silly that they often� crawl in ...
  • Palestinian TV Net Controlled by "Moderate" Fatah ...
    Probably the biggest lie told about the Middle East conflict is that Fatah, the political party/terrorist organization controlled by P.A. President Abbas is a moderate organization. There is only one difference between Hamas the terrorist group that control's Gaza, and Fatah,the terrorist group per ...
  • Will There Be An Environmental Moonbat Civil War ?
    There is a major spat brewing between two different wings (no pun intended) of the Environmental Moonbat Society.� On one side you have the Global Warming Cultists and in the other corner you have the group trying to save the birds. Wind energy is one of the main dreams of the global warming group ...
  • Don't Celebrate YET: The White House May Ignore Ne ...
    By Barry Rubin The American media is starting a campaign to promote the story that President Barack Obama will soon sign the toughest anti-Iran sanctions in history when the bill passed by Congress reaches his desk. In fact, the White House has already watered down the original legislation. ...

The Real Agenda

  • Alimentos y despoblación: El Monopolio de Monsanto ...
    Un monopolio es el control exclusivo de un bien o servicio que permite manipular los precios. Esto se logra a través de regulaciones gubernamentales utilizadas para imponer el monopolio. La manera de romper el monopolio es eliminar esas leyes. Esto es simple, pero no resulta fácil en el caso de Mons ...
  • Greece Selling Islands to “Save Its Economy& ...
    As any other consolidation scheme created by the bankers, the control and acquisition of Greek lands and resources is well on its way. Greece asked for financial aid to the very bankers it was in debt with. Now, as part of the deal, Greece is giving away its land. How much can an undeveloped isla ...
  • The 2000-Page Power Grab any Dictator Dreams About
    In the words of the very same legislators who created the new financial bill, 'No one will know until this is actually in place how it works'..., said Cristopher Dodd, democrat from Connecticut. The new bill gives sweeping powers to the president, whoever it is, to determine what is done with many ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • FIFA vuvuzela horns may prove to be thin-skinned A ...
    Gearing up for Saturday’s World Cup match between the USA and Ghana, media talking heads are already preparing US viewers for the home field advantage that will favor the remaining African team in contention. Convenient actually, because by chance our A-Team is booed in any arena it sets its invader ...
  • Cheech and Chong Concert “Get it Legal&#8221 ...
    Just a thought from the headline. You know how some people can get together and recite all the lines from say “Let’s Make a Dope Deal” or sing Black Lassie complete with the lead in of “thish is Horrendo Revolver doing an esposhe of the mushic indushtry’… word for word even though it never got [...]
  • Rancid Propaganda, from 68 years ago…
    But it illustrates the way “history” can be slanted, from very recent to a very distant lifetime ago or more… 1952 China Spy Mission goes wrong, shades of John Birch, etc.. The 4 CIA operatives, two of them the spies who were to be dropped into China, who survived, and their pilots, who did not, [.. ...
  • What you CAN do about the gulf oil spil
    We may be powerless to advise the experts or force the perps to walk the plank. And we are not to blame for the industrial orgy of consumerism foisted on our modern livestyles. But turning this around is up to us; not heading to the Gulf, or saving oiled birds. This disaster spills over our [...]
  • 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.

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Good Science and Demolition Theories, Indeed
    Mike King's May 13, 2007 article " Good Science and Demolition Theories " purports to demonstrate that conflating these terms regarding the WTC buildings on 9/11 is a tenuous exercise. King states: "There is... a crucial paper by Brent Blanchard on the Implosion World website at: http://www.implos ...
  • 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- ...

Fooducate

  • Are You the 1 in 10 that Consumes Sodium Moderatel ...
    Shocking or not, 90% of Americans consume sodium in amounts that are above their healthy daily limit. These finding were published earlier this week in the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Salt has become some pervasive in the average American’s food supply ...
  • From the Trenches: A Dietitan Talks
    We recently interviewed Karen Ansel, a New York based dietitian and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association about trends in the nutrition field. Today, more nutrition Q&A with Maya Nahra RD, LD, of Phoenix AZ. Maya practices holistic nutrition and is not an ADA spokesperson. (If these pos ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Film depicting Guarani plight wins prestigious awa ...
    The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Italian-Brazilian film ‘Birdwatchers’ , which highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil, has won the prestigious One World Media Award . The jury said that it was ‘unan ...
  • 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 ...

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 Housing Bubble Was Based On Fraud
    Once again: Recent filings by two Federal Home Loan Banks — in San Francisco and Seattle — offer an intriguing way to clear this high hurdle. Lawyers representing the banks, which bought mortgage securities, combed through the loan pools looking for discrepancies between actual loan characterist ...
  • The Court Eunuch Standard of Blogging Exposed by D ...
    As many may be aware, Dave Weigel, a reporter for the resigned after emails to a private listserv called Journolist were publicly released.  These are the things he wrote which cost him his job: ⢔This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional proble ...
  • The Court Eunuch Standard of Blogging Exposed by D ...
    As many may be aware, Dave Weigel, a reporter for the resigned after emails to a private listserv called Journolist were publicly released.  These are the things he wrote which cost him his job: ⢔This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional proble ...
  • 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.

Age of Autism

  • FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change
    Update from Theresa Wrangham, NVIC Executive Director I want to thank everyone on behalf of NVIC for their comments to this article. I would also like to lessen the confusion! We would certainly appreciate everyone sending in a letter with...
  • Osler's Web Update: Trine Tsouderos From Cupcake C ...
    Inside the Labyrinth: Osler's Web Updates WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE CHICAGO... Copyright (C) 2010, Hillary Johnson, All Rights Reserved; Permission to Excerpt Granted by Hillary Johnson June 8, 2010 Trine appears to have begun her transition to science reporter in 2008-2009....
  • June 26 Meet Callous Disregard Author Dr. Andrew W ...
    The Autism Society of Greater Phoenix and AZ ACT Today! present: A Parent's Day at the Ritz featuring Dr. Andrew Wakefield on June 26th at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 2401 East Camelback Road Phoenix, AZ 85016 (Learn more and register...
  • Olmsted on Autism: “Vaccinate, Baby, Vaccinate!”
    By Dan Olmsted Have the American people finally had it with “experts” telling them that things will be just fine? That oil wells won’t turn into gushers in the Gulf, that cars won’t suddenly become speeding bullets, that a deregulated...
  • Win The Autism Cookbook by Susan Delaine from Skyh ...
    Leave a comment to enter. Click HERE to purchase the book right now. Good luck! “THIS BOOK IS A WONDERFUL RESOURCE GUIDE WRITTEN TO HELP THOSE CHALLENGED WITH AUTISM.” —Fran Wenbert, CNC, CNHP, Natural Health Educator THE AUTISM COOKBOOK 101...

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

  • BP Bankruptcy Is Worst Nightmare for Obama: Commen ...
    Bloomberg-It would be a “horror,” a “disaster,” according to lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, who was appointed by President Barack Obama to administer BP Plc’s $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill. “That is not an option.” Feinberg was talking about a bankruptcy filing by BP in a ...
  • Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm’s oil rig ...
    Reuters – Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to U.S. company Helmerich and Payne, the latest takeover in a push to socialism as President Hugo Chavez struggles with lower oil output and a recession. A former soldier inspired by Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Chavez has made energy natio ...
  • Low-dose polio vaccine effective: study
    Reuters – Giving just one-fifth the usual dose of the polio vaccine may protect babies against the virus nearly as well as a full dose, as long as it is injected just beneath the skin, doctors reported on Wednesday. The findings could bring down the cost of immunization, an important consideration ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – US – C ...
    The Register – A controversial cybersecurity bill passed a key Senate committee on Thursday after backers made concessions aimed at blunting widespread criticism the measure would give the US president broad authority to shut down key parts of the internet. The bill, known as the Protecting Cyberspa ...
  • Supermarkets selling meat from animals fed GM crop ...
    Telegraph-Supermarkets across Britain are routinely selling food from animals reared on genetically modified crops without having to declare it on labelling, it can be disclosed. They have acknowledged that meat, fish, eggs and dairy products on their shelves could contain “indirect” GM ingredients. ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Hands reach across the sand in pro ...
    From Santa Monica to Pensacola Beach, Fla., to Washington, D.C., and even as far as London, protesters worried about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gathered to hold hands, in hundreds of Hands Across the Sand rallies. The...
  • Gulf oil spill: Tropical storm -- and the further ...
    Fishermen, deck hands and other workers who signed on to aid oil spill cleanup efforts out of Pensacola Shipyard Marina and Boatyard have yet another worry to deal with -- the possibility of a tropical storm. As they donned life...
  • Gulf oil spill: Well gushing after cap is removed ...
    The containment cap BP had placed over its blown-out well was removed by an undersea robot vehicle, and the oil company was working to place it again. U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, incident commander for the Deepwater Horizon disaster,...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP's well gushing at a higher rate
    BP's well appears to be gushing at a higher rate, and the cap containment system appears to be off. The oil company is not commenting. The feed from Skandi's ROV 2 shows a rapid and unabated stream of rusty-colored oil....
  • Gulf oil spill: BP payments for lost income to be ...
    Oil spill victims who receive BP payments for lost income will have to shell out money come tax time. Under current law, such payments will be taxed by the Internal Revenue Service, just as normal income is, according to a...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

spiked

  • Down with the doom-mongers!
    With its intriguing reading of history and its positive approach to the future, Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist is a breath of fresh air in today’s smog of misanthropy.
  • Hitch-22 is more interesting for what it leaves ou ...
    Halfway through the memoirs of British leftist turned Bush-supporter Christopher Hitchens, the political narrative just falls apart. That’s fitting, argues Guy Rundle.
  • The barbarians are copulating at the gates
    Eric Kaufmann’s hysterical Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? imagines that the crisis of Western liberalism is being brought about by fecund foreign fundamentalists.
  • The dangers of international aid
    Linda Polman’s War Games exposes some very big problems with aid missions in the Third World, but she ends up replacing NGOs’ black-and-white view of Africa with her own.
  • A far from innocent book about European guilt
    Like the Daily Express, Pascal Bruckner’s sometimes shrewd take on European weakness is not without insight, but too often it descends into neo-con cliché and blind pro-interventionism.

Cryptogon

  • The Secret X-37B Space Plane: Now Tracked in Real ...
    Thanks to the good and dear freaks at n2yo.com.
  • DARPA Push: Solar Cells Tough Enough to Handle a W ...
    Via: Wired: For years, the military has made on-again, off-again attempts to find eco-friendly ways to get power war-zones, bases and drones. And lately, they’ve seemed willing to try almost anything to do it. In the last year alone, the military’s funded projects that’d turn ocean water into liquid ...
  • Genetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table
    Not my family’s table. Via: New York Times: The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate. The developer of the salmon has been trying to get approval for a de ...
  • Change: Closing Guantánamo Fades as a Priority
    Via: New York Times: Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013. When the White House ack ...
  • 9
    9 on Amazon Via: Wikipedia: The Scientist created the B.R.A.I.N. (or the Fabrication Machine) for peaceful purposes. However, the “Leader of Mankind” took control of the machine and used it to wage war on other humans. Lacking a soul, the machine was corrupted and turned on mankind, wiping them out. ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • 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

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Sends Letters of Protest to UNSC Members
    Summary: Mottaki "We have sent protest letters to these countries and challenged their votes by setting forth logical evidence," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Friday. source: Fars News Agency read more
  • US, EU sanctions will make Iran self-sufficient: m ...
    Summary: Abadan oil refinery TEHRAN (AFP) – An Iranian oil official said on Friday that the new US and European sanctions against the Islamic republic bring it closer to self-sufficiency, including in refining petrol. source: AFP read more
  • Russia slams EU sanctions against Iran
    Summary: Russia’s envoy to the European Union slammed Friday unilateral US and EU sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, warning the measures should not hit Russian business interests. source: Khaleej Times, AFP read more
  • US: Turkey must demonstrate commitment to West
    Summary: Tehran Agreement WASHINGTON - The United States is warning Turkey that it is alienating U.S. supporters and needs to demonstrate its commitment to partnership with the West. source: The Associated Press read more
  • 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

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

  • The Coming Gulf Coast Firestorm: How the BP oil ca ...
    (NaturalNews) It's hurricane season in the Atlantic, and that means Mother Nature could be whipping up fierce storms and sending them charging into the Gulf Coast any day now. In a normal hurricane season, that's bad enough all by itself... remember Katrina? But now there's something even more worri ...
  • U.S. government panel now pushing "vaccinations fo ...
    (NaturalNews) An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that every person be vaccinated for the seasonal flu yearly, except in a few cases where the vaccine is known to be unsafe. "Now no one should say 'Should I or shouldn't I?'" said CDC flu spe ...
  • Vitamin D deficiency likely cause of increased rhe ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent study from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, has found that rheumatoid arthritis is on the increase among Caucasian women. And the culprit is likely an environmental one, like vitamin D deficiency, rather than a genetic one. "It's pretty unlikely tha ...
  • 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 ...

Threat Level

  • ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups
    The association representing 380,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and others associated with the music industry has begun a fund-raising campaign to stifle groups that support free culture and digital rights. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is urging the membership to ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Ethical Woes of Weigel Foe Tucker Carlson
    The resignation of Washington Post blogger David Weigel is as ironic as it is sad. On Saturday, the Post's ombudsman wrote a piece titled "Blogger loses job; Post loses standing among conservatives" for a paper which regularly features not one but two former Bush speechwriters ( Michael Gerson and ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Obama Misses Afghan Exit Ramp
    President Obama got Gen. Stanley McChrystal out of Aghanistan but not the 100,000 U.S. troops stuck there, writes Ray McGovern. June 24, 2010
  • The CIA/Likud Sinking of Jimmy Carter
    With the October Surprise cover-up in shambles, the evidence points to a CIA-Likud plot against President Carter, says Robert Parry. June 24, 2010
  • Is Financial Reform a Charade?
    Congress nears final passage of financial changes, but it's unclear if the loopholes will outsize the "reform," says Danny Schechter. June 25, 2010
  • Hung Out to Dry
    From the Archive: Journalist Georg Hodel, who died Sunday, described the betrayal of himself and Gary Webb in the contra-cocaine scandal.
  • Evita, the Swiss and the Nazis
    From the Archive: The late journalist Georg Hodel traced the post-WWII trail of Eva Peron to Switzerland in aiding the Nazi exodus to Argentina.

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Deadly Israeli air raid on Gaza (Al Jazeera)
    Officials in Gaza have retrieved the bodies of two Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, the Associated Press news agency has reported. An Israeli army spokesperson ...
  • Lebanese women to test Gaza blockade (Abigail Fie ...
    In their makeshift headquarters in one of Beirut's plush seaside hotels, impeccably coiffed women are preparing for a showdown with the Israeli armed forces. "Please note, we are not afra ...
  • Gaza factories remain paralysed despite Israel ple ...
    The chilled Tropika that Salama al-Kishawi proudly serves guests in his office tastes, unusually for a processed juice, of real oranges - especially refreshing on a 35C midsummer day in G ...
  • This light Is always red (Jerrold Kessel and Pier ...
    A traffic light, yet no traffic at all. In fact, a traffic light...for pedestrians only. And even they move little. There are restrictions on walking out of this village (pop. 3,000). The ...
  • Blockade 'eased' as Gaza starves more slowly (Jon ...
    As Israel this week declared the 'easing' of the four-year blockade of Gaza, an official explained the new guiding principle: 'Civilian goods for civilian people.' The severe and apparently arbitrary restrictions on foodstuffs entering the enclave – coriander bad, cinnamon good – will finally end, w ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International and Partners at the USSF ...
    USSF-logo.jpg By Alisa Pimentel Among the more than 20,000 activists gathered in Detroit for the US Social Forum this week are several Grassroots International partners. Grassroots International regularly provides funding to our partners and a ...
  • 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, ...

Climate

  • June 25, 2010
    Judge Refuses to Delay Ruling on Gulf Drilling Ban (AP) A federal judge who overturned a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed after the Gulf oil spill refused Thursday to put his ruling on hold while the government appeals.  U.S. Reviews BP's Alaska Project Plans (Reuters) ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Memo To Barack Obama: Don't just change generals, ...
    Barack, Barack, Barack. Don't just change generals, change course. After changing generals you made a point of "reassuring" everyone that the policy remained the same. Why? All you are doing now is wasting lives, American lives and Afghan lives. And you are wasting wasting money -- trillions of do ...
  • Six Times and He's Still Not Out
    After spending more than ten years in jail without a formal sentence, Curtis Flowers now can point to another unenviable distinction - he's the first person in U.S. history subjected to six murder trials for the same crime. Two of the five previous trials of this Mississippi man charged with the 199 ...
  • Financial Reform: The Road Behind, the Way Forward
    The House and Senate have reached an agreement and we have a financial reform bill. That means we'll see significant improvements over the status quo as it existed yesterday. It also means we still haven't addressed the gravest risks to the economy. And for those of us who care about this country, ...
  • WaPo blogger calls for Drudge immolation, condemns ...
    Betsy Rothstein of Fishbowl has a great piece about the digital nervous breakdown of Dave Weigel, the Washington Post blogger, who regurgitated his dislike of various forces on the right to what appears to be a listserve of various liberal media afficiandos. Where have you gone, Ben Bradlee, a natio ...
  • I Can See Healthcare From Here
    DETROIT - As I wake each morning here in Detroit at the US Social Forum, I glance just a few hundred yards across the way, and I know people have healthcare without regard to financial or other barriers. And it hurts like hell to see the cars "over there" winding along the river inside Canada and k ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Feds Stop Sand Berms In LA
    Yes, you read that right. The Department of the Interior under Ken Salazar has stopped the creation of sand berms to protect Louisiana. Honestly, is the complete and utter absurdity of how Obama is handling this grave, devastating issue ever going to stop? Sure doesn’t seem like it, according to ...
  • I’m so relieved I don’t live in Nevada
    I should support Sharron Angle to replace Harry Reid? Really? The GOP election candidate whose foremost asset seems to be that she’s not Harry Reid? Sharron Angle, who once urged that prisons rehabilitate inmates through massage and sauna therapy, a program developed by Scientology founder L. Ron ...
  • McChrystal versus Obama
    Consider this–Barack Obama has taken more vacation days in the last 18 months than Stan McChrystal has taken in the last seven years. Why? Stan put his mission above all else, including family. This stat alone tells you the difference between the General and the manchild who inhabits the White Ho ...
  • Taliban 2 – US 0
      Victory in Afghanistan. The Taliban follows the news as carefully as we do, and the Taliban understands that McChrystal’s sacking — for the mildly sophomoric remarks of his aides — is another stop along the road to jihad victory. Taliban 2, US 0. The Obama administration is wedded to the ...
  • Nikki Haley Wins SC, One Of Many Women Running For ...
    Well, the special elections have been held, the ballots counted, and Nikki Haley beat out her RNC competitor, Barrett Gresham, by a lot. She will now run to be the first female governor of South Carolina. Chances are good she will succeed, too. She is one of many, as this article highlights, [... ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 7 Most Awe Inspiring Caves on Earth
    You may never have taken a really good look at what caves have to offer, but you can find art, history and archeology as well as natural wonders in their depths... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 8 Cute Animals That Should Not Be Eaten!
    Even the most idealistic vegetarian understands that chicken and beef are staple foods. However, the consumption of these little creatures might pose more of a challenge! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Japan's Army of Ghostly Jizo Statues
    These little guardians of the dead make quite a spectacular display on the slopes of this Japanese volcano! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Most Extreme Festivals on Earth
    Not only are some of the festivals around the world peculiar in the eyes of someone from North America, they're downright dangerous! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 12 Weirdest Water Towers on Earth
    Whether it's as the Leaning Tower of Illnois or a corn on the cob, water towers comes in all shapes and sizes! 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

  • U.S. Men's World Cup Team Rides a Wave of Jingoism
    The U.S. Men's World Cup victories are not signs of some unique "American character" that we have and that no one else possesses.
  • Pavlovian Congress Jumps to Israel's 'Self-' Defen ...
    Learning what actually transpired during Israel's attack on the Gaza Flotilla was apparently of little interest to the majority of congress which signed a letter in its defense.
  • Sri Lanka's Wartime Abuses
    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was in India earlier this month making promises to resettle the war-displaced Sri Lankan Tamil minority one year after his government's forces won a crippling victory over the Tamil Tiger insurgency.
  • Remember Vietistan?
    With the latest Pentagon resignation, the Vietnam analogy continues to haunt the United States in Afghanistan.
  • Turkey, America, and Empire's Twilight
    A new world order is emerging from the wreckage of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Turkey will be a major player in it.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Oil Burning Stirs Fear for Sea Turtles
    A wildlife expert says that no specific sea turtles have been spotted at an oil-burning site in the gulf, but that they have been seen nearby and could get burned.
  • A Solar Bulb May Light the Way
    Aggressively expanding the electric grid in Africa, Asia and South America is unrealistic, at least in the near future. Yet there are possible solutions, like a solar light bulb recently unveiled by Nokero, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer.
  • Enemy of the Good? The Whaling Stalemate
    The perfect is the enemy of the good: That might have been the case this week in Agadir, Morocco, where the International Whaling Commission failed to make any progress on reducing the global whale catch.
  • Is It Energy's Turn Now?
  • Halt to Dredging Pits Louisiana Against U.S.
    A dispute over where sand can safely be removed from Louisiana's tattered Chandeleur Islands has led to a halt in dredging for material to build berms to protect the coast against oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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  • 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

  • David Ray Griffin: Afghanistan War is obviously il ...
    source. Dr. David Ray Griffin walks readers through the “emperor has no clothes” obvious facts that US war in Afghanistan is illegal. In addition, Dr. Griffin explains, documents, and proves that all 9/11-related “reasons” are also all lies. The first part of Dr. Griffin’s lecture on this topic conc ...
  • Green Dot model homes for sale: Education ‘R’ Us
    Private Foundations spend Billions to Gussy up the Model Home of Education: Locke High School As Sam Dillon writes at Larry Miller’s blog about Locke High School, now a wholly owned retail charter chain of Green Dot ‘public’ schools: “As recently as 2008, Locke High School here was one of the nation ...
  • David Ray Griffin: Afghanistan War not close to le ...
    source, with video. Dr. David Ray Griffin walks readers through the “emperor has no clothes” obvious facts that US war in Afghanistan is illegal. In addition, Dr. Griffin explains, documents, and proves that all 9/11-related “reasons” are also all lies. The first part of Dr. Griffin’s lecture on thi ...
  • What’s Your Agenda?
    The other day I was quoted in a campus newspaper about global warming. Actually, I was asked to give my opinion about a colleague who was serving on a government panel that was looking at global warming. I’m not a global warming expert. In fact, the closest I will ever get to being an expert on [.. ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Salmonella Outbreak at Skokie Country Club in Glen ...
    Health officials were investigating an outbreak of salmonella poisoning at the Skokie Country Club in Glencoe. As of this morning, there have been seven laboratory-confirmed cases of the bacteria originating from the north suburban country club since June 10, officials said. Salmonella is a group ...
  • ConAgra's Marie Callender's Cheesy Chicken & Rice ...
    According to the CDC, a total of 37 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Chester have been reported from 18 states since April 11, 2010. The number of ill people identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AK (1), CA (5), CO (2), GA (7), IL (1), KY (1), MA (2), MN ( ...
  • Marler Clark Files Second Salmonella Lawsuit In Ma ...
    A second lawsuit was filed in Oregon District Court today against food giant ConAgra. The lawsuit arises from the nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to the Marie Callender’s brand frozen Cheesy Chicken and Rice dinners. Food safety law firm Marler Clark filed the lawsuit on behalf of Oregon res ...
  • 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 ...

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 discussion: Slates vs. Netbooks
    Can the iPad be stopped? Rafe talks with CNET experts Dan Ackerman and Donald Bell about the ultraportable computer market and what iPad has that Netbooks don't. Originally posted at CNET Showcase ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • Anti-Semitism – Zionist myth vs truth and reality
    BY Alan Hart, Kanal48, March 15, 2010 Via: Redress. There are two definitions of anti-Semitism in its Jewish context. One was born in real history and represents a truth. The other is part and parcel of Zionist mythology and was invented for the purpose of blackmailing non-Jewish Europeans and North ...
  • 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. AlterNet / By Sarah Posner June 24, 2010 | To the Republican base, Sarah Palin represents many things: a trailblazer for female candidates, a “pro-life” stalwar ...
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    Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • “Oldie but Goodie”
    In his occasional paper THE RETURN TO GOLD 1925 , Cambridge University scholar, Donald E. Moggridge, tells us that it was Sir Isaac Newton, who, back in 1717, set the price of gold at 77 shillings 10 and 1/2 pence per standard ounce (22-carat, .9167 fine), a price that endured for two hundred years ...
  • WikiLeaks Founder Drops ‘Mass Spying’ ...
    By Andrew Fowler WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation. There has been rampant speculation about WikiLeaks’ next revelation following its recent release of a top secret military video showing an attack ...
  • Former Fed VP: We Are Moving Away From Honest Pric ...
    A prominent US economic and banking expert has portrayed a grim outlook for the world’s most powerful economy, saying the “crony capitalism” runs rampant in the US. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Gerald O’Driscoll, the former director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the ...
  • LaToya Says Michael Jackson was Murdered
    On Eve of 1st Anniversary of King of Pop’s death LaToya Jackson says he was killed for Cash. Michael Jackson was murdered to gain control over his music catalog his sister LaToya Jackson has charged on a British television  show. On the eve of the first anniversary of the King of Pop’s death, LaTo ...
  • Why I Support the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense F ...
    By Joel Salatin I’ll never forget the morning, about twenty years ago, when a knock at the front door brought me face-to-face with a man who announced he was from the Virginia Meat and Poultry Inspection Division and he had just confiscated all of our fall-butchered beef at the local abattoir. He h ...

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

  • Meditate your way to heart health
    Transcendental Meditation , once the mainstay of tie-dyed hippies and new age "healers", has been hailed by US researchers as a preventative measure for heart attacks.
  • 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, ...

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for June 26, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to friends or colleagues. Being consistently wrong has few consequences for America’s geopolitical experts (so long as their hawks):  “Goldberg’s War“, Ken Silverstein, Harper’s, June 2006 Brilliant work:  “P ...
  • All-time best FM posts from the DNI archives (2003 ...
    These are the posts I consider the best from those originally published on the Defense and the National Interest (DNI) website.   The passage of time has shown their accuracy. The Real Revolution in Military Affairs (it’s not what you think), 14 November 2005 The Myth of Grand Strategy, 13 January 2 ...
  • Balancing ends and means in American security, a p ...
    Summary:  There’s more to the Center for a New American Security than pro-war propaganda.  With their lavish funding John Nagel and company have recruited some of our best geopolitical experts.  Given their pro-war bias, any recommendation they make for restraint deserves attention.  As in the ...
  • FM newswire for June 25, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to friends or colleagues. Important reminder:  “The Myth of Tiananmen and the price of a passive press“, Jay Mathews, Columbia Journalism Review, Sept/Oct 1998 The next Supreme Court justice explains that the ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Academic Battle Delays Publication by 3 Years
    NY Times – Academic disputes usually flare out in the safety of obscure journals, raising no more than a few tempers, if not voices. But a paper published this week by the American Psychological Association has managed to raise questions of censorship, academic fraud, fair play and criminal sentenci ...
  • Earthquake Moved California City 31 Inches
    Live Science- The powerful earthquake that struck Baja California and the southwestern United States in April actually moved an entire California border city, NASA radar images show. Calexico, Calif., near the U.S.-Mexico border, moved as much as 2 1/2 feet (80 cm) south and down into the ground due ...
  • US States of Crisis for 46 Governments Facing Gree ...
    Bloomberg – Californians donât see much evidence that the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression is coming to an end. Unemployment was 12.4 percent in May, 2.7 percentage points higher than the national rate. Lawmakers gridlocked over how to close a $19 billion budget gap are weighi ...
  • ECB must buy ‘hundred of billions’ of bonds to tam ...
    Telegraph – Brian Coulton, the agency’s head of sovereign ratings, said German members of the ECB appeared to be blocking the sort of muscular intervention in southern European bond markets needed to restore the shattered confidence of investors. “There has been an unwillingness to follow through, a ...
  • U.N. narcotics board warns of prescription drug ab ...
    Reuters – Abuse of prescription drugs is growing rapidly around the world, with more people abusing legal narcotics than heroin, cocaine and ecstasy combined, the United Nations global drugs watchdog said on Wednesday. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) also pointed to a rise in the u ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Revisiting value and exploitation
    Revisiting value and exploitation by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Greek) (English) When her father died in 1883, Eleanor Marx wrote an article celebrating her father’s achievements. At the heart of these was “his theory of value, by which Marx explains the origin and the continu ...
  • 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)

PakAlert

  • Rise Of The New Gold Rush
    They called us “kooks” and “crackpots”. They said our ideas were outdated and incompatible with modern finance. They said it wouldn’t last. Oh yes, Gold, they said, was a silly investment with no inherent value, and soon, precious metals investors would be “wiped out” by the “inevitable implosion of ...
  • The Coming Jewish Lock-Down Of The Internet
    Lieberman, a Zionist Jew, FEARS Freedom of Speech, just like Communist China, in order to CENSURE all criticism of Jews and their quest to take over the executive office. And who controls the president of the United States? Jews. Who then will control the Internet and e-mails? Your educated guess ...
  • The Real Enemy Mr. Lieberman? – Muslims Or Jews?
    With total dominance over America’s political life, banking, the press, the media, academics, and the Military/Industrial complex, Jews, like Lieberman, are part of a centuries-old plan of global conquest. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
  • 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/

ecogeek

  • Climate Change is Creating More Space Junk
    There are lots of consequences of a warming world, a lot of them easy to infer and understand (i.e. melting glaciers ), but some consequences have come to light that weren't so expected, like a reduction in crop nutritional value and, now, an increase in space junk orbiting the earth. Scientists a ...
  • Solar Car Race Is Underway
    The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize competition isn't the only competition of green vehicles going on right now. The American Solar Challenge is also underway, with the teams racing solar powered cars from Oklahoma to Illinois over 7 days of competition. This year is the 20th anniversar ...
  • Sweden Now Using More Biofuel Than Oil
    There's more news on the sustainable and renewable energy front in Europe. Not only is wind power nearly on par with natural gas in Europe , but in Sweden now, biomass has passed oil as the top source for energy generation. The most recent figures indicate that biomass energy production reached ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • A Tale of Two Seas: The English Channel and The Gu ...
    TONY HAYWARD This is the second week that we are awarding the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award to Tony Hayward, because some crooks just deserve it more than once. read more
  • Judge Martin Feldman, Who Struck Down Offshore Mo ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Feldman owned some Transocean stock It’s for certain. There was another one he also had called Halliburton. � There’s nothing wrong with owning stocks But you don’t need tons of schooling To know this is a conflict of interest if he’s Going to make any kind of a ruling. � T ...
  • Louisiana Judge Who Struck Down Six-Month Ban on D ...
    When Repuglicans are in control, the almighty dollar wins out over the people .� Unbiased impartiality is not a Repuglican virtue, and justice isn't blind: NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico h ...
  • Huckabee Rants About The “Ick” Factor Of Gay Marri ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH When someone wants to strip gays of their rights It makes me in basic ways Suspect that maybe they’re repressed & really want To probably just strip gays. � If this comment bothers you, Mike, well … You’re an ignorant hick. And if this other remark offends you, too, You ca ...
  • Jonathan Westminster: "The 15% Solution," Serializ ...
    This is the sixth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.� It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A P olitical History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 .� Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly published in ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Guantanamo and presidential priorities
    The headline from this morning's New York Times article by Charlie Savage says it all -- not just about this issue but about the administration generally: Savage writes that it is "unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013"; quotes Sen. Carl ...
  • How many Americans are targeted for assassination?
    When The Washington Post 's Dana Priest first revealed (in passing)�back in January that the�Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens targeted for assassination, she wrote that "as of several months ago, the CIA list included three U.S. citizens." �In April, both the�Post an ...
  • 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 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

  • DISCLOSE ACT Passed By House Today Compromises Fre ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2010 ACLU The House today passed a campaign finance bill that includes disclosure requirements which raise concerns regarding the right to privacy and speech.  read more
  • Statement of Brady President Paul Helmke on Passag ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2010 Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement on passage of a bill by the U.S. House of Representatives to require disclosure of sources of funding in federal elections: ...
  • Kucinich Blisters JP Morgan Chase’s Home Finance C ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued his relentless efforts on behalf of Cleveland area homeowners during a hearing examining the efficacy of the Administration's centerpiece program to assist borrowers seeking modificatio ...
  • Kucinich Introduces Right to Know Legislation; Bi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time advocate of family farmers and organic foods, today introduced H.R. 5577, The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act, as well as supporting legislation that will provide a comprehen ...
  • Petition Filed to Increase Protection of Gulf of M ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today urging the Bureau of Ocean Energy (formerly the Minerals Management Service) and National Marine Fisheries Service to increase conservation measures for essentia ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • A Victory for the Whalers, a Defeat for Humanity
    by Philip Hoare My generation has witnessed a vast change in the way we see whales. When I was born, in 1958, Britain was still a whaling nation. Ships would arrive in my hometown of Southampton laden with processed whale oil and meat, destined for margarine, plant fertiliser and pet food. read ...
  • Green Change Wants Delaware to Revoke BP’s Corpora ...
    by Russell Mokhiber Some would criminally prosecute BP America and its executives for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Others would debar BP from federal contracts. But a group called Green Change is calling for the corporate death penalty. It is calling on the state of Delaware to ...
  • BP Welcomes You to the Apocalypse
    by Mark Morford Please do not worry. Please do not fret about that one thing you always fret about, or that other thing, or even that third thing that might have something to do with erupting oil, dead pelicans and that sickening feeling in your gut that Something is Very Wrong Indeed . read mor ...
  • Who Is 'Productive'?
    by John de Graaf Ever since Presidential candidate Barack Obama told Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (aka "Joe the Plumber") that "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," Obama and other progressives have retreated from that position, terrified of conservative charges that cr ...
  • Will the US Ever Get Latin America?
    by Mark Weisbrot In the film Guantanamera , the last by renowned Cuban director Tomás Gutierrez Alea, the Yoruba creation myth is presented as a metaphor for the difficulties of bringing about change. In this myth, humans were at first immortal, but the result was that the old suffocated the young, ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Paul: History of controversy
    Rand Paul, Kentucky's Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, ignited a fury with statements about civil rights and the Gulf oil spill. He has a long history of making unconventional comments about social programs, housing discrimination, military spending and limiting the role of government.
  • Safety Valve: Letters from readers
    Regarding Jack Mynatts Safety Valve letter of June 15: I cannot believe that two years post-election, some people still have the gall to blame Bush for the economic catastrophe that Obama has created with his policies. One does not have to be a genius to understand some basic principles of economics ...
  • Detroit's Eastern Market gets new life, reinvents
    In five years, Detroit's Eastern Market went from an orphan within city government, losing money and no clear mission to one of the nation's premier public markets.
  • Reopening rest areas
    Arizona will reopen five highway rest areas, including the Sacaton site north of Casa Grande, citing a stabilizing state budget situation.
  • Daley 'determined' to get hiring process right
    After years of trying and failing to rid his administration of patronage scandals, Mayor Richard Daley floated another plan Thursday: bringing in an outside firm to hire many city workers.

Guardian

  • Lib Dem voters ready to defect after VAT rise
    • Poll shows Lib Dem supporters ready to leave the party after the massive budget cuts announced by the coalition in the emergency budget • G20 communiqué expected to avoid criticism of austerity programmes in Europe Nick Clegg is suffering a fierce public backlash over the coalition's VAT rise, wit ...
  • Hamid Karzai given timetable by G8
    Cameron, who would like British troops out by 2015, joins G8 leaders in putting pressure on Afghan government to take over security World leaders issued a stark warning yesterday to the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, demanding detailed plans of how he will take over responsibility for the country's ...
  • Israelis push to free Gilad Shalit
    Supporters of the soldier seized by Hamas four years ago begin a march to Jerusalem to secure his freedom Thousands of Israelis are expected to join a 12-day march across the country beginning today to put pressure on their government to secure the release of Gilad Shalit, the soldier abducted by Ha ...
  • US stars resort to reality cinema
    Celebrities see Hollywood's newest genre as a way to reassert control over their image A long queue of biographical films is set to be screened at American cinemas this summer. The documentaries, almost a dozen, include one on Joan Rivers, one on Billy Joel and another on Carrie Fisher, and have bee ...
  • Smokers back extension of ban
    Surveys find major shift in attitudes since restrictions on smoking in public places were brought in across Britain three years ago Three years after the smoking ban controversially came into force in England, a substantial proportion of smokers want to see restrictions extended to children's play a ...

McClatchey

  • Protesters join hands along beaches over offshore ...
    ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. — Bradenton's Joshua Spaid sat in the soft, clean sand overlooking luscious aquamarine waters at Manatee Public Beach, and wondered whether its pristine beauty would be lost to future generations.
  • No skimmers in sight as oil floods into Mississipp ...
    GULFPORT, Miss. — A morning flight over the Mississippi Sound showed long, wide ribbons of orange-colored oil for as far as the eye could see and acres of both heavy and light sheen moving into the Sound between the barrier islands. What was missing was any sign of skimming operations from Horn Isla ...
  • Obama, Europeans split on economic policy
    TORONTO — They talked nice, but President Barack Obama and European leaders failed Saturday to bridge a fast growing divide over government spending and will emerge from a weekend summit charting different courses for ending the global recession.
  • BP played big role in Alaska blowout preventer pro ...
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska — When two Alaska state agencies received complaints in 2005 that a BP drilling contractor routinely cheated on tests of blowout preventers and that BP knew it, the agencies let the very companies accused of wrongdoing join the investigation.
  • Tropical Storm Alex no threat yet to BP oil spill ...
    The Atlantic's first tropical storm developed Saturday morning, chugging along toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, although forecasters weren't sure how close it might come to disrupting oil spill recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.

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

  • Stopping The Hemorrhage Of The SGR Pay Cut Is Not ...
    Our guest blogger is Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, executive director of Doctors for America. On Thursday night, the House voted to reverse the 21% pay cut to physicians that went into effect on June 1st. While physicians everywhere appreciate the fact that the House stopped the hemorrhage of the SGR pay ...
  • Is The GOP Battle Against The Health Law A Bid To ...
    Over in the comments section of this post, Texas Aggie makes smart observation about another factor that could be driving the Republicans to oppose the health care law: You may have missed an important point in the analysis of the Republican reaction and why they are so adamantly opposed to univer ...
  • REPORT: Some States Won’t Be Able To Effecti ...
    Last month, independent analysts in California discovered that WellPoint âoverstated future medical costsâ to justify its 39% premium increases in the individual health market and committed numerous other methodological errors and now, Aetna has also withdrawn a filing with California insurance ...
  • Global Boiling: June Brings Climate Destruction Pr ...
    As the planet warms, the destructive changes predicted by scientists are coming to pass. As in previous months, this June has seen records fall, people die, and infrastructure destroyed from the terrible power of our planet’s climatic system, fueled by increasing heat trapped by invisible greenhouse ...
  • After Filibuster, Democrats Pull Extenders Bill In ...
    esterday, as expected, Republicans and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) filibustered the Senate’s tax extenders bill, which would have extended unemployment benefits and several tax credits, as well as provided fiscal aid to states to help with their Medicaid bills. As a result of the Senate’s inaction, state ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Legal Reality of Israel's Attack
    From Glenn Greenwald , Craig Murray : A word on the legal position, which is very plain. To attack a foreign flagged vessel in international waters is illegal. ... The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody's territorial waters) ...
  • Ted Rall on Political Learned Helplessness
    I thought it a good summation of the disarray among the populace in both the United States and Canada - " In Dire Straits, Americans Whimper Instead ": Battered and bruised, with no apparent way out, the American electorate has plunged into a political state of learned helplessness. They've voted D ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Strong Oversight Comes From Both Sides of the Aisl ...
    As the third session of POGO’s Congressional Oversight Training Series comes to a close, POGO will be presenting Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) with its Good Government Award . Both Representatives are being recognized for their important contributions to gove ...
  • Morning Smoke: House-Senate Conference Reaches Lat ...
    Lawmakers Agree on Sweeping Wall Street Overhaul by Alison Vekshin and Phil Mattingly [Bloomberg] Salazar endorses new revolving door restriction by Frederic J. Frommer [Associated Press] Financial Reform Bill Passes: Banks Keep Derivatives Units, Volcker Rules Softened by Shahien Nasiripour...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Toronto police arrest couple allegedly carrying Mo ...
    Prior to the large demonstration and march at Queen's Park in Toronto, a young couple was arrested by police just a few blocks away from the primary protest zone. They were arrested for carrying Molotov cocktails.
  • Toronto protesters to police: This is what democra ...
    After marching from Toronto's Queen's Park to the United States Consulate, activists and protesters were halted by police officers in full riot gear. The chants of "This is what a police state looks like" and "oppressors" were shouted.
  • Vandalism engulfs the city of Toronto during G20 S ...
    The protests began peacefully and then out of nowhere violence erupted. The windows of stores have been smashed, political messages spray-painted in a lot of places and police vehicles are still on fire. More damage is expected.
  • Toronto is under seige by protesters
    Violent protesters merged with peaceful protesters turning Toronto into a war zone during the first day of the G20 Summit.
  • Toronto on lockdown, vandalism rampant during G20 ...
    The city of Toronto is on complete lockdown after stores were vandalized, vehicles smashed, police cars set on fire and tear gas being set off in various parts of the downtown core. This is part of a G20 protest that began earlier today.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • A Mean Season Postponed in Florida
    In the meanest of all of the states in the land — at least so says the National Coalition for the Homeless — a mean season looks to have been put on hold. If only for a time, if only in this mini-metropolis by the beach called Ft. Lauderdale, a respite from meanness might even last until the next se ...
  • Sleeping in an Alley, Wishing for Friends
    Robert simply wishes for friends. To be around people. You can, of course, watch people pass him by again and again in the video. Even on a day as windy as this, the streets of Chicago are full of people. But they just keep walking, acting as if Robert were invisible. He tried to find employment wit ...
  • Opening Doors: A Defining Moment in the End ...
    "Ending homelessness in America must be a national priority."  —  President Barack Obama, June 22, 2010 To be sure, this is a monumental moment. Any time the president of the United States says we must end homelessness, we have to take a collective step back and rejoice. This could be a defining mom ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • 77% say “peace and nuclear disarmament” very impor ...
    Protests this weekend will reflect a mix of concern over the G8/G20 summits’ agendas, and objections to the very legitimacy of the meetings themselves, suggests an online survey of “engaged Canadians” by the Rideau Institute. “There is a discussion going on among people participating in the protest ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • The Obama administration adopts an imperious tone ...
    Philip H Gordon is the US Assistant Secretary of State at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. He sat down with an AP reporter this week to talk about Turkey. Turkey is alienating US supporters and it needs to demonstrate its commitment to partnership with the West, Gordon says. “We think T ...
  • Idiocy holds sway on the Supreme Court and inside ...
    It seems hard to fathom but the evidence is now overwhelming: if someone repeats the word “terrorist” often enough their brain will become functionally useless. Consider the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday in support of the Obama administration’s sweeping definition of “material support” as appl ...
  • Risk-free killing and the fear of death
    There was an age when those afraid of dying knew they should, if they could, stay away from war. They could instead, if so inclined, read about war and fantasize about battlefield heroics from the comfort of an armchair. Nowadays, America’s newest class of warriors enjoy the same comfort with as lit ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Why TV weathermen are on the frontline of the clim ...
    I used to be like Jim Gandy when I was doing television. Gandy, who chastises people in advance (bolded in the article below) who might want to visit his blog and discus the issues, probably won’t win any converts with … Continue reading →
  • What Australian Media is saying about Rudd, Gillar ...
    Via the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser – here is a summary of articles discussing the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) future in Australian politics. ETS looks “deader ‘n a doornail” right now. This graph (courtesy of David Archibald) may help … Continue reading →
  • Shocker! ABC says UHI making cities hotter!
    Above: NOAA Satellite IR image showing UHI of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC Above: A trend comparison slide from my tour, courtesy of my friend, former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge. Simon at ACM writes: So reads the … Continue reading →
  • Latest Barrow Ice Breakup On Record?
    By Steven Goddard, In my last post, we discussed how there has been no visible change in the landfast ice near Barrow, AK. during the last week. The University of Alaska has been tracking breakup of this ice for the … Continue reading →
  • Open thread
    Haven’t had one in awhile. Too tired and cold (4C and raining in Barrarat) to do much else. Keep it clean. Play nice. Bonus picture regarding events of this week: Image from the Oregonian, h/t to “Gore Lied“

Dandelion Salad

  • The Technological Revolution and the Future of Fre ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 26, 2010 The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom, Part 1 There is a new and unique development in human history that is taking place around the world; it is unprecedented in reach and volume, and it is also the greatest thr ...
  • The 99 Yarder: a Brooklyn Story by Philip A. Farru ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 26 June, 2010 The skinny legged wide receiver with 4.7 speed (fast for a white guy in 1970), was running like “a thief from a grocery store” down the sidelines. It was a late Saturday morning in October. The pale blue cloudless sky suspended the ...
  • Kindra Arnesen at the NOLA Gulf Emergency Summit
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ peaceoftheaction | June 25, 2010 | 8:55 June 19, 2010 – New Orleans, LA – www.peaceoftheaction.org NOLA Gulf Emergency Summit – Kindra Arnesen (1 of 2) NOLA Gulf Emergency Summit – Kindra Arnesen (2 of 2) see BP is burning sea-turtles in the Gulf of Mexico⦠by ...
  • 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 ...

Your New Reality

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    For those of you not following on Twitter , a round-up of my recent comments and links : Just call it "Green's Despair", easily one of the best sports photos of 2010 . http://tinyurl.com/22t7njz #worldcup Americans discovering that #worldcup drinking games based around goal scoring makes for a d ...
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    "Go Get Drums! GO!" I could give you a detailed round up of world events, dramatic as they've been, I could compile a list of communities whose livelihood has been destroyed, for the foreseeable future, along hundreds of miles of American coastline, I could introduce you to yet more evidence that w ...
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    "How much more would be dependent on foreign oil....and terrorism?"
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    The seas will turn black and boil?
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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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Sperm Whale Voices Are Personal
    A new technique for deciphering the calls of sperm whales allows the magnificent, mysterious creatures to be studied in unprecedented detail. Researchers identified subtle variations caused by differences in the shape of individual whales’ heads. It’s the first time that sperm whale vocalizations h ...
  • Giant, Tilted Exoplanets Like It Hot
    Giant planets with wonky orbits mostly circle blistering-hot stars, two new studies find. This pattern could explain why some “hot Jupiters” — planets from a third to 12 times the mass of Jupiter that sit scorchingly close to their stars — orbit the way their star spins, while others tilt so far th ...
  • Sense of Touch Shapes Snap Judgments
    Sitting in a hard chair can literally turn someone into a hardass. Holding a heavy clipboard leads to weighty decisions. Rubbing rough surfaces makes us prickly. So found researchers studying the interaction between physical touch and social cognition. The experiments included would-be car buyers w ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Palestinian Ministry of Health: Israel prevents de ...
    Seven oxygen machines donated to the Palestinian Authority by a Norwegian development agency were seized by Israeli officials en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza, the Ramallah-based... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Lev Luis Grinberg: How to Break the Siege of Gaza?
    No commission of inquiry into the killing of civilians on the Mavi Marmara is necessary. What is necessary is to end the siege, rebuild the Gaza Strip and implement viable border controls enabling... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • New Israeli Bill to Outlaw Boycott of both Israel ...
    The bill was introduced by 25 Knesset members, of both coalition and opposition parties. The bill would outlaw a wide range of BDS activities, both inside and outside of Israel and in the Occupied... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Blockade ‘eased’ as Gaza starves mo ...
    ntil Gaza’s borders, port and airspace are its own, its factories are rebuilt, and exports are again possible, the hobbled economy has no hope of recovering. For the overwhelming majority of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Rela Mazali: A Call for Livable Futures
    Each of us, each of you, can draw the line through BDS and act as a caring, responsible citizen of the world. To end Israel's 43-year-old occupation. To end the unacceptable, criminal siege of Gaza.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Chromosomal Variations Found in Early Passage Fema ...
    Human embryonic stem cells hold great promise for studying and treating disease and for the practice of regenerative medicine. However, more must be learned to ensure the cells that may one day be transplanted into humans are safe. In one of many safety-related studies going on worldwide, scient ...
  • Robert M. Zwolak, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, D ...
    Robert M. Zwolak, MD was elected 2010-2011 president of the Society for Vascular Surgery(r) (SVS) during the Vascular Annual Meeting(r) on June 11, 2010. He is currently professor of surgery at the Dartmouth Medical School; chief of surgery at the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White Rive ...
  • Climate Change Scientists Turn Up the Heat in Alas ...
    Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are planning a large-scale, long-term ecosystem experiment to test the effects of global warming on the icy layers of arctic permafrost.
  • Catch a Glimpse Into the Future with Wireless and ...
    Fly over Manhattan in the year 2150. Witness a virtual colonoscopy that is non-invasive, fast and inexpensive. Experience the movement of jellyfish and soap bubbles blowing in the wind. Break the barrier between illusion and reality in what will be the world's largest visualization facility.
  • Texas Tech Hurricane, Ecotoxicology Experts Availa ...
    Wind scientists, an ecotoxicologist and economist discuss damage, safety and oil spill.

Natural Health News

  • Insufficient Vitamin D Tied to Severe Asthma Attac ...
    Asthmatic children with low blood vitamin D levels may have a greater risk of suffering severe asthma attacks. A study followed more than 1,000 children with asthma for four years, and found those with vitamin-D insufficiency at the outset were more likely to have an asthma attack that required a t ...
  • Exercise May Be Highly Effective Option for Alcoho ...
    Alcohol abuse is disruptive of circadian rhythms, and circadian disruptions can also lead to alcohol abuse. A new study examining the relationship between alcohol intake and wheel-running in hamsters has found that exercise may reduce alcohol intake by regulating circadian rhythms. He study found t ...
  • Organic Pesticides Not Always Best Choice
    Consumers cannot assume that a product is environmentally friendly just because it is organic.� A new study shows that some organic pesticides can have a higher environmental impact than conventional pesticides. Researchers compared the effectiveness and environmental impact of organic pesticides t ...
  • 80 Percent of Drugs Sold in U.S. Use Foreign Trial ...
    Medical ethicists are concerned about the growing share of new U.S. drugs whose human trials took place in foreign countries where federal auditors could not make sure patients were protected. According to a report by Daniel R. Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human S ...
  • Congress Urged to Give FDA Power to Regulate CT Sc ...
    Growing concern over the safety of CT scans has led some experts to suggest that Congress should give the FDA the power to ensure that patients aren't exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. In an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine , radiologist Rebecca Smith-Bindman describ ...

Antemedius

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, BP and the Pentagon's Dirty L ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com It couldn’t be worse, could it?� In the Gulf, BP now claims to be retrieving 15,000 barrels of oil a day from the busted pipe 5,000 feet down.� That’s three times the total amount of oil it claimed, bare weeks ago, was coming out of that pipe.� A government pa ...
  • "Well, I didn't mean CLOSE Guantanamo!"
    " They bought it, Rahm! " "I mean, I meant it when I said it. You know?" "But... heh. That was a campaigning thing, you know? And it worked, too! Right? Right." "You don't really expect me to go all bipartisany on you and do what Lindsay Graham wants me to do, do you? DO YOU? He's a republican! ...
  • G-20 Protests, and Secret Police Powers to Arrest ...
    While world leaders descended upon Toronto to discuss financial reform and the global economy at the G-20 summit, protesters clashed with riot police. RawStory, June 25: TORONTO -- A government changes a law to allow police to arrest people without probable cause. It does so without any le ...
  • New Documents, Employees Reveal BP's Alaska Oilfie ...
    Originally published at truthout.org Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s north shore, according to internal BP documents and more than a doz ...
  • 2010 Election - Republican Ugliness
    I don’t really have a lot of use for conventional wisdom. In the first place it is not really very wise, more like moderately informed. Second relying on it makes one intellectually lazy. When you have this back log of anecdotal evidence which shows a patter, you tend to rely on that pattern. This l ...

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

  • Poultry Processing Plant Receives Maryland’s Highe ...
    Wow:  The state of Maryland has issued its highest ever occupational safety and health fine, to a poultry plant run by Allen Family Foods: $1.03 million.  I wanted to blog about it both because I think it is important that those working on food systems and public health issues keep in mind not only ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Oil of cultism
    ThinkProgress reports that teabaggers overwhelmingly support tariffs to safeguard American manufacturing jobs. Is there still any doubt whatsoever that these folks have been dragooned into a cause that lobbies for the exact opposite of what their recruitment brochures tout? Another poll shows the nu ...
  • Zero tolerance for calling Dixiecrats “conse ...
    The “firing” of Dave Weigel is still ripping through the online journalism community. Tommy Christopher writes a decent defense of Weigel, then veers off suddenly into Wurlitzerland: That leads me to ask who did this, and why? I think my friend, Ed Morrissey, is on the right track here: While I donâ ...
  • Unbelievable
    Raw Story’s Daniel Tencer: When Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma, called 911 to ask for medical assistance for his disabled, bed-ridden grandmother, he couldn’t have dreamed it would end with police tasering the 86-year-old woman twice, stepping on her oxygen hose until she couldn’t breathe, and ...
  • Help wanted
    If you’re an experienced restaurant manager with keen insights into loss prevention and inventory control and if you’re looking for a job in the central Twin Cities area, email me. I may know of an opening for you.
  • Drudge rules their world
    Shit. Just as I was starting to look forward to visiting the WaPost for more than just the Toles cartoons, Dave Weigel has been coerced into resigning after emails surfaced in which he ripped on rightwing morons for being rightwing morons. Rightwing morons, of course, can SAY WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY ...

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

  • A Colossal Fracking Mess
    "Fracking," as it's colloquially known, involves injecting millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals, many of them toxic, into the earth at high pressures to break up rock formations and release natural gas trapped inside. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • Do Men Love Differently Than Women?
    In couples therapy, women and men often have very different ideas about what it means to feel and show "love." Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • SunPower Produces World's Most Efficient Solar Cel ...
    SunPower Corporation has produced a full-scale solar cell which can convert sunlight into electricity at an efficiency rate of 24.2% -- a new world record. Submitted by Nathanael B. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • On Heels of Diebold/Premier Purchase, Canadian E-V ...
    'Intellectual Property' of voting systems still owned by firm linked to Venezuelan President, despite press statement to the contrary.Diebold/Premier's assets had recently been purchased by Dominion from ES&S who was forced to divest in antitrust suit Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • The Killing of California Almonds (and why dead fo ...
    The Almond Board of California (ABC) decided all almonds grown in CA. must be pasteurized, irradiated or otherwise killed, even when they're labeled "raw." for "safety reasons" Dead or cooked nuts are far less nutritious than raw nuts.False labeling "raw" Submitted by Tippers A. to Health & Wellness ...

Angry Indian News

  • Congressman Reads 'BP Escrow Fund = Hitler' Column ...
    Congressman Reads 'BP Escrow Fund = Hitler' Column on House FloorHere's famously insane Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert reading a column from prominent conservative Thomas Sowell about why Barack Obama... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Targeting Israel's Palestinians
    Targeting Israel's Palestinians - Focus - Al Jazeera English: "Israel's Palestinian minority has always been subject to discriminatory policies, but some now say that a more open conflict between the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gulf Coast American Indian Tribe Hosts Ecuadorean ...
    Gulf Coast American Indian Tribe Hosts Ecuadorean Leaders Devastated by Chevron Oil Contamination | Earth Times News: "Gulf Coast American Indian Tribes in southeast Louisiana impacted by the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • COLORLINES - Farm Workers Dare Xenophobes to Take ...
    COLORLINES - Farm Workers Dare Xenophobes to Take Jobs: ShareThis is brilliant. Harvest season has begun, and that means legions of crop workers--at least half of whom are undocumented and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gassed in the Gulf (Part I): New Gulf War Syndrome
    Gassed in the Gulf (Part I): New Gulf War Syndrome-examiner.com: "The petro-chemical-military-industrial complex is gassing Gulf Coast residents with poisonous Benzene and Corexit dispersant at... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records
    ShareThis Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records 25 Jun 2010 Gov. Bobby Jindal [R-Dirtbag] rejected a bill Friday that would have required him to make public and to preserve all his office's documents involving the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. "This governor has opposed transparency for the th ...
  • G20 demonstrations turn violent
    ShareThis G20 demonstrations turn violent 26 Jun 2010 Demonstrations have turned violent at the G20 summit in Toronto, where world leaders are convening to discuss ways to end the global financial crisis. A number of demonstrators clashed with police while chanting 'resist, resist, raise up your fis ...
  • Report: Israel seizes oxygen machines donated to P ...
    ShareThis Report: Israel seizes oxygen machines donated to PA 26 Jun 2010 Israel confiscated seven oxygen machines en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza based on the claim that there was a chance the generators attached to the machines would not be used for medical purposes [?!?], Palestin ...
  • Iraq's Ancient Ruins Face New Looting
    ShareThis Iraq's Ancient Ruins Face New Looting 26 Jun 2010 The looting of Iraq’s ancient ruins is thriving again. This time it is not a result of the “stuff happens” chaos that followed the American invasion in 2003, but rather the bureaucratic indifference of Iraq’s newly sovereign government US-i ...
  • Hurricane season triggers planning to evacuate oil ...
    ShareThis Hurricane season triggers planning to evacuate oil spill site 27 Jun 2010 Meteorologists say Tropical Storm Alex, which is brewing in the western Caribbean, is not on pace to hit the oil well, but it has prompted the team overseeing the spill site to heighten emergency planning. If a storm ...

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

  • ‘NYT’ reporter who grooved on Jewish t ...
    In the piece in tomorrow's NYT Magazine in which she describes the days of Jewish terrorism as "romantic," reporter Deborah Solomon serves up several softball questions to Tzipi Livni. Israel is approaching a crisis right now, stemming from the fact that half the population it governs are not repres ...
  • Why does U.S. soccer fall short?
    Wikipedia says that Americans coined the term "soccer mom" in 1995. That's 15 years ago. Those kids so assiduously ferried to sylvan suburban fields are now in their 20s. And the young American team was beaten by Ghana today, a country a tenth our size, soundly (yes, after two inspired American perf ...
  • Internet is undermining the authority & status of ...
    Yesterday I did a post about the humiliation of Jews and Palestinians that quoted Geoffrey Wawro's new book, and a passage in which Wawro wrote that Hitler's party won a majority in the 1932 elections in Germany. Within an hour or two I got two notes, from Mark Wauck and Harry Clark, telling me that ...
  • A tale of two schools
    When plans were announced in February 2007 to open the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), New York City's first dual-language Arabic public school, ugly anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia reared its head. � Yesterday, the New York Times profiled a Brooklyn-based Hebrew language charter schoo ...
  • ‘NYT’ story on anti-Zionists says thei ...
    This piece on the renewal of American anti-Zionism, by Samuel G. Freedman in the Religion column of the New York Times, includes the usual disclaimer, and some religious hokey-pokey too, but it is fair and important. I wonder if Freedman is not secretly sickened by the news from Jaffa Road. Freedman ...

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

  • Under Cover of the Night
    Under Cover of the Night with 1-17th Infantry 11 April 2010 During a mission there is no “pause” button.  It’s on until it’s over.  Recently, Charlie Company 1-17th Infantry conducted a mission that included visiting villages in the Shah Wali Kot district of northern Kandahar Province. The m ...
  • Village Boys
    Easter Sunday, 2010 Anywhere, Afghanistan Back in December, C-Co  1-17th Infantry battalion had been in about the worst place in Afghanistan.  There is stiff competition for the position of actual worst place, and I am sure there are many contenders that remain unknown, but the Arghandab was one ...
  • RED HORSE
    RED HORSE in the Desert of Death Some troops in Afghanistan go months without a shower.  Major Ryan O’Conner, XO of the 1-17th Infantry, now in Kandahar Province, said that during a previous tour his Soldiers fought half a year without so much as a dip in a creek.  Shortages of drinking water aff ...
  • The Battle for Kandahar: Part I
    FOB Frontenac, Afghanistan 28 March 2010 Under an early morning sky, a red glow is cast from the lights on an Air Force water drilling rig.  A new MATV, or “MRAP All Terrain Vehicle,” is being deployed to Afghanistan to combat homemade bombs, the favorite weapon of the Taliban. The 1-17th ha ...
  • The Scent of Weakness
    Kandahar Province, Afghanistan 25 March 2010 Dogs have been trained to carry bombs to attack enemies for decades.  The Soviets and others have used dogs as low-tech smart bombs.  Yet canine platoons likely would rebel if they caught scent they were being duped to die. Today, more sophisticated p ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Amazing Little Ladybugs (PICS)
    Photo by little pixie Nature just continues to impress me. Here I thought ladybugs were only available in red but they come in an assortment of colors-- pink , yellow and white just to name a few!
  • Hands in the Sand: A Volunteer's (Silly yet Satisf ...
    Participants get painted for their debut in the sand. Image credit: Jess Root As Matt put it, today's Hands in the Sand event was a refreshing take action way of channeling all the BP hate and directing it toward something positive. A global cry for clean energy, clean beaches and a clean plane ...
  • A Picture Is Worth...Toronto Preparing For A Riot ...
    I find this picture in BlogTO by Ronnie Yip to be extraordinary; The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty , a well-known group of rabble-rousers is preparing to march, and the police are out in force. But unlike the Battle of Seattle , the police are out to meet them, not in head-to-t... Read the ...
  • New, Green Museum of Tomorrow in Rio Unveiled
    Image Credit: Inhabitat Rio has been going through a bit of a rough patch lately- it's been set on fire by a hot air balloon and hit hard by deadly torrential rains . But the city is far from beat: a key player in
  • Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Oil Spill Gaffes (Video ...

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

  • Pictures: Gulf Oil Coats Popular Florida Beach
    NoneThick pools of oil washed ashore on Pensacola Beach Wednesday, prompting officials to close a stretch of the famous white sands, according to news reports. Florida - Pensacola Beach Florida - United States - Metro Areas - Pensacola Metro
  • Pictures: Butterfly Wing Colors Imaged in 3-D
    NoneThe crystals that give butterfly wings their vibrant colors have been revealed in 3-D for the first time, a new study says. Shopping - Butterfly - Insect - Butterflies - Biology
  • Big Cats Wild for Calvin Klein Cologne?
    Bronx Zoo cheetahs are attracted to Calvin Klein's "Obsession for Men," which scientists have tested to lure wild big cats close to camera traps. Video. Calvin Klein - Bronx Zoo - Big cat - Cryptozoology - Anomalies and Alternative Science
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Hong Kong legislature approves China-backed politi ...
    [JURIST] The Legislative Council of Hong Kong [official website] on Friday approved an addition of 10 members [amendment, PDF] to its body. By a vote of 46-12, the council approved increasing its membership number to 70 one day after it approved changes [The Standard report] to the way in which Hong ...
  • UK court rules Afghan detainees must be protected ...
    [JURIST] The UK High Court [official website] ruled [judgment text] Friday that restrictions must be placed on whether British soldiers in Afghanistan may transfer detainees to Afghan-run detention facilities. The judgment, delivered by Lord Justice Richards and Justice Cranson, examined the allegat ...
  • UN rights commissioner pledges justice for torture ...
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Friday warned people and nations that practice torture [JURIST report] that they cannot escape the reach of justice [statement]. Commemorating the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Pillay noted that 45 ...
  • UN announces opening of new Kenya courtroom for pi ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [official website] on Friday announced the opening of a new high-security courtroom in Kenya [press release] that will hear maritime piracy cases as well as cases involving other serious criminal offenses. The courtroom, opened on Thursday, was funde ...
  • Federal appeals court reinstates stem cell researc ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday reinstated [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's decision to ease restrictions [JURIST report] on stem cell research [JURIST news archive]. The lawsuit was originally dismisse ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Obama Will Send Detainee Back To Yemen
    In 2002, a 17-year Pakistani man named Mohammed Odaini took shelter one night at a guesthouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The U.S. intelligence community believed it had also been frequented by Abu Zubaydah. Odaini was captured in a raid by U.S. troops and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Eight years later, t ...
  • The Post Shouldn't Have Fired Dave Weigel
    The Washington Post should not have fired Dave Weigel for his leaked Journolist comments, period. In hiring Weigel, the Post knew it was bringing on board someone with a style of journalism -- and it definitely is journalism -- that was not orthodox, that would not always conform to the Post's habit ...
  • The Facilitator in Chief
    When Washington looks to Supreme Court hearings for normalcy and stability, it's been a hell of a week.�As David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama, put it on a conference call with reporters today, "Things have been rather dull in Washington, so we decided to hold these hearings." In a rece ...
  • 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) ...

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

  • The startling joy of jogging
    By: VictoriaKlein Staying fit is easy: eat less; move more – easier said than done, no? Despite literally thousands of books on the subject, getting most humans to break a sweat is worse than pulling teeth. Many say that working out with another person c ...
  • We the people and peace
    By: PeaceCorso For many years I have kept a file in my computer called "Peace Quotes." Anything I read, anything I find, things people send me. At this point, it’s over forty pages long in nine-point type! Here’s one from a 2005 Congressional Letter of S ...
  • A new legacy for Watts
    The wiry spires of the Watts Towers seem almost obtrusive on the working-class skyline of South Los Angeles. While the historic landmarks remind some of the artistic innovation of Italian architect Simon Rodia, who built the sculptures out of steel; mortar; and a mosaic of re ...
  • Beyond organic
    Made famous by The Omnivoreâs Dilemma , Polyface Farm is the destination of choice for discerning tourists with a passion for great foodand sustainable agriculture. “I’m from a long line of out-of-the-box thinkers, and we’ve been on this lunatic train for a long, long time ...
  • How red squirrels exemplify the evolution of altru ...
    By: Jeremy Mercer Once considered, in those memorable words of Tennyson, “red in tooth and claw,” the supposedly ruthless natural world is proving far more altruistic than ever thought possible. In the most recent example of animal compassion, a study publ ...

OpEd News

  • Memo To Barack Obama
    Barack, Barack, Barack. Donapos;t just change generals, change course.
  • Was Pat Tillman Murdered by an American Sharpshoot ...
    Out of fear of losing stability in the country, poppy cultivation is supported by US and allied forces. In Nov. 2009, the Afghan Minister of Counter Narcotics stated that the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by US troops. He also said that NATO troops are taxing the pro ...
  • Post-BP Gulf
    What will happen if BP goes under? Questions about the future of America are posed.
  • Conservatively Ignorant!
    This is a story abour a conservative man from the south who thought Barack Obama was a foreigner for all of the wrong, hickish reasons!
  • Speaker Pelosi, War Funding Next Week is No "Emerg ...
    There is no "emergency" requiring the House to throw another $33 billion into our increasingly bloody and pointless occupation of Afghanistan before we all go off to celebrate the anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from foreign occupation.

Switchboard

  • A bayou battle of the elements like never before
    Summer means hot, steamy weather in the bayou. With it come huge rolling thunderstorms that flash bolts of lightning like spears into the roiling sea. Usually these thunderstorms are a welcome sight, bringing short bursts of cool breezes that wash over the marshlands baked in the summe ...
  • "Game Changing" Carp Capture Spurs Leadership: Sen ...
    Illinois Senator Dick Durbin spoke in Chicago on Friday afternoon to address the ongoing Asian carp issue , stating that the capture of a live Asian Carp beyond all locks and barriers to Lake Michigan is a "game changer" and a "wake up alarm" requiring⨠focused, aggressive action t ...
  • Tar sands found guilty in dead duck case - but wil ...
    Over two years, after they died landing in one of Syncrude’s tar sands strip mine waste ponds, 1600 ducks have been vindicated. Or have they? The court in Alberta found Syncrude guilty in the death of the ducks under provincial and federal wildlife and migratory bird laws. Sentencing w ...
  • The usual hysteria: a gas tax, a gas tax, the sky ...
    Earlier this week, Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation) and Kit Bond (Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, & Urban Development) issued a report claiming that climate legislation would be little more than a massive gas tax. According to th ...
  • Of Wolves and Sisyphus
    At last week’s federal court wolf delisting hearing, Montana’s attorney argued that wolves in Montana should be delisted, complaining that there is no remedy for Montana if Wyoming continues to  adhere to a wolf plan that established roughly 90% of Wyoming as a free-fire kill zone for ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • What’s the Point of Having a Nuke if No One ...
    This is pretty awesome. Playing as Argentina, I was caught only during the testing stage for my advanced plutonium device (presumably, I was testing near the FalklandsMalvinas). I did take a long and expensive route, however. Via ArmsControlWonk. Related posts:Nork Nuke Deal North Korea Nuclear ...
  • USA v Ghana
    19:30 (BST), 14:30 (EDT), 11:30 (PDT). The US MNT plays in its first knock-out match in the World Cup since the glorious 2-0 victory over Mexico in 2002.  These two sides have a deep and stirring history that the media can not stop talking about . . . 1966, 1970, 1972, 1990, 1996 . . . [...] Relat ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Courtesy of ICanHasCheezburger. Related posts:Friday Reserve Fleet Blogging Friday Cat Blogging Friday Cat Blogging Related posts: Friday Reserve Fleet Blogging Friday Cat Blogging Friday Cat Blogging
  • LGM World Cup Challenge Update
    After group play it’s still anyone’s game, except for those who did really badly during group play: 1 Better Legs on Sofas, B. Mizelle 24 24 99.6 2 AlSu, A. Berry 23 23 98.8 2 timeagan101 1, T. Eagan 23 23 98.8 2 Great Russian Dinosaurs, M. Jeffery 23 23 98.8 5 Eccentr ...
  • Pompous Hack With No Sense of Shame of the Day
    Jeffrey Goldberg.   To see a guy who draws a very nice salary despite printing demonstrable falsehoods as propaganda for a war against a country that posed no significant threat to the United States and has led to hundreds of thousands of deths and the loss of trillions of dollars criticize the st ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Lawyers Representing Law Firms: When should a firm ...
    Step is needed when there's a potential claim by a client, to avoid conflicting fiduciary duties.
  • Kagan's Moment
    Sen. Patrick Leahy, who will chair the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, discusses his preparation for the hearing and what he plans to ask the U.S. solicitor general. Plus: The best of the worst from confirmation hearings past.
  • DOJ tries to fulfill death wish
    Attorney General Eric Holder seeks his first execution in a state with no death penalty.
  • Arms company fights to keep DOJ docs secret
    Documents that a military equipment company turned over to the Justice Department in one investigation are at issue in a separate FCPA case.
  • 1st Circuit reverses decision against Mass. real e ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has vacated a lower court's order that the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts Inc. pay a litigation opponent $904,076.17 in attorney fees and costs.

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

  • Natural Gas Use in U.S. To Double in Coming Decade ...
    Natural gas will play an increasingly important role in powering the U.S., doubling its share of the energy market from 20 percent to 40 percent within several decades, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A key reason behind the rise of natural gas is the increasing ...
  • Study Finds Link Between Climate and Size of Bird ...
    The size of a bird’s bill is linked to climate because of the role that bills play in maintaining body temperature , according to a new study. After examining 214 species of birds — including toucans, parrots, Canadian gamebirds, and penguins — researchers at the University of Melbourne and at Brock ...
  • U.S. Study Questions Expertise of Climate Change S ...
    The scientists who have opposed policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generally lack the expertise of those scientists warning that human activity is causing global warming , according to a study by researchers at Stanford University. After an analysis of the publishing background of 1,372 aca ...
  • Acidification and Other Ills Bring Oceans to Tippi ...
    Rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the world’s oceans, the spread of oxygen-free dead zones, and other human assaults on the seas are swiftly causing irreversible changes that have not occurred in several million years , according to a special issue of the journal Science . The review found tha ...
  • Interactive Resource Tracks Gulf Spill Response in ...
    The U.S. government this week launched an interactive resource that allows the public to follow developments in the BP oil spill and ongoing response efforts in “near-real-time.” Originally designed as a way to keep participants in the vast clean-up effort informed, the GeoPlatform uses the latest i ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • 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

  • `the cove` to screen in Japan despite protests
    Six theaters around the country will start showing the movie July 3rd., with sixteen more to show it later. Submitted by Bev B. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Fired UP & Out of Luck - JOBS ARE NEEDED NOW
    New link....Capitol Hill will go on break while millions lose benefits. Message me if you are unemployed, lost or losing benefits, 99'r....Let's start a Grassroot Campaign. I am so tired of looking for work, enless resumes to no avail. Submitted by Maurene T. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Canada, Put Animal Rights in the Constitution!
    It is about time Canada amends the constitution and steps up and provides national protection for all animals including lab animals. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Republicans Inflicting Big Pain on Americans for P ...
    This is almost unbelievable (unless if youve been paying attention): Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Michael Markarian: Animals & Politics: Fighting to ...
    The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed H.R. 5566, bipartisan legislation by Reps.Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., to crack down on traffickers of animal crush videos. Submitted by Cristina S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Safer Living with Chemistry
    Back in 1651 Thomas Hobbes described life in the state of nature as “nasty, brutish, and short.” But even in civilized society during his lifetime, most people lived under what we would consider wretched conditions. At that time, you were lucky if you lived past 30; our notion of basic sanitation d ...
  • Why Are Golden Arches Lightning Rods?
    It is obvious that anti-globalization forces suffer from a myopic fixation on symbols rather than offering arguments based on substance. The clearest evidence of this is the widespread attacks on McDonald’s outlets and other iconic symbols of Americana. Perhaps these protesters have poor powers of ...
  • Oil on Government’s Hands
    The more we learn about the government’s mismanagement of seabeds it controls and permit oil drilling on, the worse it looks: BP was required by federal regulators to base its [worst-case oil-spill] preparations on Interior Department models that were last updated in 2004…. The government models â ...
  • No Privacy For Petitioners
    “People who sign petitions to put referendums on state ballots do not have a general right under the First Amendment to keep their names secret, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in an 8-to-1 decision.” (New York Times, Friday) FEE Friday Open Thread: Leave a comment if you have an opinion on thi ...
  • Europe Turns to Budget Cuts
    U.S. political leaders like to talk about cutting budget deficits even while they are adding to them. But European leaders from Britain to Greece, under the gun of a withering financial crisis, are actually proposing and carrying out drastic and unprecedented cuts in everything from hallowed state p ...

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

  • BP's rainbows of death (video)
    Earlier this week, Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama and pilot Tom Hutchings of SouthWings flew over the Gulf Coast to BP's spewing oil rig to shoot video of the ongoing catastrophe. Heading out into the Gulf, they saw oil covering the water as far as the eye can see, and massi ...
  • GULF DISPATCH: Will BP disaster spark move to a ne ...
    Traveling along Gulf Coast fishing towns from Moss Point, Mississippi, to Louisiana bayou communities like Dulac and Lafitte, one hears a common refrain in the wake of the BP oil disaster: Families fear they're not only losing their livelihoods, but the extinction of entire culture that's sustained ...
  • The well-oiled wheels of justice
    Date on which federal Judge Martin Feldman (pictured at right) of the Eastern District of Louisiana overturned President Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico: 6/22/2010 Year in which Feldman was appointed to his post by President Reagan: 1983 Date as of which Feldma ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • Great Depression
    Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
  • Riel, Louis
    Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
  • Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
    Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
  • Confederation
    Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a rusty cheese grater?
    (My! doesn’t that sound like a smutty euphemism? :) ) We’ve had an email from Alicia: Because a leak caused damp, all the metal stuff in my kitchen cupboard went rusty while I was on holiday. Didn’t think that could happen but it has! There is a square grater, a colander and a seive. Can I do [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle 3D glasses?
    The Guardian’s Leo Hickman wrote an article yesterday about 3D glasses – how the current trend for jumping-out-at-you big screen action is causing a lot of waste: even with reusing and reconditioning schemes in place, around 7million pairs will be recycled into “plastic pellets” this year – and that ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make an irrigation ...
    I’m lucky because, working from home, I can take a plant-watering break pretty much whenever I or they need it – but I thought it was worth asking for people who have to leave their veggies baking in their greenhouse all day without a comfort break. Above ground sprinkler type things (like the one i ...
  • How can I stain my wedding dress?
    I got an email with the above subject line and assuming it was spam, braced myself for a rude message – but in fact it was a genuine reusing/upcycling question from Valerie: i am getting married again, but because it is my second marriage, i don’t want to spend a lot of money all over again. i [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle foam water pipe lagging ...
    This is usually the other way around – we usually suggest things that can be used to insulate water pipes – but I saw some foam water pipe lagging on the road today while walking the dog. I imagine it had blown off a nearby skip or been taken off by kids (because reuse [...]

Mondoweiss

  • ‘NYT’ reporter who grooved on Jewish t ...
    In the piece in tomorrow's NYT Magazine in which she describes the days of Jewish terrorism as "romantic," reporter Deborah Solomon serves up several softball questions to Tzipi Livni. Israel is approaching a crisis right now, stemming from the fact that half the population it governs are not repres ...
  • Why does U.S. soccer fall short?
    Wikipedia says that Americans coined the term "soccer mom" in 1995. That's 15 years ago. Those kids so assiduously ferried to sylvan suburban fields are now in their 20s. And the young American team was beaten by Ghana today, a country a tenth our size, soundly (yes, after two inspired American perf ...
  • Internet is undermining the authority & status of ...
    Yesterday I did a post about the humiliation of Jews and Palestinians that quoted Geoffrey Wawro's new book, and a passage in which Wawro wrote that Hitler's party won a majority in the 1932 elections in Germany. Within an hour or two I got two notes, from Mark Wauck and Harry Clark, telling me that ...
  • A tale of two schools
    When plans were announced in February 2007 to open the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), New York City's first dual-language Arabic public school, ugly anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia reared its head. � Yesterday, the New York Times profiled a Brooklyn-based Hebrew language charter schoo ...
  • ‘NYT’ story on anti-Zionists says thei ...
    This piece on the renewal of American anti-Zionism, by Samuel G. Freedman in the Religion column of the New York Times, includes the usual disclaimer, and some religious hokey-pokey too, but it is fair and important. I wonder if Freedman is not secretly sickened by the news from Jaffa Road. Freedman ...

Media Consortium

  • Economist reports success of mobile phone mag sale ...
    The Economist has claimed success with a new mobile-phone-based magazine sales ploy this week, as it reported its overall operating profit had climbed three per cent to £57.5m for the 12 months to April. In the annual report of parent company Economist Group, its UK managing director Nigel Ludlow o ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • Deepwater Horizon: BP shares take another batterin ...
    Already heavily hurt by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP’s share price took an additional pummelling today. At one point the company’s shares were trading below 300p, a 14-year low. They have since recovered to 307p, at the time of writing. The main driver seems to be speculation over the even ...
  • One fifth of 2008's research papers now open acces ...
    One in five research papers published in 2008 are now freely available on the internet, according to a recent survey ( PLoS ONE , 5 (6), e11273; 2010 ). Bo-Christer Björk and colleagues at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, manually checked the availability of 1837 articles, ra ...
  • New editor for Medical Hypotheses
    The new editor of the controversial Medical Hypotheses journal has vowed to keep publishing radical papers despite the implementation of peer review. The last editor, Bruce Charlton, was removed from the post after publishing a paper from Peter Duesberg has that stated there is “as yet no proof t ...
  • 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. ...

new geography

  • The G-20's New Balance of Power: The Productive E ...
    As world leaders gather in Canada this weekend, the nations with the most influence won't be the high-tech mavens. Joel Kotkin on why traditional industries still matter in the post-information age. Are we entering the post-information age? For much of the last quarter century, conventional wisd ...
  • G-20 Summit: There is No One Size Fits All
    There is one thing you need to remember as you listen to the debate about economic and fiscal policy at the G-20 Summit this weekend in Toronto: There is No One-Size-Fits All. There is not even a “One-Size-Fits Twenty.” Back in 2001, I summarized the few things about finance and economics that most ...
  • 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, ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • WaterCredit helps people help themselves (GCS)
    The New Door to Wealth in the Microfinance Community (Green Chip Stocks) – Water.org recently created a subsidiary, WaterCredit, that uses microfinance loans to support water and sanitation (watsan) projects. Although watsan organizations are not new, the use of micro-credit loans for watsan project ...
  • Rainwater harvesting a success in Philippines (Mal ...
    Water is Life! (Business Insight Malaya) Philippines - Water harvesting and conservation are already a practical and beneficial technology in a few rural areas in the Philippines. One of them, the “Water Partners” program in the Baranggay Villahermosa near Cebu, on Camotes Island, started in 2003. ...
  • 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 ...

Before It's News

RockCreekFreePress

  • 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

  • Who Died And Made BP King Of The Gulf Of Mexico?
    There is one question that I would really like an answer to.  Who died and made BP king of the Gulf of Mexico?  In recent weeks, BP has almost seemed more interested in keeping the American people away from the oil spill than in actually cleaning it up.  Journalists are being pushed around and denie ...
  • Will Genetic Modification Usher In A New Age Of Pr ...
    In recent years, scientists around the globe have made absolutely stunning advances in the field of genetic modification.  For decades, researchers have been decoding DNA and transplanting genes from one organism into another, but over the past decade things have been taken to a completely new level ...
  • 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 ...

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

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Votes due on green energy measures
The News Journal
- Jun 27, 2010
- 8 hours ago
The measures, which could come to a final vote on Tuesday, include terms that would extend until 2025 annual increases in the share of renewable energy, ...
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Michigan gov. hails renewable energy deal
UPI.com
- Jun 25, 2010
- Jun 25, 2010
LANSING, Mich., June 25 (UPI) -- A move by Michigan utility company Consumer Energy to purchase renewable energy from state sources is a step toward a green ...
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KEMA Sees Opportunities for Storage Applications in High-Penetration Renewables
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 23, 2010
- Jun 23, 2010
The information from this project contributes to PIER's Renewable Energy Technologies Program. KEMA worked closely with the ISO to assess the impacts of ...
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Combating the BP oil spill
Ocala
- Jun 27, 2010
- 4 hours ago
The Banner also mentioned my "sudden affection for renewable energy development." In 2005, I helped enact the Energy Policy Act that promotes clean fuels ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Homeland Security Capital Corporation's Subsidiary Safety and Ecology ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 21, 2010
- Jun 21, 2010
Safety and Ecology Corporation (SEC) is a rapidly growing environmental services company in the US, providing services nationally, in Europe and the ...
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Post Earnings Update: American Ecology Has Trended 3.73% Lower In Past 59 Days ...
Comtex Smartrend
- Jun 25, 2010
- Jun 25, 2010
By Chip Brian When American Ecology (NASDAQ:ECOL) reported earnings 59 days ago on April 27, 2010, analysts, on average, expected the company to report ...
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Wild food and ecology tour Sunday
Danbury News Times
- Jun 24, 2010
- Jun 24, 2010
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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Wash., TransAlta reach deal on mercury, haze
Seattle Times
- Jun 21, 2010
- Jun 21, 2010
The Washington Department of Ecology has reached a deal to reduce mercury and smog-causing pollution at a major coal-fired power plant though ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
House panel investigating Camp Lejeune water contamination
Kansas City Star
- Jun 25, 2010
- Jun 25, 2010
By BARBARA BARRETT A congressional oversight committee has begun looking into new details about the history of water contamination at the Marines' Camp ...
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New state agency tries to revive delta
San Francisco Chronicle
- Jun 27, 2010
- 9 hours ago
Over the past 10 years, California spent more than $3.5 billion on an agency that failed to solve the water crisis in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ...
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Records show county failed to clean up water at Pescadero farm
San Jose Mercury News
- Jun 25, 2010
- Jun 25, 2010
By Julia Scott A sign warning of unsafe drinking water is shown inside Liobijilda Barrida's labor camp housing along the Cabrillo Highway in Pescadero, ...
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Raccoon blamed for 5-hour downtown Memphis outage
The Associated Press
- Jun 26, 2010
- 22 hours ago
Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division president Jerry Collins told The Commercial Appeal said the raccoon climbed more than 30 feet, over barriers intended ...
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