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IPS - Inter Press Services

• PARAGUAY: Women Manage Dairy for Self-Sufficiency
  A year ago, Ramona Pereira was stuck with humdrum domestic drudgery in a rural village in Paraguay. Now she is the leader of a committee of women dairy producers in her community, and at 38 she feels like a new woman.
• Big Tobacco Profits from Kazakh Child Labour, Repo ...
  Hoping for better opportunities than they can find at home, many families from Kyrgyzstan travel to find work. Neighbouring Kazakhstan has the strongest economy in Central Asia, and tobacco farms attract workers fleeing Kyrgyzstan's high unemployment.
• DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: "Competing With the Dogs for ...
  "People used to mock me, saying that I am competing with dogs for bones, but these taunts do not deter me," says Sibongile Mararike with no sign of rancour.
• LIBERIA: Men in Testing New Role as Midwives
  Henry Teh gently slides down a blue hospital sheet to expose the bare belly of a pregnant woman. As he pokes around to feel the position of the foetus, the midwife-in-training knows he is breaking tradition and changing the face of obstetric care in Liberia.
• BRAZIL: Electricity Trumps Biodiversity for Xingú ...
  Herculano Porto de Oliveira, of Brazil, said he felt forced "to live in hiding on my own land, though I never fought with anyone or stole anything," just for making a living from the biodiversity of the Amazon's Xingú River Basin, where he was born 66 years ago.

Scoop - NZ

• Patriots Question 9/11
  Many well known and respected senior U.S. military officers, intelligence services and law enforcement veterans, and government officials have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report or have made public statements that contradict the Report. Several even allege government comp ...
• Chinese rating agency strips western AAA status
  Dagong Global Credit Rating Co used its first foray into sovereign debt to paint a revolutionary picture of creditworthiness around the world, giving much greater weight to "wealth creating capacity" and foreign reserves than Fitch, Standard & Poor's, or Moody's. The US falls to AA, w ...
• Goldman Sachs Sold $250 Million of BP Stock Before ...
  According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010. Goldman's sales were the largest of any firm during that time. Goldman would have pocketed slightly more than $266 million if their holdings were sold at the average p ...
• BP Chief Tony Hayward Sold Shares Weeks Before Oil ...
  Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing an environmental disaster. Mr Hayward, whose pay package is £4a4million a year, then paid off the mortgage on his family's mansion in Kent, which is estimated to ...
• Leggett: An oil crunch would be worse ..
  Big as BP's problems are as a result of failed risk assessments, it will very probably soon become worse. Growing numbers of people doubt its annual review of oil reserves, published today. Society builds its oil dependency on key cultural statements of faith about secure supply, such as BP's annual ...

Independent - London

• Margaret Hassan murder accused goes missing
  The sister of murdered British aid worker Margaret Hassan claimed that the man accused of her murder went missing just before his retrial.
• Obama wants 40% reduction in nuclear arsenal
  A US government document revealed that the Obama administration is planning to cut the US nuclear stockpile by up to 40% by 2021.
• Three gored in last San Fermin bull run
  Five runners were injured, three of them by goring, in the last running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival today, officials said.
• Katrina police could face the death penalty
  Four police officers could face the death penalty after being accused of gunning down two unarmed people in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
• 92 in India taken to hospital after chlorine leak
  At least 92 people were taken ill, eight of them critically, after they inhaled chlorine which leaked from a cylinder in an industrial part of India's business capital, Mumbai, officials said today.

Rogue Government.com

• ATF seizes 1,000 guns in East Mesa raid
  Federal agents have raided a home in unincorporated East Mesa and reportedly pulled 1,000 guns from the residence.
• Unmanned Stealth Jet That Will Hit Targets In Ano ...
• The sad math of aid in Haiti: 6 months, 2 percent ...
  We're two weeks into Defense Secretary Robert Gates's new campaign for more "coordination and discipline" in the military's public statements -- and everything seems to be going according to plan.
• Iraq inquiry: Government â��intentionally a ...
  Carne Ross, who was First Secretary responsible for the Middle East at the United Nations, accused the former government of issuing “lies” to the public about the dictator’s capacity to launch weapons of mass destruction.
• South Korea deploys robot capable of killing intr ...
  Two robots with surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems were integrated into a single unit, a defence ministry spokesman said.

Innovation Canada

• Making (brain) waves
  Imagine your brain as a bustling city. The grey matter in your head could be compared to a dense network of mixed-use buildings, with snaking utility lines and connecting sidewalks throughout. Steam delivers heat through pipes out of the main utility centre, lights blink on and off, and information ...
• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• U.S. Economy: Retail Sales Dropped in June as Reco ...
  Sales at U.S. retailers dropped in June for a second month, indicating the economic recovery dissipated heading into the second half of 2010. Purchases decreased 0.5 percent, more than projected, after declining 1.1 percent in May, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Excluding ...
• Remember When We Were All Supposed To Quit Faceboo ...
  These past few days, I've sat here and watched as the iPhone 4 antenna hoopla has swept the nation (and I assume the world, though I'm not hearing much from abroad). Don't get me wrong, the issue is very real. And undoubtedly for some, it's a problem. But talk of the $1.5 billion dollar recall tha ...
• Ex-MI6 officer admits attempt to sell secrets
  Dodges theft rap, but faces jail A former MI6 officer faces jail after he pleaded guilty this morning to two breaches of the Official Secrets Act. Mr Justice Bean told Daniel Houghton, of Hoxton, that a prison sentence was inevitable, PA reports. In an apparent plea deal, Houghton denied a third ...
• EMU break-up risks global deflation shock that wou ...
  A full-fledged disintegration of the eurozone would trigger the worst economic crisis in modern history, devastate every country in Europe including Germany, and inflict a deflationary shock on the US. There would be no winners, warns the Dutch bank ING in a new report "Quantifying the Unthinkable". ...
• European banks use gold reserves to raise cash
  European commercial banks have begun using their holdings of gold to raise cash with the Bank for International Settlements, in a further sign of strains in the money markets on which many rely for funding. The BIS, the so-called "central banks' central bank," took 346 tonnes of gold in exchange fo ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Sometimes, you get lucky . . .
  JALOPNIK   Sure lowers the resale value, though.
• Dan Brown, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, and Edga ...
  Depending on the blogpost, I apparently write like all of them. I am not telling you which posts. Poe, I'm flattered. Atwood, sure OK, but something always bugs me about her. But King and Brown? Right. Fine. They sell a lot of books and sleep on piles of money, neither of which I can say I do. Fo ...
• Preying on the fearful and naive
  A local Tea Party billboard in Mason City, Iowa comparing Obama to Hitler and Lenin boasts the amusing slogan : "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive." Not everyone likes it however. Shelby Blakely of the national Tea Party Patriots says : "It's not going to help our cause. It's going to ma ...
• If you use ATM's and such . . .
  COMPUTER WORLD reports that " Bluetooth at heart of gas station credit-card scam in Southeast ": Thieves are stealing credit-card numbers through skimmers they secretly installed inside pumps at gas stations throughout the Southeast, using Bluetooth wireless to transmit stolen card numbers, accordin ...
• War is a racket villa in Dubai
  Der Spiegel : "Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai. Amid concerns that the money could be the result of corruption, American politicians have temporarily cut off [$3.9-billion in] aid to the Afghan government." Proud new own ...

Media Matters for America

• Memo to media: Pamela Geller does not belong on na ...
  Numerous mainstream media outlets have recently hosted right-wing "Atlas Shrugs" blogger Pamela Geller�to discuss the controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic community center set to be built blocks away from Ground Zero.�However, Geller's history of outrageous, inflammatory�and false claims, par ...
• In latest softball interview, Kilmeade provi ...
  On� Fox & Friends , Brian Kilmeade hosted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to discuss how The�New York Times� came to dub him "annoyer-in-chief"�by�allowing�him, without challenge, to�rehash old attacks on the Obama administration. These attacks included false or misleading claims about ACORN,�alleged�" ...
• Doocy misrepresents report on voucher program to ...
  On Fox & Friends , Steve Doocy falsely claimed that a government report found students enrolled in Washington, D.C.'s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which awards vouchers to students to attend private schools, "performed better academically than students in the public schools" and claime ...
• "21st century Willie Horton": Right-wing race-bai ...
  Right-wing media have amplified the race-baiting behind the completely unsubstantiated allegations that President Obama's Justice Department engaged in racially charged "corruption" in the New Black Panther Party case. Now, CNN contributor and RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson has cal ...
• Fox's Varney has no idea at all what's in financia ...
  Stuart Varney falsely claimed that the insurance industry and credit-rating agencies are "not part at all of this new financial regulation bill -- not part of it at all." In fact, the bill would establish new regulatory structures to oversee the insurance industry and credit-rating agencies. Va ...

Global Research.ca

• Kyrgyzstan, America and the Global Drug Trade: Dee ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Britain 'Did Not Believe Iraq's Weapons Programme ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• BOOK LAUNCH: The Global Economic Crisis: The Great ...
  Highlights of this Important Collection with Selected Excerpts
• "THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS": New Book from Global ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Mozambique: Not Then But Now: The Present Globalis ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Sheikh Jarrah: 'Strong Seeds'
  I am in New Hampshire, but my friend David Shulman who recently wrote this analysis of the aftermath of the Gaza Flotilla in the New York Review , files this report from last Friday: Sheikh Jarrah, July 9, 2010 I've been thinking about truth. About what the word means, and how we know what i ...
• Chicken Hawk Neocons Target Vice Admiral Joe Sesta ...
  Joe Sestak, the Democratic candidate for the United States in Pennsylvania, is a former three-star Vice Admiral and the highest-ranking former military officer currently serving in Congress. But that does not make him a good enough patriot for the chicken hawk neocons. Nope. A new organiza ...
• 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, ...

TruthOut

• 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 . Location: �San Francisco Can you please explain the concept of food sovereignty, and what policies and programs will help encourage it? read more
• George Lakoff | Save, Baby, Save: A Barrel Saved I ...
  The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling forever. The reason is simple: Systemic risk! Better regulations won't end what went wrong: Corporate greed, cutting corners to save money, lack of coordination among subcontractors, unforeseen factors, and just plain incompetenc ...
• How Climate Change in South America Affects the En ...
  Nikolas Kozloff is the author of "Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the US and Revolution," a Financial Times Best Book in 2008. An expert on South America, Kozloff is a former fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington DC. He recently spoke to Joshua Frank about his n ...
• 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 ...
• Senate May Extend Federal Jobless Benefits Next We ...
  Washington - It's been about six weeks since funding for extended jobless benefits expired, and by the end of this week, an estimated 2.5 million people will have lost federal aid. Although Congress returned Tuesday from a 10-day Independence Day break, those jobless workers will have to wait at le ...

Planetsave

• The Return of the Bicycle
  Following up on the bike naked , bike classy , bike-sharing , and other bike articles I’ve written lately, here is a great recent piece by Lester R. Brown on the return of the bike (subheadings added). Enjoy. Lester R. Brown The bicycle has many attractions as a form of personal transportatio ...
• Sea Levels Rising in Indian Ocean
  A new study has detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java. The study looked at data going back to the 1960s, combined with satellite observations, and found that the conclusions pointed toward ...
• The Life and Times of Hurricane Alex
  NASA has just released a “movie” of satellite imagery showcasing the birth through death of Hurricane Alex. Hurricane Alex struggled for life for two weeks in June 2010, and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) known as GOES-13 captured satellite images of the storm Alex m ...
• Annual Quota of Bluefin Tuna Caught in 1 Week
  Industrial fishing fleets can catch fish in numbers unimaginable to fishermen a few decades ago. The capabilities are more than unimaginable, though. They are also unsustainable. With bluefin tuna on the brink of extinction, fishing quotas are set for these giants of the sea in the European Union. ...
• How Did the IWC Meeting About Legalizing Whaling o ...
  Updates on the International Whaling Committee decision about legalizing whaling of endangered species. Some organizations see the decision as a (temporary) win, some see it as a big failure. We wrote a few articles leading up to a major International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting that was suppo ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water News Roundup – July 14, 2010
  Provo Daily Herald: Canal project coming quickly – A major construction project will soon be h
• Seafloor (Benthos) Survey
  On June 21, in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island’s Cell & Molecular Biology depa
• Greenscape Alliance has a mission to protect Colli ...
  The Greenscape Alliance, a part of the Greenscape Project, is working to raise community awareness o
• News and Events - 13 July 2010
    LAist photo of George Wolfe navigating the L.A. River. For more navigability stuff, watch the Rock
• Morocco's drinking water facility invested over $ ...
  Morocco’s drinking water facility (ONEP) had invested in 2009 over 422 million dollars (3.7 bi

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Government Persecutors Read my Blog! by Cindy Shee ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Chris Hedges and Derrick Jensen on Totalitarianism ...
  with Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Jul 12, 2010 What is i
• New Pledge of Allegiance: Rendezvous with Colonial ...
  by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net July 13, 2010 picture is in the
• The Grass Roots Movement to STOP THE BURNING In Th ...
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• How Brokers Became Bookies: The Insidious Transfor ...
  http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1112203 by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad web

Axis of Logic

• Cops could face death in post-Katrina shootings - ...
  Editor's Note: Yes, we are even opposed to the death penalty in this case. Help fight for the abolition of the death penalty! - LMB NEW ORLEANS --�Four New Orleans police officers could face the death penalty after being accused of gunning down two unarmed people in the chao ...
• Judge lets anti-Pebble lawsuit go forward - World ...
  A state judge has declined to dismiss a court case alleging that state regulators violated the Alaska Constitution when they issued exploration and land-use permits to companies drilling at the Pebble copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska. Lawyers for the Alaska Departm ...
• Where's Haiti's Bailout? - Haiti
  After the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, Western leaders announced bold blueprints for building a "New Haiti." This reconstruction, they emphasized, would be "Haitian-led," based firmly on the principle of respect for "Haitian sovereignty"�and carried out through "full and continued participatio ...
• The Bear - Film by Jean-Jacques Annaud - Music and ...
  Source:�Jean-Jacques Annaud...
• Johann Hari: How Goldman gambled on starvation - P ...
  By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out that the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the...

They Gave Us a Republic

• It's July...that means the ACA is starting to go i ...
  It's July, and that means the first provisions of the Affordable Care Act are starting to kick in , and as the reality of the changes slowly sink in, in spite of the massive disinformation campaign the republicans have engaged in for over a year, more people now support the new law than oppose it. L ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  The right man for the job The President this afternoon announced that Jacob "Jack" Lew was his choice to replace the departing Peter Orzag as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Lew is extremely popular among republicans as well as Democrats, and he has held the job before, during t ...
• New Rule for Tasers: You Can't Carry One Until You ...
  Yes, small-town police departments have always been havens for sociopaths who try to compensate for their personal inadequacies by hurting the powerless, but the substitution of tasers for nighsticks seems to be is accelerating the violence. From Digby: Be very careful when you call the police to co ...
• On the mend
  Sorry for the lack of content the past few days. I took some time to go see the President last week and Friday and Saturday to spend some time with the bestest babysitter evar! who came to visit the three kids she helped me raise to responsible young adults. When life took Tom and I different direct ...
• Facts Be Damned
  Digby beat me to it. Joe Keonhane had a piece in the Boston Sunday Globe that is currently making the rounds in the blogesphere that elaborates on a point I made over the weekend, namely that a better way of looking at contemporary American politics is less through the lens of a great "debate" betwe ...

Care 2

• Africa's game parks rapidly losing animals-study
  Africa's game parks have lost well over half of their big mammals, such as the lions and buffalos that draw millions of tourists each year, to rampant hunting and farming since Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Story Of Death & Love, War & Peace In Sand
  Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." Most incredible and genuine pieces of artistic expression, capable for sharing with those you love. Something amazing... for your heart... Submitted by Parsifal S. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
• GreenAnswers | Environmental Questions & Answers
  Join GreenAnswers now and we'll plant a tree on your behalf. After that, we'll plant another tree for every 5 questions you answer. Submitted by Daf Yanez to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Solar projects continue to shine despite dark econ ...
  As the Great Recession drags on in California -- unemployment rate: 12.4 percent, state government in a state of collapse -- the solar boom continues Submitted by Roseann D. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Torture in Greece TAKE ACTION
  Our Greek activist friends are asking us to participate in signing petitions and pledging boycotts to protest the cruelty against animals, which includes poisonings, beatings, shootings, and other monstrous treatments towards animals. Please take a few m Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please to Ani ...

Smirking Chimp

• Bad news: Facts don't matter
  This is pretty dire news for fans of objective truth. A University of Michigan study ( h/t) appears to shows that facts really don’t matter. In the end, truth will out. Wonât it? Maybe not. Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone ...
• There's Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons
  � from Truthdig The flight from reason that now marks American public discourse came home for me last Friday when I found myself on public radio debating whether Barack Obama is anti-business. The "news hook" for KCRW's "Left, Right & Center" show, which I have co-hosted for 15 years, was an absurd ...
• Tomgram: Nick Turse, American War Versus Real War
  from TomDispatch One striking aspect of the Vietnam years -- and the antiwar movement of that era -- was the degree to which you could see images of Vietnamese civilian suffering here in the United States. Among the iconic images of that war, for instance, was Nick Ut’s photo of a young girl, burn ...
• Millions of Jobless, Billions for Bankers: The Fed ...
  In a nation wracked with unemployment and recession, Wall Street firms are still paying billions of dollars in bonuses - and they're hiring, too . The Federal Reserve recently affirmed its right to regulate executive pay, but has yet to take action on it. It should. These two facts - that banker ...
• The F Word: Do Ask, Don't Tell
  The White House has pulled quite a bait and switch on the LGBT community. LGBT voters came out and contributed en masse to Barack Obama's campaign. A year ago, he promised them action on, among other things, repeal of the military's discrimination policy, Don't ask Don't Tell. This May it seemed as ...

Paul Krugman

• Nobody Understands The Liquidity Trap (Wonkish)
  It's depressing to realize that two years into liquidity trap economics, the WSJ still doesn't seem to understand the basic point of why the zero bound is a problem.
• Delusions About Debt Dynamics
  The debt dynamics coming out of interest payments on existing debt aren't anything like the explosive force the austerity crew would have you believe.
• Tax Cut Delusions
  They can't handle the truth.
• Invincible Ignorance
  The notion that tax cuts pay for themselves has no empirical support.
• A Quotation Ruined By Context
  We're all crazy now.

No Quarter

• 1400 Calories
  You know when you find something in the back of the refrigerator that you can’t tell what it used to be? You are sure you didn’t buy any food with long blue fur! Furthermore, it even looks like it could have a language and culture of its own by now. Well, it [...]
• Commentary
  Who knows. Maybe I am wrong, and I missed the sarcastic nature of Limbaugh’s remarks. Even so, I remain suspicious that Rush’s remarks are akin to a “dog whistle” to the racist tendencies of some, if not many, of his regular listeners. (More about that below.) What is disturbing to me right [... ...
• Limbaugh’s Blatant Racism
  As unhappy and vocal as I’ve been with both the election and presidency of Barack Obama, I worry about the incitement of racism from some far corners of the political spectrum. I’ve never been a Limbaugh fan and I will never be a Limbaugh fan, but there are some conservatives whose programming I fi ...
• Quotas In Financial Overhaul Bill Courtesy Of Rep. ...
  Oh, you remember Rep. Waters, don’t you? Who could forget her comments regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Just in case, here’s a reminder: Uh, um, hell yes, there was a big problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Rep. Waters. But wait, there’s more. Here is Rep. Waters revealing her true po ...
• Gulf of Despond 2
  From the blog for the syndicated nightly John Batchelor Show. � BP at Risk.� The engineering heroics at the Macondo well are to remove the temporary cap and�in the next week�to fit on a much better cap that will catch most of the spill. � In the meantime, 60K barrels of crude per day pour in ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The 54ft Man Built from Recycled Crates
  The Cratemen are taking over the world! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Dying to Go Green: Eco-Friendly Burials
  Believe it or not, green is in when it comes to options for end-of-life arrangements. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Awesome Power of Rogue Waves
  We all fear the dreaded tsunami, but giant waves are not just caused by earthquakes. In fact they are far more common than you might have thought possible. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Bot Fly Larvae: The Deadly Parasites That Live in ...
  Mosquitoes are used to implant some common types of fly larvae (maggots) into animals and humans. Here is how they do it (pictures and video). read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Most Bizarre Mating Rituals in the Animal King ...
  Strange but true tales of virgin birth, sex change and penis-chewing in the wild. Yes, I said penis-chewing. 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

• Israel: World's Most Aggressive Ebay Bidders
  Massive retaliation by Israel against Palestine is a lose-lose strategy.
• Think Tanks Are Rolling Over Moderate Republicans
  Think-tank hawks have all but run realist Republicans out of the party.
• Stalemate at Camp Victory
  The Afghan army is the fulcrum of U.S. counter-insurgency strategy. But as a new documentary reveals, that army's loyalty is at best unclear.
• Spy vs. Spy
  If we ask some hard questions about the means and ends of intelligence-gathering, perhaps we might discover that all this spycraft is as overrated on our side as on theirs.
• The Divergence of America and Israel
  The weakening of the U.S.-Israel relationship will remap the Middle East but also likely usher in a new Pax Americana in the region.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• India: ISI behind Mumbai attacks
  Minister accuses Pakistan's intelligence agency of co-ordinating the 2008 shooting.
• Sudan 'unprepared' for referendum
  Government behind on preparations for southern independence vote, NGOs say.
• BP delays tests on new well cap
  Tests on Gulf of Mexico wellhead postponed to reduce risks of worsening spill.
• Five US soldiers die in Afghanistan
  Explosion and small arms fire kill five in southern Afghanistan.
• Tariq Aziz shifted to Iraqi custody
  Iraqi authorities take control of 55 detainees including Saddam Hussein's longtime aide.

Green Inc. - NYT

• A Warm Atlantic Stokes Hurricane Fears
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that 2010 might well experience one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, with between 14 and 23 named storms.
• Pity the Toothless Pangolin
  Chinese customs officials in southern Guangdong Province have intercepted a boat carrying nearly eight tons of frozen pangolin carcasses as well as 4,000 pounds of scales stripped from them. Six traffickers posing as fisherman have been arrested.
• Will 'Solar Trees' Sprout in Parking Lots?
  Envision Solar will announce on Wednesday that it is trying out a "solar tree" that could track sunlight east to west and north to south, harvesting more energy.
• Offshore Drilling: To Pause or Not to Pause
  William K. Reilly, the newly named co-chairman of the presidential commission named to investigate the BP oil spill, says he is prepared to press President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to move as quickly as possible to adopt new safety and environmental protections and lift a deepwater o ...
• $200 Million for Smart Grid Ideas
  General Electric has partnered with four prominent venture capital firms to find smart projects that will digitize the electric grid, improve its efficiency, and expand its capacity to handle renewable power sources.

Dot Earth News

• Senate Eyes Bush Plan on CO2
  Senate leaders desperate for a climate bill close in on the Bush plan of a decade ago.
• On Safari With Rhinos and Poachers
  An elephant rifle and AK-47 face off as a reader recalls an encounter with rhino poachers on safari.
• New Orleans Band to BP: 'Sorry Ain't Enough'
  New Orleans musicians release a song decrying the loss of lives and livelihoods from the gulf gusher.
• Will Anything Curb China's Appetite for Rare Wildl ...
  The capture of poachers smuggling tons of rare pangolins from Southeast Asia to Chinese markets provides a window on the ongoing assault on the planet's wildlife.
• Report Faults Haiti Aid Groups on Openness
  A watchdog group finds that many aid groups soliciting aid for Haiti are slow to describe their work on the ground.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Food autonomy and building resilient communities i ...
  I got a few new followers from the Oakland/Bay Area after the tweets & post on the protest & stuff that went down after the Oscar Grant verdict. Police and state violence in many urban areas is an ongoing structural product of the way things are run in places like the Bay Area and other cities, but ...
• 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 Censored

• Attending the AFT convention in Seattle and protes ...
    The American Federation of Teachers: the Seattle Conference and the opposition to the privatization of education According to the corporate Seattle Times, a lap dog for special interests fanning the flames of school privatization: “Rowdy delegates to a national teachers convention Saturday gave se ...
• New Immigration Law: Capitalism & Immigration = Fa ...
  By Elbert “Big Man” Howard Arizona’s newly-passed law, SP 1070, firstly, allows police officers to subjectively determine what race they think a person is along with how poorly a command of the English language they believe the person has. Secondly, this law allows these law enforcement officers at ...
• Predatory for-profit colleges and universities: th ...
    Defaulted Student Loans:  The next bubble the capitalists will feed on The share of borrowers who default on their student loans is bigger than the federal government’s short-term data suggest, with thousands more students facing damaged credit histories and millions more tax dollars being lost ...
• America’s Police Force: a Centuries-Long Crime Spr ...
  On January 1, 2009, young Oscar Grant was killed by a transit cop in Oakland, California. While lying face down with a cop kneeling on his neck, Grant was shot in the back by another cop as a crowd of train passengers watched in horror. Grant, was an African-American; Mehserle is white. Both were in ...
• Wachovia Bank and Wells Fargo: Drug laundermats to ...
  Wachova Bank: Drug Financer to the World According top Bloomberg, June 29, 2010: “Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Sarah Palin's Strangest Expenses: How SarahPAC Spe ...
• Reid has "rough draft" of energy bill
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Letters to the Editor: Antibiotics, Jobs, War, and ...
  A long-term unemployed worker responds to Karen Dolan's op-ed.
• How to Get Politicians to Admit in Public That the ...
  We do not need yet another blue ribbon commission or academic study to tell us our current policies are not working.
• The United States and South Africa Share Great Cha ...
  Even the "Rainbow Nation" and nation that elected its first black president still face segregation issues.
• From the Frontlines: July 14, 2010
  Stiglitz on the stimulus, six months after the earthquake, and what we could do with a trillion dollars.
• Spy vs. Spy
  If we ask some hard questions about the means and ends of intelligence-gathering, perhaps we might discover that all this spycraft is as overrated on our side as on theirs.

Equality Trust

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

• Democracy Now! Sean Penn on Haiti Six Months Afte ...
  Recovery Efforts and Why He Decided to Manage a Tent Camp of 55,000 Displaced Haitians Two-time Academy Award-winning actor and director Sean Penn was honored by the Haitian government on Monday at a ceremony marking the ...
• Bruce Fein Schools Henry Kissinger
  By David Swanson Bruce Fein concludes his new book, "American Empire: Before the Fall," by demolishing the worldview of Henry Kissinger as expressed in a Washington Post column  last year. Of course it’s also ...
• Silver linings
  The House vote is a victory Dear Laura, On Thursday night, the House of Representatives approved $33 billion more for President Obama and the military to spend in Iraq and Afghanistan. This “supplemental” expenditure was folded into ...
• Doubling down …
  On Marleine Bastien and Dr. David Gill Dear Friend, Last week, something extraordinary ...
• July 4th Reflections—Solutions for a Nation ...
  By Kelly Gerling What kind of crisis are we Americans experiencing? US government military forces and intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan select targets with large percentages of civilians and kill them, along with people suspected as ...

Marler Blog

• CDC makes us worry about Salmonella in Eggs too
  Sitting down for breakfast in our last day in Athens, I decided to check my Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) alert.  This popped right out - "The CDC estimates that nearly 3 million eggs sold each year are contaminated with Salmonella bacteria." There are approximately 192 egg p ...
• What would Pericles do?
  After hiking around the Parthenon in the heat of the day (tried to do it early, but there was a four hour strike by workers) and watching the changing of the guards in front of the Parliament Building, we headed back to the hotel and discussed where to eat tonight.� The consensus, after a week and a ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 07.14.10
  Study: Cheap gas will hamper success of electric vehicles in U.S. Pay up, people. GE unveils new electric car charger, the WattStation [w/video] Look for the green glowing LEDs for your next ...
• AutoblogGreen for 07.13.10
  Concerns rise over possible Chinese domination of electric vehicle market Who else? Phoenix Motorcars still not dead, will present "newly configured" electric truck at FedFleet There's a "ri ...
• 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. ...

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!

• Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake
  July 12 marked the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake here in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people and left much of the country in ruins. Up to 1.8 million people are living in squalid tent cities, with inadequate sanitation, if any, no electricity and little security, or an ...
• 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.

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

• Exit Strategy
  Compliments of  The Comic News
• 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 ...

Solari

• The National Bank of Malvern
  [Note from CAF: My wonderful bankers at National Bank of Malvern did not tell me about this story published last year. I just found it, so I am publishing it now.] Not many banks are in a celebratory mood this year given the upheavals on Wall Street. But one small Chester County bank with three wom ...
• US-Backed Loans to Expand Nuclear Power: A Boon fo ...
  A report released Thursday finds that all 18 firms lining up for tens of billions in US-backed loans for new nuclear power plants would use overseas jobs to build most of them. Nuclear power opponents and taxpayer groups on Friday took fresh aim at new nuclear reactor projects, hopping aboard a move ...
• Identity Theft: Avoiding It If You Can, Surviving ...
  This Thursday night, I will talk with Bob Sullivan about how you can protect yourself and your family from identity theft. Bob Sullivan is an award winning journalist covering internet and financial fraud for MSNBC.  Bob is widely considered the top reporter on identity theft, blogging on this and ...
• Franklin Sanders on Revitalizing Local Economies
  This is an excellent talk that Franklin gave recently in Mississippi. If you want to understand what each community needs to do to create jobs in the United States, this is one for you! Listen to the MP3: Related Reading: Job Growth in U.S. Driven Entirely by Start-Ups Study on Financial Returns o ...
• Job Growth in U.S. Driven Entirely by Startups
  Kauffman Foundation Study New firms add an average of 3 million jobs in their first year, while older companies lose 1 million jobs annually (KANSAS CITY, Mo.), July 7, 2010 – When it comes to U.S. job growth, startup companies aren’t everything. They’re the only thing. It’s well understood that exi ...

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

• Arizona's New Immigration Law Is Unconstitutional ...
  Arizona's controversial SB 1070 attempts to make immigration policy that differs from federal law. Precedent suggests it will be shot down.
• Is it Worse to Be a Racist or a Rapist? What Gibso ...
  It looks like the silver lining for celebrity abusers everywhere is that unless you use a racial slur while committing abuse you might be okay, career wise.
• Immigrants' Rights Groups Say AZ Lawsuits Are Just ...
  Activists argue that the Feds' lawsuit is only the first step to minimizing the harmful impact of unfair enforcement practices.
• Don't Believe the Media Hype -- After the Oscar Gr ...
  The relatively minor damage and looting that took place later in the evening has overshadowed the real story.
• Fox's Chief Legal Analyst: Bush and Cheney Should ...
  Fox News' senior judicial analyst made some surprising remarks Saturday that may go against the grain at his conservative network.

Sideways News

• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
  Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project .
• 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.

Fabius Maximus

• Why is Vandergriff’s work an important contributio ...
  Summary:  The second chapter in Donald Vandergriff week on the FM website, introducing his work to those readers not already familiar with it.  This chapter briefly sketches out why his work is critical.  People — not doctrine or technology — are the key to winning 4th generation wars (the ma ...
• Lessons from History
  The newest FM reference page, listing posts about military and geopolitical history.  The reference pages appear on the right-side menu bar. Military History Lessons and even advice from the past — and notes from the future Economic History Looking to the future Contact info (1)  Military History ”W ...
• A new addition to the FM website team: Don Vander ...
  Donald Vandergriff has joined the team of writers on the FM website.  He’s one of the select few who are incomparably more influential after they retired (but still alive).  This week we’ll run excerpts from some of his works. Background In the world of military theory today there are many peo ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Wales to become first part of Britain to introduce ...
  Daily Telegraph – The Welsh Assembly has announced plans to change the law so that people have to opt out of the organ donation system – rather than “opt in” with donor cards. Campaigners claimed the plans would make more kidneys, lungs and hearts available for lifesaving transplants. Read article ...
• FDIC Closes 4 Banks at a Cost of $160M – 90 Failur ...
  eCredit Daily – Regulators closed down four banks â 1 each in Oklahoma and New York and 2 in Maryland â at a combined cost of nearly $160 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.âs insurance fund. The four brings this yearâs total bank failures to 90 â a pace that is expected to surp ...
• US: Pediatricians now reject all female genital cu ...
  CNN — The American Academy of Pediatrics has rescinded a controversial policy statement [issued in April] raising the idea that doctors in some communities should be able to substitute demands for female genital cutting with a harmless clitoral “pricking” procedure. “We retracted the policy because ...
• Aspartame’s threat to the unborn
  Press TV – New studies show that aspartame may increase the risk of premature births. Research funded by the European Union found a correlation between the amount of diet drink consumed and an early birth among the 60,000 women studied, The Mail on Sunday reported on July 10. The study also says tha ...
• Former BP chief John Browne gets Whitehall role
  Guardian – The coalition made one of its most controversial appointments to date today as it named Lord Browne, the former head of BP, as its new Whitehall “super-director” charged with injecting business ethos into the heart of government. Browne will play a key part in the Liberal Democrat-Conserv ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• It’s Right to Rebel against Israel
  It’s Right to Rebel against Israel (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel is a country with a long history of aggression, founded on the basis of settlerism and the displacement of native Palestinians. To a large extent, Israel has functioned as an outpost for imperialist aggression, and it has ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Ruth Institute: Anti-Gay Public Policy Institu ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH The San Marcos, California-based organization, a project of the controversial National Organization for Marriage, has a new ‘strategic plan’ which it hopes will make it a national force in the pro-marriage movement The passage of California’s Proposition 8, the No ...
• The Death Gusher in the Gulf Should Tell Us to End ...
  GEORGE LAKOFF FOR BUZZFLASH SAVE, BABY, SAVE! A barrel saved is a barrel not needed — ever! The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling forever. The reason is simple: Systemic risk! www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-lakoff/our-energy-production-sys_b_586119.html read more
• Newt Gingrich Says He’s Once Again Considering A ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH This isn’t a real hope, just bona fide hype; Each White House wannabe schnook feels That running is an essential step to still get Those good speaker fees and book deals. � http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100713/ap_on_el_pr/us_gingrich2012 �
• Exciting BuzzFlash Announcement About Its Future: ...
  MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG I am extremely pleased that BuzzFlash, with its more than 10 year record of progressive journalism and advocacy on the Internet, will be entering a positive new phase as of August 1. At that time, I will be joining the prominent voice for the common good, T ...
• Kabuki Despair: Alterman and Tomasky Speak Out
  Body A little something vastly different today. You're probably aware of two recent articles engaging progressivism's raging anxiety -- Eric Alterman's "Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now," in The Nation , and Michael Tomasky's "Against Despair," in ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The motive behind whistle blower prosecutions
  One of the more flamboyant aspects of the Bradley Manning arrest was the claim that he had leaked to WikiLeaks 250,000 pages of "diplomatic cables."��Those were the documents which anonymous government officials pointed to when telling The�Daily Beast 's Philip Shenon that the leaks "could do seriou ...
• Marc Thiessen and the myth of the American Jewish ...
  (updated below) When The Washington Post hired torture advocate and low-level Bush propagandist Marc Thiessen as an Op-Ed columnist, it got exactly what it apparently wanted:   a regular dose of falsehood-filled neoconservative tripe .  But even by his own lowly standards, Theissen outd ...
• Media moral standards
  When CNN recently announced that it had hired Eliot Spitzer to host a prime-time news show, I noticed that the word "disgraced" was applied to him so reflexively that one had the impression it was a formal part of his title.  CNN plans "an as-yet-untitled discussion show with Eliot Spitzer, the disg ...
• 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Science careers, damping and oil
  My latest editorial contribution to Materials Today and a little more oily news. Paradigms, peers, and patents – For every paradigm-shifting breakthrough in science there are a plethora of failed experiments, myriad grant applications, patent pressures, and the activation energy barrier that is peer ...
• Extraterrestrial molecules and the plausibility of ...
  Latest scientific news with a spectroscopic angle Extraterrestrial molecules – An astronomical infrared study reveals one of the most complex organic molecules yet found in the interstellar medium – anthracene – offering possible new clues to the way the building blocks of life might have emerged. W ...
• Molecules, materials and British science
  This is my first batch of delicious science links for this week: Dendrimersome library – A library of supramolecular materials that can form hollow vesicles with potential in therapeutic drug and gene delivery, imaging diagnostics, as well as the cosmetics industry has been developed by researchers ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• CREW Asks Senate Help Committee to Question Motive ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2010 CREW Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ("HELP"), asking the committee to consider the financial motives of critics of th ...
• Kyrgyzstan: Torture, Detentions Escalate Tensions
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) The Kyrgyz authorities should take urgent steps to stop the widespread torture and arbitrary detentions of Uzbeks suspected of participation in the violence that erupted in June in southern Kyrgyzstan, Human Rights Watch said today. read m ...
• OPD, Law Enforcement Used Excessive Force at Oscar ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2010 National Lawyers Guild Despite claims by Oakland Police (OPD) and city officials that law enforcement used restraint during last Thursday's protests following the Johannes Mehserle verdict, details emerging paint a very different picture.  Police used excessive fo ...
• Whistleblowers Still Run Daunting Gauntlet Under O ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2010 PEER The fate and treatment of whistleblowers has not materially improved under the Obama administration, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  President Obama has staked out no policy differences from the Bush administration and ...
• Petrochemical Identified in Recalled Kellogg’s Cer ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2010 Environmental Working Group (EWG) Kellogg's recently recalled close to 30 million boxes of some of its most popular cereal brands after customers complained of getting sick from smelling and eating breakfast mainstays such as Froot Loops and Apple Jacks.   ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Israeli Military Report on Its Gaza Flotilla Actio ...
  by Ann Wright As a 29 year military veteran and a survivor of the Gaza Flotilla, I strongly believe that the Israeli military report on its conduct in boarding the six ships of the Gaza Flotilla underscores the need for an independent investigation.  As we have found from investigations done by our ...
• Trapped: Is It Too Little, Too Late for Real Finan ...
  by Danny Schechter Progress is, as we have seen, "stalled" in Haiti six months after an earthquake that struck with the impact of a nuclear bomb. A country, we are told, that is trapped in its past actually may exemplify a more frightening future - a world whose institutions, agencies, governments a ...
• The Motive Behind Whistle Blower Prosecutions
  by Glenn Greenwald One of the more flamboyant aspects of the Bradley Manning arrest was the claim that he had leaked to WikiLeaks 250,000 pages of "diplomatic cables."  Those were the documents which anonymous government officials pointed to when telling The Daily Beast's Philip Shenon that the leak ...
• Afghan Army Attack Shines Light on Unpopular Occup ...
  by Ryan Harvey A member of the Afghan National Army opened fire on a group of British soldiers yesterday, killing three and wounding four others. The attack occurred on a NATO base outside of Kandahar when the soldier opened fire with a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade launcher before fleein ...
• Dyer’s Convincing Global-Warming Vision
  by John R. MacArthur Until very recently, global warming never struck me as the great issue of the day. I avoided Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" because it seemed too much like homework, and when I finally forced myself to watch it at home on DVD, I fell asleep. read more

Karl Burkart

• 'My Gulf Action' wants you to reduce your oil impa ...
  ClimateCulture launches a new campaign asking individuals to do their part in reducing the need for oil.
• Cool interactive maps track Gulf oil impacts
  Two new data maps let you see the scope of various Gulf oil impacts and raise questions about why certain beaches remain open.
• How to cap an oil well under 5,000 feet of water
  After 8 weeks of fabrication, BP is ready to bolt on its 80-ton well cap using 3 ROV's. Here's how it will (hopefully) work.
• High-design website offers up climate elitism
  IDEO offers a new high-design website that showcases bright solutions for 'living with climate change.' But does it strengthen the notion of climate elitism?
• A social network for 'off-gridders'
  Off-grid guru offers a social network and news source for people looking to drop out of the grind and solar power-up.

Water Privatization

• Thrift in workforce numbers
  Over the past nine years the city of Hutchinson has learned to do more with less - at least when it ...
• After 3 Grandville unions refuse concessions, city ...
  "We've done the easy stuff," says City Manager Ken Krombeen.
• Senate passes budget bill
  The Senate has voted to pass the omnibus budget implementation bill, avoiding an election showdown over the issue.
• Is Commercial Real Estate Bouncing Back?
  TIME asks the head a real estate investment firm to size up the prospects for commercial real estate, identify the best markets and point out the big risks. What surprised us: He's bullish.
• DOE vows level playing field for investors in ener ...
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Guardian

• Unemployment falls as part-time work soars
  Number claiming benefit drops but more complain they can't get full-time work. Long-term unemployment sees further rise The number of part-time workers in Britain has hit a record high as more people are forced to take shorter hours or not work at all. Official data released this morning showed the ...
• Cheltenham Gold Cup trophy stolen
  The Cheltenham Gold Cup won in 1988 among items taken by thieves from address in Gloucestershire A trophy presented to the winner of one of the most famous events in horse racing was stolen in a burglary today. The Cheltenham Gold Cup, won in 1988, was one of three horse racing cups taken from an ad ...
• UN channels billions into coal power
  UN's Clean Development Mechanism to use European carbon offset credits to subsidise 20 'efficient' coal plants in India and China The UN is set to channel billions of pounds of public money from rich countries to giant energy companies to build 20 heavily polluting coal-fired power plants on the bas ...
• €1m fund to fight French niqab ban
  Businessman Rachid Nekkaz hopes to render new law useless by paying fines for women caught wearing veil in street A French property tycoon enraged at his government's plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised a fund of €1m (£830,000) to help any Muslim who is fined for wea ...
• Bristol Palin engaged to baby's father
  Bristol Palin tells celebrity magazine US Weekly that she and Levi Johnston 'reconnected' while working out custody plan Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol is engaged to her former partner Levi Johnston, the father of her child, despite an acrimonious break-up and custody battle. The 19-year-old daughte ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Harry Reid and risky Yucca Mountain
  If Doc Hastings and Patty Murray are right — and we think they are — the shutdown going on at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is illegal.
• Commentary: No such thing as El Chupacabra
  If you see a weird, hairless animal with fangs, Texas A&M University has two requests for you:
• All work to plug BP's spill halted in Gulf
  WASHINGTON — At the government's insistence, BP postponed crucial testing last night on its most recent effort to cap the well that's been gushing oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly three months.
• Commentary: A win for veterans
  Over the years, U.S. military doctors have made enormous strides in treating wounded combatants. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that the survival rate is nearing 95 percent for soldiers who live long enough to get medical treatment.
• Commentary: California must help stem foreclosures
  After two years of new state laws and a federal program designed to prevent unnecessary home foreclosures, loan modifications remain rare.

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

• Hospitals Upset Over Final ‘Meaningful Use&# ...
  Kaiser Health News is reporting that hospitals aren’t very happy with the final “meaningful use” regulations released yesterday, even though HHS loosened some of the requirements from the draft version. The federal government is providing “$27 billion over the next 10 years to reward doctors and hos ...
• Rep. Ellison: Republican Tax Claims Are ‘Pat ...
  Last weekend, faux deficit hawk Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) proved that he’s not concerned about deficits at all by saying that spending $678 billion to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans does not need be offset. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) agreed, saying, “I tend to think that tax cuts should ...
• New Preventive Services Guidelines Released, Group ...
  Today, the administration is unveiling the preventive services insurers will be required to cover with no co-pays or out-of-pocket costs beginning September 23. “Cancer screenings, including mammograms and colonoscopies, as well as obesity prevention services, immunizations, blood pressure screening ...
• The Enlightened Eight: GOP Can Vote For Cap-And-Tr ...
  Our guest blogger is Heather Taylor-Miesle, Director of the NRDC Action Fund. On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 in favor of HR 2454, the Americ an Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). Only eight Republicans â weâll call them the âEnlightened Eightâ – voted ...
• Conservatives Invent Fantasy World In Which The Bu ...
  On Sunday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) appeared on Fox News and admitted that Republicans have no interest in trying to pay for their desired extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, which will cost about $678 billion. “You should never have to offset cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates ...

thwap's schoolyard

• HOT Child in the City!
  In a tribute to all those beautiful video-vixens (Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Britney Spears, The Pussycat Dolls, Tuesday Weld, Hillary Duff, etc.,) here's Seventies Superstar Singing Sensation Nick Gilder with his Mega-Monster-Modern-Sexy Smash!!!! "Hot Child in the City"!!!!!! Fuckin' A!!!! Sigh. To ...
• Forgotten Haiti
  A couple of links about Haiti: Haiti: A 'Forgotten' Country Port-au-Prince, Haiti – It is 2 p.m. in what used to be the neighborhood of Croix des Prez in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After the “catastrophe” of Jan. 12, it became Camp Croix des Prez, only one of the many camps in which more than 600,000 H ...
• Miley Cyrus: Can't Be Tamed
  In keeping with my disgust with this fucking country and our inability to defend what little democracy and human rights we have, with our complacency and our apathy and our inability to think our way out of a paper bag, I continue with my writing about pop-princess Miley Cyrus. I don't really have ...
• 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• FDA whistleblower Dr. David Graham to testify on A ...
  David J. Graham, M.D., M.P.H., is a drug safety whistleblower working at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On November 18, 2004, Dr. Graham testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance about Merck's withdrawal of the popular anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx . He testified that FDA policie ...
• 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 ...

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

• eBay Sued For Patent Infringement... With Added Co ...
  Another day, another patent lawsuit against a big company for doing something obvious, filed by a company that appears to exist solely for the purpose of suing a company that actually does stuff. This time it's a "company" XPRT Ventures who has sued eBay and is demanding a mere $3.8 billion for its ...
• Old Spice Man Is Horsing Around On Social Media
  When we last saw the Old Spice man, he was on a horse , and demonstrated how a brilliantly clever ad could attract its own viewers, instead of trying to divert attention with an annoying or distracting ad. In the five months since the ad first aired, the ad has collected nearly 13 million views on ...
• Man Fined $400 For Impersonating A Moron
  Okay, here's a quick one that I'm posting because it's amusing. Apparently a guy in Canada has been fined $400 for telling the cops his name was Andrew Moron after he was caught drinking beer at a beach. What's illegal about that? Well there's a ban on alcohol at the location and, the guy's name ...
• Newspaper Publisher Sues Guy For Posting Article B ...
  Earlier this year, we wrote about the company Righthaven, which has some sort of connection to the Las Vegas Journal Review (or, at least, its lawyer), who is now going around suing lots of sites for reposting LVJR content. What was interesting about the lawsuits is that Righthaven never sent and c ...
• Author Puts Novel Online For Free... And Gets A Bo ...
  alex was the first of a few of you to send over the story of how author Marta Acosta posted her "young adult vampire novel" online for free at Scribd , where it became a top download with tons of great reviews... and that helped her get a book deal with Tor, who will be publishing the book in hardco ...

VacTruth

• HPV testing and vaccination: 56 experts appear to ...
  Norma Erickson Examiner 07/11/2010 According to a recent abstract in PubMed, 56 experts in cervical cancer gathered to review the current state of HPV typing in the vaccinated population of the United States and the potential for typing this population over the next five years. Their conclusions wer ...
• 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 ...

BroadSnark

• Drug War Ping Pong
  Lately, I’ve seen several articles holding up Colombia as some kind of model for how to deal with drug war violence.   The latest one is this piece in Foreign Affairs in which Robert Bonner claims that Mexico should follow Colombia’s example. Really people?  Colombia? Colombia is ranked number 13 ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche Announces the Role He Will Play in a Post ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Charge Raised in Russia: Gorbachov and Khrushchov ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• U.S. Workforce Localities in Process of Disintegra ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche: The Next Two Weeks Are Crucial, for Bett ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Historic Webcast by Zepp-LaRouche and Cheminade
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• This Can't Be Good: BP Delays Pressure Tests and S ...
  Photo: BP Only Bad News on the Oil Spill Today After some good news in the past couple of days, BP is going back to what it has accustomed us to over the past few months: bad news. The first of these is that despite the fact that the cap has been fitted over the oil leak, the pressure tests to ...
• Amphibian Bacteria Could Be Key to Saving Frogs fr ...
  The redback salamander is a natural host for Janthinobacterium lividum , a bacterium that could save frogs from a deadly epidemic. Image credit: WallTea /Flickr Around the world, frogs are in trouble . Habitat loss is a major threat—as it is for many species—while pesticides and other chemicals ...
• Fisherman Sings Rousing Protest Song at Oil Spill ...
  We've seen testimony of fisherman after fisherman and Gulf Coast resident after Gulf Coast resident lament the woes inflicted upon their home by the BP spill. So how does one go about setting himself apart from the crowd at yet another Oil Spill Commission hearing? You grab a guitar and belt out ...
• World's Mangroves Being Destroyed Four Times Faste ...
  Mangroves in Kiribati, photo: UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme and the Nature Conservancy have released the first global assessment in a decade of the state of the world's mangrove forests and the prognosis isn't particularly good: The report found that, despite conservation effort ...
• NYC Guerrilla Gardeners Turn Billboard Blight into ...
  Photo of an 'instant' garden at Spring and Lafayette via NYC The Blog . Guerrilla gardeners in New York have seized the opportunity created by the city's crackdown on illegal advertisements to promote their own cause on the now-empty billboard spaces: greening the urban jungle, one pop-up wall ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Destroying biodiversity
  The greatest threats to the world̢۪s species are misguided environmental and anti-technology policies.
• Of pelicans and people: CFACT staff visits affecte ...
  The Louisiana brown pelican is perhaps the number one symbol of the damage caused by BP oil spill. Running a close second are the people of Louisiana who have already lost jobs both from the spilled oil and from the Obama administration's decision to impose a 180-day moratorium on offshore drilling.
• 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.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Medvedev, Merkel in Urals for talks (Update 1)
• Vladimir Putin tells young people of his student p ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday told members of student construction brigades involved in building Olympic facilities in the southern Russian resort of Sochi of his student past.
• Merkel seeks broader economic ties in Siberia
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in the city of Yekaterinburg Wednesday for a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.
• Moscow melts in intense heat (WRAPUP)
  High temperatures have changed the usual course of people's lives in Moscow, forcing the army to dress down and the changing of the guard to be cancelled.
• Russian spy impersonation by Angelina Jolie
  Angelina Jolie will come to Moscow on July 25 to promote her new movie, “Salt” The beauty and mother of six plays a CIA agent accused of spying for Russia.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Iran to load reactor in Sept. 2011 - nuclear chief
  Nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor will be ready in September 2011, Iran's nuclear chief was reported as saying on Monday.
• Russian Mir mini-subs to explore Lake Baikal alter ...
  Russia's Mir-1 and Mir-2 self-propelled deep submersibles on Tuesday will conduct the second stage of exploring gas hydrates located at the bottom of Lake Baikal, a representative of the Fund for the Protection of Lake Baikal said.
• Russia's Proton booster delivers U.S. satellite in ...
  Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket launched on Saturday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan has delivered a U.S. EchoStar 15 telecommunications satellite into the designated orbit, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday.
• Proton-M orbits U.S. EchoStar 15 telecom satellite
  Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. EchoStar 15 telecommunications satellite was launched on Saturday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Roscosmos' official said.
• Japanese "space yacht" IKAROS proves photon accele ...
  Japan's space agency JAXA confirmed on Saturday that its experimental spacecraft IKAROS started to accelerate after unfurling its kite-like solar sail, proving that the new fuel-saving propulsion technique is no science fiction.

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

• Meet the Food Industry Front Groups That Push for ...
  "You've probably heard of the 'Dirty Dozen' - a list of produce items identified by the Environmental Working Group that reportedly contain too many pesticide residues. I thought you might like to know about this webinar that provides perspective on pesticide residues," said an email sent by Elizabe ...
• Energy Efficiency Helps Homeowners Avoid Foreclosu ...
  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 effectively killed Property ...
• James Howard Kunstler: Where Have We Been? Where A ...
  Saturday in mid-July in my corner of the country, when everyone else is cavorting on Million Dollar Beach at Lake George, or plying the aisles of the home Depot, or riding their motorcycles in faux-outlaw hordes, I like to slip away to the neglected places where nobody goes. I seek out the places of ...
• Municipal Sewage Sludge Scandal: When Environmenta ...
  Since 2007, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has given away "free organic biosolids compost" to gardeners and school gardens in San Francisco. Of course, their "organic" compost could not be legally applied on an organic farm because its made of sewage sludge - what the sewage industry ...
• A Debate on Geoengineering: Vandana Shiva vs. Gwyn ...
  Supporters of geoengineering have proposed radical ways to alter the planet to decrease the level of greenhouse gas emissions. Proposals include creating artificial volcanoes to pollute the atmosphere with sulfur particles, fertilizing the oceans and placing sun-deflecting aluminum foil in the sky. ...

fotoFrontera

• Clausura de la Copa de Fútbol Soccer Sudáfrica 201 ...
  Tras un mes completo de intensos encuentros futbolísticos, la Copa de Fútbol Soccer Sudáfrica 2010 ha llegado a su final. España ha sido el ganador de la Copa de Oro , Los Países Bajos se han posicionado en segundo lugar y Alemania ha tenido que conformarse con el tercer lugar de este encuentro de t ...
• Nuevas fotos WorldCup Sudáfrica 2010 de Fútbol Soc ...
  Nos estamos acercando cada día más a los juegos más intensos e interesantes sobre la Copa del Mundo FIFA 2010 en Sudáfrica . El Fútbol Soccer es un deporte apasionante que atrae a millones de personas en el mundo y por eso mismo, aquí tengo para todos los aficionados que viven la intensidad del fútb ...
• 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 ...

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

• Linkcetera
  The rest of the links: Governance: Koua Fong Lee protesters embarrass Susan Gaertner (worst county attorney north of the Mason-Dixon ever?) Covering up sexual harassment . . . because they can Pro-pot folks do better in automated poll - Religion: Drinking fountain purity, Muslim style Hating on Iran ...
• Owned
  Very distracted by NBA trades of late but this reawakened my interest in politics big time: This billboard sits in the middle of downtown Mason City, the largest city in northern Iowa where I grew up. It’s not even in Steve King’s district but it is very close to former Gov. (and current GOoPernator ...
• Slaves to the lies
  Of course Climategate was a hoax. The important thing to remember is that is was an orchestrated hoax by the Wurlitzer folks who can turn any hissy fit into a Mormon Tabernacle sized whine. I’ve linked to this study already, as has Digby, but it bears repetition. The participants who self-identified ...
• Axis of Metropolis
  Weird. Stumbled across this animated GIF this morning and now this afternoon I found a hard rock video set to Metropolis clips at Wired. (great clips, bad bad music)
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• Seven in Ten Fail to Secure Children Correctly in ...
  Seven in Ten Fail to Secure Children Correctly in Car Seats Phoenix, AZ - With the summer driving season in full swing, doctors are warning Arizona parents that incorrect placement of car seats can put their children at risk. Dr. Kathy Judy, associate professor of pediatrics at the Loyola University ...
• AZ Voters to Decide Fate of Pristine State Lands
  AZ Voters to Decide Fate of Pristine State Lands Phoenix, AZ – Arizona voters will decide in November if money they previously approved for land conservation should be transferred to help balance the state budget. Passage of Proposition 301 will leave thousands of acres near the state’s largest citi ...
• Protestors Cry “Foul” Outside Baseball ...
  Protestors Cry “Foul” Outside Baseball HQ Phoenix, AZ – Some immigrant rights groups want next year's baseball All-Star Game moved from Phoenix because of Arizona's passage of the SB-1070 immigration law. A coalition of immigration activists protested yesterday (Thursday) outside Major League Baseba ...
• Latino Rights Advocate: AZ Politicians Pandering O ...
  Latino Rights Advocate: AZ Politicians Pandering Over SB 1070 Lawsuit Phoenix, AZ – A long-time Arizona Latino rights leader is accusing politicians of grandstanding over the federal legal challenge to the SB 1070 immigration law, saying they're putting their re-election ahead of solving the problem ...
• Summer Heat + Kids Alone in Cars = Deadly Combina ...
  Summer Heat + Kids Alone in Cars = Deadly Combination Phoenix, AZ - According to Safe Kids USA- there have been at least 18 cases of children dying from "heat stroke" as a result of being left in unattended vehicles since March of this year. That includes a Phoenix toddler who died on Sunday. Lorri ...

My Care2 Picks

• Destroy the Afghan Opium Crops for Monsanto
  US occupation of foreign countries is a corporate profiteer's dream.NEI distributed two tonnes of genetically modified soya seed in Afghanistan in 2005. http://thepanelist.com/Opinions/Opinions/The_Real_Victor_in_Iraq:_Monsanto_200810281252/ Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note- ...
• Afghani Twist : 30 years later
  Russian textbook account of the circumstances of the USSR being drawn into the war in Afghanistan.... because of fear of Islamic terrorism Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• How Goldman Sachs Gambled on Starvation
  Millions of people went hungry around the world because Goldman Sachs and others tied derivatives to the price of food. With so many people speculating, food prices went through the roof and the poorest could no longer afford to eat. Submitted by Gravitas S. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
• Rove Rides Again
  Bush's former strategist is secretly seizing control of the GOP and amassing $135 million to destroy the Democrats Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Postcards from Hell
  Images from the world's most failed states.( FP is one of those organs 'analysing' foreign policy - while downplaying the obvious conclusion that it is the author of the destruction where it is in play ) Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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

• Cheeseburger in Paradise!
  Texas cattle drinking water from drilling waste sludge pits. This is an under-regulated problem that we simply ignore, but to actually force drilling companies to be accountable for their actions? FAT CHANCE! What’s another trip to the hospital killing fields for another disease of “unknown” origin? ...
• 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!
  Cartoon
• 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.
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True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Cycle company caught up in Lance Armstrong drug pr ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on July 14, 2010 8:07 AM
• Dodgers divorce cases takes another intriguing twi ...
  Noted by Jon Pessah on July 14, 2010 8:07 AM
• Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Use To Masturbation ( ...
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on July 14, 2010 3:07 AM
• PHOTOS: Britain Unveils Unmanned Combat Aircraft O ...
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on July 14, 2010 3:07 AM
• Honest to Business: Feeding the Local Economy That ...
  Noted by Kim O'Donnel on July 14, 2010 2:07 AM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Gunned down as they slept: Rogue Afghan soldier sh ...
  ShareThis Gunned down as they slept: Rogue Afghan soldier shoots dead three British troops inside military compound --Attacker used grenade launcher and is now on the run 13 Jul 2010 A renegade Afghan soldier is on the run today after killing three British soldiers in southern Helmand while they sle ...
• Turkey: Israeli troops committed crime
  ShareThis Turkey: Israeli troops committed crime 13 Jul 2010 Turkey's foreign minister says his country will keep pushing for an international inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound ship carrying aid. The comments come a day after an IDF inquiry into the lethal raid concluded that flawed ...
• Tony Blair 'intentionally talked up WMD', Iraq inq ...
  ShareThis Tony Blair 'intentionally talked up WMD', Iraq inquiry told 13 Jul 2010 Tony Blair "intentionally" exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Iraq inquiry heard yesterday. Former diplomat Carne Ross said Britain and the US went to war in 2003 despite ...
• Iraq war inquiry: Blair government 'massaged' Sadd ...
  ShareThis Iraq war inquiry: Blair government 'massaged' Saddam Hussein WMD threat --Former diplomat Carne Ross says exaggeration, accretion and editing of intelligence documents led to lies in threat assessment 12 Jul 2010 Tony Blair's government "intentionally and substantially" exaggerated assessm ...
• Republican senator says he backs birther lawsuits
  ShareThis Republican senator says he backs birther lawsuits 13 Jul 2010 Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship in court. Vitter, who is running for re-election, made the comments on Sunday at a town hall- ...

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

• They asked for it
  The Israeli Intelligence and Information Center has done a report on the flotilla raid raid saying that 7 out of 9 victims wanted to be martyrs. Big news in Israel. About the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Center: In March 2010 the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center released a ...
• J Street campaign, and Central Fund letter, show & ...
  J Street announced a new campaign today calling on the Treasury Department to investigate whether American non profits who fund Israeli settlements are braking the law. Their petition says:Please launch an investigation into whether or not the organizations funding settlement activities in the Occup ...
• Schumer heckled for ’strangulation’ co ...
  Senator Charles Schumer, the powerful New York Democrat and potential future majority leader, was heckled by a Palestine solidarity activist Sunday June 11 at a concert in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.� Schumer has earned the wrath of Palestine solidarity activists for being an unflinching supporter of Is ...
• Presbyterians insist on ‘breaking down the w ...
  I’ve just returned from Minneapolis, having attended the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA at the invitation of the denomination’s Israel Palestine Mission Network. The PC(USA) is at the epicenter of the struggle of the Christian community in the U.S. to come to terms with th ...
• Israel still can’t prove their version of th ...
  The above video was released by the IDF as they continue to make their case on the flotilla attack. Although it's in Hebrew, it's clear the Israeli story hasn't changed. A Mondo reader who goes by gangreentv sent us the video along with this note: The IDF claims that their soldiers were stabbed, ax ...

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

• This Can't Be Good: BP Delays Pressure Tests and S ...
  Photo: BP Only Bad News on the Oil Spill Today After some good news in the past couple of days, BP is going back to what it has accustomed us to over the past few months: bad news. The first of these is that despite the fact that the cap has been fitted over the oil leak, the pressure tests to ...
• Amphibian Bacteria Could Be Key to Saving Frogs fr ...
  The redback salamander is a natural host for Janthinobacterium lividum , a bacterium that could save frogs from a deadly epidemic. Image credit: WallTea /Flickr Around the world, frogs are in trouble . Habitat loss is a major threat—as it is for many species—while pesticides and other chemicals ...
• Fisherman Sings Rousing Protest Song at Oil Spill ...
  We've seen testimony of fisherman after fisherman and Gulf Coast resident after Gulf Coast resident lament the woes inflicted upon their home by the BP spill. So how does one go about setting himself apart from the crowd at yet another Oil Spill Commission hearing? You grab a guitar and belt out ...
• World's Mangroves Being Destroyed Four Times Faste ...
  Mangroves in Kiribati, photo: UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme and the Nature Conservancy have released the first global assessment in a decade of the state of the world's mangrove forests and the prognosis isn't particularly good: The report found that, despite conservation effort ...
• NYC Guerrilla Gardeners Turn Billboard Blight into ...
  Photo of an 'instant' garden at Spring and Lafayette via NYC The Blog . Guerrilla gardeners in New York have seized the opportunity created by the city's crackdown on illegal advertisements to promote their own cause on the now-empty billboard spaces: greening the urban jungle, one pop-up wall ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Foreign investment in Burma ‘down 70%’
  Government statistics note a drop of $670 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year but do not factor in anticipated projects and secreting of billions of dollars
• DKBA ‘kidnapping’ defector children
  Pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army has taken captive families of twelve former troops who defected to the opposition Karen National Union
• North Korean FM to visit Burma
  Pak Ui Chun's trip follows increased scrutiny of North Korea-Burma relations and will preempt a possible return to regional security talks later this month
• Fate of Burmese rebels remains uncertain
  Lawyers to file a petition to Kolkata court asking for clarification of sentence given to 34 Burmese rebel fighters held in India for 12 years
• Murder charge for ‘Rangoon bomber’
  Phyo Wei Aung facing a raft of charges for the deadly Rangoon grenade attacks as wife claims he is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Gods, floods - and global warming
  Geomythology links ancient legends and natural disasters - and supports climate change, writes Steve Jones.
• Prince of Wales opens new front in global warming ...
  The Prince of Wales has launched a unit to help prevent ecological disaster.
• In the dark about the heatwave
  Telegraph View The sun is a radioactive killer. Health and safety says we should stay indoors.
• 'Climategate' fails to stir up a storm
  The public's reaction to the 'Climategate' verdict has been surprising, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• Animals affected by the heatwave in Britain, Europ ...
  Animals affected by the heatwave cool down with ice and fruit.

National Geographic | Environment

• Photos: 2010 International Conservation Photograph ...
  NoneSee some of the year's best nature pictures—winners of the 2010 International Conservation Photography Awards. Nature - Photography - Arts - Biodiversity - 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

Jurist - Legal Research

• Federal court begins trial on 'Don't Ask Don't Tel ...
  [JURIST] The US District Court for the Central District of California [official website] on Tuesday began the trial in a case challenging the constitutionality of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive]. Judge Virginia Phillips, trying the case without a jury ...
• Federal appeals court rules FCC indecency policy u ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] indecency policy [text] is unconstitutional. The court held that the FCC's policy is a violation of the First Amendment [text] r ...
• Federal judge refuses to dismiss charges against e ...
  [JURIST] A federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss charges [opinion, PDF] against former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news archive], ruling that his Sixth Amendment [text] right to a speedy trial was not violated. Ghailani's lawyers ...
• UK PM announces plans for criminal justice reform
  [JURIST] UK Prime Minister David Cameron [official website] on Tuesday announced [press release] the coalition government's plans to reform the criminal justice system [text, PDF] to include lesser prison sentences and more community punishment options. The Ministry of Justice [official website] on ...
• France parliament approves burqa ban
  [JURIST] The French National Assembly [official website, in French] on Tuesday voted 336-1 to approve a bill [materials, in French] that would make it illegal to wear the Islamic burqa [JURIST news archive] or other full face veils in public. Under the legislation, women who wear the veil can be req ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Can These Two Democrats Inject Rationalism Into th ...
  Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles and former Rep. (now Professor) Brad Carson of Oklahoma are in Washington this week in their new roles as policy entrepreneurs. I was a little skeptical when someone from their hired PR firm asked me if I wanted to sit down and talk with two former politicians about y ...
• The Democratic Energy Strategy
  After days of meetings, Democrats have the outline of a strategy to pass energy legislation. It's not new, and it's not very pretty, but it's all they've got. It's a four-part bill whose main goal is a measure that would reduce emissions by 12 billion metric tons by 2030. The basic mechanism that ...
• The Senate's Schedule Through August
  Good evening. WATCH FOR IT : At 11:00 am EST tomorrow, the Federal Trade Commission will announce charges that a major food products company engaged in deceptive advertising. WANT A DATE? : -- On Friday,� Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin of West Virginia will announce his choice to temporarily fill the ...
• Could Renewables Be The Backstop For A Climate Cha ...
  Smarten up on the climate change debate by learning this acronym: CEPS-ALL.It stands for Clean Energy Portfolio Standards. �It's a catch-all term that refers to your basic renewable energy standard -- 25% of all energy coming from non-coal sources by 2025, but it adds to this target other "clean" fu ...
• General Electric Wants Its Engine, Too!
  Contractors are quivering about the Pentagon's crackdown and new rules, but most of the big firms figure they'll escape the new restrictions with few nicks. That's because a good number of them are the only capable providers of necessary services.� General Electric has won three quarters of the no-b ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
• 18 Israeli Families Control 60% of Nation’s Corpor ...
  Israeli economist Shir Hever, a researcher for the Alternative Information Center, was recently interviewed by RealNews TV about the relationship between economic issues and social control in Israel.  One astonishing fact he noted was that 18 Israeli families control fully 60% of the equity value o ...
• Knesset Strips Palestinian MK of Parliamentary Pri ...
  Every day seems to bring yet a new outrage against free speech and democratic rights in Israel.  Yesterday, the Israeli police manhandled the director of Women of the Wall, wrested a sacred Torah scroll from her hands, and hauled her off to jail–all for praying.  Today, it only took 34 of the 120 ...
• Anat Hoffman’s Women of the Wall Arrested as Polic ...
  Another day of shame for an Israeli religious establishment and its police lackeys who violently wrested a sacred Torah scroll from the arms of a praying Jewish woman, all because she had the temerity to demand that Jewish women be entitled to worship equally with men at one of Judaism’s holiest sit ...
• Jewish Neocons Gear Up for Midterm Elections…Let t ...
  It’s not just Israel that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.  American Jewish neocons have been proliferating so many hysterically-Islamophobic campaign outfits in the run-up to the midterm elections, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard.  There is of course the grandd ...

Ode Magazine

• Exploring community: Why Here|Why Now Project
  By: beesknees369 Yellow Springs, Ohio has a storied history, and often finds itself at the center of the storm. From civil rights marches in the 1960s (protesting a barbershop that refused to cut black men’s hair), to Antioch College’s controversial sexual ...
• Pioneers of the Possible: Woody Tasch
  By: Ode One of the great Pioneer of the Possible, Woody Tasch, author of Inquiries Into The Nature of Slow Money tells of his solution for the world. Related Reading Change for the better Meeting a snapshot of the United Nati ...
• Pioneers of the Possible: Charles Hambleton
  By: Ode As a part of the Pioneers of the Possible interview series, we talked with Charles Hambleton, associate producer of the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove . Related Reading Interview with Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change I ...
• Profit with a purpose
  As earnings, bonuses and stocks creep back to pre-crisis levels, will markets resume business as usual? A plea for a new kind of investing that blends good sense, good causes and good financial returns. From the moment she arrived in the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago in 1994, ...
• Q&A: Albert-László Barabási
  As the director of the Center for Complex Network Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási researches what he calls “the hidden pattern behind everything we do.” Barabási’s Bursts (Dutton), out in April, exp ...

OpEd News

• Self Defense for Radicals: Collective Soul + Activ ...
  We are on the brink of social, economic, and environmental collapse.
• Wash. Post Profile: Thomas Drake (An NSA Whistlebl ...
  Drake is guilty of defending the Constitution against the ravages of the Bush administration. I think heapos;s a hero. If you agree, please contact Attorney General Holder
• A Couple Of Menacing Medical Metaphors To Watch
  Both cancer and anesthesia provide 2 ominous metaphors for the future of our country.
• Stop E-Voting in NY! Brennan Center Misses the Boa ...
  We would love to see the Brennan Center for Justice live up to its name and the name of late US Supreme Court Justice William Brennan,who insisted upon public scrutiny of government processes.Sadly,its new case against the NY State and NYC Boards of Elections is another indication that -" despite it ...
• Inscription on Statue of James Meredith Leaves Som ...
  The inscription on the statue on the campus of Ole Miss to activist James Meredith, who did so much to topple segregation in the South, leaves much to be desired, a noted historian says.

Switchboard

• A Step Forward for Dirty Coal in Kansas, But a Coo ...
    When does a bad idea become worse? When it gets one step closer to reality.   That’s the case with the proposed ‘Sunflower’ coal-fired power plant in Kansas. Just last week, the state Department of Health and Environment issued a draft air permit for this nearly 900 megawatt behem ...
• Louisiana residents still frustrated with lack of ...
  Buras, LA, is a skeleton of its former self. Ruined by Katrina’s 20-ft waves that engulfed this once vibrant residential community five years ago, there’s little left but bad news. Blown out food markets and buildings litter the town’s main road, empty grass filled lots line the road. ...
• Here Come the Judds: Singer Naomi Judd Joins Fight ...
  From humble beginnings as a single�mother in a small Kentucky town to her meteoric rise as a country music superstar and American icon, Naomi Judd's incredible lifelong journey is an inspiring story of overcoming the odds through optimism and hard work.� Now�she will bring that same ki ...
• Tax revenue from downtown mixed-use outperforms bi ...
      Analysis of property tax revenues from Sarasota, Florida reveals that mixed-use, compact development outperforms Walmarts and conventional shopping malls by a considerable margin when compared on a revenue-per-acre basis.  So writes one of our better observers of the built enviro ...
• Tar sands' water pollution; Next steps for climate ...
  A DigitalJournal.com article linked to and quoted from Peter Lehner ’s NRDC Switchboard blog that discussed water pollution issues related to the Canadian tar sands industry… Dan Lashof discussed with Politico the steps President Obama needs to take to finally pass a clean energy and c ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Death of Film Criticism
  I hadn’t read Andrew O’Hehir’s screed against unemployed movie critic bellyaching until Wolcott linked to it, but I think that both O’Hehir and Wolcott make solid points about the future of film criticism. Wolcott: I miss those days, but theyâre not coming back, any more than the doors of CBGBâ ...
• America’s laziest op-ed columnist
  Tom Friedman: This whole spy story has the feel of one of those senior tennis tournaments — John McEnroe against Jimmy Connors, long after their primes — or maybe a rematch between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in their 60s. You almost want to avert your eyes. Sonny Liston died (under mysterious ...
• 2 CA To Bush FCC: &&%$ Off
  Nice to see the Second Circuit rule correctly on the “fleeting expletive” issue the Supreme Court dodged in a sometimes embarrassing opinion by alleged First Amendment absolutist Antonin Scalia. Related posts:Scalia: Bush’s Victory Unconstitutional Court Holds Life-Without-Parole For Juveniles ...
• Convert ‘em While They’re Young
  and, no, this is not about the regrettable Polanski affair.  I’m befuddled and bemused by that one. This, on the other hand, makes obvious sense: LGM’s favorite ex-Governor of Alaska needs not only her own auto / biography, she also needs one aimed at nine to 12 year-old children.  Imagine the shi ...
• “Victim”?
  And Richard Cohen ups the ante in the long-running competition to see which denizen of Fred Hiatt’s crayon scribble page can engage in the most appalling apologia for child rape. I hope Applebaum doesn’t take this as a challenge. Not that the blame-the-victim is surprising coming from someone w ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
  Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).
• Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
  A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.
• Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
  The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.
• Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
  Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.
• Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
  Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".

Earth Techling

• Strange Looking Audio Strap Concept Solar Powered
• Puma Rolls Out Solar Smartphone in Select Areas
• New Biofuel Crop Grows In Salty Areas
• TwoQuarter E-Bike Concept Folds Extra Small
• Outdoor Solar Lamp Flips For Power

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Trial opens in challenge to Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  The Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy excludes open homosexuals from serving in the U.S. military "solely on the basis of status and conduct that is constitutionally protected," a lawyer for a gay Republican group argued as trial opened Tuesday in a case that seeks to bar enforcement of the law.
• Congress asks, is Chinese antitrust law a threat?
  Antitrust lawyers told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday that China's nascent antitrust system is a potential threat to U.S. companies if it is not modeled on the American system.
• Securities law firms examining Playboy plan
  Securities law firms are looking at whether to take on Playboy Enterprise over its plan to take the company private, with one firm already out of the gate with a lawsuit.
• Report: Legal Services Corp. still struggling with ...
  The largest provider of legal aid to the poor continues to struggle with implementing basic internal controls, according to a report released today by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
• EBay sued for $3.8 billion for alleged infringemen ...
  Online auction giant eBay Inc. was hit with a $3.8 billion patent infringement lawsuit on Tuesday. XPRT Ventures LLC, which holds patents covering e-commerce payments and methods, alleges infringement of six patents covering e-commerce payment systems.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• EPA to Hold Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing
  EPA to Hold Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Research Study In Canonsburg July 22* (*PHILADELPHIA** *- July 8, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is hosting an informational public meeting in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pa. about its proposed study of the relationship between hy ...
• Calvin Tillman’s Letter to the Editor
  Here is a lettor to the Editor written by Calvin Tillman, the Mayor of Dish, Texas What happened to conservative values?   It has been very disappointing to see our conservative values continue to dwindle under the pressure from large corporations.  In Texas our politicians talk conservative values ...
• Gas Activist Picnic
  There will be a Gas Activist Picnic on Saturday August 28, 9 AM-9 PM. All gas drilling activists in NY & PA are invited. It will be at Chenango Valley State Park, Chenango Forks, NY in the Pine Grove Picnic Area. There is a beach a short walk from the picnic area, walking trails and [...]
• PSU dean: Marcellus report mishandled
  Scientific analysis ‘sound’ but presentation sloppy Last year, researchers at Penn State University released a report predicting drilling for natural gas in Pennsylvania’s portion of the Marcellus Shale would have a huge economic impact: $13.5 billion and nearly 175,000 new jobs by 2020.   It’s wha ...
• Gas Drilling Problems and Dangers
  Good info and thoughts from Splashdown by laura legere (staff writer) thetimes-tribune.com Published: June 21, 2010 Fear about environmental damage from Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling is often trained on what could happen deep underground, but some of the gravest hazards posed by the process a ...

News Blaze

• Sense and Sanitation in India
  It could be any one of the thousands of sleepy villages that dot the rough rural outback of Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state. But Shahpur Jot, in Baraich district, is by no means conventional, and it has a President's Award to prove this.
• Presumption of Guilt Book Review
  By the color of their skin rather than the content of their character...
• Thank You's Traded With Laos Foreign Minister Thon ...
  Well, I am delighted to welcome the deputy prime minister and foreign minister from Laos here to the State Department.
• Seven Cuban Political Prisoners Released
  We welcome the release of seven political prisoners by the government of Cuba and the announcement by the Archbishop of Havana that additional prisoners could be released in the coming months.
• The Trailer Festival - Access to Holllywood
  Within two weeks eighteen filmmakers were contacted by producers, managers and distributors; scripts and DVDs are en route to Hollywood.

environment 360

• Africa's National Parks See Sharp Decline of Wildl ...
  Numerous species of large mammals — including lions, giraffes, and zebras — declined by nearly 60 percent at major national parks in Africa between 1970 and 2005 , according to a new study. Researchers at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Cambridge University, who created an index to track ...
• Executives Increasingly View Biodiversity as Key t ...
  An increasing number of corporate executives, particularly in biodiversity-rich nations of Latin America and Africa, view declines in biodiversity as a challenge to business growth , according to a new study by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). More than 50 percent of chief executive ...
• Recording Captures Wild Cats Mimicking Calls of Th ...
  Researchers say they have recorded evidence that wild cats in the Amazon intentionally mimic the calls of their prey to lure them within striking distance . While there have long been anecdotal observations of cats such as jaguars and pumas imitating the calls of primates and agoutis, researchers fr ...
• With a Boost from Innovation, Small Wind Is Poweri ...
  New technologies, feed-in tariffs, and tax credits are helping propel the small wind industry, especially in the United States. Once found mostly in rural areas, small wind installations are now starting to pop up on urban rooftops. BY ALEX SALKEVER
• 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 ...

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

• Chapman to eat Jolie’s salt in Moscow?
  The star of the new spy thriller “Salt,” Angelina Jolie, is looking to meet the red-haired Russian star of the recent spy scandal, Anna Chapman, at the world premiere of her new action adventure in Moscow.
• Petrov’s Formula 1 days numbered
  The future of Russia's first ever F1 driver, Vitaly Petrov, seems uncertain after a recent statement from Renault team chief Eric Boullier.
• Ukrainian animators outdo Paul the Octopus
  The now retired octopus oracle Paul wasn't the only one who foresaw the World Cup winner. It turns out, the final score had long been known... in Ukraine.
• Russia among Euro 2012 and World Cup 2014 favorite ...
  The world’s biggest bookmakers “William Hill” have published their rates for the next football European Football Championship and the world Cup, with Russia being among the top ten favorites in both events.
• “Introducing single currency was EU’s crucial mist ...
  English author and journalist Christopher Booker spoke with RT about the causes of the economic crisis that the EU is facing, and shared his view on global warming.

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

• Is Our Universe Inside A Black Hole?
  Whether you consider the question an issue of philosophy or physics, the problem sets fire to many things and rankles many people. On of which is the topic of ‘time’ itself. Is there such a thing as time? Is there an “arrow” of time that points only to the “future?” Is time an illusion? Is [...]
• Weird Hexagon Shape on North Pole, Now Propellers, ...
  On a hat tip from the ever-lovin’ Interstellar Housewife, Deirdre O’Lavery, I was treated to this little tidbit about the planet Saturn; Propellers in its rings. … … Hexagon shapes at Saturn’s North Pole, now propellers. What the blue blazes is going on here? Main story
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• Australian drunk survives attempt to ride crocodil ...
  A drunk man from Broome Australia, climbed into a crocodile enclosure and attempted to ride a 16 foot long croc. Submitted by Bev B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• New Zealand: Dog shoots owner in the butt
  A 40 year old New Zealand man is recovering from surgery to remove a bullet from his left buttock after being shot by his dog. Submitted by Bev B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• sperated at birth: Alfred E, and dubya currently r ...
  Current top 5- vote on your favorite. Submitted by Bev B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Stop $25 Billion for Nuclear Plants, Act Now
  Congress may vote $25 billion atop $8 billion already given for-profit corporations to build nuclear plants. Think the Gulf disaster was horrific? Think Chernobyl in the USA! Submitted by Gregory Hilbert to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ! PETITION ! 74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, V ...
  Drastically undercutting the FCC's ability to make a fast, affordable and open Internet available to everyone in America. They are actually taking a position against the interests of rural and low-income communities. Submitted by tippers A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Financial Regulation and Regime Uncertainty
  From today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription site): Dodd-Frank, with its 2,300 pages, will unleash the biggest wave of new federal financial rule-making in three generations…. In a recent note to clients, the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell needed more than 150 pages merely to summarize the bure ...
• Conscience on the Battlefield
  PROLOGUE (1981) In 1951, during the Korean War, I wrote a pamphlet entitled Conscience on the Battlefield. War “as a means to peace among nations” was then, and remains, a world-wide fallacy. Today, small wars go on in various parts of the globe, and there is the possibility that a big one is in the ...
• Video Interviews with F.A. Hayek Released
  Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala just released a video collection of interviews with Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek that were organized by Armen Alchian in 1978. Interviewers include Nobel laureate James Buchanan, Robert Bork, and Thomas Hazlett.  A full transcript is also available at the si ...
• Import Surge Worries Beltway Observers
  “Americans’ resurgent appetite for imports may undermine the Obama administration’s effort to rekindle job growth, with a rise in overseas purchases by American businesses and households undercutting the benefits of increased U.S. sales abroad.” (Washington Post, Wednesday) The press and politicians ...
• Raising Social Security Age Gets Bipartisan Look
  “In a rare departure from this year’s intense political posturing over the soaring budget deficit, House leaders of both parties recently signaled that they are prepared to tackle a leading long-term liability â Social Security â by raising the retirement age.” (Washington Times, Wednesday) Can ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• Six more charged in New Orleans Danziger Bridge sh ...
  By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday announced the indictment of six current or former New Orleans Police Department officers in connection to the Danziger Bridge shootings, which occurred during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The new indictments ...
• Feds revamp controversial media rules for BP oil d ...
  The U.S. Coast Guard has announced new procedures for the media to access federally imposed safety zones set up around the BP oil spill. National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen issued a directive yesterday stating that the press must have "clear, unfettered access" to the disaster ...
• Big battles over political districts loom for 2011
  The 2010 Census count is winding down, which means the Census Bureau is already crunching millions of pieces of data -- information it will hand off to lawmakers to decide where money is spent and how political lines are redrawn. But when state lawmakers receive their Census data in spring 20 ...
• 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 ...

Survival International

• US timber demand threatens uncontacted Peruvian tr ...
  Recently-contacted Murunahua man, south-east Peru © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy Illegal mahogany loggers are plundering uncontacted Indians’ land in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a new report by the Upper Amazon Conservancy ( UAC ). The report says the logging ‘p ...
• 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 ...

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
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• 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 ...

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• BP say they are close to capping the Deepwater Hor ...
  BP say they are close to capping the Deepwater Horizon oil well.
• BP oil leak could be completely contained
  The BP oil leak could be completely contained as early as Monday if a new tighter cap can be fitted over the blown-out well.
• The hunt for energy is not going to be pretty
  State support for new technologies is necessary but brings its own risks, warns Tracy Corrigan.
• BP oil spill: attempts to control slick restart af ...
  An armada was heading back out into the Gulf of Mexico in a desperate new effort to contain the oil spill as one of the US Coast Guard chiefs heading the response admitted that he was "losing sleep" at the prospect of the slick spreading.
• Ignore the protests against BP at the Tate. Oil an ...
  Anti-BP protesters at the Tate failed to see that industrial riches have always been partner to artistic endeavour, says Stephen Bayley.

Ian Welsh

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  the cartels have enough firepower to keep the federal response minimized to the point where losing a couple dozen low-level gunmen a month is just a cost of doing business. The cartels can focus on their primary threat, each other instead.
• How to be a big pundit
  Figure out the truth once it’s too late to matter. Analysis is mostly about noticing the obvious, but for the obvious to do any good it helps to notice it before it’s too late to matter. Let me reiterate: Republicans understand opposition politics.  Also, policy matters.  As I was saying back dur ...
• How to be a big pundit
  Figure out the truth once it’s too late to matter. Analysis is mostly about noticing the obvious, but for the obvious to do any good it helps to notice it before it’s too late to matter. Let me reiterate: Republicans understand opposition politics.  Also, policy matters.  As I was saying back dur ...
• 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 ...

Age of Autism

• This Should Be Autism Speaks's New Ad
  By Kim Stagliano Dear Autism Speaks and BBDO, this is autism for the vast majority of us. It's not missing out on a career with the Yankees. Most boys will never play MLB autism or not. It's not just a...
• New Autism Consortium Study Proves (Again) that In ...
  By Mark Blaxill The Autism Genome Project Consortium (AGPC) deserves credit for at least one thing. They know how to make a public relations mountain out of a scientific molehill. The AGPC was all over the news last month, leading...
• Father Climbs Mont Blanc for National Autism Assoc ...
  (Mont Blanc, not Everest! Mea culpa. I can barely climb my stairs.. KS) Would you climb a mountain for your son or daughter? Paul O'Neill and a group of friends have reached the summit of Mont Blanc to raise money...
• Roy Grinker In Minnesota
  By Patti Carroll I recently had the unpleasant experience of sitting through not one, but two forums that featured Roy Richard Grinker as featured speaker. I attended these forums by invitation from the University of Minnesota LEND (Leadership Education in...
• Staying Afloat
  By Cathy Jameson Summer vacation is here! As grown up as I may look, I still find myself feeling giddy thinking about past summer vacations not only from my childhood but also from the time when I was a teacher....

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• 5th anniversary of BDS call - Global Action Day
  Today we mark the 5th anniversary of the BDS call with a Global Action Day. Follow the latest at http://bdsdayofaction.net/ .
• Basque trade unions BDS manifesto on 5th anniversa ...
  On 9 July 2010, the fifth anniversary of the civil society BDS call, an alliance of Basque trade unions and organisations has issued a BDS manifesto.  � The text of the manifesto reads: � read more
• Belgian Trade Union Federation Adopts Boycott!
  [Motion passed by FGTB Centrale Generale/ABVV Algemene Centrale on 3 June 2010] Decent work is impossible under military occupation read more
• India's Cochin Port Union Boycotts Israeli Ships a ...
  [ CPI (Marxist) ] 4 July 2010 - THE trade unions in Cochin Port have reached an understanding amongst themselves to boycott Israeli ships and cargo arriving at Cochin Port in protest against the siege of Gaza by Israeli forces. � read more

Farm Wars

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  Texas cattle drinking water from drilling waste sludge pits. This is an under-regulated problem that we simply ignore, but to actually force drilling companies to be accountable for their actions? FAT CHANCE! What’s another trip to the hospital killing fields for another disease of “unknown” origin? ...
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  eCredit Daily – Regulators closed down four banks â 1 each in Oklahoma and New York and 2 in Maryland â at a combined cost of nearly $160 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.âs insurance fund. The four brings this yearâs total bank failures to 90 â a pace that is expected to surp ...
• US: Pediatricians now reject all female genital cu ...
  CNN — The American Academy of Pediatrics has rescinded a controversial policy statement [issued in April] raising the idea that doctors in some communities should be able to substitute demands for female genital cutting with a harmless clitoral “pricking” procedure. “We retracted the policy because ...
• Aspartame’s threat to the unborn
  Press TV – New studies show that aspartame may increase the risk of premature births. Research funded by the European Union found a correlation between the amount of diet drink consumed and an early birth among the 60,000 women studied, The Mail on Sunday reported on July 10. The study also says tha ...
• Former BP chief John Browne gets Whitehall role
  Guardian – The coalition made one of its most controversial appointments to date today as it named Lord Browne, the former head of BP, as its new Whitehall “super-director” charged with injecting business ethos into the heart of government. Browne will play a key part in the Liberal Democrat-Conserv ...
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  Daily Mail – The true scale of the national debt is £2 trillion – more than twice the official figure, an alarming study shows. The black hole in the public accounts equates to £78,000 for every household in the country. The ‘real’ state of the national finances is exposed in a study published tod ...

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  BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells on Wednesday morning detailed some of concerns voiced by experts that prompted the federal government to demand that the oil company delay a crucial well test that could determine whether a new cap can...
• Gulf oil spill: New moratorium explained
  The Department of Interior released its decision memorandum to pause deep-water drilling, saying it will provide time to implement recent safety reforms and for: 1. The submission of evidence by operators demonstrating that they have the ability to respond effectively...
• Gulf oil spill: Containment cap is in place, video ...
  BP lowered a new, tight-fitting containment cap over its renegade well in the Gulf of Mexico late Monday, a move that may give the company the ability to shut off the flow of oil completely if tests show that the...
• J.R. Ewing: Solar warrior?
  Sometimes, the best person to preach the wonders of solar power is a man in a ten-gallon hat. Specifically, that would be J.R. Ewing, the nefarious Texas oil tycoon from the hit television series "Dallas," though these days, he prefers...
• 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...

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• Energy crisis? We’ve been here before
  Around 400 years ago, Britain faced another problem of dwindling energy resources: ‘peak wood’.
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  Via: Pilots for 9/11 Truth: A Responsibility to Explain an Aeronautical Improbability Dwain Deets NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (Senior Executive Service – retired) AIAA Associate Fellow The airplane was UA175, a Boeing 767-200, shortly before crashing into World Trade Center Tower 2. Based on ...
• Boeing Unveils Phantom Eye Hydrogen-Powered Spy Pl ...
  Via: BBC: Boeing has unveiled its unmanned hydrogen-powered spy plane which can fly non-stop for up to four days. The high-altitude plane, called Phantom Eye, will remain aloft at 20,000m (65,000ft), according to the company. The demonstrator will be shipped to Nasa’s Dryden Flight Research Center i ...
• U.S. Company Set to Ship Billions of Gallons of Wa ...
  Tell me this is a hoax. Via: TreeHugger: India is hurting for water. With rapidly growing populations of people and a rising middle class that is mimicking the wasteful water consumption habits well known here in the United States, coupled with poor water management practices, India is set to be one ...
• SmithKline Hid Test Data on Dangerous Diabetes Dru ...
  Via: New York Times: In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda. Avandia’s success was crucial to SmithKline, whose labs were otherwise all but barre ...
• Former Member of Clinton Regime: Obama Needs &#822 ...
  Via: Financial Times: “The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confiden ...

The Economic Collapse

• No Jobs
  Everyone knows that the United States is bleeding jobs.  According to one new study, the private sector in the United States has lost 10.5 million jobs since 2007.  The U.S. economy lost 125,000 more jobs during the month of June.  Approximately a million frustrated American workers ...
• The Death Cross: Another Sign That We Are On The V ...
  The Standard & Poor's 500 50-day moving average stands poised to cross beneath the 200-day moving average.  To those in the financial industry, this is known as a "death cross", and it is a very powerful indicator that we could be entering a bearish period.  So is this yet another s ...
• What Does The Financial Reform Bill Do Other Than ...
  Is it possible to write a 2,300 page piece of legislation that accomplishes next to nothing and is pretty much completely and utterly worthless?  The answer is yes.  Barack Obama has been trumpeting the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill as the "biggest rewrite of Wall Street rules si ...
• The Russian Bear Awakens
  Today most Americans consider the United States to be "the sole remaining superpower" - absolutely unparalleled economically and militarily.  But the truth is not anything close to that.  As we detailed in a previous article, China has become a very dominant economic and military su ...
• 7 Potential Economic Effects Of A War With Iran
  As each day passes, war in the Middle East seems increasingly likely.  The truth is that Israel will never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, and Iran is absolutely determined to continue developing a nuclear program.  So right now Israel and Iran are engaged in a really bizarre ...

Desertification

• SAHARAWI FAMILY GARDENS SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ...
  Read at : NOT FORGOTTEN International WELCOME TO NOT FORGOTTEN INTERNATIONAL! Not Forgotten International Inc., (NFI) is a humanitarian aid organization that exists to serve refugees and other oppressed or suffering people around the world.  This is accomplished through advocacy, … Continue reading ...
• Desertification on Facebook
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• Youth to arrest desertification in South Africa (G ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification LIMPOPO http://www.lda.gov.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=332&catid=1&Itemid=118 Youth to arrest desertification MEC for Agriculture in Limpopo, Ms Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba urged the youth to take care of the land to keep desertification at bay. â ...
• Irrigation Potential for Africa (IFPRI / CGIAR / I ...
  Read at : Water Issues Announcement List IFPRI announces the release of a discussion paper that examines Africaâs irrigation potential The International Food Policy Research Instituteâs Environment and Production Technology Division invites you to read a new discussion pa ...
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  Read at : the CTR Blog http://ctrblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/rivers-in-the-desert/ Rivers in the Desert Posted on January 20, 2009 by CTR Posted by Julie Kelly, CTRâs Writers & Storytellers Team I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys.  I … Continue reading →

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 :
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  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

• A G20 public inquiry? Not at this rate.
  By Alison@Creekside A special meeting of the Public Safety and National Security Committee was held Monday, "Requested by Four (4) Members of the Committee to Undertake a Study of the Issues Surrounding Security at the G8 and G20 Summits." Will there be a parliamentary study on G20 security is ...
• 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 ...

Worldnews

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  SAO PAULO - Air France says a Rio-to-Paris flight was forced to return to Brazil six hours after taking off because of malfunctioning bathrooms. The airline says in a statement that Tuesday night's Flight 443 returned to Rio de Janeiro because of a "technical flaw in some of its bathrooms." The ...
• David Beckham: I'd rather coach kids than be ...
  He may have looked the part during the World Cup in his tailored M&S suit but David Beckham has revealed he has no intention of becoming a manager. Speaking in a Yahoo! webchat today, the 35-year-old said he would instead be focusing on his recovery from an Achilles tendon injury. Dressed casua ...
• Rosie Perez in wheelchair, neck brace: What h ...
  Carolyn Kaster Actress Rosie Perez, in a wheelchair and neck brace, enters the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, before President Barack Obama speaks on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) More News Mystery of the day: Why was Rosie Perez ...
• Indian Ocean sea level rise threatens million ...
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Alex in Wonderland

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  Glenn Greenwald, consitutional lawyer and blogger at Salon, discussed the case of Pfc. Bradley Manning---the 22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Iraq kidnapped by the U.S. military for reportedly leaking the Collateral Murder video, the May 2009 Garani Massace in Afghanistan and a quarter- ...
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  Patrick Cockburn, Iraq correspondent at The Independent, discussed the sectarian conflict in Iraq, the farce of 'the Surge working' in the Western media, the political push against the the drawdown of U.S. 'combat troops', the post-Saddam political climate and instability that makes it 'one of the m ...
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• 'Don't ask, don't tell' goes to court (sfgate.com)
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