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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ARGENTINA: Football Referee School Offers Way Out ...
    BUENOS AIRES, Jun 9 (IPS) - A new school to train football referees to work amateur-level tournaments in Argentina aims at providing skills and a legitimate source of income for young people from poor homes.
  • SRI LANKA: Build Better Infrastructure or Expect M ...
    COLOMBO, June 9 (IPS) - Sri Lankans should be ready for more urban flash flooding, like those experienced in May, unless proper infrastructure is built to allow the onrushing waters to flow unhindered, experts warn.
  • TRADE: "Cotton Dossier" Will Make or Break WTO&#82 ...
    GENEVA, Jun 9 (IPS) - The "cotton dossier" has become a litmus test for the "development dimension" of the languishing Doha Round trade negotiations, World Trade Organisation (WTO) director general Pascal Lamy admitted.
  • SUDAN: Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agen ...
    UTRECHT, Netherlands, Jun 9 (IPS) - The entry of a Swedish-led oil consortium into southern Sudan in 1997 triggered civil war and crimes against humanity, claims a European coalition of aid agencies.
  • NEPAL: Under-Five Deaths Show Robust Decline But H ...
    KATHMANDU, June 9 (IPS) - With still five years left before the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) 2015 deadline to reduce under-five mortality rate by two-thirds from the 1990 level, a mid-term survey of Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP) II shows the country has already ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Amnesty: US drone evidence of Yemeni attack
    Amnesty International has released images of a US-manufactured cruise missile that carried cluster munitions, apparently taken following an attack on an alleged al-Qa'ida training camp in Yemen that killed 41 local residents, including 14 women and 21 children. The 17 December 2009 attack on the co ...
  • The USS Liberty Cover-Up
    A former Navy attorney who helped lead the military investigation of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 American servicemen says former President Lyndon Johnson and his defense secretary, Robert McNamara, ordered that the inquiry conclude the incident was an accident. In a si ...
  • 9/11: 2 impacts, 3 implosions, 1 problem
    1. Why the Collapse of WTC 7 Created an Extraordinary Problem The collapse of WTC 7 created an extraordinary problem for the official account of 9/11 for several reasons. An Unprecedented Occurrence One reason is that, because of the collapse of WTC 7, the official account of 9/11 includes the du ...
  • Key Indicators of a New Depression
    With the mainstream media focusing on the country's leveling unemployment rate, improving retail sales, and nascent housing recovery, one might think that the US government has successfully navigated the economy through recession and growth has returned. But I will argue that a look under the prover ...
  • Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    Dear Carole, I am attracted to women with blonde hair. This seems to be true of a lot of men. Is there a biological/reproductive explanation? Carole replies: Ten years after he published On the Origin of Species in 1859, Darwin started to research the sexual selection of blonde hair in women in pre ...

Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Paleo art
    All that’s left of the most numerous, diverse and successful creatures that ever walked the face of the Earth are bones. Dinosaurs left behind on YouTube videos, photographs or even cave drawings. Yet we can get a glimpse into the natural existence of these “terrible lizards” through the work of Alb ...
  • Pollution solution
    The Walkerton disaster of May 2000 was a cautionary tale for all Canadians concerned about the safety of their drinking water. When a deadly strain of E. coli from farm runoff contaminated the Ontario community’s water supply, seven people died and nearly half the town’s residents became ill before ...
  • Chemical switch
    As a “green chemist,” Philip Jessop spends his days trying to help the chemical industry create products in a less expensive and more environmentally friendly way. That’s why the Queen’s University professor of inorganic chemistry has high hopes for an innovative solvent he’s developed that may yiel ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • 360-degree surveillance cam sees all
    If you think standard security cameras are an invasion of your privacy, the Department of Homeland Security is testing a surveillance cam that puts others to shame. It gives law enforcement high-def, 360-degree footage of a scene. The feeds are integrated with image-stitching technology.
  • A Graveyard For Roman Gladiators -- In England?
    Ancient skeletons excavated under the city of York in northern England have archaeologists wondering whether they've discovered a well-preserved cemetery full of fallen Roman gladiators. The first of the skeletons was discovered in 2003, and since then, more than 80 have been identified. The remain ...
  • Border Patrol agent kills 15-year-old boy in Texas ...
    A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 15-year-old boy near El Paso, Texas, yesterday after rocks were thrown at him. Mexican officials are protesting the incident, claiming that it represents a new trend of excessive use of force by U.S. immigration officials. Local FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons ...
  • Researchers have Suggested: Green Tea Extract May ...
    An extract taken from green tea reduces cancer cells in the blood of patients with a form of leukemia and may slow progression of the disease, a conference will hear. Researchers at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in America have found that patients in the early stages of the most common form of leuke ...
  • Man-made aurora to help predict space weather
    For more than 25 years, our understanding of terrestrial space weather has been partly based on incorrect assumptions about how nitrogen, the most abundant gas in our atmosphere, reacts when it collides with electrons produced by energetic ultraviolet sunlight and "solar wind." New research publish ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Every time the opposition talks about a coalition. ...
    ...a Tory wets his pants. Given that, I'm guessing the latest stories about a merger between the Liberals and the New Democrats must have had the backers of the Stephen Harper Party of Canada bricking in their Stanfields this week. Polling shows support for the idea of some kind of cooperation betwe ...
  • A modest proposal
    I don't want to beat this whole "Summit costs run amok" thing into the ground (Ha! who am I kidding? This whole thing is blogging gold !) but earlier Dave expressed some concerns over the fact that the captive press corps that will be warehoused by the fake lake in some Toronto warehouse will be get ...
  • Eyes shut and fingers crossed
    What's wrong in Afghanistan? Ask the British . Top ranks within the Ministry of Defence and other Whitehall departments are accused of: * grossly underestimating the threat from the Taleban; * ignoring warnings that planned troop numbers were inadequate; * offering only the military advic ...
  • G20.ca belongs to the Canadian government... right ...
    Wrong !!! Go on over to Bene Diction Blogs On and get the real story. Now tell me. How is it that Charles McVety knew to lock down the G20.ca URL when the rest of us didn't get the official word that Harper was planning a gazillion dollar photo-op in Canada before December 2009? Hmmm??? Graphic ...
  • G8/G20 The gift of spin that just keeps on giving
    The problem with starting something spinning is that it will occasionally go out of control. Anyone who has tried to maintain a perfect heading on a gyro-compass knows this. Interrupt the source of energy and the damn things topple. Don't correct for latitude and you get a phenomenon known as "Eart ...

Media Matters for America

  • Perino baselessly attacked Obama administration fo ...
    On the June 9 edition of� Fox & Friends , guest host Dana Perino responded to the statement that "[Obama's] officials responded immediately" to the Gulf oil spill by claiming, "I think Governor Jindal would disagree with the berms that weren't built right away." In fact, the Army Corps of Engineer ...
  • Is Obama "Urkel" or "Carlton Banks"? Media conserv ...
    Right-wing media figures have responded to President Obama's remarks about finding out "whose ass to kick" in regard to the Gulf oil spill by saying that Obama has gone "street" and gone "a little gangsta" and by comparing him to fictional characters Steve Urkel and Carlton Banks. Lauer says "crit ...
  • Will Fox allow Bill O'Reilly to help Newsmax sell ...
    The right-wing website Newsmax has enlisted Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to headline its upcoming "Economic Crisis Summit." Previous Newsmax "summits" have not been "summits" at all, but rather thinly disguised infomercials in which Newsmax stoked viewers'�fears�of economic collapse�to drive sales o ...
  • After criticizing Obama for la ...
    Right-wing media have rushed to attack President Obama for responding to criticism that he spends too much time consulting experts rather than "kick[ing some butt]" by saying, "I want to know whose ass to kick." Many conservative media figures previously hyped criticism that Obama lacked emotion in ...
  • Cavuto hosts NY Post's Crudele to advance ...
    On Your World , Neil Cavuto and the New York Post 's John Crudele repeatedly falsely suggested that the Census Bureau is hiring, firing, and rehiring workers to artificially boost national employment figures, despite the fact that they acknowledged not having evidence that this is true. In doing ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Israel's Ambassador: After Flotilla, It's No More ...
    In an interview published today, Israel's ambassador, Michael Oren, warns that Israel will not continue behaving with restraint if it keeps getting criticized. "Our critics don't get it," Oren said. "In Jenin, we went house-to-house and sent 23 soldiers to their death. But if we're going to be c ...
  • Dashboard fix
    We just deployed some code that should fix the Dashboard issues you've been experiencing. If you're still seeing a blank Dashboard, please let me know. Facebook - Business - Data - Tumblr - Social network
  • Does Public Housing Have a Future?
    Everybody hates public housing, except the low-income people who live there and the people on the long waiting lists to get in. Now, after years of neglect, the Obama Administration wants to save public housing for future generations. It has a plan to inject billions of dollars into the develo ...
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  • The Icarus Syndrome
    The Icarus Syndrome is an argument wrapped around three stories. The argument is that success breeds disaster. The process plays itself out this way: A group of foreign policy thinkers and actors hit upon a strategy for dealing with some immediate, finite problem. The strategy succeeds, at least ...

TruthOut

  • Caravan Risks Another Attack to Break Blockade in ...
    A caravan carrying food and supplies headed to the autonomous town of San Juan Copala in the Mexican state of Oaxaca yesterday determined to break a paramilitary blockade just 41 days after pro-state militants attacked a similar caravan and killed two activists. The caravan is named for the victims ...
  • Airlines Battle Workplace Democracy
    If you ever want to spook a smug, stuffed-shirt corporate CEO -- I mean spook him so bad that he jumps clear out of his Guccis and screams louder than Little Richard -- sneak up behind him and shout "union!" They hate that. Corporate chieftains get the heebie-jeebies at the mere mention of unioniz ...
  • Ruth Marcus | Cyberspace Dunderheads
    Washington - I've come down with a bad case of the shallows. �� � That's technology writer Nicholas Carr's term -- and the title of his new book -- for the invisible, invidious impact of computers on the modern brain. Carr compares himself to HAL, the malfunctioning computer in "2001: A Space Odyss ...
  • Connie Schultz | It Can Happen to Anyone
    Millbury, Ohio - The cardboard boxes resting on stairs of red carpeting at the entrance of St. Peter United Church of Christ on Monday morning told the second-saddest story of this grief-stricken village. read more
  • Groups Around the US Joined Haitian Farmers in Pro ...
    "We're for seeds that have never been touched by multinationals. In our advocacy, we say that seeds are the patrimony of humanity. No one can control them," said Doudou Pierre, national coordinating committee member of the National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security (RENHASSA), i ...

Planetsave

  • Cycling Shorts? Not For These Sexy Riders!
    Yes, that’s right, the 7th annual World Naked Bike Ride is approaching and you won’t need any cycling shorts or Lance Armstrong cycling clothes for this sexy (maybe) extravaganza. National Bike Month may have just ended in the US, but the World Naked Bike Ride is coming up — it will be on Saturday ...
  • Oil Spill Could Worsen Dead Zone
    The disastrous and tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might enhance the regions already environmentally threatening dead zone. According to researchers who just happened to have been in the area when the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig blew out and sank on April 20, th ...
  • 10 Crazy Statements about the BP Oil Spill from CE ...
    Unfortunately, the BP oil spill in the Gulf isn’t helping everybody to learn from their mistakes (or the mistakes of those who they support). Tony Hayward, Sarah Palin (who increasingly reminds me of Paris Hilton), Rush Limbaugh and Representative Don Young have a host of ridiculously sad statemen ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Outbreaks drive new FDA rules - World News
    Editor's Note: Question: Does the solution to food-borne illness rest with new FDA regulations for you? More and more people in�rural and urban areas are turning to local farmers and food cooperatives.�One Axis of Logic correspondent in Florida tells us how her membership in a local food co-op wo ...
  • Washington's Revolving Door: How Oil Oversight Fai ...
    Oil is a lubricant — just what you need to keep a revolving door spinning freely for decades. That, in a single image, sums up the Minerals Management Agency (MMS), a pipsqueak unit of the Interior Department created by then-Secretary James Watt in 1982, that has found itself at the...
  • Iraq: 119 more killed in 10 cities as U.S. prepare ...
    Iraq Security Boost after 119 Dead Express (UK) Tuesday May 11,2010 � Security has been boosted in Iraq after 119 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in a string of attacks across the country. The attacks stretched from cities in the north to the normally peaceful southern po ...
  • Rising China wages may end cheap labour: experts - ...
    The days of endless cheap labour in the "workshop of the world" could be numbered as a shortage of workers and government fears of social unrest drive up wages in China, experts say. A spate of suicides at Taiwanese high-tech firm Foxconn and an unprecedented strike at Honda's auto parts...
  • Brazil sees economy surge by 9% - World News
    Brazil's economy grew at its fastest rate in at least 14 years in the first three months of 2010, official figures have shown. Its gross domestic product (GDP) surged by 9% compared with the same period a year earlier. However, higher interest rates and the withdrawal of some tax breaks...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • They aren't toy soldiers, you can't just throw the ...
    It has been nearly three years since the first real research on Traumatic Brain Injury was released and the realization that we really are dealing with a new kind of injury that doesn't leave visible scars and the effects of which may not be evident for months, or even years, began to sink in. In TB ...
  • Worse Mess Than Gulf is Oil Industry Itself
    At Jesus' General, Austin Cline makes the case for cleaning up not just the oil industry's mess in the Gulf, but the industry itself: The understandable focus on cleaning up the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico must not distract us from the need to also clean up the oil industry itself. Indeed, ...
  • In Non-Election News, Plutocrats Still Plotting to ...
    The more obvious it becomes every day that without a massive jobs bill, double-digit unemployment is here to stay, the more desperate become what Scarecrow at Firedoglake calls the deficit vultures to destroy the last remnants of a financial safety net. Digby on the insanity: Doctors have determined ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Scam artists and phony investments are older than the republic itself "The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is attracting another kind of potential disaster: investment fraud. ... Federal officials are warning investors to be wary of so-called "pump and dump" stock schemes tied to the BP oil spill. ... "We' ...
  • Why Didn't They Just Stone Her?
    From the Orlando Sentinel: Fourth-grade teacher Jarretta Hamilton was newly married and expecting a baby when she went to speak with her supervisors in April of last year. But the administrators at Southland Christian School in St. Cloud parried her query about maternity leave with a query of their ...

Care 2

  • 50 Things You Never Knew About Babies
    Whether you're enrolled in pediatric nursing school, are getting ready to be a first-time parent, check out this list of 50 things you never knew about babies. Submitted by Katie Miller to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Prismatic Eyeglasses for Headaches and Dizziness C ...
    A recent retrospective study by four Michigan physicians shows strong evidence that symptoms of headache, dizziness and anxiety in some patients with traumatic brain injury potentially could be alleviated or even eliminated with specialized eyeglass lense Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Welln ...
  • Rescuers struggle to save oil-soaked pelicans
    As BP tries to capture more crude gushing from its broken well, a slick overruns a fragile island rookery. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION! Increase Enforcement of Required Tur ...
    Endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles face a dangerous situation in Texas this July when shrimp season opens and increased enforcement of sea turtle protection is needed. With a third of the Gulf of Mexico closed to any fishing due to the oil spill, the op Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� ...
  • Earth and Moon Formed Later Than Previously Though ...
    Astronomers have theorized that the planet Earth and the Moon were created as the result of a giant collision between two planets the size of Mars and Venus. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • GSA Names First Chief Greening Officer
    The U.S. General Services Administration has tapped the sustainability director for Cushman & Wakefield to become the first chief greening officer for the agency and lead efforts to make government buildings greener.
  • Dr Pepper to Upgrade 60K Vending Machines for Ener ...
    �Dr Pepper Snapple Group released its first corporate social responsibility report since becoming a public company in 2008, setting energy, carbon dioxide, water, recycling and packaging goals.
  • The Triple Threats of Our Coming Water Crisis
    I know that talking about infrastructure isn’t a sexy blog topic. But we have to do it. According to a recent report, there is no greater infrastructure challenge facing the country today than water.
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • An Indian in Kabul
    India and Pakistan are both competing for influence in Afghanistan in a modern-day version of the Great Game that has complicated the search for a settlement, but on the streets of Kabul the Indians still seem to evoke greater goodwill.
  • Pakistan’s Ahmadi killings and the conscienc ...
    A discussion about the killings of Ahmadis in Lahore last month is widening into a broader debate about the nature of Pakistani society and, whether secular liberals have any voice left to stem a rising tide of religious conservatism
  • Taliban talks and the lobster quadrille
    "The Americans are signalling rather loudly that they want to talk to the Taliban. But will the Taliban talk?"
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Go Big on Climate
    There's a lot of speculation over how the Senate is going to handle the energy bill, most of which is fueled by comments that Sen. Schumer made on Monday. Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership and a close ally of Reids, said Monday that climate ...
  • AR-Sen: Postscript
    Ever since I read Gene Lyons and Joe Conason's The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, I have known that Arkansas is a weird place that is not easily understood by outsiders. Even as the Deep South has purged itself of Democrats, Arkansas has held on ...
  • The Unions Flushed Money Away?
    Here are some quotes from unnamed (and you'll understand why in a moment) Obama administration officials after Blanche Lincoln defeated Bill Halter in the Arkansas Democratic Primary last night, eliminating the Dems' best chance to retain the seat in November: Shortly after Sen. Blanche Lincoln ( ...
  • Mr. Greene Goes to Washington
    The story of the night is not the outcome of the Arkansas Democratic senate primary but the South Carolinian one. A black, unemployed veteran, who raised no money and spent no money, had no website, no signs, no ads, and didn't even file mandatory FEC reports, is destroying Vic Rawl. Vic Rawl has ...
  • Serious Question
    Are there any good shows on teevee? The few I watch have all ended for the year.

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • RecycleMatch seeks to match bulk waste with people ...
    File under “business models I really wish I’d thought of first”: RecycleMatch seeks to match… … waste streams and under valued resources with potential users of the resources, to help create new revenues and savings for the companies participating – while at the same time having a positive impact on ...
  • Living Earth Simulator: super-detailed simulation ...
    I badly wanted a copy of SimEarth when it was released, but the clunky old 8086 passed down to me by my father (who’d recently splashed out on a 386DX with math co-processor, no less) couldn’t run it. I’m pretty positive that no machine I (or anyone else unattached to a well-funded research organisa ...
  • Nation-state gives way to city-state?
    More future politics, courtesy SlashDot: excerpts from a speech by John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (and former Grateful Dead songsmith), in which he states that the mechanics of national government in the US is failing because it’s swamped by too much data, and th ...
  • Calling all coders: can you help free webzines mak ...
    K Tempest Bradford has identified a problem that many webzine editors have, but that most of them (myself included) have neither the time, money or 1337 code sk1llz0rz to solve alone: our readers would probably really appreciate downloadable ebook versions of our content, and an easy mechanism for d ...
  • Thomas Barnett on post-national identity
    Many thanks to one Gregory Lemieux for dropping me an email with a link to an article by political strategist Thomas P M Barnett, which he rightly identified as touching on “issues of post-national identity [...] that are presented regularly on your site”*. It’s an interesting piece all over: Barnet ...

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy Reading! ⢠Study Investigates Power of Positive Thinking, Questioning ⢠Psychology of Terrorism and the Is ...
  • When is it Emotional Abuse?
    By Susanne M. Dillmann, Psy.D., Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susanne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Earlier this year, the French National Assembly passed a bill, which criminalizes psychological abuse within couples. Specifically, the bill ma ...
  • Parental Dilemmas in the Struggle to Allow the Chi ...
    By Beverly Amsel, Ph.D., Individuation Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beverly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Parents are faced with many dilemmas as they struggle with allowing their children to individuate. These dilemmas are part of the everyday conflicts and behaviors that ...
  • Sensate Focus – Taking Sex Off the Table Can Resto ...
    By Mou Wilson, MFT, Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mou and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile In the 1960’s Masters and Johnson who pioneered research of human sexual response and the diagnosing and treatment of sexual disorders devised a technique known as se ...
  • If You Believe “There’s No Way for Everyone to Win ...
    GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MS, LPC Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile And if you believe âthere is a way for everyone to winâ ⦠Read this! Recently, a well-known news commentator* — remarking on a comment by Bill Clinton that the on ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Ashley Judd and the Art of Removing Mountaintop Re ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Ashley Judd and the Art of Removing Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Also today, the Tennessee state legislature will be taking another crack at passing a bill to protect Rocky Top by banning mountaintop removal . ...
  • Berke still wants to ban mountaintop removal coal ...
    Berke still wants to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee istockAnalyst.com (press release) Berke said the mountain top removal legislation -- Senate Bill 1398 -- was scheduled for weeks in the Senate Environment Committee but the panel never voted ...
  • Press Conference with Judy Bonds - Mountain Top Re ...
    Press Conference with Judy Bonds - Mountain Top Removal - Coal River Mountain ... EIN News (press release) She will be discussing West Virginia coal mining by mountain top removal and Massey Energy/Coal Company destruction of over 500 mountains in the heart of ...
  • Dozens oppose proposed power plant at Clark County ...
    Dozens oppose proposed power plant at Clark County hearing Lexington Herald Leader "We already have enough pollution going into our Kentucky waters from mountaintop removal sites in Eastern Kentucky," Hurt said. "That's definitely the type ... and more��
  • Dozens oppose proposed power plant at Clark County ...
    Dozens oppose proposed power plant at Clark County hearing Lexington Herald Leader "We already have enough pollution going into our Kentucky waters from mountaintop removal sites in Eastern Kentucky," Hurt said. "That's definitely the type ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Concession Statement - Mickey Kaus claimed a form ...
    kaus.sitebuilder.completecampaigns.com : Concession Statement   —  Mickey Kaus claimed a form of victory Tuesday night after he apparently drew more than 5% of the Democratic primary vote against three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer:  —  STATEMENT OF MICKEY KAUS  —  I congratulate Senator Boxer on he ...
  • Reid Opponent Embraces Patriot Group That Warns Of ...
    TPMDC : Reid Opponent Embraces Patriot Group That Warns Of ‘Giant Concentration Camps’   —  The peculiar ideology of Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee challenging Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, is perhaps no better illustrated than by her embrace of the patriot group Oath Keepers …
  • Reuters Admits Cropping Photos of Ship Clash, Deni ...
    Ed Barnes / Fox News : Reuters Admits Cropping Photos of Ship Clash, Denies Political Motive   —  On the left, the uncropped photo.  On the right, Reuters' released photo.  (Reuters)  —  The British-based Reuters news agency has been stung for the second time by charges that it edited politically ...
  • Lobbyists get exclusive W.H. invite (Chris Frates/ ...
    Chris Frates / Reuters : Lobbyists get exclusive W.H. invite   —  President Barack Obama has publicly railed against Wall Street lobbyists for months, even going to Manhattan to ask their corporate masters to call off the attack dogs.  —  Privately, though, his administration invited some of the s ...
  • Turkey Goes From Pliable Ally to Thorn for U.S. (N ...
    New York Times : Turkey Goes From Pliable Ally to Thorn for U.S.   —  ANKARA, Turkey — For decades, Turkey was one of the United States' most pliable allies, a strategic border state on the edge of the Middle East that reliably followed American policy.  But recently, it has asserted a new approac ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.7, Halmahera, Indonesia
    Wednesday, June 9, 2010 08:57:41 UTC Wednesday, June 9, 2010 05:57:41 PM at epicenter Depth : 113.70 km (70.65 mi)
  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, June 9, 2010 07:00:20 UTC Wednesday, June 9, 2010 06:00:20 PM at epicenter Depth : 98.80 km (61.39 mi)
  • M 5.0, southern Peru
    Wednesday, June 9, 2010 03:54:52 UTC Tuesday, June 8, 2010 10:54:52 PM at epicenter Depth : 141.80 km (88.11 mi)
  • M 5.1, Molucca Sea
    Monday, June 7, 2010 15:27:14 UTC Tuesday, June 8, 2010 12:27:14 AM at epicenter Depth : 83.90 km (52.13 mi)
  • 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)

China Dialogue

  • Second chance summit
    The 1992 Rio Conference inspired hopes for a fairer future – before two decades of unequal, unsustainable development ruined the dream. Now, another meeting must revive the ambition, says the Green Economy Coalition. In 1992, the first Rio Summit – a United Nations-led meeting also known as the Eart ...
  • Giving up the ghost fleet
    In California, rusting US navy ships that were poisoning bay waters for decades are being cleaned up, moved and recycled – thanks to a legal victory by local environmental groups. Jan McGirk reports. It’s clear that the health risks from a fleet of decrepit US navy troop ships and tankers, moored fo ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Outrageous: Republican Rep. Thinks DADT Repeal Wou ...
    Proving that some of the opposition to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) is rooted in homophobia rather than legitimate concerns about military readiness or unit cohesion, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) told reporters yesterday that the military should keep the p ...
  • In New York, Muslim Americans React to Israel's De ...
    Ayesha, a retired journalist: "Nobody will call this a terrorist act. Why? Because only Muslims are terrorists."
  • Jon Stewart on Obama’s Tough Guy Remarks: &# ...
    Oil, oil and more oil on Tuesday’s Daily Show. Whether it’s Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour promising tourists that tar balls are natural — “we have tar balls every year” — or Obama putting on his tough guy face, the Gulf oil spill has provided no shortage of absurd political antics. Jon Stewart ...
  • Strange But True: How Soap Operas Might Save Us Fr ...
    Earth reached its human capacity in the 1980s. Our planet is in crisis, and Bill Ryerson is using media to change behaviors that contribute to global overpopulation.
  • A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat Posed By ...
    As America’s economy and politics continue to unravel, it is clear that the elite mentality and the system it has created will produce more and more victims in the years to come.

Threat Level

  • State Department Anxious About Possible Leak of Ca ...
    The State Department and personnel at U.S. embassies around the world are reportedly waiting anxiously to find out if an Army intelligence analyst was telling the truth when he boasted that he had supplied 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables to the whistleblower site Wikileaks. If ...
  • Former Prosecutor: Google Wi-Fi Snafu ‘Likely’ Ill ...
    Google “likely” breached a U.S. federal criminal statute in connection with its accidental Wi-Fi sniffing — but not for siphoning private data from internet surfers using unsecured networks, a former federal prosecutor said Tuesday. Ironically, says former prosecutor Paul Ohm, it’s likely Google d ...
  • Recording Industry Says LimeWire on Hook for $1 Bi ...
    The record labels have told a federal judge LimeWire is liable for possibly “over a billion dollars” — the latest sign that the industry is seeking to annihilate the New York-based file sharing company. The Recording Industry Association of America’s court filing Monday comes a week after the labels ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Secondhand smoke may harm mental health
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Other people's smoke is bad for your lungs and bad for your heart, and new research suggests it could be bad for your mental health, too.
  • Gulf spill in Washington spotlight
    VENICE, La./LONDON (Reuters) - Energy giant BP Plc was forging ahead with efforts to capture oil gushing from its stricken Gulf of Mexico well as the spill remained high on Washington's radar screen, with several congressional hearings set for Wednesday.
  • Sprint says it overstated EVO launch day sales
    NEW YORK/BANGALORE (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Tuesday it had inadvertently overstated the launch day sales of the much anticipated EVO 4G phone from HTC Corp, which is touted as a serious competitor to Apple's iPhone 4.
  • U.N. council to hit defiant Iran with new sanction ...
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is set to impose a new round of sanctions on a defiant Iran on Wednesday over a nuclear program that Western powers suspect is aimed at developing atomic weapons.
  • Wealthy businesswomen win California Republican ra ...
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two powerful Silicon Valley businesswomen won Republican nominations for California governor and the U.S. Senate on Tuesday after capitalizing on their business acumen -- and their personal fortunes.

Equality Trust

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

  • Winograd Supporters Greet Harman at Mar Vista Farm ...
    y the time Jane Harman arrived, Winograd for Congress supporters were everywhere at the Mar Vista Farmers Market on the West side of Los Angeles. Holding signs that read “Jobs, Not Wars” and “Stop ...
  • 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, ...

Marler Blog

  • 60 cases of Salmonella Hvittingfoss now associated ...
    The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 60 cases of Salmonella ser. Hvittingfoss associated with the ongoing investigation of illnesses among customers who ate at certain Subway restaurants in Illinois. All cases are recovering, of which 17 had been hospitalized. As of today, ...
  • Real Raw Milk Facts Dot Com Hit at NEHA
    I just finished up my speech at NEHA.� Although the speech was well received, the real hit at the conference were the "teat" shirts and buttons with the following logo: Comment below if you want a shirt or a button.
  • I hope Dr. Raymond does not get in trouble for thi ...
    Dr. Raymond does a blog (or at least he used to) over at www.meatingplace.com . I am stealing one he did today below: I think almost every reader of this blog knows OF Bill Marler, but I wonder how many readers really KNOW Bill Marler? For sure, he is the most prominent and recognizable plaintiff ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 06.09.10
    Michelin expects electric car to make up 5% of the market in 2020 Is the middle of the road right? How much does software add to the cost of today's vehicles? How about tomorrow's electric cars? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.08.10
    Alan Mulally explains why most people won't be driving electric cars soon Three reasons: cost, cost and infrastructure. Utility Review: 2010 Honda Fit Sport actually does "fit" it all in Pac ...
  • 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. ...

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!

  • Inspired by Gaza Blockade, Roger Waters Records Ne ...
    British musician Roger Waters of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd sings a new version of "We Shall Overcome" in a music video cut to footage from the upcoming documentary, "Roadmap to Apartheid." Watch the full video
  • 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 ...

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

  • EJI Study: Racism Still Blights Southern US Juries
    Racism still blights southern US juries: study Raw Story- By Agence France-Presse Monday, June 7th, 2010 — 11:00 am Having an “out of wedlock child” was enough to remove a black juror from a 1998 Mississippi murder trial involving an African-American and a white victim. Since then, nothing much has ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Experiments In Torture
    View (PDF) A White Paper by Physicians for Human Rights June 2010 PHR was founded in 1986 on the idea that health professionals, with their specialized skills, ethical commitments, and credible voices, are uniquely positioned to investigate the health consequences of human rights violations and wo ...
  • Goldman Sachs Stung By Backlash in China
    By: Jamil Anderlini Public criticism of Goldman Sachs has come to China, where the investment bank has been lambasted in articles in state-controlled media. Parts of the media, apparently emboldened by congressional inquiries and public anger in the west, have openly slated Goldman [GS  137.04    - ...
  • Will the Current Dollar Move Be Like Its Last Doub ...
    By Joe Weisenthal In his latest note on comparisons between the current state of the economy and the Great Depression, Martin Armstrong provides a nice look at the dollar index between 1900-1950. Notice something? There were two dollar spikes, one corresponding with each wave of the great depression ...
  • Bilderberg 2010: Why The Protesters Are Your Very ...
    The people who are being detained, searched and questioned are not playing some game. They are deadly serious, and they are worried to death. Ivan was alone on the roundabout. He had been left in charge of the banners while everyone else ate breakfast. He slipped an empty bottle of red wine into a ...
  • Scientists Say Mobile Phones Responsible for the D ...
    The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed. Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent of g ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

  • Spill will spell trouble long after it's fixed
    The massive oil spill currently being battled in the Gulf of Mexico will impact tens of thousands of marine animals and wildlife. The accident occurred in an area that is already environmentally fragile and at a time when many species are taking care of their young. But even after the leak is repai ...
  • How news organisations use Twitter
    This week saw Twitter celebrate its fourth birthday. For some of the users, who sent nearly 50 million daily messages - or tweets - from around 80 million accounts, it’s hard to imagine life before the 140 character updates. The greatest strength of the microblogging site is that there are few rule ...
  • Whales should be seen and not hurt
    Protesters have been saying for years that whale watching is much kinder to the environment than hunting, but now it seems it may be more profitable as well.
  • Edible crops to replace flower displays?
    Climate change and food shortages are prompting one Lancashire town to consider turning flower beds into edible gardens. Under the proposed scheme, local residents of Clitheroe would be able to pick the vegetables growing in floral display boxes and hanging baskets around the town.
  • Blood test to tailor arthritis treatment
    A simple blood test could soon help medical staff target treatment for suffers of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on those most likely to benefit. Patients with one of two immune system antibodies are more likely to respond to an advanced form of treatment and, following a blood test to check for its pres ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Can volcanic eruptions devastate entire continents ...
    Summary:  The recent eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland has prompted increasingly fevered discussion about the danger of a future eruption — perhaps by Eyjafjallajokull’s sister, Katla.  Might an eruption expel volcanic gases that poison much of Europe?  Just like Laki did in 1783-84.   Or ...
  • Important update about the Gulf oil spill
    An article in the McClatchy newspapers challenges the official oil estimates, but the careful words of the cited expert are easily exaggerated:   “BP well may be spewing 100,000 barrels a day, scientist says“, 7 June 2010 — Red emphasis added.  Excerpt: BP’s runaway Deepwater Horizon well may be ...
  • It’s time to worry (again) about disappearing arct ...
    Summary:  For global warming propagandists weather is not climate, unless it proves global warming.   So again we’re playing watch the arctic ice melt (e.g., Mark Serreze of the NSIDC, Berkeley economist Brad DeLong).  Sea ice extent was near the 1979-2000 average in early April.  Now, two mo ...
  • It’s time to worry again about disappearing ...
    Summary:  For global warming propagandists weather is not climate, unless it proves global warming.   So again we’re playing watch the arctic ice melt (e.g., Mark Serreze of the NSIDC, Berkeley economist Brad DeLong).  Sea ice extent was near the 1979-2000 average in early April.  Now, two mo ...
  • FM newswire for June 7, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis, much of which is catch-up from the past week. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague. A book no national leader needs (don’t tell a bird how to fly):  “Defending the indefensible: a how-to guide“, Stephen M. Walt, blog of F ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • BP live feed doesn’t lie: Is BP oil spill plume wo ...
    Watch live streaming video from wkrg_oil_spill at livestream.com
  • Canada wins key fight against bank tax
    Globe and Mail – Canada has won a key fight in its high-profile international campaign against a global bank tax as G20 finance ministers Saturday approved a plan that allows countries to manage the issue as they see fit. Proponents of such a tax ­ including the United States and Europe ­ are free ...
  • Two tonnes of cocaine seized in The Gambia
    BBC – At least two tonnes of cocaine with a street value estimated at $1bn has been seized in The Gambia, bound for Europe. In addition to the huge haul of drugs, the Gambian authorities have arrested a dozen suspected traffickers, and seized large quantities of cash and arms. Read Article
  • The Cover-up: BP’s Crude Politics and the Looming ...
    Oil Price-WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign — mo ...
  • Every Google search to be logged and saved for two ...
    Daily Mail – Every Google web search could be stored for up to two years under a controversial new EU plan that has the backing of more than 300 Euro-MEPs. ‘Written Declaration 29′ is intended to be used as an early warning system to stop paedophiles by logging what they look for using search engine ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Marchwicki – Ręce precz od Iranu!
    Marchwicki – Ręce precz od Iranu! (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Coraz silniejszy głos militarnego imperializmu zmusza członków ruchu robotniczego do zajęcia zdecydowanej postawy w kwestii Iranu. Groźba  antyirańskiej interwencji sił międzynarodowego kapitalizmu stała się dziś  bowiem wyraźniejsza niż ...
  • Making Trouble at the G20
    Making Trouble is a short PDF file that introduces some of the basic ideas of Maoism-Third Worldism. It is meant to be distributed by Maoist-Third Wordists and Revolutionary Anti-Imperialists at the G20 protests later in  June of this year. Good luck comrades. Download the Making Trouble PDF here O ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Vultures Over Pakistan
    “It is essential that we strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans,” – David Ben Gurion, first Prime Minister of Zionist entity. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
  • Evidence Points To BP Oil Spill False Flag
    - Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand - Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion - BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment - Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk Read More at http:// ...
  • Important Links of the Week – 08 June 10
    Important Links Of the Week - 08 June 10 Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
  • 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 ...

ecogeek

  • Electric Jet Ski: All of the Fun, None of the Oil ...
    Jet skis are fun, but they're also dirty.  They've been known to leak oil and offer up a nice dose of air and noise pollution.  To change all that, Silveira Customs has debuted their all-electric personal watercraft called the Green Samba. Silveira Customs found that creating an electric jet ski t ...
  • GM Sets Up Venture Capital Subsidiary
    General Motors is seeking to further shake its image as a corporate dinosaur with the creation of a venture capital subsidiary, General Motors Ventures, LLC . The new company " plans to invest in start-up companies working in a variety of fields, including renewable fuels, information and enterta ...
  • Apple Patents Solar-Powered iPod, iPhone
    Forget the iPhone 4 that everyone is talking about today, there is a far cooler Apple-related news item to discuss. Apple has filed a patent for a full range of "media players with integrated touch sensor solar panel surfaces."  Basically, we may soon be seeing solar-powered iPods, iPhones and eve ...
  • Urban Farming Concept with Rooftop Pods
    While we are intrigued by the idea and we like some of the eye-catching images, we don't believe that current conditions make sense for tall urban buildings to be built expressly for growing food . That's not to say that we are in any way opposed to the idea of growing food in cities, closer to w ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Mainstays of eBay & Hewlett Packard Win GOP Primar ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Meg Whitman & Carly Fiorina’s problem ?It seems to me is: Having tons of money doesn’t mean you Have any ideas. read more
  • Charges Filed in Case of Death Threats Against Rep ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Family values are in full swing When all here is said and done; It wasn’t just some loony loser But a loony dad & his loony son .read more
  • We Won't Fix the Oil Spills, Until We Fix Our Oil ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH If Americans hate anything, it’s restraint, especially imposed restraints. Once world-class producers, we’ve morphed over the last half century into world-class consumers. It was no accident that, in the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks, then Prez George W. Bush rushed ...
  • Progressives: Divided We Fall. Keep Your Eye on th ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG We hope that the Blanche Lincoln and Jane Harmon primary victories against two progressive challengers don't open another round of finger pointing and bitter recriminations among progressives.� There is too much at stake. read more
  • Law and Disorder: A Killer for Whales
    CHRIS GENOVALI AND MISTY MACDUFFEE FOR BUZZFLASH June 8th marked World Oceans Day and the North American continent's coasts are either under imminent threat from, or in the process of, being assaulted by the oil and gas industry, all with various levels of government complicity. The Calgary Herald r ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • A growing part of the Obama legacy
    (updated below) Physicians for Human Rights yesterday released a report documenting (while relying on heavily redacted material) that "medical professionals who were involved in the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogations of terrorism suspects engaged in forms of human research and ...
  • Our hard-core, adversarial press corps
    (updated below) On Friday, CNN's Ed Henry posted a series of giggly, adolescent updates on his Twitter feed, describing the events that took place at a "beach" party thrown by Joe Biden, at the Vice�President's mansion, for various "reporters" and White House officials.�� Digby excerpte ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Three decades of major oil spills
    How does the ongoing saga of the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster compare with three decades of major oil spills. An infographic from the oil spill timeline page of Iglu Cruises provides a visual comparison using data apparently sourced from the BBC. Unfor ...
  • Materials, nanotechnology, iPhone app
    Science news links for June 3rd through June 8th, including my latest contributions to Materials Today magazine: Nanotechnology fights cancer – Functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes, rather than being a health risk, cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body's nat ...
  • Testing tests
    Teaching is meant to help students learn, usually about a specific subject, but more broadly about social interactions, working in a team, under duress, about life in general. They say that your schooldays are the best days of your lives, but perish the thought I’ve never been one for clichés and ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Who Bankrolls Congress?
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2010 Center for Public Integrity (CPI) Long before Congressman John Boehner of Ohio rose to his current position as House Republican Leader, he created the "Thursday Group" - a weekly discussion around a U.S. Capitol conference room table with conservative and bu ...
  • Colorado Gives Marijuana Dispensaries Legal Status
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Today, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter (D) signed legislation that will regulate the state's medical marijuana dispensaries through a system of local and state licenses, but still allow individual localities to ban dispensaries. Current ...
  • New Marijuana Ordinance Could Have Disastrous Impa ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Today, the City of Los Angeles is expected to begin enforcing an ordinance that could shut down more than 400 medical marijuana dispensing collectives within the city. Approved by the L.A. City Council, the ordinance will give collect ...
  • Actually, the Ship Was Not Turkish-Flagged
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) JOHN QUIGLEY read more
  • CCR Endorses New Report Showing Evidence of Bush A ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Airlines Battle Workplace Democracy
    by Jim Hightower If you ever want to spook a smug, stuffed-shirt corporate CEO — I mean spook him so bad that he jumps clear out of his Guccis and screams louder than Little Richard — sneak up behind him and shout "union!" They hate that. read more
  • Reset: Stephen Kinzer's Vision of a New U.S. Relat ...
    by Robert Naiman Until quite recently, it seemed that Turkey had a clearly defined role in the Middle East, from the standpoint of U.S. policy. They were the "good Muslims," who were part of NATO, who contributed troops to U.S. wars, and who had good relations with Israel. read more
  • Helen Thomas Pays for Crossing a Line Others Tramp ...
    by Michelle Chen By now you’ve heard: pioneering Washington journalist Helen Thomas has, thanks to a viral video interview, been pilloried for offensive comments about Israel and ousted from the press corps’ inner sanctum . Her words were definitely incendiary—Jews should “get the hell out of Palest ...
  • Nonviolence Takes Hold in 'Mexico’s Gaza'
    by Michael Perillo The overlooked area of San Juan Copala in Oaxaca, a poor region in southern Mexico with a mostly indigenous population, has been subjected to continuous government-sponsored violence, leaving the indigenous people suffering for the past few decades. It’s a situation not unlike the ...
  • The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative
    by Amy Goodman They called it “Operation Sea Breeze.” Despite the pleasant-sounding name, Israel’s violent commando raid on a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships, which left nine civilians dead, has sparked international outrage. The raid occurred in the early-morning hours of May 31, as the six vess ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Report: Chicago mulls selling bottled tap water
    Would you buy bottled Chicago tap water from Lake Michigan?
  • Bottling Lake Michigan Water Proposed
    Mayor Daley has no plans to privatize Chicagos water system, but bottling and selling the citys exceptional tap water is worth exploring, newly-appointed Water Management Commissioner Tom Powers said Tuesday.
  • Bottling Lake Michigan water worth exploring, new ...
    Mayor Daley has "no plans" to privatize Chicago's water system, but bottling and selling the city's "exceptional" tap water is worth exploring, newly-appointed Water Management Commissioner Tom Powers said today."The quality of the water that the department puts out is exceptional. In some cases, it ...
  • Bottling Lake Michigan water worth exploring?
    Mayor Daley has no plans to privatize Chicagos water system, but bottling and selling the citys exceptional tap water is worth exploring, newly-appointed Water Management Commissioner Tom Powers said Tuesday.
  • Corona stops Angat privatization
    Invoking a rarely exercised power, Chief Justice Renato Corona yesterday stopped the privatization of the Angat hydroelectric plant to a Korean company allegedly for lack of transparency in the bidding.

Guardian

  • UN security council backs new sanctions on Iran
    In attempt to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, security council tightens sanctions on arms, state enterprises, individuals and Revolutionary Guards The United Nations imposed a new slate of sanctions on Iran today in an attempt to force it to comply with international demands over its nuclear programm ...
  • Abbott on Labour leadership ballot
    London MP becomes first black person to contest Labour leadership after fellow leftwinger John McDonnell drops out Diane Abbott today became the first black person to contest the Labour leadership after a flurry of late nominations secured her place in the race alongside four other contenders. The l ...
  • Cumbrians mourn shooting victims
    People across the region join together to remember dozen killed – and to spare a thought for the gunman's family The taxi drivers who work the rank in Whitehaven have tired of fielding questions about the day their colleague Derrick Bird turned from the good bloke they knew into a mass murderer. At ...
  • BP rejects Obama attack as 'politics'
    BP focused on responding to Gulf of Mexico oil spill, not politics, says group managing director Iain Conn BP today tried to shrug off as "politics" the personal attack by Barack Obama on its chief executive, Tony Hayward, and said it was too early to speculate on whether the company's business woul ...
  • BA pilot warns of 'poisoned' relations
    Airline employee writing for the Guardian says staff don't trust each other as Unite ballots for more walkouts British Airways is braced for a summer of strikes as the latest wave of walkouts by cabin crew draws to a close today, with a senior pilot warning that the failure to end the dispute has cr ...

McClatchey

  • Primaries yield a 'dog's breakfast,' with no unify ...
    WASHINGTON — Primary votes in 11 states this week helped set the table for November's general elections, but don't look for a theme menu with one cuisine from these results. It's more of a food court.
  • Fed chief cautiously optimistic about economy
    WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy is in a moderate recovery and should continue growing through next year, but the unemployment rate is expected to remain higher than normal, and it will take "a significant amount of time" to replace the jobs that have been lost in the recession, Federal Reserve Chairma ...
  • Anti-incumbent anger hits South Carolina's Inglis
    WASHINGTON � Voters in the conservative South Carolina Upstate threatened to oust Rep. Bob Inglis from office Tuesday in a sign of anti-Washington anger roiling the country.
  • Commentary: Seeds of doubt against climate science
    If some of the attacks on the credibility of climate science feel familiar, there's a reason. With their unattributed claims downplaying the severity of the problem and their vague allegations of scientific impropriety, the assaults are the latest in a long tradition of organized efforts by industry ...
  • BP declines to attend Mississippi hearings on the ...
    JACKSON, Miss. — Officials from BP, Halliburton and Transocean have declined to attend hearings on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak scheduled for this week by Mississippi's House of Representatives.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Bridging the energy gulf
    The Deepwater Horizon rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is causing questions to be asked further afield about the place of oil and oil exploration. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has just released its demand for a global moratorium on exploration in any "ecologically ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • POLL: Growing Number Of Americans Have Favorable V ...
    A new CBS News Poll suggests that gay and lesbian Americans may be changing the nation’s view of homosexuality. “Seventy-seven percent of Americans now say they know someone who is gay or lesbian,” an increase of 35 percentage points since 1992. Also, only 43% of Americans currently see homosexual r ...
  • Rep. Ike Skelton Is Concerned DADT Repeal Would Ha ...
    Proving that the opposition to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) is rooted in homophobia rather than legitimate concerns about military readiness or unit cohesion, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) told reporters yesterday that the military should keep the policy intact ...
  • The WonkLine: June 9, 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.   Election Update ...
  • Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli Says His Health Care La ...
    Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who sued the government over health reform just moments after President Obama signed reform legislation, has filed a response to the federal government’s motion to dismiss that stateâs independent lawsuit. Over at the main site, Ian Millhiser mocks Cuccine ...
  • Schakowsky: Debt Commission Success ‘Unlikel ...
    Back in February, President Obama created a debt commission by executive order, which is tasked with crafting a proposal to reduce long-term deficits through a combination of revenue increases and spending cuts. Theoretically, the package crafted by the commission will then be voted on by Congress, ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Prog-Blog Liberals Don't Like Coalition????
    [Don't read this. In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna, "Never mind." Apparently some weirdos are floating the idea of an actual Liberal-NDP merger. That's crazy talk.] It made perfect sense to me . But a number of Liberal bloggers appear to positively hate the idea. Which strikes me as perfect ...
  • There Was NO EXCUSE For Israel's Attack on Aid Flo ...
    In the comments section of a news story reporting the Israeli attack on the aid flotilla trying to break the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, some anti-Arab racists posted links to YouTube videos showing the activists on board the ship Mavi Marara attacking the Israeli commandos as they drop down ...
  • Ronnie James Dio
    I always thought his lyrics were a little hokey, but his voice was amazing. (I'm too busy to type anything else today.) Here's Dio with Black Sabbath doing "Neon Knights": And here he is solo, doing "The Last in Line":
  • Moscow Victory Celebration - 1945
    I didn't really have anything to say today, or the time to think of anything. I've been reading about the Second World War recently (also, Montefiore's Court of the Red Tsar ) and for the heck of it, I look for films of the various actors. While looking for footage of Marshall Zhukov, I saw this vic ...
  • Salute to Canadian Cynic
    Canadian Cynic is taking a break from it all . Can't say that I blame him. I get the sense that he's a dude with a lot of marketable skills and recently I've been thinking that he's been getting bored with going into the fetid swamp of the "Blogging Tories" and reporting back on the idiocy he finds ...

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

  • Public Will Not See State Department Interim Repor ...
    Over at The Cable, Josh Rogin reports that the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Defense Review (QDDR) interim report will no longer be made available to the public as expected: Administration sources confirmed to The Cable that the State Department's...
  • Better Late than Never
    Last Friday, I received an email from the Department of Energy (DOE) Open Government Team. I was glad to see that DOE was able to sort out the issues with the email address listed on its Open Government Webpage, but...
  • Morning Smoke: FOIA Requests Down Nearly Ten Perce ...
    FOIA requests dropped in 2009 by Ed O'Keefe [Federal Eye] Goldman Sachs Subpoenaed By Financial Crisis Panel For Withholding Key Info by Shahien Nasiripour [The Huffington Post] Derivatives Market May Be Reshaped Even Without Swap-Desk Rule by Phil Mattingly [Bloomberg]...
  • New Podcast: Congressional Oversight of the Intell ...
    A special new POGO podcast is now available for your listening pleasure—we're honored this time to be joined by Steven Aftergood (of the Federation of American Scientists and Secrecy News) for a discussion of congressional oversight of the intelligence community....
  • Pentagon Memo Could Open Up Research, Curb Pseudo- ...
    There could soon be a windfall in publicly available information from the Department of Defense (DoD). Last week the Federation of American Scientists' Steve Aftergood reported on his blog, Secrecy News, that Under Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter issued...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Homeless Panhandlers Sue the State of Utah
    A group of the homeless in Utah have sued the state claiming that if they can't panhandle, then more official entities, like the Salvation Army's bell-ringers, shouldn't be allowed to solicit donations either. Attorney Brian Barnard filed the suit on behalf of three homeless clients, including one w ...
  • Street Justice: Rat and Die
    One time a homeless friend called and asked to meet me at a homeless outreach service at a particular time. I was 10 minutes late and as far as I knew, he was a no-show. I waited around for a few hours and, since he wasn't there, I chatted with everyone else who was. Six months or so later my friend ...
  • It's No Joke — the Funny Pages Now Feature a Homel ...
    A new comic strip called "Barney & Clyde" debuted in several major newspapers today. It's not about a boy and his dog, or two cantankerous neighbors or even a grumpy boss and his nincompoop employee. It doesn't fit any cartoon mold. You see, Barney is a billionaire and Clyde is homeless. In the firs ...
  • "Life Could Be Better" Is an Understatement
    I met Popcorn on the streets of San Francisco. He came to San Francisco from Michigan, and he found himself unemployed after losing his job as a hotel worker and security guard. Popcorn has an interesting optimism and upbeat tone as he talks, even though life on the streets is hard. When I asked him ...
  • Home Is Where the Heart Is (and Those You Love, To ...
    A "chronically homeless" gentleman I'll call JJ returned to Nashville by bus at the height of the " Great Flood of 2010 " and stopped in at my office to say "howdy." He'd left Music City about a year ago to wander the beautiful beaches of sunny, sweaty Florida after the daily drudgery in the local T ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • DND wants to skip competition, buy Joint Strike Fi ...
    Le Devoir reports that the Department of National Defence wants to skip a competition to choose a replacement for the CF-18 Hornet and quickly sign a deal to buy the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Alec Castonguay, “Avions de chasse: l’armée a fait son choix,” Le Devoir, 7 June 2010). A ...
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Lisa Oz – Author
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with author and natural health advocate, Lisa Oz, and click here to purchase her new book, US: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that Matter Most.         Lisa Oz on The Kevin Trudeau Show 06/08/10  
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-10
    Today, Kevin explains the difference between a winner and a loser.  Plus, author & natural health advocate, Lisa Oz, stops by to discuss how the quality of our existence is determined by the quality of our relationships. Self Help: The Answer To Weight Loss  Financial Freedom   Raise Your Teachabili ...
  • Household Cleaning Sprays Could Cause Asthma
    June 8, 2010 Telegraph By Kate Devlin Studies suggest that some products can exacerbate existing conditions and even trigger breathing problems in people who have never previously suffered from the illness. If proven, the link could make some cases of the disease preventable, according to Dr Jan-Pau ...
  • What’s Really Wrong With America
    June 8, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams (NaturalNews) There are a great many reasons to love America. For one thing, Freedom of Speech remains largely intact in the USA (although the FDA has struck a serious blow to the principle with its ongoing censorship of free speech about nutritional supple ...
  • Britain Will Open The Door To Modified Crops
    June 8, 2010 Daily Mail By James Chapman Genetically modified crops were last night given enthusiastic backing by the Environment Secretary. Caroline Spelman shocked colleagues by suggesting that the coalition government will take a more pro-GM stance than its Labour predecessor. The Tories have tra ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Farewell Helen Thomas
    It’s good that Helen Thomas will no longer be in White House press briefings. Not because she sullied the reputation of the Washington press corps with a few undiplomatic remarks, but because those who lack her boldness and bluntness will no longer be able to use her presence to foster the illusion ...
  • Palestine: A great moral and political cause of ou ...
    “Palestine has become a great moral and political cause of our time that unites people across the world,” said Seamus Milne, addressing marchers in London on Saturday. Drowning in their narcissistic self-obsession, this is a reality that completely escapes the comprehension of most Jewish Israeli ...
  • Israel’s separate reality
    One of the lessons of state communism is that there is no better environment in which to control the way people think than one in which they believe they are free. Stalin never had it so easy as Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to getting a whole population to effortlessly swallow a pack of lies. ...
  • “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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Legal beagle says: Manmade global warming science ...
    From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post: A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvaniaâs Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fail to stand up … Continue reading →
  • The Beeville Science Fair Hoax – but look at ...
    This really is a low, why would anyone mess with kids on something like this? There is madness about. Ecotretas looks at the Beeville, TX station data, and I’ve visited the site personally but deferred the survey to surfacestations volunteer … Continue reading →
  • EPA’s action Jackson on the “resolutio ...
    EPA Press Office press@epa.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2010 Administrator Jackson: Keep Moving America Forward Into Energy Independence Addresses upcoming âresolution of disapprovalâ vote in remarks before small business owners WASHINGTON â In remarks today at EPAâs 2010 Small … Contin ...
  • The day TV weather grew up
    This essay by Mike Smith hits home for me, because it parallels my experience in the midwest in 1974. That was a banner year for tornado outbreaks. The April 3rd and 4th super outbreak was a big influence on me. … Continue reading →
  • Minority report: 50 year warming due to natural ca ...
    Warming in Last 50 Years Predicted by Natural Climate Cycles by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. One of the main conclusions of the 2007 IPCC report was that the warming over the last 50 years was most likely due to … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Howard Zinn: The Myth of American Exceptionalism ( ...
    by Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad mitworld.mit.edu March 14, 2005 Running Time: 1:32:02 Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn. Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony described establishing “a city on a hill,” to serve the world as a beacon o ...
  • Committing “Ecocide:” Tipping Point Be ...
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net June 8, 2010 To echo A. J. Toynbee, civilizations fall not by getting murdered by outsiders: they tend to commit suicide first.  Judging by our example, so do advanced species.  The good news: earthlings need not dread the shocker o ...
  • 21st Century Letter to the Churches in the USA by ...
    by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 5 June, 2010 Christ, you know it ain’t easy You know how hard it can be The way things are going They’re gonna crucify me - John Lennon The Editor-in-Chief of SOJOURNERSMagazine, the Evangelical Jim Wallis has released a new book, The Great Awakening ...
  • It’s Your Soul…… Stupid!!! by Philip A ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 5 June, 2010 Now, I know that progressive political thinkers are not supposed to touch the subject of the Sweet Hereafter. It seems that once you do that, many progressives will criticize…. As if believing in a Creator and a Universe is in oppos ...
  • Propaganda VS THE TRUTH and Personal Encounters wi ...
    by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 5 June, 2010 I am beyond grief and have never been more inflamed over Zionist LIES and Propaganda as expressed here: Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World 91177info — June 04, 2010 And so, I repeat myself: On October 16, 2006, while in the little ...

Your New Reality

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    "Music Industry Will Collapse Within Months" Radiohead showed that thanks to the internet, a band with a following no longer needs a record company or distributor to sell millions of albums, and generate more than an estimated $20 million in income, as they did with their online album In Rainbows. ...
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    Dear Future Robots, I Was Only Joking When I Said We Should Destroy You All Before It's Too Late By Darryl Mason I'm not saying anything negative about flying killer robots that can find each other and group into a mother ship to maximize their slaughter capacity. I love robots. All robots. P ...
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    US Media Terrified Of Mentioning USS Liberty Never heard of the USS Liberty ? Do you know that an American naval vessel was attacked by Israel in international waters, 43 years ago today, resulting in the deaths of dozens of American sailors, seriously wounding more than 170? If you haven't, don' ...
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    What If Your Friends Like Your Digital Avatar More Than The Real You? Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist : Central to our identity is how we judge our own looks and how other people perceive us. Jose Bentham, a 39-year-old banker, and Susan Golton, a 22-year-old design student...were scann ...
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    The Beginning Of The End Of The War On Afghanistan 'Reformed' Taliban will include 'reformed' Al Qaeda, and whoever else has to paid off to stop killing NATO troops : Backing Afghan President Hamid Karzai's efforts to 'reach out' to the Taliban through the peace jirga, President Obama's Spec ...

Wired - Science

  • U.S. Leading Charge on Synthetic Biology Funding
    Synthetic biology received about $430 million in U.S. government funding from 2005 to 2010, far outpacing European governments, which gave their synthetic biologists $160 million over the same period. The emerging field received nearly no funding before 2005, according to a new Woodrow Wilson Cente ...
  • How to Send Your Face to Space
    NASA wants to put your face in space. No, really: Just in time for the last two space shuttle flights, NASA is offering to fly pictures of anyone who uploads a head shot on their Face in Space website to the International Space Station. Face in Space follows a long tradition of spacecraft carrying ...
  • Male Spiders Are All Bark, Female Spiders Fight to ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience90435672001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); While the males of a jumping spider species merely threaten and posture instead of actually fighting each other, fights among females are often fatal. Scientists ...
  • Ancient Beehives Yield 3,000-Year-Old Bees
    Honeybee remains found in a 3,000-year-old apiary have given archaeologists a one-of-a-kind window into the beekeeping practices of the ancient world. “Beekeeping is known only from a few Egyptian sources, from a few tombs and paintings. No actual hives have been found,” said Hebrew University of J ...
  • Before the Mississippi: Ancient Rivers Flowed West
    Like vacationers taking a pit stop on a long road trip, zircon mineral grains from the northern Appalachians may have stopped off in Michigan before ending up on the Colorado Plateau, a new study suggests. The finding, reported in the June Geology, is a major boost to the notion that a continent-sp ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Witchhunt for an Israeli MP
    Jonathan Cook: In addition to the removal of Ms Zoubi’s [Knesset] privileges, she is also facing the revocation of her citizenship. The measure has been used only twice before in Israel’s history --... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Mel Frykberg: Israel’s media blackout, doctored Fl ...
    Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Freedom Flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Rasmussen: 49% of US Voters Say Pro-Palestinian Ac ...
    Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters believe pro-Palestinian activists on the Gaza-bound aid ships raided by Israeli forces are to blame for the deaths that resulted in the high-profile... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
  • Left-wing activist Tali Fahima converts to Islam
    According to website of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Fahima converted to Islam in a mosque in Umm al-Fahm; Fahima served three years in prison for aiding the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israel asked US to increase weapons supply
    The American stores [in Israel] hold rockets, bombs, aircraft ammunition and armored vehicles, along with other weapons. The gear fully matches equipment already used by the Israel Defense Forces ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Funding for Medical Research at Baylor Flourishes ...
    Even in an economy that's proved devastating to charitable giving and government grants, the Baylor Institute of Immunology Research (BIIR), a component of Baylor Research Institute (BRI), has managed to buck the trend: BIIR received grants totaling nearly $35 million in 2009.
  • What's the Deal with All the Teen Vampire Movies a ...
    Jolene Zigarovich, Cornell visiting lecturer in English, comments on the plethora of teen vampire movies and books.
  • Top Hospitals in Patient Experience Announced by H ...
    Hospitals providing the best patient experience in the nation, according to surveys of their patients overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, were identified today by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization, and posted to its website, www.healthgrade ...
  • Wireless Sensor Startup Wins UC San Diego $80K Ent ...
    Wireless sensors that monitor your heart even though they do not actually touch your skin are at the center of UC San Diego electrical engineering PhD student Yu Mike Chi's dissertation. This technology - and the plan for commercializing it - earned Chi and his Cognionics team the top spot in the UC ...
  • Study Finds Young Men Vulnerable to Relationship U ...
    The ups and downs of romantic relationships have a greater effect on the mental health of young men than women, according to a new study by sociology professor Robin Simon. She found that both the harmful effects of a rocky relationship and the emotional benefits of a positive romantic relationship ...

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

  • Surging Food Costs Hit Poor Nations Hard; Biofuels ...
    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. Click here to read this article
  • Junk Food Companies Pledge to Reduce Calories and ...
    But if high-fat, high-sugar and highly processed foods are bad for the health of Americans, are they any good for people in India and China? The answer, obviously, no. Click here to read this article
  • Starving Zimbabwe Rejects GM Maize
    Zimbabwe has rejected genetically modified maize as food aid for its hungry population after raising health and environmental concerns. Click here to read this article
  • Canadian Groups Support Haitian Rejection of Monsa ...
    Today farmer and environmental groups from across Canada stated their support for tomorrow's farmer march in Haiti, organized to protest a donation of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds from the U.S.-based multinational biotechnology corporation Monsanto. The seeds will be distributed by th ...
  • Industrial Farming and Globalization: Responsibly ...
    Hunger and malnutrition are not primarily the result of insufficient food production; they are the result of poverty and inequality, particularly in rural areas, where 75% of the world’s poor still reside. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • 15 paraísos que pueden estar quizás muy cerca de t ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www ...
  • Animales muy tiernos y a la vez divertidos
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO POR CIERTO, ¿alguien sabe cómo se llama este animalito? [ RESPONDER ] OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imáge ...
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Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • So How is the ICC Review Conference Going?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I couldn’t make it to Kampala for the review conference (not that anyone invited me), but luckily, the magic of the internet means I don’t have to go to find out how things are going.  For two really different takes on the negotiations, I highly recommend you follow EJI ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...
  • The Israeli attack - a video perspective
    I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli territory. Having said that, everyone -...
  • 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...

Public News Service

  • Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Fun ...
    Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Funded Candidates Phoenix, AZ – The U-S Supreme Court has blocked the matching-funds part of Arizona’s publicly-funded Clean Elections system. The move puts incumbent Governor Jan Brewer at a major disadvantage to a wealthy businessman challenging her in the ...
  • Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim o ...
    Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim of Cartel Border Violence Phoenix, AZ – In their campaigns, several Arizona politicians are claiming that Mexico’s drug wars have spilled over into Arizona. But border city law enforcement officials say there’s been no increase in violence. Comments from Do ...
  • AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields
    AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s disturbed public lands should be priority sites for generating wind and solar power. That’s the position of the state’s Democratic members of Congress, who are urging federal land managers to steer green energy projects to places ...
  • AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Ove ...
    AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Over Jail Phoenix, AZ - President Obama recently announced a new national policy to treat drug abuse more as a public-health issue, increasing the emphasis on prevention and treatment. Arizona public health advocates have a long record of pushing for su ...
  • AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone
    AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone Phoenix, AZ – A cell phone can be a handy reminder for better maternal and child health. That's the goal of the "Text4Baby" program, a new joint effort between health providers, corporations and local governments. It sends short, health and safety-relat ...

My Care2 Picks

  • N.O.R.M. enters rebuttal to FDA presumptions on Fe ...
    FDA is not and, by the construction of this government, cannot be authorized to determine its own jurisdiction. It must operate within the bounds of the administrative structure authorized by the legislative power harmonious with the limited, delegated p Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • Rig Survivors: BP Ordered Shortcut On Day Of Blast
    he morning the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, a BP executive and a Transocean official argued over how to proceed with the drilling... Submitted by Josh Townsend to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Watchdog Calls on USDA to Boost Transparency in Or ...
    In a move to protect the growing organic industry from undue corporate influence, a leading organic watchdog group released a letter, dated June 7, calling on the USDA to collaborate with the organic community on pending appointments to the NOSB. Submitted by Will - Cornucopia Inst to US Politics & ...
  • A Land Without Men for Men Without Land: Travels T ...
    Bicycle expedition : cycle the Transamazonica highway alone, over 3,000 miles across the continent joining with the new Trans-Oceanic highway in Peru, to explore the deforestation of the Amazon Basin firsthand. Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israeli raids: The view from Gaza
    Life under Israels blockade is hard for the vast majority who live in this hot, dusty patch of earth where 1.5 million Palestinians are crammed into refugee camps and ramshackle homes that surround some elegant high-rises and hotels Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...

Angry Indian News

  • John John - PMO scripted Afghan mission message: r ...
    Special Report by IIN Investigative Blog-correspondent John John: CBC News - Politics - PMO scripted Afghan mission message: records :The Conservative government used pervasive message management to ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US Intel Analyst Arrested for Leaking Wikileaks Vi ...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for June 07, 2010: Report: Israel Had Assassination List Passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara continue to provide new accounts of the Israeli assault. Some are now... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gulf oil spill could push Pointe-au-Chien Indian t ...
    Gulf oil spill could push Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe to the point of no return: "POINTE-AUX-CHENES, LA. -- The best thing about this place -- where the dry land of south Louisiana gives up, and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Apology follows inflammatory comment in S.C. race
    Apology follows inflammatory comment in S.C. race-washingtonpost.com/: "The brawl for South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial nomination just got nastier.A GOP state senator called front-runner... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • CIA Medics Honed Torture Techniques on Detainees, ...
    CIA Medics Honed Torture Techniques on Detainees, Group Charges - IPS ipsnews.net: "NEW YORK, Jun 7, 2010 (IPS) - A major human rights organisation claims it has uncovered evidence indicating that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil ...
    The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
  • Obama Smiles While the Gulf Dies
    BP executives and governmental regulators had to have known just how deadly their dispersant Corexit would turn the Gulf waters, by creating monstrously large, oily, rushing underwater plumes. These plumes are hundreds of square miles of poisonous, oily micro-particles that go unseen by satellite ...
  • Are You Supporting a Hellish CAFO?
    The irony is, if a single person treats an animal like this, he/she is charged with animal cruelty, fined, and faces possible jail time if the situation is severe enough. Why then, do the big money-making corporations get to treat their animals in an intensely inhumane way and get away with it? In f ...
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.N. Security Imposes New Sanctions Against Iran
    ShareThis U.N. Security Imposes New Sanctions Against Iran 09 Jun 2010 The UN Security Council (UNSC) has voted in favor of imposing a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Of the 15 UNSC member states Brazil and Turkey voted against the new round of sanctions on Wednesday ...
  • US crisis panel hits Goldman Sachs with subpoenas
    ShareThis US crisis panel hits Goldman Sachs with subpoenas 07 Jun 2010�A high-profile panel investigating the causes of the financial crisis announced Monday it had subpoenaed Goldman Sachs for failing to cooperate with the probe. Leading members of Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission angrily accus ...
  • Iranian scholar confirms abduction
    ShareThis Iranian scholar confirms abduction �08 Jun 2010 The Iranian scholar who went missing last year while on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has confirmed his abduction by the US in a video message. Shahram Amiri, a researcher at Iran's Malek Ashtar University, insisted in the message released on Mo ...
  • Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marm ...
    ShareThis Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marmara: On Cowardice and Violence By Ken O'Keefe 07 Jun 2010 I knew the commandos were murdering when I removed a 9mm pistol from one of� them.� I had that gun in my hands and as an ex-US Marine with training in the use of guns it was complete ...
  • BP's Deepwater Horizon costs hit $1.25bn
    ShareThis BP's Deepwater Horizon costs hit $1.25bn --Efforts to stop leak, clean-up costs and compensation costing tens of millions a day --BP shares rise 2.7% this morning on hopes for success and dividend pledge 07 Jun 2010 The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $1.25bn (£870m), as it ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...
  • The Israeli attack - a video perspective
    I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli territory. Having said that, everyone -...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • Obama’s refusal to jettison the special rela ...
    Guilt by association is weak adjudicatory framework, but that’s not true of guilt by active association. America is rightly experiencing some of the Flotilla Massacre fallout. As Israel’s patron, protector and enabler, Israeli actions mean American responsibility. I’m beginning to think that the I ...
  • Israel’s cult of victimhood: ‘Barefoot’ soldiers o ...
    Why are Israelis so indignant at the international outrage that has greeted their country’s lethal attack last week on a flotilla of civilian ships taking aid to Gaza? Israelis have not responded in any of the ways we might have expected. There has been little soul-searching about the morality, let ...
  • Sullivan asks how to redeem the Jewish state
    Sullivan has asked if there are any anti-Zionist columnists anywhere in the US, and is getting no response. No there are none. You get drawn and quartered. And in the same post he tries to justify Israel's existence in light of his discovery of Richard Cohen's 2006 statement that Israel's founding w ...
  • Farewell Helen Thomas
    It’s good that Helen Thomas will no longer be in White House press briefings. Not because she sullied the reputation of the Washington press corps with a few undiplomatic remarks, but because those who lack her boldness and bluntness will no longer be able to use her presence to foster the illusion ...
  • All Palestine is divided into four parts
    The Free Gaza Movement and the Freedom Flotilla have succeeded in drawing attention to Israel's siege on Gaza, which has turned the Strip into a giant prison. There is another aspect to the Gaza prison however, highlighted by Amira Hass in her column today, and that is the systematic separation of ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Vanishing Sperm Count
    There has been an alarming drop in the male sperm count over the past few decades; as much as a 50% reduction in most studies. As vaccine uptake continues, the systemic exposure to Bisphenal A Plastics, Sodium Fluoride, toxic chemicals & pesticides, GMO foods coupled with the widespread elimination ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization & Vaccine Manufactu ...
    A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ...
  • VRM: Lupus Disease – Natural Cure Succeeds W ...
    Lupus Disease is a chronic degenerative disease caused by systemic auto-immune breakdown in the body; where-by the immune system of the body attacks its own cells and tissues. Specifically, the joints, skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, nervous system, and other organs of the body are affected. While beli ...
  • VRM: Meningitis Vaccine To Be Forced On 7th Grader ...
    A substantial new Bill to require meningitis vaccine for 7th graders and ALL college students is gaining momentum in Albany, New York http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5472 Bill S7156 passed the Senate Health Committee and is due for a floor vote. Bill A10313 will be voted on the Assembly Health ...
  • VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
    A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Still think Organic Lawn Care Doesn't Work?
    Wonder if they still think I'm nuts for planting clover, not mowing my lawn as short as possible and not using "weed and feed"? Sure mine still has some brown but it's a lot less than the other yards.� Now that we've had a couple days of rain my yard is completely green while the others are ...
  • Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
    A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...
  • Simple Living: CDs and DVDs
    If like me, you were a teen in the 90's, you probably have a huge stack of CDs like I do. I would also bet that, like me, you rarely listen to any of those CDs. Over the last few years I've also noticed the same thing with my DVDs. I had a whole shelf of CDs and DVD but never touched 99% of ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Yon

  • The Bridge
    Shah Wali Kot, Afghanistan 11 March 2009 The military axiom that “amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics” has special meaning in Afghanistan. During the Soviet war, though the Bear comprised Afghanistan’s entire northern border, the Afghan resistance was frequently able to bloc ...
  • Gobar Gas
    (Abridged version 1) Brunei, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Published: 08 June 2010 Michael Yon A Gurkha Idea Among the more interesting coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan are the legendary Nepalese Gurkhas. Trained and fielded by the British, as they have been since colonia ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Upgrading to iPhone 4? Gazelle Launches Mobile Sit ...
    Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch If you're excited about the news of the iPhone 4 and are itching to upgrade, Gazelle - one of our favorite gadget resell companies - has made it ridiculously easy to do soy creating a mobile site for customers to set up a trade in right from their old phone. It's all in ...
  • What's The Carbon Footprint of a Heart Bypass? Who ...
    Image credit: NC Museum of History Only yesterday I lamented the fact that too many TreeHuggers are overly focused on individual carbon footprints as a metric for success . So what should I make of news from The Guardian that a heart bypass operation carries with it a huge carbon footprint—as m ...
  • Old Ink Cartridges Form Bike Path in Australian Na ...
    Photo via the Centralian Advocate The folks at West MacDonnell National Park in Australia had a brilliant idea for a new bike path connecting Alice Springs and Simpsons Gap. They made it out of junked ink cartridges. The material can last far longer than timber, and is a great way to reuse plas ...
  • Visiting the Great Trees of London One by One
    Images from The Great Trees of London : Richmond Plane Tree As a city, London is considered to be green and leafy, with lovely squares and parks filled with large and graceful trees. But the shocking truth is that there are only 56 great trees left in the larger area of London and only 10 i ...
  • 'Eat Well Guide' Helps You Eat Local, Like Guster
    Credit: acnatta via Flickr. So the alt rock group Guster is challenging people to eat local, for their tastebuds and the planet. That's easy for them to say, though, right? They're co-founders of the Green Music Group. They know about this stuff. Well, thanks to the power of the Internets and ZIP ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court temporarily blocks Arizona election ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday issued an order [text, PDF] temporarily blocking the state of Arizona from releasing campaign subsidies to publicly funded candidates under the state's campaign finance reform law [Title 16, Chapter 6, Article 2]. The o ...
  • UK to increase North Sea drilling inspections afte ...
    [JURIST] UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne announced Tuesday that the government will increase inspection [press release] of North Sea oil rigs and monitoring of offshore compliance and safety standards in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder] in the Gulf of Mexico. Huhne s ...
  • Head of UN-backed Guatemala anti-corruption commis ...
    [JURIST] The head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) [official website], Carlos Castresana, resigned Monday, citing the country's failure to adequately cooperate in the fight against corruption. Castresana expressed his frustration [BBC report] with the process, in ...
  • Taiwan ex-president Chen found not guilty of misus ...
    [JURIST] The Taipei District Court [official website, in Chinese] on Tuesday found former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] not guilty of embezzling USD $330,000. Chen was indicted in September [JURIST report] for allegedly using funds received from the Foreign Af ...
  • ICTR transfers 25 cases to Rwandan jurisdiction
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] on Tuesday transferred [press release] the cases of 25 suspects in the 1994 Rwandan conflict [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to Rwandan authorities. The suspects, who have been investigated but not yet indicted ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Not Engaging My Critics, Vol. 1
    A regular round-up of extremely critical appraisals of my work, here displayed with only the comment that the writers in question cannot comprehend a world where an�observation�about what is, is not necessarily equivalent to a belief about what ought to be. From Ace of Spades , on President Obama an ...
  • White House Tapes: Tonkin And The JFK Assassinatio ...
    Here is a productive way to waste some time today: listen to some of the audio recordings made available by the Presidential Recordings Program and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. The transcripts and audio have been accessible to researchers for a few years, but n ...
  • Schwarzenegger's Win
    The biggest news out of California last night was not an election: it was the endorsement of a ballot initiative, Proposition 14, that might radically change the type of candidate who seeks and wins congressional and statewide officers. The "Top Two Primary Act" allows voters of any political party ...
  • The Meaning Of Arkansas, Regardless Of The Winner
    It's a funny habit we political pundits have. If, say, 3000 votes separate a winner from a loser, we forget that a small shift in some part of a state could have swung those votes the other way, and we tend to massively over-interpret the meaning of the tiniest of margins. So let's say that the resu ...
  • The Night Beat: Clapper Nomination Hits a Snag?
    Good evening. Stephen Strasburg 's first pitch was a fastball. But it was a ball, not a strike. Thanks for asking. The Atlantic's election coverage can be found here . On the Night Beat: 1. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen receives the Asia Society's Public Policy Award tomorrow night o ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Israeli Concert Producer Claims Boycott=Cultural T ...
    I don’t know whether to pity or despise Shuki Weiss, Israeli concert promoter, who’s losing international stars to the Israeli boycott faster than he can replace them. The IDF’s conspicuous disregard for Arab life doesn’t seem to be helping his cause very much. But Weiss isn’t doing himself any fav ...
  • Shin Bet: Sleeping Your Way to the Top and Other S ...
    It appears there are two ways to rise to the top of the Shin Bet. Either you can specialize in torturing Israeli Palestinian terrorists (otherwise known as “citizens”) by tying them to chairs, depriving them of sleep, and tormenting them with threats to expel them to Gaza; or you can sleep your way ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Israelis Demonstrate Against Mavi Marmara Attack, ...
    10,000 Israelis protested the failed Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara and the Gaza siege a few days ago.  What struck me especially about the rally was this electrifying speech by Israeli novelist and journalist, Nir Baram, decrying the blockheadedness of the Israeli leadership and the insularity ...

Ode Magazine

  • Slow and sweet: Living with the reality of time
    By: VictoriaKlein You’ve probably heard of the slow food movement. Maybe you've read about the concept of slow money in Ode two years ago. Like bell bottom jeans and dietary fats , living a slower life has sailed its way back into our hearts. It’s likel ...
  • “We don’t think, we don’t feel, we just work”
    By: PhotoPhilanthropy A photo essay on migrant workers in North Carolina who struggle with low wages, poor working conditions, and the consequences of regular exposure to unsafe pesticides. Migrant workers in North Carolina regularly log long hours working under a burni ...
  • Capitalism to the rescue!
    Whatâs the best way to fight poverty in the developing world? Treat people like producers and consumers, argues Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir. Iqbal Quadir has nothing against low salaries. “That’s not a bad thing,” he says calmly, though his eyes are piercing. “Tha ...
  • Change the way you think about change
    If you are an executive looking to modify a process at work, you can turn to change management literature. If you need to transform your life, there are plenty of self-help books. If you want to change the world, there is advice for activists, too. With their new book, Chip a ...
  • Dance of life
    The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, as a “teach-in day” to raise awareness about environmental problems. Today, Earth Day mobilizes hundreds of millions of people around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to a cleaner planet. Last year, these schoolchildren ...

OpEd News

  • Reset: Stephen Kinzerapos;s Vision of a New U.S. R ...
    Some Americans may be surprised to see Turkey playing a more independent role. Liz Cheney says Turkey is part of a new axis of evil that wants to destroy Israel. Itapos;s quite opportune that Stephen Kinzer has a new book out this week that argues the opposite case: Turkeyapos;s more independent p ...
  • Living Dead: apos;Lostapos; versus apos;Life on Ma ...
    So, whether by karma, fate or simple coincidence, ABCapos;s apos;Lostapos; and, in my opinion, the superior BBCapos;s apos;Ashes to Ashesapos; (the continuation of the brilliant British apos;Life on Marsapos;) ended their respective series on the very same weekend. I realize that this, while tragic ...
  • Israel Rejects International Probe of Raid on Aid ...
    Israel says no to calls for an international probe. It prefers its own probe of the deadly raid that killed nine people on the aid flotilla that was headed to Gaza. This is myopic and smacks of trying to hide something. Wouldnapos;t it be in Israelapos;s interest to have an intapos;l commission exon ...
  • Obamaapos;s National Security Strategy: A New Dire ...
    Obamaapos;s agenda assures permanent war
  • Will You Take An Immune Drug To Prevent Fractures? ...
    Prolia is not your grandmotherapos;s bone prep. Unlike old fashioned "small molecules" made from chemicals, it is a "monoclonal antibody" derived from genetically engineered Chinese hamster ovary cells that inhibits a protein, RANKL, which causes bone loss.

Switchboard

  • Principles of sustainable housing, from the Smart ...
      'Sustainable' is one of those words that means slightly different things to different people.  As someone who spoke before me at a forum yesterday said, for example, calling a marriage 'sustainable' isn't saying much good. The Smart Growth Network , a diverse public/private/nonprof ...
  • Offshore Air Quality in the Gulf: BP Data Still In ...
    In previous blog posts I have raised serious concerns about the health and safety of the Gulf clean-up workers. I have also repeatedly called upon BP and the Coast Guard to publicly release the air quality data that they claim shows the air is "safe" out there where hundreds of people ...
  • Watch! A Gulf Thick with Life -- and Oil
    Southern Louisiana crude has been flooding into the Gulf of Mexico - uncontrolled - for much of the spring.� Where is the oil?� What is it harming?� What unique habitats and biological diversity is at risk? The Gulf of Mexico is rich with life, and there is much to lose. T ...
  • National Ocean Policy and Marine Spatial Planning ...
    Tomorrow is the United Nations’ annual World Oceans Day . With or without the current Gulf disaster, the fact is that – worldwide – our oceans are experiencing a silent collapse as a result of pollution, habitat destruction , increased strain on fish populations, and  impacts from exce ...
  • What wildlife is at risk from the Gulf oil disaste ...
    Today is World Oceans Day and we are facing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. I wanted to take a minute to look at some of the hundreds of wildlife species and habitats at risk. Hopefully this will serve as a reminder for why we fight for ocean protection, including why NRDC is 1) c ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

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  • Double Standards
    There is, of course, no defense for Helen Thomas’s anti-Semitic remarks, and in isolation the consequences are unobjectionable. But why Pat Buchanan remains a constant presence on The Serious TeeVee News is also hard to defend or explain, just as I have yet to understand why the adultery of Presid ...
  • An Epochal Event
    Apologies for the light non-existent posting of late; I’m on vacation this week. Apparently, while I was away Glenn Reynolds became a complete hack! Oh wait… Anyway, I would be remiss if I didn’t note this day in history: California has had many Democratic Senate primaries, and today is certai ...
  • David Brooks shows us his “Big Shaggy”
    So it appears that David Brooks has penned an entire column premised on the observation that a century of social science has failed to provide satisfying explanations for why oil companies would cut corners and wreck an ecosystem; why investment bankers would develop complex financial instruments an ...
  • More on Unruly Clients
    North Korea probably didn’t need this: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a North Korean border guard shot dead three Chinese nationals and wounded one last week in an incident in northeast China, prompting the Chinese government to file a formal complaint. The shootings took place last ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: Do 'foreign tribunals' ...
    The proponents of American exceptionalism may well delight in an increasingly popular provision of U.S. federal law: 28 U.S.C. 1782, which allows parties to seek discovery in federal court for use in legal proceedings before "foreign or international tribunal[s]." Provisions like this do not abound ...
  • Suing Toyota
    Dozens of lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. claiming unintended acceleration of its vehicles are moving along in state courts. Discovery in these cases could help plaintiffs' counsel in the federal multidistrict litigation.
  • BP shareholders bring latest class action in weste ...
    Plaintiffs' lawyers filing the latest oil spill lawsuit against BP decided to bypass the federal trial court in New Orleans with its raft of conflicted-out judges. Instead, the team of seven firms filed a securities fraud class action in the Western District of Louisiana on June 7.
  • Mass. U.S. attorney's office adds civil rights enf ...
    The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts is adding a civil rights enforcement team as part of the Department of Justice's efforts to sharply ramp up civil rights prosecutions.
  • D.C. Circuit rules for Winston & Strawn in fee dis ...
    Winston & Strawn on Tuesday won again in its fee dispute with former client Doley Securities Inc., which allegedly owes the firm nearly $85,000.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Gasland in Elmira
    The film “Gasland” about the Marcellus Shale drilling will play one night only at the Elmira Heights Theater on Wednesday, June 9th, with a  Q&A with the writer/director Josh Fox.  Admission fee: $5.00.
  • Increased Gas Drilling Activities Bringing New Cha ...
    HARRISBURG, Pa., May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Counties and municipalities across Pennsylvania where natural gas drilling is taking place â particularly in the Northern Tier region â are also struggling to meet a number of additional challenges associated with the industry’s increas ...
  • HB 2213 Proposal
    On May 25th the Pennsylvania House environmental committee passed crucial legislation to protect our rivers and streams from dangerous gas drilling.  This proposal, HB 2213, does several important things, including: • Prohibiting gas drilling near rivers, lakes and drinking water sources;  • Requiri ...
  • A Couple of Editorials….
    1. The gas companies that want to drill in the Marcellus Shale all know, just like other businesses, that they must spend money in order to make money. In 2008 they contributed a total of $36 million to candidates in national elections, and spent $133 million on lobbying. In 2009 they spent a whoppi ...
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
    If you live in PA and are not aware of it…most of Eastern PA all the way up to New York is part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary______________________________________________ For Immediate Release             May 12, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER- – - ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Interview: The Oil Spill’s Growing Toll On Marine ...
    Marine biologist Thomas Shirley of Texas A&M University has spent most of his career studying the aquatic life of the Gulf of Mexico. Indeed, shortly before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Shirley was part of a team of 140 scientists from 15 countries that completed an all-species inventory of the ...
  • The Oil Spill’s Growing Toll On Sea Life in the Gu ...
    A prominent marine biologist says the impacts of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico will persist for years, no matter when the flow finally stops. What’s more, scientist Thomas Shirley says that most of the damage remains out of sight below the surface, as creatures succumb to the toxic effects ...
  • Union Carbide Officials Convicted In 1984 Bhopal G ...
    Eight former executives of the Indian subsidiary of the U.S. chemical giant, Union Carbide, have been found guilty of negligence for failure to prevent a toxic gas leak that killed thousands of people in the city of Bhopal in 1984. The eight senior officials received two-year prison sentences and we ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fires in Brazilian Amazon Set Back Forest Conserva ...
    An increase in fires in the Brazilian Amazon threatens to cancel out some of the carbon dioxide reductions achieved through UN forest management programs, according to a new study. An analysis of satellite data by the University of Exeter showed that fires have increased by 59 percent in areas that ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Israel attack on USS Liberty (June 8th 1967)
    USS Liberty incident Dead in the Water During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had ...
  • Strange Discovery on Titan Leads to Speculation of ...
    New findings have roused a great deal of hoopla over the possibility of life on Saturn’s moon Titan, which some news reports have further hyped up as hints of extraterrestrials. However, scientists also caution that aliens might have nothing to do with these findings. All this excitement is rooted i ...
  • Poland: money stolen from plane crash victim’s acc ...
    Polish authorities said Monday that someone stole a credit card from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in Russia, and the card was then used to withdraw cash. Russian news services reported late Monday that three soldiers have been arrested on suspici ...
  • Canadian activist hid photos from flotilla
    A Canadian activist detained when Israeli soldiers raided a flotilla of ships off the Gaza coast says he smuggled photos of the raid off the ship by hiding his memory card in his underwear and other parts of his body.
  • Iran TV shows video of scientist abducted to U.S.
    Iran’s state television showed a video on Monday of what it said was a missing nuclear scientist declaring he had been kidnapped and taken to the United States where he was tortured. Shahram Amiri, a university researcher working for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, disappeared during a pilgrimage ...

Russia Today

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

  • UFO Flies Into Jet Contrail
    Slow day today. Plus I’m running late. So I checked out my ol’ pal Rick Philips at Barf Stew and he had this neat little YouTube video up. … Rotating UFO Flyby Airliner Netherlands 7th March 2010 ] … Hmm..must be checking out the content of the jet exhaust. Why?
  • Ancient Bracewell Probe in Solar System
    A Bracewell probe is an interstellar probe theorized by Ronald Bracewell in 1960 that is sent to prospective nearby solar systems to study for life, or primitive civilizations. If the probe finds either, they (it) sends a message back to its parent civilization. Are we being scanned by a Bracewell p ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Two Weeks to Save the Whale..ACTION ALERT
    The global ban on whaling has stood for almost 30 years, but its days are numbered. When the International Whaling Commission meets on 21 June it will vote to harpoon the whaling ban and legalise commercial whaling for the first time since 1982. Submitted by Cheryl B. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • EARTH MEANDERS: United States of Ecocide: Spilling ...
    Clearly the American way of life has been built upon liquidating our own and foreign natural life-giving ecosystems to access resources for consumption. To equate mowing ancient forests, dumping waste into water, over-fishing oceans, polluting the atmos Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �| ...
  • Agencies warn of coming doctor shortage
    Uneven distributions, in disciplines and locations, could strain the healthcare system. Can it be stopped? Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Veteran reporter retires over Israel comments
    Correspondent Helen Thomas began covering the White House in 1960 Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • With Drilling Stopped, La. Workers Fear Job Losses
    During President Obama's visit to the Louisiana coast, he got an earful from local officials about his six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Many people from work boat captains to offshore caterers say shutting down the in Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� ...

The Freeman

  • Obama Finds Himself with Empty Economic Toolbox
    “At a moment when many economists warn that the American economic recovery is likely to be imperiled by prolonged high unemployment and slow growth, President Obama is discovering that the tools available to him last year â a big economic stimulus and action by the Federal Reserve â are both now ...
  • EPA Says Amish Farming Destructive
    “[Amish] farmers like Mr. Stoltzfus are facing growing scrutiny for agricultural practices that the federal government sees as environmentally destructive. Their cows generate heaps of manure that easily washes into streams and flows onward into the Chesapeake Bay.” (New York Times, Wednesday) Natur ...
  • Federal Crimes and the End of Law
    With the Obama administration’s stated determination to have the U.S. Department of Justice seek criminal charges in the BP oil spill, I believe we should take a hard look at the entire legal process.
  • Free Trade: The Great Prosperity Machine
    Tom Palmer of the Atlas Foundation has another great video on basic economics. This one is on the blessings of free trade.
  • Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
    George Mason economics professor and Freeman contributor Daniel Klein, in cooperation with Zogby researcher Zeljka Buturovic, published in today’s Wall Street Journal an op-ed showing the results from their study on correlations between policy choice and knowledge in basic economics. You can read it ...

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

  • ANALYSIS: 3 lessons from the Halter campaign
    Labor unions are taking a beating from political pundits today in the wake of Tuesday's Arkansas primary, which saw incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln eking out a 4-point victory over labor-backed Bill Halter. Of course, one can question what, if any, deep lessons about labor and U.S. politics can� be ...
  • In Arkansas, labor gambles big against Democratic ...
    In a year when political protest has been defined by the Tea Party and challenges from the political right, tomorrow's Democratic run-off between Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter has become 2010's marquee battle for progressives. And progressives -- mostly in the form of labor, but als ...
  • 20-year-old oil spill liability law creates "incen ...
    No one knows the economic damage the Gulf oil spill will inflict on fishing fleets and coastal communities -- most observers simply say it will cost "billions" of dollars, and today, President Obama only allowed that the economic consequences will be "substantial" and "ongoing." But not as much ...
  • 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 ...

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 a rusty cheese grater?
    (My! doesn’t that sound like a smutty euphemism? :) ) We’ve had an email from Alicia: Because a leak caused damp, all the metal stuff in my kitchen cupboard went rusty while I was on holiday. Didn’t think that could happen but it has! There is a square grater, a colander and a seive. Can I do [...]
  • How can I stain my wedding dress?
    I got an email with the above subject line and assuming it was spam, braced myself for a rude message – but in fact it was a genuine reusing/upcycling question from Valerie: i am getting married again, but because it is my second marriage, i don’t want to spend a lot of money all over again. i [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle Birkenstock sandals?
    orangeterra left a comment on the “Suggest An Item” page: What can I do with my old Birkenstock sandals? Theyâre a combo of rubbery foam soles, cork footbed, and leather straps. Because they take the shape of my feet, I doubt theyâd be good hand-me-downs, but I hate to toss them. Birkenstock has ...
  • Awesome reducing, reusing & recycling links
    Here’s this week’s awesome reducing, reusing & recycling links round-up: These leather scrap mushrooms are a great idea for using up scraps & leftover material from bigger leathercraft projects – or recycling bits of leather from old clothes/accessories. Kris of Resweater pointed out a very easy ti ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle hot tub water?
    We’ve had an email from Linda: i want to use the water from my hot tub on the garden, it is a great waste to just put it down the drain. the water has chlorine in it. if i drain the water into water butts, is there any way i can remove the chlorine from it to [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Obama’s refusal to jettison the special rela ...
    Guilt by association is weak adjudicatory framework, but that’s not true of guilt by active association. America is rightly experiencing some of the Flotilla Massacre fallout. As Israel’s patron, protector and enabler, Israeli actions mean American responsibility. I’m beginning to think that the I ...
  • Israel’s cult of victimhood: ‘Barefoot’ soldiers o ...
    Why are Israelis so indignant at the international outrage that has greeted their country’s lethal attack last week on a flotilla of civilian ships taking aid to Gaza? Israelis have not responded in any of the ways we might have expected. There has been little soul-searching about the morality, let ...
  • Sullivan asks how to redeem the Jewish state
    Sullivan has asked if there are any anti-Zionist columnists anywhere in the US, and is getting no response. No there are none. You get drawn and quartered. And in the same post he tries to justify Israel's existence in light of his discovery of Richard Cohen's 2006 statement that Israel's founding w ...
  • Farewell Helen Thomas
    It’s good that Helen Thomas will no longer be in White House press briefings. Not because she sullied the reputation of the Washington press corps with a few undiplomatic remarks, but because those who lack her boldness and bluntness will no longer be able to use her presence to foster the illusion ...
  • All Palestine is divided into four parts
    The Free Gaza Movement and the Freedom Flotilla have succeeded in drawing attention to Israel's siege on Gaza, which has turned the Strip into a giant prison. There is another aspect to the Gaza prison however, highlighted by Amira Hass in her column today, and that is the systematic separation of ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • On reality and bitter truths
    I'm often asked what I mean by "real news" or "reality". I receive a decidedly skeptical "Do you think you have the 'real' truth?" I don't think there's an absolute truth. But I do think there's an objective world and there are facts. I know we will always have a partial understanding of things. Bu ...
  • A SHOE HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD – My interview with ...
    Muntadhar al-Zaidi is the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush at a Baghdad press conference on December 14th, 2008. I recently interviewed him in Beirut. I asked him why he did it. He said "I was exposing the occupation with my pen, however I didn't think my pen was reaching the ...
  • A billion for G20 security "is worth it" - just wh ...
    According to AP, Canada's Conservative government said Thursday the nearly $1 billion it plans to spend on security at the G8 and G20 summits next month is "worth it". The Canadian government has budgeted up to $930 Canadian (US$885 million) for the summits. By comparison, the stated amount spent ...
  • ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA AID SHIP VIOLATES INTERNATI ...
    Last night, Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship on its way to Gaza. It is reported that they killed ten to fifteen activists and injured thirty more. The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.� Organizers said the flotilla was carrying 10,000 tones of huma ...
  • BEYOND THE PALE - The murder of Furkan Dogan
    Not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism. But some is. All one has to do is read some of the comments on this blog that were not published, to know that Judenhass ("Jew-hatred") is alive and well. It cannot be overestimated how thousands of years of hatred and Nazi genocide weighs with a n ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Clam boat pulls up canisters off NY, crew sickened
    A doctor treating a commercial fisherman who was sickened after his clamming boat pulled up munitions tainted with chemicals says tests show he was exposed to mustard gas.
  • 'The Rig's on Fire! I Told You This Was Gonna Happ ...
    Whoever was on the other end of the line was apparently trying to calm Harrell down. "I am fucking calm," he went on, according to Buzbee. "You realize the rig is burning?"
  • Bernie Madoff: 'F— my victims. I carried them for ...
    That’s right. That charming quote comes from New York magazine, whose reporter Steve Fishman has just written about life inside prison for the world’s most infamous Ponzi scheme investor.
  • The Dominant Force In World Financial Markets In 2 ...
    Extreme volatility is not a sign of health for financial markets.� But in 2010 financial markets around the globe are experiencing unprecented volatility.� Why?� It is because the entire world financial system has been gripped by fear.�
  • Investment Banker: It’s Going To Get Nasty – Buy L ...
    Bond markets could get very nasty over the coming months, while stock investors could take a few months off and stop attempting to trade volatile swings in the markets, Anthony Fry, senior managing director at Evercore Partners, told CNBC Monday.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran's disappeared nuclear scientist: Video points ...
    Summary: Shahram Amiri The mysterious disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist took another twist with the broadcast of a video message in which he claims that he was abducted by American and Saudi intelligence agents and taken to the US where is being held against his will. source: Globa ...
  • Mrs Clinton has another fit of Tourette Syndrome
    Summary: Tomas Rosa Bueno If Iran were to dump all its nuclear fuel-processing equipment into the Persian Gulf and swear never to look at a centrifuge again, Mrs. Clinton would call this "a stunt" and ask for even "tougher" sanctions. source: Before it is news read more
  • Hudson Valley Peace Organizations: Don't Attack Ir ...
    Summary: We the undersigned, as representatives of key peace groups in the Lower Hudson Valley, wish to vehemently, strongly oppose both sanctions and military action against Iran. source: After Downing Street read more
  • Russia, Turkey and Iran Meet, Posing Test for U.S. ...
    Summary: Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just days before a scheduled American-backed debate in the United Nations Security Council on imposing ...
  • Russia, Iran in joint venture for nuclear plant
    Summary: "This country [Iran] is only embarking on the path to peaceful nuclear energy and does not yet have enough experience in maintaining such installations," the Interfax news agency quoted Kiriyenko, the head of Rosatom nuclear corporation, as saying at a nuclear conference. source: AFP ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Study shows how radiation causes breast cancer
    (NaturalNews) It's well-established that exposure to ionizing radiation can trigger mutations and other genetic damage and cause normal cells to become malignant. So it seems amazing how mainstream medicine frequently dismisses the idea that medical imaging tests from mammograms to CT scans could pl ...
  • FDA declares war on ozone generators; seizes inven ...
    (NaturalNews) Declaring ozone generators an unapproved and untested medical device, the FDA seized the inventory of a California manufacturer on January 29. "The seized devices are potentially harmful to public health," said the agency's acting associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, Michael ...
  • Top new whole food bars
    (NaturalNews) The market for food bars is seemingly endless. Countless companies now produce bars which they claim are the best, most wholesome bars available. But which ones are truly everything they say they are? This year, several companies have unveiled new lines of food bars that are worthy of ...
  • America today: Medicated drivers, toxic foods and ...
    (NaturalNews) There are a great many reasons to love America. For one thing, Freedom of Speech remains largely intact in the USA (although the FDA has struck a serious blow to the principle with its ongoing censorship of free speech about nutritional supplements). We also have a diverse culture of p ...
  • Doctors are addicted to "every drug under the sun"
    (NaturalNews) Doctors suffer in secret from a wide range of physical and mental health problems including addiction, according to the findings of a new health program in the United Kingdom. The Practitioner Health Program (PHP) was set up in response to concerns that health professionals were self-m ...

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  • State Department Anxious About Possible Leak of Ca ...
    The State Department and personnel at U.S. embassies around the world are reportedly waiting anxiously to find out if an Army intelligence analyst was telling the truth when he boasted that he had supplied 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables to the whistleblower site Wikileaks. If ...
  • Former Prosecutor: Google Wi-Fi Snafu ‘Likely’ Ill ...
    Google “likely” breached a U.S. federal criminal statute in connection with its accidental Wi-Fi sniffing — but not for siphoning private data from internet surfers using unsecured networks, a former federal prosecutor said Tuesday. Ironically, says former prosecutor Paul Ohm, it’s likely Google d ...
  • Recording Industry Says LimeWire on Hook for $1 Bi ...
    The record labels have told a federal judge LimeWire is liable for possibly “over a billion dollars” — the latest sign that the industry is seeking to annihilate the New York-based file sharing company. The Recording Industry Association of America’s court filing Monday comes a week after the labels ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Heirs of Texas Billionaire Reap Windfall from Laps ...
    Thanks to obstructionist Republicans in Congress and their perpetual campaign to kill the estate tax , the United States Treasury stands to lose billions in revenue in 2010. And as the New York Times reported this week, a large chunk of it won't be coming from a single family. The heirs of Texas p ...
  • Bush's Last Laugh
    Somewhere in a gated community in Dallas, a former President of the United States is laughing very hard right now. A new ABC/Washington Post poll gives the Obama administration even lower marks for its response to the BP oil spill than to George W. Bush's calamitous bungling of the Hurricane Katrin ...
  • A Very Bad Week for Foes of Gay Adoption
    The past few days have not been kind to hard line conservatives determined to prevent gay and lesbian Americans from adopting children. In Florida, emails released Thursday show that Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bill McCollum ignored his staff's warnings against hiring Rentboy cli ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Standing Up for Helen Thomas
    Iconic White House reporter Helen Thomas made a dumb remark on Israel, but her independence will be missed, says Robert Parry. June 8, 2010
  • Terrorism and Israel's Attack at Sea
    Israel's harsh blockade of Gaza and its 1.5 million people may be pushing the line on what's considered terrorism, argues Ivan Eland. June 8, 2010
  • Israel's Attack and the Cycle of Blame
    Israel's assault on a Gaza relief ship recalls the intractable debate over the ancient lands of Israel/Palestine, writes Michael Winship. June 7, 2010
  • Bush's Torture Experiments Criticized
    A doctors' group demands a probe of the Bush administration's use of detainees for torture experiments, reports Jason Leopold. June 7, 2010
  • Wall Street Reform Under Siege
    Despite its devastating collapse, Wall Street wants to resume business as usual and is poised to get its way, warns Danny Schechter. June 7, 2010

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • EPA taking over permitting of Texas facilities: TC ...
    The other shoe has finally dropped. Back in September 2009, we let you know how the EPA had issued rulings that condemned TCEQ’s air quality permitting practices. And today, the EPA stopped asking nicely and took some action. From the Houston Chronicle: Objecting to how Texas regulates air pollution ...
  • Texans Written Out of the Process by Supreme Court ...
    Take a look at this op-ed submitted by Public Citizen, EDF, and Sierra Club as commented upon by Burnt Orange Report File under “hugely important issue to everyday Texans that most of us know nothing about.” Three prominent pro-citizen activists have been working hard to draw attention to a proposed ...
  • Participate in the Texas Sunset Advisory Commissio ...
    In 1977, the Texas Legislature created the Sunset Advisory Commission to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies. The 12-member Commission is a legislative body that reviews the policies and programs of more than 150 government agencies every 12 years. The ...
  • Russel Smith, Executive Director of TREIA, at Pub ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Week In Review
    It was a week of welcoming at 1303 San Antonio Street. Four summer interns were hired this week and everyone is excited to to have them on board, particularly me as it gets pretty quiet in this place when there aren’t interns running around and being told what to do, or is it just me [...]

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Michael Greene releases new Bigfoot video
    New footage taken with a thermal camera by Bigfoot researcher Michael Greene has been released online. BFRO head Matthew Moneymaker stated that the fo...
  • Census records 157-year-old woman
    A census in Indonesia has recorded a woman born in 1853 who is said to be a staggering 157 years old. "There's no authentic data to prove her age but ...
  • Huge seas 'once existed on Mars'
    Further evidence has been found to support the idea that vast oceans once existed on the surface of Mars. Geological mapping has revealed sedimentary ...
  • Lasers could 'sense' hidden explosives
    British scientists have developed a technology based on lasers that can detect hidden explosives. The new technology could prove invaluable to soldier...
  • Stanton Friedman describes UFO cover up
    Veteran UFO investigator Stanton Friedman has echoed his views that we are in the midst of a cosmic Watergate. Friedman is one of the most respected r...

Grassroots

Climate

  • June 9, 2010
    BP Spill Response Plans Severely Flawed (AP) BP's 582-page regional spill plan for the Gulf and its 52-page site plan for the Deepwater Horizon rig are riddled with omissions and glaring errors, according to an AP analysis that details how BP officials have pretty much been making it up as ...
  • June 8, 2010
    Reid, Pelosi Head for Climate Clash (The Hill) Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are headed for a clash over climate legislation, as Reid is poised to move an energy bill to the Senate floor that would not include a cap-and-trade program. Obam ...
  • 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, Oiled Birds ...
  • 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)  BP Chief Ex ...
  • 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 blown-out Gulf ...

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

  • Committing "Ecocide": Tipping Point Between Evolut ...
    To echo A.J. Toynbee, civilizations fall not by getting murdered by outsiders: they tend to commit suicide first. Judging by our example, so do advanced species. The good news: earthlings need not dread the shocker of meteor collisions, volcanic eruptions, outer space invaders (talk about illegals ...
  • Robbed of jobs by the deficit cultists
    The latest US jobs report shows how feeble this recovery is. Yet those managing the economy are set on a low-employment path. Friday's US jobs report caught most economic analysts by surprise. After touting the strength of the recovery for months, they had to come to grips with the fact that the eco ...
  • Tom Friedman Wants to Raise Your Taxes
    There are basically two views of the American people. In one, we're the patriots ready to do whatever it takes for our country. If a crisis requires sacrifices, we won't flinch when our leaders summon us to make them. We're the people FDR asked not only to fight and die for freedom, but also to pa ...
  • Wall Street Reform Under Siege
    We have less than a month to go before the Congress votes on financial reform. Ironically, the deadline seems to be July 4th, Independence Day, an occasion that will likely usher in ever more dependence on Wall Street despite appearances. The Capitol Hill conference committee, meeting to iron out d ...
  • The volatile voter of '10
    2010 is the year of the volatile voter. I have argued for many months against the "Democrats are doomed" pundits and in favor of a "voters are mad at them all" thesis. There is now a second clear trend in 2010: dramatic voter volatility. In this year of the volatile voter, we have seen dramatic and ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • South Carolina on My Mind
    A fresh, new face in South Carolina, Nikki Haley, debuted tonight as the leading Republican candidate for Governor. She survived a vicious smear campaign by hacks aligned with the political establishment. Rather than read a long explanation of the smear watch Jon Stewart (note, he will talk about ...
  • “The Ties That Bind…”
    You know, for an Administration that campaigned on “Transparency,” there sure seems to be a whole lot of opaqueness when it comes to Obama and those who pushed him to prominence. Take, for example, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. He has some mighty interesting Connections, as this article hig ...
  • “Super Duper Tuesday” Primary Results * Open Threa ...
    We’ll track the results of the “Super Duper Tuesday Primaries” across the nation tonight, beginning with South Carolina’s polls closing at 7:00. Reports Politico in “Tuesday targets: Nine races to watch“: South Carolinaâs freak show politics, the progressive leftâs Arkansas muscle flexing, the ...
  • Headless Sign from Heaven
    Gravestone.   Tony Hayward lost his head for his conduct these last weeks and that is the way of the world. When the kingdom fails, the king fails. There are no records of unemployed, rootless kings wandering around 12th century. Hayward’s remarks on TV are fatuous and less than creative ...
  • Wow, Even The Palins?
    I stopped reading Leonard Pitts during the 2008 Primary Selection. I couldn’t take his unquestioning support of All Things Obama. Not very appealing from someone whose columns I used to read with regularity for their thoughtfulness and attention to facts. Those qualities disappeared seemingly ove ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Truth About Carbon Credits
    A brief explanation of Carbon Credits, and how they attempt to tackle Global Warming, read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 3 Simple Ways to Destroy the Planet
    Here are some of the few ways on how to destroy the planet. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 101 Things to Do With Bananas in the Philippines
    In the Philippines, bananas are served in many different forms. Regardless of as a snack treat or full meal, all are delicious. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Paris' Champs Elysees Goes Green
    The Champs-Elysees is transformed into a work of nature, celebrating French farmers and local fare. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Socotra: The Most Bizarre Island on Earth
    want to feel like you are on another planet...visit Socotra Island it is out of this world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Fort Snelling Undercover Fail; Ollie's 1985 Gander ...
    Special greetings to Rule of Law Radio / Axxiom for Liberty listeners! We had a great time chatting last Friday for moar than an hour about every cutting edge dimension of the military-industrial police state, hosted by Kaye Beach and her friend (nickname Matrix? I forget). Get the live recording of ...
  • 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... ...

Daily Censored

  • 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 justic ...
  • News from Detroit Public Schools and the Detroit F ...
    Thursday Union Meeting!  Friday Court!  Saturday Meeting!  TIP $250 challenge rolls  forward! This is a huge week in the fight to save DPS and the DFT. Friday, 11: am.   Rob Bobb, the Financial Manager and bag-man for Eli Broad (the billionaire philanthro-capitalist bent on privatizing schools) and ...
  • “Defending your Life” 5-minute video: overcome fea ...
    source, with video. Faith in religion or spiritual justice ends fear. When a human being declares a loving God who has command of Life, then there is literally nothing to fear. This is equally true if one declares karma is a law. Therefore, growing in spiritual strength and eliminating fear go hand- ...
  • Pelican Bay Prison and Revolution Newspaper
    Pelican Bay State Prison Feels the Heat Prison Officials Attempt a Cover-up of the Ban on Revolution Newspaper Mobilize to Say: NO WAY! by Leslie Rose “This letter is to advise you that your weekly periodical ‘Revolution’, will not be delivered to inmates housed at Pelican Bay State Prison. Your per ...
  • What Really Happened on the Mavi Marmara
    It is now more clear what happened with the Free Gaza Flotilla and, specifically, with the Mavi Marmara. First, a week or so prior to these events, Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, held several secret meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Peres on May 26 & 27. Clearly, t ...

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Pine River World News

  • Afghanistan: Funding both sides
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Eric Walberg. Afghanistan: �Funding both sides � � Eric Walberg June 8, 2010 Delegates in Shangra-La pledge eternal war in Afghanistan, as the U.S. creates new and very dangerous allies there, reports Eric Walberg War junkies popped their cha ...
  • 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 ...

IntelNews

  • US Army intel analyst arrested over Wikileaks prob ...
    Speaking last Thursday at the annual Personal Democracy Conference in New York, Daniel Ellsberg said he was amazed that the US National Security Agency “can’t crack” Wikileaks. The former Pentagon employee, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, was referring to the activist website that anonymous ...
  • Analysis: Israel’s flotilla raid involved espionag ...
    The intense worldwide debate about last Monday’s Israeli raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has concentrated relatively little on the operation’s intelligence facets. As I explain in an article published yesterday at Daily News Corner, this is puzzling, considering that the intelligence aspects of th ...
  • News you may have missed #371
    Ex-CIA station chief to plead guilty to rape charges. ASIO tip led to jailing of female Muslim convert in Yemen. New Operation Condor trial starts in Argentina.
  • 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.

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  • Can we just drive less after the Gulf spill? If on ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. NPR reporter Brian Mann went talking to gas-station customers in upstate New York to find out what they're thinking about the Gulf of Mexico oil leak and their own responsibility as gas-buyers. He gets some interesting responses, but I'd like to engage in some bloggerly quib ...
  • Obama plans another Gulf trip, slams critics, ups ...
    by Agence France-Presse. President Barack Obama unveiled plans Tuesday for a fourth visit to the Gulf of Mexico next week, with his three-state tour reflecting the widening footprint of the oil-spill disaster zone. Obama will visit Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, all of which have coastline ...
  • New Urbanist progress in Atlanta
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Sick of those bloggers going on about sustainable urbanism and walkable neighborhoods? You might like the film version: the new American Makeover project has a short video about the Glenwood Park, a New Urbanist project in the sprawl epicenter of Atlanta. Unfortunately, they ...
  • State of the planet: Cynical tweets edition
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Lindsey Graham, one of the "more sensible" Senate Republicans, said he won't support a climate change plan, because, well, the challenge is too hard. The National Journal reports (behind a paywall): Graham said his advice to lawmakers is to "start over and scale ...
  • Tailpipe fumes are five times worse for bikers tha ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Well this is a bummer: A Belgian study finds that bicyclists on urban streets inhale tens of millions of toxic nanoparticles with each breath, taking in five times as much as drivers and pedestrians on the same streets. The U.K. Times reports on the new research :� Because t ...

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  • Chart: How Have the 2010 Tea Party Candidates Fare ...
    A crop of Tea Party candidates have been shaking up primaries and special election contests this cycle. But how have they actually fared in the contests that have already been held? Below is our chart of how a select group of Tea Partiers have done in their elections thus far, including last night’s ...
  • Lincoln Wins — So What Happens to FinReg?
    Last night, after falling in the polls in recent days, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) managed to eke out a win in her primary runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Lincoln is a conferee on the committee to merge the House and Senate versions of the financial regulatory reform bill, and had Halter won, ...
  • The Real Intelligence Chief Is John Brennan
    Good David Ignatius column on What James Clapper’s Nomination Means: The DNI flap has been fascinating in what it shows about Obama’s approach to intelligence. He wants facts, not commentary; he mistrusts aides such as Blair who let their personal opinions show, and he correspondingly values low-ke ...
  • Your One-Stop Shop for Non-Torturous Interrogation ...
    Want to learn how Jack Bauer ought to get terrorists to divulge information against their interests? Check out Interrogations Central, a website launched last week by “Matthew Alexander,” a pseudonymous interrogator whose non-torturous interrogations contributed to the successful hunting and killing ...
  • Video: As President, Mitch Daniels Would Repeal He ...
    Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.), who is often mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate for the GOP, spoke yesterday at the Capitol Visitors Center on the topic of health care reform. In response to a reporter’s question, he pledged that as president, he would sign a repeal of “ObamaCare” as l ...

Digg Green

  • BP Buys Search Engine Phrases Redirecting Users - ...
    Be careful where you click, especially if you're looking for news on the BP oil spill. BP, the very company responsible for the oil spill that is already the worst in U.S. history, has purchased several phrases on search engines such as Google and Yahoo so that the first result that shows up directs ...
  • Feds Conduct Immigration Raids on Oil-Spill Worker ...
    What's more important: Cleaning up the spill or uncovering undocumented workers and potheads? "It's like, 'round everybody up and leave the oil on the beach."
  • ABC's Exclusive Interview with BPGlobalPR's Terry ...
    ABC's Dan Harris talks with the man behind BPGlobalPR.
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Israel’s political occupation of the White House p ...
    By Yvonne Ridley Hold the front page! The docile White House press corps has got steamed up about something and finally taken a scalp as a result. It seems the Capitol Hill cocktail set who usually sit and preen themselves like pampered Pomeranians while asking pre-screened, pre-approved, Obama-frie ...
  • Helen Thomas resigned? Nothing surprising here
    By Debbie Menon Helen Thomas always asks the right questions! That is why she is known as a “top US journalist.” Helen Thomas, 89, began her long career with the wire service United Press International in 1943, and started covering the White House in 1960, according to a biography posted on her webs ...
  • Defenders of the Mavri Mamarra
    By Ken O’Keefe Nonetheless I joined the defence of the Mavri Mamarra understanding that violence could be used against us and that we may very well be compelled to use violence in self defence. I said this straight to Israeli agents, probably of Mossad or Shin Bet, and I say it again now, on the [.. ...
  • The USS Liberty, a flubbed-up false flag
    By Deanna Spingola By 1948, under David Ben Gurion’s direction, the Israeli government developed the Israeli Terrorist Cell, Unit 131. In the mid 1950s, the U.S. was friends with Gamal Abdel Nasser and Egypt. Ben Gurion, an avid Zionist and the Israel’s first Prime Minister, envisioned an Egyptian t ...
  • Ice at the North Pole in 1958 and 1959 – not so th ...
    By Anthony Watts What would NSIDC and our media make of a photo like this if released by the NAVY today? Would we see headlines like “NORTH POLE NOW OPEN WATER”? Or maybe “Global warming melts North Pole”? Perhaps we would. sensationalism is all the rage these days. If it melts it makes headlines. S ...

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

Twilight Earth

  • Dances with the Moon: Does Oil Clot?
    Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow the Dances with the Moon series here. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon) Related posts: Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Da ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Solar Glass Generates Power Through Your Windows
    Photo via Engadget We love gadgets that serve dual purposes, so when we came across these solar windows from Hua Qin we were giddy with excitement. These window panes, which were unveiled at Taipei’s International Optoelectronics Week, do double duty to block out the elements and create energy for ...
  • BP Plans to Use EverGreen Burner to Burn Oil in Gu ...
    As we’ve reported in earlier articles, BP has been trying to contain a portion of the oil that’s been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico in what is being called the biggest oil spill in US history. Even though they’re collecting it, they aren’t sure what the heck to do with all of it. One [...]
  • Copenhagen Adopts a Mandatory Green Roof Policy
    As part of its overall strategy to become a carbon neutral city by 2025, Copenhagen has become the first Scandanavian city to adopt a policy that requires green roofs for all new buildings with roof slopes of less than 30 degrees. Copenhagen presently has 20,000 square meters (over 215,000 square fe ...
  • Egg Cartons Recycled into Awesome Office Lamps
    We recently brought you a stylish set of furniture inspired by egg cartons — now comes the complementary lighting, courtesy of designer Victor Vetterlein! Vetterlein’s ‘Trash Me’ lamps reflect upon the wasteful nature of our society by taking trash and returning it to a useful life. Each lamp is con ...
  • Breakthrough Stealth Toilet Cuts Water Use in Half
    Toilet technology is one of the most underappreciated yet important aspects of green building. Niagara Conservation’s revolutionary Stealth Toilet features a vacuum assist that steeply reduces the water it takes to do your business – it uses only 0.8 gallons per flush compared to the EPA maximum of ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • U.S. Leading Charge on Synthetic Biology Funding
    Synthetic biology received about $430 million in U.S. government funding from 2005 to 2010, far outpacing European governments, which gave their synthetic biologists $160 million over the same period. The emerging field received nearly no funding before 2005, according to a new Woodrow Wilson Cente ...
  • How to Send Your Face to Space
    NASA wants to put your face in space. No, really: Just in time for the last two space shuttle flights, NASA is offering to fly pictures of anyone who uploads a head shot on their Face in Space website to the International Space Station. Face in Space follows a long tradition of spacecraft carrying ...
  • Male Spiders Are All Bark, Female Spiders Fight to ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience90435672001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); While the males of a jumping spider species merely threaten and posture instead of actually fighting each other, fights among females are often fatal. Scientists ...
  • Ancient Beehives Yield 3,000-Year-Old Bees
    Honeybee remains found in a 3,000-year-old apiary have given archaeologists a one-of-a-kind window into the beekeeping practices of the ancient world. “Beekeeping is known only from a few Egyptian sources, from a few tombs and paintings. No actual hives have been found,” said Hebrew University of J ...
  • Before the Mississippi: Ancient Rivers Flowed West
    Like vacationers taking a pit stop on a long road trip, zircon mineral grains from the northern Appalachians may have stopped off in Michigan before ending up on the Colorado Plateau, a new study suggests. The finding, reported in the June Geology, is a major boost to the notion that a continent-sp ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Maybe Israel Doesn’t Offer to Leave the West Bank ...
    Jon Chait recommends Gadi Taub’s trenchant critique of the Netanyahu-Lieberman-Barak administration’s approach: Israelis are stunned by the fact that the world has grown to think of Hamas as the righteous victim and of Israel as the evil aggressor. This perception of Israel is false and malicious, ...
  • It's Getting Harder to Defend America's Actions in ...
    I was having dinner with a friend last night. She's a British citizen of Arab origin. She was saying how she wouldn't really consider herself British. Having lived in England for a couple years, this wasn't particularly surprising. But it was a reminder that we - there's the royal "we" - have been a ...
  • Obama's Charade on Iran Sanctions
    Today, the United Nations Security Council will adopt a new resolution (see, here ) imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear activities.  Predictably, the Obama Administration is working to spin its “victory” in New York as both a great diplomatic achievement and a seriou ...
  • Developments in the Longest War
    Here is my list of some of the most important developments and trends that have occurred so far in the longest war in American history. 10. The term "Neo-Taliban" was coined in 2003 (by the Economist magazine) to describe the�insurgency�that emerged after the US toppled the Taliban regime. �However, ...
  • Cynicism, Backsliding and Middle East Policy
    Responding to this post , Michael Rubin criticizes me for criticizing him “for omitting Bush in my criticism of Obama’s tendency to engage dictators.” Matt may not be aware that I often criticized the Bush administration for the same ( here , for example). It makes sense to criticize President Obam ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Rand Paul Returns to TV, Whines About Being Critic ...
    I'd never want to run for public office, for a number of reasons. But if I did, I'd go into it knowing that part of the deal was suffering a whole lot of slings and arrows. No one should accept people lying about them, of course, but if you become a candidate, people on the other side are going to c ...
  • Golden State Still Standing After Primaries.
    While Blanche Lincoln 's narrow win in Arkansas, delaying her retirement by five months, is grabbing the headlines, lots of interesting things happened yesterday. As a follow-up to yesterday's column on California's absurd initiative process, here's a rundown on what happened in the Golden State (fu ...
  • Lincoln's Win in Arkansas.
    A day ago, Politico's Mike Allen told us that Arkansas Democratic officials were preparing for a huge loss for Sen. Blanche Lincoln against Arkansas's Lt. Gov. Bill Halter . That loss was projected to be by at least five points, possibly more. Instead Lincoln won by five points, or about 10,000 vote ...
  • Lightning Round: A Threat to Your Freedom.
    As Monica noted earlier, this year's uncertainty doesn't give us a lot to talk about on an otherwise busy election day. Indeed, John Sides quantifies the incumbent re-election rate this year at 76 percent. But I suppose we could kill some time making meaningless comparisons to the 2008 presidential ...
  • Did Droopy Just Have Depression?
    There's an amusing story in today's Wall Street Journal about medical students using fictional television and movie characters to learn how to diagnose psychiatric disorders. Hundred-Acre Wood Ashdown Forest (where Winnie the Pooh lives) might as well have been a psychiatrist's waiting room: Piglet ...

Andy Worthington

  • Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?
    On June 2 last year, the Pentagon announced that a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, Mohammed al-Hanashi (also known as Muhammad Salih) had died, reportedly by committing suicide. He was the fifth reported suicide at Guantánamo, following three deaths on June 9, 2006 and another on May 30, 2007, and he ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Arkansas Cop-Killer Apparently Part of ‘Patriot’ M ...
    Jerry Ralph Kane Jr., the man who was killed with his son Thursday after apparently gunning down two West Memphis, Ark., police officers , traveled the country before the encounter giving classes in âredemption foreclosure mortgage fraudâ â an apparent variation on a scheme common among antigo ...
  • Minuteman Co-Founder Accused of Threatening Family
    Chris Simcox, co-founder of the Minuteman movement and a principal nativist leader, threatened to kill his wife and family last year, according to a petition filed in Maricopa County Court in mid-April by his estranged spouse, Alena Simcox. According to Phoenix New Timesâ Steve Lemons, who broke t ...
  • The FAIR Files: ‘Criminals, Homosexuals and Defect ...
    The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is an immigration restriction organization that insists that it does not “discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, or creed.” But many have questioned that claim since revelations that FAIR’s legal arm essentially wrote the hi ...
  • News Flash: Obama ‘Convicted’ of Fraud in Birther ...
    Maybe you didn’t catch the news last week: President Obama was convicted by an American jury of fraud and other charges. It was easy to miss, what with The New York Times, television and cable news networks and major Internet news sites — with the exception of Salon — ignoring what one far-right gro ...
  • Murdered Racist Leader May Have Propositioned Kill ...
    White supremacist Richard Barrett enthusiastically denigrated gays and blacks. In 1994, he led an anti-gay rally in Boston after a St. Patrick’s Day parade was cancelled in response to a court order that forbade the exclusion of homosexual marchers. Six years earlier, he signed “The Forsyth County C ...

change: org.

  • Hospitals Lag Behind in Providing LGBT Rights
    In April, President Obama ordered federal health officials to create guidelines requiring hospitals to provide equal rights for same-sex partners. Obama instructed that same-sex partner rights include full visitation and decision-making powers. Hospitals will have to comply with these new rules ...
  • Abuse or Homelessness? For Many, That Is the Quest ...
    At least 25 percent of homeless women (pdf) in America are homeless because of domestic violence. It's a hard number to swallow. What's worse, unlike with some subsections of the homeless population (the mentally ill , for instance), we know just how to provide immediate help to domestic violence su ...
  • The Other Necessary Health Intervention: Roads
    In Afghanistan, it's a tale of two provinces. The first is the northeastern region of Badakhshan, a relatively peaceful province that boasts a comparatively high number of maternal health resources: 106 midwives and 73 health centers. The second is southern Helmand province, where — thanks to the on ...
  • Duke Energy Shops For Mountaintop Removal Alternat ...
    One of the biggest power producers in the Southeast is rethinking its reliance on one of the most devastating energy extraction practices on Earth. Mountaintop removal (MTR) mining involves just what the name suggests: clear-cutting native forests, dynamiting away up to 600 feet of rock, and dumping ...
  • Seniors Receive 40% of Their Income from Social Se ...
    Aging is tough. Every time I talk to my grandparents — three of whom are still alive and pretty strapping considering they're near 80, and one just turned 91! — I hear about how rough it is to get older. They keep food on the table , but their health is failing, and even if they don't mention it spe ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Mexico Anger High after US Border Patrol Kills Tee ...
    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in two weeks, an incident near downtown El Paso that is threatening to escalate tensions over migrant issues. U.S. authorities said Tuesday a Border Patrol agent was defendin ...
  • Arizona Blocked from Subsidizing State Candidates ...
    by Robert Barnes The Supreme Court stepped into another campaign finance controversy on Tuesday when it blocked Arizona from distributing campaign subsidies to publicly funded candidates facing big-spending opponents. The justices granted a stay of a portion of the state's 12-year-old Clean Electio ...
  • Iranian Nuclear Scientist in Video Riddle
    by Alex Spillius Tehran summoned the Swiss ambassador, who represents US interests in Tehran, on Tuesday and handed over documents which it said showed Shahram Amiri, a university researcher working for Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, was taken during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and han ...
  • Senate Weakens Bid toTax Wall Street Like Rest of ...
    by Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats Tuesday weakened efforts to end a controversial Wall Street tax break, watering down a bid to raise taxes on managers of hedge funds, private-equity funds, venture capital firms and other business partnerships. The Senate action ...
  • UN Set to Vote on Iran Sanctions
    The United Nations Security Council has agreed on a final package of economic sanctions against Iran, paving the way for a vote as early as Wednesday, diplomats say. Tuesday's announcement came after countries reached an agreement on a list of companies and individuals subject to a travel ban and an ...

Lifehacker

  • The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Coll ...
    Blu-Ray discs may be more protected and harder to play in certain programs, like XBMC, but that doesn't mean you can't play your HD video on your media center. Here's how to rip and compress Blu-Ray discs for high quality, space-saving results ...
  • Camouflage Your Audio-Video Gear Behind Speaker Cl ...
    If you're tired of seeing all the audio-video related clutter under your television you can easily camouflage it with this simple hack, keeping it both easily accessible but out of sight. More�� Do it yourself - Shoppin ...
  • Google Chrome Frame Updates to Beta, Giving IE Mor ...
    Internet Explorer: Google Chrome Frame, the IE add-in that displays certain web pages with a Chrome-style engine, has updated to beta, adding Chrome 5.0 features like HTML5 video and audio support, while also tightening its integration with In ...
  • BeFunky Adds Image Fixing to Online Photo Art Tool ...
    We've dug web-based photo tool BeFunky for its impressive, no-sweat tools for making photos art-y . Now the site's expanded with similarly easy tools for basic enhancements and fixes, making it a one-stop spot for fixing up and boosting your p ...
  • Microsoft Security Essentials Finds New Malware Bu ...
    Microsoft's free Security Essentials package rates well at removing malware and running light , but what about dealing with brand-new, unidentified bad stuff? Turns out Security Essentials is still the best at figuring out what's bad—while als ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The Peace Jirga: A Pretense At Sovereignty
    By Steve Hynd Well, Hamid Karzai has had his peace jirga and like any political conference packed with yes-men it delivered exactly what he wanted it to. But how much use will it be? Well, Karzai will use the jirga as a reason to ask for one heck of a lot of money at the upcoming Kabul Conference, t ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • RecycleMatch seeks to match bulk waste with people ...
    File under “business models I really wish I’d thought of first”: RecycleMatch seeks to match… … waste streams and under valued resources with potential users of the resources, to help create new revenues and savings for the companies participating – while at the same time having a positive impact on ...
  • Living Earth Simulator: super-detailed simulation ...
    I badly wanted a copy of SimEarth when it was released, but the clunky old 8086 passed down to me by my father (who’d recently splashed out on a 386DX with math co-processor, no less) couldn’t run it. I’m pretty positive that no machine I (or anyone else unattached to a well-funded research organisa ...
  • Nation-state gives way to city-state?
    More future politics, courtesy SlashDot: excerpts from a speech by John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (and former Grateful Dead songsmith), in which he states that the mechanics of national government in the US is failing because it’s swamped by too much data, and th ...
  • Calling all coders: can you help free webzines mak ...
    K Tempest Bradford has identified a problem that many webzine editors have, but that most of them (myself included) have neither the time, money or 1337 code sk1llz0rz to solve alone: our readers would probably really appreciate downloadable ebook versions of our content, and an easy mechanism for d ...
  • Thomas Barnett on post-national identity
    Many thanks to one Gregory Lemieux for dropping me an email with a link to an article by political strategist Thomas P M Barnett, which he rightly identified as touching on “issues of post-national identity [...] that are presented regularly on your site”*. It’s an interesting piece all over: Barnet ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • US government arrests another whistleblower
    The U.S. government has arrested another whistleblower. Wired.com reports that the government is holding Specialist Bradley Manning in detention in Kuwait pending charges that he supplied a classified video to WikiLeaks.org.� I reported here in April that this video depicts US armed forces killing a ...
  • ALI proposes a duty of loyalty threatening to whis ...
    The American Law Institute (ALI) is a private organization of establishment lawyers and law professors that seeks to influence the law by publishing “restatements” of the law. In its noblest work, it seeks to make the law of the 50 united states more uniform by “restating” the law in a cogent organ ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Court Says Police In Ohio Can Just Guess How Fast ...
    Forget faulty speed cameras . Don't worry about police just guessing when they can't quite make out your license plate on a red light photo. Fear not the police who misread driving through a green light as running the red. Over in Ohio, apparently a court has said that police don't need any real ...
  • Judge Says Commerce Outweighs Free Speech Issues W ...
    Last year, we wrote about how a high school sports association in Wisconsin had sued some newspapers for their reporting on various high school football games, because that reporting included some broadcasting of video during the games. As we noted, in this day and age, when more and more smartphon ...
  • California Judge In Charge Of Enforcing Laws Again ...
    Thomas Hawk writes "Victoria Kolakowski, a current sitting law judge at the California PUC, is running for Alameda Superior Court judge in California. As part of her campaign she is robodialing people in California with a pre-recorded message . The only problem is that in Califorina robodials are ac ...
  • The Government And Silicon Valley: Lead, Follow Or ...
    A bunch of folks have sent in Mike Arrington's recent blog post, angrily pointing out that the federal government keeps trying to meddle in Silicon Valley, and it would be better off just keeping as far away as possible from the Valley , because it's only going to mess things up. We'll get to the p ...
  • Congresswoman Suggests That Comcast Tried To Bribe ...
    With plenty of scrutiny still facing the proposed merger between NBC and Comcast, Representative Maxine Waters strongly suggested that someone from the company tried to bribe her to get her to support the merger: During a House Judiciary Committee that took place in L.A. on Monday, Representative ...

VacTruth

  • HPV vaccine comes under spotlight in S. Korea
    People’s Daily Online 06/08/2010 The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, though a bit of a tongue-twister, has been one of the latest buzzwords for South Korean obstetricians and gynecologists. Many of them have lately jumped on the global bandwagon of promoting the HPV vaccines designed to protect ...
  • Only one third of young girls get HPV vaccine
    Jim Dryden Washington University in St. Louis 06/01/2010 Only about one in three young women has received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to help prevent cervical cancer, according to a new report from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings are pub ...
  • Free vaccine against AH1N1 now available – D ...
    Joy Hernandez Philippine Information Agency 06/04/2010 (Editor’s note: Pay special attention to the language for words such as “erradicate, safe, efficacious, proven, etc.” as they are all propaganda language “triggers.”) San Fernando City, Pampanga (4 June) — In a bid to totally eradicate A(H1N1), ...
  • Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Imm ...
    Cynthia A. Janak Renew America 06/06/2010 This report just makes my blood boil because of all the misinformation that they provide to make these vaccines appear to be safe. The recommendations in this portion of the document prove that the health and wellbeing of our children come in second to prof ...
  • Top 10 vaccine stories of the year (so far)
    There are many stories concerning vaccines. We took the liberty of taking the top 10 stories of the year for the first six months of 2010. Enjoy!

BroadSnark

  • Anarchy, Disability, Purity, and Doubt
    I’ve been thinking about the Americans with Disabilities Act and about a conversation I recently had about social security.  You would think that, as an anarchist who wants a stateless society, I would be against both.  That would be the ideologically pure position, no?  To be honest, I’ve had a ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Upgrading to iPhone 4? Gazelle Launches Mobile Sit ...
    Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch If you're excited about the news of the iPhone 4 and are itching to upgrade, Gazelle - one of our favorite gadget resell companies - has made it ridiculously easy to do soy creating a mobile site for customers to set up a trade in right from their old phone. It's all in ...
  • What's The Carbon Footprint of a Heart Bypass? Who ...
    Image credit: NC Museum of History Only yesterday I lamented the fact that too many TreeHuggers are overly focused on individual carbon footprints as a metric for success . So what should I make of news from The Guardian that a heart bypass operation carries with it a huge carbon footprint—as m ...
  • Old Ink Cartridges Form Bike Path in Australian Na ...
    Photo via the Centralian Advocate The folks at West MacDonnell National Park in Australia had a brilliant idea for a new bike path connecting Alice Springs and Simpsons Gap. They made it out of junked ink cartridges. The material can last far longer than timber, and is a great way to reuse plas ...
  • Visiting the Great Trees of London One by One
    Images from The Great Trees of London : Richmond Plane Tree As a city, London is considered to be green and leafy, with lovely squares and parks filled with large and graceful trees. But the shocking truth is that there are only 56 great trees left in the larger area of London and only 10 i ...
  • 'Eat Well Guide' Helps You Eat Local, Like Guster
    Credit: acnatta via Flickr. So the alt rock group Guster is challenging people to eat local, for their tastebuds and the planet. That's easy for them to say, though, right? They're co-founders of the Green Music Group. They know about this stuff. Well, thanks to the power of the Internets and ZIP ...

Biosingularity

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

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Mars 'expedition' starts in Moscow (Update)
    The participants in a simulated Mars expedition waved good-bye to journalists, sealed the hatches and "took off" for a 520-day "space trip" on Thursday, a spokesman for the Moscow Institute of Medical and Biological Problems said
  • South Korea delays rocket launch
    South Korea postponed Wednesday's planned launch of its KSLV-1 rocket due to technical problems, Russia's Khrunichev Space Center's spokesman said
  • Google launches Mars flight simulation mission's o ...
    The Russian scientific institute that started on Thursday the Mars-500 simulation of a manned mission to the Red Planet has launched an interactive website on the experiment in cooperation with Google
  • Mars 'expedition' starts in Moscow
    The participants in a simulated Mars expedition will "take off" for a 520-day "space trip" on Thursday, a spokesman for the Moscow Institute of Medical and Biological Problems said
  • Second launch of South Korea's KSLV-1 rocket sched ...
    Russia's Khrunichev space center, which developed the first stage of South Korea's KSLV-1 launch vehicle, said the second launch of the rocket is scheduled for Wednesday.

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

  • Findings Could Alter Breast Cancer Care
    A new study finds that for certain women, a lumpectomy, now a standard treatment for breast cancer, may not be necessary. The surgery does not prolong survival or prevent recurrence of the cancer. Another study also showed that a single dose of radiation, delivered directly to the site of the tumo ...
  • Amazing Reasons that Prove Humans are Unique
    Robert Sapolsky, world renowned professor of neurology, discusses the uniqueness of humans. A few of the topics he covers include aggression, theory of mind, the golden rule and pleasure. There are many human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizarre.
  • Does the Internet Make You Smarter?
    Digital media have made the creation and sharing of text, sound, and pictures cheap and global. But most people making use of it produce nothing more than an endless stream of mediocrity, which has lead to alarmed predictions of incipient intellectual collapse. Of course, that's what always happens ...
  • Your Brain Can Control Cholesterol Levels
    Researchers have found that cholesterol is partially regulated by your brain, rather than by what you eat. Cholesterol is “remotely controlled” by the hunger hormone ghrelin, which controls the level of cholesterol released by the liver. The Telegraph reports: “Ghrelin inhibits a chemical in the ...
  • Crazy Cubes Illusion
    Watch for at least 25 seconds to have your mind blown.

Antemedius

  • Traditional Food Crops Provide Community Resilienc ...
    Thanks to Dr. Soul Shava, Training Manager at the Aurecon Training Academy, in Pretoria, South Africa for sharing a recent study , by researchers from Rhodes and Cornell Universities and the Sebakwe Black Rhino Conservation Trust , on indigenous crops with the Nourishing the Planet project. We encou ...
  • Mother Mother Ocean
    A couple of weeks ago on May 17 we heard and saw Ritter Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Jeremy Jackson talk about and show us the shockingly overfished, overheated, and polluted state of our ocea ...
  • Criminal Ex-President Brags About Waterboarding
    The normalization of torture continued apace yesterday as the criminal President Bush said in a speech in Grand Rapids, MI that if he had it all to do over again he would still order the waterboarding of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. That’s right this unindicted war criminal still thinks that ordering this ...
  • Brain Injuries Remain Undiagnosed in Thousands of ...
    from T. Christian Miller , ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling , NPR June 07, 2010 ( view source ) WASHINGTON, D.C.--The military medical system is failing to diagnose brain injuries in troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom receive little or no treatment for lingering health proble ...
  • Gulf Oil Could Leak For Years
    Well known City University of New York Physics Professor Michio Kaku appeared on NBC's Today Show with some disturbing comments. RawStory reports : After six methods for stopping the [Deepwater Horizon] leak failed, BP is now trying a seventh method: "cut and cap." ... If this seventh attempt fai ...

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

  • Eat Less Meat, Eat Better Meat
    The list of Meatless Monday supporters continues to grow across the globe, and surprisingly to some, many of the latest enthusiasts make their living either cooking meat, such as chef Mario Batali or producing it, like rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman. What makes Meatless Monday so successful is its sim ...
  • Nearly 1,000 Chefs Answer First Lady ‘s Call to Ad ...
    History was made Friday in Washington, DC as hundreds of chefs from more than 37 states descended on the South Lawn of the White House in hopes of accomplishing one thing — bringing an end to childhood obesity. Each of these gastronomical experts answered the call of First Lady Michelle Obama to ado ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Polls show time is ripe to raise taxes on the rich
    Game doesn’t start until 8 (God’s time), so I thought I’d schlep out some of tomorrow’s links tonight. - Gaza: Rep. Donna Edwards: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza The numbers (from the comments – thx!) We Con The People (Israel stoops to a Rush Limbaughesque low) Yet another video exposed as Israeli hoa ...
  • Throw the incumbents out day
    Today is Throw the Incumbents Out Day in several states. Tonight’s results should be interesting. I for one cannot think of anyway in which the national media can avoid reporting on Blanche Lincoln being handed her walking papers in Arkansas. And that’s a big FUCK YOU to Obama, bigger than anything ...
  • That long newspaper thumb
    This is how the Des Moines Register greeted their readers this morning. Just doing endorsement editorials on the Sunday before is no longer enough, the Register now has its thumb firmly in place and is pushing Iowans to vote as the Register sees fit. Steve Singiser has a good write up on tomorrow’s ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell-Collapse of ne ...
    By Brenda Norrell for Photo by James Fortier There is no better place to document the collapse of the news industry than with the coverage of what happened when military helicopters attempted to land on sacred burial ground at Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge in South Dakota on Saturday. The worst cov ...
  • Dept. of Corrections and Other Matters Concerning ...
    The Intelligent Aboriginal News Service has received a flurry of angry responses to our coverage of the ‘Wounded Knee Crisis - 05.01.2001’ (mostly by one individual) and now that more information has come forward, we are submitting a ‘Dept. of Corrections’ report as well as our thoughts about this p ...
  • Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010
    Indigenist World Magazine 05.2010 Sane Reading Material for Smart Aboriginals This Issue : Aboriginal News Group: Brief Thoughts About a "Random American Bombardment" J. B.Gerald: Against the killing of Anwar al-Aulakqi & others Frantz Fanon: Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight ...
  • Omahkohkiaaiipooyii: Republic of Lakotah • View tT ...
    Republic of Lakotah • View topic - 7th Cavalry defile Lakota Burial Ground @ Wounded Knee, S.Da The U.S. 7th Cavalry, the unit of George Custer, a vain and brutal genocidal maniac responsible for the slaughter of many innocents among Indians, had a prized (by them) reputation for brutal violence. t ...
  • KEN KNABB: A Little College Scores a Big Victory
    Sent to us via the good folks at: The BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS - A Little College Scores a Big Victory : Shimer College , the “Great Books College of Chicago,” has just thwarted a hostile takeover attempt and fired its president. The small liberal arts school has weathered numerous crises ...

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

  • Smart Eco-friendly Hotel Rooms
    The future looks bright – and green – for hotel rooms. New technology will allow guests and hotel managers to control energy usage.
  • Environmental News -09/06/10
    Environmental News Underground green economy employing millions The major driver of growth in the the twenty-first century will be 'restoration economy' that is redeveloping nations, revitalising cities, and expanding ecosystems.There's a new economy springing up around the country -- b ...
  • Landcare Hero in Your Hands
    Recognise the volunteers who rebuild the Australian landscape – it’s time to vote for your favourite Landcare Hero!
  • Environmental News -08/06/10
    Environmental News We need more green areas on our blue planet If it's true that bad news sells newspapers, our oceans have been contributing to a fair share of sales in recent months. With the passing of World Ocean's Day today, it is appropriate to reflect on how critical oceans are t ...
  • Parabens – An In-depth Review
    What do you really know about the products you apply everyday? Are there unknown effects that might add up over the years?

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.N. Security Imposes New Sanctions Against Iran
    ShareThis U.N. Security Imposes New Sanctions Against Iran 09 Jun 2010 The UN Security Council (UNSC) has voted in favor of imposing a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Of the 15 UNSC member states Brazil and Turkey voted against the new round of sanctions on Wednesday ...
  • US crisis panel hits Goldman Sachs with subpoenas
    ShareThis US crisis panel hits Goldman Sachs with subpoenas 07 Jun 2010�A high-profile panel investigating the causes of the financial crisis announced Monday it had subpoenaed Goldman Sachs for failing to cooperate with the probe. Leading members of Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission angrily accus ...
  • Iranian scholar confirms abduction
    ShareThis Iranian scholar confirms abduction �08 Jun 2010 The Iranian scholar who went missing last year while on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has confirmed his abduction by the US in a video message. Shahram Amiri, a researcher at Iran's Malek Ashtar University, insisted in the message released on Mo ...
  • Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marm ...
    ShareThis Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marmara: On Cowardice and Violence By Ken O'Keefe 07 Jun 2010 I knew the commandos were murdering when I removed a 9mm pistol from one of� them.� I had that gun in my hands and as an ex-US Marine with training in the use of guns it was complete ...
  • BP's Deepwater Horizon costs hit $1.25bn
    ShareThis BP's Deepwater Horizon costs hit $1.25bn --Efforts to stop leak, clean-up costs and compensation costing tens of millions a day --BP shares rise 2.7% this morning on hopes for success and dividend pledge 07 Jun 2010 The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $1.25bn (£870m), as it ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Our 2 Op-Eds in the Israeli Press about Israel&#82 ...
    (crossposted on Daily Kos) In April, in anticipation of Israel’s independence day, fellow Israeli activist Ofer Neiman sent us an op-ed for feedback. I ended up co-signing the article. It appeared on Ynet, the website of Israel’s largest daily. I planned to translate it to English but was too busy. ...
  • The Banality of Occupation
    While the world has been rightfully focused on the Gaza Flotilla, the banality of occupation goes on.  In this video (originally posted on Coteret), a twelve year old boy is arrested in Bil’in.  An international activist and the boy’s mother plead with the soldiers to release him, but the soldiers ...
  • Links and Video about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    Documents explaining international law and law of sea applicable to the Flotilla: Video: Daniel Machover, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, summary of analysis of international law applicable to flotilla attack. Downlaodable Documents: Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights document analyz ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Banksters poisoning their own well
    We get a glimpse into the latest leading unemployment indicators courtesy of Fox Biz’ which notifies that Morgan Stanley in addition to previously reported job cuts, will also be shutting another 300 branch offices and cutting as many as 1,200 jobs over the next year in an attempt to reduce overhea ...
  • Simmons: Worst case scenario. Open hole spewing 10 ...
    Crooks and Liars This is really horrifying news. If oil industry expert Matthew Simmons who appeared on the Dylan Ratigan show and Sen. Ben Nelson’s worst case scenarios turn out to be true the situation in the Gulf truly looks dire. Simmons said that they have grossly underestimated the size of th ...
  • Electric jet ski
    The Silveira Customs electric jet ski can go 65 mph and has a battery life of 3 hours. Plus, it’s silent and doesn’t spew toxins as it goes.
  • How three Green parties went wrong
    The experience of Greens in Ireland, Czech Republic and Germany shows that you can’t be a progressive force while selling your soul for a seat at the big man’s table.
  • Tiny eco-friendly prefab called The Crib
    More tiny homes, this via Jetson Greene The Basic Crib includes 175 square feet of roofed space and 125 square feet of exterior deck space. The tiny structure is open to the elements (other than optional screen panels and doors) and can be assembled in a few days. The Full Crib includes 250 squar ...

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

  • Fertilizer purchase raises bomb fears
    TORONTO – Thereâs 1,625 kilos of ammonium nitrate out there and police preparing for the G20 summit donât know where it is. Police sources confirm a man purchased 65 of the 25-kilo bags of the fertilizer on May 26 from the Vineland Growers shop in Lincoln, in southern Ontario. In alerts issue ...
  • Anti-incumbent wave in U.S. primary
    WASHINGTON – A Senate Democrat who faced voter anger over her support for bank bailouts and healthcare legislation survived a strong challenge Tuesday as U.S. voters in 11 states chose candidates for midterm elections in November. Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, a moderate Democrat and a ke ...
  • This Day In History – June 9
    53 â Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 â Claudia Octavia is executed. 68 â Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad. 1534 â Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River. 1856 â Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and ...
  • To the Graduates of the Government Indoctrination ...
    szandorblestman.com My youngest daughter graduated from high school this year, or as I like to call it, the government indoctrination center. I had the opportunity to attend her commencement. It was surprisingly not as boring as I thought it was going to be. A retiring English teacher gave a pretty ...
  • A-Okay To Change Sell-By Date On Expired Meat, Say ...
    You know those nifty “sell-by” tags on food that seem like they’re there for your safety and to separate our 21st Century grocery stores from, say, medieval street fairs? Well, it turns out they’re not for you. Evidently, they’re for the convenience of the store owner, according to this unsettli ...

The Air Vent

  • Natural Warming
    Roy Spencer has another interesting post where he uses PDO, AMO and SOI to predict the warming post 1978. He used the 3 factors and temperature to calculate a weighting factor in pre-1960 and it resulted in a prediction of warming in the post 1978 timeframe.  Recently Eric Steig challenged us to be ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Orange Has a Funny, Growing Text-to-Speech Faceboo ...
    Orange, the lead brand of France Telecom, has a new Facebook application out called VoxCards, Using text-to-speech recognition technology, it lets you send virtually any type of message to your friends in French, or at least in an outrageous French accent. Though the application is in French, it’s p ...
  • Surprise: Android Has More than 7 Million Facebook ...
    Over the past couple of months, Google’s Android mobile operating system has made significant headway, both in the public and in the tech world, with reports showing Android sales catching up to the iPhone. Yet we’ve also seen multiple sources note that Android has not succeeded on Facebook. Tha ...
  • Who’s Using Facebook Around the World? The Demogra ...
    [Editor's Note: The following stats are excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Click here to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] Today, we present recent findings on demographic breakdowns in Facebo ...
  • Indonesia Became Facebook’s Third-Largest Country ...
    [Editor's Note: The following stats are excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Click here to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] Today we’re taking a look at Facebook’s growth in the pan-Asian re ...
  • Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usag ...
    If 2009 is remembered as the year that casual gaming stormed social platforms, 2010 is quickly becoming the year that the industry started to mature. Facebook is getting more involved in the monetization ecosystem, last year’s hit games are fighting for their lives, and new developers and games are ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • You’re talking bollox, Mr Regev. A short primer on ...
    Stuart Littlewood deconstructs the Israeli propaganda that has been flooding the airwaves following Israel’s murder of humanitarian activists aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, most notably from the orifice of the Israeli prime minister’s spokesman, Australian-born Mark Regev, and deb ...
  • Jewish ideology and psychosis – a danger to world ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers the deep religious and psychotic roots of the genocidal impulses of Israelis, as most recently demonstrated in the cold-blooded murder of humanitarian activists aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, and warns of the implications for humanity unless urgent decisive ...
  • 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.

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

  • Jamiol Presents
    Here is a great toon from Paul Jamiol, originally posted here: http://jamiolsworld.com/ ; I recommend bookmarking his website, and of course check it out daily!  
  • Podcast Show #29
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Phillips   Peter Phillips describes Project Censored, its mission, operational style and funding, then talks about what he has coined as ‘Truth Emergency,’ and provides examples such as the intentional misreporting of the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war, ...
  • 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

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

  • What On Earth Are Timberland Talking About?
    What is it we make better? It is our boots. Our shoes. Our clothing. Our gear. Out communities. Our environment. And our business practices. But once you put on our gear, it is the journey. It is getting from point A to point B. And onto point C. And D. and E. And on to wherever [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • Community Centered Ads Boost Engagement, Funding a ...
    The beauty of starting something from scratch is the iterative and agile process I've talked about since before "Spot.Us":http://www.spot.us began. In this post I'm going to discuss two new developments at Spot.Us. One is an exciting feature and revenue stream. The other is in relation to our expans ...
  • Freedom Fone Adopted by Bulawayo's Pioneering Voic ...
    I had visions of Bulawayo , Zimbabwe being a sleepy little hollow, and perhaps in some ways it is. But last week, after arriving at Radio Dialogue offices in Pioneer House in Bulawayo's central business district, I was very pleasantly surprised. We were in the City of Skies to run a practical two-da ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Boots on the trail ought to pay up
    The hikers who are loving Colorado’s fourteeners to death need to repair the damage they’re doing and help out either physically or financially.
  • One Tough Sucker
    Human beings are the greatest threat -- and the only hope -- for the Colorado River's razorback sucker.
  • 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.

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

  • Rep Alan Grayson Gets Stupid Again-Says Throw Oil ...
    To say that Florida Congressman Alan Grayson is a nut-job would be an understatement. Even fellow democratic progressive Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) says the Florida Rep is less than sane, he said back in October, " Is this news to you that this guy’s [Grayson] one fry short of a Happy Meal? ...
  • Oil Still Leaking, Economy Still in Pits, BUT Obam ...
    Watch live streaming video from wkrg_oil_spill at livestream.com The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults finds 86% are at least somewhat concerned about the economic impact of the oil leak. This includes 63% who are Very Concerned. Other polls indicate that America ...
  • Major New Development in Flotilla Story? Evidence ...
    By Barry Rubin I’ve written about how the Gaza flotilla issue and stirring up a hysterical hatred of Israel is playing a role in internal Turkish politics as the government tries to use this demagoguery to continue eroding Turkish democracy and to win the next election. And a little later I'm g ...
  • Here it is The HELEN THOMAS INTERVIEW-Part II
    Rabbi Nessenoff released the anticipated part two of his interview with Helen Thomas.� In actuality it is more like an extended version of the first one (See below). Yesterday I wrote that Ms. Thomas s hould not be fired from her columnist job at Hearst. I felt that there were much bigger Jew-hating ...
  • MASS MURDER!! Wind Farms Killing Thousands of Bird ...
    If there is ever a CSI for birds the wind farms in the States of Washington and Oregon are in big trouble. And the fate will be no different for wind farms across the world. A recent study in Klickitat County, Washington shows that active wind farms in Washington and Oregon kill more than 6,500 bi ...

The Real Agenda

  • Government Austerity: The Match that Lights the Fi ...
    We’ve all seen the numerous videos of protesters in Greece rioting, fighting police, and even firebombing banks and killing people in reaction to the crippling austerity measures imposed by the government in the name of appeasing the mandates of the European Union’s near $1 trillion dollar bailout p ...
  • Forced abortions and sterilization to ‘save ...
    These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Counc ...
  • UN warns climate change could trigger ‘mega- ...
    The same people who brought us Anthropogenic Global Warming, Climategate, Sustainability and the Green Revolution now warn us about mega-disasters to come due to Climate Change. Should we believe them? Should we even pay attention to them? Yes, but not for their science.
  • Rothchild Engineer Giving Away UK Infrastructure t ...
    The Rothschild banking family is pushing for the privatization of the UK’s motorway network that would force Brits, who already pay road tax, to enrich the coffers of private corporations intimately tied in with the Rothschilds by means of road tolls and pay-by-mile schemes enforced with spy cameras ...
  • U.S. Administration Supports Indecent Vatican&#821 ...
    AFP The Obama administration in a brief to the Supreme Court has backed theVatican’s claim of immunity from lawsuits arising from cases of sexual abuse by priests in the United States. The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by the Vatican of an appellate court ruling that lifted its immunity ...

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

  • Cost cutting versus criminal negligence in Bhopal: ...
    No justice for victims of Bhopal. Verdicts of Criminal Negligence were handed down to former Union Carbide employees responsible for a death toll of 25,000 and still rising. While victims remain sorely under-compensated, the verdict means sentences of only two years each. For the American boss? Noth ...
  • Mavi Marmara security camera footage released by I ...
    Following their murderous raid on the Gaza Flotilla, Israel seized everyone’s photographic footage and released only a fragment which pretended to support the IDF version of the engagement. This clip from a surveillance camera on the Mavi Marmara purports to show activists preparing to batter the Is ...
  • Was Gaza flotilla infiltrated by agent-provocateur ...
    It’s convenient to surmise that unexpected violence between activists and authorities must be the work of undercover provocateurs. With the fallout of the Mavi Marmara massacre reaching fever pitch, it’s hard to believe Israel would have engineered it thus; and far easier to imagine IDF infiltrator ...
  • Sir Elton sings for Rush Dumbaugh’s 4th wedd ...
    And the question was asked, “why castigate Mr John? Just because somebody disagrees with you politically, does that make him the Enemy?” In the case of Rush Limbaugh and his Fellow Hate-Speech Mongers, yes, it does. Not that Sir Elton declared war on Right Wing Retards, but the Right Wing Retards de ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Don't be a Slacktivist!
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes today: "133... That's how many people sent in letters/faxes to the NYC District Attorney requesting an investigation of WTC-7, per the request from NYC-CAN . One hundred and thirty-three. I mean, let's put that in perspective. NYC-CAN claimed to have ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers' Free Fall Fallacies
    One central argument debunkers have raised over the years is that the WTC buildings could not have been brought down with explosives because that would have caused the buildings fall in free fall. However, a video made by debunker AlienEntity actually disproved the notion that free fall is a 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"

Fooducate

  • Chocolate Cheerios, Corporate Growth, and Obesity
    Once upon a time there was “Cheerios”. For almost 40 years, up until the late 1970’s, consumers had only one Cheerios flavor to choose from. And then General Mills, corporate owner of the Cheerios brand, introduced Honey Nut Cheerios. It was an instant success. Sweeter (mostly due to sugar, not hon ...
  • Olive Oil Labeling
    Olive oil is growing in popularity in the United States. Sourced from the Mediterranean and part of that famous diet, it has been shown to be a healthy source of fat when compared to fats from animal sources. It is also more expensive to manufacture compared to canola and soy oils. Like wine, compl ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Love
    The discussion on communication gave me the impulse to reflect a little on the concept of romantic love between two people. What is this love? Let’s explore. When we tell someone “I love you”, we are in fact stating that we feel the chemistry between us, which is mutually based on acceptance and ad ...
  • Communication
    As I surf around the blogs of my newly acquired Opera friends, I see how their posts reflect ideas, beliefs, maxims, thoughts, emotions etc. drawn either from a more philosophical or a more real-life context, depending on each person’s composure. That’s normal – even typical. At the same time, tha ...
  • 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 ...

Survival International

  • Survival urges Malaysia to uphold tribes’ rights
    Penan man, Malaysia. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Survival’s director Stephen Corry has written to the Malaysian government, urging it to uphold the rights of the Penan and other tribes of Sarawak . Malaysia’s Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said last mo ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

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Ian Welsh

  • Holy Sweet Lord, Turkey has announced they will se ...
    If they actually do this, it is the very definition of throwing down. Wow. Does Israel want a war with Turkey?  They can’t win it, short of using nukes, and Turkey is a NATO member, if Israel attacks NATO ships, Turkey can invoke Article V (in fact, they can invoke it already, since the ships were ...
  • A Gaffe: saying the truth in the worst way possibl ...
    As with Helen Thomas when asked what she thought about Israel.  “I think they should get the hell out of Palestine.” Israel is a colonial power occupying a land whose population was, prior to their getting rid of many of them, majority non-Jewish.  This is why “right of return” is a non-starter, b ...
  • America’s Future Now: We have to get the public to ...
    The interesting thing about the conference so far is the message: if only we organize, we can change what the public thinks and with the public behind us make the President and Congress do what we want. This was epitomized by a “debate” between Darcy Burner and Deepak Bhargava, where they both agree ...
  • Reality, red lines and minimalism
    The most important facts in Afghanistan right now is that we are approaching Peak Foreign Fighters (PFF) within the next couple of weeks.  US forces are still flowing in-country for McChrystal’s attempt at a Surge ™ and NATO forces are not leaving yet.  PFF is aimed at creating a temporary bubb ...
  • Quick thoughts on potential Turkish responses
    Ian believes that in a conventional war between Turkey and Israel that has escalated to full-scale armored warfare, the Turks have a significant advantage of having a larger, well trained, NATO-equipped army that actually has successful combat experience against guerrilla forces.  The Turkish order ...

Age of Autism

  • Canada Knocks Out Flu, U.S. Public Kept In The Dar ...
    By David M. Burd, June 2, 2010 Canada the last four years totaled sixteen "flu-associated" fatalities for their paediatric age category, defined as everybody under 18, and this included all H1N1 and seasonal cases. Three-quarters of these deaths had severe...
  • Listen To Dr. Andrew Wakefield on Coast to Coast
    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. Dr. Wakefield will be on Coast to Coast Wednesday, June 9. The...
  • Lyn Redwood Appointed Executive Director at The Co ...
    The SafeMinds Board of Directors is excited to announce the appointment of Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN as Executive Director. Lyn is a co-founder of SafeMinds. She currently serves on the Department of Defense Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program and the...
  • Imus in the Morning To Feature Dr. Andrew Wakefiel ...
    Don Imus is featuring Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Deirdre Imus on TODAY at 7:30am EDT 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...

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