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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Anti-Immigrant State Laws Could Multiply, Obama Wa ...
  
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama criticised "ill conceived" immigration laws in Arizona and called on Republicans to end their opposition to immigration reform and pass bipartisan immigration reform in speech delivered Thursday morning.
• U.S.: Stuck in No-Fly Limbo
  
  
  Ten U.S. citizens or lawful residents are suing the government for placing them on the "no-fly" list without notice or due process and then giving them no way to get their names off the list.
• FILM: One West Bank Town's "Unarmed Courage"
  
  
  Ayed Morrar is just one man. A quiet man, of small stature, whose kind but intense eyes look out from behind wire-rimmed glasses. But he is a man who has become the face of the Palestinian non-violent resistance movement.
• IOC Joins U.N. to Level the Playing Field for Wome ...
  
  
  The sight of girls and boys playing cricket and skateboarding together in the streets of Afghanistan and Iraq may be unexpected to some, but it is a homegrown effort aimed at fostering gender equality.
• BURMA: ‘No Rallies, No Slogans' Order Shackl ...
  
  
  Burma's military regime is giving its critics more ammunition, tightening its grip ahead of a general election this year by seeing to it that independent political parties are barred from chanting slogans, marching in rallies and displaying their party flags when they campaign.

Scoop - NZ

• ETS up and running
  
  
  Up and running today- what does the ETS mean . Who wins, who loses ? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Report from a G20 protest attendee
  
  
  "My Suspicions Mirror those of Penny - Agents de Provocateurs!" but the fact that in section of the city where cops outnumbered regular citizens, how not one of these guys was not arrested OUT IN PUBLIC where their MASKS WOULD BE TAKEN OFF is obviously . . . not possible. Only a brainwashe ...
• Housing market faltering in the US
  
  
  More than the European debt crisis is keeping American economic policymakers awake at night just now. Despite a year of government effort, a tentative recovery in the housing market appears to be on the verge of stalling. Home prices have now fallen for the past six months, according to the Case-Sh ...
• Video: Coalition of the Willing: Post-Copenhagen a ...
  
  
  An amazing animated presentation of an argument fo how open source philosophy and web 2.0 can literally save the world! Where do we go after last year's failed Copenhagen climate change conference? Coalition of the Willing is an animated film that attempts to answer that question, and the Guardian ...
• Karzai meets Siraj Haqqani
  
  
  Reports from Afghanistan indicate that the president of Afghanistan, the head of Pakistan's military intelligence service, and Pakistan's army chief all met recently with the al Qaeda-linked leader of the Haqqani Network, one of the most dangerous terror groups operating in the country. Afghan Pres ...

Independent ( London )

• Archie Bland: Goodluck? You'll need it, Jonathan, ...
  
  
  Amazing story from Nigeria about President Goodluck Jonathan, presumably with half an eye on next year’s elections
• Police reopen probe into Al Gore allegations
  
  
  US police said they reopened an investigation into a massage therapist's allegations that former Vice President Al Gore groped her at an upscale hotel in 2006.
• China stays silent on Google rerouting move
  
  
  China's foreign ministry said on Thursday it had no comment on Google's decision to end automatic rerouting of users to its uncensored Hong Kong search portal, but that all Internet operators had to abide by local laws.
• Ten years on, Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez is hap ...
  
  
  Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban castaway boy who became the object of an international custody battle a decade ago in Miami, said on Wednesday he was happy he ended up back in Cuba.
• Scrambled – the EU 'threat' to British eggs
  
  
  Look away Eurosceptics. Those meddling Brussels bureaucrats have let you down again and are not going to ban the sale of eggs by the dozen.

Rogue Government.com

• Genetically Modified Glow In The Dark Fish
  
  
• U.S. Charges 11 With Acting as Agents for Russia
  
  
  In what law enforcements officials portrayed as an extraordinary takedown of a Russian espionage network, the Justice Department on Monday announced charges against 11 people accused of living for years in the United States as part of a deep-cover program by S.V.R. -- one of the successors to the S ...
• Lieberman cybersecurity bill goes to Senate floor ...
  
  
  It's up to the full Senate now to evaluate the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved an amended version of the bill June 24.
• Kissinger warns on Afghan exit strategy
  
  
  The people “must be prepared for a long struggle” in what is already the US’s longest war, Mr Kissinger said in the wake of Barack Obama’s decision to remove General Stanley McChrystal as commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.
• White House cybersecurity policy would require in ...
  
  
  The White House set out a sweeping strategy to make online transactions more secure on Friday. The move is the most ambitious initiative to emerge from a cybersecurity policy intended to blunt the growing menace of online crime .

Innovation Canada

• Fertilizer from the sea
  
  
  When the first European settlers arrived to scratch out a living on the thin soils across Atlantic Canada, they quickly made use of the seaweed on the beaches around them as a plentiful source of crop fertilizer. This age-old European practice continues in the region to this day, and now a Nova Scot ...
• i2eye with Rick Hansen
• i2eye with Stephen Hawking and Neil Turok
  
  
  It takes a special kind of communicator to make physics understandable to the average person. But more than 20 years ago, Stephen Hawking did just that with the publication of “A Brief History of Time,” a popular account of what was known about the origin and evolution of our universe. The book beca ...
• Paleo art
  
  
  All that’s left of the most numerous, diverse and successful creatures that ever walked the face of the Earth are bones. Dinosaurs left behind on YouTube videos, photographs or even cave drawings. Yet we can get a glimpse into the natural existence of these “terrible lizards” through the work of Alb ...
• Pollution solution
  
  
  The Walkerton disaster of May 2000 was a cautionary tale for all Canadians concerned about the safety of their drinking water. When a deadly strain of E. coli from farm runoff contaminated the Ontario community’s water supply, seven people died and nearly half the town’s residents became ill before ...

Signs of the times

• UK: Have You Seen Mysterious Orange Lights in Skeg ...
  
  
  Thursday, 2.45pm: A mysterious formation of orange lights in the sky has been the subject of much speculation in letters sent to the Standard. Susan Jeffery's letter published in the last edition of the Standard asked whether any other readers had seen balls of orange light in the sky following the ...
• New Supersonic Plane Could Hush Sonic Booms
  
  
  A new design concept for a futuristic faster-than-sound aircraft could break through legal barriers to supersonic flights over land by shushing the sonic booms created by such vehicles. The concept aircraft, envisioned by aerospace company Lockheed Martin, would revolutionize supersonic cruising by ...
• Signs of new recession throw stock markets into tu ...
  
  
  US stocks fell sharply again Wednesday following a panicky selloff on global markets Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged in the last hour of trading Wednesday after Moody's Investor Service warned that it might downgrade Spain's sovereign debt. The Dow ended with a loss of 96 points (0 ...
• Would You Help a Stranger? The Bystander Effect
• Fears of a Chinese economic slowdown
  
  
  Growing uncertainty over the Chinese economy has contributed to sharp falls in global share markets. There are mounting concerns over frenzied property speculation and the sustainability of the government's stimulus measures, compounded by a series of strikes focussed in the country's burgeoning aut ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Ethics of Appearance and Agents Provocateur
  
  
  My old man tells a story from his police days about a colleague who went undercover to infiltrate a biker gang. His first and last stop was a biker bar. In he strode all dialed up in biker bling, and up comes a waitress who says 'What'll it be, copper?" She might have saved his life. -------------- ...
• Alex back in warm water... and growing.
  
  
  Alex emerged from the Yucatan intact and with enough organization to quickly regenerate. While it had been downgraded to a Tropical Depression over the Yucatan, it is now back to Tropical Storm and the expectation from both guidance models and forecasters is that Alex will spin up to a Hurricane so ...
• Hurricane Alex crosses the coast...
  
  
  Alex made landfall across the North East coast of Mexico at Soto La Marina at about 0200 GMT. It has now been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. At the time of landfall the wind speeds had risen to over 90 knots (169 kmh/105 mph) making Alex a category 2 strength hurricane. Alex will likely dissipate ...
• Rights? Don't be cute
  
  
  Lesson One from the G8/G20 protests: The police and the political support behind them , don't give a good goddamn about such quaint things as rights or whether your protest is peaceful. Even Five Feet of Fascist was shocked to learn that police ignorance and condescension also applies to rightwinger ...
• Utter bullshit
  
  
  I can't remember when was the last time I read anything like this . It was either Pravda sometime before 1983 or a community newspaper where the editor was the brother-in-law of the contractor building the sewer system. Tell you what, Christie, when they take Blair to the wall, go with him and mak ...

Media Matters for America

• Will media that advanced "Climategate" smear now ...
  
  
  Network and cable news outlets -- led by Fox News -- advanced the right-wing smear, which they dubbed "Climategate," that emails stolen last year showed climate change scientists engaged in wrong-doing, such as, they alleged, "fudging data." Will these media outlets now report on the latest inv ...
• Hoft falsely claims Kagan lied to the Supreme Cour ...
  
  
  Jim Hoft falsely claimed that it "[l]ooks like" Elena Kagan "lie[d] to the Supreme Court" in a brief she filed asking the court not to hear the appeal in a case against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In fact, the statements from the brief that Hoft highlights are completely truthful. Hoft falsely cla ...
• Fox confuses "bailout" with "stimulus" and declar ...
  
  
  Fox News repeatedly attacked President Obama's recent town hall remarks on the stimulus by falsely referring to it as the "bailout" and claiming that it "didn't work." In fact, the "bailout" was first enacted under the Bush administration, and the stimulus has been estimated by both the White ...
• Wash. Times disregards facts to ...
  
  
  A June 3� Washington Times �editorial falsely suggested�that Elena Kagan convinced the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to change their position on�so-called "partial-birth abortion". In fact, ACOG's position on�legislation banning the procedure was consistent�--�that it w ...
• Fox inexplicably interprets CBO budget outlook as ...
  
  
  Both America's Newsroom and On the Record falsely suggested that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said the health care reform law worsens the long-term budget outlook. In fact, CBO said that since the law reduces deficits, it slightly improves the budget outlook. Fox falsely suggests CBO sa ...

Global Research.ca

• Russia Rejects Espionage Accusations
  
  
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• Health Fear Over New Airport Scanners
  
  
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• Sanctions and War Threats directed against the Teh ...
  
  
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• Future U.S.-Canada Joint Arctic Security and Contr ...
  
  
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• NATO's Deadliest Month in Afghan War
  
  
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TPM Cafe

• Good News, I Hope
  
  
  I wrote earlier this month that TMPCafé had not been working well because we screwed up implementing some fixes and improvements to the site. As I mentioned then, we had to hire outside programmers to help us resolve the problems. Well, good news, I think they did the trick, but we still need your h ...
• AIPAC: Netanyahu Has Sacrificed For Peace
  
  
  I guess this is what happens to people who never hear the word "no." In an op-ed published today by JTA, the two most powerful and influential leaders of the pro-Israel lobby assert, as proclaimed in the article's title, that "Only Israel [is] making the effort toward peace." The op-ed is writ ...
• Post - Toronto Summit Reflections
  
  
  Fresh from a whirlwind of G-8/20 summitry, I thought I'd share some assorted observations and impressions. Non-binding not same as non-acting. Media skepticism about the value of diplomatic conferences goes with the multilateral territory, and Toronto was no exception. There was a steady refrain ...
• Deflation, Kleptocracy & Reform
  
  
  The United States has three DEFCON 5 level crises happening at once. The first is an ecological disaster in the American Gulf region. The second is a foreign policy disaster in the Arabian Gulf region. And the third is an economic disaster being caused by the Bond Vigilantes in the Canyons of Wa ...
• Boehner Puts Democrats on the Spot
  
  
  In a remarkable interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, House Republican Leader John Boehner explicitly called for cutting Social Security in order to pay for the war in Afghanistan. The article reports: "Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country's ...

TruthOut

• US Has Worst Prolonged Unemployment Since Great De ...
  
  
  Adjusting for demographic factors, current labor market downturn steeper than '82-'83 recession. Washington, D.C.- As the nation contends with a long and sustained labor market recession, a new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research demonstrates that the current unemployment rate is ...
• Obama Pushes for Immigration Reform, but Neglects ...
  
  
  In his first major address on immigration since taking office, President Barack Obama addressed the long-simmering tensions below the surface on both sides of the debate with candor and promised his administration would "not just kick the can down the road," but left some immigration advocates unset ...
• ACLU Suit Challenges No-Fly List
  
  
  Calling the government's terrorist screening system "broken" and "ineffective," the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of ten US citizens, military members and legal permanent residents who have been barred from flying because they are wrongfully included on the gove ...
• GOP's False Talking Point: Jones Act Blocks Gulf H ...
  
  
  Washington - From former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Arizona Sen. John McCain to junior members of the House of Representatives, conservative Republicans have accused President Barack Obama of failing to do all he can to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill because he hasn't waived a U.S. marit ...
• Norman Solomon | Unanimous Conformity in the Senat ...
  
  
  For the warfare state, it doesn't get any better than 99 to 0. Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Call it the unanimity of lemmings - except the senators and their families aren't the ones who'll keep plunging into the sea. ...

Planetsave

• Gulf Oil Spill Solutions ~ X Prize Considers a New ...
  
  
  This week the X Prize foundation announced their intention to come up with a contest for solutions to cleaning up the damage done by the oil leaking from the BP Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico . Roughly 35,000 solutions have been proposed to BP, our government and other organizations, ...
• Arctic May Be More Sensitive to Warming Than Expec ...
  
  
  A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests that the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than first thought. The international study suggested that the current levels of Earthâs atmospheric carbon dioxide could be high enough to cause significan ...
• Geoengineering Plus White Fluffy Clouds Equals Mor ...
  
  
  Geoengineering the clouds to reflect more light might not be so bad for the land underneath. Concerns have been raised in the past regarding the effects of seeding clouds to make them more reflective and thereby reduce the radiation absorbed by the Earth. Researchers have believed that by doing so ...
• US Farmers Suffer Under Public and Regulatory Pres ...
  
  
  Farming has always been hard, and in the last 50 years has become incrementally harder with the need to make more, pollute less, satisfy everyone while still supporting yourself. All of this has to happen with increasingly scarce natural resources and the looming crisis of climate change and the ef ...
• Bioengineered ‘Bacterial Communication&#8217 ...
  
  
  Bacteria don’t simply reproduce and “infect”, they also actively communicate via specialized signaling molecules with other bacteria, both with the same species, and quite different species. Bio-engineers have learned how to exploit this communicative activity–using commensal , or co-existing, bact ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• GRASSFED BEEF- WHY & WHERE
  
  
  Nutritionist Walter Willett states that there is a consensus among nutritionists that America’s obes
• Final Rule : Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas ...
  
  
  US EPA Final rule on reporting requirements for 4 source categories: http://tinyurl.com/3x6cyrr Prop
• Water Quality Prediction
  
  
  Objective is to share a visualization model of the outputted predictions generated from raw data. Al
• New video released from the Clean Water Fund and C ...
  
  
  Watch this video and contact Palm Beach County Commissioners at PBC-Allcommissioners@pbcgov.org and
• Light n’ Fluffy News Roundup – June 30 ...
  
  
  I’ll have to wait to watch ‘Gasland’ until it’s out on video, but Michael ‘Aquadoc’ Campana provides

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Greg Palast: Lobbyists benefit from BP oil spill + ...
  
  
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• The Technological Revolution and the Future of Fre ...
  
  
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• Who Will Pay, Wall Street or Main Street – The Tob ...
  
  
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• Inheritance Lost: Must Baby Turtles Die for Oil Ri ...
  
  
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• No Blow Movement Grows By Shepherd Bliss
  
  
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Axis of Logic

• Ecuador tribe in rare visit to help clean-up Lousi ...
  
  
  Hurricane Alex, with winds of up to 100km an hour, is hampering efforts to clean-up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The state department has welcomed help from 12 countries offering to assist with the clean-up. And there has been a rare offer of support from an indigenous...
• FDA takes steps to limit use of antibiotics in liv ...
  
  
  The FDA took a significant step yesterday toward restricting the routine feeding of subtherapeutic (medically unnecessary) doses of antibiotics to livestock. As Grist has detailed�in previous coverage, this practice -- which by some estimates consumes nearly 70% of all antibiotics administered in ...
• Burge found guilty of lying about torture - Crime ...
  
  
  Former Chicago�police Cmdr. Jon Burge, the subject of accusations of torture against suspects for decades, was convicted today on all counts of an indictment charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice. Burge was convicted of lying in a 2003 civil lawsuit about his use or know ...
• Taliban attacks Nato base - World News
  
  
  The Taliban have attacked a Nato base in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan to "send a message to David Petraeus," the general expected to take command of the US mission in the country. Witnesses reported hearing gunfire and US helicopters were seen hovering around the airfield at the base on We ...
• Mexico court frees jailed Atenco activists - World ...
  
  
  Mexico's Supreme Court has ordered the release of 12 community activists whose case had been the focus of an international campaign. � The activists were serving long prison terms for the alleged kidnapping of police officers during a protest in the town of San Salvador Atenco in 2006. But t ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• White House: Immigration Roundtable
  
  
  President Obama spoke today on immigration reform. Previously: Representative Mark Parkinson (r): "Show us your papers, please." (April 29, 2010): ....What he [Representative Mark Parkinson] wants to do, he wants to substitute that bill and create one that matches Arizona's new law. Of course that l ...
• Why Can't Conservatives Think More Like Liberals?
  
  
  There was very little that was funny about the 2004 presidential election. �But one thing that did make me laugh was digging through the landfill of garbage Republicans had flung at John Kerry and finding that conservatives really thought they could portray the Senator as a flip-flopping ideologue! ...
• The new republican mantra: Kick 'em while they're ...
  
  
  I live across the street from a huge Catholic church that provides social services and operates a food bank. The line that queues up before they open the door has changed over the last couple of years. The people who line up have changed over the last year. They don't all walk from the bus stop or a ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  
  Imagine that From our good friend Kevin Drum we learn that the news media in the United States was very adamant about referring to waterboarding unequivocally as torture. Until 2002. When they suddenly stopped calling it torture and started calling it an "enhanced interrogation" technique, or even s ...
• National Leader is Atheist Shacking Up with Lover
  
  
  No, not here. �Australia. PZ Myers: Julia Gillard, the new Prime Minister of Australia, is unmarried...but she has a boyfriend, a partner, a...a...paramour, which brings up the horrific possibility of a leader of the country living in sin in official accommodations. Oh, lord, I'm getting the vapors ...

Care 2

• Act Now to Save the Endangered Gray Whale - TAKE A ...
  
  
  Rosneft, a Russian-based oil company, has plans to survey for seismic activity in an area of the ocean where gray whales go to feed each year. The exploration they are set to begin is very dangerous for these whales as it can interfere with their feeding Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Not ...
• Puppy found wrapped in trash bags in Goshen
  
  
  Charlie is headed to the vet and things are not looking good. He has a fever, he isn't eating and even worse, he has a severe virus. "He is positive for Parvo. So what we are going to do is get him treated and he will be here at the clinic Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Tell S.C. Legislators: Make Blood Sports a Felony ...
  
  
  In Greenville, South Carolina this month, eighty-five people were charged with cockfighting in a raid. In the Palmetto State, that's a misdemeanor. For strapping metal spurs--sometimes with razor blades--to the legs of animals who are bred Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• British scientist uncovers 'secret messages' hidde ...
  
  
  His works have been scrutinised and debated for more than 2,000 years by the greatest minds in history. Submitted by Ingrid Peeters to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chicago Court Makes Dog Fighters Fund Victims' New ...
  
  
  When Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, his deputies, and Chicago P.D. busted up a dog fight in November 2008, it was a gruesome scene, with two dogs injured after being forced to fight amid a crowd cheering on the brutality. The attendees included two Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

GreenBiz

• Smart Meters Alone Won't Reduce Energy Use, Study ...
  
  
  Utilities need to go beyond the smart meter and use a range of energy-feedback tools to achieve significant reductions in customers' power consumption and their electricity bills, new research shows.
• Beyond the Smart Meter
  
  
  Feedback gadgets alone are unlikely to maximize energy savings, says a new report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
• Climate Corps 2010: Climbing to the Peak of Energy ...
  
  
  An accomplished rock climber uses muscle power and endurance training to function for extended periods of time without forgoing efficiency. That same level of endurance is needed for a successful climb to a stable, organization-wide energy efficiency program.
• IBM Racks Up Nearly $27M in Energy Savings
  
  
  IBM saved $26.8 in energy expenses in 2009 as a result of companywide conservation efforts that surpassed corporate targets, the firm said in annual reports that chart progress toward corporate responsibility and environmental goals. �
• Electrolux Turns Ocean Garbage Into New Vacuums
  
  
  Electrolux is raising awareness of plastic waste in the oceans by putting plastic collected from waters around the world in peoples' homes.

Reuters Global

• Sun setting on Merkel coalition?
  
  
  Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition appears to be in deep trouble after debacle in Reichstag
• Gunning for Godfried? Belgian abuse probe asks wha ...
  
  
  Are the Belgian judicial authorities gunning for Godfried?
• Japan PM gets face-time with Obama
  
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who took office earlier this month, hoped to impress voters as he made his debut at a meeting of G8 and G20 leaders in Canada last weekend, but saw media play at home overshadowed by the World Cup and a scandal roiling Japan's traditional sport of sumo
• Pakistan’s policy on Afghanistan: finding th ...
  
  
  A report out this month on the Taliban by Antonio Giustozzi offers a rare window into Pakistan's opaque policy towards Afghanistan.
• If Guinea Can…
  
  
  If Guinea can pull off free and fair elections this weekend, it will lay the foundations for what could be one of Africa's most unexpected and significant good news stories.

Booman Tribune

• Poor Dubya
  
  
  I was somewhat surprised to see that historians consider one former U.S. president to have been more stupid than George W. Bush (pdf). I knew Warren Harding was corrupt and disengaged, but I didn't know he had the intellect of a doorknob. They also think that Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Hardi ...
• One Friedman Unit Today
  
  
  Six months ago today, Finn was just making his way into the world. Look at him now: And he's even making friends with the little ladies: Time is just flying way too fast these days.
• What Sick BP Oil Spill Workers?
  
  
  A philosophical question for you. If no reporter is ever allowed to speak or meet with any of the many oil spill clean-up workers about the medical treatment they may or may not be receiving at a Federal Clinic, much less visit said clinic, do they really exist? And by that I mean oil spill clean- ...
• The New Maverick
  
  
  Mavericky!! After attending 183 meetings and devoting more than 120 hours of scheduled Senate time to the [climate] matter, Graham dropped his co-sponsorship of the legislation when the Senate majority leader, the Democrat Harry Reid, disclosed in late April that his priority would be passage of ...
• Serious Question
  
  
  Okay, I'm not sure which is the more appalling research. Strike that, of course I know.

European Tribune

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• Wednesday Open Thread
  
  
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• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 30 ...
  
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1789 Horace Vernet...

Futurismic

• NEW FICTION: YOUR LIFE SENTENCE by C C Finlay
  
  
  Your name is Nicole Palmer, and this is the world you wanted, one where every unborn child is safe, protected by the law from the moment he or she is conceived. You practice what you believe. Through three pregnancies, you didn't smoke, didn't drink, and didn't touch coffee or chocolate or anything ...
• Preventing potential lesbianism in the womb
  
  
  Science has brought us many wonderful things, but it sometimes gets picked up as a blunt instrument by people with deeply screwed up ideas about what is right and wrong. Worried your unborn female child might grow up to be uninterested in having children, or attracted to “traditionally masculine” ca ...
• Microsoft Kinect: The Call of the Womb
  
  
  ### I have never been to the festival of hubris and chest-thumping that is the American video games industry’s yearly trade-fair E3 (a.k.a. ‘E Cubed’, a.k.a. ‘Electronic Entertainment Expo’), but the mere thought of it makes me feel somewhat ill. A friend of mine once attended a video game trade fai ...
• Auto-origami
  
  
  Chalk another one up for the MIT ideas factory: ‘programmable matter‘ comprises sheets of composite material “edged by foil actuators – thin, solid-state motors – that contract or expand when they receive an electric current from flexible electronic circuits embedded in the sheets. After they achiev ...
• New sf futures from Rudy Rucker
  
  
  In response to Jo Walton’s Tor.com post about the problem that the Singularity meme has caused for science fiction writers [short and slightly snarky interpretation: The Singularity is such a ubiquitous idea that everyone feels obliged to write around it or beyond it, and there's a paucity of old-sc ...

Therapy News

• Lighting the Corners of Your Mind
  
  
  By Marc Handelman, Ph.D. Click here to contact Marc and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Memory is a delicate thing. You might pass a woman on the sidewalk and her perfume brings a flood of memories of your mother. You might see an object and experience a full and complete recall of a memory, and ...
• My Body in the Mirror
  
  
  By Martha Lee, DHS Click here to contact Martha and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile How many of the people that you know are truly happy with their bodies? Be honest: Are you satisfied with yours? If not, you might have a body image issue. Body image does not just refer to aspects of our physical ...
• Separated Parents: Six Ways to Manage Holiday Sche ...
  
  
  By Shendl Tuchman, Psy.D., Divorce / Divorce Adjustment Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Shendl and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Parent #1: It’s already December. We need to decide about Christmas and you had Johnny last year. Why do you think you should have him again this ye ...
• Strength of Mind: The Benefits of Daydreaming
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Daydreaming, and its broader category, mind wandering, don’t necessarily have the best reputations. But according to a piece in the New York Times, new research is shedding light on how often we daydream, how it works, and how it might actually be beneficial. First, th ...
• Ten Things I Wished I’d Known Before I Sent My Bro ...
  
  
  By Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. & Ed Wilson, Ph.D., MAC, Drug & Alcohol Addiction Topic Expert Contributors Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her Profile Click here to contact Ed and/or see his Profile Almost 10 years ago, my brother was sinking fast, in the grip of cocaine and pot. My family ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Senator Robert Byrd: An Appreciation - AlterNet (b ...
  
  
  Telegraph.co.uk Senator Robert Byrd: An Appreciation AlterNet (blog) ... back 2.8 billion gallons of coal sludge, next to a dust-spewing coal processing plant, and adjacent to a massive mountaintop removal mining operation. ... Over the years, Byrd evolved on coal stance Charleston Gazette Official ...
• The Rape of Appalachia - CounterPunch
  
  
  Nation of Blue The Rape of Appalachia CounterPunch And her disgust with the coal industry's practice of mountaintop removal . Blasting off the tops of mountains to get at a seam of coal. ... Elementary School Teacher Unloads on Ashley Judd Nation of Blue all 2 news articles��
• EPA gives greenlight for MTR permit in Logan Count ...
  
  
  EPA gives greenlight for MTR permit in Logan County: Now in hands of Army ... Examiner.com The new Mountaintop Removal Mining guidelines were supposed to provide protection for head water streams by ending the practice of dumping waste, ...
• July 1, 2010: Republican success; veto mountaintop ...
  
  
  July 1, 2010: Republican success; veto mountaintop removal Charleston Gazette By , July 1, 2010: Republican success; veto mountaintop removal The Gazette, in an editorial, lamented the fact that Republicans might make gains in ...
• Appalachia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Removal - Inf ...
  
  
  Appalachia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Removal Infoshop News Just last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency gave the Army Corps of Engineers a green light for the Pine Creek mine permit, a mountaintop removal ...

Memeorandum

• Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigrat ...
  
  
  The White House : Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform American University School of International Service, Washington, D.C.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.  Thank you.  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Everyone please have a seat.  Thank you very much.
• First look at Daily Kos's lawsuit: Charges Researc ...
  
  
  Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : First look at Daily Kos's lawsuit: Charges Research 2000 with “fraudulently manufacturing phony results”   —  I've obtained a copy of the lawsuit that Daily Kos just filed against Research 2000, and this going to get nastier than you thought.  —  The suit contains str ...
• Voting Intentions Even, Turnout Indicators Favor G ...
  
  
  People-Press.org : Voting Intentions Even, Turnout Indicators Favor GOP   —  Older Americans Eager to Vote... Republican, That Is  —  With four months to go before Election Day, voting intentions for the House remain closely divided, and neither party has gained or lost much ground over the course ...
• Huckabee Trying Out a Daily Show for News Corp. (B ...
  
  
  Brian Stelter / Media Decoder : Huckabee Trying Out a Daily Show for News Corp.   —  Mike Huckabee, the weekend Fox News Channel host and possible 2012 presidential candidate, is getting a six-week tryout as a daily talk show host.  —  Called “The Huckabee Show,” it will have a preview run on weekd ...
• Boehner fires back at 'whining' White House (Micha ...
  
  
  Michael Memoli / The Swamp : Boehner fires back at ‘whining’ White House   —  House Minority Leader John Boehner today escalated a growing battle with Congressional Democrats and the White House, accusing the latter of “childish partisanship” after President Obama criticized him for remarks about t ...

Energy & Environment News

• Per-Capita Emissions Rising in China
  
  
  A growth in emissions in China and India "completely nullified" reductions made in the developed world in 2009.
• In Real Time, the Molecules of the Hudson
  
  
  A new environmental monitoring station will track changes in the physical, chemical and biological composition of the Hudson River.
• Britain Seeks to Curb Emissions by Abandoning Airp ...
  
  
  Britain’s government has set out to curb the growth of what has been called “binge flying,” by refusing to build new runways around London to accommodate more planes.
• The 'Mego Factor' and Climate Coverage
  
  
  Media norms keep big, creeping issues off the front page until it's too late.
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China Dialogue

• Heart of Dryness (3)
  
  
  Like Botswana’s Bushmen, we cannot escape the reality of water scarcity and must organise human behavior and society around that constraint, James G Workman writes in a final excerpt from his book. The Kalahari Bushmen – remnants of one of the world’s most successful civilisations – are at the epice ...
• Heart of Dryness (2)
  
  
  In the second excerpt from his book, James G Workman describes what Botswana learned, to its horror, when the capacity of its Gabarone Dam fell to historic lows -- and tensions rose dramatically. The Kalahari Bushmen – remnants of one of the world’s most successful civilisations – are at the epic ...
• Heart of Dryness (1)
  
  
  In chronicling the Kalahari Bushmen’s saga, James G Workman explores the larger story of water, a 21st-century battleground. The deserts are coming to us, he warns in the first of three book excerpts. The Kalahari Bushmen – remnants of one of the world’s most successful civilisations – are at the ep ...
• Fixing the food chain
  
  
  The Shanghai Expo has triggered a familiar clampdown on food-safety violations in China. But, says Jiang Gaoming, the public needs protecting all the time – not just at international events. By the time it closes in October, the Shanghai World Expo is expected to have attracted 206 nations and inter ...
• Biosphere bookkeeping
  
  
  An economic transformation to rival the Industrial Revolution is on its way – and this time nature will be properly valued, predict John Elkington and Alejandro Litovsky.  Almost 200 years ago, Thomas Newcomen built the world’s first commercially successful steam engine in order to pump water out ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Is BP Hiding Seriously Ill Clean-Up Workers?
  
  
  This post first appeared on Booman Tribune.A philosophical question for you. If no reporter is ever allowed to speak or meet with any of the many oil spill clean-up workers about the medical treatment they may or may not be receiving at a Federal Clinic, much less visit said clinic, do [...] ...
• The Appalling Cowardice of America's Newspapers, T ...
  
  
  From the 1930's to 2004 he New York Times characterized waterboarding as torture 81.5% percent of the time. Since 2004 it's dropped to 1.4%.
• Republicans Take Brave Stand Against “Tan Ta ...
  
  
  This post first appeared on Daily Kos. This is just so rich. Boehner has hijacked the House Republican caucus behind his own cause: fighting the “tan tax.” Seriously, here’s what’s on the Republican House Ways and Means site: Unfortunately, no amount of sunscreen or Aloe will relieve the pain of ...
• Our Fight For American Independence from Oil
  
  
  This weekend, we celebrate America’s independence from Britain. Brave people — the fathers and mothers of our country — stood together against the most powerful empire of the time and said, “We will be free.” But as BP’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf Coast reminds us, a force just as powerful h ...
• AZ GOP Candidate for Utility Commissioner Wants to ...
  
  
  This post originally appeared on Think Progress. Today, President Obama delivered a speech at American University making the case for comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border, overhauls our broken legal entry system, and provides a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants w ...

Threat Level

• With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepai ...
  
  
  Would-be whistle-blowers hoping to leak documents to Wikileaks face a potentially frustrating surprise. Wikileaks’ submission process, which had been degraded for months, completely collapsed more than two weeks ago and remains offline, in a little-noted breakdown at the world’s most prominent sec ...
• Too Scary to Fly, Not Scary Enough to Arrest
  
  
  Ten U.S citizens and residents, three of whom are veterans, are stuck abroad or cannot fly within or out of the United States because they are wrongly on a no-fly list, according to a federal lawsuit lodged Wednesday. The Oregon federal court case claims the plaintiffs, many with Middle Eastern name ...
• Group Wants FTC to Probe Data Broker Spokeo
  
  
  Spokeo, an online data broker, is accused of peddling inaccurate information and violating consumer protection laws in a complaint sent to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday. The Center for Democracy and Technology, which filed the complaint, alleges Spokeo purports to provide information ab ...
• Foursquare Puts Money Before Privacy
  
  
  Foursquare, one of the net’s hottest startups, got an unwanted message on June 20 from a white-hat hacker: it was leaking user data on a massive scale in plain violation of its privacy policy. The company asked the white hat, Jesper Andersen, to give it nine days to deal with the problem that it was ...
• Court to Consider Breaking Up Mass BitTorrent Laws ...
  
  
  If you’ve used BitTorrent to snag unauthorized copies of independent films you should be interested in the arguments unfolding in Wednesday in federal court in Washington, DC. At issue is a mass-litigation campaign, in which the fledgling US Copyright Group is suing about 15,000 users whose IP addre ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Toyota considering another recall; engines may sta ...
  
  
  DETROIT, July 1 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp by Thursday morning had not yet alerted U.S. safety regulators of a recall of Toyota and Lexus models for possible engine stalling while driving, a NHTSA official said.
• 4 Reasons Why Microsoft's Kin Phones Failed
  
  
  Microsoft’s attempt to be hip and cool in mobile is a bust. The company has decided to stop introducing new Kin-branded phones and will scrap the device’s European launch. Instead it plans to integrate Kin into its existing Windows 7 Phone team. It will continue Kin sales in the United States, Mic ...
• Treasury cuts Citi stake at $2 billion gross profi ...
  
  
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Treasury said on Thursday it has earned a gross profit of about $2 billion on sales of about one-third of its common stock holdings in Citigroup Inc as the government ramps up efforts to unwind bailout programs.
• Study finds prostate screening cuts cancer deaths
  
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - An extensive study into the merits of screening men between the ages of 50 and 65 for prostate cancer has found it can cut death rates from the disease by as much as half, Swedish scientists said Thursday.
• Singer murdered after denying he was dead
  
  
  MEXICO CITY, June 28 (Reuter) - Mexican singer Sergio Vega was murdered while on a national tour at the weekend, just hours after denying reports of his death, local media reported.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #381 (Russian spy ring ed ...
  
  
  Accused Russian spies lived perfect Boston lives. Russian spies blended well, sought contacts. Kremlin adopts calmer tone on US spy affair.
• Wanted Russian spy ring member skips bail in Cypru ...
  
  
  Police in the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus have issued an arrest warrant for a member of an alleged Russian spy ring in the United States, who had been released on bail following his capture on Tuesday.
• News you may have missed #380 (Russian spy ring ed ...
  
  
  Spy ring members not charged with espionage. Russian spy ring member was preparing to leave country. Russian spy ring relied on 'primitive' spycraft.
• Canadian politicians work for foreign powers, says ...
  
  
  The Canadian state’s senior intelligence executive caused an uproar last weekend after he claimed that several Canadian politicians were under the control of foreign governments.
• News you may have missed #379
  
  
  Lebanon arrests Palestinian for spying for Israel. US spy agency chief nomination held up by Congress.

After Downing Street.org

• Improve and Strengthen Medicare by Expanding it to ...
  
  
  The following text is the testimony that Dr. Margaret Flowers presented to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform at its June 30 hearing in Washington. Dr. Flowers is congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program. I am Dr. Margaret Flowers and I am here today ...
• Terrorism: Why They Want to Kill Us
  
  
  Terrorism: Why They Want to Kill Us By Doug Bandow | Cato Institute The horrid attacks of 9/11 led to the cry: Why do they hate us? Most Americans seemed to believe that it was because we are such nice people. But the Times Square bomber reminds us that terrorism is mostly a response to U.S. gover ...
• Brit Iraq War Inquiry: Iraq war legal advice publi ...
  
  
  Lord Goldsmith's Iraq war legal advice published � Iraq inquiry publishes legal advice to Blair on war � 30 June 2010 The Iraq inquiry has released details of the legal advice given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq after the documents were de-classified. Copies of the draft legal advice ...
• Win Without War
  
  
  Win Without War is a national leader in the fight to promote a more progressive national security strategy. Our campaign-style operation aggressively attacks right-wing distortion while pushing our elected leaders to stand up against the politicization of our national security. Formed in 2002 to l ...
• Take Action: Can "Emergency" New Nuke Loans Be Sto ...
  
  
  Take Action: Can "emergency" new nuke loans be stopped despite cover of war? By Harvey Wasserman | July 1, 2010 Amidst a grassroots uproar over funding for the military, the nuclear power industry has again forced $9 billion in loan guarantees onto an "emergency" war appropriations bill for Afgha ...

Grist - News

• BP sued for burning endangered sea turtles alive
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Environmental and animal-welfare groups Wednesday sued BP for burning endangered sea turtles and asked a federal court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf of Mexico spill. "It is horrifying that these innocent creatures whose hab ...
• TV weathercasters and news directors are distortin ...
  
  
  by Randy Rieland. Just a few months ago, we learned that one out of four weathercasters surveyed [PDF] thought global warming wasn't really happening, and another 21 percent weren't sure yet.  Now a new survey [PDF] reveals that 21 percent of TV news directors don't think climate change is real, ...
• Portugal’s eco-city, Amazon’s ugly HQ, ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Progress toward a sustainable future may be stalled in the Senate , but there's a ton of news and interesting research happening at the local level on the broad topic of improving built spaces -- cities, towns, buildings, transportation systems, etc. A quick roundup from the ...
• Watch oiled politicians get the scrubdown and othe ...
  
  
  by Randy Rieland. Sure, a bird dripping oil is a powerful image. But if you want your political spot to pack a punch, you gotta take it to the next level -- say, a politician dripping oil. The Gulf spill, in a perverse way, has been a godsend for the makers of campaign ads -- nothing says an opp ...
• Hurricane Alex delays Gulf oil cleanup efforts
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Hurricane Alex disrupted the BP oil spill cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday as the storm approached the Texas and Mexican coasts. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Texas as Alex strengthened into the first Atlantic ...

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Washington Independent

• No Vote on Unemployment Extension Until After Sena ...
  
  
  This morning, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) raised the prospect that the Senate might hold another vote on extending federal unemployment insurance benefits before the July 4 holiday. “I hope we can pass it tonight before we go home for the 4th of July,” he told reporters on a conference call. But [. ...
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  Economists expected home sales to drop once the Obama administration’s homebuyer tax credits ended at the end of April. Most said homes sales would decrease around 15 percent — with March and April stealing purchases from May and June. Few anticipated such a sharp drop. Today, the National Associati ...
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  Former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts expire in January, and Democrats and Republicans both have committed to extending some, if not all, of the cuts. Obama and the Democrats are behind keeping cuts that benefit middle class families — they want to reduce taxes for families making less than $25 ...
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  Yesterday at the Heritage Foundation, U.K. Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox spoke about the state of the war in Afghanistan. He argued that effective communication was central to the campaign, and urged politicians to make clear to their constituents the need for the war and the consequences ...

Digg Green

• Mother Nature vs. The Media (Videos)
  
  
  Covering a hurricane can bring out the best (and worst) in many TV reporters and meteorologists.
• Thanks To BP, This Is A Whale [pic]
  
  
  A sperm whale found 70 miles from the Gulf Coast oil spill. Beware, the truth is graphic.
• Doing nothing might have been best for oil spill
  
  
  It might have been better for the environment to have done nothing about the enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico except to keep the oil out at sea, British scientists said on Monday.
• Cleanup Jobs Are Hard To Find In The Gulf : NPR
  
  
  Despite the sheer size of the Gulf oil spill, cleanup jobs are hard to come by. Job-seekers in New Orleans say they have gotten the runaround from BP and the Louisiana Workforce Commission when inquiring about work.
• Buffet Funds Wildlife-Saving Boat, BP Says Stay th ...
  
  
  A Florida boatbuilder who teamed up with singer Jimmy Buffett to manufacture a line of custom flats boats designed to rescue wildlife affected by the Gulf oil spill but BP has turned down their help.

Invisible Opportunity

• Top scientist: Only one ship testing methane level ...
  
  
  By Oilflorida [UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye] notes “I have read the reports from NOAA and I have yet to see methane measurements.” She says “the biggest hole [in research on the disaster] is the gas data.” … Joye says the amount of methane that’s getting into the air is unknown because only on ...
• Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?
  
  
  By David Ray Griffin There are many questions to ask about the war in Afghanistan. One that has been widely asked is whether it will turn out to be “Obama’s Vietnam.”1 This question implies another: Is this war winnable, or is it destined to be a quagmire, like Vietnam? These questions are motivated ...
• Dozens of U.S. Citizens on Assassination List, Whi ...
  
  
  By Muriel Kane When it was confirmed last winter by then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair that the Obama administration had authorized the assassination of American citizens working with terrorist groups overseas, it appeared that no more than three Americans were being targeted in thi ...
• New Big Screen Documentary Exposes Pat Tillman Cov ...
  
  
  By Paul Joseph Watson A new documentary set to hit the big screen this summer lifts the lid on the cover-up behind the death of Pat Tillman, the pro-football star who gave up a lucrative career to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq before preparing to return to the U.S. as an anti-war icon, at which [... ...
• Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorde ...
  
  
  By Mike Adams In its never-ending attempt to fabricate “mental disorders” out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they’ve invented yet: Healthy eating disorder. This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you’re “mentally diseased” ...

Global Insights

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• The Georgia Guidestones
  
  
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  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 ...
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Pot Versus Alcohol: What Do the Experts Say?
  
  
  For more than three decades, America's marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it's time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.
• How to Get Politicians to Admit in Public That the ...
  
  
  We do not need yet another blue ribbon commission or academic study to tell us our current policies are not working.
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  Fox News has a hard time realizing that we should take the money that we are spending on prisons and use it to address issues related to child abuse.
• Big Tobacco's Slimy New Ploy to Trick Smokers Into ...
  
  
  Antismoking legislation stands to throw a wrench in tobacco companies' deceptive marketing practices. But the industry is attempting to deceive smokers in new ways.
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Inhabitat

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  If we want to make lighting more efficient, perhaps we should start from the beginning: with the shape of the light bulb. Illumitex, a startup based in Austin, Texas, manufactures square LED bulbs that are supposedly cheaper, more efficient and more practical than typical round bulbs. Read the rest ...
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Pogue's Posts

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• iPhone Q&A
  
  
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• Autocorrect Follies
  
  
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed
  
  
  Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body, three independent papers report in the July 2 Cell Stem Cell. The new technique will allow scientists to tap a large, readily available source of personal ...
• Genetic Secrets of Living to 100
  
  
  A massive genetic study of people who lived for more than 100 years old has found dozens of new clues to the biology of aging. The findings won’t be turned overnight into longevity elixirs or lifespan tests, nor do they untangle the complex interactions between biology, lifestyle and environment th ...
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  A prototype of a device that could someday detect nukes through layers of steel just passed its first test. The detector, which uses technology that was developed for particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, can tell the difference among iron, lead and other heavy metals. By detec ...
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  In June, 2010 Iraqis began protesting against the lack of electricity during the scorching summer. These demonstrations have continued in new areas of the country. On June 26 people took to the streets of Kut in Wasit province against the lack of power. Two days later there was a march in Baquba, th ...
• The Perils of "Strength" in Foreign Policy
  
  
  I apologize to Jim Henley in advance for excerpting so much of this post , but it is simply too good to apply the pruning shears liberally enough to bring my use to within acceptable norms of blog excerpting.  To provide some context, Henley is riffing off Gene Callahan’s response to a Wall Street J ...
• Failed States and the UN
  
  
  I attended a panel at the New America Foundation yesterday that included James Traub (one of my favorite authors ), Steve Clemons (a friend and former boss) and Pauline Baker of the Fund for Peace for a discussion of the Fund's Failed States Index , which is published annually in Foreign Policy .  ...
• The Afghans' War, Not the Afghan War
  
  
  The confirmation of General David Petraeus as the new commander in Afghanistan has sparked renewed debate on the efficacy of counterinsurgency and the likelihood of success in Afghanistan. Though there will be a new commander in Kabul, we should not expect a new strategy. After all, Petraeus is one ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• 'Acting White.'
  
  
  Over at The New Republic , John McWhorter lavishes praise on Stuart Buck 's book, Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation , which probably isn't terribly surprising. The thrust of Buck's book -- that blacks lag in educational outcomes because of a dysfunctional pathology that demonizes aca ...
• CBO Schizophrenia.
  
  
  There's been a lot of talk this week about the latest long-term forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office, but stories headlined " CBO tells Obama deficit panel that forecast remains bleak " are a little off the mark. As Matt Yglesias and the above graph point out, if Congress does nothing , ...
• The Little Picture: Moulitsas v. Research 2000.
  
  
  Markos Moulitsas , the founder of Daily Kos, sued the polling firm Research 2000 today, alleging fraud and breach of contract, among other violations. Moulitsas was approached two weeks ago by three statisticians who were concerned about some of the polling results Research 2000 had provided. Two ...
• Hands Off Social Security.
  
  
  On Tuesday, House Minority Leader John Boehner advocated the idea of upping the retirement age to 70 for people due to retire in 20 years as a way to reduce the federal deficit. It's an idea that's floated pretty often because it's generally assumed people will live longer in the future and will thu ...
• Obama on Immigration: Cudgeling Republicans, Disap ...
  
  
  Obama 's immigration speech this morning at American University in Northwest D.C. was prompted by recognition that, with the outcry over Arizona's SB 1070 , the politics of immigration are shifting. This was Obama's first major policy speech on the issue -- and while he reframed the debate as one no ...

Andy Worthington

• “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian ...
  
  
  Last week, Amnesty International in Slovakia revealed that three men released from Guantánamo to Slovakia in January had embarked on a hunger strike to protest about the conditions in which they are being held. Pending relocation, the men have been held since their arrival in a detention center in M ...
• Activists’ Letter to the Justice Department on Gua ...
  
  
  Two weeks ago, after 24 members of the campaigning group Witness Against Torture were cleared of charges of “unlawful entry with disorderly conduct,” stemming from demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 (the date on which President Obama had promised the closure of Guantánamo), repre ...
• Andy Worthington Discusses Obama’s Guantánamo Fail ...
  
  
  For our 15th interview — and our first since Antiwar Radio upgraded to a station with commercial breaks, making for a lean 20-minute show — Scott Horton and I began by discussing my recent article, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners, which allowed me to ...
• Obama’s Moral Bankruptcy Regarding Torture
  
  
  Saturday was the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established twelve years ago to mark the day, in 1987, when the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment came into force, but you wouldn’t have found out about it through the mains ...
• Guantánamo as an “Intelligence Squeezing” Center: ...
  
  
  Today, the Daily Times in Pakistan has published an interview with Colonel Morris Davis, conducted by political analyst Ali Kamran Chishti. The interview is of interest for Col. Davis’ explanation of how Guantánamo operated as an illegal “intelligence squeezing” center, and for his description of th ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pictures: Hurricane Alex Pushes Oil on "Cleaned" B ...
  
  
  NoneRough seas churned up by Hurricane Alex are pushing oil onto cleaned Louisiana beaches that hadn't seen oil since mid-May. Louisiana - Hurricane Alex - Meteorology - Hurricanes - Earth Sciences
• Hurricane Alex Pushes "Worst Oil" Ashore; Cleanup ...
  
  
  Hurricane Alex pushed "the worst oil we've seen yet" onto Louisiana beaches and shut down Gulf-spill cleanup operations. Hurricane Alex - Louisiana - Meteorology - Oil spill - BP
• New Leviathan Whale Was Prehistoric "Jaws"? (Pictu ...
  
  
  NoneA newfound prehistoric sperm whale with giant teeth likely attacked other whales—and possibly giant sharks, scientists say. Whale - Sperm Whale - Leviathan - Moby Dick - Cetacea
• Hurricanes May Be Good for Gulf Oil Spill, Experts ...
  
  
  Although Alex's effects will likely be minimal, strong winds and waves from future storms may help disperse oil slicks, experts say. Oil spill - Tropical cyclone - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment
• At Gulf Oil Spill Forum, A Call for Energy Solutio ...
  
  
  At the TEDxOilSpill forum, activists and scientists hope the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico will galvanize support for alternative energy. oilspill - Energy - Environment - Mexico - Gulf of Mexico

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Dem Dems are Dumb Dumbs
  
  
  Yep - the local New Milford Democrats are lead by dumb dumbs. Their entire leadership team is continually outmaneuvered and outsmarted by the Republican Town Committee ( RTC ). Why they seek leadership positions year after year - and why they're re-elected by the membership - is beyond me. John Lil ...
• Not sure that Rob Simmons' Wife and Chris Healy's ...
  
  
  The bigger news is that Connecticut Republican's have mastered the science of cloning AstroTurf garbage... "SIMMONS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES WOMEN FOR SIMMONS COALITION" IOW: This ain't news at all. Same old same old. When reality tells you that only 28% of Republican women support your candidacy , neve ...
• Let's Take a Shot at the Media
  
  
  How can I possibly top that introduction? I'm so happy - I'm tearing up! Actually, if I can add just a dash of local flavor to this bubbling cauldron of intellectual give and take, Connecticut Man1 can add a micro-brew to his menu of libations. Cheers! Let's Take a Shot at the Media While I'd l ...
• Welcome News on Ramping up Blog Production in New ...
  
  
  As the next big election season starts to heat up... I just wanted to note that this place will start getting a little more interesting. There a lot of great races on the radar, with the Governor's race, a Senate seat and the endless campaign campaigns on the House side, of course. But, even better ...
• What subversive literature is that?
  
  
  My daughter is up to something today.... First step to conquering the world?

SPL Center

• Congressman’s Immigration Remarks Prompt Calls for ...
  
  
  Posters on neo-Nazi forums are publicly calling for the torture and murder of Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif.) over comments he made on June 26 during a Freemont, Calif., town hall meeting. The Youtube video of the event has gone viral among racist and anti-immigration groups. During the meeting, S ...
• ‘Voice of the Patriot Movement’ Backs Property Req ...
  
  
  The last couple of years have been boom times for the far right’s distinctive rhetoric of dispossession. From backwoods militias who believe foreign troops are training on U.S. soil to take away their constitutional rights, to suburban Tea Party weekend warriors who heatedly promise to “take the cou ...
• Calling All Racists: It’s Poetry Contest Time!
  
  
  Sharpen your pencil and summon your muse, it’s time for the annual “Redneck Poetry Contest.” That’s right. The call has gone out for the best redneck rhymin’ around. And according to the entry form received by the Hatewatch staff, the winning poet will take home a “brand new wood-fired deep-fry cook ...
• What’s in a Name? For Donna Lee Wray©, Millio ...
  
  
  Many people, seeing their immediate family members killed after allegedly murdering two police officers, might retreat into pained silence. Some might even find a way to express their condolences to the officers’ loved ones. Not Donna Lee Wray. On the contrary, the 50-year-old Floridian who describe ...
• Columnist on White Nationalist Website Appears on ...
  
  
  A columnist for the white nationalist website VDARE appeared as a guest on Fox News this week. As Media Matters reported, Allan Wall, a longtime VDARE contributor, spoke with Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy on Monday about immigration. Doocy introduced Wall as a U.S. citizen who lived in Mexico fo ...

change: org.

• Three Reasons Nonprofits Can't Act Like Businesses
  
  
  I've been working in the nonprofit sector long enough to observe a special brand of dysfunction that seems unique to the field. For awhile I just thought I worked for crazy people (which may be true), but I'm also realizing that their hands are tied when it comes to borrowing business principles tha ...
• Congress: Bringing Kids Gross Lunches Since 1973
  
  
  School cafeteria menus may differ across the nation, but all the meals are fundamentally the same: Mystery meat, dollop of processed goop, carton of milk or sugar-y juice, and a side of soggy french fries. While the students, teachers, and curriculum in schools consistently change, cafeterias contin ...
• India Expels Dissection From Undergraduate Classes
  
  
  The University Grants Commission, an organization set up by the Indian government in the 1950s to set and maintain the standard of education at the college level, has decided to cut animal dissection from undergraduate courses . Zoology and life sciences classes across the country will trade in thei ...
• Sen. Lindsey Graham Is Not Dating Ricky Martin
  
  
  Politics does make for strange bedfellows. But for anyone secretly hoping that Sen. Lindsey Graham was shacking up with pop icon Ricky Martin, you might want to place your dreams and wishes elsewhere. Sen. Graham, whose sexual orientation has long been gossip fodder inside and outside the Beltway, m ...
• Leave it to Michael Medved to See the Glass as Hal ...
  
  
  The recently unveiled  Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness (pdf) aims to end chronic and veteran homelessness in five years and family, youth and child homelessness within ten years. "We believe it is important to set goals, even if aspirational, for true progress t ...

Common Dreams -News

• Oil Spill Media Access: Reporters Still Given the ...
  
  
  by Jason Linkins The latest chapter in the media's ongoing struggle to cover the Gulf Oil Spill comes courtesy of PBS Newshour's Bridget Desimone , who has been working with her colleague, Betty Ann Bowser, in "reporting the health impact of the oil spill in Plaquemines Parish." Desimone report ...
• Warning of Looming Crisis, Louisiana Calls on BP t ...
  
  
  by Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Louisiana officials warn of a possible mental health crisis in communities affected by the oil spill, BP has yet to respond to a month-old request from the Louisiana health department to fund emergency mental health programs .   The impasse has prompted Louisiana ...
• The Other Side of World Cup Footballs
  
  
  by Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan - England coach Fabio Capello has bemoaned the unpredictable trajectory of the Jabulani World Cup ball, calling it "the worst ball"in the history of the tournament. But labour rights groups have a greater complaint. The workers producing the footballs are seei ...
• Live Stream: Kagan Confirmation Hearing - Day 2
  
  
  Live US Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elana Kagan: read more
• Small Creatures and Climate Change: How Warming Ca ...
  
  
  by Brenda Ekwurzel Climate change is messing with mammals. Among other things, it is shifting their geographical ranges, changing their behavior (or, as scientists call it, their phenology), and causing disruptions up and down the food chain. Researchers often look to ancient times for informati ...

Lifehacker

• Improve Your Wireless Devices' Reception with a US ...
  
  
  As more and more peripherals—like your keyboard and mouse—go wireless, your cable management problems may end up giving way to reception problems. Tech blog Tested says moving your wireless dongles to a dedicated USB hub can do wonders for tha ...
• Quanp Is a Feature-Rich Cloud-Based Storage Soluti ...
  
  
  You won't find a shortage of places to store files online but if you're looking for simple drag and drop uploading, 3D file browsing, and easy sharing, the pool narrows rapidly. Quanp is a cloud-based storage solution with features to spare. ...
• Create Your Own One Goal Taskbar Reminder [Windows ...
  
  
  Unitasking is all the rage these days, and sometimes all you need to stay on task is an always-visible reminder of that one thing you should be doing. Here's how to create a single-goal taskbar reminder with the Windows scripting application, ...
• Switch Off Shuts Down Your Computer from Anywhere ...
  
  
  Windows: Whether you're downloading something or streaming media to your smartphone, sometimes you have to leave your computer on while you're out. Instead of leaving it on all day, free utility Switch Off will schedule shutdowns by time, CPU ...
• The Photography Loft [Featured Workspace]
  
  
  Today's featured workspace sports multiple workstations, earth-toned walls, and the distinction of being the first workspace we've featured with a Juliet balcony. More�� Workspace - Business - Lifehacker - Furniture - P ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• IG Report: US Over-Estimating Ability Of Afghan Fo ...
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Here we go again with the PR spin for domestic consumption that has no relation to reality on the ground: The United States has often overestimated the ability of Afghan military and police units to fight on their own, jeopardizing the strategy to win the war and bring troops home, acc ...
• Afghanistan: Last Act Or Song That Never Ends?
  
  
  By Steve Hynd In the wake of General Stanley McChrystal's departure and after a string of bad news stories from Afghanistan, those who say that we've spent more than enough time, money and blood on what is a marginal strategic concern have gained ground. But in reply, it is argued that a "long war" ...
• The expense of our illusions
  
  
  The Surge(tm) that was supposed to create space for political reconciliation failed by its own metrics.  The Sunnis are still the primary latrine of Iraqi politics, continually shitted upon.  The reduction in violence that has been attributed to the Surge(tm) that has allowed for a 'decent interva ...
• Love the Afghanistan War in Public at Your Peril
  
  
  By Derrick Crowe One of the gems buried in Michael Hastings' now ubiquitous Rolling Stone article is a senior adviser to General McChrystal thanking his lucky stars for public ignorance of the state of the war: Even those closest to McChrystal know that the rising anti-war sentiment at ...
• US Finally Wearies Of Afghan War
  
  
  By Steve Hynd The CSM says Americans are finally realising that Obama's occupation of Afghanistan is a quagmire. Most Americans agree with Obama that McChrystal had to go, polls show. But they’re far less supportive of the conflict itself, weary of what’s become the longest war in US history. A rece ...

Water Wars

• More Neighbors on B5,B6 VHS grad finishes basic tr ...
  
  
  Air Force Airman Amanda L. Pabon, daughter of Wanda Cleveland and Reinaldo Pabon, both of Vineland, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
• Healthy tension spurred Singapores water needs
  
  
  SINGAPORE, July 1 It was healthy tension with Malaysia that spurred Singapore to seek water self-sufficiency, and nations are better off if they are able to stand on their own when it comes to water needs, said national water agency PUB chairman Tan Gee Paw yesterday. He was speaking at a recording ...
• Celebrate 4th on July 3rd
  
  
  Community organizations are preparing for Independence Day celebrations to go on Saturday at Wintersmith Park.
• Parades, fireworks on tap as region celebrates Jul ...
  
  
  Weather forecasts call for clear, sunny skies and warm temperatures throughout the upcoming Independence Day holiday weekend happy news for organizers of Fourth of July celebrations across the region.
• Red, White & Boom at Barnet Park Saturday
  
  
  The Carolinas will be celebrating Independence Day Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Patriotic music, fireworks and family activities will be part of all the area Fourth of July celebrations.

WordPress | Economics

• Clay Shirky and the Coasean Room
  
  
  Cord Blomquist found a neat interview with Clay Shirky on the nature of order and governance and the
• Pending home sales 'fell off a cliff'
  
  
  This might be a good time to point out how the government and the corporate media always seem to tal
• BP Gulf Oil Spill, Day 70
  
  
  People keep pushing for a boycott of BP at the local level. I’m not sure pushing BP to retreat
• Hidden Taxes and Other Ways of Financial Raping
  
  
  Let me tell you what really sucks about living in the so-called City of Angeles, Los Angeles. The Pa
• Fannie Mae's Seven Year Penalty
  
  
  If you are a homeowner who is upside down on your mortgage, you may be considering walking away from

Electronic Intifada

• Queers Against Israeli Apartheid refuse to be sile ...
  
  
  On the morning of 25 May, the Board of Pride Toronto held a press conference on the lawn outside its offices to announce that the phrase "Israeli Apartheid" would be censor ...
• Israel convicts grassroots activist to two years' ...
  
  
  On 30 June grassroots activist Adeeb Abu Rahmah was sentenced by Israel to two years imprisonment at a military court hearing at the Ofer Military Complex in the occupied West Bank ...
• EU-Israel talks skirt around Jerusalem police head ...
  
  
  BRUSSELS (IPS) - Talks aimed at reaching an intelligence-sharing agreement between the European Union and Israel have skirted around the location of Israel's national police headqu ...
• To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
  
  
  If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to ...
• Israel set to enforce revocation of Jerusalemites' ...
  
  
  Israeli human rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority who extended his term under controversial emergency powers, have condemned a decision by I ...

Afghanistan Sun

• US backs India's involvement in Afghanistan
  
  
  The United States has strongly backed India's involvement in Afghanistan, saying New Delhi's 'critical and positive role' there was a key part of the war-torn nation's future success.
• Russia ready to help NATO in Afghanistan
  
  
  Russia is willing to provide transport helicopters to assist the NATO-led military contingent fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan, a defence official said Thursday.
• Petraeus vows to keep Afghan civilian deaths down
  
  
  NATO-led forces in Afghanistan will do everything they can to keep Afghan civilian casualties down, the alliance's new commander in the country, General David Petraeus, said Thursday.
• Canada's secret ingredient for Afghan develop ...
  
  
  In an arid wasteland of desert, dust, and drought, water is worth its weight in gold — a life-giving legacy that Canada hopes to leave behind in Afghanistan when it starts pulling out a year fro...
• Hollywood star visits Afghanistan to shine light o ...
  
  
  The actor Jeremy Renner, who shot to fame playing a bomb disposal expert in the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker, has wrapped up a five-day visit to Afghanistan to highlight the real-life ef...

Futurismic

• NEW FICTION: YOUR LIFE SENTENCE by C C Finlay
  
  
  Your name is Nicole Palmer, and this is the world you wanted, one where every unborn child is safe, protected by the law from the moment he or she is conceived. You practice what you believe. Through three pregnancies, you didn't smoke, didn't drink, and didn't touch coffee or chocolate or anything ...
• Preventing potential lesbianism in the womb
  
  
  Science has brought us many wonderful things, but it sometimes gets picked up as a blunt instrument by people with deeply screwed up ideas about what is right and wrong. Worried your unborn female child might grow up to be uninterested in having children, or attracted to “traditionally masculine” ca ...
• Microsoft Kinect: The Call of the Womb
  
  
  ### I have never been to the festival of hubris and chest-thumping that is the American video games industry’s yearly trade-fair E3 (a.k.a. ‘E Cubed’, a.k.a. ‘Electronic Entertainment Expo’), but the mere thought of it makes me feel somewhat ill. A friend of mine once attended a video game trade fai ...
• Auto-origami
  
  
  Chalk another one up for the MIT ideas factory: ‘programmable matter‘ comprises sheets of composite material “edged by foil actuators – thin, solid-state motors – that contract or expand when they receive an electric current from flexible electronic circuits embedded in the sheets. After they achiev ...
• New sf futures from Rudy Rucker
  
  
  In response to Jo Walton’s Tor.com post about the problem that the Singularity meme has caused for science fiction writers [short and slightly snarky interpretation: The Singularity is such a ubiquitous idea that everyone feels obliged to write around it or beyond it, and there's a paucity of old-sc ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• Washington Post reports that IRS chokes off whistl ...
  
  
  The Washington Post is running a story today by David Hilzenrath on page A11 called, " Change in IRS rules could block rewards for whistleblowers ." The story focuses on a manual by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) called the Internal Revenue Manual (IRM). The new IRM recognizes that if a whistleb ...
• SEC settles with whistleblower Aguirre for $755,00 ...
  
  
  The New York Times reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to pay $755,000 to settle a whistleblower claim by its former attorney Gary Aguirre. Aguirre had been investigating insider trading by Pequot Capital Management and its co-founder, Arthur Samberg. In 2005, Aguirr ...
• Indonesian official Budi Suharto visits NWC
  
  
  Budi Suharto (right in photo) visited me at the National Whistleblowers Center today.� Mr. Suharto is the Head of Bilateral Cooperation II Section of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. We discussed how in both the United States and in Indonesia, recent criminal prosecutions of whi ...
• Wall Street Reform Bill Includes Whistleblower Pro ...
  
  
  The Wall Street Reform bill, recently reported out of conference, includes a number of provisions designed to protect employees who report fraud in the commodity and stock exchanges.  The bill includes two qui tam provisions that protect whistleblowers who disclose “original information” concerning ...
• SOX whistleblower provision survives Supreme Court ...
  
  
  Today the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, held that one provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is unconstitutional.  However, it also held that this one provision is "severable" so that the other provisions of SOX, including the whistleblower protection, are still in force.  The case is Free Enterp ...

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

• TV Show Released On BitTorrent Raises $20,000 Pret ...
  
  
  You may have seen the recent stories about the "TV show" Pioneer One that was made with the plan all along to release the show on BitTorrent, and to set up a tiered system to fund future episodes. While some people insist that BitTorrent users never download authorized content, after the show was r ...
• Quackwatch Sued For Suggesting Medical Lab Quacker ...
  
  
  Every so often we receive legal threats, almost always concerning claims of defamation. If it's content that we have written, we ask for clarification on specifically which statements are false and why, so that we can review them and fix them if they are, indeed, false. To date, no one who has thr ...
• Another Journalist Seduced By App Madness Predicts ...
  
  
  We've talked a few times about the media's obsession with "apps" as the solution to what ails them. They get one glance at the control that an app appears to provide, and they go wobbly in the knees and fail to consider basic trends and basic economics. As a few folks have noted, locked down apps ...
• The Only Way To Get Joe Biden To Rethink His Posit ...
  
  
  It's no secret that Vice President Joe Biden is no friend to Silicon Valley. The Veep has long been a big believer in anything Hollywood tells him, leading him to make ridiculously wrong statements about intellectual property and to believe that when discussing such things "all the stakeholders" me ...
• No Fly List Members Sue The Gov't; Want To Find Ou ...
  
  
  Apparently ten people who claim that they're on the official US government "No Fly" list have sued the US government , claiming that it's illegal to be on such a list where there's no way for them to confront their accusers or get themselves off of the list. Some of the people in the lawsuit are US ...

VacTruth

• Merck is found to be paying experts to recommend G ...
  
  
  Norwegian experts received money from Merck and then advised their government on the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which at the time was only in it's experimental stages.
• HPV vaccine blinds 16-year-old girl
  
  
  David Gutierrez NaturalNews.com 06/24/2010 A 16-year-old girl lost nearly all of her vision within 10 days of receiving the second course of her vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV), reports a case study in the Journal of Child Neurology. The HPV vaccine is designed to prevent infection b ...
• Vaccines Derived from Patients’ Tumor Cells ...
  
  
  Erica Rex Scientific American 06/24/2010 The first discovery of a cancer gene marker—the BRAF oncogene for melanoma and colorectal malignancies—back in 2002 changed the way many researchers thought about cancer treatment. Rather than approach the disease based on what region of the body it stemmed f ...
• Polio Outbreak In Tajikistan Prompts Fears From Me ...
  
  
  Ayinde O. Chase All Headline News 06/23/2010 A polio outbreak in Tajikistan is raising concerns about a possible spread to other parts of the world. Medical professionals are warning health agencies worldwide to stave off further spread by ensuring high vaccination rates. The outbreak at Tajikistan ...
• Many in Fort Collins rush to get meningitis vaccin ...
  
  
  Jeffrey Wolf 9News.com 06/23/2010 After Lisa Krizman of Loveland lost her daughter, Sierra, to meningitis in 2007, she started a foundation to bolster awareness of the disease and raise money for vaccination clinics. Now that Fort Collins Adult Hockey Association players Brian Wormus and Nick Smith ...

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  This article kinda freaked me out.  I’m going to have to step up my training a la Sarah Connor. (HT @PunkJohnnyCash) Very cool video on Spontaneous Order.  (HT @JamesTulsaALL) So here is a question for you.  Can you have multiculturalism – respect for other cultures – without succumbing to moral ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  I don’t know how I never heard about Spot.us.  I love that. Also loving that India plans to seek extradition of the former chairman of Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.  What amazing things could happen if states no longer gave protection to businesses. This article Against School that has be ...
• Growing up Jewish – Kosher Edition
  
  
  I’ve shared with you all the tortures of Sabbath and Passover.  But I have not yet shared with you the biggest torture of all. My mother keeps kosher. Being kosher means no shellfish and no pork.  Shellfish and pork are, as you may have heard, an abomination! The food that you can eat is classifie ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  I don’t often get to say nice things about my home state of Florida.  Usually it is only in the news when somebody is stealing an election or trying to ban transpeople from bathrooms.  So I would just like to give props to my fellow Floridians who have decided to take matters into their own [...]
• Learning to Listen
  
  
  To all my anarchist, libertarian, or other other friends who sincerely want to convince other people to change their way of viewing things. Sometimes, we really need to just shut up and listen. We spend way too much time making elaborate philosophical arguments, talking about theory, interpreting hu ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Israeli Massacre at Sea Was Pre-Planned and Premed ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.
• Hungary Is Next in the Barrel; It's Getting Crowde ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.
• A Trillion Dollars Later, the Banking System Is St ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.
• Muscardini Files Glass-Steagall Resolution in Euro ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.
• `The Awakening of a Great People'
  
  
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 4, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 22

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

• Tomorrow, BP Spill Will be the Largest in Gulf His ...
  
  
  Photo via Discover Initially described as 'comparably tiny' by the man ultimately responsible for it, two months later the spill will become the largest in the history of the Gulf. It will pass up the Ixtoc-I spill of 1979, which was the previous record-holder. Congratulations, BP -- you've bro ...
• Thoughts On Making Soaps and Mating Goats At The F ...
  
  
  Image credit: Planet Green In some cultures three is considered a holy number. In others it is a lucky number number. In still more it an evil number. Whatever your particular beliefs, it's clear that all of us everywhere every single person in the whole wide world has fascination with the numb ...
• Tesla Electric Roadster v2.5: The iPhone 4 of Elec ...
  
  
  Photo: Tesla Motors Sadly, It Still Costs an Arm and a Leg Hot on the heels of its quarter-billion dollars IPO , Tesla Motors is opening two new stores in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Newport Beach, California, and unveiling a refreshed version of its all-electric Roadster (version 2.5, for those ...
• Should Cities Have "Bicycle Highways"?
  
  
  Velo-City: Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia: Toronto architect Chris Hardwicke's proposal for a separated elevated bike highway system for Toronto, map here Over on Slate, Tom Vanderbilt of Traffic fame asks the question Should cities build specialized roadways for cyclists? It is a discussio ...
• Baltimore Appoints a Food Czar
  
  
  Image credit: Good.is Baltimore is a set beset by "food deserts"—vast urban areas without access to anything but fast food, snack cakes, bags of chips, and soda. The city is not unique in it's situation—cities across the country face the same problem—but it is one of the first in the country to ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Kaczynski leads Komorowski ahead of Polish preside ...
  
  
  Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the late Polish president's twin brother, leads acting president Bronislaw Komorowski ahead of the presidential runoff on July 4, an opinion poll released on Thursday said.
• At least 18 dead in Pakistan blasts
  
  
  At least 18 people were killed when three explosions tore through the Data Darbar shrine in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday, national media said.
• Sharapova to donate $250,000 to Chernobyl blast-af ...
  
  
  Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova will donate $250,000 to support people living in regions affected by the 1986 Chernobyl blast, the Belarusian news agency Belta said on Thursday.
• Heat and drought spark forest fires in Russia
  
  
  A total of 948 wildfires over an area of 26,000 hectares were detected in Russia last week, the Emergencies Ministry reported.
• Over 90% of voters back new Kyrgyz constitution - ...
  
  
  Over 90 percent of voters supported a new Kyrgyz constitution in a referendum held on June 27, the KABAR news agency said on Thursday, citing official results.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• World's largest telescope to be completed in 2011 ...
  
  
  The construction of the world's largest neutrino telescope, worth $271 million, will be completed in 2011, the Russian federal space agency said on its website on Thursday.
• Russian space freighter deorbited, dumped in Pacif ...
  
  
  Russia's Progress M-03M cargo spacecraft was taken out of orbit and buried in the Pacific Ocean after its service life came to an end on Thursday, mission control said.
• Russia's Skolkovo may cost $2 billion in next 3 ye ...
  
  
  Construction costs for Russia's Skolkovo research hub may reach 60 billion rubles ($2 billion), including private investors' funds, in the next three years, the head of the project said on Thursday.
• Russian math genius rejects $1 million Millenium P ...
  
  
  Russian reclusive math genius Grigory Perelman rejected a $1 million prize for solving a problem that has puzzled scientists for over a century, the Clay Mathematics Institute said on its website on Thursday.
• Cosmonaut explains mystery of Gagarin plane crash
  
  
  A plausible theory into the mysterious plane crash that killed renowned Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been put forward in a limited edition book by fellow-cosmonaut Alexander Kovalyov, who was with Gagarin shortly before the fated plane took off.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Since I wasn’t around for the first half of the week I didn’t have the usual accumulation of links to go through. From Marcy a couple weeks ago: In other words, this was one of the few torture briefings CIAâs Office of Congressiona ...
• Still Recovering
  
  
  From the fabulous trip to southern California.� No post this week.
• For Father's Day
  
  
  I crossed “surfing in the Pacific” off my dad’s bucket list. We’re having a lovely time; wish you were here!
• The Unfortunate Necessity of Wikileaks
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The whistleblower site WikiLeaks has been on the periphery of the news lately because of the arrest of Bradley Manning. Manning was the source for April’s video of a US military attack in Baghdad that killed civilians, and he was ar ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU is trying to find out more “about the implementation of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), an unconstitutional spying law that gives the executive branch virtually unchecked power to collect Americans’ international e-ma ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Haiti: The Aid Dilemma
  
  
  In the aftermath of January's devastating earthquake in Haiti, post-disaster relief is creating a new kind of problem for businesses there. The massive influx of food aid has altered the price of rice, throwing the delicate balance in Haiti's food supply chain out of whack and threatening to collaps ...
• Alert: Stop Frankenfish!
  
  
  Obama's F.D.A. is using a secret process designed to review veterinary drugs to rule on what could be the first genetically engineered animal to enter the food supply, genetically engineered salmon. Take action to stop this here. Click here to read this article
• Organic Farms Win at Potato Pest Control
  
  
  A study suggesting that organic agriculture gives better pest control and larger plants than conventional farming is sure to reignite longstanding debates about the merits of organic versus conventional agriculture. It also highlights an often-neglected aspect of biodiversity. Click here to read thi ...
• We Can’t Afford War: Amy Goodman
  
  
  "General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts," began the MoveOn.org attack ad against Gen. David Petraeus back in 2007, after he had delivered a report to Congress on the status of the war in Iraq. George W. Bush was president, and MoveOn was accusing Petraeus of "cooking the ...
• Ancient Fossils Show Arctic Now Near Climate Tippi ...
  
  
  Current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about "irreversible" shifts in Arctic ecosystems, according to new research published today by scientists from the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Un mirada a Vietnam y otros países by Atsjebosma e ...
  
  
  VIETNAM , es un país que personalmente me gustaría mucho conocer. Me atrae demasiado todo lo relacionado a este país tan lejano, que hoy con su permiso, les quiero presentar una interesantísima colección de fotografías que Atsjebosma tiene en Flickr . En ella, usted será testigo de esa magia que enc ...
• Portafolios creativo de Eric Gustafson en AntiLimi ...
  
  
  ANTILIMIT , es uno de esos sitios de fotografías que realmente impactan por la alta creatividad que representan en todas y cada una de sus imágenes. Si lo duda, le invito sinceramente a disfrutar el portafoilios de Eric Gustafson con una serie de obras que van más allá de las cosas cotidianas, rutin ...
• La grandeza de nuestro planeta by MapiCruz en Flic ...
  
  
  En mi búsqueda contínua de nuevos talentos, el día de hoy me permito presentarles a MapiCruz . Una extraordinaria mujer que ha viajado por muchos países conociendo de cerca la majestuosidad de nuestro planeta. Como legado, MapiCruz nos permite ver sus recuerdos fotográficos a través de Flickr con un ...
• 25 fotografías nuevas, que parecen antiguas o viej ...
  
  
  Con la ayuda de Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 y un filtro de Nikon llamado ' Monday Morning Violet ', pude realizar esta bellísima colección de fotografías dándoles un estilo y aspecto ligeramente viejo o antiguo. Todas las fotografías, han sido tomadas con mi propia cámara Nikon D90 y un objetivo 1 ...
• Apertura oficial de la Copa del Mundo Sudáfrica 20 ...
  
  
  Para todos aquéllos que viven la intensidad del Fútbol Soccer , les tengo en exclusiva el acceso directo a 40 fotografías gigantes sobre la apertura oficial de la Copa del Mundo en Sudáfrica 2010 . Conocida también como FIFA World Cup 2010 , este evento multitudinario atrae a millones de turistas de ...

Center for a Livable Future

• ‘Diet for a Hot Planet’ Explores Links between Die ...
  
  
  Anna Lappé’s new book Diet for a Hot Planet is critical. It is critical because it helps fill a significant gap in the literature that was previously identified by the Johns Hopkins Center for Livable Future. And thus, in an accessible and comprehensive manner, Diet for a Hot Planet is critical to ...
• Baltimore School District Food Survey Reveals Pare ...
  
  
  As the Baltimore City Public Schools system continues the transformation of its food service for more than 80,000 kids (see food revolution), a new survey reveals that students and parents are hungry for more. Melissa Mahoney, the district’s “top chef”, nutritionist and dietitian, sent out the surve ...
• Poultry Processing Plant Receives Maryland’s Highe ...
  
  
  Wow:  The state of Maryland has issued its highest ever occupational safety and health fine, to a poultry plant run by Allen Family Foods: $1.03 million.  I wanted to blog about it both because I think it is important that those working on food systems and public health issues keep in mind not only ...
• International aquaculture course stresses natural ...
  
  
  Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 12th annual International Aquaponics and Tilapia Aquaculture Course in St. Croix at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). I was able to meet and learn from many wonderful people who traveled from about 21 U.S. states and 18 countries including Cana ...
• The Hidden Hazard of Poultry Litter Pelletization
  
  
  The following letter to the editor was submitted by the Center for a Livable Future to The Baltimore Sun following an article published in Sunday’s edition on Perdue’s efforts to recycle poultry litter. The article was also discussed in a blog post on B’MoreGreen yesterday. We were disappointed to ...

Norwegianity

• Parasites, liars and whores
  
  
  I’m not growing tired at all of reading about how Pete Peterson sucker punched himself in the balls at America Speaks. Rule #1 in politics: never ask questions to which you do not already know what the answer will be. The Nation’s Chris Hayes has a good grasp of the actual problem: The baroque Ponzi ...
• Susan Gaertner’s sick, twisted lying shit
  
  
  “I had a completely open mind about this case from the beginning,” County Attorney Susan Gaertner said. What a lying bitch. An open mind? An open mind that that managed to get a sober, coming-home-from-church-with-his-family Sunday driver four times the usual sentence Minnesotans get when they kill ...
• Pancakes and chimpanzees
  
  
  Nothing much in the news that moves me this morning. As usual my annual 4th of July posting break is well timed and I think the time off will do me some good. - News: Goldman admits to greater role in AIG fiasco Ian Welsh on the Long Depression Settling for pennies on the dollar [...]
• Only an expert
  
  
  I doubt righties are consuming enough fluids to piss on Robert Byrd and Thurgood Marshall simultaneously without risking serious dehydration. - Seriously: Noam Chomsky on Iran Matt Taibbi on Lara Logan’s suckitude Don Siegelman to finally a new day in court [more] Commander Jon Bruge to get up to 45 ...
• He’s back
  
  
  The one and only.

Public News Service

• Summer Heat + Kids Alone in Cars = Deadly Combina ...
  
  
  Summer Heat + Kids Alone in Cars = Deadly Combination Phoenix, AZ - According to Safe Kids USA- there have been at least 18 cases of children dying from "heat stroke" as a result of being left in unattended vehicles since March of this year. That includes a Phoenix toddler who died on Sunday. Lorri ...
• Website Pinpoints Summer Fun Facilities for Kids
  
  
  Website Pinpoints Summer Fun Facilities for Kids Phoenix, AZ – Parents looking for a place to keep their kids active during the hot summer months now have a one-stop tool to help them. It’s a website listing public recreational facilities in Maricopa County and beyond. Comments from Shawna Hubbard, ...
• Oil Disaster Pushes Florida Event to Arizona and W ...
  
  
  Oil Disaster Pushes Florida Event to Arizona and Worldwide Phoenix, AZ – An event that started in Florida aimed at warning of the dangers of offshore oil drilling has been pushed into the international spotlight, after the drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The first "Hands Across the Sand" e ...
• Turmoil Over Texas Textbooks in Arizona?
  
  
  Turmoil Over Texas Textbooks in Arizona? Phoenix, AZ - Just who should call the shots when it comes to writing textbooks will be on the agenda when Arizona educators meet thousands of their counterparts in New Orleans at next week's National Education Association Representative Assembly. Comments fr ...
• Arizona’s “Food Stamp” Rolls Hit ...
  
  
  Arizona’s “Food Stamp” Rolls Hit One Million for First Time Phoenix, AZ – The number of Arizonans enrolled in what formerly was known as the food stamp program has passed the one-million mark. Officials say the number enrolled has grown every month since 2007. Comments from Katie Kahle (KAYL), progr ...

My Care2 Picks

• Proof of Complicity in Torture
  
  
  I have now obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the final documents in the Tashkent series. These show beyond doubt that there was an official policy of obtaining intelligence through torture. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Arm ...
  
  
  Oil is basically inorganic,not a fossil fuel;but an inorganic chemical compound reduced from calcareous sediments and carbon dioxide and methane gas.An ice age now - Climate Change - would force people into contaminated regions. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
• Women- Israeli Mother Addresses European Parliamen ...
  
  
  Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit's speech made on International Women's Day in Strasbourg. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• U Sank My Carrier!
  
  
  "Millenium Challenge '02" war games we staged in the Persian Gulf this summer With nothing more than a few "small boats and aircraft," van Ripen managed to sink most of the US fleet in the Persian Gulf. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP
  
  
  BP, after trial runs with the device, is ordering 32 more of the Costner-endorsed centrifuges to aid the Gulf cleanup. As Henry Fountain explains in the New York Times, the gadget in question an oil-separating centrifuge marks a major breakthrough Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Science & Tech � ...

Angry Indian News

• Hovhannes Hovhannisyan: Karabakh process has negat ...
  
  
  Hovhannes Hovhannisyan: Karabakh process has negative dynamics for Armenian side - PanARMENIAN.Net: "PanARMENIAN.Net - The statement issued by the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• MEXICO: Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in W ...
  
  
  CorpWatch�:�MEXICO: Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo DealJust before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Congressman Reads 'BP Escrow Fund = Hitler' Column ...
  
  
  Congressman Reads 'BP Escrow Fund = Hitler' Column on House FloorHere's famously insane Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert reading a column from prominent conservative Thomas Sowell about why Barack Obama... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Targeting Israel's Palestinians
  
  
  Targeting Israel's Palestinians - Focus - Al Jazeera English: "Israel's Palestinian minority has always been subject to discriminatory policies, but some now say that a more open conflict between the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Gulf Coast American Indian Tribe Hosts Ecuadorean ...
  
  
  Gulf Coast American Indian Tribe Hosts Ecuadorean Leaders Devastated by Chevron Oil Contamination | Earth Times News: "Gulf Coast American Indian Tribes in southeast Louisiana impacted by the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• The BLM is colluding and conspiring against wild h ...
  
  
  The BLM is colluding and conspiring against wild horses and you!
• Monsanto Getting Lost in the Weeds
  
  
  Shareholders may want to consider cutting their losses at this point as it doesn't look like Monsanto is going to recover anytime soon.
• Food and Depopulation: International Takeover by t ...
  
  
  Most people think that the United Nations is a noble enterprise and they don't understand the history and malignant character of the UN.
• Introducing Stinkfly!
  
  
  Stinkfly: Devoted to the ever-vigilant pursuit and trashing of the NWO. If you are a Monsanto shill, or believe that the government won't harm you and that those guys in the SWAT team uniforms are at your front door to protect you, please contact Stinkfly. She will be happy to tell you exactly ...
• Medical Treatments for Airborne Poisons
  
  
  This document suggests emergency medical treatments with safe non-toxic substances for anyone feeling the signs and symptoms being reported in the Gulf region. The average life span of a person who did cleanup on the Exxon Valdez is 51 years meaning almost all of them are already dead yet British Pe ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• 4chan Sends Justin Bieber to North Korea (forkpart ...
  
  
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on July 1, 2010 3:07 PM
• Meat-Free DC (vegnews.com)
  
  
  Noted by Kim O'Donnel on July 1, 2010 3:07 PM
• Senate Takes Up Small-Business Jobs Bill (The New ...
  
  
  Noted by Anne Field on July 1, 2010 2:07 PM
• Electric Car Company Tesla IPOs to $2+ Billion Mar ...
  
  
  Noted by Anne Field on July 1, 2010 2:07 PM
• 'Twilight: Eclipse' Mania Triggers Wave of Cyber C ...
  
  
  Noted by Kashmir Hill on July 1, 2010 2:07 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Banned Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster
  
  
  ShareThis Formaldehyde-laden trailers we can believe in: Banned Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster �01 Jul 2010 In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they became a symbol of the government’s inept response to that disaster: the 120,000 or so trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Ag ...
• How Goldsmith changed advice on legality of war
  
  
  ShareThis How Goldsmith changed advice on legality of war --For seven years, Britain has wanted to see how the legal case for invading Iraq was made. Yesterday, at a public inquiry that is going on unnoticed, official documents were released for the first time that showed the grave reservations of t ...
• Police accused of displaying fake G20 weapons
  
  
  ShareThis Police accused of displaying fake G20 weapons 30 Jun 2010 Toronto's top police officer misled the public by displaying fake weapons used in a medieval-themed role-playing game to help justify their actions during G20 protests, their owner said Wednesday. Brian Barrett said everything in th ...
• Accused Russian Spy Confessed, Prosecutors Say
  
  
  ShareThis Accused Russian Spy Confessed, Prosecutors Say --New Court Filing Details Bugged Houses, Multiple Identities, Stashes of Cash, Coded Messages 01 Jul 2010 One of the alleged Russian spies arrested this week has admitted he works for that country's covert intelligence service, prosecutors sa ...
• In Pakistan, blasts kill 37, injure 175
  
  
  ShareThis In Pakistan, blasts kill 37, injure 175 01 Jul 2010 Two consecutive explosions at a popular Muslim shrine close to in the Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore have left at least 37 people dead and almost 200 injured. The blasts occurred late Thursday night at Data Durbar, which is visited by ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Ray Stevens Global Warming Song
  
  
  They may call him the Streak, but you can't keep Ray Stevens down evidently...witness his lastest on Global Warming
• Breaking news: Chinese security attack NZ politici ...
  
  
  Chinese security forces have attacked and injured a New Zealand politician in the grounds of the New Zealand parliament buildings, because the MP had the temerity to be holding a Tibetan flag at a ceremony to Welcome the Chinese Vice-Premier...
• The environmentalist who doubts global warming the ...
  
  
  Meet Peter Taylor, author of "Chill": The science around climate change is not as settled as it’s presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the remedies being proposed for climate...
• ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
  
  
  ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
• BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
  
  
  Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...

Mondoweiss

• CNN on the growing cultural boycott
  
  
  Saying that Elton John has "stuck by his guns" certainly sounds different in this context.
• Franken and Kagan rest on Thurgood Marshall’ ...
  
  
  I find Elena Kagan charming, articulate and thoughtful, and her eyes read soulful to me; but I can't see a stellar accomplishment beyond the goldplated resume. As I've said before, there is something entitled and end-of-the-Jewish-story-line about her. She is a careerist, not an outsider, she has hi ...
• Palestinian member of Knesset calls arrest of legi ...
  
  
  And other news from today in Palestine:Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing IOF troops demolish tens of Palestinian homes in Jordan Valley The Jerusalem legal aid and human rights center reported that Israel issued demolition orders against dozens of Palestinians homes in the Jordan Valley kn ...
• UK BDS vote includes call to review ‘whether ...
  
  
  The Methodist Church of Britain voted yesterday to boycott Israeli-produced goods and services from the West Bank. From their press release:The Methodist Church has today voted to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and to encourage Methodists across Britain ...
• Petraeus braintrust says ‘pragmatic’ a ...
  
  
  Ali Abunimah says this is huge and he's right, Mark Perry breaks the story that Petraeus's Central Command got a report in May from a "Red Team" of senior intelligence advisers that runs counter to American policy in Israel Palestine and appears to dis General Dayton's Fatah-only efforts. Seems like ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• Vaccine Resistance Movement To Launch Major New Au ...
  
  
  Vaccine Resistance Movement is spearheading a worldwide census type study over the coming months to determine the number of unvaccinated autistic children vs those unvaccinated kids who have not become autistic. Parents in vaccine court need more leverage as the Pharmaceutical Industry & Media houn ...
• 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 ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• Strawberry Picking
  
  
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  
  
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...
• Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies: Book Re ...
  
  
  I love the Dummies series of books.� They're quick reads packed with info that's presented in a clear and organized way. Plus I love the fact that most of them are available in Kindle versions for much less than the paper version. With the popularity of the Dummies books though, there are oft ...
• Still think Organic Lawn Care Doesn't Work?
  
  
  Wonder if they still think I'm nuts for planting clover, not mowing my lawn as short as possible and not using "weed and feed"? Sure mine still has some brown but it's a lot less than the other yards.� Now that we've had a couple days of rain my yard is completely green while the others are ...
• Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
  
  
  A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...

Michael Yon

• Under Cover of the Night
  
  
  Under Cover of the Night with 1-17th Infantry 11 April 2010 During a mission there is no “pause” button.  It’s on until it’s over.  Recently, Charlie Company 1-17th Infantry conducted a mission that included visiting villages in the Shah Wali Kot district of northern Kandahar Province. The m ...
• Village Boys
  
  
  Easter Sunday, 2010 Anywhere, Afghanistan Back in December, C-Co  1-17th Infantry battalion had been in about the worst place in Afghanistan.  There is stiff competition for the position of actual worst place, and I am sure there are many contenders that remain unknown, but the Arghandab was one ...
• RED HORSE
  
  
  RED HORSE in the Desert of Death Some troops in Afghanistan go months without a shower.  Major Ryan O’Conner, XO of the 1-17th Infantry, now in Kandahar Province, said that during a previous tour his Soldiers fought half a year without so much as a dip in a creek.  Shortages of drinking water aff ...
• The Battle for Kandahar: Part I
  
  
  FOB Frontenac, Afghanistan 28 March 2010 Under an early morning sky, a red glow is cast from the lights on an Air Force water drilling rig.  A new MATV, or “MRAP All Terrain Vehicle,” is being deployed to Afghanistan to combat homemade bombs, the favorite weapon of the Taliban. The 1-17th ha ...
• The Scent of Weakness
  
  
  Kandahar Province, Afghanistan 25 March 2010 Dogs have been trained to carry bombs to attack enemies for decades.  The Soviets and others have used dogs as low-tech smart bombs.  Yet canine platoons likely would rebel if they caught scent they were being duped to die. Today, more sophisticated p ...

The Killing Train

• The G20 Debacle
  
  
  What it might have looked like inside the fence read more
• 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 ...

treehugger

• Tomorrow, BP Spill Will be the Largest in Gulf His ...
  
  
  Photo via Discover Initially described as 'comparably tiny' by the man ultimately responsible for it, two months later the spill will become the largest in the history of the Gulf. It will pass up the Ixtoc-I spill of 1979, which was the previous record-holder. Congratulations, BP -- you've bro ...
• Thoughts On Making Soaps and Mating Goats At The F ...
  
  
  Image credit: Planet Green In some cultures three is considered a holy number. In others it is a lucky number number. In still more it an evil number. Whatever your particular beliefs, it's clear that all of us everywhere every single person in the whole wide world has fascination with the numb ...
• Tesla Electric Roadster v2.5: The iPhone 4 of Elec ...
  
  
  Photo: Tesla Motors Sadly, It Still Costs an Arm and a Leg Hot on the heels of its quarter-billion dollars IPO , Tesla Motors is opening two new stores in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Newport Beach, California, and unveiling a refreshed version of its all-electric Roadster (version 2.5, for those ...
• Should Cities Have "Bicycle Highways"?
  
  
  Velo-City: Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia: Toronto architect Chris Hardwicke's proposal for a separated elevated bike highway system for Toronto, map here Over on Slate, Tom Vanderbilt of Traffic fame asks the question Should cities build specialized roadways for cyclists? It is a discussio ...
• Baltimore Appoints a Food Czar
  
  
  Image credit: Good.is Baltimore is a set beset by "food deserts"—vast urban areas without access to anything but fast food, snack cakes, bags of chips, and soda. The city is not unique in it's situation—cities across the country face the same problem—but it is one of the first in the country to ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burma clamps down on travelling monks
  
  
  Burmese government stops issuing passports to monks looking to travel abroad in what observers say may be an attempt to silence them ahead of elections this year
• Suu Kyi’s party berates new opposition
  
  
  Use of traditional bamboo hat as a seal for the new National Democratic Force party riles the old guard of Burma's pro-democracy movement
• India trade dampens Burma sanctions
  
  
  Bilateral trade soars 25 percent in the past year as regional countries step up economic interest in Burma and dampen impact of sanctions
• US to extend Burma import ban
  
  
  US extends sanctions on Burma for one year in protest at lack of progress made by ruling junta on human rights abuses and drug trafficking
• Rodent ‘migration’ sparks disaster fears
  
  
  Mass movement of mice away from waterways in central Burma sparks fears of a natural disaster and the spread of rodent-borne disease

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Annie Leonard, the anti-consumerist filmmaker
  
  
  Annie Leonard made a 20-minute animated documentary, The Story of Stuff, which tells the story of items that we use every day, showing where they come from and where they go when they're thrown away. The film has been watched by more than 10 million people online and prompted her to write ...
• Inventor paints mountains white to combat climate ...
  
  
  An inventor has set out to paint the peaks of the Andes white in an attempt to combat the effects of climate change.
• Michael Mann says hockey stick should not have bec ...
  
  
  The scientist behind the controversial 'hockey stick' graph has said it was 'somewhat misplaced' to make his work an 'icon of the climate change debate'.
• Climate change brings back endangered butterfly
  
  
  A globally endangered butterfly is making a comeback in Britain thanks to climate change.
• Amazongate: the missing evidence
  
  
  The story of the IPCC's claims about threats to the Amazon rainforest takes another bizarre turn, says Christopher Booker

National Geographic | Environment

• Pictures: Hurricane Alex Pushes Oil on "Cleaned" B ...
  
  
  NoneRough seas churned up by Hurricane Alex are pushing oil onto cleaned Louisiana beaches that hadn't seen oil since mid-May. Louisiana - Hurricane Alex - Meteorology - Hurricanes - Earth Sciences
• Hurricane Alex Pushes "Worst Oil" Ashore; Cleanup ...
  
  
  Hurricane Alex pushed "the worst oil we've seen yet" onto Louisiana beaches and shut down Gulf-spill cleanup operations. Hurricane Alex - Louisiana - Meteorology - Oil spill - BP
• New Leviathan Whale Was Prehistoric "Jaws"? (Pictu ...
  
  
  NoneA newfound prehistoric sperm whale with giant teeth likely attacked other whales—and possibly giant sharks, scientists say. Whale - Sperm Whale - Leviathan - Moby Dick - Cetacea
• Hurricanes May Be Good for Gulf Oil Spill, Experts ...
  
  
  Although Alex's effects will likely be minimal, strong winds and waves from future storms may help disperse oil slicks, experts say. Oil spill - Tropical cyclone - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment
• At Gulf Oil Spill Forum, A Call for Energy Solutio ...
  
  
  At the TEDxOilSpill forum, activists and scientists hope the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico will galvanize support for alternative energy. oilspill - Energy - Environment - Mexico - Gulf of Mexico

Jurist - Legal Research

• Documents show former UK legal advisor warned Blai ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The UK Iraq Inquiry [official website] released declassified documents [materials] on Wednesday showing that former prime minister Tony Blair [official profile; JURIST news archive] was warned by former attorney general Peter Goldsmith [professional profile] that the Iraq invasion was illeg ...
• UK Parliament to consider bill banning face veils
  
  
  [JURIST] A British MP on Thursday introduced legislation in the House of Commons [official website] that would ban the wearing of burqas [JURIST news archive] or other face coverings in public. The Face Coverings (Regulation) Bill [materials] was introduced by MP Philip Hollobone [official website] ...
• Rights group chides Cuba for restricting freedom o ...
  
  
  [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [official website] on Wednesday criticized the Cuban legal system [report, PDF], stating that the government's restrictions on freedom of expression create a "climate of fear" among journalists and activists. The report claims that the Cuban legal system allows th ...
• US House approves financial reform legislation
  
  
  [JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday voted 237 to 192 to approve the final version of financial reform legislation [HR 4173 materials], which focuses on increasing regulation in the financial sector following the recent economic crisis [JURIST news archive]. The H ...
• UN Security Council extends terms of ICTY judges
  
  
  [JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution [press release] extending the terms of office for the judges [official profiles] of the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website]. Resolution 1931 [text] was welcom ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Why an Immigration Speech Now?
  
  
  President Obama's speech today on immigration has a limited shelf life. It is mainly aimed at the advocacy community and is mostly about signs, signals, and sympathy. Obama wants immigration reform activists to know that Republicans are responsible for blocking progress, not him. Republicans, he bel ...
• Four Questions for Yemen Scholar Gregory Johnsen
  
  
  Gregory Johnsen, a highly regarded Yemen expert from Princeton University, said in an interview that he believes the English-language Al Qaeda magazine to be authentic, though he concedes that "it's difficult to tell with any degree of accuracy because I haven't seen the whole thing." First, the ho ...
• So Is it an Inspired Parody?
  
  
  What's to make of Al Qaeda's first foray into the English-language magazine publishing business? To a lot of folks here, including our publisher, it reads almost like an Onion parody. The article offering tips about how to make a bomb in your mom's kitchen seems to be a dead give away. But then ag ...
• Al Qaeda's First English-Language Magazine Is ...
  
  
  As the U.S. struggles to manage its efforts to influence opinion about Al Qaeda abroad, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has produced its first English-language propaganda magazine. It's called "Inspire," and you can read parts of it below. It includes a "message to the people of Yemen" di ...
• The Night Beat: Christie Wants to Oust Norcross
  
  
  Good evening. HE CARES : President Obama's immigration speech tomorrow, pre-synopsized, according to people who've been briefed on it: I care. I'm committed. We must get this done. I call on Republicans to work with me. ON THE CROSS : New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, is moving to repla ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• IDF and Shin Bet: Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight–o ...
  
  
  I don’t know whether to laugh or cry over Amira Hass’ latest report in Haaretz that the Shin Bet ordered the IDF to produce a Palestinian Arab named Za’arir from the West Bank village of Beit Omar for questioning.  Instead, they went to the house of the Za’akik family in the same village and demand ...
• CENTCOM’s Blue Sky, Red Team Talks Sense About Hez ...
  
  
  Mark Perry has a mini-blockbuster of a story in Foreign Policy revealing that a team of CENTCOM intelligence analysts offered a report about what U.S. military policy should be toward Hezbollah and Hamas.  The results are exceedingly pragmatic, sensible, and for that reason, controversial: …Senior ...
• Tom Terrific, Fayyadist
  
  
  This is another installment in the amazing adventures of Tom Terrific (aka Friedman) in Palestine, wherein our hero goes slumming through the West Bank seeking economic miracles to which he can attribute the magical touch of “Prime Minister” Salam Fayyad.  Here’s one particular howler from today’s ...
• Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
  
  
  Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
• Huge Rise in Israeli Police Wiretaps; Judges Acqui ...
  
  
  Israeli State Controller Micha Lindenstrauss released a report revealing a massive increase in the use of secret eavesdropping by police in criminal cases.  From 2004 to 2008 the number of such wiretaps increases nearly 100% from 960 to 1,800.  In 2008, police recorded 270,000 conversations (Hebre ...

Ode Magazine

• Healthy food in schools: it’s all about location
  
  
  By: VictoriaKlein Changing the nutritional quality of public school lunches has long been a hot-button topic. Highly processed and nutrient-sparse, what is found in school cafeterias does little to help our children’s physical and mental progress. Many par ...
• Pioneers of the Possible: Ted Ning
  
  
  By: Ode Related Reading Interview with Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change Video: Willie's work Video: Peter Liu, founder of New Resource Bank J.K. Rowling's commencement speech on failure
• Saturated with peace
  
  
  By: PeaceCorso In the Boston area, we have been quite literally deluged with rain. I know this is so because I cannot count the numbers of conversations I have both heard and overheard about flooded basements. When we needed our plumber for something entir ...
• Surviving (and thriving) this summer without air c ...
  
  
  By: VictoriaKlein The scientific community continues to announce that, each month, we have reached new heat records. Thankfully, humans have learned how to control their hot environments with air conditioning (AC) – at least, the wealthier humans. Surprisi ...
• Getting back to the land
  
  
  Other sustainable farms around the world ripe for the visiting. Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstatten Glonn, Germany Forty minutes southeast of Munich sits a 450-acre sustainable farm and food complex started by Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth after the former “sausage king” sold hi ...

OpEd News

• My Connection to BPapos;s "Bogus Press" Operation
  
  
  BP is hiring journalists to help massage the story of the oil spill. And darned, if I donapos;t know one of them.
• Donapos;t Tell ME Iapos;ve Given Up. Iapos;ve Been ...
  
  
  Arenapos;t we all exhausted from the long Op Ed pieces telling us all of it again and again and again. And adding all the newest disappointments? Please, STOP telling progressives what they already know.
• The Outbreeders: Mandating A Baby Boom For The Cul ...
  
  
  Could the nationapos;s future be populated solely with Christionists? Thatapos;s what the American Family Associationapos;s Bryan Fischer fervently hopes. His theory: "social conservatives" will "outbreed" gays, feminists and pro-choice people, eventually taking over the government by sheer numbers ...
• Inheritance Lost: Must Baby Turtles Die for Oil Ri ...
  
  
  Sea turtle release encounter invokes the life and death struggle played out after the Gulf spill.
• Bycatch - or Searching an Ethics for the Oceans
  
  
  What is Bycatch? Is it a necessary evil of the fishing industry, or can it be avoided? What does it mean that we just throw away millions of tons of living beings? How can we change our global behavior and attitude towards the world that surrounds us?

Switchboard

• Fish and Fatalism Flourish: Asian carp now spawnin ...
  
  
  Those Asian carp are certainly determined and energetic… Every time it seems like we might be getting them bottled up and rebuff their efforts to enter the Great Lakes, they pop up somewhere else. Like last week, when a live carp was found beyond the electrical barrier that is suppos ...
• Gulf Coast Disaster: Morning News Roundup, July 1
  
  
  Day 73 Highlights in this issue: > The weather stalls cleanup, threatens beaches > Biggest skimmer in the world is on its way > Bills are out of committee in the Senate that advance offshore regulation > EPA says Corexit is not that toxic > Claims administrator has bad news for touri ...
• Estimating the impacts of smart growth: the impor ...
  
  
  The metropolitan planning organization for the region surrounding San Diego has adopted a new methodology for predicting the impacts of development.  The more sophisticated model that the metro Association of Governments will now use more accurately reflects the differences between wal ...
• Wildlife Roundup: the Good News
  
  
  As spring comes to a close, some more reasons to feel a bit optimistic about wildlife conservations both here at home and around the world: Some of Ethiopia's most charismatic and rare an imals are making a comeback in the Semien National Park .  Ethiopian wolves (probably the most ...
• New study sponsored by the Institute for Energy Re ...
  
  
  The Institute for Energy Research (IER) just released a study claiming that the American Power Act (APA), comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation released last May by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, would provide a windfall profit to America’s wealthiest households (t ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Kagan Hearings
  
  
  One the one hand, I agree with Rosen here, with the major caveat that “more substantive that the last three hearings” is a bar comparable to a major league team having a better shortstop than Yuniesky Betancourt.   Kagan’s answers have come closer to reflecting how Supreme Court actually works tha ...
• Just Tell Me Which Side are the Jedi…
  
  
  This is all interesting and stuff, but it would help if someone would explain which side is in favor of democracy, goodness, and apple pie, and which side is Islamist, anti-semitic, genocidal, Nazi, Communist, and so forth. I’m guessing that the Azerbaijanis have to be the Sith, but the Armenians h ...
• Cream Rises…
  
  
  LGM World Cup Standings following the Round of 16… RNK ENTRY, OWNER GROUP RND16 TOTAL PCT 1 bourbon renewal, h. hjklhljkh 22 24 46 99.4 2 Meinong’s Jungle, J. Brown 20 24 44 98.4 3 johnbparker1 1, J. Parker 19 24 43 97.7 3 wang1870 1, D. Sessoms 19 24 43 97.7 3 1bud ...
• Advice That Should Have Been Taken
  
  
  Althouse: Ever heard the phrase “get over yourself.” I don’t use it often but: Get over yourself. v. Althouse: I would be curious to see what was said about me then. Was there jubilation that this video clip could be used to attack me? A plan to pick a spin and stick to it? An agreement to deprive [ ...
• When Torture Isn’t Torture
  
  
  See Serwer, Drum, and Greenwald on the sudden unwillingness of the elite media to call torture torture when Americans led by the Bush administration engaged in the relevant practices. Of course, if you follow wingnut logic to be be against torture even when Americans do it would be “moral relativi ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Cisco Gets Its Smart Grid Toys On With Duke Energy ...
• Iowa Surfaces As Major Player In Biofuels Producti ...
• Thai Inventor Shows Off Unique Solar Hybrid Tuk Tu ...
• Honda Develops Home Hydrogen Car Refueler Prototyp ...
• iPhone App Lets You Figure Out What To Recycle Whe ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• iPhone 4 draws a rush of class actions over recept ...
  
  
  Less than a week after it came on the market, Apple's iPhone 4 has sparked at least five class actions over a reception problem. The suits allege that the antenna of the newest model of the popular phone is defective — a problem dubbed the iPhone "death grip" by Internet commentators.
• Mintz Levin's managing partner reviews his first y ...
  
  
  Robert Bodian has shaken up Boston-based Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo during his inaugural year as the firm's first managing partner from outside of Boston. He spoke with NLJ about the impact of changes at the firm during the past year.
• Unanswered Questions
  
  
  Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee questioning Elena Kagan on Wednesday frequently found themselves in sharp disagreement with the U.S. Supreme Court nominee, who continued to resist attempts to define her views.
• LITIGATION MANAGEMENT: Ten litigation metrics for ...
  
  
  GCs will find that some of these metrics confirm their experience; others may surprise them.
• Lawyers Representing Law Firms: When should a firm ...
  
  
  Step is needed when there's a potential claim by a client, to avoid conflicting fiduciary duties.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Clean Water Action-June 22nd!
  
  
  On Tuesday, June 22nd all Pennsylvania Clean Water Action offices will converge on Harrisburg to demand better regulation and oversight of natural gas drilling. We need your help and support to pressure our state legislators. Join us as we meet with elected officials to discuss HB 2213 and the Safer ...
• Basic Waterdog Training in June
  
  
  This training is for anyone interested in knowing what to look for in the way of problems caused by the natural gas industry’s activities. Waterdog training also teaches you how to discriminate real problems from non-problems, how and where to report these, and how to do it all safely and legally. H ...
• Gasland in Elmira
  
  
  The film “Gasland” about the Marcellus Shale drilling will play one night only at the Elmira Heights Theater on Wednesday, June 9th, with a  Q&A with the writer/director Josh Fox.  Admission fee: $5.00.
• Increased Gas Drilling Activities Bringing New Cha ...
  
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa., May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Counties and municipalities across Pennsylvania where natural gas drilling is taking place â particularly in the Northern Tier region â are also struggling to meet a number of additional challenges associated with the industry’s increas ...
• HB 2213 Proposal
  
  
  On May 25th the Pennsylvania House environmental committee passed crucial legislation to protect our rivers and streams from dangerous gas drilling.  This proposal, HB 2213, does several important things, including: • Prohibiting gas drilling near rivers, lakes and drinking water sources;  • Requiri ...

News Blaze

• Terrorist Use of the Internet Discussed in Philipp ...
  
  
  The Internet presents us with a paradox. On the one hand, it facilitates free discussion and the exchange of information. It also provides another venue for individuals to exercise their right to freedom of expression. But by the same mechanism, it
• Delray Beach Florida Mayor to Participate in Radio ...
  
  
  Soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan will be able to speak to family and friends by calling the radio network's toll-free number between 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm.
• Clarification of DOS Media Note on the Deepwater H ...
  
  
  The acceptance of international assistance we announced today did not mean to imply that international help was arriving only now.
• Local CA Sales Tax Allocations Remain Flat Statewi ...
  
  
  The California State Board of Equalization (BOE) announced today that June sales tax allocations to local governments will not increase by anticipated 5.7 percent due to a decline in cash receipts for the second quarter 2010 of 3.53 percent compared
• Students of the Unusual to Attend San Diego Comic- ...
  
  
  Haven Distributors, the alternative comic distributor, has invited the creators of the independent horror-adventure series Students of the Unusual to be guests at this year's San Diego Comic-Con July 21-25th.

environment 360

• Dispersants Used in Spill Are Less Toxic Than Fear ...
  
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the chemical dispersants used to break up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico range from “practically non-toxic” to “slightly toxic .” Paul Anastas, the agency’s assistant administrator for research and development, told reporters that EPA laborato ...
• U.S. Small Wind Energy Projects Grew 15 Percent La ...
  
  
  The U.S. market for small-scale wind turbines on homes and small businesses grew 15 percent in 2009 , with 20.3 megawatts of new capacity added nationwide, according to a new report . That new capacity represents about 10,000 new units, and bumps the total capacity created by small wind projects (10 ...
• Honeybees Are Deployed To Test Air Quality at Germ ...
  
  
  German officials are trying a novel approach to monitor air quality at airports — so-called “biomonitoring” by honeybees. In an effort to gauge air pollution levels from jet exhaust and ground transportation vehicles at Düsseldorf International Airport and several other airports nationwide, official ...
• Global Wind Shift Accelerated Thaw at End of Last ...
  
  
  U.S. scientists say a global shift in the planet’s wind and ocean currents , caused by melting ice sheets in the northern hemisphere, is likely to have pushed warmer air and seawater south, putting an end worldwide to the last ice age. The trigger that ended the ice age, roughly 20,000 years ago, wa ...
• Captive Breeding Program Saves Galapagos Tortoises ...
  
  
  A captive breeding program has helped a species of giant Galapagos tortoise recover from near extinction , according to a new survey on the island of Española. The giant tortoise, Geochelone hoodensis , an iconic species encountered by Charles Darwin during his expeditions two centuries ago, had bee ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Zvonareva through to Wimbledon final
  
  
  Russia's Vera Zvonareva is through to Wimbledon final, her first Grand Slam decider, after she beat another surprise package, Tsvetana Pironkova.
• Yanukovich buys drugs via Internet
  
  
  The Ukrainian President has bought a variety of soft and hard drugs through the Internet and presented them to the country's top law enforcers.
• Diplomats’ daughter in spy ring had UK connection
  
  
  The British security service Mi5 has recently launched an urgent probe into the UK links of Anna Chapman, a Russian woman arrested in the USA in the recent spy scandal.
• Russian rally champ determined in Riga
  
  
  The last race of the Russian Rally Raid Championship season has been held in the Latvian capital of Riga.
• World Cup diary: off-pitch matters
  
  
  Excitement is reaching fever-pitch for fans of the World Cup’s last eight. Meanwhile, for supporters of squads who have exited already, there is still plenty to see in Johannesburg, including some wilder inhabitants.

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

• More Ancient Lunar Cover-ups
  
  
  For years there have been rumors of spaceships and aliens on the far side of the Moon. In fact, the rumors have recently started since the US once again canceled another return to the Moon program (although it was rife with price over-runs, time slips and political pork). Is the Moon occupied by an ...
• Inexplicata: The 1968 “Night Visitor”
  
  
  The United States, Canada and Mexico are not the only countries in the Western Hemisphere where UFOs, aliens, Bigfoot and other exotica happen now, or in the past. The countries in South America are overflowing with esoteric phenomenon; all of the above listed and then some. They just don’t receive ...
• The ‘Humalien’ Mystery
  
  
  Pat Regan, a researcher exploring the possibility of human-alien hybrids he terms “humaliens” in his book ‘UFO: The search for Truth’, posts about humaliens as they relate to Lloyd Pye’s Star Child Skull and a photo taken at the turn of the 20th Century of a Siberian woman with her child who exhibit ...
• Some possible misconceptions of alien life
  
  
  Dr. Sam Vaknin, a columnist for various European publications, has written ten misconceptions that science-fiction authors generally use when writing about possible ET life. Most make sense. But like all things, it’s one person’s opinion. In all works of science fiction, there are ten hidden assumpt ...
• This Week in Space/Interview with Ken Bowersox
  
  
  In This Week in Space Miles O’Brien talks about the recent Ariane 5 launch from French Gianna, politics surrounding NASA’s FY2011 budget and an interview with Ken Bowersox, former shuttle astronaut and a vice president with SpaceX talking about the recent Falcon 9 test rocket launch. Yeah, I know it ...

Tippers News

• Queen of Canada is The American Woman - Queen Eliz ...
  
  
  Canada is Run by Governor General For Queen Elizabeth ll Queen of Canada, ... So the position is chosen by the Queen, She is higher than the prime minister as a matter of fact He/she can fire he or she that holds the position of prime minister. Submitted by Mike Tedesco to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• New York City Carriage Horse Rescued from Slaughte ...
  
  
  A former NYC carriage horse was rescued from a slaughter auction in Pennsylvania on June 25th by advocates who have been pushing for a ban on the exploitative horse-drawn carriage industry for several years. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Sperm whale sighting off Torbay, South Devon
  
  
  On the 28th June at 09:30 observers were surprised to see a large whale very close to the shore off Torbay in South Devon. It was identified as a Sperm whale, the largest of all the toothed whales; they can grow to more than 18 metres in length. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
• New biodiversity scheme in Scotland involves per ...
  
  
  Contract Farming Agreements and SRDP Rural Priorities Scheme unlock massive biodiversity benefits on Perthshire farms Chartered surveyors, Smiths Gore, have developed an environmental scheme for adjoining Perthshire farms that will unlock massive Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Stop Prince Charles' Culling of Grey Squirrels
  
  
  What do you call it when humans introduce new species to an area, make a mess of the local ecology and then attempt to backtrack via mass killings of the now-dominant species? We'd call this "a mess" but in Great Britain, where Prince Charles is Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

The Freeman

• Science versus Science
  
  
  The question of whether economics is a science arose last summer when The Royal Society, Britain’s prestigious scientific academy, elected to fellowship its first modern economist, Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta of Cambridge. The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and boasts among its previous fellows I ...
• What Can Friends of Freedom Learn from the Sociali ...
  
  
  On March 14, 1883, a German philosopher living in exile in London passed away. When he was buried three days later in a modest grave where his wife had been laid to rest two years earlier, fewer than ten people were present, half of them family members. His closest friend spoke at the gravesite and ...
• Stimulate the Catallaxy?
  
  
  Last fall and winter’s brouhaha over the so-called economic stimulus package got me thinking about how far off target most people are when they talk about “the economy.” To hear the politicians and commentators tell it, the economy is a big machine located somewhere in Washington, D.C. That machine ...
• It Just Ain’t So!
  
  
  A good many people express incredulity with the consistent free-market, or libertarian, position. They consider opposition to the welfare state as something bizarre, rejection of unlimited democracy as almost un-American, and opposition to things like Social Security as bordering on outright callous ...
• Fiscal Force
  
  
  I know ev’rybody earns; And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns;” âW.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida April is the cruellest month, for reasons other than what T.S. Eliot had in mind. This is the month in which you must account for yourself to Caesar. The authorities, having relieved you of ...

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

• Delegation from oil-afflicted Amazon visits Louisi ...
  
  
  A delegation of indigenous and community leaders from Ecuador is visiting Louisiana this week at the invitation of the United Houma Nation, a tribe in coastal Lafourche and Terrebone parishes that has been hit hard by the BP oil catastrophe. The Ecuadoreans have come to share lessons they've learned ...
• GULF WATCH: Life in the Dead Zone
  
  
  For the hundreds of thousands of people who depend on commercial and sport fishing in the Gulf of Mexico (directly and indirectly), the assault on sea life from the BP oil disaster has been a serious blow. But it's hardly unfamiliar. That's because even before the spill, up to 8,000 square miles o ...
• Gulf Coast nuclear plants at risk from BP oil spil ...
  
  
  Watchdog groups are warning about the BP oil spill's potential damage to Gulf and Atlantic coast nuclear power plants that use seawater to cool pumps and other safety equipment. Earlier this month, representatives of the nuclear watchdog groups Beyond Nuclear , Three Mile Island Alert and Unplug Sa ...
• A business backlash?
  
  
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest By all rights, the laissez-faire crowd should be silent these days. Recent months have been marked by one example after another of the perils of deregulation and the folly of trusting large corporations to do the right thing. From Toyota to Goldman Sachs to M ...
• BP, BAYOUS AND BYWAYS: Dispatches from the Gulf Co ...
  
  
  We're back! Last week, you - the readers of Facing South - sent us on a week-long trip to the Gulf Coast to investigate the BP spill and Gulf recovery. It was a whirlwind trip, covering hundreds of miles of coastal bayous and byways, and dozens of conversations with local residents, communi ...

Survival International

• Brazilian Indians protest against dams
  
  
  A dam in the Amazon rainforest. © Survival Enawene Nawe Indians in Brazil are demonstrating against a series of hydroelectric dams which are killing the fish they rely on. Three hundred Indians have gathered in the town of Sapezal in the Amazon state of Mato Grosso, armed with bows and arrows ...
• Outrage at call to remove Andaman tribe’s children
  
  
  Apache children before being taken from their families and sent to a white-run school. USA, 19th Century. © Agfa foto-Historama An Indian MPâs call for the children of a recently-contacted Andaman Island tribe to be removed from their parents and sent to residential schools has sparked w ...
• Vedanta's controversial mine gets backing of India ...
  
  
  Dongria girl, Niyamgiri Hills, India © Survival In a highly unusual move, India’s Prime Minister has intervened directly in the approval process for one of the world’s most controversial mines. The office of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has written to the Environment and Forests Ministry ...
• French oil company hits Peruvian headlines
  
  
  First contact can decimate tribes. An estimated 50% of the Nahua, a tribe in south-east Peru, died after contact in the 1980s. © Jonathan Mazower/Survival French company Perenco has hit Peru’s headlines after a controversy over oil exploration in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon. Perenco ...
• Film depicting Guarani plight wins prestigious awa ...
  
  
  The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Italian-Brazilian film ‘Birdwatchers’ , which highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil, has won the prestigious One World Media Award . The jury said that it was ‘unan ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

• Former BP chief Lord Browne to lead business-like ...
  
  
  Lord Browne of Madingley has been brought into Government as part of a major efficiency drive.
• Hurricane Alex in pictures
  
  
  Alex is the first hurricane set to hit the US Gulf since the oil spill.
• Alaskan recovery from Exxon Valdez disaster offers ...
  
  
  From the vantage point of a rickety plane over Prince William Sound in Alaska it is hard to imagine the horrors that once unfolded in the pristine blue waters below.
• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bad, but BP's PR i ...
  
  
  The rich vein of anti-business sentiment in the US is being fuelled needlessly, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bad, but BP's PR i ...
  
  
  The rich vein of anti-business sentiment in the US is being fuelled needlessly, argues Jeremy Warner.

Ian Welsh

• Happy Canada Day
  
  
  For all its problems, this remains a good country to live in.  It’s beautiful, it’s big, and the social safety net, while showing some wear and tear, is still there.  As with most of the world, there’s been a right wing swing, but it’s been kept relatively in check by the simple fact that the [... ...
• How bailing out the rich created the Depression
  
  
  The other day, Krugman wrote that we’re in the beginning of a new Long Depression. Forgive me, but he’s wrong: this isn’t the beginning, it’s been going on for about two years now. During a Depression there are periods where GDP grows.  There are periods where jobs grow.  It’s just that the period ...
• The surging expense of our illusions
  
  
  We live in a world of illusions.  Those illusions are expensive.  For instance, the illusion that we could impose a Westernized, friendly to the US and Israel, OPEC busting government in Iraq was an illusion that was apparent to the dirty fucking hippies by the summer of 2002 and to most of the Seri ...
• How bailing out the rich created the Depression
  
  
  The other day, Krugman wrote that we’re in the beginning of a new Long Depression. Forgive me, but he’s wrong: this isn’t the beginning, it’s been going on for about two years now. During a Depression there are periods where GDP grows.  There are periods where jobs grow.  It’s just that the period ...
• The surging expense of our illusions
  
  
  We live in a world of illusions.  Those illusions are expensive.  For instance, the illusion that we could impose a Westernized, friendly to the US and Israel, OPEC busting government in Iraq was an illusion that was apparent to the dirty fucking hippies by the summer of 2002 and to most of the Seri ...

Age of Autism

• Teri Arranga Interviews Susan Delaine Author of Th ...
  
  
  ON THE VOICE AMERICA HEALTH AND WELLNESS CHANNEL TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 12 NOON ET www.health.voiceamerica.com Click HERE to enter our contest for a free copy and stay tuned for a very cool promotion! Gorgeous, EASY, and gluten- and dairy-free: THAT'S...
• Thoughtful House Offers 50 Grants for Autism Treat ...
  
  
  Thoughtful House , in Austin Texas, is proud to announce a wonderful opportunity for 50 families affected by autism spectrum disorder. The Bright Eyes Project will provide support and financial assistance to 50 children for the provision of the initiation...
• Beta Testers Sought for HandHold Adaptive's Autism ...
  
  
  Managing Editor's Note: Hi, friends, I saw this app last month and it's amazing. You can track the effectiveness of your programs from ABA to Zinc. The deadline to apply is tomorrow, so please read and respond directly to Rob...
• The Autism Triangle: A Key to Understanding Other ...
  
  
  By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. One of the first bio-medical doctors I consulted for my daughter's autism gave me a framework to understand the disease which I have long remembered. She said, "Many practicioners in my field look at autism as...
• Follow Up to Ritz Phoenix Book Signing for Callous ...
  
  
  You can visit Dr. Wakefield's site Callous Disregard to learn more and to purchase a signed copy of his book. By Cynthia Macluskie A month ago a friend asked me if I wanted to plan a book signing event for...

Global BDS Movement

• Spanish stores boycott Israeli game
  
  
  Maya Mahler [ YNet ] 1 July 2010 - Rummikub, the Israeli game made popular worldwide, has become the recent victim of the trend to boycott Israeli goods throughout the world. � read more
• Jury clears activists who broke into Brighton arms ...
  
  
  Bibi van der Zee and Rob Evans [ Guardian ] 30 June 2010 - Five activists who caused £180,000 damage to an arms factory were acquitted after they argued they were seeking to prevent Israeli war crimes. � read more
• Palestinian Queers Call for BDS
  
  
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• Co-Author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...
  
  
  Stéphane Hessel [ Huffington Post ] 15 June 2010 - Israel's illegal and immoral attack on the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid convoy, which left at least nine dead and dozens injured, has rightfully stunned the world. � read more
• Folk musician Devendra Banhart cancels Tel Aviv sh ...
  
  
  [ Jerusalem Post ] 15 June 2010 - Folk artist Devendra Banhart on Monday night cancelled two shows he had been set to play in Tel Aviv on June 16 and 17, saying left-wing Israeli groups had urged him not to perform. � read more

Farm Wars

• The BLM is colluding and conspiring against wild h ...
  
  
  The BLM is colluding and conspiring against wild horses and you!
• Monsanto Getting Lost in the Weeds
  
  
  Shareholders may want to consider cutting their losses at this point as it doesn't look like Monsanto is going to recover anytime soon.
• Food and Depopulation: International Takeover by t ...
  
  
  Most people think that the United Nations is a noble enterprise and they don't understand the history and malignant character of the UN.
• Introducing Stinkfly!
  
  
  Stinkfly: Devoted to the ever-vigilant pursuit and trashing of the NWO. If you are a Monsanto shill, or believe that the government won't harm you and that those guys in the SWAT team uniforms are at your front door to protect you, please contact Stinkfly. She will be happy to tell you exactly ...
• Medical Treatments for Airborne Poisons
  
  
  This document suggests emergency medical treatments with safe non-toxic substances for anyone feeling the signs and symptoms being reported in the Gulf region. The average life span of a person who did cleanup on the Exxon Valdez is 51 years meaning almost all of them are already dead yet British Pe ...

Open Your Eyes News

• US obesity keeps on rising
  
  
  New Scientist – Rates of adult obesity have risen in 28 US states in a single year, according to a report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Over the period from 2007 to 2009, there were eight states in which more than 30 per cent of adults [...]
• Graft fears as massive cash sums fly out of Kabul: ...
  
  
  The West Australian – More than three billion dollars in cash has been flown out of Kabul in recent years amid fears that ill-gotten gains from corruption and narcotics are being stashed overseas, a report said Monday. The Wall Street Journal said the cash — more than the Afghan government collects ...
• Antarctic Garbage Patch Coming?
  
  
  Discovery News-You’ve heard about the Pacific garbage patch and the Atlantic garbage patch, each a sobering sign of how when we throw things away, they don’t go “away” — they often go into the sea, where they remain for a long, long time. Much of the global ocean remains uncharted in terms of pollu ...
• ‘Weapons’ seized in G20 arrests not what they seem
  
  
  Globe and Mail – Toronto Police staged a display of weaponry to demonstrate âthe extent of the criminal conspiracyâ among hard-line G20 protesters, but several of the items had nothing to do with the summit. Facing criticism for their tactics, police invited journalists on Tuesday to view a rang ...
• US Foreclosed Homes Sell at 27% Discount as Supply ...
  
  
  Bloomberg – Homes in the foreclosure process sold at an average 27 percent discount in the first quarter as almost a third of all U.S. transactions involved properties in some stage of mortgage distress, according to RealtyTrac Inc. A total of 232,959 homes sold in the period had received a default ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Gulf oil spill: Break-up of Minerals Management Se ...
  
  
  When the Obama administration renamed the Minerals Management Service in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, who would have thought it would spawn a governmental garage sale? While the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation...
• Gulf oil spill: Hands reach across the sand in pro ...
  
  
  From Santa Monica to Pensacola Beach, Fla., to Washington, D.C., and even as far as London, protesters worried about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gathered to hold hands, in hundreds of Hands Across the Sand rallies. The...
• Gulf oil spill: Tropical storm worries cleanup wor ...
  
  
  Fishermen, deck hands and other workers who signed on to aid oil spill cleanup efforts out of Pensacola Shipyard Marina and Boatyard have yet another worry to deal with -- the possibility of a tropical storm. As they donned life...
• Gulf oil spill: BP payments for lost income to be ...
  
  
  Oil spill victims who receive BP payments for lost income will have to shell out money come tax time. Under current law, such payments will be taxed by the Internal Revenue Service, just as normal income is, according to a...
• Slew of deals for Emeryville biotech firm Amyris
  
  
  Amyris Biotechnologies, an Emeryville-based synthetic fuel firm, has kept busy recently. The company, which filed for a $100-million initial public offering in April, seemed to spend the last week announcing a bevy of deals it had signed, most revolving around...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

• bpoilresponse: New information about: Situation st ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Situation status map for July 1, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/28ang89
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Discharge fr ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Discharge from MC252 well is 40 percent by weight - http://tinyurl.com/2eotmzv
• bpoilresponse: New information about: BP releases ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: New information about: BP releases high resolution images of the new capping stack (BOP stack-up) - http://tinyurl.com/25933pt
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Hurricane Al ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Hurricane Alex: Images of oil mixed with water - http://tinyurl.com/272pdut
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well status as of June 30, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/2f3rnoe

spiked

• Abortion is more than a scientific issue
  
  
  A contributor to a major report on ‘fetal pain’ says the facts are important, but a woman’s right to choose should be discussed in moral terms.
• Now Israel plans to boycott the boycotters
  
  
  A proposed Israeli bill to punish groups that call for boycotts is the ugly conclusion to today’s shallow Israel-bashing.
• Putting St Jamie in the dock - at last
  
  
  In flambéing Jamie Oliver, the Lib-Con health secretary is striking a blow against a deeply patronising form of politics.
• A surreal assault on your mind
  
  
  Sculptor Nancy Fouts provides a stimulating exercise in juxtaposition in her London show.
• Criminalising the rough and tumble of politics
  
  
  The conviction of a black Bristol City councillor who called an Asian colleague a ‘coconut’ is a serious assault on free speech and democracy.

Cryptogon

• UK Firm Octel Bribed Iraqis to Keep Buying Toxic F ...
  
  
  Via: Guardian: The former chief executive of a British chemical company faces the prospect of extradition to the US after the firm admitted million-dollar bribes to officials to sell toxic fuel additives to Iraq. Paul Jennings, until last year chief executive of the Octel chemical works near Ellesme ...
• Blair to Receive U.S. Peace Medal
  
  
  Tell me another one. Via: BBC: Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to receive a prestigious US medal and $100,000 (£67,000) prize for his work in conflict resolution. The National Constitution Centre is awarding him its Liberty Medal for “steadfast” efforts to broker peace in Northern Ireland an ...
• Independent Video and Images from Gulf of Mexico D ...
  
  
  Via: bpslick:
• May Pending Home Sales Plunge Record 30 Percent
  
  
  Splat. Via: Reuters: Contracts for pending sales of previously owned homes plunged a record 30 percent in May, far more than expected, after a popular tax credit expired at the end of the prior month, a survey from the National Association of Realtors showed on Thursday. The Realtors said its Pendin ...
• National Debt Soars to Highest Level Since WWII
  
  
  Via: USA Today: The federal debt will represent 62% of the nation’s economy by the end of this year, the highest percentage since just after World War II, according to a long-term budget outlook released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

The Economic Collapse

• Stimulus Waste
  
  
  Back in February 2009, the U.S. Congress passed an $862 billion "economic stimulus" bill to help the struggling American economy recover from the horrible financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.  Right now, federal agencies are spending this stimulus money at the rate of approximately 196 million dollars ...
• What Do You Believe Is America’s Biggest Eco ...
  
  
  Today there are literally dozens of major threats to the U.S. economy.  Each one of these threats alone could cause a major economic implosion.  The Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the derivatives bubble, the housing crisis, the exploding U.S. national debt and the burgeoning European debt crisis all thre ...
• Mortgage Horror Stories: The U.S. Housing Industry ...
  
  
  Back about five or six years ago, when the housing bubble was still rising, just about anyone could get a mortgage.  Lending institutions were handing out ridiculously bloated home loans to almost anyone who breathed.  It didn't matter if you had a rotten credit history, it didn't matter if you didn ...
• The Coming U.S. Real Estate Crash
  
  
  This week headlines across the United States screamed that new home sales in the U.S. had declined to the lowest level since the U.S. government began keeping track in 1963.  But in the news stories covering this data in the mainstream media, they were always very careful to give their readers lots ...
• 25 Signs That Almost Everyone Is Expecting An Econ ...
  
  
  At times like these, it is hardly going out on a limb to say that we are headed for hard economic times.  In fact, it seems like almost everyone in the financial world is either declaring that a recession is coming or is busy preparing for one.  The truth is that bad economic signs are everywhere.  ...

Desertification

• BETTER SEEDS AS PART OF UN EFFORT TO BOLSTER FOOD ...
  
  
  Read at : UNNews BURKINABÃ FARMERS RECEIVE BETTER SEEDS AS PART OF UN EFFORT TO BOLSTER FOOD SECURITY New York, Jun 25 2010 10:05AM The United Nations has begun providing quality seeds to 100,000 vulnerable farmers in Burkina Faso, one … Continue reading →
• News from ILEIA
  
  
  Read at : ILEIA e-bulletin In this issue ⢠Out now: Farming Matters, Money for farming ⢠Debate: Payment for Environmental Services ⢠Learning AgriCultures: Cropping systems ⢠Meet our editors in … Montpellier, France ⢠We are reading … … Continue reading →
• UNCCD : Alert No. 6
  
  
  Alert No. 06/10/2010 14 â 25 June 2010 AWARENESS RAISING World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) Messages: The messages of Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, and Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD, are available online. Messages from other dignitaries can also … Continue reading →
• Share Best Practices in Sustainable Development (C ...
  
  
  Read at : Sustainable Development Announcement List Share Best Practices in Sustainable Development at Online Professional Development Community CSDiâs ONLINE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY invites people active in development to share resources & collaborate online in developing susta ...
• The DESIRE project: Sustainable Land Management en ...
  
  
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  Arlington National Cemetery management “demonstrated an obvious failure” when it fired Gina Gray, the cemetery’s former spokeswoman and a whistleblower, according to a Pentagon internal watchdog’s letter obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.
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  Tom Donohue, the combative president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is upping the ante for the fall elections.
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  The major roll-up of 11 Russian spies-cum-suburbanites involves the relatively rare use of the criminal code that requires agents of foreign powers to register with the U.S. Justice Department – a provision that allows prosecution of covert foreign operatives working without diplomatic immunity.
• ACLU Challenges Constitutionality of No-Fly List
  
  
  The American Civil Liberties Union today sued the U.S. government, alleging it violated the constitutional rights of 10 U.S. citizens or legal residents by placing them on the “No Fly” anti-terrorism list and failing to provide them due process to clear their names.
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  Led by actors dressed as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross, two good-government groups today sought to draw attention to legislation that would grant public funding to candidates who promise to accept only small donations from supporters.

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  By Brian Brennan Chick Corea was supposed to play Calgary this Friday night, followed by Ben E. King on Saturday night. But that won't happen now because C-Jazz, the local organizers of the Calgary Jazz Festival, have abruptly pulled the plug on the annual event. Is it possible the shows will ...
• Will Richard Fadden be McChrystaled?
  
  
  By Frank Moher While the States deals with its case of loose lips sinking General McChrystal, are we watching a similar self-capsizing occur up here? CSIS director Richard Fadden is today backing-off statements he made in two interviews with the CBC, broadcast earlier this week. Fadden said that ...
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  By Alison@Creekside The G8 Free Speech Farm -- only a short, leisurely eight kilometer hike from the G8 site.. Meanwhile at the G20 downtown, the government of Ontario has designated the sidewalks and public spaces five meters from the security fence a Charter-free zone. How's your legalese? ...
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  Poor Oscar got his back feet chopped off by a combine harvester! Did farmer Coates say "Now, Travis, Oscar's your kitty. You've got ta shoot him clean through the head so he don't suffer none." Nope. Instead Oscar got prosthetic feet, and not just any prosthetics, but ...

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Google's Renewable Energy Push

Wall Street Journal (blog)

- Jul 01, 2010

- 4 hours ago

By Yuliya Chernova Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google Inc., spoke at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street on ...

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Utah Renewable Energy Rebates Still Available

KCSG

- Jul 01, 2010

- 2 hours ago

by Tammy Kikuchi, Contributor (Salt Lake City, UT) - There is still time to reserve a renewable energy rebate for residential or commercial solar thermal, ...

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CORRECTING and REPLACING Raser Technologies and Hyundai Heavy Industries ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Jun 30, 2010

- Jun 30, 2010

The agreement sets into play the first two projects that are intended to lead to a broader long-term relationship to develop renewable energy in the western ...

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State could be left sucking wind

Lexington Herald Leader

- Jun 30, 2010

- 17 hours ago

Those getting in on the ground floor of renewable energy stand to reap future benefits. Kentucky, unfortunately, is positioning itself to be a loser. ...

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US Ecology Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.18 per Share

MarketWatch (press release)

- Jul 01, 2010

- 12 hours ago

About US Ecology, Inc. US Ecology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides radioactive, PCB, hazardous, and non-hazardous waste services to commercial and ...

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Carter, King clash over Maine wind project

The Associated Press

- Jun 30, 2010

- Jun 30, 2010

... and generate visual and noise pollution all while failing to reduce greenhouse emissions, said Jonathan Carter, director of the Forest Ecology Network. ...

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Program gets 200 dirty diesel trucks off road

Seattle Post Intelligencer

- Jul 01, 2010

- 3 hours ago

... toxic particle pollution from the air each year. The program also uses grant money from the agency, the Port of Seattle and the state Department of Ecology.

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Ecology seeks to make water ban permanent

Capital Press (subscription)

- Jul 01, 2010

- 6 hours ago

The Washington Department of Ecology is proposing a permanent ban of permit-exempt ground water withdrawals in upper Kittitas County. ...

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Watery Balancing Act

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

- Jul 01, 2010

- 6 hours ago

Governor Schwarzenegger has announced that he intends to work with the Legislature to postpone the $11 billion water bond until 2012. ...

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Dealing with WSSC's water restrictions

Washington Post (blog)

- Jul 01, 2010

- 1 hour ago

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has issued recommendations for dealing with the water restrictions it has implemented while repairing a failing ...

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The Last Airbender: movie review

Christian Science Monitor

- Jul 01, 2010

- 2 hours ago

Aang (Noah Ringer) is the prophesied airbender who must defend his people against the Fire Nation in its quest to dominate the tribal nations of Air, Water, ...

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Pa. quarantines cattle over well water concern

BusinessWeek

- Jul 01, 2010

- 38 minutes ago

Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said Thursday that uncertainty over how much water the cows drank warranted the quarantine to protect the public from ...

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