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IPS - Inter Press Services

• HONDURAS: The Military Still Have Veto Power
  The de facto veto power that the military exercised with the toppling of president Manuel Zelaya exactly one year ago today effectively blocks any possible political or electoral reforms, experts say.
• US-AFGHANISTAN: What Now?
  Nearly a week after the abrupt demise of Washington's top commander in Afghanistan, U.S. strategy for reversing the flood of bad news that has been recently pouring out of that strife-torn country remains as unclear as ever.
• US: Gun Control Groups Divided on High Court Rulin ...
  Monday's Supreme Court decision on the extent to which the Second Amendment of the U.S. constitution guarantees the universal right to own a gun is being welcomed by organisations on both sides of the debate, even as some warn that the ruling could to open a floodgate of legislation chal ...
• UGANDA: Too Young to Know, Yet Too Young to Die
  Thirteen-year-old Jacinta Okello and her fellow primary school classmates call it "doing bad manners". But when you ask her what she knows about sex, she breaks into a shy smile, looks to her feet and giggles.
• URUGUAY: Incubating Businesses and ICT Job Prospec ...
  "Without this opportunity, I might never have been able to get a higher education," says Paolo Carabajal, one of the beneficiaries of a digital development plan in this city in northwestern Uruguay.

Scoop - NZ

• Karzai meets Siraj Haqqani
  Reports from Afghanistan indicate that the president of Afghanistan, the head of Pakistan's military intelligence service, and Pakistan's army chief all met recently with the al Qaeda-linked leader of the Haqqani Network, one of the most dangerous terror groups operating in the country. Afghan Pres ...
• Gulf spill plays havoc with real estate
  The phone call was short and to the point: A buyer who had agreed to spend $500,000 (U.S.) on a beachfront home with a stunning view of the Gulf of Mexico was backing out. The cancelled sale was a blow to real estate agent Linda Henderson, but it wasn't a surprise. Globs of thick, pungent oil are w ...
• BBC: Romania pension cut ruled illegal
  A top court in Romania has ruled out a pension cut demanded by the country's government as part of a deficit-cutting financial austerity measure. The government wanted to cut state pensions by 15%, as well as slashing wages and welfare allowances. But the Constitutional Court said the pension cut ...
• Europe's Fiscal Dystopia: the "New Austerity"
  Europe is committing fiscal suicide - and will have little trouble finding allies at this weekend's G-20 meetings in Toronto. Despite the deepening Great Recession threatening to bring on outright depression, European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet and prime ministers from Britain' ...
• US reforms: Derivatives blow for Wall Street banks
  Wall Street banks will be forced to hive off some of the most complex forms of derivatives trading and be allowed to hold on to only small parts of their private equity and hedge fund businesses as a result of the most sweeping reforms to the US financial services industry since the Great Depression ...

Independent ( London )

• US charges 10 Russian 'agents' with spying
  The US Government claimed last night to have broken up a spy ring of mainly Russian "illegals" – deep-cover agents whose job it was to make political contacts in America and send back information to Moscow.
• Two arrested over journalist killing
  Rwandan authorities have arrested two people over the shooting of a reporter who had criticised the government. Security minister Moussa Fazil Harelimana told journalists that one of the two has confessed.
• Pressure mounts on Iran as oil firms pull out
  Iran faced growing economic pressure yesterday after two Western oil firms halted business with it, and a Gulf Arab country seen as a trade lifeline for Tehran moved to freeze some Iranian-linked bank accounts.
• Belgium urges Vatican to stay out of child sex abu ...
  Belgium has defended itself after Pope Benedict XVI blasted a series of raids by investigators and the detention of senior clerics in a child sex abuse investigation as "deplorable".
• The reports of his death were exaggerated... at fi ...
  At the time, it sounded either brave, or foolish. With the benefit of hindsight, it was probably both. On Saturday afternoon, Sergio Vega, a Mexican musician known as "El Shaka" gave an interview to an entertainment website announcing that rumours of his grisly murder had been greatly exaggerated. ...

Rogue Government.com

• New Boeing Spaceship Targets Commercial Missions
  As NASA's space shuttle fleet draws close to retirement, aerospace juggernaut Boeing is hard at work developing a new capsule-based spaceship to fly people to and from the International Space Station.
• Climate change could wipe out 40% of species in A ...
  Arab countries will be devastated by climate change, which threatens to wipe out almost half of the species in the region and transform the Levant into an “infertile crescent”, warned a report released on Sunday.
• Genetically Modified Glow In The Dark Fish
• U.S. Charges 11 With Acting as Agents for Russia
  In what law enforcements officials portrayed as an extraordinary takedown of a Russian espionage network, the Justice Department on Monday announced charges against 11 people accused of living for years in the United States as part of a deep-cover program by S.V.R. -- one of the successors to the S ...
• Lieberman cybersecurity bill goes to Senate floor ...
  It's up to the full Senate now to evaluate the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved an amended version of the bill June 24.

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

• Erdogan: Turkish Airspace Closed to Israel
  Turkey's prime minister is quoted as saying Monday that his country has closed its airspace to Israeli flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Toronto that Turkey imposed the ban after the May 31 raid on a Turkish ship that was part of a si ...
• SBA declines 70 percent of Louisiana businesses ap ...
  In an eerie repeat of difficulties after Hurricane Katrina, the Small Business Administration is turning down more than two-thirds of Louisiana companies seeking Gulf oil spill relief loans, according to a top state official's complaint to the federal agency Thursday. Louisiana Economic Development ...
• What's For Dinner? (You Don't Want to Know)
  Seen a fly in your soup lately? Well, that's nothing compared with what you don't see in your strawberry yogurt or the sprinkles on your doughnut. Crushed bugs. You've been eating them for years. You just didn't know it. That's right. The "color added" ingredient in some red, pink and purple food ...
• Ten arrested in US on charges of spying for Russia
  Ten people have been arrested in the US for allegedly spying for the Russian government, US officials say. They are charged with conspiracy to act as unlawful agents of a foreign government, a crime which carries up to five years in prison. An 11th suspect remains at large, according to the US j ...
• Israel and the Palestinians: The Irish connection
  Recent attempts to deliver aid to Gaza by sea, in defiance of the Israeli blockade, revealed a strong Irish dimension. Vincent Dowd reports from Dublin on the connections between Ireland and the Palestinian cause. For three years journalist Eoghan Harris has been an independent member of the Iris ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Vacant of thought; absence of innovation
  This editorial in the Globe and Mail could have been so much more. The opener was tantalizing enough but then it wanders off into a minefield. D espite the best efforts of radical protesters aptly called thugs, G20 security accomplished its most critical task. Summit work was conducted without di ...
• Mr. Harper
  "I don't like you Mr. Harper. I don’t like what you’ve done to my democracy, my country, and my city." - Posterchild , via Torontoist and Thor
• How to match a headline with a photo...
  Over at Laila Yuile's .
• Where's it all leading?
  Some reflections on this weekend's events in Toronto: There's an equation of sorts that emerges from these organise protests. 1. There will always be masked window smashers and rock chuckers. If they are absent, Montebello has shown the police are quite willing to provide their own. 2. The presen ...
• Charlie ain't happy . . .
  THE NY TIMES MAGAZINE has an article, "Tuna's End" , by Paul Greenburg. Doesn't look good for bluefin.  What was in the water that day was a congregation of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a fish that when prepared as sushi is one of the most valuable forms of seafood in the world. It’s also a fish that regu ...

Media Matters for America

• On first day of hearing, Special Report&n ...
  Fox News'� Special Report� used the first day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing to push several myths and falsehoods about Elena Kagan. MYTH: Kagan supported a "ban on campus military recruitment" at Harvard Law CLAIM: Kagan supported a "controversial wartime ban on campus military recruit ...
• Limbaugh distorts Obama's remarks to accuse him o ...
  Rush Limbaugh distorted comments President Obama made at the G-20 summit in Toronto to falsely claim Obama wants "to cut the United States down to size." In fact, Obama was referring to "the need for currencies that are market-driven" in order for countries such as China not to have an "undue a ...
• Beck falsely claims financial reform bill would l ...
  Glenn Beck falsely claimed that under current financial regulatory reform legislation, the government can "grab" companies it thinks are "a danger to the nation," including Fox News and Clear Channel. However, the bill would allow the government to seize banks and "nonbank financial" institutio ...
• MSNBC's Guthrie advances falsehoods to claim Kaga ...
  On MSNBC, Savannah Guthrie falsely claimed that Elena Kagan "has never been in private practice ... never tried a case, never litigated a case in court." In fact, Kagan has worked in private practice, has argued before the Supreme Court, and has legal experience comparable to that of conserva ...
• Beck falsely claims Kagan "moved" Harvard Law cur ...
  Glenn Beck falsely claimed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan "decided to take the Harvard Law program and move it now from case study to global law." In fact, changes made to Harvard Law's first-year curriculum supplemented but did not replace "traditional first-year curriculum" and were unani ...

Global Research.ca

• NEW BOOK FROM GLOBAL RESEARCH: The Global Economi ...
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• Political and Social Instability in Kyrgyzstan
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Reaching too Far, Delving too Deep: The Well from ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Rwanda, Congo and Law Professor Peter Erlin ...
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• China and the Reconfiguration of the World System ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• America Speaks Back: The Effort to Gut Social Secu ...
  The opponents of Social Security and Medicare are getting in high gear. After all, it makes perfect sense that after the collapse of a housing bubble has just destroyed the life savings of near retirees that we would cut their Social Security and Medicare. Okay, at least in Washington that makes per ...
• In Deficit "Town Meetings," People Reject America ...
  On Saturday, the group known as America Speaks (funded by Wall Street mogul Peter G. Peterson and two other foundations) brought together several thousand people in meetings in 60 cities. They gave participants misleading background information about the Federal deficit and economic options to achi ...
• Silwan: Raising The Stakes
  Friday afternoon, about 500 organizers and supporters of the Sheikh Jarrah movement brought the weekly protest to Silwan , where the Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat recently announced a plan to raze a wide swath of buildings , 22 in all, to build an "archaeological park." Barkat's idea is to expand what ...
• 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 ...

TruthOut

• Day 1: Question of "Activist Judges" Dominates Kag ...
  Photographically, the setup for Solicitor General Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing was identical to that of Justice Sonia Sotomayor's: a spare table with water, the blue-suited nominee facing a semi-circle of senators, a horseshoe of photographers crouching on the floor and scrambling for the best ...
• Vandalism, a Dead-End Tactic at Toronto G20 Demons ...
  During Saturday’s nonviolent protest of about 5,000 activists outside the conference center in downtown Toronto, where leaders of the G20 were meeting, several hundred masked figures dressed in black broke away from and started torching police cars and smashing store fronts. Not only did this steal ...
• New in Brief: Husband of Justice Ruth Ginsburg Has ...
  Martin D. Ginsburg, husband of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has died at 78, according to the New York Times . ------------------ read more
• Burma Election: Are Activists the New Third Force ...
  The Burma election this year is widely expected to reinforce the junta’s power. But some nonprofits support the vote, and dozens of political parties are taking part, in hopes of chipping away at military rule. Rangoon, Burma - Inside a humid room, rows of neatly dressed Burmese students are quizzi ...
• Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving Member of Congress, D ...
  Washington - Sen. Robert Byrd was very much a man of his turbulent era and a man of West Virginia, able to dramatically influence and shape policy for more than half a century while bestowing billions on his beloved state. Byrd died at 3 a.m. Monday after a short hospitalization. He was 92. On one ...

Planetsave

• Environmental Impact of Toronto’s G8 and G20 ...
  Toronto hosts G20 and violent protests create serious environmental costs, in addition to the hefty monetary bill that can be attributed to the hosting of delegates from 20 countries. It might not be receiving the same level of international coverage, but in Canada, we have all been sitting glued ...
• Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Securi ...
  In this Earth Policy Institute post, Lester R. Brown discusses the problem of water shortages across the world and potential solutions to this problem. Lester R. Brown With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to th ...
• Beautiful Gulf of Mexico Beach Photos (10 Friday P ...
  10 beautiful photos of the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico’s beautiful beaches. I grew up on the Gulf of Mexico coast in Southern Florida. It has been horrible and scary to see what is happening and to read about what might happen as a result of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Additi ...
• 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 pe ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water News Roundup – June 28, 2010
  Salt Lake Tribune: Utah anglers may have to buy stream access – State fisheries managers want to ove
• June 2010 - special monitoring for e-coli
  The regular monitoring 4 days ago had REALLY high e-coli counts, so our wonderful  LCRA contact Lisa
• Northeast Mayfly Mayhem is a Sign of Good Water Qu ...
  Holster your fly swatters, everyone: This is the kind of bad bug problem that’s really a good
• ETHANOL- Another Washington Boondoggle
  I just returned from Eastern Service in Cambridge MD. without our 1-year-old Husqvarna chain saw. Da
• MMWD Releases 2010 Annual Water Quality Report
  Cover art by Donna Solin Test Results Show, Once Again, that MMWD’s Drinking Water is of Super

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Because we must… for their sake by Jason Miller
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• Where Have all the Peaceniks Gone? by Cindy Sheeha ...
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• The Civilian and the General: The Reality Behind t ...
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• The Mainstream Media Mind Warp by Sean Fenley
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• Part 1: The Global Political Awakening and the New ...
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Axis of Logic

• Leader of Deathsquads Wins Colombian Election - Co ...
  Juan Manuel Santos, notorious Defense Minister in the regime of outgoing President Alvaro Uribe and closely identified with high crimes against humanity “won” the recent Presidential elections in Colombia, June 2010.� The major electronic and print media CNN, FOX News, Washington Post, the New York ...
• Tribute to Hans Garrett Blough - Axis Reflections
  For the first sharp pangs there is no comfort; whatever goodness may surround us, darkness and silence still hang about our pain. But slowly, the clinging companionship with the dead is linked with our living affections and duties, and we begin to feel our sorrow as a solemn initiation, preparing. ...
• Hazem Qumsiyeh. A Salute and Remembrance from Axis ...
  Editorial Comment: We at Axis of Logic wish to pay tribute to one of our heroes, relatively unknown outside Palestine. Hazem Qumsiyeh was brother-in-law to Mazin Qumsiyeh who works in Palestine and has been an activist and a faithful voice of Palestinians throughout the world by means of his report ...
• Hey G20, welcome to Canada: Now get the hell out - ...
  A lot of broken windows, spray-painted graffiti, some torched police cars, about 900 arrests, professional anarchists who seem to have had no trouble breaching the tightest security Canada has ever mounted, more than a billion dollars spent on a pho ...
• Bloodless Coup d’état in Australia - Featured
  The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was elected in 2007 by a majority of Australians. On Thursday morning, June 24, 2010, Mr Rudd was ousted and replaced by his deputy, Ms Julia Gillard, in one of the most vicious political executions ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Not Another Dime; Not Another Life
  So we've reached the everybody-knows-we've-lost-but-we're-still-wasting-lives-and-treasure stage of the Afghanistan clusterfuck. Derrick Crowe at FireDogLake: One of the gems buried in Michael Hastings' now ubiquitous Rolling Stone article is a senior adviser to General McChrystal thanking his lucky ...
• America, 2010, and America, 1934: How Are We Diffe ...
  The America of 1934 was much worse off than the America of today. But there are some parallels: stubbornly high unemployment, pay cuts, political polarization, a field day for demagogues, a right-wing Supreme Court confronting a liberal Democrat in the Oval Office ... above all, a general feeling am ...
• This is one of those things that makes me scream i ...
  I love GAO reports. They tell the brutal truth, no matter whose ox gets gored in the telling, even when that gored ox is one of our sacred cows like the VA. � The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the organization tasked with making sure that Veterans who qualify for services like health care s ...
• The Supreme Court gets it right in Christian Legal ...
  One of these days, and I may actually live long enough to see it, the law is going to get around to viewing all three of my children the same way I do - as equals. Today, the Supreme Court handed down theirin ruling (.pdf) in the case of Christian Legal Society v Martinez . �Their ruling assures t ...
• Handguns for everyone!
  The Roberts Court - the most activist Supreme Court in modern times if not the entire history of the institution - today overturned Chicago's 28-year-old handgun ban , thereby restraining the government's ability to limit the Second Amendment "right to keep and bear arms." By a narrow, 5-4 vote, th ...

Care 2

• Save our Australian forests
  This is a once in a generation opportunity to protect our native forests. But to do that we have to let the forestry industry and Australian governments at all levels know we are serious about reform. That begins with a massive sign up to these two core Submitted by Albert M. to Environment �|� �No ...
• PLZ SIGN: U.S. Residents: Support the Prevention ...
  The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act would prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption. Submitted by Brenda H. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Asahiyama's Natural Touch
  Far from the dreary days of cramped cages, Hokkaido's Asahiyama Zoo tries to offer a place where animals can be themselves. -- yet another input for the discussion whether a zoo is good or bad. Submitted by Naoko I. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Simulcast Voted In, But No Live Dog Racing in Mass ...
  Even though we are disappointed by this vote, please note that live dog racing will not return to Massachusetts. For the moment, please thank the ten wonderful lawmakers who stood up and spoke for the greyhounds last night. They are listed below. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Psychological toll of Gulf of Mexico oil spill qui ...
  Psychiatrists who treated people after Katrina and have held group sessions in oil spill-stricken areas say the symptoms showing up are much the same: Anger. Anxiety. Drinking. Depression. Suicidal thoughts Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Across Sectors, Companies Report Big Savings from ...
  We've seen a flurry of CSR reports released over the last week from high-profile companies touting their social and environmental achievements, including AT&T, Ball, Baxter, EMC and SABMiller. Though they hail from a wide variety of sectors, the metrics used to report environmental performance fa ...
• Climate Corps 2010: Do CEOs Care About Energy Effi ...
  How does the view of sustainability differ between the C-level and facilities managers (and others on the ground)? The EDF Climate Corps fellow at SAP compares the approach taken by soft giant to that of general industry.
• Building a Greener Tastykake
  The Tasty Baking Company has moved its operations into what it is calling the world's largest green bakery.
• 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.

Reuters Global

• Pakistan’s policy on Afghanistan: finding th ...
  A report out this month on the Taliban by Antonio Giustozzi offers a rare window into Pakistan's opaque policy towards Afghanistan.
• 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

Booman Tribune

• Getting Stuff Done
  Breaking up Russian spy rings is all part of a hard day's work. I especially like the Husband-Wife spy-teams. They're the most interesting.
• GOP Dog Whistle Blows on Marshall
  Be careful which Judicial hero you choose future Supreme Court nominees, especially those selected by Democratic Presidents. Because if, like Elena Kagan, you admire the first African American Supreme Court Justice and the lead attorney in the seminal civil rights case in our nation's history, Brown ...
• Your Lousy Supreme Court
  From now on, militia has nothing to do with it.
• Thoughts on Sports
  When it comes to sports, I definitely love baseball the best, but I can't watch games that don't involve the Yankees without getting bored unless they are playoff games. Of course, I not infrequently will pull over to watch an inning or two of little league. But, for the most part, I concede the l ...
• Getting Stuff Done
  Gotta like this move: WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama moved on Monday to free up more wireless communications spectrum to cope with the explosion in the use of mobile devices. Obama signed a presidential memorandum that would make 500 megahertz of federal government and commercial wireles ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 29 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1921 Frédéric Dard,...
• Monday Open Thread
  It's Monday. There's still some football...
• Whe we are in Afghanistan
  While we're being told that our governments are broke and must reduce payments to pensioners,...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 28 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1943 Jens Birkemose,...
• Sunday Afternoon Open Thread
  To discuss Germany-England and everything else......

Futurismic

• From punk rock to politics: new Icelandic career a ...
  This story’s all over the place, for obvious reasons: not only has Iceland put same-sex marriages on equal footing with the more old-fashioned kind (and seen its prime minister marry her partner under said law) and signed in a raft of free speech protections to its legislature, but the capital city ...
• The Ten Errors of Science Fiction
  Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines – nothing tends to rile science fiction folk so much as folk from outside the ghetto loudly pronouncing that OMFG UR DOIN IT RONG, and this piece by Dr Sam Vaknin should provide great fodder for some hard sf advocacy and righteous ire. So fetch your popcorn, ...
• Personal Information: episode 18
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 18 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• Personal Information: episode 18
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 18 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• New Research: Sense of Touch Influences Our Social ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers from three major universities – Harvard, Yale, and MIT – have found that sense of touch influences the way we judge and perceive interpersonal interactions. For example, people sitting on hard chairs were more apt to drive a hard bargain in price negotiati ...
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Zeitgeist
  By Marc Handelman, Ph.D. Click here to contact Marc and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Psychologists talk about the “zeitgeist” – a German word that means the spirit of the times. In the early part of the 20th century, the zeitgeist in psychology was inarguably Freudian; the ways people thought ...
• How Primary Caregivers Can Help Treat Depression a ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A team of researchers at University College London, led by John Cape, have undertaken an ambitious meta-analysis of 34 studies (covering 2963 patients) to compare different types of treatment for depression and anxiety. The studies measured the effectiveness of several ...
• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Over the years, Byrd evolved on coal stance - Char ...
  New York Times (blog) Over the years, Byrd evolved on coal stance Charleston Gazette Robert C. Byrd took to the floor of the Senate to defend his effort to legislate away a federal court ruling that would limit mountaintop-removal coal ... Remembering Sen. Robert C. Byrd Charleston Gazette (blog) F ...
• Manchin WVDEP hires lawyers to challenge EPA's eff ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Manchin WVDEP hires lawyers to challenge EPA's efforts to curb mountaintop ... Charleston Gazette (blog) The Manchin administration has already hired outside counsel to represent the WVDEP in case state officials decide to sue the EPA over its new water quality ... ...
• Remembering Sen. Robert C. Byrd - Charleston Gazet ...
  New York Times (blog) Remembering Sen. Robert C. Byrd Charleston Gazette (blog) But as the urgency for action on climate change became more and more apparent, and as the science showing the harmful effects of mountaintop removal grew ... From prejudice to progress: The political evolution of Sen. R ...
• What I Learned in Detroit - AlterNet (blog)
  AlterNet (blog) What I Learned in Detroit AlterNet (blog) At the United States Social Forum in Detroit I concentrated on three areas: reclaiming the commons, organic farms and the end of mountaintop removal . ... and more��
• Reading part of Grailville's new Third Sunday Poet ...
  Cincinnati.com Reading part of Grailville's new Third Sunday Poetry Series Cincinnati.com He is the co-author of "Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal " and the editor of "We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop ... and more��

Memeorandum

• Steve Forbes celebrates Robert Byrd's death: 'Good ...
  Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress : Steve Forbes celebrates Robert Byrd's death: ‘Good news’ for Wall Street.   —  News of Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-WV) death has been met with an outpouring of reverence for his distinguished career, with even political opponents, like Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ( ...
• US Supreme Court deals pedophilia blow for Vatican ...
  Raw Story : US Supreme Court deals pedophilia blow for Vatican   —  The US Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal by the Vatican in a landmark case that opens the way for priests in the United States to stand trial for pedophilia.  —  Allowing a federal appeals court ruling to stand …
• Ten Alleged Secret Agents Arrested in the United S ...
  The United States Department of Justice : Ten Alleged Secret Agents Arrested in the United States … Eight individuals were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, “deep-cover” assignments in the United States on behalf of the Russian Federation, the Justice Department announced today. ...
• Rand Paul refuses to say how old the earth is (Med ...
  Media Czech / Barefoot and Progressive : Rand Paul refuses to say how old the earth is   —  I attended a fancy Christian Homeschool Educators of Kentucky (CHEK) conference on Friday, where Liberty Christ himself showed up to give a sermon and answer (and dodge) a few questions.  —  Here is the que ...
• Tennant Statement On Procedure To Fill Vacant Sena ...
  Jake Glance / sos.wv.gov : Tennant Statement On Procedure To Fill Vacant Senate Seat   —  “Hello I am West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant.  —  “This is a sad time for our state.  I want to express my condolences to Senator Byrd's family.  I also want to express my condolences to the pe ...

Energy & Environment News

• Ackland Journal: New Hope Coal Extracts an Austral ...
  A 120-year-old town, down to its last home, has become a catalyst for pent-up anger over the coal industry’s recent push into populated and farming areas.
• BP Discussing a Backup Strategy to Plug Well
  The contingency plan is the latest sign that with the most vexing of engineering challenges — snuffing a gusher 5,000 feet down in the gulf — nothing is certain.
• Green Column: Environmentalists Use Oil Spill as a ...
  The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been declared the worst environmental catastrophe ever in the United States. And that could help American environmentalists in the long run.
• Toxic Mercury Is More at Home in Seawater, Study F ...
  A new study suggests that mercury in saltwater fish like tuna, mackerel and sharks pose more risks to humans than mercury in freshwater fish. Mercury in seawater is more likely to be present in a toxic form, researcher report in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience.
• Is a New Reactor Rust-Prone?
  Approval of the design for the Westinghouse AP 1000 reactor is slowly moving forward at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as are the financial arrangements for building the nation's first one, near Augusta, Ga. Yet the argument about whether its design is really safer than past models is advancing, ...

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.8, Bio-Bio, Chile
  Tuesday, June 29, 2010 01:40:02 UTC Monday, June 28, 2010 09:40:02 PM at epicenter Depth : 24.60 km (15.29 mi)
• M 5.5, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
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• M 5.0, Vanuatu
  Monday, June 28, 2010 23:14:35 UTC Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:14:35 AM at epicenter Depth : 30.90 km (19.20 mi)
• M 5.3, Solomon Islands
  Monday, June 28, 2010 18:22:59 UTC Tuesday, June 29, 2010 05:22:59 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.7, Solomon Islands
  Monday, June 28, 2010 18:19:08 UTC Tuesday, June 29, 2010 05:19:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

China Dialogue

• Fixing the food chain
  The Shanghai Expo has triggered a familiar clampdown on food-safety violations in China. But, says Jiang Gaoming, the public needs protecting all the time – not just at international events. By the time it closes in October, the Shanghai World Expo is expected to have attracted 206 nations and inter ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The US Social Forum in Detroit: Appreciation and Q ...
  By Dave Belden crossposted from Tikkun DailyI spent last week at the US Social Forum in Detroit. I have got used to seeing a preponderance of baby boomers at left demos and conferences, but this was different: tons of young people, and a wide range of everybody. That was super-encouraging But I am n ...
• Montana GOP Seeks to ‘Keep Homosexual Acts I ...
  Cross-posted from Think Progress. Andy Towle is reporting that like the Texas GOP, the Montana Republican Party has adopted a platform that would criminalize “homosexual acts”: Homosexual Acts We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts ill ...
• Mobile Slaughterhouses Promoting Local, Sustainabl ...
  If we are to re-localize meat production away from the four giant corporations, the small farmers will need processing facilities appropriate to their scale of production.
• Is Gov. Bobby Jindal Sabotaging Gulf Efforts for P ...
  He has delayed the deployment of National Guard troops, led a crusade to build sand berms thatexperts say won't work, and confused the planning of the spill response.
• Rand Paul at Christian Homeschoolers Conference: S ...
  Cross-posted from Hullabaloo. Barefoot and Progressive went to a Christian Homeschool Educators of Kentucky conference where Rand Paul was featured and took questions. (This group’s objective is to “protect children from mental physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by secular humanists in a soci ...

Threat Level

• FTC: Scammers Stole Millions Using Micro Charges t ...
  A gang of unknown thieves has stolen nearly $10 million using micro charges made to more than a million credit and debit cards in an elaborate multiyear scam, according to a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission in March. The fraudulent charges went unnoticed by the majority of card owners b ...
• Supreme Court Balks at Redrawing Patent Rules
  The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a patent for a method to hedge weather-related financial risk, but declined to make it more difficult to patent “business methods” or software. The unanimous court found the patent too “abstract,” but emphasized that its ruling was intended neither to narrow ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Supreme Court rules against Christian group that b ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A university can legally deny recognition to a Christian student group that bars gays and nonbelievers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a case that pitted anti-discrimination principles against religious freedom.
• Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration law chal ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear a legal challenge by business, civil rights and immigration groups to an Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
• Supreme Court extends gun rights to states, cities
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended gun rights to every state and city in the nation, in a ruling likely to spur new challenges to gun control measures across the United States.
• Factbox: Winners and losers at the G20 summit
  TORONTO (Reuters) - The Group of 20 ended a summit on Sunday saying its top priority was strengthening the shaky economic recovery and pledging to clean up debt-burdened public finances without stunting growth.
• Obama says he's serious about tackling deficits
  TORONTO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring U.S. budget deficits and said that would involve presenting Americans with "some very difficult choices" next year.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #378
  Analysis: Will McChrystal's intel staff survive his exit? Knesset thanks Hamas leader's son for spying for Israel. Iran embassy dismisses Czech report on weapons smuggling.
• CIA slowly opens up about botched 1952 mission in ...
  The CIA has produced an hour-long documentary about a failed 1952 covert mission inside China, which resulted in the death of two American pilots and the capture of two CIA paramilitary officers, who spent a total of 40 years in Chinese prisons.
• Has US Pentagon revived Bush-era domestic spy prog ...
  A little-known US Department of Defense counterintelligence is suspected to have resuscitated a notorious Bush-era domestic surveillance program, which was banned by Congress for being too obtrusive.
• Germany refuses to drop Mossad prosecution, despit ...
  German-Israeli relations sunk to a new low this week, after the German government rejected Israel’s call to drop a public investigation into the actions of a suspected Israeli spy.
• News you may have missed #377
  Romania sentences two for espionage. Yemen arrests leader of attack on southern spy HQ. Top US senator has concerns about Obama’s DNI nominee.

After Downing Street.org

• Facebook Has Deleted Boycott BP, Leaving Almost 80 ...
  Facebook Has Deleted Boycott BP, Leaving Almost 800,000 Fans Hanging | CNN I-report As recently as 30 minutes ago, Facebook has removed the main "Boycott BP" from it's page. With it, it leave almost 800,000 fans hanging. This group was created with the intent of sending a clear and strong message ...
• Pelosi and Hoyer Trying to Pass War Escalation Fun ...
  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who will openly tell you he does whatever President Obama and Speaker Pelosi instruct, can bring the war escalation funding to the House floor despite the opposition of Appropriations Chairman David Obey.� This is because the House passed the bill without the war e ...
• Agent Orange - Graves' Disease
  Agent Orange Exposure Linked to Graves' Disease in Vietnam Veterans, UB Study Finds June 28, 2010 Vietnam War-era veterans exposed to Agent Orange appear to have significantly more Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, than veterans with no exposure, a new study by endocrinologists at the University ...
• Rep. Lowey Challenges Obama Directly on War Strate ...
  NOTE: IT'S THE REST OF IT THAT IS WASTE. We can either spend another quarter-trillion to a trillion over the next few years for this phony, economics-driven insurgency, or we can do what works and get out now. The little girl starving in the video below is in Kandahar in 2007, five years after we ...
• Afghanistan, America's Longest War, and the Perfec ...
  Afghanistan, America's Longest War, and the Perfect Arc of Failure By Mark Karlin | Buzzflash When the invasion of Afghanistan occurred not long after 9/11, there were repeated stories -- if one looked deeply enough -- of both speculative and proven involvement of a pro-Taliban, pro-Al Qaeda wing o ...

Grist - News

• G20 makes itsy-bitsy progress on fossil-fuel subsi ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. The G20 summit wrapped up in Toronto on Sunday without much action on one of its most sensible targets: phasing out wasteful fossil-fuel subsidies. Those subsidies amount to a crazy $550 billion a year worldwide , and the G20 agreed to look at how to rid the world of them las ...
• What Robert Byrd’s death means for the clima ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who died early this morning at the age of 92, fought for most of his legendary career to keep keeping coal mining at the center of West Virginia's economy. But in the last few months of his life, he hinted at a remarkable change of heart, speaking ...
• ‘Carbon storage’ faces leak dilemma, s ...
  by Agence France-Presse. PARIS -- Dreams of braking global warming by storing carbon emissions from power plants could be undermined by the risk of leakage, according to a study published on Sunday. Rich countries have earmarked tens of billions of dollars of investment in carbon capture and sto ...
• G8 leaders stand still on climate; will G20 backtr ...
  by David Turnbull. It was a tale of two cities Saturday in Toronto for this climate activist.  One of hope and the other of boredom.   Saturday morning, I joined Greenpeace, Oxfam, the Canadian Labor Congress, and about 5,000 activists at a peaceful rally calling on G8 and G20 leaders to take st ...
• 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 ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• The Newsroom in 2025
  The future of the media business in 2025 looks very much like what it does in 2010; civilian journalists are in the content driver's seat
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• Why Is Bart Stupak Apologizing For BP?
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Time - Top Stories

• Outsourcing in Afghanistan: Who's Protecting Our S ...
  The main supply lines for U.S. operations into Afghanistan are dependent on warlords of dubious allegiance and a Central Asian nation on the verge of disintegration
• A 'Modest' Day One for Kagan's Hearings
  Day 1 is done in Solicitor General Elena Kagan's hearings to become the 112th Supreme Court justice. Thus far there has been relatively little about Kagan herself
• Cloud Seeding: Another Idea Down the Drain
  Never mind that a single sweltering summer can never be traced directly to global warming: Hot weather causes even some of the noisiest climate-change deniers to start to get serious
• Freezing Eggs to Delay Starting a Family?
  New research from Belgium and the U.K. suggests that women may increasingly be considering freezing their eggs as a way to prolong fertility as they pursue a career -- or find the right romantic partner
• The Pope vs. Belgium: A Bad Fight for the Vatican?
  A police raid of a Church meeting prompts criticism from the Vatican. Butwill taking on the police further alienate Catholic Belgians?

Washington Independent

• Feingold a No on FinReg
  Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), who did not vote for the Senate version of financial regulatory reform, not believing the bill strong enough, has indicated that he will not vote for this version either. Here is the full text of his press release: “As I have indicated for some time now, my test for th ...
• West Virginia Secretary of State: Special Election ...
  West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant announced this afternoon that a special election to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D) seat will occur in 2012 — on the same day, in fact, as the general election for a new senator to hold the seat for a full six-year term. The special election [ ...
• Best of Weigel: A Look Back
  Now that the ethically dubious publication of some of his private emails has derailed Dave Weigel’s tenure at The Washington Post by raising questions about his ability to report effectively on the conservative movement, we thought it would be a good time to highlight just how effective Weigel can b ...
• In Kagan Opener, Democrats Rip Into Court’s ...
  Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) are two of the latest Senate Democrats to use their opening statements in Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing today to criticize the Supreme Court over what they believe is a recent record of pro-corporation rulings. Franken said the court un ...
• Specter Presses Kagan to Be Chatty
  During what will almost certainly be his last opening statement for a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) pressed court nominee Elena Kagan to be talkative during her hearings. Specter referenced a 1995 University of Chicago Law Review article in which Kagan criticized the ...

Digg Green

• Oily oysters: Diner reports crude find
  A TV station in North Carolina is reporting that a young diner out to dinnerwith his family in Mooresville found a tar-like substance in his rawoyster.
• Documents Show Vast Cleanup of Plum Island
  Government documents obtained by The Associated Press show extensive efforts since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants from Plum Island, site of top-secret Army germ warfare research and decades of studies of dangerous animal diseases.
• Amazing Little Ladybugs (PICS)
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• The Cost of Coal's Toxic Sludge
  It's deadly, barely regulated, and everywhere. Can Obama crack down on America's second-biggest river of industrial waste?
• 100mpg Really Ambitious Enough?
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Invisible Opportunity

• Oil for the Lamps of Heaven and Hell
  By Les Visible I try not to let my natural abhorrence toward excessive self promotion blind me to the possibility of useful information. As a result, I’ve read a great deal of this author’s work. His gifts as a researcher and complier are top notch. I tend to veer away when he promotes sex slaves [. ...
• David Icke Offers His View of Spill
  The David Icke Newsletter June 27th 2010 ‘AND THE SEA SHALL TURN TO BLOOD’ … … A ‘BIBLICAL’ CATASTROPHE THAT WILL AFFECT US ALL THE ‘SPILL’ (UNCONTROLLED GUSH) WILL DEVASTATE AMERICA? YES, BUT THAT’S THE IDEA Hello all … The potential magnitude of what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico simply canno ...
• Avertible catastrophe – “Thanks But No ...
  Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post · Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality. The Dutch fall into the first group. Three da ...
• U.S. government panel now pushing “vaccinati ...
  By David Guiterrez 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 fl ...
• Israeli MOSSAD accused of attempting to assassinat ...
  The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has failed in an attempt to assassinate Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Jordanian weekly says. Informed sources in Turkey say that the Mossad plot has been foiled by the country’s security forces, al-Manar quoted a report in the most recent editi ...

Global Insights

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• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
• The Creation
  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
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• How to Get Politicians to Admit in Public That the ...
  We do not need yet another blue ribbon commission or academic study to tell us our current policies are not working.
• Drug Policy Alliance vs. O’Reil ...
  Fox News has a hard time realizing that we should take the money that we are spending on prisons and use it to address issues related to child abuse.
• Big Tobacco's Slimy New Ploy to Trick Smokers Into ...
  Antismoking legislation stands to throw a wrench in tobacco companies' deceptive marketing practices. But the industry is attempting to deceive smokers in new ways.
• Imagine What Father's Day Is Like for All the Dads ...
  We can only celebrate Father's Day correctly if we include all fathers -- black, white, brown, rich and poor.
• The Red Bull Scam -- Why Are So Many People Buying ...
  Red Bull's claims that it improves performance, concentration, reaction time and emotional status are all BS.

Twilight Earth

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  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
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Inhabitat

• Nationwide Homes Unveils Green Eco Cottages
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• Phase-Changing GlassX Windows Offer Amazing Perfor ...
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• Luminous Lamps Made from Recycled Washing Machine ...
  These spectacular lamps may appear as if theyâve been pulled off the latest superstar designerâs mass-production line, but look again — theyâre actually washing machine drums recycled into amazing lighting! Designed by Alex Kovatchev, the âWash Lampâ is a great eco-friendly idea that takes ...
• World’s First Electronic Spectacles Could Make Bif ...
  Sick and tired of wearing bi-focal glasses? Well, then you might be interested to know that PixelOptics, a technology firm in Roanoke, VA, has developed a new way of seeing called emPower. These electronic spectacles are the first of their kind in the world and they feature lenses that alter their p ...
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes
  > They may not seem like creatures worth admiring when they are buzzing around your head or landing on your lunch, but under the microscope they can be truly spectacular. Especially their eyes. For the past 35 years, Nikon has held their Small World photomicrography competition ...
• NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer
  > Space is a big place, and even with their giant telescopes, astronomers just can’t cover it all. This is where you come in. Yes, you. Astronomy is one of the few scientific fields where amateur scientists can, and frequently do, make significant contributions. But now [.. ...
• Square Pixel Inventor Tries to Smooth Things Out
  Russell Kirsch says he’s sorry. More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film ...
• Ants Use Their Own Velcro to Catch Supersized Prey
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• Sperm Whale Voices Are Personal
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The Progressive Realist

• Ahmadinejad Lists Preconditions for Restarting Neg ...
  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Iran’s reactions to recent sanctions legislation passed in the United States, as well as comments made by Western heads of state in the G-8, at a news conference June 28 in Tehran. In the speech, Ahmadinejad outlined Iran’s prerequisites for continued ...
• Is Turkey Still America's Best Ally in the Middle ...
  (Photo Credit: White House Photostream ) Joshua Walker has a good piece at Foreign Policy that takes a broad view of U.S.-Turkey relations and arrives at largely positive conclusions about the long-term prospects for the alliance. Walker is part of a team of scholars at the German Marshall Fund 's ...
• Iraq’s Shiite Parties Still No Closer to Forming N ...
  Prime Minister Maliki and Former Premier Allawi Unite And Divide The Shiite Parties Iraq’s two main Shiite parties, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law and the Sadrist-Supreme Council led Iraqi National Alliance have joined together into the National Alliance coalition, but they are no clo ...
• Anti-Israel Sentiment in Malaysia
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• You Can’t Strengthen Moderate Islam by Rejecting M ...
  Marc Lynch has a tremendous — and tremendously important — essay in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs examining the rise of political Islam in the West, confronting some misconceptions about it, and rigorously framing some of the genuine challenges that Islamism poses to democratic pluralism. Amon ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: The Party of Governance.
  David Weigel is one hell of a reporter and he'll be back on his feet in no time. If there is any silver lining to his leaving the Post , it has been to lay bare the realities of D.C. political journalism. First and foremost, you should read the reflections of the man himself. Then the musings, in n ...
• Shameless!
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• The Senate That Byrd Made.
  There’s much to be said about the life and career of Sen. Robert C. Byrd , who represented all the possibilities for change that American life promises and delivers too rarely: Lifted from abject poverty to success and power through hard work; self-taught, to the point of erudition; an unhesitant ra ...
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• "Special Rights."
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Andy Worthington

• Guantánamo as an “Intelligence Squeezing” Center: ...
  Today, the Daily Times in Pakistan has published an interview with Colonel Morris Davis, conducted by political analyst Ali Kamran Chishti. The interview is of interest for Col. Davis’ explanation of how Guantánamo operated as an illegal “intelligence squeezing” center, and for his description of th ...
• Calling for US Accountability on the International ...
  Yesterday was the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1997, to mark the ratification of the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on June 26, 1987. As UN Secretary-Gen ...
• Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovaki ...
  On Thursday, Branislav Tichý, the director of Amnesty International Slovensko, told the press that three former Guantánamo prisoners, who had been released in Slovakia on January 25 this year, had embarked on a hunger strike. According to the Slovak Spectator, Tichý explained that they were “protest ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Summer Solstice 2010 Pictures: Fire Rites, Druids, ...
  NonePagans play with fire, druids flock to Stonehenge, and revelers build a "friendship nest" to mark the first day of summer 2010. Stonehenge - Solstice - Druid - Summer solstice - Pagan
• Pictures: Arkansas Flash Flood Aftermath
  NoneFlood-tossed RVs and mangled campsites were left behind after a flash flood ripped through a national forest in Arkansas last weekend, killing at least 20. Recreational vehicle - United States - Arkansas - Flood - Earth Sciences
• Pictures: 8 National Parks Threatened by Oil Spill
  NoneEight national parks lie in the trajectory of the Gulf oil spill, putting rare animals and pristine coastlines at risk, the Park Service says. Oil spill - National park - Environment - Petroleum in the Environment - Energy
• Gulf Oil Spill Pictures: Birds, Fish, Crabs Coated
  NoneThe fallout from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is increasingly visible, with masses of oil-laden birds and other animals now on Louisiana shores. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - Louisiana - Environment - Energy
• Jacques Cousteau Centennial: What He Did, Why He M ...
  The late Jacques Cousteau's hundredth birthday is making headlines. Why is the ocean explorer such a legend? Here are five good reasons. Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Jacques Cousteau - Recreation - Organizations - RV Calypso

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Not sure that Rob Simmons' Wife and Chris Healy's ...
  The bigger news is that Connecticut Republican's have mastered the science of cloning AstroTurf garbage... "SIMMONS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES WOMEN FOR SIMMONS COALITION" IOW: This ain't news at all. Same old same old. When reality tells you that only 28% of Republican women support your candidacy , neve ...
• Let's Take a Shot at the Media
  How can I possibly top that introduction? I'm so happy - I'm tearing up! Actually, if I can add just a dash of local flavor to this bubbling cauldron of intellectual give and take, Connecticut Man1 can add a micro-brew to his menu of libations. Cheers! Let's Take a Shot at the Media While I'd l ...
• Welcome News on Ramping up Blog Production in New ...
  As the next big election season starts to heat up... I just wanted to note that this place will start getting a little more interesting. There a lot of great races on the radar, with the Governor's race, a Senate seat and the endless campaign campaigns on the House side, of course. But, even better ...
• What subversive literature is that?
  My daughter is up to something today.... First step to conquering the world?
• Premature Ejaculatory Praise Of Tiny Comical Rele ...
  I think TPM's Megan Carpentier may have captured the essence of this funny and tiny problem for teabagger redux - "Microman" - in her last paragraph: Wurzelbacher describes Microman as "frustrated" and "one of us" in the same press release. One wonders how many other Tea Party members, already frust ...

SPL Center

• An Irritated World Net Daily Denounces Terrible Re ...
  For an organization that loathes the mainstream media, World Net Daily sure craves their acceptance. The book publishing division of the far-right, Obama-obsessed organization released a new title about the president last week and it’s furious about the contempt with which major news organizations h ...
• Neo-Nazi Bill White Facing Jury Intimidation Trial
  Former neo-Nazi leader Bill White , already doing time in a federal prison, may face trial in a separate case of allegedly encouraging violence against a jury foreman. A federal judge in Chicago ruled 11 months ago that when White posted personal information, including the home address and phone num ...
• 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 ...

change: org.

• Can a $10 Million Prize Help Wipe Away The Oil?
  Many of America's best and brightest are working in All-Gulf, All-The-Time mode on questions such as: how to contain and measure a deep water oil gusher, how to cleanup an unprecedented mess, and how to imagine damages that will last decades. But what if the best solutions aren't getting heard? And ...
• "Real" Beauty According to Dove: No Blemishes, Cur ...
  It's one thing when companies that sell beauty products use airbrushed models whose "perfection" is supposed to make other women feel bad enough about themselves they go right out buy whatever latest item will fix their self-image problem. But Dove brings this to an astounding level of hypocrisy by ...
• Robert Byrd: Remembering the Senate's Animal Advoc ...
  Robert C. Byrd, the longest serving senator in U.S. history, passed away this morning at the age of 92. He was a complex man who leaves behind a complex legacy. A former Klansmen and segregationist, he endorsed Barack Obama for president and supported the right of gays to serve in the military. He w ...
• Does Industrial Agriculture Actually Curb Climate ...
  High-yield agriculture often comes under scrutiny for its poor environmental reputation. And for good reason: Big Ag boasts a huge dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides , fuel-guzzling farm equipment, and freshwater supplies. Yet a new study points to a very positive attribute of high-yi ...
• A Love for the Ages
  With the all-too-frequent news of LGBT struggles and strife, it is heartening to see good news once in a while. One story last week brought a smile to my face: the marriage of Henry Schalizki, 88, and Bob Davis, 89. The men began their romance in 1945. They wed on June 20, 2010, in Washington, D.C. ...

Common Dreams -News

• BP 'Staked Future on Expanding Offshore Drilling'
  by Suzanne Goldenberg BP staked its future on expanding offshore drilling a month before the catastrophic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon triggered the United States ' worst environmental disaster, according to company documents revealed yesterday. read more
• Angry House Lawmaker Cuts Aid to Afghanistan; War ...
  by Susan Cornwell A key U.S. House of Representatives Democrat said on Monday she is cutting billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan from spending legislation because she is outraged over reports of corruption and donor aid being flown out the country. Representative Nita Lowey, who heads the Hous ...
• White House's Lobbyist Liaisons Blasted By Watchdo ...
  by Arthur Delaney WASHINGTON - Watchdog groups are blasting the Obama administration for dodging records rules and cutting corners on its self-imposed disclosure requirements for White House visitors. read more
• Obama Just Can't Quit Blackwater
  by Justin Elliott In fairness, Barack Obama never said he wanted to quit Blackwater. But it's still notable that the troubled firm made famous by helping to fight George W. Bush's wars has become a permanent part of the U.S. foreign policy tableau, with news of two big contracts issued to the firm b ...
• Why Petraeus Won't Salvage This War
  by Gareth Porter As Gen. David Petraeus prepares for his next command, his supporters are hoping he can rescue a failing war for the second time in just a few years. But both the dire state of the war effort in Afghanistan and his approach to taking command in Iraq in early 2007 suggest that Petraeu ...

Lifehacker

• From the Tips Box: iPhone Podcasts, Start Menu Fol ...
  Readers offer their best tips for listening to podcasts on the iPhone, putting custom folders in the Windows 7 start menu, and getting data off failing hard drives. More�� Start menu - IPhone - iPhone 3G - Handhelds - S ...
• uTorrent for Mac Graduates from Beta with a Stable ...
  Mac only: We've been following uTorrent's path to a Mac release pretty closely recently, and today they released the first stable Mac version of the popular BitTorrent client. More�� BitTorrent - ΜTorrent - utorrent - F ...
• Universal USB Installer Makes a Persistent Thumb D ...
  Windows: Having a full Linux operating system on a USB thumb drive is pretty neat. Having that OS customized, with your own favorite apps and all your settings intact, is far more helpful. This Windows tool makes that possible. More�� ...
• Flickriver Shows Off Flickr Collections with Stark ...
  Flickr's been changing up its look lately , but the photo sharing site still puts your photos on white backgrounds. If black is more your backdrop, and you like the minimalist look, Flickriver gives you Flickr photos with a new layout. More ...
• Makeshift DIY AC Batteries Power Your Electronics ...
  It's expensive replacing batteries for devices that don't have an AC adapter socket, but if you've got a little time you can make your own AC-powered "batteries" that will power your device without heavy modification. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Afghanistan: Last Act Or Song That Never Ends?
  By Steve Hynd In the wake of General Stanley McChrystal's departure and after a string of bad news stories from Afghanistan, those who say that we've spent more than enough time, money and blood on what is a marginal strategic concern have gained ground. But in reply, it is argued that a "long war" ...
• The expense of our illusions
  The Surge(tm) that was supposed to create space for political reconciliation failed by its own metrics.  The Sunnis are still the primary latrine of Iraqi politics, continually shitted upon.  The reduction in violence that has been attributed to the Surge(tm) that has allowed for a 'decent interva ...
• Love the Afghanistan War in Public at Your Peril
  By Derrick Crowe One of the gems buried in Michael Hastings' now ubiquitous Rolling Stone article is a senior adviser to General McChrystal thanking his lucky stars for public ignorance of the state of the war: Even those closest to McChrystal know that the rising anti-war sentiment at ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Rays' regional stadium plan may fall victim to cit ...
  Here's Stuart Sternberg's answer to how his Tampa Bay Rays baseball team can find a new stadium site: Have a "regional discussion." Sounds simple in theory, but the history and envy between Tampa and St. Petersburg, and the friction that plays out between rival cities elsewhere in the country, indic ...
• How water raises the political temperature between ...
  Water wars haven't started yet, but shortages certainly cause tensions between states to rise Fifteen years ago Ismail Serageldin, an Egyptian who was vice-president of the World Bank, shook politicians by predicting that the wars of the 21st century would be fought not over oil or land, but water. ...
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• Toronto - What Went Wrong?
  It can be hard to believe the grotesque police violence and martial-law tactics of the last 72 hours
• Why I support Social Liberalism
  A friend on Brave New Climate included the following rant against the perils of free-market fundamen
• Obama's War on Conventional Energy
  This afternoon, CNN reports that there is a stealth ban on even inshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexi
• Thought Control in Economics / AdBusters
  Adbusters on Thought Control
• Education for All, Balanced Budget or Not
  [This lengthy entry -- pared down from a much longer original -- followed an evening of caroling by

Electronic Intifada

• Blockade "eased" as Gaza starves more slowly
  As Israel last 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 a ...
• Israeli killing leaves Jerusalem children fatherle ...
  RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - "Where is my daddy? Why is he not coming home? I want my daddy," sobs seven-year-old Yasmin, her big blue eyes filling with tears. She wakes up ...
• Fake calls to "ease" the Gaza siege
  Ever since Israel's murderous attack on the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, there have been increasing calls from many parties on Israel to end its siege of Gaza. This is strange as we ...
• National unity remains elusive under occupation
  Since the split between the Fatah and Hamas factions deepened after the latter stymied foreign-backed efforts to overthrow it in 2007 following its election victory the previous ye ...
• US Social Forum cancels exploitative Zionist works ...
  In a historic accomplishment, the leadership of the US Social Forum voted this morning to cancel a workshop proposed by "Stand With US," a Zionist organization that sought ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Now, 'cyborg dogs' to combat Taliban
  British army chiefs have unveiled their latest weapon, 'cyborg dogs', to do battle in the war against the Taliban.
• Taliban planning massive strike in Peshawar, ...
  The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reorganising itself around Peshawar and planning a major terror strike on the provincial capital, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has warned.
• US officials slam Karzai aides over derailing corr ...
  US officials have slammed top officials of the Afghanistan Government for often blocking corruption investigations of well-connected Afghans.
• Pak Army, ISI chief accompanied Sirajuddin H ...
  Nothwithstanding US objections, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly held a face-to-face meeting with the Haqqani network chief Sirajuddin Haqqani to push forward the reconciliation effort.
• Furious US politician blocks Afghan aid
  A senior US politician has angrily blocked billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan, vowing not to give "one more dime" until Afghan President Hamid Karzai acts against corruption.Representative Nita...

Futurismic

• From punk rock to politics: new Icelandic career a ...
  This story’s all over the place, for obvious reasons: not only has Iceland put same-sex marriages on equal footing with the more old-fashioned kind (and seen its prime minister marry her partner under said law) and signed in a raft of free speech protections to its legislature, but the capital city ...
• The Ten Errors of Science Fiction
  Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines – nothing tends to rile science fiction folk so much as folk from outside the ghetto loudly pronouncing that OMFG UR DOIN IT RONG, and this piece by Dr Sam Vaknin should provide great fodder for some hard sf advocacy and righteous ire. So fetch your popcorn, ...
• Personal Information: episode 18
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 18 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• Personal Information: episode 18
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 18 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
• 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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Wall Street Reform Bill Includes Whistleblower Pro ...
  The Wall Street Reform bill, recently reported out of conference, includes a number of provisions designed to protect employees who report fraud in the commodity and stock exchanges.  The bill includes two qui tam provisions that protect whistleblowers who disclose “original information” concerning ...
• SOX whistleblower provision survives Supreme Court ...
  Today the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, held that one provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is unconstitutional.  However, it also held that this one provision is "severable" so that the other provisions of SOX, including the whistleblower protection, are still in force.  The case is Free Enterp ...
• 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 ...

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

• Dutch ISPs Fighting Demands That They Block Access ...
  The Dutch "anti-piracy" group BREIN has been one of the most aggressive in bringing all kinds of lawsuits in attempting to use basically any means possible to block various torrent sites. It has sued ISPs telling them they need to block The Pirate Bay and it has sued The Pirate Bay , telling it tha ...
• How Most Broadband Providers Have Focused On Decre ...
  Ryan Single has an excellent piece at Wired that details how incredibly misleading telcos are being in claiming that the FCC's attempt to reclassify broadband access will lead to less "innovation." He highlights how far behind other countries the US has fallen, and how hard the telcos seem to work ...
• Newspapers Having Trouble Reporting On Their Own P ...
  It appears that newspaper giant Gannett, owner of USA Today and a bunch of regional newspapers, is beginning to experiment with putting up some paywalls on many of its regional newspapers. Jeff Sonderman has been pointing out, on his Twitter feed, that many of the newspaper's announcements about th ...
• Can One Guy Educate The World Via YouTube?
  This one is a bit personal. A dozen years ago, when I moved out to Silicon Valley from New York, I shared a house with two super smart guys, who had also just moved out to the area. One was a buddy of mine from college, and we needed a third guy to cover the third bedroom in the house we had just ...
• So Much For 'Freedom From Porn' As iPhone 4 Sex Ch ...
  It really was just a few weeks back that Steve Jobs defended the closed nature of the iPad and iPhone app store as offering "freedom from porn." But even Jobs must know that when you offer up new ways to communicate, one of the first businesses that takes advantage of it is going to be the porn ind ...

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

• The LaRouche Show, June 19, 2010
  Barney Frank: Alan Greenspan's Whore
• The LaRouche Show, June 12, 2010
  Will America Assert Its Constitution, and Will Europe Dump Its Oligarchical Parliaments?
• A Trillion Dollars Later, the Banking System Is St ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Muscardini Files Glass-Steagall Resolution in Euro ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• The LaRouche Show, June 5, 2010
  Winning Robert and Clara Schumann's Battle Against the Philistines

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

• "Recycled Island" Turns Ocean Plastic into a Parad ...
  Image via Recycled Island Ever dreamed of living on a giant island of plastic? Well, with all the plastic that floats around in the ocean as a toxic soup threatening all manner of marine life, one architecture firm has a bold vision to create an eco-paradise called "Recycled Island" in the Pacif ...
• Is it Safe to Talk About Climate Change Again?
  Photo via Keen Press Over the last year or so, you may have noticed politicians using less and less direct language to discuss climate change. According to some polls, Americans were growing skeptical that man was causing global warming, a trend abetted by fierce public relations efforts from t ...
• Congress Pressures Oil Giants On Spill Plans
  photo via flickr When the CEOs of some of the world's largest oil companies testified in front of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment earlier this month, they had no good answers for how their companies would approach cleaning up a spill like the Deepwater Horizon. That's not good enough ...
• TEDxOilSpill: An Idea More Powerful Than a Faster ...
  Andrew Sharpless answered 10 tough arguments against ending offshore drilling. Image credit: David DeFranza "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse'" —Henry Ford Innovation may be a fundamental part of the American spirit but, Jackie Savitz of Ocea ...
• 7 Awesome Solar-Powered Vehicles
  Credit: Global Green Challenge The sun is shining. Hot weather makes gas expand . Gas emissions contribute to global warming. Dontcha wish there was a better way, like cars that ran on solar power ? There is, although they're experimental and in the development and gee-whiz stages. Who knows if s ...

Biosingularity

• Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...
  Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...
• An Early Warning System for Cancer
  A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark may help detect the earliest stages of cancer by taking advantage of the body’s own defenses. The researchers constructed a microarray system that analyzes patients’ blood for a specific class of immune agents called autoantibodies. These are a ...
• Genetic Testing Heads to the Pharmacy
  Even though nearly 2,000 genetic tests are available today, most Americans have never taken one. (Save, perhaps, for newborn screening.) That may soon change, as the nation’s largest businesses responsible for managing prescription benefits, Medco and CVS Caremark, delve into the DNA testing busines ...
• Re-Engineering the Human Immune System
  Swine Flu. Spanish Flu. SARS. Almost every year, it seems, there is a new virus to watch out for. Roughly thirty thousand Americans die annually from a new flu strain — meaning roughly one flu fatality for every two victims of car accidents — and there is always the possibility that we will do battl ...
• New class of brain-protecting drugs emerging
  Researchers have identified a compound that mimics one of the brains own growth factors and can protect brain cells against damage in several animal models of neurological disease. 7,8-dihydroxyflavone is a member of the flavonoid family of chemicals, which are abundant in fruits and vegetables. The ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Offshore drilling: Policy reform vs political gran ...
  Obviously, there is a lot with off-shore drilling that has gone right. Just as obviously, the Deepwater Horizon spill is catastrophic and there are vital safety lessons to be learned. But those lessons will take some serious review, detailed analysis, and targeted investigation.
• Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool
  Now that BP̢۪s oil rig has caused the biggest environmental disaster in American history, the Left is pulling the same bogus trick it did with Enron and AIG: Whenever a company earns universal ire, declare it the poster boy for the free market.
• CFACT update from Bonn climate talks
  Discord, blame and profiteering at UN Bonn climate conference as UN scrambles to get climate treaty back on track; calls for developed nations to repay 'climate debt' and an 'international court of climate and environmental justice' to prosecute developed world.
• Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics
  There is simply no room in science, academia or public policy for manipulation, falsification or fraud. Academic freedom does not confer a right to engage in such practices, and both attorneys general and research institutions have a duty to root them out, especially in the case of climate change re ...
• Presidential chemo-phobia?
  Don̢۪t look for any new science in this new President̢۪s Report. There isn̢۪t any. It̢۪s just the same old fears and alarms that have circulated since Rachel Carson.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Governor in south Russia hopes to profit from locu ...
  The governor of the Astrakhan region in southern Russia proposed on Monday exporting locusts killed to protect crops to Asian countries as delicacy.
• Kyrgyz crisis caused by domestic "drug wars" — Rus ...
  The current political crisis in Kyrgyzstan has been caused by the struggle for power between domestic drug clans.
• FBI uncovers alleged Russian spy network (WRAPUP)
  Eleven suspects have been charged for allegedly carrying out espionage operations in the United States on behalf of Russia.
• Swatch Group founder Hayek dies at 82
  The head of the world's largest watchmaker, Swatch Group, Nicolas Hayek died on Monday at the age of 82.
• Space station crew relocates Russian spacecraft af ...
  The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) moved on Monday a Russian spacecraft docked with the Zvezda module to the Rassvet research module after a short delay caused by a technical problem on board the orbital station.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Space station crew relocates Russian spacecraft af ...
  The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) moved on Monday a Russian spacecraft docked with the Zvezda module to the Rassvet research module after a short delay caused by a technical problem on board the orbital station.
• Moscow temperatures reach record highs
  Temperatures in Moscow on Saturday exceeded 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking record temperatures for June 26, internet weather site Meteonovosti said
• Polar bear hunt may start on Russia's Chukchi Peni ...
  Polar bear hunting, with an annual quota of 29 animals per year, may begin on Russia's Chukchi Peninsula next year.
• Russia, Europe may join forces to protect Earth fr ...
  Russian space officials and members of the European Commission will meet in early July to discuss joining forces against thousands of potentially hazardous asteroids.
• Subsystem failure delays Ariane 5 launch from Kour ...
  The launch of the Ariane 5 carrier rocket with two satellites from the Kourou space center in French Guiana was delayed during final countdown early on Thursday due to technical problems.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Since I wasn’t around for the first half of the week I didn’t have the usual accumulation of links to go through. From Marcy a couple weeks ago: In other words, this was one of the few torture briefings CIAâs Office of Congressiona ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Giant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for ...
  A salmon that grows at twice the normal rate is set to be the first genetically modified (GM) animal available for human consumption. Click here to read this article
• Obama Makes the World Safe for DuPontcracy
  Obama just nominated Ramona Emilia Romero as General Counsel of the USDA. Who's she? Well, she's spent the last 12 years working as a lawyer for DuPont. You know, the pesticide company. Among her areas of specialty was antitrust litigation. I am pretty confident that means that she was helping DuPon ...
• The Hundred Years' War over Toxic Chemicals
  In America, chemicals are innocent until proven guilty. It's a rule that's been in place for one hundred years and still applies to compounds used every day in industry and in your home. Click here to read this article
• Raw Milk Bans are About Protecting Big Industry
  In Massachusetts, a controversy over raw milk regulations has cast doubt on our seemingly basic right to unprocessed food. Government, public health and dairy industry officials want to restrict the sale and distribution of raw (unpasteurized) milk, citing grave safety concerns. But small dairy farm ...
• Genetically Altered Salmon Set to Move Closer to Y ...
  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. Click here to read this article

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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

• ‘Diet for a Hot Planet’ Explores Links between Die ...
  Anna Lappé’s new book Diet for a Hot Planet is critical. It is critical because it helps fill a significant gap in the literature that was previously identified by the Johns Hopkins Center for Livable Future. And thus, in an accessible and comprehensive manner, Diet for a Hot Planet is critical to ...
• Baltimore School District Food Survey Reveals Pare ...
  As the Baltimore City Public Schools system continues the transformation of its food service for more than 80,000 kids (see food revolution), a new survey reveals that students and parents are hungry for more. Melissa Mahoney, the district’s “top chef”, nutritionist and dietitian, sent out the surve ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Listening to AmericaSpeaks
  I was poking through the news, sniffing around hoping to find something — anything — that would provoke me into doing a post but the good stuff was too depressing and the bad stuff was getting under my skin so I went to make supper. The smell of fresh cut flowering basil took my mind [...]
• Ad fail
  From my TruthDig RSS feed: Groupon may wish to rethink their blind ad placements even if salmon isn’t something we get from the Gulf.
• The Clusterfuck addendum
  I missed Matt Taibbi’s return the other day. He’s writing about McChrystal so it’s a little dated, but he’s ripping on David Brooks, which is always timely. You might as well follow up Taibbi’s delicious slanders with some of Juan Cole’s devastating facts, which also mention the Bud Light Lime Gener ...
• DeBogging time
  First things first. Robert Byrd is dead. The Governor of West Virginia is a Democrat. Any other questions? - Paul Krugman is calling this the Third Depression. [T]here were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instabili ...
• In defense of beards
  From PZ. Consider donating if you can. I have a beard and mustache not for vanity’s sake, but because I’m too lazy to shave. That they make me look vaguely satanic is just a bonus. This picture was taken in the bathroom mirror five minutes ago and no, I haven’t shaved in at least a [...]

Public News Service

• Website Pinpoints Summer Fun Facilities for Kids
  Website Pinpoints Summer Fun Facilities for Kids Phoenix, AZ – Parents looking for a place to keep their kids active during the hot summer months now have a one-stop tool to help them. It’s a website listing public recreational facilities in Maricopa County and beyond. Comments from Shawna Hubbard, ...
• 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, ...

My Care2 Picks

• Women- Israeli Mother Addresses European Parliamen ...
  Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit's speech made on International Women's Day in Strasbourg. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• U Sank My Carrier!
  "Millenium Challenge '02" war games we staged in the Persian Gulf this summer With nothing more than a few "small boats and aircraft," van Ripen managed to sink most of the US fleet in the Persian Gulf. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP
  BP, after trial runs with the device, is ordering 32 more of the Costner-endorsed centrifuges to aid the Gulf cleanup. As Henry Fountain explains in the New York Times, the gadget in question an oil-separating centrifuge marks a major breakthrough Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Science & Tech � ...
• 10 surprisingly easy sources of alternative energy
  Sure, you've heard of wind and solar power, biofuels, hydroelectric, tidal and wave power, but Mother Nature provides an endless bounty of alternative energy sources beyond those that we use today. Submitted by Kathy B. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups
  Association representing 380,000 composers,lyricists,songwriters,etc. has begun fundraising for a campaign to stifle groups that support free culture and digital rights. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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

• Pony up, Cattlemen!
  Evidently wild horses are drinking too much corporate water and need to be eliminated.
• Food and Depopulation (Part 2 of 4)
  A monopoly is exclusive control of a commodity or service that makes it possible to manipulate prices. This is accomplished through governmental regulations used to enforce the monopoly. The way to break a monopoly is to remove those laws. This is simple, but not easy in the case of Monsanto, becaus ...
• Food and Depopulation (Part 1 of 4)
  The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon. Since the Rockefeller family came to power (especially after gaining a monopoly in 1914 with Standard Oil) they have manipulated our government into ruining our f ...
• Kucinich Announces Right to Know Legislation in Wa ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time advocate of family farmers and organic foods, today made the following statement after the Supreme Court voted 7-1 to allow the experimental planting of genetically modified alfalfa seed before an environmental review is completed.
• American Politics: John Wallace hosts show with Ba ...
  AMERICAN POLITICS RADIO SHOW – SHOW REMINDER: NEXT SHOW – (THIS FRIDAY) at 5:00PM EST GUEST: MARTI OAKLEY – Freedom and Liberty Activists Marti Oakley, and Barb Peterson from Farm Wars,  nationally known Freedom and Liberty activists, who also host the new Truth Squad Radio Show are my guests on thi ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Debating Non-Violent Islamism (Foreign Policy)
  Noted by Neal Ungerleider on June 28, 2010 8:06 PM
• Sperm bank for Beautiful People launched (org.uk)
  Noted by Todd Essig on June 28, 2010 7:06 PM
• Conceivable ideas: meet the modern sperm donor (gu ...
  Noted by Todd Essig on June 28, 2010 6:06 PM
• Foursquare close to obtaining funding: report (Reu ...
  Noted by Anne Field on June 28, 2010 6:06 PM
• Hate Sallie Mae? Peer-to-Peer Lending Makes Colleg ...
  Noted by Anne Field on June 28, 2010 6:06 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• High court rejects Iraq case against Halliburton
  ShareThis High court rejects Iraq case against Halliburton 28 Jun 2010 The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a woman who wants to sue Halliburton for the brain injury her husband suffered when a truck in a fuel convoy crashed in Iraq. The justices, without comment Monday, let stand a federal ...
• Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving US Senator, Dies at 9 ...
  ShareThis Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving US Senator, Dies at 92 28 Jun 2010 Robert Byrd, the 92-year-old West Virginia Democrat who served in the U.S. Senate for 51 years, died Monday. A spokesman for the family, Jesse Jacobs, said Mr. Byrd died peacefully at about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, ...
• Ex-Chicago policeman guilty of lying about torture
  ShareThis Ex-Chicago policeman guilty of lying about torture 28 Jun 2010 A retired Chicago police commander suspected of using electric shocks, suffocation and mock executions to force suspects to confess was found guilty on Monday of lying about the brutality. Jon Burge was tried on perjury and obs ...
• Byrd special election to be held in 2012
  ShareThis Byrd special election to be held in 2012 28 Jun 2010 West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant (D) announced this afternoon that a special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) will be held in 2012, not this fall as some had speculated. Calling the state election code an ...
• New Ballot Machines Are Flawed, Suit Says
  ShareThis New Ballot Machines Are Flawed, Suit Says 27 Jun 2010 Electronic voting machines being deployed for the first time this year across New York City and the rest of the state contain a flaw that could lead to thousands of votes being thrown out, according to a lawsuit that advocacy groups wil ...

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

• Greenwald wounded him. The pack moves in
  Check out all the trashings of Jeffrey Goldberg:http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/06/25/jeffrey-goldberg-shows-a-profound-moral-compass/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/a_little_message_to_jeffrey_go.htmlhttp://trueslant.com/level/2010/06/25/jeffrey-goldbergs-mean-spirited-dave-wei ...
• Mearsheimer says ‘apartheid is despicable sy ...
  I love it when realists make moral arguments. At the American Conservative, John Mearsheimer declares the two-state solution dead, and Israel headed for apartheid, with the U.S. backing it to the hilt and losing credibility around the world.The sad truth is that Israel has been brutalizing the Pales ...
• Israel’s Iranian Opposition?
  Two days ago, I found it curious to learn of a large rally held in Paris by the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI, also known as MEK or MKO) by reading the headlines on Ynet and on Ha’aretz. I usually follow Iranian opposition events via various other Iranian websites, where [...]
• ‘Terrorism’ is the primary bulwark thr ...
  On September 11, 2001, George Bush changed the way Americans look at the world and the success with which he accomplished this feat is evident in the fact that his perspective largely remains unchallenged — even among many of his most outspoken critics. Bush’s simplistic for-us-or-against-us formula ...
• After the World Cup, a big flotilla to set out for ...
  And other news from Today in Palestine:Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing IOF burns large areas of olive trees to suppress Ni'lin protest June 26th, 2010-- the Occupation Forces, who were stationed behind the Wall’s cement blocks, fired tear gas at the demonstrators and opened the gate of t ...

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

• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• 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 ...

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

• "Recycled Island" Turns Ocean Plastic into a Parad ...
  Image via Recycled Island Ever dreamed of living on a giant island of plastic? Well, with all the plastic that floats around in the ocean as a toxic soup threatening all manner of marine life, one architecture firm has a bold vision to create an eco-paradise called "Recycled Island" in the Pacif ...
• Is it Safe to Talk About Climate Change Again?
  Photo via Keen Press Over the last year or so, you may have noticed politicians using less and less direct language to discuss climate change. According to some polls, Americans were growing skeptical that man was causing global warming, a trend abetted by fierce public relations efforts from t ...
• Congress Pressures Oil Giants On Spill Plans
  photo via flickr When the CEOs of some of the world's largest oil companies testified in front of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment earlier this month, they had no good answers for how their companies would approach cleaning up a spill like the Deepwater Horizon. That's not good enough ...
• TEDxOilSpill: An Idea More Powerful Than a Faster ...
  Andrew Sharpless answered 10 tough arguments against ending offshore drilling. Image credit: David DeFranza "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse'" —Henry Ford Innovation may be a fundamental part of the American spirit but, Jackie Savitz of Ocea ...
• 7 Awesome Solar-Powered Vehicles
  Credit: Global Green Challenge The sun is shining. Hot weather makes gas expand . Gas emissions contribute to global warming. Dontcha wish there was a better way, like cars that ran on solar power ? There is, although they're experimental and in the development and gee-whiz stages. Who knows if s ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Rohingya ‘victims of crimes against humanity’
  Report claims that treatment of minority Muslim group which has 'over decades' been subjected to rape and persecution by Burmese officers is overlooked
• Suu Kyi’s lawyer warned on reporting
  Nyan Win told to stay quiet on the detained Burmese opposition icon's views on elections this year following her support of Burmese citizens' right to choice
• ‘Unprecedented’ censorship rules enacted
  New unit set up within Burma's censor board will target loopholes in press laws as the government looks to tighten media control in the run-up to elections
• Caught between two sides
  Caught between two sides
• UN ignores Burma junta’s drugs role
  While the UN has finally acknowleged that Burma’s drug problem cannot be separated from ethnic conflict, it still turns a blind eye to official complicity in the trade

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Inventor paints mountains white to combat climate ...
  An inventor has set out to paint the peaks of the Andes white in an attempt to combat the effects of climate change.
• Michael Mann says hockey stick should not have bec ...
  The scientist behind the controversial 'hockey stick' graph has said it was 'somewhat misplaced' to make his work an 'icon of the climate change debate'.
• Climate change brings back endangered butterfly
  A globally endangered butterfly is making a comeback in Britain thanks to climate change.
• Amazongate: the missing evidence
  The story of the IPCC's claims about threats to the Amazon rainforest takes another bizarre turn, says Christopher Booker
• Art of the Sky by Daniel Dancer: environmental art ...
  Daniel Dancer's art made of humans photographed from above.

National Geographic | Environment

• Summer Solstice 2010 Pictures: Fire Rites, Druids, ...
  NonePagans play with fire, druids flock to Stonehenge, and revelers build a "friendship nest" to mark the first day of summer 2010. Stonehenge - Solstice - Druid - Summer solstice - Pagan
• Pictures: Arkansas Flash Flood Aftermath
  NoneFlood-tossed RVs and mangled campsites were left behind after a flash flood ripped through a national forest in Arkansas last weekend, killing at least 20. Recreational vehicle - United States - Arkansas - Flood - Earth Sciences
• Pictures: 8 National Parks Threatened by Oil Spill
  NoneEight national parks lie in the trajectory of the Gulf oil spill, putting rare animals and pristine coastlines at risk, the Park Service says. Oil spill - National park - Environment - Petroleum in the Environment - Energy
• Gulf Oil Spill Pictures: Birds, Fish, Crabs Coated
  NoneThe fallout from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is increasingly visible, with masses of oil-laden birds and other animals now on Louisiana shores. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - Louisiana - Environment - Energy
• Jacques Cousteau Centennial: What He Did, Why He M ...
  The late Jacques Cousteau's hundredth birthday is making headlines. Why is the ocean explorer such a legend? Here are five good reasons. Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Jacques Cousteau - Recreation - Organizations - RV Calypso

Jurist - Legal Research

• Senators offer opposing views on Kagan's experienc ...
  [JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] began confirmation hearings [materials; video] Monday for Supreme Court [official website] nominee Elena Kagan [JURIST news archive], with Democratic and Republican senators offering contrasting interpretations of Kagan's judicial philoso ...
• Supreme Court to rule on Arizona immigration emplo ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in six cases. In Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the court will determine whether an Arizona statute imposing sanctions on employers that hire illegal ...
• Supreme Court rules Sarbanes-Oxley oversight board ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 in Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 [text] violates con ...
• Supreme Court rules Second Amendment applies to st ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 in McDonald v. Chicago [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment makes the Second Amendment [texts] right to bear arms applicable to the st ...
• Supreme Court rules some business methods patentab ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] in Bilski v. Kappos [Cornell LII backgrounder] that business method patents [Jones Day backgrounder] may qualify as patentable subject matter but that a specific method for hedging risks in commoditi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Night Beat: Defense Contractors Plot Their Str ...
  Good evening. AFTER BYRD : Make no mistake: West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, wants to run for Senate in West Virginia, so he will likely appoint someone to fill Robert Byrd's seat who does not harbor additional ambitions. West Virginia is a weird state. The Democratic and Republi ...
• What The Spectrum Announcement Means
  This morning, as any listener to WBAL news in Baltimore will attest, I fell victim to the spectrum crunch. In the middle of a live interview about Robert Byrd, my cell phone cut out. I re-established contact. It cut out again. Miles away, in downtown Washington, Larry Summers was indirectly trying ...
• Special Election To Replace Byrd Will Be In 2012
  West Virginia's Secretary of State, Natalie Tennant, has made a ruling: the special election to replace Sen. Robert Byrd won't take place until 2012. � I would have preferred to have allowed a little longer grieving and mourning period before the question of who would replace him and how it would ...
• Defense Contractors Face New Rules
  If you're going to do business with the Pentagon, you're going to want to read this memo ( ( USD(AT&L)_Initiative_June_28_2010.pdf �)�from Defense acquisitions chief Ashton Carter. It's the way the Pentagon plans to implement Secretary Robert Gates's desire to cut wasteful spending in his department ...
• Yes, Russia Still Spies On U.S.
  When it comes to human intelligence, the Russian Federation has a leg up on the U.S. in terms of the vestiges of the Cold War great game. The arrest today of 10 Russians for spying is a case in point: none of them were diplomats or had official cover. All of them were what the old Soviet Union used ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Links for 2010-03-15 [Digg]
  TV interview: Mossad Assassination in Dubai A 30 minute interview for ScanTV's "Moral Politics" show dealing with the Israeli Mossad's assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabouh and the repurcussions for Israel from this act.
• Dagan Dumped, Mossad Fixer Captured in Poland, Did ...
  Newsweek has a fascinating article about the ongoing developments in the case of the Al-Mabouh assassination.  Poland recently arrested an accused Mossad fixer when he attempted to enter the country.  His arrest was requested by Germany because of the agent’s participation in a scheme to secure a ...
• Seattle Conference: Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
  Yesterday night, 200 people joined us for the conference I initiated, Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis: the Failure of U.S. Policy. I was delighted with the turnout and the quality of the talks by Steve Niva, David Schermerhorn, and Hazim Shafi. This event was, in a way, a sequel to an event I organized l ...
• Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
• Did George Mitchell Torpedo Shalit Deal?
  Ali Abunimah blogs that a diplomatic source has told him that George Mitchell directed the Israelis not to make a deal for Gilad Shalit’s freedom, as it would only strengthen Hamas.  If this is true (and I should make clear that I can’t vouch for reliability of this information), it would be shocki ...

Ode Magazine

• Renewing hope and restoring dreams
  By: cassis A nine-year old Cambodian girl violently raped by her neighbor…a young boy working in a quarry mine in southern India…a woman forced to work as a prostitute in Cambodia’s red light districts in order to feed her children. These are the people se ...
• Kiva seeking microfinance fellows
  By: Laura_Silver Apply to be a Kiva Fellow and you could find yourself in the West African nation of Togo, helping someone like Mrs. Sikiratou Salami (pictured here) raise funds for her cosmetics business. Kiva, the Swahili word for "unity" or "agreement ...
• The power of hope
  Freeing yourself from fear helps build the physical strength needed to fight disease and engage fully with life. I received a moving letter from a friend. “Big shock in October: breast cancer. Eighteen months of treatment. I’ll spare you the details… Everything should be ...
• The song remains the same
  Two tales about the magic of music. The stand-in singer (Sent by Murali) The story goes that tickets were all sold out for the presentation by a famous tenor, but on the big day, with the house filled to capacity, it was discovered that a traffic problem would ...
• The writing on the wall
  According to the Israeli government, the wall dividing Israel from the Palestinian territories is a protective measure. Meanwhile, critics point to the painful consequences. Palestinians are no longer able—at least not without huge delays—to visit their families, get to ...

OpEd News

• The Talking Heads
  In four verses, Mark Soifer explains all you need to know about the 24/7 cable news shows (and a few others)
• Voting News: Suit - NY voting machine flaw risks 1 ...
  Donna Brazil:"How can we put men on the moon and export democracy abroad, yet still be incapable of administering elections at home with indisputable integrity as to their outcomes? ..Itapos;s time to address this threat to our democracy."..Lawsuit over New Yorkapos;s new ballot machines - flawed ov ...
• Bill McKibbenapos;s Straight Talk on the Environme ...
  Jim Hansenapos;s team at NASA:any carbon in the atmosphere greater than 350 parts per million was not compatible with a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed & to which life on earth is adapted."We took it as our rallying cry for organizing the planet.In Oct 09,we managed to sta ...
• The Civilian and the General: The Reality Behind ...
  The media reported a lot of facts about the Rolling Stone interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Award-winning journalist reports a deeper look at the truth.
• The Pentagonapos;s Threat to the Republic
  Unfortunately, our most recent presidents in the wake of the end of the Cold War have not been willing to limit the influence of the military and have placed too much power in the hands of the Pentagon. President Obama must take note.

Switchboard

• The Lugar Energy Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the ...
  Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced S. 3464 – dubbed the “Practical Energy and Climate Plan Act” – on June 6, 2010.  The bill’s biggest flaw is that it establishes no overall limit or price signal on the carbon pollution that is driving global warming.  Indeed, by the Senator’s own ...
• My latest Gotham Gazette article...
  This month, my column in the Gotham Gazette explores some of the issues related to a proposed offshore wind project, to be located roughly 13 nautical miles from the Rockaways in Queens, NYC.� With�images of the April 5th accident at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in�West Virginia sti ...
• Invisible Energy: Austerity? Or more stimulus? T ...
    The last two weeks’  news discussions about the economy are all focused on figuring out whether the economy is recovering (in which case we need to solve the problem of government deficits through austerity) or whether the economy is faltering (in which case we need more economic st ...
• NYC e-waste lawsuit officially dismissed
  Following the long-anticipated enactment of a statewide electronic waste recycling law by the New York State Legislature in late May, the industry has formally withdrawn its lawsuit challenging New York City's e-waste law.� As I have written , the recently enacted state law - one of th ...
• Making biofuels a national industry by moving beyo ...
  In comments last week, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said that USDA plans to do what it can to make ethanol a national industry by investing in infrastructure and technology. The agency, he said, “is set to release…a roadmap on how to build on the success of corn-based ethanol a ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Dock
  This is incomparably awesome: Via Duss. Related posts:Who is the Protagonist in this Movie? The Cheney-Kristol Axis Troubled Times at the Baltimore Sun… Related posts: Who is the Protagonist in this Movie? The Cheney-Kristol Axis Troubled Times at the Baltimore Sun…
• B&P Fundraising Drive
  Over the last couple of years, Barefoot and Progressive has been doing some hilarious and vital work on Kentucky politics. Such value requires time and money; if you want daily Rand Paul updates (and who doesn’t), then send Media Czech some love. For example… Related posts:KY Election Results ...
• Robert Byrd
  R.I.P. Conservative bloggers and blog commenters mourn the loss of their favorite specious tu quoque argument. Related posts:Is Robert Gates the War Nerd? Home! Robert Altman, 1925-2006 Related posts: Is Robert Gates the War Nerd? Home! Robert Altman, 1925-2006
• Supreme Court: Second Amendment Applies To States
  The Supreme Court today held that the Second Amendment — as recently redefined in D.C. v. Heller — applies to the states and not just the federal government, which resulted in a gun ban in Chicago being nullified. This was inevitable as soon as Heller was decided, so the only suspense [...] Re ...
• The Page 99 Test
  Ford Madox Ford once wrote: “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” Apparently there is an entire blog based on testing this concept as a way of introducing literature. The Page 99 Test blog has an excerpt from pg 99 of my new book [...] ...

Desert Research Institute

• Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
  A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.
• Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
  The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.
• Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
  Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.
• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
• The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
  The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.

Earth Techling

• Another Texas Utility To Fire Up Smart Grid Meters
• Power Hungry California Sees Renewable Energy Incr ...
• GreenWave Reality Introduces Smart Grid Tech for U ...
• Concept Camera Strap Harvests Solar Energy
• Survey Says: Americans Support Smart Energy Consum ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Don't Ask, Don't Tell suit going to trial
  A federal judge refused on Monday to throw out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy that excludes openly gay and lesbian people from serving in the military.
• Washington's Most Influential Women Lawyers
  In a profession still dominated by men, these power players have taken a sledgehammer to the glass ceiling to grab their place among the elite of the Washington bar.
• On first day, Kagan emphasizes her neutrality
  Elena Kagan sought to position herself Monday as someone who would be a neutral arbiter if confirmed as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, defying hopes from the political left and right that she would outline a clear judicial philosophy during her confirmation hearing.
• Justices expand Second Amendment gun rights to sta ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday expanded the reach of the Second Amendment to the states, opening the door to challenges of local handgun laws across the country.
• Court rules for law school in case over student gr ...
  The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a state law school's anti-discrimination policy that requires recognized student groups to admit "all comers" as members, over the objection of a religious group that did not want to allow nonadherents to join.

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

• Making Virtopsies a Reality
  A new research project at the University of Leicester is set to play a vital role in continuing research into viable alternatives to invasive autopsies, which many families find to be unpleasant.
• NASA Plays Key Exploration Role In New Administrat ...
  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement today regarding President Obama's new National Space Policy:
• National Geographic Global Media Promotes Ted Prin ...
  Edward M. (Ted) Prince Jr. has been promoted to the newly created position of chief operating officer for National Geographic Global Media (NGGM), broadening his responsibilities across all media platforms.
• US National Commission For The United Nations Meet ...
  The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO is chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act and provides advice to the Department of State on matters involving UNESCO.
• Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Takes Oath of Of ...
  Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commending Persad-Bisssessar, for this act, urged other politicians also to do the same.

environment 360

• One in Five Deaths in Bangladesh Linked to Arsenic ...
  One in five deaths in Bangladesh is associated with exposure to arsenic in the drinking water , according to a new study. Between 33 million and 77 million people have been exposed to arsenic as a result of tubing wells installed in the 1970s to control water-borne diseases such as cholera and dysen ...
• In the Battle to Save Forests, Activists Target Co ...
  Large corporations, not small-scale farmers, are now the major forces behind the destruction of the world’s tropical forests. From the Amazon to Madagascar, activists have been directing their actions at these companies — so far with limited success. BY RHETT BUTLER
• Compromise on Whale Hunting Fails to Win Approval ...
  A proposal to curb whale hunts hit an impasse during international talks as whaling nations and anti-whaling delegates failed to reach a compromise over just how many whales could be killed annually. At a A minke whale meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Morocco, delegates from ...
• Interactive Atlas Documents North America’s Marine ...
  The latest version of the online North American Environmental Atlas , published this month, provides an interactive documentation of the continent’s marine ecosystems, including the first comprehensive map of the marine protected areas and the ranges for the continent’s most threatened marine specie ...
• Aurora Australis from Space
  This NASA image, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, captures the shifting colors of the Aurora Australis during a recent magnetic storm near the South Pole. The image, taken Click to enlarge NASA Aurora Australis about 220 miles (350 kilometers) above the Southern Indian Oc ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• One year after the Honduran Coup
  One year after the military coup in Honduras, the US State Department continues to insist everything is going well in the country.
• Methane poses new danger in Gulf of Mexico
  Recent reports are indicating that as much as 1 million times the normal level of methane is showing up near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially create dead zones in the water.
• Pluschenko banned from skating
  The Council skating governing body ISU has banned Russian figure skater Evgeny Pluschenko from taking part in competition for one year.
• Alleged Russian secret agents held in US
  Ten people have been detained in the United States for allegedly spying for the Russian government, the US Department of Justice said.
• Brazil proves their class against Chile
  Favorites Brazil has booked its place in the FIFA World Cup quarterfinals after an easy 3-0 win over Chile.

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

• Some possible misconceptions of alien life
  Dr. Sam Vaknin, a columnist for various European publications, has written ten misconceptions that science-fiction authors generally use when writing about possible ET life. Most make sense. But like all things, it’s one person’s opinion. In all works of science fiction, there are ten hidden assumpt ...
• This Week in Space/Interview with Ken Bowersox
  In This Week in Space Miles O’Brien talks about the recent Ariane 5 launch from French Gianna, politics surrounding NASA’s FY2011 budget and an interview with Ken Bowersox, former shuttle astronaut and a vice president with SpaceX talking about the recent Falcon 9 test rocket launch. Yeah, I know it ...
• 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. ...

Tippers News

• Culture of Cruelty: Bullfighting in Spain
  Last year 180,000 signed what's known as a people's legislative initiative, which asked the Catalan parliament to debate the abolition of bullfighting. The parliament recently finished a series of heated debates on the issue; its decision will probably Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
• Your morning adorable: Dog and bird share a toy! V ...
  We love the way YouTube user jasmine1999's pets each stake their claim to their favorite toy, but neither goes and gets angry about it. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Dogs in Song
  Its time for a little fun! Lets take a peak at songs written about dogs by popular music artists. Anything can inspire artists whether youre a painter, sculptor, author, or rock star. Dogs are a popular theme. In fact, dogs hold very serious roles in Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
• SUMMER CONTEST: Put Your Pup in the Picture!
  Last year, we introduced a new credit card to benefit the work of GREY2K USA. The initial photos were our own, but now we want to put your greyhound in the picture, too! Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Simulcast Voted In, But No Live Dog Racing in Mass ...
  Even though we are disappointed by this vote, please note that live dog racing will not return to Massachusetts. For the moment, please thank the ten wonderful lawmakers who stood up and spoke for the greyhounds last night. They are listed below. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...

The Freeman

• My Favorite Libertarian Books*
  I am one of the many millions of beneficiaries of Andrew Carnegie’s public libraries. The one in the small town in which I grew up (Rahway, New Jersey) fed my early interest in books, providing a range of reading matter that was avai lable in no other way, since there were few books at home. [...]
• My Favorite Libertarian Books*
  I am one of the many millions of beneficiaries of Andrew Carnegie’s public libraries. The one in the small town in which I grew up (Rahway, New Jersey) fed my early interest in books, providing a range of reading matter that was avai lable in no other way, since there were few books at home. [...]
• Supreme Court Says 2nd Amendment Applies to States
  Just in from the New York Times: The Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the Second Amendment, which forbids Congress from infringing the right to keep and bear arms, applies to state and local governments as well. The case, McDonald v. Chicago, No. 08-1521, involved a challenge to the City of Chicago’s ...
• Gibberish at the G-20
  The headline out of the G-20 summit is that, as the Wall Street Journal put it, the “wealthiest of the Group of 20 countries said they would halve their government deficits by the year 2013 and ’stabilize’ their debt loads by 2016….” But this didn’t prevent President Obama from urging the assemble ...
• Obama to Present Tough Choices on Deficit
  “President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring U.S. budget deficits and said that would involve presenting Americans with âsome very difficult choicesâ next year.” (Reuters, Monday) What new taxes is he thinking of? FEE Timely Classic “What Spending ...

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, BAYOUS AND BYWAYS: Dispatches from the Gulf Co ...
  We're back! Last week, you - the readers of Facing South - sent us on a week-long trip to the Gulf Coast to investigate the BP spill and Gulf recovery. It was a whirlwind trip, covering hundreds of miles of coastal bayous and byways, and dozens of conversations with local residents, communi ...
• From prejudice to progress: The political evolutio ...
  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) ended his record run in the U.S. Senate today, passing away early this morning at age 92. Byrd joined the Senate in 1959, going on to become not only the longest-serving Senator in history but also the longest-serving member of Congress. During his time in Wa ...
• 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 ...

Survival International

• French oil company hits Peruvian headlines
  First contact can decimate tribes. An estimated 50% of the Nahua, a tribe in south-east Peru, died after contact in the 1980s. © Jonathan Mazower/Survival French company Perenco has hit Peru’s headlines after a controversy over oil exploration in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon. Perenco ...
• 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 ...

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

• Alaskan recovery from Exxon Valdez disaster offers ...
  From the vantage point of a rickety plane over Prince William Sound in Alaska it is hard to imagine the horrors that once unfolded in the pristine blue waters below.
• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bad, but BP's PR i ...
  The rich vein of anti-business sentiment in the US is being fuelled needlessly, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bad, but BP's PR i ...
  The rich vein of anti-business sentiment in the US is being fuelled needlessly, argues Jeremy Warner.
• Hayward's grilling is a small penance
  Telegraph View: The BP chief executive got off lightly. Not so the company.
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill: 'The Committee is ready ...
  They are the most feared words in corporate America, and BP's Tony Hayward is about to find out why. Alex Spillius reports.

Ian Welsh

• The surging expense of our illusions
  We live in a world of illusions.  Those illusions are expensive.  For instance, the illusion that we could impose a Westernized, friendly to the US and Israel, OPEC busting government in Iraq was an illusion that was apparent to the dirty fucking hippies by the summer of 2002 and to most of the Seri ...
• What Actually Happened at the G20 Protests
  There’s been a lot of crying about “thugs and anarchists” in Toronto.  I live about 4 blocks from where some of the vandalism occurred, though I wasn’t there at the time. As best I can tell, what happened is that for about an hour, the Black Bloc protesters clearly and visibly prepared for action, ...
• What Actually Happened at the G20 Protests
  There’s been a lot of crying about “thugs and anarchists” in Toronto.  I live about 4 blocks from where some of the vandalism occurred, though I wasn’t there at the time. As best I can tell, what happened is that for about an hour, the Black Bloc protesters clearly and visibly prepared for action, ...
• G20 Confers on how to make you pay for the rich&#8 ...
  It’s really, really simple.  The rich crashed the world economy.  They were bailed out, with their wealth having almost entirely recovered and corporate profits likewise have pretty much recovered.  Now, at the G10, the world’s leaders are discussing how to make regular people pay for the rich’s ...
• 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 ...

Age of Autism

• Radio Wakefield Up Now on "Pirate Satellite"! Chas ...
  Go to www.autismfile.com for live streaming now. Send your questions to Polly@autismfile.com.
• The Tipping Point: Questions about Autism, History ...
  Part I By Adriana Gamondes I first started looking into the possibility of a relationship between race and brain injury two years ago because—to be blunt— I wondered if mercury was more toxic to certain ethnicities. My children are part...
• Autism Genome Project Phase 2
  By Katie Wright The results of The Autism Genome Project’s Phase 2 results were published last week with much fanfare. Media outlets all over the world covered this story. Reporters titled their stories: “Incredible breakthrough,” “Amazing Discovery,” and “Putting the...
• Teri Arranga Interviews Susan Delaine Author of Th ...
  ON THE VOICE AMERICA HEALTH AND WELLNESS CHANNEL TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 12 NOON ET www.health.voiceamerica.com Click HERE to enter our contest for a free copy and stay tuned for a very cool promotion! Gorgeous, EASY, and gluten- and dairy-free: THAT'S...
• Thoughtful House Offers 50 Grants for Autism Treat ...
  Thoughtful House , in Austin Texas, is proud to announce a wonderful opportunity for 50 families affected by autism spectrum disorder. The Bright Eyes Project will provide support and financial assistance to 50 children for the provision of the initiation...

Global BDS Movement

• Palestinian Queers Call for BDS
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• 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

Farm Wars

• Pony up, Cattlemen!
  Evidently wild horses are drinking too much corporate water and need to be eliminated.
• Food and Depopulation (Part 2 of 4)
  A monopoly is exclusive control of a commodity or service that makes it possible to manipulate prices. This is accomplished through governmental regulations used to enforce the monopoly. The way to break a monopoly is to remove those laws. This is simple, but not easy in the case of Monsanto, becaus ...
• Food and Depopulation (Part 1 of 4)
  The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon. Since the Rockefeller family came to power (especially after gaining a monopoly in 1914 with Standard Oil) they have manipulated our government into ruining our f ...
• Kucinich Announces Right to Know Legislation in Wa ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time advocate of family farmers and organic foods, today made the following statement after the Supreme Court voted 7-1 to allow the experimental planting of genetically modified alfalfa seed before an environmental review is completed.
• American Politics: John Wallace hosts show with Ba ...
  AMERICAN POLITICS RADIO SHOW – SHOW REMINDER: NEXT SHOW – (THIS FRIDAY) at 5:00PM EST GUEST: MARTI OAKLEY – Freedom and Liberty Activists Marti Oakley, and Barb Peterson from Farm Wars,  nationally known Freedom and Liberty activists, who also host the new Truth Squad Radio Show are my guests on thi ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Internet porn billionaire to take over Le Monde
  Daily Telegraph – Le Monde’s journalists’ association, the paper’s main shareholder, have voted for the daily to be taken over by three French investors who President Nicolas Sarkozy sought to block. The consortium is made up of Pierre Berge, ex-partner of the late fashion designer Yves Saint-Laure ...
• Blood test predicts menopause date
  ABC – Family planning has taken on a new meaning following a discovery that could help women determine exactly when they will lose their fertility. Researchers at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology say a simple blood test will provide an accurate pointer of when a woman will ...
• Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
  Reuters – Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard. The new standards, expected to be firmed up by early 2011, will ...
• Miners give tax deadline to Canberra
  The Age – The mining industry has warned the new Gillard government that it faces another hostile advertising campaign if agreement on a new tax regime is not reached within two weeks. The industry and government last week called a truce on their respective $100 million and $38 million advertising c ...
• Jobless Bill Dies Amid Deficit Fears
  Wall Street Journal – Spooked by concern about deficits, the Senate shelved a spending bill that included an extension of unemployment benefits, suddenly cutting off a federal cash spigot opened by President Barack Obama when he took office 18 months ago. The collapse of the wide-ranging legislation ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Gulf oil spill: Air pollution a new health concern ...
  Public outrage over the BP oil spill fouling the Gulf of Mexico has focused on water pollution. But an air pollution health threat may also be serious, according to UCI researchers. A team of UCI scientists, including Nobel laureate F....
• Gulf oil spill: Storm to delay new oil collection ...
  A BP plan to collect roughly twice the amount of oil than the company is currently capturing from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to be delayed by six or seven days due to turbulent seas...
• Honda primes the pump for hydrogen with its home r ...
  One of the biggest barriers to adoption of hydrogen as a fuel for transportation is refueling. There are just 21 hydrogen fueling stations in the entire state of California. While four more stations will be opening this year, there’s an...
• Gulf oil spill: Volunteer lawyers reach out to Vie ...
  Thoa-Thi Ta, 56, drove 2 ½ hours from Opelousas, La., to Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church in the Village de L’est area of New Orleans on Sunday to get free advice from a Vietnamese-speaking lawyer about her family’s BP...
• Gulf oil spill: Fishermen sing and pray together a ...
  The New Orleans-based Vietnamese American Fishermen Assn. sponsored a concert for oil spill victims in New Orleans East on Sunday night that drew about 300 people, including fisherman Tam Le, 43, of Baton Rouge, La. Le, a father of three...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

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spiked

• Is it ethical to support In-ger-lund?
  No, of course it isn’t - but so what? Let’s keep football out of politics.
• Staging a mutiny in Rolling Stone magazine
  General McChrystal’s anti-Obama blabbing to a hippie mag exposes the internal disarray of the US elite.
• Protecting little Brits from the bogeyman
  Home secretary Theresa May’s decision to ban a radical preacher from Britain is an insult to us all.
• Football: it’s a head game
  As yesterday’s victory over Slovenia showed, England are a different team when they can play without fear.
• There is an alternative to austerity: economic gro ...
  Neither the Budget’s authors nor the Budget-knockers have a vision for reinvigorating the economy. So here are my ideas.

Cryptogon

• Bill Clinton: Blow Up The Well
  Via: CNN:
• RBS: “Get Ready for the Cliff-Edge”
  Buy U.S. Treasuries? Anyway… Via: CNBC: The credit team at RBS in London are getting very bearish and warning clients to “get ready for the cliff-edge,” where prices of stocks and commodities will “collapse.” RBS credit chief Andrew Roberts said the edge is just around the corner for the European ba ...
• A Quiet Crisis Whispers of Impending Poverty
  Via: Automatic Earth: “The ECRI leading indicator produced by the Economic Cycle Research Institute plummeted yet again last week to -6.9, pointing to contraction in the US by the end of the year. It is dropping faster that at any time in the post-War era.” The latest data from the CPB Netherlands B ...
• Supreme Court Strikes Down Chicago Handgun Ban
  The 2nd Amendment has anything to do with “self-protection”… Unless they’re talking about protection from the government. Via: CNN: In another dramatic victory for firearm owners, the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional Chicago, Illinois’ 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership, a potential ...
• So Far, 400 Have Sought Medical Care After Visits ...
  Via pnj.com: The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official. But the advisory was not lifted for Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Fort Pickens beach, immediately ...

The Economic Collapse

• Does The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Mean That The U. ...
  As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis enters a third month, the economic impact of this environmental nightmare is starting to become clearer.  The truth is that the "oil volcano" spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf has absolutely decimated the seafood, tourism and real estate industries a ...
• U.S. National Debt 2010
  So just how big is the U.S. national debt in 2010?  Well, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, on June 1st the U.S. National Debt was $13,050,826,460,886.97.  For those not used to seeing such big numbers, that is over 13 trillion dollars.  To give you an idea of just how much a trillion dolla ...
• The Dominant Force In World Financial Markets In 2 ...
  Extreme volatility is not a sign of health for financial markets.  But in 2010 financial markets around the globe are experiencing unprecented volatility.  Why?  It is because the entire world financial system has been gripped by fear.  In today's crazed environment, it seems like just about anythin ...
• Strategic Defaults: Is It Morally Right To Decide ...
  In 2010, record numbers of Americans are defaulting on their mortgages.  For most of them, it is because they simply cannot afford the mortgage payments any longer.  But for a growing number of Americans, the decision to stop paying on a mortgage is not because of financial hardship.  Rather, after ...
• More Than 1 In 5 American Children Are Now Living ...
  Perhaps the greatest victims of the economic nightmare that is unfolding right in front of our eyes are our children.  The overall economic numbers are really bad, but when you examine the impact that this economy is having on children things get really horrifying.  Today, 1 in 5 American children l ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

• FINANCE: Supreme Court Leaves Most of Auditing Reg ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down as unconstitutional some provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that created an auditing oversight regulator but left most of the law intact, to the relief of supporters of the 2002 corporate reform law.
• FINANCE: Morgan Stanley Latest to Settle with Mass ...
  Before Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley gained notoriety as a failed Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, she was best known for her aggressive pursuit of lenders who made bad-faith loans contributing to the subprime crisis. This week, one of those investigations paid off in a big ...
• FINANCE: Car Dealers Take Victory Lap, But Will Fa ...
  Car dealers are close to winning their battle to avoid oversight by a new federal consumer financial protection bureau but elation over the victory may be tempered by Democrats’ plan to give more rulemaking horsepower to their current regulator, the Federal Trade Commission.
• INTERNATIONAL: Investigations from Around the Worl ...
  Here is this week's round up of Investigations from Around the World by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists :
• MONEY & POLITICS: House Considers Proposal to ...
  After months of false starts and compromises, the House today was set to begin debating a Democratic bill that would make it clear how much companies, unions, and other groups spend on independent campaign ads made legal by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruli ...

  Blacklisted News

• ‘Dozens’ of US citizens on assassination list, Whi ...
  When it was confirmed last winter by then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair that the Obama administration had authorized the assassination of American citizens working with terrorist groups overseas, it appeared that no more than three Americans were being targeted in this manner.
• Ex-Chicago policeman guilty of lying about torture
  Just another day at the office!
• Obama DOCTRINE: Congress Just Declared Preemptive ...
  War with Iran has already been decided by the powers that be and the modern-day quasi-declaration happened last Thursday. �Using the same legislative and propaganda playbook that led to the Iraq War, the U.S. Government has just officially declared War on Iran.
• Feds arrest 10 accused of being Russian agents
  Less than a week after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the United States, the Justice Department announced Monday that 10 people were arrested on charges of being Russian agents involved in a long-term mission in the country. Another suspect was still being sought.
• White House cybersecurity policy would require int ...

The Intelligence Daily

• West’s Afghan Debacle: Commander Dismissed As War ...
  Excerpt: A graduate of the West Point Military Academy like McChrystal, Petraeus has been the...
• A Pathless Land
  By John Michael Greer The discussion of revitalization movements and fantasies of collective...
• Government Insiders: Get Ready for the Gulf “Dead ...
  By Wayne Madsen Bad news concerning the Gulf oil disaster continues to come from WMR’s...
• Through the Wormhole: The Secret State’s Mad Schem ...
  By Tom Burghardt Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that “war...
• 6 Year Old on “No Fly” List by Homeland Security i ...
  A 6 year old girl, named Alyssa Thomas, was declared top be on the “no-fly” list when she tried to...

My AntiWar

• Bin Laden Hunter: I Wanted to Haul Him to US Alive
• Honduran Ex-President: US Was Behind My Overthrow
• Pentagon Looks for $100b in Cost Savings
• Liberals Question Kagan’s Stance on Detainee ...
• US Officials Say Karzai Aides Are Derailing Corrup ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• 'Iran will retaliate if ships inspected'
  Summary: Iran's president says Tehran will retaliate if its cargo ships come under inspection and that it will delay resuming nuclear talks to teach the West the manner of talking "to our nation." source: Press TV read more
• Iran is Surrounded by US Troops in 10 Countries
  Summary: Iran Israel US Iran literally is surrounded by American troops, notes an oil market analyst, Energy and Capital editor Christian A. DeHaemer. There is no evidence of an imminent attack, but he connects a number of recent events and the presence of American soldiers to warn that oil pri ...
• CIA chief's propaganda: Iran Has Enough Uranium to ...
  Summary: Panetta CIA Director Leon Panetta today said he believes Iran probably has enough low enriched uranium that it could, if weaponized, produce two primitive atomic bombs. Panetta estimated that the process would take at least two years. source: AntiWar.com read more
• ISRAEL 'PLOTS TEHRAN RAID'
  Summary: Israeli F-15C Baz Jets MANAMA: Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday. source: Gulf Daily News read more
• MEDVEDEV MEETS OBAMA: RUSSIA-IRAN RELATIONS SHOULD ...
  Summary: Just a few years ago, Iranian-Russian relations seemed to be headed toward even closer strategic cooperation. (For example, in what seemed at the time an important symbolic statement, in 2007 Putin became the first non-Muslim head of state or government to be received by the Islamic Re ...

The Daily Galaxy

• The Daily "140" Insight
  2010: "The Year We Make Contact." Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 -A Space Odyssey
• World-leading Expert Asks: "Could 'Quantum Weirdne ...
  Quantum mechanics underlies many of the most revolutionary discoveries and principles of human technology, from the big bang to the laser, to the transistor to superconducting magnets used at CERNs LHC. Extraterrestrial technology more advanced than ours might manifest itself...
• Daily "140" Insight: Douglas Adams on "Time"
  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams Posted at 12:02 AM | Permalink
• Image of the Day: The Terrifying Beauty of the Con ...
  The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright star just above the cone is the tree topper and the very bright star at...
• New Tech: Hitler Reviews iPhone 4

Natural News

• McDonald's threatened with lawsuit over toys in Ha ...
  (NaturalNews) The Los Angeles Times recently reported that the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is planning to sue fast-food giant McDonald's if the company does not comply with its demands to remove toys from "Happy Meals". CSPI claims that marketing unhealthy food with toys is cont ...
• To save America's health, we must end nutritional ...
  (NaturalNews) An obese doctor comes home to his wife at dinner time carrying yet another bag full of drive-through junk food from a local restaurant. Worried about his health, his wife asks, "Don't you realize all that junk food you keep eating is destroying your entire body?" "That's not my concern ...
• The total failure of modern psychiatry
  (NaturalNews) Modern psychiatry went wrong when it embraced the idea that the mind should be treated with drugs, says Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto, writing in the Wall Street Journal . Shorter studies the history of psychiatry and medicine. Modern U.S. psychiatry has adopted a phi ...
• Texas leads the pack in wind power generation
  (NaturalNews) The race to develop alternative energy sources to offset traditional ones has been intensifying as states look to take advantage of federal incentives. Wind energy in particular is quickly becoming a hot new market, and none other than Texas is ahead of the game in this particular sect ...
• 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 ...

Threat Level

• FTC: Scammers Stole Millions Using Micro Charges t ...
  A gang of unknown thieves has stolen nearly $10 million using micro charges made to more than a million credit and debit cards in an elaborate multiyear scam, according to a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission in March. The fraudulent charges went unnoticed by the majority of card owners b ...
• Supreme Court Balks at Redrawing Patent Rules
  The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a patent for a method to hedge weather-related financial risk, but declined to make it more difficult to patent “business methods” or software. The unanimous court found the patent too “abstract,” but emphasized that its ruling was intended neither to narrow ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• What Washington Giveth, the States Taketh Away
  By almost any measure, the $787 billion stimulus program has worked exactly as designed . The overwhelming consensus of economists is that the federal package has been a success, while the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has already added up to ...
• Great Moments in U.S. World Cup History
  For the second time in four years, Ghana put an end to American World Cup hopes. Making the loss more painful were the catastrophic defensive lapses and first half midfield woes that were the undoing of a much stronger U.S squad than four years ago. Still, American fans will always have the heroic ...
• Reinstating Estate Tax Would Pay for Jobless Benef ...
  Refusing to extend unemployment benefits to 1.2 million Americans by adding to the deficit, Senate Republicans by a 41 to 57 margin on Thursday again filibustered the Democratic billion jobs bill . As it turns out, most of the roughly $35 billion still needed to pay for it could largely come from a ...
• 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

• "The Answers Are Coming from the Bottom": Legendar ...
  Boggs calls Detroit a "symbol of a new kind of society, of people who grow their own food, of people who try and help each other."
• Dont Let the McChrystal Frenzy Obscure the Dirty T ...
  While we’ll be treated to plenty of blather about the McChrystal incident, the most important part of the story is largely being ignored by the corporate media.
• Where To Find Really Healthy Eggs (It's Not at Who ...
  Most labels on poultry and eggs mean whatever the producer or vendor decides. Here's how to figure out what's what.
• Corporate Anarchy: Wall Street and BP Criminals At ...
  In this era of corporate anarchy, legal, ethical and financial rules have all been rescinded in the pursuit of profit.
• 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."

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

• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...
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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?
• Alexander Cockburn : Marijuana, Boom and Bust

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Blockade "eased" as Gaza starves more slowly (Jon ...
  This "adjustment," as the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu termed it, is aimed solely at damage limitation. With Israel responsible for killing nine civilians aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla three weeks ago, the world has finally begun to wonder what purpose the siege serves. Did those nin ...
• A Jewish state or a state of all its citizens? (S ...
  Palestinians make no secret of objecting to being loyal to a Jewish state. Why should they, when they are not Jews and the state was imposed on them in 1948, destroying their villages and ...
• Omar Barghouti discusses BDS (Omar Barghouti)
• Jerusalem master plan: Expansion of Jewish enclave ...
  The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is set to approve an unprecedented master plan that calls for the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, a move largel ...
• Iranian ships could join wave of flotillas to Gaza ...
  A top Hamas leader has warned Israel to expect more Gaza-bound pro-Palestinian flotillas over the next two months, including vessels "from the Gulf". Mahmoud Zahar, often seen as the domi ...

Water - AlterNet

• Texas Could Face a Grave Water Crisis Because of a ...
  'The Rule of Capture' could make a few big landowners extremely wealthy at the expense of every body else.
• How Much Longer Until We Run Out of Enough Drinkab ...
  Just as the economic crash is forcing Americans to reassess what they value financially, the water crisis requires us to pay attention to how we value and use water.
• Gulf Residents Scared Oil Industry Will Leave: Wil ...
  Leaving our abusive relationship with oil and gas will cause creative destruction on a scale we have never experienced.
• To Prevent a Food Crisis, We Need to Increase Wate ...
  Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, it is not surprising that 70 percent of world water use is devoted to irrigation -- a practice we can do better.
• Sorry, Ritz-Carlton, Plant Based Bottles For Water ...
  This is wrong in so many ways. Where do we start?

Public Citizen in Texas

• Get Involved in the Texas Sunset Advisory Commissi ...
  You’ve probably heard by now.  The TCEQ has failed to adhere to the federal Clean Air Act, jeopardizing our health, our safety, and the quality of our air. This is why, on Tuesday, May 25, the EPA took over the TCEQâs authority to grant clean air permits for 40 facilities across the state of Texa ...
• Want an EPA Public Hearing on Coal Ash Waste?
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to set federal safeguards for millions of tons of dangerous coal ash waste currently being stored in dry dumps and waste ponds. You can help set EPA on a straight course towards the first ever strong, federally enforceable safeguards for coal ash. And j ...
• Ramon A Sanchez: Solar Intern at Public Citizen [F ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ramon Sanchez majors in math at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali Rawaf studies Government and International Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.

Unexplained Mysteries

• Nuclear bombs could save earth from asteroids
  Scientists have suggested that blowing massive asteroids to bits with nuclear bombs might be a viable tactic. ...
• Aquarium owners predict football results with octo ...
  In a peculiar story this week Paul the "psychic octopus" has allegedly been credited with predicting football results. ...
• Group to investigate huge long lost Stonehenge riv ...
  A six-week dig has been planned to investigate the site that spans an area equivalent to 10 football pitches. ...
• Manned asteroid landing by 2025 "uncertain"
  Obama's plan to land humans on as asteroid by the year 2025 have been met with uncertainty. Former President George Bush put forward a plan to return ...
• Could Venus have ever supported life ?
  The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft is helping to determine if Venus ever had oceans. Today Venus might seem a hellish place and not ...

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 28, 2010
  G-20 Climate Pact Erases Word 'Voluntary' from Efforts to Cut Oil-Firm Subsidies (Los Angeles Times) In a last-minute turn in global climate talks, negotiators at the G20 summit agreed over the weekend to omit the term 'voluntary' when describing efforts to trim government subsidies to oil c ...
• June 26-27, 2010
  1st Lawsuit Filed Over Cape Cod Wind Farm Plans (AP) Environmental groups on Friday filed the first legal challenge to a wind farm off Cape Cod since federal agencies gave final approval to the project, alleging that the 130 turbines planned for Nantucket Sound will endanger migratory birds ...
• 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 ...

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

• Live from Planet Norte: America's totalitarian dem ...
  Winchester, Virginia | Starting with the Homeland Security probe at Washington's Reagan Airport, arrival back in the United States resembles an alien abduction to a planet of bright lights, strange beings and incomprehensible behavior. The featureless mysophobic landscape of DC's Virginia suburbs se ...
• Why Washington is More Right-Wing Than the Rest of ...
  We recently had John Avlon on the program and he is a devout "centrist." That used to mean that you were somewhere on the political spectrum between the left and the right. It now means that you set up false equivalencies between the left and the right and call everything even no matter what. I'm an ...
• Finding the Financial-Reg Loopholes
  The Sturm und Drang is over. The Bank lobbyists went home to collect their bonuses as the House and Senate agreed on a 2,000-page financial “reform” quickly praised by the White House and superficially covered in the press. The key underreported fact highlighted by Naked Capitalism : “On a flat ...
• Markey vs. Gardner: The Problem with Selective Out ...
  Colorado Republican candidate Cory Gardner has taken his share of well-deserved local and national media flack from progressives (including from me on my radio show) for holding a fundraiser with energy lobbyists. He undoubtedly deserves the criticism he's received (and on a personal note, just reme ...
• The Civilian and the General: The Reality Behind t ...
  For a few days last week, the harpies of the extreme right assaulted the president of the United States for first considering, and then firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of allied forces in Afghanistan. In a 10-day interview with Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone, McChrystal and his senior a ...

Paul Krugman

• The Invisible Bond Vigilantes Continue Their Invis ...
  Funny about those interest rates ...
• Inequality And Crises
  Causation or coincidence.
• A Brief Note On German Unemployment
  Germany is Europe's Midwest.
• Invisible Friends
  Of fiscal austerity and 6-foot rabbits.
• In The Long Run, We Are Still All Dead
  Why shouldn't we be focused on the business cycle.

No Quarter

• Obama’s “Uncle” Wright Still Pre ...
  In the not-too-distant past, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright played an instrumental role in the spiritual life of Barack Obama. Yes, Obama sat in Wright’s church, TUCC, for over 20 years. They were close, with Obama going to Wright for spiritual guidance often. Obama even referred to Rev. Wright as an “ ...
• Barn Door Florida Horse Glue
  Editor’s Note: Published June 26th at the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule; podcasts). ___________________________________________   POTUS Plugs Something.  The Wall Street reform bill meanders and chugs through the minds of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd — two geniuses without ...
• Sen. Robert Byrd has passed away (video)
  Just announced at 5:25 a.m. ET. This A.P. video was posted before the announcement: Senator Robert Byrd on Congressional Service: Please share your memories and reactions.
• Enough of the Afghanistan Bullshit
  I don’t know about you but I am fed up with the crap being spewed in the media and espoused by politicians about the situation in Afghanistan. Let’s start with the nonsense that “We’ve been fighting for 9 years.” Technically true but intellectually dishonest and misleading. We fought seriously in ...
• Dream Again of Rome
  Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   Banks Eat Earth. The carefully gifted Simon Johnson opines that Jamie Dimon and other Glob ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 5 Reasons BP Has A Lot To Answer For
  The BP oil disaster will affect everyone in America and many of those abroad no matter where one works or lives. This article explains how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Most Amazing Stained Glass Ceilings
  Spectacular stained glass ceilings from around the world that make sunlight colorful. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Dinosaur Egg Boulders of Moeraki
  Not all rocks are boring – especially when they weigh several tons, are round, and appear to have hatched! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Cats vs Dogs: The Battle of the Pets
  Despite their epic history of violence, cats and dogs are often forced to coexist as pets - leading to some of the most adorable battles on earth! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Quantum Vacuum: An Unlikely Alternative Energy ...
  Physicists have discovered that there may be a way to extract energy from the surrounding "nothingness" of space - could this be the answer to Earth's energy crisis? 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

• Afghanistan by the Book -- THE Book, That Is
  Why not hold Gen. Petraeus's performance in Afghanistan to the standards of his seminal work on counterinsurgency, Field Manual 3-24?
• The Future of Irish Peace
  The peace process in Northern Ireland has encountered several challenges in recent months. But with U.S. support, the peace will likely hold.
• 60-Second Expert: U.S.-Iran Relations
  It is in the best interest of both countries to sit down and negotiate.
• Unified Budget Would Spread Security Revenue
  We need a whole-of-government approach to security budgeting.
• Would You Trust a Country That Named Its First Nuk ...
  When it comes to calling states rogues, why does India get a pass?

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• US arrests alleged Russian spies
  Deep cover agents accused of trying to penetrate US government policymaking circles.
• Mexican politician assassinated
  Front-running candidate for governor in border state shot dead with four aides.
• McChrystal announces retirement
  Sacked commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan tells army he is retiring.
• Afghan approval for five ministers
  Parliament endorses appointment of five new ministers while rejecting two others.
• Scores trapped in China landslide
  Officials say about 107 buried in southern China with little chances of survival.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: Bill Clinton on the Spill
  Former president Bill Clinton says it "may become necessary" to use explosives to halt the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Toxic Mercury Is More at Home in Seawater, Study F ...
  A new study suggests that mercury in saltwater fish like tuna, mackerel and sharks pose more risks to humans than mercury in freshwater fish. Mercury in seawater is more likely to be present in a toxic form, researcher report in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience.
• Is a New Reactor Rust-Prone?
  Approval of the design for the Westinghouse AP 1000 reactor is slowly moving forward at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as are the financial arrangements for building the nation's first one, near Augusta, Ga. Yet the argument about whether its design is really safer than past models is advancing, ...
• Europe's Enduring Coal Subsidies
  To avert a flood of unemployed workers, the European Union sticks with coal subsidies.
• Reporter Answers Questions About the Spill
  The Times answers some follow-up questions about the gulf oil spill.

Dot Earth News

• More Crude Songs
  More music in the key of carbon.
• A Nobelist's Energy Pitch for Obama
  A Nobel winner in physics presents his pitch for the president on energy and climate.
• Tracking Gulf Oil and Storms
  The first named storm in the Atlantic Ocean this season is missing the gulf's oil-stained waters.
• BP 'Reporter' Flies Over Gulf Without Noting Slick
  A BP reporter flies over the gulf and somehow doesn't note the oil slick.
• Songs on This Fossil Age
  "Liberated carbon, it'll spin your wheels..." A musical blog post on the fossil age.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Diamond Dave & Direct Democracy in Detroit: Crib n ...
  A decade after the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, more than ten thousand activists have arrived from around the world in Detroit for the 2010 US Social Forum , the first since 2007's Atlanta conference. Over four days USSF is hosting a huge program with more than a thousand work ...
• Assange == Auction the leaks? Lamo was a Honeypot ...
  Vatican Endorses "The Blues Brothers" - ABC News - nothing else matters too much. " The issue here is that Assange and Manning (the primary source of Wikileaks Iraq and Afghanistan leaks) hoped to jointly profit by selling some of the data by auction " -- Supposed "Wikileaks Insider" @ Cryptome ...
• Daily Show: Obama == "Respect My Authoritah"
  Great stuff from tonight's Daily Show. It contrasts with the right-baiting on MSNBC right now nicely :) Update 15 mins later: - look what the photo host service I tweeted it from did! TAKEN OVER BY HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP advertising. Dark times. here: http://tweetphoto.com/27442324
• Geological spread of Gulf Disaster, Secret Corexit ...
  Get Cooked: Americans get most radiation from medical scans ( cryptogon ) Followups to Gaza Flotilla video: subMedia -Foreclose this , Editorial by Iara Lee What happened to us is happening in Gaza , U.S. Filmmaker Recorded Flotilla Massacre Video - Salem-News.Com , New Footage Emerges From the Isra ...
• Late Nite Assange email: Wikileaks "may be under a ...
  WikiLeaks via SunshinePress.org just sent out a curiously ambiguous call, signed by the elusive Julian Assange, for emergency funds, with subject "WikiLeaks may be under attack", also calling for people to set up local "Friends of Wikileaks" chapters. Also: Save Bradley! The Wikileaks guy Bradley ...

Daily Censored

• Obama Fires General McChrystal but Crisis Continue ...
  US President Barack Obama has just fired the US general in charge of the war in Afghanistan – General Stanley McChrystal. The last time this happened was a half-century ago, when then-President Truman fired General Douglas Macarthur, who was in charge of the US troops in the war in Korea. When finan ...
• Ending the Monopoly of Ideas: Compulsory Licensing ...
  Intellectual property law is killing our economy. We take a look at its history and how to reform it.
• Congressperson Rohrabacher: almost all House Repub ...
  source, with outstanding video interview. In the interview below, Southern California Republican Congressperson Dana Rohrabacher is reported by Judge Andrew Napolitano as admitting the “emperor has no clothes” obvious: US war in Iraq is unlawful and almost all House Republicans know it. The war in A ...
• You Can Never Be Crazy Enough.
  OK, here’s the thing: I started out as a Mormon. It wasn’t my idea but I accepted it because there was no alternative at the time. So I tried really hard to be good at it. But never, never was I good enough. I was always saying hilarious things that trampled on the sensitivities of [...]
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Kucinich: ‘We are losing our na ...
• US lawmaker blocks Afghan aid, vows not â&eu ...
• Pentagon appeals to defense industry for lower cos ...
• No sex please, we’re astronauts ...
• Christian Group Can't Bar Gays, Get Funding At Has ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Petroleum and Silly Putty on the Menu
  McDonald's uses chemicals in the United States that it manages to do without in its British restaurants.
• From the Frontlines: June 28, 2010
  The power of street heat, a turning point for Israel and Palestine, and a new Gulf economy.
• Unified Budget Would Spread Security Revenue
  We need a whole-of-government approach to security budgeting.
• Street Heat Strengthened Wall Street Reform
  A speech delivered at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, June 25, 2010.
• The Lineup: Week of June 28-July 4, 2010
  Here's what you'll find in this week's OtherWords editorial package.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• Dennis Kucinich: “From Roxbury to Cleveland ...
  I am writing you today to ask you to join me at PDA’s national conference in my home town, Cleveland, from July 23rd-25th. Almost 6 years ago, at the conclusion of my 2004 primary campaign ...
• Images In The Sand Connect Our Global Community
  by Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor /center> There are some things we humans have just one of. We have one heart, one liver, one tongue, one nose… Of course, there are probable anomalies ...
• 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 ...

Marler Blog

• A Day off from being a Lawyer and Blogger
  I received a few emails from readers who did not get their daily quota of Marler Blog wondering what happened.� Well, I went fishing in the Florida Keys. And, actually caught something (catch and release) - 125 pound Tarpon - which took me over two and a half hours to bring along side the boat.
• 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, ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 06.28.10
  Texas energy company to offer unlimited charging for EVs at flat rate of $60-80 per month Fill 'er up in Houston, TX. Ghosn says Nissan-Renault partnership makes EVs doable, companies couldn't go it alone ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• CNET Showcase wrapup: Readers sound off on iPad vs ...
  Brian Cooley wraps up the second CNET Showcase Live event with an overview of the debate and videos of the products behind it. Originally posted at CNET Showcase ...
• 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 ...

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

• Billion dollar price tag in preparation for G 20 C ...
  Excellent coverage by Pressfortruth.ca, showing months of prepartion for the G 20 convention with a billion dollar price tag that would make, even, the Bu$h administration proud. weavingspider | May 29, 2010 In the eyes of the global elite it is time for Canadians to be whipped into a state of fear ...
• Supreme Court: Gun Rights Apply Locally & Expands ...
  Supreme Court voids Chicago handgun ban, expands gun rights nationwide By Raw Story Monday, June 28th, 2010 — 10:18 am Group: ‘People will die because of this decision’ Gun owners upset about states “trampling on their rights” have reason to cheer Monday. “In another dramatic victory for firearm own ...
• UN rights chief says torturers will face justice
  Yahoo! News, June 26, 2010 UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, pictured in April 2010, on Friday warned torturers that they could not escape justice even if they might benefit from short term impunity. GENEVA (AFP) – – UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday warned torturers that they could not e ...
• Fighting talk: The new propaganda
  Journalism has become a linguistic battleground – and when reporters use terms such ‘spike in violence’ or ‘surge’ or ‘settler’, they are playing along with a pernicious game, argues Robert Fisk The Independent/UK, June 21, 2010 AFP / GETTY IMAGES Botch and learn: the world’s media await the arrival ...
• The Third Depression?
  The Third Depression THE NEW YORK TIMES- By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: June 27, 2010 Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that follo ...

Solari

• G-20 Calls for ‘Significantly’ Higher Bank Capital
  By Doug Alexander The Group of 20 countries said banks need to raise capital “significantly higher” in order to avoid a repeat of the global financial crisis, while giving lenders more flexibility to implement the changes. Countries should adopt the new standards by the end of 2012, and banks will ...
• Financial Reform - Banks `Dodged a Bullet’
  By Christine Harper Legislation to overhaul financial regulation will help curb risk-taking and boost capital buffers. What it won’t do is fundamentally reshape Wall Street’s biggest banks or prevent another crisis, analysts said. A deal reached by members of a House and Senate conference early thi ...
• World Debt
  View Larger Chart Continue reading Indebtedness After The Financial Crisis
• 2nd Quarter 2010: Looking Back
  In our year-end wrap up, 2009: The Year of the Giant Vampire Squid, I said that in 2010, the “Year of the Tiger,” that the road would turn east and that the geopolitics of the Grand Chessboard would dominate capital flows and military actions. In the United States, the gears would grind as unemplo ...
• Writing a Great Story
  A living history is a history that turns the pupil from student to player. To rise from the level of pupil to player requires looking into our collective shadow, letting go of the official myths and seeing things as they are. It requires unlearning what we have learned. It requires forgiving those ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• GOP Senators' Bizarre Letter to Obama Sparks Right ...
  Anti-immigrant hardliners are stirring the pot with a dishonest claim that the president intends to grant “amnesty†to 12 to 18 million undocumented immigrants.
• Why Do Murderers Get Mailbags Full of Love Letters ...
  Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has been bragging about receiving a deluge of attention from women since confessing to the murder of Stephany Flores. What gives?
• Hello America: It Matters Which Women We Elect to ...
  As we push to get more women elected, we need to make sure they care about the right issues.
• Drug Policy Alliance vs. O’Reil ...
  Fox News has a hard time realizing that we should take the money that we are spending on prisons and use it to address issues related to child abuse.
• Rural Areas Are the Hidden Frontlines in the Strug ...
  The conversation about same-sex marriage has largely been focused to cities. Now, two filmmakers are bringing the battle home.

Sideways News

• David Goodfellow's Kindness Offensive
  When was the last time a stranger did something kind for you, such as giving up their much-coveted train seat? Modern life can feel like survival of the rudest. Do nice guys always finish last? The aptly-named David Goodfellow set out to give grumpy Londoners a proverbial facelift, purely out of the ...
• Sweet smell of nostalgia
  Whether freshly cut grass or school dinners, there are certain odours that have lodged themselves in our emotional memory, instantly invoking a wave of nostalgia on first whiff. Now scientists think they may have discovered a biological reason as to why our first smells leave such a lasting impressi ...
• 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

• Could a new “Manhattan Project” produc ...
  Summary:  Can a new Manhattan Project produce a breakthrough in energy technology?  A November 2007 post discussed the last and perhaps foundational source of American’s confidence that peak oil will prove manageable despite our feckless lack of preparedness:  An urban legend to comfort A ...
• FM newswire for June 28, interesting articles abou ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to friends or colleagues. Recommended, an outsider’s perspective on the debate among climate scientists:   “Global Warning Advocacy Science: A Cross Examination“, Jason Scott Johnston (Director of the Program ...
• A discovery that could change the course of US geo ...
  Summary:  Here’s a small item by Andrew Exum that deserves attention about the history of counterinsurgencies.  This is the second of series on this subject.   Chapter one was Max Boot: history suggests we will win in Afghanistan, with better than 50-50 odds. Hereâs the real story., which d ...
• “Climate Change: what do we know about the IPCC?”
  Summary:  Here’s an excellent summary of the large body of research about the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has become a major player in public policy. Recommended reading:  “Climate Change: what do we know about the IPCC?“, Mike Hulme and Martin Mahony (School of En ...
• Why have mainstream economists lost the arguement ...
  Summary:  Mainstream economists have recommended additional rounds of stimulus as the economies slow in Japan, the EU, and USA.  Instead the Austerians have won the political debate, recommending the liquidationist policies of Hoover in 1929-30.  Brad DeLong (Prof Economics, Berkeley) asks “How I ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Death toll in flood-stricken south China nears 400
  Reuters- Workers struggled to repair a broken dyke in south China where persistent heavy rains and devastating floods have so far left at least 379 people dead, state media and government agencies said. Bulldozers dumped rocks and soil to repair a breach in the dykes hemming in the Fu River, in Jian ...
• World’s millionaires are back to strength after ba ...
  Guardian – Wealth report puts number of high net worth individuals back to 2007 levels, at 10 million, with biggest growth in Asia-Pacific region. The number of wealthy people in the world has returned to levels last seen before the banking crisis. There are now 10 million individuals with more than ...
• Psychotropic Medications Can Cause Birth Defects, ...
  ScienceDaily — A new study shows that use of psychotropic medications during pregnancy increase the probability of birth defects. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have published an article that documents the serious side effects that can be associated with these types of medications. Rea ...
• Liliane Bettencourt sets France agog over links be ...
  Telegraph – Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L’Oréal fortune and France’s richest woman, is at the centre of a web of revelations about money, power and influence in the French Republic. Liliane Bettencourt is the nearest thing the French Republic has to the Queen: regal, elegant, impeccably gro ...
• The Dangers Of Asian Carp In Great Lakes
  NPR-A single Asian carp was found on the other side of barriers engineered to keep the fish from entering Lake Michigan. Guy Raz talks to Asian Carp Rapid Response Team member Duane Chapman about what damage the carp could cause -Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Book review of André Gunder Frank’s Lupenbourgeois ...
  Book review of André Gunder Frank’s Lupenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) André Gunder Frank’s Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopement, written in 1972, is a short summary of the evolution of dependency in Latin America from the colonial period through ...
• Points de l’unité
  Points de lâunité (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) âNous révolutionnaires sont les rois de singe. Nous tournerons le monde à lâenvers ¾ le plus salissant, le meilleurâ¦â – un livret des Gardes rouges Monkey Smashes Heaven est un journal consacré à la destruction du vieux monde en à ...
• 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)

PakAlert

• Video: ISI will bury India, US in Afghanistan: Zai ...
  Former Chief of IB Brig. Imtiaz (Rtd) and renowned Pakistani defence analyst Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid in a candid discussion on the recent history of Afghanistan and why it lives up to its reputation of being a graveyard of empires. Must watch analysis (English language) Read More at http://pakale ...
• Alert: Obama Warns World Leaders ‘Millions Could D ...
  A sobering report circulating in the Kremlin today from President Medvedev’s meeting with other World leaders at the G8 summit in Muskoka, Ontario states that President Obama has warned his counterparts that the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster “will most likely kill millions, perhaps tens of millions” o ...
• Is Israel Involved In Other Nations Elections?
  As the Official Story of the 1980 October Surprise case crumbles with new revelations that key evidence was hidden from investigators of a congressional task force and that internal doubts were suppressed history must finally confront the troubling impression that remains: that disgruntled elements ...
• Freedom Fighters, Terrorism, World Financial Colla ...
  If you do not think Zionism controls the USA and its Might, Wealth, Military, Congress, President, Media, Commerce, and just about every other aspect, you are naive. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
• 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 ...

ecogeek

• Antarctica Getting Its Own Garbage Patch
  Massive concentrations of garbage have been discovered where ocean currents meet.  The Great Pacific garbage patch , the largest of them all, has inspired a team to sail a boat made out of recycled plastic to bring attention to the giant problem.  Others have been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean a ...
• Paris Putting Turbines in the Seine
  The Seine, the scenic river running through Paris, has inspired artists, attracted tourists and served as the soul of the city, and now it will also be a source of renewable energy.  Paris officials have announced a plan to place river turbines beneath four bridges on the Seine. The Pont du Garigl ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• Looks Like Sessions Has a Taste for Retribution
  Jeff Sessions still has his panties in a knot because: In 1986, Sessions was a 39-year-old U.S. attorney in Alabama . His nomination to be a U.S. District Court judge was troubled from the start because of controversy surrounding his prosecution of civil rights activists for voting fraud.� Sessi ...
• The GOP’s Greatest Hope – Defeat
  STEVEN C. DAY FOR BUZZFLASH Speaking as a Democrat — though a fairly disgruntled one of late (okay, an extremely disgruntled one of late) — I find myself looking ahead to the inevitable GOP gains in the mid-term elections with surprising ambivalence. On the one hand, I’m still enough of a partis ...
• “Rocky Mountain Rambo” Gary Faulkner Looked For Os ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH � I don’t imagine Bin Laden thought This guy was a real mean mother Perhaps because of his rather curious Resemblance to a Doobie Brother. read more
• Look Out: The Gloves are Off and as Usual the New ...
  NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH Look out: the gloves are off and as usual the New York Times is determined to destroy Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone.� On Friday, the paper published not one but two critical articles about the director’s latest documentary, South of the Border , about the tectonic ...
• Did Leon Panetta Just Say What He Didn't Say?
  Body In all the stupidity and confusion of the Afghanistan war, it's nonetheless fair to say that at least two major propositions hold verifiably true when it comes to our involvement there. First, whether we individually are hawks or doves or internationalists or neo-isolationists or ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Fun and games with the "terrorism" label
  (updated below - Update II) I've written numerous times about how "terrorism" is the most meaningless and most manipulated word in the political lexicon; the best demonstration of this dynamic is the work of NYU's Remi Brulin , whose dissertation documents how Western governments and me ...
• Salon Radio: Mac McClelland on BP's blocking of m ...
  Mac McClelland is a Mother Jones reporter who has been providing some of the nation's best on-the-scene coverage of the BP oil spill from the day the rig collapsed more than two months ago.� She has been particularly tenacious about chronicling the joint BP/government efforts to block media coverage ...
• The two poles of journalism
  With his Rolling Stone article on Gen. McChrystal, Michael Hastings has become both the personification of, and spokesperson for, Real Journalism, and as a result, has provoked intense animosity from establishment-serving "reporters" everywhere. �He apparently committed the gravest sin:� he exposed ...
• The Jeffrey Goldberg Media
  In a stunning display of self-unawareness, The Atlantic 's Jeffrey Goldberg pointed to last week's forced "resignation" by Dave Weigel from The Washington Post as evidence that the Post , "in its general desperation for page views, now hires people who came up in journalism without much adult superv ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 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

• Farm Sanctuary Issues Statement on the Passing of ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 28, 2010 Farm Sanctuary Farm Sanctuary mourns the loss of longtime Democratic Senator from West Virginia and animal welfare proponent Robert C. Byrd, who passed away early Monday morning at the age of 92. Though his earlier political life was, at times, controversial, By ...
• New York’s New Voting System Procedure Could Cost ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 28, 2010 Brennan Center for Justice The Brennan Center for Justice, New York State Conference NAACP, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Families United For Racial and Economic Equality, the Working Family Party, and many other civil rights, voting righ ...
• Nation's High Court Upholds University Nondiscrimi ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 28, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal from the Christian Legal Society, which sued to get funding and recognition from the University of California's Hastings College of the Law. The college policy stipulates that no r ...
• Kucinich: We Are Losing Our Nation to Lies About t ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 28, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement on the floor of the House concerning an expected vote on a $33 billion supplemental war funding bill: "In a little more than a year the United States flew $1 ...
• Network Responds to Draft Communique, Urges Bold A ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2010 Jubilee USA Network As G20 leaders prepare to meet tomorrow in Toronto, the Jubilee USA Network announced concern that, while development and environmental goals appear to be on the agenda, the concrete actions necessary to address the needs of the world’s poor ...

Common Dreams-Views

• 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, ...
• Ipalnemoani: That For What We Live For
  by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez As we prepare to get arrested as a result of the passage of a new anti-ethnic studies law in Arizona, several attorneys explain to about 30 - 40 of us in Tucson’s state building the consequences of getting arrested. As such, the numbers are winnowed down to 15 due to ...
• A Librarian in Every School, Books in Every Home • ...
  by Bob Peterson This spring, within a week’s time, two things happened that made me angry. The first was the release of scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) that showed African American 4th graders in Wisconsin (most of whom live in Milwaukee) had the lowest readin ...
• The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a ...
  by David Korten David Korten's newly revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth , outlines an agenda to create a new kind of economy: locally-based, community oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all. In this special pre ...
• Russia and Texas and Evolution
  by Christopher Brauchli The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin’s theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. — Jean Louis Agassiz, Evolution and Permanence of Type (1874) � Texans are p ...

Karl Burkart

• TEDx OilSpill conference LiveStreaming
  The TEDx emergency conference today in DC will present findings from a weeklong expedition to the Gulf.
• FourSquare enables mobile fundraising for the Gulf
  Environmental nonprofit EarthJustice partners with mobile-based social network FourSquare to create a new mode of fundraising 'on the go.'
• Chipotle turns spam e-mail into healthy school lun ...
  Forward 100 spam e-mails to Chipotle, and they will give $10 to The Lunch Box, a nonprofit that gives healthy meals to kids.
• Oil industry insider describes BP 'monster' lurkin ...
  100,000 barrels per day and a tilting wellhead presage doomsday scenario according to anonymous industry insider.
• Chipotle turns spam email into healthy school lunc ...
  Forward 100 spam emails to Chipotle and they will give $10 to the nonprofit Lunch Box which gives healthy meals to kids.

Water Privatization

• Aquino taps seasoned execs for Cabinet
  MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) - A combination of seasoned government officials and names from the private sector are expected to be part of President-elect Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's Cabinet.
• SIGN UP NOW for your GlobeSt.com Membership
  A recent analysis by SNL Real Estate found that property transactions by public REITs dropped significantly over the last five years--from 6,351 acquisitions and 2,812 dispositions in 2005 to 360 acquisitions and 994 dispositions in 2009. We spoke to Jason Lail, a senior analyst with SNL, to see if ...
• Democrats rally for causes including the environme ...
  Texas convention comes to an end in Corpus Christi
• Oliver Stone heads south for new documentary
  In feature films about John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon and George W. Bush, Oliver Stone gave free rein to his imagination and was often criticized for doing so.
• Aquino asked to dump P18.7-billion Laguna Bay plan
  An alliance of fishermens' organizations has called on the incoming Aquino government to dump the P18.7-billion Laguna de Bay rehabilitaiton project.

Guardian

• FBI breaks up alleged deep cover Russian spy ring
  Arrests of ten accused agents living in suburban homes made after Barack Obama praised Medvedev as solid The FBI has arrested 10 alleged Russian spies and broken up a "long term, deep cover" network of agents that spent years adopting American identities and gathering an array of intelligence, from ...
• Capello to learn fate in two weeks
  • Manager's position will be decided in mid-July • Italian says he has had offers from 'important' clubs England's World Cup campaign ended on a suitably farcical note last night after the Football Association refused to offer Fabio Capello its backing and left its manager dangling, with a decision ...
• Leading Mexican politician murdered
  Drug cartels blamed for high profile killing of would-be governor, who was tipped to win election in Tamaulipas Gunmen assumed to be linked to Mexico's drug cartels have assassinated a leading politician who was almost certain to win a forthcoming governorship election in the embattled northern stat ...
• McChrystal to retire from US military
  Stanley McChrystal, after stepping down as Nato's top commander in Afghanistan, is to retire from the US military General Stanley McChrystal, who was forced to resign in dramatic circumstances last week as commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, has told the army that he will cut his ties with the ...
• George Monbiot
  Despite high-pitched sirens and curfews, still they are seen in public. I have a modest proposal to tackle the youthwave They have proved to be an effective means of dealing with the epidemic of youth on our streets. But now that acoustic dispersal devices are likely to be banned , how will we tackl ...

McClatchey

• With Sen. Byrd's death, the era of statesmen fades
  WASHINGTON – The death of West Virginia Sen. Robert Carlyle Byrd, the Senate�s elder statesman, is the latest in a recent series of vivid reminders that the Senate — and the ways it shapes major policies — is changing fast.
• Watchdog: Afghan forces won't be ready for U.S. wi ...
  WASHINGTON — Afghanistan's military and police aren't on track to meet President Barack Obama's 18-month timetable for starting to withdraw U.S. troops, according to a report released on Monday by an independent watchdog group.
• McChrystal tells Pentagon he'll retire
  WASHINGTON — Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal told the Army Monday that he intends to retire, military officials said, less than a week after President Barack Obama fired him as the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
• Does world agreement to halve deficits fix things ...
  TORONTO — World leaders headed home Monday from a weekend summit with a huge question mark hanging over their work: Will their pledge to curb deficit spending help or hurt the global economy?
• Assassins hit leading candidate in key Mexican bor ...
  MEXICO CITY — A presumed drug cartel hit squad Monday killed the leading candidate for governor of a key state bordering Texas, putting a chill on Mexico just six days before local and regional elections.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Whaling commission: What's missing?
  En route from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Agadir, Morocco: So the whales have been put to bed for another year ; and at Agadir airport, amid all the tanned Europeans making their way back from their beach holidays (well, lobster-red in the case of Brits, obviously) I'm thi ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Why Government Health-Insurance Caps Are Not Enoug ...
  Over at BNet, Ken Terry argues that while capping insurance rates may help reduce the number of outrageous rate increases and keep issuers from making those rather embarrassing mathematical errors, policy makers will have to address increasing costs on the provider side to really get spending under ...
• Kagan Hearing Day One: The Battle To Define &#8216 ...
  If someone does a word cloud of today’s opening statements in the Kagan hearing, the word “activism” will dominate the screen.  And this is nothing new.  Conservative senators figured out a long time ago that if they label anyone to the left of Samuel Alito a “judicial activist” then their more pr ...
• Sen. Carper Derails Tax Haven Crackdown By Proposi ...
  Last year, Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI), Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) proposed legislation requiring states to collect information on those individuals forming corporations within their borders, in an effort to crack down tax avoidance and money laundering through fake companies. Cur ...
• Federal Government Prepares To Implement First Rea ...
  The federal government will unveil the first real benefits from the health care reform law this week, as states begin enrolling sicker individuals into health insurance policies and the federal government rolls out a new web portal designed to help Americans compare and purchase insurance products. ...
• Reid Calls The Bluff Of Climate Peacocks
  THE CLIMATE PEACOCK CAUCUS ALEXANDER BROWN (MA) COLLINS CORKER CRAPO ENZI GRAHAM GRASSLEY HATCH KYL LANDRIEU LINCOLN McCAIN MURKOWSKI NELSON (NE) PRYOR RISCH ROCKEFELLER SNOWE VOINOVICH Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is giving obstructionist senators a chance to finally take action on climate and clean ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Stupid Obama
  I'm calling him "stupid" because as a Harvard trained constitutional scholar and a master of understanding and appealing to his fellow human beings, Barack Obama ought to have been smart enough to know that he's destroying his presidency with each passing day by resorting to the same old, cynical, i ...
• The Important Stuff That Happened in Toronto
  No. Not the rocks through the windows and the car that the cops left out for the "Black Bloc" and the media photographers. Here's Naomi Klein from CommonDreams on the hideous austerity package planned for us and the cowardly failure to tax the insane world banking system: My city feels like a crime ...
• 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 ...

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

• Reason Number 3,484,917 for Enhancing Whistleblowe ...
  Over the weekend, published a , in which Danielle highlights of why it's imperative that Congress pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act.
• The Mixed Messages Service? A Look at the Ethics G ...
  One way to determine whether a problem at an agency is a systemic policy problem or the result of a few bad actors is to look at what kind of guidance its employees received. When the Department of the Interior...
• New Entity Crafting Oil Rig Safety Regulations Has ...
  Who exactly is in charge of worker safety on offshore oil rigs? You might assume that worker safety had been given to the nation’s worker safety regulatory body, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). But in 1979, the responsibility...
• Momentum Builds for GAO Audits of Intelligence Com ...
  , with Steven Aftergood of and the Federation of American Scientists.
• Morning Smoke: Lobbyists Set Sights on Regulators ...
  On Finance Bill, Lobbying Shifts to Regulations by Binyamin Appelbaum [The New York Times] Election clock ticks for campaign finance bill facing a crowded Senate agenda by Russell Berman [The Hill] Major Defense Acquisition Shakeup Coming by Greg Grant [Defense...

Digital Journal

• Naomi Klein to Toronto police force: Do your godda ...
  The riots and violence that have occurred in Toronto during the G20 Summit this past weekend has prompted many prominent voices to analyze the situation. Some of those voices have condemned the Toronto police force, including Naomi Klein.
• Jail solidarity rally condemns the Toronto police ...
  Hundreds of Torontonians stood in solidarity in front of Toronto's police headquarters where several keynote speakers addressed the hundreds of "unlawful, violent arrests" of protesters, journalists and citizens during the G20 Summit.
• The accomplishments of the G8 & G20 Canada summit ...
  Now that all the hoopla over the Toronto G20 riots is starting to die down, it's time to take a look at the agreements carved out by the G8 and G20 summits just wrapped up in Canada.
• Toronto welcomes Pride Week
  Pride Week 2010 was officially welcomed to the city of Toronto Monday at noon at Nathan Phillip's Square as the Pride flag was raised into the air.
• The rise of citizen journalism during Toronto G20 ...
  Citizen journalism was on full display during the G20 protests and riots in Toronto. DigitalJournal.com's Andrew Moran and KJ Mullins published exemplary articles, photos and video reports on the ground during the chaos swarming the city.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Austin's Amazingly Simple Plan to Reduce Homelessn ...
  Austin's city council is debating a plan that could provide permanent homes for 20 percent of the city's homeless population. Way too ambitious, right? Except it's amazingly simple. The city is considering donating land to Mobile Loaves and Fishes , a charity that would set up 100 trailers there. Th ...
• At First Place School, Homeless Students Are Heard
  It's no secret that most schools aren't prepared for homeless students. Though all districts are required to have a liaison to homeless families, they are increasingly overstretched by rising need and dwindling budgets. Some schools still don't allow kids to enroll without an address or have other o ...
• Fraudulent Charity Casts Shadow Over Legitimate Or ...
  I usually try to donate time, rather than money, to causes that I support, preferring to directly involve myself with those in need. But in reality we can't always be there to help out with every issue that we care about, and while volunteering is always appreciated, financial contributions can help ...
• 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 ...

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

• Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
  As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...
• Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
  Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
• African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
  The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
• USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
  A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
• Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
  Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...

War in Context

• The terrorist-naming game
  On September 11, 2001, George Bush changed the way Americans look at the world and the success with which he accomplished this feat is evident in the fact that his perspective largely remains unchallenged — even among many of his most outspoken critics. Bush’s simplistic for-us-or-against-us formula ...
• Kenneth O’Keefe interviewed on BBC’s Hardtalk
• Grave injustice: Maher Arar and unaccountable Amer ...
  At Middle East Report Online, Lisa Hajjar writes: On June 14, the Supreme Court buried the prospect of justice for Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen of Syrian origin who was “extraordinarily rendered” by the United States (via Jordan) to Syria in 2002. Arar was suing the US officials who authorized hi ...
• Obama about to get tough with Netanyahu?
  Preemptive reporting of news that has yet to happen is an irritating phenomenon in and of itself. Accounts about policy statements that yet to be released or about meetings that have yet to take place are transparent ways in which journalists allow themselves to be led by officials who believe that ...
• 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

• Sea Ice News #11
  “Steepest slope ever.” By Steven Goddard We have been hearing a lot about how the decline in Arctic ice is following the “steepest slope ever.” The point is largely meaningless, but we can have some fun with it. The Bremen … Continue reading →
• Badges? The “We don’t need no stinking ...
  In case you don’t know the line above, lookup “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. Here’s a YouTube clip of one of the most famous lines ever borrowed for parody use in movies. I’ve always said that if you can’t laugh … Continue reading →
• The New Space Junk Blame Game
  Space junk, those bits and pieces dropped by astronauts, or resulting from explosion of upper stages, or collisions of satellites or ASAT tests, are a major safety hazard in Low Earth Orbit and are a growing issue in Geosynchronous Orbit, … Continue reading →
• Quote of the Week #36 – Carbon sequestration ...
  This is a parody gone mad. Green advocates howl about the issues of nuclear waste storage, arguing that nuclear energy becomes impractical due to the need for long term safe storage, in some cases tens of thousands to millions of … Continue reading →
• Spencer on Pinatubo and climate sensitivity
  Revisiting the Pinatubo Eruption as a Test of Climate Sensitivity By Roy W. Spencer, PhD. The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 15, 1991 provided a natural test of the climate system to radiative forcing by producing … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1108353 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! June 28, 2010 Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit As thousands protested in the streets of Toronto, inside the G20 summit world leaders agreed to a controversial goal of cutting ...
• Dennis Kucinich: We are Losing our Nation to Lies ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jun 28, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement on the floor of the House concerning an expected vote on a $33 billion supplemental war funding bill: “In a little more than a year the U ...
• Fortress Toronto: Massive Security Clampdown for G ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! June 25, 2010 Fortress Toronto: Massive Security Clampdown for G8/G20 Meetings Most Expensive in Canadian History World leaders have started arriving for the G8 and G20 meetings amidst a massive security crackdown that will mark the most expensive ...
• Day 65 – Heart in hands – Issues at ha ...
  by Roxanne Amico Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Spirit Morph Studio June 25, 2010 It’s been 65 days since the assault on the Gulf of Mexico started showing signs of a fatal wound a la BP and BP’s alliance with the US Gov’t… Over and over again, it’s the same old story: BP, like all colonizers, [... ...
• Kucinich Amendment Protects Democracy from the Sta ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1107892 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jun 24, 2010 The House of Representatives today unanimously passed an amendment by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to HR 5175, the Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Lig ...

Your New Reality

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  Criticize Israel And You're A Terrorist...Even If You're An Israeli Incredible. This is the heart of Middle East democracy? Question the actions of the State, as an elected representative, and be called a 'Terrorist!" and a "murderer", again and again, and then be threatened with physical violence. ...
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  "Mommy! Get The Oil Off!" By Darryl Mason Fucking hell. Thousands of Americans are swimming around in this toxic shit : Morons like this guy below are telling Americans it's okay to swim, and to take their children swimming, and for people from other states to come and swim in this oily stick ...
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  "Today, I Weep For My Country" Senator Robert Byrd was called everything from a traitor to treasonous, anti-American to Saddam comfort giver for this incredible, powerful speech the night American bombs began to slam in Baghdad, back in March 2003. Senator Byrd was right, of course, about almost e ...
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  Police violence against Sydney anti-war protesters 2004 - 2007 : The song is Prisoner Of Society by The Living End.

Wired - Science

• 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes
  > They may not seem like creatures worth admiring when they are buzzing around your head or landing on your lunch, but under the microscope they can be truly spectacular. Especially their eyes. For the past 35 years, Nikon has held their Small World photomicrography competition ...
• NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer
  > Space is a big place, and even with their giant telescopes, astronomers just can’t cover it all. This is where you come in. Yes, you. Astronomy is one of the few scientific fields where amateur scientists can, and frequently do, make significant contributions. But now [.. ...
• Square Pixel Inventor Tries to Smooth Things Out
  Russell Kirsch says he’s sorry. More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film ...
• Ants Use Their Own Velcro to Catch Supersized Prey
  Long before Velcro was invented, a species of South American ant used its own natural form of the wonder material to hunt. The claws of Azteca andreae are shaped like hooks and fit neatly into fibrous loops on the undersides of its home plants’ leaves. It’s “like natural Velcro that is reinforced b ...
• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Noam Chomsky: The Iranian Threat
  Dan Plesch, director of the University of London Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy: “They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran ... US bombers and long range missiles are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Top Israeli military leadership will change hands ...
  Many senior military officials believe that Netanyahu and Barak prefer to remove anyone who might disagree with them on military policy. Ashkenazi is known to have close ties with Admiral Mike... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Turkey bars Israeli military plane from airspace
  Senior Turkish diplomat: If Israel fails to meet the demands, Turkey will downgrade its diplomatic representation to the level of a charge d'affaires ... Ankara would consider no new cooperation... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Jerusalem master plan: Expansion of Jewish enclave ...
  The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is set to approve an unprecedented master plan that calls for the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, a move largely based on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Noam Chomsky: City Magazine (Tel Aviv) Interview
  [Israel's] refusal to negotiate in 1971 led to the grimmest moment in [its] history, and preference for expansion over security and diplomacy has had dire consequences since, with perhaps worse to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian naval task force to resume anti-piracy mis ...
  A task force led by the Admiral Levchenko destroyer will arrive in the Gulf of Aden on July 3 to resume the UN anti-piracy mission near Somalia, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
• 'Thousands of troops' to participate in Russian Fa ...
  Tens of thousands of troops, as well as dozens of warships and warplanes, will be involved in a large-scale military exercise in Russia's Far East, a top military commander said on Monday.
• Russia mulls purchase of Ukrainian missile cruiser ...
  Russia considers purchasing an unfinished missile cruiser from Ukraine, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said on Saturday.
• Russia set to use naval pilot training facilities ...
  Russia will use facilities on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula for naval pilot training in the next few years, the Russian defense minister said on Friday.
• Post-Soviet security bloc's working group heads to ...
  The head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and its working group will head to Kyrgyzstan on Friday to assess the situation there, the post-Soviet security bloc said.

NewsWise

• National Report Reveals Dramatic Pattern Shifts in ...
  Admission rates for pregnant teens abusing marijuana and methamphetamines increased significantly from 1992 to 2007 -- Rates for substance abuse treatment admissions among Hispanic pregnant teens have risen while rates for Black pregnant teens have dropped.
• American University Remembers Alumnus Senator Byrd ...
  Robert Byrd, the longest serving member of Congress in history, often credited the law degree he earned in 1963 from American University's Washington College of Law with instilling in him a new level of confidence.
• Titan Arum #3 on Brink of Blooming
  The aroma of rotting flesh may not permeate Western Illinois University's Botany Greenhouse today. But, hopefully, it will either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. WIU's second Titan Arum (known as Titan #3) -- a plant that is also known as the "Corpse Flower," due to its pungent smell once it bloo ...
• Education Law Expert Available to Discuss U.S. Sup ...
  Education law expert Todd DeMitchell at the University of New Hampshire is available to discuss today's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Christian Legal Society Chapter v. Martinez that finds that public colleges and universities may require religious organizations that seek recognition or funds as ca ...
• Northeastern Announces Dean of College of Social S ...
  Northeastern University has appointed Dr. Georges Van Den Abbeele to be the founding dean of its College of Social Sciences and Humanities, one of three new, distinct colleges being launched by the University this fall.

Natural Health News

• San Francisco Becomes Ground Zero in Gadget Radiat ...
  The city of San Francisco could soon require cell phone makers to disclose their products' radiation emissions, amid a growing concern about cell phone dangers -- a concern that might soon spread to other wireless products. Last week, the city's board of supervisors voted to require cell phone reta ...
• Whooping Cough Kills 5 in California -- State Decl ...
  After the deaths of five infants, California health authorities have declared an epidemic of whooping cough, also known as pertussis. The announcement came after authorities noticed a sharp spike in reports of pertussis, which often is mistaken for a cold or the flu and is highly contagious. A CDC ...
• Botox May Affect Your Ability to Feel Emotions
  Botox injections may dampen your ability to feel emotions. For at least some emotions, if you take away some part of the facial expression, you take away some of the emotional experience, according to researchers. In a new study, participants who received Botox injections reported less emotional re ...
• 5 Simple Ways to be a Better Listener
  1. Clear some space Removing everything that isn’t related to the conversation at hand. 2. Control your limbs Avoid behaviors that distract others and cause them to think you aren’t listening. 3. Ask questions The best listeners make a regular practice of asking thoughtful questions. 4. Make a ...
• Do Americans Eat Too Much Salt?
  According to a survey by U.S. government researchers, 9 out of 10 Americans eat too much salt.� Most get more than twice the recommended amount. An estimated 77 percent of dietary sodium comes from processed foods and restaurant foods. Reuters reports: “The study said most Americans consume 3,466 ...

Antemedius

• The Third Depression & G20, The Shape Of Things To ...
  Paul Krugman outlines a serious warning in his NYT Op-Ed Sunday : Neither the Long Depression of the 19th century nor the Great Depression of the 20th was an era of nonstop decline — on the contrary, both included periods when the economy grew. But these episodes of improvement were never enough to ...
• BP Burning Sea Turtles Alive In Attempt To Limit L ...
  Daniel Tencer reports this morning at RawStory that it appears that��"a rare and endangered species of sea turtle is being burned alive in BP's controlled burns of the oil swirling around the Gulf of Mexico, and a boat captain tasked with saving them says the company has blocked rescue efforts." "M ...
• Congressional Oversight Of BP - Late But Effective
  For all that the BP Oil Disaster is in fact a disaster there is a little ray of sunshine in the oil clouded waters (if you’ll allow me to mix a metaphor or two). One of the things which have been missing in our nation for too long has been effective oversight by the Congress. The magnitude of the di ...
• Learning to Listen to Farmers
  Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . At the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at Cape Coast University in Southern Ghana, learning takes place not only in classrooms, but also literally in fields and farms all over the country. As part of a program to im ...
• G20 Police Attack Peaceful Protesters Sitting In T ...
  Queens Park is basically the "lawn" of the Ontario Legislature, in downtown Toronto. Protesters attempt to sit peacefully on the grassy median in front of Queen's park in Toronto on Saturday June 26, 2010 - police surround them and move in swinging batons and pepper spray . Also see: G20 Pol ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• A Final Thought on Mark Janis’ ‘America and the La ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Having now finished America and the Law of Nations, let me add one more thought.  I had originally been interested in this book principally for the period between the world wars; my work on the UN has given me a long interest in the collective action failur ...
• Morrison and the Effects Test
  by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. One of his articles on extraterritoriality was cited in Justice Stevens’s concurring opinion.] There is no doubt that Morrison v. National Australia Bank ...
• ECtHR Finds No Right to Same Sex Marriage: Will U. ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Marko Milanovic over at EJIL Talk! has a nice discussion of a recent European Court of Human Rights Chamber decision (Schalk and Kopf v. Austria, no. 30141/04) finding that denying same-sex couples the right to marry does not violate a member state’s obligation under th ...
• 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 ...

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

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• High court rejects Iraq case against Halliburton
  ShareThis High court rejects Iraq case against Halliburton 28 Jun 2010 The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a woman who wants to sue Halliburton for the brain injury her husband suffered when a truck in a fuel convoy crashed in Iraq. The justices, without comment Monday, let stand a federal ...
• Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving US Senator, Dies at 9 ...
  ShareThis Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving US Senator, Dies at 92 28 Jun 2010 Robert Byrd, the 92-year-old West Virginia Democrat who served in the U.S. Senate for 51 years, died Monday. A spokesman for the family, Jesse Jacobs, said Mr. Byrd died peacefully at about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, ...
• Ex-Chicago policeman guilty of lying about torture
  ShareThis Ex-Chicago policeman guilty of lying about torture 28 Jun 2010 A retired Chicago police commander suspected of using electric shocks, suffocation and mock executions to force suspects to confess was found guilty on Monday of lying about the brutality. Jon Burge was tried on perjury and obs ...
• Byrd special election to be held in 2012
  ShareThis Byrd special election to be held in 2012 28 Jun 2010 West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant (D) announced this afternoon that a special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) will be held in 2012, not this fall as some had speculated. Calling the state election code an ...
• New Ballot Machines Are Flawed, Suit Says
  ShareThis New Ballot Machines Are Flawed, Suit Says 27 Jun 2010 Electronic voting machines being deployed for the first time this year across New York City and the rest of the state contain a flaw that could lead to thousands of votes being thrown out, according to a lawsuit that advocacy groups wil ...

Daily Loaf

• On the Radar: Carrollwood Player’s slapstick comed ...
  Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Starting this weekend, the Carrollwood Players put on Monkey Soup, a madcap comedy set in 1930s NYC, which they describe as “the sort of movie the Marx Brothers might have made after a hundred cups of coffee wit ...
• Do It Today: Earth Wind and Fire boogie in Clearwa ...
  “Boogie Wonderland” is a penultimate disco funk number, the sort ideal for busting your best moves in a Soul Train Line. That classic dance floor groove is one of seven top 10 singles Chicago’s Earth Wind and Fire (pictured) produced between 1975 and 1981 (“September,” “Let’s Groove” and “Shining S ...
• Method Man pleads guilty to tax evasion
  Man, the rap game’s been in a little legal trouble as of late. Last week we told you about Lil’ Boosie’s impending murder charge; then Rick Ross getting sued for, well, being Rick Ross. Now, in the latest of these legal woes, former Wu-Tang Clanner and successful solo artist in his own right, Me ...
• Concert review: Rays Concert Series with Barenaked ...
  After the Rays defeated the Diamondbacks, Barenaked Ladies rocked the stage on Tropicana Field.
• Trey Rustmann on his candidacy for Hillsborough Co ...
  Rustmann says of John Dingfelder, "attention to detail is important. It appears that like Sandy Murman, there was an egregious oversight on his part."

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Mud and Hope in South Hebron
  June 26, 2010   Bi’r el-’Id There’s a strange beauty in the viscous black mud that comes up from the depths of the earth, from the bottom, or somewhere near the bottom, of the well we are cleaning in Bi’r al-’Id. Bucket after bucket of it, lifted by pulley from down below, straggles to the surface ...
• Injured protester Emily Henochowicz’s artwork
  By Jesse Bacon We covered the Israeli army’s shooting of Emiliy Henochowicz for protesting alongside Palestinians, causing her to lose her eye.I discovered she has a blog of her work, here are some of the photos you can view at the site. The works are powerful even when you are not thinking about w ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• California’s other $20 billion budget deficit
  Unbelievably, California is not only facing a $20 billion deficit for the 2010-2011 budget, the state Employment Development Department just forecasted a $20 billion deficit in the Unemployment Insurance Fund by the end of 2011, up from $6.2 billion in 2009. The official unemployment rate for Califo ...
• Further proof that legalization of marijuana is co ...
  Wall Street and hedge funds are getting interested A spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws says hedge fund investors and an assortment of financial service firms are starting to call around to sniff out opportunities.
• Supreme Court rules big-time in favor of gun right ...
  They said the constitutional right to bear arms overrides state and local laws banning them, adding that “reasonable” gun control laws could be enacted. The suit was filed by a Chicago resident who wanted a handgun as protection from gangs, something disallowed by Chicago laws banning handguns even ...
• Socialists march in Detroit
  Bruce Sterling comments in his usual acerbic yet insightful manner on U.S. Social Forum in Detroit as reported by Amy Goodman. The comments inside triple parentheses are his, the rest is hers. Far larger than any tea party convention, it has gotten very little mainstream-media coverage. Not a tightl ...
• Afghanistan war. ‘We’re f’ing losing this thing.’
  From Brave New Films listserv. Full info on their Facebook Rethink Afghanistan page. With all the drama around General McChrystalâs resignation, the media missed the real story in the explosive Rolling Stone article: “…[W]e’re f****ing losing this thing.” –Staff Sergeant Kennith Hicks Administrati ...

Coteret

• [video] Channel Ten News: Construction starts at S ...
  Transcript follows video. This comes on the day of the publication of the Jerusalem Municipality Master Plan, with plans for expansion of settlement enclaves across the city. Last night, riots broke out in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan as settlers, backed by Border Police, moved to evict ...
• Channel Two TV news demonstrates how to railroad a ...
  The Sheikh Jarrah protest movement pulled off an impressive demonstration on Friday (June 25 2010.) More than five hundred Israelis and Palestinians marched in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, to protest the planned demolition of 22 Palestinian homes.” Bernard Avishai has posted an inter ...
• Globes publishes guide to post-flotilla internatio ...
  Here’s a simpler, three-step, guide: Accept the existence of a connection between your government’s policies and the trouble you’re having; recognize that alternatives exist (hey, your PM just said that the blockade was a mistake); use your clout to force the government to adopt them. Until they so ...
• Yediot: In summit with Netanyahu, Obama will deman ...
  Obama to demand end to blockade Shimon Shiffer, Yediot, June 27 2010 [page 4; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip and permission for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip freely through Israeli border crossings. These are the unequivocal demands t ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Que. activists say they were targeted by cops
  MONTREAL – A group of Quebec protesters say people from their province were targeted at last weekend’s G20 summit and arrested simply for speaking French or having fleur-de-lys license plates. So says the CLAC, Montreal’s Anti-Capitalist Convergence group, which said Monday that only 125 of its 450 ...
• June deadliest month for NATO-led force in Afghani ...
  Detroit Free Press As Stanley McChrystal was being relieved of command, reports from Afghanistan showed June had become the deadliest month of the war for the NATO-led international military force. About 76 international service members have died this month. The total includes 46 Americans. In Octob ...
• Mexican Governor Candidate for Border State Assass ...
  sfgate.com The leading candidate for governor in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas was gunned down today, less than a week before elections in which violence related to drug trafficking was a central issue. Rodolfo Torre, a 46-year-old member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was riding ...
• G20 Toronto – Queens Park, starts to get ser ...
  Back in Queens park at around 6:30, was like walking into a war zone with this standing army of riot police, shielded and blank faced. June 26, 2010. Riot police had just rushed me from behind, this is me reacting to it and checking it out. Look at the massive sea of police and compare [...]
• Supreme Court strikes another blow to local gun ba ...
  WASHINGTON (AP) â The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Constitution’s “right to keep and bear arms” applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of the federal, state and local governments to substantially limit its reach. In doing so, the justices, by a narrow 5-4 margin, signaled that les ...

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 Hires Google and VMware Engineering Leade ...
  Facebook has just hired senior engineering leaders from Google and VMware. They bring a variety of experience building browser and virtualization software at their past employers. Matthew Papakipos is a former director of engineering at Google, and he just tweeted this: “Now that Chrome OS & WebGL a ...
• Facebook Staffs Up Policy Team with First Californ ...
  Facebook hired its first registered lobbyist in California last month, and has extended the contract until Sept. 30 of this year according to state documents. William Gonzalez, owner of Sacramento-based Gonzalez Public Affairs, came on board as Facebook’s lobbyist on May 24 of this year, serving und ...
• Facebook’s India Office Coming Soon, Will Hire Up ...
  Hyderabad, India will be the home of Facebook’s first office in mainland Asia, the company announced in March. A few more details of the company’s plans have now been announced by the Indian government — it will hire up to 500 people, invest up to $150 million in the branch office and open the 50,00 ...
• Elevation Buys More Facebook Stock — Helping Emplo ...
  Technology-focused private equity firm Elevation Partners has bought 5 million stock shares from Facebook for $120 million, according to a recent letter it sent to limited partners, obtained by TechCrunch. The amount follows Elevation’s reported purchase of 2.5 million Facebook shares for around $9 ...
• Quiz Creators and World Cup Jerseys Crown This Wee ...
  This week’s list of fastest-growing apps on Facebook, measured by monthly active users, is led by FrontierVille, the newest game by Zynga. FrontierVille’s growth was a big story last week, and it appears to be continuing unabated. However, there are also some strong performers in the non-game catego ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Day 1: Question of "Activist Judges" Dom ...
  truthout: Day 1: Question of "Activist Judges" Dominates Kagan Confirmation Hearing: Photographically, the setu... http://bit.ly/9NHiAD #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Vandalism, a Dead-End Tactic at Toronto ...
  truthout: Vandalism, a Dead-End Tactic at Toronto G20 Demonstrations: During Saturday’s nonviolent protest of a... http://bit.ly/b3OHUi #Truthout #p2
• truthout: New in Brief: Husband of Justice Ruth Gi ...
  truthout: New in Brief: Husband of Justice Ruth Ginsburg Has Died, and More ...: Martin D. Ginsburg, husband of... http://bit.ly/a5Fpbo #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Supreme Court Ruling Puts Local, State G ...
  truthout: Supreme Court Ruling Puts Local, State Gun Bans at Risk: Washington - The Supreme Court on Monday str... http://bit.ly/a8Ejjk #Truthout #p2
• truthout: One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Stro ...
  truthout: One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US-Supported Coup: One year ago, on June 28, 2009,... http://bit.ly/blVxRI #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Letters from Palestine: a must-read book
  Stuart Littlewood reviews Kenneth Ring’s book, Letters from Palestine, a collection of personal stories from Palestinians and an “an accurate portrayal of the plight of the Palestinians”, which “will put you through the emotional wringer – you’ll share the laughter, pride, helplessness, despair, ang ...
• Lieberman’s “peace" plan: strip Palestinians of ci ...
  Jonathan Cook reports on Israel’s Moldovan bouncer-cum-Foreign Minister Avigdor Leiberman’s so-called “peace plan”, which entails stripping Israel’s Arab citizens of their citizenship and expelling them from the country.
• Speaking out against injustice, disinformation and ...
  Paul J. Balles recounts how every time he spoke out against injustice, disinformation and bigotry – the Vietnam war, the Palestine-Israel conflict, the aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan – he was told to shut up. But he will never shut up. ”It's my patriotic duty ... to criticize my own count ...
• 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.

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

• The Selling of Jesus
  The commenter below made a comment on the post, “Is God Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” that needs highlighting: “Furqan I think that the very root of the problem being analysed is the very history of the religion itself! What the world knows and calls âChristianityâ has very little to do with the ...
• “Kabila must tell us who assassinated Chibey ...
    June has been a very sad and bad month for human rights activists. For it is the same month in which DRC’s champion of human rights Floribert Chibeya Bahizire, (the chair of Voix des Sans-Voix [Voice of the Voiceless]), was grisly felled. Also June witnessed a hot debate and condemnation over ille ...
• 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 ...
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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

• Why the BP Blowout Won’t Be the Last Tragedy ...
  Dominique Browning June 7, 2010 The BP Gulf Oil Gusher has shown the whole world the nightmarish risks of deep sea drilling. But there is another, older, story of environmental destruction in the Mississippi River Delta wetlandsâand it, too, is related to offshore drilling. This tragedy will conti ...
• 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 ...

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

• Net losses
  There are four endangered fish in the Colorado River: the Colorado pikeminnow, bonytail, humpback chub and razorback sucker.
• Hard to believe, but it's my 50th high school reun ...
  Rich Wandschneider recalls the naivete, the anti-Vietnam war protests, and the racism of a half-century ago -- and looks to the future.
• Utah vs. the United States of America
  The Beehive state challenges the feds on land ownership and usage.
• Fish face-off
  A proposal to ban gillnets in Oregon has commercial fishermen up in arms.
• Libby's lethal numbers
  The toll of the asbestos disaster in Libby, Mont., keeps growing.

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

• CIA Chief Says Al-Qaida is Weaker. True. But So Is ...
  By Barry Rubin CIA chief Leon Panetta says al-Qaida is at its weakest point since before the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. He’s probably right, though the amount of decline in the last three years or so has probably not been large. Most of the damage to al-Qaida was ...
• Why John Hawkins Denied David Frum’s Website A Spo ...
  I used to read David Frum's writing a lot, but sometime over the past two years he became a fraud, someone who claims to be a conservative, who actually hates conservatives. I am not saying that he disagrees with conservative positions (which he does) that is fine, the conservative movement is not m ...
• MUST SEE VIDEO: Elana Kagen Argued Before SCOTUS I ...
  Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment. The 5–4 decision resulted from a dispute over whether the ...
• Organized Labor Is Losing Some of Its Best Friend ...
  The Pendulum may be moving in the other direction. Little by little, politicians are beginning to realize that the pro-labor position may not be the best position for its constituents. Gary N. Chaison, a professor and labor expert at Clark University, said some Democratic officials now see it as a ...
• UK Telegraph Tries its Hand at Anti-Israel Fauxto ...
  Not all Fauxtography involves doctoring of recent news photographs, sometimes news sources take an old picture and change the context.� For example the picture below was taken on by the Associated press in January 14, 2009, right after the end of the most recent Israeli war with Hamas. The Capt ...

The Real Agenda

• G20: Banks must hold on to Cash for coming Crisis
  The International Crime Syndicate, better known as the G20, determined at its last meeting that the collapse and consolidation of the global economy will begin around 2012 and finish in 2016 with the liquidation of all countries who are in debt with the IMF and the World Bank
• Agenda 21, Biodiversity and Land Theft
  The true facts of life are that the globalist control freaks have caused environmental disasters in order to implement their solutions, which are even worse. And they get public support through lies, government regulations and our tax dollars. UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the overarching ...
• SPIN
  Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about “homos,” Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry ...
• 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 ...

Wind Watch

• An ill wind blows in
  It’s a cold night in a quiet town, a wide black sky cut by the warm yellow of a lit building. Thick jackets are worn by most of those inside Penshurst’s Senior Citizens clubrooms, who pull chairs together and wait for the meeting to start. For all of the benefits linked to wind farms — jobs, clean e ...
• Rare red kite found dead at wind farm ‘harml ...
  Experts believe an endangered bird of prey found dead at a wind farm in the Highlands was killed after colliding with a turbine, despite assurances that the devices are harmless to wildlife. The carcass of the rare red kite was discovered at the Fairburn wind farm in Ross-shire. It was examined by a ...
• 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 ...

Not My Tribe

• To GOL! or not to GOL! that was the question.
  How would it have been played out in the press had the Team America gone on to at least a higher level of victory? We’ve already suffered through an anti-Immigrant slam against major league baseball, with all the appropriate “OUTRAGE!(copyright 1993-2010 Fox News Networks)” about Major League player ...
• What freedom means to me: not what it used to
  As the next ships are mobilized to challenge the siege of Gaza, NYC supporters of Israel paraded a “True Freedom Flotilla” around the harbor. This point may already be moot, “Freedom” doesn’t mean what it used to. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom are exercises in duplicity, and “Freedom ...
• Upon hearing some of the locals discussing Faulkne ...
  They’re saying “He almost DID get Osama!” ahem… where would they have that info from? Oh, yeah, The Colorado Rambo’s Publicity Dept. They also cited an A&E program where somebody had supposedly almost gotten bin Laden but Osama got in the first shot. Momma always said “Almost, Ain’t… and close only ...
• Not yet a hurricane, probably won’t be, but ...
  Tropical Depression Alex. If it stays out over the water it’ll become a Tropical Storm, which for the purposes of the Oil S(l)ick is a moot reference. It might as well be a hurricane. And we’re still in the “A”s. Haiti meanwhile has been pushed off the news. Well, they were pushed off long ago, [... ...
• De Gaulle urges resistance in occupied France, Pal ...
  June 18 marked the 70th anniversary of the Free-French General de Gaulle’s famous 1940 radio address when he urged occupied France to resist because victory over their invaders would be inevitable. Does the western media commemorate de Gaulle’s message without an inkling of irony?   Of course, today ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Top Construction Firm: WTC Destroyed By Controlled ...
  Respected Middle East expert and former BBC presenter Alan Hart has broken his silence on 9/11, by revealing that the world’s most prominent civil engineering company told him directly that the collapse of the twin towers was a controlled demolition. Speaking on the Kevin Barrett show yesterday, Ha ...
• Don't be a Slacktivist! [Updated]
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes today: "133... That's how many people sent in letters/faxes to the NYC District Attorney requesting an investigation of WTC-7, per the request from NYC-CAN . One hundred and thirty-three. I mean, let's put that in perspective. NYC-CAN claimed to have ...
• Debunking the Debunkers' Free Fall Fallacies
  One central argument debunkers have raised over the years is that the WTC buildings could not have been brought down with explosives because that would have caused the buildings fall in free fall. However, a video made by debunker AlienEntity actually disproved the notion that free fall is a necces ...
• 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 ...

Fooducate

• Goldfish Crackers – Good or Bad for my Kids?
  Pepperidge Farm is considered a high end baked goods company with awesome cookies, crackers, and for kids – Goldfish. Almost all tots will recognize the fish shaped finger food and happily munch away. What started as a single product, baked cheddar, has expanded over the years to other flavors, col ...
• Kellogg’s Recalls 10,000,000 Pounds of Sugar
  Kellogg’s announced on Friday it is recalling millions of boxes of cereal boxes due to “an uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell coming from the liner in the package.” The recalled products are certain boxes of Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Apple Jacks, and Honey Smacks. So far, no consumer is known to ...
• 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 ...

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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Unsustainability in Today's Sustainable Developmen ...
  For development to be integrated into a community, governments and NGOs need to find a way to educate and involve local people for the long term.
• 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

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Prohibition
  Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
• Physiographic Regions
  Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here
• Seven Years' War
  The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
• Cartier, Jacques
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• Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
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How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I make recycling easier at home?
  You guys, I have a confession – I’ve been creating more to-landfill waste than normal over the last few months and I don’t really know why. In our old house, it was rare that the landfill bin was even a quarter full when it was emptied but here, it’s always over half full, two-thirds full by [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle pre-packed sliced meat ...
  After writing Wednesday’s post about deli counter plastic wrapping, I got thinking about pre-packaged cooked meat packaging and what a pain they are to reuse or recycle. The ones I’m thinking of are used in the UK for sliced meats such as ham or roast beef/chicken, “continental sausages” (ie chorizo ...
• How can I reuse or recycle an old pond liner?
  We’ve had an email from Martyn: Can solid pond liners be recycled? If so, where please? As far as I can see, rigid pond liners tend to be made from fibreglass and as we discovered last time we had a fibreglass item on here, fibreglass can be recycled but isn’t widely done so. A better idea would be ...
• How can I reuse or recycle tuna cans?
  While we’ve covered food cans in general before, Danielle emailed asking tuna cans in particular: i have so many, what can i do with them? There’s a wide variety of uses for tuna cans: I know some people use them to make “buddy burner” candles and you can use them as candle holders too – but make su ...
• How can I reuse or recycle scraps of chicken wire?
  We’ve had an email from Bruce: I’ve got a large amount of chicken wire leftover after conducting some work in my garden. The biggest 1ft by 2ft, the rest smaller. Can I recycle them in my can bin? While it certainly could be recycled as scrap metal, it might cause problems further down the can recy ...

Mondoweiss

• Greenwald wounded him. The pack moves in
  Check out all the trashings of Jeffrey Goldberg:http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/06/25/jeffrey-goldberg-shows-a-profound-moral-compass/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/a_little_message_to_jeffrey_go.htmlhttp://trueslant.com/level/2010/06/25/jeffrey-goldbergs-mean-spirited-dave-wei ...
• Mearsheimer says ‘apartheid is despicable sy ...
  I love it when realists make moral arguments. At the American Conservative, John Mearsheimer declares the two-state solution dead, and Israel headed for apartheid, with the U.S. backing it to the hilt and losing credibility around the world.The sad truth is that Israel has been brutalizing the Pales ...
• Israel’s Iranian Opposition?
  Two days ago, I found it curious to learn of a large rally held in Paris by the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI, also known as MEK or MKO) by reading the headlines on Ynet and on Ha’aretz. I usually follow Iranian opposition events via various other Iranian websites, where [...]
• ‘Terrorism’ is the primary bulwark thr ...
  On September 11, 2001, George Bush changed the way Americans look at the world and the success with which he accomplished this feat is evident in the fact that his perspective largely remains unchallenged — even among many of his most outspoken critics. Bush’s simplistic for-us-or-against-us formula ...
• After the World Cup, a big flotilla to set out for ...
  And other news from Today in Palestine:Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing IOF burns large areas of olive trees to suppress Ni'lin protest June 26th, 2010-- the Occupation Forces, who were stationed behind the Wall’s cement blocks, fired tear gas at the demonstrators and opened the gate of t ...

Media Consortium

• Traditional Media Is Having A Field Day On Tumblr
  While I think utilzing the more personal & casual platform of tumblr is a great strategy, I wonder how the biz side is going to feel about community not coming to the main web site. Or is the proportion of audience members on tumblr small enough that it doesn't matter? Or is the idea that new commu ...
• 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 ...

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 )

• Carbon storage – what will the great-great-(...)-g ...
  Few of us think more than a few hundred years into the future when imagining the effects of carbon dioxide emissions, or the benefits and dangers of burying the greenhouse gas underground. That kind of timescale is but a blink in the eye for Gary Shaffer , a professor of oceanography and climate at ...
• FDA challenges use of antibiotics in healthy feed ...
  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed on Monday that the animal agriculture industry drop its use of medically important antibiotics in feed animals such as cattle. The draft proposal, which is open for public comment for 60 days, calls the widespread use of the drugs in healthy ani ...
• Quotes of the day
  “It’s clear that the LHC is the new boy in town, but in two years running we’re going to put Fermilab out of business.” Mike Lamont, operation group leader at the Large Hadron Collider, talks to the BBC after the collider hits 10,000 particle collisions per second. “It’s the first time that we’ ...
• Supreme Court strikes down method patent
  In a much-anticipated decision, the US Supreme Court has struck down a patent that became ensnared in arguments over what should and should not be patentable. But the court's decision seems to carefully sidestep that broader discussion - and the implications it could have held for gene patents. ...
• Japan’s new grant favours large physical sciences
  Posted for Ichiko Fuyuno Japan’s science ministry has approved a 56.4-billion-yen (US$500 million) initiative, creating 14 projects which aim to strengthen the foundation of basic research and attract young researchers from around the world. The biggest slice of the funding, 10 billion yen for ...

new geography

• The Urbanist’s Guide to Kevin Rudd’s Downfall
  The political execution of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by his own Australian Labor Party colleagues was extraordinary, the first time a prime minister has been denied a second chance to face the voters. According to the consensus in Australia’s mostly progressive media establishment, Rudd fell victi ...
• The Changing Demographics of America
  Estimates of the United states population at the middle of the 21st century vary, from the U.N.’s 404 million to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 422 to 458 million. To develop a snapshot of the nation at 2050, particularly its astonishing diversity and youthfulness, I use the nice round number of 400 milli ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Bayer withdraws GM rice application in Brazil
• Lawmakers ask USDA to stop GM alfalfa
• Chance to get labels on foods from animals fed GM
• Artificial life: let the people decide
• Bayer withdraws GM rice application in Brazil

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 ...

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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

• Blockade 'Eased' as Gaza Starves more Slowly
  Easing the siege so that Gaza starves more slowly may be better than nothing. But breaking 1.5 million Palestinians out of the prison Israel has built for them is the real duty of the international community. Submitted by Zahra Pilavdzic to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Israeli Soldier Dances around Tied Woman!
  Despicable to say the least! Is there a way to insert a Video here - not on My Page? ATW Submitted by Atw Orld to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Commit Yourself To The Truth -- Cutting Thr ...
  "I was a member of a group that put up a billboard criticizing Israels lethal use of force during Operation Cast Lead. A college student wrote to us to tell us that he disagreed with our assessment of Israels behavior. He asked that we remove..." Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Which is worse, a poem or a flotilla?
  A cultural center named for the poet Mahmoud Darwish was inaugurated in Kafr Yasif, near Acre. Hundreds of people came, all of them Arabs. The Jews could be counted on the orphaned fingers of one hand. I identified three, but even Jews do not have horns. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...
• Now is not the time to scapegoat Israelis who are ...
  It is perhaps understandable that many seek a person or organization on whom blame can be placed, so that they may be sent into the political wilderness, cast out of the community, no longer allowed to contribute to the conversation. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Dover to Build 10MW Solar Energy SUN Park
  large Officials have finalized an agreement to construct a new solar energy park in Delaware. With a price-tag of about US$50 million, construction is expected to begin on ...
• Nanoscale Architecture May Solve Solar's "Thick & ...
  large Physicists at Boston College have discovered a possible means to solving solar technology's "thick and thin" dilemma.
• Solar Carport Coming to California Cathay Bank
  large A California bank will soon be using the power of the sun to lower costs and reduce its carbon footprint. A solar electric system will be constructed on the carport of ...
• "Unspillable": Buzz Aldrin Calls for Development o ...
  large Watching the events of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster continue to unfold has led Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, to call for development of space ...
• Should Obama Put Solar Panels on the White House?
  large As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico and climate and clean energy legislation remains stalled in the Senate, President Obama has an opportunity to do more ...

News Blaze

• Making Virtopsies a Reality
  A new research project at the University of Leicester is set to play a vital role in continuing research into viable alternatives to invasive autopsies, which many families find to be unpleasant.
• NASA Plays Key Exploration Role In New Administrat ...
  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement today regarding President Obama's new National Space Policy:
• National Geographic Global Media Promotes Ted Prin ...
  Edward M. (Ted) Prince Jr. has been promoted to the newly created position of chief operating officer for National Geographic Global Media (NGGM), broadening his responsibilities across all media platforms.
• US National Commission For The United Nations Meet ...
  The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO is chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act and provides advice to the Department of State on matters involving UNESCO.
• Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Takes Oath of Of ...
  Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commending Persad-Bisssessar, for this act, urged other politicians also to do the same. 
  
  
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