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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • SRI LANKA: U.S. Labour Review Comes on Top of EU P ...
    When garment factory workers outside Colombo once organised a noisy protest over a bonus issue, police threatened to file charges – of hostage taking -- against them.
  • Heinonen Pushed Dubious Iran Nuclear Weapons Intel
    Olli Heinonen, the Finnish nuclear engineer who resigned Thursday after five years as deputy director for safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was the driving force in turning that agency into a mechanism to support U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran.
  • Latin America Keeps Poverty Goals in Sight Despite ...
    Nine million more people have fallen into poverty in Latin American and Caribbean countries since the global financial crisis struck, threatening the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline, according to a report released Thursday by 18 U.N. agencies ...
  • MADAGASCAR: Calls for Equality to be Written into ...
    Madagascan female activists are asking that the right of women to participate directly in politics be included in a new draft of the country's Constitution, so that there can be 30 percent of female politicians in parliament by 2012 and 50 percent by 2015.
  • Gender Meet Ends on High Note with New "U.N. Women ...
    Nearly 50 government delegations spent the past week at U.N. headquarters in New York hashing over the progress that has been made and challenges that remain in pursuing gender parity worldwide, one of the crucial elements of the Millennium Development Goals.

Scoop - NZ

  • How Goldman Sachs gambled on starvation
    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 story of how some ...
  • Auckland -not so super and not so sustainable
    Auckland -the sustainability emphasis slips so far down it may get lost completely ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • UK 'might not cope with another bank emergency'
    Britain's mountain of debt could leave the country powerless to launch another rescue bid in the wake of a fresh financial crisis, the world's central bankers warned yesterday. Their "club" - the Bank of International Settlements - presented in its annual report a frightening picture of th ...
  • Dreyfuss: Cult of COIN in Afghanistan
    Less than a year ago, General David Petraeus saluted smartly and pledged his loyal support for President Obama's decision to start withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in July 2011. In December, when Obama decided (for the second time in 2009) to add tens of thousands of additional American forc ...
  • Oil spill - psychological toll quietly mounts
    The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster feels far worse to shrimper Ricky Robin than Katrina, even though he's still haunted by memories of riding out the hurricane on his trawler and of his father's suicide in the storm's aftermath. The relentless spill is bringing back feelings that are far too familiar ...

Independent - London

  • Submarine seized in anti-drugs swoop
    The US Drug Enforcement Administration said it helped Ecuador seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine.
  • Petraeus takes command of forces in Afghanistan
    US General David Petraeus today formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan at a time of rising casualties and growing scepticism about the direction of the nearly nine-year-old war.
  • Poles vote in presidential run-off election
    Poles were today voting in a presidential run-off election which pits the identical twin brother of the last head of state, who was killed in a plane crash, against the acting president.
  • UN celebrates a 'watershed day' for women
    Some 65 years after it was founded, and after decades of reports on every species of sex discrimination and its wasteful effects, the United Nations has decided to set up a single, powerful body to promote equality for women around the world.
  • Hundreds die in Congo as fuel tanker explodes
    At least 230 people were killed and more than 196 injured when a petrol tanker flipped over and exploded in eastern Congo late on Friday night.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Casino gulag economy: Welfare aid cards valid at c ...
    Sacramento - California welfare recipients are able to use state-issued debit cards to withdraw cash on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the state, a Los Angeles Times review of records found. The cards, provided by the Department of Social Services to help recipients feed and cl ...
  • Keiser Report №56: Markets! Finance! Scandal ...
    On this edition of the Keiser Report, Max and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of economic bloggers branded heretics as the high priests of economics are busy preparing "monster" money-printing and refusing to recognize housing bubble "time bombs". In the second half of the show, Ma ...
  • First Amendment Has been Suspended
    New rules backed by law make it a possible felony if a persons goes too close to oil booms and other areas around the BP oil spill. This effectively makes it illegal to do independent transparent reporting of the true effects of the oil spill !
  • Zionism hates Jews: Israelis digging up graves th ...
    All so the zionists can put a hotel there and make money. This video is disgraceful watch the footage of the IDF/Police kicking and punching old Jewish men. Once again they remove their ID numbers so they can't be identified. This all happened in the ancient city of Jerusalem.
  • FLASHBACK: The Blowout: How BP Overruled Safety Co ...
    The story of how the BP oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, "Deepwater Horizon", was destroyed on April 20, 2010, causing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Part 1

The Galloping Beaver

  • Utter bullshit (Updated)
    I can't remember when was the last time I read anything like this . It was either Pravda sometime before 1983 or a community newspaper where the editor was the brother-in-law of the contractor building the sewer system. Tell you what, Christie, when they take Blair to the wall, go with him and mak ...
  • Black Bloc in Action!
    Look! There's a guy in a black shirt and black hat shouting! OMG! He's asking angry questions about a large corporation! And who �knows what he has in that plastic bag or in that shoulder bag -- probably bombs! Quick, get the riot cops to the Eaton Center and start clubbing bystanders!
  • A concern...
    It looks and smells a lot like the ISU and anyone else invovled engineered the situation in Toronto to maximise the chance of mass arrests. They built enough detention cages and such to house a 1000 arrestees, finagled a secret law, lied to the public from the get go, and I'd be really surprised if ...
  • When something looks out of place...
    Via Dawg ..it just might be . Lemme see, crewcut, fit build, silent...be nice to get a closer look at those highspeed black boots he's wearing. Doesn't seem to be associated with or interacting with anyone around him, let alone dressed like them in his slick Gortex shell and new jeans. And I wonder ...
  • Censless
    What what? Statistics Canada has quietly made major changes to the country's census in time for the forthcoming round of national sampling in 2011. The long census questionnaire that provided information on a broad range of topics such as ethnicity, education, employment, income, housing and d ...

Media Matters for America

  • Supposed "whistleblower" Adams deeply connected t ...
    Right-wing media are hyping the dubious allegations of former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams, a GOP activist reportedly hired to the DOJ by Bush political appointee Bradley Schlozman, who was found to have inappropriately considered political affiliation and ideology when hiring c ...
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal attacks Kagan fo ...
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal charged Elena Kagan with taking an extreme position while defending a statute written to ban animal "crush videos." In fact, the Supreme Court stated that Kagan's brief was grounded in precedent, Justice Samuel Alito sided with the government in the case, and Kagan has ...
  • Van Susteren falsely suggests Obama "cherry-pick[e ...
    Fox News'�Greta Van Susteren falsely suggested that President Obama is "cherry-picking" law enforcement officers who oppose�Arizona's immigration�law "in an effort to be less than candid about the seriousness of the problem." In fact,�major national and state-wide police chiefs associations represe ...
  • Pelosi was right: Economists say unemployment in ...
    Right-wing media have attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her statement that unemployment insurance stimulates the economy and creates jobs, calling her remarks "laughable" and "lunacy." In fact,�economists agree that extending unemployment insurance has a strong stimulative effect on GDP and ...
  • Fox's Kelly deceptively cites DOJ testimony to fu ...
    Megyn Kelly and GOP activist J. Christian Adams deceptively cited Justice Department official Thomas Perez's testimony to accuse the DOJ of racially motivated corruption in its handling of a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. In testimony Kelly avoided menti ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Defending Michael Steele from War-Hungry RNC Membe ...
    Michael Steele is right on Afghanistan. The Republican National Committee Chairman, who is receiving a heap of scorn by war-hungry members of his party and by Democrats who want to puff up and act like the real defenders of the Pentagon faith, called the conflict in Afghanistan "a war of Obama's ...
  • Lindsey Graham: In Today's Republican Party, Reaga ...
    The Washington Post 's Howard Kurtz profiles reactions to Tea-Partyism today and notes that Senator Lindsey Graham , who once told me that his favorite film was Seven Days in May and that one of his biggest fears for the country was national security and military demagoguery, doesn't have much time ...
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  • The Neocons Prepare Our Next War
    One hoped that the neoconservatives would have disappeared after George W. Bush left office and the Iraq War they worked so hard to engineer proved to be a disaster. All those dead, nothing accomplished except the establishment of Iran as the main player in Iraq. But they are still around and st ...
  • Good News, I Hope
    I wrote earlier this month that TMPCafé had not been working well because we screwed up implementing some fixes and improvements to the site. As I mentioned then, we had to hire outside programmers to help us resolve the problems. Well, good news, I think they did the trick, but we still need your h ...

TruthOut

  • The Erosion of Individual Liberties: When Justice ...
    In the "War on Terror," I am amazed how every time our enemy takes action, it sets into motion a scramble by our government to take away the individual rights of Americans. Will we reach a point at which we will be completely stripped of our civil liberties in the name of eliminating danger from ext ...
  • Obama Eulogizes Sen. Robert Byrd Under West Virgin ...
    Charleston, W.Va. -- Under a brilliant blue summer sky, the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) of West Virginia was honored and eulogized Friday for his life of service, scholarship, and dedication to the people of his home state. read more
  • Restoring the Fourth Amendment: How We, the People ...
    Despite promises of change, the Obama administration has proven itself either unwilling - or unable - to shift the paradigm driving increasingly invasive surveillance or increasingly pervasive profiling according to race, religion and national origin. Nearly halfway through the Obama administration' ...
  • 3/5 of House Dems "Obsessed" With Afghan Withdrawa ...
    "Obsession" isn't just "a fragrance for men." According to our Commander-in-Chief, "obsession" now also characterizes the widespread interest in the timeline for bringing home 100,000 American boys and girls safely from Afghanistan so they can grow old with their sweethearts and lead economicall ...
  • Pentagon Ban on Guantanamo Reporters is Illegal, G ...
    A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a letter to Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson, the organizations argue that the Pentagon's inter ...

Planetsave

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

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Sinking Ship: The attack on the Gaza relief flotil ...
    Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights the extent to which Israel has become a strategic liability for the United States. This situation ...
  • How Gilad Shalit Will Save Netanyahu - Palestine
    Mark my words, Gilad Shalit is coming home. He will soon be set free but not because of German mediations or the thousands of appeals made by his parents and their supporters. He's coming home because Bibi needs Gilad more than Gilad needs him. In a television address aimed at...
  • Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder: Whose science d ...
    Editor's Note: Most scientists regard the phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) or sometimes honey bee depopulation syndrome (HBDS) to have been a catastrophic phenomenon in the U.S., Canada and Europe from 2006 to this present day. Yesterday, CNN-Europe broadcast a report reviving results ...
  • War and Peace in Venezuela - Bolivarian Republic o ...
    WAR I don’t get tired of quoting Clausewitz, who says that war is a continuation of politics by other means. The United States has failed so completely and successively in its policies that it always has the temptation of war. PEACE Venezuela doesn’t represent the slightest risk to the safety. ...
  • Simón Bolívar's lover gains heroine status - World ...
    Editor's Note: The recognition of�Manuela Saenz' and interment of her remains is of tremendous importance in Latin America for reasons of respecting a woman so accomplished and so maligned because of the revolutionary work she performed in her own right and her partnership with Simón Bolívar. Cer ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Remember this the next time one of these fuckers blows past you on the Interstate. "The bodies of some of the scores of people killed in a fuel truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been buried in mass graves. At least 230 people were killed when the overturned oil tanker exploded ...
  • Afghan War Killing Not Just Soldiers, But Millions ...
    How many jobs would $33 billion buy? A million? We'll never know, because it's all going to buy another 1,000 dead American soldiers in a treacherous clusterfuck we can't win. John Nichols in The Nation: An additional $33 billion in spending for President Obama's occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq ...
  • Fourth of July: The Immigration Holiday
    My "illegal" immigrant ancestors and their "anchor baby" children fought in the Revolutionary War. To me, the Fourth of July, this nation's birthday, celebrates the fundamental truth of the United States: we are a nation of immigrants. For all his obeisance to the Corporate Plutocracy, President Bar ...
  • Are We Looking At The Ultimate Betrayal?
    I'm probably gonna get my head handed to me for this one, but I can't help it. �Once again, I find myself hoping that I'm totally and unequivocally WRONG but fearing that I'm not... or at least not totally so. � President Obama... by all appearances at this point in time ... is about to sell Social ...
  • Micro Baby Steps Toward Renewable Energy
    Here's an idea: Confiscate all of BP's assets and divide it up among the first 10 American companies that build 10-megawatt renewable energy power plants. Because this ain't gonna cut it. In this week's address, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $2 bil ...

Care 2

  • Gardening on a Budget: Seven Tips for Success
    Gardening can be a lot of work, but it shouldnt cost a lot of money. If inexpensive gardening is your goal, let these tips be your guide to gardening on a budget this year. Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Celebrating 4th of July in the Garden: Red, White, ...
    Happy 4th of July weekend! Whether you're going to the shore, the poconos, or staying at home and playing in the garden, it's a time of summer celebration, and a time to enjoy and appreciate the freedom and independence that we're blessed with. Submitted by Joanne Taylor to Green Lifestyle �|� �No ...
  • Is meditation becoming a hindrance to your day?
    ...many Buddhists also choose the morning as their meditation time. But those that are new to the life skill may have already seen it can hinder your day. Why is that? Submitted by Jenny Dooley to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Budding Scientists Out To Grow More Food
    The Kenyan girls, of 12- and 13-year-olds, set out to find a solution to the perennial problem of famine, and have come up with an idea that farmers can easily get auxin, a plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Göbekli Tepe: Older Than Stonehenge, Pyramids, Any ...
    When people think of ancient temples, they often think of Stonehenge, which most archaeologists agree was built about 5,000 years ago. But Stonehenge is actually trumped handily by a little-known site in modern-day Turkey called Göbekli Tepe, which... Submitted by Billy T. to Science & Tech �|� �No ...

Smirking Chimp

  • The McChrystal Affair: A Boon for Obama?
    A Death Wish, the Beers, or Both? � from Dissident Voice In the now famous Rolling Stone interview by Michael Hastings, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff disparage a number of top officials, including President Obama, Vice President Biden, Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Rich ...
  • Afghan War Funding: Oh It's 1-2-3, What Do We Spen ...
    Just days before we celebrate the 224th anniversary of America's declaration of independence from a colonial overlord on the other side of the world, Congress approved the allocation of yet another $33 billion in funds to support America's attempt to occupy and run, on the other side of the world, t ...
  • The Peace Movement's Progress
    The peace movement has made significant progress in the United States since its low point of late 2008, and just about everything anyone in it has done has been a contribution. If everyone keeps doing what they're doing, and more of it, we might just end some wars, eventually. But I think some tec ...
  • The President’s House in Philly: History in Black ...
    Revered residence or house of horrors? Intense controversy surrounds the President’s House project now under construction on America’s historic Independence Mall in downtown Philadelphia, Pa. The multi-million dollar project located outside the iconic Liberty Bell, only a few steps from Independence ...
  • Heinonen Pushed Dubious Iran Nuclear Weapons Intel
    WASHINGTON, Jul 2, 2010 (IPS) - Olli Heinonen, the Finnish nuclear engineer who resigned Thursday after five years as deputy director for safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was the driving force in turning that agency into a mechanism to support U.N. Security Council sancti ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Big Dog Jumps the Fence
    Bumped up The blogosphere is abuzz with why President Bill Clinton publicly endorsed a candidate in Colorado’s senatorial primary who is opposing the President Obama/Democratic Party guy. Obama even came to Colorado to campaign for Michael Bennet, the current (appointed) senator who replaced Ken S ...
  • Spy Weekend
      From Russia With Laughter.  Speaking Dan Drezner, FP and author, re the flapdoodle of the Russian spy ring, and we cannot find a successful explanation for the FBI decision to move the same weekend of the two presidents’ meeting. Putin is not content. Medvedev is enraged. The Kremlin ne ...
  • Obama, Turd Polisher Extraordinaire
    / Bumped up / There is an expression in the Navy, “YOU CAN”T POLISH A TURD.” If you don’t believe me, give it a try. You can scrub and rub until your arms turn into spaghetti but all you will accomplish is smearing feces. Barack Obama has not learned that truth. [...]
  • Review of Unemployment Report July 2, 2010
    The release of the Unemployment Report on Friday is very much consistent with an economy that is undergoing real structural changes and adjusting to the realities of lessened credit and limited growth. As much as some may like to spin it one way or another, those realities are the simple and straigh ...
  • Big Dog Jumps the Fence
    The blogosphere is abuzz with why President Bill Clinton publicly endorsed a candidate in Colorado’s senatorial primary who is opposing the President Obama/Democratic Party guy. Obama even came to Colorado to campaign for Michael Bennet, the current (appointed) senator who replaced Ken Salazar’s w ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • London's Incredible Pop-Up Paper Art Exhibition
    Everyday objects can, in the right hands, be tranformed into beautiful and breathtaking works of art. You may never see paper the same way again. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Amazing Natural Fireworks on Earth
    It's not only mankind that can make fireworks - Mother Nature can make her own, whether they're slight and long or bright and colorful! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • When The Sun Turns Black in Denmark
    Each night during the spring and autumn in Denmark, the beautiful sunset is blocked from view by hundreds of thousands of starlings. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • When the EPA Endorses Mountaintop Removal
    The EPA set new Mountaintop Removal Mining guidelines in April. Less than 3 months later they are ignoring their own by-laws. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Conspiracy Behind the Gulf Oil Spill Coverage
    Reports have surfaced that BP is actively preventing reporters from having full access to the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, and that the Coast Guard following BP's directi read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Preserving Its Piece of the Pie
    Worried about its share of the natural gas supply, the Dow Chemical Company suggests ways for others to use less.
  • Activists Beg Obama to Step Up Climate Push
    A coalition of environmental organizations sent President Obama a letter on Friday pleading for him to intervene in the stalled Senate negotiations on climate and energy legislation
  • Could Crystals Sponge Up the Carbon?
    A breakthrough in chemistry may be able to radically reduce the cost of stripping carbon dioxide from power plant emissions, potentially making carbon capture and storage a more realistic solution to climate change.
  • The Oil's Reach: A Risk Assessment
    The likelihood that the oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico will reach shorelines along the Eastern Seaboard remains remote, according to projections issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  • Update: The Oil's Trajectory
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released projections of where the oil from the gulf oil spill could be most likely to travel.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Sunset of Chicago's Handgun Ban: Shots on Lawrence ...
    Back now from the US Social Forum in Detroit; stayed at friends' in Chicago and my sister's in Madison. On the way out of Detroit Saturday, I took Michigan Avenue west into Dearborn before cutting down to I-94. On the way out of Chicago Sunday, I took Lawrence Avenue out to I-90. Michigan and La ...
  • Diamond Dave & Direct Democracy in Detroit: Crib n ...
    A decade after the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, more than ten thousand activists have arrived from around the world in Detroit for the 2010 US Social Forum , the first since 2007's Atlanta conference. Over four days USSF is hosting a huge program with more than a thousand work ...
  • Assange == Auction the leaks? Lamo was a Honeypot ...
    Vatican Endorses "The Blues Brothers" - ABC News - nothing else matters too much. " The issue here is that Assange and Manning (the primary source of Wikileaks Iraq and Afghanistan leaks) hoped to jointly profit by selling some of the data by auction " -- Supposed "Wikileaks Insider" @ Cryptome ...
  • Daily Show: Obama == "Respect My Authoritah"
    Great stuff from tonight's Daily Show. It contrasts with the right-baiting on MSNBC right now nicely :) Update 15 mins later: - look what the photo host service I tweeted it from did! TAKEN OVER BY HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP advertising. Dark times. here: http://tweetphoto.com/27442324
  • Geological spread of Gulf Disaster, Secret Corexit ...
    Get Cooked: Americans get most radiation from medical scans ( cryptogon ) Followups to Gaza Flotilla video: subMedia -Foreclose this , Editorial by Iara Lee What happened to us is happening in Gaza , U.S. Filmmaker Recorded Flotilla Massacre Video - Salem-News.Com , New Footage Emerges From the Isra ...

Daily Censored

  • Sub-prime, for-profit predatory colleges
      They Shoot Students, Don’t They? Non-accredited for-profit college programs luring students into the bowels of predation has been the story for more than five years that I can remember.  The internet is littered with reports of students who have been black-bagged by military style recruiters in th ...
  • Mexico’s July 4 Election – Has the Narco State Arr ...
    Michael Collins Nearly 50 candidates and public figures have been assassinated in the run up to Mexico’s 2010 state elections. Former presidential candidate Diego Fernández de Cevallos, major leader of the ruling PAN party, was kidnapped on May 16 and has not been heard from since. Three days ago, ...
  • Managed News: Inside The US/NATO Military Industri ...
    Managed News: Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff “There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.” –– Charles Dickens We face what appears to be a military industrial media empire so powerful and complex that truth is ...
  • If you are angry right now, you had best read this ...
    Everyone is talking about the employment rate, the unemployment rate, and consumer spending.  Census takers are laid off.  People quit looking for jobs that are not there.  Unemployment benefits are being eliminated for millions of unemployed.  There is talk of the recovery being bumpy and slow.  Th ...
  • What’s a capitalist to do?
    AIG’s Joe Cassano – An American Tragedy By Numerian Whatâs a capitalist to do when he loses $500 billion and almost single-handedly destroys the global economy? In Japan you would bow deeply in public and express the deepest possible remorse and shame, that is if you already had not committed sepp ...

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

  • Inside the Democratic Party July Call
    On this call we ratified the national endorsements of Marleine Bastien (http://www.votebastien.com/) and Dr David Gill (http://www.gillforcongress.com/).
  • July 2010: Are PDA’s vision, goals and strategy s ...
    By Bill Bianchi, PDA Chicago Chapter Leader After just six years, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) has established itself as the predominant grassroots organizations affiliated with the Democratic Party. It has done this by advocating and ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: “From Roxbury to Cleveland ...
    I am writing you today to ask you to join me at PDA’s national conference in my home town, Cleveland, from July 23rd-25th. Almost 6 years ago, at the conclusion of my 2004 primary campaign ...
  • Images In The Sand Connect Our Global Community
    by Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor /center> There are some things we humans have just one of. We have one heart, one liver, one tongue, one nose… Of course, there are probable anomalies ...
  • More Than Two Sides
    By Tina Richards | WarIsACrime.org Often I reflect back to the time I spent on Capitol Hill fighting for my son’s life. I went there as a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. Yes with a big D. I had ...

Marler Blog

  • Despite at least two Buffalo or Bison Meat Recalls ...
    The most current version of FSIS Directive 10,010.1 that I could find while sitting in Heathrow Airport states in part: Fabricated steaks and finely sliced beef (9 CFR 319.15(d)) do not meet the standard of identity for ground or chopped beef product and, therefore, would not be subject to E. coli ...
  • Rocky Mountain Natural Meats Recalls Buffalo Due t ...
    Rocky Mountain Natural Meats, a Henderson, Colo. establishment, is recalling approximately 66,000 pounds of ground and tenderized steak bison products.  FSIS became aware of the problem during the course of an on-going investigation into a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Colorado with illne ...
  • Colorado Raw Milk E. coli O157:H7 and Campylobacte ...
    Even in London, I cannot seem to get away from Raw Milk. Not only was my discussion with Raw Milk Guru, David Gumpert, published at Simple, Good and Tasty today, but an intrepid reporter from Boulder called my cell phone at midnight London time to tell me that “Boulder County Public Health official ...
  • Longmont Colorado Billy Goat Raw Milk Dairy Sicken ...
    I was about to board a plane to London for a well-deserved break, when I received a call from a Colorado reporter about yet another raw milk outbreak. This one (I think it is the 10th or 11th raw milk outbreak this year) is a Longmont, Colorado goat dairy that has been ordered to stop distributing ...
  • Parent Food Safety Guide for Norovirus
    Noroviruses are estimated to cause 23 million cases of acute gastroenteritis (commonly called the "stomach flu") in the U.S. each year, and are the leading cause of gastroenteritis. Of viruses, only the common cold is reported more often than viral gastroenteritis (norovirus).� Click below for handy ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 07.02.10
    Nissan Leaf hits 15,000 pre-orders, Aqua Globe blue most popular And that's just in the U.S. General Motors adds New York and Austin, TX to Chevy Volt launch markets These towns are ready. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.30.10
    Nissan to offer tens of thousands of Leaf test drives starting this fall Want one? You'll probably get your chance. Tesla lets 13.3M shares fly at $17, raises $226M on IPO Not a bad day. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.29.10
    Average American auto expenses: $5,477 (that's more than food) What do you pay? Report: Honda to offer Fit Hybrid for $16,570, let the price wars begin Reuters wonders if more competition wi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.28.10
    Texas energy company to offer unlimited charging for EVs at flat rate of $60-80 per month Fill 'er up in Houston, TX. Ghosn says Nissan-Renault partnership makes EVs doable, companies couldn't go it alone ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.25.10
    Study: Fuel cell vehicles to reach 670,000 in annual sales by 2020 It's a very specific prediction: the U.S. will lead the way with 134,049 FCVs. Spy Shots: next-gen Aveo RS unmasked Looks m ...

Rafe's Radar

  • 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 ...
  • CNET Showcase discussion: Slates vs. Netbooks
    Can the iPad be stopped? Rafe talks with CNET experts Dan Ackerman and Donald Bell about the ultraportable computer market and what iPad has that Netbooks don't. Originally posted at CNET Showcase ...
  • CNET Showcase Live streams tonight
    Don't miss the live stream of CNET's discussion on the newest in small and slim computing, featuring products from Apple, Archos, Asus, Nvidia, Panasonic, Samsung, and Toshiba. Originally posted at CNET Showcas ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Wednesday, June 30th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • We Can’t Afford War
    “General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts,” began the MoveOn.org attack ad against Gen. David Petraeus back in 2007, after he had delivered a report to Congress on the status of the war in Iraq. George W. Bush was president, and MoveOn was accusing Petraeus of “cooking th ...
  • Coming Up: Harvard Law Prof. Charles Ogletree
    Tune in tomorrow for our interview with Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree about Elena Kagan, Thurgood Marshall and his new book The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America. Send suggested questions to stories (at) democracynow.org
  • Democracy Now! in Toronto For G20 Meeting & Protes ...
    Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! will be broadcasting from Toronto on Friday to cover the G20 summit and the protests. Send story ideas to stories@democracynow.org.
  • Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happ ...
    Forty-seven years later, thousands of people, of every hue, religion, class and age, might not have used those words exactly, but they marched down that same avenue here in Detroit in the same spirit, opening the U.S. Social Forum. More than 10,000 citizens, activists and organizers have come from ...

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

  • Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?
    Using the McChrystal Moment to Raise a Forbidden Question by Prof. David Ray Griffin Global Research, June 25, 2010 There are many questions to ask about the war in Afghanistan. One that has been widely asked is whether it will turn out to be “Obama’s Vietnam.”1 This question implies another: Is thi ...
  • Unmanned Drones – Targeted Killing vs. “Collateral ...
    Thalif Deen, IPS, July 1, 2010 UNITED NATIONS, 29 Jun (IPS) – When a Pakistani-U.S. national pleaded guilty last week to a failed attempt to detonate explosives packed in a vehicle in the heart of New York City, he admitted that one of the reasons he targeted the busy Times Square neighbourhood was ...
  • MEDIA ALERT: MCCHRYSTAL – DEATH SQUAD POSTER BOY
    Media Lense, July 1, 2010 The sacking of the head of NATO’s military command in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, caused a surge in coverage of the man described by political analyst James Petras as “Cheney’s chief assassin”. In May 2009, Petras sampled from McChrystal’s CV. The general had p ...
  • Brewer Falsely Claimed Immigrants Beheaded People ...
    Brewer Falsely Claimed Immigrants Beheaded People In Arizona (VIDEO) TPM MUCKRAKER Rachel Slajda | July 1, 2010, 6:43PM When defending her highly criticized immigration law, Gov. Jan Brewer (R) often lists the myriad problems she says undocumented immigrants bring to her state. In an interview on Fo ...
  • Spin: The Media’s Crocodile Death Roll
    salem-news.com  Jun-25-2010 Ersun Warnke Business/Economy Reporter As with a crocodile attack, the best hope for survival is to get out of the spin before you drown and get onto firm ground. (EUGENE, Ore.) – Crocodiles kill their prey by dragging them into the water and drowning them as they eat. Wh ...

Solari

  • Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Looking For ...
    Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, a nonprofit agricultural service provider, is looking for a new director. The Institute seeks a leader who has the skills and passion for internal and external relations development and communications as well as collaborative long-term planning of the diverse ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill - Day of Prayer Proclamation
    From Alabama Governor Bob Riley WHEREAS, Alabama is suffering from an unprecedented disaster caused by the explosion and sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon and its aftermath, a disaster that threatens the livelihoods of our fellow citizens, the environmental beauty of our coast, and our quality of ...
  • The Lying Liars At Goldman Sachs
    By Zach Carter Today, Goldman Sachs sent its second-highest-ranking officer to Washington, D.C. to tell the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that his company is staffed and managed by complete idiots. In an effort to evade investigation, Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer David Viniar claimed ...
  • Sound of Music | Central Station Antwerp (Belgium)
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  • In Congress, July 4, 1776
    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. “WHEN IN the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which th ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Opportunity of the month: tennis for children
    Now in its 20th year, Save the Children invites you to get out your racquet and make a racket for the charity. You can sign up to play in a tennis tournament near you – with the entrance fee going toward Save the Children. Or download a sponsorship form and encourage friends and family to sponsor y ...
  • Gym-goers 'should change routine'
    Thousands of people are wasting their time and money at the gym by doing the same routine each visit, a leading trainer has claimed. Graeme Marsh, a personal training manager for Virgin Active , said hours spent on the treadmill were worthless if workouts weren't mixed up. "If your training on the t ...
  • Outdoors 'great for kids'
    As summer draws in, it is inevitable that families will be spending more and more time enjoying the great outdoors in the sunshine. According to a US expert, this is especially great news for youngsters.
  • Eco-therapy could help beat the blues
    Getting back to nature may seem like an obvious way to help boost body and mind, but a growing number of psychologists are advocating "eco-therapy" as a cure for depression. These pioneers believe that many modern-day psychological problems such as anxiety and stress can be linked to an alienation f ...
  • Have your cake, but don't eat it!
    Showing weight conscious women pictures of cakes and sweets has been proven to actually reduce their temptation to indulge. Dutch psychologists have revealed results of a study which suggests that looking at photos of sweet treats actually encourage slimmers to eat more healthily, strengthening thei ...

Fabius Maximus

  • What we should Americans do on the 4th of July?
    What should Americans do to celebrate the 4th of July?  Congratulate ourselves on the glory that is America?  No, that’s delusional.  We inherited America, and are squandering its strengths. Congratulate the founders on their accomplishments?  Nice, but they would prefer that we maintain the ...
  • Best predictions made on the FM website
    Best predictions made on the FM website: The articles in 2003 about the Iraq War, saying that the insurgents would prove to be determined and difficult foes. The articles from 2007 – now predicting that neither the US nor Israel would attack Iran. The Iraq insurgency has ended, which opens a path t ...
  • Hot news about a possible strike at Iran!
    Summary:  New news indicates that an Israeli strike against Iran has just become more likely.  Again. From The Times: Earlier this year Meir Dagan, Mossad’s director since 2002, held secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility.  The Israeli press has already carried unconfirmed repo ...
  • FM newswire for July 2, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis.   If you find this useful, please pass it to friends or colleagues. Putting the wild estimates in a realistic perspective:  “Estimated Oil Flow Rates From the BP Mississippi Canyon Block 252 Macondo Well“, Arthur Berman, 27 June 2010 — The news me ...
  • The logic of our wars, explained
    We’ve received many comments in response to the recent articles about the the Af-Pak War and the history of counterinsurgency warfare (thanks to all who wrote!).  Most question the logic of our wars.  Here’s the answer. The attack should not have happened, of course.  The rice farmer had been p ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Unemployment fears grow for ‘hopeless’ UK male gra ...
    Guardian – Complacency and “general hopelessness” have been blamed for the failure of young British men as research reveals that underperformance in school and university is now creeping into their working lives. A report published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute thinktank says male g ...
  • US to provide nearly $2bn for two solar energy pro ...
    BBC-Nearly $2bn (£1.3bn) in loan guarantees will be given to two companies to kick-start the US solar energy industry, President Barack Obama has announced. One of the firms, Abenoga Solar, says that it is planning to build the largest solar power plant in the world in Arizona. Mr Obama said the pro ...
  • Half of Australians against late-term abortions: s ...
    ABC – Nearly half of Australians asked in a new survey about late-term abortions say they believe it should be illegal. The survey of more than 1,000 people in the Medical Journal of Australia reveals 48 per cent think abortion in the third trimester should be unlawful. But less than 25 per cent [ ...
  • UK Departments told to draw up plans for 40% spend ...
    BBC – The Treasury has told most government departments to prepare “illustrative plans” to cut spending by 40% – as well as the expected 25% – within the month. Education and defence have been given some protection, and must produce plans to cut 10% and 20%. International aid and health budgets are ...
  • Cuba hunger striker Farinas ‘close to death’
    BBC – A Cuban political dissident who is on hunger strike is in danger of dying, doctors treating him say. Guillermo Farinas, 48, has been refusing food since February to demand the release of ill political prisoners. He is being fed intravenously in hospital, but doctors say he has developed a bloo ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • A message to Amerikkka on the Farce of July..
    Classic..
  • Imperialism Drones On
    Imperialism Drones On (www.raimd.wordpress.com) Washington’s Homeland Security Department recently announced its plans to deploy unmanned “Predator” drones on the border of Mexico and Texas. In addition, 1,000 Border Patrol agents and 1,2000 National Guard soldiers are being sent to the area. This i ...
  • U$ Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Korean War
    U$ Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Korean War (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Last week, the United $nakes and southern Korea celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. Congressional leaders lined up to give speeches and the “Defense” Department held an event of its own commemorating the ...
  • Obama sends US Special Operations Forces to 75 cou ...
    Obama sends US Special Operations Forces to 75 countries, up from 60 last year (www.raimd.wordpress.com) The US Special Operations Forces, or Green Berets, are operating in 75 countries around the world, up 25% from last year. Under the Obama administration, special ops forces have been sent to Iran ...
  • Book review of André Gunder Frank’s Lupenbourgeois ...
    Book review of André Gunder Frank’s Lupenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) André Gunder Frank’s Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopement, written in 1972, is a short summary of the evolution of dependency in Latin America from the colonial period through ...

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

  • Restraining the Profit Itch
    ROBERT KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH The gap between the diffuse human yearning for a decent world and the organized agenda of the corporatocracy has never, in my lifetime, been wider. I continue to be unable to turn away from the Gulf and what seems to be the unceremonious ushering in of a new age, a n ...
  • For the Warfare State, It Doesn’t Get Any Better T ...
    NORMAN SOLOMON FOR BUZZFLASH ��� For the warfare state, it doesn’t get any better than 99 to 0. � � Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. � � Call it the unanimity of lemmings -- except the senators and their families aren’t ...
  • To Remind America That She’s A Jew, Sen. Graham A ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Because of sexuality rumors about Lindsay Many folks would like to know if he Can possibly remember exactly where he was During the season finale of “Glee.” � http://politifi.com/news/Elena-Kagan-Reveals-How-Jews-Celebrate-Christmas-877114.html
  • We Have a Corporate Media That Covers up the Truth ...
    THE CORPORATE MEDIA Can we talk? Okay, BuzzFlash started in May of 2000 because of disgust with two things: 1) the lack of a backbone in the D.C. Democratic poobah leadership, and 2) the stenographic regurgence of Republican talking points by the corporate mainstream media. With a decade of rabble-r ...
  • Are Religious Right Supergroups Huddling on the Pr ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH No matter how many Supergroups they pull together, the Religious Right is battling it out with the Tea Party movement, and these days, not getting any mainstream media love. � � Back in the day, the coming together of a “Supergroup” provided the possibility of th ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • New study documents media's servitude to Governmen ...
    A newly released study from students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials.  This new study examines how waterboarding has been ...
  • The universality of war propaganda
    Jeffrey�Goldberg responded yesterday to my post detailing his long list of journalistic malfeasance by telling me that he and the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kuridstan would like me to travel there to hear how much the Kurds appreciate the�U.S. invasion of Iraq.��Leaving aside the complete non sequitur ...
  • Fun and games with the "terrorism" label
    (updated below - Update II) I've written numerous times about how "terrorism" is the most meaningless and most manipulated word in the political lexicon; the best demonstration of this dynamic is the work of NYU's Remi Brulin , whose dissertation documents how Western governments and me ...
  • Salon Radio: Mac McClelland on BP's blocking of m ...
    Mac McClelland is a Mother Jones reporter who has been providing some of the nation's best on-the-scene coverage of the BP oil spill from the day the rig collapsed more than two months ago.� She has been particularly tenacious about chronicling the joint BP/government efforts to block media coverage ...
  • The two poles of journalism
    With his Rolling Stone article on Gen. McChrystal, Michael Hastings has become both the personification of, and spokesperson for, Real Journalism, and as a result, has provoked intense animosity from establishment-serving "reporters" everywhere. �He apparently committed the gravest sin:� he exposed ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • DNA search, iPhone chemistry, electronic waste
    Latest bookmarked science news, including my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com: How to build a better DNA search engine – The techniques for indexing Chinese language websites could dramatically improve the speed of bioinformatic searches, according to research by SOSO, the third largest Chine ...
  • 10 Herbal remedies, cohosh or tosh?
    Is there any significant evidence that any of the following herbal remedies actually work in treating the conditions with which they’re associated? Aloe vera for treating minor burns, including sunburn – 2009 review concludes: “some promising results with the use of aloe vera for diverse dermatologi ...
  • Watery calendar girls draw chemical structures
    A few more science stories that caught my eye this week FieldView – Cresset Group – Free download release of FieldView, a new molecular viewer/editor that is designed to show molecules with their associated field patterns and physicochemical properties. Watery no-man’s land – Physical chemists know ...
  • Intute hot science for flaming June
    Delicious science links, including my latest news review for Intute Hot Topics: Low-temperature fraud detection – A low-temperature plasma probe can identify art fraud without damaging the artwork, which is important should the work turn out to be genuine. Flat-packed particles – Graphene is a mater ...
  • 4 tips for a healthy barbecue
    The BBC weather team promise us a barbecue summer almost every year, and although we do get the occasional patch of warmth, it’s never quite as sunny and warm in the days and balmy and calm in the evenings as it is in the US or Australia where the BBQ expert is truly the culinary [...] 4 tips for a ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Lawsuit Filed to Stop Federal, State-Sanctioned Ki ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2010 Conservation Groups Four conservation groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture's predator control branch, Wildlife Services, today for its role in killing wolves at the behest of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The state has issued, and now ...
  • Americans Are Hanging on by Their Fingertips
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich Today Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement on the floor of the House in support of legislation to extend emergency unemployment benefits:   "In Cleveland, where I come from, unemployment is devastat ...
  • NARAL Pro-Choice America Praises Stop Deceptive Ad ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2010 NARAL Pro-Choice America Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, praised Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) for reintroducing legislation that would give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the authority to protect women from anti-choice "crisis pregnancy ...
  • Another $33 Billion for War in Afghanistan Today?
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) REBECCA GRIFFIN Political director of Peace Action West , Griffin said today: "It’s happening now. After weeks of stalling and amidst growing dissent from the public and Congress, the House will vote on $33 billion for es ...
  • Task Force: Pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force responded to President Obama's speech today on immigration reform. The Task Force has long advocated for comprehensive and humane immigration reform. Find more details here and here . ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The IPCC Messed Up over 'Amazongate' – the Threat ...
    by George Monbiot Well this becomes more entertaining by the moment. Those who staked so much on the "Amazongate" story, only to see it turn round and bite them, are now digging a hole so deep that they will soon be able to witness a possible climate change scenario at first hand, as they emerge, sh ...
  • No Age of Austerity for the Rich
    by Sasha Abramsky We are, pundits frequently inform us, living through an "age of austerity". True, perhaps; but what that means, and what community responses it mandates, vary widely from country to country. read more
  • Natural Gas Fracking: Ruining Your Lunch
    by Ulla Kjarval With the documentary movie Gasland making its national debut on HBO just last week, the nation is now more aware of the environmental issues natural gas fracking poses. What you might not have heard is that many farmers in upstate New York fear the impact that natural gas drilling wi ...
  • Move the Money, Starve the Empire
    by Christine Ahn June 26 may have been the last day of the U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit, but it might very well be the emergence of a more powerful antiwar movement in this country. read more
  • Hammering the Poor and Vulnerable
    by Ralph Nader There is a reason why, so many centuries ago, every major religion warned its adherents not to give too much power to the "merchant class." That reason is still here - the commercial drive knows few self-imposed boundaries, especially when it resides in large corporations. A cruel man ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Up to six initiatives likely on November ballot
    Backers have turned in signatures for measures that address state taxes, the sale of liquor and workers compensation insurance.
  • Q&A: Reid and Angle go toe to toe
    U.S. Senate candidates Harry Reid and Sharron Angle give their views on the issues affecting Nevada and the nation.
  • Korea Water to keep $440-million Angat deal
    Despite perils of protracted legal battle, Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) is sticking it out in the $440 million deal it clinched for the Angat power facilitys privatization. A highly-placed source said there is one thing they are fearful about in far as walking away from the transactio ...
  • Booze and sweets initiatives headed for Wash. ball ...
    OLYMPIA, Wash. - Initiative campaigns dealing with tax increases and private liquor sales turned over boxes of signed petitions Friday, the final day for sponsors to show they have enough voter support to appear on November's ballot. The three campaigns delivering signatures Friday join three others ...
  • Booze and sweets initiatives headed for Wash. ball ...
    Initiative campaigns dealing with tax increases and private liquor sales turned over boxes of signed petitions Friday, the deadline to try and make it onto November's ballot.

Guardian

  • Northumbria manhunt stepped up
    Raoul Thomas Moat suspected of seriously injuring officer following double shooting in same area 24 hours earlier A policeman was shot and seriously injured in Northumberland early today in an attack officers are linking to a double shooting in the same area 24 hours earlier. Police are hunting Raou ...
  • Ministers ordered to brace themselves for 40% cuts
    Shock demand comes as ministers step up emergency cost-cutting across public sector Cabinet ministers have been ordered by the Treasury to plan for unprecedented cuts of 40% in their departmental budgets as the coalition widens the scope of its four-year austerity drive. The eye-watering demand from ...
  • Germany too good for Argentina
    If it had indeed been the will of God that Argentina should claim this World Cup, then Diego Maradona must feel utterly abandoned now. Germany's staggering and irresistible progress through this tournament has propelled them yet again beyond fancied opposition. This was a slaughter to leave El Diego ...
  • UN warned over logging corruption
    Campaigners say countries intend to abuse system by pocketing billions in subsidies while continuing to fell trees A revolutionary scheme backed by the World Bank to pay poor countries billions of dollars a year to stop felling trees is the best way to stop logging and save the planet from climate c ...
  • Public sector pensions lose £20,000
    • Unions attack move to CPI indexation in Osborne's budget • True cost of public sector pensions put at £1.3tn A typical public sector worker could see £20,000 wiped off the value of their pension due to a little-noticed measure in the recent budget, even before possible future cuts, trades unionist ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • 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 ...
  • Food for thought from Japan's accused
    From the International Whaling Commission annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco: One of the people I wasn't expecting to see here was Junichi Sato, whaling campaigner for Greenpeace in Japan. He's one of the activists facing jail time for taking whalemeat from a warehouse back in 2008 - an action inte ...
  • Whale deal falls: but who wins?
    From the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco: It had always seemed unlikely that a bridge could be built across this particular stretch of troubled water; and so it has transpired . In the end, after two years of formal talks and almost 30 private sessions crammed ...
  • Whaling: Interested parties
    From the International Whaling Commission meeting in Agadir, Morocco: Whenever governments come together to discuss issues such as whaling, climate change, international trade or whatever, you might be tempted to think that the priority would be the common good. You might assume, for example, that ...

The Wonk Room

  • Health Care Reform And Emergency Room Overcrowding
    The Associated Press has an interesting story looking at what the health care law will do to the nation’s emergency rooms. Carla Johnson suggests that the expansion of coverage will actually lead more people into the emergency rooms and here’s why: – People without insurance aren’t the ones filling ...
  • George Miller: Ban BP From US Drilling
    Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the former chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, is drafting legislation to prohibit the oil disaster giant BP from drilling in the outer continental shelf for the next five to seven years. In a hearing on Wednesday with Secretary of the Interior Ken Sala ...
  • Jan Brewer Claims Beheadings ‘Come With Ille ...
    Last week, news broke that Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) erroneously claimed that the majority of undocumented immigrants “are coming here and theyâre bringing drugs” during a primary election debate on June 15th. She also stated on Fox News that SB-1070 is a “good bill” that’s necessary because of the “ ...
  • Former CFTC Chair Who Predicted The Derivatives Cr ...
    In the 1990’s, Brooksley Born, who chaired the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at the time, tried to warn federal bank regulators, including Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, about the dangers of over-the-counter derivatives. To put it mildly, her alarm-sounding did not go over well: Bor ...
  • Repeal, Replace, And Defund: House Republican Prop ...
    While some Republicans are rallying behind a “repeal and replace” strategy, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, “told attendees at a Health Affairs Media Breakfast that while repeal of the new law is unlikely; shutting down funding to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canada Day 2010
    It was a beautiful day. I was at the park in Hamilton with my little boy when I saw a young woman I recognized from the local activist community. She told me that she'd been arrested in Toronto at the G20 Summit. She wasn't there to protest though. She was visiting friends and they went out for some ...
  • $1.1 Billion - Because Canadians are S-O-O-O-O Vio ...
    Bull-fucking-shit. Goddamned "radical" Canadians line-up 98% to condemn a rock thrown through a department store window! It's a fucking joke. harper's turning Toronto into a ghost-town for the G-Whatever conference. Because in his authoritarian brain, only a city of the dead is safe enough for him ...
  • Shooting Unarmed Humanitarian Volunteers In The He ...
    ... and saying that doesn't make you "anti-Semitic." How debased is our political culture that one even feels the need to say that?
  • The Miami Model
    Today, why don't we all google " miami model protests" (or "miami model - [anything else]") and see what we find. Because I just know that we'll find great stuff to read. Because, you know, I think our protests as they stand, are useless. We stand around and chant, the elites ignore us with impunit ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    The Cheney Vase!! It's got Darren McGavin! Now I should start the dishes.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Jamaica encounters opposition to whistleblower bil ...
    The Jamaica Gleaner News is reporting that parliamentarians pushing a new whistleblower protection are facing opposition. The majority's latest draft of the proposed bill will protect whistleblowers only if they have made their disclosures through certain official channels. If any officials in any o ...
  • Whistleblower Bobby Maxwell tells CNN about slipsh ...
    Last month, CNN's Special Investigations Unit released a story about Bobby Maxwell's experience as an inspector for the U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS). The main point of the story is how MMS was infused with a "culture of corruption," and its slipshod inspections mis ...
  • Fred Whitehurst speaks on BP, the FBI and the stat ...
    I find it amazing when I look over these past seventeen years of having been involved with the National� Whistleblowers Center and the law firm of Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto that we have not moved so much further ahead in this nation with�protections for whistleblowers.� In 1992 when I first approache ...
  • Sen. Grassley asks pharma about whistleblower poli ...
    Sen. Charles Grassley today released copies of his letters to 16 big pharmaceutical companies about their whistleblower policies. Bloomberg news service is also reporting on these inquiries. The letters review Sen. Grassley's efforts to strengthen the False Claims Act (FCA), and ask what the compani ...
  • Washington Post reports that IRS chokes off whistl ...
    The Washington Post is running a story today by David Hilzenrath on page A11 called, " Change in IRS rules could block rewards for whistleblowers ." The story focuses on a manual by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) called the Internal Revenue Manual (IRM). The new IRM recognizes that if a whistleb ...

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

  • The Myth That Without Gov't Monopolies Or Subsidie ...
    Stephan Kinsella sends over a fascinating talk by Dr. Terence Kealey , a UK biochemist and professor, discussing why -- contrary to what most people think, "science" is not a public good, and that government-funded science actually tends to do more damage than good for global economies: Many ...
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Now That Kenya's Bee ...
    IP maximalists should be careful what they wish for. As we noted in China, where after years of diplomatic pressure, China's "crackdowns" on IP infringement seems to have hurt foreign companies , it looks like something similar may soon happen in Kenya. Last year we discussed how Kenya had been pr ...
  • Economic Threat: Legacy Industries With Bogus 'Saf ...
    NPR's Planet Money has started a sort of spin-off series which are direct interviews with smart people about the economy. Recently, it interviewed economist Raghuram Rajan , who is given credit as being one of the folks who accurately predicted the recent financial crisis. I'm always a little hesi ...
  • White House: Here's $795M For Broadband; Congress: ...
    There's been plenty of coverage of the White House's announcement today that it's handing out $795 million in grants and loans to help establish broadband access in underserved parts of the country (mostly rural areas where it's been expensive to build infrastructure). I'm still not convinced this ...
  • Bill Introduced To Pressure Countries That Seek To ...
    Rep. Zoe Lofgren along with a list of other Congressional reps (from both parties) is introducing a new bill called the One Global Internet Act of 2010 (pdf), which is basically targeted at countries -- like Afghanistan and Pakistan -- that are seeking to block large parts of the internet from acces ...

VacTruth

  • Rodent of the Week: closing in on a universal flu ...
    Shari Roan LA Times 07/02/2010 Flu viruses mutate rapidly, meaning that vaccines against the flu have to be continually updated to target the latest strains. Moreover, antiviral medications to combat flu sometimes become ineffective because of viral mutations. Thus, finding a so-called universal flu ...
  • Report slams vaccine firm as £1.2bn cost of swine ...
    Mike Swain Mirror.co.uk 07/02/2010 The swine flu scare cost £1.2billion – as a vaccine firm cashed in. The taxpayer footed the bill which included 20 million unused vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline made £883million from sales of the drug last year but insisted the Government complete the deal even if the ...
  • Woman ill after sex with vaccinated man
    UPI.com 07/01/2010 A woman who had sex with a member of the U.S. military vaccinated against smallpox subsequently contracted a related virus, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released Thursday said despite the patient’s exp ...
  • Paul Flynn: ‘An appalling waste of cash’
    Scotsman 07/02/2010 THERE were four major problems at the heart of what happened with the swine flu episode. First, the world was unnecessarily frightened witless by claims made by experts that it could killed between two and 7.5 million people, 65,000 in London. This caused panic among the public f ...
  • Merck is found to be paying experts to recommend G ...
    Norwegian experts received money from Merck and then advised their government on the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which at the time was only in it's experimental stages.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

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

  • Reuse and Regreen Theme at Dwell on Design
    Gregg Fleishman humanizes prefab homes with visibly joined rhombicubes. Photos by RCruger At last weekend's Dwell on Design 2010 , the conference showcased design-forward products and projects from prefab homes to green roofs, delivering three days of practical eco-ideas and dream green homes. ...
  • WOW Gets Real - 3D Role Playing Game Models Water ...
    Image via Intel Video Water Wars uses a gaming platform to conduct a study on how people respond to water shortages. Intel Labs developers have ventured into combining 3D gaming with scientific research. In Water Wars, they've modeled an area of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and have created a r ...
  • Tibetan Environmentalist Jailed for Five Years
    Brothers Rinchen Samdrup, Jigme Namgyal, and Karma Samdrup (clockwise from top left) are now all in jail. Photos via the International Campaign for Tibet Picking up trash and planting trees sounds about as uncontroversial as activism can get, but an internationally recognized Tibetan environmen ...
  • Clever Coiled Reclaimed Rings...They're Electrifyi ...
    Image courtesy of Grain Design. Since it's the 4th of July and many of our stateside readers are gearing up for a day of fireworks--otherwise known as pretty pollutants --and meatless barbecues , we'll keep this post short and simple. From Grain Design , a design consultancy and studio b... Rea ...
  • Google and Small Bookstores Forming an Alliance in ...
    Photo via GypsyFae A giant like Google moving into the e-book market usually spells disaster for small stores. Independent outlets typically don't stand much of a chance when a huge company decides it wants in on the market. However, when it comes to e-books, the typical story might just be tur ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

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Pruning Shears

  • 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 ...
  • Still Recovering
    From the fabulous trip to southern California.� No post this week.
  • For Father's Day
    I crossed “surfing in the Pacific” off my dad’s bucket list. We’re having a lovely time; wish you were here!
  • The Unfortunate Necessity of Wikileaks
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The whistleblower site WikiLeaks has been on the periphery of the news lately because of the arrest of Bradley Manning. Manning was the source for April’s video of a US military attack in Baghdad that killed civilians, and he was ar ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Towards a New Economy and a New Politics
    The U.S. political economy is failing across a broad front-environmentally, socially, economically, and politically. Deep, systemic change is needed to transition to a new economy, one where the acknowledged priority is to sustain human and natural communities. Policies are available to effect this ...
  • 56 Members Of House And Senate Ask USDA to Stop Ge ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), joined by 49 other representatives and five other senators, are asking U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to retain the regulated status of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa. Their letter comes in response to a USDA Dra ...
  • Calling All Fanatics
    The fundamental truth of our time is that this culture is killing the planet. We can quibble all we want-and quibble too many do-about whether it is killing the planet or merely causing one of the six or seven greatest mass extinctions in the past several billion years, but no reasonable person can ...
  • Haiti: The Aid Dilemma
    In the aftermath of January's devastating earthquake in Haiti, post-disaster relief is creating a new kind of problem for businesses there. The massive influx of food aid has altered the price of rice, throwing the delicate balance in Haiti's food supply chain out of whack and threatening to collaps ...
  • Alert: Stop Frankenfish!
    Obama's F.D.A. is using a secret process designed to review veterinary drugs to rule on what could be the first genetically engineered animal to enter the food supply, genetically engineered salmon. Take action to stop this here. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Preciosa colección de trenes y tranvías by Richard
    Jamás había visto una colección de fotografías tan lindas como la que tiene Richard . Él ha tenido la oportunidad de estar en el Museo Nacional del tranvía en Derbyshire Inglaterra y al paso de los días ha ido subiendo las fotos a su blog en blogspot para que gente como usted pueda conocer la magia ...
  • Modelos antiguos de Volkswagen by Vollständig Anze ...
    Por alguna razón, creo que a muchos de nosotros nos gustan los vehículos antiguos y lindos como toda la serie de Volkswagen. Quién no recuerda con melancolía la combi, el safari y el clásico vochito . Pues usted podrá volver a vivir esos bellos instantes a través de la colección que Vollständig Anze ...
  • Les photos de Lys en Blogspot
    Lys me ha resultado una excelente fotógrafa que al parecer ve las cosas desde muy diversas perspectivas. Estuve revisando sus fotos y me gustaron tanto que he decicido compartirlas. En su colección, usted podrá ver abejas, flores, perros, gatos y muchas otras cosas que realmente llaman la atención. ...
  • 25 imágenes para cambiar el fondo o background de ...
    Desde hace algunos días, Google nos permite cambiar el clásico fondo blanco del buscador o Search Engine. Con el propósito de agregar nuevas funcionalidades, Google ha decidido que al igual que en Bing tengamos la posibilidad de personalizar nuestra página de inicio. Aunque Google incluye una extens ...
  • 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • A last link before I go
    I wasn’t planning to post this morning, then I read about Hennepin County Library’s new ebook lending policy. Starting July 19, the state’s largest library system will make 700 books available as eBooks for downloading to computers, laptops and eReaders. Patrons will be able to download as many as 1 ...
  • Parasites, liars and whores
    I’m not growing tired at all of reading about how Pete Peterson sucker punched himself in the balls at America Speaks. Rule #1 in politics: never ask questions to which you do not already know what the answer will be. The Nation’s Chris Hayes has a good grasp of the actual problem: The baroque Ponzi ...
  • Susan Gaertner’s sick, twisted lying shit
    “I had a completely open mind about this case from the beginning,” County Attorney Susan Gaertner said. What a lying bitch. An open mind? An open mind that that managed to get a sober, coming-home-from-church-with-his-family Sunday driver four times the usual sentence Minnesotans get when they kill ...
  • Pancakes and chimpanzees
    Nothing much in the news that moves me this morning. As usual my annual 4th of July posting break is well timed and I think the time off will do me some good. - News: Goldman admits to greater role in AIG fiasco Ian Welsh on the Long Depression Settling for pennies on the dollar [...]
  • Only an expert
    I doubt righties are consuming enough fluids to piss on Robert Byrd and Thurgood Marshall simultaneously without risking serious dehydration. - Seriously: Noam Chomsky on Iran Matt Taibbi on Lara Logan’s suckitude Don Siegelman to finally a new day in court [more] Commander Jon Bruge to get up to 45 ...

Public News Service

  • Making Green from Green While Times are Lean
    Making Green from Green While Times are Lean Phoenix, AZ - Despite the economic downturn, there's some good news for Arizona companies that do good. Terry Kellogg, CEO of One Percent for the Planet, says the last two years of economic meltdown have actually been the best he's seen when it comes to c ...
  • AZ Payday Loans End After Tomorrow
    AZ Payday Loans End After Tomorrow Phoenix, AZ – The legal authority to make payday loans in Arizona ends at midnight tomorrow (Wednesday). A state senator who helped lead the fight to end the high-interest loans calls it a “victory for the people of Arizona.” Comments from Arizona state Senator Deb ...
  • Survey Shows Wide Support for Paid Sick Days
    Survey Shows Wide Support for Paid Sick Days Phoenix, AZ – Going to work sick is often the only option for the 40-million in the U.S. who do not have paid sick days. A new survey sponsored by the Public Welfare Foundation shows Americans think that’s wrong, with 75% saying paid sick days are a basic ...
  • Congress May Take a Bite Out of COBRA – Ariz ...
    Congress May Take a Bite Out of COBRA – Arizonans in Limbo Phoenix, AZ – A bill to extend fiscal relief for Arizonans relying on programs like unemployment, Medicaid and COBRA failed to pass a procedural hurdle Wednesday. The bill is being revised for another try, but it could be leaner than before, ...
  • National HIV Testing Day Coming Soon
    National HIV Testing Day Coming Soon Phoenix, AZ – National HIV Testing Day is June 27. State and local health departments are teaming with community-based organizations and businesses to promote early diagnosis and testing for HIV. Comments from Ann Gardner, HIV testing and referral coordinator, A ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Why Mandatory Flu Vaccines Would Add Insult to In ...
    This article exposes pharma fraud, the WHO and CDCs questionable financial ties, junk science, MSM's complicity and other outrages behind the CDCs push for flu vaccines. Submitted by Gravitas S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System ...
    Ezra Klein's Health of Nations comparisons have been around for years. Here's another that proves again, An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure. That and it doesn't help to have a scam denying healthcare to the sick defunding the chaos in billing Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • Proof of Complicity in Torture
    I have now obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the final documents in the Tashkent series. These show beyond doubt that there was an official policy of obtaining intelligence through torture. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Arm ...
    Oil is basically inorganic,not a fossil fuel;but an inorganic chemical compound reduced from calcareous sediments and carbon dioxide and methane gas.An ice age now - Climate Change - would force people into contaminated regions. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Women- Israeli Mother Addresses European Parliamen ...
    Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit's speech made on International Women's Day in Strasbourg. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • The Trophies Of Operation Green Hunt
    [ Security personnel with the body of a suspected female Maoist after the June 16 encounter in the Ranjha forests near Lalgarh ]www.outlookindia.com | The Trophies Of Operation Green HuntIf the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Michael Steele causes uproar with Afghan remarks
    Michael Steele causes uproar with Afghan remarks - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Party leader Michael Steele faced heavy criticism and calls for his resignation on Friday after... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Drug to Prevent Lesbianism Controversial
    Drug to Prevent Lesbianism Controversial-emaxhealth.comSome researchers are exploring the use of the drug dexamethasone in pregnant women to help prevent development of ambiguous genitalia in girls... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Hovhannes Hovhannisyan: Karabakh process has negat ...
    Hovhannes Hovhannisyan: Karabakh process has negative dynamics for Armenian side - PanARMENIAN.Net: "PanARMENIAN.Net - The statement issued by the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • MEXICO: Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in W ...
    CorpWatch�:�MEXICO: Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo DealJust before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Biden in Iraq amid political deadlock
    ShareThis Biden in Iraq amid political deadlock 03 Jul 2010 US Vice President Joe Biden visits Iraq to press for the formation of the new government, as political rivals have yet to announce a ruling coalition. Biden arrived in Baghdad on Saturday and is slated to discuss the matter with Iraqi leade ...
  • Government loses appeal in Guantanamo habeas case
    ShareThis Government loses appeal in Guantanamo habeas case 02 Jul 2010 An appeals court put government prosecutors on notice that they must show evidence that an Algerian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than eight years is actually "part of" al Qaida, or set him free... Of the 50 ca ...
  • Ban on Guantanamo reporters is illegal: News compa ...
    ShareThis Ban on Guantanamo reporters is illegal: News companies 02 Jul 2010 A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a letter to Pentagon General ...
  • Government and BP working together to assess oil s ...
    ShareThis Heads up! It's the Obusha/BP holiday weekend really bad news dump: Government and BP working together to assess oil spill damage [ Thanks, Obusha! ] 04 Jul 2010 In recent weeks, the Obama administration has sought pretended to distance itself from BP in handling the Gulf of Mexico oil spil ...
  • Court sides with Schwarzenegger's minimum-wage pla ...
    ShareThis Court sides with Schwarzenegger's minimum-wage plan 02 Jul 2010 With paychecks for 200,000 state employees hanging in the balance, an appellate court Friday cleared the way for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to slash workers' pay to the federal minimum wage without a budget in place -- even as ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Mondoweiss

  • New Yorkers protest Tzipi Livni despite hidden loc ...
    New Yorkers protest Tzipi Livni. (Photo: Bud Korotzer) About 50 protesters picketed outside the Russian Tea Room yesterday as Tzipi Livni spoke inside. The protest was organized by�Jews Say No!, American Jews for a Just Peace, and Adalah-NY: The New York Coalition for the Boycott of Israel. Livni ...
  • Today in Palestine: 1 in 4 Gazan children go witho ...
    Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansingOfficials press Obama on Jerusalem 'ethnic cleansing' Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian officials from across the political spectrum lodged a petition at the US Consulate on Thursday urging President Barack Obama to stop "ethnic cleansing" in Jerusalem.� The ...
  • Flotilla fallout: What exactly was the U.S. role?
    The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the United States government’s knowledge of, and actions related to, Israel's attack on the freedom flotilla. CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher explains in a press release:One U.S. citizen was killed, others ...
  • Newspapers waffle on ‘torture’ and &#8 ...
    Many people, including me, get exercised about the New York Times' bias in its coverage of the question of Palestine.   An article reporting the findings of a recent Kennedy School study, which showed that American newspapers essentially stopped calling water boarding torture during the War on Terro ...
  • Petraeus emails show general scheming with journal ...
    Last March General David Petraeus, then head of Central Command, sought to undercut his own testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee that was critical of Israel by intriguing with a rightwing�writer to put out a different story, in emails obtained by Mondoweiss. The emails show Petraeus ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • Vaccine Resistance Movement To Launch Major New Au ...
    Vaccine Resistance Movement is spearheading a worldwide census type study over the coming months to determine the number of unvaccinated autistic children vs those unvaccinated kids who have not become autistic. Parents in vaccine court need more leverage as the Pharmaceutical Industry & Media houn ...
  • VRM: The Vanishing Sperm Count
    There has been an alarming drop in the male sperm count over the past few decades; as much as a 50% reduction in most studies. As vaccine uptake continues, the systemic exposure to Bisphenal A Plastics, Sodium Fluoride, toxic chemicals & pesticides, GMO foods coupled with the widespread elimination ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization & Vaccine Manufactu ...
    A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ...
  • VRM: Lupus Disease – Natural Cure Succeeds W ...
    Lupus Disease is a chronic degenerative disease caused by systemic auto-immune breakdown in the body; where-by the immune system of the body attacks its own cells and tissues. Specifically, the joints, skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, nervous system, and other organs of the body are affected. While beli ...
  • VRM: Meningitis Vaccine To Be Forced On 7th Grader ...
    A substantial new Bill to require meningitis vaccine for 7th graders and ALL college students is gaining momentum in Albany, New York http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5472 Bill S7156 passed the Senate Health Committee and is due for a floor vote. Bill A10313 will be voted on the Assembly Health ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • The G20 Debacle
    What it might have looked like inside the fence read more
  • Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People"
    I just read Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People". It could easily be in my top 20 books. It is really awesome - historically rich, beautifully written, clearly looks at the past, and has a beautiful vision for the future, even though the author is pessimistic (realistic) about the pros ...
  • Dan Freeman-Maloy on Israel's Flotilla Raid
    Dan discusses the international aspects of the raid. His website is notesonhypocrisy.com
  • Israel's Flotilla Massacre
    Overnight, Israeli commandos attacked an aid flotilla in the high seas, some 65km from Israel. The commandos killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, mostly Turkish nonviolent activists bound for Gaza who were aiming to break Israel's siege with humanitarian supplies. Israel attacked ...
  • Contested spaces worth defending
    Introductory Note: The Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Graduate Student Conference this year took place on April 3, 2010. It had the theme “Contested Spaces: The (Re)Organization of Schooling Under Neoliberalism”. From the con ...

treehugger

  • Reuse and Regreen Theme at Dwell on Design
    Gregg Fleishman humanizes prefab homes with visibly joined rhombicubes. Photos by RCruger At last weekend's Dwell on Design 2010 , the conference showcased design-forward products and projects from prefab homes to green roofs, delivering three days of practical eco-ideas and dream green homes. ...
  • WOW Gets Real - 3D Role Playing Game Models Water ...
    Image via Intel Video Water Wars uses a gaming platform to conduct a study on how people respond to water shortages. Intel Labs developers have ventured into combining 3D gaming with scientific research. In Water Wars, they've modeled an area of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and have created a r ...
  • Tibetan Environmentalist Jailed for Five Years
    Brothers Rinchen Samdrup, Jigme Namgyal, and Karma Samdrup (clockwise from top left) are now all in jail. Photos via the International Campaign for Tibet Picking up trash and planting trees sounds about as uncontroversial as activism can get, but an internationally recognized Tibetan environmen ...
  • Clever Coiled Reclaimed Rings...They're Electrifyi ...
    Image courtesy of Grain Design. Since it's the 4th of July and many of our stateside readers are gearing up for a day of fireworks--otherwise known as pretty pollutants --and meatless barbecues , we'll keep this post short and simple. From Grain Design , a design consultancy and studio b... Rea ...
  • Google and Small Bookstores Forming an Alliance in ...
    Photo via GypsyFae A giant like Google moving into the e-book market usually spells disaster for small stores. Independent outlets typically don't stand much of a chance when a huge company decides it wants in on the market. However, when it comes to e-books, the typical story might just be tur ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Hundreds protest Spain abortion law changes in run ...
    [JURIST] Hundreds of Spaniards gathered outside Spain's Constitutional Court [official website] in Madrid Saturday to protest recently approved changes [JURIST report] to the country's abortion [JURIST news archive] laws. Demonstrators representing roughly 60 anti-abortion organizations [AFP report] ...
  • Australia court denies Hungary bid to extradite Na ...
    [JURIST] Suspected Nazi collaborator Charles Zentai won an appeal on Friday in the Federal Court of Australia [official website] denying a request from the Hungarian government to extradite the now-Australian citizen in order to stand trial in Hungary for war crimes. Zentai is accused of killing Jew ...
  • EU court rules on payment standards for pregnant w ...
    [JURIST] The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] ruled in two judgments Thursday that under EU law [Directive 92/85 text, PDF] a pregnant worker temporarily transferred or granted leave on account of her pregnancy is entitled to pay [judgments, text] equivalent to the average earnings ...
  • Obama signs law imposing new sanctions on Iran
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] signed legislation [HR 2194] Friday imposing a new round of sanctions on Iran for failure to disband the nation's uranium enrichment program. Under the new legislation, sanctions will be imposed against parties investing in Iran's petroleum devel ...
  • Chicago approves new handgun regulations following ...
    [JURIST] The Chicago City Council [official website] on Friday unanimously approved an ordinance placing new regulations on handgun ownership within the city. Under the new ordinance [press release], citizens possessing handguns must keep them inside their homes. The gun owners are not permitted to ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Question Time With Marc Ambinder
    Log into Disqus and ask your questions; at 11:30 am EST, I will try to answer as many of them as I can.� DISQUS - Blog - WordPress - Twitter - Facebook
  • The Night Beat: Putting Lipstick on a Bad Jobs Num ...
    Good evening. JOBS : The White House is girding itself for the release of June employment figures, which will show a relative paucity of private sector jobs created. In a way, the impact of this number has been blunted by expectation-setting and headlines that suggest the recovery might be fizzling ...
  • Why an Immigration Speech Now?
    President Obama's speech today on immigration has a limited shelf life. It is mainly aimed at the advocacy community and is mostly about signs, signals, and sympathy. Obama wants immigration reform activists to know that Republicans are responsible for blocking progress, not him. Republicans, he bel ...
  • Four Questions for Yemen Scholar Gregory Johnsen
    Gregory Johnsen, a highly regarded Yemen expert from Princeton University, said in an interview that he believes the English-language Al Qaeda magazine to be authentic, though he concedes that "it's difficult to tell with any degree of accuracy because I haven't seen the whole thing." First, the ho ...
  • So Is it an Inspired Parody?
    What's to make of Al Qaeda's first foray into the English-language magazine publishing business? To a lot of folks here, including our publisher, it reads almost like an Onion parody. The article offering tips about how to make a bomb in your mom's kitchen seems to be a dead give away. But then ag ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Wall Street Journal Notes Hamas-Hezbollah Shift To ...
    Holy S*!t Batman, who’d a thunk the Wall Street Journal would write anything positive about Hamas and Hezbollah??  A report today notes a shift in tactics by Hamas and Hezbollah toward non-violent resistance in recognition of the fact that violence tends to generate sympathy for Israel and non-viol ...
  • Mavi Marmara: the Massacre That Will Not Die
    A reader whose friend has a sweeping Mt. Carmel view of Haifa harbor from his/her home took this recent shot of the Mavi Marmara, which has been towed to Haifa from Ashdod, where it was originally brought after being captured by the Israeli navy. The flotilla attack is the disaster that keeps on giv ...
  • Hillary Clinton’s Major Global Democracy Address W ...
    Hillary Clinton will make a major address in the ancient Polish city of Krakow on Saturday encouraging the global movement for democracy.  Her host will be the Community of Democracies, a European NGO created in 2000 by Madeleine Albright and Poland’s then foreign minister to nurture democracies in ...
  • IDF and Shin Bet: Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight–o ...
    I don’t know whether to laugh or cry over Amira Hass’ latest report in Haaretz that the Shin Bet ordered the IDF to produce a Palestinian Arab named Za’arir from the West Bank village of Beit Omar for questioning.  Instead, they went to the house of the Za’akik family in the same village and demand ...
  • CENTCOM’s Blue Sky, Red Team Talks Sense About Hez ...
    Mark Perry has a mini-blockbuster of a story in Foreign Policy revealing that a team of CENTCOM intelligence analysts offered a report about what U.S. military policy should be toward Hezbollah and Hamas.  The results are exceedingly pragmatic, sensible, and for that reason, controversial: …Senior ...

Ode Magazine

  • Cultural healing
    Chris Ntombemhlophe Reid cuts off the neck of a chicken. Its blood drips into the river that winds through the Pondoland region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is a gruesome act, yet one that is carried out with respect and ceremony—an offering to his an ...
  • Dance of life
    The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, as a “teach-in day” to raise awareness about environmental problems. Today, Earth Day mobilizes hundreds of millions of people around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to a cleaner planet. Last year, these schoolchildren ...
  • Video: Farm tours around the world
    A collection of videos from Polyface Farm and other farms mentioned in the "Beyond Organic" article. Polyface Farm Mac Arthur Foundation Fellow: Will Allen Ridge to Reef Program at VI Sustainable Farm Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading ...
  • Get HIP with your money
    How to build a better world and make bigger profitsthrough investing. Capitalism used to be easy. Discover, acquire and defend a unique resource. Pay people the least you can get away with. Offload as many liabilities and risks to government as possible. And, of course, c ...
  • Forget finicky food
    Instead of scanning labels, give the kids some authentic home cooking. It’s really not fair to label kids as finicky eaters if lactose makes them break out or preservatives make them itch. We should, instead, focus on finicky food. All things considered, it’s a minor mira ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Protecting our jobs and economy of the future: rei ...
    Last week, federal District Court judge Martin Feldman ordered that the Department of the Interior’s six-month moratorium on deepwater offshore oil and gas drilling be lifted. Judge Feldman’s opinion put a lot of weight on the moratorium’s potential effect on the oil industry in the Gu ...
  • Auto X-Prize Highlights American Ingenuity to Cut ...
    Entrepreneurs are busy demonstrating ultra efficient and clean car technologies for real-world performance. Last week, I had the pleasure of observing part of the Knockout Stage of Progressive Automotive X-Prize at the Michigan International Speedway. Teams are competing for part of a ...
  • Scoring a Goal for Clean Energy
    With the eyes of the world glued to the World Cup, there’s no mistaking that one sport can bring together people across the globe. But beyond the soccer field, this year’s World Cup is showing how a global clean energy future could unite us in an even more powerful way. For the first ...
  • India Cuts Subsidies and Increases Taxes on Fossil ...
    While oil continues to gush from the gulf and the U.S. Congress continues to dither, the Indian government is taking steps to move forward to constrain greenhouse gas emissions and to enhance energy security.  On June 25, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that the Indian governme ...
  • NRDC Goes to Court: Sperm Whales vs. BP
    A few months ago, as oil began to gush from the wellhead and it had become clear to all but BP’s Tony Hayward that we had a major environmental disaster on our hands, I blogged about the Gulf’s small population of sperm whales.   I was particularly concerned about the sperm whales be ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Will there be acid? Please tell me there will be ...
    I really don’t think I have any choice but to sign up for this: This July, while others are relaxing poolside, head back to the classroom – from the comfort of your own home. That may sound like an oxymoron but Glenn [Beck]âs new academic program is only available online. Offered exclusively to In ...
  • Did Luis Suarez cheat?
    Uruguay 1 – 1 Ghana Uruguay win 4 – 2 on penalties. For those of you who didn’t watch the match, in the 120th minute, literally the last few seconds of the 30 minutes of extra time in the match, Ghana had a series of shots on goal, three if memory serves me correctly (and it seldom [...] Related p ...
  • Penalty Kicks
    As I’ve said before, I can’t stand important games being decided by any kind of penalty shooting, although true aficionados of football will tell me that the nature of the their sport makes them the least bad alternative and I admit I don’t really have a good answer. (For hockey, there’s no excuse ...
  • I Reiterate
    More Chan Ho Park in high-leverage situations, please!    Today’s accomplishments were especially impressive; not just anyone can allow four runners to score in 2/3rds of an inning when given a strike zone from the bill of the cap to midway down the shin to work with, but he did it… I also can’t ...
  • Oh No! The Bond Vigalantes are Coming!
    Very, very shrill. It seems more and more likely that just as the South ended up largely winning the Civil War after the fact, so does Herbert Hoover seem to be retrospectively winning the Great Depression.   Depressing, in more ways that one… Related posts:SD Abortion Referendum Coming Devolut ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • WINNING
    Profiles of successful litigators and their strategies.
  • Lawyer suits pile up at high court
    From client advice to attorney fees to ineffective assistance of counsel, the U.S. Supreme Court decided an unusually large number of cases last term involving how lawyers do their jobs.
  • Summary rulings spike at the high court
    Why is the Court issuing so few opinions these days? The implication of the question often seems to be that the justices are not working hard, enough because they aren't producing as many decisions as their predecessors did 20-plus years ago.
  • As tax breaks expire, lobbyists feel the heat
    Senators fail to extend corporate breaks, leaving tax lobbyists and their clients searching for a strategy.
  • Civil fight looms for defendants in Wone case
    After a five-week criminal trial that examined one of Washington's most vexing unsolved homicides, the three housemates charged with covering up the murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone walked out of court as free men. But their legal wrangling is far from over.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Invasive Kudzu Plant Contributes to Elevated Ozone ...
    Areas inundated with the invasive plant kudzu produce significantly higher levels of ozone than those that have not been invaded , with some U.S. areas experiencing as many as seven additional days when ozone levels exceed air quality standards, according to a new study. Kudzu, a fast-growing vine c ...
  • U.S. Small Wind Energy Projects Grew 15 Percent La ...
    The U.S. market for small-scale wind turbines on homes and small businesses grew 15 percent in 2009 , with 20.3 megawatts of new capacity added nationwide, according to a new report . That new capacity represents about 10,000 new units, and bumps the total capacity created by small wind projects (10 ...
  • Interview: In Besieged Madagascar, A Top Scientist ...
    Primatologist Patricia Wright has spent the past 25 years studying and protecting Madagascar’s rich yet highly threatened biodiversity. She has managed to combine her research — Wright discovered two new species of lemurs — with efforts to preserve Madgascar’s beleaguered forests and the many specie ...
  • As Madagascar is Plundered, A Staunch Defender Fig ...
    Primatologist Patricia Wright has spent the past 25 years studying — and protecting — Madagascar’s rich yet highly threatened biodiversity. Now, as many of the island’s remaining forests are being felled in the wake of a 2009 coup, Wright describes how she is helping organize the local residents and ...
  • U.S. Senate Climate Bill To Focus on CO2 Cap on Ut ...
    After a meeting between President Obama and a bipartisan group of U.S. senators, leading Senate proponents of climate and energy legislation say the only climate bill with a chance of passage this year would be a measure placing a cap on the carbon dioxide emissions of electric power utilities . At ...

Red Ice Creations

  • US General McChrystal Reportedly Offers Resignatio ...
    Gen. Stanley McChrystal, under fire for the dismissive, wisecracking remarks he made about Obama administration officials in a magazine article, submitted his resignation Tuesday as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, according to several reports.
  • Earthquakes and Tornados - Ontario has a bad day
    On June 23, 2010 Ontario, Quebec and parts of the U.S. were taken off guard by the far-reaching effects of an earthquake - the strongest quake ever recorded for the region. A Quebec town near the epicentre of a 5.0-magnitude earthquake is calling for emergency help after tremors felled the steeple o ...
  • Aurora Australis Observed from the International S ...
    While aurora are generally only visible close to the poles, severe magnetic storms impacting the Earth’s magnetic field can shift them towards the equator. This striking aurora image was taken during a geomagnetic storm that was most likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun.
  • Dirty Gold
    The gold industry is responsible for releasing toxins and adversely affecting communities and workers around the world. When the Canadian mining company Manhattan Minerals wanted to open a gold mine in the town of Tambogrande in northwestern Peru, they promised to provide jobs and tax revenue, to bu ...
  • The Curse of Inca Gold - Corruption and Poisonous ...
    High in the Andean mountains of Peru is a gold mine, Yanacocha, run by Newmont Mining Corporation of Denver, Colorado, the largest gold mining company in the world. Once part of the Incan Empire, this land was conquered by the Spanish, who came in search of gold and silver. Descendants of the Incas ...

Russia Today

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

  • First Ever Real Photo of Exoplanet
    Well, it had to happen eventually. We finally developed the technology to observe planets from outside the Solar System from the ground. From Space.com: A planet outside of our solar system, said to be the first ever directly photographed by telescopes on Earth, has been officially confirmed to be o ...
  • More Ancient Lunar Cover-ups
    For years there have been rumors of spaceships and aliens on the far side of the Moon. In fact, the rumors have recently started since the US once again canceled another return to the Moon program (although it was rife with price over-runs, time slips and political pork). Is the Moon occupied by an ...
  • Inexplicata: The 1968 “Night Visitor”
    The United States, Canada and Mexico are not the only countries in the Western Hemisphere where UFOs, aliens, Bigfoot and other exotica happen now, or in the past. The countries in South America are overflowing with esoteric phenomenon; all of the above listed and then some. They just don’t receive ...
  • The ‘Humalien’ Mystery
    Pat Regan, a researcher exploring the possibility of human-alien hybrids he terms “humaliens” in his book ‘UFO: The search for Truth’, posts about humaliens as they relate to Lloyd Pye’s Star Child Skull and a photo taken at the turn of the 20th Century of a Siberian woman with her child who exhibit ...
  • Some possible misconceptions of alien life
    Dr. Sam Vaknin, a columnist for various European publications, has written ten misconceptions that science-fiction authors generally use when writing about possible ET life. Most make sense. But like all things, it’s one person’s opinion. In all works of science fiction, there are ten hidden assumpt ...

Tippers News

  • Is BP Rejecting Skimmers to Save Money on Gulf Oil ...
    From Washington to the Gulf, politicians and residents wonder why so few skimming vessels have been put to work soaking up oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Submitted by Kemsa Amon-Ra to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Shut Down UltimateShock.Com Permanently TAKE ACTIO ...
    A disturbing site that includes video's of animal mutilation, abuse and bestiality, Sadistic Intentional Cruelty to Domestic animals and More.Please sign this petition if you think UltimateShock.Com should be removed from the net completely. Submitted by Borg Drone to Society & Culture �|� �Note-i ...
  • Queen of Canada is The American Woman - Queen Eliz ...
    Canada is Run by Governor General For Queen Elizabeth ll Queen of Canada, ... So the position is chosen by the Queen, She is higher than the prime minister as a matter of fact He/she can fire he or she that holds the position of prime minister. Submitted by Mike Tedesco to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • New York City Carriage Horse Rescued from Slaughte ...
    A former NYC carriage horse was rescued from a slaughter auction in Pennsylvania on June 25th by advocates who have been pushing for a ban on the exploitative horse-drawn carriage industry for several years. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Sperm whale sighting off Torbay, South Devon
    On the 28th June at 09:30 observers were surprised to see a large whale very close to the shore off Torbay in South Devon. It was identified as a Sperm whale, the largest of all the toothed whales; they can grow to more than 18 metres in length. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

The Freeman

  • Declaration of Independence
    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...
  • A letter*
    Dear Lawyer, The following is a letter sent to A. J. De Bartolomeo of the San Francisco law firm of Girard Gibbs & De Bartolomeo on August 6, 2004, in connection with litigation against PayPal, the Internet payment company. The suit alleged that PayPal’s customers have been injured because PayPal “d ...
  • Book Review: Theoretical Visions and Economic Prop ...
    Reviewed by Richard Ebeling. B. R. Shenoy (1905–1978) was the most important free-market economist in India during the twentieth century. Throughout the long period when socialism and economic nationalism dominated public policy in India, Shenoy was a lone voice for individual freedom, limited gover ...
  • Book Review: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Mar ...
    Reviewed by George C. Leef. The list of complaints against laissez-faire capitalism is long, including such contradictory notions as its guilt in impoverishing the masses and its role in enabling the poor to escape their “proper” station in life. In World on Fire, Amy Chua adds to the list, arguing ...
  • Book Review: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Demo ...
    Reviewed by Gene Healy. Modern political discourse often treats democracy as if it were synonymous with liberty. In The Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria aims to refute that facile notion and reinvigorate the distinction between the two. As Zakaria puts it, pithily: “The execution of Socrates was de ...

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

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The Senate sticks it to the joble ...
    The nation's unemployment rate in June, according to a government report issued today: 9.5% The unemployment rate in May: 9.7% Number of people who dropped out of the labor force in June, pushing down the unemployment rate: 652,000 The June unemployment rate according to a broader governme ...
  • VOICES: Making climate protection worker-friendly
    By Joe Uehlein, Labor Notes "There are no jobs on a dead planet." That's how one union leader answered those who say that unions should be concerned only about jobs, and leave the planet to someone else to take care of. Many unions and both labor federations hailed Barack Obama's bold talk about ...
  • Is EPA misleading the public about the climate ben ...
    An environmental watchdog is challenging the federal government's oft-made claim that recycling power plants' coal ash waste into consumer products helps the climate by reducing greenhouse gas pollution. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has filed a complaint under the Data Quality ...
  • Delegation from oil-afflicted Amazon visits Louisi ...
    A delegation of indigenous and community leaders from Ecuador is visiting Louisiana this week at the invitation of the United Houma Nation, a tribe in coastal Lafourche and Terrebone parishes that has been hit hard by the BP oil catastrophe. The Ecuadoreans have come to share lessons they've learned ...
  • GULF WATCH: Life in the Dead Zone
    For the hundreds of thousands of people who depend on commercial and sport fishing in the Gulf of Mexico (directly and indirectly), the assault on sea life from the BP oil disaster has been a serious blow. But it's hardly unfamiliar. That's because even before the spill, up to 8,000 square miles o ...

Survival International

  • Vedanta’s mine under investigation by Indian gover ...
    A Dongria Kondh man. © Jason Taylor Indiaâs Ministry of Environment and Forests is sending a new team of experts to investigate Vedanta Resourcesâ planned Niyamgiri mine , before making a decision on granting official clearance for the project. The team must report back by the 29th July â ...
  • Brazilian Indians protest against dams
    A dam in the Amazon rainforest. © Survival Enawene Nawe Indians in Brazil are demonstrating against a series of hydroelectric dams which are killing the fish they rely on. Three hundred Indians have gathered in the town of Sapezal in the Amazon state of Mato Grosso, armed with bows and arrows ...
  • Outrage at call to remove Andaman tribe’s children
    Apache children before being taken from their families and sent to a white-run school. USA, 19th Century. © Agfa foto-Historama An Indian MPâs call for the children of a recently-contacted Andaman Island tribe to be removed from their parents and sent to residential schools has sparked w ...
  • Vedanta's controversial mine gets backing of India ...
    Dongria girl, Niyamgiri Hills, India © Survival In a highly unusual move, India’s Prime Minister has intervened directly in the approval process for one of the world’s most controversial mines. The office of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has written to the Environment and Forests Ministry ...
  • French oil company hits Peruvian headlines
    First contact can decimate tribes. An estimated 50% of the Nahua, a tribe in south-east Peru, died after contact in the 1980s. © Jonathan Mazower/Survival French company Perenco has hit Peru’s headlines after a controversy over oil exploration in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon. Perenco ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Actually Afghanistan is a war of choice
    Michael Steele’s comments on Afghanistan remind me of my favorite definition of a gaffe: “saying the truth in the worst way possible.” To whit, Steele said that Afghanistan is a war of Obama’s choosing, and that everyone who’s occupied Afghanistan has come to grief over it.  Now one can quibble a b ...
  • Actually Afghanistan is a war of choice
    Michael Steele’s comments on Afghanistan remind me of my favorite definition of a gaffe: “saying the truth in the worst way possible.” To whit, Steele said that Afghanistan is a war of Obama’s choosing, and that everyone who’s occupied Afghanistan has come to grief over it.  Now one can quibble a b ...
  • Obama’s Personality
    Sometimes our early take on a man is the best.  In 2006, I wrote “I believe Obama“. One of my rules of analysis is that I believe people when they tell me who they are. That doesn’t mean I believe everything they say - I never believed Bush was a moderate, for example, [...]
  • Happy Canada Day
    For all its problems, this remains a good country to live in.  It’s beautiful, it’s big, and the social safety net, while showing some wear and tear, is still there.  As with most of the world, there’s been a right wing swing, but it’s been kept relatively in check by the simple fact that the [... ...
  • Obama’s Personality
    Sometimes our early take on a man is the best.  In 2006, I wrote “I believe Obama“. One of my rules of analysis is that I believe people when they tell me who they are. That doesn’t mean I believe everything they say - I never believed Bush was a moderate, for example, [...]

Age of Autism

  • FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change
    Update from Theresa Wrangham, NVIC Executive Director I want to thank everyone on behalf of NVIC for their comments to this article. I would also like to lessen the confusion! We would certainly appreciate everyone sending in a letter with...
  • Osler's Web Update: Trine Tsouderos From Cupcake C ...
    Inside the Labyrinth: Osler's Web Updates WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE CHICAGO... Copyright (C) 2010, Hillary Johnson, All Rights Reserved; Permission to Excerpt Granted by Hillary Johnson June 8, 2010 Trine appears to have begun her transition to science reporter in 2008-2009....
  • ABC Nightline To Feature Controversial Shock Treat ...
    Watch ABC Nightline Tonight and go to ABC News HERE to learn more. Students at the Judge Rotenberg School in Massachusetts are subjected to electric shocks, with parental knowledge and approval. This school has been part of an ongoing debate...
  • June 26 Meet Callous Disregard Author Dr. Andrew W ...
    The Autism Society of Greater Phoenix and AZ ACT Today! present: A Parent's Day at the Ritz featuring Dr. Andrew Wakefield on June 26th at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 2401 East Camelback Road Phoenix, AZ 85016 (Learn more and register...
  • Skepticism: It's a Good Thing, Unless it's Vaccine ...
    By Julie Obradovic Kids still asleep. Coffee in hand. Open shades and a window. Beautiful day in Chicago. Pop on the TV to see what's happening in the world. Good Morning America. George Stephanopolous. Like him. Tune in. What's this?...

Global BDS Movement

  • Bristol Council approves Motion for Sanctions agai ...
    Wed 30 June 2010 - Late yesterday evening, after a long debate, a motion condemning Israeli aggression and its blockade of Gaza, was carried at the full Council Meeting in Bristol. � The motion read:- 9. MOTIONS [CPR 2.1(2)(xi)] A COUNCILLOR J KIELY TO MOVE: read more
  • Swedish Civil Society Launch "IKEA, Don't buy into ...
    Click here to visit the Campaign page on facebook � Open Letter from Palestine Solidarity Association of Sweden read more
  • Swedish Dockworkers Block more than 500 Tons of go ...
    The Swedish Dockworkers’ Union blockade of goods to and from Israel has ended. Altogether more than 500 tons of import and export goods were blocked. � read more
  • Methodists launch boycott over West Bank
    Jerome Taylor [ The Independent ] 30 June 2010 - The Methodist Church today voted to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories becoming the first major Christian denomination in Britain to officially adopt such a policy. read more
  • To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
    Terry Crawford-Browne [ Electronic Intifada ] 30 June 2010 - The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. � read more

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Unemployment fears grow for ‘hopeless’ ...
    Guardian – Complacency and “general hopelessness” have been blamed for the failure of young British men as research reveals that underperformance in school and university is now creeping into their working lives. A report published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute thinktank says male g ...
  • US to provide nearly $2bn for two solar energy pro ...
    BBC-Nearly $2bn (£1.3bn) in loan guarantees will be given to two companies to kick-start the US solar energy industry, President Barack Obama has announced. One of the firms, Abenoga Solar, says that it is planning to build the largest solar power plant in the world in Arizona. Mr Obama said the pro ...
  • Half of Australians against late-term abortions: s ...
    ABC – Nearly half of Australians asked in a new survey about late-term abortions say they believe it should be illegal. The survey of more than 1,000 people in the Medical Journal of Australia reveals 48 per cent think abortion in the third trimester should be unlawful. But less than 25 per cent [ ...
  • UK Departments told to draw up plans for 40% spend ...
    BBC – The Treasury has told most government departments to prepare “illustrative plans” to cut spending by 40% – as well as the expected 25% – within the month. Education and defence have been given some protection, and must produce plans to cut 10% and 20%. International aid and health budgets are ...
  • Cuba hunger striker Farinas ‘close to death& ...
    BBC – A Cuban political dissident who is on hunger strike is in danger of dying, doctors treating him say. Guillermo Farinas, 48, has been refusing food since February to demand the release of ill political prisoners. He is being fed intravenously in hospital, but doctors say he has developed a bloo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California Assembly votes to pass bill banning BPA ...
    On Thursday, the California State Assembly voted to pass a bill that would ban the chemical Bisphenol-A from baby bottles and other items that come in contact with small children. The Toxics-Free Babies and Toddlers Act, or SB 797, would...
  • Gulf oil spill: Break-up of Minerals Management Se ...
    When the Obama administration renamed the Minerals Management Service in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, who would have thought it would spawn a governmental garage sale? While the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation...
  • Gulf oil spill: Hands reach across the sand in pro ...
    From Santa Monica to Pensacola Beach, Fla., to Washington, D.C., and even as far as London, protesters worried about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gathered to hold hands, in hundreds of Hands Across the Sand rallies. The...
  • Gulf oil spill: Tropical storm worries cleanup wor ...
    Fishermen, deck hands and other workers who signed on to aid oil spill cleanup efforts out of Pensacola Shipyard Marina and Boatyard have yet another worry to deal with -- the possibility of a tropical storm. As they donned life...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP payments for lost income to be ...
    Oil spill victims who receive BP payments for lost income will have to shell out money come tax time. Under current law, such payments will be taxed by the Internal Revenue Service, just as normal income is, according to a...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

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Cryptogon

  • “Should BP Nuke Its Leaking Well?”
    Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site⦠Might Produce a Bad Result Via: Reuters: His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how t ...
  • Exploding H-Bombs In Space
    Via: NPR: Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will.
  • Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup W ...
    At least they have some nice accommodations: Banned FEMA Formaldehyde Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster. Via: Business Insider: Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spi ...
  • Schwarzenegger Orders Minimum Wage for State Worke ...
    Via: Sacramento Bee: The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state workers. The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 ...
  • How Goldman Gambled on Starvation
    I’ll point to my commentary on this from 2008, CBOT Resembles Carnival Act as Billion Dollar Black Box Operators Move In: Leveraged speculation on commodities shouldnât be allowed. Speculate on things like indexes, stocks, bonds and currencies until youâre blue in the face. None of those things ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...
  • Europe’s Coming Summer Of Discontent
    The summer of 2010 promises to be the most tumultuous summer in the short history of the European Union.  The sovereign debt crisis sweeping the continent threatens to cause economic and political instability on a scale not seen in Europe for decades.  The truth is that governments ...
  • Does The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Mean That The U. ...
    As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis enters a third month, the economic impact of this environmental nightmare is starting to become clearer.  The truth is that the "oil volcano" spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf has absolutely decimated the seafood, tourism and real es ...
  • The U.S. Economic Collapse Top 20 Countdown
    So just how bad is the U.S. economy?  Well, the truth is that sometimes it is hard to put into words.  We have squandered the great wealth left to us by our forefathers, we have almost totally dismantled the world's greatest manufacturing base, we have shipped millions of good jobs ...
  • The Dominant Force In World Financial Markets In 2 ...
    Extreme volatility is not a sign of health for financial markets.  But in 2010 financial markets around the globe are experiencing unprecented volatility.  Why?  It is because the entire world financial system has been gripped by fear.  In today's crazed environment, it seems like j ...

Desertification

  • BETTER SEEDS AS PART OF UN EFFORT TO BOLSTER FOOD ...
    Read at : UNNews BURKINABÃ FARMERS RECEIVE BETTER SEEDS AS PART OF UN EFFORT TO BOLSTER FOOD SECURITY New York, Jun 25 2010 10:05AM The United Nations has begun providing quality seeds to 100,000 vulnerable farmers in Burkina Faso, one … Continue reading →
  • News from ILEIA
    Read at : ILEIA e-bulletin In this issue ⢠Out now: Farming Matters, Money for farming ⢠Debate: Payment for Environmental Services ⢠Learning AgriCultures: Cropping systems ⢠Meet our editors in … Montpellier, France ⢠We are reading … … Continue reading →
  • UNCCD : Alert No. 6
    Alert No. 06/10/2010 14 â 25 June 2010 AWARENESS RAISING World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) Messages: The messages of Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, and Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD, are available online. Messages from other dignitaries can also … Continue reading →
  • Share Best Practices in Sustainable Development (C ...
    Read at : Sustainable Development Announcement List Share Best Practices in Sustainable Development at Online Professional Development Community CSDiâs ONLINE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY invites people active in development to share resources & collaborate online in developing susta ...
  • The DESIRE project: Sustainable Land Management en ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List World Day to Combat Desertification – a message from the DESIRE Project Sustainable Land Management enhances our living soils Today is the World Day to Combat Desertification, a day to focus on … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • FINANCE: Big Banks Sued Over Credit Card Protectio ...
    In 2008, Anna Trachtenberg, a 53-year-old unemployed Pennsylvania homemaker, enrolled in a payment protection service for her credit card from Citigroup Inc. The plan promised to make the minimum monthly payment on her credit card balance for one year if she experienced certain “life changing” event ...
  • ACCOUNTABILITY: Arlington Cemetery Management Fail ...
    Arlington National Cemetery management “demonstrated an obvious failure” when it fired Gina Gray, the cemetery’s former spokeswoman and a whistleblower, according to a Pentagon internal watchdog’s letter obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: U.S. Chamber Boosts Election ...
    Tom Donohue, the combative president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is upping the ante for the fall elections.
  • NATIONAL SECURITY: Few Prosecutions for Unregister ...
    The major roll-up of 11 Russian spies-cum-suburbanites involves the relatively rare use of the criminal code that requires agents of foreign powers to register with the U.S. Justice Department – a provision that allows prosecution of covert foreign operatives working without diplomatic immunity.
  • ACLU Challenges Constitutionality of No-Fly List
    The American Civil Liberties Union today sued the U.S. government, alleging it violated the constitutional rights of 10 U.S. citizens or legal residents by placing them on the “No Fly” anti-terrorism list and failing to provide them due process to clear their names.

backofthebook.ca

  • A post-Steve Carell “The Office”? Cue ...
    By Rachel Krueger Steve Carell made the more-or-less-already-official rumors official when he announced that he really will be leaving "The Office" after his contract is up in 2011, thoroughly surprising everyone who thought "That will probably be my last year" was Italian for "I’m holding out fo ...
  • Emphasis on the Strip
    by Jodi A. Shaw When I think of burlesque, I immediately picture Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. So when I went to a burlesque show for the first time, I was expecting high heels, garter belts, and tight, sexy clothing. I saw the outfits I expected, though I didn’t expect ...
  • Book Review: Daemon, by Daniel Suarez
    On reading Daemon, one can't help but compare it to William Gibson's Neuromancer, perhaps because they both deal with rogue artificial intelligences (AI) and can probably be considered as science fiction. If I sound a bit tentative about that, it's because while Neuromancer neatly fits the mold ...
  • How I Got Arrested and Abused at the G20 in Toront ...
    (Editor's note: On Tuesday, June 29th, 2010, Toronto resident Tommy Taylor published, on his facebook page (log-in required), an extraordinary account of being arrested and caged at the G20 for 23 hours. At the time of his arrest, he and his girlfriend were watching a group of peaceful protestors, a ...
  • Calgary Jazz Festival plays itself off
    By Brian Brennan Chick Corea was supposed to play Calgary this Friday night, followed by Ben E. King on Saturday night. But that won't happen now because C-Jazz, the local organizers of the Calgary Jazz Festival, have abruptly pulled the plug on the annual event. Is it possible the shows will ...

    Blacklisted News

  • USDA Reports Food Shortages: Wall Street 'Caught O ...
    Several recent headlines indicate that food prices will continue their swift climb upward. �These troubling new reports show that agriculture production and stored grains are critically low and experts are now predicting food shortages.
  • G-20 is Relying on China To Drive the World Econom ...
  • Pope launches team to 're-evangelise' the West
    Benedict XVI announced the creation of a new Vatican department dedicated to tackling what he called "a grave crisis in the sense of the Christian faith and the role of the Church."
  • Tony Blair To Receive U.S. Peace Medal
    The National Constitution Centre is awarding him its Liberty Medal for "steadfast" efforts to broker peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East.
  • FEMA Workers Ran Up $247,100 in ‘Improper Purchase ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • French Oil Company CEO Slams Iran Oil Sanctions
    Summary: Speaking today at an economic forum Christophe de Margarie, the CEO of French oil giant Total S.A., condemned the recent series of international sanctions targeting Iran’s petroleum industry as a mistake. source: AntiWar.com read more
  • Dubious Intelligence on Iran's Nuclear Program Use ...
    Summary: Porter Olli Heinonen, the Finnish nuclear engineer who resigned Thursday after five years as deputy director for safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was the driving force in turning that agency into a mechanism to support U.N. Security Council sanctions against ...
  • Turkey's FM rejects "inaction" over Iran amid thre ...
    Summary: "Can we remain comfortable in case any military intervention takes place against Iran? Haven't we all seen the consequences of Iraq war? We will not pursue a "wait and see" policy as this high tension goes on in Iran," Davutoglu said. source: World Bulletin read more
  • When the terrible war will begin
    Summary: I have absolutely no doubt that as soon as the American and Israeli warships are deployed –alongside the rest of the American military vessels positioned off the Iranian coasts-- and they try to inspect the first merchant ship from that country, there will be a massive launching of miss ...
  • Who Cares About the Iranian People?
    Summary: Ziabari Actions like this will only injure the ordinary people of Iran who suffer from the effects of a power game between governments. source: Salem News read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Fastest Case of Human Evolution Discovered (Holida ...
    Scientists have long wondered why the sherpas of the Tibetan Highlands can negotiate with ease elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill. Tibetans live at altitudes of 13,000 feet, breathing air that has 40 percent less oxygen than...
  • Was Life Discovered on Mars By NASA? Some Experts ...
    The red planet is far more than just a catalyst for scientific change or an interplanetary base camp. Mars, says Robert Zubrin, founder of The Mars Society, is essentially a Rosetta stone for determining the prevalence and diversity of life...
  • 2.5 Billion Year-Old Fossils Found -World's Oldest
    At 2.1 billion years old, a new fossil could be the earliest known multicellular life form.The earliest life to display multicellularity is a hotly debated subject, mainly because of questions of definition. Until now, the 1.9 billion year old Grypania...
  • The Daily "140" Insight: Evolution of Human Mind
    The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson -Harvard evolutionary biologist Posted at 12:06 AM | Permalink
  • 'Cosmic Archaeologists' Solve Mystery of Milky Way ...
    New research shows that the Milky Way's ancient stars had once belonged to other galaxies instead of being the earliest stars born inside the galaxy when it began to form about 10 billion years ago. Many of the Milky Way's...

Natural News

  • First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as ...
    (NaturalNews) As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fin ...
  • World oil supplies to run out faster than expected
    (NaturalNews) The world will be faced with an oil shortage at least ten times sooner than official figures suggest, according to scientists from the Oil Depletion Analysis Center. Oil giant BP recently released its Statistical Review of World Energy, concluding that "proven" oil reserves can keep in ...
  • Nearly a million Britons may have had their organ ...
    (NaturalNews) According to a recent report, as many as 800,000 Britons may have had their organ donation wishes improperly recorded in the U.K. donor register. Some who expressed that they didn't want to be donors may have been registered as donors, while others may have been registered as being don ...
  • Seventy million expired flu vaccines about to be i ...
    (NaturalNews) Forty million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are about to go up in flames, and another 30 million will soon meet the same fate. They've expired, you see, and despite the CDC's best efforts to push flu vaccines on the American people, the industry still couldn't find a way to offload s ...
  • Flu Vaccines, pharma fraud, quack science, the CDC ...
    (NaturalNews) A remarkable article was published today by authors Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null of the Progressive Radio Network (http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com). It may be the most shocking (and important) public health article published in the last two years. If you read just one health a ...

Threat Level

  • Woman Jailed 2 Days for Filming Movie Screen Sues ...
    A 22-year-old woman jailed two days in November after being arrested for filming two brief snippets of a motion picture is lashing back at the theater, claiming its manager demanded her arrest despite the police department’s reluctance. In a civil suit lodged in federal court in Illinois, Samantha T ...
  • With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepai ...
    Would-be whistle-blowers hoping to leak documents to Wikileaks face a potentially frustrating surprise. Wikileaks’ submission process, which had been degraded for months, completely collapsed more than two weeks ago and remains offline, in a little-noted breakdown at the world’s most prominent sec ...
  • Too Scary to Fly, Not Scary Enough to Arrest
    Ten U.S citizens and residents, three of whom are veterans, are stuck abroad or cannot fly within or out of the United States because they are wrongly on a no-fly list, according to a federal lawsuit lodged Wednesday. The Oregon federal court case claims the plaintiffs, many with Middle Eastern name ...
  • Group Wants FTC to Probe Data Broker Spokeo
    Spokeo, an online data broker, is accused of peddling inaccurate information and violating consumer protection laws in a complaint sent to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday. The Center for Democracy and Technology, which filed the complaint, alleges Spokeo purports to provide information ab ...
  • Foursquare Puts Money Before Privacy
    Foursquare, one of the net’s hottest startups, got an unwanted message on June 20 from a white-hat hacker: it was leaking user data on a massive scale in plain violation of its privacy policy. The company asked the white hat, Jesper Andersen, to give it nine days to deal with the problem that it was ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • McCain Adviser, CBO Back Need for Jobs Bill
    One day before Friday's dismal jobs report confirmed the pace of the U.S. recovery has slowed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the extension of unemployment benefits to "injects demand into the economy." But while the Republicans who have blocked the $112 billion package including the jobless ...
  • Thanks to GOP, Doomsday Arrives for State Budgets
    For months, governors and economists alike have been warning that unprecedented revenue shortfalls in the states would lead to draconian budget cuts and massive layoffs. Now with the July 1 start of fiscal year 2011 for many states, doomsday is here . And thanks to Republican obstructionism in Con ...
  • Republican Deficits vs. Democratic Deficits
    President Obama's rebuff on stimulus spending by the G-20 and the latest Republican roadblock on the Senate jobs bill is producing fears of a deeper, double-dip global recession . While Thomas Frank urged the U.S. to avoid the " austerity trap ," Paul Krugman warned that the " pain caucus " here an ...
  • God Has a Plan for Sharron Angle and the GOP
    On Tuesday, the New York Times detailed the extraordinary lengths Nevada Republican Sharron Angle will travel to avoid the press . Almost on cue, Angle again showed why she has gone to ground. In a recent radio interview, Angle announced she opposed abortion even in cases of rape or incest because ...
  • What Washington Giveth, the States Taketh Away
    By almost any measure, the $787 billion stimulus program has worked exactly as designed . The overwhelming consensus of economists is that the federal package has been a success, while the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has already added up to ...

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Consortium News

  • Gen. Petraeus and the 'Surge' Myth
    The Iraq War acclaim of Gen. David Petraeus, the new Afghan commander, is based on the myth of the "surge," writes Robert Parry. June 29, 2010
  • Losing Civilian Control of the Military
    Gen. Stanley McChrystal's insubordination reflects a growing U.S. military contempt for civilian leadership, warns Melvin A. Goodman. June 28, 2010
  • Court's Dual Standards of Free Speech
    The right-dominated U.S. Supreme Court insists on free speech for corporations but not for peacemakers, notes Nat Parry. June 28, 2010
  • The Heat Is On in Washington
    As the summer heat comes early to Washington, the battles over needed reforms are warming up, too, writes Michael Winship. June 28, 2010
  • Finding the Financial-Reg Loopholes
    Before the ink was dry on the compromise financial-regulatory bill, the big banks had judged they won, notes Danny Schechter. June 26, 2010

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • TransCanada to Build a Tar-Sand Pipeline in East T ...
    While the Department of Energy took a step towards cutting the emissions of the state by approving a Carbon Capture and Storage project for Texas which will start early next year, a nasty tar-sand Pipeline is set to penetrate through Texas land and be completed by late 2011. The first segment of the ...
  • NRC ACCEPTS APPLICATION FOR EARLY SITE PERMIT AT V ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review the Exelon Nuclear Texas Holdings Early Site Permit (ESP) application for the Victoria County site near Victoria, Texas. The application and associated information were initially submitted on March 25 and is available, minus proprietary and s ...
  • 90 Days to Tell the EPA We Want Strong Safeguards ...
    EPA offers two options for coal ash: one good, one very, very bad The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency started the 90-day clock for public comments on its plans to set federal safeguards for millions of tons of dangerous coal ash waste currently being stored in dry dumps and waste ponds. This m ...
  • TCEQ Continues to Fail the People of Texas
    The TCEQ ruled today on the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas pet-coke plant in Corpus Christi. The good news is they didn’t grant the permit (yet), instead they remanded the permit back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings on a number of issues. However, they refused to acknowledge s ...
  • HEARING ON NUKE DUMP NOW SET FOR SATURDAY
    At a time when lax regulatory oversight has contributed to such catastrophic problems for our nation as the financial crisis and the BP oil spill, Texas may be in the process of setting itself up for a fiscally disastrous and environmentally catastrophic future – all because of a vote by an appointe ...

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Grassroots

  • Using your vote – not just your wallet – to change ...
    s_children_papaya.jpg In another great piece in GRIST , author Tom Philpott stresses that we can’t change the broken food system only through changing what�food we consume and how, important thought it may be. This echoes what progressive U.S. ...
  • Building Solidarity through our Learning Exchange ...
    Subheadline:� Partner’s Report Back from the Peoples World Conference on Climate Change Outside Author Info Outside Author:� Saulo Araujo and Alisa Pimentel ...
  • Honduran peasant freed after being unjustly prosec ...
    a_la_izquierda_Carlos_Maradiaga_de_camisa_Blanca_e_Isabel_Morales_camisa_roja.JPG What is the relationship between “green” energy and a peasant in jail? The answer lies at the heart of the struggle for resources rights, as the demand for land ...
  • Grassroots International and Partners at the USSF ...
    USSF-logo.jpg By Alisa Pimentel Among the more than 20,000 activists gathered in Detroit for the US Social Forum this week are several Grassroots International partners. Grassroots International regularly provides funding to our partners and a ...
  • You Are What You Eat
    Subheadline:� The Food Sovereignty Struggle within the Global Justice Movement Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� John E. Peck is the executive director of Family Farm Defenders, a Grassr ...

Climate

  • July 3-4, 2010
    Obama Announces Close to $2B in Solar Loan Guarantees (Eath2Tech) Pres. Obama took the opportunity of his weekly video address over the July 4th weekend to announce that the DOE has awarded $1.85 billion in loan guarantees to Spanish solar firm Abengoa Solar and Colorado-based solar panel ...
  • July 2, 2010
    Climate Scientist Cleared of Altering Data (New York Times) Michael Mann, a U.S. scientist accused of manipulating research findings on climate science, was cleared of that charge by his university on Thursday, the latest in a string of reports to find little substance in the allegations kno ...
  • July 1, 2010
    US EPA: Tests Show Dispersants Safe for Sea Life (Reuters) The U.S. EPA said on Wednesday that initial tests show that the dispersant BP is using to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico does not harm endocrine systems in aquatic life. NRG Says BP Spill May Slow Permitting Process for Offs ...
  • June 30, 2010
    Dems Seek to Salvage Climate Provisions After White House Meeting (The Hill) A much-hyped White House meeting Tuesday between President Obama and a bipartisan group of senators produced no breakthrough as the political sands continue to run out on passing a climate bill this year.  EP ...
  • June 29, 2010
    Obama to Meet Senators Tuesday on Climate, Energy (Reuters) President Obama will meet with senators on Tuesday to push for passage this year of a bill to fight climate change and revamp energy policy, the White House said. Graham to Skip White House Energy and Climate Meeting (The Hil ...

GreenBiz

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

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Booman Tribune

  • Musings For Independence Day
    If a pollster called me up and asked if I were proud to be an American I suppose that I would say 'yes.' But I don't think I'd really know what I meant by that, or what the pollster thought I meant by it. It's just a weird question. I'd be more comfortable answering a question about whether I was ...
  • Casual Observation
    Nancy Pelosi= Good. Diane Feinstein= Bad. Pelosi is fighting to make sure the congressional intelligence committees can conduct appropriate oversight of the Intelligence Community, including the CIA. Diane Feinstein is complaining about it.
  • Getting Credit When It's Due
    Unsurprisingly, I don't agree with Peter Beinart on many details, but I agree with this: One can argue about whether the bill the Senate passed will truly change the way Wall Street operates, but off the top of your head, can you name a more significant piece of progressive legislation signed by ...
  • Serious Question
    I'm trying to understand what the hell Kathleen Parker is going on about. As best as I can tell, she's saying that, for her, Obama is not a black man but more like O.J. Simpson (before he nearly cut his wife's head off with a knife). And he's a chick. Does that about sum it up?
  • Herding Cats
    It's getting close to time for the left to close ranks, unless you want to deal with a Speaker Boehner. I know I don't. But, then, I haven't been engaging in ritual cannibalism for the last year and a half.

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Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 19
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 19 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episo ...
  • MBA, RIP?
    This week’s Zeitgeist was brought to you by… growing mistrust of the American higher education system, and of higher education in general! First of all, the business world wakes up from the hangover of the economic collapse and starts wondering whether the ubiquitous business degree was a root cause ...
  • The hopeful monsters: blimp freighters
    Another trope from the future of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl is knocking on the door of tomorrow, as the UK government’s former chief science advisor suggests that blimps could take up the role of air freighters. Boeing and Lockheed Martin are apparently already on the case of modernising thi ...
  • NEW FICTION: YOUR LIFE SENTENCE by C C Finlay
    Your name is Nicole Palmer, and this is the world you wanted, one where every unborn child is safe, protected by the law from the moment he or she is conceived. You practice what you believe. Through three pregnancies, you didn't smoke, didn't drink, and didn't touch coffee or chocolate or anything ...
  • Preventing potential lesbianism in the womb
    Science has brought us many wonderful things, but it sometimes gets picked up as a blunt instrument by people with deeply screwed up ideas about what is right and wrong. Worried your unborn female child might grow up to be uninterested in having children, or attracted to “traditionally masculine” ca ...

Therapy News

  • Special Mental Health Court Helps Prevent Repeat A ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In jails nation wide, recidivism rates for people with mental illness are higher than rates for offenders without mental illness. But one California court is working to help fix the problem, not just punish the offender. It’s called Mental Health Treatment Court, and ...
  • Popular Cholesterol Drugs Linked with Depression
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Too much cholesterol in the blood can be bad for heart health. But new research shows that controlling cholesterol with prescription drugs may have a detrimental effect on mental health. In the brain, small amounts of cholesterol help receptors pick up serotonin, a mo ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy Reading! ⢠State Wants Mental Health Help from BP ⢠Women: Active Teenage Lifestyle Encourages Active Cogn ...
  • Why Does Serious Mental Illness Shorten Life Expec ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary People with serious mental illness are more likely to die below average life expectancy, and to die at an earlier age, than are people without serious mental illness. That mental illness often results in premature mortality is not a new observation. However, researcher ...
  • An Introduction to EMDR and The AIP Model
    By Sarah Jenkins, MC, LPC, EMDR Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile EMDR celebrated its 20th year in 2009 and is a researched-based alternative to traditional “talk therapy” in the treatment of trauma. Francine Shapiro created EMDR and initiall ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Common Ground director discusses highlights of eve ...
    Common Ground director discusses highlights of event Carroll County Times A: The other issue that is coming this year is, as always, mountaintop removal . I think that's very timely in that it's the same kind of environmental ... and more��
  • Why Wendell Berry's pulling his personal papers fr ...
    Why Wendell Berry's pulling his personal papers from UK State-Journal.com “And I'm going to continue to work against mountaintop removal ,” he says. “Being here on our farm is increasingly satisfactory to me. ...
  • Mining protester pleads no contest - Lancaster New ...
    Mining protester pleads no contest Lancaster Newspapers The pair oppose mountaintop removal mining. Massey Energy owns Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., where 29 workers were killed in an explosion ... and more��
  • Farewell to an Unlikely Hero - Huffington Post (bl ...
    Boston Globe Farewell to an Unlikely Hero Huffington Post (blog) When EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson decided that her agency needed to set firm standards for water pollution from mountaintop-removal mines, Byrd shocked ... Senator Robert Byrd: An Appreciation AlterNet (blog) Final homecoming Bluefi ...
  • There Are Mountains and There Are Mountains - Alte ...
    AlterNet (blog) There Are Mountains and There Are Mountains AlterNet (blog) Who is financing Mountaintop Removal now that Chase got out of the business? Our answer came from Rainforest Action Network. Two banks, mostly, PNC Bank of ...

Memeorandum

  • Following up on 'the first female president' (Kath ...
    Kathleen Parker / Washington Post : Following up on ‘the first female president’   —  In the days since I suggested that President Obama's rhetorical style mimics feminine tropes, I've been informed of the following:  —  One, a black man cannot show anger in public lest he be considered an Angry B ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: GOP prepares as calls for Steele's resi ...
    Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times : EXCLUSIVE: GOP prepares as calls for Steele's resignation grows   —  With Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele facing a barrage of calls to resign, North Dakota Republican Party Chairman Gary Emineth, a social conservative, told The Washingto ...
  • A better welcome for our nation's immigrants (Wash ...
    Washington Post : A better welcome for our nation's immigrants   —  On our national birthday, and amid an angry debate about immigration, Americans should reflect on the lessons of our shared immigrant past.  We must recall that the challenges facing our nation today were felt as far back as the Fo ...
  • Utah radio station dumps Sean Hannity (Dan Metcalf ...
    Dan Metcalf Jr / KTVX-TV : Utah radio station dumps Sean Hannity … SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - KSL Radio announced that they will no longer air Sean Hannity's syndicated national talk show.  —  The last KSL broadcast of the Sean Hannity show will air on October 1, 2010.  —  The announcement come ...
  • Gulf oil spill likely to reach Florida Keys, Miami ...
    Los Angeles Times : Gulf oil spill likely to reach Florida Keys, Miami, report says   —  Those shorelines will probably see tar balls in the months ahead, NOAA finds.  Also, skimming boats prepare to go back to work, and efforts to help turtles and migrating birds are announced.  —  Controlled bur ...

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China Dialogue

  • Shopaholic China
    From Ecuador to Iraq, Chinese energy giants have used the financial crisis to snap up oil, gas and metals deals, shifting power over global resources east, says Michael Klare. Think of it as a tale of two countries. When it comes to procuring the resources that make industrial societies run, China i ...
  • Heart of Dryness (3)
    Like Botswana’s Bushmen, we cannot escape the reality of water scarcity and must organise human behavior and society around that constraint, James G Workman writes in a final excerpt from his book. The Kalahari Bushmen – remnants of one of the world’s most successful civilisations – are at the epice ...
  • Heart of Dryness (2)
    In the second excerpt from his book, James G Workman describes what Botswana learned, to its horror, when the capacity of its Gabarone Dam fell to historic lows -- and tensions rose dramatically. The Kalahari Bushmen – remnants of one of the world’s most successful civilisations – are at the epic ...
  • Heart of Dryness (1)
    In chronicling the Kalahari Bushmen’s saga, James G Workman explores the larger story of water, a 21st-century battleground. The deserts are coming to us, he warns in the first of three book excerpts. The Kalahari Bushmen – remnants of one of the world’s most successful civilisations – are at the ep ...
  • Fixing the food chain
    The Shanghai Expo has triggered a familiar clampdown on food-safety violations in China. But, says Jiang Gaoming, the public needs protecting all the time – not just at international events. By the time it closes in October, the Shanghai World Expo is expected to have attracted 206 nations and inter ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Soda Taxes: Politics vs. Public Health
    Cross-posted from Food Politics. By analogy with cigarettes, taxes on sodas might discourage people—especially young people—from consuming sugary drinks.  This might help with weight issues. According to a new analysis by USDA economists, A tax-induced 20-percent price increase on caloric sweete ...
  • Hell Hath Expanded Herself: Ranking the World&#821 ...
    Foreign Policy, in collaboration with The Fund for Peace, has posted their 6th annual analysis of the most vulnerable states in the world.  One can’t help but cringe at the biblical/apocalyptic references:  ”In the Beginning, There was Somalia,” and “Postcards from Hell.”  And critics have noted ...
  • There Are Mountains and There Are Mountains
    Who is financing Mountaintop Removal now that Chase got out of the business? Our answer came from Rainforest Action Network. Two banks, mostly, PNC Bank of Philadelphia and UBS Bank of Switzerland. UBS? How do we even get within haling distance? UBS is famous for secret bank accounts and Nazi loot. ...
  • Christian Book Touting Manly Aggression Inspires V ...
    “My boys chew their graham crackers into the shape of handguns at the breakfast table.” – John Eldredge, from Wild At Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s SoulWhat if your million copy-plus bestselling inspirational book calling on men to act more manly, aggressive, even violent became a key sou ...
  • Dangerous Brew: Dismiss Extreme Right-Wing Tea Par ...
    The Tea Party is organized, well-funded and dangerous. Read what you can do about it.

Threat Level

  • Woman Jailed 2 Days for Filming Movie Screen Sues ...
    A 22-year-old woman jailed two days in November after being arrested for filming two brief snippets of a motion picture is lashing back at the theater, claiming its manager demanded her arrest despite the police department’s reluctance. In a civil suit lodged in federal court in Illinois, Samantha T ...
  • With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepai ...
    Would-be whistle-blowers hoping to leak documents to Wikileaks face a potentially frustrating surprise. Wikileaks’ submission process, which had been degraded for months, completely collapsed more than two weeks ago and remains offline, in a little-noted breakdown at the world’s most prominent sec ...
  • Too Scary to Fly, Not Scary Enough to Arrest
    Ten U.S citizens and residents, three of whom are veterans, are stuck abroad or cannot fly within or out of the United States because they are wrongly on a no-fly list, according to a federal lawsuit lodged Wednesday. The Oregon federal court case claims the plaintiffs, many with Middle Eastern name ...
  • Group Wants FTC to Probe Data Broker Spokeo
    Spokeo, an online data broker, is accused of peddling inaccurate information and violating consumer protection laws in a complaint sent to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday. The Center for Democracy and Technology, which filed the complaint, alleges Spokeo purports to provide information ab ...
  • Foursquare Puts Money Before Privacy
    Foursquare, one of the net’s hottest startups, got an unwanted message on June 20 from a white-hat hacker: it was leaking user data on a massive scale in plain violation of its privacy policy. The company asked the white hat, Jesper Andersen, to give it nine days to deal with the problem that it was ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Analysis: Legal tussles get messier for Gulf rig o ...
    SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil and gas drillers that have seen some of their most profitable deepwater Gulf of Mexico projects stalled by the spill now face new troubles as clients try to pull out of safer, shallower wells.
  • Watch out: yuan may fall as volatility picks up
    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Now that China is staying true to its word and letting the yuan trade a bit more freely, analysts and investors outside the mainland may not be prepared for one potential outcome: a yuan drop.
  • Tests start on "super skimmer" for Gulf oil spill
    NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A supertanker adapted to scoop up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico began tests on Saturday amid a report that some major investors expect the energy giant to replace its top executives.
  • Cavaliers finally get their meeting with James
    CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The Cleveland Cavaliers finally had their chance to meet with free agent LeBron James and make their pitch to retain the services of the NBA's reigning MVP.
  • Germany oust Argentina, Spain beat Paraguay
    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Germany demolished Argentina and Spain beat Paraguay by one goal in a quarter-final

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  • The True Meaning of the 4th of July and Famous Cel ...
    The True Meaning of the 4th of July and Famous Celebratory Quotes By KC Kelly | Huliq The 4th of July is an extremely patriotic holiday that can be celebrated in part with Fourth of July quotes. The fourth of July is a day that we celebrate the independence of our country, the United States of Am ...
  • Actually, Afghanistan Is A War Of Choice
    Actually, Afghanistan is a war of choice By Ian Welsh | Crooks & Liars This is the sad truth of America: the only acceptable form of Keynesian spending is military Keynesianism. Instead of hiring tens of thousands of teachers, building a high speed rail network across the country, refitting every b ...
  • Habitat for Humanity's 'Musicians Village' Homes I ...
    Habitat for Humanity's 'Musicians Village' Homes In NOLA Were Made With Defective Chinese Drywall By Susie Madrak | Crooks & Liars This is devastating. The working poor of New Orleans must feel like they have a target on their backs. Katrina, the Gulf disaster... now this? Apparently Habitat for Hu ...
  • Genetic Damage And Health In Fallujah Iraq Worse T ...
    Genetic damage and health in Fallujah Iraq worse than Hiroshima | Brussels Tribunal | Press Release | 02 July 2010 Results of a population-based epidemiological study organized by Malak Hamdan* and Chris Busby are published on 03 July 2010 in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Pu ...
  • War is Peace, Occupation is Withdrawal, and Nation ...
    War is Peace, Occupation is Withdrawal, and Nation-Building is an Exit Strategy By Austin Bramwell | American Conservative Ross Douthat had this to say today about why we can’t leave Afghanistan: Why? Because of three considerations. First, the memory of 9/11, which ensures that any American pr ...

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  • Exclusive: Obama admin unable to resolve shutdown ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Obama administration officials have failed to resolve a dispute with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that has shut down Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), according to an email obtained by Grist. The impasse will likely kill the promising clean-energy financing tool until Cong ...
  • 10 fresh ideas that can help set you free (from oi ...
    by Randy Rieland. With the Fourth of July approaching, let us pause and consider the words of that great patriot Sarah Palin: "Americans are not addicted to oil, Americans are addicted to freedom -- the freedom to move freely and independently where and when we want." Makes you want to go out an ...
  • BP sued for burning endangered sea turtles alive
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Environmental and animal-welfare groups Wednesday sued BP for burning endangered sea turtles and asked a federal court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf of Mexico spill. "It is horrifying that these innocent creatures whose hab ...
  • TV weathercasters and news directors are distortin ...
    by Randy Rieland. Just a few months ago, we learned that one out of four weathercasters surveyed [PDF] thought global warming wasn't really happening, and another 21 percent weren't sure yet.  Now a new survey [PDF] reveals that 21 percent of TV news directors don't think climate change is real, ...
  • Portugal’s eco-city, Amazon’s ugly HQ, ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Progress toward a sustainable future may be stalled in the Senate , but there's a ton of news and interesting research happening at the local level on the broad topic of improving built spaces -- cities, towns, buildings, transportation systems, etc. A quick roundup from the ...

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Washington Independent

  • Big Budget Provisions Pass the House
    Late yesterday, the House passed a war-funding bill. But the $80 billion bill actually includes only $37 billion in war funding; the rest is made up of domestic-policy spending, including $10 billion to avoid teacher layoffs, $5 billion for Pell Grants, $1 billion for summer jobs for youths and $70 ...
  • McConnell Confirms He’s A ‘No’ o ...
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), anticipating that Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination will make it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced he will vote against her when she comes up for a vote on the floor. McConnell said he opposed Kagan because he felt she had too e ...
  • FinReg Update
    I’ve been focusing intently on the jobs situation and unemployment extension bill this week, but here’s a roundup of the need-to-know news on the Wall Street or financial regulatory reform bill. The House passed the conference committee version with bipartisan support, and now it only needs Senate a ...
  • Stabenow, Economists: Senate Stalemate on Unemploy ...
    Earlier today, I participated in a reporters’ call with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), one of the loudest proponents of the immediate passage of the extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits, as well as Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moodys.com, and Heather Boushey of the Center for Ame ...
  • Hatch a ‘No’ Vote on Kagan; Where Does ...
    Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced a little while ago that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation when the Senate Judiciary Committee convenes after the recess, citing his belief that her legal views are based on personal politics. Obviously this is not totally unexpe ...

Digg Green

  • Recession Lowers Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    The economic downturn has led to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized countries. Excepting US, most other rich countries are now well below their Kyoto agreement targets.
  • Indonesia's Last Glacier will Melt Within Years
    Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle the affect of global warming on the last remaining glacier in the Pacific. He's worried he got there too late.
  • Frustrated by Boycott, Gas Station Owners Beg for ...
    Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline. As more Americans shun BP gasoline as a form of protest over the Gulf oil spill, station owners are insisting BP do more to help them convince motorists that such boycotts mostly hurt independently-owned businesses ...
  • Arctic Sea-Ice Recovery?
    New research suggests that the decrease in sea-ice seen in recent years in the Arctic may not be as bad as some have suggested. Some models suggest that Arctic ice is in long-term decline leading to sea-ice free summers. Whilst such speculations have been amplified by the media there are many clima ...
  • Storm May Jeopardise Oil Clean-Up
    A tropical storm is heading for the Gulf of Mexico, potentially forcing BP to abandon clean-up operations for at least two weeks and threatening to push millions of gallons of oil and toxic dispersant onshore.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Nintendo Samsung and Digit warn you about 3D
    Get this: viewing 3D video is probably bad for you, at least that’s what Samsung and Nintendo are saying! So, if you felt disoriented, nauseous and tired, or experienced some eye or muscle twitching after seeing a 3D movie, you arenât alone. These symptoms are caused by your temporarily reduced bi ...
  • GORDON DUFF: CIA HINTS, BIN LADEN DEAD SINCE “EARL ...
    This week, CIA director Leon Panetta, admitted there has been no information on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts since “the early 2000?s.” During briefings with the directors of Paksitan’s information and intelligence agencies it was confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed, as stated by Prime Mi ...
  • New Zealand’s Prime Minister: Climate Change bill ...
    by Anthony Watts Via Andrew Bolt in email, some surprising revelations about New Zealand’s Prime minister and his previous opinion of the ETS. It appears he has done a complete about face from his very strong opinions of 2005. The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, has just introduced the worl ...
  • British taxpayers spent £1.2bn on the swine flu pa ...
    By Sophie Borland More than £1.2billion of taxpayers’ money was spent on the swine flu pandemic that never materialised, a report has found. The Government was forced to squander vast sums on vaccines based on dire predictions that never came true. But ministers were committed to the spending becaus ...
  • Millions of vaccine doses to be burned
    By MIKE STOBBE ATLANTA â About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired â meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash. “It’s a lot, by historical standards,” said Jerry Weir, who oversees vaccine research and ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • The Petrolholics 12 Step Program to Oil Addiction
    I ran across an excellent blog by Wallace J Nichols this morning called Petroholics Anonymous. Check out the 12 step Program to Oil Addiction. I ran across an excellent blog by Wallace J Nichols this morning called Petroholics Anonymous. Check out the 12 step Program to Oil Addiction. Relate ...
  • Have Energy and Climate Change Questions? Live Cha ...
    Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change will host a live chat today. Related posts: White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts White House: The Primary Cause of Climate Change is Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reactions to the Clean Energy Bill ...
  • Dances with the Moon: Watch out Moon, They Might b ...
    Water Found on Moon, Researchers Say Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow the Dances with the Moon series here. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Does Oil Clot? Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Related posts: Dances with the ...
  • Federal Judge Overturns Obama Drilling Ban
    U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman overturned the Obama Administrations deepwater drilling ban. Related posts: President Obama Gives Federal Agencies 90 Days to set Greenhouse Reduction Goals Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon) Judge Blocks BLM From Leasing Contested Utah Wilderne ...
  • Photo Sunday – There Is Another Sky: Photos Poetry ...
    Emily Dickinson wrote a wonderful poem called "There Is Another Sky." Please enjoy the audio recording and the sky photos that accompany it. Related posts: Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Easter and Passover – Renewal and Rebirth Photo Sunday – Back to the F ...

Inhabitat

  • LIFE BOX – Brilliant, Seed-Sprouting Cardboard Pac ...
    If you ever engage in online shopping (or even if you don’t), you probably recognize how ubiquitous and space-cluttering cardboard packaging is. But what if every cardboard box you got from Amazon came embedded with tiny seeds – so that you could plant your cardboard boxes in your backyard and spro ...
  • My Neighbor Totoro: One of the Best Family Films E ...
    As adorable as the animated characters of stories like “Shrek” and “Toy Story” may be, the trials and tribulations these protagonists go through often carry enough stress to send even the most tranquil adult into a padded white room. Unfortunately, this trend has become quite characteristic for the ...
  • Fiber Optic Stilettos Shine With Both Light and So ...
    The last thing anyone would expect is for fiber optics add class to an outfit, but designer Francesca Castagnacci has turned this fashion flub into a sexy and sophisticated statement on energy efficiency. Taking an of-the-moment stiletto of her own design, Castagnacci wrapped it in fabric woven with ...
  • Alec Farmer’s Microhouse Replica
    Reader Alec Farmer sent us this brilliant pic of his replica of Ken Isaacs’ 8′ Microhouse. Alec built it himself and is planning to live in it – off grid – for 1 year in Glasgow, Scotland to learn more about micro-architecture and sustainable living. Thanks and good luck Alec! READ MORE > Per ...
  • Design Build Bluff: Sustainable Homes For People W ...
    Read the rest of Design Build Bluff: Sustainable Homes For People Who Need Themhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: affordable housing, ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Jefferson’s Hidden Change to the Declaration
    Smudge analysis shows how Jefferson changed his mind. Spectral analysis of an uncharacteristic ink smudge on an early draft of the Declaration of Independence uncovered a little of the rebel spirit in Thomas Jefferson, the colonist and future president who wrote the document. About 80 years ago, so ...
  • Lizard Camouflage Confuses Males About Gender
    PORTLAND, Oregon — The recent evolution of camouflage among lizards in the powdery dunes of New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument can lead to some misunderstandings when some males choose to make love, not war. Since the dunes developed a few thousand years ago, a light-colored form of the nor ...
  • From the NASA Archive: Astronauts Inspect Their Bu ...
    Each of the Mercury 7 astronauts had a mold made of his backside, so engineers could build perfectly fitted seats for the spaceships. These personalized couches were supposed to help the guys withstand the incredible G-forces experienced during launch. Here Alan Shepard and John Glenn are examining ...
  • NASA Pushes Back End of Shuttle Era to 2011
    The aging space shuttle fleet was granted a few more months of life today. NASA decided to postpone the last two flights due to delays with the missions’ hardware. The next launch, STS-133, was pushed from Sept. 16 to Nov. 1. The final shuttle launch, STS-134, was moved from late November 2010 to F ...
  • Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed
    Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body, three independent papers report in the July 2 Cell Stem Cell. The new technique will allow scientists to tap a large, readily available source of personal ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Bangladesh and Our Global Future
    Agriculture researchers in Bangladesh have released a new report on climate change. They predict that if nothing is done, rice production will dramatically decline by 2050, just as the nation’s population is peaking. As a hot, low-lying, agricultural nation, Bangladesh is especially vulnerable to c ...
  • Defending Michael Steele from War-Hungry RNC Membe ...
    Michael Steele is right on Afghanistan. The Republican National Committee Chairman, who is receiving a heap of scorn by war-hungry members of his party and by Democrats who want to puff up and act like the real defenders of the Pentagon faith, called the conflict in Afghanistan "a war of Obama's ch ...
  • The Case for McChrystal: An Insider Speaks
    I was early among those arguing that, after the Rolling Stone article, General Stanley McChrystal really had to go. This, I argued, was a matter of civilian-military relations, rather than anything to do with his conduct of the war. Recently I spoke with a US-policy insider who argued that (notwiths ...
  • Bipartisan Agreement: War Must Not Be Criticized!
    Rich Lowry , National Review , September 1, 2006: On Iraq, the Democrats are the party of defeat. That’s not a partisan smear, but a fact. The further we slide toward defeat, the higher the Democrats’ political fortunes rise. To the extent they offer any clear policy alternative for Iraq, it is eit ...
  • Obama Links Iran Sanctions to START
    Last night, President Obama signed into law a new Iran sanctions bill that will put into place the harshest sanctions ever lodged against Iran. While acting tough on Iran has been the one issue that has seemingly united Republicans and Democrats, President Obama also took time to note the importance ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The TAP Five.
    The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. "A Guide to the Kagan Smears " " Sargent on Weigel " " The Obama Era's Climate Fight " " Chait Bait: World Cup As Popular As World Series " " Another Culture War? No Thanks "
  • Lightning Round: It's the Turnout, Stupid.
    David Plouffe believes that the "prospect of a Republican takeover" will help Democrats with "turnout and some of this enthusiasm gap." Maybe he's right, but looking at new Pew data ,�what Democrats really need is to boost turnout relative to Republican enthusiasm. Democratic enthusiasm at this tim ...
  • Rethinking the Pro Tempore Rules.
    I'm on record as being less-than-thrilled with the eulogizing of Robert Byrd, whose major accomplishments as a senator seem to have involve funneling money back to West Virginia and holding down his seat for a really, really long time. The length of his tenure placed him third in line for the presid ...
  • The Little Picture: Legal Women.
    Elena Kagan when she was dean of Harvard Law School, seated next to Sandra Day O'Connor , the first female justice of the Supreme Court, October 2008. Kagan completed her Senate testimony for her Supreme Court nomination this week. (Flickr/ The Harvard Law Record )
  • Expanding the Reach of Gay Cinema.
    Annie Tsao talks to the founder of Wolfe Video, the largest distributor of gay and lesbian films in North America. What is your take on the state of gay and lesbian representation in the media, and how do you envision it changing in the future? You know, the fact that we've had success doesn't rep ...

Andy Worthington

  • Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe ( ...
    Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when the United States — the post-World War II driver of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions, prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment — went off the rails and introduced a horrendo ...
  • “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian ...
    Last week, Amnesty International in Slovakia revealed that three men released from Guantánamo to Slovakia in January had embarked on a hunger strike to protest about the conditions in which they are being held. Pending relocation, the men have been held since their arrival in a detention center in M ...
  • Activists’ Letter to the Justice Department on Gua ...
    Two weeks ago, after 24 members of the campaigning group Witness Against Torture were cleared of charges of “unlawful entry with disorderly conduct,” stemming from demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 (the date on which President Obama had promised the closure of Guantánamo), repre ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Obama’s Guantánamo Fail ...
    For our 15th interview — and our first since Antiwar Radio upgraded to a station with commercial breaks, making for a lean 20-minute show — Scott Horton and I began by discussing my recent article, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners, which allowed me to ...
  • Obama’s Moral Bankruptcy Regarding Torture
    Saturday was the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established twelve years ago to mark the day, in 1987, when the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment came into force, but you wouldn’t have found out about it through the mains ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Is Our Children Learned Yet?
    Clearly our town is hellbent on turning out thousands of uneducated kids in the future as New Milford has frozen the school budget for the second year straight. This is from an email that is circulating around and was forwarded to myself by more than one person: Dear Friends, Below is a letter I s ...
  • Offshore Drilling? WTF OBAMA???
    And before any negotiations on a bill for the milk starts some dumbasses have already given away the entire cow . Good luck with that. We have already seen what your administration's extraordinary leadership skill got us in enhancement of health insurance for profit reform . A little reading l ...
  • When we have a fire...
    The flames are going about twenty five feet in the air right now. If there is one thing every Boy Scout knows how to do? Start a really BIG FIRE.
  • The view from here
    My perspective as we wrap up the Bloggers meet up with Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Video coming soon.
  • Recruiting Young Republicans and Off to the Sex Cl ...
    There was quite a bit of talk yesterday concerning the RNC's interesting expense account... Obviously spending the money people donate to the Republican National Committee on a night out at an expensive Hollywood bondage and lesbian themed sex club was not exactly what the donors would hope for, nev ...

SPL Center

  • Arizona Councilman Attacks Mural for Highlighting ...
    A city councilman with a history of racial insensitivity in Prescott, Ariz., has been fired from his talk radio show after his complaints about a school mural featuring children of several races helped propel the artwork into an embarrassing national news story. Last month, Steve Blair commented on ...
  • White Supremacist Linked to Mail Bombing Imprisone ...
    A firearms and explosives expert suspected of involvement with two white supremacist brothers in the sending of a bomb to the office of a municipal diversity officer was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in Missouri on Tuesday. Robert Joos Jr., an antigovernment zealot and pastor of a church of “apoca ...
  • Expanding A3P Absorbs Another Hate Group
    The American Third Position (A3P), a fledgling but important Southern California-based white supremacist political party, has expanded its base by merging with another relatively new racist and anti-Semitic organization. The latter group, the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots (LOAP), was ...
  • IFI’s Laurie Higgins Goes Off the Deep End, Again
    So you thought McDonald’s was a huge fast-food restaurant chain making huge profits and reaping some criticism in the process over the healthiness of its food? Well, think again. The company whose 31,000 outlets serve nearly 47 million people a day actually is a full-fledged font of evil. It is “hel ...
  • Neo-Nazi Bill White Facing Jury Intimidation Trial
    Former neo-Nazi leader Bill White , already doing time in a federal prison, may face trial in a separate case of allegedly encouraging violence against a jury foreman. A federal judge in Chicago ruled 11 months ago that when White posted personal information, including the home address and phone num ...

change: org.

  • Will Traffic Stop the Greatest Migration on Earth?
    When you think of the last untouched wild places on Earth, the Serengeti probably comes to mind. The Serengeti is about 12,000 square miles in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, but as the iconic image of Africa's unique ecosystems, the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world looms much larger ...
  • Victoria Kolakowski: The Country's First Transgend ...
    Victoria Kolakowski, a candidate for Alameda County Superior Court Judge, is aiming to be the first transgender judge in the judicial branch of the U.S. government. The New York born candidate, who now lives outside of San Francisco, finished first in her historic bid for a seat on the Alameda Count ...
  • Remembering Richard: The Struggle for Safe Humane ...
    No matter who we are or where we are, we all want to live in safe, humane communities. Richard did, too — but he was killed, a victim of gun violence . He was shot on the South Side of Chicago, two days before the Supreme Court ruled against the city's ban on handguns. I never met Richard McGill, bu ...
  • Vegetarian Diet Key to Living Past 100?
    If you're a meat-loving, beer-swigging atheist, this may be bad news for you. The BBC shared the results of a new study by U.S. scientists who have been trying to find out what factors lead people to live more than 100 years. Their research is based on the largest study of centenarians thus far, acc ...
  • Scarce Summer Meal Programs Leave More Kids Hungry
    I recently asked whether federally-subsidized summer meal programs would keep pace with the growing need. We won't know this year's answer for awhile. But for last year, the answer is a resounding NO. According to the just-released Food Research and Action Center's report (pdf) on 2009 summer meal p ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Oil Spill Media Access: Reporters Still Given the ...
    by Jason Linkins The latest chapter in the media's ongoing struggle to cover the Gulf Oil Spill comes courtesy of PBS Newshour's Bridget Desimone , who has been working with her colleague, Betty Ann Bowser, in "reporting the health impact of the oil spill in Plaquemines Parish." Desimone report ...
  • Warning of Looming Crisis, Louisiana Calls on BP t ...
    by Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica As Louisiana officials warn of a possible mental health crisis in communities affected by the oil spill, BP has yet to respond to a month-old request from the Louisiana health department to fund emergency mental health programs .   The impasse has prompted Louisiana ...
  • The Other Side of World Cup Footballs
    by Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan - England coach Fabio Capello has bemoaned the unpredictable trajectory of the Jabulani World Cup ball, calling it "the worst ball"in the history of the tournament. But labour rights groups have a greater complaint. The workers producing the footballs are seei ...
  • Small Creatures and Climate Change: How Warming Ca ...
    by Brenda Ekwurzel Climate change is messing with mammals. Among other things, it is shifting their geographical ranges, changing their behavior (or, as scientists call it, their phenology), and causing disruptions up and down the food chain. Researchers often look to ancient times for informati ...
  • Joint Lawsuit Planned for G20 Arrestees
    by Jennifer Yang The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says it is considering a joint lawsuit against the Toronto police and other police forces responsible for the G20 mass arrests. “The CCLA is planning to help people who are seeking compensation to (initiate) a lawsuit in the Superior Court ...

Lifehacker

  • ChangeDetection Keeps You Updated on Feed-Free Web ...
    It's become increasingly rare to find a web site without some sort notification or feed system. For those sites that lack an RSS feed ChangeDetection will keep a close eye on things and email you when changes occur. More�� ...
  • Stop Equating Monthly Payments with Affordability ...
    Few of us can claim to not be guilty of at least a purchase of two where we said to ourselves "Only X per month? That's not bad at all!" Using the monthly payment to assess affordability, however, is a financial trap. More�� ...
  • Browser Speed Tests: The Latest Chrome, Firefox, O ...
    Many readers have asked us to replicate our browser speed tests on a Mac, to see the difference in platforms and performance. So we snagged a new MacBook Pro when nobody was looking and tested the latest browsers on it. More�� ...
  • Google Extends Suspicious Login Notification to Go ...
    If you use Google Dashboard to manage your Google Accounts the suspicious login security feature rolled out last month in Gmail now appear in the Dashboard. More�� Google - Google Dashboard - Searching - Search Engines ...
  • Follow Lifehacker and Send Us Tips Through Twitter ...
    We push our best stuff to our our Twitter feed —it's essentially a hand-picked, personalized RSS stream for anyone who wants it. So feel free to join the conversation there, where we also do research and pull in great tips. More » ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The Dogma Of COIN-Colonialism
    By Steve Hynd An important piece by Col. Gian Gentile in the new National Defense University's Joint Force Quarterly looks at the dogmatic defense of counter-insurgency theory by its advocates and how that defense hampers foreign policy thinking. A snippet: FM 3–24 is not perfect, and it is not the ...
  • NPR Reads the Declaration of Independence
    By John Ballard Here is the link to this year's reading of the Declaration of Independence by NPR journalists. I look forward to this feature every Independence Day, a tradition that goes back many years. It takes less than ten minutes. I miss the voices of the late Red Barber, Baxter Black and Bob ...
  • Obama's War
    By Dave Anderson: Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee made an interesting statement on Afghanistan that sounds like it is coming from the mouth of a 'Hogger than a Republican (h/t TPM) "Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama's choosing. This is not ...
  • IG Report: US Over-Estimating Ability Of Afghan Fo ...
    By Steve Hynd Here we go again with the PR spin for domestic consumption that has no relation to reality on the ground: The United States has often overestimated the ability of Afghan military and police units to fight on their own, jeopardizing the strategy to win the war and bring troops home, acc ...
  • Afghanistan: Last Act Or Song That Never Ends?
    By Steve Hynd In the wake of General Stanley McChrystal's departure and after a string of bad news stories from Afghanistan, those who say that we've spent more than enough time, money and blood on what is a marginal strategic concern have gained ground. But in reply, it is argued that a "long war" ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 19
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 19 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episo ...
  • MBA, RIP?
    This week’s Zeitgeist was brought to you by… growing mistrust of the American higher education system, and of higher education in general! First of all, the business world wakes up from the hangover of the economic collapse and starts wondering whether the ubiquitous business degree was a root cause ...
  • The hopeful monsters: blimp freighters
    Another trope from the future of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl is knocking on the door of tomorrow, as the UK government’s former chief science advisor suggests that blimps could take up the role of air freighters. Boeing and Lockheed Martin are apparently already on the case of modernising thi ...
  • NEW FICTION: YOUR LIFE SENTENCE by C C Finlay
    Your name is Nicole Palmer, and this is the world you wanted, one where every unborn child is safe, protected by the law from the moment he or she is conceived. You practice what you believe. Through three pregnancies, you didn't smoke, didn't drink, and didn't touch coffee or chocolate or anything ...
  • Preventing potential lesbianism in the womb
    Science has brought us many wonderful things, but it sometimes gets picked up as a blunt instrument by people with deeply screwed up ideas about what is right and wrong. Worried your unborn female child might grow up to be uninterested in having children, or attracted to “traditionally masculine” ca ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Major Cost Growth and Unexpected De ...
    Report finds DHS contracts over budget, behind schedule by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] SEC may use Goldman Sachs to improve its image by David Lieberman [USA Today] Former regulators find steady work with hedge funds by Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Emily...
  • C-17: Unwanted Cargo to Budget
    As Congress begins consideration of the FY 2011 Defense Appropriations bill, we hope that they will support the Pentagon and President by passing such waste-reduction initiatives as an amendment to strip funding for unneeded C-17 cargo planes. The Pentagon has...
  • Citizen KBR? POGO Examines Another Corporate Ethic ...
    Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine has released a ranking of the “ Best Corporate Citizens in Government Contracting .” The ranking was designed to measure the transparency and accountability of the top publicly traded companies that provide goods and services to the federal governmen ...
  • Morning Smoke: House Approves Wall Street Reform B ...
    Bank bill clears House by Chris Frates and Meredith Shiner [Politico] Treasury's 'Point Man' on AIG Bailout That Benefited Goldman, Owned Goldman Stock by Karen Weise [ProPublica] AIG's Former Derivatives Chief Claims He Could Have Gotten Better Deal For Taxpayers...
  • Senate Committee Passes Amendment to Slow Revolvin ...
    -- Mandy Smithberger and Bryan Rahija

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Felonies Make Finding a Job Nearly Impossible
    I met Angel in Shawnee, Oklahoma. With no place to stay all winter, he called an abandoned house home during the cold months. He had to sneak in late at night and leave early in the morning, often going days without food. He's suffered from drug and alcohol abuse, but he has been drug-free for two y ...
  • Why Housing Is Not the Answer to Homelessness
    We write a lot about housing on this blog, as well we should. Securing housing for those who are unhoused is, logically, a part of the answer to ending homelessness. However, it is not the definitive answer. Homelessness is a complex issue. I would venture to say it is a more complex issue than most ...
  • How I Became a Homeless Advocate — and How You Can ...
    You may have seen our blogger Eric Sheptock, who calls himself a homeless advocate for the homeless, on CNN today. His previous appearance can be found here . Welcome to the conversation. Lately, many homeless people have asked me about what they would have to do in order to become a homeless advoc ...
  • Homeless Man, Asleep on the Beach, Killed by Dump ...
    Growing up on the beach at the Jersey shore, my friends and I spent countless nights sleeping on the cool sand listening to the waves. Yes, it's illegal and slightly dangerous, but we knew we could always just run home if trouble found us. Michael "Gray Wolf" Knockett was not so lucky. Knockett, wh ...
  • Leave it to Michael Medved to See the Glass as Hal ...
    The recently unveiled  Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness (pdf) aims to end chronic and veteran homelessness in five years and family, youth and child homelessness within ten years. "We believe it is important to set goals, even if aspirational, for true progress t ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Obama ditches U.S. commander in Afghanistan, repla ...
    On Wednesday, June 23rd, President Obama announced the dismissal of General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan. McChrystal was terminated due to comments reported in an article in Rolling Stone magazine, in which he and his staff insulted Obama’s National Security Advisor ...
  • Canada sells out on nuclear trade with India
    “If civilian nuclear cooperation is to be a primary fixture and symbol of the cordialization of Indo-Canadian relations,” writes CIGI Fellow Ernie Regehr, “it should be built on the most robust of nonproliferation conditions.” (Ernie Regehr, “The Canada-India civilian nuclear cooperation deal,” Dis ...
  • 77% say “peace and nuclear disarmament” very impor ...
    Protests this weekend will reflect a mix of concern over the G8/G20 summits’ agendas, and objections to the very legitimacy of the meetings themselves, suggests an online survey of “engaged Canadians” by the Rideau Institute. “There is a discussion going on among people participating in the protest ...
  • Stay in Afghanistan: Senate committee
    The Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence has recommended that Canada remain in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the mission in Kandahar (”Senate committee endorses continued military training mission in Afghanistan,” Canadian Press, 22 June 2010). The committee, chai ...
  • Children continue to suffer as the war in Afghanis ...
    “Aerial attacks, land mines and forced suicide bombings are only a few of the devastating consequences of the war in Afghanistan increasingly affecting the country’s children,” says a new report conducted by Watchlist, a non-governmental organization that examines the status of children in war-torn ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Six Months to go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in Hi ...
    July 2, 2010   Americans For Tax Reform   In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.  They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress ...
  • Obama pushes immigration reform, seeks broad suppo ...
    July 2, 2010 Reuters By: Jeff Mason WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama renewed his push for U.S. immigration reform on Thursday, reaching out to Hispanic voters despite minimal chances that Congress will pass such legislation this year. In a broad speech that did not break new policy ground, Obama, ...
  • High-Glycemic Carbohydrates Lead To Heart Disease
    July 2, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff A recent Italian study has found that women who eat diets rich in high-glycemic carbohydrates double their risk of developing coronary heart disease. Published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, the study confirms what many already know concerni ...
  • Gunfire hitting City Hall prompts Texas AG to ask ...
    July 2, 2010 El Paso Times EL PASO – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today demanded that President Obama send more troops to the Texas-Mexico border and used the shots that hit El Paso City Hall as an example of increased violence on the border. Abbott said in a letter that the seven shots that h ...
  • Melon Extracts Block Breast Cancer
    July 2, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Extract of bitter melon appears to block growth and induce death of cancerous cells, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Colorado and Saint Louis University, and published in the journal Cancer Research. “Our findings sug ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • ‘The Gaza flotilla has done more for Gaza than 10, ...
    The power that the emerging tactically adaptive resistance movement is acquiring draws largely from the fact that Israel is incapable of expressing itself in any other way than through the language of force. The Wall Street Journal reports: Hamas and Hezbollah, groups that have long battled Israel ...
  • Petraeus schemed with neocon columnist to push pro ...
    Philip Weiss reveals: Last March General David Petraeus, then head of Central Command, sought to undercut his own testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee that was critical of Israel by intriguing with a rightwing writer to put out a different story, in emails obtained by Mondoweiss. T ...
  • Mainstreaming realism
    It was widely assumed that George Bush’s departure from Washington would coincide with a revival of strength for the reality-based community — the people the neocons swept aside for the sake of empire. But though the neocon dream was quick to perish, the reality-based community is still struggling t ...
  • The limits of American power are like the borders ...
    For much of the last decade, Rory Stewart has provided one of the wisest voices on Afghanistan. A theme he pounds away at relentlessly is the necessity to differentiate between what is desirable and what is possible. Stewart, now a newly minted member of Britain’s parliament, writes in Der Spiegel: ...
  • The grim, relentless task of crushing of the Talib ...
    John Bolton writes: “America’s Afghanistan policy is in chaos. Fear of another Vietnam is palpable, and our friends and adversaries worldwide sense it.” Another Vietnam? If only the US might be so lucky! Vietnam was an exercise in nation building, interrupted by an American occupation, and then fai ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Antarctic sea ice peaks at third highest in the sa ...
    While everyone seems to be watching the Arctic extent with intense interest, it’s bipolar twin continues to make enough ice to keep the global sea ice balance near normal. These images from Cryosphere today provide the details. You won’t see … Continue reading →
  • July Snow in New Hampshire
    From the weather-is-not-climate department: By Jeff Fish, Globe Correspondent Ignoring the calendar, which showed the beginning of the month of July, a dusting of snow fell Thursday on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, startling tourists and forcing the closure of … Continue reading →
  • Flaming the Amazon
    Willis Eschenbach recently posted about “Baked Alaska“, as well as Out in the Ama-zone now from Dr. Richard North we have “Amazon Alibi in Flames” and the research of the document trail used to push the Sunday Times into a retraction … Continue reading →
  • Barrow Update
    By Steven Goddard, A few days ago I did a post Latest Barrow Ice Breakup On Record? Since then, the Barrow webcam has started showing open water, which has confused some of our friends into believing that the ice has … Continue reading →
  • A note of sincere thanks
    I’m on my way back to the USA from my Australian speaking tour.  I’ll be offline a couple of days. There are many, many, people who I owe a debt of gratitude to, for kindnesses big and small, but, there … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • 4th of July Afghan message to General Petraeus abo ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ ourjourneytosmile Love is how ordinary people everywhere want dignified, independent relationships http://ourjourneytosmile.com 4th of July Afghan message to General Petraeus about Kandahar and relationships see If McChrystal was Right, What does that Make Petrae ...
  • It Ain’t Gonna Happen, Frank by Steven Jonas ...
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1109806 by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com July 2, 2010 With his usual magnificent rhetoric, Frank Rich, Op-Ed columnist extraordinaire of The New York Times, recently laid out a grand agenda for President Obama ...
  • The Sheep Look Up by Gray Brechin
    by Gray Brechin Dandelion Salad July 2, 2010 Arthur C. Clarke and director Peter Hyams proved less than prophetic in the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, but they gave the audiences of 1984 what they wanted to hear. Cosmonaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) — who in the movie 2001 disappeared into a ...
  • US Economy Stuck in Misery by Joel S. Hirschhorn
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org July 2, 2010 The middle class is dead.  The US has produced a self-sustaining two-class society.  Most Lower Class Americans are in bad or uncertain economic shape but the rich and powerful Upper Class crowd keeps making and spendin ...
  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 6th Installment ...
    by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash,com July 1, 2010 This is the sixth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.  It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Soluti ...

Your New Reality

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    Deaths Of 'Conspiracy' Blogger & Artist Boyfriend To Be Subject Of New Film By Bret Easton Ellis & Gus Van Sant By Darryl Mason It's just a short snippet in a longer story from the LA Times about author/screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis' new novel, Imperial Bedrooms , a sequel o his 25 year old deb ...
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    Murdoch Newspaper Proudly Endorses Australian Coup Like no other media outlet in his worldwide empire, Rupert Murdoch's The Australian national broadsheet newspaper is the voice of Rupert Murdoch. He's lost tens of millions on The Australian over the years, but Murdoch keeps the newspaper going bec ...
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    Renovator's Dream Things are financially tougher for the US government than anyone could have possibly imagined. (click to enlarge) It's going for $10 million, which is a hell of a bargain for such a prime Washington DC address. The ad doesn't make clear if the air defence system on the roof is ...
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    Criticize Israel And You're A Terrorist...Even If You're An Israeli Incredible. This is the heart of Middle East democracy? Question the actions of the State, as an elected representative, and be called a 'Terrorist!" and a "murderer", again and again, and then be threatened with physical violence. ...
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Wired - Science

  • Jefferson’s Hidden Change to the Declaration
    Smudge analysis shows how Jefferson changed his mind. Spectral analysis of an uncharacteristic ink smudge on an early draft of the Declaration of Independence uncovered a little of the rebel spirit in Thomas Jefferson, the colonist and future president who wrote the document. About 80 years ago, so ...
  • Lizard Camouflage Confuses Males About Gender
    PORTLAND, Oregon — The recent evolution of camouflage among lizards in the powdery dunes of New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument can lead to some misunderstandings when some males choose to make love, not war. Since the dunes developed a few thousand years ago, a light-colored form of the nor ...
  • From the NASA Archive: Astronauts Inspect Their Bu ...
    Each of the Mercury 7 astronauts had a mold made of his backside, so engineers could build perfectly fitted seats for the spaceships. These personalized couches were supposed to help the guys withstand the incredible G-forces experienced during launch. Here Alan Shepard and John Glenn are examining ...
  • NASA Pushes Back End of Shuttle Era to 2011
    The aging space shuttle fleet was granted a few more months of life today. NASA decided to postpone the last two flights due to delays with the missions’ hardware. The next launch, STS-133, was pushed from Sept. 16 to Nov. 1. The final shuttle launch, STS-134, was moved from late November 2010 to F ...
  • Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed
    Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body, three independent papers report in the July 2 Cell Stem Cell. The new technique will allow scientists to tap a large, readily available source of personal ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Emily Henochowicz – Activist Grapples with Afterma ...
    Stuart Henochowicz: “I certainly don’t think Emily is a self-hating Jew ... I think she is an ethical Jew of the highest order. I think she is what Jewish people should be about. I don’t think Emily... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • EU-Israel talks skirt around Jerusalem police head ...
    Talks aimed at reaching an intelligence-sharing agreement between the European Union and Israel have skirted around the location of Israel's national police headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem...... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Terry Crawford-Browne: To end the occupation, crip ...
    anking sanctions impact quickly upon financial elites who have the clout to pressure governments to concede political change. Trade sanctions, by contrast, impact hardest on the poor or lower-paid... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • John Mearsheimer: Sinking Ship
    Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Ken Livingstone reviews Jonathan Cook’s “Israel an ...
    Ken Livingstone, the host of Epilogue book review program, calls Jonathan Cook's book "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations" "shocking" and "devastating." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA websi ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • What Parents Need to Know about Summer Injuries an ...
    Dr. Helene Pavlov, radiologist-in-chief at Hospital for Special Surgery, is available to discuss summertime bumps and bruises in children and what parents should understand about radiation safety regarding X-rays and other types of imaging.
  • Terrorist De-Radicalization Shows Promise, Compreh ...
    Programs to de-radicalize imprisoned terrorists show promise, if well-run, says a report from researchers at the University of Maryland and Kings College. It concludes that programs in Saudi-Arabia, Singapore and Indonesia can 'make a difference' and could inform policy regarding detainees in Guanta ...
  • Children's Hospital Issues Public Safety Warning o ...
    A strong public safety warning about the dangers of swimming pools comes in the wake of 19 drownings or near-drownings treated by doctors at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt since May 27.
  • Commission on Cancer Launches National Pilot Study ...
    A national pilot study that will promote evidence-based evaluation and treatment standards for patients with resectable non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was launched yesterday by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons. The Commission on Cancer National Pilot Study for ...
  • Transplanted Beta Cells Learn to Deal with Stress
    Joslin research finds natural mechanisms in insulin-producing cells that may be enhanced to aid type 1 diabetes treatments.

Natural Health News

  • 8 Hospital Secrets You Need to Know
    Mainstreet.com offers a few essential facts about hospitals that you should know before you check in: Stay Healthy in July July is the most dangerous month to visit a hospital. That’s the month when students graduate from medical school and start doing residencies at teaching hospitals. Deaths due ...
  • Combination MMRV Vaccine Increases Risk of Febrile ...
    Toddlers who get a vaccine that combines the measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox immunizations are at twice the usual risk for fevers that lead to convulsions. The reactions, which occur a week to 10 days after vaccination, can be frightening, although they are not fatal. The New York Times re ...
  • Parents Beware! Packaged Toddler- and Baby Food De ...
    Fifty three percent of food products specifically targeted to babies and toddlers in Canadian grocery stores have more than 20 percent of their calories coming from sugar. A study examined sugar and sodium levels in 186 food products specifically marketed for babies and toddlers. The study sought t ...
  • New Study Links Bee Decline to Cell Phones
    A new study suggests that cell phone radiation may be contributing to declines in bee populations.� Bee populations dropped 17 percent in the UK last year, and nearly 30 percent in the United States. Researchers fitted cell phones to a hive and powered them up for two fifteen-minute periods each da ...
  • New Airport Scanners Deliver 20X More Radiation th ...
    Full body scanners at airports could increase your risk of skin cancer, according to experts.� Scientists say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated, and could be particularly risky for children. Because the beam of radiation concentrates on the skin, which is one of the most radiatio ...

Antemedius

  • Learning to Listen to Farmers
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . At the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at Cape Coast University in Southern Ghana, learning takes place not only in classrooms, but also literally in fields and farms all over the country. As part of a program to im ...
  • G20 Police Attack Peaceful Protesters Sitting In T ...
    Queens Park is basically the "lawn" of the Ontario Legislature, in downtown Toronto. Protesters attempt to sit peacefully on the grassy median in front of Queen's park in Toronto on Saturday June 26, 2010 - police surround them and move in swinging batons and pepper spray . Also see: G20 Pol ...
  • Global Economic Crisis Explained
    Sociologist David Harvey , Professor in the Graduate Centre of City University of New York, asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane? Harvey's influential books include The ...
  • Making Drilling Safer Using Magnitude Of Regret
    I know that post might be drowned out by the death of Sen. Byrd (R.I.P Senator, your service will be remembered for a long time) and the start of confirmation hearings for Elana Kagan (Release the Kagan!) but given the intense pressure that short-sighted politicians are putting on the administration ...
  • G20 Police Attacking Journalists
    The Real News Network's Jesse Freeston and other journalists attacked by police during what began as peaceful street demonstrations at the G20 Summit in Toronto... Real News Network - June 27, 2010 Real News journalist attacked at G20 Daniel Tencer of RawStory has more of the story : TORONTO ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • The Nazis Didn’t Invade Austria and Czechoslovakia ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller Not according to Yaacov Lozowick , an Israeli historian: Here's my input, on a point no-one else seems to be noticing: There was no Nazi invasion of the Sudetenland, no invasion of Slovakia, hardly one of Austria and even less of Bohemia. Nazi Germany brutally invaded man ...
  • A Final Thought on Mark Janis’ ‘America and the La ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Having now finished America and the Law of Nations, let me add one more thought.  I had originally been interested in this book principally for the period between the world wars; my work on the UN has given me a long interest in the collective action failur ...
  • Morrison and the Effects Test
    by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. One of his articles on extraterritoriality was cited in Justice Stevens’s concurring opinion.] There is no doubt that Morrison v. National Australia Bank ...
  • ECtHR Finds No Right to Same Sex Marriage: Will U. ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Marko Milanovic over at EJIL Talk! has a nice discussion of a recent European Court of Human Rights Chamber decision (Schalk and Kopf v. Austria, no. 30141/04) finding that denying same-sex couples the right to marry does not violate a member state’s obligation under th ...
  • Reading a Couple of Books on Legal History, and a ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Flying around on various airplanes, I’ve been reading a couple of books on topics in legal history that I’ve found enjoyable and intellectually profitable.  One is Stephen Neff’s Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War. I have benefitted ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

The World We Live In

  • One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
    I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
  • New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
    Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
  • At least we are not Dubai
    We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
  • 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
    The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
  • Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
    A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation âRah-e-Rastâ. Before the operation âRah-e-Rastâ, an NGO financed preparation of f ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Justice: Policing the innocent, domestically and a ...
    altmuslim - Justice: Policing the innocent, domestically and abroad By Muneera Shariff Gardezi, June 9, 2010 Oscar could be you Los Angeles, California “You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.” - Ho Chi Minh We’ ...
  • Nesrine Malik: Pan-Arab narrative a myth in Lebano ...
    Pan-Arab narrative a myth in Lebanon | Nesrine Malik | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Anger towards Lebanon is brewing in Sudan and in Sudanese online forums. According to reports in the Arab media, a fundraising party held by Sudanese immigrants and asylum seekers in Beirut in aid of a child with ...
  • Spokesman for the colonial police force opens mout ...
    Feast your eyes on this tidbit. The following is a blog posting made by the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee today with regard to a blog posting made by Ed Woods of the No Parole Peltier Association. --- "The United States did not follow a policy of genocide; it did try to find a just so ...
  • 35th Anniversary of the Firefight: Statement by Le ...
    35th Anniversary of the Firefight: Statement by Leonard Peltier June 26, 2010 Greetings, I want to first say thank you—thank you for taking the time and making the commitment to come to this place—but thank you mostly for remembering. Sometimes I sit in this cage and I find myself wondering if ...
  • Indigenous Leader Art Manuel: "Indigenous People A ...
    Indigenous Leader Art Manuel: "Indigenous People Are the First Ones Impacted" by Western-Driven Resource Extraction -Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: I’m joined here in Toronto by Arthur Manuel. He is the former chief of the Neskonlith Band in British Columbia and spokesperson for the Indigenous Network ...

Pensieve

  • Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
    Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...
  • Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
    The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
  • False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
    To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
  • Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
    Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...
  • Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
    A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...

Green Times

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Biden in Iraq amid political deadlock
    ShareThis Biden in Iraq amid political deadlock 03 Jul 2010 US Vice President Joe Biden visits Iraq to press for the formation of the new government, as political rivals have yet to announce a ruling coalition. Biden arrived in Baghdad on Saturday and is slated to discuss the matter with Iraqi leade ...
  • Government loses appeal in Guantanamo habeas case
    ShareThis Government loses appeal in Guantanamo habeas case 02 Jul 2010 An appeals court put government prosecutors on notice that they must show evidence that an Algerian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than eight years is actually "part of" al Qaida, or set him free... Of the 50 ca ...
  • Ban on Guantanamo reporters is illegal: News compa ...
    ShareThis Ban on Guantanamo reporters is illegal: News companies 02 Jul 2010 A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a letter to Pentagon General ...
  • Government and BP working together to assess oil s ...
    ShareThis Heads up! It's the Obusha/BP holiday weekend really bad news dump: Government and BP working together to assess oil spill damage [ Thanks, Obusha! ] 04 Jul 2010 In recent weeks, the Obama administration has sought pretended to distance itself from BP in handling the Gulf of Mexico oil spil ...
  • Court sides with Schwarzenegger's minimum-wage pla ...
    ShareThis Court sides with Schwarzenegger's minimum-wage plan 02 Jul 2010 With paychecks for 200,000 state employees hanging in the balance, an appellate court Friday cleared the way for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to slash workers' pay to the federal minimum wage without a budget in place -- even as ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Nocturnal Terror in Silwan
    Ed’s note: Here is a story that ran earleir this week in Just Jerusalem. We are reposting it here in advance of an interview with the author, Daniel Dukarevich with additional actions expected this weekend. Another night sets in on Silwan. Just two days ago, hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian de ...
  • “Play the game, change reality.”
    By Jesse Bacon Anyone who is grew up shooting virtual Nazis as I did knows that video games can be addictive. They can also be a nice respite from a fairly dull existence. They can even be achingly, vacantly beautiful.  But when I became an activist, I wondered where were the games that would teach ...
  • Susiya’s Second Summer Camp – A Call for Aid
    (crossposted on the Villages Group Blog) Dear Friends and Supporters, I’m writing to you in the name of Fatima Nawajeh, the initiator and organizer of Susiya’s summer camp. Susiya is a Palestinian village in Southern West Bank, an area known as Massafar Yatta or South Hebron Hills. For many years th ...
  • Mud and Hope in South Hebron
    June 26, 2010   Bi’r el-’Id There’s a strange beauty in the viscous black mud that comes up from the depths of the earth, from the bottom, or somewhere near the bottom, of the well we are cleaning in Bi’r al-’Id. Bucket after bucket of it, lifted by pulley from down below, straggles to the surface ...
  • Injured protester Emily Henochowicz’s artwork
    By Jesse Bacon We covered the Israeli army’s shooting of Emiliy Henochowicz for protesting alongside Palestinians, causing her to lose her eye.I discovered she has a blog of her work, here are some of the photos you can view at the site. The works are powerful even when you are not thinking about w ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mexico elections today amidst rising drug cartel v ...
    The Agonist As power shifts in Mexico from the ruling elite to the nouveau riche narco cartels, the implications for the U.S. are significant. The reasons are obvious. The shared border, the heavy trade between the nations and immigration speak to Mexico’s importance. Previously, Mexican citizens le ...
  • Fuel cell fork lifts
    Sysco has deployed 98 Plugpower fuel cell units to power electric lift trucks. Drivers can re-fuel in less than two minutes and there are no batteries.
  • Who knew Fords have a fuel pump reset switch
    The tow driver who came to get our apparently dead 2009 Ford Escape did. I said the fuel pump and electronics had just been replaced two weeks ago after the car died, and it seemed to be the same problem again. He said, sometimes when Ford’s get bumped, the fuel pump shuts off automatically. He [... ...
  • Is BP dumping sand to cover oil?
    Are they trucking in sand and just covering up the mess? Are they trying to clean it up and the efforts just aren’t doing a bit of good with the tides full of oil coming in and out? No matter what they’re doing it doesn’t appear to be making any difference. The beaches still have [...]
  • Nativo Lopez indicted on multiple felonies, jailed
    Orange County Register Immigrant-rights activist and former Santa Ana schools trustee Nativo Lopez was jailed in Los Angeles Thursday after being indicted by the grand jury there for eight felony counts alleging voter fraud And therein lies a tangled tale. In about 2003 I was a member of Green Party ...

Coteret

  • Israeli Ministry of Justice endorses extremist int ...
    On Friday, July 9, the Ministry of Justice and the Jewish Legal Heritage Society will present a two-day seminar on Jewish laws concerning the Land of Israel.  [An invitation in Hebrew can be seen here and a translation is appended at the bottom of this post. H/T Dena Shunra.] While I am not an exper ...
  • Yediot: Hebron Brigade commander cancels UK study ...
    The Brigade commander won’t go Yossi Yehoshua, Yediot, July 2 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The IDF was forced to cancel the departure of the outgoing Hebron Brigade commander, Col. Udi Ben-Moha, to study in the UK. Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the army feared that Ben Moha ...
  • Maariv: Ahead of summit, Netanyahu to meet with Ob ...
    Netanyahu to meet with Obama’s rivals in Israel Eli Bardenstein, Maariv July 4 2010 [page 6; Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] […] Netanyahu is scheduled to leave for Washington tomorrow, for a meeting with President Obama.  Israeli sources in Washington assess that he does not intend to e ...
  • Yediot: Lieberman absent from July 4 celebration a ...
    US Embassy celebrated independence, Lieberman didn’t show up Lieberman’s office: “He was on a tour of the North and announced he would not attend” Itamar Eichner, Yedioth, July 4 2010 [Hebrew original here and bottom of post] Oddly, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman chose not to attend the party fo ...
  • Maariv: Netanyahu won’t meet Clinton; &#8216 ...
    Do they honestly think that publicizing a quote like this, on record or off, works to their advantage? Israeli diplomatic [euphemism for Prime Minister's Office -- DR] sources said: “Clinton isn’t relevant and is out of the circle of influence. Mitchell has taken over the peace process to a great ex ...

Deadline Live

  • First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as ...
    (NaturalNews) As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fin ...
  • Cops TASER 86 Year Old Bedridden Woman Hooked Up T ...
    July 02, 2010 CNN Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • U.S. Donates 15 Million Dollars To Preserve Auschw ...
    July 03, 2010 CNN Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Army drops ‘psy ops’ name for influenc ...
    WILMINGTON, N.C. â The Army has dropped the Vietnam-era name “psychological operations” for its branch in charge of trying to change minds behind enemy lines, acknowledging the term can sound ominous. The Defense Department picked a more neutral moniker: “Military Information Support Operations,” ...
  • Jefferson changed ‘subjects’ to &#8216 ...
    “Subjects.” That’s what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies. But in a moment when history took a sharp turn, Jefferson sought quite methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence and write over it. ...

The Air Vent

  • Steppin in it
    There is a post at CA which deserves a bit more attention than it has been getting.  It has come to light that Phil (climategate) Jones made a statement during the Oxburgh ‘investigation’ to the effect of: It is probably impossible to do the 1000-year temperature reconstructions with any accuracy W ...
  • Extreme Climate –
    Andrew or TTCA, wrote a post which linked to some commentary by Dr. Steig at Real Climate.  The comment was a bit stunning in my opinion. 91 Barry Woods says: 25 June 2010 at 10:46 AM If realclimate coudld link to luke wamer blogs, it might reduce the criticism of advocatcy.. ‘climate Sicence for cl ...
  • Dr. Christy Interview by Tom Fuller
    Tom did an excellent interview with Dr. Christy today.   I’ve always enjoyed my email conversations with John Christy, he did’t let me down this time either. Examiner: Human emissions of CO2 declined 2.6% in 2009, although concentrations didn’t change. How hopeful are you that our actions can red ...
  • Free the Scientists
    There is too much pressure on climate scientists.  The way Mann attacked everyone in the climategate emails for not presenting the consensus view was disgusting. Typically, in my experience, scientists enjoy the imagining of something different to the status quo, even more than publishing the stand ...
  • Becoming a Successful Scientist
    I met Dr. Craig Loehle briefely at the ICCC conference, on the program schedule it said – book signing.  I was surprised that Dr. Loehle had written a book which hadn’t made its rounds on the climate blogs and asked if he would share a copy with me.  It turned out to be a detailed [...]

Focal Point

  • Preventing Lesbianism and "Uppity Women" in the Wo ...
    � Alice Dreger, Ellen K. Feder, and Anne Tamar-Mattis made headlines this week with a post on Bioethics Forum entitled "Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb?" The headline made it sound as if someone wanted to treat lesbianism in general. Predictably, the post touched off an on ...
  • Docs Testing Drugs to "Prevent Lesbianism"?
    Raw Story breathlessly reports that a researcher is experimenting with dangerous drugs to stop girls from growing up to be lesbians : "Afraid your daughter may be queer, or not be interested in becoming a mom? Medical researchers think they have a cure for her -- a dangerous steroid you take while ...
  • Familiarity Breeds Contempt: WaPo's Dave Weigel Re ...
    My friend and former colleague Dave Weigel resigned from the Washington Post after someone leaked emails he sent to a private listserv. Until today, Weigel wrote a popular and well-respected blog about conservative movement. It all came crashing down because some hater leaked a few curmudgeonly rema ...
  • Boat Captain: BP Burning Sea Turtles Alive
    Captain Mike Ellis of Venice, Louisana describes how BP is incinerating endangered sea turtles in its attempt to burn off spilled oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico near the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon. The turtles are getting trapped by boats towing huge flame-resistant booms. Ellis says that B ...
  • Sharron Angle's Fringe Party Accused "Sodomites" o ...
    Sharron Angle is running for U.S. Senate in Nevada on the GOP ticket, but the Tea Party darling wasn't always a Republican. Angle's political career began in the far-right fringe American Independent Party. Talking Points Memo Muckraker obtained a virulently anti-gay flier that the AIP paid to inse ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Servers, Credits, Spam, Traffic, ...
    Facebook Rules – Hitwise reported this week that Facebook accounted for 75.73% of all social networking visits in the U.S. in May. 16B Minutes on Facebook a Day - Data Center Knowledge reported information gathered from Facebook employees Tom Cook and Jonathan Heiliger. Some of the information repor ...
  • Facebook Suggests Pages To First-Time Users Based ...
    Today Facebook officially announced its suggested Pages feature, which it started testing with first-time users in April. This âAdd Interestsâ step invites users to like a selection of Pages from a âlist of Pages that other people in a similar demographicâ¦also commonly like.” The addition he ...
  • Indonesia and India Led Facebook Growth in June 20 ...
    [Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] The future is in large, heavily-popula ...
  • Facebook Asking Some Users About Grad School in Ho ...
    In an effort to get more users to enter their graduation school information, Facebook has begun prompting some users with a new in-house ad on the home of the home page asking them if they attended grad school. The company appears to be showing this based on the number of your Facebook friends who a ...
  • Facebook Plans to Remove Publisher Dropdown Due to ...
    In a 2008 redesign, Facebook introduced an improved status-update toolbar, called the Publisher. In addition to just writing and publishing a status update to your news feed and Wall, you could also add attachments — links, photos, videos, events, or content from third-party applications. But third- ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Britain more interested in saving Israelis from ga ...
    Stuart Littlewood explains why the hope that UK Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg’s presence in the governing coalition would have a moderating effect on the rabid Conservative Zionists is misplaced. Following a recent exchange with Clegg, he concludes that the junior coalition partner has ...
  • If Palestinians are granted the right to work, Leb ...
    Franklin Lamb calls on Lebanon’s parliament and political elites to grant the Palestinian refugees living in the country the right to work, arguing that this is not only part of Lebanon’s obligation under international law, but also would benefit the Lebanese economy.
  • US Senator Lieberman wants to kill the internet – ...
    Maidhc Ó Cathail views US Senator Joseph Lieberman’s efforts to undermine American civil liberties, in particular his current attempt to destroy the internet, perhaps in order “to protect his treasonous cronies from the American people”. “If the United States looks increasingly like a police state ...
  • Can Russia offer freedom and security to Europe?
    Christopher King argues that Russia under the leadership of President Dmitriy Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has enormous potential for setting a course toward a positive future with Europe.
  • Jerusalem politicians face expulsion by Israeli oc ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the significance of Israel’s decision to expel four Palestinian politicians from their home city of East Jerusalem, in violation of international law, for belonging to a “foreign parliament”, i.e. the Palestinian parliament, in effect demanding loyalty from the the people it ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Sanitized Gulen Coverage Continues…
    …and the Real Dots Remain Unconnected In my last update I covered the recent multi-agenda driven, censored and sanitized media coverage of the Gulen movement. He seems to be back in the news (mainly Turkish media) again with the Flotilla Incident, and again, with unconnected dots, and unmentioned po ...
  • Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of lithium?
    Transforming Afghanistan into a Central Asian Saudi Arabia   It seems that Afghanistan is a never ending font of surprises. For decades U.S. officials took the position that Afghanistan held nothing of value for the United States, especially in the form of vital strategic resources. That assumption ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents
    Here is a great toon from Paul Jamiol, originally posted here: http://jamiolsworld.com/ ; I recommend bookmarking his website, and of course check it out daily!  
  • Podcast Show #29
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Phillips   Peter Phillips describes Project Censored, its mission, operational style and funding, then talks about what he has coined as ‘Truth Emergency,’ and provides examples such as the intentional misreporting of the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war, ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • The 4th, and the Battle Continues:
    The Fourth is upon us and let us celebrate what America was, and not what it has become, when you wrap yourself up in the Flag, remember it is the fabric that makes this Flag great and that is, the people. Never let demigods, or fear, allow you to sacrifice the Freedoms that our Forefathers [...]
  • A letter from the Rich
    Let’s be honest: you’ll never win the lottery. On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you’ll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That’s because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let’s face it â you’re a member of the working caste. Sorry! ...
  • EIGHT YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN
    longest "war" in U.S. history
  • Why the BP Blowout Won’t Be the Last Tragedy ...
    Dominique Browning June 7, 2010 The BP Gulf Oil Gusher has shown the whole world the nightmarish risks of deep sea drilling. But there is another, older, story of environmental destruction in the Mississippi River Delta wetlandsâand it, too, is related to offshore drilling. This tragedy will conti ...
  • BOCC JUNE 22, 2010 MEETING
    exclusive neighborhood of Citrus County - when it comes to how this neighborhood drives - the sky is the limit. when it come to the children of Citrus County in the public school system, their shelter does not seem to matter

Unsuitable Blog

  • Boycotting BP Is Like Choosing Your Least Favourit ...
    Which is your least favourite genocide? I don’t know about you, but if I lived in Rwanda then the genocide of 1994 that took the lives of a million people in some of the most brutal ways imaginable would certainly be at the top (or is that bottom) of my list. Then again, anyone who follows [...]
  • Hands Across The Sand: A New Low In Symbolic Prote ...
    “I dreamed early on in the BP crime-event that The Gulf Gusher could NOT be stopped. I woke up shaking, sweating, my heart pounding. I knew this was information more than merely a dream…I think we have a hole in our heads when we talk about effective action, and we’ve got to think more seriously [. ...
  • Just Some Handy Walmart Subvertising
    Someone sent me an email containing an article which, on first glance, appeared to be neatly undermining Walmart’s corporate line that the world’s biggest retailer is becoming “green”. It turns out that I read too much into the article, and they were actually praising Walmart and suggesting they wer ...
  • Lockheed Martin’s Violent Definition of &#82 ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOCKHEED MARTIN ANNOUNCES NEW GREEN INITIATIVES FOR 140,000 EMPLOYEES, THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES BETHESDA, Md. – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced new green initiatives to reach its 140,000 employees, their families and communities. The orchestrated effort is ...
  • Monthly Undermining Task, June 2010: It’s Th ...
    “The only ‘honest’ living available to the homeless in general is scavenging – and in general they’re quite content to make that living. It’s work they can do without having an address, submitting to supervision, punching a clock, or maintaining a wardrobe of socially approved clothing – and it’s fl ...

Subalternate Reality

  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
  • Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
    In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.  Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
  • Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
    Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq.  There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens.  In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Four More "Programmer-Journalists" Reach Halfway P ...
    Ever since the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholars enrolled in the journalism master's program at the Medill School , I have checked in with them around the midway point -- and taken the opportunity to introduce them to the Idealab audience. As we mark the end of Medill's spring quarter, ...
  • Fifth "Programmer-Journalist" Helps Develop Visual ...
    There is probably no government data used more by journalists -- and non-journalists -- than the trove of population and demographic information collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. But while the bureau has kept improving its tools for online data access, it's still a challenge for someone not wel ...
  • Teaching Ushahidi 101 in Kenya
    This post is written by Melissa Tully and Rebecca Wanjiku. Melissa Tully is a PhD student at UW-Madison who is researching the use of social/new media in social justice work in Kenya. She has been volunteering with Ushahidi for the past two-and-a-half years. Rebecca Wanjiku is a project assistant ...
  • Social Media and Corporates -- the #Promise Confer ...
    A few days ago Vince Stehle from the Knight Foundation invited me to the Think Social's The #Promise conference in New York, and so I organized babysitting for my new son and came for the day. The conference was about how companies are using social media to advance their goals, and many people ( ...
  • The Civic Media World Turns its Eyes This Week to ...
    This week, all past and present Knight News Challenge winners descend here upon the MIT campus as Knight Foundation and the MIT Center for Future Civic Media co-host the 2010 Future of News and Civic Media conference . There has been an interesting evolution in the conference's -- and the News Ch ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Korea's Nukes - Obama Administration Warns North K ...
    On June 25, the United States warned North Korea against aggravating regional tensions after Pyongyang declared a no-sail warning for waters off its western coast. Similar warnings in the past have preceded North Korean missile tests. The State Department is cautioning North Korea against provocativ ...
  • The BP Spill - Members of Congress Profit from BP ...
    Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and at least three other federal lawmakers have sold their holdings in companies tied to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it has been learned ahead the June 16 disclosure of 2009 personal financial records by all members of Congress. According to an analysis, 20 members ...
  • The Automotive Edge - Car Dealers Try to Wheedle T ...
    In Arizona, Hector Maldonado says he ran into trouble with his bosses because he objected to what he claims was his employer’s habit of faking financial information to qualify customers for loans they couldn’t afford. One manager, Maldonado alleged in a lawsuit, cursed and threatened him after he ca ...
  • The Obama Edge - Obama's Speech at Cairo: One Year ...
    Although likely eclipsed in the media by recent Israeli naval action against blockade runners, the first anniversary of President Obama's much-quoted address in Cairo occurred on June 4, earlier this month. In his remarks, described as a "new beginning," he identified seven issues at the heart of te ...
  • Argentina on the Edge - Indigenous Peoples had Lit ...
    "Los pueblos originarios están acá; están presente ,” (the native peoples are here; they are present) an indigenous woman shouted to the camera of Argentina’s Canal 7 news program on May 18th. She was surrounded by fellow protesters from across Argentina. In a period of eight days this group had mar ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Kashmir In Turmoil:The Boys vs The State
    By Inshah Malik The year 2010 has been marked as the year of teenage killing in Kashmir for the reasons that are obvious to people. Since January 2010, 16 children have been killed by the Indian troopers so far
  • Military Governance In Indian-Administered Kashmir
    By IPTK Between January-June 2010, reportedly 40 civilians have been killed (25 of whom were killed by security forces), 107 persons identified as militants have been killed, and 57 soldiers have been killed (of the 57, 28 soldiers were killed by militants, 14 committed suicide, 2 died in fratrici ...
  • Living On A Dying Delta
    By Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamil journeys through the BP ravaged Louisiana coast
  • Responding To Avigdor Lieberman
    By Don Emmerich So this Palestinian state youre proposing isnt actually a state at all. In other words, youre proposing that things remain essentially as the are, the main difference being that Palestinians are to start referring to the occupation as statehood. Okay, thanks for clarifying that
  • Grabbing Hindutva By Its Horns
    By Rakesh Kumar Meet the man, a temple priest no less, who takes on the Hindutva brigade at its very epicentre

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776....
    When was the last time you read the entire Declaration of Independence? its probably been way too long. Below is the text of the Declaration, I will not add or subtract from it. Just read the entire document below in the context of all of the rights and freedoms that Americans are losing all to qui ...
  • Charlie Cook Says Here Comes Hurricane GOP
    Charlie Cook, is an acclaimed political analyst and publisher of The Cook Political Report newsletter, which publishes analysis of the primaries and general elections for federal political offices and state governorships. The Report's predictions are accorded high credibility among journalists a ...
  • Father/Brother of Muslim Harry Potter Actress Arr ...
    The Religion of Peace treats women in a disgusting manner.� Women's rights are compromised by a section in the Quran, Sura 4:34, that has been interpreted to say that men have "pre-eminence" over women or that they are "overseers" of women. The verse goes on to say that the husband of an insub ...
  • What's Wrong: Demanding A Stable Compromise Peace ...
    By Barry Rubin It's amazing how rarely any mainstream Israeli view--excluding the far left, which provides good anti-Israel ammunition, and, rarely, the far right, to make them look stupid--gets into many of the American media's most elite organs. I'm not referring here to regular news articles ...
  • July 2nd 1776, The REAL Independance Day
    The Declaration of Independence was approved/signed on July 4th, but it was two days earlier that the Continental Congress Passed the Lee Resolution, declaring that we were independent from Britain. This simple resolution was a stirring call to throw off the bonds of tyranny: Resolved ...

The Real Agenda

  • Alimentos y despoblación: Las Naciones Unidas P ...
    La mayoría de la gente piensa que las Naciones Unidas es una noble empresa y no entienden la historia y el carácter maligno de la ONU.
  • Portland Police Reopen Al Gore Sex Abuse Case
    ABC Portland, Oregon , police have decided to reopen the investigation into a 54-year-old masseuse’s allegations that former VicePresident Al Gore sexually assaulted her in his hotel room in 2006. “The Portland Police Bureau has made the decision to re-open the case regarding the allegations broug ...
  • US lawmakers call for end to Afghan war
    PressTV The Democratic and Republican lawmakers have called on President Barack Obama to provide Congress with a clear plan to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan. The lawmakers from both sides of the political spectrum called Thursday for an end to the Afghan war. A group of US lawmakers said the w ...
  • Corrupt Newspapers ‘softened’ Torture ...
    It is unthinkable that anyone with red blood in their veins could consider it acceptable to torture a person in order to obtain information that as it has been widely demonstrated, has never provided any useful details to prevent a disaster.
  • Obama to train his Gestapo in Afghanistan. U.S. N ...
    Department of Defense Directive 1404.10, dated January 23, 2009, set up a "Civilian Expeditionary Workforce" that would "be organized, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency operations; humanitarian missions; disaster ...

Wind Watch

  • Turbine plan would affect sleep: expert
    Campaigners fighting proposals for wind turbines in Dorset have welcomed expert advice saying they shouldn’t be built within a mile of homes. An expert on sleeping disorders says the turbines should not be built closer than that to avoid major noise nuisance. Dr Chris Hanning also says noise levels ...
  • Sound, shadow standards scare wind developers
    Environmental consultants can count the minutes a home is affected by the strobelike flickers of a wind turbine’s shadow. They can measure the decibels of the rhythmic thrum of turbine blades cutting through the air. They can use those flicker and sound measurements to determine the best placement f ...
  • Radar Ridge hearings
    Is it OK to allow some murrelets to be killed by project? Two key public meetings next week could help determine the fate of the Radar Ridge wind energy farm now that the Grays Harbor Public Utility District has decided to end its share of funding for the project by Aug. 1. The meetings scheduled by ...
  • Greenhouse gas threat from wind farms on peatland ...
    Damaging wind farms that unleash carbon dioxide from the soil are being permitted in Scotland because no government body is equipped to advise on the impact of building on peatland, The Scotsman has learned. Peat bog has been described as “Scotland’s rainforest” because it stores huge quantities of ...
  • Wind farm case will be headed to trial
    GENEVA – A Kane County judge on Thursday gave residents living among the wind farm operated by NextEra Energy Resources the OK to take a lawsuit seeking the turbines’ removal to trial. Judge Michael Colwell rejected NextEra’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by about 40 landowners around the Shab ...

Not My Tribe

  • Argentine players lose to their bosses, New World ...
    Team Argentina unfurled a banner before Saturday’s match against Germany, against FIFA regulations, but it wasn’t the one above. This banner protests the organization of grandmothers trying to lift the veil on Argentina’s Disappeared, many of whose murderers still occupy high office. This picture wa ...
  • Queers Against Israeli Apartheid undaunted by Zion ...
    Organizers of the 2010 gay pride parade in Toronto have relented to allow the participation of QUEERS AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID. At first it was declared that the two words “Israeli Apartheid” would jeopardize their city subsidy and summon a perfect storm of angry Canadian Jews. Faced with queers de ...
  • Beyond the limits of good taste.
    Jokes about “tuna in oil” for instance. But there’s one that’s a little too far over the edge, one of the Gossip Magazines with a lurid headline about BP Chief in Sex Scandal.. (rest of the headline was that it was an affair with a married woman) My thought, and I had to bite my [...]
  • Training Video:AZ cops to avoid using race and eth ...
    Even though they’ve been given a license and a mandate to do exactly Racial and Ethnic profiling. “Play nice with your new gun, son, and don’t go shooting up the neighborhood like you did last time” In a similar story Generally Betrays Us has ordered U.S. Troops in Afghanistan to not shoot civilians ...
  • War Funding in trouble? I would hope so, but I do ...
    The AP report is that War Funding increases were passed by the House, that’s a kind of Dog Bites Man story that’s never changed in my lifetime. Is it a call from the Propaganda Ministry to have “concerned patriots” flood their senators with requests to “get behind the troops” once more? It’s not blo ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Reply: Thermite Rain - 9/11 Truth Movement found t ...
    YouTube user " KimmoKuopio " recently offered this piece of "debunking": Commenter " RedBloodReign " states: "You might find this surprising but thermite wasn't found in the debris of the twin towers by looking at footage of the burning towers and saying "Wow, that looks really hot, must've been th ...
  • Another Sick Joke: Tony Blair Recieves Prestigious ...
    Tony Blair, "Middle East Peace Envoy" (which is a joke in itself), was yesterday announced as the winner of a prestigious liberty medal and a $100,000 prize by the National Constitution Centre in the US. This is the man who turned Britain into an Orwellian surveillance state and illegally and dece ...
  • Debunker Response Fail
    Related Info: Debunkers = Fish in a Barrel
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a suggestion or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjective matt ...
  • Another 'Lone-Nut' Gives the UK Government a Reaso ...
    Gun laws in the UK are among the toughest in the world. Largely due to two major massacres. In 1987, a man named Michael Robert Ryan killed sixteen people in Hungerford , and then shot himself. The massacre led to the banning of semi-automatic rifles. In 1996, a man named Thomas Watt Hamilton (i ...

Fooducate

  • Dr. Pepper Celebrates 125 years by Misleading Cons ...
    Here’s one of the six retro cans of Dr. Pepper, introduced in celebration of 125 years of making money off of selling a curiously flavored drink. We’ve highlighted one of the most annoying marketing habits of  the past few years, which the Dr has picked up as well  – adding an innocent looking cla ...
  • “I love being a nutrition cheerleader”
    This is an interview with Michelle Loy, MPH, MS, RD. She’s the owner of Go Wellness, a nutrition and wellness-focused private practice in Orange County, CA and has been an instructor for 4 years at California State University, Long Beach.  Michelle earned her Master of Public Health and Master of ...
  • Is that TRANS-FAT in Your Fruit?
    A New York woman is suing General Mills for misleading and false advertising. The products in question are Fruit Roll-Ups, which are sold through General Mills’ Betty Crocker subsidiary. The complaint – while the products are marketed as healthy, they contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils ( ...
  • Artificial Colors in Food – A Poison Rainbow?
    Those bright and friendly colors that bring joy to your child as she slurps down a drinkable yogurt or mixes Froot Loops with some milk are actually dangerous poisons. Or at least have the potential to wreak various forms of damage to your child – starting from neurological issues and all the way t ...
  • Kiddie Snack Smackdown: Annie’s Bunnies vs. Goldfi ...
    Several readers responded to yesterday’s post about Pepperidge Farm’s Goldfish crackers, suggesting Annie’s Bunnies as a healthier alternative. We decided to take a look. Annie’s products are all sweetened crackers, so we chose to compare the 2 most similar products – chocolate graham crackers. Here ...

Traffikd

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

Clearreaching

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

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Physiographic Regions
    Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Cartier, Jacques
    Jacques Cartier, navigator (b at St-Malo, France, between 7 June and 23 Dec 1491; d there 1 Sept 1557). Cartier led 3 voyages of exploration to the St Lawrence region in 1534, 1535-36 and 1541-42. He is usually credited with
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the LIBERAL PARTY 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle greasy fish & chip pape ...
    I’ll let you guess what we had for dinner last night ;) We were packing away the papers afterwards and John commented on how much paper was going to waste – it was quite a lot, with spots of grease soaked through to the out-most layer. Our friend George thinks it’s wonderful for lighting fires/stove ...
  • How can I reuse, upcycle or recycle synthetic Engl ...
    Our good friend Tim posted this question on Twitter yesterday: Anyone have good craft ideas for a synthetic England Flag? There may be lots of them on the streets or landfills soon There certainly will be! A4-ish size car ones, towel sized ones, super-sized ones… a whole lot of squeaky synthetic wh ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to build a cold frame?
    (I suspect they’ll be an overlap between this and our previous question about making greenhouses but I thought I’d ask again because they’re a bit different.) I’m having lots of fun growing stuff in our new garden. The old garden was considerably small and got no (no!) direct sunlight whatsoever, w ...
  • What Scott Bedford made reusing & recycling stuff
    Scott Bedford from the wonderfully designed What I Made.com got in touch to tell us about some of the great reusing/recycling projects he’s done over the last few years. He’s made a strangely beautiful candle holder out of an old motorbike exhaust, an edgy planter out of a deliberately mangled paint ...
  • How can I make recycling easier at home?
    You guys, I have a confession – I’ve been creating more to-landfill waste than normal over the last few months and I don’t really know why. In our old house, it was rare that the landfill bin was even a quarter full when it was emptied but here, it’s always over half full, two-thirds full by [...]

Mondoweiss

  • New Yorkers protest Tzipi Livni despite hidden loc ...
    New Yorkers protest Tzipi Livni. (Photo: Bud Korotzer) About 50 protesters picketed outside the Russian Tea Room yesterday as Tzipi Livni spoke inside. The protest was organized by�Jews Say No!, American Jews for a Just Peace, and Adalah-NY: The New York Coalition for the Boycott of Israel. Livni ...
  • Today in Palestine: 1 in 4 Gazan children go witho ...
    Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansingOfficials press Obama on Jerusalem 'ethnic cleansing' Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian officials from across the political spectrum lodged a petition at the US Consulate on Thursday urging President Barack Obama to stop "ethnic cleansing" in Jerusalem.� The ...
  • Flotilla fallout: What exactly was the U.S. role?
    The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the United States government’s knowledge of, and actions related to, Israel's attack on the freedom flotilla. CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher explains in a press release:One U.S. citizen was killed, others ...
  • Newspapers waffle on ‘torture’ and &#8 ...
    Many people, including me, get exercised about the New York Times' bias in its coverage of the question of Palestine.   An article reporting the findings of a recent Kennedy School study, which showed that American newspapers essentially stopped calling water boarding torture during the War on Terro ...
  • Petraeus emails show general scheming with journal ...
    Last March General David Petraeus, then head of Central Command, sought to undercut his own testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee that was critical of Israel by intriguing with a rightwing�writer to put out a different story, in emails obtained by Mondoweiss. The emails show Petraeus ...

Media Consortium

  • Touting Redesign, MSNBC Declares Pageviews ‘Dead’ ...
    The big idea behind just about every website redesign these days generally revolves around “less is more” minimalism. But it looks like MSNBC.com’s redo actually means it: the new site, which just went fully live, promises to do an end with clicking on stories and on ads. By introducing a single-pag ...
  • 'Craigslist Effect' Spreads to Content - Advertisi ...
    He is one of more than 3,600 Bleacher authors who willingly write without remuneration, and their gratis efforts suggest there's a major adjustment going on in the economics of content. Despite the attention around search specialists such as Demand Media, Associated Content and Examiner, a growing g ...
  • Traditional Media Is Having A Field Day On Tumblr
    While I think utilzing the more personal & casual platform of tumblr is a great strategy, I wonder how the biz side is going to feel about community not coming to the main web site. Or is the proportion of audience members on tumblr small enough that it doesn't matter? Or is the idea that new commu ...
  • Economist reports success of mobile phone mag sale ...
    The Economist has claimed success with a new mobile-phone-based magazine sales ploy this week, as it reported its overall operating profit had climbed three per cent to £57.5m for the 12 months to April. In the annual report of parent company Economist Group, its UK managing director Nigel Ludlow o ...
  • Hacks/Hackers, Mozilla team up for Peer-to-Peer co ...
    This is the group that I'm looking for TMC members to work with on a hack-a-thon. I'm SO EXCITED.

Reality Asserts Itself

  • YOUR RIGHTS CAN DISAPPEAR IN A SNAP - The Ontario ...
    Everybody in Ontario should understand the Public Works Protection Act. It sounds like some obscure piece of legislation that couldn't matter very much to most people. But look again. With a snap of the Ontario Cabinet's fingers, they can essentially eliminate your right to assemble and eliminate pr ...
  • G20 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME - Are extraordinar ...
      The G-20 wrapped up its work in Toronto on Sunday, and sent a message. Part of that message was in a document, 27 pages of a little bit of something for everybody. They also sent a message through the Canadian police about how the countries of the G-20 might deal with opposition to their plans. ...
  • IS OBAMA WEDDED TO A DOOMED STRATEGY - and why are ...
    The firing of General Stanley McChrystal by President Obama should give Americans, Canadians and the people of other NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan a moment to reflect on why their daughters and sons are dying and killing there. Not because of McChrystal's departure, but for President Obam ...
  • DID DICK CHENEY HELP CAUSE THE BP DISASTER?
    A few weeks ago, I interviewed Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.� It was a rare insight into the Bush White House, and more so, the mind of Dick Cheney as seen through the eyes of someone who worked ne ...
  • CANADIAN GOLD COMPANY SUES EL SALVADOR FOR 100 MIL ...
    Canadian mining company, Pacific Rim, is in court suing the government of El Salvador for 100 million dollars. It claims that by not awarding the company an exploitation permit for its proposed gold mine, the tiny country is in breach of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (known as CAFTA). Ca ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Longevity paper sparks debate
    A debate has erupted over the reliability of a high-profile paper published last week in Science . The paper reported a genome-wide scan for variations in DNA sequence that are associated with unusually long lifespan, and found that 150 such variants could be used to predict, with 77% accuracy, whet ...
  • Economics trumps health and security for Europe's ...
    The European Commission's in-house research arm is shifting resources from health and security work to a new focus on economics, its director general announced today. However, with its budget remaining flat for the foreseeable future, this means those areas identified as lower priorities will be cut ...
  • The Bering Sea Project: The Pribilof Islands
    Posted on behalf of Wendee Holtcamp, blogging for Nature aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson We’re halfway through the summer cruise on the RV Thompson, and people have settled into their routines: doing krill grazing experiments, scouting for birds, filtering phytoplankton, gatheri ...
  • Last shuttle flight delayed -- along with space ma ...
    NASA on Thursday delayed the final two flights for the Space Shuttle before it is retired. The last flight, on the shuttle Endeavour, now moves to 26 February. That will give Nobel Prize winner Sam Ting more time to ready his Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a $2 billion Department of Energy experiment ...
  • Who wants to be a millionaire? Not Grisha Perelman ...
    Imagine getting a phone call to tell you that you've just been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in your field, and it comes with a million dollar purse. What would you do? Slam down the receiver? That's exactly what Grigory 'Gisha' Perelman did (or rather would have done if anyone could ...

new geography

  • Sponge Cities on the Great Plains
    “Sponge cities” is an apt metaphor to describe urban communities in rural states like North Dakota which grow soaking up the residents of surrounding small towns, farms and ranches. North Dakota’s four largest cities, Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks and Minot, are growing in large part due to the young ...
  • Why the Great Plains are Great Once Again
    On a drizzly, warm June night, the bars, galleries, and restaurants along Broadway are packed with young revelers. Traffic moves slowly, as drivers look for parking. The bar at the Donaldson, a boutique hotel, is so packed with stylish patrons that I can’t get a drink. My friend, a local, and I head ...
  • McChrystal Exit: Obama and His Generals
    General Stanley McChrystal may be the first commanding general in the history of warfare to be relieved of his command because he groaned over the receipt of an email from an ambassador, or because one of his aides whispered to a Rolling Stone reporter that the president had looked “intimidated” in ...
  • Follow The Money On Development Deals
    “Follow the money” became a household phrase after the 1976 movie that told the story of Watergate, All the Presidents Men . Personal experiences over four decades in the consulting industry, working to create sustainable developments, often bring the phrase to mind. In a meeting a few weeks ago ...
  • Salt Lake City's Sacred Space
    Amid a devastating condo crash and high office vacancies across the U.S., one of the country's largest downtown development projects is taking shape in Salt Lake City. The city's center displays a landscape of cranes, cement-mixers and hard-hats--something all too rare in these tough times. Over t ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • WaterCredit helps people help themselves (GCS)
    The New Door to Wealth in the Microfinance Community (Green Chip Stocks) – Water.org recently created a subsidiary, WaterCredit, that uses microfinance loans to support water and sanitation (watsan) projects. Although watsan organizations are not new, the use of micro-credit loans for watsan project ...
  • Rainwater harvesting a success in Philippines (Mal ...
    Water is Life! (Business Insight Malaya) Philippines - Water harvesting and conservation are already a practical and beneficial technology in a few rural areas in the Philippines. One of them, the “Water Partners” program in the Baranggay Villahermosa near Cebu, on Camotes Island, started in 2003. ...
  • Matt Damon is making the planet better for us (GTV ...
    Matt Damon Is Making The Planet Better For Us (Global TV) Since the making of All The Pretty Horses, you’ve become one of the Sexiest Men Alive, one of Hollywood’s highest paid actors and a household name across the globe. Your celebrity status has afforded you the ability to focus attention on envi ...
  • Pipe dreams come true (Hindu Bus. Line)
    Pipe dreams come true (The Hindu Business Line) – Trekking long distances for water forms part of the daily grind for women at the bottom of the pyramid â be it in the slums of Tiruchi or the shantytowns of Nairobi. And there is no guarantee for the quality of the water or the safety [...]
  • Ante Up For Africa gives $50,000 to Water.org (ET)
    Ante Up For Africa Announces $100,000 in Grants to the Eastern Congo Initiative and Water.org (Earth Times) LOS ANGELES, CA – Ante Up For Africa today announced two grants of $50,000 each to support the Eastern Congo Initiative and Water.org, organizations focused on supporting local, community-base ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Obstacles on Road to Gaza Rebuilding
    Eighteen months after Israel's 23-day offensive in the Gaza Strip, three-quarters of damaged homes, buildings and infrastructure remain unrepaired, according to a reconstruction needs assessment published by the UN Development Programme in Jerusalem. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Connecting the Dots from Detroit to Dakar
    Africa advocates and progressive foreign policy observers were pitching that message Thursday in introducing the "From Detroit to Dakar 2010" project, even as leaders of the powerful G8/G20 nations geared up for their meeting this weekend in Toronto. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Asahiyama's Natural Touch
    Far from the dreary days of cramped cages, Hokkaido's Asahiyama Zoo tries to offer a place where animals can be themselves. -- yet another input for the discussion whether a zoo is good or bad. Submitted by Naoko I. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Beggar Shows He Too Can Be A Giver
    AHMEDABAD:A beggar on Saturday proved that charity only needs a big heart rather than deep pockets. Khimjibhai Prajapati, 64 and a beggar in Mehsana for a decade, donated clothes to 11 poor hearing and speech-impaired girls at the Shrimati Kesarbai Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Water Trickles Into Village, Thanks to Solar Desli ...
    Ismail Achar never thought a day would come when his inland village would be reduced to a barren tract of land with hardly a drop of water to drink. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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