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Thomas Paine

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Monday, July 12, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • SPORTS: Power and Passion Put Football Above the L ...
    The FIFA Football World Cup is presented -- and felt emotionally by millions -- as a contest amongst countries in which national honour is at stake. But it is also a private business, controlled by a small group of people who exploit patriotism and foment rivalries in marketing the "product. ...
  • SPORTS: Power and Passion Put Football Above the L ...
    The FIFA Football World Cup is presented -- and felt emotionally by millions -- as a contest amongst countries in which national honour is at stake. But it is also a private business, controlled by a small group of people who exploit patriotism and foment rivalries in marketing the "product. ...
  • SPORTS: Power and Passion Put Football Above the L ...
    The FIFA Football World Cup is presented -- and felt emotionally by millions -- as a contest amongst countries in which national honour is at stake. But it is also a private business, controlled by a small group of people who exploit patriotism and foment rivalries in marketing the "product. ...
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Uruguay Fends Off Health Threats - ...
    The incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and water-borne diseases is rising in Uruguay in tandem with climate change, while dengue fever and malaria lurk at the country's borders. Higher temperatures are encouraging the presence of insect vectors carrying diseases that were eradicated de ...
  • ZAMBIA: Women Welcome Equality Commission
    The Zambian National Constitution Conference (NCC) concluded its business recently with the adoption of a clause for the creation of a Gender Equality Commission.

Scoop - NZ

  • Belgian Cardinal linked to notorious sex killer/pe ...
    Belgian newspaper Het Laaste Niews is reporting that when authorities searched the home of the former archbishop of Brussels, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, they discovered a hidden cache of documents and photographs on notorious child sex killer Marc Dutroux - documents that Danneels was not supposed ...
  • Aust construction contracts as rates bite
    Australia's building industry shrank in June at the fastest pace in 10 months, a sign the most aggressive round of interest rate increases among Group of 20 members is eroding demand for new dwellings. The index fell 6.8 points to 46.4 from May, according to a survey by the Australian Industry Grou ...
  • Sarkozy scandal rocks French government
    Popular disgust is mounting over revelations that, while demanding huge social cuts from working people, top French officials took money from billionairess Liliane Bettencourt and helped her evade taxes. The 87-year-old Bettencourt's net worth of a4¬17 billion, largely in holdings of stock in cosme ...
  • A day tending the Warrior
    In May 2010 Greenpeace volunteers, friends and staff spent a couple of days in May 2010 doing track maintenance at the Rainbow Warrior memorial in Matauri Bay, Northland, New Zealand. In this short video they talk of the significance of the place, the Rainbow Warrior and the bombing. ��� PLIGG_Visua ...
  • Relief well days away from leaking oil pipe
    After 76 days, 190 million gallons of oil, and a $22.5bn (£15bn) clean-up and compensation bill so far, BP is poised to plug its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling engineers have only one chance to get it right. One wrong move as engineers break through the cement and steel pipe of the M ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Keeping phones focused
    The transparent silicon wafer is smaller than a pencil’s eraser tip and as thin as a sheet of paper. But the LensVector autofocus camera lens — the world’s tiniest — has big prospects. And it may soon turn the cellular-phone industry on its ear. Developed by Tigran Galstian, a physics and engineerin ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Andrew Napolitano: Bush and Cheney Should Have Bee ...
    Well, this is something you don't see every day. Ralph Nader hosted this interview segment with Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano and discussed his book, Lies the Government Told You. I'm surprised the judge is going to be allowed on Fox after making the statements he did about Bush and Cheney durin ...
  • U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the Europe ...
    For years, four British nationals have been fighting against their extradition to the United States to face various terrorism charges, arguing that such a move would place them at risk of human right violations, as defined by the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. When courts in the UK ruled ...
  • Police say 6 people dead, 4 hospitalized in shooti ...
    A gunman opened fire at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer on Monday, killing five people and wounding four others before killing himself in what police said was a domestic violence dispute. The shooting at Emcore Corp. appeared to involve the gunman's ex-wife or girlfriend, who was among th ...
  • Who Controls Our Children ? (Public Education Dumb ...
    While parents, schools, provinces and states across North America bicker about the democratic process of running public schools, forces are manipulating education from behind the scenes. Major international players are reshaping public education to suit their own self-serving agendas, without regard ...
  • Surprise! Israeli Military Finds Flotilla Killings ...
    Tel Aviv - An Israeli military investigation into its naval takeover of a Gaza-bound flotilla six weeks ago found that it was plagued by errors of planning, intelligence and coordination but the killings of nine Turks on board were justified, according to an official summary of the findings release ...

The Galloping Beaver

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  • Harper sends in the lightweights
    If you haven't listened to CBC's The Current today it's well worth the time if only to realize that Barry Cooper, one of the Calgary School feeding Harper-government policy, is still peddling a line which flies in the face of rule of law, shows a distinct lack of respect for established convention a ...
  • Now Read This
    Stop what you're doing. Now. And read . Below, in full, from a commentor at the Torontoist : As a serving member of the Canadian Forces and a combat veteran, I can say with absolute clarity and conviction that i am disgusted by the actions of the supposed "other half" of our nations security, th ...
  • Christie's Chronicles: middle-class lesbian youth ...
    Oh she's at it again. Maybe not as pornographic as her comments about police, but there she is nonetheless . The 17, including a group of four alleged leaders from the Southern Ontario Anarchist Resistance, are facing charges of conspiracy to commit mischief, conspiracy to assault police and cons ...
  • G20 : Maclean's does The Onion
    It's been pretty difficult to find any humour in G20, hasn't it? Inside - a billion dollar bunfest in which leaders talk about implementng austerity. Outside - 20,000 police decline to confront a hundred or so rioters in favour of spending the following day assaulting and arresting a thousand nonvio ...

Media Matters for America

  • NYP op-ed disappears Bush's politicizati ...
    In a New York Post op-ed, former Bush Justice Department official Kris Kobach accused the Obama Justice Department of pursuing a "weak" lawsuit against Arizona's controversial immigration law -- which Kobach helped draft -- for "purely political reasons," in contrast to "past administrations." In ...
  • Beck falsely claims Navy not involved in BP oil sp ...
    On his radio show, Glenn Beck�falsely�claimed that the Navy "has not been called in" to assist with clean-up and response efforts in the Gulf Coast. In reality, the Navy has been involved in the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill "since day #1." Beck wonders why Navy has "not been dispatch ...
  • The Fox Cycle: From bogus right-wing attack to ma ...
    As more and more media outlets follow Fox News' lead in covering the manufactured New Black Panther Party/Department of Justice (DOJ) scandal, Media Matters offers three case studies of previous bogus right-wing attacks that, with help from Fox News, went mainstream before being debunked. The N ...
  • Wallace revives tired right-wing attacks on "cont ...
    Chris Wallace claimed that President Obama used a recess appointment to install Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services head Donald Berwick to avoid defending Berwick's "controversial statements" regarding health care rationing and Britain's National Health Service. Wallace's comments, echoing ...
  • Meet the conservative U.S. Commission on Civil Ri ...
    Media figures have emphasized the fact that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is technically "bipartisan" to hype its investigation of the Justice Department's actions in the New Black Panther Party case. In reality, the commission's chair has acknowledged that conservatives "gam[ed] the sys ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Vanishing American Consumer And The Coming Tra ...
    President Obama has vowed to double U.S. exports within the next five years. That's because exports are critical for rebooting the American economy. It's clear American consumers can't get the economy going on their own. They can't restart the jobs machine. They've run out of money and credit. It ...
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  • Despicable Me
    Maybe you thought Newt Gingrich would destroy liberalism. Or maybe the solid Republican control of the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court after 2000. You would have been wrong. Opposition to liberalism strengthened it, fed the grassroots. No, the end of liberalism goes to our president, ...
  • Robert Kagan Takes Franchise to Brookings
    Yesterday, when I was at this meeting with Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Cheryl Benton , Benton asked me off camera if I followed the LeBron James stuff . I sheepishly had to say that I had thought LeBron James ...
  • Jeff Goldberg: Still Lying After All These Years
    There is a great bumper sticker that reads: "America's Labor Unions: The People Who Gave You The Weekend." That slogan came to mind after reading three blog posts this week on attacking Iran from the Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg . It made me think of a bumper sticker that could be made about those p ...

TruthOut

  • The IMF Is Coming for Your Social Security
    A few years back, there was a fear in some parts about black UN helicopters that were supposedly taking part in the planning of an invasion of the United States. While there was no foundation for this fear, there is basis for concern about the attack of another international organization, the Intern ...
  • Suing Arizona Is Just the Beginning, Immigrant Rig ...
    The decision by the Department of Justice to sue Arizona over its harsh immigration legislation is expected to block implementation of the law, but immigrant rights activists argue that this is only the first step to minimizing the harmful impact of unfair enforcement practices. read more
  • The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Econom ...
    We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual , a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. While there are plenty of talking heads spewing lies, insults and nonsense in the various media, it would be w ...
  • Eugene Robinson | Polanski and Unmitigated Gall
    Washington - For Roman Polanski, the long, unspeakable nightmare of being confined to his three-story chalet in Gstaad, the luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, is finally over. The fugitive director is free once again to stroll into town, have a nice meal, maybe do a little shopping at the local Cartie ...
  • Capital Controls: “The New Normal” (Part I)
    www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/7eb47c3a9e/publication/394/ Like many progressive economists, I’m addicted to economics and business news. These days one phrase is repeated constantly—“The new normal.” Indeed, National Public Radio’s show , “Planet Money” recently featured a story on this omnipresent ph ...

Planetsave

  • The Strata: World’s First Skyscraper with Bu ...
    It rises 143 meters  above central London, making it the district’s tallest residential structure. Its nickname is ‘The Razor” owing to its sharp angular design. It’s also the first skyscraper to have electricity-generating wind turbines built into its core design “fabric”. In a city not as suited ...
  • National Parks (10 Friday Photos)
    In this week’s 10 Friday Photos post, enjoy great photos of 10 beautiful national parks. Since this week’s 7 Green Bloggers post was about top nature destinations and some of the bloggers chose national parks, I decided to make sure some of the photos in this post are of those national parks. Read ...
  • Europe Should Freeze Deep Water Drilling
    A top member of the European Commission has said that European countries should freeze new deep water drilling until the causes behind the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are investigated. EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in prepared remarks he was to deliver to the European Parliament in St ...
  • Climategate Scientists Vindicated by Inquiry
    An independent report into the climategate scandal has left the involved scientists mostly vindicated, with only a minor slap on the wrist. The panel of inquiry, led by former U.K. civil servant Muir Russell, found that the scientists ârigour and honesty as scientists [is] not in doubt.â The rep ...
  • Commonplace Heatwaves by 2039
    One degree of warming may be too much for some countries, with heat waves possibly commonplace by the year 2039. A new study by Stanford University climate scientists has looked at two dozen climate models to project what could happen in America if carbon dioxide emissions raised the planetâs tem ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Oil companies complicit in Sudan civil war, report ...
    12 July 2010 The European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS)—a group of 50 European Non Governmental Organisations—recently released a report, “Unpaid debt: The legacy of Lundin, Petronas and OMV in Sudan, 1997-2003”. It alleges that an oil consortium led by Swedish firm Lundin Petroleum (and inclu ...
  • General who says “It’s fun to kill people” picked ...
    12 July 2010 Last week, the Obama administration named Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to replace Gen. David Petraeus as chief of US Central Command, giving the Marine officer overall command of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and across the Middle East and Central Asia. The elevation of...
  • Former Cuban President Fidel Castro to appear on C ...
    July 12, 2010 (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has lived in seclusion since falling ill four years ago, will appear on Cuban television and radio on Monday evening to discuss his theory that the world is on the verge of nuclear war, the Communist Party newspaper Granma...
  • New Mumbai airport plan pits environment against b ...
    � July 11, 2010 Lush green mangrove trees and shrubs stretch into the distance on the muddy outskirts of Navi Mumbai in western India, the low-lying land swollen with heavy monsoon rains Nearby, the people of Chinchpada are starting their day: women wash and dry clothes in the open, children ...
  • Package Bomb sent to Oil Exec's House in Houston, ...
    Neighbors on edge after box left at home explodes by Sonia Azad July 12, 2010 HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Neighbors in a northwest Houston neighborhood are scared after a bomb was sent to a woman at her home and it exploded. Neighbors say the explosive was disguised as a box of...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Typing This On A Dell Computer Is Evidence: Capita ...
    We Americans are indoctrinated, usually quite effectively, in the notion that capitalism is an ultimately fair, if sometimes unmerciful, economic system. It is supposed to be merciless competition itself that disciplines the market. If you make an unsatisfactory product, your competitors, in theory, ...
  • NAACP in Kansas City: Michelle Obama - photos
    First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the NAACP National Convention for its first plenary session, focusing her remarks on the problems of childhood obesity and her effort to address the problem through her Let's Move campaign. Prior to her speech Senator Claire McCaskill (D) and Congressman Emanuel C ...
  • Professor Wolfe Explores Right Wing's Fascist Root ...
    In a July 1 post I referenced Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, who said that among the many political ideologies competing for dominance in America, liberalism is the only one that "can be honest about what it stands for." �And that is ...
  • Real Women's Work
    Laura Flanders in The Nation: So it's "the year of the women" in the media again. But again, it's only some. All about money media are all about the women of the GOP. It's news, right, when Republican women are running for office and winning primaries, it seems, because, well it's supposed to irk fe ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Somali civil war spills into Uganda, killing an American. "At least 23 people, including one American, have been killed in twin blast in the Ugandan capital Kampala. It is not known what caused the blasts, which police said went off at a rugby club and at a restaurant, as football fans watched the W ...

Care 2

  • Nestle Stoops to New Low, Launches Barge to Peddle ...
    As the company explains, "The first Nestlé floating supermarket will set sail on the Brazilian Amazon to extend its reach to over 800,000 customers." The barge is dubbed Nestlé Até Você a Bordo -- or Nestlé Takes You Onboard. ** I really HATE Nestle. Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Anti-Obama Movement Is Escalating To Fever Pitch!
    There are those in Washington, D.C. who would not want your recognition of this growing Anti-Obama Movement on Main Street U.S.A, because President Barack Obama is fast becoming a destructive political liability toward the coming elections. Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to US Politics & Go ...
  • If You Feed Them They Breed -- And Other Dehumaniz ...
    The country is in an economic emergency. Unemployment -- especially long-term unemployment -- is at extremely high levels and the recovery is faltering. Conservatives are obstructing efforts to solve this because they believe it helps them in the election Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Tell Ohio Senators to End Breed Discrimination in ...
    In May 2010, House Bill 55 (with HB79 added to it) overwhelmingly passed the Ohio House of Representatives and was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee for consideration. This bill allows judges to add companion animals to domestic violence protection Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • Countries Work on Agreement to Save Tigers
    Countries with remaining tiger populations are gathering on the Indonesian island of Bali this week to finalize a formal agreement to end tiger poaching and preserve tiger habitats in an effort to prevent the big cats from sliding into extinction. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...

Smirking Chimp

  • 600th study released showing huge wealth disparity
    It seems like we see this same study every month. The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades , according to a June 25 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Yeah, but we’ve known that forever, right? ...
  • Cartoon for July 12th, 2010: Thirty to One
    [click image to enlarge] General Petraeus has promised to rethink his predecessor’s recent policy of trying to reduce Afghan casualties. read more
  • Heat Wave Washes Away American Ideals: LeBron Jame ...
    Millions of Americans had pleaded with basketball superstar LeBron James to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers and come to their city when he became a free agent. Bloggers, media pundits, and reporters of every kind seemed to devote much of their lives to figuring out what team James would be a part of f ...
  • Corporations gone wild (as Jefferson warned us)
    Today we live in historic times, and I don't mean that in a good way. First of all, we are suffering the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And why? Because the financial industry was permitted to run amok. Under the relaxed regulations of the Reagan and Clinton administrations, the b ...
  • Brad Sherman's Middle-East Town Hall Rife With Fea ...
    On July 3, 2010, I received an email from a friend informing me that Congressman Brad Sherman, who is seeking reelection to his 8th term in California's 27th Congressional District, was hosting a Middle-East town hall on July 7th from 7-8:30PM at member-based Conservative Jewish Temple, Ramat Zion, ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • What Is Going On At The DOJ?
    / Bumped up + stay tuned for more from the Reverend later today / And what does it mean for our foundational rights as a country? Recently, J. Christian Adams, former DOJ attorney, made some serious accusations about how the DOJ is doing business under Obama. Adams’ initial comments had to do with ...
  • Spies Like Us Part II
    I’ve done a couple of media interviews over the last week and fielded questions at a party from friends about the latest Russian spy scandal . I am struck that folks are surprised that such things should happen in the 21st century. You also should not be surprised to learn that intelligence office ...
  • Alvin Greene, SC’s “Thinker Outside Th ...
    You may recall that there was quite the upset in SC during the recent primaries in which an unemployed man who did no campaigning, had no real policy platform, had no campaign website, and had no campaign funds, beat out his competitor, an elected official. By a lot, I might add. Greene won [...]
  • People’s Apple
    Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   Planets and Moons.   China is growth. China is mystery. China is a non-trans ...
  • What Is Going On At The DOJ?
    And what does it mean for our foundational rights as a country? Recently, J. Christian Adams, former DOJ attorney, made some serious accusations about how the DOJ is doing business under Obama. Adams’ initial comments had to do with the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) about which I wrote recently, a ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Woman Who Lived With Her Husband's Corpse
    Not always does death part - as least for the living who sometimes just can't let go. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How the Philippine Forests are Shrinking Every Day
    Every year more and more of the Philippines's forests are destroyed - at a huge cost to the animal and plant life of the country. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Spiderman Climbs New York Times Skyscraper to Warn ...
    French climber for a healthy planet. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Precariously Placed Mountain Huts on Earth
    The daring foot traveler can seek refuge and hospitality in a charming mountain hut - here are some of the most amazing! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • When Miniature People Take Over the Streets
    "Little People", the smallest street art project you'll ever see. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Doom Feared as Asian Carp Advances
    For state and local officials in the Great Lakes region, the arrival of the Asian carp on the doorstep of Lake Michigan is an environmental crisis of the first order.
  • On Our Radar: Drought in Niger
    Creeping desert and drought threaten Niger with famine.
  • A Watchdog's Warning on Nuclear Waste
    A commission on nuclear waste established to seek alternatives to Yucca Mountain will hold two days of hearings this week.
  • Army Engineers Defend Gulf Response
    The leader of the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans pushed back over the weekend against accusations by Louisiana officials that his agency had neglected its responsibilities by failing to quickly review and approve controversial projects like the construction of sand and rock barriers along th ...
  • The Future Scientist as Young Idealist
    The Union of Concerned Scientists has opened an advertising campaign that aims to soften the image of climate scientists by portraying future researchers as children and teenagers with an insatiable curiosity about the natural world.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Hot night in Oakland: Oscar Grant killed by Mehser ...
    NadiartTwo : RT @ phyrecracker : Once the protest is labelled as a riot it's time for pocs to keep it movin #oscargrant "riots" began before they started. A good point there. Kind of like how the Toronto police recently parked a couple cars in front of the ragin' black bloc and vanishe ...
  • Sunset of Chicago's Handgun Ban: Shots on Lawrence ...
    Back now from the US Social Forum in Detroit; stayed at friends' in Chicago and my sister's in Madison. On the way out of Detroit Saturday, I took Michigan Avenue west into Dearborn before cutting down to I-94. On the way out of Chicago Sunday, I took Lawrence Avenue out to I-90. Michigan and La ...
  • Diamond Dave & Direct Democracy in Detroit: Crib n ...
    A decade after the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, more than ten thousand activists have arrived from around the world in Detroit for the 2010 US Social Forum , the first since 2007's Atlanta conference. Over four days USSF is hosting a huge program with more than a thousand work ...
  • Assange == Auction the leaks? Lamo was a Honeypot ...
    Vatican Endorses "The Blues Brothers" - ABC News - nothing else matters too much. " The issue here is that Assange and Manning (the primary source of Wikileaks Iraq and Afghanistan leaks) hoped to jointly profit by selling some of the data by auction " -- Supposed "Wikileaks Insider" @ Cryptome ...
  • Daily Show: Obama == "Respect My Authoritah"
    Great stuff from tonight's Daily Show. It contrasts with the right-baiting on MSNBC right now nicely :) Update 15 mins later: - look what the photo host service I tweeted it from did! TAKEN OVER BY HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP advertising. Dark times. here: http://tweetphoto.com/27442324

Daily Censored

  • The NEA Representative Assembly Proves the Educati ...
    The NEA Representative Assembly Proves the Education Agenda is a War Agenda by Rich Gibson, July 2010Rouge Forum Rank and File Summary The 2010 Representative Assembly (RA) of the 3.2 million member National Education Association offers clear proof that the U.S. education agenda is a war agenda. It ...
  • “The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No ...
    July 02, 2010  From DEMOCRACY NOW:  Maude Barlow: “The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History” As world leaders gathered in Toronto for the G20 summit last week, leading activists from around the world joined thousands in Toronto¹s Massey Hall to oppose the G20 agenda. Amon ...
  • Army Corps Caught Attacking Citizens Online
    Army Corps Caught Attacking Citizens Online Submitted by: Sandy Rosenthal In a sworn affidavit, Jon Donley, Editor of the online version of New Orleans’ leading newspaper, the Times Picayune, described questionable and possibly illegal behavior by about 20 individuals at the U.S Army Corps of Engine ...
  • It’s Oscar (Grant) Season
    PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY 1/19/2009, two weeks after Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART officer Johannes Mehserle.  Mehrsele was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter today, 7/8/2010. Here is the video of Oscar being executed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZTbJH6BNaU&feature=related In Oscar-co ...
  • Is the US government protecting BP and what’s real ...
    For months now, we have read stories and watched videos of what’s actually happening in the gulf. These stories come from people who are there, who are being lied to and feel that the internet is the only way to get the information out. While the major media is covering the story, often they skip [. ...

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Equality Trust

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

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 9 with John Bo ...
    We only need think of the Gulf of Mexico to be reminded that corporate abuses have deadly consequences–especially when the corporations are considered people with the same rights we have, as in the case of ...
  • Amend to Suspend Corporate Personhood July Call
    At this meeting of the Amend to Suspend Corporate Personhood Action Group, participants discussed the Monahan Brothers walk across the country, upcoming events in Colorado and Florida, and MoveOn’s 98% campaign. In addition, the group ...
  • Inside the Democratic Party July Call
    On this call we ratified the national endorsements of Marleine Bastien (http://www.votebastien.com/) and Dr David Gill (http://www.gillforcongress.com/).
  • July 2010: Are PDA’s vision, goals and strategy s ...
    By Bill Bianchi, PDA Chicago Chapter Leader After just six years, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) has established itself as the predominant grassroots organizations affiliated with the Democratic Party. It has done this by advocating and ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: “From Roxbury to Cleveland ...
    I am writing you today to ask you to join me at PDA’s national conference in my home town, Cleveland, from July 23rd-25th. Almost 6 years ago, at the conclusion of my 2004 primary campaign ...

Marler Blog

  • No, this is not a travel blog
    The Parthenon (Ancient Greek: ΠαρθενÏν) is a temple in the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to of the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their protector. Its construction began in 447 BC and was completed in 438 BC. (View from dinner at the Hotel Bretagne) Nine yea ...
  • Ellensburg Day Care E. coli Outbreak is E. coli O2 ...
    The E. coli outbreak that temporarily closed three Ellensburg day-care operations appears to be winding down, health officials said last Friday. However, press reports a few hours ago indicate that the outbreak strain that has sickened several children and adults is E. coli O26 not the more frequen ...
  • Never far from being reminded of my job
    Sitting on my deck in the village of Oia on the Island of Santorini is about the last place I thought I would think about why my job is so important. I then received this email: Hi Bill, I hope you, your family and your terrific team in Seattle are doing well! I came across a "snippet" of yo ...
  • Lawyers, Microbiologists, and Safe Food
    There must be a good joke about a lawyer who sidles up to a bar and strikes up a conversation with the microbiologist on the next stool. I don't know the punch line, but rest assured it will have something to do with the microbiologist peering through a microscope, and the lawyer chasing ambulances. ...
  • 14 more hit with E. coli in Colorado - no link to ...
    Little Sailors Child Development in Northglenn, Colorado have been linked to an E. coli outbreak that has affected more than a dozen people. The Tri-County Health Department has announced that 14 people, 13 children and a teacher have been diagnosed with a mild strain of E. coli. The source of the ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 07.12.10
    Toyota to go big in 2012 with a new BEV, PHEV and Prius family The EV movement continues. Tesla confirms it is building two electric vehicle mules for Toyota It pays to be out front. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 07.06.10
    Quick Spin: Amp Equinox shakes, rattles but doesn't roll us A "Leaf beater"? We're not so sure. Elon Musk nets much needed $24M profit from Tesla's IPO He was "broke" not too long ago. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 07.02.10
    Nissan Leaf hits 15,000 pre-orders, Aqua Globe blue most popular And that's just in the U.S. General Motors adds New York and Austin, TX to Chevy Volt launch markets These towns are ready. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.30.10
    Nissan to offer tens of thousands of Leaf test drives starting this fall Want one? You'll probably get your chance. Tesla lets 13.3M shares fly at $17, raises $226M on IPO Not a bad day. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.29.10
    Average American auto expenses: $5,477 (that's more than food) What do you pay? Report: Honda to offer Fit Hybrid for $16,570, let the price wars begin Reuters wonders if more competition wi ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: What's the iPhone 4's probl ...
    The iPhone 4's radio woes are well-documented. The most recent tests, like our own , show dramatic radio performance issues when a part of the external antenna is gripped. This week on the Roundtable, we delve into the electronic and radio engineering issues affecting the iPhone 4's antennas, as ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Rafe and Josh talk keyboards
    If you're going to spend more time touching your keyboard than your spouse, you might want to put some time into picking a good one (keyboard, that is). Here are our tips for keyboards. Plus, of course, your questions answered. And the obligatory Evernote tip. Listen now: Download today ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Space programs (podcast)
    Why go to space? And how? This week, two great guests talk about how our space program has changed since Apollo, whether we're going back to the moon or pressing on to Mars, and how we need to build the "Interstate for Space" to get to either of those rocks. Our first guest is space journalist Mi ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Road trip road test
    This week on the show: Road tripping. We've got real-world road tests from road warriors Daniel Terdiman of CNET Road Trip 2010 and Darren Kitchen, of Hak5 and his own cross-country motorcycle trip. Also, Android and networking tips. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe: � ...
  • CNET Showcase wrapup: Readers sound off on iPad vs ...
    Brian Cooley wraps up the second CNET Showcase Live event with an overview of the debate and videos of the products behind it. Originally posted at CNET Showcase ...

Camera Obscura

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Wednesday, July 7th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil
    “Deep Spill 2” sounds like a sequel to a Hollywood thriller. Unfortunately, it is more of a reality show. “Deep Spill 2” is the name of an ambitious series of proposed scientific experiments that should be happening right now. Scientists from around the globe are ready, literally, to dive in to un ...
  • Are Sports Boring? Arun Gupta Debates Dave Zirin
    As the World Cup draws to a close, we turn to a lively debate on the political and social relevance of sports. Arun Gupta, a founding editor of the Indypendent, debates Nation Magazine sports columnist Dave Zirin. The Indypendent hosted the event at the Brecht Forum in New York City.
  • Detroit Poet Jessica Care Moore at the U.S. Social ...
    Jessica Care Moore is an acclaimed Detroit poet. She participated in the U.S. Social Forum as well as the Allied Media Conference, both of which were held in Detroit last week. Democracy Now! producer Mike Burke caught up with Jessica outside of Cobo Hall, where the U.S. Social Forum was held.
  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Wednesday, June 30th at 7pm Eastern Time.

Farming Pathogens

  • Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
    The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
  • Influenza’s Historical Present
    I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
  • The Alan Greenspan Strain
    First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
  • King Leopold’s Pandemic
    The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
  • The Expulsion
    In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...

Suzie-Q

  • Could “Success” In Afghanistan Be Wors ...
    Could “Success” in Afghanistan Be Worse Than Failure? Tomdispatch.com / By Tom Engelhardt Success means that the fifth poorest country in the world and foremost narco state is ours for years to come. July 12, 2011, Washington, D.C. – In triumphant testimony before a joint committee of Congress in w ...
  • How Lady Gaga Helped Leak 150,000 Classified State ...
    How Lady Gaga Helped Leak 150,000 Classified State Department Cables TPM MUCKRAKER July 9, 2010, 2:22PM More details are emerging about the case of Wikileaker Pvt. Bradley Manning and they are… Gagalicious. Manning’s plan to download and leak thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks hinged on ...
  • Papers reveal Nixon plan for North Korea nuclear s ...
    Planes on alert after US spy plane shot down had weapons 20 times size of Hiroshima bomb Chris McGreal in Washington, The Guardian/UK, July 7, 2010 Richard Nixon is believed to have ordered nuclear bombers to be put on standby for an immediate strike on North Korea. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images It i ...
  • Keep Glenn Beck away from the Lincoln Memorial
    Reading Eagle Bill Press 7/5/2010 Glenn Beck already launched a radio and TV show, written several best-selling books, organized Tea Party rallies, launched a voter-registration drive and performed his own stand-up comedy tour. So what’s the self-described recovering alcoholic rodeo clown do next to ...
  • Obama Administration: Israel Has ‘Right’ to Nukes
    Call for a Nuclear Free Middle East ‘a Mistake’ by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com,  July 7, 2010 A statement released yesterday by the Obama Administration has made public America’s long-standing support for the Israeli government’s large, undeclared nuclear arsenal, and insists that Israel has an inherent ...

Solari

  • Is it Almost Over? BP Will Try to Stop Oil Flow
    By Mark Seibel (9 Jul 10) Washington - In a dramatic turn of events, the Obama administration has given BP the go-ahead to remove the containment cap atop the runaway Deepwater Horizon oil well and replace it with a tighter fitting one in an attempt to stop all the oil now flowing into the Gulf of [ ...
  • Money & Markets - Week of 7.11.10
    Paulson Suffers $2bn Slump in Assets Absolute Return + Alpha (8 Jul 10) IMF Tells US to Tighten Fiscal Policy Financial Times (29 Jun 10) CNBC Guest Says Absent Plunge Protection Team Stepping In, Market Would Fall ZeroHedge.com (8 Jul 10) Social Security Money Stolen by Government NewsChief.com ( ...
  • Precious Metals - Week of 7.11.10
    Race to Debase - Middle 2010 GoldSilver.com
  • Geopolitical - Week of 7.11.10
    YouTube New Tighter Cap 300 Feet From Spewing Oil Well, BP Says Miami Herald (12 Jul 10) BP Oil Spill: The Red Adair of Relief Well Drilling Says ‘No Doubt About Successful Outcome’ London Telegraph (11 Jul 10) Coast Guard Dispatching Ships and Personnel to Costa Rica to Threaten Nicaragua OnlineJ ...
  • Public and Private: Restoring a Montana Spring Cre ...
    New York Times By Verlyn Klinkenborg (8 Jul 10) A couple of weeks ago, I walked along a spring creek in the upper Madison Valley, just south of the town of Ennis, Mont. As my guide, Jeff Laszlo, explained, the creek is one of the unnamed tributaries of the Madison River, fed by innumerable springs a ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...
  • Is swapping the new shopping?
    As people tighten their purse strings, swap parties are becoming an increasingly popular way to refresh tired wardrobes without hitting the high street.
  • Green your cat
    Mars Petcare brands Sheba and Whiskas are to sell products using sustainably caught fish, allowing Britain’s 8 million cat owners to feed their pets with a clean conscience. The Marine Stewardship Council Certified cat food will be available later in the year. Environmentalists have been greening up ...
  • Sporting glory 'is hereditary'
    New research suggests that athletic people are more likely to pass on their sporting prowess to their children. Doctor Tony Vernon of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has published a study suggesting that genetics play a more significant role in determining how sporty an individu ...

Fabius Maximus

  • How China builds its commercial empire
    China builds alliances around the world, without our moralizing, as described in âChinaâs New Continentâ, Time, 5 July 2010 — Excerpt: Let’s go back to Kinshasa. Congo’s got problems. The Western way of helping has been with aid â multilateral, bilateral or through self-funding religious g ...
  • The rumors about a US strike are proven wrong, aga ...
    Summary:   How many internet websites would go dark should Americans become descriminating consumers of information, if silly rumors no longer attracted large audiences?  Fortunately for them, that’s not likely to happen soon. The rumors of a massive gathering of US naval forces were hyped on d ...
  • FM newswire for July 11, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis.   If you find this useful, please pass it to friends and colleagues. Highly Recommended:  âAliens cause global warmingâ, speech by Michael Crichton at the California Institute of Technology, 17 January 2003 — Important and prophetic. Recommen ...
  • Stratfor takes a closer look at India’s Naxa ...
    Summary:  India’s Nalalite insurgency is important and undercovered by US media.  Stratfor gives its typically thorough analysis. “A Closer Look at India’s Naxalite Threat“, Fred Burton and Ben West, Stratfor, 8 July 2010 –  This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR.  On July 6, ...
  • FM newswire for July 10, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis.   If you find this useful, please pass it to friends and colleagues. Debunked, but Republicans still repeat the lie:  “Oil Spill, Foreign Help and the Jones Act“, Fact Check (U Penn), 23 June 2010 — Lies travel as well as truth on the information ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • PetroChina open to closer ties with BP
    Financial Times – PetroChina, Chinaâs largest listed oil and gas producer, says it would âwelcomeâ closer co-operation with BP as the embattled UK group struggles to cover liabilities arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. Chinese energy companies have spent billions of dollars o ...
  • Food Standards Agency to be abolished by health se ...
    The Guardian – The Food Standards Agency is to be abolished by Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, it emerged last night, after the watchdog fought a running battle with industry over the introduction of colour-coded “traffic light” warnings for groceries, TV dinners and snacks. The move has spar ...
  • US throws three billion dollars at Afghan bombs
    The Stans – The United States is set to deliver three billion dollars worth of equipment to Afghanistan aimed at countering Taliban-made crude bombs used in the war, a US official said Thursday. Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have become the main weapon used against international and Afghan ...
  • Taser’s own report cites possibility of death, say ...
    Province – A B.C. government lawyer on Wednesday cited a training directive by Taser International that he said undermines the companyâs argument that the Braidwood inquiry reached a faulty conclusion about the lethality of Tasers. Craig Jones, representing the attorney-generalâs ministry, told ...
  • Australia: Church accepts liability for child rape ...
    The Australian – THE Catholic Church has made a sweeping admission of legal liability for the rape and abuse of girls at a Toowoomba primary school. In one of the most comprehensive wins for victims of child abuse in Australia, Toowoomba bishop Bill Morris has formally admitted liability and opened ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Malcolm Caldwell o bogactwie i wojnie ludowej
    Malcolm Caldwell o bogactwie i wojnie ludowej (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Polski) Malcolm Caldwell najbardziej znany jest ze swojej tajemniczej śmierci w 1978 roku, gdy gościł go reżim Pol Pota. Był on jednym z niewielu mieszkańców Zachodu, którym pozwolono na wjazd do Demokratycz ...
  • Killer of Oscar Grant Gets Off: No Justice in Amer ...
    Killer of Oscar Grant Gets Off: No Justice in Amerikkka (raimd.wordpress.com) Justice did not materialize in Oakland for Oscar Grant, just as it is delayed and denied for millions of victims of Amerikkka. The BART pig who killed Grant, Johannes Mehserle, was given the lightest sentence possible shor ...
  • Człowiek bez odchyleń — Rafał Kalukin
    Człowiek bez odchyleń (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Przedruk za: http://wyborcza.pl/1,75480,7592409.html?as=1&startsz=x#ixzz0lTTPxSXJ Żeby iść w rewolucyjnym marszu, to trzeba się czasem i po błocie czołgać – mówił Kazimierz Mijal, który całe życie czekał na dyktaturę proletariatu Do PPR wciągnęli go ...
  • Book review part 2 of 2 of Teresa Hayter’s The Cre ...
    Book review part 2 of 2 of Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty was first published in 1981 as a response to the World Bank’s Brandt Report. Even today, decades after it was first published, Ha ...
  • Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of So ...
    Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of Some Nations by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Malcolm Caldwell was one of the only Westerners to have ever visited Cambodia under the “Khmer Rouge” regime. He is mostly remembered as the academic activist who was assassinated in Demo ...

PakAlert

  • Israeli Air Force landed at Saudi Base
    The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran.Both reports follow by less than a week the Pentagon’s confirmatio ...
  • Video: ISI will bury India, US in Afghanistan: Zai ...
    Former Chief of IB Brig. Imtiaz (Rtd) and renowned Pakistani defence analyst Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid in a candid discussion on the recent history of Afghanistan and why it lives up to its reputation of being a graveyard of empires. Must watch analysis (English language) Read More at http://pakale ...
  • Alert: Obama Warns World Leaders ‘Millions Could D ...
    A sobering report circulating in the Kremlin today from President Medvedev’s meeting with other World leaders at the G8 summit in Muskoka, Ontario states that President Obama has warned his counterparts that the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster “will most likely kill millions, perhaps tens of millions” o ...
  • Is Israel Involved In Other Nations Elections?
    As the Official Story of the 1980 October Surprise case crumbles with new revelations that key evidence was hidden from investigators of a congressional task force and that internal doubts were suppressed history must finally confront the troubling impression that remains: that disgruntled elements ...
  • Freedom Fighters, Terrorism, World Financial Colla ...
    If you do not think Zionism controls the USA and its Might, Wealth, Military, Congress, President, Media, Commerce, and just about every other aspect, you are naive. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/

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Buzzflash

  • Defense Budget Wrecks Middle Class Economy. Perman ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH We are told by Congressional leaders that we must sacrifice.� Republicans want to end Social Security.� Schools haven’t the funding to stay open for five days in most states.� Seven hundred or more national parks have been shut down because of lack of Federal fund ...
  • GOP Insists Boehner’s Recent Streak Of Blunders A ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH In related news, Mel Gibson’s latest tirades Are not something one would call pretty But were cleverly aimed to gain attention From the Nobel Peace Prize committee. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/speaker-boehner-gop-leader-steps-it-up-in-hopes-of-winning-house.p ...
  • Republicans are Really Free Loader Advocates of So ...
    Jon Kyl Given a disaster resulting from a private corporation -- BP in this case -- and the Republicans are all over the media complaining that the federal government is not doing enough to fix a catastrophic problem created by a private company, which they always vaunt as being more reliable and tr ...
  • The Lies We Live By in Politics
    SHIRLEY SMITH FOR BUZZFLASH "I lie, therefore I am, The existentially Ambiguous Image in Politics "Lies We live By," Carl Hausman, 2000 . � Throughout his book, Hausman gives ten lists of ten guidelines for becoming better informed about polls or propaganda.�Another way is to also ask yourself, ...
  • "Carnival barkers, pied pipers, snake oil salesmen ...
    Body The one thing Democrats have going for them is the electorate's enduring wariness of the GOP. The midterms, now predicated on the economy's absence of dramatic improvement, should be trending unmistakably Republican. But it isn't. The results of Gallup's Daily tracking poll from ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Washington Post and transparency: total strangers
    (updated below) Earlier this week, I  noted -- with multiple illustrative examples -- how media outlets crusade for the virtues of transparency while frequently exempting themselves.  Establishment news organizations are, ironically, among the most opaque institutions.   Recall how most ...
  • Octavia Nasr's firing and what the liberal media a ...
    (updated below) CNN yesterday ended the 20-year career of Octavia Nasr , its Atlanta-based Senior Middle East News Editor, because of a now-deleted tweet she wrote on Sunday upon learning of the death of one of the Shiite world's most beloved religious figures: "Sad to hear of the passi ...
  • Adventures in media transparency
    Journalists like to claim that they are devoted to transparency, but it's striking how so many of them exempt themselves and their own media outlets from those "principles."� Here are five recent, somewhat similar episodes illustrating that syndrome: (1) �On Monday,� I noted that this Associated ...
  • Rules of America's rule of law
    The�U.S. today charged Bradley Manning with a variety of crimes relating to his alleged leaks of classified material to WikiLeaks, most prominently including the Apache attack video that spawned worldwide debate over the�American occupation. �The 22-year-old whistle-blower faces 52 years in prison . ...
  • The crux of our endless War on Terror
    As I wrote last week , the Obama administration finally purported to defend its presidential assassination program aimed at American citizens, when Obama's Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, offered patently misleading claims to justify it.  Yesterday, Newsweek 's Mich ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Switching off the Intute Spotlight
    These are the last physical sciences news headlines I’ll publish for the Intute (previously PSIgate) site. I’ve written for the organisation on a pretty much monthly basis for the last decade, first as PSIgate Spotlight, then as Hot Topics on Intute. But, July 2010 is the last issues as Intute goes ...
  • Summer science reading
    Following on from yesterday’s summer book review, we go from inner space to outer space: Exploring the Solar System with Binoculars: A Beginner’s Guide to the Sun, Moon, and Planets by Stephen James O’Meara. Stephen James O’Meara shows you how to observe our Solar System’s wonders with ease, using n ...
  • Wot gorilla?
    The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. This book by the psychologists who ran the famous Gorillas in our midst experiment tell us that they found that half the people asked to count passes among one team missed seeing a person in a g ...
  • The hidden, invisible, and private web
    Everyone knows that Google and the other search engines between them crawl, spider, and slurp up the whole internet, right? Wrong! The millions of websites that are obviously available on the internet are readily searchable, Google Bing, Yahoo, and their ilk have seen to that, we can usually find do ...
  • DNA search, iPhone chemistry, electronic waste
    Latest bookmarked science news, including my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com: How to build a better DNA search engine – The techniques for indexing Chinese language websites could dramatically improve the speed of bioinformatic searches, according to research by SOSO, the third largest Chine ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU at Guantánamo to Observe Military Commissions ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union is at Guantánamo this week to observe the pretrial proceedings of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who has been in U.S. custody since 2002 for war crimes allegedly committed when he was 15. The ACLU strongly believes that terr ...
  • U.S. Should Prosecute 9/11 Suspects in Federal Cri ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2010 ACLU Attorney General Holder said this weekend on CBS' Face the Nation that no decision has been made yet about how or where to prosecute the 9/11 suspects. Holder said that several situations have delayed the decision. read more
  • Why Are We in Afghanistan?
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) TOM ENGELHARDT read more
  • Interfaith Worker Justice to Issue Report Exposing ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2010 Interfaith Worker Justice On Thursday, July 15 at 10:30 a.m., Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice , will be joined by International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James P. read more
  • Consumers Union Poll: 80 Percent of Americans Want ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2010 Consumers Union Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports , today released new poll data showing that 80 percent of Americans want Congress to immediately give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to recall food when it poses ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Unemployed Become a Political Football
    by Karen Dolan Fifteen million Americans are currently unemployed, and nearly half of that number has been actively and fruitlessly seeking employment for longer than six months. The depth and breadth of our labor market crisis is the greatest in over 50 years. Though the unemployment rate dropped s ...
  • Could a "Great Negotiation" End the War in Afghani ...
    by Robert Naiman A commonly proffered argument against negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan has been: "why should the Afghan Taliban negotiate, when they think they are winning?" For many months, this argument was offered by Administration officials to explain why they would not yet pursue ser ...
  • BP Ruined a Mississippi Way of Life
    by Dennis Bernstein Eleven weeks into the BP oil catastrophe, millions of gallons of thick black crude continue to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. According to one native ship captain who grew up "on the water" and whose family harkens back several generations to the 1930s, the situation ha ...
  • Obama and DOMA: Will the President Do the Right Th ...
    by John Nichols Political divisions of the United States Defense of Marriage Act was always a false construct. Enacted in the midst of the 1996 election season -- when conservative forces were raising a ruckus about the "threat" posed by same-sex marriage -- it was passed by Congress and signed into ...
  • A Way Forward: Reexamining the Pentagon's Spending ...
    by Frida Berrigan What is a trillion? It is a big number for sure. The best explanation I have found for this mind-blowing figure is from children's book author David Schwartz. "One million seconds comes out to be about 11½ days. A billion seconds is 32 years. And a trillion seconds is 32,000 years. ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • DOE vows level playing field for investors in ener ...
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  • DOE chief vows energy sufficiency, transparency
    With energy sufficiency, accountability and transparency at the forefront of his advocacies, Energy Secretary Jose Rene T. Almendras has laid out a more comprehensive platform and policy pronouncements that are expected to call for major changes in the energy sector.
  • Hydro-power plant bidding above board
    The South Korean firm that won the auction for the 246-megawatt hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) component of Angat Dam in Bulacan has practically washed its hands of the alleged irregularities associated with the bidding process. Last May 24, Chief Justice Renato C. Corona issued a status quo ante ...
  • KWRC points at PSALM on allege anomalies in Angat ...
    The South Korean firm that won the bidding to operate the 246-megawatt hydroelectric power plant component of Angat Dam in Bulacan province has washed its hands off the purported irregularities surrounding the awarding of the project to it.
  • Koreans: We won bid for Angat power plant fairly
    MANILA, Philippines A water firm owned by the South Korean government told the Supreme Court that it had won fair and square the bidding for the rights to operate the 218-megawatt hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) component of the Angat multipurpose dam in Bulacan.

Guardian

  • Mandelson: We told Brown Labour was finished
    Senior cabinet members joked three Fs at centre of election campaign should be 'futile', 'finished' and 'fucked' The leaders of Labour's general election campaign believed their party was "fucked" six months before Gordon Brown fired the starting gun in April, Lord Mandelson has revealed. In the lat ...
  • Pro-market NHS reforms unveiled
    Leading healthcare and union figures issue warnings as Andrew Lansley unveils agenda involving 'inevitable' job losses The health secretary has unveiled a radical pro-market agenda for the NHS that would permit hospitals to leave public ownership to become "not for profit" companies, hand more cons ...
  • Banks facing tax on pay and profits
    Exclusive: City minister Mark Hoban urges bank chiefs to exercise voluntary restraint on bonuses The government is considering a permanent tax on the pay and profits of banks, according to the City minister who urged the sector to demonstrate the "pay restraint" being demanded of workers in both the ...
  • Polanski escapes extradition to US
    Swiss authorities refuse US extradition request and lift restrictions on director Roman Polanski has been able to step beyond the confines of his garden for the first time in 10 months after Swiss authorities decided not to extradite him to the US for sentencing on sex charges, seemingly ending a ...
  • BP spill investigators take first steps
    • New Orleans hearing holds back on witness questions • Inquiry on rig blast starts with effects of disaster A mere nuts-and-bolts explanation for the blowout that caused America's worst environmental disaster will not satisfy a commission appointed by Barack Obama which promised today "to follow t ...

McClatchey

  • Senate close to breaking deadlock on financial bil ...
    WASHINGTON — The Senate inched close Monday to breaking its deadlock over a historic overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system as Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown said he expects to support the legislation. He becomes the second Republican, after Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, to indicate a w ...
  • Despite new toughness, Obama faces hurdles in oil ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his team are tantalizingly close to their first major success in plugging BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after nearly three months of confounding setbacks.
  • Guandique, man accused in Chanda Levy case, has ha ...
    WASHINGTON — The man accused of killing one-time intern Chandra Levy will put pen to paper Wednesday in a brief but potentially crucial release from his prison home.
  • Fed chief to banks: Find a way to lend to small bu ...
    WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pressured the nation's banks Monday to do more lending to small businesses, while the Obama administration spotlighted a new tax credit for employers that's designed to help smaller firms begin hiring again.
  • Israeli military: 'Mistakes were made' in deadly f ...
    TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli military investigation into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla concluded Monday that there were "no failures, but mistakes were made."

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Food for thought on 'Fish Debt Day'
    If you live in the European Union and you like fish, then there's some bad news for you: as of the time I started writing this (1000BST Friday 09 July), you're in debt to the rest of the world. That's a fairly oblique thought, without a bit of explanation. A group of environmentally-minded economi ...
  • Climate data: what's hidden?
    I started Monday's post with the words "it's beginning to look like a pattern"... and already, by Wednesday, the pattern is in evidence once more. Another inquiry into allegations made against climate science has reported - and again, the conclusions are broadly along the lines that there have been ...
  • Dutch courage for climate mainstream
    It's beginning to look like a pattern. An apparent scandal is unveiled that threatens to rock climate science to its very core, a scandal that usually ends in the suffix "-gate". Himalaya , Amazon, and Climate itself are just three of the stems that have borne the suffix in recent months. Sectio ...
  • Petrolheads steer for green track
    I know some regular readers have me pegged as a bleeding heart liberal who's racked with pangs of self-hatred if I should so much as cycle over a worm or eat anything more technological than home-knitted organic muesli; so it may come as a shock that I really enjoy the high-octane buzz and top-end t ...
  • Whaling commission: What's missing?
    En route from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Agadir, Morocco: So the whales have been put to bed for another year ; and at Agadir airport, amid all the tanned Europeans making their way back from their beach holidays (well, lobster-red in the case of Brits, obviously) I'm thi ...

The Wonk Room

  • Meet Polaris Applied Sciences, BP’s Shorelin ...
    This post is part of the Wonk Room’s exclusive investigation of the private contractors working under BP’s control to respond to the foreign oil giant’s Gulf Coast disaster. The results of the investigation are being tracked at BP’s Contractor Army. “I am confident that we’re going to be able to le ...
  • Sarah Palin Tells Bill O’Reilly What She Would Do ...
    Last Friday, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly asked former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) what she would do about immigration if she ever became “President Palin.” Palin informed O’Reilly that she would do “whatever it takes” to secure the border, including “militarizing” the border with 10,000-15,000 National Gu ...
  • Kyl Takes Credit For Preventive Health Provisions ...
    Republicans responded to today’s swearing in of Dr. Don Berwick to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by condemning President Obama for recess appointing the nominee. One by one, the GOP took to the Senate floor to argue that they would have welcomed a debate on Berwick’s quali ...
  • Can Obama’s Nominees Push The Federal Reserv ...
    ast week, the Washington Post ran an article reporting that the Federal Reserve is weighing “new steps to bolster growth” in light of the exceedingly sluggish movement of the labor market (and the Fed’s mandate to maximize employment). Though the actual steps that the Fed is reportedly considering a ...
  • Establishing A Public Health Response System To Pr ...
    My CAP colleagues Ellen-Marie Whelan and Leslie Russell are out with a new report arguing that the federal government needs to establish a better public health response plan to address the long term health consequences of the BP oil spill and future health emergencies. When it comes to the oil spill ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Important Stuff That Happened in Toronto
    No. Not the rocks through the windows and the car that the cops left out for the "Black Bloc" and the media photographers. Here's Naomi Klein from CommonDreams on the hideous austerity package planned for us and the cowardly failure to tax the insane world banking system: My city feels like a crime ...
  • Miley Cyrus
    Okay. Full disclosure. I'm 43 or 44 (can't remember at the moment) and I never heard Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy-Brakey Heart." (I never heard "The Macarena" either. What can I say?) For what it's worth, I was also under the impression that Billy Ray Cyrus got ripped-off by his record company and then b ...
  • Ted Rall on Political Learned Helplessness
    I thought it a good summation of the disarray among the populace in both the United States and Canada - " In Dire Straits, Americans Whimper Instead ": Battered and bruised, with no apparent way out, the American electorate has plunged into a political state of learned helplessness. They've voted D ...
  • What is the Connection Between Retrograde Values a ...
    I thought I'd ask the googlebots and porn-spammers who visit my site; Why is there such a good fit between voters who are inspired by religious delusion, homophobia, prudery, racism, and law-and-order hypocrisy, and political parties that are the political shills for corporate scum-bags who want to ...
  • Prog-Blog Liberals Don't Like Coalition????
    [Don't read this. In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna, "Never mind." Apparently some weirdos are floating the idea of an actual Liberal-NDP merger. That's crazy talk.] It made perfect sense to me . But a number of Liberal bloggers appear to positively hate the idea. Which strikes me as perfect ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Aviation's margin of safety, regulatory capture an ...
    Two letters to the editor printed in today's Washington Post reminded me of a meeting I attended in May of the FAA Whistleblowers Alliance . One of today's letters was from the Potomac TRACON local of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. The other letter, by FAA Administrator Randy Babb ...
  • Workers blow whistle on Moe Hamdan's wage theft
    Moe Hamdan owns the upscale Washington restaurant called The Reserve on L St. NW.� Instead of using the restaurant's income to pay the workers' wages, he used it for his own lavish lifestyle. Some workers went six months without being paid what they are owed.� "I worked really hard as a bar boy at t ...
  • EPA nixed study of treating oil spilled in Gulf of ...
    My client, Dr. David L. Lewis , was a top microbiologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He raised the standards for dental hygiene worldwide when he showed how previous practices were inadequate to protect dental patients from the transmission of HIV.� He showed how EPA's rules f ...
  • Peace Warriors visit NWC
    I just had a delightful visit this morning from the Peace Warriors.� They are a group of middle and high school students from the Southeast neighborhood of Washington, DC.� They are spending the summer learning about how individuals can make a positive difference through nonviolent action. Today the ...
  • Jamaica encounters opposition to whistleblower bil ...
    The Jamaica Gleaner News is reporting that parliamentarians pushing a new whistleblower protection are facing opposition. The majority's latest draft of the proposed bill will protect whistleblowers only if they have made their disclosures through certain official channels. If any officials in any o ...

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

  • Should Those Sued In Bogus Patent Infringement Cas ...
    There's a potentially important legal battle going on following a highly questionable patent infringement claim made against Netflix and Blockbuster. The whole case seems pretty ridiculous. Basically a patent attorney had a rather basic idea on how to improve Netflix with a minor feature that pret ...
  • Another UK Hairdresser Fined For Turning On Her Ra ...
    We recently wrote about a UK hairdresser being fined for not paying the PPL license for playing a radio in his shop -- even though he'd already been paying the PRS license. Now, if you follow this stuff, you probably know that PPL and PRS cover different aspects of collective licensing, but it stri ...
  • WSJ Opinion Highlights The Problems Of 'Permission ...
    A bunch of folks have been sending in this Wall Street Journal opinion piece by author Tony Woodlief, where he aptly demonstrates the problems with the "permission culture" we've built up around copyright today. Often we'll discuss some of these things in posts, and defenders of the existing copyri ...
  • Brazil's Copyright Reform Proposal: Penalties For ...
    Brazil has been a very interesting country to watch lately. In the past, we've seen that a lack of safe harbor laws resulted in Brazilian courts regularly blaming 3rd parties for actions of others, but in the last few months, it looks like Brazil has decided to really clean up its laws -- and is do ...
  • Supposed 'Proof' Of SCO's Infringement Claims Agai ...
    Slashdot has the story of someone involved in the SCO case finally showing off some of the "evidence" that SCO believed proved Linux infringed on SCO's copyrights . Of course, with the case basically dead due to a court ruling (one of a few) that SCO never actually held the copyrights in question, ...

VacTruth

  • My skin had turned completely yellow
    Irish Times In conversation with Eoin Burke Kennedy 07/06/2010 IT ALL started with what appeared to be an adverse reaction to a vaccination jab back in 1991. I was working in Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, and as my job routinely brought me in contact with blood, it was necessary to get inoculated agai ...
  • Merck Plans to Lay Off About 15% of Workers
    Natasha Singer New York Times 07/08/2010 The $41 billion merger last year of the drug giants Merck and Schering-Plough has a human cost for pharmaceutical industry employees. Merck plans to lay off about 15 percent of its work force — about 15,000 people — over the next two years as part of a global ...
  • Now, computer algorithms to help develop flu vacci ...
    OneIndia.com 07/10/2010 Researchers are using computer programs to develop a fast and efficient method of generating vaccines for new strains of flu viruses. Dimitris Papamichail, and a team of researchers from Stony Brook University have created algorithms that will design viruses that serve as liv ...
  • Brain perfusion SPECT and EEG findings in children ...
    Brain perfusion SPECT and EEG findings in children with autism spectrum disorders and medically intractable epilepsy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20594786 Brain Dev. 2010 Jun 29. Sasaki M, Nakagawa E, Sugai K, Shimizu Y, Hattori A, Nonoda Y, Sato N. Department of Child Neurology, National Cent ...
  • Girls fail to take up vaccine
    DAVID KILLICK themercury.com.au 07/04/2010 JUST 55 per cent of Tasmanian schoolgirls have taken up the offer of free vaccination against cervical cancer. Health authorities say they are surprised and disappointed at the low take-up rate. Although more than 100,000 Tasmanian women and girls have been ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    It still burns, the treatment I got as a teen.  I think the guy who wrote the Case Against Adolescence is still pissed too.  Glad he did something constructive with it. This article on reconciliation is a must read for anyone who cares about ending conflicts, especially genocidal ones. I hope you al ...
  • 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Urban Nomad Redux: Build and Live in Your Own Micr ...
    Images: Alex Farmer Compact, efficient and optionally mobile, micro-dwellings have been around for some time. As the the "less is more" lifestyle is gaining momentum, they are making bigger waves nowadays and it's exciting to see people actually build their own, like this replica of a 50-year-old ...
  • Huge Banyan Tree Shades Historic Hawaiian Market
    Shopping at the International Marketplace in Honolulu, Hawaii, is like shopping under a Pandora hometree from the movie "Avatar." You don't need 3-D glasses. You don't even need sunglasses. This marketplace, across from Waikiki Beach , is shaded by a huge banyan tree that forms a natural awning ...
  • Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than ...
    photo: Greg Scales via flickr We've covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it's worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere, Fred Pearce argues that all the focus on population growth rates in the developing world and its i ...
  • BP Says New 'Top Hat' is About 150 Feet From Oil L ...
    Photo: BP Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Riser Another week, another attempt by BP to plug the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. This time they're trying to use a containment dome to stop the oil from getting in the water (this one is called 'Top Hat 10' and should allow a tigh ...
  • Smart Car Stands Out With Crochet Cover, Plus 6 Mo ...
    Recyclart found this great photo on Flickr by StartTheDay showing a Smart car standing out from the crowd in Rome. The photographer states, "Admiring the architecture in Rome we came across this Smart car which had been decorated with a natty, crocheted cover! Never seen anything like this befor ...

Biosingularity

  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • CFACT update from the Gulf coast
    As we boarded the boat, our captain told us we would be traveling 50 miles. Before we knew it, we arrived at Queen Bess Island, a habitat preserved just for pelicans and other birds.
  • A few questions for President Obama
    President Obama sounds like an anti-business Community Organizer in Chief: pointing fingers, making baseless claims about ending our “addiction to oil,â€Â and leaving no crisis unexploited. His June 15 “visionâ€Â raised more questions than it answered.
  • BP and the unmitigated disaster
    The Gulf of Mexico could turn into a giant dead zone if some means cannot be found to staunch the flow of oil and toxic gases emerging from beneath the Deepwater Horizon. Industry insiders are beginning to speak openly among themselves of an unmitigated disaster.
  • Oil addiction lies
    The biggest lie being told to Americans these days is that we are “addictedâ€Â to oil. The real “addictionâ€Â that threatens the United States is a Congress that will not stop borrowing and spending an unsustainable amount of money on programs that should have been abandoned or adjusted ye ...
  • Making good science decisions
    We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically-modified food grains

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. It would probably also improve if we would stop lying and stonewalling about killing them. British Prime Minister David Cameron : “The longer ...
  • Memo to Congress: Unemployment Trumps Everything
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Several months out from election day the Democrats’ prospects are not encouraging. If nothing else, history is against them since midterm elections usually go poorly for the president’s party. Theoretically their base should be fir ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Harvard released a study about the New York Times’ unwillingness to call waterboarding torture when the US began using it. What followed was one of those “bless the blogs” moments because there was a lot of great commentary. Glenn ...
  • Why Looking Back Matters
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Washington has generally been an accountability-free zone, most glaringly in the case of war crimes. George Bush, Dick Cheney, David Addington, John Yoo, and all the other high level architects of our torture program have been allow ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Children keep Egypt's cotton spinning
    Egypt is famous for its cotton. Vendors around the world boast of their luxurious Egyptian cotton sheets. But on many small farms, children are involved in all parts of cotton farming. Julia Simon reports. Click here to read this article
  • Do Nitrates From Well Water Cause Cancer?
    A new study is the first to link nitrates in water with cancer. This is incredibly bad news for Americans who get their water from wells -- about 60 percent of us. Click here to read this article
  • What a Disaster: Grappling with the Gulf's "Dead Z ...
    Until Washington comes up with a plan to address the growing Gulf Dead Zones, thousands of square miles of ocean waters face a grim future. Click here to read this article
  • Walmart Among Top Brands Blamed for Rainforest Har ...
    GREENPEACE HAS accused Walmart, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and other major brands of "driving rain forest destruction and pushing [Sumatran] tigers and orang-utans to extinction" by using everyday paper products from Indonesia. Click here to read this article
  • Concerns Spread Over Environmental Costs of Produc ...
    PITTSBURGH -- Around suppertime on June 3 in Clearfield County, Pa., a geyser of natural gas and sludge began shooting out of a well called Punxsutawney Hunting Club 36. The toxic stew of gas, salt water, mud and chemicals went 75 feet into the air for 16 hours. Some of this mess seeped into a strea ...

fotoFrontera

  • 40th Festival de Glastonbury en Inglaterra
    El pasado fin de semana, se llevó a cabo la edición número 40 del festival de Glastonbury Inglaterra . Este evento musical que inició el granjero y productor de leche Michael Evis en 1970, ha tenido como objetivo reunir a miles de personas en una superficie de 1,000 acres donde se vive la música y ...
  • Imágenes del G20 y G8 en la ciudad de Toronto Cana ...
    Hace algunos días y para ser más preciso el pasado fin de semana, se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Toronto provincia de Ontario la reunión del grupo de los veinte y el grupo de los ocho más conocidos en el mundo como G20 y G8 respectivamente. Ellos son ni más ni menos que las cabezas representativas ...
  • Blogger incluye 'estadísticas' en todos los blogs ...
    NO CABE DUDA QUE GOOGLE CONTINÚA sorprendiéndonos cada día con nuevos servicios . En esta ocasión, le ha tocado el turno a su plataforma de publicación de blogs conocida como Blogger . A partir de ayer, todas las personas que tenemos un blog o más en blogspot , podemos visualizar desde nuestro escri ...
  • Castillos de Verano parte II (22 fotografías)
    Los castillos, son impresionantes obras arquitectónicas que siempre han llamado mi atención. Y como sé que a muchos de ustedes también les gustan estas enormes construcciones, aquí está la segunda parte de la colección titulada ' Castillos de Verano ' con 22 nuevas fotografías impresionantes. Nota: ...
  • Los insectos de mi jardín parte II (20 fotos tipo ...
    Aquí tenemos finalmente la segunda parte de nuestra colección de fotografías macro de insectos . Un acercamiento directo a esos pequeños bichos que viven en el jardín y que son muy importantes en el proceso de la polinización. Abejas, Mantis, Mariposas, Orugas, Arañas, Catarinas y Hormigas .Nota: Ha ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Promoting the low-carbon life (and food choices) i ...
    A few months ago, I described a segment on the Chinese state television’s English channel about food as part of the “low carbon life” in China. The program explored this new lifestyle through the burgeoning vegetarian restaurant scene in Beijing, and a handful of consumers who claimed to eschew meat ...
  • Roosevelt Park City Farm: A Baltimore Community Ga ...
    Carolyn Pomodoro eagerly greeted us with “Do you need any tomato plants?  Which plot is yours?  I’ll drop them off whenever you want!” This past winter, Carolyn started over 600 heirloom variety tomato plants under grow lights in her Hampden home, a neighborhood in North Baltimore.  She intended ...
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Food Animals: FDA Takes S ...
    Leadership at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made it abundantly clear last week that the low-dose usage of antibiotics in food animals, simply to promote growth or improve feed efficiency, needlessly contributes to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria and poses a serious threa ...
  • ‘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 ...

Norwegianity

  • The worst people ever just keep getting worse
    I’m sure Republicans think Michele Bachmann keeps winning reelection because Minnesotans in the 6CD are . . . what? less than bright about who brings home the bacon as opposed to having an ideologue in Congress who never brings home anything but controversy. And I’m sure the DFL has million excuses ...
  • Texpert haters, see how they lie
    The Right’s national tantrum continues: Hating on the unemployed [me? I hate how plentiful their ranks have become] Roy Edroso on righties hating on the World Cup (no, I don’t hate soccer, I’m just extremely indifferent to it) Sarah Palin on charity starting at home Uncle Ted’s crowbar of logic Hati ...
  • The end of the world will smell like teen spirit l ...
    Overslept this morning, if you can call waking up and going back to bed and waking up and going back to bed and waking up and going back to bed oversleeping. If I live to see the end of the world (as brought to you by BP [via Rob in Chicago]), I hope I oversleep [...]
  • Uncle Thomas angry about tasering
    A tasering story to lead off with, but this one is just a little bit different. Derek Thomas, who is epileptic, refused to put on a hospital gown and tried to leave his examination after a possible suicide attempt. They say security “punched him in his lip, pulled out more than a fistful of his [... ...
  • Distracting us from the real issues
    As usual my deep thoughts take a day or two to catch up to my impulsive reactionary side, and so it is with Mitch and Swiftee. Mitch, who’s still probably trying to figure out what this is about, in all likelihood had no clue he was accusing me of wanting to have sex with Trig [...]

Public News Service

  • Report: Suicide Rates Climb for Middle-Aged Men
    Report: Suicide Rates Climb for Middle-Aged Men Phoenix, AZ – A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that suicide rates have jumped for people in middle age (45-54), and the rates for men are higher than for women. And Arizona's suicide rate is much worse than ...
  • Congress Closer to Protecting AZ Consumers from Fa ...
    Congress Closer to Protecting AZ Consumers from Faulty Imports Phoenix, AZ – For Arizona consumers concerned about dangerous foreign-made toys, medical products and defective drywall, Congress is moving closer to taking action. Hearings were held last week on a measure that would make foreign manufa ...
  • AZ Payday Loans End After Tomorrow
    AZ Payday Loans End After Tomorrow Phoenix, AZ – The legal authority to make payday loans in Arizona ends at midnight tomorrow (Wednesday). A state senator who helped lead the fight to end the high-interest loans calls it a “victory for the people of Arizona.” Comments from Arizona state Senator Deb ...
  • Survey Shows Wide Support for Paid Sick Days
    Survey Shows Wide Support for Paid Sick Days Phoenix, AZ – Going to work sick is often the only option for the 40-million in the U.S. who do not have paid sick days. A new survey sponsored by the Public Welfare Foundation shows Americans think that’s wrong, with 75% saying paid sick days are a basic ...
  • Congress May Take a Bite Out of COBRA – Ariz ...
    Congress May Take a Bite Out of COBRA – Arizonans in Limbo Phoenix, AZ – A bill to extend fiscal relief for Arizonans relying on programs like unemployment, Medicaid and COBRA failed to pass a procedural hurdle Wednesday. The bill is being revised for another try, but it could be leaner than before, ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Did The Military Stop Cheney From Destroying The W ...
    In 2007, a bizarre event occurred. Six nuclear weapons showed up on a B-52 out of nowhere. Key personnel at Minot Air Force Base, origin of the loading mistake began to have accidents. Loaders and pilots from Minot became some of the unluckiest people Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
  • CFL bulbs are not a safe choice for people with Mu ...
    Compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) is a classic example of something being touted as green but in fact being anything but. Submitted by Sandra Watson to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • World`s Largest Mining Company Responsible for Aus ...
    River Murray, Australia's largest river and main water supply has lost around two thirds of its water due to underground mining by the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Russian-US relations: Wooing the West
    The Russian leader has re-enacted the famous American goodwill tour of his predecessor a half century ago, but faces the same Cold War scheming. Will his attempts to befriend Europe have more success? Submitted by Eric Walberg to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Whistleblower: Relief payments get slashed if fish ...
    According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist when she saw how many people were put out of work by the spill, BP will deduct money from individual payments on claims for lost income if the claimant refuses .. Submitted by Kemsa Amon-Ra to Business �|� �N ...

Angry Indian News

  • Oakland shooting verdict sparks riots after Johann ...
    Oakland shooting verdict sparks riots after Johannes Mehserle dodges murder rap in Oscar Grant death-nydailynews.comAngry mobs smashed windows and set small fires in downtown Oakland Thursday night,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Johannes Mehserle,ex-cop apologizes for killing un ...
    Johannes Mehserle,ex-cop apologizes for killing unarmed Oscar Grant in Oakland, family not impressed-.nydailynews.comThe white transit cop convicted of involuntary manslaughter of an unarmed black... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • African National Congress condemns Yiull Damaso's ...
    African National Congress condemns Yiull Damaso's painting of dead Nelson Mandela undergoing autopsy-NYdailyNews:A painting that depicts a dead Nelson Mandela undergoing an autopsy is causing an... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mercenaries run amuck?
    Mercenaries run amuck?-finalcall.com: "WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Jerry Torres, CEO of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, has a motto: “For Torres, failure is not an option.” A former member of the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • OF JAMES BYRD JR, ANTHONY HILL, AND DEATH BY DRAGG ...
    OF JAMES BYRD JR, ANTHONY HILL, AND DEATH BY DRAGGING IN POST-RACIAL AMERICA � BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERSToday is the 12TH anniversary of the death of Mr. James Byrd, Jr., of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Getting Started in Farm-Scale Biodiesel Production
    This webinar highlights the basics of biodiesel production and shows home brewers what precautions they should take to avoid potential problems associated with poor-quality fuel.
  • Raw Milk Wars!
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  • A Question of Sovereignty
    How entangling alliances with groups like the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, Codex Alimentarius, the United States and even multinational corporate interests have become so powerful that they literally threaten to make elected officials in Parliament irrelevant.
  • Please help us out if you are able!
    Please help us by donating whatever you can to keep the site updated and online, and to help purchase much needed software updates.
  • CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: The Elephant in the Room that ...
    Why is there so much denial by consumer advocate groups such as the National Health Federation(1) (NHF) about Barry Soetoro implementing the U.S. Codex council via Executive Order(2)? What is it that they don't want you to see? Just do the research, and you will discover that we have been up to our ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Police Train Marines to Fight Taliban on Streets o ...
    ShareThis Police Train Marines to Fight Taliban on Streets of LA in Secret Exercise --'In many ways, police in Los Angeles' crime-ridden neighborhoods use the same skills that Marines say could help them.' �12 Jul 2010 70 Camp Pendleton Marines participated in a Los Angeles Police Department trainin ...
  • Psychology group backs CIA detainee torture claim
    ShareThis Psychology group backs CIA�detainee torture claim --Mitchell is retired Air Force psychologist who participated in the 2002 CIA interrogation of detainee Abu Zubaydah 10 Jul 2010 Psychologists in the United States have been warned by their professional group not to take part in torturing d ...
  • Pentagon allows banned reporter to return to Guant ...
    ShareThis Pentagon allows banned reporter to return to Guantánamo 09 Jul 2010 The Pentagon on Thursday reversed its ban on a Miami Herald reporter from covering military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and said the reporter can return to the naval base there to cover a hearing next week. In an e- ...
  • BP Cuts Payments to 40,000, La. Official Says
    ShareThis BP Cuts Payments to 40,000, La. Official Says --State Cabinet Member Tells Federal Gov't of 'Devastating' Cuts for Thousands 10 Jul 2010 BP has decided to reduce payments to tens of thousands of people whose claim files are [allegedly] incomplete, the secretary of Louisiana's Department of ...
  • Armed men open fire kill 13 in E Afghanistan
    ShareThis Armed men open fire kill 13 in E Afghanistan 10 Jul 2010 Unknown armed men opened fire on a civilian vehicle in Paktia province east of Afghanistan killing 13 commuters on Saturday, spokesman for provincial administration Rohullah Samoon said. "The bloody incident took place in Chamkani di ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
    Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • ‘CNN’ gives platform to latest neocon ...
    Important post from Eli Clifton on the neoconservative echo chamber pushing for war with Iran. Why isn’t Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddow putting Clifton on air? Do we really want another disastrous American war in the Middle East? Excerpts:No sooner did I write about the growth industry in astroturf ...
  • It just gets worse
    Haaretz reports that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley is barring non-Jewish Russian Israelis from buying houses there: The Nokdim secretariat ruled two weeks ago to bar non-Jewish Russian-Israelis from buying homes in the small Bethlehem-area sett ...
  • Who will take the BDS world cup?
    John Greyson's World Cup/BDS mashup "Vuvuzela":Vuvuzela from John Greyson on Vimeo. For more as the match unfolds see Artists Against Apartheid and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel.
  • New electric fence in al-Walajah will cage the vil ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Israel To Expropriate 30 Dunams Near Hebron The Israeli Authorities decided to illegally expropriate 30 Dunams of Palestinian lands that belong to villagers of Beit Ola, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. htt ...
  • David Grossman manhandled at Sheik Jarrah protest
    This video from Friday's Sheikh Jarrah protest in East Jerusalem appears to show (and is said to show) writer David Grossman being assaulted by Israeli police at 2:38. He's wearing a baseball cap. Others in the crowd wear hijab. Others are also assaulted. Note the beautiful moment at 1:03 or so wher ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Britain’s National Health Service &#821 ...
    Britain’s National Health Service is rapidly destroying the UK Health Care system; dismantling local programs, stripping hospitals of essential service staff, downsizing hospitals altogether, refusing to upgrade old equipment – all under the guise of tightening the belt, preserving what’s left of di ...
  • VRM: H1N1 Vaccine Surplus From 2009 Reveals Growin ...
    VACCINE SURPLUS FROM 2009 – Canada: $200,000,000+ worth of unused H1N1 vaccine. United States: $455,000,000+ worth of unused H1N1 vaccine. France: approximately $750,000,000 worth of unused H1N1 vaccine supply. Britain: $250,000,000 worth of unused H1N1 vaccine supply (3.8 million doses). Germany: $ ...
  • Polio – United Nations & The Great Cull
    According to the World Health Organization vaccines aren’t to blame for the spread of Polio in Nigeria; but rather low vaccine uptake amongst the poorest communities. This despite the fact that, by their own admission, children receiving the LIVE POLIO VIRUS MIST will continue shedding the virus amo ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
    12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
  • Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
    Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
  • Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
    Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place.  She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons.  One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera.  ...
  • Big Guns
    28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly.  Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...
  • Battle for Kandahar
    Battle for Kandahar Baghtu Valley 25 April 2010 Afghanistan The counteroffensive has begun.  More accurately, it might be called a counter-counteroffensive.  Close to a decade ago, we beat the Taliban and al Qaeda here.  The Taliban regrew and waged an increasingly successful counteroffensive.  ...

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

  • Urban Nomad Redux: Build and Live in Your Own Micr ...
    Images: Alex Farmer Compact, efficient and optionally mobile, micro-dwellings have been around for some time. As the the "less is more" lifestyle is gaining momentum, they are making bigger waves nowadays and it's exciting to see people actually build their own, like this replica of a 50-year-old ...
  • Huge Banyan Tree Shades Historic Hawaiian Market
    Shopping at the International Marketplace in Honolulu, Hawaii, is like shopping under a Pandora hometree from the movie "Avatar." You don't need 3-D glasses. You don't even need sunglasses. This marketplace, across from Waikiki Beach , is shaded by a huge banyan tree that forms a natural awning ...
  • Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than ...
    photo: Greg Scales via flickr We've covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it's worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere, Fred Pearce argues that all the focus on population growth rates in the developing world and its i ...
  • BP Says New 'Top Hat' is About 150 Feet From Oil L ...
    Photo: BP Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Riser Another week, another attempt by BP to plug the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. This time they're trying to use a containment dome to stop the oil from getting in the water (this one is called 'Top Hat 10' and should allow a tigh ...
  • Smart Car Stands Out With Crochet Cover, Plus 6 Mo ...
    Recyclart found this great photo on Flickr by StartTheDay showing a Smart car standing out from the crowd in Rome. The photographer states, "Admiring the architecture in Rome we came across this Smart car which had been decorated with a natty, crocheted cover! Never seen anything like this befor ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Two New "Walking" Batfish Species Found
    Two new species of bottom-dwelling "walking" fish have been found in the Gulf of Mexico—right in the path of the Gulf oil spill, a new study says. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - Fish - Species - Environment
  • Photos: Leaking Nuclear Waste Fills Former Salt Mi ...
    NoneMore than a hundred thousand barrels of radioactive waste are to be removed from "the most problematic nuclear facility in Europe"—a first. Radioactive waste - Nuclear power - Nuclear - Environment - Energy
  • Photos: Glowing Oil Could Aid Gulf Spill Cleanup
    NoneA crime scene tool reveals that beached oil from the Gulf spill glows in ultraviolet light, which could be a boon to cleanup crews. Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Business - Waste Management
  • Photos: New Species, "Living Fossils" Found in Atl ...
    NoneA recent Atlantic expedition discovered many rare sea creatures, from swimming sea cucumbers to potential, pink "missing links." Atlantic Ocean - Marine biology - Sea cucumber - Earth Sciences - Flora and Fauna
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Jurist - Legal Research

  • UK court sentences 3 in 2006 airliner bomb plot to ...
    [JURIST] The UK Woolwich Crown Court on Monday sentenced three British Muslims [press release] charged in connection with a 2006 plot to blow up numerous transatlantic flights to life in prison. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zahman [GlobalSecurity backgrounders] were part of a conspi ...
  • ICC charges al-Bashir with genocide
    [JURIST] Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Monday charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [case materials; JURIST news archive] with three counts of genocide [warrant, PDF] in relation to the Darfur conflict [BBC backgrounder]. The chamber found th ...
  • India apologizes for improperly dumping waste rela ...
    [JURIST] The Indian Environmental Minister Jairam Ramesh [official website] apologized Saturday for the government's role in the 2008 disposal of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal chemical spill disaster [BBC backgrounder], which he said was done seceretly and in an improper manner. Bhopal victims gr ...
  • ICC allows trial of accused Congo militia leader t ...
    [JURIST] The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Monday denied the stay of proceedings request [press release] of accused Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga [case materials]. Katanga filed the appeal in June seeking a stay of proceedings and a declar ...
  • DOJ may consider second lawsuit against controvers ...
    [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] said during an interview [transcript] Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] will continue monitoring the effects of Arizona's recently passed immigration bill [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Pentagon PR Strategy: More Briefings, Fewer &#039 ...
    The Pentagon has outlined a new strategy to "communicate U.S. policy objectives" in Afghanistan and "manage expectations" of the American public about the progress of the nine-year-long war. In a three-page memorandum for the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dougl ...
  • What's This Mysterious White House Cyber Even ...
    The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are putting together what people in the industry bill as some sort of a "major" event on cyber security on Wednesday, but the White House hasn't said word one about it to the press. So, from the Internet Security Alliance, here's a press releas ...
  • What You Need to Know About Gov. Joe Manchin
    Suffice it to say that West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, the chairman of the National Governors Association, is making neither the White House nor Congressional Democrats happy. His confusing series of decisions about when or whether to hold elections for Robert Byrd's replacement and his refusal to i ...
  • 2012: What Palin Is, and Isn't, Doing
    Sarah Palin's PAC disclosure release has occasioned a new round of "Will she or won't she?"� If we take the dictum that one's judgment is more easily interrogated than one's motivation, we're left with a simple answer: she's seriously thinking about running for president. That's because she's said s ...
  • The Full Inspire
    The Night Beat notes that Inspire, the full 67-page propaganda magazine produced by Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, is now circulating. Its release had been delayed for two weeks after someone or something managed to mess with the original version. AQAP issued no communication in the intervening ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Read Uncensored Jerusalem Post Story on Top Secret ...
    I recently wrote a post about a secret Israeli nuclear base whose veterans had somewhat indiscreetly established a Facebook group which was, at one time, open for public access.  A Yediot Achronot reporter asked to Friend the group and was accepted though he was not a base veteran.  He wrote a sto ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Bibi Demands Palestinian Confidence Building Measu ...
    I was reading a rather mundane Haaretz diplomatic report about the results of the last Obama-Netanyahu meeting.  One of the foci of the article was the confidence building measures Obama expects of Israel in order to persuade Mahmoud Abbas to enter into direct negotiations.  Even these were rather p ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Facebook Offers Furtive Peek at Israel’s Nuclear M ...
    Israel maintains a studied ambiguity about its nuclear capability that is only unmasked in rare instances of candor like that of Ehud Olmert when he was prime minister and admitted it possessed WMD.  Despite this ambiguity there are facets of Israel’s nuclear program that are widely known–at least ...

Ode Magazine

  • NYC beta testers wanted to share cabs
    By: Laura_Silver David Mahfouda came up with the idea for New York City cab sharing while he was riding Trans-Siberian Railroad in 2006. Now Weeels.org hits the steamy streets of Gotham. Weeels Infomercial from Weeels on Vimeo . Weeels is an iPhone-application and ri ...
  • Beyond organic
    Made famous by The Omnivoreâs Dilemma , Polyface Farm is the destination of choice for discerning tourists with a passion for great foodand sustainable agriculture. “I’m from a long line of out-of-the-box thinkers, and we’ve been on this lunatic train for a long, long time ...
  • Capitalism to the rescue!
    Whatâs the best way to fight poverty in the developing world? Treat people like producers and consumers, argues Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir. Iqbal Quadir has nothing against low salaries. “That’s not a bad thing,” he says calmly, though his eyes are piercing. ...
  • 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 ...
  • Harmful chemicals we can do without
    Companies need to start caring as much about human health as they do about profits. When I was a child, my parents gave me a “science kit” that contained samples of rocks, minerals and metals. It was wonderful. I’d pull out a sample of quartz and memorize what it looked l ...

OpEd News

  • Tremble, Banks, Tremble
    The financial crisis in America isnapos;t over. Itapos;s ongoing, it remains unresolved, and it stands in the way of full economic recovery. The cause, at the deepest level, was a breakdown in the rule of law. And it follows that the first step toward prosperity is to restore the rule of law in the ...
  • Package bomb goes off at Houston oil executiveapos ...
    A seemingly anonymous gift left on the front porch of a Houston home owned by an oil company executive has the cityapos;s affluent population of oil profiteers on edge this weekend, after that package exploded and seriously injured a 62-year-old woman.
  • The Cleaners
    Letapos;s hope the Democrats can out-drone the Teabaggers and point out that it takes a village, or an army, to undo all the economic, foreign policy, environmental, security, social services, deregulation, war-making, constitution-destroying policies the Bush Crime Family, under Cheneyapos;s master ...
  • South Africa: The Ugly Underside of World Cup Socc ...
    While the images of the World Cup are all sweetness and light, depicting a post-racial South Africa, the bitterness of apartheid in the countryapos;s sport history was buried, along with two of its soccer legends, heroes in the fight against racism who were kept in the shadows during the festivities ...
  • Oil and Dead Fish in SE Florida?
    Report from Palm Beach County about tar balls and dead fish on beaches.

Switchboard

  • Coalition of Agriculture and Environmental Leaders ...
    Today, 19 members of the California Roundtable on Agriculture and the Environment (CRAE), a coalition of agriculture, environment and labor leaders in California, have agreed on a set of guiding principles for engaging the agricultural sector in a national program to reduce global warm ...
  • China scores at the World Cup
    Although it is the world’s most populous country, China’s only FIFA World Cup appearance was in 2002.  China lost all three games in the first round and scored zero goals. The pathetic team has become a national joke. Still, Chinese fans were as crazy about the 2010 World Cup in South ...
  • New well capping device closes in on gusher in the ...
    Check live feeds of leaking BP oil well below. Could this finally be the end of spewus maximus? BP's latest attempt to plug the oil well blowout is underway as engineers removed the ill-fitting containment cap over the weekend and now are close to fitting a new 18-foot tall, 70-ton de ...
  • Ashley Judd Fights Back After Big Coal Attack
    Ashley Judd won't back down.  Last week proponents of mountaintop removal hung a banner at a coal industry-sponsored golf tournament in eastern Kentucky, mocking the actress for her efforts to raise awareness of the environmental, economic and cultural damage being wrought by the world ...
  • This week's sign of the apocalypse
    �� That's what I call real 'transportation choices.' �(Universe and Rainbow are two streets in Abuquerque that are near each other.) Thanks to Belinda Chambers for the tip. Move your cursor over the images for credit information. Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily�about community, ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Boom
    Via Ralph Luker, here’s an animated recapitulation of the world’s nuclear tests since 1945. Even with every month reduced to a second, it takes several minutes to gain momentum; from the end of the 1950s through the end of the 1980s, however, the whole thing becomes rather bewildering and about as ...
  • A Bit More on the Romney Thing…
    More than a few people have noted that the foreign policy vision of the Republican Party appears to have moved to the far right of the Reagan administration; thus, when the Heritage Foundation ghost writes an op-ed for Mitt Romney, the resulting cesspool is a mishmash of opinions that would have bee ...
  • So long, Harvey.
    Harvey Pekar wasn’t included on the list of people I’m officially allowed to mourn, but that doesn’t mean I won’t mourn his passing anyway. I first came to American Splendor too earlyâwhen I started reading Love and Rockets and Cerebus in 1993âand then too lateâafter the release of the film A ...
  • And in the First Season, that Country Didn’t ...
    This is nothing short of genius: But then there are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning. I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs ...
  • You Are The Sucker
    I think Yglesias has the apporpriate response to Jacob Weisberg’s comically belated discovery that John McCain is a cynical hack: But I feel like some of the mediaâs John McCain fanboys should give more consideration to the idea that less here has changed than they think, and they themselves just ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Jenner's Smith on Massachusetts' gay rights ruling ...
    In two separate cases, a federal judge in Boston on Thursday ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violated the Constitution by denying federal benefits to married gay men and lesbians and by forcing Massachusetts to discriminate in order to obtain federal funds for certain programs. The Na ...
  • ASSOCIATE MOVERS
  • Law librarians can play a vital role
    They are ideally situated to manage and deliver the intelligence that is critical in this economy.
  • Washington's Most Influential Women Lawyers
    In a profession still dominated by men, these power players have taken a sledgehammer to the glass ceiling to grab their place among the elite of the Washington bar.
  • Hope drives rise in law school applications
    Despite grim job statistics in nearly every corner of the legal world, law school applications increased by 7%, compared to last year, according to the Law School Admissions Council. A handful of law schools saw their applicant pools swell by 30% or more. Applicants are apparently banking on a turna ...

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

  • Mars 3-D Close Encounter of the Microsoft Kind
    NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.
  • The Emergency Committee to Stop the Gulf Oil Disas ...
    Monday's hearing promises to begin an investigation of the root causes of the oil blow-out and the best ways to combat the disaster, as well as a status report from Coast Guard and BP reps on the progress of cleanup and containment.
  • Repo Men Unrated DVD Review
    Move over, death panels. Giving new meaning to Shakespeare's pre-US medical industry metaphor 'a pound of flesh,' the futuristic yet not so far fetched invasive surgical thriller Repo Men takes the notion of health care for profit to scary extrem
  • Justice for Women in a System Geared to Men
    British Society of Criminology conference Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Dilemmas and Diversity in Criminology at University of Leicester July 11-14
  • Warning: Recall of Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl
    The Food and Drug Administration is warning about certain over-the counter drugs.

environment 360

  • Heat Waves to Intensify Across U.S. in Next 30 Yea ...
    Intense heat waves similar to the one that struck the eastern U.S. this past week will become increasingly common in the next three decades , according to a detailed study by Stanford University scientists. Analyzing U.S. temperature data from 1950 to 1999, and then using numerous models to extrapol ...
  • Solar-Powered Aircraft Flies At Night, Sets New Re ...
    A slender, glider-like plane has completed the first night flight powered by solar energy, staying aloft for 26 hours and flying higher and longer than any previous solar flight . The Solar Impulse, with a 193-foot wingspan and weighing only 3,500 pounds, completed its record-breaking flight over Sw ...
  • Oil Fouling the Niger Delta Dwarfs the Oil Spill i ...
    The swiftly unfolding environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico has riveted the world’s attention in recent weeks, but as the blog AidData points out, the amount of oil spilled in the Niger Delta over five decades far exceeds the disaster in the Gulf , with even more devastating environmental ...
  • For Hudson Bay Polar Bears, The End is Already in ...
    The polar bear has long been a symbol of the damage wrought by global warming, but now biologist Andrew Derocher and his colleagues have calculated how long one southerly population can hold out. Their answer? No more than a few decades, as the bears’ decline closely tracks that of the Arctic’s disa ...
  • ‘Climategate’ Panel Concludes That Scientists Did ...
    A six-month inquiry into the conduct of some of the world’s leading climate scientists has concluded that they did not manipulate data or distort the results of their studies of global warming . The independent panel, headed by former British civil servant Sir Muir Russell, was formed by the Univers ...

Red Ice Creations

  • 2053 Nuclear Explosions Conducted 1945-1998
    2053 is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe. Throughout the twentieth century, most nations that have developed nuclear weapons have tested them. Testing nuclear weapons can yield information about how the weapons work, as well as how the weapons behave under var ...
  • ’Climategate’ review clears scientists of dishones ...
    An independent report released Wednesday into the leaked "Climategate" e-mails found no evidence to question the "rigor and honesty" of scientists involved. The scandal fueled skepticism about the case for global warming just weeks before world leaders met to agree a global deal on climate change at ...
  • Anger in Costa Rica over deal to ‘invite’ 46 US wa ...
    Costa Ricans suspect 'ulterior motive' in permitting large numbers of US troops Opposition leaders in Costa Rica are up in arms over an agreement between the country and the United States that reportedly allows 46 US warships and 7,000 US Marines to enter the country as part of an anti-drug effort. ...
  • G20 No-name officers investigated
    Critics fear individual police deliberately removed their required name tags to skirt accountability."It raises the prospect that rogue police officers who decided to protect themselves individually and prefer not to be identified knew that they were breaking the law - and that’s a problem,"
  • FDA clears first implantable telescope for vision
    U.S. health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology to counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults – a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye. The Implantable Miniature Telescope aims to help in the end stages of incurable age-related macular degeneration, a creeping loss of ...

Russia Today

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

  • Science Fiction and the start of the Great Age
    Greg Taylor of the Daily Grail draws upon a book written by Alexei and Cory Panshin about the influence of science-fiction starting in the year 1870. It has a lot of good points, but I take issue with some of them: For the first two hundred years of the modern era — from the accession [...]
  • Graham Hancock and Daniel Pinchbeck Video
    Graham Hancock and Daniel Pinchbech, two of alternative research’s leading personalities get together to discuss various topics of esoterica, history, and science. This is a rare piece and probably should be viewed a couple of times to fully take in the subject matter. Very entertaining. … ] …
  • Asteroid Living
    In spaceflight (and sci-fi lore), nothing can be more basic than setting up an asteroid colony. The idea can be traced back to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky himself, but it wasn’t fleshed out until J.D. Bernal proposed his ‘Bernal Spheres’ in 1929 the concept of using extra-planetary materials to construc ...
  • Martian Structures 2
    Here is part two of Martian Structures in which we ask the old question: Do intelligent beings currently occupy Mars, are they long dead, or are we just hallucinating? Answer: We love the Google-Plex! Huh? ]:/ … ]
  • Martian Structures
    For years NASA (Never A Straight Answer) has denied any strange structures or any evidence for intelligent life on our Moon, or Mars. Now, with the miracle of YouTube, Google Mars and other technical wonders, ordinary folks can pick apart released photos from the aforementioned organization. Is it r ...

Tippers News

  • attendance at pamplona down! Yayyyy
    Bullfights struggling amid aconomic crises and popular opposition, rooms sit empty in Pamplona. Yayyyyyyyyy. Submitted by Bev B. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • (Restaurant) Guacamole, salsa linked to food poiso ...
    Contaminated salsa or guacamole were the culprits in nearly 1 out of every 25 foodborne illness outbreaks linked to food in restaurants between 1998 and 2008, according to new research released today... Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Possible Extinction Level Event Underway In Gulf O ...
    The Extinction Level Event currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico will destroy all life in the Gulf States then slowly spread around the globe poisoning and burning everything in its path. BPs breech of a massive ancient methane reserve set Submitted by Samantha B. to Environment �|� �Note- ...
  • Ten Nations at 'Extreme Risk' Because of Water Sho ...
    Ten countries worldwide, including five African nations, are at "extreme risk" because of limited access to clean, fresh water, according to a new global water security index Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • GOOD NEWS!! Man documents daring rescue of puppy ...
    A puppy rescued from the bowels of a deep slot canyon is now recovering in Salt Lake City after a close brush with death. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • “The Taxing Power, My Dear”
    “The Taxing Power, My Dear” The legal committee soon broke into a row because the legal problems were so terrible. The constitutional problem was the greatest one. How could you get around this business of the State-Federal relationships? It seemed that couldn’t be done. We continued to wrangle abou ...
  • Book Review: Private Guns, Public Health, by David ...
    Private Guns, Public Health by David Hemenway University of Michigan Press • 2004 • 304 pages • $27.95 Reviewed by Timothy Wheeler David Hemenway, a professor of health policy at Harvard University, harbors a deep aversion to guns. His book embodies the institutional prejudices of a cohort of academ ...
  • Book Review: Leviathan: The Growth of Local Govern ...
    Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty by Clint Bolick Hoover Institution Press • 2004 • 173 pages $15.00 paperback Reviewed by George C. Leef Does government have too much power? Certainly — just think of all the freedom Americans have lost on account of the income tax ...
  • Book Review: owing the Wind: Essays and Articles o ...
    Sowing the Wind: Essays and Articles on Popular Economic Policies that Make Matters Worse by Hans F. Sennholz Libertarian Press • 2004 • 323 pages • $19.95 paperback Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves The world we live in today is a global economy. Entrepreneurs, traders, and investors are always sear ...
  • Book Review: Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang ...
    Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Alfred A. Knopf • 2005 • 823 pages • $35.00 Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling In their new book, Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday estimate that under Mao Zedong’s rule in China at least 70 million people were killed in one [...]

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

Facing South

  • Big Census job cuts hit especially hard in Souther ...
    As the 2010 Census count winds down, the agency which has employed over 700,000 people over the last two years -- a vital boost during the Great Recession -- is now laying off most of its employees , as The New York Times reports : Now, its decennial work largely done, the Census Bureau is shedding ...
  • For claims of bodily injury, no payments from BP y ...
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica BP has long maintained that it will pay all "legitimate" claims for damage caused by the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But company data shows that while it has written checks for roughly half of the overall claims it has received -- most of which address property dam ...
  • Gulf drilling moratorium rejected by oil-soaked ap ...
    The three-judge panel that rejected the Obama administration's effort to enforce a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has extensive ties to the oil and gas industry, according to a report from a judicial watchdog group. The panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: De facto censorship of disaster
    Date on which the U.S. Coast Guard established a "safety zone" around oil cleanup operations and booms in the Gulf: 6/30/2010 Size of the safety zone the Coast Guard originally considered: 300 feet Size of the safety zone it ultimately established: 65 feet Distance booms are typically plac ...
  • Solar power now cheaper than nuclear in North Caro ...
    While the price of solar photovoltaic systems has been falling for decades, the cost of new nuclear plants has been climbing -- and a historic crossover point has been reached in North Carolina, where solar power is now cheaper than nuclear. That's the finding of a report by the former ch ...

Survival International

  • Controversial diamond mine on Bushman land back on ...
    Bushman man. © Survival Plans for a major diamond mine on Bushman land are now back on track after being shelved due to the global recession. Gem Diamonds mothballed plans for the mine at Bushman community Gope, after global demand for diamonds collapsed. However, the mineâs Project Operati ...
  • Now Dutch pensions firm joins Vedanta sell-off
    Vedanta Resources plans to mine the Dongria Kondh's homeland. © Survival A firm managing pensions for more than two million people in the Netherlands has sold its €13million (US$ 16million) stake in the notorious mining conglomerate Vedanta Resources . PGGM investment firm made ‘intensive effo ...
  • UNESCO report calls for closure of road to protect ...
    A Jarawa man and boy by the side of the Andamans Trunk Road © Salomé A report published by UNESCO has called for the immediate closure of the Andaman Trunk Road, which cuts illegally through the Jarawa tribal reserve. India’s Supreme Court ordered in 2002 that the highway must be closed to pro ...
  • British environmental activist reprieved as expuls ...
    Brother Paul McAuley, targetted by Peru's government for expulsion from the country. © Marc de Jersey/Survival The Peruvian government’s attempt to expel British environmental activist Paul McAuley from the country has been blocked. A statement from the Ministry of the Interior was given to Mc ...
  • Tribe fights rainforest destruction with blockade
    Penan armed with blowpipes block road as Shin Yang logging trucks approach. © Survival 2009 Nomadic tribespeople in Borneo are blockading a road to stop loggers destroying their rainforest. Members of the Penan tribe have mounted the blockade in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, to stop the destructi ...

Greg Palast

  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Valdez.  They were from the companies now known as Exxo ...
  • 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 ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Democrats Face 200 million Republican War Chest Wi ...
    It seems, that in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, which allowed uncontrolled corporate money into elections, that (surprise!) Republicans have a huge warchest from outside actors like the Chamber of Commerce: On the left hand side of the chart is a list of ten Republican a ...
  • Another journalist down for saying something &#822 ...
    Latest victim is Octavia Nasr, who tweeted: “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” Hezbollah, of course, are designated terrorists by the US state department, for the 1983 bombing of marine barracks in Lebanon. Two things about ...
  • UNIFIL presence in Lebanon will increase civilian ...
    Intentional, or a side effect? In the last war, much of the fighting took place on open scrubland, Merli said. But the deployment of United Nations forces in southern Lebanon had forced Hezbollah into built up areas where troops from the international UNIFIL force have no authority. Not good.  No ...
  • Some scenarios for Mexico
    Mexico is in trouble. It is facing a significant narco-insurgency that is threatening the state’s monopoly on legitimate force, there are cartels (La Familia for instance) that are taking the Capone model for Chicago as an instruction manual, and its hard currency earning sectors are either in d ...
  • Serious People Notice Banks Are Gouging Consumers ...
    Well, better late than never: rates on 10-year Treasury bonds are only about 3 percent, many consumers still carry tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt at 20 percent or more. This burden has been a continuing drag on spending. The federal government could reduce it by borrowing at 3 ...

Age of Autism

  • This Holiday Weekend, Autism Community Says Be AWA ...
    Awaare.org is a collaboration of AUTISM ONE | AUTISM SPEAKS | DOUG FLUTIE JR. FOUNDATION | HOLLYROD FOUNDATION | NATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION | TALK ABOUT CURING AUTISM dedicated to keeping our loved ones safe. From their site: With little public...
  • Heroes, Hope Killers and Professional Defeatists
    By Katie Wright I was recently inspired by a beautiful book entitled “Walking Papers” by, Franceso Clark, founder of Clark’s Botanicals. At the age of just 24, Clark broke his neck in a diving accident and was paralyzed front the...
  • TACA to Host Dr. Andrew Wakefield Author of Callou ...
    The Talk: Autism & Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy Presented by Dr. Andrew Wakefield (see his website Callous Disregard.) Major international media outlets including CNN, Dateline, Today Show and others covered Dr. Andrew Wakefield's controversial research and subsequent battle...
  • Military Autism Families File Lawsuit Against DOD ...
    By Angela Warner Military Families vs. United States of America, U.S. Department of Defense, TRICARE Management Activity, and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates It does not feel good to bring a lawsuit against the very country and government that...
  • The High Heel Hike Raises $18,000 for Generation R ...
    Read the article and check out the amazing photos in the Tampa Bay Online HERE. By Cheryl Kluck PLANT CITY - Scott James figured if he was going to take part in the High Heel Hike – on the Girls...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Getting Started in Farm-Scale Biodiesel Production
    This webinar highlights the basics of biodiesel production and shows home brewers what precautions they should take to avoid potential problems associated with poor-quality fuel.
  • Raw Milk Wars!
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  • A Question of Sovereignty
    How entangling alliances with groups like the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, Codex Alimentarius, the United States and even multinational corporate interests have become so powerful that they literally threaten to make elected officials in Parliament irrelevant.
  • Please help us out if you are able!
    Please help us by donating whatever you can to keep the site updated and online, and to help purchase much needed software updates.
  • CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: The Elephant in the Room that ...
    Why is there so much denial by consumer advocate groups such as the National Health Federation(1) (NHF) about Barry Soetoro implementing the U.S. Codex council via Executive Order(2)? What is it that they don't want you to see? Just do the research, and you will discover that we have been up to our ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • PetroChina open to closer ties with BP
    Financial Times – PetroChina, Chinaâs largest listed oil and gas producer, says it would âwelcomeâ closer co-operation with BP as the embattled UK group struggles to cover liabilities arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. Chinese energy companies have spent billions of dollars o ...
  • Food Standards Agency to be abolished by health se ...
    The Guardian – The Food Standards Agency is to be abolished by Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, it emerged last night, after the watchdog fought a running battle with industry over the introduction of colour-coded “traffic light” warnings for groceries, TV dinners and snacks. The move has spar ...
  • US throws three billion dollars at Afghan bombs
    The Stans – The United States is set to deliver three billion dollars worth of equipment to Afghanistan aimed at countering Taliban-made crude bombs used in the war, a US official said Thursday. Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have become the main weapon used against international and Afghan ...
  • Taser’s own report cites possibility of deat ...
    Province – A B.C. government lawyer on Wednesday cited a training directive by Taser International that he said undermines the companyâs argument that the Braidwood inquiry reached a faulty conclusion about the lethality of Tasers. Craig Jones, representing the attorney-generalâs ministry, told ...
  • Australia: Church accepts liability for child rape ...
    The Australian – THE Catholic Church has made a sweeping admission of legal liability for the rape and abuse of girls at a Toowoomba primary school. In one of the most comprehensive wins for victims of child abuse in Australia, Toowoomba bishop Bill Morris has formally admitted liability and opened ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Containment cap may be in place by ...
    The final piece of a new containment cap that may have the capability of stopping the flow of oil from BP's leaking well could be in place by the end of the day Monday, company Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles...
  • Gulf oil spill: New drilling moratorium expected M ...
    Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar is expected to reveal details of a new moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that would pass the scrutiny of the federal court, which threw out an earlier temporary halt in exploratory...
  • Hurricane Alex makes landfall in Mexico, but waves ...
    MIAMI — Forecasters say Hurricane Alex has made landfall in northeastern Mexico. The Category 2 storm churning in the Gulf of Mexico has sustained winds of nearly 105 mph. The National Hurricane Center says it made landfall about 7 p.m....
  • Gulf oil spill: Turtle deaths spark legal actions ...
    Appalled that turtles may be getting caught up in BP's burn-offs of surface oil in the gulf, two environmental groups have put the oil giant and U.S. Coast Guard on notice that they intend to file lawsuits. The Center for...
  • Got storm water? L.A. now has standardized plans f ...
    During the rainy season, the city of L.A. sends 100 million gallons of untreated runoff into the Pacific Ocean. Tuesday, the city's engineering department signed off on six standard plans that can be used to prevent some of the flow...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

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Cryptogon

  • Taranis
    Via: New Scientist: Sporting a gaping air intake in place of a cockpit, the UK’s first uncrewed fighter aircraft rolled out of a hangar at an airfield in Warton, Lancashire, today. Called Taranis, the wedge-shaped, 8-tonne stealth jet will be able to fly regular drone missions in regions of conflict ...
  • U.S. Marines Train with Los Angeles Police Departm ...
    Via: NBC: A tough-talking, muscular Los Angeles police sergeant steadily rattled off tips to a young Marine riding shotgun as they raced in a patrol car to a drug bust: Be aware of your surroundings. Watch people’s body language. Build rapport. Marine Lt. Andrew Abbott, 23, took it all in as he peer ...
  • Bank Profits Depend on Debt-Writedown ‘Abomi ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Bank of America Corp. and Wall Street firms that notched perfect trading records in the first quarter are now depending on an accounting benefit last used in the depths of the credit crisis to prop up their results. Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, may record a $1 bi ...
  • Counter Surveillance Camera Detects Binoculars, Ca ...
    Via: GizMag: The sniper is without doubt the most fearsome of opponents â capable of taking your life from great distance. Current anti-sniper counter measures depend on the sight or sound of the initial shot, and by that time, it may be too late. Now a new device which uses the same “red-eye” eff ...
  • Houston Oil Executive a Possible Target in Bombing
    Via: RawStory: A seemingly anonymous gift left on the front porch of a Houston home owned by an oil company executive has the city’s affluent population of oil profiteers on edge this weekend, after that package exploded and seriously injured a 62-year-old woman. Neighbors of the victim told an ABC ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Dominant Force In World Financial Markets In 2 ...
    Extreme volatility is not a sign of health for financial markets.  But in 2010 financial markets around the globe are experiencing unprecented volatility.  Why?  It is because the entire world financial system has been gripped by fear.  In today's crazed environment, it seems like j ...
  • Obama To Use BP Oil Spill As An Opportunity To Pus ...
    Never one to to allow a "good crisis" to go to waste, Barack Obama is pledging to use the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an opportunity to push the U.S. Congress to pass his controversial climate bill.  In fact, during a recent interview Obama directly compared the current ...
  • U.S. National Debt 2010
    So just how big is the U.S. national debt in 2010?  Well, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, on June 1st the U.S. National Debt was $13,050,826,460,886.97.  For those not used to seeing such big numbers, that is over 13 trillion dollars.  To give you an idea of just how much ...
  • Strategic Defaults: Is It Morally Right To Decide ...
    In 2010, record numbers of Americans are defaulting on their mortgages.  For most of them, it is because they simply cannot afford the mortgage payments any longer.  But for a growing number of Americans, the decision to stop paying on a mortgage is not because of financial hardship ...
  • Budget Cuts?
    As violent protests erupted outside, the leaders of the world's largest economies plotted the future course of the global economy at this weekend's G20 summit.  So what was decided?  Well, according to various reports in the mainstream media, it was the "deficit hawks" who got their ...

Desertification

  • Drylands, Deserts and Desertification (Google / Su ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification Drylands, Deserts and Desertification:The Route to Restoration. The Third International Conference on Drylands, Deserts, and Desertification at The Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Sede Boqer, Israel â November 8-11, 2010. Submissions … Continue readin ...
  • Farmer Field Schools (ACTED / NGO News Africa)
    Read at : NGO News Africa ACTED has been implementing grassroots level participatory agricultural recovery programmes centered around the concept of Farmer Field Schools (FFS). FFS take a dynamic farmer empowerment approach through which farmers are guided to build on … Continue reading →
  • Re-energizing agriculture for sustainable recovery ...
    Read at : NGO News Africa Uganda: Re-energizing agriculture for sustainable recovery Agriculture is the main source of income for most of the population in Northern Uganda (95% of the population in Acholiland depends on crop production as a major … Continue reading →
  • Grants for University Studies and Conservation Fie ...
    Read at : NGO News Africa Grant: African Wildlife Foundation - Grants for University Studies and Conservation Field Research The African Wildlife Foundation offers the Charlotte Conservation Fellowships in this cycle to applicants from Benin, Burkina Faso, Dem Rep Congo, … Continue reading →
  • World Day for Combating Desertification (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2010/10070512351001.htm Limpopo commemorates World Day for Combating Desertification 2 July 2010 The Limpopo MEC for Agriculture, Ms Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba hosted the provincial World Desertification Day at Thokwane village, in th ...

The Paper Trail

  • MONEY & POLITICS: More Muscle and Money for Am ...
    To jumpstart fundraising, the pro-Republican American Crossroads 527 group is reaching out to powerful politicos such as ex-Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas and aggressively using a new money-collecting entity that can give donors more privacy.
  • FINANCE: Stockbrokers, Credit Raters, Fannie Among ...
    When faced with some of the toughest issues in writing the financial regulation reform bill , Senate and House negotiators resorted to a classic Washington approach: They ordered up studies.
  • ENVIRONMENT:  Florida Lawsuit Cites Center&#8 ...
    A class-action lawsuit against BP seeking compensation on behalf of Florida condominium owners for decreased property values as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cites Center for Public Integrity data analysis as part of an effort to show willful criminal conduct by the oil giant.
  • INTERNATIONAL: Investigations Around the World
    Here is this week's round up of Investigations from Around the World by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists :
  • FINANCE: Big Banks Sued Over Credit Card Protectio ...
    In 2008, Anna Trachtenberg, a 53-year-old unemployed Pennsylvania homemaker, enrolled in a payment protection service for her credit card from Citigroup Inc. The plan promised to make the minimum monthly payment on her credit card balance for one year if she experienced certain “life changing” event ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The UVic rabbit problem: lessons from the woods
    By Bev Schellenberg Imagine Avatar with a few plot changes.  Keep the introduction, the meeting with newly-blue Jake and nimble Neytiri, and the seeds of Eywa floating around Jake in ethereal, foreshadowing bliss.  Keep Jake’s hunting mission and the introduction of the Turuk. However, change the ...
  • Maclean’s gives the G20 The Onion treatment
    By Alison@Creekside It's been pretty difficult to find any humour in G20, hasn't it? Inside -- a billion dollar bunfest in which leaders talk about implementng austerity. Outside -- 20,000 police decline to confront a hundred or so rioters in favour of spending the following day assaulting ...
  • A post-Steve Carell “The Office”? Cue ...
    By Rachel Krueger Steve Carell made the more-or-less-already-official rumors official when he announced that he really will be leaving "The Office" after his contract is up in 2011, thoroughly surprising everyone who thought "That will probably be my last year" was Italian for "I’m holding out fo ...
  • Emphasis on the Strip
    by Jodi A. Shaw When I think of burlesque, I immediately picture Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. So when I went to a burlesque show for the first time, I was expecting high heels, garter belts, and tight, sexy clothing. I saw the outfits I expected, though I didn’t expect ...
  • Book Review: Daemon, by Daniel Suarez
    On reading Daemon, one can't help but compare it to William Gibson's Neuromancer, perhaps because they both deal with rogue artificial intelligences (AI) and can probably be considered as science fiction. If I sound a bit tentative about that, it's because while Neuromancer neatly fits the mold ...

Worldnews

  • Lamhaa dialogue mocks Aishwarya Rai?
    A dialogue mentioning Aishwarya Rai in the promos of upcoming film "Lamhaa" has caught the attention of many. But producer Bunty Walia and director Rahul Dholakia clarify that it does not mock her. Veteran actor Anupam...
  • NCAA unveils players for 68-team March Madnes ...
    By Cliff Brunt, The Associated Press July 12, 2010 3:34 PM Duke's Jon Scheyer and Brian Zoubek (R) celebrate their victory in the NCAA National Championship college basketball game in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 5, 2010. Duke defeated Butler, 61-59, to win the championship. Photograph by: REUT ...
  • Discovery points to new approach for diabetes ...
    Nutrition experts at Oregon State University have essentially "cured" laboratory mice of mild, diet-induced diabetes by stimulating the production of a particular enzyme. The findings could offer a new approach to diabetes therapy, experts say, especially if a drug could be identified that woul ...
  • Citigroup Loses Bid to Dismiss Big Bondholder ...
    By Jonathan Stempel July 12, 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge on Monday rejected Citigroup Inc's bid to dismiss a class-action lawsuit by bondholders who said the bank misled them about its exposure to "toxic" mortgages. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein said the bondholders c ...
  • GCC Countries to get connect via a rail syste ...
    Dubai: Transportation projects in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait worth an estimated $170 billion will change the way trade is done. Railway projects alone will be worth an investment of $108 billion, according to Satish Khanna, General Manager of Al Fajer Information and Services, the ...

Alex in Wonderland

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Threatening World Order: US and Israel Quietly Ann ...
    Summary: The Obama administration makes Orwellian claims that it is moving toward disarmament - when in fact it's doing the opposite by reconstituting its aging arsenal. At the same time, Obama demonizes foreign nations such as Iran, which international inspectors and US intelligence agencies c ...
  • "American Value" and its Hypocrisy (Interview with ...
    Summary: U.S still refuses to apologize for killing 290 Iranians 20 years ago. Cyrus Safdari, an independent analyst and blogger for IranAffairs.com says that the imposition of the fourth round of sanctions against Iran is just another example of continuous American hypocrisy and its double stan ...
  • Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Ira ...
    Summary: And while it’s only July — and less than a month after the U.N., the European Union (EU) and the U.S. Congress approved new economic sanctions against Iran — a familiar clutch of Iraq war hawks appear to be preparing the ground for a major new campaign to rally public opinion behind mi ...
  • Iran, We Hardly Know Ye
    Summary: Iara Lee This recent round of sanctions is an unjust act of economic warfare against the people of Iran, and another step in the wrong direction on our calamitous approach both to that country and to the region at large. source: Huffington Post read more
  • India Rejects US Sanctions on Iran
    Summary: Iran India On Thursday, India and Iran began a two-day meeting aimed at increasing bilateral cooperation in the economic sector, which can be considered as a challenge to the unilateral sanctions imposed by Washington to Teheran. source: Global Research, Canada read more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • A diet loaded with antioxidant rich foods improves ...
    (NaturalNews) According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD), insulin resistance is a condition in which the pancreas eventually can't keep up with the body's demand for insulin (a hormone that helps the body use glucose for energy). Eventually, an excess ...
  • Widespread male infertility sweeping the globe
    (NaturalNews) Nearly 20 years ago, Danish scientists first broke the news to the world that men from Western countries seem to be slowly becoming infertile. Recent research seems to back this up as well, with average sperm counts having dropped to half of what they were 50 years ago. According to re ...
  • Teenage girls live on junk food
    (NaturalNews) Teenage girls eat substantially worse than teenage boys and older women, according to the preliminary results of the United Kingdom's National Diet and Nutrition Survey. The average teenage girl consumed 54 grams (1.9 ounces) of French fries or other fried potatoes per day, in comparis ...
  • The government war on raw milk is an attack agains ...
    (NaturalNews) As a rule of thumb, I don't drink anything that comes out of a cow. But for the last several thousand years, a large percentage of the human population has consumed cow's milk -- a substance that admittedly contains quite an impressive collection of nutrients. The problem today is that ...
  • Spicy peppers may cause your body to burn more cal ...
    (NaturalNews) Losing weight is just a few spicy peppers away, according to a recent report out of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Researchers there say that the capsaicin compounds found in peppers that give them their spicy taste, actually help to burn calories as well. Scientists believe that ...

Threat Level

  • Woman Jailed for Texting Threats to Herself
    With a former girlfriend like this, who needs enemies? Consider the 25-year-old Southern California woman sentenced to a year in jail Friday after being convicted of sending hundreds of threatening text messages to herself — in a bid to get her former boyfriend and his sister-in-law arrested by blam ...
  • NSA Denies It Will Spy on Utilities
    The NSA is denying a report from the Wall Street Journal that a secret program code-named “Perfect Citizen” will be monitoring civilian networks. That’s from a rare public statement by the ultra-secret agency responsible for spying on outsiders and defending classified networks. The NSA, as a wing o ...
  • Judge Guts Whopping RIAA File Sharing Verdict
    A federal judge on Friday slashed by 90 percent the damages a jury awarded the recording industry in a lawsuit against a  university student caught file-sharing. The judge declared the original $675,000 award as “unconstitutionally excessive.” U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner reduced last year’s v ...
  • Consumer Group Sniffs Congresswoman’s Open Wi-Fi
    We’re not sure what’s more humorous: That California Rep. Jane Harman, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, maintains two unencrypted Wi-Fi networks at her residence, or that a consumer group sniffed her unsecured traffic in a bid to convince lawmakers to hold hearings about Goog ...
  • FBI Raids ‘Elektronic Tribulation Army’ Over Witne ...
    FBI agents have raided the homes of three alleged members of a hacker gang that harassed a security expert who helped put the group’s leader in jail, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit. Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” pleaded guilty in May to computer-tampering charge ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Kyl Joins Boehner in Lying About Tax Cuts and Defi ...
    When it comes to tax cuts and deficits, Republicans have gone from the ridiculous to the insane. A month ago, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) comically insisted that the Bush tax cuts did not contribute the America's exploding national debt. Now Jon Kyl , the number two Republican in the ...
  • Studies Confirm the Closing of the Conservative Mi ...
    In 2009, Politifact declared Sarah Palin's "death panels" fraud its " Lie of the Year ." As it turns out, the Republican Party is the Home of the Whopper. Its followers, especially those most deeply steeped in the Tea Party's toxic brew , continue to believe claims about Barack Obama's faith, nati ...
  • GOP to Elderly Rich: Watch Your Backs
    Last month, Florida Republican Senator George Lemieux summed up the impact of his party's successful effort to kill the estate tax in 2010 . "The joke is don't go hunting with your children because right now there's no estate tax in this country this year." But the billions lost to the U.S. Treasu ...
  • Record U.S. Income Gap Widening Again
    In June, an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities confirmed that gap between rich and poor in the United States reached levels not seen since 1929. Between 1979 and 2007, the yawning chasm separating the after-tax income of the richest 1 percent of Americans from the middle and p ...
  • The Wealthy are the Biggest Mortgage Defaulters
    While Republicans continue to block jobless benefits for those they deem undeserving , a different morality play is at work in the nation's foreclosure crisis. As the New York Times reported this morning, the biggest defaulters on mortgages are the rich . Even as U.S. income inequality hit levels ...

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CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • TCEQ Continues to Fail the People of Texas
    The TCEQ ruled today on the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas pet-coke plant in Corpus Christi. The good news is they didn’t grant the permit (yet), instead they remanded the permit back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings on a number of issues. However, they refused to acknowledge s ...
  • 90 Days to Tell the EPA We Want Strong Safeguards ...
    EPA offers two options for coal ash: one good, one very, very bad The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency started the 90-day clock for public comments on its plans to set federal safeguards for millions of tons of dangerous coal ash waste currently being stored in dry dumps and waste ponds. This m ...
  • South Texas nuke expansion project cuts staff
    About 20 of the roughly 100 contractor personnel working on the proposed addition of two new 1,350-MW nuclear units at the South Texas nuclear station have been let go. Nuclear Innovation North America (NINA), an 88/12 joint venture of NRG Energy and Toshiba, currently owns 92.35% of the planned exp ...
  • Want a Public Meeting on EPA Coal Ash Waste Rules ...
    Requests for a public meeting should be submitted to EPA’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery by July 21, 2010.  For a sample request letter and where to send it, click here. Filed under: Coal Tagged: coal ash, EPA, public hearing
  • EPA disapproves Texas “flex permitting” program at ...
    The EPA announced today that Texas’s much-discussed and derided flex permitting program does not follow the federal Clean Air Act (big surprise  ).  This was an action that began when the EPA under George W. Bush called into question the transparency and efficacy of the program which all ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Working to Keep Hope Alive in Haiti’s Forgotten Fr ...
    4753113342_5e1927dfab_b.jpg Nestled between Haiti’s turquoise Caribbean waters and the foothills of the northern mountains, is a large plot of land close to the town of Limonade. Here at the height of planting season a group of peasants is har ...
  • Supporting Haitian-led Rebuilding and Recovering E ...
    haiti-fruit_nursery.JPG Only six months ago, Haiti was violently shaken by an earthquake, killing nearly 300,000 and leaving the country reeling from its latest disaster. With help from responsive and generous donors, Grassroots International ...
  • Produce More Food, Naturally
    Subheadline:� David Cronin Interviews Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Previous Publication Info Previous publication:� Terraviva Europe ...
  • Brazilian Land Rights Activist in Boston
    mst.gif Grassroots International and U.S. Friends of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (FMST) are delighted to host Ana Justo, from the Florestan Fernandes National School of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), a Grassroots Internationa ...
  • The Haitian Delegation to the U.S. Social Forum Se ...
    4752513083_4efa842e78_b1.jpg Grassroots International recently supported a delegation of Haitian social movements to attend the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit. This diverse group represented several of our partners and allies on the ground in Ha ...

Climate

  • July 12, 2010
    T-Minus Three Weeks on Energy Bill (Politico) People on every side of the climate and energy debate say that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid must unveil a concrete plan backed by a full-court press from the president this week, or the entire effort will fall apart in the run-up to the midt ...
  • July 10-11, 2010
    U.S. Senate Set for Energy, Environmental Bill Debate (Reuters) Democrats in the U.S. Senate aim to debate in late July a bill clamping down on offshore oil drilling and fostering more alternative energy use, but no decision has been made on whether to include climate change provisions, aides s ...
  • July 9, 2010
    Court Rejects Moratorium on Drilling in the Gulf (New York Times) A federal appeals court on Thursday turned down the Obama administration's effort to enforce a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Fla. Gov Calls Legislature for Oil Drilling Ban (AP)  Gov. Charli ...
  • July 8, 2010
    CBO: Climate Bill Would Cut Deficit by $19B (USA Today) The climate bill now stalled in the Senate would cut the federal deficit by about $19 billion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office reported Wednesday.  Germany Targets Switch to 100% Renewables for Its Electricity by 2050 ...
  • July 7, 2010
    Politicians Cancel Oilsands Pollution Investigation (Montreal Gazette) Federal politicians from the Canadian government and opposition benches have mysteriously cancelled an 18-month investigation into oilsands pollution in water and opted to destroy draft copies of their final report. New Rules ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • In Swedish politics, casual style belies serious i ...
    Though the Swedish style of presentation and debate might be more informal than elsewhere in Europe, there is a still a tough political battle going on, particularly during the Almedalen week, for voter attention and headline space
  • Japan voters seek change, may get chaos
    Voters delivered a harsh rebuke to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and a tiny ally, depriving them of an upper house majority and setting the stage for another bout of deadlock as Japan struggles to engineer growth in a fast-ageing society and curb a gigantic public debt.
  • Towards a settlement in Afghanistan; on terms and ...
    In the highly charged debate on Afghanistan, few questions are harder to nail down that the timing and terms of any settlement with the Taliban.
  • Japan’s not-so-hot election
    Candidates on the campaign trail in Japan are sweating through the summer heat but voters have been cool towards this Sunday's upper house election. Why aren't they fired up?
  • Pakistan’s Zardari in China; nuclear deal in ...
    Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is in China this week, making good his promise to visit the "all weather ally" every three months. During his previous trips his hosts have sent him off to the provinces to see for himself the booming growth there, but this trip may turn out be a lot more produc ...

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Yeah, I had noticed that the Gulf oil geyser seems to be doing approximately nothing to public opinion on environmental issues. I'm not sure what explains that other than we're just deadened as a county, culture, and people. Something is definitely wrong with us.
  • GOP Charade
    Steve Benen caught something most people missed. Senate Minority Whip, Jon Kyl of Arizona, went on Fox News yesterday and made an alarming declaration. "You should never raise taxes in order to cut taxes. Surely Congress has the authority, and it would be right to, if we decide we want to cut ...
  • Who's Got Their Back?
    As far back as April I said that immigration reform could not pass this year and that the president would be crazy to try. I was critical of Harry Reid for 'jerking around' the Latino community by suggesting that immigration reform would come up before energy legislation and then reversing himself. ...
  • Froggy Bottom Cafe
  • On the Fringe
    I think Bill Scher is spot-on in everything he has to say about the Tea Party and its historic and contemporary place in American politics. But there is one very important thing that he misses. He's completely correct in saying this: The Tea Party is nothing new. It is merely the latest incarna ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • The Processor Wars
    There are many ways to make a profit; one of them is to make a better product than the competition, but sometimes that alone is not enough, especially when you make the components of complex devices like computers. So maybe you could think about building loopholes into your product that make the com ...
  • Bacterial biker jackets and after-market parts for ...
    This year seems like it’ll be the one where the mainstream starts talking about custom-made replacement organs as something more than science fiction. A few weeks back we heard about the rat who got a new set of lab-grown lungs; this week, Wired is running a photo-essay on bioprinting that’s a must- ...
  • Personal Information: episode 20
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 20 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episo ...
  • Walk a mile in another (wo)man’s virtual shoes
    I’ve often thought the world would be a fairer place if we could all spend a month living as someone of a different gender, race or level of physical ability. Until the gene-mod folks get us to the level of Iain M Banks’ Culture and provide complete plasticity of embodiment (c’mon, people – get a [. ...
  • Three-course specials at The House Of Longpig
    The lines between futurism, architecture and conceptual art continue to blur and fade (if they ever existed anywhere other than our own minds, that is); a chap called Mitchell Joachim is working on making a house from meat. Yes, a house. Made – grown, to be more precise – from in vitro tissue cultur ...

Therapy News

  • Why See a Therapist When You Can Just Talk to Your ...
    By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Sometimes people ask me why they should bother seeing a therapist when they can just talk to their friends. Friends know your history, you’re comfortable together ...
  • Spirituality and the Natural World
    By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile A very spiritually oriented colleague recently asked me what I love to do. She had shared that she loved her work particularly as it related ...
  • The Failure of Categories
    By Marc Handelman, Ph.D. Click here to contact Marc and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Names have power. People who are sick tend to feel a kind of relief when their illness is named – ah, I have lupus. Having a name for the illness means others know what it is, perhaps how to treat it, and it [ ...
  • Relationship Reciprocity
    By Anne Ream, ATR-BC, LPC Click here to contact Anne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Most of us do not consciously think about reciprocity in our intimate relationships and when we do, we might say, “of course it is important.” And as we think about the Golden Rule, we recognize it as a valua ...
  • Exploring the Relationship Between Social Skills a ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The newest edition of the Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology, to be published by John Wiley & Sons later this year, will have several chapters not contained in previous editions. One of these, entitled “Depressive Disorders and Interpersonal Processes,” looks at the ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Readers' voice: July 13, 2010 - Charleston Gazette
    Readers' voice: July 13, 2010 Charleston Gazette I hope Ashley Judd keeps speaking against mountaintop removal . The next election the Gazette needs to ask each candidate where they stand on this issue. ... and more��
  • Meetings set on mountaintop removal mining rules - ...
    Meetings set on mountaintop removal mining rules Victoria Advocate CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The federal government has scheduled a series of public meetings on preparations for writing new regulations to protect streams ... and more��
  • Corps Stops Rubber Stamping of Mountaintop Removal ...
    unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Corps Stops Rubber Stamping of Mountaintop Removal Permits unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Yesterday the Army Corps of Engineers announced that it is suspending the use of nationwide permits for mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Obama administration ends f ...
  • Silas House | Ashley Judd coverage of mountaintop ...
    Silas House | Ashley Judd coverage of mountaintop removal mining comments ... Louisville Courier-Journal Since Judd's speech on mountaintop removal mining aired, WYMT, the Hazard, Ky., news station (and a sister station of WKYT in Lexington) has repeatedly ... Ashley Judd Needs No Defense from Big ...
  • When Did Coal Companies become the good guys? - Ex ...
    Examiner.com When Did Coal Companies become the good guys? Examiner.com They were holding the rally because anti- mountain top removal people. What got me was what the coal executive said, he said, “Which side are you on? ... Ashley Judd Needs No Defense from Big Coal Wags: Who Will Join Her? Alter ...

Memeorandum

  • 2012: What Palin Is, and Isn't, Doing - Sarah Pali ...
    Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online : 2012: What Palin Is, and Isn't, Doing   —  Sarah Palin's PAC disclosure release has occasioned a new round of “Will she or won't she?”  If we take the dictum that one's judgment is more easily interrogated than one's motivation, we're left with a simple answer: ...
  • Brown to support Wall Street reform; Dems edge clo ...
    Eric Zimmermann / The Hill : Brown to support Wall Street reform; Dems edge closer to 60   —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) announced Monday he will vote for Wall Street reform when it comes up for a final vote, all but assuring Democrats the 60 votes they need to pass the legislation.  —  Brown voted ...
  • Debt Commission Eying Mostly-Cuts Package (Myglesi ...
    Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias : Debt Commission Eying Mostly-Cuts Package   —  The latest from the Obama administration's deficit commission: … That sounds like a classic pleases no one, goes nowhere package.  Since it includes tax increases, zero Republicans will vote for it.  But since it's mostl ...
  • Jon Kyl: Extend Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Even If ...
    The Huffington Post : Jon Kyl: Extend Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Even If They Add To Deficit   —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Top Senate Republican Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) insisted on Sunday that Congress should extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans regardless of their impact on the deficit ...
  • Americans Unsure About "Progressive" Political Lab ...
    Lydia Saad / Gallup : Americans Unsure About “Progressive” Political Label   —  More than twice as many say label does not describe them as say it does  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup polling reveals widespread public uncertainty about the “progressive” political label — a label recently embraced by no ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • End of the frontier
    China’s Go West campaign is launching Yunnan into the global economy, but new infrastructure carries an ecological price tag. R Edward Grumbine reports on the green dynamics of a rural transformation. This article is excerpted from Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River by R Edward Grumbine. Copyrig ...
  • Backward steps at Lake Baikal
    A policy U-turn in Russia once again gives an industrial behemoth the freedom to dump toxic waste in the country’s greatest lake. Wang Qiuxia and Zhang Yadong report. Early this year, Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin overturned a nine-year-old ban on dumping toxic industrial waste in Lake Baik ...
  • Unlearned lessons of Bhopal
    Washington shows foreign companies such as BP the big stick, but offers a big shield for its own multinationals abroad, argues Randeep Ramesh. We are doomed, he warns, to repeat historical mistakes. While US president Barack Obama is lambasting BP for spreading muck in the Gulf of Mexico, he should ...
  • China’s green washout
    The launch of environmental disclosure rules was hailed as a turning point for eco-protection in China's business world. But two years on, they have all but been forgotten, says Huo Weiya. When chinadialogue organised a talk last May to mark the first year since publication of China’s environmental ...
  • Game-changing China (2)
    In the second instalment of their report on disruptive innovation, David Tyfield, Jin Jun and Tyler Rooker consider seven Chinese case studies and the lessons they hold for policymakers. In the Chinese game  Go , a single unexceptional move may alter the direction of play such that it turns out to s ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • As the Facts Come Out about Arizona, the Politicia ...
    The more the press examines the premise behind Arizona’s SB 1070 law, the more it looks to be one of those “emperor-has-no-clothes” stories.  On Sunday, Dana Milbank, of the Washington Post devoted his column to examining the claims being made by Arizona’s politicians about crime in Arizona and com ...
  • ‘Silent Raids’ Demonstrate Need for a ...
    Cross-posted from Food Politics. The New York Times reports: The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers. ..the “silent raids,” as employers c ...
  • Mel Gibson: More of a Pig Than We Thought
    Or maybe not. But this audio of Gibson going on a racist, misogynist rant — recorded by his girfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, who said she feared for her life – is pretty shocking. Give it a listen if you can stomach it. Here are a few lowlights … Mel gets enraged and tells Oksana that she lied to him. ...
  • How American Right-Wing Christians Are Waging 'Spi ...
    Evangelicals have established schools, radio stations and churches in northern Iraq -- all with the blessings of the Kurdistan government and assistance from U.S. taxpayers.
  • The Cost of BP's Boys' Club: Why the Oil Industry' ...
    All BP's executives are white males, except for one and interestingly, most of the leaders dispatched to clean up their mess are largely female.

Threat Level

  • Woman Jailed for Texting Threats to Herself
    With a former girlfriend like this, who needs enemies? Consider the 25-year-old Southern California woman sentenced to a year in jail Friday after being convicted of sending hundreds of threatening text messages to herself — in a bid to get her former boyfriend and his sister-in-law arrested by blam ...
  • NSA Denies It Will Spy on Utilities
    The NSA is denying a report from the Wall Street Journal that a secret program code-named “Perfect Citizen” will be monitoring civilian networks. That’s from a rare public statement by the ultra-secret agency responsible for spying on outsiders and defending classified networks. The NSA, as a wing o ...
  • Judge Guts Whopping RIAA File Sharing Verdict
    A federal judge on Friday slashed by 90 percent the damages a jury awarded the recording industry in a lawsuit against a  university student caught file-sharing. The judge declared the original $675,000 award as “unconstitutionally excessive.” U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner reduced last year’s v ...
  • Consumer Group Sniffs Congresswoman’s Open Wi-Fi
    We’re not sure what’s more humorous: That California Rep. Jane Harman, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, maintains two unencrypted Wi-Fi networks at her residence, or that a consumer group sniffed her unsecured traffic in a bid to convince lawmakers to hold hearings about Goog ...
  • FBI Raids ‘Elektronic Tribulation Army’ Over Witne ...
    FBI agents have raided the homes of three alleged members of a hacker gang that harassed a security expert who helped put the group’s leader in jail, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit. Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” pleaded guilty in May to computer-tampering charge ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Fidel Castro to appear on Cuban television and rad ...
    HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has lived in seclusion since falling ill four years ago, will appear on Cuban television and radio on Monday evening to discuss his theory that the world is on the verge of nuclear war, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said in its Monday o ...
  • Russia says Iran close to nuclear weapons
    MOSCOW, July 12 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that Iran was moving closer to having the potential to create nuclear weapons.
  • Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
    EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix edged out Tyson Gay in the former world champion's hotly-anticipated return to the 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday.
  • Polanski freed as Swiss deny extradition
    GSTAAD, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland will not send Roman Polanski back to the United States to face sentencing for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, freeing the Oscar-winning director from 10 months' arrest.
  • German fans want revenge grilling of oracle octopu ...
    BERLIN (Reuters) - Some Germans are calling for a public roasting of the oracle octopus who correctly picked the winner of all six of their national soccer team's World Cup matches -- including a bitter defeat to Spain on Wednesday.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #390 (Russia-US spy swap ...
    In spy swap, agents were pawns in a practiced game. The US arrests were not made to facilitate a swap, said a US official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Rather, they were precipitated, at least partly, by the plans of several of the Russians to leave this country this summer. Russian spies get ...
  • Dead defector not connected to Russian spies, insi ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | On July 2, based on an excellent analysis by Stratfor of the 10 Russian deep-cover agents arrested in the US in June, we entertained the possibility that Sergei Tretyakov, a senior Russian SVR agent who defected to the US in 2000, may have helped the FBI identify the R ...
  • News you may have missed #389
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  • Russia, US, in largest spy swap since World War II
    The Russian and American governments have agreed to conduct one of history’s largest spy exchanges, as ten Russian agents captured in the US last month have been swapped for four Russian citizens imprisoned by Moscow for spying for the US and Britain.
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  • Interrogation Guidelines Facing Their First Legal ...
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  • Bagram Renditions Risk Serious Consequences
    By Jonathan Horowitz The U.S. run prison on Bagram Air Base, and the abuses that took place there, have been a lightning rod for international and domestic criticism of U.S. detention policy. Over the past year, the U.S. military has set out to disarm its critics. While still banning defense lawyers ...
  • No Dominion: The Lonely, Dangerous Fight Against C ...
    By Matthew Harwood, Truthout In his fight against British imperialism, Mahatma Gandhi described the life cycle of successful civil disobedience: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mikey Weinstein, the 55-year-old founder of the Albuquerque, New Mexico ...
  • Audio: Could Success in Afghanistan Be Even Worse ...
    Misfortune Telling � Tom Engelhardt ponders the future of the war in Afghanistan, and the frightening consequences of success. Play: For cable: For dial-up: MP3 File read more
  • Afghanistan War Weekly July 11, 2010
    The war is now entering what is traditionally the season of most intense fighting. US casualty figures (chart below) are running about twice what they were a year ago, with an average of 2-3 US troops and 1-2 other NATO troops being killed each day. As the US congressional elections approach – and ...

Grist - News

  • Home energy efficiency cuts mortgage default rates ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Energy-efficient homes have significantly lower default and delinquency rates than typical homes, according to an internal analysis conducted for a major financial institution last year.  Here's yet another reason why it makes no sense that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have eff ...
  • Seven reasons BP would like to forget this weekend
    by Randy Rieland. It should have been a good weekend for BP. Its latest plan to staunch the geyser -- lowering a tighter cap over the spewing pipe -- is ahead of schedule, and its two relief wells, which could stop the gushing once and for all, remain on track to be ready in mid-August. But, a ...
  • After three months trying, BP says it’s clos ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- After more than three months of trying, BP engineers said Monday that they were finally on the verge of capping the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico that created America's worst-ever environmental disaster. Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating off ...
  • Obama admin announces Alaska drilling. What could ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. "One of the most frustrating things about the Obama administration is the tendency of its leaders and communicators to project a message that's absolutely demoralizing to progressive political activists," writes left-of-center blogger Matt Yglesias. Demoralizing? ...
  • Obama loses drilling moratorium appeal
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The Obama administration lost its bid to keep a six-month freeze on offshore drilling, and BP was to outline Friday its next steps to cap the well gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. A federal judge blocked the deepwater drilling moratorium last mo ...

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Washington Independent

  • Environmentalists Push for Utility-Only Cap as Sno ...
    In an effort to maintain a cap on carbon — even a significantly scaled-down one — in energy and climate legislation, environmentalists are working with electric utilities and manufacturers to try to find middle ground that would center on a utility-only cap on greenhouse gas emissions, a source at a ...
  • Kyl: Unemployment Insurance a ‘Necessary Evi ...
    Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is making a lot of waves with some highly controversial statements about unemployment insurance and tax cuts. Here’s Talking Points Memo’s Brian Beutler on Kyl: The second highest ranking Republican in the Senate doubled down on a controversial statement he made this weekend, ...
  • New Drilling Moratorium Issued
    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued today a second deepwater drilling moratorium, based on new evidence about drilling safety following a recent court decision that found the administration’s original ban to be “capricious and arbitrary.” The moratorium comes as the massive BP oil spill has been g ...
  • Young, Long-Term Unemployed People Substantially S ...
    If you’re young and have been out of work for six months or more, you are also more likely to be sick — and, as a possible cause or effect, much less likely to have health insurance. (The effect was less exaggerated for older workers.) Gallup has more on one of the many costs of [...]
  • Rand Paul Goes to New York City
    Speaking at the Kentucky Freedom Festival on Saturday, Republican Senate hopeful Rand Paul informed Tea Party activists that “we have to get our policy out there, weâre not going to get a lot of help from the newspapers.” He urged grassroots groups to raise money and purchase air time, arguing, “U ...

Digg Green

  • Sea Otters, the Cutest Way to Fight Global Warming
    Apart from being totally adorable, sea otters may account for $700 million worth of carbon sequestration.
  • BP's Dubious July 27 'Kill' Date for Stopping the ...
    BP could cap the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico weeks earlier than expected, BP Gulf spill chief Bob Dudley tells The Wall Street Journal, calling a kill-date of July 20-27 "possible in a perfect world," while pointing out that hurricane season is the wild card. What's really going on in the ...
  • 8 Keys to Deciphering Ancient Climates (Slideshow)
    Our lives extend only decades, so how do scientists study climate going back thousands and millions of years? Ancient pollen, clam shells, columns of sheer ice, and more.
  • Walmart: Going Green or Greenwashing? (Graphic)
    Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, is often criticized for — well, being too big. Its impact on Mom and Pop shops and other small businesses in the markets it enters aside, Walmart’s environmental impact has been the subject of debate for years.
  • Ships Could Contain Gulf Leak by Monday
    The federal official leading the Gulf oil spill cleanup says a new containment cap and an additional ship collecting oil could effectively contain the spill as early as Monday.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Dick and Jane get Crucified on Corfu
    By Les Visible The most important thing I can say today is that BP is majority owned by J.P. Morgan which is owned and controlled by the Rothschild Crime Syndicate and the Queen of England who just waddled into the U.S. with a message of peace. Let me contract and concise that statement; BP is [...]
  • Getting it on with The Great Beyond
    By Les Visible The reason that the dark side got a lot of information is through the weakness of those entrusted with certain things. It’s not just weakness, its ignorance too, because… whatever they sold it out for, the light would have given them without the suffering that attended their giving it ...
  • When False Flags Don’t Fly
  • Wondering What’s Going on Behind the Curtain ...
    By Les Visible I’ve been thinking about the things that have been going on and… knowing that the string pullers do all sorts of things to get the public moving in a particular direction and getting the public to believe certain things, I’ve been wondering and wondering and… wondering. I realize that ...
  • Gulf Coast now a BP police state as law enforcemen ...
    By Mike Adams Normally I would open this article by explaining this is the story the mainstream media won’t dare report. Except in this case, they are reporting it. It’s right on CNN, on the Anderson Cooper “360″ report. What happened is that Lance Rosenfield, a photographer working for ProPublica ( ...

Global Insights

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
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Twilight Earth

  • Ashley Judd on her Hillbilly Pride and Mountain To ...
    Ashely Judd is a Hillbilly, and proud of it! She's on a mission to protect her heritage from the devastation of Mountain Top Removal. Related posts: Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough Idaho Wolf Hunt Video with Ashley Judd and Defenders of Wildlife Wendys Rest ...
  • Look Inside the FY2011 Budget Reveals Climate Chan ...
    The budget for FY2011 has been released and there are some interesting things happening in reference to Climate Change expenditures. Related posts: Oil Executive Epiphany Leads to $125 Billion Climate Change Funding White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts Technology Transfer ...
  • Photo Sunday – 4th of July 2010 – with Declaration ...
    It's the 4th of July, 2010 and we bring you not only photos this week, but the text of the Declaration of Independence. Related posts: 5 Great Articles on How to Green Your 4th of July Photo Sunday – Washington DC Fireworks Photo Sunday – Tahiti and Polynesia
  • The Petrolholics 12 Step Program to Oil Addiction
    I ran across an excellent blog by Wallace J Nichols this morning called Petroholics Anonymous. Check out the 12 step Program to Oil Addiction. I ran across an excellent blog by Wallace J Nichols this morning called Petroholics Anonymous. Check out the 12 step Program to Oil Addiction. Relate ...
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    Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change will host a live chat today. Related posts: White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts White House: The Primary Cause of Climate Change is Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reactions to the Clean Energy Bill ...

Inhabitat

  • Brazilian House on Stilts is a Beautiful Low-Impac ...
    Perched on the foothills near Camos do Jordão in Sao Palo, Brazil, the House For A Couple is a thoughtful residence made from low-impact materials that minimizes any disturbance of its site. The architect André Eisenlohr built the home as a bridge projecting out to the forest below it. The lightweig ...
  • Boston’s Macallen Building Fosters a Revitalized G ...
    As cities around the world make strides to revitalize their urban cores, some projects stand out as beacons of sustainability. The AIA jury did not mince words as they handed out this year’s 2010 Institute Honors Award for Architecture to the Macallen Building, proclaiming that “The building is inve ...
  • New Rollable Solar Panels Make Roof Installations ...
    We cover a lot of solar panel technologies here at Inhabitat — some are pie in the sky, some are a few years down the road and some are exciting products that are actually available today. SoloPowerâs new flexible rolling solar panels are in the latter group, and they stand to significantly reduce ...
  • Army Testing Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Tanks
    Photo by Nevada Tumbleweed We’ve all heard by now that the army is trying to reduce its “carbon bootprint” with everything from solar panels to hybrid aircraft. The military’s latest green initiative is to tune up their tanks with hydrogen fuel cell technology — in an ideal situation, tanks would g ...
  • World’s First Hybrid Coal-Solar Power Plant Goes O ...
    Here’s a case of strange bedfellows: the world’s first hybrid coal-solar power plant is now up and running outside Palisade, Colorado. A joint project between the utilities giant Xcel Energy and Abengoa Solar, the unit of Xcel’s Cameo plant is intended to show that solar power can reduce the environ ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Terahertz Detectors Could See Through Your Clothes ...
    Someone may soon be able to tell what types material are in your pockets from tens, and possibly thousands, of feet away. Using terahertz remote sensing, detectors could see through walls, clothing and packaging materials and immediately identify the unique terahertz waves of the materials containe ...
  • Rosetta’s Closest Asteroid Flyby Photos
    << previous image | next image >> The Rosetta spacecraft took its first close-up images of the asteroid Lutetia today, revealing it to be a heavily cratered, elongated rock. Rosetta got within 2,000 miles of the asteroid, which is about 80 miles long and 4.5 billion years old. T ...
  • Earth From Space: Greenland Glacier Shrinks Overni ...
    A 2.7-square-mile chunk of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier, one-eighth the size of New York’s Manhattan Island, broke off into the ocean between July 6 and 7. The sudden mile-long retreat of the glacier, caught in the image above by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 2 satellite, moved the point where ...
  • Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun
    The sun could be a net for dark matter, a new study suggests. If dark matter happens to take a certain specific form, it could build up in our nearest star and alter how heat moves inside it in a way that would be observable from Earth. Dark matter is the mysterious stuff that makes up [...]
  • Turbulence Discovery Could Lead to Better Planes
    With just a single measurement, a new model may deftly describe turbulent fluid flows near an airplane wing, ship hull or cloud, researchers report in the July 9 Science. If the long-sought model proves successful, it may lead to more efficient airplanes, better ways to curb pollution dispersal and ...

The Progressive Realist

  • A Bit More on the Romney Thing…
    More than a few people have noted that the foreign policy vision of the Republican Party appears to have moved to the far right of the Reagan administration; thus, when the Heritage Foundation ghost writes an op-ed for Mitt Romney, the resulting cesspool is a mishmash of opinions that would have bee ...
  • Fox News Rebuts Israeli Talking Point
    Here’s a report on systemic discrimination against Palestinians buying land in Jerusalem from a surprising source — Fox News : Despite claims from the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that Jerusalem’s real estate market is free and open to anyone re ...
  • Lining Up the Next War
    Neocons and conservatives can't stop baying about the "unacceptable threat of Iran's possession of nuclear weapons," despite our military's full commitment to two conflicts in the Middle East and Iran's limited military power in the Gulf. Maybe General (retired) Charles Wald and former Senator Chuck ...
  • Sam Nunn Signals He Would "Favor Making Whatever C ...
    Frmr. Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA) Former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA), who actively opposed allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military and later help craft the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has stated his support for repealing the ban in the clearest, i ...
  • The "We Care About Afghan Civilians" Myth
    Spencer Ackerman responds � to my post about civilian casualties with the following observation: Here’s where those who base their opposition to the war on its promotion of human suffering have to meet halfway as well. If the U.S. stops prosecuting its end of the war, civilian casualties will ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Demystifying The Vast Right-Wing ...
    Is Wall Street on a hiring spree in "Anticipation of an Economic Recovery?" Annie Lowry says no , based on two pieces of data. First, the crash of 2008 eliminated a lot of the competition, and those firms that have weathered the storm are now that much more profitable. Second, low interest rates me ...
  • McCain Worship Never Dies.
    I often decry the cynicism of the press corps -- heck, I did it in my last post -- but allow me to make the case for some more cynicism in one particular case. Today, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg , long a big fan of Sen. John McCain , washes his hands of the former presidential candidate, while still ...
  • The Little Picture: Progressive What?
    A speaker at the San Francisco Progressive Convention, though who attended may be a more complex question than it would appear: A new poll suggests that a majority of Americans are not sure what the word "progressive" means or if it applies to their political outlook. Even self-identified progress ...
  • The Trouble With Tech Reporting.
    Things have reached such a state that one can't swing a cat on the Internet without hitting a reference to the " Internet Kill Switch" that the Senate is supposedly (but not actually) scheming to hand over to the president of the United States. The meme is a creation of CNET News' Declan McCullag ...
  • Preparing for a Scandal-Happy 112th Congress.
    One of the strangest things about the current political moment is the fact that conservatives are actually quite amenable to the idea of impeaching President Obama . It's not clear what "high crimes and misdemeanors" they had in mind, but as of last December, a whopping 35 percent of Republicans sup ...

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Updated ...
    Please support my work! In March 2009, I published a four-part list identifying all 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002, which I updated in January this year. To keep up with developments over the last six months, I have now updated it again, and the f ...
  • The Guantánamo Archive: 3 Years, 650 Articles List ...
    Please support my work! Yesterday I published a list, with links, of all my articles over the last six months in chronological order, as the latest installment of a project to list all my articles in chronological order, which I began in January, when I published five lists covering the perio ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles &#821 ...
    Please support my work! For over four years, I have been providing detailed information about the prisoners in Guantánamo, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, which tells the story of the prison and around 450 of the prisoners held, and then through 12 online chapters, which provide i ...
  • A Cautious Welcome for British Torture Inquiry
    Human rights campaigners have reacted with cautious optimism to the British governmentâs official announcement of a judicial inquiry into the involvement of the British security services — MI5 and MI6 — in torture and rendition since the 9/11 attacks, although many pressing questions are, as yet, ...
  • Bin Laden Cook Accepts Plea Deal at Guantánamo Tri ...
    In an alleged victory for the Military Commission trial system for terror suspects at Guantánamo, revived by President Obama last year despite the fact that he suspended the Commissions on his first day in office, a Sudanese prisoner, Ibrahim al-Qosi, accepted a plea bargain yesterday, and made a gu ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Two New "Walking" Batfish Species Found
    Two new species of bottom-dwelling "walking" fish have been found in the Gulf of Mexico—right in the path of the Gulf oil spill, a new study says. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - Fish - Species - Environment
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    NoneMore than a hundred thousand barrels of radioactive waste are to be removed from "the most problematic nuclear facility in Europe"—a first. Radioactive waste - Nuclear power - Nuclear - Environment - Energy
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  • Connecticut State Capitol Police Dumps Cold Water ...
    The Connecticut State Capitol Police reverses their previous decision and revokes the Tea Party's flag raising ceremony when they figured out it was nothing more than a political pity party stunt from a bunch of fringe wingnuts: Tea Party activists won't be permitted to fly the Gadsden Flag over th ...
  • Dudchik: News Aggregator or the Big CON?
    Most "news aggregators" are meant to misinform. This is even truer when they are run by ideologues and propagandists more interested in hyper-partisan talking points than reality. In order to be shocked by this I would need to be licking the inside of a light-bulb socket. If anyone else is shocked ...
  • "Fashion Show"
    A little something from Lauren Greenfield, whose documentary looks at an ad and money driven culture and its effects on adults, kids and especially women and girls, have been noted by myself at ePluribus Media before: Greenfield's video "Fashion Show" mixes filmed footage with still photography fro ...
  • Just between Bluegal and me...
    I'd still say Bluegal and her own blogging Wonder Woman personae wins hands down regardless of her twitter note and in almost any photoshop contest up. My effort, a much deserved kick at The Economist can be found at ePluribus Media (+++ a bit more) while Bluegal's vastly superior effort can ...
  • Image of a word bomb
    If a picture is worth a thousand words than this one speaks volumes about where a pretty darn liberal America is right now: Though I embrace many of the progressive ideas that those who have embraced the name "progressive" espouse, I have always preferred to stick to the name liberal. For the mos ...

SPL Center

  • The Ongoing Trial (and Tragicomic Tribulations) of ...
    In an Arizona Senate campaign in which immigration and border security have been center stage issues, it’s no surprise that Chris Simcox managed to insert himself back into local headlines. Since reinventing himself in 2002 as the charismatic founder of the vigilante border-watch group Minuteman Civ ...
  • Expanding A3P Absorbs Another Hate Group
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  • IFI’s Laurie Higgins Goes Off the Deep End, Again
    So you thought McDonald’s was a huge fast-food restaurant chain making huge profits and reaping some criticism in the process over the healthiness of its food? Well, think again. The company whose 31,000 outlets serve nearly 47 million people a day actually is a full-fledged font of evil. It is “hel ...
  • Neo-Nazi Bill White Facing Jury Intimidation Trial
    Former neo-Nazi leader Bill White , already doing time in a federal prison, may face trial in a separate case of allegedly encouraging violence against a jury foreman. A federal judge in Chicago ruled 11 months ago that when White posted personal information, including the home address and phone num ...
  • Strange Twists Reported in Idaho Murder-for-Hire C ...
    The twists and turns in the murder-for-hire case of one-time Aryan Nations attorney Edgar J. Steele could come right out of a novel by Danielle Steel. Since his arrest last Friday, when he was charged with soliciting the murder of his wife and her mother , there have been the following developments ...

change: org.

  • A New Spotlight on Global Health's Unsung Heroes
    It's a common set-up — every x seconds, y children die of — but a new ad campaign by Save the Children inverts the message. The nonprofit knows that you know too many children are regularly felled by preventable diseases. What they want to make sure you also know are the identi ...
  • Atlanta Police to Form LGBT Advisory Panel
    I am not going to lie. I don't know much about Atlanta besides the fact that it has, you know, those Housewives , and a stupendously large airport that I always get lost inside. But it will soon have one more thing on my radar: an LGBT police advisory board. “As I begin to do the important work of t ...
  • Sacked Oil Spill Contractor Speaks Out On BP Polic ...
    Adam Dillon used to be a pretty good BP contractor. As a media liason, he manned the oil giant's police state operations on Grand Isle, turning local reporters away from the front line of the oil's onshore assault. During a run-in with reporters from New Orleans' WDSU station, the former U.S. Army S ...
  • Karma's Reunion: One Year After the Largest Dog Fi ...
    On July 10, a touching  reunion took place at the Humane Society of Missouri , commemorating the first anniversary of the largest dog-fight bust in history. The bust involved eight states, where more than 500 dogs — victims of cruelty — were seized and housed for months. If these dogs had been seize ...
  • 5 Ways White People Should Continue to Seek Justic ...
    When a majority-white jury found ex-BART cop Johannes Mehserle guilty last week of involuntary manslaughter for killing 22-year-old Oscar Grant, white America took a step toward justice. Now, we wait to see how Mehserle will be sentenced . But in the meantime, if we focus exclusively on Mehserle's p ...

Common Dreams -News

  • FDA Nears Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmo ...
    by Les Blumenthal WASHINGTON - They may not be the 500-pound "Frankenfish" that some researchers were talking about 10 years ago, but a Massachusetts company says it's on the verge of receiving federal approval to market a quick-growing Atlantic salmon that's been genetica ...
  • Rate of Arctic Sea Ice Melt Heats Up
    by Randy Boswell Arctic Ocean sea ice melted faster last month than it has in any previous June since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, continuing a pattern that could see a new record retreat by summer's end, according to North America's main ice-monitoring research centre. read more
  • Afghan Monitor Says 2010 Worst Year of War
    by Lynne O'Donnell KABUL - This year has been the most violent since the Afghan war began in 2001 and civilian deaths have risen slightly with the increased insecurity, a local rights group said Monday. A massive US-led increase in troops has failed to quell the Taliban-led insurgency, Afghanistan R ...
  • Halliburton Continues to Flood Lawmakers With Cont ...
    by Michael Beckel Halliburton, the company once headed by former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney contributed $15,500 to federal candidates during June, according to a Center for Responsive Politics review of their political action committee's most recent campaign finance filing. That amo ...
  • With 'One Nation,' Liberal Groups Aim to Match Tea ...
    by Krissah Thompson If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the "tea party" movement must be honored. In an effort to replicate the tea party's success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement's political energy and influence. The ...

Lifehacker

  • Garden Pest Detective Sleuths What Pests or Diseas ...
    Web tool Garden Pest Detective helps you hunt down possible culprits damaging vegetables in your garden. Pick the vegetable, select the kind of damage you're seeing, and the Pest Detective highlights what could be causing it, from plant pests ...
  • Heininger Instacloth Is a Versatile Towel in a Tin ...
    The Heininger InstaCloth is a condensed, pill-sized cloth perfect for your purse, go-bag, or glove compartment. Dampen the little pill, and it expands to a 9-inch by 9-inch cloth for quick cleanups. More�� Shopping - Cr ...
  • Extensive Consumer Reports Testing Gets to the Bot ...
    Product review publication Consumer Reports took an extensive look at the iPhone 4's reception to get to the bottom of the reception problem . Their findings seem to contradict Apple's claim that it's a software issue , pointing out that no ot ...
  • Use the Clean Slate Method of Decluttering to Purg ...
    You're not alone if you find yourself overwhelmed by the task of decluttering your office, bedroom, or other spaces. The Clean Slate method takes away the emotional aspect of decluttering and makes it a practical and easy exercise. More�� ...
  • The Holy Grail of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture [P ...
    Despite all the cool productivity porn modern technology has birthed, the Holy Grail for me is simple: I want to create and edit plain text from anywhere (desktop/tablet/phone), and I want the results to sync flawlessly between devices. And no ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Afghanistan: Peace Without "Winning" Is Still A Wi ...
    By Steve Hynd Just about everyone trots out the obvious on Afghanistan: that there's no military path to "winning" there. And just about everyone except the die-hard Fighting Keyboardists realises by now that insurgencies only end when you either do massive ethnic cleansing - removing Mao's "sea of ...
  • Staving Off Pakistan's Collapse, One Step At A Tim ...
    By Steve Hynd My friend Josh Mull, the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation, has a couple of excellent posts on what he sees as the coming Pakistani meltdown, here and here. I urge you to read both, they're fairly long but will repay close reading because Josh knows P ...
  • Hope
    By Derrick Crowe This evening, I spent a couple of hours at Central Market in downtown Austin, Texas, with 7 other people in one of the first Meetups to Rethink the Afghanistan War. I've been involved in a serious way in the struggle to end the war for a little more than two years. This was the most ...
  • Taliban Killer Monkeys Of Afghanistan!!!! (?)
    By Steve Hynd I have no idea where China's People's Daily got this or what it thinks it's doing by publishing it, but it's too weird/funny not to pass along: Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents are training monkeys to use weapons to attack American troops, according to a recent report by a British-base ...
  • DNC's Unbearable Bushism
    By Steve Hynd I'd just like to add a hearty "ditto" to Robert Naiman's latest: when Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse accused Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele of "betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan" after Steele criticized the Afg ...

Water Wars

  • Water Wars
    July 12, 2010: The Kyrgyzstan government is investigating about a thousand people in the wake of last month's violence in the south (which left 309 dead and over 2,000 injured.) Property damage exceeded $70 million.
  • Soaking up the 4th
    ERATH Eager Fourth of July holiday festival-goers in bare feet and swimsuits lined South Broadway Street here Sunday for the annual Water Wars between area fire departments hoping for a soaking to beat the heat.
  • Free The Slaves And Stop The Killing
    July 12, 2010: Hard times for Yemen. There is a fraying, five month old, ceasefire with rebel Shia tribes in the north. Then there are separatist groups in the south, and their increasingly violent demonstrations. Many of the southern tribes consider themselves independent, and act that way.
  • Soaking up the 4th
    ERATH Eager Fourth of July holiday festival-goers in bare feet and swimsuits lined South Broadway Street here Sunday for the annual Water Wars between area fire departments hoping for a soaking to beat the heat.
  • Fireworks get green light
    Waynesboros annual Summer Extravaganza will finish with a bang after all.

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Afghanistan Sun

  • NATO reports many weekend deaths
    A NATO soldier and 11 Afghan policemen were killed in weekend Taliban attacks across the country.
  • Where Is the Antiwar Left on Afghanistan
    I remember being at the presidential debate between Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush at UCLA in the fall of 1988, a young Bush campaign writer on temporary assignment as a press aide to Gov. John ...
  • Taliban attacks highest since early in Afghan war
    FILE - In this April 25, 2010 file photo, Trucks carrying supplies to coalition forces burn after hundreds of people blocked a main road and set them on fire to protest what they said were civilian de...
  • 10 Taliban could come off sanctions list
    KABUL, Afghanistan The names of 10 individuals or entities with alleged links to the Taliban are being considered for removal from a U.N. sanctions list, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan s...
  • 101st soldier killed in Afghanistan
    FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- The Defense Department says a Fort Campbell soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.A statement on Monday said 25-year-old Pfc. Anthony W. Simmons of Tallahassee, Fla., died July...

Futurismic

  • The Processor Wars
    There are many ways to make a profit; one of them is to make a better product than the competition, but sometimes that alone is not enough, especially when you make the components of complex devices like computers. So maybe you could think about building loopholes into your product that make the com ...
  • Bacterial biker jackets and after-market parts for ...
    This year seems like it’ll be the one where the mainstream starts talking about custom-made replacement organs as something more than science fiction. A few weeks back we heard about the rat who got a new set of lab-grown lungs; this week, Wired is running a photo-essay on bioprinting that’s a must- ...
  • Personal Information: episode 20
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 20 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episo ...
  • Walk a mile in another (wo)man’s virtual shoes
    I’ve often thought the world would be a fairer place if we could all spend a month living as someone of a different gender, race or level of physical ability. Until the gene-mod folks get us to the level of Iain M Banks’ Culture and provide complete plasticity of embodiment (c’mon, people – get a [. ...
  • Three-course specials at The House Of Longpig
    The lines between futurism, architecture and conceptual art continue to blur and fade (if they ever existed anywhere other than our own minds, that is); a chap called Mitchell Joachim is working on making a house from meat. Yes, a house. Made – grown, to be more precise – from in vitro tissue cultur ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • POGO Re-Opens Defense and the National Interest (D ...
    POGO is proud today to re-open an incredible resource on national security issues: Defense and the National Interest (DNI). For years, DNI served as a forum to discuss issues with the military, especially military spending and waste. With the help...
  • Morning Smoke: Taxpayers See $160 Return for Every ...
    GSA IG calls for more funding, authority for contract audits by Tom Spoth [Federal Times] Divided Fort Worth office of SEC was plagued by inaction by Darren Barbee [Fort Worth Star-Telegram] Oil spill panel faces challenges, criticism as it begins...
  • Now on the Watercooler: Interview with Congression ...
    POGO recently wrapped up the 2009-2010 season of its Congressional Oversight Training Series (COTS). Over on the Watercooler, POGO asked one COTS graduate (staffers earn a graduation certificate for attending at least five seminars in the series) to share some...
  • Morning Smoke: Erstwhile MMS Director Looks Back o ...
    Bush MMS Director Defends Tenure: ‘When I Was There It Seemed To Work Well’ by Brad Johnson [ The Wonk Room ] Currency Comptroller Dugan will step down by Vicki Needham [ On the Money ] Mentor program shift delayed by Tom Vanden Brook [ USA Today ] Grassley Airs Concerns As Vote ...
  • Families of Workers Killed at Sea May Soon Be Enti ...
    Just last week, the House approved the Securing Protections for the Injured from Limitations on Liability Act (SPILL Act). The SPILL Act amends three maritime laws written almost a century ago that severely limit the ability of families of workers...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • MythBusters: Homelessness Edition
    When most people hear the word "homeless," they picture an older man, maybe a veteran, sitting on a street corner holding a cardboard sign. Dig a little deeper and you'll find that most people also assume that people without a place to call home are homeless for the long-term, unemployed and mentall ...
  • Filed Under "Yeah, Obviously": HUD's "Worst Case H ...
    File this report in the "what's the point" folder. There were close to 13 million individuals facing an affordable housing shortage in 2007. Yes, that number is high. Yet, since this number reflects the state of housing among low income persons in America in 2007, it is most likely a drastic underre ...
  • Brutal Murders of Sri Lanka's Homeless Continue
    At least seven homeless and poor people have been murdered in Colombo , Sri Lanka's capital, in recent weeks. The victims were sleeping outside at night when they were beaten to death with poles or crushed with rocks. Most of the victims were barely surviving by begging or selling items like lottery ...
  • Surf and Music Scenes Come Together to Benefit Hom ...
    Lately the media spotlight seems to be increasingly aimed at homeless teens and at-risk youth, whether it's CNN on the streets of Denver or a New York Daily News story helping a teen graduate. While the increased exposure is vital to raising awareness of the issue, the hope is that public interest d ...
  • Anyone Can Become Homeless, Even Former NBA Player ...
    Unless you've been living under a rock these past few days, you've no doubt heard about "The Decision." NBA superstar LeBron James, now officially ego-in-chief, had a one-hour primetime special to announce his intention to join the Miami Heat. (Being Knicks fans, we think "the Decision" sucks.) LeBr ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Corruption increases in Afghanistan
    A recent report from Integrity Watch Afghanistan has found that corruption is steadily on the rise in Afghanistan. National Corruption Survey 2010 reports that the Afghan population paid twice as much in bribes in 2009 as it did in 2006: today bribery represents “a burden of 1 billion USD on the Afg ...
  • Petraeus to tweak Aghan strategy: More civilian ca ...
    On July 5th, U.S. Senator John McCain told reporters that the new U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, will probably tweak the current U.S strategy in Afghanistan. After meetings with Petraeus and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, McCain said that “General Petraeus is reviewing the e ...
  • Obama ditches U.S. commander in Afghanistan, repla ...
    On Wednesday, June 23rd, President Obama announced the dismissal of General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan. McChrystal was terminated due to comments reported in an article in Rolling Stone magazine, in which he and his staff insulted Obama’s National Security Advisor ...
  • Canada sells out on nuclear trade with India
    “If civilian nuclear cooperation is to be a primary fixture and symbol of the cordialization of Indo-Canadian relations,” writes CIGI Fellow Ernie Regehr, “it should be built on the most robust of nonproliferation conditions.” (Ernie Regehr, “The Canada-India civilian nuclear cooperation deal,” Dis ...
  • 77% say “peace and nuclear disarmament” very impor ...
    Protests this weekend will reflect a mix of concern over the G8/G20 summits’ agendas, and objections to the very legitimacy of the meetings themselves, suggests an online survey of “engaged Canadians” by the Rideau Institute. “There is a discussion going on among people participating in the protest ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Exercise Reduces Gallstones
    July 12, 2010 NaturalNews.com By: David Gutierrez People who get more exercise are significantly less likely to develop painful and potentially dangerous gallstones, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of East Anglia and published in the European Journal of Gastroentero ...
  • Vanishing Top Soil Will Lead To Food Crisis
    July 12, 2010 NaturalNews.com By: David Gutierrez All the world’s topsoil is set to vanish within the next century if current patterns do not change, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Sydney and presented at the Carbon Farming conference. “It could be as little as ...
  • Spicy Peppers Could Cause Your Body To Burn Calori ...
    July 12, 2010 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Losing weight is just a few spicy peppers away, according to a recent report out of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Researchers there say that the capsaicin compounds found in peppers that give them their spicy taste, actually help to burn calorie ...
  • Gov War On Raw Milk Is An Attack Against Food Free ...
    July 12, 2010 NaturalNews.com By: Mike Adams As a rule of thumb, I don’t drink anything that comes out of a cow. But for the last several thousand years, a large percentage of the human population has consumed cow’s milk — a substance that admittedly contains quite an impressive collection of nutrie ...
  • India Blocks Harvesting Of GM Crops
    July 12, 2010 NaturalNews.com By: David Gutierrez Critics of genetically modified (GM) crops have secured a victory in India, where the environment minister has indefinitely blocked the approval of any further GM varieties. GM cotton was approved for cultivation in India in 2002, and now covers 80 p ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Why kill World Cup fans?
    Bombings in Uganda that killed 74 football fans watching the World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands have been attributed to Somalia’s al-Shabab militia. Earlier, the Washington Post described the way the sport and its fans were being targeted inside Somalia: Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islami ...
  • Opaque Obama
    During the most violent summer of a war soon to enter its tenth year, Andrew Bacevich writes: Much as Iraq was Bush’s war, Afghanistan has become Obama’s war. Yet the president clearly wants nothing more than to rid himself of his war. Obama has prolonged and escalated a conflict in which he himsel ...
  • As Petraeus takes over in Afghanistan, could succe ...
    While reflecting on the dangers of “success” in Afghanistan, Tom Engelhardt writes: On the basis of our stated war objective — â[W]e cannot allow Al Qaeda or other transnational extremists to once again establish sanctuaries from which they can launch attacks on our homeland or on our allies,â ...
  • Dignity — the mark of cultural integrity
    It’s possible to catch glimpses of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and see a social reality whose nature is transparent without any need for historical context — a social reality that contrasts dignity and its absence. The following videos from B’Tselem, an Israeli Information Center for Human Rig ...
  • A source of emulation
    Consider this: When Jimmy Carter visited Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut just over a year ago, protection for the former US president was provided not only by the Secret Service but also Hezbollah’s own security personnel, both of whom feared that Carter might be assassinated by ...

Watts Up With That?

  • A detailed rebuttal to Abraham from Monckton
    I don’t have a dog in this fight, as this is between two people with opposing viewpoints, but I’m happy to pass on this rebuttal from Christopher Monckton, who writes: Professor Abraham, who had widely circulated a serially mendacious 83-minute … Continue reading →
  • Hot in Europe – Cold in South America
    By Steve Goddard NCEP is forecasting temperatures far above normal for the next week in Europe. I don’t think I have ever seen the Europe map so red before. This is a reflection of very warm sea surface temperatures west … Continue reading →
  • A Carefree Record High Temperature in Arizona
    Since Steve Goddard and I posted recently on the subject of high temperatures in Arizona, this seemed like a good followup to problematic climate data and stations we noted in that post. In my previous post about record minimum high … Continue reading →
  • Bad News For Holland
    By Steve Goddard The World Cup was bad news for Holland, but that isnât what I am talking about. The worldâs preeminent climatologist Dr. James Hansen (who is well known for quiet understatement) has forecast that Holland will drown in … Continue reading →
  • 84 year old lowest daytime high temperature record ...
    From the “weather is not climate department”, while the east gets a heat wave, southern California sets chilly records in July over several days. Both Los Angeles and San Diego NWS offices made a number of record event reports, which … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Videos
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Note: If you don’t check out the videos on Dandelion Salad’s vodpod account, you are only getting half the news from DS.  Here are all the videos posted to this category on the vodpod account.  New ones will be added there. see all bp-deepwater horizon oil disast ...
  • Webster Tarpley: Obama Plans Lame Duck Sell-Out of ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Interview with Webster Tarpley Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter www.kpfa.org July 7, 2010 The Financial Reform Bill, including The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, more popularly known as the White ...
  • The Meaning of Austerity by James Corbett
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by James Corbett The Corbett Reoprt 22 June, 2010 It’s an old trick to couch a painful reality inside of a flowery platitude. We hear it all the time in our daily lives, and for the most part we know how to read between the lines when someone tries to do it to us ...
  • Sleeping Through The Fire by Philip A. Farruggio
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 8 July, 2010 Those who run things, the powerful in media, politics and industry, they’ve got an easy job. Why? Well, upwards of 90% of you out there are fast asleep, and you don’t even know it. You rely on television nightly news, the mainstream ...
  • A Tribute to David Coetzee (1943-2010) By William ...
    By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 7 July, 2010 Many years ago, actually I think it was 1985, I was on a trip to London from New York and having discovered as it were a few years earlier, the online world of FidoNet, I was anxious to spread the word to the comrades. [...]

Your New Reality

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    This is as close to a video of an actual nightmare as I've ever seen. Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny : What Chris Cunningham has been working on lately : "I've been living next to the railway line for 12 years and I've become obsessed with the harmonics of the trains on the lines. "For yea ...
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    Raw Story : US Cyber Command is responsible for the protection of military computer networks and is commanded by General Keith Alexander, who also heads the National Security Agency The world wrapped in wire. .
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    Deaths Of 'Conspiracy' Blogger & Artist Boyfriend To Be Subject Of New Film By Bret Easton Ellis & Gus Van Sant By Darryl Mason It's just a short snippet in a longer story from the LA Times about author/screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis' new novel, Imperial Bedrooms , a sequel o his 25 year old deb ...
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    Murdoch Newspaper Proudly Endorses Australian Coup Like no other media outlet in his worldwide empire, Rupert Murdoch's The Australian national broadsheet newspaper is the voice of Rupert Murdoch. He's lost tens of millions on The Australian over the years, but Murdoch keeps the newspaper going bec ...
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    Renovator's Dream Things are financially tougher for the US government than anyone could have possibly imagined. (click to enlarge) It's going for $10 million, which is a hell of a bargain for such a prime Washington DC address. The ad doesn't make clear if the air defence system on the roof is ...

Wired - Science

  • Terahertz Detectors Could See Through Your Clothes ...
    Someone may soon be able to tell what types material are in your pockets from tens, and possibly thousands, of feet away. Using terahertz remote sensing, detectors could see through walls, clothing and packaging materials and immediately identify the unique terahertz waves of the materials containe ...
  • Rosetta’s Closest Asteroid Flyby Photos
    << previous image | next image >> The Rosetta spacecraft took its first close-up images of the asteroid Lutetia today, revealing it to be a heavily cratered, elongated rock. Rosetta got within 2,000 miles of the asteroid, which is about 80 miles long and 4.5 billion years old. T ...
  • Earth From Space: Greenland Glacier Shrinks Overni ...
    A 2.7-square-mile chunk of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier, one-eighth the size of New York’s Manhattan Island, broke off into the ocean between July 6 and 7. The sudden mile-long retreat of the glacier, caught in the image above by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 2 satellite, moved the point where ...
  • Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun
    The sun could be a net for dark matter, a new study suggests. If dark matter happens to take a certain specific form, it could build up in our nearest star and alter how heat moves inside it in a way that would be observable from Earth. Dark matter is the mysterious stuff that makes up [...]
  • Turbulence Discovery Could Lead to Better Planes
    With just a single measurement, a new model may deftly describe turbulent fluid flows near an airplane wing, ship hull or cloud, researchers report in the July 9 Science. If the long-sought model proves successful, it may lead to more efficient airplanes, better ways to curb pollution dispersal and ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel bans Gaza woman from studying human rights ...
    Amira Hass: The court agreed with the state's position that ... easing the blockade "did not say anything about extending the present policy about travel," a policy that allows Gazans to leave "only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Shin Bet visits West Bank cities to boost security ...
    Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin travels to Jenin and Ramallah as a guest of the Palestinian Authority security service. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Gaza farmers risk being shot (video)
    As a Libyan backed aid ship sails for the Gaza Strip, another group of international activists has been defying the blockade, but this time on the land. Foreigners acting as human shields have been... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Education witch-hunt begins in Israeli schools and ...
    Hundreds of Israeli college professors have signed a petition accusing the education minister of endangering academic freedoms after he threatened to “punish” any lecturer or institution that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Israeli academics hit back over bid to pass law th ...
    Neve Gordon: "I am worried about what is happening to the space for debate in Israel. I find that there is a proto-fascist mindset developing. One of the slogans you hear a lot now is no citizenship... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Double-Teaming a Whole-Genome Hunt
    By inspecting the sequence of all 3 billion "letters" that make up the genome of a single person affected with a rare, inherited disorder, a Johns Hopkins and Duke University team ferreted out the single genetic mutation that accounts for the disease.
  • Why (Smart) Practice Makes Perfect
    Study in Nature Neuroscience (embargo lifted July 11, 2010) finds neural basis for observation that practicing several skills in single session works better than narrow drills on one skill. Study also helps define time window for brain's learning of new skills.
  • Hopkins Faculty Lead Development of Report to FDA ...
    Amid growing concerns about clinical trials for drugs that have been approved by the F.D.A. but are later linked to serious health risks, an independent committee at the Institute of Medicine led by two professors from Johns Hopkins University has developed a conceptual framework to guide the agency ...
  • Socioeconomic Status and Co-Morbidities Have Signi ...
    Blacks are surviving colorectal cancer at a significantly lower rate compared to whites and Asians due to co-morbidities and their socioeconomic status, according to research by epidemiologists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
  • Hamilton College and N.Y. State Police Special Ope ...
    Hamilton College will conduct a large-scale emergency drill on its campus in conjunction with the New York State Police (NYSP) and local emergency responders on Tuesday, July 20. This undertaking will allow both organizations to test their emergency preparedness in an economical and effective manner ...

Natural Health News

  • Omega-3's Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer
    A recent report adds to the growing evidence that omega-3 supplements may play a role in preventing chronic disease. Researchers asked more than 35,000 postmenopausal women who did not have a history of breast cancer to complete a 24-page questionnaire about their use supplements. Regular use of f ...
  • Fast Food Fuelling Asian Diabetes Boom
    Many people in Vietnam have diabetes but are unaware of it, and the condition is spreading fast in South East Asia. A study found that about 11 percent of men and 12 percent of women in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.� This was in addition to the 4 percent of people who ...
  • How Cancer-Causing Methyl Iodide Sneaked Past the ...
    In the final days of the Bush Administration, the EPA ignored strong warnings from independent scientists and it approved use of a pesticide so carcinogenic that scientists had previously used it to induce cancer in tissue samples. The chemical was a fumigant called methyl iodide, and it swiftly we ...
  • Perfect Reason to Feel Grateful for What You Have
    Here’s a video about a man with no arms or legs, but the largest heart you've ever seen.
  • Artificial Sweeteners Linked with Premature Delive ...
    Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame have considerable potential to harm human health.� A recent study which looked at the relationship between soft drink consumption and pregnancy outcome found that pregnant women having 1 or more servings of artificially sweetened drinks a day were at a 38 perc ...

Antemedius

  • BP's Well May Leak For 55 Years Or More Into The G ...
    On June 15, 2010 the US Department of Energy announced that a group of federal and independent scientists convened by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) Dr. Marcia McNutt (Director of th ...
  • Turning the Catch of the Day into Improved Livelih ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet and written by Christi Zaleski . Leaving Gambia’s capital city, Banjul, you’ll find a group of women standing road side offering up oysters for 15 dalasis a cup, or about 55 cents for approximately 75 pieces of oyster meat. These women i ...
  • Locally Produced Crops for Locally Consumed Produc ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . In Zambia, sorghum—a drought resistant cereal that thrives in the country— was considered a “poor man’s crop” in the past, often shunned by small-scale farmers for the more commercially viable maize. But an article in the June issue of ...
  • Creating Food Sovereignty for Small-Scale Farmers
    This interview with Raj Patel, award-winning writer, activist and academic, was originally featured as a two part series on Nourishing the Planet . Name : Raj Patel Affiliation : Visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Stud ...
  • Tomgram: William Astore, Operation Enduring War
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Some words have a way of enduring.� Take “endure.”� As the Bush administration headed into Iraq in the spring of 2003, the Pentagon already had plans on the drawing board to build at least four gigantic American bases in that country and garrison them for the ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Breaking: Bashir Charged with Genocide
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As I predicted, the Trial Chamber has approved genocide charges for Bashir: The International Criminal Court has issued a second arrest warrant for Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir - this time for charges of genocide. He already faces charges of war crim ...
  • Treaties in the Supreme Court, 1861-1900
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis OK, I’ll admit up front that this is a relatively narrow topic.  But I’ve written a chapter on the U.S. Supreme Court’s approach to treaties from 1861 to 1900 (you can download it here).  The project’s initial appeal was participating in this great conferenc ...
  • Foreign Law Watch, Kagan Edition
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson From the AP account of the Kagan confirmation hearing of the now presumably de rigueur question of candidates … foreign law and interpretation of the US constitution, a topic on which both Roger and I (and fifteen trillion other scholars, at least if you in ...
  • Treaties in the Supreme Court, 1861-1900
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis OK, I’ll admit up front that this is a relatively narrow topic.  But I’ve written a chapter on the U.S. Supreme Court’s approach to treaties from 1861 to 1900 (you can download it here).  The project’s initial appeal was participating in this great conferenc ...
  • Congratulations to Anthea Roberts …
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson On her new article in the latest AJIL, “Power and Persuasion in Investment Treaty Interpretation: The Dual Role of States.”  Although not the expert Roger and others are on investment law, I’ve read this closely and think it is a blockbuster article.  Ant ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
    Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...
  • 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...

The World We Live In

  • Domain Name Being Changed
    Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
  • One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
    I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
  • New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
    Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
  • At least we are not Dubai
    We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
  • 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
    The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Lawsuit Filed to Halt Release of Genetically Engin ...
    An alliance of conservation organizations today sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called ArborGen, which is a joint initiative ...
  • A Pressing Issue: David and Goliath Battle on GM A ...
    by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D. The media got it wrong and let the public down when it erroneously reported Monsantoâs wholesale victory in its Supreme Court appeal of the GM alfalfa case — the first-ever Supreme Court case on GMOs (Monsanto Co. v Geertson Seed Farms).  Despite claims and headlines to th ...
  • 56 Members of House and Senate Ask USDA to Keep Ba ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), joined by 49 other representatives and five other senators, sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking USDA to retain the regulated status of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa. Their letter comes in r ...
  • Update on Supreme Court Decision
    Many of you may have read press today reporting that the 7-1 decision announced by the Supreme Court this morning went entirely in Monsanto’s favor, and have asked us to clarify this decision. Not to our surprise, Monsantoâs PR machine is working hard to overpower the truth in today’s decision in ...
  • Supreme Court Ruling in Monsanto Case is Victory f ...
    High Court Delivers Ruling that Leaves Ban on Planting of Roundup Ready Alfalfa in Place in First-Ever Case on a Genetically-Engineered Crop The Center for Food Safety today celebrated the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Monsanto v. Geerston Farms, the first genetically modified crop case ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • "Market for Ni$$as"
    "Market for Ni$$as"
  • US Political Prisoners: Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu ...
  • Incident at Oglala: 35th Anniversary Events
    25 June AIM-WEST, Inter-Tribal Friendship House and American Indian Movement (AIM) cordially invite the Bay Area to an afternoon of fundraising activities and information with a theme of political prisoners held in the U.S. Come learn about the case of American Indian prisoner, Leonard Peltier, ...
  • Israel's nuclear deal with apartheid South Africa
    Israel's nuclear deal with apartheid South Africa (FinalCall.com) - Israeli President Shimon Peres denied reports May 24, that he offered to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa when he was defense minister in the 1970s. The Guardian newspaper of London published top-secret South African ...
  • Sam Watson: ‘Police must be held accountable’
    Sam Watson: ‘Police must be held accountable’ : By Jim McIlroy The Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) recently released a report highly critical of the police investigation into the case of Palm Island Aboriginal man Mulrunji Doomadgee, who died in police custody in November 2004. The ...

Pensieve

  • Hurricane Alex Aftermath
    (I wrote the following entry on Friday, July 2, but have been unable to post it until today. As of now, there is no water in my house.) I just arrived home after exploring the are around my home after Hurricane Alex tore through Monterrey. The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a category tw ...
  • Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
    Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...
  • Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
    The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
  • False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
    To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
  • Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
    Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...

Green Times

  • Movie Review: Colony
    Dramatically declining bee colonies and dark implications for the future in a beautifully photographed movie: read our review
  • Environmental News -11/06/10
    Environmental News World at risk of "red card" over climate: de Boer Climate negotiators gave a standing ovation to the outgoing head of the U.N. climate change secretariat Wednesday even after he told them they would be at risk of a red card in a soccer match for wasting time. Dutchman ...
  • Environmental Sculpture on Show
    Reflecting on one of the most pressing global issues of this century – it will be a showcase of art with a message: artsCape 2010
  • 10 Ways to Celebrate World Environment Day
    Celebrate World Environment Day on 5 June 2010 - Many Species. One Planet. One Future… Join in and make a difference!
  • Environmental News -04/06/10
    Environmental News ‘Citizen scientists’ can aid biodiversity research Getting a true picture of biodiversity changes in the future may depend on scientists gaining access to the records of ‘citizen scientists’ around the world, according to a paper in the scientific journal PLoS Biology ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Police Train Marines to Fight Taliban on Streets o ...
    ShareThis Police Train Marines to Fight Taliban on Streets of LA in Secret Exercise --'In many ways, police in Los Angeles' crime-ridden neighborhoods use the same skills that Marines say could help them.' �12 Jul 2010 70 Camp Pendleton Marines participated in a Los Angeles Police Department trainin ...
  • Psychology group backs CIA detainee torture claim
    ShareThis Psychology group backs CIA�detainee torture claim --Mitchell is retired Air Force psychologist who participated in the 2002 CIA interrogation of detainee Abu Zubaydah 10 Jul 2010 Psychologists in the United States have been warned by their professional group not to take part in torturing d ...
  • Pentagon allows banned reporter to return to Guant ...
    ShareThis Pentagon allows banned reporter to return to Guantánamo 09 Jul 2010 The Pentagon on Thursday reversed its ban on a Miami Herald reporter from covering military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and said the reporter can return to the naval base there to cover a hearing next week. In an e- ...
  • BP Cuts Payments to 40,000, La. Official Says
    ShareThis BP Cuts Payments to 40,000, La. Official Says --State Cabinet Member Tells Federal Gov't of 'Devastating' Cuts for Thousands 10 Jul 2010 BP has decided to reduce payments to tens of thousands of people whose claim files are [allegedly] incomplete, the secretary of Louisiana's Department of ...
  • Armed men open fire kill 13 in E Afghanistan
    ShareThis Armed men open fire kill 13 in E Afghanistan 10 Jul 2010 Unknown armed men opened fire on a civilian vehicle in Paktia province east of Afghanistan killing 13 commuters on Saturday, spokesman for provincial administration Rohullah Samoon said. "The bloody incident took place in Chamkani di ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Palestinian activist detained for daring to appeal ...
    By Jesse Bacon From to the list of Anarchists Against the Wall, Approximately a week ago, Adeeb Abu-Rahme was convicted in the military court for “incitement” and more. Yesterday, July 7, the military court sentenced Adeeb for a year in prison, and a year on parole. As already in custody for a yea ...
  • Interview with Silwan solidarity activist Daniel D ...
    By Jesse Bacon I spoke with Daniel Dukarevich on his way to Silwan to stay with Palestinian families facing eviction by settlers and police violence. As it turned out there was no attacks that night, but the activists expect more after Netanyahu returns from his visit with Obama. We will follow the ...
  • Happy 4th of July Weekend from the Only Democracy?
    By Jesse Bacon As a rural-raised revolutionary, I love the 4th of July. It is a great time for community gathering, it celebrates a successful uprising against the largest empire in the world, and it involves staring up into the sky with wonder. Though I used to need hearing protectors as a fraidy-c ...
  • Nocturnal Terror in Silwan
    Ed’s note: Here is a story that ran earleir this week in Just Jerusalem. We are reposting it here in advance of an interview with the author, Daniel Dukarevich with additional actions expected this weekend. Another night sets in on Silwan. Just two days ago, hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian de ...
  • “Play the game, change reality.”
    By Jesse Bacon Anyone who is grew up shooting virtual Nazis as I did knows that video games can be addictive. They can also be a nice respite from a fairly dull existence. They can even be achingly, vacantly beautiful.  But when I became an activist, I wondered where were the games that would teach ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Dancing at Auschwitz. Living well is the best reve ...
    YouTube On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor’s pop song – ‘I Will Survive’ at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe. This dance is a tribute to the tenacity of the human spirit and a ...
  • Alaska city to ship water to India
    Sitka, Alaska expects to make as much as $26 million a year from selling their water for a penny a gallon to a private company that will load it on Suezmax tankers and ship it to drought-stricken India. No word yet on the environmental impact on local resources of taking so much water or the [...]
  • Why liberals should love the Second Amendment
    From Kaili Joy Gray at DailyKos (of all places!) Liberals can quote legal precedent, news reports, and exhaustive studies. They can talk about the intentions of the Founders. They can argue at length against the tyranny of the government. And they will, almost without exception, conclude the necessi ...
  • Hapa. Redemption Song
    Hapa are well-known in Hawaii. Their name means ‘mixed breed’ in Hawaiian. This is Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau on guitars with Charles Ka’upu chanting in Hawaiian.
  • Those fighting Democrats
    An Obama spokesperson says Democrats could lose the House but offered no actual plans to stop this from happening except to say that Republicans would be evil, wicked, mean, and nasty. A far better approach would be to give reasons to vote for Democrats rather than against Republicans. Krugman says ...

Coteret

  • Israeli Finance Ministry explains recent IDF-sourc ...
    Why the sudden spate of Israeli-sourced publications on Hezbollah’s military power? On Wednesday (July 7 2010) this one, in the Jerusalem Post, elicited a sarcastic Tweet from Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch: Israel’s shocking discovery of Hezballah presence in….Lebanon. Believe it or not! This mornin ...
  • Haifa Mayor wants to turn Mavi Marmara into &#8220 ...
    Cruiseship Marmara Mayor of Haifa Yonah Yahav has a creative idea: to turn the Turkish ship into a floating hotel Amir Buhbut, Maariv, July 8 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] While Turkey is demanding Israel apologize over the flotilla to Gaza, the mayor of Haifa has an interesting ...
  • [video] Birthright group visits (Jewish Settlement ...
    The “Hebron” account at WeJew.com (a kind of Jewish YouTube wannabe) has just (July 5 2010) uploaded a video purportedly documenting a visit of this month of an Australian Birthright group to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. This site is the stated raison d’être of the extremist Jewish Settle ...
  • Hasbarapocalypse — Leaked Frank Luntz memo: ...
    The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel’s public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave the memo to the Prime Minister’s Office, where someone promptly leaked it to Chico Mena ...
  • Israeli Ministry of Justice endorses extremist int ...
    On Friday, July 9, the Ministry of Justice and the Jewish Legal Heritage Society will present a two-day seminar on Jewish laws concerning the Land of Israel.  [An invitation in Hebrew can be seen here and a translation is appended at the bottom of this post. H/T Dena Shunra.] While I am not an exper ...

Deadline Live

  • Uganda Bombing Twin Bombing Of World Cup Celebrati ...
    July 11, 2010 CNN Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • British docs demand ‘fat tax’ on junk ...
    LONDON â Leading British doctors will urge the UK government Monday to impose a “fat tax” on junk food and introduce cigarette-style warnings to children about the dangers of poor diets and products high in fat, salt or sugar. Dr. Terence Stephenson, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics a ...
  • Deadline Live/ UncoverTheNews Exclusive: July 10 D ...
    Video By Kristen Coughlan July 10 Day of Action for Civil Liberties – Kingstons Action More Video to Come . . . Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • This Day In History – July 12
    1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace. 1580 – Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published. 1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly. 1804 – For ...
  • Peaceful march marks Oka, 20 years later
    Twenty years after the Oka Crisis thrust Native land claim rights into the spotlight, several hundred Kanesatake Mohawks took part in a peaceful march to commemorate the 1990 conflict Sunday. The Oka Crisis made national headlines during the summer of 1990 when Mohawk protesters faced off against Qu ...

The Air Vent

  • Hasenpfeffer for Bart
    So I’ve been battling a bit with Bart Verheggen. I realize that it’s not that uncommon of  a situation around here, Eli Rabbet  showed up to join against my reasonable points. Bart said: Energy saving is probably the archetypical no-regret measure. McKinsey has a graph similar to the one I pointed ...
  • Incredible Libertarians and the Skeptics Creed
    While reading around the internet I was directed to an article by Bart Verheggen who makes some observations about different sorts of climate skeptics. Climate skepticism comes in many shades of grey It might make you giggle a bit but here’s his reasoning: Ideology can be a strong driver of how peo ...
  • Experts Ignore Record High June Antarctic Ice
    An update on the state of the sea ice is in order.  After beginning my usual boring sea ice post, I ran across the NSIDC news story on sea ice.   You know the unbiased scientific review of the conditions of sea ice globally. I’m pissed off now that they would post this kind of rubbish.  [...]
  • Greenthink
    First there is no such thing as renewable energy, it’s kind of fitting that the very word greenies have coined is itself a lie. I say that because there are so many lies and exaggerations in the world of green energy that it makes ‘renewable’ a perfectly fitting term.  The second law of thermodynam ...
  • Review of the Decline
    Well as you are probably all aware, the Muir Russell  report came out today.  Despite the fact that they somehow managed to conclude that ‘hide the decline’ and the endless discussions of the intent to make the story consistent in the emails, did not constitute ‘hide the decline’.   Just to make ...

Focal Point

  • The Big Chill: When Cryonics Divides a Marriage
    Did you hear the one about the cryonics enthusiast who married the hospice worker ? It sounds like the setup for a dark joke, but that's exactly what Robin Hanson and Peggy Jackson did 28 years ago. Robin, a professor of economics at George Mason University, is preparing to have his brain frozen in ...
  • Darcy James Argue Sweeps the DownBeat Awards
    I interrupt your regularly scheduled crushing negativity for a little effusive praise... I'm very proud to report that my boyfriend, Darcy James Argue, kicked all kinds of ass in� DownBeat's 58th Annual Critics Poll, winning Big Band Rising Star, Composer Rising Star. and Arranger Rising Star on th ...
  • Olivia Munn's First Daily Show Assignment is Prett ...
    The Daily Show sent its newest correspondent, Olivia Munn, to Phoenix to interview a state senator who wants to ban photo radar as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, but who co-sponsored SB 1070, Arizona's infamous "Papers Please" law. Under SB 1070, speeding gives an officer probable cause t ...
  • Extreme Insertions: Competitive Eating and Pornogr ...
    Will Saletan of Slate casually likened competitive eating bouts to pornography , whereupon Katy Kelleher of Jezebel became justifiably indignant on behalf of pornography In fairness to porn, competitive eating only resembles certain sub-genres of porn where the squick factor is built into the ap ...
  • Olivia Munn, Sexism, and the Daily Show
    Will wonders never cease: professional self-promoter Emily Gould recently accused feminist blogs of stoking their readers' outrage to " gin up page views ." Gould's case in point is a reported piece by Jezebel's Irin Carmon about how the Daily Show , every liberal's favorite fake newscast, is actual ...

Inside Facebook

  • VChatter: A Growing, Chatroulette-Style Facebook A ...
    In case you missed the Chatroulette fad, a new Facebook application, VChatter, allows you to have a similar experience — if you’re willing to take the same sorts of exposure risks. Beyond Chatroulette, the experience of using VChatter is similar to using Skype or any other video chat service, but on ...
  • Facebook Implements ‘Panic Button’ in UK
    Facebook in the United Kingdom is set to allow users between the ages of 13 and 18 an opportunity to report inappropriate behavior to government child welfare authorities at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center (CEOP). Specifically, Facebook is debuting an application to these users v ...
  • Microsoft’s Docs.com Improves Facebook Integration
    Microsoft tweaked its Docs.com to better integrate with Facebook Pages last week, and from the looks of it, document sharing through Facebook will now be a much easier experience. In a blog last week Microsoft announced the changes to Docs.com were made in response to user feedback since the service ...
  • Create Your Quiz Challenges the Leader on This Wee ...
    Facebook’s top quiz-creator application, Quiz Planet!, is in danger of being surpassed. Create your Quiz has risen to within striking range, picking up 5.8 million new users to lead this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook apps by monthly active users. Here’s the full AppData list: Top Gainers T ...
  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, July 5th, 2010 FrontierVille, Verdonia, Millionaire City Lead on This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Boycott Israel campaign wants Israel to abide by i ...
    Neve Gordon explains the simple purpose of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks to end the occupation and, in Israel, is operating against the background of a developing proto-fascist mindset and dramatically shrinking public discourse.
  • Call for American Declaration of Independence from ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that “instead of celebrating Independence Day with hot dogs, beans, beer, baseball and fireworks, Americans should wake up and declare independence from the dictates of Israel”.
  • Phoenix-like dollar arises from its ashes as an il ...
    Christopher King argues against suggestions by UN and US economists that countries should switch their reserve currencies from the dollar to the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, which he says would amount to another derivatives scam in all but name.
  • Church mission preaches Christians must love and d ...
    Stuart Littlewood exposes the contradictions, hypocrisy and un-Christian essence of a “Christian” Zionist body known as “the Church’s Ministry among Jewish People”, which despite being an apologist for Israeli crimes against Palestinian Christians and Muslims, is an official ministry of the Church o ...
  • Britain more interested in saving Israelis from ga ...
    Stuart Littlewood explains why the hope that UK Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg’s presence in the governing coalition would have a moderating effect on the rabid Conservative Zionists is misplaced. Following a recent exchange with Clegg, he concludes that the junior coalition partner has ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Sanitized Gulen Coverage Continues…
    …and the Real Dots Remain Unconnected In my last update I covered the recent multi-agenda driven, censored and sanitized media coverage of the Gulen movement. He seems to be back in the news (mainly Turkish media) again with the Flotilla Incident, and again, with unconnected dots, and unmentioned po ...
  • Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of lithium?
    Transforming Afghanistan into a Central Asian Saudi Arabia   It seems that Afghanistan is a never ending font of surprises. For decades U.S. officials took the position that Afghanistan held nothing of value for the United States, especially in the form of vital strategic resources. That assumption ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents
    Here is a great toon from Paul Jamiol, originally posted here: http://jamiolsworld.com/ ; I recommend bookmarking his website, and of course check it out daily!  

Afro Spear

  • My Name is “Lubangakene!”
    In Cape Town, South Africa for the 2006 Homeless World Cup, Sarah Angwech, a Ugandan student and soccer player finally tells me my proper name…
  • sat’day riddymz
    In honor to the memory of Oscar Grant…
  • Oscar Grant’s Murderer Convicted of Involunt ...
    To know one’s surprise: Mehserle convicted of involuntary manslaughter “A jury found former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle guilty Thursday of involuntary manslaughter, concluding that he did not intend to kill train rider Oscar Grant when he shot him in the back on New Year’s Day 2009 b ...
  • My Name Is Anna Renee, and I’m a Racist
    I suppose that’s the best way to describe what I’m feeling at this particular time. So what am I talking about? Well first let me introduce you to Oakland California, USA, the city that I have lived in for the past 27 years. Oakland, the city known for the “Epic Beard Man” that old white [...]
  • There is a lion in the way
    the cemetery is the richest place on earth because billions of brilliant unfulfilled dreams are buried there. If you’re anything like me or the billions buried, the problem is not having a dream. The problem is being strong enough to fulfill them.

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

  • BP BLOCKED WORKERS
    BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.
  • Jim Geer in handcuffs!
    Chair Karen Thurman has repeatedly demanded a full and independent investigation. But the Republicans who control Tallahassee are trying to block the investigations into their culture of corruption, instead trying to make Jim Greer the fall guy for their misdeeds.
  • A Hot Air Balloon
    The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
  • Republican Worldview: It’s All Good
    "I wasn't talking about the financial crisis," he said, but rather about "fixing the problems on Wall Street." But that's a distinction without a difference, since it was the problems on Wall Street that caused the financial crisis, reckoned by most economists to be the worst since the Great Depress ...
  • Tree of Liberty
    The elitists must be put in their place, along with the people who have become their pawns, don't listen to the scare tactics they have used in the past, don't give them another chance to complete the takeover, END the Corporate takeover of America

Unsuitable Blog

  • Monthly Undermining Task, July 2010: Escape The To ...
    Here is a picture of a cat in a deckchair, probably relaxing as cats are wont to do from time to time. The cat could be anywhere but I can bet you anything that the cat didn’t travel thousands of miles to wherever it is relaxing in the deckchair especially in order to relax in [...]
  • Boycotting BP Is Like Choosing Your Least Favourit ...
    Which is your least favourite genocide? I don’t know about you, but if I lived in Rwanda then the genocide of 1994 that took the lives of a million people in some of the most brutal ways imaginable would certainly be at the top (or is that bottom) of my list. Then again, anyone who follows [...]
  • Hands Across The Sand: A New Low In Symbolic Prote ...
    “I dreamed early on in the BP crime-event that The Gulf Gusher could NOT be stopped. I woke up shaking, sweating, my heart pounding. I knew this was information more than merely a dream…I think we have a hole in our heads when we talk about effective action, and we’ve got to think more seriously [. ...
  • Just Some Handy Walmart Subvertising
    Someone sent me an email containing an article which, on first glance, appeared to be neatly undermining Walmart’s corporate line that the world’s biggest retailer is becoming “green”. It turns out that I read too much into the article, and they were actually praising Walmart and suggesting they wer ...
  • Lockheed Martin’s Violent Definition of &#82 ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOCKHEED MARTIN ANNOUNCES NEW GREEN INITIATIVES FOR 140,000 EMPLOYEES, THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES BETHESDA, Md. – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced new green initiatives to reach its 140,000 employees, their families and communities. The orchestrated effort is ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
  • Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
    In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.  Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Ushahidi Racking up Downloads, Available in New La ...
    The Ushahidi platform's growing use has been astounding to say the least. The platform has been download almost 4,000 times. On top of that, our mobile applications (including the Android Oil Spill reporter by Henry Addo) have been downloaded more than 3,700 times. As an organization that is bare ...
  • Highlights and Pitfalls of Virtual Street Corners ...
    We're just winding down my Knight News Challenge project, Virtual Street Corners , and haven't had time to sort through all the recorded materials and debrief the participants, but I wanted to share some initial thoughts and reactions. The most encouraging takeaway from the project was the enthu ...
  • Four More "Programmer-Journalists" Reach Halfway P ...
    Ever since the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholars enrolled in the journalism master's program at the Medill School , I have checked in with them around the midway point -- and taken the opportunity to introduce them to the Idealab audience. As we mark the end of Medill's spring quarter, ...
  • Fifth "Programmer-Journalist" Helps Develop Visual ...
    There is probably no government data used more by journalists -- and non-journalists -- than the trove of population and demographic information collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. But while the bureau has kept improving its tools for online data access, it's still a challenge for someone not wel ...
  • Teaching Ushahidi 101 in Kenya
    This post is written by Melissa Tully and Rebecca Wanjiku. Melissa Tully is a PhD student at UW-Madison who is researching the use of social/new media in social justice work in Kenya. She has been volunteering with Ushahidi for the past two-and-a-half years. Rebecca Wanjiku is a project assistant ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Inside Iran - Former Iranian Revolutionary Guard T ...
    Formerly a member of Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who turned CIA double-agent, a man identified as "Reza Kahlili" spoke at a conference on July 9 organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Kahlili issued the dire prediction�that Iran will eventually attack ...
  • The Immigration Edge - Holder Leaves Open Possibil ...
    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder left open the possibility of filing an additional lawsuit against the state of Arizona's controversial immigration law. In an interview with CBS News host Bob Schieffer, the nation’s top law enforcement official explained that the U.S. may still challenge the Arizon ...
  • China on the Edge - China's Xinjiang Province Thro ...
    Police officers patrol a street in Kashgar, in western China's Xinjiang region, . Teams of police patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang as stringent security was imposed for the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decade, 3 Jul 2010 Teams of paramilitary police are ...
  • The Deaf Edge - Settled Case of Predatory Cochlear ...
    The United States Department of Justice has announced the settlement of a case that will come as no surprise to many who have been following the story behind the Colorado based manufacturer, Cochlear Americas. The whistleblower case, brought forth by the company's Former Chief Financial Officer Bren ...
  • The Edge of Energy Reform - U.S. Energy, Mining Co ...
    Tucked near the end of the more than 2,000-page final version of the financial reform bill is language requiring energy companies to submit the payment information annually to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The provision was added by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a long-tim ...

High Country News

  • The Ute Paradox
    The Southern Utes overcame poverty and oppression to become a wealthy and powerful tribe with nationwide energy holdings.
  • Some of the key players
    Leonard Burch, Sam Maynes, Bob Zahradnik and John Jurrius have all helped the Southern Utes build their energy empire.
  • The Southern Utes' empire
    Maps reveal the amount of land the tribe lost over the years -- and show how huge its current business empire had become.
  • Mopping up uranium's mess
    As another uranium boom hits, Western states take action to clean up old mine and mill sites.
  • Monkey wrenchers keep on keeping on
    Ed Abbey's pugnacious spirit lives on in eco-activists like Tim DeChristopher, who quietly sabotaged a Utah BLM energy-lease auction.

CounterCurrents

  • Can The World Run On Renewables,Nuclear Energy And ...
    By Ted Trainer For many years I have been arguing that consumer-capitalist society is so grossly unsustainable that technical advance cannot solve the problems it is generating. I have especially developed the case against the dominant belief that alternative energy sources can substitute for foss ...
  • The Israeli Stranglehold On CNN
    By Khalid Amayreh CNN sacked this week its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs, Octavia Nasr after she published a twitter message saying that she respected the Shiite cleric the Grand Ayatollah Muhammed Hussein Fadlullah, who died on Sunday
  • Media Lies About Kashmir
    The disinformation war is underway. Kashmirs local media has been BANNED (not censored but BANNED!) in the worlds largest democracy, and the Delhi media is being used to spread LIES
  • Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein Interviewed
    Mark Lieberman interviews Hedy Epstein
  • US Opposes Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline
    By Sarath Kumara Despite opposition from the US, Pakistan signed an agreement with Iran on June 13 to go ahead with a $US7.6 billion gas pipeline between the two countries that will provide a desperately-needed supply of energy to Pakistan from 2014. The deal cuts across Washingtons efforts to isol ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Day 8: A Good Day to be an Older Brother
      Half a year ago, my younger brother loaded up his compact car and drove from our parent’s house in Maryland to Little Rock, AR. Zack has always been a sharp thinker and dedicated worker, but had been struggling to find somewhere and something to really put his energy behind. Drifting from culinar ...
  • Day 7: How to Deal
    Day 7: Josh, OKC Our visit to Oklahoma City seems like a good time to gush about my girlfriend Margo. After a long, sweltering ride through New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma without air conditioning, having Margo waiting at the church where we spoke was a refreshing sight. Her and some friends made th ...
  • Day 6: A Story of Connections
    Day 6, Josh, in Albuquerque, NM  New and Old Friends in New Mexico   The People’s Journey is a story of connections. A simple email from Hakim and the young people in Afghanistan (of www.ourjourneytosmile.com) came to me, as I was walking across the country, sparked people all over the world to le ...
  • Day 5: Dividing Walls and Welcoming Couches
    Day 4: Conor is working on Day 5: Tempe, AZ by Josh  A didgeridoo blew; drums clunked and thudded; guitars and mandolins strummed; in between, an assortment of other obscure instruments and their various noises vibrated around the crowded room. About ten people had gathered in a living room on a war ...
  • Day 3: San Diego: Limitations, Celebrations, and F ...
    Day 2: in the works Day 3: San Diego, by Josh… Though only ten or twenty miles from the glamor and commotion of LA, the mountainside bungalow that we awoke in seemed a remote corner of civilization. The sunlight illuminating through it’s wide windows showed the surrounding beauty that the darkness h ...

Yid With Lid

  • Hezbollah Gets Caught Setting Up Network in Tijuan ...
    It's been long reported that Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security. The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been i ...
  • Kings, Emirs, and Shaykhs: The Survival of Traditi ...
    By Barry Rubin During the early 1980s I was asked to give a briefing for the head of the Toyota auto company and other enterprises. It was just after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and during the height of the Iran-Iraq war, so regional instability was much on the mind o ...
  • Obamacare To Make White Castle Profits Slide Downw ...
    This is a news item that will drive most of my college buddies absolutely mad.� Although I have never tried them, my college friends always told me that White Castle Sliders are the best fast food hamburgers available. In college many an evening, I was the designated (Kosher) driver, running out to ...
  • Documentary Charges Obama Won 2008 Democratic Nod ...
    One of the major reasons that Barack Obama was able to wrest the 2008 Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton was his ability to secure victories in the caucus states by a large margin. Beyond just giving the future president delegates,� these victories gave the future president the momentu ...
  • Egypt Versus Gaza
    By Barry Rubin There is a bit of silver lining, even in the Gaza cloud. It’s this: the Egyptian government, aware that the West won’t help it get rid of the revolutionary Islamist regime there, that Israel cannot do it, and that Hamas won’t voluntarily accept subordination to the Palestinian Au ...

The Real Agenda

  • BP Not Interested In Cleaning Up Oil Spill
    They’re not worried about cleaning up that spill as it is,” said Dillon, adding that he has “lost faith” in BP’s response.
  • United We Fall
    In recent years, the mood has shifted and a rift is developing between those who want a Deeply Integrated North American Community, and those who wish to retain their national sovereignty. This film takes a look at both sides by interviewing both insiders and activists who have been at the heart of ...
  • Alimentos y despoblación: Engaños y Soluciones Par ...
    Toda la ciencia adjuntada a la política debe ser examinada minuciosamente. El Estudio de Impracto Ambiental de la USDA debe salir en breve, y debe ser investigado ya que no hay manera de que los OGM sean aprobados a menos que el EIS se base en ciencia fraudulenta.
  • Monsanto perde disputa de soja modificada em tribu ...
    O Tribunal considera que embora as sementes importadas tivessem resquícios da soja patenteada, trata-se de um produto final "inerte" que sofreu várias operações de "transformação" por isso que a "informação genética" já não exerce a função inicial.
  • How does the Global Elite Conquer the World? Destr ...
    Bilderberg hound Daniel Estulin describes how the globalists have historically managed to amass power.  Their modus operandi is to destroy countries or nation-states by ending their sovereignty, their economies, identities and liberty.  This is achieved through compartmentalization of their internal ...

Wind Watch

  • Rare red kite found dead at wind farm ‘harml ...
    Experts believe an endangered bird of prey found dead at a wind farm in the Highlands was killed after colliding with a turbine, despite assurances that the devices are harmless to wildlife. The carcass of the rare red kite was discovered at the Fairburn wind farm in Ross-shire. It was examined by a ...
  • Public rallies against wind turbine projects
    Norma Schmidt stood before the protesters gathered at the front doors of Queen’s Park, and as her voice broke, spoke of health problems she says are connected to the wind turbine 450 metres from her house. She told of ongoing migraines, vomiting, insomnia, high blood pressure and stress ailments, al ...
  • Turbine-fighting municipalities form committee
    Arran-Elderslie council is continuing efforts to control wind turbines in the municipality. Council and representatives of neighbouring municipalities agreed at a meeting Thursday night to create a working committee to pool resources if there’s a legal battle over the issue. The committee will consi ...
  • Morrow County to revisit its wind noise decision
    Morrow County planning commissioners will take another look at their decision to give the Willow Creek wind project six months to comply with state noise standards. Both sides of the issue – Invenergy, the company that owns the wind project, and the neighbors who say it is too loud – appealed the co ...
  • Wind Energy Task Force fields concerns from multip ...
    Imagine this: a row of windmills spins in the distance. A collection line runs from the mills across a private area — maybe even two or three — and eventually taps into a main transmission line. From there, its electrical power is shot across Wyoming via an assortment of mechanisms, near, next to an ...

Not My Tribe

  • FBI manhunt ends for Barefoot Bandit breaking & en ...
    After a continent-wide manhunt, US and Bahama authorities have finally nabbed the “Barefoot Bandit,” interrupting 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore’s two-year joyride with other people’s planes, boats and summer homes, proving that when it comes to the hierarchy of crime, law enforcement packs the big ...
  • Libyan humanitarian aid ship to Gaza undaunted by ...
    While Israel releases redacted portions of its internal investigation of the Mavi Marmara Massacre, another aid ship steams toward the Gaza Blockade. The cargo ship Amalthea carries humanitarian aid from Libya and is due to cross into Gazan waters on Wednesday, barring interception by the Israeli na ...
  • Dodgers sportscasters recall Chavez Ravine, not Ba ...
    Chávez Ravine isn’t just the site of Dodger Stadium. Major League announcers mentioned it knowingly today during the Cubs game, looking over at its Hollywood-like “Think Blue” sign, but Chávez Ravine is no mere physical feature. It names the Hispanic community purged in the postwar years, three en ...
  • Sea Shepherd flyover sneaks banned footage of acti ...
    If there’s no containing what will soon be the largest oil spill ever, who can blame BP for sitting out the cleanup and ordering the coast guard to keep everyone from seeing? When Hurricane Alex had BP’s protectors distracted, Sea Shepherd environmental actionists got aerial footage of the unimagine ...
  • Hey, Hitler didn’t throw EVERYBODY into the ...
    I mean, he only had Anarchists, homosexuals, criminals, members of a certain Middle Eastern religious/ethnic minority, Communists, Union Members, Mormons, Anabaptists (Mennonite, Hutterite, Amish), blacks, Romany (“gypsy”) and people drafted from the conquered lands to work in German industry…   So, ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • More exploded bone fragments found...
    More 9/11 Human Remains Found At Ground Zero ABC News Just two or so dump trucks filled with never-before sifted debris from Ground Zero have yielded 72 new fragments of human remains in an almost three-month operation that could bring closure to more families of victims of the September 11, 2001 W ...
  • Distorted Tilt Confirmed
    To explain the constant acceleration of the upper block of WTC 1 , Ryan Mackey insists that the initial tilt of the Tower misaligned the columns to a point where the impacts were not square enough to produce sufficient deceleration. He demonstrated this in a Hardfire debate with Tony Szamboti , usin ...
  • A Hypothetical Timeline of WTC 7's Destruction
    Related info: Last Building Standing Stunning Video of WTC7s Damaged South Face Discovered on a 9/11 Truth Debunking Website Was 10:45 a.m. the Originally Planned Demolition Time of WTC 7?
  • Because it can Never be Repeated Enough: 9/11 Expe ...
    Any theory that does not match experiment is wrong. It doesn't matter what the computer models predict, how much funding is behind it, what the experts say, or what everyone "thinks". Nothing can fool the laws of physics. http://www.sott.net/articles/show/210712-Because-it-can-never-be-repeated- ...
  • Scootle's Guide To Failing GCSE English!
    I just found out from a friend that 15 and 16 year olds in the UK are required in English class to write an essay about " What happened on 9/11? " as part of the curriculum. That's right, the British government is forcing the propaganda on poor unspecting teenagers. Now I'm currently being forced ...

Fooducate

  • SF’s Soda Ban, Personal Choice, and Milk
    Last week, San Francisco issued a citywide ban on sale of soda pop in vending machines. Artificially sweetened drinks can make up no more than 25% of the offering. 100% juices are allowed, but sports drinks are not. In explaining the directive, Mayor Gavin Newsom cited a UCLA study that links obesi ...
  • Wish-Bone Salad Dressing Mistakes Consumers for Ch ...
    Wish-Bone salad dressing is upping the ante with an ad campaign and a new label on the bottles. The label includes the following bold statement: Naturally helps BETTER ABSORB vitamins A & E from salad with the oils in Wish-Bone Wow, that sounds great. Absorb more vitamins, from the oils in Wish-Bo ...
  • Farting Fiber – The Story of Inulin
    “Get more fiber in your diet.” Consumers have been hearing this key nutrition message for years. So they start scanning nutrition facts panels of products they buy, looking for fiber content. And the food industry, always one step ahead, starts pumping fiber into everything, even candy. In many  pr ...
  • Great. Now Popsicles are Superfoods
    Fooducate is getting popular. Every day we get pitched by at least 20 different PR firms to do write-ups about food and food-related products. That’s fine, it’s part of the social marketing thing that all the brands are doing now. We get it. The associates at the PR firm bulk spam all the bloggers ...
  • Chewing Gum Health Claim Shot Down [Wrigley]
    Wrigley, the gum behemoth, is settling a  class action suit out of court for a cool $7 million. The lawsuit pertains to misleading advertising claims for Eclipse gum made with magnolia bark extract, that has been “scientifically proven to help kill the germs that cause bad breath”. Or not. Accord ...

Traffikd

  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
  • Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
    One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
  • 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
    I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...
  • Blog Design Showcase
    The typical post topics covered here involve topics related to social media marketing or blogging . One way to increase traffic to your site is to use an attractive design that will draw a lot of attention. Web design galleries and showcase blog posts like this one send considerable amounts of visit ...

Clearreaching

  • Is there such a thing as soul?
    Much talked about, much used, the concept of soul has nowadays turned into a chewing gum, especially when put in the context of reincarnation. The truth is that the concept of soul has been tackled by both philosophy and religion since antiquity; this should account for the dozens of definitions the ...
  • On koans
    The purpose of a koan is for the person who engages in it to realize the difference between the mind (which manifests itself as a flow of thoughts) and consciousness (which is the space that contains the flow of thoughts). Always the issue is to understand that it is identification with our thoughts ...
  • A koan
    A koan: “There is no time. What is memory?” If I knock the table with my hand twice, I have to accept that it’s time that separates the two knocks from each other. Therefore, time exists. But it only exists because I have memory of the first knock. Everything I build within me, I build using memor ...
  • Love (second part)
    b. Lowering one’s defenses. This has been discussed over and over in this blog and it is essentially a rephrasing of “allowing one’s heart to break”. In connection to romantic love, we may see it is the more beneficial the more it relates to oneself, meaning that the benefits are ripped at the level ...
  • Love
    The discussion on communication gave me the impulse to reflect a little on the concept of romantic love between two people. What is this love? Let’s explore. When we tell someone “I love you”, we are in fact stating that we feel the chemistry between us, which is mutually based on acceptance and ad ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Vimy Ridge
    Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.
  • New France
    France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle overcooked barbeque mea ...
    Inspired by thinking about barbeque-related food packaging on Monday, we’re having a bit of an impromptu bbq themed week here on Recycle This. This is a less a “reuse or recycle” and more a “how do you use it up?” question… There always seems to be a few burgers or sausages leftover at barbecues – ...
  • How can I reduce the amount of energy I use keepin ...
    (A companion post to the one last October – super tips for reducing energy usage/heating bills in the winter!) After a few false starts, summer is definitely here in the UK now and it’s the warmest it’s been for a few years (although that’s not saying much really). We’re not really equipped for ver ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle trade-size ice cream tu ...
    The other day, John and I were hanging around a dumpster at the back of an ice cream parlour — as you do — and spotted it was full of 5ltr plastic ice cream tubs. In our house, ice cream tubs are one of our favourite plastics to reuse – rectangular 1ltr square tubs are just [...]
  • How can I build a barbecue reusing or recycling st ...
    In a bit of an impromptu barbecue-themed week, I thought I’d ask about building the key part of the experience: the barbecue itself. This is partly because I’m interested in hearing bbq ideas and partly because I’m thinking of building myself a little smokehouse for my birthday and I suspect there ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle meat that’s gone ...
    We’ve had an email from Amy: Hi. Is there ANYTHING I can do with expired meat? I’ve read you can’t compost it but it’s such a waste to throw it away? Yes, it is a waste! As I’m sure you know, it takes a whole lot of energy to produce a kilogram of meat, to ship it [...]

Mondoweiss

  • ‘CNN’ gives platform to latest neocon ...
    Important post from Eli Clifton on the neoconservative echo chamber pushing for war with Iran. Why isn’t Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddow putting Clifton on air? Do we really want another disastrous American war in the Middle East? Excerpts:No sooner did I write about the growth industry in astroturf ...
  • It just gets worse
    Haaretz reports that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley is barring non-Jewish Russian Israelis from buying houses there: The Nokdim secretariat ruled two weeks ago to bar non-Jewish Russian-Israelis from buying homes in the small Bethlehem-area sett ...
  • Who will take the BDS world cup?
    John Greyson's World Cup/BDS mashup "Vuvuzela":Vuvuzela from John Greyson on Vimeo. For more as the match unfolds see Artists Against Apartheid and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel.
  • New electric fence in al-Walajah will cage the vil ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Israel To Expropriate 30 Dunams Near Hebron The Israeli Authorities decided to illegally expropriate 30 Dunams of Palestinian lands that belong to villagers of Beit Ola, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. htt ...
  • David Grossman manhandled at Sheik Jarrah protest
    This video from Friday's Sheikh Jarrah protest in East Jerusalem appears to show (and is said to show) writer David Grossman being assaulted by Israeli police at 2:38. He's wearing a baseball cap. Others in the crowd wear hijab. Others are also assaulted. Note the beautiful moment at 1:03 or so wher ...

Media Consortium

  • Wooing more mobile users with interactive database ...
    Over the Independence Day weekend, USA.gov (a hub for federal government info and resources) relaunched a more user-friendly version of its site. This includes a gallery of free mobile apps based on US government data, news, information, and services. The interesting thing is, most of these “apps” a ...
  • Major Newspaper Chain Goes Open Source
    Newspapers have seen a sustained drop in readership, and therefore in revenues, over the last half-decade. The ability to cut cost on something as elemental as production, by dropping expensive proprietary software, is exciting. But so is watching a company in an allegedly change-resistant sector se ...
  • NPR CEO: We Want to Partner with Journalism Startu ...
    NPR CEO Vivian Schiller wants her organization and its local affiliates to partner with the journalism startup companies that have been growing up through the wreckage of the newspaper business.  The pitch she made here at the Aspen Ideas Festival is simple. Innovative journalism startups can do gr ...
  • Content 'Farms': Killing Journalism -- While Makin ...
    If you ask most working journalists what they think about Associated Content, Demand Media or AOL’s Seed, you may hear a scoffing sound. After all, these sites, while providing some people with work, produce high-volume, low-cost content designed to appear at the top of search engine results, earni ...
  • AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The ...
    Oh those jokesters over at the AP — the fun never ends! Last night, we wrote a post noting that Woot was (humorously) calling out the AP for not following their own ridiculous rules when quoting from content. By Woot’s calculation, using the AP tool, the AP owes them $17.50 (but Woot was nice enough ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • PEACE PROCESS GOING NOWHERE, ISRAELI ELITE DOING F ...
    Gideon Levy, a columnist in the Israeli newspaper Haaratz writes, "If there remained any vestiges of hope in the Middle East from Barack Obama, they have dissipated; if some people still expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lead a courageous move, they now know they made a mistake (and misl ...
  • WHO COMMANDED THE G20 COMMANDER? It's time for the ...
    A room filled with police officers stare at pulsing screens; feeds from 85 cameras cover most of Toronto's downtown core.� This was the command centre for the G20 Integrated Security Unit (there was another ISU command centre in Barrie). In charge was the RCMP Chief Supt. Alphonse MacNeil. It may ...
  • YOUR RIGHTS CAN DISAPPEAR IN A SNAP - The Ontario ...
    Everybody in Ontario should understand the Public Works Protection Act. It sounds like some obscure piece of legislation that couldn't matter very much to most people. But look again. With a snap of the Ontario Cabinet's fingers, they can essentially eliminate your right to assemble and eliminate pr ...
  • G20 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME - Are extraordinar ...
      The G-20 wrapped up its work in Toronto on Sunday, and sent a message. Part of that message was in a document, 27 pages of a little bit of something for everybody. They also sent a message through the Canadian police about how the countries of the G-20 might deal with opposition to their plans. ...
  • IS OBAMA WEDDED TO A DOOMED STRATEGY - and why are ...
    The firing of General Stanley McChrystal by President Obama should give Americans, Canadians and the people of other NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan a moment to reflect on why their daughters and sons are dying and killing there. Not because of McChrystal's departure, but for President Obam ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Holes in Saturn's rings could reveal how baby plan ...
    Posted on behalf of Richard A. Lovett Long, skinny propeller-shaped holes in Saturn's rings are helping scientists understand the early history of the Solar System. The features, shaped like aeroplane propellers, are several kilometers wide and thousands of kilometers long. They are formed by the ...
  • Space probe passes asteroid Lutetia
    The European Space Agency’s (ESA) comet-chasing probe Rosetta has captured the first close-up images of the asteroid Lutetia ( ESA , BBC ). "It's a new world discovered by Rosetta and it will keep scientists busy for years," said Holger Sierks, the principal investigator on the Osiris camera ...
  • The Bering Sea Project: The importance of zooplank ...
    Posted on behalf of Wendee Holtcamp, blogging for Nature aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson At first thought, plankton seem boring. Why care about tiny, floating organisms when walrus, albatross, or salmon live in the sea too? But Hatfield Marine Science Center technician Tracy Shaw sh ...
  • Sex chromosomes from chickens and humans evolved i ...
    The first study to sequence the chicken Z chromosome revealed surprising facts about its mirror image in humans – the X chromosome. For a century, scientists have assumed that the mammalian X sex chromosome has evolved very little in comparison to the Y chromosome. But a study in Nature today s ...
  • UK government promises to reform libel laws
    The UK government will reform the English libel laws, announced the Justice Minister Lord McNally today. The declaration was made at the second reading of a Defamation Bill put forward by Anthony Lester QC, libel lawyer and Liberal Democrat peer. ( Telegraph , Guardian ) The government’s announc ...

new geography

  • Stagnation in the City of Angels: Whatever Happene ...
    It’s only been a couple of years since a red-hot real estate market had our city riding high. The market turned out to be a bubble, of course, and it eventually burst. Gone is the giddiness that comes when folks convince themselves that real estate or high tech stocks or any other trend or commodity ...
  • Economics: Green Shoots & Immigration
    A year ago we were hearing all about green shoots. Analysts claimed to find them everywhere. Today, we never see the term. In fact, there seems to be a growing malaise. By the end of June the first quarter’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimate was revised downward a full half a percent, to 2 ...
  • Demographics: The Elderly Dividend
    Some 40 million Americans are now over age 65, and about 6 million are over 85. In the land of Denny’s, anyone over 55 can order the senior platters. Would I be right in guessing that 30 million American children spend part of their time looking after their parents? Like many baby boomers, I sp ...
  • The Need to Expand Personal Mobility
    Few books in recent memory have started from as optimistic or solid a foundation as Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century . Reinventing the Automobile conveys a strong message that improved personal mobility is necessary and desirable: "Have we reached the point w ...
  • Singapore's Demographic Winter
    Over the past half century arguably no place on earth has progressed more than the tiny island state of Singapore. A once impoverished, tropical powder keg packed into 268 square miles at the foot of the Malay Peninsula, the Mandarin-led republic has ascended from its difficult founding in 1965 to o ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • Pitbull helps Water.org with “Game On” ...
    Water is Life! (Planet Pit) – Purchase Pitbull’s song “Game On” from iTunes and Pitbull’s proceeds go directly to Water.org. During the World Cup this year more than 2,000 children will die from preventable water-related disease. More than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases. ...
  • Ante Up for Africa helps Water.org (Las Vegas Sun)
    Don Cheadle and Annie Dukeâs Ante Up for Africa raises $275,000 (Las Vegas Sun) – Even without movie star Ben Affleck, felled upon arrival here with a blinding migraine, there was still an all-star turnout for Oscar nominee Don Cheadle and Celebrity Apprentice star Annie Dukeâs Fourth Annual Ant ...
  • WaterCredit helps people help themselves (GCS)
    The New Door to Wealth in the Microfinance Community (Green Chip Stocks) – Water.org recently created a subsidiary, WaterCredit, that uses microfinance loans to support water and sanitation (watsan) projects. Although watsan organizations are not new, the use of micro-credit loans for watsan project ...
  • Rainwater harvesting a success in Philippines (Mal ...
    Water is Life! (Business Insight Malaya) Philippines - Water harvesting and conservation are already a practical and beneficial technology in a few rural areas in the Philippines. One of them, the “Water Partners” program in the Baranggay Villahermosa near Cebu, on Camotes Island, started in 2003. ...
  • Matt Damon is making the planet better for us (GTV ...
    Matt Damon Is Making The Planet Better For Us (Global TV) Since the making of All The Pretty Horses, you’ve become one of the Sexiest Men Alive, one of Hollywood’s highest paid actors and a household name across the globe. Your celebrity status has afforded you the ability to focus attention on envi ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

  • Palestine on the Map
    A quick yet effective video about Palestine and the self-proclaimed democracy! ATW Submitted by Atw Orld to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • And if thousands of prisoners go free?
    We don't have to recall Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi's statements to know that the danger in releasing the prisoners is less than what is being described. The opportunity, in contrast, is great. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 2,700 houses to be built as soon as West Bank sett ...
    At least 2,700 new housing units are scheduled to be built in the West Bank as soon as the current settlement freeze ends this September, Haaretz has learned. Submitted by Qais Yousef to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Now We No Longer Perform Abortion
    Until recently, elderly midwives would have either used their elbows or expertly step on the belly to induce an abortion, but the community is now accepting babies born of 'unwanted' pregnancies. Submitted by Naoko I. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Poorest First Served With Free Digital TV
    BUENOS AIRES, July 2, 2010 (IPS) - In contrast to what has happened in most countries that have switched from analogue to digital television, in Argentina the technological leap has begun with the poorest households. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Mars 3-D Close Encounter of the Microsoft Kind
    NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.
  • The Emergency Committee to Stop the Gulf Oil Disas ...
    Monday's hearing promises to begin an investigation of the root causes of the oil blow-out and the best ways to combat the disaster, as well as a status report from Coast Guard and BP reps on the progress of cleanup and containment.
  • Repo Men Unrated DVD Review
    Move over, death panels. Giving new meaning to Shakespeare's pre-US medical industry metaphor 'a pound of flesh,' the futuristic yet not so far fetched invasive surgical thriller Repo Men takes the notion of health care for profit to scary extrem
  • Justice for Women in a System Geared to Men
    British Society of Criminology conference Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Dilemmas and Diversity in Criminology at University of Leicester July 11-14
  • Warning: Recall of Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl
    The Food and Drug Administration is warning about certain over-the counter drugs.

libcom

  • Ten thousand clash with police in south-east China
    350.0.1.0.16777215.0.stories.large_.2010.07.11.1007080312441673[1].jpg Villagers in China’s southeastern Jiangxi Province, upset over police brutality, relocation and corrupt local officials, have staged ...
  • Moscow Anarchists Protest at South African Embassy
    Today (10 July) a group of anarchists stages a protest at the South African embassy in Moscow. Their protest raised a number of issues related to the World Cup and, also, the repression of Abahlali baseMjondolo. The World Cup finishes on Sunday and the trial o ...
  • New Report on Repression of the Landless People's ...
    This statement, from the Landless People's Movement (LPM), welcomes the new report and links to a pdf of the report. Landless People's Movement Press Statement 8 July 2010 The LPM Welcomes the Independent Research Report into Political ...
  • Another walkout at Chinese Honda factory
    a2b6785bc7270b549c8f2e0beed0-grande[1].jpg Honda Motor Co. workers at an assembly plant in Guangzhou, China, walked out on July 7 and July 8, causing the Japanese carmaker’s production in China to be dis ...
  • Cambodian government and unions agree wage increas ...
    capt_a597f243ef9344f8a7301bd41b9ad774_cambodia_garment_workers_hs104[1].jpg Cambodia's government and several unions agreed on Thursday to a 9-percent minimum wage rise for garment workers but the indust ...

Free Range International

  • East Afghanistan
    Spencer Ackerman over at Danger Room wrote a post last week with the disturbing title of East Afghanistan Sees Taliban as “Morally Superior” to Karzai.  This assessment came from the after action slides of Col Randy George who commanded Task Force Warrior this past year.  There is nothing in the a ...
  • Necessary Secrets
    The Powerline Blog has a post this morning on a surprising honest review in the Washington Post of the new book Necessary Secrets. From the Powerline post: “The review is by Leonard Downie, Jr., who was the Post’s executive editor until 2008. Downie is obviously uneasy with Schoenfeld’s view that ed ...
  • Tribal Militias
    A few days ago I was invited back to The Alyona Show to talk about tribal militias.  You can see Alyona now during these interviews,  but I still ended up looking all over the place like Stevie Wonder.  No idea why I do that… it sure is distracting.  Alyona and I ended up talking about two [... ...
  • Jalala-Not So Bad and Not So Good
    Security incident rates around Afghanistan are skyrocketing and this year it appears that Jalalabad is, for the first time,  going to get its fair share of attention.  This unfortunate fact is forcing outside the wire implementers to spend an inordinate amount of time tea drinking and jaw jacking wi ...
  • What Is the Problem Here?
    The Chim chims are intel weenies as regular readers of the FRI blog have probably deduced.  They are all former members of our Armed Forces, they are all working in their field of expertise today with traditional Pentagon contractors and none of them is involved with this supposed “contractor spy r ...

Heliogenic Climate Change

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