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• MEDIA-ISRAEL: Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence E ...
  RAMALLAH, Jun 7 (IPS) - Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government's version of events.
• Now Israel Is Under Siege
  JERUSALEM, Jun 7 (IPS) - The elemental reason for the outbreak of the seminal June 1967 Arab-Israel war was Israel's self-inflicted doom prophecy that "the Arabs just want to throw us in the sea".
• KYRGYZSTAN: External Threats Vie With Internal One ...
  BISHKEK, Jun 7 (IPS) - As Kyrgyzstan’s interim leaders struggle to cope with ethnic flare-ups within its borders they must also keep an eye out for trouble from a tough Central Asian neighbourhood and from big powers interested in the country’s strategic location.
• CAMBODIA: Aid Donors Urged to Demand Faster Reform ...
  PHNOM PENH, June 7 (IPS) - Yuen Mach sat on the floor of her wooden home, her hands nervously twisting a stalk of lemongrass into fibrous strands.
• THAILAND: In Wake of Crackdown, Anger Peaks agains ...
  BANGKOK, June 6 (IPS/Asia Media Forum) - Resentment here toward the foreign media had been simmering in the wake of the Thai government’s crackdown against protesters in May, but it nearly came to a boil when Thai panelists aired their frustrations recently about what they called western ...

Scoop - NZ

• Cliche of the Week - CUT TO THE CHASE
  An amazing high-wire double cliche sentence from the Australian prime minister: "But the bottom line is, the measures, at the end of the day, were not sufficient, and let's just be frank about that." ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Climate Change Deniers Dissected
  Climate change, let's recap. It's real, it's happening, people are dying. It's going to be hugely damaging to life in general and human agriculture and "civilisation" in particular. We know that there is a well funded corporate campaign to obfuscate and deny climate change science (similar to the to ...
• 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 ...

Independent ( London )

• Seven found guilty of Bhopal gas tragedy
  Seven former chemical company executives were today convicted of "death by negligence" for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy that killed 15,000 people more than 25 years ago in the world's worst industrial disaster.
• Briton convicted in Dubai of murdering ex-girlfrie ...
  A Briton was sentenced to 15 years in jail in Dubai today after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, a British Embassy spokesman said.
• Death toll from Ohio tornado rises
  The death toll from a tornado in the US has risen to at least seven after storms unleashed a "war zone" of destruction in north-west Ohio.
• Hague presses Israel as activists return home
  Foreign Secretary William Hague called on Israel to agree to a "credible and transparent" investigation into the deadly raid on an aid flotilla as activists whose ship was blocked from delivering relief supplies to Gaza returned home today.
• 'Doctors used' to test effectiveness of waterboard ...
  A prominent physicians group claimed today that medical personnel were used to test and refine the effectiveness of "waterboarding" and other harsh interrogation techniques for terror detainees in US custody.

Rogue Government.com

• Animal-Human Hybrids Banned in Some States
  Dren, the half-human, half-animal hybrid set to terrorize Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley in the new movie "Splice," is pure science fiction, but politicians across the country aren't taking any chances.
• G-20 Coordination Fails as Global policy makers s ...
  Global policy makers are starting to clash over their individual prescriptions for recovery as Europe demands lower budget deficits while the U.S. warns against pushing exports instead of domestic demand.
• MTV Airs Ridiculous Show About Nerd With Large Ge ...
  On Sunday night, MTV will begin airing The Hard Times of RJ Berger , a show about a nerdy teenager barely surviving at a high school ruled by evil jocks, who, in the first episode, arrives at a turning point.
• U.S.'s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: ...
  President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.”
• 30 Shocking Quotes About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil S ...
  It is incredibly hard to put into words the absolute horror that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now.

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

• The fate of truthtellers: Helen Thomas retires af ...
• Egypt: Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open
  An Egyptian security official declared the blockade of Gaza a failure Monday and said his country will keep its border with the Palestinian territory open indefinitely. Keeping that crossing point open long term would ease the blockade imposed by Israel three years ago to isolate and punish Gaza's ...
• White House Criticizes Helen Thomas For Israel Rem ...
  Controversial remarks about Israel by veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas drew sharp criticism from the Obama administration on Monday, as well as the cancellation of a high school graduation speech she was to deliver. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked at his daily briefing w ...
• UK: 13-Year-Old Girl Changed with Murder of "Gentl ...
  A girl of 13 was among seven people charged with murdering a man regarded as a 'gentle giant'. The body of Shaun Rossington, 21, who had mild learning difficulties, was discovered on a grass verge close to a city centre Waitrose store. It is unclear if the keen football fan was targeted by a gang ...
• Indonesian Census Discovers 157-Year-Old Woman
  Estimates of the size and composition of Indonesia's booming population may remain just that despite an ongoing census, if the "discovery" of a 157-year-old woman is anything to go by. Census officials have said they believe the woman's claims to have been born in 1853, when Giuseppe Verdi's La Tra ...

The Galloping Beaver

• A friendly reminder . . .
  Don't forget: alcohol and calculus don't mix . You should never drink and derive.
• Hooray for Prescott, Az!
  It is heartening to see a community respond to racism in this way, and especially to see the school board and principal realize and publicly admit they made a mistake in bowing to racist bullies in the first place. Good for them! And I hope Steve "racist douche bag" Blair gets the old-fashioned Ami ...
• Not that there was any doubt...
  But in case you needed a little push, go take a read of TorStar's latest. Message Event Proposals . When a Harperite talks about "arms length", they don't mention the strings. Open, accountable and transparent. Just another Harper Party lie.
• Dimitri Soudas - Still on the milk carton
  The search is on for Youtube impressario and PMO Director of Disinformation Dimitri Soudas. . A House of Commons bailiff seeking to serve Soudas and another staffer with a summons to appear before the Ethics Committee was twice refused entry to the government offices where Soudas works by the secur ...
• First they came for KAIROS ...
  Gerald Caplan, G&M: The Harper government, women’s rights and the cost of speaking out The Tories are playing punishment politics with Canada’s progressive NGOs – and eroding civil society in the process "Despite the chill on speaking out, this week the Canadian Council for International Co-operat ...

Media Matters for America

• Varney contradicts private analysts, economists wi ...
  Fox business analyst Stuart Varney claimed -- without evidence -- that President Obama's Recovery Act was "wasted money" and that it "did not produce jobs." However, Varney's statement stands in stark contrast to that of prominent private analysts and economists who estimate that the stimulus has i ...
• The media's Obama double standard
  In yet another example of the conservative media creating a double standard for President Obama,�right wing media outlets�attacked him for giving "absolutely no commemoration" of the D-Day anniversary. In fact, Obama's D-Day commemorations mirror the Bush administration's;�both commemorated D-Day o ...
• Right-wing Mad Libs: [Insert event] ...
  Media figures have advanced a long line of inane historical analogies to attack the Obama administration, characterizing the Gulf oil spill -- and a wide range of other events -- as Obama's Katrina and searching for Obama's Watergate, Obama's 9-11, and Obama's Waterloo, among others. Obama's Ka ...
• Liz Cheney rushes to defend Halliburton, ignores g ...
  On ABC's This Week , Liz Cheney ridiculed Arianna Huffington for her statement that Halliburton defrauded the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, federal agencies have repeatedly accused Halliburton and its former subsidiary, KBR, of fraud with regard to its work in Iraq and ...
• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• US-Israel: Gaza Aid Convoy Attack Reveals the Real ...
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• Israel Killed More Than 9, Threw Wounded Into Sea, ...
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• Israeli War Crimes: From the USS Liberty to the H ...
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• Israel’s Policy of Killing Civilians
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Gaza Activist Recounts Ship Raid
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TPM Cafe

• WHAT ISRAEL SHOULD DO NOW
  The disastrous situation emerging from the flotilla mishap highlights Israel's global isolation and the complete lack of regard of the current Israeli government for diplomacy as a means to an end. Will it learn from this disaster? That is the question and my fear is no. Turkey's PM, which for his o ...
• Put Jobless Young People to Work Cleaning Up BP's ...
  Friday's job report was awful. For most new high school and college grads finding a job is harder than ever. Meanwhile, states are cutting summer jobs for disadvantaged young people. What to do with this army of young unemployed? Send them to the Gulf to clean up beaches and wetlands, and send the b ...
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• What's Left
  A plague of collective amnesia is spreading across the land. Barack Obama is erasing the intellectual legacy of progressive liberalism. There is a growing inability to distinguish between what is left or 'progressive' and what is centrist. The objective for my rant is not especially to indict any ...
• Lying About The Gaza Flotilla Attack
  It's been one lie after another in the US media about the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound relief flotilla. No matter that the Israeli media views the whole incident as a debacle for Israel, in this country the Israel-can-do-no-wrong crowd is on overdrive defending the operation. As usual, facts d ...

TruthOut

• Defending Society
  "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" is how Thomas Hobbes described life in the absence of society. His conclusion, 350 years ago, that society is necessary to maintain civilized relations between people reverberated in March, when Tea Partiers attacked a disabled man during a health care re ...
• Communication Gulf
  The president, consumed with cleaning up after his predecessors, can't just strip emotion from the public parts of his job. The BP oil spill is the perfect metaphor for Barack Obama's presidency so far. His first 500 days in office have been -- with the significant exception of health-care reform r ...
• If There Was Ever a Moment to Seize
  Here's the president on March 31st, announcing his plan to lift a longstanding moratorium on offshore drilling: "Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we r ...
• Overcoming the Debt Trap
  The deficit hawk gang is again trying to take our children hostage with new threats of enormous debt burdens. As in the past, most of what they claim is very misleading, if not outright false. First and foremost, the basis of the bulk of their horror story has nothing to do with spending being out ...
• Howard Fineman | Showdown in Arizona: Obama Must P ...
  If there's one number that should matter most to politicians right now -- in Washington, in Arizona -- it's 83. That is the percentage of young Hispanic voters who, according to a new Democracia USA survey, worry about being discriminated against. Why so crucial? It's impossible to overstate Hispani ...

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

• “Many Species. One Planet. One Future” Celebrating ...
      WED messages Working with governments and the private sector to achieve responsible behaviour, p
• 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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger by Chr ...
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• Peace Heroes: The Martyrs of the Mavi Marmara by C ...
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• Gaza Flotilla: Israel, the United States, and a Sp ...
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• The IAEA: From UN Nuclear Watchdog to US Lapdog by ...
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• “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 5th Installment ...
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Axis of Logic

• GM Lobby Helped Draw Up Crucial Report on Britain' ...
  A powerful lobbying organization representing agribusiness interests helped draft a key government report that has been attacked by environmentalists for heavily favoring the arguments of the genetically modified food industry. The revelation comes after the resignation of two government adviser ...
• Polluted Justice: Many Gulf Federal Judges Have Oi ...
  More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial dis ...
• Evidence Indicates that the Bush Administration Co ...
  Illegal Activity Would Violate Nuremberg Code and Could Open Door to ProsecutionCambridge, MA) In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals' involvement in the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation program (EIP), Physicians For Human Rights has uncovered evidence that indicates ...
• Ex-Union Carbide Officials Jailed over Bhopal Leak ...
  India - A court Monday found the Indian unit of U.S. chemicals firm Union Carbide guilty of negligence and sentenced seven Indian former employees to two years in jail over one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands in 1984. A Union Carbide plant in the central city...
• Obama hit on whaling turnaround - Environment/Natu ...
  WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obamais breaking a campaign promise as his administration backs an effort to lift a 24-year ban on commercial whaling, critics say. Environmentalists, already unhappy with the administration's allegedly lackluster response to the Gulf of Mexico o ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The damage will reverberate for decades
  Assertions by oil-whores like Haley Barbour and Don Young aside, the BP spill is not trivial or inconsequential. It is the largest environmental disaster the country has ever seen, and it is going to get far worse before it gets better. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the point man for the national ...
• Unarticulated partisan rage
  That is what seems to strike me as the common thread running through the right-wing base these days. It isn't the things Obama has done, really, that sets them off. They say they protest because they hate the stimulus, but the stimulus worked. They hate the bailouts but the car companies have surv ...
• Arizona: Too small to be a republic, to big to be ...
  My two oldest kids have both asked me in the last two weeks if there is any way possible to get birth certificates issued by the Air Force to replace the ones that were issued by the state of Arizona. They were both born on base while their dad was attached to the 390th Missile Installation and Main ...
• Only People With Secure Jobs Care About the Defici ...
  If not for the millions of lives at stake, I would say the Democratic Congress and the Obama administration deserve the political suicide they are committing by pursuing spending cuts over job creation. Steve Benen explains: For Democrats on the Hill, the fear is that, as the midterm elections draw ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  We have been marveling at just how much of a dick Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour really, truly is. "On Fox News Sunday today, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) continued to aggressively downplay the massive BP oil gusher, explaining that tar balls washing up on his state's beaches are "no big d ...

Care 2

• Israel "Accidentally" Distributes Video Mocking Fl ...
  The press office of the PM of Israel sent this video around the world. Apparently inadvertently, according to spokesman Mark Regev. Regev notes nonetheless that ""I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny. It's what Israelis feel. . " Submitted by Dave C. to World �|� �Note-it! ...
• Call for: NATIONAL AGENCY to oversee Animal Shelte ...
  PLEASE SUPPORT CHANGE..support the making of a NATIONAL AGENCY a regulatory body..that all the shelters must answer to. This all comes about due to recent horrific staff abuse and cruelty at Forrest City Animal Control Shelter in Arkansas USA... Submitted by Cristina S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• PUBLIC ADOPTIONS for:Springfield Missouri Animal S ...
  WE URGE Governor J Nixon to investigate the HIGH KILL rate at this shelter, and establish changes so that the general public may go to this shelter with the view to PUBLICALLY ADOPT a shelter animal. WE REQUEST THAT SPRINGFIELD ANIMAL CONTROL SHELTER Submitted by Cristina S. to Animals �|� �Note ...
• Bill calls for EPA to focus on oil spills, not spi ...
  The legislation is in response to EPA's Oil Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Program, as initiated under the Clean Water Act, which considers milk the same as oil and directs dairy farmers to have an oil spill prevention plan. Submitted by troy H. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Save Orphan Bears: End Cruel Den Hunts TAKE ACTIO ...
  During Russian's annual bear hunt, hibernating mother bears are lured out of their dens by sniffing dogs only to be shot and killed, leaving their infants to freeze or starve to death. Each year, den hunting leaves 4,000 cubs motherless. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...

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

• Political risk in Asia: What to watch this week
  Risks to watch this week
• 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.

Booman Tribune

• Stupid Punditry
  You gotta love Fred Barnes: In Washington these days, President Obama is rumored to be hoping Republicans capture the House of Representatives in the midterm election in November. There's no evidence for this speculation, so far as I know, but it's hardly far-fetched. If Mr. Obama wants to avert ...
• Did US Cluster Bomb Yemeni Children?
  If true, this is pretty damning stuff and would constitute a war crime. A US cruise missile carrying cluster bombs was behind a December attack in Yemen that killed 55 people, most of them civilians, Amnesty International (AI) said on Monday. The London-based rights group released photog ...
• Froggy Bottom Cafe
• Al and Tipper: A Possible Explanation
  Gadfly is Marty Aussenberg, a columnist for the weekly Memphis Flyer. He was an SEC enforcement official back in the day when its reputation was still intact. Have you heard? Al and Tipper Gore are separating, after 40 years of marital bliss. Judging from all the hubub in the media over this sto ...
• Casual Observation
  Shouldn't we make a distinction between offshore drilling and deepwater drilling? I mean, ideally, we wouldn't do either. But it's the deepwater aspect of this disaster that is preventing us from capping the well. In any case, it's rather remarkable that 40% of the people in this country still su ...

European Tribune

• Monday Open Thread
  Over to you...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1899 Elizabeth Bowen,...
• Sunday Lazy Open Thread
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• TOC: Socratic Economics
  This is a list of all diaries or stories in the occasional series on Socratic...
• Reasons for Despair/Hope
  A list of stories in the "Reasons for Despair" series. This diary is editable only...

Futurismic

• Space is the place, redux
  Seeing as how SpaceX managed to pull off the first commercial rocket launch to reach orbit over the weekend, I figure we’re allowed to get a bit excited about space again… it’s a welcome distraction from the World Cup, if nothing else. It might have been even more of a distraction to our antipodean ...
• Maybe it doesn’t matter that the internet is ...
  High-profile internet-nay-sayer and technology curmudgeon Nick Carr is cropping up all over the place; these things happen when one has a new book in the offing, y’know*. He’s the guy who claims that Google is making us stupid, that links embedded in HTML sap our ability to read and understand writt ...
• Personal Information: episode 16
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 16 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
• 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 ...

Therapy News

• Low IQ Scores Found Prominent among Those with Sui ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A number of different factors are likely to play a part in the development of thoughts and feelings that may induce a person to attempt suicide, though IQ is rarely taken into account in such cases. Recently, a study performed on a large dataset of Swedish young males ...
• Study Finds Twenty Minutes in Nature Gives a Well- ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline People who experience the symptoms of depression and other psychological concerns are often counseled to seek more time spent outdoors, often because of the benefits of Vitamin D as delivered through sunlight, along with the social component usually present in nature ...
• Mother Praises Possibilities of Child Therapy
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Therapy and counseling are services often thought about in relation to their abilities to help adults work past some of life’s greatest challenges, but child psychology has been in extensive development for many decades, allowing for meaningful, targeted therapeutic s ...
• “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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Why activists hope oil spill could be a wake-up ca ...
  Why activists hope oil spill could be a wake-up call Blast: miner at Upper Big ... istockAnalyst.com (press release) Companies such as Massey Energy -- owners of West Virginia's Upper Big Branch Mine where 29 miners died in an April explosion -- say mountaintop removal ...
• JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America Called Out For Fi ...
  Fast Company JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America Called Out For Financing Mountaintop Removal Fast Company Mountaintop removal is one of those instinctively gut-wrenching things--it's never pretty to see natural habitats blown ... and more��
• Tempers flare in Capitol debates - Chattanooga Tim ...
  Tempers flare in Capitol debates Chattanooga Times Free Press ... on a bill that Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper calls unconstitutional, "we can certainly consider an issue as important as mountaintop removal . ... Legislature still in session Knoxville News Sentinel all 14 news articles�� ...
• Legislature still in session - Knoxville News Sent ...
  Legislature still in session Knoxville News Sentinel ... pull one dead bill out of committee, he would try to pull out another - a measure prohibiting " mountaintop removal " coal mining in Tennessee (SB1398). ... and more��
• Stop West Virginia's Spruce Mountaintop Removal Co ...
  Treehugger Stop West Virginia's Spruce Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine Treehugger Scientific consensus has proven that mountaintop removal coal mining harms streams, rivers and drinking water supplies. It is ravaging ecosystems, ... EPA extends comment period on Spruce Mine permit Charleston Gazette ...

Memeorandum

• Bernie Madoff, Free at Last (Steve Fishman/New Yor ...
  Steve Fishman / New York Magazine : Bernie Madoff, Free at Last   —  In prison he doesn't have to hide his lack of conscience.  In fact, he's a hero for it.  —  Last August, shortly after his arrival at the federal correctional complex in Butner, North Carolina, Bernard L. Madoff was waiting on th ...
• White House and Allies Set to Build Up Health Law ...
  Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times : White House and Allies Set to Build Up Health Law   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama and his allies, concerned about deep skepticism over his landmark health care overhaul, are orchestrating an elaborate campaign to sell the public on the law, including a new ...
• Barack Obama Ignores D-Day Anniversary - Goes to T ...
  Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit : Barack Obama Ignores D-Day Anniversary - Goes to Theatre Party Instead   —  On June 6, 1944, the D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.  America lost 2,499 of its finest men that day.  —  (Enterp ...
• U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Vi ...
  Threat Level : U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe   —  Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.co ...
• Damage Will Go On After Well Is Plugged, Admiral S ...
  New York Times : Damage Will Go On After Well Is Plugged, Admiral Says   —  HOUSTON — The Coast Guard commander in charge of the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico warned on Sunday that even if the flow of crude was stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn — and maybe ...

Energy & Environment News

• On Our Radar: BP Buys Search Terms
  BP buys up spill-related search terms to direct people to its Web site.
• Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk
  What the oil spill and the financial crisis have in common.
• China Weighs Tighter Controls on Rare Elements
  China is considering putting state-owned companies in charge of mining rare earths, minerals crucial to many high-tech products.
• Stuck Saw Delays Effort to Cap Well
  The cut was part of a strategy to place a containment cap over the oil well that has been gushing for more than six weeks.
• Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Say ...
  Sealing the gulf oil well with a nuclear blast is among the wildest of ideas proposed sent to federal agencies and BP.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, Java, Indonesia
  Sunday, June 6, 2010 16:57:26 UTC Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:57:26 PM at epicenter Depth : 89.70 km (55.74 mi)
• M 5.3, south of the Kermadec Islands
  Sunday, June 6, 2010 02:20:01 UTC Sunday, June 6, 2010 02:20:01 PM at epicenter Depth : 50.80 km (31.57 mi)
• M 5.3, Halmahera, Indonesia
  Saturday, June 5, 2010 17:43:18 UTC Sunday, June 6, 2010 02:43:18 AM at epicenter Depth : 147.30 km (91.53 mi)
• M 5.0, Pakistan
  Saturday, June 5, 2010 16:59:16 UTC Saturday, June 5, 2010 09:59:16 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.0, off the coast of Antofagasta, Chile
  Saturday, June 5, 2010 15:18:08 UTC Saturday, June 5, 2010 10:18:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

China Dialogue

• From muck to riches
  A growing group of green entrepreneurs is turning elephant dung into a valuable resource. Anna da Costa went to meet an Indian businessman making paper – and profits – from animal waste. "Do you have something to wrap around your face?” asked Vijendra Singh Shekawat, my host for the afternoon, as he ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Experiments in Torture: How CIA Doctors Turned Ter ...
  The co-author of a new report by Physicians for Human Rights explains how detainees were closely monitored in order to perfect "enhanced interrogation techniques."
• Amnesty Int’l Report Claims U.S. Used Cluste ...
  This post originally appeared on Booman Tribune. If true, this is pretty damning stuff and would constitute a war crime. A US cruise missile carrying cluster bombs was behind a December attack in Yemen that killed 55 people, most of them civilians, Amnesty International (AI) said on Monday. The ...
• Watch: Huge Spontaneous Rally in Israel in Support ...
  International condemnation has deepened the Israeli public's siege mentality, leading many demonstrators to claim that anti-Semitism best explained the world's motives.
• Like Blowing Up the Alps: Swiss Banking Giant UBS ...
  And then there was one. Swiss banking giant UBS is now reportedly Massey Energy’s last primary financier. Go figure. If any lending institution might understand the human rights and environmental factors in preserving mountains and mountain heritage, Zurich-based UBS should hold a special place. No ...
• What Really Happened in the Flotilla Attack?
  Questions remain unanswered on both sides. But without a full and transparent airing of all the evidence, the truth of that dreadful night on the Marmara may never come to light.

Threat Level

• U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Vi ...
  Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at For ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• UPDATE 2-Ex-Union Carbide officials jailed over Bh ...
  BHOPAL, India, June 7 (Reuters) - A court on Monday found the Indian unit of U.S. chemicals firm Union Carbide guilty of negligence and sentenced seven Indian former employees to two years in jail over one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands in 1984.
• U.S. stock futures signal more losses
  * U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Monday, adding to the previous session's strong sell-off, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.6 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.7 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.5 percent at 0755 GMT.
• Euro falls broadly, 4-yearr low vs dollar
  TOKYO (Reuters) - The euro fell broadly on Monday, hitting its lowest in more than four years against the dollar with investors increasingly nervous about more slides in the currency after a clear break below a chart support point.
• Analysis: Obama and Democrats walk tightrope on oi ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The BP oil spill crisis has put U.S. President Barack Obama on the defensive, upsetting his agenda and threatening to derail his fellow Democrats as they position themselves for November's congressional elections.
• "Twilight" sequel shines at MTV Movie Awards
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The sun never seems to set on the "Twilight" movie franchise.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

• When are Raw Sprouts like Raw Milk?
  The CDC announced that a total of 35 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Newport have been reported from 11 states since March 1, 2010. The number of ill people identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AZ (2), CA (17), CO (1), ID (5), IL (1), MO (1), NM (1), NV ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 06.07.10
  Nissan says majority of Leaf hand-raisers are current Prius owners Nissan thinks people "are interested in going to the next level." Dutch study claims that 50 mph speed limit would cut CO2 by 30% ...
• 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 ...

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

• 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 Robert Booth, The Guardian/UK, June 4, 2010 Crowds at the funeral of one of the Turkish victims of the Gaza flotilla raid, at the Beyazit mosque in Istanbul. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP Israel was ...
• Buchanan: Lift the Siege of Gaza
  by Pat Buchanan, creators.com, June 4, 2010 In June 1948, our wartime ally imposed a blockade on Berlin, cutting off and condemning to death or Stalinist domination 2 million Germans, most of whom, not long before, had cheered Adolf Hitler. Harry Truman responded with the Berlin airlift, in perhaps ...
• Israeli Commando Who Killed Six Aid Workers to Rec ...
  Staff Sergeant Brags of Role in Massacre by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com,  June 4, 2010 Autopsies are coming out today revealing some details about the circumstances of the Israeli attack which left at least nine aid workers dead. Doctors say that several of the victims were shot in the head and that in ...
• Why Israel Chooses Violence
  Israel’s leaders, both civilian and military, are not fumbling, hysterical novices. Their actions are deliberate and carefully weighed. To realise its expansionist ambitions, Israel has always sought to avoid serious negotiations with the Palestinians because, if negotiations were to succeed, they w ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• FBAR Forms Due June 30!
  A Solari Report - Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) 2010 “NOTE: This article is intended only as a summary, is not complete and does not constitute individualized tax or legal advice. Investors are advised to seek individual advice from their tax advisors. “ This is a reminder that Jun ...
• Plant It Forward
  In 2006, after settling a significant piece of litigation, I decided that I would build my new home base in Hickory Valley, Tennessee, the small farming community where I have lived since 2000 next to my cousin and her family. I and the Solari team started Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC, ...
• 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 ...

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

• Food sector 'must be more eco-friendly'
  Changes must be made to the way the food and farming industries in the UK operate if they are to meet climate change targets, according to a new report.
• Recessionistas coin new phrases
  Going forward, here are a few things we at Sideways News would like to run up the flagpole while we get 110% of our ducks in a row. Love it or loathe it, office-speak and jargon have entered into common parlance in the workplace as one of the more annoying signs of the times. Even those of us fortun ...
• Brit camps 'becoming popular again'
  There has been a resurgence in the popularity of UK holiday camps, as people opt to avoid the hassle they have to go through at airports, it has been claimed. Butlins maintains that more and more holidaymakers are focusing their attention on enjoying more environmentally-friendly breaks which do not ...
• Fish extinction 'paved way for humanity'
  US scientists believe that a mass extinction of fish 360 million years ago allowed humans to take their place on the planet. The seismic event reset the evolutionary starting point for all vertebrates that exist today, according to scientists. Without it, humans and their ancestors may not have evol ...
• UK still 'staunchly loyal' to fairtrade
  British people remained "staunchly loyal" to Fairtrade products in the past year, boosting sales by 12% and giving the sector an estimated retail value of £800 million, figures have shown. Harriet Lamb, chief executive of the Fairtrade Foundation, praised consumers for supporting communities and sma ...

Fabius Maximus

• Exum looks at Af-Pak campaign of the Long War, rev ...
  Summary:  Andew Exum’s new report reveals more about America’s defective OODA loop than about the Af-Pak War, esp our myopia (Observation) and insularity (Orientation).  As other posts on the FM website have shown, this is characteristic of our geopolitical experts.  The causes remain obscure.  ...
• FM newswire for June 6, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Hidden insights to our leaders’ thinking:  Word clouds (wordles) for the Bush and Obama National Security Strategy papers, Charli Carpenter, Lawyers Guns and Money, 28 May 2010 The bi ...
• Looking ahead to the final chapter of the North Ko ...
  Summary:   Every game has an ending.  The complex, insane brinksmanship of North Korea might have entered its last chapter (although that’s been predicted often since the fall of the Berlin Wall).  Probably not pretty picture, whenever it happens.  Nor will be the early chapters of what follows ...
• FM newswire for June 5, interesting articles about ...
  Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. Latest forecast:  “Solar Cycle Prediction“, David Hathaway (NASA) for the Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Panel, 3 June 2010 — A maximum amplitude of aprox 70 in June 2013, down from May 2 ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Wal-Mart to create 500,000 new jobs
  Telegraph – Mike Duke, chief executive, told the retailer’s annual meeting that the company will add the 500,000 positions as it seeks to continue to grow globally and maintain its leading position in the US. On the international front, which accounts for one total of group sales, he said Wal-Mart n ...
• Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
   
• US Regulators seize three banks, year total at 81
  Reuters – U.S. regulators seized three more troubled banks on Friday, including TierOne Bank of Lincoln, Nebraska, ticking up the total so far this year to 81 failures. TierOne was the fourth-largest bank in Nebraska with approximately $2.8 billion in assets as of March 31. It lost $300 million last ...
• McDonald’s recalls Shrek glasses ‘tainted with cad ...
  BBC – Fast food chain McDonald’s has recalled 12m drinking glasses promoting the new Shrek movie because painted designs on them contain the toxic metal cadmium. The glasses have been sold in the US for about $2 each and are available in four designs depicting the animated film’s main characters. Re ...
• Does the Internet Make You Dumber?
  Wall St Journal – The cognitive effects are measurable: We’re turning into shallow thinkers… The Roman philosopher Seneca may have put it best 2,000 years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.” Today, the Internet grants us easy access to unprecedented amounts of information. But a growing body ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Israel Commits Massacre on Freedom Flotilla to Gaz ...
  Israel Commits Massacre on Freedom Flotilla to Gaza (raimd.wordpress.com) ISSrael on Monday attacked an aid flotilla heading to Gaza, killing several international activists.  The flotilla was attempting to break the Israeli blockade imposed since 2007 and deliver 10,000 tons of needed supplies to t ...
• 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 ...

PakAlert

• Understanding The Signs Of The Time – Predictions ...
  The Illuminati are a very superstitious bunch that prefer that their events line up not only numerically, but also with the planets and stars. With that in mind, this should be a very interesting couple of months. The following planets are expected to move very close together in the months of July a ...
• Video: Exposing The Ugly Side Of The Entertainment ...
  This article documents some of today’s well-known artists who have gone on record and spoken about the dark side of the entertainment industry. Some of the industry’s biggest stars, including Dave Chappelle, Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan, have hinted at the true nature of the business in their own w ...
• 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/

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

• South Carolina Man Used Racial Slur against GOP Ca ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Although this is too complicated for those Who worship at the shrine of Hannity Nikki Haley is a Sikh of Indian descent Who has converted to Christianity. Brain-dead bubba Jake Knotts seems like There aren’t many bulbs in his lighthouse. He made it a racist two-for by also ...
• The Best Example of a Group of People Who Don't Wa ...
  Conservatives seek gov't solutions after oil spill :� "All along the Gulf Coast, where the tea party thrives and "socialism" is a common description for any government program, conservatives who usually denounce federal activism suddenly are clamoring for it."� Ironic that hypocrites always yell t ...
• Second Act for South American Left: Are Greens The ...
  NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH Having overstated the political potency of Colombia’s Green Party, I’ve felt a bit shame faced in recent days.� In the Andean nation’s first presidential runoff election, Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus garnered more than 20% of the vote, which allowed him to proce ...
• Call to Act: Save and Strengthen Financial Reform
  DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH An Appeal for a Financial Crisis Education Outreach Campaign from “Plunder” Filmmaker and Author Danny Schechter We have less than a month to go before the Congress votes on financial reform. Ironically, the deadline seems to be July 4th, our independence day, an occasi ...
• BP’s CEO Tony Hayward's Life of Leisure during a D ...
  JACUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH Frank Rich raised doubts about Adm. Thad Allen of the Coast Guard who was still publicly reaffirming his trust in the BP chief executive , Tony Hayward, as recently as two weeks ago, more than a month after the rig exploded.”� (NY Times; op-ed; 6-06-10)� Why should ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Congrats to Rush Limbaugh on his fourth traditiona ...
  Rush Limbaugh,�October 6, 2009 : Look, we found another Obama oddball. Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the equal opportunity employment commission is Chai Feldblum. She's an outspoken gay rights activist, Georgetown University law professor, and she has praised polygamy and conte ...
• 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 ...

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

• Amnesty International Says First Convictions for 1 ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 Amnesty International Following convictions today of seven Indian citizens for the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak disaster, Amnesty International is calling on the Indian and U.S. governments to take the next step by bringing the U.S.-based Union Carbide Corporation ( ...
• Statement From NLIHC President Sheila Crowley on H ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) joins Texas housing advocates in applauding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's approval of a settlement between Texas advocates and the state of Texa ...
• Defendants With Limited English Proficiency Have a ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 ACLU The Supreme Court of Georgia heard oral arguments today regarding the constitutional rights of criminal defendants with limited English proficiency (LEP) to court interpreters. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and Legal Aid Society - ...
• Haitian Women's Rights Activist Leaves Camp for Di ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 MADRE Today, as the United Nations Human Rights Council gathers in Geneva, its representatives will hear testimony from Malya Villard-Appolon, a Haitian women's rights activist and MADRE partner who has lived in the camps for displaced people since the earthquak ...
• Kucinich Asks, ‘Is the U.S. Paying for Attacks on ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich After the New York Times reported that investigators in Afghanistan and Washington D.C. believe that private Afghan security companies, with close connections to the Karzai government and family, may have bribed insurgents to attack Amer ...

Common Dreams-Views

• 8 Are Guilty After 25 Years: Legal Failure in Bhop ...
  by Bridget Hanna Since April 20, people around the world have watched in horror as BP scrambles unsuccessfully to seal their deepwater oil gusher. read more
• The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger
  by Chris Hedges Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, have begun to dismantle the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment. They are creating a theocratic state based on “biblical law,” and shutting out all those they ...
• A Time for Self-Surpassing
  by James Carroll It was not enough for our ancestors, as their brains evolved, that they should know. What made them our actual human forebears was that they came to know that they knew. Conscious of their consciousness, they made a leap on behalf of the entire cosmos, for in them the cosmos became ...
• Obama's Albatross and the Pelicans of Louisiana
  by Nick Spicer Barack Obama, the US president, heads into the summer with a political albatross around his neck of unknowable proportions: the Gulf Coast oil spill. It is now the biggest oil disaster in US history, a shape-shifting monster slicking up seabirds – including Louisiana's state bird, the ...
• Arizona: Rushing Toward the Wrong Side of History
  by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez Before the Dream students made their historic stance in Tucson, Arizona last week—to stage a sit-in, in Sen. John McCain’s office, and thereby subjecting themselves to deportation proceedings – this sun city had already been in the eye of the storm. The perfect storm. ...

Karl Burkart

• Americans join hands to protect beaches from Big O ...
  Thousands of Americans will be gathering June 26 to make a bold statement to Big Oil execs: 'stay off our beaches.'
• 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.

Water Privatization

• Supreme Court stops sale of Angat power plant
  MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court on Tuesday stopped the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) from proceeding with the privatization of the 246-megawatt hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) component of the Angat multipurpose dam in Bulacan.
• Public Meeting On Water Privatisation
  North Shore residents concerned at the prospect of the privatisation of their ratepayer-owned water services under the Auckland super-city are invited to attend a public meeting to express their views, North Shore City Councillor Tony Holman said today.
• 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.

Guardian

• Police officer saw Derrick Bird shoot victims
  Three unarmed officers followed taxi driver during killing spree but were unable to stop shootings, police say Cumbrian police confirmed today that three officers saw Derrick Bird shoot a taxi driver and passenger during his gun rampage , but said: "At no point did they have an opportunity to end th ...
• UK debt interest 'will reach £70bn'
  Unless spending reductions are made, annual interest payments on UK's debt will rise to £70bn a year, says prime minister David Cameron warned today that Britain's "whole way of life" would be disrupted for years by the most drastic public spending cuts in a generation as he said that, unless such c ...
• Markets tumble on Hungary fears
  • FTSE down 77 points by 9am on concern Hungary could suffer a Greek-style crisis • Euro at new four-year low • Country's economy minister promises to keep deficit at 3.8% • EU and IMF credibility at stake if financial disaster strikes Fears that Hungary will soon suffer a Greek-style debt crisis se ...
• BA declares strike a failure
  Chief executive says 72,000 passengers flew on Sunday, the latest day of industrial action by Unite union members British Airways' chief executive, Willie Walsh, today declared the latest day of strike action by cabin crew "a failure", citing the number of passengers who had successfully taken fligh ...
• McDonnell makes 'kill Thatcher' joke
  Labour leadership contender says remark made to union hustings was not meant to be taken seriously, as candidates debate future of party John McDonnell, one of the Labour leadership contenders, joked today that he wished he could go back in time to the 1980s and "assassinate Thatcher". The MP for Ha ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Iraq and Afghanistan — Who is an ...
  Two things distinguish the irregular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: It is not clear who is a combatant, and the United States is fighting a conflict with no clear battlefront.
• Commentary: BP dug the hole, but Obama is taking t ...
  A president is most imperiled when he becomes hostage to events over which he has no control.
• Thad Allen: 'This is a siege across the entire Gul ...
  The bursting river of crude that is tainting the Gulf of Mexico — and has now begun to sully Florida's coastline — should be significantly slowed by British Petroleum's new containment cap, the company's chief executive said Sunday.
• California GOP Senate candidates show support for ...
  The Republican U.S. Senate race focused Sunday on relations with Israel, with both Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina defending the actions of Israeli troops who killed nine people after boarding a Turkish ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
• Commentary: Cuba's old modus operandi no longer wo ...
  Until Tuesday, we were in a holding pattern. Then Havana finally began the transfer of six men out of 53 still imprisoned during the Black Spring of 2003 to jails closer to their homes.

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

• Health Insurers Predict Employers Will Continue Of ...
  Throughout the health care debate, the President repeated the oft-cited claim that ‘if you like the coverage you have, you can keep it,’ while conservatives insisted that the new health care law would undermine employer-based coverage and force everyone to purchase insurance in the new state-based e ...
• The WonkLine: June 7, 2010
  Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Climate Chang ...
• Allen Rebukes BP For Being ‘Very Pleased&#82 ...
  National Incident Commander Thad Allen has rebuked BP for being “very pleased” about the company’s failed efforts to contain the disaster he described as an “insidious enemy” that is “holding the gulf hostage.” On Saturday, BP Senior Vice President Bob Fryar said “the company funneled about 250,000 ...
• Anatomy Of A Smear: From The Federalist Society, T ...
  Thousands of parties petition the Supreme Court to review their case, although the justices generally hear only about 60-80 cases a year.  So as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan would have written literally hundreds of memos to her boss advising him on whet ...
• 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 ...

thwap's schoolyard

• $1.1 Billion - Because Canadians are S-O-O-O-O Vio ...
  Bull-fucking-shit. Goddamned "radical" Canadians line-up 98% to condemn a rock thrown through a department store window! It's a fucking joke. harper's turning Toronto into a ghost-town for the G-Whatever conference. Because in his authoritarian brain, only a city of the dead is safe enough for him ...
• On the harpercons' Cancelling of Funding for Toron ...
  One of my favourite bloggers, Montreal Simon, talks about the lack of support for gays in response to the harpercon government's announcement that they would not be supporting the massive Toronto Gay Pride this year and says maybe it should be a private party: I'd be sorry not to be able to entertai ...
• Screw This Bullshit
  In the light of this latest example of the harpercons' utter contempt for Canada's system of parliamentary democracy , it seems pertinent to mention this : Although they can send for certain persons, standing committees do not have the power to punish a failure to comply with their orders in this r ...
• Neil Reynolds of the Globe & Mail
  I've mentioned from time to time that my partner, for reasons of her own, has subscribed to the Globe & Mail. I tend to get up before everyone else these days, so I get it and read it with my morning calories and caffeine. I must say that it's surreal to once again submerge myself in the blinkered, ...
• Ignatieff Makes Sense: Coalition Possible
  It's all over the "Prog-Blogs" site. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff says that a coalition is entirely legitimate, and he'll consider one after the next election. (There will be no talk of the parties merging or an electoral arrangement.) Fine. If another election produces another harpercon minori ...

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

• Gates hails progress in polio fight in Nigeria's n ...
  Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Sunday hailed progress in efforts to reduce polio cases in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, describing it as victory in the global fight against the epidemic.
• Daughter caregivers more prone to depression than ...
  Daughters who care for a parent recovering from a stroke are more prone to depression than sons according to a new study by the Canadian Stroke Network.
• Punch Buggies invade Dundas Square in Toronto for ...
  Toronto's Dundas Square was invaded by Volkswagen Beetles on Sunday for the Punch Buggy 4 SickKids charity event.
• Remembering D-Day in Toronto
  On Sunday Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone helped to honour those who took part in the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. The invasion lead to the end of World War II but at a cost of 359 Canadian lives.
• Turkish autopsies reveal aid activists shot from b ...
  Turkey released its autopsy results for the nine people killed aboard the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships that was part of the Gaza Aid Flotilla.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Through Meditation, the Homeless Achieve Radical P ...
  "You're alive for a simple reason, and that's to be happy," hip-hop mogul, philanthropist and Change.org  Changemaker Russell Simmons recently told participants in the Harlem branch of  Ready, Willing, and Able , which helps homeless men find jobs and housing. The program recently began teaching med ...
• Employee Exploitation Rampant on American Farms
  I have taken a personal interest in a couple of recent blog posts by other writers. There was the one about rampant homelessness in  Atlantic City , which is my birth place and where I first became homeless at the age of 25. Then there was the one about the exploited homeless . This one is particula ...
• 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 ...

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

• “All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns”
  “All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns.” These are the words of Ken O’Keefe, a former US Marine who was just deported from Israel after surviving the Mavi Marmara massacre. In 2002, O’Keefe initiated what some would regard as a quixotic endeavor: an effort to prevent the war in Iraq by position ...
• Hamas welcomes EU proposal to monitor crossings
  The Ma’an news agency reports: Hamas officials have supported a proposed EU plan to monitor Gaza crossings and life the Israeli-lead siege on the coastal enclave, statements issued Sunday indicated. Hamas leader Salah Al-Bardawil called statements by Spanish Minster of Foreign Affairs Miguel Ãng ...
• Hurriyet photos of disarmed Israeli commandos rece ...
  (Photo via Ali Abunimah) On the Mavi Marmara, the ship that Benjamin Netanyahu has dubbed “the hate boat”, Israeli soldiers who had been hurt were given medical aid. But some of the civilians who had been shot ended up dying because the Israelis refused to have them evacuated. Accounts provided by ...
• Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close ...
  As more of the facts emerge, it is now becoming clear that the massacre on board the Mavi Marmara, was a massacre of middle-aged men. Ibrahim Bilgen, 61, Çetin Topçuoglu, 54, Cengiz Songür, 47, Fahri Yaldiz, 43, Cengiz Akyüz, 41, Ali Haydar Bengi, 39, Cevdet Kiliçlar, 38, Necdet Yildirim, 32. Only ...
• Israelis’ rabid support for the IDF

Watts Up With That?

• Some people claim, that there’s a human to b ...
  Guest Post by Willis Eachenbach There seem to be a host of people out there who want to discuss whether humanoids are responsible for the post ~1850 rise in the amount of CO2. People seem madly passionate about this question. … Continue reading →
• An idea for discussion: Using Ham Radio as a Clima ...
  APRS coverage in the USA: Frank Perdicaro says in comments: Urban heat island measurement via APRS. Today I finished off my ham radio General license, and one of the topics covered was APRS. The APRS system lets one communicate identity, … Continue reading →
• WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #8
  By Steven Goddard The quest for the Holy Grail. I have been looking for a reliable early predictor of September area/extent based on June ice data, and have found it â almost. Previously I established that current extent is a … Continue reading →
• Spencer on climate sensitivity and solar irradianc ...
  Updated: Low Climate Sensitivity Estimated from the 11-Year Cycle in Total Solar Irradiance By Dr. Roy W. Spencer NOTE: This has been revised since finding an error in my analysis, so it replaces what was first published about an hour … Continue reading →
• Western Snowpack Update, June 2010
  By Steve Goddard From the Declining Spring Snowpack Department: Mammoth Mountain, California June 2, 2010 This week’s leaderboard: State % of Average Snowpack ----------- ------------ NEVADA     186 CALIFORNIA     176 OREGON     154 IDAHO     129 WYOMING     116 … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger by Chr ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1102580 by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 7, 2010 Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, have begun to dismantle the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlighten ...
• Haitians March Against Monsanto
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ mediahacker June 06, 2010 â On June 4 thousands of peasants and their allies marched under the banner of Mouveman Peyizan Papay, a decades-old farmers organization in Haiti, against a donation of hybrid corn seeds by agro-giant Monsanto. Mark Hare, an agronomis ...
• Call from Gaza to the citizens of the world to bre ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Free Gaza Team Freegaza 06 June 2010 Besieged Gaza, Palestine, 5.6.2010 One-and-a-half years after the Israeli army perpetrated a massacre upon the population of Gaza, Apartheid Israel commits another crime against partisans of Palestine in international water ...
• Never Forget Rachel Corrie (2007)
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ MoxNewsDotCom June 05, 2010 — http://MOXNews.com/ July 30, 2007 KBTC NEVER FORGET RACHEL CORRIE pt.1 NEVER FORGET RACHEL CORRIE pt.2 NEVER FORGET RACHEL CORRIE pt.3 see US-Israel: Gaza Aid Convoy Attack Shows the Real Axis of Evil Facing the World by Finian Cunni ...
• Greg Palast: There’s another BP oil spill
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1102151 by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 5 June, 2010 RTAmerica June 04, 2010 — The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a catastrophe and as it continues to unfold wildlife and locals are bearing the worst. However, did you know t ...

Your New Reality

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  State-manufactured reality slips in China, to reveal ugly truths : Xia's journalism lecture included other examples of Xinhua's work, notably coverage of ethnic rioting in the far west of China last summer that left nearly 200 people dead. Xia explained how Xinhua concealed the true horror of the ...
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  Former American Marine Says He Forcefully Took Pistol, Rifle From Israeli Commados Because They Were Executing Gaza Flotilla Passengers In Front Of Him Ken O'Keefe : I joined the defence of the (Gaza Flotilla lead ship) Mavri Mamarra understanding that violence could be used against us and t ...
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  The next generation of military drones - smaller, faster, vastly more maneuverable :
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  Stunning. Dennis Hopper on the Johnny Cash Show, 1970 :
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  Why BP wanted to keep the media, and bloggers and citizen journos, from the Louisiana shores where the oil from their Gulf Gusher washed up :

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

• Knesset panel recommends revoking Arab MK’s privil ...
  Decision to strip Balad MK Hanin Zuabi of privileges over Gaza flotilla participation passed by a majority of seven to one. Zuabi: We are victims of a witch hunt. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IO ...
• Ilan Pappé: The deadly closing of the Israeli mind
  The real, unlike the declared, strategy is to continue this state of affairs. As long as the international community is complacent, the Arab world impotent and Gaza contained, Israel can still... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• IOA Exclusive Stephen R. Shalom: But What Could Is ...
  [T]he simplest answer to [the] question of what Israel could do to maintain its security in place of a blockade is that it is precisely the blockade that causes the threats to Israeli security.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Stephen R. Shalom: Palling Around with Terrorists ...
  From the beginning of his administration, Obama declared that he was concerned over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and that he wanted the blockade of Gaza loosened. But Israel ignored him and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• US demands IDF probe how American lost eye at West ...
  A Swedish activist, Soren Johanssen who was reportedly standing near Henochowicz, was quoted as saying: "They fired many canisters at us in rapid succession. One landed on either side of Emily, then... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Cash needed for Russian police reform - Medvedev
  Carrying out necessary reforms on the Russian Police Department will require considerable federal funds, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
• Iran's nuclear program
• Russian warship to join NATO naval drills
  An amphibious assault landing ship, the Kaliningrad, will take part in the BALTOPS-2010 naval exercises in the Baltic Sea on June 7-18, Russia's Baltic Fleet spokesman said on Tuesday
• Russian task force concludes anti-piracy mission o ...
  A Russian Pacific Fleet's task force, led by Udaloy-class missile destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov, has accomplished its anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden and set sail to its home base in Vladivostok.
• U.S., European military to discuss air defense coo ...
  U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) top brass will attend a Building Partnership Seminar under the Unified Engagement series in Estonian capital, Tallinn, on June 7-11.

NewsWise

• IU School of Journalism Receives Estate Gift of $1 ...
  Indiana University alumnus Frank C. Arganbright, whose career as a reporter and public relations professional spanned nearly five decades in his adopted hometown of Lafayette, Ind., has given the IU School of Journalism a $1 million gift from his estate.
• Microplasmin Study Shows Promising Results for Two ...
  A Phase III trial of a drug used for the treatment of vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) and macular hole (MH) revealed key findings for patients diagnosed with these severe conditions which can lead to significant vision impairment.
• Will the Gulf Oil Spill Inspire a New Focus on Nuc ...
  No matter how events in the Gulf play out, coming months and years will reveal the extent to which nuclear power might serve as a safer alternative to the offshore drilling of oil as a way of satisfying our nation's ever-growing energy needs.
• Hospital Formulary Decisions Often Ignore Importan ...
  Pharmacoeconomic methods rank low as a decision influencer on formulary changes, according to a new survey released today by the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). Respondents reported that only 13 percent of formulary system decisions ma ...
• Strangers Influence Our Dating Preferences
  Many people think they have discriminating tastes regarding romantic interests. An Indiana U. study has found that men and women are greatly influenced by what their friends -- and strangers -- think of their potential fling or relationship partner.

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

• Drugmakers Wash Painkillers Down The Drain
  Pharmaceuticals turning up in streams and rivers have made headlines in recent years. Now for the first time in the U.S., researchers have shown that such drugs may come directly from plants that manufacture them. Research published in Environmental Science & Technology (DOI 10.1021/es100356f) docum ...
• Geoengineering the Planet? Remaking the Earth's At ...
  There is a new class of companies developing saleable "geoengineering" technologies to counter the effects of global warming. Geoengineering is "the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in order to moderate global warming." An indication of the complexity involved can be ...
• 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 ...

fotoFrontera

• Perros, gatitos, aves, ositos, ranas y patos (39 i ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. A CONTINUACIÓN, usted podrá ver el ícono de descarga directa para nuestra colección titulada ' Perros, gatitos, aves, ositos y ranas (39 imágenes) '. Sólo haga usted click sobre el ícono y en breves segundos iniciará la ...
• Presentación oficial de mi Fotoblog 'www.1m4g3n3s. ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.
• Paisajes Naturales (27 imágenes de ensueño)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. A CONTINUACIÓN, usted podrá ver el ícono de descarga directa para nuestra colección titulada ' Paisajes Naturales (27 imágenes de ensueño) '. Sólo haga usted click sobre el ícono y en breves segundos iniciará la descarg ...
• Festival de la cerveza en la ciudad de Montreal (3 ...
• Los Autos (25 imágenes)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. A CONTINUACIÓN, usted podrá ver el ícono de descarga directa para nuestra colección titulada 'Los Autos (25 imágenes)'. Sólo haga usted click sobre el ícono y en breves segundos iniciará la descarga automáticamente. OT ...

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

• Does the World Need a CyberWarfare Arms Limitation ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Now that the U.S. military has a CyberCommand, is it time for the U.S. to begin talks on a CyberWarfare Arms Limitation Treaty with Russia and other nations? (CALT?)  The new Cyber Command chief says…maybe.  Stewart Baker at Volokh, and former Homeland Security officia ...
• Conversation at Bloggingheads.tv
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A few days ago, I recorded a conversation for Bloggingheads.tv with Mark Leon Goldberg of the invaluable UN Dispatch.  It was a wide ranging discussion — and long, 45 minutes — covering everything from the Gaza blockade to the definition of aggression to d ...
• More Questions for Ken
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I know Ken’s busy finishing his book and can’t yet reply to Marko’s remarkable post.  (And personal congrats, Marko, on the lectureship.  Nottingham is lucky to have you!)  When he does, I hope he’ll address the criminal-law aspects of his belief that se ...
• 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 important ...
• Judge Goldstone Removed from Hebrew University’s B ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Despite the increasingly desperate nature of the attacks on Judge Goldstone, I never thought an academic institution would give in to the hysteria: In response to an enquiry by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) about its reported removal of Judge Ri ...

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

• Heat Relief for Low-Income Arizonans
  Heat Relief for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – With summer’s heat now upon us, utilities and Community Action Agencies have help available for low-income Arizonans who are having trouble paying their cooling bills. Assistance ranges from one-time catch-up payments to weatherization and replaceme ...
• Tempe Children’s Theatre Troupe Goes Interna ...
  Tempe Children’s Theatre Troupe Goes International Tempe, AZ – After 33 years of performing at schools across Arizona and two recent national tours, the nonprofit Childsplay theatre company is going international for the first time. Childsplay actors will be touring this fall in Europe. Comments fro ...
• Congress Leaves Doctors Hanging On Medicare Paymen ...
  Congress Leaves Doctors Hanging On Medicare Payments Phoenix, AZ – Arizona doctors who treat Medicare patients have just taken a major cut in payment for their services. A payment plan called the Medicare “doc fix,” was left unfinished by Congress before the Memorial Day break. Comments from Dr. Len ...
• Updated Guidelines On Preventing Drowning Deaths F ...
  Updated Guidelines On Preventing Drowning Deaths For Children Phoenix, AZ -- Updated advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics on how to prevent drowning deaths in small children. Comments from Dr. Denise Dowd, an emergency room physician who also served on the AAP committee that created this ...
• With AZ's Intense Summer Rays, It's Time to Slop o ...
  With AZ's Intense Summer Rays, It's Time to Slop on the Sunscreen Phoenix, AZ – Today (Tuesday) marks the start of Arizona's top month for sun intensity. The National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention is reminding folks to protect themselves while working or playing in the sun. Comments from Matt Fl ...

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

• WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks f ...
  This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.
• An Effort to Protect Yourself from Chemtrail Poiso ...
  There is a lot we can do to protect ourselves from the exposure in the first place, and to rejuvenate the body once the exposure has taken place.
• Meat from a Petri Dish = Total Control of the Food ...
  Researchers have published details in a biotechnology journal describing a new technique which they hailed as the answer to the world's food shortage. Lumps of meat would be cultured in laboratory vats rather than carved from livestock reared on a farm.
• 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• How do they get to be that way? - Roger Ebert's Jo ...
  Noted by Osha Gray Davidson on June 7, 2010 2:06 AM
• Does the Internet Make You Smarter? (The Wall Stre ...
  Noted by Diane Mermigas on June 6, 2010 11:06 PM
• Does the Internet Make You Smarter? (The Wall Stre ...
  Noted by Diane Mermigas on June 6, 2010 11:06 PM
• Damage Will Go On After Well Is Plugged, Admiral S ...
  Noted by Osha Gray Davidson on June 6, 2010 10:06 PM
• National debt by U.S. presidential terms (h/t @api ...
  Noted by Nancy Miller on June 6, 2010 10:06 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Men arrested at JFK bound for terror group
  ShareThis Men arrested at JFK bound for terror group 07 Jun 2010 Two New Jersey men were arrested late on Saturday at a New York airport trying to catch flights for meetings with militant groups in Somalia with the intent to kill people, authorities said on Sunday. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of Nor ...
• Jihadi Calls For 'Suspicious Bags' to Be Left Thro ...
  ShareThis Jihadi Calls For 'Suspicious Bags' to Be Left Throughout DC and NYC --FBI Warns of Potential New Terror Tactic As Summer Tourist Season Begins 07 Jun 2010 A recent internal FBI report warns federal, state and local authorities to be alert for a potential new tool in the jihadi CIA false fl ...
• Cleaning the Oil-Drenched Pelicans
  ShareThis Cleaning the Oil-Drenched Pelicans 07 Jun 2010 Vegetable oil and diluted dish detergent are used to clean�the birds. (ABC News video)
• Obama told how bad Gulf oil spill would be days af ...
  ShareThis Obama told how bad Gulf oil spill would be days after BP's rig exploded: report 05 Jun 2010 As criticism of the Obama administration's response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf, a new report claims the president was told by a government official in April just how much damage BP's explo ...
• Bomber hits Iraq police station
  ShareThis Bomber hits Iraq police station 06 Jun 2010 A suicide car bomber has killed at least four policemen and injured 10 outside a police station in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, an official in the interior ministry has said. The attacker drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a gathering of ...

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

• What 1967, and 1948, tell us about today
  “Secure the children first. I want you all to know where to hide when the bombs fall,” my grandmother instructed us. It was June 1967, and I was 11, during the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arabs. The victorious Israeli army was advancing. Soldiers from the fleeing Palestine Liberation Army fil ...
• O’Keefe: Gandhi would have defended the &#82 ...
  “All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns.” These are the words of Ken O’Keefe, a former US Marine who was just deported from Israel after surviving the Mavi Marmara massacre. In 2002, O’Keefe initiated what some would regard as a quixotic endeavor: an effort to prevent the war in Iraq by positioni ...
• An unqualified defense of Helen Thomas
  UPDATE: Thomas said to have announced her retirement. Her comments [telling Israelis to leave Palestine and "go home" to Europe] do not reflect a desire to see Israel/Palestine judenrein, but rather an ominous sense of what a dangerous place Israel has become, and will only increasingly be, for its ...
• In fairness to CFR
  I spent the weekend bashing the Council on Foreign Relations for its party line. I missed this: Mohamad Bazzi is at the Council on Foreign Relations and has called for lifting the blockade. (Thanks to Sean Lee).
• Headline says it all
  Haaretz:Turkey to Israel: If you have nothing to hide, accept international probe.The pressure is mounting on Israel to allow an international investigation of the flotilla raid. This is the other shoe dropping. The first was Goldstone.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: World Health Organization & Vaccine Manufactu ...
  A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ...
• VRM: Lupus Disease – Natural Cure Succeeds W ...
  Lupus Disease is a chronic degenerative disease caused by systemic auto-immune breakdown in the body; where-by the immune system of the body attacks its own cells and tissues. Specifically, the joints, skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, nervous system, and other organs of the body are affected. While beli ...
• VRM: Meningitis Vaccine To Be Forced On 7th Grader ...
  A substantial new Bill to require meningitis vaccine for 7th graders and ALL college students is gaining momentum in Albany, New York http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5472 Bill S7156 passed the Senate Health Committee and is due for a floor vote. Bill A10313 will be voted on the Assembly Health ...
• VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
  A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]
• 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 ...

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

• MIT Plan to Slash Energy Consumption on Campus Cou ...
  MIT plans to cut their energy use by 15 percent in three years. Photo by Francisco Diez via Flickr. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is partnering with NSTAR , a
• McDonald's Goes A Little Bit McLocal
  Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan. Image: chairman moneko via Flickr In January, McDonald's Italy announced the launch of its McItaly menu. The burger giant has always offered different menus throughout the world to cater to local tastes so it's no real surprise that they've chosen Italy - a na ...
• Katharine Hamnett Designs Timely "Save The Sea" Sl ...
  Credit: Karel Losenicky/ Yoox via Kaight NYC Katherine Hamnett , the original eco-warrior fashionista, has designed a capsule beachwear collection with Yoox just in time to make a big splash t... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• San Francisco Bay Area Marine Sanctuaries Project ...
  Photo: Chad King, via sanctuarysimon.org On Thursday, the California Academy of Sciences kicked off its Oceans Conference with a recently released report on the impacts of climate change on the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries. The impacts report is a first step ...
• London's Green Olympics are Looking Brown
  Image from London2012 : Olympic Park London's 2012 Olympic pledge, to be the greenest Olympic Games ever, started with great enthusiasm. But some wondered about that goal when McDonalds was announced as the official supplier of food. Then came the stories of construction going over-budget ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• New ASEAN security forum mooted
  10-member forum will look to address competing territorial claims and other security issues in the Southeast Asia region
• Burma economy in ‘artificial deficit’
  Government's culpability in deteriorating fiscal conditions is 'worse than thought' after figures reveal that economy should be 20 percent healthier
• Burmese migrants riot in Malaysian camp
  Violence flares in the Ajil detention centre as some 200 Vietnamese and Burmese detainees attempt to set the administration office on fire
• Burma dismisses nuclear ‘stereotyping’
  Burma's ambassador to Singapore says the allegations are false and the country does not possess the technology or infrastructure to build a nuclear bomb
• Army ‘aiding’ illegal Burma timber trade
  Burmese officials collecting bribes from timber smugglers despite evidence that illegal trade to China has dropped in recent years

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

• Trucks Could Be Next Electric Power Frontier
  With fuel costs a driving factor, analysts predict a surge of hybrid electric trucks and buses on the road in coming years. Electricity - Electric vehicle - Hybrid vehicle - Energy - Technology
• Inventor Turned Up Energy Savings by Dimming the L ...
  Joel Spira was aiming for mood lighting when he invented the solid-state light dimmer switch. More than 50 years later, his company, Lutron, is recognized as an energy efficiency pioneer. Lutron Electronics Company - Dimmer - Technology - Efficient energy use - Energy
• 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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Jurist - Legal Research

• Israel rejects international inquiry into flotilla ...
  [JURIST] The Israeli ambassador to the US rejected the idea of an international inquiry into the Israeli raid on several ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder], during an appearance on FOX News Sunday [transcript; video]. The proposal, put forth by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-mo ...
• Australia launches legal probe into Google privacy ...
  [JURIST] Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland [official website] announced Sunday that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) [official website] have launched an investigation [transcript] into whether Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] violated privacy laws while collecting image ...
• India court hands down convictions in Bhopal gas c ...
  [JURIST] An Indian court on Monday convicted seven former employees of US chemical producer Union Carbide [corporate website] on charges relating to the 1984 Bhopal chemical spill disaster [BBC backgrounder]. The seven men were convicted of "death by negligence" and sentenced to two years in prison ...
• Afghanistan president announces Taliban detainee r ...
  [JURIST] Afghan President Hamid Karzai [official profile; JURIST news archive] Sunday announced the creation of a commission [press release] to review the cases of all suspected Taliban militants currently being held in custody. Suspects that are being held without sufficient evidence will immediate ...
• Chile high court releases report on secret Pinoche ...
  [JURIST] The Chilean Supreme Court released a report Friday detailing the secret fortune of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], estimating it at over $20 million. The report concluded that Pinochet's military salary accounted for less than 10 percent of the t ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Biden Beach Party
  To many, the self-evident answer is: "Absolutely." �I have a different view, although perhaps it is a way to rationalize my own decision to attend the Bidens' first beach party for journalists. �Later today, I'll lay out some thoughts about the ethics of all of this, but to whet appetites, here's a ...
• Main Wikileaks Source Outed
  Overnight, Wired broke the news that Army SPC Bradley Manning, stationed at a forward deployed base near Baghdad, has been fingered by counterintelligence agents as the source behind Wikileaks' best scoops, including its "Collateral Murder" video that shows a fog-of-war killing of journalists by U.S ...
• The Night Beat: 12 Stars at the CIA
  Good evening. On the Night Beat: Monday, 12 new stars will be added to the wall in the lobby of the CIA headquarters building. That's the most in one year since the agency's founding. In addition to the seven CIA employees who died in Khost, five others were killed in the service of their duties ...
• 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 ...

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

• Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
  Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
• Shades of Freedom Fries: Israeli Company Pressured ...
  For those of you who thought the whole “freedom fries” bit circa 2003 was hilarious, the Israeli right has a companion campaign: to do away with the term “Turkish coffee.” For those of you who’ve never traveled to the Middle East, the intense espresso known as Turkish coffee is about as popular a ...
• Near-Lynching of Israeli Palestinian Knesset Membe ...
  A few days ago I featured here a story from the Israeli TV news about a shocking near riot in the Israeli Knesset over an address to that body by one of its members, Haneen Zoabi, who had been released the day before after participating in the Gaza flotilla. The TV news story, if [...] Related p ...
• Turkish Prosecutors Open Investigation into Israel ...
  A Turkish prosecutor has open a case against the Israeli officials who approved the attack on the Gaza flotilla and the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, which left 9 Turkish nationals dead: Israelâs prime minister, defense minister and chief of General Staff are among the prime suspects in an investig ...
• Would Somebody Please Tell CBS News That Gaza is N ...
  Should anyone ever need an example of the hopeless ignorance and bias (albeit unintentional perhaps) of the American media on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, your search is hereby ended. An Israeli academic forwarded me an e mail from a producer for Katie Couric’s CBS News program ...

Ode Magazine

• Video: Farm tours around the world
  A collection of videos from Polyface Farm and other farms mentioned in the "Beyond Organic" article. Polyface Farm Mac Arthur Foundation Fellow: Will Allen Ridge to Reef Program at VI Sustainable Farm Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading ...
• Get HIP with your money
  How to build a better world and make bigger profitsthrough investing. Capitalism used to be easy. Discover, acquire and defend a unique resource. Pay people the least you can get away with. Offload as many liabilities and risks to government as possible. And, of course, c ...
• How to fix immigration
  Itâs easier than health-care and financial reform, and would show voters that Congress can actually do something other than bicker. The U.S. is facing a stack of problems that our political leaders are not eager to solve. Among them is the immigration system. What relevance ...
• Video: How technology is empowering the poor
  Quadir presented a broad outline of development in order to give context for his belief that technology can alleviate poverty at a Long Now Foundation event. Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading The GreenHouse project True Education Starts ...
• Profit with a purpose
  As earnings, bonuses and stocks creep back to pre-crisis levels, will markets resume business as usual? A plea for a new kind of investing that blends good sense, good causes and good financial returns. From the moment she arrived in the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago in 1994, ...

OpEd News

• Can Roe Survive?
  Roe v. Wade is established law in the United States of America. But that isnapos;t stopping some states from trying to undermine it...
• South Korean Ship Sinking: Another False Flag?
  America, not North Korea, the likely culprit
• Atomic Bomb proposal for Gulf of Mexico blow out w ...
  How many oil and gas horizons were there in this well? There was certainly more than one. The mudlog will list the gas horizons and oil horizons. Were there 10, 30 or 50? The picture the press is drawing of the oil zone is only good for elementary school textbooks. Which of these many horizons are w ...
• An Opportunity for BP
  BP can demonstrate its good faith intention to live up to its highly publicized CEOapos;s commitment that "we will get this done, we will make this right" by establishing and funding an escrow account which could be accessed as needed by the American government.
• Fascism in America Will Be Wrapped In A Flag, Carr ...
  Pat Robertson once held the title of "The Most Dangerous Man In America." Now it seems as if that title belongs to Lou Engle, the ratchety-voiced preacher who was instrumental in Ugandaapos;s "kill the gays" bill.

Switchboard

• Murkowski Thinks Polluters Can Police Themselves
  This Thursday, lawmakers will likely vote on Senator Lisa Murkowski’s resolution to undercut the government’s authority to regulate global warming pollution. I find it shocking that Senator Murkowski is moving forward with this resolution now--even as oil continues to flow into the Gu ...
• Five Reasons Why a Comprehensive Climate and Energ ...
  As the Congress returns to DC, President Obama and Majority Leader Reid will need to keep making the case to the Senate that a comprehensive clean energy and climate bill deserves their attention now, so the President can sign a bill this year. The President has been intensifying his r ...
• Assessing the State of Environmental Transparency ...
  I was in Weihai ( en ), a 2.5 million person city in eastern Shandong Province, last month to talk about environmental transparency with more than 50 government officials and scholars from around China.  As far as I am aware, this is the largest gathering to date of Chinese government ...
• Photos of willful ignorance that people need to wa ...
  My friend Cheryl Cort has long been one of our region's best and most dedicated voices for smart growth and sustainable communities.� She also is a terrific documentary photographer and recently shared her collection, What Were They Thinking? (Photos of bad urban design and willful ign ...
• BP Makes More Spill Feeds Available
  Just a day or two after my June 2 blog about BP's leaking credibility and the noting that despite Chairman Markey's entreaties, BP had only made one of twelve video feeds available, I found this BP site with links to feeds from several of its deepsea cameras . Christian Science Monito ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Plot Thickens.
  The US intelligence analyst who leaked the footage that resulted in Wikileaks’ infamous “Collateral Murder” video has been outed by a hacker to whom he boasted of his actions online, and arrested by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. Wired has the story: Manning was turned in late last mont ...
• Kausmentum Part XVII
  It’s hard for me to view the Kaus Senate bid with anything but amusement, but he’s obviously trying very hard to irritate as many people as he can… Related posts:Kausmentum!!!! Kausmentum! 2010 Political Entertainment Outlook Brightens Related posts: Kausmentum!!!! Kausmentum! 2010 Political En ...
• Saturday Cat/Baby Blogging
  The pussification of the American male continues, as Orrin caves to the aggressive economic demands of his inferiors. Related posts:Friday Cat/Freakishly Large Baby Blogging QDR Blogging: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! Saturday Misc Blogging Related posts: Friday Cat/Freakishly Large Baby Blog ...
• 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 ...

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

• Rural South Africans Will See World Cup Via Solar ...
• 1840s British Victorian Gets a (Spendy) Net Zero M ...
• Texas Utility Crosses 1 Million Smart Meters Insta ...
• NASA Seeks Greener Commercial Aircraft Concept Ide ...
• SDG&E Test Piloting Different Solar Power Concentr ...

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

• Jews Should 'Get The Hell Out' - Helen Thomas
  White House correspondent- Helen Thomas, 89, apologized for declaring that Jews don't belong In Israel, and should go back to Germany or Poland.
• In Defense of Animals Announces New President Scot ...
  In Defense of Animals is an international animal protection organization located in San Rafael, Calif. dedicated to protecting animals' rights, welfare, and habitat through education, outreach, and our hands-on rescue facilities.
• Sharron Angle Leads Harry Reid in Nevada Senate Ra ...
  New Las Vegas Review Journal/Mason-Dixon poll shows Conservative Republican Sharron Angle now holds a lead over Sen. Harry Reid 44%-41%.
• Israeli Leaders Express Regret for Loss of Life De ...
  Israeli soldiers boarded the Mavi Marmara with the intention of rerouting the ship to Ashdod, but they were immediately attacked by a mob armed with knives, iron bars and other weapons.
• Welcoming Pope's Call for Interfaith Dialogue, Hin ...
  His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, on his Cyprus visit on Saturday, reportedly called for dialogue between Christians and people of other faiths.

environment 360

• Climate Intervention Schemes Could Be Undone by Ge ...
  As global warming intensifies, demands for human manipulation of the climate system are likely to grow. But carrying out geoengineering plans could prove daunting, as conflicts erupt over the unintended regional consequences of climate intervention and over who is entitled to deploy climate-altering ...
• Computer Model Suggests Gulf Spill Could Reach Atl ...
  A computer modeling study suggests that oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill could travel thousands of miles up the Atlantic coast and into the open ocean as early as this summer. Using a virtual dye tracer to project movement of the oil based on what is known about ocean currents and typical wind cond ...
• New Smart Phone Applications Revolutionizing the S ...
  The revolutionary advances in the study of bird populations and migrations made possible by the Internet have now found their way into birders’ hands. BirdsEye, a new iPhone app , gives birders instant access to the National Audubon Society’s and Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird, the largest open- ...
• Success of Canada Tar Sands Prompts Oil Sands Expa ...
  The successful development of the controversial oil sands in Canada has prompted oil companies to invest in similar operations elswhere , including Russia, Venezuela, the Congo, and Madagascar, according to a new report. With the price of crude oil rising, companies — including BP and Shell — are in ...
• Rising Water Temperatures Have Ill Effect on Fish, ...
  Two studies, one in Lake Tanganyika in Africa and the other in the River Wye in Wales, indicate that rising water temperatures are causing fish populations to decline. Researchers from Brown University and the University of Arizona, said core samples from Lake Tanganyika — the second-deepest lake in ...

Red Ice Creations

• Bilderberg: The Open Conspiracy
• Their cure will kill us! Michel Chossudovsky on St ...
• Energy expert: Nuking oil leak ‘only thing we can ...
• Fish With "Hands" Found to Be New Species
• Today’s College Students Lack Empathy?

Russia Today

• Abkhazia spot on for domino world championships
  Abkhazia has been chosen as the host of the next year’s world championship in dominoes.
• Russian flying cars to beat traffic jams
  Flying to work instead of driving might become a reality. An aircraft construction company in the Moscow region claims to have made it possible with its latest development, Sigma-5.
• IOC President checks Sochi preparations
  The President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge is in Sochi, where he is looking at the preparations for the 2014 Winter Games.
• Hasek joins KHL's Spartak Moscow
  One of the greatest netminders in the history of hockey, Dominik Hasek, will now play in the KHL, defending the goals of Spartak Moscow.
• Uzbek to referee World Cup opener
  FIFA has appointed Uzbek referee Ravshan Irmatov to work at the opening match of World Cup 2010, which kicks off in South Africa on Friday, June 11.

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

• Australian UFOs and Falcon 9
  It seems that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 not only provides political controversy in the States, it also gives a little entertainment on the other side of the world. Observers in Australia spotted a little “spiral”, like what happened in Scandinavia last fall, giving the Aussies a little light show and specu ...
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• New oil plume evidence uncovered
  As if the pictures of birds, fish and animals killed by floating oil in the Gulf of Mexico is not disturbing enough, scientists now say they have found evidence of another danger lurking underwater... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Burma: Alarm Bells Ring Over New Nuclear Evidence
  A documentary film on Burma's nuclear ambitions and tunnel-building program has reawakened alarm throughout the region about the Burmese regime's military relationship with North Korea.... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Save WA's Brumbys from Slaughter - TAKE ACTION!
  Thousands of wild horses could be trucked to a south Australian abattoir then exported to Europe to served in french restaurants as part of a state government plan to reduce feral brumby herds in WA. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Free Vet Clinic Helps the Homeless Help Their Pets
  It's not uncommon for homeless people to feed their pets first and, with almost every shelter refusing to allow animals inside, they'd rather sleep on the streets than have to part ways with their best friend. At the Ottawa Mission in Canada, a group of Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note ...
• Chihuahua named Sizzle recovers from burns, seeks ...
  The 8-month-old male puppy was brought to the shelter last month wearing a sweater that covered his back, legs and neck, Hunt said. "No one knew he had been burned because the sweater was covering his body," Hunt said. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Jobs-Bill Talk Starts again at Capitol
  “Prodded by last week’s disappointing job-creation numbers, Democrats and Republicans alike are calling for Congress to tackle yet another âjobs billâ — but after 2 1/2 years of stimulus, and well more than $1 trillion committed, the appetite for stimulus spending has dropped.” (Washington Times ...
• Obama, Arizona Governor Talk about Border
  “Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Thursday her staff will start working with the Obama administration on deploying more troops along her state’s porous border with Mexico, even as they continue to argue about Arizona’s new immigration law.” (USA Today, Monday) Militarizing the border sounds un-American. ...
• 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.

Teaching Online Journalism

• Online video still growing, gaining viewers
  Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
• Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
  @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
• Top Teaching Online Journalism posts: Past 6 month ...
  According to Google Analytics, this is what you’ve been reading here (Dec. 1, 2009, up to today): 21 examples of Flash journalism A few words about digital audio recorders Now printable! Reporterâs Guide to Multimedia Proficiency Recording phone calls: For reporters Why does anyone major in ...
• Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3
  Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not taught, I’m going to assume that all those Luddites are working on bringing their design and presentation curriculum into the 21st century. CSS is essential to design and presentation for the Internet. In this post I’m just g ...
• Two good books for learning JavaScript, jQuery
  Since about March this year, I’ve been searching for a few good, clear books to recommend to journalists and students who are interested in learning to use jQuery — with an eye toward getting ready for HTML5. You could just leap straight into jQuery, but I think it would make more sense to get a ha ...

Facing South

• 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

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle old clock parts?
  We’ve had an email from David: I need to know how to recycle the inner brass parts of grandfather clock that no longer work? Brass, like nearly all metals, is in high demand in the recycling world and so if there is a good weight of it, most local scrap metal dealers would willingly take it off [... ...
• 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 ...

Mondoweiss

• What 1967, and 1948, tell us about today
  “Secure the children first. I want you all to know where to hide when the bombs fall,” my grandmother instructed us. It was June 1967, and I was 11, during the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arabs. The victorious Israeli army was advancing. Soldiers from the fleeing Palestine Liberation Army fil ...
• O’Keefe: Gandhi would have defended the &#82 ...
  “All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns.” These are the words of Ken O’Keefe, a former US Marine who was just deported from Israel after surviving the Mavi Marmara massacre. In 2002, O’Keefe initiated what some would regard as a quixotic endeavor: an effort to prevent the war in Iraq by positioni ...
• An unqualified defense of Helen Thomas
  UPDATE: Thomas said to have announced her retirement. Her comments [telling Israelis to leave Palestine and "go home" to Europe] do not reflect a desire to see Israel/Palestine judenrein, but rather an ominous sense of what a dangerous place Israel has become, and will only increasingly be, for its ...
• In fairness to CFR
  I spent the weekend bashing the Council on Foreign Relations for its party line. I missed this: Mohamad Bazzi is at the Council on Foreign Relations and has called for lifting the blockade. (Thanks to Sean Lee).
• Headline says it all
  Haaretz:Turkey to Israel: If you have nothing to hide, accept international probe.The pressure is mounting on Israel to allow an international investigation of the flotilla raid. This is the other shoe dropping. The first was Goldstone.

Media Consortium

• Drawing out the audience: Inside BBC’s User-Genera ...
  Awesome article for anyone interested in community building, interaction, crowdsourcing, journalism and a combo of all the above
• 48 HR Magazine Experiment Big Hit, Except for That ...
  Good article. Innovation will always run up against beauracracy.
• The programmer majored in English: A fascinating s ...
  Important to look through to understand "the role of technology in the ever-changing newsroom, driven by the opportunities and challenges introduced by the Internet.”
• Hacks/Hackers Unite » Blog Archive » Journalists a ...
  Awesome, awesome, awesome. I want to do something similar with TMC members and developers.
• Publish2 Blog - The New Associated Press for the 2 ...
  "aunch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can replace the AP’s obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing and replace the AP’s commodity content with both free, ...

  Blacklisted News

• Antidepressants during pregnancy cause alarming 68 ...
• Green Police To Search Trash, Fine Offenders
  BIN police are planning to fine people �1,000 if they fail to �recycle their �rubbish.
• North Korea Parliament To Hold Rare Second Annual ...
• U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Vi ...
  Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.
• New Director of National Intelligence: Overseeing ...

The Intelligence Daily

• New Director of National Intelligence: Overseeing ...
  By Tom Burghardt Yesterday, President Barack Obama selected retired Air Force Lt. General James R....
• College Students This Is Your Future: High Unemplo ...
  By Michael Snyder Hundreds of thousands of college students all over the United States have just...
• Democrat Benedict Arnold’s Betray Net Neutrality
  By Michael Collins 74 Democrats signed a joint letter to the FCC supporting internet throttling by...
• USA: Acronym for United States of Assassinations?
  By Sherwood Ross What the United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings would...
• Lost Youth Employment in Illinois
  By Stephen Lendman What affects Illinois plagues the nation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

My AntiWar

• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Fro ...
  Summary: As the United Nations? nuclear inspections body, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), meets in Vienna later this week to discuss its latest report on Iran, there are signs that Washington is now writing the IAEA?s script. The most glaring indication of the IAEA?s appeasement of U ...
• The most perilous nuclear arsenal in the world: Is ...
  Summary: Israel's WMD sitesOver the past 60 years, the racist regime of Israel has been continually scoffing the international community under the cover of "deliberate ambiguity" to develop one of the most perilous nuclear arsenals in the world. The 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Revie ...
• Israel?s ?audience of one? is much less of a capti ...
  Summary: Worldwide reaction to the violent assault and the resulting deaths was swift in condemning the Israeli military?s behaviour. But none of this mattered since Israel, in crises of this sort, plays to an audience of one. It is acceptable for Israel to endure international outrage and votes of ...
• ?Mad Dog? Diplomacy: A cornered Israel is baring i ...
  Summary: Benjamin NetanyahuIsrael is feeling cornered on every front it considers important ? and like Dayan?s ?mad dog?, it is likely to strike out in unpredictable ways. source: Information Clearing Houseread more
• Robert Fisk: The truth behind the Israeli propagan ...
  Summary: The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists ? and I’m including the BBC’s pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships ? are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists shoul ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran says IAEA "misunderstands" nature of its lab ...
  Summary: Salehi Ali-Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said IAEA has misunderstood the nature of the experiments which the AEOI would like to conduct in the future, adding that Iran had explained the situation to the UN nuclear watchdog in a letter, the report sa ...
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Fro ...
  Summary: As the United Nations’ nuclear inspections body, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), meets in Vienna later this week to discuss its latest report on Iran, there are signs that Washington is now writing the IAEA’s script. The most glaring indication of the IAEA’s appeasement o ...
• The most perilous nuclear arsenal in the world: Is ...
  Summary: Israel's WMD sites Over the past 60 years, the racist regime of Israel has been continually scoffing the international community under the cover of "deliberate ambiguity" to develop one of the most perilous nuclear arsenals in the world. The 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) R ...
• Israel’s ‘audience of one’ is much less of a capti ...
  Summary: Worldwide reaction to the violent assault and the resulting deaths was swift in condemning the Israeli military’s behaviour. But none of this mattered since Israel, in crises of this sort, plays to an audience of one. It is acceptable for Israel to endure international outrage and votes ...
• ‘Mad Dog’ Diplomacy: A cornered Israel is baring i ...
  Summary: Benjamin Netanyahu Israel is feeling cornered on every front it considers important – and like Dayan’s “mad dog”, it is likely to strike out in unpredictable ways. source: Information Clearing House read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Buried Prehistoric Antarctica Lakes May Yield Life ...
  "These lakes were rediscovered within the past 10 years or so, but no one yet has penetrated them and we want to make sure that the research is done properly and adheres to the highest environmental stewardship principles," says Kennicutt....
• Are Asteroid or Comet Impacts the Biggest Threat t ...
  Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. We have observed, Hawking points out in Life...
• Will Supermassive Black Holes Unlock the Secret of ...
  In the early Universe clumps of dark matter are thought to have attracted gas, which then coalesced into stars that eventually assembled the galaxies we see today. In their efforts to understand galaxy formation and evolution, astronomers have spent a...
• New, Unknown Viruses Found in Antarctica's Ancient ...
  Like a modern, micro version of The Thing, Antarctica's icy lakes have been discovered to house a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. The finding could shed light on whether microbial life evolved independently in...
• Could Jupiter's Gravity Throw the Solar System Int ...
  There has been a lot of media attention over the possibility of asteroids and meteors striking Earth and causing cataclysmic damage, but now some scientists are saying that the planet Mercury (sunrise image above) could also possibly smash into our...

Natural News

• Antidepressants during pregnancy cause alarming 68 ...
  (NaturalNews) Back in 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that exposure to the antidepressant paroxetine (sold as Paxil, Paxil CR, and Pexeva) in the first trimester of pregnancy might increase the risk for birth defects, especially heart problems. Did this halt the widespread prescr ...
• Hospital tried to silence whistleblower; up to 1,0 ...
  (NaturalNews) A hospital trust where conditions were so bad that more than 1,000 patients may have died due to negligence actively tried to stop employees from raising concerns about patient safety, according to an inquiry conducted by the British Health Department. "Staff have known about the probl ...
• Palm fruit oil is the richest source of tocotrieno ...
  (NaturalNews) Many people are already aware of the fact that vitamin E helps to rid the body of free radicals and protect it from cancer, cardiovascular disease, heart disease and other serious illness. However there are two forms of vitamin E that each serve a unique purpose: tocopherols and tocotr ...
• WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks f ...
  (NaturalNews) A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal , e ...
• 7-year-old girl dies after Botox injections
  (NaturalNews) A 7-year-old girl died after a Botox injection paralyzed her lungs, her family says, and they are suing pharmaceutical company Allergan for wrongful death. Botox is the trade name for the botulinim toxin, which is produced by the botulism bacteria. Botulinim toxin blocks nerve signalin ...

Threat Level

• U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Vi ...
  Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at For ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• For Republicans, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure on ...
  On May 7, 2001, press secretary Ari Fleischer uttered the four words that came to define the Bush administration's approach to the U.S. addiction to oil. Asked if Americans needed to "correct their lifestyles" to address the nation's energy vulnerability, Fleischer snapped, "That's a big no." And ...
• Liz Cheney Acknowledges Bush's Catastrophe in Gaza
  On Sunday, Liz Cheney took a brief hiatus from her preposterous charge that "President Obama is contributing to the isolation of Israel, and sending a clear signal to the Turkish-Syrian-Iranian axis that their methods for ostracizing Israel will succeed." In a rare moment of candor, Cheney temporar ...
• Sarah Palin's Supposed Energy Expertise Backfires. ...
  During the 2008 campaign, John McCain said of his running mate Sarah Palin, "She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America." As it turns out, not so much. The half-term Alaska Governor literally had no idea how much energy her state produced and suffered fro ...
• The Great Republican Rollback
  For years, retail giant Wal-Mart and its smiley face logo have lured American shoppers to its stores with a campaign to " rollback " prices. Now, as Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul was just the latest to make clear this week, the Republican Party is waging a rollback campaign of its own. F ...
• Glenn Beck on FDR: In 1945, Americans Were "Glad H ...
  Desperate to change their miserable present, Republicans are traveling back in time to rewrite the past. And so it is with President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal . Hoping to block President Obama's stimulus program designed to prevent the next Great Depression, right-wing authors , pundits ...

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

• Israeli Navy Seizes Rachel Corrie
  A ship named for slain activist Rachel Corrie sought to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, say Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss. June 5, 2010
• Salvador's Funes Finds Change Hard
  El Salvador's first leftist president, Mauricio Funes, faces a "change" dilemma like Barack Obama's in the U.S., reports Don North. June 4, 2010
• How 'Power' Christians Ignore Jesus
  When American Christians boast about military and political might, they are missing a key message of Jesus, argues Rev. Howard Bess. June 4, 2010
• Gaza Boat Activists Deny Israeli Story
  As Israel releases activists seized enroute to Gaza, a fuller story of the fatal raid emerges, say Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss. June 4, 2010
• Israel Attacked a NATO Member's Ship
  By assaulting a Turkish-flagged vessel in international waters, Israel raised NATO collective defense concerns, says Craig Murray. June 3, 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

• The MV Rachel Corrie's Humanitarian Cargo: Another ...
  On the morning of June 5, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1,200-ton cargo ship named after the young American woman who was crushed to death in Gaza in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer, was illegally ...
• The MV Rachel Corrie's Humanitarian Cargo: Another ...
  On the morning of June 5, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1,200-ton cargo ship named after the young American woman who was crushed to death in Gaza in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer, was illegally ...
• U.S. demands IDF probe how American lost eye at We ...
  The United States embassy has demanded an investigation into how an American citizen lost her eye last week at the Qalandiyah checkpoint after being struck by a tear gas grenade. Last Mon ...
• Irish crew members of MV Corrie return home Monday ...
  Five of the detained crew members from the MV Rachel Corrie, seized by Israeli naval ships off the coast of Gaza on Saturday, will arrive home in Ireland on Monday, the Ireland Palestine ...
• The myth of Israeli morality (Lamis Andoni, Al Ja ...
  The Israeli attack on the international aid flotilla - killing nine and injuring dozens more - is not the first example of non-violent resistance by Palestinians and their supporters bein ...

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.
• How BP, Big Oil and the Feds Screw Louisiana to Br ...
  The waters off Louisiana produce more oil than anywhere else in the nation. So why is it the second poorest state?
• 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.

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

• Saltwater crocodiles surf ocean currents
  Scientists have discovered that saltwater crocodiles manage to travel hundreds of miles by surfing ocean currents. The world's largest living reptiles...
• Man claims 14 sightings of Sasquatch
  Bigfoot researcher Billy Willard believes he is on the verge of proving the existence of Bigfoot once and for all. With 14 reported sightings in the a...
• Did mammoth deaths contribute to global cooling ?
  A new study has suggested that the disappearance of mammoths 13,000 years ago could have cooled the planet. The study is based on the notion that mamm...
• US rocket launch sparks Australia UFO frenzy
  The Space X Falcon 9 sparked a plethora of UFO sighting reports over Australia this weekend. The rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral and its motio...
• British scientists gear up for ExoMars mission
  Scientists have announced that work has started on instruments for a future mission to Mars set for 2018. The ExoMars rover is a joint project between...

Grassroots

• Grassroots International funds another great partn ...
• Only days until big Grassroots event!
• Grassroots give $30,000 grant to XYZ organization
• 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 ...

Climate

• June 7, 2010
  Coast Guard Sees Cleanup of Spill Lasting Until the Fall (New York Times) The Coast Guard commander in charge of the federal response to the oil spill warned on Sunday that even if the flow of crude was stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn to deal with the slick. Dead, Oile ...
• June 5-6, 2010
  Gulf Containment Cap Closely Watched in 2nd Day (AP) A containment cap that sucked about 420,000 gallons of crude from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico over the last 24 hours offered a small sign of progress for the nation's worst oil spill. BP Chief Vows to Stay (Reuters)  B ...
• 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. ...

TomDispatch

• Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
• Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
  It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
• Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
  It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
• Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
  Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
• Tomgram: Droning On
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

• The latest disaster from the director of Titanic
  James Cameron is set to unveil his very profound and innovative fix for the BP oil leak. What a guy Cameron is! Taking time out of his very busy schedule of making overwrought and plot-lite Hollywood films about the tragedy of computer-generated imagery and collecting Oscars for best politicking wit ...
• American Media Hide the Evidence: Did Israeli Troo ...
  You want to know why we need independent journalism, and why those of you who are reading this article need to support the publication in which it is appearing? Because if you rely for your news on the US corporate media, whether ad-supported or underwriter-supported, you won’t learn that Furkan Dog ...
• Cartoon for June 7, 2010: How We Afforded the Mes ...
  [click image to enlarge] BP could afford to drill—not to prepare for the possibility of an accident. read more
• Tiger Woods: At Least I Didn't Fuck the Entire Gul ...
  NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Sensing a public relations opportunity, golf legend Tiger Woods spoke out today on the BP oil spill, telling reporters, "At least I didn't fuck the entire Gulf of Mexico." Initially stunned by his comment, reporters asked Mr. Woods to elaborate on his response to the ...
• Can Roe survive?
  Roe v. Wade is established law in the United States of America. But that isn't stopping some states from trying to undermine it as much as possible via their own anti-choice legislation, unconstitutional though some of it might seem. In April, for example, Nebraska criminalized abortions after 20 we ...

Paul Krugman

• Madmen In Authority
  Pain for its own sake.
• Yes, We Did Get Caught In A Thunderstorm
  How did you guess?
• Lost Decade, Here We Come
  Utter folly posing as wisdom.
• 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?

No Quarter

• A Solution To The Oil Spill?
  The oil spill continues to spread, wreaking havoc on marine life and human livelihood and enterprise. I can barely stomach seeing the photos of the birds soaked in oil. And after a quick trip to the beach 10 minutes away from my house, the thought of the oil making its way to my [...]
• No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle ...
  Promo bumped down for June 6th show. Listen to archived show via BlogTalkRadio.com, or via iTunes (instructions in right column). Is the market overvalued? Have we merely created another bubble? How do we measure if a stock or the market is ‘all bubbled up?’ Well, you have come to the right place a ...
• NoQuarter’s “Sins Of Omission” Monday Night
  Is the scope of what we can accomplish in life pre-determined by our genes? Please tune in Monday night, June 7, 2010 at 9pm (ET) to No Quarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie Abeles for an interview with bestselling author David Shenk about his new book: The Genius In All of Us: Why Everythin ...
• Flotilla Choir, Helen & Charles
  Everyone is entitled to his or her own, different point of view. Some may say this first video belongs out there with the folks who think we let 9/11 happen so we could go to war or that we knew the Emperor was planning an attack on Pearl Harbor. But the performance is solid. The next [...]
• Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry ...
  Is the market overvalued? Have we merely created another bubble? How do we measure if a stock or the market is ‘all bubbled up?’ Well, you have come to the right place. Join me this evening from 8-9pm ET as No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle Welcomes Michael Shulman. Who is Michael ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Announcing the Winner of Environmental Graffiti's ...
  The results are in and we've done a very special interview with the winner - but who is it...? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Nature Conquers All In the End
  When mankind moves on, nature moves in for the kill. It nature and the elements of nature that make decay beautiful. In Man vs Nature, nature laughs last. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Baby Gorillas Are Just Like Us
  There's only 1-2% of separation between humans and apes. But it seems gorilla babies are not only cuter but also smarter. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 5 Assassinations That Shook The World
  Some crimes should never be forgotten or forgiven. Five truly outrageous killings that rocked society. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 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 ...

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

• UK PM warns of harsh budget cuts
  David Cameron says impact of spending cuts to curb debt will be worse than feared.
• N Korea makes key appointments
  Leader Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law inducted to key military body as premier is replaced.
• Israel defends aid ship raid
  PM says "terrorists" were on board the Freedom Flotilla, but passengers deny the accusation.
• Palestinians killed by Israeli fire
  Four killed and one missing after Israeli navy patrol opens fire off Gaza coast.
• Eight found guilty over Bhopal leak
  Indian arm of Union Carbide and seven employees convicted over 1984 disaster.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: BP Buys Search Terms
  BP buys up spill-related search terms to direct people to its Web site.
• Can the Rescued Pelicans Stay Clean?
  Some wildlife experts conservation experts wonder whether cleaning the oil-soaked pelicans will work in the long run.
• 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 ...

Dot Earth News

• Why is Salvaged Oil Going to BP Instead of U.S. Re ...
  BP should be required to contribute a barrel of oil to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve for every one salvaged from its gushing well.
• Could Progress on Catching Oil Mask Ongoing Blowou ...
  Could partial success in trapping the gushing oil lessen concern about the reality that such deep blowouts appear largely unstoppable?
• A Series of Lapses Preceded Oil Gusher
  A long list of shortcuts and lapses preceded the deadly rig explosion and epic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• 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.

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

• “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!”
  by Robert P. Abele These immortal words of boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer will arguably be apropos to the situation in which the United States finds itself today. With unemployment high and wage reduction continuing, with cuts to social spending and education ongoing, with the looting of the U ...
• The privatization of education, the colonization o ...
  On June 2nd I was notified that an article I wrote, Neoliberalism, Charter Schools and the Chicago Model / Obama and Duncan’s Education Policy: Like Bush’s, Only Worse published by Counterpunch, August 24, 2009, had been selected for the Project Censored “Most Censored” News Stories of 2009-10 Awar ...
• What is the big picture for human evolution? Evil ...
  source with outstanding video. Concerning whether government “leaders” are evil liars making us debt slaves, I professionally challenge anyone to refute the data that Republican and Democratic oligarchs engage in Orwellian unlawful wars and a controlled demolition of the US economy. They are assiste ...
• Congressional Record: JP Morgan & Co purchased all ...
  source with video. Congressman Oscar Callaway lost his Congressional election for opposing US entry into WW 1. Before he left office, he demanded investigation into JP Morgan & Co for purchasing control over America’s leading 25 newspapers in order to propagandize US public opinion in favor of his c ...
• Time for law abiding American citizens to stop pay ...
  source; with better formatting and video. 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 justi ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• New spy chief who hyped Iraq WMD â€&til ...
• Racism still blights southern US juries: study
• White House correspondent apologizes for Israel re ...
• What the Spill Will Kill
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Israel's Flotilla Massacre: Made in the USA
  Maybe the Obama administration will use this moment to show us a real "change we can believe in" for Middle East policy.
• 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.

Pine River World News

• BP and the Gulf of Mexico: America's Chernobyl
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. America's Chernobyl � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina June 6, 2010 The similarities between the Fall of the Soviet Union and the upcoming Fall of the United States ar ...
• Spanish activists for Gaza say Israel 'targeted' M ...
  The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus Emirate news agency. Underlined emphasis added. Spanish activists for Gaza say Israel 'targeted' Muslims in boat Source: � Kavkaz Center June 5, 2010 Three Spanish citizens, who survived the "Israeli" operation on Gaza ...
• 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 ...

IntelNews

• Turkey, Iran, offer warship protection for Gaza fl ...
  Close aides to the Turkish Prime Minister’s office have disclosed that Ankara is funding a new fleet of ships to sail to Gaza under protection by Turkish warships. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps have also offered warship protection.
• News you may have missed #370
  Ukrainians 'not spying any more' on Russian FSB. US House votes to allow auditing of spy agencies. Leading Turkish daily wiretapped.
• 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.

After Downing Street.org

• Terror Detainees Experimented On?
  Did the Bush Administration Experiment on Detainees? As more slowly comes forward, thankfully quicker then our occupation Vietnam, they were out doing Saddam on a much faster pace as to torture, killing and maiming and turn once peaceful people into refugee's and some into insurgent guerilla forc ...
• Nick Clegg on Chilcot Inquiry
  Early on we got many references, to add to the already known and proof, of what was going on in the bush administration and the counter parts in government and military. As it progress we weren't getting much more but still mention. When they resume there should be much more to add after they visit ...
• The Air is Humming
  In March, while attending Camp Out Now in DC, I went with other peace advocates to protest torture attorney John Yoo who was speaking at the University of Virginia. ON the return, we decided to stop at a restaurant for dinner. The entire time I’d been in DC, I’d walked from our peace camp on the W ...
• Bush's Glib Waterboarding Admission Sparks Outrage
  Bush's Glib Waterboarding Admission Sparks Outrage By Dan Froomkin | Huffington Post George W. Bush's casual acknowledgment Wednesday that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded -- and would do it again -- has horrified some former military and intelligence officials who argue that the former p ...
• Best of the Blogs
  IDF Hasbara does Keystone Cops Flotilla: Pictures, bios of the known dead Lying About The Gaza Flotilla Disaster Turkey shows the way Physics professor: Oil leak could last for years Halliburton Pours Money Into Campaigns Of Congress Members Who Will Investigate Oil Spill. Gee, I Wonder Why. Reining ...

Grist - News

• BP capturing 10,000 barrels a day, but Gulf leak t ...
  by Agence France-Presse. GRAND ISLE, La. - Oil giant BP said Sunday it was capturing some 10,000 barrels of crude a day from the ruptured Gulf well, raising hopes it could be containing much of the oil now feeding the worst spill in U.S. history. With an environmental catastrophe unfolding on ...
• 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 ...

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Time - Top Stories

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Washington Independent

• NSA Looking for New Top Lawyer
  Looking for a change of career? Excited by the world of communications intercepts, network protection, cryptography, cryptanalysis and surveillance? Got legal training? The super-secret National Security Agency is hiring. If you scour MSN CareerBuilder — in employee searches as in other endeavors, t ...
• Amid Recession, Federal Workers Targeted
  At Politico, Maggie Haberman and Ben Smith have a good piece on the “perfect storm” ginning up politicians’ opposition to public-sector workers. Firefighters and teachers sometimes earn more than the average American, and sometimes benefit from pricey defined-benefit pensions and union backing. With ...
• New Report Accuses CIA Doctors of Experimenting on ...
  Physicians for Human Rights, an anti-torture non-governmental association, synthesizes a bunch of publicly available information to draw a gruesome conclusion: Medical personnel who participated in the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogations” for terrorism detainees are guilty of “complicity ...
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  Following deadly mine disasters in the last decade, MSHA's internal investigators concluded that although the agency made significant mistakes, it was not to blame for the accidents.

Digg Green

• Australia Recruiting Tourists as Toad Killers
  Tourists will have the chance to take part in toad-killing safaris, under a shock new plan to lure tourists to Australia, The Northern Territory News reported in its Friday edition. Officials in the country's Northern Territory believe the proposal will swell visitor numbers while helping to curb th ...
• Is Natural Gas the Answer...or a gamble?
  Is natural gas the answer to the nation's energy dilemma, or at least a bridge to a more sustainable future? With the discovery of new drilling techniques that can extract natural gas from deep shale formations, advocates see a new, 100-year supply of domestic fuel that is cleaner than coal and less ...
• Oil Touches Down on Florida Beaches
  PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Charlie Crist came to Pensacola Beach on Saturday and brought tropical troubadour Jimmy Buffett with him to drive home the message that Florida's beaches are open. What he didn't say is that the famed white-sand beaches are the defense of last resort against tar bal ...
• Are Contractors Hiring Criminals to Clean the Oil ...
  "The last count that I had, there were about 180-plus workers that were asked to leave because of criminal histories that they had outstanding issues with, criminal violations that were drawing quite a bit of concerns for the locals in those communities," said Councilman Chris Roberts. BP has declin ...
• '60s Propaganda Vid: Oysters Love Crude Oil
  "Scientists" in the video conduct a series of tests and find that after dumping oil drill mud, crude oil, and other harmful products on a tank of oysters, the oysters have "never been happier."

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

• Marijuana Delivery Services Evade Bans on Dispensa ...
  A flourishing and unregulated industry of pot delivery services is circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries and bringing medical marijuana directly to Californians' homes.
• 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.

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

• World’s First Hotel Made of Garbage Rises in Rome
  Inhabitat reader Joann Plockova writes to tell us about Rome’s newest attraction – the world’s first hotel made entirely of garbage! The Save The Beach Hotel ain’t pretty, but neither will Europe’s beaches be if its citizens don’t start cleaning up. Designed by German artist H.A. Shult as part of a ...
• Artist Jan Vormann Uses Legos to ‘Repair’ War-Dama ...
  Nothing attests to humans’ instinctual love of making stuff and taking it apart more than the Lego brick. The plastic toy has been featured in films and music videos and is the basis of some serious modern art projects — including Jan Vormann’s ongoing “Dispatchwork” pieces in Berlin and Bocchignano ...
• The 2010 Buckminster Fuller Institute 2010 Challen ...
  Buckminster Fuller was an amazing visionary of a man: architect, engineer and one of the first true “green designers” of the modern era, so it should come as no surprise that we’re big fans of the man here at Inhabitat. In 1983 the Buckminster Fuller Institute was established by Bucky’s family to c ...
• The Top 12 Brands and Retailers Scooping Up Organi ...
  With the latest release of Organic Exchange’s annual ranking of the top purchasers of organic cotton, we were more than pleased to hear that even in the face of a troubled economy, the global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textiles reached an estimated $4.3 billion—a 35 percent incr ...
• Flexible OLEDs Could Lead to Sony Computer “Bracel ...
  It’s quite baffling how far technology has come over the last few years. Thin, slim, high-def, flexible, this function and that… even the most tech-savvy person has gotta find it hard to keep up with all this. Well, there’s no stopping progress, and Sony has just previewed its new conceptual, solar ...

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

• Washington's Choices: Status Quo, Break with Israe ...
  In yesterday's New York Times , White House Correspondent Helene Cooper addresses one of the difficult questions that the recent Flotilla row between Israel and Turkey poses to American officials: what to do about the fact that Israeli policies seem to be having increasingly negative consequences ...
• Government Tries to Disarm Diyala Sons of Iraq
  In June 2010 when the Sons of Iraq (SOI) in Diyala province went to pick up their May paychecks, they were told by the military that they had to turn in their old identification badges, and get new ones that did not allow them to carry weapons . The order came down from the Defense Ministry in Baghd ...
• Iranian Red Crescent to Send Its Own Flotilla
  After an uncharacteristically restrained response to Israel's attack on the Gaza flotilla , Iran seems intent on stealing some of Turkey's thunder. The Iranian Red Crescent announced late Sunday that two ships carrying humanitarian aid will leave for Gaza "in the coming days." But the ships won ...
• Israel as a Strategic Liability?
  Israel as a Strategic Liability? America's ties to Israel are not based primarily on U.S. strategic interests. At the best of times, an Israeli government that pursues the path to peace provides some intelligence, some minor advances in military technology, and a potential source of stabilizing mili ...
• An Arab Perspective on Turkey's Rise—and Iran's
  Rami Khouri published another provocatively insightful Op Ed in Beirut’s The Daily Star today—“Hittites with iPods:  Why Turkey Matters”, focusing on the rising regional standing of two of the Middle East’s “non-Arab” powers—Turkey and Iran—and the decline of a third (Israel).  We do not agree with ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Report: U.S. Experimented On Terror Detainees.
  When the torture memos were released, one of the things I noticed was that the authors used the presence of physicians in interrogations as alibis. The presence of the doctors was meant as proof of the U.S. officials "good faith belief" that they didn't mean to inflict "severe physical or mental suf ...
• Putting Arizona's SB 1070 on Hold.
  The avalanche of lawsuits began as soon as Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona's immigration-enforcement bill on April 23. By my count, five have been filed so far, with a new one springing up every week or so. Usually, civil-rights lawsuits revolve around a tight coalition of advocacy groups and a caref ...
• Blowback 101.
  Two New Jersey men, Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte , were arrested at JFK airport yesterday on suspicion of trying to join Al-Shabaab, the Somali terrorist group that has been affiliated with al Qaeda. I've written about this before, but in light of the arrests it's worth pointing ...
• 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 ...

Andy Worthington

• Quarterly Fundraising Appeal: Please Support my Gu ...
  Please support my work! Every three months I appeal for financial support to help me continue my research into Guantánamo and related issues (including secret prisons and the British anti-terror laws), and the articles that I write on a daily basis. If you can help out at all, please click on ...
• New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involv ...
  In a 27-page report, “Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program” (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights has brought into sharp focus the role played by US medical personnel in torture and human exper ...
• No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in U ...
  In 2002, when Guantánamo opened, 22 Uighurs (Muslims from China’s oppressed Xinjiang province) were held in the prison, even though interrogators in Afghanistan (where the prisoners were processed for Guantánamo) had already realized that they had no connection to al-Qaeda or the Taliban. The men we ...
• Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to G ...
  On Radio Australia’s show “Pacific Beat,” reporter Sean Dorney traveled to the small Pacific island nation of Palau to discuss an appeal to the Australian government, made by Palau’s President Johnson Toribiong, asking Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to accept for permanent resettlement six Uighurs (Musli ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Trucks Could Be Next Electric Power Frontier
  With fuel costs a driving factor, analysts predict a surge of hybrid electric trucks and buses on the road in coming years. Electricity - Electric vehicle - Hybrid vehicle - Energy - Technology
• Inventor Turned Up Energy Savings by Dimming the L ...
  Joel Spira was aiming for mood lighting when he invented the solid-state light dimmer switch. More than 50 years later, his company, Lutron, is recognized as an energy efficiency pioneer. Lutron Electronics Company - Dimmer - Technology - Efficient energy use - Energy
• 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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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

• Anti-Immigration ‘Labor’ Group Misleads on Job Los ...
  A front group for several nativist organizations is airing television ads in Arizona that link undocumented immigrants to high unemployment. The Coalition for the Future American Worker is trying to capitalize on momentum from the harsh new Arizona law targeting undocumented immigrants, according to ...
• An Irritated World Net Daily Denounces Terrible Re ...
  For an organization that loathes the mainstream media, World Net Daily sure craves their acceptance. The book publishing division of the far-right, Obama-obsessed organization released a new title about the president last week and it’s furious about the contempt with which major news organizations h ...
• Fox Uses Dubious Stats to Demonize Undocumented Im ...
  Fox News made the alarming claim this morning that 2,158 Americans are murdered every year by undocumented immigrants. Problem is, it’s almost certainly wrong . In response to our request for comment, a Fox News spokeswoman said she would look into precisely where that number came from. (We will upd ...
• Strange Bedfellows See Affirmative Action in Beaut ...
  Does an ardent Jewish neo-conservative ever agree with an anti-Semite who despises neo-conservatives? We didn’t think so, until the Miss USA contest showed that Muslim-bashing author Daniel Pipes and racist radio host James Edwards do indeed share some common ground. The men suggested on their respe ...
• Louisiana KKK Leader Pleads Guilty to Killing Recr ...
  The murder trial of Louisiana klansman Raymond âChuckâ Foster ended abruptly Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of a new recruit and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. Fosterâs plea brings an end to a case in which seven people were arrested initi ...

change: org.

• The Reasons "Code for America" is a BFD
  The most fun soundbyte of the healthcare debate ended up coming from the ever-quotable Vice President Joe Biden, who at a press conference leaned over to the President and said -- clearly for the Commander-in-Chief's ears only -- "This is a big f***ing deal." A new program to connect web coders with ...
• Introducing Portugal's First Married Same-Sex Coup ...
  And then there were eight ... eight countries where same-sex couples can legally get married, that is. Portugal became number eight today after same-sex marriage legislation cleared all potential hurdles and took effect. One lesbian couple grabbed the spotlight, becoming the country's first same-sex ...
• Australia Takes Japan to Court for Killing Whales
  In a time when we seem to be going backwards on protecting whales, it's good to see that some nations, like Australia, still get it.  The land down under is taking Japan to court over Japan's International Whaling Commission-sanctioned whale kills, conducted in the name of "research." The victims of ...
• Demand New York Prevent Wrongful Convictions
  How many innocent people are incarcerated in New York prisons? Hundreds? Thousands? We have no way of knowing just how many have been wrongfully convicted — though we do know that the 26 who've previously been exonerated in New York are just the tip of the iceberg. We also know that we can fight tho ...
• Lesbians Do It Better (Raise Kids, That Is)
  Remember that song from Annie Get Your Gun , "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better?" Well, there's no word on whether lesbian parents bake better pies, but a new study out today in Pediatrics says they may do one thing better than straight folks: raise kids that are happy, healthy, and chockful of se ...

Common Dreams -News

• Surging Costs Hit Food Security in Poorer Nations
  by Joe MacDonald Families from Pakistan to Argentina to Congo are being battered by surging food prices that are dragging more people into poverty, fueling political tensions and forcing some to give up eating meat, fruit and even tomatoes. Scraping to afford the next meal is still a grim daily real ...
• Public Employee Unions: The Great American Scapego ...
  by Maggie Haberman and Ben Smith Spurred by state budget crunches and an angry public mood, Republican and some Democratic leaders are focusing with increasing intensity on public workers and the unions that represent them, casting them as overpaid obstacles to good government and demanding cuts in ...
• Santa Barbara: The Spill That Energized a Movement ...
  by Rob Reynolds The pictures looked so familiar - the ruined rig, a spreading stain of oil, birds and wildlife dying, a massive effort to clean up the deadly spill. But instead of depicting the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, the photographs I was looking at in the library of the Santa Bar ...
• Ex-Union Carbide Officials Jailed over Bhopal Leak
  India - A court Monday found the Indian unit of U.S. chemicals firm Union Carbide guilty of negligence and sentenced seven Indian former employees to two years in jail over one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands in 1984. A Union Carbide plant in the central city of Bhop ...
• Report says Doctors Helped Refine Harsh Methods
  by Kimberly Dozier WASHINGTON — A prominent physicians group is charging that medical personnel were used to test and refine the effectiveness of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques for terror detainees in U.S. custody under the guise of safeguarding their health. read more

Lifehacker

• The Complete Guide to Creating a Consolidated, Mas ...
  Ever wanted to consolidate all your contacts—from Google Contacts, Facebook, LinkedIn, your desktop address book, and your phone—into one comprehensive bucket you can effortlessly sync and export anywhere? You've come to the right place. Mo ...
• ScrollyFox Automates Firefox Scrolling for Hands-F ...
  Firefox: If you spend time reading lengthy text on the web ScrollyFox is a handle tool to automatically scroll the page down for you. More�� Firefox - Browsers - Clients - WWW - Add-on
• A Dozen Plants that Clean Indoor Air [Workspace]
  We've previously suggested a simple trifecta of plants to improve your indoor air quality. A dig into a NASA study into air quality in confined spaces yields at least nine more plants that clean, humidify, and dust-filter your home or office a ...
• RoboForm Bookmarklets Auto-Fill Passwords on Mobil ...
  RoboForm , one of our readers' favorite password managers , has issued a batch a mobile-friendly bookmarklets for iPhones, Android devices, and Opera Mobile on Windows Mobile phones. While RoboForm also has apps for devices like the iPhone, th ...
• Use Vegetable Oil to Keep Lids from Sticking Shut ...
  Honey, maple syrup, and other sticky solutions can be very, very hard to open up after a few uses, as their contents start to lock up their lids. A paper towel and a smidge of vegetable oil can fix that. More�� Vegetabl ...

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

• Bob Williams: Will Sacramento pin water bill on no ...
  The water wars of California involve the amount of water available for different uses, quality of the water, and environmental issues such as declining salmon populations. Conflicting claims bedevil each issue.
• Futile water wars
  As was to be expected, the three-day Indo-Pak water talks in New Delhi last week failed to deliver any positive outcome. Pakistan had raised the pitch on the water issue in recent months, and it was not about to lower it after a routine meeting of the Permanent Indus Water Commission.
• 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

• NINJA'd
  Arnold Kling talks about predatory borrowing.  This is an important aspect of the last bubble.  It w
• Why I'm Still Avoiding Banks
  This post from naked capitalism has been around for about a week now, but I think it’s still p
• Weekly Update 7th - 11th June
  Unlike developed economies market that closed in red, our market closed in the positive on the back
• Israeli Stocks Higher; Banks Up, Tech Lower
  TEL AVIV — Israeli stocks were higher on Monday, led by strength in the banks while a number o
• Nowcasting consumption with Google
  Another paper finds that Google trends data are useful for improving nowcasts (meaning forecasts of

Electronic Intifada

• Israel's attack on Flotilla violates international ...
  In the aftermath of Israel's 31 May attack on the Freedom Flotilla that left nine dead and scores wounded, each side claimed their actions were protected under international law. W ...
• What happened to us is happening in Gaza
  In the predawn hours of 31 May, I was aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara , part of a convoy of humanitarian vessels aiming to deliver aid to besieged civilians in Gaza, when we w ...
• 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Taliban can join Afghan reconciliation, says US
  The US backs the inclusion of Taliban insurgents into an eventual Afghan reconciliation process if they agree to certain conditions, including breaking off any relations with Al Qaeda, a US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan said Monday.
• Five soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  Five soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed Sunday in Afghanistan, Xinhua reported.
• Afghan Government Defends Controversial Firing of ...
  Karzai Replaces Top Officials Following Taliban Attack The Afghan government is defending President Hamid Karzai's decision on Sunday to fire two of the country's top security officials because of las...
• Pakistan, Afghanistan condemn deadly Israel aid at ...
  Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan condemned on Monday Israel for its recent deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Foreign ministers of Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan met in Istanbul on the side...
• Statement by the Minister of National Defence on t ...
  The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, issued the following statement today on the death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan: "On behalf of the Defence family, I extend my deepes...

Futurismic

• Space is the place, redux
  Seeing as how SpaceX managed to pull off the first commercial rocket launch to reach orbit over the weekend, I figure we’re allowed to get a bit excited about space again… it’s a welcome distraction from the World Cup, if nothing else. It might have been even more of a distraction to our antipodean ...
• Maybe it doesn’t matter that the internet is ...
  High-profile internet-nay-sayer and technology curmudgeon Nick Carr is cropping up all over the place; these things happen when one has a new book in the offing, y’know*. He’s the guy who claims that Google is making us stupid, that links embedded in HTML sap our ability to read and understand writt ...
• Personal Information: episode 16
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 16 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0. ...
• 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 ...

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

• Bulgarian Chess Tournament Organizers Sue Website ...
  Some days you just shake your head in disbelief. A year ago, we wrote about a Bulgarian chess federation was demanding that websites stop broadcasting what moves were happening in its chess tournament, claiming it was a copyright violation. As we noted at the time, you're not supposed to be able t ...
• Is The Internet Making People Dumber... Or Is Nick ...
  Well, you had to know this was coming. With the release of Nick Carr's latest book, The Shallows -- basically an extended riff on his silly and easily debunked article from The Atlantic a few years ago -- Carr is now getting plenty of press coverage for his claims. However, like Jaron Lanier befor ...
• Because One Paywall Sorta Worked Very Briefly Many ...
  Pickle Monger points us to this hilarious and uninformed piece by Sean Coughlan, at the BBC, which talks up the brilliance of paywalls and mocks the "digital hippies" who believe in free. Amusing, of course, that he's writing this for a free online publication. Damn digital hippy. Coughlan uses a ...
• Success Of Free D&D Online Leads To Free Lord Of T ...
  Slashdot points us to the news that Turbine is now planning to offer their Lord of the Rings Online as free to play starting this fall. This follows last year's decision to turn Dungeons and Dragons online into a free offering , which actually resulted in a massive increase in revenue . Nice to se ...
• Once Again, Court Says If There's No Real Harm, Th ...
  Way back in 2006, we noted a series of cases where people had brought lawsuits over claimed "privacy" breaches, involving lost or leaked data, where the courts repeatedly ruled that if there was no evidence that the leaked data was used for nefarious purposes, there was no case . Odd that this appl ...

VacTruth

• The independent experts advising on vaccine polici ...
  Christina England American Chronicle 06/06/2010 Conflicts of interest run high in the field of vaccines and it is becoming increasingly obvious that the very experts asked to give advice on vaccines are sleeping with the drugs companies that manufacturer them, leaving the USA public with the huge d ...
• CDC confirms effectiveness of HPV vaccine in men
  Alice Park blogs.Time.com 05/27/2010 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed its provisional recommendation from 2009 that the HPV vaccine (Gardasil) against human papillomavirus infection is both safe and effective in males in preventing genital warts. The HPV vaccine was ap ...
• Vaccine global criminal cabal exposed
  Deborah Dupre Human Rights Examiner 06/04/2010 Evidence of the global criminal cabal conducting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine operation was revealed this week. The evidence shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) knew Big Pharma paid swine flu scientists for data used to declare a pandemic. Mil ...
• New vaccine doses arrive, but no takers for first ...
  Pritha Chatterjee The Indian Express 06/06/2010 H1N1 Authorities say medics showed no interest in earlier vaccination A day after the civic-run Kasturba Hospital received 2,000 doses of the indigenous H1N1 vaccine, doctors at the hospital admitted that the earlier batch of imported vaccines meant f ...
• ‘WHO overplayed swine flu threat’
  Rema Nagarajan The Times of India 06/05/2010 In a strong indictment of the World Health Organization, a report prepared for the Council of Europe has said WHO wasted large sums of public money by raising unjustified fears of ‘‘a pandemic that never really was’’ and expressed concern over the influe ...

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

• `The Awakening of a Great People'
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• There Is a Limit to a Tyrant's Power! The Global M ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• Get the Brits Out of Our Gulf: Send Obama to the Q ...
  By Laurence Hecht Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• On the Urgent Ouster of President Barack Obama: Ou ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22
• Israel Can't Get Away with the `Holocaust Victim' ...
  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

• MIT Plan to Slash Energy Consumption on Campus Cou ...
  MIT plans to cut their energy use by 15 percent in three years. Photo by Francisco Diez via Flickr. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is partnering with NSTAR , a
• McDonald's Goes A Little Bit McLocal
  Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan. Image: chairman moneko via Flickr In January, McDonald's Italy announced the launch of its McItaly menu. The burger giant has always offered different menus throughout the world to cater to local tastes so it's no real surprise that they've chosen Italy - a na ...
• Katharine Hamnett Designs Timely "Save The Sea" Sl ...
  Credit: Karel Losenicky/ Yoox via Kaight NYC Katherine Hamnett , the original eco-warrior fashionista, has designed a capsule beachwear collection with Yoox just in time to make a big splash t... Read the full story on TreeHugger
• San Francisco Bay Area Marine Sanctuaries Project ...
  Photo: Chad King, via sanctuarysimon.org On Thursday, the California Academy of Sciences kicked off its Oceans Conference with a recently released report on the impacts of climate change on the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries. The impacts report is a first step ...
• London's Green Olympics are Looking Brown
  Image from London2012 : Olympic Park London's 2012 Olympic pledge, to be the greenest Olympic Games ever, started with great enthusiasm. But some wondered about that goal when McDonalds was announced as the official supplier of food. Then came the stories of construction going over-budget ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• 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

• Russia already benefiting from Olympic development ...
  Russia is already reaping the benefits of developments in the southern city of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said on Monday.
• Cash needed for Russian police reform - Medvedev
  Carrying out necessary reforms on the Russian Police Department will require considerable federal funds, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
• Wakeboarders turn somersaults at new Moscow water ...
  Russia’s first wakeboard park has opened in Strogino, Moscow, providing a place for extreme wakeboarders to perform their stunts.
• NATO-Ukraine cooperation to continue - Rasmussen
  NATO-Ukraine cooperation will continue within the framework of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, the Alliance's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
• Medvedev tells government to draft new policy on e ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the government and nongovernmental organizations to develop a draft framework for the country's environmental policy for the next 20 years, the Kremlin said on Monday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• URGENT: Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft lands in ...
  The recovery capsule of Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 piloted spacecraft carrying three cosmonauts has landed in Kazakhstan.
• Russia needs long-term space strategy to remain co ...
  Russia needs a long-term space strategy, otherwise it may lose its leadership in the space exploration sphere.
• Medvedev submits bill on Skolkovo high-tech resear ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the Skolkovo high-tech research hub, which is being built from scratch 20 km west of Moscow.
• Russia, U.S. to create first joint satellite navig ...
  The Russian Space Systems corporation and the U.S. Trimble Navigation Group have signed an agreement to create a joint satellite navigation venture in Russia, the Russian company has said
• NASA scientists discover evidences of life on Satu ...
  NASA scientists have discovered evidences of life on Saturn's moon, Titan.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Abbreviated “power outage during usual blogging time” edition. To the extent that Barack Obama is expanding the nature and scope of America’s use of violence he is a much, much more lawless and bellicose president than his predecesso ...
• 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 ?

Natural Health News

• Obesity Takes Toll After 40
  A new finding suggests that obesity may affect your health the most after age 40. A study compared medications taken by normal weight, overweight and obese Americans ages 25 to 70. While obese people of all ages took slightly more medications than those of normal weight, the differences were mainly ...
• Some Protein Drinks Could Poison You
  Consumer Reports purchased 15 protein powders and drinks and tested multiple samples of each for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury.  Levels in several of the products could, with just three servings a day, result in daily exposure to arsenic, cadmium, or lead exceeding USP limits. When taking in ...
• 11 Practical Ways to Stop Procrastination
  Break your work into little steps . Part of the reason you procrastinate is because subconsciously you find the work too overwhelming. Change your environment . Different environments have different impacts on your productivity. Create a detailed timeline with specific deadlines . Ha ...
• New Cancer Guidelines: Exercise During and After T ...
  Cancer patients should not avoid exercise; they can and should find ways to be physically active both during and after treatment, according to new U.S. guidelines. The research of Dr. Kathryn Schmitz, which had already research reversed decades of cautionary exercise advice given to breast cancer p ...
• 1 in 5 High School Students Abuse Prescription Dru ...
  According to a new report, twenty percent of high school students have taken a prescription drug that they didn't get from a doctor. The abused drugs include pain pills and attention deficit drugs used as study aids. USA Today reports: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s ...

Antemedius

• The Abooman Women’s Group: Working Together to Imp ...
  This is the fourth in a five-part series of my visit with the Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development and the projects they support in southern Ghana. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . The Abooman Women’s Group in southern Ghana, “sta ...
• Romney, Palin Fight for Republican Party Control
  When Mitt Romney sought to help embattled senators in Utah and Arizona the issue went well beyond those preferences. What was at stake and continues to be the major issue that Romney confronts as a Republican presidential aspirant in a party where a major ideological confrontation is in vigorous pro ...
• BP, Bad Processes And Profit Equal Disaster
  While all the facts are yet to be disclosed or discovered in about what led up to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, the subsequent sinking shows that there was a shocking lack of quality control or even process control. Even though there was a fractured structure with BP contracting with T ...
• The Sword's Edge: Obama And Big Oil
  Antonia Juhasz is the author of The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time and most recently, The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It . Almost 2 years ago Juhasz talked with The Real News Network about the oil industry in America and ar ...
• 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 ...

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

• More about Jews, less about Israel
  A Zionist commenter threw Helen Thomas’ remarks about Israel in my face the other night and in all candor I could not detect any hate in her remarks, just the same disgust most of us feel when Israel murders people in some bizarre manifestation of their 24/7/52 defense of Greater Israel (leibensraum ...
• The BP-Zionist-G20 hydra
  Israel has rejected the UN’s proposal for a joint Gaza flotilla investigation to be conducted by Israel, the U.S. and Turkey. Of course they have. Who the fuck are the Turks and Americans to interfere with Israel’s own investigation as to why they just murdered eight Turks and one American in intern ...
• Young Wege
  Via a cousin in Texas, here’s a picture of me I’d never seen before. Not sure, but I think I’m playing with my Gameboy while waiting for the Rev. Farrakhan to get done speaking. And yes, I got bored with the old theme and am switching over to Rubric.
• MV Rachel Corrie boarded without loss of life
  Somehow, at enormous risk to themselves, IDF forces backed by two Israeli warships successfully boarded and inspected the the unarmed relief ship MV Rachel Corrie at 5 a.m. this morning, Israeli time. Its eleven passengers put up no resistance, as promised. Turkey is now investigating this week’s ea ...
• 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 ...

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

• Food for Thought and Action: PANG Food Sovereignty ...
  The Pacific Food Summit, 21-23 April, Port Vila, Vanuatu, has brought together leaders from across the Pacific: from governments, industry, NGOs, development agencies, the media and community groups, in recognition that a radical rethink is necessary in order to improve food security for the Pa ...
• 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 ...

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

• Men arrested at JFK bound for terror group
  ShareThis Men arrested at JFK bound for terror group 07 Jun 2010 Two New Jersey men were arrested late on Saturday at a New York airport trying to catch flights for meetings with militant groups in Somalia with the intent to kill people, authorities said on Sunday. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of Nor ...
• Jihadi Calls For 'Suspicious Bags' to Be Left Thro ...
  ShareThis Jihadi Calls For 'Suspicious Bags' to Be Left Throughout DC and NYC --FBI Warns of Potential New Terror Tactic As Summer Tourist Season Begins 07 Jun 2010 A recent internal FBI report warns federal, state and local authorities to be alert for a potential new tool in the jihadi CIA false fl ...
• Cleaning the Oil-Drenched Pelicans
  ShareThis Cleaning the Oil-Drenched Pelicans 07 Jun 2010 Vegetable oil and diluted dish detergent are used to clean�the birds. (ABC News video)
• Obama told how bad Gulf oil spill would be days af ...
  ShareThis Obama told how bad Gulf oil spill would be days after BP's rig exploded: report 05 Jun 2010 As criticism of the Obama administration's response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf, a new report claims the president was told by a government official in April just how much damage BP's explo ...
• Bomber hits Iraq police station
  ShareThis Bomber hits Iraq police station 06 Jun 2010 A suicide car bomber has killed at least four policemen and injured 10 outside a police station in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, an official in the interior ministry has said. The attacker drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a gathering of ...

Daily Loaf

• The NBA fan’s newfound obsession with Rajon Rondo
  How a young kid from Louisville is slowly becoming the best point guard in the NBA
• Mighty Mongo was a big bang at Got Jokes? season f ...
  Got Jokes? Entertainment hosted the season two finale of their Big Bang Show this past Thursday, June 3, at St. Petersburg’s NOVA 535, with a lineup of five of the Bayâs most impressive talents vying for the $1,000 cash prize. This reporter was sure that Mark Byrne âThe Balloon Guyâ secured ...
• CL Party Pics: The Castle’s third annual Beach Par ...
  Last Sunday, May 30, The Castle in Ybor City hosted their third annual Memorial Day Beach Party. The Castle staff put on one badass beach party, equipped with an inflatable pool, a sprinkler system, music and endless amounts of booze. The Party: The Castle’s third annual Memorial Day Beach Party w ...
• “Seafood sniffers” deployed to Gulf states to moni ...
  Now that the Gulf has been subjected to almost two months of oil contamination and with fishermen still bringing in their catch, one might ask, "How safe is this seafood now and how is it being tested?"
• The Battle of Upham Beach, part 2: The great sand ...
  If the groins are not affecting the sand down drift at Upham, does that imply the structures are not holding the sand as they were designed to do and costing more taxpayer dollars for upkeep?

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Pixies Cancel Concert in response to Gaza Freedom ...
  By Jesse Bacon I wrote earlier about how moved I was by the call for the Pixies to cancel their concert in Israel. What my blog post could not accomplish by itself, the Gaza Flotilla attack has. The Pixies have cancelled their concert, according to Ha’aretz. We can only hope for better days, in whic ...
• Bibi, Stop Racist Talk against Turks and Release A ...
  (expanded version of Occupation Magazine post) Today (Saturday), Israeli PM `Bibi` again claimed, in rather crude terms, that the reason why the IDF killed 9 activists on Monday but today boarded the MV Rachel Corrie peacefully, is because of “…the difference between a ship of peace activists, with ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Former Union Carbide employees get a mere 2 years ...
  Campaign groups representing survivors of the Bhopal disaster expressed outrage today at the “insulting” sentences given to seven men for their roles in the tragedy. The accused, several of them now in their 70s, were convicted of criminal negligence and sentenced to two years in prison but bailed p ...
• Bill Gates: Grid-scale renewable energy is decades ...
  Treehugger On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, GPS, Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the coming decade. Gates, normally sanguine on the power ...
• Sunday night science question
  As many of you know, I roast my own coffee beans in a small roaster. We recently moved from southern California to Utah, going from about sea level in elevation to 6,000 feet. In Utah the beans roast much faster than at sea level. This is with same beans, weight of beans, roasting time, and roaster. ...
• Ammonia. A sustainable carbon-free fuel
  Ammonia Fuel Network Mission: To promote the implementation of anhydrous ammonia as an affordable, sustainable, carbon-free fuel for transportation and stationary power applications, thereby enhancing economic security, reducing fossil-fuel dependence, and helping save the environment. Anhydrous a ...
• Another cropped Reuters photo deletes another knif ...
  OK, come on now. I mean, really. One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake. But now we have two pictures from the “peace activists” that were cropped by someone at Reuters to remove knives in the hands of the activists, as they attempted to take sol ...

Coteret

• Fellini in Bilin
  Watch this video from the suppression Friday’s  (June 4 2010) anti-Barrier protest at the West Bank village of Bilin. From 01:40 begins a scene which could have come straight from Satyricon: A group of helmeted, visored, and armored soldiers with long rectangular shields assaults a parade float o ...
• Hasbara Derangement Syndrome
  Watching yesterday’s (June 6 2010) Israeli Channel Ten TV evening news, I had the dubious pleasure of watching a Caroline Glick and her merry band of Hasbaristas celebrate. They were sitting around Glick’s kitchen table, clinking champagne glasses. At one point, the hostess banged on the table and a ...
• Caroline Glick’s “We Con the World&#82 ...
  On Friday (June 4 2010,) uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic published a post entitled Israel Derangement Syndrome III. It linked to We Con the World, a remarkable video clip produced by Latma, the right-wing satire project lead by Caroline Glick, who doubles as The Jerusalem Post’s De ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Kosovo, the CIA, the KLA, and the Afghan heroin dr ...
  Russia Today Two years ago a joke was being circulated on the Runet that a heroin producer has recognized its distributor’s independence. It was about Afghanistan, which was to the first to recognize the independence of the Serbian province of Kosovo which had illegally separated from Yugoslavia. Ko ...
• Deadly Jamaican Drug Gang Was Created By The CIA
  By Casey Gane-McCalla newsone.com - With the recent violence in Jamaica and the controversy over alleged drug lord, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, many people are talking about the infamous Jamaican Shower Posse and the neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens, where they have their base. What is being is being ig ...
• McKinney ‘Israel bought the executive branch ...
  McKinney ‘Israel bought the executive branch’ Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• This Day In History – June 7
  1099 â The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. 1494 â Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. 1776 â Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and ...
• Bilderberg 2010: The security lockdown begins
  It’s midday at the Bilderberg conference hotel â and that means helicopters, riot police and angry staff This is the second dispatch from Charlie Skelton’s Bilderblog. Read part one here . “Congratulations!” grinned the man in charge of this year’s Bilderberg conference, mustering as much sarcasm ...

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

• U.S. Intel Analyst Arrested Over Release of Combat ...
  A 22-year-old U.S. intelligence analyst has been arrested for allegedly giving classified combat footage of a U.S. helicopter crew killing civilians to Wikileaks , an online repository of leaked documents. The footage made international headlines because it appeared to show a helicopter crew deliber ...
• The Capitalist Conspiracy Against Glenn Beck
  As a shock jock radio DJ, Glenn Beck he called his rival's wife to make fun of her recent miscarriage on the air. It's that humanistic spirit that has suffuses Beck's broadcasting career to this day--whether he's ridiculing 11-year-old Malia Obama , stoking paranoia about "czars", shilling for gold ...
• 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, ...

Inside Facebook

• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, May 31st, 2010 Mindjolt Regains Its Mojo on This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU GameToyz Pairs Casual ...
• 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 ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: What the Spill Will Kill: Giant plumes o ...
  truthout: What the Spill Will Kill: Giant plumes of crude oil mixed with methane are sweeping the ocean depths ... http://bit.ly/bVNP5f #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Connie Schultz | We're in a New York Sta ...
  truthout: Connie Schultz | We're in a New York State of Mind -- Sort Of: Looks as if Ohio and New York have som... http://bit.ly/c1kCtn #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Who’s Afraid of Turkey?: Its Next ...
  truthout: Who’s Afraid of Turkey?: Its Next Move May Favor the West: Turkey is starting to scare Americans, for... http://bit.ly/9WwVCQ #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Howard Fineman | Showdown in Arizona: Ob ...
  truthout: Howard Fineman | Showdown in Arizona: Obama Must Pursue Immigration Reform: If there's one number tha... http://bit.ly/8XEAHu #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Dont Ask. Tell: Every gay-pride parade s ...
  truthout: Dont Ask. Tell: Every gay-pride parade seems to have its share of sailor suits, aviator sunglasses, a... http://bit.ly/b53X5U #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• What legitimacy does Israel have? UN recognition o ...
  Christopher King argues that beneath Israel’s litany of crimes against the Palestinians, and most recently its murder of humanitarian workers aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, lies the fact of its own illegality.
• Rise people, rise: call for zero tolerance of Isra ...
  Rich Wiles views Israel’s murder of peace activists aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla against the background of a long history of Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. He reminds us that, even as the world was mourning the murder of the peace activists, Israeli soldiers and settler ...
• 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.

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

• Should Black Women Stop Getting Abortions?
  Excellent article at The Black Love Speak Column. Although I am sharing it here, I encourage comments to be made also at the original article. If you live in Atlanta, Macon, or Augusta GA, you may have come across one of these signs. Black & Unwanted billboards are springing up in various areas of G ...
• Why is AU doing Bashir’s dirty laundry?
  This is none than African Union (AU) Chief Jean Ping. This gentleman originates from Gabon, the country that suffered a great deal more thanks to be manned and ruined by one dictator, that was succeeded by his son after his death. Thus, he’s suffering from this experience of being timid and an inst ...
• The Poured Out Life of Michael Jackson
  In the days since Michael Jackson passed, I have been thinking alot about his genius. He was a fantastic dancer and had an unmistakable and beautiful singing voice. I have enjoyed his talent since the beginning. I’m an old school fan having listened to “ABC” and the rest. He was also the greatest pe ...
• sat’day riddymz
  In memory and honor of the innocent people injured or killed in the recent conflict in Jamrock.
• 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 [...]

Expose the BNP

• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
• Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
  The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• SANE VS INSANE
• 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.

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

• Inside Iraq - Iraq Heads toward a Unity Government ...
  Eleven weeks after the March 7, 2010, elections, Iraq appears to be headed toward a sprawling "unity" government that values stability and inclusiveness over efficiency or decisiveness. Despite being an arguably safer bet for Iraq at a delicate and dangerous moment, this approach will pose several c ...
• Edge on Narco-trafficking - Drug Policy and Violen ...
  Two prevailing narratives have emerged in the American discourse over Mexico’s plague of drug violence. On the one hand, there are those who laud President Calderón’s hard-line anti-drug crusade while blaming Mexico’s plight entirely on Mexicans – on their “record of corrupt, weak and incompetent go ...
• The Hamas Flotilla - Video Shows Gaza Flotilla Att ...
  A� YouTube video shows members of the crew and activists on board the Turkish vessel "Mavi Marmara" repelling Israeli boarders before Israeli troops rappelled onto the ship that was attempting to take supplies to the Gaza Strip, in violation of the blockade imposed by both Israel and Egypt. The vid ...
• National Security on the Edge - Where is the Obama ...
  I had originally planned on writing an article about the National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair’s resignation on May 20th after only 16 months in that position, which came reportedly at President Barack Obama's request. Then, like any good plan following its agenda, only six days later the Assi ...
• The Hamas Flotilla - The Gaza Flotilla Prepared Fo ...
  At first glance, the takeover by the Israeli Navy of the “humanitarian flotilla” heading toward Gaza is just one more of the disputed crises between Israel and its foes. As in all previous incidents, the spiral of accusations will eventually reach bottom. While media attention will highlight the tac ...

High Country News

• A boring diagram
  An extraordinary 1,500-ton machine will create a new water intake from drought-stricken Lake Mead to thirsty Las Vegas
• Nature illiteracy
  Many hikers are obsessed about correct identification of flora and fauna, but a stalwart few are fine with simply seeing a bird as a bird.
• Everyone benefits from Indian education
  An innovative Montana program brings Native American culture and history into the state's classrooms.
• New world, new canvas
  Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe traces Basque history in arborglyphs on Western aspen trees.
• Notes from a Wyoming sheepwagon
  Laura Bell's new memoir, Claiming Ground, tells of her years spent working as a Wyoming sheepherder.

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 Should Not Be Fired
  I did not realize that it would become such a huge deal. Friday morning I received an email from a friend, Rabbi David Nessenoff which provided my first look at the video of the now famous explosive interview with Helen Thomas. David had sent the video to a friend at a newspaper who didn’t thin ...
• If They Don't Fool You They Can't Defeat You
  The more things change the more things stay the same, my friend Barry Rubin originally wrote this over two years ago in March 2008. With out changing a single word, it is very relevant to the situation in the Middle East today. Especially relevant is the third point which was, among other thi ...
• 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 ...

The Real Agenda

• A Pandemic of Corruption, not H1N1
  The findings revealed by Deborah Cohen, editor at the BMJ, and Philip Carter, a journalist who works for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, were not only not denied by the head of the WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, but also defended and justified.
• The Psychopathic Criminal Enterprise Called Americ ...
  Most Americans know that politicians make promises they never fulfill; few know that politicians make promises they lack the means to fulfill, as President Obama's political posturing on the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico makes perfectly clear.
• The Big Red Bear is Waking up and It Will Affect U ...
  "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to d ...
• Russian Study: GMO Foods linked to long term steri ...
  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. The scientists used hamsters for this research and divided them into groups. One group of hamsters was fed a normal diet without any soy p ...
• Fidel Castro: Obama may attack Iran to win second ...
  Former Cuban President Fidel Castro believes if United States President Barack Obama orders a nuclear strike of Iran, he will win a second term. He also believes the U.S. could attack North Korea soon.

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

• And behold, a Star fell from the heavens onto the ...
  To be fair, the second picture isn’t of the BP spill, it’s the Ixtoxl spill. Which is the name of a MesoAmerican religious figure. And, yes, this one is for the Drill, Baby, Drill! Palin fans. Since she is a Lay Minister in a Pentecost church, something the Assemblies of God churches used to stric ...
• How Does It Feel?
  So I’ve been letting this ferment for about a week. Good Morning America had a session about “Money in Your Closet” which wasn’t aimed to the vast majority of Americans who make substantially less than “Average Income”. How to sell your “old, broken or unwanted gold” was part of it, the one Case In ...
• BP spends Billion Pounds advertising how much good ...
  I saw the commercial once today already. Just that one instance on every for-profit network in America must have cost a pretty Billion. I didn’t time it, perhaps if I looked it up on youtube or BBC? But there’s not much point. It was much longer than your usual commercial. A thirty second slot at [ ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Debunking the Debunkers' Free Fall Fallacies
  One central argument debunkers have raised over the years is that the WTC buildings could not have been brought down with explosives because that would have caused the buildings fall in free fall. However, a video made by debunker AlienEntity actually disproved the notion that free fall is a necc ...
• SEC Found No Sign 9/11 Conspirators Traded on Plot
  Nobody at 911blogger.com as of me posting this is impressed , however on March 7 of this year I stated that I thought this issue had been effectively debunked . SEC Found No Sign 9/11 Conspirators Traded on Plot Joseph Schuman aolnews.com (April 30) -- Nearly nine years, two recessions and thou ...
• Google Books: Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer ...
  Click here to read some of the book for free on Google Books. Much more of the content can be accessed by using the "search in this book" box located on the left-hand side. For instance, the search query "NIST" yields 34 viewable pages. Excerpt: Debunking 9/11 Debunking - "Experts" Note: I do not ...
• Bias and 911 Truth/Skeptics
  rsolgtp YouTube.com May 02, 2010 Video response to " Defusing Nanothermite: Integrity. " Bias rules over peer review. Related Info: Nanothermite Debunking Rebuttal - deRoy What you need to know about "Peer-review"
• Hypothesis Trailer
  Steven Jones says: "I appreciate when people react and they say, well... scientifically, how about (insert) somebody elses explanation for freefall speed. But if you just say you're a nutty heretic... then I say, well, no I'm not." Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog says : "I'm sorry to sa ...

Fooducate

• 9 Tips For Choosing a Better Salad Dressing
  Spring will shortly turn to summer and salad season is shifting into full gear. With plenty of fresh greens at reasonable prices, there is really no excuse not to get your daily (or twice daily) fix. Build a meal around a good mix of leafy vegetables with the usual assortment of tomatoes, cucumbers ...
• Is This Why We’re So Fat?
  The current edition of the  Journal of the American Dietetic Association includes an interesting study reviewing food commercials on TV. Over a 4 week time period, researchers taped food advertisements during 84 hours of prime time TV and 12 on Saturday mornings. In 3000 ads, 800 food items were p ...
• 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 ...

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

• Communication
  As I surf around the blogs of my newly acquired Opera friends, I see how their posts reflect ideas, beliefs, maxims, thoughts, emotions etc. drawn either from a more philosophical or a more real-life context, depending on each person’s composure. That’s normal – even typical. At the same time, tha ...
• 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 ...

Survival International

• Botswana Bushmen appeal to Prince William
  The Bushmen have appealed to Prince William for help. © Survival The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have appealed to Prince William ahead of his visit to Botswana this month. In a letter to the prince, the Bushmenâs organization, First People of the Kalahari , said, âLast ...
• Indian fishing ritual recognized as cultural herit ...
  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 ...
• Violence against tribes opposing British companies ...
  Armed police face down demonstrators in Chandia village, Kalinganagar, in India's Odisha state. © Samadrusti Survival has called for an urgent investigation into the increased violence against tribal peoples in the state of Odisha, India. Police have fired into crowds demonstrating against UK- ...
• Reports condemn appalling situation of the Guarani
  Guarani mother and child © João Ripper/Survival Two recently published reports say that the Guarani Indians of Mato Grosso do Sul state in Brazil live in terrible conditions and that it is crucial that their ancestral lands be mapped out and legally recognized. The first report, issued by Br ...
• Bushmen take Botswana government to court over wat ...
  The Kalahari Bushmen are going to court over their right to access water. © Survival Kalahari Bushmen are taking the government of Botswana to court over its refusal to allow them access to a water borehole on their land. The case is due to be heard at Botswana’s High Court in Lobatse on 9 Ju ...

Greg Palast

• Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
  Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...
• Stop Feeding the Vultures
  by Greg Palast for In These Times I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in. I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture ...
• Vulture Financier AttacksBanned in Britain
  by Greg Palast April 8 - London - Update for In These Times We've stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the British Isles. The law, merely awaits the expected touch of the Queen's scepter. "Vulture funds" are int ...
• Heart of Coal
  by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse We've seen this dreadful movie before. In 2005, another coal mine in West Virginia imploded. We wrote about it then .... War is hell, especially class war. Just ask the Sago mine workers. Billionaire Wilbur Ross purchased Sago of West Virginia in November 200 ...
• Behind the Arizona Immigration Law:GOP Game to Swi ...
  Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law. by Greg Palast for Truthout.org [Phoenix, AZ.] Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• 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.

Ian Welsh

• One reason why Hooverism is on the rise
  As the G20 votes for global Hoverism, aka: disaster, a friend asked why Hooverism is spreading so widely.  Part of the answer has to do with elites, and I’ll deal with that another time, but let’s talk about why the public supports belt-tightening. The belief amongst the public, I suspect, is that ...
• Making videoing cops illegal doesn’t make th ...
  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 [... ...
• One reason why Hooverism is on the rise
  As the G20 votes for global Hoverism, aka: disaster, a friend asked why Hooverism is spreading so widely.  Part of the answer has to do with elites, and I’ll deal with that another time, but let’s talk about why the public supports belt-tightening. The belief amongst the public, I suspect, is that ...
• Making videoing cops illegal doesn’t make the US a ...
  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, ...

Age of Autism

• Imus in the Morning To Feature Dr. Andrew Wakefiel ...
  Don Imus is featuring Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Dierdre Imus on Tuesday morning at 7:30am live on his radio program, which is also simulcast on Fox Business. The tentative airtime is 7:30am EDT, however, this can change, so set your...
• Dateline NBC's Dr. Andrew Wakefield & Vaccine Inju ...
  Managing Editor's Note: You can read Dr. Wakefield's complete analysis of the "Lancet 12" in his new book, Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing. Visit Dr. Wakefield's website HERE. By Tim Kasemodel On Monday, May 24, 2010, Dr. Andrew Wakefield was...
• Dr. Andrew Wakefield Tells the Complete Story in C ...
  Managing Editor's Note: You can read Dr. Wakefield's complete analysis of the "Lancet 12" in his new book, Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing. Visit Dr. Wakefield's website HERE. By Anne Dachel The May 30, 2010 Dateline was a repeat of...
• Recap: The 4D Conference, Wisconsin Dells
  By Anne Dachel We had a marvelous time earlier this month at the Kalahari Resort Hotel in one of the best tourist spots in the state of Wisconsin , aptly named, Wisconsin Dells. In addition to the beautiful natural scenery...
• Joanna Weiss on "Autism's Unblessed Scientists"
  Managing Editor's Note: This post is from Boston.com. Click the link to comment at Boston.com please. Autisms ‘unblessed’ scientists By Joanna Weiss Globe Columnist / June 1, 2010 Last Tuesday, British officials revoked the medical license of Andrew Wakefield, the...

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In drastic green energy proposal, U.S. pays most

Reuters

- Jun 07, 2010

- 6 hours ago

OSLO (Reuters) - The world could generate 95 percent of electricity from renewable energies by 2050 in a drastic shift from fossil fuels, with the United ...

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Ohio Legislature Passes Renewable Energy Tax Reform

North American Windpower

- Jun 07, 2010

- 1 hour ago

by NAW Staff on Monday 07 June 2010 Ohio's legislature has passed renewable energy tax reform. Sub SB232 passed the House by a vote of 91-7; ...

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Schneider Power Signs Power Contract With Ontario Power Authority for Utility ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Jun 07, 2010

- 55 minutes ago

"This project is a good example of developing renewable energy resources in remote parts of our Province." he further added "We look forward to continuing ...

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WaterFurnace Renewable Energy Inc. - Financial Analysis Review - New Company ...

OfficialWire (press release)

- Jun 07, 2010

- 7 hours ago

Our "WaterFurnace Renewable Energy Inc. - Financial Analysis Review" is an in-depth business and financial analysis of WaterFurnace Renewable Energy Inc.. ...

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Great Strides Walk at Holtsville Ecology Center

Patch (blog)

- Jun 06, 2010

- 22 hours ago

However, on Sunday, June 6, she was volunteering her services at the Holtsville Ecology Site, where the Great Strides 5K Cystic Fibrosis Walk was taking ...

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Medvedev orders overhaul of Putin ecology policy

Kyiv Post

- Jun 07, 2010

- 37 minutes ago

MOSCOW, June 7 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an overhaul of environmental regulations on Monday, a rare issue on which he has staked ...

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Pesticides Come Under New State, Federal Permits

Kitsap Sun

- Jun 07, 2010

- 10 hours ago

Washington Department of Ecology is creating a new pesticide permit to control invasive species that are threatening to infest fresh and marine waters. ...

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Groups Sue Over Endangered Salmon

The Epoch Times

- Jun 07, 2010

- 9 hours ago

After the Department of Ecology (also known simply as Ecology) denied the groups' request, they decided to file a lawsuit. Idaho Rivers United seeks to, ...

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Drowned girl's body found after long search

San Francisco Chronicle

- Jun 07, 2010

- 9 hours ago

The body of an 11-year-old Pittsburg girl was found Sunday, more than 12 hours after she disappeared in the turbulent water off Riverview Park. ...

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Body found in water after Detroit yacht club crash

Chicago Tribune

- Jun 07, 2010

- 3 hours ago

AP Authorities say the body of a 44-year-old boater who may have been knocked into the water by a vehicle that hit a crowd and boats at the Bayview Yacht ...

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Flooding leaves homes, businesses at risk across Salt Lake County

Salt Lake Tribune

- Jun 07, 2010

- 1 hour ago

Crews with the Sandy Fire Department have been on the scene for more than 12 hours, sandbagging and attempting to save homes from the water. ...

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Wanderport Sales Projections Increased Due to US Department of Energy's New ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Jun 07, 2010

- 4 hours ago

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC) estimates that by 2030 market adoption of new water heater technologies capable of meeting DOE's energy ...

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