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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Like Colombia, Iconic City Remains a Place of Prom ...
    Medellín, COLOMBIA , Jun 3 (IPS) - The homes of the barrio of Comuna 13, tightly packed improvised brick and concrete structures that take on a semi- rural nature the closer one gets to the murky swift-moving Río Cauca, blanket the hills of the western edge of this city of 2.5 million.
  • Israel Censors News on Deadly Flotilla Raid
    TEL AVIV, Jun 3 (IPS) - Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Free Gaza (FG) members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, were thwarted by Israeli authorities.
  • THAILAND: A Year Later, Laid-off Women Set Up Thei ...
    SAMUT PRAKARN, Thailand, June 3 (IPS) - They were about 1,000 when they began, but that number quickly dwindled to some 400. Now the women working at Try Arm are down to 30, yet those running the cooperative that makes women’s undergarments are determined to succeed.
  • Corporate Greenwash at EU Environment Meet?
    BRUSSELS, Jun 3 (IPS) - Coca-Cola, recently indicted for causing serious damage to water and soil in India, might seem like an odd champion of environmental protection.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Australia Stands Firm on Anti-Whaling ...
    SYDNEY, June 3 (IPS) - Deep rift continues between pro and anti-whaling members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) as Australia Tuesday lodged legal action in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Japanese ‘scientific’ whaling, calling for a permanent end to all whal ...

Scoop - NZ

  • EPA up and Running by 2011
    June 2011 sees the new EPA supposedly up and running . ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Recycle your old mobile phone
    Finally- a way to recycle your old cell phone ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Oil drilling off our shores ! What protection is t ...
    Petrobras is coming to explore our shores . Can they deal with a major catastrophe a la BP ? If BP hasn't a clue as they have so clearly demonstrated, why would we think any of the others know anything . Does this strike you as hazardous in the extreme? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Smith set to persuade own party doubters on ETS
    The farmers are not keen , as they keep showing at National Party Regional Conferences . Nick Smith now about to persuade them, and the rest of us, of the benefits of ETS . ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • BP: The Struggle between Spin and Science
    As this piece is written, act one of the Gulf of Mexico tragedy continues, agonisingly, to unfold. We, the people of the region, keep hoping to leave behind the terrifying explosions and ghastly loss of human life, the dread invoked by black jets billowing endlessly from below and the floating oil s ...

Independent ( London )

  • The ugly truth about the beautiful game
    Heralded as a historic turning point for an unlucky continent, Africa's first-ever World Cup – which kicks off in Johannesburg next Friday – increasingly looks like the playground for the rich that its critics decry. As final preparations are made in the host cities to welcome some of the world's m ...
  • Inside South Africa's brothels: the World Cup and ...
    The World Cup in South Africa will attract more than just the 2.2 million tourists who have bought match tickets. Up to 100,000 prostitutes will enter the region this summer, an influx which will swell an already out of control industry where an estimated 50 per cent of sex workers are infected wi ...
  • Second World War bomb kills three in Germany
    Three sappers who were working to defuse a Second World War bomb in central Germany were killed and six others injured when the device exploded.
  • Jailed US lawyer attempts suicide in Rwanda
    An American lawyer being held in Rwanda on charges of denying the 1994 genocide has tried to commit suicide in his cell, police say.
  • Warship attack dominates South Korean election
    The sinking of a South Korean warship which was blamed on North Korea overshadowed local elections yesterday.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Pollution solution
    The Walkerton disaster of May 2000 was a cautionary tale for all Canadians concerned about the safety of their drinking water. When a deadly strain of E. coli from farm runoff contaminated the Ontario community’s water supply, seven people died and nearly half the town’s residents became ill before ...
  • Chemical switch
    As a “green chemist,” Philip Jessop spends his days trying to help the chemical industry create products in a less expensive and more environmentally friendly way. That’s why the Queen’s University professor of inorganic chemistry has high hopes for an innovative solvent he’s developed that may yiel ...
  • Postpartum relief
    When Nicole Letourneau’s second child was born with cancer in 2001, she was, in theory, well equipped for such devastating news. As a nurse, her graduate studies had looked at aspects of family care, such as the impact of a mother staying overnight in hospital with her sick child. She had also worke ...
  • Project waste water
    Last fall, they were just four guys with an assignment to complete as part of their final year of chemical engineering studies at Toronto’s Ryerson University. This spring, they are the award-winning designers of a new process for treating waste water that could be used to remove a number of hazardo ...
  • A symphony of science
    Words such as “laboratory” and “experiment” conjure up white-coated scientists mixing chemicals to better understand diseases like cancer or environmental challenges like energy consumption. We don’t usually picture a pianist, a playwright, a dancer or an acoustical engineer. When artists experiment ...

Signs of the times

  • NSW Government recording features for facial recog ...
    The New South Wales Government is quietly compiling a mathematical map of almost every adult's face, sharing information that allows law enforcement to track people by CCTV. Experts said yesterday few people realised their facial features were being recorded in an RTA database of drivers licence ph ...
  • Australia: Surfing Town Hit By Tornado
    Police say it is a miracle no-one was killed when a tornado smashed into the New South Wales north coast town of Lennox Head this morning. Twelve houses were destroyed and debris was sent flying when the storm, which one witness said hit "like a bomb", careered in off the sea about 7:30am (AEST). ...
  • University Degrees 'Cannot be Compared'
    A sharp rise in the number of people admitted to university since the mid-80s makes it impossible to compare degrees awarded by different institutions in different subjects, it was claimed. Researchers said the 200-year-old system of first, second and third-class degrees is also threatened by incre ...
  • Avoidable Mistakes Rise Despite Hospital Efforts
    Drill bits, screws, sponges, clamps, needles, catheters, electrodes. These are some of the things accidentally left inside patients after surgery at California hospitals. These instances are referred to as "never" events, meaning they are never supposed to happen. But even though they are reported ...
  • Are the scars of deprivation imprinted on a child' ...
    A deprived childhood could have profound effects on the developing brain, experts believe. Academics from five British institutions, including Oxford University, will study the brains of troubled youngsters in an attempt to prove that their 'wiring' was affected by the abuse or neglect they suffere ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Savary Island mystery...
    First... you get into The Gazetteer's Friday BC Rail post . Then you get into the comments section of that post. You notice a smell. Then you realize that the smell is not the Savary Island septic tanks - it's coming from Belleville Street in Victoria.
  • "Please your honour, have mercy on a poor orphan"
    One of the advantages of being a conservative seems to be a willingness to engage in the most shameless of behaviours without the faintest scintilla of embarrassment or self-consciousness. Exhibit A "The whole concept of prison should be terminated, except for violent criminals and chronic non-v ...
  • Brave warriors fighting for freedom -- maybe, mayb ...
    H is tory professor and former soldier Andrew Bacevich, a self-declared "conservative Catholic" who served in Vietnam and the Gulf War, discusses the American Memorial Day holiday in light of the death of �death of his son three years ago in Iraq and the United States' history of imperialistic milit ...
  • Removing democratic rights, one summit at a time.
    I agree with The Jurist . Linda McQuaig hits the nail squarely on the head. But there are others who are so passionate about the fate of the Earth that they feel compelled to do more than shop. They want to object, to let world leaders know they disapprove. These are the types of people who plan ...
  • Getting our money's worth
    I mentioned in an earlier post that for the amount of money being spent on the G8/G20 meetings just for security, the government could build a money wall around the main venue for the G8 summit. I ran a few more numbers. $1.1 billion dollars would allow the government to pay 150,000 security office ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media respond to Romanoff with falseho ...
    Right-wing media have falsely claimed that the White House offered Andrew Romanoff a job in exchange for dropping out of Colorado's U.S. Senate election, and have falsely alleged or suggested that the White House committed a crime in doing so. In fact, both Romanoff and the White House have said ...
  • Hannity falsely claims Romanoff "is admitting he w ...
    Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Andrew Romanoff, who is running against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado's U.S. Senate election, "is confirming just now tonight he was offered a position" if he would exit the race. In fact, Romanoff reportedly stated: "At no time was I promised a job, n ...
  • Glenn Beck's long history of vicious personal atta ...
    Glenn Beck apologized for his attack on President Obama's daughter by stating that he hopes it represents his "bottom." But Beck's attack was hardly out of character, as he has frequently resorted to vicious personal attacks against his perceived enemies and their families. Beck on attack on Pres ...
  • Glenn Beck doesn't "know why we're not having real ...
    On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck proclaimed that he doesn't "know why we're not having real conversations" in America. During the same show, Beck compared the current state of our country to the biblical story of Moses and the films Star Wars and� Robin Hood �and cited a national division between s ...
  • Legal experts debunk Hannity's Sestak "crime" clai ...
    Over the past week, Sean Hannity and his guests have cited six different statutes that they claim were violated when the White House offered a position on a panel to Rep. Joe Sestak. Legal experts have repudiated the claim that any of those statutes apply to the offer. 18 U.S.C. � 600: Promise of ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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  • The Items Israel Blocks -- Plus Gaza and the Civil ...
    CHECK THIS OUT: The Economist reveals what Israel allows into Gaza and what it doesn't. Amazing. Punitive, without rhyme or reason. America needs to demand an end to the blockade now. **** Has anyone else noticed? Israeli spokespersons are obviously under orders to use the term "lynching" wh ...
  • Closing Tax Loopholes For Billionaires: A Billiona ...
    The following from David Postman, who says he's writing for Paul Allen: "I work for Paul Allen. I'm writing to point out errors in your recent piece, 'Closing Tax Loopholes for Billionaires.' It is absolutely incorrect to say that Mr. Allen is 'opposed to closing a tax loophole that allows hedge- ...
  • Representative Jason Altmire: Job Killing Deficit ...
    Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was the object of considerable ridicule for his support of the infamous $400 million "Bridge to Nowhere." This played a big role in his defeat in the last election. It is appropriate that members of Congress pay a price for their support of wasteful projects tha ...
  • Are Israel's Friends Going To Destroy It?
    The timing of the flotilla massacre could not have been worse for the United States government. Apparently (press reports in Israel and the United States are consistent on this) the administration had decided to kiss-and-makeup with Prime Minister Netanyahu. There was to be a White House meeting o ...

TruthOut

  • Meet the People on the Front Lines of BP’s Oil Dis ...
    The Justice Department has confirmed it’s opened a criminal and civil investigation into the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, now believed to be the worst environmental disaster in US history. For residents of southern Louisiana, the spill is impacting the ecology, the economy and entire ways of life ...
  • Connie Schultz | Let's Give the Kids a Real Summer
    Ah, June. Time for the carcinogenic clouds of outdoor grills, the buzz of neighborly yard tools drowning out low-flying aircraft and family arguments over who gets to wear the inflatable starfish armbands in the swimming pool. read more
  • The Black Art of "Master Illusions"
    How do wars begin? With a "master illusion," according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA's pioneers in "black propaganda," known today as "news management." In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an "incident" that became the "conclusive proof of North Vietnam's aggression." This followed ...
  • Robert Scheer | Treat Palestinians Like Jews
    It was an act of international terrorism, pure and simple. There can be no valid claims of self-defense on the part of Israeli commandos who attacked a ship of protesters in international waters, killing nine civilians and kidnapping more than 600 others -- including 15 international reporters w ...
  • Froma Harrop | Time to Call the Tea Party's Bluff
    I'm done trying to hack through the tea party thicket of self-contradiction, self-delusion and self-serving positions. My last straw is Rand Paul, a tea party favorite and now Republican nominee for senator from Kentucky. What damns Paul wasn't the flap over his views on the Civil Rights Ac ...

Planetsave

  • Greenpeace Competition to Design New BP Logo
    Help Greenpeace redesign BP’s logo in its newest logo design competition. Well, with the biggest environmental disaster in as long as most people can remember, maybe it is time for BP to redesign its logo. Greenpeace UK has decided to help out. Actually, Greenpeace got this competition started du ...
  • Criminal Investigation of BP Oil Spill Launched by ...
    US Attorney General Eric Holder launches a full-out criminal investigation of the BP oil spill in the Gulf. Visiting the Gulf of Mexico for the first time, US Attorney General Eric Holder stated yesterday, “we must… ensure that anyone found responsible for this spill is held accountable. That mean ...
  • A Bicycle (Monsterbike) a Car Wouldn’t Want ...
    Watch this super bicycle or “monsterbike” hit the roads in the Netherlands. This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Definitely one way bicyclists could get more respect on the road. It’s not exactly the speediest or most useful bike, but Wow . I couldn’t avoid sharing it. A perfect fin ...
  • Thank Steve Jobs, Apple for Leaving Fox News & Sta ...
    Show your support for Apple’s decision to ditch Fox News below. Apparently, after Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist” and progressivism “cancer”, some companies took notice and decided enough was enough. 33 companies, including Apple , told Fox they wanted their ads moved from Glenn Beck’ ...
  • Are GreenButts Environmental Cigarettes Going Too ...
    Cigarette butts make up nearly 25% of collected garbage which degrade and allow chemicals like cellulose acetate to enter the earth and groundwater. It’s rare that we come across an environmentally-friendly alternative to a common item that just isn’t beneficial. More often than not, anything that ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' - Ac ...
    "We Are All Connected" was made from sampling Carl Sagan's Cosmos, The History Channel's Universe series, Richard Feynman's 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson's cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye's Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking's Universe, Cosmo ...
  • Israel Censors News on Deadly Flotilla Raid - Mid ...
    TEL AVIV, Jun 3, 2010- Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Free Gaza (FG) members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, were thwarted by Israeli authorities. "No you will not be able to talk to them or interview them," Shahar...
  • The day the world became Gaza - World News
    Since Israel's invasion and massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza 18 months ago, dubbed Operation Cast Lead, global civil society movements have stepped up their campaigns for justice and solidarity with Palestinians. Governments, by contrast, carried on with business as usual, maintaining a c ...
  • Growing Protests As UN Attacks Haitian Refugee Cam ...
    Last week, the United Nations peacekeeping mission fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowded refugee camp, leaving at least six hospitalized and others suffering respiratory problems. Citizen organizations plan demonstrations for today, the sixth anniversary of the U.N. armed presence ...
  • Oil cleanup workers fight back against BP - World ...
    Workers struggling to stem the oil flow on the Gulf Coast are falling ill as concern grows about the short- and long-term effects of exposure to crude oil and the chemicals being used to clean it up. Some who have gotten sick are filing class actions suits against BP while...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Juries in Black and White
    Kevin Drum offers an apparently easy solution to the injustice of segregated juries: In a study that should surprise no one, the Equal Justice Institute reports that jury selection in the South is far from colorblind: Today, the practice of excluding blacks and other minorities from Southern juries ...
  • Where Sportsmanship Reigns
    OK, maybe I'm just old, but I couldn't read this through without choking up. From Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars: We have so many things to worry about right now, I figure we can stand a little good news, right? Whenever I read a story like this column by Rick Reilly, it makes me feel a lot less h ...
  • Sarah Palin Is A Semiliterate Dunce And Had No Bus ...
    "Gov.Jindal:to avoid ravished coast, build the berms.Ask forgiveness later;Feds are slow to act,local leadership&action can do more for coast" Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tweeted this imbecility Monday evening to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. My source? No, not Keith Olbermann -- although he is t ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The GOP and the culture of corruption "Former Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer was arrested this morning on six felony charges, including money laundering and grand theft, the Orlando Sentinel reported today. ... Shortly after his resignation in February on accusations of extravagant spen ...
  • Braindead Polluters? Black Plague? Beyond Pathetic ...
    I know you can do better than that. With millions of gallons of oil still swirling in the Gulf, a BP executive had a message for Gulf Coast residents: "I want my life back." This is the same executive who claimed the spill was "tiny" compared to the size of the ocean. Is this what BP stands for? Br ...

Care 2

  • Underground green economy employing million
    There's a new economy springing up around the country -- but it's operating almost entirely in secret. It's called "the restoration economy" and it's remaking America's landscape while putting millions of people to work. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Request the United Nations to form a government of ...
    Tasks Government of National Salvation The Government of National Salvation of the following : 1. Signed an agreement to initiate the evacuation of the American occupation forces, ending the occupation in Iraq and their legal rights and m Submitted by Uhoud Abdulmajeed to World ...
  • Christian Would-Be Judges on a Mission from God to ...
    Vowing to be God's ambassadors on the bench, the four San Diego Superior Court candidates are backed by pastors, gun enthusiasts, opponents of abortion and same-sex marriages. "We believe our country is under assault and needs Christian v Submitted by Melva H. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-i ...
  • Empire An The Camel Spiders
    Soldiers who have served in the Middle East have been sending back scary pictures of a beastie called "the camel spider". It is rumoured to be faster than 25mph, poisonous, hairy, and able to tackle small animals and unafraid of humans. Submitted by Bojan R. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Tortured kitten. Please punish the culprit - The P ...
    We are deeply shocked by the recent case of cruel animal torture that happened in the city of Ekaterinburg. A small kitten was badly mutilated, his nose and lips cut off, numerous burns of cigarette stubs all over the tiny body. Submitted by Cristina S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Johnson Controls' Energy Efficiency Indicator Goes ...
    Energy efficiency investments around the world have remained strong despite the global recession, commercial building executives told Johnson Controls in the company's first international energy efficiency survey.
  • Eco-LCA Adds Ecosystem Services to Life Cycle Asse ...
    A new life cycle assessment (LCA) tool developed by the Ohio State University Center for Resilience brings a new dimension to LCA by taking into account ecosystem services like soil erosion, pollination, flood prevention and cropland. �
  • MIT Taps Local Utility for 'Bold' Energy Efficienc ...
    With the help of its local utility, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will launch a three-year energy efficiency project that will trim electricity use 15 percent and save the university $50 million.
  • How 'Energy Sleuths' Pursue the Ideal Green Buildi ...
    The practice of commissioning, in which an engineer monitors the efficiency of a structure from its design through its initial operation, may be the most effective strategy for reducing long-term energy usage, costs and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. So why is it so seldom used?
  • Green Report Card on Cruise Ships Sets Off Storm o ...
    Despite efforts to improve operations, cruise ships that ply North American waters must go a lot further to become environmentally responsible, says Friends of the Earth, whose latest report card on the industry gives 11 major cruise lines green grades ranging from B- to F.

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Your Liberal Media
    I know it has been said elsewhere and I know that we have bigger issues of concern worth focusing on, but it seems to me that Mark Kirk's lies about his military service actually exceed anything that Richard Blumenthal did, and, yet, there's very little outrage or news coverage about it. I don't ha ...
  • Stupid Democrats
    The hold of the Israeli lobby over American politics is total and absolute. Steny Hoyer and Joe Biden are out there defending commando raids on humanitarian ships in international waters that result in death and injury to civilians. There is only way to redeem themselves and that is to get a peace ...
  • Of "Epic Foolishness" And Epic Fails
    Bob Herbert's latest New York Times column, "Our Epic Foolishness," could (and perhaps should) serve as the introduction to a book about how America got into the various messes we're in from the ongoing ecological disaster in the Gulf, to the unrepentant and un-remedied recklessness of Wall Street ...
  • Washington Post Wankers
    Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce Ellen McCarthy of the Washington Post: Please Al and Tipper, don't do this. For our sakes -- don't. We can't handle it. These kinds of things stopped bothering us long ago. Name almost any famous couple, and we're happy to place under/over bets on the date ...
  • The Influence of OFA
    As you probably know, Obama for America, the president's campaign organization, morphed into Organizing for America after the election and was housed in the Democratic National Committee (DNC). They have about 13 million contacts and they're learning how to transfer their talents for winning electi ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Will ebooks vindicate vanity publishing?
    Still plenty of flux in the publishing industry, and I doubt it’s going to settle any time soon. Here’s the latest development: Amazon has raised the percentage of cover price it pays to self-published authors using the Kindle store [via PD_Smith]: This month, Amazon is upping the ante, increasing t ...
  • Under Your Skin: The Implants are Coming
    This idea for this article started when I was doing some research on prosthetics and came across an article about a wheelchair that can be controlled with brainwaves. That got me thinking about what else we might be doing to use electronics or other implants to manage our interface with the world. ...
  • A sci-fi rock’n'roll odyssey at Clarkesworld
    Long-term readers of this here site are probably aware that my other huge cultural obsession (besides science fiction literature, natch) is rock music, and that I’ve spent some amount of time in the last few years on drawing comparisons and connections between the two scenes. So imagine my joy (if y ...
  • Mega-engineering: awesome future concepts from Shi ...
    Get yourself over to Pink Tentacle right away; they’re hosting a bunch of mega-engineering promo images and design concepts from Japan’s Shimizu Corporation, who plainly aren’t afraid to think in directions with strong science fictional undertones. Directions such as floating lily-pad cities, millio ...
  • Futurismic Reopening to Submissions Next Week
    A note to potential fiction contributors:  Futurismic will be reopening to short story submissions on Monday, June 7th.   We’ve had our break and it’s time to get back to work! This gives you plenty of time to re-familiarize yourselves with our guidelines and sample some of our fiction to get a s ...

Therapy News

  • Building Self Esteem: Do-At-Home Activities
    By Joy A. Davis, LCSW, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joy and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Much of the body image work that I do with clients suffering from eating disorders comes back to building up self-esteem. What follows are a few activities I’ve found ...
  • PTSD and Unemployment
    By John Lee, LMHC, Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile How one person learned to retrain her brain to respond to PTSD rather than react… âI woke up gasping for breath⦠Was this just a bad dream? No! I was scar ...
  • Client Speaks Out about Value of Time, Compassion, ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Electro-convulsive therapy, or ECT, while a delicate subject for some psychology professionals, has been gaining a greater degree of support for some applications in recent years, yet not all clients are ready to lend their support to the technique. Recently, an Austr ...
  • Anger Tools: Part II
    By Stuart A. Kaplowitz, MFT, Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Stuart and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Continuing with tools to use when we get angry, I want to go deeper into explaining just one here — a powerful one! The Empty Chair Technique – This is one of my favorite t ...
  • Book Review – Experience Your Good Now!
    By Sarah Jenkins, MC, LPC, EMDR Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When Hay House Publishing sent me my free copy of Experience Your Good Now! Learning To Use Affirmations by Louise L. Hay I was reluctant to read another book on positive affir ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Mining Threatens One of America's Best ...
    Mountaintop Mining Threatens One of America's Best White Water Rivers The Washington Independent The Charleston Gazette's tireless Ken Ward Jr. notes today that, in southern West Virginia, mountaintop removal mining is ...
  • Mountaintop removal lands Gauley River in West Vir ...
    Reuters UK Mountaintop removal lands Gauley River in West Virginia on list of nation's ... Charleston Gazette (blog) Mountaintop removal mining in the Gauley River watershed has landed the Gauley on the annual list of endangered waterways published by the group American ... Gauley River: Endangered ...
  • Reverend Billy pressures JP Morgan Chase to stop f ...
    Reverend Billy pressures JP Morgan Chase to stop funding mountaintop removal Green Party Watch Billy declared victory yesterday in an email to supporters: JP Morgan Chase Backs Down on Mountaintop Removal ! Reverend Billy and activist-singers succeed ... and more��
  • The answer's still blowin; but the times may be a' ...
    The answer's still blowin; but the times may be a'changin' Waynesville Smoky Mountain News As a child of coal country, I share his anger over mountaintop-removal mining. But as a renewable-energy advocate with significant wind experience, ...
  • Pressure builds against mountaintop removal coal m ...
    West Virginia Public Broadcasting Pressure builds against mountaintop removal coal mining Natural News.com In mountaintop removal , miners use dynamite and earth movers to blow up entire mountain peaks in order to remove the coal beneath. ... EPA effort to block West Virginia coal mine heats up mou ...

Memeorandum

  • New Israeli Tack Needed on Gaza, U.S. Officials Sa ...
    Ethan Bronner / New York Times : New Israeli Tack Needed on Gaza, U.S. Officials Say   —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration considers Israel's blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach to ensure Israel's security while allowing more supplies into the impoverished ...
  • Charge to Obama: 'Go off!' (Kristi Keck/CNN)
    Kristi Keck / CNN : Charge to Obama: ‘Go off!’   —  President Obama goes one-on-one with Larry King on Thursday night to talk about the oil spill, economic turmoil and war.  Don't miss the president on “Larry King Live,” 9 p.m. ET Thursday, only on CNN.  —  (CNN) — In the weeks since an oil rig ex ...
  • Democratic Senate Candidate: White House Floated P ...
    Jake Tapper / Political Punch : Democratic Senate Candidate: White House Floated Possible Jobs If I Chose to Not Run Against Incumbent   —  Andrew Romanoff, the former speaker of the Colorado house of representatives, issued a statement Wednesday evening claiming that the White House raised the pos ...
  • Rep. Tom Cole on oil spill: 'Acts of God are acts ...
    Lee Fang / Think Progress : Rep. Tom Cole on oil spill: ‘Acts of God are acts of God.’   —  Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), an ardent supporter of the oil industry and adherent of the “drill here, drill now” chant, appeared on KTOK radio yesterday to discuss BP's oil disaster in the Gulf.  Like Gov. Rick Pe ...
  • Joining the Jackals - At the United Nations, a lyn ...
    Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard : Joining the Jackals   —  At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.  The Islamic countries are a reliable source of venom, led by the Arab bloc; what we used to call the “non-aligned” are all aligned against Israel and happy to joi ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • The real cost of cheap oil
    BP’s rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is only unusual for being so near the United States, writes John Vidal. In other locations, Big Oil is rarely pressed to clean up its mess. Big Oil is holding its breath. BP’s shares are in steep decline after the debacle in the Gulf of Mexico . President Ba ...
  • Mixed feelings
    Yesterday, Thomas Hale and Scott Moore called for a “coalition of the willing” to drive emissions cuts as an alternative to the UN process. As climate talks continue in Bonn, a roundtable of experts responds. Gao Feng is director of the legal department of the UN Framework Convention on Climate C ...
  • A coalition of the willing
    As climate talks get under way in Bonn, Thomas Hale and Scott Moore call for a radical new approach to cutting emissions that sidesteps intergovernmental deadlock and unites eager players, from Wal-Mart to city halls. What do California, the European Union, Wal-Mart , the Chinese Ministry of Envi ...
  • Boiling point
    Friction over shared – and shrinking – water resources is escalating in south Asia, where India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over river rights. Joydeep Gupta reports. If Pakistani householders look carefully at their electricity bills, they will find they have been charged an extra amount for NJP ...
  • In defence of dams
    Building river barrages remains environmentally controversial, but Australian expert Graeme Kelleher tells Isabel Hilton what matters is how you do it. Engineer and water-resource expert Graeme Kelleher is the former chairman and chief executive of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and a ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • For Poor, America’s a Sinking Ship
    Last week in New York authorities announced that at Harlem Hospital Center, the largest health facility in that historic neighborhood, doctors had failed to read 4,000 heart tests — for three years — and that 200 of these patients died. These were not simply routine tests, but echocardiograms, order ...
  • Israel Builds New Desalination Plant, But Palestin ...
    The issue of desalination dilutes one of the unresolved core issues of the conflict. For decades, Israel and its Arab neighbors have fought over water rights.
  • Government Report Finds Dangerous Residues in Meat
    Many food consumers worry about pathogens like E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria in their meat. But according to a new government report, they should worry more about veterinary drugs, pesticides and heavy metals in their food. A new Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released last month finds ...
  • Right-Wing Extremists Organize and Promote Violenc ...
    From militias to white supremacists, right-wing groups are using social networking to organize and spread propaganda. Should the government do something?
  • Former Fox Analyst McGlowan: Tea Partying While Bl ...
    Angela McGlowan, former Fox News analyst, is one of 32 African Americans running for Congress as a Republican. And she's running on a Tea Party platform.

Threat Level

  • No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission for Total Tra ...
    The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case o ...
  • RateMyCop User Ensnared in ‘Dumbest Case Ever’
    A Florida man arrested and briefly jailed for posting a local police officer’s home address on a cop-rating site said Wednesday his ordeal was “completely crazy.” “Just because I posted it, I got arrested. It wasn’t like it was the Pentagon Papers,” Robert Brayshaw, a 35-year-old Tallahassee man, sa ...
  • DHS Alarmed by Sticker of Suicide Bomber; Really a ...
    A sticker found on a trash can at a Washington, D.C., airport last week depicting what appeared to be a suicide bomber is actually the logo of a popular graffiti artist. His fans have plastered his stickers around the world since around 2005. The sticker caused a bit of stir among Department of Home ...
  • Wikileaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted ...
    Wikileaks, the controversial whistleblowing site that exposes secrets of governments and corporations, bootstrapped itself with a cache of documents obtained through an internet eavesdropping operation by one of its activists, according to a new profile of the organization’s founder. The activist s ...
  • Five Alleged Money Mules Indicted in Bank Theft
    Five alleged money mules have been indicted in a bank heist that netted the thieves almost $450,000 from a local-government bank account in California. John L. Quinn II and Anthony Bobbitt, both of North Carolina, were indicted with three others on criminal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and cons ...

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Equality Trust

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

  • Suspend to Amend Corporate Personhood Call
    On the May 26 Suspend to Amend Corporate Personhood call, participants heard from David Cobb of Movetoamend.org and John Bonifaz of freespeechforpeople.org as each made their case for amending the constitution to limit corporate personhood. ...
  • PDA Special “KitchenTable” Call
    On this call with began work on finalizing the agenda for the national conference in Ohio.
  • 72 Congressional Candidates Join Coalition Against ...
    72 Congressional Candidates Join Coalition Against War Spending in First Week, Teabaggers Have 79 After a Year Seventy-two congressional candidates and 24 national organizations are opposing any more funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...
  • Voices Raised in Protest at White House Rally, Re: ...
    Voices Raised in Protest at White House Rally, Re: Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla from William Hughes on Vimeo. The recent attack by Israeli Military Forces on a humanitarian six-boat flotilla, in international waters, ...
  • Harman Uses Bush – Cheney Fear Tactics On Wi ...
    For eight hellish years, Bush and Cheney ruled America by fear. Images of Osama Bin Laden were drawn on us like weapons. Terror. Terrorism. Terrorists. War. Fear. Warfare. This was the Bush/Cheney mantra that ...

Marler Blog

  • Is Raw Milk Treated Unfairly?
    I must admit that I tire of the moans from raw milk advocates that Big Dairy and Big Government is out to get them. I shake my head at the unfounded belief that grass fed cows will never produce a pathogen that can sicken a child. I cringe at the anti-science blather protesting that all outbreaks ...
  • Marler's Response to the American Meat Institute S ...
    AMI: We share Sen. Gillibrand’s desire to eradicate pathogenic bacteria, but we don’t believe that an act of Congress can make these bacteria disappear. We also are puzzled by the fact that this bill is being introduced at a time when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is tracking an outbreak o ...
  • What has Changed Since Upton Sinclair? A Contempor ...
    The office is closed for Memorial Day, but I am here working on my speech (title above) to be given at the NEHA conference next week.  I am supposed to cover: What’s behind the shiny abattoir walls of contemporary slaughterhouses? After all the regulation, safety protocols, worker initiatives, an ...
  • CDC - non-O157 E. coli STECs (like O26, O45, 0103, ...
    The CDC estimates that "non-O157 STECs (like O26, O45, 0103, O111, O121, and O145) cause 36,700 illnesses, 1,100 hospitalizations and 30 deaths in America each year." In speaking about the recent E. coli O145 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, Patricia M. Griffin, chief of CDC's Enteric Diseases E ...
  • E. coli O157:H7 costs $478,381,766 per year in ill ...
    I love Economists.  Actually, one of my three BA's was in Economics.  When you look at the cost of just two bugs that the Economic Research Service (ERS) looked at, you have to wonder why we do not demand more from the corporations who feed us and the government that is supposed to regulate them? ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 06.03.10
    Challenge Bibendum: riding in the Audi e-tron is a dream And that's all it is for now. Video: Coda Automotive promo clip explains electric sedan Answers and some more questions. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.02.10
    Nissan's Mark Perry responds to Leaf price gouging, says problem is easily averted You just need to have options. Video: Diet Coke and Mentos-powered car is a blast A meme for the ages. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.01.10
    Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is still really, really bullish about the Leaf electric car The EV advocate just doesn't stop. Study: Mass adoption of EVs in China will lead to tremendously higher emissions ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 05.28.10
    eBay Find of the Day: Hydrogen-powered 1972 AMC Gremlin by George Barris What else is hiding out there? Royal Academy of Engineering: Coal-powered electric vehicles not enough to cut CO2 Well ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 05.27.10
    Study: highly-efficient semi-trucks lead to 120,000 new jobs by 2030 Say what? Report: Toyota and Daimler planning "extensive cooperation" on fuel cell development H2, here they come. ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET to the Rescue: Reminders and to-do lists
    This time, Rafe and Josh's favorite apps for keeping track of stuff. Also, we answer questions on Synergy, domain names, waking up snoozing Macs, calendar apps for Thunderbird, and more. Thanks to Tales (from the chat room) for saving our bacon! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subsc ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: App stores are good for sof ...
    The working title for this show was, "How app stores are killing software." But the conversation, with Evernote CEO Phil Libin and SoftTech venture capitalist Jeff Clavier , painted exactly the opposite picture. These two execs, both of whom are making money from software in the current economy, s ...
  • Coming June 24: CNET Showcase on tablets, slates, ...
    Don't miss our hands-on event and discussion on the newest in small and slim computing. Originally posted at CNET Showcase
  • CNET to the Rescue: Androidpalooza
    This week on CNET to the Rescue: it's all Android, all the time. Pretty much, anyway. Tons of questions from listeners on how to make Android work better, and if you should bother at all. Plus, the Mystery of the Silent Pre--solved! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe: � iTu ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Our perilous infrastructure ...
    This week, a bit of an inconvenient truth in our show: We're talking about our national infrastructure--power, water, transportation, and the like--and how it's kind of a mess from a security perspective thanks in no small part to the growth of the Internet. If you're a fan of reliable electricity ...

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!

  • In Memory of All That Is Lost
    NEW ORLEANS—The anger is palpable across the Mississippi Delta. As the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser, almost a mile underwater, continues unabated, the brunt of this, the largest environmental catastrophe in United States history, is rolling onto the coast, impacting the ecology, the economy and ent ...
  • Interview: At Least 15 Dead After Israel Attacks G ...
    Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza strip. Dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, the ships were aiming to break Israel’s 3-year blockade of Gaza. At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when Israeli troops attacked the lead ship in the co ...
  • Alleged Chicago Torturer’s Overdue Day in Court
    Burge rose in the ranks to become a commander in Chicago’s South Side, called Area 2. Electric shocks to the genitals, mock executions, suffocation with bags over the head, beatings and painful stress positions are among the torture techniques that Burge and police officers under his command are ac ...
  • Part II: "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret R ...
    See Part II of our interview with Sasha Polakow-Suransky, author of the new book "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa." Click here for Part I
  • Full Interview With Activists Resisting U.S. Milit ...
    Watch the full version of our interview with activists from Japan, Guam and Hawai’i who are resisting the expansion of US military bases in the Pacific.

Farming Pathogens

  • 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 ...
  • Do Pathogens Time Travel?
    Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
  • We Are All Astronauts Now
    Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]

Suzie-Q

  • How Soon Until the Free Market Stops the Oil Spill ...
    I’m sitting here at my desk watching the oil droids hack away at the blowout preventer in preparation for the “cap” portion of the “cut and cap” procedure, which, contrary to what I’m hearing on cable news, is intended to do something other than stopping the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In [ ...
  • Falk: Israel criminally accountable for the murder ...
    By Professor Richard Falk (UN Rapporteur for Palestine) Countercurrents.org, May 31, 2010 This incident should serve as a wakeup call for a complicit international community. There are three political imperatives that need to emerge with a sense of urgency: condemnation of the Israeli attack and an ...
  • BP Has Hired Former Cheney Spokesperson For PR
    BP Hires Former Dick Cheney Spox To Run PR Ops TPM MUCKRAKER Rachel Slajda | June 1, 2010, 11:03AM BP, struggling to maintain its image while taking responsibility for the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, has hired someone new to head its American public relations operation: Anne Womack-Kolton, t ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox- Sultans of Swing
    Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
  • Not in My Jewish Name!
    Rob Kall | OpEdNews | June 1, 2010 I am a Jew and I am outraged and ashamed by the acts Israel has perpetrated. I am not a self hating Jew, not an anti-semite, as some religious extremist Jews have accused me and other Jews who criticize Israel. I am a Jew who knows right [...]

Solari

  • Commodities’ Drop
    By Millie Munshi and Elizabeth Campbell The biggest slump in commodities since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed is undermining Wall Street forecasts for accelerating economic growth and higher prices for everything from copper to crude oil. The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Commodity ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill Will “Destroy South Louisiana ...
    By Geoffrey Lean Oysters were broiling, softshell crabs frying, seafood gumbo simmering and spirits being obstinately kept up at the Plaquemines Parish annual seafood festival at the weekend. But then the devastating news came through. Billy Nungesser, the rotund president of the Louisiana parish a ...
  • Community Call to Prayer
    By Winslow Homer Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit. ~ Psalm 17:1 (ESV) Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live on the conference line or from wherever you are. 10 a.m. Pacific / 11 a.m. Mountain / 12 ...
  • “When Will Euro Zone Fall?”
    Read PDF By Stephen Fidler Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, has never been too worried about upsetting his European Union partners. He risks doing so again with a piece just written for the libertarian Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty & Prosperity provocatively entitled “ ...
  • Latest GMO Research Findings
    Continue reading Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

  • Brain study asks: does size matter?
    New findings have challenged the notion that primate brains have grown steadily over the course of evolution. Scientists studying the primate family tree found that many species have actually seen brain mass decrease over time, bucking conventional thought that brain size across all primates - inclu ...
  • Election debates echo US showcases
    The Prime Ministers’ debate has injected some much needed style to the substance of the General Election, with Nick Clegg emerging as the surprise winner of the first programme. Despite the showboating from all candidates the display was largely welcomed by the public, with many asking why it hasn’t ...
  • Mother's words as comforting as hugs
    Anxious children are just as comforted by hearing their mother's voice on the phone as they are when given a cuddle, scientists have found. Research into 61 girls aged seven to 12 showed that when they heard their mother's soothing words, their levels of oxytocin, the "cuddle hormone", rose. Scienti ...
  • To share, or not to share
    The bonobo, one of our closest primate relatives, prefers sharing its food to eating alone, according to new research. This proves that the generous act of sharing is not an exclusively human trait, as previously thought.
  • Kung fu could stop OAP injuries
    Elderly people could avoid bone fractures by learning martial arts, it has been claimed. While turning auntie Flo into a ninja warrior may be a fanciful notion, research suggests that fighting disciplines such as kung fu, karate and judo involve techniques that can help brittle-boned patients fall m ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Today’s good news, about rising sea levels
    Summary:  There has been much evidence that the terrible tales of rising sea levels are exaggerated.  Slowly hard evidence emerges. Contents “Shape-shifting islands defy sea-level rise“, New Scientist, 2 June 2010  ”The dynamic response of reef islands to sea level rise: evidence from multi-decad ...
  • FM newswire for June 2, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. He doesn’t give the obvious answer: our government lies:  “Al-Qaida’s Rule of Threes – Why are we always killing Osama’s “No. 3″ operative?“, Timothy Noah, Slate, 5 December 2005– Fol ...
  • The Feds decide who to lock up for life (not just ...
    Summary:  Another in the ever-growing series of posts about our dying Constitution.  Death by neglect.  Neglect by both conservatives and liberals.  Links to the previous chapters appear at the end. “When the Feds Decide Who’s Sexually Dangerous”, Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic, May 2010 — Excerpt ...
  • FM newswire for June 1, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Recommended, a terrific graphic:  “The Long Tail â 60 Chinese Cities with a Population of Over 1 Million“, Chinfographics, 20 May 2010 You’re in jail for life because we say you’re ...
  • Stratfor: “Flotillas and the Wars of Public ...
    Summary:  As I wrote 3 years ago, America has made many geopolitical mistakes, some very serious.  Nothing critical for a superpower, so long as we do not make too many.  But Israel operates far closer to the edge.   Small, geographically and economically vulnerable, surrounded by enemies, and heir ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • U.K. Urges Euro Banks Stress Tests
    Wall Street Journal – The U.K. Treasury has just joined the U.S. in urging European authorities to conduct what a Treasury minister calls âgenuine, rigorousâ stress testing of banks. In excerpts of a speech heâs due to deliver tonight in Brussels, Mark Hoban, financial secretary to the Treasur ...
  • First Paper ‘Dipstick’ Test for Determining Blood ...
    ScienceDaily â Scientists are reporting development of the first “dipstick” test for instantly determining a person’s blood type at a cost of just a few pennies. Their study on the test, which involves placing a drop of blood on a specially treated paper strip, appears in ACS’ journal Analytical ...
  • FEATURE PAGE UPDATE
    We have just updated again our feature page The effects of Anthropogenic Climate Change (apparently). CLICK HERE TO READ   EDITORS NOTE: DO NOT read this page if you are of a sensitive or nervous disposition
  • Afghan opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah vows to ...
    Guardian – A three-day meeting of Afghanistan’s tribal leaders hailed by western leaders as a critical first step to peace was dismissed today as a “PR exercise” by the leader of the country’s opposition, who said he would not attend the event. Read article
  • Australia’s Economy Expands
    Wall Street Journal – The Australian economy grew at a much slower pace in the first quarter than at the end of last year as the withdrawal of economic stimulus, surprise weakness in business investment and sluggish growth in export volumes took some of the steam out of activity. But economists say ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • O klasowej przynależności jednostek
    O klasowej przynależności jednostek -Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) „Aby mieć pewność, że nie poprowadzimy rewolucji nieprawidłową drogą i że niezawodnie osiągniemy sukces, musimy starać się o skupienie wokół siebie naszych prawdziwych przyjaciół, ażeby zadać cios naszym prawdziwym wrogom. Dla ...
  • Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio
    Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Magpie is a folk music trio made up of Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner. In 2000, Magpie released a folk opera that follows the exploits of John Brown and those around him at Harpers Ferry. In other words, all the songs on the ...
  • Revisiting value and exploitation
    Revisiting value and exploitation by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) 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 continued accumulation of ...
  • Priemerný americký „Joe“
    Priemerný americký „Joe“ (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   (Greek)  (Polish) (English) (Slovak) „Priemerný Joe“ má špeciálne miesto v americkom povedomí. Populárna literárna postava , „hrdina robotníckej triedy“, vystupuje vo filmoch, v televízii, v divadle. Je obľúbeným cieľom politikov. A pre ...
  • On the TOPF and Hate Amerikkka part 2 in Chinese
    Golden Oldies. Shubel Morgan movies in Chinese: 憎恨美国，至死不休: 论唯生产力论:

PakAlert

  • Christians- Zionism’s Useful Idiots
    You know the imagery-- millions of Christians around the world have spontaneously disappeared - where did they go? Some say aliens, others terrorists. Now airplanes are plummeting to destruction, trains derailing, cars crashing, nuclear power plants are melting down and dumbfounded people staggering ...
  • Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass ...
    Mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and defines what is normal and acceptable. This article looks at the workings of mass media through the theories of its major thinkers, its power structure and the techn ...
  • Obama Calls for Global Government: “A New Internat ...
    On Saturday, President Obama showed his true NWO colors even though he avoided the popular catch phrase “New WORLD Order” by replacing “world” with “International.” Both words are synonymous with each other. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
  • The Evil Doer and the Times Square Fizzler
    Were Muslim Evil Doers again at work in New York? Is that the lesson to be learned from a May 1st “car bomb” that fizzled while parked alongside the Marriott Hotel in Manhattan’s busy Times Square? Why now? The clues are there if only investigators will follow the facts. With reports of thi ...
  • A Wedding To Start A War
    How the wedlock between a Pakistani sportsman and an Indian tennis player is a PR disaster for India and holds implications for relations with Pakistan. A sign of Pakistan-India peace? Hardly. Read how the celebrity wedding was loaded with the kind of symbolism that rattled India and sent the wrong ...

ecogeek

  • Biobased Circuit Boards from Chicken Feathers
    Ending use of petroleum will mean not only ending its use as a fuel, but also finding alternatives for the numerous materials that use petrochemicals in their production. Plastics are perhaps the most obvious item on the list, but even electronic circuit boards are candidates for production with ...
  • Want a Building to Last 1,500 Years? Add Sticky R ...
    Creating sustainable, long-lasting structures is at the core of environmentally-friendly architecture.  Many researchers have been working on a better cement , but what if all you need to make a durable structure is available for take-out? Recent studies of Ming Dynasty-era structures in China fou ...
  • Scientists Make CO2-Capturing, BPA-Free Plastic
    Here's a neat discovery that solves two problems at once:  scientists have identified classes of organic chemicals that can capture CO2 from the atmosphere and then be used to make safe ( BPA -free) plastics. BPA, a chemical with a growing list of health concerns, is commonly used in rigid polycar ...
  • Nissan LEAF Is Sold Out for 2010
    Great news for Nissan and the electric car:  the company has received 19,000 preorders for the LEAF all-electric vehicle , making it sold out for this year.  The demand has exceeded expectations and the company may have to temporarily stop taking reservations. Preorders for the LEAF began in April ...
  • EV Makes Record-Breaking 624-Mile Trip on One Char ...
    The Japan EV Club has broken their own record by converting an electric car to make the longest trip without recharging, covering a whopping 623.76 miles! The Daihatsu Mira EV was outfitted with Sanyo batteries and converted from a gas car to an electric one.  The EV set the record on a track in I ...

Buzzflash

  • David's Slingshot
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH “ All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands. ” — 1 Samuel 17:47 I’ve heard the Palestinians called “Hitler’s last victims.” That starts to get at the ...
  • The Far Right and Its Peculiar, Suicidal Ways
    Body "I would term this hysterical," said journalist Joe McGinniss earlier this week about Sarah Palin's overwrought reactions to his rather whimsical proximity. And with that last word, he came closer than perhaps intended in terming the modern right at large, which I can only assume ...
  • Full Responsibility -- What Does It Really Mean?
    SHIRLEY SMITH FOR BUZZFLASH "Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star," Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, and below: Alas, things ain't what we should se ...
  • Corporations Wanted Personhood: The Supreme Court ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG Let's start taking the Supreme Court's January 5-4 endorsement of the concept of "corporate personhood" as the legally binding concept the court ruling confers (although the concept has been around since a spurious Supreme Court "ruling" in the late 1800s), w ...
  • Gone but Not Forgotten: Pharma Influence at Psychi ...
    MARTHA ROSENBERG FOR BUZZFLASH New Orleans -- It was 95 degrees with 99 percent humidity. The Gulf had the biggest oil spill in US history.� And attendees to this week's American Psychiatric Convention (APA) annual meeting in New Orleans had to brave 200 protestors chanting "no drugging kids for mon ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Talking about Israel with Eliot Spitzer on MSNBC
    I was just on MSNBC�talking about Israel, the Gaza blockade and the flotilla attack with�Eliot Spitzer, who was guest-hosting for Dylan Ratigan.��It was a rather contentious discussion, though quite illustrative of how Israel is (and is not) typically discussed on American television, so I'm posting ...
  • What does Israel fear from media coverage?
    The New York Times , today : A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held hundreds of activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday . . . .Reuters reported that Israel was holding hundreds of activists incommunicado in and around ...
  • Israel attacks aid ship, kills at least 10 civilia ...
    (updated below - Update II) Late last night, Israel attacked a flotilla of ships in international waters carrying food, medicine and other aid to Gaza, killing at least 10 civilians on board and injuring at least 30 more (many reports now put the numbers at 19 dead and 60 injured).  The ...
  • Pure Kafka
    The first paragraph of today's New York Times article by Charlie Savage : The 48 Guantánamo Bay detainees whom the Obama administration has decided to keep holding without trial include several for whom there is no evidence of involvement in any specific terrorist plot, according to a repor ...
  • Who are the real "crazies" in our political cultur ...
    One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics.� That serves to bolster the two political parties as the sole arbiters of what is acceptable:� anyone who meaning ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • My latest SpectroscopyNOW science news
    These are my links for June 1st from 19:03 to 19:09: Therapeutic science – X-ray crystallography has been used to determine the structure of a new, improved protein that could be employed in the purification of therapeutic antibodies and to reveal details of its complexes with antibodies. The work ...
  • Mumps, vax, quacks #science
    A few science news snippets: Mumps vaccination and teenage swelling – Clinical evidence suggests that we should best avoid mumps in teenagers, could a booster vaccine at age 12 or thereabouts be the answer? Martin Gardner RIP – Debunker of quacks and pseudoscientists and an unequalled mathematical ...
  • ChemistryViews, Alchemist, espresso
    ChemistryViews just launched, so here’s my first link to my stuff on there together with the regular Alchemist round-up and a surprising finding about espresso. Small molecules for fighting cancer – My first short feature article in the all-new ChemistryViews magazine from Wiley covers research in ...
  • Wheels within wheels – the scientific lifecycle
    An oft-repeated message from scientists involved with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), mapping the human genome, the search for extraterrestrial life and other vast scientific projects, such as supercomputing experiments is that the tera-bytes, peta-bytes, perhaps even the yotta-bytes of data gener ...
  • Chemical structure drawing poll
    Yesterday’s blog feature quoted my various contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and elsewhere on what program they use to draw chemical structures. There were some interesting answers, including mentions of sites like ChemSpider and PubChem that are no drawing packages per se but do allow you to retrieve ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Israeli Forces Detain Journalists Aboard Humanitar ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 Committee to Protect Journalists Israel should immediately release the journalists it detained along with hundreds of peace activists on Monday after Israeli forces stormed a convoy of ships carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the Committee to Protect Jo ...
  • NGOs Gathered in Kampala Call for End to Impunity ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) We, the undersigned organisations gathered in Kampala at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, are shocked by Israel’s killing and injury of civilians carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza. We wish to e ...
  • Obama Calls for Criminal Investigation into BP Dis ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 Sierra Club Today, President Obama vowed to pursue criminal investigation into the cause of the BP Disaster in the Gulf, which has yet to be contained and is becoming the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Statement of Sierra Club Executive Direct ...
  • Update on Israeli Attack on Humanitarian Boats
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 Free Gaza Movement The UN Security Council Calls for Impartial, Credible Investigation of Israeli Boat Raid. The raid in international waters, on the aid convoy headed to Gaza left at least 16 civilians dead. After an emergency session wrapped up in the early hours ...
  • ACLU Renews Call For Accountability At Start Of To ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today renewed its call for the Obama administration to hold Bush-era government officials accountable for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. Despite disavowing torture, the current administration continue ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Day the World Became Gaza
    by Ali Abunimah Since Israel's invasion and massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza 18 months ago, dubbed Operation Cast Lead, global civil society movements have stepped up their campaigns for justice and solidarity with Palestinians. Governments, by contrast, carried on with business as usual, m ...
  • United Nations Attacks Refugee Camp, Protests Moun ...
    by Beverly Bell Last week, the United Nations peacekeeping mission fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowded refugee camp, leaving at least six hospitalized and others suffering respiratory problems. Citizen organizations plan demonstrations for today, the sixth anniversary of the U.N. ...
  • American Denial: Living in a Can’t-Do Nation
    by Tom Engelhardt Graduates of the class of 2010, I'm honored to have been asked to address you today, but I would not want to be you. read more
  • ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’
    by Sean Gonsalves It 's not easy being green It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things... When green is all there is to be It could make you wonder why But why wonder why wonder I am green, and it'll do fine It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be read more
  • Obama Must Join Global Condemnation of Israeli Flo ...
    by Medea Benjamin Just one day after Israeli commandos stormed civilian boats that were bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, leaving nine dead, a group of Nobel Peace prize winners put out a statement condemning the attack. South African president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Dampening Debate
    Should water hogs like Coke dominate discussions on conserving water? By Bill O'Driscoll.
  • Eastday-Greece seeks more than 3 billion euros fro ...
    The Greek government announced on Wednesday a plan on the privatizations of a series of state-owned companies in the framework of efforts to overcome a severe debt crisis.
  • Greece seeks more than 3 billion euros from privat ...
    The Greek government announced on Wednesday a plan on the privatizations of a series of state-owned companies in the framework of efforts to overcome a severe debt crisis. Athens expects to raise more than 3 billion euros (3.66 billion U.S. dollars) over the next three years from the better use of p ...
  • Protests intensify versus Angat plant privatizatio ...
    Advocacy group Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) has mounted protests versus the recent privatization of the 246-megawatt Angat hydropower facility, citing in particular potential circumstantial impact on Metro Manilas drinking water. The group has directed its tirades against multilateral instituti ...
  • Greece to sell stakes in railways, utilities
    Greece's cash-strapped government will sell off stakes in a string of state-owned companies -- including a rail operator, two water companies, the Post Office and several casinos -- to pay off debt, officials said Wednesday.

Guardian

  • Government warns against rash changes to gun laws
    Home secretary Theresa May says it would be wrong to act before full facts about Derrick Bird's killing spree are known The home secretary, Theresa May, today promised a review of Britain's gun�laws following yesterday's shootings in Cumbria, but said it would be wrong to act before the full facts a ...
  • JP Morgan fined £33m by FSA
    FSA, levying its largest-ever fine, called on the City to take note of its crackdown on compliance JP Morgan has been fined £33m by the Financial Services Authority – the largest-ever fine from the regulator – for basic compliance failures which meant the bank had not protected client money by segre ...
  • Rafael Benítez leaves Liverpool
    • Spaniard leaves Anfield 'by mutual consent' after six years • Kenny Dalglish heads search for new manager Liverpool have confirmed the departure of their manager Rafael Benítez. The club released a statement this afternoon saying the Spaniard is to leave the club "by mutual consent". Kenny Dalglis ...
  • British Gaza activists back in Turkey
    Twenty-five Britons return to Istanbul from Israel with many staying on for funerals of Turkish activists killed in raid More than half of the British activists detained by Israel following the naval raid on the aid flotilla to Gaza flew back to Turkey in the early hours of this morning. Twenty-five ...
  • UK recovery to lag behind Europe
    Standard & Poor's warns that uncertainty around gaping budget deficits could hurt growth throughout Europe • Datablog: S&P's European economic forecasts in full The UK's recovery is likely to lag European neighbours France and Germany this year, according to economists at Standard & Poor's, who war ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Sustainability: Choices, choices, choices
    A group of experts convened under a UN umbrella has been taking a look at what aspects of our global society are the least sustainable; which things are depleting natural resources fastest, which are causing the most environmental damage, and which are the biggest threats to the prosperity of future ...
  • Climate funds lack clarity
    The international development charity Oxfam has a new report out asking some fundamental questions about climate finance. If you recall, two different financial pledges emerged at the Copenhagen summit : "fast-start" money to the tune of $30bn over the three-year period 2010-2012, and the much larg ...
  • Europe debates climate 'ambition'
    Connie Hedegaard , the EU's Climate Commissioner, is seeking to open a debate on whether the bloc should adopt a tougher target than it already has for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Back in the early months of last year, EU leaders signed off a target of 20% cuts from 1990 levels by 2020, risi ...
  • Wildlife - a good bet?
    Definitely the oddest take I've yet seen on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak passed across my desk today, in the form of a notification from bookmakers Paddy Power that they're taking bets on the first species to go extinct as a result of the pollution . Kemp's Ridley turtle garners the shortest odds at ...
  • 'Playing God' with the climate?
    Biotech supremo Craig Venter's latest foray into "synthetic life" is raising all sorts of questions within the domain of medical and scientific ethics. One of the potential uses which he's looking at for synthetic bacteria - sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - potentially also breaks new g ...

The Wonk Room

  • O’Reilly Compares Gay People To Al Qaeda, Su ...
    Last night, Bill O’Reilly ran a segment about a new gay-themed McDonald’s ad airing in France. After previewing the ad, which shows a young man talking on the phone with his boyfriend, O’Reilly asked Fox News anchor Jane Skinner, “does that make you want to buy a Big Mac?…Because, you know, straight ...
  • The WonkLine: June 3, 2010
    Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Climate Chang ...
  • Another Gov’t Report Finds Some Medicare Adv ...
    During the health care reform debate, conservatives defended the overpayments to private insurers participating in the Medicare Advantage program by arguing that any effort to reduce the subsidy or place the private insurers on an equal footing with traditional Medicare would endanger the Medicare c ...
  • Obama Directs Federal Agencies To Extend Benefits ...
    In June of 2009, President Obama asked federal agencies to “conduct a thorough review of the benefits they provide and to identify any that could be extended to LGBT employees and their partners and families” within the scope of current law. Today, the administration released an additional memorandu ...
  • Lubchenco Concedes ‘Circumstantial Evidence& ...
    The foreign oil giant BP has come under withering fire for questioning the existence of vast undersea oil plumes from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. BP’s skepticism is nearly matched by the federal government’s top ocean official, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the ocean scientist in charge of the National Oc ...

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 ...
  • Canadian Labour Congress Supports Abousfian Abdelr ...
    A heartening sign that the union movement still has what it takes! (FWIW: I gave Mr. Abdelrazik some cash myself!) Oh yeah, and Lawrence Cannon is a scumbag.
  • ezra levant wants to bring it!!!
    Ha! The pudgy stool is losing it ! I don't have a legal opinion on Speaker Peter Milliken's ruling yesterday, over the question of whether the Conservative government has to disclose every single national security document, military document and diplomatic document to MPs who want to see them. B ...
  • 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) ...
  • Return to Recession?
    A great CounterPunch article by Mike Whitney about how the reactionary policies of international "investors" and governments in the USA, Europe, and China, might be bringing back the Great Recession of 2008-09.

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

  • Get It While It's Hot: Joint Strike Fighter Nunn-M ...
    For all those defense wonks out there, here's a copy of the Joint Strike Fighter's (JSF) Nunn-McCurdy Certification. A new independent analysis from the Pentagon has found that the total cost of the troubled JSF program has ballooned to $382...
  • POGO Talks Oil Spill, Offshore Regulators
    POGO's Mandy Smithberger will participate in a webinar discussion today exploring the role of the government in the oil spill disaster. The panel tackles the following questions, as well as questions from listeners, at 1:00 PM EST: To what extent...
  • Morning Smoke: Exploring the Political and Economi ...
    Before Deepwater Horizon Disaster – Wyomingites Had Key Roles in MMS by Rone Tempest [Wyofile] Lockheed F-35’s Projected Cost Rises to $382 Billion by Tony Capaccio [Bloomberg] Steve Rattner, Auto Bailout Advisor, in SEC Crosshairs by Yves Smith [naked capitalism]...
  • Morning Smoke: Army of Former Lawmakers Now Workin ...
    SHADOW CONGRESS: More Than 170 Former Lawmakers Ply The Corridors Of Power As Lobbyists by Justin Elliott and Zachary Roth [TPMMuckraker] Deadline for reviewing oil drilling proposal's impact may be flexible by Juliet Eilperin [The Washington Post] Obama to get...
  • Tips for Whistleblowers Working with the Media
    Earlier this week I attended a panel at the National Whistleblower Assembly entitled “How to Work Effectively with the Media.” Members of the panel included: Barry Nolan, an Emmy Award-winning television journalist and commentator; Christopher Scholl, an investigative producer for...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mentally Ill Homeless Left to Fend for Themselves
    I recently received word that a homeless man named Sean who used to sing with me in my church choir died of hypothermia this past winter. Being that he only attended church on a semi-regular basis, his absence on any given Sunday was not cause for alarm. However, his prolonged absence was. Sean was ...
  • NYC Tells Disabled Shelter Residents to Find Nonex ...
    Here's the good news: the City of New York's Department of Homeless Services (DHS) is abandoning its flawed housing voucher programs. The bad news? It's replacing them with something far worse. Newly-installed Commissioner Seth Diamond, who we've noted has no homeless services experience , will be i ...
  • Natural Disaster vs. Societal Disaster: Does the C ...
    Tropical Storm Agatha hit Central America on Saturday, leaving a 200-foot deep sinkhole in Guatemala City and more than 150 people dead. Thousands more are suddenly homeless, trying to access overflowing shelters and scrambling for resources like water and blankets, when there just aren't enough. Be ...
  • HUD Aims to Streamline Public Housing Programs, No ...
    Being low-income is hard. Facing homelessness is harder. Applying for affordable housing is damn near impossible. Recognizing the unnecessary complexity and bureaucratic vastness of its affordable housing programs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a bill to Congress that ...
  • Searching for the Soul of Atlantic City
    Picture it — a long stretch of boardwalk running along a narrow beach with crashing waves. Lining the boardwalk are miles of souvenir shops, massage parlors, pizza places, tourist traps and massive casinos towering over the skyline like mountains of gold and marble. The boardwalk is practically drip ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • City of Ottawa Profiting from the Arms Industry
    Send your letter to Ottawa mayoral candidates: Commit to end CANSEC Today Canada’s largest arms show opens in Ottawa. CANSEC has grown tremendously over the last few years because of the war in Afghanistan and steep increases in military spending. But it has also grown with the help of Ottawa City ...
  • Inside CANSEC and Canada’s arms industry (2003)
    A video produced in 2003 using footage from CANSEC, the Abbotsford Airshow and Airshow Canada, and the companies themselves. Polaris Institute.
  • Petition: Commit to end the CANSEC arms show
    The City of Ottawa overturned a 20-year ban on arms shows at city-owned facilities. Now it has been revealed that the city is pocketing nearly $113,000 from CANSEC, Canada's largest arms show. Urge Ottawa mayoral candidates to reject CANSEC, and to stop proffiting from the arms industry.
  • NPT Review Conference ends with consensus
    The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference wrapped up on Friday, May 28th with agreement on a set of “conclusions  and recommendations for follow-on actions” in support of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. NPT Review Conferences operate on the basis of consensus among the treaty ...
  • $1,000,000,000,000 and counting
    According to the National Priorities Project, the total direct cost to the United States of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed one trillion dollars on Sunday, May 30th. Estimates of the direct and indirect costs of the wars, including future health care for wounded soldiers, interest paymen ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-2-10
    Today, find out how YOU could get the chance to have dinner with Kevin Trudeau! Self Help: Oral Chelation   Anxiety Cure   Clear Up Acne   Kevin’s Personal Doctor   Health Freedom Expo   Money Making Opportunity   Manifest Your Desires   Health: Diet Drug Causes Liver Damage   Vitamin D Cut Breast C ...
  • American-Made Cigarettes Are More Cancerous
    June 2, 2010 abcnews.go.com by Courtney Hutchison Smokers beware: “Made in the U.S.A” may mean a higher dose of a major carcinogen, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking cigarettes greatly increases the risk of cancer no matter where in the world your ...
  • Coffee Does NOT ‘Get You Going’ In The ...
    June 2, 2010 DailyMail.co.uk By Jenny Hope Many people depend on a morning cup of coffee as a wake-up call for the brain. But the effect could be all in the mind, according to new research. Tests show the mental stimulation for which caffeine is famous may be nothing more than an illusion – with the ...
  • Food Ads Promote Bad Diet
    June 2, 2010 Health.USNews.com If you let TV ads determine what you eat, you’ll end up with huge amounts of fat and sugar but precious few vegetables and fruits in your diet. That’s the finding of a new study that analyzes what would happen if a person were to eat 2,000 calories of foods that are ad ...
  • USDA Tricks You Over Modified Crops
    June 2, 2010 Natural News By David Gutierrez The Obama administration’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) is attempting to downplay the risks of genetically modified alfalfa, a crop previously banned by numerous federal courts. In 2007, a federal court rejected the Bush USDA’s approval of alfalfa pla ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Israel is becoming a liability for the United Stat ...
    Carlo Strenger notes in Haaretz: During the media frenzy of the last days a crucial headline has received close to no attention: Mossad chief Meir Dagan told the Knesset’s Foreign Relations Committee that Israel is gradually turning from a strategic asset into a liability for the United States of A ...
  • Israel’s war against non-violence
    Today, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak, praising the Shayetet 13 commandos who slaughtered at least nine humanitarian activists on board the Mavi Marmara, said: “…we live in the Middle East, in a place where there is no mercy for the weak…” A year ago President Obama declared in Cairo: Resi ...
  • There is hope…
    An inspiring video put together by Jewish Voice for Peace during the recent debate on UC Berkeley’s divestment measure. These are the voices of the future. See commentary by Cecile Surasky and Sidney Levy on the divestment effort.
  • Israel’s security cannot come at any price
    Ben Saul, who teaches the law of armed conflict at The University of Sydney, writes: Israel’s response to the Gaza flotilla is another unfortunate example of Israel clothing its conduct in the language of international law while flouting it in practice. If you believe Israeli government spokesmen, ...
  • MV Rachel Corrie heading for Gaza — with the full ...
    This is a major development. The Irish-flagged MV Rachel Corrie cargo ship, whose passage to join the Freedom Flotilla may have been delayed because of sabotage by Israelis, is now heading for Gaza — and it has the full support of the Irish government. This is no longer just a question of how easily ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Wasted watts: Are we heating the Earth too much &# ...
    Guest post by Ron House As readers will know, I have been thinking about the hullabaloo about CO2 and global warming and I quickly concluded that CO2 is no threat, won’t do any significant warming (which would be good anyway), … Continue reading →
  • Icy consensus: least ice “at least the last ...
    From Ohio State, alarming news about ice, sediments, proxy algae, and other worrisome stuff. It has a familiar ring to it, plus some luck. ARCTIC ICE AT LOW POINT COMPARED TO RECENT GEOLOGIC HISTORY COLUMBUS, Ohio — Less ice covers … Continue reading →
  • Tuvalu and many other South Pacific Islands are no ...
    Nils Axel Morner and Don Easterbrook told them so. So did Willis, who had some very similar ideas. We’ve mentioned several times here on WUWT that the claims about sea level rise and sinking islands are overblown. For example, this … Continue reading →
  • The undeath spiral
    By Steve Goddard Over the last three years, Arctic Ice has gained significantly in thickness. The graph above was generated by image processing and analysis of PIPS maps, and shows the thickness histogram for June 1 of each year since … Continue reading →
  • The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf
    There is no valid analogy between the Gulf spill and Apollo 13 I am honored to present this guest post by H. Harrison Schmitt – Anthony President Obamaâs Administration and its supportive media repeatedly say our 1970 Apollo 13 experience … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • What is Obama Doing at Bagram? (Part One): Torture ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 3 June, 2010 For eight and a half years, the US prison at Bagram airbase has been the site of a disturbing number of experiments in detention and interrogation, where murders have taken place, the Geneva Conventions have b ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Sheer Criminal Aggression, with no C ...
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1101576 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ CommonDreams.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2010 1:14 PM CONTACT: Haymarket Books Sarah Macaraeg sarah@haymarketbooks.org 773-583-7884 CHICAGO, Illinois – June 2 – Professor Noam Chomsky, renowned foreign policy ...
  • Kucinich Circulating Letter to Colleagues Regardin ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jun 2, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today beginning to circulate to colleagues the following letter concerning the commando raid by Israel upon a Turkish ship in international waters: June 2, 2010 The Honor ...
  • Terror on Aid Ship: “Plan Was to Kill Activi ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Jonathan Cook Global Research, June 2, 2010 - 2010-06-01 Nazareth –An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intendi ...
  • Spiritual determination finds ways to overcome obs ...
    by Jason Miller Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Thomas Paine’s Corner June 1, 2010 MLK embodied the immense power that spirituality brings to a social justice movement…. Preface: While I recognize that there are many atheists in the Animal Rights Movement who adhere to veganism, and that people of m ...

Your New Reality

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    I've run this vid before, but it's still fascinating to see, even more so in the age of the iPad as a news-reading device. But then, this news story is almost 30 years old, and while the graphics and speed have obviously increased dramatically, the concept has not really changed all that much (with ...
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    The Dead Zone The grim, appalling reality of the Louisiana coastline that BP is hiding from you , and President Obama : "When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at. "There is a lot of coverup for BP. They specifica ...
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    Is It Time For Corporate Criminals To Face The Death Penalty For Their Crimes? By Darryl Mason Source How many Americans in Louisiana and Alabama would oppose the introduction of a death penalty for those found responsible for multi-billion dollar corporate negligence? Raw Story : President Ba ...
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    It's been a long time since I've seen Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but I don't remember the Evil Queen being quite so Xena : Art by J Scott Campbell Campbell reimagines other 'Disney Princesses' here
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    Take a wild guess who convinced George W. Bush that starting wars in the Middle East would be "good for the economy"? Oliver Stone interviews former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner :

Wired - Science

  • Hot! Thermal Video of Hawaiian Volcano is Amazing
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience89620869001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); This incredible view of a vent in the Halemaumau Crater within the Kilauea volcanic caldera on the Island of Hawaii was captured by a U.S. Geological Survey thermal video c ...
  • Noise Pollution Could Frustrate Fish
    After years of growing concern about the effects of marine noise on whales, scientists are finally asking what noise could do to fish. Whether they’re harmed isn’t yet known, but it’s certainly a possibility. The oceans are an increasingly clamorous place, with boat motors and sonar and explosions ...
  • How to See Quantum Entanglement
    Human eyes can detect the spooky phenomenon of quantum entanglement — but only sometimes, a new study on the physics preprint website arXiv.org claims. While eyes can help determine if two individual photons were recently entangled, they can’t tell if the brighter bunch of photons that actually hit ...
  • Salmon Study Pits Fish Against Alaskan Mega-Mine
    An Alaskan bay bitterly contested by fishermen and miners has become the site of a landmark study on population dynamics — and the findings favor the fish. Published June 2 in Nature, the analysis of Bristol Bay salmon quantifies a common-sense tenet of population dynamics: Diversity produces resil ...
  • Hubble Captures Surprising Star Motions
    Using images of a star cluster taken ten years apart, astronomers detected young stars moving in somewhat surprising ways. The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the core cluster of the extremely dense star-forming region NGC 3603 in 1997 and again in 2007 (above), revealing tiny motions of hundreds ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli MP’s terror on aid ship
    Jonathan Cook: Haneen Zoubi said Israeli naval vessels had surrounded the flotilla’s flagship, the Mavi Marmara, and fired on it a few minutes before commandos abseiled from a helicopter directly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • US activist loses eye after being shot in face wit ...
    US citizen Emily Henochowicz was shot directly in the face with a tear gas canister as she non-violently demonstrated against the Flotilla massacre. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for ...
  • Palestinian Arab MK Haneen Zoabi Viciously Attacke ...
    Palestinian member of Israel's parliament, MK Haneen Zoabi, was viciously attacked and physically threatened by her Israeli Knesset "colleagues" who attempted to shut her out. Quite a remarkable... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Former US Ambassador Edward Peck: Israel’s Explana ...
    Democracy Now! interviews former US Ambassador Edward Peck who was on the Gaza aid flotilla that came under attack by Israeli forces. At least nine people were killed and dozens wounded. Peck says... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Haaretz publisher: Self-censorship is greatest thr ...
    “There are even journalists in Israel for whom it is possible to expect the subject of the Palestinians to be as important as sports, celebrities or film, and who are involved with this. And each... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Trip to Mars: Will Stress & Fatigue Impact Perform ...
    A mission to Mars? A six-man crew will simulate a 520-day Mars mission in a Moscow isolation chamber. U.S. scientists will monitor the crew's rest-activity cycles, performance and psychological responses to see how often sleep loss, fatigue, stress, mood changes and conflicts occur.
  • Sitting on a Tinder Box
    Former Pakistani Ambassador discusses homegrown terrorism.
  • New Culture Dish Could Advance Human Embryonic Ste ...
    A new synthetic Petri dish coating could overcome a major challenge to the advancement of human embryonic stem cell research, say University of Michigan researchers.
  • Hurricane Experts Take UH by Storm
    With predictions for a more active hurricane season this year, an array of University of Houston researchers are available to address topics ranging from preparation to fall out, as well as various research endeavors.
  • "Great News" for Parkinson's Disease Patients
    A "brain pacemaker" called deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an equally effective treatment for Parkinson's disease in two different regions of the brain.

Intel Trends

  • NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
    * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
    The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
  • Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
  • IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
    Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Why You Should Switch Your Whole Diet Over to Orga ...
    The new report from the Presidential Cancer Panel and a study linking pesticide exposures with increased risk of ADHD are sending shoppers rushing to the organic aisles in the grocery stores. And when it comes to demanding organic, buying certified organic fruits and vegetables is a quick and easy w ...
  • State Plastic Bag Ban Gaining Support
    California would be the first state to ban plastic and most paper bags from grocery, convenience and other stores under a proposal that appears headed for a major legislative victory this week. Click here to read this article
  • The Organic Food Solution
    Long before organic food was a fashionable eco-trend, J.I. Rodale—who in 1930 founded Rodale Inc., publisher of Women's Health—began cultivating the organic movement. In 1942, he launched Organic Farming and Gardening magazine, and five years later, he created a nonprofit (now known as the Rodale In ...
  • Greenology, a Truly Organic Brand of Cleaning Prod ...
    The natural cleaning products industry is chock full of products that allege to be clean and green, but which ones actually contain ingredients that are healthy, safe and effective? One company, Greenology, has devoted itself to creating household products that are organically-grown, free of hazardo ...
  • Studies Offer Conflicting Views on Sunscreen Use
    When Karin Mossman heads outdoors with her young family, she mentally runs through her list of must-haves. Jackets? Got 'em. Hats? Check. Sunscreen? Probably not. Click here to read this article

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Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Samantar Insta-Symposium: The View From the Couns ...
    by Beth Stephens by Beth Stephens [Prof. Beth Stephens of Rutgers Law School at Camden has litigated and written widely on related issues. Additionally, she served a counsel for one of the (victorious) respondents in the Samantar case.  We are of course honored that she is able to share her views ...
  • Samantar Insta-Symposium: What Samantar Doesn’t De ...
    by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge [We are grateful to continue our discussion on Samantar with a comment from Prof. William Dodge of the UC Hastings College of Law. Please keep following us for more thoughts in future posts and click "Related Posts" to see earlier contributions on this ques ...
  • Samantar Insta-Symposium: Recognizing Personal Res ...
    by Chimene Keitner by Chimene Keitner [In our continuing discussion of Samantar, we are very pleased to share the thoughts of Professor Chimene Keitner, of U.C. Hastings College of Law.  More comments to come soon.] As counsel for Professors of Public International Law and Comparative Law as ami ...
  • Samantar Insta-Symposium: Foreclosing “Official C ...
    by Roger Alford The most interesting aspect of the Samantar v. Yousuf opinion yesterday was the final section addressing the "artful pleading" problem. The Court stated that "[e]ven if a suit is not governed by the [FSIA], it may still be barred by foreign sovereign immunity under the common law. ...
  • The UN’s New Report on Targeted Killing
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization I hate to interrupt the terrific insta-symposium on the Supreme Court’s decision in Samantar already underway at Opinio Juris, but I did want to note the much-anticipated release of Philip Alstonâs report as UN Special Ra ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • 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 -...
  • Seismic cracks appear in global warming camp
    This from the Times of London: Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to...
  • Trufflehunter takes another hit
    Funniest put down of Trufflehunter since my last one: Don Easterbrook hides the incline Category: Global Warming Posted on: May 21, 2010 2:43 PM, by Tim Lambert By Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Professor of Geology Western Washington University Bellingham, WA...
  • NEWS RELEASE: PM's statement conflicts with Review ...
    Prime Minister John Key has been warned he could take a serious credibility hit if he continues to endorse the Latta Review on smacking before he's seen the Investigate magazine article published today. Responding to the PM's comments to NZPA...

Public News Service

  • Congress Leaves Doctors Hanging On Medicare Paymen ...
    Congress Leaves Doctors Hanging On Medicare Payments Phoenix, AZ – Arizona doctors who treat Medicare patients have just taken a major cut in payment for their services. A payment plan called the Medicare “doc fix,” was left unfinished by Congress before the Memorial Day break. Comments from Dr. Len ...
  • Updated Guidelines On Preventing Drowning Deaths F ...
    Updated Guidelines On Preventing Drowning Deaths For Children Phoenix, AZ -- Updated advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics on how to prevent drowning deaths in small children. Comments from Dr. Denise Dowd, an emergency room physician who also served on the AAP committee that created this ...
  • With AZ's Intense Summer Rays, It's Time to Slop o ...
    With AZ's Intense Summer Rays, It's Time to Slop on the Sunscreen Phoenix, AZ – Today (Tuesday) marks the start of Arizona's top month for sun intensity. The National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention is reminding folks to protect themselves while working or playing in the sun. Comments from Matt Fl ...
  • Report: One in Five in AZ Has a Pre-existing Healt ...
    Report: One in Five in AZ Has a Pre-existing Health Condition Phoenix, AZ – A new report from the health reform advocacy group Families USA shows one in five Arizonans under the age of 65 has a diagnosed pre-existing condition. Statewide, about 1.2 million people could benefit from the new federal h ...
  • AZ Could Breathe Easier With Biofuels
    AZ Could Breathe Easier With Biofuels Phoenix, AZ – This is National Clean Air Month and the American Lung Association says renewable energy such as biofuels can help us all breathe better and minimize the risk of oil spills while keeping our cars, trucks and factories humming. Comments from Robert ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Why is some coverage of scientific news in the med ...
    I started monitoring media coverage of PLoS ONE papers and posting weekly summaries and linkfests on the everyONE blog. I needed to read the coverage on science blogs in order to make my monthly pick. I designed a scale to measure the quality of reporting Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cultu ...
  • NOT In My Jewish Name!
    "I am a Jew and I am outraged and ashamed by the acts Israel has perpetrated. I am not a self hating Jew, not an anti-semite, as some religious extremist Jews have accused me and other Jews who criticize Israel." Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Iran And The Rogue Nuclear States' Proliferation N ...
    Israel's concern that Iran should conform to "the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.N." is ironic : in 70's formation of a Paris-Tehran-Pretoria-Tel Aviv axis in the nuclear field Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Lexicon of most misleading terms in Israeli-Palest ...
    They are right also about the "humanitarian" aspect, if what they mean is that hundreds of thousands are not dying of thirst or hunger. There is no humanitarian crisis, if you think that all a person needs is a set number of daily calories. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • History Repeating Itself in the Gulf of Mexico?
    Shocking similarities exist between the current oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the Ixtoc I disaster that happened in 1979. An explosion on an oil rig, a faulty blowout preventer, chemical dispersants, junk shots and top kills. The solution? Submitted by Billy T. to Environment �|� �N ...

Angry Indian News

  • Family tells story of police invasion
    Family tells story of police invasion:DETROIT (FinalCall.com) - “As soon as they hit the window, I hit the floor and reached for my grandbaby. I saw the light go out of her eyes and blood coming... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Call for National Guard policing divides community
    Call for National Guard policing divides community: "CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - A quest to make crime ridden streets safer has put LaShawn Ford, an Illinois state lawmaker on the hot seat. State... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gay Canadian Native American Says House Burning Wa ...
    Gay Canadian Native American Says House Burning Was Hate Crime :: EDGE Boston: "The blaze that destroyed a gay Native American’s home was an anti-gay hate crime, the victim says.The blaze destroyed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Former minister admits misinforming MPs over treat ...
    Former minister admits misinforming MPs over treatment of Baha Mousa | World news | guardian.co.uk: "The minister responsible for the conduct of the armed forces at the time of the death of Baha... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes
    Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes-fair.org: "On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of boats full of civilians attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Gulf of Mexico oil slick closes in on Florida
    ShareThis Gulf of Mexico oil slick closes in on Florida � --221-mile Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is�world's third-longest barrier reef and�crucial wildlife habitat 02 Jun 2010 The Gulf of Mexico oil slick closed in on Florida, threatening a new environmental disaster... With the slick onl ...
  • Gaza flotilla attack: British activists tell of ab ...
    ShareThis Gaza flotilla attack: British activists tell of abuse by Israelis 03 Jun 2010 British activists who took part in the Gaza aid flotilla have been deported from Israel, alleging they were abused, humiliated and beaten by troops after the raid on their ships... Sarah Colborne, director of cam ...
  • $2-billion mass flu immunization program a bust, f ...
    ShareThis $2-billion mass flu immunization program a bust, figures reveal --New figures show shockingly low H1N1 vaccination rates 03 Jun 2010 A $2-billion campaign to 'protect' Canadians against an influenza pandemic failed dramatically in parts of Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, newly obtained figu ...
  • George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind
    ShareThis George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind --Former US president says Khalid Sheik Mohammed was waterboarded by US and he would do it again 'to save lives' 03 Jun 2010 George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind patsy of the 9/11 attack ...
  • Gaza flotilla attack: UN secretary general demands ...
    ShareThis Gaza flotilla attack: UN secretary general demands blockade be lifted 03 Jun 2010 Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has demanded that Israel lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip immediately in the wake of the deadly raid on the aid flotilla. Speaking on his return from visits to Brazil ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • 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 -...
  • Seismic cracks appear in global warming camp
    This from the Times of London : Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old instit ...
  • Trufflehunter takes another hit
    Funniest put down of Trufflehunter since my last one: Don Easterbrook hides the incline Category: Global Warming Posted on: May 21, 2010 2:43 PM, by Tim Lambert By Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Professor of Geology Western Washington University Bellingham, WA...
  • NEWS RELEASE: PM's statement conflicts with Review ...
    Prime Minister John Key has been warned he could take a serious credibility hit if he continues to endorse the Latta Review on smacking before he's seen the Investigate magazine article published today. Responding to the PM's comments to NZPA...

Mondoweiss

  • Protest in New York, and celebration
    On May 31, the day after Israel’s bloody and unconscionable raid against civilian aid volunteers in international waters, around 1,000 people gathered in Times Square to protest. The next day, June 1, the same number showed up to protest again, meeting at 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue and marching to ...
  • Helen Thomas shows up Obama on the ‘ironclad ...
    At Democracy Now, from yesterday: HELEN THOMAS: Our initial reaction to this flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful. What do you mean you regret when something should be so strongly condemned? And if any other nation in the world had done it, we would have been u ...
  • Bless her heart, Andrea Mitchell seems upset by Ga ...
    To her credit, Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC this afternoon, reporting from Tel Aviv, spoke about what is motivating the world, the inhumane blockade of Gaza and the terrible conditions it has produced for Palestinians. She seemed upset by this three-year policy of collective punishment. Mitchell then sa ...
  • Israel’s spin won’t work this time
    As international outrage spreads at the Israeli elite commando attack on an unarmed humanitarian convey in the middle of the night on international waters, Israel is desperately trying to rebrand the incident as one of self-defence. It is nothing new for Israel, and other aggressing powers, to smear ...
  • No Borders
    I write with a mixture of outrage and heartbreak as the news unfolds about the Israeli commandos boarding the flotilla of ships bound for Gaza, carrying wheelchairs, home building supplies, medications, playgrounds, and thousands of tons of desperately needed materials. Some 800 internationals from ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • 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 [...]
  • VRM: Massive Recall Of Children’s Tylenol Pr ...
    MASSIVE RECALL OF CHILDREN’S TYLENOL, MOTRIN, ZYRTEC & BENADRYL PRODUCTS UNDERWAY Raw materials used to make over-the-counter infant’s and children’s medications, which are subject to a massive recall, tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspe ...
  • VRM: Australian Vaccine Scandal
    THE REAL REASON SO MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT PANVAX? CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT W ...
  • VRM: Pregnancy Tips
    I was recently alerted by a newly pregnant mother of a child with Autism for tips on minerals & vitamins to help strengthen her immune system during the coming months. She believes vaccines were the cause of her child’s Autism and has begun a shift away from her GP. Based on all my research thus far ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
    A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...
  • Simple Living: CDs and DVDs
    If like me, you were a teen in the 90's, you probably have a huge stack of CDs like I do. I would also bet that, like me, you rarely listen to any of those CDs. Over the last few years I've also noticed the same thing with my DVDs. I had a whole shelf of CDs and DVD but never touched 99% of ...
  • The Newest Excitement In My Life: Dual-Flush Toile ...
    Last week I got my quarterly municipal water bill: $ 240 ! That's about $1000 a year I'm paying for water which dries out my skin and reeks of chlorine. This was ample motivation for me to finally get around to installing a dual-flush adapter to our existing toilets. I picked this thing ...
  • My Quick and Easy Square Foot Garden
    Here's my little garden that I did last week. �It's a modified square foot garden where instead of a 4 x 4 bed this is 1 x 28. I have a small 50x 50 lot so there isn't room for anything much larger. The walls of the bed are plastic fake stones. �They're $15 for 9 feet at Walmart and Cana ...
  • Simple Living: Getting Rid of "Stuff"
    "The stuff you own, owns you." I know that saying sounds bizarre and maybe a little paranoid but in many ways it's true. In my the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "I have to clean up and organize; my house is too cluttered.". �It's a little thing but it's one more stress in my life an ...

Michael Yon

  • Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Re ...
    Published: 3 June 2010 Sami Kovanen Senior Information Analyst Indicium Consulting Afghanistan 0700-645294 Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Regarding the Convening of the So-called Consultative Jirga in Kabul Jamadi-us-Sani 17, 1431 A.H, Tuesday, June 01, 2010 In the Name ...
  • Spitting Cobra
    15 January 2010 Cobra Battery at FOB Frontenac Arghandab, Afghanistan Artillery is called “The King of Battle.”  When it comes to the delivery of force, probably nothing outside of nuclear weapons can outmatch the sustained delivery of extreme brutality.  Cannons also can deliver small atomic we ...
  • เด็กหญิงในอ้อมกอด
    พิมพ์ ครั้งแรก 14 พฤษภาคม 2548 ( สื่อโปรดติดต่อ inquiries@michaelyon-online.com ) โมซูล, อิรัก พันตรีมาร์ค บี๊กเกอร์พบเด็กผู้หญิงคนนี้หลังจากเหตุระเบิดรถยนต์ (car bomb) ที่เข้าโจมตีพวกเราขณะที่เด็กๆ กรูเข้ามาห้อมล้อมอยู่รายรอบบริเวณ บรรดาทหารทั้งโกรธและโศกเศร้าไปตลอดสองวัน เหตุที่พวกเขาโกรธ ...
  • The Atlantic: Michael Yon's War
    The Atlantic : Michael Yon's War Author: D.B. Grady Published: 01 June 2010 This article has a lot of beef: Afghanistan, Thailand, General Stanley McChrystal, General David Petraeus, Brigadier General Daniel Menard, milkooks, Bob Ainsworth, and more. Rich with information. Please CLICK .   {loa ...
  • Court Decisions on Bagram Detainees
    25 May 2010 We all are aware that war leads to difficult situations.  In regard to detainees, we've seen terrorists released only to strike again. Yet in the interest of justice we are concerned about detaining potentially innocent people.  Difficult times, difficult answers.  In summary, some deta ...

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

  • Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunit ...
    Blueberries. Image credit: NH Farmers Market Association. University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally produced food system. Local food or farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' - accounts for 12 percent of New Hampshire's farm foo ...
  • TED Talk: Ocean Photographer Brian Skerry Reveals ...
    Image via TED video TED's Mission Blue Voyage to the Galapagos put some of the best scientists and advocates of the oceans in one place to discuss what's happening to our seas - the good and the bad. But a picture is worth a thousand words, as they say, so the TED Talk given by photographer Bri ...
  • On Celebrating Everyday Heros to Save Our Oceans
    Photo by markey weiss Guest post by Philippe Cousteau I was at the grocery store the other day, minding my own business, when I noticed the woman in front of me pull out a large cloth reusable sack at the checkout aisle. "Progress!" I thought to myself with satisfaction. Then I watched in ho ...
  • Green Fashion in Sex and the City 2 (Photos)
    The ladies of Sex and the City 2 dressed in elaborate wardrobes; In an equally decadent setting. Credit: HBO via Vogue Green fashion hits the big screen in Sex and the City 2 amongst the modern, decadent ensembles worn by the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker ,
  • reNEWable Times Square: Cool Water, Hot Island
    'Cool Water, Hot Island' rendering by Molly Dilworth This month Time Square is getting a makeover. Brooklyn-based artist Molly Dilworth won the competition reNEWable Times Square to design temporary surface treatments, launched by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) . Her proje ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN rights council condemns Israel attack, calls fo ...
    [JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] on Wednesday condemned [press release] Israel's weekend raid on aid ships bound for the blockaded Gaza strip and initiated an independent investigation into possible violations of international law. The resolution was adopted by a vote ...
  • Europe governments agree to detain ICC convicts
    [JURIST] The governments of Finland, Belgium, and Denmark agreed Tuesday to detain those convicted [press release] by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. ICC President Judge Sang-Hyun Song [official profile] described the agreement as "an important element in the overall credi ...
  • US warns against ICC adopting state agression as c ...
    [JURIST] US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp [official website] expressed concern Tuesday over the potential adoption of a state aggression law [transcript] by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website], claiming that it could undermine the integrity of the ICC. ...
  • Quebec lawmakers introduce bill to tighten languag ...
    [JURIST] Members of the Quebec National Assembly [official website] on Wednesday introduced Bill 103 [materials] aimed at tightening the province's language laws. The bill seeks to limit the number of students attending English language schools by increasing fines on schools established to circumven ...
  • Spain high court asked to overturn new abortion la ...
    [JURIST] Spain's conservative Popular Party (PP) [party website, in Spanish] on Tuesday asked the country's high court to declare the recently approved changes [JURIST report] to Spain's abortion [JURIST news archive] laws unconstitutional. Under the new law, abortions performed in the first 14 week ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Job Offer: Artificial Smoke, No Fire in Colorado
    If former Colorado speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff (D) applied for an administration position at USAID and then followed up with White House officials well before the White House called to see if he was going to run for Senate, then the story of "yet another White House job offer" has no legs. ...
  • The Night Beat: What Larry Craig Won't Talk A ...
    Good evening. On the Night Beat: The Detroit Tigers' Armando Galarraga �almost pitched baseball's third perfect game tonight atgainst the Indians. But umpire Jim Joyce blew the call on the final out. So Gallarago was deprived of his spot in history. � Andrew Romanoff's Colorado Senate campaign relea ...
  • The Club: Making GOP Establishment Vehicles Insecu ...
    To all the Tea Parties go the credit for recent outside-the-establishment candidate victories, but the original moneyed grassroots conservative movement, the Club for Growth, now a silver-haired veteran of Republican primary wars, has been present at the scenes of many of these campaign drive-bys.� ...
  • Why Turkey Needs a Light Touch
    For those conservatives who want to see Turkey's ambassador to the U.S. sent home (or the U.S. ambassador to Turkey recalled, or some variant of the two), consider this: the only realistic hope for any sort of missile defense shield over Europe all but requires the U.S. to place its highly advanced� ...
  • Harry Reid's Getting an Angle on His Survival ...
    If Republicans nominate Sharron Angle as their Senate nominee next week, could majority leader Harry Reid, beleaguered, fatigued, unpopular, pull off an upset win? You betcha.� Remember, it's one of the two "mainstream" Republican candidates in the race, Sue Lowden, who had problems explaining how t ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Jeffrey Goldberg Falsely Claims Palestinian Author ...
    I was listening the PRI’s The World radio news program this afternoon and heard an American voice authoritatively discussing the Gaza flotilla attack.  Turns out it was my old “friend,” Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s golden boy hasbarist.  His report wasn’t as slanted as his pieces in the Atlant ...
  • British Prime Minister Calls for End to Gaza Siege ...
    Today, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron forthrightly told the House of Commons that the time had come to end the Gaza siege: …Cameron told the Commons: “Friends of Israel – and I count myself a friend of Israel – should be saying to the Israelis that the blockade actually streng ...
  • 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.
  • Links for 2010-03-14 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Detains Israeli Reporter for Leaking Top-Secret Mem We're going to be getting into deep territory tonight regarding Israeli military intelligence, the Shin Bet, and their ability to make a mockery of alleged Israeli democracy and free press.
  • Turkey Forced Israel to Release All Flotilla Priso ...
    Dimi Remez brings word of some startling Israeli reports explaining Israel’s sudden about face in agreeing to release all prisoners held from the Gaza flotilla. Prime minister Erdogan demanded that Israel release all Turkish prisoners, wounded and killed. He threatened to break off diplomatic rela ...

Ode Magazine

  • A memory of peace
    By: PeaceCorso “Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 31 in 2010). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union s ...
  • A new legacy for Watts
    The wiry spires of the Watts Towers seem almost obtrusive on the working-class skyline of South Los Angeles. While the historic landmarks remind some of the artistic innovation of Italian architect Simon Rodia, who built the sculptures out of steel; mortar; and a mosaic of re ...
  • Beyond organic
    Made famous by The Omnivoreâs Dilemma , Polyface Farm is the destination of choice for discerning tourists with a passion for great foodand sustainable agriculture. “I’m from a long line of out-of-the-box thinkers, and we’ve been on this lunatic train for a long, long time ...
  • Getting back to the land
    Other sustainable farms around the world ripe for the visiting. Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstatten Glonn, Germany Forty minutes southeast of Munich sits a 450-acre sustainable farm and food complex started by Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth after the former “sausage king” sold hi ...
  • Video: Watts House Project
    The Watts House Project combines art with architecture. Here's how. Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading In pursuit of peace Power couple Mariko: an Irish harper The wake of peace

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • BP's Real Worker Safety Record: Intentional Disreg ...
    The pressure is mounting on BP to address worker safety issues .   It was reported today that an official with the Department of Labor authored an internal memo earlier this week citing “significant deficiencies” in BP’s handling of the health issues facing cleanup workers.   Last we ...
  • The Plight of Alberta Grizzlies, and a Tale of Two ...
    May 28, and it’s spitting snow and rain in Calgary. Typical spring weather along the spine of the Rocky Mountains, which stretch from the Yukon down to Mexico -- rugged country once thick with grizzly bears, symbols of the wildest untamed West. Well, that was before Europeans arrived, ...
  • Energy Research Goes Forward With Anti-Pornography ...
    A previous blog talked about the Republican successful strategy in cutting funding for energy research, the America COMPETES Act, by tying the vote to two amendments that members would have a difficult time explaining. One amendment prohibited paying federal employees who had illegally ...
  • Shallow-water drilling is dangerous, too
    Last Thursday, the President announced that he was imposing a moratorium on deepwater drilling activities for 6 months, until his Presidential Commission has issued its final report examining the root causes that led to the Gulf oil spill disaster, and recommendations to address those ...
  • Cleaning the Chicago River: Time for MWRD to get o ...
    We might be looking at a new chapter in the laborious battle over disinfection of the Chicago River as one of the most powerful participants in the drama begins to assert itself more strongly. The USEPA has discreetly, but effectively, made their wishes for a waterway that fulfills the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Goodbye, Kid
    Ken Griffey Jr. has retired. It’s impossible to overstate Griffey’s importance to Seattle baseball, or the excitement in the Northwest over the idea of having a genuine Hall of Famer to watch. His years in Cincinnati were less distinguished, of course, and his coda in Seattle lasted just a touch t ...
  • Wanker of the Day
    Jim Joyce. What a disgrace; as far as I’m concerned, in that context a firable offense.   It’s much worse than Denkinger, not only because it wasn’t even that close but because that blown call left the Cardinals in a position to win.   Joyce’s incompetence robbed Gallaraga of history, although a ...
  • Defending the Indefensible
    This goes up on the office door. Related posts:Defending the Indefensible On Defending the Indefensible Defending Clinton Through JFK Worship Related posts: Defending the Indefensible On Defending the Indefensible Defending Clinton Through JFK Worship
  • World Cup Challenge
    I have created an LGM World Cup Challenge group at ESPN: Group Name: Lawyers, Guns and Money Password: zevon Deadline is June 11. Speaking of pointless competition, here are the current LGM Baseball Challenge Standings: RNK ENTRY, OWNER 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 SEGMENT TOTAL PCT 1 Feces Flingers, ...
  • As the Crowe Flies
    A good way to spend Memorial Day is watching a movie that reminds you both how ugly war is for those involved in the fighting, and also the reasons why some things are important enough to fight for. Robin Hood hasn’t received good reviews for cinematography or narrative. It’s true the film is wanti ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • 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 ...
  • A Couple of Editorials….
    1. The gas companies that want to drill in the Marcellus Shale all know, just like other businesses, that they must spend money in order to make money. In 2008 they contributed a total of $36 million to candidates in national elections, and spent $133 million on lobbying. In 2009 they spent a whoppi ...
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
    If you live in PA and are not aware of it…most of Eastern PA all the way up to New York is part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary______________________________________________ For Immediate Release             May 12, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER- – - ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Despite Denial from BP, Evidence Grows of Undersea ...
    Three groups of researchers are now reporting evidence of large plumes of oil far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. This growing proof that an unknown quantity of oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon rig is now accumulating in deeper waters of the gulf comes after BP chief executive Tony H ...
  • The Microbe Factor and Its Role in Our Climate Fut ...
    Within the planet’s oceans and soils are trillions of bacteria that store and release far more carbon dioxide than all of the Earth’s trees and plants. Now, scientists are attempting to understand how the world’s bacteria will influence — and be influenced by — a warming climate. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • Indonesia Okays Moratorium On New Logging Concessi ...
    Indonesia, which has allowed widespread destruction of its tropical forests in recent decades, has announced it will impose a two-year moratorium on new forestry concessions beginning in 2011. In exchange, the Norwegian government — which has played a key role in trying to slow deforestation worldwi ...
  • Certification of Krill Fishery Draws Protest From ...
    The decision by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to certify an Antarctic krill fishery as environmentally sustainable has drawn a sharp protest from the Pew Environmental Group. The MSC, which has certified 67 fisheries worldwide as sustainable , decided this week to put its seal of approval on ...
  • Will REDD Preserve Forests Or Merely Provide a Fig ...
    The tropical forest conservation plan, known as REDD, has the potential to significantly reduce deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. But unless projects are carefully designed and monitored, the program could be undercut by shady dealings at all levels, from the forests to global ca ...

Red Ice Creations

Russia Today

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

  • Red Ice Creations: Richard Hoagland and Contact in ...
    Ever wonder what Richard Hoagland has been doing since his book ‘Dark Mission?’ He’s been giving interviews to Henrick Palmgren of Red Ice Creations! This week is about the usual; ancient Moon cities, Mars Faces and microbobes, contact in 2010, Arthur C. Clarke and the Martian moon Phobos. Interesti ...
  • Are Aliens Like Us?
    Dr. Stephen Hawking certainly started a bru-hah-hah with his charged statements about advanced aliens on his TV show, ‘Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.’ The good thing about it is that it has helped propel the subject into mainstream consciousness and has taken the stigma of ridicule off from ...
  • Possible Alien Beacon?
    SETI has been looking for radio signals from ETI for over 50 years with no results yet. Many have argued the SETI search paradigm is wrong for various reasons and that they should broaden their operations somewhat. Looking for interstellar optical beacons is one of them. Below is a photo of a possib ...
  • More Moon Anomalies
    Most folks believe since Mr. Obama’s FY11 Budget for NASA cancels the Constellation Program leaves Moon exploration out in the cold. It could be no further than the truth. Johnson Space Center’s Project M, which utilizes robotic and telerobotic technologies, forcasts a return to the Moon is feasibl ...
  • Disclosure and Avatars?
    *Sigh* Here we go again. More disclosure stuff. But this site has piqued my interest lately in that it’s not the ” in your face ” type of disclosure meme. This seems to have some synchronicity on its side. Well, see for yourselves: After more than 210,000 page views of the April 26, 2010, article “ ...

Tippers News

  • Nine new species of threatened handfish
    The discovery of nine new species of the bizarre but beautiful handfish has nearly trebled the number of known species. However, there are worries that the fish, which walk' Australia's ocean floor, are Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two new frog species discovered in Panamas fungal ...
    Efforts to try to stay ahead of a deadly disease that has already wiped out more than 100 species have led to the discovery of two new frog species. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • House martins running late for a second year runni ...
    For the second year in a row, it seems house martins are arriving at their nesting sites much later than normal. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Toxic frogs breeding in Portsmouth
    Aquarists at Portsmouth's Blue Reef Aquarium are celebrating after successfully breeding dozens of endangered phantasmal poison frogs - believed to be one of the most toxic amphibians on the planet. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Elusive Little Thorn moth reappears after 150 year ...
    A beautiful British moth that scientists thought must be extinct, has been spotted in East Sussex - in the very woods where it was first recorded 150 years ago. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Competition and the Limits of Sports Analogies
    Unlike in sports where for every win there is a loss, in economic competition, a win by one firm is not completely offset by a loss for another.
  • Groups Urge FCC to Monitor ‘Hate Speech&#821 ...
    “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is being urged to monitor ‘hate speech’ on talk radio and cable broadcast networks. A coalition of more than 30 organizations argue in a letter to the FCC that the Internet has made it harder for the public to separate the facts from bigotry masquerading ...
  • States Delay Tax Refunds
    “Procrastination is no longer just for the taxpayers who wait until the last moment to file their tax returns. Thanks to the economic downturn, at least a half-dozen cash-poor states are now delaying their tax refund checks.” (New York Times, Tuesday) One more reason to ditch automatic withholding! ...
  • Black Caucus Complains About Ethics Probes
    “Twenty members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including its chairwoman, are asking the House to severely restrict the powers of an independent ethics office that has spent much of its first full year investigating accusations of wrongdoing among black caucus members.” (New York Times, Tuesday) ...
  • Liquidity Trap or Malinvested Resources?
    Many people claim today that the U.S. economy is in a “liquidity trap” and only government can spend us out of this mess. They're wrong.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 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 ...
  • Tips for HTML5, part 5: A closer look at selected ...
    Most journalism students need to know only the bare minimum about HTML and how it works. For years I have been saying they need to know about 10 basic tags and not much more. That’s probably going to change with HTML5. This elegant illustration by Derek Bender (from his presentation The Future o ...
  • Feedly puts the magic back into RSS and blogs
    Have you been neglecting your RSS feeds? Has it been weeks or months since you opened your RSS feed reader? Yeah. Me too. I blame Twitter. I get so many links and news updates via TweetDeck on my desktop, and via Twitterific on my iPhone, I just don’t feel the need to open Google Reader anymore. I ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Federalize BP
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest President Obama's declaration that the federal government is in charge of the response to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is apparently meant to deflect Katrina comparisons and show that his administration is fully engaged. With that P.R. mission accom ...
  • Gulf disaster not slowing oil companies' march to ...
    In the wake of BP's disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which has yet to be contained , many environmentalists and political observers thought the allure of offshore oil drilling would take a hit. But while the short-term picture for offshore drilling is cloudy, there are few signs that th ...
  • BP reportedly threatens to fire cleanup workers fo ...
    The Louisiana Environmental Action Network reports that British Petroleum is threatening to fire fishermen hired to help with the oil spill cleanup for using respirators or other safety equipment that wasn't provided by the company. But the fishermen say they're wearing their own equipme ...
  • WHAT'S NEXT FOR COAL ASH?
    Disaster has pushed Washington to call for new standards for handling waste from coal-fired power plants. It's invited citizens to weigh in, but will their voices carry above lobbyists fighting tough regulations? A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis NOTE: This is the final installme ...
  • VOICES: Obama sends in the border troops
    By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer While conservatives have already started blaming President Obama for not allowing the National Guard to construct gun turrets on top of the 18-foot border wall and start blazing away, it's actually those sissies at the Pentagon that want to make sure the ...

CowBoss' Inconvenient Truths - Food

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    Zimbabwean diamonds mined with complete disregard for basic human rights are currently being sold in jewelry stores with
  • South Africans Remember Mandela's Release
    Twenty years after his release form prison, Nelson Mandela remains an important and symbolic figure for South Africans. Many still remember his release.
  • Guinea Making Steps toward Democracy
    In a country that has seen a succession of brutal military leaders, the sudden prospect of fair elections forthcoming gives the people of Guinea new hope.
  • The Real Evils
    While the world
  • Global Hunger
    When food is treated as simply a commodity, a huge chunk of the population cannot afford it. People in the South die every day from hunger and related diseases, while an equal number in the North consume in excess.

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle scraps of chicken wire?
    We’ve had an email from Bruce: I’ve got a large amount of chicken wire leftover after conducting some work in my garden. The biggest 1ft by 2ft, the rest smaller. Can I recycle them in my can bin? While it certainly could be recycled as scrap metal, it might cause problems further down the can recy ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle 3D glasses?
    The Guardian’s Leo Hickman wrote an article yesterday about 3D glasses – how the current trend for jumping-out-at-you big screen action is causing a lot of waste: even with reusing and reconditioning schemes in place, around 7million pairs will be recycled into “plastic pellets” this year – and that ...
  • How can I stain my wedding dress?
    I got an email with the above subject line and assuming it was spam, braced myself for a rude message – but in fact it was a genuine reusing/upcycling question from Valerie: i am getting married again, but because it is my second marriage, i don’t want to spend a lot of money all over again. i [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle Birkenstock sandals?
    orangeterra left a comment on the “Suggest An Item” page: What can I do with my old Birkenstock sandals? Theyâre a combo of rubbery foam soles, cork footbed, and leather straps. Because they take the shape of my feet, I doubt theyâd be good hand-me-downs, but I hate to toss them. Birkenstock has ...
  • Awesome reducing, reusing & recycling links
    Here’s this week’s awesome reducing, reusing & recycling links round-up: These leather scrap mushrooms are a great idea for using up scraps & leftover material from bigger leathercraft projects – or recycling bits of leather from old clothes/accessories. Kris of Resweater pointed out a very easy ti ...

    Blacklisted News

  • 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.�
  • U.S. to Join South Korean Military Exercise Off No ...
    The U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington will participate in a joint naval exercise with South Korea next week in the Yellow Sea, the same waters west of the Korean peninsula where North Korea is accused of sinking a South Korean warship last March, ABC News has learned.
  • Washington Post Exposes BP ties to Eco-Groups, Oth ...
  • SEC Files Lawsuit Against Diebold, Then Settles fo ...
  • Secretive Bilderberg Club ready for protests
    Across the world, secretaries to the rich and the powerful have blocked out the next three days in their bosses’ calendars for their annual gathering, this time at the Dolce in Sitges, one of Spain’s most exclusive resorts.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Iran questions integrity of IAEA report
    Summary: In a Wednesday meeting attended by Director of IAEA’s Division of Operations Department of Safeguards Herman Nackaerts, Soltanieh posed certain rhetorical questions to enlighten the members about the persisting ambiguities in the report. source: Press TVread more
  • Powers should consider Iran fuel offer
    Summary: VIENNA: World powers should seriously consider a newly-drafted fuel swap plan for Iran to part with some of its nuclear material, even if it is not perfect, a group of high-profile experts said. source: Reutersread more
  • A massacre is not a massacre
    rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rI don’t write poems but, in any case, poems are not poems. Long ago, I was made to understand that Palestine was not Palestine; I was also informed that Palestinians were not Palestinians; They also explained to me that ethnic cleansing was not ethnic cleansing. An ...
  • Greece, Sweden back Iran declaration
    Summary: Tehran AgreementSeeking to lighten the mood over Iran’s nuclear program, Greece and Sweden have called for the implementation of the recent Tehran declaration on a potential nuclear fuel swap. source: Press TVread more
  • The U.S.-led Drive to Isolate Iran Faces Uncertain ...
    Summary: Most observers agree that the bold move by Turkey and Brazil could signal the beginning of a major shift in the international balance of power. A mere two weeks after their intervention, Israel?s raid on the Gaza aid flotilla, and Washington?s rejection of international calls to hold Israe ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran questions integrity of IAEA report
    Summary: In a Wednesday meeting attended by Director of IAEA's Division of Operations Department of Safeguards Herman Nackaerts, Soltanieh posed certain rhetorical questions to enlighten the members about the persisting ambiguities in the report. source: Press TV read more
  • Mississippi looks to Iran for rural health care m ...
    Summary: Since the 1980s, rural Iranians have been able to seek treatment at health houses, informal sites set up in small communities as the first stop for medical care, rather than an emergency room. They're staffed by citizens, not doctors, and the focus is on preventive care. Infant deaths ...
  • Greece, Sweden back Iran declaration
    Summary: Tehran Agreement Seeking to lighten the mood over Iran's nuclear program, Greece and Sweden have called for the implementation of the recent Tehran declaration on a potential nuclear fuel swap. source: Press TV read more
  • Powers should consider Iran fuel offer
    Summary: VIENNA: World powers should seriously consider a newly-drafted fuel swap plan for Iran to part with some of its nuclear material, even if it is not perfect, a group of high-profile experts said. source: Reuters read more
  • The U.S.-led Drive to Isolate Iran Faces Uncertain ...
    Summary: Most observers agree that the bold move by Turkey and Brazil could signal the beginning of a major shift in the international balance of power. A mere two weeks after their intervention, Israel’s raid on the Gaza aid flotilla, and Washington’s rejection of international calls to hold Is ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • 10,000 Suns -Most Dense Star Cluster in Milky Way ...
    With a mass of more than 10 000 suns packed into a volume with a diameter of a mere three light-years, the massive young star cluster in the nebula NGC 3603 is one of the most compact stellar clusters in...
  • The Daily "140" Insight
    We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury
  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (6/02)
    Apple-Google fight is expected over future of TV One week after Google announced its bid for the hearts and eyes of America's TV viewers with Internet-based Google TV, its Silicon Valley rival is reportedly poised to overhaul its own offering,...
  • "ExoMars" -Europe's Robotic 2018 Mission to Search ...
    ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is a European-led robotic mission to Mars, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. It is part of ESA's Aurora programme for robotic exploration of the Solar System and its aim is to further...
  • You Couldn't Make This Up Dept: The Mystery of Mar ...
    The origin of Mars' tiny moon, Phobos (fear in ancient Greek), is a mystery, but three theories are considered plausible. The first is that the moon is a captured asteroid; the second is that it formed in-situ as Mars formed...

Natural News

  • Raw tahini, organic sun-dried figs and my health p ...
    (NaturalNews) Tahini is one of the favorite foods used by vegans, raw foodies and everyday health-conscious people. But not everyone is familiar with tahini. What is it, exactly? Just like peanut butter is made from grinding up peanuts, tahini is made from grinding up sesame seeds! It is essentially ...
  • Nine meals from anarchy: What the coming food coll ...
    (NaturalNews) A growing reliance on imported food and other necessities is making First World nations such as the United Kingdom increasingly vulnerable to social collapse, warns Andrew Simms, policy director of the "think-and-do tank" of the New Economic Foundation, writing in The Guardian ."Events ...
  • Charlotte Gerson, Howard Straus join NaturalNews T ...
    (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour presents Charlotte Gerson and Howard Straus "Defeat Cancer -- How to Promote True Healing". What causes cancer? Why haven't we found a cure yet? And, most importantly, how can we prevent, even reverse the damage created by degenerative dis-eases. Charl ...
  • Why the fluoridation of public water supplies is i ...
    (NaturalNews) Municipalities all across America are currently dripping fluoride chemicals into their public water supply, dosing over a hundred million Americans with a chemical that they claim "prevents cavities." What's interesting here is that this biological effect of "preventing cavities" is a ...
  • Vast majority of people survive common thyroid can ...
    (NaturalNews) Mainstream medicine has reported in recent years that the incidence of papillary thyroid cancer -- the most common form of thyroid malignancy -- is growing at an alarming rate. In fact, the number of people diagnosed with this form of cancer, which typically arises as an irregular mass ...

Threat Level

  • No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission for Total Tra ...
    The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case o ...
  • RateMyCop User Ensnared in ‘Dumbest Case Ever’
    A Florida man arrested and briefly jailed for posting a local police officer’s home address on a cop-rating site said Wednesday his ordeal was “completely crazy.” “Just because I posted it, I got arrested. It wasn’t like it was the Pentagon Papers,” Robert Brayshaw, a 35-year-old Tallahassee man, sa ...
  • DHS Alarmed by Sticker of Suicide Bomber; Really a ...
    A sticker found on a trash can at a Washington, D.C., airport last week depicting what appeared to be a suicide bomber is actually the logo of a popular graffiti artist. His fans have plastered his stickers around the world since around 2005. The sticker caused a bit of stir among Department of Home ...
  • Wikileaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted ...
    Wikileaks, the controversial whistleblowing site that exposes secrets of governments and corporations, bootstrapped itself with a cache of documents obtained through an internet eavesdropping operation by one of its activists, according to a new profile of the organization’s founder. The activist s ...
  • Five Alleged Money Mules Indicted in Bank Theft
    Five alleged money mules have been indicted in a bank heist that netted the thieves almost $450,000 from a local-government bank account in California. John L. Quinn II and Anthony Bobbitt, both of North Carolina, were indicted with three others on criminal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and cons ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Issa: Tim Russert Died So That We Might Drill
    California Republican Darrell Issa appeared on Fox News Sunday to continue his crusade against President Obama over the Sestak no-pay-for-no-play non-scandal , this time calling for an FBI investigation. But over the past several weeks, Issa has also been the GOP's chief messenger in criticizing Ob ...
  • Republicans Criminalizing Politics over Sestak Aff ...
    While Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has deemed the Sestak no-pay-for-no-play non-scandal an "illegal quid pro quo" and " Obama's Watergate ," the overwhelming consensus of legal opinion had concluded otherwise. While Bush White House ethics officer Richard Painter told his fellow Republicans to "move on ...
  • Will Issa Cry Again Over Sestak Non-Scandal?
    With today's release of statements by the White House Counsel and Congressman Joe Sestak regarding the no-pay for no-play Pennsylvania Senate contest, Sestakgate is emerging as a non-scandal. After all, in 1982 President Ronald Reagan offered Senator S.I. Hayakawa a job if he dropped out of the Cal ...
  • Sadly for Republicans, the Stimulus Stimulated
    "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that's our target market." Judging from the rhetoric of House Minority Leader John Boehner , that's the Republican mantra when it comes to the Obama recovery package. Nine months after Boehner wrongly decried a "stimulus bill that didn't creat ...
  • Robin Hood and the Estate Tax
    In 2009, only 1 in 500 American estates paid taxes. But thanks to the obstructionism of Senate Republicans led by Arizona's Jon Kyl, the estate tax temporarily lapsed for 2010, a hiatus that could portend massive windfalls this year for the heirs of the largest fortunes in the United States. Now a ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • A Loser White House, Guilty by Association By Robe ...
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net May 20, 2010 Long before Year One ended, progressives understood President Obamas focus was routine wheeling and dealing, not regrowing the New Deal. Between victory and governance, Obama reform switched from promises to make govern ...
  • Root Cause of Voters’ Revolt: Congress, Obama, GOP ...
    The revolt across the political landscape on Tuesday against incumbents wasn’t just an attack against the Washington establishment, but an outpouring of rage against political elites of all stripes who haven’t realized the economic crisis still gripping American workers. As Katrina vanden Heuvel, ed ...
  • Capping the devils cauldron By Jerry Mazza
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com May 20, 2010 If I were a religious man, I would take the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the spilling of millions of gallons of oil and gas, their engulfing of the Gulf of Mexico waters and de ...
  • Buyer Beware: Over the Counter DNA Tests Can Cause ...
    There's a huge push to market over-the-counter genetic tests. But the faulty tests can cause more harm than good.
  • Six Myths About Immigration That Just Won't Die
    We need to straighten out our thinking about some of the basic issues in order to have a useful and serious policy argument.

Consortium News

  • Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea
    Israel's killing of activists trying to run its blockade of Gaza can be traced to President Obama's failure to be firm, says Ray McGovern. June 1, 2010
  • How Israel Out-Foxed US Presidents
    Over the past six decades, Israeli officials have mastered the art of out-maneuvering U.S. presidents, writes Morgan Strong. May 31, 2010
  • Time to Turn to Jeb?
    With the U.S. media forgetting George W. Bush's role in today's messes, Robert Parry asks when the nation will turn to brother Jeb. May 29, 2010
  • NYT's Friedman Rejects Iran Nuke Deal
    New York Times neocon pundit Thomas L. Friedman wants "regime change" in Iran, not a nuclear agreement, reports Robert Parry. May 27, 2010
  • Memorial Daze: Quandary of Empire
    In honoring U.S. soldiers, should Americans distinguish between veterans of defensive and imperial wars, asks Philip A Ferruggio. May 29, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Memorial Day Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday!!
    I’ve told my parents and now I’m telling you. ¡Si se compran una lavadora o un aire condicionado marcado Energy Star este weekend, no tienen que pagar sales taxes! If you buy an Energy Star appliance this Memorial Day weekend you won’t have to pay a sales tax! Representative Veronica Gonzalez annou ...
  • Proposed Rules Could Allow Disconnections for Som ...
    The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) is considering proposed rules changes that will in many ways improve consumer protection, but contains some provisions that could allow retail electric providers (REP) to disconnect medically vulnerable customers who rely on electricity to sustain their live ...
  • 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 ...
  • Thanks for your donations to EarthShare of Texas t ...
    PUBLIC CITIZEN’s TEXAS OFFICE is a Public Citizen’s Texas office would like to thank all those who made donations to Earth Share of Texas through HEB’s in-store coupon promotion for April. Your donations will go toward supporting environmental work in Texas including the Texas office of Public Citiz ...
  • Tar Sands May be Coming to Texas
    The U.S. Department of State will be hosting public hearings this week, May 17-20th in Beaumont, Liberty, Livingston, and Tyler on the proposed tar sands pipeline. Canadian oil and gas giant TransCanada needs U.S. Department of State approval in order to expand the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International Condemns Attack on Gaza H ...
    free-gaza-org.jpg Grassroots International joins our partners in Palestine and Israel – and indeed non-violent activists worldwide – in our condemnation of Israel’s attack on the Free Gaza flotilla bound for Gaza. When Israeli forces stormed a ...
  • Insights - Spring 2010
    Global Justice Takes Global Movements People attending the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001 declared,� “Another World is Possible.” Since then, the critical question is: how do we get there? The roadmap that Grassroots International and our global partners follow starts with ...
  • Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy -part ...
    Overview: � Associate Director of Strategic Philanthropy works with the Executive Director and the Director of Development and Communications (DDC) to recruit, develop, solicit and coordinate major individual contributors. The ADSP has specific responsibilities as detailed below. The ADSP may also ...
  • Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid ...
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell is the founder and Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator of Other Worlds, which is a Grassroots International ally. She has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. Grassr ...
  • Water Rights for Arab Citizens of Israel
    ahali-water.jpg Among the many challenges facing Arab citizens living in Israel, access to water is perhaps the worst. Grassroots International partner the Ahali Center for Community Development is organizing to secure the human right to water ...

Climate

  • June 3, 2010
    Sen. Lugar to Propose Climate Bill Alternative (Reuters) A senior Republican in the Senate next week will propose energy and climate legislation that aims to cut emissions of planet-warming gases, but with far lower goals than Pres. Obama seeks. Obama: I Intend to Find the Votes on Clim ...
  • June 2, 2010
    BP Oil Leak May Last Until Christmas in Worst-Case Scenario (Bloomberg)  BP's failure since April to plug a Gulf of Mexico oil leak have prompted forecasts that the crude may continue gushing into December, in what Pres. Obama has called the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history. ...
  • June 1, 2010
    U.N. Climate Talks Resume, Negotiations Stalled (Reuters) U.N. climate talks resumed on Monday exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor nations, which delegates said would delay the start of formal negotiations. Forest Plan by Australia, Europe Faces Climate Veto (Bloomberg) ...
  • May 31, 2010
    Gulf Coast Warned Oil May Leak Until August (Reuters)   U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude ...
  • May 29-30, 2010
    BP's Top Kill Effort Fails to Plug Gulf Oil Leak (AP) The most ambitious bid yet to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history ended in failure Saturday after BP was unable to overwhelm the gusher of crude with heavy fluids and junk. Pres. Obama called the setback "as enraging as it is heartbr ...

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

  • The F Word: For Poor, America's a Sinking Ship
    Last week in New York authorities announced that at Harlem Hospital Center, the largest health facility in that historic neighborhood, doctors had failed to read 4,000 heart tests -- for three years -- and that 200 of these patients died. These were not simply routine tests, but echocardiograms, ord ...
  • Flotilla Fallout: Are Teams Right to Refuse to Pla ...
    "[We are] saddened by the mixture of politics and sports." So said a spokesperson for the Israeli Football Association in response to Monday's news that the Turkish U-19 (under 19) soccer team canceled its match in Israel. Turkey's team made the move following the Israeli Navy's attack on the Gaza F ...
  • In the Israeli minefield
    It's like entering a minefield to seriously discuss Israel and Palestine, a tale of two peoples who claim the same land. I've entered this minefield before and have been called an "anti-semite" and an "Israel hater" for saying pretty much what the sentence above suggests, that Palestinians feel a le ...
  • 'Soul Of A Citizen': Make A Difference, Knowing Th ...
    When people hesitate to take a stand on issues from the Gulf oil spill to the horror show off the coast of Gaza, it's often because they're unsure of the outcomes of their actions. The issues themselves can be complex and overwhelming. I've talked in an earlier Soul of a Citizen excerpt about the tr ...
  • Activists on the Ship 'Rachel Corrie' Challenge Is ...
    The MV Rachel Corrie is steaming across the Mediterranean toward Gaza, flying the flag of Ireland, loaded with humanitarian supplies, and posing another impossible dilemma for the government of Israel. The root of the dilemma is not the conflict between Israel and the Free Gaza Movement, nor even th ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Open Thread
    Yes! You have a home for all of those fascinating tidbits of news that you’d love to share with everyone here, but that don’t fit in with our topical stories. So go for it! If I spot something fascinating or funny, I will add it here in a little while. Here’s a juicy tidbit discovered at [...]
  • Beef Romanoff
    A recipe for political disaster … the heretofore secret ingredients have just been posted by ABC’s Jake Tapper at his blog Political Punch, titled “Democratic Senate Candidate: White House Floated Possible Jobs If I Chose to Not Run Against Incumbent,” via my Facebook wall: Andrew Romanoff, the form ...
  • Barack Obama, Sleepless in Washington
    Let’s give Barack a permanent vaction. The man has had no rest. None. Zippo. No vacation. No time playing golf. No romantic dates in New York City with his wife. Don’t believe for a moment the reports that Barack has played more golf in one year than George [...]
  • You, me — all Americans — are rudderless
    I vividly recall the anxiety I felt when George Bush was president, along with my unceasing astonishment that as bad a president I thought he’d be, I could have never imagined just how bad he proved to be. But, as wrong as he was in, for example, launching an elective war, the worst moments [ ...
  • Bayou in Space
    Titan Tales. �� With the Earth-bound troubles of the Gulf and the Gaza blockade-breaking (see that Egypt has opened Sinai/Gaza border to all the gun-runners in sight for a fee) and the rise of a sinister Post-Ottoman State in Ankara and a Proto-Shia State in Tehran, it makes me feel l ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • How to Save Your Eyes from Computer Vision Syndrom ...
    Getting the right tools for your eyes and protecting them is what this blog is all about. Taking care of your eyes are very important if at least if you want your eyes to read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • London's Incredible Elephant Parade
    London's Elephant Parade: In aid of the near-extinct Asian Elephants. (Lots and Lots of Pictures) read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Ganvie: The African Town Where 30,000 People Live ...
    In the middle of an African Lake there stands a township of thirty thousand people that has stood the test of time for centuries. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Taking Landscape Art to a New Level
    Your moods, lifestyle and habits change almost without a conscious thought with them. Artist Levi van Veluw has taken the idea to heart, or should I say head, in an amazi read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • The View from the Seven Lowest Points on Earth
    Here we present the views from the lowest points on Earth. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Roaming Oil Blob: You're the Host
    Imagine if the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in your hometown. A Michigan software developer has created a map that plops the spill on top of any location on the globe.
  • Katrina and Climate: Case Dismissed?
    Back in 2005, a group of landowners in the Gulf Coast filed a case against companies in the area claiming that their greenhouse gas emissions had contributed to global warming and exacerbated the effects of Hurricane Katrina. That case has now been dismissed from federal circuit court.
  • More Dispersant? Asking Hard Questions
    Have the E.P.A. and BP proved that a dispersant is necessary at all?
  • Grid Confronts a Threat from Mother Nature
    A report issued by the Energy Department and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation lists three categories of threats to the North American power grid: coordinated cyber- and physical attacks, pandemic disease and electromagnetic and geomagnetic damage.
  • Evidence of Undersea Oil Plumes
    University researchers keep adding to the preliminary body of evidence suggesting that some of the oil leaking into the gulf -- no one knows what proportion -- is dissolving into the water and forming huge plumes of dispersed oil droplets beneath the surface.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • New videos: Mayday Immigrant Rights March, Keith E ...
    Oh hai, thanks for visiting... A lot of things going on and thus little time (if any) for posts. I got some neat events taped around MayDay weekend in Minneapolis, including the Immigrant Rights March around downtown & Loring Park. Also had my video of US Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN5) describing th ...
  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! UPDATE: Hi to everyone from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leo_Wanta/ - keep it up :)       This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the big ...
  • 2010 Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Notes for Ap ...
    Jesse Trentadue : …who’s testifying about Howe had reported that the plan to bomb the Murrah building four months in advance, had gone with Strassmeir and others to scout the target – the first thing the U.S. Attorney does when Graham stops testifying is ask the judge to seal the transcript, and the ...
  • BlackListedNews: BOMBSHELL – Whistle Blower Comes ...
      I can only apologize for not pushing the breakdown of the gold market story out more. It is finally coming loose it seems, & when this occurs it will be another giant 'discontinuity' that'll get filled up with more inflationary ripoffs. A huge basis of the system is gonna croak sometime soon... ...
  • Palin Bachmann: 2010 GOP Convention Center Rally H ...
    Scored tickets & blogger access to the Palin-Bachmann event, surely the best GOP show of the season... A mellow crowd greeted Minnesota's top Republicans, ready to slug out another election season. There isn't much new news to report, but Andrew French ( @tacomachine ) got really nice photos ...

Daily Censored

  • Bristish Airways to start charging up to £60 for r ...
    Soon, if you want to reserve your seats on British airways, you’re going to have to pay a fee. The airline aims to charge up to £60 to reserve seats for people who want to sit together or those who choose an aisle or window seat. BA will still allow passengers to reserve seats without [...]
  • Time for law abiding American citizens to stop pay ...
    source with PuppetGov video and better formatting. David Degraw has written an outstanding comprehensive explanation of whatâs really happening in the US economy. Heâs given me permission to reprint it here. I also recommend his site ”For Our Economy“ for citizen grass-roots activism for econo ...
  • HISTORY IS A CURRENT EVENT
    HISTORY IS A CURRENT EVENT “History is a current event, so the past is the present and the present is the past.” The conscious poet Heru drops this wisdom in his 2008 lyrical poem “Barack Obama is Septimius Severus.” We need to be aware of the history being repeated and being made in the current eve ...
  • Leading UN Investigator for Human Rights in Occupi ...
    Leading UN Investigator for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine Says Israeli Commando Raid was “as clear a violation of international humanitarian law… as we are likely to see in the early part of the 21st Century.” By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss In a pre-dawn raid on Monday, in international ...
  • If Iran had attacked the Gaza aid ships instead of ...
    source, with video. In violation of international law, Israel boarded and fired upon civilians in international waters attempting to deliver medical supplies and life-necessary materials to Gaza. Ironically, Gaza is the world’s largest concentration camp; collectively, unlawfully, and lethally puni ...

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Pine River World News

  • Israeli Act of War on NATO Country: Will the Allia ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Israeli Act of War on NATO Country: Will the Alliance Put Up or Shut Up? � � Pravda.ru By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey June 1, 2010 The NATO Charter is crystal clear on the obligations of its member states in the event of an at ...
  • Pravda: Israel Butchering Peace Activists in Inter ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Israel Butchering Peace Activists in International Waters � � Pravda.ru By Lisa Karpova and Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey May 31, 2010 � � Israel Butchering Peace Activists in International Waters � �Israel Imposes Blackout on ...
  • USA Foreign Policy Failure: Development, not Deplo ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. USA Foreign Policy Failure: Development, not Deployment � � Pravda.ru By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey May 24, 2010 The United States of America has done little or nothing to curb drug trafficking in Afghanistan, where opium pro ...
  • Gordon Duff: "Flintstone" Weapons And "Custer" Tac ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . "Flintstone" Weapons And "Custer" Tactics Rake In Billions For War Profiteers � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today May 22, 2010 * �How the Dimmest and Dumbest Give us their Wors ...
  • Saint Lieberman, Patron Saint of Death Camps
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Saint Lieberman, Patron Saint of Death Camps � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina May 18, 2010 America, wake up. This is it, your oh so righteous man of neither branch b ...

IntelNews

After Downing Street.org

  • In the Israeli Minefield
    By John Grant It’s like entering a minefield to seriously discuss Israel and Palestine, a tale of two peoples who claim the same land. I’ve entered this minefield before and have been called an ”anti-semite” and an “Israel hater” for saying pretty much what the sentence above suggests, that Palestin ...
  • David Swanson: What Could We Fund if Not War?
  • Palestinian Youth Groups Unite to Condemn Israel's ...
    Palestinian Youth Groups Condemn Israeli Aggression on the Freedom Flotilla Gaza, May 31, 2010- The free Palestinian youth groups from across the political and social spectrum denounce the military operations by the Israeli occupation army against the Freedom Flotilla in international waters, causin ...
  • Helen Thomas Grills Robert Gibbs On Flotilla Massa ...
  • Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes
    Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes | Press Release | 6/1/10 Attack on humanitarian flotilla prompts little media skepticism On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of boats full of civilians attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip. Reports indicate t ...

Grist - News

  • Obama on the climate bill: “We will get it d ...
    by David Roberts. A must-read article in The Hill details a classic rift among Senate Democrats: On one side are Democrats who want to use public anger at oil companies to pressure Republicans to support the American Power Act ; on the other are "centrists" who want to be nice to Republicans i ...
  • Six ways BP’s oil spill is seeping into poli ...
    by Randy Rieland. Forget about Wall Street -- there's a new villain in town.  Big Oil is, at the moment, the dark lord of corporate greed and evil, and, not surprisingly, it's starting to take center stage both in political campaigns and Washington politicking.     Here are six examples of oil c ...
  • Oil slick closes in on Florida coast
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. - - The giant Gulf of Mexico oil slick was closing in on the pristine Florida coast on Wednesday, as deep-sea robotic submarines hit a new snag in BP's latest bid to contain the spill. Forecasters said it was virtually certain Florida's panhandle, a maj ...
  • 10 ways cities and towns can kick the offshore-oil ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. With the Gulf oil spill continuing unabated, powering a 21st century economy on a 19th century fossil fuel looks less and less smart by the day. Luckily, we've got other options. I described the most promising steps the federal government could take toward reducing oil use in ...
  • Obama admin opens criminal investigation into oil ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Federal officials said Tuesday they have launched a criminal and civil probe into the nation's worst-ever oil spill, even as BP voiced hopes of capping the six-week-old Gulf of Mexico leak soon. "We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law an ...

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Washington Independent

  • Has Lobbying Derailed the DISCLOSE Act?
    Efforts by some of Washington's biggest campaign spenders, like the NRA, may have scared enough Democrats to make the legislation impossible to pass in its current form.
  • Tween Girls: Not Like Wall Street Traders
    Today, Bloomberg’s Amity Shlaes has an evocative and delightfully wrongheaded column on the best way to police and regulate markets. She cites the efforts to stamp out bad behavior on OMGPOP, a social network where tween girls play games and gossip. Naughty young men were using inappropriate languag ...
  • Unemployment Falls in 93 Percent of Metro Areas
    Today, the Labor Department released its April survey of unemployment in 372 metropolitan areas across the United States. And it is a very good report: The rate of joblessness dropped in 346 areas, rose in 12 and remained flat in 14. That is a significant month-to-month improvement, as in March, une ...
  • Buffett Defends Credit Ratings Agencies, Concedes ...
    The so-called "Oracle of Omaha" largely shifted the blame from himself and Moody's, in which Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is a major stakeholder.
  • Schumer, Wyden Ask BP to Halt Payments to Sharehol ...
    This afternoon, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on BP, the British oil company responsible for the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to halt its dividend payments to shareholders until the well is capped and damages determined. London papers rep ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Israel Attacks Aid Ship, Kills at Least 10 Civilia ...
    By Glenn Greenwald Late last night, Israel attacked a flotilla of ships in international waters carrying food, medicine and other aid to Gaza, killing at least 10 civilians on board and injuring at least 30 more (many reports now put the numbers at 19 dead and 60 injured). The Israeli Defense Forces ...
  • The WTC Leaseholder and His Associates That Cheate ...
    New York real estate developer Larry Silverstein and several key individuals associated with his firm, Silverstein Properties, appear to have had remarkable luck on September 11, 2001, when changes in their schedule or coincidental circumstances saved them from being high up in the World Trade Cente ...
  • Rebel scientists force Royal Society to accept cli ...
    By Ben Webster Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures.The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old institution’s official positi ...
  • Global Floating Ice In “Constant Retreat”???
    By Willis Eschenbach | May 28, 2010 I don’t know what to make of this one. I was wandering the web when I came across a Reuters article about a scientific study called “Global Floating Ice In “Constant Retreat”: Study“. The Reuters article opens with this arresting text (emphasis mine): LONDON Wed A ...
  • Politics 2010
    By Jim Kirwin The dissolution of the natural world is being created one mega-disaster at a time. The still unrecognized fact is that there are 49 other deep water platforms led by Atlantis; the world’s deepest Oil & Gas drilling platform which is located 150 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. It ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Eco Art Exhibit – Millions of Pieces: Only One Puz ...
    Online exhibition for UN World Environment Day Reveals Rwandaâs Triumphs and Challenges Related posts: Spains Exhibit in Copenhagen Invites Citizens to Record Messages About Climate Change Documentary: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning The Largest Green Plan To Date – The “Gree ...
  • A Memorial Day Tribute to My Fallen Comrade David
    Some know, others may be surprised to learn that I spent over a decade serving in the Army. Related posts: This Soldier Remembers a Fallen Comrade on Veterans Day-2008 A Twilight Earth Tribute to David Suzuki – Eco Warrior Photo Sunday – What do the Vietnam Memorial and Environmental Devastat ...
  • Water Website Spotlight – Blue Living Ideas
    Blue Living Ideas is the ultimate Web resource for information, tips, news, and events related to Earthâs most precious resource â Water. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Eco Child Website Spotlight – Eco Childs ...
  • A Rainforest Chernobyl: The Other Oil Disaster
    I donât know about you, but my mental health has been teetering on a cliff of depression thanks to BPâs catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil rig mishap. Related posts: Activist Invites 6,000 Chevron Employees to Watch CRUDE Documentary World’s Largest Oil-Related Environmental Catastrophe: ...
  • Photo Sunday – The Moab Desert
    The Moab Desert is host to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. It has welcomed countless tourists and nature lovers. Enjoy the photos. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Hiking the Mojave Desert and Red Rock Canyon Outside Las Vegas Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday ...

Inhabitat

  • Apple Patents Solar Powered iPhone
    Is there anything an iPhone can’t do? There isn’t much, but charging via the Sun’s rays is one thing. Well, now Apple is looking to change that. They’ve applied for a patent for a solar-powered iPhone that could make it an even hotter commodity than it already is. Read the rest of Apple Patents Sol ...
  • FAREstudios’s Green Women’s Clinic Inspires Hope i ...
    Some of of the greatest social and environmental challenges are focused around the issue of reproductive rights. Italian-based FAREstudios created a brilliant architectural solution to the issue by developing a refuge and Women’s health clinic in a poor suburb of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in West Af ...
  • 2 Days Left to Vote for Your Favorite Spring Green ...
    Vote for your Favorite Spring Greening Design TODAY! Heads up green design fans! There’s just two days of voting left before we crown the grand prize winner of this year’s Spring Greening DIY Design Contest, and the competition is incredible! We’ve selected 23 stunning examples of recycled design, ...
  • NYC Assemblyman Proposes City-Wide Cigarette Recyc ...
    Approximately 176 million pounds of cigarette butts are discarded in the United States every year. Usually they end up on the ground or in a landfill and leach their toxic chemicals into the water table. Assemblyman Michael G. DenDekker, of Queens New York, wants to do something about that. He recen ...
  • Buy It Now! Project H’s Design Revolution Road Sho ...
    Project H’s Design Revolution Road Show Airstream trailer is now up for auction on eBay! The shiny silver rig just finished its 9,500-mile, 36-city trek across the country promoting humanitarian product design with an exhibition, lecture series, and workshops, and now it will go to the highest bidde ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Hot! Thermal Video of Hawaiian Volcano is Amazing
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience89620869001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); This incredible view of a vent in the Halemaumau Crater within the Kilauea volcanic caldera on the Island of Hawaii was captured by a U.S. Geological Survey thermal video c ...
  • Noise Pollution Could Frustrate Fish
    After years of growing concern about the effects of marine noise on whales, scientists are finally asking what noise could do to fish. Whether they’re harmed isn’t yet known, but it’s certainly a possibility. The oceans are an increasingly clamorous place, with boat motors and sonar and explosions ...
  • How to See Quantum Entanglement
    Human eyes can detect the spooky phenomenon of quantum entanglement — but only sometimes, a new study on the physics preprint website arXiv.org claims. While eyes can help determine if two individual photons were recently entangled, they can’t tell if the brighter bunch of photons that actually hit ...
  • Salmon Study Pits Fish Against Alaskan Mega-Mine
    An Alaskan bay bitterly contested by fishermen and miners has become the site of a landmark study on population dynamics — and the findings favor the fish. Published June 2 in Nature, the analysis of Bristol Bay salmon quantifies a common-sense tenet of population dynamics: Diversity produces resil ...
  • Hubble Captures Surprising Star Motions
    Using images of a star cluster taken ten years apart, astronomers detected young stars moving in somewhat surprising ways. The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the core cluster of the extremely dense star-forming region NGC 3603 in 1997 and again in 2007 (above), revealing tiny motions of hundreds ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Brazil's Nuclear Program
    After a 25-year hiatus, Brazil is resuming work on its third nuclear reactor. In an e-mail interview, Sean Burges, lecturer with the School of Politics and International Relations at Australian National University, discusses Brazil's nuclear program. WPR: What is the current state of Brazil's civil ...
  • Conservatives Hijack Sensible Defense Debates
    Rob Farley uses the current debate in Congress over the Obama administration's several nuclear weapons initiatives as an example of how the far-right wing of the Republican party has co-opted the discussion on national security , making it a vehicle to score political points than to actually craft i ...
  • On the Blockade of Gaza
    The international back-and-forth over Israel's violent seizure of a flotilla of activists attempting to defy the blockade of the Gaza Strip continues apace. I've tossed in a brief two cents , and will probably contribute a few more in the coming days. I do want to briefly address a larger debate tha ...
  • Iran Triumphs in Flotilla Disaster
    The bloodshed resulting from a clash between Israeli Defense Forces and pro-Palestine activists in international waters is nothing short of a diplomatic miracle for Iran. The violence, which left at least 9 activists dead, immediately precipitated unprecedented tension between former allies Israel a ...
  • Defining the Foreign Policy Divide
    Some interesting post-National Security Strategy ideas have emerged on the differences in worldview between liberals and conservatives. Hat tip to Greg Scoblete of RealClearWorld Compass Blog for highlighting Tom Donnely's theory of what differentiates the Obama and Bush strategic approaches. Put th ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Auto Bailout Starts to Pay Off.
    May was another strong month for America's automobile manufacturers -- sales are rising at double-digit rates. We're approximately one year after two of the big three automakers entered bankruptcy. Along with rising sales, re-payment of government loans has concluded -- all that remains to be deal ...
  • Lightning Round: Government Still the Problem.
    One problem with charting Barack Obama 's success in selling government as a force for good is that no matter how successful he is with the general public, he's not going to convince Republicans. Since� Ronald Reagan , the GOP has transformed itself from a party made up of different strains of cons ...
  • BP's Fake Twitterfeed.
    Depressed about the oil spill? This (fake) BP public-relations Twitter feed, BPGlobalPR offers some dark humor. A sample: Just got 100k followers and our oil is headed to Florida. You know what this means... WE'RE GOING TO DISNEYWORLD! #bpcares We don't want to alarm anyone, but the robot didn't ...
  • The Gulf Spill in Your Neighborhood.
    This is what the Gulf oil spill would look like if it were placed on top of Washington, D.C. -- except, as you can see, it wouldn't just cover D.C. It would spread all the way to West Virginia, up to central Pennsylvania, out to the bay east of Delaware, and down almost to Richmond. At this� site ...
  • The Little Picture: Airline Delays.
    Cancelled flights from New York's JFK Airport. Today, the Obama administration announced new consumer-protection rules for air travelers. Travelers whose flights are bumped will be eligible for up to $1,300 in compensation (up from $800). Airlines must also allow travelers to make changes to their ...

Andy Worthington

  • What is Obama Doing at Bagram? (Part One): Torture ...
    For eight and a half years, the US prison at Bagram airbase has been the site of a disturbing number of experiments in detention and interrogation, where murders have taken place, the Geneva Conventions have been shredded and the encroachment of the US courts — unlike at Guantánamo — has been thoro ...
  • Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantán ...
    On April 30, 2010, as I explained in Part One of this three-part transcript, The UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas organized an event to mark the fifth anniversary of its excellent Guantánamo Testimonials Project, which, for the first time, enabled a discussion to take pl ...
  • Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on ...
    On the evening of March 28, 2002, Mohammed Hassen (also identified as Mohammed Hassan Odaini), an 18-year old Yemeni student at Salafia University in Faisalabad, Pakistan, made a decision that was to change his life forever. He had been visiting fellow students in another house connected with the un ...
  • Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantán ...
    On April 30, 2010, The UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas organized an event to mark the fifth anniversary of its excellent Guantánamo Testimonials Project. Entitled “Guantánamo: A conversation this side of the wire,” the event enabled, for the first time, a discussion to ...
  • The Battle of the Beanfield 25th Anniversary: An I ...
    Today is the 25th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, a notoriously violent, one-sided confrontation between 450 unarmed travellers and green activists, and a quasi-military police force of over 1,300 police and MoD personnel, which crippled the New traveller movement in the UK, brought to a ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Two Polls and Two Really Bad Jokes
    Poll 1. Research 2000 just pretty much confirmed the state of the Connecticut Senate race between Blumenthal and McMahon: Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/24-26. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 1/11-13 results) Dick Blumenthal (D) 52 (56) Linda McMahon (R) 33 (34) It'd been a while since we polled Co ...
  • Movin' On!
    Just to the other side of town. :) I am at the point where I can choose to live in a half empty house with only a computer and a lot of furniture (minus the drawers of "stuff" that are already moved) or live in a house with a TV and no furniture inside (though we do have our patio furniture moved ...
  • McMahon Gushes Over Deregulating Oil
    McMahon Campaign Literature From TheDay.com According to The Day and at the same time that we are witnessing the results of the typical Republican deregulation-run-amok of anything that moves money to these Multinational Oil Corporations wash in ashore as tar balls and dead dolphins on American shor ...
  • An Arizona Minutemen Group Folds
    Apparently, either they were shocked that people answered their calls to violence or they are broke from their profiteering leaderships' greed. The only question in my mind is "how will they reincarnate their particular brand of crazy?" Because as long as there are crazy people around there wil ...
  • Support The Troops - Pay Your Taxes
    Connecticut Man1 It is the tax deadline and this stuff is pretty self explanatory. You pay taxes and they get beans, bullets and valuable training that might just save their lives. When you want tax cut after tax cut? The active duty soldiers serving overseas, in training here or elsewhere and the ...

SPL Center

  • AFA’s Fischer Proposes a Promiscuity Solution
    The American Family Associationâs Bryan Fischer seems to have come up with a solution to what he perceives to be sexual immorality in America: Kill the promiscuous offenders. On his radio program last Friday, Fischer read a passage from Numbers 25 in the Bible â pointed out to him by his wife, h ...
  • Fringe Nativist Sees Conspiracy in Murder Charge
    Laine Lawless, the Mexican flag-burning leader of the vigilante group Border Guardians, has been one of the few anti-immigration leaders to support accused nativist killer Shawna Forde. Soon, those who can’t get enough of justiceforshawnaforde.com, Lawless’ unabashedly pro-Forde website , will be ab ...
  • Racist Skins Renounce Busted IKA Leader
    Poor Ron Edwards. Even racist skinheads donât want to hang out with the former Klan leader. Edwards â the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) founder who defended himself against a successful lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center â was arrested last week on federal drug charges, includi ...
  • Stung by Racism Charges, Nativist Leader Pulls Out ...
    William Gheen, the obstreperous head of the nativist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC, has pulled his group out of all June Arizona rallies backing that state’s controversial new illegal immigration law. Gheen said he is doing so because former Colorado Republican congressman Tom ...
  • White Supremacist Linked to Mail Bombing Imprisone ...
    A firearms and explosives expert suspected of involvement with two white supremacist brothers in the sending of a bomb to the office of a municipal diversity officer was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in Missouri on Tuesday. Robert Joos Jr., an antigovernment zealot and pastor of a church of “apoca ...

change: org.

  • Beyond Africa's Mobile Buzz
    Farmers in Ghana sending text messages to check the price of tomatoes in faraway markets? Rural Kenyans who can use their cell phones to bank from home? By this point, you might feel thoroughly saturated with the buzz about cell phones and development. Even so, though, a new working paper by Jenny A ...
  • Arizona SB 1070 Supporters in Favor of Legalizatio ...
    Immigration opponents have been touting polls showing majority support for Arizona's "paper's please" law as the voice of the people coming down on their side. But are supporters of SB 1070 anti-immigrant, "deport them all" folks? Not so much. A survey ( pdf ) conducted by Lake Research Partners and ...
  • Class Lines Slip Away on the Soccer Field
    They say that other version of "football," the one without the Super Bowl, doesn't mean as much in the United States. That despite the mania it inspires abroad, soccer's popularity here stays eclipsed by the NFL, NBA, MLB. But when the World Cup kicks off next week, something potentially transformat ...
  • In Michigan, HIV-Positive No Longer Equals Terrori ...
    In Michigan's Macomb County, being HIV-positive no longer means that you're a terrorist. So says one judge who threw out bioterrorism charges that were filed against an HIV-positive man after he got into a physical fight with his neighbor. The case goes back several months toward the end of 2009, wh ...
  • Toxic Soup: Oil Spill Enters Bluefin Tuna's Spawni ...
    "Toxic Soup" is a Change.org series focusing on how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts the Gulf's seafood industry and marine life. For more posts on this issue, see here , here , here , and here . Life keeps kicking bluefin tuna while they're down. Already, the threatened swimmers face ove ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Ban Ki-moon: Gaza Blockade 'Must be Lifted'
    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he considering all the options for an investigation into an Israeli raid aboard a ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip that ended in the deaths of nine pro-Palestinian activists. The U.N. chief stepped off a plane from Africa Wednesday and immediat ...
  • BP Seeks Yet Another Way to Stop Oil Leak as Prote ...
    by CNN Wire Staff BP seemed to be getting criticism from every angle as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico entered its 45th day Thursday and every effort to stop the historic flow is still failing. As the oil company was getting increased scrutiny from Congress and President Obama, a grass-roots ca ...
  • George Bush Admits US Waterboarded 9/11 Mastermind
    by Paul Owen and agencies George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded by the US, and said he would do it again "to save lives". "Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the former president told a business aud ...
  • Supreme Court: Suspects Must Verbally Insist on Si ...
    by Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday enhanced prosecutors' ability to assert that a suspect waived his right to remain silent even when he did not say so. The decision in a murder case from Michigan broke along ideological lines, with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing t ...
  • Wars’ Living Victims Honor the Dead, Push for Peac ...
    by Emma Stickgold Three-year-old Maram Ahmed darted among the 88 pairs of black boots arranged within a circle, toes all pointing to the waterfront. Each pair had a white label bearing the name of a Massachusetts victim of the Afghan or Iraqi wars. read more

Lifehacker

  • DownThemAll 2.0 Beta Adds Lots of Awesomeness to G ...
    Firefox: DownThemAll, the Firefox extension that lets you automate and supercharge your downloads , is getting a big upgrade with a 2.0 release. Download throttling, private browsing support, Flash video and HTML5 support, and lots more power ...
  • What Settings Should I Change on My Wi-Fi Router? ...
    Dear Lifehacker, I just moved into my first apartment, and bought my first Wi-Fi router. It's a standard Linksys "blue box," and seems to work fine, but I'm wondering—are there any settings I should be looking to change? More » ...
  • Roomle Brings Your Room Designs to Life; Furnishin ...
    If you're thinking about doing some remodeling, room rearranging, or you just want to daydream about it in 3D glory, Roomle is a polished More�� Design - Business - Construction and Maintenance - Web Design and Developm ...
  • The Airports with the Best Regional Food Options [ ...
    You're used to seeing Subway, Starbucks, and Sbarro before you head to your departure gate, but if you peek around at a few U.S. airports, you'll find some unique, and great, food to go. The Jaunted blog provides a traveler's checklist. Mor ...
  • How Changing Habits Can Exhaust You [Mind Hacks]
    Overeating, leaving your stuff laying around, getting short with your spouse after work—they're not just weaknesses of character. Dan Heath at Fast Company suggests it has to do with exhausting your self-control reserves, which are more finite ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Mutilated Our Econom ...
    By Derrick Crowe $1,000,000,000,000.00 As of today, that's how much we've spent just in direct costs so far on the stupid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . One trillion dollars, gone. And we're just getting warmed up...there are trillions more in future direct and indirect costs coming. ...
  • One Trillion Bucks For War
    By Steve Hynd This Sunday, May 30, at a little after 10 a.m., the National Priorities Project's Cost of War counter will hit the $1 trillion dollar mark for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What would you do with $1 trillion dollars, the amount that's been spent on America's invasions and long occu ...
  • Marjah A "Bleeding Ulcer": McChrystal
    By Steve Hynd When McChrystal was bulldozing his surge through the White House, some people - notably Karl�Eikenberry - forecast it would be a disaster. Eikenberry is looking increasingly prescient : a tour last week of Marjah and the nearby Nad Ali district, during which McClatchy had rare acc ...
  • After Fixing Election, Karzai Tries To Fix Peace J ...
    By Steve Hynd I'm a bit conflicted about this one. One one hand, it shows that Karzai is as venal and casually corrupt a politician as any who walk The Hill, on the other I'm leary of making Karzai the Judas Goat for a misconceived occupation that the US got itself into and should find its own reaso ...
  • Obama Goes To West Point Again With The Same Old C ...
    By Steve Hynd Last time President Obama spoke to a West Point graduating class, it was to announce his decision to back General McChrystal's hard-pushed surge, despite the - now seen as all too accurate - misgivings of the likes of Karl Eikenberry. The consensus of opinion then was that Obama's spee ...

Water Wars

  • Water wars: Genesee Co. area vs. Detroit
    New pipeline debate sparks discussion
  • Water wars kill five in parched MP
    Water has always been the most precious yet scarce commodity in Madhya Pradesh. But the recent deaths of five people -- in fights and disputes over water -- are a grim reminder of the water crisis plaguing the state.
  • Water Wars
    Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed legislation meant to conserve water and to help resolve a legal dispute that could cost metro Atlanta much of its water supply. Perdue signed the legislation Tuesday along the shore of Lake Lanier , the reservoir at the heart of the three-state dispute. The new rules ...
  • Water wars: new rules for Georgia
    BUFORD, Ga. (AP) -- Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has signed a sweeping water conservation law in hopes it will resolve a three-state dispute over a prized water resource.
  • Georgia governor to sign conservation measures mea ...
    BUFORD, Ga. -- Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to sign new water conservation rules meant to help him reach a deal with Alabama and Florida that will prevent metro Atlanta from losing much of its water.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • The urgency of this moment
    Israel has sent the world a loud message: we will do whatever we want wherever want. So what if we kill civilians in international waters? In response, the world gets the typical e ...
  • A massacre is not a massacre
    I don't write poems but, in any case, poems are not poems. Long ago, I was made to understand that Palestine was not Palestine; I was also informed that Palestinians were not Pales ...
  • Rights org condemns detention of political leaders ...
    Last night, 1 June 2010, Judge Dina Cohen of the Magistrates' Court in Ashkelon, after a nine-hour hearing before a packed courtroom, decided to extend the detention of Arab politi ...
  • Israeli MP's terror aboard aid ship
    An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterd ...
  • The Flotilla attack and Turkey's views of Palestin ...
    Turkish society has been deeply divided over many issues, from political allegiances to cultural preferences. The public sphere in Turkey is more a realm of appropriation and exclu ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Will ebooks vindicate vanity publishing?
    Still plenty of flux in the publishing industry, and I doubt it’s going to settle any time soon. Here’s the latest development: Amazon has raised the percentage of cover price it pays to self-published authors using the Kindle store [via PD_Smith]: This month, Amazon is upping the ante, increasing t ...
  • Under Your Skin: The Implants are Coming
    This idea for this article started when I was doing some research on prosthetics and came across an article about a wheelchair that can be controlled with brainwaves. That got me thinking about what else we might be doing to use electronics or other implants to manage our interface with the world. ...
  • A sci-fi rock’n'roll odyssey at Clarkesworld
    Long-term readers of this here site are probably aware that my other huge cultural obsession (besides science fiction literature, natch) is rock music, and that I’ve spent some amount of time in the last few years on drawing comparisons and connections between the two scenes. So imagine my joy (if y ...
  • Mega-engineering: awesome future concepts from Shi ...
    Get yourself over to Pink Tentacle right away; they’re hosting a bunch of mega-engineering promo images and design concepts from Japan’s Shimizu Corporation, who plainly aren’t afraid to think in directions with strong science fictional undertones. Directions such as floating lily-pad cities, millio ...
  • Futurismic Reopening to Submissions Next Week
    A note to potential fiction contributors:  Futurismic will be reopening to short story submissions on Monday, June 7th.   We’ve had our break and it’s time to get back to work! This gives you plenty of time to re-familiarize yourselves with our guidelines and sample some of our fiction to get a s ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Something You Can Do To Help One Soldier This Memo ...
    You can take a few minutes to send a letter of support on behalf of Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld . Lt. Col. Vandeveld is a highly decorated member of the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps  who served in Bosnia, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan, as both a solder in combat and a prosec ...
  • 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly
    Yesterday concluded the 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly. Staff from the National Whistleblowers Center participated in a number of panels on major issues facing the whistleblower community. Richard Renner provided practice tips as part of the know your rights panel, Stephen M. Kohn discussed fi ...
  • WikiLeaks provokes DoD threat against whistleblowe ...
    A front page story in today's Washington Post looks at the growth and effects of the popular anonymous whistleblower website, WikiLeaks . Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks director, told Post writer Joby Warrrick that, "The message of WikiLeaks to the controllers of information is this: You can either be ...
  • ARB says Iqbal applies to OSHA complaints
    I can hardly believe I am writing this. The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has just issued a decision applying Aschroft v. Iqbal to whistleblower complaints filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). As it happened to one of my clients, Dougla ...
  • MSPB Fails to Protect Robert MacLean
    An administrative judge at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) upheld the illegal termination of former federal air marshal Robert MacLean. Mr. MacLean blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) plan to improperly remove U.S. air marshals f ...

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

  • EU Legal Review Says ACTA Negotiators Broke The La ...
    Remember back when the EU Parliament voted 663 to 13 against what was going on with ACTA negotiations? The EU negotiators, who worked for the EU Commission, not the EU Parliament, seemed to brush off Parliament's concerns. However, some in the Parliament asked their legal services to determine if ...
  • Return Of Clickfraud Lawsuits?
    The issue of "clickfraud" really seemed to die down for a while, but it appears to be back. As you may remember, about five years ago, a bunch of advertisers sued Google over clickfraud. Google took about a year to work out a settlement and we hadn't heard much about the issue for a while. But, o ...
  • Why Is Product Placement Okay On TV Without Disclo ...
    We're still wondering if the FTC is really going to go after blogs that don't disclose financial relationships concerning products they're pitching. So far, the only action the FTC has taken (publicly) has been to investigate retailer Ann Taylor for giving bloggers gift cards -- an action for which ...
  • All That's Left Of Nortel? Patents For The Trolls
    It looks like just about all that's left of former telco equipment giant Nortel is a whole bunch of patents , that are now expected to sell for somewhere in the range of $1.1 billion. The big question, of course, is who ends up with those patents, and what they do with them. Generally speaking, yo ...
  • Canadian DMCA Introduced; Digital Lock Provision T ...
    As was widely expected , Canadian politicians have introduced their version of the DMCA , dubbed the "Copyright Modernization Act" (or Bill C-32 if you want to get technical). Michael Geist runs down the good and the bad at the link above, but it appears there's a lot more that's bad than good. Wh ...

VacTruth

  • Letter from a mother with a vaccine injured child
    Posted on Neil Miller’s Think Twice Facebook Page. Dear Thinktwice (http://thinktwice.com/), Reading through some of the posts on the site, many parents (such as myself) are questioning their intuition — that gut feeling that “something is wrong” as their child seems different now since the shot, ...
  • New quandary for parents: Do boys need the HPV vac ...
    Letitia Stein St. Petersburg Times 06/01/2010 On their next visit to the pediatrician, parents of adolescent boys may be asked if they want their sons to get an expensive vaccine they’ve never before considered â the HPV shot. Recently approved for boys, the three-dose immunization has been given ...
  • Educated mothers “free-riding” on vacc ...
    Kent Atkinson NZPA 06/02/2010 Concerns educated parents in New Zealand were developing a form of “white flight” over immunisation of children against disease were aired at a Parliamentary select committee today. “There is growing evidence that children of educated parents are…becoming a signific ...
  • The lies the Government tell when it comes to vacc ...
    He explained about how shocked he had been about the attitudes of the Department of Health, the Joint Committee of Vaccine and Immunization and the Committee on the Safety of Medicines, when he presented them with his evidence and how they chose the ignore the facts in favour of mass vaccination.
  • Vaccines at birth could result in Ritalin for brea ...
    Christina England American Chronicle 05/30/2010 Big Pharma’s only interest in society today is profit. Healthy people are of no use to them whatsoever, after all a healthy person does not need a cure. So bearing this in mind a few adverse reactions here and there do not worry the likes of Glaxo Smi ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Issue number 5 of the ALLiance journal is out.  This issue focuses on radical labor, especially the IWW.  Some good stuff in there (and I’m not just saying that because they included one of my articles). I wanted to stand up and cheer when I read this article about misogyny in radical movements.  ...
  • Neruda on Memorials
    Nothing I could say today that Neruda didn’t say better. (My crap English translation is below.) Sangrienta fue toda tierra del hombre. Tiempo, edificaciones, rutas, lluvia, borran las constelaciones del crimen, lo cierto es que un planeta tan pequeño fue mil veces cubierto por la sangre, guerra o ...
  • Trusting Your Government
    So here is a fascinating chart from Pew. It shows trust in government by administration, starting with Kennedy and Johnson. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, most democrats and republicans trusted the government. After Tricky Dick, trust in government plunged and never really came b ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello all. Sorry I’m in and out of the internet tubes lately. In addition to work being busy, I’m juggling a bunch of projects. One of them is called Anarchy in the News. It’s a new website for news reports about anarchy or anarchists. You can check it out here. You [...]
  • Liberalism and Disempowerment
    By now you have surely heard about Rand Paul’s interview with Rachel Maddow.  Paul slimed around for twenty minutes trying not to admit that he does not support the provisions in the 1964 Civil Rights Act that made it illegal for a private business to discriminate. On Rachel’s next show, she had a ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • 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 ...
  • Alwaki Tribe Denies Statement
    The Sheik of the Awlaki tribe in Yemen denied that tribal leaders held a meeting or threatened Yemeni citizens as is being widely reported in the Western media. Reuters reported receiving a faxed statement last week from the Awalki tribe that said, “We warn against cooperating with America to kill S ...
  • Yemen National Dialog Coalition Seeks Reform, Broa ...
    Yemen’s National Dialog Committee published an English language summary of its National Salvation Plan yesterday. The document is available at http://yemenvision.wordpress.com/ The National Dialog Committee (NDC) is an important Yemeni civil society coalition dedicated to creating a forum and consen ...

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

  • Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunit ...
    Blueberries. Image credit: NH Farmers Market Association. University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally produced food system. Local food or farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' - accounts for 12 percent of New Hampshire's farm foo ...
  • TED Talk: Ocean Photographer Brian Skerry Reveals ...
    Image via TED video TED's Mission Blue Voyage to the Galapagos put some of the best scientists and advocates of the oceans in one place to discuss what's happening to our seas - the good and the bad. But a picture is worth a thousand words, as they say, so the TED Talk given by photographer Bri ...
  • On Celebrating Everyday Heros to Save Our Oceans
    Photo by markey weiss Guest post by Philippe Cousteau I was at the grocery store the other day, minding my own business, when I noticed the woman in front of me pull out a large cloth reusable sack at the checkout aisle. "Progress!" I thought to myself with satisfaction. Then I watched in ho ...
  • Green Fashion in Sex and the City 2 (Photos)
    The ladies of Sex and the City 2 dressed in elaborate wardrobes; In an equally decadent setting. Credit: HBO via Vogue Green fashion hits the big screen in Sex and the City 2 amongst the modern, decadent ensembles worn by the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker ,
  • reNEWable Times Square: Cool Water, Hot Island
    'Cool Water, Hot Island' rendering by Molly Dilworth This month Time Square is getting a makeover. Brooklyn-based artist Molly Dilworth won the competition reNEWable Times Square to design temporary surface treatments, launched by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) . Her proje ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Fortune, glory drive global warming bandwagon
    Clearly, too much money is being spent on one-sided global warming advocacy cloaked as “research,â€Â not enough on natural causes and adaptation. Despite the best of intentions, too much money can corrupt, or at least skew the science.
  • CFACT's Morano responds on ABC News hit story
    On ABC's May 23 "World News Sunday," a segment from anchor Dan Harris alleged that threatening e-mails Mann received were part of a "spike" in violence aimed at the global warming alarmist community.
  • CFACT, Freedom Works protest GE Chair at Boston Co ...
    Groups contend GE's Immelt favors global warming policies which destroy jobs, increase subsidies for ideas that fail in the marketplace, and support politicians who try and expand government control over our lives.
  • Collegians protest Gore honorary degree in Knoxvil ...
    CFACT students unite with local tea party organizers to stage a protest against the University of Tennessee's awarding of an honorary degree to Al Gore.
  • Taxpayers shouldn't pay for oil spill clean-up
    It may turn out that the public still supports offshore drilling -- albeit with new safeguards based on what is learned from this spill -- but not a moratorium on all offshore oil production.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Mars 'expedition' starts in Moscow (Update)
    The participants in a simulated Mars expedition waved good-bye to journalists, sealed the hatches and "took off" for a 520-day "space trip" on Thursday, a spokesman for the Moscow Institute of Medical and Biological Problems said
  • Google launches Mars flight simulation mission's o ...
    The Russian scientific institute that started on Thursday the Mars-500 simulation of a manned mission to the Red Planet has launched an interactive website on the experiment in cooperation with Google
  • Mars 'expedition' starts in Moscow
    The participants in a simulated Mars expedition will "take off" for a 520-day "space trip" on Thursday, a spokesman for the Moscow Institute of Medical and Biological Problems said
  • Kremlin eyes Superjet 100 aircraft for presidentia ...
    Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company's Superjet 100 airliner will be used for the country's presidential needs as soon as it is rolls of the factory, a Kremlin official said.
  • Atlantis astronauts carry out first scheduled spac ...
    U.S. astronauts Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen have successfully carried out their first scheduled spacewalk on routine maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA said.

Pruning Shears

  • Miscellany
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’m on semi-vacation this week, so here’s a semi-post. The worst case is not leaking until Christmas . The worst case is leaking until all the oil is gone. We ought to make that our default assumption and only adjust it in the face ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Remember the Cato institute’s “I have little to worry about , of course, because I’m not an illegal immigrant”? I wonder if Eduardo Caraballo has the same placid view of the situation. This is an era of nativism, and supposedly res ...
  • Some Suggestions For Our Inert President
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post We are in the midst of what is probably the worst environmental catastrophe in our nation’s history, and it looks like the damage will continue to worsen for the next few months . Barack Obama may not know this yet, but his credibil ...
  • Today's example of how profoundly fucked up our pr ...
    Could someone plant some chicken nuggets on Tony Hayward ?
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I missed this last week, but Marcy looked at the implications of Elena Kagan getting confirmed to the Supreme Court. There are a number of issues on which she would have to recuse herself, and it looks like in most cases doing so wi ...

Natural Health News

  • Calories Lurk in Popular Beverages
    One 16-ounce can of Rockstar Energy Drink contains the same amount of sugar as half a dozen Krispy Kreme Original Glazed donuts. Energy drinks aren't the only culprits. The calorie and sugar content of flavored water and even juice often surprises people. Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water, for ...
  • Cancer Will Kill 13.2 Million a Year by 2030
    Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.  Only 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2008. Around 56 percent of new cancer cases worldwide in 2008 were in developing countries and these regions also accounted for 63 pe ...
  • Antidepressants Linked to Cataracts
    The widely prescribed antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may boost the risk for developing cataracts among seniors. The increase in risk was calculated to be approximately 15 percent. At that rate, 22,000 Americans would theoretically develop cataracts as a res ...
  • U.S. Made Cigarettes Cause the Most Cancer
    According to a recent study, U.S. made cigarettes tend to contain more cancer-causing chemicals than cigarettes brands made elsewhere around the world. In particular, U.S. cigarettes have more TSNAs, or tobacco-specific nitrosamines, than foreign made cigarettes. TSNAs are the major cancer-causing ...
  • A Little Chocolate Helps Cut Cholesterol
    Eating chocolate lower cholesterol levels in some people, according to a new analysis of eight studies. However, the chocolate only helped people who already had risk factors for heart disease, and then only when consumed in modest amounts. Reuters reports: “When all studies were analyzed togethe ...

Antemedius

  • Criminal Ex-President Brags About Waterboarding
    The normalization of torture continued apace yesterday as the criminal President Bush said in a speech in Grand Rapids, MI that if he had it all to do over again he would still order the waterboarding of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. That’s right this unindicted war criminal still thinks that ordering this ...
  • BP Blaming Employees For The Gusher
    It now appears that BP while attempting to plug the gusher with their so called "top kill" operation, has moved to trying to blame the Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and the BP oil gusher in the Gulf on it's employees who were on the platform at the time of the explosion. In this short clip fr ...
  • Gulf Oil Could Leak For Years
    Well known City University of New York Physics Professor Michio Kaku appeared on NBC's Today Show with some disturbing comments. RawStory reports : After six methods for stopping the [Deepwater Horizon] leak failed, BP is now trying a seventh method: "cut and cap." ... If this seventh attempt fai ...
  • Using Livestock to Rebuild and Preserve Communitie ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet blog. For pastoralist communities like the well-known Maasai in Kenya, livestock keeping is more than just an important source of food and income; it’s a way of life that has been a part of their culture and traditions for hundreds of y ...
  • The One Thing We Can Agree on Is Peace
    By David Swanson Anna Janek is a Republican candidate for Congress from West Bloomfield, Mich. She says: "Socialism, Communism, Welfare-ism, Globalism, Fascism, Obama-ism…it's all the same: State control of the Human Spirit under the guise of benevolence." Marcy Winograd is a Democratic candidate ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

  • UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
    Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
  • Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
    Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
  • Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
    BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
  • What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
    RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
  • Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
    ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Aquaculture Bill to Protect Ocean Ecosystem
    A new aquaculture bill entitled the “Research and Aquaculture Opportunity and Responsibility Act” introduced last week by Senator by David Vitter (Louisiana) is worthy of support. As described in the press release, the bill calls for a 3.5 year delay on new offshore aquaculture permitting. The bill ...
  • Gaining a Better Understanding of ‘Food Deserts’
    Lawyer Andy Weisbecker recently posted an opinion piece in Food Safety News in which he discusses the problem of limited access to healthy food and its contribution to the burden of obesity and diet-related disease. The term “food desert” refers to a location-generally, a low-income neighborhood-fr ...
  • When Famous Meat Eaters Adopt Meatless Monday, “Yo ...
    When super-chef and restaurateur Mario Batali, self proclaimed lover of all forms of pork, decided to join the Meatless Monday movement, Washington Post food writer Jane Black took notice. In an article published today, she wrote, “when Mario Batali starts to push people to eat their vegetables, you ...
  • Taking the Meat We Eat Out of the Factory and Putt ...
    On Tuesday, Animal Welfare Approved and the Pew Environment Group presented a public panel discussion about raising pasture-based animals, and reclaiming these sustainable farming systems as the source of our meat and dairy.  The star-studded panel included Nicolette Hahn Niman, attorney and author ...
  • Locally grown, Locally shared: A new model for giv ...
    Over a hundred Baltimore residents gathered on Saturday night for the 4th edition of an innovative fundraising event called STEW. STEW is a joint project of Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, where attendees pay $10/person for the opportunity to share a multi-cou ...

Norwegianity

  • The Girl from Ipanemasbørg
    I’ve always thought the best talk/variety hosts were personable individuals with talent in their own right. I suspect Swedish TV isn’t always this good, but this is better than most of what goes on the air here. Rigmor Gustafsson is a new fascination of mine. I love her most recent album, Calling Yo ...
  • Links, cont.
    Steve Benen rounds up yesterday’s primary election results and they’re mostly gratifying. - More on Zionism gone bad: Glenn Greenwald Ken Silverstein Clinton tells foreign leaders to “dial it down” (yeah, like that will fix this mess) Pictures of the flotilla’s deadly cargo Queen Rania less parasiti ...
  • More on the Apartheid nation of Israel
    After stripping them of their cameras, notebooks and personal items, Israel is expelling the flotilla activists today. History will show the activists to have been heroes while Israel will merit its own chapter. I would suggest they call it Apartheid, Part 2. From an editorial in today’s NY Times: T ...
  • Is Gaza the new Warsaw Ghetto?
    I tried to skip over Rabbi Amy Eilberg’s “we may never know . . . who attacked first” op-ed but the Strib just promoted it to their front page online rotating headline section, making it very hard to ignore. Rabbi Eilberg is clearly one of the more enlighted Jewish leaders in the Twin Cities, but [. ...
  • Israel defiant, U.S. lapdog compliant
    To recap, Israeli commandos dropped from the sky in the dead of night to seize flotilla ships that had already altered course to avoid making landfall in Gaza, and now the America press is busting their collective ass to make sure we all know Israel’s side of the story. L.A. Times: Israel defended i ...

The Seferm Post

  • Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
  • Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
    10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
  • Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
  • Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
    Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
  • Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
    The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.

The World We Live In

  • One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
    I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
  • New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
    Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
  • At least we are not Dubai
    We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
  • 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
    The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
  • Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
    A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation âRah-e-Rastâ. Before the operation âRah-e-Rastâ, an NGO financed preparation of f ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Leahy and DeFazio Circulate “Dear Colleague& ...
    ACTION ALERT: Senator Leahy and Representative DeFazio are circulating a Congressional sign-on letter in the House and Senate “Asking USDA to Maintain the Ban on Genetically Engineered Alfalfa.”   Contact your Senators and Representative today and ask them to sign on!  Filed under: GE Crops, GE Fo ...
  • Update: CFS Fighting Monsanto in the Supreme Court ...
    On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Watch a short message from CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell, an ...
  • Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
        Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
  • CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
    High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
  • Happy Earth Day!
    This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • MILITARY & GEOGRAPHERS PLAN INDIGENOUS DISPOSSESSI ...
    MNN. Sep. 15, 2009. July 11, 2010, will be twenty years since the Canadian military attacked the Mohawk Nation at Kanehsatake, Kahnawake and Akwesasne. We did not want the nearby town of Oka to extend its golf course over our ceremonial site and burial grounds. The Quebec police opened fire with aut ...
  • John John: Israel's crimes
    http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/31-05-2010/113590-israel_pariah-0 Israel : The Pariah of the International Community Front page / Opinion / Columnists 31.05.2010 Source: Pravda.Ru ������� The most striking feature about Israel’s most recent act of terrorism, an act of piracy and murder ...
  • From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High ...
    Phyllis Bennis: From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas Israel has decided that it is better to be perceived as savage than as weak. In its initial attack on the boats carrying human rights activists and humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel's commandos killed at least ...
  • Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers -MSH
    Zionism Recruits Indian “Jews” as Settlers - (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Bnei Menashe claim to be a lost Jewish tribe currently living in a remote corner of India. They identify as Jews and are to be sent to Nepal for fast-track conversion to so-called Orthodoxy (in the “strict” Zion ...
  • Polynesian Panthers visit Wellington
    �Source An event organised by the combined Schools of Pacific Studies, Te Kawa a Maaui, International Relations and Political Science saw a good crowd arrive at the New Kirk 303 lecture theatre around 5.30pm on Friday 14th May. The speakers and audience were welcomed by staff of Pacific Studies, ...

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

  • 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…
  • Environmental News -02/06/10
    Environmental News Plastics found in the seas around Antarctica Man-made plastics have found their way to the most remote and inaccessible seas in the world off the coast of Antarctica, scientists have discovered. The seas around continental Antarctica are the last place on Earth scient ...
  • Inspired to Stay Grounded
    Stay grounded [pun intended], save money and save the environment! We take a look at an inspiring business initiative: Fly Free Week!
  • Environmental News -01/06/10
    Environmental News Energy efficiency push Governments at all levels waste $450 million of taxpayers' money a year on inflated energy bills due to inefficiencies in public buildings, an adviser to the Rudd government has found. The advice comes as the federal government looks to energy e ...
  • What's on 31 May 2010
    5 June 2010 is world environment day! The theme this year is “Many Species. One Planet. One Future” in line with 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. In Australia, celebrations include Brisbane’s first eco festival, Sydney goes wild(life) cocktail party, ‘World Environment Day’ at Royal Park in ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Gulf of Mexico oil slick closes in on Florida
    ShareThis Gulf of Mexico oil slick closes in on Florida � --221-mile Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is�world's third-longest barrier reef and�crucial wildlife habitat 02 Jun 2010 The Gulf of Mexico oil slick closed in on Florida, threatening a new environmental disaster... With the slick onl ...
  • Gaza flotilla attack: British activists tell of ab ...
    ShareThis Gaza flotilla attack: British activists tell of abuse by Israelis 03 Jun 2010 British activists who took part in the Gaza aid flotilla have been deported from Israel, alleging they were abused, humiliated and beaten by troops after the raid on their ships... Sarah Colborne, director of cam ...
  • $2-billion mass flu immunization program a bust, f ...
    ShareThis $2-billion mass flu immunization program a bust, figures reveal --New figures show shockingly low H1N1 vaccination rates 03 Jun 2010 A $2-billion campaign to 'protect' Canadians against an influenza pandemic failed dramatically in parts of Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, newly obtained figu ...
  • George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind
    ShareThis George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind --Former US president says Khalid Sheik Mohammed was waterboarded by US and he would do it again 'to save lives' 03 Jun 2010 George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind patsy of the 9/11 attack ...
  • Gaza flotilla attack: UN secretary general demands ...
    ShareThis Gaza flotilla attack: UN secretary general demands blockade be lifted 03 Jun 2010 Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has demanded that Israel lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip immediately in the wake of the deadly raid on the aid flotilla. Speaking on his return from visits to Brazil ...

Daily Loaf

  • On the Radar: the Pinellas Pepper Fest and Dunedin ...
    Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Whether your pleasure is measured in Scovilles or alcohol-by-volume, this is the weekend for tingling the taste buds. The flavor adventure starts Saturday afternoon with the fourth annual Pinellas Pepper Fest ...
  • Do It Today, Theater Edition: Jobsite’s Dead Man’s ...
    When it comes to quirky, thought-provoking theater, the folks at Jobsite rarely disappoint, and their latest production looks to be right in their aesthetic wheelhouse. Written by Sarah Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Clean House, Dead Man’s Cell Phone centers on a woman who answers the ...
  • Celtics-Lakers hard to predict
    So while some fans and a lot of sports radio talk show hosts will continue to talk about where LeBron will play next year, Kobe and Paul Pierce and Gasol and Rondo and Ray Allen and KG and Phil Jackson, etc., will be where it's really at: playing for the NBA championship, playing for history.
  • Scott Maddox to Dean Cannon & other pro offshore d ...
    CL predicted after hearing WUSF radio’s report about a $200,000 study requested by Florida House Republicans regarding off-shore drilling that somehow escaped initial media scrutiny earlier this spring that Democrats – unless they were absolutely inert – would start raising hell about it. Yesterda ...
  • CD review: Delta Spirit, History from Below (with ...
    History From Below shines a light on the human condition, but offers a melancholy hope, as if to say, "Yep, life blows and storms are ahead, but we have life jackets ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Live from The Only Democracy?: part 1 of exclusive ...
    By Jesse Bacon I had the privilege of speaking with Huwaida Arraf of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla direct from Ramallah today. I will write up a transcript later of the talk, but for now here’s the interview audio. I will speak to her again tomorrow and be asking her more about what happened on May 31 ...
  • Amidst Furor Over Gaza, Israel Shoots Out the Eye ...
    From the International Solidarity Movement Warning: Graphic Photos. 31 May 2010: An 21-year old American solidarity activist was shot in the face with a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Qalandiya, today. Emily Henochowicz is currently in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem undergoing surger ...
  • Contact Obama to Cancel Tuesday’s Israeli PM ...
    I wrote here some 40 hours ago, that Israel is determined to act as brutally and stupidly the UK did in 1947 when its troops stormed a Palestine-bound ship called “Exodus” and killed 3 passengers. But even I didn’t dream they would be this stupid, this brutal. As I write this, the IDF keeps changing ...
  • An Open Letter by Jeff Halper to the Israeli Jewis ...
    By Jeff Halper If we were not Israeli Jews, if the nine ships bringing 800 peace-makers from 40 countries would be sailing with humanitarian aid to an imprisoned population of a million and a half to, say, Haiti, the flotilla now on its way to Gaza would be hailed as a monumental event. The go ...
  • Israel to World: Screw You, We will Continue to Bl ...
    It all happened before. A ship sailing to Palestine. Its organizers care not so much about the ship’s arrival. They want to bring world attention to the injustices in Palestine. Live broadcasts from aboard the ship excite and inspire supporters on the shores. The power controlling Palestine in a non ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Oil hits Alabama beaches, headed for Florida
    Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is angry about U.S. Coast Guard decisions he says have left parts of the Gulf Coast vulnerable to pollution from the oil spill. Riley told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Coast Guard wrongly decided to remove oil barriers from the Alabama and Mississippi coasts and ...
  • Obama’s Katrina? Maybe worse, says NYT
    I’d say it’s more like Obama’s Chernobyl. His obvious disinterest in the whole affair, lack of compassion for the victimes, and endless refusal to take BP to task are curious indeed, especially for a seasoned politician. Contrast Obama’s remote, professorial approach with that of Louisiana Governor ...
  • Giant inflatable airship powered by algae
    Alternative Energy News has more.
  • Optics of the National Consultative Peace Jirga in ...
    Preliminary thoughts on the National Peace Jirga in Afghanistan
  • Asymptotic Life now on Wordpress. Check it out.
    Polizeros contributor DJ has just converted his blog, Asymptotic Life to Wordpress from the creaky GoDaddy blog platform. There were 3,000 entries and the process was not intuitive or simple (converting between blog formats seldom is.) However, the results looks great. And welcome to Wordpress, DJ!

Coteret

  • Elliott Abrams to Maariv: Obama’s policies b ...
    Last weekend, Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom featured Newt Gingrinch warning Israelis that Obama’s policies could lead to “a second Holocaust.” Now, Elliott Abrams is in Israel for an event organized by Dore Gold’s neoconservative institute, the JCPA, and the competition, Maariv, interviews him o ...
  • Maariv and Yediot: Erdogan landed military planes ...
    This appears to be an extraordinary story, from this morning’s Yediot (June 2 2010, full translated text below, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post): Yesterday, the Turkish authorities demanded that Israel release all 350 of the Turkish citizens who were among the 600 foreign detainees.  For ...
  • The day after: Noam Sheizaf live blogging on the i ...
    Coteret contributor Noam Sheizaf is continuing his live blogging on the immediate aftermath of the Gaza flotilla affair at Promised Land Blog.
  • Time to act
    Louis Frankenthaler moved to Israel in 1995 and lives, with his family, in West Jerusalem. He has an MA in Jewish Education, is a doctoral student and works for the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. His political writings have appeared in Zeek, Global Dialogue, the Electronic Intifada an ...
  • Death at Sea: Noam Sheizaf live blogging as the Ga ...
    Coteret contributor Noam Sheizaf is live blogging on the Gaza flotilla affair at Promised Land Blog.

Deadline Live

  • US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Go ...
    US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com (HUMOR) Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | [...]
  • South Africa cleans streets for the World Cup
    The World Cup football tournament kicks off in one week, and host South Africa is busy putting on the finishing touches. But not everyone is looking forward to the tournament. Authorites in cities including Cape Town are being accused of clearing the poor from the streets – to create a good impress ...
  • Did Israel tamper with flotilla?
    JERUSALEM, June 2 (UPI) — There are growing indications that Israel’s military or its intelligence service sabotaged three of the foreign ships involved in the ill-fated effort to get humanitarian supplies to the blockaded Gaza Strip. Matan Vilnai , Israel’s deputy defense minister, hinted duri ...
  • BP boss admits ‘not prepared’ for Deep ...
    BP CHIEF executive Tony Hayward admitted that the oil giant had not been prepared for a deep-water leak, as its latest bid to contain the Gulf of Mexico spill hit a snag. “What is undoubtedly true is that we did not have the tools you would want in your tool-kit,” Mr Hayward told the Financial Times ...
  • Deadline Live – June 2 2010
    Wednesday – Hour One: All the news you need to hear. Sound clips from Paul Craig Roberts and Helen Thomas. Hour Two: Jacks Guests were Dale Robertson and Ambassador Ed Peck. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | [...]

The Air Vent

  • Science Blogging
    I really should be playing with some data today, but there isn’t much time again.  Having an extended break from blogging has given me a few chances to introspect on the subject – Kayaking with my son in my lap,  up and down the Muskegon river looking at heron’s, snakes, fish, turtles etc. gave me ...
  • Oil Spill Cleanup Concepts
    Dr. Weinstein sent me an email on oil spill cleanup which has some interesting history.  I don’t think he will mind if I publish the email he sent which contains some clues as to the history of these concepts.  I remember seeing similar things on TV and in print way back when the Exxon Valdez [... ...
  • Reader Opinion day from Climate Skeptic
    I read an article on climate skeptic this morning which was interesting. It’s an interview of Climate Skeptic proprietor Warren Meyer  on his views on climate change.  He did a great job with his answers (really it was good reading) but I would suggest making your own before reading his.   The f ...
  • Much Ado
    Some have written that skeptics don’t cover sea ice in summer, that’s not how it works here.   Lately, we’ve seen a bit of consternation in the news and on blogs over the rate of drop in Arctic sea ice.  As usual it’s nothing scary to me, but if it continues, the headlines are going [...]
  • Weather or not
    I’ve spent an entire week away from blogging now,  for the first time since tAV began.  It’s been rather nice this week, quiet, no outbursts, nobody to tell me how I’m a lunatic equal to Romm for my views (that I’m aware of).  Honestly, I’ve been completely uninspired, spent a weekend with the fa ...

Focal Point

  • Was the Raid on the Freedom Flotilla Legal?
    Early Monday morning Israeli commandos rappelled from helicopters onto the deck of the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship bearing tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza. There were about 700 passengers aboard the ship at the time. Some of the passengers resisted the onslaught with knives and clubs. In the end, ...
  • West Bank Rabbi Bans Female Candidates From Local ...
    The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement decreed that women are ineligible to run for municipal office because women should only be heard through their husbands : The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement has prohibited women from standing in a local community election. Rabbi Elyakim Levanon o ...
  • 2-Tentacled Ancestor of Squid ID'd By Canucks
    A pair of Canadian paleontologists say that anigmatic fossilized organism called Nectocaris pteryx (literally "swimming crab with wings") was the great-grandmammy of the modern-day squid, octopus, and cuttlefish: In the Canadian Rockies, a horde of 91 squid-like animals have risen from the dep ...
  • Autism/Vaccine Doc Andrew Wakefield Gets the Boot
    A doctor who touched off a worldwide panic over an alleged link between the MMR vaccine and autism has been barred from practicing medicine over unethical research practices. Britain's General Medical Council struck Wakefield from the medical register on Monday, a sanction analogous to disbarring ...
  • New Yorker Repeats False Claim that James O ...
    Rebecca Mead's New Yorker profile of conservative online media mogul Andrew Breitbart repeats the false claim that his protege, provocateur videographer James O'Keefe, impersonated a pimp to infiltrate the offices of the anti-poverty, pro-voter registration group ACORN. Here's how Mead describes th ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Now Requiring Developer Verification
    All developers will need to verify their accounts through Facebook’s standard account verification procedures before being allowed to create new applications on the platform, Facebook announced today in a blog post. Platform verification is not a new topic for Facebook, but today marks the first t ...
  • The Future of Facebook Privacy, Politics, and Adve ...
    Over the last few weeks and months, there has been a lot of commentary in the media on Facebook and online privacy. Much of the criticism that has been directed at Facebook has focused on either the absence of or poor usability with privacy settings – issues that Facebook made moves to try to addres ...
  • Name Analyzer and Spanish-Language Apps Top This W ...
    Games offer the most significant gains on this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook apps by daily active users, leaving only a few significant non-game apps scattered throughout the top 20. It’s led off by My Empire, the newest game from Electronic Arts. The innovative Roman-themed city buil ...
  • Disney Sells Advance ‘Toy Story 3’ Tickets on Face ...
    In anticipation of its June 18 release date, “Toy Story 3” advance tickets are now available for purchase on Facebook, courtesy of an application created by Disney. The app, Disney’s Tickets Together, allows Facebook users to purchase advance tickets with their friends and then publish the fact ...
  • The Facebook Global Monitor – June 2010 Edition is ...
    The Facebook Global Monitor is available through your membership to Inside Facebook Gold Today, Inside Network is releasing the June 2010 edition of the Facebook Global Monitor, our data report tracking Facebookâs growth around the world. The Facebook Global Monitor is a part of ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israeli MP’s terror on aid ship: “Plan was to kill ...
    Jonathan Cook reports on the eyewitness account of an Arab member of the Israeli parliament who says that Israeli warships fired on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla “a few minutes before commandoes abseiled from a helicopter directly above them”, and suggested that some unarmed peace activists had been e ...
  • Israel’s shameful justification for murdering peac ...
    Neve Gordon considers the flaws and contradictions in Israel’s justification for attacking the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla and murdering innocent peace activists on board.
  • The madness of arrogance: Israel's attack on the G ...
    Alan Sabrosky argues that Israel may have overreached itself by murdering international aid workers bound for beleaguered Gaza, and that this act of wanton savagery provides the civilized world with an opportunity to rein in the rogue Jewish state once and for all.
  • Letter to UK Minister Henry Bellingham: the rogue ...
    Stuart Littlewood has emailed his UK Member of Parliament, Henry Bellingham, a newly appointed Foreign Office minister in the coalition government, asking him to spell out the actions the British governments intends to take in response to Israel’s murder on the high seas of Gaza-bound international ...
  • Benefit concert for Free Gaza
    Following Israel's maritime slaughter of defenceless and heroic humanitarian activists, Sarah Gillespie and Gilad Atzmon will be donating their earnings from this week's concerts at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club (3-5 June), to the Free Gaza organization.

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

  • Updates & Multi-Week Round Up for May 31
    Still Alive & Kicking, A Scholar For All Seasons Or Agendas?, Terrorization & De-Terrorization Flip This is going to come as a relief to some and as a major disappointment to others: I am alive and almost back! As my long-term readers know I almost never share personal details here, and I am not abo ...
  • Thinking the Unthinkable in the Aftermath of Kanda ...
    The Battle for Kandahar & The “Perceptions” of American Victory The upcoming campaign for the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar will be the crucial test for the United States’ military and the Obama administration’s AfPak strategy. It will clearly be an epic military battle and a test of the intellectu ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Ill-Logic of the U.S. Predator Drone Campaign
    A Bad Omen for America   William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of the law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last [...]

Afro Spear

  • White Approval Addiction–You Got it!
    You know you’re addicted.  Tell me you’re not, and I’ll tell you that you are.  You actually need a white person to approve of you as a black person in order to feel good about yourself. That’s why you’re so mad that there are still racists out there.  It’s so upsetting to you because you [...]
  • Malia vs. Haitian Child Sex Slaves
    I have been very busy with work and travelling this week, however two stories caught my attention. Although they involved Black children, what I found interesting and most revealing was the reaction of the African American community to both stories.  The first story had to deal with FOXNews personal ...
  • Wanting Quantity, Needing Quality
    I’m a relatively new Christian. I returned to the Lord in 2003 after having been away since I was a teen in the 70′s. I went on to do exactly as I dreamed when I was a child, to work in the Main Public Library of San Francisco. I so much enjoyed having access to [...]
  • sat’day riddymz
  • Protecting The Rights Of Racists
    I think HBO comedian, political commentator, and talk show host Bill Maher said it best. Mr. Maher said that conservative Libertarian candidate Rand Paul is the equivalent of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin if she could make it through medical school. In an interview on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show ...

Expose the BNP

  • 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 ...
  • Journalists expose ‘murky world’ of far right
    Leading anti-fascist journalists last week gave a fascinating insight into the “murky and disturbing world of far right politics”. Nick Griffin’s biographer Dominic Carman and photojournalist Marc Vallée shed light on the violent and antidemocratic core of the BNP and the English Defence League. A s ...

Sen4Earth

  • 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 ...
  • Earth Day 2010
    Take Initiative! earth day SEN encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When ...

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

  • Neo-Cons decades of deceit
    The neo-cons unbridled success with the JFK coup, led them to the 911, who knows what else they have in store for us, do you want your children to pay the consequences?
  • Government should not abdicate RESPONIBILITIES
    reliance on greedy and shameless entities magnifies both the human and monetary cost of war
  • Government should not abdicate it’s Responsibiliti ...
          Blackwater is just the tip of the iceberg. Tuesday deadline to stop reckless outsourcing. Submit a public comment by noon EDT on Tuesday, June 1. Submit a public comment to move us away from the Bush-era practice of dismantling our government and giving free rein to Blackwater and companies li ...
  • Time is short…
    "It doesn't take DNA to make a dad," she said. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease.
  • I need your help….
    This a contest that Advance America is running, they are a payday advance business, which unfortunately, I’v been dealing with since the beginning of the year. I had anticipated ending our relationship when my income tax return. Social Security confiscated that money because they said they had overp ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • A Church Full of Underminers, and George Monbiot
    At 10.28 on Saturday 28th May 2010, there were three people sitting on chairs in the small church of St John’s, Llangollen…I wasn’t too worried, as the Dark Mountain Journal was being launched in the large hall up the street, and was running over by about 10 minutes – maybe I would get the 20 [...]
  • Climbing The Dark Mountain
    At the crack of dawn tomorrow (Friday 28th May) I leave for Wales; taking a bus into Edinburgh, a train to Crewe, another train to Chester, yet another train to Ruabon, and finally a bus to Llangollen. More civilised people might consider this to be a slightly excessive response to not wishing to d ...
  • How To Sue An Oil Company (from The Washington Pos ...
    I have very little faith in any of the instruments of civilised society; but when you are faced with something like the BP Deepwater Oil Tide⢠then a combination of both civilised and uncivilised activities may well be the best course of action – if only to allow one to mask the other… How to sue ...
  • Joss Garman Shows The Tragedy of Going Mainstream
    Take a look at the video above. On the right is a person who has the guts to appear on the BBC and say, without embarrassment or political correctness, that people just need to stop flying so much. The Plane Stupid representative’s comments are brilliantly amplified by Jeremy Paxman’s priceless que ...
  • Green Youth Movement: The Frightening Face of Youn ...
    An impending sense of dispair tends to fall over me when I open my mailbox in the morning. Alongside the genuine spam comes a pile of cut-and-paste guff that spews from the keyboards of public relations firms who have been paid a few bucks to send out sycophantic press releases on behalf of their c ...

Subalternate Reality

  • 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” ...
  • Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
    University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery.  The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps.  While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • New Media Should Dig into Issues Around Cyber-Secu ...
    I was honored to be invited by the EastWest Institute to attend in Dallas a Cyber Security Summit , which gathered a fascinating collection of tech elites including Michael Dell, Esther Dyson, Ross Perot Jr., and Randall L. Stephenson; current and retired military and intelligence like James L. Jon ...
  • Hacks and Hackers: The Time Was Right
    "Hacks and Hackers," our young organization focused on bringing journalism and technology closer together, seems to have struck a chord. Over the weekend of May 21-23, 80 journalists and technologists in San Francisco participated in the group's first " Hacks/Hackers Unite " gathering, where ...
  • Contrasting Boston Neighborhoods for Virtual Stree ...
    Things have started to kick into gear for Virtual Street Corners , my project that will connect the Boston towns of Brookline and Roxbury by live 24-hour video connection. At this point the most time-consuming task is community organizing as we create excitement for the project and identify groups w ...
  • Sourcemap Makes Data Visualizations Transparent
    Yesterday colleagues of mine at MIT were brainstorming plenaries for an upcoming media conference. Data visualization came up, but each of us grumbled. "Overdone," one of us said, to nodding heads. We'd done a session on that at every one of our conferences and forums, as had others at theirs. Data ...
  • Our Friends Become Curators of Twitter-Based News
    I like to listen before I talk. Which means that during my morning routine I read before I write. But where to turn and what to read? One of the most oft-repeated statements I heard at conferences last year: "our problem isn't information overload, it's crappy filters." In other words, we shouldn ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Gaza on the Edge - Israeli Interdiction of Palesti ...
    Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon held a press briefing on May 31, several hours after Israel Defense Forces seized a flotilla of ships organized by pro-Palestine sympathizers that was headed to to the Gaza Strip. In the fray, at least 11 people were killed, with numbers climbing. Ayalon ...
  • Inside Africa - International Criminal Court begin ...
    On May 31, a two-week ICC (International Criminal Court) conference opened in Kampala, Uganda, the first formal review conference since the ICC was set up by world leaders gathered in Rome in 1998. In March of this year, Bangladesh became the 111th party to the Rome Statute, while 37 others have sig ...
  • Edge on Domestic Security - Response to Illegal Im ...
    Section IV of Article IV of the US Constitution states: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened ...
  • Child Rearing on the Edge - Spare the Rod, and Spa ...
    Discipline—whether it's spanking, yelling or giving time-outs—may sometimes do little to reduce children's behavior problems, a new study indicates. Researchers at the University of Michigan and five other universities looked at practices and perceptions of discipline in six countries. They found th ...
  • Inside Islam - Religious Minorities Fearful in Pak ...
    On May 28, Taliban extremists killed at least 93 members of the Ahmadi religious sect and injured around 100 others in attacks on two Ahmadi mosques during Friday prayer services in Lahore, Pakistan’s second biggest city. According to local police, more than 10 terrorists attacked the Ahmadis, who M ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Americas Space Fighter: New Threat To Humanity
    By Zhengyan Fang People have too much reason to worry about the U.S, its pursuit of absolute superiority in space, and its attempt to build up an absolute dominance at a height from which it can threaten the globe
  • Gulf Oil Slick Worst In US History
    By Matthew Wild Early reports are indicating that BPs risky bid to plug its Gulf of Mexico well appear to be working but the subsequent oil slick may be far greater than anyone dared fear. US officials have reportedly confirmed that the well appears to be no longer leaking but at the same time its ...
  • Ecological Denial On The Gulf Oil Disaster: U.S. P ...
    By Jan Lundberg The impact of the Gulf oil disaster on the national psyche and the economy have barely begun. When Florida, a more substantial state than Louisiana, is hit by the unprecedented pollution assured to have lasting effects, the quickened erosion of confidence in government, industry an ...
  • Have You Looked At Barsa Lakhmas Face?
    By Nirmalangshu Mukherji The Hindu, 25 May, posted the above photograph of a person on its frontpage under the head Six Naxals held for Dantewada massacre. The person, Barsa Lakhma, is alleged to be a Naxal leader, a commander who is said to be involved in the gunning down of 76 security personnel ...
  • Rape And Murder At Shopian, One Year Later
    By Concerned Citizens Open letter to the Chief Justice of India , Chairperson, National Commission for Women and Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission demanding ustice in the case of rape and murder of Aasiya Jan and Neelofer Jan in Shopian, J&K, 29 May 2009

Contagious Love Experiment

  • The Next Step: Responsibility and Reconciliation
    Last week was filled with interviews where myself and, at times, another member of the company I deployed with, talked to as many people as we could about the Collateral Murder video, focusing on three points. 1. The video, in context, is not a case of soldiers breaking from the system 2. With the t ...
  • OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OUR FRIENDS IN AFGHANISTAN
    An amazing opportunity is available for communities across the country: The videos from Our Journey to Smile which I’ve been posting on here have been compiled into one long film. On 3/27 at 9pm (est), we will be showing the film along with others groups across the US. Additionally, we will be live ...
  • The Ink People
    Last week, my friend from Eureka, CA, Dave Berman informed me that the community organization where Conor and I spoke on Halloween night was hit by a 6.5 earthquake. The Ink People are, as Dave said, ” limping along”: They are “only able to find temporary space for some admin work and a few of its ...
  • You might just find that you get what you need
    Throughout these intense past few years, there have been times when I have nearly lost any kind of faith. Sometimes what I was seeing on a day to day basis looked far to ugly for there to be a God. Though questions still abound, I understand that sometimes it takes the worst kind of suffering to [.. ...
  • Dangerous gatherings in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

  • Guerilla Flotilla Terrorists "I Want to Be a Mart ...
    Here is one more thing that you wont see in the main stream media, some of the "passengers" on Guerrilla Flotilla went with the express goal of becoming martyrs and spending eternity with those 72 virgins. The official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper,� Al-Hayat Al-Jadida ran a story exp ...
  • Andrew Sullivan Is Entitled To His Opinion, But No ...
    I get it, Andrew Sullivan is not a huge fan of Israel; he is entitled to his opinion. However, his latest column about the incident in the waters outside of Gaza makes up the facts. Honestly, in the case of most of the posts Sullivan writes about Israel, Andrew is living in his own realit ...
  • Andrew Romanoff Confirms WHITE HOUSE BRIBE : Has ...
    �FHere's the "Smoking Gun" Congressman Issa has been looking for. Tonight Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff confirmed Wednesday that Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s deputy chief of staff, suggested three administration jobs that would be available to him last September if he dropped h ...
  • Israeli PM Tells World To Stop Being Hypocritical ...
    This afternoon Binyamin Netanyahu gave his response to his "Pals" in the White House, the UN and across the world, "WHAT WOULD YOU DO?" in a strongly worded reply to the condemn first, investigate later opinions perverting the truth about the Guerrilla Flotilla incident Sunday morning, The Prime Min ...
  • Hamas Refuses Delivery of Humanitarian Aid
    The terrorist chieftains running Hamas are up to their old tricks, holding the people of Gaza hostage to their terrorist aims. This time they have announced that they would not allow the Humanitarian aid from the Guerrilla Flotilla to enter the Gaza Strip . "We refuse to receive the humanitaria ...

The Real Agenda

  • Mossad in South America
    The Mossads's objectives are listed on its official web site. They include secret collection of operative, political, and strategic information abroad, termination of terrorist activity targeting Israeli and other Jewish installations, prevention of development or acquisition of nuclear weapons by c ...
  • Laser Weapons and Weather Modification Today
    "Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other natio ...
  • Don’t Tread On Me
    From the Tea Party Movement to State Legislators, the American people are drawing a line in the sand. On what side of it will youstand? Has the government our Founders created been forgotten by Washington DC? Is a Patriot Uprising ready to capture the spirit of 1776? “Don’t Tread On Me: Rise of the ...
  • Daniel Estulin Revela Agenda Bilderberg para Junio ...
    La conferencia de este año marca un nuevo nivel de exposición y la oposición al grupo Bilderberg. Daniel Estulin hará un histórico discurso ante el Parlamento Europeo el 01 de junio, junto con Mario Borghezio, Nigel Farage, y otros diputados clave.
  • Israel Commandos Murder 16 people in attack to Aid ...
    A spokeswoman for the flotilla, Greta Berlin, said she had been told ten people had been killed and dozens wounded, accusing Israeli troops of indiscriminately shooting at "unarmed civilians". But an Israeli radio station said that between 14 and 16 were dead in a continuing operation.

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

  • Give praise to Allah where praise is due
    As the Freedom Flotilla made its slow approach last week, a popular Huffpo article pronounced the convoy a testament to the awesome power of nonviolence. That sentiment went about as viral as activist-geeks can get. But the blockade running denouement proved something of the opposite, didn’t it? I h ...
  • Flotilla not a Love Boat, it was a lynch, says Net ...
    I find it intriguing that Israel’s spin machine can drop an American pop culture reference like Love Boat, and simultaneously flub basic usage with “a lynch.” According to Israel, that describes what befell their crack-troop Mavi Marmara party-crashers. What does “a lynch” mean? Apparently someone ...
  • King Soopers v Unions, just a thought.
    I’ve noticed lately they’ve got signs up all around the stores saying “Our People Make The Difference” and similar themes, to the effect that they value the workers, really they (say they) do. So why the continual Big Scary Hassle regarding any contract negotiations? I saw something on TV the other ...
  • Israel “to release the Peace Teams”
    Mighty white of them. But wait… There’s More The Israeli statement says Foreign Nationals will be released. So any ISRAELI activists aboard the ship must still be facing charges. The Rachel Corrie is next in line to run the blockade.
  • Egypt lifts blockade from their end. temporarily.
    While Bibi does a little dance of combined sabre rattling and appeasement. And of course part of that is to promise full investigation and prosecution of the Guilty Parties. Pig Code for “we’re going to destroy all evidence and make a fake investigation where the Pigs were cleared in advance”. Just ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Another 'Lone-Nut' Gives the UK Government a Reaso ...
    Gun laws in the UK are among the toughest in the world. Largely due to two major massacres. In 1987, a man named Michael Robert Ryan killed sixteen people in Hungerford , and then shot himself. The massacre led to the banning of semi-automatic rifles. In 1996, a man named Thomas Watt Hamilton (i ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a suggestion or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjective matt ...
  • Dusting-off Corley: Is this the official response ...
    Comments have been added throughout the article and noted in red . Dusting-off Corley: Is this the official response to the discovery of energetic materials in the WTC dust? Kevin Ryan 911blogger.com 5/31/10 It has been over a year since the most recent peer-reviewed scientific article was publi ...
  • Bill Hicks on JFK: Two Critical lessons for the Ci ...
    [Language warning] The two points being made here are vital ones: 1.) Think for yourselves- believe in scientific facts and common sense, 2.) Don't get brainwashed by trivial entertainment and miss out on what's really going on out there. The country has been taken way from you, and it's time to ...
  • Oh Really?
    Yesterday, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asserted that David Ray Griffin omits testimonial evidence from the FDNY indicating that they knew WTC 7 was going to collapse due to structural damage. Oh really? "Extracts from a recent Peter B Collins' interview with Professor David Ray Griffi ...

Fooducate

  • Sobe Energize Green Tea – Closer to Pepsi Cola tha ...
    When you’re thirsty for something sweet and tasty, yet don’t want to drink an unhealthy cola, do you reach out for an iced tea drink? Do you placate your conscience by reading the label promising you improved well-being and exotic extracts? Does the fact that it’s made with “natural” sugar instead ...
  • This is Why “Health Claims” On Foods and Supplemen ...
    Last week, the FDA was taken to court. The Alliance for Natural Health sued the FDA over the right to make health claims about selenium consumption and the reduction of cancer risks. The “Alliance” has a very cool sounding name, but is mostly known for being an advocacy group for the food supplement ...
  • What’s in a Pickle?
    Who doesn’t love the taste of a crunchy dill pickle? Whether sliced in a sandwich or whole as an accompaniment to a meat dish, the combination of salty, sour and sweet in each crunchy bite adds excitement and zest to the meal. And it counts as a veggie serving, right? Not so fast. True, pickles are ...
  • Salt Industry Shaking Away Criticism
    A lengthy piece by Michael Moss of the New York Times this weekend, covers the decades long history of salt wars. The bottom line: The salt industry is working overtly and behind the scenes to fend off public-health attacks on salt, using a shifting set of tactics that have defeated similar effor ...
  • Candy Expo Showcases Healthy Snacks. Indeed?
    In a sign of the times, the Sweets & Snacks Expo earlier this week in Chicago focused on healthier treats. Saleswomen for Hershey Co. handed out Reese’s Minis, chocolate-peanut butter cups the size of marbles, which they touted as ideal for portion control. Nearby, staff members for candy behemot ...

Traffikd

  • 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 ...
  • 10 Reasons to Be a Freelance Blogger
    I talk to a lot of people on a regular basis who want to make money with the internet, and blogging is often the preferred method. While it is certainly possible to earn a living with your own blog, it's a lot more work than most people anticipate, and the percentage of bloggers who stick with it lo ...

Clearreaching

  • A conversation (cont.)
    Do you think it matters who the person is you go into that deep commitment with? No. Just that both are willing. Not even both. One is enough. Even if you both say you want commitment, each will have a different idea of what commitment means. You talk about staying, right? I talk about not movi ...
  • A conversation
    To E. I have lots of questions about relationships. We all have. One of the questions I have is about how I often feel that I want to give more affection to other people than they want to receive. Do you want something from the other? Yes. So what do you want when you give more affection than ...
  • Science - no fiction
    During the past two years or so, I’ve been reading in parallel two kinds of books. One was rather metaphysical (mainly Florian Tathagata’s trilogy, “Being”, “Given” and “Space”) and the other one popular medicine (e.g. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s “My stroke of insight” and Norman Doidge’s “The brain tha ...
  • The myth of one and only truth
    The more one thinks about it, the more difficult it becomes to believe in the existence of one and only truth. From an early age, however, we learn that there is an all-elusive transcendental truth, to which we have no access. Only, this is a myth. I think that this myth was created by the various ...
  • The "green meme"
    In his version of Spiral Dynamics, Ken Wilber takes up the notion of meme, which was first introduced by Richard Dawkins. Memes, in his context, correspond to levels of consciousness and every level builds on the adoptations of previous ones. Therefore, each level transcends its predecessors, encomp ...

Survival International

  • Violence against tribes opposing British companies ...
    Armed police face down demonstrators in Chandia village, Kalinganagar, in India's Odisha state. © Samadrusti Survival has called for an urgent investigation into the increased violence against tribal peoples in the state of Odisha, India. Police have fired into crowds demonstrating against UK- ...
  • Reports condemn appalling situation of the Guarani
    Guarani mother and child © João Ripper/Survival Two recently published reports say that the Guarani Indians of Mato Grosso do Sul state in Brazil live in terrible conditions and that it is crucial that their ancestral lands be mapped out and legally recognized. The first report, issued by Br ...
  • Bushmen take Botswana government to court over wat ...
    The Kalahari Bushmen are going to court over their right to access water. © Survival Kalahari Bushmen are taking the government of Botswana to court over its refusal to allow them access to a water borehole on their land. The case is due to be heard at Botswana’s High Court in Lobatse on 9 Ju ...
  • Perenco moves one step closer to building pipeline
    Spears left by an uncontacted tribe in the region where Perenco is working. © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP Anglo-French company Perenco has moved one step closer to building an oil pipeline through uncontacted tribes’ land in a remote Amazon region. Peru’s Energy Ministry has approved the ‘Exec ...
  • Obama urged to protect uncontacted tribes from oil ...
    Crossed spears left by uncontacted Indians threatened by an oil pipeline © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP President Obama has been urged to help protect Peru’s uncontacted tribes when he meets with Peruvian president Alan Garcia on 1 June.   Survival has written to President Obama highlighting the ...

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, ...

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