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Mondoweiss

• Jewish group said to prepare boat to go to Gaza
  Yes the Rachel Corrie has been seized by the Israelis. But, from Ma'an, and at Palestine Libre too:She will be sailing to Gaza during the second half of July. In order to avoid sabotage, the exact date and name of the port of departure will be announced only shortly before her launch....[Kate Leiter ...
• The withering of liberal Zionism
  Much has been said about the withering of liberal Zionism, as the mainstream becomes ever more dominated by the military extremist and ultra-religious strains. Yossi Sarid says it poetically:In the beginning, he was a gazelle whose neck the hunters were seeking. With time, he tried to become a seagu ...
• A prayer for her country
  Emily Henochowicz, on her blog, April 13:O America, my America... stop making weapons to test on demonstrators in Palestine.Josh Ruebner, on our site, yesterday:The high-velocity tear-gas canister which injured Emily Henochowicz was likely of U.S. originPhoto of Emily Henochowicz at Qalandiya checkp ...
• I need your help
  It is difficult to formulate a new Jewish history while looking through the dense prism of Zionism--the light that traverses it keeps breaking into sharply ethnocentric colors.... [T]he Jews have always comprised significant religious communities that appeared and settled in various parts of the wo ...
• An Israeli turns on the charm
  Past and future American government official Andrew Exum (Abu Muqawama), an exponent of counter-insurgency published by Center for a New American Security:Last fall, I was in Israel for a two-week visit and conducted a few formal interviews with various Israeli officers, journalists and scholars. I ...

 

IPS - Inter Press Services

• ASIA: Green Revolution Has Little to Offer New Hun ...
  
  BANGKOK, June 5 (IPS) - As it took root in the rice fields across Asia, it was hailed as the solution to the hunger afflicting millions of people in the region. But four decades on, the much vaunted Green Revolution appears to have reached its limits, unable to meet new demands, to feed n ...
• Q&A: Church's Mediation Marks Start of "New Time" ...
  
  HAVANA, Jun 4 (IPS) - One of Cuba's most prominent moderate dissidents, historian Manuel Cuesta Morúa, says the recent talks between Catholic Church leaders and the government of Raúl Castro mark the start of a "new time" for the country.
• HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Community Mobilisation Key ...
  
  DURBAN, Jun 4 (IPS) - African medical experts have realised they need to make a much bigger effort to educate rural communities if they want to effectively contain the continent’s tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.
• Wildfires Increasing Despite Efforts to Slow Defor ...
  
  WASHINGTON, Jun 4 (IPS) - An agreement reached at an international conference last week pledged over four billion dollars to the U.N.'s effort to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that come from deforestation and forest degradation. But a study published Friday questions what impact th ...
• MEXICO: Civil Society Divided Ahead of Climate Sum ...
  
  MEXICO CITY, Jun 4 (IPS) - With less than six months before Mexico hosts the next global climate change summit, Mexican environmental organisations hosting the parallel civil society forum are divided on how to carry it out -- which some fear could ultimately weaken their role at the nego ...

Scoop - NZ

• CIA concerned about Drone Blowback
  
  Some United States Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in the agency's drone strikes program in Pakistan and elsewhere are privately expressing their opposition to the program within the agency because it is helping al-Qaeda and its allies recruit, according to a retired military officer i ...
• Aust. Building approvals slump most in 7 years
  
  A plunge in building approvals, which posted their biggest monthly drop in seven and a half years, suggests little relief from soaring home prices driven by a national shortage of houses, according to an analyst. Australian building approvals dropped by a more than expected by 14.8 per cent in Apri ...
• Fisk: Has Israel lost it ?
  
  Has Israel lost it? Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead) and the Lebanon War of 2006 (1,006 dead) and all the other wars and now yesterday's killings mean that the world will no longer accept Israel's rule? Don't hold your breath You only have to read the gutless White House statement - that t ...
• FAS: Israeli nuclear weapon production, 2007
  
  Israel has not confirmed that it has nuclear weapons and officially maintains that it will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. Yet the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons is a "public secret" by now due to the declassification of large numbers of formerly hig ...
• Egypt opens Gaza strip border
  
  Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip until further notice yesterday, in a clear rebuke to Israel over Monday's raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla. As Palestinians crossed freely into Gaza, activists said they had launched another ship in an attempt to breach Israel's blockade. Amid growing ...

Independent ( London )

• Green campaigner injured in tuna fishing raid
  
  A British environmentalist was injured during a raid on tuna fishing boats when a grappling hook stuck in his leg, Greenpeace said today.
• Israeli military seize Gaza-bound aid ship
  
  Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel, preventing it from breaking a maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory, campaigners said today.
• Israeli military 'board Gaza aid ship'
  
  The Israeli military said its forces seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel today, preventing it from breaking a maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.
• Merkel backs down on female president after rebell ...
  
  Chancellor Angela Merkel has nominated Christian Wulff as her choice for Germany's next president after being forced to drop plans to give the post to a woman in the face of strong opposition from the right flank of her party.
• Is it arrivederci to cleavage and sexism on Italia ...
  
  Could Italian television, the original temple of TV sexism, be on the cusp of a new, enlightened era? That's the question some feminists are daring to whisper this week after decades battling the relentless parade of well-endowed 6ft blondes twirling in scanty costumes at the beck and call of irrit ...

Rogue Government.com

• California to ban plastic bags
  
  Shoppers will have to bring their own reusable bags or pay at least 5 cents (3p) each for recycled paper ones under the ban which was approved by state politicians.
• What are the Bilderberg Group really doing in Spa ...
  
  If the conspiracy theorists are on to something, they could be plotting the invasion of Iran, planning the funeral of the Euro or scheming to wipe out French poodles in pink sweaters at this very minute.
• Fury at BP Turns Into Protests and Vandalism
  
• Research Links Genetically Modified Food To Long ...
  
  A new study done by Russian scientists suggests that Genetically Modified Food may cause long term sterility, that is, sterility in second and third generations.
• Photos Of Sick Birds In Gulf Dominate Front Pages ...
  
  Once the terribly sad photos of sick animals in the Gulf emerged yesterday, it wasn't a hard choice for editors to determine their A1 art.

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

• China: Floods Kill 51
  
  At least 51 people were killed in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rain in south China, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The downpour, which hit Guangxi Zhuang region on Monday, has affected over 2 million people, causing excessive damage. At least 15 freshwater reservoirs have bee ...
• Africa: Lead Poisoning Kills 160 Villagers in Nige ...
  
  More than 160 poor villagers from Nigeria's north have died from lead poisoning while trying to leach gold from rock deposits, sparking evacuations as health officials try to come to grips with a crisis six months in the making, authorities say. Dr Henry Akpan, Nigeria's chief epidemiologist, said ...
• Cyclone Phet Kills Six in Oman
  
  Cyclone Phet killed six people in Oman before it barrelled on towards Pakistan, Oman's civil defence force said. The victims included a member of the civil defence force and five other people who were swept away by flood waters caused by rainfall from the cyclone, said a statement carried by the of ...
• Canada: Mother Charged in Stabbing of Two Boys in ...
  
  Winnipeg police couldn't say Friday whether a woman charged with stabbing her two children was suffering from postpartum depression, but they also weren't ruling it out. "I'm a police officer, I'm not a health care provider," said Winnipeg Police spokesman Constable Jason Michalyshen when asked abo ...
• Texas: Three Found Stabbed to Death in Houston Hom ...
  
  Houston police say they're looking for a man after three people were found dead in a home. Police say two sisters and a man were found Friday morning at a home near Hobby Airport. They tell the Houston Chronicle the three victims were beaten and stabbed. Houston police Officer Dan Arnold says the ...

The Galloping Beaver

• 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 ...
• Never go hunting...
  
  ...with Calgary MP Rob Anders . In fact, if he's got them, confiscate his firearms and revoke his PAL. He is a danger to himself and his fellow shooters. Calgary MP Rob Anders is raising eyebrows for signing a card in support of Canadian troops with the handwritten message: "When in doubt, pull ...
• Our banks are better....
  
  So says Stephen Harper and his so-called finance minister, Jim Flaherty. Better than what? Canadian banks were a constrained bunch of animals which, had they gotten past the finance minister known as Paul Martin , would have created three Canadian mega-banks and would have failed as spectacularly ...
• Time's up Harper
  
  Produce. We want the final written agreement as to how you, leader of the government, plan to meet the superior demands of Parliament. Or was POGGE 100 percent correct once again? Unless you believe that the voters, those people who elected more members from other parties other than the Conservat ...
• Getting unprepared for the next Exxon Valdez
  
  In the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster, the federal government created six regional advisory panels of volunteer experts to : advise on an adequate level of oil spill preparedness and response in each region; and to promote public awareness and understanding of issues and measures with respect to ...

Media Matters for America

• After decrying "criminalizing politics," conserva ...
  
  Conservative media have claimed the White House's controversial conversations with Rep. Joe Sestak and Andrew Romanoff -- which have been described by experts as "garden-variety politics" -- constituted criminal activity. But when Bush administration official Scooter Libby was investigated, trie ...
• CBS makes a mess of Kagan's record as Thurgood Mar ...
  
  On the CBS Evening News , Jan Crawford distorted memos Elena Kagan wrote as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, falsely painting Kagan as outside the mainstream. Crawford distorts Kagan's statements on abortion Crawford falsely suggested Kagan embraced a constitutional right ...
• Right-wing pundits ludicrously blame oil spill on ...
  
  Sarah Palin and other right-wing media personalities have blamed the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on environmental activists, baselessly claiming that their opposition to coastal drilling has pushed oil companies to drill deep-water wells. This analysis ignores that deep-water regions feature vast oil ...
• Strassel pushes baseless charge that White House v ...
  
  In a Wall Street Journal column, Kimberley Strassel forwarded the baseless claim that the White House violated the Hatch Act by offering a position on a panel to Rep. Joe Sestak. Indeed, both Loyola law professor Richard Hasen and former Bush ethics lawyer Richard Painter have disputed this ch ...
• Rove continues to mislead on CBO's health care est ...
  
  In a� Wall Street Journal �op-ed, Karl Rove dubiously claimed that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found it "would cost $115 billion more than estimated." In fact,�the higher cost estimate would only be spent if Congress separately appropriates it, just as Congress would have to do for any ot ...

Global Research.ca

• Israeli Citizens Denounce Their Government: Call o ...
  
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• Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Denounces ...
  
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• For a More Ethical Civilization
  
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• Israel Shoots Gaza Activists to Kill
  
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• Facebook and Muslim Outrage: Gleaning the Wrong Le ...
  
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TPM Cafe

• Is It Political Lunacy for the President to Take C ...
  
  I just came across this post from Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard whom I've never known to mince words. I like Bob Reich and consider him a friend, but he is nuts. [She's referring to my suggestion that the President put BP into temporary receivership.] There is ...
• From Beit Shemesh, a Cry to American Jews
  
  I won't even try to improve on the exemplary posts here by MJ Rosenberg and Jo-Ann Mort on the Flotilla mess and the Gaza blockade, but since I'm in Israel right now (for another few days), I do want to recount two experiences and mention a recent "incident" that underscores how urgent it is that U. ...
• END THE GAZA BLOCKADE
  
  There is a lot of misinformation flying around about what is going on in Gaza. Didn't Israel evacuate Gaza? Are people in Gaza starving? What is going on with the Egyptian side of the border? Does Hamas want peace with Israel or not? Is the current blockade stopping arms from entering Gaza via Iran? ...
• Why We're Falling Into a Double-Dip Recession
  
  We're falling into a double-dip recession. The Labor Department reports this morning that the private sector added a measly 41,000 net new jobs in May. But at least 100,000 new jobs are needed every month just to keep up with population growth. In other words, the labor market continues to det ...
• Taxing Wall Street Speculators
  
  The Wall Street Journal reports this morning , that some traders are "front-running" the market at extraordinary volumes. The firms gain that advantage by buying data from stock exchanges and feeding it into supercomputers that calculate stock prices a fraction of a second before most other invest ...

TruthOut

• Tom Engelhardt | Bitten by History
  
  History, or the future (however you want to look at it), has a funny way of rearing up and biting leaders who think they know what they're doing. Take Barack Obama. Only weeks before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, he made a "pragmatic" decision to give way on the exp ...
• Activists Approach Gaza as Israel Considers Easing ...
  
  Tel Aviv, Israel - The MV Rachel Corrie, carrying another group of pro-Palestinian activists seeking to challenge the Gaza blockade, sailed toward a possible clash with Israel in the Mediterranean on Friday. But Israel said it had no desire for a fresh confrontation five days after an Israeli comman ...
• Israel and Harman in Tandem: From High Seas to Air ...
  
  When Israel attacked the Gaza aid flotilla, Congresswoman Jane Harman was engaged in a parallel assault. Israel's government relied on the efficacy of violence; Harman's campaign was counting on the power of paid media. In both cases, the targets were advocates of human rights for Palestinian people ...
• California's Bad Deal for Democracy
  
  In this state, the Democratic and Republican parties rarely agree on anything - but both oppose Proposition 14. Although its misleading ballot title promises to increase the "right to participate in primary elections," the measure actually imposes major new limits on voters. By eliminating party p ...
• PTSD Soldier Punished by Army
  
  Iraq war veteran Eric Jasinski, after seeking treatment for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is being punished by the Army. Jasinski turned himself in to the Army late last year, after having gone absent without leave (AWOL) in order to seek help for his PTSD. Help, he told Truthout, he w ...

Planetsave

• Hundreds Killed in India from Heat Waves, New Hott ...
  
  Hundreds died in India in May due to heat waves with record high temperatures. Meanwhile, a town in Pakistan set the new record for highest temperature ever recorded in Asia! Following the hottest April and hottest January-April on record , monthly heat records have been set for May across the glo ...
• ABC Nails BP for Having 760 “Egregious, Will ...
  
  ABC and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show tear into BP for a ridiculous amount of serious safety violations and for lying on TV about them. Watch the video below. ABC News nails BP in an interview with CEO Tony Hayward, showing that BP had 760 “egregious and willful” safety violations in the past 3-4 ...
• Sarah Palin Calls “Extreme Environmentalists ...
  
  On her Facebook fan page, Sarah Palin accuses environmentalists of outsourcing environmental hazards and making drilling more dangerous. Have you seen Sarah Palin’s Facebook page lately? No? Well, I don’t blame you. It’s difficult to read her posts without wanting to bang your head against the w ...
• Kevin Costner Joins Forces to Save the Gulf Coast ...
  
  Joining the troops in the Gulf Coast, Hollywood star Kevin Costner has invested many millions of dollars inventing the right device that cleans oil from seawater. Costner’s Oil Spill Separation Machines have been in the making for over 15 years for exactly this kind of ocean disaster like the E ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Boulevard Update #1
  
  As promised, an update on the boulevard gardens.  Most of the plants are doing well. A few have succ
• Environmental Justice in Montana - Activist Winona ...
  
  by jhwygirl Journalist extraordinaire Jodi Rave – who covers Native issues and the issues that
• What does EcoBoost do for my pond and how often sh ...
  
  What does EcoBoost do for my pond and how often should I use it? Clyde – Willisburg, KY Give Y
• Rain Barrels on Longfellow
  
  We finally got around to setting up our rain barrels this weekend. Granted, we still need to get the
• "Weight Loss"
  
  Weight Loss Research by Dr. Robert O. Young, author of The pH Miracle for Weight Loss, shows that th

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Banks Profit From Near-Zero Interest Rates: Anothe ...
  
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• Greg Palast: There's another BP oil spill
  
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• The Right To Exist: Who has it? Where is it? Why? ...
  
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• Memorial Day and the Turkish flotilla By Jerry Maz ...
  
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• What is Obama Doing at Bagram? (Part Two): Executi ...
  
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Axis of Logic

• Proof emerges IDF audio of radio communication wit ...
  
  Today, Israel released what it claimed to be the audio of a conversation between Israeli naval vessels and the Turkish-owned ship Mavi Marmara which occurred prior to the Israeli assault that killed at least 9 passengers and injured dozens more in the early hours of 31 May in international waters.. ...
• Meltup - Economy
  
  Day of Reckoning is almost here for the U.S. Dollar. Very informative film on the ins and outs of our capitalist economy, and how the secretive playing of the markets and with the value of the dollar negatively affects us. Admittedly, the film is from a slightly capitalist viewpoint- remember...
• New Mexico: Ancient Traditions Keep Desert Waters ...
  
  Que Viva el Arte de Regando!" Long Live the Art of Irrigation! Andrew Mascareñas' story of the importance of flood irrigating to his family and to the culture of New Mexico. This movie recently won 1st place in the "cultural heritage" category at the 2009 ESE (Española Showing ...
• Colombian Army Attacks Striking BP Workers - Worl ...
  
  A five month long mobilisation against BP in the Casanare region of Colombia has escalated after the Colombian army entered the BP installations with force this week and confronted workers who have been peacefully occupying BP installations since May 23 to protest BP´s failure to conclude negotiati ...
• Arizona artists told to repaint mural to be less e ...
  
  The leader of a group of artists says he was ordered to lighten the skin tones of children depicted in an outdoor mural covering two walls of a Prescott, Arizona elementary school because of complaints that the faces appeared too ethnic. "We consistently, for two months, had people shouting rac ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• For five days of oil...
  
  So I finally screwed up my nerve and deployed the google to dredge up some facts - you know, those things that have a stubborn liberal bias and allow you to prove anything that is even remotely true - about the gusher that is suffocating the Gulf coast...partly because I was annoyed by Sarah Palin c ...
• Only a Trillion-Dollar Jobs Bill Can Save Us Now
  
  From TPM: We've dubbed this chart the "Scariest Job Chart Ever," as it shows how the decline in employment is WAY uglier than in past recessions. Calculated Risk has updated it with the latest numbers from this morning, and now it looks even scarier. Why? Check out the two red lines at the bottom. ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  Really? Our definition of "tragic" is the broken condom that resulted in Liz Liz Cheney attacked President Obama for saying that the murder of nine peace activists by Israeli Defense Forces thugs and goons was "tragic." In NeoCon Lizzie's world, Israel �can never, ever, ever be wrong, even when they ...
• Kit Bond is a drunk, that's the worst-kept secret ...
  
  So retired Air Force Lt. General James Clapper is the President's choice to be the new Director of National Intelligence. "Meh," I thought when I heard the news. "He could do worse. At least he's no Porter Goss or Leon Panetta, I just wish he wasn't so enamored of killing with drones." (My thoughts ...
• Worse Than Florida, Worse Than Texas, Worse Than M ...
  
  Arizona has really done it now: something so horrible, it has made Wonkette - Wonkette! - abandon any attempt at snark, humor or fart jokes for pure, burning outrage. Ken Layne: Hard to find even the Gallows Humor in this story, so maybe we won't even try. Maybe it's time to admit that large chunk ...

Care 2

• Anger grows as disaster reaches Panhandle beaches
  
  The smell of oil hangs heavy in the sea air. Children with plastic shovels scoop up clumps of goo in the waves. Beachcombers collect tarballs as if they were seashells. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Google is 'close' to handing over German wi-fi dat ...
  
  Search giant Google has said it is "close" to resolving issues that have prevented it from passing a hard disk of data to German authorities. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Plant Trees for Free :)
  
  The Natural Heritage Corridor program will see hundreds of thousands of native trees strategically planted in the Niagara Region. You can help with a click of your mouse! Submitted by Chris Otahal to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Despite the oil spill, Obama wants Americans to va ...
  
  For some strange reason governors and tourism operators on the Gulf coast believe that after nearly two solid video months of an exploding, burning and sinking offshore oil rig, mixed with smudgy scenes of crude oil escaping into the ocean from millions Submitted by Lone Wolf to Environment �|� �No ...
• Top 10 Reasons Why People Move
  
  As the Summer move season approaches, we felt it would be good to look at the top 10 reasons why people move. Submitted by Katie Miller to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Enterprise's '20/20 Vision' Plan Aims to See $50M ...
  
  Car rental giant Enterprise Holdings unveiled a new sustainability initiative Thursday aimed at reducing energy consumption and cost by 20 percent over the next five years at the companies vast network of neighborhood car rental branches and airport facilities. The initiative, called 20/20 Visio ...
• Greener Business Practices Save KKR Companies $160 ...
  
  KKR and EDF revealed two-year results from their Green Portfolio Program and the results are impressive: millions in savings in operational costs, and 345,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions and 1.2 millions tons of waste avoided.
• Levi Strauss Contest Aims to Build a Better Clothe ...
  
  Levi Strauss & Co. is looking for innovative ideas for air drying clothing in an effort to slash the amount of energy used around the country to dry clothing. �
• Green Portfolio Program Reaps Huge Benefits for KK ...
  
  The Green Portflio Program from KKR�and EDF�has saved more than $160 million in operating costs and eliminated more than 345,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions, 1.2 million tons of waste and 8,500 tons of paper use for eight companies.
• 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.

Reuters Global

• Life no paradise in EU’s outer regions
  
  Times are hard in distant corners of the European Union, even when the sun is shining and the euro zone's debt problems are thousands of miles away. Some have been hit hard by the economic crisis and leaders of nine regions on the edges of the EU want the 27-country bloc to pay more attention to ...
• Afghanistan’s Peace Jirga – live
  
  Afghanistan is holding a peace jirga or a meeting of tribal elders and notables to discuss plans for a political settlment of the nine-year conflict. Reuters text, pictures and television journalists will be blogging live from Kabul when the conference opens on June 2 in a giant tent under heavy sec ...
• Risks to watch in Asia
  
  Risks to watch in Asia
• China suicides: 5 things you need to know
  
  Ten suicides this year at Foxconn’s electronics factory in southern China have cast a renewed spotlight on China’s migrant workers, who staff the production lines that make iPads, mobile phones and just about everything else for the world’s electronics consumers.
• Killings of Ahmadis unleashes fresh soul-searching ...
  
  Last week's killings of Ahmadis in two mosques in Lahore have unleashed an unusually painful bout of soul-searching in Pakistan, in a country which was already in a painful search for identity.

Booman Tribune

• Frivolous Friday Open Thread
  
  What does it mean? Well, if you were there, you didn't need to ask.
• Clapper as DNI
  
  I've had my falling out with Larry Johnson over the Clinton/Obama contest and the tactics he was willing to stoop to on Hillary's behalf. But he did post an article here back in 2007 that was very critical of Obama's new pick to be head of the National Intelligence Agency. Lt. Gen. James Clapper i ...
• Where are the Teabaggers?
  
  Congress has been in recess for a while. I assume there are town hall meetings all over the country. So, where are the screaming teabaggers? Isn't this proof that the last August outbreak of teabaggery wasn't spontaneous, but paid for?
• Is Long-Term Unemployment America's Future?
  
  Like tea party activists and some of their fellow conservatives, Congress' reckless inattention to the deficit makes me concerned for my children's future and the kind of economy they will inherit if indifference continues. It's not because Congress is spending too much. It's because Congress is inv ...
• The Real Values Party
  
  I understand, and in some ways can even commend, Michael Gerson's defense of his friend, disgraced Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana. But there is something that Gerson should understand. When Democrats mock socially conservative politicians who are exposed as less than morally upright, we are not mocki ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 5 ...
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1937 Birth of...
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• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 4 ...
  
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• Good little Paddies done real good.
  
  The Irish Times reprints a Wall Street Journal editorial praising Ireland and holding it up...

Futurismic

• Live action replays and analysis moves from the sp ...
  
  The Harris Corporation supplies instant replay systems to big-brand sports teams, but they may just have cracked a whole new market… one with a budget that (inexplicably) never seems to shrink. The Pentagon has decided that the ability to collect, replay and analyse battlefield video feeds will make ...
• Smart Grids == Spy Grids?
  
  We’ve talked about smart grids before – infrastructure networks for basic utilities that incorporates all sorts of networked active monitoring technologies to make our use of energy and water more efficient. Sounds like a win-win situation for consumers and utilities companies alike, doesn’t it? Tha ...
• Hidden histories: Afghanistan
  
  We all know about Afghanistan – a poor and predominantly Muslim nation that’s never really made it out of the Middle Ages, right? Well, it turns out that’s simply not the case: retconning Afghanistan as a backward barbarian enclave has probably been useful for the global psyops propaganda machine (b ...
• The Lights In The Tunnel: free ebook about automat ...
  
  Martin Ford, much like many of us, has some concerns about the future. Unlike most of us, he’s written a book about it: The Lights In The Tunnel looks at the economic implications of the technological acceleration curve that Singularitarian cheerleaders are so fond of, and suggests it may be at the ...
• The golden age of egalitarianism is twelve
  
  Ars Technica reports on a research paper that suggests children abandon egalitarianism and develop meritocratic attitudes as they enter adolescence: … they set up a game where teams of children in grades five through twelve were given access to two websites. One allowed them to earn credits by compl ...

Therapy News

• “Who Needs a Period?” – A Political Conflict
  
  GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MS, LPC Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Recently, I read an article on CNN.com* exploring the use of birth control to suppress a woman’s monthly period altogether . . .  and the startling fact that 72% of wo ...
• Narrative Hypnosis Specialist Reacts to APA Meetin ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The American Psychiatric Association, or APA, recently held its annual meeting in New Orleans, perhaps an apt location for the event given the difficulties being endured by those keeping a weary eye on the massive oil spill along the Gulf Coast. The meeting itself was ...
• High Prices of Care Bring Many to Low-Cost Counsel ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While psychotherapy practices, whether in a private or clinical setting, are often interested in serving people of all backgrounds and walks of life, many people find themselves unable to secure services because of the costs involved. With the advent of the global fin ...
• Wedding Vows, Promises of the Heart
  
  By Lynne Foote, MA, LPC, Pre-Marital Counseling Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Many couples spend more time preparing for their wedding, than for their marriage. A lot of excitement, expectation, and work goes into the creation of a weddin ...
• Co-Parenting Scheduling and Organizing Websites
  
  By Shendl Tuchman, Psy.D., Divorce / Divorce Adjustment Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Shendl and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When is Johnny’s baseball game? I need to know the schedule. Does it conflict with some of the other activities he is telling me he wants to sign up fo ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Coming Soon: Mountaintop Removal TV Ad - Natural R ...
  
  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Coming Soon: Mountaintop Removal TV Ad Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal , an extreme strip mining practice, has leveled hundreds of Appalachian peaks, clearcut forests, destroyed thousands of miles of streams ... Environmentalists ...
• Crafty GOP 'Bait & Switch' May Revive TN Health Fr ...
  
  Crafty GOP 'Bait & Switch' May Revive TN Health Freedom Act Knoxville News Sentinel (blog) "If they don't want to use the committee system, then we should allow votes on overwhelmingly popular items like mountaintop removal ," Berke said. ...
• The Charleston Gazette -- Oddballs: Strange politi ...
  
  The Charleston Gazette -- Oddballs: Strange politicians Charleston Gazette ... television footage from last fall in which Paul reacted to a report that 300 eastern Kentucky hills had been decapitated by mountaintop removal mining. ... and more��
• Unusual move resurrects Tenn. 'Health Freedom Act' ...
  
  Unusual move resurrects Tenn. 'Health Freedom Act' WAAY ... to opt out of the federal health care law has prompted a Democratic senator to ask the same for a measure to curb mountaintop removal coal mining. ... and more��
• EPA gets nearly 1300 comments on veto plan for W.V ...
  
  AOL News EPA gets nearly 1300 comments on veto plan for W.Va.'s largest mountaintop ... CanadianBusiness.com ... for West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine, with pro-industry forces accusing the agency of an illegal power grab and political machinations. ... Public Comment Period for WV S ...

Memeorandum

• Obama Knew the Spill Was Hopeless (Richard Wolffe/ ...
  
  Richard Wolffe / The Daily Beast : Obama Knew the Spill Was Hopeless   —  Blogs and Stories  —  As the president visits the Gulf anew, Richard Wolffe reports that he was first briefed in April on how bad the spill would be.  Plus: the real reason the White House is so mad at Carville—and why Obama ...
• 'Rachel Corrie' boarded, no one hurt. (Jerusalem P ...
  
  Jerusalem Post : ‘Rachel Corrie’ boarded, no one hurt.   —  Reported on Twitter at about 5:50 am.  Three navy boats involved.  Passengers under arrest.  Reports awaiting confirmation.  —  Talkbacks (11)  —  Make JPOST.COM your Home Page  —  Iranian Threat  —  Jewish World  —  Local Israel  —  Arts ...
• Flotilla passengers: Go back to Auschwitz (Ynetnew ...
  
  Ynetnews : Flotilla passengers: Go back to Auschwitz   —  Audio: IDF soldiers warn flotilla vessels they are nearing area under naval blockade, latter respond with anti-Semitic slurs  —  The IDF released on Friday an audio reproduction of the moments before Monday's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotill ...
• Futures Extend Losses After Jobs Report (CNBC)
  
  CNBC : Futures Extend Losses After Jobs Report   —  US stock futures extended their losses Friday after a report showed fewer jobs were added to nonfarm payrolls last month and most of those were temporary census workers.  —  MARKET PULSE  —  US employers added 431,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in M ...
• Israel Navy: 3 commandos nearly taken hostage in G ...
  
  Amos Harel / Haaretz : Israel Navy: 3 commandos nearly taken hostage in Gaza flotilla raid   —  According to preliminary navy investigation, some passengers on the Mavi Marmara boat dragged three unconscious commandos into one of the passenger halls below deck.  —  During Israel's takeover of a Tu ...

Energy & Environment News

• BP Funneling Some of Leak to the Surface
  
  In a visit to the Gulf Coast, President Obama kept up his criticism of BP.
• BP’s Joint Venture in Russia Is in Bankrupt ...
  
  A venture to sell Russian natural gas to China was in trouble before the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Oil Spill
  
  Officials began reviewing potential violations as the crisis threatened to define the president’s second year in office.
• Oil Spill Idles Many Louisiana Fishermen
  
  The oil slick is wreaking havoc on fishing in Louisiana, which brings about $2.4 billion a year to the state.
• Obama Says He’ll Push for Clean Energy Bill
  
  The president said it was time “to aggressively accelerate” the nation’s transition from oil to alternative energy sources.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.5, Kuril Islands
  
  Saturday, June 5, 2010 05:22:03 UTC Saturday, June 5, 2010 05:22:03 PM at epicenter Depth : 58.00 km (36.04 mi)
• M 5.0, south of Java, Indonesia
  
  Friday, June 4, 2010 15:12:40 UTC Friday, June 4, 2010 10:12:40 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.1, Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan
  
  Friday, June 4, 2010 11:49:40 UTC Friday, June 4, 2010 04:19:40 PM at epicenter Depth : 205.90 km (127.94 mi)
• M 5.0, southern Qinghai, China
  
  Thursday, June 3, 2010 20:47:05 UTC Friday, June 4, 2010 04:47:05 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.4, northern Sumatra, Indonesia
  
  Thursday, June 3, 2010 09:24:16 UTC Thursday, June 3, 2010 04:24:16 PM at epicenter Depth : 82.30 km (51.14 mi)

China Dialogue

• Listed demands
  
  Two think tanks are urging the Hong Kong stock exchange to tighten disclosure requirements on public companies caught polluting in mainland China. Here, the Asia Water Project summarises the arguments. Better environmental disclosure requirements from Hong Kong’s stock exchange, the Hong Kong Exchan ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Kraft’s Latest Trick to Sell Kids on Lunchab ...
  
  Cross-posted from Food Politics. I don’t know how Michele Simon finds these things but she has just sent me this link to the latest video advertisement for Kraft’s Lunchables on YouTube’s Kids’ Channel. As Melanie Warner points out,  Kraft has promised not to advertise its junk foods to kids unde ...
• WTF: Louisiana Governor Calls for More Offshore Dr ...
  
  Cross-posted from Treehugger. Say what? As millions of gallons of oil spew out of the Gulf, and much of it threatening to make landfall on his state, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has called for … more offshore drilling. Citing “concerns for the economic impact” of discontinuing drilling, he w ...
• Why Did God Create Atheists?
  
  If God is real, and religious believers can perceive him... why is anyone an atheist?
• Why Banks Try to Make Borrowers Feel Like Sinners ...
  
  Crazy views about homeownership are helping the very bankers who screwed us in the first place.
• Liberals and Progressives Never Miss an Opportunit ...
  
  Are we ready to change directions on the economy, the environment, democratizing politics, corporate social responsibility and Middle East peace?

Threat Level

• Lawyers Claim Google Wi-Fi Sniffing ‘Is Not an Acc ...
  
  Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary. “At this point, it is our belief that it is not an accident,” said B ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• WRAPUP 3-BP siphons gushing oil, Obama defends his ...
  
  * BP names American executive to manage spill aftermath
• Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times: re ...
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Nine Turkish activists killed in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship were shot a total of 30 times and five died of gunshot wounds to the head, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.
• Hungary to publish budget report after mkt turmoil
  
  BUDAPEST, June 5 (Reuters) - Hungary's government will release a report on the state of the economy and budget at 0830 GMT on Saturday, after its highly confusing comments on public finances drove down the currency and markets sharply on Friday.
• BP hopes to divert most of its Gulf oil gusher
  
  VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - With its containment cap clamped over the ruptured wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico, BP Plc executives say they hope to be siphoning off the bulk of newly spilled oil from the deep-sea gusher within days.
• Verizon may be alone in following AT&T rate change
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless could be prepared to follow AT&T Inc's lead and change how it charges wireless subscribers to download data -- but analysts say other carriers may be better served by standing their ground in the latest pricing upheaval.

Equality Trust

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

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

• Candy Johnstone, Subway Salmonella Victim Speaks
  
  WIFR reports that the Illinois State Health Department is investigating what led to a salmonella outbreak linked to some Central Illinois Subway shops. Two of the 34 cases have been reported in Ogle County. Candy Johnstone said she is one of the victims of the salmonella outbreak linked to subway s ...
• Chico Salmonella Outbreak Sickens 15 at Margarita ...
  
  At least 15 people became ill with Salmonella infections last month after attending the Margarita Mix-Off in Chico, California. Three of the fifteen were hospitalized due to the severity of their illnesses. The Margarita Mix-Off was hosted at Manzanita Place in Chico on May 8, with a local caterer ...
• Washington State Revokes Day Care License After E. ...
  
  AP reported today that the state of Washington revoked the license of a Southwest Washington in-home day care where Four-year-old Ronan Wilson contracted a fatal case of E. coli.� Dianne and Larry Fletch had operated the Hazel Dell day care for more than 20 years. Their license had been suspended in ...
• National Environmental Health Association Speech
  
  l will be heading to New Mexico on Monday to the NEHA Conference after a short stop in Las Vegas to attend the high school graduation of the twins son's of Linda Rivera .� Linda is still in Rehab after being hit by E. coli O157:H7 in April of 2009.� Here is the outline of my speech: The couple of ...
• Illinois Subway Salmonella - One, Two, Three Strik ...
  
  Strike One - Subway Hepatitis A Outbreak - Washington Strike Two - Subway Restaurant Shigella Outbreak - Chicago Strike Three - The Illinois Department of Public Health and local health departments throughout the state are investigating the cause of Salmonella illnesses among customers who ate at ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 06.04.10
  
  Peugeot BB1 is all-around quirky - and a production model is coming Peugeot promises a production model is coming. Infrastructurist, Fox Business reasonably discuss why raising the gas tax is a good idea ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: What is artificial life? (p ...
  
  This week, artificial life! Last month, of course, Craig Venter announced that he had modified a living organism by replacing its DNA with a synthetically-created genome . The J. Craig Venter Institute project took Mycoplasma capricolum bacteria and completely rewrote its genetic code of more than ...
• 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 ...

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!

• The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and "Deca ...
  
  The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is an environmentally friendly theatre festival playing shows from June 3 until June 29. Located in NYC, this festival strives to produce 'Theatre for a cause,' as it is committed to showing thought-provoking plays while giving back to the community. A por ...
• 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

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

• Rep. Linda Sanchez: White Supremacist Groups Behin ...
  
  Foxheads freak out when Rep. Linda Sanchez points out the white supremacists lurking behind Arizona’s immigration law Crooks and Liars- By David Neiwert Friday Jun 04, 2010 11:30am All day yesterday on Fox, the talking/shrieking heads were all worked up about some comments from Rep. Linda Sanchez ab ...
• Evening Jukebox- Wild Horses
  
  Rolling Stones- Wild Horses
• Halliburton Pours Money Into Campaigns Of Congress ...
  
  (H/T to Driftglass.) Halliburton Pours Money Into Campaigns Of Congress Members Who Will Investigate Oil Spill. Gee, I Wonder Why. Crooks and Liars- By Susie Madrak Thursday Jun 03, 2010 1:30pm Just when you think Halliburton couldn’t be any more blatant, and Congress members couldn’t be any more co ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• Sunflowers
  
  One of my favorites from ally Lesta Frank…
• Expect Miracles!
  
  by Catherine Austin Fitts On this weekâs Solari Report, I will be speaking with Jim and his sister Linette Crosby of Crosby Mint Farm and the Get Mint Trading Co. We first began reporting on Jim and Linette’s challenge facing foreclosure on their family mint farm in Michigan in November 2008 (Se ...
• Oldie but Goodie: Let’s Play 20 Questions!
  
  Here is an article I published eight years ago. It reminds us that we should ask the question if the “Greek bailouts” are not just a series of infusions into banks that engaged in fraudulent inducement. If you simply track the circulation of book entries on US bailouts, IMF bailouts, financial fraud ...
• No Secrets
  
  Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency. By Raffi Khatchadourian 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 springtim ...
• Reinventing Your Home in Anchorage
  
  Do you live in Alaska? Ready for your home to be reinvented for a more resilient future? Edible gardens means freedom from spending frustrating time in the grocery store trying to figure out what is real food. Energy audits and retrofitting means less risks of getting caught off guard by a disaster ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Poor Americans Are Drowning: Where Are the Lifeboa ...
  
  Across the U.S., poor communities are grossly under-served when it comes to education, nutrition, housing and health care.
• An Interview With a Lesbian Lieutenant Stuck In 'D ...
  
  Lt. Robin Chaurasiya, one of more than 16,000 service members discharged for violating DADT, discusses coming out, her uncertain future, and Obama's latest compromise.
• Ten Things You Can Do to Win a Political Campaign
  
  How can progressives build winning campaigns that truly represent the people?
• What Will Happen to the Prisoners at Bagram?
  
  A federal court has declared that hundreds of detainees in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their detention, despite rulings granting the same right to prisoners at Gitmo.
• The Obama Administration Will Put a Child Soldier ...
  
  Omar Khadr, who has spent his entire adult life at Guantanamo, was threatened with rape by U.S. interrogators upon his capture more than seven years ago.

Sideways News

• Biochar: the eco lessons of buried treasure
  
  Environmental entrepreneurs, Craig Sams (Green & Black’s) and Dan Morrell (The Carbon Neutral Company) have come up with a solution to the World’s Co2 emissions, following techniques used by Amazon Indians over 500 years ago.
• YouTube eyes up TV audiences
  
  YouTube boss Chad Hurley wants the website to be watched not in fifteen minute sessions, but over hours the way audiences watch television. The site, which was bought by Google, would tap into a worldwide advertising market previously ruled by old media. Hurley, 33, told The Sunday Telegraph that t ...
• The unexpected benefits of canary grass
  
  Researchers seeking to beautify contaminated industrial sites found success in more ways than one when they struck upon an unexpected new source for green biomass fuel .
• New Twilight proves there's life in the novel
  
  Stephenie Meyer has announced the latest book in the vampire fiction Twilight series, and fans can’t wait to get their teeth into it. The novel, entitled The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, will go on sale in shops on 5 June shortly after midnight on both sides of the Atlantic amid scenes normally ...
• Scientists urge trans fats ban
  
  A ban on trans fats would save lives by preventing thousands of heart attacks every year, scientists say. Experts writing in the British Medical Journal said the chemically altered vegetable oils, also known as trans fatty acids and typically found in cakes, pastries, pies, chips and fast foods, wer ...

Fabius Maximus

• The most popular posts ever on the FM website
  
  More accurately, these are the most often read posts.  Some of these are controversial, or even incendiary.  Shown for each is the number of views. 36,151  -  America passes a milestone! – Government is a growth industry! 32,372  -  Obama makes his first major policy error 30,100  –  An ...
• A Stratfor forecast for America: “From Fail ...
  
  “From Failed Bombings to Armed Jihadist Assaults“, Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 27 May 2010 — “This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR“ One of the things we like to do in our Global Security and Intelligence Report from time to time is examine the convergence of a number of separate and ...
• FM newswire for June 4, interesting articles about ...
  
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. About those sinking pacific islands:  “Floating Islands“, Willis Eschenbach, 27 January 2010 — This was the first rebuttal to the now-disproven fear of massive flooding. Recommended: ...
• A look ahead at the future of the world’s po ...
  
  Summary:  This is a look ahead, speculation about the course of history during the next few decades. As so often discussed here, the post-WWII era fades away a little more each day.  The political and economic orders that defined it have burnt out.  The bipolar competition has ended between commu ...
• FM newswire for June 3, interesting articles about ...
  
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Valuable research about an important topic:  “The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century“, A. B. Atkinson and Andrew Leigh, May 2010 (54 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Somali troops fight al-Shabab militants in Mogadis ...
  
  BBC – Clashes between Somali government forces and Islamist militants have killed at least 28 people and wounded about 60 in the capital Mogadishu. The fighting appears to be the start of a government offensive using troops trained in Ethiopia, analysts say. Read article
• Premiums on gold bullion coins surge
  
  International Business Times – Despite the rising prices of gold, physical demand for the yellow metal continues to surge. Physical demand for gold is robust and premiums on gold bullion coins continue to rise in key bullion markets like London, Dubai, Mumbai, New York and Beijing. According to an ...
• Israeli navy boards Gaza aid ship
  
  Reuters – The Israeli navy boarded another aid ship bound for Gaza on Saturday, as Washington condemned as “unsustainable” a blockade which Israel enforced earlier in the week by killing 9 people aboard a Turkish vessel. Irish and other activists aboard the Rachel Corrie had ignored Israeli orders t ...
• Princess Diana ‘was killed for planning to expose ...
  
  Daily Mail – Diana, Princess of Wales was killed because she planned to expose senior members of the British arms trade involved with land mines, a leading lawyer claimed today. Michael Mansfield QC, who represented Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the death of his son Dodi and the former royal, ...
• UK: University degrees ‘cannot be compared’
  
  Daily Telegraph – 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 th ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Pigs kill Aiyana Jones while being recorded for a ...
  
  Pigs kill Aiyana Jones while being recorded for a police reality TV show (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) One of the latest victims of the pig brutality is Aiyana Jones, a 7 year old girl who was living in Detroit who was murdered by gunfire earlier this month. (1) The assailant responsible for h ...
• 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 ...

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

• Pedal Your Way to a Charged Cell Phone
  
  Nokia has just unveiled a pretty cool way to charge your cell phone without hitting up the grid -- a bicycle charger kit.  All you dedicated cyclists out there may never have to plug your phone into a wall again. The Bicycle Charger Kit mounts onto the handlebars of your bike and includes a holder ...
• China Unveils World's Fastest High-Speed Train
  
  It's becoming clear that China is on its way to total high-speed rail domination.  The country is building the world's largest network of high-speed rail and along with that ambitious plan, China has just debuted the world's fastest train. The new 380A train, also called He Xie, can reach speeds u ...
• 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 ...

Buzzflash

• Replace Oil Jobs with Solar Jobs in the Gulf
  
  JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH Here we go again.� The corporate networks, owned by the oil companies, are pressuring Obama to lift the 6 month moratorium in the name of “the economy”—loss of oil drilling jobs.� The networks have been perpetually airing complaints from those in the oil industry ...
• Another GOP "Faux" Warrior, Congressman Mark Kirk, ...
  
  Illinois GOP Congressman Mark Kirk Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk represents one of the wealthiest Congressional Districts in the nation, the North Shore of Chicago, and he comes across as sort of the last of Northern GOP moderates. But that's all just window dressing. Kirk votes with the GOP whene ...
• Second GOP Operative Claims They Had an Affair wit ...
  
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH The new “ I am Spartacus !” Which we now seem to hear daily Is the familiar refrain of, “ I also had sex with Nikki Haley !” read more
• Al Gore and Tipper Gore Merit the BuzzFlash Wings ...
  
  It must painful to go your separate ways after being the political model couple of staying power and love for 40 years. So our best wishes go out to Al Gore and Tipper Gore as they embark on the later years of their life apart. But BuzzFlash bestows upon them a lifetime Wings of Justice Award for wh ...
• The Bad News is There Remains Virtually no Private ...
  
  MAX WOLFF FOR BUZZFLASH The good news is that unemployment declined to 9.7% in May 2010. The bad news is there remains virtually no private sector hiring and state and local governments are cutting. 95% of non-farm payroll growth in the US in May came from temporary Census hiring. A fragile Euro ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage ...
  
  It was clear from the moment news of the flotilla attack emerged that Israel was taking extreme steps to suppress all evidence about what happened other than its own official version.  They detained all passengers on the ship and barred the media from speaking with them, thus, as The NYT put it , " ...
• The Israeli flotilla attack: victimhood, aggressi ...
  
  (updated below) One of the primary reasons the Turkish Government has been so angry in its denunciations of the Israeli attack on the flotilla is because many of the dead were Turkish citizens.� That's what governments typically do:� object vociferously when their citizens are killed by ...
• Ken Salazar, corporatism and the BP oil spill
  
  (updated below - Update II) After I  argued last week that most of the criticisms of Obama's post-spill conduct seemed overblown to me, I  noted that there is substantial evidence reflecting quite negatively on the administration's pre-spill behavior.  Most incriminating were the episod ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 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

• Confusion Continues to Plague Interior Department ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity Since revelations last month that the BP Deepwater Horizon, as well as hundreds of other deep and shallow water drilling projects, were exempted from environmental review, the Department of Interior has announced a series ...
• FAMM Salutes South Carolina for Enacting Bold Sent ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2010 Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) Families Against Mandatory Minimums today hailed South Carolina's enactment of major criminal sentencing reform legislation. The bill was signed into law on Wednesday by South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford yesterday. "S ...
• LGBT Rights Activists Gathering for California Pow ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force As part of the effort to build the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement at the state and local level in preparation to repeal Prop. 8, activists working to regain the freedom to marry in C ...
• Gulf Conservationists Challenge Phony BP Oil Disas ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2010 Earthjustice Earthjustice filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Minerals Management Service challenging the agency's arbitrary approval of BP's oil spill clean-up plan. The clean up plan was approved in July 2009 prior to the approval of the exploratory dril ...
• Amnesty International Calls for Restrictions on Ta ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2010 Amnesty International Amnesty International is calling for a review of the U.S. border patrol's policy on use of electro-shock weapons following the death of Mexican national Anastasio Hernandez earlier this week.   read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Thousands Protest SB1070; Arizona Gov. Braces for ...
  
  by Erin Rosa Over Memorial Day weekend, tens of thousands of people marched in Phoenix, AZ to protest SB1070, a law that immigrants to carry papers at all times and makes it possible for any police officer to detain on suspicion of immigration status alone. read more
• Doubling Down in Afghanistan
  
  by William J. Astore As Congress moves toward rubber-stamping yet another "emergency" supplemental bill that includes more than $33 billion for military operations, mainly to fund the latest surge in Afghanistan, maybe we should take a page from the new British government.  Facing debilitating d ...
• Israel: The Truth Is Coming
  
  by Jodie Evans My dear friend Ann Wright joined the Gaza Freedom Flotilla just days before it left Greece. She posted daily blogs from her voyage, the last one written only hours before the Israeli Navy commandeered her small boat. read more
• Israel Raises Nuke Threat to Iran
  
  by Ira Chernus You've got to give Israel's leaders credit for creativity, if for nothing else. They never run out of new excuses for their violence, each more imaginative (and imaginary) than the last. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just gave his official explanation to the Israeli people ...
• Yes, Obama Is 'Engaged' – in a Colossal Crime
  
  by Glen Ford In a rational polity, the great abomination to Earth and Man in the Gulf would spell the end of the Obama presidency. We are witnessing cataclysm on a geological scale, an event with the potential to alter planetary destiny, precipitated not by the three hundred million year arc of ...

Karl Burkart

• Top 5 hottest environmental athletes
  
  Lance Armstrong endorses Nissan Lead and Planet 100 counts down the top 5 most environmentally friendly athletes.
• Magic wave sculpture designed to inspire kids
  
  With his mind-boggling kinetic wave sculpture, California artist Rubin Margolin hopes to inspire kids to learn more about the hidden geometry in nature.
• MyGreenElectronics maps recycling locations for el ...
  
  The Consumer Electronics Association does a good deed with its searchable database of recycling centers.
• Dolphin gets an iPad
  
  Merlin the Dolphin is the first animal to own his own iPad and he's using it to teach humans about Dolphin communication.
• FUEL: the untold story
  
  The movie FUEL exposes the oil industry and receives 11 standing ovations at Sundance.

Water Privatization

• Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
  
  Clean and consistent water supply is an essential service of modern living, so the industry remains untouched by economic fluctuations. According to IBISWorld, the industry should see steady 3.5 percent revenue growth per year until 2015. Although traditionally the industry has been dominated by mun ...
• City says water seller violates law
  
  A BULK water seller was found to have no pertinent clearance and business permit and was issued a notice of violation by the Iloilo City Planning and Development Office. read more
• 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 ...

Guardian

• Israeli forces board the Rachel Corrie
  
  • Navy commandos forcibly divert aid ship away from Gaza • Move risks further international isolation for Israel Israel risked a fresh wave of international condemnation today when its troops boarded a boat attempting to break the blockade of Gaza and forcibly diverted it to the port of Ashdod. Fiv ...
• Photographer Brian Duffy dies
  
  Duffy helped to define the 60s with images spanning celebrity, reportage and advertising Brian Duffy, whose photographs helped define the mood of the Swinging Sixties, has died aged 76. Together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy formed part of the trinity of photographers who became as fa ...
• Two UK troops killed in Helmand
  
  Latest fatalities push UK losses in Afghanistan to 292 Two British soldiers have been killed in a firefight in Helmand, southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today. The soldiers were from 1st Battalion the Mercian Regiment. Next of kin have been informed. Lieutenant Colonel James Carr-S ...
• My life on crack
  
  'It's the best sex, the most delicious meal, the most engrossing book…' A former addict confesses all I can't leave and there isn't enough. Mark is squawking about a crack dealer he used to buy from, but I'm not paying attention. All that matters to me is that we've reached the end of�our bag. The c ...
• Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close ...
  
  Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Only Al, Tipper Gore know why their ma ...
  
  You stand in front of witnesses together. You recite mirror-image vows. Sometimes they even wrap your hands together to make the point. In marriage, two become one.
• Commentary: Colombia's elections and the limits of ...
  
  The crushing defeat of Colombia's opposition candidate Antanas Mockus — who had a record following on Facebook — in last Sunday's first-round elections confirms what I have long suspected: The political and business impact of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube has been widely overrat ...
• Despite cap on broken well, it's too early to cele ...
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama warned Friday that it's "way too early to be optimistic," and a top BP executive also cautioned against over-reacting to BP's latest effort to contain the oil that's been spewing from a broken well a mile under the Gulf of Mexico.
• Israel ready to intercept another ship, won't apol ...
  
  ASHDOD, Israel — Israel remained defiant Friday in the face of international outrage over its assault on a pro-Palestinian flotilla, refusing demands from erstwhile ally Turkey that it apologize and preparing to intercept another vessel en route to the Gaza Strip.
• Bill seeks to sidestep ruling on direct wine shipm ...
  
  WASHINGTON — A brewing Capitol Hill fight pits California winemakers against beer wholesalers and others who are hoping to outflank a landmark Supreme Court decision.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Profiting from nature's portfolio
  
  We've had a fair bit of chat here in recent months about diversity in the natural world, and why it matters - with some regular posters asking whether in fact it matters at all. I've tried to lay out some of the evidence - there is quite a lot - showing that diverse ecosystems tend to be more robus ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Michelle Obama Invites 500 Chefs To The White Hous ...
  
  Something is wrong with our school lunch programs and student eating habits when the number of states with 40 percent or more of their young adults who are overweight or obese goes from 1 to 39 in just 10 years. Michelle Obama understands that. Yesterday, the First Lady hosted a star-studded celebri ...
• CFTC Chairman Advocates Tighter Derivatives Reform ...
  
  Next week, Congress returns from its Memorial Day recess, meaning that the conference committee that will reconcile the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform will begin to meet. And one of the most contentious areas will be reform of derivatives, the instruments that played a larg ...
• What’s The Matter With Mississippi? State Wi ...
  
  n yesterday’s LA Times, Noam Leveyhighlighted the fact that the people who need health care insurance most, often live in states with the fewest means and the least interest in providing coverage or making care more affordable. States like Mississippi — which has “the highest poverty rate in the nat ...
• As Oil Gushes, Information From BP Slows To A Tric ...
  
  Oil gushes from the riser cap Friday afternoon. According to a top BP official, the effectiveness of the latest attempt to capture oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout will only be announced once every twenty-four hours. In a press briefing this afternoon, BP senior vice president Kent Wells discu ...
• Taking Photos With Dictators
  
  Michael Rubin writes “On this, the one-year anniversary of Obamaâs Cairo speech, the silence of the Obama administration in the face of backsliding on rights, freedom, and liberty in Kurdistan, Turkey, and Arab states such as Egypt and Yemen, is deafening”: In recent weeks, independent journalists ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Is "Democracy" a Winning Campaign Issue?
  
  I was going to write something about capitalist imperialism, the Congo, Honduras, and the need for solidarity with the people of Greece. But in response to Alison's post about the harpercons' recent assault on parliamentary oversight, I commented: "I guess the opposition doesn't think that democrac ...
• No title
  
  One of the more chilling aspects of the harpercon government's recent challenge to supremacy over the Afghan detainee documents was the repeated resort of the anti-democratic, pro-war, "conservative" crowd to babble that they would stand up for "the honour of the Canadian military" against the MPs ...
• Down to the Wire on Detainee Documents in Parliame ...
  
  So, the parties are still trying to figure out the mechanics of complying with Speaker Milliken's ruling while respecting the harpercon government's bullshit "national security" concerns. In the Globe & Mail article link there's some speculation about whether the Liberals will attempt to cut a side ...
• Jay Currie's World (Satire)
  
  [Disclaimer: The following is a work of satirical fiction. Any similarity to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. To the author's knowledge, nobody sharing the names the characters in the story have done anything similar to the fictional events depicted therein.] Jay Currie is a se ...
• "Investors," High Frequency Trading, and Market Me ...
  
  Okay. Even assuming that all of Greece's economic troubles were caused by a bloated, inefficient public sector and counter-productive social programs, I'd still get a real kick out of all these nameless "investors" who want to make sure that the Greeks endure a really, really punishing austerity pr ...

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

• Updated Estimate of Royalties Owed to Taxpayers fo ...
  
  In the wake of Rep. Nick Rahall's (D-WV) efforts to recover taxpayers' royalty payments for the oil leaking into the Gulf, we thought it'd be fun to update our (very rough) calculations for how much money could be at stake...
• The Starting Salary for an Offshore Operations and ...
  
  One of the problems for the federal government is attracting the talent that they need to be effective in their mission, and keeping them there. The most recent report from the Department of the Interior inspector general demonstrated that in...
• Morning Smoke: FinReg Status Update
  
  FinReg Update: Senators Push Credit Ratings Reform, Volcker Rule for Final Bill by Annie Lowrey [The Washington Independent] IG positions vacant at more than one-fifth of agencies by Tom Spoth [Federal Times] DOD Background Briefing with Senior Defense Officials from...
• Rahall Pressures Executive Branch to Seek Royalty ...
  
  Hallelujah: The Wall Street Journal reports that Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) has asked the Obama Administration to seek royalty payments owed to taxpayers for the oil spewing into the Gulf. Rep. Nick J. Rahall II (D., W. Va.), chairman of...
• There Are Now Seven Federal Judges That Have Recus ...
  
  It's good that they're recusing themselves to avoid a conflict of interest, but I think it also underscores how both our regulatory system and legal system may fail to be truly independent. Kate Galbraith at the Texas Tribune points out...

Digital Journal

• Halifax principal caught on camera manhandling stu ...
  
  In March, a principal is caught on video in what appears to be the assault of a student. The principal is black, and when the Board was considering firing the man, the Black Educators Association said that would be racist.
• Guelph shelter puts down approximately 100 animals ...
  
  Last month, the Newmarket SPCA decided to put down 350 animals due to a scourge of ringworm, sparking a huge public outcry. That incident had some people wondering where the concern is for the animals routinely put down at the Guelph Humane Society.
• Pride Toronto Grand Marshal and Honoured Group Ann ...
  
  Pride Toronto announced that Mandy Goodhandy and Todd Klinck will be this year's Grand Marshals for the 30th annual Pride Parade to be held July 4 in Toronto.
• Woman sexually assaulted on Toronto bus
  
  The Toronto Police are alerting the public about a sexual assault case that took place on a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus Thursday evening.
• Fake restaurant health inspectors targeting Toront ...
  
  The Halton Regional Police Service and the Region of Halton Health Department (Food Safety) reports that there have been recent incidents where local restaurants are being scammed by fake health inspectors.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Don't Forget, Runaway Teens Are Homeless, Too
  
  Homeless, runaway teens are in crisis and in need of our help. In a new study (pdf) out this month, The National Runaway Switchboard reports that the number of homeless youth calling its hotline (1-800-RUNAWAY) has increased 99 percent over the past year. It is estimated that between 1.6 and 2.8 mil ...
• Food Not Bombs Turns 30, Continues to Serve Everyb ...
  
  Food Not Bombs , the all-volunteer movement that offers free vegetarian meals to anyone who wants them, turns 30 this year. FNB serves more than 1,000 communities weekly, using donations and food that would otherwise be thrown away. There are no formal leaders, anyone can eat, anyone can help and t ...
• Food Not Bombs Serves Everybody for 30 Years
  
  Food Not Bombs , the all-volunteer movement offers free vegetarian meals to anyone who wants them, turns 30 this year.  FNB serves more than 1,000 communities weekly, using donations and food that would otherwise be thrown away. There are no formal leaders, anyone can eat and anyone can help, and t ...
• Choir of Formerly Homeless Makes Beautiful Music — ...
  
  Are your tear ducts ready for this? The other night a choir made up of formerly homeless sailors, soldiers, airmen and Marines appeared on the TV show "America's Got Talent" — and they wowed. (Thanks goes to  BeatontheStreet at the International Homeless Forum for posting the video.) After singing " ...
• On National Hunger Awareness Day, Think of Judy
  
  I was doing my regular Angeleno thing: yapping on the cell phone (hands-free, of course) while fighting evening rush hour traffic on Beverly Boulevard. The street is an unusual amalgam of ultra-Orthodox synagogues and kosher markets, upscale hipster boutiques and a significant number of recession-er ...

Ceasefire.ca

• And the big fool said to push on
  
  More talk of retaining a Canadian military role in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the Kandahar mission in 2012 (Matthew Fisher, “Canada could fill training role in Afghanistan post-2011, MPs say,” Canwest News Service, 3 June 2010): Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae has provided th ...
• 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• FDA Found Guilty Over Censored Health Claims
  
  June 4, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams (NaturalNews) Health freedom has just been handed a significant victory by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated the First Amendment rights of a nutritiona ...
• Obama Will Use Executive Order To Hide Kagan Paper ...
  
  June 4, 2010 Kagan Watch In a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee Republican, Robert Bauer, counsel to Obama, implied the president may use executive privilege to hide some memos Elena Kagan wrote when she served in the Clinton White House. “President Obam ...
• Oil Spill Has Officially Reached Florida Coast
  
  June 4, 2010 Tallahassee Gov. Charlie Crist, speaking live on CNN this morning, said he’s receiving new reports that tar balls may be washing up on Pensacola’s beaches. The governor said his inspection by air yesterday showed an oil sheen about 3 ½ to 4 miles off the coast, promoting his request for ...
• Big Pharma Blackmails Greece Over Medicine Supply
  
  June 4, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams (NaturalNews) In the midst of runaway economic problem in Greece, the pharmaceutical industry has decided to blackmail the nation and halt shipments of medicines to Greece until it agrees to pay full price for the drugs. In order to cut costs during its severe ...
• Chlorinated Pools Cause Life-Long Harm With New Bo ...
  
  June 4, 2010 Natural News By David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) Young children who swim in chlorinated pools may suffer an increased risk of lung infections and even lifelong asthma and respiratory allergies, according to a study conducted by researchers from Catholic University Louvain in Brussels, Belg ...

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

• Rachel Corrie seized by Israeli military
  
  Free Gaza Movement press release: Just before 9am GMT this morning, the Israeli military forcibly siezed the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and construction supplies to besieged Gaza. For the second time in less then a week, Isr ...
• Rachel Corrie being towed to Ashdod
  
  At 5.47AM Eastern: At 5.00AM Eastern:
• Israeli navy approaches Rachel Corrie
  
  FreeGaza Tweet – 10 PM Eastern For the latest information on the MV Rachel Corrie, check the FreeGazaOrg Twitter feed.
• Remembering the dead and the Rachel Corrie’s missi ...
  
  Humanitarian aid workers, a firefighter, a politician, a taekwondo champion, a photojournalist, a student who hoped to become a doctor — nine Turkish men, mostly fathers who leave behind children and wives. Even while their deaths are at the center of an international crisis that is rocking the sta ...
• MV Rachel Corrie due to reach Gaza within hours. “ ...
  
  The MV Rachel Corrie, a cargo ship in the Freedom Flotilla whose passage from Ireland was delayed by mechanical difficulties, is now hours away from its destination. “I commend this courageous action of brave international civilians who are carrying essential medical, education and construction mat ...

Watts Up With That?

• Under the Volcano, Over the Volcano
  
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In 2006, I lived for a year in Waimea, on the Big Island of Hawaii. From my house I could see the Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO). This observatory is the home of the longest continuous … Continue reading →
• New Scafetta paper – his celestial model out ...
  
  Dr. Nicolas Scafetta writes: Anthony,   I believe that you may be interested in my last published work. Please note also the results in Figure 9 where I compare the performance of a celestial based model t the Giss modelE … Continue reading →
• WUWT at the top of the heap?
  
  From Greg Laden’s Science Blog, a preview of the upcoming science blog rankings. Apparently, WUWT is going to be number one. Oddly though, the Wikio Widget at the right sidebar which has said #2 for months, has suddenly stopped showing … Continue reading →
• May UAH Global Temperature Anomaly – holding ...
  
  May 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.53 deg. C. By Dr. Roy Spencer The global-average lower tropospheric temperature remains warm: +0.53 deg. C for May, 2010. The linear trend since 1979 is now +0.14 deg. C per decade.Tropics picked up … Continue reading →
• Noctilucent clouds may be more visible during this ...
  
  From SpaceWeather.com Every summer since the late 19th century, Earth’s polar skies have lit up with gossamer, electric-blue clouds, twisting and rippling in the twilight sky. They’re called noctilucent (“night-shining”) because they can be seen after dark. The origin of … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• The Rachel Corrie has been forcibly seized by the ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ John Hurson Gaza TV phlog Gaza TV News – 5th Jun 10 at 10:02 The Rachel Corrie has been forcibly seized by the Israeli navy *** ISRAELI MILITARY FORCIBLY STOPS AID BOAT TO GAZA – AGAIN by Greta Berlin Freegaza 05 June 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For More Informati ...
• Banks Profit From Near-Zero Interest Rates: Anothe ...
  
  by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 5, 2010 While individuals, businesses and governments suffer from a credit crisis created on Wall Street, the banks responsible for the crisis are tapping into nearly-interest-free credit lines and using the money to speculate or ...
• Glenn Greenwald: ‘Price to pay’ for op ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish June 03, 2010 â Though international criticism has been mounting against Israel’s raid on civilian aid ships bound for Gaza, reaction from the United States has been cautious. Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional lawyer and civil rights lit ...
• Defining Moments in Activating Our Will to Resist ...
  
  by Ariel Ky Dandelion Salad Peacevisionary’s Blog June 3, 2010 Support Jeju Islanders of South Korea in Resisting Construction of a Military Base and Support the International Activists on the MV Rachel Corrie Still Running the Israeli Blockade to Bring Aid to Gazans Cranes moved in this morning on ...
• Sabotage on the High Sea by Greta Berlin
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Greta Berlin Freegaza 03 June 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Cyprus, June 4, 2010) On Tuesday,, Colonel Itzik Tourgeman told the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that two more ships are on their way to try and break the naval blockade of G ...

Your New Reality

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  "Sell Everything, Quickly" For some reason, the headsmacking reality of the $5 trillion European Debt Crisis is best explained through satire : Enjoy the mirth while you can. There's no tax on laughter. Well, not yet anyway.
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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 ...

Wired - Science

• Caught on Tape: Cricket Sex
  
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience90054670001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Thanks to a kind of science reality show, evolutionary biologists are getting a reality check. The day-to-day lives of field crickets, captured on 250,000 hours ...
• U.S. Climate Satellite Capabilities in Jeopardy
  
  The United States is in danger of losing its ability to monitor key climate variables from satellites, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. The country’s Earth-observing satellite program has been underfunded for a decade, and the impact of the lack of funds is finally hittin ...
• Fossil Antelope Teeth Hold Clues to Europe’s Missi ...
  
  Wear patterns on ancient antelope teeth have allowed researchers to reconstruct Europe’s environment 8 million years ago, when the continent’s great apes vanished. One of those ape species could have given rise to the human lineage, making the circumstances of their disappearance especially interes ...
• Fractal Haze Could Solve Weak-Sun Mystery for Earl ...
  
  A thick haze of organic material let the early Earth soak up the sun’s warmth without absorbing harmful ultraviolet rays, according to a new study. The model offers a new twist on an old puzzle: Although the sun was so dim billions of years ago that the Earth should have been a ball of ice, the [.. ...
• Gulf Oil Spill Could Spread to Atlantic Coast
  
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience89801701001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Oil from BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill could reach the Atlantic coast in the coming months, according to a new computer simulation. ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Guardian: Gaza flotilla activists were shot in hea ...
  
  Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Israel arrests Free Gaza chief
  
  Israeli forces arrested the chairwoman of the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla at Friday's demonstration in Bil'in, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, supporters said. Huwaida Arraf, a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fi ...
• Hamas officials given one month to leave Israel
  
  Jerusalem police confiscated the Israeli identity cards of four Hamas legislators overnight on Thursday and gave them until July to leave the country. IOA Editor: This Haaretz headline is, of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Noam Chomsky Interview: speaking of truth and powe ...
  
  Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime... For decades, Israel has been hijacking boats in international waters between Cyprus and Lebanon,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Graham Usher: No change at the UN
  
  [T]he blockade has been a colossal moral, political and diplomatic failure. Not only has it wrought a humanitarian catastrophe on Gaza's 1.5 million people: it has so strengthened Hamas that it alone... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia downplays Chinese J-15 fighter capabilities
  
  China's J-15 carrier-based fighter will not be able to compete with Russia's Su-33 fighter on global markets because it is inferior to the Russian aircraft, a Russian military analyst said on Friday.
• Russia may export 232 new fighter jets in next 3 y ...
  
  Russia may export 232 new multi-role fighters worth over $10 billion in 2010-2013, a Russian think tank reported on Monday.
• Russia cannot afford professional army in near fut ...
  
  Russia will continue to rely heavily on conscription to man its Armed Forces in the near future rather than make a transition to fully professional army, a senior military official said on Monday.
• Russian missile cruiser heads to San Francisco on ...
  
  A task force from the Russian Pacific Fleet led by the missile cruiser Varyag set sail on Friday on a friendly visit to the United States.
• Russian defense spending to grow as proportion of ...
  
  Russian defense spending will rise to 2.9% of GDP in 2011, up three tenths of a percent on the current year, a deputy finance minister said on Thursday

NewsWise

• Lazar J. Greenfield, MD, FACS, Is Recipient of 201 ...
  
  The 2010 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons has been given to Lazar J. Greenfield, MD, FACS, in honor of his seminal work as an expert in vascular surgery.
• Vandetanib Shows Clinical Benefit When Combined Wi ...
  
  When combined with standard chemotherapy, an international Phase III trial has shown that the oral targeted therapy vandetanib improves progression-free survival for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
• Good Grades? It's All in Who You Know
  
  Adolescents with more in-school friends than out-of-school friends have higher grade-point averages and -- complementing this finding -- those with higher GPAs have more in-school friends.
• UM and Lockheed Martin Launch Strategic Relationsh ...
  
  The University of Maryland and Lockheed Martin have opened a major chapter in their six-decade history, agreeing to create a unique, strategic relationship. It provides a strategic framework to produce innovative solutions for global and national security challenges. The initial Lockheed Martin comm ...
• Promising Treatment for Some Symptoms Caused by TB ...
  
  A recent retrospective study by four Michigan physicians shows strong evidence that symptoms of headache, dizziness and anxiety in some patients with traumatic brain injury potentially could be alleviated or even eliminated with specialized eyeglass lenses containing prisms. These lenses resulted in ...

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

• Farm Economics: On the Promise and Limits of Urban ...
  
  Over on Earth Island Journal, Sena Christian has an excellent, rigorously reported article about the tough economics of urban farming. But there's some missing context here: all farms struggle mightily to "thrive in a market economy" -- and relatively few actually do. Click here to read this article
• Survey Shows Wily Biotech Companies are Fishing fo ...
  
  Disgusting. Food companies think that all they need to do is add the word "sustainable" to an ad campaign, and consumers will fall for it. Unfortunately, this survey shows that they might. Newsflash everyone: GE CROPS ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE! EVER! Click here to read this article
• Podcast: A Close Look at the "Town that Food Saved ...
  
  Hardwick, a hardscrabble town in rural Vermont (pop. 3,200), once based its economy on a non-renewable resource locked up in its surrounding hillsides: granite. But then the granite ran out -- taking the town economy down with it. More recently, the town has embarked on a wild experiment. Its econom ...
• Why You Shouldn't Drink Pasteurized Milk
  
  First of all, please understand that I do not recommend drinking pasteurized milk of any kind -- ever. Because once milk has been pasteurized it's more or less "dead," and offers little in terms of real nutritional value to anyone, whether you show signs of intolerance to the milk or not. Click her ...
• Is Organic Food Healthier? The Answer Is Yes
  
  A study claims insufficient evidence that organic food is healthy. But as the President's Cancer Panel reports, avoiding food sprayed with carcinogens still makes sense. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Mirando muy de cerca los insectos de mi jardín (24 ...
  
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• Poquitas, pero bonitas. (17 imágenes variadas)
  
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• Fotos de gatitos que te harán reir (21 elementos)
  
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• 42 fotografías del Parlamento en Ottawa Canadá
  
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Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• IDF: Okay, So Maybe They Weren’t Al-Qaeda After Al ...
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This would be amusing, were the Obama administration not backing Israel’s insistence that any investigation into the attack on the flotilla be conducted (read: whitewashed) by Israel itself: When placed under journalistic scrutiny, the IDF is being forced ...
• Two Thoughts on Peter Erlinder’s Arrest in Rwanda
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Julian beat me to the punch regarding the news that Peter Erlinder, the William Mitchell law professor who is one of the leading defense attorneys at the ICTR, has been arrested in Rwanda for “genocide denial” — code for “criticizing the Kagame government.” ...
• Australia’s Application to the ICJ Causes Japanese ...
  
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m sure that this smashing application by Australia to the ICJ is the proximate reason for the Japanese Prime Minister’s sudden resignation today. Behold the power of the World Court litigation! OK, I’m violating my late-night blogging rule (see earlier posts for my dum ...
• IDF: Okay, So Maybe They Weren’t Al-Qaeda Af ...
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This would be amusing, were the Obama administration not backing Israel’s insistence that any investigation into the attack on the flotilla be conducted (read: whitewashed) by Israel itself: When placed under journalistic scrutiny, the IDF is being forced ...
• Thoughts on Samantar
  
  by Peter Rutledge [ Peter "Bo" Rutledge is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Georgia Law School and the author, with Gary Born, of International Civil Litigation in United States Courts ] I’ve been thinking a lot about Samantar since its release as I expect it’ll occupy an importa ...

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

• Foes of AZ Immigration Law Plan National March on ...
  
  Foes of AZ Immigration Law Plan National March on Phoenix Phoenix, AZ – Upwards of 50,000 opponents of Arizona’s new immigration law are expected to march through Phoenix to the state capitol Saturday. Organizers say it’s one part of a national effort to overturn the law, which they characterize as ...
• Facebook and Google Under Fire
  
  Facebook and Google Under Fire Washington, DC - Facebook is set to announce new simplified privacy settings as early as today (Wednesday). Anger over Facebook and Google has reached a new level, according to a privacy watchdog organization. Comments from Marc Rotenberg (WROTE-enberg), Executive Dire ...
• Report: BP Can’t Be Singled Out
  
  Report: BP Can’t Be Singled Out A new report from Global Exchange, an environmental education and resource organization, sets the stage for a discussion about how the public may be misled… into thinking BP is the only oil production company with operations problems on its hands. The study gathered u ...
• A Whole Family Approach To Raising At-Risk Kids
  
  A Whole Family Approach To Raising At-Risk Kids Phoenix, AZ – It’s well-established that parents play a vital role in the education of their children. But some parents don’t have the needed literacy skills. A Phoenix-based foundation is focused on educating at-risk pre-school kids and their parents. ...
• Doctor Has Advice for Arizonans During American St ...
  
  Doctor Has Advice for Arizonans During American Stroke Month Phoenix, AZ - May is American Stroke Month, and the American Stroke Association wants people to recognize the risk factors for stroke and learn the warning signs. Only heart disease, cancer and accidents kill more people in Arizona than st ...

My Care2 Picks

• CBS Threatened with Arrest for Filming the Gulf Oi ...
  
  The environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps not being accurately reported by the mainstream media due to government and BP manipulation. We may only be privy to half-truths and subterfuge . . . You be the judge. Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Why Attorney General Holder should pursue RICO cha ...
  
  The best way to guarantee the most effective, efficient, and expeditious remedies to the widespread damage this disaster has wrought is to first guarantee that we, the people, have the funds necessary Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Exclusive: EU to overhaul GM crop system
  
  The European Union is to radically overhaul its approval system for genetically modified (GM) crops from next month, opening the way to large-scale GM cultivation in Europe, draft proposals seen by Reuters on Friday showed. Submitted by Judy C. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
  
  The new report by BTselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza - report it in a manner which minimizes the story's potential to create opposition to Israeli treatment of Palestinians Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note ...
• Did Washington Bring Down the Japanese Prime Minis ...
  
  Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, along with Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa, resigned Wednesday due to a dispute over plans to relocate the U.S. Marine Air Station at Futenma, in the southern part of Okinawa to Oura Bay in the north Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

Angry Indian News

• India's 'third sex'
  
  Submitted by Gender Discrimination Issues correspondent Stephe Feldman:--BBC World Service - Programmes - India's 'third sex': "Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is one of the highest profile members of India's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Report says Burma is taking steps toward nuclear w ...
  
  Report says Burma is taking steps toward nuclear weapons program: "Burma has begun secretly acquiring key components for a nuclear weapons program, including specialized equipment used to make... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• American Racism under the Obama Administration: Af ...
  
  FBI Investigates Possible Hate Crime in Death and Dragging of Anthony Hill in SC - AOL News(June 3) -- The FBI is investigating a possible federal hate crime in Newberry County, S.C., where an... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• MaxBlumenthal: The Flotilla Raid Was Not “Bungled. ...
  
  The Flotilla Raid Was Not “Bungled.” The IDF Detailed Its Violent Strategy In Advance.Tel Aviv-Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his senior ministers have attempted to blame army... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Under Scrutiny, IDF Retracts Claims About Flotilla ...
  
  Under Scrutiny, IDF Retracts Claims About Flotilla’s Al Qaeda Links-MaxBlumenthal: "When placed under journalistic scrutiny, the IDF is being forced to admit that its claims about the flotilla’s... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Remember the GM Tryptophan that killed 37 and perm ...
  
  We will never know just how many deformities will occur, or how many side effects will be released into the environment such as the ability for GM bacteria to produce a 'toxic to humans' poison and inject it into our food simply due to the way the cells 'healed.'
• They are poisoning our Gulf for personal profit!
  
  It's all about the profit. This expose has shown Who, what, when, where and why, the dithering. It's about the dispersents, the stimulus, the billionaires who are vested in NALCO, the scientists who are all onboard with the green agenda, Chicago [University of Chicago was founded by crookster John D ...
• State poised to OK supertoxic pesticide
  
  The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has proposed registering methyl iodide as a pesticide in California to the dismay of scientists and environmental groups, who say it is so toxic that even chemists are reluctant to handle it.
• INEAS supports “The Adventures of Aggie the Travel ...
  
  INEAS supports "The Adventures of Aggie the Traveling Agrobacterium" curriculum for children on GMOs
• Gulf Oil Catastrophe: Proven Solution Restores Env ...
  
  Thank you Jackie, for this find. Please help spread this video. You cannot convince me that the people who are handling the BP fiasco do not know about this.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• At the IHH Offices (lrb.co.uk)
  
  Noted by Nathan Deuel on June 5, 2010 8:06 AM
• Israeli naval commandos seize Gaza-bound aid ship ...
  
  Noted by Eileen White Read on June 5, 2010 8:06 AM
• IDF boards Gaza-bound ship Rachel Corrie, says cre ...
  
  Noted by Eileen White Read on June 5, 2010 7:06 AM
• Album sales plummet to lowest total in decades (Ya ...
  
  Noted by Michele Catalano on June 5, 2010 7:06 AM
• NYTimes.com to Host Nate Silver’s Blog on Politics ...
  
  Noted by Stowe Boyd on June 4, 2010 9:06 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• US to go ahead with 'essential' drone attacks in P ...
  
  ShareThis US to go ahead with 'essential' drone attacks in Pakistan despite UN call to stop �04 Jun 2010 Notwithstanding a report by a top UN official, which called for the discontinuation of unmanned Predator drone attacks in Pakistan's troubled tribal areas along the Afghan border, the United Stat ...
• Ankara to review military and economic ties after ...
  
  ShareThis Ankara to review military and economic ties after activists' deaths 05 Jun 2010 Turkey has decided to review all military and economic agreements with Israel and may reduce relations to a "minimum", the deputy prime minister said yesterday. Bulent Arinc's remarks showed how seriously ties ...
• Congress 'well-informed of CIA activities'
  
  ShareThis Congress 'well-informed of CIA activities' �05 Jun 2010 Amid concerns over US drone attacks in Pakistan, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says Capitol Hill lawmakers are fully aware of CIA operations abroad. Gates -- a one-time director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) himself ...
• Russians say BP rejected their help
  
  ShareThis Russians say BP rejected their help 04 Jun 2010� U.S. authorities would be "appalled" if the Russian mini-submarine Mir were dispatched to help control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Russian officials said. U.S. filmmaker James Cameron said Russian-made Mir submarines could help BP with its ...
• 'Aid Ship Intercepted By Israeli Troops'
  
  ShareThis 'Aid Ship Intercepted By Israeli Troops' 05 Jun 2010 Peace activists on board an aid ship heading for Gaza have been intercepted by Israeli forces, according to reports. The Rachel Corrie set out with its crew determined to break Israel's naval blockade. Israel said it was equally determin ...

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

• Goldstone removed from Hebrew University board
  
  Richard Goldstone has been removed from the board of governors of the Hebrew University. He was on it for more than a decade. Jewish nationalism trumps Jewish intelligence, once again. The struggle of our generation.
• Updates on the MV Rachel Corrie
  
  @import "http://embed.tweetizen.com/embed.css"; The news on the MV Rachel Corrie's attempt to break the siege has been difficult to follow, but it seems that twitter is the most accessible and reliable news source right now. I've embedded the Mondoweiss (@mondoweiss) twitter feed below where we're p ...
• The myth of Israeli strategic genius
  
  The botched Israeli naval commando raid on the Gaza Freedom flotilla has a lot of people scratching their heads. How could Israel have made such an ill-advised decision to try to storm the ship the Mavi Marmara with 600 peace activists on board, which in the best of circumstances could only have en ...
• ‘NPR’ gives platform to two Muslims to ...
  
  An unusual moment on NPR tonight that I read hopefully, as a sign of perestroika. Robert Siegel did his weekly roundup of politics with E.J. Dionne and David Brooks and Brooks said that Israel had a "moral" duty to keep the blockade in force, and mentioned several Israelis he had spoken to this week ...
• Rep. Sherman: prosecute U.S. citizens involved wit ...
  
  On a press call hosted by a pro-Israel organization, Rep. Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, told reporters that he intends seek the prosecution of any U.S. citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla. “The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 [PDF] makes ...

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

• Michael Yon in Squidge Magazine
  
  This Article was written by ED and published in Squidge Magazine on 03 June 2010 . Michael Yon Where are you now and what’s happening with your embeds since your last one was cut off? Today in Singapore but recently was covering the serious fighting in downtown Bangkok in which about 86 p ...
• 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 ...

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

• Solar Powered Fridges Have Huge Impact on Struggli ...
  
  photo: J. Novak Swaziland is one of the poorest and most rural nations in the world. Most of the villages have no running water, electricity, or refrigerators. But a new innovation is serving to make life a lot more manageable for rural families in Swaziland. The communal building in many of th ...
• In Chicago, A Fashion Show Satisfies Our Love for ...
  
  From afar it looks like just another golden hued evening gown but up close it's hundreds of M&M wrappers--yum! Image courtesy of EarthShare Illinois We're no strangers to green fashion in Chicago; Designers Vaute Couture , Frei Designs , and Mountains of the Moon Read the full story on TreeHugg ...
• Dispatch from World Environment Day in Rwanda: Loo ...
  
  Photo:Meaghan O'Neill. Think about everything you love about nature, and why you believe its worth preserving. Maybe the smell of the ocean breeze, say, or the beauty of your favorite flower in bloom reminds you of your mom. Maybe you love bird watching or camping with your family. Perhaps the ...
• Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Gushing Oil Into At ...
  
  With every attempt so far to stop the gusher of oil from the Deepwater Horizon failed, the grim news is that it could flow until Ch... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Obama Speech Links BP Gulf Spill to Need for Clean ...
  
  Photo via Post Gazette Though the clean energy legislation introduced to the Senate a couple weeks ago has faded into the background as the BP Gulf spill rages on , there's still a real opportunity for lawmakers to make the case for transitioning away from fossil fuels. And greens have been wa ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burma’s nuclear ambitions
  
  Burma's nuclear ambitions
• Peter Gitmark: ‘Sanctions must stay’
  
  Norway has long championed Burma’s pro-democracy movement, and has been a chief source of funding for exiled media and campaign organisations. But while the majority of Norway shares the desire for the same end result in Burma, ministers and policymakers are divided on which path to follow to achiev ...
• China begins on trans-Burma pipeline
  
  Work begins on 800km pipeline to carry Burmese gas to southwestern China hours after the two allies sign a raft of bilateral trade agreements
• 400 shops razed by Sagaing fire
  
  Damage put at $170,000 as fire guts a market seen as strategically vital for trade along the Chindwin river in northern Burma
• China and Burma sign 15 trade deals
  
  Chinese premier Wen Jiabao also raises the issue of border tension as controversial elections in Burma threaten to spark widespread unrest

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Home, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the aerial p ...
  
  Home, a film by renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
• Royal Society 'to re-examine climate message'
  
  Britain's national academy of science is to review its messages on climate change after complaints from its Fellows that the publicised views were oversimplified, according to reports.
• Global warming is 'making Mount Everest more dange ...
  
  Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to a Nepalese Sherpa who has conquered the world's highest summit 20 times.
• Middle classes in suburbs 'bearing brunt of libera ...
  
  Middle class people living in the suburbs are bearing the brunt of an obsession with tackling climate change forced on them by a liberal elite, according to a new report.
• Mammoths contributed to global warming with methan ...
  
  Mammoths helped to fill the atmosphere with methane and keep the Earth warm more than 13,000 years ago, scientists believe.

National Geographic | Environment

• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
  
  Thirty years after Mount St. Helens blew its top, the peak is still the second most dangerous volcano in the United States, according to government estimates. United States - Mount St. Helens - Volcano - Washington - England
• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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• Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill
  
  Evaporation, dilution, and oil-hungry bacteria are already combatting the Gulf slick, experts say.
• Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
  
  Twenty-five years later, the lingering "hole" over Antarctica is close to closing—but that may not be entirely a good thing. Antarctica - Antarctic - Polar Regions - Ozone depletion - Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

• Kazakhstan president declines to sign bill extendi ...
  
  [JURIST] Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev [official website; BBC profile] on Thursday announced during a local TV broadcast that he will not sign a controversial law that would grant him several presidential powers for life, even if he stepped down from office. Nazarbayev would be given a signi ...
• Tobacco companies join lawsuit against NYC statute ...
  
  [JURIST] Three tobacco companies on Thursday joined a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] challenging a New York City Department of Health [official website] regulation [text, PDF] requiring stores to display graphic anti-tobacco ads where tobacco products are sold. Altria Group, Lorillard, and Reynolds Americ ...
• Convicted Mumbai gunman appeals death sentence
  
  [JURIST] Authorities in India announced Friday that Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab [NDTV profile], the lone gunmen to survive the three-day siege of Mumbai [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] that killed 166 in November 2008, has filed an appeal challenging his conviction. Kasab, a Pakistani national ...
• Argentina ex-military officials go on trial for 'D ...
  
  [JURIST] An Argentine federal court on Thursday commenced trial proceedings for five ex-military officials allegedly responsible for the death of 65 left-wing activists during the nation's 1976-83 "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The former dictators are charged with t ...
• UN officials urge probe into killing of DR Congo r ...
  
  [JURIST] Senior UN officials on Thursday condemned the killing of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC country profile] and called for an investigation into his murder. Chebeya was found dead in his car on Wednesday, one day after being asked to atte ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama to Nominate Clapper for DNI Tomorrow
  
  President Obama intends to nominate Gen. James Clapper (Ret)., the current undersecretary of defense for intelligence, as Director of National Intelligence.� Pending weather, the announcement will be made in the Rose Garden tomorrow. Clapper would be the four DNI since the position was created fiv ...
• Why Sarah Palin Endorsed Terry Branstad in Iowa
  
  There's a simple answer to the question, I think. He's going to be the next governor of Iowa, assuming that there are no stunning surprises next week and Chet Culver, the Democrat, doesn't mount a miraculous election year comeback. Indeed, even as the last previous Republican gubernatorial nominee ...
• Believe the GOP Spin on Job Numbers
  
  Today, the White House spin on job numbers is clear enough: right direction, new jobs being created every day, and hey, here's Obama in front of jobs-y backgrounds at a photo-op in Maryland. ( Consistent with the rise in average weekly hours, the number of full-time workers rose for the fourth mon ...
• News Alert: President Endorses Democrat; Is Impeac ...
  
  The actions taken by White House advisers Rahm Emanuel and Jim Messina correspond directly to the following scenarios: the president, at some point during his presidency, decides to campaign for a Democratic candidate. The president, at some point during his presidency, castigates Republicans and ur ...
• The Night Beat: Kyrgyz Gov't Extorting the Pe ...
  
  Good evening. On the Night Beat: There's a diplomatic showdown brewing that is threatening the war effort in Afghanistan. The new Kyrgyz government is essentially attempting to extort money from the U.S. government and the military is having none of it. The Pentagon has now shut down all airbor ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...
• [COAT] Help Protest Canada's top WAR-industry Baza ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Turkey Threatens to Suspend Relations With Israel, ...
  
  Turkey’s ambassador to the U.S. has threatened to sever diplomatic relations with Israel unless it apoligizes for its attack on a Turkish aid ship, agrees to an international investigation and ends its Gaza siege: A senior Turkish diplomat warned that his country might sever diplomatic relations wi ...
• Shin Bet Travel Ban Issued for Another Israeli Pal ...
  
  The Shin Bet, in its continuing reign of oppression on Israeli Palestinian political leaders, imposed a travel ban on Mohammad Kana’neh, the general secretary of Abnaa el-Balad, a secular political group opposed to participation in Israeli elections.  Kana’ne is a board member of Ameerk Makhoul’s N ...
• MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, ...
  
  The BBC is reporting that the Israeli Navy has “intercepted” the MV Rachel Corrie but has not boarded or stopped her.  The Israelis have made clear their determination that the boat will not dock in Gaza.  The passengers have refused to accept a compromise worked out between Ireland and Israel to ...
• Turkish Autopsies Show Flotilla Victims Shot at Po ...
  
  The Guardian publises a chilling report that raises the distinct possibility that many of the nine (so far) dead aboard the Mavi Marmara may’ve been shot execution-style by the IDF commados who assaulted the boat: …Autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed the ...
• Al Jazeera Cameraman’s Eyewitness Acccount of IDF ...
  
  Now that Israel has been forced by Turkey to release the Gaza flotilla detainees, some of the r accounts of the events that transpired on the Mavi Marmara are circulating in the press. Reuters carries this story of an Al Jazeera cameraman who was on the boat: Al Jazeera television cameraman Andre A ...

Ode Magazine

• Q&A: Albert-László Barabási
  
  As the director of the Center for Complex Network Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási researches what he calls “the hidden pattern behind everything we do.” Barabási’s Bursts (Dutton), out in April, explains ...
• We live in a rain forest
  
  Our brains don’t function like a machine; rather they function like an ecosystem. “The brain has a tremendous ability to transform itself in response to change,” writes psychologist Thomas Armstrong in our cover story for this issue. Armstrong believes that differences among ...
• Your brain is a rain forest
  
  People with conditions like ADHD, dyslexia and mood disorders are routinely labeled "ÂÂdisabled". But differences among brains are as enrichingâand essentialâas differences among plants and animals. Welcome to the new field of neurodiversity. Imagine for a moment that o ...
• Our purpose in life is to be happy
  
  By: WendyAZ Our purpose in life is to be happy. That's why we are here. We spend much of our lives pursuing what we believe will make us happy, but what we fail to realize is that happiness is a feeling and just thinking about what makes you happy will giv ...
• Who will capitalism rescue, Mr. Quadir?
  
  By: nchutz The article “Capitalism to the rescue!” in your April/May issue comes at a significant time: when financial institutions have shown major flaws in their structure and operation and the public’s mistrust in the conventional wisdom of economic lea ...

OpEd News

• How and Why I got apos;On-boardapos; with The FREE ...
  
  I am an American without a drop of Arab blood within me and my org has been an endorsing org of the FREEDOM FLOTILLA, since I learned about it at the 27th annual American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committeeapos;s Washington, D.C. Conference on 10 June 2007. Among the invited speakers who did ...
• Illinois: A State in Crisis
  
  Illinois a microcosm of America
• Did U.S./South Korean Naval Exercises sink the Che ...
  
  While everyone is pointing fingers at North Korea in the sinking of the South Korean patrol ship, the Cheonan two months ago, a new and highly disturbing possibility has just arisen, implied by a new Associate Press article. North Korea may be paranoid, belligerent and unpredictable. They may also ...
• BookExpo America:
  
  I spent last weekend at BookExpo America. The trip wasnapos;t entirely successful: because of my schedule, I had to show up on the last day. So, I missed the Big Name openers - you know, Jon Stewart, Barbara Streisand - but still had a dash of time to schedule interviews, find new ideas, and repor ...
• Ten Minutes of News
  
  The 24/7 cable news media have been finding what passes as commentary for their idle mouths. The latest is their chatter about the oil crisis in the Gulf.

Switchboard

• Hazing Yellowstone Bison: A Photo Essay
  
  As I recently wrote , the needless and wasteful hazing of hundreds of Yellowstone bison made for a busy spring this year.� Here are some photos taken by my NRDC colleague Whitney Leonard while we were in the West Yellowstone area last month. (To learn more about Yellowstone bison and ...
• Telling Stories with Robert Redford and the Disast ...
  
  A few months after starting at NRDC, I was asked to give a major presentation on communications at an NRDC Board retreat in Sundance, Utah.  As to be expected, I was nervous, but I had worked hard on the presentation and felt I had the situation under control. Until Robert Redford arr ...
• San Diegans Unite Against Proposed Riverfront Garb ...
  
  I’ve blogged often about the worst idea to hit San Diego County in a long time – a proposed garbage dump on the banks of the San Luis Rey River.  It looks like I’m not the only one who feels this way. Last night, over three hundred people packed into a senior center near San Diego ...
• Needless Hazing of Yellowstone Bison Made for a Bu ...
  
  Over the past month, hundreds of wild Yellowstone bison have been needlessly hazed from Montana back into Yellowstone National Park.  To harass the largest land mammal in North America against its will, government agents used ATVs, riders on horseback, trucks, and a helicopter. It’s a ...
• The Many Pathways (and Impacts) of the Oil - from ...
  
   Historically, oil spill response efforts (and research) have focused on impacts to wildlife and coastal ecosystems.  This focus is understandable because the surface destruction is visible, and our reaction visceral.   Also, we’ve learned from previous oil spills that impacts to our ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Client States
  
  Back in the day, a fair amount of the policy oriented literature on international security focused on the question of relationships between patron and client states.  The reasons for this were obvious; the Soviet Union and the United States were in competition for the allegiancefriendship of a vari ...
• Jim Crow Lives in the Jury Box
  
  It’s dismaying. While it doesn’t seem to get discussed much, the dissent in Miller-El is part of the context that makes Parents Involved so infuriating. Invoking glib tautologies in defense of a “color-blind constitution” becomes pretty hard to sustain when you’re unable to find any racial dis ...
• Friday Geek Blogging
  
  The next Olympic Sport? Seriously. Related posts:Geek Blogging Sunday Geek Blogging Sunday Geek Blogging Related posts: Geek Blogging Sunday Geek Blogging Sunday Geek Blogging
• There Is Unrest in the Forest
  
  Libertarian food fight! Related posts:Libertarians: Sometimes Right See the Forest for the Trees, Man… Missing the Trees for the Forest… Related posts: Libertarians: Sometimes Right See the Forest for the Trees, Man… Missing the Trees for the Forest…
• Visualizing Privacy
  
  These visualizations are credited to Matt McKeon. If you go to his website, you can track the gradual shift in FB’s privacy settings by year. These graphs are only updated through April (so far). Of course FB has supposedly just made changes: if you’re on FB, you may have clicked on the “Improved ...

Desert Research Institute

• Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
  
  Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.
• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
• The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
  
  The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.
• Mercury Depletion Events at the Dead Sea
  
  Researchers characterize atmospheric mercury depletion events at the Dead Sea in Israel and the atmospheric chemistry responsible for these events.
• Storm Peak Lab Contributes Data to Microbe Researc ...
  
  Using data collected at DRI's Storm Peak Lab, researchers have found that airborne microbial diversity is much greater than expected.

Earth Techling

• Texas Utility Crosses 1 Million Smart Meters Insta ...
• NASA Seeks Greener Commercial Aircraft Concept Ide ...
• SDG&E Test Piloting Different Solar Power Concentr ...
• Hybrid Gas-Wind Turbine System Works All The Time
• UniCab Is An Interesting Big Green Taxi Concept fo ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Make that seven judges in New Orleans recused from ...
  
  On Tuesday, another federal judge in New Orleans stepped aside from handling oil spill cases, joining six other colleagues who have recused themselves in recent weeks.
• Study: Race bias common in jury selection
  
  Nearly 25 years after Batson, racial exclusion in jury selection is still common, according to a study of practices in southern states.
• Judge Mayer of Federal Circuit takes senior status
  
  Lawyers expect the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to approve more en banc case hearings after Judge Haldane Robert Mayer takes senior status on June 30.
• U.S. attorney takes job with Jones Day in San Dieg ...
  
  Karen P. Hewitt, the outgoing U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, will join the trial practice group at Jones Day's San Diego office. Hewitt has served as U.S. attorney since February 2007, when she replaced Carol Lam, one of eight U.S. attorneys who was controversially fired by t ...
• LITIGATION BOUTIQUES
  
  A certain type of law firm showed remarkable strength during the recession: the boutique. We profile five firms that have thrived by identifying strong niche practices.

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

• From Paris with Love DVD Review
  
  While it's title invokes images of the James Bond classic From Russia with Love, from Paris with Love is not an adaptation of another Fleming best-seller.
• Death of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire Deeply Concern ...
  
  Mr. Chebeya's lifeless body was found in his car on June 2. His driver, Fidele Bazana Edadi, is missing.
• Toe to Toe DVD Review
  
  Black and White Coeds Lock Lacrosse Sticks in Cross-Cultural Drama
• Zimbabwean Process Towards Transformation and Demo ...
  
  The focus of our discussions today has been how we, as friends and development partners can best assist this Zimbabwean led process towards transformation and democratic recovery.
• Five Nevada Civic Bodies Opening With Hindu Mantra ...
  
  On July 12, five major civic bodies of Nevada would have opened their official business with Hindu invocation this year, some of them for the first time.

environment 360

• Drilling Makes Upper Delaware Most Endangered Rive ...
  
  Natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin has made the Upper Delaware River, the water source for 17 million people, the most threatened river in the United States , according to the annual report of the conservation group American Rivers. The rapid growth of hydro fracturing, or “fracking” — ...
• Under Pressure to Block Oil, A Rush To Dubious Pro ...
  
  In response to the widening disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, government officials have approved a plan to intercept the oil by building a 45-mile sand berm. But scientists fear the project is a costly boondoggle that will inflict further environmental damage and do little to keep oil off the coast. ...
• Protected Areas Help Reduce Forest Loss in Brazili ...
  
  The establishment of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon since 1999 has been effective in slowing deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest and reducing carbon emissions, according to a new study. Amazon deforestation was reduced by 75 percent from 2004 to 2009, a period that coincided wit ...
• 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 ...
• China Provides Subsidies for Electric and Hybrid V ...
  
  The Chinese government is providing consumer incentives for the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles in five cities in a bid to boost the green vehicle industry and cut greenhouse gas emissions. During the trial project, buyers are eligible for subsidies as large as 50,000 yuan ($7,320) for plug ...

Red Ice Creations

• Zuckerberg's Bizarre Facebook Insignia Revealed, A ...
• Director James Cameron: ‘Morons’ at BP turned me d ...
• New Information on the Death of 911 Eyewitness Bar ...
• Arizona elementary school to ’whiten’ image of chi ...
• Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times

Russia Today

• Nadal close to regaining top men’s ranking
  
  Rafael Nadal woke up this morning one victory away from a fifth French Open title and the World Number One ranking.
• CSKA one step away from 8th Russian crown in-a-row
  
  CSKA Moscow are up to their old tricks again. The Army Men are now just one game away from a quite incredible eighth Russian league crown in a row.
• Arm wrestling stars flock to Russia
  
  The European arm wrestling championships are 20 years old this season – a good time for Moscow to play host to the continent's best.
• KHL draft ceremony held in Moscow
  
  The second annual KHL draft has been held in Moscow with little fanfare and no national TV coverage. But for the young players involved it was the most significant milestone of their careers to date.
• Top secret service chiefs gather in Russia to talk ...
  
  Some of the world's top spies are in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals. They are taking part in a two-day conference attempting to work out how to stop terrorists across the globe.

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

• No Longer A Paper Rocket
  
  The above expression refers to rockets that are still on the design tables, in blue prints only. Oftentimes it also means rockets that haven’t flown yet. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is no longer in that category. At 2:45 p.m. Friday afternoon it lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Launch Facility rid ...
• SpaceX to attempt Falcon9 launch
  
  SpaceX, an independent, private rocket company, is attempting a test launch of its Falcon9 rocket. Big deal you say. Actually, it is. Or was made to be by the corporate media. You see, this launch figures hugely in the Obamanator’s new NASA policy of using private contractors to launch cargo and cre ...
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• Don't Allow Reinstatement of Kitten-Shooting Cop ! ...
  
  In January, North Carolina state trooper Shawn Houston lost his job after being found guilty of cruelty to animals and damage to real property. The previous October, Houston had caught a locally-owned kitten, five month old Rowdy, in a trap. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Kitten Killed for Disconnecting Video Game ! TAKE ...
  
  You unplug my game, you die. That appears to have been the mentality of a 21-year-old man in Staunton, Virginia, who, according to reports, has been accused of killing his girlfriend's kitten by hurling the tiny animal against a wall after the kitten Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• 18-Year-Old Arrested in Cat Mutilations
  
  MIAMI (June 14) - Authorities say a teenager has been arrested and accused of committing a series of cat mutilation deaths in his Miami area community. Submitted by Carla L. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Humane Society files complaint against Collins,MS ...
  
  COLLINS, MS (WDAM) - The Humane Society of the United States has filed a complaint against a locally-owned roadside zoo in Collins. Inhumane treatment of animals Submitted by Carla L. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Amazing, new Gulf oil pictures from USM research v ...
  
  Pictures that the media are not letting us see, this is what it really looks like out in the gulf Submitted by Carla L. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Census Bureau Drives Job Growth
  
  “Nonfarm payrolls likely rose at their fastest pace in nearly 27 years in May as the government ramped up hiring for the census and businesses grew more optimistic about the economy, a Reuters survey showed.” (Reuters, Friday) An army of head counters? To what end? FEE Timely Classic: “James Madison ...
• U.S. Debt Hits $13 Trillion
  
  “The federal government is now $13 trillion in the red, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday, marking the first time the government has sunk that far into debt and putting a sharp point on the spending debate on Capitol Hill.” (Washington Times, Wednesday) $13,050,826,460,886.97 … it looks so ...
• Fixing Global Warming for Fun if Not for Profit
  
  Amateur global-warming skeptics can make me uncomfortable.
• White House Offered Colorado Candidate a Job
  
  “The White House on Thursday confirmed that deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina contacted former Colorado House speaker Andrew Romanoff to gauge his interest in joining the administration last fall, as Romanoff was preparing to enter the Democratic primary race for a U.S. Senate seat.” (Wa ...
• President Obama Pushes Energy Bill
  
  “President Obama said Wednesday that it was time for the United States ‘to aggressively accelerate’ its transition from oil to alternative sources of energy and vowed to push for quick action on climate change legislation despite almost unanimous opposition from Republicans and continued skepticism ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
  
  @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
• Top Teaching Online Journalism posts: Past 6 month ...
  
  According to Google Analytics, this is what you’ve been reading here (Dec. 1, 2009, up to today): 21 examples of Flash journalism A few words about digital audio recorders Now printable! Reporterâs Guide to Multimedia Proficiency Recording phone calls: For reporters Why does anyone major in ...
• Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3
  
  Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not taught, I’m going to assume that all those Luddites are working on bringing their design and presentation curriculum into the 21st century. CSS is essential to design and presentation for the Internet. In this post I’m just g ...
• Two good books for learning JavaScript, jQuery
  
  Since about March this year, I’ve been searching for a few good, clear books to recommend to journalists and students who are interested in learning to use jQuery — with an eye toward getting ready for HTML5. You could just leap straight into jQuery, but I think it would make more sense to get a ha ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• COAL'S DIRTY SECRET
  
  NOTE: In May 2010, Facing South published COAL'S DIRTY SECRET -- a week-long, eye-opening investigation into the growing but under-reported threat of toxic coal ash to our health, communities and environment. In the series, Facing South reporter Sue Sturgis documents how coal ash is our country's ...
• Oil spill reveals dangers of deep water drilling
  
  BP's attempts to tame an oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico have failed. With thousands of barrels of oil a day leaking into waters and washing ashore, the region is on the brink of an ecological disaster. New America Media environment editor Ngoc Nguyen interviewed author Michael Klare about the ...
• BP's partner in crime
  
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The liability costs stemming from the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are likely to be in the tens of billions of dollars. BP, of course, will bear the brunt of those costs, but other deep pockets should not be ignored. Transocean, the ow ...
• Spills and Spin: Is the BP oil disaster just like ...
  
  With public support for offshore oil drilling slipping and Washington pushing for new regulations on the industry, what's a pro-drilling politician, pundit or lobbyist to do? Apparently, something like this: Minimize the Gulf oil disastere, compare it to a freak accident, and suggest that drilling ...
• Obama uses Gulf oil disaster to promote climate bi ...
  
  In a speech on the economy delivered yesterday at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, President Obama used the occasion of the ongoing BP oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico to talk about the nation's energy future. "We have to acknowledge that there are inherent risks to dr ...

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

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Recycle This turns 4!
  
  I usually forget about Recycle This’s birthday and only remember in a rush of guilt a few weeks afterwards but for once I remembered – Recycle This is four year old today! As I mention on the About page, we were inspired to make the site after eating a bowl of pistachio nuts and wondering what [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle unused incense sticks?
  
  Over on the Suggestion page, Jill asked: How can you recycle old, unused, unwanted incense sticks? I was cleaning and found an old box of them. I hear you can still burn them, but I’m not into smelly stuff any more and I hear certain kinds may have toxic ingredients (which is why I don’t want to [.. ...
• How can I reuse or recycle short, narrow plastic t ...
  
  So after the chicken killing on Friday night, we spent Saturday playing with pig guts. It was an unusual weekend. We were playing with hog parts because we were on a sausage making course at Old Sleningford Farm in North Yorkshire. It was a very interesting and fun course in a lovely location – [. ...
• How can I respond to Wasteful Wallies?
  
  Not one of our usual “how can I recycle/reduce/make this?” type questions but I’m hoping some of you might be able to give me some advice. About once a week, some ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS jokers leave comments on the site, attempting to insult us all and bragging about how they’re more than delighted to ...
• How can I reuse or recycle chicken feathers?
  
  On Friday night, we killed, plucked & butchered two chickens. As you do. To be accurate, the wonderful John B and my John did the killing, then my John’s brother Chris and I joined them in plucking, then John B showed me how to dress the chicken, and then I showed Chris. Chris handreared [...]

Blacklisted News

• US attendees at ‘world government’ meeting may be ...
• Israeli commando who shot six passengers in aid co ...
  
  Six of the nine passengers killed in an Israeli raid on an aid convoy bound for Gaza were shot by a single Israeli commando, who is being considered for a medal of valour for saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even guns they had taken from downed ...
• Monsanto’s 475-ton seed donation challenged by Hai ...
  
  Advocates for Haitian peasants said a U.S.-based company’s donation of up to 475 tons of hybrid vegetable seeds to aid Haitian farmers will harm the island-nation’s agriculture.
• New aid ship heads to Gaza, Israel vows to stop it
  
  An aid ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza could reach Israel's 20-mile (32-kilometer) exclusion zone late Friday, an activist said, but Israel's prime minister has vowed the ship will not reach land.
• Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Roza Revolution’: Russia and the Fut ...
  
  What happens in is clearly also of utmost strategic importance to Moscow . The fact that has been swift to establish recognition of the new provisional government in Bishkek and to extend financial aid clearly signal the importance of politics in that country for Moscow .

The Intelligence Daily

• Human Terrain System: Senior Managers to Paris, Se ...
  
  By John Stanton “These people will scrimp to save dimes when it comes to actually paying employees...
• Regulation Era – The 60’s Return
  
  The decade of the 1960s stood orthodoxy on its head. It was a time when alternative everything got...
• Crushing Exploitation of the European People – But ...
  
  By Garda Ghista In mid-May, 2010, European leaders met with International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
• Tea Party pick, former CIA officer, gets approval ...
  
  In a surge of support fueled by Tea Party activists, Republicans picked former CIA officer and...
• Supreme Court deals blow to Miranda rights
  
  (WW4 Report) — In a 5-4 decision in the Michigan murder case Berghuis v. Thompkins, the...

My AntiWar

• Gaza occupation and siege are illegal
  
  rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rIsrael’s deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was flagrantly illegal. The Flotilla, carefully searched for arms before disembarkation, enjoyed the right of free navigation in international waters, and Israel had no legal justification to interrupt its peacefu ...
• Iran’s representative to IAEA: Non-Aligned M ...
  
  Summary: SoltaniyehThe Non-Aligned Movement member-countries supported the tripartite agreement signed in Tehran, Iran’s representative to the IAEA, Ali Askar Sultaniye said, IRNA news agency reported. source: Trendread more
• Israel is already singled out: Unbending US suppor ...
  
  Summary: By criticizing the final resolution of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the U.S. government once again demonstrated its indifference and unresponsiveness towards the international community and the bloc of 188 nations that ...
• Victories of sorts
  
  Summary: NPT (non-)Participation MapIsrael was the loser at the NPT conference; Iran the winner, writes Graham Usher at the United Nations. source: Al-Ahram Weeklyread more
• Flotilla Activists Were Shot in Head at Close Rang ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran's representative to IAEA: Non-Aligned Movemen ...
  
  Summary: Soltaniyeh The Non-Aligned Movement member-countries supported the tripartite agreement signed in Tehran, Iran's representative to the IAEA, Ali Askar Sultaniye said, IRNA news agency reported. source: Trend read more
• Israel is already singled out: Unbending US suppor ...
  
  Summary: By criticizing the final resolution of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the U.S. government once again demonstrated its indifference and unresponsiveness towards the international community and the bloc of 188 nations t ...
• Victories of sorts
  
  Summary: NPT (non-)Participation Map Israel was the loser at the NPT conference; Iran the winner, writes Graham Usher at the United Nations. source: Al-Ahram Weekly read more
• “We are against hasty measures against Iran” – Rus ...
  
  Summary: Lavrov “On Moscow's and Beijing's initiative, the document [UN Security Council draft resolution] states the necessity of maintaining a double-track approach to the settlement of the situation around the Iranian nuclear program, which means the possibility to begin negotiations as soon ...
• Israel Raises Nuke Threat to Iran
  
  Summary: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just gave his official explanation to the Israeli people for the deaths on the Mavi Marmara. And guess whose fault it was. (Are you ready for this?) Iran!... It's an easy leap for minds trapped in a sense of powerlessness and victimhood that "is nothing ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Did Apple Get Their Inspiration for the iPad from ...
  
  "When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers...
• New Tech: "I'm With Coco" -How a 25-year-old coll ...
  
  "I'm With Coco" exploded Conan O'Brien to viral stardom. Actor Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) has had such success with his metaphysical social network, SoulPancake, that it's soon to be a book and a TV show. The link between...
• You Couldn't Make This Up Dept.: "The Alien Voices ...
  
  In 2001 -A Space Odyssey, The book then leaps ahead a few million years from the mysterious origins of life on Earth to the year 1999, detailing Dr. Heywood Floyd's travel to Clavius Base on the Moon. Upon his arrival,...
• 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

Natural News

• FDA defeated in federal court over censorship of t ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Health freedom has just been handed a significant victory by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated the First Amendment rights of a nutritional supplement company when it censored tr ...
• Letting babies swim in chlorinated pools harms the ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Young children who swim in chlorinated pools may suffer an increased risk of lung infections and even lifelong asthma and respiratory allergies, according to a study conducted by researchers from Catholic University Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, and published in the European Respirator ...
• Top soy-free protein bars
  
  (NaturalNews) When it comes to finding the right protein bar to supplement a healthy lifestyle, it can be difficult to find one that is soy-free. Many health-conscious individuals have decided to skip the soy because, in its unfermented state, it mimics estrogen in the body. Excessive amounts of it, ...
• Big Pharma blackmails Greece; halts medicine suppl ...
  
  (NaturalNews) In the midst of runaway economic problem in Greece, the pharmaceutical industry has decided to blackmail the nation and halt shipments of medicines to Greece until it agrees to pay full price for the drugs. In order to cut costs during its severe debt crisis, Greece had announced it wo ...
• 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 ...

Threat Level

• Lawyers Claim Google Wi-Fi Sniffing ‘Is Not an Acc ...
  
  Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary. “At this point, it is our belief that it is not an accident,” said B ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Triple Whammies, Double Dips and Job One
  
  If creating new jobs is Job One for the Obama administration, then the past 24 hours have been a mixed blessing. Thursday brought good news of a continued if slow decline in first-time jobless claims, while a drop in the productivity rate suggested businesses are poised to expand hiring. But today ...
• Rand Paul in Hot Oil over Un-American Comment
  
  Presidential bashing of corporate crime, corruption and greed is as American as apple pie. While Republican Teddy Roosevelt decried "malefactors of great wealth," his distant Democratic cousin FDR announced, "I welcome their hatred." But now just days after insisting the federal government had no ...
• Bush Follows Cheney in Admitting War Crimes
  
  Perhaps the only thing worse than a war criminal is an unrepentant one. And so it with Barack Obama's predecessor. Just months after former Vice President Dick Cheney boasted, "I was a big supporter of waterboarding," George W. Bush joined him by announcing, "I'd do it again." President Bush's en ...
• After Whitewashing Slavery, Barbour Tries Oil Spil ...
  
  Just weeks after suggesting that slavery "didn't matter for diddly," Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour similarly tried and failed to whitewash the massive BP oil spill threatening the entire Gulf Coast. After telling an audience a week ago that "A bunch of liberal elites were hoping this would be ...
• 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 ...

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

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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?
• Alexander Cockburn : Marijuana, Boom and Bust
• Alexander Cockburn : The White House Egg Roll v. G ...
• Uri Avnery : The Dubai Hit

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Gaza-bound aid vessel tailed by Israeli warships ...
  
  A Gaza-bound aid ship was just a few dozen miles (kilometers) from the blockaded Palestinian territory early Saturday, and was being tailed by three Israeli naval boats, a pro-Palestinian ...
• World calls for international inquiry into Gaza ra ...
  
  Israel, deflecting a UN demand for an international investigation, proposed yesterday an Israeli inquiry with the participation of outside observers into its lethal seizure of a Gaza-boun ...
• A global civil society campaign to de-legitimise I ...
  
  If, as expected, the U.N. Security Council remains politically impotent and refuses to penalise Israel for the killings of nine pro-Palestinian civilians on a ship carrying humanitarian a ...
• Gaza flotilla attack: Autopsies reveal intensity o ...
  
  The autopsy results released today by the Turkish authorities after the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla reveal in chilling detail the intensity of the military force unleashed on the ...
• Gaza siege crisis may bring opportunity for US pol ...

Water - AlterNet

• Meet America's Most Endangered River, Thanks to th ...
  
  Off-shore oil drilling is not the only risky business in the industry. Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale is raising alarm.
• Why Factory Farms May Finally Be Held Responsible ...
  
  In a groundbreaking legal settlement, the EPA has agreed to identify and investigate thousands of factory farms that have been avoiding government regulation for water pollution.
• Water and Misleading Advertising and Marketing -- ...
  
  Water bottlers are using all the tricks, despite federal laws that require them to use honest labels and restrict advertisers from making unsubstantiated health or medical claims.
• 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.
• 6 Things You Can Do About the BP Gulf Disaster
  
  Instead of sitting helplessly on the sidelines, here are six things every American can do.

Public Citizen in Texas

• EPA Approves Tougher Pollution Emission Limits
  
  Federal environmental regulators set new limits on sulfur dioxide emissions for the first time in 40 years.  A move that could prevent thousands of asthma attacks and premature deaths while reducing health care costs.. The new rules, which take effect under court order, will prohibit short-term spik ...
• Public Citizen Deputy Director David Power, Meliss ...
  
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• New study shows jobs from Kerry-Lieberman mostly i ...
  
  One point we often forget when debating climate change strategies is the major economic case for changing our economy to new, clean technology.  A new study has been released on the impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman bill, which we’ve never been so hot on, but it shows that despite what the chicken lit ...
• Week in Review
  
  Busy, busy, busy. Public Citizen staff have been making the rounds this week, traveling all over Texas in order to educate, empower, and organize citizens. From Beaumont to Dallas. From tar sands to the Public Utility Commission, we are working to protect the economic and environmental well-being of ...
• The Nuclear Energy-Promoting, Oil Drilling-Champio ...
  
  After half a year of delay, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are set to release their nuclear energy/cap-and-trade bill today. Until we see legislative text, we can comment only on the broad outline made available yesterday and an additional summary being circulated among legis ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Scientists find 'hint of life' on Titan
  
  An analysis of the chemistry of Titan's surface has revealed hints that there could be life there. Two papers have been published about the findings. ...
• Old radio picks up ghostly vintage broadcasts
  
  An old radio at a World War 2 heritage centre has been picking up vintage broadcasts despite having no power. The old wireless radio at Montrose Air S...
• Experts find hidden Michelangelo code
  
  One of the panels in the Sistine Chapel may hold a hidden illustration of the human brain by Michelangelo. Michelangelo was an avid anatomy student bu...
• Unlocking the mysteries of Einstein's genius
  
  In a controversial move Thomas Harvey who performed an autopsy on Einstein removed his brain and made off with it. Harvey believed that is was his dut...
• Dennis Hopper's UFO legacy
  
  Paranormal researcher pays tribute to Dennis Hopper's contribution to the UFO phenomenon via a scene in Easy Rider. The famous scence saw Hopper and J...

Grassroots

• Is Monsanto’s Gift of Hybrid Seeds a Trojan Horse?
  
  haiti200504-178.jpg No one denies that Haiti needs seeds and support this planting season, as the population still faces steep challenges since January’s devastating earthquake. Many thousands have fled urban areas for the countryside, taxing ...
• Rural families in Central America Impacted by Trop ...
  
  san_pedro_2.JPG Thousands of families in Guatemala and Honduras have been left without shelter and food in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Agatha. According to our partners in the region, three days of torrential rain destroyed families’ f ...
• 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 ...

Climate

• June 4, 2010
  
  Reid Pushes to Move Energy Bill in July (The Hill)   Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) alerted Senate committee chairmen Thursday that he plans to move comprehensive energy legislation in July. Cap Placed Atop Gulf Well; Oil Still Spewing (AP)   A cap was seated atop a blow ...
• 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 ...

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

• Obama, Progressives, and Leadership
  
  I was getting ready to attend next week's America's Future Now conference , whose theme is that progressives must lead, and thinking about the relationship problems progressives are having with Barack Obama and the Congressional leadership. All the relationship books say that you need to be clear a ...
• What Lethal Arrogance Looks Like
  
  I frequently find it useful to analogize countries to individuals. States will often have personalities and behavior sets quite similar to human beings. That means they can sometimes be noble and do wonderful things. But it also means they can be petty, greedy, violent and worse. If you've ever kn ...
• Breitbart and O'Keefe: Guilty of being boring
  
  If shoulder shrugs and eye rolls were audible, that's the cacophony of sound you would have heard bouncing across the political blogosphere on Tuesday and Wednesday after James O'Keefe and his online mentor, Andrew Breitbart, launched their latest, and wildly hyped, undercover video gotcha campaign. ...
• Mad Deficit Disease
  
  As Congress rushed to adjourn, Democrats dithered over a jobs bill and ultimately reduced benefits to the unemployed because of the concerns of "deficit hawks." It's another indication of the prevalence of a form of political dementia, mad deficit disease . It's insanity to worry about the US defi ...
• With a Split Jewish Community in America, are Chri ...
  
  The hastily arranged White House meeting that was supposed to take place between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week has been canceled. Netanyahu, who was visiting Canada, rushed back to Israel to deal with fallout from a raid by Israeli naval commandos on ...

Paul Krugman

• Policy And The Tinkerbell Principle
  
  Does policy work if and only if you believe it will?
• Rashomon In The OECD
  
  All deficits aren't created equal -- or are they?
• Things Everyone In Chicago Knows
  
  No, Barney Frank didn't cause the bubble.
• I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It M ...
  
  Raising rates -- but hey, it's not contractionary.
• The Changing World, Alpine Edition
  
  BRICs in the Bernese Oberland.

No Quarter

• Oil Spill: Dangers to Human Health
  
  Remember that BP suggested that sickened oil spill workers may simply have food poisoning? Yeah right. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is back in the Gulf area, and as part of her terrific program tonight interviewed Dr. Riki Ott on the dangers of over-exposure of petroleum to human health: Visit msnbc.com f ...
• Brussels Is The Seat Of The Free World?
  
  Yes, according to our, um, “esteemed” Vice President Biden. Oh, people, you know I am not making this up. Just one more of the crazy things that have come out of his mouth. But did you even hear about it? You had to be paying close attention if you did. [...]
• The Oil Isn’t Just a Perception Problem *updated*
  
  / Bumped up / On the surface it may look like BP and the Obama administration are having some bad oil days.  Rust-colored oil that fouled Louisiana’s ecologically sensitive marshes washed ashore on barrier islands off Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday.  The oil slick now looms about 7 miles off the ...
• Dirt Has A Way Of Working Out From Under The Rug * ...
  
  We now know that the White House alleges they sent President Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about dropping out of the race against Arlen Specter. The White House version is that they were offering him an unpaid job on an Advisory Board, one for which he would have been ineligible. Who is [...]
• Gaza’s Rosa Parks Moment?
  
  / Bumped up along with Larry’s initial Thursday post, “Humanitarian Relief for Gaza, Israel’s Albatross” (immediately below) / Let me ask everyone a question–If the positions of Israel and the Palestinians were reversed, would it be okay for the Palestinians to treat the Israelis the way Israel has ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Islomania: The Age-Old Obsession For Discovering I ...
  
  There was a time in human history when innocence prevailed; when anything could be believed by the mare power of storytelling when every trip and adventure had a mythical read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
• India's Most Incredible Adventure Travel Destinati ...
  
  Unleash your adventurous side, plan your visit to exotic cities in India which offer a variety of adventure activities. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Baby Turtles That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
  
  Tiny, wide-eyed and helpless, there’s something adorable about baby turtles. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 7 Incredible Creatures That No Longer Walk the Fac ...
  
  Here are seven beasts that no longer walk the Earth, but must have been quite something when they did. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Africa's Sinister Vampire Tradition
  
  What's the difference between the European vampire and the African one? Dracula and Blacula? Well, not entirely. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• U.S. vs. ICC?
  
  Should the United States oppose the International Criminal Court's endeavor to activate its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression?
• Film: The Dark Side of Chocolate
  
  Join us for this special screening in advance of the World Day against Child Labor (June 12th).
• Gulf Oil Spill: America's Chernobyl
  
  The BP disaster in the Gulf was man-made and may well spell the end of American-style corporate capitalism.
• Outraged by Drone Strikes? Some Drone Operators Ar ...
  
  CIA drone operators conflicted over drone strikes.
• U.S. Support for Israel Mirrors 80s Support for El ...
  
  The similarities between the Israeli government and El Salavador's junta in the eighties are eerily similar -- as is U.S. support for them.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul
  
  Member of Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc killed by unidentified men.
• Israel navy tails Gaza aid ship
  
  War ships flank Rachel Corrie as it nears Gaza attempting to deliver aid to blockaded territory.
• Flotilla activists 'shot 30 times'
  
  Turkish official tells UK daily that Israeli troops shot nine victims at close range.
• Obama warning over spill optimism
  
  US president says it is too early to be optimistic about BP's latest control effort.
• Bangladesh mourns fire victims
  
  Prayers held for nearly 120 killed by deadly blaze in capital, Dhaka.

Green Inc. - NYT

• The Human Equation in Water-Related Disputes
  
  A federal judge, in two rulings regarding pumping Sacramento River delta water to California's central valley, insists that environmental analyses are invalid unless they take humans into account.
• On Our Radar: The Admiral and the C.E.O.
  
  BP's Tony Hayward dines on gulf shrimp with Adm. Thad Allen of the Coast Guard -- and the Democratic strategist and oil spill gadfly James Carville joins them for a cocktail.
• A Solar Boom: Who Owns It?
  
  Who has power in the high, sunny expanse of southern Colorado's rural San Luis Valley? It's something of a trick question, complicated by the many shades of meaning that the word, "power" conveys - from electrical to political to financial. And the story of the valley and its wrestling-match/debate ...
• Getting Our Heads Around the Spill
  
  A running list of helpful sites and resources devoted to understanding the impact of the spill in all its dimensions.
• Now, New York Is His Oyster
  
  Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the famous Jacques Cousteau and son of diver Jean-Michael Cousteau, is a noted deep-sea explorer and documentary filmmaker. His new nonprofit, Plant a Fish, focuses on ocean restoration efforts around the world, and begins with a project in New York Harbor.

Dot Earth News

• Why Cameron Is Diving Deep on Gulf Oil
  
  A deep-diving filmmaker explains his efforts to help resolve the gulf oil crisis.
• Head to Head on Energy and Climate
  
  An exchange of views on oil troubles, climate policy and other environmental issues.
• For Five Days of Oil
  
  The oil deposit now leaking slowly into the sea would have provided about five days' worth of oil to Americans.
• Cameron Pursues Role in Stanching Gulf Gusher
  
  James Cameron, the deep-diving filmmaker, helps assemble a brainstorming team aiming at stemming the flow of oil.
• Oil Could Reach Atlantic Coasts
  
  Oil simulations now show the Atlantic Ocean and East Coast clearly at risk.

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

• Time for law abiding American citizens to stop pay ...
  
  source with video and better formatting  here. 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 economic ...
• Patrick Fitzgerald – You didn’t do your job either ...
  
  Michael Collins You remember him, the supposedly squeaky clean U.S. Attorney who was going to get the slackers responsible for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame. Yeah, that guy. He’s prosecuting the flamboyant former governor of Illinois right now, the still honorable and innocent Rod Blagojevich. Th ...
• COSMETICS MAY BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH
  
  CENSORED IN 1976: COSMETICS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH In 1975, American consumers spent $6,728,270,000 on cosmetics and toiletries. And while millions of these consumers were using these cosmetics and toiletries daily, few of them were aware of how hazardous they may be to their health. Autho ...
• SHORT AND NOT SO SWEET
  
  Let me state up front that I detest misogyny.  With that said, I must say that this country is at serious risk.  Headlines tell us that 2,300 people are running for office in the upcoming elections—most of them are Republican women.  Normally I would be delighted to see the glass ceiling being chall ...
• 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 [...]

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Kucinich calls for independent probe of Israeli ra ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• The Lineup: Week of June 7-13
  
  This package features op-eds about Israel, budget cuts, and the NBC-Comcast merger.
• Time for a Job Surge
  
  National Urban League crunches numbers on joblessness and outlines solutions to the long-term unemployment crisis.
• Who Killed Hatoyama's Career?
  
  It's no mystery who's responsible for the latest political tragedy in Japan.
• Aftermath of the Israeli Flotilla Attack
  
  Updates, actions, and an audio documentary.
• Gaza Flotilla Tragedy: The Audio Story
  
  An audio documentary that gives a sense of the event.

Pine River World News

• Ramzy Baroud: Facebook and Muslim Outrage
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Facebook and Muslim Outrage � �Ramzy Baroud June 4, 2010 'Any depictions of the prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims,' wrote Agencies, as reported readily by Aljazeera.net English. The above statement is meant to fully s ...
• Dr. Ashraf Ezzat: Psychology of terrorism and the ...
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Veterans Today . Psychology of terrorism and the Israeli blockade of Gaza Source: �Veterans Today By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat June 3, 2010 "Normal people can be terrorists, we are ourselves capable of terrorist acts under some circumstances" What ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• Comment: Aussie ex-spies comment on Israeli forged ...
  
  Regular IntelNews readers are aware of the current crisis in Israeli-Australian relations, which broke out as a result of the use of several forged Australian passports by the Israeli intelligence services. What is the view of all this from Australia? IntelNews asked two Australian former intelligen ...
• News you may have missed #369
  
  UN official criticizes US over drone attacks. Russian spies less active during Obama administration. A look back at US intelligence reform.
• Indian police claim arrest of German ‘spy&#8 ...
  
  A senior police official in the Indian district of Ropar has said that a German national arrested there last week was on a “spying mission” on behalf of the German government.
• News you may have missed #368 (Gaza flotilla editi ...
  
  Israelis sabotaged flotilla ships before departure. Activist website downed before Israeli attack on flotilla.
• News you may have missed #367 (Gaza flotilla editi ...
  
  Flotilla raid dead include US citizen. South Africa, Ecuador, Nicaragua recall envoys from Israel.

After Downing Street.org

• If At First You Don't Secede
  
  By David Swanson When I think about secession, my first thought is of the Conch Republic (motto: "We Seceded Where Others Failed"), the briefly lived independent nation of Key West, Florida, now reduced to a joke and a tourist attraction. But would it necessarily be a joke to have an independent na ...
• Baucus 8 One Year Later: A Path to Victory
  
  On May 5, 2009, 8 health advocates stood up to the members of the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Max Baucus, to expose the exclusion of the health reform favored by the majority of people in America: a single payer/national improved Medicare for All health program. Industry lobbyists w ...
• Condolences Expressed for Victims, Re: Israel’s Le ...
  
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• Raised to Hate: Kids of Westboro Baptist Church
  
  Raised to Hate: Kids of Westboro Baptist Church Coached by His Dad, 7-Year-Old Says 'Gays, Fags, Hundreds ... of Jews' Are Bound for Hell By Glenn Ruppel, Kelsey Myers and Eamon McNiff | ABC News Boaz Drain, a seven-year-old from Topeka, Kan., and his six-year-old sister Faith are the picture of ...
• U.S. 'Secret War' Expands Globally As Special Oper ...
  
  U.S. 'secret war' expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role By Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe | Washington Post Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secre ...

Grist - News

• Good neighborhoods have lots of intersections
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. It's a little counterintuitive, but it turns out that having lots intersections is really important for neighborhood walkability and transit use. A new study on Travel and the Built Environment by planning scholars Reid Ewing and Robert Cervero finds that "intersection densit ...
• We don’t know how to completely kick oil, bu ...
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Energy investment consultant Chris Nelder takes issue with my suggestions for upping transportation efficiency as a way to reduce the demand for offshore oil, saying they would "do absolutely nothing" to eliminate the need for risky deepwater drilling projects. In fact, he ex ...
• Why BP’s really glad this week is over
  
  by Randy Rieland. 1. Saturday, May 29: The Kill is gone:  After a week of raising hopes that maybe, just maybe, it had found a way to plug the hole, BP calls off its top kill/junk shot gambit . At first, the process of shooting "mud" and pieces of golf balls, tires, and perhaps kitchen sinks, se ...
• BP oil heading toward Atlantic? Looks that way
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo : This nightmarish model comes from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which predicts that BP oil "might soon extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer." "I've had a lot of ...
• ‘Green’ California utility PG&E attack ...
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. California's largest electricity provider -- Pacific Gas & Electric Co. -- has gotten some understandable love from the environmental world recently. It's part of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership , an enviro/business alliance calling for a national climate plan ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Google Wave Turns One and No One Cares
  
  Google Wave is a year old and adoption appears to be slow, despite what the search giant says
• Reverse Heart Disease Naturally
  
  Healthy diet, exercise and a targeted supplemental cocktail can reduce the risk of heart attack and coronary artery disease.
• Dreamworks and Royal Caribbean Announce Partnershi ...
  
  Set sail with all your favorite Dreamworks characters onboard the Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas
• Going Carbon Zero
  
  Offset your entire carbon footprint
• Can $20 Million Bring the US a World Cup?
  
  US Soccer to give a major percentage of their total FIFA prize earnings to players as bonuses if they win the World Cup

Time - Top Stories

• Final Bell: Kansas City's Effort to Save Its Schoo ...
  
  One school district finally decides that the only way to get better is to get smaller. Closing schools in the City of Fountains
• The Gulf Mess: Less Oil -- and More Anger
  
  BP reports at least some success with its latest effort to stop the oil flow, and Obama shows his rage (sort of)
• Are Russian Human Rights on the Back-Burner for th ...
  
  An unprecedented meeting involving U.S. and Russian officials -- and human rights advocates -- has nevertheless left activists feeling out in the cold
• Twitter Lit: A New Creative Outlet
  
  A scathing BP satire, a sitcom and a host of mimics: Twitter inspires creative voices--albeit succinct ones
• South Sudan Wants Independence -- But Will Peace F ...
  
  As South Sudan inches closer to independence, it remains wracked by crime and tribal conflict. Can the South achieve the peace it needs to go it alone?

Washington Independent

• House Dem Calls for BP to Pay Royalties for Leaked ...
  
  Politico’s Jake Sherman reports that Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), the head of the House Natural Resources Committee, has asked the Justice Department to consider forcing BP — responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster leaking thousands of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico daily — to re ...
• Krugman on the Community Reinvestment Act
  
  I meant to blog this when it first came out, but Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times writer Paul Krugman has as good an evisceration of the right-wing talking point that the Community Reinvestment Act caused the subprime bubble as I’ve seen. I’ll leave it to him: 1. The Community Reinve ...
• Republican Opens Investigation Into Hedge Fund and ...
  
  The allegations against Paulson & Co. and the Center for Responsible Lending stem not from a congressional investigation or independent study, but from Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group famed for supporting the Tea Parties.
• There Went Florida
  
  Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida today, scrambling clean-up crews who hope to prevent the disaster from fouling the state’s $60 billion per year tourism industry. The Wall Street Journal reports: Officials on Thu ...
• A Sunny Response to Stormy Weather
  
  As I wrote earlier today, it is difficult to see the May jobs numbers as anything but a worrying disappointment. The stall-out in job growth might be temporary — but it is a stall-out. Private employers are not generating enough jobs to put a dent into the headline unemployment number. (It declined ...

Digg Green

• Documents Prove BP Actively Restricted Media Acces ...
  
  BP has made claims that it has not blocked media from covering the oil spill. But a contract that became valid May 2nd suggested otherwise.
• Costa Mesa Gas Station Tries to Hide its Relations ...
  
  A photo of a station clumsily covering up the BP logo...
• FTC to Toughen Anti-Greenwashing Rules
  
  Purveyors of green goods and services can expect increased pressure to avoid greenwashing in 2010, following a push by the Federal Trade Commission to retool its guidelines on environmental marketing claims.
• Don't Call The Guatemala Sinkhole a Sinkhole
  
  Calling the hole in the capital city a "sinkhole" is a misunderstanding that masks a much more dangerous reality for over a million people who live in the area.
• Admiral Says Oil Pipe Is Cut, a Key Step in Haltin ...
  
  Now that the damaged riser pipe is severed close to the stricken BP well, engineers can try placing a cap to catch the leaking oil, Adm. Thad Allen told reporters.

Invisible Opportunity

• Can Americans be murdered by the Israeli governmen ...
  
  by Paul Woodward on June 3, 2010 For several days, Israel has been able to contain some of the fallout from the flotilla massacre by withholding information about the dead and injured. The object of this exercise has clearly been to slow the flow of information in the hope that by the time the most ...
• now the real dirt: israelis threw wounded overboar ...
  
  Planes carrying 520 aid volunteers and nine dead bodies of activists killed by Israeli security forces on Monday returned home on Thursday, with many claiming mistreatment at the hands of Israeli military officers and other officials and additional allegations that not everyone has returned. Activis ...
• Ex-Mossad agent: Gaza flotilla raid ’so stupid it’ ...
  
  By Stephen Webster While the United States has reserved judgment in the matter, a former Mossad agent is casting blame for the botched raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, pointing directly at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for allegedly ordering forces to act without vital preparation. The forme ...
• Mossad chief: Israel gradually becoming burden on ...
  
  By Jonathan Lis Mossad Chief Meir Dagan said on Tuesday that Israel is progressively becoming a burden on the United States. “Israel is gradually turning from an asset to the United States to a burden,” said Dagan, speaking before the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Dagan said that ...
• Does Israel Rule the World?
  
  By Linda S. Heard Yesterday (May 31, 2010), the Israeli military attacked and boarded one of the Turkish aid ships sailing to Gaza as part of a flotilla, killing 19 and injuring many more. As this occurred in international waters, it is not only an act of piracy but could also be construed as an [.. ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Baseball Announcer Garagiola's Anti-Chew Campaign ...
  
  While all tobacco use can be harmful, it is indisputable that people addicted to nicotine are better off using smokeless tobacco than inhaling it into their lungs.
• SWAT Raids Gone Wrong -- Paramilitary Policing Is ...
  
  In 1980, 2,884 SWAT deployments were recorded nationwide; the number today is estimated by experts at 50,000 annually or more.
• With Majorities Supporting CA's Marijuana Legaliza ...
  
  Less than six months from election day, the CA initiative to legalize marijuana has the support of half the voters, according to two polls.
• All of Us Use Drugs, But Only Some of Us Go to Jai ...
  
  Despite a $40 billion a year "war on drugs," our country is swimming in them. They aren't going anywhere.
• How LSD Destroyed God's (and Dad's) Rigid Authorit ...
  
  One can make a non-ludicrous case that the most important event in the cultural history of America since the 1860s was the introduction of LSD.

Twilight Earth

• New Report: What Americans Think of the Smart Grid
  
  “Separating Smart Grid from Smart Meters? Consumer Perceptions and Expectations of Smart Grid” is the eighth in EcoAlign's EcoPinion series of surveys on energy sector consumer perceptions. Related posts: Living Off-Grid: Micro Hydro Electric Alternative Energy System Americans at Bottom of ...
• 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: ...

Inhabitat

• A Chair That Welcomes Plants and Insects Into Your ...
  
  This new set of chairs by Analog Media Lab is more than just a nouveau ant farm, or an atrium fused with antique seating. Chair I: Rococo Armchair Retrofit and Chair II: Ghost Chair Retrofit are part of an experimental series created by a group of designers set on exploring the interface between hum ...
• LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite SPRING GREEN ...
  
  Only a FEW HOURS left to vote for your favorite design! If you still haven’t checked out the incredible batch of finalists in our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest challenging our readers to transform useless trash into new treasure, you still have a few hours left! The grand prize winner will re ...
• Old Bank In NY Gets “Greenovated” into Cultural Hu ...
  
  Read the rest of Old Bank In NY Gets “Greenovated” into Cultural Hubhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", adaptive ...
• EADS Develops First Algae Fuel-Powered Aircraft
  
  We’ve seen algae-powered cars and biofuel-powered planes, but European aerospace company EADS is the first to combine the two with an algae fuel-powered aircraft. The company’s twin-engine Diamond DA 42, set to be unveiled next week at the Berlin Air Show,  runs partially on biofuel made from 100% ...
• “A La Lata” Bowl Made From Recycled Soda Can Tabs
  
  This beautiful “A La Lata” bowlâs elegant use of recycled materials and hand-crafted form has launched it into ranks of our Spring Greening Contest finalists. The bowl, whose name translates as âto the canâ, is part of a larger collection of products made from soda can tabs woven together with ...

Pogue's Posts

• AT&T Seems a Little Greedy
  
  The AT&T data plans caps could save you money. AT&T's tethering plan, though, seems like something a big monolithic corporation might do.
• AT&T's Capped Data Plan Could Save You Money
  
  I'm the first guy to lead the charge against cell-carrier greed. But AT&T's plan to end its unlimited data plan for smartphones is different. This time, I think you'll wind up coming out ahead.
• The Magic Behind Rating Apps
  
  Magic in the technology age is a weird beast, as a recent episode on the iPhone app store shows.
• A European Voice Mail Innovation
  
  A reader provides another example of how much better cellphones are in Europe.
• Online, How Much Security Is Too Much?
  
  Online security measures aren't worth it if they ruin a user's experience or make it impossible to be productive.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Caught on Tape: Cricket Sex
  
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience90054670001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Thanks to a kind of science reality show, evolutionary biologists are getting a reality check. The day-to-day lives of field crickets, captured on 250,000 hours ...
• U.S. Climate Satellite Capabilities in Jeopardy
  
  The United States is in danger of losing its ability to monitor key climate variables from satellites, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. The country’s Earth-observing satellite program has been underfunded for a decade, and the impact of the lack of funds is finally hittin ...
• Fossil Antelope Teeth Hold Clues to Europe’s Missi ...
  
  Wear patterns on ancient antelope teeth have allowed researchers to reconstruct Europe’s environment 8 million years ago, when the continent’s great apes vanished. One of those ape species could have given rise to the human lineage, making the circumstances of their disappearance especially interes ...
• Fractal Haze Could Solve Weak-Sun Mystery for Earl ...
  
  A thick haze of organic material let the early Earth soak up the sun’s warmth without absorbing harmful ultraviolet rays, according to a new study. The model offers a new twist on an old puzzle: Although the sun was so dim billions of years ago that the Earth should have been a ball of ice, the [.. ...
• Gulf Oil Spill Could Spread to Atlantic Coast
  
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience89801701001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Oil from BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill could reach the Atlantic coast in the coming months, according to a new computer simulation. ...

The Progressive Realist

• Taking Photos With Dictators
  
  Michael Rubin writes “ On this, the one-year anniversary of Obamaâs Cairo speech , the silence of the Obama administration in the face of backsliding on rights, freedom, and liberty in Kurdistan, Turkey, and Arab states such as Egypt and Yemen, is deafening”: In recent weeks, independent journalis ...
• CIA/FBI Vet: Miranda Not a Problem
  
  Phil Mudd is a counterterrorism veteran of both the FBI and the CIA. As such, he's in a unique position to assess the claims of the administration and the Republican Party that mirandizing a terrorism suspect interferes with the gathering of intelligence or undermines public safety, and to judge wh ...
• Afghan Peace Jirga
  
  The Karzai regime's three day "National Consultative Peace Jirga" is now concluded. As expected, the 1,400 member Jirga (and 200 guests) decided to proceed with a plan to offer amnesty to the Taliban and Hizb-i-Islami -- i.e. yes, the same groups which were firing rockets at the Jirga tent. The Tali ...
• Ending "Don't Ask Don't Tell": The Time Has Come
  
  In early 1993 Colin Powell and I had an intriguing conversation. In the midst of the controversy President Clinton had started about gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I talked about the Companions. The Companions were Alexander the Great ...
• Egyptian Opposition in Disarray
  
  Elections for Egypt's upper house, the Shura Council, took place yesterday amidst widespread fraud. No surprise there -- it is Mubarak's Egypt, after all. The ruling NDP won heavily , with opposition groups winning only a smattering of seats. Unfortunately, the Shura Council elections are not a mere ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Rove Rules their World.
  
  The effort to make routine White House job offers into " Obama 's Watergate" illustrates how much better the right wing is at "working the refs" in the press. Consider the success master fixer Karl Rove has had in creating total amnesia about his own efforts to use the executive branch to further t ...
• Don't Just Do Something, Appear to Be Doing Someth ...
  
  Let's face it: Pretty much nobody knows what to do about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To even begin to assess your options, you need very specialized knowledge that few people have, and even then it doesn't appear to be much help. This doesn't stop untrained political consultants and elected ...
• How to Ignite "Racial Controversy" in Arizona.
  
  After passing a draconian immigration law based on a crime wave that doesn't exist and banning ethnic studies on the grounds that they breed "resentment" against white people, it's really hard to be surprised that Steve Blair, a city councilman in the town of Prescott is angry that a school mural de ...
• The Little Picture: Spelling Reform.
  
  A contestant awaits the word prompt at last year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year's national competition -- held at Washington, D.C.'s Grand Hyatt hotel -- was met with protesters demanding English orthography be phonetic. Our current system, they say, costs "billions in productivity" an ...
• Gamers v. Roberts.
  
  All-purpose geek publication IGN, considering the upcoming Supreme Court video game censorship case Schwarzenegger v. Video Software Dealers Association , in which the court will decide the constitutionality of a California law barring the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, lets everyo ...

Andy Worthington

• What is Obama Doing at Bagram? (Part Two): Executi ...
  
  In the first of two articles about the Obama administration’s detention policies relating to the US airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan, I examined recent revelations about a secret prison inside the base, apparently run by a shadowy branch of the Pentagon, where Bush-era “enhanced interrogations,” invol ...
• Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantán ...
  
  On April 30, 2010, as I explained in Part One and Part Two 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 discussi ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Mount St. Helens Still Highly Dangerous, 30 Years ...
  
  Thirty years after Mount St. Helens blew its top, the peak is still the second most dangerous volcano in the United States, according to government estimates. United States - Mount St. Helens - Volcano - Washington - England
• Mass Lizard Extinctions Looming; Global Warming Bl ...
  
  One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.
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• Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill
  
  Evaporation, dilution, and oil-hungry bacteria are already combatting the Gulf slick, experts say.
• Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
  
  Twenty-five years later, the lingering "hole" over Antarctica is close to closing—but that may not be entirely a good thing. Antarctica - Antarctic - Polar Regions - Ozone depletion - Environment

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

• TeaParty.org Founder Labels Obama With Racial Term ...
  
  Dale Robertson, the vitriolic founder and president of TeaParty.org, blasted out a mass E-mail today that seemed meant to convince doubters that his movement is, after all, racist at its core. Attacking President Obama for traveling home to Chicago for the Memorial Day weekend — rather than staying ...
• Arizona Debate Unleashes New ‘Reconquista’ Accusat ...
  
  As the debate intensifies over Arizona’s harsh new law aimed at undocumented immigrants, nativist groups are claiming that opponents of the measure support nothing less than the reconquest of the Southwest by Mexicans. Though the myth of “la reconquista” — a purported secret Mexican conspiracy to ta ...
• Soldiers Among Skinheads Charged in Brutal Beating ...
  
  Three soldiers are among a group of skinheads accused of severely beating a homeless man with baseball bats and pipes in Cincinnati. Police have charged two Iraq war veterans, Pvt. Riley Feller, 24, and Spc. Travis Condor, 25, with the felony assault of 52-year-old John Johnson at a homeless encampm ...
• IKA Boss’ Latest Travail: Drug Trafficking Charges
  
  The founder of a once-thriving Klan group has recently battled a major lawsuit, money woes and, now, federal drug charges. Ron Edwards , the 50-year-old former leader of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), appeared in U.S. District Court in Owensboro, Ky., today on charges of possession with intent ...
• Arkansas Cop-Killer Apparently Part of ‘Patriot’ M ...
  
  Jerry Ralph Kane Jr., the man who was killed with his son Thursday after apparently gunning down two West Memphis, Ark., police officers , traveled the country before the encounter giving classes in âredemption foreclosure mortgage fraudâ â an apparent variation on a scheme common among antigo ...

change: org.

• Forgotten Law Banned Asian Immigrant Women
  
  Even before the recent debates around comprehensive immigration reform and the inclusion of the Uniting American Families Act , gender and sexuality had been used as forms of exclusion in United States immigration policy. While many mainstream U.S. history textbooks reference the 1882 Chinese Exclus ...
• Obama Signs Law to Help Child Soldiers and Sex Sla ...
  
  The Lord's Resistance Army is a terrifying organization known and feared for its massacres and mass abductions of young children, who become soldiers (in the case of the boys) or sex slaves (in the case of the girls). The LRA is run by Joseph Kony, a figure who believes himself the spokesperson of G ...
• Nebraska's CSI Scandal: Punishment vs. Poetic Just ...
  
  Trying to figure out how much jail time a law enforcement officer should serve for planting evidence isn't easy. But that's exactly the conundrum that faced the judge who  this week sentenced a former Nebraska crime scene investigator for planting evidence that led two people to be charged for a mur ...
• BP Tries to Block Photos of Dead Wildlife
  
  For animal lovers, one of the most heartbreaking aspects of the Gulf spill is the oil-drenched wildlife washing up on shore. If you're too horrified to look at any photos, you're in luck — BP doesn't want you to see them. As of Friday morning, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s tally of dead anima ...
• Dog Racing Ban Saves Lives, Takes Livelihoods
  
  The last greyhound race in New England  was run in December, at Raynham Park in Massachusetts. This is great news for the dogs, who will no longer be subjected to the cruelty of track life. But the kennel owners, trainers, judges, vendors, maintenance workers and others who relied on the industry fo ...

Common Dreams -News

• Gaza Flotilla Activists Were Shot in Head at Close ...
  
  by Robert Booth Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed they were peppered with 9mm bullets, many fired at close range. Nine Turkish men on boar ...
• FCC to Debate Comcast-NBC Merger with Public Forum ...
  
  by Tony Romm Debate over Comcast’s $30 billion bid for NBC Universal heads to Chicago next month, where the Federal Communications Commission plans to hold its first field hearing on the proposed mega-merger. The FCC will announce the July 13 public forum as soon as Thursday afternoon, an agenc ...
• Monsanto’s 475-ton Seed Donation Challenged by Hai ...
  
  by Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON - Advocates for Haitian peasants said a U.S.-based company’s donation of up to 475 tons of hybrid vegetable seeds to aid Haitian farmers will harm the island-nation’s agriculture. The advocates contend the donation is being made in an effort to shift farmer depende ...
• Secretive Bilderberg Club Ready for Protests
  
  by Graham Keeley Splash! Could that be the sound of Lord Mandelson hitting one of the Dolce hotel's four pools? Or Robert Zoellick of the World Bank? Paul Volcker of the US Economic Recovery Advisory Board? Or merely the euro taking another dive? That is the thing about the Bilderberg group ...
• Ellsberg says Internet Would Have Eased Publicatio ...
  
  by Gautham Nagesh Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said Thursday that he would have posted the Pentagon Papers online if the Internet had existed. A Pentagon official during the Nixon administration, Ellsberg became famous in 1971 when he leaked documents explaining U.S. decision-making in Viet ...

Lifehacker

• Gray, Black, and White: A Monochrome Workspace [Fe ...
  
  Either we've been overlooking it all this time or gray walls are on the rise. Today's featured workspace is a monochrome slice of one Lifehacker reader's workflow. More�� Photography - Photographers - Shopping - Arts - ...
• Snoopon.me Is a Creepy, Probably Effective Product ...
  
  Windows: We go through a lot of trouble to keep people from seeing everything we do on our computer, but free web service Snoopon.me aims to do the opposite: allow your family and friends to watch your activity to keep you productive. More� ...
• The Best Things to Buy in June [Buying Guide]
  
  Grilling, outdoor activities, weekend getaways—retailers know you're less interested in spending time in stores, and there's a few discounts to be had because of it. Here are the items you can find bargains for in June. More » ...
• RecycleBinEx Is a Souped Up Recycle Bin with Jump ...
  
  Windows only: RecycleBinEx is a souped up Recycle Bin with Windows 7 jump list support that groups files according to the date they were trashed, making it easier to permanently delete items after a specific timeframe. More�� ...
• BookRenter Partners with College Bookstores to Ren ...
  
  Previously mentioned BookRenter , the new, money saving textbook renting service, announced today that since March, it has partnered with over 75 college bookstores. BookRenter will be working with these stores behind the scenes to create indi ...

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

• Get to the bottom of all education related queries ...
  
  We are the leader of all types of services on offer to new studies in India and abroad, education ab
• In Their Own Words
  
  If you’re not sure exactly what I’m talking about when I refer to “the absurdity o
• The unbeatable logic against the War on Drugs
  
  How is the War on Drugs still not over? Why are drugs still illegal? The testimonies, the moral argu
• Mathematical Economics by Carter
  
  I am seriously contemplating on whether I should sell this book. It cost my mom a fortune. Of course
• Message Board: Newsweek-the end of brand Thailand
  
  The following is from Newsweek The End of Brand Thailand How mismanagement and mistakes turned a hig

Electronic Intifada

• Gaza occupation and siege are illegal
  
  Israel's deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was flagrantly illegal. The Flotilla, carefully searched for arms before disembarkation, enjoyed the right of free navigation in ...
• You will have no protection
  
  For one thing, as soon as I wrote those words I was able to weep. Which I had not been able to do since learning of the attack by armed Israeli commandos on defenseless peace activ ...
• Global boycotts of Israel intensify after bloody F ...
  
  Israel's bloody attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May killing at least nine and injuring dozens of activists carrying humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip, has alre ...
• Israel censors news on deadly Flotilla raid
  
  TEL AVIV (IPS) - Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Freedom Flotilla members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesda ...
• The day the world became Gaza
  
  Since Israel's massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza global civil society movements have stepped up their campaigns for solidarity with Palestinians. Governments, by contrast, carr ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan Taliban rejects Karzai, peace Jirga's ...
  
  The Afghan Taliban has rejected Consultative Peace Jirga's demand to shun violence and join the process to bring stability in war torn Afghanistan, saying it would continue its struggle until foreign forces pull out of the country.
• PPP central leader calls for drone attacks to rid ...
  
  While the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led government has been opposing drone strikes in the restive tribal areas along the Afghan border, a central leader of the PPP, Abida Hussain, has called for similar missile hits in South Punjab, which has seen severe bloodshed in the recent past.
• Afghan jirga appeals to Taliban to break off from ...
  
  Afghanistan's first national peace convention or jirga has issued a direct appeal to the Taliban and other insurgents to break with Al Qaeda.
• Afghan assembly calls for peace talks with Taliban
  
  The 1,600 delegates of an Afghan peace assembly ended three-day meeting Friday calling on the government and opposition to start peace talks with the Taliban.
• US to go ahead with 'essential' drone at ...
  
  Notwithstanding a report by a top UN official, which called for the discontinuation of unmanned Predator drone attacks in Pakistan's troubled tribal areas along the Afghan border, the United States has defended the missile strikes, which many believe have killed more civilians than extremists.

Futurismic

• Live action replays and analysis moves from the sp ...
  
  The Harris Corporation supplies instant replay systems to big-brand sports teams, but they may just have cracked a whole new market… one with a budget that (inexplicably) never seems to shrink. The Pentagon has decided that the ability to collect, replay and analyse battlefield video feeds will make ...
• Smart Grids == Spy Grids?
  
  We’ve talked about smart grids before – infrastructure networks for basic utilities that incorporates all sorts of networked active monitoring technologies to make our use of energy and water more efficient. Sounds like a win-win situation for consumers and utilities companies alike, doesn’t it? Tha ...
• Hidden histories: Afghanistan
  
  We all know about Afghanistan – a poor and predominantly Muslim nation that’s never really made it out of the Middle Ages, right? Well, it turns out that’s simply not the case: retconning Afghanistan as a backward barbarian enclave has probably been useful for the global psyops propaganda machine (b ...
• The Lights In The Tunnel: free ebook about automat ...
  
  Martin Ford, much like many of us, has some concerns about the future. Unlike most of us, he’s written a book about it: The Lights In The Tunnel looks at the economic implications of the technological acceleration curve that Singularitarian cheerleaders are so fond of, and suggests it may be at the ...
• The golden age of egalitarianism is twelve
  
  Ars Technica reports on a research paper that suggests children abandon egalitarianism and develop meritocratic attitudes as they enter adolescence: … they set up a game where teams of children in grades five through twelve were given access to two websites. One allowed them to earn credits by compl ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Sixth Circuit stays Goerge Fort's reinstatement, w ...
  
  Last week, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals stayed George Fort's preliminary order of reinstatement. Tennessee Commerce Corp. fired Fort last year after he sent a letter to the company's audit committee about failures in the bank's internal controls. Fort filed a whistleblower complaint und ...
• NWC Summer Interns for 2010
  
  The warmer summer days here in Georgetown bring us a new class of interns.� I am pleased to share this photo of our 2010 NWC Summer Interns: � Pictured here are (top row): Will, Harsh, Arthur, Josh and Nate; (middle) Gregory and TJ; (front) Kevin, Emily, Ri, Liz and Diane.� Not pictured: Marg ...
• Ghana groups use whistleblower rights booklet to f ...
  
  The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition and the British High Commission in Accra (the British Embassy) have published A User's Guide to the Whistleblower as part of their efforts to eradicate corruption. The 34-page booklet is inspired by a call of Ghana's President, John Evans Atta Mills, to make the p ...
• Hospital workers strike Temple University and defe ...
  
  Nurses and other professional and technical employees of Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia won a month-long strike in which management tried to impose a "gag" rule to prohibit them from speaking publicly about how staff shortages affect patient care. Marty Harrison, a staff nurse and board ...
• 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 ...

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

• How Monetary Rewards Can Demotivate Creative Works
  
  Back in April, I wrote a post about Daniel Pink's new book, Drive , in which he highlights the rather stunning amount of counterintuitive research that suggests that money can actually make people less motivated to do creative works. Since then, I got a copy of the book myself, but it's in the stac ...
• MLB Looks To Sue Annoying Commenters
  
  If you run a site that allows comments, and some of those commenters are incredibly annoying... is the responsibility on you, as the site owner, to deal with those annoying commenters, or can you actually go to court against people for being jerks on your site? Apparently, Major League Baseball is ...
• Police And Courts Regularly Abusing Wiretapping La ...
  
  Back in April, we wrote about the case of a motorcyclist in Maryland who was wearing a helmet-mounted camera while riding his motorcycle (admittedly, above the speed limit). As he stopped at a traffic light, an off-duty police-officer in plain clothes and an unmarked car jumped out of his car with ...
• As Google Hands Over Collected WiFi Data In German ...
  
  We recently covered how the data that Google collected via its Street View WiFi efforts was caught in this weird legal limbo , between privacy laws, data retention laws and rules about destroying evidence. However, it looks like that's getting settled... but in very different ways in different cou ...
• Dutch Court Says Just Publishing Links To A Movie ...
  
  It's still amazing that any court thinks that just publishing links to something should be illegal, but it seems to happen again and again. Over in the Netherlands, usenet community FTD, has lost a case filed by a movie studio , because some of its users pointed out links where you could download a ...

VacTruth

• Ode to Madness
  
  Suzanne Humphries, MD [medical doctor] ICMV.info June 2010 What fetid madness has man brewed As science morphed into a spoof That throws the dice at natures gate To play with fires of unknown fate? The fearful flock, and stand in line Thinking they will dodge the swine While infants cry their virgi ...
• Report condemns swine flu experts’ ties to b ...
  
  Randeep Ramesh Guardian.co.uk 06/04/2010 Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which stood to profit, according to a report out today. An investigation by ...
• Study: Rise in Autism and introduction of Aborted ...
  
  James Tillman LifeSiteNews.com 06/03/2010 Dr. Theresa Deisher, founder of the pro-life Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute, presented a study revealing the link between autism and aborted fetal DNA in vaccinations at the International Meeting for Autism Research in May. “The temporal connection b ...
• (Video) The “Vaccine Shock” of the Yea ...
  
• Molecular pumps could make vaccines stronger
  
  VaccineNewsDaily.com 06/01/2010 Scientists at the University of California – Berkeley have found that molecular pumps in Listeria bacteria that expel antibiotics, which make the bug harder to kill with standard drugs, also expel small signaling molecules that stimulate a strong immune response in c ...

BroadSnark

• Vilifying Palestinians, Erasing Movements
  
  There is no justification for the actions that the Israeli government took this week.  There is no justification for the blockade on Gaza.  There is no defense for allowing settlers to invade Palestinian land, eating it up piece by piece.  The apartheid in Israel/Palestine is immoral, unjust, inh ...
• 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Onward to Mars: The Triumph of the Weak Forces
  
  By Oyang Teng Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• The Crisis Is Already Here: Now, Grab the Solution ...
  
  Interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• Documentation: Cantwell-McCain on Glass-Steagall
  
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• Brutish Bastards Are At It Again! LaRouche Demands ...
  
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 14, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 19
• Cantwell Expects Glass-Steagall Amendment To Becom ...
  
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Solar Powered Fridges Have Huge Impact on Struggli ...
  
  photo: J. Novak Swaziland is one of the poorest and most rural nations in the world. Most of the villages have no running water, electricity, or refrigerators. But a new innovation is serving to make life a lot more manageable for rural families in Swaziland. The communal building in many of th ...
• In Chicago, A Fashion Show Satisfies Our Love for ...
  
  From afar it looks like just another golden hued evening gown but up close it's hundreds of M&M wrappers--yum! Image courtesy of EarthShare Illinois We're no strangers to green fashion in Chicago; Designers Vaute Couture , Frei Designs , and Mountains of the Moon Read the full story on TreeHugg ...
• Dispatch from World Environment Day in Rwanda: Loo ...
  
  Photo:Meaghan O'Neill. Think about everything you love about nature, and why you believe its worth preserving. Maybe the smell of the ocean breeze, say, or the beauty of your favorite flower in bloom reminds you of your mom. Maybe you love bird watching or camping with your family. Perhaps the ...
• Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Gushing Oil Into At ...
  
  With every attempt so far to stop the gusher of oil from the Deepwater Horizon failed, the grim news is that it could flow until Ch... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Obama Speech Links BP Gulf Spill to Need for Clean ...
  
  Photo via Post Gazette Though the clean energy legislation introduced to the Senate a couple weeks ago has faded into the background as the BP Gulf spill rages on , there's still a real opportunity for lawmakers to make the case for transitioning away from fossil fuels. And greens have been wa ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics
  
  There is simply no room in science, academia or public policy for manipulation, falsification or fraud. Academic freedom does not confer a right to engage in such practices, and both attorneys general and research institutions have a duty to root them out, especially in the case of climate change re ...
• Presidential chemo-phobia?
  
  Don̢۪t look for any new science in this new President̢۪s Report. There isn̢۪t any. It̢۪s just the same old fears and alarms that have circulated since Rachel Carson.
• BP Oil Spill Resources
  
  Who is helping to contain the Gulf oil spill disaster?
• 'How the mighty have fallen!'
  
  Top UN scientist complains about YouTube video, claims defamation. Marc Morano argues that everything in the video about Mann's unscientific methods is true.
• Take back our environment for Earth Day!
  
  How did we let the big government crowd make our environment their ruse de guerre? This Earth Day we call on all people of good sense to retake our environment.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Israel is only democratic reality on Middle East - ...
  
  Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Alfredo Mantica said Saturday Israel is the only democratic reality on the Middle East.
• Israel attacks Pro-Palestinian aid flotilla
  
• Medvedev, Merkel suggest to consider Russia-EU sec ...
  
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested to consider a creation of Russia-EU committee on foreign policy and security at ministerial level.
• Dmitry Medvedev's official visit to Germany on Jun ...
  
• Russian president expects activation of dialogue o ...
  
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expects activation of a dialogue on elimination of visas with EU.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Shuttle Atlantis completes final space mission, la ...
  
  The space shuttle Atlantis with a crew of six landed at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday, completing its final space mission.
• ISS orbit adjusted prior to Soyuz spacecraft docki ...
  
  The International Space Station (ISS) was moved to a higher orbit prior to the docking of Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft, a Mission Control spokesman said on Saturday.
• ISS orbit lowered prior to Soyuz landing - Russian ...
  
  The orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) was lowered on Wednesday by 1.5 kilometers (about a mile) to ensure perfect conditions for the re-entry of the Soyuz landing capsule into the Earth's atmosphere
• Azerbaijan signs agreement on lease of Malaysian o ...
  
  Azerbaijan signed an agreement on leasing the orbital position owned by the Malaysian company MEASAT, the Azerbaijani Communication Ministry's website said on Wednesday
• Russian specialists to adjust ISS orbit prior to S ...
  
  Russian specialists will adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on May 5 and 8 prior to docking of Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft, a spokesman for Mission Control said on Saturday.

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

• Ginger Reduces Pain After Exercise
  
  Ginger may reduce the pain associated with muscle injury after exercising. This could offer athletes a natural pain reliever. Both raw and heat-treated ginger reduced pain associated with muscle injury by about 24 percent. According to NutraIngredients: “The rhizome of the ginger plant (Zingiber ...
• How to Get Yourself Out of a Rut
  
  Work on small tasks. Reply to your emails, organize your documents, or declutter your work space. Leave . Get away from your desk and go take a walk. Upgrade yourself . Do something to improve yourself. Talk to a friend. Get your mind off work for a while. Don’t try to be p ...
• Burger Diet Linked to Higher Asthma Risk
  
  Children who eat three or more burgers a week may be at a higher risk of asthma. Researchers studied data on 50,000 children across the world. The link between burgers and asthma was strongest in rich nations where diets with high levels of junk food are more common. According to Reuters: “A meat ...
• 10 Minutes of Exercise Yields Hour-Long Effects
  
  Ten minutes of brisk exercise triggers metabolic changes that last at least an hour. What’s more, the more fit you are, the more benefits you will get. Researchers measured biochemical changes in the blood of a variety of people. Metabolic changes that began after 10 minutes on a treadmill still we ...
• Coffee Boost is an Illusion
  
  Regular coffee drinkers may get no real energy increase from their beverages, according to a new study.  Researchers found that drinkers develop a tolerance to the stimulating effects of caffeine -- meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them. Measurements ...

Antemedius

• The Wonders of the American Way of War
  
  By David Swanson If a person could approach you on the street, gently caress your cheek, and walk away leaving you with the feeling of having been violently slapped and dowsed with a bucket of ice water, they would approximate Tom Engelhardt's writing, including that in his newest book "The American ...
• James Carville's shameful hypocrisy on the oil spi ...
  
  James Carville has been all over the news lashing out at Obama for not being strong enough in his response to the BP oil disaster. And with the news that the oil geyser will continue spewing its stuff until August , I don't blame the man. He is, after all, from Louisiana. But for some reason I'm n ...
• Memorial Day
  
  The Paradigm Shift: Vintage Carlin on War & American Politics
• BP: "We're Not Blaming Anyone... Yet"
  
  David Edwards at RawStory notes
• 54 Tips on Things You Must Do While in South Afric ...
  
  Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the world are headed to South Africa to watch the World Cup, descending on Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, and six other cities across the country for the biggest sporting event t ...

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

• One commando killed six unarmed aid workers
  
  Again, it’s amazing how the real news emerges every Friday afternoon. From Juan Cole: Paul McGeough, one of our great war reporters and investigative journalists, has constructed one of the first rounded accounts of the boarding of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos and the way it turned into a g ...
• Media fail: more of the usual coverage on Israel
  
  You expect a newspaper to lean on the scale when they weigh out their daily ration of news and opinion, but in matters regarding Israel the Strib continues to use their elbow and not their thumb. Another ration of in-your-face ISRAELFUCKYEAHism from Gary Fine today and yes, the comments are being he ...
• Stop hitting our bullets with your head
  
  Turns out the American who died in the flotilla raid, Furkan Dogan, was shot four times in the head and once in the chest. S’OK, there are at least a couple dozen Strib commenters who’d get in line for a chance to piss on his corpse. It’s OK because our side still has Helen Thomas [...]
• Israel v Iran (Iran’s the one that hasn&#821 ...
  
  WINston has a nice interview with Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panthers. It’s fascinating because a guy Fox loves to showcase as a nutjob actually, in a proper interview setting, makes one hell of a lot of sense. It was the late ’70s when I began to read more and more articles about Israel [...]
• 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 ...

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

• The Liquid Continent - A Visit With Malia Nobrega
  
  http://VoicesOfTruthTV.com - Imagine a continent where the land is water. That's the islands of Polynesia, where long distance travel and communication have been going on for thousands of years. Malia Nobrega's a modern-day example, traveling far and wide, both physically and via the Internet, ...
• Peach almost certainly killed by police: Report
  
  �Source WATCH the video (11:07) A previously secret police report into the death of a Kiwi protestor in London 31 years ago has been released tonight.New Zealander Blair Peach was almost certainly killed by police at a demonstration in London in 1979, the previously secret reports revealed. Metr ...
• Al Jazeera: Slovakia's Radical Roma 'solution'
  
  Al Jazeera English Reports: "Some 10 per cent of Slovakia's population are of Roma ethnicity, most of whom are illiterate and live in poverty in the country's far east. In an attempt to integrate them into Slovak society, the government has suggested a radical proposal: that Roma children be sent ...
• Viola Wilkins: "Muckaty Voices"
  
  "Muckaty Voices" is a short film capturing community resistance to an Australian government plan to dump radioactive waste at Muckaty Station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.� http://www.youtube.com/user/beyondnuclear#p/a/u/0/xcuNpT84Ovo The area is being assessed ...
• Climate interview with Fiu Mataese Elisara
  
  Fiu Mataese Elisara, the Executive Director of Ole Siosiomaga Society Incorporated (OLSSI) in Samoa was interviewed TODAY (in Brussels, Belgium) by Los Angeles’s KPFK Pacifica radio on the Sojourner Truth show hosted by Margaret Prescod. Earlier today Fiu chaired a meeting with Members of the ...

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

• 10 Ways to Celebrate World Environment Day
  
  Celebrate World Environment Day on 5 June 2010 - Many Species. One Planet. One Future… Join in and make a difference!
• Environmental News -04/06/10
  
  Environmental News ‘Citizen scientists’ can aid biodiversity research Getting a true picture of biodiversity changes in the future may depend on scientists gaining access to the records of ‘citizen scientists’ around the world, according to a paper in the scientific journal PLoS Biology ...
• Environmental News -03/06/10
  
  Environmental News Seen to be green People choose to purchase environmentally friendly goods over luxury items when motivated to increase their social status, concludes a new study. In behavioural ecology, acts of altruism are seen as a means of communicating an individual's ability to ...
• Environmental News -19/05/10
  
  Environmental News   Prosperity cannot be paid forever by maxing out our green credit Ross Gittins says we need a new economic model which recognises the environment as a cost - or we risk disaster. The most thought-provoking comment I've seen on the budget came from Senator Christine Milne o ...
• The DOs and DON’Ts of Washing Organic Fabrics
  
  How to best take care of your eco-wardrobe – we dissect the washing DOs and DON’Ts for the top three organic fabrics…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• US to go ahead with 'essential' drone attacks in P ...
  
  ShareThis US to go ahead with 'essential' drone attacks in Pakistan despite UN call to stop �04 Jun 2010 Notwithstanding a report by a top UN official, which called for the discontinuation of unmanned Predator drone attacks in Pakistan's troubled tribal areas along the Afghan border, the United Stat ...
• Ankara to review military and economic ties after ...
  
  ShareThis Ankara to review military and economic ties after activists' deaths 05 Jun 2010 Turkey has decided to review all military and economic agreements with Israel and may reduce relations to a "minimum", the deputy prime minister said yesterday. Bulent Arinc's remarks showed how seriously ties ...
• Congress 'well-informed of CIA activities'
  
  ShareThis Congress 'well-informed of CIA activities' �05 Jun 2010 Amid concerns over US drone attacks in Pakistan, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says Capitol Hill lawmakers are fully aware of CIA operations abroad. Gates -- a one-time director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) himself ...
• Russians say BP rejected their help
  
  ShareThis Russians say BP rejected their help 04 Jun 2010� U.S. authorities would be "appalled" if the Russian mini-submarine Mir were dispatched to help control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Russian officials said. U.S. filmmaker James Cameron said Russian-made Mir submarines could help BP with its ...
• 'Aid Ship Intercepted By Israeli Troops'
  
  ShareThis 'Aid Ship Intercepted By Israeli Troops' 05 Jun 2010 Peace activists on board an aid ship heading for Gaza have been intercepted by Israeli forces, according to reports. The Rachel Corrie set out with its crew determined to break Israel's naval blockade. Israel said it was equally determin ...

Daily Loaf

• New cap is collecting some of the oil leakage, whi ...
  
  Though BP attached a new cap over the Deepwater Horizon leak late Thursday, crude oil still flows into the water through several open vents on the inverted funnel-like device.
• Tampa International airport board member announces ...
  
  Burton's Marketing Committee, in association with the Tampa Bay Partnership and a whole host of other interested parties, have created an online marketing survey form that they hope will ultimately lead to more direct flights in and out of Tampa.
• Celebrate local restaurants during Restaurant Week ...
  
  From June 17 - 27, Creative Loafing will be partnering with select Bay Area restaurants to offer three-course, prix fixe menus for $25 and $45.
• Vampire Weekend stops by The Colbert Report
  
  Apparently, beneath Stephen Colbert’s hilariously iron-fisted exterior lies the heart of a trendy, middle-class 20something. That or he just really knows his demographic. Either way, the titan of truthiness has been on his game of late, inviting some choice indie acts to perform on The Colbert Repo ...
• Dreaming of a knife-wielding boyfriend
  
  “Dream Momma, I live in Tampa but work in St. Pete. I spend a lot of time on the bridge just thinking about things. I realize the commute is good for me that way.  I think about  my old BF and why we broke up. The other night I had this dream and it still [...]

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• interview with Greta Berlin of Free Gaza Movement ...
  
  By Jesse Bacon Here’s a clip of Greta Berlin, who is twittering at @FreeGazaOrg She says boat should arrive within half hour if not stopped. IDF is jamming all transmission, but boat can be seen through binoculars from shore. Greta Berlin of Free Gaza Movement. UPDATE: Tweet from onboard says that ...
• BREAKING: MV Rachel Corrie approached rapidly by I ...
  
  By Jesse Bacon I was interviewing Mairead Maguire, Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, when the MV Rachel Corrie was rapidly approached by the Israeli Navy, 65 miles from Gaza. We ended the call to keep the line clear. Hopefully the whole world really is watching. Listen here: Mariead Maguire
• Live from the Only Democracy? Exclusive: Denis Hal ...
  
  By Jesse Bacon Contrary to some reports today, the Rachel Corrie is scheduled to arrive in Gaza about 10 pm Eastern Time. I will call back then, but had this conversation with an upbeat Dennis Halliday aboard the boat today. Here is the audio; I will post a cleaned up version over the weekend. Deni ...
• Huwaida Arraf detained
  
  by Jesse Bacon I called Huwaida Arraf for her second part of our interview to find she had been detained by Israeli police at the Friday Bil’in protest against the wall. Will check on a number to call. In the meantime, here’s her interview on Democracy Now!
• Live from the Only Democracy: 43 Years of Occupati ...
  
  By Jesse Bacon Israel has stopped one boat, but it can’t stop the movement. Readers of this blog know the struggle has been going on long before the Gaza Freedom Flotilla set sail, and it continues and will only grow in strength. The protests commemorating the anniversary of the 1967 Occupation of t ...

Politics in the Zeros

• More geothermal coming to southwest
  
  This is primarily due to efforts to speed the leasing process and cooperation between local, state, and federal authorities. Geothermal is clean renewable energy and is available 24/7. The southwest has lots of it.
• Backyard planting in Cedar City
  
  Sue and I just transplanted most of the tomatoes and peppers into raised beds today. (Our duplex is in a failed subdivision hence the rocks in the backyard that had to be moved. The developer probably ran out of money so he filled the yards with rocks not grass. Yes, it was a big honking [...]
• “Democratic Discourse”: Reflections in the Pakista ...
  
  Examining the extremism in both American and Pakistani political discourse.
• Markets tank, jobs report bad, Hungary warns of de ...
  
  Just another day in the increasingly unpredictable and perilous financial markets. Hungary said their situation was “grave” and that the possibility of default “isn’t an exaggeration.” This is made worse by the Swiss franc rallying. Incredibly, many Hungarian mortgages are denominated in Swiss fran ...
• What not to say when your company is ruining the w ...
  
  From Newsweek, no less, on BP CEO Tony Hayward’s arrogant, clueless comments. After he gets fired or indicted I’m sure he can find gainful employment at an investment bank. After all, he’s their kind of guy; nasty, untroubled by bothersome ethical dilemmas, and utterly self-absorbed. BP CEO Tony Hay ...

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

• Judges are Fallible Human Beings Too
  
  szandorblestman.com We are all human beings. Sometimes, we get into disputes. Since it is not always wise to partake in physical conflict, nor is it necessarily the fairest method, people through the ages have tried to figure out ways to implement better, fairer, more just dispute resolution methods ...
• Swine Flu Scientists from the WHO received payment ...
  
  Randeep Ramesh guardian.co.uk - Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which stood to profit, according to a report out today. An investigation by the Britis ...
• “Israelis Are Building Fence That Cuts Right ...
  
  And The Area Is Litter With Teargas Canisters & M16 Bullets Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Halliburton Donating Massive Money To Members Of C ...
  
  Halliburton Donating Massive Money To Members Of Congress In Charge Of Oil Spill Over-sight Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape [...]
• US networks show different story on Gaza aid floti ...
  
  The US is coming under increasing pressure to take a harsher stance in its dealings with Israel. And the revelation that an American citizen was killed in the flotilla raid has prompted the US to launch its own investigation. But many of the US media outlets are coming to Israel’s defence. Al Jazeer ...

The Air Vent

• No more free speech, Obama thinks it should cost
  
  We have to get these corrupt liberals out of office asap.  This is as evil as anything any government can do, and is nothing less than a full takeover of the media. A link to the official documents is here. new-staff-discussion[1] It’s bad enough that our extremist in chief doesn’t need to answer d ...
• A little truth would be nice
  
  Ok, Climate Audit has a post on a reply from Ronald Oxburgh (of the Oxburg coverup of climategate) to a request from Steve McIntyre for documentation of papers and procedures in the investigation.  Steve did a fine job venting on it – it turns out that Canadians do get wound up on occasion, but the ...
• Cloud Driven Temperature Variation
  
  Roy Spencer had what I consider an interesting post on a model with negative feedback – copied below.  He was able to demonstrate that warming of a magnitude we measure in a modeled climate system with strong negative feedbacks to CO2 rather than the strong positive feedbacks which lead to global d ...
• 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 [... ...

Focal Point

• Caught on Tape: NYPD Cooking the Books and Cocking ...
  
  God bless whistleblowers. Graham Rayman and the Village Voice obtained hundreds of hours of covertly recorded audio from one disgruntled Bed-Stuy cop: Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, ...
• A Pelican Crucified: A Pulitzer for Wildlife Photo ...
  
  Charlie Riedel of the Associated Press deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the oil-slicked pelicans of the Louisiana coast. It would be an unconventional choice. Human subjects have consistently hogged the spotlight in Breaking News Photography and Feature Photography . These aren't just pi ...
• Bad Advice: Dear Prudie's Cruel Rebuke to a Grievi ...
  
  As advice columnists go, Emiy Yoffe of "Dear Prudence" is usually relatively compassionate. Today, however, Prudie was shockingly cruel to a young woman* grieving the loss of her best friend: Dear Prudence, I am in my mid-20s, and my best friend and I were very close. At the start of this year, ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Privacy, Politics, Advertising, ...
  
  Facebook Launches Privacy Page - Facebook launched a Privacy Page Friday meant to serve as a resource for users in light of recent privacy changes. The Page includes video tutorials, screen shots of privacy settings, a guide to experts on privacy regulations and education, updates on new content ...
• Facebook’s New Like Button Plugin Has a Rough Week
  
  Facebook’s popular new social plugin, the Like Button, has been having some growing pains this week. The new feature, which lets users share web pages back to Facebook with a single click, is already live on more than 100,000 web sites after it launched in late April, including big ones like CNN. Th ...
• Compete, ComScore, Nielsen and Quantast Show Growi ...
  
  Facebook continued to grow in the United States and around the world in April, according to our latest look at data from third party measurement firms including Compete, comScore, Nielsen and Quantast. This follows a dip that most firms showed at some point in February or March. For those who are in ...
• Post-It Celebrates 30 Years With Facebook Trivia G ...
  
  The venerable office adhesive reminders (and medium for popular YouTube videos) turn 30 this year, and Post-It Notes are celebrating the anniversary with a unique Facebook application called Don’t Forget Your Friends. The trivia app rewards users for recalling facts about people in their Facebook ne ...
• Simple Measurement Apps Crowd This Week’s List of ...
  
  An app called Good and Evil leads off this week’s list of emerging Facebook apps, measured as those still under a million monthly active users. Like many of the more successful apps that appear on this particular list, Good and Evil relies on its simplicity, generating a quick and more or [...]

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: A Christian Perspective on Prisons: An i ...
  
  truthout: A Christian Perspective on Prisons: An interview With Stan Moody: Stan Moody has served in the Maine ... http://bit.ly/a5BIJ9 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: From the Imaginary Line to the Imaginary ...
  
  truthout: From the Imaginary Line to the Imaginary Dome: If wars first begin in the mind and with one's imagina... http://bit.ly/dcfhdW #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Unless Otherwise Directed ...: I've work ...
  
  truthout: Unless Otherwise Directed ...: I've worked in journalism for 35 years. I did graduate study in journa... http://bit.ly/byC0IJ #Truthout #p2
• truthout: "I Want to Live With My Family": Islamab ...
  
  truthout: "I Want to Live With My Family": Islamabad - Abir Mohammed, a refugee from Bajaur, says that the batt... http://bit.ly/bXg8zR #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Another KBR Employee Says She Was Raped ...
  
  truthout: Another KBR Employee Says She Was Raped While Working for the Military Contractor in Iraq: In 2007, f... http://bit.ly/9WjmRC #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Shame behind the silence of America over Israeli c ...
  
  Paul J. Balles answers some poignant questions regarding the United States’ double standards on Israel and its failure to condemn Israel’s murder of peace activists aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla.
• “No citizenship without loyalty!” Fascism in Israe ...
  
  Neve Gordon detects a disturbing trend in Israeli society, manifested recently in the way pro-government demonstrators reacted to protests by Israeli Jews and Arabs against the murder of peace activists on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla.
• Is Israel planning act of desperation? It still ho ...
  
  Gordon Duff warns that unless the international community takes decisive action by stripping Israel of its nuclear weapons and demanding regime change in Tel Aviv, the world might soon be subjected to an Israeli-concocted false-flag nuclear disaster.
• Sea blockade of Gaza was “temporary” – 15 years ag ...
  
  Stuart Littlewood views a little-mentioned blockade of Gaza: an interim, five-year agreement signed by the Palestinian Authority in 1995 – probably under duress – but still in force, allowing the Israelis “to weave a tangled web of security zoning in Gaza's coastal waters” and leaving them in charg ...
• “Mad dog” diplomacy: a cornered Israel is baring i ...
  
  Jonathan Cook argues that Israel is responding to growing domestic scrutiny of its human rights abuses and increasing international isolation, and to the erosion of its deterrence, by introducing new repressive laws and by branding its critics as supporters of terrorism.

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

• Podcast Show #29
  
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Phillips   Peter Phillips describes Project Censored, its mission, operational style and funding, then talks about what he has coined as ‘Truth Emergency,’ and provides examples such as the intentional misreporting of the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war, ...
• Updates & Multi-Week Round Up for May 31
  
  Still Alive & Kicking, A Scholar For All Seasons Or Agendas?, Terrorization & De-Terrorization Flip This is going to come as a relief to some and as a major disappointment to others: I am alive and almost back! As my long-term readers know I almost never share personal details here, and I am not abo ...
• 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
  

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

• Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
  
  SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
  
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
  
  The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
  
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
  
  In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...

If Americans Knew

• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
  
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
  
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
  
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
  
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

David J. Gregory

• 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

• It’s a Gusher: Outrage Erupts at D.C. Green Groups ...
  
  This had to be republished, for it reinforces many of the things The Unsuitablog has been going on about for years now. As I said a short while ago, the reason I keep raising the hypocrisy of so-called “environmental” NGOs is because organisations like The Nature Conservancy, Conservation Internati ...
• 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 ...

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

• How a Test Suite Can Help Your Open Source Project ...
  
  At CityCircles , we've been fortunate to work with a local developer who is passionate about our project's goal of developing hyper-local communication tools for mass audiences. Our first implementation of that is a platform for light rail passengers in Phoenix, Arizona. That said, one person can ...
• The Future of News: Not So Bleak, Not So Rosy
  
  What's the future of news? I'm tempted to say "not very much" since no one really knows too much about the future of news right now. You know this is true because senior news folk have given up on the doom and gloom stuff and are starting to talk about "the golden age of journalism" and how it's a " ...
• 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 ...

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

• People of the West
  
  A slideshow of images from HCN's 40th anniversary photo contest.
• Up in the air, a living memorial
  
  California condors are back, and they're more impressive than manmade marvels.
• Limbo land: Brownfields for green energy
  
  Across the West, contaminated landscapes are becoming home to renewable energy projects.
• Dress code for the Western guy
• Bracing for white nose syndrome
  
  A deadly fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats is slowly moving closer to the West.

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

• Day 1: The People’s Journey Begins where The ...
  
  As the wheels of the airplane met the Californian ground, memories of the last time I was in San Francisco came to mind. The last time, Conor and I had reached the coastal city by the power of our own two feet on the walking/biking trip we completed in Novemeber. It seemed like more than [...]
• The Next Step: Responsibility and Reconciliation
  
  Last week was filled with interviews where myself and, at times, another member of the company I deployed with, talked to as many people as we could about the Collateral Murder video, focusing on three points. 1. The video, in context, is not a case of soldiers breaking from the system 2. With the t ...
• 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 [.. ...

Yid With Lid

• Helen Thomas Says Jews Should Get the Hell Out of ...
  
  Helen Thomas is as fair and open minded as she is good looking. The most Senior of White-House Correspondents has given up being a real reporter and instead spends her time spewing venom toward America's war on Terror and/or anything Israel does. For example during the 2008/09 Israeli battle with Ha ...
• Tonight On Larry King The Official The Offical "Ob ...
  
  Tonight President Obama appears on the Larry King show to spend one full hour with King and the 14 people in Kings audience. Luckily the transcript of the interview has already been posted as to spare us from the trauma of having to watch King fall asleep on his own show. King asked the POTUS q ...
• MUST WATCH VIDEO: The Flotilla Choir presents: We ...
  
  (If you cant see video above CLICK HERE ) OK Maybe it isn't the Flotilla Choir, it is the Israeli TV Show Known as Latma TV, its kind of like Saturday Night Live, only funnier. The Pseudo choir has it right, the Guerrilla Flotilla does have much of the world conned. Well some of it ...
• Islamist Extremists Hit Israeli Soldiers with Iron ...
  
  By Barry Rubin “I have not yet begun to fight!” --Captain John Paul Jones 1779 “Don’t Give up the ship!” -- Captain James Lawrence, 1813 “Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!” --Admiral David Farragut, 1862 “You may fire when ready, Gridley!” --Commodore George Dewey, 1898 ...
• Bibi Was Wrong it WAS a Love Boat (Except in Washi ...
  
  Yesterday when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu described the Guerrilla Flotilla he said. "The takeover of five of the ships passed quietly. In the sixth ship, our soldiers encountered an extreme group that supports Hamas terror. This wasn't the "love boat" this was a flotilla of terror suppo ...

The Real Agenda

• As it turns out, the U.S. does negotiate with Terr ...
  
  Have you heard the rumors that the U.S. is the main carrier of drugs around the world?  How about the one that tells how the former New York Stock Exchange boss went to Colombia to ask the Narcos to invest in the NYSE?  All rumors, right?  Nope.  There are enough trails to know that indeed [...]
• France to Seize Pensions by Raising Retiring Age
  
  Financial Times Expectations are growing that France is set to remove the right to retire at 60, as it embarks on a contentious reform of its debt-laden pension system and brings public finances back into line. Christian Estrosi, industry minister, said on Sunday the government was “leaning towards ...
• BP; Federals Hid Massive Oil Spill Video
  
  Just as everyone suspected, BP and the Federal Government of the United States were and still are truly 'in bed'. Recent video released on ABC, shows that BP hid early video feeds from not one, but at least three oil leaks gushing out millions of gallons of crude into the waters of the Gulf of Mexi ...
• Eugenicist Bill Gates Attending 2010 Bilderberg
  
  Microsoft founder Bill Gates will join fellow elitists for the first time at the 2010 Bilderberg conference currently taking place in Sitges Spain, after he apparently attempted to pull a bait and switch by pretending to attend another event before being forced to admit to journalists that he will g ...
• The Cycle of Debt Deflation
  
  One of the most famous quotations of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is that “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit exp ...

Wind Watch

• Wind farms vs. doppler radar
  
  LINCOLN — Last year a weak tornado touch-downed near Holder in eastern McLean county. That’s near the Twin Groves wind farm, one of the largest in the state. Chris Miller, Warning Coordinating Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Lincoln explains what happened next. “When that stor ...
• Wind power not easy win for birders; Ridgetop turb ...
  
  Birders tend to be sympathetic to whatever protects the ecosystem. For that reason, “clean” energy schemes that provide power without pollution should be an easy win with the birding community. Ridgetop wind turbines, however, have many birders worried. Tall structures are known to kill birds during ...
• Wind farm flunked
  
  A three-turbine wind farm planned for the Água de Tábuas area of Tavira has been rejected by the government after protests from local residents and environmental organizations such as the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, and ‘Probaal’. Tavira Mayor Jorge Botelho said he has not yet read th ...
• Over €340,000 for bogslide damage caused by constr ...
  
  A woman whose farm was damaged by a massive bogslide which occurred during the construction of the Republic’s largest wind farm has secured €341,830 damages at the High Court. Mr Justice Eamon de Valera made the award yesterday to Mary Curley, whose family have farmed 16 acres at Derrybrien, Gort, ...
• Wind turbines will harm health according to doctor
  
  MONTPELIER â A doctor who has studied the health effects of a commercial wind power project in northern Maine brought his conclusion to the State House Friday morning, May 7. “There is absolutely no doubt that people living within 3,500 feet of a ridge line arrangement of 1.5 megawatts or larger t ...

Not My Tribe

• MV Rachel Corrie outsmarts Israeli Navy, Hasbara p ...
  
  All eyes are on the MV Rachel Corrie, but where are the pictures?! There hasn’t been a picture of the relief ship since she left Ireland, even then in darkness. Worrying everyone that her attempt to run the Gaza blockade would be cloaked like the USS Liberty, the Freedom Flotilla straggler has pulle ...
• Flotilla video evidence escapes Israel, IDF has to ...
  
  Norman Finkelstein mentioned anticipated photographic footage that may have escaped confiscation by Israel which has been monopolizing the narrative with their selective accounts. A released Irish activist recounts how nonviolent resistance on the Challenger allowed time for an Australian journalist ...
• 19-year-old American killed on flotilla did not ho ...
  
  Among the nine martyrs shot by the IDF as they attacked the Mavi Marmara –in Israel’s nighttime preemptive enforcement of the enstranglement of Gaza– was 19-year-old American Furkan Dogan, shot four times in the face. Well the US media is diligent to describe the doctor’s son as Turkish-American, ho ...
• Flotilla massacre then Old Testament: Israel exact ...
  
  Palestinian solidarity volunteer Emily Henochowicz was protesting Israel’s brutal raid on the Gaza relief convoy, to be more precise, she was acting as Western observer to protect the Palestinian right to protest, and she lost her eye when she was hit by an IDF teargas canister. You might have hoped ...
• Bush wants to torture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed again
  
  Bush stands behind torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, says heâd “do it again to save lives.” Yesterday, former President Bush spoke at the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, MI, where he said that had no regrets about waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed 9/11 mastermind, and would ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• More Discrediting by Association
  
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asks the rhetorical question " How Indeed Could We Think of the Truthers As Kooks and Weirdos ;" pointing to these articles posted on 911blogger.com yesterday. An anonymous commenter on Pat's blog first made note that above the 911blogger post in question ...
• Bin Laden "Living Comfortably in Iran"
  
  Is there a country you want to invade? Can't get those pesky free-thinking citizens to agree? No problem, we've got just the thing to you! It's called Feathered Cocaine - The Bogeyman Reviver! Guaranteed to resurrect your favourite long-dead , face-changing , ex-CIA asset ... or your money back!
• NORAD and NORTHCOM proudly display their token
  
  This is so sickening ... NORAD, U.S. NORTHCOM dedicate 9/11 memorial http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123206005 The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commemorated a new 9/11 memorial during a ceremony at the commands' headquarters May 18. The memorial, f ...
• 9/11 - Ground Zero Molten Metal Confirmed
  
  Jeff Hill - shure911 YouTube.com May 27, 2010 Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog says : "Here's a clue for Jeff: Molten metal does not equal molten steel." Here's a clue for Pat: This does equal molten steel : In what The New York Times dubbed as " perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered ...
• Debunking JayBlack12100
  
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently posted the following two videos from " JayBlack12100 ": As to the first video, here is much more in-depth review of Ryan's presentation , which debunks the notion that he is the one guilty of dishonesty. Here is a video putting the 9/11 fires ...

Fooducate

• Those Poison McDonalds Shrek Glasses are the LEAST ...
  
  Yesterday it was announced that McDonald’s is recalling about 12 million souvenir glasses adorned with Shrek images. The $2.00 glasses were painted using cadmium, a known carcinogen. The fear is that cadmium present in the paint on the glass will poison kids. This would require a child to hold the ...
• Kellogg’s Slapped by FTC, Twice, for Misleading Ad ...
  
  The Federal Trade Commission normally doesn’t get involved in misleading health claims for foods, it’s the FDA’s jurisdiction. But something in Kellogg’s behavior over the past 2 years must have really annoyed somebody at the FTC. At first it was a health claim for Frosted Mini-Wheats, with benefit ...
• 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 ...

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 ...

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  Enawene Nawe men preserve fish. © Fiona Watson/Survival Yãkwa , one of the most important rituals practiced by the Enawene Nawe Indians , has been officially recognized as part of Brazilâs historic and cultural heritage by Brazilâs Ministry of Culture. Yãkwa lasts four months and is the ...
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  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- ...
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  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 ...

Greg Palast

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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  by Greg Palast April 8 - London - Update for In These Times We've stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the British Isles. The law, merely awaits the expected touch of the Queen's scepter. "Vulture funds" are int ...
• Heart of Coal
  
  by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse We've seen this dreadful movie before. In 2005, another coal mine in West Virginia imploded. We wrote about it then .... War is hell, especially class war. Just ask the Sago mine workers. Billionaire Wilbur Ross purchased Sago of West Virginia in November 200 ...
• Behind the Arizona Immigration Law:GOP Game to Swi ...
  
  Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law. by Greg Palast for Truthout.org [Phoenix, AZ.] Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• BP oil spill: The British backlash has begun
  
  Could the US backlash against BP extend to other British companies, asks Tom Leonard
• BP's management faces an immense challenge
  
  Telegraph View: The Gulf spill has caused a financial calamity at BP that has ramifications for millions of people.
• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is now turning into a ...
  
  The failure of BP's 'top kill' means there is no end in sight to the misery of Louisiana's people and wildlife, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is now turning into a ...
  
  The failure of BP's 'top kill' means there is no end in sight to the misery of Louisiana's people and wildlife, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• US military rejects calls to take control of oil s ...
  
  US military does not have technology or know-how to deal with devastating Gulf of Mexico spill, its highest ranking officer says.

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  Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up: In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer. Evidence of police brutality?  Show it, ...
• The Jobs Report and the Future
  
  I’m not going to waste a lot of time on the job report, obviously a job report with 411,000 census jobs out of  431,000 total jobs is not, actually, a good one.  Despite their spin, the Obama administration knows this.  They will ram through the jobs bill and try and dump it into the economy [... ...
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• The box is broken
  
  So the police are still corrupt foreigners who are harassing the locals. They are a little less corrupt and a little less harassing than the police force that the local Pashtun militias and Taliban ran out of town a couple of years ago, but they are still corrupt and they are still culturally forei ...
• What would Turkey’s NATO allies do in the ca ...
  
  The general assumption has been that if push comes to shove between Israel and Turkey, that NATO allies will not support Turkey, and that the US will supply Israel, but not supply Turkey. I wonder if those two things are both true. It’s interesting to note that Britain, normally a staunch Israeli al ...
  
  
  
  

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